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NEWS

On New Decks, Streateries to Multiply in Georgetown

BY PEG GY SA NDS Beginning in mid-April, about 4,000 lineal feet of streatery decks will be constructed and decked out for some 28 restaurants, cafés and bakeries along M Street and Wisconsin Avenue in Georgetown. In addition, “There are another nine restaurants that have streateries on other streets,” Jamie Scott, the Georgetown Business Improvement District’s director of planning and economic development, told The Georgetowner on April 9.

Prototype decks have been tested at three sites — Clyde’s (3236 M St. NW), Ladurée and Thunder Burger (3060 M St. NW) and L’Annexe (2917 M St. NW) — for several months. The more than 30 streateries expected to be operational in the neighborhood’s commercial areas, ravaged by the pandemic shutdown, have been called “the possible savior of Georgetown.”

The decking will extend Georgetown’s narrow sidewalks from an average of

9.5 feet to an average of 15 feet, using removable 4-by-6.5-foot panels, installed on M Street between 29th and 34th Streets and on Wisconsin Avenue between Q Street and the C&O Canal.

According to the BID, the deck extensions are designed to be accessible for those using wheelchairs or pushing strollers, to allow stormwater to flow under the deck to the curb and to keep storm drains and fire hydrants clear. The panels will be built with composite decking on top of a wood frame.

A combination of black metal barriers and concrete barriers will protect the sidewalk extensions to keep diners and pedestrians safe.

The pilot program is expected to be fully operational from May through the end of the year. During that time, the BID and other agencies will be monitoring and evaluating the concept, developed with the involvement of almost a dozen city agencies and community organizations.

Streateries attract visitors and walking traffic. Courtesy of GBID. Several daytime and evening virtual town meetings were held in 2020 and 2021 seeking community input. The top concern expressed was parking availability, since the project would remove almost 200 street parking places in front of the eateries where the decks would be placed.

“Negotiations with nearby Georgetown parking garage and lot owners are taking place to provide streatery customers who drive private cars to Georgetown with discounted parking,” Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner Gwen Lohse has reported at ANC 2E meetings.

“The project can be modified as necessary,” said Scott. “If at the end of the year it is deemed successful and the community wants to keep the extensions in place beyond 2021, the BID will go through another permitting process to keep them up longer.

“The city has not yet permitted retailers to use the deck to display merchandise,” Scott told The Georgetowner. “We’re hopeful that they eventually will.”

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TOWN TOPICS

D.C. to Relax COVID Restrictions

BY RO BE RT DEVA NEY The District government issued new guidance on social restrictions connected with the yearlong pandemic. The changes are expected to go into effect on May 1.

Meanwhile, DC Health now offers vaccination appointments to all those aged 16 and older. The vaccine clinic at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center has been expanded through a partnership with Safeway and a high-capacity vaccination site opened at Arena Stage. The Arena Stage site will be operated in partnership with DC Health and MedStar Health. Appointments will be made through vaccinate.dc.gov and the District’s call center.

The following activities will reopen or dial up beginning on May 1, according to Mayor Muriel Bowser and DC Health.

RECREATION, LIBRARIES, MUSEUMS AND RETAIL

• Recreation centers will be able to operate indoors at 50-percent capacity.

• Libraries will be able to operate at 50-percent capacity.

• Museums, galleries and exhibits will be able to operate indoors and outdoors at 50-percent capacity.

• Nonessential retail, indoors and outdoors, will be able to operate at 50-percent capacity.

ENTERTAINMENT

• Seated live entertainment (i.e., theater) will be allowed indoors and outdoors at 25-percent capacity (up to 500 people).

• Movie theaters will be able to operate at 25-percent capacity.

• Live music will be allowed near outdoor restaurant seating.

CEREMONIES AND MEETINGS

• Weddings, special events, etc., will be allowed indoors and outdoors at 25-percent capacity (with a waiver for attendance greater than 250).

• School graduations and awards ceremonies will be allowed indoors and outdoors with capacity limits. Further guidance will be released soon.

• Regional business meetings and seated conventions will be allowed indoors and outdoors at 25-percent capacity (with a waiver for attendance greater than 250).

FITNESS AND POOLS

• Outdoor races will be allowed at 50-percent capacity.

• Indoor and outdoor public pools will be allowed to open at 50-percent capacity.

• Outdoor splash pads will be allowed to open at full capacity.

Pinto Seeks $14 Million for Gondola

BY C H R ISTOPH ER JON ES In a March 25 letter to D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser listing Brooke Pinto’s budget priorities for fiscal year 2022, the Ward 2 Council member called for $14 million in funding to proceed with the GeorgetownRosslyn gondola project.

Citing the need to address the city’s climate goals by electrifying the transportation grid, Pinto requested $12 million to purchase the site for Georgetown’s proposed gondola terminal — to be located at 3601 M St. NW, formerly an Exxon station — and $2 million to complete an environmental impact study for the project.

The imaginative “green transportation” concept envisions linking Georgetowners more efficiently to the Metrorail system by ferrying as many as 6,500 passengers a day over the Potomac River. The electric tramway would run between 36th Street in Georgetown and the Rosslyn Metro station, on the Virginia side of Key Bridge.

According to gondola boosters, passengers would delight in the four-minute ride over the scenic waterway, with the aerial shortcut reducing traffic congestion, greenhouse gas emissions and commuter times.

“The District has the opportunity to purchase the gas station across from the Francis Scott Key Bridge, one of the largest arteries connecting D.C. to Virginia,” reads Pinto’s letter. “By purchasing this property, the District could establish the city’s first EV [electric vehicle] charging station for ride share and other commercial vehicles, making a significant step towards electrifying D.C.’s transit. In addition, this would provide the space needed to establish the Gondola across the Potomac River if the completed EIS [environmental impact statement] demonstrates that it is the most cost effective, green transportation option for commuters.”

Though many consider the plan a pipe dream, it has quietly advanced from the planning phase to the implementation phase.

The American Rescue Act, recently passed

by Congress, allotted the District $2.3 billion for pandemic recovery and economic development, with room for transportation improvements. Also, Congress may soon pass a major infrastructure bill proposed by the Biden-Harris administration.

The estimated cost for the project is between $90 and $110 million for construction, with annual operating costs of $3.25 million.

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‘Ms. Dorothy’ of Q St. Dies at 104 Dorothy Logerfo, a longtime resident of the 3400 block of Q Street NW, died peacefully of natural causes on March 26.

She was 104 years old.

A member of the “greatest generation,” she lived through two pandemics, the Great Depression and World Wars I and II. A 1938 graduate of Hunter College in New York, she married Joseph Logerfo in 1939 and had two children. For many years, she taught second grade at Wheeler Avenue Elementary School in Valley Stream, New York. She remained in touch with some of her students and colleagues until the end of her life.

In 1991, when “Ms. Dorothy” moved to Georgetown to be near her family, she began her “second act.” She became an active member of the community and a good neighbor, keeping a watchful eye on her block. She said she was too old to learn to use the internet, but was an impresario of

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the 800-number and D.C.’s 311 complaint system, doggedly pursuing her concerns until they were addressed.

For many years, she volunteered at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital and at the Christ Child Opportunity Shop, where, on at least one occasion, she pursued a would-be shoplifter down the block to recover the goods. And although she herself was a senior, she helped Virginia Allen manage the Georgetown Senior Center. She loved living in Georgetown, and helped make Georgetown a better place.

Survivors include her daughters, Grace Bateman and Nancy Hanze, eight grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

Funeral services and burial will be private. Donations in her memory may be made to the Holy Trinity School Scholarship Fund or to the Christ Child Society of Washington, D.C.

Artist Robert Novel.

Robert Novel: An Appreciation

BY R AN D Y R OFFM AN Owner and operator of well-known hair and beauty salons in Georgetown Robert Novel died on the last day of March. He had been recuperating at home after a recent hospitalization. He had been troubled by several health issues since his retirement in 2018.

Robert was recognized as the originator and owner of the first unisex hair salon in Georgetown, called Hair Incorporated. It opened in 1969. Its popularity during that time was unsurpassed. There were lineups awaiting their turn at this unique and original salon that included local socialites and celebrities as well as government and ambassadorial clients. His following popular salon in Georgetown was Bruno Dessange on upper Wisconsin Avenue. His next popular business in Georgetown was O Salon on lower Wisconsin Avenue which moved to O Street, west of Wisconsin Avenue, and is still in business today.

Robert was a mentor to many hair stylists over his years in the beauty business, and there are many of them who owe their success to his patient guidance and partnership.

His kindness and patience were among his guiding traits and will not be forgotten by those who were among his clients or friends.

Upon his retirement, Robert began using his lifelong interest in art, painting, and interior design as he began painting fulltime. He was prolific as a painter and became well known for his abstract, geometric style in solid color and black and white canvases. His home studio was a marvel of organization and creativity where he produced his array of captivating creations. Included in many public and private collections, his admired work has been shown in art galleries and seen in many collectors’ homes, businesses, and public spaces. His work was exceedingly popular with interior designers and fellow artists, many of whom were his personal friends.

Robert’s interest in the arts began in his

early youth and was nourished over the years by his friendships and associations with artists and gallerists, both here and in Paris, where he often spent time exploring and engaging in many art events and museums with his wife Madge. They lived a virtual “Moveable Feast” of art and design on their travels. He was well versed in painting and always loved talking about art and artists.

Madge is currently involved with her vintage jewelry business and has a showcase in the shop, Reddz Trading, on Wisconsin Avenue.

Robert was married for 39 years to his best friend and partner, Madge, whom he had met in Monte Carlo. They had a son, Maximillian, 31, who now lives in New Jersey with his wife and partner in their criminal defense law firm in Jersey City.

Robert was originally from Brooklyn, New York, and Madge, from New Jersey. There will be a memorial gathering as soon as it will be possible to gather in groups once again. Friends will be notified. Meanwhile, visit, Robertnovelart.com.

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IN: MINI ME BOUTIQUE

When you have a three-year-old daughter and have worked at places ranging from Benetton to Ella-Rue, what’s a young mother to do? Why, open a charming shop called Mini Me and carry mother-anddaughter outfits along with cool European threads, surprising novelties and vintage toys, of course. Owner Liana Vassila took her pandemic time to put together her little boutique at 3236 P St. NW, located in part of a space that once housed the legendary Savile Book Shop. It’s a breath of fresh air amid rote retail; put it on your shopping list.

IN: IN: DONAHUE LOUNGE

The former Smith Point space at 1338 Wisconsin Ave. NW has been transformed into a nightlife lounge for grown-ups.

The old Bo Blair place, known for its midnight action, even attracted two first daughters in its day. Today, the restaurant, named Donahue for a longtime Georgetown family and owners of commercial property, shouts glamour, champagne, fancy cocktails and culinary sophistication with Luca Giovannini and Cesar Varela, both formerly with Fabio Trabocchi Restaurants, and restaurateur Noe Landini. It will open its chic bar in the back when pandemic restrictions loosen. Meanwhile, enjoy drinks and food on the rooftop deck.

Talk about rediscovering your flow. Down Dog Yoga — which practices heated vinyasa power yoga — reopened its yoga studio at 34th and Prospect Streets on April 2, after being closed for a year due to the pandemic.

Patty Ivey, with husband Scott, opened Down Dog Yoga in 2003 at 1046 Potomac St. NW, next to the C&O Canal. Its Georgetown spot moved to the retail building — 1229 34th St. NW — that once housed Govinda Gallery and Cabellos Hair Salon in 2016.

Its other location is in Herndon, Virginia.

Down Dog Yoga CEO Daniel Brindley had this to say, in part, about reopening: “We look forward to getting back to our roots of creating a vibrant and vital yoga offering for all Georgetown residents and the city at large. And, stay tuned, as Patty will soon make her way to D.C. and lead a master class or two at the studios.”

IN: EUROPEAN MARKET ON MACARTHUR

European Market, Kitchen & Café has opened at 4418 MacArthur Boulevard NW in the space which housed Kristina’s Cafe.

Owner Daniel Rossi, who worked at Cafe Milano, is serving homemade Neopolitan pizza to start, with more items added over the next week — like grilled Mediterranean branzino with a baguette. There are wines, along with Italian grocery items. Don’t forget the excellent Illy coffee.

IN: SPICEZ

Spice, spice, baby! If you’re in need of spices, you’ll want to check out Spicez at 1610 Wisconsin Ave. NW, Georgetown’s new one-stop shop for spices, herbs and other Indian and Eastern food items. You’ll find your traditional black pepper and spiced chai, plus a section with sweets like a sweet carrot pudding and soft fried dumplings in sugar syrup. To-go Indian and Pakistani meals are also available.

IN: DULY NOTED

A stationery and gift shop opened on March 20 at 1355 Wisconsin Ave. NW. The first 50 customers who showed up for Duly Noted’s socially distanced grand opening event got a goodie bag full of stationery and fun paper goods. Duly Noted will be open every day of the week.

IN: BROW BAR ON M

The microblading clinic and brow bar moved to 2918 M St. NW, a few doors from its original spot around the corner. All services are by appointment only, and all appointments must be booked online no less than 24 hours in advance. Services include microblading of brows, powder brow and shading, permanent eyeliner, microneedleing, medical tattooing and scar camouflage.

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This Is Not Who We Are. Or Is it?

Layer of Annoyance Surfaces at ANC Meeting

We are writing this while the murder trial of Derek Chauvin is underway in Minneapolis. The evidence presented so far is even more terrible than what we saw last May 25, a dark day in an already tumultuous year, marked by an impeachment trial, a fatally mismanaged pandemic and weeks of protests — some peaceful, others not.

Fast-forward 10 brutal months and #BlackLivesMatter has morphed into #StopAsianHate. Yet another ethnic group — Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders — is being subjected to unconscionable acts of racial prejudice. According to Stop AAPI Hate, hate crimes against Asians rose 149 percent between 2019 and 2020.

The organization received almost 3,800 reports of hateful incidents during the pandemic, a number that Stop AAPI Hate believes is likely on low side. (Such crimes are generally underreported, for a variety of reasons.) And most victims, like those killed in Atlanta on March 16, are women.

It would be easy to blame “the former guy” for this repellent turn of events. His repeated use of “Kung Flu” and “China Virus,” not to mention all the other insults he aimed at women, people from communities of color and anyone of any ethnicity who challenged his authority,

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surely influenced susceptible individuals to take action against those they had long distrusted or disliked.

It’s human nature. Tribalism is in our DNA, a relic from more primitive and perilous times. And we all — even the most compassionate and open-minded of us — harbor unconscious, implicit biases that reveal themselves when we feel vulnerable, afraid or overwhelmed. (You can test for your own biases vis-a-vis a host of issues and groups at Project Implicit.)

It’s also American nature. We have lofty goals and mythic tales about our exceptionalism, but racial intolerance is in the nation’s DNA, too. Our country was founded on aggression, built on slavery and flourished through both the exploitation and demeaning of “the other.” Systemic racism has run a parallel course with the Enlightenment principles that gave us the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

We don’t know what emboldens people to act with impunity toward people they don’t even know. That’s a question best left to philosophers, social scientists and clerics.

What we do know is that, if we truly believe we’re better than this, if we truly want America to be a “city on a hill,” we need to accept that we have a long, long way to climb.

Love Your Mother, Earth After four-plus years of denialism and magical thinking, the future of our planet is once again taking center stage in the White House and around the world. Instead of more hot air, we may expect to see some meaningful science-based recommendations for mitigating environmental devastation.

This month’s cover story focuses on Earth Day, April 21. Christopher Jones covers the waterfront of climate change and the existential challenges it poses, from hotter and longer wildfire seasons to more violent, rain-soaked hurricanes, along with rising temperatures, invasive pests and new diseases. The impact all this is having — and will have, especially with continued inaction — on our health and well-being is sobering.

Jones provides some scary stats, showing how Washington, for all its power and prestige, is not immune to the threat.

Speaking hyperlocally, we’ve already experienced flooding downtown and on Georgetown streets, as well as sudden,

intense storm activity (remember the derecho?). And we can expect more heat — and cold — emergencies as temperature extremes become more common. For those with asthma, especially children, or heart disease, this is very bad news. Vulnerable populations, both human and animal, will be hit hardest.

But there is hope. According to former Council member Tommy Wells, who now directs the District’s Department of Energy & Environment, D.C. “believes in science” and is ambitiously pursuing all manner of sustainable solutions to the climate crisis.

Among them: building out solar energy use, boosting alternative modes of transportation (scooters, streetcars, bikes) and expanding the tree canopy.

“Il faut cultiver notre jardin,” Voltaire famously observed, “we must cultivate our garden.” Something to remember — not just on Earth Day but every day.

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The usually very solicitous GeorgetownBurleith advisory neighborhood commissioners, who often thank one other and the various District government officials who address them, showed a subsurface layer of annoyance at the monthly ANC meeting on March 30.

To begin with, presenters from the District Department of Transportation — which had two items on the agenda: the 37th Street bike lane and work on Rose Park’s multi-use trail — were asked repeatedly to keep their presentations short. (The crime report at this meeting lasted almost half an hour; the past two meetings, starting at 6:30 p.m., went on until nearly 10 p.m.) They didn’t.

DDOT was also involved in controversies related to at least two other agenda items: unregistered motorized vehicles on city streets and a possible change to the agency’s approach regarding brick sidewalk maintenance.

The latter elicited an unusually droll memory from ANC Chair Rick Murphy.

He recalled that, in August of 2017, former Commissioners Jim Wilcox and Joe Gibbons (and Gibbons’s dog, Scout) physically blocked DDOT contractors from paving over a portion of Georgetown’s sidewalks at 30th and Dumbarton Streets.

Now, it seems, the unwanted surface may be foisted on Georgetown’s treasured brick sidewalks again, without any warning or notice to the ANC. Commissioner Gwen Lohse’s resolution on the illegal motorized vehicles requested responses not only from DDOT but from the District Department of Motor Vehicles and the Metropolitan Police Department, which she expects immediately.

Even the very favored National Park Service came in for some grumpiness regarding a construction project. The commissioners

welcomed the initial fencing off of the pathway from M to P Streets along the steep east edge of Rose Park, after 10 years of pointing out its dangerous conditions. But the work was planned and begun without the ANC being notified or its input sought.

The biggest complaints of ghosting were saved for the Department of Parks and Recreation, however, whose outreach officer Tommie Jones is well known to all the commissioners — and to most everyone involved in the long-evolving redesign of the Jelleff Recreation Center.

The reconstruction of Jelleff is a top priority of Ward 2 Council representative Brooke Pinto, who supports the idea of doubling or even tripling the original 2021 budgeted allocation of $7 million to make the building ADA compliant, including renovations that would transform Jelleff into more of a community hub. But none of the results of the surveys and town-hall meetings — notably a proposal to demolish the entire building and build a new one with a larger, reconfigured swimming pool — was referenced in the feasibility study that DPR announced had been finalized.

“Using 100s of thousands of tax dollars, DPR has been conducting a ‘feasibility study’ by Perkins Eastman/PE who always said they would include all correspondence from residents,” Commissioner Elizabeth Miller wrote The Georgetowner, clearly angered. “But DPR is refusing to include in their report, a community letter signed by three civic organizations including Georgetown Village and passed by our ANC unanimously.”

“The report is PE’s report,” Jones told The Georgetowner on April 7. “All comments, propositions, letters from community organizations and individuals are all being posted openly on the DPR website.”

What We Have Here Is a Failure to Communicate

BY PEGGY SAN D S The dissatisfaction with government agencies’ transparency and communication efforts expressed at the March 30 Ge orget ow n-Bu rleit h a dv isor y neighborhood commission meeting were still in evidence a week later.

On April 6, during the first town-hall meeting concerning the modernization of Ellington Field on 39th Street, the Department of Parks and Recreation’s community liaison, Tommie Jones — after two hours of presenting on the planning process and fielding numerous questions

— promised, promised, promised that the agency would answer all the questions in writing by April 19.

One couldn’t help wondering, a few days later, if the damper on community input and agency accountability had come from the top. On April 9, Mayor Muriel Bowser abruptly announced that she was canceling the traditional weekly conference calls with District Council members — for good.

She will instead set up sporadic, as yet unscheduled, breakfast meetings with them to exchange views.

THE VILLAGE

Georgetown Main Street Stepping Up Spring Revitalization Efforts

BY C HR ISTOP HER J ON E S With spring setting in — and signs that the pandemic is easing — Georgetown Main Street is stepping up its local business recovery and revitalization efforts.

Founded as a nonprofit in 2017 and funded by the District Department of Small and Local Business Development, Georgetown Main Street’s mission is to boost commercial vibrancy and assist local enterprises along the Wisconsin Avenue corridor, from Whitehaven Parkway to K Street, and the adjacent area.

Affiliated with the national Main Street America program, Georgetown Main Street’s activities include public space improvements, small business retention and recruitment, neighborhood investment, marketing and promotion, community engagement, historic preservation and advocacy. In addition, the organization sponsors events in the corridor.

According to Executive Director Rachel Shank, Georgetown Main Street also provides “one-on-one support for all business needs, including permitting, funding application assistance, marketing and promotion.”

Having recently moved its headquarters to 1000 Potomac St. NW, along the C&O Canal, the organization now shares work spaces with the Georgetown Business

Improvement District.

“GMS is grateful to share office space with the BID,” Shank said. “We work collaboratively on all projects that positively affect Georgetown small businesses. In the future, we look forward to further clarifying how we can best work together to serve the community. I am particularly grateful to be able to walk down the hall and speak with my BID colleagues about any number of issues or opportunities facing businesses.”

At its recent annual meeting, Georgetown Main Street welcomed seven new board members and celebrated a year of expanding programs. In fiscal year 2020, the organization helped businesses acquire over $150,000 in grants, spotlighted 53 small businesses online and provided 77 small businesses with emergency grants. Nearly 70 Small Biz Updates were posted. Other accomplishments: helping to gain permitting for two parklets north of R Street, hosting several webinars to assist businesses during the pandemic and providing 475 hours of technical assistance — including grant writing support, technical support and business planning.

This year, Georgetown Main Street will be enlarging its grants program, funded by the Department of Small and Local Business Development, awarding 20 business grants

of $3,000 for a total of $60,000. Local businesses can apply for necessary interior and exterior improvement projects, business development, technical assistance and equipment purchases.

The purpose of the program, said Shank, “is to help businesses respond to the pandemic and transition into recovery.” As an example, she cited a grant last year that facilitated the purchase and installation of a trash compactor at Martin’s Tavern.

With the goal of driving traffic to Georgetown restaurants impacted by the pandemic, Georgetown Main Street plans to continue to collaborate with the Citizens Association of Georgetown and the BID to promote Takeout Tuesdays. “As one of the hardest hit sectors during the pandemic, our local restaurants need the support of the local community,” Shank said.

After a winter hiatus, the organization will relaunch Georgetown Second Saturdays, during which local businesses offer online, in-store and outdoor promotions. More public art installations will be initiated to attract pedestrians to shop along Wisconsin Avenue. And Georgetown Main Street’s partnership with the Rose Park Market, where, last year, a pop-up featuring local brick-and-mortar businesses was piloted,

will resume. “It was a great success in that it introduced the community to small businesses, provided a safe and comfortable space for shoppers and was completely free for small businesses,” Shank said.

Shank is pleased to see signs of economic renewal in Georgetown. While the pandemic recession shuttered 11 small business storefronts last year, eight new enterprises opened or will open along the corridor between October of 2020 and this September.

Optimistic about Georgetown’s future as it emerges from the pandemic, Shank hopes more volunteers join to help the Wisconsin Avenue corridor thrive. Since Georgetown Main Street is largely a volunteer-driven organization, “we are looking for community members who have time and special skills,” she said. “We are also preparing for brighter days ahead when we can host more community events. I believe the worst of the pandemic is behind us.

“I am incredibly hopeful that, in the next six months, we’ll see a renaissance of Georgetown,” Shank added. “With the Georgetown BID’s sidewalk widening, the introduction of the canal boat on the C&O Canal, and — fingers crossed — herd immunity, Georgetown will emerge as the regional travel destination once again.”

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COMBATING CLIMATE CHANGE: ESSENTIAL, NOT OPTIONAL

BY CH RISTOP HER J ON E S As residents of the nation’s most political town, Washingtonians know that climate change is back on top of the White House agenda. Are they aware, however, of the mounting threats climate change poses to life in the District?

Fortunately, local and regional governments in the D.C. metropolitan area have sharpened their focus on the public health aspects of climate science and are again working with the U.S Environmental Protection Agency to craft policies to address the many challenges of the crisis.

“Americans in every corner of our country are seeing and feeling the effects of climate change: wildfires out west, back-to-back hurricanes in the Gulf Coast, extreme heat and rain in the heartland and historic flooding in the east,” said new EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan in a March 18 press release. “Combating climate change — it’s not optional. It’s essential at EPA. We will move with a sense of urgency because we know what’s at stake.”

The EPA is relaunching its climate change website as part of the Biden-Harris administration’s “commitment to action on climate change and restoring science.” As it had under the Obama administration, the site will once again provide the public with a “range of information, including greenhouse gas emissions, data, climate change impacts, scientific reports and 14 APRIL 14, 2021

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existing climate programs within EPA and across the federal government.”

More than ever before, however, the EPA will now focus on how the climate crisis disproportionately affects the health of vulnerable communities, stating that “Children, the elderly and the poor are among the most vulnerable to climaterelated health effects.”

According to a Climate Change Impacts and Risk Analysis report issued just before Obama left office, “climate change is projected to harm human health in a variety of ways through increases in extreme temperature [and] extreme weather events, decreases in air quality and other factors. Extreme heat events can cause illnesses and death due to heat stroke, cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease and other conditions. Increased groundlevel ozone [stemming from the greenhouse effect] is associated with a variety of health problems, including reduced lung function, increased frequency of asthma attacks and even premature mortality.”

The report also predicted a rise in injuries, illnesses and deaths from tropical storms, wildfires and vector-borne diseases such as Lyme disease and West Nile virus. With the global COVID-19 pandemic, respiratory issues are even more critical as a public health concern today.

Along with scrubbing the EPA’s website

of all references to “climate change” — or any science-based studies supporting the idea of a climate crisis — the Trump administration moved swiftly to extract the U.S. from the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, in which nations pledged to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. On his first day in office this past Jan. 20, however, President Biden moved swiftly to rejoin the agreement.

While many Washingtonians have seen the dramatic effects of climate change in faraway places — melting polar ice caps, scorching temperatures in the southwest, California wildfires, devastating tropical storms and Gulf hurricanes — local residents might be unclear about how the crisis is impacting the immediate area. For that reason, The Georgetowner asked officials overseeing environmental concerns for Washington, D.C., to describe such impacts.

Excerpts from their responses follow.

WARMING, FLOODING AND HEALTH EFFECTS

“The District of Columbia is warming, and flood risks are increasing,” said Terri White, communications branch chief for the EPA’s regional office. “The average temperature at Reagan National Airport has increased from 57.4 [degrees Fahrenheit] during the last half of the 20th century to 59.5 [degrees

Fahrenheit] during the first two decades of the 21st century. Rainfall is increasingly concentrated in heavy rainstorms: in the region, the portion of rain that falls during the heaviest rain storms has increased 20 to 50 percent. At the official tide gauge along the Southwest Waterfront, sea level has risen six or seven inches during the last 50 years.

“The warmer temperatures are increasing the number of unpleasantly hot days in Washington, not only because the air is hotter, but also because the warmer air is more humid. The hot and humid weather is a health risk to those who do not have air conditioning, and it increases electric bills for those who do.

“Washington’s cherry trees are blooming earlier: since 1921, peak bloom dates have shifted approximately five days. Many of the cherry trees are also flooding more frequently. Most of the sidewalks along the Tidal Basin and part of the road to Hains Point in East Potomac Park, for example, are about one foot above the average daily high tide. This water level was only breached about six times per year during the 1950s, but is now exceeded more than 30 times per year. Most of Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens, the northern portion of Joint Base AnacostiaBolling and about half of East Potomac Park are less than two feet above high tide.

“As severe rainstorms become more frequent, the risk of flood damage is

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REASONS TO CARE ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE

We hope this list empowers and inspires you to make some positive changes — not just for you, but for your family, community, city, country, future generations and the world at large.

PREDICTIONS

It’s not your imagination — the weather is more unpredictable. Our climate is changing.

“There’s no Planet B” is the environmental movement’s mantra. It should be everyone’s.

Here are 50 indicators and predictions, some factual, some fanciful, about what we are facing. More frequent, uninsurable “acts of God”? Let’s be honest: they are acts of humankind.

1. Earlier springs and warmer temps extend our growing season, but also attract harmful invasive species of plants and pests from zones further south.

2. Insect-borne diseases, like Zika, move northward, overwhelming a region unprepared for them. As always, vulnerable populations suffer disproportionately.

3. Environmental devastation results in economic and social upheaval, forcing people to leave their homes and seek livelihoods and safety elsewhere (the rest is history).

4. Sunny-day flooding increases, lowering property values and increasing homeowners’ insurance and home maintenance costs. A once-desirable neighborhood becomes less so.

5. Congestion traffic rules go into effect to minimize emissions. Buses transition to hybrid or all-electric.

6. Lyft and Uber add jet-skis and water taxis to their fleets.

increasing in other areas. The Georgetown waterfront, most homes along the north side of Watts Branch — as well as Mayfair on the south side — are in the 100-year floodplain, and several homes and businesses along Oxon Run are also vulnerable to flash flooding.

Almost all the land around Federal Triangle is low-lying and vulnerable to flooding from severe rainstorms or high-water levels in the Potomac River. Aside from property damage, the flooding can also contribute to overflows of the District’s wastewater system.”

Tommy Wells, director of the District’s Department of Energy and the Environment, is also deeply concerned about the negative health effects of climate change on D.C. residents. “The first thing to note is that the climate has already changed,” Wells said.

“We’ve already seen the five warmest years on record. We’ve seen the two wettest years on record in D.C. And, if you’re 32 years old, you have never actually experienced a normal-year climate here and you probably never will.”

As a city on two tidal riverways, D.C. is particularly susceptible to rising sea levels and has already experienced extreme flooding as a result. “Georgetown will be more susceptible to flooding from the Potomac River,” said Wells, especially as higher heat levels and storm intensities create storm surges that overwhelm the city’s built environment on the shorelines designed for lower sea levels. “At Hains Point, they did not intentionally build those sidewalks five inches below the water line at high tide.”

Two years ago, Wells recalled, extreme flooding on Canal Street in Georgetown resulted in the District’s first-ever National Weather Alert because of potential “loss of life and limb.” Images of visitors standing atop their flooded automobiles near the Potomac River are likely to be seen more frequently in the future. The District has also recently experienced microbursts flooding Northwest D.C. neighborhoods while leaving Southwest areas untouched. “The flooding

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7. The Department of Public Works donates its sand supply to the Wharf and Georgetown waterfront to create urban beaches.

8. K Street under the Whitehurst Freeway becomes a very looooong lap pool.

9. Georgetown historic preservation groups create new guidelines regulating stilts and other f lood-mitigation strategies.

10. M street is transformed into waterfront property.

11. Jack Evans is fined for repeatedly docking his cigarette boat at “no parking” piers.

12. Swimming and water safety courses are required at all public, private and charter schools in the District.

13. Aquaculture becomes a thing. Formal gardens become water farms for plants and animals.

14. Book Hill Park and other elevated areas are turned into windfarms to generate clean energy.

15. We get smart and serious about climate change and avert disaster

warmest springs (2012, 2010), the hottest four summers (2010, 2011, 2016, 2012), the warmest fall (2016) and the most 100-degree days in a month (seven in 2012). Source: Capital Weather Gang.

17. “The past decade was the hottest on record. The year 2020 was more than 1.2 Celsius hotter than the average year in the 19th Century. In Europe it was the hottest year ever, while globally 2020 tied with 2016 as the warmest.” Source: BBC.com.

18. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, to avoid the most severe climate impacts, global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions must fall by at least 45 percent from 2010 levels by 2030 and to carbon neutrality by 2050.

19. Temperatures in D.C. over the last few months continue to be above normal: “Both December and January were milder than average, and snowfall was scant, just 5.4 inches, which is 10 inches below average. Our transition to spring has also been mild, with the March temperature currently 2.5 degrees warmer than average.” Source: Capital Weather Gang.

INDICATORS

16. From 2010 to 2019, the District experienced the warmest three years on record (2012, 2017, 2016), the top-two

is getting more and more intense inside the city, and it’s not just the threat of the coastal floods from our rivers, but the threat of interior floods in the city,” Wells said.

Until just a few years ago, most D.C. residents didn’t know the meaning of the word “derecho,” an extensive line of intense damaging windstorms, but now it’s an everpresent possibility in the nation’s capital.

“That’s what we expect in Georgetown and the other areas,” Wells continued. “It will be hotter, for much longer periods of time. We’ll have more floods coming through and the storms will continue to be more intense.”

Weather extremes in the city will also damage and put more wear-and-tear on infrastructure. The C&O Canal in Georgetown, damaged by storms in the past, will be particularly vulnerable.

For Wells, the signs of climate change in the District can also be more subtle.

Few realize, for example, that the sandbags seen along the city’s vents and grates had to be placed there to avoid flooding and storm runoff. The meteorological lines determining growing seasons for plants, shrubs and trees in the area have also shifted far to the south. “Our new growing band in the next 30 years or so will be Nashville, Tennessee. So, our climate will be similar.”

Wells is most concerned about the rising number of consecutive extreme heat days bedeviling the District, and its impact on more vulnerable communities. “We were used to seeing extreme heat maybe one or two days at a time,” he said, “but now, heat emergencies are lasting longer and longer and we’ll have periods where maybe up to three weeks of heat emergencies take place.”

Such heat waves “affect our outdoor workers and anybody who has to be outside,” he said. “[They] will have their respiratory, circulatory and cardio systems challenged.”

The elderly and the economically disadvantaged will also suffer the most

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without air conditioning, according to Wells.

“We know, especially in lower income areas where air quality’s been bad that high heat is really part of the soup of ingredients that makes ozone and the noxious fumes that turn into ozone … trigger[ing] asthma and other health issues.”

MAKING THE DISTRICT CLIMATE-READY

Fortunately, the District is helping to lead the nation in innovative and sustainable approaches to the climate crisis. With the District Council’s support, the department has already implemented a raft of new climate plans, including Climate Ready D.C., Resilient D.C., Sustainable D.C. 2.0 and Clean Energy for D.C. The city has begun shifting to sustainably sourced energy, putting in place the “first building energy performance laws in the nation,” Wells noted. Buildings in the District are assessed on how sustainable their energy use is and assigned Energy Star Ratings.

Under the Solar for All plan, the city created a Green Bank to help fund solar power installations and energy conversions for commercial and residential units. The current goal is that, by 2035, 10 percent of “all the energy used in the District … comes from solar power generated from the District … And, that’s a pretty ambitious goal, but we’ll see what happens,” Wells said.

To shift the District’s transportation sector toward sustainable energy use, Wells would like to see the city continue to develop pedestrian and bicyclefriendly infrastructure such as Capital Bikeshare, while continuing to electrify the transportation grid.

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the British Embassy and the St. Regis hotel here in D.C. A bit farther down Q Street, number 3032 is a couple decades older. The building’s original owner, Victor Cahill, was the husband of the first Miss America, Margaret Gorman. It was designed in the Colonial Revival style by architect Claude N. Norton.

BY KAT E OCZ Y P OK There are three renovated properties in town on tree-lined streets at 3032 Q St. NW, 3012 Q St. NW and 3016 Dumbarton St. NW. All three buildings have been owned since the 1940s and have been undergoing renovations for the past three years. The renovations were finished in November and December of 2020, but 3032 Q is still in the process of converting fire escapes into balconies.

“Due to COVID, the world changed,” said Craig Shireman, a licensed real estate agent in D.C. and Virginia with Chatel Real Estate, Inc. “People are looking for outdoor spaces, and washers and dryers and dishwashers in unit.”

Of course, with historical buildings there are plenty of stories. 3016 Dumbarton St. NW was known as “the great Jackie escape.” Former first lady Jacqueline

Kennedy Onassis bought the Newton Baker House, located behind the Dumbarton Street property. She would escape paparazzi on N Street by using a tunnel on the property.

The Dumbarton Street property was originally built in 1901 as an apartment building. Architect Leon E. Dessez, also the architect for the Admiral’s House at the Naval Observatory, designed the building. Many may know the Naval Observatory as the vice president’s residence. Dessez also helped create D.C.’s building codes in the late 1800s.

Originally built in 1904 as apartments, 3012 Q St. NW has continued to remain so. Early 1900s developer Harry Wardman, who constructed the building, was so popular that, toward the end of his career, one in 10 District residents lived in a Wardman home. His style was grand, and many may recognize it at buildings like

A recent trend seen by Shireman, especially at 3032 Q St. NW, is that many renters are coming from New York City.

“Because of COVID, there have been lots of extra incentives,” he said. “I’ve heard of places in Navy Yard giving free rent and TVs in brand-new buildings. You can’t compare to the tree-lined streets and Georgetown’s neighborhood feel, though.”

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Setting Out for the Diamond State: Delaware

BY KATE OCZ Y P OK Approximately three hours from Washington, D.C., is a small yet mighty place, perfect for those seeking a weekend getaway. That place is Delaware — southern Delaware, to be exact.

President Joe and first lady Jill Biden own real estate in Greenville, Delaware, the posh suburb of Wilmington. If you’re interested in checking out where the Bidens live when they’re not at the White House, Greenville has lots of options for things to do. For starters, consider the Delaware Museum of Natural History — but keep in mind it will not reopen until early 2022, so plan accordingly. There’s also the André Harvey Studio, a great place to check out metal sculptures of animals like frogs and turtles.

Of course, if you want to visit Greenville, be prepared for security measures when the Bidens are in town.

Restaurant public relations maven Linda Roth has had a beach house in downtown Rehoboth Beach for many years with her husband. Although it is not near where the Bidens have a home, it is on the same block as their church.

“When they worship there, the Secret Service blocks off the street,” Roth said.

“It’s not a main road so there is really no traffic issue. If anything, there’s less traffic on our street, as church attendees cannot park on our block.”

Roth has not been there when the Bidens have been at church, but her stepson has.

“He’s a runner, so he has run up to North Shores, but hasn’t been allowed on the Bidens’ street,” she added.

Roth was eager to share that Ellen Kassoff and Todd Gray, who own Equinox Restaurant on Connecticut Avenue NW, just opened Federal Fritter a block off the Rehoboth boardwalk. “They’re hoping to see the Bidens there!” she said.

The fast-casual concept sells, you guessed it, multiple kinds of fritters.

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oysters, fresh from the ocean, try Beaches Seafood Market & Restaurant.

Scott Kammerer, president of SoDel Concepts, which owns a dozen restaurants in the state, loves the coastal Delaware atmosphere. “I would say our beaches are some of the most beautiful anywhere,” he said. He named all the outdoor activities in the area, saying how hard it was to list them all: deep sea fishing, stand-up paddleboarding, surfing and jet-skiing, to cite the most popular.

Kammerer said his favorite spot in all of southern Delaware is the back deck at Bluecoast Bethany. “I know this may sound like boasting, as Bluecoast Bethany is one of our restaurants, but going there with a group of friends for drinks and dinner on a summer night is an amazing experience,” he said.

Kammerer’s restaurants are currently at 50-percent capacity. As more people get vaccinated, he expects capacity to be at 75-percent in the coming weeks and close to fully operational by summer.

“For this, we need people to do their part.

When you can, please go get your vaccine.

That will do so much to help the people working in the restaurant business, which have been more adversely affected by this than most,” Kammerer said.

If family farms and orchards are more your speed, you’ll want to check out Bennett Orchards in Frankford. Tucked into land less than 10 miles from Bethany Beach, Bennett offers pick-your-own blueberries and peaches. Also in Frankford, the 26-acre Salted Vines Vineyard & Winery makes tasty merlots and cabernet sauvignons, with a tasting room open daily. Salted Vines offers a fun, unique event, too: “Sippin’ with Sloths,” which allows visitors to sip wine in the company of cute sloths visiting from Barn Hill Preserve.

Farther north, don’t miss Lavender Fields at Warrington Manor, with lavender fields that were part of a 1,000-acre land patent granted by William Penn in 1684.

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Alice Neel isn’t the only woman artist with a self-portrait in the National Portrait Gallery. Among the others are Elaine de Kooning — whose famous portrait of JFK is in the America’s Presidents section — and the Louises: Bourgeois and Nevelson.

But apart from Ana Mendieta’s fourminute film, Neel’s is the only such work that shows the subject nude. And Neel completed hers at age 80, entirely without self-flattery.

Only six years before, in 1974, she had gone from anonymity — working in New York apartments filled to the brim with paintings of relatives, lovers, friends and neighbors — to admiration when the Whitney Museum of Art gave her a solo show. One of her best-known works, the stunning 1970 portrait of Andy Warhol with scars exposed, is in the Whitney’s collection.

Now considered one of the greatest American artists, man or woman, of the 20th century, Neel does not yet have the name recognition of, say, Frida Kahlo, who also painted in a representational manner and whose work makes a similar assault on the viewer. A new retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (open with timed ticketing) is the most recent move in that direction.

“Alice Neel: People Come First” presents close to 100 works in Neel’s signature style, bringing to mind van Gogh and Soutine.

Part chronological and part thematic, the show, curated by Kelly Baum and Randall Griffey, runs through Aug. 1.

Underlining the link to van Gogh, in a section called Art as History, a Neel mother and child is paired with “Madame Roulin with Her Baby.” Like van Gogh’s, Neel’s paint is thick and her colors bright.

The seemingly awkward proportions of her figures echo those in the van Gogh painting, but Neel was far from a self-taught folk or visionary artist.

A student at what is now Moore College of Art in Philadelphia, winning prizes for her drawing and painting, she chose to paint in her own version of Post-Impressionism or Expressionism. In some ways, Neel’s work is a continuation of the Ashcan School, which aimed to portray rough subjects in a rough manner. Ashcan School founder Robert Henri had taught at Moore (then called the Philadelphia School of Design for Women) before Neel’s time, but his approach, preserved in his 1923 book “The Art Spirit,” remained influential.

Due to her Philadelphia training and her many depictions of mothers with children, Neel is sometimes bracketed with Mary Cassatt, born more than 50 years earlier.

In the exhibition’s Motherhood section are nine paintings, a watercolor and an ink drawing. Neel’s style, however, contrasts so sharply with that of the upper-class Cassatt

— who studied at the more traditional Philadelphia Academy of the Fine Arts and later joined the Impressionists — that she has been called the “anti-Cassatt.”

Rejecting her middle-class upbringing, Neel married a Cuban painter, Carlos Enríquez, who was rebelling against his affluent background. From that point on, for decades, her life was marked by personal tragedy and what most would call domestic chaos.

During the Depression, she was active with left-wing artist groups and painted for the Federal Art Project. Living in New York, often in poverty, institutionalized for suicide attempts, raising two sons in the midst of conflicting relationships with men and investigated by the FBI for involvement with the Communist Party, Neel maintained an extraordinary will to paint. With the rise of Abstract Expressionism in the late 1940s and its dominance through the early ’60s, she did so mostly in obscurity.

The Met exhibition feels at times like a large come-as-you-are dinner party (almost in the Judy Chicago sense) with dozens of Neel’s subjects. In the early sections, some of the people staring back at you are prominent leftists or off the streets of Greenwich Village or Spanish Harlem; her painting “T.B. Harlem” of 1940, from the collection of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, shows the brother of José Santiago, the Puerto Rican father of her older son, after surgery for tuberculosis.

In later sections, Neel’s palette lightens and she is less concerned with background details, portraying artists, critics, gay and trans couples and other members of New York’s “downtown” scene.

The show concludes with a section called The Nude, displaying seven paintings including Neel’s self-depiction in old age, flesh sagging in a striped chair that appears in other portraits, a paintbrush in one hand and a rag in the other; a full-frontal male odalisque of curator John Perrault; and several couples, tending to focus on the woman. Around the corner is “Pregnant Maria” of 1964, the first in her series of taboo-breaking paintings of nude pregnant women.

When she died in 1984, Neel had basked in a decade of recognition and, to some extent, celebrity. She intrigued Terry Gross and teased Johnny Carson. Neel was widely credited with being a forerunner of feminism, a movement she more or less repudiated, and of figurative painting’s revival. Abstraction was not for her, though “dividing up the canvas,” in her words, and color, obviously, were essentials of her craft. At least as important were getting at a subject’s character and, again in her words, the “zeitgeist” or “human comedy,” which, in Neel’s case as in Balzac’s, left no part of society unexposed.

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Cocktail of the Month FAUCI POUCHY

BY J ODY KURA S H For over a year, “staying in” has become the new “going out.” Even as more and more get vaccinated, it could still be months before the bar and restaurant scene returns to prepandemic levels. One bright spot during the COVID ordeal has been the availability of handcrafted cocktails for takeout and delivery.

A longtime practice in New Orleans, cocktails-to-go have really taken off during the pandemic, with bars and customers embracing the concept. It’s been a well-needed extra source of income for businesses struggling with shutdowns and restrictions. Many trendspotters say this is one coronavirus trend that’s here to stay. In late March, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam signed a bill allowing distilleries, restaurants and bars to continue selling to-go cocktails through July of 2022.

According to a trend report from Bacardi, the pandemic has made home the focal point of our social lives and changed the eating and drinking landscape forever.

Initiatives such as virtual happy hours and live-streamed gigs have allowed people to recreate their favorite elements of bars and restaurants without leaving their homes.

In Japan, they even have a name for it: on-nomi, which literally translates to “online drinking.” Groups of friends meet up for a video chat to drink together virtually from their homes. Aside from social distancing, there are some advantages — no closing time, no uncomfortable high heels, no drinking and driving and, if you get a drink spilled on you, it’s your own fault.

The e-commerce convenience culture has expanded to include liquid libations. With your dining-in options from GrubHub or Doordash no longer limited to solid food, you can have your cake and cocktail, too!

Luckily, D.C. is a craft cocktail town and the options are plentiful.

Locally, one of the earliest and most unique cocktails-to-go success stories are the pandemic-themed Fauci Pouchy cocktails from Capo Italian Deli in D.C.’s Shaw neighborhood. These tipples, served 20 APRIL 14, 2021

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in plastic drink pouches, feature a blackand-white label with a comforting image of Dr. Anthony Fauci in his doctor’s coat.

Introduced a year ago, they quickly became a huge hit, even gaining an Instagram following for the hashtag #faucipouchy.

The 14-ounce pouches contain enough for two drinks and come in six flavors, including the celebrated strawberry lemonade, made with strawberry-infused gin, Barrow’s Intense Ginger Liqueur, lemonade and pineapple; a boozy sweet tea forged from peach-infused tea, Maker’s Mark bourbon and lemongrass; and the Alcoholic Painkiller, made with Don Q rum, pineapple, orange, coconut and nutmeg. And while you’re waiting to get your vaccine “shot,” you can order a funsized “shot” of Fauci Penicillin, composed of Mezcal El Silencio, Earl Grey, honey, ginger and lemon.

With the last year being a total lemon, the Fauci Pouchy has turned into a tonguein-cheek bright spot. As the saying goes, “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.” According to Rohit Malhotra, Capo’s beverage director: “We had a lot of strawberry gin at the start of the pandemic, and were trying to deplete that. We had to work with what we had because being shut down we couldn’t bring in anything else right away. After we finished that product, we began infusing gin with fresh strawberries.

Out of all the flavors we have sold, this remains one of the most popular.”

Another D.C. watering hole that has had big success with its own line of bottled craft cocktails-to-go is Service Bar on U Street NW. Already known for brilliantly flavored tipples, the bar has bottled the magic for your home-drinking pleasure. Most popular, according to the Service Bar website, is the seasonal pisco punch, a concoction of pisco, naranjilla, eucalyptus pineapple and hibiscus.

Other options include the Starry Nights, made with bourbon whiskey, Jamaican rum, demerara sugar, mint and aromatic bitters...

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Zinnia will open where the iconic Mrs. K’s Toll House used to be at 950 Dale Drive in Silver Spring, Maryland. Chris Brown of Takoma Beverage Company plans to transform the expansive space into a fine-dining restaurant with a café, a tavern and a beer and wine garden. First up is the beer and wine garden, featuring a “Wiesn in a Box” beer truck, in addition to an outdoor bar with 13 taps for beer, wine, frozen cocktails and hard cider. Brad Feickert, formerly of Bryan Voltaggio’s Volt, is overseeing menu development for all the concepts. Justin Kaplan-Markley is GM and Seth Cook is wine director.

The plans call for the all-day café to open early in the fourth quarter, followed by the tavern, featuring classic pub food, then the fine-dining restaurant.

By the end of the second quarter, London-based Swingers is slated to open a 20,000-square-foot mini golf complex with a Knead Hospitality + Design food

Lil’ Succotash serves soulful southern favorites, with a Korean twist. hall and an all-day DJ in Dupont Circle at 1330-33 19th St. NW, where Buffalo Billiards and The Front Page used to be. The fast-casual concepts include Lil’ Succotash (a mini version of Succotash), Tu Taco (a mini Mi Vida with Mexican street food), Mah-Ze-Dahr bakery and Kneadza Pizza, plus four themed bars. A hole-in-one is rewarded with a free shot.

More Knead expansion in 2021: Mi Casa at 1648 20th St. NW in Dupont Circle, where Bareburger used to be; Mah-ZeDahr bakery in Crystal City, Virginia; Gatsby modern American diner, near Nationals Park; and casual French café Bistro du Jour at the Southwest Wharf.

Quick Hits: Chef Nicholas Sharpe is opening Lyle’s restaurant early in the second quarter in the Lyle hotel near Dupont Circle, at 1731 New Hampshire Ave. NW, where the Carlyle hotel used to be … SAN’dwich LORENZO, a to-go lunch place from Massimo Fabbri, has opened inside San Lorenzo Ristorante + Bar at 1316 9th St. NW in Shaw ... The Salt Line plans to open a second location in Ballston, Virginia, early in the third quarter … Miami-based Yardbird is scheduled to open early in the second quarter where Acadiana used to be, in Mount Vernon Triangle at 901 New York Ave. NW… Restaurant 54 will open in Virginia this summer at Springfield Town Center, where Zinburger used to be … Shinwari Grill, serving Pakistani and Afghan food, is slated to open in Penn Quarter at 609 H St. NW … The Setting underground cocktail bar by Nick Hopkins, formerly of Lettuce Entertain You, is slated to open at 2512 Pennsylvania Ave. NW in the West End … Cathal Armstrong just opened Mattie and Eddie’s (named for his grandparents), serving Irish pub food, at 1201 South Joyce St. in Arlington, Virginia, at what was formerly Pentagon Row, now known as Westport … Barca Pier & Wine Bar, a bar barge, is slated to open on the water in Old Town, Alexandria, next to Ada’s on the River. In addition to wine, beer and cocktails, Mediterranean small plates will be served.

Chef Update: Kristen Essig, formerly of Coquette in New Orleans, is now the executive chef at Long Shot Hospitality’s Dauphine’s at Midtown Center, 1100 15th St. NW. Essig joins Neal Bodenheimer of New Orleans’ famed cocktail bar Cure…

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Linda Roth (@lindarothpr) is the founder and CEO of Linda Roth Associates, a D.C.based public relations and marketing firm that specializes in the food service and hospitality industries. Visit her on the web at lindarothpr.com.

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KITTY KELLEY BOOK CLUB

‘1957: The Year That Launched the American Future’ A DENSELY WRITTEN, FACT-PACKED ACCOUNT OF A PIVOTAL PERIOD IN U.S. HISTORY R EVIEWE D BY KIT T Y K E LLE Y Eric Burns writes books with long titles.

His first, “Broadcast Blues: Dispatches from the Twenty-Year War Between a Television Reporter and His Medium,” written in 1993, was a memoir of sorts. As an Emmywinning correspondent for NBC News who later spent 10 years at Fox News (before being fired), Burns knows the highs and lows of broadcasting. He’s since indicated that Fox is not a crucible of credibility, but rather “a cult.”

In 2006, he wrote his fourth book, “Infamous Scribblers: The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of American Journalism,” and, in 2010, his eighth, “Invasion of the Mind Snatchers: Television’s Conquest of America in the Fifties.” Now, having tempered his tendency for unwieldly titles, he’s publishing his 15th book, “1957: The Year That Launched the American Future.”

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No question that 1957 was a big year.

The Ford Motor Company introduced the Edsel, a catastrophe that Burns describes as “the car with the vagina in the grille.”

Russia won the space race with Sputnik and President Eisenhower expanded the U.S. with the Interstate Highway Act, an idea he adopted from Germany after experiencing the ease and efficiency of the autobahn.

Highways gave rise to suburbs, big cars and a new way of life.

In 1957, Americans were introduced to the Mafia by watching the McClellan Rackets Committee hearings on television.

TV also introduced Elvis the Pelvis, Little Richard and the birth of rock ’n’ roll, as well as Joe McCarthy, Fidel Castro, Jimmy Hoffa, Floyd Patterson, Billy Graham and Ayn Rand. The hero of the ’50s — hands down — was Dr. Jonas Salk, who developed the polio vaccine and refused to file a patent

to profit from his discovery.

Burns divides his book into five parts, the most important being on race, the cutting issue of our times then and now. In 1957, the country was rocked by the Supreme Court decision known as Brown v. Board of Education, which stated that racial segregation in public schools violated the Fourteenth Amendment. “What happened next resulted in some of the most bitterly poignant tales to emerge … from the tenth circle of hell known as Southern racism,” he writes.

Burns recounts the trauma of nine African American students trying to enroll at Central High in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Even decades later, it’s painful to read about white adults spitting race-laden epithets in the faces of the young Black students. Within a week of their enrollment, Congress voted on the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the first such piece of legislation to be approved since 1875, during the Southern revolts against Reconstruction.

But before the vote could be taken, South Carolina’s Strom Thurmond began filibustering on the floor of the Senate, raging against the legislation. He held the floor for 24 hours and 18 minutes, earning himself an ignoble place in the Guinness Book of Records for the longest filibuster in American history. Burns reports the incident in detail, but fails to mention that the feral racist had a Black daughter, having impregnated his family’s 16-year-old maid when he was 22.

For those who have not discovered “The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America, 1932-1972” by William Manchester and just want a cursory gulp of 1957, Burns’s book will suffice; it offers more narrative than an almanac. But be prepared for sentences in need of a stop sign. In a chapter excoriating Ayn Rand, Burns writes: “The kind of philosopher who so despises

Rand, on the other hand, is usually an esoteric sort, like the fellow about whom I recently read who was watching a football game on television when it struck him that, in order to score, Team A has to cross Football Team B’s half of the field, thus sanctifying ‘the property-seizing principle’ of imperialism.”

And, when extolling the 1957 horror film “I Was a Teenage Werewolf,” he writes: “[Director Gene] Fowler goes on to say that the critics who condescended to review the film, invariably snickering at its simpleminded dialogue and plot devices, not to mention its almost comical special effects, had no idea what the movie was really about and rejected the concept of teenage angst as being just a laughable rite of passage, totally ignorant that the sort of angst that was swelling around them would birth a generation of intensely political angry and aware kids whose minds and hearts would affect the world.”

Burns then writes that the film became “the Edsel of motion pictures.” The same might be said of his book (minus the vagina).

This review originally appeared in the Washington Independent Review of Books.

Georgetown resident Kitty Kelley has written several number-one New York Times best-sellers, 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.” She serves on the board of Reading Is Fundamental, the nation’s largest children’s literacy nonprofit.

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