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A Georgetown favorite, rowing on the river symbolizes the new year, teamwork and new horizons. Photo by Ray Regan.

Up & Coming Events Celebrating New Years Town Topics Community Calendar In With The New, ANC Looks Ahead

DOWNTOWNER · 7 Downtown News

EDITORIAL/OPINION · 8 Editorials Jack Evans Report Letters to the Editor

COVER STORY · 10 - 11 Outlook 2019

Marion ‘Oatsie’ Charles, 1919-2019

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BUSINESS · 12

Wawa Lands in Georgetown Ins & Outs

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REAL ESTATE · 13 December 2018 Sales

ARTS · 14

‘Nordic Impressions‘ at the Philips DC Artswatch

FOOD & WINE · 15

Golden Globes Kick Off 2019 Awards Season

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Dining Guide Cocktail of the Month

CLASSIFIEDS · 16 Service Directory

IN COUNTRY · 17 In Country Calendar

BOOK CLUB · 18

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WASHINGTON WINTER SHOW Founded in 1954, the Washington Winter Show is the second-oldest charitable antiques show in the United States. This year’s showfeatures more than40 dealers from across the U.S. and Europe, offering a broad range of exquisite antiques and fine arts.Run-of-show admission is $25. Preview Night is Jan. 10. For details, visit washingtonwintershow.org. Katzen Arts Center, 4400 Massachusetts Ave.NW.

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VISION ANDGOALS WORKSHOP This free, two-hour experience, offered by Lululemon Georgetown,will include a short yoga practice, meditation and a guided workshop to help participantsset deeper personal goals for 2019. For details, visit eventbrite.com or call 202-333-1738. 3265 M St.NW

SENSUAL SELF-CARE WORKSHOP In this two-hour class, participants will learn ways to releasesexual shame, get tips for how to incorporate sensual pleasure into theirself-care routines, learn proper names for and functions of pleasure centers and build theirown orgasms.

Tickets are $50 (includes sensual self-care package). For details, visit sexpertconsultants. com. The Wing Georgetown, 1056 Thomas Jefferson St.NW.

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FAMILY DAY OF NATIVE GAMES This free, family-friendly event will feature indigenous gamesled by Talibah Begay (Navajo), Leihua Stewart (Native Hawaiian)

Photo by Talibah Begay. and Julia Garcia (Aymara). For details, visitamericanindian.si.edu.National Museum of the American Indian, Fourth Street and Independence Avenue SW. Note: Pending end of partial federal shutdown.

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GEORGETOWN ARCHITECTURE TOUR DC Design Tours leads this exploration of D.C.’s most exclusive neighborhood —originally a gritty port city on the banks of the Potomac —with a focus on architecture and urban planning. The two-hour tour starts at Baked and Wired, 1052 Thomas Jefferson St. NW. Tickets are $35 ($20 for ages 5 to 16). For details, visit dcdesigntours.com

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Clyde’s CEO John Laytham Dies at 74 In Washington and Georgetown, when you think of Clyde’s, the mother ship of an array of eateries that have starred in the D.C.-area restaurant firmament for some 55 years, you think of a lot of things.

You might think of the star power of a Washington restaurant scene that included the late Stuart Davidson, who looked at the original site on M Street, then occupied by a biker bar, saw something on the order of New York class and glitz and called it Clyde’s. The rest is a lot of history.

You might think of the early days of Clyde’s, its back bar and omelet room and fabled bartenders. It quickly became a Georgetown and Washington institution, expanded its base with the acquisition of 1789, the Tombs and F. Scott’s — acquired from a man of similar Gatsby-like tastes, Richard McCooey — and, still locally, added the downtown Old Ebbitt Grill. Clyde’s restaurants popped up all over the region, in suburban Maryland and Northern Virginia.

Davidson did something else critically important. He hired John Laytham, an aspiring foreign service student at Georgetown University and a restaurant buff, as a busboy, then made him a bartender during Clyde’s brunch hours.

When you’re thinking about Clyde’s these days, that’s who you should be thinking about: John Laytham, who rose to become chief executive officer and co-owner of the Clyde’s Restaurant Group.

Laytham passed away at Washington Hospital Center on Jan. 3 at the age of 74. He had been ailing for some time with a longstanding heart condition.

“John was a giant of a man and a lion in the industry. His fingerprints will forever be visible throughout the restaurant scene, and on the countless lives he’s impacted,” said Tom Meyer, president of Clyde’s Restaurant Group.

“I count myself among the many lucky enough to call him a boss, a friend, mentor and fatherfigure.”

Laytham didn’t just have good luck on his side. He met his wife, Ginger, in 1976 (where else but Clyde’s?) and she became a key figure and a leader in the enterprise. He also had vision, curiosity and a head full of ideas and concepts.

Davidson saw that and made him a partner in 1968. The rise of Clyde’s as a regional force could be traced to that period.

There were probably more charismatic restaurant leaders around — more flamboyant souls like Davidson and McCooey, as well

John Laytham, 1944-2019. Georgetowner photo. as Howard Joynt of Nathans and Michael O’Harro of Tramps and Champions, to name some Georgetown notables — but in the arena of vision, ideas and concept, few could match Laytham. He saw in every Clyde’s blueprint a fresh place, a unique place, non-replicated anywhere else, each reflecting its particular surroundings.

Laytham was soft-spoken and cerebral, as well as affable and accessible, but he was more of a builder, not in physical terms but as a man who drew up plans that were originals in and of themselves.

You always knew where you were when you were in a particular Clyde’s. The Old Ebbitt Grill reflected the business and energy of the nation, the political dealmaking, and wouldn’t fit in the space occupied by the original Clyde’s in Georgetown. The Chevy Chase Clyde’s — made unique by designer McCooey, with an art deco taste shared by Laytham himself — is

part of the gateway to Chevy Chase.

Then there’s the Hamilton, a top-drawer restaurant in downtown D.C. near the White House, which also features a variety of emerging and nationally recognized musical acts in a brightly polished setting.

Laytham’s success is reflected in the type of employees he attracted — knowledgeable, efficient, filled with creativity, curiosity and inventiveness. Such a list includes Meyer, COO John McDonnell and, of course, Ginger Laytham, a leading presence and a link to the communities which the Clyde’s group serves.

Sally Davidson, widow of the founder, is chairman of the board.

His accomplishments were also recognized in the restaurant community. Laytham received the Duke Zeibert Lifetime Achievement Award from the Restaurant Association Metropolitan Washington and was named Restaurateur of Year by the Restaurant Association of Maryland and by Washingtonian magazine. In addition, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Georgetown Business Association, of which he was a co-founder and a former vice president.

He believed as a principle that “business is uniquely qualified to supply a support system for the next generation, for those young people who stand at the gap between ambition and achievement.”

When you go to a Clyde’s restaurant, you think of a lot of things. Next time you go, drink your favorite drink, eat your favorite food, then raise a glass and think of John Laytham.

A memorial service for John Laytham will be held 11 a.m., Saturday Jan. 19, at St. John’s Episcopal Church, 3240 O St. NW.

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It’s not that the commissioners didn’t recognize the historic value of the Georgetown sites.

Situated east of 36th Street between M and Prospect Streets, the Car Barn — officially called the Capital Traction Company Union Station — was developed between 1894 and 1897. It served as a consolidated streetcar station, storage garage and turnaround for four independently owned and operated streetcar lines. Today, it is primarily leased

by Georgetown University for administrative offices and classrooms. It even has an Einstein Bagels.

The Romanesque Revival building was designed by Waddy Butler Wood, whose many works in and around Washington, D.C., include the headquarters of the Department of the Interior, the Woodrow Wilson House (and Jeff Bezos’s mansion next door), the former Masonic temple that became the National Museum of Women in the Arts and the Chevy Chase Club.

Built at the same time as the Car Barn were the massive retaining wall and the attached 95-step stairway, which provides pedestrian access as a continuation of 36th Street. The steps are now a popular tourist attraction as the location of the dramatic death scene in the classic 1973 horror film “The Exorcist.”

But that was the point of the ANC denial.

The Car Barn and the Exorcist Steps are

already fully recognized and protected historic sites, since Georgetown is a congressionally mandated historic district under federal purview. Any proposed changes to structures in Georgetown are subject to review and approval by the Old Georgetown Board, part of the Commission of Fine Arts.

“I know what’s happening here,” said new ANC 2E Chairman Rick Murphy to the representatives seeking a special historic designation marker for the Car Barn and steps.

“This is a way that opponents of the [fivestory, 21-unit] condo development currently under construction adjacent to the Exorcist Steps and retaining wall can slow things down.” Located at 3601 M St. NW, the project,

by Altus Realty Partners, is expected to open in late 2019.

“Our group has long been concerned with any ongoing development activity at 3601 M St., NW,” said Prospect Street Citizens Association board member Catherine Emmerson in an emailed statement. “Of the utmost importance is what could happen to the iconic Exorcist Steps and the historic retaining wall next to them. So far, we have not felt that the various entities involved in reviewing any development have given a thorough and prudent review to these outstanding issues.”

In condo renderings, however, there is no encroachment by the project on the wall or steps. “In the end, the historic designation process won’t stop the condo development,” said Murphy, who disappointed the owners of the Prospect Street houses, which overlook the M Street site.

Left unsaid was the still continuing possibility of an aerial gondola between Rosslyn, Virginia, and Georgetown. The proposed site of its Georgetown landing is adjacent to the Car Barn.

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Smelly Olive St. Ginkgos to Be Replaced A three-block stretch of Georgetown will enjoy an activist victory of sorts in the next few months when two ginkgo trees are removed.

For years, the two trees have soiled the sidewalks along the north side of Olive Street near 27th Street with stinky, squishy, slippery pods. According to a neighborhood petition signed by every household on the three affected blocks, they’ve created a public safety hazard — not to mention discomfort — for everyone in the vicinity for weeks in the fall.

The neighbors offered to pay the full cost — about $5,000 — of removing the trees, as well as for their replacement with large male trees of the same variety. Male trees do not produce the pods full of butyric acid that are the source of the putrid stench, often described as worse than vomit and closer to dog excrement.

The proposal caused a lively debate at the year-end meeting of Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E on Dec. 3. Representatives of Trees for Georgetown agreed that one of the trees, which was damaged and held up by wires, should be removed, but not the healthy one.

Neighborhood members vociferously argued for full removal on the basis of public safety and the fact they would be paying the bill.

Commissioner Rick Murphy, now ANC president, almost giddily reminded the gathering that tree removal based on a petition by a neighborhood group was the one area in which the commission had full power to

approve or disapprove, right then and there.

Going further up a chain of review was not required. “All politics is local and this is hyperlocal,” Murphy said.

The Commission voted unanimously in favor of removal.

“Now we have all the permits and approvals needed,” a neighborhood spokesperson who asked not to be identified told The Georgetowner on Dec. 6. “The city has been very cooperative. The trees should be removed in the next couple of months, closer to springtime.”

“Olive Street is lined with ginkgo trees and we want to maintain that pattern,” the spokesperson said. “But we just want to remove the ones that shed the hundreds of pods for weeks at a time that make the sidewalks so hazardous and stink up our shoes and homes. The whole neighborhood agreed to replace both trees with large ginkgos that will fit in well.”

“Other Georgetown neighborhoods can do this as well,” said Becky Schwartz, urban forester with the District Department of Transportation. “The petition to remove is online on the Department of Transportation website. After all neighbors have signed it, request the local ANC to approve it and ask the city to remove it at city expense.” She can be reached at rebecca.schwartz@dc.gov.

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M St. Right-on-Red May Be Banned A resolution to support a District proposal to ban drivers from making a right turn onto M Street at the red light at northbound 29th Street in Georgetown was turned down by Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E at its Jan. 3 meeting.

“We know it is part of the mayor’s ‘Vision Zero,’” said ANC Vice Chair Lisa Palmer, referring to the plan to eliminate traffic-related deaths and injuries by 2024. “But we need more information.”

Right turns at red lights and stop signs are allowed in most of the District when an intersection is not specifically marked with a no-turn-on-red sign.

“But there can also be some unintended consequences to banning it,” said Palmer.

“The right-turning traffic from 29th Street could hold up any left or northbound traffic when the light finally turns green. We need to know more.”

Meanwhile, watch out for a type of righton-red that is already illegal. While D.C. Municipal Regulation §18-4013 allows right turns at red lights, the following condition is

specified: “only after coming to a full stop and yielding right-of-way to pedestrians and other vehicles.” Tickets for a right-turn violation can cost up to $300.

Some jurisdictions only issue tickets for a rolling turn — also known as a “Rhode Island roll,” “a California stop” or “a New Jersey bounce” — if the driver goes over 13 mph into the turn, which is considered dangerous to other drivers and nearby pedestrians. But groups like the National Motorists Association and Safer Streets LA have argued that these rolling right-turn tickets are not about safety but money.

Some jurisdiction issue tickets on a discretionary basis; others strictly by the book.

Some pricey tickets have been issued in D.C. for turning right on red, even though the driver came to a full stop, when the car extends halfway into the crosswalk.

Palmer expects more information from a soon-to-be-released Department of Transportation traffic circulation report.

The right-on-red ban is expected to apply to roughly 100 intersections in the District.

Post Story Brings Evans Controversy to a Head

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Ward 2’s Jack Evans, the longest serving member of the District Council, is facing a controversy that has been brewing for a number of months and has now become a high-category political storm. It came to a head with a major story by Steve Thompson published in the Washington Post on Friday, Dec. 21.

The story says that Evans, as part of dealings with a company called Digi Outdoor Media, a digital sign company headed by founder Donald E. MacCord, promoted emergency legislation in 2016 that would have helped Digi in its pursuit of its business goals in the District.

Evans’s newly created consulting firm NSE received 200,000 shares of Digi stock before he proposed legislation to the Council that would have helped the company. Evans said he returned the stock immediately after it was received. He also dropped the legislation when it was clear that it would not pass, according to the Post.

In a holiday fraught with big national news from the Trump administration, including a partial government shutdown, reaction to the Post story — which was rich in details, including the contents of emails sent by MacCord — has

been so far relatively muted, with promises of further investigation. On Dec. 22, the Post reported that Council member David Grosso (I-At Large), called for a special committee to investigate the ties between Evans and Digi.

While Evans was quoted in the Post as saying in a text message that he returned the “stock certificate — as soon as it was received,” he has issued no further statements. Attempts by The Georgetowner to elicit comments by email have not been answered.

Evans won his first term and seat on the Council in a special election in 1991. Ward 2 comprises Georgetown as well as the rapidly changing downtown area and neighborhoods such as Dupont and Shaw. Currently chair of the Metro board and the Council’s Committee on Finance and Revenue, Evans has run for mayor twice, both times unsuccessfully. He is a regular Georgetowner columnist.

Most members of the Council have not taken any official stand on the story, appearing to want to wait for the results of an ongoing ethics investigation by the Board of Ethics and Government Accountability on the Evans-Digi interactions.

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No-Right-On-Red Signs on the Way

TUESDAY, JAN 15

CITIZENS ASSOCIATION OF GEORGETOWN

CAG members and guests will hear from representatives of the Georgetown-Burleith-Hillandale Advisory Neighborhood Commission and the Georgetown Business Improvement District about the vision and plans for Georgetown’s business environment and a variety of quality of life issues. The program, “The Future of Georgetown,” will take place at the Ritz-Carlton, 3100 South St. NW, from 7 to 8 p.m., following a reception at 6:30 p.m. For details, visit cagtown.org.

THURSDAY, JAN 17

COMMISSION OF FINE ARTS

The Commission of Fine Arts will meet at 10 a.m. at 401 F St. NW, Suite 312. For details, visit cfa.gov. Note: This meeting may be canceled due to the partial government shutdown.

MONDAY, FEB 4 ANC 2E

The Georgetown-BurleithHilland ale Advisor y Neighborhood Commission will meet at 6:30 p.m. at Georgetown Visitation School, 1524 35th St. NW, second-floor Heritage Room. Agenda to be announced.

For details, visit anc2e.com.

WEDNESDAY, FEB 6

PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

The D.C. Public Service Commission will hold a public hearing to discuss Georgetowners’ concerns about natural gas leaks and solicit comments about the dissemination of information about leaks to the public. The hearing will follow the commission’s 2 p.m. open meeting at 1325 G St. NW, Suite 800. For details, visit dcpsc.org.

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D.C. police interrogate a man, sitting on stoop of a P Street building, and examine packages.

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GRINCH WHO GRABBED PACKAGES ARRESTED On Christmas Eve eve, Dec. 23, Metropolitan Police officers arrested a man whose small shopping cart contained packages that were not his on the 2600 block of P Street NW in Georgetown. The police examined the parcels, allegedly grabbed from nearby front steps and porches, and asked the man why his name was not on any of the packages. At one point, six police cruisers were packed near 27th and P Streets.

Below is the report sent by Lt. Dustin Bellavance of the Metropolitan Police Department.

“On Dec. 23, at approximately 4:30 PM, members of the Second District received a call for a suspicious person taking packages off of residents porches in the area of 3100 block of O St NW. MPD members responded to the area and began to canvass for the individual described. MPD officers were able to locate and individual who was found to be in possession of 13 packages that did not belong to him.

“After the officers’ investigation was complete, the individual was placed under arrest for the stolen packages and MPD officers were able to return several of the packages to the rightful owners.

“MPD would like to thank those citizens who were involved and those who contacted the Second District upon seeing suspicious activity in their neighborhood.”

2nd Oath of Office for Bowser D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser made history when she became the first mayor in 16 years to be reelected. She is also the first woman to serve multiple terms. Bowser was sworn in — along with Council Chairman Phil Mendelson, Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton and other officials — at a ceremony at the convention center on Jan. 2. Every incumbent won reelection last year, an unusual feat in the District.

Strategic Plan to Fight Opioid Epidemic The Office of Mayor Muriel Bowser and the D.C. Department of Behavioral Health announced a strategic plan called “LIVE. LONG. DC.” to reduce opioidrelated deaths by 50 percent by the year 2020. Focusing on prevention, treatment and recovery, the plan calls for building on “early successes,” including: “Reversing more than 700 overdoses through Naloxone kits, and training residents in Naloxone use.”

New D.C. Road Rules in Effect When it comes to traffic, D.C. has laid down the law. Those who drive faster than 25 mph over the speed limit will be fined up to $500 — the prior limit was $300 — depending on whether the violation happens on a city street or on a highway. Also, rolling through a right turn on red will cost drivers twice the price: $100, up from $50. The higher penalties are part of Mayor Muriel Bowser’s “Vision Zero” plan to eliminate traffic-related deaths and injuries.

Bus Driver Charged in Tourist Deaths

Tires gone in 60 seconds: This car was spotted Jan. 4 morning parked on P Street near the bridge (Lauzun’s Legion Bridge) on the east side of Georgetown. Courtesy David Abrams.

Gerard Derrick James, 45, of Baltimore, the driver of a tour bus that struck and killed two women crossing Pennsylvania Avenue NW near the National Archives on Dec. 19, was charged with involuntary manslaughter.

He was found to have been using a mobile phone at the time of the crash. The victims were Monica Adams Carlson, 61, the mayor of Skagway, Alaska, and her mother, Cora Louise Adams, 85, of Washington state.

Also as part of “Vision Zero,” the District Department of Transportation is making safety improvements to intersections across the city. No-right-on-red signs will go up at about 100 intersections starting in February. In addition, installation of leftturn hardening infrastructure, designed to reduce speed and cutting across traffic and crosswalks to make left turns, has begun and will occur at about 85 intersections over the next two years.

Metro Lifts Bike Ban at Rush Hour Starting this week, passengers are allowed to bring bicycles on Metro trains during rush hour (7 to 10 a.m. and 4 to 7 p.m.), eliminating a rule that prohibited bikes on trains during peak travel times. Despite lots of Twitter chatter about the move, Metro believes that passengers with bikes will often be making reverse commutes. Also, most rush-hour trains have eight cars rather than six.

Man Charged in Social Worker Death Barry Marable was charged with premeditated first-degree murder for the October death of fellow 22-year-old Roger “Tom” Marmet, who was hit by gunfire on Oct. 24 as he sat in his car at a traffic light at 17th Street and Bladensburg Road NE. Apparently killed by shots fired by Marable at another man, who had driven up in a darkcolored sedan, Marmet was returning from a food pantry shift. Marable’s next court appearance is Jan. 11.

Jesuits Connected to G.U. Accused of Sex Abuse Six men formerly associated with Georgetown University are on a list, released last month by the Maryland Province Jesuits, of Jesuit priests accused of sexually abusing minors, according to student newspaper the Hoya. One, Michael Barber, who worked at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital in the 1970s, was removed from public ministry in 1994. Another, William J. Walsh, was incriminated on multiple allegations of sexual abuse, including one by five sisters who reported that Walsh, their uncle, abused them when they were young. The release comes at a time many are calling for the university to take back the honorary degrees of former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick and Cardinal Donald Wuerl.

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EDITORIAL

OPINION JACK EVANS REPORT

A New Council Period Begins

BY JAC K EVAN S Send Your Feedback, Questions or Concerns, Tips and Suggestions to editorial@georgetowner.com or call 202-338-4833

Our Town, Partially Shut Down We, the people, live in a version of playwright Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town,” our town being Washington, D.C. Living here is different from living in Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire, but in some ways similar.

In a daily, ground-level sort of way, we, the people and residents of Washington (a city, not a state), live in a city of neighborhoods. We live in Georgetown, in Dupont Circle and Adams Morgan, in Petworth and Anacostia and so on. That city is our home, the setting for our daily lives.

We also live in Washington, the District of Columbia and the capital of these United States, the center of our identifiable political and philosophical selves. That city is full of men and women of mostly temporary residence who write the rules and management of our lives.

The workplaces of government are a part of our environment. Daily, we walk past and note, or not, the domes, the White House, the majestic government buildings that house institutions that watch over us, count our money and wealth (or lack of it) and serve the needs of the neediest. The president and his administrators work and live here, as do the members of Congress.

Statues of presidents and generals on horseback, the memorials to wars and lost heroes, art and culture surround us. We are free — at no cost — to visit at any time the museums and shrines of the imagination.

Sometimes, and these days with almost measured regularity, the government shuts down, ceases to function, partially or wholly, but with supposed impartiality.

We are living in the time of such a shutdown — a so-called partial government shutdown — in which critical parts of the government cease to work, function, move. It is said to be about the funding and building of a wall along the border with Mexico to halt an excessive flow of illegal immigrants.

With talks more or less stalled or moving, depending, the shutdown could end tomorrow

or a year from now, according to the president, who has also said that he might — maybe, maybe not — consider declaring a state of national emergency. Uncertainty as of this minute reigns. At press time, a televised address to the nation had been announced.

Maybe it’s all just politics. What is real is that the city, our town, has come to a partial standstill and to some extent gone silent. The museums are closed, and so is the zoo. Checks for already struggling government workers are not in the mail. Much of the critical workings of government has halted or slowed. In some neighborhoods, you can not only hear yourself think, but also talk, a mile away.

The tourists aren’t gone but their numbers have dramatically diminished. There is less to see, and do, and the animals at the zoo must be wondering what happened to the daily flow of people that stare at them.

Our town is different now, and the difference — not just here but in parks and places all across the country — could become financially costly and unsustainable very soon. People, neighbors from our neighborhoods, talk about the shutdown, worry about it, especially those working in the halls of government.

The city feels different, more of a neighborhood, less the center of the world, waiting for the latest tweet or a sudden appearance at the White House. We are buzzing with silence.

We live now in our neighborhoods in Washington, D.C., the United States of America, Continent of North America, Western Hemisphere, the Earth, the Solar System, the Universe, the Mind of God — as a piece of mail referred to in Wilder’s “Our Town” was addressed.

Even in a shutdown, partial or not, the mail will be delivered.

As George exclaimed in “Our Town,” reacting to that many-layered address: “What do you know!”

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Welcome to the year 2019 and to Council Period 23. Last week, the Council returned from the holiday season with a swearing-in ceremony for Mayor Muriel Bowser, Attorney General Karl Racine and the Council members who were elected in 2018. The ceremony at the Washington Convention Center marked the beginning of a new four-year term for these elected officials.

Immediately following the ceremony, all Council members met for the organizational meeting to vote and approve Council rules, committee assignments and Council officers.

I am honored to again chair the Committee on Finance and Revenue during Council Period 23 and to serve as one of D.C.’s appointees to the board of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority.

These assignments come with a tremendous amount of responsibility to do good for the residents of Georgetown, Ward 2 and the District as a whole.

As chairman of the Committee on Finance and Revenue, I championed policies to balance the District’s budget and ensure that our reserve funds are sustained and our pensions are funded. In 2018, we achieved the highest bond rating: AAA. The District is a much different place now, compared to 30 years ago. We have a vibrant downtown surrounded by livable and

walkable neighborhoods. I remember the bad times. The good times are here, and I will strive to make sure they stay. This historical contrast of where we’ve come from and where we are now remains the driving force behind my work on all my committee assignments.

Over the past three years, as chairman of the WMATA board, I worked to reverse the erosion of the rail system and to start immediate maintenance and modernization projects. In 2018, the District led the effort to achieve regional dedicated funding for WMATA for the first time in its history.

As we move forward through 2019, I hope to end restrictive late-night rail service hours, which negatively impact our service industry employees. The rail system needs to work for everyone in the region, not only weekday commuters.

In addition to chairing the Council’s finance committee and serving on WMATA’s board of directors, I will also sit on the following four committees: Judiciary and Public Safety, Transportation and the Environment, Business and Economic Development, Facilities and Procurement.

The first legislative meeting of Council Period 23 was held on Tuesday, Jan. 8, and our first meeting of the Committee of the Whole will be on Tuesday, Jan. 22..

Jack Evans is the District Council member for Ward 2, representing Georgetown and other neighborhoods since 1991.

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BY PAM L A M OOR E On Jan. 2, I attended the first meeting of Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E in the new year. As Georgetowners, we elected an impressive group of commissioners last November.

The meeting began with the swearing-in by Ward 2 Council member Jack Evans of Commissioners Kishan Putta, Joe Gibbons, Rick Murphy, Lisa Palmer, Gwendolyn Lohse and Elizabeth Miller. The two student commissioners, Anna Landre and Matias Burdman, were not in attendance because they were still on break.

I encourage you to get to know your commissioner and call on him or her with issues that are of concern to you. When I served as a commissioner, it was valuable for me to hear what my constituents were thinking. It made the ANC 2E meetings more productive, because there was a great deal of sharing of information that impacted the entire community.

If your calendar is handy, please add the dates for the next quarter’s ANC meetings: Feb. 4, March 4 and April 1, all Mondays.

Meetings are at Georgetown Visitation

School at 35th Street and Volta Place, with easy parking in the school parking lot.

This issue of The Georgetowner focuses on forecasting for 2019 — an interesting topic. I invite you all to attend the Citizens Association of Georgetown’s community meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 15, at 6:30 p.m. at the Ritz-Carlton in Georgetown. CAG has invited the eight ANC commissioners to share their forecasting for the year.

In addition, we are responding to many requests that CAG invite the Georgetown Business Improvement District to speak about issues in our commercial district, such as empty storefronts, new restaurants and stores slated to open and traffic concerns. I think we will be pleased with the progress report the BID will share with us. Along with some questions and answers, we can share our ideas for Georgetown as well.

May 2019 be a happy and prosperous new year for you and your family.

Pamla Moore is president of the Citizens Association of Georgetown.

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In With the New, ANC Looks Ahead

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One of the striking aspects of the newly sworn-in Georgetown-Burleith-Hillandale Advisory Neighborhood Commission is its novelty: only three commissioners are returning from the prior term. The new ANC chair is Rick Murphy and the new vice chair is Lisa Palmer.

With the student commissioners also coming on, the group appears younger as well. Some have pointed out that the group is now 50-50, male-female, but that is not a first. While the recent groups have slanted male, previous commissions have been majority-female.

“During my era [the late 1980s and early 1990s], the ANC was mostly female — five women and two men,” recalls Grace Bateman, a former commissioner. “This went on for a while. In the early 2000s, men were in the majority, and then this went on for quite a while until recently. Now, the ANC is 50-50.

There always have been opportunities for women to serve on the ANC, and from time to time, many of them have served.”

That said, below are comments from five of the commissioners regarding the year ahead.

For Joe Gibbons’s comments, see the cover story. The student commissioners were still on break at the time of the first meeting; their comments will appear in a future issue.

Lisa Palmer, Vice Chair (2E05): ANC 2E looks forward to the District Department of Transportation completing its circulation study and implementing changes to smooth traffic in the community. Additionally, we expect that regulations around small cell towers will be finalized. The installation of this technology will likely impact the aesthetic of not only Georgetown and Burleith but of the city overall. ANC 2E also looks forward to working with DDOT to better address the proliferation of scooters in the neighborhood — where to park, street vs. sidewalk use, etc. Finally, I look forward to working with Friends of Georgetown Waterfront Park and Georgetown Heritage to protect and improve the spectacular oases in 2E05. The canal work is so very exciting and the Waterfront Park becomes more lovely as the years go by!

I’m personally excited about tapping into the significant diversity and new perspectives on this year’s ANC to help further our community as a wonderful place to live.

Gwendolyn Lohse (2E06): Georgetown will address some key infrastructure and quality of life opportunities.

These 2019 priorities have long-lasting implications to our neighborhood, yet there are not any established best-practice solutions.

Regarding infrastructure: (1) ensure the rollout of evolving technologies, such as 5G, respecting our historic cityscapes; (2) solidify the communications residents receive on needed repairs/upgrades to natural gas lines; and (3)

identify how technology can better support our safety (cameras) and traffic/parking challenges (parking passes, one-way streets). Regarding quality of life: improve how Georgetown attracts and maintains vibrant retail and dining — including handling of vacant properties, as the rest of Washington evolves.

Elizabeth Miller (2E07): A big concern facing Georgetown is attracting and sustaining the right mix of retail stores and restaurants that keep us unique and special. Imagine our empty storefronts filled with book stores, beautifully curated shops, a place for kids to paint pottery and more. The restaurant scene has improved, but we still find ourselves leaving Georgetown too often. We can do better. We should aspire to walk through our beautiful village to more local shops and food options — not just more national chains.

I’d like to work together on a plan that will keep Georgetown the envy of D.C. and a place that residents feel serves our needs.

Kishan Putta (2E01): My constituents are very excited about two major opportunities for our community: The reopening of the new Hyde-Addison Elementary School and the modernization of Jelleff Community Recreation Center. Hundreds of families have been long awaiting the Hyde renovations, with many children attending the swing space in Columbia Heights. We need to make sure it is successfully completed and reopened for the students and families who have been waiting so long — including those in Burleith-Hillandale, who are slated to be shifted to Hyde going forward. Neighbors are also hopeful that the Jelleff project will result in our neighborhood finally having a large, nice, new public indoor community space.

Jelleff hasn’t been updated in 60 years and isn’t an inviting or flexible space. A teenaged constituent recently told me he would love to have a nice place to go on cold or rainy days and seniors have told me they would love a nice place for activities too. We should be able to accommodate neighbors of all ages there.

The commissioners pose after being sworn in by Ward 2 Council member Jack Evans. From left: Joe Gibbons, Elizabeth Miller, Evans, Gwendolyn Lohse, Rick Murphy, Lisa Palmer and Kishan Putta (not pictured Anna Landre and Matias Burdman). Photo by Robert Devaney.

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Meetings Meetings are held on the first Monday of the month (with occasional exceptions) at 6:30 p.m. at Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School, 1524 35th St. NW, in the second-floor Heritage Room.

Anna Landre, Secretary Matias Burdman, Treasurer Joe Gibbons Gwendolyn Lohse Elizabeth Miller Kishan Putta

Rick Murphy, Chair (2E03): Although we live in one of the best neighborhoods in the country, we are not without our problems. My nominee for the most concerning problem is the shuttered storefronts along our commercial corridors.

The changes in how people shop have played a role, but Georgetown needs to find ways to compete more effectively with newly vibrant areas in the city. DC Water’s Clean Rivers Project is coming our way, and it will impact parts of our community, but we don’t yet know exactly which parts. Under current plans, either the west side of Georgetown or the K and Water Street corridor will be affected.

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Outlook 2019

BY ROB E RT DE VA N E Y & G A RY T I S C H LE R In Georgetown, we will be in a celebratory mood, despite the somewhat uncertain start to 2019. Partial government shutdowns aside, neighbors will be happy to see the near-completion of the C&O Canal’s reconstruction (our one-mile stretch, at least), as well as the continuing work on Key Bridge. The Old Stone House, run by the National Park Service, has reopened after a yearlong renovation — but, wait, there’s a shutdown.

Holy Trinity Church, an influential and historic parish, celebrates 225 years this year. Nearby at Georgetown University, its likewise influential School of Foreign Service hits 100. (An interesting note: women were finally accepted into Georgetown College 50 years ago.) We will keep you informed of other upcoming celebrations — including the 65th birthday of yours truly, The Georgetowner.

Of course, if we’re focusing on 50th anniversaries, few will top that of NASA’s Apollo 11, when men landed on the moon on July 20, 1969.

Meanwhile, let’s go beyond and make some predictions.

With the closing of the 31st Street Bridge above the C&O Canal, traffic below M Street will really get crazy. Work will begin on residential buildings at the east end and the west end of Georgetown (traffic on M Street will get even crazier).

The proposed aerial gondola will seek a landing site and be hung up above M Street somewhere.

Gas and other leaks will continue, because we like the smell. Georgetowners will become fond of the workers in the

utility trucks seen on every other block and invite them to their cocktail receptions on a regular basis.

As for sports, Bryce Harper will sign with the New York Yankees — or the Boston Red Sox or the Los Angeles Dodgers — remain in residence in Las Vegas, get a check for $35.6 million, lead the league in homers, lose baseball caps running into walls. Nevertheless, the Washington Nationals will win the World Series.

The Washington Redskins will not change their name, not move to the District, not win their division, not make the playoffs, not fire their coach and not break attendance records. The Washington Wizards, without John Wall, will make the playoffs. The Caps will absolutely return to the Stanley Cup finals.

The Georgetown Hoyas will make it to the Sweet Sixteen, as will the Maryland Terrapins (the women’s team, that is). But, really, the Hoya men could go further.

Jeff Bezos will be the richest man in the world and will learn that Donald Trump has secretly copyrighted the phrase “richest man in the world.” President Trump will be … fill in the blanks. However, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will definitely be named “Georgetowner of the Year.”

As always, Georgetowners will endure any partial shutdown — whether of the government or of the street in front of your house. We remain grateful for our times, regardless of whoever is bothering us, and our town.

Herewith, some looking ahead by a few of our neighbors …

“I am willing to forecast that 2019 will see an uptick in places to shop and dine. And one of the reasons will be the restoration of our historic canal.”

— Pam Moore

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University at 230, Foreign Service at 100 High Tech, Historic District The installation of Small Cell 4 and 5G towers and the LED bulb replacement in our streetlights are going to be the biggest factors for our neighborhoods in 2019. These two new projects will happen in 2019 and will have important historic preservation, technology and public space consequences for every resident of Georgetown, Burleith and Hillandale. These two public policy ideas will have dramatic effects on all of us 24/7, and we have an opportunity to participate in their makeup. Council member Jack Evans has taken a strong leadership role for our community. You can take a direct leadership role as well on these issues by joining these active and involved organizations: Citizens Association of Georgetown, Burleith Citizens Association, the Friends of the (various) Parks in Georgetown, the Georgetown Garden Club and Trees for Georgetown. Also, you can attend public space hearings (ddot.dc.gov/page/publicspace-committee-meetings), the Old Georgetown Board Hearings (cfa.gov/ upcoming-meetings) and your monthly Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC 2E) public meetings.

—Joe Gibbons, Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner

This year marks the 230th anniversary since Georgetown University’s founding, and we are excited for what’s in store. The School of Foreign Service will celebrate its centennial and the trailblazing work of its students, faculty and alumni in diplomacy and international affairs.

Members of the Class of 2019 will embark on the next chapter of their lives after they graduate between May 16 and 19.

Cooper Field will reopen in the fall with improved stadium seating and other upgraded features. And we will continue working with the community to enhance safety, respond to concerns and manage impacts from projects like MedStar’s new surgical pavilion.

— Christopher Murphy, Vice President of Government Relations and Community Engagement, Georgetown University

Mesmerized by Georgetown I think it’s an exciting year for our capital city, because we are becoming more and more popular in the corporate world as the place to be. Wherever people come in from, they are still so mesmerized with Georgetown. There is no other historical community quite like us around. The high-end market here is strong and full of “secrets” which are not always on the public market — the ambience of Georgetown.

— Nancy Taylor Bubes, Washington Fine Properties

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Energized Sales, New Developments While the holidays occasionally bring a slowdown in real estate, that was not the case this season. The city’s been energized with new developments, too.

The mixed-use City Ridge project is north of Georgetown, and our partners at Urban Pace are consulting on the residential project. Observatory West — another development on which Urban Pace is working — also is nearby at 2430 Wisconsin Ave. NW, and it’ll bring six ultra-high-end condos to the market.

We’re in our third year of a cycle of slowly rising interest rates, limited inventory and rising construction costs, so we’ve adjusted to those conditions and our market is normalizing. Economic indicators are anticipated to continue in a positive direction in 2019, with strong GDP growth, solid job creation and wage growth of three percent or higher. Those indicators add up to consumers feeling confident to buy their first home, move up to a new home or invest in real estate.

Interest rates have been rising nationwide and that trend is expected to continue through 2019, with rates now around five percent. For buyers who might have been waiting to purchase, increasing rates may push them to the buying process sooner. That will have an effect on some markets, but in much of D.C. and Georgetown, in particular, we’re seeing many cash buyers, who aren’t affected by increasing rates.

While anecdotal, our Georgetown team has seen an influx of out-of-state buyers — and not from Amazon’s headquarters in Seattle, but other markets nationwide.

— Jackie Allder and Theresa Nielson, The Long & Foster Companies, Inc.

“Our famous neighbor and former Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson will be considered for the vice president spot on Joe Biden’s ticket.”

— Dave Dunning

New Tenants & Old Spaces In the midst of what many around the city are calling a Georgetown “dining renaissance,” at least 10 new restaurants are working to open in 2019. Compass Coffee will open at the Georgetown Theater property and Capital One Café will open at M and Wisconsin, bringing activity back to buildings that have undergone complete renovations. New retail tenants will open and fill empty storefronts, while new announcements are expected in the coming weeks and some larger retail spaces will likely turn over. There will be visible progress on Georgetown’s development projects. Planning will continue for the C&O Canal, the gondola and the gateways.

— Jamie Scott, Georgetown Business Improvement District

Cautiously Optimistic We’re cautiously optimistic about our real estate market in 2019. However, stock market fluctuations, elections, interest rate increases, Amazon ... all have us watching the market very closely right now.

— Michael Brennan Jr., Senior Vice President, TTR Sotheby’s International Realty

Uptick in Retail, Restaurants Georgetown, I believe, is always a place where people like to be. Residents and visitors like to walk our streets and explore the historic landmarks. I am willing to forecast that 2019 will see an uptick in places to shop and dine as well. And one of the reasons will be the restoration of our historic canal. With some heavy lifting by Georgetown Heritage, the National Park Service, the District government and nonprofits such as the Georgetown Garden Club, I expect to see this mile of green space become a real draw.

— Pamla Moore, President of the Citizens Association of Georgetown

C&O Canal Restored 2019 will be a big year for the Georgetown section of the C&O Canal. Finally, there is water! Locks 3 & 4 are ready to go. We will see the canal half-full until the District Department of Transportation finishes work on the 31st Street Bridge in 2020. There will be temporary lighting on the footbridges.

Portions of the towpath will be regraded. We will experiment with new safer surfaces on the ramps. In March, you will get to weigh in on design ideas at a public meeting. It will be exciting.

— Jennifer Altemus Romm, Georgetown Heritage and Citizens Association of Georgetown

Parks & Politics For 2019, I predict the Georgetown Garden Club of Georgetown and the National Park Service will beautify the hillside of Rose Park facing Rock Creek Parkway to the original design envisioned by Lady Bird Johnson. Also predicted (by others): our famous neighbor and former Obama Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh C. Johnson will be considered for the vice president spot on Joe Biden’s presidential ticket. I predict we’ll have a new classy French restaurant opening on the site of the former Unum and the Guards (Maxime) in 2019. Unum, a local favorite with the east siders, was famous in many ways. We need more restaurants opening not closing.

— David Dunning, Friends of Rose Park

Be a Mentor, Volunteer A new year brings a fresh start and hopefully a broader perspective. Consider this respite a time of reflection. Reflection on how to make the most of our personal gifts in this bustling town we call home. A time to challenge ourselves to find ways to make a positive impact on the community. So, volunteer at a mentorship program, serve a meal at an outreach center, take part in a cleanup day at your local park. Our neighborhood is architecturally stunning, but I like to think the residents provide the true luster.

— Jessica Homa, Friends of Volta Park GMG, INC.

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How Wawa Lands In Georgetown

BY R OBE RT DEVA NEY Wawa, the Pennsylvania-based convenience store empire with more than 800 locations, landed in Georgetown on Dec. 20.

The festive debut of the store at 1222 Wisconsin Ave. NW included free coffee, giveaways, free Georgetown Cupcakes, speeches, a goose mascot (“wawa” is a Native American word for Canada goose) and a ribbon-cutting ceremony — as well as the introduction of its Bulldog Double Shot Latte, for Hoyas down the street.

A year ago, the announcement of a Wawa planned for Georgetown evoked some neighborhood pushback and concerns about convenience stores.

But the December debut seemed to leave that behind. To begin the program for more than 100 attendees, Miss Maryland Adrianna David sang “The Star-Spangled Banner,” penned by Francis Scott Key, who, as we all know, lived in Georgetown.

Wawa President, CEO and “Lead Goose” Chris Gheysens commented on his and everyone’s excitement, noting that the store is “not your typical Wawa.” “When you’re across the street from the Apple Store, you’ve got to give it your best,” he said.

Gheysens thanked the store’s design and construction team and its landlords, the Weaver and Wallshein families, longtime owners of Georgetown real estate. He said that neighborhood leaders made Wawa work “a little bit better” and “kept us honest.”

As he saluted the Citizens Association of Georgetown, Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E and the Georgetown Business Improvement District, Gheysens said, “Georgetown is gorgeous, historic and special.”

Ward 2 Council member Jack Evans noted that the two D.C. Wawas are in his ward and that, having attended the University of

Pennsylvania, he frequented Wawa as a student. Happy to see more taxes for D.C., the chair of the Council’s finance committee added, “I’ll be spending more money at Wawa.”

Saying that, for Wawa, philanthropy “is in our DNA,” Wawa Foundation President Jay Culotta presented a $20,000 check to Louis Weiner, M.D., director of the Georgetown Lombardi Cancer Center, for its upcoming surgical pavilion, specifically for a break room for nurses.

With that, there was the ribbon cutting in front of the shiny new store and then a hoagie-building contest inside for the benefit of the Capital Area Food Bank and Walking Warriors to End Breast Cancer.

The Georgetown Wawa has 50 employees; its store manager is Stephanie Doolan. The 24-hour convenience store occupies more than 7,000 square feet in the old Restoration Hardware space (before that, it was a Roy Rogers) in a building built in 1927.

Founded by Grahame Wood in 1964, Wawa began its business life as a dairy farm in 1890.

It has locations in Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Florida.

It is a privately held, family-run business — with Wawa associates owning about half of the company through an employee stock ownership plan.

Wawa opened its first Washington, D.C., store at 1111 19th St. NW in December of 2017.

Gheysens said other upcoming D.C. locations for the sandwich, sub (hoagie, that is) and snack shop include Tenleytown at 40th and Albemarle Streets NW, 14th and Irving Streets NW, Vermont Avenue and M Street NW and 2424 18th St. NW. What do you think of the new Georgetown Wawa? Let us know at editorial@ georgetowner.com.

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Lots of Wisconsin Avenue news to share, as we kick off another exciting year in Georgetown business developments.

In: Wawa . . . Wha? For a start, the Wawa at 1222 Wisconsin Ave. NW opened Dec. 20. We hear the chain has employed some 50 persons to keep up with the eager foot traffic. While Georgetown is known for its elegant dining scene and highend real estate, sometimes locals just want a hot dog and a soda for less than five bucks.

At times compared to a higher-end 7-Eleven, Georgetown’s Wawa offers its popular pretzels and buffalo chicken bites — along with its sandwiches. The Wawa has plenty of tables and window seats for in-house “dining.” Is this a genuine love of fast food in Georgetown or just a temporary infatuation with something new? We shall see.

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Wawa Foundation President Jay Culotta presented to Louis Weiner, MD, director of the Georgetown Lombardi Cancer Center, a $20,000 check to Georgetown Lombardi Cancer Center. Photo by Patrick G. Ryan.

In: Domino’s in Glover Park Meanwhile, farther up Wisconsin at 2330, Domino’s Pizza in Glover Park is also up and slicing, after weeks of sitting idle.

The Georgetown Wawa opened its doors on Thursday, Dec. 20. At center: Chris Gheysens, Wawa president and CEO, and Ward 2 Council member Jack Evans. Photo by Patrick G. Ryan.

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Another Pizza Paradiso: Spring Valley

Leaving Town: Cross MacKenzie Goes Country

Pizza Paradiso — with branches in Georgetown, Dupont Circle, Alexandria, Virginia, and Hyattsville, Maryland — has come to Spring Valley, opening its largest space, seating 165. The new location, at 4850 Massachusetts Ave. NW, opened early last month and is available for your “eat your pizza, drink your beer” pleasure every day starting at 11 a.m.

Cross MacKenzie, the art gallery at 1675 Wisconsin Ave. NW, is selling its building and moving to Hillsboro, Virginia. “We sincerely hope the beautiful space at 1675 will remain an art gallery, so please help us spread the word to anyone you feel might be interested,” the gallery announced. A “Best Of” group show opens Jan. 12.

Moved: Patagonia Hikes to M Patagonia, the outdoor clothing retailer with a proud tradition of conservation advocacy, has moved from Wisconsin Avenue at the C&O Canal to 3104 M St. NW. We will keep you updated on what happens to its old digs.

Renovating: 1310 Kitchen & Bar A few blocks away on Wisconsin at the Georgetown Inn, 1310 Kitchen & Bar by Jenn Crovato is closed for renovations — but just for a few days. The restaurant is expected to reopen with a bright, refreshed space by midmonth.

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‘Nordic Impressions’ at the Phillips

BY ARI POS T Author’s note: The government shutdown is having an ongoing effect on the majority of Washington’s art museums. The Smithsonian and the National Gallery of Art receive federal funding, and as such will be closed until the government reopens. If the shutdown extends through The Georgetowner’s next issue, I will discuss it at that time. Fortunately, there are still many museums that remain open, in addition to many galleries: the Kreeger Museum, the National Building Museum, the National Museum of Women in the Arts and the Phillips Collection, to name a few. Let’s give them our attention and support.

In my limited encounters with Nordic art, it has struck me as surreal the way it runs a parallel yet slightly alternative course to the European canon. The aesthetic of the Nordic countries coincides with that of their southern neighbors, and yet it does not dovetail that cleanly. There are fissures, ripples of divergence in these Nordic works, that have always reminded me of old science-fiction plots about parallel universes, but as they might correspond to modern art.

Step through a wormhole and into a world where the subdued color palettes and soft forms of Victorian England and America achieved influence equal to the bold, aggressive technicolor of the Fauvists.

Perhaps this is nothing more than a game of connect-the-dots, art history edition. Making visual connections across history, as well as between individual artists, is one of the great joys of art appreciation. More often than not, this is a useful exercise, because artists themselves have always played this game directly on their canvases.

So it would stand to reason that Nordic artists, connected to the rest of Europe yet isolated enough to develop unique strains of style, would produce work that walks a line between the foreign and the familiar.

At the Phillips Collection through Jan. 13, “Nordic Impressions” introduces audiences to the artistic achievements of Nordic painters.

Featuring many works never before seen in the United States, the exhibition includes works by 53 artists spanning nearly 200 years.

Opening the show, Helmer Osslund’s painting, “A Summer Evening at Lake Kallsjon,” c. 1910, feels almost like a Rockwell

“Self-Portrait,” 1955. Ruth Smith.

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Kent, with sharp light and billowing clouds against an abruptly shifting landscape of light and dark. It sets the tone of a stark, grandiose horizon that reflects a sort of riveting quietude.

Osslund is an appropriate segue into Nordic art. He studied with Paul Gauguin in Paris, seeking to blend visual impressions of nature with his own feelings in a style characterized by flat areas of color and bold outlines inspired by Japanese woodcuts. When he began painting the landscapes of Sweden and Norway — especially the snow-covered mountains and vivid green mosses growing in the chalky soil of the Nordic peninsula — he found a truly distinct voice.

Three other early paintings stand out: Christian Krohg’s “Braiding her Hair” of 1888, Harriet Backer’s “Evening Interior” of 1890 and Elin Danielson-Gambogi’s “SelfPortrait” of 1903. Khrog, one of Norway’s most renowned artists, had an eye for simple everyday moments. His technique is reminiscent of Edgar Degas or Mary Cassatt, but with a distinctively Nordic psychology that conveys the emotional seclusion that the region seems to breed. The composition looks on from behind its subjects, their faces unseen while they work with steady focus on the task at hand. These subjects are not daydreamers.

Danielson-Gambogi’s self-portrait, though small, is one of the strongest paintings in the exhibition. It has a distinctive connection to the English and American art of the day, like James McNeill Whistler or Abbott Handerson Thayer. It seems the fog, mist and frost of both England and New England offer a tonal harmony with the Nordic atmosphere.

Midway through the exhibition, a fine

19th- and 20th-century women artists are represented to a greater extent in this exhibition than in any other survey I’ve seen that wasn’t focused specifically on women. Whether this is due to Scandinavia’s unique breed of social progressivism or a mission of the curators, it was a breath of fresh air.

“A Summer Evening at Lake Kallsjon,” c. 1910. Helmer Osslund. Courtesy Phillips

collection of Munch prints offers an intriguing tie-in to the wider European art scene, if only at a brief glance. It is an important and necessary nod, while not overplayed.

Moving deeper into the 20th century, Johannes S. Kjarval’s “Warrior Maiden” of 1964 and Ruth Smith’s “Self-Portrait” of 1955 together offer a vision of art’s divergent evolution. The works of Kjarval, a towering figure in Icelandic art, exhibit early Icelandic interpretations of Futurism and Cubism, exploring the mythology of the area. “Warrior Maiden” is like folk art by way of Adolph Gottlieb. Meanwhile, Ruth Smith’s selfportrait could be a portrait by Paul Cézanne or even Elaine de Kooning.

Incidentally, 19th- and 20th-century women artists are represented to a greater extent in this exhibition than in any other survey I’ve seen that wasn’t focused specifically on women.

Whether this is due to Scandinavia’s unique breed of social progressivism or a mission of

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the curators, it was a breath of fresh air.

The postmodern and contemporary art on display leaves the door wide open. From Pia Arke’s video “Arctic Hysteria” of 1996 to Outi Pieski’s hanging installation of wood and thread, “Crossing Paths” of 2014, to paintings

by Per Kirkeby and Tal R, there are endless dots to connect, to and from Henri Matisse, German Expressionism, postmodern European performance art, the contemporary craft revival and so on. The point is, perhaps, just how global, diverse and connected our world has become, no matter how geographically isolated one may be.

To that end, if you’d asked me last week what I knew about Nordic culture, I’d have probably made references to Munch, gravlax, the Faroe Islands, bleak independent films, blond hair and maybe elk hunting. Now I’m happy to be able to point to this exhibition and admit that I never knew that I never knew.

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National Gallery Director Named

American History Director Arrives

Kaywin Feldman, director and president of the Minneapolis Institute of Art since 2008, will succeed Earl “Rusty” Powell III to become the National Gallery of Art’s fifth director on March 11. Past president of the Association of Art Museum Directors, she has a B.A. in classical archaeology from the University of Michigan and master’s degrees from the University of London’s Institute of Archaeology and Courtauld Institute of Art.

Anthea M. Hartig, executive director and CEO of the California Historical Society, a San Francisco-based nonprofit, was named director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, effective Feb. 18, succeeding John Gray, who retired in May. Earlier, she was director of the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s Western Region.

Hartig’s bachelor’s degree is from UCLA and her master’s degree and doctorate are from the University of California, Riverside.

Smithsonian Secretary Leaving On June 15, former University of Iowa and Cornell University President David Skorton will conclude four years of service as the 13th secretary of the Smithsonian Institution to become president and CEO of the D.C.-based Association of American Medical Colleges.

Among his accomplishments: the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture and the hiring of the first woman directors of the Air and Space and American History museums.

New Deputy Director at SAAM A 25-year Smithsonian veteran, David Voyles, is now deputy director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. His predecessor, Rachel Allen, retired after 45 years at SAAM. Voyles has led the Smithsonian’s Office of Planning, Management and Budget since 2011. His bachelor’s degree in English, history and psychology is from the University of Tennessee.

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The Femme Fatale

BY JUD Y KURA S H Jackie Kennedy’s most well-known overseas visit was to Paris in 1961, where she dazzled the public with her knowledge of French culture and by speaking in their native tongue.

She was so popular, her husband later quipped: “I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it.”

Six years later, she caused a similar sensation when she visited Cambodia. While she didn’t officially go as a diplomat, her tour around the kingdom fascinated the people and helped smooth over rising political tensions, as this was during the time of the Vietnam War. Her visit was covered by Life magazine. She was entertained by King Norodom Sihanouk, toured the temples at Angkor Wat and visited the coastal city of Sihanoukville, where there was a street named after her husband.

But perhaps she made the biggest impression in the capital, Phnom Penh, where she stayed at Hotel Le Royal and had a cocktail named in her honor. The tipple, called the Femme Fatale, is an elegant concoction befitting the glamorous Jackie: a mix of VSOP cognac, cherry liqueur and champagne, garnished with a tropical flower.

The cocktail is still served in the refined Elephant Bar in the hotel, which was purchased

by Raffles in 1997 and completed renovated. It is claimed that, during the restoration, one of the glasses she drank from was found,

INGREDIENTS ¾ oz. VSOP cognac ¾ oz. Giffard cherry liqueur Champagne

Put first two ingredients in a champagne glass, then top off with champagne.

Garnish with a flower.

complete with a red lipstick stain and the hotel’s logo. The glass is kept in a display case, along with some photos and other Jackie memorabilia.

The Elephant Bar has the colonial charm you would expect from Raffles. A set of (fake) tusks marks the entrance and the graceful space is adorned with elephant murals and statues. Even the brass rails on the wooden bar are upheld by miniature pachyderms. The bar got its name from the fact that elephants were used to transport supplies when the hotel opened.

Le Royal has hosted many celebrities, including Charlie Chaplin and Somerset Maugham. It also accommodated reporters during the Vietnam War. The Femme Fatale is an effervescent elixir with a sophisticated flavor. The cognac provides a polished twang and the fruit liqueur adds just the right amount of sweetness. And it’s still garnished with a beautiful pink flower.

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January may seem like a dreary month since it can get so cold outside. As the tinsel gets put away for another year, and we finally get through the Christmas leftovers, there are plenty of fun things for families to do together in January — activities and celebrations that will make all of us forget about the weather.

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SUSHI ROLLING 101 In this hands-on class, Salamander’s sushi chef will walk participants through the process of hand-selecting fish and demonstrate the techniques needed to roll sushi. Sushi is served at the end of the class. Tickets are $79. For details, visit salamanderresort.com.

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Upperville ~ The impressive, historic & award winning 1511 Acre Estate & Cattle Farm of Cleremont, offers a healthy environment for all of its inhabitants from the forest & land on the eastern slope of the Blue Ridge Mountains to the 33 verdant pastures & abundant natural water resources. Prime Piedmont Hunt territory with riding trails on the property. Residences include a historic manor house, a second manor house, the original patent house & 3 tenant houses. $15,000,000

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Middleburg ~ Magnificent Estate on 100 Acres. The stone house boasts 22 elegant rooms, 9 fireplaces, high ceilings, all superbly detailed and beautifully appointed. Brilliant gardens surround the heated pool. Fabulous 11 stall stone stable with 2 staff apartments.

Riding ring, green house all in pristine condition. Additional 227 acres are available. $8,495,00

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Millwood, VA ~ 120 acres - 2 parcels. 3 Story Manor built around older (c.1850s) home of “Carter Hall’s” estate manager c.1885.

Elegant interior detailing includes 3-story curving staircase. The stable, 2 cottages & a kennel housing the Snickersville Hounds are leased separately for $5000+/mo. Pastoral views toward the Blue Ridge Mountains. Cattle, horses & alfalfa hay share the property. $2,750,000

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The Plains ~ Stunning addition & complete restoration create a classic and elegant Virginia manor house. Attention to detail throughout including a custom designed kitchen open to the family room. Property also includes pool, guest house & 4 stall barn on 18 Acres in the Orange County Hunt Territory. Convenient access to I-66, Rt. 50 and Dulles International Airport $2,675,000

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Outside of Hillsboro ~ A true treasure! Lovely home dating back to the 1700s on 66 acres with mtn. views. 5 BR 4½ BA main house; guest house; stable; pool with outdoor entertaining areas, pizza oven and fireplace. Extensive plantings, stone work, mature timberland and large pond. Formerly a successful B&B. Heart of VA wine country. EZ commuter access to DC. $1,700,000

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Paris ~ Circa 1770, Lovely Stone and Stucco Farm house sits at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains, 20+ acres surrounded

by Protected Lands, Spectacular protected views of Paris valley, Meticulous exterior renovations include Re-Pointed Stonework, Metal Roof, 2 Large additions, Covered Porch, Basement, Buried Electric, well and Septic, Fully Fenced, Mature Trees, Boxwoods, Ready for all your interior finishes. $1,300,000

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Berryville ~ Spacious 1880’s 4 BR, 3 BA farm house renovated on 82 secluded acres. Interior details include original heart pine floors, high ceilings, 3 fireplaces, large wrap around porch, new eat-in kitchen and appliances, 2 offices with built-ins, library, large dining room, living room, Master bedroom with fabulous Master bath. Custom wood siding. 4400 sq.ft. of living space. 45 min to Dulles. 1 DUR $1,095,000

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KITTY KELLEY BOOK CLUB

‘Rose Kennedy: The Life andTimes of a Political Matriarch’ REVIEWED BY KITTY KELLEY

Appearances mattered —greatly —to the iron-willed woman whose family achieved the status of an American dynasty.

Anyone who has followed the Kennedys knowsthe bar is high for books on the subject.

Having been inundated for the past 50 years with hundreds of biographies and memoirs and profiles about the spellbinding mystique of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, his family and his thousand days as the country’s first Irish Catholic president, we expect each publication to bring something new and fresh to add to our understanding of the family that refashioned politics in the 20th century.

Serious historians (Arthur SchlesingerJr., William Manchester, James MacGregor Burns, Nigel Hamilton), journalists (Seymour Hersh, Jack Newfield, Warren Rogers), conspiracy theorists (Jim Garrison), commercial clipand-pasters (Laurence Leamer, Christopher

When the John F. Kennedy Library released the papers of the president’s mother (300 boxes) in 2006, Perry, a senior fellow in presidential oral history at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center in Charlottesville, was first in line. Alas, Rose had no secrets beyond the few she revealed in her 1974 memoir, “Times to Remember.”As a biographer,Perry was challenged.

After six years of research and writing, she bowed to the obvious. With nothing new, she went for nuance. Her text is well-written and her bibliography shows research, but there is no gold in the mine.

Her book cover, though, is absolutely perfect, because it captures the essence of Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy. The black-and-white photograph shows a woman who later died at the age of 104 after living her life by the blackand-white strictures of the Catholic Church,

Members of the Kennedy family — Rose, on left — attend the gala grand opening of Photo by Warren K. Leffler. Courtesy Library of Congress.

Andersen) and friends (Paul “Red” Fay, Benjamin C. Bradlee) have tried to capture the firefly magic of the Kennedys, while antagonists (Victor Lasky, Ralph de Toledano) have tried to puncture their myth.So now comes Barbara A. Perrywith “Rose Kennedy: The Life and Times of a Political Matriarch.” Perrypromises to deliver “the definitive biography” of the woman whose iron-fisted image-making produced the mystique that continues to endure.

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pre-Vatican II. Still glamorous at the age of 73, she is sitting next to the handsome president at a White House state dinner in 1963. She is acting as her son’s hostess because the first lady is away on one of her many vacations, similar to the ones Rose took for six to eight weeks at a time to get away from the clamor of her large family — and possibly, according to her biographer, as a means of Church-approved birth control.

Rose is wearing the Molyneux gown she wore when she was 48 and her husband, Joseph P. Kennedy, was presented to the king and queen of England as the U.S. ambassador to the Court of St. James. That was the crowning glory of Rose’s life; to be accepted by British royalty was beyond the biggest dreams of a little girl from Dorchester, Massachusetts.

Bejeweled with two diamond clips in her hair, diamonds dripping from her ears, a triple strand of pearls the size of grapes circling her unlinedneck and a bracelet of diamonds wrapped around her arm, which is encased in a long white kid-leather glove, Rose is whispering in her son’s ear. Ever the canny pol, she covers her mouth so the photographer cannot catch a candid shot. (“I do not like candid pictures,” she said. “They are so unattractive.”)

Oh, did I mention that the Molyneux gown was sleeveless? This is a detail Rose would want emphasized,because she prided herself on her petite figure. She frequently said that after having nine children she could still wear a size 8. Her frenetic exercise routine of swimming in the ocean every day, playing golf, walking miles, eating sparingly and rarely drinking had left her sleek and svelte with tanned, taut arms.

Appearances ruled Rose, and nothing matteredto her as much as how one looked —in person and in pictures. She made her children line up for daily inspections so she could see if their shoes were shined and their buttons attached. She saw each child as a reflection of herself and of the family name her husband was making famous on Wall Street and in Hollywood, so she strove for perfection, demanding it of herself and of everyone around her.

A martinet mother, she insisted her children brush their teeth three times a day and say their prayers every night. They were instructed to make meals on time or go without eating, and en routeto the dining room they were required to check the bulletin board for the topics of current affairs tobe discussed at dinner.

Rose was the parent in charge of their childhood. When they became young adults, her husband took over, but as one daughter said, “Dad gave us many lovely things but mother gave us our character.”

Despite her foibles and her husband’s

philandering,Rose relied on her strong religious faith to survive the worst tragedies of

her life. She managed to produce an extraordinary family of sons and daughters, who cared for each other, supported each other and remained close throughout their lives —and that is a mother’s finest legacy. Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy is an admirable subject,but one that left her admiring biographer empty-handed.

Georgetown resident Kitty Kelley has written several number-one New York Times bestsellers, including “The Family: The Real Story Behind the Bush Dynasty.” Her most recent books include “Capturing Camelot: Stanley Tretick’s Iconic Images of the Kennedys” and “Let Freedom Ring: Stanley Tretick’s Iconic Images of the March on Washington.”

Mayor’s Inaugural Party Does D.C. Proud

BY R OB E RT DEVA NEY Mayor Muriel Bowser stepped out Jan. 5 and hung out with hundreds of her favorite persons at the Anthem on the Wharf. The cool, Seth Hurwitz joint was jumping with singer, dancers and bands that included Ledisi, Mary McBride, We Are One Band, Infusion Band — and ample food and drink.

GOOD WORKS & GOOD TIMES

Dutch Ambassador Hosts Reception for Choral Arts

BY M ARY BIR D As honorary patrons of the Choral Arts Society of Washington’s annual holiday concert and gala, Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands Henne Schuwer and Lena Boman Schuwer hosted a reception with a concert preview on Dec. 13, four days before the gala. The ambassador amusingly referred to the gala as “the only event where I am allowed to sing.” He acknowledged three replicas of works by Vincent van Gogh at the residence and said there will be more at the gala. He also lauded the gala menu, saying: “I never knew Dutch food tasted so good.” Artistic Director Scott Tucker introduced the brief program, which began with a Dutch carol and concluded with a sing-along to “White Christmas.” Guests departed with an array of gifts from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.

Mayor Bowser takes center stage of her Inagugural party. Courtesy Office of the Mayor. Photo by Khalid Naji-Allah.

Dutch Ambassador Henne Schuwer and his wife Lena Boman Schuwer with gala co-chairs Lexy and Iver Kessler. Photo by Schuwer Kessler.

Concert of Hope for Flower Children

BY C H R ISTIN E WAR N KE Mayor Muriel Bowser with Cora Masters Barry, widow of Mayor Marion Barry. Courtesy Office of the Mayor. Photo by Khalid Naji-Allah.

Golden Globes Surprises, Delight

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers, and the Arco Iris America Foundation held a concert on Dec. 9 in the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater for homeless children of Bolivia.

The musical performances,by internationally known artists spanning three continents, raised funds to support social programs focusing on homeless children in urban Latin American settings.

BY ELIZ A B E T H W EB S T E R , H O LLY WO O D C O O R E S P O N D EN T The 76th Annual Golden Globes, held at the Beverly Hilton Jan. 6th, offered some surprises and delights. Besides the surprises of “Green Book” and “Bohemian Rhapsody,” classic Hollywood got a big nod in Tinseltown. An award for a “Lifetime of Television Achievement,” the inaugural “Carol Burnett Award” was given to its namesake, the 85-year-old actress, known as “The Queen of Comedy.” Awardee Glenn Close’s heartfelt speech brought many (especially women) to tears.

And, as Jeff Bridges said, “Tag. You’re it.”

Anthony Scaramucci, former White House Communications Director, and B.J. Korros, host of TV shows, “Hollywood Moment” and “Shout Out.” Courtesy Elizabeth Webster.

Shahin Mafi, trustee of the Azar Foundation for Children of the World, and Morayma Bak, president of the Arco Iris America Foundation, with the Westland Middle School chorus, back stage at the Kennedy Center on Dec.9. Photo by Neshan H. Naltchayan.

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