The Georgetowner's August 31, 2016 Issue

VOLUME 62 NUMBER 22

AUGUST 31 - SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

TO PARIS WITH

LOVE

AND OTHER FALL FETES

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The Georgian style residence showcases a handsome brick and limestone façade. The home features 5 bedrooms, natural light from windows on three sides, hardwood floors, recessed lighting, plentiful closet space, custom moldings, and a lovely private terrace with garden.

The Church Residences at Alexander Hall are now available. All three units have been finished to the highest grade, including Wolf appliances, Duravit fixtures, smart home technology, and custom details throughout. Each sale conveys with three years of garage parking and fitness and spa membership at the Four Seasons Hotel.

Expansive semi-detached Victorian features a modern, open main floor plan with distinct dining, kitchen and living areas, oak and pine floors, 3 fireplaces, 4 BR, and 3 full BA on the upper 2 levels. Washington Monument views from upper level rear terrace. Finished lower level has front and rear access, a family room/den, and 1 BR with half BA.

This extraordinary corner residence at Sheridan Garage embodies urban luxury living. With its soaring ceilings, large casement windows, and open floor plan, the property affords a distinctively loft-like ambiance. Features include hardwood floors, premium kitchen and bathroom fixtures, private outdoor space, and garage parking.

Elegant East Village 4 bedroom, 3.5 bath townhouse with parking for two cars. South facing light filled living room with 10 foot ceilings, hardwood floors and fireplace. Updated, large eat-in kitchen opens to impressive landscaped garden.

Beautiful master suite with updated master bathroom with skylight and double vanities. Renovated lower level with new bathroom and new kitchen. Easy walk to Dupont Circle Metro.

This semi-detached Federal townhouse represents quintessential Georgetown charm. The light-filled home retains numerous period details, featuring wide-plank hardwood floors, crown moldings, and an impressive wood burning fireplace. A remarkably deep backyard with mature plantings is ideal for entertaining in fair weather.

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F OOD & W I N E Calendar Town Topics Overheard at Lunch Editorial/Opinion

F E AT U RE 9

Jim Gilroy’s Yates Field

BUSI N E S S 10

Ins & Outs

C OV E R 11

To Paris with Love and Other Fall Fetes

H AU T E & C OOL 16

L’Enfant’s Capital Destiny Featured Property

DOW N T OW N E R D C 18

Michel Richard Remembered

I N C OU N T R Y & G E TAWAY 21

Maryland State Fair

BO DY & SOU L 22 22

Murphy’s Love Keys to Sustainable Habits

V ISUA L A R T S 24

‘The Greeks’ at National Geographic

P E RF O RMI NG A R T S 25

New York State of Mind

RE A L E S TAT E 17 17

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Son Charged in Father’s Death on 33rd Street

BY RO B ER T D E VA N E Y

What is going on around here? asked neighbors. According to the Metropolitan Police Department, on Aug. 10, Peter Spencer allegedly stabbed his father Harrison to death at the family home on the 1600 block of 33rd Street NW.

Early Curtain Risers of D.C.’s Theater Season

Man Robbed in Arlington, Forced to Swim to D.C.

S OC I A L SC E N E 26 27

Rum Day D.C., Miss D.C. Sakerum, Fall Fetes

BY RO B ER T D E VA N E Y

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Jeffrey Thompson’s Sickening Sentence

BY M A R K P LOT K I N

Finally — let’s repeat that word — finally, Jeffrey E. Thompson was in a federal courtroom Aug. 15 to receive his sentence: three months in jail. What a joke (and we’re not laughing).

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“To Paris With Love” photo shoot was inspired by a Georgetown favorite, Malmaison (located at 3401 Water St. NW). Creative Director: Reza Mostofi. Photographer: Zaid Hamid. Stylist: Adra Williams. Stylist Assistants: Stacie Moore for Instant Vintage 78, Kizzy Evae for Kurated by Kizzy Evae. Make Up: Carl Ray. Hair: Charlene Brown. Hair Assistant: Charcelle Wilson. Models: Paul Wharton and PWM2 Models (Taiana Hale, Josh Huff, and Pardis Saremi).

Campaign 2016: The Way It Is Now

BY G A RY T I S C H L ER

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are in the deep mucky, slinging away. This is America’s choice?

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UP & COMING SEPTEMBER 1 ‘Urinetown: The Musical’ Preview

SEPTEMBER 4 Pray, Eat, Love Community Picnic

In “Urinetown: The Musical,” a love-struck young man, Bobby Strong, becomes the leader of a revolution when a city in the midst of a dire water shortage rises up against an all-powerful corporation that has banned private toilets. Tickets are $15. For details, visit constellationtheatre.org. Constellation Theatre Company, 1835 14th St. NW.

All are welcome at a morning of prayer, fun and community service. Following a music-filled worship service, there will be a hands-on service project for all ages and a complimentary buffet lunch, along with music and activities for kids. The church is located a 10-minute walk from the Tenleytown/ AU Metro stop and there is also ample free parking. For details, visit nationalpres.org/ PrayEatLove. National Presbyterian Church, 4101 Nebraska Ave. NW.

SEPTEMBER 2 Art Walk at Glen Echo This is the last of this summer art walks at Glen Echo Park. Along with the studios, where visitors can watch artists at work, the Popcorn, Stone Tower and Park View Galleries will be open. For details, visit glenechopark.org. 7300 MacArthur Blvd., Glen Echo, Maryland.

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SEPTEMBER 3 ‘I Love the 90’s’ This show will feature such iconic acts as Salt-NPepa, Color Me Badd, Coolio, Tone Lōc and Young MC, who will perSal-N-Pepa. form hits including “Shoop,” “Gangsta’s Paradise” and “Bust A Move.” Tickets are $37 to $80. For details, visit wolftrap.org. Filene Center, 1551 Trap Road, Vienna, Virginia.

SEPTEMBER 6 Meghan Trainor at Wolf Trap The winner of the 2015 Grammy Award for Best New Artist and the force behind “All About That Bass,” “No” and “Lips Are Movin” makes her Wolf Trap debut following the release of her album “Thank You.” Hailee Steinfeld and Common Kings will also appear. Tickets are $32 to $65. For details, visit wolftrap.org. Filene Center, 1551 Trap Road, Vienna, Virginia.

SEPTEMBER 9 Spy School: Surveillance 201 Former FBI operative Eric O’Neill will put participants through the paces in this advanced small-group surveillance exercise —

A remarkable heritage.

best suited to those who already know how to track the “Rabbit” without being “made.”

Space is limited and advance registration is required. Tickets are $75 to $94. To register, visit spymuseum.org. International Spy Museum, 800 F St. NW.

SEPTEMBER 10 and 11 TOMS #RockTheVote Event Sports Zone Elite is partnering with the TOMS brand for a two-day #RockTheVote event. There will be voting booths to get people registered to vote, photo booths, giveaways and gift-with-purchase items such as buttons, T-shirts and tote bags. For details, visit sportszoneelite.com.

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SEPTEMBER 16 Book Hill Fall Art Walk

The Georgetown Galleries of Book Hill will host an evening stroll and a viewing of their fine-art exhibitions. Visitors can add to their art collections while enjoying a fun night of art and refreshments in Georgetown’s Book Hill neighborhood. Participating galleries include Addison/Ripley Fine Art, Artist’s Proof, Cross MacKenzie Gallery, Maurine Littleton Gallery, Susan Calloway Fine Arts, and Washington Printmakers Gallery. For details, visit georgetowngalleries.com. Wisconsin Avenue from Q Street to Reservoir Road NW.

SEPTEMBER 17 Georgetown Community Day The Georgetown community is invited to come together for fun and family-friendly activities — including face painting and moon bouncing — on Georgetown University’s Healy Lawn. There will also be free food and information tables from local schools, churches, community organizations and GU departments. For details, visit communityengagement.georgetown.edu.

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NEWS

BY C H U C K B A L DW I N A N D RO B E R T D E VA N E Y

Hoyas Head Back to Class

G.U. First to Appoint Hindu Chaplain Hoyas head back to class Aug. 31, marking the semiofficial end of summer in Georgetown.

Based on enrollment trends over the past few years, Georgetown University expects an undergraduate enrollment of 6,675 for the 2016-17 academic year, along with 5,500 graduate students.

As at most other universities, tuition has gone up. For GU, tuition is up 4 percent to $49,968 for the year, compared to Harvard, up 3.9 percent to $43,280; Yale, up 3.9 percent to $49,480; and the University of Virginia, up 3 percent for out-of-state students to $41,722.

Georgetown is unique in appointing the first Hindu priest chaplain in the United States.

Brahmachari Vrajvihari Sharan is the new director for Hindu life, primarily serving the 400 students in the Hindu community at the university. He will also serve as chaplain in residence to first-year students in New South.

According to a letter from Interim Vice President for Mission and Ministry Rev. Howard Gray, S.J., “Br. Sharan was drawn to Georgetown by its commitment to interreligious student formation, and by the vibrancy of the university’s Hindu community.” Sharan comes to the university from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, where he has served as honorary Hindu chaplain since 2010.

On Sunday, students and their parents were seen lugging items to the Georgetown University dormitories at 35th and N Streets NW. Photo by Andy Cline.

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The ANC Shakeup Continues The Georgetown-Burleith-Hillandale Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E, praised by Mayor Vincent Gray in 2012 as the best in the city, will be getting at least three new members in 2017. Chair Ron Lewis is retiring, as are Tom Birch, one of the longest-serving commissioners, and Jeffrey Jones, who represents 2E03 in the center of Georgetown. Known for his collegiality, Lewis was central to the groundbreaking agreement between Georgetown residents and Georgetown University on its 10-year campus plan — a contentious issue for years.

At present, in addition to Lewis, Birch and Jones, the commission consists of Vice-Chair Bill Starrels, Ed Soloman, Mara Goldman, Monica Roache and Reed Howard. That will change significantly come January 2017 — just like the White House.

Only two single-member districts are contested. In 2E03, Greg Miller and Richard Murphy will vie for Jones’s seat. In 2E05, which is mostly in Georgetown, south of M Street to the Potomac River and Roosevelt Island, another candidate — Lisa Palmer — will run against Starrels.

$100M Lawsuit Hits PeepingTom Rabbi and Institutions A $100-million class-action lawsuit has been leveled against Rabbi Bernard “Barry” Freundel, the Georgetown rabbi arrested in

2014 for six acts of voyeurism. Freundel filmed women disrobing before immersing themselves in the National Capital Mikvah, constructed at his direction in 2005.

A mikvah is a ritual bath that married Orthodox women use after their monthly menstruation. Immersion is a final step in a woman’s conversion to Judaism.

The suit, filed on behalf of all women who used the National Capital Mikvah prior to Freundel’s arrest, as well as the 152 victims positively identified in connection with his arrest, also names the religious institutions that put Freundel in positions of authority: National Capital Mikvah, Inc.; the Georgetown Synagogue, Kesher Israel Congregation, 2801 N St. NW, where he was employed for 25 years; and the New Yorkbased Rabbinical Council of America and Beth Din of America — all of which have severed ties with Freundel.

The prominent rabbi admitted his crimes and issued a letter of apology that opened: “No matter how many times I attempt to apologize, it will never be enough.” Freundel plead guilty to 52 counts of voyeurism and was sentenced to six and a half years in prison.

According to prosecutors, additional videos were found at Freundel’s residence showing him engaged in sexual situations with women who were likely unaware they were being filmed. Freundel’s wife, Sharon, left him within three weeks of his arrest. He quickly acceded to her wish for a get, the document that dissolves a marriage in accordance with Orthodox Jewish law.

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Artist’s rendition of the modernized Duke Ellington School of the Arts, expected to be completed in time tor the 2017-18 school year. Courtesy Global Engineering Solutions.

Duke Ellington School of the Arts Update Duke Ellington School of the Arts students are going to school in two temporary locations this year while the school is modernized.

The $177.3-million project is expected to be complete in time for students to return for the 2017-18 school year.

According to Janae Hinson, a DC Public Schools spokesperson, “The existing school building was taken down to the building shell, and a new building addition is currently being constructed. So far progress has been made on the building shell, which is to be completed by December 2016.” After

that, the focus will be on the interior and infrastructure, which will continue until the summer of 2017.

In the meantime, classes are taking place at 2501 11th St. NW and 2001 10th St. NW. “Students and staff obviously look forward to a new modernized building. Swing space accommodations, a temporary space is never going to be the building that they envision, but they are certainly looking forward to the newly modernized building, and they’re making do with the temporary accommodations for now,” said Hinson.

Established in 1974, Duke Ellington is the only D.C. public school dedicated to both professional arts training and academic enrichment.

Community Calendar SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 Light the City Georgetown

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 Frida Burling Memorial Service

This 5 p.m. event includes a performance by three-time Grammy winner Ashley Cleveland, an ecumenical vigil service in remembrance of 9/11 and a candlelight tour of 14 historic houses of worship. For details, email somethinggreaterministry@ gmail.com. Georgetown Visitation Prep, 1524 35th St. NW.

All are welcome to attend this 11 a.m. service celebrating the life of Georgetowner Frida Burling, who died May 26 at the age of 100. St. John’s Church, 3240 O St. NW.

Crime Report

August 22 Theft at 7:08 p.m. on 3200-3275 block of M St. NW August 21 Theft at 6:27 p.m. on 3200-3275 block of M St. NW — Theft at 6:16 p.m. on 3100-3199 block of K St. NW — Theft at 3:15 p.m. on 2300-2399 block of N St. NW August 19 Theft at 3:29 p.m. on 3100-3199 block of O St. NW August 18 Theft at 10:15 p.m. on 3000-3049 block of M St. NW — Theft at 9:56 p.m. on 3200-3275 block of M St. NW — Theft at 6:18 p.m. on 3200-3275 block of M St. NW August 17 Theft at 3:13 p.m. on 3100-3199 block of K St. NW — Theft at 2:03 a.m. on 3200-3275 block of M St. NW

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August 16 Theft at 10:06 p.m. on 3100-3199 block of M St. NW — Theft at 1:32 p.m. on 3200-3229 block of P St. NW August 15 Theft at 8:56 p.m. on 3200-3275 block of M St. NW August 14 Theft 08/14/16. 07:00 p.m. on 3400-3599 block of Water St. NW — Theft at 6:39 p.m. on 24002499 block of N St. NW August 13 Theft at 6:33 p.m. on 3000-3049 block of M St. NW — Theft at 5:48 p.m. on 3200-3299 block of M St. NW August 12 Theft at 7:45 p.m. on 3200-3275 block of M St. NW August 11 Theft at 9:31 p.m. on 3000-3099 block of M St. NW — Theft at 8:14 p.m. on 3800-3899 block of Reservoir Road NW — Robbery at 2:14 p.m. on 3000-3049 block of M St. NW.

TOWN TOPICS

Overheard at Lunch: D.C. Gossip Girl

BY KATE OCZYPOK

News from Nantucket There once was a man from Nantucket … well, we know how that goes. Now, it’s women from Nantucket — or at least those who summer there.

Clinton Fundraiser at Bagley’s Innisfree Former ambassador and Democratic fundraiser Elizabeth Frawley Bagley, who lives on 29th Street NW, has a very Irish second home — Innisfree — on Nantucket. Also an Irish citizen, Bagley hosted a $1,000-perguest fundraiser with Hillary Clinton there Aug. 11. The place even has an Irish pub; its first customer 10 years ago was prospective first gentleman, former President Bill Clinton, who appointed Bagley ambassador to Portugal in the 1990s. Bill and Hill have stayed at Innisfree many times.

Kerry-Heinz House: Yours for $25 Million

The yacht Isabel is for sale for about $3.9 million.

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Speaking of Nantucket, the Kerry-Heinz beach house on the island is being offered for sale at $25 million, according to local newspapers. We’re figuring Secretary of State John Kerry and Teresa Heinz (Mrs. Kerry) are moving on as they get older and new job opportunities emerge in 2017. The Heinz family bought the Nantucket mansion on Hulbert Avenue in 1982 for $1.2 million. The Kerrys were married there in 1995.

Yes, they each own other places, whether in Massachusetts or Pennsylvania, but we know them best from the Bodisco House on the 3300 block of O Street in Georgetown. By the way, their 76-foot yacht, Isabel, is also for sale for about $3.9 million. (It was purchased in 2010 for $7 million.)

Out on a Limb in Georgetown Meanwhile, the first family arrived home from Martha’s Vineyard.

Malia Obama was at the 9:30 Club on Friday and Steven Tyler on POTUS is at the Lake Pennsylvania Avenue Tahoe Summit today, Aug in Georgetown.

31. (He’ll be in China next Photo by Andy Cline. week.) We suppose the first daughter didn’t catch 68-year-old Aerosmith

lead singer Steven Tyler — in town for his Out on a Limb Tour at the Warner Theatre Aug. 23. We sighted him in front of the Georgetown Four Seasons and Eno Wine Bar after a very late lunch, as his huge tour bus pulled around Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the celebrity-centric hotel.

Justin Timberlake Saves the Day “Can’t Stop the Feeling” singer Justin Timberlake hosted a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton after actor Leonardo DiCaprio had to bail out of his duties. People Magazine reported that DiCaprio, stuck in New York filming, asked Timberlake and his wife, actress Jessica Biel, to play host and hostess at their Los Angeles abode.

posed for a photo with the “One Dance” singer while taking a break in between dates on his Summer Sixteen Tour. Perhaps we’ll see Drake on a future episode? One can hope.

Vicky Moon: From Middleburg to Georgetown

Nick Cannon Enrolls at Howard University

Longtime Middleburger Vicky Moon is out — with a novel, “Equal Parts: A Tale of Ambition, Politics and Passion Inspired

by Actual Events.” The book cover reads: “In the intoxicating atmosphere of Washington, D.C., Isabelle Benton Stoker, a stylish interior designer in Georgetown, falls in love with Johnathan Dent.

He is a prominent and very married attorney who resides in the horse country of Middleburg, Virginia ...” Of course, they hook up, and then he decides to run for the Senate. What could go wrong?

There will be a reception for Moon and her fresh “Equal Parts” in Georgetown Sept.

8. As it happens, the opening scene in the book occurs on the second Thursday in September as does the book signing party for “Equal Parts.”

“America’s Got Talent” host Nick Cannon announced via Instagram that he is enrolled at Howard University. The photo shows him posing by a Howard University sign with his caption: “YOU KNOW!!!!!! #HU2020 My first day as a Freshman!!!! Howard University Class of 2020.” The big question is, will he take a page from his “Drumline” character and join Howard’s prestigious “Showtime” Marching Band?

Bidens Unveil Favorite Summer Jams Vice President Joe Biden and his wife Jill have unveiled their favorite summer listening.

Want to sun in Rehoboth, lick that ice cream cone or take a road trip while jammin’ with Joe and Jill? Then you’d better download some Ray Charles, Sinatra, Adele and Springsteen while you can, before summer 2016 slips away.

‘Celebrity Apprentice’ Donations Not From Trump’s Wallet The Washing ton Examiner reported that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said he’d make donations in the amount of $460,000 to charities chosen by his NBC show “Celebrity Apprentice.” The Washington Post found that Trump’s incessant vows to send money out of his own wallet were actually fulfilled by production companies or by his personal nonprofit, called the Donald J. Trump Foundation — the very foundation he hasn’t contributed to in nearly a decade.

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EDITORIAL/OPINION

Two Jobs: Chief and Chancellor

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he District of Columbia is in the process of losing two very high-profile, charismatic and effective leaders.

That would be Public Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson and Metropolitan Police Chief Cathy Lanier, who are both retiring. Lanier has been in the chief’s chair since 2007. Henderson has been chancellor since 2010, taking over after a turbulent turn by Michelle Rhee.

Both retirements came about voluntarily and without controversy — Lanier actually left to take on a big national job as chief of security for the National Football League — and both positions have been filled with interim leaders. But it’s fair to suggest that Mayor Muriel Bowser and city officials ought to be in long-term reflective mode before filling these very critical positions.

Henderson and Lanier were what you might considers stars, each in her own area of expertise. They were big personalities, comfortable in the spotlight, effective under pressure and, with some exceptions, personally popular with the public.

That doesn’t mean that the mayor should necessarily be looking to replicate the personalities and styles of Henderson and Lanier. Henderson, for instance, was effective because she was, in terms of style, not Michelle Rhee — although Rhee was her mentor and she continued Rhee’s policies of school reform. Henderson could warm up a room in ways that Rhee, more combative and sometimes seen as arrogant in the way she engineered wholesale firings of teachers, could not.

Still, issues remain to be solved; while test scores have gone up, they have not uniformly gone up, creating a learning gap that is about facilities, resources and economic issues in a city that’s undergoing sizable gentrification. That almost half the city’s public schools are charter schools is a fact the implications of which have yet to be properly measured. A fresh look from the outside — in other words, by someone not from the local school leadership — may be called for.

Lanier was effective throughout the city. Her approach to community policing was lauded by the public at large, if not by all of it. It was a policy not without its problems, but the District’s police force did not experience the kinds of crises that other cities did in the age of cameras and tense, sometimes violent eruptions between the police and communities (as in Dallas, Cleveland, Baton Rouge, St. Paul, Ferguson, Baltimore and the like).

The search for Lanier’s replacement seems to be focused on the D.C. department, which may be a smart move. Someone who knows the department’s ins and outs, its personnel, could be a good fit in these times. Such a person may be better able to repair Lanier’s fraught relationship with a portion of the police union, which fought battles with her over deployments, policy and promotions, and deal with the issue of a force that appears to be undermanned.

Jack Evans Report

Three Top Colleagues Move On

BY JACK EVANS

August is usually a sleepy time in D.C. In addition to school being out and everyone taking one last chance to hit the beach, the District Council goes on a legislative recess from July 15 to Sept. 15 every year.

Normally there isn’t much happening in the D.C. government as a result, but that’s not the case this year.

Police Chief Cathy Lanier, DC Public Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson and Council Member At-Large Vincent Orange have all either stepped down or announced plans to do so in the coming month.

Cathy Lanier started with the Metropolitan Police Department in 1990 and has served as chief since 2007. In that time, she’s made D.C. safer, the police force stronger and the relationship between the department and the community one of the best in the entire country. That she would be tapped by the National Football League as the league’s next senior vice president of security,

BY J U LI A N A ZOVA K eorgetown is a neighborhood known for its history. The name of one of its restaurants pays homage to the year of Georgetown University’s founding. Plaques and signs designate historic parks and homes.

Attending Georgetown University for four years certainly made me aware of that history.

It is impossible to graduate without reflexively knowing the importance of the year 1789 and without having at least a cursory understanding of John Carroll’s role in the school’s founding.

For a long time, that was what I thought of Georgetown — the events and people of years ago, our neighborhood a symbol of the importance of Washington, D.C., to this nation in the past.

But after time spent on M Street or Wisconsin Avenue, in the shops and among the people beyond the university, I began to see Georgetown’s contemporary story.

There are the people who arrived in Georgetown from other countries, whose dreams of success have come true with the opening of

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Olympics Demeaned By Critique I was disappointed to read the depressing editorial on the 2016 Summer Olympics in Brazil in the August 10 issue of The Georgetowner.

To begin, it was written and published just as the games began. So, I’m curious why the writer leapt into a rant about the

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

their own businesses. There are the career politicians who come home to Georgetown at the end of the day, experiencing the peacefulness of the tree-lined streets (sometimes shaken by the whoops and yells of college students living next door).

Now more than ever, all these people are connecting the past with the present. Famous sites like Tudor Place and Oak Hill Cemetery come alive again with new visitors, tourists and locals. Every spring, the Georgetown House Tour showcases homes with historic significance that are now significant for their contemporary residents.

There, too, is history that for a long time has been untouched. Only last year, Georgetown University began making important connections with its past, exploring the impact the Jesuit sale of slaves had on the school and the community and trying to decide how to address that part of its — and our — history.

Over the four years I spent here, Georgetown developed in my mind from simply a place

“with a lot of history” into a neighborhood of people trying to connect with and understand how that affects us now.

Moving back to Southern California, I miss having the past, the good and the bad, as a stalwart foundation for the identity of where I live. That made Georgetown more than just a geographical area for me. It became a place of mystery, a place where people want to explore and discover how people lived before them, how that shaped where they are now.

Because of that, this neighborhood and Washington, D.C., are constantly alive with a vibrancy you’d be hard-pressed to find elsewhere, fueled by its past and evolving through the people of the present.

Figuring that out is what made my four years here — at school and living in Georgetown — so uniquely valuable.

“banalities” that the NBC commentators might heap on viewers’ ears. The writer must live a lofty and privileged life to provide this perverted critique.

Next, following the word “nonetheless” within the five-paragraph piece, entitled “Embracing the Rio Games,” the writer scoffs at the “throwing things” and the shooting of guns and arrows. A total dismissal of the meaning of the games.

This is a pathetic editorial from someone

who must be a chair-bound moron who is very good at piecing together demeaning rhetoric.

Juliana Zovak, who interned with The Georgetowner last spring, is a May 2016 graduate of Georgetown College.

— Claudia Corwin, Chevy Chase Editor’s note: Upon reflection, the principal writer of the aforementioned editorial told staffers that he regretted his initial comments on the Games of the XXXI Olympiad. At the conclusion of the Rio Games, this same writer penned a paean to the Olympic spirit.

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John Wilson. He didn’t win that election, but he continued to be involved with District politics, eventually getting the Ward 5 Council seat in 1998. Since then, Orange has been a champion for economic development and promoting the local history of Washington. Across 13 years as colleagues on the Council, he and I haven’t always been on the same side of every issue, but he’s been a passionate advocate for residents and for the revitalization of the District.

Together, these three individuals have more than 25 years of combined service in these senior roles. And while each has dealt with adversity or public criticism, they will take with them an enormous amount of institutional knowledge of how we’ve been able to navigate the struggles the city has undergone. They’ve all given the District of Columbia exemplary service, and while the District continues to move onward and upward, they will certainly be missed.

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while unexpected, isn’t shocking. She’s been one of the best police chiefs in the country and kept the nation’s capital safe for nearly a decade.

Her interim replacement, Assistant Chief Peter Newsham, is a supremely talented law enforcement official and longtime leader in improving safety in our city. I look forward to working collaboratively with Chief Newsham, who served as commander of the 2nd District (which includes Georgetown) from 2000 to 2002.

Kaya Henderson has been at the forefront of reforming our school system for a decade, first as deputy chancellor and since 2010 as chancellor.

She and I have tussled over the years about proposed closures to Francis-Stevens and Garrison Elementary and renovation delays at Hyde-Addison and other schools, but in total Henderson has been a strong leader in rebuilding our public school system and the trust of residents in the schools’ continued improvement.

I’ve known Vincent Orange for more than 25 years, ever since I was an ANC commissioner in Dupont Circle and he was running for Council chairman against former Ward 2 Council Member

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Jim Gilroy of Yates Goes the Distance

By Ro B e R t D e va n e y

“I didn’t think I’d stay 36 years,” says James Gilroy, director of Yates Memorial Field House, who has devoted his life to getting Hoyas fit at Georgetown University.

His best moments still come at the start of the school year. “There is so much energy, not just at Yates, and among our student employees, but all over campus. I already feel it this year. It’s a new beginning.”

The 142,000-square-foot, four-level sports and recreation facility is named for the popular Rev. Gerard F. Yates, S.J. Over four decades, Yates was a professor, a dean and a member of Georgetown’s oldest student a cappella group, the Chimes. Yates — the field house — has the usual things, but in a big way: pool, weight area, basketball and racquet courts, aerobics rooms and wellness center. A variety of fitness classes are offered.

The place brings to mind that encouraging voice, “If you build it, they will come.” In 1976, the construction of Yates was approved by student referendum. The campus desperately needed a facility other than McDonough Gym where students could exercise.

Completed in 1979 at a cost of $7.5 million, the no-nonsense workout place for students, alumni and neighbors is still going strong — and, like its director, who happens to be a runner, has gone the distance.

For Gilroy, an English major who graduated from Georgetown College in 1972, the Hoya and local connections run deep. He

was born at Georgetown University Hospital and his parents and his two sons are also alums. (He and his wife Jane live in Falls Church, Virginia.)

Employed by the university since June 1980, Gilroy went on to develop his administrative skills, naming as mentors Denis Kanach, first director of the field house, and athletic director Frank Rienzo, who emphasized varsity as well as student athletics.

Unsurprisingly, Gilroy cites two Georgetown titans as the individuals who propelled the school to the top tier: Rev. Timothy Healy, S.J., president from 1976 to 1989, and John Thompson, Jr., men’s basketball coach from 1972 to 1999.

There has been plenty of change at the Hilltop for Gilroy: more students, more buildings and a school that seems less like family, more businesslike, these days.

“In 1980, Yates was the only game in town,” he says. With all the other sports clubs in the city now, Gilroy likes to think that Yates focuses on what is “lasting, not a fad.”

Beginning in the 1980s and continuing up to today, Gilroy says he has observed that people tend to exercise more “by themselves.”

The students keep coming and some oldtimers and neighbors do, too. If you’re wondering, the annual fee for neighbors is roughly $1,055 plus the D.C. fitness tax. Students pay $420.

Gilroy seems to know them all and is

James Gilroy, director of Yates Memorial Field House. Photo by Rober Devaney

eager to welcome them. It looks like he has a dream job — pretty cool for a guy who’s also the official scorer for Hoya basketball. To fill out the picture, he brews his own beer and his favorite author is Charles Dickens (who visited the campus on his 1842 American tour).

This semester, there’s more change. The John Thompson Athletic Center — for varsity athletes — has opened down the hill from Yates. Years from now, the 2017-2036

Campus Plan envisions a new Kehoe and Shaw Field, with Yates likely to be demolished for something new.

Regardless, the 66-year-old Gilroy has run his marathon well. He will depart as Yates director by January, but adds, “I don’t have plans to retire.” Today, he and the repainted, refurbished Yates are ready for the new school year. “It’s an exciting time. Keeps you young,” he says.

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Business Ins & Outs

By C h u c k B a l dw i n , Ro b er t D e va n e y a n d R i c h a r d S e l d e n

In: Café Milano No. 2 in Abu Dhabi

ber-one community bank in the area based on deposits. Cardinal Bank brings $4.2 billion in assets and 30 banking branches, along with its George Mason Mortgage LLC residential mortgage business, boosting United’s assets to $20 billion.

The merger is expected to close in mid2017, subject to shareholder and regulatory approvals. The boards of both banks approved the deal.

Café Milano, Georgetown’s popular Prospect Street restaurant, will finally get a sibling — in the Middle East. The second location for the 24-year-old restaurant will open in September at the Fours Seasons Abu Dhabi at Al Maryah Island, which itself opened just last May. The 200-room hotel is the first Four Seasons in the United Arab Emirates, of which Abu Dhabi is the capital.

Franco Nuschese, owner of Café Milano, is now in Abu Dhabi putting the finishing touches on the project. The decor, described as bright, modern and airy, was designed by Adam Tihany of New York to be in tune with the waterfront setting and the restaurant’s signature dishes, inspired by the Amalfi Coast and other regions of Italy.

In: Georgetown Row, New Business Group Georgetown Row, a new business group formed to get more attention for the small businesses on the upper blocks of Wisconsin Avenue in Georgetown, held an Aug. 18 meet-

Out: From CREEP’s Watergate Lookout to Fancy Apartments

Georgetown’s popular Café Milano will open its second location in September at the Four Seasons Abu Dhabi at Al Maryah Island, which itself opened just last May. Courtesy Four Seasons.

ing at Via Umbria. Seeing the M Street corridor getting the most pedestrian activity, the merchants are looking for ways to get more shoppers to come up Wisconsin Avenue — from O Street on up past R Street.

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boutique and hosted by Suzy Menard of Via Umbria, the meeting called for close cooperation with Book Hill merchants as well as the Georgetown Business Improvement District and the Georgetown Business Association. The group, centered around the 1400 and 1500 blocks of Wisconsin Avenue, includes such businesses as the Phoenix, Ella Rue, Susan Calloway Arts and Reddz Trading. It looks for the betterment of retail and to leverage the improvements portended by the Georgetown Theater property’s renovation.

Georgetown Row is focusing on upcoming events, such as the Fall Festival (Oct. 14, 15 and 16), which is Parents’ Weekend at Georgetown University; Small Business Saturday (Nov. 26); and Late Night Thursdays in December. The group is also working with the Georgetown BID to ensure that shopkeepers know about the BID’s new Christmastime lighting program, which will string lights along the rooftops of buildings — and to discuss any additional security that may be needed during the longer shopping hours. Other proposals ranged from attaching flags to storefronts to offering a free bus ride to the top of the town, perhaps letting tourists off at R Street to walk down Wisconsin Avenue.

The group’s next meeting will be at 9:30 a.m., Sept. 1, at Via Umbria, 1525 Wisconsin Ave. NW. Email ifat@lilithefirst.com for more information.

In: United Bank Acquiring Cardinal Bank Tysons Corner-based Cardinal Financial has agreed to be acquired by United Bankshares in a deal worth about $912 million, approximately twice Cardinal’s tangible book value.

To date, United Bank has acquired 10 banks in the D.C. metro area, including Bank of Georgetown in April and Virginia Commerce Bank in 2013, making it the num-

The former Howard Johnson Hotel across from the Watergate complex is to become Boathouse, an apartment building with healthoriented amenities.

In recent years a George Washington University dorm, the property at 2601 Virginia Ave. NW was purchased from GW for $36 million by Urban Investment Partners, based in D.C. In the days of “All the President’s Men,” the hotel was used by Committee for the Re-Election of the President operatives to stake out Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate Office Building.

As first reported in the Washington Business Journal, UIP will spend $44 million to expand and renovate the building, creating 250 units.

There will also be a coffee shop, a fitness center, a swimming pool and a roof deck.

The project is “focusing on access to the park and the river, promoting a healthful lifestyle,” according to UIP principal Steve Schwat.

People’s Counsel Appeals PepcoExelon Merger The Washington, D.C., Office of People’s Counsel recently filed an appeal to overturn the D.C. Public Service Commission’s March 23 decision to approve the merger of the local energy utility, Pepco Holdings Inc., with megautility Exelon Corp, citing “a number of procedural weaknesses” in the multiyear process.

OPC opposed previous merger proposals until Mayor Muriel Bowser was able to negotiate an acceptable level of benefits for residential taxpayers, including a $78-million investment in D.C. and a three-year hiatus on rate increases for residential customers, at which time OPC agreed to the merger terms.

However, the PSC, which had also rejected all prior agreements, stripped out many of the mayor’s provisions and “effectively gutted” the protections from future residential rate increases, as well as additional protections for low-income ratepayers, according to the mayor — and approved the merger.

Following the merger, Exelon included a one-time $50 credit to residential accounts, then asked the PSC for a 5.25-percent rate increase of $85 million, prompting the appeal by OPC as well as a promise to fight the increase.

TO PARIS WITH LOVE

AND OTHER FALL FETES Photographer Zaid Hamid Creative Director Reza Mostofi Stylist Adra Williams Stylist Assistants Stacie Moore for Instant Vintage 78, Kizzy Evae for Kurated by Kizzy Evae Make Up Carl Ray Hair Charlene Brown Hair Assistant Charcelle Wilson Models PWM2 Models Paul Wharton, Taiana Hale, Pardis Saremi and Josh Huff

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e invite you to escape … indulge in the exotic … travel across oceans without ever having to leave … take on a new name … become your alter ego …

On Sept. 17, Georgetown’s Malmaison will be transformed into a Parisian oasis with the uninhibited feeling of the City of Light’s legendary Montmartre neighborhood, historic home of the Moulin Rouge and the city’s spirited, larger-than-life inhabitants, known as Bohemians.

Entitled Boudoir Bohème, hosted by Paul Wharton, the costumed event takes us back to an artistic way of life. It is a stage on which to flaunt one’s otherness and defy convention, while guided on a journey paved with the essence of creativity and complete freedom from norms.

Boudoir Bohème is inspired by the Battle of Hernani, which shattered the influence the status quo had on creative and literary works, ushering Romanticism into the mainstream.

The Romantic movement gave birth to the notion that “artistry, identity and individuality is genius.” For the first time, style and dress became a part of “the performance,” a natural extension of one’s personality.

Boudoir Bohème will feature a multitude of performances, all intertwined to recreate the unique aura of 19th-century Paris.

For more fall fetes this season, visit our Gala Guide on page 27.

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Destiny and the Founding of a Capital

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fter the American Revolution, the Founding Fathers had to choose a capital city. The place we now know as Washington, D.C., was not everybody’s first choice.

In the late 1700s, it was primitive, lacking infrastructure, hot and swampy. There were wooden plank streets in many neighborhoods so pedestrians would not have to walk through the mud.

The top contenders for the capital were New York and Philadelphia, both far more civilized and put together than Washington. However, they were also much farther from Mount Vernon, and George Washington preferred a short commute when he wanted to go home for a breather.

He got his way. Our first president was so popular that the nation would have gladly crowned him king, having quickly forgotten why we went to war in the first place.

The site proved problematic and inhospitable for the reasons already mentioned. But there were also some lucky breaks in the history of the city’s development. The luckiest break came when the Marquis de Lafayette, who came from France to help our side in the Revolution, brought with him a young engineer named Pierre L’Enfant, who had been trained in design at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

After the war, Lafayette became a kind of surrogate son to the childless George Washington.

Needless to say, he had the first president’s ear, and when he proposed that his brilliant friend

L’Enfant draw up a design for the new capital city, Washington agreed.

L’Enfant had a blank slate with which to work, since much of the area designated to be the city was empty. So in 1791 he created a sweeping design for a great city, with a massive mall park and wide boulevards, intersecting at squares and circles crowned with statuary, all reflecting the glory of the new republic. The plan sounded like an impossible dream; it seemed foolish to propose a great city along the lines of Paris in this empty, swampy space.

Nevertheless, many of the streets and boulevards were completed, though they all seemed to lead to nowhere. Due to a lack of funds and general apathy regarding the project, however, the plan did not get fully implemented until 1901, when Congress appointed the McMillan Commission to continue what L’Enfant started more than 100 years earlier.

By 1900, Washington was already beginning to realize its destiny as a great city. Wealthy people from all over the country were flocking here to lobby government and make a name for themselves. It was much easier to “break into society” in Washington than in New York, where the lines of families considered socially significant were already locked in place. In Washington, all you had to do was build a grand house and start wining and dining congressmen and senators.

Mansions sprung up, block by block, along

Massachusetts Avenue. The area now known as Embassy Row was originally called Millionaires’ Row. The ambitious and wealthy people converging on Washington provided projects for architects, and some of the best and brightest were on hand to build grand and beautiful homes, leaving the city a legacy of architecturally significant buildings. The Gilded Age had arrived in Washington, and L’Enfant’s dream city of boulevards and monuments finally became a reality.

For Pierre L’Enfant, to whom we owe so much, the story did not end so well. Genius that he was, he did not work well with others, including the three-person commission appointed by Washington to oversee his work. When he turned in his city plan, he presented Congress with a bill for what was at that time the staggering amount of $95,500. Congress, in turn, offered to pay him $3,800. So he took to walking the streets of Washington with his bedraggled dog, complaining about his fate to whoever would listen.

He might have died of starvation had he not been taken in by friends who owned a farm in Bladensburg, Maryland. Penniless and forgotten, he died there in 1825 at the age of 70 and was buried on the property. It wasn’t until 1909 that his grave was moved to Arlington Cemetery, on a hillside near the Custis-Lee Mansion with a splendid view of the beautiful city that, at first, had lived only in his imagination.

Pierre L’Enfant, designer of Washington, D.C.

Owner and broker of the largest womanowned and woman-run real estate firm in the Washington metro area, Donna Evers is the proprietor of Twin Oaks Tavern Winery in Bluemont, Virginia, and a devoted student of Washington area history. Reach her at devers@eversco.com.

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mitment to being accessible to and cooperative with the community. Newsham has a reputation for building relationships with community residents wherever he worked as an officer.

Bowser praised Newsham and said that he “believes in building relationships with the community as the best way to deter and solve crimes.”

In a television interview, Newsham said that Lanier had improved the police department by gaining the trust of the community.

Newsham earned a bachelor’s degree at the College of the Holy Cross and a law degree at the University of Maryland School of Law. He is a member of the Maryland Bar.

Where Are They All Coming From?

Assistant Chief Peter Newsham of the Metropolitan Police Department. Photo by Patrick G. Ryan.

Peter Newsham, assistant chief for criminal investigation, has been named interim District of Columbia chief of police, in the wake of the recent announcement that Police Chief Cathy Lanier would be retiring to take a job as vice president for security with the National Football League.

A 27-year veteran of the Metropolitan Police Department, Newsham will take over as interim chief Sept. 17, upon which time a national search for a new police chief commences.

Mayor Muriel Bowser has indicated that she and District officials will be looking seriously into what has been called “a rich pool” of administrative talent, including Newsham, who has been an assistant chief in various capacities for 14 years. Newsham has indicated that he definitely wants to be considered for the job.

Other likely internal candidates among the ranks of assistant chiefs include Robert J. Contee III, a newly promoted assistant chief, who was a Second District commander, Assistant Chief Diane Groomes, who is head of the patrol division, and Lamar E. Green, who is chief of homeland security.

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The self-storage company SpareFoot conducted research about where D.C.’s new arrivals are coming from. The most common places are what many would expect — Maryland, Virginia and New York — but the next state on the list is quite surprising: California. The study is part of the Washington, D.C. Moving Guide, which provides resources for those moving to the nation’s capital, such as checklists, neighborhood overviews and lists of top realtors.

NPS 100: World’s Largest Arrowhead Made From Umbrellas

Lantern Walk to Recall African American Story On Sept. 17, a lantern walk commemorating the story of African American families who built their homes in the historic Barry Farm/Hillsdale neighborhoods will take place in Yards Park. The community event is sponsored by the 11th Street Bridge Park and Washington Performing Arts.

popular East Asian fast food. Bao, or warm steamed buns, contain multiple fillings. The truck serves bao with fillings such as heritage pork, duck confit, portabella mushroom and edamame hummus. Founder Peter He has been operating out of local farmers’ markets. He also catered an event connected with the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

Olympian Katie Ledecky Visits Washington Monument Hometown Children’s to Close for Months Hospital Meanwhile, if you want to see inside the Washington Monument, don't plan on it — for the immediate future at least. The monument is slated for another months-long closing due to ongoing elevator problems. The National Park Service wants to develop a plan for a modernization project that could take almost a year. The single elevator in the monument ideally runs 364 days a year and most elevators have about a 25-year life span. Recent closures include a three-year closing due to damages from the 2011 earthquake.

Warm Steamed Buns Hit the Streets Bethesda's own Olympic gold medalist Katie Ledecky.

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Courtesy National Park Service.

The National Park Service celebrated its 100th anniversary last week by getting 1,000 people to create a massive living version of the government entity’s emblem using umbrellas. The first thousand who showed up got a T-shirt and could keep their brown, green or white umbrellas as a souvenir. Other events to commemorate the milestone include mini golf at Hains Point, lattes at the Lincoln Memorial and a scavenger hunt in Smithsonian museums.

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People’s Bao hit the D.C. streets last week in a food truck, the Baomobile, offering a

Nineteen-year-old Katie Ledecky returned home after her big Olympic wins in Rio and headed to Seacrest Studios at Children’s National Medical Center. Washingtonian magazine reported that Ledecky talked with hospital CEO Kurt Newman about her experiences.

Newman is Ledecky’s former soccer coach and neighbor. After her interview, Ledecky visited with patients and showed off one of her five gold medals.

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n Aug. 13, our city lost one of its culinary forefathers. Michel Richard, the legendary chef behind Georgetown’s Citronelle and Central Michel Richard, was more than a cook. He was a mad scientist of gastronomy, whose food bore an electricity and an unpredictability, a panache and a whimsical genius, equaled only by his very character as a man. Along with chefs like Jean-Louis Palladin, Bob Kinkead, Roberto Donna, Nora Pouillon and Francesco Ricchi, Richard was one of the restaurateurs who jump-started Washington’s current dining revolution.

He will be fondly remembered and deeply missed, and his food will live on through those chefs who knew and loved him. The Georgetowner spoke to a handful of the chefs who knew Richard best, who shared their remembrances and thoughts on their dearly departed friend.

Chefs Eric Ziebold and Robert Wiedmaier congratulate Michel Richard for being honored by France’s Légion d’Honneur May 2015 at Central. Photo by Jacqui DePas Schlosser.

Robert Wiedmaier Chef and Restaurateur, Marcel’s, Brasserie Beck, Brabo, Mussel Bar We respected each other’s works and had a lot of fun together. Marcel’s and Citronelle were totally different restaurants — I was more French, he was more Californian, with innovative pastry styles infused in his cooking. People assumed we were competitors, but we were just buddies. He’d always barge into my restaurant — it didn’t matter what time of day it was — and he’d just scream my name: “ROBERT!” What Michel brought to D.C., because he was a pastry chef, was a whole angle to cooking most savory chefs can’t. He was a master of layering different textures. His nickname was Captain Crunch. The way he thought about food was so precise, with such exacting formulas, but he didn’t let that limit his imagination or hamper his creativity in the kitchen. His mind worked differently than most chefs. He’s one of the few chefs I’ve ever known to pull off massively complicated dishes and make you say “wow.” Sure, he turned a ratatouille of peppers, zucchini and eggplant into jelly cubes, but he also made it taste and look great. I’ve never seen anybody do that. Because when you take those kinds of risks, they can’t just be base hits, because that’s as good as failure — they have to be outstanding. And with Michel, they were.

Bob Kinkead Chef, Previously of Kinkead's I think Michel’s gift to cooking was his

all working separately and together. Several years later, he did his dessert book, and this recipe wasn’t in there. I asked him why he hadn’t added it, and he said, “Oh, shit! I forgot!” But that’s the thing. If I come up with something that good, you can rest assured I am not gonna forget about it. Michel would just forget that he even did it. What, are you kidding me? No one comes up with that many good ideas that you can afford to toss them away. Except Michel.

He looked at food in a total different way. In my opinion, he was the most creative chef in the U.S. He might not have been the most skilled, but he was absolutely the most inventive. He thought about food on a whole different plane than us mere mortals.

ability to conceive things in an almost childlike way that nobody else really saw. He was able to do interesting things with food because of his pastry background for sure, but it was mostly Fabio Trabocchi his unique perspective, which shocked even Chef and Restaurateur, Fiola, Casa Luca, Fiola other very talented chefs. About 10 years ago, Mare I went over to say hi to him on his birthday.

Michel Richard is a culinary giant. Here We had a glass in Washington, D.C., he of champagne paved the road for all and he asked of us. He is the chef of if I would try a chefs, and we will miss new dish he was him always. His contaworking on, gious charisma and crewhich we often ative genius will never be did to each forgotten. other. So he comes out with Mark Furstenburg these three little Owner, Bread Furst bite-sized desMy son Philippe and serts that looked I were at Central, visitlike pretty basic ing Michel and eating rib opera cakes. I steak. It was his favorite. said, “What’s Suddenly, someone came the big deal to the table and whispered about this?” and to Michel that a tray of he says, “Wait already-baked puff pastry — just taste it.” had been dropped on the So I picked it up floor. He left us and went and it popped in Michel Richard, Dominique Crenn and Daniel Boulud. Photo by into the kitchen. After 20 my mouth and Eric Krempp. minutes, Michel emerged, dissolved, and smiling broadly as he put every single flavor came rushing out at you. before us a plate on which a puff pastry swan He had made gelatin layers within the cake so was swimming in a huge pool of whipped that the heat of your mouth melted it down and cream. So was born a Michel Richard creation, the flavors came out contained and beautiful, made from fractured puff pastry that itself had

been made with Wondra flour, an ingredient I am far too snooty ever to use. In the food world Michel Richard was a giant and his personality was outsized too.

Ris Lacoste Chef-Owner, RIS I was that girl chef in the great Boys Club of the restaurant business. I have been around with them since 1987. I loved Michel’s brilliance, his camaraderie with his fellow chefs — they were all quite something — and I was proud to eventually become one of them. I loved the great respect he always showed me. I was nowhere in his league, but certainly of his passion, and he still thought I was something else. He called me “Cherie.”

Frank Ruta Chef, The Grill Room I never worked for Michel, but I participated in a few charity events with him over the years and I ate at Citronelle numerous times. So my impressions are probably in line with others’.

As a diner, I couldn’t help but to be impressed and amused with his whimsical style, creativity and presentation on the plates. As a cook, I was always intrigued and blown away by the technique it took to execute that creativity. But his presence at these events added that dash of charisma and celebrity that all of us admired and, quite frankly, that these events needed. He was always very generous and giving with his time, and his jovial, festive and happy nature was just what people were looking for.

David Guas Chef-Owner, Bayou Bakery I have been a huge admirer of Michel’s since I first met him in 1998, particularly his ability to transition from a pastry chef to then opening and running his own successful restaurants. Michel was playful and creative and his technique and talents were truly one-of-a-kind. I often wondered what it would be like to be his pastry chef, and how tough that position must have been.

He was a perfectionist in the kitchen and held everyone to his highest standards.

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YOUR DINING GUIDE TO WASHINGTON DC’S FINEST RESTAURANTS

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.

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 7 p.m., and during warmer months, our outdoor courtyard is one of DC’s best kept secrets.

Lunch Mon.–Fri. 11:30 a.m.–5 p.m. Dinner Mon.–Thu. 5–10 p.m., Fri.-Sat. 5–11 p.m., Sun. 5–9 p.m.

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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.

NOW OPEN FOR LUNCH: Enjoy freshly prepared hot and cold gourmet sandwiches, paninis and seasonal salads and wine by the glass starting at $5. HAPPY HOUR: Offered nightly Tuesday - Thursday from 5 - 7pm & Sunday from 4 - 6pm. Join us on Sunday’s for 30% off bottles, Tuesday’s for Magnum Madness, & Thursday evenings for live music. Our delightful wines are best enjoyed with local charcuterie, cheese and small plates.

LUNCH: Tuesday - Thurs 10:30 a.m. 1:30 p.m. and EVENING: Tues - Thurs 5 p.m. - 11 p.m., Fri - Sat 4 p.m. - 12 a.m., Sunday 4 p.m. - 11 p.m.

Free 2-hour parking at Four Seasons.

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.

MARTIN’S TAVERN

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.

Serving Brunch until 4 p.m.

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CAFE BONAPARTE

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

1522 WISCONSIN AVE., NW 202–333–8830 cafebonaparte.com

Tucked up along the historic C&O Canal, a national park that threads through the Georgetown neighborhood, The Grill Room at Rosewood 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.

Brunch Sat.-Sun. 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.

DAS ETHIOPIAN 1201 28TH ST., NW 202–333–4710 dasethiopian.com

THE GRILL ROOM

2810 PENNSYLVANIA AVE., NW 202–295–2826 enowinerooms.com

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. Beautiful waterside outdoor dining available.

Complimentary 3 hours parking.

Lunch / Monday - Saturday 11:30 - 3:00 Dinner / Monday - Saturday 5:30 - 10:00 Happy Hour Monday - Friday 5:00 - 7:00

FILOMENA RISTORANTE 1063 WISCONSIN AVE., NW 202–338–8800 filomena.com

Filomena is a Georgetown landmark that has endured the test of time for over 30 years. Our old-world cooking styles and recipes brought to America by the early Italian immigrants alongside the culinary cutting-edge creations of Italy’s foods of today executed by our Executive Chef and his team. Open 7 days a week 11:30 a.m. - 11:00 p.m.

Free salad bar with any lunch entrée Mon-Sat and try our spectacular Sunday Brunch Buffet complete with carving stations, pasta stations!

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.

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.

We look forward to calling you a “regular” soon!

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MALMAISON

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.

Monday – Thursday 4:30 to 10:30 p.m.

Friday 4:30 to 11:30 p.m.

Saturday noon to 11:30 p.m. (brunch until 4 p.m.)

Sunday noon to 10 p.m. (brunch until 4 p.m.)

Parking validation available for breakfast, lunch and brunch.

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).

1858 COLUMBIA ROAD, NW 202-986-0757 thegrillfromipanema.com

3401 K ST.,NW 202–817–3340 malmaisondc.com

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Beasts Aplenty at Maryland State Fair

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ast Sunday, I went to the animal fair — the 135th Maryland State Fair, that is — and, just as the song says, the birds and the beasts were there.

Known as the “11 best days of summer,” the Maryland State Fair runs for 12 days this year, including Labor Day, Sept. 5. The 100-acre Maryland State Fairgrounds, complete with horse track, is in Timonium, off Interstate 83 just north of Towson and the Baltimore Beltway.

There is a huge midway, live music and no shortage of eating, shopping and lottery opportunities, but the genuine rural atmosphere is the main attraction for city folk.

Despite being the fifth most densely populated state in the Union, Maryland has about 12,000 farms, with an average size of about 160 acres. Farming is the largest single land use in the state, accounting for a third of the total land area. Maryland milk cows, beef cattle and swine each number more than 40,000.

There are also more horses per square mile than in any other state, a total of about 80,000.

Though Maryland is supposed to be a solidly blue state, as you walk through the Cow Palace and the Sheep and Swine Building, you’ll see more than a few Trump-Pence signs. Fox 45 News is the official station of the

fair. “Hillary Rod-ham Clinton” and “Donald Trump Roast” are two of the contenders in the Swifty Swine pig races.

Setting aside politics, you and your kids can try milking a cow and, if your timing is right, watch a calf or a piglet being born.

Among the other highlights are live Thoroughbred horseracing at 1 p.m. Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday; free performances on the Carolina Carports stage; junior and intermediate English riding in the horse show ring; a birds of prey show; chainsaw carving demonstrations; and a mechanical bull.

The Toyota Concert Series presented by M&T Bank will feature Charlie Puth with special guest Ruth B on Sept. 3 and Jana Kramer with Bobby Bones and the Raging Idiots on Sept. 4. Tickets are $40 and $50, including fair admission.

Fair admission, which doesn’t include midway rides, is $8 for adults, $6 for seniors (62+), $3 for ages 6 to 11, and free for age 5 and under. Parking is $5 at the fairgrounds and free at a park-and-ride lot.

Can’t make it to Timonium this year? The State Fair of Virginia will run from Sept. 23 to Oct. 2 at the Meadow Event Park in Caroline County near Doswell, 75 miles south of D.C.

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Murphy’s Love: Advice on Intimacy and Relationships

Withdrawers and Pursuers: Compatible?

by Stacy N ota r a s M u r p h y Dear Stacy, I am very much in love with my boyfriend and want to get married. We’ve been together for three years and throughout that time we have had a lot of angry arguments about all kinds of things. These moments have been so painful, but also helped me see that I needed to do some work on myself to be a better partner to him, so I found a counselor and have been working on my issues since earlier this year. Even though most of the time things are great, my boyfriend doesn’t see enough progress yet to agree to get married. He tells me that I’m not changing fast enough and we are still having explosive fights. He says that if I don’t get there after I’ve been seeing my counselor for a year, we are going to have to make a decision about whether we’re compatible enough. I am incredibly anxious about this and have talked to my counselor, but I wanted an outside perspective about how much change is likely to happen after a year.

— Counting Down Dear Counting: This is one of those times when half of me really wants more context. What exactly are these issues you are working on? What kind of

progress does Boyfriend demand? What makes it okay for him to demand that kind of progress? I could go on and on.

But the other half of me knows that none of those details really matters. This is a process between the two of you, an agreed-upon dynamic — what master couples therapist Dr. Sue Johnson describes as “a dance” — that you both are agreeing to perform. I imagine it goes something like this: he withholds, then you protest, which causes him to criticize and then you explode. Sound familiar?

While you have taken his criticisms to heart, you also had some expectations of your own.

You expected that he would see your efforts for what they are, a valiant attempt to make things better. But now he’s saying you’re being graded, and if you don’t come through it’s a reflection on your compatibility.

While I get why he sees it that way (he’s bought into the mistaken idea that constant harmony is a sign of compatibility and any disruption predicts doom), I also get why he sent you on the errand for self-improvement and isn’t joining you in that process. He’s a withdrawer and you are a pursuer. This is your dynamic, and because you share it with the majority of couples in our society (seriously, the

research shows us this), I’d say your compatibility is undisputed. What needs work is your understanding of how that dynamic works and doesn’t work, and how you can make improvements together. This is his work, too. He needs to join you in that counseling room.

Stacy Notaras Murphy is a licensed professional counselor in Georgetown. Visit her on the web at stacymurphyLPC.com. This column is meant for entertainment only and should not be considered a substitute for professional counseling. Send your confidential question to stacymurphyLPC@gmail.com.

Keys to Sustainable Habits B y m at th ew d an iel

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he hardest part of losing weight is keeping it off. Long-term success in health and fitness is built on top of a lifestyle, not a quick fix, a detox or an insane workout. Upgrading your lifestyle means acquiring sustainable habits that improve your quality of life. Here are four ways to ensure that you’re setting yourself up for success.

Choose smart goals. This column has talked about setting smart, measurable, attainable, realistic and timely goals. It’s also important to make sure that your goals are tied to something you personally value. It will be much easier to adopt a habit if the payoff is genuinely meaningful to you.

Many are motivated to lose weight by shame or a rude comment.

While this pain may get you started, the research on human motivation is clear: this kind of external motivation will not keep you going. I suggest investing a little time thinking about what truly motivates you, and making sure that your goals match up.

Fill in the blank. There may be parts of your current routine you’d like to part with. Perhaps you splurge on a Danish with your afternoon coffee, or maybe your evening agenda consists of binge-watching through your Netflix queue. As you cut out some habits, remember to find new ways to fill those voids.

For example, if you’ve begun to reduce your bread intake, be sure to add in extra fruits and veggies so you eat enough to feel

“The pursuit of excellence is gratifying and healthy.

The pursuit of perfection is frustrating, neurotic and a terrible waste of time.”

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Pat yourself on the back. Change is never easy, and our environment of highcalorie, highly palatable food makes changing our eating habits that much harder.

Applaud yourself for your efforts.

That affirmation helps get feel-good chemicals to your brain, keeping the desired behavior going. This can be as simple as a quick mental note congratulating yourself on getting through a difficult afterburn class or, with a bit more planning, taking a vacation to celebrate hitting a weightloss goal. And look for ways to get supportive people involved in this feedback loop.

Be excellent. We like to remind clients of the wise words of Edwin Bliss: “The pursuit of excellence is gratifying and healthy. The pursuit of perfection is frustrating, neurotic and a terrible waste of time.”

Slipups will happen. That’s part of life. Sustainable habits won’t be extreme, rigid or based on perfection.

Sustainable habits will involve strategies for getting back on track after things haven’t quite gone as planned. Be patient and build in some wiggle room. Success lies in striving to be your best, not striving to be perfect.

-Edwin Bliss full. Similarly, if you cut back on TV to make time for the gym, be sure to find other ways to get that relaxation time — by going to bed a little earlier or splurging on grocery delivery to free up shopping time, for instance. Filling in the “blanks” left by unhelpful habits will be the difference between trying to whiteknuckle your success versus enjoying a lifetime of benefits.

Matthew Daniel is head coach at True 180 Fitness in Georgetown. Information about his 14-day trial may be found at true180.fitness.

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VISUAL ARTS

‘The Greeks: Agamemnon to Alexander’ at National Geographic

By Ari Pos t

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f somehow we were allowed to redraw the party lines between ancient and modern history in this increasingly secular world, I think there would be a strong argument to change B.C.E. (Before the Common Era, which supplanted Before Christ) to B.A.G.: Before Ancient Greece — or Before Alexander the Great, if we really must assign that mantle to a single person.

Over a period of about 5,000 years, which ended about 2,500 years ago, the ancient Greeks built the framework for the superstructure of Western civilization. Think about that for a second. Try to imagine the time that has passed between the reign of Alexander the Great and today. Now double it.

That is how long the civilization of Ancient Greece flourished.

The United States has not been in existence for even 250 years. So all this campaign-season talk about our country as the greatest nation in history might be a rather naive and shortsighted perspective.

Our concepts of science, democracy, medicine, astronomy, geometry and timekeeping all derive from Greek origins. Innovations like grid-based city planning, concrete, plumbing, educational systems, philosophy, even newspapers — it’s all Greek. And that isn’t even touching on art and warfare, probably the two most defining symbols of global society.

As a writer, I’m not even sure what there

is to say about the ancient Greeks that hasn’t already been said many times before. But it is good to be reminded of these things that made us. At the National Geographic Museum through Oct. 10, “The Greeks: Agamemnon to Alexander the Great” is certainly an impressive display of this history, one that can reignite your passion for the awe-inspiring beauty and staggering genius of this ancient world.

Featuring a selection of genuinely exquisite artifacts, many of which have never been exhibited outside of Greece, this is the most comprehensive exhibition on Ancient Greece to tour North America in a generation.

It is a classic blockbuster museum exhibition. In terms of grandeur, it feels on the level of “The Treasures of Tutankhamun,” the legendary King Tut exhibition of the late 1970s, a diplomatic tour-de-force devised by Nixon, Kissinger and Egyptian president Anwar Sadat. On the level of scale and comprehensiveness, it is like an artifactual timeline of Ancient Greece developed into a physical, interactive journey.

Among the most eye-opening discoveries offered by the exhibition are early artifacts from the ancient Aegean era, when, prior to 5,000 B.C.E., small villages began forming for the first time on the Greek mainland and the islands throughout the Aegean Sea. It is here that we see Cycladic sculptures, small funerary figurines that are among the

Top: Linear B Tablet.

Above: “Mask of Agamemnon” (Replica).

When unearthed in the late 19th century, archaeologists believed this to be the death mask of Agamemnon, the mythical king of Mycenae.

Right: Lekythos depicting Ajax carrying the body of Achilles.

All images courtesy National Archaeological Museum, Athens.

most iconic images in Greek archaeology. Setting aside their historical or ritual content, these figurines are strikingly reminiscent of Modernist art from the 20th century, with a sleek minimalism that immediately calls to mind artists like Modigliani or Brancusi. A Cycladic idol like the ones displayed was even owned by Picasso, which is no surprise considering his fixation with obscure primitive ritual art.

Although perhaps the word “primitive” gives the wrong impression — this is, after all, a people who developed some of the earliest phonetic writing symbols. Perhaps the most moving and unforgettable objects in the entire exhibition are the Linear A Tablets, small slabs of redbrick clay engraved with a Minoan script that is yet to be completely deciphered.

No larger than the palm of your hand, these tablets show symbols that represent sounds, ideograms, commodities and symbols for quantities. More comprehensive than Egyptian hieroglyphics, they were likely an administrative record of agricultural produce and livestock.

This is to say that this writing is boring, purely economical, which has far greater implications about the advancement of this society than at first it might seem. First, these people were using writing as a tool for basic recordkeeping and logistics within an agricultural society. That means writing was an inte-

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grated tool; perhaps not everyone could read, but literacy was common enough that writing was used widely to save and pass along immediate and short-term information. This is a far cry from the narrative structure of Egyptian hieroglyphics, used to mythologize the exploits of a great pharaoh; this is bookkeeping.

Second, it implies an agrarian society, where farming is a distributed task among a wide and organized population. It offers a glimpse into the early genius of a society that would build itself into the greatest and longest lasting empire in civilized history.

In some sense, I wish to offer an apology.

In this article, I have hardly even teased out the arrival of what is commonly regarded as the meat of Ancient Greece. We have not dipped our toes into the Bronze Age, advancements in metalsmithing and gilding, the renowned and beloved painted terracotta ceramics, Homer and the great Greek narratives, the theater, poetry, the Olympics, the unthinkable mastery of stone sculpture and monumental architecture, the conquests of Alexander the Great … the list goes on infinitely.

And it's all there at the National Geographic Museum. I just wanted to get your history whiskers tingling. Ancient Greece set the stage for the modern world in ways it can be hard to fathom, even if we think we already know it.

Performing arts

Early Curtain Risers of D.C.’s Theater Season

By G a ry T i s c h l e r

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Craig Wallace as Louis Armstrong in "Satchmo at the Waldorf" at Mosaic Theater Company of DC, Aug. 25 through Sept.

25. Photo by Stan Barouh. Courtesy Mosaic Theater

production, directed by Eric Tucker, features the gifted Erin Weaver as Marianne Dashwood and Maggie McDowell as her sister Elinor.

After finishing a successful debut season under Artistic Director Ari Roth, Mosaic Theater Company of DC has already started its second season with Terry Teachout’s one-man show “Satchmo at the Waldorf.” The play, which looks at the life and times and career of Louis Armstrong, features local star Craig Wallace as not only Satchmo, but his Jewish manager Joe Glaser and his rival in genius, trumpeter Miles Davis. It runs through Sept.

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GALA Hispanic Theatre opens its season with something quintessentially Spanish, the world premiere of “Cervantes: El último Quijote” (“The Last Quixote”). The theater is entering its fifth decade by commemorating the 400th anniversary of the death of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, author of “Don Quixote,” the jewel of the golden age of Spanish literature and drama.

The play, commissioned by GALA, was written by Jordi Casanovas. Directed by 2016 Helen Hayes Award winner Jose Luis Arellano, it will

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be performed Sept. 8 through Oct. 2.

“Urinetown: The Musical” is being produced by Constellation Theatre at 1835 14th St. NW through Oct. 9. A hit on Broadway and

at theaters around the country, the show is about a city in the midst of a dire water shortage, ready to rise up against an all-powerful corporation trying to ban private toilets. Directed

by Allison Arkell Stockman, “Urinetown” won Tonys in 2002 for Best Musical, Best Book and Best Score.

Theater J is opening its season with “The Last Schwartz” by Deborah Zoe Laufer, which is described as an absurd and thoughtful comedy about a dysfunctional Jewish family. It begins Sept. 7 and runs through Oct. 2. Artistic Director Adam Immerwahr is directing.

Scena Theatre returns to the Atlas Performing Art Center with Artistic Director Robert McNamara starring in “Report to the Academy,” based on a short story by Franz Kafka, directed by Gabriele Jakobi.

“Report” was a successful part of last year’s Fringe Festival.

Woolly Mammoth opens its season Sept.

12 with the hard-to-describe “Collective Rage: A Play in Five Boops” by Jen Silverman, directed by Mike Donahue, in which five different women named Betty collide at the intersection of anger, sex and the “thea-tah.” It runs through Oct. 9.

Finally, let’s not forget that local jazz star Mark Meadows is killing it at Signature Theatre as Jelly Roll Morton in “Jelly’s Last Jam,” through Sept. 11.

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ure still feels like summer out there, but curtains are about to go up on the 201617 theater season.

One of the biggest and most ambitious projects in our area is only a week away from opening. Bethesda’s Round House Theatre is co-producing with Olney Theatre Center, its Montgomery County neighbor, a 25th anniversary production of Tony Kushner’s groundbreaking two-part epic “Angels in America.”

“Part 1: Millennium Approaches” will alternate with “Part II: Perestroika,” both directed

by Round House Artistic Director Ryan Rilette and Olney Artistic Director Jason Loewith.

Kushner’s Pulitzer- and Tony-winning work deals with the AIDS epidemic, still raging at the time; politics, both national and international; sexuality, of course; and religion.

It features as characters a young man afflicted with AIDS and his closeted Mormon lover (who has a valium-addicted wife), not to mention Roy Cohn, Ethel Rosenberg and, yes, a furious, prophecy-bearing angel. In the cast are Kimberly Gilbert, Dawn Ursula, Mitchell Hébert, Thomas Keegan, Sarah Marshall, Jon Hudson Odom, Jonathan Bock and Tom Story.

No less interesting is the first offering of Studio Theatre’s season, the classic “Cloud 9”

by Caryl Churchill, a play about gender, desire and society still revolutionary 35 years after its premiere. Holly Twyford, one of Washington’s brightest stars, heads the cast of the play, which is being directed by Michael Kahn, artistic director of the Shakespeare Theatre Company. In “Cloud 9,” running Sept. 7 through Oct. 16, late-Victorian Africa intersects with late-1970s London.

Also at Studio, the theater has again extended its outrageous production of the black comedy “Hand to God,” through Sept. 18.

At Ford’s Theatre, the new folk-rock musical “Come From Away” begins Sept. 2. This unusual show, already a hit in San Diego and Seattle, is about 9/11, when 38 planes and 6,579 passengers were stranded in Gander, Newfoundland. Directed by Christopher Ashley, it runs through Oct. 9.

That Jane Austen is sure a popular woman.

An adaptation by Kate Hamill of the Regency English novelist’s book “Sense and Sensibility” will open the Folger Theatre’s season on Sept. 13 and run through Oct. 30. The all-new

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SOCIAL SCENE

Yo-Ho-Ho and a Sunny Sunday of Rum PHO TOS BY NE S HAN H . N A LT C H AYA N

Rum Day D.C. made its annual return Aug. 14 to the Rum Club Rooftop of Jack Rose Dining Saloon on 18th Street NW in Adams Morgan. The Sunday brunch of French toast, ham and cheese biscuits and fried deviled eggs was washed down with an impressive selection of rums — Afrohead, Atlantico, Blackwater, Lost Spirits, Mount Gay, Papa’s Pilar, Prichard’s — with cocktails made by members of the United States Bartenders’ Guild and Jack Rose staffers.

Phil Prichard, president of Prichard’s Fine Rum, Tennessee, with Adra Williams of Otim Williams PR.

Sunni, host of “Sunni and the City” on WPGC radio, and Justin Stewart of WTTG Fox 5’s “Good Day DC.”

Lily Bengfort and Devi Keller of Blackwater Distilling, Kent Island, Maryland, show off their Picaroon Maryland Rum.

Haywood Donerson III and Monica Carter.

Courtney McGeachy enjoys her rum cocktail on the rooftop of Jack Rose Saloon.

Miss D.C. Gets Official Send-Off

BY R OBERT D EVAN EY

Miss District of Columbia Cierra Jackson with Miss Teen D.C. Nilah Pettus. Photo by Patrick G. Ryan.

Miss District of Columbia Cierra Jackson was given a send-off party in Chinatown Aug. 25. She is headed for the 96th Miss America Pageant, to be held Sept. 11 at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Jackson’s talent is singing; her platform is “Behind the Frontline: Supporting Military Children.” Well-wishers gathered atop the Residences at Gallery Place and enjoyed food from Tony Cheng’s Restaurant.

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Sakerum on 14th Street Mixes It Up Elegantly

By RoB e Rt De vaney

SEPTEMBER 13 Ambassadors Ball The annual MS Society Ambassadors Ball, a premier event in the Washington, D.c., fall social season for 37 years, has raised more than $20 million for programs and research. The 38th Ambassadors Ball will welcome ambassadors and honor the diplomatic corps for their charitable activities and humanitarian endeavors. For tickets, visit nationalmssociety.org.

Owner Stephanos Andreou and wife and business partner constandina economides welcomed more than 150 guests to the opening party of the Latininfluenced sushi bar Sakerum on 14th Street Aug. 23. The two are no strangers to the restaurant business: Andreou helped launch Barcode; economides is the granddaughter of Ulysses “Blackie” Auger of the legendary Blackie’s House of Beef on 22nd Street.

20th Annual Noche de Gala dinner This gala brings together the best of Washington and the country — members of congress and the diplomatic corps, Hispanic celebrities and entertainers, administration officials, members of the media and various community advocates — all in support of the national Hispanic Foundation for the Arts (nHFA). For tickets, visit hispanicarts.org.

Guests enjoyed passed hors d’oeuvres, including signature sushi rolls and Latin bites, while sipping cocktails such as frozen slushies and libations made with sake and rum, naturally.

The 3,600-square-foot Sakerum features bars on both floors. ninety patrons can be accommodated under the retractable rooftop.

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SEPTEMBER 16 Wolf Trap Ball Sakerum partner Constandina Economides and owner Stephanos Andreou welcomed more than 150 guests at the Aug. 23 VIP launch event. Photo by Patrick G. Ryan.

Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts announces the 2016 Wolf Trap Ball, to be held on the Filene center stage at Wolf Trap national Park for the Performing Arts.

Hosted in cooperation with the national Park Service, this year’s ball celebrates the nPS centennial. For tickets, visit wolftrap.org.

Joan Hisaoka ‘Make A Difference’ Gala Joan Hisaoka, a remarkable woman, was 48 years old when she lost her battle with cancer on May 14, 2008. During her lifetime, Joan received numerous awards for both her community involvement and her work as the founder of Hisaoka Public Relations, which represented many top metro-area hospitality, tourism and retail clients. Tickets start at $600. For tickets, visit joanhisaokagala.org.

SEPTEMBER 25 National Symphony Orchestra Season Opening Gala The nSO season opening gala will usher in a new year with a festive and exciting benefit evening. This year we not only pay tribute to Maestro christoph eschenbach's final season as music director, but also recognize the historic event taking place in Washington the same weekend: the opening of the Smithsonian national Museum of African American History and culture. For tickets, visit kennedy-center. org.

SEPTEMBER 26 28th Annual PEN/Faulkner Celebration Pen/Faulkner will hold its 28th Annual Pen/Faulkner celebration at the Folger Shakespeare Library. This event, which supports the Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction and its Writers in Schools programming, features some of today’s finest authors reading works composed especially for the occasion. For tickets, visit penfaulkner.org.

SEPTEMBER 29 Legacy of Innovation Gala

Benefiting the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (AG Bell) on the celebration of its 125th anniversary, the Legacy of Innovation Gala celebrates the many milestones and accomplishments that have played an important role in AG Bell’s rich history. Gala proceeds will continue AG Bell’s important work and will be matched by a longtime proponent of the association.

For tickets, visit agbell.org.

OCTOBER 22 Citizens Association of Georgetown Gala The 2016 Georgetown Gala will take place at the Four Seasons hotel. This year’s theme will celebrate Georgetown icons.

For tickets, visit cagtown.org.

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