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First grader Aaron stands next to Calvin R. Hooks, Ed.D, Principal, Hyde-Addison Elementary School, in the playground in front of the school’s new building. Photo by Fritz Blakey and Fritzphotographics.

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Editorials Jack Evans Report Letter to the Editor

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HAUTE & COOL · 12 Too Cool for School

REAL ESTATE · 13 To the Manor Reborn

ARTS · 14

RALLYING IN D.C. FOR DEMOCRACY IN HONG KONG (PHOTOS) BY JEFF M AL ET

‘Manifesto: Art x Agency’

IN COUNTRY · 15

Pro-democracy demonstrators supporting the people of Hong Kong gathered in Lafayette Square on Aug. 18. Photo by Jeff Malet.

Restore Mind, Body and Soul

CLASSIFIEDS · 16 Service Directory

FOOD & WINE · 17 The Latest Dish Dining Guide

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Concertgoers will experience reggae favorites like “(I Can’t Help) Falling in Love with You” and “Kingston Town” by UB40, featuring original vocalist Ali Campbell and founding member Astro, along with Grammy winner Shaggy’s vocals on hits like “It Wasn’t Me” and “Angel.” Tickets are $40 to $60. For details, visit wolftrap.org. 1551 Trap Road, Vienna, Virginia.

Entrants in this charity golf event will take part in a short game clinic put on by PGA Tour Professional Fred Funk. During the round, players will compete for prizes, such as $10,000 in cash, a big screen TV and two five-day Carnival Cruises for two. Entry cost is $1,000. For details, visit www.rtjgc. com. Robert Trent Jones Golf Club, One Turtle Point Drive, Gainesville, Virginia.

Visitors to this pop-up book sale in downtown D.C. can browse over 12,000 gently used books, CDs and DVDs, all on sale for under $6. Books are provided by Carpe Librum, a donation-based used bookstore benefiting the education nonprofit Turning the Page. For details, visit itcdc.com. Wilson Plaza, Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW.

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At this forum on the impact of women in the hospitality, travel and tourism industry, women leaders will share their thoughts about career paths with those aspiring to reach a senior position. Registration is free. For details, visit dcchamber.org. Walter E. Washington Convention Center, 801 Mt. Vernon Place NW.

Why is it that Riojas can taste so different? What makes a glass of Chardonnay taste buttery? During the Wine & Spirit Education Trust Wine Education Week, participants in this class will learn how aging wines in barrels and bottles can impact its taste. Tickets are $85. For details, visit wineeducationweek.com. Capital Wine School, 5207 Wisconsin Ave. NW.

This race is a fundraiser for a Conservation Nation project studying black rhinos in South Africa. Researchers hope to learn how the diet of this endangered species impacts its immune system and ability to reproduce. Pets and costumes are welcome. An afterparty and awards ceremony will follow. For details, visit fonz.org. Freedom Plaza, 13th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW.

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ROCK CREEK FAR WEST MEETING The District Department of Transportation will hold its final public workshop for the Rock Creek Far West Livability Study. Final recommendations will be presented and additional public feedback gathered. To review and download the draft recommendations, visit rockcreekfarwest. com. RSVP to rcfwworkshop3.eventbrite. com. Horace Mann Elementary School, 4430 Newark St. NW.

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Bringing together rarely displayed artworks from the fourth to the 12th centuries, the exhibition “Woven Interiors: Furnishing Early Medieval Egypt” will reveal how textiles infused warmth and beauty into Egypt’s interior spaces. Suggested donation is $8. For details, visit museum.gwu. edu. The GWU Museum and the Textile Museum, 701 21st St. NW.

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Company members of Jane Franklin Dance will lead a Saturday-morning movement class for adults. Participants — who can drop in for a class or enroll for a series — will improve balance, range of motion, strength and coordination. For details, visit janefranklin.com. Theatre on the Run, 3700 S. Four Mile Run Drive, Arlington, Virginia.

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Evans Slapped With $20,000 Fine by D.C. Ethics Board BY GARY T IS CHL ER Anyone who thought things had quieted down in the ethics controversy surrounding Ward 2 Council member Jack Evans was mistaken. It was learned Thursday, Aug. 8, that the D.C. Board of Ethics and Government Accountability had fined Evans $20,000 for using government resources to tout his position and influence as an elected official, at the same time soliciting employment from local law firms, according to reports. Earlier this year, Evans vacated his chairmanship and seat on the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority board. Also, he was stripped of the chairmanship of the District Council’s influential Financial Committee, though the Council did not take away any of his other positions. Evans’s office sent out an email on Aug. 8 addressing the latest developments. It reads:

“Councilmember Jack Evans today agreed to a consent settlement with the Board of Government Ethics and Accountability (BEGA) to resolve BEGA’s concerns regarding the issues involving the D.C. Council’s March 19, 2019 reprimand over his use of official time and resources to transmit a business proposal to two DC law firms to which he had applied, and the use of prestige of office or public position for private gain. “Council member Evans, while not admitting any violation of the D.C. Council Code of Conduct, recognizes that these issues need resolution in order to avoid a protracted and constant dispute resolution process.” Evans, who has not been charged with any crime, is being investigated about his activities involving his service on the Council and his private business dealings. In addition, the Council hired a law firm which is examining his consulting activities.

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Starrels Charged With Threatening Restaurant Owner, Customers BY R OBERT D EVAN EY Former Georgetown-Burleith Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner Bill Starrels was arraigned last week for alleged threats against Beshar Mehiar, owner of Charcoal Town Hookah & Shawarma at 1027 31st St. NW, and his customers, because of latenight noise. Starrels pleaded not guilty. Mehiar, in an affidavit at the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, said that Starrels told him on May 24: “I’m going to shoot you, your customers, and the Muslims standing outside.” The court filing continued: “The Complainant states that Defendant Starrels has been asked several times in the past THE WORLD FAMOUS

not to return to the restaurant due to his harassing behavior. However, Defendant Starrels continues to walk in and around the restaurant, videotaping customers.” Starrels, who lives a few doors north in a condominium, represented the neighborhood as a commissioner of ANC 2E from 2000 to 2017. As an elected official, he criticized some restaurants and bars for loud noise and crowds outside their establishments late at night. Starrels did not offer a statement to The Georgetowner, nor did his attorney, Joseph Gonzalez.

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Montrose Park’s Memorial Sphere Vandalized BY KATE OCZ Y P OK The armillary sphere in Montrose Park on R Street NW in Georgetown was vandalized earlier this summer, harkening back to 50 years ago. While the sphere — a model of the heavens with roots in ancient Greece and China — was completely removed in May of 1969, vandals chose to leave it behind this time around. According to Georgina Owens, president of Friends of Montrose Park, vandals used a large branch to twist the sphere off its base, which ended up damaging both the sphere and the base. The National Park Service conservation lab has inspected the sphere and is currently working on proposals for its restoration. Fifty years ago, after the sphere was removed from its location, it ended up at the door of the Washington Evening Star, which

ceased publication nearly 40 years ago. In an article from the Star dated May 14, 1969, the theft coincided with “a noticeable rise in hippies at the fashionable park, which usually brings thoughts of nannies and small children.” The park was the former stomping grounds of a young Caroline Kennedy. The sphere was installed in 1956 by the Georgetown Garden Club as a memorial to Sarah Louisa Rittenhouse, who lobbied Congress from 1904 to 1911 to buy the Montrose estate for a public park. After her death in 1942, the Georgetown Garden Club erected the sphere in Rittenhouse’s memory. Owens remarked that perhaps there is a cosmic astrophysical force that inspires destruction of armillary spheres every 50 years.

Visitation’s Slavery Connection BY KATE OCZ Y P OK Back in the 1820s, the nuns of the Georgetown Visitation Convent were desperate for money. A brand-new chapel was in the process of being built, but the Panic of 1819 — the first financial crisis in the nation’s history — had made an impact. When relatives of two of Mother Agnes Brent’s nuns mentioned they had extra slaves, they were asked if the enslaved mother could be separated from her children.

This episode, and other information about Visitation’s slavery connections, is found in a report by the school’s archivist and historian, available online at visi. org. The 65-page report documents that nuns frequently sold slaves to shore up the school’s finances. While it was generally known that the founding nuns of the school owned slaves, past accounts tended to emphasize how they helped enslaved students learn to read.

Businesses Urged to Use ‘Barring Notices’ BY PEGGY SA NDS A team of Metropolitan Police officers told Georgetown business owners attending a June 15 public safety meeting that they could officially bar anyone from entering or being on their property for any reason. The instrument to do so is called a “barring notice,” which normally remains in effect for up to five years. The process involves the business owner or landlord first registering a complaint with the police against a specific individual, who has to be named. If possible, a photograph should be taken. The officers at the meeting, held over lunch at the office of the Georgetown Business Improvement District, strongly urged the gathered shopkeepers, restaurateurs and commercial property owners not to confront the person if agitated. “Just quietly try to get their name and a recognizable photo. Let them leave if they want to,” said Officer Antonial Atkins. The complaint, with the individual’s name and photo, is then filed with the police, who will fill out a single-page barring notice. The next time the individual is on the property, or if he or she has remained there, the police will present the notice to the individual. They will ask for additional identification and a signature, or

note that the individual was uncooperative in supplying it. Then the ban is established. The barring notice reads: “The below named individual was found on the property owned, occupied or managed by __________ and is hereby warned to stay off the property and grounds. There is no exception to this notice. Failure to heed this warning shall result in the prosecution for Unlawful Entry under D.C. Code 22-3302.” In other words, if the banned individual returns to the property, he or she can be immediately arrested. “Banning notices should be used more,” said Chip Dent, a longtime Georgetown and District activist. “They’ve been dramatically effective in some areas in clearing out almost entirely vagrants and people ‘experiencing homelessness’ and appearing as threats to the business from doorways, empty storefronts and small shops. “Businesses with landlords should have an authorization already signed for employees to issue a complaint when needed,” Dent added. The Georgetown BID has staff available seven days a week who can help with police and community organization interactions with vagrants, noted John Wiebenson, the BID’s operations director.

SUMMER MASS SCHEDULE 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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Disaster Preparedness: From Floods to Active Shooters BY PEG GY SA NDS Have the times become more chaotic or are officials just more aware of dangers facing Americans, from natural disasters to urban violence? Whatever the reason, Georgetown businesses and residents are being offered two workshops in September to learn how to deal with emergency situations. The workshops were announced by the Georgetown Business Improvement District at an Aug. 15 public safety meeting. On Friday, Sept. 13, a daylong active shooter preparedness workshop will be presented by the Department of Homeland Security at the Fairmont Washington, D.C., 2401 M St. NW. The focus will be on developing an emergency communication and action plan for employees, building

relationships with local first-responders and learning how to prevent active shooter incidents by recognizing behavioral indicators “on the pathway to violence.” In all plans, the three basic response options are: Run, Hide, Fight. On Tuesday, Sept. 17, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the D.C. Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency, 2720 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave. SE, the first biannual Business Preparedness Day will feature emergency first-responders and managers discussing how to prepare for a flood, a blizzard or any disaster that requires massive emergency responses by the private and public sectors. The event is sponsored by D.C.’s Business Emergency Management Operations Center.

CRIME & SAFETY

Car with passenger window smashed, on 2600 block of O Street NW, next to the tennis courts at Rose Park. Georgetowner photo.

SMASHED CAR WINDOWS

In the early morning of Tuesday, Aug. 13, vandals smashed the front passenger windows of three cars parked alongside the Rose Park tennis courts on the 2600 block of O Street NW. Items were strewn about amid the glass shards. Anything of value had been quickly snatched before the vandals — working in a very active ring according to local police — jumped into a waiting vehicle and drove quickly away. “Over $1 million of goods stolen from the assaulted vehicles throughout especially the Northwest sector of the District have been sold recently on eBay,” Officer Matthew Givens of the Metropolitan Police Department’s Second District told The Georgetowner. “It doesn’t matter if anything is in sight or even there. The windows are smashed first and the damage is done, whether the vandal gets anything or not. “We pretty much know who the members of the ring are,” Givens said. 6 AUGUST 21, 2019

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“Two were arrested on Friday night, Aug. 9, and we hope to get the others soon. They will be charged with felonies rather than the usual misdemeanor in an effort to stop the surge of violence, because up to now thefts from vehicles has been seen as a small-risk, low-punishment crime for former burglars and robbers.” This doesn’t offer much comfort to the victims, who end up having to pay at least insurance deductibles and car rentals out of pocket, only to have the crime happen again within days or weeks (as happened to this writer in July). Residents around Rose Park are seeking to have streetlights and surveillance cameras installed by the city on or next to the tennis court fences. While many residents have taken advantage of the District’s security camera rebate program to implement surveillance on the exterior of their homes, that doesn’t help when a car in parked across the street next to an unlit park.

Chefs Andrew Skala and Wolfgang Puck in the kitchen of Cut restaurant at the Rosewood hotel on 31st Street. Photo by Robert Devaney.

At the Rosewood, Wolfgang Puck Is All About Being Local BY R OBERT D EVAN EY The luxury hotel at 1050 31st St. NW, next to the C&O Canal, which opened in 2013 as a Capella showcase, is now part of the equally luxe Rosewood Hotel Group. In 2016, the Rosewood group took over. The property later closed for nine months of renovations and reopened on July 29. Ready to move forward, the hotel chose to redo its first floor with a Wolfgang Puck restaurant. Georgetown’s Cut is the fifth location of Puck’s more-than-a-steakhouse concept, also featuring fish and vegetable dishes. Talking with the 70-year-old charismatic chef, whose food company is expansive, one looks at the open space on the first floor, a bar and restaurant space shining with emerald green and gold furniture designed by Jacques Garcia. Here, Puck’s energy and personality is on full display. The hotel has a top-shelf staff led by its managing editor Gabor Vida, who has helmed other Rosewood properties. Vida wants the place to become “a neighborhood regular.” He is assisted by Evan Moore, restaurant and bar director. Still, Puck is the star, along with Cut’s Andre Skala, who has worked with him for 13 years. Sitting down with this Austrian American culinary virtuoso at the newest Cut, one finds his enthusiasm infectious. He seems to know everyone and, he says, he’s happy in be in Georgetown. Puck chose Rosewood because his clientele matches nicely with the hotel group’s. He has known one of the first executives of Rosewood for years. “Cater to the locals first, then the tourists will follow,” Puck says. He and Skala are also working with local companies to bring in regional ingredients — “Mid-Atlantic,” they say. The business ventures of this force of nature include a list of more than 40 restaurants, from Spago and Cut, along with catering, fast-casual spots and housewares. Puck is also a speaker and a writer. For the inquiring palate, the new Cut menu includes Puck’s “first foray into the

nose to tail movement. A compendium of signature wagyu, dry-aged cuts of beef and offal cuts like the Wagyu Beef Heart ‘a la plancha’ with nam jim, cucumber, lime and coriander are available for the steak enthusiast, alongside several dishes reminiscent of Puck’s childhood, like the Veal Holstein Schnitzel with capers, white anchovies, and Path Valley eggs.” In the mix, chef Skala is all for veggiecentric entrees as well as fish — roasted turbot and black bass among others. Skala says he has been dealing with Amish farmers, Chesapeake fishermen and Virginia cattlemen, also working with single-family farms as the Seven Hills Food purveyors. For more than a year, the chef has gotten close to his purveyors — going so far as giving out seeds for certain vegetables he’d like to have on his table. Cut is, Skala says, “a restaurant for locals with local ingredients.” Not to be missed: The Raw Bar, which the Rosewood calls “an elevation” from versions one might find elsewhere. The wine selection — 500 labels — is on display next to the bar with 2,500 bottles, including some Austrians for Puck and Hungarians for Vida, who adds that Cut’s menu is available via room service. There is also rooftop service, cheekily called A Cut Above. The Rosewood is not quite complete with its reinvention. Next door, along 31st Street and around on South Street, it is reconstructing and will open, it reports, “one-of-a-kind townhouse suites later this year. . . . Each approximately 1,100 square feet in size, the accommodations will be designed by local interior designer Thomas Pheasant.” Near the hotel’s entrance is the rehabilitation of the 31st Street bridge over the C&O Canal — that work should be completed by late 2020. Meanwhile, Puck insists, “Turn off your phones. Share the tastes. A restaurant is like a family. Share a meal. It’s a special time and a great experience, not just food.”

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Woodward Table, which closed Aug. 18, will be replaced by a Cheesecake Factory.

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CHEESECAKE FACTORY TO REPLACE WOODWARD TABLE

The headline to this item is indeed true. Popular family-restaurant chain the Cheesecake Factory is set to take over the Woodward Table space in the historic Woodward Building, near the White House at 15th and H Streets NW. The last day for Woodward Table, which served classic American food, was Sunday, Aug. 18. It occupied the downtown space, formerly occupied by Italian restaurant Potenza, for seven years.

D.C. IS NUMBER ONE IN FARMERS MARKETS

Washington, D.C., is number one in farmers markets, according to the 2019 American Fitness Index rankings. The annual rankings are published by the American College of Sports Medicine and the Anthem Foundation. The Fitness Index evaluates America’s 100 biggest cities using factors like health behaviors and chronic diseases. Rounding out the top-five list are: Minneapolis; Madison, Wisconsin; Honolulu; and Arlington, Virginia.

BUTTER CHICKEN JOINT COMING TO 18TH STREET

Restaurateur Asad Sheikh has signed a lease on 18th Street NW for a fast-casual eatery that will serve one item: butter chicken. Butter Chicken Company expects to sell around 300 trays of butter chicken per day at $12 per tray, DC Eater reported. Every order of the dish — boneless chicken thighs tandoor-grilled and marinated in a mild, creamy tomato curry — comes with plain or garlic naan, chickpeas (chana masala) and spinach (saag).

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MAYOR EXPANDS TAXI-TORAIL PILOT PROGRAM

Mayor Muriel Bowser announced expanded taxi-to-rail options for those who live east of the Anacostia River in Wards 7 and 8, with the District paying the first $10 of taxi fares for trips to buy groceries at stores such as Safeway and Giant. The expanded pilot program, which runs through the end of September, also covers trips to libraries, rec centers, pools and 10 Metro stations (formerly eight). Trips can be booked at taxi2rail.com.

The first election cycle since the District approved a new campaign-funding program is happening now. Janeese Lewis George is taking advantage of the Fair Elections program as she challenges Council member Brandon Todd (D-Ward 4). The program works fairly simply, matching every $50 contribution by a D.C. resident to a candidate who rejects large campaign contributions with $250 in public funds.

FIRE DAMAGES CAPITOL HILL CHARTER SCHOOL

A fire damaged the roof and a classroom at the new Digital Pioneers Academy on Capitol Hill, formerly home to the Cesar Chavez Public Charter School. The fire, in the 700 block of 12th Street SE, was reported just after 10 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 13. It is believed to have resulted from either a lightning strike or roof construction.

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EDITORIAL

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Despite Everything, a Fresh Beginning In the midst of this summer’s high temperatures and high tensions, we’re apt to forget a very important, always singular date right on top of us. Monday, Aug. 26, is the first day of public school in the District of Columbia. It’s Back to School Day. It is, as always, a fresh beginning. Every school year starts out bright and hopeful. Classrooms will be decorated; new schools will open (see our cover story); lesson plans will be made; goals will be set; and educators and administrators will resume their focus on standards, test scores, the differences between public and charter schools, the distance — by foot, bus, Metro, bike, scooter, moped or family car — between home and school, the traffic in school hallways and the ethnic and racial makeup of the student population. Even if we’re not parents of schoolkids ourselves, we will soon see and hear the chatter of children small and not so small passing by with their lunch boxes and backpacks. Here’s what the DC Public Schools website tells us in terms of data. There are 48,439 students, 4,025 teachers, 115 schools and principals, 3,500 classroom aides, social workers, counselors, custodians and other support workers and countless parents and family members “supporting our children and demanding a high-quality education.”

The raw numbers don’t reveal all that much. We know that DCPS has a new chancellor, Lewis Ferebee, who has been described as a “pretty chill dude” and has said “you can only move at the speed of trust,” a fairly refreshing thought for a leader of any institution. Many of us have memories of our own first day of elementary, middle or high school. But the first day of school for 21st-century children is guaranteed to be different. Almost any adult today, from recent college grad to geezer, is light-years removed from today’s students. So diligent and adept are even young children with all matters digital, that we imagine them to have texted their own arrival. The impact of technology and social media — in the classroom, on the playground, on after-school programs and on homework — cannot be overstated. What’s more, students go to learn in 2019 with less of a sense of security than in the past. School shootings are no longer rare. That’s a new emotional context for the school environment. We don’t doubt, however, that there is still to be found a measure of the excitement, hope and sheer energy that a first day brings. You can see it in the eyes of those kids passing by. And if you happen to run into a teacher — the most under-rewarded, underappreciated employee in the American universe — shake his or her hand and say: “Thank you.”

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District residents are grateful to have many transportation options. You can choose from Metrobus and Metrorail, Capital Bikeshare, car rentals, ride-sharing services and dockless bikes and scooters to get around town. Yet the latest transportation option, hitting the streets last weekend, was in the form of mopeds. Yes, that’s correct, dockless mopeds have joined the growing fleet of alternative transportation vehicles. With no more than a smartphone in your hand and a brief check on your driving history (and a helmet, of course), you’ll be off zipping around town on a moped. Moped companies that applied and met the District Department of Transportation’s terms and conditions were given approval to place 400 mopeds in all eight wards. Approved companies are allowed to operate in D.C. during a four-month pilot program, similar to the one under which dockless bikes and scooters were introduced two years ago. District laws regulating the use of motor-driven cycles

must be followed. Riders have to wear a helmet and possess a driver’s license when operating a moped. Also, driving mopeds on sidewalks is prohibited. According to DDOT, the city’s intention is to reduce dependency on cars. The thought is that providing more options to get around town will get cars off the road, reduce traffic congestion and make the streets safer for everyone. I support new attempts to make our city less dependent on cars. However, just as we learned lessons about how to manage electric scooters, the city will have to learn more about how these mopeds are used on our streets. Many constituents have contacted my office over the past two years about scooters whizzing by them on the sidewalk or causing harm to others. These are serious concerns that need to be considered as we try new tactics to alleviate congestion. I want to ensure that the city is doing the best job it can to be a responsible regulator of new technologies and I’m excited to see how the city transforms over time. What do you think? I’d love to hear your thoughts and suggestions.

Letters to the Editor Open Jelleff Field to Other Schools To the editor: I’m following up on information I received from the Jelleff Boys and Girls Club branch director regarding the need to raise your awareness of the renewing of the Jelleff field contract. There is a strong need of adequate play space and as a citizen I urge you to open the contract fairly and make available park field space for neighboring schools. The Maret School (private) has had a 10year contract with the city for exclusive use of the Jelleff field during the fall, spring and late summer, Monday to Friday, 3:30 to 6 p.m. They are seeking another 9-to-10-year contract with the city. Ten other schools plus the Jelleff after-school program are asking the city for usage of the field during these days and times. Jelleff will likely only ask for two days per week and will share with others. I want to share the disappointment of this agreement. This was a mistake and impacts primary and middle schools less than one mile away in the subject area. My experience for three years is the parents of Maret dominate the parking lot from parents picking up children attending the Jelleff after-care program. Maret parents double-park, block cars and one

day banged on my car to share a parking space. In addition to limited parking, the fields are occupied daily, which prevents outdoor physical activity for children attending Jelleff. The goal for our children is to have at least one to two days per week to participate in sports offered at Jelleff. When the Boys and Girls Club needs to practice for sports, the directors drive our children to other dirt fields which are lower quality than Jelleff’s turf fields. My daughters attend School Without Walls @ Frances Stevens and Hardy Middle School and they both play sports that require a five-block walk, rain or shine, to the nearest field for practice. Providing one school a long-term contract during critical times of the weekday is total priority treatment without understanding the need of other schools that are closer in proximity and in need of play space. With my request, please open the contract to other schools and not allow the renewing of Maret’s contract for another 10 years of sole usage of Jelleff field, Monday to Friday from 3:30 to 6 p.m. — Nicole Jackson, Jelleff Boys and Girls Club parent

A Refreshing Design To the editor: I don’t know what you have been doing differently, but this latest issue of The Georgetowner looks great. The layout seems brighter, easier to read, more

attention-getting. I am reading it from cover to cover. Well done! — Joan Kennan

BUSINESS

High Street Cafe: Home Again

INS & OUTS

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202CREATES SHOWCASES D.C.’S CREATIVE ECONOMY

Founded in 2016, 202Creates, a D.C. government initiative to showcase the District’s creative economy, will soon be back in full swing. The project is the brainchild of Mayor Muriel Bowser. Led by Angie Gates, director of the Office of Cable Television, Film, Music and Entertainment, 202Creates involves a supporting cast of government employees. September is the designated month of celebration, but there are ongoing programs to support local creatives. “It’s not just an initiative,” says Gates, “it’s a movement.” Riffing off Washington’s area code for its name, the month of special events launches at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 29, at Eaton DC, 1201 K St. NW, with an evening of art, fashion, food and performances by local musicians and dancers. The kickoff’s lineup includes Black Alley, a self-described “hood rock” band that fuses hip hop and hard rock to form “a unique musical elixir”; DJ Pedro Night, known for his blending of Latino and jazz jams; and DJ Biggs, who has spun for parties all over the country. CreativeJunkFood, LLC, will represent D.C.’s visual arts contingent through “art theory, storytelling and technology.” The free party will have dancers jamming to the sounds of the DJs in unusual spaces and places throughout the venue. The event is free and open to the public, but attendees are encouraged to RSVP at 202creates.com. Meanwhile, the 202Creates calendar for September is growing, with events at the Lincoln Theatre, the Kennedy Center and Union Market. D.C. Art All Night is Sept. 14 from 7 p.m. to 3 a.m. The H Street

Festival and the Fiesta D.C. Parade will follow on Sept. 21. Wrapping up the salute to hometown creativity on Sept. 28 will be the Anacostia Family & Fun Festival and an event at the Anacostia Busboys & Poets. Visit 202creates.com for schedule.

OUT: & OTHER STORIES DEPARTS

& Other Stories, the women’s clothing store at 3241 M St. NW, closed Aug. 20. The departing & Other Stories offered 50 percent off everything in the store, along with a 20 percent discount on its website, stories.com, with an in-store purchase. The store, directly across M Street from the H&M store, is part of Hennes & Mauritz AB, the Swedish multinational clothing retailer, headquartered in Stockholm, that operates more than 4,500 stores in 62 countries. In Georgetown, the other H&M store is COS, located half a block away at the corner of Wisconsin Avenue and M Street NW.

OUT: AFTER 21 YEARS, USED BOOKSTORE MUST PACK UP

Hamid Savojbolaghi will be selling off his selection of used books — at half price or more — through the final days of September. His basement shop is at 1660 33rd St. NW, across from Book Hill Park. There are classics to be had at the lowest price for bibliophiles. “After 21 years, I have to close the bookstore,” the proprietor told The Georgetowner, because the building is being sold. “We need to sell everything including books, coins, stamps and artwork at 50 to 75 percent off. We appreciate your support over the years.”

When I first moved to Wisconsin Avenue nearly 20 years ago, Paolo’s Ristorante was one of my first haunts. So, when it closed last year, it was like saying goodbye to an old friend. But when you enter High Street Cafe, which took Paolo’s prime location on the corner of N Street last December, you can bring back a little of that loving feeling — the Latin-themed brasserie is rooted in friendship. Owner Manuel Iguina and chef Gerard Cribbin met many moons ago. The two worked at Filomena’s in the 1980s, back when it was one of the “it” places. In the 1990s, Filomena’s was beloved by both President Bill Clinton and German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. Iguina and Cribbin forged a friendship and returned to Puerto Rico, Iguina’s home, to work on ventures there. When their paths converged back in Washington (Cribbin’s children are studying at local universities), they decided to revive the 1980s heyday with a restaurant of their own, one that infuses their love of Puerto Rico with a decidedly all-American sensibility. They knew it had to be back in Georgetown — their old stomping grounds, and the place they know and love. In fact, High Street takes its moniker from the original name for Wisconsin Avenue. Because of its location on a busy block, walk-ins, tourists and Georgetown regulars all can feel at home and get a table relatively easily. High Street Cafe is like a Latino version of “Cheers.” Everybody knows your name and your favorite dish — which changes daily, offering Cribbin a chance to showcase the kitchen’s versatility. The place is well designed and full of light, with great views of Georgetown foot traffic. The oven, which can be seen from

your table, is original to the place. It’s a great source of nostalgia for Paolo’s fans. That venerable old stove is also how High Street makes its signature pizzas, ranging from the ordinary (the Margherita ) to the decadent (the Dolce, with figs and goat cheese. Oh, my!). I started out with alcapurrias, adorable meat pies, a Puerto Rican favorite. You can select from an eclectic menu. I opted for the brioche bun hamburger and French fries. Daily specials include lechon asado (roasted pig) and crispy fried snapper (chillo frito). Brunch is the most popular meal at High Street, and happy hours are picking up steam. The back third of the restaurant can be partitioned off for private events, beckoning those special Filomena’s days. Still, as High Street is looking forward as well as back, meals are available through online delivery apps.

High Street’s chef Gerard Cribbin and owner Manuel Iguina. Photo by Stephanie Green.

COMMUNITY CALENDAR SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, AUGUST 24-25 DOLLEY DAYS AT DUMBARTON HOUSE

In 1814, first lady Dolley Madison fled to Dumbarton House when the British marched on the nation’s capital. On Dolley Days, there will be reenactors and free activities — from tours to lawn games and ice cream making — from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Dumbarton House Museum, 2715 Q St. NW. For details, visit dumbartonhouse.org.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 25 WREATH LAYING FOR ENSLAVED AFRICANS

To commemorate the 1732 arrival of enslaved Africans in what became Washington, D.C., there will be a wreath laying at 2 p.m. at the Georgetown waterfront near 33rd and Water/K Streets NW by the National Park Service and the Georgetown African American Historic Landmark Project. The event is in concert with other cities marking the 400th anniversary of the 1619 arrival of the first slaves in America at Point Comfort, Virginia. At 3 p.m., area churches will begin ringing their bells. To find out more, email info@gaahlp.org.

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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15

The Georgetown-Burleith-Hillandale Advisory Neighborhood Commission will meet at 6:30 p.m. at Georgetown Visitation School, 1524 35th St. NW, second-floor Heritage Room. For details, visit anc2e.com.

Trees for Georgetown is celebrating its 30th anniversary with a garden party from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., at the home of Jennifer and David Romm. Tickets start at $175. For details, visit cagtown.org/trees.

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

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BY PEGGY SA NDS rincipal Calvin Hooks sm iled broadly late Friday afternoon, Aug. 9, as some 40 parents and child ren oohed a nd a a h- ed and commented: “A m a z i n g ! ” Hooks was showing them around Georgetown’s aboutto-be-reopened, totally transformed HydeAddison School. Georgetown’s only public elementary school stretches from O Street to P Street in the first block west of Wisconsin Avenue. Comprising pre-K 3, pre-K 4 and kindergarten through fifth grade, the school is studentready, opening for classes on Thursday, Aug. 29. Mayor Muriel Bowser will officially cut the ribbon on Wednesday, Aug. 21. As recently as June, Rick Murphy, chair of Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E, remarked that it would be a miracle if the renovation and expansion project was finished in time for the 2019-20 school year. That miracle appears to have happened. “This is our chance now to really shine,” said Hooks. The massive project, which added 30,000 square feet of new space to the 40,000 square feet of existing buildings, well over a century old, began in the summer of 2017. It was budgeted at $50 million (originally $42.1 million), with scheduled completion in the summer of 2019. The architect is Shinberg Levinas and the contractor is MCN Build, LLC. Though final data is not in, the project obviously has been finished on time and appears to have been on budget. At first sight, the new school is a bit of a shock. The entrance playground looks almost surreal with its space-age playground 10 AUGUST 21, 2019

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The new playground on O Street at Hyde-Addison School. Photo by Fritz Blakey and Fritzphotographics. equipment, soft-surface soccer playing field and long curving bench in front of the entrance. The exterior of the new building — which serves as the main entrance and connects the two historic buildings into a now-coherent campus — is surfaced with a terra-cotta rainscreen and baguette sunscreen system, applied vertically instead of horizontally, in front of one-way glass. Inside, walls of windows fill the media room and the library (on the west end of the building) and the entrance hall with natural light, allowing expansive views of the playground and trees in front of the school. The grand staircase in the center of the new entrance building is flooded with natural light from a full-ceiling skylight. The staircase leads up to a second story with high-tech classrooms, a dedicated art center (with its own pottery kiln, to be used by all grades) and a new bridge connection with the 1907 Hyde building, housing the preschool and lower grades. Descending two flights

leads to a multipurpose gymnasium with a basketball court, a large fold-up stage and foldup stadium seats, a music room, a health suite, the cafeteria, the library, four classrooms and space for administrative support. Most of the white, high-ceilinged gym lies underneath the entrance playground, receiving natural light from skylights embedded in the playground landscaping above. Behind the grand staircase, all the classrooms and the former cafeteria of the Addison building have been completely refurbished. Offices for school administrators and staff, educational coaches and special education experts are located on the east side of the new entrance building. A CHANGING SCHOOL POPULATION AND A MISSION OF DIVERSITY The return of Hyde-Addison into its thoroughly up-to-date new digs comes just as the population of families in Georgetown and the District is growing. A February 2019

report from DC Public Schools’ Office of Planning estimated a 25-percent growth in the next 10 years. Hyde-Addison is expecting 371 students to enroll this fall, according to Kalyn Blueitt, manager of strategy and logistics. That’s up from 320 two years ago. This school year, a new second grade was added, making 15 regular classes: three kindergartens, three first and second grades and two third, fourth and fifth grades. One pre-K 3 class and two pre-K 4 classes complete the schedule. Besides the full-time teachers for each class, the staff includes class aides; coaches; reading, math and special education experts; teachers of music, art, Spanish and English Language Learners; librarians; and administrative and maintenance personnel, as well as the popular “Mr. C.” (Curtis Alexander), sports and games coordinator for the After Care Program. Hyde-Addison is one of the most diverse schools in D.C., according to Hooks. “Over 50

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Musical instruments enhance the playground experience at Hyde-Addison. Photo by Fritz Blakey and Fritzphotographics. languages are spoken by students, parents and staff here, since many of the children’s parents work at embassies, the World Bank, IMF and at Georgetown and George Washington Universities.” For the 2017-18 academic year, Hyde-Addison’s official demographics were: 44 percent black, 27 percent white, 16 percent Hispanic, seven percent Asian and six percent of multiple races. This multinational and ethnic diversity creates a particular mission for HydeAddison, Hooks told The Georgetowner. The new principal, who has been with DCPS for 18 years, grew up in San Jose, California, before attending Howard University. “Our core values of curiosity, diversity, integrity, kindness and perseverance are aligned with our responsibility to embrace diversity, promote equity and educate the whole child … with the skills necessary to become global citizens,” he said. “The curriculum will not change this

year based solely on the school’s return to Georgetown,” Hooks added. “Still, all students will have various levels of ageappropriate access to all the new spaces, including the dedicated new art center, science lab, music room and gymnasium. “The new multi-use gymnasium now offers space for grander productions throughout the school year, including winter and spring concerts and art showcases,” Hooks pointed out with enthusiasm. “We’ll now have the ability for additional extracurricular offerings and enrichment clubs, as well as to host home basketball games and to have an optimal practice facility.” “Students par ticularly bond on the playground, which is open till 4 p.m. after school,” said Silvie, whose daughter spent eight years at Hyde-Addison and whose son is entering first grade. “It’s there that the parents and kids become friends and the school becomes family.”

There is also a gym in the bottom of the new building. Photo by Fritz Blakey and Fritzphotographics. A FAST 2 YEARS — NOW, THE FUTURE The controversies between DCPS and Hyde-Addison parents of two years ago over last-minute construction changes — especially the gym and music room in the “basement” and the need to bus young students to the swing school — have vanished. The project’s School Improvement Team work is done. Now, the big issue may turn out to be overcrowding. Hyde-Addison’s new three-building campus is constructed for a maximum s t u d e n t p o p u l a t i o n of 4 0 0. D C P S defines a school as “overcrowded” if its enrollment is over 95 percent of capacity and “underutilized” if it is less than 65 percent. If Blueitt’s estimate is correct, Hyde-Addison will be at almost 93 percent of capacity this year, and Hook expects the school to grow by some 20 to 25 students a year. Any student who wants to attend Hyde-

Addison — including those who live in the immediate school district, the “in-boundary” students who get first priority — must apply through the DCPS lottery. While no one officially tracks who is in-boundary, according to Hooks, the percentage at HydeAddison is estimated to be between 30 and 50 percent. Current “out-of-boundary” students and their siblings have priority to stay over new out-of-boundary students. The number of in-boundary students is likely to grow as increasing numbers of millennial professional families move to Georgetown for its urban lifestyle. Since housing in Georgetown is so expensive, The Georgetowner has found that new families increasingly are choosing to have their children attend Georgetown’s free public schools. It is expected that much of the bulge now seen in the second, third and fourth grades at Hyde-Addison will proceed to Hardy Middle School in the next few years. GMG, INC.

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HAUTE & COOL

Too Cool for School

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As the lazy days of summer wind down, it’s time to lose the slow pace and ramp up for what’s ahead. Back to school season has officially arrived! But not to worry. You can count on us to find fashionable and affordable favorites. Here’s a budget-friendly guide to beginning the school year in style. Learn what’s hot, so your little ones can be cool for school. Allyson Burkhardt is the founder of Let’s Get Dressed! Image & Style Services. Visit her on the web at letsgetdresseddc.com.

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CREWCUTS TRANSLUCENT RAINCOAT $69.50 She will be singing in the rain! This water-resistant jacket, sizes 8 to 16, is decorated with bright piping and colorful floating sequins.

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$40 Ann Mashburn Children’s developing eyes are extra susceptible to blue light. Having screen-time glasses might seem like a gimmick, but they are important.

$19.95 We’d be lion if we said we didn’t all want this notebook! The collection at Paper Source features exclusive designs that can be personalized by name and choice of paper style.

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This fun and functional rubber bag is the perfect accessory for any student in the DMV. Its wide range of compartments and padded laptop sleeve will keep things safe and organized.

VANS YACHT CLUB OLD SKOOL SHOES $60 Vans Georgetown He’ll be kickin’ it old-school with this truly classic look. This is the original skate low-top and the first to bear the iconic side-stripe.

GALISON COLORED PENCIL SET $13.99 galison.com These 24 artist-quality, natural wood pencils are the perfect coloring-book companions, suitable for all levels of expertise.

REAL ESTATE

A view of the house as seen from the adjacent lots. Courtesy HomeVisit.

To the Manor Reborn A FAIRY-TALE CHÂTEAU AWAITS ITS NEXT HAPPILY-EVER-AFTER BY SUS A N BODIKE R Home to the great and the good — or, at least, the bold-faced — Massachusetts Avenue Heights is a secluded enclave known for its winding roads, pastoral setting and grand estates. The French Norman manor at 2701 32 St. NW is no exception. Sitting high up off the street, its regal brick-turreted façade is surrounded by mature trees and lush evergreens. The home itself, with 5,400 square feet of living space on five levels, includes five bedrooms, five-and-a-half baths, two fireplaces and multiple balconies and stone terraces. It sits next to a .78-acre double lot, which can be purchased either separately for $7.5 million or together with the mansion for $11.2 million. Also conveyed are design renderings by Barnes Vanze Architects showing concepts for expanding and reconfiguring the existing structure and for building a major new residence on the adjacent parcel. First owned by the Belgian deputy chief of mission, the 1930s home is clearly designed for entertaining, with a plan that graciously flows from room to room, inside and out. Meticulously maintained, it boasts such vintage architectural elements as leaded

windows with iron decoration; carved flora, fauna and crests atop exterior doors; Tudor and Romanesque archways; and rich wood flooring, staircases and paneling. Other rooms, specifically the kitchen and bathrooms, have been tastefully updated with refined and contemporary finishes. On the first floor, there is a step-down living room with an oversized carved plaster fireplace with marble surround, leaded windows, an exposed beam ceiling and access to a large balcony. An arched passageway leads to a library with builtin bookshelves, a Palladian window and French doors that open to a Juliet balcony. Down the hall, a large slate patio sits just outside the formal dining room. Between the dining room and the library is the eat-in kitchen, with extensive white cabinets, brushed nickel hardware, gold-hued granite counters and stainless appliances, including a Jenn-Air four-burner range and stove, a GE dishwasher and a KitchenAid French door refrigerator-freezer. There are four bedrooms on the second level, all with beautiful views of the gardens and woods. Located in the turret, just off the

Fanciful carvings adorn the turreted facade. Photo by S. Bodiker.

Hand-carved beams rise to the top of the turret on the third level. Photo by S. Bodiker.

owner’s bedroom, is a dressing room with a wall of closets and a bathroom fitted with travertine marble flooring and backsplash, a frameless glass shower with a chrome rain showerhead and a pedestal sink with chrome fixtures. The second owner’s bath (shared with a second bedroom) features a floating vanity with Duravit sink, chrome Grohe faucet and Toto toilet. An au-pair suite with kitchenette, bedroom, bath and extra storage occupies the third level. There is also a phenomenal turret room with hand-carved wood going all the way to the top of the conical ceiling.

Downstairs on the first lower level is a mahogany-paneled family room anchored by a wood-burning fireplace with stone accent wall. There is also a small bath and an efficient kitchenette that opens onto the side terrace. Additional storage and the garage are on the lowest level. The French Norman property with two adjacent lots at 2701 32 St. NW is listed at $11.2 million with Jeff Mauer at Washington Fine Properties. For details, call 202-4875460 or email jfmauer@aol.com. For a visual tour, visit spws.homevisit.com/hvid/216756.

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ARTS

‘Manifesto: Art x Agency’ at the Hirshhorn BY AR I P OS T The first artist manifesto I read was Andre Breton’s “Surrealist Manifesto,” and it made me a little uncomfortable. It read like a hit piece on mankind. It was the kind of emphatic pseudo-sociology that one scribbles furiously in a college journal. “Our brains are dulled by the incurable mania of wanting to make the unknown known,” Breton wrote. But as I was in college at the time, it was also ego-affirming to read the words of this colossal figure, who articulated the same cultural discontent in 1924 that I felt as a frustrated student. I was pleased to know I was in good company. The fact is, most art manifestos of the 20th century were written by swaggering young men around age 30. They are dispropor tionately imbued with that characteristic intellectual testosterone that is most typically associated with Hemingway. Age has its blessings, and one of them is surely the acceptance of relativity: the sad but soothing acknowledgement that the world is flawed, most people are generally just doing their best and there is no catch-all solution to the cyclical crises of culture and politics. As a general rule, I think people are better served to meet the world with some degree of f lexibility. And so, the litany of uncompromising art manifestos from throughout the 20th century have come to seem almost cute in their blind confidence and self-professed grandeur.

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“Manifesto,” 2015. Julian Rosefeldt. Installation photo by Lee Stalsworth. Courtesy Hirshhorn.

Playing across 13 screens in an immense gallery, each channel features Blanchett as a different character in a different setting.

This is all to say that I was a bit Dada is a graveside eulogy on a dreary apprehensive as I entered the Hirshhorn afternoon. Surrealism is a puppet-maker, Museum to see the current exhibition, building a doll in her own image. Futurism “Manifesto: Art x Agency,” which examines is a stockbroker, chewing gum with a the art-historical impact of artist manifestos phone in her hand, pointing with a pen at a from the 20th century to the present day. wall of computers. No doubt there would be some powerful The video contains multitudes. Rosefeldt work on view, as many of the last century’s seems openly skeptical of these manifestos greatest artists were devout members of while also admiring them, and his own stridently manifesto-ed cliques. But I was “Manifesto” plays as both a love letter and a skeptical of an exhibition that fawned too scathing critique. The film deflates with a heavily over these cult-like declarations, laugh the tension of encountering these dense, which sing the virtues of made-up aesthetic jargon-y tombs, while maintaining serious orthodoxies and damn to bourgeois hell all the while maintaining the unique character artistic engagement. those who dare transgress. It’s rather remarkable that for an art and context of each vignette and employing To my relief and delight, “Art x Agency” a dizzying arsenal of accents. Never will exhibition that features a veritable cheeseboard approaches its subject with a healthy dose you believe how entertained you can be of 20th-century masters, I have not discussed of skepticism and humor, grounding each watching a Midwestern news anchor recite one of them. Giacomo Balla, George Grosz, movement clearly in its historical context, the “Minimalist Manifesto.” Dalí, Magritte, Miró, Mondrian, Pollock, then allowing the art to more or less speak I could easily run out this article extolling Frankenthaler, David Smith, Joan Mitchell, for itself. Blanchett’s many brilliant performances Franz Kline, Hans Hoffman, Nam June Paik, An installation by contemporary German in Rosefeldt’s video (available on Amazon the Guerrilla Girls … they’re all there, and artist Julian Rosefeldt does a lot of heavy Prime, by the way). Rosefeldt himself they are all very, very good. lifting here. His outstanding multi-camera proves a formidable director, each vignette But after losing myself for an hour in video, also titled “Manifesto,” anchors the thoroughly realized and beautifully cinematic. “Manifesto,” I’m not sure if any of them are exhibition. Should he ever debut a feature film, I will be as good as Cate Blanchett. The film stars the inimitable, shape- first in line. shifting Cate Blanchett performing excerpts The film effortlessly accomplishes many from the most prominent manifestos of the daunting tasks. Perhaps most enjoyably, it past century. Playing across 13 screens in anthropomorphizes these art movements an immense gallery, each channel features in funny and oddly poignant ways. The Blanchett as a different character in a scenarios Rosefeldt and Blanchett create to “MANIFESTO: ART X AGENCY” different setting. “portray” a manifesto align cleverly with the Through Jan. 5, 2020 On one screen, she is a bruised, bearded manifesto’s intention, but also with the truer vagabond dragging a grocery cart and a dog and often uglier nature of the art movement HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND through a post-apocalyptic urban landscape. born from it. SCULPTURE GARDEN On another, she is a Rockwellian housewife, Abstract Expressionism is an art dealer Independence Avenue and 7th St. SW leading her perfect family through an speaking at a party in what looks like hirshhorn.si.edu agonizingly long grace. She operates a waste a Wall Street broker’s country place in Open daily 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. management plant. She joylessly handmakes Cold Spring, New York. Large, expensiveFree admission marionettes in a ragged studio that smacks of looking abstract paintings decorate the large, Mister Geppetto. expensive-looking modernist villa. Everyone In each scene, Blanchett recites an art wears expensive-looking clothes and drinks manifesto, wielding its arcane and tedious expensive-looking champagne. No one is verbiage like Shakespearean poetry — all looking at art and there is not an artist in sight.

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Maialino Mare opens this winter at the Thompson Hotel in Navy Yard. Un ion Sq u a r e Ho s pit a l it y G roup restaurateur Danny Meyer’s Maialino Mare will open in the first quarter of next year in the 225-room Thompson Hotel, under construction in Navy Yard. Executive chef at the seafood-focused restaurant, styled as an all-day Roman trattoria, is Rose Noel, who previously cheffed at Maialino, Union Square’s legendary New York pasta restaurant at the Gramercy Park Hotel. David Nammour will open another Muncheez, this time in Dupont Circle at 1317 Connecticut Ave. NW, where DGS

Chef John Waldy of the Graham. Delicatessen used to be. His father, Bechara, owned the now closed Paolo’s and J. Paul’s in Georgetown. Georgia Brown’s is still alive & kickin’. Restaurateur Hakan Ilhan is extensively renovating the former Morton’s Steakhouse s pa ce at 3251 P ros p e ct St. N W i n Georgetown to open Brasserie Liberté. There will be a second non-streetside patio in addition to the one along Prospect Street. The 250-seat French brasserie, with a 1,000-bottle wine cellar, is slated to open in the last quarter of this year. Eric and Ian Hilton will open Cafe Colline, featuring French fare, in the Lee Heights Shops in Arlington, Virginia, at 4536 Lee Highway, where Cassatt’s Kiwi Cafe used to be. Chef Brendan L’Etoile will develop the menu for the 50-seat restaurant, as he has done for their Chez Billy Sud bistro in Georgetown. A last-quarter-of-2019 opening is targeted. Chef & GM Update: John Waldy was named executive chef at the Graham Georgetown. With nearly 20 years of experience working for the Ritz-Carlton

and Renaissance brands, he will oversee in-room dining and the daily menu at The Alex Speakeasy. Waldy just introduced a new, full-service Rooftop EATS menu on the hotel’s rooftop … Amanda Moll, former executive sous chef of Doi Moi, will succeed Kevin Tien as Himitsu’s executive chef, as Tien moves on to focus on his new restaurant, Emilie’s, on Capitol Hill … Erik BrunerYang of Brothers and Sisters and Spoken English fame was named executive chef and Andy Hooper was named president and COO of &pizza. Hooper was chief people officer at Cafe Rio Mexican Grill. New York-based Mah-Ze-Dahr bakery owner Umber Ahmad and investor Tom Colicchio are joining forces with Knead Hospitality + Design to open in the D.C. metro area. Their first restaurant/bakery will open at 1221 Half St. SE near Nationals Park. Jason Berry and Michael Reginbogen of Knead also brought Edward Lee’s Succotash and Roberto Santibañez’s Mi Vida to the area. The bakery concept may join their existing restaurants. They will also open a restaurant called The Grill at the Wharf. Just Opened: Present Company Public House opened at 438 Massachusetts Ave. NW in Mount Vernon Triangle, where Sixth Engine used to be. The co-owners are Matt Murphy, Brittany Ryan, Nick Bernel and Jeremy Gifford, formerly of The Pub & The People in Bloomingdale and, before that, Rhino Bar in Georgetown. The menu was designed by Lincoln Fuge, a Nashville native, former executive chef at 701 Restaurant. There is seating for 60 on the first floor and for 50 on the second floor, which includes a new bar, plus about 50 seats on the patio. Neighborhood Restaurant Group will open Shelter, with 50 draft lines, at the Roost, a 12,000-square-foot food hall at 1401 Pennsylvania Ave. SE on Capitol Hill. NRG beer director Greg Engert plans to offer 1,000 beers per year. Shelter will also serve wine and cocktails, but best to order them at Show of Hands, the Roost’s craft cocktail bar, orchestrated by NRG spirits director Nick Farrell. Linda Roth is president of Linda Roth Associates, a public relations and marketing firm that specializes in the hospitality industry. Reach her at linda@lindarothpr.com.

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‘The Drama of Celebrity’ THE CULT OF FAME FOUND AN EARLY GODDESS IN SARAH BERNHARDT. REVIEW E D BY KIT T Y K E LLE Y “The Drama of Celebrity” by Sharon Marcus is a hybrid of biography and sociological treatise on one of the most important phenomena of modern times. Marcus, the Orlando Harriman Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, sets the table with seven years of scholarly research to show why we are attracted to — or, conversely, repulsed by — celebrity culture. She begins by defining a celebrity as someone known around the world who has mastered the media and deliberately engaged the public. The aspiring celebrity must connect with the media to reach “the publics,” as Marcus calls them, and ignite the fuse that explodes into fame. All must dance together in a three-way waltz. Without that triangle, Marcus maintains, there can be no celebrity. Celebrity culture began in the 18th century, when the public began to take an interest in authors, artists, performers, scientists and politicians. Before then, only kings and conquerors were celebrities, which, by Marcus’s definition, were people known during their lifetimes to more people than could possibly know one another. In profiling the life of French actress Sarah Bernhardt, “the world’s greatest celebrity,” Marcus shows how a contrarian created celebrity culture by toppling tradition and breaking all the rules of conventional behavior. Bernhardt embraced the bizarre

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by posing in a coffin long before Lady Gaga publicly wore a gown of raw beef (which, by the way, made it to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, where it is preserved as jerky). From the beginning of her career in 1870 until the day she died in 1923, “the divine Sarah” presented herself as the quintessential outsider. She was skinny when fashion prized full figures. French newspapers belittled her for being bony, much as today’s tabloids

Sarah Bernhardt as the Empress Theodora in Sardou’s “Theodora.” chide Lena Dunham for being chubby. honor, fortune and popularity by their own Born Jewish, and abandoned by her mother, talents and genius.” Bernhardt was baptized Christian and raised A million mourners witnessed her funeral in a convent. Yet, in an anti-Semitic world, procession travel from her home in Paris she insisted on being seen as Jewish and to the cemetery. Her name and image changed her birth name from Rosine to Sarah dominated international newspaper headlines to emphasize her Hebrew roots, which she and magazine covers for weeks after her knew would make her appear more exotic. death, much like Diana, Princess of Wales. She was the first actress to stare directly Until the late 20th century, the word at the camera when posing for photographs, “celebrity” was a compliment, a term of an outrageous act for the 19th century, when genuine praise reserved for those who even the most famous women did not dare to had accomplished something considered appropriate the self-entitled directness of men. worthwhile, like Helen Keller, Muhammed But Bernhardt did, making defiance the first Ali, Nina Simone and Harry Belafonte, who commandment of becoming a celebrity. As used their celebrity to fight discrimination Marcus writes, “She dared to show down her against minorities, and others, like Paul beholder.” She also dared to become famous Newman and U2’s Bono, who used theirs to on her own, without benefit of a father or a further humanitarian causes. husband, unheard of for a woman at that time. Marcus traces the accolade known Throughout her life, Bernhardt shocked as “celebrity” through the centuries to the onstage and off; in doing so, she ruled as Kardashian era, when the term became a the most famous person on earth for five pejorative of sorts. She ends her book with the decades. She was so popular that theaters example of a man known for his flamboyant had to turn people away at the door of her headgear, his public boasts about sleeping performances. Touring the globe, she became with other men’s wives, his vast riches and an international sensation. She was Madonna his provocative crudeness, which made squared, J-Lo times 10. As Mark Twain him popular with white Americans who felt said, “There are five kinds of actresses: bad alienated from the country’s East Coast elites. actresses, fair actresses, good actresses, great She refers, of course, to Davy Crockett actresses and Sarah Bernhardt.” (1786-1836), who opened the door for a Ber nhardt initiated celebrity 21st-century reality star to sit in the White endorsements when a rice powder (and House. Warns the author: “The history and then a cigar) was named for her. Women theory of celebrity teach us that we get the imitated her by wearing bunches of flowers celebrities we deserve.” the way she did, which paved the way for Audrey pants, Jackie dresses and Farrah’s Georgetown resident feathered flip. Bernhardt even became the Kitty Kelley has written subject of minstrel acts in which slim men several number-one New impersonated her as “Sarah Heartburn” York Times best-sellers, and “Sarah Barnyard,” setting the stage for including “The Family: Marilyn look-alikes and Elvis imitators. The Real Story Behind The week after Bernhardt’s death, the th e B u sh D y n a st y.” queen of England ordered a Mass to be said Her most recent books for her at London’s Westminster Cathedral. inclu de “Capt ur ing One obituary noted: “The death of the Camelot: Stanley Tretick’s Iconic Images most famous actress in the world is a fresh of the Kennedys” and “Let Freedom Ring: reminder that the stage still opens the widest Stanley Tretick’s Iconic Images of the March door to the richest realm in which women win on Washington.”

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Celebrating Social Secretaries at Meridian Meridian Center welcomed more than 120 guests for its annual celebration of Washington’s social secretaries and cultural attachés. To illuminate the significance of their work to advance diplomacy, the Aug. 1 event included a panel discussion on the importance of culture, hospitality and diplomacy that included Alicia Adams, David Adler, Francesca Craig, Diane Flamini and Jonathan Steffert. Like events at Meridian which reflect authentic storytelling. Photos by Stephen Bobb.

Philanthropy of Cinema BY C H R ISTIN E WAR N KE Supporters of Flicks4Change gathered at the Australian Embassy Aug. 6 for a reception and premier of the Cannes Festival documentary film, “Wish Man.” The film strikes many humanitarian chords, as it depicts the true-life story of Frank Shankwitz who co-founded the Make-a-Wish Foundation — which gives children with terminal disease a special wish. Flicks4Change co-founders Andrew Steele and James Hawthorn spoke about the power of bringing good acts of kindness to the front stage of film.

Social secretaries and cultural attachés on the Meridian terrace. James Hawthorn, Barbara Hawthorn, Andrew Steel and Linda Stillman. Courtesy Christine Warnke.

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Takako Sangoh of the Embassy of Iraq, Mareike Furlong of the Embassy of Switzerland, and Joana Manhanga and Mariana Luis, both of the Embassy of Mozambique.

Teeing Off for Bright Faces Bright Faces, a non-profit charity organization dedicated to providing cleft palate and lip surgery to children around the world, held its Second Annual Charity Golf Tournament at Raspberry Falls Golf & Hunt Club Aug. 5. The tournament raised more than $300,000, thanks to many donors, including title sponsors, Van Metre, Soave, Brambleton, TDS, KT Enterprises and TM Associates.

This year’s ball is in partnership with the Embassy of Singapore. Singapore has just become the first international affiliate of the acclaimed Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts. Proceeds from the event, featuring dinner and dancing, will support Wolf Trap Foundation’s arts and education programs. Filene Center. Call 703255-4030 or email events@wolftrap.org.

SEPTEMBER 18 NOCHE DE GALA The gala brings together prominent citizens to support the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts. Following a VIP reception and dinner, the Gran Desvelada AfterParty will top off the evening with music and dancing to benefit the foundation’s activities and scholarship fund. NHFA was founded in 1997 to advance the presence of Latinos in the media, telecommunications and entertainment industries. Mayflower Hotel. Call 202-293-8330.

SEPTEMBER 21 JOAN HISAOKA ‘MAKE A DIFFERENCE’ GALA The 12th annual gala honors Joan Hisaoka, who lost her battle with cancer in 2008, and her dream of assisting those living with cancer. The proceeds will continue her unfinished work by supporting organizations that bring hope and healing to those faced James Fox, CEO of Bright Faces, with his father, William Fox, COO of Brambleton, and Board of Directors Chairman of Bright Faces. Photo by Matt Ryb.

with serious illness. This year’s main beneficiary will be Life with Cancer, an educational and emotional support program of the Inova Schar Cancer Institute. Mandarin Oriental, Washington D.C. Contact Susan Hubert at 202-689-1917 or hubert@lslaw.com.

NYUMBANI BENEFIT GALA Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski are the evening’s honorary hosts. A cocktail reception will include silent auction items ranging from African treasures to lavish vacation packages and a raffle for a luxurious Kenyan safari for two. Dinner will be followed by a report on Nyumbani’s accomplishments and plans by Executive Director Sister Mary Owens, as well as award presentations, special guests and a live auction. Fairmont Washington, D.C. Contact Heidi Webb at heidi.webb@ us.nyumbani.org.

SEPTEMBER 28 NSO SEASON-OPENING GALA The gala will celebrate the start of Maestro Gianandrea Noseda’s third season as music director of the National Symphony Orchestra. The evening will begin with cocktails on the grounds of the Reach, the Kennedy Center’s new set of pavilions. A gala performance in the Concert Hall and a Parisian-themed dinner and dancing in the grand pavilion on the North Plaza will follow. All proceeds will support the orchestra’s artistic, educational and community engagement programs. Call 202-416-8102.

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GEORGETOWN, WASHINGTON, DC NEW LISTING! Exquisitely built Wormley Row TH w/ elevator, custom millwork/cabinetry and designer lighting/sound features. 5BR + 2 car garage. Charming terrace & daylight LL. Rare offering! $4,700,000 Nancy ltteilag 202-905-7762

SYLVAN ESTATES, GREAT FALLS, VIRGINIA Architectural masterpiece on five acres. 5BR, 6FBA, 4HBA Circular DW, pool, hardwood floors & custom moldings, custom kit & guest apartment. $4,395,000 Penny Yerks 703-760-0744 Piper Yerks 703-963-1363

FALCON RIDGE, GREAT FALLS, VIRGINIA NEW PRICE! Beautiful Tudor with 6BR, 5FBA, 2HBA! An entertainer’s dream with pool, private spa with stone wall, fireplace, pergola, and gardens! $3,699,000 Penny Yerks Piper Yerks 703-760-0744

MCLEAN, VIRGINIA Built by BOWA + situated on 0.87 acres backing to parkland. Picturesque privacy + mins to commuter routes. 5BR/5.5BA + 6,600 square feet. Family room with high ceiling + striking moldings. $2,995,000 Susan Koehler 703-967-6789

WESLEY HEIGHTS, WASHINGTON, DC NEW LISTING! Highly sought after Forest Lane address with stunning swimming pool, backing to an acre of parkland. Five bedrooms, four baths and an elegant stone exterior, wow kitchen. $2,895,000 Nancy ltteilag 202-905-7762

GREAT FALLS, VIRGINIA Country club living in 1.7 acres with pool, tennis court, outdoor kitchen, landscaped gardens. Approximately 10,000 SF. Walk to River Bend Park! $2,450,000 Penny Yerks Piper Yerks 703-760-0744

FAWSETT FARMS, POTOMAC, MARYLAND Stunning 6BR, 6FBA, 2HBA sitting on a level 0.92 acre lot. Arched entrance, triple crown molding, gourmet island kitchen + 2 fireplaces. Fully finish lower level., media room, wine cellar + gym! $2,299,000 Marilyn Charity 202-427-7553

GEORGETOWN, WASHINGTON, DC Grand and unique Georgetown residence with magnificent views, pool & parking. Perfectly located and recently expanded adding a bedroom and bath to a house with extraordinary proportions. $2,300,000 Jamie Peva 202-258-5050

KALORAMA, WASHINGTON, DC NEW PRICE! 5BR/3BA, grand scale home with a gracious floorplan & spacious lower level. First time on the market in 50 years. Very rare opportunity! 1 year paid rental parking included. $1,849,000 Liz D’Angio 202-427-7890

FOREST HILLS, WASHINGTON, DC NEW LISTING! Fabulous home full of charm on a quiet street & 1/4 acre lot! 4BR/3.5BA, finished lower level, private yard, two-car garage. $1,679,000 Robert Hryniewicki HRL Partners 202-243-1620

AVENEL, POTOMAC, MARYLAND Custom designed, 5BR/4.5BA home built by Natalli builders overlooking Avenel golf course. Meticulously maintained. Swim & tennis club. $1,295,000 Marsha Schuman 301-943-9731 Betsy Schuman Dodek 301-996-8700

GEORGETOWN, WASHINGTON, DC NEW PRICE! Enchanting East Village mews with four fireplaces, private terrace, two bedrooms, one and a half baths, and library. Near two metros, Four Seasons, Rose Park! $1,249,000 Eileen McGrath 202-253-2226

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HEDGELAND MANOR, WATERFORD, VA Pristine 4BR/3BA/2HB 1810 brick Federal style manor home on 40 acres w/ pool, pond & mountain views. 3,000 SF luxury barn loft w/full kit & 10 car gar. $3,500,000 Jim Lemon 703-203-9766 Debbie Meighan 571-439-4027

THE RIVER HOUSE, BOYCE, VIRGINIA Exceptional style and detail in recently constructed home w/1000+ ft of Shenandoah River footage. Recreational & sportsman paradise on 20 ac. $1,395,000 Debbie Meighan 571-439-4027 Kathryn Harrell 703-216-1118

CATTERQUE, MARSHALL, VIRGINIA Charming three bedroom, two bath farmhouse set on 51 private acres in a sought after location. Convenient to Middleburg, The Plains, and Marshall. $995,000 Kathryn Harrell 703-216-1118 Kevin Keane 540-454-0905

LINDEN, VIRGINIA Historic property on 18+ acs. 3BR residence dates to the 1850’s w/ updated kit & BAs, period FP, mantels, moldings & HW floors. 2 car gar, pool, stable & paddocks. $630,000 Carole Miller 540-729-7896 Kevin Keane 540-687-2221

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