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The Georgetown Garden Tour Editorials Jack Evans Report CAG Report

Q&A WITH NANCY TAYLOR BUBES

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REAL ESTATE · 14 April 2019 Sales

ARTS · 16

Q&A With Author David Richardson

DOWNTOWNER · 17 Downtown News

CHORUS STANDS OUT IN ‘ORESTEIA’ AT SHAKESPEARE

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Franchelle Stewart Dorn, Michael Kahn and Helen Carrey. Courtesy Shakespeare Theatre Company.

FOOD & WINE · 17 New Neutrals

GETAWAYS · 18 - 19

WALKING THE RED CARPET AT CORRESPONDENTS’ DINNER

Brunching & Tastings For Mom

BY JEFF M AL L ET

CLASSIFIEDS · 20

NBC’s White House Team (left to right): Peter Alexander, Freddie Tunnard, Stacey Klein, Kristen Welker, Hans Nichols, Hallie Jackson, Frank Thorp, Monica Alba, Elise PerlmutterGumbiner, Geoff Bennett and John Hughes.

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BOOK CLUB · 21

Kitty Kelley Book Club

GOOD WORKS & GOOD TIMES · 22 - 23 Social Scene Events

COPY EDITOR Richard Selden

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GRAPHIC DESIGN Troy Riemer Elena Hutchinson

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Mayor Muriel Bowser

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Ins & Outs Weaver Family Business

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The Small Business and Economic Development Summit Friday, May 10, 2019

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Complimentary Workshops Registration Now Open You may select two of the following six workshops to attend Workshop Presentations at 10:00 AM and again at 11:15 AM Please visit www.dcchamber.org to sign up For more information contact Janelle Morris at jmorris@dcchamber.org or 202 - 821 - 4819

Events Calendar SATURDAY, MAY 4

STAR WARS DAY DANCE PARTY

On May the 4th, also known as Star Wars Day, Scorpio Entertainment will transform the lobby of Reagan National Airport’s historic Terminal A into a spaceship-inspired cosmic dance party. The event will include an open bar, live entertainment, views of the runway, glow wear for all guests, a social media projection wall and a galactic light show. For details, visit maythe4thdc.com. Terminal A, Reagan National Airport, Arlington, Virginia.

FRIDAY, MAY 10

SPRING SING

This benefit for the Children’s Chorus of Washington’s ongoing programming, choral education and outreach efforts will feature a performance by the Concert Chorus and Young Men’s Ensemble, with guest artist Ysaÿe Barnwell, former member of Sweet Honey in the Rock. Tickets are $175. For details, visit childrenschorusdc.org. Decatur House, 748 Jackson Place NW.

‘AN EVENING AT THE OPERA’ The Duke Ellington School of the Arts’ vocal and instrumental departments will present “An Evening at the Opera.” The concert will feature the costumed senior vocalists in scenes from various operas, accompanied by a chorus of underclassmen vocalists and a full pit orchestra. (There will also be a shorter morning performance on Friday, May 3.)

Tickets are $25, $5 for students. For details, visit ellingtonschool.org. 3500 R St. NW.

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The Children’s Chorus of Washington.

SATURDAY, MAY 11 & SUNDAY, MAY 12 RIDE FOR THE FEAST

Bike riders and their crews will make a 100-mile journey from Ocean City along Maryland’s Eastern Shore on May 11, then complete a 40-mile trip from Annapolis to Moveable Feast’s headquarters in Baltimore City on May 12, celebrating with a postride party. Each rider agrees to a minimum fundraising commitment of $1,500 to support Moveable Feast and its mission to provide nutritious meals and other services at no cost.

For details, visit rideforthefeast.org.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 18

CHEVY CHASE GARDEN TOUR

WEDNESDAY, MAY 8 AUTHOR TOMMY ORANGE Tommy Orange (Cheyenne and Arapaho), author of best-selling novel “There There,” will talk about his craft and Native American history and culture with Washington Post book critic Ron Charles, then sign books.

Copies of “There There” will be available for purchase. Admission is free. For details, visit americanindian.si.edu. National Museum of the American Indian, Fourth Street and Independence Avenue SW.

During the Chevy Chase Garden Tour, hosted by Garden Club of Chevy Chase, several celebrated landscape designers and landscape architects will be in the gardens they designed to discuss design choices and plant selections. The Garden Boutique will offer myrtle topiaries, herbs, annuals and garden accessories. Proceeds support Chevy Chase Circle restoration, Western Grove Park improvements and other community projects.

Tickets are $40 ($30 in advance). For details, visit gardenclubofchevychase.org.

THURSDAY, MAY 9 TUDOR NIGHTS: ‘HERE COME THE ROYALS’

This 21+ event is a look at objects in the Tudor Place archives and collection inspired by British royalty, followed by light hors d’oeuvres and cocktails in the Victorian-style Dower House. Attendees are encouraged to wear hats or fascinators in honor of British traditions and Royal Ascot. Tickets are $15. For details, visit tudorplace.org.

The Tudor Place archives and collection.

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AT 91: WISER AND SPICIER B Y A LI S O N S C H A F E R Down that flagstone path to the white picket fence. Past the neat round boxwoods. Through the black iron gate in the tall brick walls. Inside. Behind the walls. To the private places that only the people who live, or are invited, inside Georgetown’s tightly defended houses ever get to see.

But all is revealed on Saturday, May 11, when the annual Georgetown Garden Tour opens those secret doors and lets people look behind the high walls.

This year’s seven gardens are on the east and west sides of Wisconsin Avenue, Georgetown’s great divide, and range from the majestic to smaller, cleverly designed spaces.

The first garden on the tour is — even in the words of the Garden Club’s experts, who’ve seen it all — “truly grand.” It has three distinct “rooms”: an upper “room” with a hornbeam hedge, a sunny middle space with a pergola and a quiet seating area at the bottom of the garden. The middle space has a bubbling horse-trough fountain. Rich in history and character, it is a big space with a big personality.

Garden two features art. The garden’s owners collect outdoor sculptures, which are sprinkled throughout the large space. The owners’ passion is reflected throughout, showcasing both an eye for the new and interesting and a sense of humor. A lap pool for D.C.’s hot summer nights also serves as a ref lecting pool. This is a garden designed for parties, with discreet nooks for quiet or (better still) canoodling.

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Garden three, newly renovated, makes use of a “borrowed landscape”: it sits on 31st Street above Tudor Place and takes advantage of the historic house’s lovely grounds. Among its distinctive elements are a collection of dwarf evergreens, a modern fountain and a fire pit.

Garden four’s sprawling landscape slopes down to a tennis court. Its sheer size and its lovely meander down from Avon Lane toward Q Street make it remarkable, as do the beautiful plantings and large specimen trees it boasts.

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NEWS

Commissioners Call for More Jelleff Center Funds

BY PEGGY SA NDS

Farmers Market Opens With Spring Fling On Wednesday, May 1, the Rose Park Farmers Market, at the corner of 26th and O Streets in Georgetown, will open for the season at 3 p.m. A family-friendly Spring Fling will be underway from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m.

The Spring Fling, held on the baseball field behind the market stalls, will include a bounce house, a mini petting zoo with ponies, arts and crafts, ice cream and live music.

The market, at which local farmers sell their wares next to the playground, will

continue through the fall on Wednesdays from 3 to 7 p.m. Vendors offer fresh fruits, vegetables, breads and pastries, eggs and meat (which has been deep frozen) from farms and bakeries in Maryland, Virginia and Delaware, along with prepared foods. Some craft and gift items are also available.

The Rose Park Farmers Market had been organized for years by Gloria Garrett of the Palisades, who passed away from a liver ailment on March 26.

Ever since last August, when Mayor Muriel Bowser’s 2019 budget committed $7 million for the modernization of the Jelleff Recreation Center building — which houses the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Washington and a very active youth basketball program, among other activities — excitement has been building as to what could be done with the funds.

Ideas have gone way beyond the initial obligation to bring the club building, built in the 1950s in a park off of S Street and Wisconsin Avenue, into compliance with Americans with Disabilities Act requirements.

“In a recent community survey, it is clear that residents want space for a wide variety of activities from yoga to senior classes,” Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner Kishan Putta told The Georgetowner. “It is also clear that while

no one expects every desire to be met, much more than the $7 million is needed to meet even just some of the priority requests.”

With that in mind, Commissioners Putta and Elizabeth Miller met with various officials at the Department of Parks and Recreation and spoke three times at budget hearings of relevant District Council committees. While Mayor Bowser did not include additional funds for Jelleff in her final budget, Putta said: “It may be possible, maybe, that Trayon White, chairman of a new city committee on recreation and youth affairs, may consider an increase from discretionary funds.”

White will be visiting Jelleff next week, according to Putta. “We will show him that this is the only public indoor recreation space in the area and that the funds … available to improve it are far less than have been given any other rec program in the city.”

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The buzz in Georgetown isn’t only local. Sometimes, it’s international.

Along with protests that closed down Sheridan Circle next to the Turkish Ambassador’s Residence and the Romanian Embassy, there were escalating demonstrations last week at the shuttered Venezuelan Embassy, adjacent to the historic C&O Canal on 30th Street.

A planned press conference on the morning of April 25 brought out several Secret Service vehicles to keep an eye on the lively but peaceful event.

“What we are doing is unprecedented in the history of the United States,” CODEPI NK activists told The Georgetowner in front of the four-story brick embassy. Women-led grassroots organization CODEPINK is known for imaginative and highly visible liberal social-justice interventions in Congress and around the District.

“We are a group of American citizens who are physically protecting the Embassy of Venezuela for its people from a hostile takeover by the United States Secret Service and State Department,” said activist lawyer Ann Wilcox.

“And I just spoke out at a speech that U.S. Envoy to Venezuela Elliot Abrams was making before the Atlantic Council,” proclaimed Ariel Gold, who wore a placard reading [Interim President Juan] “Guaidó Not Welcome Here.” “I said, How dare he orchestrate a coup in Venezuela?’”

Members of CODEPINK and Popular Resistance had been spending the night sleeping in chairs and guarding the embassy doors and windows since April 8 as part of a loose organization called the Embassy Protection Collective. They came together after the last diplomats representing President Nicolás Maduro’s administration were forced to leave when the U.S. State Department pulled their diplomatic visas.

The dispute has been escalating ever since Maduro won a six-year term after elections that the U.S. and 50 other

CODEPINK co-founder Medea Benjamin leads chant at the Venezuelan Embassy on 30th Street.

Photo by Robert Devaney. nations declared were rigged and illegitimate.

In January, the Venezuela National Assembly, headed by Guaidó, invoked Venezuela’s charter to launch an interim government with Guaidó as interim president. After the U.S. recognized Guaidó and revoked the credentials of Maduro’s diplomats, Maduro closed the Venezuelan Embassy here in January.

The Embassy Protective Collective maintains that Maduro is still the president of Venezuela, stating: “The Vienna Convention makes embassy properties inviolate by any other country including the United States.”

“We are here legally with permission from Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s administration. We have the rights of tenancy under D.C. law and any attempt to remove us

by U.S. law enforcement would be considered to be an illegal police action,” said Kevin Zeese, spokesman for the collective.

Zeese had just returned from a visit to Caracas. “I saw no starving people, no fleeing refugees. In fact, a food service organization in Venezuela called CLAP delivers six million boxes of food staples to Venezuela citizens regularly because of the U.S. sanctions,” he said.

“The press is not covering the real facts in Venezuela.” said Zeese. “The collective will resist peacefully every effort of the U.S. to take over the embassy and we will stay till they end the sanctions.”

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Study to Address Georgetown Traffic, Safety Concerns How bad does the 5 p.m. gridlock on 34th Street in Georgetown — blocks from the turnoff onto M Street and Key Bridge — have to get before a new traffic pattern is implemented?

How serious an accident has to happen on 28th Street between Olive Street, M Street and Pennsylvania Avenue (with parking on both sides and, almost always, someone parked illegally on the corner to pick up food) before the city decides to make 28th Street one-way or take some other action?

What about the jams at 30th and R Streets that, in turn, are causing jams on the oneblock residential streets of Avon Place and Cambridge Street? When will something be done about those?

Traffic circulation and pedestrian safety at many Georgetown intersections and corners, and along the neighborhood’s narrow twoway residential streets, are big issues for many residents and visitors. Our streets are increasingly jammed with heavy traffic and parking on both sides by (mainly black) SUVs. Some of the worst trouble spots now have been included in a new Neighborhood Safety Study by the District Department of Transportation’s Neighborhood Planning Branch.

At an “Issues and Opportunities” meeting on April 8 at Visitation School, three analysts from the branch met with about two dozen neighbors and advisory neighborhood commissioners to go over the ideas and next steps being considered in the Georgetown study area. The area is bordered by R Street to the north, 27th and 34th Streets to the east and west and Water/K Street to the south.

“The assessment at this time focuses on short-term improvements to address existing concerns related to vehicular, bicycle and pedestrian safety,” said Julianna Wilson, a DDOT supervising civil engineer who is the point person for the Georgetown project.

She zeroed in on six particular situations and showed high-level sketches of short-term and

long-term solutions.

For instance, at tight T-intersections — such as where O Street meets Wisconsin Avenue and where 30th Street and Wisconsin Avenue intersect with K Street — Wilson showed what the corners would look like if turning lanes were added and parking places removed.

During the peak-hour traffic congestion along 34th Street, DDOT analysts are considering removing parking to allow an extra travel lane and a bike lane. “There will likely be tradeoff for that, however,” admitted Wilson. “Increased capacity may lead to increased demand. And we would likely be unable to maintain the bike lane, so I don’t think that piece is something we’ll want to move forward at this time.”

Improving access from M Street into the residential areas to the north was also a concern, especially at 28th Street. “The best way to prevent illegal parking there is to put something else in its place,” said Emily Dalphy, a transportation engineer and spokesperson. “Under consideration are moveable flexiposts and street planters, rather than making that block a one-way street north or south.”

Other commuter traffic mitigation ideas included introducing curb extensions at R Street and Avon Place and making one-way to two-way conversions on certain streets where problems have been identified by residents in community meetings and online posts.

Another neighborhood meeting may take place this month, according to Wilson. By July, immediate and long-term action items will be evaluated. DDOT hopes to present proposed recommendations to Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E by September and to issue a notice of intent to proceed with work by October.

“But nothing is set in stone at this point,” said Wilson, who can be reached at julianna. wilson@dc.gov.

April 29 ANC Meeting Covered It All The new chair of the Georgetown-Burleith Advisory Neighborhood Commission, Rick Murphy, proved he could run as tight a meeting as previous chair Joe Gibbons — even without the Bermuda shorts.

At ANC 2E’s official May meeting, held at Visitation Prep on Monday, April 29, Murphy covered expert reports, updates and lively questions from commissioners and the audience of residents and guests on a dozen issues that have been before the commission for a year.

The Georgetowner will be reporting details in the coming days. In brief, here are the major issues and the status or action taken for each: • Jelleff Recreation Center renovation and field usage. There will be a public meeting on May 8.

• Hyde-Addison Elementar y School modernization. School officials say the construction is on time; Murphy called it a “miracle” if it gets done by July.

• Bus shelter at 35th Street and Dent Place.

Almost all the comments to Murphy about this project, currently under review, were positive after an anonymous negative flyer was distributed.

• Trolley trail and foundry trestle feasibility study. This is still being analyzed, with no conclusions yet, even as to the project’s viability.

• Proposed rooftop alternative for small cell 5G placements. Not on “horrific” poles, according to Murphy.

• Response to gas leaks in Georgetown and Ward 5. These will be the subject of a May 18 DC Public Service Commission meeting open to the public.

• A request will be made by the ANC to the District Department of Transportation to synchronize M Street traffic lights from 28th Street to Key Bridge to mitigate increasing gridlock.

• Two new Capital Bikeshare dock station locations were approved: Rose Park at P Street and in front of Sibley Hospital on the corner of 38th Street and Reservoir Road.

In addition, dozens of renewals and amendments for alcoholic beverage licenses in Georgetown were approved en masse except those for Angolo, Il Canale and Flavio, which need further review.

Cogman to Depart Mt. Zion Church In July, the Rev. Johnsie Cogman — pastor since 2011 of Mt. Zion Church on 29th Street in Georgetown — will become superintendent of the Washington East District of the Baltimore-Washington Conference of the United Methodist Church.

Her last Sunday preaching at historic Mt. Zion will be June 9, she said.

She succeeds the Rev. Rebecca Iannicelli, who has been appointed by Bishop LaTrelle Easterling to serve the Annapolis District as superintendent.

Cogman said that she tends to address life and ministry “wholeheartedly” and with a smile. The smile is intentional, she explained, a way of addressing the world with joy. She doesn’t take that joy for granted. At times, in fact, it means more to her because it was forged in a refiner’s fire, crafted from a series of tragic circumstances.

Before entering the ministry, Cogman was an Air Force officer. At every assignment, from Michigan to Japan to Delaware to the D.C. area, she served with the base chaplain, directing the choir and providing pastoral care to service members and their families. In that service, she said, she began to sense a call to ministry, but wore out a lot of running shoes running from her calling.

Part of the reason for her running was anger. It began in 1986 with the death of her adoptive mother. Two years later, she ended her marriage to an abusive husband. And less than a month later, her three-year-old son Stevie died.

Two years after that, her biological father, whom she had gotten close to, died. The death of her newborn daughter Bianca followed. Her twin sons, Jacob and James, were born two years later. They have grown to be exceptional young men, but when they were young Cogman was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer.

This incident, and God’s continual and insistent call upon her life, nudged her “to want to bring some joy,” she said.

“When you see so much evil, hurt and

Rev. Johnsie Cogman of Mt. Zion United Methodist Church. Courtesy United Methodist Church. sadness in the world, people need to see my joy. They don’t need to know my story, but I hope my story — and my smile — connects with theirs.”

In 1990, Cogman felt the calling. “I heard God clear as day,” she said. “God said, ‘I told you to inspire people with my words, not your words. So now, go.’”

Her twin sons, who are finishing up their theological studies, have answered their own distinct calls and are certified candidates for ordained ministry in the BaltimoreWashington Conference. Another vital part of her life is her relationship with her husband Billy. “I could not be without him,” she said.

Prior to coming to Mt. Zion, Cogman served Zion Wesley UMC in Waldorf and Bells UMC in Camp Springs, Maryland.

“I am very humbled to be invited to serve at this table,” she said.

Crime Report THEFTS FROM CARS DOWN, ROBBERIES UP The good news is that the number of thefts from cars, a continuing problem in Georgetown, was down compared to last year, according to Metropolitan Police Lt. Dustin Bellavance, who spoke at the April 29 meeting of the Georgetown-Burleith Advisory Neighborhood Commission.

The bad news is that there was a slight uptick in robberies — from homes and from commercial establishments, both by known suspects and at random. Also, there was a marked increase last month in theft of small motor vehicles, such as Vespas and mopeds.

The attendees watched what has become an eagerly anticipated video-ofthe-month: an actual robbery in progress or footage of suspects before and after the commission of a crime, as filmed on surveillance cameras. Police urge residents to call them if a suspicious event

is caught on camera and to share footage at the request of law enforcement officers.

POLICE SEEK HELP WITH MENTALLY ILL An uptick in “social” crimes, such as drug use and vagrancy, especially around Volta Park, is most often the result of mental illness and homelessness, according to MPD’s Bellavance, who covers Georgetown. As a result, beat officers are planning to meet with various agencies, including the District Department of Mental Health, to learn more about how to deal with these situations.

Campouts of homeless people on vacant commercial properties must be dealt with first by the property owners, said Bellavance. “Usually the homeless people are cooperative and move,” he said. “But we would like to have a place for them to go to that’s safe.”

Bellavance urged residents to call 202-7279099 when quality-of-life issues, including drug use and trespassing, arise.

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EDITORIAL

OPINION JACK EVANS REPORT

Making D.C.’s Streets Safer for Everyone

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House Rich, Store Poor?

With the Georgetown House Tour and the Georgetown Garden Tour highlighting the beauty of the oldest neighborhood in Washington, D.C., one would think all is well in the town.

The houses have increased in livability, felicity and price, and the gardens are always a pleasant surprise amid our urban streetscape. (In a previous editorial, we addressed the proliferation of dumpsters marring our streets and stealing our parking spaces — and will write about this again.)

Yes, Georgetown can be the envy of other neighborhoods, its costs notwithstanding.

Families are more than willing to pay the price, bringing their life and love to this special place.

While the town’s residential areas shine,

its commercial district appears dimming.

(We have talked about this before, too.)

Many storefronts along M Street and Wisconsin Avenue are shuttered. This situation has several causes. Indeed, residents — not just businesspersons — are rightfully concerned.

People talk about other D.C. neighborhoods stealing our thunder.

Our business groups appear somewhat flummoxed, but efforts are being made to get new stores and restaurants into Georgetown.

In a future Georgetowner, we will dig deep into the Georgetown retail scene.

Fear not, all is not lost. There are solutions out there, and The Georgetowner will be reporting on them. Stay tuned.

In Praise of Forthright Journalism These days, the ink-stained (pixelstained?) wretches and members of the scribbling tribe that calls itself the working press think and talk a lot about the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

Indeed, our news hook for this editorial is the attention paid to journalists and journalism occasioned by the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner and its attendant parties, if anyone really wants to know.

For publishers, reporters, editors, writers and photographers, these can be dangerous, even mind-bending times. Fundamental dangers exist for all: the shrinking and fragmenting of advertising revenues and the explosion of internet-based information delivery systems. The public (of which we are also members) is caught up in the cacophony of social media and exposed to websites and troll farms that make a toxic hash of facts, hearsay, disinformation and conspiracy theories.

What’s more, the press today operates in a political environment that has become adversarial in relationship to the president and his administration, a situation which creates a daily strain between reporters and editors and the president and those who speak for him.

In this environment, the First Amendment should and does act as a protector of one thing, and one thing only: the four-word bedrock battlement of “freedom of the press.” While that amendment pertains to

equally critical matters such as freedom of religion and peaceful assembly, it states flatly that “Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom … of the press.”

All of the people of the press — and by that we mean the people who put together and produce newspapers or news broadcasts and magazines, not press secretaries — need to remind themselves of who they are and what they are not.

That unfortunate and threatening phrase “enemy of the people” should be challenged at every turn because it separates the press from its readers, audience and consumers.

We should remember that we are the opposite of enemies of the people. We are the servants, however imperfect, of the people. We do not create information, but rather report events, people and the daily, sometimes minute-by-minute and breathby-breath history of the times we live in.

We are not perfect; we make honest mistakes from a simple misspelling or an incorrect date to misquoting and errors of omission. This is not fake news. These are mistakes, which are corrected and admitted in all honesty.

Most members of the press at whatever level — yes, even at the hyperlocal Georgetowner — continue to think of it as a noble profession, that our best efforts to provide authoritative information can result not only in a better informed citizenry but also in acts worthy of our country’s founding ideals.

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The District’s transportation infrastructure needs to be improved to ensure safety for pedestrians, cyclists and drivers in many areas across the city. This is evident from the steady climb in traffic deaths over the past seven years. According to the Metropolitan Police Department’s 20-year Traffic Fatality Trend, there were 36 deaths in 2018, compared to 19 — the lowest number of recorded deaths — in 2012.

It’s a tragedy when people take their life in their hands by simply walking on a sidewalk, crossing the street or riding a bike. We were reminded of this reality recently when we lost cyclist Dave Salovesh and pedestrian Abdul Seck.

I was saddened to hear of Mr. Salovesh’s death from a crash on Florida Avenue NE, on the border of Wards 5 and 6. He was a fierce advocate for safe cycling infrastructure and for making the streets safer for everyone. We also lost Mr. Seck in Southeast after a car hit him while he was walking on the sidewalk. This loss of two lives over a single weekend, on April 19 and 21, was a terrible shock to many of us and an important reminder that we need to do much more to prevent deaths and injuries.

As a member of the Council’s Committee on Transportation and the Environment, I fully support tasking the District Department of Transportation with quickly fixing all problematic intersections. A member of my staff met with DDOT at a high-crash area recently to discuss ways to make that intersection safer.

Last Tuesday, I co-introduced legislation with Council member Mary Cheh that would require DDOT to construct a protected bike lane or a cycle track whenever DDOT is engaging in road reconstruction, major repair work or curb or gutter replacement. This bill should speed up the timetable for completion of the Recommended Bicycle Network in the District of Columbia’s Multimodal LongRange Transportation Plan.

Ward 2 has nearly 22 miles of bike lanes, representing one quarter of the city’s bike lanes and the highest concentration of bike lanes and protected bike lanes in the District. A few years ago, I worked closely with Mayor Adrian Fenty and DDOT Director Gabe Klein to install protected bike lanes on 15th Street, L and M Streets and Pennsylvania Avenue, to name a few.

Among the recent projects DDOT is pursuing is an initiative to install a protected bike lane that will stretch from Dupont Circle through Foggy Bottom, ending at the National Mall. And the K Street Transitway project will repurpose K Street from 12th Street to 21st Street NW, facilitating dedicated bus lanes and bike lanes. This will make the K Street corridor less congested and more efficient for bus passengers while increasing the accessibility and safety for pedestrians and cyclists.

There’s no doubt we’ve come a long way to make the streets safer for everyone, but we’re not close to being done yet. I will keep working to make sure pedestrians, cyclists and drivers are all safe in Ward 2 and everywhere in the city.

CAG’s 2019 Annual Meeting

BY PAM L A M OOR E The Citizens Association of Georgetown is putting final touches on plans for its annual meeting, to which all members of the community, both residents and businesspeople, are invited. It will be held on Tuesday, May 14, at Dumbarton House, 2715 Q St. NW, beginning with a reception at 7 p.m.

I am pleased that this year the mayor has it on her calendar. We expect to have Council member Jack Evans attend, as well as our ANC 2E commissioners. This is an excellent opportunity to learn the latest from our elected officials.

If you have attended our annual meetings in the past, you know we recognize our board members and the committee chairs who carry out our mission. Their dedication to the community is incredibly valuable.

Last year, we asked three committee members to offer an overview of what were key issues. This year, I am pleased to announce that Richard Hinds will give us an update on 5G, Karin Wheeler will talk about our new Development Committee,

Cathy Farrell will offer some stories as chair of our Oral History Committee and Jennie Buehler will give us a wrap up of the monthly community meetings.

I want to make it clear that all of our committees love to have volunteers participate and welcome new faces.

Serving on a committee is a great way to get to know your neighbors and the neighborhood better.

2019 Community Awards will be presented to local individuals and organizations, highlighting special efforts put forth to make our community a good place in which to live. On the business side, we will have the financial report and the election of officers and directors for 2019-20.

Our annual meeting is always well attended. It is an opportunity to share with the community the work of many volunteers and a hard-working staff to benefit Georgetown. Please join us.

Pamla Moore is president of the Citizens Association of Georgetown.

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Finally, the money raised through the Patrons Party also supports the Georgetown Saturday Suppers program. Launched in 2013, this five-church collaboration serves suppers every Saturday night in the parish hall at Mt. Zion United Methodist Church on 29th Street, which is across from the home where Burling lived for many years.

In 2018, this program served nearly 4,000 meals to more than 200 unique guests and engaged at least 200 volunteers from six parishes.

The platinum sponsor for the Georgetown House Tour was Long & Foster Real Estate – Christie’s International Real Estate. For more information, visit georgetownhousetour.com.

Rev. Gini Gerbasi, rector of St. John’s Church on O Street, Tycely Williams of the Junior League of Washington and Belinda Winslow, daughter of Frida Burling. Photo by Mynor Ventura.

Patrons Party Introduces Frida Burling Award

BY RO BE RT DEVA NEY The Georgetown House Tour Patrons Party is a tradition established by one of the grande dames of Georgetown, Frida Burling. Supporters, neighbors and those with homes on the tour gather to celebrate the elegant kickoff to the annual event, which benefits ministries of St. John’s Episcopal Church on O Street.

This year, the highly anticipated party on April 24 was at the R Street home of Brooke and Stephane Carnot — which they bought from another Georgetown grande dame, Oatsie Charles. The hosts were joined by Patrons Party co-chairs Katherine Boone, Brooke Carnot, Avery Miller and Karen Sonneborn.

The proceeds from the party go to St. John’s ministries assisting homeless adults and children, the unemployed, senior citizens and young children in D.C. schools.

In 2001, it was author Kitty Kelley who first opened her home in support of the

tour and its charities. Over the years, the party has been at such residences as the home of Ben Bradlee and Sally Quinn, Tom Anderson and Marc Schappell — and even the residence of Burling herself, who died at the age of 100 in 2016.

Because of Burling’s devotion to St. John’s and the House Tour, a new award made its debut at the Patrons Party: the Frida Burling Service Award.

The inaugural award was presented to Tycely Williams, president of the Junior League of Washington, one of Burling’s principal charities. The Junior League was cited for its support of the Georgetown House Tour for more than a quarter century.

“Frida Burling joined the Junior League of Washington in 1934 at the age of 19,” said the Rev. Gini Gerbasi, rector of St. John’s. “For more than 82 years, she passionately led dozens of successful programs which strengthened the lives of

Patrons’ Party hosts Brooke and Stephane Carnot. Photo by Mynor Ventura. thousands of women, children and families, and meaningfully mentored hundreds of young women within the Junior League of Washington. Frida was a force of nature, fiercely committed to improving the lives of others through her work ... She was also a brilliant fundraiser, raising millions of dollars for projects around the city, including the Junior League’s headquarters on M Street in the heart of Georgetown.”

Over the course of its 18-year history, the Patrons Party has also raised hundreds of thousands of dollars in support of St. John’s many programs, including the Grate Patrol, established in 1983 by the Salvation Army to provide meals to the homeless.

The Georgetown Senior Center, which St. John’s has supported for 25 years, is also a beneficiary. This center provides a space for seniors to gather for lunch and to participate in activities like lectures, recitals and occasional trips to nearby museums.

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COMMUNITY CALENDAR THURSDAY, MAY 2

OLD GEORGETOWN BOARD The Old Georgetown Board– Commission of Fine Arts will meet at 9 a.m. at 401 F St. NW, Suite 312. For details, visit cfa.gov.

TUESDAY, MAY 7

Georgetown Village will honor Ann Satterthwaite at its annual benefit reception and silent auction, which will take place at 6:30 p.m. at Foley & Lardner LLC, 3000 K St. NW. High Street Café is donating the food. For details, call 202-999-8988.

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TUESDAY, MAY 14

Fashion designer Maria Pinto, who is returning to Georgetown for a week, is having a shopping party at 1254 Wisconsin Ave. NW from 6 to 8 p.m. Proceeds benefit the Citizens Association of Georgetown. RSVP to michelle@wswa.org or rsvp-dc@ mairapinto.com.

Community awards and Citizens Association of Georgetown elections will take place at the meeting, to be held at 7 p.m. at Dumbarton House, 2715 Q St. NW. For details, visit cagtown.org.

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 15

PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION Following the D.C. Public Service

Frida Burling.

Commission’s 2 p.m. open meeting at 1325 G St. NW, Suite 800, the commission will conduct a followup community hearing for Washington Gas Light Company to update the public. The Office of the People’s Counsel, ANCs and interested persons are also invited to make oral presentations. To register as a presenter, email psccommissionsecretary@dc.gov or call 202-626-5150 by 5:30 p.m. on May 10.

SATURDAY, MAY 18

MINISTRY CENTER QUIZ NIGHT The Georgetown Ministry Center will host a benefit quiz night at St. John’s Episcopal Church, 3240 O St. NW, at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $100, including a three-course dinner and drinks. For details, email Liza Ballantine at liza@gmcgt.org.

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FRIDAY, MAY 10 Save the Date for a Magical Evening in the Chapel Gardens! Friday, May 10, 6:30-8:30pm. Featuring a Festive Reception With Gourmet Hors D’oeuvres & Champagne Cocktails.

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CLYDE’S NEW OWNER: GRAHAM HOLDINGS?

It just might be a good hometown move.

Clyde’s Restaurant Group has been in talks with Graham Holdings as its purchaser, reports the Washington Business Journal.

If the deal goes through, a landmark business that began in Georgetown in 1963 would be bought by a local company, now based in Arlington, Virginia, that once included the Washington Post.

Clyde’s Restaurant Group’s CEO John Laytham — who began work at the M Street restaurant while a Georgetown University student — died Jan. 3. Founded by Stuart Davidson, the company has expanded to 14 restaurants in the Washington area.

As for Graham Holdings, the conglomerate is headed by Donald Graham, a former publisher and former co-owner of the Washington Post. It includes the educational company Kaplan, the online magazine Slate and some television stations.

When contacted about the potential sale

by The Georgetowner, Ginger Laytham, a Clyde’s Restaurant Group executive and John Laytham’s widow, referred the newspaper to Clyde’s director of communications, Molly Quigley, who responded to an email: “Thanks for reaching out … I have no comment.”

Likewise, Pinkie Mayfield, vice president of corporate affairs and chief communications officer for Graham Holdings, responded to

Clyde’s Restaurant in Georgetown, its first location that opened in 1963. an inquiry by The Georgetowner with “No Comment. Thanks!”

This story will be updated.

IN: BANDOOLA BOWL ON WISCONSIN AVE.

Bandoola Bowl, a Southeast Asian salad shop from 25-year restaurant industry veteran Aung Myint, opened April 23 at 1069 Wisconsin Ave. NW. “The 2,000-square-foot, two-story fastcasual concept explores Burmese cuisine, which often carries the scents and flavors of neighboring China, Thailand, and Vietnam, through approachable, ingredient-packed salads,” said the company. Myint opened familyrun Burmese dining staple Mandalay in Silver Spring, Maryland, in 2004 and worked with his mother, Mandalay’s head chef Hla Hme, to develop the recipes for Bandoola Bowl’s menu.

“It’s been wonderful to see diners embrace Southeast Asian food and become more adventurous with their palates, but Burma

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has remained relatively hidden,” said Myint.

“My family and I decided to open Bandoola Bowl as a way to share authentic Burmese flavors and a bit of our culture in a more familiar form. Salads play a significant role in Burmese cuisine and are quite different from the typical perception of salad.”

Bandoola Bowl, the company advises, “takes its name from General Maha Bandoola, who fought against the British in the First Anglo-Burmese War in the 1800s, and used his prowess riding and handling war elephants as a key strategy in his resistance efforts.

During the Second World War, his heroic namesake elephant helped Burma defeat Japan. Both the commander-in-chief and the war elephant Bandoola are celebrated as national heroes in Burma.”

IN AGAIN: SWEETGREEN TO TAKE CASH

Sweetgreen, founded in Georgetown 12 years ago, has gone back to accepting cash

for purchases after initiating a cashless policy three years ago. All Sweetgreens will be accepting cash by the end of the year.

Admitting its cashless move excluded some customers, the company said in a statement: “Ultimately, we have realized that while being cashless has advantages, today it is not the right solution to fulfill our mission.

To accomplish our mission, everyone in the community needs to have access to real food.”

Georgetown University graduates Jonathan Neman and Nicolas Jammet opened the first Sweetgreen at M and Bank Streets near the school in 2007. The company is headquartered in Culver City, California.

SOON: DENT PLACE MARKET

The Deli Corner Store replacement, Dent Place Market, will open this month after construction delays. [Editor’s note: The Georgetowner last month reported that it had opened. The newspaper regrets the error.] “Redefining the local corner market,” the market, at 1643 34th St. NW, intends to “honor the spirit of Georgetown.” It will cater to the morning crowd with Bullfrog Bagels and Compass Coffee — also carrying wine and local craft beer for the post-work crowd.

FALSE RUMOR: SMOOTHIE KING

Smoothie lovers will have to wait for their fix — for now, at least. A member of Smoothie King’s customer relations team told The Georgetowner that the rumored Smoothie King coming to the corner of Wisconsin Avenue and N Street is not on the company’s list. Smoothie King was founded in 1973 and has more than 775 franchise locations worldwide.

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Bryce and Mike Weaver at Weaver & Son on Wisconsin Avenue. Photo by Patrick G. Ryan.

Who knew that a hardware store company founded 130 years ago would stand the test of time in the nation’s capital — witnessing the administrations of presidents from Benjamin Harrison to Donald Trump (and counting)?

“It’s great to be in Washington,” said Bryce Weaver, who with his brother Mike leads the Weaver family business. “The world comes to D.C. We’re blessed,” Founded in 1889, W.T. Weaver & Sons is a fourth-generation Washington, D.C., business, providing ornamental hardware and other high-end household fixtures for residential and commercial projects. The business, serving architects, designers, contractors and homeowners, has been located at 1208 Wisconsin Ave. NW since that time.

The Weaver family story begins in Washington in 1806, when part of the family arrived. The hardware business got started selling pumps and harnesses, along with farm implements and building supplies. Those were the days when there were butchers in Glover Park and Tenleytown. Mike remarked that Arizona Avenue used to be called Weaver Avenue, where there were dairy farms.

The brothers’ great-grandfather, Walter T. Weaver, opened the store, and their father, Jim Weaver, became president of the company in 1981. An admired citizen, he helped with such community efforts as an annual parade and the Georgetown Business Association.

His boys, who grew up in McLean, Virginia, worked Saturdays and summers at first.

One defining moment for the business was in July of 1963, when a fire tore through the building on Wisconsin Avenue. The Weavers rebuilt it, buying it from the Masons, whose successors still meet there. “No paint was for sale there at the time,” Mike hastened to point out.

The business has grown and evolved over the years. It was a True Value hardware store for a decade, from 1985 to 1995. About 25 years ago, the family drastically changed its business model in response to a changing Georgetown.

No longer would it be a simple hardware store — “No more screws, nuts or bolts or paint,” as Jim Weaver said. Since then, the business has focused on finished and decorative hardware,

as well as on upscale bathroom fixtures.

W.T. Weaver & Sons has provided fixtures for Ford’s Theatre (“customized knobs and handles”), Blair House, the vice president’s official residence and the White House. Also on the list: Clyde’s, the terminal at Dulles International and the National Institutes of Health.

While its doors remain open to all, the business is more for the professional trade, which is very demanding, according to Bryce.

Added Mike: “We make it easy for consumers to imagine a makeover and offer levels of quality service that go to the next level.”

Unsurprisingly, a family with such a longlived business owns or leases property in town.

Under development — but just a proposal for now — is Prospect Place, a new retail complex that would replace the existing Doggett’s parking lot at 3220 Prospect St., but add underground parking. The property is across the street from Bob Elliott’s Georgetown Court, which includes condos and shops in addition to restaurants Cafe Milano, Peacock Café and the yet-to-open Brasserie Liberte.

The Weavers signed the deal that brought Wawa to Georgetown, a move not applauded by all. The convenience store is a few doors from the Wisconsin Avenue showroom of W.T. Weaver & Sons.

Mike believes that Wawa’s success will be good for Georgetown. “Wawa is a reputable, family-owned business — and wonderful people to deal with,” he said.

Likewise good for Georgetown is familyowned W.T. Weaver & Sons, carried on by brothers who grew up on quiet Chesterbrook Road and now have other family members involved in the business.

True, much has changed. Retail churns, residences fall and rise. Georgetown’s sole remaining hardware store is the small Bredice Brothers on 35th Street.

But there are hints of permanence. The Masonic hall — Potomac Lodge No. 5 F.A.A.M. — on the top floor of the Weaver building holds a priceless item: George Washington’s ivory mallet.

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THE PROGRESS of MURIEL BOWSER

BY G A RY T IS CHL ER

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Hanging out at the Wilson Building on Pennsylvania Avenue, waiting to chat with Mayor Muriel Bowser, it’s hard not to think about where you are.

It’s the year-round Washington where you live.

It’s a historic place: the seat of government for the District of Columbia.

It’s where the city does its business, where local politics and local political history are the focus of attention (though the shadows of the other Washington surround them).

You can find gathered together here pictures of the previous Council members, some of whom were elected mayor themselves, many of whom ran for the office and almost all of whom at some point at least imagined themselves taking the oath of office.

It’s a good place to think a little bit about the almost meteoric rise of Muriel Bowser to the place she now occupies as the mayor of Washington, in the first year of her second term.

Bowser was the first woman to win a second mayoral term, and only the third candidate among seven mayors to do so.

Marion Barry, sometimes characterized by himself and others as “Mayor for Life,” and Anthony Williams also were reelected.

Her rise has a certain political symmetry.

A former Ward 4 advisory neighborhood commissioner, Bowser became the Ward 4 Council member in 2007 after winning a special selection in which she was supported by her mentor Adrian Fenty — who had won a major election victory and become mayor.

She was elected again in 2008 and 2012. Fenty lost his bid for reelection to Council Chairman Vincent Gray, who almost immediately became embroiled in a nagging electoral scandal which dogged him throughout his term.

At that point, Bowser, quiet and steady, who had served on the Council as chair of the Committee on Economic Development — where she pushed for more affordable housing, ethics reform and transparency in government contracting — decided to take the next step.

She had plenty of company in deciding to run for mayor, including Gray (running for reelection), Ward 2 Council member Jack Evans, Ward 6 Council member Vincent Orange and the popular and populist Andy Shallal, owner of the Busboys and Poets bookstore-restaurants. All were vying in the Democratic primary. Bowser won that and then the general election.

By this time, you could see a theme developing in her public and political life.

She was sometimes seen as reserved and cautious, and could be that way with the media, but she also studied and learned how policy was made — as a politician, as a Council member and finally as mayor.

Watching her, you could see her growth in terms of self-assurance and confidence, her grasp of issues, an energy in her campaign style and a certain toughness, too, when she pushed for limited debates.

She also got her public footing on the campaign trail, and in her public forays as mayor. It seems sometimes that she’s everywhere: housing openings, schools, crime scenes, the launch of new programs.

You get her forward-looking outlook in interviews, in State of the District and

inaugural speeches and when she addresses groups, whether businesspeople or schoolkids.

Sometimes, the speeches are very disciplined. Other times, they’re unfettered, not in an irresponsible sort of way, but in a personal, celebratory style.

When she came for our talk with her, during the course of a day that appeared tightly scheduled, she wore a black outfit in a style that was both classy and dignified.

Muriel Bowser, as she had done before, had grown into the job. She wasn’t just Mayor Muriel Bowser. She was the mayor.

Period.

We sat in a large room, her back to a wall that featured a large portrait of Frederick Douglass, serving as an echo of how she felt about the city.

“This is a historic city,” she said. “And the history is our history. We’re a city of neighborhoods, individual but also as a whole. We shouldn’t forget our past.

We should celebrate our culture directly, through the arts, in schools.”

The city — like Bowser herself — is undergoing a transition, and a great deal of success. It’s a moment in time that is full of change: prosperity in general, but not always so much for everybody.

“We need to create an economic environment where everybody profits and takes part, not just a few. People — especially firemen, school teachers, the police — should be able to afford to live here.

“I’m proud of our accomplishments, but we have a lot to do, especially in areas of crime. There’s too much violence, too many deaths. We need to do better in some things in terms of housing, in terms of safety.”

She has offered some solutions: more community policing, better and more body cameras, more neighborhood revitalization.

In her campaigns, and her constant presence throughout the city, she’s learned a lot. “I’ve gotten to people closely, face to face, in person all over the city, and that’s when you get an idea that you’re doing a good job. I think people who want to stay here ought to be able to afford to live here.”

When you see her in public — at those State of the District and inaugural speeches, for instance, but also in casual settings — you get a good sense of what she meant when she once described herself (pretty accurately): “I have an extrovert-introvert personality.”

She stood tall during the recent government shutdown and urged the president to end it.

She remembered the rough start of her first term, which included a snowstorm and a deadly situation on Metro.

There have been changes in the government itself. There is a new police chief and a new public schools chancellor (after a misfire on the previous choice).

Some political moves vis-a-vis the Council have not always worked.

She’s made solid proposals for everyone to essentially have an equity in the city’s prosperity, to map out the road to the middle class. In her State of the District address of 2009, she talked about the fact that “affordable housing isn’t just a problem for our most vulnerable residents. It affects our entire community. What we’re talking about is how we share that prosperity.”

Details of policy matter, of course, but

often the delivery, the posture, the way you present yourself and your ideas matter just as much.

Every time we’ve had occasion to engage with the mayor, she seems to sound and be stronger — maybe even taller — than before, always walking into the future.

She’s got a better reason for that confidence now. The mayor has added another title after her name: Mom. “A little girl,” she said. “She’s perfect.

It‘s exciting, and you have to do so many things. She’s an exciting, and challenging, little girl. She adds a whole new dimension to your life.“ Last year, around this time, Bowser announced that she had adopted a child.

Miranda Elizabeth Bowser was baptized on Sept. 9 at St. Anthony of Padua Catholic

Church in Northeast D.C. She was adopted in May of last year.

“It’s an awesome responsibility, raising a child. She just loves people,“ said Mayor Mom. Sometimes, these days, when you hear her talk about public policy, about overseeing a force of thousands of employees in the city government, and then also talk about choosing her daughter’s clothes for any given day, the stories sound the same.

The experience weaves into issues that are suddenly personal, like traffic, preschool, safety and so on.

One little girl, a mother, a city, the rest of us, a new dimension in the life of … the mayor.

I want every girl to know that they can be that all the time. Take a moment today to anything they want to be. I tell Miranda remind the girls in your life that they can too. #DayoftheGirl Instagram @murielbowse r.

Miranda’s in charge, basically of how you go, when you go, when she wants to eat. Luckily, she is a sweetheart. She has a very pleasant temperament, but you fully realize you can’t control everything.

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HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY, MAYOR BOWSER

Merry Christmas, DC. May this holiday season bring peace and joy to you and your family. Miranda and I wish you all the best in 2019! Instagram @murielbowser.

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Number-five garden, recently refurbished, is home to a young family. It, too, is designed for entertaining. Modern, with minimal, almost sculptural plantings, it features an interesting hardscape and a pool.

Quiet and peaceful, garden number six is Japanese-inspired and tucked behind an interior courtyard; though only a block away, it feels far from the tumult of Wisconsin Avenue.

Garden seven reveals its secrets through a charming arched door. The owners have redesigned this garden with uncommon plants and an eye for detail. It gets its visual spark from a pine tree, presented almost as a sculpture, and by a big, dramatic fountain.

This is the Georgetown Garden Tour’s 91st year. The tour just keeps getting wiser and spicier, like your favorite great-aunt. The bigger gardens soothe with their expansiveness and abundance while the smaller ones dazzle with their inventive use of space, color and form.

Many of the tour-goers are Georgetown neighbors, primed to see what lurks behind the walls, interested in new ideas for their own spaces and, of course, eager for a gentle snoop.

Perhaps best of all for the folks who live, work and visit Georgetown, the tour raises money for local green spaces, parks and public gardens. Beneficiaries in recent years have included Book Hill Park, Tudor Place’s gardens, Trees for Georgetown, the rose garden at Montrose Park, Rose Park, Volta Park’s Habitat Garden, the Dumbarton Oaks Park Conservancy and the Georgetown Waterfront Park.

The gardens will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, May 11, rain or shine.

Visitors can buy tickets on the day of the tour at Christ Church at 31st and O Streets or in advance at georgetowngardenclubdc.org.

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Tintoretto: One of History’s Greatest Painters All Along

BY AR I P OS T It is possible that Tintoretto will prove the most essential Renaissance painter for the 21st century. It is also possible that you, like me, will stumble out of this rare and wondrous National Gallery of Art retrospective wondering whether his was the most virtuosic hand to ever wield a brush.

I was astonished by this exhibition. After seeing it last month, New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl wrote that “you can get drunk on Tintoretto.” It’s an appropriate and perhaps instructional metric of enthusiasm; as with heavy drinking, you should consider how much time it might take you to recover.

Although Tintoretto’s story looms throughout untold volumes on the European Renaissance, you won’t know that you don’t know him until you walk through these galleries. Enough praise cannot be given here to exhibition curators Robert Echols and Frederick Ilchman, who chronicled the artist’s life and career so profoundly as to reinvigorate it. Over the past three decades, they have performed almost forensic analysis, undoing centuries of misattributions that suppressed Tintoretto’s reputation.

“Venice is full of stodgy paintings attributed to Tintoretto,” says Echols.

“The bulk of our work over the last 30 years was to clarify what Tintoretto actually painted, to capture his individual personality as a painter,” adds Ilchman. “People are confessing to us that they didn’t like Tintoretto until now.”

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“The Madonna of the Treasurers,” 1567. Jacopo Tintoretto. Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice. Scala/Ministero per i Beni e le Attivitàculturali/Art Resource, NY. It turns out that Tintoretto was one of says Ilchman. “Large paintings covering 1555, hanging on the opposite wall. history’s greatest painters all along. But whole walls where the technique is a big His enormous painted sketch for what’s more intriguing is that the quality of portion of the content, from Rubens to Pollock “Paradiso,” c. 1583, is a masterpiece in his work is shockingly modern.

— to anticipate that!” itself. “Paradiso” was his largest and most “Certain things about Tintoretto that were The blunt force of the artist’s talent is on important mural in the Doge’s Palace, a audacious in his time later came to fruition,” display from his earliest works. Tintoretto was prize commission he had eyed for decades. essentially self-taught — another revelation Christ crowns the Virgin Mary as Queen of from Echols and Ilchman — training with Heaven before the ranks of the blessed, a vast fresco painters and furniture decorators who congregation of angelic forms receding on worked remarkably fast, forgoing the careful clouds into infinite light. It combines the sort finishing techniques of Venice’s renowned of loosely centralized, all-over composition painting workshops. that you scarcely see in Western art before “He would go anywhere to learn new ways 20th-century abstraction with the narrative to paint,” says Echols, “even working with grandeur of the Italian Renaissance. low prestige painters, who toiled under the This probably isn’t a piece that would have arcades of the Piazza San Marco decorating been displayed widely in his lifetime, but chests and furniture.” this is our privilege in looking at Tintoretto’s “The Conversion of Saint Paul,” c. 1544, work today. We appreciate loose and textured reveals an inchoate but explosive energy. virtuosity, favoring painting that flaunts the Wisps and washes of paint dusted lightly with quality of the artist’s hand. “Compositional details, it’s a controlled chaos defined by large rhythms and bold color tones applied with swaths of color. energetic gestural brushstrokes” could just A youthful self-portrait of delicious as well describe Joan Mitchell as Tintoretto. vanity greets you upon arrival — the first From here, the show transforms into a of two portraits that bookend the show. The spoil of wonder. “The Origin of the Milky background is void, his shirt an undefined Way,” c. 1577/79, is soaked like a rum cake black mass. Light concentrates around his with lapis lazuli, engulfed in cloths of red and face, from which piercing, sensitive, long- gold, glimmering peacocks and cherubs with lashed eyes linger beyond the viewer from wings like exotic birds. the shadow of a prominent brow.

In the final gallery hang two immense Tintoretto was rebuked by his peers canvases from the Scuola Grande di San for working “too quickly.” His paintings, Rocco, for which Tintoretto painted more betraying visible brushstrokes, looked than 50 canvases over 24 years. In these “unfinished.” But it’s precisely this quickness later paintings, and toward the end of his of brush, this “unfinishedness,” that appeals life, Tintoretto reorients his compositions so strongly to us now. By comparison, around landscape and light, mystical and canvases by Titian and Raphael seem tame introspective. and controlled. Tintoretto’s have a roiling, if His final self-portrait was painted six refined, surface texture, suggesting a certain years before his death. It’s a far cry from act of discovery through painting, as though the youthful defiance of his earlier portrait, he were creating masterpieces on the fly. overcome with a certain fatigue, his sunken Which, it turns out, he was. cheeks disappearing into a wispy beard. Yet A handful of his drawings — as well as a his eyes still radiate with the sensitivity of one separate exhibition of them just downstairs who deeply observes the world around him.

— offer insights into how the artist worked Edouard Manet called it “one of the most so quickly, and how he thought about beautiful paintings in the world.” He could composition and the human form. A reclining have said that about anything by Tintoretto, male nude ripples with dunes of musculature, and who among us would be foolish enough a study for “Saint George and the Dragon,” c. to disagree?

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Biking Advocate Killed

by Stolen Van Longtime D.C. bike advocate Dave Salovesh, 54, was hit and killed late last month by the driver of a stolen van in Northeast D.C.’s Trinidad neighborhood.

Robert Earl Little Jr., 25, was charged with second-degree murder and unauthorized use of a motor vehicle. An IT professional, Salovesh often wrote about the need for protected bike lanes, called for more investment in cycling infrastructure and spoke about wishing his teenage daughter had the freedom to bike to school safely.

installation under Solar Works DC, a clean-energy program for low-to-moderateincome residents that installs solar panels on homes. The mayor, whose fiscal 2020 budget includes more than $1 million for the program, also released a citywide plan called Sustainable DC 2.0 that details strategies for being the healthiest, greenest, most livable city in the nation.

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Students Object to Campus Dog Walking, Jogging Recent neighborhood arrivals (aka gentrifiers) are disrespecting Howard University, particularly historic cultural hub “The Yard,” say students. Of late, the campus is attracting dog walkers and joggers. The Washington Informer reported that students, noticing things like pets doing their business on fraternity trees, are using social media to voice their objections, likely connected to the larger issue of cultural and physical displacement.

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Mayor Bowser marked the 100th installation of a Solar Works DC panel.

D.C.-Baltimore Region Gets F on Ozone Test

The D.C.-Baltimore region is the 16th most ozone-polluted city in the country according to the annual “State of the Air” report, released by the American Lung Association.

The region got an F on the ozone test. In the three-year period from 2015 through 2017, the District had 14 high-ozone days.

Howard University’s new neighbors are walking dogs on the campus.

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In a post-Earth Day celebration, Mayor Muriel Bowser recognized the 100th

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Hoping for changes along a busy stretch of K Street, between 12th and 21st Streets NW, Mayor Bowser unveiled a proposal for a complete redesign, creating a dedicated bus lane. The plan would increase the speed of buses, currently 3 to 5 mph, by about 30 percent. But it comes with a price: service roads and most (perhaps all) of the metered parking would be eliminated. Almost 30,000 vehicles and 40,000 bus passengers travel through those 10 blocks daily.

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Greek Deli Reopens After Bathroom Issue Greek Deli, the popular, decades-old lunch spot at 1120 19th St. NW, reopened on April 24 after being temporarily closed by DC Health, apparently because the deli lacks a restroom. Owner Kostas Fostieris had been using bathrooms in the adjacent building for years, always getting business licenses and passing health inspections. The store isn’t required to have a restroom for customers, but has to have one within 500 feet for employees. A resolution is in progress.

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1264 WISCONSIN AVE., NW 202-333-7370 | martinstavern.com Fifth generation Lauren Martin learns the family business from her dad, Billy Martin, Jr. Since 1933, the warm atmosphere of Martin’s Tavern has welcomed neighbors and travelers looking for great food, service and years of history within it’s walls. Fourth generation owner Billy Martin. Jr. continues the tradition of Washington’s oldest family-owned restaurant.

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Brunching & Tastings For Moms

BY LOUIS CHA RL INI The first special woman in everyone’s life? Their mother, naturally. This Mother’s Day, show her how much you appreciate all that she has done for you. Start by treating her with the loving-kindness and respect she deserves — but don’t stop there. For a gift to be treasured, not set aside, plan some quality time together in the countryside.

Feeling adventurous? Why not hike along Sky Meadows State Park for a Blue Ridge picnic, unwrapping the freshest of spring delicacies? For a more cozy and traditional alternative, reserve your spots at one of the festive Sunday brunches and tastings below.

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While you sip on your MOMosas, enjoy live music by Jason Masi. Reminder: No one under the age of 21, including infants

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and children, will permitted on the grounds.

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CHEESEOLOGY AT LITTLE WASHINGTON WINERY Cheeseology is a delicious, educational and lively seminar on the basics of cheese and wine pairing. You’ll taste cheeses from all six categories of cheese with six different wines as you discover what makes a cheese and wine pairing successful.

You’ll also learn how to choose and serve artisan cheese and how to taste to get the most from your palate. For details, visit littlewashingtonwinery.com. Little Washington Winery, 72 Christmas Tree Lane, Washington, Virginia.

MOTHER’S DAY GRAND BRUNCH BUFFET AT SALAMANDER Indulge mom this Mother’s Day with a savory celebration. Join us in our ballroom

WAVERLY

The Plains, Virginia • $2,950,000 Circa 1755 | Between Middleburg and The Plains | Additions in early 1800’s & 1943 | Home recently restored | 62 gently rolling acres in Orange County Hunt | 4 bedrooms, 4 1/2 baths, 6 fireplaces | Improvements include salt water pool, pool house, large party house/studio, 2 tenant houses, stone walls and pond Paul MacMahon (703) 609-1905

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for a grand buffet featuring an extensive omelet bar, an interactive pasta cooking station, an elaborate seafood tower, an indulgent steak carving, bottomless mimosas and much more. A special children’s buffet and a dessert display also will be available. $98 per person, $45 per child. Reservations required. For details, visit salamanderresort.com or call 540-3264070. Salamander Resort & Spa, 500 N. Pendleton St., Middleburg, Virginia.

HALCYON HILL

Rectortown, Virginia • $2,475,000 17 acres of rolling pasture land in the village of Rectortown | Convenient to both Routes 50 & 66 | Newly renovated | Private setting with magnificent mountain views | 4 bedrooms, 4 full baths, 1 half bath, 2 fireplaces | Heated pool & spa | 2 bedroom guest house | Large shed & 2-car garage Paul MacMahon (703) 609-1905 Helen MacMahon (540) 454-1930

ASHBY HOUSE

Rectortown, Virginia • $645,000 Circa 1800 | Living room with FP | Exposed log outbuilding | Original wood floors | Well proportioned rooms | Master BR addition in 2000 with ample storage | Large screened in porch off kitchen overlooking private yard | Mature trees, garden, incredible western views of the Blue Ridge Mountains | All the perks of quiet village living, with access to Routes 50, 17 and 66 Helen MacMahon (540) 454-1930

MOTHER’S DAY AT MOUNT VERNON Join the Mother of Our Country, Martha Washington, for Mother’s Day weekend at Mount Vernon. Stroll through Mount Vernon’s magnificent gardens in bloom.

Lady Washington will give lavender sachets to all mothers on the mansion’s piazza (while supplies last). For details, visit mountvernon.org.

INGLEWOOD

Delaplane, Virginia • $1,935,000 Circa 1850’s log and frame home moved and rebuilt at site | 3 bedrooms, 2 baths | Exposed beams and interior log walls | Stone fireplace | Barn also moved and rebuilt, has approved 2 bedroom perc site | Large pond, many streams, multiple building sites | Private Fauquier location outside village of Scuffleburg | 305 acres Paul MacMahon

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OAK RIDGE

Warrenton, Virginia • $550,000 Prime location, off Springs Road | Surrounded by large farms & estates | House circa 1890 with 2 BR, 1 1/2 BA, FP, hardwood floors, new kitchen | Garage | 2 sheds/studio potential | Property shares large spring fed pond | Private setting on 13.21 acres Paul MacMahon

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MOTHER’S DAY SPECIAL AT BOXWOOD ESTATE WINERY

MOTHER’S DAY BRUNCH AT THE RED FOX

Every mom receives a flower during her visit. Enjoy a special featuring chocolatecovered strawberries from Kingsbury Chocolates and a bottle of Sauvignon Blanc for $30. For details, visit boxwoodwinery. com. Boxwood Estate Winery, 2042 Burrland Lane, Middleburg, Virginia.

Make this Mother’s Day extra special by treating Mom to a three-course brunch at the Red Fox. Make reservations and view details and menus at redfox.com. The Red Fox Inn & Tavern, 2 E. Washington St., Middleburg, Virginia.

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TRAPPE HILL FARM

Upperville ~ 536 acres protected by a conservation easement with the Virginia Outdoors Foundation; however, division rights offer potential for additional tax credits. Recently used for horses, hay, and cattle, but the gentle south-facing slope would also be ideal for grapes. There is a well-built home, which awaits your vision to reach its 21st century potential. Find peace and serenity in this historic and sought-after corner of Loudoun County. $6,500,000

FOX FORD FARM

Jeffersonton ~ Unique 4 BR country house with pool and outbuildings. One and 1/2 mile of Rappahannock river frontage. Open, rolling fields. Investment, horse farm, brewery, B&B, farming or winery potential. All around views, flowering gardens, privacy and peace. 15 minutes to Warrenton. $1,991,000 on 239+acres or $1,443,000 on 142 acres

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Delaplane ~ Estate on 27 acres of rolling countryside with views of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The all brick 3 level residence features 5 Bedrooms and 5 Baths, spacious rooms and huge floor to ceiling windows. The grounds include a pool with stone terraces, a center aisle stable, huge indoor riding arena and a tenant/guest house. Ideally located with easy access to the nation’s Capital. $1,150,000

WINDY RIDGE

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Notice of Public Hearing and Preliminary Finding on Extension for Georgetown Business Improvement District, Southwest Business Improvement District and Mount Vernon Community Improvement District Notice is hereby given that, pursuant to section 6 of the Business Improvement Districts Act of 1996 (“Act”), D.C. Official Code § 2-1215.18, the Department of Small and Local Business Development (DSLBD) will hold a public hearing on the extension of the Georgetown Business Improvement District, the Southwest Business Improvement District, and the Mount Vernon Community Improvement District.

The public hearing will be held at 2:00 pm on Wednesday, June 19, 2019 in Suite 850N, 441 4th Street NW, Washington, D.C. DSLBD Director Kristi Whitfield has informed the Georgetown Business Improvement District, the Southwest Business Improvement District, and the Mount Vernon Community Improvement District that the filing criteria set forth in D.C. Official Code § 2-1215.18 have been met and their applications are otherwise in conformity with the Act. The BID applications are available for review by the public online at https://dslbd.dc.gov/service/businessimprovement-districts-bids.

DSLBD invites the public to testify at the public hearing. Witnesses should bring a copy of their written testimony to the hearing. Additional written statements may be submitted by e-mail to Jennifer.prats@dc.gov or mailed to: Jennifer Prats, DSLBD, 441 4th Street NW, Suite 850N, Washington, DC 20001.

The public hearing record will close ten business days following the conclusion of the hearing, or Wednesday, July 3, 2019 before 5:00 p.m. Persons submitting written statements for the record should observe this deadline.

KITTY KELLEY BOOK CLUB

‘Doing Justice: A Prosecutor’s Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law’ A FASCINATING LOOK AT ALL THINGS LEGAL FROM THE FORMER HEAD OF NEW YORK’S SOUTHERN DISTRICT. R EVIEWE D BY KIT T Y K E LLE Y With “Doing Justice: A Prosecutor’s Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law,” Preet Bharara writes himself into the diamond circle of Clarence Darrow. There have been other good books by lawyers — including Louis Nizer’s “My Life in Court” and “One Man’s Freedom” by Edward Bennett Williams — that have enriched our understanding of the law and its application by practitioners of the bar. But Darrow set the gold standard in 1932 with “The Story of My Life,” which recounts one of the most extraordinary legal careers in American history.

In recent years, we’ve had to turn to the fiction of John Grisham (“The Firm,” “The Client,” “The Pelican Brief”) and the work of Aaron Sorkin (including his Broadway adaptations of “A Few Good Men” and “To Kill a Mockingbird”) to appreciate the vexing complexities of doing justice.

But now we have an un-put-downable primer from the former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, written with immense skill and engaging style.

Bharara’s tough, smart and funny. He does not condescend to readers without legal credentials, but clearly explains what “confirmation bias” is, what “proffers” are and why most trial lawyers won’t risk irritating judges with “a motion for reconsideration.”

He tells riveting stories from real-life experience and attributes his near-perfect record as a federal prosecutor to the hard work and preparation that his team invested in achieving convictions in cases such as the Madoff/JPMorgan Chase Ponzi scheme and a scam defrauding a fund for Holocaust survivors.

Bharara’s professional generosity is impressive. He dedicates his book to the “fearless women and men of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York” and throughout its pages cites

2008 financial crisis.

Bharara addresses the “odious conduct” by Wall Street thugs, writing: “No one likes the fact that bad actors got away with harming many innocent people,” but “we can only bring cases when the facts and the law lend support to an indictment.”

He prosecuted gangs, banks, drug lords, insider traders, arms traffickers, Russian money launderers and “the epidemic of corruption in Albany.” In a chapter entitled “Three Men in a Room,” he draws a shady picture of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos: “Power in New York state is unduly concentrated in the hands of … just 3 men … who famously made all important decisions for the people of New York, mostly behind closed doors.”

He convicted two of the three and regrets not being able to wrestle the law into a choke hold on the governor. “I have a lot I could say about the people we did not charge, after lengthy investigations. But I won’t. It is what it is.”

The Southern District is frequently referred those who helped him achieve enormous to as the “Sovereign District” or the “Mother success, naming numerous attorneys as well Church” because of its sterling record as investigators and police detectives. of criminal prosecutions. The New York He wins admiration when he admits Times calls it “one of New York City’s most error. “We did not always get it right … we powerful clubs” because, as Bharara explains, pursued cases that some people thought were its lawyers “are among the best-educated, overreach, and we walked away from others most credentialed, highest achieving young that some were dying to see us bring.” lawyers in the country. Many clerk for the In 2012, Bharara made the cover of Time Supreme Court and are at the top of their magazine with the headline: “This Man class at the most prestigious schools.” Even Is Busting Wall Street.” Yet some critics, he admits to having been intimidated by some like William D. Cohan in the Nation and of the résumés that crossed his desk.

Jesse Eisinger, author of the 2017 book But Bharara’s bona fides bow to none.

“The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Valedictorian of his high school, he graduated Department Fails to Prosecute Executives,” from Harvard and Columbia Law School, fault him for not indicting anyone after the where he was a member of the Columbia

Law Review. After several years in private practice doing white-collar defense work, Bharara served as chief counsel to Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-New York) and was appointed

by President Obama to be U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, which, he writes, is “the best place I will ever work.”

He held the position from 2009 to 2017 and racked up numerous convictions.

Following the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump asked Bharara to remain in his position, which gave him prosecutorial jurisdiction over many parts of Trump’s business empire. Seven weeks after the inauguration, Trump wanted him to resign.

Bharara refused and was fired.

He later said on his podcast, “Stay Tuned with Preet,” that he believed the president would have asked him “to do something inappropriate” if he had stayed longer in the job. He joined New York University School of Law as distinguished scholar in residence, but he seems destined for broader horizons.

Maybe Sen. Preet? Possibly Gov. Bharara?

Bharara writes that you will not find God or grace in legal concepts or in formal notions of criminal justice. But be assured that you’ll find God and grace in this fascinating book.

Georgetown resident Kitty Kelley has written several number-one New York Times best-sellers, including “The Family: The Real Story Behind the Bush Dynast y.”

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.”

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The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction is a national prize honoring the best published works of fiction by American citizens the previous year. Following the judges’ citations for each finalist’s work, the award will be conferred with a reading by each author. Folger Shakespeare Library. Visit penfaulkner.org/award-for-fiction.

The Trust for the National Mall, in partnership with the National Park Service, is dedicated to preserving the condition of the National Mall. The emcee for this tented event on the National Mall will be CNN’s Wolf Blitzer.

Email information@nationalmall.org or visit nationalmall.org/events.

Proceeds benefit the museum’s educational programs, which forward K-12 education reform, art, wellness and lifelong learning in D.C., nationwide and globally. The Phillips Collection. Email annualgala@ phillipscollection.org.

CityDance Dream offers no-cost dance training together with academic college preparation and family services to students from grade three through high school in underserved D.C. communities. A performance at the Lincoln Theatre will be followed by an after-party at the Thurgood Marshall Center. Call 202-347-3909 or visit dreamgala@citydance.net.

MAY 8 MARCH OF DIMES GOURMET GALA At this fundraising dinner, U.S. senators and representatives will participate in a competitive cookout as celebrity chefs preparing their favorite dishes. Proceeds benefit the March of Dimes advocacy programs. National Building Museum. Visit signaturechefs.marchofdimes.org.

PREVENT CANCER FOUNDATION GALA The nonprofit’s mission is to save lives through cancer prevention and early detection. The theme of this year’s spring gala is “Switzerland: Postcard Perfect.” National Building Museum.

Contact Jacob Petersen at 703-837-3688 or jacob.petersen@preventcancer.org.

WASHINGTON BALLET GALA Amy Baier, Jean-Marie Fernandez and Carrie Marriott are co-chairs for this year’s gala, “Illuminate and Ignite,” which will include a black-tie dinner, performances by the professional company and school members and a dance party. The evening supports the Washington Ballet’s productions and arts and education programs. The Anthem. Call 202-362-3606 or visit washingtonballet.org.

ST. JUDE HEART OF FASHION The event is an evening of couture fashion and light bites featuring a runway presentation and a reception to benefit St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital. The Plaza at CityCenterDC. Visit jtjude.org/ heartoffashion.

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Smithsonian Craft Show Preview Night

BY MARY BIRD The preview night for this year’s Smithsonian Craft Show, organized by the Smithsonian Women’s Committee, took place at the National Building Museum on Apr. 24.

Following an awards ceremony honoring Joyce J. Scott as the 2019 Smithsonian Visionary Artist, guests enjoyed cocktail and buffet stations as they shopped and met the artists. Out of nearly 1,000 applications, 120 exceptional artists were selected by a distinguished jury. Show proceeds support Smithsonian projects that open knowledge, adventure and discovery to the world.

Victoria Sams and Camilla McCaslin.

Helen O’Brien, Kitty Kelley and Sarah Gorman.

Tiffany & Co. Shines at CityCenterDC

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Alessandro Bogliolo, Chief Executive Officer, Tiffany & Co.; Diane Brown, Market Vice President, Mid Atlantic/Central at Tiffany & Co.; Brandon Clay, CityCenter Store Director, Tiffany & Co.

Laura Carlson Tierney, Lindley Thornburg Richardson and Susan Farkas.

Tiffany & Co. celebrated its first store opening in the nation’s capital March 27.

Within the shining, 5,000-square-foot store at CityCenterDC, Tiffany & Co. CEO Allesandro Bogliolo greeted guests, who viewed iconic collections such as Tiffany T, custom artwork and a limited time archival exhibit, featuring objects from the brand’s most notable pieces from American history. The jeweler has two other stores in the Washington area.

Folger Library: The Wonder of Will The 2019 Folger Gala celebrated the Wonder of Will. Folger board members Florence Cohen and Stuart Rose, with their spouses Mimi Rose and Neal Cohen, served as gala co-chairs. Gala entertainment includes performances by Alison Luff, last seen on the Folger stage in “Nell Gwynn.” Amid the opulent setting, guests viewed “A Monument to Shakespeare: The Architecture of the Folger Shakespeare Library.”

Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) and Peter Heydon.

Carol Adelman, Daniel Rabinowitz and Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito.

Jacqueline Badger Mars and Folger Director Michael Witmore.

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What’s POTUS Got to Do With It? The White House Correspondents

BY RO BE RT DEVA NEY The pre- and post- parties centered around the once glitzy, celeb-obsessed White House Correspondent’s Association Dinner continued this year, April 25 to 28. While calmer without the president attending and the slew of actors and other personalities, the fancy parties were enjoyed by various guests and, yes, even by members of the press.

Former Georgetowner and former Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson at Washington Hilton red carpet April 27. Photo by Jeff Malet.

Transgender Filipino-American supermodel Geena Rocero, 2019 Playboy Playmate of the Year Jordan Emanuel, and Cloe Luv. Photo by Robert Devaney.

The sixth annual Washington Women in Journalism Awards, hosted by Story Partners founder and chairman Gloria Story Dittus and Washingtonian CEO Cathy Merrill Williams, honored Amanda Terkel, Abby Phillip, Ashley Parker and Andrea Mitchell, as shown with Dittus and Williams at Anderson House April 25. Courtesy Story Partners.

At the Capitol File post-party at the Dupont Circle Hotel April 27: former White House press secretary Sean Spicer, actor Michael Kelly of “House of Cards” and Capitol File editor in chief Michael Clements. Photo by Nick Klein.

Josh Dawsey, Washington Post reporter, honored at WHCA dinner, Qatari Ambassador Meshal Bin Hamad Al-Thani, Scott Thuman of the Sinclair Broadcast Group and former Rep. James Moran at Qatar and Washington Diplomat party. Photo by Neshan H. Naltchayan.

Carole Crist and Alan Behar at the Post pre-party April 27 at the Washington Hilton. Photo by Robert Devaney.

Council member Jack Evans, Jayne Visser and Washington Post Publisher Fred Ryan. Photo by Robert Devaney.

Fouad Talout and wife Therese with Elena Solovyov and Shelly Miglani and her husband Gaurav Mehra at the Qatar and Washington Diplomat party. Georgetowner photo.

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