Georgetowner's December 21, 2016 Issue

Volume 63 Number 6

december 21, 2016 - January 10, 2017

THE INS & OUTS of 2016

Who Got Trumped?

COPS, CITIZENS TALK CRIME Georgetowners of the Year Walking Tour of the Georgetown Set Christmas in Annapolis Embassy, Anniversary, Holiday Parties

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GEORGETOWN $2,750,000

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KALORAMA $3,250,000 Built circa 1912, this Spanish Revival home features a stucco façade, terra cotta tile roof, and a limestone staircase. The home features a large open floor plan with custom designs and high-end finishes. The home includes a 2-person, 4-level cable elevator and Cat 6 Ethernet cabling installed throughout the house.

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GEORGETOWN $2,695,000

GEORGETOWN $2,150,000

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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.

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This handsome bay-front townhouse in Georgetown’s East Village features abundant natural light from three exposures.

Found throughout this five-bedroom home are hardwood floors, high ceilings, crown moldings, and plentiful storage.

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Charming Cape Cod located on enchanting gated private Island with security, no Bay Bridge crossing, one hour from Washington, 20 minutes from BWI/Train, by appointment only. 3 BR/3 BA, move-in condition, wonderful finishes, 1st floor master bedroom suite, spacious living room/dining room with grand fireplace, table-space kitchen, family room opening to outside deck with serene vistas. Built in 1931, renovations in 1990 and 2015, expanded in 1995. Private country club with yachting, golf, tennis, fine dining —club membership by separate process, not automatic.

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CONTENTS NE WS

F OOD & W I N E

4 ... Calendar 5 ... Town Topics 7 ... Overheard at Lunch 8 ... Editorial/Opinion

BUSI N E S S 10 ...

Ins & Outs

A L L T HI NG S ME DI A 10 ...

F ake News? It’s Plain Ol’ Lying

RE A L E S TAT E 12 ...

Feature Property

F I N A NC E 13 ...

’Tis the Season for Giving

DOW N T OW N E R D C

23 ...

T he Latest Dish

I N C OU N T R Y & G E TAWAY 24 ...

‘ Yule Tide’ in Annapolis

2016 Was the Year the Music Died

BO DY & SOU L 27 ...

Murphy’s Love

ARTS

BY G A RY T I S C H L ER

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From Bowie to Prince, to Merle to Cohen, musicians led the parade of notables lost.

Keegan’s

Profane, Lyrical ‘Irish Carol’ 29 ... A Refrain of Triumph Over Adversity: ‘The Migration Series’

GOO D WORK S & GOO D T I M E S

David Bowie in 1975.

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St. Luke’s Help for Haitian 14 ... Town Topics Hurricane Victims ‘Grand Opera’ at the H AU T E & C OOL Indonesian Embassy 15 ... Cheers to the New Year!

‘America and Tolstoy: A Dialogue From Quill to C OV E R Tweet’ 18 ... T he Ins & Outs at the End 31 ... C afe Milano, Washington of 2016 Life Celebrate 25 Years F E AT U RE BID Gathers at New Grace 20 ... G eorgetowners of the Year Street Collective 21 ... W hen Georgetown Held the

Helping the Children of World in Its Hands: A Guide the Middle East to ‘The Georgetown Set’ Jackson Art Open House Book Signing at Waterworks

Georgetown Students Protest Nike Contract Renewal

BY T Y L ER H E T U

After a 35-hour sit-in at the university president’s offices, Georgetown University has agreed not to renew its licensing with Nike if it does not respond to questions about treatment of workers.

ON THE COVER

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Copyright 2016.

In our cover story on the ins and outs of 2016, the big news in D.C. is the booming restaurant and bar scene. Upscale, downscale, hot spots for foodies and beer lovers — they keep on coming, increasingly to Georgetown, where the liquor license moratorium ended at last. On the cover we show one of the District’s newest, hippest bars, Big Chief, which opened last summer at 2002 Fenwick St. NE in Ivy City. Photo by Jai Williams.

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Submarine Named for D.C. in Formal Ceremony P H OTO S BY J EFF M A L E T

The USS Columbia is the first ship of the new fleet of ballistic missile submarines, formally known as the Ohio-class replacement. A naming ceremony took place at the Wilson Building Dec. 14.

Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus has been in his position since 2009.

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UP & COMING DECEMBER 21–24 ‘The Nutcracker’

A Choral Arts Christmas

These are the final 2016 performances of the Washington Ballet’s celebrated production, set in historic Georgetown and guest-starring George Washington and King George III. Tickets are $35 to $120. For details, visit washingtonballet.org. Warner Theatre, 513 13th St. NW.

DECEMBER 23 Feast of the Seven Fishes A day in advance, Ristorante i Ricchi will offer la festa dei sette pesci, an Italian American Christmas Eve tradition (a la carte menu also available). Tickets are $89. Call 202-835-0459 to reserve. For details, visit iricchidc.com. 1220 19th St. NW.

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DECEMBER 24 Seven More Fishes Cafe Milano’s annual sevencourse seafood feast will be offered on Christmas Eve (a la carte menu also available). Tickets are $95, including one glass of wine. Call 202-333-6183 to reserve.

For details, visit cafemilano.com. 3251 Prospect St. NW.

Gospel singer Ralph Alan Herndon will join the Choral Arts Society of Washington to celebrate the holidays with a mix of seasonal classics, favorite sing-alongs and popular Christmas standards. Tickets start at $15. For details, visit choralarts.org. Kennedy Center Concert Hall, 2700 F St NW.

DECEMBER 25 Christmas at Sequoia The waterfront restaurant will offer a Christmas Day brunch featuring prime rib, rack of lamb, suckling pig, sushi, raw bar and seasonal salads and desserts. For details, visit arkrestaurants.com. 3000 K St. NW.

DECEMBER 31 ‘Noon Year’s Eve’ at Tudor Place

will feature music, cocktails, dancing and a live broadcast from Times Square. Tickets range from $50 to $125. For details, visit artsoiree.com. 1075 Thomas Jefferson St. NW.

Drink the District’s Cocktail Countdown

This weekend edition of Tudor Tots will feature a festive counting-themed storytime followed by a countdown to noon.

Participants will celebrate the “noon-year” with noisemakers, confetti, a sparkling craft and an apple-juice toast. Tickets are $8 per child (free admission for adults). For details, visit tudorplace.org. 1644 31st St. NW.

Drink the District’s New Year’s Eve event will feature multiple open bars, signature cocktails every hour on the hour, live bands, DJs, “tasty tidbits” and hand-rolled stogies.

Tickets are $99 to $199. For details, visit cocktailcountdown.com. Mead Center, 1101 6th St. SW.

Art Soiree’s White Tie Wonderland

Rí Rá’s Whiskey Room will transform into a speakeasy of the jazz age on New Year’s Eve, where guests — dressed as gangsters, flappers and stars of the silent screen — can indulge, imbibe and dance all night to the

Art Soiree invites New Year’s Eve revelers to enjoy the city views from the Graham Georgetown’s tented and heated rooftop, decorated as a winter wonderland. The event

Roaring Twenties Bash

sounds of the Gatsby Gang Jazz Band. For details, visit rirapub.com. 3125 M St. NW.

JANUARY 1 JP’s in your PJs J. Paul’s asks: “What can be better than hanging out in your favorite Georgetown saloon in your PJ’s on New Year’s Day?” Bottomless mimosas and bottomless raw bar will be in effect from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For details, visit jpaulsdc.com. 3218 M St. NW.

JANUARY 8 Marry Me Bethesda!

This exclusive preview of Bethesda’s newest event space, the Rooftop @ 7400, will include fashion, and wine tastings, with an assortment of wedding-planning partners on hand. Hyatt Regency Bethesda, 7400 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda, Maryland.

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TOWN TOPICS

Community Calendar MONDAY, JANUARY 2

Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E The monthly ANC 2E public meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m. at Georgetown Visitation Prep, 35th Street NW at Volta Place, main building. For details, visit ANC2E.com.

filing deadline, Jan. 5, remains unchanged.

National Building Museum, 401 F St. NW. For details, visit cfa.gov.

Send your community event listing to editorial@georgetowner.com or call 202-338-4833.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18

CAG Meeting: West Heating Plant

BY P EG GY S A N D S A N D RO B ER T D E VA N E Y

Fillmore Arts Center Gets Reprieve; Georgetown Left Out

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The Citizens Association of Georgetown will host a meeting on the West Heating Plant project, with updates from architect David Adjaye and landscape designer Laurie Olin, at 6 p.m. at House of Sweden, 2900 K St. NW. For details, visit cagtown.org.

GBA Monthly Networking Meeting The Georgetown Business Association will host its monthly reception at 6:30 p.m. at a location to be announced. For details, visit georgetownbusiness.org.

MONDAY, JANUARY 23 (Note Date Change) Old Georgetown Board

Due to the National Building Museum’s inauguration-related closure, the Commission of Fine Arts has changed its January meeting date as indicated. The meeting’s

NEWS

West Heating Plant.

ast October, five District elementary schools including Georgetown’s HydeAddison were told that D.C. Public Schools would be closing the Fillmore Arts Center, the centralized program of arts instruction based at Hardy Middle School.

None of the five schools has dedicated space for art and music.

Now DCPS has backed down — sort of. Last week, it announced that it would continue the Fillmore program through the 2017-18 school year for three of the schools, but not for Hyde-Addison or for Marie Reed Elementary School in Adams Morgan. Students at these schools will instead “transition to on site arts instruction” in makeshift facilities. Fillmore Center programs will however “be available in the form of workshops and periodic events” on a temporary basis.

A two-year reconstruction project scheduled to begin this summer will give

Fillmore Arts at Hardy School. students at both Hyde-Addison and Marie Reed state-of-the-art dedicated rooms for art and music instruction. But these won’t be ready until 2019. In fact, it is not yet certain where the Hyde-Addison children will attend school the next two years.

Deputy Mayor Jennifer Niles announced in October that the students would relocate to Meyer School in Adams Morgan, requiring long bus rides for children as young as 3 years old. Parents have protested that decision and continue to hope that an alternative will be found.

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On 24 December, at Sunset to honor those who came before us and in the spirit of Christmas a bagpipe player will perform at Oak Hill Cemetery in remembrance of the hundreds of Scottish & Irish Americans buried in Oak Hill Cemetery who fought in the Civil War, the Spanish War, the Great War and WWII who served their newly adopted country. These people were police officers, firefighters, shopkeepers, laymen & labors, statesmen, & community leaders all who helped make up the fabric of our society. The Pipe Major will lead a procession of all who wish to join in along R Street from Oak Hill Cemetery to High Street (Now Wisconsin Avenue) and then down to St. John’s Episcopal Church along Beall Street (O St.) where the parishioners of the Church will greet the bagpipers a little after 5:00 PM, following the service, with a reception and music of the Season.

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GU’s Campus Plan Unanimously Approved It took one meeting for the Zoning Commission to unanimously approve Georgetown University’s 2017-2036 campus plan Dec. 1. Anthony Hood, chair of the commission, took note of the unusually friendly nature of the meeting. With the Georgetown Community Partnership in place for four years, the process has changed so much that there was no community opposition to the 20-year master plan.

As previously reported, the plan calls for expansion of MedStar Georgetown University Hospital with a new surgical wing, expansion of Lauinger Library, a new playing field and eventual replacement of Yates Field House.

New student housing is in the mix as well.

The plan caps student enrollment at 14,106 total students, including 6,675 undergraduates.

Graduate student enrollment could increase gradually by 2,000 over the 20-year time frame. Undergrads must live on campus three of their four years — with 95 percent of the undergraduate population living on campus.

Discussion of any new details in the plan will occur within the Georgetown Community Partnership, a collaborative group of neighborhood, university and city leaders.

The new era of peace and understanding in town-gown relations moved Georgetown University John DeGioia to write of the Zoning Commission’s approval and the work of the partnership: “We were grateful to receive

the unanimous approval of the Campus Plan from Advisory Neighborhood Commissions 2E and 3D, which immediately surround the campus, and to receive statements of support by the Burleith Citizens Association, Citizens Association of Georgetown and Foxhall Community Citizens Association. I cannot begin to express my appreciation to Ron Lewis, chair of ANC 2E, and Christopher Augostini, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at Georgetown University, for their leadership as co-chairs of the GCP.” More information is available at campusplan.georgetown.edu.

Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge Work to Start in January

A 15-month project to repair the Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge over Rock Creek Park, which connects Georgetown to the West End, is set to begin in early January, according to the District Department of Transportation. The design has been finalized and a notice to proceed to construction was filed last week.

The bridge was deemed unsafe in 2014 when it was observed that a portion of the deck had sunk due to a fire. Chunks of concrete also occasionally fall to the ground. Permitting, design approvals and agreement on a plan for traffic flow during construction took almost two years.

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determined, both westbound lanes of traffic on Pennsylvania Avenue will be closed. Traffic will be diverted to M Street and 26th Street will become a northbound one-way street between Pennsylvania Avenue and M Street.

Along with repairs to the sunken deck, the project also includes upgrading the parapets and pedestrian railings and fixing damage to the outer coating of the bridge.

‘A Wonderful Run’: 5 Commissioners Depart

“I have loved working with these people,” said Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner Tom Birch, choking up slightly at the Nov. 28 ANC 2E meeting, which included farewells to departing commissioners, Birch among them.

A total of five commissioners are leaving: Birch, Reed Howard (who did not attend), Jeff Jones, Ron Lewis and Bill Starrels.

“What an experience!” exclaimed Jones, who said nailing down the Georgetown

University 20-year campus plan was his finest work as a public servant. “Give the new ANC time to become a team,” he added. “We know how to work it out. Give them a chance. Let them sort it out.”

“16 years,” commented Starrels, who noted that when he started the ANC team “was not a friendly group.” There are many accomplishments this ANC can list, he said. “We are the best functioning ANC. We are leaving with friendships. . . . It’s been a pleasure.”

“It’s been a wonderful run in a wonderful town,” said Chair Ron Lewis of his 10-year tenure. “This is community at its most communal. Our recommendations carry weight. We make fact-based decisions — and never take things personally.”

The next ANC 2E meeting is Jan. 2. The five new commissioners are Joe Gibbons, Rick Murphy, Lisa Palmer, Zachary Schroepfer and Jim Wilcox. Returning are Mara Goldman, Monica Roaché and Ed Solomon.

Crime Report

At Year End, Cops, Citizens Talk Crime

By Peggy San ds “It doesn’t matter that there was just one attempted assault, allegedly with a knife, in Georgetown’s Waterfront Park last month.

And that there have been reports of two alleged rapes or exposures on two popular streets of Georgetown: Potomac and 37th Street,” said Ward 2 Council member Jack Evans at a packed meeting of the Citizens Association of Georgetown Dec. 7. “The perception among residents now seems to be that they do not feel as safe as they used to to walk around at night.”

That concern was palpable at CAG’s annual public safety meeting, always held around the holiday season, according to Executive Director Betty Cooley. More than 200 residents turned out, mainly to hear from and question interim Metropolitan Police Department Chief Peter Newsham and MPD 2nd District Commander Melvin Gresham. The chief spoke for more than an hour in the Georgetown Presbyterian Church meeting room.

“Crime, especially thefts and burglaries, are actually down by almost half according to our statistics,” Newsham said. “That’s due to improved enforcement and improved awareness and diligence by residents.”

But sexual assaults have increased in Georgetown — from five to 10 this year.

“That’s significant,” Evans said.

The police leaders assured the residents that more patrols were being assigned for the holiday period and officers would be more visible. Bike patrols were being considered.

“Similarly, treatment of rape victims has also greatly improved,” Newsham said. “Their charges are taken seriously. They are treated with respect. They call the shots.”

Still, there were some questions about a couple of highly publicized rapes in homes around Halloween. One that received

Interim Police Chief Peter Newsham and Second District Commander Melvin Gresham of the Metropolitan Police Department Dec. 7. Behind them: Council member Jack Evans and John Rentzepis of CAG. Photo by Peggy Sands. major news coverage in the Washington Post reportedly occurred the Friday before Halloween at the Dodge Mansion at 2819 P St. NW, owned by Bill Dean, chief executive of M.C. Dean, one of the country’s largest electrical contractors. Dean has come to be known as the “modern day Gatsby” for his large and sometimes rowdy parties.

“What is the status of the investigation?” some asked. “Might there be a serial rapist in these increased incidents?”

“No arrests have been made,” Newsham said. “But while the cases are still open, they are completely different. In the P Street case, all parties involved are known, and all are cooperating with the investigation. In other cases, the parties are not known.”

Both the chief and commander encouraged residents to follow CAG suggestions for making the residential streets safer: “Take advantage of the city grant program to buy and have surveillance cameras installed at your front and back entrances. Use motion-sensitive lights in the back yard and keep your front light on all night. Above all, when you see something suspicious, say something. Do not hesitate to call 911 and report it.”

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Overheard at Lunch:

None” this month at the American Ingenuity Awards in D.C. The Hill reported that Ansari used the platform to speak his mind about the election, saying that we are living in a “strange time,” that people are “losing faith in this country” and that “thoughts of this one bozo” shouldn’t define us as a country.

By Kate Oczypok

Ivanka, Jared to Settle in Georgetown?

Reports are swirling that Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner are house hunting in D.C. As Ivanka spent her freshman and sophomore years at Georgetown University, the couple very well may end up in her former college town. Given the couple’s three children, Georgetown’s stock of large single-family homes makes it a logical choice. Surprising to no one here, the Kushners, as a Modern Orthodox couple, are reportedly looking at Kesher Israel, the synagogue of former Sen. Joe Lieberman but also home to disgraced and jailed voyeur, Rabbi Barry Freundel. It is at 28th and N Streets NW — not far from the White House.

Meanwhile, thereafter in or near the neighborhood, Comet Ping Pong, the familyfriendly pizza place on Connecticut Avenue, had a whacko stop by and fire off his rifle into the floor (no one hurt), a woman had her SUV carjacked on Western Avenue near Blessed Sacrament Church and closer to Rock Creek Park a guy was found dead in his Jaguar (not random and persons involved knew each other, police said). A coincidence that the Pence family just moved nearby?

So, apparently, that's why Pence was seen at Billy Martin's Tavern. And how can you get mad at him for that?

RIP STK DC STK, the Connecticut Avenue steakhouse that catered to women with its smaller portions and clever nicknames, has closed its doors.

Washingtonian magazine reported that the restaurant, which has branches in Las Vegas, London, Los Angeles and Miami, officially closed Dec. 17.

Sara and Ron Bonjean. Courtesy TheHill.com.

Bonjean Fete Flavorful Everyone’s heard about the Christmas party hosted annually by former top Senate and House spokesperson Ron Bonjean and his wife Sara, a GOP fundraiser and president of Rose Strategies. Every year a celebrity guest makes his or her mark and this year was certainly … flavorful. VH1 reality star Flavor Flav made an appearance at the affair, where the only dress code is “festive.”

Ansari: Election Not Funny

Dulles Not So Dull for Pot-Toting Jauregui Police at Dulles International Airport busted Fifth Harmony band member Lauren Jauregui for possession of marijuana last week. The Brazil-bound Jauregui, one-fifth of the goodgirl group put together by Simon Cowell on the “X Factor,” had pot in her carry-on. She missed the concert she was to perform in. A misdemeanor in Virginia, the offense could cost Jauregui $500 or 30 days in jail.

Comedian Aziz Ansari, who plays Tom Haverford in NBC’s “Parks and Recreation,” was honored for his Netflix series “Master of Chef José Andrés. Courtesy USDA.

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Jared Kushner.

Photo by Lori Berkowitz.

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José Andrés Moving Into Paolo's Space?

José Andrés, the force behind Beefsteak, Jaleo, minibar, Oyamel, Zaytinya and other eateries, has now turned his attention to Georgetown. Andrés will relocate his American Eats Tavern from Tysons to the Paolo's restaurant space — across from Martin's Tavern — on Wisconsin Avenue, according to several sources familiar with the 2017 move.

‘Carrie Bradshaw’ Shop Slips Into MGM Building on her “Sex and the City” fame, Sarah Jessica Parker has opened a boutique at MGM National Harbor. Just steps from the new casino, the first brick-and-mortar shop of SJP by Sarah Jessica Parker opened with plenty of sparkling pumps, LBDs, handbags and accessories for every Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda in the D.C. area.

Vice President-elect Mike Pence.

Photo by Gage Skidmore.

Vice President-elect Mike Pence and his family have settled into the exclusive Chevy Chase neighborhood. The five-bedroom, $6,000-per-month rental on Tennyson Street will be Pence Central until the move to the Naval Observatory. Instead of welcoming the Pences with a block party, neighbors hoisted rainbow flags in response to the future veep’s anti-LGBTQ, pro-“conversion therapy” stance.

Star-Studded Day at Children’s National New Year’s Rockin’ Eve host Ryan Seacrest and first lady Michelle Obama read holiday stories to patients at Children’s National Medical Center Dec. 12. Later that day, DNCE, the new band of Jonas Brother Joe, hung out with patients at Seacrest Studios, a facility at Children’s National where patients can explore radio, TV and new media.

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Editorial/opinion

Council Headaches for the Mayor?

If political change has swept the nation, it’s also come to the District of Columbia, where local elections have resulted in the rise of a progressive-minded, liberal-leaning District Council. That has created major challenges for Mayor Muriel Bowser, now heading into her third year as the city’s chief executive.

Bowser lost three allies on the Council, including reliable Ward 7 representative Yvette Alexander, Ward 8’s LaRuby May and at-large member Vincent Orange. Chaired by Phil Mendelson, the Council now includes a new and younger faction, headed by at-large members David Grosso, Elissa Silverman, and newly elected Robert White, Jr. The Council for a city in which a large number of residents identify themselves as liberal, and which gave a landslide victory to Hillary Clinton, appears strongly interested in economic equality issues and has already voted to approve an $15 minimum wage. It was set Tuesday to give final approval to a bill taxing local businesses to the tune of $250 million to provide workers with vastly higher family and medical leave benefits. Given the cost, the result could have major repercussions on future budgets.

While Bowser led the minimum-wage charge, she has voiced her opposition to the leave plan, which had the added difficulty of creating a new city agency.

The proposals of some of the newer Council members have tended to help longtime residents stay in the city, by making it easier for them to remain in the workforce and earn adequate wages and benefits. D.C. has seen a large

turnover both in its demographics and in its housing stock; the number of expensive condos has gone up and the number of rental units, especially ones considered “affordable,” has gone down.

Bowser, whose policies and inclinations are traditionally Democratic and more moderate, has pursued goals of improving education, battling crime and addressing homelessness with mixed success. She’s faced with the challenge and opportunity of new leadership for D.C. Public Schools, where Kaya Henderson retired with a basically successful record as chancellor and was replaced by former Oakland, California, school superintendent Antwan Wilson.

Name Peter Newsham MPD Chief The mostly popular reign of Metropolitan Police Chief Cathy Lanier ended this year when she announced her retirement to become head of security for the National Football League.

Assistant MPD Chief Peter Newsham was named interim chief and remains a candidate as the search for Lanier’s replacement continues.

The mayor indicated she will leave him in the position just past the inauguration. Why not let Newsham simply stay in the job permanently?

We feel that Newsham — who was Second District commander at one point and knows Georgetown and all of the city well — should be given the job outright, based on his excellent performance as interim chief and his record as an MPD officer throughout his 27-year career.

It’s time to make some decisions and get 2017 off to a strong start.

Merry Christmas. Happy Hanukkah. Happy New Year. The next Georgetowner Newspaper will arrive on Jan. 11, 2017, but we update regularly online — Georgetowner.com.

Jack Evans Report

Looking Back — and Ahead

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nd just like that, 2016 is nearly at an end. It’s been quite a year, to say the least. I always like to take the opportunity in this year-end edition of The Georgetowner to look back on the past 12 months, while also looking ahead to what we might experience in the city in the year to come.

The big event was obviously the presidential election. With Donald Trump set to be sworn in as president Jan. 20, and members of the new administration moving to Washington, we can expect 2017 to be full of change for the District.

On the local front, the city continues to move forward. Our finances strengthened over the past year, and we were able to continue to lower personal and business taxes in accordance with the plan put in place in 2014.

We’ll see Antwan Wilson take over as chancellor of our public schools Feb. 1, and we should expect the mayor to choose a permanent chief of police in the coming months.

There will be three new members of the Council beginning in January. Robert White is set to begin a full term, Vince Gray will return as the Ward 7 member and Trayon White will join the Council representing Ward 8.

As always, I will seek out opportunities to advance our goals as a city, not only with new colleagues on the Council but with new federal officials. In particular, I plan to meet with Elaine Chao, President-elect Trump’s choice to lead the U.S. Department

of Transportation, to continue to push for greater federal funding for Metro. With the new leaders of the General Services Administration and the National Park Service, I will keep advocating for the devolvement of federal land in D.C. to local control.

What, exactly, 2017 will bring is anyone’s guess. But one thing that will definitely happen is the swearing in of newly elected Council members, Advisory Neighborhood Commissioners and members of the State Board of Education. This event will take place Jan. 2 at the Washington Convention Center. Members of the Council will be sworn in first, beginning at 10 a.m., followed by other elected officials throughout the morning and early afternoon.

I’d be remiss if I didn’t thank three longtime, dedicated Advisory Neighborhood Commissioners who will be stepping down at the end of this year. Ron Lewis, Tom Birch and Bill Starrels have been three of the finest public servants in the city during their time on the ANC. They have done an outstanding job representing all of us in Georgetown and Burleith, leaving big shoes to fill. To Ron, Tom and Bill, thank you for your service and commitment to making our neighborhood great.

I look forward to beginning a new four-year term representing Georgetown and all of Ward 2 on the Council. There’s much work still to do to make our city stronger in 2017. Until then, Happy New Year!

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

A Streetcar Named Impossible

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n Nov. 17, D.C. transportation planners held an unusual public meeting on the proposed streetcar line from Union Station to Georgetown. They invited attendees to view maps and charts on the project, but would not respond to any questions about the material they presented.

DDOT officials discussed the “success” of the H Street segment of the streetcar, which is carrying 2,800 passengers a day, all of whom who ride free, costing the District $9 each in operating costs. But they refused to answer questions about the proposed Union Station to Georgetown segment, which will run on

batteries rather than overhead wires, using a new technology that has not been tested in dense urban areas like the District. And they wouldn’t explain how four lanes of traffic in the K Street tunnel under Washington Circle can be squeezed into two to allow dedicated lanes for the streetcar on part of its route.

DDOT officials said that the format of the meeting was to elicit comments from the community, not to engage in dialogue.

Anyone who had a question could submit it in writing for DDOT’s consideration. We later learned that previous public meetings on the streetcar program had become so contentious

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that DDOT decided to prohibit discussion of the project at these meetings. Some way to run a railroad.

Mayor Bowser has committed to spend another $54 million over the next three years to keep the streetcar project going, in addition to the $200 million in capital investment the city has already made in this ill-conceived project.

Why do we continue to throw good money after bad on something the District doesn’t need and can’t afford?

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2016: A Year of Change for Georgetown, D.C., the Nation

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his is not a story about Donald Trump.

Except, of course, it is a story about Donald Trump — because it has to be.

When we look back at 2016, we see a common thread: change. Spreading out, trickling down, it has made itself felt around the world, across the country and down the block.

No one and no event changed things in America more than the epochal 2016 presidential election campaign and its outcome, the result of which is President-elect Donald Trump, whose face now stares out at us from the cover of Time Magazine as “Person of the Year.”

We have now been plunged into the transition, a phase that in style and substance promises more upheaval, a veritable avalanche of unprecedented actions and policies, the first of which is likely to be a dramatic and wholly different inaugural.

The fact that it’s almost impossible to predict the nature of the event itself speaks to the way that Trump emerged as a very narrow winner over Democrat Hillary Clinton. The former secretary of state and senator was declared the favorite from the moment she announced she was running.

In this campaign, everything was surprise, uncertainty, alarm, drama and twists and turns worthy of, well, a reality show. By not playing by expected rules or customs, Trump ran outside the debates, by tweet and rally forging a base of so-called angry white voters and riding it to victory. His supporters — and everyone else, for that matter — expect him to be the “Change President,” to what ends no one is quite certain.

The year went like that on many levels, with change of all kinds. In June, British voters shocked the world and themselves by voting to begin an exit from the European Union. Homegrown terrorism, perpetrated by followers if not members of murderous ISIS, plagued and terrified Europeans in France, Belgium and Germany (pending confirmation of the Christmas market attacker’s affiliation).

In Turkey, an attempted coup failed and, this week, the Russian ambassador was assassinated in the name of devastated Aleppo.

In America, we had the terrifying mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, with 49 dead. The issues of violence, race and law and order merged with the continuing police shootings of African American men (the Ferguson, Missouri, incident occurred more than two years ago) and ambush killings of police officers.

The city and the times, they were a changin’, as Bob Dylan, who somewhat remarkably won the Nobel Prize for Literature, used to sing. Few would have guessed even a decade ago that Washington, D.C., would one day be named “Restaurant City of the Year.”

D.C. continues to change within its core. More luxury condos are popping up or planned for the West End, Penn Quarter, Shaw, NoMa, Columbia Heights — and, yes, even Georgetown (where’s the space?).

The city also saw its school system and its police department change leadership.

Chancellor Kaya Henderson retired and was replaced by Antwan Wilson, who had been head of the Oakland, California, schools.

Popular Police Chief Cathy Lanier decided to take on a new challenge as head of security for the National Football League. Peter Newsham, a candidate for chief, is in the job on an interim basis.

The city also appears to be undergoing a political change, with the rise of a District Council in which a new class of liberal, often younger, members seems to be challenging Mayor Muriel Bowser and her comparatively moderate policies. And former Mayor Vincent Gray will return to the Council to represent Ward 7.

Georgetown will change with a new group of ANC commissioners, as this newspaper reported previously and in this issue — as well as with the elimination of the liquor license moratorium [see sidebar for top local stories].

As always in the iPhone age, change is driven in part by technology, not always for the better, the rise of fake news on social media being a current and worrisome example.

In 2016, the future came, not in some distant tomorrow, but today and the day after, every day.

Top Town Topics Liquor License Moratorium Ends For Georgetown, 2016 was the year that the liquor license moratorium and cap, in effect since 1989, finally ended. It originated to rein in the rowdiness of 1980s Georgetown, which had a lower drinking age than Virginia or Maryland.

But it came to be seen as a business constraint.

With the ban lifted in April, the town is already seeing new restaurants slated for 2017.

New Politicians Reporting for Duty With the election, the Georgetown-Burleith Advisory Neighborhood Commission is reinventing itself. Five of the eight members will be new. Meet the new ANC, same as the old ANC … or not.

A Crime Wave?

Is crime really up? Not quite, but it seems that way with increased sexual assaults and robberies. Car break-ins have increased.

Overall, however, violent crime is down.

Interim police chief Peter Newsham met with residents recently to discuss it. [See Town Topics, page 6.]

Georgetown University: Future and Past As Georgetown University looked to the future and had it 20-year plan approved by all community groups and the D.C. Zoning Commission, it grappled with its past and legacy of slavery. The university response to its 1838 sale of 272 slaves — some of whose descendants have been identified and have met with GU President John DeGioia — has been thoughtful and includes specific proposals.

School Makeovers: Hyde-Addison, Ellington As a new public school chancellor arrives in 2017, the plans to relocate Hyde-Addison Elementary students during the school’s upcoming construction project has irked parents, but DCPS intends to bus the children to Meyer School. The massive Duke Ellington School for the Arts reconstruction continues, with windows installed last week, and should be ready later in 2017. There are cost overruns, of course — but it’s going to be great.

Will Handsfield of the Georgetown Business Improvement District shows off a gondola car prototype at Georgetown University’s downtown campus. Courtesy Will Handsfield.

Transportation: Pie in the Sky? The Georgetown and Rosslyn Business Improvement Districts are considering an aerial gondola concept. The route would go from the Rosslyn Metro stop to the western side of Georgetown (near 36th and M Streets, mostly likely) over the Potomac River and Key Bridge. It would provide quite a sight for riders and offer a quick connection for subway-less Georgetown. Meanwhile, the D.C. Department of Transportation is proposing a streetcar route from Union Station to K Street under the Whitehurst Freeway. Not to be outdone, neighborhood groups in Georgetown and the Palisades have a lawsuit with the Federal Aviation Administration about the noise and nuisance of new Reagan National flight patterns.

Renewing Our Heritage The Georgetown Theater property redo was completed in April by architect Robert Bell. It contains retail space, apartments upstairs and a backyard garden. The relighted “Georgetown” sign is the attention-getter, signaling the street’s revival. Down the hill, the C&O Canal rehab began in November. Workers for the National Park Service are inside the canal, refitting Locks 3 and 4 and shoring up the stone walls at 30th Street and Thomas Jefferson Street. Expect the work completed and a new canal barge two summers from now.

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Ins & Outs

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Out: Bob Pincus Retires from EagleBank Robert Pincus, vice chairman of the board of directors of Eagle Bancorp and of EagleBank, will retire from those positions effective Dec. 31, according to Eagle Bancorp, Inc., the holding company of Bethesda-based EagleBank.

In a statement, EagleBank said: “Pincus joined the two boards upon the merger of Fidelity & Trust Bank and EagleBank in 2008. At the time, the combined institution had approximately $1.4 billion in assets. Today, EagleBank assets are nearly $7 billion.”

“Bob has been a fixture at EagleBank for the past eight years and in the Washington banking community for four decades,” said Ronald D. Paul, chairman and CEO of Eagle Bancorp

and of EagleBank. “We wish Bob and his wife Roxanne much pleasure as they enter the next chapter in their lives.”

“While I am saddened to leave my good friends and colleagues at EagleBank, I feel that this retirement will allow me to pursue many interests which I was unable to explore previously,” Pincus said. “I am looking forward to spending more time with my wife, son and other family members, to traveling, to teaching and to volunteering at all the organizations I have long held dear.”

Out: American Apparel

In: Aesop Skin Care Australian skin care outfit Aesop opened its second D.C. store at 3275 M St. NW, a former Subway sandwich shop location.

The Melbourne-based company is as excited about its store designs as its products. Of the Georgetown store, Aesop writes: “In a nod to the tobacco barns once common to the area, the 900-square-foot space is distinguished by its use of 100-year-old Southern Pine sticks — a humble material traditionally used to hang and cure tobacco leaves. Cut and stacked en masse, 25,000 individual sticks serve to clad the eastern side of the corner tenancy, fashioning a dynamic undulating surface.”

Aesop also has an eye on Georgetown University, writing: “As in each of the company’s unique stores, clients can explore the complete Aesop range, including skin-quenching Blue Chamomile Facial Hydrating Masque — a replenishing treatment ideal for weary students in need of soothing nourishment pre- or post-finals.”

“American Apparel LLC is handing out pink slips to workers at nine of its stores, including its outlets in Georgetown and Tribeca, this holiday season as the struggling retailer readies itself for a January auction of its business,” reports the Wall Street Journal, which added, “The company … intends to shut down the nine poorly performing stores by the end of the month — before a planned auction of more than 90 of the company’s remaining stores … The company will seek bankruptcy court approval to hold store-closing sales at the nine locations on Dec. 19.”

Founded in 1998 as a T-shirt business by Dov Charney, who was ousted due to lawsuits and allegations of sexual misconduct, Los Angeles-based American Apparel tried to save itself by bringing in CEO Paula Schneider, who departed in October. After two years of turmoil, the end is here. Check out the store at 3025 M St. NW for any deals, as it will close soon.

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Salutes were given to members of the Metropolitan Police Department, especially MPD Sgt. Jonathan Geer and MPD Officer Antonial Atkins — who is recovering from a burn injury — with Commander Melvin Gresham, their Second District boss, at their side. Bernhardt and Solomon will repeat as president and vice president of the organization for 2017.

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Fake News? It’s Plain Ol’ Lying

By Gary T ischl er

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y now, almost every journalistic institution and individual has been engulfed by the hot topic of fake news.

It seems that way back in the spring of 2015 the folks at the American Press Institute — which we presume does not have its headquarters in Uzbekistan or in the basement of a seventh grader in Hackensack — asked 10,000 people the following question: “What do you think are the biggest challenges facing journalism in general today?”

The top answer was “False information on the internet.” Nothing else. That was before the problem became a tidal wave.

email blasts and social media).

We’ve all seen examples of this — that a candidate was mortally ill, that another is a Manchurian candidate. There is no question that false news exists; the main question today is what to do about it.

The real problem is that standards have shifted, not subtly, but dramatically. We are not just living in a post-fact age or a post-truth age. We are living in an age when anybody — journalist, blogger, commenter (as opposed to commentator) — can say anything he or she wants, no matter what its veracity, and be listened to.

Journalists think journalists can fix this We’re referring to stories, sometimes buttressed with little flakes of fact to make them seem authentic, that are totally false — not in a suggestive way, but in a factual way.

This stuff would never be published in the mainstream media (at least until recently, since the mainstream media’s embrace of blogging,

We are living in the age of a digital Pandora’s box. And once something’s out there, it’s hard to stuff it back in.

Journalists think journalists can fix this, by being vigilant and pointing out that something is untrue. However, this only incites readers who are prone to believe the lie. Our better

angels, who have spent their lives saying, “I hate what you say, but will defend your right to say it,” are having a devil of a time.

We all know what happened at Comet Ping Pong on Connecticut Avenue, where there’s now a security guard at the door. A North Carolina man traveled to D.C., walked into the pizza place, fired at least a round and searched for an underground children’s sex trafficking tunnel sponsored by Hillary Clinton that he read about online. He was arrested. No one was hurt. But he frightened the beejesus out of everyone — workers, parents and small children — in the place.

No one called the man a terrorist in print.

False stories are not a journalistic aberration, or some alternative form of news. Let’s call them what they are. Lies. And that makes their authors and those who repeat the stories liars. Not writers, not bloggers, not journalists, not publishers or commentators or talk-show hosts. Those are all, in one form or another, professions. People who spread, write, publish, disseminate, repeat and shout out false stories on air ought to be called out. They’re liars.

Fake stories, false stories, false news, black flag news: Let’s stop calling them that.

They’re lies.

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’Tis the Season for Giving

By J ohn E. Giroua r d

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he holiday season is one of my favorite times of year in Georgetown. Storefronts are lit up like Christmas trees up and down M Street and Wisconsin Avenue. And for my family, it also means giving back to others.

Melinda Gates once said, “Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.”

Most of us aren’t as wealthy as the Gates family, but that doesn’t mean the holiday season isn’t a great time for charitable giving, which can be a win-win for giver and receiver.

Since the presidential election, we have experienced a historic run-up in the markets. But there are large uncertainties about the presidentelect’s views; this post-election optimism could quickly reverse.

However, we do know that lowering taxes and limiting itemized deductions are on the new administration’s agenda. So the only advice I can be confident about at this time of year is: if possible, accelerate deductions and defer income.

For those in the giving spirit (not your neighbor, Ebenezer Scrooge), there are many ways to help others while also helping yourself.

Throughout my career, when there have been sudden spikes in the markets, I’ve found that clients are reluctant to sell and pay taxes on the gains. Instead, they wait it out, only to see the markets retreat. They end up losing more in the value of their portfolio than the tax bill would have been.

A sound strategy is to take that appreciated stock or mutual fund and donate the gain before taxes to a charity of your choice.

The first, and perhaps the best, way is through a Donor Advised Fund (DAF). Think of it like a charitable-giving savings account set up by a philanthropic organization. You deposit funds, receive an immediate tax break and retain advisory control over how and when your money is used and distributed to the charity.

Every year, simply by filling out a form, you direct the fund to distribute a donation in your name to the charity of your choice. It’s like having your own foundation without all the paperwork.

“Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.”

If you don’t benefit from itemized deductions and are older than 70 and a half, then a temporary congressional provision allows you to take your Required Minimum Distribution (RMD) and send it directly to your favorite charity. This allows you to satisfy your RMD and benefit from a tax deduction.

You can also donate property, clothing, cars and household items and receive a tax deduction.

These items may no longer be useful to you, but they can help others in need, while also reducing your taxable income.

Limitations on charitable giving and the requirements vary, so, as always, check with your financial advisor. But as Ann Landers said, “Do your givin’ while you’re livin’ ... then you’ll be knowin’ where it’s goin’.”

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Proper 21 Opens on F New York City restaurateurs opened Proper 21, a high-end sports bar serving American food with a gourmet twist, at 1319 F St. NW. Big Apple transplants will be pleased to know that Proper 21 will echo the aesthetic of its sister restaurants, Manhattan Proper and Proper West, a style that has been called “Tom Ford meets Thomas Edison.”

Incentive for First-Time Homebuyers?

Thinking of buying a home in the District? Help may be on the way. The Washington Post reported that the D.C. Council discussed incentives for first-time homebuyers. One proposed change would lessen the recordation tax (paid by buyers when a property is transferred at closing). Buyers now pay 1.1 percent of the sales price for homes selling for less than $400,000. The proposal could lower that percentage to .75 percent.

Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo, took only two weeks of maternity leave after the birth of her son prompting criticism from women who worried that her decision would reflect badly on working moms who took more time away from the office.

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McMillan Park Friends Draw Line in the Sand Approvals for the mixed-use development planned for the historic McMillan Sand Filtration Facility were vacated by the D.C. Court of Appeals Dec. 8. Washington City Paper reported that the successful appeal of a D.C. Zoning Commission order and decisions by the Mayor’s Agent was brought about by a citizen activist group called Friends of McMillan Park, which objected to the height and density of the new buildings. Mayor Bowser had just broken ground for the development, which was to include residences and medical offices.

Coming Next Fall: The Wharf Phase One The developers of the $2-billion Wharf project are gearing up for the grand opening of the massive mixed-use development’s phase one in October 2017, WTOP reported. Future residents can look forward to public spaces, promenades, docks and activities.

The first phase of the Wharf is set to extend along Maine Avenue from 7th Street SW. Phase two is currently in the planning stages.

Council Okays Rent Control for Seniors, Disabled Mayor Muriel Bowser is expected to sign new legislation banning rent hikes for senior citizens and people with disabilities. Washington City Paper reported that elderly and disabled tenants in the 80,000 rent-controlled buildings in the District will be exempt from rent increases. The legislation also prohibits “hardship petitions,” which landlords can file if they don’t have a 12-percent rate of return on their investments.

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Obama to Hang Out West End Shingle Barack Obama will sit behind a desk in West End after he leaves office, DCist reported. While the Obamas will reside in the Kalorama neighborhood, the outgoing commander in chief has leased office space at the World Wildlife Fund headquarters, 1250 24th St. NW. President Obama has said in the past that redistricting reform would be a huge priority for him. His commitment to wildlife preservation remains unclear.

reported. The perpetrator stole a D.C. Housing Authority Police Department vehicle, a Ford Explorer, and drove through the Third Street Tunnel and over the 14th Street Bridge before exiting Interstate 395 at King Street. She was arrested trying to get back onto I-395, having collided with 10 cars including a D.C. police cruiser.

7000 Not a Lucky Number for Metro Metro’s newest trains are causing all sorts of headaches, the latest by leaving occupied cars behind. On Dec. 12, a brand-new 7000-series train decoupled on the Red Line, continuing on its merry way in a less than complete manner. Riders in the two stranded cars had to evacuate at Twinbrook. While Metro hopes this was an isolated incident, it still leaves many riders nervous to board, the D.C. Police Union reported.

Approval in Sight for Family Leave Bill In the first of two votes, the D.C. Council gave the go-ahead to the Universal Paid Leave Amendment Act of 2015, Fox 5 reported. Following passage by the full Council on Dec. 20, the law will tax businesses to allow more than 500,000 District workers eight weeks of paid parental leave for births or adoptions, one of the most generous such programs in the country.

Police Chase Stolen Ford Explorer into Virginia A 26-year-old woman is under arrest after leading D.C. police on a wild chase that ended up in Virginia, the D.C. Police Union

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he holiday season of cooler days and longer nights is underway. Now is the time for good company, fine wine and clothes that keep us warm.

Fashion designers continue their love affair with big, bold burgundy. In fact, this statement color is found everywhere this season; it should not be considered a trend, but a staple.

Burgundy can bring drama to black, modernity to camel and a little romance when paired with pinks. If your closet is elegant and classic, why not add some personality to your look? Work in some scarlet for a fashionable element without the fuss.

Plus, you needn’t spend a lot to look amazing. A berry puffer may be the easiest way to cozy up to this happening hue. Be on the lookout for an unexpectedly chic scarf that adds a pop. For instant style, try a pleated midi skirt in merlot.

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THE INS & OUTS at the

end of 2016 Who Got Trumped by the Tumultuous Year?

By Peggy Sands and Staff

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t the end of a tumultuous year — one that made us frantic with flip-flops — it seems like all bets are off.

The prognosticators are licking their wounds from outcomes that, with few exceptions, they failed to predict. To be fair, many of 2016’s outcomes were unpredictable, at least at the time, in the whirl of wishful thinking and fake news (never from The Georgetowner).

Revived by the holiday spirit, we’ve decided to return to the fray. Based on our reporting over the past 12 months, below is a selection of ins and outs that we’re bold (or foolhardy) enough to put in print.

ago — neighborhoods like Shaw, Columbia Heights, Barracks Row, and Petworth.” That’s expected to continue in 2017. Not only did the

Diner in Chief and his family love to eat out, they are staying in town and will probably continue to be seen at the hottest tables, such as. . .

IN Bad Saint, Tail Up Goat and The Dabney Of Bon Appétit’s top 10 restaurants in the nation, three are in the District: The Dabney, Tail Up Goat and Bad Saint, which was judged the second-best restaurant in the U. S. of A.

Food

IN D.C.’s Restaurant Scene

Ukoy a Filipino version of shrimp fritters, a specialty at Bad Saint restaurant, judged second-best restaurant in the nation by Bon Appétit. Photo by Farrah Skeiky.

Many in the District remember when the nation’s capital was a culinary desert, at least as far as international cuisine was concerned.

No more! As Bon Appétit Magazine wrote in its August 2016 issue, which named D.C. its Restaurant City of the Year: “Yes, D.C. has long been a city that could out power-lunch any place in the country, and great meals could be had at many of the big-box restaurants in the center of town. But now D.C. has more than that: It finally has a ton of great neighborhood restaurants. And they are sprouting up in areas that you would not have imagined ten years

IN Guide Michelin D.C. received another momentous dining distinction in 2016. For the first time, Washington was given its own restaurant guide by Michelin, which uses anonymous food experts and a meticulous evaluation system to inspect the restaurants of a few secretly selected cities each year. What’s more, the D.C. guide opens with a photo of Georgetown. Perhaps they’ve heard about. . .

IN José Andrés

The force behind Beefsteak, Jaleo, Minibar, Oyamel, Zaytinya and other eateries, Andrés has now turned his attention to Georgetown (having pulled out of the Trump International Hotel). The celebrity chef-owner of Think Food Group will reportedly bring his America Eats Tavern to the Paolo’s restaurant space on Wisconsin Avenue.

OUT Beloved french Chefs Michel Richard and Gerard Cabrol The September issue of Bon Appétit placed Bad Saint, the Dabney and Tail Up Goat in its list of top 10 restaurants in the nation. In its August issue, the magazine called Washington, D.C., its Restaurant City of the Year.

Courtesy Bon Appétit.

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Wisconsin Avenue at O Street with the famous “GEORGETOWN” theater sign now illuminated. Photo by Noel St. John.

Sadly, several of Georgetown’s favorite chefs and their restaurants are no longer with us. Michel Richard, who headed everyone’s top chef list for years, passed away in 2016.

Even after he sold Citronelle in Georgetown,

cover IN Local Government OUT Cathy and Kaya

Richard, who continued to live in the area, remained active in educational and fundraising events in town. The residents of Santa Barbara, California, are mourning as well. Another of Georgetown’s French restaurant landmarks, Bistro Français, closed its doors on M Street after 40 years. Chef and owner Gerard Cabrol happily fed French classics to neighbors, visitors, celebs and other chefs well into the night in what now seems a very different time.

D.C. still has a woman mayor, but two other top female administrators, Police Chief Cathy Lanier and Public Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson, were replaced by men (in the interim, in the case of the chief). Could this be an indication that diversity is being redefined in terms of socioeconomic class and political views, rather than gender, ethnicity or race?

We’re holding our breath on that one.

IN Doughnuts OUT Cupcakes Maybe we’re prejudiced, maybe it was inevitable, but in Georgetown — cupcake capital of the world, with one shop having its own long-running reality show — we’re noticing a sudden change. Gourmet, custom-made cake doughnuts are suddenly appearing everywhere. Last September, District Doughnuts received the Best Dessert award at the Taste of Georgetown.

All these persons — as shown at the July 23, 2014, groundbreaking ceremony for the Trump Hotel (now open and the scene of protests outside its doors) — will again be on the scene in 2017: Eric Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump, then-Mayor Vincent Gray, Donald Trump, Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton and then-Council member Muriel Bowser. (Bowser is now the mayor and Gray a Council member — and Donald Trump will be sworn in as the 45th President of the United States Jan. 20.) Photo by Robert Devaney.

the phenomenon is spreading to “flyover country.” Cities are looking to attract boomers and millennials with farmers markets, bike and running paths, yoga studios, connectivity in parks and playgrounds and, of course, creative global cuisine.

OUT Millennial Car Buyers

Business IN The Sharing Economy Zipcar, Uber, Lyft, Capital Bikeshare, Airbnb. Share a car, a bike, a room in a house.

It’s not only the new way of life for unmarried people — including new “families” of Golden Girls — it’s the new economy.

IN Chief Executive Officers CEOs and their underchiefs (CFOs, COOs and the like) are suddenly being talked and written about everywhere. They’re running for political office, being appointed as top government-agency heads, having dual careers. Even top officials of nonprofits are getting the CEO title. If only you could earn a degree in it. . .

IN Shared Office Space Small businesses old and new are locating in large open-plan offices shared with other small enterprises, happy to split the expenses of a full-time receptionist, wifi, a business service center with the latest equipment immediately repaired, small and large meeting rooms, fullyequipped kitchens and (best of all) free coffee.

IN Green Cities Places like Washington, D.C., Boston, Portland and Seattle are leading the way, but

OUT Globalization Sorry, Tom Friedman. The new world may be “faster,” as you outline in your new book, but it’s not flat and borderless as you once purported. The earth is round, bumpy and made up of more new, emerging and potential nations than ever before.

Drinking and driving don’t mix. And, now, with car sharing, they don’t have to.

OUT Big Government

IN DIY Careers OUT Punch-the-Clock Salaried Jobs

States, cities and even local entities — such as school and water boards and, in D.C., Advisory Neighborhood Commissions — are asserting their independence and authority, communicating in new ways with their constituents. One-size-fits-all is out the window. This goes for big universities, churches and other nonprofits, too.

Men and women of all ages and stages, from recent college graduates to midlife careerchangers to seniors, are cobbling together careers out of contract jobs, gigs and entrepreneurial projects. Benefits remain a challenge.

Politics

IN A New Georgetown ANC More than half of the elected members replaced longtime members in the biggest change of commissioners in years for the Georgetown-Burleith-Hillandale Advisory Neighborhood Commission. In 2017, five new faces will join Mara Goldman, Monica Roaché and Ed Solomon on ANC 2E: Joe Gibbons, Rick Murphy, Lisa Palmer, Zachary Schroepfer and Jim Wilcox.

IN The Sovereign Nation State Call it populism, economic nationalism or other (less flattering) names. Whatever you label it, it’s a movement seen not just in the United States but around the world: the demand for politicians to put the economic, political and cultural interests of the nation-state, its citizens and legal residents first.

IN AND OUT Barack Obama That’s right, he’s going from president to resident. Soon-to-be-former President Obama and his family will vacate the White House for a somewhat more private home in Kalorama.

Rumor has it that he will rent an office in the West End — to write his next book, perhaps, and certainly to enjoy nearby Georgetown’s custom-made doughnuts and other delicacies.

And last but not least. . .

IN “Merry Christmas!”

We can say it now: The Georgetowner wishes all our readers and their families, whatever your faith or national heritage, a very Merry Christmas! Of all the new ins in our lives on the eve of 2017, that may be our favorite.

IN Deal-Making Politicians Both Donald Trump and new Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer are New Yorkers who live to make deals. Schumer even consults the Baileys, the fictional “It’s a Wonderful Life” family, in his head.

OUT Legislative Tricksters Departing Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada is known as the Whisperer. He even triggered the never-before-touched mini-nuclear bomb, doing away with the Senate filibuster for all presidential appointees except Supreme Court justices.

Trump nominees now need only a simple majority to be confirmed.

Stubborn to the end, Reid whispered he doesn’t regret it. Minority Democrats may.

The 2016 White House Christmas card, the last one for the Obamas’ time in the White House, depicts President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama and first daughters, Malia and Sasha. (The photo was taken during the March state dinner for Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.) Obama is only the fourth president to put a photo of himself on the cover of the card.

Expect next year’s card to include the phrase, “Merry Christmas.”

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2016

Georgetowners of the Year

by th e georgetow n e r e d i to r i a l b o a r d

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he naming of Georgetowners of the Year has been a tradition of The Georgetowner newspaper for decades. This year’s group includes a visionary architect who began the renaissance of a city block; an arts advocate who helped an Advisory Neighborhood Commission speak with clarity and in friendship; a woman who has devoted her life to God, family and friends; a nonprofit executive who advanced her organization to the next level; and a restaurateur who is like family to charities as well as celebrities (and can cater to the pope).

Franco Nuschese, Owner, Cafe Milano

When a new Italian restaurant, Cafe Milano, arrived in 1991 at Georgetown Court on Prospect Street (in a former Bread & Chocolate space), its owner Franco Nuschese went next door to meet staffers at The Georgetowner newspaper office and get the keys to the restaurant left by the landlord, Bob Elliott.

Little did we know that the genial, elegant and engaging Italian American would proceed to meet and feed most of Washington’s glitterati, going on 25 years. Whether it be for the president, the first lady or your neighbor, Nuschese and his Cafe Milano are among the most enduring superstars in the town we call home. For such accomplishments — above and beyond — Franco Nuschese of Cafe Milano is a Georgetowner of the Year for 2016.

Robert Bell, Architect

Robert Bell, architect and businessman, had a vision of a greater Georgetown. His long-shot goal: restoring the old Georgetown Theater property into retail and residential space.

Working through numerous creative and legal challenges, this pragmatic imagineer carried out a brilliant reconstruction of a place that once played the film “Caligula” for months on end, then dragged on as a mediocre jewelry arcade. Bell's philosophy of “the genius of place” is fulfilled at 1351 Wisconsin Ave. NW, which is leading a renaissance of this midtown block. For such accomplishments — above and beyond — Robert Bell of Robert Bell Architects is a Georgetowner of the Year for 2016.

Betsy Cooley, Executive Director, Citizens Association of Georgetown

Betsy Cooley, who is retiring as executive director of the Citizens Association of Georgetown, has been working at the town’s top advocacy group for 13 years. The smart, stylish and easygoing exec is a friend to the neighborhood, a stickler for details and cooperative with the press. She has represented CAG members in a professional, forthright manner, making all the organization’s programs run more smoothly and with more purpose. Hers are large shoes to fill, but she leaves CAG well prepared for the challenges ahead. For such accomplishments — above and beyond — Betsy Cooley of the Citizens Association of Georgetown is a Georgetowner of the Year for 2016.

Rev. Johnsie Cogman, Pastor, Mt. Zion United Methodist Church If you ever sour on going to church, give Mt. Zion on 29th Street a try. Although it is 200 years old, the church chose its first African American female pastor five years ago: Rev. Johnsie Cogman, who is a joy, a wonder and a fierce follower of Jesus Christ.

A cancer survivor, Cogman was an Air Force officer and now has everyone on their feet praising the Lord — and having fun, too, at block parties and dinners. She is growing the congregation, which suffered under segregation but is now securing its future into a third century. For such accomplishments — above and beyond — Rev. Johnsie Cogman of Mt. Zion United Methodist Church is a Georgetowner of the Year for 2016.

All photos by Robert Devaney; except those of Franco Nuschese and exterior of Cafe Milano by James Brantley.

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Tom Birch, Politician, Neighbor Tom Birch, 29th Street resident, longtime member of the Georgetown-Burleith Advisory Neighborhood Commission and its onetime chair, is retiring from ANC 2E. His influence and impact on the discourse and decisions of what is considered D.C.’s best ANC are deep and lasting. A former legislative counsel and lobbyist, his eloquence and eminence during the monthly meetings made them worth attending. He remains in town, if we might need advice, and is on the board of Georgetown Village and was appointed to the federal C&O Canal Commission. For such accomplishments — above and beyond — Tom Birch of ANC 2E is a Georgetowner of the Year for 2016.

HISTORIC D.C.

When Georgetown Held the World in Its Hands A Guide to ‘The Georgetown Set’

BY R OB E RT DE VANEY

“T

he hand that mixes the Georgetown martini is time and again the hand that guides the destiny of the Western world,” said Henry Kissinger, who lived on P Street.

A walking-tour book that arrived a few months ago marks the places central to the 2014 book “The Georgetown Set.” Subtitled “Friends and Rivals in Cold War Washington,” the earlier volume is a recounting of big lives and epic personalities: the Alsops, the Bradlees, the Grahams, the Kennedys.

A heady mix of government, spycraft and journalism insiders resided in D.C.’s oldest neighborhood after World War II, a concentration of power never to be seen again — though there are those who believe Georgetown still holds the world in its hands.

Written by Gregg Herken, “The Georgetown Set” prompted many in Georgetown and elsewhere to rediscover the locales of this special American group. Among the intrigued readers was WTOP’s Rick Massimo, who went to George Washington University and, after 17 years at the Providence Journal, returned to D.C. The city “had changed so much,” he says.

Author Rick Massimo on R Street. Photo by Robert Devaney.

Massimo and his wife, Christine Evans, who teaches at Georgetown University, live in Cathedral Heights near the radio station offices.

Having read the Herken book, Massimo, on a walk through Georgetown, was surprised to see how close the players of “The Georgetown Set” lived to one other. Hence, his “A Walking Tour of the Georgetown Set.” Massimo, who often rides his bicycle around town, researched the book in the Peabody Room at the public library on R Street. He offered John Kennedy and Henry Cabot Lodge as a good example of rivals who were also neighbors.

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“To walk the sidewalks of this neighborhood where a Supreme Court justice and secretary of state would walk to work together, where CIA operatives and powerful publishers would stumble home after a few drinks together, is to walk in their footsteps, if only for a few hours,” Massimo writes in the book’s introduction. “At the time there wasn’t as much to do in Washington, so dinner parties were where things happened.”

The book highlights 36 places, mostly houses, and tries to be as comprehensive as possible, Massimo said.

The list of places is sequenced as a walk through the town. For example: Robert Taft, 1688 31st Street; Eric Sevareid, 1610 32nd Street; George Kennan, 2709 Dumbarton Street; William Donovan, then Phil and Katharine Graham, 2920 R Street; Averell Harriman, 3038 N Street; John Kennedy, 3307 N Street; Frank Wisner, 3327 P Street; James Forrestal, 3508 Prospect Street. Dumbarton Oaks, Martin’s Tavern and &pizza (as Au Pied de Cochon) are in the book, too.

Massimo likes the Bradlee-Quinn home on N Street. He finds the contemporary Joe Alsop place on Dumbarton Street “nutty,” but in a

The cover of "A Walking Tour of the Georgetown Set" depicts 3508 Prospect St. NW, once home to the Forrestals. Courtesy Lyons Press.

good way, referring to it as "Garage Palladian.”

There’s a lot of history here — and food for thought as the Trump administration is being assembled. The author’s succinct biographical entries, tagged to each address, and Missy Janes’s spot-on photography of each place make the book a great neighborhood Baedeker, whether to own or give as a gift (perhaps to one of the new arrivals that 2017 will bring).

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La Chaumiere

2813 M Street, NW 202-338-1784 lachaumieredc.com Celebrating our 40th Anniversary, La Chaumiere is as close to dining in the French countryside without flying there as you can get. Chef Orange serves cassoulet on Thursdays, Hearty Choucroute Alsaci-enne in the winter, Dover Sole Meuni-ere, Boudin Blanc, Pike Quenelles and many other French specialties. And your dinner wouldn’t be complete without a luscious Grand Marnier Souffle or warm Apple tart with caramel sauce.

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THE OCEANAIRE

MARTIN’S TAVERN

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.

Fifth generation Lauren Martin learns about the family business from her dad, Billy Martin, Jr.

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

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.

TOWN HALL

DAS Ethiopian

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.

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.

2340 Wisconsin Ave., NW 202-333-5640 townhalldc.com

Malmaison

3401 K ST.,NW 202–817–3340 malmaisondc.com 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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1201 28TH ST., NW 202–333–4710 dasethiopian.com

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.

1264 WISCONSIN AVE., NW 202-333-7370 martinstavern.com

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.

Brunch until 4 p.m. 7 days a week!

ENO Wine Bar

2810 PENNSYLVANIA AVE., NW 202–295–2826 enowinerooms.com HAPPY HOUR: Offered nightly Tuesday Thursday from 5 – 7 PM & Sunday from 4 – 6 PM. Enjoy select $5 wines on tap.

Join us on Sunday’s for 30% off bottles, Wednesday’s for College Nights from 9 – 11 PM, & Thursday evenings for live music starting at 6 pm. Our delightful wines are best enjoyed with local charcuterie, cheese and small plates.

Tues - Thurs 5 p.m. - 11 p.m., Fri - Sat 4 p.m. - 12 a.m., Sunday 4 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.

Free 2-hour parking at Four Seasons.

Clyde’s of Georgetown

SEA CATCH Restaurant

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

Overlooking the historic C&O Canal, we offer fresh seafood simply prepared in a relaxed atmosphere. Beautiful waterside outdoor dining available.

3236 M St., NW 202–333–9180 clydes.com

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

1054 31st St., NW 202–337–8855 seacatchrestaurant.com

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

THE GRILL ROOM

CAFE BONAPARTE

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.

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.

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

1522 Wisconsin Ave., NW 202–333–8830 cafebonaparte.com

Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily.

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

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

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The Last Hurrah of 2016 Bangkok Joe’s | 3000 K St. NW

Four-course prix-fixe menu at $55 per person (a la carte menu also available).

Blue Duck Tavern Park Hyatt, 24th Street NW at M Four-course menu of market selections at $130 per person. Party in the lounge with open bar, live music, small plates, champagne toast and dessert at $195 per person.

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2016 will likely be remembered as one of the more eventful years in recent history. But why dwell on the past — or the future, for that matter? Soon it will be time to welcome with friends and fun whatever 2017 will bring. Since food and drink tend to play a large part in said fun, assuming you want to partake in public (you brave, brave soul), here is an alphabetical listing of area restaurants that will make you glad you ventured out. And remember, it’s really the last hurrah for Nora, America’s first organic restaurant, closing its doors after 37 years. . .

Declaration | 804 V St. NW Three- and four-course menus with an eclectic mix of dishes at $35 and $45 per person, respectively.

Eno Wine Bar | 2810 Pennsylvania Ave. NW Live music and food and drink specials.

Complimentary two-hour valet parking at Four Seasons Hotel.

The Grill Room at Rosewood 1050 31st St. NW Six-course, prix-fixe New Year’s Eve menu at $150 per person, $240 with wine pairings (vegetarian option also available).

Pennsylvania Ave. NW Two New Year’s Eve seatings: a three-course menu at $80 per person from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. and a seven-course tasting menu at $195 per person from 8:30 to 10:30 p.m. Additional $75 for wine pairings.

J. Paul’s | 3218 M St. NW Prix-fixe menu, wine, champagne, party favors and a live DJ.

Cafe Milano | 3251 Prospect St. NW

Marcel’s | 2401 Pennsylvania Ave. NW

A Frank Sinatra New Year’s of music and dancing, with a tasting menu starting at $150, including a glass of sparkling wine.

Four-course New Year’s Eve celebration dinner with two seatings: 5 to 6:30 p.m. at $150 per person and 7:30 p.m. and later at $225 per person.

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Nora | 2132 Florida Ave. NW Five-course prix-fixe menu at $130 per person.

Executive chef Brendan L’Etoile’s threecourse menu at $95 per person. Additional $40 for wine pairings.

Old Glory BBQ | 3139 M St. NW Casino Royale featuring premium open bar from 8 p.m. to midnight, cash bar after midnight. Presale tickets are $65.

Paolo’s Ristorante 1303 Wisconsin Ave. NW Four-course Calitalian wine-pairing menu by chef Matthew, plus a live DJ, party favors and a midnight champagne toast.

Peacock Café | 3251 Prospect St. NW Four-course prix-fixe New Year’s Eve menu at $65 per person (limited a la carte selection also available), plus special champagne prices, music and dancing.

Ristorante Piccolo | 1068 31st St. NW Romantic, candlelit alternative celebration with three roaring fireplaces and a strolling musician. midnight champagne toast.

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In country & GETAWAYS

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Military Bowl and Parade Calling all sports, military and parade fans (isn’t that just about everyone?). The parade begins 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 27, at City Dock in downtown Annapolis. Following the color guard will be the Budweiser Clydesdales, musical groups, mascots, cheerleaders and marching bands from Temple and Wake Forest, the universities in the Military Bowl, 3:30 p.m. at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium.

Several Medal of Honor recipients will join the festivities. Call 888-841-2787 or visit militarybowl.org.

The clydesdales at the Military Parade.

Captain Santa’s Holiday Cruise Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He’s captaining the reindeer-adorned Miss Anne for a 45-minute “nautical sleigh ride” up Spa Creek. Sip hot cocoa — or, for adults, shots of peppermint schnapps — listen to holiday music and savor a healthy dose of happiness as Captain Santa tours the creek. If Jack Frost is nipping at your toes, lap blankets (and more schnapps) are available. Call 410-268-7601 or visit cruisesonthebay.com.

Holiday Festival of Trains Santa and his elves have to work right now, but you and the kids can play at the B&O Railroad Museum’s Holiday Festival of Trains in Ellicott

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Lights on the Bay Kids getting restless waiting for Santa’s arrival? Take the little ones for a magical drive through Lights on the Bay at Sandy Point State Park. Ooh and aah at more than 70 animated and stationary displays from the warmth and comfort of your car on this colorful two-mile drive along the Chesapeake. Call 443-481-3161 or visit www.lightsonthebay.org

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Twelfth Night at Hammond-Harwood House Step back in time and celebrate the 12th day of Christmas at a festive concert of voice and harp in a 19th-century ballroom. What is Twelfth Night? During the 1800s, Christmas Day was reserved for family and helping those less fortunate. Twelfth Night was a social

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Dear Stacy, My wife and I have been married for two years. During that time our love life has disappeared. She has a bad history with some abusive exes, a pelvic pain disorder and now, apparently, a low libido issue diagnosed by her doctor. While our sex life wasn’t in hyperdrive before we got married, we did have a regular routine that was satisfying for both of us. Today, she is also completely overwhelmed by a high-stress job situation and some drama with her extended family, who live nearby and seem to have a weekly crisis. I try to be understanding, but all these circumstances have become what I see as excuses for her not to devote any time to our lack of intimacy. I love and adore my wife, but I am losing patience with our situation. I try to talk to her about it, but she just gets mad and tells me she’s got too many things on her plate already.

— Last on Her List Dear Last: It sounds like Wife is struggling in many ways. She may hear your pleas for intimacy as just one more “thing,” but this is actually a much more dire situation than either of you may realize. A lack of intimacy sows the seeds of resentment and teaches one partner not to rely on the other for connection and emotional support. That lesson has a deep impact on a couple; some do not come back from it.

There may not be a simple solution, but perhaps I can help you craft a different way of talking about it with Wife. I assume she relies on you quite a bit when she’s managing difficult family and work situations. You are not a martyr, so she must understand that your support has a price attached. Your gas tank is not bottomless — you need to be refueled by connection and, yes, intimacy with your partner so that you have the energy to be there for her. If she continues to ignore your need for time with her, she needs to know that her disregard has the potential to deeply damage your relationship. (Notice that I didn’t say

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Keegan’s Profane, Lyrical ‘Irish Carol’

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here was a time a while back — say, 2011 — when the Keegan Theatre folks were looking to do a holiday play that might endure. They knew they had to have at least the word ‘Christmas’ or ‘Nutcracker’ or something along those lines in a holiday play to make a go of it.

What they came up with was “An Irish Carol,” thematically linked to Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol.” The play, written by company member Matthew Keenan, is now in its sixth year. Infused periodically with new cast members, it deals with a disaffected and wealthy man who’s focused too much of his life on tending to his business and not enough on being a complete human being.

This being Keegan, the business is an Irish pub, owned by a fellow name of David. It’s Christmas and he’s on hand, looking after a number of his regulars and the occasional drop-in.

Timothy H. Lynch, a company member, has been in the production from the beginning, playing one of the patrons, a garrulous, harddrinking fellow named Frank.

“We don’t really have a Tiny Tim in the

play,” he says. “This is a little more adult than the Dickens Scrooge thing. Keenan wrote the play. It’s a beautiful thing and he’s so talented and we all hate him for it.

“There’s no real ghosts. There’s drinkers that are there to remind the owner, David, who’s played by Kevin Adams, what he’s given up by working so hard on the pub. He’s lost the love of his life over it — she married his friend and partner. It’s 30 years on, and he’s got a Polish bartender who he’s very hard on.

“Frank — that’s my character — he has more than a few drinks, and he’s the only guy who tells him what’s in store for him if he doesn’t start opening up a little. There’s a guy that comes in who wants to buy the pub, and he reminds David of himself as a youth, all business and confidence. And there’s the reminder of his lost love.

“It’s worked out very well. It’s become a tradition for us,” Lynch says. “An Irish Carol” runs through Dec. 31.

The Keegan Theatre used to operate out of Virginia, sometimes performing in the Church Street space near Dupont Circle it later bought, renovated and moved into. Founded and still

Kevin Adams in “An Irish Carol.” Photo by Cameron Whitman. Courtesy Keegan Theatre. run by Mark and Susan Rhea, Keegan has a lot of tradition, quite a bit of it dealing with the Irish spirit of storytelling. “It’s about that, for sure,” Lynch said, speaking of the company, “and a respect for acting and actors.”

“An Irish Carol” certainly has that, plus a profane and lyrical way with words. It’s a good fit with the Keegan repertoire, which has always been an Irish stew of mostly contemporary plays plus, usually, a tour presenting American classics in Ireland.

“We didn’t do it this time because Mark came down with pneumonia. We’ve done 14 tours like that,” Lynch said. “It’s about acting and story-telling. We’re not so much about fancy sets.”

Maybe not, but Keegan has shown a capacity to produce shows with big themes

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The redone theater has both a modern and an intimate feel to it. It’s welcoming, like the company itself. “You know what I really like about the company?” Lynch said. “It’s family to me. You have a very welcoming atmosphere here. People don’t judge you so much, not even in the auditioning process.”

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Panel 1 of “The Migration Series”: “During World War I there was a great migration north by southern African Americans,” 1940–41. Jacob Lawrence. Courtesy Phillips Collection.

In 1940, Lawrence conceived the idea to Seeing “The Migration Series” reminds and oral histories passed on to him from create “The Migration of the Negro” (now us that America has long been a struggle the Harlem community — street orators, “The Migration Series”). In just under a year, of opposing ideologies that manages to preachers, librarians, teachers, Apollo Theater with the assistance of his future wife, the artist move forward, with an edge toward cultural actors. He also observed their struggles, Gwendolyn Knight, he realized this epic work, inclusivity. We do not live in a country that witnessing firsthand the realities of life in the the largest series of his career. treats all people equally, but through a wide “Promised Land.”

The paintings are stark and geometric, like “To me, migration means movement,” he lens it feels like we are, for the most part, painted signs or cut-paper illustrations, with a once said. “There was conflict and struggle. trying. It’s a small window of hope right now. basic palette of no more than five or six colors.

But out of the struggle came a kind of power But as Lawrence shows us, a small window The clarity with which Lawrence conveyed and even beauty. ‘And the migrants kept can be a harbinger of great promise a little such a complex and wide-ranging narrative is coming’ is a refrain of triumph over adversity. farther down the road. We just have to keep truly beautiful, the simplicity of the paintings If it rings true for you today, then it must still moving, and it is inevitable that we also must belying both the ambition of the undertaking strike a chord in our American experience.” struggle. and the precision of its execution.

The titles are businesslike, descriptive, more like footnotes than artwork titles.

Even without the paintings, reading them in sequence offers a fine idea of the work. The first panel is titled, “During World War I there was a great migration north by southern African Americans.” But the paintings are far more than illustrations of a fairly direct historical narrative; they serve as a window into the emotional experience, the social and logistical struggles and the rich interior lives of midcentury African Americans in the midst of domestic migration.

There is an austere visual poetry to the series. Walls are always bare but for a candle or a skillet. Shapes are flat, faces and bodies painted as single colors. Windows and doors are everywhere, evoking the continual passage 1250 New York Avenue, NW, Washington D.C. into new and evolving environments.

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Almost instantly, the series became an icon of American art, snatched up in record time in a split acquisition by the Phillips Collection and the Museum of Modern Art in 1942, just a year after its completion. The Phillips is currently displaying the complete series, reuniting the odd-numbered panels it owns with MoMA’s even-numbered panels.

“People on the Move: Beauty and Struggle in Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series,” on view through Jan. 8, explores the various manifestations of migration underlying Lawrence’s powerful visual narrative.

The conversations the series raises surrounding our current political climate are hard to ignore. Obviously, the team that put this exhibition together began their work long before the election unfolded, and it is not the job of scholars and historians to act as political commentators. However, they were probably aware of the timing.

So let's not assume that the choice to exhibit a seminal collection of American artistic masterworks focused on race relations and African American cultural history — and to open it in Washington during the final lap of a presidential election as America’s first black president prepares to leave office, during an ongoing period when the GOP had been out for the blood of the Democratic party and while a race-baiting demagogue had already been plastering the headlines — is just a coincidence.

Let me say it more plainly: As the replacement for our nation’s first black president, our country has elected an unapologetic racist. Donald Trump uses a veiled, Nixonian rhetoric in discussions of African American communities, shallowly obfuscating his disparagement of black urban environments by attacking the conditions of the cities themselves, calling them slums, referring to “thugs” that roam their streets. He calls them unsafe for decent people and stokes fear and resentment among rural white men, the group largely responsible for the abuse of black communities that caused them to flee to those cities in the first place.

This is literally what “The Migration Series” is about. And it is a history to which Lawrence was personally tied. Born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, to parents who had migrated North from Virginia and South Carolina, Lawrence spent his childhood in Philadelphia and Harlem among a continually expanding community of Southern migrants. As a teenager, he became immersed in Harlem’s cultural life and was exposed to modern art, finding sympathy with the politically active work of German Expressionists, Social Realists and Mexican muralists.

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St. Luke's Help for Haitian Hurricane Victims

Dr. Michael Maccoby and Michele Giacalone of the Italian Cultural Center.

Jay Massey and James Martin.

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arole Feld welcomed guests alongside Izette Folger and Kate Damon for cocktails and conversation to celebrate the holidays Dec. 7 — and help the children and families of Haiti recover from the devastation of Hurricane Matthew. Folger’s father, Dr. Michael Maccoby, spoke movingly of Father Rick Frechette, who in 2000 inspired Haitian leaders to launch Fondation St. Luc to run medical clinics and simple schools in the shantytowns around Port-au-Prince. He mentioned Father Rick’s spiritual and practical confidence paired with a great sense of humor and “raising children from poverty to become leaders in their own country.” The humanitarian outreach programs now employ more than 1,000 Haitian staff members. The nonprofit U.S.-based Co-chairs Carole Feld, Kate Damon and Izette Folger. counterpart was incorporated in 2010.

Jasmin Cooke; director of St. Luke Haiti, and Wynn Walent.

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ichael J. Reilly attracted a sellout crowd to the Indonesian Embassy as Ambassador Budi Bowoleksono and Mrs. Reshanty Bowoleksono welcomed guests to a Holiday Gala of Grand Opera presented by the Washington Opera Society Dec. 9. Guests enjoyed hors d’oeuvres before hearing selections from “La Fille du Regiment,” “Un Ballo in Maschera" and “Il Trovatore." The program ended with guests joining in to sing “Angels We Have Heard On High,” before enjoying a sumptuous Indonesian buffet. In addition to producing grand opera in elegant settings, Reilly looks forward to offering small scholarships to aspiring voice students.

Stefan Lopatkiewicz and John Wall.

Ben Hastings, Monique Summers and Jim Smith.

Kimberly Todd and Ludy Green.

Mark Ohnmacht and Edward Purcell.

Sue Eisinger and Gary Maslan.

José Alberto Uclés and Tom Noll.

'America and Tolstoy: A Dialogue From Quill to Tweet'

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Ambassadors Sergey I. Kislyak and Thomas R. Pickering.

Eugene K. Lawson, chairman of the American-Russian Cultural Cooperation Foundation.

Ambassador John R. Beyrle.

Dancers from the Akhmedova Ballet Academy.

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he American-Russian Cultural Cooperation Foundation hosted its black-tie Annual Gala at the Cosmos Club on Dec. 6. Chaired

by Joseph D. Duffey, the program featured literary scholars from Russia and the U.S., excerpted dramatized readings from Tolstoy’s letter exchanges with many Americans between 1880 and 1910, entertainment with Stephen Carpenter portraying Tolstoy and a musical program. In his remarks, Ambassador Kislyak said it has been “an experience to watch Americans react to Tolstoy” and noted “there are values that are common to all of us.” Guests departed with an ARCCF publication on Alexander II and Abraham Lincoln. Photos by Kevin Allen.

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Above: Kathleen Matthews and Buffy Cafritz.

Top Left: Ed Solomon and Peter Colasante.

Left: Washington Life publisher Soroush Shehabi and his wife, Washington Life editor-in-chief Nancy Reynolds Bagley (center), greet Jill Biden.

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he Georgetown Business Improvement District Dec. 13 held its holiday party at the new food destination on Grace Street that includes Grace Street Coffee Roasters, Sundevich and South Block Juice Co. The happily fed crowd also enjoyed some District Doughnuts along with wine and beer.

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ounded in 1991, Cafe Milano and Washington Life decided to celebrate together at the Prospect Street restaurant Dec. 5 — with Washington and Georgetown glitterati and international guests. Most of the attendees had, in fact, appeared in the pages of the society magazine and most had, in fact, dined at the Italian favorite many times. At the party, it looked like the pages of Washington Life had come alive in Cafe Milano. The restaurant has hosted some very high-profile visitors, such as President Barack Obama, who sent a letter of congratulations to restaurant owner Franco Nuschese.

One partygoer said, "It was the most Visit Georgetowner.com for more social scene photos Washington Washington party I've been to all year."

Helping the Children of the Middle East P h oto s by N es h a n H . N a ltc h aya n

A Brendan Wilson of the National Park Service, overseer of the C&O Canal, and Maggie Downing, BID Destination Manager.

Jessica Glass and Johnny Spero, chef-owner of Reverie, which will open in 2017 at 3210 Grace St. NW.

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gala benefit — sponsored by the Azar Foundation for Children of the World and the Middle East Children’s Institute — was held at the Embassy of Hungary Dec. 9 and hosted by Hungarian Ambassador Réka Szemerkényi. Shahin Mafi, founder of the Azar Foundation, and Lena Alfi, director of the Middle East Children’s Institute, donated profits from the evening’s event to aid educational programs for children in the Middle East. Guests and diplomats were entertained by Syrian opera singer Lubana Al Quntar and Egyptian composer and musician Ramy Adly.

Ambassador of the Republic of Botswana David John Newman presents a book of his nation to Shahin Mafi, founder of the Azar Foundation for Children of the World.

Egyptian composer and musician Ramy Adly performs on the oud.

GBID CEO Joe Sternlieb, Linda Greenan of Pepco and Ward 2 Council member Jack Evans.

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eorgetown's unique and artfully active studio in a former public school on R Street, the Jackson Art Center invited neighbors to view works by 44 artists, who lease their individual spaces from the city. With ample food and refreshments, the place was packed and busy all day on Dec. 4.

Hungarian Ambassador Réka Szemerkényi hugs Shahin Mafi, founder of the Azar Foundation for Children of the World. Lena Alfi, director of the Middle East Children's Institute looks on.

Caroline Croft of the State Department and Albanian Ambassador Floreta Faber.

Book Signing at Waterworks

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Watercolorist Clarissa Bonde and photographer Deedy Ogden.

Howard Carr with his portrait of John Dreyfuss.

n Dec. 8, 2016, Barbara Sallick, co-founder of Waterworks and author of the new book "The Perfect Bath" hosted a book signing at the Waterworks showroom in Georgetown. "The Perfect Bath", a new book on the evolution of the modern bath, explores the process of designing a dream bathroom in great detail, highlighting the essentials to consider from planning to material choices to decoration and gathering input and insight from some of the top names in design.

Paul Corrie (designer) and Barbara Sallick.

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