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Wednesday, March 23, 2016

WIS puts off project review amid criticism

Council airs concerns on cost of shelter plan

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■ Homelessness: Bowser

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By MARK LIEBERMAN Current Staff Writer

Washington International School has canceled key presentations scheduled for this week on its latest expansion plans following recent feedback from the Historic Preservation Office finding faults with the project.

The school intends to construct a two-story science and technology building on its Tregaron campus, located at 3100 Macomb St. NW in Cleveland Park. The project was previously designed as three stories, but the school reworked its proposal after hearing objections from community members late last year. Some in the community responded more favorably to the updated plans presented at a neighborhood meeting last month, though several concerns remained.

The school was scheduled to present its latest proposal to Advisory Neighborhood Commission 3C (Cleveland Park, Woodley Park, Massachusetts Avenue Heights) on Monday, but pulled See Tregaron/Page 15

By CUNEYT DIL

Current Correspondent

The price tag of Mayor Muriel Bowser’s plan to build seven family homeless shelters across the District dominated the conversation at the first D.C. Council hearing on the matter last week.

Several council members openly questioned whether the Bowser administration negotiated the best possible deal from the developers who will build and own the sites,

which will replace the maligned D.C. General shelter.

For example, the city would pay an estimated $4,400 per unit in rent for the 38-unit Ward 3 shelter at 2619 Wisconsin Ave. NW, and that figure would rise 3 percent annually.

“I think oftentimes the District does not negotiate in its best interests. The District brings its B-team while the developer has its A-team,” Council Chairman Phil Mendelson said at the 13-hour hearing last Thursday.

Some council members and residents who testified called for a See Shelter/Page 8

Local officials see brighter future after Metro closure ■ Transit: Safety issue brings

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call for stable funding source

Wilson High School students presented “Hamlet” last week.

In this scene, Zachary Nachbar-Seckel plays the title role and Michael Bayliss, right, portrays his father’s ghost.

By BRADY HOLT Current Staff Writer

Chevy Chase condos raise concern over scale

By BRADY HOLT Current Staff Writer

Two condo projects on Connecticut Avenue NW in Chevy Chase have irked residents of nearby single-family homes, who are lamenting the loss of the area’s traditional, comparatively lowdensity character.

Most of Connecticut Avenue in D.C. is zoned either for commercial use or for apartment buildings, and the majority of the corridor is already developed as such.

The short stretch between Jenifer and Jocelyn streets, however, has mostly stayed true to the character of the Wardman semi-detached houses that have lined the block since 1913. Although a few of the

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The 1913 home at right will be mostly razed to make way for eight condominium units.

homes have been adapted into multi-unit buildings or other uses over the years, they have generally maintained their century-old appearance and character.

That’s now changing at 5301 Connecticut, at the corner with

Jenifer, and at 5309, which is closer to Jocelyn. At 5309, the existing home has been mostly demolished to make way for a boxier four-unit condominium building that’s now under construction. The larger lot at 5301 will accommodate a similarly designed building, 45 feet tall, with eight units.

“The imposing framed out structure that will replace the mostly demolished Wardman at 5309 Connecticut Avenue is so out-of-scale and character in this iconic row of Wardman built houses,” Jenifer Street resident Charles Moscarillo wrote in a letter to developers, which he also shared with The Current.

See Condos/Page 8

As the District’s population continues to grow, city planners have emphasized the need to focus on transit rather than cars. As they note in various reports and testify at zoning hearings, there is no space for the city’s streets to get any wider.

But central to the city’s planning principles is the Metrorail system. The newly approved zoning code rewrite halves minimum parking requirements for new buildings near Metro stations, and sites with access to Metro are favored for large new apartment or office buildings.

A D.C. Office of Planning spokesperson declined to answer questions about the effect of an unreliable Metro on the agency’s smart-growth principles. But in the days following last Wednesday’s unprecedented emergency shutdown of the entire Metrorail system, other local and regional officials have said that the only

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The Metrorail system was closed last Wednesday for emergency inspections and repairs.

option is for Metro to improve.

“I don’t even want to imagine a scenario in which Metro is not a central player in our transportation policy,” said Ward 3 D.C. Council member Mary Cheh, chair of the council’s transportation committee. “We cannot handle traffic that would be generated by not having an effective Metro system.”

Do we currently have an effective Metro system?

“I think we do,” Cheh said, “but we need right now to begin all of the repairs and changes to give people the confidence that it’s safe and reliable. … We’re not See Metro/Page 9

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Hyde-Addison modernization project put off another year over swing space issue / Page 3

National Cathedral and Gonzaga basketball stars net prestigious citywide awards / Page 13

Spotluck smartphone app aims to steer residents to unfamiliar locally owned eateries / Page 5

Police Report/6 Real Estate/17 School Dispatches/19 Service Directory/27 Sports/13 Week Ahead/3

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Hyde-Addison project delayed until 2017

By MARK LIEBERMAN Current Staff Writer

Students at Hyde-Addison Elementary School might move to the Meyer Elementary campus near Howard University during two years of construction at their Georgetown school, according to project officials.

Officials also announced that the long-delayed Hyde-Addison project’s start date will be pushed off once more — from this coming summer to June 2017.

Plans to expand the overcrowded Hyde-Addison have been in the works for the past five years, aiming

to provide the 3219 O St. NW school with more classroom space, a gymnasium, a cafeteria and other amenities. But the project has faced numerous delays related to budget allocations, historic preservation concerns and the need to excavate a large sewer pipe.

The latest issue emerged in December, when project officials backed off from a pledge that students could remain on campus during construction, deciding instead that swing space would be necessary to keep students safe and the project on schedule.

D.C. Public Schools studied three sites including Ellington Field in Burleith and Hardy Middle School in upper Georgetown for the feasibility of welcoming See Modernization/Page 15

Race route concerns residents of Watergate

By MARK LIEBERMAN Current Staff Writer

The proposed route for the annual Army Ten-Miler race sparked controversy among Foggy Bottom neighborhood leaders at a meeting last week, with some fearing the route will inconvenience or even endanger residents of the Watergate complex.

George Banker, operations manager for the event, presented plans for this year’s Oct. 9 race to Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2A (Foggy Bottom, West End) last Wednesday, showing that the route will be identical to last year’s. But he later told The Current he will return to Foggy Bottom tomorrow to assess possible route changes.

At the March 16 ANC 2A meeting, commissioner William Kennedy Smith blasted those plans, arguing that the route will clog the area in front of the Watergate complex and prevent residents from

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Watergate residents are worried about the effect of proposed road closures near the complex.

getting emergency aid if needed.

The route for the 32nd annual race will take runners from near the Pentagon into the city by way of the Arlington Memorial Bridge.

Then they travel around Lincoln Memorial Circle, head up 23rd Street NW, take a right at Constitution Avenue and a left on 21st Street. From 21st, they head to Virginia Avenue, then back down toward the Pentagon on the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway.

Banker said race organizers considered five other routes before

settling on this one following feedback from the Metropolitan Police Department, Arlington County representatives, the Pentagon and other government stakeholders.

More than 26,000 runners will participate in the race, with proceeds supporting programs for soldier morale, welfare and recreation, Banker said. The race is scheduled to enter the Foggy Bottom area between approximately 8:10 and 9:35 a.m. on Oct. 9.

Runners will be staggered at the start to prevent excessive clogging, and Banker said he has no qualms about disqualifying runners who can’t maintain the mandatory 15-minute-per-mile pace necessary to avoid bunching. “I want to make sure we’re in and out of there as fast as we can to make sure there’s no impact,�

Banker said.

But Smith and other commissioners worry the impact will be See Course/Page 5

The week ahead Wednesday, March 23

The Citizens Association of Georgetown will host an oral history panel discussion at 7 p.m. at Sea Catch Restaurant, 1054 31st St. NW. Participants will include moderator Tom Birch and panelists Ellen Charles, Billy Martin and Sarah Yerkes. ■The Ward 3-Wilson Feeder Education Network will meet at 7 p.m. at the Chevy Chase Library, 5625 Connecticut Ave. NW. The agenda will include remarks by at-large D.C. Council member David Grosso, chair of the council’s Education Committee. To RSVP, email w3ednet@gmail.com. ■The Metropolitan Police Department’s 2nd District Citizens Advisory Council will hold its monthly meeting at 7 p.m. at the 2nd District Police Headquarters, 3320 Idaho Ave. NW.

Thursday, March 24

The D.C. Historic Preservation Review Board will meet at 9 a.m. in Room 220 South, One Judiciary Square, 441 4th St. NW. Agenda items include exterior alterations to the American Geophysical Union Headquarters at 2000 Florida Ave. NW; exterior alterations to 1711 Rhode Island Ave. NW; and a revised plan for the Cleveland Park Library, 3310 Connecticut Ave. NW. â– The Northwest Neighbors Village will host a town hall meeting with Laura Newland, the newly appointed executive director of the D.C. Office on Aging.

The meeting will be held from 12:30 to 2 p.m. at the Chevy Chase Community Center, 5601 Connecticut Ave. NW. ■D.C. Public Schools and the D.C. Department of General Services will hold a community meeting on the renovation of Murch Elementary School, including a presentation on the latest plans. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. in the gym/cafeteria “bubble� at Lafayette Elementary School, 5701 Broad Branch Road NW.

Saturday, March 26

Casey Trees and the Rock Creek Conservancy will hold a tree-planting event along the Pinehurst Tributary. Volunteers will meet at 8:30 a.m. at Western Avenue and Beech Street NW and work until noon. Registration is required; visit either rockcreekconservancy.org or tinyurl.com/zbdvs44. ■The Tregaron Conservancy will hold an Easter egg hunt with treat-filled eggs hidden along the property’s trails. The event will begin at 10 a.m. by the Lily Pond near the Tregaron entrance in the 3000 block of Klingle Road NW. Reservations are encouraged; to RSVP, email info@tregaronconversancy.org with the number of adults and children attending. ■Friends of Stead Park and Foundry United Methodist Church will host the 11th annual Community Easter Egg Hunt. The event will be held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Stead Park, 1625 P St. NW. Registration is requested; visit foundryumc.org.

Wednesday, March 30

Citywide Neighborhood Watch trainer Samantha Nolan will hold a Crime Prevention/Neighborhood Watch Training session at 6:30 p.m. at the Petworth Library, 4200 Kansas Ave. NW. To RSVP, email nolantutor@yahoo.com.

New technology allows Army to test sites with smaller gear Current Staff Report The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will soon begin using smaller, less-intrusive equipment to check for buried munitions in Spring Valley, officials reported this month.

At the March 8 meeting of the Restoration Advisory Board, the Army also confirmed traces of 46 chemicals in Spring Valley’s groundwater, though they don’t affect the safety of the area’s drinking water. Additionally, the Army also reported that its recent investigation of a Fordham Road NW property found no hazards there.

The Army has spent more than two decades in Spring Valley, cleaning out buried munitions and contaminated soil that resulted from a World War I-era chemical weapons testing station at American University. Officials intend to look at all properties in the neighborhood before declaring the hazard to be remediated.

In the past, the Army checked for potentially dangerous buried metal items using a large machine pulled by tractors. It can now use a tool the size of a large lawn mower, the Army’s Alex Zahl said at the meeting, and an even smaller handheld machine is under development by the Navy. The Army will begin by checking five properties with the smaller machines, ramping that up to between 30 and 35 properties per year over about three years.

When asked how properties would be prioritized, Zahl answered, “We’ll try to build as much flexibility as we can. ‌ Not everyone will have to wait until 2020.â€?

Meanwhile, Army contractors completed a draft report on problems with the area’s groundwater based on 57 wells. Their study looked for more than 250 different chemicals and found 46 in the Spring Valley groundwater, See Cleanup/Page 9

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District Digest More flexible rules for graduation OK’d

The District’s high school graduation requirements will see greater flexibility, under new regulations the D.C. State Board of Education approved last week.

Under the new rules, D.C. schools can apply for a waiver to offer competency-based courses that teachers can tailor to their students’ unique needs. “Competency-based education provides more personalized learning that allows students to move at their own pace, whether it is faster or slower,” according to materials from the Office of the State Superintendent of Education.

“Students can only move to the next level once they have demonstrated mastery of the necessary skills.”

This new option offers an alternate pathway to the timebased Carnegie system that D.C. schools traditionally follow, which requires units of 120 hours of class time during the year as the sole means of awarding course credits for a high school diploma.

The new regulations also allow greater flexibility with Algebra I, which is currently a required course of all high school freshmen in the District. Based on evidence that many ninth-graders aren’t prepared for the challenging algebra content, the new regulations will delay that course requirement until 10th grade, while still allowing students to graduate within four years.

These changes fall in line with recommendations from a task force that studied the District’s high school credits with an eye toward providing more flexibility and improving graduation rates.

The superintendent used these recommendations to craft official

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regulations, which the State Board of Education approved on March 16.

The new regulations will go into effect as soon as they’re published in the D.C. Register, and schools will be able to apply for the waivers for the competencybased courses in the 2016-17 school year, according to a release from the education board.

The superintendent will be working to create “a rigorous waiver application and approval process” for the schools that apply for this flexibility, the release says. The office also plans to collect and review data on the competencybased courses so it can assess the results in three years.

District trains 5,000 in hands-only CPR

The D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department has reached its goal of training 5,000 area residents to be capable of assisting a person experiencing sudden cardiac arrest.

The “Hands On Hearts” initiative, which offers 20-minute training sessions on the techniques of hands-only CPR, met this milestone mark early. When Mayor Muriel Bowser first launched the program in October 2015, the 5,000-trainee goal was set for September 2016. Instead, the agency reached that last week during a training session for students at the E.L. Haynes Public Charter School.

Studies have shown that hands-only CPR — which involves chest compressions without artificial respiration — can improve the chances of survival for a cardiac arrest victim when the technique is applied immediately, according to a D.C. news release.

The D.C. fire department developed the “Hands On Hearts” initiative with partners that include Serve DC, the American Heart Association of Greater Washington, and the American Red Cross.

D.C. agency to offer ‘Frog Watch’ training

The District is calling on citizen volunteers to go on “Frog Watch” — collecting and submitting data on the frogs and toads that populate the city’s wetlands.

The D.C. Department of Energy & Environment is hosting two training sessions this month for residents interested in joining the local chapter of Frog Watch, part of a national effort to track trends in frog and toad breeding over time.

The first workshop will take place Saturday from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. at the D.C. Aquatic Resources Education Center at 1900 Anacostia Drive SE. The second is scheduled for Wednesday, March 30, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the envi-

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ronment department’s headquarters at 1200 1st St. NE. Participants will be introduced to the species of frogs and toads in the D.C. area by seeing live animals and learning how to recognize the distinct calls of individual species, according to a release.

Registration is required for the training sessions by emailing doee.arec@dc.gov or calling 202727-7601. Details about the Frog Watch program are available at doee.dc.gov/service/frogwatch.

Nominations sought for Cafritz awards

An annual awards program honoring exemplary D.C. government employees is open for applications through March 31.

Winners of the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Awards for Distinguished DC Government Employees will be recognized at a June 30 gala at the JW Marriott Hotel at 1331 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. Each year five individual winners who have demonstrated “outstanding performance and exemplary service” within the city government receive a $7,500 prize. This year, to mark the program’s 15th anniversary, a new awards category has been added to recognize achievements by groups or teams. The “Innovation Team Award,” offering a $15,000 prize, is open for units of three to 10 individuals in one or multiple D.C. government agencies that have achieved “measurable and sustainable results” with a joint initiative, according to the Cafritz Awards website.

The awards program, first launched in 2000, represents a partnership between the Cafritz Foundation and the George Washington University Center for Excellence in Public Leadership.

A selection committee will review applications from candidates next month, notifying the winners on April 28. More information about the awards and their eligibility requirements is available at cafritzawards.org.

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Phone app aims to help residents find nearby restaurants to bolster business

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hen the idea for his startup Spotluck first came to him, Cherian Thomas didn’t necessarily expect it to become a full-fledged business. He started out just looking for a good grade.

The concept came to life as part of his thesis for the executive master’s in leadership program at Georgetown University, which he completed in 2014 after earning a Master of Business Administration degree from Hood College two years earlier. Tasked with creating a business plan, Thomas focused on pricing in the restau-

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rant industry.

“I always felt that prices in the restaurant on Tuesday at 2 p.m. when it’s raining shouldn’t be the same as the prices on Friday night at 6 p.m. when it’s beautiful out,” Thomas said. He was inspired by companies like Priceline, Uber and StubHub, all of which fluctuate prices to maximize demand and profits.

A few years later, the idea has moved out of the classroom and

into the market. The increasingly popular app features 315 participating restaurants in D.C., Maryland and Virginia — all of them locally owned, non-chain establishments, per Spotluck policy.

The app most recently added nine Glover Park restaurants to its D.C. portfolio. Thomas now works as CEO of Spotluck, heading a team of 16 from an office in Bethesda.

The Spotluck app has two main components: one for customers and one for restaurants.

Customers download the app on their smartphones, select a particular neighborhood and then

press a circular “spin” icon on their screen. All of the participating restaurants in that neighborhood appear on a wheel, and the app selects one for a substantial discount — 20 percent, for instance. If the customer decides to go that restaurant, they show their smartphone at the table and they’ll receive the discount that night. If they want to go to any other restaurant listed in the neighborhood, they can get a standard discount, usually between 10 and 15 percent.

For the participating restaurants, Thomas and his team man-

age a complex algorithm behind the scenes that automatically increases discounts during times of lower demand — inclement weather or off-hours, for instance.

The restaurants also have the ability to manually input a discount in the hopes of attracting more patrons during a slow stretch, or to turn off the app for any length of time if they want to stick to their standard prices.

The app’s name brings together three of its inspiring elements: potluck gatherings, the goal of connecting local foodies with new See Businesses/Page 16

Youth creativity on display as part of cherry blossom fest

By MARK LIEBERMAN Current Staff Writer

The cherry blossoms aren’t the only pleasant sight worth seeking out in D.C. over the next couple weeks. From now until April 19, more than 150 student artworks depicting kites will be on display at the Pepco Edison Place Gallery in Penn Quarter.

The annual Cherry Blossom Youth Art Contest and Community Art Show brings together student pieces from 35 D.C. public and charter schools. The common thread uniting the disparate works is this year’s theme: a celebration of 50 years of kite flying in the nation’s capital, spurred by the launch of the Smithsonian Kite Festival in 1967, and 100 years of the National Park Service.

A panel of judges will recognize a total of 12 submissions, awarding first, second and third prizes to pieces in each of four categories: grades kindergarten to second, third to fifth, sixth to eighth, and ninth to 12th. The judges will consider an array of criteria including the artwork’s originality,

creativity, technical excellence and relevance to the theme, according to Stephanie Blyskal, the National Cherry Blossom Festival’s events and community outreach organizer.

The finalists will be revealed early next month, and the public will vote on an overall winner on Facebook. The winners will be recognized at an awards ceremony on April 19.

Blyskal joined the festival team this year and oversaw organization for the Edison Place Gallery art show, which involved outreach to local schools and coordination with the gallery located at 702 8th St. NW. Volunteers helped mount the 175 submissions on foam boards, she said.

All 12 winners will receive gift cards from the downtown craft supplies store Blick Art Materials, 1250 I St. NW. The store’s general manager Ryan Whitcomb told The Current that signing on for the event was a no-brainer.

“When it comes to helping children, they’re the beneficiaries of this gift card,” Whitcomb said. “It’s always important to try to encourage children to stay creative

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felt regardless. At issue is the stretch of Virginia Avenue that crosses in front of the Watergate complex. After a previous Army Ten-Miler, Smith said he heard from an elderly Watergate resident who left his home to briefly walk his dog in the morning, and ended up stuck outside for more than an hour because a steady stream of runners blocked his path.

“There’s no event that I get more complaints about than this one,” Smith said. “It really has to do with the nature of the course, which creates the barrier around the Watergate and makes it impossible for residents to come and go.”

Banker said Metropolitan Police Department officers will be stationed throughout the route to act in case an emergency situation arises, such as when a suspicious package was found on the race route a few years ago. Foggy Bottom Association president Marina Streznewski raised the possibility

of a more localized emergency like a Watergate resident having a heart attack or stroke and needing medical assistance during the race.

Banker said he’d defer to police in a situation like that.

“We can request more officers,” Banker said. “They control the streets. The Army does not.”

Commission chair Patrick Kennedy suggested a scenario in which runners take up only one direction of Virginia Avenue, but Banker said enforcing such a plan would be a challenge.

Commissioners concluded their discussion without voting on the issue. Banker promised to show Smith the other five proposed routes as evidence that the one presented was the most feasible.

In an interview, Banker said he plans to visit Foggy Bottom on Thursday to assess the possibility of altering the proposed route.

“I’m not going to say, ‘This is the course and you just live with it,’” he said. “That’s why I want to go back down and take another look.”

and stay invested in those types of things.”

Blyskal thinks the student artists will get a boost in confidence when they see their work displayed for the public.

“It’ll encourage kids to produce more art and be more artistic if they actually get to see their art hung up in a gallery,” she said.

“It’s a really cool opportunity for them.”

The event also represents an opportunity for Pepco, which began using gallery space five years ago to provide opportunities to local nonprofits. Debbi Jarvis, the power company’s vice president of corporate citizenship and social responsibility, told The Current that the gallery’s 4,000 square feet can be used however a partner nonprofit chooses, whether for fundraising events or community gatherings.

In the case of the Cherry Blossom Festival, Jarvis said the goal was to provide an educational opportunity that’s fun for children. Jarvis joined up with the festival because of a prior personal connection with Diana Mayhew, president of the National Cherry Blossom Festival. Like all nonprofits at the gallery, the Cherry Blossom Festival has used the space for free.

Photo by Rick Giammaria/Courtesy of Pepco

Twelve D.C. students will earn prizes for their artwork depicting kites.

“This just fits right in line with what we’re doing in the community, giving the community a voice,” Jarvis said. “And we’re helping them to do it so it doesn’t break the bank.”

The Pepco Edison Place Gallery is open from noon to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday. Admission is free.

The National Cherry Blossom Festival began Sunday and runs through April 17. As of press time, the projected date for the blossoms’ peak was today and tomorrow.

The festival’s full schedule including the kite festival and parade dates is available at tinyurl.com/CherryBlossoms2016.

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Theft â&#x2013; 800-899 block, 9th St.; 3:16 p.m. March 14. â&#x2013; 700-799 block, H St.; 4:50 p.m. March 14. â&#x2013; 400-497 block, L St.; 8:06 p.m. March 14. â&#x2013; 600-699 block, H St.; 9:55 p.m. March 14. â&#x2013; 444-499 block, K St.; 5:53 p.m. March 15. â&#x2013; 400-499 block, 8th St.; 12:28 a.m. March 16. â&#x2013; 400-471 block, New York Ave.; 1:27 p.m. March 16. â&#x2013; 400-457 block, Massachusetts Ave.; 5:29 p.m. March 16. â&#x2013; 400-497 block, L St.; 8:36 p.m. March 16. â&#x2013; 700-799 block, H St.; 9:39 p.m. March 16. â&#x2013; 700-799 block, 8th St.; 1:05 p.m. March 18. â&#x2013; 900-999 block, 9th St.; 3:35 p.m. March 18. â&#x2013; 800-899 block, 7th St.; 5:59 p.m. March 18. â&#x2013; 400-499 block, 7th St.; 5:49 p.m. March 19.

Theft from auto â&#x2013; 600-699 block, E St.; 5:28 p.m. March 19. â&#x2013; 700-899 block, Pennsylvania Ave.; 6:22 p.m. March 19. â&#x2013; 400-499 block, 9th St.; 5:42 a.m. March 20.

psa PSA 201 201

â&#x2013; chevy chase

Burglary â&#x2013; 5600-5699 block, Western Ave.; 8:12 p.m. March 15.

Theft â&#x2013; 3600-3699 block, McKinley St.; 6:11 p.m.

March 17.

Theft from auto â&#x2013; 5400-5432 block, 32nd St.; 8:34 p.m. March 19.

psa 202

â&#x2013; Friendship Heights PSA 202

Tenleytown / AU Park

Assault with a dangerous weapon â&#x2013; 4227-4299 block, Wisconsin Ave.; 8:29 p.m. March 19.

Theft â&#x2013; 4500-4599 block, 40th St.; 3:15 p.m. March 14. â&#x2013; 4300-4326 block, Wisconsin Ave.; 3:15 p.m. March 15. â&#x2013; 4500-4599 block, Fort Drive; 9:27 p.m. March 15.

â&#x2013; 5300-5399 block, Wisconsin Ave.; 1:56 p.m.

March 16. â&#x2013; 4000-4199 block, Yuma St.; 10:21 p.m. March 16. â&#x2013; 4900-4999 block, 43rd St.; 5:41 a.m. March 18. â&#x2013; 4300-4399 block, Military Road; 10:52 a.m. March 20.

Theft from auto â&#x2013; 3800-3899 block, Veazey St.; 1:52 p.m. March 14. â&#x2013; 4414-4499 block, 39th St.; 9:08 p.m. March 16. â&#x2013; 4100-4119 block, River Road; 8:56 p.m. March 17. â&#x2013; 4200-4299 block, Davenport St.; 4:07 p.m. March 20.

psa 203

â&#x2013; forest PSA 203 hills / van ness

cleveland park

Motor vehicle theft â&#x2013; 3100-3199 block, Quebec Place; 12:19 p.m. March 18.

Theft â&#x2013; 5000-5099 block, Connecticut Ave.; 8:41 p.m.

March 17. â&#x2013; 3319-3499 block, Connecticut Ave.; 11:48 a.m. March 19.

Theft from auto â&#x2013; 2900-3099 block, Newark St.; 12:02 p.m. March 18. â&#x2013; 2900-2999 block, Upton St.; 2:29 p.m. March 20. â&#x2013; 2900-2999 block, Upton St.; 3:20 p.m. March 20.

psa 204

â&#x2013; Massachusetts avenue

heights / cleveland park woodley park / Glover PSA 204

park / cathedral heights

March 20.

Theft from auto â&#x2013; 2700-2807 block, 27th St.; 8:47 a.m. March 15. â&#x2013; 2600-2699 block, 31st St.; 1:12 p.m. March 17.

psa PSA 303 303

â&#x2013; adams morgan

Theft â&#x2013; 1737-1776 block, Columbia Road; 9:47 p.m. March 14. â&#x2013; 2500-2589 block, 17th St.; 1:39 p.m. March 15. â&#x2013; 1737-1776 block, Columbia Road; 11:17 a.m. March 16. â&#x2013; 2500-2589 block, 17th St.; 3:46 p.m. March 16. â&#x2013; 1730-1797 block, Lanier Place; 11:28 a.m. March 18. â&#x2013; 2400-2499 block, 17th St.; 4:13 p.m. March 18. â&#x2013; 2300-2499 block, Champlain St.; 4:34 a.m. March 19. â&#x2013; 1732-1736 block, Columbia Road; 12:23 a.m. March 20.

Theft from auto â&#x2013; 1734-1769 block, Euclid St.; 3:17 p.m. March 14. â&#x2013; 1600-1699 block, Kalorama Road; 10:21 a.m.

March 16. â&#x2013; 1800-1899 block, Mintwood Place; 11:05 a.m.

March 16. â&#x2013; 2400-2499 block, 18th St.; 3:38 a.m. March 17. â&#x2013; 1800-1899 block, Summit Place; 9:18 a.m. March 17. â&#x2013; 2480-2599 block, 16th St.; 11:33 a.m. March 17. â&#x2013; 1800-1899 block, Vernon St.; 3:29 p.m. March 19.

psa 401

Assault with a dangerous weapon â&#x2013; 3800-3819 block, Fulton St.; 10:53 a.m. March 16 (with gun).

â&#x2013; colonial village PSA 401

Burglary â&#x2013; 2900-2928 block, 34th St.; 11:58 a.m. March 16.

Assault with a dangerous weapon â&#x2013; 7720-7799 block, 16th St.; 5:22 p.m. March 16 (gun).

Theft â&#x2013; 2400-2798 block, Calvert St.; 1:02 p.m. March 14. â&#x2013; 2600-2699 block, Woodley Road; 2:25 p.m. March 14. â&#x2013; 2054-2118 block, 37th St.; 7:28 p.m. March 14. â&#x2013; 3900-4099 block, Edmunds St.; 9:22 p.m.

March 15. â&#x2013; 2801 2899 block, 31st St.; 10:22 p.m. March 15. â&#x2013; 2600-2649 block, Connecticut Ave.; 8:12 a.m.

March 16. â&#x2013; 2731-2899 block, Connecticut Ave.; 3 p.m.

March 18. â&#x2013; 3800-3829 block, Macomb St.; 11:30 a.m. March 19. â&#x2013; 2700-2899 block, 28th St.; 5:33 p.m. March 19. â&#x2013; 2700-2798 block, Connecticut Ave.; 7:55 p.m. March 19. â&#x2013; 3201-3299 block, Wisconsin Ave.; 9:21 p.m.

shepherd park / takoma

Robbery â&#x2013; 400-499 block, Aspen St.; 1:16 p.m. March 14.

Theft from auto â&#x2013; 1900-1999 block, Spruce Drive; 8:51 a.m. March 16.

psa PSA 402 402

â&#x2013; Brightwood / manor park

Motor vehicle theft â&#x2013; 800-849 block, Van Buren St.; 7:57 a.m. March 16.

Theft â&#x2013; 5900-5999 block, Georgia Ave.; 3:19 p.m. March 14. â&#x2013; 6500-6599 block, Georgia Ave.; 3:23 a.m. March 15. â&#x2013; 5900-5999 block, Georgia Ave.; 2:07 p.m. March 17. â&#x2013; 5900-5999 block, Georgia Ave.; 3:12 p.m. March 17.

Theft from auto â&#x2013; 5900-5999 block, Georgia Ave.; 8:34 p.m. March 14. â&#x2013; 6300-6311 block, 5th St.; 8:55 p.m. March 19.

psa 403

â&#x2013; Brightwood / petworth

Brightwood park PSA 403

16th Street heights

Assault with a dangerous weapon â&#x2013; 5200-5299 block, 2nd St.; 3:28 a.m. March 15 (with gun).

Burglary â&#x2013; 500-699 block, Jefferson St.; 9:21 p.m. March 15.

Motor vehicle theft â&#x2013; 1400-1599 block, Oglethorpe St.; 10:10 a.m. March 20.

Theft â&#x2013; 5600-5699 block, Georgia Ave.; 8:25 p.m. March 15. â&#x2013; 1300-1399 block, Nicholson St.; 10:11 p.m. March 15. â&#x2013; 5200-5299 block, Georgia Ave.; 4:14 p.m. March 16. â&#x2013; 900-999 block, Longfellow St.; 4:24 p.m. March 18. â&#x2013; 5600-5699 block, Georgia Ave.; 9:37 a.m. March 19.

Theft from auto â&#x2013; 800-899 block, Madison St.; 6:46 a.m. March 16. â&#x2013; 700-799 block, Ingraham St.; 8:57 a.m. March 17. â&#x2013; 5500-5599 block, 13th St.; 9:35 a.m. March 19.

psa 404

â&#x2013; 16th Street HEIGHTS PSA 404

crestwood

Assault with a dangerous weapon â&#x2013; 4000-4099 block, Georgia Ave.; 8:43 p.m. March 16 (with knife).

Burglary â&#x2013; 1300-1391 block, Delafield Place; 12:04 p.m. March 18.

Theft â&#x2013; 4300-4399 block, Georgia Ave.; 9:24 a.m. March 16. â&#x2013; 3800-3899 block, Georgia Ave.; 5:45 p.m. March 16. â&#x2013; 3800-3899 block, Georgia Ave.; 7:07 p.m. March 16. â&#x2013; 4100-4199 block, Georgia Ave.; 6:32 p.m. March 18.

Theft from auto â&#x2013; 1300-1399 block, Taylor St.; 11:33 a.m. March 17. â&#x2013; 4100-4199 block, 14th St.; 8:52 p.m. March 17. â&#x2013; 1300-1399 block, Taylor St.; 8:37 p.m. March 18.

psa PSA 407 407 â&#x2013; petworth

Theft â&#x2013; 3918-3999 block, Illinois Ave.; 9:27 a.m. March 18.

Theft from auto â&#x2013; 200-299 block, Upshur St.; 9:42 a.m. March 15. â&#x2013; 900-999 block, Delafield Place; 8:06 p.m. March 15. â&#x2013; 5000-5099 block, 4th St.; 10:29 p.m. March 15.

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CONDOS: Connecticut Avenue development projects draw concerns in Chevy Chase

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From a legal perspective, though, the developers are in the clear. The stretch of Connecticut falls into the R-5-B zone, which allows apartment buildings of up to 50 feet tall. And while neighbors questioned why the projectsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; building permits call the project a renovation with an addition rather than all-new construction, that terminology applies as long as a certain percentage of the old building is retained, according to Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs spokesperson Matt Orlins.

Orlins didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t immediately have informa-

tion on these projects. Tony Barros, attorney for 5301â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s developer (whom he declined to identify, and which is listed only as an LLC in city records), told The Current heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s confident that the plans meet city requirements. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is a full set of approved plans that coincide with the permit of an 8 unit condominium project,â&#x20AC;? Barros wrote in an email.

Barros described the 5301 building as containing â&#x20AC;&#x153;boutiqueâ&#x20AC;? units. Plans shared by neighbors depict the new building with its entrance on Jenifer Street, and two twobedroom units on each of four levels. The third and fourth levels will have balconies facing Jenifer, and the project also includes

two roof decks and four parking spaces off the back alley.

Neighbors had expressed alarm when they found documents suggesting that the developer of the projects was Jay Gulati, whose Maryland company was prominently featured in a 2015 WAMU series on code violations in renovated D.C. homes. According to Barros, Gulati sold 5301 and 5309 last year and has no remaining interest in the projects. Barros also said that the properties have different owners, though their LLCs are similarly named and the two projects are using the same contractor.

Neighbors urged the developer to follow

the example of condo projects on the same block and the one immediately to the south, which retained the original facades. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Please understand we do not oppose your decision to construct condo units on this once wellkept corner lot in Chevy Chase Terrace, but only ask that you seriously reconsider your plan to demolish 5301 Connecticut Avenue, and build something that respects the character and integrity of these houses and the neighborhood,â&#x20AC;? Moscarillo wrote.

Neighbors said the 5301 project is currently in the interior demolition stage. Barros said his client is â&#x20AC;&#x153;working to finish this project as soon as possible.â&#x20AC;?

SHELTER: Legislators, Bowser administration spar over cost of leasing proposed sites

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reset of the site selections. Atlarge Council member David Grosso asked Bowser officials to consider working with nonprofit developers rather than private, and said he did not have a lot of confidence in the deals the city made. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I need a lot more evidence that there was the due diligence done that needs to be done in this city when weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re spending the peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s money on something like this,â&#x20AC;?

Grosso told City Administrator Rashad Young toward the end of the hearing. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think that there needs to be some thought about whether or not there should be a re-negotiation or reopening of this

process to try and find other properties.â&#x20AC;?

Young responded that the administration is â&#x20AC;&#x153;trying to move as expeditiously as possibleâ&#x20AC;? to have the replacement shelters ready by hypothermia season in 2018. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not going to close D.C. General anytime soonâ&#x20AC;? if the site selection process is revisited, Young said, adding that there was never going to be a â&#x20AC;&#x153;rashâ&#x20AC;? of people eager to have a new homeless shelter in their neighborhood.

Aside for the sites in wards 7 and 8, which the District will own, the city plans to lease the land and shelters from the developers. Most will be 15-year leases with an option to extend them five more

years, including the Ward 3 site.

The Ward 1 shelter at 2105 10th St. NW would have a 30-year lease.

Mendelson said heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s concerned the city is â&#x20AC;&#x153;paying a lot of money for sites that we will not own and that will go away in 20 years.â&#x20AC;?

Officials defended the plan as standard practice, and explained that the prices reflect more than â&#x20AC;&#x153;merely the cost per room.â&#x20AC;? The prices also factor in costs associated with facility management, groundskeeping, amenities like community rooms and play spaces for children, and other services for the homeless. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I would like to note that the process we used to secure these

lease agreements is functionally no different from the process used in locating leased space for other District agency use,â&#x20AC;? said Chris Weaver, director of the Department of General Services, which manages the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s portfolio of buildings.

Other lingering concerns had to do with the zoning process. The zoning relief required to build 38 units for the Ward 3 shelter remains a concern for Council member Mary Cheh and nearby residents â&#x20AC;&#x201D; particularly as Bowser has submitted legislation calling for the council to support such exemptions before the Board of Zoning Adjustment, an independent panel.

Nancy MacWood, who serves

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Going forward, the city will host more community meetings on the plans over the next several months, Weaver said. He expects the city to share basic layout designs of the shelters with the public in April, which the design teams will later submit to the zoning board.

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METRO: Inspections find flaws From Page 1

talking about something thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an abject failure. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re talking about something that has been struggling and has not met the level of performance that we want.â&#x20AC;?

The most recent trouble for Metrorail came early in the morning of Monday, March 14, when a fire broke out in a tunnel just west of the McPherson Square station on the Blue, Orange and Silver lines. No one was injured because trains were not yet operating, but service was disrupted throughout the day. And officials quickly realized that the fire was caused by a fault similar to the January 2015 Yellow Line incident, in which one passenger died and dozens were hospitalized after their train was stranded in a smoke-filled tunnel.

General manager Paul Wiedefeld, who took over the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority late last fall, announced that Tuesday in the afternoon that the Metrorail system would be shut down the following day to allow for inspections and any necessary repairs. Metro crews had inspected the systemâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s jumper cables after the Yellow Line fire, but didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t catch the fault behind this monthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s incident. â&#x20AC;&#x153;While the risk to the public is very low, I cannot rule out a potential life safety issue here, and that is why we must take this action immediately,â&#x20AC;? Wiedefeld said in a news release announcing the closure. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When I say safety is our highest priority, I mean it.â&#x20AC;?

Sure enough, the re-inspection turned up 27 flaws among the systemâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 600 jumper cables, which carry power through gaps in the electrified third rail. In three places, including one where a cable was visibly torn, the problems were so severe that Metro would have stopped train service in those tunnels immediately upon learning of them, Wiedefeld said in a news conference last Wednesday.

Local elected officials generally praised Wiedefeldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s action to shut down the system, while decrying the current state of the transit agency. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The decision to completely close the Metrorail system was the unfortunate result

of decades of deferred maintenance and mismanagement,â&#x20AC;? Ward 2 Council member Jack Evans, the new chair of Metroâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s board of directors, said in a written statement to The Current.

D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton had harsher words. â&#x20AC;&#x153;No one wants to second guess a new general manager who shuts down the entire Metro system on a safety call, but that call sent a message that Metro is in even worse shape than most had believed,â&#x20AC;? Norton said in a news release. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Particularly considering that defects were found, the safety call may well have been necessary, but it can only yield another no confidence vote in Metro.â&#x20AC;?

Cheh took a more optimistic approach, praising Wiedefeldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s aggressive attitude toward safety.

She recalled that last year, she was riding the Red Line when her train had to bypass the Woodley Park station due to a smoke issue â&#x20AC;&#x201D; just weeks after the Yellow Line fatality. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t inspire confidence. What inspires confidence is when they say weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve found the problem, and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to go down there and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to fix it,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The general manager has shown rather dramatically that heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be on top of these situations and deal with them, and not let them linger.â&#x20AC;?

Various officials said that in the long term, the solution is more money for Metro. Cheh said she hopes the District, Maryland and Virginia will commit to a steady funding source for Metro â&#x20AC;&#x201D; for instance, a portion of sales taxes â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and that D.C. has a chance to set an example for its suburban neighbors. She also believes the money would be well-spent, expressing a higher level of confidence in Metroâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new management.

Norton agreed that stakeholders need to invest in improving Metrorail. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The parties that cannot operate without Metro â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the federal government, the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia â&#x20AC;&#x201D; have an obligation to the public to find their respective roles in quickly restoring confidence and reversing the downward spiral of Metro,â&#x20AC;? she said in the release.

D.C. leads on insurance signups The District is leading the nation in health insurance enrollment under the Affordable Care Act, according to a recent analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation.

The foundationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s study found that D.C. has enrolled the highest percentage of people in the nation â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 74 percent â&#x20AC;&#x201D; who are eligible for coverage through a health insurance marketplace under the Affordable Care Act, in this case the DC Health Link.

According to a release from the DC Health Benefit Exchange

Authority, approximately 211,760 people have come through the DC Health Link system since it first started operating in October 2013.

The figures show that 33,911 people have been selected for a private qualified health plan; 150,640 people have been found eligible for Medicaid; and 27,209 are covered through SHOP, which applies to employees of small businesses as well as U.S. Congress staffers.

More information on the analysis of health insurance trends is at tinyurl.com/kaiser-health.

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CLEANUP: Spring Valley investigations continue

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including arsenic and perchlorate.

Arsenic levels at two of the wells had declined compared to past levels, but were still higher than whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s allowed under drinking water standards; at the other wells, it was barely traceable. Perchlorate concentrations still exceeded drinking water standards in most wells, but had significant-

ly declined over the past five years except at a well near American University and Glenbrook Road NW, and at another near Sibley Memorial Hospital.

Officials noted that none of Spring Valleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s groundwater is currently used for drinking, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s already at safe levels for watering lawns and other purposes.

However, they said the goal is to eventually make the groundwater

meet drinking water standards.

Meanwhile, Dan Noble, who heads the Spring Valley cleanup efforts, reported that the Army was able to investigate a site in the 3700 block of Fordham Road NW after being denied entry for years.

While a magnetic survey indicated there could be up to 66 munitions-related items in the soil there, the Armyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s investigation uncovered nothing dangerous.

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A worthwhile shutdown

Shutting down the entire Metrorail system is a risky move — particularly on a weekday. It’s a great inconvenience to hundreds of thousands of commuters and other passengers, and a serious blow to the system’s dependability. And if you don’t find any safety hazards after closing for 24 hours, you could be accused of crying wolf.

But to new Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority general manager Paul Wiedefeld, keeping the system open was an even greater risk. And given the extent of the hazards found by inspection crews, we’re grateful that he took this unprecedented step, and that local officials stood behind him. Inspections revealed that Metro’s system included at least 27 trouble spots, three of which were severe hazards.

We’re heartened by the safety culture that Mr. Wiedefeld is bringing to Metro, and we believe that he may have already saved lives by preventing additional risky tunnel fires. At the very least, the repairs made during the system shutdown have solved problems that eventually would have manifested themselves without any warning, posing perhaps an even greater burden on riders than a scheduled shutdown.

However, like Mr. Wiedefeld, we hadn’t fully grasped just how far the once-glorious Metrorail system has been allowed to fall. We shouldn’t need to shut down Washington’s primary transit system on a busy weekday just to prevent the rails from catching fire. But we did.

We hope that under this new management, Metro can be put on the right path toward providing safe, reliable transportation.

That being said, Mr. Wiedefeld will need appropriate resources to bring Metrorail up to snuff. While some of the transit agency’s problems are the result of mismanagement — such as a galling failure to spend its allocated capital budget dollars — others boil down to the long-standing issue of inconsistent and inadequate funding sources.

We agree with Metro board chair Jack Evans (also the Ward 2 D.C. Council member) that the governments of the District, Maryland and Virginia must commit to consistent funding for the Metro system. And given the reliance on the system by the federal government — which doesn’t pay local taxes — a greater federal contribution is appropriate.

In the past, lawmakers have been reluctant to provide money to Metro due to its mismanagement. Mr. Wiedefeld has shown himself to be a capable manager; he has also laid bare Metro’s financial needs. The region relies on Metro, and it’s time the funding reflected that reality.

Autonomy win

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A D.C. Superior Court judge ruled Friday on the city’s Budget Autonomy Act — and the verdict is great news for the District.

Back in 2013, D.C. voters approved a charter amendment that removed the District’s budget from direct congressional oversight. The change made the local budget the equivalent of any other D.C. Council legislation: Congress can still act within 30 days to veto it, but members can’t hold the measure hostage or include their own amendments.

The budget autonomy charter amendment essentially exploited a loophole in the 1973 home rule law. This approach was challenged in court by then-Mayor Vincent Gray, who didn’t think the act was legal.

Although Mayor Muriel Bowser disagreed with her predecessor, independent D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine and Chief Financial Officer Jeffrey DeWitt continued pursuing the lawsuit.

But the case seems to have come to an end. Judge Brian Holeman’s ruling echoes the argument of DC Appleseed and DC Vote, the local groups that helped craft the budget autonomy measure. Judge Holeman concluded that the District acted lawfully in holding a referendum on a charter amendment, and submitting that amendment to Congress for the standard 30-day veto review — during which Congress didn’t act.

Mr. Racine said yesterday that he and Mr. DeWitt will not appeal the verdict, which is far more than a symbolic win for D.C. As long as it stands, the District will be free from “riders” that ban the mayor and council from spending local revenues as they please. The District will no longer have to adhere to federal shutdowns. And the District can choose to amend its fiscal calendar rather than just following the federal one.

Of course, this isn’t the last step in the battle for full and appropriate D.C. rights. Congress still has the power to reject locally approved bills, and District residents still lack voting representation in Congress. But this one important wrong has been put right. We would like to thank all the parties — the advocacy groups, Mayor Bowser and the council, and a host of pro bono attorneys — that worked hard to achieve this result.

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residential candidate and businessman Donald Trump came calling again on D.C. Monday.

More than four dozen reporters sat in chairs on the floor of Trump’s unfinished hotel at the Old Post Office Building.

It was different from previous visits.

The Secret Service is protecting him now. So reporters and their gear had to show up two hours before Trump’s news conference. It was pretty cold and pretty dusty for those of us suffering allergies or head colds.

The news conference was supposed to be about the Trump hotel that Trump says will open in the old 1100 Pennsylvania Ave. NW space in September. Trump — surprise! — praised his vision, the construction, the people involved, the extra-luxurious fixtures to expect, the shops and restaurants, the new ballroom and the several hundred ultra-luxury rooms and suites.

Then, no one asked about the hotel. No one.

And we were back to the presidential campaign for the next 40 minutes or so as Trump fielded endless questions. The only odd thing that occurred was when someone sitting with the media asked Trump for a job.

And it also was different this time because there were no city officials to welcome Trump to town. At the groundbreaking in 2014, Mayor Vincent Gray spoke on behalf of the city and Muriel Bowser, then representing Ward 4, spoke on behalf of the D.C. Council.

The big news for Trump this week was his appearance before a gathering of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee at the Verizon Center. Trump has said he would be a “neutral” person in the debate over the future of Israel and Palestine. However, Trump also has said, “There is no one more pro-Israel.”

For now, that’s a lot more serious of a subject to discuss than the finishing touches on his hotel.

■ LGBT issues. The Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance has been an active political group in the District since the early 1970s. Each election cycle, it does a candidate questionnaire, as do many other groups. But alliance president Rick Rosendall is known for putting together a strong questionnaire and disseminating the results.

Rosendall sent a letter to all candidates listed by the D.C. Board of Elections for the June 14 primary. (The deadline to submit qualifying petitions was last Wednesday.)

“GLAA will rate candidates based on your

record and signed answers on LGBT issues,” Rosendall wrote, “and we will publish your full questionnaire responses on our website along with your rating.”

Not every group that vets candidates publishes the results. It would be better if they did.

If you want to play candidate and consider the GLAA questions yourself, take a look at glaa.org/ archive/2016/cqprimary.pdf.

■ That’s all folks. The District and many other cities are enjoying a boom in population, in part because of the millennials choosing cities over suburbs.

The Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments recently said the District itself could see its population of 670,000 rising to nearly 1 million in 30 years.

But some other voices are being heard on this back-to-the-cities movement. It may be only a classic phase in population shifts.

The Atlantic’s CityLab recently reported on findings by Dowell Myers, a demography and urban planning professor at the University of Southern California. Myers suggests cities like the District have reached “peak millennial.” Yes, young people will continue to migrate to cities, but fewer will do so and more will leave for rediscovered suburbs.

Such population shifts have occurred any number of times, but it could come as a shock to cities that don’t plan to make themselves hospitable to aging millennials.

Myers presented his study at the University of Texas’ “City Forum.”

As Natalie Delgadillo wrote in CityLab: “All this could create problems for cities that view the most recent shift toward urban living as a given.

Housing could sit vacant and all the air could come out of the businesses that were built to cater to the young people living there. Many cities could suddenly find themselves scrambling to try to make up for population loss or attract people back into urban cores.”

The Myers study suggest cities begin planning now to remain attractive to aging millennials.

“Cities should be getting out ahead of this and thinking about what they can do,” CityLab quotes Myers as saying. “They need to invest in building more parks and increasing the availability of affordable childcare.”

The CityLab article and a link to the study can be found at tinyurl.com/citylab-millennials.

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

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Letters to the Editor Library renovations trim book capacity

Residents of Palisades and Cleveland Park who are painstakingly attending meetings on the renovation of their libraries may be surprised to learn this about the promised renovations: Along with all the genuine benefits of their new libraries (more computers, better meeting spaces, more light), they will also end up with fewer books.

A former employee of one of the branch libraries estimates that the system has gotten rid of no less than two-thirds of the books in their collections during renovations. Certainly, in the

new Chevy Chase mini-renovation, there are fewer books.

Spaces that used to contain shelves 6 feet high now have shelves 3 to 4 feet high, holding, of course, half as many books.

Aside from providing less space for books, this configuration requires adults to squat or bend over to find our books.

Why? Well, according to the same former employee, bad behavior in the stacks at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library resulted in a systemwide decree that the staff must be able to see into all areas of every library — despite the fact that there are few to no problems in the branch libraries, and the use of surveillance cameras is always available to avoid potential problems.

It also seems to be library

system policy not to own up to this trend. When I asked the librarian at Chevy Chase if there were in fact fewer books, she said she had not worked at the branch prior to the renovation, and so could not answer.

The librarians probably say that if a patron wants a book, he or she can request it online and have it sent to their local library.

This may be an excuse for buying fewer books because of reductions in the book budget. It is not an excuse for getting rid of serviceable books that the patrons enjoy.

Act now, Palisades and Cleveland Park residents!

Demand that the library system stop the decimation of our libraries!

Anne Chase Chevy Chase

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Businesses will benefit from paid family leave VIEWPOINT roger horowitz

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he debate over paid family and medical leave for people who live and work in the District has been reduced to â&#x20AC;&#x153;usâ&#x20AC;? vs. â&#x20AC;&#x153;them.â&#x20AC;? The â&#x20AC;&#x153;usâ&#x20AC;? is the 82 percent of D.C. residents who support paid leave, and the â&#x20AC;&#x153;themâ&#x20AC;? has been portrayed as a unified business community that believes the costs are too high, the benefits too generous, and the risk to the Districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s competitiveness too great.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m supposed to be one of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;them.â&#x20AC;? But Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not. I own Pleasant Pops, a D.C.-based small business that has grown from a stand at farmers markets to a food truck to two cafes, and I believe the District runs a far greater risk if the D.C. Council and mayor canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t come together to pass a strong paid leave bill now.

This is a fundamental question of what kind of city we want to be. D.C. has already been named the most expensive place in America to raise a family, and the cost of living here keeps getting higher. If we want to remain a thriving, economically diverse city â&#x20AC;&#x201D; as the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s capital should be â&#x20AC;&#x201D; we have to take care of the people who live and work here every day.

At Pleasant Pops, we invest in each of our employees. We pay a living wage, provide health care and paid sick leave, and promote from within.

We have succeeded because we hire great people and keep them.

But, given our size, we simply canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t offer our employees the ability to keep earning a living if they become seriously ill, welcome a new child or have to care for a loved one over an extended period of time. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to cut people loose when they need stability the most, and the bill before council would give me the opportunity to be the kind of boss I want to be, and at a reasonable cost.

Paid family and medical leave isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just an economic benefit to my employees; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s good for their overall health and well-being. They gain peace of mind from knowing an extended health crisis or family situation wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ruin them financially, which gives them the time to recover before returning to

Letters to the Editor Join protest against nursing home closure

We have heard from several people connected with Sidwell Friends School who are opposed to its purchase of the Washington Home and the displacement of elderly, hospice care and terminally ill patients there.

The D.C. Tenantsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Advocacy Coalition (TENAC) appreciates their understanding of that grossly unfair transaction and its negative impact on critical health care in the Washington community.

We applaud that kind of sympathetic sentiment confronting the proposed expansion coming from within Sidwell. It says plainly that money does not always have to win â&#x20AC;&#x201D; that sometimes community well-being trumps real estate deals.

work.

Studies show that employees with paid leave are more likely to return to their jobs once their crises have passed, controlling the costs of hiring and training a quality workforce. I would happily pay a little bit more each month to keep the people Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve already hired and trained, rather than paying a lot more to replace those workers over and over again.

Perhaps what separates me and my business from the corporate lobbyists and big-box executives fighting against paid leave is that this summer, my wife and I will welcome our first child. Because my wife is a federal employee without access to paid leave, we will need to live on my income and our savings, and I am anticipating the financial strain that comes when a family loses a significant portion of their income. I know that for many of my neighbors, it just isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t possible to fall back on one income or a savings cushion.

The original council bill proposed 16 weeks of paid leave. That has since been shortened to 12, but I hope council members will reconsider.

Sixteen weeks of paid leave means new parents have the time to bond with their child and adapt to their new lives without having to rush back to work; we know that children see better health and educational outcomes when they spend that early formative time with their parents. And, just as important, our parents, partners and relatives need our care when they become ill. People who face serious illnesses donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t deserve to be thrown out of their jobs and into poverty. Isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t paid leave in the best interest of the city?

The place we call home is really a tale of two cities. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Washington, where politics drives the day, and thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s D.C., where people live. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a long time since the rest of the nation looked to Washington for leadership, but with the Universal Paid Leave Act, D.C. has a chance to show how a city can take care of its residents and strengthen every business.

Mayor Muriel Bowser and the council have a real opportunity here. Paid leave is good for the District, good for its residents â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and, yes, good for business.

Roger Horowitz is the co-owner of Pleasant Pops, a D.C.-based small business.

It confirms our belief that there are many Quaker consciences lurking within Sidwell, coinciding with ours and the D.C. community at large that Sidwellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s takeover of the Washington Home is fundamentally wrong. There is no justification to displace acutely vulnerable patients at the Washington Home to benefit a privileged, affluent population, abundantly able to secure an alternative site for its expansion.

This classic conflict between the â&#x20AC;&#x153;havesâ&#x20AC;? and the â&#x20AC;&#x153;have-notsâ&#x20AC;? is truly ironic.

It is a gross juxtaposition of generational and economic needs â&#x20AC;&#x201D; of rich kids displacing the elderly poor. It is an eviction, plain and simple, afflicting more than 100 Medicaid patients, as well as many others undergoing hospice care. Must the terminally ill at the Washington Home speed up the â&#x20AC;&#x153;process of dyingâ&#x20AC;? to accommodate Sidwellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s takeover of the Washington Home in

2016? Evictions in this city, moreover, are the â&#x20AC;&#x153;royal roadâ&#x20AC;? to homelessness.

This sad tale calls to mind lines from Shakespeareâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;King Lear,â&#x20AC;? a tragedy involving conflict between the young and the old: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The oldest hath borne most.

We that are young shall / Never see so much, nor live so long.â&#x20AC;?

We at TENAC are soliciting the publicâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s help to protest this hurtful project. If you would like to join a planning committee to take action, contact us at tenacdc@yahoo.com or 202-3871893. As part of these efforts, we are planning a peaceful demonstration, most likely in front of Sidwell Friends, date to be announced. All are welcome to join. Please help us to rapidly form a committee to plan this event. Let us know, and watch for announcements at tenac.org Jim McGrath Chair, D.C. Tenantsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Advocacy Coalition

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Last week, Advisory Neighborhood Commission 3F passed a resolution supporting the principle of universal paid leave for employees in D.C. Such a program would allow qualified employees to take leave from work to deal with family or medical issues while still receiving a portion of their wages.

Like an insurance policy against the temporary loss of income, the program would fill an important gap in our social safety net. This is consistent with our societyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s values, but of course the devil is in the details.

The current proposal being discussed by the D.C. Council would shift the entire cost to employers, in the form of a 1 percent tax on wages. Businesses in our neighborhood are rightly concerned about the impact on their ability to operate, and ANC 3F agrees: A universal paid-leave program, important as it is, should not impose an undue burden on local businesses.

Avoiding such a burden may mean the cost would have to be shared among employers, employees and the D.C. government, or that benefits may need to be reduced. The final details will matter, but our goal is clear: Support our local employees without jeopardizing our local employers.

Malachy Nugent Chair, Advisory Neighborhood Commission 3F

Developers benefit under shelter plan

The Washington Postâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recent report on Mayor Muriel Bowserâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plan for the homeless [â&#x20AC;&#x153;Shelter plan may benefit mayorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s backers,â&#x20AC;? March 17] suggests that it smells bad, with her supporters standing to gain from the choice of sites for seven new family shelters. It does look as if there was no objective competitive bidding for the sites or any open, transparent way in which these sites or the plan itself was costed.

How could Ward 3 D.C. Council member Mary Cheh possibly support the spending of $400 million from D.C. taxpayers without this basic due diligence? Even worse, The Post also reports that the buildings that D.C. tax money will pay to construct will not be owned by D.C. and that the cost of an average apartment in these buildings as per the leases will be $4,500 per month, substantially higher than D.C. rentals.

The economics are simply so negatively stacked against these projects that it smells in a big way of lack of governance.

Shockingly, according to the Post article, all Ms. Cheh has to

say about it is that â&#x20AC;&#x153;this is a real concern. I am not sure what to do about it.â&#x20AC;? I would hope she was misquoted. If she was not, and if she indeed has no ideas about how to start righting the wrong in a serious case as this, she should consider resigning and tell people â&#x20AC;&#x201D; especially those of us who put our faith in her competence and integrity â&#x20AC;&#x201D; why she is doing so.

Ritha Khemani Woodley Park

Ward 3 shelter isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t appropriate for site

I live far enough away to not be very affected by the plan to build a homeless facility just north of Glover Park.

But my heart goes out to the folks near the planned site who relied on D.C.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s zoning laws when they made their decisions where to buy their homes and raise their families. The lot in question is zoned for three town homes and is now planned for a 38-family institutional complex with many government services provided on site.

The idea that our mayor would pull this off with no transparency is simply outrageous. Where is the Ward 3 D.C. Council member, Mary Cheh, on this?

Jim Connors Wesley Heights

Cyclists should obey District traffic laws

Proposals to allow bicyclists to blow through stop signs and red lights are extremely ill-advised.

Bikers are doing it already, and they make it very difficult and downright dangerous for D.C.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s many pedestrians. I know because I have been endangered by these two-wheel jerks too many times.

The gist of this very weak and selfish argument is that by obeying the law, cyclists will have to start and stop at most intersections and will have to pedal hard to get back up to speed. Isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t that too bad? I thought one of the many reasons for riding a bicycle was to get some exercise.

As a pedestrian, reformed cyclist and driver of a car, I think that it is the â&#x20AC;&#x153;affluenzaâ&#x20AC;? bicyclists â&#x20AC;&#x201D; who consider only their rights and their desires â&#x20AC;&#x201D; who are most in need of rules to control their out-of-control behavior.

The D.C. Council should be considering laws requiring bicycle owners to register their machines and display tags so they can be easily identified, and officials should encourage the Metropolitan Police Department to ticket and, if needed, impound the machines of cyclists who are flouting the laws.

I want to be able to walk, ride and drive in the city safely. One of the ways to achieve that goal is to rein in what I see as the â&#x20AC;&#x153;affluenzaâ&#x20AC;?-blinded cyclists.

Jerry Barrett Washington, D.C.

Washington Home merits council review

In February, my co-chair and I testified about The Washington Homeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s upcoming closure at the annual Department of Health oversight hearing before the D.C. Councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Committee on Health and Human Services. Given the seriousness of the issues raised, the committeeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chair, Ward 7 D.C. Council member Yvette Alexander, committed on the record to hold a committee roundtable solely on The Washington Homeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s closure. Subsequently, the committee scheduled a public roundtable for March 18.

Numerous family members, residents and friends of The Washington Home organized and prepared to testify. They bought plane tickets, took leave from work and arranged to have their families attended to in their absence. For Washington Home residents able to testify on their own behalf, they too had to prepare and find transportation for an exhausting trip. But we all were ready to do so for the opportunity to reveal the significant and continuing problems with the closure process and the crisis of long-term care in D.C. On March 15, just three days before the scheduled roundtable, we received an email from the committee saying that the hearing had been canceled. The sole reason proffered was Ms. Alexanderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s schedule. Neither the council member nor members of her staff have responded to our numerous messages to find out when the promised hearing would be rescheduled. No date â&#x20AC;&#x201D; nor even the renewed promise to hold a hearing â&#x20AC;&#x201D; has been proffered.

The occupancy rate for skilled care in the District is almost 100 percent. This affects not only Washington Home residents but any of our citizens who are in need of care. Currently, D.C. Medicaid pays for about 660 D.C. residents to be cared for in other jurisdictions â&#x20AC;&#x201D; at a cost of over $100,000 per resident per year â&#x20AC;&#x201D; because there is no room for them in the District. Half the homes in the District at present have zero bed availability. This is just a small snapshot of some of the problems faced by those who do or will need long-term care in D.C. And the Washington Home and the Department of Health want to sweep these concerns under the rug.

As citizens of the District, we are entitled to better from D.C. officials. With both the Democratic primary and general election fast approaching, we should all ask ourselves which of our elected representatives is finally going to take to heart the health, welfare and dignity of the Districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s voting seniors and others in need of long-term care.

Mary Mason Co-chair, Washington Home Family Council

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Pair of Northwest basketball stars earn coveted Gatorade honors

Princeton-bound Cathedral senior leaves her mark on the Close

Gonzaga junior is the city’s measuring stick despite his diminutive stature

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For three years, National Cathedral forward Isabella Alarie was the basketball team’s second option behind Marta Sniezek, who graduated in 2015 as the school’s alltime leading scorer.

At the start of this season, Alarie was given the keys to the Eagles as a leader and star on offense.

“I just had to really take it upon myself to pick up my teammates, and there were more times where I had to realize I had to score because it was my job on the team this year,” said Alarie. “When I had the ball, I would look for my teammates, but if I had an open lane or open shot, I knew I had to take that and take more shots than I would have in years past.”

That mindset change proved effective, with the senior delivering a dazzling final season at the Close while averaging double figures in both points and rebounds in every game. Her performance helped propel the Eagles deep into the Independent School League tournament and got the team into the D.C. State Athletic Association bracket.

The squad didn’t have any hardware to show for its efforts until March 10, though, when Gatorade named Alarie the District’s girls basketball player of the year.

“It means a lot to me, and it shows that hard work does pay off,” said Alarie. “Sometimes you can work hard all season and not receive an honor or a trophy. To be able to win this award and to show that I could work hard and achieve this amazing honor, it’s just something I’m proud of, and I’m thankful for my teammates for helping me get to this place.”

It’s the third straight year an Eagle has won the Gatorade award; Sniezek won it the previous two seasons.

Alarie’s honor also gives the Cathedral senior a rare edge at the dinner table over See Cathedral/Page 14

When Gonzaga’s basketball team walks into a gym, junior point guard Chris Lykes could be mistaken for one of the squad’s student managers, at just 5 feet 8 inches tall.

In a game that decidedly favors height, Lykes makes up for it in spades with his athleticism and a vertical jump that allows him to dunk.

The honors Lykes has won attest to his skills. After being named the Washington Catholic Athletic Conference player of the year last month, the guard snagged another prestigious title last Wednesday: D.C. Gatorade boys basketball player of the year.

“It’s always great to win individual awards,” said Lykes. “I’m happy and proud of myself. But I never could have done it without my teammates and coaching staff.”

Lykes joins a litany of Gonzaga hoop stars to capture the award over the past several years, including Bryant Crawford in 2015, Kris Jenkins in 2013 and 2012, Nate Britt in 2011, Tyler Thornton in 2010, Ian Hummer in 2009 and Max Kenyi in 2008.

“It’s a long list of guys who have been successful in Gonzaga’s program. It’s an honor to be part of that list,” said Lykes.

Serving as the Eagles’ go-to-guy this past season, Lykes averaged 22.0 points, 4.3 assists, 3.7 rebounds and 2.7 steals per game while guiding his team to a 24-10 record and deep playoff runs in the WCAC and D.C. State Athletic Association tournaments.

“Chris is a great leader,” Eagles coach Steve Turner said in a news release. “He leads by example as well as being vocal. He is the kid who will always outwork the guy in front of him. Being a small guy, he understands that a lot of times the cards are stacked against him, but he always finds a way to finish on top.”

Lykes doesn’t see his height as a disadSee Gonzaga/Page 14

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National Cathedral senior Isabella Alarie, far left, averaged double figures in both points and rebounds this season. Meanwhile, Gonzaga junior Chris Lykes, far right, won the coveted WCAC player of the year honor en route to winning the Gatorade trophy.

Wilson welcomes new girls lacrosse coach

By BRIAN KAPUR Current Staff Writer

Wilson’s girls lacrosse program has new leadership this season, with former NCAA player Jessica Zenzel taking over the head coaching job that was held last year by the school’s athletic director Mitch Gore.

“It’s exciting,” Zenzel said of her new role. “I hope to build the program and to make it a little stronger than it is currently.”

Zenzel played in college for Oswego State, a Division III school in upstate New York. After graduating, she took on an assistant coaching job at SUNY Broome Community College in Binghamton, N.Y.

At Wilson, she will be joined on the coaching staff by Grace Toy, who brings continuity to the sidelines after working as an assistant with Gore in 2015.

The new coach hopes to implement concepts that will allow the Tigers to thrive no matter what their opponent throws at them.

“If we can play up-tempo, I like to use the fast break,” Zenzel said.

“But if it’s not there, I’d like to slow it down and run some plays.”

The Tigers have already seen good results early when they turned a close first half in the D.C. Lacrosse Classic against School Without Walls on March 12 into a dominant 17-10 win.

Along with a new coach, the Tigers will also be working with a

new core of players after graduating a talented senior class.

“It’s a big transition. We lost a lot of seniors,” said Toy. “The team is readjusting, and a lot of the girls are playing in new positions.

It’s exciting because they have the natural skills — they just have to be confident in it.”

The team will be looking to seniors Laura Schwartz and Tosca DiBella for leadership.

“They’re strong defenders,” said Zenzel. “Our defense as a whole is strong. They lead the defense, and I’m excited to see that continue this year.”

In addition, the Tigers have a pair of skilled juniors in midfielder Mary Grace Arlotto and defendSee Wilson/Page 14

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In addition to achievement on the court, the Gatorade award also weighs academics and community service â&#x20AC;&#x201D; areas where Lykes has also excelled. The guard maintained a 3.28 GPA and has volunteered as a youth basketball instructor, as a peer tutor and for work with the National Foundation for Cancer Research.

On the court, the guard began proving his worth in his very first league game of his freshman season. The Eagles were playing against Bishop Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Connell, led by guard Melo Trimble, who now stars at the University of Maryland at College Park. During that game, Lykes was bold enough to make a play on Trimble â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a memorable moment that cemented his status as a budding star. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Melo was killing us, but he tried to drive and I remember stealing it from him,â&#x20AC;? Lykes recalled. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I used to look up to him in seventh and eighth grade. I wanted to be like him when I got

to the WCAC. He still killed us and we lost, but I remember that and it was big for me my freshman year.â&#x20AC;?

After dazzling the WCAC and local hoops scene with three great seasons, Lykes has drawn attention from major college hoops programs, beginning with an offer from the University of Miami last summer. Georgetown University followed suit with an offer midway through the season, and a litany of other universities have pursued him since, including Villanova, Notre Dame, Virginia Commonwealth, George Mason, George Washington, Dayton, La Salle, Santa Clara, Old Dominion, Hofstra and Tulane, among others. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always a good feeling when youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re getting something that you feel you deserve,â&#x20AC;? said Lykes, who is still contemplating his final decision. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s good to see your hard work paying off.â&#x20AC;?

Before Lykes takes his game to the next level, he has another year left at I Street, where he hopes to add more hardware to the Eaglesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; cupboard. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I want to win another WCAC championship and a state title, which I havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t done yet,â&#x20AC;? said Lykes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Those are the two big things I want to do before I graduate.â&#x20AC;?

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father Mark Alarie, who was a two-time all-Atlantic Coast Conference selection while starring at Duke until 1986. The elder Alarie was also an NBA player for the Denver Nuggets and the Washington Bullets.

But he was never a Gatorade player of the year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He was really excited and proud of me,â&#x20AC;? said Alarie. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He has a lot of awards, but I know he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have this one, so thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cool.â&#x20AC;?

The Cathedral senior, who stands at 6 feet 3 inches tall, played all over the floor depending on what the team needed. She was athletic enough to play point guard; she could also play on the wings as needed and then revert back into patrolling the post.

Her versatility led to a stellar stat line that would make NBA superstar Stephen Curry blush. Alarie averaged 28.3 points, 15.6 rebounds and 5.3 blocks per game. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She is one of the hardest workers I have ever coached,â&#x20AC;? Cathedral coach Brittany Mitch said in a news release. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She is a match-up nightmare for any opposing team and her ever evolving game makes her the most dynamic player in the area.â&#x20AC;?

Along with performance on the court, the Gatorade award also takes into account community ser-

vice. Alarie has been involved with several service projects, including volunteering locally with the Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s National Medical Center. In addition, she worked at Norwood School in Bethesda, Md., during the summer with the Horizons academic enrichment program, helping children from low-income families with math, reading and other subjects.

Gatorade also looks for academic excellence, and Alarie was just as effective in that area. She maintained a 3.49 GPA and has served as the president of the National Cathedral School Athletics Board.

As she prepares to suit up for Princeton University next year, Alarie has already started working toward earning playing time at the college level. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m super excited,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m spending the spring training and preparing for the college level.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m really looking forward to my new journey at Princeton. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m just really pumped to train hard for the next level.â&#x20AC;?

Alarie credits the staff at Cathedral for helping her reach this point. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m really grateful for my coaches and teachers at NCS,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Without them I wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have the opportunity to go to a highly ranked academic institution or to play basketball at that level. My coaches have really helped me get to this point.â&#x20AC;?

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er Perri Hollar.

The team will also be bolstered by freshman midfielder Chloe Turner, who comes to Wilson with previous lacrosse experience as

part of Winners Lacrosse, a program thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worked to grow the sport in the District. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m excited to see her progress over the next few seasons,â&#x20AC;? said Zenzel.

With their new coach and a mix

of veteran and new players, the Tigers hope to continue to grow their program and refine their skills in the 2016 season. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be back in action today when they host Brookewood from Kensington, Md., at 4:30 p.m.

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out that morning in response to the staff report the Historic Preservation Office released on Friday. The school also canceled its planned presentation Thursday to the Historic Preservation Review Board.

In an email to The Current, head of school Clayton Lewis said he’s disappointed with the staff report but eager to reach a compromise that Washington International can bring to the preservation board at a later date.

In reviewing the latest plans, Historic Preservation Office staffer Steve Callcott took issue with several details. In particular, Callcott says the appearance of the completed project from both inside and outside the campus on Macomb Street will be “daunting and alien” as currently designed, with a 215foot wall exceeding the footprint of any other structure along that street and in the neighborhood.

The proposed building would also extend onto the property’s northern woodland hillside, which

falls slightly within the portion of the Tregaron estate that’s protected from further development, in accordance with a 2006 cultural landscape plan the preservation board recognizes as established doctrine. In total, the school owns six acres of land on the Tregaron estate.

The Tregaron Conservancy, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving the estate, has previously weighed in with concerns the school’s planned expansion.

The organization’s executive director Lynn Parseghian told The Current she concurs with the historic preservation staff report and will review new designs when they’re presented. “We’re looking forward to the opportunity to working with the school as stewards,” Parseghian said.

The staff report also questions whether the school’s desire to blend the new building’s architecture with the surrounding structures is achievable on such a large scale. “This type of approach would be more effective and com-

patible if used on a far smaller structure, on a building with substantially greater variations in mass, height and wall plane, and in an area that is not so prominently visible from within and outside the landmark,” Callcott wrote.

ANC 3C member Nancy MacWood said in an interview that the latest plans are fairly similar to the previous iteration, with the biggest difference being the two-story proposed height instead of the original three. MacWood maintains concerns about the size and scope of the building project in relation to its neighbors in the Cleveland Park Historic District.

In particular, she said the proposed wall would impose an “aesthetic [that] is very different than the open woodland, wild garden meandering entrance up to the country estate that was planned and intended for that area.”

Aside from project’s problematic location, MacWood thinks the building’s contemporary design is attractive and has potential. She

wants to see the school consider moving more of its proposed new facilities underground, in an effort to minimize the visual impact.

Cleveland Park Historical Society executive director Carin Ruff told The Current that her organization’s Architectural Review Committee also supports the contemporary design and generally found the updated proposal to be a substantial improvement on the one from December. Ruff said community members continue to take issue with the impact on Macomb Street, though. “We heard a lot of unhappy neighbor comments about building something that would loom over the Macomb Street entrance,” she said.

Since the historical society supported the February proposal, Ruff said her organization hasn’t updated its opinion to respond to the staff report. Ruff said the committee will review any new plans that come forward.

MacWood said some stakeholders have objected to the school’s process of seeking com-

munity feedback once the plans are a “finished product,” rather than engaging in discussions earlier.

“I think they approached this project as the school might approach any project. The difference here is that they share the landmark with the conservancy, and it is a very significant landmark,” MacWood said. “I think the approach to trying to develop a new building on the site has to be done differently.”

Lewis said the school will continue to work toward solutions that satisfy the community and historic preservation concerns.

“The School hopes to convince the HPRB that it has been a very good steward of the historic Tregaron estate for many years, that its project involves far more than the construction of an addition to an existing non-contributing building, and that the design of the new construction is highly appropriate for and sensitive to the historic landscape and the Cleveland Park community,” Lewis wrote in an email.

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the Hyde-Addison student body for two school years beginning this fall. None of those options panned out, according to D.C. Public Schools chief operating officer Nathaniel Beers.

As a result, the school system has delayed the project start date until June 2017, when Hyde-Addison students can move into the Meyer campus, 2501 11th St. NW, for the two subsequent academic years. Meyer is currently serving as swing space for Duke Ellington School of the Arts during renovation of its campus, located just north of Georgetown in Burleith.

“The Meyer building will allow the use of an existing DCPS facility equipped with infrastructure, classrooms, administrative and support spaces,” Beers wrote in a letter to parents on March 11. “The building will be able to provide spaces for the entire Hyde-Addison program.”

Since that announcement, the HydeAddison School Improvement Team has sent several letters to city officials with objections to the plans. The team is calling for the long-delayed repairs to start this summer, speeding up the project timeline so that the swing space relocation would take place for only one year. They’ve also requested details about multiple swing space options for comparison purposes, and are expressing concerns about the viability of the Meyer option if the Ellington project isn’t finished in time.

“It is unacceptable to delay our construction and spring an unknown swing location upon our school and families without adequate and timely information,” the school improvement team’s March 21 letter reads.

Beers told The Current that he can’t commit to reducing the swing space duration from two years to one, but said the school system and the Department of General Services are looking at ways to minimize that time.

“We will continue to work with DGS and the construction partners to make sure that

we are analyzing the length of time that is needed for this project,” Beers said. “We all have the desire to get the kids back into a fully modernized space as soon as possible.”

In terms of the schedule, Beers said some interior repairs at Hyde-Addison will take place this summer, but work on the pipe and new addition can’t proceed until swing space is secured.

The school system is collecting comments on the proposed Meyer swing space through Friday, and plans to share that feedback with the community next month. The final decision on the swing space will come in May, according to Beers.

Beers described the Meyer campus as “the best option that we currently have,” but added that “if community members have other options that we need to explore, we certainly can explore those other options.”

Meanwhile, enrollment deadlines for next fall have left parents like Georgetown resident Kyle Yost unsure where to place his kids for the coming school year. Yost last year considered sending his daughter to a private or out-of-boundary school, but opted for pre-kindergarten at Hyde-Addison after hearing that its one-year renovation would start in 2016, with students remaining on campus.

Now Yost has to think about whether Hyde-Addison is suitable for the long term.

“There’s no appeal to having my kids spend an hour a day getting bused across the city,” Yost said. While he said he’ll keep his daughter at Hyde-Addison next year, he’s sending his 3-year-old soon to a private preschool in the fall while also contemplating a future move to the suburbs.

Yost said he believes the current facilities at Hyde-Addison aren’t adequate for his children and others.

“There’s no common space, there’s no gym, there’s no cafeteria,” Yost said. “When she’s in after-care, especially when the weather’s bad, I would say it’s not fine.” His daughter often comes home with minor injuries on her elbows and knees because

the most accessible playground facility is an asphalt blacktop, he said.

The subpar facilities continue to motivate school improvement team members like John Lever to demand expedited construction on the new building. Lever believes city agencies haven’t been transparent with the group, and doesn’t sympathize with their view that no feasible swing space options will be available for the coming school year.

“DCPS and DGS have done this behind closed doors without any regard to what it does to the community that we’ve been building for years,” Lever said. “We deserve a world-class elementary school just like every other part of the city, and we don’t need to be ignored right now.”

Yost and Lever separately expressed confusion about the decision to pass over the Ellington Field as a potential swing space location, given that many Hyde parents believe it to be the most desirable.

Burleith Citizens Association president Eric Langenbacher said several concerns about the Ellington Field option emerged when his group distributed a survey to Burleith and Hillandale residents. Respondents worried about the impacts of ongoing construction at the Ellington School and nearby MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, among other issues.

Langenbacher also noted that HydeAddison’s presence at the Ellington Field would disrupt operations of various other schools and organizations that already use the field for different purposes.

But Langenbacher stressed that the Burleith community supports Hyde-Addison and its modernization process.

“The people of Burleith are looking forward to joining the Hyde community once the modernization is complete,” Langenbacher said. “The people of Burleith would love to look for another appropriate option.”

Beers told The Current that using the field would disrupt traffic flow, and that the field’s layout wouldn’t easily accommodate trailers or adequate parking.

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The project will add classroom space to the school at 3219 O St. NW.

Georgetown advisory neighborhood commissioner Jeffrey Jones said he wants to see the school system commit to completing some of the most urgent repairs this summer. Otherwise, he told The Current, the Hyde-Addison community as it currently exists could be threatened.

Beers said the school system is keeping close tabs on the Ellington renovation, now scheduled to wrap up in June 2017, and believes his team will have enough time to change course if that project hits unexpected roadblocks.

School improvement team member Christine Churchill also said that transparency continues to be a major issue. Parents haven’t met with school system officials since the March 11 announcement, and Churchill thinks that needs to happen soon.

“We have sent so many emails, so many letters, phone calls, trying to get someone in a position where they can actually have a back-and-forth conversation with us and some kind of troubleshooting, and they haven’t done that yet,” Churchill said.

Beers said a meeting with parents and the Hyde-Addison principal is planned after next week’s spring break.

“We certainly don’t want families to feel like they need to leave DCPS, and [we] want to continue to work together to make sure that they understand the huge commitment to making the space right at HydeAddison,” Beers said. “We understand that the community has lived with inadequate space. We are committed to finishing that project. I would hope that people would see we’re still making that commitment.”

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Northwest Real Estate BUSINESSES: Startup smartphone app Spotluck connects customers to local restaurants

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“spots,” and the aspect of luck involved in any of the app’s spins.

Once he realized that his thesis idea had real-world potential, Thomas met his business partner through his wife: corporate attorney Brad Sayler, who serves as chief financial officer for Spotluck. The company makes $1 each time a customer uses the app at a participating business.

A couple of years ago, using Thomas’ basement as their office, the pair started reaching out to restaurants in the D.C. area. Practically before Thomas’ eyes, the company started to grow, attracting new businesses and more neighborhoods to its repertoire.

Restaurant owners were eager to participate. “It’s definitely spread like crazy,” Thomas said.

Tom Bindley serves as general manager for one participant, Cop-

pi’s Organic Restaurant at 3321 Connecticut Ave. NW in Cleveland Park, and co-owner of another, Duffy’s Irish Pub at 2106 Vermont Ave. NW near U Street. A handful of customers each night come because of Spotluck, he estimates.

“As part of a composite strategy, where it’s pretty low-drag for us and cost-effective, we notice that we’ll get that extra handful on weeknights or on weekends,” Bindley said. “It’s noticeable. It’s certainly not overwhelming. But it’s just a steady, nice, noticeable blip in customers who are trying the restaurant.”

Bindley signed Coppi’s onto the service in February 2015, just three months after the restaurant opened in its new Cleveland Park location. He likes that he doesn’t have to do much to keep the app working, and that he can turn it off when his restaurant is full of cus-

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Spotluck’s local, independent business model also made for a good match with his family-owned restaurant service, he said.

“Our philosophies just lined up extremely well,” Bindley said.

“They’re also very nice and easy to work with.”

The local focus is an emphasis for Thomas, who thinks it’s the key to Spotluck’s success. He speculates that most of its users like the app because it helps them find local restaurants they wouldn’t otherwise know about.

“I’d argue that if you polled the next 300 people you saw, ‘Would you rather go to Olive Garden or a local Italian restaurant?,’ the chances are they’d prefer local,” Thomas said.

He believes the brand could expand to other major cities around the world, where customers are just as uncertain about which local restaurants to visit.

The Spotluck app is always being updated, recently adding a feature that allows customers to send reviews directly to the restaurant owner, using GPS verification to show they actually visited.

Thomas recognizes that much hard work lies ahead as he expands Spotluck, but he thinks the payoff will be worth it. “If it was easy, everybody would do it,” he said.

Area hardware stores open

Adams Morgan Ace Hardware opened for business this month in the former Ontario Theatre at 1704 Columbia Road NW, with grand opening festivities scheduled for this summer.

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The opening marks the 11th location for A Few Cool Hardware Stores, a local chain owned by Gina Schaefer and Marc Friedman. The new 5,000-square-foot store offers thousands of hardware products including paint, housewares and lawn and garden items, many of which are produced by local D.C. artisans, according to a news release.

“We have wanted to be in Adams Morgan for many years now,” Schaefer said in the release, “so opening in such an iconic location is very exciting for us.”

Meanwhile, the chain’s Glover Park Hardware reopened on March 4 at its new location, 2233 Wisconsin Ave. NW. The original location, a few doors away at 2251 Wisconsin, closed in January 2015 after losing its lease, and the new store’s opening was delayed several times while the owners secured the proper permits.

Schaefer told The Current she’s excited to bring the store back to Glover Park at long last. “The store is great — my team is so happy to be seeing the old (previous) customers come back in,” Schaefer wrote in an email.

In addition to the Adams Morgan and Glover Park stores, four of the chain’s other locations are in D.C.: Logan Hardware, 1734 14th St. NW; Tenleytown Ace Hardware, 4500 Wisconsin Ave. NW; Woodley Park Ace Hardware, 2616 Connecticut Ave. NW; and 5th Street Ace Hardware, 1055 5th St. NW. The chain also has three locations in Baltimore, one in Alexandria, and one in Takoma Park, Md.

Restaurant opening delayed

The reopening date for Thai eatery Bangkok Joe’s has been delayed, according to spokesperson Danielle Tergis. Unforeseen construction issues have set the date back an unspecified number of weeks from its planned opening at the end of March.

The reopening will mark the return of a popular Georgetown spot, which closed in 2014 when co-owner Aulie Bunyarataphan thought the neighborhood might like a new Southeast Asian bistro concept instead. That restaurant, Mama Rouge, occupied the same space in Georgetown’s Washington Harbour, 3000 K St. NW, but didn’t attract the same demand, and Bunyarataphan decided last year to revive Bangkok Joe’s.

Popular features like the Dumpling Bar and the Not Your Ordinary Joe’s entree menu will return, and the restaurant’s look will receive a modern upgrade.

Middle C owner honored

Myrna Sislen, the owner of the Middle C Music store in Tenleytown, has been named to the board of directors for the National Association of Music Merchants.

The 115-year-old association represents 9,000 members across the globe. A news release notes that Sislen was active with the group’s recent lobbying for Congress to pass the “Every Student Succeeds Act,” which expands access to music and the arts.

Sislen, a classical guitarist and retired George Washington University professor, took over Middle C Music in 2002, saving the store at 4350 Wisconsin Ave. NW from closure. Known as the last full-service music store in the District, Middle C provides instruments for sale and rent, along with music lessons and camps.

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A Look at the Market in Northwest Washington

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after 45 years in northern Dupont Circle. Some good news: After a few years of construction, the brand-new Anna Maria Residences is opening its doors to those seeking penthouse condominium living with all the modern comforts, in a building that still retains its iconic facade.

The building was originally designed in 1905 by Thomas Franklin Schneider, who also designed the Arts and Industries Building on the National Mall as well the Cairo residential building in Dupont, which sparked the D.C. height limit debate.

At 1737 Connecticut Ave. NW, Penthouse 502 occupies half of the fifth floor and all of the sixth, offering two bedrooms, two-anda-half baths, two balconies and a rooftop terrace deck. The unit, which is accessible via a key-coded elevator, is coming onto the market for $1,575,000. A onebedroom condo on the third floor in this four-unit building is also available for $575,000.

The penthouse unit is high enough to overlook the whole

neighborhood, with views unobstructed by the shorter neighboring buildings. The front door opens onto the living level, which houses the master suite, a second bedroom and full bathroom on the hall, and a coat closet that conceals the laundry room with Bosch high-efficiency stacked washer and dryer.

The unit boasts mahogany hardwood floors and mahogany panel doors on this floor and throughout. The first-level bathrooms are finished with travertine marble cut and set into varied designs â&#x20AC;&#x201D; from the floor-to-ceiling square tiles in straight and diamond patterns in the hall bathroom, to the zigzagging rectangles of the master bathroom floor and the basket-weave shower stall floor. The sinks feature white porcelain farmhouse basins with granite tops and dark wood cabinetry.

The master bedroom offers dual closets and windows on the southeast and northeast sides. The second bedroom enjoys an equal amount of light, streaming in through northeast- and northwestfacing balcony doors and windows. The two rooms share access to a Trex balcony overlooking Dupont Circle, with water spigot for gardening.

Indoors, mahogany steps lead up to the second level â&#x20AC;&#x201D; with a landing between, accented by

glass bookshelves. Immediately at the top of the stairs, a wall of glass and a swinging glass door afford a view onto a 122-squarefoot Trex rooftop terrace.

Spacious enough to serve as an outdoor living room, the L-shaped terrace comes with a gas grill hookup already installed.

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Bannockburn Estates. Exquisite 5 BR, 4.5 BA home on almost 1/2 acre lot. Fabulous kit, breakfast & family rooms. Gracious LR, DR & library. Fin. LL. Heated 2 car garage. $1,789,000

Ellen Sandler 202-255-5007 Susan Berger 202-255-5006

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This two-bedroom penthouse in Dupont is priced at $1,575,000. reprises the travertine and granite of the lower-level bathrooms, with a ribbon of mosaic tile at waist height.

The Anna Maria Residences are ideally located for a short commute to any area of the city via Connecticut Avenue or the Dupont Circle Metro station two blocks away. The first floor of the building houses a popular bar, Board Room Games and Brews.

Shops, restaurants, bars, gourmet markets, yoga studios, galleries and the Phillips Collection art museum are all steps away from the front door. The penthouse unit is perfect for a couple or small family looking for an on-the-go

lifestyle in a lively, sought-after area.

Despite its proximity to all the action, the owners wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hurt for parking, since the seller is offering credit for a year of parking in a nearby garage. The monthly condo fee is assessed at $740.

The two bedroom, two-and-ahalf-bath condo at 1737 Connecticut Ave., NW, Unit 502, is listed for $1,575,000 by Evers & Co. Real Estate Inc. For details, contact Melissa Chen at 202-7441235 or mchen@eversco.com; Andrea Evers at 202-550-8934 or aevers@eversco.com; or Bren Lizzio at 202-669-4999 or blizzio@eversco.com.

Elegant Spaces

Chevy Chase, MD. Dramatic & elegant home w/loads of natural light. 4 BRs, 2 BAs. Wonderful no thru street in the Village of Drummond. Expansive grounds - a gardenerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s delight. $1,675,000

Eric Murtagh 301-652-8971

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Town of Chevy Chase. Amazing location within an easy stroll to dwntwn Bethesda & Metro. 5+ BRs, 5.5 BAs on 4 finished levels. Impressive dimensions. Att. 2 car garage. Gorgeous 9,000 sf ft lot. Walk score 95! $1,795,000

Eric Murtagh 301-652-8971

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Pat Lore 301-908-1242 Ted Beverley 301-728-4338

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Logan Circle. Light flooded 2 BR, 2 BA duplex in the heart of Logan. Open floor plan, kit w/ SS, large MBR w/walk in closet. W/D. Parking included. $625,000.

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The commission will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 6. The location has not been determined.

For details, call 202-957-1999 or visit anc3d.org.

ANC 3E ANC 3E Tenleytown â&#x2013; american university park American University Park friendship heights / tenleytown The commission will meet at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 14, in Claudio Grossman Hall at the Washington College of Law, American University, 4300 Nebraska Ave. NW. For details, visit anc3e.org.

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The commission will meet at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 19, at Forest Hills of DC, 4901 Connecticut Ave. NW. For details, call 202-670-7262 or visit anc3f.com.

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At the commissionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s March 14 meeting: â&#x2013; commission chair Randy Speck reported that voters whose polling place is normally located at Lafayette Elementary School will likely use St. Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s College High School, 2607 Military Road NW, until renovations are complete at Lafayette. He recommended that residents instead take advantage of early voting at the Chevy Chase

Chevy Chase Citizens Association

Last week, our association teamed up with the Northwest Neighbors Village organization to present a program on how to avoid scams and consumer frauds, especially those aimed at senior citizens, and how to enhance your home security.

Philip Rogers, former U.S. Air Force chief of disaster preparedness, urged homeowners to make sure their property can be accessed by first responders. Make sure that your house number can be read after dark and that you have safe steps that are not blocked by shrubs or flowerpots. In the house, use surge protectors if more than one appliance is connected to an outlet, and have smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors on each floor, he said.

Kim Cauthen, director of senior adult programs for the Washington DC Jewish Community Center, warned about financial scams.

If you are told that you have won a lottery but you must first pay the caller taxes, that is a fraud. If you are concerned that a neighbor or friend living in D.C. has fallen for a scam, call the Districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Adult Protective Services office at 202-541-3950. If one family member is giving money to a friend or relative, it may not be obvious whether exploitation is occurring.

Community Center, 5601 Connecticut Ave. NW. â&#x2013; commissioner Carolyn Cook announced that the D.C. Office on Aging will participate in a town hall meeting on senior issues in the community, scheduled for March 24 from 12:30 to 2 p.m. at the Chevy Chase Community Center. The meeting will also feature representatives of Northwest Neighbors Village and Club 60+, she said. â&#x2013; Metropolitan Police Department Lt. Alan Hill discussed crime

Philip Ziperman of the D.C. Attorney Generalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office discussed his agencyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new consumer protection unit. You can report problems to a consumer protection hotline, 202-442-9898. Use the â&#x20AC;&#x153;do not callâ&#x20AC;? service or an app called Nomorobo to block unwanted phone calls. Check contractors to make sure they are licensed, never pay the full price in advance and beware of those with â&#x20AC;&#x153;hard sells.â&#x20AC;? Check with your doctor about supplemental health insurance offers and use credit cards for transactions generally so that the card company covers your losses.

Bruce Maliken of Up and Running Computer Services warned of viruses, spyware or malware that can wreak havoc with your computer or cellphone; there are programs available to reduce the risk. Do not give personal information on the phone to people claiming to be from Microsoft. Shut down your computer when you arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t using it, and back it up frequently, he advised.

The last word was offered by Rogers: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Always use and trust your common sense.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Anne Mascolino

Shepherd Park Citizens Association

Well, spring is here! A week of warm weather and some annoying snowflakes accompanied even more color around the

trends in the Chevy Chase area and fielded questions from the community. He said the main crime problem facing the neighborhood is thefts of valuables left in parked cars, and he urged residents to report even minor crimes so the department knows where to allocate its resources. â&#x2013; commissioners voted 5-0, with Rebecca Maydak and Chanda Tuck-Garfield absent, to support residentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; request for curbs in the 3900 block of Northampton Street NW.

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Shepherd Park community. Many residents, however, were glued to their computers watching the two eaglets hatching at the National Arboretum. The webcam â&#x20AC;&#x201D; sponsored by the American Eagle Foundation and the National Arboretum, and available at eagles.org/dceaglecam â&#x20AC;&#x201D; continues to carry the busy parenting of the two eaglets by Mr. President and the First Lady. Other Shepherd Park residents have taken periodic looks at the National Zooâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Panda Cam to check on Bei Beiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first spring frolics.

More hardy folks have taken to the trails of Rock Creek Park in hopes of observing the bird, fox, coyote, raccoon and deer population. Some neighbors have reported printing out the National Park Service Master Bird Checklist so they can record if they see any of 150 different birds, of which 30 are common in Rock Creek Park. This is a wonderful family activity.

For those who are more into flora, there are the cherry blossoms, predicted to peak today or tomorrow. You can walk the Shepherd Park community and see plenty of these lovely trees. If you enjoy mixing cherry blossom beauty with people-watching, take the Metro down to the Tidal Basin this weekend and see both. Enjoy! â&#x20AC;&#x201D; June Confer

â&#x2013; commissioners voted 5-0 to oppose an application for a public space permit for paving and landscaping at 5105 Connecticut Ave. NW, until the property owner works out an easement or other mutually satisfactory solution that would allow next-door residents at 5103 Connecticut to have a rear parking pad.

The residents of 5103 had sought a driveway exiting onto Nebraska Avenue NW, but the application was denied due to safety concerns. Commissioners said an easement to allow 5103 residents to drive their cars across a few feet of 5105â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s property to access a parking pad on their own property would be a neighborly solution to the issue.

The developers of 5105 said they have already sold one of the condo units at their building, which would make it complicated and potentially costly to grant an easement. â&#x2013; D.C. Department of Public Works director Christopher Shorter and other agency representatives discussed the departmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s functions and the handling of Januaryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s blizzard. Commissioners encouraged Shorter to improve the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s snow map, which shows which streets have been plowed, by including GPS tracking devices on contractorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; vehicles in addition to the agencyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own fleet. â&#x2013; commissioners discussed cosponsoring a D.C. Council candidates forum for the Ward 4 and at-large races, which would likely be held in late May at St. Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s College High School, with the Chevy Chase and Shepherd Park citizens associations joining as cosponsors.

The commission will meet at 7 p.m. Monday, March 28, at the

Chevy Chase Community Center, Connecticut Avenue and McKinley Street NW. Agenda items include: â&#x2013; announcements. â&#x2013; presentation by the D.C. Water and Sewer Authority on its plans for water and sewer pipe improvements for the Pinehurst Tributary, with additional comments by the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club. â&#x2013; discussion of plans for renovation and historic preservation of the Chevy Chase bus turnaround. â&#x2013; presentation by DC for Democracy about needed support for the Citizens Fair Election Act of 2015, a campaign finance reform bill, and possible vote on a resolution on the subject. â&#x2013; discussion of and possible vote on a public space application at 3214 Chestnut St. NW regarding a curb cut for a new driveway.

For details, call 202-363-5803, email chevychaseanc3@verizon. net or visit anc3g.org.

ANC 4A ANC 4A Colonial Village â&#x2013; colonial village / crestwood Shepherd Park Shepherd Park / brightwood Crestwood 16th street heights The commission will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 5, at Fort Stevens Recreation Center, 1300 Van Buren St. NW. For details, call 202-450-6225 or visit anc4a.org.

ANC 4C ANC 4c Street Heights Petworth/16th

â&#x2013; petworth/16th Street Heights

The commission will meet at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 13, in the lower-level community meeting room at the Petworth Library, 4200 Kansas Ave. NW. For details, call 202-723-6670 or visit anc4c.org.

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Spotlight on SchoolS Annunciation Catholic School

This semester in the sixth grade at Annunciation, we are learning about ancient India, including Buddhism and Hinduism. Siddhartha Gautama, also known as the Buddha, practiced Buddhism. He began practicing Buddhism when he saw all the poor people in the cities in India and believed suffering was a part of life. He gave up his life as prince and lived a life of poverty.

Hinduism is a religion that believes in one supreme god and many deities. Hindus believe in reincarnation, which means when you die, you come back to life.

When you die, karma decides who or what you will be in your next life. Back in ancient times, Buddhism was more popular than Hinduism in India. But today, Hinduism is practiced more.

— Felemon Abebu, Dimas Nugroho and Ignacio Toro, sixth-graders

Eaton Elementary School

On March 2, we had our first Ford’s Theatre Oratory Contest at Eaton. Fifth-graders gave speeches to students, teachers, parents and guest judges.

As part of social studies, fifthgraders had to find or write a speech about changing the world for the better. Mr. Parodi, our social studies teacher, shared a quote by James Baldwin — “The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in” — to use as inspiration. We memorized a twominute portion of our speeches and presented them to our classes.

Students could also enter the big contest on March 2.

A teaching artist from Ford’s Theatre, Ms. Jones, came to our school multiple times to help us prepare for the contest. She helped us with our voices by working on pace, volume, emphasis, diction and tone. She also gave us physical tips for posture, gestures and eye contact. Ms. Jones’ assistance really improved our performances.

On the day of the big contest, everybody was nervous at first.

Most kids said that once they started their speeches, their nerves left them. Everyone’s hard work really showed and paid off because the audience was very impressed. The judges scored the speeches. They said the scores were very close. In the end, we had two winners: Aniah Gagliano and Sydney Smith. They will go to Ford’s Theatre and present their speeches with winners from other schools. Good luck!

— Sophia Bergfalk, Nadia Blankenship and Talia Ehrenberg, fifth-graders

Hyde-Addison Elementary School

Do you know what the HydeAddison third-graders are doing

School DISPATCHES in reading, writing, math and science? In reading class with the great teacher Mr. Gardner we are learning about animal species and how that animal lives in the climate it’s in, and other things we would want to learn about it.

In writing we are publishing our persuasive speeches. We are chosen to go learn about a problem and we have to give a speech about whether we should do that thing or not. For example, I’m writing about why we should not harm animals for no reason other than taking their pelt, which is known as fur or skin.

With our math teacher Ms. Dierolf we are learning about number lines, and she says that when we learn more about number lines she will teach us how to divide and multiply with the fractions we have learned in the past months.

We are starting a science unit with our teacher in training, Ms. Bane. She is teaching us about how to keep track of weather.

Finally, we are raising money for our sister school and for big cats in Tanzania! The class that raises the most money will throw a pie at their teacher’s face!

— Elise Attiogbe, third-grader

Key Elementary School

Week before last, our parents, teachers and friends of Key celebrated the Key School auction, our PTA’s biggest fundraiser of the year. “Apres Ski” was the theme. It was held in the school gym and people really enjoyed themselves. It was a big hit. So many stepped up and donated fun and interesting items and their time so it could be successful.

My dad was the DJ. I begged him to come see it before it happened. I thought it was unfair that kids weren’t allowed to come to the auction. My friend Bella and I were the only kids to come.

When you walked in there was a place to check your skis. There was a foot of fake snow; at least that’s what it felt like. Then there was a banquet hall with all sorts of ski posters on the wall. Soon you would enter the gym but it didn’t look at all like my gym anymore. It was beautiful. There were white tablecloths with blue napkins and blue flowers. It was very nice in the gym. There was a handmade ski lift. Also there was a cute bar with bartenders.

“The auction was very successful, especially since we only had five months to prepare it!” said auction co-chair Bernadette Hellmann. A great time was had by all.

— Annabelle Baer and Sofia Turley, second-graders

Maret School

Grandparents and Special Friends Day was on March 11. It

is a day when guests come to Maret lower school to spend time with us, explore Maret and watch a concert. It is a time to show our guests around the school to help them see what we learn in different classes.

In first grade, we went to art with our guests. We made inside/ out pictures using two different colored papers. When we were done, some of us took our guests to see still-life flower pictures we made earlier. They had a vase, a favorite landscape and flowers.

Then we came back to the classroom and played Mad Libs. Earlier in the week we learned about nouns, adjectives and verbs.

There are different kinds of Mad Libs that we played: “Summer Vacation,” “A Trip to the Park” and “Spring Garden.”

We also introduced our guests.

We then walked upstairs to the theater and watched a slideshow.

We sang “Honey Bees,” “Papaya” and “What a Wonderful World.”

It was a great day because we could spend time with our guests!

— Ms. Sudheendran’s first-graders

Our Lady of Victory School

My favorite thing about St. Patrick’s Day is the leprechauns.

They are small (3 inches high), but they manage to make lots of mischief at my school! My classmates and I built leprechaun traps to try to catch one. For my trap, I made a ladder out of toothpicks and taped it to the side of a tissue box. Then I put a slide on the other side of the box that I made out of a wooden doll stand. I also covered the hole at the top of the tissue box with a piece of aluminum foil (everyone knows lepre-

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Wilson High School students presented Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The show utilized the school’s Black Box Theatre, with the audience seated around the performance rather than looking toward a traditional stage. In this scene, Zachary Nachbar-Seckel plays Hamlet, while Teo Topa and Charlie Caspari portray Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, respectively.

chauns like shiny things). This was my plan: The leprechaun would climb up the ladder and then fall through the trapdoor and into my trap! But he would not be scared because I put a tiny “Welcome” sign on the side of the box. I also cut some grass out of green paper for the bottom, so he would have a soft landing.

On St. Patrick’s Day, my classmates and I put our traps in our classroom and when we got back from lunch the leprechaun had been there! We followed his trail of glitter up the stairs, down the hallway and into our classroom.

He had thrown glitter all over our desks and played with all our See Dispatches/Page 30

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Wednesday march 23 Concerts â&#x2013; American folk songwriter Alastair Moock will perform on a double bill with jazz musician and composer Colleen Clark. 6 p.m. Free. Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600. â&#x2013; Union of the Sun & Moon will perform, at 7:30 p.m.; and Stripmall Ballads will perform, at 10 p.m. Free.

Gypsy Sallyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Vinyl Lounge, 3401 K St. NW. gypsysallys.com. â&#x2013; South African singer, songwriter and dancer Johnny Clegg will perform a blend of Western pop and African Zulu rhythms. 8 p.m. $35 to $45. Lisner Auditorium, George Washington University, 730 21st St. NW. 202-994-6800. â&#x2013; Rising Appalachia and Soul Inscribed will perform. 8 p.m. $15 to $18. Gypsy Sallyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, 3401 K St. NW. gypsysallys.com.

Discussions and lectures â&#x2013; Dr. Sheldon Rubenfeld, clinical professor of medicine at the Baylor College of Medicine and visiting professor at Rice University, will discuss â&#x20AC;&#x153;Medicine After the Holocaust.â&#x20AC;? 5 p.m.

Free; reservations required. Room SW107, Medical and Dental Building, Georgetown University Medical Center, 3900 Reservoir Road NW. marti.patchell@georgetown.edu. â&#x2013; Sergio Waisman, professor of Spanish and Latin American literature at George Washington University, will discuss â&#x20AC;&#x153;Murder and Mystery in Argentina: Translations and Cross-Cultural Conversations.â&#x20AC;? 5 p.m. Free. Room 702, Gelman Library, George Washington University, 2130 H St. NW. calendar.gwu.edu. â&#x2013; The West End Library Friends will present a discussion series with George-

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Events Entertainment town University professorial lecturer Ori Z. Soltes on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Faces of War in Western Literature,â&#x20AC;? featuring a lecture on Stephen Craneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Red Badge of Courage.â&#x20AC;? 6:30 p.m. Free. West End Interim Library, 2522 Virginia Ave. NW. 202724-8707. The series will continue April 20 and May 18. â&#x2013; Steve Olson will discuss his book â&#x20AC;&#x153;Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens.â&#x20AC;? 6:30 p.m. Free. Kramerbooks & Afterwords, 1517 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-387-1400. â&#x2013; The World Affairs Council will present a book talk by Gen. Michael Hayden, former director of the National Security Agency and Central Intelligence Agency, author of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror.â&#x20AC;? 6:30 to 8 p.m. Free; reservations required. Horizon Ballroom, Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. worldaffairsdc.org. â&#x2013; Swedish journalist and author Ingrid Carlberg will discuss her book â&#x20AC;&#x153;Raoul Wallenberg: The Biographyâ&#x20AC;? in conversation with Steve Roberts, professor of politics and journalism at George Washington University. 6:45 to 8:45 p.m. $20 to $30. S. Dillon Ripley Center, 1100 Jefferson Drive SW. 202-6333030. â&#x2013; Elaine Showalter, professor emeritus of English at Princeton University, will discuss her book â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe: A Biography.â&#x20AC;? 7 p.m.

Free. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919. â&#x2013; Local author Marione Ingram will discuss her book â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Hands of Peace,â&#x20AC;? her eyewitness accounts of Nazi Germany and Jim Crow United States. 7 p.m.

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

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;English Country Danceâ&#x20AC;? class in preparation for the Sparkling Spring Ball. 7 to 9 p.m. $10 to $25; reservations required. Dumbarton House, 2715 Q St. NW. 202-337-2288. Another class will be offered March 31. â&#x2013; A weekly Introduction to Flamenco class will feature an intense, full-body warmup followed by a lesson in basic flamenco technique and choreography.

7 to 8:15 p.m. $20 per session. Chevy Chase Baptist Church, 5671 Western Ave. NW. azulojos@gmail.com.

â&#x2013; Lauren Ellen Scott will discuss her novel â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Juliet,â&#x20AC;? and Art Taylor will discuss his story collection â&#x20AC;&#x153;On the Road With Del & Louise.â&#x20AC;? 7 p.m. Free. Upshur Street Books, 827 Upshur St. NW. upshurstreetbooks.com.

Films â&#x2013; As part of the Environmental Film Festival in the Nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Capital, the Carnegie Institution for Science will present â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ice and the Sky,â&#x20AC;? about Claude Loriusâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; return at the age of 82 to the Antarctic ice fields where he discovered the effects of climate change in the 1950s. A discussion with director Luc Jacquet will follow.

7 p.m. $10; reservations required. Root Auditorium, Carnegie Institution for Science, 1530 P St. NW. dceff.org. The festival will continue through Saturday with screenings at various venues. â&#x2013; As part of the Environmental Film Festival in the Nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Capital, American Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Center for Environmental Filmmaking will present a Student Short Environmental Film Festival with screenings of â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Monarch Butterfly Effect,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Chesapeake Footsoldiers,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cold Rush: The Changing Arctic,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Conversation With William Reilly,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Harbingerâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Who Will Save the River Dolphin?â&#x20AC;? 7 p.m. Free. Doyle/Forman Theater, McKinley Building, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW. dceff.org. â&#x2013; The French CinĂŠmathèque series will feature Aviv Talmorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2012 film â&#x20AC;&#x153;I Am Bialik.â&#x20AC;? 8 p.m. $6.75 to $12. Avalon Theatre, 5612 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-966-6000.

Performances â&#x2013; The Washington Ballet will present the company premiere of choreographer Stephen Millsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; reinterpretation of Shakespeareâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hamlet.â&#x20AC;? 7:30 p.m. $32.25 to $130. Eisenhower Theater, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600. Performances will continue through April 3. â&#x2013; Laugh Index Theatre will present â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sketch Night With Separate Beds.â&#x20AC;?

7:30 p.m. $8 to $10. DC Arts Center, 2438 18th St. NW. laughindextheatre. com.

Sporting event â&#x2013; The Washington Wizards will play the Atlanta Hawks. 7 p.m. $18 to $899.

Verizon Center, 601 F St. NW. 800-7453000.

Tour â&#x2013; President Lincolnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cottage will host an evening tour (suitable for ages 6 and older). 6 p.m. $15; reservations required. President Lincolnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cottage at the Soldiersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Home, Upshur Street at Rock Creek Church Road NW. lincolncottage.org.

Thursday, March 24 Thursday march 24 Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s programs â&#x2013; A U.S. Botanic Garden docent will host a â&#x20AC;&#x153;March Snugglersâ&#x20AC;? tour for parents and care providers with a tiny one in a snuggly (no strollers or older siblings due to narrow paths and the

Thursday, march 24 â&#x2013; Discussion: The American University Metropolitan Policy Center will host a lecture by Harvard University economics professor Edward Glaeser on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Technology and the City.â&#x20AC;? 4 to 6 p.m. Free; reservations requested. Abramson Family Founders Room, School of International Service Building, American University, Nebraska and New Mexico avenues NW. american.edu/spa/metro-policy. nature of the program). 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Free; reservations required. Conservatory Garden Court, U.S. Botanic Garden, 100 Maryland Ave. SW. 202225-8333. â&#x2013; â&#x20AC;&#x153;March Movie Series: Miniature Worldsâ&#x20AC;? will feature â&#x20AC;&#x153;Chicken Little.â&#x20AC;? 4 p.m. Free. Georgetown Library, 3260 R St. NW. 202-727-0232. â&#x2013; Friends of the Cleveland Park Library will present weekly chess instruction for kids of all ages. 5 p.m.

Free. Cleveland Park Library, 3310 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-282-3080.

Classes and workshops â&#x2013; 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. â&#x2013; Iona Senior Services will host a weekly dance class designed for people living with Parkinsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s disease and led by teachers trained by the Mark Morris Dance Group. 2 to 3 p.m. $10 to $13 per class; free for an introductory session. Iona Senior Services, 4125 Albemarle St. NW. 202-253-7946. â&#x2013; Instructor Nina Dunham will lead a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gentle Gyrokinesisâ&#x20AC;? class to improve posture, balance and agility. 4 p.m.

Free; reservations required. Guy Mason Recreation Center, 3600 Calvert St. NW. 202-727-7527. â&#x2013; The Northwest One Library will host a weekly yoga class for adults and teens of skill levels. 7 p.m. Free. Northwest One Library, 155 L St. NW. 202939-5946. â&#x2013; Femex, a community organization that strives to empower women through programming for individuals of all genders, will present a workshop designed to explore participantsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; own experience of feminism and womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s movements in the U.S. 7 p.m. Free. Watha T. Daniel/ Shaw Library, 1630 7th St. NW. 202727-1288. â&#x2013; A twice-monthly program by the Upper NW Knitters will explore how to knit and crochet. 7 to 9 p.m. Free. Tenley-Friendship Library, 4450 Wisconsin Ave. NW. 202-727-1488. â&#x2013; The Dumbarton House will host an

Concerts â&#x2013; Brooklynbased singersongwriter Chaz Langley (shown) will perform with multifaceted composer Albert Behar. 6 p.m. Free. Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center. 202467-4600. â&#x2013; The Potterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s House jazz series will feature the Herb Scott Quartet. 7 to 9 p.m. Free. Potterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s House, 1658 Columbia Road NW. 202-232-5483. â&#x2013; Musician Patrick Coman will perform. 7:30 p.m. Free. Gypsy Sallyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Vinyl Lounge, 3401 K St. NW. gypsysallys. com. â&#x2013; Rising Appalachia and Kuf Knotz will perform. 8 p.m. $15 to $18. Gypsy Sallyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, 3401 K St. NW. gypsysallys.com. â&#x2013; Roof Beams will perform indie folk/Americana. 8 to 11 p.m. No cover; two item per person minimum. Mr. Henryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Restaurant, 601 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. 202-546-8412.

Demonstration â&#x2013; Gardening and cooking writer Adrienne Cook and nutritionist Danielle Cook will explain how to grow and prepare potatoes, radishes and turnips for spring dishes. Noon and 12:45 p.m.

Free. Conservatory Garden Court, U.S. Botanic Garden, 100 Maryland Ave. SW. 202-225-8333.

Discussions and lectures â&#x2013; Social and business entrepreneur Yiannis Laouris, chair of the Future Worlds Center, will discuss â&#x20AC;&#x153;Reinventing Democracy in the Digital Era: A ThirdPhase Science Application.â&#x20AC;? 10 a.m. to noon. Free. Room 453, Duquès Hall, George Washington University, 2201 G St. NW. 202-994-7355. â&#x2013; Ruth Wasem, specialist in immigration policy for the Congressional Research Service, will discuss â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Struggle for Fairness: How the Repeal of National Origins Quotas in 1965 Altered Immigration Flows.â&#x20AC;? Noon. Free. Room 25, Research Center, National Archives Building, Pennsylvania Avenue between 7th and 9th streets NW. 202-357-6814. â&#x2013; The â&#x20AC;&#x153;Textiles at Twelveâ&#x20AC;? series will present â&#x20AC;&#x153;Silk Stories: A Behind-theScenes View Into Silk Production,â&#x20AC;? featuring a talk by George Washington University masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s candidate Pamela Kaplan on the research for her thesis.

Noon. Free. George Washington University Museum and Textile Museum, 701 21st St. NW. 202-994-5200. â&#x2013; Catherine Turner, lecturer at Durham Law School, will discuss â&#x20AC;&#x153;Promoting Women as Mediators in the Women, Peace and Security Agenda.â&#x20AC;? Noon to 1 p.m. Free; reservations requested. Suite 501, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, See Events/Page 21

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■ Carol Joynt’s Q&A Cafe series will feature Scott Altman, former astronaut and mission commander, veteran of four shuttle missions and the F-14 stunt pilot for the Tom Cruise film “Top Gun.” 12:15 p.m. $35. The George Town Club, 1530 Wisconsin Ave. NW. 202-333-9330.

■ Political historian Nelson Rimensnyder will discuss “Why the District of Columbia Has No Vote in Congress and What Can Be Done About It.” Luncheon at 12:15 p.m.; program at 1 p.m. $10 to $30. Woman’s National Democratic Club, 1526 New Hampshire Ave. NW. 202-232-7363.

■ Washington University professor John Bowen will discuss “Islam in Europe: Contrasting France and Britain.”

12:30 to 2 p.m. Free; reservations required. Suite 412, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, 1957 E St. NW. go.gwu.edu/ bowen.

■ Elanah Uretsky, assistant professor of global health, anthropology and international affairs at George Washington University, will discuss “Occupational Hazards: Sex, Business, and HIV in PostMao China.” 12:30 to 1:45 p.m. Free; reservations required. Room 602, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, 1957 E St. NW. go.gwu.edu/occupationalhazards.

■ Debra Efroymson, regional director of HealthBridge, will discuss her book “Beyond Apologies: Defining and Achieving an Economics of Wellbeing.” 1 to 2 p.m. Free. Kay Lounge A, Kay Spiritual Life Center, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW. american.edu/calendar.

■ Nathan Sheets, the U.S. Treasury Department’s undersecretary for international affairs, will discuss current affairs. 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. Free; reservations requested. Abramson Family Founders Room, School of International Service Building, American University, Nebraska and New Mexico avenues NW. american.edu/sis/events.

■ Physicist, neuroscientist and robotics mentor Bill Marks will lead a weekly open discussion of science topics with students and adults over snacks in the Wilson High School Science Club. 3:30 to 6 p.m. Free. Room B101, Wilson High School, 3950 Chesapeake St. NW. 202329-8320.

■ Richard Longstreth, professor of American studies at George Washington University, will discuss the nature of historic preservation in Washington, D.C., and across the nation in the 1960s and 1970s. The event will culminate with a gallery tour of the exhibition “For the Record: The Art of Lily Spandorf.” 4 to 6 p.m. Free. George Washington University Museum and Textile Museum, 701 21st St. NW. 202-994-5200.

■ Matthew Restall, professor of Latin American history at Pennsylvania State University, will discuss “Montezuma Surrenders in the U.S. Capitol: The History of One of the Greatest Lies in History.” 4 p.m. Free. Teamsters Reading Room, Gelman Library, George Washington University, 2130 H St. NW. calendar.gwu.edu.

■ Zenith Gallery will present a panel discussion on “Innovation and the Creative Spirit,” featuring artists Len Harris, Peter Kephart, Katherine Owens and Joyce Zipperer. 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Free.

Zenith Gallery, 1429 Iris St. NW. 202-

783-2963.

■ The Book to Film Club will meet to discuss a cinematic adaptation. 6:30 p.m. Free. Takoma Park Library, 416 Cedar St. NW. 202-576-7252.

■ Artist Frances Stark, known for addressing issues of self-presentation in the hyper-connected Internet age, will discuss her work in conversation with Alexander Dumbadze, associate professor of art history at George Washington University. 6:30 p.m. $10 to $12. Phillips Collection, 1600 21st St. NW. phillipscollection.org/events.

■ Americana music specialist and raconteur Robert Wyatt will focus on the 1930s in the first lecture of the Smithsonian Associates series on “The Hollywood Musical: Four Decades of Magic!”

6:45 to 9 p.m. $30 to $45. S. Dillon Ripley Center, 1100 Jefferson Drive SW. 202-633-3030.

■ Bonnie Jo Campbell will discuss her book “Mothers, Tell Your Daughters.”

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

■ Health coach Deborah Chin of Natural Vibrations will discuss “Navigating Through the Food Labeling Mumbo Jumbo.” 7 p.m. Free. Chevy Chase Library, 5625 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202282-0021.

■ Jewish Lit Live will present a book talk by Mary Morris, author of “The Jazz Palace.” 7 p.m. Free. Room 301, Marvin Center, George Washington University, 800 21st St. NW. 202-994-7470.

■ David Ebenbach, Leslie Pietrzyk and Kathy Flann will discuss their respective books “We Were the People Who Moved,” “This Angel on My Chest” and “Get a Grip.” 7 p.m. Free. Upshur Street Books, 827 Upshur St. NW. upshurstreetbooks.com.

■ Communications expert and facilitator Maura Policelli will lead a meeting of the Tenleytown Memoir & Essay Writing Club. 7 p.m. Free. Tenley-Friendship Library, 4450 Wisconsin Ave. NW. 202727-1488.

■ The National Museum of Women in the Arts will present a talk on local female artists. 7 p.m. Free. West End Interim Library, 2522 Virginia Ave. NW. 202-724-8707.

■ As part of a festival celebrating historic Library of Congress dance commissions, author Hayden Herrera will discuss “Listening to Stone: The Art and Life of Isamu Noguchi.” 7 p.m. Free; tickets required. Montpelier Room, Madison Building, Library of Congress, 101 Independence Ave. SE. loc.gov/concerts/ marthagrahamweek.html.

■ In conjunction with the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital, a panel discussion will focus on the challenge of producing films that have a tangible and measurable impact on their audiences and society. Speakers will include Oscar-nominated filmmaker and environmental advocate Josh Fox (shown), director of “GasLand” and “How to Let Go of the World.” 7 p.m.

Free. Doyle/Forman Theater, McKinley Building, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW. 202-885-3408.

■ A Via Umbria book club will discuss Elena Ferrante’s “My Brilliant

Egyptian flowers featured

“The Eye of the Blossom,” featuring recent photographs

by Amr Mounib from the Cairo gardens of his friends in his native Egypt, will open Friday at the Jerusalem Fund Gallery Al-Quds with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. On view

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through April 22, the images aim to portray the resilience of ordinary Egyptians amid tumultuous times, or what the photographer calls “the true Arab spring.”

Located at 2425 Virginia Ave. NW, the gallery is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 202-3381958.

■ “A Day Before,” presenting paintings from the last eight months by Hannah Knight Leighton that include opaque shapes laid over translucent pockets, will open Friday at the DC Arts Center with a reception from 7 to 9 p.m. The exhibit will close with a reception April 24 at 5 p.m.

Located at 2438 18th St. NW, the center is open Wednesday through Sunday from 2 to 7 p.m.

202-462-7833.

■ “The Other 90%: Works From the GW Alice Neel’s 1980 lithograph Permanent Col“Four Girls” is featured at the lection,” featurLuther Brady Art Gallery. ing nearly 40 paintings, prints, photographs and sculptures not on public view in more than 20 years or since they were gifted, opened last week at George Washington University’s Luther Brady Art Gallery, where it will continue through June 3.

Friend.” 7 to 8 p.m. Free. Via Umbria, 1525 Wisconsin Ave. NW. viaumbria.com/events.

■ The ninth annual “McGowan Forum on Women in Leadership: From the Computer Age to the Digital Age” will feature moderator Megan Smith (shown), U.S. chief technology officer; Kathy Kleiman, founder of the ENIAC Programmers Project; Telle Whitney, CEO of the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology; Florence Tan, NASA’s electrical lead engineer on the Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity; and Emily Reid, director of education of Girls Who Code. 7:30 p.m. Free. McGowan Theater, National Archives Building, Constitution Avenue between 7th and 9th streets NW. 202-357-6814.

Films ■ As part of the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital, the National Building Museum will present “Another Way of Living: The Story of Reston, VA.” A post-screening discussion will feature Rebekah Wingert-Jabi, the film’s director; Claudia Thompson-Deahl, environmental resource manager at the Reston Association; and Cheryl Terio-Simon, the widow of urban planner and Reston developer Robert E. Simon Jr. 6:30 p.m. $10 to $12; reservations required.

National Building Museum, 401 F St. NW. 202-272-2448.

Amr Mounib’s “Isadora” is part of an exhibit of the artist’s photographs from Cairo gardens.

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

■ “Persistence of Flora,” presenting works by three artists who address the power of nature and its omnipresence in the midst of human constructs, opened last week at Carroll Square Gallery. On view through May 27, it highlights artists Magnolia Laurie, Pam Rogers and Leslie Shellow, who examine the relationship between nature and industry, the organic and the inorganic, and the cycles of civilization in three distinct forms.

Located at 975 F St. NW, the gallery is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. 202-347-7978.

■ “The Third Dimension,” featuring works by Haitian-born mixed-media collage artist Wainright Dawson III, opened recently at Watergate Gallery, where it will continue through April 2.

Located at 2552 Virginia Ave. NW, the gallery is open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday from noon to 5 p.m. 202-338-4488.

■ “Pondering,” part of a series of exhibits this year celebrating the 75th anniversary of Dumbarton Oaks, opened recently at the Dumbarton Oaks Museum. On view through Sunday, the show highlights objects for which the usual art-historical methods focusing on attribution or function have resulted in pondering dead ends.

Located at 1703 32nd St. NW, the museum is open Tuesday through Sunday from 11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

202-339-6401.

■ As part of the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital, George Washington University will present Delila Vallot’s documentary “Can You Dig This,” about a urban garden sprouting up through concrete in South Los Angeles.

A discussion will follow. 7 p.m. Free.

Amphitheater, Marvin Center, George Washington University, 800 21st St. NW. dceff.org.

Performances and readings ■ The Happenings Happy Hour series will feature poetry and prose readings by 826DC’s the lowercase. 6 p.m. Free.

Sidney Harman Hall Forum, 610 F St. NW. 202-547-1122.

■ The Middle East Institute will present “A Night of Art, Rap, and Pop Culture From the Arabian Peninsula,” including a performance by the Kuwaiti-born, California-based rap group Sons of Yusuf and a conversation on the role of the arts in bridging cultural understanding and empowering youth from the region.

6 to 8 p.m. Free. Langston Room, Busboys and Poets, 2021 14th St. NW. 202387-7638.

■ Story District and the D.C. Public Library will present “Brazen: True Tales

by Bold Women,” featuring five female storytellers. 7 p.m. Free. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW. 202-727-0321.

■ President Lincoln’s Cottage and the American Immigration Council will present “Saudade: A New Play by Wit’s End Puppets,” about the immigrant experience in Washington. 7 p.m. Free;

reservations required. President Lincoln’s Cottage at the Soldiers’ Home, Upshur Street at Rock Creek Church Road NW. lincolncottage.org.

■ The Washington Improv Theater will continue its Fighting Improv Smackdown Tournament, an elimination-style bracketed competition with teams competing for audience favor. 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. $12 to $15. Source, 1835 14th St. NW. washingtonimprovtheater.com. The competition will continue through April 12.

■ American University will present the 1920s musical “No, No, Nanette,” about a young, fun-loving Manhattan heiress who naughtily runs off for a weekend in Atlantic City. 8 p.m. $10 to $15. Greenberg Theatre, American University, 4200 Wisconsin Ave. NW. 202885-2587. The performance will repeat Friday at 8 p.m. and Saturday at 2 and 8 p.m.

Special events ■ The Georgetown Library will present “Adult Coloring,” a relaxed session with coloring sheets and colored pencils provided. 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Free.

Georgetown Library, 3260 R St. NW. julia.strusienski@dc.gov.

■ A 1916-style party to celebrate the re-release of Heurich’s Lager by DC Brau will feature the pre-Prohibition-style lager, jazz music and hors d’oeuvres crafted with beer. A private tasting hour with DC Brau head brewer Jeff Hancock will precede the festivities. Tasting hour See Events/Page 22

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Tour ■ Jason Gedeik, head of design operations at Hillwood, will present “Gardener’s Focus: An Orchid-Filled Greenhouse.” 11 a.m. and 3 p.m.

Included in suggested donation of $5 to $15 for museum admission; tickets distributed at 10 a.m. Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens, 4155 Linnean Ave. NW. 202-686-5807. The tour will repeat March 26 at 12:30 p.m. and March 29 and 31 at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m.

Friday,march March 25 25 Friday Children’s programs ■ Tudor Place’s ninth annual Eggstravaganza will feature games, crafts, an egg hunt and egg roll contest down the grand South Lawn. 10 a.m. to noon. $7 to $10; $5 for an accompanying adult. Tudor Place Historic House and Garden, 1644 31st St. NW. tudorplace.org.

Events Entertainment ■ Guy Mason Recreation Center will host its second annual egg hunt, followed by egg coloring. 2 to 5 p.m. Free; reservations required. Guy Mason Recreation Center, 3600 Calvert St. NW. 202-727-7527.

■ As part of the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital, the D.C. Public Library will host an hour of international short films for children — “Captain Fish,” “Elephant and the Bicycle,” “The Law of the Jungle,” “The Little Hedgehog,” “Pik Pik Pik,” “Poker,” “Sweet Cocoon” and “Zebra.” 4 p.m.

Free. Mount Pleasant Library, 3160 16th St. NW. 202-671-3121.

Class ■ Via Umbria will host a hands-on cooking class on how to make traditional Umbrian flat bread, carbonera, strangozzi pasta and cherry cubotti. 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. $100; reservations required.

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

Concerts ■ “Barbara Cook’s Spotlight” will feature Frances Ruffelle, the Tony Awardwinning original Eponine in “Les Misérables” on Broadway and London’s

2016 Holy Week Maundy Thursday Thursday, March 24 7:00 PM Foot/Hand Washing & Communion

Good Friday Friday, March 25 12 Noon & 7:00 PM

Telling of the Passion story and a time of adoration of the cross at the evening service

Holy Saturday Saturday, March 26 10:00 AM Easter Egg Hunt

Join us in Stead Park (right behind Foundry) for our annual Easter Egg Hunt. Everyone is welcome.

Easter Sunday Sunday, March 27 9:00 AM & 11:00 AM John 20:1-18

Rev. Ginger E. Gaines-Cirelli preaching on “Divine Design” Childcare, Children’s Sermon & Sunday School at both services

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West End. 7 p.m. $50. Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.

■ The S&R Foundation’s Overtures Concert Series will feature violinist Erzhan Kulibaev (shown) and pianist Ryo Yanagitani performing works by Beethoven, Fauré, Tchaikovsky and Saint-Saëns. 7:30 p.m. $65. Evermay, 1623 28th St. NW. overtureseries.org.

■ Musician Nick Andrew Staver will perform. 8 p.m. Free. Gypsy Sally’s Vinyl Lounge, 3401 K St. NW. gypsysallys. com.

■ Malian singer-songwriter Rokia Traoré will perform. 8 p.m. $25 to $45.

Lisner Auditorium, George Washington University, 730 21st St. NW. 202-9946800.

■ “Jazz on the Hill” will feature Aaron L. Myers II. 8 to 11 p.m. No cover; two item per person minimum. Mr. Henry’s Restaurant, 601 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. 202-546-8412.

■ Naughty Professor and the Jonathan Scales Fourchestra will perform. 9 p.m. $12 to $14. Gypsy Sally’s, 3401 K St. NW. gypsysallys.com.

Discussions and lectures ■ Novelists Bonnie Jo Campbell and Emily Mitchell will celebrate the birthday of American writer Flannery O’Connor by reading selections from O’Connor’s work and discussing her influence on their own writing. Noon. Free. Whittall Pavilion, Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, 10 1st St. SE. 202-707-5394.

■ Artist Caroline Paquita will discuss zines, art and life during her 20-year career. Noon to 1 p.m. Free. Meet by the fourth-floor elevators, National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1250 New York Ave. NW. 202-783-7370.

■ A chemistry seminar series will feature a research talk by Karah Knope of Georgetown University. 1:45 to 3 p.m.

Free. Room B1220, Science and Engineering Hall, George Washington University, 800 22nd St. NW. 202-994-6121.

■ Ambassador Thomas Pickering, vice chairman of Hills & Company and distinguished fellow at the Brookings Institution, will discuss his diplomatic career, which spanned five decades and included stints as ambassador to the United Nations, the Russian Federation, India, Israel, El Salvador, Nigeria and Jordan. 3 to 4 p.m. Free; reservations requested. Abramson Family Founders Room, School of International Service Building, American University, Nebraska and New Mexico avenues NW. american.edu/sis/events.

■ American University will host “What Is Sustainability? A CrossDisciplinary Discussion,” featuring moderator Larry Engel and panelists David Bartlett, Kiho Kim, Cara Okopny and Paul Wapner. 4 to 5:30 p.m. Free; reservations required. Bender Library Training and Events Room, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW. american.edu/calendar.

■ The fourth annual James Dicke Contemporary Artist Lecture will feature a talk by Amy Sillman, known for colorful paintings that combine figurative elements with abstraction. 6:30 p.m. Free.

McEvoy Auditorium, Smithsonian Ameri-

about the primary elections and other political fodder. Proceeds will benefit the Lisner-Louise-Dickson-Hurt Home. 8 p.m. $30. Theater, Wilson High School, 3950 Chesapeake St. NW. 202-3337469. The performance will repeat March 26, April 1 and April 2 at 8 p.m. and April 3 at 2:30 p.m.

Friday, march 25 ■ Concert: The Friday Noon concert series will feature the Murasaki Duo. Noon. Free. Arts Club of Washington, 2017 I St. NW. 202331-7282. can Art Museum, 8th and G streets NW. 202-633-1000.

Films ■ As part of the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital, the D.C. Public Library will present the U.S. premiere of Andrew Nisker’s documentary “Dark Side of the Chew,” about the impact of chewing gum on our health and our planet. Noon. Free; reservations required. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW. darksideofthechew.bpt.me.

■ In conjunction with the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital, “From the Vaults: The National Park Service on Film” will feature the 1930s films “Land of the Giants,” “Great Smoky Mountains” and “White Sands.”

Noon. Free. McGowan Theater, National Archives Building, Constitution Avenue between 7th and 9th streets NW. 202357-6814.

■ In conjunction with the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital, American University’s Center for Environmental Filmmaking will present the D.C. premiere of “Containment,” about the impact of nuclear waste and its radioactive trail that will last 400 generations. A discussion with filmmakers Peter Galison and Robb Moss will follow. 7 p.m. Free. Doyle/Forman Theater, McKinley Building, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW. dceff.org.

Performances and readings ■ In a double bill, the dance departments from American University and George Washington University will present an evening of contemporary dance works by student and faculty choreographers. 6 p.m. Free. Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.

■ The participants of the Slipform Poetry Workshop, led by Danielle Evennou of Sparkle DC, will read their poetic creations. 7 p.m. Free. Upshur Street Books, 827 Upshur St. NW. upshurstreetbooks.com.

■ “Hexagon 2016: Red, White, and Voters’ Blues” will feature original songs with newly composed music and lyrics

Special events ■ The Historical Society of Washington, D.C., will host a Friday Night Happy Hour with extended exhibit hours. 5 to 8 p.m. Free admission. Carnegie Library, 801 K St. NW. dchistory.org.

■ Capitol Hill Arts Workshop will host “Crafts & Craft Beer,” an evening of crafting, community and craft brews with teaching artist Cherie Lester. 7 to 9 p.m. $35. Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, 545 7th St. SE. 202-547-6839.

Sporting event ■ The Washington Wizards will play the Minnesota Timberwolves. 7 p.m. $18 to $899. Verizon Center, 601 F St. NW. 800-745-3000.

Saturday, March 26 Saturday march 26 Children’s programs ■ “Eggs-Quisite Colors of Easter” will offer a chance to listen to Easterthemed stories, dye and decorate eggs, make bunny baskets and take lots of pictures (for ages 3 through 7). Attendees are asked to bring up to three plain boiled eggs; organizers will supply nontoxic dye, tempera paint, stickers and markers. 10:30 a.m. Free. Petworth Library, 4200 Kansas Ave. NW. 202243-1188.

■ A park ranger will lead a planetarium program about the season’s brightest stars, planets and constellations (for ages 5 and older). 1 to 1:45 p.m. Free.

Rock Creek Nature Center, 5200 Glover Road NW. 202-895-6070. The program will repeat Sunday at 1 p.m.

■ Children will hear a story about Gertrude Stein 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 Tenley Readers Unite book club will discuss the Newbery Medalwinning book “Bridge to Terabithia” (for ages 8 through 12). 2:30 p.m. Free. Tenley-Friendship Library, 4450 Wisconsin Ave. NW. 202-727-1488.

■ 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.

Classes and workshops ■ Guy Mason Recreation Center will host a tai chi class and an exercise and dance class with Gayla April. 9:30 a.m.

Free; reservations required. Guy Mason Recreation Center, 3600 Calvert St. NW. 202-727-7527.

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

■ Jason Gedeik, head of design operations at Hillwood, will lead a hands-on orchid workshop on “To Repot or Not?” 10 a.m. to noon. $25 to $30.

Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens, 4155 Linnean Ave. NW. 202-686-5807.

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■ Femex, a community organization that strives to empower women through programming for individuals of all genders, will present a workshop designed to explore participants’ own experience of feminism and women’s movements in the United States. 12:30 p.m. Free. Tenley-Friendship Library, 4450 Wisconsin Ave. NW. 202-727-1488.

■ Jason Gedeik, head of design operations at Hillwood, will lead a hands-on workshop on “How to Get Your Orchid to Rebloom.” 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. $25 to $30. Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens, 4155 Linnean Ave. NW. 202-686-5807.

Concerts ■ Washington Performing Arts will present a concert by pianist Joseph Moog featuring works by Beethoven, Liszt and Tchaikovsky. 2 p.m. $48. Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center. 202-4674600.

■ The musical group Luray will perform banjo-inspired folk rock with an ambient twist. 6 p.m. Free. Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.

■ Slim Stevens and Jessie Fenton will perform, at 8 p.m.; and the Handsome Hound Band will perform, at 10:30 p.m. Free. Gypsy Sally’s Vinyl Lounge, 3401 K St. NW. gypsysallys. com.

■ Songwriter and performer José González will perform with the ensemble yMusic. 8 p.m. $35 to $45.

Lisner Auditorium, George Washington University, 730 21st St. NW. 202-994-6800.

■ “Ladies of Jazz” will feature Cecily.

8 to 11 p.m. No cover; two item per person minimum. Mr. Henry’s Restaurant, 601 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. 202-5468412.

■ Nora Jane Struthers and the Party Line will perform on a double bill with Drymill Road. 8:30 p.m. $14 to $16.

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

Discussions and lectures ■ As part of a festival celebrating historic Library of Congress dance commissions, Nicholas Alexander Brown of the Music Division will discuss the pivotal night in October 1944 when “Appalachian Spring” premiered, as seen through the letters and stories of the people who comprised the audience.

11 a.m. Free; tickets required. Room G-32, Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, 10 1st St. SE. loc.gov/ concerts/marthagrahamweek.html.

■ Mike Canning, author of “Hollywood on the Potomac: How the Movies View Washington,” will survey how American cinema has treated both Washington, D.C., and its politics. 1 p.m. Free.

Peabody Room, Georgetown Library, 3260 R St. NW. 202-727-0233.

Family programs ■ A National Cherry Blossom Festival family day will feature hands-on activities and games focused on parks, planning, landscape design and architecture.

9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Free. National Building Museum, 401 F St. NW. 202-272-2448.

the St. Louis Blues. 7 p.m. $55 to $341.

Verizon Center, 601 F St. NW. 800-7453000.

■ Japanese Culture Day will offer hands-on origami artwork creation, a chance to try on kimonos, a program on Japanese life, and other activities. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Free. Young Readers Center, Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, 10 1st St. SE. 202-707-2990.

Films ■ As part of the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital, the Avalon Theatre will present Stuart McDonald’s “Oddball,” at 10:30 a.m.; and “Hadwin’s Judgement,” at 1 p.m. $7 to $8.75 per screening. Avalon Theatre, 5612 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-9666000.

■ National Geographic Museum will present “Jerusalem 3D,” featuring the first-ever large format aerial footage of the Old City. Noon, 1, 2 and 3 p.m. $7.

Grosvenor Auditorium, National Geographic Museum, 1600 M St. NW. 202857-7700. The film will also be shown Sunday at the same times.

■ “Cinéma Restauré: Two by Julien Duvivier” will feature the director’s 1937 film “Pépé le Moko,” about a notorious yet potently elegant jewel thief who hangs out in the old Algiers Casbah until a glamorous “tourist” from Paris lures him to his demise. 12:30 p.m. Free.

East Building Auditorium, National Gallery of Art, 4th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. 202-737-4215.

■ A festival celebrating historic Library of Congress dance commissions will feature screenings of the 1995 film “Isamu Noguchi: The Sculpture of Spaces,” the 1972 film “Isamu Noguchi” and the 1957 film “A Dancer’s World.” 2 p.m. Free; tickets required. Mary Pickford Theater, Madison Building, Library of Congress, 101 Independence Ave. SE. loc.gov/concerts/marthagrahamweek. html.

■ The National Gallery of Art will present James Crump’s 2015 film “Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art.” 3 p.m. Free. East Building Auditorium, National Gallery of Art, 4th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. 202-737-4215.

■ The Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital will host a closingnight event featuring the D.C. premiere of Josh Fox’s film “How to Let Go of the World,” winner of the festival’s Documentary Award for Environmental Advocacy. An award presentation will precede the film, and a post-screening discussion will feature Fox and film subjects Tim DeChristopher and Aria Doe. 6:30 p.m. $30; reservations required. Root Auditorium, Carnegie Institution for Science, 1530 P St. NW. dceff.org. The festival will continue through Saturday with screenings at various venues.

Performances and readings ■ In the Guillotine Theatre’s celebration of the ninth annual DC SWAN (Support Women Artists Now) Day, women playwrights, directors and poets will present readings and poetry performances. Featured playwrights will include Lisa Alapick, McKenya Dillard, Ty Hallmark and Laura Rocklyn, and poet Shelly Bell will perform between play readings. Noon to 2 p.m. Free. Performance Hall, National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1250 New York Ave. NW. georgetowntheatre.org.

■ Performer Karima Hurt, a re-enactor for the National Park Service, will present “Elizabeth Keckley Speaks: ‘My Life in Washington,’” about the life of the influential African-American seam-

Saturday, march 27 ■ Concert: Violinist Ariel Horowitz, a 19-year-old D.C. native, will perform her program for the upcoming Menuhin competition in London. 2 to 4 p.m. Free; reservations required. Washington DC Jewish Community Center, 1529 16th St. NW. washingtondcjcc.org. stress and confidante to Mary Todd Lincoln. 1 p.m. Free. Room A-5, Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW. 202-727-0321.

■ Scena Theatre will present the provocative drama “Antigone Now” by Slovenia’s premier playwright Evald Flisar. 8 p.m. $20 to $40. Lab II, Atlas Performing Arts Center, 1333 H St. NE. 202399-7993, ext. 2. The performance will repeat March 27 at 7 p.m. and March 30 through April 2 at 8 p.m.

Special events ■ The Tregaron Conservancy’s annual Easter egg hunt will feature thousands of candy-filled eggs along Tregaron’s woodland trails. 10 a.m. Free; reservations requested. Hunt begins near the Lily Pond near the Tregaron entrance in the 3000 block of Klingle Road NW. RSVP to info@tregaronconservancy.org and indicate number of adults and children attending.

■ The Drink the District Cherry Blossom Beer & Wine Festival will feature unlimited tastings of 100-plus beers and wines, along with live entertainment and access to food trucks. 1 to 4 p.m. and 6 to 9 p.m. $35 to $45. Lot H and I, The Yards, 1300 1st St. SE. drinkthedistrict.com.

Sporting event ■ D.C. United will play FC Dallas.

5:30 p.m. $20 to $55. RFK Stadium, 2400 East Capitol St. SE. 800-7453000.

■ The Washington Capitals will play

Walks and tours ■ “Be an Animal Athlete!” will feature a 1.8-mile hike along the Rock Creek Park Healthy Parks Healthy People Track Trail with a look at the adjacent bridges, wayside exhibits, plants, animals and historic Peirce Mill. 10 a.m. Free. Meet in the west parking lot at Picnic Grove #2, Beach Drive and Broad Branch Road NW. 202-895-6070.

■ The Washington Chapter of the American Institute of Architects will present an architectural tour of historic Anacostia, one of the District’s oldest neighborhoods. 10:30 a.m. to noon. $10 to $35; reservations required. Meet at the Anacostia Arts Center, 1231 Good Hope Road SE. aiadc.com.

■ Tour guide Dwane Starlin will lead a “Cupcakes of Georgetown” walking tour with stops at Baked & Wired, Sprinkles and Georgetown Cupcake for cherry blossom-themed treats. 1 p.m. $25; reservations required. Meet at 27th and Q streets NW. dumbartonhouse.org/ events.

■ Washington Walks will present a “Blossom Secrets Stroll.” 2 p.m. $15 to $20. Meet outside the Independence Avenue exit to the Smithsonian Metro station. washingtonwalks.com. The walk will repeat April 2, 3, 9 and 10 at 2 p.m.

Sunday, March 27 Sunday march 27 Children’s program ■ A park ranger will lead a planetarium program on “Astronomy Stars: Women Who Changed the Night” (for ages 7 and older). 4 p.m. Free. Rock Creek Nature Center, 5200 Glover Road NW. 202-895-6070.

Classes and workshops ■ The Vajrayogini Buddhist Center will host a class on “Advice for Life.” 10 and 11:30 a.m. Free; $5 to $12 donation suggested. Vajrayogini Buddhist Center, 1787 Columbia Road NW. 202986-2257.

■ The Dumbarton House will host an “English Country Dance” workshop.

12:30 to 2:45 p.m. $5. Dumbarton House, 2715 Q St. NW. 202-337-2288.

■ ArtJamz will present a “Cherry Blossoms” painting class. 5 to 7 p.m. $32 to $35. ArtJamz Dupont Studio, 1728 Connecticut Ave. NW. artjamzdc. com.

Concerts ■ The Music With the Angels Concert

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Church of the Holy City, 1611 16th St. NW. 202-462-6734.

■ Violinist Rachel Barton Pine will perform works

by Bach. 2 and 3:30 p.m.

Free. West Garden Court, National Gallery of Art, 4th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. 202-737-4215.

■ Pianist Richard Goode will perform an all-Bach program.

4 p.m. $15 to $30; reservations suggested. Phillips Collection, 1600 21st St. NW. phillipscollection.org.

■ Washington National Cathedral artist-in-residence Jeremy Filsell will present an Easter recital. 5:15 p.m. $10 donation suggested. Washington National Cathedral, Massachusetts and Wisconsin avenues NW. nationalcathedral.org.

■ Andrew Drury’s Content Provider will present a jazz concert. 7 p.m. Free.

Atlas Performing Arts Center, 1333 H St. NE. 202-399-7993.

Films ■ “Sunday Movies at Middle C” will feature Disney’s 1940 film “Fantasia,” featuring animated interpretations of great works of Western classical music.

2 p.m. Free. Middle C Music, 4530 Wisconsin Ave. NW. 202-244-7326.

■ “Cinéma Restauré: Two by Julien Duvivier” will feature the director’s 1937 film “Un carnet de bal,” about a widow who travels across Europe to rediscover her former suitors but in the end discovers something about her own life. 4 p.m.

Free. East Building Auditorium, National Gallery of Art, 4th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. 202-737-4215.

Performances and readings ■ The Upright Citizens Brigade Touring Company will perform. 7 p.m. $20 to $25. Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, 600 I St. NW. 877-987-6487.

■ Next Generation will present “Get Live in the City,” featuring music, poetry and speakers. 8 to 10 p.m. Free. Busboys and Poets Takoma, 235 Carroll St. NW. 202-726-0856.

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Free. Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center.

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Special event â&#x2013; Taste of DC will present â&#x20AC;&#x153;Taste on Wheels,â&#x20AC;? a food truck event with 15-plus vendors as well as live music, games and beer and wine tastings. 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. $10 to $30. Lot H and I, The Yards, 1300 1st St. SE. thetasteofdc. org/tasteonwheels.html.

Tour â&#x2013; A park ranger will lead a tour of the Old Stone House and explore the influence of women on the structure since Colonial days (for ages 7 and older). 2 p.m. Free. Old Stone House, 3051 M St. NW. 202-895-6070.

Monday, March 28 Monday march 28 Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s programs â&#x2013; Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s performer Marsha Goodman-Wood will present â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rise + Rhyme,â&#x20AC;? a storytelling and performance series for ages 5 and younger. 9:30 to 11 a.m. $5 per child. Busboys and Poets Takoma, 235 Carroll St. NW. 202-7260856. â&#x2013; The childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s room at the Petworth Library will host an Easter Egg hunt. 4:30 p.m. Free. Petworth Library, 4200 Kansas Ave. NW. 202-243-1188.

Classes and workshops â&#x2013; Yoga teacher Robin Glantz, owner of Vibrant Health, will lead a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Viniyogaâ&#x20AC;? class. 10:30 to 11:45 a.m. Free; reservations requested. Tenley-Friendship Library, 4450 Wisconsin Ave. NW. tenleylibrary@dc.gov. â&#x2013; Angela Matysiak will lead a yoga class. 6:30 p.m. Free. Guy Mason Recreation Center, 3600 Calvert St. NW. 202727-7527. â&#x2013; The Science of Spirituality Meditation Center will begin a four-week class on Jyoti meditation, a discipline focusing

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Science of Spirituality Meditation Center, 2950 Arizona Ave. NW. dcinfo@sos.org. â&#x2013; Joe Ryan, managing principal of CareerMentor.us, will lead a workshop for job seekers on using LinkedIn. 7 to 9 p.m. Free. Georgetown Library, 3260 R St. NW. 202-727-0232. â&#x2013; Poets on the Fringe will host a weekly poetry workshop, with attendees 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. Stoddert Recreation Center, 4001 Calvert St. NW. passapamela@aol.com.

Concerts â&#x2013; The Howard Gospel Choir of Howard University will perform energetic gospel music. 6 p.m. Free. Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600. â&#x2013; The Embassy Series in cooperation with the Embassy of Israel will present the Guy Mintus Jazz Trio in concert. 6:30 to 9:45 p.m. $70. Location provided upon registration. 202-625-2361. â&#x2013; New Jersey-based musician Cailin will perform. 7 p.m. Free. Gypsy Sallyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Vinyl Lounge, 3401 K St. NW. gypsysallys.com. â&#x2013; Pro Musica Hebraica will present â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wandering Stars: Three Generations of European Jewish Song,â&#x20AC;? featuring basses Mark Glanville, Mathias Hausmann and Anthony Russell in a unique storytelling format. 7 p.m. $39. Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600. â&#x2013; Musicians of the U.S. Army Band â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pershingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ownâ&#x20AC;? will present a concert celebrating Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s History Month.

7:30 p.m. Free. Church of the Pilgrims, 2201 P St. NW. â&#x2013; New Riders of the Purple Sage will perform. 8:30 p.m. $20 to $25. Gypsy Sallyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, 3401 K St. NW. gypsysallys.com.

Discussions and lectures â&#x2013; George Washington University students will discuss their research on the invasion of Normandy and their experiences visiting historical sites such as Normandyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s beaches. Noon. Free.

George Washington University Museum and Textile Museum, 701 21st St. NW. 202-994-5200. â&#x2013; The monthly Dupont Village Live and Learn Seminar will feature Susan Messina, director of development and

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communications for Iona Senior Services, who will explain the role of hospice in health care, including how hospice meets end-of-life needs and what palliative care is. 3:30 to 5 p.m. Free for Dupont Circle Village members; $10 for others. Reservations required. General Federation of Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Clubs, 1734 N St. NW. 202-234-2567. â&#x2013; Wellness coach Joseph Bernstein, who has lost over 160 pounds himself and kept the weight off, will host a meetup on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Why Is It So Hard to Lose Weight?â&#x20AC;? as part of a newly created DC Wellness, Self-Care and Weight Loss Circle. 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Free. TenleyFriendship Library, 4450 Wisconsin Ave. NW. meetup.com. â&#x2013; Daniel Gordis, senior vice president and professor at Shalem College in Jerusalem and author of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Menachem Begin: The Battle for Israelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Soul,â&#x20AC;? will discuss â&#x20AC;&#x153;From Hunted Revolutionary to Peace-Making Statesman: Why Did Menachem Begin Leave No Political Heirs?â&#x20AC;?

7:30 to 9 p.m. Free; reservations required. Abramson Family Founders Room, School of International Service Building, American University, Nebraska and New Mexico avenues NW. american.edu/cas/israelstudies. â&#x2013; Author and activist Mark S. King, who tested positive for HIV in 1985, will discuss â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Gay â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s,â&#x20AC;? about his experiences with various gay social milestones in the 1980s. 8 p.m. Free. Conference Room 3, Mary Graydon Center, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW. american.edu/calendar.

Family program â&#x2013; The National Zoo will present â&#x20AC;&#x153;Easter Monday: A Washington Family Tradition,â&#x20AC;? featuring a traditional Easter egg hunt, field games, special animal demonstrations, education booths and visits from the Easter Panda. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Free. National Zoo, 3001 Connecticut Ave. NW. nationalzoo.si.edu.

Film â&#x2013; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Marvelous Movie Mondaysâ&#x20AC;? will feature Ang Leeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1993 film â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Wedding Banquet,â&#x20AC;? about a happily partnered gay man in New York City who is forced to pretend to be married to a woman when his traditional parents visit from Taiwan. 2 and 6:30 p.m. Free.

Meeting Room, Chevy Chase Library, 5625 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-2820021.

Performances and readings â&#x2013; As part of the National Cherry Blossom Festival, the Japan Information and Culture Center will present the mohawked pantomime comedy duo Gamarjobat. 6:30 p.m. Free; reservations required. Japan Information and Culture Center, 1150 18th St. NW. www.us.emb-japan.go.jp/jicc. â&#x2013; Solas Nua will present a reading of Robert Masseyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s comedy â&#x20AC;&#x153;Chancers,â&#x20AC;? about family, salvation, sacrifice and luck. 7 p.m. Free. Kellyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Irish Times, 14 F St. NW. solasnua.org/theater.

Special events â&#x2013; Bartenders from Soundcheck,

Monday, march 28 â&#x2013; Discussion: Janette SadikKhan, New Yorkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s transportation commissioner from 2007 to 2013, will discuss her book â&#x20AC;&#x153;Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution.â&#x20AC;? 7 p.m. Free. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.

Echostage, Provision No. 14 and five other establishments will compete in a bracket-style â&#x20AC;&#x153;beer cocktailâ&#x20AC;? competition sponsored by Bud Light. 6 to 9 p.m.

Free. Hawthorne, 1336 U St. NW. 202853-9194. â&#x2013; Music photographer Jay Blakesberg will present a slide show and storytelling presentation on his 35-year journey in rock photography â&#x20AC;&#x201D; from documenting the Grateful Dead to writing his latest book, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hippie Chick: A Tale of Love, Devotion & Surrender.â&#x20AC;? 7 p.m. Free. Gypsy Sallyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, 3401 K St. NW. gypsysallys.com.

Sporting event â&#x2013; The Washington Capitals will play the Columbus Blue Jackets. 7 p.m. $32 to $276. Verizon Center, 601 F St. NW. 800-745-3000.

Tuesday, March 29 Tuesday march 29 Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s programs â&#x2013; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tudor Tots: Flowers & Butterfliesâ&#x20AC;? will feature songs, stories and movement (for ages 2 through 4). 10 a.m. $5; free for accompanying adults. Tudor Place Historic House and Garden, 1644 31st St. NW. tudorplace.org. The â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tudor Totsâ&#x20AC;? series will continue weekly through April 26. â&#x2013; Actress Mary Ann Jung will present â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sally Ride: Shoot for the Stars!,â&#x20AC;? about Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first female astronaut. 4 p.m.

Free. Tenley-Friendship Library, 4450 Wisconsin Ave. NW. 202-727-1488.

Classes and workshops â&#x2013; A certified yoga instructor will lead a walk-in class targeted to ages 55 and older. 10 a.m. Free. Georgetown Library, 3260 R St. NW. 202-727-0232. â&#x2013; 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. â&#x2013; ArtJamz will present a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Paint Like Keith Haringâ&#x20AC;? class. 7 to 9 p.m. $32 to $35. ArtJamz Dupont Studio, 1728 Connecticut Ave. NW. artjamzdc.com.

Concerts â&#x2013; As part of the Tuesday Concert Series, violinist Andrew Sords and pia-

nist Ina Mirtcheva will perform works by Beethoven, Franck and Sarasate. 12:10 p.m. Free. Church of the Epiphany, 1317 G St. NW. 202-347-2635. â&#x2013; Listen Local First D.C. will present performances by the group Oh He Dead and the duo Herb & Hanson in a preview of the seventh annual Kingman Island Bluegrass and Folk Festival on April 30.

6 p.m. Free. Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600. â&#x2013; Pianist Sigrid Hagn and cellist Julia Ammerer-Simma will perform â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sounds of Exile,â&#x20AC;? featuring works by Karl Weigl, Vally Weigl, Eric Zeisl, Alexander Zemlinsky, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Arnold SchĂśnberg, Oscar Straus and Fritz Kreisler. 7:30 p.m. Free; reservations required. Austrian Cultural Forum, 3524 International Court NW. acfdc.org. 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. â&#x2013; The Mulligan Brothers and the Christian Lopez Band will perform. 8 p.m. $12. Gypsy Sallyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, 3401 K St. NW. gypsysallys.com. â&#x2013; The Icelandic record label/collective Bedroom Community will present a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Whale Watching Tour 2016â&#x20AC;? concert by its artists. 8 p.m. $25 to $30. Lisner Auditorium, George Washington University, 730 21st St. NW. 202-994-6800.

Discussions and lectures â&#x2013; The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at American University will present a talk by Ed Lazere, executive director of the DC Fiscal Policy Institute, on â&#x20AC;&#x153;DCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Growing Income Divide: What Can We Do About it?â&#x20AC;? 12:15 to 1:15 p.m. Free.

Temple Baptist Church, 3850 Nebraska Ave NW. 202-895-4860. â&#x2013; Journalist and lawyer Joanne Bamberger will discuss her book â&#x20AC;&#x153;Love Her, Love Her Not: The Hillary Paradox.â&#x20AC;? Luncheon at 12:15 p.m.; program at 1 p.m. $10 to $30. Womanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s National Democratic Club, 1526 New Hampshire Ave. NW. 202-232-7363. â&#x2013; Paul Pillar, researcher at the Center for Security Studies of Georgetown University and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, will discuss his book â&#x20AC;&#x153;Why America Misunderstands the World.â&#x20AC;? 5 to 6 p.m. Free; reservations requested. Main Conference Room, Mortara Building, Georgetown University, 3600 N St. NW. guevents.georgetown.edu. â&#x2013; Architectural historian James M. Goode will discuss his book â&#x20AC;&#x153;Capital Houses: Historic Residences of Washington D.C. and Its Environs, 1735-1965,â&#x20AC;? about the Districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s domestic architecture (including Anderson House) and how private life and architectural taste in the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s capital evolved. 6 p.m.

Free. Society of the Cincinnati, Anderson House, 2118 Massachusetts Ave. NW. societyofthecincinnati.org. â&#x2013; Georgetown University professor Dennis Deletant will discuss his book â&#x20AC;&#x153;British Clandestine Activities in Romania During the Second World War.â&#x20AC;? 6 to 8:30 p.m. Free; reservations requested.

Room 301, Bunn Intercultural Center, Georgetown University, 37th and O streets NW. guevents.georgetown.edu. â&#x2013; NPR book critic Glen Weldon will discuss his book â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture.â&#x20AC;?

6:30 p.m. Free. Kramerbooks & Afterwords, 1517 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202387-1400.

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■ Adam Hochschild will discuss his book “Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939.” 7 p.m. Free. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.

■ As part of the Amram Scholar Series, Supreme Court litigator Roberta Kaplan will discuss her successful challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act and her new memoir, “Then Comes Marriage.” 7 p.m. Free. Washington Hebrew Congregation, 3935 Macomb St. NW. whctemple.org/Amram.

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Films ■ The Rev. Dr. Mitri Raheb will present “Palestinian Youth in the Occupied Territories,” featuring two short films by students from the Dar al-Kalima University College in Bethlehem. 5:30 to 7 p.m. Free; reservations required. The Palestine Center, 2425 Virginia Ave. NW. 202-338-1290.

■ American University’s Center for Environmental Filmmaking will present “Chesapeake Footsoldiers,” a forthcoming documentary on Maryland Public Television that was written, produced, shot, directed and edited by students in the Environmental & Wildlife Production class. A panel discussion will follow. 7 p.m. Free. Doyle/Forman Theater, McKinley Building, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW. 202885-3408.

■ The Washington DC Jewish Community Center will present Santje Kramer’s 2014 documentary “Tikotin: A Life Devoted to Japanese Art.” 7:30 to 9 p.m. $13.50. Washington DC Jewish Community Center, 1529 16th St. NW. washingtondcjcc.org.

Performances and readings ■ Cleveland-based Ballet in the City will present “Bloch’s Evening with Kathryn Morgan,” featuring a program that tells Morgan’s story from her early years through her career as a star at the New York City Ballet to her current success as a freelance ballerina touring the country. 7 p.m. $25 to $45. Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.

The performance will repeat Wednesday at 7 p.m.

■ The Lannan Center author series will feature a reading by British poet Sean O’Brien. 8 p.m. Free. Copley Formal Lounge, Copley Hall, Georgetown University, 37th and O streets NW. lannan.georgetown.edu.

■ The Washington Improv Theater’s “Harold Night” will feature longform improv performances by various ensembles. 8 and 9 p.m. By donation. Source, 1835 14th St. ■ Busboys and Poets will host the Beltway Poetry Slam. 9 to 11 p.m. $5.

Busboys and Poets Brookland, 625 Monroe St. NE. 202-636-7230.

■ Busboys and Poets will present an open mic poetry night hosted by Khadijah Moon. 9 to 11 p.m. $5. Langston Room, Busboys and Poets, 2021 14th St. NW. 202-387-7638.

Tour ■ A U.S. Botanic Garden volunteer will lead an afternoon tour. 2 to 3 p.m.

Free. Meet in the Conservatory Garden Court, U.S. Botanic Garden, 100 Mary-

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Classes and workshops ■ Kripalu yoga teacher Eva Blutinger will lead a “Yoga in the Galleries” class.

10 a.m. $10. American University Museum, Katzen Arts Center, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW. 202-885-1300.

■ A master class led by San Francisco’s Sean Dorsey will feature an invigorating warmup incorporating elements of yoga, Pilates, release technique, footwork and center work, followed by instruction in repertory material from the D.C. premiere of “The Missing Generation.” 10:15 a.m. to noon. $15.

Dance Place, 3225 8th St. NE. 202269-1600.

■ St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Rock Creek, will host a weekly tai chi class. 2 p.m. Free. St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Rock Creek, 201 Allison St. NW. 202726-2080.

■ The National Archives will celebrate the annual Cherry Blossom Festival with a hands-on workshop on how to fold traditional Japanese origami.

5:30 p.m. Free; reservations required.

Boeing Learning Center, National Archives Building, Constitution Avenue between 7th and 9th streets NW. RSVP at education@nara.gov with “adult workshops” in the subject line.

■ The Vajrayogini Buddhist Center will host a weekly class on meditation. 7 to 8:30 p.m. $6 to $12. Vajrayogini Buddhist Center, 1787 Columbia Road NW. 202-986-2257.

■ ArtJamz will present a “Paint Like O’Keeffe” class. 7 to 9 p.m. $32 to $35.

ArtJamz Brookland Studio, 617 Monroe St. NE. artjamzdc.com.

Concerts ■ Singer-songwriter Mo Kenney will perform, at 7:30 p.m.; and singer-songwriters Stephen Babcock, Brad Goodall and Luca Di Fabio will perform, at 10 p.m. Free. Gypsy Sally’s Vinyl Lounge, 3401 K St. NW. gypsysallys.com.

■ Jackass Flats and the Dirty Grass Players will perform. 8 p.m. $10. Gypsy Sally’s, 3401 K St. NW. gypsysallys.com.

■ Herb Scott will host a weekly Capitol Hill Jazz Jam. 8 to 11 p.m. No cover; two item per person minimum. Mr. Henry’s Restaurant, 601 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. 202-546-8412.

Discussions and lectures ■ Curatorial assistant Stephanie Midon will discuss highlights from the collection of the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Noon to 12:30 p.m.

Free. National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1250 New York Ave. NW. 202-7837370.

■ Joyojeet Pal, assistant professor at the University of Michigan, will discuss “Narendra Modi, Twitter, and the Selfie State,” about the social media efforts and success of India’s prime minister.

12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Free; reservations required. Room 701, Bunn Intercultural Center, Georgetown University, 37th and O streets NW. guevents.georgetown.edu.

■ Mohamed Keshavjee, a secondgeneration South African of Indian orgin, will discuss his book “Into That Heaven of Freedom,” about the history of his extended family since 1894. 12:30 to 2 p.m. Free; reservations required. Room 462, Bunn Intercultural Center, Georgetown University, 37th and O streets NW.

Wednesday, march 30 ■ Discussion: Augusten Burroughs will discuss his book “Lust & Wonder: A Memoir.” 6:30 p.m.Free. Langston Room, Busboys and Poets, 2021 14th St. NW. 202-387-7638. guevents.georgetown.edu.

■ Economist and attorney Michael Shuman, author of “The Last Economy Solution,” will discuss “Smart Economic Development Through Enterprise Pollinators.” 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. $10; free for members. Reservations required.

National Building Museum, 401 F St. NW. 202-272-2448.

■ The Tenley-Friendship Book Discussion Group will delve into Sam Kean’s “The Violinist’s Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code.” 2 p.m. Free. Tenley-Friendship Library, 4450 Wisconsin Ave. NW. 202727-1488.

■ Yerken Turganbayev, visiting scholar at Harvard University, will discuss “Regional Disparities in Kazakhstan.” 4:30 to 6 p.m. Free; reservations required. Suite 412, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, 1957 E St. NW. go.gwu.edu/yerken.

■ Brian A. King, deputy director for research translation at the Office of Smoking and Health at the Centers for Disease Control, will discuss “Public Health Promise or Peril? The Rise of E-cigarettes and Implications for Tobacco Control Policy.” 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.

Free. Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University, 950 New Hampshire Ave. NW. 202-9947294.

■ The George Washington University Women’s Studies Program will present a talk by Tulane University professor Anastasia Gage on “Female Genital Circumcision.” 5 to 7 p.m. Free. Room B07, Media and Public Affairs Building, George Washington University, 805 21st

St. NW. calendar.gwu.edu.

■ Harvard University professor Sven Beckert, a specialist on the United States in the 19th century with an emphasis on the history of capitalism, will discuss his book “Empire of Cotton: A Global History.” 5 to 6 p.m. Free. Abramson Family Recital Hall, Katzen Arts Center, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW. 202-885-2425.

■ The “Business in the Capital” series will feature a talk by D.C. Chief Financial Officer Jeffrey DeWitt. 5 to 7 p.m. Free. Kogod Student Lounge, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW. american.edu/calendar.

■ Public programs manager Nona Martin will discuss the collages of Romare Bearden and how the artist expressed a powerful and personal narrative. 5:30 p.m. Free. Meet in the G Street lobby, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 8th and G streets NW. 202633-1000.

■ “Pumped Dry: The Global Crisis of Vanishing Groundwater” will feature a talk by Steve Elfers of USA Today and Ian James of The Desert Sun in Palm Springs, Calif., on their joint investigation supported by the Pulitzer Center. 5:30 p.m. Free. Lecture Hall 2, Ward Circle Building, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW. american.edu/calendar.

■ Alison Cardy will discuss her book “Career Grease: How to Get Unstuck and Pivot Your Career.” 6 to 8 p.m. Free; reservations required. Cullen Room, Busboys and Poets, 1025 5th St. NW. 202789-2227.

■ The Sibley Institute of Bone & Joint Health will present a seminar by orthopedic surgeon Anthony Unger on “Anterior Hip Replacement Surgery.” 6:30 to 8 p.m. Free; reservations required. Conference Room 2, Sibley Medical Office Building, 5215 Loughboro Road NW. 202-660-6683.

■ Law professor and humorist Jay Wexler will discuss his book “When God Isn’t Green: A World-Wide Journey to Places Where Religious Practice and Environmentalism Collide.” 6:30 p.m.

Free. Kramerbooks & Afterwords, 1517 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-387-1400.

■ National Capital Authority chief executive Malcolm Snow will discuss the continuing evolution of Canberra, Australia, as a planned capital city. 6:30 to 8 p.m. Free. National Capital Planning Commission, Suite 500N, 401 9th St. NW. 202-482-7200.

■ Historian Bill Keene will discuss “Philip Johnson: A Life of Architectural Invention,” about the career of one of the most important figures in architecture and the arts in the second half of the 20th century. 6:45 to 9 p.m. $30 to

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■ Peggy Orenstein will discuss her book “Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape.” 7 p.m. Free.

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

■ The Petworth Library’s “A Song of Ice and Fire” Book Club will discuss “The Princess and the Queen, or, the Blacks and the Greens,” one of the short story prequels written by George R.R. Martin. 7 p.m. Free. Reading Room, Petworth Citizen, 829 Upshur St. NW. 202-243-1188.

■ Georgetown University’s Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life will host a discussion on “Faith, Francis and the 2016 Campaign,” featuring panelists Lauren Ashburn, E.J. Dionne Jr., Emma Green, Gregory Smith and Michael Sean Winters. 7 to 8:30 p.m. Free. Auditorium, Bunn Intercultural Center, Georgetown University, 37th and O streets NW. berkleycenter.georgetown. edu/cst.

■ As part of a festival celebrating historic dance commissions, Martha Graham Dance Company artistic director Janet Eilber will discuss “Cave of the Heart: Noguchi’s Set for the Graham Ballet.” 7 p.m. Free; tickets required.

Whittall Pavilion, Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, 10 1st St. SE. loc. gov/concerts/marthagrahamweek.html.

■ Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic’s national correspondent, will talk to Atlantic editor-in-chief James Bennet about “The Obama Doctrine,” Goldberg’s newly published, historic account of President Barack Obama’s worldview. 7 p.m. $15. Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, 600 I St. NW. 877-987-6487.

■ The Georgetown Library’s Twentythirtysomething Book Club will discuss “The People in the Trees” by Hanya Yanagihara. 7:30 p.m. Free; reservations requested. Mad Fox Tap Room, 2218 Wisconsin Ave. NW. julia.strusienski@dc.gov.

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Cullen Room, Busboys and Poets, 1025 5th St. NW. 202-789-2227.

Continued From Page 25 terâ&#x20AC;? series, documentarian Jan Krawitz will screen and discuss her latest project, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Perfect Strangers,â&#x20AC;? about the parallel stories of one woman who decides to give away one of her kidneys and another who endures nightly dialysis amid dwindling hope of receiving a transplant. 7 p.m. Free. Doyle/Forman Theater, McKinley Building, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW. 202-885-2220.

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Performances and readings â&#x2013; As part of the National Cherry Blossom Festival, the Tsugaru Shamisen duo Ko Takahashi and Masao Habu will present a fusion of percussive-style music at a performance sponsored by the Japan Information and Culture Center in collaboration with the Kennedy Center and the Japan Foundation New York. 6 p.m. Free. Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600. â&#x2013; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Evenings with Extraordinary Artistsâ&#x20AC;? will present Carolyn Griffin, producing artistic director of MetroStage Theater in Alexandria and her actors performing scenes from the forthcoming production â&#x20AC;&#x153;BlackPearl Sings!â&#x20AC;? A recep-

Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s programs â&#x2013; A U.S. Botanic Garden docent will host a â&#x20AC;&#x153;March Snugglersâ&#x20AC;? 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 Garden Court, U.S. Botanic Garden, 100 Maryland Ave. SW. 202225-8333. â&#x2013; â&#x20AC;&#x153;March Movie Series: Miniature Worldsâ&#x20AC;? will feature â&#x20AC;&#x153;Toy Story,â&#x20AC;? at 2 p.m.; and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Toy Story 2,â&#x20AC;? at 4 p.m. Free.

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

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prospective homebuyers. 11 a.m. Free; reservations requested. Suite 100, 2410 17th St. NW. housingetc.org. â&#x2013; Iona Senior Services will host a weekly dance class designed for people living with Parkinsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s disease and led by teachers trained by the Mark Morris Dance Group. 2 to 3 p.m. $10 to $13 per class; free for an introductory session. Iona Senior Services, 4125 Albemarle St. NW. 202-253-7946. â&#x2013; Instructor Nina Dunham will lead a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gentle Gyrokinesisâ&#x20AC;? class to improve posture, balance and agility. 4 p.m. Free; reservations required. Guy Mason Recreation Center, 3600 Calvert St. NW. 202-727-7527. â&#x2013; The Dumbarton House will host an â&#x20AC;&#x153;English Country Danceâ&#x20AC;? class in preparation for the Sparkling Spring Ball. 7 to 9 p.m. $10 to $25; reservations required. Dumbarton House, 2715 Q St. NW. 202-337-2288.

Concerts â&#x2013; Singer Karen Beasley and pianist Greg Parker will present â&#x20AC;&#x153;Broadway Comes to Whittemore House,â&#x20AC;? a cabaret event featuring popular songs from musical theater. 6 to 8 p.m. $40. Womanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s National Democratic Club, 1526 New Hampshire Ave. NW. 202-2327363. â&#x2013; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Night at the Operaâ&#x20AC;? will celebrate the 150th anniversary of Ferruccio Busoni with a recital by pianist Gianluca Luisi featuring music by Verdi and Bach.

7 to 8 p.m. Free; reservations required.

Auditorium, Embassy of Italy, 3000 Whitehaven St. NW. www.iicwashington. esteri.it. â&#x2013; The Matchsellers will perform.

7:30 p.m. Free. Gypsy Sallyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Vinyl Lounge, 3401 K St. NW. gypsysallys. com. â&#x2013; Chesapeake Sons, the Vegabonds and Maradeen will perform. 8 p.m. $10 to $14. Gypsy Sallyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, 3401 K St. NW. gypsysallys.com. â&#x2013; Stewart Lewis will perform folk/ Americana music. 8 to 11 p.m. No cover; two item per person minimum.

Mr. Henryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Restaurant, 601 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. 202-546-8412.

Discussions and lectures â&#x2013; St. Anselmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Abbey School will host a conference on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Radicalization and Reconciliation in Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Name: An Interfaith Inquiry,â&#x20AC;? featuring representatives from five major world religions and moderated by Shaun Casey, U.S. special representative for religion and global affairs. 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Free; reservations required by March 28. St. Anselmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Abbey, 4501 South Dakota Ave. NE. stanselms.org/symposium2016. â&#x2013; The â&#x20AC;&#x153;Textiles at Twelveâ&#x20AC;? series will feature an overview by senior curator Sumru Belger Krody on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Central Asian Carpets 101.â&#x20AC;? Noon. Free. George Washington University Museum and Textile Museum, 701 21st St. NW. 202-9945200. â&#x2013; Architectural scholar Charles Robertson, deputy director emeritus of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, will discuss his book â&#x20AC;&#x153;American Louvreâ&#x20AC;? and the impact of the Renwick Gallery building on art and architecture in the United States. Noon to 1 p.m. Free. Grand Salon, Renwick Gallery, 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW. 202-6331000. â&#x2013; Zenith Gallery will present a panel discussion on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Portraiture and Commissions,â&#x20AC;? featuring artists Ken Girardini,

Thursday, march 31 â&#x2013; Concert: The National Symphony Orchestra, conductor Cristian Macelaru and violinist Nikolaj Znaider will perform works by Brahms, FaurĂŠ, Jalbert and Debussy. 7 p.m. $15 to $89. Concert Hall, Kennedy Center. 202467-4600. The performance will repeat Friday at 11:30 a.m. and Saturday at 8 p.m.

Julie Girardini and Bradley Stevens. 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Free. Zenith Gallery, 1429 Iris St. NW. 202-783-2963. â&#x2013; Author and historian Brent D. Glass will discuss his book â&#x20AC;&#x153;50 Great American Places: Essential Historic Sites Across the U.S.â&#x20AC;?

5:30 to 7 p.m. Free; reservations required. Heurich House Museum, 1307 New Hampshire Ave. NW. heurichhouse.org. â&#x2013; A seminar series on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Matter, Consciousness and Traumaâ&#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. TenleyFriendship Library, 4450 Wisconsin Ave. NW. 202-727-1488. The seminar series will continue April 14 and April 28. â&#x2013; The American Ethnological Society will host a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Homeland Insecurityâ&#x20AC;? book event featuring Colby College professor Catherine Besteman, author of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Somali Bantu Refugees and Lewiston, Maineâ&#x20AC;?; University of Chicago professor Joseph Masco, author of â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Theater of Operations: National Security Affect From the Cold War to the War on Terrorâ&#x20AC;?; and George Mason University professor Janine Wedel, author of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Unaccountable: How Elite Power Brokers Corrupt Our Finances, Freedom, and Security.â&#x20AC;? 6 to 8 p.m. Free. Cullen Room, Busboys and Poets, 1025 5th St. NW. 202-789-2227. â&#x2013; The American Goethe Society will present a talk on â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Transnational Blockbuster â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Das Bootâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and German Film Historyâ&#x20AC;? by Hester Baer, associate professor of German and film studies at the University of Maryland. 6:45 p.m. Free; reservations required. Goethe-Institut Washington, Suite 3, 1900 K St. NW. mhd33@georgetown.edu. â&#x2013; Sarah Bakewell will discuss her book â&#x20AC;&#x153;At the Existentialist Cafe: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails.â&#x20AC;? 7 p.m.

Free. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919. â&#x2013; As part of a festival celebrating

historic Library of Congress dance commissions, Noguchi Museum senior curator Dakin Hart will discuss â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sculpting Beyond the Pedestal: Isamu Noguchiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sets for Dance 1928-1988.â&#x20AC;?

7 p.m. Free; tickets required. Whittall Pavilion, Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, 10 1st St. SE. loc.gov/ concerts/marthagrahamweek.html. â&#x2013; Sports journalist CĂŠsar Brioso will discuss his book â&#x20AC;&#x153;Havana Hardball: Spring Training, Jackie Robinson, and the Cuban League.â&#x20AC;? 7 p.m. Free. Upshur Street Books, 827 Upshur St. NW. upshurstreetbooks.com. â&#x2013; George Washington University will host a screening of CNNâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Race for the White House: Kennedy v. Nixon,â&#x20AC;? followed by a panel discussion. Speakers will include Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, managing director at the Rock Creek Group; Amy Entelis, executive vice president for talent and content development for CNN Worldwide; and Matthew Dallek, assistant professor at George Washington University. 7 p.m.

Free; reservations required. Jack Morton Auditorium, School of Media and Public Affairs, George Washington University, 805 21st St. NW. smpa.gwu.edu. â&#x2013; Alexis Pauline Gumbs will discuss her anthology â&#x20AC;&#x153;Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Frontlines.â&#x20AC;? 7 to 9 p.m.

Free. Potterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s House, 1658 Columbia Road NW. 202-232-5483. â&#x2013; WAMU host Diane Rehm will discuss her memoir â&#x20AC;&#x153;On My Ownâ&#x20AC;? in conversation with Washington Post enterprise reporter Mike Rosenwald (rescheduled date). 7 p.m. $20 to $35. Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, 600 I St. NW. 877987-6487.

Films â&#x2013; A Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s History Month film screening will feature Abby Moserâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s documentary â&#x20AC;&#x153;Grrrl Love and Revolution: Riot Grrrl New York City.â&#x20AC;? 7 p.m. Free.

Mount Pleasant Library, 3160 16th St. NW. 202-671-3121. â&#x2013; Climber and director Majka Burhardt will present her film â&#x20AC;&#x153;Namuli,â&#x20AC;? about an expedition into one of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s least-explored habitats, Mount Namuli in Mozambique. 7 p.m. Free.

Patagonia Washington, D.C., 1048 Wisconsin Ave. NW. 202-333-1776.

Performances â&#x2013; Comedian Adam Cayton-Holland will perform. 6 p.m. Free; tickets distributed in the States Gallery a half hour before the performance. Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600. â&#x2013; George Washington University will present the Stephen Sondheim musical â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Little Night Music,â&#x20AC;? about the romantic lives of several couples. 7:30 p.m. $10 to $20. Dorothy Betts Marvin Theater, Marvin Center, George Washington University, 800 21st St. NW. theatredance.columbian.gwu.edu. The performance will repeat Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m.

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This week, some fifth-graders went to the annual citywide chess tournament. There were a lot of contests! But anyway, here is the weekly news: On Monday, we went to Fillmore, and hoped that it will stay open. The fourth-graders are still trying to get signatures for a petition to keep Fillmore open.

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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 “Knit & Sip,” an evening of knitting and wine. 7 to 9 p.m. $30. Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, 545 7th St. SE. 202-5476839.

Concerts ■ The Friday Morning Music Club will present works by Franck and other composers. Noon. Free. Calvary Baptist Church, 755 8th St. NW. 202-333-2075.

■ Kenneth Lowenberg of Washington, D.C., will present an organ recital.

12:15 p.m. Free. National City Christian Church, 5 Thomas Circle NW. 202-7970103.

■ Afghan musician Homayun Sakhi, the leading exponent of the 18-stringed rubāb (lute), will perform classical Afghan music and discuss its history. 1 p.m. Free. International Gallery, S. Dillon Ripley Center, 1100 Jefferson Drive SW. 202-633-1000.

■ The KC Jazz Club will present the Helen Sung Quintet. 7 and 9 p.m. $39.

Terrace Gallery, Kennedy Center. 202467-4600.

■ The Marine Chamber Orchestra will perform works by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Sir William Walton and Jean Sibelius. 7:30 p.m. Free. National Presbyterian Church, 4101 Nebraska Ave. NW. 202-433-4011.

Bowl, where Peter, Ellen Lurie, Jonathan Lurie, Julia Black and Beverly Coronado won first place!

On Thursday, it was St. Patrick’s Day and a PTA St. Patrick’s Day coffee on the playground.

People were selling raffle tickets for our upcoming auction. There were also doughnuts.

And finally on Friday, second and fourth grades had publishing parties, and the third-graders went to the National Building Museum.

And on Saturday, we were scheduled to have the eighth annual Ross auction at the Human Rights Campaign. We hope you could make it!

— Ellen Lurie, fourth-grader

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On March 2, St. Patrick’s fifthgraders went to the Wonder exhibit at the Renwick Gallery.

The Wonder exhibit is a unique contemporary exhibition that includes installations designed for the space they occupy and are made of everyday items like ■ The D.C.-based duo SmithJackson will perform Ω folk, rock and bluegrass.

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

■ The American University Jazz Orchestra will perform “Spring Swing.” 8 p.m. $5 to $10. Abramson Family Recital Hall, Katzen Arts Center, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW. 202-885-3634.

■ Washington Performing Arts and Lisner Auditorium will present sitar virtuoso Anoushka Shankar. 8 p.m. $32 to $55. Lisner Auditorium, George Washington University, 730 21st St. NW. 202994-6800.

■ The Richmond, Va.-based No BS! Brass Band will perform. 9 p.m. $15 to $19. Gypsy Sally’s, 3401 K St. NW. gypsysallys.com.

Discussions and lectures ■ Steve Buchmann, adjunct professor of entomology at the University of Arizona, Tucson, will discuss “The Reason for Flowers.” Noon to 1 p.m. Free; reservations required. Conservatory Classroom, U.S. Botanic Garden, 100 Maryland Ave. SW. 202-225-8333.

■ “Rethinking Modernism Today” will feature art historians Barbara Haskell, Valerie Fletcher and Randall Griffey discussing major American artists featured in the exhibition “Crosscurrents: Modern Art From the Sam Rose and Julie Walters Collection.” 1 to 4 p.m. Free. McEvoy Auditorium, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 8th and G streets NW. 202-633-1000.

■ A chemistry seminar series will feature a research talk by Jonathan Sweedler of the University of Illinois.

1:45 to 3 p.m. Free. Room B1220, Science and Engineering Hall, George Washington University, 800 22nd St. NW. 202-994-6121.

■ Marjorie Ransom, a former diplomat and an expert on Yemeni culture, will discuss how Yemen’s terrain separated people into discrete communities, each with their own weaving designs and motifs. 4 p.m. Free; reservations required. George Washington University Museum and Textile Museum, 701 21st

index cards, tires and bugs.

When we returned to school, each fifth-grade class designed its own installation for a specific space at St. Patrick’s. We designed the installations in our math and art classes. Because it was part of math class, we had to include similar and congruent polygons, which we have been studying, in our installations.

One class was inspired by the Renwick’s “bug room,” by Jennifer Angus, and the string rainbow,

by Gabriel Dawe, so we decided to include elements of each in our installation. We cut out bug shapes; each student made multiples that showed congruence and similarity. Then, we hung them by fishing lines from the walls.

We used strobe lights and a spotlight to illuminate the installation, which made interesting shadows on the wall, and resembled the string rainbow at the Renwick.

This project was fun because we got to use our imagination to create something that showed congruency and similarity while still being interesting to look at St. NW. 202-994-7394.

■ As part of a festival celebrating historic Library of Congress dance commissions, choreographer Pontus Lidberg and Martha Graham Dance Company artistic director Janet Eiberg will present a pre-concert talk on their performance of “Appalachian Spring,” “Cave of the Heart,” “Saraband” and new work by Pontus Lidberg. 6:30 p.m Free. Whittall Pavilion, Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, 10 1st St. SE. loc.gov/ concerts/marthagrahamweek.html.

■ Heidi Julavits will discuss her book “The Folded Clock: A Diary.” 7 p.m. Free.

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

Film ■ Alliance Française de Washington will present Eric Lartigau’s 2014 film “La Famille Bélier,” about a young woman with deaf parents who discovers she has an amazing singing voice. 7 p.m. Free; reservations requested. Alliance Française de Washington, 2142 Wyoming Ave. NW. francedc.org.

Performances and readings ■ “Superman 2050” will feature seven performers on a tiny platform acting out the Man of Steel’s latest adventure at breakneck speed using only their bodies and voices to create every prop, scene, character and sound effect (for ages 7 and older). 7 p.m. $20 to $25.

Family Theater, Kennedy Center. 202467-4600. The performance will repeat Saturday and Sunday at 1:30 and 4 p.m.

■ The Coil Project will present a spring anthology of four comedies: “The Last Rager,” written by Andy De and directed by Rebecca Fischler; “On the Rocks,” written by Jenny Oberholtzer and directed by Eric Cline; “A Fistful of Doilies,” written by Erica Smith and directed

by Jenny Oberholtzer; and “Family Circus,” written and directed by Michael Reilly. 7:30 p.m. $15 to $18. DC Arts Center, 2438 18th St. NW. 202-4627833. The performance will repeat April 2 and 8 at 7:30 p.m.

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and to make. During the preinstallation process, each of us could contribute a personal touch.

We also got to see math concepts in action.

— Carys Davenport, Henry Frickert, Abigail Gray, Lucy Jacobs, Damien Kelliher, Laila Kostorowski, Alex Meek, Elizabeth Rossotti, Will Spector, Ray Stephens and Jack Tompkins, fifth-graders

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The admissions process for the class of 2020 has entered its third and final stage. Two weeks ago about 250 prospective students and their parents had separate interviews with a mixed panel of students and teachers. These students received the highest scores from an admissions exam administered in February. From the test scores and interviews, about 140 students (plus some on a waiting list) are ranked and will be offered admission on April 1 for the class of 2020.

— Michael Edgell, 10th-grader pany will present “Appalachian Spring,” with music by Aaron Copland; “Cave of the Heart,” with music by Samuel Barber; “Saraband” from “Dark Meadow,” with music by Carlos Chávez; and new work by Pontus LIdberg, with music by Irving Fine. 8 p.m. Free; tickets required.

Coolidge Auditorium, Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, 10 1st St. SE. loc. gov/concerts/marthagrahamweek.html.

The performance will repeat Saturday at 2 and 8 p.m.

■ An evening of comedy will feature Maz Jobrani, Amir K, Omid Singh and Kiosk. 8 p.m. $25 to $110. Concert Hall, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.

■ Beny Blaq will host the “Live! From Busboys Talent Showcase.” 11 p.m. to 1 a.m. $5. Langston Room, Busboys and Poets, 2021 14th St. NW. 202-3877638.

Special events ■ As part of the monthly First Friday Dupont art event, the Heurich House Museum will host pop-ups by local makers Gaylia Wagner Design and Palo Borracho. 6 to 8 p.m. Free. Heurich House Museum, 1307 New Hampshire Ave. NW. 202-429-1894.

■ An art and fashion event — “Bycatch. By Hand.” — will feature work by vegan painter Dana Ellyn and sustainable couture fashion designer Lucy Tammam. 6 to 8 p.m. Free admission. P Street Gallerie, 3235 P St. NW. 202333-4868. The event will continue Saturday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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