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Solutions sought for infected oaks

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■ Trees: Insect infestation on

rise in common local species

By KELSEY KNORP Current Correspondent

A growing insect infestation has endangered the fates of many willow oak trees throughout the District, according to recent research by nonprofit Restore Mass Ave. The group, which focuses on

Massachusetts Avenue NW, recently carried out a pilot project on 12 Embassy Row oaks — treating the trees with acephate injections, which suppress infection in much the same way a vaccine might treat the human body. The D.C. Urban Forestry Administration, responsible for the city’s street trees, is also investigating the extent of the problem and the most environmentally responsible treatment options.

At issue is the oak lecanium

scale, an insect that extracts sap from an oak’s vascular system to thrive.

This weakens the tree and can eventually lead to premature death. William Eck of Bartlett Tree Expert Co., project manager of the Restore Mass Ave pilot, said he has also seen severely infected trees on MacArthur Boulevard, Lowell Street, Loughboro Road and some streets near the Navy Yard.

“On some of those streets, [wilSee Trees/Page 13

YMCA to sell longtime Dupont center

By BRADY HOLT Current Staff Writer

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Though many local games were canceled because of the soggy conditions last week, the St. John’s girls soccer team played through a chilly rainstorm Friday. The Cadets played Archbishop Spalding tough, but ultimately fell to the Maryland school 4-2.

The YMCA will close its longtime National Capital center in Dupont Circle at the end of this year, selling the land to a developer and planning to use the proceeds to expand and bolster services elsewhere.

The nonprofit has run the expansive facility at 1711 Rhode Island Ave. NW for the last 37 years — a period that’s seen great changes to the District’s inner core.

Residential and commercial developments brought more people to the area, but with them came a host of other gyms. YMCA officials say there are more than 30 facilities with similar services within walking distance of the Dupont site, and that membership has declined from 11,000 in the late 1990s to 3,400 today.

“The unfortunate reality is that the YMCA National Capital facility has operated at an increasing financial deficit,” Jackie Dilworth, spokesperson for the nonprofit, See YMCA/Page 7

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Members of the YMCA National Capital on Rhode Island Avenue NW say it would be hard to find the facility’s services and diversity elsewhere.

16th St. study names options for bus lanes

‘Death with dignity’ backers see momentum for D.C. bill

By KELSEY KNORP

■ Council: Measure’s critics

Current Correspondent

After a yearlong study, the D.C. Department of Transportation last week unrolled three broad options to address inefficiencies on the congested 16th Street NW bus corridor.

About 40 local residents and stakeholders gathered at The Chastleton Cooperative Wednesday for a meeting of a citizen advisory group meeting — the latest installment in a two-year negotiation with the Transportation Department and the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority for improvements to the bus line, which serves about 20,000 riders each day.

The first, “service-based” plan focuses primarily on improvements such as all-door boarding and off-board fare payment options for riders.

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A Transportation Department study is analyzing the best approaches for improving bus service along the busy 16th Street NW corridor.

The plan doesn’t emphasize more substantive changes like two-way dedicated bus lanes between Arkansas Avenue and H Street NW, which are proposed in the Transportation Department’s second, “infrastructurebased” option. Under that scheme, the lanes would operate from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. each day to account for extended peak commute hours, according to project See Buses/Page 5

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By MARK LIEBERMAN Current Staff Writer

California joined four other states in providing terminally ill patients the right to request life-ending medication after Gov. Jerry Brown signed the bill into law on Monday. On the opposite coast, Ward 3 D.C. Council member Mary Cheh cheered.

“I was thrilled to hear the news,” Cheh told The Current on Monday.

“It’s a testament to the legacy of

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Zoning board denies appeal of pop-up in 16th Street Heights

St. John’s falls flat in much-anticipated DeMatha matchup

As inquiry wears on, Gray mulls bid for D.C. Council seat

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Brittany Maynard.”

Maynard was a California native who legally ended her life in Oregon after a long battle with brain cancer last year, in the process advocating for the expansion of “death with dignity” rights nationwide. Cheh has followed her story closely, and more broadly has been thinking about the concept of death with dignity for several years.

In late 2011 and early 2012, Cheh pondered introducing a bill to allow D.C. to join four states in allowing life-ending medication for the terminally ill. But the bill, which had the See Bill/Page 13

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Zoning board denies appeal Local flavors, comfort key to Shaw’s Dabney against Varnum St. pop-up ON THE STREET

By BRADY HOLT Current Staff Writer

In June, the city’s Zoning Commission amended its regulations to control the spread of “pop-ups� in the District’s row-house neighborhoods. Members sided with residents who said the aesthetics, character and overall desirability of their communities are jeopardized when row houses are expanded and divided into apartments.

But the regulatory change may have been too late for the neighbors of 1521 Varnum St. NW. Last Tuesday, the Board of Zoning Adjustment — the land-use panel that reviews smaller-scale issues — voted 3-1 to allow construction at the 16th Street Heights property that will transform it from a single-family home into a seven-unit apartment building. “This is a project which, if I wasn’t sitting here as a member of this board, I would be fighting tooth and nail against,â€? said chair Lloyd Jordan. “I don’t like the project. I don’t like what I think it’s going to do to the community. ‌ But I don’t see a way this board can deny it.â€? “To be honest, this is a terrible project, and just terrible for the neighborhood,â€? agreed member Jeffrey Hinkle. But in searching for a legal justification, he added, “I went through item by item and just cannot find anything.â€?

The June regulatory change, affecting the R-4 zone that covers much of Petworth and several other Northwest neighborhoods, caps

After working at a restaurant in Charleston, S.C., for 13 years, Jeremiah Langhorne knew he wanted to return to the region where he grew up. Now he’s arrived in D.C., and he’s brought a brand-new restaurant with him — The Dabney, opening later this month at 122 Blagden Alley NW in Shaw.

For Langhorne, the city is notable for being visually attractive, but more importantly because it’s centrally located among a wide range of food options

buildings at three stories or 35 feet in height, limits them to extending 10 feet beyond the rearmost wall of an adjacent home, and allows only two housing units. 1521 Varnum exceeds each of those new restrictions, but the Zoning Commission didn’t apply them to projects that had already received their building permits.

After the Varnum project’s permits were approved in December 2014, next-door neighbor John Stokes filed an appeal in February, arguing that the D.C. Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs erred in granting the application. The appeal contends that the new construction is effectively creating a second building rather than an addition, that the project was improperly granted a deviation of 21 square feet, and that the developer is violating other various zoning minutiae — arguments that a majority of the zoning board rejected.

The dissenting member — Anthony Hood, who also chairs the Zoning Commission — said his panel will take the unusual step of also reviewing the Varnum Street case in the future. The commission has the authority, at its discretion, to review any Board of Zoning Adjustment decision, and the commission generally has greater authority to establish rules governing a property’s development. “It does give us a little ray of hope,� Stokes said in an interview yesterday. “I just do not want to believe that this type of egregious project could actually take place.�

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The week ahead Wednesday, Oct. 7

The D.C. Water and Sewer Authority will hold a community meeting on its Green Infrastructure Program as part of the DC Clean Rivers Project. The meeting at St. John’s Episcopal Church, 3240 O St. NW, will begin with a presentation at 6:30 p.m., followed by an open house from 7 to 8 p.m.

Thursday, Oct. 8

Dumbarton House will host an open house and reception in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the construction of the Dumbarton Bridge and the historic move of Dumbarton House — by about 70 feet to the north — to accommodate the project and a continuous Q Street. The “Moving Day� event will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. at Dumbarton House, 2715 Q St. NW. Reservations are requested; visit tinyurl.com/dumbartonopenhouse. ■The George Washington University Mount Vernon Campus will hold its quarterly community meeting at 7 p.m. at 4535 W St. NW. Reservations are requested; contact bwaddell@gwu.edu or 202-994-0211.

Saturday, Oct. 10

Mayor Muriel Bowser’s FitDC initiative will present a Ward 4 walk and healthy food demonstration with coach Carrye Brown. The event will begin at 9 a.m. at Takoma Community Center, 300 Van Buren St. NW, and will conclude with healthy snacks at the center. For details, visit fitdc.com.

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The Brightwood Community Association will hold its monthly meeting from 7 to 9 p.m. at St. John United Baptist Church, 6343 13th St. NW.

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The D.C. Board of Ethics and Government Accountability will hold a symposium on “Follow the Money: Improving Ethics Oversight of Contracting With the District Government.� The symposium will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Moot Courtroom at the University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law, 4340 Connecticut Ave. NW. To register, visit bega-dc.gov.

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The traffic signal in front of the Palisades fire station is at last operational, thanks to a request from Ward 3 D.C. Council member Mary Cheh.

Cheh and her staff visited Engine 29 at 4811 MacArthur Blvd.

NW to drop off ceremonial baskets on Sept. 11. During the visit, one of the firefighters asked if she could look into the proper agency to activate the stoplight. The firefighter told Cheh’s staff that the absence of a light caused a crash involving one of the firefighters. “They said, ‘While we have you here, it’s a great way to get some maintenance out of the way,’�

Cheh’s spokesperson Kelly Whittier said. “That was a pretty serious safety hazard.�

The D.C. Department of Transportation installed the traffic signal in 2009, but it was never used because the agency placed it in the path of a planned wider driveway for the fire station. Renovations that included the driveway change were then delayed for several years due to funding pressures and preservation concerns. Work began in September 2012 and the station reopened in April 2014. But the light, shifted to a new position, stayed dark.

Cheh’s office determined that Pepco had jurisdiction over the light and sent an urgent request. By Sept.

29, Pepco officials had come to restore power to the light, which was in need of a secondary electrical service cable, according to Whittier.

Pepco spokesperson Bob Hainey said in an email that Pepco responded to Cheh’s request appropriately but is investigating the cause of the earlier delay. “We are reviewing our records ‌ to determine if the extent of the work required impacted our

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Bill would boost paid medical, family leave

If a new D.C. Council bill is approved, the District will be the first city in the nation to provide paid family and medical leave for all.

The bill, co-written by at-large Council members David Grosso and Elissa Silverman and introduced yesterday, would allow almost any employee working in D.C. or any D.C. resident employed outside of the city to access a government-run fund to pay for up to 16 weeks of leave for a qualifying event. Those events include a birth, an adoption, care for an injured or sick family member, or personal care for a serious health condition.

Boosting the legislation is the DC Paid Family Leave Coalition, an alliance of local citizens, service providers, businesses, and community and advocacy groups.

The program would be financed through a shared system of employer and resident contributions to a citywide paid leave fund, according to a news release. Private-sector employers would cover their employees’ contributions, and those who are self-employed, work for the federal government or reverse commute would be guaranteed paid leave through personal contributions. The District would then replace paychecks for those who need to take leave. Under a progressive schedule, D.C.’s lowest income earners would get 100 percent of their average weekly pay replaced.

But many in the business community are raising concerns, including the DC Chamber of Commerce.

In an Oct. 5 letter to Grosso, the chamber claims that the bill would “make the District of Columbia dangerously uncompetitive at a time when the District is trying to compete for every job it can get.�

According to the chamber, the bill “assumes that all employers do not provide paid leave to employees, there is a prevalent problem that needs legislative remedy, and attempts to give an employee a benefit in a vacuum without looking at the total benefits scheme.� It also notes that the District’s proposal is more “generous� than the programs of the three states that currently offer paid family and medical leave. “And perhaps, more importantly, none of those programs are funded solely by the employer,� the letter says.

Council members Charles Allen, Brianne Nadeau, LaRuby May, Kenyan McDuffie and Mary Cheh introduced the Universal Paid Leave Act of 2015, along with Silverman and Grosso.

Zoning board selects Heath as new chair The Board of Zoning Adjustment yesterday elected a new chair

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and vice chair, after former leader Lloyd Jordan’s four-year term on the board expired Sept. 30.

Members of the board — which reviews requests for modest flexibility from land-use regulations — named vice chair Marnique Heath as their new chair and Frederick Hill as the new vice chair.

Heath is a D.C. architect who specializes in sustainable design, and Hill is a lifelong resident who runs a consulting firm and has developed a number of projects in D.C., according to the Office of Zoning website. Speaking at his last meeting Sept. 29, Jordan said he hopes to leave a legacy of improved efficiency.

Jordan’s replacement on the fivemember board must be nominated by the mayor and approved by the D.C. Council.

Paving project closes Military Road lanes

Rolling lane closures to allow roadwork on Military Road between Oregon Avenue and 14th Street NW began Monday and will extend through Nov. 8.

The closures are part of the D.C. Department of Transportation’s project to replace the 16th Street bridge over Military and upgrade the latter’s median, drainage, lights and signals.

Residents should “expect significant traffic delays in the area,� according to a news release.

First closed will be Military’s eastbound right lane, and next will be the westbound right lane. Then the east- and westbound left lanes will follow. At least one lane in each direction will remain open for the project’s duration.

Correction

In the Sept. 30 issue, the editorial “Small, smart steps� stated incorrectly that the Public Space Committee would consider a proposal for new pedestrian signs between Georgetown and the Foggy Bottom Metro station at its next meeting.

According to a D.C. Department of Transportation spokesperson, the application had not been filed as of last Friday and therefore will not be on the agenda for the committee’s Oct. 22 meeting.

The Current regrets the error.

As a matter of policy, The Current corrects all errors of substance.

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Council mulls Emery Recreation Center name change

By KELSEY KNORP Current Correspondent

At the urging of community groups, the D.C. Council is expected to consider a bill to rename the Emery Recreation Center as the Emery Heights Community Center.

Ward 4 Council member Brandon Todd recently introduced the measure, following a recommendation last fall from the Brightwood/Takoma advisory neighborhood commission.

According to a resolution passed by the commission, many area residents had already begun to call the facility at 5801 Georgia Ave. NW a “community� center after renovations to the site in recent years. The commission also found this designation to be more semantically accurate, as Emery provides senior programs, youth activities and homeless services in addition to recreational options.

And neighborhood resident Lewis Turner, a

longtime coach at the center, said the name change has a historic component as well. The hilltop where the center now stands was once home to Matthew Gault Emery, a Civil War captain and the City of Washington’s last elected mayor before the 1871 Organic Act consolidated the city and neighboring regions Georgetown and Washington County under a single government for the entire District of Columbia. “Emery Heights,� which according to Turner has long been the regional descriptor for the center’s sports teams, is meant to encompass the hilltop and surrounding elevated community where many of the center’s 200 to 300 regular patrons reside.

During the war, the estate served as “Camp Brightwood,� a signal station and transfer point for wounded Union soldiers that proved crucial to the Battle of Fort Stevens in 1864.

When then-President Abraham Lincoln visited the embattled fort to observe, it marked the

BUSES: 16th Street lanes studied From Page 1

manager Megan Kanagy. A new reversible center lane between U and O streets NW would help manage normal traffic while accommodating the new bus lanes. Though the second plan includes no off-board fare payment or all-door boarding options, riders could top off their SmarTrip cards before boarding, courtesy of new technology Metro has been considering for bus stops.

The third proposal suggests fulllength bus lanes to help mitigate traffic, but calls for operation of the southbound lane only from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. each day, while the northbound lane would be available from 4 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., coinciding with peak hours. In this case, two southbound lanes and one northbound would operate between U and O streets in the morning, while two northbound and one southbound would be available for afternoon and evening commutes. Off-board payment and all-door boarding would be offered only to S9 passengers. “It’s very likely that our preferred alternative will be some kind of a hybrid of the three that are shown here,� Kanagy said.

Some proposed improvements drew more public feedback than others. Several attendees criticized a truncation of S1, S2 and S4 downtown stops outlined in the first plan, which would force users to change bus lines to reach those destinations.

Another woman concurred, and also raised concerns that an offboard payment system would prove unenforceable. “It becomes an honor system,� she said. “And what do you do if someone doesn’t pay it? How would you monitor that?�

Some thought restricting offboard payments to the S9 buses, as proposed in the third draft, would lead to rider confusion.

Others, however, favored the offboard payments. “There’s nothing I hate more as a rider than getting on behind the guy that’s like, ‘Can I pay

with pennies?’� one man said.

Despite their distinctions, all three plans propose the same “base improvements� to reduce crowding through consolidation or removal of stops on streets such as Newton, Lamont, L, V and Q. Additional base improvements would work to this same end by reducing the S2 line to two buses in each direction and eliminating S1 and S2 service on 14th Street NW near the Northern Bus Garage. Such service changes would need the transit authority’s approval.

Other base improvements seek to aid traffic operations. The Transportation Department proposes transit signal priority at 15 planned intersections and better headway regulation at five other locations to avoid “bunching� of buses that are off schedule. That could also include a “queue jump� option for buses at busy intersections such as 16th and U streets NW. Street parking restrictions would extend to 10 a.m. according to new peak hours, and K and L streets NW could face restrictions during the afternoon peak.

Concerns about street parking turned out to be another common theme at the meeting. Some criticized the transportation agency for failing to tow illegally parked cars that obstruct 16th Street bus routes.

Several others suggested enhanced parking regulation on side streets, to deter motorists from hogging available parking for extended periods and prompting others to park their cars in the way of the buses.

The Transportation Department will hold four public engagement events throughout the 16th Street corridor area during October to gather input for a “preferred� alternative the citizens advisory group plans to draft in late November or early December. The first meeting is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. today at 16th Street and Spring Place NW. For more information on the times and locations of this month’s meetings or the draft alternatives themselves, visit ddot.dc.gov.

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Emery was also an accomplished architect and builder who cut and laid stones for historic local structures, including the Department of Treasury building, U.S. Patent Office, White House and Washington Monument. “We have a lot of history here,� Turner said.

According to neighborhood commissioner Brenda Speaks, a local group known as Forever Emery spearheaded the effort to give the center a more inclusive name. Forever Emery holds an annual community picnic at Emery and is one of many local groups that regularly use the space.

Speaks hopes the new name will invite local organizations to establish a more diverse range of programs at the center, from academic services to social clubs. “It’s more than just a recreation center,� Speaks said. “It’s for the whole community.�

Thanks to the commission resolution and

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Residents say the Georgia Avenue NW facility is about more than recreation.

additional lobbying by groups like Friends of Emery Heights Community, the change is now spelled out in a bill to be heard by the Committee of the Whole. Todd hopes the hearing will take place before the end of this year. If passed by the committee, the bill would advance to the council agenda for a vote to determine whether it will land on Mayor Muriel Bowser’s desk.

The council member doesn’t seem worried. “This is one of the more straightforward pieces of legislation,� he said.

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â– colonial village

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shepherd park / takoma

Robbery â– 800-899 block, Dahlia St.; 3:40 p.m. Sept. 28. â– 7400-7499 block, 16th St.; 6:46 a.m. Oct. 4.

Theft â– 6658-6799 block, Georgia Ave.; 9:33 p.m. Oct. 2.

Theft from auto â– Laurel Street and Sandy Spring Road; 6:35 a.m. Sept.

28. â– 6600-6699 block, 6th St.; 11 a.m. Sept. 29. â– 1-199 block, Walnut St.; 10 a.m. Oct. 3. â– 6700-6799 block, Sandy Spring Road; 11 a.m. Oct. 3.

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â– Brightwood / manor park

Robbery â– 6400-6489 block, Georgia Ave.; 5:11 p.m. Sept. 29 (with gun). â– 600-699 block, Underwood St.; 6:55 p.m. Oct. 1.

Assault with a dangerous weapon â– 1306-1399 block, Fort Stevens Drive; 11:55 p.m. Sept.

28 (with gun). â– 5900-5999 block, Georgia Ave.; 5:50 p.m. Oct. 4 (with gun).

Theft â– 400-499 block, Van Buren St.; 6 p.m. Sept. 28. â– 6200-6299 block, Georgia Ave.; 2:26 p.m. Oct. 3.

Theft from auto â– 5800-5999 block, 9th St.; 6 a.m. Sept. 30. â– 400-499 block, Van Buren St.; 8 a.m. Sept. 30. â– 6500-6599 block, 7th Place; 12:20 p.m. Oct. 1.

Robbery â– 5400-5499 block, Illinois Ave.; 10:13 p.m. Sept. 29.

Assault with a dangerous weapon â– 5246-5499 block, Colorado Ave.; 5:41 p.m. Oct. 4.

Theft â– 5600-5699 block, Georgia Ave.; 11:17 a.m. Sept. 28. â– 5200-5299 block, Georgia Ave.; 9:36 a.m. Sept. 29. â– 100-199 block, Ingraham St.; 11:45 a.m. Sept. 30. â– 5200-5299 block, Georgia Ave.; 12:25 p.m. Sept. 30. â– 5200-5299 block, Georgia Ave.; 12:35 p.m. Sept. 30.

Theft from auto â– 5100-5199 block, 16th St.; 11:30 a.m. Sept. 29.

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â– 16th Street HEIGHTS PSA 404

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Theft from auto â– 900-927 block, Quincy St.; 11:40 a.m. Sept. 29. â– 1300-1399 block, Quincy St.; 1 p.m. Sept. 29. â– 3800-3899 block, Georgia Ave.; 12:45 a.m. Sept. 30.

psa PSA 407 407 â– petworth

Assault with a dangerous weapon â– 3700-3799 block, Georgia Ave.; 4 p.m. Sept. 28. â– 700-799 block, Quincy St.; 2:04 p.m. Sept. 29.

Burglary â– 710-799 block, Decatur St.; 12:20 p.m. Oct. 4.

Theft from auto â– 5000-5099 block, New Hampshire Ave.; 4:22 p.m.

Sept. 29.

VARNUM: Zoning Commission review expected From Page 3

Besides the alleged legal issues, Stokes and other neighbors blasted the design of the proposed building.

The 38-foot-tall mid-block structure would run perpendicular to the street — facing the adjacent house — and fill most of the property’s backyard. “The allowed deviation in this project will ruin the character of this neighborhood,� Stokes testified at a Sept. 15 hearing. “It visually intrudes and ruins the character, scale and pattern of houses along the front, back and side frontage, as it impairs the purpose of the regulation.�

Another neighbor expressed frustration at the process. “We see other cases coming before you today to get new permission to expand a deck,� she said. “There’s something seri-

ously wrong with the zoning code in D.C. and its implementation when such a huge project like this can fly by with no review.�

In changing the rules for future projects, the Zoning Commission was effectively agreeing with this sentiment. But Board of Zoning Adjustment members last week said that for this project, their hands were tied by the old regulations, which allow an unlimited number of apartment units as long as each unit corresponds to 900 square feet of land area on the property.

1521 Varnum’s generously sized lot — 6,279 square feet — required only the 21-square-foot deviation to allow the seventh unit. And a majority of the zoning board said the seventh unit is not responsible for the ill effects cited by neighbors.

“I’m bound by law,� chair Jordan said before voting to deny the appeal. “I wish I wasn’t.�

Martin Sullivan, attorney for the developer, applauded the board’s decision. “The appeal decision was long-overdue vindication for a project that has been unfairly singled out, even though ‌ it is but one of hundreds of such conversion projects over the past couple years,â€? he wrote in an email to The Current yesterday. “As the Board stated in no uncertain terms, the project was in full compliance with the Zoning Regulations, without question.â€?

Stokes said yesterday that he and his neighbors are continuing to dig into potential legal arguments against the development. “We’re not going to go away,� he said. “We’re looking into all of the possible remedies.�

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YMCA: National Capital center in Dupont set to close at year’s end after sale to Akridge

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wrote in an email. “The current operating situation significantly drains YMCA resources and limits our ability to invest in the mission and serve the community in an effective way.�

Moving forward, the sale means investing in other existing locations, boosting hiring and volunteer opportunities, possibly opening a new D.C. branch in Northeast, Southwest or Southeast, and partnering with other organizations to provide activities and other services outside of YMCA-owned buildings, according to Dilworth. “The Y is one of many nonprofits (such as the YWCA, Martha’s Table and Central Union Mission) which have repositioned their service delivery model to where they can make the greatest impact,� she wrote. “We’re not abandoning the city; in fact we want to increase services.�

The YMCA announced the sale on Thursday. Dilworth declined to share the price, but she identified the buyer as prominent developer Akridge. The District assesses the property at $27.2 million, including $10.7 million for the land alone. An Akridge spokesperson declined to comment.

According to its website, YMCA National Capital’s amenities include a fitness center, a gymnasium, exercise studios, an indoor pool, an indoor track, a racquetball court and even a rock-climbing wall.

Mike Silverstein, a Dupont advisory neighborhood commissioner and former member of the YMCA, said that might have been part of its downfall: Few were able to make use of all the pricey facilities, he said, but their costs nonetheless appeared in high dues. “You have all these other gyms that have proliferated around, all these other options where you’re not paying for services that other people use,� he said.

Silverstein himself dropped his membership and switched to mainly walking around the neighborhood, but he said it was still sad to lose the community fixture. “It’s a good thing, for those who could afford it, to be able to get in the exercise necessary, especially in the winter months when you’re not going to be doing outdoor recreation,� he said. “It’s not like this is the only place that people will go to work out, but it still is a loss for the neighborhood.�

A number of members have been vocal in their displeasure. One, who asked not to be named, praised the facility for attracting a variety of loyalists. “The person next to you on the treadmill is just as likely to have prison tats as a sorority shirt,� the member wrote in an email. “There are few places where so many diverse people have come together.�

Interviewed yesterday at the gym, member Alex Friedman said he’s made his best friends playing basketball at the YMCA. “The Y for me was a second home. It really has that family environment,� he said.

Dilworth said the closure fol-

lowed reluctance by members to pay higher dues and a lack of donor support. (Rates currently stand at $73 per month for an individual, with discounts available for families or members in need of financial assistance.) Even so, she said officials are unsurprised by members’ response to the closure. “Communities across the country have deep ties with their Y, and we understand this change will be hard,� she wrote. “This necessary redistri-

bution of resources, while difficult, will allow the Y to invest in facilities and programs that best support the diverse and growing needs of the greater Washington, DC community.�

Dilworth also noted that the newly renovated YMCA Anthony Bowen at 1325 W St. NW, barely a mile from National Capital, offers many of the same amenities and has already attracted some of the older facility’s members. She added that

the YMCA is “searching for alternative sites with partners across the city� for National Capital’s basketball and racquetball players, who have fewer comparable facilities to choose from. Other popular programs will shift to new locations.

Asked about staffing cuts, Dilworth said “many� of National Capital’s nearly 100 employees will shift to other YMCA sites but did not elaborate further.

One member, James Bedore,

lambasted the organization’s management in an email and said the Anthony Bowen pool is too shallow for his senior water aerobics class.

Another, Ingrid Genzel, said in an interview that she’s open to staying a YMCA member. “I need to check out the [W] Street location, but I really like the instructors here,� Genzel said. “I may just go to a public pool.�

Current correspondent Kelsey Knorp contributed to this report.

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The Northwest

Current

Davis Kennedy/Publisher & Editor Chris Kain/Managing Editor

A dubious approach

Ward 2 D.C. Council member Jack Evans says his legislation to require city residency for newly hired police officers, firefighters and teachers, starting in 2017, is “the beginning of a discussion.” That’s good, because we think the city’s high unemployment rate is an important subject to address — but requiring all new hires to live here is probably not the right solution.

Our main concern is that the approach appears impractical. D.C. had a residency requirement for all government employees from 1980 to 1988, but Congress overturned it, and we’ve no reason to suspect federal legislators would be on board this time.

We also think a residency rule would harm the city’s efforts to attract and retain the best educators and public safety professionals possible, particularly given housing costs in the District. Creating more jobs for locals is undoubtedly important, but not more so than ensuring, that our kids have the strongest possible teachers. Particularly given the city’s long struggle to improve local schools, it seems counterproductive to limit the options for new instructors. Police Chief Cathy Lanier has discussed the need for vigorous hiring to counteract a slew of retirements and other departures, so it’s important to keep this agency competitive as well.

We appreciate the proposal’s goals of decreasing city unemployment and increasing our tax haul. Certainly there’s value in having public safety and education employees live where they work. There are not only psychological impacts like greater buy-in, but also practical benefits — such as teachers who can more easily get to work when snow has tied up the suburbs but barely dusted city streets, and police officers whose short commute would allow quick reporting in the case of a major emergency.

Nevertheless, a strict new rule isn’t the answer. We’d prefer a carrot approach. How about more programs to help our public servants purchase or rent homes in the city, perhaps through income tax credits? Critics of Mr. Evans’ proposal have said it’s unrealistic to expect people making $52,000 a year — the starting salary of most D.C. police officers — to afford the skyrocketing rent and purchase prices of local homes. The council member counters that those hired under his bill would already live here, meaning they’ve determined they can afford the city. But surely some are planning for the long run, choosing suburban communities where they believe they’ll be able to handle life changes like marriage, having children and caring for aging parents or other family members. A residency requirement seems likely to jeopardize retention as their housing needs change — thereby costing the District its investment in their training — or discourage some of the most qualified applicants from seeking jobs here in the first place.

Mr. Evans says he’s open to housing assistance. We’d urge him and his colleagues to study the results of incentive programs elsewhere, as well as those used in the past here. What works and what doesn’t? Also needed are training programs to ensure residents are qualified for these posts. Without sufficient preparation for locals, all the incentive programs in the world won’t mean an increase in resident hires — nor should they.

At last, filling the void

It’s great news that empty retail space in the Walter E. Washington Convention Center is drawing so much attention that the firm handling the leases is having to make cuts. Not so great is the past decade-plus in which most of the space remained empty.

A number of factors have played a part in deterring streetfront retail in the 2003 building, including the delayed opening of the nearby Marriott Marquis hotel, the space’s relatively unappealing exterior aesthetics and, at least according to some, a lack of vigor from the previous broker.

But operator Events DC has now signed a firm, Streetsense, that’s drawing enthusiasm — and taking action. Director of retail strategy Jared Meier said among the applicants to open in the nine spaces are a bar-and-grill-style restaurant, a small-format grocer and some specialty fitness options.

Longtime advisory neighborhood commissioner Alex Padro pushed for years for the city to hire Streetsense, and he’s excited the firm is now on the case. Events DC board chair Max Brown hailed Streetsense’s track record in the neighborhood. “They do great work; they bring a broad vision.”

Mr. Meier says he expects to have some new tenants in place by the end of the year. And Mr. Brown also told the Washington Business Journal that the retail push is part of a larger effort to enliven the “gray-facade block” bordered by 7th, 9th and N streets and Mount Vernon Place NW with features like plantings, public art and maybe colorful furniture. We commend Events DC for taking action to improve this important part of the city — though we wish it could have happened sooner.

The return of Vince Gray … ?

It finally, really, broke out into the open last week.

Former D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray, who lost his re-election bid last year, is said to be thinking seriously about trying to revive his political career.

Both the Washington City Paper and The Washington Post wrote that Gray has confided to friends and others that he is considering a race for either an at-large seat or the Ward 7 seat on the D.C. Council next year. The potential race had been mentioned on the radio and in many conversations, but the newspaper reports made it a more current, public topic.

Gray has not spoken publicly on the subject, neither denying nor affirming his plans. Last June, on WPFW radio, Gray said in response to a question, “I’ve ruled nothing out, ruled nothing in.” The question was posed by Gray’s 2014 campaign manager and guest host Chuck Thies. The exchange was reported by NBC4.

Yet, those who have talked with Gray recently say he is embittered over his re-election loss to Muriel Bowser in April 2014. He blames the long-running federal investigation into his 2010 campaign for mayor and the continuing legal questions around the $650,000 “shadow” campaign that helped him defeat then-Mayor Adrian Fenty.

The federal probe is now four-and-a-half years old. Seven people have pleaded guilty during the investigation of the scheme. An eighth, former Gray fundraiser Reuben Charles, was indicted last week on two misdemeanor counts of failing to file federal income taxes. The indictment itself did not reference the Gray investigation, but the news release issued by acting U. S. Attorney Vincent Cohen did.

Even the Post editorial page, which has castigated Gray’s murky 2010 campaign, more lately has called on prosecutors to charge Gray or signal the end of the investigation. At every public moment, the prosecutors say only that “the investigation is continuing.”

So is a potential Gray campaign a challenge to prosecutors, one daring them to indict him or end their investigation? It is a serious gamble if Gray has any culpability. Only he knows that for sure. Those close to Gray say he insists he did nothing wrong and has turned down possible plea agreements.

Gray would run in a Democratic primary, facing either incumbent at-large member Vincent Orange or current Ward 7 member Yvette Alexander. Alexander had been one of Gray’s strongest backers on the council. But as the late Marion Barry said when he defeated Ward 8 member Wilhelmina Rolark and later Ward 8’s Sandy Allen, “It’s not personal; it’s politics.”

Even among those who questioned his 2010 campaign, many believe Gray was a good mayor. While Gray’s lawyer Bob Bennett counseled, Gray went about economic development, environmental reforms and education and recreation improvements, among other achievements. But Gray couldn’t shake the corruption campaign and was defeated for re-election.

Prosecutors consider public corruption cases the hallmark of the Justice Department. If Gray does

come out of political retirement, the prosecutors may be as much a challenge as those who run against him.

■ Scherzer vs. Sherwood? Last week we said goodbye to the 2015 baseball season as far as the Nationals were concerned. We bemoaned how the underperforming Nats had to limp into New York City to play three final games of the season against the Mets — the very same Mets who had squashed the Nats to become division champions.

But our goodbye was a tad early. The Nats went on to win two out of three of those final games — but that wasn’t the season-ending highlight.

Nats pitcher Max Scherzer threw a no-hitter Saturday night in a game the Nats won 2-0. He is only the sixth pitcher to toss two no-hitters in the same season, and the first since Nolan Ryan did so in 1973.

And Scherzer’s 17 strikeouts tied Ryan’s record for the most in a no-hit game. But it also was a new record for a no-hit, no-walk game. On Monday, Major League Baseball named him the National League Player of the Week.

The heroics don’t save the sorry season, in which many had expected the Nats to complete for the World Series. The team didn’t make it even into the postseason. The no-hitter was kind of lipstick on a pig, but a sweet ending to a bad-dream season.

■ On to 2016? It wasn’t a fast finish to the season.

Playing 162 games takes a lot of months — mentally longer if you’re losing. But, as expected, the Nationals wasted no time in shaking up the team leadership.

On Sunday, just prior to a final loss in the last game of the season, Nats general manager Mike Rizzo was asked about the fate of the team and manager Matt Williams.

“We’ll make decisions sooner rather than later about personnel on the field, off the field and in the front office,” he told sports writers. “We are not going to let people twist in the wind.”

Well, there wasn’t any time for blowing in the wind. There wasn’t even time for a breeze.

On Monday, Rizzo sacked the manager and the whole coaching staff. Just a year ago, Williams had been named National League Manager of the Year.

“Really a tough day,” Rizzo said in a telephone news conference, noting he had done the firing faceto-face. That telephone call was a bit easier than facing down the sports reporters and the cameras. Rizzo made the understatement of the year during the call: “It wasn’t our best year. It wasn’t Matt’s best year.

It wasn’t my best year. As an organization, it wasn’t our best year.”

But some wondered whether Rizzo himself might be let go along with the manager. Several baseball experts and reporters (they can be different sometimes) agree Rizzo has developed a deep farm system and put together a talented major league team despite roster changes to come. All that suggests that at least Rizzo will be back for the 2016 season. But watch the door.

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

TOM SHERWOOD’s

Notebook

Letters to the Editor Homeless families need dining space

As Jessica Wasserman pointed out in the last edition, Mayor Muriel Bowser’s follow-through on her commitment to better serve homeless families must be commended [“Ward 3 must assist on homelessness,” Letters to the Editor, Sept. 30]. The sooner the needs of homeless families can

be addressed by closing D.C. General — with dispersed transitional housing provided in all the wards — the better we all will be.

But the “devil is in the details.” The D.C. Department of Human Services proposal, thus far, seems to focus on “mini-D.C. Generals” in each ward. The agency’s design does provide for each family to have a lockable room of their own. However, the design still looks like a dormitory and all the residents will eat in a communal dining facility.

It seems to me that part of strengthening family cohesiveness is to provide apartment-style units. That way, when families regain their abilities to transition into permanent housing, they have retained those skills that bind them together. Call me oldfashioned but a family that has the opportunity to sit around their own dinner table and discuss the day’s events is stronger for it.

Eating in a cafeteria doesn’t quite cut it.

Jay Thal Chevy Chase

The Current

Washington Home residents deserve dignity VIEWPOINT

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e write to provide perspective from residents and families on the displacement of over 100 elderly, disabled, overwhelmingly poor Americans from their homes by the sale of the Washington Home, a skilled-nursing facility, to Sidwell Friends School.

These residents, many of whom became poor because of the illness that put them in long-term care, come from all walks of life â&#x20AC;&#x201D; service members, teachers, nurses, attorneys, homemakers â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and are all races and colors. Some have lived at the Washington Home for decades; all currently have their medical, residential and quality-of-life needs met in a safe neighborhood and supportive environment, with private rooms respectful of their personal dignity. No one knows where they will be relocated, or in what quality of facility. D.C. has few private rooms like those they call home. Waiting lists, especially for Medicaid recipients, can be in the hundreds. The last major closure in D.C. resulted in relocations to Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania and beyond. As common sense dictates and studies show, the fear and stress of displacement will likely impact these citizensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; health and certainly their quality of life, factors that may well shorten their lives.

This crisis raises profound questions of social justice, personal dignity and civil rights. It also threatens to critically strain D.C.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s skilled-nursing homes: Ninetytwo percent of existing beds are full, and this closure would remove 155 (over 5.5 percent). The dementiacare unit is one of only three in D.C. Skeptics of these Americansâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; plight assume the Washington Home was in financial straits or cannot understand why Sidwell might bear any responsibility for the situation the residents were put in.

The Washington Home and Sidwell agreed to keep the $32.5 million sale secret until it was too late for residents to have their interests protected. When we asked in the spring whether the Washington Home was being sold to Sidwell, we were told â&#x20AC;&#x153;no.â&#x20AC;? Why? The current explanation, avoiding resident anxiety, rings hollow.

While the Washington Home defends the sale as good business, there is insufficient public information or transparency to analyze the motivation for the sale or the organizationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s claims of poverty. Closing the Upton Street NW facility and displacing its residents is incon-

Letters to the Editor GDS proposal needs schoolwide busing

In order to expand, Georgetown Day School should be required to minimize car traffic and to mandate schoolwide busing for families who decline to walk, bike, or use public transit to get to school.

The addition of 600 Georgetown Day lower and middle school students will produce permanent dramatic impacts on traffic, parking, congestion and pedestrian/biker safety in the Tenleytown/American University Park neighborhood. Like many families, we have chosen to live here so we can take the Metro to work and so our children can walk and bike to Janney Elementary, Deal Middle and Wilson High.

sonant with the Washington Homeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s presumed mission.

In The Currentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sept. 30 article, the Washington Home talks of spending â&#x20AC;&#x153;$20 million on 300 people in the nursing home,â&#x20AC;? with no explanation that those services were in fact paid for, both by private and public dollars. Private-pay costs approach $400 a day, and Medicaid reimbursement over $8,000 monthly. Many residents pay all but $70 of their monthly income directly to the Washington Home, offsetting Medicaid.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mixing apples and oranges to suggest there is realistic in-home care for most of those displaced; that they or their families â&#x20AC;&#x153;wantâ&#x20AC;? that; or that the Washington Home may continue to serve those interests. Without disparaging hospice needs for end-of-life care, that model simply does not account for those not preparing to die who are better cared for in collective environments like the Washington Home â&#x20AC;&#x201D; or for the hidden costs of transplanting such care to private homes.

While residentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; interests should have been guarded first and foremost, it isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t clear that only the Washington Home is responsible. Sidwell was reportedly â&#x20AC;&#x153;assured that the Washington Home and its commitment to its mission to serve those in its community would not be affectedâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a statement raising more questions than it answers. Sidwell has made much of its Quaker roots and benefited substantially from the brand it has created. Would Sidwell have done anything differently had it known the saleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s consequences? Now that it does, will it help those it is displacing?

Creative thinking has resulted in good ideas that have changed the way we look at elder care and educated young minds, such as having schools and nursing facilities share property. Had we not been shut out of the process, perhaps such progressive ideas might have been considered.

Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve written to Mayor Muriel Bowser and D.C. lawmakers to ask for assistance, and await their response. Massachusetts is the latest state to recognize the need to closely regulate nursing home closures, requiring advance notice of any sale.

As Washington reflects on Pope Francisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; visit, we must take to heart his charge to minister to the needy and marginalized. As good citizens, as a village, we must find a solution for these displaced Americans, ensuring compassionate skilled care and quality housing in a safe neighborhood reflective of their experience, with private rooms respectful of their dignity.

Mary Mason and Ivan Mayfield are co-chairs of the Washington Home Family Council.

This neighborhood is unique in D.C. in this regard, and this convenience helps makes it a jewel.

We welcome the Georgetown Day School campus consolidation, but not the mass influx of cars to transport 600 additional students to the Tenley campus. At two recent community meetings we asked GDS to improve its traffic management plan by minimizing car traffic and requiring busing (to be arranged by the school) for families who decline to walk, bike or use public transit to get to school. These measures are vital to protect our neighborhoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s long-term interests..

Schoolwide busing is not a novel idea and has been implemented in at least two private schools in the D.C. region for many years. The Potomac School, comparable in size and caliber to GDS, requires all students in grades one through 11 to take neighborhood or shuttle bus

service â&#x20AC;&#x153;in order to meet our traffic reduction commitments to our neighbors and to Fairfax County, and to improve the quality of life on our campus,â&#x20AC;? according to the schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s website. Similarly, all students at the McLean School in Montgomery County ride the bus as part of a transportation plan to reduce community impact.

Like the neighborhoods surrounding Potomac and McLean schools, our neighborhood is filled with families with young children.

GDS should follow the examples of the Potomac and McLean schools and require schoolwide busing for all families who decline to walk, bike or use public transit. Doing so would be, to use the motto used on school materials, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Good for GDS, good for the community, good for the planet.â&#x20AC;?

Joanne Lin and Gregory Chen American University Park

Letters to the editor The Current publishes letters and Viewpoint submissions representing various points of view. Because of space limitations, letters should be no more than 400 words and are subject to editing. Letters and Viewpoint submissions intended for publication may be sent to letters@currentnewspapers.com. The mailing address is Letters to the Editor, The Current, Post Office Box 40400, Washington, D.C. 20016-0400.

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Spotlight on Schools Eaton Elementary

Eaton has enrichment classes mornings and afternoons each week. There are different classes such as flag football, stock market and garden club. We are in the garden club and meet every Tuesday afternoon from 3:15 to 4:15 to care for a small vegetable garden in the front of the school, a larger flower and herb one in the kindergarten playground area, and planters and flower beds around the school.

So far, we learned that a weed is simply an unwanted plant. We are weeding the side of the school since there is a lot of thistle that we consider unwanted because it has thorns that prick little kids and the seeds spread easily. Our goal is to clear the thistle and plant other things. This week we will be planting bulbs that will flower next spring. We are also going to make things to sell at the school’s block party on Oct. 17. We are going to sell bottles of herb-infused olive oil directly from the school’s garden.

We will also make homemade, nobake energy balls that are delicious!

We may have other treats too so be sure to stop by the garden club table at the block party.

— Camille Anderson, Lila Ronen and Miranda Tess, fifth-graders

The Field School

Last week at The Field School, we started SHAM (study hall, honors, activities and meetings).

School DISPATCHES

SHAM takes place after lunch every day for 40 minutes.

For example, on Tuesday we have 3-D printing club for an activity. Usually on Monday we have meetings. Or you can do honors for seventh- to 12th-graders. Study hall is when you want to get some work done too. The past few days have been rainy and muggy, so lots of sports games were canceled. But luckily we have a field made of turf, so athletes could practice anyway. In addition, last week the sixth-graders started health class with our school health adviser, Irene Addlestone. In journalism we interviewed some students in different studios and found how busy they are in their after-school activities.

So far it seems that people do have activities including school sports but also have enough time for homework.

— Zuri Alexander and Hannah Twomey, sixth-graders

Hearst Elementary

We are learning about perseverance. Perseverance means to never give up and keep trying to do your best. Our class did a chilly challenge. We had to try to get a penny out of an ice cube by melting it. We used our breath. We rubbed it in our hands. It was hard because the ice cube was cold. We set it down and

took a break. Then we picked it up and kept trying to melt it. Finally we got the penny out. It was so cool!

— Ms. Boyle’s first-grade class

Jewish Primary Day School of the Nation’s Capital

Fourth-graders celebrated the Jewish holiday of Sukkot in special ways this year. During Sukkot, some Jews build a sukkah in their backyard and eat there. A sukkah is a hut or booth with at least two and a half walls and schach (plants) on top. A long time ago, when the Jews were in the desert, they built little booths. That is why we celebrate Sukkot.

This year, we got to participate in a JPDS-NC tradition and help start a new one. We were invited to visit the Israeli Embassy to help decorate their sukkah. The girls made two colorful paper chains that were about 20 feet long each, and the boys made a paper chain that was about 60 feet long! “It was awesome,” said Ari. “I thought it was cool to help decorate other people’s sukkahs,” said Zoe. We also worked on a Sukkah Design Challenge in our Design Lab, creating something that would help with building or using a sukkah. We worked in groups to think about problems and solutions. Then we drew a design for a sukkah and built it by using materials from the Design Lab. For example, you

could make a huge rubber band to keep all the logs together. “I liked it because we made a lot of different designs,” said Rachel. “I thought it was fun working with my friends,” added Willa.

— Mira Epstein, Miriam Goldel, Shoshana Laufer and Yael Rosenberg, fourth-graders

Lafayette Elementary

As you have probably seen or heard, Lafayette Elementary School is under renovation for the 2015-16 school year. This means that the current classes are attending a “Trailer School.” This is the first time that most teachers have had classrooms with walls that go all the way up to the ceiling, so it’s much better than a whole grade exchanging each other’s noise. But, that’s not the only benefit. The school also has working air conditioning and heat, so for the first time in a long time, no student is freezing or boiling. The layout of the trailer school is well-organized to enable kids to get around quickly. We all miss the familiar spaces but hope that the future generations of Lafayette students enjoy their new spaces long after we’re gone.

— Brendan McKalip, fifth-grader

Maret School

The fourth grade is beginning our semester-long inquiry into human culture and the past through archaeology. We study archaeology

as part of our social studies curriculum, which looks at past cultures, particularly ancient Egypt and Greece. Through readings, classroom activities, and field trips, we learn how archaeologists look for artifacts and then piece together clues to know what a past culture experienced.

An artifact is anything made, used or modified by humans. Even modern-day clothing and electronics are artifacts, because they say something about our present culture. Something doesn’t have to be old to relay information about a culture or person; we actually looked through our teacher’s trash for clues! We learned how artifacts from the present could be misinterpreted in the future.

We love the field trips to different archaeological sites. We visited the Carlyle House in Alexandria to learn about life in the 1700s, as well as the Alexandria Archaeology Museum. The group is working on excavating Fort Ward Park, which was a Civil War fort and then African-American community until the 1960s. It was interesting to see artifacts from many different time periods in the same place. Soon, we are venturing to the London Town settlement near Annapolis, which used to be a large tobacco port 300 years ago. We will join real archaeologists searching trash pits to look for artifacts! Learning about past cultures See Dispatches/Page 26

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St. John’s blanked in homecoming game

By BRIAN KAPUR Current Staff Writer

In the week leading up to St. John’s gridiron clash with Washington Catholic Athletic Conference foe DeMatha, players from both teams traded barbs on social media, adding extra animosity between the bitter rivals ahead of Saturday’s showdown.

The battle between two of the top-ranked teams in the area was a slobber-knocker. Emotions ran high and fists flew at times — both on the field and in the stands. But when the dust settled after the physical game, DeMatha towered over the Cadets 40-0 for its 23rd straight win over St. John’s.

The Cadets’ rushing attack was led by freshmen runners Joachim Bangda, who had 56 yards, and Keilan Robinson, who racked up 29.

The passing attack wasn’t as effective, with the team completing just four passes for 46 yards.

St. John’s made it a fight through the first half as the Cadets did their best to bully the Stags with physical play and hard hitting. But the Cadets’ offense was limited behind backup quarterback sophomore Maurice Bellan, forcing the team to use more of a run-heavy offense. The attack saw various degrees of success, but two first-half fumbles doomed the effort and kept the Cadets scoreless.

Despite the hindered attack, the St. John’s defense kept the team in the game as senior defensive end Terrell Hall tipped a pass, which fellow defensive lineman Savohn Hunt

intercepted. But the Cadets weren’t able to take advantage of the opportunity, and after giving the ball back to the Stags, DeMatha hit a 79-yard touchdown pass to take the lead, 6-0.

St. John’s once again responded with a solid drive and pushed the ball into the red zone with a scoring chance. But DeMatha forced a turnover to end the Cadets’ best scoring chance of the game.

“We certainly played well for the first half,” said Cadets coach Joe Patterson. “We missed a few opportunities where we could’ve finished some drives. I thought our players played fundamentally sound and really physical.”

Despite taking a 6-0 lead into the locker room at halftime, DeMatha was frustrated with its first-half effort and made several adjustments, including focusing on the aerial attack. The tactic worked as the Stags beat the Cadets with a 20-yard touchdown pass to make it a 12-0 lead after a failed two-point try. The Stags tacked on two more scores to open up a 26-0 lead with 10:40 to play in the game.

At that point of a lopsided win, most teams would simply focus on running the ball and draining the clock. Instead, DeMatha chose to run up the score with an onside kick to gain an extra possession, and continued to pass the ball and push for more points. DeMatha was rewarded with two more scores and a 40-0 demolition of the Cadets. For the Stags, who came into the game nationally ranked and annoyed at St. John’s pregame trash talk, it was a

chance to send a message to the WCAC. Asked if the team intentionally ran up the score, DeMatha coach Elijah Brooks said “absolutely.”

“We want everyone to know that when you play DeMatha football, it’s really tough to beat us, and my boys did a great job at it,” said Brooks.

When informed of Brooks’ remarks, Patterson said he had no comment.

St. John’s will look to rebound when it hosts St. Mary’s Ryken on Saturday at 3 p.m.

Tigers keep streaking

Wilson has now won five straight football games after cruising past Coolidge 24-8 on Friday night.

Junior quarterback Steve Williams led the Tigers by contributing three touchdowns. The passer tossed two scores and for 107 yards in the win; he also added a seven-yard rushing score. The quarterback’s favorite targets were junior wideout Sean Savoy, who had four catches for 64 yards and a touchdown, and sophomore wide receiver Isaiah Hall, who made two grabs for 37 yards and a score.

Meanwhile, the Tigers’ main threat on the ground was Maurice Tyler, who had 80 yards on 14 touches.

By halftime, Wilson led by 12-0.

Coolidge responded by scoring in the third quarter when senior quarterback Timothy Abbott connected with senior Rasheed Jenkins on a 12-yard pass to cut the Tigers’ lead to

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St. John’s hung with the DeMatha Stags for a half, but turnovers and a stagnant offense sunk the Cadets on homecoming Saturday.

12-8 going into the fourth quarter.

In the final period, Wilson outscored the Colts 12-0 to put the game out of reach.

Coming up, the Tigers will face a tough D.C. Interscholastic Athletic Association test Friday when they host Ballou at 6 p.m.

Sidwell falls to John Paul

Sidwell suffered its second foot-

ball loss of the season when it fell to John Paul the Great 32-12 on the road Saturday afternoon.

The Quakers fell behind the Wolfpack 19-6 going into the fourth quarter and tried to rally in the final period but ran out of time.

Senior running back Terrance Horne led Sidwell with 12 carries for 78 yards while sophomore tailback See Football/Page 12

National Cathedral soccer rebuilds around new leaders

By BRIAN KAPUR Current Staff Writer

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Although National Cathedral’s soccer team is off to a slow start to the season, the team hopes it will come together to try to win a fourth straight DCSAA title.

Over the past four years, when National Cathedral’s soccer team needed a play, Marta Sniezek or Rubii Tamen would deliver in the clutch. But both are now honing their skills at the college level, leaving the Eagles searching for a new identity.

So far this season, the team has struggled to a 0-7 record while facing a brutal schedule including Washington Catholic Athletic Conference powerhouses Bishop Ireton and Paul VI along with perennial Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland contender Notre Dame Prep.

“In every game that we have played this season, we’ve been dangerous,” said Eagles coach Danielle Malagari. “There’re some teams that we’ve played that we have been technically better or out-possessed [them].”

Despite the slow start, Cathedral believes it can right the ship as the team builds chemistry around its captains: senior goalie Erica Sanders, senior defender Hazel Horvath and junior

midfielder Sydney Austin.

“They’re the ones that are reminding the team that as frustrating as things are, to remain positive and remind them to focus on getting better,” said Malagari. “They’re just keeping us as positive as they can.”

While the Eagles have struggled offensively — scoring just three goals so far this season — the squad has steadily improved despite being snakebitten with injury and enduring a spell of bad luck.

“We’re getting better every game. …

We’ve been the team this year that possesses the ball really well and moves it really well, but as soon as we get the ball to the final third we don’t get the lucky bounce,” said Malagari, who added that they’ve lost three key players to ACL injuries this year. “We’ve been really unlucky in the [box]. We haven’t been able to put balls away and win games.”

The team’s leaders believe improvement is more a matter of working together than looking for a star to emerge on the front line.

“It’s not just finding one player — we have to work as a team,” said Austin. “This year we

need to focus on keeping possession and working the ball up the field. We need to focus on the little things and we can be a great team.”

The team has also looked to freshmen Amanda DeCastro and Sara Wanyana-Tyaba for an added boost.

“We have two very strong freshmen coming in and several upperclassmen and sophomores who have made a big difference,” said Horvath.

While the team’s front line has been in flux, the back end has been solid with Sanders between the pipes, which has kept the squad in games.

With plenty of time to go in the season, the Eagles likely won’t enter postseason play as a top seed, but they expect to again contend for the Independent School League tournament crown and a fourth straight D.C. State Athletic Association championship.

“If my kids focus on the positives and keep working hard and getting better, come the end of October, we could potentially be dangerous,” said Malagari. “We may be down, but we’re not out.”

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After a lackluster rookie season, former Georgetown University star Otto Porter Jr. showed improvement in his second year with the Washington Wizards and had a breakout performance during the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s playoff run.

Porter believes that he can build off his playoff success and reach the next stage of his career as he begins his third year in the NBA this fall. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll likely assume a starting role for the first time in his career after the team lost Paul Pierce in free agency. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I just want to continue what I did in the playoffs and continue to play how I know how to play, continue to rebound and play defense,â&#x20AC;? he said during Wizards media day on Sept. 28. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is my third year and I feel comfortable now that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been here and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve done it.

Each year you get more experience, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what I have.â&#x20AC;?

The Wizards also point to Pierce â&#x20AC;&#x201D; who left the team over the summer â&#x20AC;&#x201D; as a big reason for Porterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s improvement. The veteran constantly pushed his younger teammate during practices last season. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Just having Paul around and making him compete every dayâ&#x20AC;? helped Porter, said point guard John Wall. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Paul would trash-talk him and helped him get into the zone. Otto just built some confidence up, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the key in this league â&#x20AC;&#x201D; if you have confidence, your game will speak for itself.â&#x20AC;?

Pierceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tough love paid off in the playoffs when Porter played in all 10 of the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s postseason games and averaged 10 points, 44 percent shooting from the field, nearly 38 percent from three-point land and eight rebounds per contest. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He took another step last year in his improvement and development as a player,â&#x20AC;? said Wizards coach Randy Wittman. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I want to see a third step. He has to get a little stronger and just continue his growth. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what good players do â&#x20AC;&#x201D; they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t reach a point of being satisfied.

Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s see if [he] can push that envelope to the next level.â&#x20AC;?

Porter spent part of his offseason in Poland with Wizards power forward Marcin Gortat, where he helped run a basketball camp for kids and shared adventures with his teammate like riding tanks, flying helicopters, riding boats and checking out submarines.

When the pair werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t having fun, they were talking about the upcoming season. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a huge opportunity for him,â&#x20AC;? said Gortat. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ready. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s having fun out there and enjoying his time.â&#x20AC;?

Gortat believes his teammate is in a prime position to make an impact. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t there to prove that he belongs in this league, or because heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a leader and he has to drop 20 points,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The ball is going to be in John [Wallâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s], Brad [Bealâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s], my hands, then his hands. Otto might be the X-factor thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to come in and dominate the game for us.â&#x20AC;?

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In his second year, Porter improved across the board, earning 13 starts and appearing in 74 games during the regular season. He also upped his averages, scoring six points and grabbing three rebounds per game and shooting 45 percent from the field and nearly 34 percent from three-point range.

Porter will begin his third year with the Wizards when the team opens the regular season in Florida on Oct. 28 with a game against the Orlando Magic. Washington will then play its home opener on Halloween against the New York Knicks.

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Gonzaga 14, Ryken 7 John Paul 32, Sidwell 12 DeMatha 40, St. Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 0 Flint Hill 21, St. Albans 0 Eastern 22, Roosevelt 20

led by senior quarterback Ted Hefter, who completed 13 passes for 147 yards and a touchdown to junior receiver Dylan Greynolds. The wideout finished the game with six

Wilson 24, Coolidge 8

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Girls soccer

GDS 3, Sidwell 3 Landon 1, St. Albans 0 Wilson 2, The Heights 1 Ryken 0, Gonzaga 0 Maret 2, St. Andrewâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1 Flint Hill 1, GDS 0

Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Connell 2, Visitation 0 St. Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2, McNamara 0 Wilson 3, Bell 1 Maret 1, GDS 0 Flint Hill 2, Sidwell 1

Visitation 3, Maret 0 Spalding 4, St. Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2 Wilson 10, McKinley 1

Volleyball

Wilson 2, Coolidge 1 Flint Hill 3, Visitation 0 GDS 3, Madeira 0 St. Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 3, Ryken 0

grabs for 86 yards.

Sidwell will begin its Mid-Atlantic Conference slate when it travels to play Potomac School on Friday at 4:30 p.m.

Flint Hill 3, Maret 0 Field 3, Jewish Day 0 St. Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 3, Carroll 0 Cathedral 3, Sandy Spring 0 Maret 3, St. Stephenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 0 WIS 3, Washington Christian 0 St. Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 3, GDS 1

WIS 3, Pallotti 1 St. Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 3, St. Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Annapolis 0

Field hockey

Cathedral 2, Flint Hill 0 Visitation 5, Sidwell 0 St. Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1, Ryken 0 Visitation 4, Bullis 0

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TREES: D.C. willow oaks at risk, groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s expert says From Page 1

low oaks are] planted almost exclusively,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you drive up MacArthur Boulevard, you have all those trees arching over from both sides that could be afflicted.â&#x20AC;?

About 26 percent of the approximately 130,000 D.C. street trees are oaks, said city arborist Kasey Yturralde.

In mid-August, Eck injected 12 street trees along the 2500 block of Massachusetts Avenue NW in hopes of zapping the critters at the most vulnerable stage of their life cycle. He said their numbers have only recently spiked to problematic levels. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Until it reaches a damage threshold, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no treatment needed,â&#x20AC;? said Eck. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But if you look at all the trees now, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re pretty much at that threshold.â&#x20AC;?

The insects live for about a year. Upon hatching in early summer, the parasites latch onto leaves before settling on twigs from late fall through the spring. Female scales then hide thousands of new eggs before they die the next summer, and the cycle continues.

Eck said pesticide spray tends to be a more popular treatment option but that injections target scale more selectively. An injection works for several years before scale populations reaccumulate, according to his research.

Restore Mass Ave is asking residents to commission a tree-service firm like Bartlett should they discover infected oaks on or near their properties.

Yturralde commended the groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s efforts but noted that many property owners may be unwilling or unable to conduct similar projects on their own dime. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Collaboration is always great,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But one thing to keep in mind is that funding for that collaboration depends on homeowners and isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t going to be possible across the city.â&#x20AC;?

Yturralde said the Urban Forestry Administration would need to assess the scaleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s abundance relative to the rest of the local ecosystem. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The thing is that these scale are also a food source for other organisms,â&#x20AC;? she said.

The city does not traditionally treat local oaks for scale and found that the trees have been able to withstand levels of infestation in past years despite minor defoliation. Currently, the only pathogen treated by urban foresters citywide is Dutch elm disease, carried by beetles.

However, Yturralde said her agency has already reported the scale increase to the U.S. Forest Service, which has provided grants for a more comprehensive study.

The city study would nail down more specifics and inform an â&#x20AC;&#x153;evidence-basedâ&#x20AC;? approach. Before employing insecticide injection, the agency will need to determine whether it could harm desirable insects. Alternatives like horticultural oil and soapy water may better protect human health as well, according to Yturralde. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s great if it works,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But we want to know more about the scale and the risks they pose to the street trees before we do a whole treatment plan.â&#x20AC;?

BILL: Debate grips D.C. Death With Dignity measure From Page 1

support of her then-colleague David Catania, failed to gain traction, so other issues took Chehâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s focus.

Now the council member is committed to accomplishing what she couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t in the past: winning council approval of legislation that gives patients with fewer than six months to live the option to request medication â&#x20AC;&#x201D; which must be self-administered â&#x20AC;&#x201D; that will gradually and painlessly end their lives.

After a public hearing over the summer, the billâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s next step is up to the councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Committee on Health and Human Services, which will decide whether to send it to the full council for a vote. With the news from California and the possibility of a similar bill in Maryland, Cheh thinks the time has come for the District to embrace this perspective.

But not everyone is eager to help Cheh. In addition to the religious and ethical questions the topic raises, opponents cite the difficulties of regulating doctors administering the procedures, the risk that the medication could end up in the wrong hands, and the fear that patients could end their lives in public.

Oregon led the nation by legally permitting assisted suicide in 1994, and now Washington, Vermont, New Mexico and California also allow it.

Organizations including Not Dead Yet are trying to convince lawmakers in D.C. that Chehâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bill would leave residents with disabilities open to discrimination. Anne Sommers, the groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s director of legislative affairs and outreach, has been working with doctors and other groups to alert the public about perceived dangers of the legislation.

Sommers said in a recent interview that the idea of doctors selfreporting the number of patients who accept life-ending medication each

year, presents opportunities for doctors to misuse it. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not saying all these doctors are monsters or anything like that,â&#x20AC;? Sommers said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But there are aspects of abuse,â&#x20AC;? such as a person feeling pressured to take medication they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want, â&#x20AC;&#x153;that occur outside the doctorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s purview. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no oversight of how itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s administered, when itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s administered, whether the person changes their mind and doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to do it anymore.â&#x20AC;?

Sommers said the only solution is to abandon the bill altogether. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our underlying premise is that we are against the legalization of assisted suicide,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d have to wake up tomorrow in another world for us to be OK with this.â&#x20AC;?

Peg Sandeen, executive director of the Death With Dignity Center, says many arguments against assisted suicide are outdated, and noted that they have been repeated in legislatures since Oregon passed the first law more than 20 years ago. She contradicts the notion of doctors misreporting, saying that the data has shown that risk to be false. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is a ton of information that is collected and reported to the people,â&#x20AC;? Sandeen said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The only way to challenge that data is to say that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bad data.â&#x20AC;?

Sandeen is also skeptical of the idea that â&#x20AC;&#x153;doctor shoppingâ&#x20AC;? would ensue, with patients going through several physicians until they find one willing to do what they want, no questions asked. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People work with their own doctors,â&#x20AC;? Sandeen said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the way that the Oregon law is written.â&#x20AC;?

Though Cheh doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a personal connection to the issue, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been on her mind for a long time. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wanted to give people a compassionate choice about how theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll deal with their final days,â&#x20AC;? she said in an interview this summer.

Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s quick to point out that the bill only permits the availability of an option for termination; no doctor is obligated to provide that option, and no patient is required to accept it. In fact, the bill would require the patient to request the terminating medication on at least two different occasions before the doctor prescribes it. The patient is also ineligible if there are signs of mental illness.

Cheh said sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s optimistic that sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll win widespread public favor. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When people understand it, and they understand that their own choices are not affected and their own philosophies would be maintained with integrity, I think this would be acceptable to them,â&#x20AC;? she said.

At-large member Anita Bonds has suggested Cheh add wording recommending that patients considering the medication seek advice from a faith leader first. In an interview this summer, Bonds said she was not yet ready to throw her support behind the bill, but she was open to the concept. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This may be a humane way of addressing this issue in the long run for some people,â&#x20AC;? Bonds said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I know itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not going to be a solution for everyone.â&#x20AC;?

A July 10 public hearing on the bill drew dozens of witnesses.

As the national debate continues, Cheh hopes she can provide an opportunity for D.C. residents to make this choice in their own city, .

The council member admits sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not sure whether she would opt for the medication if she were in a circumstance to request it. But the point of the legislation, she says, is that she doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to know yet, as long as she knows itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an option. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have no idea what I would choose to do,â&#x20AC;? Cheh said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But I would like to have that choice.â&#x20AC;?

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BUSINESS: New Shaw restaurant From Page 3

natural place to go.â&#x20AC;?

Langhorne grew up in Charlottesville, Va. Upon starting his career, he ended up in South Carolina for a lengthy stay as an apprentice at several famous restaurants including Oxo and McCradyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. At the latter, he worked his way up from apprentice to sous chef, introducing a program for local ingredients that serves as the foundation for The Dabney.

Eventually, Langhorne decided he was ready to strike out on his own and headed to the District, where he was rewarded with a Washington Post series on his culinary exploits.

Langhorne wants customers at The Dabney to get a culinary tour of all that the region has to offer, in hopes of celebrating the farmers and other local manufacturers who contribute to the variety. To that end, the team hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t yet created a specific menu or signature dishes, and they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t plan to ever create them without consulting their local suppliers first. The goal is to let those suppliers dictate the offerings. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a very different approach to cooking. It runs counter to what the majority of restaurants do,â&#x20AC;? Langhorne said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We let all of our farmers and producers tell us what they have and what is best, and then we develop our dishes around that. Instead of me sitting in the kitchen saying I want to make a ribeye dish, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll talk to my beef farmer and see what he has available.â&#x20AC;?

As an example dish, he described quail served with sliced wheat ber-

ries, charred or grilled onions and homemade Worcestershire sauce.

The process for constructing the restaurant was similar to the process of determining the menu. Langhorne hired local woodworkers and craftsmen to construct an interior thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s both attractive and comforting. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The idea that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been going for is for it to look like a mid-19thcentury Virginia farmhouse that has been really well-updated and maintained,â&#x20AC;? Langhorne said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So we love that historic feel, but we want the comfort that you would associate with a very nice house.â&#x20AC;?

Narrowing down the right neighborhood in D.C. wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t easy. While there were plenty of open spaces, few seemed appropriate until Blagden Alley. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was actually an incredible difficult process going through all these places,â&#x20AC;? Langhorne said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a concept like mine and slap it into a brand-new office building.â&#x20AC;?

The restaurantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name comes from a desire to evoke a timeless quality as well as simplicity and uniqueness, characteristics Langhorne hopes customers will associate with the restaurant.

Eventually, Langhorne hopes he can expand his restaurant offerings to other neighborhoods in D.C. But for now, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s putting the finishing touches on his District debut. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not trying to reinvent the wheel,â&#x20AC;? Langhorne said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We want to take really pristine, beautiful products and preserve them and present them with a whole lot of hospitality.â&#x20AC;?

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CLEVELAND PARK, DC

$2,450,000

KENT, DC

$1,950,000

BETHESDA, MD

$1,595,000

CHEVY CHASE, DC

$1,399,000

Stone residence w/7BR, 5.5BA & indoor endless pool.

1st flr BR w/priv entrance. Architectural details, large MBR/sitting rm & study. Finished LL. Spacious rms w/ arched doorways, hwd flrs/moldings. Corner lot near National Cathedral, schools & shopping.

Terri Robinson 202.607.7737 / 202.944.8400 (O)

5BR, 4.5BA custom-built home with attention to detail throughout. Gourmet kitchen with Viking appliances, Butlerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pantry, custom built-ins, hardwood floors, 4 fireplaces, fitness studio, large brick patio and attached 2-car garage.

Matthew Paschall 202.439.7063 / 202.363.9700 (O)

Arts & Crafts 2004 custom home on a cul-de-sac in Glen Echo Heights. Impressive details throughout include a soaring 2-story coffered ceiling in the foyer, 5 sets of French doors, beautiful crown molding & architectural elements on all three levels.

Miller Bethesda Office 301.229.4000

Seamlessly renovated and expanded in 2010. Four bedrooms on the upper level, one bedroom in-law suite lower level with separate entrance. Family room overlooking beautiful garden. Garage and off-street parking.

Pat Gerachis 202.494.0876 / 202.363.1800 (O)

SPRING VALLEY, DC

WASHINGTON, DC

SHEPHERD PARK, DC

SHEPHERD PARK, DC

$1,339,000

$1,200,000

$1,025,000

$989,000

Mary Bresnahan 202.841.4343 / 202.944.8400 (O)

Delightful idyllic English garden, over 9,000 SF lot â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 1 of largest in AU Park. Blocks to Tenley Metro, library, Janney, restaurants & shops. Sunny, 4 fin level, sep entrance, LL w/2nd kitchen. Gar+driveway parking, 2 sheds, patio, fishpond w/fountain, stone FP. Miller Bethesda Office 301.229.4000

Originally built in 1937, this 5BR, 4.5BA home has experienced a complete renovation from top to bottom. The masterful design by noted architect Michael Vallen provides refreshing open spaces with unique attention to architectural detail.

Matthew Paschall 202.439.7063 / 202.363.9700 (O)

A STONE & BRICK COUNTRY MANOR! 4BR, 4.5BA, 4 finished levels. Family-Style Kit w/granite & SS appliances. Sunroom, den/library, finished lower level rec room. 2-story MBR suite, 2 MBAs, w/Jacuzzi & walk-in closet. Near SS Metro & shops.

Denise Champion 202.895.7270 / 202.363.9700 (O)

OBSERVATORY CIRCLE

16TH ST HEIGHTS, DC

ADAMS MORGAN, DC

VAN NESS, DC

Traditional home with all the amenities. 4 bedrooms, wood floors, family room, lower level recreation room complete with a wine cellar. Lovely spa/pool and garage. Situated in a beautiful location.

$965,000

$925,000

$899,000

$839,000

Light-filled 2BR, 2BA Penthouse w/2,035 SF. Large LR, DR, enclosed atrium, gourmet kit & laundry rm w/ washing sink. One garage space included. Bldg has doormen, 24hr desk, year-round pool, saunas & valet parking for guests. One pet under 25 lbs.

Nathan Carnes 202.321.9132 / 202.966.1400 (O)

1916 American Four Square w/4 fin lvls. Rear detached Micro house w/amazing original details, dining room w/ window seat, large kitchen/island +brkfst rm. 5+BRs, 4.5BAs, in-law suite, parking, patio, deck, balcony, play yard, parking. 2 blocks from Rock Creek Park.

Denise Champion 202.215.9242 / 202.363.9700 (O)

Breathtaking 3 bedroom, 2 bath Penthouse with large open floorplan featuring 9-ft ceilings, hardwood floors and stunning finishes. Secure parking and private rooftop deck with panoramic city views.

WalkScore 93.

Miller Spring Valley Office 202.362.1300

Extraordinary 2 level, 2BR, 2BA Penthouse with floorto-ceiling windows and sweeping views. This unique residence provides you a place to live and entertain.

Elevator in unit. Deeded garage parking space.

Storage unit. Near Metro.

Dick Simpson 202.255.0813 / 202.363.9700 (O)

DUPONT, DC

COLUMBIA HEIGHTS, DC

PENN QUARTER, DC

BETHESDA, MD

$799,000

Elegant & spacious 1,200 SF 2BR, 2BA flooded with SW light! Large living & dining w/hardwood floors, FP, updated gourmet kit w/granite & SS, bay-windowed MBR w/walk-in closet & classy bath, 2nd BR w/builtins, and W/D. Best location in the city!

Roby Thompson 202.255.2986 / 202.483.6300 (O)

$665,000

Spacious w/beautiful bones in need of TLC. Completely livable, renovate now/later. 9-ft ceilings, 2 sets dble French drs, hwds, period details. Large rms, foyer, eat-in kit, bsmnt. 4BR, 1BA up. Deck & backyard. Half mile to U St & Col Hts Metros. As-is.

Lili Sheeline 202.905.7561 / 202.363.9700 (O)

$549,000

Two bedroom, two bath unit in fantastic location with Metro, shops, restaurants, & museums at your door.

Washer/dryer in unit. Building has fitness center, incredible roof deck with monumental views. Rental parking available.

Kent Madsen 202.255.1739 / 202.363.1800 (O)

$519,000

Spacious 2BR, 2BA + Den w/fireplace and private balcony on coveted top floor in Sumner Village with open floor plan. Master BR/BA suite, parquet wood floors, walk-in closets, extra storage & 2 garage parking spaces. Clubhouse, pool, & tennis.

Friendship Heights Office 301.652.2777

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October 7, 2015 â&#x2013; Page 15

New Dupont Circle flats restore homeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 19th-century elegance

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ealtor Daryl Judy says a 1970s renovation of this Dupont Circle row house detracted from â&#x20AC;&#x153;the grand dame it

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was.â&#x20AC;? Not so with this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s update, which divided up the expansive four-story property at 1734 R St. NW into four two-bedroom condos, and restored elegance to the 1885 structure.

Ross Flats draws its name from next-door neighbor Ross Elementary School. Despite the proximity, there seem to be few drawbacks: The playground is on the other side of the building, keeping noise away from these homes, and the school, with its stately red-brick edifice and carefully landscaped grounds, is so attractive that Judy considers its location a bonus.

As for Ross Flats, its appeal starts at the curb, where gas lanterns beckon, and muted paint colors complement the patinaed copper that covers the second floorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rounded bay window. With the entire property listed just last week, the penthouse seemed poised to go under contract yesterday, but flats

one, two and three are available for $775,000, $950,0000 and $1,095,000, respectively.

The flats share many similarities: nearly identical floor plans, two bedrooms and two baths apiece, custom moldings, recessed halogen lights and high-end finishes. They all have new plumbing, solid-core interior doors, doublehung insulated wood windows and stacked Electrolux washers and dryers. And a particularly fun feature is the iPad attached to a wall in each that controls the unitsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; security systems, music (piped into speakers tucked into the ceiling throughout) and Nest thermostats.

Flat one is an English basement, with window wells allowing in ground-level light. Like in its counterparts above, the entry is into an open-plan living/kitchen area, covered with 5-inch-wide oak hardwood planks. The wood here was stained lighter than in the upstairs neighbors, contributing to the unitâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bright feel despite its partially below-grade location.

The living space centers on a massive, Carrera marble-topped island, with stools offering a perch for both breakfasting homeowners and visiting dinner guests. Light gray cabinetry contributes to a cool

and calm vibe throughout the home, and stainless steel appliances are both stylish and functional. Thermador provides the Professional Series gas range, hood, massive French door refrigerator and dishwasher, while a microwave drawer is made by Sharp. The connected spacious seating area translates to easy entertaining.

The kitchenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dreamy Carrera marble reappears in the baths, here and above, bringing a cloud-like effect to these gleaming spaces, each of which features either a glass-enclosed shower or a tub.

Both of the baths in each unit are accessed via a hallway that runs along the party wall, stretching from the living space past the second bedroom and back to the master.

Each flat has both a front and rear entrance, with balconies for units two, three and four (the penthouse). An iron spiral staircase offers access down to two parking spaces (for unit three and the penthouse), which will soon be cordoned off from the rear alley by a security gate. The penthouse also features a huge roof deck, with room for two seating areas, a dining table and a grill. A row of plantings adds visual interest, though the city

Selling The Areaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Finest Properties

Photos courtesy of Washington Fine Properties

The new condos boast spacious interiors in an ideal location. backdrop would be enough for most.

Judy and business partner Kimberly Casey worked with JC Development on this transformative upgrade â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the third project of this type theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve done. Those experiences, combined with lots of other sales in the neighborhood, mean â&#x20AC;&#x153;we know what people want,â&#x20AC;? said Judy. Hence the custom work and top-of-the-line finishes throughout this property. For instance, the penthouse master bedroom just glows with light on a sunny fall day â&#x20AC;&#x201D; thanks to a wall of over-height glass doors. Most developers would install standard doors here, says Judy, but the extra-tall pieces make a difference. Similarly, the develop-

er chose to punch up the kitchensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; appeal by using one big slab of marble to top the islands.

The yield is modern but not trendy, he notes â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a â&#x20AC;&#x153;transitional lookâ&#x20AC;? that â&#x20AC;&#x153;is going to appeal to many more buyers.â&#x20AC;? Case in point: the four bids that came in yesterday for the penthouse.

Located at 1734 R St. NW in Dupont, Ross Flats has three twobedroom, two-bath units available, for $775,000 to $1,095,000. For details contact Washington Fine Properties agents Daryl Judy at 202-380-7219 or daryl.judy@wfp. com or Kimberly Casey at 202-3613228 or kimberly.casey@wfp.com.

Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also a website for the property: rossflats.com.

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Arts & Crafts Gem

Landon Woods. Stunning new home w/4 levels of quality workmanship. 7 BRs, 5.5 BAs. Superb chefâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kitchen, fabulous MBath. Family rm, office, built-ins.

Expansive LL w/sep entrance. 2 car garage. $1,895,000

Patricia Lore 301-908-1242 Ted Beverley 301-728-4338 1 0/1 -4 en 1 12 Op 4/Sun 2Sat

True Classic

New Listing / Chevy Chase, DC. Stately brick Colonial w/3 BRs, 2 BAs. Updated kitchen, 1st fl oor solarium. Finished lower level.

Large, level fenced back yard. Ready to go! $799,000. 6331 31st Street NW

Laura McCaffrey 301-641-4456

Tradition Upheld

Tudor Treasure

Chevy Chase, MD. Circa 1870 brightly updated Chevy Chase farmhouse full of history on large subdivided lot. 4 BRs + 2 skylit top fl r rms.

3 frpls, original fl rs, high ceilings. Sep. artistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s studio. Deck. $1,749,000

Rollingwood. Exquisite brick 4 BR/3BA Tudor on large landscaped 11,239 sf lot. Great views from all windows and original design features remain throughout. $1,295,000 3112 Leland Street NW

Melissa Brown 202-469-2662

Laura McCaffrey 301-641-4456

Period Charm

Bloomingdale.

Newly renovated 3 BR, 3.5 BA row house w/unique period details. Original hardwood fl rs, high ceilings. LL has front & back entrances. Great Star Quality street. Close to all the action & Metro. $749,900 Capitol Hill. Beautiful 4 BR, 3.5 BA rowhouse Dina Paxenos w/inviting front porch & comfortable rear deck.

Gorgeous contemporary kitchen & baths. LL in202-256-1624 law suite & family rm. Off st pkg. Near to Metro Michael King & H St corridor. $699,000

202-390-2885

Maureen Doyle 301-785-3648

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Northwest Real Estate ANC 3C ANC 3C Cleveland Park â&#x2013; cleveland park / woodley Park Woodley Park massachusetts avenue heights Massachusetts Avenue Heights Cathedral Heights

The commission will meet at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 19, at the 2nd District Police Headquarters, 3320 Idaho Ave. NW. For details, visit anc3c.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. Wednesday, Oct. 7, in Tenleytown Room I, Embassy Suites, Chevy Chase Pavilion, 4300 Military Road NW. (The meeting date was changed from the commissionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s usual schedule.)

Agenda items include: â&#x2013; announcements/open forum. â&#x2013; police report. â&#x2013; discussion of and possible vote on a grant application by Iona Senior Services to support publication of the groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s resource guide for seniorrelated services. â&#x2013; discussion of and possible vote on a letter to Georgetown Day School regarding traffic management issues related to plans for an expanded school and mixed-use development on the Safeway and Martens lots. â&#x2013; discussion and possible vote on a resolution regarding the D.C. Department of Transportationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decision to designate Tenleytown as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;premium zoneâ&#x20AC;? and D.C. Council legislation that would require metered parking until midnight in such zones. â&#x2013; discussion and possible vote on a resolution regarding encampment in front of the Tenley-Friendship Library.

Chevy Chase Citizens Association

We were pleased to take part in a banquet last week to recognize outstanding work in the Metropolitan Police Departmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2nd District.

It was attended by Mayor Muriel Bowser, D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson, and Council members Mary Cheh (Ward 3) and Brandon Todd (Ward 4). Brian Turmail, chair of the 2nd District Citizens Advisory Council, and WJLATVâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sam Ford presided.

We want to highlight three award winners from our neighborhood: William Parr is officer of the year in our Police Service Area 201. A 14-year veteran of the police department, he is a vital part of our community. He knows every business owner and rides a specially outfitted Segway along Connecticut Avenue NW, which increases his visibility and helps him respond to calls quickly.

He has arrested an armed burglar and an armed thief. The Citizens Advisory Council says he â&#x20AC;&#x153;demonstrates the highest integrity and enthusiasm, which his superiors say make him the example for all officers to follow.â&#x20AC;?

Lt. Alan Hill, a 25-year veteran, is lieutenant of the year. For most of this year, he has managed both PSA 201 and 202. He actively patrols the community, responds quickly to residentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; concerns and attends local meetings to discuss public safety issues. Lt. Hill is recognized as one of the most reliable members of the 2nd District.

He is willing to take on any task or responsibility and maintains control at critical incidents.

The Broad Branch Market, at Broad Branch Road and Northampton Street NW, got a com-

munity partner award. The council praised the spirit of community fostered by operators Tracy Stannard and John Fielding, citing sponsorship of events like live music, story times and film showings. The market is a generous contributor to the annual appreciation meal, when the advisory council feeds 2nd District employees and officers from 10 a.m. until midnight one day.

The council said â&#x20AC;&#x153;Stannard and Fielding are a great asset to the Second District, giving back to their community and to those who serve it.â&#x20AC;?

In other news, our association and Historic Chevy Chase DC will send an order for house plaques this month. No specific house age or background is needed. The 8-by-12-inch oval bronze plaque gives the year the house was built and names the architect or builder. See sample plaques at historicchevychasedc.org. The cost is $243.65. To order, contact Evelyn Wrin at evbobwrin@verizon.net or 202-244-5744, or Jordan Benderly at jordan.benderly@lnf.com or 202-905-4920. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Ted Gest

Shepherd Park Citizens Association

Have you felt a chill in the air? If so, you know how others who canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t reach into the closet and pull out warm clothes must feel. This past Monday, the Shepherd Park Citizens Association kicked off its â&#x20AC;&#x153;Year of Serviceâ&#x20AC;? with the announcement of an October Winter Wear Drive to collect coats, hats, scarves, and gloves or mittens for the families sponsored by Hope and a Home. This group provides services for up to three years to homeless families. Currently

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there are 15 families, four headed by two parents and 11 by single mothers. The services each family receives are transitional housing, weekly counseling and goal-setting sessions, referrals for jobs or job training with other D.C. groups, educational support, financial and budget planning, and parenting skills development.

The 37 children from the families receive tutoring, books, school supplies, mentoring and lots of encouragement. These children range from an infant to a 17-year-old high school senior. When gathering winter wear, you should know there are 25 boys and 12 girls. Among the boys there are five toddlers, seven elementary kids (two 6-year-olds, four 7-year-olds and one 8-year old), five pre-teens (one 9-year-old, two 10-year-olds and two 12-year-olds) and eight teens (13 to 17). The girls include three 1-yearolds, three 4-year-olds, five elementary (ages 6, 8, 9, 10 and 12) and one teen (14). If you have adult clothing, the four dads and 15 moms would welcome winter wear as well. The collection site is Rex Cleaners at 7346 Georgia Ave. NW. Keep an eye out for projects each month.

The three Shepherd Park schools (Shepherd Elementary, the Lowell School and San Miguel School) remind parents and students to make sure that studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; winter wear is labeled with the childâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name and accounted for each school day. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s especially important in the coming weeks when the weather changes often. School offices fill up with lost and found items daily, some of them never claimed and donated to charities at the end of the semester. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; June Confer

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The commission will meet at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 14, at the Petworth Library, 4200 Kansas Ave. NW. For details, call 202-723-6670 or visit anc4c.org.

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Wednesday october 7 Classes and workshops â&#x2013; David Hoof will launch a four-week creative writing class on writing dialogue in fiction. 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Free; reservations required. Guy Mason Recreation Center, 3600 Calvert St. NW. 202-727-7703. â&#x2013; Dexter Sumner will lead a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Vinyasa Yogaâ&#x20AC;? class. 7 p.m. Free. Palisades Library, 4901 V St. NW. 202-282-3139.

Concerts â&#x2013; The Shenson Chamber Music Concert series will feature violinist Bella Hristova. 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Free; reservations required. Performance Hall, National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1250 New York Ave. NW. 202-783-7370. â&#x2013; Gypsy Sallyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s will host the Vinyl Lounge Grateful Jam. 8 p.m. Free. Gypsy Sallyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Vinyl Lounge, 3401 K St. NW. gypsysallys.com. â&#x2013; Particle and DrFameus will perform.

8:30 p.m. $15 to $17. Gypsy Sallyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, 3401 K St. NW. gypsysallys.com.

Discussions and lectures â&#x2013; Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely will discuss â&#x20AC;&#x153;All American Boys,â&#x20AC;? their new young adult book about police brutality.

6:30 p.m. Free. Watha T. Daniel/Shaw Library, 1630 7th St. NW. 202-727-1288. â&#x2013; Rachel B. Glaser will discuss her novel â&#x20AC;&#x153;Paulina & Fran,â&#x20AC;? and Amber Sparks will discuss her book â&#x20AC;&#x153;May We Shed These Human Bodies.â&#x20AC;? 6:30 p.m. Free. Kramerbooks & Afterwords Cafe, 1517 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-387-1400. â&#x2013; New York University professor Marion Nestle will discuss her book â&#x20AC;&#x153;Soda Politics: Taking on Big Soda.â&#x20AC;? 6:30 p.m. Free.

Langston Room, Busboys and Poets, 2021 14th St. NW. 202-387-7638. â&#x2013; Howard Axelrod will discuss his book â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Point of Vanishing: A Memoir of Two Years in Solitude.â&#x20AC;? 6:30 p.m. Free. Busboys and Poets Takoma, 235 Carroll St. NW. 202-726-0856. â&#x2013; The World Affairs Council will host a panel discussion on â&#x20AC;&#x153;What Does Russian Military Involvement Mean for the Conflict

in Syria?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; Colman McCarthy, a former Washington Post columnist and founder of the Center for Teaching Peace, will discuss his book â&#x20AC;&#x153;Teaching Peace: Students Exchange Letters With Their Teacher.â&#x20AC;? 7 p.m. Free.

Tenley-Friendship Library, 4450 Wisconsin Ave. NW. 202-727-1488. â&#x2013; As part of the Book Hill Talks series, Jeffrey Kaplan, associate professor of biology and head of the Center for Food and Health at American University, will discuss â&#x20AC;&#x153;Issues in Food Security.â&#x20AC;? 7 p.m. Free.

Georgetown Library, 3260 R St. NW. 202727-0232. â&#x2013; Lindsay Smith will discuss her book â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dreamstriderâ&#x20AC;? (for ages 13 and older). 7 p.m. Free. Children & Teens Department, Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.

Film â&#x2013; The Avalon Docs series will feature Mary Doreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2014 film â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Beautiful When Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Angry,â&#x20AC;? about the women who founded the modern womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s movement.

8 p.m. $8.75 to $11.75. Avalon Theatre, 5612 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-9666000.

Performance â&#x2013; Local Dance Commissioning Project awardee Chandini Darby will present â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Stories That Bind Us,â&#x20AC;? a contemporary dance work inspired by the life of her maternal grandmother. 6 p.m. Free. Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center. 202-4674600.

Special event â&#x2013; The Friends of Book Hill Park group will host a celebration of the 1871 park adjacent to the Georgetown Library. Proceeds will support the replacement of benches and the landscaping of the upper tier circle. 6 to 8 p.m. $150. 1692 31st St. NW. 202-333-0077.

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Class â&#x2013; Instructor Nina Dunham will begin a four-week 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.

Concerts â&#x2013; â&#x20AC;&#x153;From Folk Art to Concert Hallsâ&#x20AC;? will feature Norwegian artists, composers and dancers leading a multimedia journey that moves from folk music and classical repertoire to opera and contemporary material.

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; The trio Cocktails for Three â&#x20AC;&#x201D; featuring pianist Alex Hassan and vocalists Doug Bowles and Iyona Blake â&#x20AC;&#x201D; will present â&#x20AC;&#x153;Beer Garden Blues: Prohibition-Era Songs and Stories,â&#x20AC;? featuring old favorites and obscure 1920s-era songs. 7 p.m. Free.

McGowan Theater, National Archives Building, Constitution Avenue between 7th and 9th streets NW. 202-357-5000. â&#x2013; Singersongwriter Rob Cheatham will perform. 7 p.m.

Free. Gypsy Sallyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Vinyl Lounge, 3401 K St. NW. gypsysallys.com. â&#x2013; The National Symphony Orchestra and Grammy Award-winning guitarist Sharon Isbin will perform works by Rodrigo, Berlioz, Ravel and Dukas. 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. â&#x2013; American Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Connected: Music in the Museumâ&#x20AC;? series will open with â&#x20AC;&#x153;Elements â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Five Transfigurations for Cello and Computer,â&#x20AC;? featuring composer Steve Antosca, cellist Tobias Werner and music technology by William Brent. 7:30 p.m. Free. American University Museum, Katzen Arts Center, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW. american.edu/museum. â&#x2013; The LA Philharmonicâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s longtime principal cellist, Peter Stumpf, will perform works by Mozart, Earl Kim and FaurĂŠ with

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Wednesday, october 7 â&#x2013; Discussion: Roberta Kaplan (shown) will discuss her book â&#x20AC;&#x153;Then Comes Marriage: United States v.

Windsor and the Defeat of DOMAâ&#x20AC;? in conversation with Indira Lakshmanan, a senior correspondent for Bloomberg News. 7 p.m. Free. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919. other artists from the renowned Marlboro Music Festival. 7:30 p.m. Free; tickets required. Meyer Auditorium, Freer Gallery of Art, 12th Street and Jefferson Drive SW. 202-633-1000. â&#x2013; The a cappella group Latvian Voices will present â&#x20AC;&#x153;Baltic Sensations.â&#x20AC;? 7:30 p.m. $10 to $30. Church of the Epiphany, 1317 G St. NW. classicalmovements.com. â&#x2013; Hollertown will perform bluegrass and contemporary 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. â&#x2013; The Band of Heathens and Cory Branan will perform. 8:30 p.m. $15 to $20. Gypsy Sallyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, 3401 K St. NW. gypsysallys.com.

Demonstration â&#x2013; Writer Adrienne Cook and nutritionist Danielle Cook will present a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fifty Shades of Grainâ&#x20AC;? cooking demonstration featuring the panoply of grains now easily accessible at supermarkets and online. 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; Stephen Rinehart, an astrophysicist and associate chief of the Laboratory for Observational Cosmology at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, will discuss â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite.â&#x20AC;? 11:30 a.m. Free. Mary Pickford Theater, Madison Building, Library of Congress, 101 Independence Ave. SE. 202-707-1192. â&#x2013; The â&#x20AC;&#x153;Textiles at Twelveâ&#x20AC;? program will feature an informal discussion on embroidery, ikat and other design techniques.

Noon. Free. George Washington University Museum and Textile Museum, 701 21st St. NW. 202-994-5200. â&#x2013; Bruce Hoffman, professor and director of the Center for Security Studies at Georgetown University, will discuss his book â&#x20AC;&#x153;Anonymous Soldiers: The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947.â&#x20AC;? Noon to 1 p.m.

Free; reservations requested. McShain Lounge, McCarthy Hall, Georgetown University, 37th and O streets NW. pjc.georgetown.edu. â&#x2013; Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Leadership Forum director

Claire Olszewski and Democratic Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Alliance director Laila Mohib will discuss â&#x20AC;&#x153;Getting Active in the 2016 Election,â&#x20AC;? about their organizationsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; roles within the Democratic National Committee. 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; Carol D. Marsh â&#x20AC;&#x201D; founder and former executive director of Miriamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s House, a residence for homeless women with AIDS â&#x20AC;&#x201D; will discuss her forthcoming memoir â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nowhere Else I Want to Be.â&#x20AC;? 2 to 3 p.m.

Free; reservations required. N Street Village, 1333 N St. NW. 202-939-2074. â&#x2013; Elizabeth Cousens, deputy chief executive officer of the United Nations Foundation and former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Economic and Social Council, will speak. 2:30 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. â&#x2013; Taras Kuzio of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Alberta will discuss his book â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ukraine, Democratization, Corruption and the New Russian Imperialism.â&#x20AC;? 4 to 5:30 p.m. Free; reservations required. Suite 412, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, 1957 E St. NW. go.gwu.edu/ukrainebook. â&#x2013; Jim Cirincione, president of global security foundation Ploughshares Fund and author of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nuclear Nightmares: Securing the World Before It Is Too Late,â&#x20AC;? will discuss â&#x20AC;&#x153;Policy & Politics of the Iran Agreement.â&#x20AC;? 4:30 to 6 p.m. Free; reservations required. McGhee Library, Bunn Intercultural Center, Georgetown University, 37th and O streets NW. irandeal.eventbrite.com. â&#x2013; In connection with the special exhibition â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ingenue to Iconâ&#x20AC;? and its focus on how people use clothing to express their identities, scholar Jonathan Katz will discuss â&#x20AC;&#x153;Queer Self-Fashioning.â&#x20AC;? 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. $20 to $35. Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens, 4155 Linnean Ave. NW. 202686-5807. â&#x2013; Michael J. Crosbie will discuss â&#x20AC;&#x153;Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an Architecture Critic (To) Do?â&#x20AC;? 6 to 7:30 p.m. $10 to $35. District Architecture Center, 421 7th St. NW. aiadc.com/calendar. â&#x2013; As part of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iconoclash Transatlantic Dialogue,â&#x20AC;? Slavoj Zizek, one of Europeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most influential intellectuals, will discuss â&#x20AC;&#x153;More Alienation Please! A Critique of Cultural Violence.â&#x20AC;? 6:30 p.m. Free; reservations required. New York University, 1307 L St. NW. events.nyu.edu. â&#x2013; Phillips Collection director Dorothy Kosinski will discuss Swiss artist Ferdinand Hodlerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s works in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gauguin to Picasso,â&#x20AC;? including his late landscapes and harrowing portraits of his partner, Valentin GodĂŠ-Darel. 6:30 p.m. $10 to $12. Phillips Collection, 1600 21st St. NW. phillipscollection.org/events. â&#x2013; Author Frederick Forsyth will discuss his career writing novels of intrigue and the real-life adventures featured in some of them in conversation with Steve Roberts, professor of politics and journalism at George Washington University. 6:45 to 8:15 p.m. $20 to $25. S. Dillon Ripley Center, 1100 Jefferson Drive SW. 202-6333030. â&#x2013; Melanne Verveer will discuss her book â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fast Forward: How Women Can Achieve Power and Purpose.â&#x20AC;? 7 p.m. Free.

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Continued From Page 18 ■ The Tenleytown Memoir & Essay Writing Club will meet, led by communications expert and facilitator Maura Policelli. 7 p.m. Free. Tenley-Friendship Library, 4450 Wisconsin Ave. NW. 202-727-1488.

■ Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely will discuss their book “All American Boys.”

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

■ In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, the History/Biography Book Club will discuss “Americanos: Latin America’s Struggle for Independence” by John Charles Chasteen. 7 p.m. Free. Juanita E. ThorntonShepherd Park Library, 7420 Georgia Ave. NW. 202-541-6100.

■ Joseph Eldridge and Patrick Ahern will discuss “The Great American Exodus Towards the U.S.: What Is Driving It?” 7 p.m. Free. Mount Pleasant Library, 3160 16th St. NW. 202-671-3121.

■ Poet and essayist Brian Turner will discuss his work with Ron Charles, editor of The Washington Post’s Book World. 7 p.m.

Free. Hill Center at the Old Naval Hospital, 921 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. 202-707-5394.

■ Ben S. Bernanke will discuss his book “The Courage to Act: A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath” in conversation with Judy Woodruff, co-anchor and managing editor of the “PBS NewsHour.” 7 p.m. $20. Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, 600 I St. NW. sixthandi.org.

■ The Bowen Center for the Study of the Family will present a talk by Leaders for Tomorrow founder Andrea Schara on “The Many Ways That Murray Bowen Influenced People to Think Systems.” 7:30 p.m.

Free. Bowen Center for the Study of the Family, 4400 MacArthur Blvd. NW. 202965-4400.

■ Culinary icon Ina Garten, host of the Emmy- and James Beard Award-winning “Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics” on Food Network, will share behind-thescenes stories about her show and discuss her book “Make It Ahead: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook.” 7:30 p.m. $64.75. Lisner Auditorium, George Washington University, 730 21st St. NW. 202-994-6800.

Film ■ The Avalon Theatre’s film studies program on Billy Wilder will open with a lecture by Oliver Gaycken, assistant professor of comparative literature and film studies at the University of Maryland, on the director’s evolution from gentle ethnographer of modern life to caustic satirist of American society and the culture industry.

10:30 a.m. $25 to $30. Avalon Theatre, 5612 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-9666000. The second session on Oct. 15 will feature a screening of Wilder’s 1960 Oscar-winning film “The Apartment” with a post-film discussion.

Performances ■ The Embassy of the Czech Republic and Georgetown University will present a preview of “War With the Newts,” adapted and directed by Natsu Onoda Power from the novel by Karel Capek and performed

by Georgetown University students. 7 p.m.

Free; reservations required. Embassy of the Czech Republic, 3900 Spring of Freedom St. NW. warwiththenewts. eventbrite.com.

■ Georgetown University’s Black Theatre Ensemble will present a workshop

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Events Entertainment production of Pulitzer-winning playwright Lynn Nottage’s new play “By the Way, Meet Vera Stark.” 8 p.m. $5 to $6. Walsh Black Box Theatre, Georgetown University, 1221 36th St. NW. 202-687-2787. The performance will repeat Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m.

Special event ■ “Nitro Circus Live” will feature top athletes in freestyle motocross, BMX, skate and more in a new production. 7:30 p.m. $39 to $99. Verizon Center, 601 F St. NW. 800-745-3000.

Friday, Oct. 9

Friday october 9 Children’s programs ■ In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, Latin Grammy Award nominee 123 Andrés will present a musical journey through various Latin American cultures (for ages 5 and younger). 11 a.m. Free. Mount Pleasant Library, 3160 16th St. NW. 202-6713121.

■ The Kennedy Center, Chicago’s Hubbard Street 2 and the shadow puppeteers of Manual Cinema will present the world premiere of “Mariko’s Magical Mix: A Dance Adventure” (for ages 5 and older). 7 p.m. $20. Family Theater, Kennedy Center.

202-467-4600. The performance will repeat Saturday and Sunday at 1:30 and 4 p.m.

Concerts ■ The Friday Morning Music Club will present works by Yannis Constantinides, Aaron Copland and Daniel Baldwin. Noon.

Free. Calvary Baptist Church, 755 8th St. NW. 202-333-2075.

■ “Fringe Music in the Library” will feature a concert by Board Burning, a D.C.based collective led by founding member Andras Fekete and originally formed in Chapel Hill, N.C. Noon. Free. Great Hall, Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW. 202-727-0321.

■ Organist Ronald Stolk will perform works by Buxtehude and Hindemith. 12:15 p.m. Free. National City Christian Church, 5 Thomas Circle NW. 202-797-0103.

■ “Jason+” will feature two pianists at the top of their respective genres — classical artist Jeremy Denk and jazz musician Jason Moran. 7 p.m. $55. Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.

■ The D.C.-based duo SmithJackson will perform. 7:30 p.m. Free. Gypsy Sally’s Vinyl Lounge, 3401 K St. NW. gypsysallys.com.

■ The Folger Consort will present “Chanson Medieval: Music of Machaut and Dufay.” 8 p.m. $25 to $40. Folger Shakespeare Library, 201 East Capitol St. SE. folger.edu. The performance will repeat at 5 and 8 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m.

Sunday.

■ Hoots and Hellmouth will perform on a double bill with Annabelle’s Curse. 9 p.m. $12 to $16. Gypsy Sally’s, 3401 K St. NW. gypsysallys.com.

Discussions and lectures ■ Artist Steve Tobin will discuss “Formalizing Nature.” Noon to 1 p.m. Free; reservations required. Conservatory Classroom, U.S. Botanic Garden, 100 Maryland Ave. SW. 202-225-8333.

■ Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter Joby Warrick will discuss his book “Black Flags,” about the spread of ISIS. 1 to 4 p.m. Free. International Spy Museum, 800 F St. NW. 202-393-7798.

■ Alan Hyun-Oak Kim, associate professor of Japanese and linguistics at Southern Illinois University, will discuss

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Impressionist collectors spotlighted “Gauguin to Picasso: Masterworks From Switzerland, the Staechelin and Im Obersteg Collections,” featuring over 60 paintings from collections by two

On exhibit

champions of impressionism, postimpressionism and the School of Paris, will open Saturday at the Phillips Collection and continue through Jan. 10.

The Phillips will also open “Question Bridge: Black Males” tomorrow. On view through Jan. 3, this documentary-style video art installation by Chris Johnson, Hank Willis Thomas, Kamal Sinclair and Bayeté Ross Smith aims to represent and redefine black male identity in America.

Located at 1600 21st St. NW, the museum is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursday until 8:30 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Admission to “Gauguin to Picasso” costs $12 for adults and $10 for seniors and students; it is free for ages 18 and younger. Admission to “Question Bridge,” on weekends, costs $12 for adults and $10 for seniors and students, and it is free for ages 18 and younger; on weekdays it is free for all.

202-387-2151.

■ “A Different Approach,” exploring our relationship to Earth, nature and light in works by Pattie Porter Firestone, Michael Madzo, Joey Mánlapaz and Bill Mead, will open Saturday at Zenith Gallery with an artists’ reception from “Politeness and Metaphor in Japanese.”

2:30 to 4 p.m. Free; reservations required.

Room 351, Rome Hall, George Washington University, 801 22nd St. NW. calendar.gwu.edu.

■ “Sister Outsider: A Women of Color Panel and Reading” will feature a conversation and celebration of women of color in the Liberation movement and the arts. 3 p.m. Free. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW. 202-727-0321.

■ Jack Burns, professor and vice president emeritus at the University of Colorado, will discuss “Exploring the Universe From the Moon.” 4 to 5:30 p.m. Free; reservations required. Room 505, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, 1957 E St. NW. spi@email.gwu.edu.

■ Sandra Cisneros will discuss her book “A House of My Own: Stories From My Life.” 7 p.m. Free. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-3641919.

■ Musician, writer and poet Patti Smith will discuss her book “M Train” in conversation with Maureen Corrigan, book critic for NPR’s “Fresh Air.” 7 p.m. $35 for a ticket and book. Lisner Auditorium, George Washington University, 730 21st St. NW. 202-994-6800.

Festival ■ St. Sophia Greek Orthodox Cathedral will hold a Greek Festival with live music and dancing, authentic Greek food and pastries, children’s games, international arts and crafts, and a Greek market. Noon to 10 p.m. Free admission. St. Sophia Greek Orthodox Cathedral, 36th Street and Massachusetts Avenue NW. saintsophiadc.com. The festival will

2 to 6 p.m. The exhibit will continue through Oct. 31.

Located at 1429 Iris St. NW, the gallery is open Wednesday through Saturday from noon to 6 p.m. 202-783-2963.

■ Studio Gallery opened three shows last week and will close them with a reception Oct. 24 from 3 to 6 p.m.

“Secrets of the Elements 4, Time’s Arrows” explores elements from the periodic table with artworks by Morgan Spurlock and poet John Martin Tarrat. A reception for the exhibit will take place Oct. 17 from 4 to 6 p.m. with a gallery talk at 5 p.m.

“Tea Time” presents paintings by Diane Blackwell that take a playful look at drinking tea.

“Bound and Determined” features works by Lois Kampinsky that play with the idea of binding.

On Sunday from 3 to 5 p.m., the gallery will also present “(Dis)connected,” a dance piece by Errant Movement that explores the influence of technology on our lives, with performances at 3:15 and 4:15 p.m.

Located at 2108 R St. NW, the gallery is open Wednesday through Friday from 1 to 6 p.m. and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. 202-232-8734.

■ “75 Years/75 Objects,” celebrating 75 years of Dumbarton Oaks with 75 objects from the Dumbarton Oaks Museum, opened last month and will continue through May 22. Each month, a new rotation of objects will be featured on themes that include Reconstructing, Collecting, Reinterpreting,

continue Saturday from noon to 10 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 7 p.m.

Films ■ “Lunch and a Movie” will feature a screening of Scott Hicks’ 1999 film “Snow Falling on Cedars,” starring Ethan Hawke and Sam Shepard. Lunch at noon; film at 1 p.m. Free; reservations for lunch required by Oct. 7. Guy Mason Recreation Center, 3600 Calvert St. NW. 202-7277703.

■ The group Friends of Mitchell Park will continue its “Films in the Field” series

© 2015 Estate of Pablo Picasso/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Pablo Picasso’s “Harlequin With Black Mask” is part of the Phillips Collection’s new show.

Conserving, Reuniting, Pondering, Questioning and Revealing. The first theme, Researching, was presented last month.

Located at 1703 32nd St. NW, the museum is open Tuesday through Sunday from 11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. 202339-6401.

■ The Capitol Hill Arts Workshop recently opened a juried group show of works by 25 artists in a wide range of media, including oil, acrylic, watercolor, mixed media, graphite, pencil, collage and photography. The show will continue through Nov. 6.

Located at 545 7th St. SE, the gallery is open Monday through Thursday from 9:30 a.m. to 9 p.m., Friday from 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. 202-547-6839.

with a screening of “The Graduate,” starring Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft and Katharine Ross. 7 p.m. Free. Mitchell Park, 23rd and S streets NW. 202-5464293.

■ A Seijun Suzuki retrospective will feature the filmmaker’s 1967 movie “Branded to Kill.” After the screening, Tom Vick will sign copies of his book “Time and Place Are Nonsense: The Films of Seijun Suzuki.” 7 p.m. Free. Meyer Auditorium, Freer Gallery of Art, 12th Street and Jefferson Drive SW. 202-633-1000.

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Continued From Page 19 ■ The sixth annual Reel Independent Film Extravaganza will open with a screening of Robert Rippberger’s documentary “7 Days in Syria” and the short film “Butterfly Hunter.” 7 p.m. $8 to $10.50. Angelika Pop-Up at Union Market, 550 Penn St. NE. reelindependentfilm.com. The festival will continue through Oct. 15.

Performances and readings ■ Local Dance Commissioning Project awardee Robert J. Priore and his company of eight dancers, three vocalists, three musicians and a videographer will present “Speak Easy,” about the positive and negative aspects of how humans love one another. 6 p.m. Free. Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600. The performance will repeat Saturday at 6 p.m.

■ Teatro Lirico of DC will present the Spanish light opera “La Rosa del Azafran (The Saffron Flower),” about two lovers trapped in a society that does not condone cross-class marriages and performed with soloists, orchestra, chorus and dangers. 7 p.m. $20 to $60. GALA Theatre, 3333 14th St. NW. teatroliricodc.com. The performance will repeat Saturday at 7 p.m.

■ Washington Performing Arts and CityDance will present the Dance Theatre of Harlem performing the D.C. premiere of “Coming Together,” with choreography by European choreographer Nacho Duato and music by American composer Frederic Rzewski. 8 p.m. $35 to $70. Sidney Harman Hall, 610 F St. NW. 202-547-1122.

The performance will repeat Saturday at 2 and 8 p.m.

Special events ■ The Army Ten-Miler Expo will feature performances by the Old Guard Drill Team and Fife and Drum Corps, along with more than 110 vendors selling clothing, shoes, accessories and more. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Free admission. D.C. Armory, 2001 East Capitol St. SE. armytenmiler.com/ expo.aspx. The expo will continue Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

■ The Truckeroo Food Truck Festival will feature live music, over 20 food trucks, and cornhole and other games. 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Free admission. Half Street Fairgrounds, Half and M streets SE. truckeroodc.com.

■ Poets Raquel Partnoy, Alicia Partnoy

Saturday, October 17th 11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Advance Tickets $30 may be purchased at

palisadesvillagehousetour.org or by calling 202.244.3310

Same-Day Tickets $35 may be purchased at St. Patrick’s Episcopal Church 4700 Whitehaven Parkway, NW Washington, DC 20007 (Doors open at 10:30 a.m.)

Ticket sales support our elderly neighbors in: Berkley, Foxhall, Kent, Palisades, Spring Valley and Wesley Heights

and Ruth Irupe Sanabria will discuss human rights abuses in Argentina and elsewhere as part of a reception and book reading in conjunction with the “Colors of Tango” exhibition. 6 to 8 p.m. Free. Wonder Graphics, 1000 Vermont Ave. NW. 202-898-1700.

■ Steelhead Productions will present “Scream City, Washington, DC,” an immersive haunted house experience for Halloween. 7 to 10 p.m. $30. Parking lot, RFK Stadium, 2400 East Capitol St. NW. screamcity.com. The event will continue on various nights through Nov. 1.

Sporting event ■ The Washington Wizards will play the New York Knicks in a preseason matchup.

7 p.m. $25 to $899. Verizon Center, 601 F St. NW. 800-745-3000.

Saturday, Oct. 10

Saturday october 10 Arts event ■ “Do the Loop” will offer a chance to visit eight art galleries, the Dumbarton Oaks Museum, the Kreeger Museum and the American University Museum via a shuttle bus. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Free. Shuttle stops at American University’s Katzen Arts Center, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW; the Kreeger Museum, 2401 Foxhall Road NW; and Reservoir Road and Wisconsin Avenue NW. tinyurl.com/DoTheLoop.

Book sale ■ Friends of the Watha T. Daniel/Shaw Neighborhood Library will hold a usedbook sale. 10 a.m. Free. Watha T. Daniel/ Shaw Library, 1630 7th St. NW. 202-7271288.

Children’s programs ■ A park ranger will lead a “Spooky Night Sky” planetarium program. 1 p.m.

Free. Rock Creek Nature Center, 5200 Glover Road NW. 202-895-6070.

■ “Haunted House and Home,” a dropin program for ages 6 through 11, will have participants design a tabletop haunted house using craft materials, creativity and a bit of hocus-pocus. 1 to 3 p.m. Free.

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

■ Children will hear a story about civil rights activist César Chávez and then create a special piece of art. 1 to 4 p.m. Free.

National Portrait Gallery, 8th and F streets NW. 202-633-1000. The program will repeat Sunday from 2 to 5 p.m.

■ The West End Interim Library will host a “Halloween Mask Design” workshop. 3:30 p.m. Free. West End Interim Library, 2522 Virginia Ave. NW. 202-7278707.

Classes and workshops ■ The Mount Pleasant Library will present “Saturday Morning Yoga.” 10 a.m.

Free. Mount Pleasant Library, 3160 16th St. NW. 202-671-3122.

■ Luz Verost will teach a beginningand intermediate-level Spanish language class. 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Free; reservations requested. Guy Mason Recreation Center, 3600 Calvert St. NW. 202-7277703.

■ Career coach Blair Goins will present a “Design a Career You’ll Love” workshop.

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

■ Freespace Collective will host a “Makers-in-Residence 3-D and Robotics Workshop,” with participants walking around the Tenley-Friendship Library’s neighborhood so their paths can be incorporated in a printed 3-D map (for ages 10

and older). 3:30 p.m. Free. Tenley-Friendship Library, 4450 Wisconsin Ave. NW. 202-727-1488.

Concerts ■ The Washington International Piano Arts Council will present an all-Chopin concert by pianist Michael Slavin, winner of two recent competitions in Paris and Warsaw. 1:30 p.m. Free. The Kosciuszko Foundation, 2025 O St. NW. 202-785-2320.

■ The Emerson String Quartet will perform works by Haydn and Beethoven. 6 to 8 p.m. $56 to $68. Baird Auditorium, National Museum of Natural History, 10th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. 202633-3030.

■ The KC Jazz Club will present “A Family Affair,” featuring the acoustic jazz duo of twin brothers Marcus Strickland (on saxophone) and E.J. Strickland (on drums).

7 and 9 p.m. $26 to $30. Terrace Gallery, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.

■ The Washington, DC Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. will present “A Red Note Evening,” featuring Chrisette Michele and Chelsea Green. 7 p.m. $70 to $120. Lisner Auditorium, George Washington University, 730 21st St. NW. 202-994-6800.

■ Liz Frame and the Kickers will perform. 7:30 p.m. Free. Gypsy Sally’s Vinyl Lounge, 3401 K St. NW. gypsysallys.com.

■ The new music ensemble yarn|wire, a quartet of two pianists and two percussionists, will perform works by 20th-century composer Luciano Berio and contemporary composers. 8 p.m.

Free; limited number of “rush” tickets available two hours before the otherwise sold-out performance. Coolidge Auditorium, Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, 10 1st St. SE. loc.gov/concerts.

■ Pianist Yuliya Gorenman will present “The Gorenman Russian Project,” featuring works by Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev and Rachmaninoff.

8 p.m. $10 to $25. Abramson Family Recital Hall, Katzen Arts Center, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW. 202-885-3634.

■ Newmyer Flyer will present a John Lennon Birthday Tribute featuring David Kitchen, Laura Tsaggaris, Luke Brindley and other area musicians. 8:30 p.m. $20 to $30. The Hamilton, 600 14th St. NW. thehamiltondc.com.

■ Pianist Marco Benevento and Funk Ark Trio will perform. 9 p.m. $15 to $17.

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

Discussions and lectures ■ U.S. Botanic Garden science education volunteer Todd Brethauer will discuss “The Botany, History & Future of Chrysanthemums.” 10:30 a.m. to noon. Free; reservations required. Conservatory Classroom, U.S. Botanic Garden, 100 Maryland Ave. SW. 202-225-8333.

■ Exhibition curators Sumru Belger Krody and Marlene Laurelle will discuss major themes and works on view in “Old Patterns, New Order: Socialist Realism in Central Asia.” Noon. Free. George Washington University Museum and Textile Museum, 701 21st St. NW. 202-9945200.

■ Kate Clifford Larson will discuss her book “Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy

Daughter,” at 1 p.m.; Mark Riebling will discuss his book “Church of Spies: The Pope’s Secret War Against Hitler,” at 3:30 p.m.; and Morton Kondracke will discuss his book “Jack Kemp: The Bleeding-Heart Conservative Who Changed America,” at 6 p.m. Free. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.

■ “Meet an Interrogator” will feature former military intelligence officer and interrogator Lena Sisco, author of “You’re Lying!” 1 to 4 p.m. Free. International Spy Museum, 800 F St. NW. 202-393-7798.

■ Civil rights leader Clarence B. Jones, a lawyer, adviser and speechwriter to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., will speak at a public interfaith family service and celebration hosted by the Grand Lodge of Freemasons of the District of Columbia.

The event will feature music by the gospel choir and musicians of the Duke Ellington School of the Arts. 2 p.m. Free. National City Christian Church, 5 Thomas Circle NW. dcgrandlodge.org.

Festival ■ The Taste of DC festival will feature samples from more than 60 area restaurants, as well as live music, chef demonstrations and dozens of wines and specialty beers.

Noon to 7 p.m. $20 admission; $10 for ages 5 through 12; free for ages 4 and younger. Pennsylvania Avenue between 3rd and 7th streets NW. thetasteofdc.org.

The festival will continue Sunday from noon to 7 p.m.

Films ■ “Personal Space: Films by Aurand and Beavers” will feature “Portraits of Place and Familiars,” at 2 p.m.; and “Three Films by Robert Beavers,” at 3:30 p.m.

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

■ The group Friends of Stead Park will host an outdoor screening of the 2014 animated film “Big Hero 6.” 7:15 to 9 p.m.

Free. Stead Park, 1625 P St. NW. friendsofsteadpark.org.

Performances and readings ■ As part of Hispanic Heritage Month, Teatro de la Luna will present the bilingual play “Sanos y Contentos/Happy and Healthy,” about the importance of nutrition and exercise. 10 a.m. Free. Columbia Heights Farmers Market, 14th Street and Park Road NW. 202-882-6227.

■ “Identify,” the National Portrait Gallery’s first-ever performance art series, will present artist Wilmer Wilson IV, who will adhere Crest White Strips to his skin to examine the meanings of black skin in contemporary American society and the long history of racism in the United States.

4 to 6 p.m. Free. Great Hall, National Portrait Gallery, 8th and F streets NW. 202633-1000.

■ Sex trafficking survivor Stacy Jewell Lewis will present “7 Layers Captive,” using music, spoken word and stunning visuals to recount her abduction from her home in D.C. to the underground world of street prostitution (for ages 14 and older).

7 p.m. $39. Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.

■ The Individual World Poetry Slam Finals will feature 12 of the top-ranked poets in the world. 7 p.m. $21 to $26.

Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, 600 I St. NW. 877-987-6487.

■ DC Casineros will perform modern dance and Cuban popular dance pieces in tribute to the “Cuban Guitarist,” and then Ernesto “Gato” Gatell and his eight-member band will perform as audience members dance with Yudisleidy Valdez Mena and members of the DC Casineros dance company. 8 p.m. $15 to $30. Dance Place, 3225 8th St. NE. 202-269-1600. The performance will repeat Sunday at 7 p.m.

Special events ■ Steak-N-Egg will host a Tenleytown neighborhood fair with taste tests, promotional offers, contests and information on the restaurant’s expansion plans. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Free. Steak-N-Egg, 4700 Wisconsin Ave. NW. 202-686-1201.

■ Peirce Mill Heritage Day will feature the District’s only surviving gristmill in action; bluegrass music by Kate Saylor and Notes From the Underground; demonstrations of blacksmithing, open-fire cooking and apple-cider pressing by 19th-centurystyle artisans; hands-on children’s activities; a two-mile “Lost in the Park” hike with tips on how to use a compass and make your own line map; and a walking tour on “The Rise and Fall of Peirce Plantation” by Steve Dryden, author of “Peirce Mill: Two Hundred Years in the Nation’s Capital.”

Activities from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., with the mill in operation from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Free. Peirce Mill, Tilden Street and Beach Drive NW. 202-895-6070.

■ The DC Anime Club will host a video game day (for ages 13 and older). 2 to 5 p.m. Free. Room A-9, Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW. dcanimeclub.org.

Sporting event ■ The Washington Capitals will play the New Jersey Devils in the season opener. 7 p.m. $36 to $313. Verizon Center, 601 F St. NW. 800-745-3000.

Walks and tours ■ Upshur Street Books will present a guided walk in the Boundary Bridge area of Rock Creek Park with Melanie ChoukasBradley, author of “A Year in Rock Creek Park — The Wild, Wooded Heart of Washington, D.C.” and “City of Trees.” 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. $20 to $45; reservations required. Meet at the Boundary Bridge parking lot off Beach Drive. upshurstreetbooks.com.

■ A Civil War-themed tour of Tudor Place will focus on the lives of the predominantly Southern-sympathizing Peter family, which opened a boarding house for Union officers and their families during the war, at 10:30 a.m.; and a walking tour of Georgetown will point out the final resting place of three renowned Civil War spies, a Union hospital, the residences of military leaders and a neighborhood of enslaved and free African-Americans, at 1 p.m. $8 to $10 for one tour; $12 to $15 for both.

Tudor Place Historic House and Garden, 1644 31st St. NW. tudorplace.org.

■ Washington Walks’ “Get Local!” series will feature a look at L’Enfant Plaza and the Southwest EcoDistrict. 11 a.m. $15 to $20. Meet outside the Maryland Avenue SW exit to the L’Enfant Plaza Metrorail station. washingtonwalks.com.

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Sunday october 11 Children’s program ■ A half-mile “Habitat Hike” will expose young visitors to the various kinds of living spaces in the park (for ages 5 and older).

2:30 p.m. Free. Rock Creek Nature Center, See Events/Page 21

Continued From Page 20 5200 Glover Road NW. 202-895-6070.

Class â&#x2013; Local yoga instructor Lauren Jacobs will present â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sunday Serenity: Yoga in the East Park.â&#x20AC;? 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. $5 donation suggested. Dumbarton House, 2715 Q St. NW. dumbartonhouse.org.

Concerts â&#x2013; â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Presidentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ownâ&#x20AC;? U.S. Marine Band will present a chamber music recital.

2 p.m. Free. Sousa Band Hall, Marine Barracks Annex, 7th and K streets SE. 202433-4011. â&#x2013; Washington Performing Arts will present a solo classical recital by pianist Jeremy Denk. 2 p.m. $70. Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600. â&#x2013; The Steinway Series will feature Catholic University faculty artists performing selected Beethoven sonatas as part of the universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s yearlong celebration in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Benjamin T. Rome School of Music. 3 p.m.

Free; tickets distributed in the G Street lobby a half hour before the performance.

McEvoy Auditorium, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 8th and G streets NW. 202633-1000. â&#x2013; The Hermès String Quartet will perform works by Mozart, Webern and Schubert. 3:30 p.m. Free. West Garden Court, National Gallery of Art, 4th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. 202-737-4215. â&#x2013; Trio Illumino â&#x20AC;&#x201D; featuring Neil Brown on trumpet, Stephen Czarkowski on cello and Virginia Lum on piano â&#x20AC;&#x201D; will perform works by Brahms, Barber and others. 4 p.m. Free. Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church, 1 Chevy Chase Circle NW. 202363-2209. â&#x2013; Guitarist Sharon Isbin will perform works by Granados, TĂĄrrega, AlbĂŠniz, MacCombie and MangorĂŠ. 4 p.m. $15 to $30; reservations suggested. Phillips Collection, 1600 21st St. NW. phillipscollection.org/ music. â&#x2013; Choralis, soprano Erin Sanzero, mezzo-soprano Elizabeth Bishop and organist Todd Fickley will present â&#x20AC;&#x153;Music for Great Spaces,â&#x20AC;? featuring works by Gabrieli, Verdi, Byrd, Mahler and others. 5 p.m. $20 to $50; $5 for ages 13 through 23; free for ages 12 and younger. National Presbyterian Church, 4101 Nebraska Ave. NW. choralis.org. â&#x2013; The contra/ceilidh band Frog Hammer will perform traditional and original tunes. Dance lessons at 5 p.m.; performance at 6 p.m. Free. Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600. â&#x2013; Guest organist RenĂŠe Alcee Chriss III will perform. 5:15 p.m. $10 donation suggested. Washington National Cathedral, Massachusetts and Wisconsin avenues NW. cathedral.org. â&#x2013; The California Honeydrops and the Judy Chops will perform. 8 p.m. $10 to $14. Gypsy Sallyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, 3401 K St. NW. gypsysallys.com. â&#x2013; The Falun Dafa Association of D.C. will present a concert by the Shen Yun Symphony Orchestra. 8 p.m. $29 to $99.

Concert Hall, Kennedy Center. 202-4674600.

Discussions and lectures â&#x2013; Chef Alice Waters and illustrator Fanny Singer will discuss their book â&#x20AC;&#x153;My

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Events Entertainment Pantry: Homemade Ingredients That Make Simple Meals Your Own.â&#x20AC;? 10 a.m. Free.

Dupont Circle Freshfarm Market, 20th Street between Massachusetts Avenue and Hillyer Place NW. freshfarmmarkets. org. â&#x2013; Sasha Abramsky (shown) will discuss his family memoir â&#x20AC;&#x153;The House of Twenty Thousand Books,â&#x20AC;? at noon; chef Alice Waters and illustrator Fanny Singer will discuss their book â&#x20AC;&#x153;My Pantry: Homemade Ingredients That Make Simple Meals Your Own,â&#x20AC;? at 2 p.m.; and Daniel J. Levitin will discuss his book â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload,â&#x20AC;? at 5 p.m.

Free. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919. â&#x2013; As part of the Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Voices Theater Festival, Arena Stage playwrights Allison Engel, Margaret Engel and Karen ZacarĂ­as will discuss â&#x20AC;&#x153;Subverting Expectations: Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Work in Theater.â&#x20AC;? 3:30 p.m. Free; reservations required. Arena Stage, 1101 6th St. SW. 202-488-3300. â&#x2013; John DeFerrari will discuss his book â&#x20AC;&#x153;Capital Streetcars: Early Mass Transit in Washington, D.C.â&#x20AC;? 6 p.m. Free. Upshur Street Books, 827 Upshur St. NW. upshurstreetbooks.com.

Films â&#x2013; A Seijun Suzuki retrospective will feature the filmmakerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1966 movie â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tokyo Drifter.â&#x20AC;? 1 p.m. Free. Meyer Auditorium, Freer Gallery of Art, 12th Street and Jefferson Drive SW. 202-633-1000. â&#x2013; The â&#x20AC;&#x153;Golden Sunday Movieâ&#x20AC;? series will feature the 1958 musical â&#x20AC;&#x153;King Creole,â&#x20AC;? starring Elvis Presley and based on Harold Robbinsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; novel â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Stone for Danny Fisher.â&#x20AC;? 2 p.m. Free. Tenley-Friendship Library, 4450 Wisconsin Ave. NW. 202727-1488. â&#x2013; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Personal Space: Films by Aurand and Beaversâ&#x20AC;? will feature recent films by Ute Aurand. 2 p.m. Free. East Building Auditorium, National Gallery of Art, 4th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. 202737-4215. â&#x2013; A French film festival will feature Christophe Barratierâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Les Choristes (The Chorus),â&#x20AC;? about a new teacher at an allboys boarding school who works to positively affect the studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; lives through music. 4:30 p.m. Free. Eckles Auditorium, George Washington University Mount Vernon Campus, 2100 Foxhall Road NW. 202242-5117. â&#x2013; â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Faraway Worlds of Wojciech Jerzy Hasâ&#x20AC;? will feature the 1963 film â&#x20AC;&#x153;How to Be Loved.â&#x20AC;? 4:30 p.m. Free. East Building Auditorium, National Gallery of Art, 4th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. 202737-4215. â&#x2013; A screening of Penny Leeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s documentary â&#x20AC;&#x153;Through Chinatownâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Eyes: April 1968â&#x20AC;? will precede a community discussion moderated by American University professorial lecturer Easten Law on how young Chinatown residents saw the civil unrest and street violence that gripped D.C. after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 6 to 8 p.m. Free. Langston Room, Busboys and Poets, 2021 14th St. NW. 202-387-7638.

Performances â&#x2013; The Georgetown Improv Association 20th Anniversary Gala will feature alumni from the past two decades. 7 p.m. $20.

Gonda Theatre, Davis Performing Arts Center, Georgetown University, 37th and O streets NW. 202-687-2787.

â&#x2013; Story District will present â&#x20AC;&#x153;Out & About: A Day of Storytelling in Honor of National Coming Out Day.â&#x20AC;? 7:30 p.m. $25.

Malmaison, 3401 Water St. NW. storydistrict.org.

Special events â&#x2013; A Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Costume Swap will feature gently used, clean clothing and accessories. 1 p.m. Free. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW. 202-7271248. â&#x2013; The Rev. Harvey Guthrie, dean emeritus of the Episcopal Divinity School, will preach at the dedication of a bust of Jonathan Myrick Daniels, an Episcopal seminarian and civil rights activist killed in 1965 while protecting young African-American activist Ruby Sales. Afterward, Sales â&#x20AC;&#x201D; now a nationally recognized human rights activist and social critic and the founder of the Spirit House Project â&#x20AC;&#x201D; will discuss Danielsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; legacy and what their work together means for the country today. Evensong service with dedication at 4 p.m.; talk by Sales at 5:30 p.m. Free. Washington National Cathedral, Massachusetts and Wisconsin avenues NW. cathedral.org.

Sporting event â&#x2013; The Washington Wizards will play Brazilian team Bauru Basket in an exhibition matchup. 6 p.m. $25 to $899. Verizon Center, 601 F St. NW. 800-745-3000.

Walks and tours â&#x2013; The â&#x20AC;&#x153;Spies: North by Northwestâ&#x20AC;? walking tour will feature tales of espionage in the area near the Washington National Cathedral and Russian Embassy. 1 p.m. $15. Meet in the park on the southeast corner of Massachusetts and Wisconsin avenues NW. 703-569-1875. â&#x2013; A park ranger will lead a two-mile â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fall Foliage Strollâ&#x20AC;? along Rock Creek. 2 to 4 p.m. Free. Rock Creek Nature Center, 5200 Glover Road NW. 202-895-6070.

Monday, Oct. 12

Monday october 12 Class â&#x2013; The Science of Spirituality Meditation Center will begin a four-week class on Jyoti meditation. 7 to 8:30 p.m. Free; reservations required. Science of Spirituality Meditation Center, 2950 Arizona Ave. NW. dcinfo@sos.org.

Concerts â&#x2013; Members of the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra will perform works

by Ravel and Brahms. 6 p.m. Free. Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center. 202-4674600. â&#x2013; Bottle Rockets and Mark Olson will perform. 8:30 p.m. $15 to $18. Gypsy Sallyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, 3401 K St. NW. gypsysallys.com.

Discussions and lectures â&#x2013; U.S. Botanic Garden science education volunteer Todd Brethauer will discuss â&#x20AC;&#x153;The History of Spices.â&#x20AC;? 10:30 a.m. to noon. Free; reservations required. Conservatory Classroom, U.S. Botanic Garden, 100 Maryland Ave. SW. 202-225-8333. â&#x2013; Author and D.C. historian Garrett

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Peck will discuss â&#x20AC;&#x153;Walt Whitman in Washington, D.C.â&#x20AC;? Noon. Free. George Washington University Museum and Textile Museum, 701 21st St. NW. 202-994-5200. â&#x2013; Tom Foreman will discuss his book â&#x20AC;&#x153;My Year of Running Dangerously: A Dad, a Daughter, and a Ridiculous Plan.â&#x20AC;? 6:30 p.m. Free. Langston Room, Busboys and Poets, 2021 14th St. NW. 202-387-7638. â&#x2013; Josh Gondelman and Joe Berkowitz will discuss their book â&#x20AC;&#x153;You Blew It!: An Awkward Look at the Many Ways in Which Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve Already Ruined Your Life.â&#x20AC;? 6:30 p.m.

Free. Kramerbooks & Afterwords Cafe, 1517 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-3871400. â&#x2013; Jenny Lawson will discuss her book â&#x20AC;&#x153;Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things.â&#x20AC;? 7 p.m. Free. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202364-1919. â&#x2013; The Center for Inquiry-DC will present a book talk by Richard Dawkins, author of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science.â&#x20AC;? 7 p.m. $20 to $40. Lisner Auditorium, George Washington University, 730 21st St. NW. 202-994-6800.

Film â&#x2013; The Music and Poetry Club will screen the 2007 film â&#x20AC;&#x153;Across the Universe,â&#x20AC;? starring Evan Rachel Wood and Jim Sturgess. A performance by the Blues Muse ensemble will follow. 7:30 p.m. Free.

St. Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Court, 725 24th St. NW. 202393-1511.

Performances and readings â&#x2013; Sisters Speaking Serenity will present a poetry event for women affected by domestic violence. 6 to 8 p.m. Free; reservations required. Busboys and Poets Brookland, 625 Monroe St. NE. busboysandpoets.com. â&#x2013; In conjunction with the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Picturing Americaâ&#x20AC;? film series, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Empires Facing Each Other: Little Golden Americaâ&#x20AC;? will feature a reading by German writer Felicitas Hoppe, who has joined with visual artists Alexej Meschtschanow and Jana MĂźller to retrace the steps of a Russian writer duo who documented the small towns and countryside of the United States in the 1930s. 6:30 p.m. Free; reservations required. Goethe-Institut, 812 7th St. NW. goetheinstitutwashington.eventbrite.com. â&#x2013; As part of the Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Voices Theater Festival, the Kennedy Center and the University of Maryland will present Naomi Iizukaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Good Kids,â&#x20AC;? about a high school student who is raped by a group of football players and then becomes the subject of gossip via social media. 8 p.m. Free; tickets distributed in the States Gallery a half hour before the performance. Theater Lab, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600. â&#x2013; The Theater Allianceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hothouse New Play Reading Series will feature Dane Figueroa Edidiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Absalom.â&#x20AC;? A discussion with the playwright, director and artists will follow. 8 p.m. Free; reservations required.

Anacostia Playhouse, 2020 Shannon Place SE. theateralliance.com.

Special events â&#x2013; The Library of Congress will open its

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Main Reading Room to the public for a Columbus Day open house. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Free. Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, 10 1st St. SE. 202-707-8000. â&#x2013; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Taste of Austriaâ&#x20AC;? will feature a threecourse dinner paired with Austrian wines.

6:30 to 8:30 p.m. $75. Embassy of Austria, 3524 International Court NW. acfdc.org.

Tuesday,october Oct. 13 Tuesday 13 Classes and workshops â&#x2013; Robin Glantz of Yoga Activist will lead a viniyoga class. 11:30 a.m. Free; reservations required. Georgetown Library, 3260 R St. NW. geoyogarsvp@dc.gov. â&#x2013; Housing Counseling Services Inc. will present an introductory workshop on reverse mortgages. 2 p.m. Free. Suite 100, 2410 17th St. NW. 202-667-7006. â&#x2013; Yoga Activist will present a weekly yoga class geared toward beginners. 7 p.m. Free. Second-floor meeting room, Cleveland Park Library, 3310 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-282-3080. â&#x2013; A wine class will focus on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cabernet Sauvignon: The King of Bordeaux and Beyond.â&#x20AC;? 7 to 8:30 p.m. $45; reservations required. Vinoteca, 1940 11th St. NW. vinotecadc.com. â&#x2013; Susan Lowell will lead a tai chi class.

7:30 p.m. Free. Tenley-Friendship Library, 4450 Wisconsin Ave. NW. 202-727-1488.

Concerts â&#x2013; As part of the Tuesday Concert Series, pianist Daria Scarano will perform.

12:10 p.m. Free.

Church of the Epiphany, 1317 G St. NW. 202-347-2635. â&#x2013; The 37th Young Concert Artists Series will feature flutist Seiya Ueno and pianist Wendy Chen. 7 p.m. $35. Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600. â&#x2013; Gypsy Sallyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Vinyl Lounge will host its weekly open mic show. 8 p.m. Free.

Gypsy Sallyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Vinyl Lounge, 3401 K St. NW. gypsysallys.com. â&#x2013; Jon Dee Graham, Jack Grace, Rod Picott and Chris Porter will perform. 8 p.m. $12 to $16. Gypsy Sallyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, 3401 K St. NW. gypsysallys.com.

Discussions and lectures â&#x2013; The Prevention of Blindness Society of Metropolitan Washington will present a talk by Dr. Hari Mylvaganam on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Understanding Eye Pain.â&#x20AC;? 11 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.

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Continued From Page 21 Irving St. NW. 202-877-6159. â&#x2013; T.D. Jakes will discuss his book â&#x20AC;&#x153;Destiny: Step Into Your Purpose.â&#x20AC;? Noon. Free.

Barnes & Noble, 555 12th St. NW. 202347-0176. â&#x2013; The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at American University will present a talk on â&#x20AC;&#x153;When Art and Politics Collide: The Making of Mosaic Theater Companyâ&#x20AC;? by the groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s founding artistic director, Ari Roth, and its resident director, Jennifer L. Nelson. 12:15 to 1:15 p.m. Free. Temple Baptist Church, 3850 Nebraska Ave. NW. 202-895-4860. â&#x2013; Shoon Murray and Gordon Adams will discuss their book â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mission Creep: The Militarization of U.S. Foreign Policy.â&#x20AC;? 2:30 to 4:30 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. â&#x2013; Thomas Mallon will discuss his book â&#x20AC;&#x153;Finale: A Novel of the Reagan Years.â&#x20AC;?

6:30 p.m. Free. Kramerbooks & Afterwords Cafe, 1517 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-3871400. â&#x2013; Ted Rall will discuss his book â&#x20AC;&#x153;Snowden.â&#x20AC;? 6:30 p.m. Free. Langston

Room, Busboys and Poets, 2021 14th St. NW. 202-387-7638. â&#x2013; Author Elizabeth Benedict and contributors Deborah Tannen and Marita Golden will discuss their book â&#x20AC;&#x153;Me, My Hair, and I: Twenty-Seven Women Untangle an Obsession.â&#x20AC;? 6:30 p.m. Free. Busboys and Poets Brookland, 625 Monroe St. NE. 202636-7230. â&#x2013; Robin Wilson, author of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Clean Design,â&#x20AC;? will discuss â&#x20AC;&#x153;Eco-Friendly Homes: Limit Wheezing and Sneezing.â&#x20AC;? 6:30 to 8 p.m. $12 to $20. National Building Museum, 401 F St. NW. 202-272-2448. â&#x2013; The Landmark Society will host a book talk by Evan Thomas, author of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Being Nixon: A Man Divided.â&#x20AC;? 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. $15 to $20; free for Landmark Society members. Tudor Place Historic House and Garden, 1644 31st St. NW. tudorplace.org. â&#x2013; Kris Tompkins, former CEO of the outdoor clothing company Patagonia Inc. and founder of the U.S.-based nonprofit Conservacion Patagonica, will discuss â&#x20AC;&#x153;Building Patagonia National Park.â&#x20AC;? 6:45 to 8:15 p.m. $25 to $30. S. Dillon Ripley Center, 1100 Jefferson Drive SW. 202633-3030. â&#x2013; Larissa MacFarquhar will discuss her book â&#x20AC;&#x153;Strangers Drowning: Grappling With

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Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Overpowering Urge to Help.â&#x20AC;? 7 p.m.

Free. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919. â&#x2013; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Using Entertainment Mass Media to Change Trendsâ&#x20AC;? will feature Population Media Center president William Ryerson discussing the role of population growth in contributing to climate change and showing clips from the groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s teen-oriented U.S. program â&#x20AC;&#x153;East Los High.â&#x20AC;? 7 p.m. Free.

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

Film â&#x2013; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tuesday Night Moviesâ&#x20AC;? will feature Richard Linklaterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2014 film â&#x20AC;&#x153;Boyhood,â&#x20AC;? starring Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette and Ethan Hawke. 6 p.m. Free. Room A-5, Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW. 202-727-0321.

Performances â&#x2013; â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Night of Word and Song: Celebrating Youth Voicesâ&#x20AC;? will feature exemplary local youth. 6 p.m. Free. Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600. â&#x2013; Story District will present its monthly storytelling show, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Good Witch, Bad Witch: Stories about vice and virtue.â&#x20AC;? 8 p.m. $15.

Town Danceboutique, 2009 8th St. NW. storydistrict.org. â&#x2013; The Washington Improv Theaterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Harold Nightâ&#x20AC;? will feature performances by the ensembles Richie and Discoteca!, at 8 p.m.; and by Jackson Millissippi and Madeline, at 9 p.m. By donation. Source, 1835 14th St. NW. witdc.org.

Special events â&#x2013; Wine critic and journalist Jancis Robinson, editor of â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Oxford Companion to Wine,â&#x20AC;? will discuss â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Intriguing New Directionsâ&#x20AC;? and lead a tasting of wines representative of todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s trends. 6:45 to 9:30 p.m. $65 to $80. Rasmuson Theater, National Museum of the American Indian, 4th Street and Independence Avenue SW. 202-633-3030. â&#x2013; White Ford Bronco, a popular local 1990s nostalgia band, will perform at a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Night Sessionsâ&#x20AC;? benefit for N Street Village and its programs to benefit homeless women in D.C. 7 to 10 p.m. $45 to $60. Tropicalia, 2001 14th St. NW. nstreetvillagenightsessions.org.

Sporting event â&#x2013; The Washington Capitals will play the San Jose Sharks. 7 p.m. $30 to $250. Verizon Center, 601 F St. NW. 800-745-3000.

Wednesday, Oct. 14

Wednesday october 14 Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s program â&#x2013; Erica S. Perl will discuss her books â&#x20AC;&#x153;Totally Tardy Martyâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Goatilocks and the Three Bearsâ&#x20AC;? (for ages 5 through 8).

10:30 a.m. Free. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.

Classes and workshops â&#x2013; Eva Blutinger will lead a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yoga in the Galleriesâ&#x20AC;? class. 10 a.m. $5. American University Museum, Katzen Arts Center, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW. 202-885-1300. â&#x2013; As part of American Archives Month, a hands-on adult workshop led by conservators Gail Harriman and Steven Loew will offer a glimpse of the practice of bookbinding and the importance of conservation.

5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Free; reservations required. National Archives Building, Constitution Avenue between 7th and 9th streets NW. education@nara.gov.

â&#x2013; Yoga Alliance will present a yoga class. 6 p.m. Free. West End Interim Library, 2522 Virginia Ave. NW. 202-7278707. â&#x2013; Dexter Sumner will lead a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Vinyasa Yogaâ&#x20AC;? class. 7 p.m. Free. Palisades Library, 4901 V St. NW. 202-282-3139.

Concerts â&#x2013; Members of the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra will perform works

by Rebecca Clarke, Mendelssohn and Schumann. 6 p.m. Free. Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600. â&#x2013; National Symphony Orchestra organist William Neil will join members of the groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s brass and percussion sections for a program featuring works by Handel, Gabrieli, J.S. Bach, Franck and Widor. 8 p.m. $15. Concert Hall, Kennedy Center.

202-467-4600. â&#x2013; Singer-songwriter Lindi Ortega and American roots duo Smooth Hound Smith will perform. 8:30 p.m. $14 to $16. Gypsy Sallyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, 3401 K St. NW. gypsysallys.com.

Discussions and lectures â&#x2013; The Smithsonian Associates and International Spy Museum will present a talk by National Security Archive senior fellow John Prados on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Daniel Ellsberg: The Activistâ&#x20AC;? as part of the series â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Men Who Spilled Secrets: Whistleblowers, Leakers, Heroes, or Traitors?â&#x20AC;? 10:15 to 11:45 a.m. $25 to $35. International Spy Museum, 800 F St. NW. 202-633-3030. â&#x2013; Two Northwest chapters of the National Association of Retired Federal Employees will present a talk by Bruce Maliken, owner of Up and Running Computer Services, on how to keep computers and mobile devices safe, how to identify scams and how to handle identity theft.

Noon. Free. Tenley-Friendship Library, 4450 Wisconsin Ave. NW. 202-744-2874. â&#x2013; National Museum of Women in the Arts curatorial assistant Stephanie Midon will discuss selections from the special exhibit â&#x20AC;&#x153;Esther Bubley Up Front.â&#x20AC;? Noon to 12:30 p.m. Free. National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1250 New York Ave. NW. 202-783-7370. â&#x2013; Michael Francis, professor of history at the University of South Florida-St. Petersburg, will discuss the 450th anniversary of the founding of St. Augustine, Fla. Noon. Free. West Dining Room, Madison Building, Library of Congress, 101 Independence Ave. SE. 202-707-6404. â&#x2013; Transportation planner Richard W. Willson, professor at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, will discuss his book â&#x20AC;&#x153;Parking Management for Smart Growth.â&#x20AC;? 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. $10; free for members. National Building Museum, 401 F St. NW. 202-272-2448. â&#x2013; Representatives and scholars of Judaism, Christianity and Islam will discuss â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jesus: Jewish Rabbi, Son of God, Spirit of Allah.â&#x20AC;? 3:30 to 6 p.m. Free. McDowell Formal Lounge, McDowell Hall, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW. 202-885-2925. â&#x2013; Joshua Stephens, founder of a worker-cooperative dog-walking agency in D.C., will discuss his book â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Dog Walker: An Anarchistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Encounters With the Good, the Bad, and the Canine.â&#x20AC;? 6:30 p.m. Free. Busboys and Poets Brookland, 625 Monroe St. NE. 202-636-7230. â&#x2013; Garth Risk Hallberg will discuss his novel â&#x20AC;&#x153;City on Fire,â&#x20AC;? set in 1970s New York. 7 p.m. Free. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919. â&#x2013; David Nicholson will discuss his book â&#x20AC;&#x153;Flying Home: Seven Stories of the Secret City.â&#x20AC;? 7 p.m. Free. Cleveland Park Library,

3310 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-2823080. â&#x2013; John Danforth, former U.S. senator and ambassador to the United Nations, will discuss his book â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Relevance of Religion: How Faithful People Can Change Politics.â&#x20AC;? 7 p.m. Free. Washington National Cathedral, Massachusetts and Wisconsin avenues NW. cathedral.org. â&#x2013; Ryan Raul BaĂąagale, assistant professor of music at Colorado College, will discuss â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Ongoing Composition of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Rhapsody in Blue.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? 7 p.m. Free; reservations suggested. Montpelier Room, Madison Building, Library of Congress, 101 Independence Ave. SE. loc.gov/concerts. â&#x2013; A senior instructor with the Forum Foundation for Analytic Excellence will provide an â&#x20AC;&#x153;Introduction to Intelligence Analysis 102.â&#x20AC;? 7 to 9 p.m. $30 to $40; reservations required. International Spy Museum, 800 F St. NW. 202-393-7798.

Films â&#x2013; The National Archives will present the 2014 documentary â&#x20AC;&#x153;Projections of America,â&#x20AC;? about a team of idealistic U.S. government filmmakers who sought to use the power of movies to reshape the world during the darkest hour of World War II. A post-screening discussion will feature filmmaker Peter Miller. 7 p.m. Free. McGowan Theater, National Archives Building, Constitution Avenue between 7th and 9th streets NW. 202-357-5000. â&#x2013; The Lions of Czech Film series will feature Petr VĂĄclavâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2014 movie â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Way Out,â&#x20AC;? about a Romani couple trying to live in a community obscured by prejudice.

8 p.m. $8.75 to $11.75. Avalon Theatre, 5612 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-9666000.

Performances â&#x2013; The Washington Ballet will present â&#x20AC;&#x153;Latin Heat,â&#x20AC;? featuring works by Mauro de Candia, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa and Edwaard Liang. 7:30 p.m. $30.50 to $102.

Eisenhower Theater, Kennedy Center. 202467-4600. The performance will repeat Thursday and Friday at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday at 1:30 and 7:30 p.m.

Special events â&#x2013; Upshur Street Books will present a dinner talk by author and artist Marcella Kriebel on her cookbook â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mi Comida Latina,â&#x20AC;? with a three-course menu based on the dishes in Kriebelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cookbook. 7 p.m. $40 to $60; reservations required.

Petworth Citizen, 829 Upshur St. NW. upshurstreetbooks.com. â&#x2013; A seasonal beer tasting will feature samples from local brewers Bluejacket, DC Brau, Flying Dog and Right Proper. 7:30 p.m. $22 to $25. Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, 600 I St. NW. 877-987-6487. â&#x2013; Christopher Kimball, host of the public television show â&#x20AC;&#x153;Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Test Kitchen,â&#x20AC;? will offer an insiderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tour of the kitchen, his television and radio shows, and the testing process itself. The event will also include cooking science experiments performed on stage with hand-picked attendees. 7:30 p.m. $45 to $90. Lisner Auditorium, George Washington University, 730 21st St. NW. 202-994-6800.

Tour â&#x2013; A docent-led tour of the Bishopâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Garden will precede a catered high tea in the paneled St. Paul Room of the Washington National Cathedralâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s South Tower. 1:30 p.m. $30; reservations required. Meet in the nave of the Washington National Cathedral, Massachusetts and Wisconsin avenues NW. 202-537-5581.

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From Page 10 is interesting and enjoyable, and we look forward to our Egypt projects and our Greek play in the spring.

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On Friday, Sept. 25, Murch Elementary had its Outdoor Movie Night, which is something we do every fall. We watched “Big Hero 6,” a movie about a robot, on a giant screen on the soccer field!

Kids had a blast watching the movie and visiting each other’s blankets. We even had free popcorn for everybody. We were afraid it would rain but were really lucky and got a nice orange sunset.

Some kids got a little crazy during the movie and ran around the field, making a lot of noise but having a great time. Some of them made shadow puppets on the screen and did cartwheels around the field.

It was a little spooky because it was dark. Then things got sort of nuts when a kid accidentally turned off the power and the screen went dark.

We all cheered when the movie came back on! My advice for next year’s movie: I think we should watch “Minions,” and maybe kids shouldn’t go near the screen!

— Perry Chamberlain, second-grader

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Pope Francis arrived in Washington on Sept. 22 on the first stop of his U.S. tour. He was staying at the Apostolic Nunciature on Massachusetts Avenue NW, and every time he came and went groups of Catholic school children stood outside to cheer him on. About 20 middle school students and several adults from Our Lady of Victory were lucky enough to participate in this exciting event. We waited for almost three hours, but the wait was definitely worth it! We sang, prayed the rosary and organized cheers.

When we first heard the sounds of the pope’s motorcade, everybody was excited and yelling. Seeing the pope in his Fiat as he drove into the driveway was amazing! He got out of the car and started walking over to us — we were no more than 3 feet away from him!

Our school has been preparing for the pope’s U.S. visit by participating in service opportunities. We also signed a pledge to “Walk with Pope Francis” by praying, acting and serving. We focused on the pope’s messages of caring for the poor and for the environment. In addition, some OLV students attended the simulcast of the address to Congress.

I think the pope is truly amazing. We were able to witness his kindness and warmth up close as he greeted people. It was an experience I will never forget. I feel so lucky.

— Carolina Z., seventh-grader

St. Albans School

This year, lower school sports started off with a bang. Form A soc-

cer, in its first season playing interscholastic sports, won its first two games against the Heights and Landon, both of them in decisive 6-1 fashions. Then, in its third game, playing on the newly finished Steuart Field, the team tied Mater Dei 4-4. However, the boys played hard and Coach O’Malley said it was “one of the best games I have ever seen.” The Form A football team, also playing in its first season, scrimmaged Landon this past week and played phenomenally, scoring many points and playing shut-down defense. The Form II soccer team has started the season with two come-from-behind victories. The first was against the Heights in the first-ever lower school sports game played on Steuart Field, and ended in a compelling 4-1 victory. In the second game, against rivals Mater Dei and missing two of its best players, the team was trailing 1-0. Then, in the final 15 minutes, two spectacular goals by the Bulldogs and a superb save by keeper Tommy Swad changed the course of the game, and the team pulled out a victory.

This comeback win embodies the spirit of a St. Albans man, and how we are taught never to give up in the face of adversity. All the sports teams have played well so far, and hopefully we can keep that up.

— Street Roberts, Form II (eighth-grader)

You add and subtract to make a certain number using the number cards on the table. In social studies we are studying the differences between D.C. and Cairo, Egypt. So far we know that there are pointy towers in both places and they are both important cities.

We got computers this week and we are going to learn to type. In science we’re studying rocks and volcanoes. We played with shortening that was greasy and gooey. We used it to see how the mantle that is inside the Earth is both solid and liquid. We also learned that the plates on the earth’s crust move.

That’s how Mount Everest keeps growing. When plates smash together it can cause earthquakes.

Volcanoes form when part of the mantel shoots out of the crust. In music we’re learning songs from South Africa. In art we are talking about what art is.

In homeroom our teachers are reading “Sideways Stories from Wayside School” to us. The book is really fun. We’re glad we don’t have a teacher like Miss G. who turns children into apples. This year is our first year eating lunch with the older kids. Sometimes it’s hard because it’s really loud and we don’t know everybody at the table, but we’re getting to know each other better.

— Kendall Peterson and Ava Baughns, third-graders

St. Patrick’s Episcopal Day School

Washington International School

Over the past few weeks, seventh- and eighth-graders at St. Patrick’s have been watching clips of the speech that President Obama gave for the Rev. Clementa C. Pinckney, one of nine victims of June’s shooting in Charleston, S.C. We then talked about sections of the eulogy and what they mean, and what President Obama meant when he said that every one of us needs to help to change America and help prevent these shootings — as many of them are based on racism, prejudice and pure hatred.

We also watched a talk on PBS called “America after Charleston” about racism in America. After all of the shootings, you would think a lot has changed — but in reality, very little has. America is not fully living up to its name as the land of equal opportunity. The video showed us many statistics, for example: Many white people think that everyone has a fair shot at a job regardless of their race, while many black people do not. We then answered questions about roadblocks, the domino effect (the idea that disadvantages in one area of life can create disadvantages in another), and the issue of police officers injuring people. We also talked about ways that America can become a better place with less prejudice.

— Maddie Ray, eighth-grader

Sheridan School

Third grade is awesome. We play games to get better at things like math. We play Target Number.

At a recent WIS upper school assembly, alumna Rafif Jouejati (class of 1983) spoke to students and faculty about her work with the grassroots nongovernmental organization Free-Syria, which does projects both with communities on the ground in Syria and with governments around the world. It focuses on improving the lives of Syrians, both those in the country and those who are refugees. “[Rafif] explained in detail what was happening and what we can do to try and help solve the problem.

She made several points that most of us probably haven’t thought about previously,” said 10th-grader Sam Gordon.

One of her main points was to encourage the students to take action. She stressed the relevance of social media and the importance of fighting for a cause you are passionate about. She referenced the photograph of Aylan Kurdi, a young Syrian refugee who had drowned off of the Turkish coast, as a sign of hope for the cause and as an example of social media making a real difference. Eleventh-grader Pauline Sow remarked, “It was really inspiring and informative. … Obviously I know about the situation in Syria, but I didn’t know that much, and I’m grateful because now I’m more aware and I can think about it in a more productive way.”

As a closing statement, Rafif Jouejati encouraged us to stage a protest outside the White House, but to be sure to get a permit first!

— Rosie Bradbury, 11th-grader

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