Georgetowner's February 24, 2016 Issue

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PHILLIPS PARK $3,995,00 Inspired by the estates of Brittany, France, this exceptional 8,100 sq ft residence was designed by Barnes Vanze Architects and newly built by Mauck Zantzinger & Associates.

Showcases luxurious finishes, spa baths, open kitchen and family room, high ceilings, and formal public rooms.

OBSERVATORY CIRCLE $3,195,000 Sensational 5 BR, 5.5 BA colonial in sought-after Observatory Circle. Open floor plan with sun-filled rooms, wonderful entertaining spaces, gourmet kitchen, expansive master suite, three fireplaces, gorgeous landscaping, and 2-car garage.

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GEORGETOWN $2,495,000 This important offering has been painstakingly maintained on all four finished levels. Features include a dramatic living room with 13’ ceilings, an open English style kitchen with exposed beams, and an exceptionally deep garden with sweeping views of Northwest Washington.

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GEORGETOWN $1,550,000 This classic East Village Victorian is in turnkey condition. The sun-filled property retains numerous period details, including five working fireplaces, gleaming hardwood floors, and elegant crown moldings throughout. Off-street parking conveys.

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WATERGATE WEST $2,995,000

Penthouse with 3,000 interior sq ft and 1,600 sq ft roof terrace with 2 separate seating areas and sweeping views.

3 BR + office, 3 BA, 2-story entrance foyer, living room with wrap-around windows, fireplace, and dining room. World-class building amenities include outdoor heated pool, full-service front desk and doorman, garage parking, post office, florist, and pharmacy.

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GLOVER PARK $1,395,000

Sited on sought-after Hall Place, this home has been completely renovated. Updates include a modern kitchen, a converted sunroom to dining room, spectacular family room, and living room with wood-burning fireplace. Features a separate 2 bedroom 1 bathroom in-law suite with full kitchen and laundry. Private backyard with terrace and deck.

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CHEVY CHASE, DC $1,195,000 This classic colonial offers excellent natural light throughout, hardwood floors, 3 fireplaces, 3 bedrooms with 2 bathrooms on the second floor, plus a bonus room on third floor. Eat-in kitchen with stainless steel appliances, and separate formal dining room. The lot features a spacious patio and a creek.

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issed Kevin Spacey at the National Portrait Gallery? Ashley Judd at Gaston Hall or Halcyon House? Leo DiCaprio at Cafe Milano or 1789 Restaurant? You have a chance to catch a glimpse of actress Natalie Portman, who is filming in town for next year’s movie, “Jackie.”

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up & coming February 26 Silver Age of Russian Poetry in Music The Russian Chamber Art Society presents a concert of art songs, including D.C.-area premieres, set to poems by Anna Akhmatova, Alexander Blok, Osip Mandelstam and Sergey Yesenin. Accompanied by RCAS founder Vera Danchenko-Stern, the performers are soprano Jasmina Halimic, tenor Timur Bekbosunov and baritone Kevin Wetzel, who will sing “Russia Cast Adrift,” Georgy Sviridov’s 12-song Yesenin cycle. Tickets are $55. For tickets, visit thercas.com. Embassy of Austria, 3524 International Court NW.

February 27 Discover Engineering Family Day

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At this free family day at the National Building Museum, kids can get creative with real engineers, the people who design bridges, improve food and fabrics, even build computers. Participants (age 6 and older) can test out their bright ideas as they engage in 20 hands-on activities. For details, visit nbm.org/families-kids. 401 F St. NW.

February 28 Washington Chorus: New Music for a New Age The Washington Chorus presents the music of Luna Pearl Woolf with the NOVUS NY orchestra at the National Presbyterian Church.

The program includes “The Pillar,” about the Bernie Madoff scandal, and “Après Moi, le

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Déluge,” a response to Hurricane Katrina, featuring cellist Matt Haimovitz. Other soloists are soprano Marnie Breckenridge, tenors Rexford Tester and Jonathan Blalock, and baritone James Shaffran. Tickets are $25 and $35. For tickets, call 202-342-6221 or visit thewashingtonchorus.org. 4101 Nebraska Ave. NW.

March 3 ‘Wild Women of Washington, D.C.’ Book Signing

Capital Club’s Shamrock Soiree The Capital Club, a social organization founded in 1980, presents its 21st Annual Shamrock Soirée, sponsored by Tito’s Vodka, Blank Label men’s clothing and SELECT. This year’s soirée will feature a live band, the Lunch Money Bandits, Irish jigs and a beer and wine open bar. For tickets, visit eventbrite.com. Malmaison, 3401 K St. NW.

Go-Go Symphony at Atlas

Canden Schwantes will give a free lecture about her most recent book, “Wild Women of Washington, D.C.,” a history of disorderly conduct in the District, at Dumbarton House. A book signing will follow, with copies of the book available for purchase.

To register, visit dumbartonhouse.org. 2715 Q St NW.

Capital City Symphony’s contribution to this year’s Intersections Festival at Atlas Performing Arts Center is a reprise of Go-Go Symphony. John Devlin conducts this melding of the funky energy of go-go music with the power and precision of a symphony orchestra. Tickets are $25. For details, visit atlasarts.org. 1333 H St. NE.

March 4 and 5 Washington Antiquarian Book Fair

March 10 March Madness at Tudor Place

At this 41st annual fair, exhibitors from around the country will offer rare books, manuscripts, modern first editions, autographs, prints, maps and drawings. Over the course of two days, the fair will also host a series of programs including ondemand poetry created on vintage typewriters by Typewriter Rodeo. Advance ticket sales online ($8 Saturday, $12 weekend) end March 5. For details, visit wabf.com.

Holiday Inn Rosslyn at Key Bridge, 1900 North Fort Myer Drive, Arlington, Virginia.

Just in time for March Madness, inner jocks can meet inner history geeks at a lively cocktail evening centered on the sporting life.

Tudor Place Curator Grant Quertermous will give visitors an up-close look at the collection’s “jock-iest” items. For details, visit tudorplace.org. 1644 31st St. NW.

Documentary Screening: CODEGIRL Software company Palantir Technologies will host a free screening of the documentary CODEGIRL, followed by a discussion

with director Lesley Chilcott. The event is part of the It Starts with Girls series, featuring women who are improving girls’ access to science and technology. Space is limited. To reserve, visit bit.ly/1Qy1LRW. 1025 Thomas Jefferson St. NW, 6th floor.

March 12 Winter Yoga and Tea at Dumbarton House Dumbarton House’s popular outdoor summer yoga classes come inside for a special winter restorative class led by local instructor Lauren Jacobs. After yoga, participants (who should bring their own mats) may stay for tea, light snacks and a tour. Tickets are $35 ($30 for members). For tickets, visit eventbrite.com. 2715 Q St. NW.

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BY CHUCK BALDWIN, ROBERT DEVANEY AND RICHARD SELDEN

OGB Says No to Heating Plant Demolition

The Old Georgetown Board voted against developers’ designs to replace the West Heating Plant building. Photo by Robert Devaney.

The developers of the West Heating Plant site — the Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, the Levy Group and the Georgetown Companies of New York — ran into a brick wall Feb. 4 with a decision by the Old Georgetown Board.

Arguing that proposed building’s design does not honor Georgetown’s industrial past along with questions about its adjacent park, the OGB said no to the group’s plans to demolish the structure at 1051-55 29th St. NW. Despite ample support from 29th Street neighbors and the Citizens Association of Georgetown and favored, but not unanimous, approvals by the GeorgetownBurleith Advisory Neighborhood Commission, members of the federal board found that designs for the 10-story building made it look too big and not quite residential.

With his development group, Richard Levy of the Levy Group is promoting

To allow the structure’s demolition, Levy and his team must get Mayor Muriel Bowser to deem their efforts a “project of special merit” to have a completely different building (though it is a similar size) for the site.

the designs of two star designers: British architect David Adjaye and landscape architect Laurie Olin.

The property group bought the two-acre property — situated between the C&O Canal, Rock Creek, 29th Street and K Street — from the federal government in 2013 for $19.5 million. High-end condo units, to be managed by the Four Seasons, will number 60 to 70, and half of the land will become a park. Levy said at a December community meeting that the condo units would run $2,000 per square foot at this year’s prices.

Adjaye was the lead architect for the National Museum of African-American History and Culture, set to open in September, as well as for two D.C. public libraries. As opposed to his first concept with vertical lines aping the heating plant, Adjaye’s second vision reveals a differently aligned building with horizontal lines that echo the flat sweeping lines of the Kennedy Center and Watergate complex as seen from the Potomac River sailing up to Georgetown. The footprint of the building is to be smaller than the original. Olin’s one-acre park joins green space from Rock Creek Park to the new building, K Street and close to Georgetown Waterfront Park.

EastBanc’s Condo Plans May Spur Zoning Change In order to approve the redevelopment

by EastBanc of the 7,413 square-foot lot, which is currently in use as a gas station at 2715 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, into a 43,396 square-foot building with a restaurant and eight luxury apartment units, the D.C. Zoning Commission voted to further consider changing the minimum lot size from 15,000 square feet to 10,000 square feet.

Through the planned-unit development process, the commission has the ability, through a waiver, to halve the minimum lot size. If approved, the new regulation may allow for more density and height across the District by using smaller parcels of land.

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DC Water Green Infrastructure Clarifications The following are clarifications to an article in the Feb. 10 issue of The Georgetowner on DC Water’s plans for the Georgetown area. DC

Water’s Downspout Disconnection Program is part of the Potomac River Green Infrastructure Project. The implementation of that program will “offset the amount of GI required in the right-of-way by reducing the amount of stormwater runoff from impervious surfaces (i.e. roofs)” and control the amount of runoff to combined-sewer outflows 027-029. CSOs 025 and 036 will be controlled “through targeted sewer separation,” while CSOs 020, 021, 022

The opening ceremony for the long-awaited H/Benning streetcar will be held Feb. 27. Courtesy DDOT.

A map of the DC Clean Rivers Project showing the route of the Potomac River Tunnel. Courtesy DC Water.

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and 024 will be controlled “through construction of the Potomac River Tunnel,” according to an email from DC Water to The Georgetowner.

Though obtained from DC Water’s website, the labels on the map of CSOs that we published in the last issue do not accurately show how each CSO will be modified or eliminated, although it does show their locations. The inset map in that issue, showing the route of the Potomac River Tunnel, is labeled as Recommended Plan. It has been relabeled DC Clean Rivers Project. DC Water also noted that the overflow of the combined sewer is currently discharged into Rock Creek, as well as the Potomac and Anacostia Rivers.

Green Infrastructure construction on the right-of-way is scheduled to occur from mid2017 to 2019. Sewer separation construction is scheduled for 2021 to 2013, and construction on the Potomac River Tunnel is set for 2023 to 2030.

A Streetcar Named H/ Benning Runs Feb. 27 The grand opening ceremony for the first segment of the repeatedly delayed D.C. Streetcar will be held Saturday, Feb. 27, at 10 a.m. near the intersection of 13th Street and H Street NE. With eight stops from Union Station to Benning Road at Oklahoma Avenue, the five shiny red cars of the H/Benning line will welcome passengers after the ceremony, which Mayor Bowser is expected to attend.

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TOWN TOPICS WEDNESDAY, FEB. 24 Georgetown Moratorium

8 a.m. to 2 a.m. There will be no Sunday or holiday service.

Over the next decade, the 2.2-mile segment is projected for extension to the Benning Road Metro station in the east and to Georgetown in the west, ideally in dedicated transit lanes (H/Benning shares its route with other traffic). D.C.’s streetcars last ran on Jan. 28, 1962.

The D.C. Alcoholic Beverage Control Board will hear public comments on the Georgetown Moratorium Zone at 10 a.m. in Suite 400 South, 2000 14th St. NW. Contact Martha Jenkins at abralegal@dc.gov, or call 202-442-4456.

‘Black Georgetown Remembered’

“Go puff yourself” was the message that Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E sent on-demand delivery service goPuff on Feb. 1, voting 8-0 to protest the company’s application to the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board. Founded by Drexel University students, goPuff, which delivers hookahs and vaporizers (as its name indicates) as well as convenience-store items, wants to add alcohol to the items available for online ordering. Commissioners also expressed concerns about the companies operating hours (its Georgetown warehouse shares the 3401 Water St. NW address with Malmaison). Barring a settlement agreement between the ANC and goPuff, the protest will be heard by the ABC Board this spring.

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ANC Against Spirits on Call

A discussion to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the book “Black Georgetown Remembered” will be held at 7 p.m. at Gaston Hall, Georgetown University. Reservations are required; call 202-687-9298.

THURSDAY, FEB. 25 D.C. Historic Preservation The D.C. Historic Preservation Review Board will meet at One Judiciary Square at 9 a.m. at 441 4th St. NW.

Burleith Citizens Association The Burleith Citizens Association will meet on historic preservation and new projects, such as the name change for Ellington Field, at the Washington International School at 7 p.m. at 1690 36th St. NW.

Georgetown Arts 2016 “Georgetown Arts 2016,” a program of the Citizens Association of Georgetown, will take place at House of Sweden, 2900 K St.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16 Georgetown Business Association

NW with an opening reception from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 25. Artist talks on Saturday and Sunday. The show runs through Sunday, Feb. 28.

The Georgetown Business Association’s next meeting is at Carr Workplaces at 1050 30th St. NW. The board of directors meeting is at 5:30 p.m. A reception follows at 6:30 p.m. at a local establishment, yet to be confirmed.

Check georgetownbusiness.org periodically for updates.

MONDAY, FEB. 29 ANC Monthly Meeting The March meeting for the GeorgetownBurleith Advisory Neighborhood Commission is at Georgetown Visitation Prep at 6:30 p.m., 35th Street and Volta Place.

An agenda can be found at anc2e.com.

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Making the Right Homeless Decisions

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hen Mayor Muriel Bowser, members of her team, and an assortment of local and regional public officials (along with the journalists covering them) return from their Cuban sojourn, they need to roll up their sleeves and decide how best to implement the mayor’s homeless housing plan.

Just about everybody in the city agrees that closing down D.C. General as a homeless shelter would be a good thing, long overdue. And if not a celebration, certainly there was praise in many quarters for Bowser’s (and former mayor Vincent Gray’s) plan to create a series of “smaller, dignified facilities” — in other words, temporary shelters spread throughout the city, in each and every one of the eight wards, a kind of share-the-pain-and-gain approach.

But the shelter locations, and how they were chosen, have already stirred up some opposition — not an unexpected development, given that there are always “we like the idea but not in my neighborhood” naysayers. Under the best of circumstances, even when voted for (as we’ve found in recent months and years), change runs into speed bumps and potholes.

The mayor anticipated opposition, which seems these days to be coming from Wards 1 and 5 and parts of Ward 3 and Ward 4. The reasons are sundry. Ward 5 representative Kenyan McDuffie remains one of the few Council members unhappy with the proposals. Other opponents complain about a lack of transparency in the site-selection process, into which they claim to have had no input. McDuffie said the site in his ward is very close to other social service facilities.

The mayor’s plan proposes seven shelters in seven wards (Ward 2 already has a women’s shelter). These sites would require extensive renovations, making for a somewhat lengthy process. However, some sites could begin to house homeless residents as early as next year. As sites become fully functional, the closure of D.C. General will be within reach.

One site has already come under heavy criticism from the public and the press: 2266 25th Place NE in Ward 5. According to nearby residents, this address, which is slated for 50 units, is in an industrial area with few stores or other conveniences.

One resident said that it’s an industrial wasteland, next to a strip club.

While the mayor has said she’s not budging on the plan, the question ought to be asked: How does a location like that help those who are most in need of help?

A Trip to Cuba President Barack Obama is scheduled to visit Cuba March 21 — a trip that has raised predictable political hackles. (To say nothing about Gitmo.)

Less problematic, at least in terms of public opinion, is the Cuba trip by Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser and a host of regional leaders, officials and District leaders in conjunction with the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce on a historic exploratory mission.

One of Bowser’s stops on the trip, scheduled to run through Thursday, was the University of Havana, where her mission (and certainly that of D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson, also a member of the delegation) was to find how Cuba’s literacy, graduation rates and university and college retention rates remain consistently high. “Washington, D.C., has seen great gains in our education system,” Bowser said. “Given Cuba’s emphasis on a strong education, I know there’s a lot we can learn from each other.”

Bowser met with her counterpart, Marta Hernandez Romero, the mayor of Havana. “As one of the first U.S. city delegations in decades to visit Havana, we have put ourselves in a position to form a positive working relationship that we hope will benefit our region in years to come,” Bowser said.

With 41 persons on the trip, there must be a lot to learn from a country with which the United States is on the way to normalizing relations. Council members Jack Evans and Vincent Orange are on hand, as are Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett and Virginia Secretary of Commerce and Trade Maurice Jones.

Yes, sí, we’re all in this together. What’s next? How about a Washington Nationals exhibition game in Havana?

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Jack Evans is the District Council member for Ward 2, representing Georgetown and other neighborhoods since 1991.

Arts Education at Fillmore Under Attack — Again!

By John Claud

Washington, D.C.’s public school system is once again attacking music, art and drama, and threatening to take away the very programs that kept thousands of families in the city to send their kids to public school. Showing a lack of support for arts education and furthering the squeeze on five overcrowded schools, DCPS is proposing to cut all funding from its 2016-17 school year budget for Fillmore Art Center. Fillmore provides arts education to more than 1,700 students from three wards and will be forced to close if DCPS has its way.

Students from Key, Ross, Marie Reed, Hyde-Addison and Stoddert elementary schools attend Fillmore for a half-day each week to receive arts education. If funding for Fillmore is not restored, the popular and much-loved arts center will close, making it impossible to provide this invaluable, enriching arts education.

Each of those schools is currently over capacity and/or in transition without permanent space. Fillmore provides an off-site dedicated location for arts education and allows the schools to pool their resources, ensuring high-quality arts programming that could not

be replicated within any one school.

DCPS has taken no steps to prepare the families for Fillmore’s dismantling. There is no realistic plan or contingency for arts education that would even come close to the quality instruction the children receive at Fillmore.

DCPS should be working to fix things in the system that are broken — not cutting programs that are proven and successful for schools that are already enrolled well beyond their capacity. The Fillmore partnership is effective and cost efficient. DCPS is unfairly penalizing the kids and parents from these schools.

The children who attend Fillmore deserve a wellrounded education, just like every other student in the city. If DCPS wants to encourage families to keep their kids in its schools, they need to stop playing slash-andgrab with the cost-effective programs that work.

Please help us say no to DCPS’s latest efforts, by visiting www.friendsoffillmore.org for more information.

John Claud is the president of Friends of Fillmore Arts Center.

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our long-term needs, live within our means and not look to immediate fixes that have only a short-term impact.

The findings of the CAFR, which was completed on time, resulted in a clean audit and reflect a balanced budget. In some ways, it is not the end of a process but the beginning of new work for us. We need to remain vigilant and continue to perform oversight on the identified areas of concern.

We now undertake the performance oversight process with the findings from the CAFR as a big-picture guide.

Over the past few weeks, I sent a number of questions to the agencies under my committee’s purview to collect data on agency structure and recent spending. Once I review what has worked and what has not, I will be in a better position to make recommendations on adjustments to the agency budgets for next year.

The Committee on Finance and Revenue will hold its next performance oversight hearing, on the D.C. Lottery, on March 4. Then, on March 8, we will hear from the remaining agencies under the purview of the Committee: the Office of the Chief Financial Officer, the Real Property Tax Appeals Commission and the Office of the Inspector General. In addition to my committee, all of the Council committees are holding similar oversight hearings (a full listing can be found at dccouncil.us).

I will keep you apprised of what I learn from these hearings, but I also welcome your thoughts, questions or testimony regarding these agencies. Please let me know if you would like to attend either hearing.

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The Committee on Finance and Revenue, the District Council committee that I chair, held its initial performance oversight hearing last week. Because the purview of the committee is so broad, we hold hearings on three different days.

Last week, we heard from the Office of Partnerships and Grant Services, DestinationDC, EventsDC, the Commission on the Arts and Humanities and WMATA. These hearings give the Council an opportunity to question agency leaders on their performance with regard to their budgets over the past year — where they excelled and where they fell short.

The oversight process also signals the beginning of the budget season. Two weeks ago, the Council held a hearing on the Fiscal Year 2015 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, known as the CAFR. The report — our 19th consecutive “clean” audit opinion — reminds us that the District of Columbia has a lot to be proud of.

Not only have we continued to maintain our strong bond ratings, and even secured an upgrade in the past year, but we have also managed to increase our fund balance to $2.17 billion. Additionally, not only were there no reported material weaknesses, there was no yellow book, which is commendable.

It is important to note, however, that there is still room for improvement. As I have said many times in the past, maintaining our fiscal health was no small accomplishment in the past several years, when so many governments have been struggling financially.

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FEATURE

Sacred Ground

Celebrating 200 Years at Mount Zion

BY SH EIL A MOSE S

In front of Mount Zion Church on 29th Street: Barbara Ricks Thompson, who grew up on 26th Street across from Rose Park, Pastor Johnsie Cogman and Khari Eyen Zame Johnson. Photo by Robert Devaney.

“H

e is worthy, he is worthy, worthy to be praised.”

The hymn warmed my heart as I walked closer to Mount Zion United Methodist Church on a freezing cold February morning. When I entered the sanctuary, I knew I was in no ordinary church. I was standing on sacred ground.

The architectural design of the oldest African American Methodist church in the nation’s capital was so overwhelming that it became difficult to focus on the hymn. It is clear that Father Time has taken a toll on the halls and the ceiling, but not on the souls of the people.

The congregation is a combination of young and elderly. Many of the members are related and their history can be traced back generations — not just to the current building but to the original church their ancestors started in 1816.

Pastor Johnsie Cogman, who came to Mount Zion five years ago, knows all the details of the church’s origins. When she speaks, you can almost see the 120 men and women who grew weary of the racial divide at Montgomery Methodist Church (now called Dumbarton United Methodist Church) 200 years ago.

The vision of their ancestors’ pain is hard to forget, but a moment of reckoning came when Pastor Mary Kay Totty from Dumbarton Methodist arrived at Mount Zion last October.

She came to apologize to the descendants of those wronged all those years ago. Pastor Totty presented a crystal dove in remembrance of the past and in hope for their future. Even before the dove’s arrival, the two churches were serving the community together.

There is joy in Cogman’s voice when she talks about the Saturday dinners Mount Zion started providing three years ago. The church collaborates with Dumbarton Methodist and four

other churches in Georgetown to feed those in need every Saturday at 5 p.m. The hot meals are served on china with tablecloths and silverware.

Those who have fallen on hard times do not drink out of paper cups but sip from glasses.

The coalition of churches will continue to serve the dinners at Jerusalem Baptist until the new kitchen at Mount Zion is completed this summer. This is one of many projects the members are happy to see expand, while celebrating 200 years of love and fellowship.

Cogman and the members are equally excited about the future of Mount Zion after all the fanfare of the anniversary is over.

“We have a lot to be thankful for,” says member and Georgetown native Vernon Ricks.

“I was born in Georgetown, but my family was forced out when I was eight years old. My folks could no longer afford to live here when wealthy white families started buying up the area. They bought everything except the churches. By the grace of God we held our ground on the churches.” There is sadness in his voice when he tells the story of walking back from 18th Street to Mount Zion, no matter the weather, every Sunday morning.

Today, there are only a few members who still live in Georgetown. Like Ricks, the families commute to the area they once called home. He has witnessed the church leadership change over and over again. He welcomes the young leaders like Pam Coleman, who has been a member all of her life.

Coleman tells stories about the church, as well as about the cemetery that sits on the hillside a few blocks away, behind Q Street near Rock Creek. Yes, their ancestors are gone on to glory, but their resting place is in despair, like many African American burial grounds around the country. She is sure that one day they will be

A tombstone at Mount Zion Cemetery/Female Union Band Cemetery, which is behind Q and 27th Streets NW. Photo by Sheila Moses.

able to honor their ancestors by repairing these sacred grounds.

Hopeful that people around the country will learn about the Mount Zion she loves so much, Coleman is writing a letter to President Obama and his family to invite them to the final 200th Anniversary service. She wants the president to know their story. There is too much history for Cogman, Coleman or Ricks to remember, as he continues to tell their story.

Mount Zion held a health and wellness fair at the church last Sunday. On the sidewalk you could find the pastor popping popcorn and inviting people to go inside. There are more activities to come, including members participating in the 25th anniversary celebration of the book, “Black Georgetown Remembered,” at Georgetown University Feb. 24. The formal anniversary dinner will be held Sept. 30 with the 200th anniversary Sunday Service Oct. 2.

“Pastor Cogman has a fire inside her that we need at Mount Zion,” Ricks says. It is clear that she is as beloved by the members as the church.

“We are a church that loves God,” says Cogman. “Yes, we have a rich history, but we are moving forward into tomorrow to serve God and this community.”

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IN: Bar à Vin, at Chez Billy Sud First, in 2012, there was Chez Billy in Petworth. Then, in 2014, there was Chez Billy Sud in Georgetown. Now, on Feb. 29, there will be Bar à Vin at 1035 31st St. NW, a long-vacant space adjacent to Chez Billy Sud. All three, and more, are the creations of Eric Hilton (of electronic music collective Thievery Corporation) and his younger brother Ian. The new space, expected to feature a large, carefully curated, mostly French wine list, will be open from 4 p.m. to 2 a.m., accommodating those waiting for a table at Chez Billy Sud and others. The smaller of two rooms has a working fireplace.

IN: Dean & Deluca’s Patio, Now With Alcohol, Music The Dean & DeLuca food market at 3276 M St. NW will soon sell beer and wine to be consumed at its outside plaza, with limited music allowed. (The store has always sold beer and wine, but alcohol could not be consumed on the premises.) The cafe, the Citizens Association of

Georgetown and the Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E have entered into a voluntary agreement, with expected approval by the D.C. Alcohol Beverage Control Board.

IN: Bedrock Gets Gtown Park Place Restaurant entrepreneur Geoff Dawson has signed a lease for space at Georgetown Park on the canal level with a Wisconsin Avenue entrance. Dawson’s many Bedrock Management Company ventures include Bedrock Billiards, Ripple and Penn Social.

IN: 3 Eateries Share Space on Grace Street Georgetown’s mini food eruption continues. Grace Street Coffee Roasters, South Block Juice Co. and SundeVich will soon be checking into a shared space at 3210 Grace St. NW, near Dog Tag Bakery and across from Chaia Tacos. The coffee shop will be joined by the Arlington micro juicery’s sixth store. The global-sandwich maker from Shaw will also set up in Georgetown. Wow, it’s a wholly trinity of Millennial tastes, just half a block from Wisconsin and M.

All D.C. Boathouses Now Under Single Management Under a new 10-year agreement with the National Park Service, NCR Guest Services will take over operation of all three of D.C.’s public boathouses along the Potomac River.

Visitors will now be able to rent boats and bikes from any boathouse and drop them off at any other boathouse. Other features of the new management include instructional programs for rowing, canoeing, kayaking and stand-up paddleboarding; storage and rental of nonmotorized watercraft; programs for the disabled; canoe and kayak development programs for youths; and junior fishing programs.

OUT: Yes to Drugs, No to Liquor for Glover Park Rite Aid At its Feb. 11 meeting, Advisory Neighborhood Commission 3B voted 5-0 to oppose a request made in January by the soon-to-open Glover Park Rite Aid to lift the neighborhood’s existing ban on new Class

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A Bunker for Scary Times

BY J OHN E. GIROUAR D Suppose there was a financial instrument — with a track record stretching back 1,400 years — that was so solid that it: survived the Great Depression intact; earned untaxed interest at a competitive rate; could provide cash at will, regardless of one’s current financial situation; and could be used by individuals, as well as by major corporations and banks, as a safe harbor during economic turmoil?

The instrument I’m talking about is participating whole life insurance, the kind of insurance our parents and grandparents owned before the stock market began to boom in the 1980s and 1990s. After mutual whole life saw our elders through thick and thin, it went through several decades of being muscled aside by the allure of the stock market. It’s making a big comeback.

I’m astonished at how few people and investment professionals I meet understand how these policies work, or don’t offer them to clients because they aren’t sexy or new.

Today, these contracts are the favored investment vehicle of the wealthy. But too often, when sold by the financial industry, they are sold in the wrong form. Term insurance is still the most economical life insurance option for most people. For clients looking for a better place to accumulate cash than a bank account or the Wall Street casino, however, mutual whole life insurance, done correctly, is the

closest thing to owning your own bank.

The concept is rather simple.

You own the bank. Unlike most products, which are created and sold to benefit stockholders, these contracts are owned by the policyholders, the sole constituency they serve.

Ironclad guarantees. The cash value and death benefit are tightly regulated and insured by the states. And many policies today provide benefits for chronic long-term care.

Even banks and corporations buy them.

Major corporations and banks buy these policies and utilize them as a safe place to accumulate their cash. They invest with other people’s money but protect their own money. Instead of doing what banks say, do what banks do.

In the end, mutual insurance is only one part of a financial plan, the bunker you can retreat to when the rest of the world is falling apart and you can’t sleep.

These policies got our grandparents through the Great Depression, and if structured correctly they can get you through those scary times in your life.

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FOOD & WINE

José Andrés Offers Halcyon Fellows His Advice — and Spirit

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want to be richer than Donald Trump,” said chef, entrepreneur and philanthropist José Andrés during the welcoming ceremony Feb. 18 for the Halcyon Incubator fellows of the Spring 2016

Cohort.

Speaking on stage at Halcyon House with Ryan Ross, program manager of the Georgetown non-profit that fosters social entrepreneurs and their big ideas, the positive, likable Andrés talked about a new capitalism that succeeds without taking advantage of others. He offered his entrepreneurial advice and enthusiasm to 10 fellow who are pursuing eight Halcyon Incubator projects, ranging from life-saving shelter to rooftop farming. They each spoke briefly about their projects to those assembled.

Fitting in well with the do-gooder but worldly fellows, Andrés looked very much at home and said he sees this smarter way of working as saving capitalism.

In a not very veiled reference to Trump, with whom he is snarled in a lawsuit about a proposed restaurant (which the chef nixed after the presidential candidate’s comments on immigrants) in the upcoming Trump Hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue, Andrés said immigrants make good Americans and that there are “11 million undocumented” in the country.

The 47-year-old father of three said that when he arrived in America at the age of 19 he felt welcome — “and if not, I made them feel welcome.”

Andrés hit upon the large prison population in the U.S., saying that some inmates would do much better with mentoring — “make that person not a problem but a solution” — and perhaps make a new college for the jailed.

“Why throw money at a problem when you can invest in the solution?” he asked.

Touting “food as an agent for change,” the head of the ThinkFood Group, which owns most of its restaurants in and around Washington, D.C., spoke about going to Haiti and also helping during Hurricane Sandy. He noted that local is not always the best way to go — “buy avocados from Mexico” — and that the latest food fad or well-intentioned rescue can hurt farmers. Free rice to Haiti drove Haitian farmers out of business, he said. And quinoa? Local prices rose in Peru.

If you want to help Haiti, just show up — it’s not about money, he said. It’s how you think about it, Andrés said, questioning what people think about Anacostia.

We have to think smarter and invest more in the world, he urged. “To help the world we need to start looking at it like we’re investing in the world.”

Asked about failure, Andrés smiled and said, “I don’t like to read Yelp before going to bed.” As a chef, he said he knows that he is “only as good as his last plate,” unlike an artist who paints a masterpiece that everyone can enjoy for many years to come. “Failure keeps you awake … motivates,” he told the audience. “We need to make it a habit to celebrate our failure because there’s always a sunrise on the other side.”

Andrés offered a quote from Winston Churchill: “Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.”

Visit HalcyonIncubator.org, part of S&R Foundation, for more information about the program and its fellows. It is accepting applications, due by May 3, for its fall program.

Chef José Andrés, Halcyon fellow Prasoon Kumar of winterHyde and S&R Foundation CEO Sachiko Kuno. Photo by Robert Devaney.

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he Watergate Hotel will feature new restaurant and bar concepts at its reopening, slated for March. The main restaurant is Kingbird, a finedining dinner restaurant in the evening, and a casual restaurant during the day, serving breakfast and lunch, as well as a casual-dining component in the evening. The Next Whiskey Bar is the lobby bar with a significant whiskey, bourbon and rye menu. The name is taken from lyrics to a Doors song, for those boomers who thought it sounded familiar. The property will also feature a rooftop lounge called Top of the Gate (or is it ’Gate, get it?) that has a panoramic view of the Potomac River. The executive chef is Michael Santoro, most recently at Andaz 5th Avenue in New York. In D.C., he served as chef de cuisine under Brian McBride at Blue Duck Tavern at the Park Hyatt Hotel in the West End. Cooper’s Hawk Winery & Restaurant is slated to open this month in Ashburn’s Belmont Chase Shopping Center. It offers modern American food, featuring their own proprietary varietals crafted from their Illinois-based winery. The large 10,985-square-foot restaurant will offer indoor and outdoor seating for more than 300 guests, as well as a large private dining and events room. They also offer a wine of the month club. There are currently 20 locations around the country, including a Richmond site. They also expect to open in

Reston this year. Jeffrey Patterson is the general manager.

Papadopoulos Properties is working with Boston chef Michael Schlow to expand his concepts in the DMV. Schlow’s Italian concept, Alta Strada, is slated to open in Northern Virginia’s Mosaic District where matchbox and Ted’s Bulletin are (also Papadopoulos deals). Alta Strada is also slated to open in the Mount Vernon Triangle section of DC. Schlow has already made his mark in D.C. with TICO and The Riggsby at The Carlyle — Dupont Circle Hotel.

C-C-Changes: Wagshal’s opened a full service restaurant behind the deli at its Spring Valley (AU Park) location on Yuma Street NW. The Fuchs family hopes to do the same at his other location at 3201 New Mexico Ave. NW, serving breakfast and dinner … Raku in Dupont Circle has re-branded as Rakuya, Japanese Kitchen & Bar. Chef Update: Jose Adorno is the chef at Mix Bar & Grille in Silver Spring. He was previously chef de cuisine at Graffiato ... Ricarda Planas has been appointed chef at Mpire in the Golden Triangle.

Quick Hits: Manuel Iguina, owner of Mio in downtown D.C., does not plan to renew his lease, but does plan to open a similar concept, called Acerola (cherry-esque), in Fairfax over the summer. Chop’t Creative Salad Co. has signed deals to open in Vienna, Rockville and near Nats Park. These three new locations

will give them 15 in the D.C. metro area, all part of the Papadopoulos portfolio. Haikan is the name of the new ramen restaurant slated to open this spring in Shaw by the folks who brought you Daikaya. The 2,000-plus squarefoot restaurant will offer a varied selection of Sapporo-style ramen. Nobu is slated to open this fall in West End at 2501 M St. NW. Jackie Greenbaum, plans to open Little Coco’s, an Italian eatery in Petworth. Adam Harvey will reign over the kitchen, as he has done at Jackie’s in Silver Spring. Un Je Ne Sais Quoi will open where Hello Cupcake was in Dupont Circle. It will specialize in merveilleux, a pastry with layers of merengue and ganache.

The Tilted Kilt plans to open in Silver Spring and in Sterling by end of the second quarter in 2016. Pamplona, a Spanish tapas restaurant from the Social Restaurant Group, will open where SoBe Bar and Bistro was. Super Grill opens in Merrifield’s H Mart shopping center where Mario’s Pizza House was. Arepas Pues is slated to open on Fenton Street in downtown Silver Spring, serving hand-made corn arepas, complementing Venezuelan, Colombian and Cuban cuisine. Arepas are cornmeal pockets traditionally served with diverse fillings.

Burton’s Bar & Grill is planning to open this March in Alexandria. Dylyn Coolidge, formerly of Commissary and the Beacon Bar, will be the chef, adding vegetarian and glutenfree dishes to the menu. Zannchi Korean

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Kitchen will open in the Wisconsin Avenue space in Georgetown where Yummi Crawfish was; the owners are Georgetown MBA students. They plan to open in February. From the folks at Eat Well DC who brought you The Pig, Commissary, Grillfish and Logan Tavern, comes The Bird, slated to open in Shaw on 11th Street NW, specializing in — what else?

— chicken. Seating capacity will accommodate 99 with plans for an outdoor patio. Just Chicken is also slated to open in the U Street corridor this season. Chuy’s Tex Mex is slated to open in Sterling. They just opened in Woodbridge on Prince William Parkway, in addition to the units open in Fairfax and Springfield.

More are planned in the DMV in 2016. Smashburger opens in Rockville at 1800 Rockville Pike before end of the first quarter 2016. This will be the 11th Smashburger to open in the D.C. metro area.

Linda Roth is president of Linda Roth Associates, a public relations and marketing firm that specializes in the hospitality industry, Reach her at: Linda@LindaRothPR.com.

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1789 RESTAURANT 1226 36th St., NW 202–965–1789 1789restaurant.com

With the ambiance of an elegant country inn, 1789 features classically-based American cuisine – the finest regional game, fish and produce available.

Open seven nights a week.

Jackets suggested.

Complimentary valet parking.

DAS Ethiopian 1201 28TH ST., NW

202–333–4710 dasethiopian.com DAS Ethiopian offers you a cozy twostory setting, with rare outside dining views and al fresco patio dining. DAS is located at the eclectically brilliant historic corner of the internationally renowned shopping district of Georgetown.

A tent under which all come to feast is the very Amharic definition of DAS. From neighborhood diners, nearby students and journalists to international visitors and performers, all enjoy the casual but refined atmosphere that serves up the freshest Ethiopian dishes from local and sustainable food sources.

Bistro Francais 3124-28 M St., NW 202–338–3830 bistrofrancaisdc.com

A friendly French bistro in the heart of historic Georgetown since 1975.

Executive chef and owner Gerard Cabrol came to Washington, D.C., 32 years ago, bringing with him home recipes from southwestern France. In addition to daily specials, our specialties include our famous Poulet Bistro (tarragon rotisserie chicken), Minute Steak Maitre d’Hotel (steak and pomme frites), Steak Tartare, freshly prepared seafood, veal, lamb and duck dishes and the best Eggs Benedict in town.

THE GRILL ROOM 1050 31ST ST., NW 202-617-2424 thegrillroomdc.com

Tucked up along the historic C&O Canal, a national park that threads through the Georgetown neighborhood, The Grill Room at Capella Washington, D.C., specializes in hand-cut, bone-in, artisan meats, bracingly fresh seafood and tableside preparations. Framed with a wall of floor-to-ceiling windows and fluid geometric lines, the ambiance is one of relaxed refinement.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily.

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Visit ENO Wine Bar and enjoy wine flights, charcuterie, cheese, chocolate & seasonal small plates. ENO offers 100 bottles under $50 & 45 wines by the glass starting at $9. The Cellar is an intimate lounge perfect for a date night or private events. Monthly ENOversity: Sunday Wine Classes $50 & Wednesday meet local producers for free tastings.

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1522 Wisconsin Ave., NW 202–333–8830 cafebonaparte.com Captivating customers since 2003, Cafe Bonaparte has been dubbed the “quintessential” European café, featuring award-winning crepes and arguably the “best” coffee in D.C.! Other can't-miss attractions are the famous weekend brunch every Saturday and Sunday until 3 p.m. and our late-night weekend hours serving sweet and savory crepes until 1 a.m.

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Clyde's of Georgetown 3236 M St., NW 202–333–9180 clydes.com

This animated tavern, in the heart of Georgetown, popularized saloon food and practically invented Sunday brunch.

Clyde’s is the People’s Choice for bacon cheeseburgers, steaks, fresh seafood, grilled chicken salads, fresh pastas and desserts.

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Family-owned restaurant serving authentic Brazilian food in Washington, D.C., for more than 23 years. Our Executive Chef, Alcy de Souza, cooks with the heart and soul. Live music on Thursday nights is a romantic blend of bossa nova, jazz, samba, choro and forró.

Malmaison opened in June 2013 and features elegant French dining in Washington D.C’s historic Georgetown waterfront. Housed in a majestically refurbished industrial warehouse reminiscent of NYC’s Meatpacking District, the modern restaurant, pastry shop and event lounge features the culinary talents of legendary 2 Michelin Starred French Chef Gerard Pangaud and Pastry Chef Serge Torres (Le Cirque NYC).

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Monday – Thursday 4:30 to 10:30 pm Friday 4:30 to 11:30 pm Saturday noon to 11:30 pm (brunch until 4 pm) Sunday noon to 10 pm (brunch until 4 pm) Parking validation available for breakfast, lunch and brunch.

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1264 WISCONSIN AVE., NW 202-333-7370 martinstavern.com Fifth generation Lauren Martin learns about the family business from her dad, Billy Martin, Jr. Since 1933, the warm atmosphere of Martin’s Tavern has welcomed neighbors and world travelers looking for great food, service and years of history within it’s walls. Fourth generation owner Billy Martin. Jr. continues the tradition of Washington’s oldest family owned restaurant.

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SEA CATCH Restaurant

1054 31st St., NW 202–337–8855 seacatchrestaurant.com Overlooking the historic C&O Canal, we offer fresh seafood simply prepared in a relaxed atmosphere. Outdoor dining available.

The Sea Catch will be open on Sundays, serving Brunch and dinner.

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THE OCEANAIRE 1201 F St., NW 202–347–2277 theoceanaire.com

Ranked one of the most popular seafood restaurants in D.C., “this cosmopolitan” send-up of a vintage supper club that’s styled after a '40’s-era ocean liner is appointed with cherry wood and red leather booths, infused with a “clubby, old money” atmosphere. The menu showcases “intelligently” prepared fish dishes that “recall an earlier time of elegant” dining.

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TOWN HALL

2340 Wisconsin Ave., NW 202-333-5640 townhalldc.com Situated just north of Georgetown on Wisconsin Ave, Town Hall has been a neighborhood mainstay in Glover Park since 2005. Whether you’re popping in for dinner, drinks, or weekend brunch, Town Hall is the spot you’ll want to call home to Gulp, Gather & Grub.

Free parking is available nightly after 7PM, and during warmer months, our outdoor courtyard is one of DC’s best kept secrets.

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everal great Americans were born into slavery. One way the nation pays tribute to such personages is on our currency. We are likely to see Harriet Tubman on the $10 or $20 bill in a few years.

And in 2017, the former home in Anacostia of Tubman’s fellow abolitionist, Frederick Douglass, will appear on quarters.

Douglass, who lived in the hilltop house he named Cedar Hill from 1877 until his death in 1895, was known as the “Sage of Anacostia” and — both for his oratory and for his white mane — “the Lion of Cedar Hill.” Preserved by Douglass’s second wife, the property became Frederick Douglass National Historic Site in 1988.

Whether during Black History Month or when the nine-acre site is in bloom, a visit to Cedar Hill is one of D.C.’s most rewarding heritage experiences. The National Park Service offers ranger-guided tours of the restored house, furnished largely with original pieces, five times daily (reservations, made for a $1.50 fee at recreation.gov, are recommended).

The huge trees, terraced front lawn and woodsy backyard — where Douglass’s rustic stone hideaway, the “Growlery,” has been reconstructed — make it easy to imagine the rural Anacostia of the mid-1800s. The house’s builder and original owner was John Van Hook, one of the developers of an early, semi-

successful suburb called Uniontown, aimed at Navy Yard workers (and from which Irish and African Americans were excluded).

Douglass purchased the house in 1877 upon his appointment by Rutherford B. Hayes as U.S. Marshall for the District of Columbia.

He served until 1881 and later became Minister to Haiti, appointed by Benjamin Harrison.

Speaking at the dedication of the Haitian Pavilion at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, Douglas said of the Haitian people: “It will ever be a matter of wonder and astonishment to thoughtful men, that a people in abject slavery, subject to the lash, and kept in ignorance of letters, as these slaves were, should have known enough, or had left in them enough manhood, to combine, to organize, and to select for themselves trusted leaders and with loyal hearts follow them into the jaws of death to obtain liberty.”

Writing and speaking about human rights — of blacks and, during the latter part of his life, of women — was Douglass’s calling. Born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, he taught himself to read and write as an enslaved boy, a household servant in Baltimore.

At 20, while working as a ship caulker on the Baltimore docks, he escaped to New York City, married a free black woman, Anna Murray, and began to raise a family in New

Above: The nine-acre Frederick Douglass Historic Site, with terraced lawn and huge trees, retains the feel of rural 19th-century Anacostia. Left: The view from the second floor of Cedar Hill. Photos by Richard Selden.

Bedford, Massachusetts. He soon became an agent of William Lloyd Garrison’s American Anti-Slavery Society and wrote the first of three autobiographies.

Still a fugitive from slavery, Douglass went on a speaking tour in Europe, returning to the U.S. after English friends purchased his freedom. In 1847, he launched an abolitionist newspaper, the North Star, in Rochester, New York. Twenty-five years later, at 54, a prominent public figure who had advised Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War, he and his family relocated to Washington, living at 316 A St. NE prior to buying the Anacostia estate.

A short film shown in the visitor center movingly tells his life-story, with graphic scenes of his treatment by a slave-breaker and

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There is an extensive selection of books by and about Douglass for all ages in the shop, notably the dual biography “Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln” by Harvard professor John Stauffer.

After a climb of 85 outdoor steps from the visitor center (there is also a ramp), the tour enters the house from the front porch. Visitors get to look in on rooms downstairs and up, including the kitchen wing that Douglass added, converting the former kitchen into a large dining room in which to host his many visitors. Before or after the tour, the hilly grounds are open to explore.

When in Anacostia, another black history stop is the Anacostia Community Museum, founded by the Smithsonian in 1967 as a storefront museum in the Carver Theater, a 1940s movie house. Twenty years later, it moved to a new building near Fort Stanton Park. On Saturday, Feb. 27, at 2 p.m., the museum will host Aaron Reeder’s show, “Rhythm Café: The Life & Times of Sammy Davis Jr.” For more information on the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site, 1411 W St. SE, visit nps.gov/frdo or call 202-426-5961.

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Food Label Pitfalls

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osing weight is one of the classic New Year’s resolutions, and eating better is an essential component of success. Food labels can be booby traps for dieters because they contain misleading information. Here are three of the most common pitfalls to step over.

1. Gluten-free. Even people with little or no nutrition education know that cookies aren’t very good for you.

Made of refined starch and sugar and fat, they’re very calorie-dense.

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They’re also hyper-palatable, which means that it’s really hard to stop eating them.

Everybody knows this. Food marketers, however, know that slapping “gluten-free” on a box of cookies is a way to bypass our common sense.

Gluten is a protein found in wheat (and in a few other grains) that helps gives bread its unique texture. It’s only a problem if you have a sensitivity. Gluten-free cookies are the nutritional equivalents of regular cookies because they’re, well, cookies. With or without gluten, they’re made of refined starch and sugar and fat. Healthy foods like chicken, eggs and green beans are all naturally gluten-free, but they’re not healthy because they’re gluten-free.

2. Trans-fat free. Trans-fats (from hydrogenated vegetable oil) might be the worst ingredients in our food today. We’ve become increasingly aware of their dangers, and the FDA introduced trans-fat labeling requirements with one exception: If a food has less than half a gram of trans-fats per serving, it can be legally called “trans-fat free” on the packaging.

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The takeaways for you, the consumer, are (a) be suspicious of anything labeled “trans-fat free” and (b) read the ingredient list and look for hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated oil of any kind — so you can avoid it.

3. “All natural” or “no artificial anything®.” These terms have no real legal definition, meaning that you can put “all natural” on a highly processed food without violating any law. As for the term “no artificial anything®,” please notice the registered trademark symbol. What the ® means is that this term is the intellectual property of the food manufacturer; the company has the exclusive right to use it for marketing and branding purposes. It does not mean that the term has any legal meaning regarding the contents of the package. (It doesn’t.)

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Alberich, portrayed by baritone Gordon Hawkins, tries to seduce the three Rhinemaidens in “The Rhinegold,” the first opera in WNO’s Ring cycle. Photo by Cory Weaver. Courtesy Washington National Opera.

An Operatic Spring

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eople love opera — madly, passionately, unreasonably, joyfully.

People hate opera — disdainfully, passionately, unreasonably, deeply.

Count me among the swains.

I don’t say this lightly. My connections to opera have been tangential, furtive, through film and snippets of famous music (both Mozart and Muzak) and by the fact that my son’s mother was a trained mezzo-soprano.

These things come slowly, at least to me.

I do not have much of a baptismal or sudden conversionary nature. Things accumulate.

I remember seeing a film version of “La traviata” in which an impassioned Placido Domingo exchanges words and greetings in song with the sad, doomed courtesan Violetta.

The music and the singing were soaring, aiming for heaven by way of heartbreak (or so it felt ), until I saw the titles, which merely noted, “Good morning, darling” or “Fine day, isn’t it?” After all that engulfing vocalizing, this was a deflating discovery.

Only later did I realize that in opera every word counts because it is sung. Every word is an attempt to express a precise feeling. The words may not be literature. Librettos are the Achilles’ heel of opera. You read them at peril of boredom. Yet, the music somehow invests the words with powerful, ultimate emotion.

Libretto and music are usually unequal partners. When they are equal, well, bravissimo to you, Wolfang Amadeus Mozart and Lorenzo Da Ponte. And you, too, Herr Richard Wagner.

Which brings us to the Ring … or the Ring Cycle … or “The Ring of the Nibelung” … or, as they say, casually, among the Germanic tribes: “Der Ring des Nibelungen.”

Basically, it’s THE RING: Wagner’s cycle of four operas (he thought of them as a new genre) — “The Rhinegold,” “The Valkyrie,” “Siegfried” and “Twilight of the Gods” — inspired by the Norse sagas and the late 12thcentury German epic poem about a medieval royal family, “The Song of the Nibelungs.”

After 25 years of writing and composing, give or take, the cycle premiered at the first Bayreuth Festival in August of 1876.

And now it’s here, at Washington National Opera, from April 30 to May 22: Three cycles, 12 performances altogether, each running around four hours.

Those 16 hours (times three) are packed with gods. There are gods and demi-gods and semi-gods, to the point where you could exclaim, “Who Let the Gods Out?” They have names like Fafner, Fasolt, Woglinde, Wellgunde, Flosshilde, Fricka and the God of Gods, Wotan. There’s Alberich, the evil dwarf and maker of the ring. There’s Erda the earth goddess and the indomitable Brunnhilde and Siegmund and Sieglinde (who unfortunately fall in love) and Schwertleite and Mime and the Wanderer and the Forest Bird and the Norns. And there’s Siegfried, hero of heroes.

Mostly, there is Wagner, the most difficult of men and human beings, the most difficult of composers and the most difficult of geniuses.

He trails behind him a century and more of reputation, some of it marred by misguided admirers who made aspects of his sometimes bizarre philosophy into Teutonic ideals.

He wrote other operas, of course: “The Flying Dutchman,” “Tannhauser,” “Loehengrin” and the spectacular “Tristan and Isolde,” staged here in 2013. But the cycle achieves something that Wagner talked about a lot (and largely achieved): total theater, the art of fusing music, drama, literature and the visual arts into one.

WNO Artistic Director Francesca Zambello brings her gift for meeting challenges and flair for the fresh to this project. She’s done it before, at San Francisco Opera, and has conductor Philippe Auguin beside her, along with Michael Yeargan's sets, Catherine Zuber's costumes and Denni Sayers's choreography.

The cast includes such stars as Elizabeth Bishop as Fricka, Alan Held as Wotan, Soloman Howard as Fafner, David Cangelosi as Mime, Lindsay Ammann as Erda, Christopher Ventris as Siegmund, Nina Stemme and Catherine Foster as Brünnhilde and Daniel Brenna as Siegfried.

In the WNO brochure, the descriptions are very Wagnerian, like a cinematic trailer: • “A mythical ring stolen. A powerful curse unleashed.” (“The Rhinegold”) • “A forbidden love ignited. A defiant warrior avenged.” (“The Valkyrie”) • “A fearless hero empowered. A dangerous quest begun.” (“Siegfried”) • “A doomed love transcended. A fractured world restored.” (“Twilight of the Gods”).

Wagner was a gifted librettist; his books for his operas read like free-flowing utterances, like a very Germanic Whitman, all exclamation, pure heart, pain, glory and the deepest sort of love. His music and his words speak to all the feelings and stories we never think of ourselves as living, but imagine nevertheless.

He aspires to the total, and if he’s not Wotan, he probably comes close.

As Zambello urges us: “On to Valhalla!”

Washington is a pretty fine opera area. It lets you reach out to opera in all of its manifestations, some of them as familiar as your password, some of them hardly ever seen live (and therefore also precious). There are

companies big, small and medium-size, from Washington National Opera and Wolf Trap to the Washington Savoyards — our Gilbert and Sullivan specialists — and Opera Camerata.

Washington Concert Opera, founded in 1986, is dedicated, especially under Artistic Director and Conductor Antony Walker, to presenting star-level international singers with a professional orchestra and chorus in concert versions of rarely performed works by renowned composers.

This spring’s offering is from Gaetano Donizetti, one of the leading composers of bel canto (Italian for beautiful singing) operas, including “Lucia di Lammermoor,” famous for its mad scene. Washington Concert Opera will be presenting the French version of Donizetti’s “La favorite” on March 4 at Lisner Auditorium.

Written at the height of his career, it is one of the few operas, we’re told, that features a mezzo-soprano in the title role.

The title role in question is that of Léonor, the King of Castille’s mistress, who falls in love with a monk, who falls in love with her. All this — including forbidden love, of which there is a copious amount in 19thcentury operas — is set during the Moorish invasion of Spain, so that you have painful but passionate love, war, big arias, impassioned orchestral writing and a spectacular chorus.

Kate Lindsey appears as Léonor, Randall Bills as the monk Fernand, John Relyea as Father Balthazar, Rolando Sanz as Don Gaspar, Joélle Harvey as Inès and Javier Arrey as the King of Castile.

Opera Lafayette, founded in 1995 by Conductor and Artistic Director Ryan Brown, has a specialty also. It is a period-instrument ensemble focused on the French 18th-century opera repertoire and its precursors, influences and artistic legacy. Performing in major theaters in Washington, New York and abroad (including France) and recording on the Naxos label, the company is known for presenting rediscovered masterpieces and creating a recorded legacy.

This year’s productions have included the baroque opera “Catone in Utica” (which was also performed in the summer at the Glimmerglass Festival in Cooperstown, New York) and the 19th-century opera “Une Éducation Manquée.” Coming up April 9 at Lisner will be “Opera and the French Revolution,” including scenes from “Sapho,” “Médée” and Œdipe à Colone.”

Vivica Genaux and Jessica Pratt in Washington Concert Opera’s Nov. 22 performance of “Semiramide.” Photo by Don Lassell. Courtesy Washington Concert Opera.

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Septime Webre, Front and Center

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hen Septime Webre announced earlier this month that he was ending a highly successful and energizing 17-year run as the Washington Ballet’s artistic director to “focus on creating new ballets and to staging on other companies the many original works I have created for the Washington Ballet,” there was still some unfinished business to consider.

That would be the rest of the company’s season, a diverse quartet of four productions that exemplify Webre’s unique leadership.

Webre gave the company more than a flash of the new, with his own stagings and works and by bringing the choreography of stars like Twyla Tharp, Christopher Wheeldon, Mark Morris, Paul Taylor, Hans van Manen and William Forsythe to Washington.

Over the remainder of the season, in the Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theater, we will see Webre’s style clearly illustrated, beginning this week (through Feb. 28) with “Director’s Cut,” which includes the evocatively titled “In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated,” with music composed by Thom Williams for Forsythe’s influential ballet of 1987. Also on the program is the remarkable “Prism,” choreographed by Annabelle Lopez Ochoa to improvisations by pianist Keith Jarrett.

Webre comes front and center with “State of Wonder,” 32 intricate dance translations set to Bach’s classic “Goldberg Variations,” with live

William Forsythe’s ballet, “In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated,” part of Septime Webre’s final season as artistic director of the Washington Ballet. Courtesy Washington Ballet.

music by S&R Foundation Artist in Residence Ryo Yanagitani.

March will see the arrival (through April 3) of “Hamlet” by Ballet Austin Choreographer and Artistic Director Stephen Mills, which features music by Philip Glass. Webre calls Mills’s “Hamlet” “sleek and dramatic — from the choreography to the sparse and contemporary scenic design, a performance that is like no Shakespeare work you’ve ever seen.”

Then there’s “Carmine Burana.” “This is personal to me,” says Webre, who did the

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Paired with George Balanchine’s “Themes and Variations,” it will run from April 13 to 17.

Finally, coincidentally if not fortuitously, there is “Bowie & Queen,” an evening of dance tributes to the rock legends David Bowie — whose recent death at the age of 69

hit several generations of admirers hard — and Freddy Mercury, the electric lead singer of Queen. It will run May 4 to 15.

Electric choreographer Trey McIntyre has created “Mercury Half-Life,” exploring the life and times of Mercury, who invented and reinvented himself often as the crowd-pleasing but pioneering rockmeister of Queen. Edwaard Liang pays tribute to Bowie and his chameleon persona and music with the help of violinist Machiko Ozawa in “Dancing in the Street.”

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Celebrating Lou Harrison, March 12, Indonesian Embassy PostClassical Ensemble and a gamelan The Freedom of the Writer and the Cruelties of History, March 20, Foundry United Methodist Church A Theater J panel with David Grossman, Azar Nafisi and Leon Wieseltier All the Way, April 1 to May 8, Arena Stage Robert Schenkkan’s Tony-winning play The Nether, April 4 to May 1, Woolly Mammoth Jennifer Haley’s play, set in 2050

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Emanuel Ax, April 19, The Phillips Collection A benefit concert marking the 75th anniversary season of music at the Phillips A Lesson from Aloes, April 29 to May 29, The Writer’s Center (Bethesda) Quotidian’s production of an Athol Fugard play Chronicle of a Death Foretold, April 7 to May 8, GALA Hispanic Theatre Gabriel García Márquez’s novel, adapted (in Spanish with English titles)

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VISUAL ARTS Yinka Shonibare MBE and Sue Williamson will repeat, resist and reverse the expectation that time must move relentlessly forward.

‘Small Stories: At Home in a Dollhouse’ (opens May 21) National Building Museum

This exhibition reveals the stories behind iconic antique dollhouses from the Victoria & Albert Museum of Childhood, taking visitors on a journey through the history of the English home, everyday lives and changing family relationships. The small stories of 12 dollhouses from the past 300 years are brought to life by imagining the characters that live or work there. “Meeting” the residents, visitors will discover tales of marriages, parties, politics and crime. The exhibition encompasses country mansions, the Georgian town house, suburban villas, newly built council estates and high-rise apartments.

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‘Intersections: Photographs and Video from the NGA and the Corcoran Gallery of Art’ (opens May 29)

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Born in 1992 in Pakistan, Storai Stanizai comes from an Afghan family with a strong connection to the arts. “In life you must do the things you want,” Stanizai says. “I do not see myself as just a jeweler ... I am also an artist.” From “Turquoise Mountain: Artists Transforming Afghanistan.” Courtesy Turquoise Mountain.

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city of Kabul, once a bustling center of craft and commerce, fell into ruin. The British non-governmental organization Turquoise Mountain, founded in 2006 at the joint request of the Prince of Wales and the President of Afghanistan, has transformed the Murad Khani district of Old Kabul from slum conditions into a vibrant cultural and economic center, founding Afghanistan’s premier institution for vocational training in the arts.

To share this transformative story of people, places and heritage in Afghanistan, the museum will recreate a visit to Old Kabul, transforming galleries into an Afghan caravanserai, complete with artisan stalls, architectural elements, immersive video, largescale photographs and demonstrations by visiting artisans from Murad Khani.

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“Hollywood and Time” presents a selection of original cover art commissioned by Time magazine, highlighting Hollywood personalities who once graced theater marquees across the country. Focusing on 32 celebrities whose vision and talents carried us to different eras and exotic places, the exhibition displays vintage portraits and photographs of, among others: Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, Paul Newman, Meryl Streep, Dustin Hoffman, Diane Keaton, Steven Spielberg and Woody Allen.

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‘Senses of Time: Video- and Filmbased Works of Africa’ (opens May 18) National Museum of African Art

In “Senses of Time,” six internationally recognized African artists examine how time is experienced — and even produced — by the human body. Bodies stand, climb, dance and dissolve in seven works of video and film art.

These time-based works by Sammy Baloji, Theo Eshetu, Moataz Nasr, Berni Searle,

“Woody Allen,” 1972, by Frank Cowan, color photograph on paper. Part of “Hollywood and Time: Celebrity Covers” at the National Portrait Gallery. Courtesy National Portrait Gallery.

VISUAL ARTS — movement, sequence, narrative, studio and identity — found in the work of the two founding photographers.

Martin Puryear’s “Bearing Witness” at the Ronald Reagan Building. Photo by Carol Highsmith. Courtesy Library of Congress.

‘Martin Puryear: Multiple Dimensions’ (opens May 27) Smithsonian American Art Museum

Born and raised in Washington, D.C., Martin Puryear had his first solo exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. His drawings and prints are less well known than his elegant and playful sculptures, but they are equally essential to the artist’s studio practice. “Multiple Dimensions” is the first major exhibition to highlight these paper works, featuring over 50 drawings and prints, as well as 12 sculptures — many borrowed from the artist and never displayed before.

Several drawings and a maquette in the exhibition relate to his major outdoor sculpture at D.C.’s Ronald Reagan Building. The exhibition also features 14 works from the Smithsonian American Art Museum collection, including a portfolio of woodcuts and a major wood sculpture.

LAST CHANCE: ‘Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World’ (closes March 20) National Gallery of Art

A rare opportunity to view about 50 bronze sculptures from the Hellenistic period — between the fourth century B.C. and the first century A.D. — this exhibition draws on the collections of archaeological museums in the United States, Tunisia, Georgia and throughout Europe.

Local Spotlight: Dee Levinson at Touchstone Gallery

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If artwork in museums signifies a kind of rooted, historical achievement, then the working artist is the seedling from which this history will continue to flower. It is old growth and new growth, working in tandem to create an organic creative ecosystem. The responsibility falls on local artists to make Washington a destination not just for fine art, but for a dynamic culture of the arts.

In keeping pace with this pseudo-thought experiment, the paintings of Dee Levinson occupy a unique place among the creative forces of old and new. On view at Touchstone Gallery, 901 New York Ave. NW, through Feb. 28, Levinson’s work is contemporary, fresh and alive, while also recalling a romantic classicism from across the art historical landscape.

Upon first seeing Levinson’s paintings, the idea of “Greco-Nouveau” materialized quite immediately in my mind. Imagine if Alphonse Mucha or Gustav Klimt were to make studies of ancient Greek sculptures: marbled, graceful and stoic figures with a stark, two-toned contrast against dramatic light, enveloped by flowing planes of flat textile and floral patterns. The compositions seem to billow forth from the canvas.

In the best possible way, they are rather like paintings of sculptures, capturing a certain ethos and grandness of the ancient arts in an altogether new light.

And yet there are a range of other aesthetics and influences that Levinson folds into her work. “Le Reina Plata” is a bold portrait of an aged Native American woman, whose face bears a wise, matronly pride as it gazes into the distance. This pose could invariably signify something like the envisioning of new horizons — say, promise for future generations — or a more sober reckoning with her own mortality and place in a vast, beautiful world.

Surely, there is a purpose and a history in this painting. But like a Greek sculpture, this portrait also has the power to transcend historical knowledge with a more universal, inherent beauty. It is at its core a depiction of humanity, imbued and heightened with a historical specificity and distilled into an eternal moment.

Levinson uses this aesthetic vocabulary to build emotional connections and leave distinct impressions with her audience. By

Dee Levinson’s “Madonna con Mantilla,” 36” x 36”, part of a showing of her work at Touchstone Gallery.

turns searching and exploratory, beautiful and moving, bold and delicate, her work is a delight.

It is also work that connects currently with our city's museum offerings. It is hard not

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NPG, ‘House of Cards’ Unveil Underwood Portrait

Celebrating the newly installed portrait of President Francis J. Underwood, the National Portrait Gallery welcomed actor Kevin Spacey, who portrays the president in Netflix's "House of Cards," other cast members, British artist Jonathan Yeo, who painted the TV character, as well as fans of the show Feb. 22. “I’m pleased that the Smithsonian continues to prove itself as a worthwhile institution,” said Underwood, channeled via Spacey. “I’m one step closer to convincing the rest of the country that I am the president.” For those attending, it was indeed a scene of life imitating art.

Actor Kevin Spacey (Frank Underwood in “House of Cards”), National Portrait Gallery Director Kim Sajet and portrait artist Jonathan Yeo. Photo by Paul Morigi.

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After a lecture at Georgetown University, supporters joined Zainab Hawa Bangura, United Nations Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Alissa Rubin of the New York Times, actress and activist Ashley Judd and Melanne Verveer, executive director of the university's Institute for Women, Peace and Security, for an awards dinner, co-sponsored with S&R Foundation, Feb. 22 at Halcyon House — the Hillary Rodham Clinton Award for Advancing Women in Peace and Security and the Global Trailblazer Award.

Kevin Spacey greets members of the media. Photo by Erin Schaff.

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