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Meet Cooper, Theresa Crawford’s Maltese, who lives with her on the east side of Georgetown. “I’m just about the luckiest little guy because I live in Georgetown where I get to see my friends, two legs and four, every day,” Cooper tells us. Photo by Theresa Crawford.
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Dog Days of Summer
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MASS SHOOTINGS: HOMEGROWN TERRORISM
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REAL ESTATE · 13 - 14 July 2019 Sales Pushing the Envelope
ARTS · 15
‘Assassins’ Opens Signature’s Anniversary Season
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ALPHARETTA: GATEWAY TO A NEW SOUTH BY STEPH AN IE GR EEN
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FOOD & WINE · 17 Cocktail of the Month Dining Guide
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Tournament winner Nick Kyrgios lunges for a serve from opponent Stefanos Tsitsipas in a thrilling semifinals match on Saturday, Aug. 3. Photo by Jeff Malet.
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AUGUST 9
CHILEAN TENOR MIGUEL ÁNGEL PELLAO In celebration of the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, the National Museum of the American Indian will host a concert featuring Chilean tenor Miguel Ángel Pellao (Pehuenche), winner of the Guitarpín de Oro at the Chilean Festival del Huaso de Olmué. Admission is free. For details, visit americanindian.si.edu. National Museum of the American Indian, Fourth Street and Independence Avenue SW.
Sir Ringo Starr will perform with his All-Starr Band, including vocalist/multiinstrumentalist Colin Hay (Men at Work), guitarist Steve Lukather (Toto), keyboardist/ vocalist Gregg Rolie (Santana, Journey), guitarist/vocalist Hamish Stuart (Average White Band), drummer Gregg Bissonette (Toto, Don Henley) and saxophonist/ vocalist Warren Ham (Toto). Tickets are $45 to $95. For details, visit wolftrap.org. 1551 Trap Road, Vienna, Virginia.
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YACINE FALL AT CORCORAN Work by Senegalese-Mauritanian American artist Yacine Fall will be shown as part of Gallery 102’s Summer Solo Series. Fall is an interdisciplinary conceptual artist
using performance, sculpture, painting and natural materials. Her work investigates identity, politics and history through the lens of the body. Admission is free. For details, visit corcoran.gwu.edu. Gallery 102, 500 17th St. NW.
AUGUST 14
MEDITATION ON ART WITH SCOTT IVEY The act of creating art is a way to access a meditative state of mind and the profound healing it brings. Led by Scott Ivey, this session on using drawing as a form of meditation will be preceded by beverages and light bites. Admission is free. For details, visit eventbrite.com. Artist’s Proof Gallery, 1533 Wisconsin Ave. NW.
AUGUST 15
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At Capital Arts Collective, downtown D.C.’s pop-up arts market, visitors can shop the best finds by local creatives and enjoy a curated selection of items — from arts and crafts to jewelry and handmade wares. For details, visit itcdc.com. Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW.
NADAMOO! ICE CREAM TOUR Austin-based NadaMoo! dairy-free ice cream is setting up experiential venues for guests to lounge in a coconut chair photo booth and enjoy free scoops of its creamy coconut-milk ice cream served from an umbrella-covered tricycle. For details, visit instagram.com/nadamoo. Songbyrd Record Cafe and Music House, 2475 18th St NW.
AUGUST 17
GEORGIE’S PUPPY POOL BIRTHDAY PARTY Every dog has their day, and Georgie, Fairmont Washington, D.C., Georgetown’s Canine Ambassador, is bow-wowed to celebrate her first birthday with a puppy pool party. Humans and canine companions are invited to the hotel’s courtyard for complimentary peanut butter birthday cake and a copy of Georgie’s new coloring book. For details, visit eventbrite.com. Fairmont Washington D.C. Georgetown, 2401 M St. NW.
AUGUST 30
EXHIBITION PREVIEW AT TEXTILE MUSEUM Bringing together rarely displayed artworks from the fourth century to the 12th century, the exhibition “Woven Interiors: Furnishing Early Medieval Egypt” will reveal how textiles infused warmth and beauty into Egypt’s interior spaces. Museum members are invited to preview “Woven Interiors” on Aug. 30, the day before it opens to the public. To join online, visit museum.gwu.edu or call 202-994-5242. GWU Museum and the Textile Museum, 701 21st Street NW.
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Ellington Field Transfer: A Done Deal? BY PEG GY SA NDS “Is it a done deal?” “Did you even try to reach out to tell the ANC about it?” “Have funds been transferred?” “Have any plans been made for the field that will impact all the neighbors around it?” Those were the questions Advisory Neighborhood Commission Chairman Rick Murphy put to Ely Ross, chief of staff at the District Department of Parks and Recreation, at the July 1 meeting of ANC 2E. They were in connection with a seemingly innocuous bureaucratic decision by DC Public Schools to transfer to DPR its administrative oversight of the little known, presumably lightly maintained and relatively unused playing field at 38th and S Streets NW.
The playing area officially belongs to the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, located about five blocks away at 37th Street and Reservoir Road. But the commissioners were outraged that they had not been informed of the transfer. “The very reason why the ANCs were formed is to make its views and recommendations on just such matters known to city agencies and taken seriously,” Murphy said. However, as of this writing, on August 1, Murphy told The Georgetowner he had not heard anything. According to John Stokes, interim associate director of the Department of General Services, the deal is all but done. “All the i’s have been dotted and the t’s crossed,” he told The Georgetowner on July 29.
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Girls and boys, including twins from Honduras, take the Oath of Citizenship. Photo by Robert Devaney.
Children Become Citizens at Dumbarton House BY PEGGY SAN D S On Thursday afternoon, Aug. 1, Georgetown’s Dumbarton House was filled with the excited chatter in various languages of 28 children and their parents. The children — including identical twins and a little girl celebrating her 8th birthday that day — were preparing to take the oath of U.S. citizenship from Ken Cuccinelli, acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. The ceremony was held on Aug. 1 because that date is the birthday of Francis Scott Key, author of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” who was a resident of Georgetown. Dumbarton House, at 2715 Q St. NW, is both a historic house museum and the headquarters of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America. The children were born in 22 different countries. To qualify for citizenship, children
who were not born in the United States have to have at least one parent who is a U.S. citizen, who applies for them. Children under the age of 14 are not required to recite the Oath of Allegiance with hands raised, but at the Dumbarton House ceremony all the children (who were mostly under that age) waved American flags and clearly repeated the oath, which originated in 1790. The Oath of Allegiance includes “difficult words” that Cuccinelli carefully read out to them, such as, in the first sentence: “I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen.” Also, according to U.S. naturalization laws, any applicants who had a previous hereditary title of nobility had to renounce it to become a citizen.
Al Wheeler, 1919-2019 BY R OBERT D EVAN EY Asher Louis (Al) Wheeler, lawyer, hotelier and real estate developer, died peacefully at his home on July 24. He was 100 years old. A native of Atlanta, Georgia, Wheeler was born on July 8, 1919. In 1944, he moved to Georgetown and lived the remainder of his days with his wife Naoma. A graduate of the University of Georgia and Harvard Law School, he specialized in air transportation law and later went into private practice and became a real estate investor and developer. Wheeler constructed several townhouse and single-family communities in neighborhoods such as Georgetown, Foggy Bottom, Foxhall and Kent. In Georgetown, he also renovated and owned retail and mixed-use buildings and built and operated the Marbury House hotel — later known as the Latham and now being redeveloped — and the Hotel Monticello, now known as the Graham. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Blue Key, Omicron Delta Kappa, the Gridiron Club of Georgia, the Oldest Inhabitants of Washington, the Newcomen Society, the Kiwanis Club of Georgetown and the Georgetown Business Association. Wheeler served as chairman of the District of Columbia Democratic Central Committee
Real estate developer Al Wheeler. Photo by Robert Devaney. from 1948 to 1960 and represented the District of Columbia as a delegate to the National Democratic Conventions of 1948, 1952 and 1956. His work drafting the D.C. Home Rule legislation became the basis for the District of Columbia’s self-government. In 2010, the D.C. Council awarded Wheeler a Distinguished Citizen Citation for his numerous contributions to the betterment of life in the District of Columbia, proclaiming March 2, 2010, “Al Wheeler Day.” He is survived by two of his three children, Anita Wheeler and James Wheeler, and four grandchildren. Private services will be at a later date.
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Maureen Dowd Party Trashed on Twitter BY RO BE RT DEVA NEY What is it about Georgetown parties? Attracting not only the neighbors’ attention, of course, but side looks and comments from far away? The latest dust-up concerned New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd’s July 24 party at her N Street home for Times colleague Carl Hulse and his new book: “Confirmation Bias: Inside Washington’s War Over the Supreme Court, from Scalia’s Death to Justice Kavanaugh.” What seemed a innocent summer night get-together for a Washington author got whacked from left and right, but especially the left. What ignited the brouhaha? MSNBC analyst and former Newsweek writer Howard Fineman posted a tweet with an image of Dowd, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer outside the N Street house. Fineman’s tweet mentioned Hulse’s new book, after writing: “A @maureendowd party is always crowded. The action is outside her Georgetown home. Speaker Pelosi arrived late, greeted by the hostess, escorted by @SenSchumer.” Soon enough, as a sign of the times, Fineman’s tweet racked up high negatives — earning the Twitter nomenclature of being “ratio’d” — and he deleted it. He later commented: “Tonight I tweeted a pic of a Georgetown party hosted by @maureendowd, attended by @SpeakerPelosi, @SenSchumer
and DC journos. In the old days it would’ve been a benign big-shot brag. No more. It was viciously ratio’d by left and right. I deleted it. All establishments are hated.” For her part, Dowd let loose a major salvo against progressives in her Sunday column, headlined, “Spare Me the Purity Racket.” She began: “After I interviewed Nancy Pelosi a few weeks ago, The HuffPost huffed that we were Dreaded Elites because we were eating chocolates and — horror of horrors — the speaker had on some good pumps. “Then this week, lefty Twitter erected a digital guillotine because I had a book party for my friend Carl Hulse, The Times’s authority on Capitol Hill for decades, attended by family, journalists, Hill denizens and a smattering of lawmakers, including Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and Susan Collins. “I, the daughter of a D.C. cop, and Carl, the son of an Illinois plumber, were hilariously painted as decadent aristocrats reveling like Marie Antoinette when we should have been knitting like Madame Defarge. “Yo, proletariat: If the Democratic Party is going to be against chocolate, high heels, parties and fun, you’ve lost me. And I’ve got some bad news for you about 2020 ...” When contacted by The Georgetowner newspaper to see if our neighbor had additional comment, Dowd’s assistant at the New York Times, Shawn McCreesh, replied: “Hey, thanks for the opportunity to comment, but she has nothing else to add.”
Maureen Dowd. Photo by Artwi. Tweet courtesy Howard Fineman.
Georgetown Waterfront Park. Courtesy WRT Planning + Design.
5G Launches in Georgetown Area BY PEGGY SAN D S “Can you see it? Can you find the 5G cell? It’s hiding in plain sight.” The challenge came from David Weissmann of Verizon as he pointed around the south end of Dupont Circle at noon on Wednesday, July 31. He was offering reporters live demonstrations of the much-anticipated Ultra Wide Band digital network known as 5G, which Mayor Muriel Bowser has prioritized for development in the District. The new phones not only promise high-speed connectivity to all apps and functions in seconds (versus minutes with present-day mobile phones), according to Weissmann, “but also almost unimaginable improvements to public functions like traffic control and emergency vehicle dispatch … and even eventually mobile surgery.” Weissmann held a 5G device in his hand. It was a normal looking, very slim, nextgeneration smartphone equipped with a 5G chip connecting it to the nearest 5G cell within a 300-to-500-foot line-of-sight perimeter. It clocked in an upload of data at over 1.2 gigabytes per second. But it’s the cells that are controversial. A box about three feet in diameter, the “small cell,” containing fiber lines connected to the provider’s grid, has to be placed high above ground on poles, rooftops or other elevated surfaces for maximum connectivity. “The most efficient places
for reach and connectibility obviously are in dense, urban areas where people tend to congregate, preferably in open public spaces,” Weissmann said. Such as Dupont Circle. Without looking too hard, the 5G cell servicing about half the park could be seen on the rooftop some 20 stories above the Krispy Kreme doughnut shop. The cell space was leased, as it will be wherever poles are not used, Weissmann explained. Leasers will earn a small revenue from the lease. There could be competition among homeowners — “a good problem for us,” Weissmann said with a wink. Verizon claims to be the first company in the world to offer a commercially available 5G network and 5G-enabled smartphones. It sells five different devices at its retail stores. Initially, access to Verizon’s 5G UWB service in Washington, D.C., would be available in the following areas: Foggy Bottom, Dupont Circle, Cardozo/U Street, Adams Morgan, Columbia Heights, LeDroit Park, the Georgetown waterfront, Judiciary Square, Shaw, Eckington, NoMa, National Mall/Smithsonian, Gallery Place/ Chinatown, Mt. Vernon Square, Downtown, Penn Quarter, Brentwood, Southwest Waterfront and Navy Yard. Go to Georgetown Waterfront Park and see if you can find the cell (it’s supposedly hiding in plain sight).
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Vera Tilson, 1924-2019 BY GARY TISC H L ER
Wisteria in spring 2019; tree work last week. Photos by Cristi Cline.
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ANC’S RICK MURPHY CATCHES A THIEF
ANC 2E Chairman Rick Murphy became something of a community hero when he helped stop a shoplifter who was leaving the 7-Eleven on P Street and Wisconsin Avenue near Murphy’s home on July 31 at about 7:30 a.m., carrying unpaid merchandise. Murphy helped the 7-Eleven employees subdue the “fairly strong guy” until police came and “gently” (according to Murphy) arrested him. The shoplifter appeared to be unarmed, but at the time, no one was sure. Murphy told the Washington Post that he thought the shoplifter was homeless. Metropolitan Police said the 25-yearold suspect has no fixed address. He was charged in a citation with theft and released from the station house; he has a court date in September. “It’s tough out there for people like him on the streets of Washington. Shoplifting is not a huge deal compared to what goes on all over this city,” Murphy told the Post. “But it is a quality-of-life issue. It’s bad for any neighborhood it happens in. That’s the issue for me. You can’t just let it go, but you do want to make sure that people under these circumstances get help.”
A$AP ROCKY FAN ARRESTED AT SWEDISH EMBASSY
An A$AP Rocky fan was arrested last week at the House of Sweden on 30th Street at the Georgetown waterfront. On two consecutive days, Rebecca Kanter screamed obscenities at embassy employees about the American rapper, who was being held in Sweden on assault charges at the time. After throwing liquid from a glass soda bottle, Kanter shouted, “I’m going to blow this motherf***er up!” Refusing to leave the embassy property, she was arrested by Secret Service police. Meanwhile, a Swedish judge released the American rapper and set a trial date for his alleged offense. 6 AUGUST 7, 2019
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MAGNOLIA-KILLING WISTERIA OUSTED FROM 35TH ST.
At the former home of Sen. Claiborne Pell, now owned by the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation, wisteria was causing the death of magnolia trees in the backyard and damaging the exterior of the historic mansion at 3425 Prospect St. NW. Trees were taken out and the wisteria pulled. Once a springtime vision of purple-ribboned delight for passersby, the invasive plant is no more along the 35th Street side of the house.
THE MOPEDS ARE COMING, THE MOPEDS ARE COMING
But, wait, there’s more. The District Department of Transportation has announced a four-month pilot for yet another shared vehicle available via an app: electric mopeds. D.C. streets and sidewalks are already home to bikes, e-bikes and scooters. DDOT, which said companies could put 400 vehicles on the street, will list requirements and terms for those applying — like Revel and Muving — next week. “This is another opportunity for us to reduce dependence on single-occupancy vehicles and expand the sustainable transportation options we offer to residents and visitors,” said DDOT Director Jeff Marootian in a statement.
We at The Georgetowner — especially those of us who have put in some productive years here — were saddened to hear of the July 24 passing of Vera K. Tilson. She and her life belonged to many people, most especially members of her family and friends, but she was also memorably one of us. For many years, we knew her as the woman who wrote with passion, intelligence and knowledge about the world of classical music and all it contains, as well as reviewing and critiquing the performance of timeless music and opera for The Georgetowner and other publications. Family was of self-evident importance in her life. Born in 1924 in Brookline, Massachusetts, she married David Tilson in 1950. They moved to Virginia, where they raised three daughters and where she shared her love of music — she sang and played the violin — with her family and friends, as well as with the Washington area’s constellation of musicians and ensembles. Tilson became a conductor. She was music director at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Arlington, founded the Arlington Metropolitan Chorus and taught voice at George Mason University. At The Georgetowner, we were lucky and proud to have her as a regular critic and writer, covering not only local musical groups of various genres, but also the major orchestras, including the National Symphony Orchestra and Washington National Opera at the Kennedy Center, Wolf Trap and other prominent venues.
CRIME & SAFETY ANOTHER DIES AT AQUEDUCT BRIDGE SITE
The stone abutment at the end of Water/K Street NW is a remainder of the Aqueduct Bridge, in service from 1843 to 1923. That bridge was remarkable for its aqueduct, which ran from the C&O Canal across the Potomac River to a canal on the Virginia side that continued to Alexandria. It was also a regular bridge that allowed carriages, cars and pedestrians to cross. Its present-day successor, Key Bridge, opened in 1923. The ruin, a popular spot for sightseers, offers a sweeping view of the Potomac — but is not properly fenced off. Recently, it became the site of another death. Just before midnight on July 24, Jazz Haaren, 19, of Vienna, Virginia, fell into a boat on the river next to the Aqueduct Bridge ruin. The D.C. Medical Examiner ruled her death an accident. The Old Dominion University student also worked at Sweetwater Tavern in Merrifield. In August of 2017, two men from Manassas, Virginia, died after jumping into the Potomac from the same spot.
CARJACKING ON 31ST ST. A Muving moped. Courtesy Muving.
She interviewed artists, singers, conductors and composers, bringing the experience of performance to her task, which, through her writing, seem like no task at all, but rather a joyful but keenly knowledgeable vocation and gift. What she brought to the task of criticism was intelligence, knowledge and a view that had a lot to do with love, appreciation and a great desire to share the passion she had for music. She succeeded pretty much every time out; reading her stories, reviews and features, you felt like you knew a little more than you did before. I’m sure she had favorite works, composers, operas and pieces, but the larger world of music is what she felt strongly about. I never saw her as an elitist or artistic snob. She was a sharer of knowledge and opinion. I fondly remember one occasion in which her husband David was unable to come to a Metropolitan Opera performance at the Kennedy Center Opera House (I think it was “Der Rosenkavalier”), so she shared a ticket with me. A solo concert by Frank Sinatra was on at the same time in the Concert Hall, and I saw a few swell friends from Nathans who expected me to join them. I took what they probably thought was “the road less taken,” but I was much better for it in the company of Tilson, from whom I learned a lot about enjoying Strauss. She is survived by her husband David, daughters Barbara Tilson, Amy Gurri and Carol Tilson, seven grandchildren and one great-grandson.
A car was stolen at gunpoint on July 22 on the 1000 block of 31st Street NW around 8:50 p.m., according to the Metropolitan Police Department.
TWO PULLED FROM BURNING CAR
Two men were pulled from a burning car in the early hours of Aug. 2, according to D.C. Fire & EMS. The car, parked on the 1600 block of Connecticut Avenue NW, became engulfed in flames because of illegal fireworks, D.C. Fire added. Helped out of the car by passersby, the men are expected to recover from their injuries.
CAR CRASH VICTIMS IDENTIFIED
From the U.S. Park Police: “On 7/10/19, at approximately 11:30 p.m., US Park Police Officers were dispatched to the 2000 Block of Pennsylvania Avenue NW, for the report of vehicle crash. “A vehicle entered the park, striking two victims. Forty-two-year-old Thomas Dwight Spriggs, and 63-year-old Jesus Antonio Llanes-Datil were pronounced on scene. Exhaustive efforts were made to notify their next of kin, because the victims do not appear to have fixed addresses. The investigation is ongoing awaiting toxicology results.”
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NEW CHINATOWN/PENN QUARTER PARKING RATES
The District Department of Transportation has implemented a new parking meter rate schedule in Chinatown/Penn Quarter. The adjustment, the eighth, will be demandbased pricing, much like Metro’s rush hour prices or Uber’s surge pricing. The project hopes to lessen the time needed to find parking spots, improve turnover of high-demand spaces and reduce traffic congestion.
EXELON GIVES $5 MILLION FOR 11TH ST. BRIDGE PARK
The Exelon Corporation and its local companies Pepco and Constellation have committed to a $5-million signature gift to the nonprofit organization Building Bridges Across the River. The money will fund the new 11th Street Bridge Park, connecting two neighborhoods and repurposing old and unused land. It will also support the building of an Environmental Education Center to inspire the next generation of D.C. environmentalists.
D.C. NAMED NATION’S HARDEST WORKING CITY
In a ranking that will ring 100-percent true to many, Kempler Industries recently analyzed U.S. Census data and determined that D.C. is the hardest working city in America. The city’s score was 90, with the rankings based on stats like average commute time, average workweek, percentage of workforce population aged 16-64, senior workforce and percentage of unused vacation days (32.9 percent).
TOKYO PEARL OPENS NEAR DUPONT CIRCLE
Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) wants the statue near Judiciary Square of a Confederate general to be removed.
NORTON CALLS FOR REMOVAL OF PIKE STATUE
Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) presented legislation that would have the Department of the Interior remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Albert Pike from the 300 block of Indiana Avenue NW. The bill is now with the House Committee on Natural Resources. Congress wouldn’t allow federal funds to be used to move the statue. Norton does not want it demolished, saying that it reflects a part of history we can learn from.
Tokyo Pearl, the next venture from Sakerum owner Stephanos Andreou, has opened in the Dupont neighborhood at 1301 Connecticut Ave. NW. The restaurant is part hookah lounge, part gastropub, part fast-casual joint. There are poke bowls by day and by night. Expect to see a bar and an entertainment area with DJs spinning. There is also a 44-seat patio perfect for late-summer outdoor dining, complete with a retractable roof.
PICCOLINA OPENS IN CITYCENTERDC
Chef and owner Amy Brandwein has opened Piccolina at 963 Palmer Alley NW in CityCenterDC. The restaurant extends the brand of Centrolina, an Italian eatery in the high-end shopping destination. Open for breakfast, lunch and dinner, Piccolina will take over the majority of market operations from Centrolina. Expect to see coffee, pastries, an all-day café and a wood-fired oven.
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Summer, Then and Now The long, hot summer has a slow pace, an enveloping feeling. It’s full of remembered traditions. It means baseball games played in the middle of the afternoon or on through sticky summer nights with artificial lights, accompanied by old-timey music, hot dogs, burgers, fries and such, hawked by newsboy-like youths. Good old summertime means summer schools and summer jobs, sweat gained honestly, the smell of sometimes overwhelming deodorant and outdoor rock concerts (but not Woodstock). At least that’s the way it used to be. Oh, the long, hot summer is still hot — hotter, in fact, than ever, the city (not to mention Paris and London) having been visited by record temperatures. But we live in the time of our phones, when we know everything and therefore can’t get away from anything. There’s a disconnect because we can’t disconnect. The 24-hour news cycle feels somehow like watching a sink drain work. It’s hypnotic, and inescapable. This has been a tough summer in Washington. The city — and the country, for that matter — has seen Mother Nature rise like an angry grandma and paddle us with flash floods, flash fires, the first quasi-hurricane, tornadoes and waterspouts and what-have-you. There’s something unpredictable and chaotic in the air (even “Game of Thrones” didn’t come out the way you wanted it to), with the added tragedies of a rise in homicides in the District and, around the country, mass shootings on what feels like a daily basis. And President Trump is everywhere. While otherwise not all that digitally adept, like most people his age, the president has mastered the now-indispensable art of social media. His Twitter thumb twitches often. On top of the storms roiling the atmosphere, we are subjected to Twitter storms with a radius of everywhere. It’s hard to say when we found ourselves in a B-movie called “The News That Ate Summer.” Was it the day when the president crossed the 38th parallel for a historic handshake with his North Korean soul mate?
Maybe it was the Fourth of July, which, in the District of Columbia, usually means a parade, a concert on Capitol Hill, military bands, singers and scenes of veterans and their grandkids, followed by fireworks. This Fourth, alas, alack or whatever, the president decided to have his own celebration, called “A Salute to America,” with a speech, flyovers and bigger fireworks, smack in front of the Lincoln Memorial. Or was it ultimately a furious series of events that seemed to expose the national divide like the lethal snake dancer it is? Two two-day televised Democratic presidential debates bookended the highly anticipated, all-day, televised testimony given by special counsel Robert Mueller, which was analyzed by Democrats and Republicans to within an inch of Mueller’s every breath, raised eyebrow, pause and sigh — settling nothing, but boosting partisan angst. Hovering over everything was Trump himself, who sliced up the body politic even further by first castigating a group of four Democratic members of Congress — all women, all women of color, all in the rising and unrelentingly progressive wing of their party — for not loving their country, not once but many times. He persisted at one of his rallies, saying the four should go back “to where they came from” a common nativist trope used against immigrants. Some of his supporters yelled “send her back,” referring to Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota), who is a Muslim and a naturalized American citizen from Somalia. Outrage and charges of racism followed, which got only worse this past week when Trump blasted Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Maryland) about the “disgusting” state of the Baltimore district he represents, feeding the racial fury. Where are those lazy, hazy days of summer? What happened to the lemonade stands, the sunsets, the cookouts where the biggest deal was the new baby on the block. And when will it all end, this bending of the threads that bind us together? Winter is coming.
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To the editor: As a member of the DC State Athletic Commission, I support expanding and improving athletic programs and facilities for our youth across the city. Despite the progress that has been made and continues to be made with school modernizations, there remain schools that are “landlocked” and lack adequate athletic facilities. In Ward 2, where Jelleff is located, School Without Walls High School has no athletic facilities whatsoever at its location at the Grant School on G Street NW — no gym, and no field or outdoor track for its many girls and boys teams of lacrosse, soccer, field hockey, ultimate frisbee, baseball, softball, etc. Its teams often use Francis Field, an unimproved field often used for letting dogs off leash on 25th Street NW between M and N. That high school is always scrambling for field time at locations across the city. Indeed, Hardy Middle School, located across from Jelleff, does
not have an adequate field either, but just a small outdoor play area. Maret School has had a 10-year run of preferred use over other schools for the field at Jelleff. That would certainly seem to be long enough as compensation for their having improved the field at Jelleff. The city currently has tremendous financial reserves and is not short of money. I would urge that all schools — independent, private, charter and traditional D.C. public schools — have equal opportunity for use of the field and services at Jelleff. If any should be getting preferred use, it should be schools in Ward 2 and those serving the most needy youth here in the city. Certainly Maret’s team should have the opportunity to use the site, but should not be placed “ahead of the line.” It is my understanding that possibly a third or more of the students enrolled at Maret are not from families that reside in the city. — Terry Lynch, DC State Athletic Commissioner
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Great Museums in Our Own Backyard It’s summer, it’s hot and humid and all we want to do is enjoy the outdoors as much as possible before colder weather comes back around. However, there are days that the heat proves too strong even for those of us who have experienced the worst of D.C. summers. The good news? The heat is the perfect excuse to check out or revisit some of the neighborhood’s great museums. A wonderful thing about our city is that you can find great museums right in your own backyard. Let’s focus on Georgetown, which boasts numerous museums that don’t require residents to make a trip to the National Mall or downtown. Take a walk over to the Dumbarton Oaks Museum to catch the exhibition “Written in Knots: Undeciphered Accounts of Andean
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Life,” which focuses on informationrecording systems of the people of South America. Dumbarton Oaks is the first museum to assemble these artifacts for public display, so make sure you catch “Written in Knots” before it ends on Aug. 18. Also offered are architectural and garden tours of the historic campus, which is a Harvard University research institute, library, museum and garden. If you’re looking to have another great Georgetown experience, go visit Tudor Place for a tour of the historic house and gardens. This National Historic Landmark connects American history with Georgetown. Similarly, Dumbarton House offers tours of the Federalperiod architecture of the home and the surrounding grounds. These are perfect venues to break up your day and learn about our neighborhood’s history.
THE VILLAGE
Rock Creek: An Urban National Park BY PEG GY S A NDS
You may not realize it until you look at a particular map, but the entire village of Georgetown and the western residential area of Palisades are almost completely surrounded by the United States’ most diverse and extensive urban national park: Rock Creek Park. Almost all of Georgetown’s historic landmark sites and parks are touched by or directly connected in some way to Rock Creek Park, including Georgetown Waterfront Park, the historic C&O Canal, Dumbarton Oaks Park, Montrose Park, Rose Park, Whitehaven Park, Glover-Archbold Park, Normanstone Parkway in front of the U.S. Naval Observatory and Francis Scott Key Park, as well as the Old Stone House on M Street, the District’s oldest structure, dating from the 1760s. And, of course, dominating all of the Northwest quadrant of the District and Wards 2 and 3 is the extensive Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway and the 1,700-acre Rock Creek Park itself. Winding for miles through the very center of the quadrant, the park comprises some 99 distinct areas, including extensive hiking and nature centers, a planetarium, tennis and golf venues, bridges and picnic sites. There are also historic Native and African American places along the winding, rocky route of the often more-than-gurgling Rock Creek. Numerous historic memorials administered by the park include remnants of the Civil War defense rim of old forts and battle sites arching along the District’s northern border with Maryland and the oncesumptuous waterways of Meridian Hill Park on 16th Street.
Julia Washburn, National Park Service’s Rock Creek Park superintendent. All of that leads to the vivacious and friendly National Park Service’s Rock Creek Park superintendent, Julia Washburn. With a quick grin during a July 31 interview with The Georgetowner, Washburn donned her old Junior Ranger hat that she had earned as a young girl in the District, when she lived just blocks away from Rock Creek Park and spent much of her time there. “The Junior
Rock Creek Park. Courtesy National Parks Conservation Association. Ranger program hasn’t changed much in substance,” she said. “We — because really any age can be a Junior Ranger — still go out into any national park and complete various assignments to earn badges and buttons. It’s just gotten much bigger.” Washburn has spent almost her entire life and career with the National Park Service in the D.C. area — except for her years at Bank Street College in New York City, where she earned a master’s degree in museum education, and two years in Sierra Leone as a science teacher with the Peace Corps. Her first NPS job was as a park ranger at Fort Dupont Park, followed by Harpers Ferry National Historical Park in West Virginia. She held various positions in education and development in D.C. with the NPS, the National Park Foundation and, for a while, as an education and strategic planning consultant, before returning to become superintendent of Rock Creek Park in 2017. “We’ve always been green at the NPS,” Washburn said. “But we started out as a nature study movement that evolved into environmental education that morphed after the first Earth Day in 1970 into the green movement. That growth has greatly helped the mission of the National Park Service of nature protection, interpretation and education.” But it’s the involvement of community organizations into partnerships and alliances that has been the biggest paradigm change in the management and operation of national parks and their environmental education mission, according to Washburn. “We simply couldn’t do all the activities, and even maintenance of the parks sites, without the extensive network of volunteers and community organizations and historic homes’ staffs.” In Georgetown, in particular, those include:
Friends of Rose Park, Friends of Georgetown Waterfront Park and other friends’ groups; Georgetown Heritage; Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park; and the Rock Creek Park Conservancy, as well as community and business organizations like the Georgetown Advisory Neighborhood Commission and the Business Improvement District. Now a new group seems to be forming around the Old Stone House and an exciting project to completely refurbish its two-acre garden for public use. “Still the biggest challenge for Rock Creek Park and the NPS in Georgetown is storm water management,” Washburn
said. “Controlling the ongoing erosion, deterioration and destruction due to storm water is a first priority of the NPS and D.C.’s many jurisdictions and volunteer organizations.”
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Due to the church closing for restorations, our summer Sunday Mass schedule will be as follows through September 1: Trinity Hall: Vigil, 7:30am, 9:30am, 11:30am, 1:15pm, 5:30pm Dahlgren Chapel: 9:30am Confessions will take place in the small parlor adjacent to the Chapel of St. Ignatius.
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Rumble the American Alsatian knows the simple pleasure of soaking up some rays with a good stick. Photo by Elie Hutchinson.
BY ST EP HANIE GR E E N It almost goes without saying that Georgetown loves its dogs. They’re all around — and whether, small or large, they seem quite in charge. But it’s a mutual love affair — ask any dog owner. So, find a cool spot for you and your furry buddy. It’s time for the annual Georgetowner Dog Days of Summer issue.
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Theresa Crawford’s Maltese, Cooper, Sookie Belle, a six-year-old Yorkshire makes up for his lack of athleticism with his terrier and Maltese mix, has found her sweet winning personality. spot: in the first mate’s bench on her family’s He hides under the patio table during the boat. “She insists on sitting there when we lightest of snowfalls, so his mom gave up on cruise the Chesapeake Bay,” says her mother, a snow sledding career for him. Tennis balls Annemarie Ryan. are also a bit of a challenge. “I may not be the Sookie Belle is such a big personality that biggest or know a lot of tricks, but everyone she gets the “TREAT-ment” (that’s dog-speak is really nice and makes me feel special,” for good biscuits) at her favorite Georgetown Cooper told us. shops like Ella Rue and Côté Jardin Antiques. The feeling is mutual. Eve r t he d iva , Sook ie Bel le also “I love the breed. They are bred to do one commandeers the big raft when idling in thing — be your pal — and he does a good the pool, but her take-charge attitude will job of it,” says Theresa, adding that he’s come in handy if her shipmates ever get into also become quite fond of Mrs. Lee at the stormy waters. Midtown Cleaners on P Street. Helping mom Annmarie explains that Sookie Belle with her errands around the neighborhood is “is doggy certified to save her human Cooper’s favorite pastime. companions and her little human friends, too.” “I’m just about the luckiest little guy because I live in Georgetown where I get to see my friends, two legs and four, every day,” Cooper explains. 10 AUGUST 7, 2019
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Winnie Hayes does just about everything with her mother, Kelly, the social-media director for the Brand Guild, which is based on M Street. Winnie often walks with Kelly to the office from Tenleytown. She has even stopped by Kelly’s alma mater, Georgetown Visitation. Together, the two have traveled to Key West (six times, no less), California and Colorado. Now that’s a healthy mother-daughter relationship. But it sou nd s li ke Wi n n ie ma kes relationships pretty easy. “She is very snuggly,” explains Kelly, adding that she’s dubbed her mode of affection “the Winnie cuddle.” Winnie’s Georgetown happy places are Cady’s Alley and the Old Stone House garden on M Street. Ask for a cuddle if you run into her on her walk; she’s ready to oblige.
Posey, full name GCHB Mariposa De La Brise CGC TKN, is a Pyrenean Shepherd who is used to fancy names and fancy titles. She was named the Bronze Grand Champion at the Westminster Dog Show in her first showing, a proud moment for her mother, longtime Georgetown resident Cynthia Case. “I’ve had rescue dogs all my life, but finally wanted to get a show dog and a jogging buddy,” says Cynthia. Posey is six years old now, and is still outrunning her mother, and keeping her dog siblings in line. “She’s a herding dog, and my other two dogs are white, so she thinks of them as her little sheep,” says Cynthia. But despite Posey’s pedigree and success, she’s no snob. She treats her siblings — both rescue pups — like her equals and doesn’t mind “romping through the mud” with the best of them.
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MARATHON MAN THE CANINE CONCIERGE Georgie, a year-old Labrador retriever, is more than a pretty blonde. She’s a Jane-ofall-trades at the Fairmont Washington, D.C., Georgetown, where she greets guests, bellhops and plays soccer in the hallways, earning her the title of the hotel’s “Canine Ambassador.” This summer, Georgie added author to her list of accomplishments, publishing her first coloring book, which the Fairmont gives to children along with a plush Georgie toy. Not long after her birth at Guiding Eyes for the Blind, she traded in her aspirations to become a guide dog for the far more glamorous hotel life when she was adopted by the Fairmont’s general manager, Mark Huntley. Her first birthday. this August, is already looking to be the pool party of the summer, and invitations are a hot ticket. President Obama — whose foundation office is doors away on the same street — made the cut, naturally. When she’s not on diplomatic duty, she loves chilling in her dad’s office, strolling the parks of Georgetown or checking in on her buddy, restaurateur Billy Martin, who always has a piece of steak for her.
Tigo, a seven-year-old Chihuahua, may only be six pounds, but he’s got brawn and stamina. He won the Running of the Chihuahuas, a D.C. charity race to promote dog adoption, and braves the Potomac River for one of his favorite activities: swimming (when he’s not playing fetch incessantly). He was born in Puerto Rico and came to Washington when he was a tiny tot of two months old. His dad, Carlos Ocasio, describes him as a daredevil and a drama king. “He loves to be the center of attention wherever he goes,” he says.
FROM RAGS TO TAGS Colbie Hilburn’s mother, Ellen, says that Colbie is so charismatic, she gets cat calls. “Your dog should be a movie star,” random Georgetowners yell. “If her tail wagged any faster, there would be liftoff,” explains Ellen. It wasn’t always this happy for Colbie, who calls O Street home. She was found in the street while nursing six pups and did a stint in the Humane Society shelter. Fortunately, she found her way to the loving arms of the Georgetown community, where Ellen says she’s a big hit with local store owners, sometimes placing her front paws on the counter to give a personal greeting.
A PENNY FOR YOUR TREATS Penny is a three-year-old dachshundbeagle mix. She was adopted by Paige Weaver a year ago after being found by a rescue team. The team saw that Penny had recently had puppies, but they were nowhere to be found. Paige brought her home five days later. Penny admits: “I love long walks, car rides, but — most importantly — treats!”
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K now n on social cha n nels as the Pearmund Cellars mascot, Tug is really much more than a mascot. He is his human’s best friend and kind companion. He’s everyone’s friend! We all know how important it is to be promptly and happily welcomed upon arrival, and Tug does it with an effortless smile and a style all his own. When he isn’t overseeing his own “pet projects” at the winery, Tug can be found snoozing in the sunshine or quietly enjoying his fandom with loving pats and scratches around his ears. We submit that Tug is so beloved, he required his very own wine label.
Martha, the Newfoundland companion of Joe Findaro, is so dark, furry and adorable, children often ask Joe if she’s a bear. No, but she could be — a teddy bear, that is. Joe describes Martha as “very social,” both with people and with other dogs, like her terrier friend, Eleanor. She often trots through her favorite hangout, Volta Park, fielding those pesky “bear” questions. Martha’s name comes from the Bible. Saint Martha was the sister of Lazarus, whom Christ raised from the dead. They say that all dogs go to heaven, but in Martha’s case, she may have an even more special place there.
Bella is (mainly) a Norfolk terrier. A perky 15-year-old, she loves to chase squirrels and chipmunks and go on morning and evening walks with her mom, Linda Roth. Bella loves to play with little girls — and may think she is one, Linda adds.
“Hi, I’m Camsley, and I’m hosting a fun day out in Fauquier County to support my four-legged friends that are not as lucky as I am right now. The Chance Foundation’s Fifth Annual Golf, Barbecue and Open House is Sunday, Oct. 6, and The Georgetowner is a big supporter and partner of it. “Join me for a fun Virginia fall day. The golf is relaxed and fun and not too serious, great for anyone who loves dogs. If you do not want to golf, just come for music and BBQ. All of your donations are tax-deductible. You can even bring your canine friends to come and visit me and go swimming and fetching.”
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TUG: FRIEND TO ALL, ESPECIALLY OENOPHILES
BELLA: A PERKY LITTLE GIRL
FUN FALL VIRGINIA DAY. COME ON OUT!
Barbecue, Music, Open House Information: Country Club Kennels 10739 Bristersburg Road Catlett, VA 20119 1 to 5 p.m. For more information and a PDF of the event flyer, email Wally: wally@wandergolf.com To learn more about the Chance Foundation, visit countryclubkennels.com.
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IT’S OFFICIAL: GRAHAM HOLDINGS OWNER OF CLYDE’S
Graham Holdings Company announced July 31 that it had acquired Clyde’s Restaurant Group. The purchase, for an undisclosed price, joins two homegrown businesses. The new owner of Clyde’s, which began in Georgetown in 1963, is a company based in Arlington, Virginia, a spinoff from the 2013 purchase by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos of the Washington Post, once owned by the Graham family in Georgetown. Founded by Stuart Davidson, Clyde’s Restaurant Group has 13 restaurants in the Washington area. (F. Scott’s closed in 2016.) Clyde’s CEO John Laytham — who began work at the M Street restaurant while a Georgetown University student — died on Jan. 3. Graham Holdings (formerly the Washington Post Company) is a conglomerate headed by Donald Graham, publisher of the Washington Post from 1979 to 2000. It includes the education company Kaplan, the online magazine Slate and television stations. It has not owned restaurants before. Timothy J. O’Shaughnessy, CEO of Graham Holdings Company, said in
The original Clyde’s on M Street. Courtesy Clyde’s Restaurant Group. statement: “The Clyde’s group of restaurants are well-run businesses that align with our investment strategy: working with great management teams to operate businesses with a long history of profitability. Clyde’s Restaurant Group has been a Washington institution that includes Old Ebbitt Grill and the Hamilton, two of the top 20 highest grossing independent restaurants in the country. We are thrilled about the longterm possibilities of this business and we are looking forward to continuing to serve hungry and thirsty D.C. area diners for years to come.” For his part, Thomas Meyer, president of Clyde’s Restaurant Group, said: “For 56
Shop Made in DC on grand opening weekend. Photo by Peggy Sands.
years, Clyde’s Restaurant Group has served the Washington, D.C. area and has built a great business based on our commitment to quality and service. Graham Holdings Company is well suited to be the new steward of the Clyde’s brands in that we share the same values and dedication to the region. We are excited to join such a well-respected company and equally excited about the future.”
IN: SHOP MADE IN DC
Shop Made in DC, the local booster of products made in the District, opened its third store on Aug. 1 in the former Max Studio space at 1242 Wisconsin Ave. NW — on a block that solely needs another tenant. “Cobble stone streets and local commerce? Yes, please!” wrote Stacey Price, who founded Shop Made in DC with Michael Babin two years ago. The mission of the retail venture, the company says, involves “enabling ideas, products, and people to converge and drive traffic to neighborhoods while creating lowentry to market opportunities for D.C.-based makers and small retailers.” The 1,800-square-foot store will feature 100 local products, including 26 entirely new with the Georgetown store’s debut.
IN: INDOCHINO
The sign is up on another block that needs some real action. Custom men’s wear retailer Indochino, headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, is heading to 3030 M St. NW, formerly home to women’s wear store Cusp. The company has more than 30 showrooms across North America. THE WORLD FAMOUS
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The Rosewood Washington, D.C. hotel, located in Georgetown at 1050 31st St. NW, has reopened with a revamped lobby and library; a new Wolfgang Puck restaurant, Cut D.C.; and a rooftop lounge, Cut Above, also by Puck. The new public and culinary spaces were designed by French architect, interior designer and landscape artist Jacques Garcia. Open for breakfast, lunch and dinner, Cut D.C. has “a highly evolved vegetableand seafood-centric menu” overseen by executive chef Andrew Skala. The bar will feature a dedicated Negroni section and a roving beverage cart serving made-to-order Old Fashioneds. “It’s important to me that Cut D.C. has its own soul that reflects just how unique the Mid-Atlantic is and how diners want to eat now. While guests will still be able to order the signature steaks they have come to love at Cut, we want to showcase the bounty of the region and create a menu that encourages sharing,” said Puck. Later this year, Rosewood will debut six townhouse suites next to the hotel on 31st Street. Designed by Thomas Pheasant, they will offer an entirely residential guest experience. Each 1,100-square-foot suite will have a private entrance, a fully equipped kitchen and a private back courtyard.
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Pushing the Envelope HOW FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT BROKE THROUGH CONVENTION — AND WALLS — TO REIMAGINE THE AMERICAN HOME. BY SU S A N BODIKE R Few architects have had so transformative an effect on how we live and think about home design as Frank Lloyd Wright. The things we take for granted today — open f loor plans, natural materials, oversized windows and seamless transitions to the outdoors — all arose from his singular and inventive vision. The evolution of that aesthetic can now be seen at the District Architecture Center, 421 7th St. NW, where “Frank Lloyd Wright: Architecture of the Interior” is on display until Sept. 6. The exhibition is curated by Virginia Terry Boyd, emerita professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Design Studies Department. Compact yet expansive (much like Wright’s homes), it features reproduction drawings, photographs and photographic murals illustrating the ways in which Wright integrated building, interior and objects into one “harmonious whole.” A timeline of Wright’s greatest residential hits, the exhibition includes: Usonians (modest open-plan homes designed to be affordable and accessible for the average American); the Mossberg House (an example of how subordinate rooms — bathrooms and kitchens — were much smaller than the main living space); the Sijistan (where pitched ceilings and vertical lighting maintained a spacious feel despite a standard layout of windows and walls); and the Boynton House (with its clerestory windows and recessed artificial skylights). Wright didn’t stop with the floor plan. To maximize space and honor the geometric order of the house, he also designed furniture — some built in and not always comfortable — and other elements to “create a sense of order, harmony and completeness.” Fun fact: Back in the early ’90s, I lived in a Usonian in northwest Baltimore City. There were walls of floor-to-ceiling windows that opened to a back garden with a pool, radiantheated blue tile floors, an open living/dining room, an ergonomic kitchen and really tiny bathrooms (talk about subordinate rooms!). Cabinets, bookcases and a banquette and dining table were all built in. And, yes, we had to audition our furnishings with the owner to make sure they were Wright-worthy. (They were.)
Boynton House. © Paul Rocheleau. For details about the Wright exhibition, visit aiadc.com or call 202-347-9403. Closer to home, AIADC will hold a lecture on the Pope-Leighey House, an iconic Usonian with a storied past in Alexandria, Virginia. Built in 1940, the home has been moved twice. It was later opened to the public by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. To register for the Aug. 12 event, visit aiadc.com/calendar. And for your viewing (or purchasing) pleasure, TTR Sotheby’s is cur rently presenting three distinctive Usonians i n McL ea n , Vi rg i n ia; M i n neapol is; and Town and Country, Missouri. For details, visit Theo Adamstein online at theoadamstein.ttrsir.com.
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‘Assassins’ Opens Signature’s Anniversary Season BY GARY T IS CHL ER For Signature Theatre and its artistic director, Eric Schaeffer, the end of this long summer means a head start on its 30th anniversary season, a celebration of sorts for the little theater (in the beginning) that became one of the most outstanding companies in the country, focusing on new works as well as the changing world of the musical theater. With the celebratory nature of the season, you might think that Schaeffer and company would have opened with something safe and fun, maybe “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,” that would have you coming out whistling and dancing. But no. That wouldn’t be Signature’s, well, signature. Signature, which made its early theatrical bones with the Stephen Sondheim startler “Sweeney Todd,” and is known as a kind of church of Sondheim productions, will open its 30th anniversary season with its 30th production of a Sondheim work: “Assassins.” A musical exploration of “a twisted American dream” by way of a carnival-style journey through the lives of president-killers, successful and otherwise, “Assassins” is a work Signature and Schaeffer first explored in 1992. This production will run from Aug. 11 to Sept. 29. In a Aug. 2 telephone interview, Schaeffer said the work remains a musical that’s as “pertinent and contemporary as it was when it was first performed. “I’ve directed the work three times myself, and it’s always a different but intense
The “Assassins” cast: Rachel Zampelli, Christopher Bloch, Ian McEuen, Vincent Kempski, Tracy Lynn Olivera, Sam Ludwig, Bobby Smith, Evan Casey and Lawrence Redmond. Photo by Christopher Mueller. Courtesy Signature Theatre. experience,” he said. “It changes with time, all works do, but it echoes today. We thought, given the nature of our times — with its divisions, its intense atmosphere and politically charged climate over issues like immigration — that it’s the right time to do that. “One of the things that the play explores and what we want to explore is why people do the things they do. Why did these men — and two women — do or try to do what they did? What drove them to the point of acting as they did? In a way, the play is a rediscovery for us, the company, and it remains timeless.” Just a day after we spoke, 20 people were killed in a mass shooting at a Walmart in
DCArtswatch NATIONAL PHILHARMONIC CALLS OFF CLOSURE The National Philharmonic, based at Strathmore in North Bethesda, Maryland, announced on July 16 that it would cease operations. By the end of the month, however, sufficient funds were raised to save the 2019-20 season. A larger amount was offered by a group led by Jim Kelly, co-owner of Potter Violins in Takoma Park, on the condition that Kelly be appointed board president. The board’s response to Kelly’s proposal, said to be supported by the musicians, including Music Director Piotr Gajewski, was unknown at press time. The orchestra was formed in 2003 by the merger of the National Chamber Orchestra and Masterworks Chorus.
ROUND HOUSE THEATRE OPEN HOUSE Bethesd a-based Rou nd House Theatre will hold a free Community Open House on Saturday, Aug. 24, in its newly renovated building at 4545 EastWest Highway. The event will include performances, food, music, games, crafts and workshops with teaching artists. While construction was underway this summer, the company presented two productions in downtown D.C. at the Lansburgh Theatre. Round House’s Homecoming Season begins on Sept. 18.
El Paso, and the following day nine more people were killed in Dayton, acts that, like presidential assassinations, reverberate mightily across the country. In fact, on one of those ritualistic Sunday-morning talk shows, one panelist, discussing blame for the shootings, brought up the assassination of John F. Kennedy by Lee Harvey Oswald, who, of course, is one of the principal characters in “Assassins.” First staged in 1990, “Assassins” is a late work by Sondheim, now 89, who is the core in the now-30-year history of Signature. In subject matter, music and style, it is an example of just how far Sondheim took
the musical genre from its Rodgers and Hammerstein, Lerner and Lowe and even Cole Porter strains. This production of “Assassins” will be different, according to Schaeffer, but also familiar, bringing a large cast of Signature regulars to take on some of the darker, infamous historical figures in American history. “That’s part of the celebration, to have people who have worked here before, who are part of our family,” Schaeffer said. These include Evan Casey as John Hinckley, Vincent Kempski as John Wilkes Booth, Sam Ludwig as Lee Harvey Oswald, Ian McEuen as Giuseppe Zangara, Tracy Lynn Olivera as Sara Jane Moore, Lawrence Redmond as Leon Czolgosz, Bobby Smith as Charles Guiteau, Christopher Bloch as Samuel Byck and Rachel Zampelli as Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, who was a member of the Manson family. Fromme and Moore at different times tried to assassinate President Gerald Ford. “Shows, especially musicals, change over time. The emotional content changes, and the audiences change too,” Schaeffer said. “Nothing remains the same. SIGNATURE THEATRE 4200 Campbell Ave. Arlington, VA 22206 sigtheatre.org | 703-820-9771 “ASSASSINS” Aug. 11 to Sept. 29 | $40
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NEW ROLE FOR MOUSSET Caroline Mousset, who presented 10 concert seasons at the Phillips Collection as director of music, has joined the Washington Metropolitan Philharmonic Association as executive director. In addition to the Washington Metropolitan Philharmonic, which performs at the Masonic Memorial in Alexandria and the Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Oakton, Virginia, the association sponsors a youth orchestra, a concert orchestra and the Lyceum Summer Concert Series. Mousset has a bachelor’s degree in music from the University of Georgia.
ORLEAN WINS ARTS WRITING PRIZE New Yorker staff writer Susan Orlean, author of “The Orchid Thief ” and a biography of Rin Tin Tin, won this year’s $10,000 Marfield Prize for “The Library Book.” The book recalls the events of April 29, 1986, when more than a million books were damaged or destroyed in a fire at the Los Angeles Public Library. On June 5, Orlean gave a public reading at the Arts Club of Washington, sponsor of the annual prize, which recognizes nonfiction arts writing for a general audience.
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The latest cultural news in Richard Selden’s DC Artswatch column Critic’s picks by Ari Post and Gary Tischler of not-to-be-missed fall art exhibitions and theater, dance and music performances at venues throughout the region.
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With its unmistakably bright orange glow and its bubbly personality, it’s easy to spot everywhere that summer is — from cruises and pool parties to outdoor brunches and rooftop bars. It’s the Aperol spritz, now the “it” drink for every warm-weather occasion. Not since the days of “Sex and the City” and the “cosmo” has there been a must-have cocktail for outings with your BFFs. The Aperol spritz, sometimes called a “spritz Veneziano,” is a mixture of the Italian aperitif Aperol, prosecco and soda. It evolved from the Austrian spritzer, a combination of white wine and soda water. In fact, the word “spritz” comes from the Ger man word for “spray.” While the Aperol spritz has recently become the popular girl at school, its base liqueur, Aperol, was launched in 1919 in Padua, Italy, where it wa s i nve nt e d by the Barbieri brothers, Luigi and Silvio, who had inherited a liqueur c ompa ny f rom t hei r father. Aperol’s ingredients include orange, gentian (an herb), cinchona (a tree) and rhubarb. Its liquor content of 11 percent is lower than many other popular aperitifs. It is often compared to Campari, another orangebased Italian aperitif, which has a much more complex and bitter flavor. The Aperol brand was acquired by the Campari group in 2003. That’s one of the main reasons why Aperol has become so popular lately. In 2017, Campari launched a huge marketing campaign to promote Aperol and the Aperol spritz. The tagline was: “So it’s orange-y and bubbly at the same time. Plus it’s super popular in Italy, so you know it’s good.” Aperol was promoted at influential summer events in New York City, the Hamptons, Los Angeles and Palm Beach. The fact that wine glasses filled with the sunset-tinged drink made for great Instagram shots only added to its appeal. According to PopSugar, “The Aperol Spritz is such a hit that it recently came in at No. 9 at the World’s Bestselling Cocktails of 2019.” Aperol plays into the ongoing trend of craft cocktails with specialty ingredients such as bitters and herbal flavors. While bitter liqueurs — Averna, Cynar and Fernet-Branca, for example — have been popular in Europe for a long time, they are slowly creeping into America. Aperol tends to have more
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THE APEROL SPRITZ 3 oz. prosecco 2 oz. Aperol 1 oz. soda water Pour each ingredient, in order, into a wine glass. Garnish with an orange wheel.
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‘Conversations with Abner Mikva’ A RECENT COMPENDIUM CAPTURES THE UNVARNISHED VOICE OF THE LEGENDARY PROGRESSIVE. REVIEW E D BY KIT T Y K E LLE Y The Land of Lincoln has produced giant oaks in the political forest, none more majestic than Abraham himself. But other impressive Illinois timbers have continued to flourish throughout the years: Gov. Adlai Stevenson (also U.N. ambassador), Sen. Paul Douglas, Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg (also secretary of labor and U.N. ambassador), President Barack Obama, Sen. Dick Durbin and the man fondly referred to in this book as “Ab.” For those lucky enough to have known Abner Mikva during his long and productive life — Illinois State House (1959-1969), U.S. House of Representatives (1969-1973 and 1975-1979), U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (1979-1994) and White House counsel to President Bill Clinton (1994-1995) — “Conversations with Abner Mikva: Final Reflections on Chicago Politics, Democracy’s Future, and a Life of Public Service” by Sanford D. Horwitt will be a treasure. And for those who never knew Mikva, but welcome a dose of progressive grace and political grit, it will be a sterling reminder of what public service once looked like, when integrity was the coin of the realm. During the last three years of his life, Mikva, who served in all three branches of the federal government, met monthly with Horwitt, his good friend and former speechwriter, to reflect on the life he had
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lived at the center of power. Horwitt’s smart questions and Mikva’s unvarnished answers provide an incisive primer on politics, particularly the chapter dealing with Mikva’s nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, when he was targeted by the National Rifle Association. Having been an advocate for gun control all his life, and a sponsor of legislation calling for a ban on the manufacture, importation and sale of handguns (except for police, military and licensed pistol clubs), Ab was anathema to the gun lobby, which distributed sporting charts for rifle practice with a bull’s-eye in the middle of Mikva’s face. The behind-the-scenes story of how he defeated the NRA to be confirmed by the Senate should be a master class in political science. Although he was conf irmed 58-31, he never forgave the NRA Democrats, all afraid of the NRA, who voted against him. Being from Chicago, Mikva was not naive about political corruption, which is why he took such a hard line on white-collar crime and felt it should be punished with time behind bars, not simply huge fines. “If we’re going to have jails it makes much more sense
“Slick Willie” interrupted his presidential campaign to f ly to Arkansas to sign execution orders for a mentally incapacitated man. “Clinton did exactly the wrong thing. He should have kept that guy from being executed. He was for capital punishment, or so he said. The real Bill Clinton is not for capital punishment. He thought that was a political necessity in Arkansas.” Mikva also faults Clinton’s support of habeas corpus, prayer in public schools and the amendment to prohibit flag-burning. “His instincts were to stay with God … He had been educated on the separation of church and state at Yale and Oxford, but those weren’t his views. On these God and flag issues he was Arkansas through and through.”
to use them for white collar crime. That’s where the punishment angle, the humbling angle” comes in. He found the case of Virginia’s former Republican Gov. Robert F. McDonnell to be particularly egregious. Mikva felt that McDonnell, who was found guilty by a federal jury of political corruption for accepting lavish gifts, including a $6,000 Rolex, “should get at least five years” in prison, “and as far as I’m concerned, ten would be a good number.” McDonnell was sentenced to two years but appealed his case to the Supreme Court, which unanimously vacated the conviction. Author Sanford D. Horwitt. Photo courtesy of The subject of white-collar crime led to Simon & Schuster. conversations about the subprime mortgage disaster of 2008, when no senior executive In 2014, President Obama gave his mentor from Wall Street or any of the big banks was the Presidential Medal of Freedom, an put on trial. Here, Mikva chides Obama’s honor Mikva shared that day with, among Justice Department under Attorney General others, Meryl Streep, Tom Brokaw and, Eric Holder. posthumously, the three civil rights workers “[W]hen it came to civil justice, as far as murdered in 1964: James Chaney, Andrew [Holder] was concerned, you don’t send Goodman and Michael Schwerner. “They white-collar criminals to jail. That’s not nice got the most sustained applause,” said Mikva. … They don’t do things like that at Covington & Burling [Holder’s law firm], a white shoe “They deserved it.” Abner Mikva, who died on the Fourth of firm where the notion of sending executives July in 2016 at age 90, had a worthy Boswell to jail was unheard of.” in Horwitt. Both deserve a standing ovation Nor does he hold back on his old friend for this book — a superbly written history Barack Obama, with whom he campaigned of a man who believed in public service and in 2000 when Obama made his first run for practiced it, becoming a hero to many. political office and lost. “He was … dreadful on the stump. I went Georgetown resident with him to several places. One was a black Kitty Kelley has written church, and he was awful. He was a dull several number-one New University of Chicago professor lecturing the York Times best-sellers, unwashed, who couldn’t be less interested … including “The Family: But he realized out of that very disheartening The Real Story Behind loss that you’ve got to show them, you’ve got th e B u sh D y n a st y.” to be a showman. Boy, did he learn.” Her most recent books Mikva gives the young man he mentored inclu de “Capt ur ing “a low A” as president and feels Obama will Camelot: Stanley Tretick’s Iconic Images go down in history as one of the greats. of the Kennedys” and “Let Freedom Ring: President Bill Clinton does not get the Stanley Tretick’s Iconic Images of the March same high marks from his former White on Washington.” House counsel, who was disappointed when
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District Cup Polo Match Benefits U.S. Park Police Horse Stables BY C HR IST INE WA RNK E
Life-size Bingo at Union Market D.C. VIPs and gamers got together July 28 on the Rooftop at Union Market and 5th Street NE for “Let’s Play,” artist and entrepreneur Maggie O’Neill’s first interactive exhibit featuring life-size bingo. More than 400 Washingtonians joined O’Neill for her free and open-to-the-public event.
More than 500 people, ranging from young professional spectators to polo enthusiasts gathered at the National Mall for the The District Cup Annual Polo Match & Beneficiary Event on June 22. The premier annual polo match on “America’s Front Yard”, brings communities together to enjoy a day of fellowship and philanthropy, while watching one of the oldest competitive sports known to man. The 2019 beneficiary of the District Cup is the Trust for the National Mall’s Campaign to Rebuild the U.S. Park Police Horse Stables.
Edens CEO Jodie McLean and former Mayor Adrian Fenty. Photo by John Robinson.
Team International presented by Salamander Hotel and Team USA presented by Beverly Equestrian with Sheila C. Johnson and Catherine Townsend, Trust for the National Mall President and CEO. Photo by Brady Scot.
D.C. VIPs and gamers got together July 28 on the Rooftop at Union Market on 5th Street NE for “Let’s Play,” artist and entrepreneur Maggie O’Neill’s first interactive exhibit featuring life-size bingo. More than 400 Washingtonians joined O’Neill for her free and open-to-the-public event.
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Nacho Figueras celebrating at the close of the District Cup. Photo by Ann Priscilla.
Chip and Sally Akridge, founder and chairman of the Trust for the National Mall. Photo by Brady Scot.
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Turkish Ambassador Serdar Kiliç and D.C.’s best and brightest came together to celebrate the grand opening of Agora Tysons on July 25. Located in the luxe Nouvelle residences of the bustling Northern Virginia neighborhood of Tysons Corner, the new 4,000-square-foot eatery is the second location of the original Dupont Circle mainstay from husband-and-wife duo Ismail and Betul Uslu. Guests, including the ambassador, were transported to the Aegean Sea through Mediterranean fare. Sips of Lion’s Milk rounded out the evening — a Turkish delicacy made with Raki vodka, a sweetened anise-flavored spirit.
Agora Tysons owners Betul and Ismail Uslu flank Turkish Ambassador Serdar Kiliç at the restaurant opening. Photo by John Robinson.
Michael Mitchell and Angie Gates, director of D.C.’s Office of Cable Television, Film, Music and Entertainment. Photo by John Robinson.
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