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FEATURES EDITORS COPY EDITOR Ari Post Richard Selden FASHION & BEAUTY SENIOR DIRECTOR CORRESPONDENT Lauretta McCoy Peggy Sands

NEWS · 6 - 7 Town Topics

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EDITORIAL/OPINION · 8

PHOTOGRAPHERS Philip Bermingham Jeff Malet

Editorials Community Update

ADVERTISING & MARKETING Danielle MartinTaylor Kate Sprague Richard Selden

THE VILLAGE · 9

Brooke Pinto’s ‘Business Perspective’

COVER · 10 - 11 Virtual Learning is Here to Stay Back to School (Sort of) in Georgetown

BUSINESS · 12 REAL ESTATE · 13 Live and Learn

IN COUNTRY · 14 - 15

FOOD & WINE · 16 Latest Dish

CLASSIFIEDS · 17 Service Directory

BOOK CLUB · 18

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NEWS

Reenergized: Rose Park Farmer’s Market

BY PEGGY SA NDS “Five hundred people came to the Rose Park Farmer’s Market last Wednesday,” exclaimed Gail Daubert, new president of the Friends of Rose Park, during a Georgetowner interview on July 31. “That’s astounding!”

New vendors, enthusiastic young volunteers — including teenagers who are maintaining the market’s Instagram and Facebook accounts — and a communityfriendly configuration have reenergized the market, located in Georgetown’s Rose Park at 27th Street NW between P and O. Now set up in a large circle with good social-distancing and mingling space in the middle, the market is open from 3 to 7 p.m. every Wednesday, weather permitting.

“New vendors are contacting us regularly now to find out how to join the market,” Daubert said. “We have gone from five vendors along the sidewalk to now 15,

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including a partnership with the Georgetown Main Street organization, that will sponsor each week an introductory vendor spot for a small Georgetown business to feature their products, and a table for a different nonprofit organization.”

Two new vendors have been added to the 11 regulars. Current vendors include: Anchor Nursery, BannerBee, Cannabreeze, Cipolla Rossa Pizzeria, Lobster Maine-ia, Metro Microgreens, Pearl Fine Teas, Pickled Heads, Quaker Valley Orchards, Roots & Veggies and Versatile Foods Catering. New as of last week were Vordonia olive oils and Scilla + Luna, selling curated handcrafts.

Several of the vendors listed on the Rose Park Farmer’s Market website offer online preordering options — Lobster Maine-ia’s and Cipolla Rossa Pizzeria’s have been especially popular, according to David Dunning, past president of the Friends.

Friends of Rose Park President Gail Daubert, Eleanore Lohse, Market Manager Allister Chang and Georgetown Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner Gwendolyn Lohse. Courtesy FORP/David Dunning.

“We see the market not only as a safe place to shop but also as a place to create a sense of community during this pandemic and beyond.

I am continually asking shoppers during the market what vendors they would like to see included,” said Market Manager Allister Chang, a researcher at the UNESCO Institute of Lifelong Learning who lives across the street. One of nearly a dozen new volunteers of all ages who live within 10 blocks of the market, Chang is running for the Ward 2 seat on the D.C. State Board of Education.

Many things have changed since the state of emergency was called by the mayor on March 13, which even shut down the outdoor farmer’s markets for a while. Now, not only does every vendor have to be licensed and have insurance, but the market has to follow strict guidelines regarding masks, social distancing and traffic control.

“The market is a place that can help our community be together, a gathering place to shop and see one another, even in today’s crazy world,” Daubert said.

The Friends of Rose Park, which runs the market, is an increasingly active neighborhood organization responsible for

the maintenance of the rose garden and trees in the park. The group also provides support for projects to upgrade the paths, tables and amenities and for community events, from concerts and movies to children’s activities.

“We want to keep it small and friendly,” said Daubert, a health-care attorney who lives next to the park on M Street. “Probably no more than 20 vendors. People tell me all the time, ‘Don’t become another Dupont Circle market.’”

Plans for the annual Friends of Rose Park fall gala — which raises the lion’s share of the more than $20,000 the organization needs to maintain the rose garden and other park amenities — are on hold due to the pandemic. “But an exciting historic home near the park has been promised for the event when it can take place,” Dunning said.

In the meantime, according to Dunning, a significant donation was received from former Ward 2 Council member Jack Evans’s contingency fund and another was pledged from a Georgetown estate. Those funds may enable the Friends to initiate garden projects in the south end of the park first proposed years ago.

TOWN TOPICS

D.C.’s Democratic Delegates Go Virtual

BY PEGGY SA NDS Nothing is the same in this year of the coronavirus pandemic. That goes for the presidential election — from the way voters cast their spring primary and November general election ballots to the summer conventions that determine each party’s presidential candidate.

“To say the nomination conventions will be different this year is a wild understatement,” Charles Wilson, chairman of D.C.’s Democratic party delegation, told The Georgetowner.

“Till now, nomination conventions were four wonderful days of caucuses, great speeches, demonstrations often in costumes, events, all-night parties and the final exciting night when the chosen candidate accepted the nomination in front of tens of thousands of wildly enthusiastic selected delegates from every U.S. state and territory,” recalled Christine Warnke, a D.C. lobbyist and one of 13 delegates elected to represent District Democrats.

That’s what was planned for this year as well — to take place in Milwaukee from July 13 to 16 — and Warnke had been looking forward to it all. But that was before COVID-19.

Now, this year, the entire convention will be held virtually from Aug. 17 to 20.

Last week, Joe Biden, the presumptive nominee, announced he would not even go to Milwaukee. That has left the Democratic National Committee and state party delegations scrambling to make plans in

their cities and regions for activities that will enthuse party members before Biden’s nomination acceptance speech.

“We are looking at having some great speakers and watch parties with other state delegations,” said Wilson. “Of course, our delegation will push the cause of statehood among all delegates. It’s included in the party platform, coincidentally on page 51. And we are organizing a possible giant drive-in watch party the final night in a sports area that the public can attend and watch.”

One thing hasn’t changed, however: the nomination doesn’t go to the candidate with the most votes. To win the nomination on the first ballot, a Democratic candidate must receive support from a majority of the pledged delegates representing each state and the District: at least 1,991 of the total 3,979.

“It’s my first convention as a delegate and I’m excited,” said Monica Roaché, a former Georgetown-Burleith advisory neighborhood commissioner. She and Warnke were the top vote-getters of the 13 delegates selected by District Democrats.

The D.C. delegation consists of some 50 delegates. Besides the 13 elected ones and other pledged delegates, there are unpledged superdelegates (also known as automatic delegates), including former Ward 2 District Council member Jack Evans, Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton and Mayor Muriel Bowser, who is expected to announce Joe Biden as D.C.’s nominee on the virtual convention’s final night.

Delegates Christine Warnke (left) and Monica Roaché at Roaché’s P Street home.

Photo by Robert Devaney.

2 Independents Challenge Pinto

BY PEGGY SAN D S Some Georgetowners may be surprised to learn that the election for the Ward 2 seat on the District Council is still to take place as part of the general election on Nov. 3. The seat, vacated by Jack Evans in January, is occupied presently by Brooke Pinto, who won a special election for the seat on June 16.

Pinto also won the Democratic primary for the seat, held on June 2. Katherine Venice won the Republican primary, running unopposed. But candidates from parties without primaries and independents could register for the general election up to

Aug. 4. Two candidates are running for the Ward 2 seat as independents: Randy Downs and Martin Miguel Fernandez.

Downs, a Dupont Circle advisory neighborhood commissioner and LGBTQ activist, is a program assistant for the Washington office of the Sierra Club.

Fernandez, a Thomas Circle resident, is a senior program associate at the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Interviews with these candidates will be featured in fall issues of The Georgetowner.

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Counterproductive Protesters “THINKING IS DIFFICULT, THAT’S WHY MOST PEOPLE JUDGE.” — CARL JUNG Lately, some Black Lives Matter protesters have pivoted from marching in parks and along streets in commercial districts to take their message to residential areas.

Whether frightening pedestrians and motorists on Wisconsin Avenue or screaming at customers at Thomas Sweet, what is intended as a wake-up call to residents of upscale neighborhoods is anything but.

After midnight on Aug. 9, protestors marched along P and Q Streets, banging pots and using bullhorns to tell Georgetowners to “wake up.” In their minds, heavily Democratic and pro-Biden Georgetown is in need of some anti-racism education.

A similar crowd blocked traffic on Key Bridge and was also spotted on Saturday afternoon, Aug. 8, at 30th and N Streets NW. Again, in terms of winning friends and influencing people, this appears to be poor judgment by some BLM activists.

They must not have learned that you catch more flies with honey than vinegar.

Of the nighttime protests, Cmdr.

Duncan Bedlion of the Metropolitan Police Department’s Second District told The Georgetowner: “A group of approximately 30 to 40 protesters were reported traveling in the area. MPD members were present, and at this time there have been no reports of violence or property damage.”

At least that’s a long way from the events of the night of May 31, when 42

businesses were looted and, in total, 57 vandalized. The following evening, some business owners brought firearms to their establishments. During the first week of June, Georgetown’s M Street and Wisconsin Avenue looked demolished: 184 buildings were boarded up.

Still, the looting spree remains fresh in the minds (and bank accounts) of business owners and residents. Not only is this not good PR for BLM, people are fearful and angry.

We know there are those who seek to take criminal advantage of the protests. “The looting and vandalizing of Georgetown and other District businesses have been lumped together with the protests, but, in fact, most of the protesters were peaceful,” wrote Georgetown Business Improvement District CEO Joe Sternlieb. “The worst looting seems to have been carried out by professional thieves targeting high-end stores and using the opportunity of an overtaxed police force to strike.”

Meanwhile, the baseless judging of places like Georgetown and its inhabitants by some protesters reveals a naiveté and a missing of the historical moment. And misses the goal. Americans back the ideals of the Black Lives Matter movement. Let’s not have intimidating protesters cause that message to get lost in their noise. Peaceful protesters win hearts of everyone.

RIP: The Ad Tax

Considering the many challenges facing the city, we know it was not an easy decision. And we are grateful to all the members of the Council, who crafted a way to tweak the budget numbers, kill the tax and protect our future.

We are also grateful to MDDC Press Association Executive Director Rebecca Snyder, to the American Advertising Federation members and to our local media competitors (and friends), whose exceptional advocacy enabled us all to live to publish another day.

In the words of yet another immortal (in “Twelfth Night”): we “can no other answer make but thanks, and thanks, and ever thanks.”

“Nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” As it happens, D.C. media and marketers are happy to have proven Benjamin Franklin wrong, having escaped — “Perils of Pauline” style — the impending arrival of both.

We applaud District Council Chairman Phil Mendelson for having shown the courage and open-mindedness to abandon what he himself had originally proposed: the ad tax. As we wrote in our July 15 editorial, “The three-percent tax on advertising could be ruinous. With already thin margins and a hurting advertising community, this tax is a blow upon a bruise.”

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CAG: The Power of Community Connections

BY TAR A PAR KER , PR ESID ENT, CITIZENS ASSO CIATIO N O F G EO RG ETO WN This is a summer unlike any that we (regardless of our age!) can remember.

Plans for travel, children’s summer camp, back-to-school preparations, visits from family — all have been disrupted.

Georgetown’s quiet streets and boardedup windows are a constant reminder that these are difficult times.

Yet there is a hidden treasure I hope we are all discovering: our own resilience.

I came across a beautiful quote on this topic from a 17th-century Japanese poet and samurai, Mizuta Masahide. He wrote: “My barn having burned down, I can now see the moon.”

You may have noticed that quieter times have made the birds seem louder or that isolation has inspired you to reconnect with treasured friends from long ago.

Perhaps you have noticed the moon, or Georgetown’s beautiful trees, more than before. In these moments, when you are feeling happiness — or even joy — you are experiencing your own resilience. For those in search of this feeling or who want to bolster their inner strength, I have a recommendation that comes from my own experience: connect with your community.

When the going gets tough, neighbors and community is how we get through.

Helping a neighbor in need — whether they are sick or lonely or simply not tall or strong enough to complete a household chore — benefits us as much as it does them.

The trouble is, we don’t always know how to make the connection. How do

we find out what our neighbors may need? This is the beauty of neighborhood associations and online community forums — places where we combine our collective knowledge of the needs, challenges and opportunities of the place we call “home.”

If you are feeling disconnected, disrupted or lonely, this is a great time to fortify yourself by getting involved with the Citizens Association of Georgetown or any community group that feels right to you.

A great place to start is CAG’s Georgetown Forum, a free, easy, online community bulletin board, at georgetowncitizens.com/georgetownforum. You’ll find there are plenty of ways to connect and help one another while maintaining a safe social distance!

When I first moved to Georgetown, I was lonely. Having relocated here from the West Coast, I was far from family and friends. Meeting Betsy Cooley, who recruited me to serve as a development committee volunteer for CAG, changed everything. My loneliness was cured by the sense of purpose and connection that came from being a CAG volunteer, and my own strength and resilience was restored.

Isolation can be depleting, but community energizes and recharges us.

We can survive and thrive by finding new, safe-but-meaningful ways to actively support our community, contribute to its bright future and at the same time build our own resilience. #GeorgetownTogether

Report from CAG Executive Director Leslie Maysak: CAG has been working remotely during the pandemic, but are still very busy with all our initiatives and with finding new ways to present information and education to the neighborhood digitally while we cannot gather. We have also increased our focus on Public Safety programming and raised our security patrols to seven days a week

in response to the neighborhood concerns.

While we all miss the lively CAG meetings and events, we are working steadily on improving our offerings and preparing for the eventual reopening of D.C. We have a reasonable rent at the CAG office — and we have been there for many years.

Report from Georgetown Main Street Executive Director Rachel Shank: Georgetown Main Street remains committed to the economic vitality and stability of the small businesses along Wisconsin Avenue during these unprecedented times. GMS sponsored and promoted the District-wide virtual event called DC Dog Days in early August and invited Carpe Librum, a nonprofit book

shop, to pop up in the parking lot of Chase Bank at P and Wisconsin. Neighbors can look forward to additional safe, outdoor promotions in Book Hill, partnerships with the Rose Park Farmer’s Market and virtual events as part of D.C.’s Art All Night. We thank you for shopping small.

To Georgetown community groups: Please send The Georgetowner news about your events and work, along with sharing how you are dealing with these pandemic times (and if your rent is too high). Email editorial@georgetowner.com.

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BE A HERO

Brooke Pinto at her June 27 swearing-in as District Council member representing Ward 2. Courtesy Office of Council member Brooke Pinto.

Brooke Pinto’s ‘Business Perspective’ NEW WARD 2 COUNCIL REP OFF TO A RUNNING START

BY CH RISTOP HER J ON E S As the youngest District Council member ever elected and the first woman to represent Ward 2, Democrat Brooke Pinto, 28, is off to a running start after assuming the seat vacated by Jack Evans. Evans had held the post since 1991 — before Pinto was born.

Though she’s only resided in D.C. for six years, Pinto had gained significant legal and political experience prior to winning the special election to succeed Evans in June. Graduating from Georgetown Law in 2016, she served as a tax lawyer for the District Office of Tax and Revenue and, under Attorney General Karl Racine, rose to become D.C.’s assistant attorney general for policy and legislation.

“I love this city. This is where I will be for the rest of my life. It’s where I plan to raise my family, once I have a family,” Pinto said.

But, what a time to step into office — in the summer of the coronavirus pandemic, the economic crisis and the waves of protest stemming from the Black Lives Matter movement. For Pinto, however, great challenges inspire fresh governing opportunities. “I feel really grateful to have the opportunity to lead during this moment in our history,” she said.

Pinto assumed office just as the Council’s budgeting season was heating up.

She quickly steered $500,000 toward the Georgetown Business Improvement District for expanded sidewalks, while helping to secure another $500,000 to refurbish the C&O Canal in Georgetown and $7 million to remodel the Jelleff Recreation Center.

She also supported the city’s purchase of Georgetown Day School to help relieve crowding at Hardy Middle School.

“The revitalization and recovery of our small business community is front-ofmind,” Pinto said. To assist small businesses, she’s working on a raft of initiatives. She is aiming to help pass massive direct grants to keep shops and restaurants running, maintain employees on the payroll and enable retail tenants to pay rent. Not only did she help business owners process their PPP loans and navigate cumbersome red tape, she also helped them receive a waiver on their sales tax deadlines.

To help set up “streateries,” Pinto

intervened to reduce regulatory demands for outdoor dining liability insurance. She is seeking to “incentivize short-term leasing” to address high vacancy rates through tax code adjustments or direct credits. On the Council, she helped eliminate the proposed advertising tax that would have saddled businesses and publications with heavy costs.

“We’re also trying to think creatively about ways we can utilize our spaces to benefit our small businesses,” Pinto said. The Rose Park Farmer’s Market in Georgetown might be opened up to a more diverse range of small businesses. Water Street could be converted to an outdoor dining and market space, not only boosting local socially distanced commerce, but also helping to stem some of the crime in the area.

With an undergraduate degree in business and hospitality from Cornell University, Pinto is especially attuned to the importance of revitalizing the District’s service, hotel and tourist industries. “I think from a business perspective,” she said, noting that it’s essential “to understand how important our hotels are and tourism is to our local economy.”

Social justice issues also permeate Pinto’s agenda. “I feel very inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement and think it’s incredibly important and far overdue,” she said. She seeks systemic reforms in the criminal justice system and an expansion of restorative justice programs. She is also committed to diversity in staff hiring, as well as in the range of viewpoints her staff considers. And she supports D.C. statehood.

“I’m really glad to be on the Judiciary Committee so that I can have an opportunity to really implement some of these important measures,” she said. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s pandemic response and the decision to shift D.C. schools to virtual learning this fall are also measures Pinto supports. However, she emphasizes that “we’re doing everything we can to get our children back to school as quickly as possible.”

Right now, Pinto said, “we’re seeing how important it is for the government to run efficiently, to be productive, to be responsive, to be transparent. So that gives me an added sense of commitment and responsibility.”

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“There’s been more experimentation with pedagogy in the last five months at Georgetown than in the last 200 years.”

— Douglas Reed of Georgetown University Courtesy of Fritz Photography.

VIRTUAL LEARNING IS HERE TO STAY

BY CH RISTOP HER J ON E S

As the nation grapples with the everwidening coronavirus pandemic and the imminent start of the 2020-21 school year, families are scrambling to adjust to virtual learning from home. Having perceived the rocky end of the spring academic term as a wash educationally, many are leery of returning to online learning on the first day of school.

Given the economic and familial stresses during the pandemic and the interruptions to children’s learning and socialization, parents are longing for kids to return to school or college, with traditional daily instruction from their teachers and professors. But, like it or not, virtual learning is here to stay.

“While day-to-day life will perhaps return to ‘normal’ at some point, for education, there will have to be a new ‘normal,’” writes Robert Speed, vice president at education technology firm Blackboard. “Learners will now expect to be able to seamlessly switch between in-person and virtual formats, particularly in times of crisis.”

The good news is that significant positives may result, according to Georgetown University’s Douglas S. Reed, co-founder and director of GU’s master’s program in educational transformation. Virtual learning can “heighten flexibility for students,” he says, and “can also lead to student ownership” of their intellectual development, where pupils are “not just given more tasks, but more responsibility for surfacing what they’re learning and [for] sharing that in a more collaborative exercise.”

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thanks to expanding broadband connectivity, the proliferation of educational media online (including courses from institutions of higher learning), advancements in datadriven and virtual reality programming and the growing pool of tech-savvy teachers.

As a high-school history teacher for over 30 years, I can attest that the transition from the old-school, “Sage on the Stage” model to a greater emphasis on virtual teaching long preceded the onset of the pandemic. School administrators have promoted the idea of the “flipped classroom” for years. In this approach, students absorb online content posted by their instructors for homework and teachers use follow-up classes for related activities. Blended-learning instructional methods — flexibly combining online and traditional approaches — also long preceded the current crisis.

Before retiring from the classroom last year (I last taught at a D.C. private school), I was thrilled to have virtual teaching tools available to deepen students’ learning.

Students could post their own iMovie, Prezi or graphics-interface projects on the class’s or the school’s homepage, use online discussion boards to delve deeply into prompts, create virtual newspapers, posters or comic strips, quiz each other on Kahoot! or deploy interactive editing features within Google Docs to write collaborative speeches and peer-edit each other’s work.

As an online tutor now, I’m amazed how much more directly I can guide students’ writing, editing and critical thinking progress as we work together, sharing screens and documents via Zoom.

In the halls of academe, profound changes are underway to prepare for the Brave New World of virtual learning.

Georgetown’s Reed, who teaches courses in law, government and education, is currently developing a new course in instructional design and technology.

Reed credits GU’s Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship with rapidly training hundreds of faculty members in the new modalities of online learning through the center’s Course Development Institute.

“One thing we really learned last spring is that Zoom fatigue is very real,” Reed said. Finding “visual cues from very tiny spaces” when it’s hard to “read the room” is exhausting. To adjust, Reed parceled out smaller chunks of material for students to work on asynchronously, with discussion, collaboration and student-driven discovery of the materials during “synchronous” (that is, live) virtual classroom sessions.

Class size is critically important for success on Zoom, Reed pointed out. “I had a graduate seminar [on Zoom] with six Ph.D. students in the spring and that was fine,” he said. However, much larger classes, where professors or teachers simply lecture on Zoom, can be “like a bludgeon” on the students — not to mention disheartening for instructors as they cast about and only see blank boxes with students’ turned-off video screens.

Asked about the future of the conventional lecture model, Reed foresees a permanent change. “The conventional lecture class may very well not persist,” he said. A teacher or professor might spend 20 minutes

delivering a “core lecture,” but will soon make the choice to “flip the course” so that students can “work on materials, maybe in groups, or in a collaborative fashion.”

Reed believes that, in response to the crisis, Georgetown University has examined and updated its teaching approaches with remarkable speed and commitment. “There’s been more experimentation with pedagogy in the last five months at Georgetown than in the last 200 years,” he said. This fall, for example, Georgetown professors will be adopting the lecture-capturing platform Panopto.

As a proudly traditional institution, Georgetown “doesn’t generally make innovations quickly,” Reed said. However, the university has moved with dispatch to offer a series of socially relevant one-credit courses for freshmen, modified its grading policies and worked to foster inclusion in online instruction for students from multiple time zones.

Reed expressed concern over how marginalized populations might suffer further as the U.S. moves toward greater reliance on remote learning without allocating sufficient public resources to school districts in need. He also counseled that, no matter what virtual tools a teacher has at his or her disposal, a course cannot be effective without thoughtful design planning and the fostering of mutual and positive relationships in the classroom.

“Good teaching has always been interactive,” Reed noted. To be sufficiently engaging, the new normal of virtual learning will demand an even higher level of that essential component.

COVER

BACK TO SCHOOL (SORT OF) IN GEORGETOWN

BY PE GGY SA NDS Courtesy of Fritz Photography.

As schools in D.C. and Georgetown grapple with being fully online, fully in-person or a mix this fall, we must ask: What is best for children, teachers and staff — along with economic and, most of all, public health?

“It’s 50-50,” a Hyde-Addison Elementary School teacher told The Georgetowner (off the record). “My colleagues, parents and students are split about how and when schools should go back to in-person or remain fully virtual.”

“So many parents, myself included, are really struggling with the risk/reward equation of in-person learning. Our kids have suffered from the isolation. So, we are desperate to get them back to some normalcy. But we also need to be honest about where we are in this pandemic,” Liz D’Angio, a Georgetown parent whose children attend Holy Trinity School, told The Georgetowner.

“I am agonizing for the single parents, the parents of children with special needs that require skilled interactions, the children in abusive homes and especially those in situations where there is no place to study and even little access to food,” said former Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner Monica Roaché, who lives on P Street and works for Arlington County Schools.

One size doesn’t fit all. Remote learning can be fine for some, even many. But not all. Health concerns related to the trends in COVID-19 cases and mortality rates differ by state, by region and even by ward in the District.

Coronavirus statistics are collected daily by the District Department of Health and the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. On Aug. 6, D.C. reported 12,443

cases and 587 deaths. Last week, COVID-19 mortality rate in D.C. was 4.7 percent, higher than the 3.7 national percentage and those of Maryland (3 percent) and Virginia (2 percent).

The risk of school children getting severely sick from the disease appears to be extremely low at this time. In the District, almost 1,000 individuals under the age of 19 have tested positive for the virus since March, but there have been no deaths. In contrast, 43 patients between the ages of 20 and 50 — the age range of most teachers — have died of virus complications to date.

“Rising caseloads in July didn’t result in a spike in hospitalizations or deaths,” said LaQuandra Nesbitt, director of the District Department of Health, on Aug. 5.

“That might be the result of young people making up a growing proportion of new cases. What may be happening is that if younger populations are tending to be more impacted, their severity of illness may be less and death may be less likely in that age group.”

MAYOR BOWSER CHANGES HER MIND

Mayor Muriel Bowser unexpectedly announced on July 30 that all D.C. public schools would be operating online-only for the first term, running from Aug. 31 through Nov. 9. Throughout July, school officials were considering a mixed-option plan of in-person classes.

“The decision to go all-virtual was not based on any particular health metrics,” the mayor said. “There were lots of other considerations, but safety for school personnel and students was the

overwhelming priority. We had to consider parental and student comfort and workforce and faculty issues.”

On July 28, public school teachers in Washington, D.C., placed body bags outside the DCPS offices to protest a possible partial return to the classroom. The American Federation of Teachers threatened “safety strikes” across the nation if schools opened in-person.

a spokesperson for pastor Rev. C. Kevin Gillespie, S.J. As of this week, it looks like grades 3 and under will attend school five days with the upper grades meeting two days and going virtual for now.

Parents are also turning to private tutoring. Small education businesses are thriving. “All my classes of between one and five students filled immediately,” said Chloe Kaplan, founder of Amore Learning.

INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS LOOK AT OPTIONS

D.C. UNIVERSITIES CHOOSE VIRTUAL FALL

The mayor’s decision to keep public schools closed put pressure on the District’s many private, independent and public charter schools. Almost all have small class sizes, non-union teachers and their own regulations, which give them flexibility that the public schools lack. But they also have grave concerns about health and safety.

“We expect charter schools to follow the District guidelines and be all-virtual as well,” Bowser stated at her July 30 press conference.

As of Aug. 6, some had decided to close.

“We have just announced that Maret School will deliver its academic program virtually beginning Sept. 8,” Head of School Marjo Talbott told The Georgetowner. “We will conduct small orientation meetings on campus for students and teachers to meet personally. And we will be watching the health metrics carefully. It could change even by October.”

Catholic elementary schools such as Holy Trinity are still in the process of making a decision. “We are sending out a parental survey and planning a town hall meeting next week to help make our decision,” said

Last month, Georgetown, George Washington and American Universities announced that they would offer almost all undergraduate and graduate courses online.

Campuses and dorms would be closed to all but a few hundred special-needs and foreign students who couldn’t get home. Catholic University is allowing freshmen and some transfers on campus But, as private institutions, they will all charge annual tuition of more than $50,000 a year. Some students have threatened lawsuits in protest.

“Online classes should be fine,” said Eric Langenbacher, a professor in Georgetown University’s government department. “The university has provided us with training and access to equipment and apps to better transform our courses, interactive seminars and student counseling online. Most of my colleagues indicated they were uncomfortable to come to campus personally right now.

And college undergraduate numbers may be down as well this year. Many of my son’s friends, who just graduated from high school in June, have decided to take this year off as a gap year.”

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BUSINESS

INS & OUTS: ICYMI UPDATE

BY RO BE RT DEVA NEY Though the pandemic shutdown has accelerated the departure of some already struggling businesses, all is not gloom and doom for Georgetown’s commercial corridors. There is good business news afoot in Washington’s oldest neighborhood.

Still, expect a changed retail and restaurant environment — even when the pandemic fades and an effective vaccine is available. There will be a new normal. In case you missed it, the following is a select rundown of business openings and closings since February. For the Ins, the amount is approximately 23 (11 soon to open); for the Outs, about 20.

IN: CALL YOUR MOTHER

Call Your Mother, D.C.’s locally grown “Jew-ish” deli, from co-owners and married couple Andrew Dana and Daniela Moreira, opened on July 29 at 35th and O Streets NW. A neighborhood Instagram magnet, the colorful shop boasts 1,100 square feet dressed in the original pink.

IN: L.A. BURDICK

L.A. Burdick, a chocolate candy shop founded in New York, has opened at 1319 Wisconsin Ave. NW. The shop offers highend chocolates as well as pastries and drinking chocolate. This is the company’s sixth location.

IN: GEORGETOWN SOCIAL

Last month, an eatery opened at 2920 M St. NW in the short-lived site of chocolatier Harper Macaw. Georgetown Social offers Turkish flatbread (pide) and Lebanese rolled thin bread (saj bread), along with drinks and hookahs.

IN: ALLBIRDS ON M

In February, San Francisco-based Allbirds opened its first D.C. store at 3135 M St. NW, site of the shuttered Ben & Jerry’s.

The new store says it is “known for its super comfortable, unisex shoes (and now socks!) made from sustainable materials.”

IN: GEORGETOWN BUTCHER ON GRACE

Taking Neopol Savory Smokery’s spot, Georgetown Butcher is bringing “humanely raised meats” to the Grace Street Collective at 3210 Grace St. NW, where the cool eateries are. The new business owner, Wendell Allsbrook, arrives from the Organic Butcher of McLean.

IN: PADDYWAX CANDLE BAR

Paddywax Candle Bar, an experiential retailer where customers learn to make candles, opened at 1065 Wisconsin Ave. NW, above South Moon Under. The store serves beer and wine as amateur chandlers mix the scented wax to make their own products.

IN: GEORGETOWN CARPET

Georgetown Carpet has opened at 1815 Wisconsin Ave. NW, near Safeway. It had been in Glover Park since 1981.

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IN: ORANGETHEORY FITNESS

Orangetheory Fitness opened next to Georgetown Carpet in the former space of men’s clothier Jos. A. Bank at 1815 Wisconsin Ave. NW.

IN: BAR BOTECO

A pop-up opened in July in the Sandbox eatery behind Cafe Milano, on the ground level of Georgetown Court at 3251 Prospect St. NW. Bar Boteco offers Brazilian-style grilled meats in partnership with Claudete Seban of MK Catering.

IN: CAFE AMA

Angelique Sina opened Cafe Ama at 1101 30th St. NW, selling coffee from Puerto Rico. President of Friends of Puerto Rico, Sina is keen to get the word out about the SEEDS entrepreneurship program for women and children in Puerto Rico.

COMING: BLU DOT, BOZZELLI’S, DONAHUE, FOXTROT MARKET, LE LABO, LEVAIN BAKERY, UBREAKIFIX, VERONICA BEARD, SARAH FLINT

The following stores have plans to open, according to the Georgetown Business Improvement District: Blu Dot furnishings, 3333 M St. NW (the former North Face store); Bozzelli’s pizza and subs at Washington Harbour; Donahue restaurant at 1338 Wisconsin Ave. NW (the former Smith Point); Foxtrot Market at 1267 Wisconsin Ave. NW (the former Jonathan Adler); Le Labo fragrances at 3005 M St. NW (the former Hu’s Shoes); Levain Bakery at 3131 M St. NW (cookies at the former Johnny Rockets); UBreakIFix at 1519 Wisconsin Ave. NW; Veronica Beard women’s clothing at 1254 Wisconsin Ave. NW (the former Streets of Georgetown clothier); and Sarah Flint shoes at 1259 Wisconsin Ave. NW.

SOON: TACQUERIA IN DEAN & DELUCA SPACE

District Bodega, a tacqueria serving fresh Mexican cuisine, is planning to move into the former D.C. home of Dean & DeLuca at 3276 M St. NW, with seating on part of the ground floor, on the mezzanine level and outdoors. The Artists & Fleas multiplevendor market, announced previously, will occupy the rest of the space.

OUT? BLUES ALLEY’S FUTURE UNCERTAIN

Sad news from Blues Alley management: “After 55 years in business we find ourselves in a situation completely out of our control. Until further notice, Blues Alley will remain open in the virtual realm only with our streaming series, Speakeasy, on Wednesdays and Thursdays. With no definitive process established nor the ability to forecast a plan to reopen, we will cease all other sales. We are keeping place holders

Georgetown’s Blues Alley offers virtual performances but faces an uncertain future.

Georgetowner photo. with the artists on their dates in hopes of a triumphant return. All pending purchases will be addressed but we ask for your patience while we reconcile what we are able to fulfill and what must be refunded.”

OUT: BOGART SALON AFTER 45 YEARS

“After more than 45 years in Georgetown, Bogart hair salon will close for good on Aug. 1,” the business told The Georgetowner.

Lee Walters, owner of the salon at 1063 Wisconsin Avenue NW, cited rising rent and the pandemic.

OUT: HIGH STREET CAFÉ

High Street Café, the Latin-themed brasserie that opened in November of 2018 in the former Paolo’s at 1303 Wisconsin Ave. NW, has closed. Restaurateur Manuel Iguina says he will open a new place, Casa Piko, at a new address: “Same vibe. Same love. Just a different package and a whole lot more color.”

OUT: KATE SPADE

At 3034 M St. NW, the plywood has been up since June and the Kate Spade New York logo is gone. Founded in 1993 by Kate and Andy Spade, the business expanded past handbags into clothing and other accessories. It is now owned by Tapestry, Inc., formerly known as Coach.

OUT: CHERUB ANTIQUES

Bruce Marine, owner of Cherub Antiques Gallery at 2918 M St. NW, closed his shop on Aug. 1. He told The Georgetowner: “After great reflection upon my shop’s amazing history in Georgetown, up to present day challenges, I have decided to close my M Street gallery storefront after almost 37 years.”

OUT: MASSIMO DUTTI

Massimo Dutti, the luxury men’s and women’s clothing brand located at 1220 Wisconsin Ave. NW, has left town.

OUT: ECCO

Ecco, the shoe retailer at 1227 Wisconsin Ave. NW, between the Apple store and Vineyard Vines, closed up shop.

OUT: HSBC

The bank at Wisconsin Avenue and R Street NW — HSBC (The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited) — has departed Georgetown, leaving D.C. with one branch. The property at 1715 Wisconsin Ave. NW previously housed Japan Inn Restaurant.

OUT: LOCAL MEDITATIONS

CBD shop Local Meditations, co-founded

by Tanya Duckett and Shara Gibson, has left its Georgetown location at 1631 Wisconsin Ave. NW. Their business remains online.

OUT: CAFE ROMEO’S

Cafe Romeo’s, the pizza parlor and hookah lounge at 2132 Wisconsin Ave. NW, has closed.

OUT ON M: AMERICA EATS, BAKER FURNITURE, BROOKS BROTHERS, JOHNNY ROCKETS, LPQ, LUCKY BRAND, PEET’S, ROOTS, STARBUCKS, WSC

Chef José Andrés and his ThinkFoodGroup closed the America Eats Tavern at 3139 M St. NW after opening two summers ago. While other eateries closed in the first month of the pandemic, America Eats Tavern remained in operation to provide meals for the needy from its front door. Andrés continues his work at his nonprofit World Central Kitchen.

The following M Street stores have also closed: Baker Furniture, Brooks Brothers, Johnny Rockets, Le Pain Quotidien, Lucky Brand, Peet’s Coffee, Roots, Starbucks (at 3122) and Washington Sports Club.

REAL ESTATE

The classic colonial, built in 1908, was wholly reimagined and renovated earlier this year by Akseizer Residential. Courtesy HomeVisit.

Live and Learn SMART TECH AND SOPHISTICATED STYLING CREATE A HOME THAT’S READY FOR ANYTHING

The white, bright kitchen, boasting chef’s-grade appliances and a southeast exposure, opens to the rear patio. Photo by Laura Metzler. Courtesy Akseizer Design Group.

BY SU S A N BODIKE R

JULY 2020 SALES

PROVIDED BY WASHINGTON FINE PROPERTIES

There’s more to 1639 35th St. NW than meets the eye. From the outside, the traditional white colonial offers no surprises.

With its black shutters and gracious porch, it is the very model of an early 1900s Georgetown home, albeit with a herringbone brick walkway lined with a lush array of sculpted boxwoods, hollies and impatiens.

Step inside, however, and there is something more, beyond the open floor plan, elegant furnishings and custom finishes: a very of-the-moment WiFi-enabled network (audio, video, lighting, thermostats, security) that will support even the most demanding work- or learn-from-home challenge — a must in these pandemic times.

Renovated just this year by Akseizer

Residential, the fully detached house offers 2,450 square feet of living space on three levels, with four bedrooms, three and a half baths, a large gourmet kitchen, a rear garden with a flagstone patio and gated parking. It also boasts white oak herringbone flooring, Waterworks fixtures (baths and kitchen) and Thermador appliances — all set off by a striking black-and-white color palette. The home is on the market for $2,895,000.

On the main level, the open floor plan flows from the living room, with built-in bookcases and a marble gas fireplace, to the dining area, then on to the step-down kitchen, featuring counters, a backsplash and a waterfall-edge island in marbleveined quartz, extensive white cabinetry

and a wall of windows facing south. There is a six-burner range, a double oven, a wine cooler and a soft-touch, concealed Frenchdoor refrigerator with a water dispenser.

A glass-paneled door leads from the kitchen to the landscaped patio and the brick parking pad, easily accessed from the alley by two remote-operated barn doors.

Up on the second level is the primary bedroom, with a deep walk-in closet. Within the en-suite bath are a marble doublesink vanity and a glass shower with three showerhead options: pressure, rainhead and a handheld faucet. At the other end of the hall is a second large bedroom with a wall of built-in storage and an en-suite bath.

Between them is a smaller bedroom that

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could also function as an office or a study.

A fully finished lower level includes the main laundry with a GE side-by-side washer and dryer, a family room with built-in cabinetry that can accommodate a very large TV monitor, a bonus room, a full bath and storage.

Offered at $2,895,000, this 2,450-squarefoot home features four bedrooms, three and a half baths, a garden and a host of smart-tech features. It is listed with HRL Partners at Washington Fine Properties.

For details, contact HRL Partners Robert Hryniewicki, Adam T. Rackliffe and Christopher R. Leary at 202-243-1620 or robert.h@wfp.com. For a visual tour, visit spws.homevisit.com/hvid/283120.

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CLOSE PRICE $6,100,000 $5,000,000 $4,900,000 $4,350,000 $3,950,000 $3,800,000 $3,700,000 $3,690,000 $3,450,000 $3,450,000 $3,425,000 $3,350,000 $3,257,500 $3,250,000 $3,100,000 $2,900,000 $2,760,000 $2,735,000 $2,700,000 $2,425,000 $2,360,000 $2,300,000 $2,250,000 $2,213,000 $2,195,000 $2,100,000 $2,100,000 $2,035,000 $2,000,000 $1,995,000 $1,975,000 $1,925,000 $1,875,000 $1,865,000 $1,800,000 $1,795,000 $1,785,000 AUGUST $1,775,000 12, 2020 $1,775,000 $1,775,000 $1,772,500

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IN COUNTRY

Virginia’s Second-Home Market Is Hot, Hot, Hot... and Transformed

BY KAT E OCZ Y P OK Like most people this year, chances are you’ve wished for a change of scenery.

Whether you’re tired of looking at the walls of your two-bedroom apartment or threestory townhouse, you’re not alone.

According to Mansion Global, owned by Dow Jones, ever since COVID-19 came to the U.S., there has been one priority among high-end homeowners living in cities: to get out and stay out. Second-home markets have seen record numbers in sales and rentals.

“We knew there was a pent-up demand as sales had been flat in the countryside for a number of years,” said Gloria Rose Ott, vice president and broker associate for Sotheby’s International Realty. “Super-low interest rates and stock market earnings gave more people flexibility. But, in my

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opinion, the phenomenal surge in buying is directly related to COVID and its impact on our lives.”

Ott personally covers Virginia’s Fauquier, Loudoun, Rappahannock, Prince William, Clarke, Warren and Frederick counties, as well as some of the Shenandoah Valley and Charlottesville — commonly known as Hunt Country and the Piedmont — on a case-by-case basis.

“Yes, the market is hot, but it is also transformed,” she said.

In the past, second-home/country buyers were looking for recreational purposes like horseback riding, hunting and gardening.

Now, buyers are seeking refuge, a space to spread out and distance from their neighbors.

“There’s less congestion, less traffic to

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Catesby Farm. Courtesy Sheridan-MacMahon

and from various destinations and more selfcontained, semi-off-the-grid properties for families to enjoy and feel safe,” Ott explained.

Like Ott, fellow Hunt Country realtor for Thomas & Talbot Emily Ristau has seen “incredible activity” in the business. Based in Middleburg, Ristau works in Loudoun and

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221 acres | Brick manor house c. 1844 | 4 BR, lovely kitchen, multiple porches, pine floors, 7 FP, original mantels, large windows, detailed millwork | c. 1810 log cabin/pool house, guest house, 2 tenant houses | Equestrian complex on separate 40 acre parcel, 24 stall stable, indoor arena, outdoor ring, jump field and 3 BR cottage, sizable pond | 6 Parcels

296 acres of farmland off the Atoka Road | Working farm in crops and hay and improved with multiple large farm buildings and 3 cottages | Beautiful building site for a main house if desired | Conservation easement allows for 1 division and permits construction of an indoor area and additional equestrian and farm buildings | Mix of open land, creeks, pond, woods, pasture, crops and rolling topography

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French Country home, recent renovations | 4 BR, 5 full & 2 half BA, 5 FP, hardwood floors, flagstone terrace | Beautiful drive to hilltop setting overlooking lake & mountains | Improvements include pool, 2-car garage, 2 BR guest house & apartment | Lovely boxwood gardens | 79.89 acres

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Main house c 1890 with total renovation & expansion 2003-2004 | Stone and stucco exterior | 4+ BR, 5 1/2 BA, 3 FP, exposed beams, vaulted ceilings, recording studio | Beautiful gardens, in-ground pool with spa | Terrace overlooking spring fed pond, 72.1 acres, 2 barns, totaling 14 stalls | Fenced and cross fenced, mature woods with riding trails | Close to Leesburg and Middleburg

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Fauquier counties, occasionally venturing “over the mountain” to Clarke County.

“Generally, the market slows in July and August, with people going away on vacation,” she said. “People are now staying close and not leaving. A lot in town are getting second homes out here.”

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IN COUNTRY

30+ Years Experience Ristau, who has a second home herself in Georgetown, advises buyers who want to take the plunge to make sure there is ease of access between your two properties. She thinks the Hunt Country is especially popular because it’s a short ride to Dulles Airport.

Ott cautioned second-home buyers to work with local agents and brokers who know every back road and hilltop in the region. It’s her version of “shopping local.”

Agents in the market know more about the history and idiosyncrasies of particular properties, roads and areas.

“In the end, we become your neighbors.

And we rely on one another very differently in the countryside,” Ott said.

Ott often tells her clients, “You’ll know it when you see it.” She reminds them that a story online may draw them in, but it’s seeing things like 100-year-old oak trees, antique brass on a front door handle and the like that makes a buyer say, “This is what I had in mind.”

If you haven’t bought a home in recent years, expect to see the practice of real estate relying heavily on technology, including digital photography and video.

And COVID has, of course, changed the typical homebuying process. With socialdistancing and quarantine requirements,

it is now more essential than ever to show in photos what a property is all about.

Expect to have lots of phone conversations with your realtor and, when you do meet in person, wear a mask (remember: no handshakes or hugs).

Ott noted that there are specific instructions about not touching surfaces in a home, such as light switches and belongings. Buyers are asked to leave children with a babysitter, too.

As far as what to expect going into the fall season, Ott said brokers rely on trends to build their business plans for the year and to manage their inventory and time.

“This year, we have been occupied by safety and urgency and even some panic,” she commented. “My hunch is a bit of the buying surge has subsided, but there is a higher-than-average demand for country property that may start as a second home and morph into a primary one.”

At first, Ristau responded to the same question much like the rest of us have been saying all year: “I have no idea! Every day is something different.” She went on to say she thinks the market will probably be a lot like today, with buyers interested in more space to spread their wings a bit.

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BY LIND A ROT H Kramerbooks & Afterwords owner Steve Salis will soon morph the landmark Dupont bookstore and 24-hour café at 1517 Connecticut Ave. NW into a bar and restaurant — with all-day breakfasts and signature Ted’s Bulletin pop tarts — called Kramers. There will also be a new retail space, All Day by Kramers, offering items like flowers and haircuts in addition to books. Chef Vincent Griffith has developed a French-inspired modern American menu for the new concept.

Ruthie’s All-Day is slated to open in September at 3411 5th St. South in Arlington, Virginia, helmed by partners Matt Hill, formerly of Liberty Tavern Restaurant Group, and Todd Salvadore, formerly of RW Restaurant Group. This neighborhood restaurant and bar will be open for breakfast, lunch and dinner (including takeout, of course), as well as catering.

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Carrot Agnolotti & Crispy Prosciutto from ABC Pony. Photo by Rey Lopez. with a Jewish deli called Delikatessen.

The concept includes to-go cocktails that bartender Sam Nellis is adapting for the deli, including a Manischewitz mimosa (oy vey) and an egg cream with bourbon. Bagels come from Bullfrog Bagels.

Just Opened: Andrew Darnielle has opened Smokecraft Modern Barbecue at 1051 N. Highland Street in Clarendon, Virginia, featuring Smokecraft’s championship BBQ, which won over 70 awards in 2019.

Lunch, dinner and brunch (takeout, too) are complemented by beverages that are a natural for smoked meat, seafood and vegetables. Executive sous chef William Burke fine-tuned his curing and smoking techniques at restaurants including Bull and Bird Steakhouse, Revival Social Dinner and The Smith Restaurant in Burton, Ohio.

Smokecraft’s beverage program is designed by chief mixologist Lauren “LP” Paylor, 2019 winner of the Hardy Legends Cognac Competition, who worked at The Dabney, Dos Mamis and Silver Lyan in D.C. …

Greg Bolton opened Bob & Edith’s Diner in Arlington at 5050 Lee Highway, where Linda’s Café used to be. The diner has four other Northern Virginia locations: Columbia Pike, Crystal City, Huntington and Springfield … Johanna Hellrigl opened Mercy Me in the Yours Truly hotel at 1143 New Hampshire Ave. NW in the West End. This “Sorta South American” cafe and restaurant was created with Andrew Dana and Daniela Moreira of Call Your Mother deli — now with a Georgetown location at 3428 O St. NW — and Timber Pizza Co. Pastries are by Argentina native Camila Arango of Pluma by Bluebird bakery near Union Market.

Darren Norris and Candice Wise have opened Shibuya Eatery at 2321 18th St. NW in Adams Morgan, where Bourbon used to be. It’s the first part of a three-level Japanese food-service project. On the ground level, Shibuya is a carryout operation offering Japanese street food, including to-go sake and Japanese beers. Just outside, a shaved ice machine churns out traditional Japanese snow cones with mochi and fruit called kakigōri.

Next to open will be Death Punch Bar on the third level, offering Shibuya’s food menu

plus a pool table and a DJ booth. Around Labor Day, Shabu Plus is slated to open on the second floor with Japanese hot pot and kaiseki small plates, as well as a higher-end sake bar. GM Leonard Howell was previously at Le Diplomate. Executive sous chef is D’Angelo Mobley, formerly at Maialino Mare, American Son and the Allegory bar in the Eaton DC hotel. Bar manager Jeremy Wetmore comes from Left Door.

Chef & GM Update: Local Seat Pleasant native Armani Johnson has been named executive chef at ABC Pony, the ItalianAsian café by Erik-Bruner Yang at 2 I St. SE in Navy Yard. Johnson moved up from the sous-chef spot there and at Sally’s Middle Name on H Street NE. Four words: cheddar Old Bay biscuits.

Scissors & Scotch, a men’s barbershop, cocktail bar and lounge, is slated to open at 1 M St. SE in Capitol Riverfront by the fourth quarter of 2020, in the building that’s also home to the National Association of Broadcasters. The Kansas City-based franchise operation hopes to open 10 more locations in the region, including in NoMaUnion Market and Ballston, Virginia. Haircuts come with a complimentary cocktail.

Georgetown Quick Hit: New York’s Levain Bakery will open in Georgetown at 3131 M St. NW where Johnny Rockets used to be. It will be the bakery’s eighth location since owners Pam Weekes and Connie McDonald opened the original in 1995.

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Not only is the $35 dinner promotion in full swing, but it’s now Restaurant Weeks, as in two: Aug. 17 through 30. Carryout meals with curbside pickup are also available for solo or family-style dining, with adultbeverage options. The sharable meals cost $60 to $100 for two and $130 to $210 for four.

Lunch and brunch choices are $22 a person.

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‘Swing Kings: The Inside Story of Baseball’s Home Run Revolution’ THE OLD-SCHOOL STYLE OF BATTING HAS BEEN TURNED ON ITS HEAD R EVIEWE D BY KIT T Y K E LLE Y From the title, “Swing Kings,” readers might think Jared Diamond is writing about Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman. But while there’s music to be found in his subject, he’s actually addressing the basso profundo revolution in baseball: the batter’s swing.

Swinging a bat that actually connects to the ball is considered the toughest skill in all of sports, and “Swing Kings” tells the story of renegades who have rolled over conventional coaching to hit home runs and, in the process, revolutionized Major League Baseball.

The sport has continually changed from the dead-ball era (1899-1920) to the live-ball era (1920 2020). One of the more dramatic changes was illustrated in 2003 by Michael Lewis’s “Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game.” In the years since that book was published, followed by the 2011 movie starring Brad Pitt, the front offices of MLB have been filled with executives who evaluate players using the statisticalanalytics approach called sabermetrics (from

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the acronym for the Society for American Baseball Research). They have become known as the Moneyball Generation.

Now comes a new generation of “swing kings,” homering into history by throwing away the old traditions of staying back on the ball and hitting to the ground. Instead, serious hitters are switching up their stance, redirecting the bat path and aiming for the sky, all anathema to old-school teaching.

Diamond documents this revolution in detail (punishing detail for non-obsessives), and his book arrives at a most propitious time — in the midst of a global pandemic.

Normally, being published during a national lockdown would be an author’s worst nightmare — no book tour, no signings, no buzz. Add to that, for a Wall Street Journal sportswriter like Diamond, the calamity of no baseball. But there might be a silver lining: his audience is avid. Forced into their bunkers, fans didn’t see opening day until July 23, and then only on television.

Gallup’s most recent poll shows that more than 60 percent of Americans are sports fans, so Diamond’s publisher is banking on their need to read something beyond baseballanalysts.com, baseballdebate. proboards.com, batspeed.com, setpro.com and thehittingvault.com.

Since 2017, home runs have dominated the sport. That’s because some players finally stopped listening to hidebound batting coaches who continue, as Diamond writes, to teach batters to “stay back, swing down, bring your knob on a straight line to the ball, be short and quick, and ‘squish the bug’ — the oft-cited cue to a hitter to rotate his back foot upon swinging, as if he were smooshing an ant.”

Diamond acknowledges the rapture of home runs, an attraction in baseball from its beginning. “The ability to drive the ball far, to send it soaring high into the sky, was sexy. It was exciting. It was a sign of immense strength and power, of great masculinity and virility.” Then, just as he was rounding the bases with home run prose, he stubs his sexist toe: “Even back then, chicks dug the long ball.”

In the 2000s, desperate players who needed to up or resurrect their game started making secret pilgrimages to the California batting cage of Craig Wallenbrock, the “Oracle of Santa Clarita.” Wallenbrock preached a radical gospel of “lag position” in swinging, which Diamond chronicles pitch by pitch and player by player.

As one example, after two years with the Oracle, the Houston Astros’ J. D. Martinez learned to swing in a way that defied all conventional wisdom and raised him from baseball’s reject bin to the Boston Red Sox, signing a five-year contract worth $110 million, guaranteed.

Wallenbrock worked with Doug Latta in the Ball Yard, a training facility Latta owned in Chatsworth, California, that became a mecca for serious hitters eager to explore new ideas. Together, Wallenbrock and Latta became to baseball what Jobs and Wozniak

were to technology: game changers who busted the baseball brotherhood to produce unorthodox home run hitters.

But like all who challenge the establishment, they were treated like porcupines at a picnic. Now, 20 years later, they’re finally being celebrated as geniuses. The takeaway here for anyone: Follow your passion, challenge convention, be counterintuitive, welcome diversity and embrace innovation.

Diamond (not the author and UCLA professor with the same name) had a dual goal in writing “Swing Kings,” his first book: to report on the home run revolution within Major League Baseball and to apply the new swinging principles to his own game. He wanted to wow his colleagues in 2019 when he played in an annual twogame showdown for New York and Boston sportswriters — one game at Yankee Stadium and the other at Fenway Park.

As a result, he inserts himself off and on in the narrative, cutting from first person to third, which unfortunately makes for a herky-jerky read. But he lays out his report in serviceable style with no prose thrills, leaving the poetry of baseball to Roger Angell. And, by his own admission, Diamond is a sportswriter who covers baseball better than he plays it.

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