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GEORGETOWNER VOLUME 59, NUMBER 4

NOVEMBER 14- 28, 2012

Kitty’s Gift of

Camelot REAL ESTATE

Artful Architect Errol Adels

BUSINESS

Ice Skating Rink Opens Next Week

HOLIDAY ARTS PREVIEW

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$1,090,000 | sothebysrealty.com/id/fx7883129 Gloria Adams | 703.356.6645

$795,000 | sothebysrealty.com/id/dc7941045 Jonathan Taylor | 202.276.3344

Georgetown Federal in East Village. Impeccably designed and restored. Double Parlours, Formal Dining Room, Full master suite w/ sitting room and en suite bath. Chef’s kitchen w/ French doors leading to private garden. 6 Fireplaces, original hardwood floors, 5BRs/4 BAs/2 Powder rooms, elevator. Tandem parking for 2 cars. $3,695,000 | sothebysrealty.com/id/dc7931014 Julia Diaz-Asper | 202.256.1887

This elegant bay front period 5BR house in the East Village is elevated off the street offering privacy and generous rooms for entertaining. This residence has been completely restored with new systems and features grand architecture including high ceilings and large scale rooms. Completing this residence is an in-law suite with separate entrance. $2,250,000 | sothebysrealty.com/id/dc7938066 Michael Rankin | 202.271.3344

Rare opportunity to own in one of DC’s ‘Best Addresses’ at Chancellery. Grand south-facing 3 BR + library and sun room. Approx. 2505 sf, lives like a private home. Includes washer/dryer, formal dining room, juliette balcony, wood floors, built-ins, large closets, marble baths, gallery hall perfect for art. Pets welcome. $1,395,000 | sothebysrealty.com/id/dc7961134 Liz D’Angio | 202.427.7890

Breathtaking home with stunning grounds! 8 fireplaces, 5 BRs, 8 BAs, conservatory, 3 laundry rooms, and fabulous kitchen. Crown moulding, chair rail moulding, columns, built-in cabinets and shelves. The master BR is a spectacular retreat w/ terrace and sitting room with fireplace. The lower level continues to impress with a full apartment. $3,380,000 | sothebysrealty.com/id/fx7862489 Penny Yerks | 703.760.0744

A 3 BR/3.5 BA jewel box with garage parking features entertaining spaces, a garden-terrace with fountain, and a glorious master BR with fireplace. Kitchen w/ top-of-theline appliances. 3 marble full baths, office, and 2 fireplaces complete this offering. $2,199,000 | sothebysrealty.com/id/dc7943814 Carroll Dey | 202.320.0441 Greg Gaddy | 202.421.4734

A fantastic 4-level all brick end townhome in premier area minutes to DC/Tysons. Custom, designer appointments which the astute buyer will appreciate. Great floor plan, lovely imported wood paneling, luxury marble baths, quality workmanship, 9 skylights, unique and very elegant!

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Prestigious Embassy Row townhouse, limestone façade, porte-cochere entrance, w/ 1-car garage plus parking for 4 more vehicles. Nearly 6,000 sf, 4BR plus au pair suite, 4.5 BA. High ceilings, exquisite architectural detail throughout, 4 fireplaces, elevator, library, and entertaining room w/ roof terrace overlooking yard, Rock Creek Park, and the city. $3,295,000 | sothebysrealty.com/id/dc7921599 Jonathan Taylor | 202.276.3344

Built in 1886, this 3BR/2.5BA Victorian townhouse features a classic mansard slate roof, turret rooms on all four floors, three fireplaces, high ceilings and generous room sizes. The home is prominently situated at the corner of 21st and N streets, allowing natural light to flood the rooms. $1,795,000 | sothebysrealty.com/id/dc7954133 Jonathan Taylor | 202.276.3344 Michele Topel | 202.469.1966

2BR/1BA stone cottage, perched high on an elevated corner lot. Beautiful landscaping, solarium, living room w/ vaulted ceiling and FP, kitchen w/stainless steel appliances & granite counters. Spacious wrap-around patio and terrace, ideal for outdoor entertaining!

This stately Federal features period details throughout, including detailed crown moldings, high ceilings, and an exquisite wood-burning fireplaces. The residence boasts four levels including a one-bedroom apartment on the lower level with separate entrance. Completing this home is off-street parking for two cars, gardens, a pool and roof-top deck. $2,500,000 | sothebysrealty.com/id/dc7938395 Michael Rankin | 202.271.3344

Elegant 4BR/3.5 BA Federal style, semi-detached home featuring generously sized entertaining space, spectacular custom-built flagstone garden w/outdoor fireplace, built-in garage parking, ample storage, south-facing facade, triple exposures and flexible 4th bedroom en suite that can double as library or staff quarters. $1,735,000 | sothebysrealty.com/id/dc7957660 Liz D’Angio | 202.427.7890

Coming soon! 2BR Federal townhouse w/ 2-car off-street parking. Main-level living with 2 Georgetown-garden patios, formal living and dining rooms, hardwoods, fireplace, updated kitchen w/ granite and custom cabinetry, spacious and great for entertaining, exposed-beam loft den with full bath, built-ins with granite bar.

Price Upon Request Robin Waugh | 703.819.8809

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Long & Foster teams with the American Red Cross for Hurricane Sandy Relief Efforts We’re committed to helping our neighbors during critical times of need In the wake of the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy, we know that many members of our community have been adversely affected. In an effort to provide a helping hand, Long & Foster has partnered with the American Red Cross to set up a matching program for monetary, tax-deductible donations for the relief efforts.

Long & Foster has pledged to match up to $25,000 in donations.

OBAMA, ACTIVISM AND POVERTY, BONO SPEAKS IN GEORGETOWN U2’s Bono spoke at Georgetown University on November 12 as part of the Georgetown McDonough Global Social Enterprise Initiative in partnership with Bank of America.

Led by our Chairman and CEO, Wes Foster, Long & Foster has long played an active role in the communities in which we serve, and this is no exception. There are still millions of Americans living on the East Coast who are still without many essential needs such as electricity, water, heat, and clothing. Some of our neighbors have even lost their homes entirely and had to move into shelters or with family.

Long & Foster is working with the American Red Cross to support the ongoing needs caused by the hurricane. We encourage everyone to consider contributing to these important relief efforts.

Every contribution counts, no matter the size.

Make your pledge — Any contribution helps out those in need.

COLIN POWELL WAXES PRESIDENTIAL AT THE ASPEN INSTITUTE On November 7, 2012, Joseph Gildenhorn Book Series features Former Secretary of State General Colin Powell discussing his recently published book It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership.

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Thank you for your compassion and consideration in helping your neighbors through these difficult and trying times. Feel free to encourage your colleagues, friends and family to participate in our effort.

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$1,250,000

NEW LISTING! 3BR 3BA Federal end unit TH in West Village. Gorgeous arch. details, fully renovated, private garden.

Spectacular light, high ceilings, stained glass.

Sharie Sivertsen 202.255.0540/ 202.966.0400 (O).

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This singular five bedroom 1988 Farm House with a subdued exterior, belies a sophisticated, dramatic interior with and extraordinary architectural detailing throughout this spacious home. www. 5216Wissioming.com Chevy Chase Uptown 202.364.1300.

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Main level w/ walnut floors, foyer, LR with fireplace, DR, bright FR, large kitchen, Half Bath.

3Bed Rooms/2Full Baths up, including MBR with fireplace & Master Bath. Lower Level rec room, laundry, bonus/guest room. Private rear garden w/patios. Bethesda Miller Office 301.229.4000.

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$1,045,000

Beautiful renovations & additions to this charmer.

Wonderful kitchen & FR with granite, stainless & much more. MB en-suite with spa-inspired bath, sitting room, vaulted ceilings & 2 walk-in closets. Cozy main level library with pocket doors.

Oversized garage. Arlington Office 703.522.0500.

$1,199,999

Over 5,000 sf of living space on one of the few cul-de-sacs in close-in Bethesda! Great floor plan includes 10 ft ceiling on main floor, main level study, upstairs laundry and basement with in-law suite, rec room and large gym/media room. Built in 1999. Chevy Chase Office 202.363.9700.

$1,095,000

Terrific, center hall Colonial in sparkling condition with open, spacious floor plan. Renovated throughout. Large, eat-in new kitchen, LR with FP, generous DR, first floor 1/2 bath. 4 BRs and 2 BAs up. Miller Spring Valley Office 202.362.1300.

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5BR, 5BA, 3 ½ BA next to Vice Presidents residence last remaining 17,000sf Home office w/sep entrance. 2 Kitchens, sep din rm, library, great rm, media rm, library. Updated 1BR/1BA apt over detached 2 car garage. Terri Robinson 202.607.7737/ Denise Warner 202.487.5162.

$1,595,000

Elegant 4 BR entertaining home of a Former U.S Senator and Ambassador! Located on the Grounds of the original Rockefeller Estate. 3-story marble entry foyer, elevator, 3 FP, secluded guest suite, numerous balconies, 2 car garage.

Janet Whitman 202.321.0110/ 202.944.8400 (O).

N. Arlington, VA

Observatory Circle, DC

$2,495,000

Elegant 4 level Victorian for the most discriminating purchaser.

Gourmet kitchen, fireplaces, entire third level is MBR/BA suite, balcony, 2 decks, slate patio.

Lower level sep. metered apartment.

Scott Purcell 202.262.6968/ 202.483.6300 (O).

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$1,099,000

McLean, VA

$1,949,000

Cleveland Park

$2,995,000

Chevy Chase, MD

$1,200,000

2 BR, 2 BA + DEN. On the front with National Archives, Washington Monument & Inaugural Parade view. 1270 sq ft. Unit has modern kit, h/w floor, built-ins. Include roof deck/ heated pool, Fitness Rm, 24hr security, extra storage. Douglas Mossman 202.550.0500/202.362.1300 (O).

Steps from Nat Cathedral, Embassy Row, & Mass Ave, this extraordinary property originally built in1928 is completely transformed and expanded inside and out. 4 BRs/4 FBAs + 2 half BAs, Gourmet eat-in Kitchen, Library, Wine Cellar, etc.

Ginny Howden 703.628.0925/ 703.790.1990 (O).

$2,325,000

Grand Victorian.

Recently updated.

First level perfect for large scale entertaining.

Kitchen w/ butler’s pantry FR adjoining garden.

MS w/fireplace and alcove.

Upper level is reminiscent of a studio apartment of its own.

Nancy Itteilag 202.905.7762/ 202.363.1800 (O).

Classic 1920’s residence expanded with elegant foyer with grand staircase, DR and LR with custom milled doors opening to “L” shaped kitchen, glass enclosed family room, outdoor decking and pool, plus gated open garage parking for four cars.

Nancy Itteilag 202.905.7762/ 202.363.1800 (O).

Exquisite, sophisticated, stylish with high-end finishes through-out. Elegant cherry paneled Embassy sized dining room, table space kitchen with Sodalite stone countertops, top appliances, family room and sunroom.

Friendship Heights Office 202.364.5200.

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Calendar

UP & COMING NOVEMBER 16

Exquisitely Evil: 50 Years of Bond Villains The International Spy Museum opens its latest interactive exhibit in honor of the newest James Bond film, “Skyfall.” The exhibition commemorates 50 years of Bond and the villains we love to hate through more than 100 artifacts, interactive experiences and videos. Exhibition included in museum admission. For more information, call 202-EYESPYU; 202-393-7798. The International Spy Museum, 800 F St., NW. 2012 Winter Contemporary Show Opening Reception From 5 to 8 p.m., the Old Print Gallery’s 2012 Winter Contemporary Show reception will open on Friday, Nov. 16. The show will be an assortment of works by both up-and-coming and established printmakers, in several mediums. Highlights include a series of charged photolithographic landscapes by Sylvie Covey, beautifully involved linocut reliefs by Karima Muyaes and Tenjin Ikeda and boldly hued prints by locals Susan Goldman and Joan Krash. Visit oldprintgallery.com for more information. The Old Print Gallery, 1220 31st Street, NW.

extravaganza from Nov. 17 to 18. Stroll through a forest of theme-decorated trees and handmade gingerbread homes, have Georgetown Cupcakes, Cocoa with the Snow Fairy or Breakfast with Santa, enjoy a wine and dessert tasting for adults. The weekendlong festivities, presented by the JLNV, featuring the Children’s Science Center and Kids in Kitchen. For ticket pricing and more information, visit www.jlnv.org. The Westin Tysons Corner, 7801 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, Va. 22043.

NOVEMBER 23

ZooLights at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo

Come see the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in a whole new light during ZooLights – powered by Pepco. Beginning Nov. 23,

Shop Small in Georgetown! Small Business Saturday, November 24 Dressed in Holiday Style New holiday decorations light up Georgetown beginning Thanksgiving weekend Free pedicab rides get you to your favorite Georgetown shops, every Saturday, 11/24-12/15, 12-5pm Ice Skating at Washington Harbour Details at TheWashingtonHarbour.com/skating

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Roof Terrace Restaurant to Host Celebrated Visits with Santa Santa Claus is flying into town early again this season, parking his reindeer and sled atop the Kennedy Center, as Roof Terrace Restaurant prepares for its 16th Annual Holiday Brunches with Santa. Sunday, Nov. 25; Sunday, Dec. 9; Sunday, Dec. 16; Sunday, Dec. 23. Call 202416-8555 for more information or visit www.roofterracerestaurant. com. Roof Terrace Restaurant, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 2700 F St., NW.

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NOVEMBER 17

Junior League of Northern Virginia’s 12th Annual The Enchanted Forest Holiday Extravaganza Celebrate our 12th Annual TEF holiday

Friends of the National Zoo invites guests to stroll through the zoo under the glow of thousands of environmentally friendly LED lights. ZooLights is 24 nights this year – the most in its six-year history. The zoo will twinkle with lights, beginning Nov. 23 from 5 to 9 p.m. For light up schedule visit, www. nationalzoo.si.edu. The National Zoo, 3001 Connecticut Ave., NW.

The Embassy of Turkey Presents Civilizations Choir of Antakya The Nobel Peace Prizenominated Civilizations Choir of Antakya will be performing at the Howard Theater on Nov. 27 at 8 p.m. Featuring 130 performers

from three different religions, it is a symbol of the unique heritage in Turkey. Concert proceeds go to charitable causes and non-profit organizations. Visit www.thehowardtheatre. com for more information. The Howard Theater, 620 T St., NW.

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The Georgetowner’s Holiday Benefit & Bazaar 2012 Join us for an evening of shopping and holiday delights, as we honor and give back to a shining community star: The Georgetown Senior Center. Shop for unique gifts from select vendors. Warm your senses with seasonal cocktails and hors d’oeuvres. Gather in the joy of giving this holiday season.

Advance tickets can be purchased for $45 or $65 at the door. For more information, visit Georgetowner.com, or call 202-338-4833.

Historic Georgetown Club, 1530 Wisconsin Ave., NW. Fairmont’s 9th Annual Tree Lighting Event for Toys for Tots.

Family photos with Santa, American Girl Crafts, complimentary refreshments, Marine Corps Color Guard and Georgetown Visitation Madrigals. Guests are asked to bring a toy for Toys for Tots. For more information, email diana.bulger@fairmont.com.

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BUSINESS

Touting Local Lending, Ins & Outs EagleBank Hits Mortgage Milestone

BY R OBERT D EVAN EY

Coming Soon: Gypsy Sally’s; Malmaison Opens in a Week

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7-Eleven Reopens on P Street

BY N ICO DODD This September, EagleBank passed a milestone of $1 billion in mortgages. With 17 branches in the Washington metropolitan area and the bank’s 18th on the way in January, EagleBank is showing serious strength as the largest community bank in the Washington metropolitan area.

The Georgetowner discussed this milestone with EagleBank chairman Ronald Paul. Paul was a founding board member of EagleBank. It was founded in Bethesda, Md., in 1998.

“We’re the largest community bank in the metropolitan area based on deposits,” Paul said.

Investing in the community is important to Paul. “We’ve been active in staying local,” he said. “And, to me, that’s an important part about business. That’s what’s going to support our economy.”

“We promoted a bill [which calls for local governments to switch deposits from national to local banks] in Montgomery County, and we have one proposed in the District,” Paul said.

“For every dollar the District government deposits in EagleBank, we’ll match it with two dollars in lending in that marketplace. We’re working with Jack Evans in the District for it.”

After construction and a major expansion, the 7-Eleven at 2617 P St. NW re-opened Nov. 6. The shop now extends to the corner of 27th Street, after it expanded into space once occupied by P Street Pictures for years. (P Street Pictures on O is now at 3204 O St., NW.) The convenience store now measures 2,500 square feet.

Farmers Fishers Bakers Now Open at Washington Harbour

EagleBank Chairman Ronald Paul

“You know, we put money into a restaurant in Bethesda that hired 68 employees, in which a third of those were unemployed,” Paul said.

“So, obviously the big banks are not going to do that. That’s why Eagle has been as successful as it is. If it weren’t for a community bank like EagleBank, that restaurant would probably have never opened. Those 30 people might still be unemployed. And that’s why it’s so important for us to be supporting these community banks.”★

Add another check to the improvement and recovery of Washington Harbour: the restaurant shut down by the 2011 flood is back as Farmers Fishers Bakers, right on the ice rink level.

Here’s how the eatery describes itself: “The North Dakota Farmers Union brings another exciting new restaurant to D.C. Our American menu offers an extensive and diverse selection of farmhouse and regionally inspired dishes for lunch, dinner or brunch, and there’s a sushi bar unlike any other in the city. The menus have been designed for comfortable, eat-what-youwant-at-your-pace dining, where friends are welcome and group sharing is encouraged. It’s not ‘family style’ – it’s farmhouse style.”

Gypsy Sally’s Acoustic Tavern plans to open at 3401 K Street, NW, as a live music venue and eatery. It will be on the second floor of the building where the soon-to-open Malmaison will be on the ground floor. Gypsy Sally’s music featured will rock, country, blue grass and folk.

The space has a 300-person capacity. One of the owners, David Ensor, is a guitarist and teachers.

For more for Ensor, visit www.SilkyDave.com.

As for Malmaison, a dessert specialty eatery and bar, it is being put together by Omar Popal, who also runs Cafe Bonaparte on Wisconsin Avenue and Napoleon Bistro and Lounge on Columbia Road. It was expected to open midNovember.

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Leonidas Chocolates Closes King Leonidas of Sparta and his men held off the Persians at the Battle of Thermopylae for a time. Likewise, Leonidas Chocolates at 1531 Wisconsin Ave., NW, delighted chocolate lovers for 15 years. It closed last week. The high-quality sweets from Belgium are still available online and at a shop on Madison Avenue in Manhattan.

Another chocolate shop remains here: Fleurir at 3235 P St., NW.★

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EDITORIAL/ OPINON

Are You Sure You Want That Second Term, Mr. President?

Poor President Barack Obama.

The man was just re-elected to a second term as President of the United States.

Can’t he just take a little time off, do a victory dance, walk the dog, gloat—in private—a little, before having to take on the burdens of state and all that stuff.

But no. People keep calling with stuff.

Ring.

“This is Barack.”

“It’s John Boehner, Mr. President.”

“Yes?” “John Boehner, Mr. President, the Speaker of the House?”

“I know who you are, Mr. Speaker. I can tell by your voice. Are you sniffling?”

“No, sir, just a cold.”

“What do you want, Mr. Speaker, it’s nine o’clock in the morning the day after the election, which I won, thank you very much. Did you call to congratulate me, John, in which case, thank you very much.”

“No, sir. I mean, yes, sir, but it’s about the cliff.”

“The cliff? Oh, that cliff. Can’t this wait, John. I mean, for God’s sake, I haven’t even had breakfast. I gotta walk the dog.”

“It cannot wait, Mr. President. If we don’t solve this crisis, the nation will go over a cliff and the economy will go into recession.”

“Well, we can’t let that happen. But I got it, John. Raise taxes on the rich. You’re cool with that, right? Talk to you later. Bye.”

Ring.

“Yo, my man. Chris Christie here. Really, thanks for everything you did. It was cool hanging out with you. You got the boss on the phone.

Say, reason I’m calling, you wouldn’t happen to have his cell phone number would you?”

“I think I can manage to get you that” “By the way, I lied. I didn’t vote for Romney.

I voted for that libertarian guy.”

“Nice. Gotta go. Let’s get together real soon.

See you next hurricane.”

Ring.

“It’s Dave, Sir. General Dave.”

“Um, who?”

“General David Petraeus, your CIA Director?”

“Oh, sure. Say, shouldn’t you be preparing for your Benghazi testimony?”

“I’m afraid not, sir. I’m call to telling that I would like to come over and see you to tender my resignation.”

“You do know I just got re-elected, right? I mean, for God’s sake, man.”

“I had an affair, sir.”

“You what?”

“I had an affair. With a woman who was embedded with me in Afghanistan. And I’m afraid the FBI appears to know about it.”

“They do? They didn’t tell me about it. Wait, did you say she was in bed with you?”

“No sir. Embedded, sir. In any case, I feel I have no choice but to resign.”

“Why don’t you sleep on it, Dave, and let me

know in 24 hours, okay? I mean, I gotta walk the damn dog.”

Ring.

“It’s Rick Perry, Mr. President.”

“Who?” “The Governor of Texas, sir, and the eyes of Texas are upon you, sir.”

“Didn’t you lose in the primaries, Rick?”

“Yes, sir.”

“Then, why are you bothering me on the day after I won re-election. Did you see that look on Mitt’s face?”

“Yes, Sir. I bet him $10,000 that he was going to lose. But what I called about: I’m thinking about having Texas secede from the United States of America.”

“You just keep thinking that, Rick. Gotta walk the dog. Bye.” Ring.

“It’s Justin Bieber, sir. Selena broke up with me. What should I do?”

“Where did you get my number, son.”

“Bruce Springsteen gave it to me.”

“Goodbye, son.”

Ring.

“Hey, you, commie.”

“Is that you, Ann?” “No, it’s Michelle. Gotcha.”

Ring.

The president does not answer the phone this time.

“Bo,” he turned to his dog. “Let’s get out of here.”

Manning the Polls in a Red State

BY DAV ID ROF F MAN Former editor and publisher, David Roffman retired from the Georgetown in 2009 and moved to Alabama, a very different place compared to his years in the nation’s capital and the Old Dominion. Today, he lives in Foley, Ala., with his wife Carmen and two dogs, Brando and Bogart, and goes to the beach a lot.

On my 69th birthday, Election Day, Nov. 6, 2012, I spent 16 hours working the polls at the Foley Alabama Civic Center.

Voting in Alabama is not like voting in Washington, D.C. or McLean, Va., where I had spent 42 years before moving to the Gulf Coast.

Alabama is a decidedly Red State and has been for quite some time. Mitt Romney’s winning here was a given before polls opened at 7 a.m.

Voting down here is antiquated. Paper ballots are still used, and there are no computerized machines counting votes. The seniors working the polls had to stay an extra four hours after the polls closed to count write-in votes. Was this

even important?

At the age of 69, I was the youngest person working the polls here. To think that the entire election process is put into the hands of people in their 70s and 80s . . . amazing. Half these poll workers can’t even get a driver’s license anymore.

The ballot here in Foley, Ala., consisted of voting for president and vice president and several judgeships and state positions as well as 14 amendments, including one proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, to prohibit any person, employer or health care provider from being compelled to participate in any healthy care system. Alabamians voted 59 percent to 41 percent to repeal Obamacare.

Again . . . amazing.

Roy Moore won the Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court position. He ran a campaign espousing that the court buildings should post the Ten Commandments. Hmm, I wonder if one of the commandments he had in mind was PUBLISHER

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“Thou Shall Not Do Meth.”

I was glad to see a couple of states voting to legalize marijuana. More than 1.6 million persons are in prison, and many of them are there for using or selling marijuana. Perhaps this futile war on drugs is ready to take a new turn to freeing up our prison system.

President Barack Obama was re-elected with a big minority vote, especially among Hispanics.

Alabama will probably remain a Red State, however, because down here Hispanic immigrants are frowned upon and forced to move to another state. Farmers have no one to work their fields anymore, crops die on the vine, but the good ol’ boys still vote Republican. Go figure.

The one-cent tax to save the school system of Alabama was voted in once again. Maybe President Obama should institute a one-cent tax increase for all Americans whenever they buy something. It seems to work down here without much protest. There are lots of ways to skin a cat. Even an ol' poll cat.★

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Jeff Malet Neshan Naltchayan Yvonne Taylor

Jack Evans Report: Great Power, Great Responsibility

BY JACK EVANS uesday was a great day for our city, country and indeed the world. The initial election of Barack Obama as President of the United States was a historic and exciting event, and his reelection underscores our ability to remake our government so it lives up to the highest ideals of our nation, both at home and abroad. His reelection brings both possibilities and responsibilities. The continued problems in the world’s financial systems pose distinct challenges to both our national and local economy. The responsibility of providing our residents with health care, an education, jobs, and real opportunities are high on the agenda. The threat of terrorism and war is something that can render any or all other priorities asunder.

I still believe Barack Obama’s pledge to create a new political framework in this nation, to reach across lines that have divided us to find solutions, is the right approach to finding practical solutions to the problems we face. As a region and a city we also have an agenda to pursue with the federal government – not the least of which is the question of full statehood and voting rights in Congress for the District.

We also need to work to ensure the federal government partners with us to stimulate the economy – particularly by locating federal agencies right here in the District rather than in neighboring states.

At the local level, I believe it is important to bring people together again to work through problems we face here in the District. From days past, particularly in 2002-2003 when we faced budget challenges more severe than we do today, it was imperative that all the major stakeholders come together. While I know we won’t always agree on a plan of action, I look forward to having more dialogue with my colleagues, the Mayor, and members of the community on budget and policy issues.

In Ward 2, I am, of course, excited about my reelection, and thank you to everyone who supported me. Our city and nation face some very interesting times ahead, but after last week’s election I have renewed energy, hope, and faith we can meet the challenges ahead. I heard unfortunately of a number of instances of inefficiencies or other problems in polling places – please let me know of any experiences you have had, positive or negative, that I can convey to the Board of Elections. On a final note – please be patient as we take down all our campaign signs – and if you see any that are still up after a week or two, please let me know.

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News Buzz

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Washington Harbour Ice Rink to Open Before Thanksgiving; Rink Inauguration on Dec. 1 Construction is finishing up at the new ice skating rink at Washington Harbour. Once the ice is made and smoothed -- expected to be just days before Thanksgiving next week, according to an ice rink spokesperson -- skaters can begin to check out D.C.’s largest ice rink.

Here’s more from news releases from the ice rink group: The Washington Harbour will present “Winter on the Water,” a celebration of Washington, D.C.’s newest and largest outdoor ice skating rink, on Dec. 1, 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. The Washington Harbour Ice Rink will be inaugurated with a fete of continuous strolling entertainers, ice skating performances, choral singers, a St. Lucia procession, and creative lighting effects, along with special food and beverages served outdoors by Washington Harbour restaurants, including the new Farmers Fishers Bakers. Special guests include radio personality Tommy McFly who will emcee the event from 5 p.m. until 7 p.m., and will take the coveted opportunity to drive the ice resurfacing machine on the rink.

Winter on the Water complements the Swedish Christmas Bazaar being held at the neighboring House of Sweden from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m. at 2900 K Street, NW, on Dec. 1. The Swedish choir will present a St. Lucia procession from the bazaar into the Washington Harbour plaza at 5:15 p.m. then perform carols at Winter on the Water.

At 11,800 square feet, the new Washington Harbour Ice Rink is D.C.’s largest outdoor ice skating venue and is also larger than New York City’s Rockefeller Center rink. The Washington Harbour Ice Rink will be open annually from November until March for recreational skating every day, including all holidays. Special programs scheduled for this year include Cartoon Skate from noon until 2 p.m. and Rock-N-Skate from 8 p.m. until 10 p.m., every Saturday; College Night every Thursday; Skate with Santa from noon to 2 pm on Saturday, December 22; plus skating lessons, birthday parties; family gatherings, fundraisers, charity events and private corporate events, all through the ice skating season. For hours, rates, and all other ice skating information, email skatewashingtonharbour@ gmail.com and visit www.thewashingtonharbour.com/skating.

Winter on the Water at the Washington Harbour is located on the Potomac River waterfront in Georgetown at 3000 K Street NW, Washington, DC, on the lower plaza level. For more details, call 202-295-5007, and visit www. thewashingtonharbour.com.

For more information about the Swedish Christmas Bazaar, call 703-628-6517 and visit www.swea.org/washingtondc.

Comcast Boxes Slammed; Cable Giant Agrees to Listen Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E complained about the small utility boxes popping up around Georgetown of late, and the installer Comcast was taken aback, thinking it had full approval for the boxes’ installation.

“This business is coming into our commu-

nity and just making an aesthetic wreck of what we try to preserve in the historic district,” said commissioner Tom Birch of the small refrigerator-sized boxes on the sidewalks.

“We were not aware of additional requirements,” said Aimee Metrick, spokesperson for Comcast , which has agreed to go through the design review process. Designs in public space are to be reviewed by the Old Georgetown Board, part of the Commission of Fine Arts.

“We’re hoping that this project will now go into the review process, as it should have in the first place,” Birch told the entertainment news site, TheWrap, which added, “Birch said a review would consider whether the boxes could be moved to rooftops or other alternative locations.”

“I’ve got a neighbor who has one right in front of his house now, and I don’t know what that’s going to do to real estate values,” Birch told the news site. “There’s some piece of street furniture out there that wasn’t there for the last 250 years.”

2 Students Elected to ANC2E For the first time in 10 years, two students from Georgetown University will sit on Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E, which expanded to single-member districts and eight commissioners after D.C. redistricting. Peter Prindiville leads single-member district 2E08, which includes two blocks between 36th and 37th Streets and between Prospect and O Streets and on the university’s main campus: Nevils, Alumni Square, Copley Hall, Harbin Hall, Village C East and Henle Village. For district 2E04, Craig Cassey will represent Village C West, New South Hall, Southwest Quadrangle, Village A and the Jesuit Residence. Both commissioners ran unopposed.

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Community Calendar Sat. Nov. 17 -- Friends of the Georgetown Library Used Book Sale, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.; Georgetown Library, 3260 R St., NW. Thurs. Nov. 29 -- CAG Meeting: Redskins and NFL Expert Charley Casserly, hosted by the Nike store, 3040 M St., NW; reception, 7 p.m.; program, 7:30 p.m.

Fri. Nov. 30 -- Wreath-Making Workshop; 10 a.m. or 1 p.m.; create your own wreath using materials from the Tudor Place gardens; materials and instruction provided; members (per wreath), $38; non-members, $48. Tudor Place, 1644 31st St., NW; register at www.tudorplace. org.

Mon. Dec. 3 -- Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC 2E) Public Meeting, 6:30 p.m.; Heritage Room, Georgetown Visitation Prep; agenda available at www.anc2e.com; call 7247098 for more information.

Wed. Dec. 5 -- Kitty Kelley discusses her new book, “Capturing Camelot, Stanley Tretick’s Iconic Images of the Kennedys,” 6 to 8 p.m.; $100 donation to attend benefits the D.C. Public Library Foundation, includes a signed copy of the book; Georgetown Library 3260 R St., NW. MD.202 GT.750Unico.89 4.875wx6.125h.indd 1

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Georgetowner Real Estate

Sales Provided by

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Year Built

Style

BR

BA

Days on Market

List Price

Close Price

Close Date

3413 DENT PL NW

1960

Other

3

3

45

$1,975,000

$1,875,000

10/3/2012

3048 P ST NW

1830

Federal

3

2

13

$1,495,000

$1,475,000

10/24/2012

3204 Q ST NW

1932

Victorian

4

3

208

$1,449,000

$1,435,000

10/25/2012

1652 35TH ST NW

1981

Traditional

5

3

21

$1,395,000

$1,360,000

10/19/2012

3556 RESERVOIR RD NW

1984

Colonial

4

3

53

$1,395,000

$1,350,000

10/26/2012

3401 R ST NW

1922

Federal

5

3

10

$1,349,500

$1,325,000

10/1/2012

1686 32ND ST NW

1923

Federal

3

2

7

$1,150,000

$1,160,000

10/24/2012

1532 32ND ST NW

1900

Federal

2

2

68

$875,000

$860,000

10/2/2012

3303 WATER ST NW #B-4

2004

Contemporary

1

1

244

$899,000

$800,000

10/12/2012

3853 BEECHER ST NW

1929

Colonial

4

3

61

$795,000

$780,000

10/31/2012

1651 35TH ST NW

1900

Federal

2

1

5

$699,000

$699,000

10/12/2012

1077 30TH ST NW #210

1980

Other

2

2

13

$695,000

$695,000

10/26/2012

2215 39TH PL NW

1938

Colonial

3

2

4

$650,000

$687,000

10/15/2012

1511 26TH ST NW

1900

Federal

2

1

15

$699,000

$685,000

10/26/2012

1080 WISCONSIN AVE NW #305

1981

Contemporary

1

1

3

$525,000

$515,000

10/9/2012

1632 30TH ST NW #10

1940

Colonial

2

2

243

$475,000

$497,000

10/3/2012

1224 ETON CT NW #T20

1980

Traditional

2

1

26

$465,000

$440,000

10/12/2012

3020 DENT PL NW #26W

1910

Traditional

1

1

3

$425,000

$425,000

10/18/2012

2500 Q ST NW #227

1942

Federal

1

1

10

$370,000

$360,000

10/18/2012

4100 W ST NW #210

1950

Contemporary

1

1

102

$235,000

$220,000

10/30/2012

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ortgage interest rates during the presidential campaign season have remained in a relatively steady range.

Rates have been hovering near record lows. The fluctuations have been around a quarter point in rate. Rates for the balance of the year should remain steady to lower depending on pending action by the president and Congress to avoid the fiscal cliff in early 2013.

The fiscal cliff — a term coined by Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke — is used to describe a raft of tax increases and spending cuts that will automatically come into effect at the beginning of 2013 if Congress does not take decisive action on the budget.

If automatic cuts are triggered, the economic recovery could be slowed due to the severity of those budget cuts as dictated by the fiscal cliff.

One expects that the spirit or hope of bipartisanship will carry the day and ultimately encourage some type of compromise between the president and Congress to avoid the consequences of inaction.

Congress will also have to tackle the debt ceiling next year. If the talks around the fiscal cliff go badly, then the debt ceiling negotiations will be difficult and likely become a real struggle. Another possibility would be for Congressional leaders to strike a bipartisan plan

that would take a more gradual approach to austerity measures including defense cuts. There is no clear-cut road map.

With Congressional elections two years away, one would think Congress would like to find a solution. The politics of obstruction failed to elect a Republican president. Voters are looking for an Obama-Christie moment more than a repeat of the deficit-ceiling debacle of last year.

Interest rates will benefit from the bad days during the evolution of the upcoming work on the fiscal cliff. If a compromise is finally reached, then money will go back into equity markets and taken from bonds. This would cause rates to go higher.

With the reelection of Obama the fiscal policy of the Federal Reserve should remain dovish.

With all the variables in the economy, including the effects of Hurricane Sandy, the Fed is not going to change policy at this time.

The one certainty in the coming weeks is there will be a lot of uncertainty, which will move the equity and bond markets. Look for rates to be reactive along with the progress of our post-election leaders.★

3265 N Street, NW This four-bedroom, three-bath home is one of six authentic Federal homes which line the north side of the N Street block between 33rd and Potomac Streets on the west side of Georgetown.

These townhomes are famously regarded as Smith’s Row, built circa 1805 by architects Walter and Clement Smith. Vibrant in culture and historic in architecture, Georgetown’s charming village streets are lined with fine boutiques, world-class restaurants and classic architecture. The home features a wide-entry foyer that welcomes guests into the home’s gracious interior, which features five distinct levels of sun-filled living space. $4,625,000 Featuring: Margot Wilson Cell: 202-549-2100 High ceilings Custom moldings Margot.Wilson@wfp.com Glass ceiling in kitchen Two-car garage carriage house Large multi-level terrace and garden William F. X. Moody Robert Hryniewicki Direct: 202-243-1620 WilliamFX.Moody@wfp.com Robert.H@wfp.com

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HISTORIC DC

Henry Adams: a Literary Life at Lafayette Square

BY D ON N A EVER S ashington, D.C., used to be a smaller town than it is now, especially when Henry Adams moved to the District in 1877 and settled near Lafayette Square. In his biography “The Education of Henry Adams,” Adams wrote that “Beyond the square the country began … no literary or scientific man, no artist ever lived here. It was rural and its society was primitive. … The happy village was innocent of a club. … The value of real estate had not increased since 1800, and the pavements were more impassable than the mud. … All this favored a young man who had come to make a name for himself.” Adams must have enjoyed residing in Lafayette Square because he lived there until his death in 1918.

Henry Adams already had a “name for himself,” given he was the great-grandson of President John Adams and the grandson of President John Quincy Adams. He grew up in patrician surroundings in Boston, where he met and married heiress, Marian “Clover” Hooper, and the couple moved to Washington, D.C. Their friends, Clara and John Hay, who had been secretary to President Lincoln, lived on the square, and the four became good friends.

The Hays and Adams commissioned their friend and architect, H.H. Richardson, to build a semi-detached mansion for them, where they

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could expand their influential salon. Henry Adams wrote history books and novels, and Clover was an accomplished writer and photographer. When Clover’s father died, she fell into a deep depression, and committed suicide. When the great house was finished, Henry Adams moved into his side of the mansion alone, and soon began traveling and spending much of his time abroad. He continued writing as well as traveling, and entertaining when he was in Washington. In memory of his wife, he commissioned Augustus Saint-Gaudens to create a sculpture for her tomb in Rock Creek Park.

Adams lived and reigned in his home, receiving guests earlier in the day, at breakfast and lunch, as he got older. He had a stroke in April 1912.

Henry Adams never remarried and never again mentioned Clover’s name after her death.

The mansion he shared with the Hays was torn down after he died to be replaced by the HayAdams Hotel. Henry and Clover are buried next to each other in graves with no inscriptions, only the dramatic Saint-Gaudens statue standing guard over them. The statue also doesn’t have a name, but it has been dubbed “Grief” by the public, because it personifies the emotion so perfectly.★

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AIA-DC Celebrates 125th Anniversary

BY NIC O DODD n Nov. 2, AIA-DC celebrated its 125th anniversary with a party and award ceremony at its offices at 421 7th St., NW. The Washington Chapter of the American Institute of Architects is a professional organization for architects that was founded in 1887 by Glenn Brown. Brown is known among architects for works around the District, and Georgetowners are probably familiar with his work here. Brown was the architect of the Dumbarton Bridge, which, flanked by bison statues, brings Q St. from Dupont Circle into Georgetown.

Anyone who has visited a D.C. Zoning Board meeting knows how important architectural details can be to people, but Washington was a very different place in 1887. AIA-DC’s executive director Mary Fitch described how little planning went into the design of the late 19th-century District. “Washington and the mall don’t look like they did in the 1900s,� said Fitch. “It had a very different look. We had train tracks across the mall, a big market where the monuments are.�

Today, with a new home and educational programs for both architects and members of the community, AIA-DC’s goal, as Myer puts it, is to “try to get more people involved in the architectural scene in D.C.�

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“The first chapter had 70 architectural firms listed in Washington in 1892,� said Fitch. “Now there are many, many more than that. We have about 2,100 members now.� “There are certainly a lot of associations are inwardly focused on their members,� said Fitch. “One of the big differences about our chapter is that, over the last few years, we have created an outward focus. We have moved into this new center which has a very public purpose.�

A recent architectural issue in Washington, D.C., has been questioning about the District’s unique height-limit law. “We’re in on that discussion,� said Fitch. “We don’t have a position at this time. We’re talking about whether that is an option or an opportunity or not.� “The subject has just been put on the table, so nobody has really had a chance to think about it carefully.�

At AIA-DC’s anniversary party on Nov. 2, things were a little more collegial. Myer showed up to assist in emceeing the event dressed as Glenn Brown himself. “He looked like he was from the 1890s. So, it was very cute,� said Fitch.★

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AUCTION

The Auction Block

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Weschler’s Bronze Eiffel Tower Clock

Auction Date: December 7 Estimate: $1,000 – 2,000 Washington D.C.’s only auction house, Weschler’s has been a local tradition for over 120 years.

On December 7th they will host an auction of Miller-Topia Designers, a longtime gallery in Alexandria, Va., that is closing and auctioning off most of their assets, which include fine art, furniture, and exotic props and accessories from both movie and theatrical sets. This French bronze Eiffel Tower clock strikes a two-train movement that strikes a bell on the hour and half-hour, and stands 44 inches tall. To see the collection before it goes on auction, you can visit the gallery: 1120 N Fairfax Street, Alexandria, VA 22314. www.Weschlers.com

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Sotheby’s (London) Mick Jagger Love Letters

Auction Date: December 12 Estimate: $111,300 – 159,000 Handwritten love letters from Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger to his former lover Marsha Hunt will go on the auction in London next month. Hunt is an Americanborn singer who was the inspiration for the Stones’ 1971 classic ‘Brown Sugar’ and bore Jagger’s first child, Karis.

Sotheby’s books specialist Gabriel Heaton said the letters sent in the summer of 1969 show a ‘poetic and self-aware’ 25-year-old Jagger. In his letters, the rock star touches upon the unraveling of his relationship with singer Marianne Faithful, whom he was also dating at the time, and the death of Rolling Stones’ guitarist Brian Jones. ‘They provide a rare glimpse of Jagger that is very different from his public persona: passionate but self-contained, lyrical but with a strong sense of irony,’ Heaton said. The collection also includes song lyrics and a Rolling Stones playlist. www.

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Antique Serapi Rug

Auction Date: December 8, 9

Bonham’s

The Potomack Company is a fast-growing auction house based in the Washington, DC area, founded in 2006. Their December 8 – 9 catalogue sale will showcase, among other things, antique Oriental rugs, like this exquisite Serapi rug.

From the northwest corners of Iran, Serapi rugs are known to become more beautiful with age, their durability the result of a major copper deposit in the nearby Mount Sabalan; traces of copper in the sheep’s drinking water produces high quality, resilient wool. This is a classic Serapi design, with geometric patterns and a large medallion at its center. The exhibition for the two-day sale will begin Dec. 1 in the gallery and online. www.PotomackCompany.com

Ernest Hemingway (American, 1899 – 1961) For Whom the Bell Tolls Signed original advanced printing

Auction Date: December 4 Estimate: $25,000 - $35,000

Founded in 1793, Bonham’s offers more sales categories in more auction rooms around the world than any other firm. From their offices in Georgetown, they provide local clients expert advice and international reach. Of the many and varied items for sale in their auction of Fine Books, Maps & Manuscripts, one highlight is a presentation copy of Hemingway’s seminal novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls, one of only 15 advanced copies of the first edition, untrimmed and without a dust jacket as issued. It is inscribed and signed by the author on the front free endpaper: “To Harold Cadmus / with grateful appreciation / Ernest Hemingway.” At the time of publication Harold Cadmus was production chief at Scribner’s and one of the Directors. www.Bonhams.com

Freeman’s Auction House Asher Brown Durand (American 1796-1886) Landscape Oil on canvas

Auction Date: Dec. 2 Estimated Value: $50,000 – $80,000 Freeman’s, America’s oldest auction house, will hold its annual winter Fine American & European Paintings & Sculpture auction on December 2. Comprised of over 160 lots, with an emphasis on late 19th and early 20th century American paintings, it is an excellent assortment of period paintings, nearly all culled from private collections and estates. Featured in this auction is lot 86, a rare oil painting by the important Hudson River School artist Asher Brown Durand. This majestic work depicts a single figure seated on a large rock in an expansive landscape, and is a superb example of the Hudson River School’s emphasis on capturing the sublime. The America landscape is idealized as a utopia in which man lives in harmony with vast and glorious Nature. www.FreemansAuction.com

Doyle New York Art Deco Platinum, Diamond & Ruby Bracelet, circa 1930

Estimate: $12,000 - $18,000 Art Deco Platinum, Diamond & Emerald Bracelet, circa 1930

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FEATURE

The Artful Errol Adels, an Architect and a Gentleman

BY RO B E RT DEVANEY

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ou make the client’s dream come true,” says architect Errol Adels, whose professional life has ranged from Washington, D.C., to Muscat, Oman — and places in between, such as Dubai, Athens and London. As far as being an architect, he says, “Occasionally, you’re like the family doctor.”

For someone who has worked half a world away part of his life, Adels is known around town for his work at Watergate apartments, and his firm’s designs for the Finnish and other embassies along Massachusetts Avenue and his modernist home on Cathedral Avenue, which he designed and lived in for a time.

“I worked on all kinds of projects over my career,” says Adels, who first arrived in D.C. in 1968, after studying at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Florida, and briefly stayed at the Georgetown Inn. He now lives in Upperville, Va., at Lavender Hill, which he designed for himself and his family. One of his most prominent designs around Middleburg includes Foxlease Farm.

Influenced by Le Corbusier along with “the shining white of the Aegean” and the south of France, Adels reflects his own joie de vivre, geniality and depth of design wisdom. “It’s been beneficial to re-invent one’s aesthetics,” he says of his worldly flexibility.

After a teaching fellowship at Manchester University in England and a stint as visiting critic in design at several other British schools of architecture, Adels began working with architect Angelos Demetriou in the 1970s. They later co-founded Architects International, a firm with worldwide projects, in the 1980s.

During his early career, Adels worked on projects for the Georgetown waterfront and the West End. He recalls attending Georgetown community meetings where there was minor, but vocal, opposition to new development and the future subway, known today as Metrorail.

For the young Adels, Georgetown “was a hoot.” One evening, a group of young friends, along with doyenne Kay Halle, wanted to get seated at Rive Gauche, a restaurant at Wisconsin and M, but were being shoed away until the maitre d’ saw that Secretary of State Dean Rusk was part of the gang.

“In the old days, everyone knew each other,” says Adels, who worked with Sam Pardoe on the design of his house at 28th and Q Streets.

Georgetown “was not such an entertainment center then” — even if he did design Pisces, the

Al Hisn, royal summer palace at Salalah, Oman.

private club run by Wyatt Dickerson. The town is “different not lesser,” Adels says. “But, oh, to meet Elizabeth Taylor at Clyde’s . . .”

Soon, however, Adels found himself in another world: “a very foreign place at the end of the Arabian Peninsula.” There, in 1983, he met the Sultan of Oman, Qaboos bin Said Al Said. Adels recounts: “The sultan said something indelible: ‘Will you help me build this country?’”

The architectural firm’s workload exploded as parts of Oman went from nothing to the best of everything. Adels considers the sultan an “enlightened ruler,” who “balanced the life of the Middle East with the need to have good will

of the West.” His firm designed the capitol building at Muscat, the state palace and the summer palace at Salalah, the sultan’s hometown. Over a period of some 13 years, the firm left behind more than $600 Million in completed works.

Adels says he has designed at least 10 mosques — perhaps more than any other architect. He got so good at it that an old villager simply asked him one day to build a mosque in Dhofar, Oman. “He insisted that I should do because I can . . . just make it happen,” Adels recalls. “So, we got land from the state and some extra building materials.”

The firm also designed the Dubai Dhow Wharfage, a large anchorage and parks complex

Errol Adels at Leslie Westreich’s Watergate residence, which he designed. Photo by Philip Bermingham.

The Pisces Club (now closed) on M Street, Georgetown.

along Dubai Creek. “We helped to set a framework for a new Dubai,” Adels says.

Closer to home, the white buildings of Adels still reflect the eclectic tastes of their designer.

At 2130 Cathedral Ave., NW, a striking house stands out across from Rock Creek Park. The architect lived there during part of the ‘80s and ‘90s; it is again on the market for close to $1.8 million. Above Chain Bridge in Arlington sits Potomac Cliffs, four attached townhouses, his firm designed and built in 1983.

One personal project by Adels is his beloved Lavender Hill in Upperville, Va. Built in 1998, it calls to mind the architectural notions of Virginia’s Thomas Jefferson as well as Italy’s Palladio. Its grounds evoke Provence, although only a small number of the original 1,400 lavender plantings remain. The two-story, stucco home has a central pavilion connected to two end pavilions. With its gardens and swimming pool, the place is in perfect harmony with the earth and was the venue for a Georgetowner cover photo shoot during the summer. Nevertheless, Adels has now put the five-acre property on the market for $2,750,000.

The architect is also proud of his designs for Foxlease Farm, also in Upperville and the former estate of John Archbold, a Standard Oil co-founder. The farm includes a residence, stable and polo grounds for the Steiner family. “I can’t think of anything further from a mosque than a hunt country house,” Adels told Virginia Living a few years ago. “But if you’re good, and the client is good, the building will emerge.”

Another place proves that sentiment: the Watergate penthouse of Leslie Westreich, a good friend of Adels. At Watergate South, he rehabbed and designed the onetime apartment of former Sen. John Warner, R-Va., opening it up to a spectacular vista of the Potomac, from the Kennedy Center up past Georgetown. Westreich’s art and antique collection is displayed seamlessly alongside unique furniture, including chairs from the S.S. Normandie.

“Houses are wonderful, but it’s time to move on,” says the 70-year-old Adels, who remains busy designing both buildings and interiors for a noteworthy clientele. He and his family are also patrons of the National Gallery of Art. “More than any other Washington institution, the gallery has given us great pleasure for more than 40 years,” he says. “It is nice to be able to give back. Alas, Lavender Hill will go to a new generation.”★

Living room of Leslie Westreich, Watergate South.

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COVER STORY

Kitty’s Gift of Camelot

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COVER STORY

BY G ARY TISCHLER he scene looked very familiar.

There she was, biographer Kitty Kelley on NBC’s “The Today Show,” managing to look elegant in black with pearls, blonde hair, while being interviewed about her latest book by current co-host Savannah Guthrie this Tuesday.

It looked familiar because Kelley writes big books about big people that generate controversy and buzz, people like the British Royal Family, the Bush family, Frank Sinatra, Nancy Reagan, Liz and Jackie Kennedy and Oprah Winfrey. Because of all that, it’s only natural that Kelly should be on a morning news show, right up there with the usual mix of the important issues of the day like the quickly mushrooming scandal over the startling resignation of CIA Director General David Petraeus and his mistress, alongside the presence of hunky movie star Bradley Cooper promoting a movie and the British boy rock group One Direction, filled the streets of still-reeling-from-Sandy New York with thousands of fans outside.

It was familiar, and then again not. Because the book wasn’t the kind of book Kelley is known for, big, onrushing bestsellers full of bombshell revelations, accompanied by threats of lawsuits and denials. It was something else entirely, a kind of love letter, a gift to history, the nation and our own younger selves. This time the book is “Capturing Camelot,” subtitled “Stanley Tretick’s Iconic Images of the Kennedys,” authored by Kitty Kelley and published by Thomas Dunne Books and St. Martin’s Press. On the cover: President John F. Kennedy walking outside at the White House with his young son John F. Kennedy, Jr., part of a commemorative Look Magazine cover in December 1963, called “The President and His Son,” photographed by Tretick.

The photographs themselves were taken over a period of days in October 1963, only a month before the president’s assassination. They include the iconic, endlessly remembered shot of the two-and-a-half-year-old son of JFK snuggled under the Resolute Desk, while his father seems to be rifling through some papers, although you see the hint of a fatherly smile on his face.

“Stanley said, ‘When I shove off, that’s probably the only shot I’ll be remembered for,’ ” Kelley told us in an interview at her office in Georgetown.

“Stanley was my friend, my mentor, my buddy, he was brave and a pal ever since I met him,” she said.

“When he suffered a series of strokes late in his life, I took care of him and had his power of attorney, and I was with him when he passed away in a home.

“See, this all came about with his trunk. Stanley had this trunk, and I asked him what was in it. He sort of grinned and said ‘nude pictures.’ He left it to me. After he passed away in 1999, my husband John said, ‘Aren’t you going to open it? Don’t you want to see what’s in it?” So, we opened it, and it was like a treasure chest of Kennedy memorabilia” There was a PT 109 tie clasp and a lucite box with a gold airplane that was given to those people who had flown with him on the Caroline during the harrowing, exciting and historic 1960 campaign for the presidency against Richard Nixon. There were signed pictures, campaign buttons and bumper stickers.”

Eventually, with all the material in the trunk and elsewhere—including an oral history made by Tretick for the Georgetown Public Library—Kelley decided to do the book. All her profits from it will go to the D.C. Public Library Foundation. It is, as noted, not a Kelley book in the sense of what anybody who knows only the Kelley books knows about her. In some ways, there are similarities—looking at the pictures of crowds reaching out wildly to touch JFK during the campaign and well as during RFK’s campaign. You can see the beginnings of the idea of political leaders as part of an emerging celebrity culture.

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Kelley’s writing in this book puts the gifts she displayed in her best-selling biographies to good use. She moves the book along with her storytelling gifts. Her writing is the engine of the book, and it’s a thoroughbred engine of telling tales, illustrating and illustrative.

“He was my friend, he was a photographer, a cranky breed, sometimes,” he said. “Sometimes, he made me so mad I wouldn’t speak to him for days on end,” she said. In what she called a loving and intended good deed in “the sweet service of friendship,” he sent the Washington Post book critic who had panned her book on Elizabeth Taylor fishheads—mafia style—wrapped in elegant paper in stout defense of Kelley.

There was also the occasion when he worked with her on an interview with Frank Sinatra, Jr., who had whispered to her that he knew where Jimmy Hoffa was. “Here was Stanley, shooting like the pro he was, unobtrusively, when suddenly he jumped in and said ‘Well, out with it, man.

What the hell happened to Hoffa?’ ” In the book, and in person, Kelley tells the story. “Sinatra reared back as if he’d been shot.” The upshot was that he bolted out of the interview because of Tretick’s shouting. She never got her answer, and Sinatra had denied ever doing the interview.

“That’s where Stanley saved the day—he shot a picture of me with pencil and notebook, talking with Sinatra. It was the proof. But I was furious, my God, I was mad at Stanley.”

In her office, which is filled with her books and posters, a place that has a kind of quiet, gentle and genteel atmosphere, she obviously loves telling stories about her friend Stanley.

In any conversation with Kelley, her love of Georgetown as place, idea and home also comes through—“Stanley when he came over said that’s the Brennan (Supreme Court Justice William Brennan) house. ‘It still is,’ I told him.”

This is, as she said, a kind of love letter, an homage to Tretick, a man with a craggedly handsome face and eager eyes which seem to fulfill legendary photographer Walker Evans’s admonition: “When you go out in the world, go out with hungry eyes.” When she talks about the book, about the Kennedys (and it should be remembered that one of her first subjects was Jackie Kennedy, herself), about the pictures in the trunk, old friends and losses, you get a real appreciation of the rich treasures of history that are “captured” in this book. It’s not just Camelot, frozen in warmth and energy, but ourselves over time.

When Kelley met Tretick, a veteran UPI and Look Magazine photographer in his day, she was working on a book about Elizabeth Taylor, and he apparently had some anecdotal information about Liz and Dick. There is a picture of them in the East Room of the White House in 1982, preened over by chandeliers, Kitty in curls, Stanley with big, black eyebrows, a “Hi, there” smile on his face.

A lot has changed just about everywhere you look. Kelley, in the process of chronicling uniquely and with great, heart-blasting originality the lives of the biggest celebrities, leaders and players in the world, became a celebrity herself, the object of prying eyes, and public resentments, a status she still seems not entirely comfortable with. She has always had courage—a quality she shared with the Korean veteran and marine Tretick and friends like the pugilist and actor Tom Quinn—under fire, but she has endured losses, like everyone else, and those uniquely hers.

It’s easy to tell she’s still in shaken mourning

over the death of her second husband Jonathan E. Zucker, M.D., from a heart attack in late December 2011. “He was the love of my life,” she will tell you, and you could see that if you saw them out together. Singly, they were both impressive people with unique gifts and bearing— together, out and about as a couple they lit up a party, brightened up a room like a high-energy candle and flower setting.

The book has Kelley’s energetic writing. It brings to life not only Camelot but also the man who captured it with his lens. Tretick had a warm connection to the Kennedys which continued after JFK’s death through Bobby and Jackie. He had an exclusive connection through Look magazine.

In his last years, in which Kelley took care of him, she got John Kennedy, Jr., who was then editor of George Magazine and 37 years old, to sign a copy of the famous under-the-desk picture that she brought to his room. In July 1999, Tretick took has last breath with the television in his room showing images of the search for John Kennedy, Jr.’s body near Cape Cod. “Days later,” she writes, “John Kennedy, Jr., was buried at sea and Stanley’s ashes were placed in the Columbarium at Arlington National Cemetery not far from the Kennedy grave sites and the glow of the eternal flame.” Tretick was 77 when he died.

The book is also a loving ghost story—memories and losses are on display here. The book is dedicated to Kelley’s husband “who made dreams come true.” It is a pane to the gifts of Tretick, his work fully and richly on display. More than that, it is, of course, about “capturing Camelot,” the times of our lives, the days of glory for wire services, daily newspapers and weekly picture magazines like Look and Life, the Kennedys alive in the cold memories of November, in the streets of Georgetown.

In the end, “Capturing Camelot” is a gift book, a history book, a picture book with marvelous stories. Mostly, it’s a gift to all of us. ★

Image of Kitty Kelley on facing page by Philip Bermingham. Images on this page, ©Estate of Stanley Tretick, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Top: Caroline Kennedy; book cover of “Capturing Camelot.” Above: John Kennedy, Jr., with President Kennedy in October 1963 at the Resolute Desk, a desk in the Oval Office still used by the president today.

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A Culinary Guide to a Countryside Thanksgiving

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hanksgiving brings together everything we love about the fall season—the food, the colors, the warmth and intimacy, the cinnamon-flecked crispness of the cloudy, cool air—and consolidates them into one grand and often tumultuous evening, where family and friends come together simply to share their love, affection and gastronomic stamina.

Here on the East Coast, the spirit of Thanksgiving is arguably at its most consummate. I think we get spoiled in this part of the country around Thanksgiving—we take the luminescent hillsides and pumpkin-topped haystacks for granted and begin dreaming of warmer days before winter has even arrived. Try to imagine, for a moment a November family gathering, with a golden roast turkey, sweet potatoes, Brussels sprouts, cranberry sauce, tannic red wines and pumpkin pie … in the 80-degree heat of Miami, Fla. No thanks.

So, to best appreciate a true and spirited Thanksgiving around Washington, why not leave the city and take to the countryside? Whether searching for a quiet holiday escape with your better half, or gallivanting about with the whole family, there are a number of places just outside the city that offer the tranquility of the season in its quintessential form, as well as some traditional and brilliantly unique Thanksgiving dinners—and it takes the edge off cooking a 15-pound bird for those loved ones that never

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Here are a few of The Georgetowner’s favorite Thanksgiving lunch, dinner and weekend getaway opportunities. Make your reservations before they fill up.

The Robert Morris Inn Oxford, Md. This small gem on Maryland’s Eastern Shore is the perfect waterfront setting for a traditional Thanksgiving. The culinary team, headed by chef Mark Salter, has put together a traditional and creative menu for this special occasion as an opportunity for regional produce to shine. For large groups, their Tred Avon Room is available for a family group booking.

Their Thanksgiving menu starts with dishes like spiced butternut squash soup with smoked bacon and cinnamon whipped cream, and red and yellow beets with crumbled goat cheese, toasted walnuts and mixed greens. The main event is free-range turkey and baked ham with roasted potato, onion and celery stuffing and seasonal vegetables, with cranberry, orange and ginger relish. There are also alternative main courses, such as oyster potpie, salmon on creamed sweet onions with kale, pancetta and baby potatoes, and beef tenderloin with a Burgundy-truffle sauce. Desert includes apple and blackberry crumble with Chantilly cream and pecan pie with bourbon ice cream.

Price: $58 per person, plus beverages and

LONGVIEW LANE

Delaplane, Virginia • $3,750,000

Circa 1889 manor home • Completely redesigned and reconstructed • Exposed beams, solid mahogany doors and windows • Antique fireplaces • Reclaimed choice hardwoods and limestone foyer • Incomparable views • 15 manicured acres.

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1780 QUAKER BARN

Philomont, Virginia • $1,495,000

Completely restored and updated • 4/5 BR, 3 1/2 BA, 3 FP • Vaulted ceilings expose 40’ hand hewn beams and original barn timbers • Lower level reveals chestnut log beams, fieldstone walls, flagstone floors • Pool, terrace, outdoor FP.

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overwhelms the senses. Their magnificent and secluded estate in the foothills of the Southwest Mountains outside of Charlottesville is itself enough to bowl you over—never mind the fact that Condé Nast rated them the number-one small resort in the country.

At Fossett’s, the resort’s award-winning restaurant, executive chef Aaron Cross will present

MONTVIEW

Marshall, Virginia • $2,295,000

Understated elegance • Finely appointed 5600+ sq. ft. home built in 1997 on 75 acres in a private and secluded setting • 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, 2 half baths • 10 stall barn • 224 ft. x 128 ft. blue stone ring • Excellent horse facility and ride-out.

Prime Fauquier County location in the heart of Orange County Hunt • 39.94 acres • Brick home completely updated • 3 BR with master suite on main level • 2 full & 2 half BA • 2 FP • 2 car garage • Flagstone terrace • 8 stall center aisle barn • Board fencing • Mountain views.

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a four-course tasting menu featuring traditional holiday entrees, as well as beef and fish options.

Keswick Hall will also serve two Thanksgiving Day buffets, featuring all your holiday favorites and more ($55 – $65 per person).

Price: $75 person, $25 for children ages 4 – 12.

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For more information or to make a reservation, visit www.PerryCabin.com, or call 410745-2200, ext 213.

The Silver Thatch Inn Charlottesville, Va. The Silver Thatch Inn is an intimate luxury bed and breakfast that seamlessly weaves culinary and historical experience. Its kitchen offers a special dining experience in its candlelit dining rooms, working with local farmers to ensure that the finest, freshest produce will reach dining guests, and holiday dining is one of its specialties.

The Thanksgiving menu includes seared scallops with warm radicchio and pancetta, carrot-ginger soup with candied orange peel, and fall greens with persimmons, goat cheese, hazelnuts and a Clementine dressing. The featured entrée is the legendary Turducken: a boneless turkey with cornbread and sausage stuffing, filled with a boneless duck with spinach and Parmesan stuffing, which is filled yet again with a small chicken with cranberry jalapeño stuffing. It is served with pan gravy, cauliflower and potato au gratin, braised kale and pear-apple chutney (good luck getting through that one).

Other Thanksgiving entrees include Angus beef with onion-mashed potatoes and flounder with lobster stuffing and sweet potato risotto.

Price: $55 per person, children under 12 half price.

For more information or to make a reservation visit www.SilverThatch.com, or call 434978-4686.★

St. Michael’s, an intimate, secluded waterside haven, rests along the “Bay Hundred” stretch that runs to Tilghman Island on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. The Inn at Perry Cabin is the town’s premier luxury escape, with a waterfront property that offers a gorgeous panorama of the Shore at its finest. The resort’s restaurant, Sherwood’s Landing, overlooks the Miles River, and serves breakfast, lunch and dinner daily in a delightful waterfront setting.

Its Thanksgiving menu starts with a choice of soups: harvest quash veloute, with caramelized pistachios and popped corn mouse, or oxtail consommé with black trufle, Madeira, savoy cabbage and oxtail ravioli. The main courses, on top of roasted local turkey, include honey-glazed Virginia ham, pan-seared duck breast, roast wild rockfish and tomato tart tatin, all served with whipped sweet potatoes, caramelized root vegetables, sage stuffing, cranberry relish and natural jus. Desert include pumpkin pie flan with maple cream and caramel, caramelized apple and fennel tart with lemon and allspice creams, and cranberry walnut bread pudding with honey, bourbon anglaise and vanilla ice-cream.

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The Latest Dish

BY LIN DA ROT H CONT E Mi Cocina plans to open in the spring of 2013 in The Collection at Chevy Chase where M Café was. It is part of M Crowd Restaurant Group, based in Irving, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. Mi Cocina offers classic Tex-Mex food, with hearty margaritas and their signature Mambo Taxi. There are 20 Mi Cocina restaurants currently open in Texas and Oklahoma, with one slated to open in Atlanta by the end of the year.

Teatro on K Street, NW (formerly Teatro Goldoni) has undergone a metamorphosis and will re-open as LooK, featuring small plates from all over the world — even some Teatro favorites. Décor is Icelandic-inspired with interactive bar and stair lighting, 20-foot suspended TV that can be viewed from either sides of the restaurant, making it two-way.

AJ Prakash, who has been in the Mexican restaurant business for 28 years, working with Tex-Mex too, plans to open his own modern, slightly upscale Mexican restaurant with a Mayan inspired menu. The 280-seat restaurant will be located in the Tysons area. There will also be seating for approximately 60 on the outdoor patio. No name yet. Stay tuned.

The Raven Grill owner Merid Admassu is teaming up with Kevin Perone and Cafe Saint Ex’s Jessica Kleinmann to open a tavern called Lyman’s at 3720 14th St., NW. Plans call for a 20-seat heated patio with a retractable roof, a

latticed privacy fence, and an indoor-outdoor counter. Should be open soon.

Quick Hits: Fabio Trabocchi plans to open a second restaurant, Fiola Mare, with an emphasis on seafood, at Washington Harbour in 2013. The space is next door to Nick’s Riverside Grille. It’s about 10,000 square feet with a great patio overlooking the park and Kennedy Center.

The Firelake Grill is slated to open at 4200 Wisconsin Ave., NW, where Ruby Tuesday’s was. Casey’s Coffee will open at 355 E St, SW, this month. Lime Fresh Mexican Grill will open on 7th Street, NW in Penn Quarter where Potbelly Sandwich Works used to be. A mid-2013 date is targeted. Taylor Gourmet will open its fifth locations when it opens at 6th & E Streets, NW in Penn Quarter where Meatballs used to be. Pho 14 will replace Pizza Hut on Columbia Road, NW in Adams Morgan. They plan to open in early November.

Opening Updates: Farmers Fishers Bakers at Washington Harbor will now open on Nov. 7. They were also victims of the flooding a year and a half ago. Latest intel straight from Soupergirl: her expanded Silver Spring operation should be open late November/early December. Matchbox 14th Street by end of November (fingers crossed). Ted’s Bulletin 14th Street and matchbox Merrifield by end of 1Q 2013. Smash Burger’s second store, in Dupont Circle, by February 2013.★

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Wines for Your Thanksgiving Feast

BY SH AR I SH EFFIEL D

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hanksgiving can be D. R. A. M. A. Trying to choose “the perfect wine” to go with your Thanksgiving feast can add to that drama. Trying to find a single wine to please everyone from grandmother to the newly minted drinking-age college boyfriend your daughter has brought home is a challenge.

With all the meal preparations required, quite frankly, don’t you always have enough to worry about planning this holiday meal? Stuff the bird before cooking or after? Cranberry sauce with whole berries or none? Sweet potato soufflé or candied yams casserole? And let’s not even get into the seating arrangements that must be considered ensuring that a family kerfuffle doesn’t erupt … again … seconds before the bird even hits the table. Thus, turning your Thanksgiving into your own Bravo reality TV series. Why stress yourself out with what wine to serve?

One tip I give to quickly calm down those responsible for securing the wine for the Thanksgiving meal: Pick one red and white wine. It’s so simple it often gets overlooked. You will invariably have guests at the table who will pull a face and whine dramatically: “I only like white” or “I only like red.” Serving at least one type of each will put a cure at least to that issue.

But, of course, you can go all out and turn Thanksgiving into an opportunity to try multiple wines in one setting. This can be fun and wine will rarely be wasted because of the number of people who will be trying them, if you host a large Thanksgiving meal for family and friends.

It is also a chance to explore bottles you might not normally try and discuss.

Another way to totally obviate the pressure of choosing the right wine is to ask each guest to bring a different type of grape varietal (one brings a Chardonnay, one a Merlot and so forth).

You can also assign each guest to bring a bottle from a different region. This will result in your own informal private wine dinner right at the Thanksgiving table.

However, if you choose to select the wines yourself, here are a few recommendations for food friendly wines that will pair well with multiple dishes and please the cast of characters seated at your table this year. When the curtain closes on the meal you’ll be able take a bow for your role as “Grace Under Thanksgiving Wine Pressure.” Cheers!

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Choose your favorite Champagne or for a French sparkling wine that is reasonably priced.

Try the Blanc de Blanc from Duc De Raybaud available at local Whole Foods, under $17.

Riesling A less dry Riesling will go well with salty, sweet, and spicy foods. It’s apple/citrus flavors and balanced acidity won’t over power your turkey. And, it will go with the pumpkin pie. Try Bonny Doon’s California Riesling or Rosemount Estate Diamond Traminer (Australia), approximately $10.

Pinot Gris This floral white wine has a hint of smoke, apples and creamy texture with all the character

of a chardonnay but has more fruit flavors. Try King Estate Pinot Gris, $12, or J Russian River Pinot Gris, $17, approximately.

White Blend Try Perrin Cote Du Rhone Blanc, 2011 under $17. The Vioginer and Grenache Blanc take the leading role as the predominate grapes in this blend. Marsanne and Roussanne play supporting roles which makes this wine’s lemon flavors and floral notes heavenly at this price point.

Pinot Noir DeLoach Russian River Pinot Noir $21, has cherry and plum flavors that pair well with herbed stuffing and dark meat without overpowering the rest of your dishes.

Syrah Kunde Syrah costs approximately $16. Syrah can be light or tannic with a lot of structure. This light style Syrah, aka Shiraz, has peppery notes and a spicy edge along with lightness.

Merlot Markham Merlot from California is very smooth and food friendly. If a crown roast or lamb will be served at your Thanksgiving meal.

It has structure but is fruit-forward. It is also velvety with chocolate notes.

Sherry Sherry is a fortified wine and as such is higher in alcohol usually around 15 percent. It can be drunk with the meal, as a dessert wine, or after dinner. Try Tio Pepe Fino with its pale golden color. It has fresh bread and almond aromas. The palate is very dry and complex. ★

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DEAR STACY, I would like to comment on a recent column about an underemployed husband (Murphy’s Love, Oct. 3, 2012). I like your suggestion to the wife of the underemployed husband about how she can constructively represent his situation to those who ask about his job search. However, I believe that he was mischaracterized as someone going through denial. Instead, he feels embarrassed because others may judge him by his employment status. That certainly will happen if he lives in the Washington, D.C., region.

Also, if he tells others that he is employed in a sales job, others will forever label him as a salesman without considering that it is an interim job for him. (While shopping or ordering coffee, people often forget that the people behind the counter may have goals outside of their current employment.) As do all people, the underemployed spouse wants to be understood, but he knows that most communication, including what job-search experts call “networking,” does not promote understanding.

As someone who has a master’s degree and has been unemployed or underemployed for most of the last ten years, I speak from experience. For what it’s worth, I am single and 47 years old. I haven’t any further advice for the

wife because your advice is exactly what she and her husband need and because she seems to otherwise be enduring the situation very well.

–Sympathetic Underemployed Man DEAR SYMPATHETIC: Thanks for the feedback. I definitely hear your argument, particularly with pop culture’s more recent interpretation of “denial” as a derogatory term (e.g. “it ain’t just a river in Egypt”).

As part of a larger grief process, however, the denial stage is simply the period when we experience or re-experience the shock of a loss and find ourselves trying to return to the reality we had before things changed. This when we say “Everything’s ok!” even when it’s not. It’s a coping strategy that is in no way a personal failing. My perspective was that if Underemployed Husband was in denial about his change in circumstance, it’s just a part of a natural grief process.

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’Tis the Season for Holiday Arts Previews

BY G ARY T ISCHL ER

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very year the holiday season seems to stretch a little further and longer. In these pages, we will celebrate the season with celebrations of performance over the holidays.

Usually, that means trumpets, nutcrackers, Scrooges, elves, Santa Claus, and Christmas or seasonal music, concerts that celebrate the holidays, and concerts that occur during the holidays, plays that are about the holidays and plays that are not, but seem to indicate a celebrate a celebratory or musical spirit.

We give not all, but some, of the traditional, best and most eclectic choices folks can have on Washington stages and venues. Dancing and singing and the playing of music will be involved, and familiar characters—and some not—will be heard from and familiar music will be played, as well as some music less familiar but by familiar stars in the music world.

So here we go:

Pick a Nutcracker, Any Nutcracker There are numerous performances of “The Nutcracker” to be seen in the Washington area over the holidays: at the Puppet Theatre, in Glen Echo, for instance, or at the Kennedy Center, or the Moscow Balles’s Great Russian Nutcracker version at the Music Center at Strathmore or George Mason University, or Nutcracker in a Shell at Broad Run

American Boychoir

Hansel and Gretel photo by Karin Cooper High School, or at the Thomas Jefferson Community Theatre in Arlington, or the Ernest Community Cultural Center Theater in Annandale, the Franklin Park Performing Arts Center in Purcelville, Battlefield High School in Haymarket, George Mason High School in Falls Church, the Maryland Youth Ballet in Rockville, and at the Northern Virginia Community College and many, many more, but . . .

A must-see holiday tradition!

There will always be the Washington Ballet’s now an annual D.C. holiday presentation with George Washington, as the hero and George III as the Rat King. Every year, Tchaikovsky’s music seems to fit perfectly with the Revolutionary War. The ballet, beautiful and intact, is at the historic Warner Theatre Nov. 30 through Dec. 23 and at THEARC Theatre Nov. 24 to 28. Maki Onuki, a Washington Ballet star and favorite stars as the sugar plum fairy.

‘Hansel and Gretel’ for the Washington Opera Engelbert Humperdinck’s classic children’s opera “Hansel and Gretel” begins a new tradition for the very busy Washington Opera Company Dec. 21 to 23 in the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater. The family opera stars current stars and alumni of the Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program and is directed by David Grately, with the WNO Orchestra conducted by Michael Rossi. Sarah Mesko and Julia Mintzer star as Hansel and Emily Albrink and Shantelle Przybylo star as Gretel.

More Holiday Alleluias At the Kennedy Center

by Charles Dickens; adapted by Michael Wilson; directed by Michael Baron

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One of many Messiah’s being performed over the holidays will be the National Symphony’s in the Concert Hall Dec. 20 to 23 with guest conductor Rolf Beck conducting soprano Katherine Whyte, countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo, tenor Sunnyboy Vincent Dladla, and bass-baritone Panajotis Iconomou. There will also be a Messiah Sing-Along in the Concert Hall Dec. 23.

Ballet West will bring its version of “The Nutcracker” Dec. 5-9 at the Opera House.

The traditional “Merry Tuba Christmas!” will be at the Millennium Stage Dec. 13, while the NSO Pops will perform its “Happy Holiday” concert in the Concert Hall Dec. 13 to 16.

In a Millennium Stage (Free) Christmas tradition, there’s the All-Star Christmas Day Jazz Jam Dec. 25.

But that’s not all: The NSO Pops Orchestra will feature Megan Hilty, Broadway star and star of the hit show “Smash” on television in “Luck Be A Lady: Megan Hilty Sings Sinatra and More” Nov. 23 and 24, while Linda Lavin is in the “Barbara Cook’s Spotlight” series Nov. 16.

There’s also lots of music in theater at the Kennedy Center:

“Jekyll & Hyde,” a musical, will hit the Opera House Nov. 20 through 25, starring Constantine Maroulis and Deborah Cox. The much anticipated “Million Dollar Quartet,” the Tony Award-winning musical features characters called Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lew Lewis in the Eisenhower Theatre, Dec. 18 through Jan. 6 But the most essential Christmas show of all is “Irving Berlin’s White Christmas” based on the classic holiday movie that featured the likes of Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye, Dec. 11 through Jan. 6 in the Opera House

Music Center at Strathmore Mark O’Connor: An Appalachian Christmas, Dec. 13 American folk, classic Christmas.

Cathedral Choral Society: A Dickens Christmas—a staging of Scrooge with chorus, brass and madrigal ensemble, Dec. 17.

The Washington Chorus: A Candlelight Christmas, Dec. 21 The Brian Setzer Orchestra: Christmas Rocks Extravaganza. Rocking around the Xmas tree, Dec. 4.

Dave Koz and Friends: Christmas Tour, Dec. 3, with David Benoit, Javier Colon, Sheila E and others.

National Philharmonic: Handel’s “Messiah,” Dec. 8.

Holiday Music by the Stocking-full

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amily Christmas Concert Series— The Georgetown Concert Series presents the American Boychoir in a family Christmas concert at St. John’s Episcopal Church Dec. 2 at 5 p.m. American Boychoir is considered America’s premier concert boys’ choir.

Tudor Nights—The annual holiday celebration will be held at historic Tudor Place, Dec. 6, between 6 and 8 p.m. Spiced ginger cocktail on hand.

A Celtic Christmas—The Barnes and Hampton Celtic Concert will be featured in the Dumbarton Concert Sesaon Concerts by Candlelight Series, Dec. 1, 2, 8 and 9.

The Embassy Series—Luxembourg at Holiday—A highlight of the series, this annual holiday event at the Embassy of Luxembourg has been expanded to three evenings, Dec. 6, 7 and 8, and will feature the Thomas Circle

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Six Characters in Search of an Author Washington Ballet. Photo by Brianne Bland with the Virginia Bronze handbell ensemble at Lisner Auditorium.

Washington Performing Arts Society— Yo-Yo Ma performs solo cello pieces by Bach, Turkish composer Ahmet Adnan Saygun, with bluegrass violinist Mark O’Connor and George Crumb at the Kennedy Center, Dec. 3, Concert Hall.

The Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela is at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Dec. 4, and will play Mexican compose Carlos Chavez’s “Sinfonia India” with conductor Gustavo Dudamel.

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Edward Gero as Ebenezer Scrooge in “A Christmas Carol.” Photo by Scott Suchman

Adam Green in Midsummer’s Dream Photo by S. Christian Low Singers, Marc Weydert on Baroque trumpet, Maurice Clemont on piano, baritone Jerome Barry, and George Peachy on piano in a celebration of mostly baroque music. Deluxe buffet dinner, refreshments, champagne and elegance.

Washington National Cathedral—The WNC will have its Christmas Pageant on Dec. 22, Carols By Candlelight Dec. 23 and 24, the Festival of the Holy Eucharist Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, its annual Creche Exhibit, performances of Handel’s “Messiah” Dec. 7, 8 and 9, a “Joy of Christmas” concert Dec. 15.

The Christmas Revels—The 30th annual production and community celebration of the Winter Solstice will be performed at George Washington University’s Lisner Auditorium, Dec. 8, 9, 14, 15 and 16.

Children’s music superstars the Laurie Berner Band will perform a special holiday concert at Lisner Auditorium Nov. 18.

Gay Men’s Chorus—The Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington will presenst its “Winter Nights” holiday concert Nov. 30 and Dec. 1,

hakespeare Theatre Company— It’s hard to think of a play not about Christmas more festive than Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” This production of magic, mistaken lovers, groundlings and kings and queens and a donkey’s head, is directed by the ever-surprising Ethan McSweeny, Nov. 15 through Dec. 30, in the Sidney Harman Hall.

Arena Stage—Almost as festive is “My Fair Lady”, the Lerner and Lowe music based on Shaw’s “Pygmalion”, staged and imagined anew by Molly Smith, and starring Manna Nichols, Benedict Campbell and Nicholas Rodriguez. Through Jan. 6.

Signature Theater—The big Michael Bennett hit “Dreamgirls” gets the Signature Theatre Treatment through Jan. 6.

Les Miserables—Just in time for the movie version is the 25th new anniversary production of Cameron McIntosh musical version of Victor Hugo’s classic novel of revenge justice, revolution, and romance. At the National Theatre Dec. 12 to 30.

Cinderella at Olney—Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical “Cinderella” is being staged at the Olney Theatre through Dec. 30.

Round House Theatre—“Young Robin Hood”, a world premiere production by Jon Klein will run Nov. 28 through Dec. 30, a rousing, swashbuckling new adventure version of the old Hollywood-and-Nottingham legend Adventure Theatre—“A Little House Christmas” Nov. 16 through Dec. 31, based on the popular Laura Ingalls Wilder Little House books, directed by Serge Seiden.

Imagination Stage—“Seussical,” the smash Broadway hit about Dr. Seuss and his many characters will be staged at the Lerner Family Theatre in Bethesda through Jan. 6.

Scrooges Galore At Ford’s Theater, its production of “A Christmas Carol” is a popular tradition, and this year once again features D.C. acting great Ed Gero as Scrooge, with Michael Baron directing, Nov. 16 through Dec. 30.

Olney Theatre will do “A Christmas Carol” (A Ghost Story of Christmas) adapted and performed by Paul Morella, Nov. 30 through Dec. 30.

The Keegan Theatre on Church Street in Dupont Circle will feature “An Irish Carol” beginning Dec. 15.★

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A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters I – XVIII at the Corcoran Gallery of Art B Y A R I POST here is an exacting notion of displacement that permeates the current work of artist Taryn Simon, on display at the Corcoran Gallery of Art through Feb. 24 of next year. At its essence, A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters I – XVIII is a tapestry of 18 fractured and unresolved stories of small familial communities all over the world. This is not an easy show to deal with. It is psychologically unsettling, often times disturbing, and frankly cold, its presentation rigid, systematic. However, the experience is unlike anything else on display in Washington.

The show asks us to deal with pasts and realities that are not our own in a way that is neither fictional nor specifically historical. It tests our limits of empathy and estrangement, ultimately exposing our own interpersonal narratives in how we cope with and perceive these lives we will never know but instinctively judge.

Simon, whose past documentary work has included a series on wrongly convicted prisoners (“The Innocents”) and another on items detained at U.S. customs and post offices (“Contraband”), is fascinated by the concept of bloodlines. For A Living Man, she spent four years traveling the

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A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters I – XVIII is on display at the Corcoran Gallery of Art through Feb. 24, 2013.

world, researching, cataloguing, determining an order for, and finally photographing the ascendants and descendants of eighteen individuals and their family trees. She categorized her findings into 18 “chapters,” with each corresponding to a single bloodline.

They are each displayed as a panel that includes a grid of portraits of the family unit, a written statement about the bloodline’s significance, and supporting photographs acting as narrative elements to the stories she came across in her research. Each includes a numbered key with biographical information about each subject who sat for her.

In Chapter I of the project, from which the title of the series takes its name, Simon focuses on the story of a man and three of his living family members in India who died—at least as reported by their local government. Accordingly, they are listed as legally dead in the local registry, which was done to deny them any hereditary transfer of land.

Another chapter documents Latif Yahia, an Iraqi citizen who was forced to become the body double of Uday Hussein, the psychopathic son of Saddam Hussein. Simon tells the story of Yahia’s facial reconstruction surgeries and of the threats he received upon his family when he initially refused to go along with the plan. In a frame on the photographic evidence page sits a goldplated Iraqi AK-47 and sniper rifle, both seized by the Americans when storming Uday’s palace.

In a rare, if odd, moment of comical brevity, Yahia does impersonations of Uday.

Chapter XVII, which documents a group of displaced children from Ukranian orphanages, is an interesting sample. The lack of a clear bloodline is actually a defining factor. The orphanages for children between the ages of six and 16 are often just a temporary holdover before the children are released and immediately and targeted for human trafficking, prostitution and child pornography. The images show children dressed in clothing that is surprisingly nice but rarely well fit (as they are donated).

No one is smiling in any of these portraits. At first glance from across the room, this could be an entomological display—hundreds of moths and butterflies in a glass case.

“The works are designed to imply patterns and codes and systems, and to imagine the collision of order and disorder,” says Simon, “representing something that came before, that’s happening now and will happen again.”

Up close, Simon’s subjects indeed look like they were posing for a much more archaic portrait—say, for instance, a 17th-century oil painting. Like the curious, young Infanta Margarita in Diego Velázquez’s Las Meninas, perfectly still and wary of the artist who is capturing her likeness, Simon’s subjects face the camera, arms down, unflinching and without emotion save for the corrosion of despair, pride, resentment, fear or whatever default setting that has come to define their existence.

Ultimately, as the work suspends in time these slow and unrelenting human dramas, what the audience is left with is an ominous sense of cyclicality: are these currents of history that its players are inevitably caught in, just ripples following in the wake of their past? And will their next generations evolve, or are they crashing against the shore only to get pulled back out to sea?

Without asserting an opinion on the wide array of social and political discord rampant through these visual bloodlines, Simon packs a brass-knuckled punch to the emotional gut of her audience. The displacement lies in the external forces of governance, religion territory, power and luck that play out during the lives of every individual, clashing against internal forces of psychological and physical inheritance.

“The numbing persistence of birth and death and the accumulation of all the stories between— are all of these stories and lives just piling up, or is something unfolding?” Simon asks. “There is no conclusion or over-arching declaration, it’s about the difficulty and understanding of what we’re all doing here and what it all leads to.”★

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The Washington Home & Community Hospices Annual Gala, “Home Is Where The Heart Is” This year’s gala will recognize the 2012 Art Buchwald Award recipient, Gail Sheehy, bestselling author of 16 books and a babyboomer’s icon. Sheehy has changed our culture with her book, “Passages in Caregiving: Turning Chaos into Confidence.” The gala will take place at the Chevy Club in Chevy Chase, Md. Individual tickets for this fundraiser are $500 per person.

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B Y R OBERT D EVAN EY The Ninth Annual Living in Pink luncheon and boutique was held Nov. 2 at the Fairmont Hotel on M Street. Emceed by ABC7-WJLA news anchor Greta Kreuz, the breast cancer research charity event began with a moving song by Lanell Lightfoot and blessing by Msgr. Peter Vaghi. The Living in Pink Award went to Marie Pennanen, M.D., who spoke on the history of medicine, invoking the words of St. Augustine, “hope, anger and courage.” Ward 2 Councilman Jack with his daughters Katherine and Christine presented the Noel Soderberg Evans Award to Paul Ruff, M.D., for his WrinkleErase fundraisers. Keynote speaker was Pamela Peeke, M.D. Founded in 2004 by two-time breast cancer survivor and mother of four, Michele Conley, Living in Pink was created to help find a cure for breast cancer so that the next generation of women will not have to endure the emotional and physical pain of breast cancer surgery and treatment.

13th Annual Taste of the Stars Gala The annual Taste of the Stars Gala benefits the 200,000 critically ill children served in the MidAtlantic region. Join Starlight Children’s Foundation and help put a smile on the Four Seasons Hotel. For more information, call 202293-7827.

The Kidney Ball The 2012 Kidney Ball will kick off the holiday season in style with gourmet dining, live and silent auctions, dancing and a special performance

by Don Felder, formerly of the Eagles. This black-tie gala will play host to more than 1,000 of the Washington, D.C. area’s business, government and community leaders, as well as kidney patients and their families. Funds raised through the event support ongoing programs in medical research, patient and community services, professional and community education and organ donation awareness; Omni Shoreham Hotel. For more information, call 202-244-7900.

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Freer and Sackler Gala Join dignitaries, philanthropists, and art lovers from around the world for the “party of the year,” followed by a weekend of exciting activities in Washington, D.C. Benefits of Sackler 25th Gala sponsorship include exclusive tours, visits to private collections, luncheons and cocktail receptions with high-profile guest speakers, embassy dinner parties, invitations to advance kick-off parties and much more; Arthur M. Sackler Gallery.

For more information, call 202-633-0418, or email fsgala@si.edu.

Bella Notte: An Evening to Benefit Pediatric Brain Tumor Research Join Children’s National Medical Center for Bella Notte, a special cocktail reception to benefit the Brain Tumor Institute at Children’s National Medical Center and National Brain Tumor Society. Approximately 300 guests will attend this inspirational evening featuring dining, cocktails, exciting auctions, special recognitions, and more; Embassy of Italy. Contact Liza Tanner at LTanner@childrensnational.org for tickets and more information.

Christine Evans, Jack Evans and Katherine Evans present the Noel Soderberg Evans Award to Paul Ruff, M.D. (second from left).

Representing Georgetown University Medical Center and the Lombardi Cancer Center, Linda Greenan with Living in Pink founder, Michele Conley.

Doctors Tina Alster and Kathy Huang flank awardee Marie Pennanen, M.D.

Knock Out Abuse Against Lombardi Gala Women 19th Annual Gala B Y M ARY BIR D Moulin Rouge was the theme of Knock Out Abuse’s Nov. 1 gala at the Ritz-Carlton. The sell-out event, founded by Cheryl Masri and Jill Sorensen as a counterpart to Fight Night, was chaired by Charrisse Jackson-Jordan and Michelle Schoenfeld. This year, it raised more than $600,000 to benefit victims of domestic violence. WUSA9’s Andrea Roane emceed the evening as more than 750 prominent women heard author, model and women’s health advocate Carré Otis speak of her personal experience with abuse. Once the gentlemen of Fight Night joined the ladies, the dance floor jumped to hip-hop star Doug E. Fresh.

Honoree and guest speaker Carré Otis, Jill Sorensen and Susan Hurley Bennett

BY MARY BIRD The 26th Annual Lombardi Gala was held at the Washington Hilton Nov. 3. The gala benefits Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, known for its world-class basic research and translational medicine programs. This year’s Margaret Hodges Leadership Award, named for the gala founder, and was bestowed on Barbara Schaefer McDuffie in recognition of her personal and professional commitment to advance the center’s research. Robert Kraft, chairman and CEO of the New England Patriots, was the inaugural recipient of the NFL Players Association Georgetown Lombardi Award.

John and Liza Marshall (Photo courtesy Lombardi Gala)

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9th Annual Transformer Silent Auction & Benefit Party The Annual Silent Auction & Benefit Party is Transformer’s primary fundraising event, providing essential support for Transformer’s dynamic year-round programming, exhibitions and services. The event brings together a diverse range of artists, collectors, gallerists, entrepreneurs and arts enthusiasts. This year’s diplomatic chair is the Ambassador of Spain, Ramón Gil-Casares.

Corcoran Gallery of Art. Tickets may be purchased on line. ★

Kathleen Guinan, Norma Ramsey and Kim Watson

DeAnne Nehra, Ellen Terry, Marie Matthews (Photo courtesy Lombardi Gala)

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George Diliberto with first-place winner Beau as Big Bird, Josh Thomas with second place winner Conan as a skunk, Fairmont regional VP and general manager Mark Andrew, Kristi Andrew, Faith MacDonald with third-place winner Walker as a dinosaur

Choral Arts executive director Debra Kraft with newly arrived Hosts Deborah and Nick Smith artistic director Scott Tucker

BY MARY BIRD On Oct. 31, the Fairmont Washington, D.C., celebrated our faithful companions at the first annual Howl-o-Ween Trick or Treating in the hotel’s heated courtyard. Spirits were high as the good natured furry guests modeled costumes in exchange for peanut butter doggie biscuits created by the Fairmont’s famed pastry team. Regional VP and general manager Mark Andrew’s delight in announcing the winners for best costume augured that this will become an annual event. Bipeds happily toasted the prize winners with a cup of “Witches’ Brew.”

Great times.

BY M ARY BIR D Nick and Deborah Smith hosted their 4th Annual Choral Arts cocktail reception Nov. 8 in honor of the 32nd Annual Choral Arts Holiday Concert & Gala to be held Dec. 17 at the Kennedy Center.

It was a relaxed evening among fervent supporters. Gala auction items will include two tickets to view the 57th Presidential Inauguration from the Canadian Embassy, an insider Scotch tasting and the promise of Denise Graves calling to wish you happy birthday. Incoming artistic director Scott Tucker acknowledged the beloved Norman Scribner as “learning to catch fire by your fire.” His remarks were followed by an on key holiday sing-along.

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