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Amanda McClements stands in front of her lifestyle boutique Salt & Sundry in Northeast D.C.’s Union Market.

Her shop features a selection of tableware, linens, artisanal foods and one-of-a-kind vintage finds, as well as reclaimed wood farm tables hand-crafted by her father.

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UP & COMING MAY 6 – JUNE 19

Free Pilates/Yogalates in the Park Join the Golden Triangle BID every Tuesday (Yogalates) and Thursday (Pilates) from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. this spring for a free class in Farragut Square Park. Instruction will be provided by certified Pilates and Yogalates instructors. Bring your own mat.

Farragut Square Park, 17th Street, NW, between I and K Streets.

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MAY 7

Faces of Fiesta Asia Exhibition Through May 31, “Faces of Fiesta Asia,” an exhibition of photographs by Jeff Malet, will be on view at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center. A visually stunning display of portraits of Fiesta Asia’s artists, performers and participants, it communicates the theme of Diversity in Celebration. For details, visit www. fiestaasia.org. 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW.

MAY 9

Union Market Drive-In The free Spring Drive-In Series at Union Market wraps up May 9 with People’s Choice: James Bond Edition (voting on Facebook). Parking is $10 per car, but seating in the picnic area

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will be first come, first serve, free of charge.

The parking lot opens at 6 p.m. and the movie begins at 8 p.m. For details, visit UnionMarketDC.com. Union Market, 1309 5th St., NE.

MAY 12-16

National Police Week National Police Week recognizes the service and sacrifice of U.S. law enforcement officers and pays tribute to those who have lost their lives in the line of duty. A candlelight vigil is held at the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial, centered on the 400 block of E Street, NW. This event, as well as a memorial service on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol Building, are open to the public. For details, visit PoliceWeek.org.

MAY 16

Bike to Work Day Commuter Connections and the Washington Area Bicyclist Association presents a celebration of bicycling as a clean, fun and healthy way to get to work. Eighty pit stops throughout D.C., Maryland and Virginia offer refreshments to all and free T-shirts to the first 14,000 who register. For details, visit biketoworkmetrodc.org.

MAY 17

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Dragon Boat Festival Now in its 13th year, the D.C. Dragon Boat Festival is two-day event sponsored by the Chinese Women’s League of D.C. The festival features competitive dragon boat races on the Potomac River, colorful cultural performances and hands-on activities. Approximately 60 teams from all over the east coast compete to promote Chinese culture through the sport of dragon races. For details, visit DragonBoatDC. com. Thompsons Boat House, 2900 Virginia Ave., NW.

MAY 22

DC Vote’s First Annual 3 Star Ball The 3 Star Ball engages young professionals looking to support the causes of voting representation and full equality for the District, while partying with D.C.’s hippest guests and celebs. The rooftop soirée will feature live music by a DJ, an open bar and passed hors d’oeuvres. DC Brau and Washington Life’s Nancy Bagley will be honored. Tickets are

MAY 31 – JUNE 1

Green Festival Celebrates 10th Year in D.C. The Green Festival is a consumer show focusing on sustainability education and green products and services. More than 200 exhibitors will showcase a wide range of products, services and resources in all things earth-friendly, covering food, fashion, health, children’s toys, pet care, travel and energy. The two-day festival includes workshops and educational presentations on healthy lifestyle choices, including activities for kids. There is also a marketplace of more than 300 eco-friendly businesses, offering everything from all-natural body care products and organic clothing to Fair Trade gifts, home renovations made from renewable resources and vegan and vegetarian cuisine made from organic, non-GMO, local and artisanal foods. For details, visit GreenFestivals.org. Washington Convention Center, 801 Mt. Vernon Pl., NW. first come first serve, free of charge. The parking lot opens at 6 p.m. and the movie will begin at 8 More at: UnionMarketDC.com 6 p.m.- 8p.m., Union Market, 5th Street NE

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from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., showcases Asian art and culture with a wide array of activities, including live performances by musicians, vocalists and performance artists, Pan-Asian cuisine, martial arts and lion dance demonstration, a multicultural marketplace, cultural displays and interactive activities. For details, visit asiaheritagefoundation.org. Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, between 3rd and 6th Streets.

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Marriott Marquis Photo By Tim Riethmiller Marriott Marquis Opens as D.C.’s Largest Hotel The $520 million Marriott Marquis – one of only five Marriott Marquis properties in the country –opened May 1 across from the Washington Convention Center. The 1,175-room hotel, the largest in D.C., has 100,000 square feet of meeting space, including a 30,000 square-foot grand ballroom and five separate, publicly accessible retail and restaurant outlets. Events DC, the D.C. convention and sports authority, contributed $206 million to the construction of the hotel, which is connected to the Convention Center via an underground concourse. Dining options include Anthem, a casual dining restaurant with a nine-seat counter; the Dignitary, a lounge with a 40-seat outdoor patio and a bourbon menu; and

sports bar High Velocity with 48-beers on tap and a lobby bar.

Washington Monument Reopens May 12 The Washington Monument will reopen on May 12 with a 10 a.m. ceremony. Al Roker will serve as master of ceremonies with musical performances by American Idol Season 12 winner Candice Glover, the Old Guard Fife & Drum Corps, the United States Navy Band and the Boy and Girl Choristers of Washington National Cathedral Choir. The monument has been closed since August 23, 2011, due to damage from a 5.8 magnitude earthquake. Because of the prolonged closure, there will be extended operating hours, from 9 a.m. until 10 p.m., through the end of summer.

Dino’s Grotto Opens in Shaw May 15 Chef and managing partner Dean Gold and DowntownDC BID Releases 2013 State his wife, managing partner Kay Zimmerman, of Downtown The opening of Marriott Marquis, high-end announced May 5 that Dino’s Grotto is ready retail additions to CityCenterDC and numerous to open this month on 9th Street in the Shaw new restaurants make it no surprise that the neighborhood. Dino’s Grotto pays homage to DowntownDC BID had nothing but good news Dino, which had been a favorite and much when they released the 2013 State of Downtown acclaimed rustic Italian restaurant in Cleveland April 25. Panelists Frank Carchedi of CoStar, Park for eight years. This new casual neighborDonna Cooper of Pepco, Washington Post col- hood Italian establishment will serve 76 people umnist Mike DeBonis and 1776 co-founder on two floors. The lower level will feature a Donna Harris discussed the report at the 2014 10-seat communal table alongside a 14-seat bar.

The first floor will feature a 10-seat wine bar and State of Downtown Forum at the Newseum.

According to the 2013 report, downtown hotels table seating for 40. Opening day is slated for saw a record year in 2013 in both operating Thursday, May 15. performance and room revenues. Cultural and entertainment venues attracted a record 9.7 million visitors and CityCenterDC set records for new residential units, apartment average rents and condominium average sale prices.

Office buildings’ average sales prices also reached record levels, however there was an increase in office vacancy rates.

Several development projects are already in the works for 2014 including the Trump International Hotel at the Old Post Office Pavilion, the Capitol Crossing project over Dolcezza I-395 and a 400,000 square-foot office building at 600 Massachusetts Ave., NW. Gelato Shop Opens On 14th Dolcezza, a new gelato shop featuring home“It’s stunning what D.C. has accomplished,” made gelato and Stumptown coffee, is set to Harris said. “No other city can say they are open June 1 on 14th Street near Logan Circle. growing. We are poised for an incredible future.” The 1,000 square-foot space was originally a

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The new business, operated by Robb Duncan and Violeta Edelman, will use local milk.

Dolcezza 14th Street will be open until 10 p.m.

Sundays and Mondays, until 11 p.m. Tuesdays through Thursdays and until midnight Fridays and Saturdays.

Neighborhood Farmers Markets Make a Comeback The U Street Farmers Market – at 14th Street – makes a comeback every Saturday in May from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The market goes beyond vegetables, offering eggs, beef, chicken, cider and pies. The Petworth market is open until Oct. 25 on Georgia Avenue at Upshur Street. In addition to the food products, there will be a gardening-related story time for kids at 9:30 a.m. and music from 11 a.m. to noon. Bloomingdale runs its market until Nov. 23 at 1st and R Streets, NW, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Catholic University Statement on Handling of Harassment Complaint Catholic University is one of 55 colleges and universities currently under investigation by the federal government for its handling of sexual violence and harassment complaints.

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights released the list of possible Title IX offenders. Catholic University said in a statement that it was informed of the complaint in January. “The complaint concerned the investigation and adjudication of a report of sexual assault that occurred in December 2012,” the statement said. “The University has cooperated fully with the Department of Education to provide all of the information that the department has requested in a timely manner. It will continue to do so and is confident that there will be a just resolution of this matter.”

L’Enfant Plaza to Get Wi-Fi, New Restaurants The mixed-use development L’Enfant Plaza, located between 9th and 12th Streets, SW, south of Independence Avenue, is being readied for public reintroduction this summer after a series of renovations.

Phillips Seafood, Amsterdam Falafel and Red Robin’s Burger Works will open, there will be free Wi-Fi and more shops are on the way.

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Georgetown University’s Unique Place Here in the oldest neighborhood of Washington, D.C., we have the oldest Catholic institution of higher learning in the United States. Georgetown University is a presence for us beyond our own benefits of wisdom.

To reach its place today, its early leaders had to move past religious persecution in the American colonies, and the school grew along with the new American Republic.

The university’s first student, William Gaston of North Carolina, went on to represent his state in Congress and also assured that the bill to give his college the power to grant degrees was signed by President James Madison.

In 1861, students left the college for the Civil War. President Abraham Lincoln visited the campus, which housed Federal troops. The school colors become blue and gray in 1876 to symbolize the reunion of North and South.

It was in the late 1870s that Georgetown University’s iconic Healy Hall was constructed (it took a while to finish and put a stronger footing, ready for the 20th century).

Its 48th president, John DeGioia, the first layman to lead it, will be its longest-serving one by August. Beginning as a student here, he has 39 years of an “enduring connection.”

“The characteristic spirit of Georgetown is that it’s a place that expects you bring out the best of those around you” -- and thus in yourself as well, he told us during an interview for the cover story. We know he meant the university. We also think he was talking about our neighborhood.

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Letter to the Editor In a recent Georgetowner article concerning liquor licenses (“Applicants Camp Out for 4 Liquor Licenses in Georgetown,” April 23 – May 6, 2014), facts were cited which, if not explained further, leave a distorted impression of the ABC-license situation in Georgetown. It is true that the Georgetown Moratorium limits the number of restaurant licenses to 68. What is not made clear is that this restriction applies only to the Moratorium Zone, which does not encompass all of Georgetown. The boundaries of the affected area are roughly Q, 27th/28th, and 36th Streets, and the river. Areas outside this designated zone are not governed by the moratorium. Nor are Washington Harbour, Georgetown Park, Georgetown Court and the hotels. These exempted locales account for at least 25 additional restaurant licenses.

There are also six tavern licenses throughout Georgetown.

Thus, at this time, Georgetown has almost 100 ABC licenses with the potential, and expectation, of more.

Karen Cruse, Citizens Association of Georgetown, co-chair, ABC Committee

Mayor’s Race: Bowser Versus Catania

BY MARK PL OT K IN The very best thing Muriel Bowser has going for her is that she is a Democrat. I have often said that there are three certainties in life: death, taxes and D.C. will go Democratic.

In D.C., there are more than 10 Democrats for every Republican.

Democrats are 76 percent of all registered voters in the District. That Bowser is the official nominee of the D.C. Democratic Party should be tantamount to election as mayor in November. It is definitely Bowser’s election to lose.

She is not an inspiring or a charismatic candidate. She has not defined herself in any significant or meaningful way in her political career. Bowser started out as the protégé of former mayor Adrian Fenty and got nominated because she was not Vincent Gray.

But at this point in the race for mayor, I don’t see African Americans loyal to the Democrat Party abandoning her. In addition, those white Democrats who voted for her in the primary will stick with her.

There is no overwhelming enthusiasm for Bowser. Why should there be?

She doesn’t do anything to generate that affection. Even the Washington Post in its repeated endorsements strained to make the case for her.

But that lack of passion for Bowser

does not mean that David Catania will win.

Catania is smart, conscientious and well informed. But I believe the serious and fundamental flaws in his political persona and record will soon be apparent to potential supporters. He has a history of alienating people, unnecessarily.

Those who have testified before him at District Council meetings universally cite his insulting manner. Instead of trying to elicit information from D.C. citizens, he is said to repeatedly attempt to demean or belittle them and their views.

Most recently, he has been labeling himself the champion of education reform. Many see this move as a campaign ploy, rather than as the reflection of a sincere and deep commitment. The point often made is: why now? Where has he been for 17 years on the Council on the education issue?

Catania got started as a Republican.

He is now an Independent. As a Republican, he did very little to advance the issues of D.C. voting rights or D.C. statehood. I distinctly remember questioning him at the Republican Convention in Philadelphia in the summer of 2000 about his lack of effort on these issues. His verbatim response: “I don’t have time for that.”

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pressing concern is astonishing. When he chaired the Health Committee, he allowed smoke-free legislation to languish for months when he could have pushed for emergency legislation.

Renters make up 60 percent of city dwellers. There is a very modest piece of legislation that protects tenants. Only Catania and one other Council member – Tommy Wells – are not co-sponsors of this bill. Tenants will not forget this lack of support.

Catania’s strategy is to get a huge number of the District’s 80,000 Independents to come out and vote for him. (They were not eligible to vote in the Democratic Primary.) He also thinks there are enough Republicans who forgive him for leaving the party plus disaffected Democrats – mostly white and some black – to produce a plurality for victory.

I don’t believe it will add up. In fact, I predict Catania may drop out before November when the polling numbers show him to be in bad shape. He is giving up his Council seat to run for mayor, and, most of all, he doesn’t want to be destined for political oblivion.

Mark Plotkin is a political analyst and contributor to the BBC on American politics.

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I have really enjoyed watching the Wizards play basketball this season. Nothing brings a city together like a winning sports team.

As I write this column, the Wizards have already beaten the Bulls in the first round and are moving on to the Eastern Conference semifinals for the first time since the 2004 season.

Anyone who visits the Gallery Place area is struck by the vibrancy of the neighborhood. There are museums, restaurants, retail offerings and residences – not to mention sports and concerts.

One might think the neighborhood has always looked this way, but those of us who were here 20 years ago know that was not the case. And the change didn’t happen by accident.

In the mid-1990s, the District was in the midst of a financial crisis. Many of our neighborhoods were in bad shape, and residents were moving out of the city in droves.

Fortunately, a small group of District leaders and I put together an incentive package to jump-start the development of the neighborhood around what was then called the MCI Center.

In light of its success, it is hard to imagine how much opposition we faced on those deals back then. The Verizon Center, convention center and baseball stadium projects were all passed by the Council with 7-6 votes.

I recently read a Washington Post article from 1997 that quoted a university professor questioning the long-term viability of these types of projects and saying that the moves back downtown were a “fad.” Can you believe that?

It’s a good thing somebody wrote quotes like that down, because you can’t find anyone in the city who will admit to ever being opposed to these projects.

The Verizon Center – with a capacity of more than 20,000 – now hosts about 220 events per year, adding to the entertainment and cultural life found in our city and supporting local businesses like Clyde’s (along with dramatically increasing property values and tax revenue).

As I always say to my colleagues on the Council and my friends in the public-interest realm, making long-term investments of this kind is what allows us to have money for years to come to invest in other critical items, like affordable housing and our school system. We could easily have suffered the fate of Detroit during the imposition of a financial control board, but we have bounced back and taken a different trajectory.

Because of my long-term view, I am advocating an increase from $3 million to $10 million in our supplemental payment to Destination DC each year. Studies routinely show that each additional dollar we spend to attract visitors is paid back several times over as folks enjoy the amenities our city has to offer. I also believe we must invest at least $20 million in our arts commission, this year and every year.

These are small items out of a $12 billion budget – yes, that’s “billion,” the highest per-capita budget of any city, county or state in the nation.

In the meantime, I hope we can all enjoy the investments we have made in the past and cheer the Wizards on to future victories.

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The Auction Block

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BONHAMS Frederick Carl Frieseke (1874-1939) “The Garden Chair” Oil on canvas Auction Date: May 21 Estimate: $1,000,000 to $1,500,000 Bonhams will offer this remarkable painting by acclaimed American Impressionist Frederick Carl Frieseke at the auction house’s May 21 American Art sale. Painted in 1912 at the artist’s Giverny home, where one of his neighbors was Claude Monet, the work was first shown in 1913 at a New York gallery. Known for his depictions of women in gardens, Frieseke enjoyed tremendous success following that solo exhibition.

SOTHEBY’S John Lennon (1940-1980) Untitled illustration of a four-eyed guitar player Auction Date: June 4 Estimate: $15,000 to $25,000 This sale comprises the most extensive collection of John Lennon’s original artwork, autograph manuscripts and corrected typescripts ever to come to auction, including 89 lots ranging from $500 to $70,000.

The material relates to “In His Own Write” and “A Spaniard in the Works,” the two books Lennon wrote and illustrated at the height of Beatlemania in 1964-65.

WESCHLER’S Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1788) Four urn and vase studies Etching-engravings Auction Date: June 18 Estimate: $800 to $1,200

FREEMAN’S Daniel Garber (1880–1958) “Wild Cherry” Oil on canvas Auction Date: June 8 Estimate: $200,000 to $300,000 As part of their American Art & Pennsylvania Impressionists auction, Freeman’s will offer this atmospheric landscape by Daniel Garber, known today for his large Impressionist scenes depicting the environs of New Hope, Penn. In this painting, the town appears in the distance, dissolving in the morning light. Garber wrote to its first owner that he considered “Wild Cherry” one of his happier works.

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Union Market N o M a’s C ul i nar y S anc t uar y Is C h angi ng Eve rything

By Ari Post | Photography by Angie Myers

Photos Left to Right: Red Apron is a locally sourced whole animal butchery and small batch producer of handmade charcuterie.

Top: Products from Amanda McClement’s lifestyle boutique Salt & Sundry.

Bottom: Red Apron manager Zach Bainum serves a craft beer at the shop’s adjacent bar.

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Amidst the tumult and development of Northeast Washington (aka NoMa) stands a vaulting warehouse of a culinary sanctuary. The clean white letters that run high across its facade spell out “Union Market.” They float above the surrounding construction like postmodern clouds, visible in fragments through clusters of brownstone houses from blocks away. Even if you don’t know what’s inside, it is clear upon approach that whatever it is will be special and unlike anything in the city.

Housing 40 unique local artisans and food purveyors, Union Market opened in September 2012 as the centerpiece of an ongoing neighborhood renewal project in the market district just north of the H Street corridor. Surrounding the market are more than 100 businesses involved in food production and distribution for the D.C. area, from butchers and fishmongers to commercial-grade suppliers of restaurant kitchen equipment.

However, despite these deep roots in the Washington-area food scene, it had been a long time since these square blocks had much to offer the general public. The revival of Union Market is changing everything.

“It was a sort of a bombed-out building at the time I signed on to open my shop,” says Carolyn Stromberg, owner of Righteous Cheese, which sits toward the front of the vast, airy market. “But I knew that Union Market was going to be a great place for our city. Seeing how far it’s come in such a short time, there was not a better decision I could have made than opening shop here.”

The consensus among the vendors seems to mirror Stromberg’s opinion of the market’s potential as a lynchpin for an altogether new neighborhood in the District. The good fortune to be a part of this revitalization, and to cater to a new generation of cultural and culinary urbanites, is theirs to savor.

“There were no cheese shops in D.C. that had exactly what I wanted,” Stromberg says. “And you could tell by the types of vendors signing on that this market was going to be a magnet for people who love food. So I had a chance to chase a dream and develop this little cheese shop and wine bar that could be unlike anything in the city.”

Righteous Cheese has an expertly curated selection of exotic cheeses from around the world, many of which are seen nowhere else in the city. Stromberg’s rotating selection of unique and unusual wines are chosen to pair specifically with her available cheeses, which customers can either take home or enjoy at the small butcherblock bar with food from the surrounding vendors.

In this sense, the market turns into a sort of Dionysian food court, where instead of eating Sbarro pizza and frozen yogurt, you can enjoy house-made pâté, a smoked fish sandwich, artisanal cheese and a glass of Bordeaux.

“Union Market is a great incubator to start unique culinary businesses you aren’t sure would work in a traditional brick and mortar shop,” says Gina Chersevani, owner of Buffalo & Bergen, an oldfashioned soda bar that further highlights the singular and uncommon attraction of the market. “Because so many of the customers that come in here are such foodies, it’s like a sort of testing ground for new ideas for chefs and food purveyors.”

For instance, where else in the city can you sit down at a restored 1940s Woolworth’s countertop bar and order a vanilla egg cream?

“When Union Market offered me the opportunity to do something different, I wanted to open a soda bar,” says Chersevani, “inspired by my Brooklyn-born mother who always talked about her old soda shop growing up. And it’s so fun to see someone in their 60s come up and say, ‘I haven’t had an egg cream since I was a kid!’ And the next week they show up with their grandchildren, CONTINUED...

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Much of the produce served at Bidwell, below, comes from a crop of fruit and vegetables grown in aeroponic planters on the roof of Union Market

CONTINUED... introducing them to heavy cream sodas and coming together over this new shared history that otherwise never existed. The looks on these kids’ faces when they come to the counter and pick their syrups and make their own soda is unforgettable.”

Bridging generations and cultures is another thing Union Market does like nothing else in the city. If food is part of cultural history, then this market is a new Ellis Island.

Marty Kaufman, of Harvey’s Market butcher shop, is one of the vendors that keeps this communal history alive. Harvey’s has operated out of Union Market, through its recent renovation, since 1971, after moving from the old O Street Market following the riots of 1968.

“This place used to be called D.C. Farmer’s Market,” Kaufman remembers. “Pretty much a fixed-income market, which it remained until a couple years ago when it was redeveloped. And it was crowded back then, too. On a first of the month weekend when the food stamp benefits came in, we’d need 18 people running the counter. This was where that community came to shop.”

Despite the encroaching development, rising prices and greater demand for luxury meat selections, Kaufman has not turned his back on his old clientele.

“We still have two lines of product, for wealthier and budget-conscious customers,” he says.

“A lot of customers plain old can’t afford the commodity products, and we have to respect our original customers who built us into what we are today. We owe our livelihood to them and we want to do as much as we can to make them feel comfortable in this market.”

There are also cultural and ethnic traditions being bridged at the market, sometimes within a single shop. Neopol Savory Smokery, for instance, confounds and obliterates expectations or preconceptions of what smoked fish should be. Specializing in smoked fish and meat, as well as salads, sandwiches and other epicurean odds and ends, Neopol has perhaps the most mouthwatering selection of smoked fish in the city, with such offerings as Thai-spice, candied ginger or caramelized onion smoked salmon, as well as smoked New Zealand mussels, rainbow trout, shrimp and Maryland crab.

Their salads and sandwiches are typically piled high with their meats and fish, and their Smoked Salmon BLT is, for this author’s dollar, one of the best lunches in the city. Be you Norwegian, Jewish, Gambian or from any other cultural persuasion whose traditions hinge on a good smoked fish, this is not an opportunity to miss.

Artisans and vendors behind the counter know what they are talking about at this market, so when customers purchase something, they are empowered with the expertise of those who devote their life to their product. At Cordial Fine Wine and Spirits, owner Eric Rohleder and his assistants have a working knowledge of every bottle on their shelf.

“We really have to engage and help the client out,” says Rohleder, “and this hands-on approach is my favorite part of the job. Every bottle that we carry has a story behind it and we want to be the ones to tell it and explain why it’s going to be the right bottle for what the customer is thirsty for. I also created the brand with a passion to help smaller producers come to market, so whether it be family wineries or craft brewers and distillers, I think it’s really fun and rewarding to help these smaller brands have a place for people to purchase and enjoy their products.”

“The other fun part about working in Union Market is it really is a union,” says Rohleder.

“Not to sound cheesy, but all the vendors here, we all work for the good of each other. In terms of events and supporting each other, it’s a larger sort of a family market, even though we’re all independently operating commercial businesses. We have a great relationship with Carolyn over at Righteous Cheese, who will tell us what new cheeses she got in so we can recommend wine that pairs nicely with it. We know she sells wine, too, and so we make sure not to overlap our selection. When we work together, everything works out better for us and for the customer.”

“It’s very collaborative with all the other vendors,” agrees Stromberg, of Righteous Cheese.

“We get our bread from Leone Bakery, our bakery in the market that makes artisan bread. And customers are always coming from Red Apron Butchery [another butcher in the market], saying they just got a certain type of salumi or something, and what kind of cheese would pair best with it.”

“We just did an amazing little absinthe class with Salt & Sundry,” says Rohleder as an example. “They have this amazing collection of cocktail bitters.”

A different shop might try to cut into the competition here, but at Union Market they look out for their own. “Salt & Sundry was here first, and so if people need mixers or bitters for our drinks, we send them over there. Rather than a regular retail experience, we are trying to bring customers in for the combined experience.”

Salt & Sundry is a sort of grand and eccentric centerpiece for Union Market. Sitting at the edge of the market, they have the closest thing to a stand-alone shop, with an ever-changing collection of “goods for good living”: from dinnerware, linens and vintage finds to pantry items like small-batch foods and craft cocktail ingredients.

“We’re a bit of a modern general store,” says owner and creative director Amanda McClements. “I’d always admired places like the Ferry Building in San Francisco and the vibrant food halls in Europe, so I was really excited to be a part of a new culinary concept like Union Market. Since we’ve opened, I’ve loved the support of working alongside other new businesses.

There’s a real sense of community and excitement. It’s been an amazing experience and we’re hoping for many more years to grow and evolve with the market district.”

There are too many vendors, restaurants, purveyors and shops to recount in a single article or to absorb in a single trip. Without visiting Union Market, the best you can ever get is a faint whiff of the life and vitality of this bold and groundbreaking new epicurean arena. Whether you need specialty food goods, unique wines and cheeses, a good butcher, fresh produce or simply a great lunch spot and a place to drink coffee and read a book, it is the perfect place to be.

Perhaps Union Market will slowly influence other areas of the city to move toward a more inclusive, diversified and communal approach to business and development. For now, all there is to do is see and experience it for yourself. And make sure you bring a healthy appetite. As McClements will tell you, “Maybe the best part about working here: we eat well every day.”

Union Market is located at 1309 5th St., NE. Hours of operation are Tuesday to Friday, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., and Saturday to Sunday, 8 a.m.to 8 p.m. For more information and to browse the full list of vendors, visit www.UnionMarketDC.com.

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NOMA KEEPS ON GROWING

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As D.C. neighborhoods see rapid change and their development makes them more and more unrecognizable from a year or even six months ago, the neighborhood that sits just north of Massachusetts Avenue may be one of the fastest growing mixeduse areas yet.

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Found between Union Station, H Street, Shaw and the NE corridor of D.C., the busy neighborhood known as NoMa has seen more than $5 billion of development in the 35-block area.

Filled with thousands of new apartments and more than 40,000 workers, the neighborhood has become one of D.C.’s trendiest, as noted by being the first in the District to offer free outdoor Wi-Fi. Connected by the Metro’s Red Line, Interstate 395 as well as New York Avenue, the neighborhood is constantly buzzing with traffic. Even more so lately as construction continues on New York Ave., and year-long construction on First Street is finalized.

Running parallel to the train tracks is the eight mile Metropolitan Branch trail that stretches from the National Mall to downtown Silver Spring.

“The speed of growth has been impressive,” said Robin-Eve Jasper, president of the NoMa Business Improvement District.

It has surprised everybody, when BID was established we had questions about if NoMa would be more residential, or predominantly office use.”

Jasper helped start the BID, which was established in 2007 when NoMa was first intended to be a commercial district more than single family residential neighborhood, according to Jasper.

“People love living here,” Jasper said of the quickly growing residential sector of the neighborhood. As more NoMa residents inquire about buying, the development of the neighborhood is responding. Within the BID’s parameters, nearly 1,000 rental spaces have been built in the last two years. A few are already in the works, like the Elevation project at the corner of Florida and New York Avenues as well as 50 Florida Avenue, a project slated to start in the first quarter of 2015.

The city has taken notice as well, last May the DC Council allotted $50 million to the growth of parks, playgrounds and greenspace in NoMa. A once industrial district, today NoMa is celebrating its tran-

sit infrastructure with an Underpass Design Competition. The competition seeks to enliven the bustling railroad underpasses that connect the neighborhood on four primary east-west roads.

These four underpasses connect First Street, NE (NoMa’s “Main Street”) to Second Street, NE. The project has already seen a number of submissions, according to Jasper and the design will be revealed in the fall.

The BID has a few more initiatives on the way that Jasper unhappily reported as “not fully baked.” But the summer is a lively time for the neighborhood. Up next is the First Street NE block party celebrating the completion of construction.

Happening from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m., May 16, the party will be in conjunction with Bike to Work Day. The Summer Screen Series continues to grow every year with nearly 1,000 people gathering to watch a movie under the stars. The series runs from May 28 to Aug, 20 on Wednesdays at the field between Second and L Streets, NE. The nights include music, food trucks and picnicking. To find a schedule of the flicks, visit NomaBid.org.

Other annual neighborhood events include a family film series, a Fourth of July party and pumpkin carving in the fall.

The future is looking just as vibrant for NoMa. Jasper predicts more growth in entertainment venues and restaurants. N Street NoMa is an upcoming project that will include Landmark Theaters, restaurants and large retailers, according to Jasper.

“It’s going to build out to be terrific neighborhood,” Jasper confirmed.

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Light-filled expand/renov 4 BR, 3 BA, gourmet table space kitchen, glorious deck, cathedral ceilings, 2 FP, luxe MBR suite! 2 car carport, swim/tennis! Carderock/Pyle/Whitman.

Miller Chevy Chase Office 202-321-9132

Chevy Chase , Maryland

$1,169,500

30K Price Reduction! Nestled in Rock Creek Park this spacious home boasts the perfect flr plan. LL w/OFC/DEN/Spare Rm, REC RM w/FP. 2 CAR GAR! Easy proximity to D’town Bethesda & Silver Spring, METRO or car. Trails, Candy Cane Park & Stables all w/in walking dist.

Chevy Chase Uptown Office 202-364-1300

Palisades , Washington ,DC

$2,300,000

2004 Exquisitely built & designed 6 BR, 5.5 BA Custom Home. Hi-end finishes, 2 story foyer, Elevator, & Hi-ceilings. Stone & cedar siding, Pergola, Flagstone tiered patio, turf backyard.

Tammy Gruner Durbin 301-996-8334 Bethesda Miller Office 301-229-4000

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Bethesda, Maryland

$985,000

6 Br , 4 full BA, renovated open eat in kit w/ granite & stainless & breakfast room. Large FLR & FDR. 2 fireplaces. Finished basement.

Screened porch & large flagstone patio. Beautiful landscaping, great home for entertaining.

Deborah Charlton/Georgetown Office 202-415-2117/202-944-8400

...is Concerts proud intothebeParks thehave Gold Sponsor theof CAG’s brought together of all ages the Georgetown community to socialize and enjoy live music 83rd Annual Georgetown House Tour in our lovely parks. Join us in May, June, and July with a which the Outreach and picnic to catchsupports up with neighbors and enjoy live bands!

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Foxhall , Washington, DC

$1,139,500

Rare opportunity to own one of Foxhall’s finest homes. Spacious 5BR/3BA Tudor TH on 4 lvls. New kitchen, family room, MBR suite with modern bath. Inlaw ste. Garage.

Scott Polk 202-256-5460 Georgetown Office 202-944-8400

Brightwood, Washington, DC

$470,000

Chesapeake Beach, Maryland

$355,000

3BR, 1 Den, 2 full BA w/1 whirlpool tub, cozy rear courtyard recently renovated brick colonial semi-detached nestled in the sought after Brightwood neighborhood. Close to Takoma Park Metro Station.

Leon Williams 202-437-6828 Georgetown Office 202-944-8400

$899,000

New Construction! Exquisite 3000+ SF home w/grand open floorplan; 4BR/4.5BA, HDWDs, stunning gourmet kit w/adjoining family area & sumptuous master ste w/ huge WI closet & balcony.

Fully fin LL w/huge Rec Rm w/ 9’ ceilings, guest suite & full walkout.

Roby Thompson 202-255-2986 Woodley Park Office 202-483-6300

Chesapeake Bay retreat! Unique bright 1BR home, unbeatable Bay views, stunning sunrises! Simple 1-level living, open flr plan. Expand/ upgrade or keep as it is. Deck, fenced yrd, OSP, quiet street.

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Your Dining Guide to Washington DC’s Finest Restaurants

1789 RESTAURANT

1226 36th St. NW With the ambiance of an elegant country inn, 1789 features classically based American cuisine – the finest regional game, fish and produce available.

Open seven nights a week.

Jackets suggested.

Complimentary valet parking. www.1789restaurant.com

3000 K St. NW (One block from Georgetown AMC Loews Georgetown 14) Georgetown introduces Washington’s first “Dumpling Bar” featuring more than 12 varieties.

Come and enjoy the new exotic Thai cuisine inspired by French cooking techniques. Bangkok Joe’s is upscale, colorful and refined. Absolutely the perfect place for lunch or dinner or just a private gathering. www.bangkokjoes.com

(202) 965-1789

(202) 333-4422

CHADWICKS

CLYDE’S OF GEORGETOWN

3205 K St. NW A Georgetown tradition for over 40 years, this friendly neighborhood restaurant/saloon features fresh seafood, burgers, award-winning ribs and specialty salads & sandwiches.

Daily lunch & dinner specials.

Late night dining (until midnight Sun.-Thu., 1am Fri.-Sat.) Champagne brunch served Sat. & Sun. until 4pm Open Mon.-Thu. 11:30am - 2am Fri.Sat. 11:30am - 3am. Sun 11am.2am. Kids’ Menu Available.

Overlooking the new Georgetown Waterfront Park

3236 M St. NW This animated tavern, in the heart of Georgetown, popularized saloon food and practically invented Sunday brunch.

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

ChadwicksRestaurants.com (202) 333-2565

(202) 333-9180

MALMAISON

MARTINS TAVERN

3401 K St. NW

1264 Wisconsin Ave NW,

BISTRO FRANCAIS

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). www.malmaisondc.com

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Don't let the beer fool you, it's a compliment to your dining experience.

See what Chef Martinez has cooking for the spring!

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 its walls. Fourth generation owner Billy Martin, Jr. continues the tradition of Washington’s oldest family owned restaurant. www.martinstavern.com (202)333-7370

BISTROT LEPIC & WINE BAR

CAFE BONAPARTE

3124-28 M St. NW A friendly French Bistro in the heart of historic Georgetown since 1975. Executive chef and owner Gerard Cabrol came to Washington, D.C. 32 years ago, bringing with him home recipes from southwestern France. Our specialties include our famous Poulet Bistro (tarragon rotisserie chicken), Minute steak Maitre d’Hotel (steak and pomme frit¬es), Steak Tartare, freshly pre¬pared seafood, veal, lamb and duck dishes and the best Eggs Benedict in town. In addition to varying daily specials. www.bistrofrancaisdc.com

1736 Wisconsin Ave. NW Come and see for yourself why Bistrot Lepic, with its classical, regional and contemporary cuisine, has been voted best bistro in D.C. by the Zagat Guide.

And now with its Wine bar, you can enjoy “appeteasers”, full bar service, complimentary wine tasting every Tuesday and a new Private Room. The regular menu is always available. Open everyday. Lunch & Dinner. Now Serving Brunch Saturday and Sunday 11-3pm Reservations suggested. www.bistrotlepic.com

(202) 338-3830

(202) 333-0111

(202) 333-8830

FILOMENA RISTORANTE

I-THAI RESTAURANT AND SUSHI BAR

www.filomena.com

I-Thai Restaurant and Sushi Bar offers a taste of authentic Thai cuisine and Thai noodle dishes, where quality is never compromised. Using only the freshest ingredients, each dish is carefully prepared by our talented house chefs. With their extensive knowledge and expertise they are able to transform each dish with the perfect blend of herbs and spices into a delightful experience with the boldest and most genuine flavors possible.

Sun-Thurs 11:30 am-10:30 pm Fri-Sat 11:30-11:00 pm

(202) 338-8800

202-580-8852

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THE OCEANAIRE

DAS Ethiopian 1201 28th ST NW

DAS Ethiopian offers you a cozy two story setting, with rare outside dining views and al fresco patio dining. DAS is located at the eclectically brilliant historic corner of the internationally renowned shopping district of Georgetown. A tent under which all come to feast is the very Amharic definition of DAS. From neighborhood diners, nearby students, 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. www.dasethiopian.com

(202) 333-4710

SEA CATCH RESTAURANT 1054 31st St. NW

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BANGKOK JOE’S

Overlooking the historic C&O Canal, we offer fresh seafood simply prepared in a relaxed atmosphere.

Outdoor dinning available.

Join us for Happy Hour Monday - Friday from 5:00pm-7:00pm featuring $1.00 Oysters and half priced drinks Lunch: Mon-Sat 11:30am-3:00pm Dinner: Mon-Sat 5:00pm-10:00pm COMPLIMENTARY VALET PARKING www.seacatchrestaurant.com (202) 337-8855

1063 Wisconsin Ave., NW Filomena is a Georgetown landmark that has endured the test of time and is now celebrating 30 years. Our old-world cooking styles & recipes brought to America by the early Italian immigrants, alongside the culinary cutting edge creations of Italy’s foods of today, executed by our award winning Italian Chef. Try our spectacular Lunch buffet on Fri. & Saturdays or our Sunday Brunch, Open 7 days a week for lunch & dinner.

1624 Wisconsin Ave, NW

1522 Wisconsin Ave. NW Captivating customers since 2003, Cafe Bonaparte has been dubbed the “quintessential” European café featuring award winning crepes & arguably the “best” coffee in D.C.! Other cant miss attractions are the famous weekend brunch every Sat. and Sun. until 3 p.m. and our late night weekend hours serving sweet and savory crepes until 1 a.m. We look forward to calling you a “regular” soon! www.cafebonaparte.com

3003 M Street NW

Simply Banh Mi - Vietnamese Sandwiches and More!

GRAND OPENING APRIL 25-26 GEORGETOWN FRENCH MARKET FESTIVAL This family owned deli features classic and modern banh mi sandwiches, fresh spring rolls, Vietnamese iced-coffee, and more.

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1201 F St. NW 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. What’s more, “nothing” is snobbish here.

Lunch: Mon-Fri 11:30am-5pm.

Dinner: Mon-Thur 5-10pm, Fri & Sat 5-11pm, Sun 5-9pm. www.theoceanaire.com

(202) 333-5726

(202) 347-2277

FOOD & WINE

Treat Mom to

Brunch Although one day a year is not enough time to thank moms for all they do, make May 11 exceptional and take mom out for brunch. Here’s what a few D.C. restaurants are serving up for Mother’s Day...

Bourbon Steak – A threecourse Mother’s Day brunch menu. Sample courses: potato leek soup, pain perdu French toast and profiteroles. $95 per person, $40 per child. 2800 Pennsylvania Ave., NW. 202Café Milano 944-2026 Café Milano – A brunch buffet featuring an egg station, a breakfast buffet, a raw bar, an antipasti buffet, a bread station, a pasta station, an entrée station and a dessert station. Prosecco included. $95 per person, $39 per child. 3251 Prospect St., NW. 202-333-6183 Ristorante Piccolo – A three-course Italian dinner with choice of Champagne, mimosa or Bloody Mary. Complimentary glass of Champagne for moms. Serving from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. $28 per person.

(A Mother’s Day dinner will be served from 3:30 to 10 p.m.) 1068 31st St., NW. 202-342-7414 The Grill Room – A brunch menu by executive chef Jakob Esko featuring New American and European flavors. Selections include orange and rye whiskey cured salmon, chopped lobster salad, rotisserie maple leaf farm duck and the Grill Room’s popular peach baked Alaska. Serving 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. $95 per person, $30 per child. 1050 31st St., NW. 202-617-2424 I-Thai – A free meal for moms on Mother’s Day weekend, courtesy of Georgetown’s newest Thai restaurant and sushi bar (reservation required).

I-Thai offers a complete Japanese menu in addition to Thai favorites like I-Thai basil – think Ka Pow dishes – and mango curry. 3003 M St., NW. 202-580-8852 Teddy & the Bully Bar – A three-course menu by executive chef Demetrio Zavala with a variety of farm fresh items, including a flapjack and omelet station. Teddy’s patio will be open, weather permitting.

Serving 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. $40 per person. 1200 19th St., NW. 202872-8700 Walker’s Grille – A three-course prix-fixe menu of contemporary American fare, including farm vegetable gazpacho as a starter, herb crusted prime rib and chocolate paté with raspberries, hazelnuts, apricots and whipped cream. $35 per person. 6909 Metro Park Dr., Alexandria. 703922-6200 701 Restaurant – A three-course Mother’s Day menu accompanied by live jazz. Menu options include a roasted carrot salad, branzino and coconut panna cotta. Serving 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. $45 per person. 701 Pennsylvania Ave., NW. 202-393-0701 Bombay Club – A three-course prix-fixe Indian menu. Entrees such as lamb and chana masala are available on the buffet. $39-50 per person, $54 with Champagne. 815 Connecticut Ave., NW. 202-659-3727 GMG, INC. May 7, 2014

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FOOD & WINE

Cocktail of the Month 3251 Prospect St. NW. Washington, DC 20007

COME FOR THE VIEW, Georgetown Waterfront

BY JOD Y KU R ASH It seems that rum and pirates are like smoke and fire – you can’t find one without the other. From the earliest rum production in the 1600s in Barbados to Captain Jack Sparrow’s fondness for the spirit in Disney’s “Pirates of the Caribbean” trilogy, their history is tied together.

Today, liquor-store shelves are filled with brands of rum with pirate-themed monikers, the most popular being Captain Morgan, accounting for about a third of the premium rum market in the U.S. The real Captain Henry Morgan was legendary for his ruthlessness, his exorbitant thirst for liquor and his enormous success. But few know that he died an ugly death in Jamaica at the age of 53 from alcoholrelated causes.

While it may have been rum that put the final nail in Morgan’s coffin after his Jamaica retirement, during his carousing on the high seas Morgan most likely imbibed other spirits. Preferring to plunder Spanish ships and villages, the richest of the time, he probably drank brandy and Madeira wines, the spirits that Spaniards consumed, while on the job.

Another rum named for a real-life buccaneer is Admiral Nelson. A British flag officer famous for his rousing leadership and unconventional battle tactics, Nelson was wounded in combat several times, losing an arm and his sight in one eye.

The best known and most notable of his victories was the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, during which he was shot and killed.

Nelson’s love for rum was so fabulous that his body was preserved in a cask of rum before it was finally laid to rest. After this incident, rum was often referred to as “Nelson's Blood.”

The rum drink most commonly associated with pirates is “grog,” which is a misnomer.

Grog was invented after the decline of piracy as a form of rationing on ships of the British

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YO HO HO AND A BOTTLE OF RUM! DEAD AND BE DAMNED AND THE REST GONE WHIST!

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EST. 1992

YO HO HO AND A BOTTLE OF RUM!

Navy. Pirates consumed their often crudely distilled and harsh tasting poison straight up.

If you’d like to act like a buccaneer and enjoy a tot of rum on its own, you’re in luck.

In recent years, rum has been enjoying a renaissance. Many fine rums now on the market can rival the complexity and depth of a single malt Scotch. One of my favorite sipping rums is Ron Zacapa, produced in the highlands of Guatemala. This rum took the top honors for five years in a row at the International Rum Festival. It was retired in 2003 to give other spirits a chance at the grand prize. Ron Zacapa continues to be served to the judges at the competition as a benchmark.

Other aged rums I adore are Ron del Barrilito, a craft rum produced in Puerto Rico; Chairman’s Reserve from St. Lucia; Neisson Rhum Agricole from Martinque; and Mount Gay Extra Old from Barbados.

Even with these enchanting choices, many still prefer their rum in a cocktail. The Pirate Cocktail, which originated in the venerable Esquire Drink Book, is a lovely option.

Essentially a rum Manhattan, this pleasant nip preserves the character of the rum. The sweet vermouth softens the alcohol while the bitters highlight the complexity of the aged spirit.

It’s a perfect coming-out drink for spring: too hearty and sublime to be a frothy summer drink, but too sultry to stay inside after winter.

Pirate’s Cocktail

3 ounces full-flavored aged rum 1 ounce sweet vermouth 2 dashes Angostura bitters Stir ingredients with ice and strain into a short glass.

FOOD & WINE

What's Cooking, Neighbor?

HOLLIE WONG, CHING CHING CHA

BY WALT ER NICHOL L S

Sixteen years ago this month, former hair stylist and Hong Kong native Hollie Wong opened a serene tea house on Wisconsin Avenue, steps from the C&O Canal. She named it Ching Ching (her Chinese name) Cha (Chinese for tea). And little has changed in the fashion and feel of this distinctive sanctuary since I enjoyed Wong's hospitality that very first week.

"The purpose is to relax. Don't be in a rush, taste the tea," says Wong, as she pours our first cup from a fist-sized red clay pot. "We keep it the same, slow, with no Wi-Fi or those bubble tea drinks."

At the center of the polished rosewood table is a cast-iron kettle of simmering water, at the ready for refreshing the tea leaves. From the kitchen come plates of perfect thin-skinned chicken, vegetable pot stickers and bowls of lightly dressed chopped kale and snow peas.

On a raised platform along one wall are two frequently reserved tables, low and with lots of pillows, perfect for laid-back sipping. Even when all the tables are taken, there's a reverent hush. Here, tea drinkers tend to linger.

I check out the selection of more than 70 different teas, as well as teapots and tea accessories, which Wong acquires on annual buying trips to China, Japan and Taiwan. This just in: the select top-bud spring crop of first-quality "Monkey King" green tea, her personal favorite, is now in stock. "The leaves are beautiful and the flavor is elegant," she says. "This is the tea for a stressful Washingtonian."

A woman comfortable with familiar food pleasures, Wong starts the day near her home in gated Hillandale with a stop at Patisserie Poupon for a classic buttery brioche roll. For a dinner out, her preferred destination is the sprawling 120-store Eden Center, a Vietnamese dining and shopping enclave in Falls Church.

(At Eden, her choice for takeout is Thanh Son Tofu.)

And when a snack is in order, she reaches for a Chinese fast food have-to-have: a hardcooked egg marinated in spices and soy sauce.

"I never get tired of them," she says.

Marbled Tea Eggs INGREDIENTS

12 eggs 1 tablespoon salt 2 teaspoons soy sauce 2 tablespoons peppercorns 6 pods star anise 2 tablespoons black tea leaves, such as Earl Grey 8 cups water DIRECTIONS Place the eggs in a large saucepan and cover with cold water, one inch above their tops. Slowly bring the water to a boil. When boiling, cover the pan, remove from heat and let stand for 10 minutes. Transfer the eggs to a bowl and run cold water over them until cool.

Gently tap each egg until the shell is thoroughly glazed with small cracks.

Place the cracked eggs in a saucepan with the 8 cups of water, salt and soy sauce. Tie the peppercorns, star anise and tea leaves in a square of cheesecloth and add to the saucepan.

Bring the eggs and liquid to a boil, then reduce heat to very low and simmer for 1 hour. Turn off heat, cover and let the eggs stand in the liquid for 2 hours. Do not remove the cover while the eggs are steeping.

Remove the cracked shells and serve cold or at room temperature with a dipping sauce of soy sauce and a touch of toasted sesame oil.

Ching Ching Cha, 1063 Wisconsin Ave., NW, 202-333-8288, chingchingcha.com

What's Cooking, Neighbor? visits with wine, food and entertaining professionals who work in the Georgetown area.

Georgetowner dining columnist Walter Nicholls is the food critic for Arlington Magazine and a former staff writer for The Washington

“Established in 1933 Martin’s Tavern has been family owned and operated for four generations.

Celebrating 80 years as the Heart of Old Georgetown.”

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IN COUNTRY

Upcoming in the Country Middleburg Home Farm Store – Friday night tastings featuring wine, ciders and beer, along with a showcase of local artisan food and meat.

Take home samples and recipe cards printed with ideas for your weekend table. 1 E. Every Friday from 5 p.m. – 7 p.m. 1 E. Washington Street. HomFarmStore.com King Family Winery

Live Music at Greenhill Winery and Vineyards - Live music featuring Lance Trussell, a classical guitarist, composer and teacher based in Frederick County, Md. Trussell performs in a wide variety of styles, including Spanish classical, jazz, folk, celtic, bossa nova and pop from the 1950s and 60s. Saturday, May 17, 5-7 p.m. Visit GreenHillVineyards. com/events for the complete schedule.

Loudon County Notaviva Vineyards Wine Murder Mystery Dinner Theater - Stage Coach Theatre Company’s production of “The Comic Book Murders,” in which a group of offbeat superheroes commemorate their victory against the villainous army of the Narlagons with a special

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dinner. Tickets include a catered buffet meal from Roaming Rotisserie and a dessert bar.

May 9 and 10, 7-10 p.m. 13724 Sagle Rd., Purcellville. Call 540-668-6756 or visit NotavivaVineyards.com.

Science Saturdays at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum - Immersions in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) concepts at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, with hands-on activities and demonstrations related to aviation and space exploration. Science Saturday is the second Saturday of each month (May 10), 10 a.m.-3 p.m. 14390 Air and Space Museum Pkwy., Chantilly. For details, visit nasm.si.edu/udvarhazy.

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118 acres • Main house is stone with slate & copper roof recently expanded to approximately 7,000 square feet • Amazing views • 2 bedroom guest house • 3 bedroom tenant house • 4 stall stable • Heated pool • 4-car garage & 2 ponds.

Helen MacMahon

(540) 454-1930

Stone manor house in spectacular setting • 86.81 acres • Highly protected area in prime Piedmont Hunt • Gourmet kitchen • Wonderful detail throughout • 5 BR • 5 BA • 3 half BA • 3 fireplaces, classic pine paneled library • Tenant house • Stable • Riding ring • Heated saltwater pool • Pergola • Full house generator.

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Glenfiddich Farm Cooking Class- Cooking classes by renowned cookbook author and food writer Olwen Woodier in her large modernized kitchen on a 1840s farm just outside Leesburg.

The two-hour class includes demonstrations from a demo-mirrored island with an eightburner Wolf cooktop, hands-on participation and a four-course meal. May 17, 10:30 a.m.-2 p.m. 17642 Canby Rd., Leesburg. For details, visit GlenFarmCookery.com.

Charlottesville Hatton Ferry – Every Saturday and Sunday until Oct. 26: rides on the Hatton Ferry, a historic ferry across the James River and the only poled ferry still operating in the U.S. The Hatton Ferry operates free of charge (donations are appreciated). Under ideal conditions, a roundtrip crossing takes about 30-45 minutes. 10120 Hatton Ferry Rd., Scottsville. For details, visit TheHattonFerry.org.

Crozet Arts & Crafts Festival 2014 – Entertainment, wine tasting and more than 100 artists are featured at the festival, on Saturday and Sunday, May 10-11, rain or shine. Claudius Crozet Park, 1075 Park Rd., Crozet.

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BUCK RUN FARM

The Plains, Virginia • $1,950,000

Hume, Virginia • $1,925,000

160 acres terracing the Bull Run Mtns. • Stone walls through property • Views across the entire region • Stone & cedar carriage house with 3 bay garage and top of the line finishes • 1/2 acre pond • Gated entrance • Complete privacy • Rare find- great escape.

Helen MacMahon

(540) 454-1930

Stone & stucco cottage-precisely sited for privacy • 2 ponds • Amazing mountain views • 72 acres • 4 bedrooms, 3 fireplaces, copper roof, antique floors and beams • Charming library and multiple french doors open to a massive stone terrace.

Helen MacMahon

(540) 454-1930

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Boyce, Virginia • $1,900,000

Boyce, Virginia • $1,329,000

Purcellville, Virginia • $1,325,000

Middleburg, Virginia • $950,000

Mountain top retreat with 60 mile panoramic views of the Shenandoah Valley • 215 acres • 1/3 pasture • Main house circa 1787 • 3 BR • 1 BA • 2 FP • Random width pine floors • 2 BR,1 BA guest cottage • Stone & frame barn circa 1787 • Remnants of formal garden • Old cemetery, spring fed pond • Gazebo.

Paul MacMahon Helen MacMahon

(703) 609-1905 (540) 454-1930

PRICE REDUCED! • 109 mountain top acres • Unbelievable western views • Hunters’ paradise • Over 2.5 miles of walking, hiking and/or ATV trials • 3 bedrooms • 2 fireplaces • Updated gourmet kitchen • 3 car garage • Energy efficient.

Paul MacMahon

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Friday night through Sept. 26: live music, authentic Italian or Greek food and a glass or bottle of Doukenie wine. Rain or shine, 6-9 p.m. Doukenie Winery, 14727 Mountain Rd., Purcellville. For details, visit DoukenieWinery.com.

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Beautiful farm on 55.24 acres • Lovely views • Contemporary home with 4 bedrooms • 2 1/2 baths • 3 fireplaces • 2 car garage, very private• European style stable with 6 stalls • Tack room • Office, wash stall & apartment • Owner licensed real estate broker in Virginia.

Paul MacMahon

(703) 609-1905

Quality home in convenient location • Private setting • Much larger than it appears • Expanded and completely renovated • Large 1st floor master suite • Gourmet kitchen w/ Carerra marble • 4 BR & 4 1/2 BA • Hardwood floors • Natural light • French doors • 2 fireplaces & top of the line finishes throughout • Decks for entertaining.

Paul MacMahon

110 East Washington Street Middleburg, Virginia 20117 (540) 687-5588

(703) 609-1905

IN COUNTRY

89th World Famous Virginia Gold Cup

Yappy Hours at Keswick Vineyards – At the vineyard on Dog Day Sundays: your furry friend and visitors from local animal shelters. A donation to the visiting shelter is made for every bottle of wine purchased. Sundays through Nov. 2, noon-3 p.m. 1575 Keswick Winery Drive, Keswick. For details, visit KeswickVineyards.com.

On May 3, D.C. socialites headed to the 89th world famous Virginia Gold Cup steeplechase race at Great Meadow in The Plains, Virginia. This race is one of the largest and most popular sporting events in the greater Washington metropolitan area. Race day features six hurdle and timber horse races, Jack Russell Terrier races, tent, and tailgating.

King Family Vineyards Annual Spring Barbeque – BBQ and wine pairings on Sunday, May 18. The Barbeque Exchange will be serving noon-5 p.m. and the Tasting Room and patios will stay open until 7 p.m. Tickets are $16. 6550 Roseland Farm Lane, Crozet.

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Wandergolf Growing Up Golf

BY WAL LY GRE E V E S I can always tell when I am playing golf with someone who started playing early in life. There is a degree of confidence present in the way they choose clubs, address the ball and shrug off bad shots that suggests a long relationship with the game. They are usually in decent physical shape, don’t drink on the course, have good manners and seem well organized. I didn’t start playing until my midtwenties.

This past Saturday, I arrived for a tee time at Raspberry Falls in Loudoun, and there were 320 kids there for the skills assessment day of the Loudoun Junior Golf Association.

I was absolutely floored. LJGA President Charlie Hoffman spent an hour educating me about the league and turning my astonishment into admiration. Born out of Leesburg Parks and Recreation in 2004, the league has since become its own 501(c)3 and grown to include 12 golf courses, both private and public, and now has corporate sponsors like ExxonMobil and Jersey Mikes.

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Loudoun Junior Golf Association’s skills assessment day at Raspberry Falls. LJGA President Charlie Hoffman sees the rainbow as an omen for a great season. tournaments. There are five divisions to accommodate every skill level and age. Satisfying their annual volunteer requirement, PGA pros happily lend their time to these clinics, ensuring top-notch instruction. All positions are volunteer-based, and most, if not all, of the volunteers have or have had children in the league. Raspberry Golf Academy and Goose Creek paid for the uniforms this year. This is

not the Bad News Bears sponsored by Chico’s Bail Bonds. This is a well thought out, responsibly grown and accessible golf program for kids, one which is encouraging its footprint to be copied.

Spending a day talking to golf professionals in Fairfax County and finally back to Washington, D.C., to see what junior golf programs were available presented a different

story from Loudoun. Junior golf outside of private clubs in Fairfax County also began at Parks and Recreation, and for the most part, still is where the majority of junior leagues are found. Five county-owned courses in Fairfax County have been competing in league play for a couple of years now, according to Jeff Winkle, General Manager of Oak Marr Golf Complex.

While Fairfax County has some good courses,

IN COUNTRY most of the tournaments and clinics for juniors are at par 3 courses. Loudoun kids are playing courses like Lansdowne Resort, River Creek and Raspberry Falls.

Washington, D.C., junior golfers have even less of a chance to experience different types of courses. There are some great programs like the First Tee of Greater Washington and Paul Berry’s Get Hooked on Golf programs. If you are a child in D.C. public schools and want to take the six-week Get Hooked on Golf Clinic, it will be provided at no cost, including transportation. Once you finish the clinic, the organization will pay for your rounds at East Potomac Golf Course. This is made possible in conjunction with D.C. Friends of Ireland and the PGA of America, which partners with the program.

These programs are a wonderful resource, but the three courses in D.C. are extremely crowded, and variety is limited. Terry McFarland, General Manager of Rock Creek Golf Course, worked with the PGA of America to form leagues last year, but there were not enough participants at the three courses to sustain a program. He said he would love to see a situation where the course would be active with golf leagues, but it would need to make good business sense for the three D.C. courses.

The difference between these programs and Loudoun is that the parents and volunteers are the ones running the leagues. If parents ran the leagues in D.C. and Fairfax County, as they seem to do in so many other sports, they could compete with other areas and visit their courses. LJGA’s Hoffman says he would love to be able to compete with other areas and

work with other organizations and would even help set them up. The PGA of America says the same thing.

“I will come talk to anyone, anywhere, that wants to start a golf league for kids,” says Bob Heintz, Junior Golf Director for the MidAtlantic section of the PGA of America. Heintz says that he has gone to talk to Loudoun over the years and is glad to see them doing well.

“Leagues do not even have to be PGA members to have PGA support,” he says.

It seems that there is room here for all sides of the equation to benefit. League play, organized by D.C. and Fairfax Volunteers, however large, could work with other leagues like Loudoun to allow their kids access to more courses in the area. Golf courses, county and non-county alike, can focus on providing the best facilities for play they can and be paid for it. Sponsors that are willing to help kids play golf can show support for these leagues and have tax benefits. Lastly, as a community, we can reap the benefits created from raising more children in the area that espouse the good qualities that the game of golf seems to install in them.

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Andrew Wyeth at the National Gallery: ‘Looking Out, Looking In’

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Looking In” is centered around the recent gift to the gallery of one of the artist’s most important paintings, “Wind from the Sea” (1947).

The exhibition is the first fully realized exploration of Wyeth’s frequent use of windows as subjects of his art, showcasing some 45 watercolors, drawings and tempera paintings.

It reveals how the artist returned to windows repeatedly, probing the formal and conceptual richness of this most common subject in his and all our lives.

The works are haunted by ghostly shad“Wind from the Sea,” 1947 ows and memories that lie just beyond the picture plane. Wyeth devoted himself to visual The thought of a mid-to-late 20th-century art when still a child. He was trained by his artist painting washed-out landscapes of rural father, the renowned but troubled illustrator America and being hailed as a cultural icon N.C. Wyeth, whose paintings for such literary and a national treasure is almost unimaginable. classics as “Treasure Island” remain among In the most aggressively transformative the most acclaimed illustrations of all time. century in recorded history, the geography of Wyeth inherited a love of nature and poetart alone shifted so drastically and disparately ry from his father, particularly an affinity for that it is virtually impossible to sum up its Robert Frost, but it seems like he absorbed a evolution. Compared with Cubism and perforgreat deal of his father’s haunting and illusory mance art, film and digital media, a pastoral narrative qualities as well. However, unburscene of meadow grass and an old barn does dened by the shackles of commercial illustranot seem like much at all. tion, Wyeth was able achieve a far greater Yet Andrew Wyeth, a rural painter of level of dissonance and timelessness than his American regionalist life and landscapes from father could ever achieve.

Chadds Ford, Penn., captured the imagination Windows allow for reflection, as seen in of this full-throttle era, and his work continues the watercolor “Rod and Reel” (1975), where to challenge and inspire new generations to a darkly reflective window set into a whitethis day. washed wall slowly reveals tiers of subtly At the National Gallery of Art through fragmented landscapes from the adjacent farmNov. 30, “Andrew Wyeth: Looking Out,

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land through the glass. Onlookers are suddenly brought into an unexpectedly dimensional world on the surface of the paper.

The idea of reflections is fitting, as this collective work becomes a journey into the artist’s mind – which in Wyeth’s case dwarfs almost any effort by Surrealism to explore the depths of the unconscious. Wyeth lived most of his life in his Brandywine Valley hometown and at his summer home in Cushing, Maine, where the familiarity with his environment grew so intimate that he was able to truly divest himself of self-awareness and any external forces of judgment.

He spent so much time painting these scenes that they were a part of him, and so the work is at once an exact portrait of the artist’s mind as well as the reality of the subject. And Wyeth’s painterly expression of this duality gets contentedly lost within its own schism.

Wyeth’s paintings have a temporal haze to them, as if they could just vanish at any moment. The atmosphere he manages to produce is a depiction of something that can be seen in reality only if you unfocused enough to lose yourself. (This idea might be an indication as to why Wyeth always insisted he was an “abstract” painter.)

There are occasional moments in his works where things just vanish, as in his tempera painting “Seed Corn” (1948). A high window looks out onto a sprawling gray landscape, with strung-up corn drying out for next the

spring’s seeds on either side. Peculiarly, the center rail of the window just disappears halfway out, fading into the cloudy sky. At first it seems like a shallow surrealist gesture. But upon closer consideration, it’s more pure than that. It’s as if Wyeth had lost sight of the fact that the rest of it was even there, as his mind strayed out the window toward the rolling hills beyond. And the strange thing is it looks perfectly natural.

Some of Wyeth’s appeal is absolutely his technical facility with his medium. His work offers such spoils of formal virtuosity, floating between hyperrealism and textured painterly richness, that scholars and regular museumgoers alike swoon with awe and delight.

One mark of a great artist is surely their ability to influence an audience to think and consider their surroundings. In the case of Wyeth, his subject is perhaps thought and environment itself. It is the moment when we look out a window into the gray sky, catching a glimpse of our mortality as we try to solve our myriad little human dilemmas, even as – mired by history and personal experience, but singularly products of our own creation – we continue to move unavoidably into the future.

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‘Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín’ at Strathmore

BY G ARY T ISCHL ER

“Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín” is never just a concert, a performance, a presentation of a masterpiece. The multimedia concert-drama, which has been presented many times, most recently at the Music Center at Strathmore on May 1, has always been something more, larger and larger still.

But it is also something as troubling and always evocable and intimate as the remembrance of the heart and mind of a people straining with music to be free in the midst of constant death.

The concert, as well as a documentary film of the same name, has been performed all over the world, and will continue to be performed.

It is at heart the resurrection of what was an obscure but heart-rending and powerful story from the annals of the Holocaust, which hardly lacks for unique and powerful stories.

For Murry Sidlin, the founder and creator of “Defiant Requiem,” the Baltimore-born conductor and music educator at Catholic University in Washington, the story, the music, the concert has become a life’s mission. This mission has resulted in the creation of the D.C.-based Defiant Requiem Foundation and the telling and retelling and resurrection of a story of great courage and the indomitable spirit of one man.

For Sildin, it began on a sunny day in the late 1990s, when he was a faculty member of the University of Minnesota’s school of music.

He ran across a used bookstore, the kind that

you always saw in cities and universities in America. “There was a bin, a cart outside,” he said. “I stuck my hand in and pulled out a book, an old book.”

The book was “Music in Terezín”, by Joza Karas, a Czech writer and composer who had collected the music of Jews imprisoned at Terezín, a Nazi camp in Czechoslavakia, where thousands were killed and from which thousands more were sent to Auschwitz.

“I had picked the book out of sheer luck,” Sidlin said. “I opened it up and there was a chapter on a man called Rafael Schächter.”

“He was a composer, he was an opera coach,” Sidlin said. A Czech Jew, he had been rounded up and sent to Terezín carrying a lone, shopworn copy of the music of Verdi’s Requiem inside his coat.

Terezín in popular accounts is known as the camp which the Nazis tried to pass off as a model camp, to show Red Cross members and other inspectors that Jews were being treated well.

“That’s not exactly right,” Sidlin said. “They did that once, when the Red Cross came and it was then that Schächter, with 200 members of the camp, put on a recital of the Requiem in front of the Red Cross and the Nazis.”

“For those in the chorus – they were accompanied by a three-legged piano – it was an act of defiance, an act of courage. Schächter had them rehearse after every day of hard labor and

impossible conditions in the basements of the camp,” Sidlin said.

“But the camp already had a lively culture – here were writers, singers, artists, professors, directors, composers, musicians from all over Europe, and there were lectures, cabaret music and singing, plays, operas, put on after the day was done. And Schächter was at the heart of it.

He held 14 performances with 150 singers at the camp for the other prisoners.”

“The book and the story moved me in ways that I can’t begin to describe,” he said. “I wanted that story to be told and sung, and to be remembered. That’s what I’m doing, that’s what everybody that’s involved is doing.”

The result, in the end, was a foundation, the Defiant Requiem Foundation, with Sidlin as its president and Stuart E. Eizenstat as its current chairman. In turn, the foundation sponsors the Rafael Schächter Institute for Arts & Humanities. Next month, for the first time, the Institute will be held in the U.S., at American University’s Katzen Arts Center.

At Strathmore, 50 survivors of the Holocaust attended, including Edgar Krasa and Marianka May, who were members of Schächter’s Terezín chorus. Soloists including Arianna Zukerman (the daughter of Pinchas Zukerman), mezzosoprano Ann McMahon Quintero, tenor Issachah Savage and bass Nathan Stark. D.C.-area theater star Rick Foucheux appeared as Schächter, with Rheda Becker, who often performs speaking

roles with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, as the Lecturer.

Interspersed there were clips from the “Defiant Requiem” film, as well as clips from a Nazi propaganda film.

Schächter himself was sent to Auschwitz, where he survived until the remaining prisoners were sent on a death march, in which he perished.

The Strathmore concert was performed in memory of Fran Eizenstat and Amy Antonelli.

There will be a screening of the “Defiant Requiem” documentary as part of the Schächter Institute, June 8 to 12 at the Katzen Arts Center, with a book signing by Richard Breitman for his book “FDR and the Jews,” Phillip and Noreen Silver performing works by Terezín composers on piano and cello, a one-woman show “The Tin Ring” and a panel discussion led by Eizenstat on “Anti-Semitism in Europe Today.”

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1. Sofia Vergara stars on the ABC series ‘Modern Family’ as Gloria Delgado-Pritchett, for which she was nominated for several awards.

2. Actress Diane Lane and CNN News anchor Wolf Blitzer.

3. Jessica Simpson is a recording artist, actress, television personality and fashion designer.

4. Rose McGowan is an Italian-born American actress and singer.

5. Katharine McPhee is a pop singer, songwriter, and actress.

6. Bellamy Young is an American television, film, and theatre actress, best known for her role as First Lady of the United States Mellie Grant in the ABC drama series ‘Scandal’.

7. Actress Anna Chlumsky of ‘Veep’.

8. Emmy Award and Golden Globe winning actress Julianna Margulies.

9. Chuck Todd is the Chief White House Correspondent for NBC News, as well as the host of The Daily Rundown on MSNBC. 10. Willie Robertson and wife Korie of ‘Duck Dynasty’.

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White House Correspondents’ Weekend Takes Over D.C. The parties before and after the White House Correspondents’ Dinner dominated the D.C. social scene this past weekend and took over schedules and streets. Our "nerd prom" still had its urgency and energy, just with slightly lessened star intensity. Herewith, photos from the Google-Netflix party at the Institute of Peace and the Washington Post party at the Washington Hilton.★

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Kalorama. Spacious 1 BR at The Westmoreland Coop.

9.5’ ceilings, original detailing. Refinished flrs, new paint. 1,000 sf of space. Pet friendly bldg. $449,500

Tom Welch 202-422-6500

graCe & Charm

Kenwood, Ch Ch, MD. Stately 1930 Colonial w/classic architectural details. 4-5 BRs, 4 BAs, family rm w/French drs to patio. LL walk out rec rm. $1,845,000

Ted Beverley 301-728-4338 Patricia Lore 301-908-1242

Cape COd ClaSSiC Colonial Village. Completely renovated 4 BR, 3.5 BA w/ gourmet kit/fam rm & den addition. Walls of windows.

Beautifully landscaped. Surrounded by parkland. $1,499,000 Lee Goldstein 202-744-8060 Dina Paxenos 202-256-1624

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Westmoreland Hills. Have it all w/this 3+ BR, 3.5 BA home on tree lined street. Splendidly renovated LL. $1,048,000

Harriet Fowler 240-346-3390

heart Of the City

NOMA. Lovely one bedroom condo by Truxton Circle.

Hardwood floors, open kitchen w/island. Loads of windows, built-in closet. Near to Metro, shops & cafes. $210,000

Leslie Suarez 202-246-6402

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