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Wednesday, October 5, 2016

Vol. X, No. 44

Serving Foggy Bottom & the West End

JBG to modify Wardman proposal

JUST DESSERTS

■ Development: Height of

Woodley building to decrease By BRADY HOLT Current Staff Writer

Developer JBG has withdrawn its zoning application for redeveloping the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel into four large apartment buildings, and is promising revisions to a remaining proposal to

develop the Woodley Road NW lawn. Casting uncertainty over all of these development plans, though, is the new possibility that JBG might sell all or part of the prominent Woodley Park site. JBG’s original development vision had prompted grave concerns about density and aesthetics in the neighborhood, and firm principal Britt Snider told The Current in August that “clearly,

the community is not satisfied with what they’ve seen so far, so we need to work on that.” The first concrete change was the withdrawal of the broader zoning application to redevelop the 16.5-acre Wardman Park campus, including the massive hotel. “We have come to understand that significantly more study and analysis would be required to determine the potential impact of redevelopSee Wardman/Page 15

Transfer cleared for Walter Reed school By MARK LIEBERMAN Current Staff Writer

Brian Kapur/The Current

The 23rd annual Taste of Georgetown featured more than 60 signature dishes from over 30 of Georgetown’s top restaurants on Saturday. Event proceeds will benefit the Georgetown Ministry Center’s homeless assistance efforts.

The District of Columbia International School has awaited construction of its new home — Delano Hall on the former Walter Reed campus — for several years. The original plan was to open the school, a composite of five public charters, in the new facility this fall. But delays in the Walter Reed development process removed that option and put the school’s future plans in doubt. Once D.C. International secured zoning approval for its project earlier this year, executive director Mary Shaffner hoped construction could begin in July and finish in time for the 2017-18 school year. When there had been no progress as of last month, Shaffner, staff members and parents launched a threeday social media campaign with the hashtag #DeliverDelano, with the goal of reminding city See Delano/Page 18

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The D.C. International School intends to operate in Delano Hall near 16th and Aspen streets NW starting in the 2017-18 school year.

During trail’s closure, looking to the future

Cathedral Commons diner plan earns zoning approval

By MARK LIEBERMAN

■ Business: Deal includes

Current Staff Writer

A three-mile trail from Galena Place NW in the Palisades to Georgetown University has long been the subject of community discussion. Some residents want to turn the former trolley route into a bike trail, while others would prefer to see the area preserved as it is. As those debates continue, safety concerns have demanded renewed attention to the trail, a part of which is now closed to the public. The National Park Service, which controls Glover Archbold Park, announced in August that portions of an existing north-to-south park trail that pass under an elevated trolley trestle had been temporarily closed due to the safety threat of falling debris. However, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, which owns the trolley right-of-way itself,

community parking benefits Brian Kapur/Current file photo

The National Park Service has closed the trail under the abandoned trolley trestle until debris hazards are addressed.

committed to designing a protected, covered walkway for the closed portion of the trail, according to agency spokesperson Richard Jordan. The transit authority expects to complete that project by spring 2017, at which point the park trail will reopen, according to Jordan. He said details about the materials and costs won’t be available until designs See Trail/Page 5

By MARK LIEBERMAN Current Staff Writer

The all-day diner Silver is expected to open in the Cathedral Commons complex next summer, having secured hard-fought final approval from the Zoning Commission last week. Build-out is planned to begin in November at the space on the 3400 block of Wisconsin Avenue NW between SunTrust Bank and Allure Spa, Silver co-owner Bob

Giaimo told The Current Monday. The restaurant — a more upscale, urban spin on the Silver Diner chain — is currently waiting on final building permits, Giaimo said. Adding Silver to Cathedral Commons required zoning relief because the agreement for the mixed-use complex limits the developer to using 20 percent of the streetfront space for restaurants. With the addition of Silver, the complex will exceed that restaurant limit by 3.4 percentage points. At a meeting last Monday, the See Silver/Page 7

NEWS

EVENTS

PASSAGES

INDEX

Library renovation

‘Meadows’

DC Design House

Calendar/22 Classifieds/33 District Digest/4 Foggy Bottom News/11 Exhibits/23 In Your Neighborhood/10

Cleveland Park plans receive general support at last meeting before project begins / Page 3

Exhibit features German artist Richard Schur’s colorful abstract geometric paintings/ Page 23

Annual fundraiser decks out Foxhall Road NW home with varied interior decor / Page 20

Opinion/8 Police Report/6 Real Estate/17 School Dispatches/14 Service Directory/31 Week Ahead/3

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Zoning Commission hears proposed PUD rule change By CUNEYT DIL

Current Correspondent

A controversial aspect of a zoning proposal now under review that would allow denser and taller buildings in lot sizes as small as a row house is likely to be canned by the Zoning Commission. Jennifer Steingasser of the D.C. Office of Planning, which submitted the proposal, told the commission on Sept. 22 that it wasn’t the agency’s intention to allow such high density in low-density residential zones. She said the agency, after reviewing opposition from advisory neighborhood commissions and the Committee of 100 on the Federal City, now thinks the provision can be removed from the overall package. Through the District’s planned unit development, or PUD, process, developers attempt denser projects than land-use regulations would otherwise allow. In return, developers promise public benefits and amenities for building a project that goes beyond matter-

of-right, subject to negotiations with community stakeholders and approval by the Zoning Commission. Currently, the minimum lot size for a commercial PUD application is 15,000 square feet; for residential PUDs, the minimum would be 1 acre or 2 acres (the latter if the area is zoned for higher density). Under the existing policy, the Zoning Commission can vote on waiving up to 50 percent of the minimum lot size requirement for PUD projects, allowing developers of smaller properties to take advantage of the same zoning flexibility. The new proposal would take that further, allowing the Zoning Commission to waive the complete minimum lot requirement, if the commission deems the development to be of “exceptional merit and … in the best interests” of the District. Both a lot-size waiver and any resulting project would be subject to case-by-case consideration. See Zoning/Page 5

Cleveland Park Library set to shift into temporary quarters By BARBARA FUSCIELLO Current Correspondent

With the current Cleveland Park Library set to close Saturday, D.C. Public Library officials have presented the latest design plans for its replacement to generally positive community response. The $19.7 million project will replace the 1953 library building at 3310 Connecticut Ave. NW with a modern new facility, scheduled to open in mid-2018. In the meantime, an interim library site will start operating Oct. 31 at 4340 Connecticut, in the University of the District of Columbia law school building. Though most agree on the need to upgrade the current neighborhood library, residents have made clear in multiple community meetings that they want to maintain a cozy and welcoming neighborhood feel. They’ve emphasized the preferred use of wood, as opposed to plastic or metal; muted carpeting as opposed to bright colors; and comfortable, classic chairs and furniture rather than a more modern design. At the final presentation before the closure, on Sept. 21, project team representatives said they haven’t yet made final decisions on some of the furniture selection and other design choices. But attendees seemed generally impressed with what they saw. The location and design of the new library’s circulation desk are

meant to promote a welcoming environment. With the desk sited next to the entrance, patrons will be greeted by library staff the moment they walk in. Residents had criticized the institutional feel of the wall-encased circulation desks in some of the District’s other renovated libraries; accordingly, the Cleveland Park desk will be surrounded only by waisthigh counters on three sides. Wood panels in the library’s main room are also intended to create a warm feel, the project team said. An improvement the littlest patrons will notice is an overhaul of the children’s section, which has lacked distinguishing parameters. In the future, a more defined section will feature a sculptural tree extending from floor to ceiling, with branches and leaves at top creating a canopy. Child-sized furniture and shelves will complete the area. Amid all of the changes, a few distinctive items from the old library will remain in use. The exterior lettering announcing “Public Library DC/Cleveland Park Branch” will be moved to a new home above the circulation desk, and the painted panda statue standing guard at the front of the library will be found in a new reading garden. “We are really, really thrilled with the library we’re going to have,” Richard Reyes-Gavilan, See Library/Page 18

The week ahead Thursday, Oct. 6

The Friends of Rose Park will hold its annual fall benefit from 6 to 8 p.m. at Evermay, 1623 28th St. NW. Tickets cost $175 and can be paid by check or credit card at the door. Proceeds will go toward maintaining and increasing plantings and landscaping in the park, as well as community offerings such as movie nights and the annual Santa event in December. For details, visit roseparkdc.org.

Saturday, Oct. 8

The Spring Valley office of McEnearney Associates will host electronics recycling, old paint collection and free shredding from 9 a.m. to noon at 4315 50th St. NW. The seventh annual event will also include household goods collection for A Wider Circle, a Montgomery County nonprofit that redistributes furniture and home goods to individuals and families transitioning out of homeless situations or to those simply living without life’s necessities. Services are free except for a $5 fee per container to recycle paint. For details, visit mcenearney.com/DCRecycles. ■ The Sibley Senior Association will host a “Sex & Aging Conference” from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Sibley Memorial Hospital Medical Building, 5215 Loughboro Road NW. The $40 fee includes a light lunch, parking and a book by author Joan Price, an advocate for “ageless sexuality.” To register, call 202-364-7602.

Tuesday, Oct. 18

Interim Chancellor John Davis will host “The State of D.C. Public Schools,” featuring presentations from students, parents, educators and school leaders on topics such as school culture, family engagement and career readiness. The event, which will also include student performances, will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the newly renovated Roosevelt High School, 4301 13th St. NW. Reservations are requested; visit bit.ly/2016StateofSchools. ■ The D.C. Office of Planning will hold a community conversation in Northwest on the D.C. Cultural Plan now being drafted to lay out a vision on how to build upon the people, places, communities and ideas the define culture in the District. Topics will include performance and production space needs; cultural programming and innovation; affirming a D.C. cultural identity; and regulatory reform. The meeting will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at GALA Theatre, 3333 14th St. NW. For details, visit dcculturalplan.org. ■ The Shepherd Park Citizens Association will hold a “Community Conversation on Development.” The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. at Shepherd Elementary School, 7800

14th St. NW.

Wednesday, Oct. 19

The D.C. State Board of Education will hold its monthly public meeting at 5:30 p.m. in the Old Council Chambers, One Judiciary Square, 441 4th St. NW. ■ The D.C. Office of Planning will hold a public meeting to discuss the Comprehensive Plan and the amendment process. The meeting will be held from 6 to 8:30 p.m. at the Columbia Heights Education Campus, 3101 16th St. NW. ■ The Logan Circle Community Association will host a candidates forum from 7 to 8:45 p.m. at the Washington Plaza Hotel, 10 Thomas Circle NW.

Thursday, Oct. 20

The Metropolitan Police Department’s 4th District Citizens Advisory Council will hold its monthly meeting, which will feature interim Police Chief Peter Newsham as guest speaker. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. at the 4th District Police Headquarters, 6001 Georgia Ave. NW.

Tuesday, Oct. 25

The D.C. Office of Planning will hold a public meeting to discuss the D.C. Comprehensive Plan and the amendment process. The meeting will be held from 6 to 8:30 p.m. at Wilson High School, 3950 Chesapeake St. NW. ■ The Foggy Bottom Association will hold its monthly meeting at 7 p.m. The location has not been determined.

Wednesday, Oct. 26

The Woodley Park Community Association will meet at 7 p.m. at Stanford in Washington, 2661 Connecticut Ave. NW.

Tuesday, Nov. 1

The D.C. Office of Planning will hold a public meeting to discuss the D.C. Comprehensive Plan and the amendment process. The meeting will be held from 6 to 8:30 p.m. at School Without Walls at Francis-Stevens, 2425 N St. NW.

Wednesday, Nov. 9

The D.C. Public Library will hold a community meeting on plans for the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library’s renovation. Discussion items will include the latest designs, the project timeline and plans for library services during construction. The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. at the library, located at 901 G St. NW.

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District Digest District restores stop on Woodley Road

The multi-way stop sign at Woodley Road and Cathedral Avenue NW is now back in service, the D.C. Department of Transportation announced Friday in an update on the Beach Drive rehabilitation work. The agency originally removed the stop sign to ease traffic flow on Cathedral, a detour route around the closed portion of Beach Drive. But after neighbors complained and officials reviewed traffic analyses from the projectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first week, the Transportation Department is once again requiring drivers to stop. â&#x20AC;&#x153;DDOT will continue to monitor traffic conditions and implement additional measures when necessary,â&#x20AC;? says an agency news release. The multi-year Beach Drive project began its first phase on Sept. 22, with work expected to take place from Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway to Tilden Street NW through next spring. This

week, Oct. 3 through Oct. 8, temporary westbound lane closures will be in effect along Tilden Street, Cathedral Avenue and Connecticut Avenue, with officials warning of minor traffic delays. The Transportation Department notes that â&#x20AC;&#x153;driver feedback signs, pedestrian pylons and Traffic Control Officers have also been deployed to ensure the safe flow of trafficâ&#x20AC;? during the projectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first phase. Project updates are available at tinyurl.com/nps-beachdrive.

Circulator expands late-night service

DC Circulator buses have expanded service to offset the ongoing repair work on the Metrorail system, the D.C. Department of Transportation announced last week. With the â&#x20AC;&#x153;SafeTrackâ&#x20AC;? repairs slated to eliminate Red Line service on Metrorail between Fort Totten and NoMa from Oct. 29 through Nov. 22, the Circulator

buses are providing additional hours in affected areas. The following changes went into effect Oct. 2: â&#x2013; Morning service is available an hour earlier, at 6 a.m., Monday through Friday for the Woodley Park-Adams Morgan-McPherson Square route, the GeorgetownUnion Station route, and the Dupont-Georgetown-Rosslyn route. â&#x2013; Late-night service is extended until 3 a.m. Friday and Saturday (instead of 2 a.m.) for the Georgetown-Union Station route and the Dupont Circle-Georgetown-Rosslyn route. â&#x2013; On the Georgetown-Union Station route, late-night service will extend for the full length of the route, instead of the usual stop at the McPherson Square Metro after 9 p.m. The Transportation Department also notes that the Woodley Park-Adams Morgan-McPherson Square bus will continue to run until 3:30 a.m. as usual on weekends.

Agreement will add more prosecutors

A new partnership will create eight new attorney positions to prosecute crimes in Washington, with collaboration between District and federal officials. At the Sept. 29 signing of the partnership agreements, Mayor Muriel Bowser said her administration is committing $1.2 million to allow the D.C. Office of the Attorney General to hire the new attorneys, who will be detailed to the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia to prosecute crimes in the city. The latter office, part of the U.S. Department of Justice, serves as both the local and federal prosecutor for the District. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I really think that this agree-

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ment is unprecedented,â&#x20AC;? D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine said at the signing. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a coordinated effort to â&#x20AC;Ś try as best we can to keep people safe, to prosecute folks as vigorously as we can. And there is no doubt that additional resources will help that effort.â&#x20AC;? The partnership is based on two separate agreements: one between the mayor and attorney general, and the second between the attorney general and the federal office. Bowser and Racine signed onto those agreements last week along with Channing Phillips, the U.S. attorney for D.C. At the event, Phillips said his agency looks forward â&#x20AC;&#x153;to continuing to share information, coordinate resources, and collaborate on solutions regarding crime in our city.â&#x20AC;?

Phishing scam uses fake parking fines

An online phishing scam has reportedly targeted D.C. residents with false notices about overdue parking tickets, according to District officials. The D.C. Office of the Attorney General warned residents of the scam last week, reporting information from the D.C. Department of Motor Vehicles. The fraudulent emails are apparently sent from the address info@ localmailserver.info, with the subject line â&#x20AC;&#x153;Notice of Overdue Parking Violation(s).â&#x20AC;? The emails falsely claim to be warnings of unsatisfied photo enforcement tickets, asking residents to pay past-due fines and late fees or risk having their vehicles impounded. The messages direct recipients to click on a link to â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lost Traffic Tickets,â&#x20AC;? which the Attorney Generalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office believes â&#x20AC;&#x153;may be used to steal consumersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; personal information for identity theft,â&#x20AC;? according to a release. The attorney general is advising consumers who have received ticket-notice emails from info@ localmailserver.info to report those messages to the Federal Trade Commission. (More information on that process is available at consumer.ftc.gov/ articles/0003-phishing.) D.C. consumers can also report phishing scams to the Attorney Generalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office of Consumer Protection by calling 202-442-9828 or emailing consumer.protection@dc.gov.

New exhibit in park honors Rachel Carson A new interactive feature honoring environmentalist Rachel Carson debuted last week in Glover Archbold Park, just south of Reservoir Road NW. The informational exhibit is the result of years of local efforts to formally link Carsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s legacy to Glover Archbold Park, which she was known to frequent for

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bird-watching and other nature observations. The pioneering conservationist and biologist is recognized for kickstarting the global environmentalist movement with her 1962 book â&#x20AC;&#x153;Silent Spring,â&#x20AC;? which warned of the dangers of pesticides. A few years ago, local advocates won the support of D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton in trying to rename a trail in Glover Archbold Park after Carson. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When the National Park Service (NPS) and other officials could not be convinced, Norton worked with NPS on a compromise and got the agency to install the interactive feature honoring Carson,â&#x20AC;? according to a release from the congresswomanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office. In the release, Norton credits community members for gathering pictures and other resources to â&#x20AC;&#x153;get this long-overdue recognition of Rachel Carsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pathbreaking environmental work installed where it belongs.â&#x20AC;? The exhibitâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unveiling on Sept. 27 coincided with the 54th anniversary of the publication of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Silent Spring,â&#x20AC;? according to the National Park Service.

New equipment to aid Army Corps project Army Corps of Engineers crews have started a pilot project to see if advanced technology can speed the removal of possible explosives from residential properties in the Spring Valley Formerly Used Defense Site. Officials hope their new ground-scanning equipment can detect and recognize buried munitions and explosives, and differentiate them from other buried metal objects. Crews will fully excavate three test sites after the scans to see if the identifications are accurate. A report on the pilot program is due by the end of December. If itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s successful, the method will allow the Army to efficiently scan about a hundred properties in Spring Valley for potential World War I-era munitions over the next few years.

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TRAIL: Hazards cause trailâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s closure From Page 1

are completed. A Park Service document from August indicates that the Foundry Branch trestle â&#x20AC;&#x201D; rusted remains of a west-to-east bridge that once carried a trolley from Glen Echo, Md. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; has required stabilization and other maintenance to prevent debris from falling since 2014. Barriers and signs dissuading pedestrians from entering have now been installed at the north and south ends of the trail closure area. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This closure is necessary for the protection of human health and safety, and for the setup, operation and demobilization of construction crews and equipment,â&#x20AC;? the document reads. In the meantime, conversations continue about the long-term possibilities for the area surrounding the currently closed park trail portion. The D.C. Department of Transportation included the trail area as a possible location for improvements in its 2014 MoveDC plan. Agency spokesperson Michelle Phipps-Evans said in an email that her agency is now in talks with the transit authority and Park Service over future projects in Glover Archbold Park as well as â&#x20AC;&#x153;potential funding liabilitiesâ&#x20AC;? but â&#x20AC;&#x153;no final decisions have been made.â&#x20AC;? The cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attention to these issues is a welcome step forward in the eyes of Palisades resident Brett Young. For more than two years, Young has been advocating for the transit authority to collaborate with other agencies on constructing a bike trail from Galena Place NW south to Foxhall Road, then passing east from Foxhall under the trolley trestle and ending

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at the intersection of 37th and Prospect streets NW. But Young has been concerned about the safety issues with the deteriorating trestle. Now that repair work is taking place, he envisions broader possibilities opening for the trail itself. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is the day of reckoning for WMATA,â&#x20AC;? he said in an interview. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They have to do something to fix it up.â&#x20AC;? Young believes strongly in the possibilities for cyclists to dramatically cut down their commute time from the Palisades and Foxhall over to Georgetown University while enjoying an aesthetically appealing area tinged with history. Though no tracks remain, the Foundry Branch trestle remains a vestige of the 1900s-era trolley line that once carried city dwellers to the Glen Echo Amusement Park. Foxhall Community Citizens Association president Bob Avery told The Current that he thinks the proposed new trail has the potential to ease many neighborsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; concerns about pedestrian access in difficult-to-cross areas like Canal Road. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not well-served in pedestrian access in the east,â&#x20AC;? Avery said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My guess is that the Foxhall people would be very enthusiastic, if this happened tomorrow.â&#x20AC;? On the other hand, he could envision conflicts if too many cyclists, including commuters coming all the way from Bethesda, have access to the trail at the same time. Overall, he thinks Foxhall would support a trail concept but his association plans to weigh in on specifics when they arrive. But some residents object outright to any changes to the trail.

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Areas of the trestle bridge show patches of rust.

Garth Ross of the Palisades doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think the need for a bike trail from Galena Place to Chain Bridge Road outweighs the benefit of preserving the areaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unique features. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A public greenway like this is an uncommon community asset and, as such, the default should be preservation and stewardship,â&#x20AC;? Ross wrote in an email. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The choice to sacrifice such an asset should be made if itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the only reasonable response to a clear and pressing community need that outweighs the benefits of what already exists. Clear and pressing community needs have not been expressed in this case.â&#x20AC;? Ross believes options for cyclists like MacArthur Boulevard, the Capital Crescent Trail and the C&O Canal Towpath are more than sufficient. He envisions possible conflicts between such a project and the renovation at the Palisades Recreation Center. And he wants to see issues like the overcrowding of sporting events at Palisades Park addressed before a larger undertaking drowns them out. Young said heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s happy for these debates to take place with the attention from local officials. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve gotten people to really think about it,â&#x20AC;? Young said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Now itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s front and center for all these agencies.â&#x20AC;?

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Even so, Advisory Neighborhood Commission 1C (Adams Morgan) worries this change could open the door for developers to file PUD applications on lots as small as row houses. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Though I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s highly unlikely that anybody would ever petition the Zoning Commission for a single row house PUD, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s correct that they could,â&#x20AC;? Steingasser told the Zoning Commission. While reiterating that approval for any PUD is ultimately up to the commission, she nonetheless said â&#x20AC;&#x153;we agree that [option] doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even need to be on the table.â&#x20AC;? The Zoning Commission chose to wait on voting on the provision until later in October. Commissions 6C, 3D and 4A also had filed statements in opposition. ANC 1C wrote in a unanimous resolution that â&#x20AC;&#x153;additional PUD density allowances would permit further densification of a neighborhood,â&#x20AC;? and commissioners said the Adams Morgan neighborhood could be particularly affected. Back in July, the Committee of 100 on the Federal City, a nonprofit â&#x20AC;&#x153;dedicated to safeguarding and advancing Washingtonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s his-

toric distinction,â&#x20AC;? said the proposal came about without enough public input. The Office of Planning considered the change as technical in nature, but the Committee of 100 disputed that. ANC 4A in the Shepherd Park area joined that view, writing in a Sept. 6 resolution that â&#x20AC;&#x153;the Commission is very concerned about the short time period for review and commentâ&#x20AC;? on the amendments. Critics want a longer review period. Another option Steingasser floated was that the Zoning Commission could allow a 100 percent lot size waive only for parcels greater than 5,000 square feet. She said the Office of Planning doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t oppose reducing the minimum lot requirement, because â&#x20AC;&#x153;there are a lot of very small, very sensitive lots that we want to see redeveloped.â&#x20AC;? As opposed to constructing matter-of-right on such properties, â&#x20AC;&#x153;the PUD provides for community input, benefits and amenities, and Zoning Commission review.â&#x20AC;? Developers seeking PUDs have run into trouble before with small lot sizes. To complete a PUD project in Georgetown, EastBanc has See Zoning/Page 15

6 Police

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Police Report This is a listing of incidents reported from Sept. 26 through Oct. 2 in local police service areas, sorted by their report dates.

PSA 101

PSA 101 â&#x2013; DOWNTOWN

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Theft â&#x2013; 1100-1199 block, Pennsylvania Ave.; 1:42 p.m. Sept. 26. â&#x2013; 1200-1299 block, G St.; 7:43 p.m. Sept. 26. â&#x2013; 1300-1399 block, I St.; 8:04 a.m. Sept. 27. â&#x2013; 1200-1299 block, G St.; 7:44 p.m. Sept. 27. â&#x2013; 1200-1299 block, G St.; 8:48 p.m. Sept. 27. â&#x2013; 600-699 block, 11th St.; 4:42 p.m. Sept. 28. â&#x2013; 700-723 block, 14th St.; 9:36 p.m. Sept. 30. â&#x2013; 1000-1059 block, Massachusetts Ave.; 4:51 a.m. Oct. 1. â&#x2013; 1100-1199 block, Pennsylvania Ave.; 7:04 p.m. Oct. 1. â&#x2013; 600-699 block, 13th St.; 8:34 p.m. Oct. 1. Theft from auto â&#x2013; 1200-1399 block, Constitution Ave.; 3:28 p.m. Sept. 30. â&#x2013; 700-999 block, Independence Ave. SW; 8:34 p.m. Sept. 30.

PSA 102

â&#x2013; GALLERY PLACE PSA 102

PENN QUARTER

Sexual abuse â&#x2013; 300-498 block, Indiana Ave.; 10:18 p.m. Sept. 29. Assault with a dangerous weapon â&#x2013; 400-499 block, G St.; 7:27 p.m. Sept. 27 (with gun). Burglary â&#x2013; 600-699 block, K St.; 9:40 a.m. Sept. 30. Motor vehicle theft â&#x2013; 500-599 block, G St.; 8:44 a.m. Sept. 30. Theft â&#x2013; 600-699 block, K St.; 1:57 p.m. Sept. 26. â&#x2013; 400-499 block, 8th St.; 11:16 p.m. Sept. 26. â&#x2013; 914-999 block, 5th St.; 7:12 p.m. Sept. 28. â&#x2013; 800-899 block, 7th St.; 8:05 p.m. Sept. 28. â&#x2013; 700-899 block, K St.; 4:52 p.m. Sept. 29. â&#x2013; 700-799 block, H St.; 6:56 p.m. Sept. 30. â&#x2013; 800-899 block, F St.; 6:06 a.m. Oct. 1. â&#x2013; 800-899 block, 7th St.; 10:45 a.m. Oct. 1. â&#x2013; 700-799 block, 7th St.; 10:45 p.m. Oct. 1. Theft from auto â&#x2013; 500-599 block, H St.; 11:10 a.m. Sept. 29. â&#x2013; 400-448 block, I St.; 10:55 p.m. Sept. 30.

PSA 204

â&#x2013; MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE

HEIGHTS / CLEVELAND PARK WOODLEY PARK / GLOVER PSA 204 PARK / CATHEDRAL HEIGHTS

Sexual abuse â&#x2013; 2600-2699 block, Woodley Road; 4:36 p.m. Sept. 26. Theft â&#x2013; 2241-2318 block, Wisconsin Ave.; 3:04 p.m. Sept. 26. â&#x2013; 3800-3809 block, Rodman St.; 11:21 a.m. Sept. 27. â&#x2013; 3300-3399 block, Wisconsin Ave.; 5:18 p.m. Sept. 28. â&#x2013; 2400-2798 block, Calvert St.; 5:53 p.m. Sept. 29. Theft from auto â&#x2013; 3600-3699 block, Macomb St.; 6:54 p.m. Sept. 30.

PSA PSA 206 206

â&#x2013; GEORGETOWN / BURLEITH

Burglary â&#x2013; 3400-3599 block, Water St.; 7:35 a.m. Sept. 28. â&#x2013; 3700-3799 block, S St.; 1:44 a.m. Sept. 29. Theft â&#x2013; 3300-3399 block, Water St.; 11:01 a.m. Sept. 27. â&#x2013; 1200-1237 block, Wisconsin Ave.; 9:53 p.m. Sept. 27. â&#x2013; 3200-3275 block, M St.; 4:58 p.m. Sept. 28. â&#x2013; 1200-1237 block, Wisconsin Ave.; 6:20 p.m. Sept. 28. â&#x2013; 1200-1237 block, Wisconsin Ave.; 10:24 p.m. Sept. 28. â&#x2013; 1224-1299 block, Wisconsin Ave.; 9:31 p.m. Sept. 30. â&#x2013; 1224-1299 block, Wisconsin Ave.; 7:41 p.m. Oct. 1. Theft from auto â&#x2013; 3100-3199 block, K St.; 7:31 p.m. Sept. 28.

PSA PSA 207 207

â&#x2013; FOGGY BOTTOM / WEST END

Robbery â&#x2013; 2200-2299 block, I St.; 12:00 p.m. Oct. 1. Assault with a dangerous weapon â&#x2013; 2100-2199 block, Pennsylvania Ave.; 12:56 p.m. Sept. 29 (with knife). Motor vehicle theft â&#x2013; 2400-2499 block, Pennsylvania Ave.; 9:00 a.m. Sept. 26. â&#x2013; 1800-1899 block, M St.; 9:54 p.m. Sept. 27. â&#x2013; 1800-1899 block, L St.; 6:32 a.m. Oct. 1. Theft â&#x2013; 1900-1999 block, Pennsylvania Ave.; 12:58 p.m. Sept. 26. â&#x2013; 1000-1099 block, 14th St.; 3:34 p.m. Sept. 26. â&#x2013; 900-999 block, 19th St.; 3:50 p.m. Sept. 26. â&#x2013; 1700-1799 block, G St.; 7:47 p.m. Sept. 26. â&#x2013; 1718-1799 block, L St.; 11:43 a.m. Sept. 27.

â&#x2013; 900-999 block, 17th St.; 12:34 a.m. Sept. 28. â&#x2013; 1100-1199 block, Vermont Ave.; 7:15 p.m. Sept. 28. â&#x2013; 1100-1199 block, 20th St.; 8:10 p.m. Sept. 28. â&#x2013; 1130-1199 block, Connecticut Ave.; 5:49 p.m. Sept. 29. â&#x2013; 1000-1099 block, Connecticut Ave.; 11:29 p.m. Sept. 29. â&#x2013; 2300-2399 block, M St.; 11:04 a.m. Sept. 30. â&#x2013; 2100-2199 block, E St.; 10:22 p.m. Sept. 30. â&#x2013; 1520-1599 block, I St.; 10:10 p.m. Oct. 1.

6:49 a.m. Sept. 27.

Theft from auto â&#x2013; 1400-1499 block, New York Ave.; 11:20 p.m. Sept. 28. â&#x2013; 2100-2499 block, K St.; 2:32 a.m. Sept. 30. â&#x2013; 1100-1199 block, Vermont Ave.; 3:59 a.m. Sept. 30. â&#x2013; 2200-2299 block, H St.; 11:40 a.m. Oct. 1.

â&#x2013; ADAMS MORGAN

PSA 208

â&#x2013; SHERIDAN-KALORAMA PSA 208

DUPONT CIRCLE

Assault with a dangerous weapon â&#x2013; 1400-1499 block, P St.; 1:50 a.m. Sept. 28. Burglary â&#x2013; 1300-1699 block, Connecticut Ave.; 5:53 a.m. Sept. 29. Theft â&#x2013; 1700-1799 block, Connecticut Ave.; 2:26 p.m. Sept. 26. â&#x2013; 1700-1799 block, Connecticut Ave.; 5:50 p.m. Sept. 26. â&#x2013; 1250-1299 block, 22nd St.; 8:25 p.m. Sept. 26. â&#x2013; 1-7 block, Dupont Circle; 10:42 a.m. Sept. 28. â&#x2013; 1400-1499 block, P St.; 12:08 p.m. Sept. 28. â&#x2013; 1200-1299 block, 23rd St.; 6:42 p.m. Sept. 28. â&#x2013; 1300-1699 block, Connecticut Ave.; 12:41 p.m. Sept. 29. â&#x2013; 1300-1699 block, Connecticut Ave.; 6:10 p.m. Sept. 29. â&#x2013; 1400-1499 block, P St.; 7:23 p.m. Sept. 29. â&#x2013; 1700-1799 block, Connecticut Ave.; 8:08 p.m. Sept. 29. â&#x2013; 1500-1520 block, 14th St.; 11:05 a.m. Sept. 30. â&#x2013; 1900-1999 block, Connecticut Ave.; 12:08 p.m. Sept. 30. â&#x2013; 1300-1699 block, Connecticut Ave.; 4:03 p.m. Sept. 30. Theft from auto â&#x2013; 1700-1799 block, Q St.; 12:25 p.m. Sept. 28. â&#x2013; 2119-2199 block, R St.; 7:51 p.m. Sept. 28. â&#x2013; 1825-1899 block, Phelps Place; 3:46 p.m. Sept. 30. â&#x2013; 1700-1799 block, Church St.; 10:54 a.m. Oct. 1.

PSA PSA 301 301

â&#x2013; DUPONT CIRCLE

Burglary â&#x2013; 1600-1618 block, 17th St.;

Theft â&#x2013; 1400-1499 block, T St.; 9:27 a.m. Sept. 30. Theft from auto â&#x2013; 1700-1799 block, Johnson Ave.; 12:39 p.m. Sept. 26. â&#x2013; 1700-1799 block, 15th St.; 3:11 p.m. Sept. 26. â&#x2013; 1900-1919 block, 15th St.; 11:38 a.m. Sept. 27. â&#x2013; 1400-1499 block, V St.; 6:28 p.m. Sept. 28.

PSA PSA 303 303

Burglary â&#x2013; 1734-1769 block, Euclid St.; 11:09 p.m. Sept. 29. Theft â&#x2013; 1800-1899 block, Ontario Place; 8:48 p.m. Sept. 27. â&#x2013; 1900-1999 block, Kalorama Place; 4:54 p.m. Sept. 28. â&#x2013; 2400-2479 block, 16th St.; 6:50 p.m. Sept. 29. Theft from auto â&#x2013; 2120-2323 block, Ontario Road; 3:21 p.m. Sept. 28. â&#x2013; 1737-1776 block, Columbia Road; 3:16 a.m. Sept. 30. â&#x2013; 2412-2499 block, 20th St.; 9:32 a.m. Sept. 30. â&#x2013; 1801-1898 block, Calvert St.; 10:41 a.m. Sept. 30.

PSA PSA 307 307

â&#x2013; LOGAN CIRCLE

Robbery â&#x2013; 1600-1630 block, Vermont Ave.; 2:38 a.m. Oct. 1. Burglary â&#x2013; 1200-1299 block, 10th St.; 7:40 p.m. Sept. 26. â&#x2013; 1100-1199 block, P St.; 5:05 a.m. Sept. 29. Motor vehicle theft â&#x2013; 1300-1319 block, N St.; 7:29 p.m. Sept. 27. â&#x2013; 1300-1399 block, L St.; 11:15 a.m. Oct. 1. Theft â&#x2013; 1300-1399 block, R St.; 5:00 p.m. Sept. 26. â&#x2013; 1400-1499 block, 11th St.; 11:20 a.m. Sept. 27. â&#x2013; 900-999 block, Massachusetts Ave.; 7:18 p.m. Sept. 27. â&#x2013; 1200-1299 block, Vermont Ave.; 12:29 p.m. Sept. 28. Theft from auto â&#x2013; 1101-1199 block, 11th St.; 2:17 p.m. Sept. 26. â&#x2013; 1700-1737 block, 11th St.; 11:44 p.m. Sept. 26. â&#x2013; 1300-1399 block, L St.; 8:51 a.m. Sept. 27. â&#x2013; 900-999 block, M St.; 2:30 p.m. Sept. 29. â&#x2013; 900-999 block, N St.; 1:39 p.m. Sept. 30. â&#x2013; 900-999 block, M St.; 8:11 p.m. Sept. 30.

The Current Wednesday, October 5, 2016

SILVER: Upscale diner in Cathedral Commons wins zoning approval

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Zoning Commission unanimously approved an agreement that allows Silver to occupy its planned space. In exchange, developer Bozzuto has to provide several community benefits: 90 minutes of free evening parking for customers who acquire validation during their visit to certain businesses outside Cathedral Commons; 20 reserved parking spaces for Eaton Elementary School teachers and staff members from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays; and overnight parking spaces for local residents. Giaimo said that the current timeline for Silverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s opening matches up with what he and director of operations Mark Russell had planned. Russell previously said he would consider taking Silverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s business elsewhere if Bozzuto wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t able to secure zoning approval in a timely manner. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was really the community support that drove this whole zoning process to a successful conclusion,â&#x20AC;? Giaimo said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot of people in the community really seemed to embrace what Silver had to offer, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what allowed us to be successful.â&#x20AC;? The new restaurant will boast â&#x20AC;&#x153;the most unique outdoor cafe in the neighborhood,â&#x20AC;? according to Giaimo â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a brasserie canopy, elegant umbrellas and extensive landscaping. Inside, customers can expect a contemporary art deco design, an open kitchen and a large bar serving craft cocktails. The menu offers a â&#x20AC;&#x153;more refined, more sophisticated, more urban embodimentâ&#x20AC;? of the traditional diner offerings available at the Silver Diner locations throughout Maryland, Virginia and New Jersey, Giaimo said. He and Russell first launched the new â&#x20AC;&#x153;Silverâ&#x20AC;? concept last year in Bethesda. At that location, sample offerings on the menu include truffle bison meatloaf, miso glazed salmon salad, creekstone angus sliders, tuna tartare and goat cheese bruschetta. Entrees there run between $17 and $25, with small plates available between $6 and $17. Meanwhile, while no formal deals are in place, Silver has feelers out for other locations in downtown D.C. and Clarendon, Giaimo confirmed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a unique restaurant in its capacity to provide a menu of this sophistication and food quality and up-market flavor profiles, combining this new American brasserie with the DNA of a diner, and doing it for all hours of a day,â&#x20AC;? he said. At Cathedral Commons, the community benefits of the Silver deal strike Carl Roller, chair of Advisory Neighborhood Commission 3C, as a fair trade for the inconvenience of the zoning process. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m really glad to see Bozzuto stepping up as a good neighbor,â&#x20AC;? Roller said in an interview. Roller said he continues to

hope that the city builds a parking garage at Eaton Elementary before its parking arrangement at Cathedral Commons runs out in 2018. At a zoning hearing in June, Eaton fourth-grade teacher Larin Rottman testified that the schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s staff struggles with the limited parking availability at the school now, and often has to compete with neighbors for spots. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We work countless hours each week before and after our required

contract time of duty with DCPS, often without extra pay, because

â??Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m really glad to see Bozzuto stepping up as a good neighbor.â?&#x17E; â&#x20AC;&#x201D; ANC 3C chair Carl Roller we care about our students and the school community,â&#x20AC;? Rottman said.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;We can value the service of our teachers, which will in turn continue to be an asset to the community, by extending the hours of the proposed parking for teachers in the development.â&#x20AC;? The developer agreed to extend the parking provision for Eaton staff to 5 p.m. from the originally proposed 4 p.m. The latest modernization schedule for Eaton doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t call for upgrades to the school until 2022.

Rendering courtesy of CORE

Silver, an upscale diner, will take the Cathedral Commons space between SunTrust and Allure Spa on Wisconsin Avenue NW.

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Graduation goals

Back in 2012, there was skepticism that the D.C. Public Schools “Capital Commitment” plan could actually achieve a four-year graduation rate of 75 percent by the 2016-17 school year. The year before, the rate had stood at a mere 53 percent. Subsequent years weren’t encouraging either, with the graduation rate still languishing at 58 percent as recently as 2014. But critics may need to swallow their skepticism. In 2015 and now again in 2016, our public school system made great strides toward its goal. Last year, 64 percent of the system’s students graduated in four years. And newly released data show it wasn’t a one-off — this spring, 69 percent of its students graduated on time. If these gains continue, our schools will indeed hit their target for next spring. Consider us impressed. We’re seeing significant, sustained progress in a critical factor to student success: achieving a high school diploma in a timely fashion. It’s hard to know exactly where to place the credit, but we expect there are many deserving recipients: newly departed Chancellor Kaya Henderson and other officials who established sound policies and allocated appropriate funding; the students themselves, who achieved more than their peers from past years; the educators who helped them; and the parents who increasingly trusted D.C. Public Schools with their high-performing children. We’d also like to single out the Wilson High community, where students saw the city’s biggest year-to-year increase in the four-year graduation rate: from 78 percent in 2015 to 88 percent this year. The system’s six application high schools also continue to impress: Even the lowest rate among them is 86 percent, and the rest are 94 percent or higher. While we’re pleased to see significant progress, there are still a number of disappointing weak spots. Although keeping students in school to graduate is an important step, too many of our students continue to graduate without the skills they need to succeed at the college level or in the workplace. Also, student success has been uneven across the city; Anacostia High’s four-year graduation rate, 42 percent, is less than half of Wilson’s, and fell by 4 percentage points from 2015 to 2016. Lastly, even the District’s 75 percent target lags the national average of 82 percent. We’re also aware of concerns that education officials may massage the statistics to their benefit. While we doubt there is specific evidence to that effect, it’s incumbent upon D.C. Public Schools to foster public confidence in its data.

Bicentennial celebrations

Two centuries ago, two very different buildings — originally designed to serve two very different constituencies — opened just a few blocks from each other in Georgetown. At 1644 31st St. NW, George Washington’s granddaughter and her husband had purchased 8.5 acres of land using an inheritance from the nation’s first president. There, in 1816, Thomas and Martha Custis Peter moved into the newly completed Tudor Place mansion. The Peters were a prosperous family with slaves both at their Georgetown home and at their Maryland farmland, according to the Tudor Place website. The Peter family lived in the property for six generations until it became the present museum in 1983. Meanwhile, nearby, a group of 125 African-Americans split off from the segregated Montgomery Street Church — now Dumbarton United Methodist Church — to form their own black congregation. In 1816, this group constructed the first home of the new Mount Zion United Methodist Church on 27th Street NW, according to information from the church. Reportedly the District’s oldest black congregation, Mount Zion has been central to Georgetown’s black community ever since, and has been located at 1334 29th St. NW since the late 19th century. Both institutions have been celebrating their milestone anniversaries for months. Most recently, this past weekend, Mount Zion held a bicentennial gala on Friday and a special Sunday service. Meanwhile, Tudor Place’s events include an 1816-themed dinner tonight; the house and its gardens are also the subject of a new book from the White House Historical Association: “Tudor Place: America’s Story Lives Here.” Both landmarks are vital to the fabric of this historic neighborhood, telling different aspects of America’s story. We’re lucky to have them so close together here in the District, and we’re delighted to see them celebrate their bicentennials.

Bad, bad traffic … it’s bad …

id we say, bad? Yes, we did. Bad. Way back in 1978, the residents of Reno Road got fed up with commuters, speeding cars and trucks along their winding road in Northwest Washington. The residents organized teams of neighbors to drive the two-lane road at the 25 mph speed limit, just 15 mph near schools. It got attention, and in 1980, Reno got some traffic-calming help, and later, turn lanes. We thought of Reno Road this week when The Washington Post reported on the crush of cars roaring down Cathedral Avenue because Rock Creek’s Beach Drive is now closed for three years. The race track atmosphere means residents can’t walk children or dogs, and mail carriers risk their lives crossing the street. All this was in part because the D.C. Department of Transportation covered stop signs to speed detour traffic. The stop signs were installed years ago to slow the traffic. Now, after an angry community meeting, the stop signs are returning. But the larger issue is the growing morass that is traffic all over the nation’s capital. The mayor has pointed proudly to this growing city, but the Notebook could see our inability to handle traffic becoming a potent political issue. Whether it’s the three-year closing of Beach Drive, which daily is forcing 30,000 vehicles onto side streets, or the shutdown of Metro lines, or the failure to enforce rush-hour parking and other traffic-calming problems, there is a serious problem. The routine blocking of lanes ignoring rushhour signs is so common it’s almost comical. A Transportation Department spokesperson said the agency is working “around the clock” to keep traffic flowing; is hiring more traffic aides; and is updating technology. He said the agency is working with the Department of Public Works (the enforcement arm) “to penalize those who disobey our laws.” And finally, he said his agency has a forthcoming “comprehensive multimodal congestion management study” due out soon. Pick your area for problems. Your Notebook on Monday morning was on 12th Street NW, northbound from Pennsylvania Avenue. We counted seven out of eight city blocks that had illegally parked cars and/or trucks and buses. Just south of Pennsylvania Avenue, cars and trucks parked in the rush-hour curb lane along the Trump International Hotel. No tickets, no enforcement, no towing. They’re there every morning. On Saturday before sunset on Capitol Hill near 4th Street SE, a large 18-wheeler was doing a major unloading while parked in the left-hand traffic lane of Pennsylvania Avenue. We watched two police patrol cars blithely pass by. Smart drivers know to avoid New York Avenue at North Capitol most any time of the day. Back across town at the 9th Street tunnel, there is a daily, angry double-lane game of chicken and cutins as afternoon drivers try to squeeze onto the Southeast-Southwest Freeway and 14th Street Bridge. On Massachusetts Avenue NW eastbound at 7th Street near the Washington Convention

Center, the slow crawl begins five blocks back at 13th Street. On Saturday near Nationals Park (4th and M streets SE) as the nearby game ended, traffic snarled as a TCO (traffic control officer) stood on the northeast corner and seemed overwhelmed with pedestrians and traffic. When the frustrated driver waiting too long in front of me inched into the crosswalk, she yelled at him. I couldn’t hear the driver, but the TCO yelled back, “I know what I’m doing!” Don’t even ask about I-295 north or south. The fact is there are bottlenecks and backups all over the city’s main arteries. Reporters keep hearing that downtown traffic signals are almost all re-timed. We’re told the TCOs are staffing key rush-hour intersections. We’re told double-parking, rush-hour parking and traffic rules are being enforced. But several truck drivers tell me tickets, if given, are just a cost of doing business because the trucks are not made to move. And despite suggestions that enforcement is being done, utility, construction and other work crews boldly block lanes, ignoring rush-hour signs. What many drivers see is that the District is losing control of the streets, especially during rush hours. Ward 2 D.C. Council member Jack Evans said it simply the other day: “The streets of Washington are in gridlock these days.” ■ “Mouth-off” politics update. Violent crime has been many a mayor’s political undoing. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s team sees it as a potential threat to her 2018 run for re-election. A few weeks ago, Bowser and her administration were stunned and angry. D.C. Superior Court Chief Judge Lee Satterfield had blasted Bowser for her criticism of courts and prosecutors not being tough enough on violent criminals. “I for one am exhausted hearing her mouth off politically,” Satterfield wrote in an email to Kevin Donahue, deputy mayor for public safety. Satterfield threatened to “start speaking out about it.” The normally mild-mannered Donahue responded aggressively, objecting to Satterfield’s “taunting tone” and calling his email “offensive and condescending” to the mayor. Donahue added, for good measure, that it was “perhaps even sexist.” The private but bitter exchange was disclosed by Washington Post columnist Colby King. Fast-forward to last week. The mayor, federal prosecutors and D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine announced a sort of truce in the battle. Eight lawyers from Racine’s office will be detailed for six months to the U.S. Attorney’s Office to handle misdemeanor crimes while federal prosecutors focus on violent crimes. The mayor is spending $1 million to foot the bill. It gives the mayor some political breathing room, but doesn’t dramatically change the law enforcement mix here. U.S. Attorney Channing Phillips will remain 100 percent in charge of his office. Tom Sherwood, a Southwest resident, is a political reporter for News 4.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ANC 3D chair holds neighbors’ respect

Mr. William Spence Spencer’s vitriolic letter about Advisory Neighborhood Commission 3D chair Tom Smith [Letters to the Editor, Sept. 21] reads like a campaign ad for Mr. Smith’s

opponent. Most of Mr. Smith’s constituents in his single-member district know that Mr. Smith has provided excellent representation. Mr. Smith in his periodic emails to neighbors keeps us aware of problems, both current and future, and what he is doing to solve and/or avoid the problems. I know from personal experience and from what I have been

told by neighbors that he is always available by phone or email to assist neighbors with individual problems. An election choice sometimes comes down to the old saying: “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” Because we have gotten excellent representation from Mr. Smith, there is every reason to keep him in office. Malcolm L. Pritzker Spring Valley

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onsider these topics: School security. Teen depression. Anti-bullying programs. Wage equality for women. America needs aliens. Video games are not bad. Speaking out on stuttering. Banishing the death penalty. Carbon emissions. Urban public schools. These are the topics of the first 10 essays that show up on a page of student writing on One World Educationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s website. The essays were written by D.C. middle and high school students as part of a successful program that strengthens their reading, research, writing and presentation skills. Students select the topic they write about, and many write about issues that deeply affect them on a personal level. This is writing that matters â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and writing that gives a voice to students from D.C. public and charter schools, many of whom live in low-income families and have faced hardship. Last year, more than 5,800 students participated in the program, which operates in both public and charter schools in partnership with D.C. Public Schools and the Office of the State Superintendent of Education. In public schools, the program is part of the Cornerstone initiative, which aims to provide rigorous content to students, improved professional development for teachers, and continuity and consistency across grades and subjects. The One World program (or One World Cornerstone, as it is known in public schools) is organized around four tasks or stages for students: reading comprehension, research, writing and presentation. Students start by reviewing how to write a strong argumentative essay, including by looking at exemplary essays from students in previous years. Next, they select and research their own topic, looking at claims and counterclaims for their argument from reliable sources. With the framework in place, students then proceed to write their essay. After revising their work, they present their essay to their teacher and classmates to get feedback. This may sound simple, but the balance for good implementation consists in providing enough structure for students to do well (and for teachers to prepare their lessons), while ensuring that students have enough freedom to pursue their passion and write about what they care the most about. Teachers select some of the students to present their essays to a panel of judges at a College and

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Area cyclists must be aware of pedestrians

I fear I may invoke the ire of bicyclists by writing this letter. This is not my intention. I want our city to be bicyclable, Metroable, busable, Uberable, Lyftable, cabable and â&#x20AC;Ś walkable. I want to see many modes of transportation other than relying dominantly on the drivable (as in personal automobiles). The problem is â&#x20AC;&#x201D; as a pedestrian who often walks to work from just north of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lioness Bridgeâ&#x20AC;? on 16th Street NW to my office in Georgetown â&#x20AC;&#x201D; I some-

Career Senior Challenge organized each year, with the winners receiving scholarships. This past school year, then-Chancellor Kaya Henderson gave the keynote address at the event, and in April more than a dozen students received scholarships for college. How successful is the program? As part of a pro bono initiative of the Rotary Club of Capitol Hill that works with D.C. nonprofits on their strategic priorities, and in collaboration with a team from American University, a recently completed evaluation of One World Educationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s program showed significant improvements in argumentative writing. The evaluation is based on writing assignments from more than 550 students, with each student writing an essay before and after the program. The data suggest that most students improved their argumentative writing skills in a statistically significant way. Importantly, initially weaker students improved the most. In other words, the program is especially beneficial for students lagging behind. Overall, students improved their writing performance in all participating public and charter schools except one, where performance was flat. Data on teacher and student perceptions about the program were also collected. Teachers were asked in an online survey to rate the program anonymously and provide recommendations as to whether it should continue this year. On all 13 questions about the program, feedback was favorable and 94 percent of teachers recommended using the One World Cornerstone again this year (none of the teachers recommended not to). Data on student perceptions were obtained through focus groups. Most students found the program beneficial, and they especially appreciated the fact that they could write on a topic of their choice â&#x20AC;&#x201D; writing that matters to them! The great news is that thanks to this positive feedback, the program will be implemented again in public and charter schools this year. Programs such as One World Education are needed in D.C. and in the U.S. more broadly. The country used to have one of the best workforces in the world, but our comparative advantage has been eroded. Within the U.S., despite progress in recent years, D.C. still ranks toward the bottom of national rankings on student learning. Efforts by public and charter schools and partnerships with nonprofits such as One World Education, however, are sending the message that gains can be achieved. Quentin Wodon is president of the Rotary Club of Capitol Hill. He can be reached through the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Contact Meâ&#x20AC;? page at rotarianeconomist.com.

times fear for my life. And it is less often car drivers that seem intent on running me over and more often bicyclists. One of the worst areas of all is a street close to my office: K Street under the Whitehurst Freeway in Georgetown. Pedestrians have the right of way at clearly marked zebra crossings at fourway stops. Yet, amid the chaos and cacophony of cars, mini-buses, delivery trucks, Ubers, Lyfts and taxicabs, the most dangerous, near-fatal pedestrian accidents I have encountered have been on the part of bicyclists racing in from the west in the morning and from the east homeward in the evening while ignoring the rules of the road to stop at the fourway stops on the road or racing

along the sidewalks. I was drawn to write this letter as a result of mentioning my frustration to a friend who shared with me the account of a friend of hers with Stage 4 cancer who was recently mowed down by a bicyclist, leaving her straddled across the road with horrible injuries to her torso and face. So whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s my point? As we transport ourselves from place to place in our quickly changing city, as we make the welcome and inevitable move away from personal vehicles, can everyone â&#x20AC;&#x201D; no matter the mode â&#x20AC;&#x201D; obey the rules meant to keep all of us safe, especially the lowly individual traveling on her or his own two feet? Lisa Tabaku

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In Your Neighborhood 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, Oct. 6, at the D.C. Housing Finance Agency, 815 Florida Ave. NW. For details, visit anc1b.org. ANC 1C ANCMorgan 1C Adams

■ ADAMS MORGAN

The commission will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 5, at Mary’s Center, 2355 Ontario Road NW. Agenda items include: ■ announcements. ■ consideration of the ANC 1C budget for fiscal year 2017. ■ update on the 16th Street Transit Study and implementation plans. ■ consideration of a committee recommendation that ANC 1C ask the D.C. Department of Transportation to study traffic patterns in Adams Morgan with a view toward identifying and addressing issues experienced by residents. ■ consideration of a committee recommendation ANC 1C oppose revised plans for the proposed development at 1800 Columbia Road NW as failing to comport with historic preservation guidelines as applied to the Washington Heights Historic District, as well as possible consideration of an ANC 1C stance regarding claims that the SunTrust Bank plaza at the site is subject to an easement

for use by the public. ■ consideration of a committee recommendation that ANC 1C oppose the proposed development at 1815 Columbia Road NW as failing to comport with historic preservation guidelines as applied to the Washington Heights Historic District. ■ consideration of a committee recommendation that ANC 1C oppose an appeal seeking R-5-B treatment of the properties at 1630-1634 Argonne Place NW in the recently rezoned R-4 district of Lanier Heights. ■ consideration of a committee recommendation that ANC 1C support a proposal to require developments that use private trash pickup to locate trash collection within an alley (rather than street-side) where public trash collection for adjacent properties occurs within the alley. ■ possible consideration of a settlement agreement with Ababa Ethiopian Restaurant regarding terms of its Alcoholic Beverage Control license. ■ possible consideration of a revised settlement agreement with Local 16 regarding terms of its Alcoholic Beverage Control license. ■ consideration of a new settlement agreement with El Nuevo Migueleno regarding terms of its restaurant-class Alcoholic Beverage Control license. ■ consideration of a proposed amendment to the commission’s settlement with Songbyrd regarding terms of its tavern-class Alcoholic Beverage Control license. ■ possible consideration of a resolution commending the Adams Morgan Day organizers. For details, call 202-332-2630 or visit anc1c.org. ANC 2A ANCBottom 2A Foggy

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The commission will meet at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 17, at Our Lady Queen of the Americas Church, California Street and Phelps Place NW. Agenda items include: ■ approval of ANC 2D’s fiscal year 2017 budget. ■ police report. ■ reports from the offices of Mayor Muriel Bowser and Ward 2 D.C. Council member Jack Evans. ■ presentation by shadow Sen. Michael D. Brown. ■ update from the D.C. Department of Transportation regarding sidewalk repairs. ■ discussion of the 2316 Tracy Place NW roof garden project. ■ presentation by the D.C. Office of Disability Rights. ■ discussion of the D.C. statehood referendum. For details, visit anc2d.org or contact 2D01@anc.dc.gov.

The commission will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 13, at the Society of the Cincinnati, Anderson House, 2118 Massachusetts Ave. NW. The meeting date was changed to avoid falling on Yom Kippur; doing so also required a change from the usual meeting location. Agenda items include: ■ announcements and public comments. ■ presentation of ANC 2B candidates on the November ballot. ■ consideration of an Alcoholic Beverage Control application by Emissary for a substantial change to its Class CR license at 2032 P St. NW to increase capacity from 44 to 93. ■ consideration of several Alcoholic Beverage Control license renewal applications for taverns and nightclub. ■ consideration of Historic Preservation Review Board matters: 1630 Riggs Place NW; 1626 Riggs Place NW; 2147 P St. NW; 1761 N St. NW; and 17th and P streets NW. ■ consideration of a letter of support for FreshFarm Dupont Circle Market’s 2017 market season. ■ administrative matters, including an update regarding the Dupont Circle Resource Center renovations. For details, visit dupontcircleanc.net. ANC 2C ANC 2C Quarter Downtown/Penn

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The commission will meet at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 17, 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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At the commission’s Sept. 7 meeting: ■ Metropolitan Police Department Sgt. David Terestre reported that neighborhood crime in the previous month fell to 52 incidents from 66 from the same period last year. Strong-arm robberies were a problem, along with an assault with a dangerous weapon on 9th Street NW. Terestre reported that burglars of some Massachusetts Avenue apartments wore uniforms suggesting they were service personnel to gain admittance. He also said that prostitution remains a problem in the area, especially in the summer, but that officers have responded with undercover stings. ■ Deirdre MacWilliams of Voices of Shaw said her group would be holding an arts festival from Sept. 24 through Oct. 2. Planned events

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included a Shaw walking tour with a focus on neighborhood gentrification. ■ commissioner Kevin Sylvester reported that owners of the soonto-open Noddle Dog Tavern at 922 N St. NW have reached a settlement agreement. On Friday and Saturdays, the tavern will close at 2:30 a.m. There will be no live music, but a DJ is permitted on weekends from 6 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. ■ commissioners unanimously approved a settlement agreement with Fino Tavern, a new restaurant at 1230 9th St. NW. Patrons will only enter on 9th Street. Hours are 11 a.m. to 1:30 a.m. Sunday through Wednesday, and 11 a.m. to 2:30 a.m. Thursday through Saturday. ■ commissioners unanimously approved a settlement agreement for the new Village Whiskey at 920 N St. NW with weekday hours from 11 a.m. to midnight, and until 1:30 a.m. on weekends. Its summer garden will close at 11 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 1 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays. ■ commissioners voted unanimously to support a Board of Zoning Adjustment application from the Comfort Inn at 1201 13th St. NW to add an egress on the building’s north side, which will not be set back. The hotel may close during its renovation. ■ it was reported that the city granted permission for sidewalk cafe at 906 P St. NW, a change the commission’s Community Development Committee had supported. ■ commissioners voted unanimously to support a Historic Preservation Review Board application for a rear addition with a third story invisible from the street at 1518 and 1520 Kingman Place NW, as long as replaced visible doors comply with preservation standards. ■ commissioners requested input on a permit for 1209 10th St. NW that has sat for 10 years without the group’s consideration. ■ commissioner Charlie Bengel reported on area crime issues, including a boxing match in the 1300 block of Riggs Street NW that turned into a stabbing, and unsolved gun violence on 14th Street. ■ commissioners approved a $500 grant for a Little Goblins Parade. Commissioner Charlie Bengel opposed the grant, saying the sponsoring group used $200 of a prior grant in an unauthorized way. ■ commissioners voted unanimously to ask the D.C. Department of Transportation to ensure that residential permit parking signs are installed throughout the area. It was reported that signs are missing on the west side of the 1200 block of 13th Street NW. The commission will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 5, at the Washington Plaza Hotel, 10 Thomas Circle NW. For details, call 202-667-0052 or visit anc2f.org.

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REITER’S BOOKS WELCOMES LISA BENTON-SHORT THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 6:00-7:30 PM Reiter’s Books, 1900 G St NW Lisa Benton-Short, chair and associate professor in the Department of Geography at George Washington University and Senior Fellow with the Sustainability Collaborative, will sign copies of her new book, The National Mall: No Ordinary Public Space. Release of this book is timely, given the Centennial of the National Parks system.

WEST END LIBRARY FRIENDS TO HOLD ANNUAL MEETING SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 10:00 AM West End Interim Library Conference Room, 2522 Virginia Ave NW The West End Library Friends will hold its Annual Meeting on Saturday, October 8, at 10:00 am in the West End Interim Library conference room. If you have not already done so, please contact Susan Haight at welibraryfriends@gmail.com for a membership form. You can return it with your dues by mail, drop it off at the library in a sealed envelope, or bring it with you to the Annual Meeting. WELF asks everyone to include a donation to the West End Library Friends with your membership dues. Since locating to the interim library, WELF do not have the space for used book sales, our historic main source of income. The goal of the West End Library Friends remains the same: to help DCPL in its mission to educate and serve the community, by donating our time, money and expertise to make the West End Library branch a more vibrant part of the community.

TURF AND TERRAIN ENTERS FINAL MONTH

CLEAN COMMUNITY: DC & NPS ANNOUNCE COOPERATIVE EFFORT TO REDUCE RAT POPULATION On September 29, 2106, the National Park Service (NPS) announced a partnership with the DC Department of Health (DOH) to better control the rodent populations in national parks in the District. Under the agreement, which is effective October 1, 2016, DOH staff will inspect and treat national parks throughout the city. Residents can now report rats in any national park to request treatment by calling the Citywide Call Center at 311 or visiting 311.dc.gov. This includes all of the triangle parks in Foggy Bottom and the West End. The partnership will increase the frequency with which rats are treated in parks and improve citywide coordination to control the rodent population. DOH will also provide recommendations for making parks less habitable for rats. DC residents can also help reduce the rodent population in other ways. DON’T GIVE RATS FOOD n

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 4:30-7:30 PM Meet at 842 New Hampshire Ave NW (yellow house at corner of New Hampshire & I St) Turf and Terrain Closing Day: Fog, a Performance by Eames Armstrong Join us for the closing day of Turf and Terrain, the 2016 Arts in Foggy Bottom Outdoor Sculpture Biennial. Artist Eames Armstrong will give their last rendition of

her Turf and Terrain work, Fog, which will take place along the exhibition’s path. Using the neighborhood’s sidewalks as her canvas, the artist will write a collection of texts—her own and those by historic authors—on the brick paths using water and a paintbrush. By writing in water, Armstrong inscribes a text that will quickly fade, offering a meditation on the often-futile process of capturing memory, history, and legacy.

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 6:00-9:00 PM Hosted by Squire Patton Boggs LLP, 2550 M St NW The 3rd Annual Auction to raise funds for School Without Walls at Francis-Stevens Home & School Association is almost here. SWWFS is a DC Public School in Foggy Bottom/West End serving over 450 students from Pre-K through Grade 8. All proceeds benefit the Home & School Association, to help the school and the children with programs like the Kennedy Center Partnership, FoodPrints program, metro fare cards for field trips, after-school chess and language programs, and professional development for teachers. There will be a cash bar and appetizers. Admission is free, and the auction is open to the public. It is an adults-only event. Invite your friends, family, co-workers, and neighbors!

Keep the community as clean as possible. Pick up your own trash promptly and place it in the proper container. Do not leave meal- or party-generated trash out overnight. Properly dispose of pet waste. Keep all trash and recycling in quality containers with tight-fitting lids.

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Don’t leave water out for dogs or birds, especially overnight. Do not allow standing water to accumulate.

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Store lumber, bricks, and other material on a rack with open space underneath. Clear all high grass, weeds, and plant overgrowth.

For more information on reducing the rodent population, email rat.riddance@dc.gov or visit http://doh.dc.gov/service/ rodent-control.

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DO’S AND DON’TS FOR FIDUCIARIES

You’ve chosen people to serve as your fiduciaries - executor, trustee, attorney-in-fact, health-care agent - and even back-ups for them. First, you’ll need to get their permission (if they didn’t know, they could be upset about what might be involved, and decline). How can you address their concerns and provide practical advice for carrying out their tasks? •

Pick a quiet moment, when you’ll both have time to discuss.

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Offer them a chance to speak with your lawyer and get an overview, a “checklist” of typical tasks, and your Private Letter of Instruction. Also, assurances that they can get a consultation and formats to start out.

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They are not expected to be financiers! Emphasize that they will be able to hire experts and helpers, and the appointee’s job in more complicated areas is mostly to oversee and manage, including hiring and firing.

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Most important - getting organized right at the beginning, with a record system of notebooks or files; if on-line, use automatic backups. Include notes, contact info, and a calendar of tasks and due dates. To keep up-to-date, most appointees plan a regular session, once or twice a month, for meetings, current work, and to pay bills and sign letters.

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WEST END LIBRARY EVENTS WEDNESDAYS, OCTOBER 5, 12 & 19, 6:00 PM Meditation With David Newcomb WEDNESDAYS, OCTOBER 5 & 12, 6:00 PM Movies in Spanish October 5 – No se aceptan devoluciones October 12 – Calle 54 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 9:30 AM West End Library Friends Annual Meeting PLEASE NOTE: All DC Public Libraries will be closed on October 10 in observance of Columbus Day. TUESDAYS, OCTOBER 11 & 25, 5:00 PM Knitting Circle All levels welcome. Please bring your own materials.

MONDAYS, OCTOBER 17, 24 & 31, 2:00 PM E-Reader Help Bring your fully-charged smartphone, tablet or Kindle and learn how to download items. MONDAYS, OCTOBER 17, 24 & 31, 6:00 PM Everybody Yoga All levels welcome. Bring your own mat or use one of ours. THURSDAYS, OCTOBER 13, 20 & 27, 6:30 PM Movie Night October 13 – Pariah October 20 – The Rum Diary October 27 – Practical Magic Unless otherwise indicated, all events take place at the interim West End Neighborhood Library, 2522 Virginia Ave NW. Call (202) 724-8707 for more information.

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New participants must register once to establish eligibility. While Seabury operates the van service, Terrific Inc. manages registration. Phone (202) 595-1990 and ask for Shena Hutchinson (who is the intake coordinator). Call the volunteer to make your reservation(s) for one or more of the trips. Call early, since the bus holds only 16 people. The Volunteer for October is Irene Fondi; you can reach her at (202) 337-3176. Leave your name, telephone number, and the date(s) on which you wish to ride in the van. You will not receive a return call unless there is a problem. The bus leaves the Watergate East driveway at 10:45 am sharp! It makes another pick-up at the Diplomat in Columbia Plaza. Wednesday, October 5 – Trader Joe’s Wednesday, October 12 – Safeway

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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA OFFICE ON AGING NEWS

Spotlight on Community Living Wednesday, October 5, 2016

Serving D.C. residents who are age 18+ with a disability or age 60+ and their caregivers

Vol 5, No 11

Executive Director’s Message Laura Newland Fall is here! I had the TV on the other night, and I looked up and realized with horror that QVC was selling Christmas trees and Christmas decorations. In September. We live in a culture that’s always pointing us to what’s next—the next big thing, the next big event, the next big whatever. And somehow we miss all the in between things and wonder where our days went. One of the things that I love about this job is that when I see you out in the community, you remind me over and over that I need to remember that what happens now is important. That yes, it’s good to be strategic and plan ahead, but I can’t forget that what we do today is critical for seniors, people with disabilities, and their caregivers living in the District. We can’t wait for a year from now, five years from now, to be great.

You need us to be there for you today. I’ve started asking people in my life and people I meet about how connected they are to services where they live and what they wish they knew. Over and over, people tell me that they wish they had a reliable source of information for care-

COMMUNITY EVENTS CALENDAR – OCTOBER 5th • 11 a.m. to noon D.C. Office on Aging will make a presentation about its resources and services at Riggs LaSalle Recreation Center, 501 Riggs Rd. NE. For more information, call Alice A. Thompson at 202-535-1321.

5th, 19th, 24th, 25th Join Seabury Resources for Aging on a trip to the new National African American Museum of History and Culture. The trip leaves from Kibar, 1519 4th St. NE on Oct. 5; from Edgewood Commons, 635 Edgewood Terr. NE on Oct. 19; from Wesley House, 400 Commodore Joshua Barney Dr. NE on Oct 24; and from Ft. Lincoln I, 2855 Bladensburg Rd. NE on Oct. 25. For additional details, call Norma Hardie at 202-529-8701.

8th • 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The D.C. Office on Aging in collaboration with Gethsemane Baptist Church will hold an informational event sponsored by the Women’s Ministry.

The church is located at 5119 4th St. NW. For more information, call Shirley Fields at 202-882-4972.

11th • noon to 2 p.m. The Capitol Hill Chapter of AARP # 2881 meets at Liberty Baptist Church, 527 Kentucky Ave. SE. For more information, call Alice A. Thompson at 202-535-1321.

11th, 25th • noon Join the DC Caregivers Online Chat at Noon to discuss “Breast Cancer Awareness Tips for Caregivers” and “Caring for Someone with Lupus.” Logon to http://dcoa.dc.gov/page/ caregiver-chat at noon or visit at your convenience and hit replay to see the chat. For more information, contact linda.irizarry@dc.gov or call 202-5351442.

14th • 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Pepco Energy Assistance Summit will take place at Pepco Holdings, Inc., 2nd Floor Conference Center, 701 9th St. NW. For more information, call Alice A. Thompson at 202-535-1321.

giver support. Caregiving is a relationship. A critical one that holds our families and communities together. Several years ago, my dad got really sick really quickly for no identifiable reason and spent time in an intensive care unit. It was terrifying. I shared caregiver responsibilities while he was

at the hospital, and when he was moved back home for a short period of time. Taking care of my dad changed our relationship. And it changed me, too. My time as a caregiver was short-lived, but I know for many of you, this is an ongoing responsibility. As an agency, we’ve been thinking quite a bit about the services we provide, and we know that when we serve caregivers, we’re serving seniors and people with disabilities. In many cases, it’s caregivers who prevent people from living in nursing homes or other long-

term care. We need to serve you, too. If you’re a caregiver and interested in knowing what might be available to you (or if you know a caregiver), please call our Information & Assistance line at 202-724-5626. DCOA provides support for caregivers through adult day health programs, respite, and online chats with other caregivers. Check out our website at www.dcoa.dc.gov for more detailed information. In all of our agency work, we strive to make your lives a little easier, providing support and programs that allow you to have less stress and more information. I hope each of you is able to step outside, breathe in the crisp fall air, and enjoy it for exactly what it is. A perfect fall day.

14th • 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.

20th •11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The D.C. Office on Aging in Collaboration with the Hattie Holmes Senior Wellness Center will hold a Community Health, Wellness & Informational Fair at the center, 324 Kennedy St. NW. For more information, call Teresa Moore at 202-291-6170.

There will be a combined District of Columbia Retired Educators, Inc. fall membership meeting and D.C .Office on Aging-sponsored Community Health, Wellness and Informational Fair a plus Walgreens’ flu shot clinic. The events take placate Nineteenth Street Baptist Church, 4606 16th St. NW. Contact JoAnn Turner, president of DCREA at 202-526-4953.

Doesn’t Want Your Help.” In this workshop, presented by a social worker, you will learn why older family members may resist efforts to help them. This session will provide strategies for staying effective and involved as a caregiver without burning out. On Nov. 9 the topic will be “Supporting a Family Member with Memory Loss.” They will be held at Brighton Gardens, 5555 Friendship Blvd., Chevy Chase, Md. To register, email registration@ iona.org or call 202-895-9409.

15th • 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Hillcrest Day 2016 takes place at Hillcrest Recreation Center, 3100 Denver St. SE. Contact Michelle Peete at michelleamospeete@gmail.com to learn more.

16th • noon to 4 p.m. 14th Annual Foggy Bottom /West End Neighbor Block Party takes place at I and 22nd St. NW. For more information, email friendsblockparty@gmail. com.

19th • 9:30 a.m. The Seabury Resources for Aging Ward 5 Advisory Council meeting takes place at 2900 Newton St. NE. For more information, call Norma Hardie at 202- 529-8701.

25th • 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Office of Disability Rights in partnership with several District government agencies will host the 9th Annual Mayor’s Disability Awareness Expo at the D.C. Convention Center. For more information, call Alice A. Thompson at 202-535-1321.

25th • 6:30 to 8 p.m. Iona and Brighton Gardens of Friendship Heights are partnering to provide a free forum for adult children and other caregivers to understand the challenges of aging, particularly memory loss, and how best to support aging parents and other relatives while practicing good self-care. The second in the three-part program is titled “Helping a Family Member Who

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26th • 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Quilting Club at Hattie Holmes Senior Wellness Center is hosting a quilt demonstration and workshop. There be projects on display, giveaways and a raffle. The center is located at 324 Kennedy St. NW. For more information, call 202-291-6170.

27th • 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. A health and wellness information fair focusing on health education and breast cancer awareness will be held at Petersburg, 3298 Fort Lincoln Dr. NE. For more information, call Norma Hardie at 202- 529-8701.

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Spotlight on Schools Hearst Elementary School

Ms. Molinoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s second- and fourth-grade Communication & Education Support (CES) class is ready for autumn! The past two weeks, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve learned new vocabulary words, songs and sequences to aid in our understanding of the seasonal changes weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re starting to see, smell, hear and taste. Last week, we colored paper leaves after listening to our favorite fall song: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Autumn leaves are falling down. Yellow, red, orange and brown!â&#x20AC;? We will soon take a trip to the Pumpkin Patch with Ms. Molino and Ms. Athanasiadis to practice following directions, communication skills and in-context vocabulary words. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I like the pumpkin pie smells!â&#x20AC;? shared fourth-grader

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Briana Roye-Jones. Are you ready to fall into a new season? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Ms. Molinoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s CES students

Lafayette Elementary School

On Sept. 15 and 16, all the fifth-graders at Lafayette went on a field trip to the Chesapeake Bay and learned about the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. Throughout the field trip, the fifth-graders went to four different stations: plankton, water quality, oysters and seining. At the plankton station, the students got to look at plankton under microscopes and view any micro- or macroorganisms in their water sample. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Amazing,â&#x20AC;? fifth-

grade science teacher Mrs. Lindsley remarked. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You could see microorganisms in the sample water.â&#x20AC;? Fifth-grade students were equally fascinated. When the students went seining, they put on a water suit and got into the water with seining nets. They went about two-and-ahalf feet deep into the water and then worked their way back to the waterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s edge. Then they collected the fish that got caught in the net and put them in plastic containers filled with water. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Really fun,â&#x20AC;? said fifth-grader Asher McConkey. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Best station ever.â&#x20AC;? Overall, the fifth-graders had a great time. At the water quality and oysters station, the fifth-graders learned about the habitat in the bay and what a watershed is. Students learned a lot about the research center on the field trip, and they yearned to go back. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Marcus Han, fifth-grader

Public school system sees graduation rates climb

On-time graduation rates continue to climb in D.C. Public Schools, with 69 percent of the 2015-16 class completing their programs within four years. That record-high percentage marks a 5-point increase over last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s graduation rates, and a 16-point increase since 2011, according to a release from the school system. But even with the gains, the District remains behind the most recent national average of 82 percent, reported by the U.S. Department of Education. Wilson High School saw the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s biggest year-to-year jump in four-year graduation rates â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a 10-point increase over 2015, to 88 percent. While most other high schools also saw improved rates this year, the percentages dipped at two schools: Anacostia High and Roosevelt High. Anacostiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s graduation rate of 42 percent â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the lowest in the city â&#x20AC;&#x201D; reflects a 4-point loss from 2015, and Rooseveltâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rate dipped by 3 points to 59 percent. Two schools in Northwest â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Benjamin Banneker Academic High and School Without Walls High â&#x20AC;&#x201D; boasted 100 percent graduation rates, according to the school system. The rates reflect the Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate required by the Department of Education, tracking students who started ninth grade in 2012-13. The rates reported for the District do not yet include charter schools, which represent nearly half of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s public school students. Looking at subgroups in D.C., the current figures show the graduation rates rising to 67 percent among both black students and Hispanic students, with increases of 5 points and 1 point respectively since last year. Special-education learners saw a 5-point rise to 47 percent.

Our Lady of Victory School

Each year, the OLV middle school goes to Calleva in Poolesville, Md. Calleva has an outdoor ropes course. This was my first year, and I was very excited. When we got there, they put us into groups, and we went to our first activity. The first activity I went to was a zip line. It was a lot of fun going down the line. Even though I was afraid, everyone was very supportive. Afterward, I went on to the â&#x20AC;&#x153;round robin.â&#x20AC;? In this exercise, we had to help each other move around obstacles without touching the ground. Everyone showed great teamwork when we were doing this activity! My group then went to the board walk, where there were

boards â&#x20AC;&#x153;in the sky.â&#x20AC;? Friends down below had to pull on ropes to try to make it as steady as possible for each student to walk across. My fourth and final activity was called â&#x20AC;&#x153;think tank.â&#x20AC;? This helped us to work on our communication. One student got to see a picture and then describe portions of the picture to someone on his or her team. The â&#x20AC;&#x153;runnerâ&#x20AC;? comes back to the team to try to build the picture with blocks. On the bus ride home, I thought to myself about what my favorite activity was, and I decided on the board walk. We each

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Sheridan School

Each year, Sheridan School celebrates UNESCOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s International Literacy Day with an assembly led by the sixth grade. This year, sixth grade performed a readerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s theater that told facts about literacy and what UNESCO is. Then we performed a skit of the book â&#x20AC;&#x153;Armando and the Blue Tarp School.â&#x20AC;? In the book, Armando lives in another country. His job is a pepenador. He collects useful things from the trash dump to sell to other people. Sometimes, he keeps things that others have thrown out, like notebooks and pencils because he likes to draw. A teacher named SenĚ&#x192;or David comes to his neighborhood and sets up a school on a blue tarp. Armando wants to go to school, but his dad says he canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t. They need the money he makes. His sisters are small and canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t work. His work keeps the family alive. Armando gets upset. He wants to go to school. When his dad says he can go to school, he draws pictures of himself doing different work. Then Armandoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s village burns down. He is sad because they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a school. The teacher says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;As long as we have our blue tarp, we can learn.â&#x20AC;? After we performed the skit, we got into groups with the rest of the school. We discussed places in our school and how what we learn there helps build our future. We displayed the ideas as a staircase to show how literacy helps us to achieve our goals. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Madeleine Miller, sixth-grader

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Wednesday, October 5, 2016

ZONING: City planners respond to objections to PUDs for small row-house properties

From Page 5

asked the Zoning Commission to lower the minimum lot size standard to 10,000 square feet citywide, then for the commission to use its waiver authority for its

2715 Pennsylvania Ave. NW site. Members of ANC 1C are particularly concerned about reducing the lot size requirement amid the clash over pop-ups, where developers add a floor or two to a row house. “This [is] particularly objec-

tionable to rowhouse dominated blocks that would, under the proposed new rules, be potentially open to PUDs on a rowhouse,” their resolution reads. ANC 1C member Alan Gambrell said at a Sept. 7 meeting that

the proposal allows PUDs to be “way too lax.” His colleague, JonMarc Buffa, said the proposal is a “backdoor revision to the zoning rules.” After nearly a decade of discussions surrounding an overhaul of land-use regulations, which

went into effect this month, Buffa said for this to come up now subverts the public comment process. “This is not a technical correction,” as the Office of Planning suggests, Buffa said. “This is a wholesale change.”

WARDMAN: Developer plans revision to project on south lawn

From Page 1

ing the site, and that it would be premature to move forward with a Stage 1 application at this time,” JBG wrote in a message to community stakeholders last Wednesday. Of more concern to many neighbors, though, is redevelopment of the “north lawn.” Originally proposed as an eight-story, 121-unit apartment building, this project would fill in about half the open space east of The Woodley in front of the Marriott, leaving a smaller open area fronting the street. JBG is now planning to revise this project, and spokesperson Kate Leisner said the firm intends to file a revised application by the end of this month. “We are committed to adhering to size, scale, and architecture that will satisfy our neighbors as well as uphold zoning regulations, including the Future Land Use map,” Leisner wrote in an email, referring to a city document that indicates appropriate density levels for a given location. “After receiving valuable feedback from community members and district planners, we’ve decided to amend our application to lower the height of

the North Lawn Building to be more consistent with the surrounding architectural context and step-down to the townhomes across Woodley Road.” The apartment building, as it was initially envisioned, stepped down from 90 feet at its peak to as low as 56 feet on the ends of two wings that extended slightly closer to the road. Leisner said it’s too early to share further detail about the building’s design changes, including the new height, but did say that the new plans will smooth out the open space along Woodley Road. Developers are seeking Zoning Commission approval through the planned unit development process, which would allow them to offer community benefits that mitigate higher allowable density. But community members remain less than thrilled with the basic concept. Woodley Park advisory neighborhood commissioner Gwen Bole said it would be painful for the community to lose so much of today’s open space. “Building a big apartment building on the green space on the Marriott lawn will take away most of a much used, much loved neighborhood park in Woodley Park,” Bole wrote in an email

Monday. Jessica Wasserman, a member of the Woodley Park Community Association’s executive committee, said Monday that District planners should be more involved in considering the best use for the large, prominent property. “The current proposal to change current zoning in order to build another large luxury apartment building harms the neighborhood and does not further the goals of affordable housing,” Wasserman wrote in an email. “For such an important transit-oriented neighborhood with a metro, the zoo, schools and restaurants, we think integrated planning is appropriate.” The possible sale of the property raises further questions about its long-term future — which was already in question, given that Marriott still holds a 40-year lease on the building that JBG had wanted to raze. Leisner said JBG will determine what to do with the property based on reactions from potential buyers, as the planning process for redevelopment continues. “In light of our in-depth analysis of the Wardman Park site, the hotel is officially open to potential buyers and bids, allowing

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JBG could sell all or part of the prominent Marriott hotel site in Woodley Park.

JBG to examine all options and discern the property’s market value before moving forward with site development,” she wrote. “If the area is purchased, the property may be adapted as a stand-alone asset or coupled with the development plan for the North Lawn Building.” The District government values the hotel property at $50 million for its land and $33 million for the building.

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front garden. The living room leads to a wood paneled library/entertainment space with custom shelving and storage, including an ingenious wet bar that slides out for serving but can be tucked away when not in use. Next door, separated by pocket doors, is the family room, with a distinctive herringbone-patterned wood floor, custom cabinetry and a wood-burning fireplace with slate hearth/surround and wood mantel. Outside the family room and adjacent kitchen is a large screened-in sunroom, facing south, with a ceiling fan and sliding glass doors. The eat-in kitchen is designed around a thoughtful footprint and features custom cabinetry (including a center island), granite and quartz countertops, and a wall of windows. High-end appliances include a Thermador four-burner cooktop, a downdraft Cook N Vent and convection thermal double wall oven, a KitchenAid dishwasher and a GE microwave. The Sub-Zero refrigerator blends into the cabinetry with matching wood paneling. The dual stainless sink has a KitchenAid disposal and

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neighborhood commissioner Nancy MacWood reported that formal discussions on this issue are planned, and assured residents that temporarily eliminating a parking lane on Connecticut would only be a last resort. As the project gets in gear, there are some important dates to keep in mind. As of Sept. 30, the Cleveland Park Library no longer offers pickups for books on hold, and by Oct. 10, all holds will be relocated to Tenley-Friendship Library at 4450 Wisconsin Ave. NW. The interim library for Cleveland Park at 4340 Connecticut Ave. NW in space once occupied by a Wachovia bank branch will open on Oct. 31 after the current building closes for good at 5:30 p.m. Oct. 8.

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agencies of the schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tight timetable. A week later â&#x20AC;&#x201D; either by coincidence or direct result of their efforts â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the news Shaffner and her team were hoping for arrived. Mayor Muriel Bowserâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office announced Thursday that the Army and the city have reached a land transfer deal on the Walter Reed property, setting the table for D.C. International to open as planned next school year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;DCI faculty, students and parents are so pleased that our partners in the Mayorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office and the U.S. Army have worked so energetically to ensure a bright and positive future for our school and our students,â&#x20AC;? Shaffner said in a news release. The former Walter Reed Army Medical Center, 6900 Georgia Ave. NW, closed in 2011. The sprawling, closed-off campus will be converted into a mix of public and private uses, including an extensive new commercial development dubbed The Parks at Walter Reed, a complex of foreign missions, and D.C. International

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Sept. 20 to 22, urging Bowser and U.S. Army Secretary Eric Fanning to #DeliverDelano for the 775 students expected to enroll for the 2017-18 school year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t wait for work to begin soon so my son will finally have the space he needs to thrive!â&#x20AC;? parent Gib Kirkham tweeted Sept. 21. Students got involved as well. The school tweeted a two-minute video with students talking about their favorite aspects of D.C. International â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the book club and Latin dancing lessons, among others. Shepherd Park resident Elizabeth Lyttleton tweeted actively during the campaign and also served as the liaison for Yu Ying Public Charter School, a program for elementary-age children that feeds into D.C. International School. Her daughter posted an Instagram video showing her and her friends passing Delano Hall on their way to D.C. International Schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s current location on 16th Street. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a very good lesson for the kids in particular,â&#x20AC;? Lyttleton said of the campaign. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When you have something you need to be done, sometimes you have to make your voice heard.â&#x20AC;? D.C. International board member and fellow parent Deanna Troust, a public relations professional by day, helped with the initial planning and watched as her colleagues pulled off what she sees as a professional-grade campaign. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m in public relations and have worked on loads of communications campaigns,â&#x20AC;? Troust wrote in an email. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think of one that was able to reach its goal this quickly!â&#x20AC;? The schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s staff and students even got a preview of Delano Hall on Sept. 22, when the Army unexpectedly opened the buildingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 14th Street NW gate and let them see their new home up close for the first time. The surprise visit was a nice reward, Shaffner said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Getting the students on the site wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have happened without [the campaign],â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That was just a fabulous result. It really brought it to the forefront.â&#x20AC;?

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DC Design House goes bold for a good cause By BRIDEY HEING Current Correspondent

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Barbara Brown designed three rooms in the eaves of the house at 2509 Foxhall Road NW, using wallpaper to unify the space (above). Rachel Dougan designed a secondfloor room at the end of a hall as a “Lady Lair” (center).

his month, DC Design House has returned with another showcase of the area’s most cutting-edge interior designers. This year’s property is 2509 Foxhall Road NW, a five-story home in Wesley Heights/Berkley that’s currently for sale through Washington Fine Properties. The top three floors of this stately home have been renovated by 20 local designers, with each room offering a different take on the many ways of blending form and function. DC Design House was established in 2008 as a nonprofit, with all proceeds from ticket sales at its annual home tour benefiting the Children’s National Health System. In the past eight years, it has grown into one of the organization’s leading fundraisers, raising over $1.5 million to date. Run by an all-volunteer team, Design House partners with local for-sale properties and local sponsors, designers and manufacturers to celebrate D.C.’s wealth of design resources and talent. This year’s house is a kaleidoscope of color and style, with each area put into the hands of a different designer. The result is an incredible cross section of trending elements, ways to use space and interpretations of themes. The house also offers numerous ways of rethinking tricky spaces and making high-use rooms a little more stylish. Barbara Brown, of Barbara Brown Interiors, was assigned a three-room space in the eaves of the house,

where angles and cutouts proved a challenge she was enthusiastic in taking on. Including a sitting area, dressing room and bathroom, Brown’s design fully utilizes the space while using wallpaper as a unifying element. “The challenge was to do this while providing flow, softening the angles and grabbing light wherever I could,” Brown said of her approach to the space. “A great way to handle this type of challenging space is to wallpaper every bit of it, ceilings and all. This is a great trick that pulls all of the quirky features together, providing a calm, cohesive look.“ Another unique space is a second-floor retreat tucked away at the end of a hallway, separate from the rest of the house and perfect for an in-home getaway. Rachel Dougan, of Vivi Interiors, saw an opportunity to turn what may otherwise be an in-law suite into what she called a “Lady Lair,” where she blended standout details with neutral walls. “Lush textures, like leather, velvet and furs, touches of sparkle in the mirrors and gilt finishes, a slash of black, a dab of oxblood — these are all held together by the animated but neutral-colored wall finishes,” Dougan said. Her use of space also speaks to what she sees as a trend that’s catching on: being open to using space in unexpected ways. “I’ve been seeing a lot of openness on the part of my clients to reconsidering the purposes of ill-used spaces in their homes to truly reflect how they want to live,” she said. “A rarely used formal dining room turned into a See Design/Page 21

Author picks Deal Middle as setting for his latest novel By BRIDEY HEING Current Correspondent

n a rainy night last week, excited students and their equally pleased parents gathered in the auditorium of Deal Middle School in Tenleytown to hear about one of their own — a fictional kid detective named Florian Bates who attends Deal and helps the FBI. Florian is the hero of James Ponti’s latest book, “Framed,” the first in the author’s T.O.A.S.T. Mystery series. The book was published by Simon & Schuster in August, and it’s already a hit with the students of Deal. The T.O.A.S.T. series centers on Florian and his friend Margaret, who helps him get acquainted with D.C. after his family moves to Tenleytown from Rome. Having moved often before landing in seventh grade at Deal, Florian developed what he calls T.O.A.S.T., or the Theory of All Small Things. This Sherlock Holmes-like system of learning about his surroundings by taking in every detail helps Florian learn everything he can about his new neighborhood and school, and also leads to his involvement with an investigation into a painting stolen from the National Gallery of Art. As the plot thickens and the Eastern European mob gets involved, Florian and Margaret have to use T.O.A.S.T. to solve the crime and stay one step ahead of the gangsters they are trying to foil.

The choice to set his latest book at Deal may come as a surprise, seeing as Ponti doesn’t have a student at the school or even live in the area. But during his “The Mysteries of Writing” presentation, Ponti quickly explained his connection to D.C. It started with his previous series, “Dead City,” when he decided to name his main villain after family friend Marek Gootman and asked Gootman’s daughter to read the books prior to publication. According to Ponti, when the time came to start his latest series, he turned again to the Gootman family for inspiration, choosing to set the books at the school attended by their seventh-grade son, Vance. But he quickly realized that D.C., and specifically Deal, offered more than just a personal connection. “Every kid knows Washington,” Ponti told the crowd. “Every building here means something.” That familiarity gave him a foundation on which to build without giving up too much space or time to set up, something he said can be a struggle when writing fiction. As for Deal, he found a community that complements his story and has embraced their role as a home for Florian. As he made clear in his presentation, Ponti hopes to build a relationship with Deal in part to connect with the students who in a sense make up the backdrop of his series. “While I loved education growing up, I hated reading,” Ponti said of his own mid-

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James Ponti set his latest mystery novel in Tenley because a family friend went to school at Deal Middle.

dle school experience, when his slow reading pace made books a source of frustration. “I love seeing kids excited about books, because it’s the one thing I regret.” Despite his early rough relationship with reading, writing was something that he always enjoyed, in part because it offers an outlet for students who may otherwise feel isolated. Ponti told the students that writing has long been a way their own favorite authors, including John Green, expressed themselves as kids. “What’s great about writing is you write See Deal/Page 21

■ 1981 — The Greater Washington Board of Trade presented the Gold Medal for Valor to Sgt. Larry Hackett of the Metropolitan Police Department’s 2nd District. While patrolling the Foxhall Road NW area, Hackett had seen a truck crash into a tree and then overturn. One occupant had been thrown clear of the wreck, while the other two were unconscious inside the burning truck. After radioing for an ambulance, Hackett approached the crash scene and removed one man from the truck. Before he could return, the gas tank exploded, engulfing the truck in flames. Hackett nonetheless returned to the vehicle and carried the other occupant to safety. ■ 1986 — The Executive Educator, a magazine for school professionals, selected Wilson High School principal Michael Dorso as Executive Educator of the Month. Each month, the editors selected one notable school executive for recognition from among the 300,000 school administrators in North America. Past recipients had included D.C. Superintendent Floretta McKenzie, San Francisco Superintendent Ray Cortines and Atlanta Superintendent Alonzo Crim.

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games room, a formal living room into a library/reading room, a small bedroom into a dreamy crafts room or a gallery space for a quirky collection. ... I love this kind of transformation where the home becomes truly individual and authentic.” This year’s Design House also offers unique takes on the rooms in a home that will likely bear the resident’s heaviest lifting. For instance, Allie Mann and design company CASE designed the second-floor laundry room as a cozy, neutrally colored walk-in space that brings together lovely pieces, like a large apron-front sink or classic cabinetry, that do doubleduty for design and function. “I imagine anyone that has loads of laundry to do would rather do it in a fun and cheerful environment — a place that is both soothing and relaxing,” Mann said of working with a utilitarian space. She also tried to draw on trendy pieces that serve a purpose. “Apron-front sinks are making a big splash in both the laundry room and the kitchen, and in a range of sizes. Oilrubbed bronze and brass plumbing fixtures are a hit as well.” Many of the rooms in the house balance bold styles with homey elements, or use statement pieces to highlight the room’s function. Charles Almonte, of Charles Almonte Design, decorated his bedroom with bright orange wallpaper by sponsor Farrow & Ball to evoke the sunrise. “A bold color can be exciting, but it can also be soothing,” Almonte said. “For example, a dark aubergine color is bold, but it still has a sense of silent majesty to it. … To balance out the intensity, use a contrasting or complementary color sparingly. It doesn’t have to be a full-on 50-50 contrasting color scheme.” While many of the elements in Design House can be brought into your own home, Nadia Subaran of Aidan Design said it’s always wise to get the advice and assistance of professionals when dealing with more complex projects. Subaran and her team worked on a kitchen-adjacent space, where they transformed a small pantry into a stemware gallery with rustic, farmhouse touches. “Once you get into built-ins, wallpaper, rugs, fabrics, et cetera, you want to work with a professional who can lead and guide you through the selection process,” she said. “Design House is a great opportunity to meet designers and see their work up close.” The DC Design House is open now through Oct. 30. Tickets start at $35, and are available dcdesignhouse.com or at 2509 Foxhall Road NW. All proceeds benefit the Children’s National Health System.

about this isolated thing you think applies only to you, and others can say, ‘I experience that, too.’” Ponti’s books have already provided Deal students with a hero with whom they can identify. Justin, a seventh-grade student and aspiring writer himself, is drawn to the series’ careful attention to detail. “I like the mystery part, and

how he’s figuring out things,” he said. “The littlest details connect to so many branches, like the root goes to all the leaves of the tree.” He also hopes to take some inspiration for his own writing: “I’m going to do that, and I think it’s a good idea to put some of those ideas in the books I write.” T.O.A.S.T. is something that also stood out to Viola, a sixthgrader who recently moved to D.C. from overseas, giving her a

special connection with Florian’s experiences as a fellow new Deal student. Like Florian, she’s also a member of the school’s Scrabble Club. “It’s interesting that Florian and Margaret are able to tell what someone is doing or where they are going based on little details,” Viola said. For these students and those to come at Deal, the connection and inspiration they feel with Florian

is only just starting. Ponti hopes to visit the school again in the future, and he plans for the T.O.A.S.T. Mystery series to continue for several years. Throughout the process, Deal and its students will be playing a starring role in his stories. “Framed: A T.O.A.S.T. Mystery” is available now from Simon & Schuster. Last Thursday’s event was sponsored by Politics and Prose.

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George Washington University; Jeffrey E. Garten, dean emeritus of the Yale School of Management; and Robert B. Zoellick, former World Bank president. 5 to 7:30 p.m. Free; reservations required. Room 602, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, 1957 E St. NW. elliott.gwu.edu. â&#x2013; A seminar series on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Trauma and the Brainâ&#x20AC;? 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 Oct. 20, Nov. 3 and Nov. 17. â&#x2013; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Georgetown Writes: Alumni in Politicsâ&#x20AC;? will present Mike Donilon, a lawyer and political campaign consultant, and Mark Salter, author and speechwriter. 6 to 8 p.m. Free; reservations requested. Pierce Reading Room, Lauinger Library, Georgetown University, 37th and O streets NW. library.georgetown.edu. â&#x2013; Guest artists Leslie Smith III and Rushern Baker IV will discuss contemporary art in D.C. 6 to 8:30 p.m. Free. American University Museum, Katzen Arts Center, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW. 202-885-1300. â&#x2013; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Kaisertreu: The Descendants of German-Jewish War Veterans Speakâ&#x20AC;? will focus on Germans of Jewish faith who proudly fought for the Kaiser during World War I, only to be persecuted decades later. 6 p.m. $15 to $20. German American Heritage Museum, 719 6th St. NW. 202-467-5000. â&#x2013; As part of a yearlong celebration of the 225th birthday of the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s capital, HumanitiesDC will sponsor a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Humanitiniâ&#x20AC;? happy hour focusing on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Marion Barry and Dream City,â&#x20AC;? about Washington in the 1970s and 1980s. Panelists will include Barry administration officials Courtland Cox, E. Veronica Pace and Stan Jackson; journalists Adrienne Washington and Harry Jaffe; and Cherie Ward, professor of speech at the University of the District of Columbia Community College. 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Free; reservations required. Langston Room, Busboys and Poets 14th & V, 2021 14th St. NW. wdchumanities.org/ humanitini. â&#x2013; Michelle Brafman (shown) and Jen Michalski will discuss their respective novels, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bertrand Courtâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Summer She Was Under Water.â&#x20AC;? 7 to 8:30 p.m. Free. Upshur Street Books, 827 Upshur St. NW. upshurstreetbooks.com. â&#x2013; The Tenleytown Memoir & Essay Writing Club, an informal group of adult writing enthusiasts, will meet with facilitator Maura Policelli. 7 p.m. Free. Tenley-Friendship Library, 4450 Wisconsin Ave. NW. 202-727-1488. â&#x2013; Robert P. Jones, CEO of the Public Religion Research Institute, will discuss his book â&#x20AC;&#x153;The End of White Christian America,â&#x20AC;? which examines the profound political and cultural consequences of a new reality â&#x20AC;&#x201D; that America is no longer a majority white Christian nation. 7 to 8:30 p.m. Free; reservations suggested. The Potterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s House, 1658 Columbia Road NW. pottershousedc.org. â&#x2013; The Bowen Center for the Study of the Family will present a talk on â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Honey Bee: Angels of Agriculture or Canary in the Coal Mine?â&#x20AC;? by Keith Tignor, state apiarist in the Office of

Thursday, OCTOBER 6 â&#x2013; Discussion: Joseph Lelyveld, former executive editor of The New York Times and Pulitzer-winning author of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Move Your Shadow,â&#x20AC;? will discuss his new book â&#x20AC;&#x153;His Final Battle: The Last Months of Franklin Roosevelt,â&#x20AC;? a deeply researched and compassionate account of the ailing FDRâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decisions, motivations and struggles. 7 p.m. Free. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919. Plant Industry Services at the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. 7:30 p.m. Free. Bowen Center for the Study of the Family, 4400 MacArthur Blvd. NW. 202-965-4400. Films â&#x2013; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Seret DC: A Celebration of Contemporary Israeli Cinemaâ&#x20AC;? will screen the first two episodes of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fauda,â&#x20AC;? a political thriller TV series directed by Lior Raz and Avi Issacharoff about special Israeli Defense Forces undercover units that has captivated both Israeli and Palestinian viewers. 6:45 p.m. $13.50. Edlavitch Jewish Community Center of Washington DC, 1529 16th St. NW. wjff.org/seretdc. The two episodes will be shown again Saturday at 5 p.m. â&#x2013; Double Exposure â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a three-day investigative film festival and symposium that pairs film screenings with discussions with working journalists and filmmakers in a project of the investigative news organization 100Reporters â&#x20AC;&#x201D; will host an opening-night screening of â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Ivory Game,â&#x20AC;? a 2016 documentary produced by Leonardo DiCaprio about the urgent plight of the African elephant. A reception will follow. 7 p.m. $25 to $75; $75 to $250 for a pass for all of the festivalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s panels and films. National Portrait Gallery, 8th and F streets NW. doubleexposurefestival.com. â&#x2013; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Seret DC: A Celebration of Contemporary Israeli Cinemaâ&#x20AC;? will screen â&#x20AC;&#x153;AKA Nadia,â&#x20AC;? director Tova Ascherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2015 film about an Arab girl who falls in love with a PLO activist and then assumes the identity of a Jewish Israeli girl after her lover is caught by authorities in England. 8:20 p.m. $13.50. Edlavitch Jewish Community Center of Washington DC, 1529 16th St. NW. wjff.org/seretdc. The film will be shown again Saturday at 8:30 p.m. Performances and readings â&#x2013; The First Thursday Evening Poetry Reading Series will feature host Herb

Guggenheim with two featured poets reading from the original works, followed by an open mic. 7 p.m. Free. Georgetown Library, 3260 R St. NW. 202-7270232. â&#x2013; Contradiction Dance will present â&#x20AC;&#x153;Objects of Hope: The America Project,â&#x20AC;? an interactive performance piece that asks us to consider how we treat the â&#x20AC;&#x153;otherâ&#x20AC;? in our midst. 7:30 p.m. $15 to $20. Anacostia Arts Center, 1231 Good Hope Road SE. objectsofhope. brownpapertickets.com. The performance will repeat Oct. 7, 8, 13, 14 and 15 at 7:30 p.m. â&#x2013; Gymnast Chellsie Memmel, a silver medalist at the 2008 Olympics, will star in the world premiere of Mary Eberstadtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Loser Letters,â&#x20AC;? a wickedly witty satire that chronicles the conversion of a young woman of faith to atheism. 7:30 p.m. $5 to $15. Hartke Theatre, Catholic University, 3801 Harewood Road NE. loserlettersonstage.com. The performance will repeat Friday at 7:30 p.m., Saturday at 2 and 6 p.m., and Sunday at 2 p.m. â&#x2013; The Georgetown University Theater & Performance Studies Program will present Naomi Iizukaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Anon(ymous),â&#x20AC;? about a young refugee called Anon who makes a journey, encountering a wide variety of people â&#x20AC;&#x201D; some kind, others dangerous and cruel â&#x20AC;&#x201D; as he searches for his family. 8 p.m. $7 to $18. Devine Studio Theatre, Davis Performing Arts Center, 37th and O streets NW. performingarts.georgetown.edu. Performances will continue through Oct. 15. â&#x2013; Fringe POP (Performance Over Projection) will present eight 10-minute plays and eight short films in a performance mixing live and still projections, theater and film, with the theme of how we experience public vs. private space. The series will kick off with the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Publicâ&#x20AC;?themed lineup. 8 p.m. $25 to $34. Logan Fringe Arts Space, Trinidad Theatre, 1358 Florida Ave. NE. capitalfringe. org. The performance series will continue through Sunday, with the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Publicâ&#x20AC;? show repeating Saturday at 2 p.m. and Sunday at 8 p.m. and the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Privateâ&#x20AC;? lineup presented on Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. â&#x2013; The American University Rude Mechanicals will present â&#x20AC;&#x153;Variety Show 2016: Dystopia,â&#x20AC;? featuring scenes from Shakespeareâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Julius Caesar,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Henry VIII,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Allâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Well That Ends Well,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Measure for Measureâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Taming of the Shrew.â&#x20AC;? 8:30 p.m. $7 to $10. Kreeger Auditorium, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW. aurudemechanicals.wixsite.com/home/ dystopia. The performance will repeat Friday and Saturday at 8:30 p.m. Special events â&#x2013; The Sibley Senior Association will host its monthly â&#x20AC;&#x153;Laugh CafĂŠ at Sibley,â&#x20AC;? a participatory group event featuring jokes and humorous stories. Noon to 1 p.m. Free; reservations required. Sibley Memorial Hospital, 5215 Loughboro Road NW. 202-364-7602. â&#x2013; At-large D.C. Council member Anita Bonds will be honored with a luncheon and a legislative award from the D.C. Federation of the National Active and Retired Federal Employees for her efforts to support senior citizens. 12:15 See Events/Page 23

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Events Entertainment Continued From Page 22 to 1:30 p.m. Free; reservations required. 19th Street Baptist Church, 4606 16th St. NW. john.zottoli@gmail.com. ■ “Thursdays at Noon: Slow Looking” will offer a chance for visitors to sketch and discuss Nelson Shanks’ portrait “The Four Justices” with a Portrait Gallery educator. Noon. Free. National Portrait Gallery, 8th and F streets NW. 202633-1000. ■ This month’s “Phillips After 5” installment — “Women of Influence,” about the important women in Phillips Collection history — will feature live music by the Yvonne Johnson Trio, the specialty cocktail “The Marjorie” (named for Duncan Phillips’ wife and museum co-founder), and a chance to learn about the history of the museum through a digital experience. 5 to 8:30 p.m. $10 to $12; reservations suggested. Phillips Collection, 1600 21st St. NW. phillipscollection.org/events. ■ The Smithsonian Craft2Wear 2016 preview night will feature a benefit, an “Art on the Runway” show, first-choice shopping for one-of-a-kind items, and a chance to mingle with masters of American craft artistry and alumni and faculty from top design schools. 6 to 9 p.m. $100; advance purchase required. National Building Museum, 401 F St. NW. smithsoniancraft2wear.org. Tours ■ Alexandra Torres, an education specialist at the U.S. Botanic Garden, and Claire Alrich, a staff member at the National Fund for the U.S. Botanic Garden, will lead a guided nature walk of the outdoor gardens. 12:15 to 1 p.m. Free; reservations required. Meet on the terrace by the Conservatory entrance at the U.S. Botanic Garden, 100 Maryland Ave. SW. 202-225-8333. ■ The D.C. Preservation League will host a “Historic Hot Spot Event” with a behind-the-scenes tour of the adaptive reuse of Uline Arena. A reception will follow. 6 to 8 p.m. $20 to $25; reservations required. Uline Arena, 1140 3rd St. NE. dcpreservation.org. Friday, Oct. 7

Friday OCTOBER 7 Book sale ■ The group Friends of Palisades Library will hold a final “Everything Must Go Used Book Sale” in preparation for the library’s renovation, with books priced at $2 per bag (except specially priced collectible books) and proceeds benefiting the library’s special programs. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Free admission. Palisades Library, 4901 V St. NW. 202-3371505. The sale will continue Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 1 to 4:30 p.m. Children’s program ■ The Hustle & Muscle Mat Club will hold an open practice for youth wrestlers. 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Free. Wrestling Room, Activities Building, St. Albans School, 3551 Garfield St. NW. hustlemusclematclub.org. Classes and workshops ■ Artist Will Fleishell will present a drop-in figure drawing class. 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. $15. Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, 545 7th St. SE. 202-547-6839. ■ Capitol Hill Arts Workshop will host “Mind, Magic, and Merlot,” a monthly workshop presented by mentalist Alain

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■ Touchstone Gallery will open three shows Friday with a reception from 6 to 8:30 p.m. and continue them through Oct. 30. Gallery A features a members show. Gallery B includes “Perspective,” highlighting On EXHIBIT works by David Alfuth that rely on architecture and perspective. reception will take place Saturday from 5 to 8 p.m. Gallery C presents “Altitudes and Elevations,” Located at 2118 8th St. NW, the gallery is open observing landscapes and city scenes from different Wednesday through Sunday from 1 to 7 p.m. 202viewpoints in works by Gale Wallar that include oil, 232-0203. acrylic and graphics media. ■ “Steel the Show,” featuring abstract steel sculp Located at 901 New York Ave. NW, the gallery is tures by Richard Binder and abstract sheet-metalopen Wednesday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 6 and-mesh constructions by Joan Konkel, will open p.m. and Saturday and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. today with an artists’ reception from 5 to 8 p.m. at 202-347-2787. 1111 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. The exhibit will con- ■ The Phillips Collection will open two shows Sattinue through Jan. 7. urday that celebrate the opening of the National The gallery is open Monday through Friday from 7 Museum of African American History and Culture. a.m. to 8 p.m. and Saturday from They will continue through Jan. 8. 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. 202-783-2963. “People on the Move: Beauty ■ The Kreeger Museum will and Struggle in Jacob Lawrence’s open an exhibit Friday of works by ‘Migration Series’” reunites all 60 painter Clarice Smith and sculptor panels of a series of paintings Albert Paley and continue it from the early 1940s that depict through Dec. 30. the mass migration of African The museum is also exhibiting Americans from the rural South to works from its collection by Crestthe urban North. wood artist Sam Gilliam and Ala “Whitfield Lovell: The Kin Series bama native Simmie Knox & Related Works” highlights work through Dec. 30, in celebration of by Lovell, including his “Kin” the opening of the National Museseries of freely drawn Conté-crayum of African American History on figures of anonymous Africanand Culture. Americans with time-worn objects Located at 2401 Foxhall Road like brooches, clocks and flags. Richard Schur’s “Wild NW, the museum is open Friday Located at 1600 21st St. NW, Roses” is part of an exhibit the museum is open Tuesday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 at Cross MacKenzie Gallery. through Saturday from 10 a.m. to p.m. and Tuesday through Thursday for tours by reservation. 5 p.m., Thursday until 8:30 p.m. Admission costs $10 for adults and $7 for seniors and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Admission costs and students; it is free for ages 12 and younger. $12 for adults and $10 for seniors and students; it 202-337-3050, ext. 10. is free for ages 18 and younger. 202-387-2151. ■ “Meadows,” presenting colorful abstract geometric ■ Art Enables will open its 11th annual Outsider paintings by German artist Richard Schur, will open Art Inside the Beltway Exhibit with a reception SaturFriday with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. at Cross day from 1 to 4 p.m. Showcasing self-taught, folk MacKenzie Gallery. The exhibit will continue and outsider artists from across the country, the through Nov. 5. show will continue through Nov. 23. Located at 1675 Wisconsin Ave. NW, the gallery Located at 2204 Rhode Island Ave. NE, the galis open Wednesday through Saturday from noon to 5 lery is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. 202-333-7970. p.m. and the first two Saturdays of each month from

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Nu — part performance and part instruction in the mystic arts, with complimentary Merlot wine available until supplies run out. 7:30 to 9 p.m. $35 to $45. Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, 545 7th St. SE. 202-547-6839. Concerts ■ The Friday Morning Music Club will present its opening concert of the season, featuring works by Dankworth, Brahms and Chopin. Noon. Free. Calvary Baptist Church, 755 8th St. NW. 202333-2075. ■ The Friday Noon Concert series will feature pianist Camille Balleza and soprano Lilly Ahn performing Russian songs. Noon. Free. Arts Club of Washington, 2017 I St. NW. 202-331-7282, ext. 3. ■ Keyboardist John Horman, soprano Cathy Teixeira and horn player Bill Burns will perform. 12:15 p.m. Free. National City Christian Church, 5 Thomas Circle NW. 202-797-0103. ■ The Friday Music Series will present the Kaynak Pipers Band of Bulgaria performing traditional folklore from the Rhodope mountain region. 1:15 p.m. Free. McNeir Auditorium, Georgetown University, 37th and O streets NW. 202687-2787.

■ Tel Aviv singer-songwriter Erez will perform original music blending R&B, soul, funk and rock. 6 p.m. Free. Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600. ■ As part of the Embassy Series, violinist Solomiya Ivakhiv (shown) and pianist Angelina Gadeliya — natives of Ukraine who met at Stony Brook University — will present “Journey to Freedom: A Century of Classical Music for Violin and Piano.” 7 to 9:30 p.m. $95. Embassy of Ukraine, 3350 M St. NW. 202-625-2361. ■ “Jazz on the Hill” will present Dial 251 for Jazz. 8 to 11 p.m. No cover; $15 minimum. Mr. Henry’s Restaurant, 601 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. 202-546-8412. ■ Vocalist and performer Keikilani Lindsey, one of Hawaii’s new generation of storytellers, will perform. 8 p.m. Free. Gypsy Sally’s Vinyl Lounge, 3401 K St. NW. gypsysallys.com. ■ A double bill will feature On the Bus, D.C.’s premier Grateful Dead

Charlene Nield’s “Beach Two,” acrylic on panel, is on exhibit at the Foundry Gallery. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 202-554-9455. ■ “Carnival of the Animals,” an exhibit of whimsical portrayals of animals by Danish bronze artist Bjørn Okholm Skaarup, opened recently on the grounds of the Washington National Cathedral, where it will continue through Nov. 28. The cathedral is located at Massachusetts and Wisconsin avenues, NW. 202537-6200. ■ Hera Hub DC will close an exhibit Tuesday of works by Patricia DurJava, Laura Farrell, Felisa Federman, Patty Guzman, Kathy Karlson, Cecelia Laurendeau and Diana Ludet. It will hold an artists’ reception Friday at 6:30 p.m. To RSVP for the reception, search “Art Reception by Hera Hub DC” on eventbrite.com. Located at 5028 Wisconsin Ave. NW, the exhibit space is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 202-803-2821. ■ “No Man’s Land: Women Artists From the Rubell Family Collection,” highlighting works on political and intellectual themes by 37 contemporary artists from around the world, opened last week at the National Museum of Women in the Arts and will continue through Jan. 8. Located at 1250 New York Ave. NW, the museum is open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. Admission costs $10 for adults and $8 for students and seniors; it is free for ages 18 and younger. Free “Community Days” are the first Sunday of every month. 202-783-5000.

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Heyat will discuss â&#x20AC;&#x153;Post-Soviet Women in Transition: Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan in Comparison.â&#x20AC;? 5 to 7:30 p.m. Free; reservations required. Suite 412, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, 1957 E St. NW. go.gwu.edu/heyat. â&#x2013; Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder, author of â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Soul of a New Machineâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mountains Beyond Mountains,â&#x20AC;? will discuss his 11th book, â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Truck Full of Money,â&#x20AC;? the story of Paul English, who co-founded Kayak.com and became CEO of Blade, in a behind-thescenes account of tech startups and Englishâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s iconoclastic mind. 7 p.m. Free. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919. â&#x2013; Alliance FranĂ§aise de Washington will host a book talk by Laure Mandeville, chief U.S. correspondent for Le Figaro since 2009 and author of the new book â&#x20AC;&#x153;Qui est vraiment Donald Trump? (Who Is Really Donald Trump?).â&#x20AC;? 7 p.m. $10 to $15; reservations required. Alliance FranĂ§aise de Washington, 2142 Wyoming Ave. NW. francedc.org. Films â&#x2013; The Double Exposure investigative film festival will screen director David Leloupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2016 film â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Leak in Paradise,â&#x20AC;? about Swiss whistleblower Rudolf Elmer (shown), a former banking executive who leaked highly secretive data to Wikileaks. A post-screening discussion will feature Leloup, Elmer and moderator Eric Lipton, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist at The New York Times. 3:30 p.m. $15. National Portrait Gallery, 8th and F streets NW. doubleexposurefestival.com. â&#x2013; The Kosciuszko Foundation will present Alex Storozynskiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s film â&#x20AC;&#x153;Kosciuszko: A Man Ahead of His Time,â&#x20AC;? which paints a compelling picture of Kosciuszko as a champion of freedom and civil rights both in the United States and Poland. 6 p.m. Free. Kosciuszko Foundation, 2025 O St. NW. 202-7852320. â&#x2013; The Double Exposure investigative film festival will screen director Fred Peabodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2016 film â&#x20AC;&#x153;All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone,â&#x20AC;? which explores the adversarial journalists who operate in the spirit of the legendary investigative reporter. A post-screening discussion will feature Peabody; Peter Raymont, executive producer; Myra McPherson, author of â&#x20AC;&#x153;All Governments Lieâ&#x20AC;?; Dan Froomkin, Wash7+( :25/' )$0286

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ington editor for The Intercept; Peter Stone, grandson of I.F. Stone and an investigative journalist; and moderator Ray Suarez, journalist. 6 p.m. $15. National Portrait Gallery, 8th and F streets NW. doubleexposurefestival.com. â&#x2013; The group Friends of Mitchell Parkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Films in the Fieldâ&#x20AC;? series will feature a screening of Mike Nicholsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 1967 film â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Graduate,â&#x20AC;? starring Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft and Katharine Ross. 7 p.m. Free. Mitchell Park, 23rd and S streets NW. 202-5464293. â&#x2013; Union Marketâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s monthly â&#x20AC;&#x153;Summer Drive-In Seriesâ&#x20AC;? will feature â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ghostbusters.â&#x20AC;? Lot opens at 6:30 p.m.; gates close at 8:30 p.m.; film begins around 8 p.m. $10 per car; free in the picnic area for pedestrians and bicyclists. Union Market, 1309 5th St. NE. unionmarketdc.com. â&#x2013; The Double Exposure investigative film festival will screen director Ted Braunâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2016 film â&#x20AC;&#x153;Betting on Zero,â&#x20AC;? a financial documentary about hedge fund manager Bill Ackmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s crusade to bring down the nutritional supplement company Herbalife, which Ackman argues is built on a pyramid scheme. A post-screening discussion will feature Braun, Ackman, activist and film subject Julie Contreras and moderator Ricardo Sandoval-Palos. 8:30 p.m. $15. National Portrait Gallery, 8th and F streets NW. doubleexposurefestival.com. Performances and readings â&#x2013; Tulane University bandleader Michael White and the Liberty Brass Band will perform a New Orleans-style â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jazz Funeral for Shakespeareâ&#x20AC;? to mark the 400th anniversary year of the death of the Bard. 6 p.m. Free; reservations required. Folger Theatre, 201 East Capitol St. SE. 202-544-7077. â&#x2013; An evening of Russian Silver Age poetry and music will feature poets Marina Tyurina Oberlander and Boris Brailovsky; pianist Natalia Bakreyeva, who was trained at the St. Petersburg Conservatory; and flute player Julia Dekhman. Poetry will be read in Russian and translated into English, with Russian treats and a reception to follow. 7 p.m. Free; reservations requested. Guy Mason Recreation Center, 3600 Calvert St. NW. 202-727-7703. â&#x2013; Laugh Index Theatre will present â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Comedy of Horrors,â&#x20AC;? a Halloweenthemed variety show with stand-up comedians, improv troupes and sketch comedy. 7:30 p.m. $10 to $15. DC Arts Center, 2438 18th St. NW. 202-4627833. â&#x2013; Washington Performing Arts, the Shakespeare Theatre Company and the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities will present the VelocityDC Dance Festival, featuring the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bestknown ensembles as well as undiscovered gems. 8 p.m. $18 to $30. Sidney Harman Hall, 610 F St. NW. 202-5471122. The performance will repeat Oct. 8 at 8 p.m. â&#x2013; South African comedian Trevor Noah, the host of Comedy Centralâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Daily Show,â&#x20AC;? will perform. 8 and 10:30 p.m. $55 to $125. Concert Hall, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600. â&#x2013; Laugh Index Theatre will present its monthly House Comics show and

awards dinner and presentation from 7 to 9 p.m. $225 to $250. Knight Conference Center, Newseum, 555 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. dchistory.org. â&#x2013; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Atlas10 Birthday Bash,â&#x20AC;? a benefit for the Atlas Performing Arts Center and celebration of its 10th anniversary, will feature dining, dancing and performances. 7 to 11 p.m. $225. Atlas Performing Arts Center, 1333 H St. NE. 202-3997993.

Saturday, OCTOBER 8 â&#x2013; Concert: The â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gorenman Russian Projectâ&#x20AC;? piano recital will feature concert pianist Yuliya Gorenman performing masterworks of Russian composers: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rachmaninoff Transcriptionsâ&#x20AC;?; Scriabinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Etude in C sharp minor, Sonata No. 5â&#x20AC;?; and Rimsky-Korsakovâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sheherezade.â&#x20AC;? 8 p.m. $10 to $25; reservations required. Abramson Family Recital Hall, Katzen Arts Center, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW. 202-885-3634. open mic. 10 p.m. $10 to $15. DC Arts Center, 2438 18th St. NW. 202-4627833. â&#x2013; Beny Blaq will host the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Live! From Busboys Talent Showcase.â&#x20AC;? 11 p.m. to 1 a.m. $5. Langston Room, Busboys and Poets 14th & V, 2021 14th St. NW. 202387-7638. Special events â&#x2013; The Army Ten-Miler Expo will feature performances by the Old Guard Drill Team and Fife and Drum Corps and displays by the U.S. Army Special Operations Recruiting Battalion, along with vendors selling clothing, shoes, accessories and more. Open to the public from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Free admission. D.C. Armory, 2001 East Capitol St. SE. armytenmiler.com/expo.cfm. The expo will continue Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. â&#x2013; The Smithsonian Craft2Wear 2016 show and sale will feature one-of-a-kind, handmade clothing, jewelry and accessories, designed by 80 top craft artists. 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. $13 to $15. National Building Museum, 401 F St. NW. smithsoniancraft2wear.org. The show will continue Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. â&#x2013; The D.C. Department of Parks and Recreationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Funky Fitness First Fridaysâ&#x20AC;? series will feature instructor-led fitness activities, childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s programs, cooking demonstrations and giveaways. 5 to 8:30 p.m. Free. Wilson Aquatic Center, 4551 Fort Drive NW. dpr.dc.gov. â&#x2013; As part of the monthly First Friday Dupont art event, the Heurich House Museum will open its first floor and host pop-ups by local makers Amanda Hagerman Jewelry and Juanitaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Adventures. 6 to 8 p.m. Free. Heurich House Museum, 1307 New Hampshire Ave. NW. 202-429-1894. â&#x2013; The Historical Society of Washington, D.C., will host the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Making D.C. History Awards,â&#x20AC;? honoring the Association of Oldest Inhabitants, the McGuire family, the Meyer Foundation, Washingtonian magazine and former Mayor Anthony Williams. Reception from 6 to 7 p.m.;

Tours â&#x2013; 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. â&#x2013; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Classic Tower Climbâ&#x20AC;? will provide a close-up look at the Washington National Cathedralâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 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,OCTOBER Oct. 8 Saturday 8 Book fair â&#x2013; Associates of the American Foreign Service Worldwide will hold â&#x20AC;&#x153;Art & BookFair 2016,â&#x20AC;? featuring used books, art, stamps, coins and collectibles. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Free admission. Exhibit Hall, U.S. State Department, C Street between 21st and 23rd streets NW. 703-820-5420 The sale will continue Oct. 9, 15 and 16 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 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. â&#x2013; In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, children will hear a story about Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and then create a special piece of art. 1 to 4 p.m. Free. National Portrait Gallery, 8th and F streets NW. 202-633-1000. The program will repeat Sunday from 2 to 5 p.m. â&#x2013; The House of Sweden will host a weekly storytime for children and families to experience Swedish childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s literature. 2 to 5 p.m. Free. House of Sweden, 2900 K St. NW. swedenabroad. com/washington. The program will repeat Sunday from 2 to 5 p.m. â&#x2013; GALita will present the world premiere of Cornelia Codyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Volcanes â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Tales of El Salvador,â&#x20AC;? featuring popular folk tales of Central America infused with lively music and movement (suitable for the entire family but especially ages 5 to 9). 3 p.m. $10 to $12. GALA Theatre, 3333 14th St. NW. 202-2347174. The performance will repeat Oct. 9 and Oct. 22 at 3 p.m. â&#x2013; 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 â&#x2013; The Mount Pleasant Library will present â&#x20AC;&#x153;Saturday Morning Yoga.â&#x20AC;? 10 a.m. Free. Mount Pleasant Library, 3160 See Events/Page 25

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Events Entertainment Continued From Page 24 16th St. NW. 202-671-3122. â&#x2013; 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. TenleyFriendship Library, 4450 Wisconsin Ave. NW. 202-727-1488. â&#x2013; A team from the Institute for Educational Leadership will host a job assistance clinic for people with disabilities, featuring help with resumes, cover letters and interview skills. 10 a.m. to noon. Free. Tenley-Friendship Library, 4450 Wisconsin Ave. NW. 202-7271488. â&#x2013; Heather Markowitz, founder of WithLoveDC, will lead a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Practice With Loveâ&#x20AC;? yoga class. 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Free. National Garden Lawn Terrace, U.S. Botanic Garden, 100 Maryland Ave. SW. 202-225-8333. â&#x2013; Yoga Activist will present a class for beginners. 11 a.m. Free. Petworth Library, 4200 Kansas Ave. NW. 202243-1188. â&#x2013; Colors of Happiness Coaching and Healing facilitator Florencia Fuensalida will present â&#x20AC;&#x153;Living in Harmony: A Revitalizing Guided Meditation to Find Daily Joy and Balance.â&#x20AC;? 11:30 a.m. Free. Mount Pleasant Library, 3160 16th St. NW. 202-671-3122. â&#x2013; Georgetown University professor emeritus David Hoof will continue a fivepart course on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Developing a Plotâ&#x20AC;? in fiction writing. 2 to 4 p.m. Free; registration required. Georgetown Neighborhood Library, 3260 R St. NW. 202-727-0232. The course will continue Oct. 22, Nov. 5 and Nov. 19. â&#x2013; Bahman Aryana of Rendezvous Tango will present â&#x20AC;&#x153;Library Tango Practica.â&#x20AC;? 2:30 p.m. Free. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW. 202727-0321. Concerts â&#x2013; The Sphinx Virtuosi chamber orchestra will present â&#x20AC;&#x153;Latin Voyages: Viajes Latinos,â&#x20AC;? a concert of works by composers of Latin heritage, in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month. 2 p.m. Free. West Garden Court, National Gallery of Art, West Building, 6th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. 202-737-4215. â&#x2013; The Grammy-nominated Inscape Chamber Orchestra will perform three French masterworks: Debussyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun,â&#x20AC;? Ravelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Introduction and Allegro,â&#x20AC;? and Rousselâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Serenade for Flute, Harp and String Trio,â&#x20AC;? along with works by Justin Boyer, GyĂśrgy Ligeti and others. 4 p.m. Free-will offering to benefit the Georgetown Ministry Centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s programs for people who are homeless. Christ Church, Georgetown, 3116 O St. NW. 202-3336677. â&#x2013; Members of the National Symphony Orchestra will perform chamber works. 6 p.m. Free. Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600. â&#x2013; The Smithsonian Chamber Players will present a concert of Pendereckiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Leaves of an Unwritten Diary,â&#x20AC;? Barberâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Adagio From the String Quartetâ&#x20AC;? and Schoenbergâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Quartet in D Minor, Op 7,â&#x20AC;? performed by Mark Fewer and Audrey Wright on violin, Steven Dann on

viola and Kenneth Slowik on violoncello. Lecture at 6:30 p.m.; concert at 7:30 p.m. $25 to $30. Hall of Music, National Museum of American History, Constitution Avenue between 12th and 14th streets NW. 202-633-1000. The concert will repeat Sunday at the same times. â&#x2013; The Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra Big Band will open its season with â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jazz, Blues and Civil Rights,â&#x20AC;? a concert celebrating jazz as a form of democracy and an expression of intrinsically American values. 7:30 p.m. $25. Coulter Performance Plaza, National Museum of American History, Constitution Avenue between 12th and 14th streets NW. 202-633-1000. â&#x2013; D.C.-area trio Run Come See, playing slide guitar, guitar and upright bass, will perform Americana roots tunes. 8 p.m. Free. Gypsy Sallyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Vinyl Lounge, 3401 K St. NW. gypsysallys.com. â&#x2013; Washington Performing Arts will present Brooklyn Rider and mezzosoprano Anne Sofie von Otter in concert. 8 p.m. $40. Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, 600 I St. NW. 877-987-6487. â&#x2013; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ladies of Jazzâ&#x20AC;? will present a concert by Batida Diferente performing Brazilian jazz. 8 to 11 p.m. No cover; $15 minimum. Mr. Henryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Restaurant, 601 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. 202-546-8412. â&#x2013; San Francisco progressive rock band Tea Leaf Green will perform. 9 p.m. $15 to $18. Gypsy Sallyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, 3401 K St. NW. gypsysallys.com. â&#x2013; Open Mic All Stars will present â&#x20AC;&#x153;An Evening of Tom Waits on Guitar,â&#x20AC;? featuring Dan â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ol â&#x20AC;&#x2122;55â&#x20AC;? Lipton, Dave Kline and others. 10:30 p.m. Free. Gypsy Sallyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Vinyl Lounge, 3401 K St. NW. gypsysallys.com. Discussions and conference â&#x2013; Sibley Memorial Hospitalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fourth annual â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sex and Aging Conference,â&#x20AC;? will feature speakers Joan Price, author of â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Ultimate Guide to Sex After 50â&#x20AC;?; Walker Thornton, sex educator and author of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Desire: A Guide for Women Who Want to Enhance Their Sex Lifeâ&#x20AC;?; and Bianca Palmisano, a sex educator and medical consultant who specializes in sexual health, LGBT issues and working with sexual assault survivors. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. $40, which includes light lunch and a copy of Priceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book; registration requested. Sibley Memorial Hospital Medical Building, 5215 Loughboro Road NW. 202-364-7602. â&#x2013; Jamie Stiehm, a Creators Syndicate columnist and contributor to usnews.com, will discuss â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Power of Two: Most Presidents Come in Pairs,â&#x20AC;? examining how U.S. presidents have made it a point to extend their living legacies. 1 to 2 p.m. Free. Peabody Room, Georgetown Library, 3260 R St. NW. 202-727-0233. â&#x2013; Lawyer Baylen J. Linnekin, adjunct professor at George Mason and American universities and director of Keep Food Legal, will discuss his book â&#x20AC;&#x153;Biting the Hands That Feed Us: How Fewer, Smarter Laws Would Make Our Food System More Sustainable,â&#x20AC;? which argues that current laws result in 40 percent of U.S. food going to waste. 1 p.m. Free. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919. â&#x2013; Elena Velasco, artistic director of Convergence Theatre, will discuss the

Saturday, OCTOBER 8 â&#x2013; Concert: The â&#x20AC;&#x153;Discovery Artist in the KC Jazz Clubâ&#x20AC;? will feature Cubaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Harold LĂłpez-Nussa Trio. 7 and 9 p.m. $20 to $30. Terrace Gallery, Kennedy Center. 202-4674600. groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s efforts to bring diverse audiences together to engage in dialogue and discourse over issues of social conscience and human rights. 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Free. Luce Foundation Center, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 8th and G streets NW. 202-633-1000. â&#x2013; A panel discussion on â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Creative Process of Bringing Truth to Power: The Art of the Black Panthers and AFRICOBRAâ&#x20AC;? will feature Akili Ron Anderson, James Phillips and Colette Gaiter discussing the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. 2 to 3:30 p.m. Free; reservations required. American University Museum, Katzen Arts Center, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW. tinyurl.com/AlperTickets. â&#x2013; Nell Zink, author of â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Wallcreeper,â&#x20AC;? will discuss her novel â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nicotine,â&#x20AC;? a sharp satire of alternative lifestyles and identity politics through the tale of the daughter of a shamanistic father and their New Jersey house that has become the headquarters for smokersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; rights activists. 3:30 p.m. Free. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919. â&#x2013; Shakespeare Theatre Company educators and special guests will lead an interactive conversation about William Shakespeareâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Romeo and Juliet.â&#x20AC;? 5 to 6 p.m. Free; reservations suggested. Lansburgh Theatre, 450 7th St. NW. 202-547-1122. â&#x2013; Keith Donohue, author of â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Boy Who Drew Monsters,â&#x20AC;? will discuss his novel â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Motion of Puppets,â&#x20AC;? a story of love and magic about a circus acrobat who gets trapped inside a puppet in Quebec. 6 p.m. Free. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919. Films â&#x2013; The Double Exposure investigative film festival will screen director Gianfranco Rosiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fire at Sea,â&#x20AC;? about the how the Italian island of Lampedusa has coped with hundreds of thousands of refugees who stop there as they flee

conflict and persecution in Africa and the Middle East. Noon. $15. National Portrait Gallery, 8th and F streets NW. doubleexposurefestival.com. â&#x2013; The Mount Pleasant Library will present Bryan Singerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2016 film â&#x20AC;&#x153;X-Men: Apocalypse.â&#x20AC;? 2 p.m. Free. Mount Pleasant Library, 3160 16th St. NW. 202-671-3122. â&#x2013; The â&#x20AC;&#x153;Portrait of an Actress: Remembering Setsuko Haraâ&#x20AC;? series will feature Akira Kurosawaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1946 film â&#x20AC;&#x153;No Regrets for Our Youth,â&#x20AC;? about a woman who, in the militarist years leading up to World War II, evolves from a bourgeois student to the wife of a dissident author to a committed social activist. 2 p.m. Free. Warner Bros. Theater, National Museum of American History, Constitution Avenue between 12th and 14th streets NW. 202-633-1000. â&#x2013; The National Gallery of Artâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Film, Video and Virginia Dwanâ&#x20AC;? series will present â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dwan Los Angeles,â&#x20AC;? featuring historic works related to the L.A.-based Dwan Gallery and some of the artists exhibited there in the early 1960s. 2 p.m. Free. East Building Auditorium, National Gallery of Art, 4th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. 202-8426799. â&#x2013; The Double Exposure investigative film festival will screen â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sour Grapes,â&#x20AC;? a documentary about Rudy Kurniawan, who filmmakers Jerry Rothwell and Reuben Atlas show was an outrageous fraud who swindled wine collectors out of tens of millions of dollars. 3 p.m. $15. National Portrait Gallery, 8th and F streets NW. doubleexposurefestival.com. â&#x2013; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Seret DC: A Celebration of Contemporary Israeli Cinemaâ&#x20AC;? will screen â&#x20AC;&#x153;Abulele,â&#x20AC;? director Jonathan Gevaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tale of a young boy grieving from the loss of his brother who discovers a furry beast living in his building and saves the friendly giant. 3 p.m. $13.50. Edlavitch Jewish Community Center of Washington DC, 1529 16th St. NW. wjff.org/seretdc. The film will be shown again Sunday at 12:30 p.m. â&#x2013; The National Gallery of Art will screen the 2014 documentary â&#x20AC;&#x153;Niki de Saint Phalle: An Architectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dream,â&#x20AC;? which features archival interviews and footage of the nouveau realiste artistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s practice and public art installations. 4 p.m. Free. East Building Auditorium, National Gallery of Art, 4th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. 202-8426799. â&#x2013; The Double Exposure investigative film festival will screen â&#x20AC;&#x153;Solitary,â&#x20AC;? director Kristi Jacobsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s account of the year she spent examining Virginiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Red Onion State Prison, one of 40 â&#x20AC;&#x153;supermaxâ&#x20AC;? prisons built to hold prisoners in prolonged solitary confinement. 5:30 p.m. $15. National Portrait Gallery, 8th and F streets NW. doubleexposurefestival.com

â&#x2013; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Seret DC: A Celebration of Contemporary Israeli Cinemaâ&#x20AC;? will screen â&#x20AC;&#x153;Princess,â&#x20AC;? director Tali Shalom-Ezerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s drama about the dark turn taken in an unconventional relationship between a girl and her unemployed stepfather. 6:45 p.m. $13.50. Edlavitch Jewish Community Center of Washington DC, 1529 16th St. NW. wjff.org/seretdc. â&#x2013; The Double Exposure investigative film festival will close with the D.C. premiere of director Steve Jamesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Abacus: Small Enough to Jail,â&#x20AC;? about the Sung family, owners of Abacus Federal Savings of New York, the only U.S. bank to face criminal charges in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. A post-screening discussion will feature James, members of the Sung family and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Frontlineâ&#x20AC;? producer James Jacoby. 8 p.m. $15. National Portrait Gallery, 8th and F streets NW. doubleexposurefestival.com. Performances â&#x2013; The U.S. Botanic Garden will host the musical â&#x20AC;&#x153;Flowers Stink,â&#x20AC;? about finding the best of nature in the most unlikely places. 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Free. National Garden Amphitheater, U.S. Botanic Garden, 100 Maryland Ave. SW. 202-225-8333. â&#x2013; Dancers from the Dana Tai Soon Burgess Dance Company will rehearse for their upcoming performance of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Margin,â&#x20AC;? a new dance inspired by portraits featured in â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Outwin 2016â&#x20AC;? exhibition. 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Free. National Portrait Gallery, 8th and F streets NW. 202-633-1000. Another open rehearsal take place Oct. 15 from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. â&#x2013; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Chinese Menu Comedyâ&#x20AC;? will feature a mash-up of improv featuring D.C.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best. 7:30 p.m. Free. DC Arts Center, 2438 18th St. NW. 202-462-7833. Special events â&#x2013; The William Penn House 50th Anniversary Open House and Service Day will feature free hot dogs, lemonade, childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s activities, actors impersonating William Penn and Lucretia Mott, and morning service projects including preparing meals and tilling garden beds. 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. William Penn House, 515 East Capitol St. SE. 202543-5560. â&#x2013; The annual Peirce Mill Heritage Day will feature hands-on activities and crafts for kids, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; dry stone wall construction, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; and open-fire cooking, live bluegrass music and Spanish-language mill tours, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Free. Peirce Mill, Tilden Street and Beach Drive NW. 202-895-6070. â&#x2013; The annual â&#x20AC;&#x153;Taste of DCâ&#x20AC;? will offer the chance to sample the fare from more than 60 of the regionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most popular restaurants, taste more than 50 brews and 50 wines, watch Benâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Chili Bowlâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s World Chili Eating Championship, see celebrity chefs JosĂŠ AndrĂŠs and Bryan Voltaggio, and enjoy music and entertainment. 1 to 8 p.m. $20 to $80; See Events/Page 26

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Continued From Page 25 $10 for ages 5 through 12; free for ages 4 and younger. Pennsylvania Avenue between 3rd and 7th streets NW. thetasteofdc.org. The event will continue Sunday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. â&#x2013; The DC Anime Club, which celebrates Japanese animation and comics, will host a Yu-Gi-Oh Tournament (for ages 13 and older). 2 p.m. Free. TenleyFriendship Library, 4450 Wisconsin Ave. NW. dcanimeclub.org. â&#x2013; The Tenley-Friendship Library will host a adult coloring event. 2 to 3 p.m. Free. Tenley-Friendship Library, 4450 Wisconsin Ave. NW. 202-727-1488. â&#x2013; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Urban Wild,â&#x20AC;? Rock Creek Conservancyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s annual gala, will feature food and beverage tastings from the areaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s finest chefs and favorite restaurants, a silent auction, music and other entertainment. Proceeds will benefit the conservancyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mission to restore Rock Creek and its parklands as a natural oasis. 7 to 10 p.m. $250 to $300. Embassy of Italy, 3000 Whitehaven St. NW. urbanwildgala.org. Tours and walks â&#x2013; Washington Walksâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Get Local!â&#x20AC;? series will present Nathan Harrington leading a walking tour of Congress Heights, designed as a streetcar suburb in the 1920s. 11 a.m. $15 to $20. Meet outside the Congress Heights Metro station. washingtonwalks.com. â&#x2013; The Obscura Society DC will present â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Tunnels and Trapdoors of Tudor Place,â&#x20AC;? a tour of the Georgetown estate featuring highlights such as a fallout shelter built by owner Armistead Peter III

at the height of the Cold War, the socalled â&#x20AC;&#x153;dungeon,â&#x20AC;? the kitchenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s trapdoors and other hidden spaces under this 5.5-acre property. 2 to 4 p.m. $25. Tudor Place Historic House and Garden, 1644 31st St. NW. tudorplace.org. Sunday,OCTOBER Oct. 9 Sunday 9 Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s program â&#x2013; A park ranger will lead a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Spooky Night Skyâ&#x20AC;? planetarium program about strange and unusual astronomical occurrences (for ages 5 and older). 1 p.m. Free. Rock Creek Nature Center, 5200 Glover Road NW. 202-895-6070. Concerts â&#x2013; Musicians of â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Presidentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ownâ&#x20AC;? U.S. Marine Band and Marine Chamber Orchestra will present a concert featuring â&#x20AC;&#x153;After Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve Gone,â&#x20AC;? by Turner Layton; â&#x20AC;&#x153;String Quartet No. 3,â&#x20AC;? by Soulima Stravinsky; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fanfares Liturgiques,â&#x20AC;? by Henri Tomasi; and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Trio in C for Piano and Strings, Opus 87,â&#x20AC;? by Johannes Brahms. 2 p.m. Free. John Philip Sousa Band Hall, Marine Barracks Annex, 7th and K streets SE. 202-4334011. â&#x2013; The Steinway Series will feature pianists Ran Dank and Soyeon Kate Lee in a four-hands concert featuring works by Mozart, Scriabin, Liszt and Stravinsky. 3 p.m. Free; tickets available in the G Street lobby at 2:30 p.m. McEvoy Auditorium, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 8th and G streets NW. 202-633-

Sunday, OCTOBER 9 â&#x2013; Reading: Cellist Ralph Kirshbaum and pianist Shai Wosner (shown) will present a program of Beethovenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s music for cello and piano, spanning the composerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s creative life. 4 p.m. $20 to $40; reservations suggested. Phillips Collection, 1600 21st St. NW. phillipscollection.org/events. 1000. â&#x2013; The Chamasyan Sisters â&#x20AC;&#x201D; two violinists and a pianist â&#x20AC;&#x201D; will perform works by Rachmaninov, Khachaturian and others, followed by a reception to meet the artists. 4 p.m. Free. Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church, 1 Chevy Chase Circle NW. 202-363-2202. â&#x2013; The Lafayette Square Duo â&#x20AC;&#x201D; featuring organist Michael Lodico and harpist Rebecca Anstine Smith â&#x20AC;&#x201D; will present an organ and harp recital. 5:15 p.m. $10 donation suggested. Washington

National Cathedral, Massachusetts and Wisconsin avenues NW. cathedral.org. â&#x2013; Zydeco accordionist Geno Delafose will bring his signature nouveau zydeco sound to the stage with his band, French Rockinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Boogie. 6 p.m. Free. Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600. â&#x2013; In her eighth annual â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nina Simone and Miriam Makeba Tributeâ&#x20AC;? concert, rising young vocalist and composer Akua Allrich will pay homage to the two powerhouse artists by performing songs that they made their own. 6:30 and 8:30 p.m. $20 to $25. Atlas Performing Arts Center, 1333 H St. NE. 202-399-7993. â&#x2013; Julia Nixonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Columbus Day weekend shows will feature the R&B singer along with pianist David Ylvisaker and singer and percussionist Nick Nixon. 6:30 and 8:45 p.m. $19.50 to $24, with two-item food and beverage minimum. Mr. Henryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Restaurant, 601 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. mrhenrysdc.com. â&#x2013; American Youth Philharmonic Orchestras will present the Ensemble de Camera of Washington performing works by Schumann and Schubert, including â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Arpeggione Sonataâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Shepherd on the Rock.â&#x20AC;? 7 to 8:30 p.m. $10. Church of the Epiphany, 1317 G St. NW. aypo.org. Discussions and signing â&#x2013; Pati Jinich, host of the PBS series â&#x20AC;&#x153;Patiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mexican Table,â&#x20AC;? will discuss her book â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mexican Today,â&#x20AC;? which features easy recipes for both traditional Mexican dishes, updated regional fare, her own â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mexed upâ&#x20AC;? concoctions, and north-ofthe border entrees like â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cal-Mex Fish Tacos With Creamy Slaw.â&#x20AC;? 11 a.m. to 1

p.m. Free. Dupont Circle FreshFarm Market, 20th Street between Massachusetts Avenue and Hillyer Place NW. 202-3871400. â&#x2013; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Destination Modern: Pop-Up Talks in the East Buildingâ&#x20AC;? will feature short, engaging talks on great works of modern art in the reopened East Building, scheduled in 30-minute intervals with several taking place at the same time in different sections of the gallery. 11:30 to 5:30 p.m. Free. East Building, National Gallery of Art, 4th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. 202-737-4215. â&#x2013; Daniel Bergner, contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, will discuss his book â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sing for Your Life: A Story of Race, Music and Family,â&#x20AC;? about Ryan Speedo Green, who went from poverty to solitary confinement in juvenile detention to singing as a world-class baritone at the Metropolitan Opera. 1 p.m. Free. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919. â&#x2013; Author Ingrid Anders will facilitate a monthly reading group for writers, with participants reading a celebrated short story aloud and discussing the literary devices used by the author. 2 p.m. Free. Georgetown Library, 3260 R St. NW. 202-727-0232. â&#x2013; Sports Illustrated senior writer S.L. Price will discuss his book â&#x20AC;&#x153;Playing Through the Whistle: Steel, Football, and an American Town,â&#x20AC;? about the amazing high school football team in Aliquippa, Pa., that produced NFL stars Mike Ditka See Events/Page 27

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Continued From Page 26 and Darrelle Revis, and the closing of the town’s steel mill. Joining Price in conversation will be Washington Post columnist Chuck Lane. 5 p.m. Free. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919. Family program ■ A Family Fun Day will feature house tours, games, living history programs, music and dramatic performances for the entire family. 3 to 8:30 p.m. Free. Frederick Douglass National Historic Site, 1411 W St. SE. 202-4265961. Films ■ “Ellsworth Kelly Fragments” will present a portrait of the influential American minimalist, beginning with his formative years in Paris, with an introduction by curator Harry Cooper. 2 p.m. Free. East Building Auditorium, National Gallery of Art, 4th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. 202-842-6799. ■ The “Portrait of an Actress: Remembering Setsuko Hara” series will feature Yasujiro Ozu’s 1960 film “Late Autumn,” about a mother trying to marry off her daughter so she can wed one of her own suitors. 2 p.m. Free. Warner Bros. Theater, National Museum of American History, Constitution Avenue between 12th and 14th streets NW. 202-633-1000. ■ The National Gallery of Art’s “Film, Video and Virginia Dwan” series will present a program on “Dwan New York City,” which will include a look at the 1969 installation of Walter De Maria’s “Bed of Spikes” in Dwan’s New York gallery. 4 p.m. Free. East Building Auditorium, National Gallery of Art, 4th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. 202-8426799. ■ “Seret DC: A Celebration of Contemporary Israeli Cinema” will screen “Mr. Gaga,” director Tomer Heymann’s documentary about choreographer Ohad Naharin, director of Batsheva, Israel’s most accomplished dance company. A conversation moderated by arts journalist Lisa Traiger will follow. 4:20 p.m. $13.50. Edlavitch Jewish Community Center of Washington DC, 1529 16th St. NW. wjff.org/seretdc. ■ “Seret DC: A Celebration of Contemporary Israeli Cinema” will screen “Sand Storm,” director Elite Zexer’s film about a Bedouin mother and her teenage daughter who dare to defy polygamist marital traditions. 6:20 p.m. $13.50. Edlavitch Jewish Community Center of Washington DC, 1529 16th St. NW. wjff.org/seretdc. Performances ■ Poet and educator Matt Gallant will host a Jazz & Verse Open Mic event featuring the Bruce Krohmer Trio. 5 to 7 p.m. $5. Busboys and Poets Takoma, 235 Carroll St. NW. 202-726-0856. ■ Petworth Citizen will host a comedy showcase. 8 to 10 p.m. Free. Reading Room, Petworth Citizen, 829 Upshur St. NW. petworthcitizen.com. Special events ■ Whole Foods will host the Washington Humane Society’s mobile pet adoption center Adopt Force One with

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tary “The Trials of Spring,” about a young Egyptian woman who travels from her village to Cairo to add her voice to the thousands demanding an end to 60 years of military rule. A discussion moderated by George Washington University adjunct professor Michele Clark, an expert on combating human trafficking, will follow. 3 to 5:30 p.m. Free; reservations required. Room 602, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, 1957 E St. NW. elliott.gwu.edu.

Sporting event ■ The Washington Capitals will play the New York Islanders in a preseason matchup. 5 p.m. $33 to $501. Verizon Center, 601 F St. NW. 800-745-3000. Walk ■ A park ranger will lead a Georgetown Waterfront Walk and discuss the history of how Georgetown evolved from an active port town into a vibrant community (for ages 7 and older). 2 p.m. Free. Meet at the water fountain in Georgetown Waterfront Park, Wisconsin Avenue and K Street NW. 202-8956070. Monday,OCTOBER Oct. 10 Monday 10 Children’s program ■ Children’s performer Jessica “Culture Queen” Smith will present “Rise + Rhyme,” 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. 202-7260856. Class ■ The Science of Spirituality Meditation Center will begin a four-week class on Jyoti meditation, a discipline focusing on the experience of inner light. 7 to 8:30 p.m. Free; reservations required. Science of Spirituality Meditation Center, 2950 Arizona Ave. NW. dcinfo@sos.org. Concerts ■ The Kaynak Pipers Band, a Bulgarian bagpipe ensemble, will perform traditional kaba gaida folk music from Bulgaria’s Rhodope Mountain region, presented in collaboration with the Richmond Folk Festival. 6 p.m. Free. Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center. 202-4674600. ■ Melvin Seals, who played keyboards in the Jerry Garcia Band for 18 years, and his JGB band will play music mixing blues, rock, jazz, R&B and gospel; and tenor saxophonist Ron Holloway will perform. 8 p.m. $20 to $25. Gypsy Sally’s, 3401 K St. NW. gypsysallys.com. Discussions and lectures ■ Perry Frank, founding director of D.C. Murals: Spectacle and Story, and Cory Stowers, project associate, will discuss the development of Washington’s street murals through all eight wards from 1970 through today. Noon. Free. George Washington University Museum and Textile Museum, 701 21st St. NW. 202-994-5200. ■ Priscilla Clapp, a retired ministercounselor in the U.S. Foreign Service and now a senior adviser to the U.S. Institute of Peace, will discuss “Political Developments in Myanmar: Aung San Suu Kyi’s Visit and the NLD Government at 6 Months.” 12:30 to 1:45 p.m. Free; reservations required. Room 505, Elliott

Monday, OCTOBER 10 ■ Discussion: Walter Mosley, renowned mystery novelist and author of “Workin’ On the Chain Gang” and other nonfiction books on politics, economics and race, will discuss his book “Folding the Red Into the Black: Developing a Viable Untopia for Human Survival in the 21st Century,” which draws on his experiences as a Jewish African-American to urge the rejection of both capitalism and socialism in order to find creative alternatives. 6:30 p.m. Free. Busboys and Poets 14th & V, 2021 14th St. NW. 202-387-7638. School of International Affairs, George Washington University, 1957 E St. NW. go.gwu.edu/myanmardevelopments. ■ Novelist and essayist James Boice, author of “The Good and the Ghastly: A Novel,” will discuss his novel “The Shooting,” a portrait of gun violence through the prism of a single shooting involving a gun control advocate, refugees, Russian physicists and inner-city teens. 6:30 p.m. Free. Kramerbooks & Afterwords, 1517 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-387-1400. ■ Dan Slater, former Wall Street Journal legal affairs writer, will discuss his book “Wolf Boys: Two American Teenagers and Mexico’s Most Dangerous Drug Cartel,” about the transformation of ordinary Laredo, Texas, teens into thugs by the Zetas, who recruited them to steal, smuggle and kill. 7 p.m. Free. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919. ■ Cathi Hanauer will discuss her anthology “The Bitch Is Back,” featuring contributors’ ruminations about love, sex, work, family, independence, bodyimage, health and aging. Hanauer will be joined in conversation by her husband Daniel Jones, editor of The New York Times’ “Modern Love” column. 7 p.m. $14 to $30. Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, 600 I St. NW. 877-987-6487. Films ■ The Potter’s House will host an “Indigenous People’s Day Movie Screening and Discussion.” 2 to 5 p.m. Free; reservations suggested. The Potter’s House, 1658 Columbia Road NW. pottershousedc.org. ■ The Institute for Middle East Studies’ film series will feature the documen-

Performances and readings ■ The Grapevine Spoken Word Series will feature guest performers Carol Birch and Jim May, followed by an open mic. 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. $15 donation suggested. Busboys and Poets Takoma, 235 Carroll St. NW. 202-726-0856. ■ The Theater Alliance’s Hothouse New Play Reading Series will feature “Blight” by John Bavoso. 8 p.m. Free; reservations required. Anacostia Arts Center, 1231 Good Hope Road SE. theateralliance.com. ■ Former New York City Ballet principal dancer Damian Woetzel will bring together artists to pay tribute to their artistic inspirations, including soprano Jacqueline Bolier, singer/songwriter Kate Davis, Broadway and New York CIty Ballet star Robert Fairchild, tap dance powerhouse Jared Grimes, acclaimed ballerina Carla Körbes, visual arts curator and historian Sarah Lewis, Memphis jookin’ dance pioneer Lil Buck, the MusiCorps Wounded Warrior Band, and jazz prodigy Matthew Whitaker. 8 p.m. $25 to $59. Eisenhower Theater, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600. ■ Laugh Index Theatre will present “Improv Wars,” a friendly competition among improv troupes, with the audience voting for the winner. 8 p.m. $8 to $15. DC Arts Center, 2438 18th St. NW. 202-462-7833. Special event ■ The Library of Congress will open

its Main Reading Room to the public for a Columbus Day open house. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Free. Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, 10 1st St. SE. 202-7078000. Tuesday, Oct. 11

Tuesday OCTOBER 11 Children’s programs ■ “Tudor Tots: Music” 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 continue weekly through Nov. 29. ■ David Shannon — writer and illustrator of children’s books, including “No, David!” — will present his book “Duck on a Tractor,” about a duck who takes Farmer O’Dell’s tractor for a spin, bringing Mouse, Cat and Dog along (for ages 4 to 8). 10:30 a.m. Free. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202364-1919. 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. ■ Housing Counseling Services Inc. will present an introductory workshop on reverse mortgages. 2 p.m. Free. Suite 100, 2410 17th St. NW. 202-667-7006. ■ 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 See Events/Page 28

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Continued From Page 27 Ave. NW. 202-727-1488. Concerts â&#x2013; As part of the Tuesday Concert Series, soprano Nakia Verner will perform Wagnerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wesendonck Liederâ&#x20AC;? and Andre Previnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Honey and Rue.â&#x20AC;? 12:10 p.m. Free. Church of the Epiphany, 1317 G St. NW. 202-347-2635. â&#x2013; Lâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Orchestre Afrisa International, one of Africaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most popular bands, will perform its signature Congolese African rumba soukous music, presented in collaboration with the Richmond Folk Festival. 6 p.m. Free. Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600. â&#x2013; Gypsy Sallyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Vinyl Lounge will host its weekly open mic show. 8 p.m. Free. Gypsy Sallyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Vinyl Lounge, 3401 K St. NW. gypsysallys.com. Discussions and signings â&#x2013; Franklin Knight, professor of history at Johns Hopkins University, will present a lecture on the history of rum, one of Latin Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most celebrated spirits. Noon to 1 p.m. Free. Madison Building, Library of Congress, 101 Independence Ave. SE. 202-707-6404.

â&#x2013; Author and historian Stephen Puleo will discuss his book â&#x20AC;&#x153;American Treasures: The Secret Efforts to Save the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Gettysburg Address.â&#x20AC;? Noon. Free. McGowan Theater, National Archives Building, Constitution Avenue between 7th and 9th streets. NW. 202357-5000. â&#x2013; â&#x20AC;&#x153;DCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Historic Sites: Welcome to Georgetown,â&#x20AC;? a six-session lecture series, will feature a talk on the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dumbarton Oaks Gardensâ&#x20AC;? by James Carder, archivist and house collection manager at Dumbarton Oaks. Noon to 1 p.m. $20 to $30. S. Dillon Ripley Center, 1100 Jefferson Drive SW. 202-6333030. The series will continue through Nov. 1. â&#x2013; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Against Israelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Colonial Tide: Palestinian Initiatives to Shape Their Futureâ&#x20AC;? will feature panelists Nur Arafeh, policy fellow at Al-Shabaka; Tareq G. Baconi, policy fellow at Al-Shabaka; and Nadia Hijab, executive director and cofounder of Al-Shabaka. 12:30 to 2 p.m. Free; reservations required. The Pales-

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tine Center, 2425 Virginia Ave. NW. 202338-1958. â&#x2013; Sergey I. Kislyak (shown), ambassador of the Russian Federation to the United States, will discuss â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Current State of U.S.-Russian Relations,â&#x20AC;? with moderation by Shirin Tahir-Kheli, senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute. 4:30 to 6 p.m. Free; reservations requested. Kenney-Herter Auditorium, Nitze Building, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, 1740 Massachusetts Ave. NW. sais-jhu.edu. â&#x2013; The World Affairs Council will present a talk by Hunaina Sultan Ahmed Al Mughairy, ambassador of Oman to the United States, about her diplomatic career and experience as the first female ambassador to represent an Arab country in Washington. Reception from 6 to 6:45 p.m.; program from 6:45 to 8 p.m. Free; reservations required. Horizon Ballroom, Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. worldaffairsdc.org. â&#x2013; Andrew Lownie, formerly the London representative of the Washingtonbased National Intelligence Study Centre, will discuss his book â&#x20AC;&#x153;Stalinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Englishman,â&#x20AC;? about the life of the charming Guy Burgess, perhaps the most complex of the Cambridge Spies who was recruited by the Soviets as a young man. 6:30 p.m. $8 to $10. International Spy Museum, 800 F St. NW. 202-393-7798. â&#x2013; American Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Center for Environmental Filmmaking will present a talk by PBS chief programming executive Beth Hoppe on whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s to come from the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most prominent provider of public television content and the importance of taking risks and experimenting while remaining committed to PBSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; mission. 6:30 p.m. Free. Doyle/Forman Theater, McKinley Building, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW. american.edu. â&#x2013; Ibram X. Kendi, assistant professor of African-American history at the University of Florida, will discuss â&#x20AC;&#x153;Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America.â&#x20AC;? 7 to 8:30 p.m. Free; reservations suggested. The Potterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s House, 1658 Columbia Road NW. pottershousedc.org. Film â&#x2013; The monthly labor event series Bread & Roses will screen and discuss trailers for films under consideration for the DC Labor FilmFest. 6 to 8 p.m. Free. Busboys and Poets Takoma, 235 Carroll St. NW. 202-726-0856. Performances â&#x2013; Busboys and Poets will present an open mic poetry night hosted by Joseph LMS Green. 9 to 11 p.m. $5. Langston Room, Busboys and Poets 14th & V, 2021 14th St. NW. 202-387-7638. â&#x2013; Story District will present its monthly show, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Seven Deadly Sins: Stories about pride, greed, envy, wrath, sloth, lust, and gluttony.â&#x20AC;? 8 p.m. $15. Town Danceboutique, 2009 8th St. NW. storydistrict.org. â&#x2013; The Washington Improv Theaterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Harold Nightâ&#x20AC;? will feature long-form improv performances by various ensembles. 8 and 9 p.m. By donation. Source, 1835 14th St. witdc.org. Special event

asked to bring one of their own poems with sufficient copies to share with the group for positive critique. 7 to 9 p.m. Free. Georgetown Library, 3260 R St. NW. passapamela@aol.com.

Wednesday, OCTOBER 12 â&#x2013; Film: American Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Media That Matterâ&#x20AC;? series will feature Rob Lemkin and Thet Sambathâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2009 documentary â&#x20AC;&#x153;Enemies of the People,â&#x20AC;? about the 10-year quest of co-director Sambath to find truth and closure in the Killing Fields of Cambodia. 7 p.m. Free. Doyle/Forman Theater, McKinley Building, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW. american.edu. â&#x2013; The Campaign for Black Male Achievement will present â&#x20AC;&#x153;Black Male Re-Imagined III: Ascension,â&#x20AC;? featuring a day of interactive discussions, live music, performances, art and films highlighting issues relevant to American society today. 2 to 7 p.m. Free; reservations required. Eisenhower Theater, Kennedy Center. kennedy-center.org. Sporting event â&#x2013; The US. Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s National Team will play Oceania champions New Zealand. 8 p.m. $25 to $250. RFK Stadium, 2400 East Capitol St. SE. 800-745-3000. Wednesday,OCTOBER Oct. 12 Wednesday 12 Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s program â&#x2013; The Kreeger Museumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;First Studio: Story + Workshopâ&#x20AC;? 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. â&#x2013; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Halloween in the White Houseâ&#x20AC;? will be theme of this monthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s National Archives â&#x20AC;&#x153;Story Time in the ReSource Room,â&#x20AC;? with opportunities for children to practice listening skills, participate in group activities and create a craft (for ages 3 to 5, with accompanying adults). 10 to 11 a.m. Free. Boeing Learning Center, National Archives Building, Constitution Avenue between 7th and 9th streets NW. 202-357-5000. Classes and workshops â&#x2013; St. Paulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Episcopal Church, Rock Creek, will host a weekly tai chi class. 2 p.m. Free. St. Paulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Episcopal Church, Rock Creek, 201 Allison St. NW. 202726-2080. â&#x2013; Guy Mason Recreation Center will offer a weekly â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gentle Gyrokinesisâ&#x20AC;? class to improve posture, balance and agility. 2:30 p.m. Free; reservations required. Guy Mason Recreation Center, 3600 Calvert St. NW. 202-727-7736. â&#x2013; Poets on the Fringe will host a weekly poetry workshop, with attendees

Concerts â&#x2013; Caribou Mountain Collective, a quartet from Nederland, Colo., will play original songs born of Appalachia and Colorado bluegrass traditions. 7:30 p.m. Free. Gypsy Sallyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Vinyl Lounge, 3401 K St. NW. gypsysallys.com. â&#x2013; The Delafield String Band will host a bluegrass jam. 8 to 10 p.m. Free. Reading Room, Petworth Citizen, 829 Upshur St. NW. petworthcitizen.com. â&#x2013; A double bill of original and cover bluegrass bands will feature Californiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hot Buttered Rum, which plays West Coast bluegrass, and Ohioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Rumpke Mountain Boys, who call their music â&#x20AC;&#x153;Trashgrass.â&#x20AC;? 9 p.m. $15 to $18. Gypsy Sallyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, 3401 K St. NW. gypsysallys.com. Discussions and lectures â&#x2013; National Museum of Women in the Arts assistant educator Ashley W. Harris will discuss several works in the special exhibition â&#x20AC;&#x153;No Manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Land: Women Artists From the Rubell Family Collection.â&#x20AC;? Noon to 12:30 p.m. Free. National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1250 New York Ave. NW. 202-783-5000. â&#x2013; The Chevy Chase and Georgetown chapters of the National Active and Retired Employees will present a seminar led by Leland Kiang, information and referral program manager for Iona Senior Services, on â&#x20AC;&#x153;What Can Iona Do For You?â&#x20AC;? Noon to 1:30 p.m. Free. Iona Senior Services, 4125 Albemarle St. NW. 202-518-2519. â&#x2013; â&#x20AC;&#x153;German Expressionist Art From the Saltzman Collectionâ&#x20AC;? will be the subject of a gallery talk led by senior lecturer David Gariff. 1 p.m. Free. East Building, National Gallery of Art, 4th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. 202-7374215. The talk also will repeat Thursday and Friday at 1 p.m. â&#x2013; Photographer John Arsenault will discuss his work and his book â&#x20AC;&#x153;Barmaid,â&#x20AC;? which features photographs that reflect an insider view of the iconic Eagle LA bar in Los Angeles. 2 to 3 p.m. Free. Madison Building, Library of Congress, 101 Independence Ave. SE. 202707-8437. â&#x2013; Peter Humfrey, professor emeritus of art history at the University of St. Andrews, will discuss â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Reception of Paolo Veronese in Britain (c. 16001900),â&#x20AC;? focusing on the changing attitudes toward the artist over three centuries, particularly as reflected in the history of collecting. 3:30 p.m. Free. West Building Lecture Hall, National Gallery of Art, 6th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. 202-737-4215. â&#x2013; The Johns Hopkins Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Women Who Inspireâ&#x20AC;? series will host Tina Brown (shown) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; former editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair and The New Yorker and now CEO of Tina Brown Live Media â&#x20AC;&#x201D; for a discussion of women leaders making a difference on the global stage, with moderation by Shirin Tahir-Kheli, senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute. 5 to 6:30 p.m. Free; reservations requested. Kenney Herter Auditorium, Nitze Building, Johns Hopkins University School of See Events/Page 30

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Continued From Page 28 Advanced International Studies, 1740 Massachusetts Ave. NW. sais-jhu.edu. ■ “Asian American Literature Today: Kundiman Spotlight” will feature poets Janine Joseph and Aimee Nezhukumatathil reading and discussing their work with Kundiman Advisory Board cochair Jennifer Chang. 6:30 to 8 p.m. Free. Madison Building, Library of Congress, 101 Independence Ave. SE. 202707-5394. ■ The University of the District of Columbia’s “JAZZalive” series will present a program with writer, photographer, historian, research consultant, archivist, lecturer and concert producer Patricia Willard discussing her remarkable career. 7 p.m. Free. Recital Hall, Building 46-West, University of the District of Columbia, 4200 Connecticut Ave. NW. jazzaliveudc.org. ■ “Archaeology in the Mediterranean Region: Economic Challenges for a Better Future” will feature Roberto Nardi, founder of Centro di Conservazione Archeologica and president of the International Committee for the Conservation of Mosaics, and Andreina Costanzi Cobau, a partner at Centro di Conservazione Archeologica in charge of mural painting conservation. 7 p.m. Free; reservations required. Auditorium, Embassy of Italy, 3000 Whitehaven St. NW. www.iicwashington.esteri.it. ■ A lecture series on “Encountering Islam From Within” will focus on “Women and Gender,” with the discussion led by Salih Sayilgan and Zeyneb Sayilgan. 7 to 9 p.m. Free. Great Hall, St. Columba’s Episcopal Church, 4201

Albemarle St. NW. 202-363-4119. ■ Alliance Française de Washington will host a talk by French cartoonist Anne Simon on her collaboration with Swiss author Corinne Maier on a collection of graphic novels that explore the lives of some of the most influential figures of the 20th century. 7 p.m. $10 to $15; reservations required. Alliance Française de Washington, 2142 Wyoming Ave. NW. francedc.org. Film ■ Avalon Theatre’s “Lions of Czech Film” series will screen “Seven Ravens,” based on famed Czech writer Bozena Nemcová’s fairy tale about a young girl who saves her seven brothers who have been turned into ravens by their mother’s curse. 8 p.m. $7 to $12.25. Avalon Theatre, 5612 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202966-3464. Performances and readings ■ The Suzanne Farrell Ballet will preview its upcoming Eisenhower Theater engagement with excerpts of this season’s ballets: — “Danses Concertantes,” “Gounod Symphony” and “Stars and Stripes” — with Farrell discussing why these works are special. 6 p.m. Free. Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center. 202467-4600. ■ Press Play will present “Hump Days.” 7:30 p.m. $8 to $12. DC Arts Center, 2438 18th St. NW. 202-4627833.

■ Simply Sherri will host an open mic poetry event. 9 to 11 p.m. $5. Cullen Room, Busboys and Poets 5th & K, 1025 5th St. NW. 202-789-2227. Special event ■ Visitors will have a chance to watch and learn as members of the Dumbarton House collections staff box up historic ceramics, glass and textiles in preparation for a move off-site in preparation for upcoming HVAC renovations. Noon to 3 p.m. $4 to $5. Dumbarton House, 2715 Q St. NW. dumbartonhouse.org. The weekly event will conclude Oct. 19. Support ■ PFLAG will host a monthly support group for parents and friends of children who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning. 7 to 9 p.m. Free. Metropolitan Memorial United Methodist Church, 3401 Nebraska Ave. NW. lavendartime@aol.com. Tour ■ U.S. Botanic Garden volunteer Susan Klusman will explore how historical currents, architecture, sculpture and landscape architecture came together to create the grand building that houses the U.S. Botanic Garden Conservatory. 3 to 4 p.m. Free. Meet on the terrace by the entrance to the Conservatory at the U.S. Botanic Garden, 100 Maryland Ave. SW. 202-225-8333. Thursday,OCTOBER Oct. 13 Thursday 13 Children’s programs ■ Syl Sobel, attorney and author of

Thursday, OCTOBER 13 ■ Concert: The Institute of Musical Traditions will present a concert by singer, songwriter and guitarist Sarah McQuaid as part of her U.S. tour. 7:30 p.m. $15 to $25. Seekers Church, 276 Carroll St. NW. 301-960-3655. children’s books on U.S. government and history, will discuss his book “Presidential Elections and Other Cool Facts,” which explains how elections work, who can vote and what the Electoral College does, along with fun facts about presidents (for ages 8 and older). 10:30 a.m. Free. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919. ■ A U.S. Botanic Garden docent will host an “October Snugglers” tour for parents and care providers with a tiny one in a snuggly (no strollers or older

siblings due to narrow paths and the nature of the program). 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Free; reservations required. Conservatory Classroom, U.S. Botanic Garden, 100 Maryland Ave. SW. 202-2258333. ■ “Haunted House Craft” will offer ages 6 and older an opportunity to make a miniature house that can be decorated for Halloween. 4:30 p.m. Free. Petworth Library, 4200 Kansas Ave. NW. 202-243-1188. ■ 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 a historic adventure across the English Channel (for ages 4 to 8). 7 p.m. Free. Children & Teens Department, Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919. Class ■ Housing Counseling Services Inc. will present an orientation session for prospective homebuyers. 11 a.m. Free; reservations requested. Suite 100, 2410 17th St. NW. housingetc.org. Concerts ■ The Ward-Kong Duo — pianist Kimberly Kong (shown) and cellist Alicia Ward — will perform classical works. 6 p.m. Free. Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center. 202467-4600. ■ The University of Maryland School See Events/Page 34

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of Music will present “Henri at 100: Mystery and Memory,” a cross-disciplinary retrospective highlighting some of Henri Dutilleux’s most important pieces, presented with works by Debussy and Ravel, in celebration of Dutilleux’s centenary. 6 p.m. $8 to $20; reservations suggested. Phillips Collection, 1600 21st St. NW. phillipscollection.org/events. ■ Muddy Ruckus, a duo from Portland, Maine, will play a blend of Americana, punk-folk and “suitcase rock.” 7:30 p.m. Free. Gypsy Sally’s Vinyl Lounge, 3401 K St. NW. gypsysallys.com. ■ “Abbey!” — a concert evoking the vocal and dramatic majesty of jazz vocalist, songwriter and actress Abbey Lincoln’s socially conscious music and art — will feature vocalist Heidi Martin with Nicholas Payton on piano, Rhodes and trumpet; Michael Bowie on bass; and Corey Fonville on drums. 8 p.m. $20 to $25. Atlas Performing Arts Center, 1333 H St. NE. 202-399-7993. The concert will repeat Friday at 8 p.m. ■ “Thursday Night Bluegrass” will feature Hollertown playing contemporary bluegrass. 8 to 11 p.m. No cover; $12 minimum. Mr. Henry’s Restaurant, 601 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. 202-546-8412. ■ Two reggae groups will perform: Baltimore-based Jah Works, playing original reggae tunes, and the Holdup, from California, playing reggae with hip-hop and pop influences. 8:30 p.m. $10 to $12. Gypsy Sally’s, 3401 K St. NW. gypsysallys.com. Demonstration ■ Gardening and cooking writer Adrienne Cook and nutritionist Danielle Cook will present a “Winter Wonders” cooking demonstration about the use of squash for sweet and savory dishes. Noon and 12:50 p.m. Free. Conservatory Garden Court, U.S. Botanic Garden, 100 Maryland Ave. SW. 202-225-8333.

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Discussions and lectures ■ Artist and educator Candace Edgerley will discuss “Shibori Techniques in Women’s Summer Kimono.” Noon. Free. George Washington University Museum and Textile Museum, 701 21st St. NW. 202-994-5200. ■ University of Louisville professor Gregory S. Hutcheson and Harvard University professor Josiah Blackmore will discuss their book “Queer Iberia: Sexualities, Cultures, and Crossings From the Middle Ages to the Renaissance.” Noon to 1 p.m. Free. Madison Building, Library of Congress, 101 Independence Ave. SE. 202-707-8437. ■ “Novels Into Film: Like Apples and Oranges,” presented in conjunction with the “American Reads” exhibit, will examine major American novels that have been converted to Hollywood films. Noon to 1 p.m. Free. Madison Building, Library of Congress, 101 Independence Ave. SE. 202-707-2138. ■ Two of Russia’s most experienced analysts of U.S. foreign policy and domestic politics, Sergey Rogov and Valery Garbuzov of the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of USA and Canada Studies will share their insights on the goals of Russian foreign policy and the future of U.S.-Russia relations. 5 to 6:15 p.m. Free; reservations required. McGhee Library, Bunn Intercultural Center, Georgetown University, 37th and O streets NW. guevents.georgetown.edu. ■ Artist Norwood Viviano will discuss

his work, which combines traditional sculpture methods with 3D printing technology to create works that explore cultural and societal change. 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Free. Rubenstein Grand Salon, Renwick Gallery, 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW. 202-633-1000. ■ Florin Curta, professor of medieval history and archaeology at the University of Florida, will discuss “An Uneasy Relation: Byzantium and the Nomads.” 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Free; reservations required. Oak Room, Fellowship House, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1700 Wisconsin Ave. NW. 202-3396940. ■ The International Women’s Media Foundation will present a talk by awardwinning photojournalist Paula Bronstein about her new book “Afghanistan: Between Hope and Fear.” 6 to 8 p.m. Free. Langston Room, Busboys and Poets 14th & V, 2021 14th St. NW. 202387-7638. ■ Nadrian C. Seeman, professor of chemistry at New York University, will discuss “DNA: Not Merely the Secret of Life,” about how DNA can be programmed readily to make objects, crystals and even nanomechanical devices. 6:30 to 7:45 p.m. Free; reservations required. Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1530 P St. NW. 202-328-6988. ■ Christopher Sharples of SHoP, Thomas Robinson of LEVER Architecture and Hans-Erik Blomgren of Arup will discuss the benefits of tall timber construction, the latest innovation in building technologies. 6:30 to 8 p.m. $10 to $20; reservations required. National Building Museum, 401 F St. NW. 202272-2448. ■ “Origin Stories and the ‘Star Wars’ Trilogy: Joseph Campbell and Myth in the 21st Century” will feature Doug Herman, senior geographer at the National Museum of the American Indian, and Robert Walter, president and executive director of the Joseph Campbell Foundation and Campbell’s friend and editor. 6:45 to 8:45 p.m. $30 to $45. S. Dillon Ripley Center, 1100 Jefferson Drive SW. 202-633-3030. ■ “The Pulse on Modern Medicine: Insights from NIH Experts” will feature a talk by William Gahl, clinical director of the National Human Genome Research Institute and director of the Undiagnosed Diseases Program at the National Institutes of Health. 6:45 to 8:45 p.m. $30 to $45. S. Dillon Ripley Center, 1100 Jefferson Drive SW. 202-6333030. ■ James Gleick, author of “Chaos” and “The Information,” will discuss his book “Time Travel: A History,” which looks at the evolution of modern ideas about time and how time has come to seem like a mechanical device, helping to explain today’s accelerating pace and demands for instant responses. 7 p.m. Free. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919. ■ Gabriel Thompson will discuss his book “America’s Social Arsonist: Fred Ross and Grassroots Organizing in the Twentieth Century,” about one of the most influential community organizers in American history. 7 to 8:30 p.m. Free; reservations suggested. The Potter’s House, 1658 Columbia Road NW. pottershousedc.org. ■ National Geographic photographer David Guttenfelder will discuss “Coming Home: From North Korea to Yellow-

stone,” about his 20 years living in Africa, the Middle East and Asia as well as his recent stint photographing the 3,500-square-mile wilderness recreation area atop a volcanic hot spot in the American West. 7:30 p.m. $25. Grosvenor Auditorium, National Geographic, 1600 M St. NW. 202-857-7700. Films ■ The National Archives will screen “The Year of the Tiger: JFK 1962,” a documentary featuring archival images, film footage and audio recordings to chronicle the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962, with director Joe Looby discussing the film following the screening. Noon. Free. McGowan Theater, National Archives Building, Constitution Avenue between 7th and 9th streets. NW. 202-357-5000. ■ The National Museum of Natural History and the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital will present the D.C. premiere of Mike Plunkett’s 2015 film “Salero,” about Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni, the world’s largest salt flat, and the changes thrust on the region when the country’s leaders embark on a plan to extract a precious mineral used in smartphone and laptop batteries from beneath the salt crust. 6:30 p.m. Free; reservations required. Baird Auditorium, National Museum of Natural History, 10th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. go.si.edu/naturalhistoryfilm. ■ “Reel Affirmations: Washington, DC’s International LGBTQ Film Festival” will open with the D.C. premiere of Nick Corporon’s film “Retake,” about a world of love, loss and intrigue that plays out on a road trip from San Francisco to the Grand Canyon. 7 to 10 p.m. $12. Human Rights Campaign, 1640 Rhode Island Ave. NW. reelaffirmations.org. The festival will continue through Sunday with events at the Human Rights Campaign and GALA Theatre; festival passes cost $135 to $325. ■ “What’s Up? Docs!” — a George Washington University Documentary Center series — will screen “Primary,” a landmark documentary chronicling the 1960 Wisconsin primary between Democratic presidential nomination frontrunners John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey. A post-screening Q&A will feature Paul Stekler, documentary filmmaker and chair of the radio, film and television department at the University of Texas at Austin. 7 to 9:30 p.m. $10 to $15. Marvin Center Amphitheater, George Washington University, 800 21st St. NW. go.gwu.edu/whatsupdocs. Performances and readings ■ The Happenings Happy Hour series will feature “Over Her Dead Body: A Bluegrass Benediction,” an original musical by Pinky Swear Productions featuring popular melodies of murder and mayhem. 6 to 7 p.m. Free; reservations suggested. Sidney Harman Hall Forum, 610 F St. NW. 202-547-1122. ■ NSO Pops will present “Cirque de la Symphonie: Halloween Extravaganza,” featuring sensational acrobatics and powerful music in a new Halloweenthemed spectacular. 7 p.m. $24 to $99. Concert Hall, Kennedy Center. The performance will repeat Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. ■ George Washington University’s Department of Theatre and Dance will present Stephen Karam’s “Speech &

Debate,” about an unlikely trio who set out to find a common truth and make their voices heard as they revive a defunct school club and take on the world. 7:30 p.m. $10 to $20. Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre, Marvin Center, George Washington University, 800 21st St. NW. 202-994-0995. The performance will repeat Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. ■ Catholic University will present Howard Brenton’s “Bloody Poetry,” about three rebellious immortals of the Romantic Age — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley — who converge on the stormy shores of Lake Geneva in 1816. 7:30 p.m. $5 to $15. Hartke Theatre, Catholic University, 3801 Harewood Road NE. 202-319-4000. The performance will repeat Friday at 7:30 p.m., Saturday at 2 and 7:30 p.m., and Sunday at 2 p.m. ■ Georgetown University’s Black Theatre Ensemble and Mask & Bauble Dramatic Society will present “An American Daughter” by Wendy Wasserstein. 8 p.m. $8 to $12. Stage III, Poulton Hall, Georgetown University, 1421 37th St. NW. 202-687-2787. Performances will continue through Oct. 22. ■ Washington Improv Theater will present a preview of its new show, “POTUS Among Us 2016: Part Rally, Part Reckoning,” an audience-immersive spectacle that lets you pick the candidates and influence the story. 8 p.m. $10. Source, 1835 14th St. witdc.org. The show will open Friday and continue through Nov. 6; tickets cost $15 to $20. ■ Socio-political comedian W. Kamau Bell will perform. 8 p.m. $25. Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, 600 I St. NW. 800745-3000. Special events ■ The Folger Shakespeare Library will host “Brews and Banter” for its young patrons, featuring a conversation with “Sense and Sensibility” cast members Maggie McDowell (Elinor Dashwood) and Jamie Smithson (Edward Ferrars), along with beer and light fare. 6:30 p.m. $15. Haskell Center, Folger Shakespeare Library, 301 East Capitol St. SE. 202-544-7077. ■ “Tudor Nights: The Desk Set” will feature a cocktail evening centered on the richly outfitted early-20th-century office at Tudor Place. 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. $20; free for members. Tudor Place Historic House and Garden, 1644 31st St. NW. tudorplace.org. ■ The Georgetown Ministry Center will host the “2016 Spirit of Georgetown Benefit” to raise funds for the center’s programs, celebrate the commitment to ending homelessness, and honor Patricia Davies, who has served as a board member, president and volunteer. 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. $150 and up. Residence at 1645 31st St. NW. 202-338-8301. ■ “¡Viva Cesar, Viva Kennedy!” — an evening of diverse performances, provocative conversations and powerful history exploring the intersection of the work and ideals of Cesar Chavez and John F. Kennedy in the fight for civil rights and social justice — will feature performances by Mexican singer Eugenia León and Mexican-American band La Santa Cecilia. 8 p.m. $10 to $39. Eisenhower Theater, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600. Sporting event ■ The Washington Wizards will play the Philadelphia 76ers in a preseason matchup. 7 p.m. $19 to $464. Verizon Center, 601 F St. NW. 800-745-3000.

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