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ON TH E C OV E R Architect Dale Overmyer, who lives in Georgetown with wife Melissa and children, gladly takes on the challenges of design work here. He is shown at the back of Bill Dean’s P Street house, where he designed a modern addition. Photo by Jai Williams.

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NOVEMBER 13 Peter Singer and Mandy Moore

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There will be more than 50 specialty boutiques at Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School’s 45th annual Esprit de Noel: A Christmas Market. Admission and parking are free. For details, visit visi.org/esprit. 1524 35th St. NW.

Philosopher and author Peter Singer will discuss how effective altruism can end poverty at “The Most Good You Can Do,” an event organized in partnership with Population Services International and Giving What We Can: D.C. Singer-songwriter-actress and PSI Ambassador Mandy Moore, will also share her firsthand account of lifesaving work in resource-poor communities. For details, visit lisner.gwu.edu. Lisner Auditorium, 730 21st St. NW.

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NOVEMBER 15 Jackson Art Center Open Studios

Moment Magazine’s 40th Anniversary Gala

NOVEMBER 7 Fiber Art Show and Sale

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At this annual sale of wearable art and fiberart supplies by 26 members of the Potomac Fiber Arts Gallery, one-of-a-kind scarves, hats, garments, jewelry, yarn, fabrics, notions and gift items will be sold. On the bargain tables will be gallery-quality items and artists’ overstock of equipment, materials and books. For details, visit fiberartsale.wix. com. St. Mark Presbyterian Church, 10701 Old Georgetown Road, Rockville, Maryland.

Dumbarton Concerts Presents the Raven Consort Nicholas White will conduct the Raven Consort in an all-Poe program of song settings of the poetry of Edgar Allan Poe, concluding with “The Raven,” White’s cantata in eight movements for vocal quartet with string quartet, horn, cor anglais and piano. Tickets are $35. For details, visit dumbartonconcerts.org. Dumbarton Concerts, 3133 Dumbarton St. NW.

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Ninth Annual Parade of Trabants Despite their questionable performance, Trabants are now regarded as a symbol of East Germany and the fall of Communism. The little cars are a rarity here, but some of the finest examples in the U.S. will chug their way to the International Spy Museum to participate in the Ninth Annual Parade of Trabants. For details, visit spymuseum.org. 800 F St. NW.

Deep River: Art of the Spiritual Post-Classical Ensemble and Washington Performing Arts present a multimedia experience using historic films and recordings to tell how Harry Burleigh transplanted spirituals into the concert hall, setting the stage for Paul Robeson and Marian Anderson. Bass-baritone Kevin Deas and two choirs are featured. Tickets are $30. For tickets, visit postclassical.com. UDC Theater, 4200 Connecticut Ave. NW.

Performing to hundreds of thousands of people each season, the Grammy award-winning ensemble the King’s Singers is famous worldwide for its immaculate intonation, vocal blend, diction and timing. The group’s repertoire encompasses masterworks from medieval to Renaissance and from lieder to jazz. Tickets are $40. For tickets, visit stjohnsgeorgetown.org. 3240 O St. NW.

Since the mid-1980s, the old Jackson School on R Street has been home to more than 40 artists. Visitors to this free open studios day can meet them, see their work, enjoy live music and shop a table of original art, with the proceeds supporting D.C.’s Homeless Children’s Playtime Project. Children will paint a mural from 3 to 4 p.m. For details, visit jacksonartcenter.com. 3050 R St. NW.

Moment Magazine will celebrate its 40th anniversary with an evening that features a performance by pianist Yefim Bronfman, who will be honored with the Creativity Award. Other honorees will include Moment co-founders Elie Wiesel and the late Leonard Fein, Tamara Handelsman, Robert Schattner and Annie S. Totah. Individual tickets are $250. For details, visit info.momentmag.com. Embassy of France, 4101 Reservoir Road NW.

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NOVEMBER 18 “The 39 Steps” at Dumbarton House

At this free panel discussion on race and the church, Congressman John Lewis will be joined by Andrew Aydin, co-author of “March,” Lewis’s graphic-novel trilogy, and moderator Susan Page, USA Today Washington Bureau Chief and Georgetown

The Picnic Theatre Company presents Alfred Hitchcock’s “The 39 Steps” at a casual cocktail event with wine and refreshments available for purchase. Tickets are $12 in advance and $15 at the door. For details, visit eventbrite.com. Dumbarton House, 2715 Q St. NW.

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Exorcist Steps Officially Recognized by D.C.

The District Council of the District of Columbia officially dedicated a plaque that recognizes the famous or infamous steps at Prospect and 36th Streets NW as a significant historic location in Washington, D.C. The fates—and Andrew Huff, and the Dupont Film Festival and the D.C. Office of Television Development—got together, celebrated and commemorated the occasion. On hand were William Peter Blatty, the author of “The Exorcist,” the novel on which the film is based, along with director William Friedkin and a hundred or so fans, autograph seekers and early Halloween revelers. They gathered at the site of the stairs, along with Mayor Muriel Bowser, Ward 2 Councilman Jack Evans, and Georgetown University President John DeGioia. Blatty and Friedkin spent two hours or so on Prospect Street, signing autographs, programs, books, posters and other items. Also on hand were “Exorcist” fans—hundreds, really — who remember the filming, read the books or gather every Halloween for screenings of “The Exorcist.” It was a film that shook up the horror movie world—and the Georgetown landscape,

while it was being filmed more than 40 years ago. On Prospect Street, promoters dressed as nuns and priests handed out containers for holy waters to hype “Exorcist Live!” A young girl who answered to the name of Regan, in a greenish, Linda Blair-like dress was also there. Friedkin said he had, in one way or another, spend half of his life on this film. “It’s great to see that there are still so many people interested in the film,” he said. “It’s really appreciated.” At the bottom of the steps as fans waited for the arrival of of Blatty, Friedkin and the rest. “Somebody should throw a dummy or something down the stairs,” one fan said. “That would really scare the hell out of people.” “This film is part of the history of Georgetown and Georgetown University,” DiGioia said. “It’s a part of our cultural history,” Evans added. The proclamation noted that “The Exorcist” was in the National Film Registry by way of the Library of Congress and that the steps, once known as the “Hitchcock steps” had taken “their place in the annals of film and Georgetown history as a perennial destination for residents and visitors of the nation’s capital.” Afterwards, there was a screening of “The Exorcist” — with Friedkin in the audience — at Georgetown Loews AMC on K Street.

William Friedkin, director of the 1973 film, “The Exorcist,” speaks to an enthusiastic crowd at the bottom of the Exorcist Steps at 36th Street during an Oct. 30 dedication. Photo by Jeff Malet.

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Georgetown Honors Tennis Stars, the Peters Sisters

Neighbors old and new came together at Rose Park in Georgetown Oct. 24 to dedicate its tennis courts to two black women who used it as

young girls and as tennis stars: Margaret Peters and Roumania Peters Walker. The Peters sisters won the doubles crown of the American Tennis Association for 15 years during the 1930s, ’40s and ’50s. Nicknamed “Pete and Repeat,” the dynamic duo, who lived at 2710 O St. NW, now have supporters for the Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island. Among the new neighbors was Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson and his wife

Susan DiMarco, who live across from the courts at 27th and O Streets NW. Among the old neighbors — those who grew up with Peters sisters — was Daisy Peebles, who has lived her entire life in Washington’s oldest neighborhood, and Mayor Muriel Bowser’s mother, NAME, who was baptized at Epiphany Catholic Church on Dumbarton Street and played in Rose Park. Rev. Adam Park, pastor of Epiphany Catholic Church, began with a prayer. David Dunning, president of Friends of Rose Park, introduced a long line of speakers, including Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner Monica Roache, a fifth-generation Georgetowner who learned tennis from the sisters; Fannie Walker Weeks and James Walker, the children of Roumania Peters Walker; Mayor Bowser; and Secretary Johnson. Ward 2 Council member Jack Evans, who set up the renaming legislation, was unable to attend due to a parents’ weekend for one of his college-age children. At-large Council members Anita Bonds and Vincent Orange were on hand to speak.

bag — known as “funny money” — exploded, and the man ran off. He was described by the Metropolitan Police Department as a 45-year-old bald black male, wearing a red shirt and black baggy pants. The MPD tweeted around 2 p.m.: “Robbery of an establishment 1600 blk of Wisconsin Ave NW. lof: b/m, 45 yoa, bald, wearing red shirt, blk baggy pants.” Police cordoned off the area around the bank, which has a parking lot and is just north of the Georgetown Exxon. One observer at a business across Wisconsin Avenue from the bank quipped, “We’re looking for the man with purple ink.”

TD Bank Robbed in Broad Daylight Mayor Muriel Bowser and Jeh Johnson, Secretary of Homeland Security, unveil plaque to the Peters sisters during Oct. 24 ceremony at Rose Park. Photo by Robert Devaney.

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At Least 5 Muggings on Halloween

As a full day of Halloween occurred Oct. 31 since it was Saturday, Georgetown more than lived to its role as Halloween central for nearby

residents and visitors alike. Police were out in force throughout the commercial and residential parts of town, although Lt. Roland of the Metropolitan Police Department Hoyle said that there were “not that many people” out along the sidewalks. There were crimes—one involving a gun—amid the Georgetown crowds, according to MPD (sent from the Second District; PSA

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W Stops in Georgetown to Fundraise for Jeb

Former President George W. Bush headlined a Jeb Bush fundraiser Oct. 29 on P Street at the Horvath residence, a house where former Sen. John Edwards and his family lived during the 2004 presidential campaign. The 43rd president was in town for a Bush–Cheney alumni get-together at the Fairmont Hotel. Departing the event at 6:30 p.m., the relaxed-looking Bush autographed a keepsake for a fan on the sidewalk and said, hopping into his SUV, “Don’t put that on eBay.” His small motorcade promptly got stuck in commuter traffic on 34th Street.

Former President George W. Bush leaving fundraiser on P Street Oct. 29. Photo by Robert Devaney.

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The Donn B. Murphy One-Acts Festival showcases student-written works, allowing student writers, directors, actors and designers the opportunity to create and develop a new show — this year featuring “Beyond.” Tickets are $8 ($5 for students). For details, visit performingarts.georgetown.edu. Poulton Hall, Stage III, 1421 37th St. NW.

November 20, 7 p.m. CAG Monthly Meeting Journalist Carol Ross Joynt explores the lives and literary projects of best-selling Georgetown authors including Cathy Alter, Elaine Williams Crockett, Jane Stanton Hitchcock, Dr. Isabel Sawhill and Leslie Morgan Steiner, who will signs books (available for purchase). A 30-minute wine and light appetizer reception will be provided by Peacock Café, which is offering post-meeting specials. For details, visit cagtown.org. St John’s Episcopal Church, 3240 O St. NW.

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William Peter Blatty, author of “The Exorcist” and Georgetown University alum, autographs the Oct. 21 Georgetowner before the Exorcist Steps dedication on Oct. 30. Photo by Jeff Malet.

Honoring Veterans’ Service, All Year Long

e can’t blame you, all of you, in the thousands, who showed up for the big Concert for Valor on the National Mall last year, what with the presence of Bruce Springsteen, Rihanna, the Black Keys, Carrie Underwood, Dave Grohl, Tom Hanks, Will Smith and Oprah Winfrey. But throughout the year, not only on Veterans Day, Nov. 11, Washington is a place where the idea of valor, service and sacrifice is honored all over the city, especially on the Mall, among the memorials and on the green spaces and miles of crosses at Arlington National Cemetery. The cemetery seems at once simple and profound: the vast expanse of sky, the row upon row of markers, the names, the flags and flowers here and there and the annual ceremonies surrounding the wreath laying. It is hallowed ground for the men and women who have throughout history gone to places in the world where they’d never imagined they’d be, served and often died there. It is a place that speaks to a part of our history and to progress amid what often seems like perpetual conflict. In Washington, you can bear witness to service at places that bear witness to the far-flung struggles in which we’ve engaged as a nation, to the leaders that led us through two major and tragic wars, to the different ways members of the military serve and often suffer. The latest such memorial is the American Veterans Disabled for Life Memorial near the Botanic Garden, where a star-shaped fountain and an always-lit ceremonial flame pay tribute to disabled veterans. On Pennsylvania Avenue, the Navy Memorial speaks to all the ships at sea, to the sailors (and aviators) that keep them afloat throughout the world in times of peace and war. The Iwo Jima Memorial, actually the U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial, is here and, farther off, the striking sculpture for the Air Force Memorial. But it’s at a spacious corner of the Mall itself where our wars, our soldiers and our veterans are honored by proximity. Here is the Lincoln Memorial, presided over by Abraham Lincoln, who presided over our bloodiest conflict. And it’s his presence that speaks most honorably to the conflicts of America, the Civil War and all the others. Not far off are the shiny, dark walls of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, with the 50,000 names carved on it, to remember the cost of that war. Across the reflecting pool is the Korean War Veterans Memorial, with its company of weary, heavily armed infantry trudging up a hill. Not far off is the Roosevelt Memorial to the man who presided over our critical participation in World War II. The National World War II Memorial, a more recent addition, shines a light on the depth and breadth of that effort, where you can still see an ever-dwindling number of veterans from that war, brought there once again to still remember. In that corner of the Mall, the cost of maintaining this democracy, always and forever, becomes vividly real.

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

Ben Carson: Unfit and Unqualified BY MARK PLOTKIN

Before I get into the Chauncey Gardiner of the 2016 Republican presidential campaign — Remember the movie “Being There”? — allow me to make some brief remarks concerning some of the other candidates. I understand that repetition is required in politics, but can we please have a moratorium on the following: “From secretary to CEO.” (Carly Fiorina) “Make America great again.” (Donald Trump) “My father was a bartender, my mother a maid.” (Marco Rubio) “My father was a mailman.” (John Kasich) One other random observation. I salute and commend the only candidate who does not feel it necessary to wear his patriotism on his lapel: Mike Huckabee. The other nine GOP candidates wear the obligatory American flag pin. This all started with our disgraced President Richard Nixon. Dwight D. Eisenhower and John McCain didn’t feel the need to wear this pin as a badge to show their love of country. Now to Dr. Ben Carson. Halloween is over, but this guy is downright scary. He calls Obamacare, “the worst thing to happen to America since slavery.” Giving health insurance to 30 million people who didn’t have it before — that’s “slavery”? If that’s not enough, how about this one: The United States is “very much like Nazi Germany.” And on

NBC’s “Meet the Press,” he reiterated that abortion should not be allowed even in cases of rape or incest. He said the following: “I would not be in favor of killing a baby because the baby came out in that way.” All these outrageous and un-presidential statements are always delivered in that calm, reserved, reassuring manner. That, I presume, is to make you believe that this is someone of sound judgment. When Carson isn’t making ridiculous and loony utterances, he is reciting platitudes. One of his favorites is, “We the people.” It’s as if he woke up one day and discovered the U.S. Constitution. He uses this phrase in the most inappropriate of places, making no sense at all. Back to my opening line referring to movie character Chauncey Gardiner. When Carson is standing on that debate stage, his countenance and appearance register that faroff look of nothingness. He proudly proclaims that he “is not a politician.” Well, I want a politician to be president: somebody who likes and wants to talk and deal with other politicians. Carson is an outstanding surgeon, exceptional and renowned. That does not qualify him to be president. He’s in the wrong field. GOP voters should get smart and stop being enamored of this highly unqualified individual. Political analyst Mark Plotkin is a contributor to the BBC on American politics and a contributor to TheHill.com. Reach him at markplotkindc@gmail.com.

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The reason for the safety and infrastructure issues that WMATA is facing, is a lack of required funding five and even 10 years ago, not the use of several million dollars this year to address the ticking time bomb of a future pension liability. The lack of funding from all of the jurisdictions, and the lack of responsible fiscal management from the board of directors over the past decade, has left us in the crippling position we are in today. The solution is not to again delay the responsible management of future liabilities, as we have done for many years on the preventative maintenance side, as well as the pension liability side. Refusing to commit a small amount of money to a known future problem, is every bit as much a failure in leadership as not funding preventative maintenance at a station because we haven’t experienced any problems there this year. Public transit is a critical component of our region’s future. As chairman of the Finance Committee, I have asked WMATA staff to present a budget proposal for the next 20 years that expresses future costs for unfunded pension liabilities, deferred maintenance, safety recommendations, and implementation of the Momentum plan. Funding the future OPEB liability is the issue at hand today, but preventative maintenance, infrastructure improvements, and system expansion are all similar actions that will require us to be responsible stewards of both current and future taxpayers’ and riders’ money.

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Two weeks ago, the representatives from Maryland on the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority board of directors invoked a jurisdictional veto to prevent a proposal to create a trust to address WMATA’s $1.5 billion unfunded Other Post-Employment Benefits liability. This action, while claimed to be done in the name of safety, is an irresponsible risk for the future viability of the system. As a bit of history, the board initially voted to establish a trust to fund this OPEB liability in 2010. However, after five and a half years, the trust still hasn’t been created. In March 2014, the board voted to allocate $4 million to a still-unestablished OPEB trust as part of the fiscal 2015 budget. Then, in May 2015 the board voted to allocate an additional $11 million to the unestablished trust. I’ve read comments of support for Maryland’s veto that WMATA shouldn’t be funding pensions when the reliability issues are so great. While I agree that WMATA has significant work to do to improve the reliability of the system, this action doesn’t save any money by “sticking it to retirees” or something absurd like that. WMATA is bound to continue to pay tens of millions of dollars a year out of fare revenue and jurisdictional subsidies towards these OPEB obligations. In fiscal 2014, WMATA paid $38 million in OPEB liabilities directly from operating funds. That pay-as-you-go number will continue to rise quickly, unless an irrevocable trust is established to dedicate and invest funds to meet future liabilities.

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The Georgetown-Burleith-Hillandale Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC 2E) held its monthly meeting Nov. 2. The following is a selection of decisions by the commissioners at the meeting.

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Misuse of GroupMe App Decried The commission offered its opinion of a local GroupMe app, shut down by its host, the Georgetown Business Improvement District, on Oct. 18: “A recent attempt by the Georgetown BID to use social media to deter shoplifting was used improperly and hurtfully by some retail employees in ways the BID did not intend, in a manner that is completely inconsistent with Georgetown’s welcoming and respectful spirit. We support the creative use of technology to bring the Georgetown business community together. However, the Georgetown BID and the community as a whole must ensure that whatever replaces this app is never used as a tool for profiling or discrimination. “

Starbucks Pulls Liquor License Application Because of community concerns and its closeness to a school, Starbucks Coffee at 1810 Wisconsin Ave. NW withdrew its wine and beer license application, a corporate representative announced at the meeting.

Thumbs Down to Dean & Deluca, Kouzina; ShopHouse O.K. Commissioners protested the liquor license application by Dean & Deluca at 3276 M St. NW. The fancy food store has a plan for live entertainment and outdoor seating (the side next to the store is used by customers now), as well as 10 new seats in the wine department in the back of the store, which sells beer and wine but cannot allow consumption on the premises. The proposed Kouzina Authentic Greek Restaurant at 3235 Prospect St. NW, asking for 50 outdoor seats, got a quick thumbs-down. However, plans by ShopHouse Southeast Asian Kitchen at 2805 M St. NW to sell beer and wine got the go-ahead.

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Commissioner Tom Birch with Tudor Place’s Leslie Buhler at the Nov. 2 ANC meeting. Photo by Leslie Maysak.

Tudor Place’s Leslie Buhler Saluted

The commission presented a community commendation to Leslie Buhler: “In recognition of her steady hand and creative leadership as the executive director of Tudor Place, ANC 2E commends Leslie Buhler. In the 15 years that Leslie has charted the course for Tudor Place her intelligence, her expertise, her diplomacy and her resilience have combined to elevate the value of one of our great historic treasures for Georgetown, for the city of Washington, and for the nation. “She raised the level of scholarship and interpretation of the Tudor Place collection, maintaining the highest standards with significant attention to the preservation and conservation of the treasures of Tudor Place. Leslie’s leadership has brought national recognition and distinction to this beloved property. With her open, welcoming and inclusive manner, Leslie has won the loyalty and appreciation of the Tudor Place neighbors and the entire Georgetown community. For all this, we owe our gratitude and our commendation to Leslie Buhler for her outstanding service and contribution to our neighborhood and the city.”

Via Umbria Gets Settlement Agreement; Concerns Remain A settlement agreement was approved for Via Umbria, an Italian houseware and food store at 1525 Wisconsin Ave. NW, however neighbors remain concerned about the use of a backyard patio. Per the agreement, the owner would not consider use of the patio until April 2016, if at all. Via Umbria intends to serve small meals, such as sandwiches, for consumption on its first floor (26 seats) second floor (20 seats) and has applied for a Class C liquor license. There will be private dinners and cooking demonstrations in the second floor kitchen, but — again per the agreement — the space cannot be rented out. Closing hour will be 11:30 p.m. Neighbors Sue Rutledge and Larry Houseman, whose homes are behind the business on 32nd Street, spoke in opposition to the ANC’s approval of Via Umbria’s application.

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IN: SoulCycle Opens

year that the Holiday Inn was on the market for mixed-use development with a grocery store in the rebuild.

SoulCycle, “the country’s full-body indoor cycle workout,” as the company describes itself, has continued its Washington, D.C., expansion. It opened Oct. 30 at 1042 Wisconsin Ave. NW near Grace Street, with a lively reception as well as some very committed fans and star instructors. The 3,500-square-foot studio holds 55 bikes along with a clothing shop and locker rooms; classes begin at $34.

OUT: EagleBank to Leave Georgetown As of Jan. 29, 2016, the Georgetown branch of EagleBank at 1044 Wisconsin Ave. NW will close permanently, according to Joseph Clarke, senior vice president and chief deposit sales officer of the bank. Accounts assigned to the Georgetown branch will be transferred to 2001 K St. NW, about 12 blocks to the east in downtown. Contact branch service manager Philomina Gomes at 202-481-7012 or by email at PGomes@EagleBankCorp.com.

IN: Glover Park Hardware Ready to Re-open Glover Park Hardware owners Gina Schaefer and Marc Friedman report that the store will reopen at its new 7,500-square-foot location at 2233 Wisconsin Ave. NW in a matter of days. The store is in the lower front level, next to the bar, Breadsoda. After losing its lease after 10 years, the business left its old location Jan. 15 at 2251 Wisconsin Ave. NW, which will house a Rite Aid.

IN: Georgetown Olive Oil Co.

OUT: Georgetown Holiday Inn to Close According to the Glover Park Citizens’ Association, the Georgetown Holiday Inn at 2101 Wisconsin Ave. NW (at Whitehaven Street) will close by the end of November. The property has been sold. Bisnow reported last

Now, this is special: the Georgetown Olive Oil Company, “a specialty retail store for extra virgin olive oils and aged balsamic vinegars,” as it calls itself, opened Nov. 2 at 1524 Wisconsin Ave. NW, next to the George Town Club. The store reports that it “is set up as a tasting gallery and will offer over 65 different flavors of extra virgin olive oils and aged balsamic vinegars, gourmet salts and spice blends, pastas, accessories, handmade pottery, paintings and more.”

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“We pride ourselves in having the freshest and most flavorful extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) available,” said company owner Hristina Goleva. “Georgetown Olive Oil Company's selection includes traditional varietals, flavor fused and infused olive oils, and specialty oils along with white and dark balsamic vinegars,” the company reported. “The retail store offers its olive oils and balsamic vinegars in decorative UV protected dark glass 200ml and 375ml bottles.” The company will carry olive oil from Chile, Australia, Argentina, New Zealand, California, Cypress, Egypt, France, Greece, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Mexico, Morocco, Portugal, Spain, Syria and Tunisia.

Woodley Park House, Site of Quadruple Slayings, For Sale The house in which three members of the Savopoulos family and the housekeeper were discovered slain in May is now up for sale for $3.25 million. The 10,800-square-foot house on the 3200 block of Woodland Drive NW has five bedrooms and seven bathrooms. Daron Wint, 34, was charged with firstdegree murder of businessman Savvas Savopoulos, 46, his wife Amy, 47, their son Phillip, 10, and housekeeper Veralicia Figueroa. Two daughters, Abigail, 19, and Katerina, 17,

were away at boarding school at the time of killings. Wint and possibly accomplices are alleged to have held the group captive overnight while waiting for a $40,000 ransom to be delivered. He once worked for American Iron Works, one of Savopoulos’s businesses. Wint’s DNA was found on pizza crust in the home.

IN: Turkish Bakery Coming to Wisconsin & M Simit & Smith, a Turkish bakery cafe with locations in New York and New Jersey, plans to open its first D.C. location at 1077 Wisconsin Ave. NW (near the intersection of Wisconsin & M), as first reported in the Washington Business Journal. A simit is — more or less — a Turkish bagel, a traditional bread eaten throughout the Balkans and the Mediterranean. The company’s website indicated that the shop plans to open this month, but it looks like that date may get pushed into next year.

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Freeman’s

“Huntsmen and Hounds, North Cornish Hunt,” 1954 Sir Alfred Munnings (1878–1959)  Estimate: $250,000 – $400,000 Auction Date: November 19 Sir Alfred Munnings is widely considered to have been the greatest equestrian artist of the 20th century. His work continues to have a devoted following. Munnings's love of the Cornish landscape stemmed from visits he had made between 1910 and 1914 to Newlyn, an area that at that time was home to a renowned artists colony. This painting is part of Freeman's Sporting Sale.

Christie’s

“Norman Rockwell Visits a Country Editor,” 1946 Norman Rockwell (1894–1978) Estimate: $10 million – $15 million Auction Date: November 19

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“The Cove, Isles of Shoals,” 1901 Childe Hassam (1859–1935)      Estimate: $400,000 – $600,000 Auction Date: November 18

“I Been Rebuked and I Been Scorned,” 1954 Charles White (1918–1979) Estimate: $70,000 – $90,000 Auction Date: November 10

This painting, offered as part of Bonhams’ American art sale, comes from a prime period of Hassam's work, when he painted on the Island of Appledore, the largest of the Isles of Shoals. It manifests, with direct fluent brushwork, the brilliant midday light, clear sky, calm water and scintillating array of blues, reds, yellows and greens that he encountered. About nine miles off the New Hampshire coast, the Isles of Shoals were a source of inspiration and refuge for Hassam between about 1880 and 1916.

Named for a Negro spiritual, this charcoal and wash drawing was created nine years before the historic March on Washington in August of 1963, at which an estimated 250,000 people witnessed Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. deliver his famous “I Have a Dream” speech. At this same gathering, Mahalia Jackson sang “I've Been ’Buked and I've Been Scorned.” The work is part of Doyle New York's Post-War and Contemporary Art sale.

The top lot of Christie’s American Art auction, this major, large-scale work belongs to an important series of works Norman Rockwell completed for the Saturday Evening Post at the height of his career. The painting is being sold by the National Press Club Journalism Institute with the approval of the National Press Club. The proceeds from the sale will benefit both nonprofit organizations.

Sotheby’s

Pale Blue Faience Ushabti of Neferibresaneith, 570–526 B.C.   Estimate: $60,000 – $90,000 Auction Date: December 8 Sotheby's will present an inaugural sale dedicated exclusively to Ancient Egyptian Sculpture and Works of Art. Highlights include a red granite portrait head of King Amenhotep III from the last ten years of his reign, two exceptional stone ushabtis and the piece featured here, 7.25 inches high, one of the best preserved faience ushabtis of Neferibresaneith.

Bringing the Hammer Down

Final selling prices for last month’s featured Auction Block items.

Bonhams German Naval 4-Rotor Enigma Enciphering Machine, c. 1942-44   Auction Date: October 21   Final Selling Price: $365,000

Freeman’s “Forms in Space,” 1985 Roy Lichtenstein (1923–1997) Auction Date: November 1 Estimate: $30,000 – $50,000 Final Selling Price: $48,750

Christie’s Lavar Kirman Carpet, c. 1900 Auction Date: October 21 Estimate: $20,000 – $30,000 Final Selling Price: $30,000

Sotheby’s Bronze Fountain in the Form of a Dancing Elephant Andrea Spadini (1912–1983)  Auction Date: October 19 Estimate: $200,000 – $300,000 Final Selling Price: $250,000

Doyle New York “Alexander the Great,” 1983 Andy Warhol (1928–1987) Auction Date: October 27 Estimate: $40,000 – $60,000 Final Selling Price: $106,250

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Subdivision

Bedrooms

Baths Full

Baths Half

Days on the Market

List Price

Close Price

1319 30TH ST NW

GEORGETOWN

$5,100,000

5032 FULTON ST NW

KENT

$2,899,000

$3,010,000

3410 N ST NW

GEORGETOWN

161

$2,765,000

$2,500,000

2455 P ST NW

GEORGETOWN

$2,395,000

$2,300,000

3014 O ST NW

GEORGETOWN

$2,250,000

5188 PALISADE LN NW

KENT

$2,250,000

$2,200,000

1407 RIDGEVIEW WAY NW

PALISADES

$2,098,000

$2,017,500

2501 PENNSYLVANIA AVE NW #3A

WEST END

125

$1,998,000

$1,936,000

3420 P ST NW

GEORGETOWN

$1,795,000

$1,850,000

3603 WINFIELD LN NW

GEORGETOWN

$1,549,995

$1,535,000

5417 SHERIER PL NW

PALISADES

$1,259,000

$1,233,000

2905 ARIZONA AVE NW

KENT

169

$975,000

$955,000

1321 33RD ST NW

GEORGETOWN

$999,000

$950,000

3820 BENTON ST NW

GLOVER PARK

$882,000

$900,000

4412 RESERVOIR RD NW

FOXHALL

$900,000

$862,500

1610 33RD ST NW

GEORGETOWN

$870,000

$860,000

2839 HURST TER NW

KENT

$875,000

$855,000

3818 CALVERT ST NW

GLOVER PARK

$849,000

2117 OBSERVATORY PL NW

GLOVER PARK

$849,000

$839,000

2213 39TH ST NW

GLOVER PARK

$834,500

2334 HUIDEKOPER PL NW

GLOVER PARK

$820,000

$800,000

3918 W ST NW #7

GLOVER PARK

$699,000

$700,000

938 24TH ST NW

FOGGY BOTTOM

$625,000

$665,000

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REWRITING THE SOCIAL EQUATION FOR MODERN LIVING BY PETER M U R R AY

ale Overmyer is a star architect in Georgetown. His tailored suit goes with the role, but his modest, soft-spoken demeanor seems out of place when he’s discussing the 100-plus renovations he’s done in Georgetown, the homes he has built in Palm Beach and the Hamptons and the architectural work he has done for Georgetown engineering executive Bill Dean, a.k.a. the “Jay Gatsby of Miami.” (Dean hired Overmyer to design both his Oyster House in Virginia’s Northern Neck and Terra Veritatis, his 11-bedroom Mediterranean-style villa compound in Miami Beach.) In Overmyer’s telling, he was born to build in Georgetown. His grandfather, a general contractor, passed on some carpentry skills to his father, who, says Overmyer, “was talented at drawing and painting but never pursued his artistic interests.” Overmyer was raised “with tremendous focus on art and drawing” — which came in handy growing up in West Africa without TV or radio. “Legos were the only toy I had,” he says. As Overmyer got older, he became more and more interested in building things: forts and tree houses and go-carts. When he was 8 years old, his dad gave him a jigsaw. “Who gives their kids power tools at 8 years old?” he reflects now. Born in Venezuela, Overmyer was always on the move with his family, which exposed him to breathtaking structures on several continents. He recalls being struck by architecture everywhere he traveled: by the majesty of Saint Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow, by the mix of modern and traditional architecture along the Angolan coast, by the urban landscape of London, by the monumental and symbolic buildings at Dulles Airport, by Georgetown’s history and character. He came to the U.S. every year or so to visit his aunt, uncle and cousins on Reservoir Road in Georgetown, his “home in America.” That was when Overmyer fell in love with Georgetown. Ultimately, his family moved back to the U.S., settling in Houston when he was 13. Overmyer stayed in the area through college — he earned his Bachelor of Architecture degree at the University of Texas — then moved to Georgetown with his wife Melissa “immediately after school.” For his thesis project, Overmyer had used Georgetown as a model for creating a pedestrian-based, sustainable community. While other architects may shy away from working in Georgetown, fearing the seemingly all-powerful Old Georgetown Board, Overmyer cherishes the challenges. “A lot of people consider it to be a real briar patch, but it’s my briar patch and I really enjoy it,” he says of the process of building and renovating homes in Georgetown. Though the rules can be burdensome, “they have made Georgetown, and kept it, a good place.”

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Lately, Overmyer has been dealing with the Old Georgetown Board on his own behalf, proposing renovations for his family’s new home on S Street. “The Old Georgetown Board described the new home as ‘a dog’s breakfast of a house,’ which only makes me happy, because I love potential,” he says with a smile. The new digs provide more room for his kids — ages 9, 19, 21 and 23 — and there is a first-floor master bedroom to accommodate him and his wife as they age. (Plus, it has a parking space, a hot commodity in Georgetown.) Excerpts from The Georgetowner’s recent interview with Overmyer, edited for clarity, appear below.

house. We think about who is in there, how many people and what are they doing. We want your environment to perfectly fit your lifestyle.

That information must be important when you’re building a house from scratch too, right? When we build something new, we are looking back into our clients’ childhood dreams and fantasies. We imagine what a beautiful place to live in the new home could be. It’s really more of a guide service. We want to take people to places they’ve dreamed about but where they can’t take themselves. We want to take them farther than they imagined.

a good investment. It’s one they can enjoy personally and it adds value to their portfolio. If they can, they build as much as they can. It’s an expensive pastime but it’s a good investment.

What is the typical project in Georgetown like? A lot will just have a small addition and need a lot of interior work. A house will really need to have a complete reworking every 50 years, especially if it hasn’t really had infrastructure done in the 20th century. Some previous owners have gotten away with doing very little in terms of air conditioning and plumbing. So we do a lot of gut jobs. In addition, some homes in Georgetown have been carved into the tiniest little rooms. Our effort is often to simplify those small, cramped spaces into fewer, bigger, simpler spaces. Fewer, bigger, simpler is my mantra.

And what are the usual results? One of the things we do a lot of work on is rewriting the social equation for modern living. Since the late part of the 20th century, Americans moved into more informal lifestyles. We do our own cooking and we do our own cleaning now. Congregating in the house typically happens around meals, so the family room and the kitchen are really the new heart of the home. Those rooms used to be hidden away and given as little space as possible. Now they are the main area of living in the house. So we are rewriting a formula to respond to how people live now. In fact, I just interviewed for Julia Child’s house. I don’t have that job yet, but I would love to play out the possibilities there, because shows like hers turned the act of preparing a meal into part of the entertainment and the kitchen into a community space. That would be a neat way to tie up a lot of the things that have kept me busy over the years.

What is your favorite house in Georgetown that you haven’t worked on? Dale Overmyer in his office. Photo by Jai Williams.

THE GEORGETOWNER: How do you approach the renovation of an older home in a historic district? Is the process limiting? DALE OVERMYER: It’s limiting, but it’s also educational. Everyone that lives in a house exerts some influence on it. We try to draw out things that are unique and creative about our clients with the architecture we do — of course, being mindful of the people that came before them and their expressions.

It must be an intimate process. It really is. When we work, we want to understand how our clients want to live in their

Who is your typical client? Our typical client is somebody who always wanted to be an architect themselves. That is almost universally true. The typical client is someone who has been very successful and is very interested in being creative, but they are usually in a field that doesn’t yield the kind of creativity that they like. So they enjoy the creative process of design and building, and it gets that inner architect out of their system. We really enjoy working collaboratively with clients to draw out as much experience, talent and creativity as possible. It just enriches the project. If they have the capacity, what people find is that investing in good buildings is

We are basically living in a museum. And the museum has so much variety of time and style. It’s entertaining that many houses are similar, but every one is absolutely unique and has a story to tell and has usually been taken care of by people that love them. I think of the whole neighborhood being the real gem. I describe it as a quaint village within a big city. It has the best of both worlds. It has everything that a child or teenager or student or young adult or someone in their midlife or someone aging in place could want. It’s a vital and relevant community wherever you are in life. It also has probably the most interesting collection of citizens past and present of any neighborhood in the world. I’ve always lived and worked in Georgetown. That’s the model for how people should live.

Clockwise from top, The Oyster House, photo by Maxwell MacKenzie; living room at The Mitchell Residence, photo by Celia Pearson; Dodge's son engraved his signature into the window glass where he and his siblings were tutored in the Dodge Mansion; Staircase remodeled at Jeremiah Williams House in Gerorgetown, photo by Celia Pearson.

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Spacious, sun-filled, semi-detached, three-story 4BR, 3.5BA home in West Village. Lovely and spacious living room. Kitchen with access to large, private patio. Basement with storage. Easy access to shops, restaurants and M Street. Terri Robinson/Georgetown Office 202-607-7737/202-944-8400

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Renovated 3BR, 3.5BA Cape Cod in pristine condition in the Town of Chevy Chase. Screened back porch, 2nd floor deck, 1st floor office & family room, fully finished lower level complete w/rec room & full bath. Freshly painted, refinished floors & new carpet. Cheryl Kurss/Chevy Chase Office 301-346-6615/202-363-9700

Foxhall, Washington, DC

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Charming detached home with wonderful eat-in Chef’s kitchen. Cozy living room with fireplace. Separate dining room with fireplace. Family room with French doors to deck. Large, master bedroom suite. 2BR in-law suite. Fenced garden. Scott Polk/Georgetown Office 202-256-5460/202-944-8400

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Large 2BR (former 2BR/den) with no steps anywhere, great location across from community center. Major renovations, enlarged high-end kitchen w/Caesar stone & stainless, custom built-ins around FP, new baths, bamboo floors. 2-car garage parking, extra storage. Miller Bethesda Office 301-229-4000

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Stunning model unit - 1st time on market. Large 2BR, 2BA (or 1BR + Den). High floor, balcony, huge south-facing windows, gourmet kitchen, MBR/MBA. Luxurious living: gym, Entertainment Courtyard, 24-hr desk, pet friendly, underground parking, roof deck, pool, and more. Mitchell Story/Woodley Park Office 202-270-4514/202-483-6300

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Your Dining Guide to Washington DC’s Finest Restaurants

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1789 RESTAURANT

Bistro Francais

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

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

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

With the ambiance of an elegant country inn, 1789 features classically-based American cuisine – the finest regional game, fish and produce available. Open seven nights a week. Jackets suggested. Complimentary valet parking.

A friendly French bistro in the heart of historic Georgetown since 1975. Executive chef and owner Gerard Cabrol came to Washington, D.C., 32 years ago, bringing with him home recipes from southwestern France. In addition to daily specials, our specialties include our famous Poulet Bistro (tarragon rotisserie chicken), Minute Steak Maitre d’Hotel (steak and pomme frites), Steak Tartare, freshly prepared seafood, veal, lamb and duck dishes and the best Eggs Benedict in town.

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

DAS Ethiopian 1201 28TH ST., NW

202–333–4710 dasethiopian.com DAS Ethiopian offers you a cozy twostory setting, with rare outside dining views and al fresco patio dining. DAS is located at the eclectically brilliant historic corner of the internationally renowned shopping district of Georgetown. A tent under which all come to feast is the very Amharic definition of DAS. From neighborhood diners, nearby students and journalists to international visitors and performers, all enjoy the casual but refined atmosphere that serves up the freshest Ethiopian dishes from local and sustainable food sources.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Brunch Sat.-Sun. 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.

ENO Wine Bar

Filomena Ristorante

Visit ENO Wine Bar and enjoy wine flights, charcuterie, cheese, chocolate & seasonal small plates. ENO offers 100 bottles under $50 & 45 wines by the glass starting at $9. The Cellar is an intimate lounge perfect for a date night or private events. Monthly ENOversity: Sunday Wine Classes $50 & Wednesday meet local producers for free tastings. Happy Hours: Sun-Thur from 5pm7pm with a extended hour on Sunday starting at 4 pm along with nibbles and select wines on tap for $5 Mon-Thursday 5pm-11pm , Fri-Sat4pm-12 am, Sunday 4pm-11pm

Filomena is a Georgetown landmark that has endured the test of time for over 30 years. Our old-world cooking styles and recipes brought to America by the early Italian immigrants alongside the culinary cutting-edge creations of Italy’s foods of today executed by our Executive Chef and his team. Open 7 days a week 11:30am11:00pm. Free salad bar with any lunch entrée Mon-Sat and try our spectacular Sunday Brunch Buffet complete with carving stations, pasta stations!

2810 Pennsylvania Ave., NW 202–295–2826 enowinerooms.com

1063 Wisconsin Ave., NW 202–338–8800 filomena.com

CAFE BONAPARTE

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

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

This animated tavern, in the heart of Georgetown, popularized saloon food and practically invented Sunday brunch. Clyde’s is the People’s Choice for bacon cheeseburgers, steaks, fresh seafood, grilled chicken salads, fresh pastas and desserts.

Grill from Ipanema

Malmaison

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

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

1858 Columbia Road, NW 202-986-0757 thegrillfromipanema.com

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

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

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SEA CATCH Restaurant

1054 31st St., NW 202–337–8855 seacatchrestaurant.com Overlooking the historic C&O Canal, we offer fresh seafood simply prepared in a relaxed atmosphere. beautiful fireside dining available Join us for Happy Hour, Mon.-Fri. from 5 to 7 pm, featuring $1 oysters and halfpriced drinks. Book your holiday parties now. Available for 20-300 people. Lunch Mon.–Sat. 11:30 a.m.–3 p.m. Dinner Mon.–Sat. 5–10 p.m.

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

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

2340 Wisconsin Ave., NW 202-333-5640 townhalldc.com Situated just north of Georgetown on Wisconsin Ave, Town Hall has been a neighborhood mainstay in Glover Park since 2005. Whether you’re popping in for dinner, drinks, or weekend brunch, Town Hall is the spot you’ll want to call home to Gulp, Gather & Grub. Free parking is available nightly after 7PM, and during warmer months, our outdoor courtyard is one of DC’s best kept secrets.

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Interior of Stetson’s restaurant, which will close Dec. 31. Photo courtesy Stetson’s.

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Tadich Grill Family Drama Comes to Light The daughter of one of the owners of San Francisco’s famed Tadich Grill, as well as its newly opened D.C. location, opened up to Washington Post columnist Lonnae O’Neal about being disowned by her family when they found out she was dating a black man. Terri Upshaw, née Buich, says she met Gene Upshaw, former Oakland Raiders guard and future Hall of Famer and executive director of the National Football League Players’ Association, in 1983 when she was 23. They dated for eight months before he asked her to move with him to Washington, D.C. She says that when her father found out that she planned to marry Upshaw, “He told me that’s it — you’re out of the family. Change your last name, and don’t ever call us again.” Gene Upshaw died of pancreatic cancer in 2008, but she has not heard from her parents or siblings since 1983 and they have not met her children. According to O’Neal: “Upshaw, who had never spoken publicly about the rift, says she is telling this story now, in response to a reporter’s query, because with the new restaurant, she is talking more to friends and ‘it sounds archaic,’ she says.” Following the story, Tadich Grill’s D.C. location was hit with numerous negative reviews on

Yelp, many of which have been removed by Yelp as “motivated more by the news coverage itself than by the reviewer’s own customer experience,” according to the site.

Penthouse Restaurant Proposed at 5th and I Developers of the hotel/apartment hybrid project on the city-owned site at 901 5th St. NW have submitted revised plans. They now propose 175 hotel rooms and 48 apartments, instead of the original 153 rooms and 52 apartments. They are also proposing a bar, cocktail lounge or restaurant in the penthouse area, requiring an exception to the District’s new zoning regulations, which are intended to allow only residential uses in penthouses. The Board of Zoning Adjustment will look at the proposals on Nov. 10. The development group, led by the Peebles Corporation, includes the Walker Group, MacFarlane Partners and Standard Group, with designs by WDG Architecture.

IN: Tail Up Goat Tail Up Goat, a new Mediterranean restaurant, will open early next year at 1827 Adams Mill Road NW. The venue is the product of Jon Sybert and Bill Jensen, Komi’s former sous chef and wine and beverage director, respectively; Jill Tyler, service director from Little Serow (and Sybert’s spouse); and investor

Kevin Doyle. The menu is inspired by southern Italian- and Sicilian-style cooking without being bound to a particular region or tradition. The name of the restaurant comes from a phrase that Sybert and Tyler heard in the Virgin Islands, used to distinguish between herds of grazing animals: Tail up, goat; tail down, sheep.

IN: Korean Spot Coming to 9th Street A new Korean restaurant is set to open on 9th Street NW. Thievery Corporation’s Eric Hilton and Toki Underground’s Erik BrunerYang are the owners.

OUT: DC Coast, Stetson’s — Both Gone After New Year’s DC Coast Restaurant, a trailblazer in terms of the culinary arts as well as urban renewal, so to speak, will serve its last meal on New

Year’s Eve. The restaurant at 1401 K St. NW opened in 1998 as Passion Food Hospitality’s top performer under co-owners Gus DiMillo, Jeff Tunks and David Wizenberg, who decided during lease talks with the building’s owner to shut the place and move on. At the same time, the group said that it plans to revive its Ten Penh Restaurant, which closed at 10th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue in 2011, at Tysons Corner in 2016. Another trailblazing restaurant, Stetson’s at 1610 U St. NW, will close by the end of 2015, according to the Washington, D.C., Eater blog, which added: “The building and the liquor license for the U Street bar has been sold to Douglas Development. Stetson’s team did not have any information about what might replace it (Eater had reached out to Douglas Development when rumors of closing surfaced).” Stetson’s was opened in 1980 by a retired police officer. It was the first Tex-Mex saloon in the nation’s capital and is considered U Street’s oldest neighborhood bar and grill.

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Cocktail of the Month: Candy Corn Martini B y Jody Kurash

alloween and the arrival of fall signify an array of delightful holiday pleasures. Whether you fill a bag of trickor-treat goodies or carve a pumpkin, it’s the spooky season of amusement. At one time, Halloween was mostly a child’s holiday, but those days are long gone. According to Fortune magazine, more money — $1.4 billion — will be spent on adult costumes than on children’s costumes (just $1.1 billion). Considering this trend, it’s not surprising that now there are now grown-up versions of your childhood delights. Being a chocoholic, my favorite girlhood Halloween memories involved foraging through my bag of goodies and discarding or trading all of my non-chocolate loot. Nowadays, my tastes have evolved from Mr. Goodbar and 3 Musketeers to Belgium’s finest. A sophisticated way to satisfy your cravings is a trip to Co Co. Sala chocolate lounge on F Street NW, where the cocktail list boasts a variety of chocolate-infused tipples, including a chocolate malted milk martini, the Libido, which comes with chocolate ice cubes, and the Apollo, prepared with 72-percent dark chocolate. Perhaps the candy most synonymous with Halloween is a bag of cone-shaped cloyingly sweet candy corn. Better Homes and Gardens magazine reports that George Renninger, a candymaker at the Wunderle Candy Company in Philadelphia, invented the revolutionary tricolor candy in the 1880s. When candy corn was

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first produced, it was called “Chicken Feed.” The boxes were illustrated with a colorful rooster logo and a tag line that read “Something worth crowing for.” According to the National Confectioners Association, more than 35 million pounds (or nine billion pieces) of candy corn will be produced this year. An adult version of this time-honored sweet can be found at Cuba Libre, on 9th Street NW. The restaurant’s Candy Corn Martini is formulated from a combination of vanilla vodka, butterscotch schnapps, crème de cacao and fresh orange juice, which are layered and served in a

triangular-shaped martini glass so it resembles the familiar sweet. Guillermo Pernot, Cuba Libre’s chef-partner, says, “The idea for Cuba Libre Restaurant and Rum Bar’s festive candy corn martini was inspired by everyone’s favorite Halloween candy, the classic candy corn, but then converting it into a fun seasonal drink … for adults.” As they say in Willy Wonka (quoting Ogden Nash): “Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker!” Another universal symbol of Halloween and fall is pumpkins. Making jack-o’-lanterns is a long standing ritual and pumpkins are also used to make soups, desserts, breads and pies. One of the most anticipated G-rated seasonal inventions is the artificially flavored pumpkin latte from a ubiquitous coffee chain. A far superior choice to quell your longings is the pumpkin spice margarita from El Centro D.F., in Georgetown and on 14th Street NW. The drink is forged from tequila that has been infused with roasted pumpkin and spices such as nutmeg, allspice, sugar and cinnamon. While these seasonal essences may seem an odd match for tequila, remember that the folks at El Centro are experts at marrying tequila with flavors. Their extensive list of tequila infusions includes grilled pineapple, serrano, lemon tea and strawberry basil. Another option, which combines pumpkin with another fall staple, apple, is the Oval Room’s Grim Fandango cocktail, named for the video game and made from a combination of

Gala apple cider, pumpkin puree, ginger root, honey, brown sugar, cloves, cinnamon stick and rum. Finally, to cure your holiday overindulgence ills, head to Macon Bistro and Larder on upper Connecticut Avenue for their Isle of the Dead cocktail, inspired by the classic Corpse Reviver No. 2. The Corpse Reviver family of definitive cocktails were intended as “hair of the dog” hangover cures. Popular during the late 19th and early 20th century, they began to die out after Prohibition. The Corpse Reviver No. 1 and No. 2 were first listed in the “Savoy Cocktail Book” by Harry Craddock in 1930. The Isle of the Dead is made from a combination of Damoiseau VSOP Rhum, Dubonnet, orange juice, Cointreau and Laphroaig Scotch. The combination of both rum and Scotch should pack a powerful punch — enough to scare the ghosts and goblins away until next year.

Candy Corn Martini 1 1/4 oz. vanilla vodka 1/2 oz. butterscotch schnapps 1/2 oz. crème de cacao 2 oz. fresh orange juice Pour a splash of grenadine slowly over a bar spoon for a layered effect. Garnish with candy corn.

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Horse Racing and Fun at James and Dolley Madison’s House B y Chuc k Bal dw in

he first Saturday in November means the Montpelier Hunt Races are running — as they have for the last 86 years. Set in the Piedmont foothills at the home of James and Dolley Madison, race day draws visitors from Washington, Richmond and all over Virginia for traditional hunt-country festivities. With the first post time 12:30 p.m., seven races are run: two on the flat and five over fences. Most of the races are more than two miles long and offer exhilarating views of equestrian action. Besides the main draw, other activities entice on race day — and not just for the well-dressed grownups in attendance. There will be Jack Russell Terrier Races near the flat track at 10:30 and Stick Horse Races for children ages 2 to 11. The children’s races will take place on the course in front of the race tower, but kids must enter at the Montpelier Tent by 11:15. The Tailgate Contest is also quite popular, with lots of prizes handed out. Judge and jury is Jerome Thalwitz, owner of the Bavarian Chef, a highly regarded German restaurant in business since 1974 on Route 29 north of Charlottesville. He’s looking for best use of a theme, best presentation, best taste and most fun. The contest is free, but let the office know in advance of race day. Chef Thalwitz will need to know where your spot is located so he can find and judge you, starting about 11 a.m. Bear in mind that no grills or open fires are allowed.

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One of the most entertaining non-horserelated events is the Hat Contest, for which the criteria are elegance and best race theme. There is a prize for groups, so put your heads together and cap them. Also on the racecourse in front of the tower, this contest occurs right after the finish of the second race. The sixth race is the premier race: a steeplechase run over Montpelier’s live brush fences. The seventh and last post time is 4:30. Vendor’s Row offers unique shopping opportunities, perfect for the holidays. Raceday souvenirs and merchandise are available at the Montpelier Museum Shop tent. The Montpelier estate, the lifelong home of our fourth president and first first lady — Dolley Madison is credited with defining the role — will be open at reduced rates for visitors who wish to experience the mansion, the other historic structures and archaeological sites,

special exhibits and the gardens and forest trails on the grounds. William DuPont purchased the Montpelier Estate in 1901 and made substantial changes, enlarging the house, renovating the gardens and adding additional outbuildings and stables. His daughter, Marion DuPont Scott, a fine horsewoman, inherited the property and turned it into a top thoroughbred breeding and racing facility. She opened the Montpelier Races to the public in 1929. The Montpelier Hunt Races will take place Nov. 7 at 11407 Constitution Highway, Montpelier Station, Virginia. Gates open at 9 a.m. and close at 6 p.m. Tickets at the gate are $20 and parking is $30. Tickets bought in advance start at $15, with $20 parking. To register for the Tailgate Contest, call 540-672-0014 or email info@montpelierraces.org. For more information and advance tickets, visit montpelierraces. org.

Attendees view the race action from the rail on the steeplechase course. Photo courtesy Montpelier Races.

FARAWAY FARM

Middleburg Area • $2,975,000

Solid stone home with copper roof on 70 acres • Original portions dating from the 1700’s • First floor bedroom & 3 additional suites • Original floors • 8 fireplaces • Formal living room • Gourmet kitchen • 2 ponds • Mountain views • Stone walls • Mature gardens • Pool • Primitive log cabin • Piedmont Hunt. Helen MacMahon & Ann MacMahon (540) 454-1930

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Marshall, Virginia • $1,475,000

Brick colonial on 22.56 gorgeous acres • Orange County Hunt • 4 BR • 4 BA • High ceilings • Wood floors • Grandly scaled rooms for gracious entertaining • 5 FP add warmth & charm • Covered veranda overlooks spectacular gardens w/ fabulous views • Library w/ custom bookcases • Family room w/vaulted ceilings • Separate guest suite • Sauna • Idyllic setting. Paul MacMahon (703) 609-1905

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Boyce, Virginia • $2,300,000

Hilltop setting with mountain views • circa 1904 Colonial home with 3 BR, 3 1/2 BA, high ceilings, note room dimensions • gourmet kitchen and 5 fireplaces • 90 x 200 covered arena • 12 total stalls • main barn redesigned by John Blackburn • 4 bay garage with apartment • 12 paddocks, asphalt drive, security gate and heated pool • 2DUR’s • Whole house generator. Paul MacMahon (703) 609-1905

KERFOOT HOUSE

Upperville, Virginia • $1,290,000

Circa 1810 Federal brick home with stucco wing • 4 BR • 3 1/2 BA • 6 FP • High ceilings • Beautiful woodwork & floors • Recently renovated • Lovely kitchen with new custom cabinets, Carrara marble countertops, Viking refrigerator, Bertazzoni gas range and slate floor • New baths, Carrara white marble floors • English period gardens, specimen plantings, mature boxwoods, grand setting. Paul MacMahon (703) 609-1905

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November 14 Cooking over Fire in Lovettsville

Nathaniel Davis, a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Leesburg, blends indie rock and alt-country sounds in a way reminiscent of Keith Urban, Jackson Browne and Jason Mraz. He will perform original material along with unique interpretations of classic numbers. For details, visit northgatevineyard.com. 16031 Hillsboro Road, Purcellville, Virginia.

End of Harvest Celebration at Greenhill Winery Greenhill celebrates the end of harvest with live music by Jason Paul Curtis and Swinglab. Guests can take farm tours and sample new wines, honey and beef from the Greenhill Estate. For details, visit greenhillvineyards.com. 23595 Winery Lane, Middleburg, Virginia.

November 10 Middleburg Biz Buzz The Middleburg Business & Professional Association will hold Biz Buzz, the association’s annual networking event, at the Middleburg Bank. For details, visit visitmiddleburgva.com. Tickets are $5 (free for members). 111 W. Washington St. Middleburg, Virginia.

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The Plains, Virginia • $1,900,000

Circa 1807 • 33 acres ideally located between Middleburg & The Plains • Rare quarried stone exterior, 10foot ceilings • Period mantels, original wood floors, two-story front porch • 3 bedrooms/3 baths, each a private suite • Historic stone barn includes one bedroom/ bath apt, heated tack room, 6 stalls • Carriage barn • 3 paddocks, large turnout field, run-in sheds, auto waterers • Whole farm generator • Pond • Orange County Hunt Helen MacMahon (540) 454-1930

PALMER’S MILL

Bluemont, Virginia • $785,000

Circa 1860 Virginia Farmhouse • House updated & enlarged in 2004 • 3 to 4 bedrooms • 2 1/2 baths • Hardwood floors • 3 fireplaces • Exposed beams & gourmet kitchen • 10 acres • Fenced & cross fenced • 2 stall barn with tack & hay storage • Spring house & smoke house • Protected with mountain views • Piedmont Hunt Territory. Paul MacMahon (703) 609-1905 Helen MacMahon (540) 454-1930

Mankind’s very first method of cooking is still one of our most cherished techniques. At this workshop on openfire cooking, participants will learn how to use ashes and get the sweet aroma of wood into every morsel. For details, visit patowmackfarm.com. 42461 Lovettsville Road, Lovettsville, Virginia.

African American Heritage Tour The Black History Committee of the Friends of the Balch Library is offering a heritage bus tour of historical African American communities in Leesburg, Waterford, Purcellville, Middleburg and Gleedsville, with a stop at Oatlands Historic House and Gardens. The tour will begin and end at the library. For details, call 703-606-3275. 208 W. Market St., Leesburg, Virginia.

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Still Life in Philly By R ichar d S e l de n ortraitist of Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Hamilton and other figures of the American Revolution, Charles Willson Peale raised a family of painters in Philadelphia, naming his sons Rembrandt, Raphaelle, Titian and Rubens and his daughters Angelica and Sophonisba (not a complete list). One of the major works in the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s new exhibition, “Audubon to Warhol: The Art of American Still Life” (on view through Jan. 10) is Peale’s group portrait of his family: nine peaches-and-cream-faced Peales, including himself; the children’s nanny; and his dog Argus. On the green tablecloth is a still life — a tray of fruit next to a paring knife and a curled apple peel (pun no doubt intended). On each side of this canvas, nearly seven and a half feet wide, are two small still-life paintings by Peale family members; nearby are classic still lifes by Raphaelle, one of the first American artists to specialize in the genre. His

father, like many artists before and since, considered flowers, fruit, cheese, cutlery, serving ware, wine bottles, dead fish and the like more a subject for artistic training than for finished works, despite the still-life obsessions of Dutch Golden Age painters (excluding Rembrandt and Hals). Grouping outstanding examples, many unfamiliar, in roughly chronological order under the thematic headings of Describing, Indulging, Discerning and Animating, the exhibition — the first of its kind in three decades — aims to make the case that, in the words of curator Mark D. Mitchell, “the story of American still life is the story of American life.” At several points, context is provided in inventive ways. Plate 26 from John James Audubon’s “Birds of America,” depicting now-extinct Carolina parakeets, is accompanied not only by several of the huge folio

Left: William Michael Harnett, “After the Hunt,” 1885. Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, gift of Henry K.S. Williams. Top: Andy Warhol, “Brillo Boxes,” 1964. Philadelphia Museum of Art, acquired with funds contributed by the Committee on Twentieth-Century Art and as a partial gift of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. Above: John James Audubon, “Carolina Parrot,” c. 1828. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, gift of Alma and Harry Coon.

volumes but by four specimens collected in 1843 and owned by Audubon, their colors — orange, yellow and turquoise — still bright. In the Indulging section, visitors can explore the language of flowers at “You In Flowers” interactive stations, which generate personalized (sort of) on-screen bouquets from self-submitted adjectives. Velvet curtains evoke the Gilded Age setting of William Harnett’s largest trompe-l’oeil (trick the eye) painting, “After the Hunt” of 1885, painted for the Paris Salon but purchased for Theodore Stewart’s extravagant New York saloon. Trained in Munich, Harnett was a genius

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at depicting feathers (dead game birds), fur (a dead rabbit), metal (two firearms and a hunting horn) and the life-size green door — with rusty ornamental hinges, a keyhole escutcheon and a dangling key — on which these and other precisely rendered objects appear to hang. The superb selection of trompe-l’oeil works in the Discerning section includes “Reminiscences of 1865,” the movingly subliminal tribute to Lincoln painted in 1904 by Harnett’s contemporary John Frederick Peto, which shows a black-and-white portrait of the president and various forgotten scraps of paper tacked to a wooden panel in which ABE and his birth and death dates are carved. The later works under the theme of Indulging (which overlaps with Discerning) show the influence of Japanese art, both directly — as in Robert Blum’s virtuosic “Flower Market, Tokyo,” of 1891–92 — and indirectly, by way of the French Impressionists. Finally, the galleries featuring 20th-century art give example after example of modernism’s embrace of the genre. By including works by modern masters with distinctive personal styles — Charles Sheeler, Georgia O’Keefe, Stuart Davis, Paul Cadmus, Andrew Wyeth, Jasper Johns — the curatorial team compels us to ask “How does this work fit into the American still-life tradition and what does it add to it?” Several of these works are sculptures, such as Andy Warhol’s seemingly trompe-l’oeil “Brillo Boxes” of 1964. Screen-printed on three wooden cubes, the piece actually proclaims its artifice through the imperfections of its handmade process. One of the most beautiful works in the show is by an artist, like Peale, with Philadelphia connections: Alexander Calder. “The Water Lily,” c. 1945, constructed from sheet metal and wire, is black with a gray base, as far as could be from the colorful flower canvases in the preceding galleries. The flat piece of metal representing the lily’s seed pod, punched with holes, would never trick the eye, yet it is instantly recognizable, a triumph of observation to rival Audubon’s.

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Irving Penn at the Smithsonian American Art Museum BY ARI POS T

n preparing to write a piece on a new exhibition, I often sit down with the catalogue after my visit and bookmark certain pages with cut-up bits of paper, on which I write little notes and reminders to myself. If someone were to stumble upon one of these marked-up catalogues, seeing it stuffed full of paper shreds with scribbled words — “Victor Hugo,” “divine bones,” “gothic horror!” — they might well believe its owner to have been a mild schizophrenic. But if someone found my latest catalogue, from the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s “Irving Penn: Beyond Beauty” (on view through March 20), theyʼd be staring down the barrel of something more akin to an art studentʼs nervous breakdown. Irving Penn is one of the most iconic photographers of our time. Both a commercial and arthouse sensation throughout a greater portion of the 20th century, he is among the rare breed of artists who successfully survived for his entire career in the narrow, highly combustible space between mainstream and critical popularity. Penn began as an art student in 1930s Philadelphia. After working as a freelance designer, he did a brief stint in 1940 as the artistic director of Saks Fifth Avenue, before dropping it all to spend a year traveling and taking photographs around the United States and Mexico (some of these shots are included in this exhibition). Returning to New York, Penn took a design position with Vogue magazine, where his director suggested he try working with photography. His first cover shot for Vogue hit the stands in October 1943. Penn was not quite 26 years old. Over the next sixty years, Penn took some of the most unforgettable photos of our time, with a meticulous eye that redefined and obliterated the perceived limitations of photography as art. He ran the gamut of fashion photography, commercial and advertorial work, portraiture,

photojournalism, formal studies of still lives and Romanesque nudes, and the lid-popping delirium of avant-garde experimentation. He composed and lit every subject with equally compulsive attention, from Truman Capote and Alberto Giacometti to used cigarette butts that he had his assistants pick up off the street. He played with chemicals and exposures in the darkroom the way a painter experiments with glazing mediums, extenders and stabilizers. His tones were rich and warm, and his manipulation of light and atmosphere bore such lush and striking contrast that his subjects seem to flower from seeds of darkness. As fine as his technique was, however, this isnʼt what made Pennʼs work so beloved and admired (any more than Picasso is remembered for his brushstrokes). There are a lot of technically talented photographers in the world.

It is the spirit of what he captured through his lens, the ineffable artistic matter of both beauty and relevance, that left such an indelible mark across the ether of American iconography. I suppose it is this that I am expected to decipher as a writer and an observer of fine art, but frankly Iʼm not sure that I can. So many artists attempt to do exactly what he did and fall short. To make work that is emotionally charged, aesthetically fresh, innovative and transfixing is a colossal achievement. To do it for over half a century is nearly supernatural. Penn could maneuver so deftly through such vast stylistic ranges it is mindboggling. In some cases, his still life studies — stacked marrow bones and steel blocks — are as buttery, geometric and tonally delicate as those painted by Giorgio Morandi. In others, such as in “Composition with Pitcher and Eau de Cologne” of 1979, they take on the overwrought bounty of 17th-century Dutch still-life traditions. His studies of muddy gloves and cigarette boxes buzz with the textural amplitude of Chuck Close's immense portraiture. His own portraits, however, range in style from nightmarish surrealism (“Two Rissani Women in Black with Bread”) to formal (his portrait of Giacometti is a master class in value study) to Winogrand-like cultural snapshots and smoky, dreamlike odes to women and haute couture (fashion has never looked better than through his lens). If there is a shortcoming to Pennʼs work, it is clear that he was better in a controlled studio setting, over which he could exercise his aesthetic governance, than the uncooperative, disorderly environment of the outside world. The few images within the exhibition of urban street scenes and natural environments — all of them from very early in his career — are oddly disconnected from their subjects. There is a mystifying painterly essence to his photographs. Your eyes traverse his terrains of texture, gradation and tone not like a typical photographic image — where you seek to gather the necessary informational content of “what is it?” — but with the nervous curiosity of a painted abstraction, for which we have trained our minds to seize esoteric intellectual feelings as literally as physical ballasts. In a nutshell, this is why my brain blew an art fuse. Not that I mind. In fact, itʼs one of the greatest meltdowns Iʼve ever experienced.

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Dumbarton Oaks, the Georgetownbased institute administered by the Trustees for Harvard University, will host a reception on Thursday, Nov. 5, in connection with “75 Years/75 Objects,” a yearlong exhibition in honor of the research library and collectionʼs 75th anniversary. The exhibition’s third installment (of nine), “Collecting,” will be on view through Nov. 29. Dumbarton Oaks focuses on the Byzantine and pre-Columbian periods and on garden and landscape design. The opening party for FotoWeekDC 2015 will be Friday, Nov. 6, at the Former Spanish Ambassador’s Residence, 2801 16th St. NW. This year’s event, with photography exhibitions and programs at multiple venues (including the Austrian Cultural Forum, which will hold an opening reception Nov. 5), runs from Nov. 7 to 15. The Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery — designed by James Renwick in 1859 as the home of the Corcoran — will reemerge after two years of renovations with a ribbon-cutting and an open house on Friday, Nov. 13. The first exhibition, “Wonder,” will feature nine site-specific works by artists including Tara Donovan, Maya Lin and Leo Villareal. Arthur Espinoza, Jr., managing director of the Washington Ballet, has been appointed executive director of the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities by Mayor Muriel Bowser. Shakira Segundo, the ballet’s CFO, will become interim executive director and Rosie Vergilio, the ballet’s marketing director, will become interim deputy director, a new position. Adam Immerwahr, associate artistic director of McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, has been named artistic director of Theater J, a program of the Washington DC Jewish Community Center. He will start Dec. 1. Former Theater J Artistic Director Ari Roth’s new company, Mosaic Theater Company of DC, opened its first production at Atlas Performing Arts Center on Oct. 29 (see page 26).

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Ambitious, Risky Start for Ari Roth’s Mosaic Theater By Gary T is chl er

t was a dark and stormy Wednesday night on H Street at the Atlas Performing Arts Center — an entirely appropriate atmospheric background for Ari Roth, in the midst of the last tech rehearsals, one day from the first preview performance and five nights from the opening of “Unexplored Interior.” The play, a world premiere, is the first production of Roth’s new Mosaic Theater Company. “It’s a little crazy, sure,” Roth said. “We’ve

got 20 pages of tech to do tonight, then it’s the first light of day for the play tomorrow, and we’re getting more demand for tickets than anticipated for the opening — so you have to deal with that, and that takes time away from other things.” The Mosaic Theater Company of DC was conceived as a theater with a serious and bighearted and big-minded mission: a commitment to “making powerful, transformational,

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socially-relevant art.” Still, the inaugural offering, “Unexplored Interior (This is Rwanda: The Beginning and End of the Earth),” by the instantly recognizable actor but first-time playwright Jay O. Saunders, looks both hugely ambitious and very risky. Roth didn’t bat an eye. “Sure, it is,” he said. “But what better way to open a new theater company in Washington than with a project like this, this wonderful, beautifully and dynamically written play that’s about a terribly important subject, about a genocide which the rest of the world tried hard to ignore. “Let’s face something: without risk, you don’t have drama, you don’t have theater. Risk is a part of the brand and business plan and so it is with this play. I’m proud to start with this play. It’s a profound and welcome challenge, and it speaks exactly to who and what we are,” he said. “I see it as a kind of valentine to ourselves, an expression of our aspirations.” Roth is not working completely without a net; there’s a great deal of participation from the D.C. theater community at large. Derek Goldman is directing the play and Serge Seiden, who is completing his work at Studio Theatre, has joined Mosaic as managing director and producer. In addition, Jennifer L. Nelson, formerly with the African Continuum Theatre and the Living Stage Theatre Company at Arena Stage, has signed on as Mosaic’s resident director. Still, “Unexplored Interior” is, for Washington audiences, unexplored territory — a big play about a 1994 genocide with deep roots in African and colonial history that took place in a relatively short and awesomely brutal time. The subject and the play, in all of its gestating forms, took up parts of some 20 years of Sanders’s life. The result is a kind of birth and culmination, the way plays can be for playwrights, of readings, reading concerts, workshops, long talks (with his wife, actress Maryann Plunkett, featuring strongly as inspiration and sounding board) and a kind of spooky tenacity. Sanders is a big presence when you meet him, and also a familiar one. “Jesus,” I said when he was introduced, “I just saw you last

night.” That moment of recognition speaks to the overly familiar aspects of series television, network and cable both, where Sanders has displayed his considerable gifts in various “Law and Order” incarnations, “True Detective” and, most recently, a recurring role in “Blindspot,” the NBC network thriller about a mysterious girl discovered in New York with her body covered in tattoos. An Arena Stage company member for a time, Sanders is familiar with the D.C. theater community, including Roth. He exudes warmth, passion and humor, a kind of intensity that doesn’t need a lot of noise. “My son James was born just a month or so before the genocide began, when I became aware of it, and how the world was responding — or not — to it. There was so much death. It was a horror, and I remember watching the news and the UN commander there, he looked so worn. And I think, the proximity of my son’s birth — he’s 21 now — awakened something in me and for years I couldn’t stop thinking about it. “So that’s 10 years. I read everything, I followed what happened and then at first I thought of it as a one-man thing. But you couldn’t tell the whole story that way. So it became something bigger, and you become aware how ignorant people have been about this. It was amazing and alarming how many people did not know about this. People can’t even find it on a map.” The play eventually emerged, full-bodied, full of characters: the play that made its debut here last Monday. “It’s been a remarkable experience for me, being there, and also having the play performed as a concert reading to mark the 20-year commemoration of the genocide,” he said. “It was streamed live to an audience of survivors and students at the Kigali Genocide Memorial in Rwanda.” Sanders went to Rwanda in 2004 to attend the 10-year commemoration and “bear witness to the land, the survivors and the remains of those who died. My goal in writing this play has been to honor the spirits of those we turned our backs on. To remember, to hear their voices, to recognize them as us.”

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Bowling for—and Hope for Henry Touchdown for Lombardi Gala PH OTOS B Y ROBE RT D E VA N E Y

BY M ARY BIR D , PH OTOS CO URTESY O F LO MBARDI G ALA

Hope for Henry — a non-profit set up to offer children with cancer a more normal living situation (with fun and games, too) at Children's National Medical Center and MedStar Georgetown University Hospital — held a Oct. 27 bowling benefit at Pinstripes on Wisconsin Avenue. Along with VIPs and the Georgetown Cupcake sisters, newcomer Sid Mashburn pitched in, too — and everyone had fun and great food.

The 29th Annual Lombardi Gala to benefit Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center was held at the Washington Hilton on Oct. 24. The evening began with a cocktail reception and silent auction followed by dinner, raffle, award presentations and dancing.

Charlotte, now a cancer survivor, with Laurie Strongin, executive director of Hope for Henry and mother of Henry who died of cancer in 2002, and Tommy McFly of 94.7Fresh FM.

Laura Evans, news anchor at Fox 5 news.

Franco Nuchese, owner of Cafe Milano, with Leon Harris of ABC 7 News.

Tripp and Amy Donnelly with Abeer and Yousef Al Otaiba, Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates, and Amy Baier.

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Ed Healton, executive vice president of Georgetown University Medical Center and executive dean of the School of Medicine; Lou Weiner, M.D., director of Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center; Devon Still, defensive tackle, free agent and NFL Players Association Georgetown Lombardi awardee; Paul Tagliabue, former commissioner of the NFL and vice president of the board of directors of Georgetown University

Gala co-chair Paul Schweitzer and his wife (winners of the Lexus raffle)

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OFFICE

Lou Weiner, M.D., director of Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center; DeMaurice "De" Smith, executive director of the NFL Players Association and honorary chair of the Lombardi Gala for the sixth year.

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Mayor’s Arts Awards

Arts for the Aging Gala Reception

BY MARY BIRD

BY MARY B IRD

“Creating New Horizons” was the theme of AFTA’s Oct. 27 event hosted at Society of the Cincinnati at Anderson House. The late Lolo Sarnoff, a Swiss-German artist, scientist, entrepreneur and philanthropist, founded AFTA to bring the arts and provide life-enhancing and innovative experiences to impaired, vulnerable and isolated older adults. Olga and Bob Ryan co-chaired the evening. The Phillips Collection Director Dorothy Kosinski presented the 7th Annual Sarnoff Award to Trish and George Vradenburg for their dedication to addressing the impact of Alzheimer’s disease and their lifelong engagement Gala Chairs Olga and Bob Ryan flank Allie Ritzenberg and AFTA Board Member Susanne Eisinger. in the arts. AFTA teaching artists provided entertainment.

The 30th Annual Mayor’s Arts Awards were held at the Historic Lincoln Theatre on Oct. 29. DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Chair Kay Kendall and Interim Director Lisa Richards Toney presented the first award for Impact on Culture and Humanities to Arena Stage Artistic Director Molly Smith. She said “This city is the juice that carries me forward.” Georgetowners Dr. Sachiko Kuno and Dr. Ryuji Ueno were awarded for Visionary Leadership. District Mayor Muriel Bower presented the Award for Lifetime Achievement to the tireless Peggy Cooper Cafritz, who enthused “The mayor has had the vision and has executed my dreams.” Young tap dancer Luke Spring received a standing ovation

Commission Member José Alberto Uclés, Richard de Sonier, Tom Noll, Peter Grant Honorees Trish and George Vradenburg, Lola Reinsch, Clayton Eisinger .

Embassy Series impresario Jerome Barry, Mark Ohnmacht

Hannah Sears, Fernando Battista

Julie Taymor and Dame Helen Mirren at the Harman Center for the Arts Annual Gala BY M ARY B IRD

“Imagine: Shakespeare” was the theme of the annual gala on Nov. 1. Chairman of the Shakespeare Theatre Company (STC) Board of Trustees Mike Klein presented the Sidney Harman for Philanthropy in the Arts to TM Zell Partners, Ltd. for their continuing support of STC’s programs. Dame Helen Mirren came specifically to honor Julie Taymor, who received the William Shakespeare Award for Classic Theatre from STC Artistic Director Michael Kahn. The performance began with selections from STC’s upcoming production of “Kiss Me, Kate” and was capped by original “The Lion King” cast member Tsidii Le Loka’s show-stopping rendition of John Lennon’s “Imagination.” Guests then continued on to the National Building Museum for dinner and dancing. The annual gala benefits STC’s many artistic and community engagement programs.

Mayor Muriel Bowser, Commission Member Rhona Wolfe Freeman.

Chair, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Kay Kendall with husband Jack Davies

The SAWA of D.C. Fashion Show Luncheon BY MARY BIRD

Councilmember Jack Evans, Dorothy and William McSweeny.

STC Artistic Director Michael Kahn, Dame Helen Mirren.

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Rita Roy, Loran Brueggen Aiken, STC Trustee Suzanne Youngkin.

Lynda Erkiletian, Michelle Delino.

SAWA held its 66th annual event at the Tyson’s Ritz on Nov. 30. Tony Perkins and Sue Palka of FOX 5 were returning emcees for the elegant, loyal supporters of programs that include Turning Point Center, which meets the needs of young homeless mothers and their children, as well as Camp Happyland, where children from low-income families can flourish. Outgoing SAWA President Debra Push expressed her appreciation to so many and especially Associate Area Commander Major Jacqulyn Reckline. Stylist Barbara McConaghy Johnson outfitted the stunning models with the latest fashions from Bloomingdale’s.

Incoming President of SAWA Susan Hayes Chrys Kefalas, Lynni Megginson, 94.7 Fresh - Long, outgoing President Debra Push. FM's Tommy McFly.

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CAG’s ‛Georgetown After Dark’ Shimmers The Citizens Association of Georgetown held its annual gala, “Bar 1878: Georgetown After Dark,” Oct. 23 at the Four Seasons Hotel. With neighbors and friends in the hundreds, food, drink and dancing ruled the night to the sounds of the BroadSide Sound band.

Ed Solomon with John Dreyfuss and Caroline Huh. Photo by Patrick Ryan.

John and Kristen Lever. Photo by Patrick Ryan.

Sally and Mark Ein, Michele Evans and Elizabeth Webster. Photo by Robert Devaney.

Newly engaged David Romm and Jennifer Altemus. Photo by Patrick Ryan.

Arthur and Margaret Heimbold. Photo by Patrick Ryan.

Will and Samar Langhorne with Kristin and John Cecchi. Photo by Robert Devaney.

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