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THE KENNEDY CENTER’S EXPANSION A N C M EET I N G E R U PT S I N PR OT EST T H E VI L L A GE: CA G’ S C H ER Y L GR A Y KI T T Y K EL L EY ON D A VI D H OC K N EY

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At the Reach, the Kennedy Center’s first expansion since its opening in 1971. Photo by Richard Barnes.

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PUBLISHER Sonya Bernhardt

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Robert Devaney

ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER Charlene Louis

COPY EDITOR Richard Selden

FEATURES EDITORS Ari Post Gary Tischler

DOWNTOWNER · 5

FASHION & BEAUTY DIRECTOR Lauretta McCoy

FINANCE · 7

GRAPHIC DESIGN Troy Riemer Elena Hutchinson

EDITORIAL/OPINION · 8

PHOTOGRAPHERS Philip Bermingham Jeff Malet Neshan Naltchayan Patrick G. Ryan

Downtown News

Protect Your Portfolio Editorial CAG Update Letter to the Editor Make Jelleff Public

THE VILLAGE · 9

CAG: Georgetown’s Connector and Guardian

BUSINESS · 10 Ins & Outs

REAL ESTATE · 11

Harmonic Convergenece: A Designer Finds Her Sweet Spot August Real Estate Sales

COVER · 16 - 18 Fall Arts Preview

FOOD & WINE · 19 The Latest Dish Dining Guide

CLASSIFIEDS · 20 Service Directory

UP & COMING · 21 Events Calendar

BACK TO NEW SCHOOLS: ‘EVERY DAY COUNTS’

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SENIOR CORRESPONDENT Peggy Sands CONTRIBUTORS Mary Bird Susan Bodiker Allyson Burkhardt Evan Caplan Jack Evans Donna Evers Michelle Galler Stephanie Green Amos Gelb Wally Greeves Kitty Kelley Rebekah Kelley Jody Kurash Shelia Moses Kate Oczypok Linda Roth Alison Schafer Mary Ann Treger

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Mayor Muriel Bowser (center), Ward 2 Council member Jack Evans (right), Hyde-Addison Principal Calvin Hooks (on mayor’s left) and others cut the ribbon to reopen the modernized Hyde-Addison School. Photo by Robert Devaney.

WREATH LAYING MARKS 400 YEARS SINCE SLAVERY’S START IN AMERICA BY R OBERT D EVAN EY

Secretary of the District of Columbia Kimberly Bassett and Frank Young of the National Park Service place the commemorative wreath at the river’s edge at Georgetown Waterfront Park. Photo by Robert Devaney.

KENNEDY CENTER OPENS THE REACH WITH PARADE, FESTIVAL (PHOTOS) BY JEFF M AL ET

Shacomba West African Stilt Walkers on parade at the Kennedy Center at the opening of the Reach. Photo by Jeff Malet.

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ANC Meeting Erupts in Protest Over Jelleff Agreement BY PEGGY SA NDS Signs reading “Make Jelleff Public,” passionate statements and a resolution created by elected officials on laptops in front of a packed crowd dominated the first fall meeting of Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E on Sept. 3. All this activity was triggered by anger over the just-signed, nine-year extension of a 10-year agreement between the District Department of Parks and Recreation and Maret School, little changed from the 2009 original. Maret — a private, co-ed K-12 school at 3000 Cathedral Ave. NW with a student body of about 650 — will continue to finance repairs and maintenance of the playing field and fences surrounding the Jelleff Recreation Center, located at 3265 S St. NW, at an estimated cost of $750,000. In addition, Maret will contribute $250,000 to modernize the center, adding to the $7

million already dedicated to the project by the city. In exchange, Maret will retain exclusive use of the Jelleff playing field on school weekdays between 3:30 and 5:30 p.m. in the fall and spring. A separate agreement made last year with Hardy Middle School to use the field every Wednesday between 4 and 5:30 p.m. during the fall and spring semesters was also recently announced. But these arrangements have become increasingly contentious. Since January, parents of Georgetown public school students — especially those at Hardy Middle School, across Wisconsin Avenue from the Jelleff field — and community leaders have demanded that the contract process be transparent and also consider a deal for expanded use by community and school sports teams and players across the District. That didn’t

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Protesters at the Sept. 3 meeting of the Georgetown-Burleith advisory neighborhood commission. Georgetowner photo. happen, according to Elizabeth Miller, advisory neighborhood commissioner for the Jelleff area. “From the documents provided, it appears the only consideration made by DPR is the cozy continuation of a contract with one small private school, made nearly a decade ago, with no public process. It is disappointing that there appears to be no concern for the needs of public school students (even the Hardy School ACROSS THE STREET from the field), no concern for greater access for diverse youth groups who lack facilities, or any other stakeholders. Quite frankly, from the documents I read, I

do not even see an attempt by DPR to negotiate a more favorable deal for DC taxpayers with the current contract. What am I missing?” she wrote to DPR in July. “In May, a town meeting of over 100 participants was held at the R Street library. All sides were heard,” Maret Head of School Marjo Talbott told The Georgetowner on Aug. 30. “We have more than fulfilled all the conditions for the extended contract and have been very open about what we propose to do in the next decade. We feel we have been very transparent and also open to all those who want to use the field.”

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Arrest Made in Second Degree Sexual Abuse Offense on 30 St. BY PEGGY SA NDS On Sept. 7, the Metropolitan Police Department announced: “Detectives from the MPD’s Sexual Assault Unit have announced an arrest has been made in connection with a Burglary One and Second Degree Sexual Abuse offense that occurred on Friday, August 30, 2019, in the 1300 block 30th Street, Northwest. “At approximately 1:30 a.m., the suspect gained entry to a private residence. Once inside, the suspect sexually assaulted a female victim. The suspect then fled the scene. “On Saturday, September 7, 2019, pursuant to a D.C. Superior Court arrest warrant, members of the Sexual Assault Unit and members of the Sixth District arrested 34-year-old Bertrand Joseph Lebeau. He was charged with Burglary One and Second Degree Sexual Abuse.” The following is a portion of an earlier Georgetowner story on the Aug. 30 incident. A young woman woke up in the bedroom of her basement apartment on the east side of Georgetown early Friday morning, Aug. 30, suddenly terrified. It was 1:30 a.m. and there was an unknown man standing at the foot of her bed. “Don’t be afraid,” he told the woman, who is in her early 20s. “I’m a nice man. Can you just sit on the bed and talk to me?”

According to her landlady, the woman sank onto her bed shaking. And then the man raped her. Metropolitan Police came. By 3 a.m., the victim — along with all the bedding — had been taken to Georgetown Washington University Hospital. “I can’t believe I slept through the whole thing!” said the homeowner, who asked not to be identified. But the “very upset young woman and her equally upset apartment-mate — a young man, a family friend who was asleep in another room and also didn’t hear anything until it was over and he called the police” — told her about it the next morning. According to the homeowner, the victim’s mother flew in from Massachusetts to take her home for the long weekend. “Several plainclothes officers who were walking around the neighborhood talking to people Friday morning could tell me nothing. A police detective assigned to the case was reticent to the point of seeming disinterested in hearing or sharing any details at all,” she said he insisted. “It makes me feel terribly uncomfortable,” the homeowner said. “Although the two young people downstairs made a terrible mistake — they left their front door unlocked — still the official response has been less than satisfactory.”

The late saxophonist and letter carrier Buck Hill got a tall mural. Courtesy MuralsDC/DC DPW.

BY KATE OC ZYPOK

MURALSDC UNVEILS TALLEST PORTRAIT

D.C.’s tallest tribute mural, honoring native Washingtonian Buck Hill, a saxophonist and letter carrier who died in 2017 at age 90, was unveiled at 2000 14th St. NW on Aug. 27. Mayor Bowser proclaimed it Buck Hill Day and a jazz trio performed music recorded by Hill. The nine-story mural was painted by Tucson artist Joe Pagac. Over the last 12 years, the MuralsDC program has installed more than 80 murals.

MUNCHEEZ OPENS ON CONNECTICUT AVE.

Middle Eastern restaurant Muncheez opened at 1317 Connecticut Ave. NW near Dupont Circle in late August, offering the first 200 people a bowl or a signature pita on the house. The eatery currently has spots in Georgetown and Tenleytown. The latest additions to the menu include a cauliflower pita and bases of lentils and baby spinach.

SHELTER FOR MIGRANT CHILDREN PROPOSED

Dynamic Service Solutions filed an application earlier this month to operate a temporary shelter for migrant minors in Ward 4. The federal contractor is already searching for bilingual employees including a teacher to assure a minimum of “six hours of structured education” five days per week. Mayor Muriel Bowser denounced the plans, saying the city will “not be complicit in the inhumane practice of detaining migrant children in warehouses.” The suspect, Bertrand Joseph Lebeau, and car at the crime scene. Courtesy MPD.

CRIME & SAFETY Apart from the reported rape (see separate story), which was of great concern to neighbors, the crime statistics provided by the Metropolitan Police Department at the Sept. 3 meeting of the GeorgetownBurleith advisory neighborhood commission indicated that overall crime was down 17 percent in Georgetown (Police Service Area 206) from last year at that time. Theft from autos was down 71 percent and violent crime (assault with a dangerous weapon) was down 50 percent from last year. In August, burglaries were up 132 percent — from three incidents to seven — mainly because of crimes on or

near the Georgetown University campus, according to MPD. A break-in occurred in the early hours of Sept. 7 at Georgetown Wine & Spirits, 2701 P St. NW. A window in the front door was smashed. The burglar grabbed some cash from the register and little else. On the 2500 block of P Street NW, a home was burglarized over the Labor Day weekend. Breaking a window, the criminal took jewelry, watches, wine and spare keys. No one was home at the time and nothing of great value was in the house, which is being renovated and lacked an alarm system.

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NEW APP COULD MEAN MORE PARKING TICKETS

FIRE IS SUBJECT OF CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION

An app called How’s My Driving could add to the 1.3 million parking tickets issued each year in D.C. The Department of Public Works will introduce the new enforcement tool in October, with DPW ticket writers snapping photos of the license plates of vehicles illegally parked. Over the summer, individual testers of the app tweeted thousands of violations in real time, according to Washington City Paper.

D.C.’s Attorney General and the U.S. Attorney’s Office will conduct a criminal investigation of the Aug. 18 fire at 708 Kennedy St. NW that killed two residents, including a 9-year-old boy. It is currently being investigated by the District Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs, DC Fire and EMS, the Metropolitan Police Department and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

CHILLERS FIXED AT FARRAGUT NORTH, DUPONT CIRCLE

ACCUSED KILLER OF 11-YEAROLD DUE IN COURT

Metrorail riders whose stops include Farragut North or Dupont Circle will be just a little bit cooler. After four years, the chiller system that serves the stations was finally fixed, just in time for last Wednesday’s 90-plus-degree temperatures. Metro stations do not have air conditioning, but the chillers lower temperatures by a few degrees to make things a bit more comfortable.

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New Regulations for AirbnbType Rentals Start Oct. 1 BY PEG GY SA NDS There are probably few residential sections of Georgetown that don’t have at least one resident renting out a room (or his or her entire home) for a few days, weeks or even months. No doubt most of them advertise these short-term rentals, vet prospective renters and manage the process — including the money side of it — through online apps such as Airbnb. Increasingly, D.C. homeowners use and even depend on such rentals to help pay rising property taxes, mortgages and maintenance costs. There are few regulations on short-term residential rentals in D.C. when the host is living on the property at the time of the rental. The main regulation has been that those who regularly rent out their property need to have a commercial license to do so. It costs some money — a few hundred dollars — and the paperwork has to be filed online, at least. But the fines, especially after a warning or two from a home inspector, can run into thousands of dollars. In the past, most inspectors and neighbors

have turned a blind eye to violations. But as neighborhoods and buildings experience an increasing number of temporary renters, neighbors have begun to report them more often. On Oct. 1, new regulations for shortterm rentals when the host is not on the premises will be put into effect throughout the District. Passed by the Council after some heated debate, the primary change is that residents will be allowed to rent their principal dwelling only up to 90 days per year when they are not residing there at the time. Some exceptions can be negotiated. There is no limit on the number of days a host can rent space while living on the premises. The new regulations also prohibit hosts from giving visitor parking permits to their short-term renters. “Of course, the impact of these regulations will depend on how much violations are reported and enforced,” said Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner Joe Gibbons at the Sept. 3 meeting of ANC 2E.

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A Grand First Day at Whittle School BY PEGGY SAN D S The first day of any school for any child anywhere in the world is always exciting. But the first day for a brand-new global school in a massive, completely refurbished building of glass and light with open flexible classrooms — full of eager, trained teachers and students who speak 27 languages and come from 36 countries, dozens of states and every ward in Washington, D.C. — was something extra special. In fact, the opening of the Whittle School on Wednesday, Sept. 4, in the modern multistory building at 3007 Tilden St. NW, with sweeping interior courts filled with excited students aged 3 to 16 (prekindergarten through 10th grade), can only be said to have been grand. Whittle is marketed as a new global concept in education that combines the world’s best learning practices. Founder Chris Whittle plans to open schools in some 20 countries. The first Whittle sister school opened its doors just two days before the D.C. campus did — in Shenzhen, China, with a building and a student body triple the size of D.C.’s. Students from both campuses greeted each other on FaceTime screens in the school’s courtyards. Boxes of supplies — from wooden toys to Legos, Rubik’s cubes, learning boards with a variety of shapes and books in Chinese and English — were still being brought into the expansive glass-enclosed lower-school classrooms on opening day. They exemplified the curriculum’s focus on individual pacing, flexible crossdisciplinary interactive learning and collaborative innovation, heavily focused on science and STEM subjects (and not necessarily on screens). And Chinese. Lower-school grades (pre-

Whittle School founder Chris Whittle greets one of the school’s first students. Photo by Ethan Yang. K through second grade) are taught in a daily Chinese and English immersion program that switches between teachers and time slots and includes all subjects. In addition, all Whittle students will meet daily with individual teacher-coaches; eventually, all will be involved in daily studio hours to explore individual interests and see where they lead academically and artistically. “We’re still settling in,” DC Campus Vice Chancellor Rebecca Upham and Head of School Dennis Bisgaard told The Georgetowner during an exclusive, extensive tour. Not all is finished yet. Some 40 boarding students are still housed at a nearby campus until their living spaces are completed in the Tilden Street building. Labs and studios are nearing completion. But parents, students, teachers and staff all seemed highly pleased and excited.

NEWS BYTES BY R OBERT D EVAN EY

3RD WORST TRAFFIC, BUT 7TH SAFEST CITY IN THE WORLD

A report by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute found that drivers in and around Washington, D.C., spend 102 hours stuck in traffic congestion annually. The study looked at traffic and speed volumes. Not surprisingly, Los Angelesarea freeway drivers clocked in with the highest congestion, spending 119 hours a year in a jam. The San Francisco-Oakland area nabbed second with 103 hours. Experts pointed to Washington’s strong economy to explain the impressive numbers. Meanwhile, our city was declared one of the world’s safest in the Economist Intelligence Unit’s biennial Safe Cities Index, which factors in things like digital, personal, infrastructure and health security. The nation’s capital came in seventh overall, having shed its “murder capital” moniker in the 1990s. D.C. was one of only two

North American cities to earn a top-10 spot; Toronto came in sixth. Other U.S. cities in the top 20 (of 60) are Chicago, San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles. Tokyo is number one.

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY TOPS LOCALLY

Once again, Georgetown University took the top spot locally in the annual U.S. News & World Report ranking of best colleges. At number 24, Georgetown is followed by the University of Maryland (64), George Washington University (70), American University (77), Howard University (104), Catholic University (139) and George Mason University (153). Along with academic quality, the survey figures in graduation and retention rates and other factors. Curiously enough, the editorial director and executive vice president of USN&WR is Brian Kelly, a Georgetown graduate.

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Protect Your Portfolio: The Next Recession Is Coming BY J OHN GIROUARD Since 2008, when the American economy lost $10.2 trillion in wealth, everyone has wanted to know how to create the elusive “recession-proof” portfolio. In particular, folks nearing retirement age — with less time to earn and recover from a downturn — have been eager to learn where they could invest their money so it wouldn’t disappear again in a few years. From the Great Depression to the Great Recession, economic disasters have become embedded in our cultural subconscious like a recurring nightmare. As if market volatility weren’t enough to keep us up at night, we’re also fighting against human nature. Biologically, it seems we’re programmed to make terrible choices when it comes to playing the market. The average investor has earned total returns of just 2.5 percent over the past 20 years, while the S&P 500 has returned an average of 9.5 percent. While it’s true that we all make financial mistakes, no matter how old and wise we become, we’ll never be able to predict the downturns. Thankfully, though, we can exert control over our emotions, which often have more to do with our returns than the markets themselves. To keep my clients’ money protected before, during and after a recession, I have them focus on their emergency fund. In your working life, a fund with six months’ worth of living expenses set aside should be enough to float you in the event of a crisis. But once you’re retired, you need to have a full five years’ worth of living expenses in cash, or at least out of the market.

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EDITORIAL

OPINION CAG UPDATE

Fall Starts Out With A Bang BY C H ERYL GR AY

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An Ongoing Lesson in Transparency A lively discussion — complete with protest signs and a resolution composed live by elected officials on laptops — dominated the Sept. 3 meeting of the Georgetown-Burleith advisory neighborhood commission. The trigger for the excitement was the July 30 announcement by the District Department of Parks and Recreation that a nine-year extension of a 2009 agreement with Maret School had been signed. It continued Maret’s priority access to the playing field at the Jelleff Recreation Center during prime after-school hours, in exchange for additional investment to maintain the field and contribute to the center’s renovation (to date, Maret has invested a total of some $3 million). The ANC as a body had not been consulted. Its resolution at the meeting read, in part: ”ANC 2E believes the agency should be directed to conduct a transparent process designed to determine, after truly meaningful public input, whether a private entity should be given any form of control over a public athletic facility.” Setting aside the public-versus-private rhetoric, the dispute is actually over transparency. The original 10-year deal had been negotiated “behind closed doors.” Concerned Georgetowners vowed that the extension would be different. Now, some

say it was and some say it wasn’t. The problem is that transparency means different things to different parties. At a town meeting with DPR officials at the Georgetown Public Library last May, attendees spoke of the need for more access to playing space at both the Jelleff field and the indoor recreation center, which the city has granted $7 million for modernization. ANC Chairman Rick Murphy sees it differently. “It’s not just that this contract process ignored the very reason for the ANC — to give advice if not approval for vital community projects in the area of our jurisdiction. The process also brings into question the right Maret obviously felt it had to an extension at all,” Murphy said. “The agreement states that Maret can request an extension. It doesn’t say that it has the inevitable right to one.” The question then arises: If “transparency” results in the extension being overturned, leaving DPR with the responsibility to fund all needed improvements, as well as to schedule the field for all users, would Hardy Middle School students get as much time as they have now? As the saying goes, “Be careful what you wish for.”

Letter to the Editor Maret Has Demonstrated Commitment As principal of Bancroft Elementary, a Title 1 school in Columbia Heights–Mt. Pleasant, I have witnessed for seven years Maret’s unwavering commitment to give of their resources and time to provide my students with free, enriching learning experiences and activities. For 20 years, through the Horizons program, Maret has been investing in the futures of children from under-resourced circumstances throughout D.C. In light of the recent attention Maret has received for securing use of a DPR-run facility at Jelleff, I am surprised by the arguments that pit public and private

school children against each other, when for over two decades Maret has demonstrated their commitment to over a thousand D.C. public school students. Maret is committed to all children, not just its own. For many years, Maret has opened its doors to other organizations and has invested in the renovation and upkeep of city-run facilities so that thousands of its residents can enjoy quality outdoor experiences. — Arthur Mola Principal, Bancroft Elementary School and Maret School parent

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I’m pleased and honored to succeed Pam Moore as president of the Citizens Association of Georgetown. We live in a lovely community and CAG is busy every day contributing to public safety, historic preser vation, tree planting, transportation and infrastr ucture improvements, oral history and many other activities and partnerships. If you not already a member of CAG, please consider joining us at cagtown.org. The fall is starting off with a bang. On Sunday, Sept. 15, Trees for Georgetown will host a party to celebrate its 30th birthday. Trees for Georgetown has planted over 3,000 trees on Georgetown streets, helping to preserve and enhance the lovely tree canopy that shades and beautifies our neighborhood. Tickets for the party are available at our website, noted above. On Sunday, Sept. 22, CAG and Friends of Rose Park will host a free concert in Rose Park at 5 p.m., preceded at 4 p.m. by free yoga courtesy of Uprising Yoga Center. Bring your friends and family and a picnic — or purchase food from the Rocklands food truck at the park — and hear classic rock by a local band, the Other Side.

CAG’s monthly community meetings will kick off on Monday, Sept. 23, at Hyde-Addison Elementary School. We’ll reconnect after the summer break, hear from the principal, Dr. Calvin Hooks, and tour the new facility. After two years of construction, it’s great to have students back at the school. Join us for a reception at 6:30 p.m. and a program from 7 to 8 p.m. Our next community meeting will be Tuesday, Oct. 22, at Pinstripes, where we will hear from Georgetown Heritage about the latest plans for renovation of the Georgetown section of the C&O Canal. CAG’s goal is to serve the Georgetown community and bring residents together to collectively enhance our quality of life. When I moved to Georgetown 10 years ago, I was told that the best way to get to know the community was to participate actively in CAG, and that was good advice! We are always looking for new ideas and energetic people to carry them forward. One area we are exploring is how to support the growing number of young families and help them link up with one another. If you have ideas and/or are interested in this or other possible new initiatives for CAG, do not hesitate to get in touch with us through the website, by calling 202-337-7313 or by visiting the CAG office. Cheryl Gray is president of the Citizens Association of Georgetown.

Make Jelleff Public BY AD VISORY N EIGH BOR H OO D CO MMISSIO NERS ELIZABETH MILLER AN D KISH AN PU TTA In the middle of August, while many families were away on vacation, the DC Department of Parks and Recreation made a harmful and irresponsible backroom deal to give one private school all the afterschool hours at a public field for the next nine years. Since 2010, Maret School, a private school which is over one-third non-D.C. residents and owns a turf field of its own on its upper Northwest campus, has held exclusive rights to the public Jelleff field during all after-school hours. In exchange for this arrangement, Maret contributed a new turf field, lights, pool update and maintenance. At the time of this deal, public school families complained that they were losing far too much access to the most popular hours. But D.C. officials, including Ward 2 Council member Jack Evans, supported the deal because it was a “tough budget year” following the recession. However, the financial health of the District of Columbia is far better today, and there is no need to continue this exclusive arrangement. Now, 10 years later, we have heard from 10 schools located within a 2 to 3-mile radius of Jelleff field that they would also like to share some time on this field to practice and host competitions, as it is one of the few regulation sized fields in Northwest D.C. None of them is asking for exclusivity — they all want to share with others, including Maret. Our ANC started early this year trying to create some kind

of basic fairness in any kind of contract extension. We passed several resolutions requesting a public, open and transparent process (something woefully lacking in 2008), including a public meeting. At the meeting and afterward, we heard from parents, students and educators about the importance of having some field access to Jelleff. Laura Welles, a student at Hardy Middle School, located across the street from Jelleff, told us how she and her brother have to travel an hour across town for “home games” and have to choose between missing competitions or missing classes and leaving school early to get to matches. She finds this shocking, as there is a beautiful public field (Jelleff) right across the street from the school. All these public pleas were heard in person by top DPR officials. So, imagine our shock three weeks ago when they informed us that this contract has been extended and no alterations have been made. If this decision stands, one small private school will continue exclusive after-school control of a public field for two decades. If you’re as outraged as we are, we encourage you to sign onto this petition demanding Mayor Bowser and DPR reverse their decision and share after school hours: https://www.change.org/p/mayor-bowserprivate-schools-should-not-have-exclusiverights-to-public-fields-makejelleffpublic Call or email your D.C. Council member. It’s never too late to do the right thing.

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CAG: Georgetown’s Connector and Guardian BY RO BE RT DEVA NEY When Cheryl Gray became president of the Citizens Association of Georgetown a few months ago, she was continuing in the spirit of citizen leadership that has benefited the oldest neighborhood in Washington, D.C., since the late 1800s. A nonprofit civic organization, CAG aims to represent the interests of Georgetown residents and make Georgetown safer, more beautiful and more connected. It has approximately 1,500 members and an annual budget around $300,000. CAG in its current form began in 1963. Recent past presidents include Pamla Moore, Bob vom Eigen, Jennifer Altemus Romm, Victoria Rixey and Barbara Downs. “Georgetown is unique,” Gray says.

“Having lived around the world, I can say it is a solid one square mile. There’s no place like it. It’s just beautiful.” Historic preservation, of course, is a primary CAG goal. Along with overseeing CAG’s core programs — “doing just fine,” says Gray — she wants “to do more for young families” and figure out “how to help get them more engaged.” Just walking one day, she passed seven baby carriages, some with dogs along for the walk. On Gray’s team are vice president Tara Sakraida Parker and secretary Amy Kuhnert — along with executive director Leslie Maysak and staffers Nancy Carpenter, Mandi Howard and Catherine Shaw. There are another six board members and nine

committee chairs, whose bailiwicks range from trash, transportation and alcoholic beverage control to oral history. One of CAG’s signature programs is Trees for Georgetown, founded by Betsy Emes, celebrating its 30th anniversary. A garden party for the committee’s good work is set for Sept. 15. It’s a busy month: there is yoga and a concert in Rose Park on Sept. 22 and a general meeting at Hyde-Addison School on Sept. 23. CAG’s long and ambitious to-do list also involves preserving the town’s historic fabric, public safety, short-term rentals, airplane noise, the C&O Canal, the GeorgetownBurleith advisory neighborhood commission, the Old Georgetown Board, the Georgetown Business Improvement District and Georgetown Ministry Center. Top concerns, Gray says, are “homelessness and empty commercial storefronts.”

Gray brings a wealth of worldliness to the dynamic group. She is retired from the World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank and lived in Bethesda and Chevy Chase for years. Her three children are now adults. Once she and her husband were empty-nesters, they moved to Georgetown. Gray quickly got involved in her new hometown by volunteering at CAG, taking on more and more responsibilities. Apart from her CAG duties, she loves to travel, hike and throw clay at Hinckley Pottery, among other things. It may help that she has a doctorate from Harvard and an undergraduate degree from Stanford.

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Due to the church renovations, our Sunday Mass schedule will be as follows (September 8, 15, and 22) Trinity Hall: Vigil, 7:30am, 9am, 11:30am, 1:15pm, 5:30pm CAG’s Mandi Howard, President Cheryl Gray, Executive Director Leslie Maysak and Nancy Carpenter. Photo by Robert Devaney.

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Sunday Morning Religious Education classes will begin September 15. Class lists and additional information will be mailed in early September.

Dahlgren Chapel: 9am Confessions will take place in the small parlor adjacent to the Chapel of St. Ignatius.

COMMUNITY CALENDAR THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 C&O CANAL CELEBRATION

The National Park Service and Georgetown Heritage will celebrate the completion of restoration work on the C&O Canal’s Locks 3 and 4 at Thomas Jefferson Street at noon. The event will include a ribbon cutting, music, children’s activities and project updates. For details, visit georgetownheritage.org.

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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 TREES FOR GEORGETOWN

Trees for Georgetown will celebrate 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.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 TASTE OF GEORGETOWN

The annual eating-and-drinking festival, benefiting Georgetown Ministry Center’s homeless assistance programs, runs from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on K Street between Wisconsin Avenue and Thomas Jefferson Street. Some 60 dishes from more than 30 of Georgetown’s best restaurants will be available. Pre-sale tickets are $24 for five, $35 for eight and $45 for 11. For details, visit tasteofgeorgetown.com.

CONCERT AND YOGA IN ROSE PARK The Citizens Association of Georgetown invites area residents to come to Rose Park at 26th and O Streets for free yoga at 4 p.m. and a free concert at 5 p.m. For details, visit cagtown.org.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 CAG COMMUNITY MEETING

The Citizens Association of Georgetown will hold a community meeting at Hyde-Addison Elementary School, 3219 O St. NW, at 6:30 p.m. For details, visit cagtown.org.

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Georgetown’s long-awaited Capital One Café — situated at the southeast corner of Wisconsin Avenue and M Street NW, site of the legendary Nathans Restaurant — opened Aug. 28, with three floors of banking and community interactivity. Besides the brews and sweets offered by its partner, Peet’s Coffee, the corner spot is a free co-working space, set up with desks, couches, private nooks, meeting rooms and a conference table with a television and screen projector — and, of course, free Wi-Fi, as well as electrical outlets all around for recharging devices. Open, smartly lighted stairways connect the floors. Anyone may use the services — first-come, first-serve or by appointment — not just Capital One customers. The 3150 M St. NW property, renovated by Kevin Plank’s Sagamore Development, was at first thought to become an Under Armour store. However, it was unexpectedly sold two years ago to Capital One Bank for $50.2 million. Many in Georgetown were lamenting yet another bank’s arrival, but they may be surprised. Commented one Georgetown

At the Georgetown Capital One Café: Charnae Berry of the Chinatown Capital One Café and Michael Friedman of Capital One marketing flank Georgetown manager Samantha DeStasi. Photo by Robert Devaney. resident: “I wanted to hate it, but this place is amazing.” “Georgetown is home to our 38th Capital One Café, featuring original restored flooring and exposed brick walls,” a Capital One spokesperson told The Georgetowner. “We strive to make each café a part of the deep, interconnected fabric of the communities we serve. We believe strong communities and strong businesses go hand-in-hand. That’s why we partner with local small businesses like Baked & Wired, Bullfrog Bagels and Good Company Doughnuts, which provide their pastries in our Georgetown café.” The new Georgetown spot will hold a grand opening celebration on Saturday, Sept. 28.

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When designer Linda Battalia first moved to Georgetown after years of expat life in Europe, the Barnes & Noble at M and 31st Streets became her home away from home. “After all that travel, I needed to put down roots,” she says. “I must have read every architecture book and magazine in the store, returning week after week to finish a chapter or article. I wanted to learn why things were built the way they were.” Clearly, those lessons — and her passion for historic properties — paid off. Ten years later, her eponymous design firm, which specializes in high-end architectural interior and exterior renovations, has redeveloped eight homes, all located within her beloved “protected one square mile” in Georgetown. Her latest project is an Eastlake Victorian at 3030 Q St. NW. Built in 1868 and restored over two years, the four-level, 4,000-squarefoot home now offers five bedrooms and five and a half baths, a wraparound deck and a rear hardscaped and landscaped garden and motor court. The house maintains much of the original Eastlake aesthetic — unusual angles, carvings, decorative cased openings and window surrounds, asymmetric placement of doors, windows and fireplaces and ornamental brick- and ironwork — balanced with a more open interior and modern conveniences. For Battalia, the goal “is to find houses over 100 years old and prepare them to have a lively life for another 100 years.” On the main level, a traditional Eastlake side entrance opens into a gracious foyer

facing an angled staircase. To the right is the living/dining room, a brightly lit space with a curved bay window, anchored by an angled fireplace with a granite surround and a simple mantel. To the left of the foyer is the family room, with an asymmetric bay window and a distressed brick wall. A portion of the “historic fabric” (the original wall at the rear of the house) divides the family room from the eat-in kitchen that overlooks a deck and garden. It blends contemporary with classic elements: subtly veined quartz counters and backsplash, extensive white cabinetry with oversized brass hardware and an island/ breakfast bar fitted with a Blanco Attika dropin sink with a raised rim. Other appliances include a Wolf range and oven, a Zephyr hood, a Sub-Zero refrigerator-freezer and a concealed KitchenAid dishwasher. There are two bedrooms on the second level, each with grand en-suite baths. The master bath also includes a step-down dressing room with custom built-ins and a skylight. There is a fireplace and a curved bay window in the guest room. In the master bedroom, the bulkhead is cleverly disguised as a slanted ceiling to better blend in with the vintage angles of the home. (Battalia often adds historical quirks to keep the vintage character.) Sitting between the bedrooms is a study/den with glass French doors and oversized windows. On the third level, there are two more bedrooms — one with a round balcony overlooking the street — two baths, a laundry

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Original distressed brick in the family room. Photo by Marlon Crutchfield.

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hen Deborah Rutter took up the reins as the new president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, things sounded a little chaotic in the middle of her first official day of work. “My office looks terrible,” she said then, during a telephone interview in September of 2014. “There’s boxes and stuff all over the place.” The good news? “We had a staff meeting to meet everyone, which was absolutely great.” And, she confided, “actually, the most important part of the day was, of course, deciding what my daughter would wear to school.” Five years later, on a recent Tuesday, things were no less fraught, although for a different reason. Her office in the Kennedy Center seemed shipshape: big conference table in the center, family pictures behind her desk, artwork on the wall and daughter Gillian already off to Duke. But the atmosphere of big changes underway still pervaded the room. It was, after all, only a few days until the official opening, on Saturday, Sept. 7, of the Reach, the 48-year-old Kennedy Center’s first major physical expansion, to the tune (at last count) of $250 million. The opening of the Reach, a set of dramatic pavilions and plazas, is being celebrated with a two-week super festival, running through Sunday, Sept. 22, that kicked off with an ambitious parade, dubbed “The Future Is Now and I Am It: A Parade to Mark the Moment.” Over the festival’s 16 days, there will be some 500 performances on the new campus. Officially, Rutter has said that the Reach Opening Festival “celebrates our nation’s incomparable diversity. Inviting full participation, immersion and discovery, it’s the perfect way for people to experience what the Reach has to offer.” As an expression of Rutter’s personal and professional history, her approach to and feelings for the performing arts and her continued ambitions for the Kennedy Center, that’s pretty succinct. A WAY OF THINKING ABOUT THE ARTS While she isn’t the originator of the Reach — the decision to do a major expansion had already been made before she arrived — Rutter is, and has been all along, the personification, the best interpreter and

Kennedy Center President Deborah Rutter at the Reach, the performing arts center’s first expansion since its opening in 1971. Photo by Todd Rosenberg.

shaper, of not only the Reach, but the Kennedy Center as a whole. “It’s about the future. It’s a way of thinking about the arts, and about the spaces it occupies,” she says. “It’s definitely about the word itself. And when you think about it, it’s not just about the word ‘reach’ as in reaching out. Sure it is, but more of things set in motion, reaching out, reaching in, bringing in.” The Reach is unique because it brings the community to the art, not just in quiet appreciation, but with interaction, intimacy, closeness, in a setting that’s very active and interactive. It appears to be neither a mere extension of the Kennedy Center nor, perhaps least of all, separate, but rather an organic entity that connects to the Kennedy Center directly. Kennedy’s words are here, too. “In terms of the arts, and performing arts especially, he was above all inspirational, and he understood the critical importance of the

arts in the life of a nation,” Rutter says of the center’s namesake. You can feel what the Reach expresses just by looking at it in quiet contemplation. The work of architect Steven Holl, it’s a soft, not aggressive, but spare and sharp thing of architectural beauty. Its pavilions are whalebone white, with a clean look and a path to the Kennedy Center. A good part of it is underground, covered by a grassy, garden-like open space. It includes visible artwork outside and in, by Joel Shapiro, Roy Lichtenstein, Deborah Butterfield and Sam Gilliam (one of his splashy drapes). Also visible outside are a pedestrian bridge, upper and lower lawns, a video wall, the Reach Plaza — which connects to the Kennedy Center — a reflecting pool and the presidential grove of ginkgo trees, plus an Arlington oak. On Level A, visitors will find a welcome lobby, a flexible space for meetings called PT 109, the Moonshot Studio (a dedicated interactive arts learning space), the Skylight Pavilion and the Justice Forum, which includes a performance space with fixed seats, also referencing JFK’s five ideals of freedom, courage, justice, service and gratitude. The below-ground levels also feature studios (named J, F and K), lecture halls and rehearsal spaces for theater and dance and other performing arts, as well as classrooms and lounges for the public and students. It features acoustical plastic ceilings and large frosted glass walls with etched quotes from President Kennedy. There is also a River Pavilion and Mezzanine, which can be used to rest, for meetings or as an artist’s lounge. WELCOMING NEW GENRES AND NEW AUDIENCES The list of performers and activities for the festival are reflections of Rutter’s approach to what cultural and performing arts centers do — reach out to new forms, welcome new genres and new audiences and bring it all together. On the lineup, you’ll find the names of such ensembles and performers as the Heritage Signature Chorale, the 300-voice, D.C.-based community chorus; Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Bootsy Collins; Kennedy Center Artistic Director for Jazz Jason Moran; playwrights Aaron Posner and Karen Zacarias;

the Broadway Collective; and jazz bassist Esperanza Spalding. Among the special events will be a Hip Hop Block Party on Sept. 14 and, the following day, hosted by picture-book author Mo Willems (the center’s education artist-in-residence), Mo-a-Palooza Live! Running through the festival like a live and cursive river is a theme: art is by and for everyone, from presidents to cultural leaders to me and you. In her earlier leadership positions — executive director of the Seattle Symphony, then president of the major-league Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association — Rutter’s approach was expansive and inclusive in the arena of community engagement. “When you deal with institutions that are supposed to have one identity — an orchestra, a theater company, a dance company — it’s difficult sometimes to get beyond that identity,” she says. “Even with the Kennedy Center, people sometimes see this gigantic institution, with its white bulwark, housing a number of different groups, from the opera to jazz to children’s theater and so on. It’s still this one identity.” In terms of the ongoing debates about genres and changes in classical music and opera and how they are presented, Rutter has done a lot to make sure that the Kennedy Center has expanded and reached out, even without the Reach. “It’s about the community, about realizing that there are all sorts of sounds and music, and new playwrights and musical forms,” she says. “To me, the Reach is about looking at performance spaces in a new way. You can come to the Reach just for the sake of it, or use it as a welcoming and active gateway or a kind of eye-opener to come closer and closer to the art and artist, being close, sitting in, watching the process and being a part of it. “I don’t see the Reach as separate spaces from the Kennedy Center. It’s a living part of it. Its fresh air, fresh people,” she says. “To me, it’s the future of what the performing arts can do, and how you experience them. The Reach is bound to leave its imprint on the people who come there, sit there, listen, take part, learn, see and hear new things from a different vantage point, watch or listen to the river go by and then partake of the center’s choices.” GMG, INC.

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Detail, “Angervat,” from the series “100 Little Deaths,” 2002. Janaina Tschäpe. Courtesy National Museum of Women in the Arts. “Passerby (La Passante),” 1897. Félix Vallotton. Collection of Vicki and Roger Sant. Courtesy Phillips Collection.

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“Buffalo Bull, Grazing on the Prairie,” 1832-33. George Catlin. Courtesy SAAM. PICTURING THE AMERICAN BUFFALO: GEORGE CATLIN AND MODERN NATIVE AMERICAN ARTISTS SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM Opens Oct. 11 George Catlin (1796–1872) was among the earliest European artists to travel beyond the Mississippi River to record what he called the “manners and customs” of American Indians. His intention was to document these native cultures before they were irrevocably altered by settlement of the frontier and the mass migrations forced by the Indian Removal Act of 1830. On his trips, Catlin recorded the massive herds of buffalo that roamed the Great Plains and portrayed the central importance of the buffalo in the daily lives of Indian tribes. This exhibition will present works by Catlin alongside works by modern Native artists, who have continued to picture the buffalo as an essential aspect of indigenous cultural identity, providing two perspectives on the animal’s resonance in American art.— will reveal the various ways in which the Nabis sought to break down the artificial barriers between the fine and decorative arts.

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS Sept. 19 to Jan. 20 “Live Dangerously” will explore how 12 groundbreaking photographers use humor, drama and innovative narrative elements to illuminate the female form as a means of self-empowerment and personal expression, revealing the bold and dynamic ways in which female bodies inhabit and activate the natural world. Many works in the exhibition depict the female body immersed in mountains, oceans, valleys and deserts. A major section will showcase the performative and fantastical works of German artist Janaina Tschäpe (b. 1973). For the first time, the museum will exhibit all 100 large-scale photographs in her series “100 Little Deaths,” created between 1996 and 2002, in which the artist stages her own body within sites from her travels around the world.finally achieve true mastery in painting, if he lived to the age of 110.

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Detail, “Thunder God,” 1847. Katsushika Hokusai. Courtesy Freer Gallery of Art. HOKUSAI: MAD ABOUT PAINTING FREER GALLERY OF ART Opens Nov. 23 The Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) is widely recognized for a single image — “Great Wave Off the Coast of Kanagawa” — yet he produced thousands of works. Charles Lang Freer recognized the artist’s vast abilities before many other collectors and assembled the world’s largest collection of paintings, sketches and drawings by Hokusai. In commemoration of the centennial of Freer’s death in 1919, and in celebration of the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, the Freer Gallery will present a yearlong exploration of Hokusai’s prolific career. Works large and small, from six-panel folding screens and hanging scrolls to paintings and drawings, will be on view, along with rare hanshita-e — drawings for woodblock prints that were frequently destroyed in the process of carving the block — and manga, his often humorous renderings of everyday life. Together, these works will reveal an artistic genius who thought he might finally achieve true mastery in painting, if he lived to the age of 110.

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Detail, “Madonna and Child,” c. 1465/70. Andrea del Verrocchio. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie. Courtesy NGA.

T H E AT E R “Tanglewood House II, West Stockbridge, Massachusetts.” Alan Karchmer. Courtesy National Building Museum. ALAN KARCHMER: THE ARCHITECTS’ PHOTOGRAPHER NATIONAL BUILDING MUSEUM Opens Nov. 9 Even if you have never visited the pyramids of Giza, I’m guessing you know exactly what they look like. Because prominent works of architecture are known better and by more people through photographs than in person, architectural photographers play an important role in interpreting the architect’s work, both in itself and in relation to the landscape. Alan Karchmer is known as “The Architects’ Photographer” thanks to his skill in communicating architects’ ideas and intentions. This exhibition will present a cross section of his professional photographs, coupled with personal photos and artifacts. While it will feature large-format images of remarkable beauty, the exhibition will also examine the technical and creative processes underlying such images and explore how a series of photographs can create a visual narrative that conveys a cohesive sense of design, place and experience.

“The Box in a Valise/Boîte en Valise (Series E) From or by Marcel Duchamp or Rose Sélavy,” 1963. Marcel Duchamp. Courtesy Hirshhorn. MARCEL DUCHAMP: THE BARBARA AND AARON LEVINE COLLECTION HIRSHHORN MUSEUM Opens Nov. 9 The first stage of a two-part exhibition on the artist’s life and legacy (the second will open next April), “Marcel Duchamp: The Barbara and Aaron Levine Collection” will feature the Levines’ recent promised gift of more than 35 seminal works by Duchamp (1887–1968). Several of Duchamp’s most famous readymades — embodying his radical idea that an artist’s ideas are more important than craft or aesthetics — will be on view, as will drawings and prints related to his magnum opus, “The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even,” and a number of his later kinetic works. The exhibition will also include portraits of Duchamp and works by his contemporaries and those he influenced, including Man Ray, Tristan Tzara, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Diane Arbus and Irving Penn.

Playwright August Wilson died in 2005, but his major work, a 10-play cycle exploring African American lives and life in the Hill District of Pittsburgh, is as alive as ever, looming in equal parts as a challenge and a siren call for actors, directors, theaters and theater artists all over the country. Washington is no exception, where his plays from “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” to “Radio News” to “Fences” to “The Music Lesson” to “Jitney” have been performed all over the region. It’s fitting that Artistic Director Molly Smith will kick off an August Wilson Festival at Arena Stage with a production of “Jitney,” directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, who directed the Broadway version of the play, which concerns the life of taxi drivers dealing with changing times and oppression (Sept. 23 to Oct. 20). The festival includes panel discussions, screenings, a master class and a variety of activities and events leading up to the second production, “Seven Guitars,” directed by Tazewell Thompson (April 3 to May 3). But that’s not all. Ford’s Theatre is staging “Fences,” easily the best-known of Wilson’s plays, thanks in large part to the very successful film version starring Denzel Washington and Viola Davis, who won an Oscar. The Ford’s production, directed by Timothy Douglas, stars Chris Wallace and

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a Riot Grrrls production of an all-female “Othello,” directed by Kelsey Mesa at Capitol Hill Arts Workshop (Sept. 19 to Oct. 12). Caryl Churchill doesn’t get older. The eminent author of “Cloud Nine” and “Top Girls” is also the author of “Escaped Alone,” directed by the much-honored actress Holly Twyford, at Signature Theatre (Sept. 24 to Nov. 3). “West By God,” in a world-premiere production at the Keegan Theatre, is a play by Brandon McCoy set in a small West Virginia town. It’s directed by Jeremy Skidmore, with Rena Cherry Brown, Susan Marie Rhea and Colin Smith in the cast (Sept. 27 to Oct. 20). New Shakespeare Theatre Company Artistic Director Simon Godwin isn’t starting the season with the Bard, but he’s got playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, of “An Octoroon” fame, which might be the next best thing. The premise of his new play, “Everybody,” directed by Will Davis and featuring Nancy Robinette, is that “Everybody” is a role assigned each night from a small cast, and everybody’s happy until Death comes calling (Oct. 15 to Nov. 17). DANCE The Kennedy Center will celebrate the 100th birthday of the late, legendary choreographer Merce Cunningham with a presentation by Compagnie Centre National de Danse Contemporaine-Angers of Cunningham’s “Beach Birds” and “BIPED” in the Eisenhower Theater (Oct. 3 to 5). The Washington Ballet, led since 2016 by former American Ballet Theatre star Julie Kent, will kick off its season with “NEXTsteps,” a program of all new works by emerging choreographers Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, John Heginbotham and Jessica Lang at Sidney Harman Hall (Oct. 23 to 27).

Cultural Leadership Breakfast Thursday, September 19, 2019 8 to 9:30 a.m. 1310 Kitchen and Bar by Jenn Crovato 1310 Wisconsin Ave. NW Dr. Anthea M. Hartig Elizabeth MacMillan Director, National Museum of American History Georgetown Media Group is thrilled to welcome public historian and cultural heritage expert Anthea Hartig, who joined the Smithsonian as director of the National Museum of American History in February, the first woman to hold the position. At the breakfast, she will discuss the museum’s new initiatives in the areas of women’s history, Latino history and arts and culture.

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PER F ORMA NCE CO N T. OPERA William Shakespeare has a way of pervading other genres, especially and most often opera. So it is that Washington National Opera is opening its 2019-20 season in the Kennedy Center Opera House with one of the Bard’s greatest tragedies and Verdi’s biggest triumphs, “Otello.” The opera-ready tale of passion, betrayal and jealousy stars Leah Crocetto as Desdemona, Russell Thomas as Otello and George Gagnidze as Iago (Sept. 26 to Nov. 16). Among Shakespeare’s best-known works, the jealous Moor’s story is perhaps topped only by that of the moody Dane. Washington Concert Opera will present Ambroise Thomas’s “Hamlet,” based on an adaptation by Alexandre Dumas and Paul Meurice, in George Washington University’s Lisner Auditorium, with soprano Lisette Oropesa Bass Solomon Howard. Photo by Jon Adjahoe. as Ophelia, baritone Jacques Imbrailo as Hamlet and mezzo-soprano Eve Gigliotti as Gertrude (Nov. 24). Opera Lafayette, with its emphasis on National Opera star and Marian Anderson period operas, will celebrate its 25th season Vocal Award winner Solomon Howard will with a production of John Blow’s “Venus give a concert in the Kennedy Center Terrace and Adonis” at the Corcoran Gallery (Nov. Theater (Nov. 25). 21 and 23). The Russian Chamber Art Society will If it’s star-power singing you’re looking launch its season at the Embassy of France with for, the amazing Joyce DiDonato will sing “An Enchanted Evening: Fairy-Tale Operas by music from her album “In War and Peace” Russian Composers,” featuring five rising stars as part of the Renée Fleming Voices series from Washington National Opera’s Domingoin the Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater Cafritz Young Artist Program (Oct. 4). (Nov. 8 and 9). Later that month, Washington The Vocal Arts DC season in the Kennedy

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‘Life of David Hockney: A Novel’ THIS MELODRAMATIC, FICTIONALIZED BIOGRAPHY DREW PRAISE FROM ITS REAL-LIFE SUBJECT R EVIEWE D BY KIT T Y K E LLE Y People who know art will recognize the name of David Hockney, and those who like the artist will enjoy this romp of a book, which purports to be “a novel and a biography,” a hybrid of sorts that cross-fertilizes fact with fiction. Brief and breezy at under 200 pages, “Life of David Hockney” by Catherine Cusset reads like a fanzine about the man considered to be England’s most famous living artist. At the age of 35, Hockney made auction history in 1972 when his “Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)” sold for $90 million. He held that record for 47 years, until Jeff Koons’s “Rabbit” sold for $91 million. Cusset wrote this book as a love letter, saying as much during an interview on NPR: “I hope he will consider it an homage.” She admitted she “was very scared” about his reaction. “The man … is very rich and he’s super-well-known. And he cares about his image. And he can hire very good lawyers.” She needn’t have worried. Hockney has flicked off major art critics like Hilton Kramer and Clement Greenberg for disparaging his work as “superficial” — too pleasant to be taken seriously; then he’s laughed all the way to the bank. Upon publication of Cusset’s book, Hockney was gracious: “[It] caught a lot of me. I could recognize myself.” The author had not known anything about the artist until she looked at his work on the internet. Then, “I really liked him … I loved his incredible freedom at every level … always following his desire, his impulse, being true to himself.” The author of 13 novels about “things that are connected to my life — my mother, my mother-in-law [and] sex,” Cusset holds two doctorates — one from Paris Diderot

She tracks his torrid five-year affair with Peter, who becomes his model and muse. (Most of the men mentioned in the book, including friends, lovers and assistants, are identified by first names only.) Then — cue the drums — comes the traumatic breakup with Peter, when he leaves the artist for a younger man. In sob-sister style, Cusset writes how Hockney “was stricken with depression” and kept asking himself, “How could he get Peter out of his blood?” Even three years later, “He would still cry when he thought of Peter.” This leads to second-guessing their relationship: “Had Peter ever had any real feelings for him?” “Where was the boy whom he had loved so passionately?” “Would the pain ever go away?” “Weren’t three years enough?” Cue the violins. For those unfamiliar with Hockney’s art, this book will disappoint, as it contains no reproductions or illustrations. Cusset cites several works by name but describes few, probably figuring that fans will have read at least one of the artist’s 27 books and be able to University, where she wrote a dissertation recall images such as “A Bigger Grand Canyon,” on the Marquis de Sade, and one from Yale, “My House, Montcalm Avenue, Los Angeles” where she wrote on the 18th-century libertine and “Model with Unfinished Self Portrait.” novel. So she’s well-schooled on the subject Still, to write about David Hockney of sex and the pain and pleasures of the flesh. without showing his paintings is like As a gay man, Hockney celebrates writing about Winston Churchill without homosexuality in much of his art (“We quoting his speeches. Two Boys Together Clinging,” “Doll Boy,” In discussing Hockney’s art, Cusset notes “Adhesiveness”). With staccato sentences, that the color blue suffuses many of his Cusset dives into his personal life like a devotee paintings, from the aqua swimming pools that of True Romance potboilers. She reports on first made him famous to his “Self Portrait his nude revels — filled with poppers, cocaine, with Blue Guitar,” inspired by the Wallace and Quaaludes — the fraught years of AIDS Stevens poem “The Man with the Blue Guitar.” and the sad deaths of many friends. This poem spoke to Hockney, who saw

himself as a man who can’t play things as they are, but through his talent — his blue guitar — he summons the power to recreate the world from his imagination. The guitar is the artist’s talisman and can only be strummed by the gifted. “Life of David Hockney” begins with a young, happy-go-lucky man who moves from the north of England to Los Angeles to pursue his passion for painting and music and beautiful boys. He bleaches his hair blond, wears red polka dots with purple stripes and, with a flair for friendship, surrounds himself with an adoring coterie that accompanies his rocket to success. He achieves great wealth and global recognition. He travels the world, collecting all its tributes, and seems surely headed for happily-ever-after. But age and disability intrude, leaving the last image of David Hockney as a deaf 82-year-old man, sitting alone on his porch, smoking a joint that he buys with a medical marijuana license “to calm his anxiety.” Fugit irreparabile tempus. Georgetown resident Kitty Kelley has written several number-one New York Times best-sellers, including “The Family: The Real Story Behind the Bush Dynast y.” Her most recent books include “Capturing Camelot: Stanley Tretick’s Iconic Images of the Kennedys” and “Let Freedom Ring: Stanley Tretick’s Iconic Images of the March on Washington.”

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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 703-255-4030 or email events@wolftrap.org.

The gala brings together prominent citizens to support the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts. Following a VIP reception and dinner, the Gran Desvelada After-Party 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.

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TREES FOR GEORGETOWN GARDEN PARTY Trees for Georgetown is celebrating 30 years of planting and caring for trees in the neighborhood. The annual garden party under the auspices of the Citizens Association of Georgetown will be hosted by Jennifer and David Romm. Please note that no tickets will be sold at the door. Contact Christi Cline at 202-997-2787 or email treesforgeorgetown@gmail.com.

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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 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

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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.

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2019 HALCYON AWARDS

The Halcyon Awards recognize and honor arts icons, social entrepreneurs and public policy visionaries who are dedicated to pushing past traditional boundaries to create a movement, lead an organization or impact the world. The reception, awards ceremony, dinner and after-party will be paperless, with eco-friendly touches throughout the evening. Sporty cocktail attire (suits and sneakers) is welcome. Entertainment and Sports Arena. Visit halcyonhouse.org/2019-halcyon-awards.

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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 with 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.

WASHINGTON OPERA SOCIETY This evening of excerpts from “Il trovatore” and other Verdi masterpieces will feature international artists accompanied by a chorus and orchestra conducted by Maestro Julien Benichou, with narration by Scott Beard. Cocktails and heavy hors d’oeuvres will precede the performance and desserts will follow. University Club. Visit washingtonoperasociety.org.

HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN NATIONAL DINNER The Human Rights Campaign is the leading national advocacy organization working for the equal rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer Americans through education, research and political activities. The 23rd annual HRC National Dinner will include a cocktail reception, silent and live auctions, an elegant dinner, live entertainment and thoughtprovoking speakers. Washington Convention Center. Email galadinners@hrc.org.

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‘Go Bo’ — Surviving Cancer Through Family, Friends and Fun A crowd of costumed guests gathered Sept. 6 for the 15th Annual Go Bo benefit at the Georgetown home of Ben and Deb Johns to support the Family Relief Fund at Georgetown University Hospital. Proceeds from this affair provide assistance to children, families and the community for the hospital’s oncology and pediatric department. The event’s namesake, Bo Johns, is a lymphoma cancer survivor. This year’s theme? The Olympics, as in 2020.

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Alex Ragonese, Claire Kana and Malcolm Dilley. Photo by Neshan H. Naltchayan

Shop Mike Hennessy, Deb Johns and Bo Johns. Photo by Neshan H. Naltchayan

Wolf Trap’s Summer Swan Song with the Gipsy Kings

THURSDAY, SEPT. 19– SUNDAY, SEPT. 29 11 DAYS OF PROMOTIONS AND EVENTS AT 60+ STORES, SALONS, GALLERIES, RESTAURANTS, BARS AND ENTERTAINMENT VENUES THROUGHOUT GEORGETOWN.

BY CH RIST INE WA RNK E The stars were all aligned for a magical evening on Sept. 8 at Wolf Trap’s Filene Center to celebrate the end of the summer season, featuring internationally acclaimed musicians, the Gipsy Kings. In keeping with the theme of flamenco, salsa and pop of the Kings, guests dined at the pre-concert reception on various Spanish paellas and other dishes and desserts.

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Visit www.georgetowndc.com/thefallissue for full details and participating locations. The Gipsy Kings performed on Sept. 8 at Wolf Trap’s Filene Center to celebrate the end of the summer season. Photo courtesy of Wolf Trap.

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