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The bust of Nefertiti is a life-size reproduction of one of the most famous pieces of Egyptian art ever discovered. The original, now in the Neues Museum in Berlin, Germany, was uncovered on Dec. 6, 1912, during the excavation of a sculptor’s workshop in Amarna, Egypt. Photo by Mark Thiessen/ National Geographic.

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President Donald Trump hugs the flag before his two-hour speech at the Conservation Political Action Conference on March 2. Photo by Neshan Naltchayan.

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NEXTGEN VOCAL COMPETITION The American Pops Orchestra’s jazz quartet will perform as 30 semifinalists from university programs compete to win the top title in the second annual vocal competition of the D.C. chapter of the National Society of Arts and Letters. Tickets are $30 ($20 under 30 and military). For details, visit arenastage. org. Arena Stage, 1101 Sixth St. SW.

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WILD WOMEN OF GEORGETOWN TOUR This name-your-own-price women’s history walking tour is offered by A Tour Of Her Own and DC By Foot in celebration of Women’s History Month. Proceeds benefit the National Women’s Party at the BelmontPaul Women’s Equality National Monument.

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MONEY, GOVERNANCE AND THE LAW The Government Blockchain Association will host the first of several preliminary discussions leading up to a major conference at the end of 2019. How will this disruptive technology affect our money, the government’s control of it and our laws?

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relationships and influence.”

It is not illegal in the District for an elected official to work in the private sector. D.C. ethics rules require that clients be identified

only if they have a contract with the District or stand to benefit from pending legislation.

Any future legal action will depend on the grand jury.

Evans Under Scrutiny by Federal Grand Jury

BY PEGGY SA NDS Ward 2 Council member Jack Evans appeared in the pages of the Washington Post early in March. And the coverage wasn’t flattering.

On March 1, the Post reported that it had obtained “the first public confirmation that the city’s longest-serving council member has been under the scrutiny of federal law enforcement officials.” That confirmation, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, was a copy of a grand jury subpoena issued in late September of 2018 for documents relating to a possible conflict of interest and ethics violation in 2016.

As previously reported in the Washington media (including The Georgetowner), the conflict began in July of 2016 after Evans created an advisory firm called NSE Consulting to offer his knowledge and expertise to help others navigate the complicated District bureaucracy.

Three weeks later, Evans’s new company received checks totaling $50,000 from Donald E. MacCord, the president of Digi Outdoor, which had launched a multimillion-dollar effort to install digital signs across the District.

Evans has claimed publicly that the checks were sent as a retainer fee for future

services. He can document that he returned the checks within days of receipt. He feared, he said, that they might be seen as a conflict of interest, since he was involved at the time in a building code dispute between Digi Outdoor and the city.

Two months later, Evans received 200,000 shares in Digi Outdoor stock, which he also claimed he returned immediately.

However, a month after that, Evans asked the Council chairman to place on the next agenda emergency legislation that would have given Digi Outdoor an advantage over its competitors. Evans withdrew the proposal before it was voted on — supposedly because there was insufficient support for it to pass.

Evans has denied all accusations of illegality, but, early in 2018, the D.C. Board of Ethics and Government Accountability opened an investigation. The inquiry was suspended midyear “because of an ongoing law enforcement investigation.” Now the subpoena for documents by federal authorities has come to light.

On March 2, the Post reported that Evans also actively pitched lobbyists and business firms to hire him to “use my knowledge of local government to strategize with someone looking to do business locally” and for the purpose of “cross-marketing my

Georgetown resident Cynthia Case shows her Pyrenean Shepherd, Posey. Courtesy Cynthia Case.

AOneGeorgetowner Wins at Westminster of Georgetown’s own won the title of Bronze Mariposa De La Brise Brise CGC One of Georgetown’s own won the title of Select Bitch in its breed at the Westminster Dog Show in New York on Feb. 11.

After getting rescue dogs her whole life, longtime Georgetown resident Cynthia Case purchased a show-quality Pyrenean Shepherd two years ago to fulfill her childhood dream of competing in dog shows, particularly Westminster, the nation’s most prestigious.

Case was thrilled to earn Select Bitch (runner-up female) in the breed. Her dog’s littermate (sister) won the breed. Her fiveyear-old dog, Posey — or Grand Champion

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Case still owns two rescues, including a Bichon from the Washington Humane Society.

Together, Case and Posey are on a roll. Among their many successes is winning the breed at the National Dog Show in Philadelphia, televised on NBC on Thanksgiving Day. Most afternoons, you can see Posey and her owner practicing their dog show gait in Georgetown Waterfront Park.

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Attorney General Sues for Tuition Fraud

BY PEG GY SA NDS Lawsuits were filed on Feb. 13 against four Maryland parents for falsifying residency documents and not paying required out-of-state tuition for years at public schools in the District, including Duke Ellington School of the Arts, HydeAddison Elementary School and Hardy Middle School in Georgetown, according to D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine.

In addition, the attorney general is suing a DC Public Schools employee for conspiring with one of the parents to enroll her nonresident daughter in a public school in the District. The lawsuits seek more than $450,000 in unpaid tuition, damages and penalties.

District residents who are parents, official guardians or eligible caregivers can send their children to the District’s public or public charter schools free of charge, but nonresidents must apply to District schools and, if approved, pay nonresident tuition, costing between $10,000 and $14,000 per year per child.

“In most cases, however, even nonresidents willing to pay nonresident tuition are not typically admitted to a District school if there are D.C. residents on that school’s waiting list,” according to DCPS. These out-of-state parents who fraudulently claimed residency to get free tuition “cheated District taxpayers and deprived our students of educational opportunities,” said Racine.

“Parents who lie about residency to avoid paying nonresident tuition at District schools will face serious consequences for breaking the law.”

Parents of public school students are required to submit annual enrollment forms and residency verification forms for each child. They must sign sworn documents attesting they live in the District and agree to the statement: “I understand that providing false information for the purposes of defrauding the government is punishable by law.”

Under the District’s False Claims Act, it is illegal to knowingly make false statements to conceal, avoid or decrease an obligation to pay the District. It is also illegal to knowingly cover up or avoid an obligation to pay the District, even if no

false statements are made. If a court agrees, the District can seek to recover up to triple the amount of unpaid tuition that is owed.

When an allegation of residency fraud is received through the Office of the State Superintendent of Education, DCPS, public charter schools or other channels, the Office of the Attorney General has independent authority to investigate and to take legal action if appropriate. The office is authorized both to obtain civil penalties and to recoup expenses incurred in pursuing tuition fraud cases.

One of the families accused of tuition fraud at Georgetown schools is William H. Harrison and Cassandra V. Harrison. They are residents of Brandywine, Maryland; he is a contractor for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. According to the Office of the Attorney General, the Harrisons sent three of their children to District schools between 2012 and 2017, with two children attending Duke Ellington School of the Arts and one child attending Hyde-Addison Elementary School and Hardy Middle School.

Anyone who knows of or suspects residency fraud can submit a tip directly to the Office of the Attorney General by emailing oag@dc.gov or calling the Office of the State Superintendent of Education hotline: 202-719-6500.

BJ Cutler Memorial Service on March 16 Bernard Joseph “BJ” Cutler and his wife, Carol Cutler, lived in Georgetown for 48 years before moving to Grand Oaks Assisted Living Center last year. BJ Cutler, a journalist for 50 years in France, Russia and the United States, died Jan 2 at the age of 94. A memorial service — scheduled 2 to 4 p.m., Saturday, March 16 in the Commons Room of Grand Oaks Assisted Living Residence at 5901 MacArthur Blvd., NW. Valet parking will be available.

In lieu of flowers, the family suggests a memorial donation to the Gridiron Society Foundation’s BJ Cutler Student Scholarship Program.

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CITIZENS ASSOCIATION OF GEORGETOWN CAG’s monthly meeting will feature a historic preservation and zoning panel discussion chaired by Elsa Santoyo, with speakers from the Old Georgetown Board and the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs, at the parish hall at St. John’s Church, 3240 O St. NW. For details, visit cagtown.org.

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OPINION JACK EVANS REPORT

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5G: Don’t Rush to Judgment Everyone is excited about 5G, the next generation of mobile communications networks. D.C.’s Office of the Chief Technology Chief Officer has said the District will “support the immediate rollout of 5G wireless service in our community because of the benefits it will deliver today and the breakthroughs it will enable tomorrow.”

But there is still no standard definition for 5G (also referred to as small cells), never mind a technology. Networks will not become commercially available until the 2020s. Yet, since 2017, District officials have been focused on intense competition among carriers seeking contracts to install their proposed 5G deployment infrastructure.

The Office of the Chief Technology Officer assumed that small cell technology would be in the form of big and small boxes, variously pictured with a tangle of wires emanating from them, installed on poles throughout D.C. neighborhoods.

In 2018, five companies — Verizon, Crown Castle, AT&T, Mobilitie and ExteNet — were awarded executed master license agreements through the Department of Transportation’s online permitting system. The Council adopted an “Order of Accelerating Wireless Broadband Deployment” that removed barriers to infrastructure investment.

Georgetowners have already crowded into various town meetings to compare the master licensees’ proposals, sometimes alarmed by the visual clutter they seem likely to bring to the neighborhood’s historic fabric.

Now a new technology is being proposed: boxes that could be placed on roofs, out of sight. The boxes are smaller — 24 by 36 by 12 inches, with two-to-three-

foot antennas. TeleWorld Solutions CEO Shervin Gerami told ANC members: “They would be installed by a carrier like AT&T in a cooperative arrangement that could generate up to several hundred dollars a month revenue for property owners whose rooftops have been deemed to have the best sight lines. Shared revenue contracts could be negotiated for up to 20 years.”

Did he say a monthly income? For 20 years? For the best sight lines in the neighborhood (chosen by the carrier)?

Let the Neighborhood Games begin!

The Trees for Georgetown members are sure to be busy monitoring the “trimming” of trees that block a sight line.

It may be a bit ironic these days for a newspaper to say so, but The Georgetowner is wary of a rush to judgment. Why commit now to a 20-year contract when the technology hasn’t even been fully designed yet?

It’s beginning to look like the early days of the cell phone. Everyone knew cell phones were coming. Nobody knew exactly what they would look like or how they would function. Investors were eager, almost frantic, to put their money into the big winner, but who would it be?

Hardly anyone thought of Apple.

While it’s great fun to be at the center of the Next Big Thing, where creative juices are flowing and citizens are being asked for their feedback, let’s be sure the District, including Georgetown, takes the time to act wisely.

Choosing the best 5G carrier and infrastructure will probably be a bit of a slog. There may well be a number of lemons proposed before a true game changer is ready for our long-term, taxpayer-funded commitment.

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Letters to the Editor TODAY’S IMPLICATIONS OF ‘OUR BLACK HISTORY’ My family of four read and enjoyed the Feb. 20 Georgetown cover story, “Our Black History.” I find it extremely relevant to a news item I just heard on WTOP news radio regarding another minority community (described as El Salvadorans) in Arlandia taking issue with Amazon building its H2Q in nearby Crystal City and making low-income or affordable housing nonexistent. This brought to mind

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the Old Georgetown Act of 1950 that pushed blacks out of Georgetown. We need a minister like the Rev. James Foy to unite the community and that means politically fighting the expectation of a new, updated “Old Georgetown Act.” If there is any volunteer help this 65-yearold white boy might provide from Leesburg, Virginia, please let me know.

—SANDER FREDMAN, LEESBURG P.S.: I am no stranger to the principle of organizing.

BY JAC K EVAN S Once a year, the Council of the District of Columbia performs oversight hearings on agencies, commissions and organizations that receive revenue from the city. As chairman of the Committee on Finance and Revenue, I have oversight of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, the Office of the Chief Financial Officer, the Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Events DC and Destination DC, to name a few.

It is the duty of committees to ask questions of agencies and organizations about their spending and priorities. I’m happy to report that agencies responded, and we had productive hearings.

WMATA General Manager Paul Wiedefeld testified before the Committee on Finance and Revenue on Feb. 13.

He told the committee that for the past two years staff at the agency have work diligently to get Metro back to a state of good repair. Train on-time performance is improving, preventative maintenance continues to be a focus of the system and track fires are almost nonexistent. I’m impressed with Metro’s progress under Mr. Wiedefeld’s leadership.

We still have a long way to go, however.

WMATA has an unfunded pension and health benefit liability; if not addressed soon, this will have a detrimental effect on the system. Solutions for this pending issue and others are being discussed by the board and will continue to be a focus.

We’re well on our way to making the

system more reliable and affordable for every rider.

The committee’s second oversight hearing focused on the city’s financial operations and standing. The Office of the Chief Financial Officer testified on the District’s finances, saying that the city has not seen better days. Our pensions are 100-percent funded, we have 58 days of reserve funds and we achieved a AAA bond rating from Wall Street. The District is on sound financial ground and we have a lot to be thankful for, but the CFO did state that we should remain vigilant as the years go on.

The Commission on the Arts and Humanities followed in our progression of oversight hearings. The city’s arts community is thriving. Last year, I secured dedicated funding for the commission, which allows for an increase in grants available to artists. I also had a great discussion on how the arts can contribute to our commercial corridors that have vacant storefronts. There are fantastic artists who lack the means to showcase their work publicly, and empty stores along M Street or Wisconsin Avenue would make great vibrant spaces for shoppers to experience it.

Overall, I’m pleased with the direction of the offices and agencies under the Committee on Finance and Revenue’s purview. I’m confident our city will continue to prosper, but I remain cautious; there will always be some challenges.

This is why oversight is an important way of discussing both our successes and our opportunities to improve.

CAG Report: Preserving Georgetown’s Gems

BY PAM L A M OOR E Goodbye, February! Hello, March! It might be cold and windy as I write this, but I see daffodils pushing through the mulch and the birds are singing with strong voices. It is that time of year to think about your home and how it could benefit from some repairing, restoration, an addition or new windows and shutters.

For this reason, the Citizens Association of Georgetown will hold its March community meeting on the topic of “Following Historic Preservation Guidelines.” Elsa Santoyo, who chairs CAG’s Historic Preservation Committee, will help you get answers to your questions from a panel including Tom Luebke, Tim Dennée, Joe Gibbons and Richard Williams — all experts deeply engaged in helping you maneuver the process. Please join your neighbors on Tuesday, March 19,, at St. John’s Church. The program will begin at 7 p.m. following our usual reception at 6:30 p.m.

If you are like me, you will be pleased that CAG has rescheduled its snowed-out “DC Jazz” program. Mt. Zion United

Methodist Church will open its doors and host us on the evening of Wednesday, April 17, at 6:30 p.m. Maurice Jackson, Georgetown University professor and author of “DC Jazz: Stories of Jazz Music in Washington, DC,” will lead the conversation with D.C. jazz greats Blair Ruble, Bridget Arnwine and Rusty Hassan. A real treat for us!

One of the most historic sites in Georgetown is our one mile of the C&O Canal. Fortunately, the nonprofit Georgetown Heritage, along with the National Park Service, is planning to turn our canal into a restored treasure.

It won’t happen overnight. In fact, there are moments when those of us committed to returning the mules and canal boat to the canal, restoring the towpath and improving the condition of the walls and banks are ready to “scream.” But it is progressing and your comments are part of making it a gem. Please put on your calendar the public meeting scheduled for April 4 from 6 to 9 p.m., location TBD. Pamla Moore is president of the Citizens Association of Georgetown.

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IN: M ST. KITTEN POP-UP; CRUMBS & WHISKERS MOVING

Cat lovers, rejoice! From your feline friends at Crumbs & Whiskers comes the Kitten Lounge at 3109 M St. NW. The nation’s first kitten-encounter pop-up opened March 1, just in time for kitten season, a time of year when kittens are overcrowding shelters, resulting in euthanasia or being turned away. Guests can choose from a 15-minute, 30-minute or 70-minute experience with kittens for a fee.

After June, Crumbs & Whiskers — which opened at 3211 O St. NW in 2014 — plans to transfer its business to the M Street spot, the former Trunk and Drawer. It will occupy a single floor on the lower level, roughly the same size as the O Street place.

FOUR SEASONS AT 40

The Four Seasons at 2800 Pennsylvania Ave. NW is celebrating 40 years in business.

Back in 1979, chairman and founder Isadore Sharp introduced his luxury lodging concept from Canada to the U.S. and the Four Seasons Hotel Washington, DC was born — in Georgetown. It was the first U.S. hotel with concierge service.

Today, the Four Seasons remains the first and only hotel in Washington to be awarded five stars by Forbes and five diamonds by

The Four Seasons.

Crumbs & Whiskers owner Kanchan Singh.

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AAA. Last month, it received top marks from U.S. News & World Report, the newsmagazine that includes global rankings and consumer advice. Headquartered two blocks from the hotel, U.S. News recognized the Four Seasons Hotel Washington, DC as “the #1 Hotel in Washington DC” and “Overall #15 Best Hotel in the USA” in its annual evaluation of hotels that offer highquality amenities.

The hotel has 222 guest rooms, including 58 suites, and 13 event spaces with multiple outdoor options. It boasts a 3,500-squarefoot spa with a swimming pool and sauna and fitness facilities, as well as Eno Wine Bar, power-breakfast restaurant Seasons and Bourbon Steak.

During its 2015 renovations, the hotel added the Royal Suite, with a private terrace and bulletproof windows. It has hosted VIPs and celebrities from Ronald Reagan in 1979 to King Salman of Saudi Arabia in 2015, when he rented the entire hotel for his entourage.

In addition, the Four Seasons has given millions to cancer research in direct and in-kind donations over its 40 years in operation.An invitation-only 40th anniversary party for the hotel will be held this Saturday, March 9.

X MARKS THE MEAT: BOURBON STEAK CELEBRATES 10 YEARS

While the Four Seasons is celebrating 40 years, Bourbon Steak, the swanky steakhouse opened by head chef Michael Mina within the hotel, is celebrating a decade of its own. It prides itself on upscale cocktails and fine wines. The festivities began in January with a special five-course dinner priced at $200.90, a nod to the restaurant’s first year in business.

Local coffee chain Compass Coffee has been taking its time moving into the former Georgetown Theater property at 1351 Wisconsin Ave. NW. The chain sought approval for 112 seats at the site, but — the reason for the delayed opening — zoning limits the total seating for coffee shop customers to just 18 persons.

ACQUIRED: KIPLINGER GOES BRITISH

Kiplinger Washington Editors Inc., founded in Washington, D.C., in 1920, has been sold to London-based Dennis Publishing. W. M. Kiplinger launched the Kiplinger Washington Letter in 1923 and the Kiplinger Tax Letter in 1925. Kiplinger and son Austin — known in Georgetown for his support of Tudor Place — started Kiplinger Magazine, one of the first to focus on personal finances, in 1947. It remains the company’s best-performing product, claiming a monthly circulation of 600,000. Dennis Publishing’s many brands include the Week, based in New York, and TheWeek.com.

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“Queens of Egypt,” which opened on March 1 at the National Geographic Museum, covers 15 centuries, from the reign of the first queen of the New Kingdom through that of the final pharaoh of the Ptolemaic dynasty, Cleopatra.

National Geographic Museum Director Kathryn Keane will speak about that blockbuster show at Georgetown Media Group’s Cultural Leadership Breakfast on April 11.

Joining this Woman Power gathering on March 30 will be “Empresses of China’s Forbidden City, 1644–1912” at the Smithsonian’s Freer and Sackler Galleries.

Displaying many artifacts never before seen outside of China, the exhibition focuses on the vital presence of empresses over the 260 years of the Qing dynasty.

These glorious shows are arriving at an appropriate time, when many of Washington’s museums are led by women. The newest addition to this long list? Kaywin Feldman, who becomes the National Gallery of Art’s fifth director — and its first woman director — on March 11.

V ISUAL AR TS BY ARI PO S T EMPRESSES OF CHINA’S FORBIDDEN CITY, 1644–1912

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Featuring royal portraits, court paintings, Buddhist sutras and religious objects — along with costumes, jewelry and furniture used in the imperial complex known as the Forbidden City — the vital presence of empresses over the 260-year Qing dynasty will be brought to life for the first time in this in-depth exhibition. Most of the artworks displayed, many never exhibited outside China, are from the Palace Museum in Beijing. The exhibition dispels a common misapprehension that these women were passive figures, merely glamorous or subservient wives. Instead, the empresses frequently traveled, rode horses and performed myriad royal duties, exerting influence in the arts, religion, politics and diplomacy.

This major exhibition at the National Geographic Museum highlights and celebrates the most powerful women in ancient Egypt — from the first queen of the New Kingdom, in the 16th century B.C., through the final pharaoh of the Ptolemaic dynasty, some 1,500 years later. Visitors will walk among more than 300 ancient Egyptian artifacts, including monumental statues and sarcophagi, embark on a 3D fly-through of one of the most lavishly decorated tombs in the Valley of the Queens and become immersed in the daily life and afterlife of ancient Egyptians.

Spring Arts Preview continued on page 14

Empress Xiaoshengxian (1692-1777). Courtesy Freer and Sackler Galleries.

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TINTORETTO 500 NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART March 24 to July 7 (June 9 for prints and drawings) In celebration of the 500th anniversary of the birth of the Venetian Renaissance master Jacopo Tintoretto (1518-1594), the National Gallery of Art will present three exhibitions that explore the artist’s achievement as a painter and draftsman, as well as influences and innovations of other great printmakers in Venice in the 16th century. “Tintoretto: Artist of Renaissance Venice,” the first Tintoretto retrospective in North America, will feature nearly 50 paintings and more than a dozen works on paper spanning the artist’s entire career. “Drawing in Tintoretto’s Venice” offers new ideas about his artistic evolution, working procedure and workshop practice in approximately 80 of the finest examples from two dozen public and private collections. “Venetian Prints in the Time of Tintoretto” will present some 30 prints, from critical sources for Tintoretto’s artistic formation to striking graphic responses to the expressiveness of his style.

“The Madonna of the Treasurers,” 1567. Jacopo Tintoretto. Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice. Scala/ Ministero per i Beni e le Attività culturali/Art Resource, NY. ENRICO DAVID: GRADATIONS OF SLOW RELEASE HIRSHHORN MUSEUM April 16 to Sept. 2 Born in 1966, Italian artist Enrico David, now based in London, employs a variety of media — sculpture, painting, installation and works on paper — to develop a dynamic and unique vision of the human form, both physical and psychological. Often fragile, vulnerable, grotesque and mutable, David’s imagery achieves a universal expression of the human experience, albeit through a deeply personal formulation. His work represents the way ideas and characterizations of being can morph and evolve over time, including notions of interiority, multiplicity and disembodiment. In addition, they reflect the circular process inherent to his craft, where the human form is shaped and reshaped and continuously made anew.

“Gradations of Slow Release,” 2017. Enrico David.

Courtesy Hirshhorn Museum.

CHARLES HINMAN: STRUCTURES, 1965–2014 KREEGER MUSEUM April 18 to July 21

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“Sails,” 1965. Charles Hinman. Courtesy Kreeger Museum.

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New York-based abstract painter Charles Hinman pioneered three-dimensional, shaped canvases starting in the 1960s. Born in 1932, Hinman tirelessly experimented with the relationship between color, abstraction and the picture plane using a wide variety of surfaces, materials and techniques. He is best known for his compositions that emerge from the wall in a collection of hand-built, multicolored planes that expand the conventional space of the canvas. “Structures” is Hinman’s first museum show in the Washington area and the first survey in more than 30 years, bringing together his historic paintings from the 1960s while presenting objects — including cast paper reliefs and other experimental artworks — that shine a new light on his expansive and ongoing studio practice.

SPRING ARTS PREVIEW ZILIA SÁNCHEZ: SOY ISLA (I AM AN ISLAND) PHILLIPS COLLECTION Through May 19

“Afrocubano,” 1957. Zilia Sánchez. Courtesy Phillips Collection.

The Phillips Collection presents the first museum retrospective of nonagenarian Havana-bor n ar tist Zilia Sánchez, featuring more than 60 works including paintings, works on paper, shaped canvases and sculptural pieces, alongside illustrations, design sketches and ephemera. The exhibition traces Sánchez’s artistic journey from her early days in Cuba, through her extended visits to Europe and residence in New York, to her move to Puerto Rico. Many of Sánchez’s works reference protagonists from ancient mythology — warriors and female heroines.

Others have reoccurring motifs of lunar shapes, erotic topologies and tattoo drawings that map physical and psychological spaces. The exhibition title serves as a personal metaphor for Sanchez’s experience as an islander, connected to and disconnected from both the mainland and mainstream art currents.

URSULA VON RYDINGSVARD: THE CONTOUR OF FEELING NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS March 22 to July 28

Charter school playground, Harlem, New York; 2007. Photo by Bill Bamberger.

“The Contour of Feeling, organized by Philadelphia’s Fabric Workshop and Museum, is the first solo exhibition in Washington, D.C., for Ursula von Rydingsvard, who was born in Germany in 1942. Her monumental wood sculptures evoke the grandeur and power of nature, simultaneously bearing evidence of the artist’s meticulous process of cutting, shaping and assembling thousands of cedar blocks. Focusing on von Rydingsvard’s artistic development since 2000 and her continued commitment to experimentation, the presentation includes many sculptures not previously exhibited in the United States. Made from wood or other organic materials, such as leather, silk and hair, these works present a window into the emotional fragility and imposing scale that define her art.

“Zakopane,” 1987. Ursula von Rydingsvard. Photo by Carlos Avendaño. Courtesy NMWA.

HOOPS NATIONAL BUILDING MUSEUM March 9 to Jan. 5 “Hoops” presents large-format images of outdoor basketball courts and hoops, public and private, that have captured the attention of photographer Bill Bamberger. Devoid of people, the images are nonetheless remarkable portraits of neighborhoods and communities. Bamberger has a keen eye for elevating the everyday, often in overlooked, forgotten or neglected places. The photographs on view were taken across the U.S. and in more than half a dozen countries, from the deserts of Arizona and Mexico to the hills of Appalachia, from the streets of the Northeast to the playgrounds of South Africa. Collectively, the images of hoops and courts — tacked to the side of a barn, subject to saltwater breezes, surrounded by brick walls and chain-link fencing — celebrate the sport and reveal its enduring global appeal.

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Theater, March 15 to 24.

No upcoming D.C. theater event is probably of players — Jaqueline Correa, Eric Hissom, In Series’s “La Paloma at the Wall” more of interest to local theatergoers than the Joshua Robinson and Phyllis Kay — play relocates a Spanish zarzuela, “La Verbena Shakespeare Theatre Company’s landmark not only Adams, but Lincoln, Henry Clay, de la Paloma,” to Friendship Park, where production of “The Oresteia” by Aeschylus, Frederick Douglass, Andrew Jackson, John cultures meet on the Tijuana side of the border the only surviving trilogy from the ancient Calhoun, George Washington and Abigail between Mexico and the U.S. Gala Hispanic Greeks, a trio of plays — “Agamemnon,” Adams. Arena Stage, through April 14.

Theatre, March 23 to 31.

“The Libation Bearers” and “The Eumenides” Two theaters, currently closed for In “Queen of Basel,” playwright Hilary — involving, as is often the case, murder and renovations, are presenting shows in Bettis takes on Strindberg by way of South revenge, a chain of awful and bloody choices temporary locations. “Oslo” by J. T. Rogers, Beach, Florida. Studio Theatre, through April 7. echoing down the centuries. directed by Round House Theatre Artistic “The Peculiar Patriot,” written and “The Oresteia” is an extreme, grand Director Ryan Rilette, concerns the events performed by Liza Jessie Peterson, was example of what theater aspires to, and has surrounding the 1993 achievement of Middle inspired by her decades-long work with always done, from the beginning to this day. East peace accords. Lansburgh Theatre, April prison populations. Woolly Mammoth Theatre And this production marks the last — number 24 to May 19. “The Jewish Queen Lear,” Company, April 1 to 20.

65 — to be directed by Michael Kahn in his a world-premiere English translation of a “Junk,” by Pulitzer Prize-winning tenure as the company’s artistic director, a classic of Yiddish theater, will be presented playwright Ayad Akhtar, zeroes in on the position he took on in 1986.

by Theater J on the Georgetown University world of high-flying, junk-bond masters of A world premiere of Ellen McLaughlin’s campus. Davis Performing Arts Center, the universe. Arena Stage, April 5 to May 5. adaptation, it is a fitting climax to Kahn’s March 13 to April 7.

In “God of Carnage” by Yasmina Reza, career. A man of many achievements, here Richard Wright’s classic novel “Native two sets of liberal parents have their principles and elsewhere, he knows his way around a Son” gets a powerful, right-now adaptation challenged. Keegan Theatre, May 4 to 25. trilogy, having directed condensed versions

by Chicago’s Nambi E. Kelley in a Mosaic Wrapping up the season at the Folger of “The Oedipus Plays” and “Henry VI” for Theater Company production. Atlas Shakespeare Library, Michael Kahn’s original the Shakespeare Theatre Company. Sidney Performing Arts Center, March 27 to April home base in Washington, is the Folger Harman Hall, April 30 to June 2.

8. And variations on the theme of social Theatre production of “Love’s Labor’s Lost,” Do you miss John Quincy Adams, especially justice in America are heard and felt in a rom-com by the Bard about a king and his today? Try out “JQA,” an audacious look at “Spunk,” a musical fable based on three short merry traveling companions renouncing the the son of one of our Founding Fathers, who stories by Zora Neale Hurston, adapted by company of women in favor of scholarly won the presidency, returned to Washington George C. Wolfe of “Jelly’s Last Jam” fame. pursuits, just like at today’s colleges (as as a congressman and proved to be a stout, Signature Theatre, April 30 to June 23. if). Folger Theatre, April 30 to June 9. eloquent defender of democracy during the “The Watsons Go to Birmingham OPERA rise of Andrew Jackson. “JQA” is by Aaron —1963,” based on Christopher Paul Curtis’s Posner, one of Washington and the country’s book, will be presented in a concert reading Washington National Opera is serving most gifted theater persons, both as author

by Christina Ham, seen through the eyes of a up three main courses. Tchaikovsky’s and director, who presents us with a many- young boy in Alabama during the time of the “Eugene Onegin,” based on Pushkin’s novella faceted man. The spirited and eclectic cast church bombing. Kennedy Center Eisenhower of passion refused and passion revived, is directed by Peter McClintock in a production originally created for the Metropolitan Opera. WNO’s first production of “Eugene Onegin” in 30 years, it stars Anna Nechaeva as Tatiana and Igor Golovatenko as Onegin, with Robert Trevino conducting. Kennedy Center Opera House, March 9 to 29.

Next up is Gounod’s “Faust,” based on Goethe’s version of the classic tale, directed

by Garnett Bruce and conducted by KeriLynn Wilson, with Erin Wall as Marguerite, Marcelo Puente as Faust and Raymond Aceto as Méphistophélès. Kennedy Center Thursday, April 11, 2019 Opera House, March 16 to 30.

Finally, Puccini’s “Tosca” features a 8 to 9:30 a.m. villain named Scarpia (Alan Held), a painter 1310 Kitchen and Bar by Jenn Crovato named Cavaradossi (Riccardo Massi and Robert Watson) and the singer of the title 1310 Wisconsin Ave. NW (Keri Alkema and Latonia Moore), all mixing it up in grand, bel canto style. The

production is directed by Ethan McSweeney and conducted by Speranza Scappucci.

Kennedy Center Opera House, May 11 to 25.

Led by Artistic Director and Conductor Antony Walker, Washington Concert Opera will present the last of Rossini’s Neapolitan operas, “Zelmira,” with a heroine battling to save her father’s kingdom. Top tenor Lawrence Brownlee and Spanish mezzo-soprano Silvia Tro Santafé lead the cast. Lisner Auditorium, April 5.

Later in April, Opera Lafayette will present its fully staged co-production with Heartbeat Opera of Alessandro Stradella’s 1681 work “La Susanna.” Directed by Ethan Heard, the production gives the story, from the Book of Daniel, a 2019 verve. Kennedy Center Terrace Theater, April 21 and 22.

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Cultural Leadership Breakfast Kathryn Keane Director, National Geographic Museum

Kathryn Keane’s talk will focus on the recently opened blockbuster show “Queens of Egypt,” which covers 15 centuries, from the reign of the first queen of the New Kingdom through that of the final pharaoh of the Ptolemaic dynasty, Cleopatra.

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Led by new Music Director Steven Fox, the Cathedral Choral Society has two spring programs: Rachmaninoff’s “Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom” and a program called “Grant Us Peace” featuring Poulenc’s “Gloria” and Vaughan Williams’s “Dona Nobis Pacem.”

Washington National Cathedral, March 17 and May 19.

The Choral Arts Society Chamber Singers and Youth Choir will participate in “Into the Light,” a music-and-projections event in Dupont Underground in April. Then, in May, the full ensemble will perform Fauré’s “Requiem,” along with psalm settings by Florent Schmitt and Lili Boulanger, at the Kennedy Center. Dupont Underground, April 5 and 6; Kennedy Center Concert Hall, May 19.

The City Choir of Washington, under Artistic Director Robert Shafer, will conclude its 12th season with “Baroque and Beyond,” a program featuring Mozart’s “Requiem” and works by Gabrieli, Schütz and Haydn.

National Presbyterian Church, May 19.

Continuing what is now an annual tradition, The Washington Ballet will present world premieres by choreographers Dana Genshaft, Trey McIntyre and Ethan Stiefel. Sidney Harman Hall, April 3 to 7.

April is a truly big month for ballet in Washington, with the annual visit of New York City Ballet, offering two programs that combine new works with pieces by Balanchine and Robbins; and, the following week, performances of “Le Corsaire” by Mariinsky Ballet. Kennedy Center Opera House, April 2 to 7, April 9 to 14.

The themes of marginalization come to the forefront with the return — the first time since 2011 — of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company. In “The Analogy Trilogy,” choreographers Jones and Janet Wong explore migration, family, identity and other themes in three separate pieces. Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater, March 28, 29 and 30.

The Dana Tai Soon Burgess Dance Company will give a free performance of “Tracings,” a work by the company’s founder JAZZ portraying the Korean plantation experience in Hawaii, in the National Portrait Gallery’s “Two Wings: The Music of Black Kogod Courtyard. National Portrait Gallery, America in Migration,” is a new concert May 4. experience from Jason and Alicia Hall A week later, CityDance will hold its Moran that explores the Great Migration of DREAM Gala, featuring performances by African Americans, who brought with them professional classical, contemporary, tap, styles and approaches that would transform American music. Also on hand: Grammy- ballroom and hip hop artists from around the world. Proceeds support CityDance DREAM, winning vocalist Smokie Norful. Kennedy a tuition-free training program that seeks to Center Eisenhower Theater, April 14. level the playing field for dance students A few artists jumping out of the spring living in underserved D.C. neighborhoods. lineup at Blues Alley: guitarist Lee Lincoln Theatre, May 11.

Ritenour (March 28, 29, 30 and 31), pianist Monty Alexander (April 11, 12, 13 and 14), This section of the Spring Arts Preview saxophonist Benny Golson (May 8) and former Supreme Mary Wilson (May 9 and 10). continues online at georgetowner.com.

Charles Hinman, Sails, 1965, Acrylic on shaped canvas, 34 x 36 x 6 1/2 inches, The Kreeger Museum, Washington, DC

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Theater J to Present ‘Jewish Queen Lear’ at GU

BY GARY T IS CHL ER It’s been quite a whirlwind and challenging year for Theater J and its artistic director, Adam Immerwahr.

Billed as the city’s preeminent professional Jewish theater, Theater J is housed in the historic Edlavitch Jewish Community Center on 16th Street NW. But the building’s renovation, now underway, made the use of its theater impossible in 2018-19. So, in a case of turning necessity into opportunity, Immerwahr and Theater J met the challenge by crafting a season of shows presented in a variety of venues around D.C. This series of pop-ups began last fall in the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater with a production of “The Pianist of Willesden Lane,” translation of “The Jewish Queen Lear,” a in which concert pianist Mona Golabek told play that reaches back into the golden age the story of her mother, a concert pianist who of Yiddish theater in the last decades of was brought to England from Austria as a the 19th century in the United States — a child to escape the Nazis. theatrical tradition influenced by Eastern It continued with “Actually” by Anna European styles — and even further back to Ziegler, a topical, in-the-times play about the world of the Bard himself. the issues of sexual consent, gender and It also fits into Immerwahr’s creation of the race in today’s campus politics. “Actually” Yiddish Theater Lab at Theater J in early 2018, was performed in Arena Stage’s Kogod with the goal of reviving and reimagining Cradle. Rounding out the 2018 part of neglected works of historical significance by the season was a production of Lanford bringing them to a modern audience.

Wilson’s “Talley’s Folly,” a classic love story “In the research for this production and about seemingly mismatched people, starring this play, we discovered an immensely rich Erin Weaver and directed by Aaron Posner. It treasure trove of works,” Immerwahr said. was performed at GALA Hispanic Theatre in “This play, ‘The Jewish Queen Lear,’ and its Columbia Heights. author Jacob Gordin were hugely popular in Something of a climax to this progression, their day, when Yiddish theater was the major the season-ending production has Immerwahr form of theater in places like New York, where excited on several levels.

Eastern European Jewish immigrants had From March 13 to April 7, Theater J will coalesced.” He adds: “Gordin was considered present the world premiere of an English the Yiddish Shakespeare.”

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“The Jewish Queen Lear” features a female version of the king’s character, but it nonetheless follows the plot of Shakespeare’s “Lear,” with some soap opera-ish but also Chekovian and Ibsenian elements.

It concerns a wealthy woman named Mirele Efros, widowed, hardworking, successful, widely admired with a large family. At the play’s beginning, she and her extensive household, in the manner of Lear, travel to a small town named Slutsk. Her oldest son Yosele is getting married to Sheyndele, whose parents are up to no good. Soon after the marriage, conflict erupts among the warring factions of family and scheming in-laws. After much tragedy and disaster, the audience is left at the bar mitzvah of Mirele’s grandson.

The production features a cast led by Valerie Leonard, Tonya Beckman, Karl Kippola, Alana D. Sharp, Sue Jin Song and Frank X. In keeping with the “around town” theme, “The Jewish Queen Lear” will be

performed at Georgetown University’s Gonda Theatre in the Davis Performing Arts Center. It was produced in partnership with Georgetown University’s Theater and Performance Studies Program.

“I think the season, the plays and this play were great opportunities for cooperative efforts and working with other theaters,” Immerwahr said.

The play was a huge hit in 1898 and is considered a masterpiece of Yiddish theater. This production is a translation into English by Nahma Sandrow, a highly respected scholar and translator of Yiddish theater, the author of “Vagabond Stars: A World History of Yiddish Theater.”

“These plays — and musicals — were a dominant American cultural art form for decades and have largely been forgotten,” Immerwahr said. “They represent a virtually untapped canon of theatrical repertoire.”

THE JEWISH QUEEN LEAR Presented by Theater J March 13 to April 7 Gonda Theatre David Performing Arts Center Georgetown University 37th and O Streets NW Washington, DC 20057 Tickets are $35. For tickets, visit theaterj.org or call 202-777-3210.

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Annapolis, Eastern Shore Offer Festive Antidotes to Winter

BY M ARY ANN T RE GE R Bored with winter? Fear not. Festive antidotes are happening in Annapolis and on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, all helping to ring in spring.

Lights, cameras and plenty of action will take place at the Annapolis Film Festival, running from March 21 to 24. The seventh annual event will screen more than 70 films — shorts, documentaries and feature films from over 25 countries — in venues throughout town. Attendees can go to Q&As, coffee talks, parties and panels and socialize with local and international artists and filmmakers. This year’s theme, “Truth in Storytelling,” honors storytellers and journalists in pursuit of the truth with a stellar slate of films.

The opening-night film, “The Public,” written and directed by Emilio Estevez, has a cast of stars topped by Christian Slater and Alec Baldwin. Famous actors headline movies throughout all four days, including Kristin Scott Thomas in “In Your Hands” and Kyra Sedgwick in “Villains.”

For tickets, visit annapolisfilmfestival.com.

Everything’s coming up daffodils at the second annual St. Michaels Daffodil Festival, on Saturday, March 30, from 10 a.m. to noon. Grab a map for a self-guided tour of tens of thousands of daffodils throughout the historic Eastern Shore town or purchase potted daffodils at the Daffodil Marketplace to bring a touch of springtime home. The event also features live music, garden tours and fun contests such as a

Daffy Dog Costume Contest and a Best Daffodil Hat Contest. Why not get in the spirit by dressing up Fido or creating your best bonnet and heading over the bridge?

For details, visit stmichaelsinbloom.org.

Chesapeake Film After Hours in Easton on the Eastern Shore welcomes film lovers to “Discriminating Tastes” at Piazza Italian Market on April 2 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

At the event, you can nibble hors d’oeuvres, sip wine and mingle with Chesapeake Film Festival Artistic Director Cid Collins Walker.

Walker will be talking about her experience at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and how it relates to the growth of Easton’s boutique film festival. It will be a delicious taste of what’s to come at the festival, to be held Oct. 3 to 6. More information is available at chesapeakefilmfestival.com.

Bring out your inner author at the Annapolis Book Festival, on Saturday, April 6, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the 15-acre campus of Key School. Nationallyrenowned authors will discuss their books and the craft of writing at one of the region’s premiere private schools. Children’s activities, live music, refreshments and used book sales make it a family-friendly day.

Admission is free. Visit keyschool.org to learn more.

More than 70 artisans from the Delmarva area and beyond will exhibit and sell coastal art and sea glass at the annual Sea Glass and Coastal Arts Festival in St. Michaels, taking place on April 6 and 7 at the Chesapeake

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Bay Maritime Museum’s scenic 18-acre waterfront campus. Other festival offerings: live music, libations, educational lectures about sea glass and its history and Miles River cruises aboard the museum’s 1920sera Winnie Estelle. Ticket information is available at cmbb.org.

An annual rite of spring, the 37th annual Annapolis Cup Croquet Match brings together two vastly different schools — St. John’s College and the U.S. Naval Academy — for a croquet match like no other on Saturday, April 27, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. (rain or shine). Put your glad rags on, pack a picnic lunch and people-watch on the college’s front lawn. Outrageous outfits will abound, as will old-fashioned picnics, swing dancing and (of course) the croquet competition. Details can be found at sjc. edu/croquet.

Gardeners take note: You can snag a plant of history for your very own garden at the

William Paca Garden Plant Sale on May 11 and 12 in Annapolis (enter at 1 Martin St.).

Over 8,000 perennials, annuals, trees, vines and vegetable starts — including heirloom tomatoes, Thomas Jefferson’s favorite snail vine and the newly developed coneflower, “Butterfly Kisses” — will be offered for purchase, with expert staffers on hand to answer gardening questions. Admission is free. For details, visit annapolis.org.

Snap up your favorite dockside seat in Annapolis — often called America’s Sailing Capital — every Wednesday from May 1 to Aug. 28. Well over 100 crews will compete in midweek races that involve sailing around several marks in the Chesapeake Bay before heading back to Spa Creek for the grand finale, when colorful, picture-perfect spinnakers are raised in front of the Annapolis Yacht Club. First gun is approximately 6:10 p.m. at Annapolis Harbor. To find out more, visit annapolisyc.com.

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hile some cocktail aficionados may say you can never have too much of a good thing, other folks may wake up the next morning feeling like they’ve been shot in the head.

So goes the lore of the French 75 cocktail, which got its moniker during World War I. Because this potent potable packed a powerful punch, it was named after the Canon de 75 modèle 1897, the French 75mm field gun.

Today, civilians can easily buy AR-15 rifles in the U.S. that can shoot up to 700 rounds per minute. In its time, however, the 75mm field gun — capable of firing 15 rounds per minute — was a formidable weapon, credited with playing an important role in the Allied victory. The French 75 cocktail is said to have had such a kick that it felt like being shot by one of these guns.

The effervescent tipple is forged from gin, Champagne, lemon and sugar. One story goes that eager Allied soldiers wanted to mix a gin highball with club soda, but, finding none available, they substituted Champagne. This anecdote would make the French 75 a variation of the Tom Collins (gin, soda, lemon and sugar).

An older tale associates this drink with Charles Dickens, who was said to have served guests “gin and Champagne cups” when he entertained during his stay at Boston’s Parker House hotel in 1885.

However, the book “Harry’s ABC of Mixing Cocktails” discredits both of these stories. This book, published in 1922, contains a recipe for a French 75 made from Calvados, gin, absinthe and grenadine.

Recipes similar to the current one appeared in a 1927 cocktail book called

“Here’s How!” and in “The Savoy Cocktail Book,” published in 1930.

The drink’s popularity increased when it appeared on the silver screen in the classic “Casablanca” (1942) and the John Wayne films “A Man Betrayed” (1941) and “Jet Pilot” (1957).

If you’d like to partake of a French 75, you have several choices in D.C.’s sophisticated bar scene. At Bourbon Steak in the Four Seasons Hotel, you’ll find it on their “classics” menu under gin. With its extensive Champagne selection, Le Diplomate on 14th Street NW is an excellent spot for this cultured cocktail.

If you’re more of a gin fan, then try Wisdom on Pennsylvania Avenue SE, which boasts the largest selection of gin in the region. Finally, if you’re looking for a cocktail from “Casablanca,” you don’t have to wander to “all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world.” Just pop into the Gin Joint, located under New Heights Restaurant in Woodley Park.

With only four ingredients, it’s easy mix up a French 75 at home. Its sparkling personality makes it perfect for a brunch party and the combination of gin, lemon and bubbles make it breezy poolside sipper.

The flavor profile will shift slightly depending on your gin of preference, whether citrusy, herbal or juniper-forward.

One word of advice: since the largest portion of the drink consists of sparkling wine, choose something you wouldn’t mind drinking on its own. And beware of your limits — unless you want to wake up in triage, too much of a good thing is not always good!

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Death Rarely Takes a Holiday: ‘The Friend’ A WRITER SORTS OUT HER LOVER’S SUICIDE IN SIGRID NUNEZ’S INTIMATE, INCANDESCENT NOVEL. R EVIEWE D BY KIT T Y K E LLE Y If “The Friend” by Sigrid Nunez, a 2018 National Book Award winner, slipped under your reading radar, run — don’t walk — and grab this 224-page treasure, which you’ll gobble in joyous gulps.

Your reward will be an elegiac read about love and life and death and grief. The sparse prose sparkles and draws you in, making you feel as if you’re reading intimate revelations from the diary of a woman who’s been slammed with horrific news: Her beloved friend, mentor and one-time lover has committed suicide.

The deceased has left behind three wives, many former lovers, no children and one huge dog: a Harlequin Great Dane named Apollo — the only named character in the book. Wife Three foists Apollo off on the narrator, who, against her better judgment and the “No Pets”

rule of her New York City apartment, takes the 180-pound hound, but vows the custody is temporary.

As a writer, the narrator uses her journal to try to understand the awful why of suicide, and the reason her friend, who was not suffering from a terminal disease, chose to end his life. She seeks answers from Wife One, Wife Two and Wife Three, but, getting none, she begins to read about suicide.

She learns that those who drown themselves for love in the Seine tried to scramble out of the water, but those who drown because of financial ruin sank like stones. She is taken aback when she learns that writing in the first person, as she is doing in her journal, is a known sign of suicide risk. Another predictor is knowing a suicide victim.

Desperate to shake off the tentacles of grief, she turns to a therapist and explores her relationship with the deceased. We never know the dead man’s name, but we learn that he was a handsome professor with hazel eyes who could not bear to be alone. He spoke with a BBC accent and regarded his classroom as his sexual playpen.

In her journal, the narrator quotes W. H. Auden, who said he did not like men who leave behind them a trail of weeping women.

She then addresses the dead man: “Auden would have hated you.” She chides him for being “restless, priapic,” and for allowing his sexual romps to threaten his career, his livelihood and his marriages.

She speculates that his mirror might have presented the ugly truth he could not accept, and the blow to his vanity proved fatal. Seeing that he had aged beyond his ability to seduce, he lost his will to live. “A power has been taken away, it can never be given back again,” she writes.

Then she pauses to wonder “why we call a womanizer a wolf. Given that the wolf is

Author Sigrid Nunez by Marion Ettlinger.

back. She raps students from top schools who cannot write a sentence, and thumps those who refuse to read a writer who has a bad habit or a tiny eccentricity: “I once had an entire class agree that it didn’t matter how great a writer Nabokov was, a man like that — a snob and a pervert, as they saw him, shouldn’t be on anyone’s reading list.”

Such provocative observations will make the book intoxicating for some, while others may find too much exclamation about writers and writing and writing seminars, but that is the life shared by the narrator and the deceased — their love of literature and the books that enriched their lives.

I was enthralled by Nunez’s many literary references and the way she folds in Isak Dinesen and Toni Morrison on the subject of grief and, a few sentences later, glides into Henry James and Philip Roth on the agony of writing.

In between, she summons insight from Milan Kundera and his interpretation of Genesis. She traverses from Tolstoy to Lady Gaga with style and grace, and fittingly quotes Flannery O’Connor, who said: “Only those with a gift should be writing for public consumption.”

Sigrid Nunez has such a gift.

known for being a loyal, monogamous mate and devoted parent.” She writes that beyond his self-conceit, the deceased was out of step with his students, especially the young women he called “dear,” who did not revere literature as he did, and certainly did not revere him.

She posits that perhaps his suicide saved him from being shamed by the #MeToo movement, and she wonders if he decided it was better to exit life by his own hand than continue living in a world that no longer valued him or his work.

Georgetown resident There is no intricate plot that holds this Kitty Kelley has written lovely book together other than the bond several number- one that develops between a dog and his owner, New York Times bestwhich eventually leads both to comfort and sellers, including “The consolation over their shared loss. Their Fa m i l y: T h e R e a l immutable connection is something all animal Story Behind the Bush lovers will understand.

Dynast y.” Her most A writer in residence at Boston University recent books include who has taught writing at Princeton, “Capturing Camelot: Stanley Tretick’s Iconic Amherst, Smith and Columbia, Nunez Images of the Kennedys” and “Let Freedom allows her narrator to hold forth on writers Ring: Stanley Tretick’s Iconic Images of the and writing, and her narrator does not hold March on Washington.”

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MARCH 9 SIBLEY HOSPITAL HOPE & PROGRESS GALA Sibley Memorial Hospital Foundation hosts the Hope & Progress Gala and the Sibley

This festive Sunday afternoon tea is a fun-filled, interactive event for the entire family. All proceeds will benefit THEARC (Town Hall Education Arts Recreation Campus), located east of the Anacostia River. Ritz-Carlton. Email Beth Sadler at bsadler@thearcdc.org.

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Soirée to initiate new programs, acquire cutting-edge medical technology and enhance the patient experience. Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium. Contact Kristen Pruski at 202-660-6814 or kpruski@jhmi.edu.

LATINO STUDENT FUND GALA Ambassador of El Salvador Claudia Ivette Canjura de Centeno is the honorary patron of this year’s 25th anniversary gala. Cocktails, Latin music and a silent auction will be followed by dinner and a live auction. The fund provides educational opportunities for underserved students of Hispanic descent to attain professional leadership. Washington National Cathedral. Visit latinostudentfund.org.

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On Feb. 8, Rachel Firschein, Glenda Harvey, Sara Lange and Kim Pyle co-chaired the Sleeping Beauty Soirée hosted by the Women’s Committee of the Washington Ballet at the Homer Building in downtown D.C. Guests were transported to medieval times as they walked through a fanciful forest to join a royal court and be greeted by Artistic Director Julie Kent. VIP guests enjoyed theme cocktails on the balcony before descending for a medieval-inspired buffet feast and entertainment by the Washington Revels and Washington Ballet dancers. They later took to the dance floor to the music of DJ Alkimist. “The Sleeping Beauty” will be performed at the Kennedy Center from Feb. 27 to March 3.

The Teach for America D.C. Region Gala at the Ritz Carlton Feb. 27 gathered people committed to the ideal that one can change the world one classroom at a time. A two-year commitment to teach is required of volunteers, but the outcomes are tenfold. The evening offered sentiments of accolades for mentors and students alike — and keynoter Elisa Villanueva Beard, CEO, Teach for America.

Gala chair Jack Davies, sporting his Washington Capitals Stanley Cup Championship ring, and Randi Levine. Photo by Robert Devaney.

Holy Trinity Pastor, Rev. Kevin Gillespie, S.J., with Listi Sobba and Brian Clancy.

Champagne hostess Shane Johnson with former school principal Charlie Hennessy.

Stories of the Heart & Seth

BY CH RIST INE WA RNK E The American Heart Association Gala, held Feb 23 at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, featured comedian Seth Meyers. “The Late Night” host served up laugh after laugh as he recounted the dramatic birth of his son in his NYC apartment building lobby. While Meyers’s stories charmed the packed ballroom, Julie Rueger, one of baby girl triplets, stole the show with her miraculous survival of heart surgery.

Christie-Anne Weiss and Jeffrey Weiss. Photo by Robert Devaney.

Fireworks for Chamber Dance

BY R OBERT D EVAN EY The Anchors Away Bash at the Capital Yacht Club on the Wharf benefited the Chamber Dance Project on March 2 and its new season in June at Harman Hall. From the boats, The Pearl and Almost Heaven, partygoers, yachters and landlubbers were treated to a Mardi Gras fireworks display and then enjoyed the club get-together — saluted by Diane Coburn Bruning, founder and artistic director of Chamber Dance Project, who was wearing her father’s WWII navy officer’s jacket.

Aboard the Almost Heaven, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) and Diane Coburn Bruning of Chamber Dance Project. Photo by Patrick G. Ryan.

Seth Meyers with gala co-chairs Karen and Dale White. Photo by Michael Laing.

And the Winner Is … Tracy’s Kids

BY STEPH AN IE GR EEN

Soula Antoniou, Executive Director of the Greater Washington Region American Heart Association, Roquell Wyche, M.D., cardiologist, MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Greater Washington Region American Heart Association Board President. Photo by Michael Laing.

The Oscars-themed “And the Winner Is” benefited Tracy’s Kids, a charity providing art therapists to children with terminal illnesses and their families. One of the red carpet hosts was Karen Pence, painter and wife of Vice President Mike Pence. At the Feb. 26 event at Lucky Strikes in Chinatown, Pence was introduced by her friend Marcelle Leahy, wife of Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), who has served on the board of Tracy’s Kids since its inception in 1991 at Georgetown University Hospital’s Lombardi Center by Tracy Councill, the charity’s namesake. After the reception, which also included Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), guests were treated to screenings of Academy Award nominated films at Regal Cinemas Gallery Place.

Karen Pence and Marcelle Leahy at Tracy’s Kids benefit in Chinatown. Official White House Photo by Amy Rossetti.

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