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CLEVELAND PARK $5,995,000

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PHILLIPS PARK $3,595,000

Inspired by the estates of Brittany, France, this 6,900 sq ft residence was designed by Barnes Vanze Architects and newly built by Mauck Zantzinger & Associates. The property showcases luxurious finishes, spa baths, open kitchen and family room, high ceilings, and formal public rooms. Offers a 2-car garage and gardens.

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FLINT HILL FARM $2,995,000 15-acre country estate. Flint Hill Farm 1789 home renovated with over $4M in updates. Main home, over 11,000 sq ft plus 3 guest cottages and out building for the perfect family compound or business retreat. Spectacular views from the hand laid stone walls lining the drive to mountain view.

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WEST END $2,495,000 Stunning and spacious 2 BR, 2.5 BA residence in small elegant deluxe condominium. Unparalleled 2,700 sq ft home with sophistication and style in superlative condition. Ideal convenient location nearby Four Seasons Hotel. Open and airy corner unit is perfect for special entertaining and daily living in a private setting. Two garage spaces included.

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WESLEY HEIGHTS $729,000 Beautiful 2 BR, 2.5 BA home overlooking gorgeous gardens in luxury condominium. Fabulous 26 ft living room and big separate dining room. Lovely renovated kitchen with bay window. Very spacious, sunny unit with large balcony. Garage parking space, storage unit, and all utilities included. The famous Colonnade pool is now open.

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

Shows like a model home. Completely renovated in 2015 with over 7,000 square feet of top-of-the-line everything and a sunny and flat backyard. Walking distance to Churchill Elementary School. State-of-the art security, walnut hardwood floors, designer baths, chef’s kitchen, and dream worthy master suite.

Spectacular, expansive 10th floor penthouse in Terrell Place condominium, with 3 exposures including a 57’ wall of southfacing windows. 2,700 sq ft on one level, with 2 BR, a library + den, 2 full and 1 half baths, high ceilings, hardwood floors, and upgraded finishes and technology throughout. Easily accessed secure garage parking is available in the building.

This important offering has been meticulously maintained on all four finished levels. Features include a dramatic living room with 13’ ceilings, an open English style kitchen with exposed beams, and an exceptionally deep garden with sweeping views of Northwest Washington. One off-street parking space conveys.

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Councilmember Jack Evans Providing Congressman High School James Diplomas to DC General E. Clyburn Education Development-GED recipients.

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up & coming May 21 Strut Your Mutt Dog Parade and Festival The Bethesda Chevy Chase Rotary Club, in partnership with DC Actors for Animals, presents the 11th annual Strut Your Mutt Dog Parade and Festival, a fundraiser for its charity foundation. The event runs from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., with the dog parade starting at 10:45 a.m. After the parade there will be owner-dog contests, live music, over 30 dog-related exhibitors and animal rescue groups, as well as a kids’ area with moon-bounces and games. To learn more, visit strutyourmuttbethesda.weebly. com. Downtown Bethesda at Woodmont and Bethesda Avenues.

From Hives to Honey: An Educational Honey Tasting with Bee America

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Join Dumbarton House and Bee America to discover the history of bee keeping in the United States, and how honey is harvested and extracted from the hive. Sample a carefully curated selection of varietal and artisanal honeys paired with seasonal foods.

Receive tasting notes so you can show off your new honey tasting skills. To learn more, email programs@dumbartonhouse.

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May 22 Children’s Book Reading and Signing Sara Pascoe reads from “Oswald, the Almost Famous Opossum,” set in D.C. and Maryland. The titular character, Oswald, is

a fame-seeking opossum who must decide whether the promise of fame is more important to him than sticking by his friends. It’s a fantasy chapter-book for 7-9-year-olds with great educational details sprinkled in about language (Oswald is a poet) and fun facts about the different animal characters.

To learn more, visit upshurstreetbooks.com.

Upshur Street Books, 827 Upshur St. NW.

ethnic community at the Festival of Multinational Cuisine of St. Nicholas Orthodox Cathedral. The event is free. To learn more, email office@stnicholasdc.org. 3500 Massachusetts Ave. NW.

June 6 Paella Cooking Class

May 25 Historic Brews with Lost Lagers

The authentic Spanish restaurant, Taberna Del Alabardero, and executive chef Javier Romero will host a two-hour immersion session on cooking authentic tapas and paella at 6:30 p.m. Participants will learn how to select the finest and freshest ingredients to make two different tapas and a classic paella.

During the cooking class, guests will also have complimentary sangria or house wine as they taste the freshly made paella. All of the ingredients and materials will be provided. Ticket prices range from $144 to $180 per person. Two more classes will occur July 25 and Aug. 8. Visit alabardero.com for more information.

History lovers and homebrewers unite for this lecture and tasting with Mike Stein and Pete Jones of Lost Lagers. Mike and Pete share their research on the historic brews of Washington, D.C. area. Enjoy sipping their latest creation in the historic setting of Dumbarton House, built in the Heights of Georgetown in 1799. Learn about the process of researching historic brews and recreating recipes. Includes beer tasting and snacks. Guests must be over 21. Tickets are $30-$35. To learn more, visit dumbartonhouse.org. 2715 Q St. NW.

May 26 Landmark Lunch: Carol Joynt’s Q&A Café with Author Julia Reed Presented by the Tudor Place Landmark Society, author and journalist Carol Joynt returns to Tudor Place for an online broadcast of her Q&A Café with renowned food writer Julia Reed. Enjoy lunch under the elegant South Lawn tent and an early look at

Executive chef Javier Romero of Taberna Del Alabardero. Courtesy Taberna Del Alabardero. entertaining trends and tips in Julia Reed’s new book “South: Spirited Entertaining and High Style Fun All Year Long,” coming from Rizzoli in May. Tickets are $30 for members, $40 for non-members or two tickets for $70. For more information, email f herman@tudorplace.org or visit tudorplace.org. 1644 31st St. NW.

2nd Annual Rebloom On The Roof Join Room to Rebloom, an organization centered on the restorative impact of interior design, and cohosts Barry Dixon, awardwinning interior designer and principal of Barry Dixon, Inc., and Will Thomas, Emmywinning journalist and news anchor, for this second annual event. Silent auction items include a signature Thos. Moser Continuous Arm Chair, Framebridge custom frames, True Syrups gift basket, Southwest Airlines tickets and original artwork. Tickets are $125. To learn more, visit roomtorebloom. org. The Graham Georgetown, 1075 Thomas Jefferson St. NW.

May 27 A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor

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In his final performances hosting A Prairie Home Companion at Wolf Trap, Garrison Keillor — heard by nearly 4 million fans weekly — leads an ensemble cast through his radio variety show featuring comedy sketches, musical guests and Keillor’s signature monologue, “The News from Lake Wobegon.” Tickets range from $30 to $100.

To learn more, visit wolftrap.org. 1551 Trap Road, Vienna, Virginia.

June 4 Festival of Multinational Cuisine Enjoy traditional dishes from Russia, Georgia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Germany, Greece and the U.S. from D.C.’s multi-

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June 8 The Ambiguous World of Helder Batista: A Collection of Works Artist’s Proof will host Helder Batista in their Georgetown gallery for an evening of art and entertainment. Batista’s works focus on the problems of modernity, playfully exploring the themes of nonsense, consumerism and globalization. Batista, who works primarily in the sculpture medium, redefines found objects, skillfully playing with commonplace images or symbols, while imperceptibly drawing the viewer into a world where things aren’t quite what they seem. Open to the public. To learn more, visit aproof.net. 1533 Wisconsin Ave. NW.

June 9 ACDA Presents the National College Dance Festival The American College Dance Association presents the National College Dance Festival on June 9, 10 and 11 at the Terrace Theater at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The Festival presents 30 dances performed in three gala programs, with performances at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. daily. Each of the three programs features outstanding college and university dance.

To learn more, visit acda.dance. Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 2700 F St. NW.

Summer Concerts Head to the Bumper Car Pavilion the summer for evenings of great music. Bring a picnic or visit Praline at Glen Echo Park for dinner. Bench seating is provided and dancers are welcome. The event is free and will go on, rain or shine. To learn more, visit glenechopark.org/summerconWant to get your event listed? Visit Georgetowner.com and list your event on our calendar.

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D.C. Parking Meter Rates Set to Skyrocket D.C. parking meter rates are set to go up June 1, a lot. All will increase to $2.30 per hour. That’s a 30 cent increase in Premium Demand and Commercial Zones and it more than triples the cost of residential-area parking meters, currently $.75 per hour.

The District Department of Transportation stands to take an additional $2 million out of street-parkers’ pockets during the four months in fiscal year 2016 that the new rates will be in effect. The added funds are expected to help pay for the Metro system’s operations and deferred maintenance.

Noting the recent $5 increase in the cost of parking tickets in D.C., AAA Mid-Atlantic spokesman John Townsend said, “It is the latest case of motorists getting nickel and dimed for parking. … Now in two weeks, they will pay even more to park as parking meter rates jump more than 200 percent at some meters, and 15 percent at most.”

But there is some belief that the higher cost to park will increase street-parking turnover and relieve traffic congestion. According to DDOT: “The goal of good parking management is to regulate the parking assets (spaces) in a manner that ensures that a percentage of spaces are available at any given time for short term parking. This is vital for maximizing the potential flow of customers to the District’s retail and dining establishments.

Additionally, controlling congestion and improving traffic circulation are becoming increasingly important.”

Zoning: Renting Out the Extra Room to Get Easier

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Wednesday, May 18 GBA Board of Directors Meeting

Tuesday, May 31 Advisory Neighborhood Commission Meeting

The Georgetown Business Association will hold its monthly board of directors meeting at 5:30 p.m. at Carr Workplaces, 1050 30th St. NW. A networking reception follows at 6:30 p.m at Volta Bureau, 3414 Volta Place NW.

The June public meeting of the ANC 2E (serving Burleith, Georgetown and Hillandale) will convene on a Tuesday due to Memorial Day. The commissuon must meet before the Old Georgetown Board meeting. Georgetown Visitation Prep School, 35th St. NW at Volta Place, 6:30 p.m.

Sunday, May 22 Citizens Association of Georgetown’s Summer Concerts in the Parks

Georgetowner photo. to three in the home; and the property owner must live there and obtain a Residential Rental Business License.

Accessory dwelling units may also be built out of new and existing accessory buildings, both attached and detached — another loosening of the previous regulation, which only allowed existing structures to be converted — but only with a special exception, which will allegedly be easier to acquire than the previous variance required (though neighbors could still possibly block the exception if during a zoning hearing they can demonstrate that the unit would place an undue burden on them). Units in accessory buildings must also have dedicated access to the street. In addition to the dwelling units, homeowners may also have another garage, art studio or storage area on their property.

G.U. Move-Out Program Picks Up for Residents, Too “Need to do some spring cleaning?” asks Georgetown University’s Office of Neighborhood Life, which runs the school’s annual Move Out Drive — free for students and for residents of Georgetown. Through May 31, the university will pick up bulk trash as well as items for donation to local charities.

All items must have either a pink tag for charity donations or an orange tag for bulk trash. All pickups must be scheduled in advance. Pick-up days are May 20, 23, 24, 27 and 31.

Bulk trash consists of large items for disposal such as furniture and appliances. Charitable donation items may include beds, books, kitchen supplies, toiletries, clothes, couches, dressers and non-perishable foods. For more information, visit studentliving.georgetown. edu/off-campus/move-out-drive.

During the Move Out Drive last year, the Georgetown community donated more than $45,000 of goods — which prevented 32 tons of waste and filled 16 moving trucks.

The program, now in its 10th year, fits with Georgetown University’s mission, according to the university: “Applying the university’s social justice mission to this challenge, Georgetown partners with local charity KEYS for the Homeless to collect and donate these unwanted items, providing every-day basic household goods to meet real life needs of those living in poverty in the D.C. region.”

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These family-friendly events take place on Sunday evenings throughout the summer and feature great music, fun family activities and edible treats — even food trucks — at Volta and Rose Parks. Volta Park with Rebecca McCabe, 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., May 22. cagtown.org/concerts.

Tuesday, May 24 Citizens Association of Georgetown Annual Meeting The CAG will hold its Annual Awards and elect officers at its annual meeting. A new member reception begins at 6 p.m. with the main program at 7:30 p.m. Heritage Room at Georgetown Visitation, 1523 35th St. NW.

Wednesday, May 25 Georgetown Senior Center Reception The reception begins at 6:30 p.m. at 1300 30th St. NW. For details, contact Wendy Erlanger at 202-333-9348 or wendy.erlanger@comcast.net.

Thursday, June 2 Old Georgetown Board Meeting The Commission of Fine Arts and the Old Georgetown Board review projects at monthly meetings that are open to the public. They begin at 9:15 a.m. at 401 F St. NW, Suite 312.

Tuesday, June 14 Georgetown BID Annual Meeting The Georgetown Business Improvement District will hold its annual meeting at Sequoia Restaurant, 3000 K St. NW — 6 p.m. to 7 p.m., refreshments, light fare; program begins 7 p.m.

Wednesday, June 15 GBA 40th Anniversary Celebration Georgetown Business Association’s 40th Anniversary Party will be held at the Rosewood Hotel at 1050 31st St. NW. Its main honoree will be Rick Hindin, a founder of GBA and of Britches of Georgetowne.

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Hollen of Maryland have also sent federal letters to the FAA demanding changes.

Attorney General Appeals to FAA to Alter DC Water’s Brown-toNoisy D.C. Flight Paths Green Initiative District residents in Foggy Bottom and neighborhoods near Georgetown University, Canal Road and MacArthur Boulevard have been seriously and adversely affected by aircraft noise from new flight paths implemented by the Federal Aviation Administration for Reagan National Airport in 2015, according to a letter D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine sent to FAA Administrator Michael Huerta and FAA Easter Regional Administrator Carmine Gallo. The new low-altitude flight paths create early-morning noise and fly directly over neighborhoods and schools. Concerns about the noise have been expressed for several months.

Racine’s letter cites a precedent set in Long Island, New York, in 2013 in which the D.C. Circuit upheld an FAA decision to require helicopter flight paths to avoid residential areas, thus confirming that the FAA has the “authority to change flight paths in order to reduce the impact of aircraft noise on residents living below them,” according to the letter.

A coalition of community groups as well as Georgetown University have challenged the implementation of the flight paths in the D.C Circuit Court of Appeals. D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton and Rep. Chris Van

DC Water has another green initiative up its sleeve. The department has created a thermal hydrolysis process to recover biosolids from our city’s nutrient-rich wastewater and turn it into a product they call Bloom. Bloom is being provided to local partners to test by blending it with soil for use in gardening and landscaping. Not only is that green in and of itself, but DC Water is the first in the nation to take the main ingredient — i.e., the fecal matter in sewage — and harness it to produce a third of the electricity used by the wastewater treatment plant, which happens to be the city’s largest consumer of electricity. Made from the sterile byproduct of that process, Bloom is weed-free, drought-resistant and produced by you.

D.C. Hands Out Kits to Fight Zika More than 1,400 “Fight the Bite” anti-mosquito kits were handed out across the District recently in an effort to prevent the spread of the Zika virus. The kits, distributed by D.C. Department of Health officials, include insect repellant, mosquito dunks and male and

female condoms.

The Zika virus has been shown to cause major birth defects in babies born to infected pregnant women. “The primary concern of the Zika virus in D.C. and everywhere is for pregnant women,” said Dr. Anjali Talwalkar, senior deputy director of the Department of Health’s Community Health Administration.

The Zika virus typically shows no symptoms in non-pregnant infected people. The condoms are included in the kit because it can also be transmitted through sexual activity. Four D.C. residents have been reported to have the virus, and all have recently travelled to Zika-infected regions, which include Central and South America, Mexico and the Caribbean.

Mosquito dunks can kill larvae for up to 30 days when placed in standing water, where mosquitoes are born. They are organic and do not harm any other wildlife, or humans, when used correctly.

D.C. residents can pick up a kit from the Department of Health. Another handout event is scheduled for July 16.

DOEE to Create Green Infrastructure Credits Under a D.C. Department of Energy and Environment program intended to incentivize the voluntary installation of runoff-reducing green infrastructure, the Stormwater Retention Credit Purchase Agreement Program will allow the selling and trading of credits by property owners and investors in new projects within the area of the city that drains into bodies of water. While the program may increase investors’ confidence in investing in green projects, it also allows new large development sites to skirt up to 50 percent of the stormwater management regulations that went into effect in January 2014.

The DOEE has pigeonholed over $12 million for the purchase of SRC credits from private parties, educational institutes, faith-based and nonprofit organizations over a 20- to 30-year life cycle, with $500,000 reserved to support technical and outreach work to help identify cost-effective green infrastructure sites.

The program is intended to add “a marketshaping incentive for projects to be located in areas that provide the greatest benefit to District waterbodies,” according to a DOEE press release. The annualized program will

allow the department to pay out much of its funding in the first few years, then reimburse itself by selling the credits to future regulated development projects.

‘Y.U. Parcthar’?: DMV Warns of Ticket Scam The District of Columbia’s Department of Motor Vehicles is alerting people to an email scam that demands money for unpaid parking tickets from unsuspecting car owners.

DMV adds in its alert that it does not issue tickets. That job is left to the D.C. Department of Transportation and police departments operating within Washington, D.C. — including the Metropolitan Police Department, the U.S. Capitol Police, the U.S. Park Police and the U.S. Secret Service Police. Neither is there a so-called “D.C. Parking Authority.”

The following is the message D.C. DMV issued to the public: Residents of the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area are cautioned to be aware of a phishing scam to collect money from past due tickets. With this scam, customers receive an email that has “Notice of Overdue Parking Violation(s)” in the subject line. In the email, customers are asked to pay the past due fines and a late fee immediately with the threat of their vehicle being impounded; then, they are directed to a dot com website.

DC DMV contacts customers via email if they have registered for DC DMV’s email ticket alert system. Then, they will receive an email notifying them to log into their account when there is an update.

Additionally, legitimate Notices of Unpaid Parking Tickets from the District of Columbia Department of Motor Vehicles are mailed to customers via the United States Post Office.

The notice contains specific information on how to contest the ticket by submitting a request for adjudication and includes the agency’s website address, which is dmv.dc.gov.

Also, customers are encouraged to carefully read the letter for other clues that it is a scam.

For example, the scam letter is supposedly issued by the “DC Parking Authority.” There are more than 30 agencies that issue tickets, and there is not an established “DC Parking Authority.” Correspondences issued from DC DMV will not be signed, “Y.U. Parcthar,” and they do not have the tag line, “We Ticket, You Pay,” as DC DMV does not issue tickets.

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ANC Report: Departures, Oppositions Metropolitan Police Department reported that the April 24 death of Georgetown student Edward Blatz, Jr., involved no foul play and that MPD was investigating a robAt the May 2 ANC meeting: commissioners Reed Howard and Tom Birch, former bery at Dolcezza at executive director Leslie Maysak and commissioners Ron Lewis, Bill Starrels, 1560 Wisconsin Ave. Ed Solomon, Kendyl Clausen and Monica Roache.

NW. Citing late night The Advisory Neighborhood Commission noise and disturbance, commissioners unani2E met May 2 at Georgetown Visitation Prep mously protested Malmaison's liquor license and welcomed new executive director Ron renewal application. They unanimously Sacco. At the same time, commissioners opposed a Board of Zoning Adjustment applihonored departing executive Leslie Maysak cation at 3000 M St. NW for a roof deck, and commissioner Kendyl Clausen, who had formerly the Latham Hotel property. They did to resign as she is graduating Georgetown support a zoning application by 3015 P St. NW University and heading to Yale Law School. for a one-story addition.

Commissioners authorized Rick Murphy to Commissioners got into a bit of pickle as represent ANC 2E at the Board of Zoning residents and architects got into sharp disAdjustment. Also, At-large council member agreements about work and plans for 3420 P Elissa Silverman addressed the room and St. NW. One neighbor loudly complained of spoke of her work on campaign finance workers parking in his driveway and a longreform, family leave for District workers and sitting dumpster — among other comments. other programs.

Crime Report May 12 — Theft, 6:04 p.m., 3000 - 3099 block of M Street NW; Theft 9:35 p.m., 2400 2499 block of Pennsylvania Avenue NW; Theft 11:57 a.m., 800 - 899 block of New Hampshire Avenue NW; Theft 8:01 p.m., 3200 - 3275 block of M Street NW; Theft, 10:14 p.m., 3200 - 3275 block of M Street NW; Theft 9:11 p.m., 1200 - 1229 block of Potomac Street NW; Theft 1:27 p.m., 1000 - 1199 block of 33rd Street NW. May 11 — Theft 6:32 p.m., 2200 - 2299 block of M Street NW; Theft 1:34 p.m., 1000 1099 block of 23rd Street NW; Theft 7:04 p.m., 3200 - 3275 block of M Street NW; Theft 5:35 p.m., 3200 - 3275 block of M Street NW. May 10 — Theft 10:32 a.m., 2400 - 2499 block of N Street NW; Theft 02:41 p.m., 3200 - 3275 block of M Street NW. May 9 — Theft 4:24 p.m., 3300 - 3399 block of Prospect Street NW. May 8 — Robbery with Knife at 10:02 p.m., 3500 block of 34th Street NW.

May 7 — Burglary 10:28 a.m., 1500 - 1548 block of Wisconsin Avenue NW. May 6 — Theft 05:51 PM 3000 - 3049 block of M Street NW; Theft 08:04 AM 2800 - 2899 block of M Street NW; Robbery with Gun, 4:07 a.m., 1200 - 1225 block of 28th Street NW; Assault, 7:34 p.m., 1200 - 1299 block of 23rd Street NW; Robbery-Snatch 5:47 p.m., 200 block of L Street NW; Robbery 2:46 a.m., 1700 block of H Street NW; Robbery, hold-up with gun, 2:35 a.m., 1200 block of 28th Street NW. May 5 — Theft 9:59 p.m., 3200 - 3275 block of M Street NW; Assault with Intent to Rob, 11:01 p.m., 1300 block of 21st Street NW; Street Closures in Conjunction with Police Activity 1200-1400 blocks of 22nd Street NW, 2000-2300 block of M Street NW and New Hampshire Avenue 22rd Street and Ward Place and 1200 block of 22nd Street NW; Theft 4:53 p.m., 1200 - 1237 block of Wisconsin Avenue NW.

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being an invader from D.C. (where her business is located). She told the Washington Post she rented out the property. According to her Financial Disclosure Report from the House of Representatives Ethics Committee, she received an income of $5,001 to $15,000 for the current year to filing (1-1-2015 to 3-152016), but the previous year she reported nothing. Zip. Zilch. Zero income. In addition to that whole mess, Bennett ran for Congress in the 10th District in Virginia, but numerous sites report that she no longer lives there and is in fact renting an apartment in McLean.

Good thing Bennett didn’t win the election against Rep. Barbara Comstock (R-Va.) or else her mess would be a whole lot messier.

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The Boss Goes Newsy

With all the White House Correspondents’ Dinner hype, you may have missed this one: Bruce Springsteen, the Boss himself, was in town last month for the nuptials of ABC’s Ali Weinberg, a journalist whose dad is drummer for the E Street Band, and CNN’s Josh Rogin.

The Washington Post reported that it was quite the eclectic mix that attended — Wolf Blitzer and Steve Van Zandt to name two.

Wonder what the topic of conversation was.

Georgetown: Neutral Ground?

Kathleen Matthews, who recently ran for Congress as a Democrat in Maryland (and lost to State Senator Jamie Raskin) hosted a fundraiser on N Street, as did Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.). Georgetown — we ignore and cross state lines! Maybe they consider us neutral ground?

Residence Juggling by Former Rep.’s Ex

Former Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.) has moved out to the good old ’burbs. While he’s living the good life relatively out of the public eye, his ex-wife, LuAnn Bennett, spent the last few months getting harangued by the GOP about the condo she rents at the Ritz Carlton on 22nd Street. Republicans accused her of

At the U.S. Capitol in 2009: thenSpeaker of the House Nancy Pelosi with LuAnn Bennett and then-husband, Rep. Jim Moran of Virginia.

Publicists Skip WHCD, Pledge Allegiance to Bieber

Everyone knows the White House Correspondents’ Dinner weekend is the hottest ticket in town, but not this year for publicists Erika Gutierrez and Victoria Michael.

The self-described “Beliebers” said, sorry, but baby baby baby ohhh, we have to go to see Justin Bieber in concert at the Verizon Center April 30. Just think really hard about it, ladies, if you choose to get a new face tattoo a la Bieber.

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Leave Tipped Earners’ Wages Alone

Secured: $20 Million for the Arts and Humanities

By Jack Evans

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n April, Mayor Muriel Bowser released her proposal to raise the base wage for tipped workers gradually through 2022, when it would be set thereafter at half the minimum wage (which she also proposed to gradually increase to $15 by 2020).

The proposal, called “Fair Shot,” is her response to President Obama’s call to raise the national minimum wage. It is intended as a progressive move, to make sure that low-wage workers are paid fairly.

However, the proposal has garnered almost no fans in the restaurant industry, from waitstaff to owners. As the system currently works in D.C., tipped workers are paid a base wage of $2.77 per hour (the “federal tipped minimum wage” is $2.13), with the remainder of their pay coming from diners’ tips, usually 15 to 20 percent of the cost of a meal.

If the sum of these two does not meet the minimum wage, averaged over a week, the employer must make up the difference. But in most cases the base pay plus tips is well above the minimum wage, around $17 to $22 nationally, and the majority of restaurants report that they have never had to make up the difference.

If the base pay is raised, that pay comes directly out of a restaurant’s bottom line. The average restaurant operates on a 5- to 10-percent profit margin, with labor already accounting for 30 percent of expenses.

That translates to higher menu prices, reductions in staff size and hours and more strain on remaining staff. In areas where the base pay has been raised to the minimum wage, workers have reported lower tips overall (since consumers may believe that tips are no longer as important).

All of this leads to less server attention, a lower quality dining experience, narrower or non-existent margins and the closing of businesses that are now barely profitable or unprofitable.

“My payroll will skyrocket — fast-forward to a $15-per-hour minimum wage. I can’t afford it,” said Billy Martin, owner of Martin’s Tavern. From dishwashers to managers, there will be a domino effect, with each job category in the pecking order seeking a higher wage than the other, he said.

The tipping system for restaurant servers has worked for over a century, with many people having lifelong careers in the field. Their pay is merit-based, and those that are good at it make a good living. City and state governments should not mess with a system they clearly do not understand well. There is the risk of upending untold livelihoods, from the lower-wage workers to the high-end waiters and waitresses to the owners and investors — not to mention the impact on the increasingly high quality dining options in the District. Menu prices would go up, worker pay and profits would go down and eventually owners will close existing restaurants and stop investing in new ones.

This legislation does no one any good, including those it is meant to help. Tipped workers are already covered by the District’s minimum wage laws. Leave well enough alone.

For the past several years, I have pushed my colleagues to increase arts funding to the $20 million level, allowing the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities (DCCAH) to fully achieve its goals and help keep the District a vibrant and, more critically, affordable bastion for the arts.

I’m particularly pleased that I was able to finally secure $20 million to help support arts education for our children, artists across the city and the diverse community that makes Washington the most dynamic city in the country.

This year, the initial budget amount was only $15 million. This significantly increased level of funding will go toward underwriting art projects, paying local artists for their work and expanding arts programs in our schools and neighborhoods.

Budgets are about priorities. As many of you know, the arts have long been a high

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midst the political turmoil of our time, we are coming up once again to Memorial Day, that mid-year break that has become a mixed bag and mixed signal in our American lives.

With it, we formally — with martial, but also sorrowful, pride — commemorate and memorialize those who fought (and, more pointedly, sacrificed their lives) in our country’s many wars. Our nation was given birth out of a war of independence and has continued from that beginning to fight wars that preserved our freedom, expanded our frontiers, pitted us against ourselves in the Civil War and expanded our roles and responsibilities in the world.

We fought in two world wars, at the end of which we emerged as the world’s greatest power, and a nuclear one. We have fought farflung wars since then, in Asia, in the Middle East, in response to threats and attacks.

Memorial Day grew out of a Union soldiers’ group’s desire to haves a Decoration Day for the graves of Union soldiers in 1868.

For many years, it has been celebrated in towns and cities across the country, in every place where the fallen have been laid to rest, or their sacrifice has been noted in town squares, in parks and cemeteries.

Always, there are parades of soldiers, often in the uniforms of long ago of varying fashion and color, from all branches of our

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military establishments. There are bands and cars and SUVs and jeeps of dignitaries. And there are beauty queens riding in convertibles and congressmen and senators and retired generals and war heroes with medals.

In the smaller towns across America, there are speeches and ceremonies, picnics and games. Memorial Day in this way also signals the beginning of summer, when school is out and the first football practice seems a long way off. All across America, for reasons that remain somewhat mysterious, mattress and furniture stores and car dealerships hold hugely advertised sales.

Memorial Day is special in Washington, D.C. The national cemetery for the fallen is here, and there is a section of the National Mall that seems reserved solely for the memorializing of the conflicts we fought in. The war memorials vary from the almost forlorn presence of the World War I Memorial, to the splendid, historic, wreathed and fountained World War II Memorial, to the clean sheen of the Vietnam Memorial, to the sculptures of the lone infantry company struggling in the barren Korean landscape.

The World War II, Korean and Vietnam memorials are especially resonant because we are among the survivors. The ceremonies and the landscapes there change a little every year: there is a kind of thinning out always present as the World War II vets dwindle in

number, appearing more frail and vulnerable, like ghosts from another time. The Vietnam vets still search for missing comrades, still ride in on roaring motorcycles, but are also now visibly a part of the Baby Boomers, many tanned and tattooed, grizzled, bare-armed, carrying regimental insignias. The Korean War vets remain stuck in between, slightly younger than the Greatest Generation, quite a bit older than the ’Nam vets.

The same things happen all the time: the swaggering marchers, the high school bands, the batons thrown high in the air to catch the light, the memories, the history, the family of man on the Mall, the concerts, the reunions and old stories told over a picnic table. Every year, many go missing, the muster call marked by spots of silence.

This is what happens here: you see a man dressed as George Washington get out of a cab; you see an elderly man with medals, a D-Day veteran, wander among the fountains, being saluted by children; you see the big flags draped on the grass. Once you saw a Vietnam vet, blue jeans, sunglasses, with a striped shirt and a regimental cap, kneel and stare at a name on the wall and touch the name. And suddenly his whole body was shaking.

It was some days and a while ago, on Memorial Day. But then, if you live here and roam, every day is Memorial Day.

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subsidy to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority as we continue to reform and restore our transit system; and will continue to invest more than a quarter of our funding in education.

In addition, I was able to continue the tax breaks that the Council passed in 2014. To balance our needs as a city with the return of our increasing revenues to taxpayers, the tax cuts will be implemented as we hit new revenue levels. Recently, we enacted a cut to our unincorporated business franchise tax and an increase in the estate tax threshold.

These cuts follow earlier reductions in lowand middle-income personal tax rates and an expansion in the Earned Income Tax Credit, among others.

We continue to fund our priorities, improve our city and strengthen our finances.

The work never ends, but we’ve made great strides over the past 25 years.

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priority of mine to make our city more livable, our education system more robust and our community more diverse. All three of my triplets benefitted from exposure to the arts at a young age. As my daughter Christine finishes her first year at the Parsons School of Design and my son John finishes his freshman year studying art at the University of Pennsylvania, I’m proud that, as a city, we’re able to fund arts programming that will allow even more children to receive similar exposure.

(In case anyone is wondering, my daughter Katherine just finished her first year at Elon University. She isn’t studying art, but I couldn’t be more proud of her!)

While increasing funding for the arts has long been a priority for me, it’s worth noting this is less than two-tenths of one percent of our budget for the upcoming year. There are many other priorities in our budget that I’m pleased will be funded.

As I previously wrote in these pages, the District’s budget once again allocated $100 million to the critical Housing Production Trust Fund; committed our full operating

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In: Resource Furniture

Resource Furniture, the modern home furnishings showroom specializing in Europeandesigned, space-saving furniture, opened its 2,097-square-foot Georgetown showroom at 3340 Cady’s Alley, NW. Since 2000, Resource Furniture has imported and distributed modern, space-saving furniture from European designers.

Its product line encompasses a selection of highend, Italian-made Murphy beds, bunk beds, freestanding sofa/wall-bed systems, closet and storage systems and workspace solutions. Resource Furniture also offers a full line of Italian sofas and sectionals, tables, seating, office furniture and more. This is its first D.C. store.

Resource Furniture co-owners Steve Spett and Ron Barth, along with manufacturer-designers Pier Luigi Colombo and Roberta Colombo, will be at the Cady’s Alley store’s grand opening May 12.

Popping Up: District Doughnut, ModCloth District Doughnut announced last month that the company is about to pop up at 3327 Cady’s Alley NW, known more for its furniture and design stores. The popular doughnut baker serves fresh, handcrafted doughnuts with creative flavor combinations, such as fluffernutter and chocolate crème brûlée. Founded by two D.C. natives, the company opened its first store in 2014 on Barracks Row. ModCloth, the fun-inspired clothing online business, is setting up a real store for a bit of June at 1626 Wisconsin Ave. NW, in the space once occupied by Urban Chic. Founded in 2002, the online clothing brand — with swimwear, retro designs (plus-sizes included), accessories and home items — will be in Georgetown from June 9 to June 25, according to Washingtonian.

Second Time Around Celebrates Move With Becky’s Fund In the former Wink space at 3109 M St. NW, Second Time Around — the upscale consignment shop headquartered in Boston — took

time to celebrate with a sip-and-shop benefit for Becky’s Fund, the nonprofit that fights against domestic and partner violence.

invites Georgetown residents and others to stop by to enjoy the festivities, experience the bright, popping colors and shop the latest Lilly styles.

In: Violet Boutique Violet Boutique has moved from 18th Street in Adams Morgan to 3289 M St. NW, the space that once held Second Time Around. The space, next to Spike Mendelsohn’s hamburger joint, Good Stuff Eatery, makes for a larger boutique — which is in its fifth year, striving for an eclectic mix of women’s clothing. They say, “Violet provides a unique boutique shopping experience with prices that won’t break the bank.”

Joann Ryan, Second Time Around’s vice president of stores, Juliet Campana, store style manager, and Beck Lee, president and founder of Becky’s Fund.

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In: Lilly Pulitzer Opens Friday On Friday, May 20, Lilly Pulitzer, the flowery chain of boutiques, is going to paint the town pink with the grand opening of its new D.C. location at 1079 Wisconsin Ave. NW, near the intersection of Wisconsin Avenue and M Street. Hours are 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. The celebration for the opening will include drinks, sweets and music — not to mention the iconic Lilly jeep, parked out front for everyone to enjoy. The store

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AG Bell Celebrates 125 Years, Alexander Graham Bell and Innovation

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he yellow Beaux-Arts building at 35th Street and Volta Place, built in 1893, has been opening up more to its neighbors — especially now, as AG Bell, also known as the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, celebrates 125 years of Bell’s laboratory in Georgetown.

One of America’s greatest inventors — yes, of the telephone — Alexander Graham Bell lived in Georgetown with his family. Here was and is a confluence of innovation, research and education.

At a Georgetown Business Association reception May 18, business leaders are meeting at the Volta Bureau to learn of the legacy of Bell and the ongoing work of AG Bell. Through advocacy, education, research and financial aid, the nonprofit continues Bell’s efforts by helping

AG Bell CEO Emilio Alonso-Mendoza and Sara Grosvenor, the great-granddaughter of Alexander Graham Bell.

Left: Volta Bureau. Upper right: Alexander Graham Bell. Courtesy Wikimedia.

families, health care providers and education professionals understand childhood hearing loss and the importance of early diagnosis and intervention.

Bell founded the organization originally as the Volta Bureau in 1887 “for the increase and diffusion of knowledge relating to the deaf.”

Indeed, it was the money from his Volta Award from France that helped start the laboratory.

The first hands on the shovel at the main building’s groundbreaking ceremony were those of Helen Keller, a Bell protégé.

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Bell’s mother and wife were deaf. His father, Alexander Melville Bell, was a professor and researcher in elocution and physiological phonetics who created Visible Speech, which helps the deaf learn to talk. It was Bell’s interest and work on hearing devices for the deaf that led him to invent and patent the telephone.

But Bell wasn’t the only groundbreaking inventor in Georgetown. The roots of IBM and the birthplace of the computer can be traced to 31st Street, next to the C&O Canal, where Herman Hollerith’s Tabulating Machine

Company was located. That company merged with others to become International Business Machines — IBM. In Georgetown, technology firms continue to thrive, with Palantir Technologies and EverFi headquartered here and the launch of forward-thinking initiatives like StartupHoyas at Georgetown University and the S&R Foundation’s Halcyon Incubator.

The D.C. government is midway through its second month-long technology initiative, innoMAYtion, which aims to provide resources to 500 disadvantaged small businesses. “Through innoMAYtion, we look to shine a light on the innovative ideas, policies, and programs that are improving our most underserved communities, tackling our city’s challenges, and giving every Washingtonian a fair shot,” said Mayor Muriel Bowser in a statement.

AG Bell’s 125th anniversary gala will be held Sept. 29 to celebrate Bell and his Georgetown nonprofit — appropriately enough at the National Geographic Society, of which he was president. One of the awardees at the gala will be Gilbert Grosvenor, who retired as chairman of the society in 2011. A committed advocate of innovation, Bell also served on the boards of such Washington institutions as the Smithsonian and the Cosmos Club.

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ANC Not Happy with Bank Site Proposal At a March 2 Advisory Neighborhood Commission 1C meeting, commissioners expressed displeasure with a property developer’s proposal to build a mixed-use development at the 1800 Columbia Road SunTrust site that will eliminate most of the plaza in the Adams Morgan neighborhood.

Based on renderings of the project, the remaining pedestrian area of the plaza would consist of a few benches and be too small to continue hosting the farmers’ market on Saturdays in the summer and fall.

“I personally am committed to ensuring that it does not move forward as they have planned,” said Commissioner Billy Simpson.

Interior of L8 Lounge, which recently opened its doors on 15th Street. Courtesy L8.

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L8 (pronounced late) opened last week, boasting a 3,000-square-foot venue with two bars and large chandeliers. The nightclub is the brainchild of Antonis Karagounis, the man behind the popular Echostage, Ultrabar and Barcode.

Hillary Clinton’s Washington, D.C., campaign now has a District leadership team. They will be led by Adam Parkhomenko, who will be the district director. Parkhomenko founded Ready for Hillary, a national grassroots effort to encourage Clinton to run for president.

Other team members include District Political Director Richard McDaniel who was previously Southern regional political director for Hillary for America and political director for Nunn for Senate and the Georgia Democratic Party.

District dwellers may remember McDaniel as national organizer for the SEIU. LaDavia Drane will be special advisor for the Dttistrict leadership team. Drane is a Ward 4 resident and previously spent time working in Mayor Muriel Bowser’s administration. She was also the executive director for the Congressional Black Caucus and currently is Hillary for America’s national African American outreach director.

Fine Leather Goods Feted at Spring Collection Reception Shinola previewed its new spring women’s leather collection with directors John Truex and Richard Lumberton last week. D.C.’s elite, like Independent Journal White House correspondent Kate Bennett, PYPO editor-inchief Elizabeth Thorp, and Veluxe founder and CEO Susanna Quinn sipped margaritas as they browsed.

Upcoming Metro Shutdowns If you’re planning on staying out late this summer, you may want to download the Uber and Lyft apps to you phone. On June 3, Metro will close at midnight seven days a week, after previously staying open until 3 a.m. on Friday and Saturday nights. Red and Green Line riders take note: there is scheduled track work on your lines during the week. Until 3 p.m. each day, trains originating at Silver Spring will turn back to Farragut North. There is also scheduled track work between Medical Center and Friendship Heights. Work on the Green Line is between Anacostia and Southern Avenue.

The next few weekends will continue to be filled with track work. May 21 and 22 will see work on the Red Line with single tracking between NoMa Gallaudet and Fort Totten, and a complete shutdown from Stadium Armory to Minnesota Avenue and Addison Road.

Those sticking around for Memorial Day weekend will see a weekend shutdown of the Orange Line from East Falls Church to Vienna and McLean.

was lost when her purse was stolen a number of years ago, she was unable to fly.

On Tuesday, Mayor Muriel Bowser announced changes in D.C. law, which will allow Washington residents over 70 to more easily acquire a photo ID in the District, even if they lack the usual documentation required.

The idea behind the “common sense” regulation is that elderly residents shouldn’t be punished for being unable to provide birth certificates, which may never have been issued, from states they left decades previously.

McLaurin was born in segregated South Carolina in 1909. “I don’t know if they even had birth certificates back then,” McLaurin commented.

Vida Fitness Celebrates 10th Anniversary Vida Fitness will celebrate 10 years in the District with a Diamond Anniversary Party at 1612 U St. NW this Saturday evening.

Congratulations to the fitness club on a decade of making Washingtonians healthy.

Maria Shriver to Host Body and Mind Workout for the Ladies Former California first lady and journalist Maria Shriver will bring her “Move for Minds” experience to Equinox health clubs nationwide, Saturday, May 21, to support Alzheimer’s disease research. At the 22nd Street location, CNN’s Pamela Brown will emcee with marketplace participants, Marilyn Albert, M.D., Norah O"Donnell of CBS News, Pamela Peeke, M.D., and Anne Tumlinson, founder of Daughterhood.

Expect to sweat with two 45-minute fitness activities featuring cardio and yoga, followed by talks on brain health.

Elderly White House Dancer to Get ID to Fly

Shinola previewed its spring women’s leather collection. Courtesy Shinola.

Thanks to recent legislative changes in the district, Virginia McLaurin will finally be able to take to the skies. McLaurin captured the hearts of millions of Americans in February when a video was released by the White House showing the 106-year-old dancing with President Obama and the First Lady while on a visit to the residence to commemorate Black History Month.

Because of her new-found national attention, the spritely McLaurin was invited to events across the country, but without an ID, which

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‘Raise/Raze’ Rolls into Dupont Underground

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rom the sunny beach to the shadowy underground. The hundreds of thousands of plastic balls from the National Building Museum’s “The Beach” have been repurposed as building blocks for the Dupont Underground’s brand-new site-specific installation, “Raise/Raze.”

Recycling took on a whole new meaning when the organization, whose mission is to transform the abandoned trolley station into a thriving cultural space, announced an open design competition called “Re-Ball!”

“Last year, staff members from the National Building Museum came for a tour of the Dupont Underground, and while they were touring, they mentioned they weren’t sure what to do with the balls from the beach exhibit,” said Dupont Underground board member Philippa Hughes.

“We said, ‘We’ll take them!’”

After that, board members mulled over what to do with a beach-load of three-inch plastic balls. The “Re-Ball!” competition was born. A jury was assembled consisting of representatives of the National Building Museum, the Dupont Underground and the Phillips Collection, all partners on the project.

With submissions from 19 countries, the jury chose the New York City-based architecture and design firm Hou de Sousa. Hou de Sousa used hot glue and Velcro to turn the balls into blocks of sorts, allowing attendees to stack them into creations of their own imaginations.

Josh de Sousa, co-founder of the winning firm, said he was inspired not only by the project competition brief but by the Dupont Underground’s “whole mission in general, in terms of repurposing a forgotten public space and reimagining what it could potentially be used as.” He added, “It’s great to give it a second life and hopefully it will get a third life as well.”

De Sousa may get his wish. Just last week Hughes said a high school drama teacher asked for 100,000 of the balls for a theater production this fall. The Dupont Underground is open to ideas for the other 550,000-plus balls.

For now, though, the balls will remain underground until the “Raise/Raze” ends on June 1.

Online sales are sold out, but those who want to experience the installation are welcome to come to the Dupont Underground to enter on a one-in, one-out basis. According to Hughes, everyone who has shown up has eventually gotten in.

The 75,000-square-foot space under Dupont Circle has been closed since 1963, except for a brief revival in the ’90s when it was used as a food court. “In a way, we’re an emerging art space,” Hughes said. “We really want to think about people who are thinking about art in an emerging and different way.” She said that underground spaces aren’t the future of art; the future of art is doing things differently or out-of-the-ordinary thinking.

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opening in March. They designed “Raise/Raze” to be interactive, but never realized just how far imaginations would take visitors. “It seems like it has all sorts of psychological potential, studying how groups of people interact with one another.”

The design duo noticed trends. For example, someone would build a chair, then suddenly

10 chairs would be built. There would be an innovator, then people following, de Sousa observed.

The takeaway seems to be: keep encouraging your children to use those building toys. “Maybe we’d never thought of an idea like this if we didn’t grow up playing with Legos,” he said.

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Winners of the Dupont Underground design competition, Josh de Sousa and Jia Min Nancy Hou. Photo by Ben Droz.

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Finance

Wall Street’s Double or Nothing

By John E. G i ro uard

T

he odds of Leicester City Football Club winning the Premier League were 5,000 to one. If you had bet your entire retirement on Leicester, your retirement date just moved up by about 50 years.

The S&P 500 Index is now officially in the second-longest bull market run in history.

That sounds great … until you remember that it was immediately preceded in 2008 by the second-worst financial catastrophe in history.

In less than a year, the S&P 500 lost half its total market capitalization, roughly $7 trillion.

Over the past seven years, from the 2009 bottom to recent levels, the index roughly tripled. But if you had long-term investments eight years ago and rode the roller coaster down and back up again, your compound annual rate from 2007 until now drops to less than four percent.

Although the S&P looks like a sure firstplace winner, the odds are that this horse may be running out of steam. When rebalancing your portfolio, it’s important to understand the difference between compound interest and average return. Ignore the past-performance charts that show a three-, five- and 10-year average return; they are meaningless in building wealth. Stocks and bonds go up and down; only fixed vehicles compound.

Here’s how Wall Street’s double or nothing game works: A stock worth $100,000 that gained 100 percent in year one would grow

to $200,000. However, if it lost 50 percent the second year, it would be worth $100,000.

Your statement would reflect a 25-percent average return while your actual compound return was zero.

Let’s look at it a different way. In 2011, the average annual appreciation for the Dow Jones Industrials from 1900 to 2010 was 7.1 percent (which is how the Dow reports). So if one took a simple calculator and calculated what $1,000 invested over 110 years at an average of 7.1 percent would be, the number turns out to be $1,891,654. However, the Dow rose from 66 in 1900 to 11,578 in 2010, which reflects an actual compounded return of only 4.8 percent.

Applying the same math example, the actual return of $1,000 invested in the Dow was only $156,363.

That’s an error of $1,735,291. Now that’s a lot of retirement money.

The problem is, calculators and financial programs project future values using compound math and the investing public believes the numbers. The house is winning and we are losing. If you make that mistake, the only way to make up for it is to bet on Leicester winning.

John E. Girouard, CFP, ChFC, CLU, CFS, author of “Take Back Your Money” and “The Ten Truths of Wealth Creation,” is a registered principal of Cambridge Investment Research and an Investment Advisor Representative of Capital Investment Advisors in Bethesda, Maryland.

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Haute & Cool

Dads & Grads

By Hannah Dodd

Spring is a time of new beginnings and relaxing in the warm, inviting light of the sun. Meanwhile, grads are getting ready to head off into the world, and dads are there to help them through the process. With graduation and Father’s Day just around the corner, it’s essential to find the best gifts that are sure to impress.

What better way to treat these dads and grads than with the latest fashion? Our dads deserve the best, and their style should reflect that. A crisp suit and a new pair of shoes, coupled with an elegant watch and belt, will keep him looking clean cut and professional. Every grad should master the balance between comfort and style. A light, airy button-up and belt are great for almost any occasion. Before they hit the ground running in their new careers, grads will want to spend a little time in the sun, so a pair of great sunglasses is a must.

Here are two looks to keep dads and grads happy and stylish this spring.

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Cool & Fresh

The Unbutton-Down, Bonobos, $98

Belt it Out

Blamby Belt, Diesel, $98

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Shade the Shine

Tom Ford, Erin Sunglasses, Barney’s New York, $390

Stylish Footwear

Morrys, Camper, $180

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Time it Right

Bremont Solo/WH-SI Watch, Barney’s New York, $4,295

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Suit Up

‘Reyno/Wave’ Extra Slim Fit Super 100 Virgin Wool Suit, BOSS, $945

Wardrobe Essentials

Bombé Stitch Bridle Leather Belt, Sid Mashburn, $60

Stay Classy

Marlow Cordovan Blucher Shoe, Ralph Lauren, $995

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The world’s most desired homes — brought to you by Long & Foster and Christie’s.

Wesley Heights, Washington, DC

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Spring Valley, Washington, DC

$2,345,000

Berkley, Washington, DC

$2,275,000

Exquisite 5BR, 3.5BA home on beautiful landscaped lot. Chrissa Wolfe renovated w/state-of-the art upgrades. Move-in condition, parking behind home and in one of the most desirable neighborhoods in DC. Wendy Gowdey/Patrice Angle/Foxhall Office 202-363-1800

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Woodley Park Office 202-483-6300

Sensational house with sunsets over water views! Remodeled and renovated! Wonderful entertainment flow! 5 Bedrooms, 5.5 redone baths.

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Forest Hills, Washington, DC

Bethesda, Maryland

Capitol Hill, Washington, DC

$1,800,000

$1,499,000

$1,150,000

Elegant 7BR, 5.5BA center hall Colonial with over 5,000 SF of entertaining and living space. Large eat-in kitchen and fabulous screened porch.

Jane Kratovil/Barbara Finkelstein 703-626-2650/202-369-2960 Miller Chevy Chase Office 202-966-1400

6BR 4.5BA, center hall Colonial w/18,614 SF lot backing to wooded parkland! Kitchen/family rm combo, sep DR, grand LR, & 1st flr laundry/ mudroom. 5BRs up + 3FBAs. Finished walk-out basement w/new carpeting, FBA, & au-pair suite. Huge deck & basketball court.

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Architectural charm abounds this 1860 semi-detached historic home fully updated w/stylish, elegant & spacious interiors. Fabulous floor plan offers lovely LR w/FP, Large DR, & expanded Chef’s kitchen/granite/SS. Prime lot offers gardens & private patio.

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Cleveland Park, Washington, DC

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Renovated, sunlit, 4BR, 3BA home on quiet cul-de-sac. Guest room with bath. Kitchen with quartz counters and stainless steel appliances.

Remodeled lower level in-law suite. Ample storage. Luscious garden. 1 block to Key School.

The Szabo Group/Georgetown Office 202-445-0206/202-944-8400

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LOCATION! Close to all amenities of the SW Waterfront. Large 1,550 SF unit with 4 bedrooms and 2 full baths. Open kitchen with large entertaining island, granite/stainless steel, washer/dryer, separate dining room.

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Updated kitchen and bath. Washer/dryer. Large closets. Skylights, hardwood and bamboo floors. Parking available. Pool, tennis courts, playground. Pet friendly.

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Secluded Chesapeake Bay waterfront retreat on 2.75 acres with grand living space! 5BR, 4.5BA. Chef’s kitchen. Pool & hot tub. Over 180 ft of waterfront, deep water dock with boat lift and private beach. Spectacular views of Bay Bridge & the Chesapeake Bay. Salley Widmayer/Georgetown Office 202-215-6174/202-944-8400

Berkley, Washington, DC

$1,875,000

Light-filled Colonial on quiet cul-de-sac. 6BR, 4.5 BA home with spacious MBR & luxurious MBA. Formal dining room seats 10-12. Spacious family room. Updated, eat-in kitchen. Lower level has 2BRs+Rec Rm. Lap pool.

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Enchanting 4BR, 3.5BA sun-filled English country style home with Flemish Bond Brick, Buckingham slate roof, beautiful stone walls and gorgeous landscaping. Don’t miss the insulated stand-up attic which could be finished. Chevy Chase Sec 5.

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AU Park, Washington, DC

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Observatory Circle, Washington, DC

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Palm Beach

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Photography by Angie Myers With summer just around the corner — though the skies say otherwise — we’ve begun to daydream of sandy beaches and cool waters. And those daydreams are chockfull of prints and bold colors. Frankly, the cool sherbet hues and Jackie-esque suites on the pages that follow are prompting an impromptu trip to Palm Beach. If only our suitcase was roomy enough to pack them all…

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On The Cover - Desiree Trina Turk Multi-Color One-Piece Bathing Suit $140 Bloomingdale’s Chevy Chase Kendra Scott Turquoise Drop Earrings $60 Bloomingdale’s Chevy Chase Intermix Gold Bracelet with Large Turquoise Stone $250 Intermix Georgetown

Curran Ted Baker Pink Short Sleeve Shirt $139 Bloomingdale’s Chevy Chase Ralph Lauren Floral Bathing Suit Trunks $85 Bloomingdale’s Chevy Chase

Page 18 - Desiree Lilly Pulitzer Pink Pattern Romper $178 Lilly Pulitzer Tysons Birman Tan/Cream Sandals $498 Intermix Georgetown Calypso Long Gold Necklace $295 Calypso Georgetown Tuti Oversize Gold Handbag $450 Nordstrom Tysons

Curran Ralph Lauren Pink Bathing Suit Trunks $85 Bloomingdale’s Chevy Chase Psycho Bunny Navy with White Flowers Short Sleeve Shirt $98 Bloomingdale’s Chevy Chase Sperry Blue/Tan Boat Shoes $98 Bloomingdale’s Chevy Chase

Page 19 - Desiree Tory Burch Solid Blue One-Piece Bathing Suit $195 Bloomingdale’s Chevy Chase Kate Spade Blue/White/Crystal Earrings $120 Nordstrom Tysons Calypso Gold Espadrilles $150 Calypso Georgetown

Curran Hugo Boss Blue/Green Bathing Suit Trucks $74 Bloomingdale’s Chevy Chase To Boot New York Black Sandals $150 Bloomingdale’s Chevy Chase

This Page - Desiree Ivanka Trump Pink Sandals with Crystals $79 Bloomingdale’s Chevy Chase Gold Rose Drop Earrings $28 Bloomingdale’s Chevy Chase Trina Turk Multi-Color Bikini $88 top/$78 bottom Bloomingdale’s Chevy Chase Tom Ford Sunglasses $450 Saks Fifth Avenue Tysons

Curran Ted Baker Pink Short-Sleeve Top $139 Bloomingdale’s Chevy Chase Teal Bathing Suit Trunks $48 Bloomingdale’s Chevy Chase To Boot New York Black Sandals $150 Bloomingdale’s Chevy Chase Ray-Ban Aviator Sunglasses $195 Saks Fifth Avenue Tysons

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FOOD & WINE

The Latest Dish

BY LI NDA RO T H

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uick Hits: Chipotle will open where the iconic Millie & Al’s was in Adams Morgan … Chix will open its third D.C.-area location in July, near Nationals Park at 1210 Half St. SE. This fast casual restaurant concept offers Peruvian and other Latin-inspired chicken in sandwiches, wraps and bowls … CaliBurger plans to open its first location in the region in Columbia, Maryland, in midMay. Other targeted locations in the Baltimore-Washington area include: College Park,

Timonium and Annapolis. In addition to their burgers and chicken sandwiches they are renowned for their fries, topped with cheese and their own sauce … Oohs and Aahs is planning an 85-seat restaurant within the Walmart in Brightwood. Their original location is at 1005 U St. NW … Just in time for warm

Above: Bob Giamo’s Silver Diner. Courtesy Silver Diner. Left: Kimchi Ramen from Toki Underground. Courtesy Toki Underground. weather, Tysons Biergarten opens outside the Greensboro Metro stop. The 500-square-foot outdoor beer garden will seat 400. Masoud Aboughaddareh (AKA Masoud A) will open Greenhouse Bistro and Samovar Tea Room

at 2070 Chain Bridge Rd, complete with two DJ booths. One has hydraulics so the DJ can be lifted above the crowd. You can take the boy out of the nightclub but ... Fingers crossed that Bob Giamo’s Silver lands space in Cathedral Commons. From the folks that brought you Silver Diner, this restaurant is planned to be a new American brasserie offering breakfast options for the neighborhood.

Chef, GM & Somm Update: Vinifera Wine Bar & Bistro has named Richard Falbo as the new executive chef. Previously, he worked for Passion Food Hospitality. Landon Barnes was named the new sous chef. He previously worked at Archies, Rustico and Passion Fish. Angelo Perez was named sommelier. He was previously at Range by Bryan Voltaggio and Art and Soul … Ashok Bajaj of Knightsbridge Restaurant Group named Kelly Bunkers as executive chef at Ardeo + Bardeo in D.C.’s Cleveland Park neighborhood at 3311 Connecticut Ave. NW. Bunkers relocated to Washington, D.C. from Las Vegas to work as executive sous chef for Stephen Starr’s Le Diplomate.

The ultra-cool hotel, The Line, finally enters D.C. turf when it opens in burgeoningcool Adams Morgan in the first quarter of 2017.

In that theme, it will feature restaurants from chefs Erik Bruner-Yang (Toki Underground, Maketto) and Spike Gjerde, last year’s James Beard Award winner for Mid-Atlantic Chef of the Year. It will be the second Line Hotel,

Chix’ chicken with vegetarian sides. Courtesy Chix. as the first is in Los Angeles’ Koreatown neighborhood. It’s brought to you by the Sydell Group and Foxhall Partners. It will be the first D.C. restaurant for Gjerde, who owns Woodberry Kitchen and its sisters, Parts and Labor and Artifact Coffee, in Baltimore.

Linda Roth is president of Linda Roth Associates, a public relations and marketing firm that specializes in the hospitality industry, providing creative connections through media relations, marketing initiatives, community outreach and special events. Reach her at Linda@LindaRothPR.com or lindarothpr.com or #LindaRothPR.

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YOUR DINING GUIDE TO WASHINGTON DC’S FINEST RESTAURANTS

1789 RESTAURANT 1226 36TH ST., NW 202–965–1789 1789restaurant.com

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

Open seven nights a week.

Jackets suggested.

Complimentary valet parking.

BISTRO FRANCAIS 3124-28 M ST., NW 202–338–3830 bistrofrancaisdc.com

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

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

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

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

Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily.

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

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.

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

MALMAISON

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

NOW OPEN FOR LUNCH: Enjoy freshly prepared hot and cold gourmet sandwiches, paninis and seasonal salads and wine by the glass starting at $5.

HAPPY HOUR: Offered nightly Tuesday - Thursday from 5pm-7pm & Sunday from 4pm - 6pm.

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!

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).

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

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

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The good news is, first, that this study was carried out on a very unusual group: contestants who exercised for seven-plus hours per day, had their food controlled down to the gram and were losing between five and 10 pounds per week. (This much exercise and this rate of weight loss are dangerous and known to have negative metabolic consequences.) Second, research shows that there is one type of exercise that can boost your metabolism at any age, and maintain or even increase your metabolism during reasonably paced weight loss: strength training.

Strength training is the most important kind of exercise for maintaining your metabolism

Progress. All success in training is based on progressive overload: you must continually challenge yourself. Keep track or have a coach keep track. You might start with two-pound dumbbells, but move up to the fives, the sevens, the 10s … even the 40s, eventually. This kind of progress will change your life in ways beyond just keeping your weight in check.

Do total-body training. Work your whole body each time rather than splitting it into parts. Splitting — having an “arm day,” for example — only works if you can train six days per week. To oversimplify total-body training: push something (do push-ups), pull something (do pull-ups), do something with your legs (such as squats) and do something for your core (such as a farmer’s walk). This can be done in 30 minutes and be effective.

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Murphy’s Love: Advice on Intimacy and Relationships

Walking Through Grief

BY STA CY NOTA RAS M U R P H Y Dear Stacy, My mom died a few weeks ago. We were very close and I obviously have been having a hard time with it. But the worst part is how angry I get whenever any of my friends bring it up. I don’t know why it’s so irritating when they keep asking me how I am doing, but it’s awful. If I wanted to talk about it, I would.

But asking me about my feelings all the time is not making me feel better. My boyfriend has completely stopped asking me about it, but that also feels frustrating to me. I’m basically mad at everyone and don’t know how to deal with it. Thoughts?

— Missing Mom

Dear Missing: I am so very sorry for your loss.

I know, you’ve heard that one before. And you’re going to hear it again, because we just don’t have the words for dealing with grief in our culture. So instead we trot out these tired old statements again and again. Of course it’s irritating to you — it’s probably irritating to them when they don’t have anything else to say.

I am so impressed that you are noticing the other side of the coin as well: the side where Boyfriend’s silence about your pain also

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Now to the hard part. We only get through grief by walking through it. Your overwhelming frustration at the people who are closest to you right now — Boyfriend and other friends — suggests that talking to someone outside that circle could be useful. (Yep, I’m plugging counseling again in my column, but stay with me.) The thing about having a neutral third party to share these feelings with is that the counselor has no skin in the game. You don’t have to take care of her and it doesn’t matter what she “thinks” of you — really, that’s the truth.

The process is about taking time for yourself, telling your story and feeling truly heard.

That way, you can show up to your other relationships unburdened. A counselor also can help you with some kind but firm language to use with friends who ask too many “feeling” questions.

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

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Music Festivals

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Two productions remain in the season of Ash Lawn Opera in Charlottesville: Mozart’s “Così fan tutte” (June 30 at Virginia Tech and July 10, 13 and 15 at the Paramount Theater) and Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “South Pacific” (July 23, 24, 27, 29 and 30 at the Paramount Theater).

THE BIG AND THE ODD OF ROCK AND POP

The Filene Center lawn at night. Courtesy Wolf Trap.

SUMMER OPERA IN VIRGINIA The Wolf Trap Opera season offers Benjamin Britten’s “Rape of Lucretia” (June 10, 12, 15 and 18) and Florian Gassman’s 1769 sendup of his overly serious colleagues, “L’Opera Seria” (July 15, 17, 20 and 23), both at the Barns, and “La bohème” with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Filene Center (Aug. 5). Also at the Barns: “Studio Spotlight” (June 19) and “Aria Jukebox” (June 26).

One of the two summer opera festivals in Virginia, the Castleton Festival, founded by the late conductor Lorin Maazel in 2009 at his Castleton Farms home, will go on hiatus this summer. “In view of our financial challenges we have come to realize that it is the right moment to regroup and work toward a stable future,” said Dietlinde Turban Maazel, artistic director and Lorin Maazel’s widow, in a statement.

As usual, Wolf Trap is hosting some big names: Jackson as in Browne (June 14), Kenny as in Rogers (June 17), Harry as in Connick Jr. (June 18), Paul as in Simon (June 27–28), Mary as in Chapin Carpenter (July 2), Huey as in Lewis (July 26), Tony as in Bennett (July 28), Lyle as in Lovett (Aug. 12), Ricky as in Martin (Aug. 24–25) and Bonnie as in Raitt (Aug. 27).

And let’s not forget two who need no surname: Bob (July 5–6) and Aretha (Aug. 26).

Other famous acts coming to Wolf Trap, not all rock and pop: Barenaked Ladies (June 15), Riverdance (June 23–26), Yuja Wang playing Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” (July 8), the NSO plays “Raiders of the Lost Ark” (July 9), Pink Martini (July 24), the Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma (Aug. 11) and Jazz at Lincoln Center with Wynton Marsalis (Aug. 19).

Farther out in the Commonwealth, Floydfest ’16 is about Dreamweavin’, with nine stages, a healing arts village, Gregg Allman, Bruce Hornsby and many bands with odd names (July 27–31). At summer's end, also in the Blue Ridge Mountains, is the LOCKN’ Festival in Arrington (2010 pop. 708), devoted to jam bands (Aug. 25-28).

Ash Lawn Opera performs at the Paramount Theater in downtown Charlottesville. Courtesy Ash Lawn Opera.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the District, the Merriweather Post Pavilion loves its oneand two-day festivals: the Merryland Music Fest (July 9-10), the Vans Warped Tour (July 16) and the Summer Spirit Festival (Aug. 6-7). Finally, though it’s not exactly in the country, Strathmore will present Patti LaBelle (June 30 and July 1), Brian McKnight (July 16) and UB40 (Aug. 19).

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directed by José Carrasquillo (June 2–26).

As for Broadway on the Potomac, three big musicals will play at the Kennedy Center — “Kinky Boots” (June 14–July 10), “The Bridges of Madison County” (June 28–July 17) and “The Phantom of the Opera” (July 13–Aug. 28) — plus “Evita” at Olney Theatre Center (June 23–July 24) and “La Cage aux Folles” at Signature Theatre (May 31–July 10).

KID STUFF IN MARYLAND Imagination Stage in Bethesda, in collaboration with the Washington Ballet, will present “The Little Mermaid,” adapted by Janet Stanford with music by Matthew Pierce and choreography by Septime Webre and David Palmer. Kathryn Chase Bryer will direct (June 22–Aug. 14). Adventure Theatre MTC at Glen Echo Park will present “Jumanji,” an adaptation by Sandra Eskin and Michael J. Bobbitt of the Chris Van Allsburg book about a board game that comes to life, directed by Serge Seiden (June 17–Aug. 28).

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Cécile McLorin Salvant will perform as part of the DC Jazz Festival, June 18 at Yards Park. Courtesy Cécile McLorin Salvant.

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At the start of the month, the Royal Swedish Ballet will leap into the Kennedy Center with choreographer Mats Ek’s version of “Juliet and Romeo,” a North American premiere (June 1–4). At the end of the month, Chamber Dance Project will present “Ballet & Brass” in Sidney Harman Hall, featuring three world premieres: one each by D.C. hip-hop artist Victor Adebusola and New York choreographer Jennifer Archibald with Brass Connection and the third set by Chamber Dance Project Artistic Director Diane Coburn Bruning to a score for string quartet by Bryce Dessner of the rock band the National (June 23–26).

The Capital Jazz Fest, “the jazz festival with soul,” will bring headliners including New Edition, En Vogue, the Isley Brothers, David Sanborn, Toni Braxton and Al B. Sure to Merriweather Post (June 3–5). A week later, at venues such as the Yards, the Hamilton, the Kennedy Center and Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, the DC Jazz Festival will present masters like Eddie Palmieri and Regina Carter and rising stars like Kamasi Washington and Cécile McLorin Salvant. Special series include Jazz in the ’Hoods, the Capital Bop Jazz Loft Series and the East River Jazz Fest in the Anacostia, Uniontown, Benning and Kenilworth neighborhoods (June 10-19).

Daria Ivanova and Anthony Lomuljo in Mats Ek’s ”Juliet and Romeo.” The Royal Swedish Ballet will appear at the Kennedy Center, June 1-4. Photo by Gert Weigelt. Courtesy Kennedy Center.

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THEATER: FROM ‘TAMING OF THE SHREW’ TO ‘KINKY BOOTS’ First, there’s Shakespeare, on the 400th anniversary year of his death. The Shakespeare Theatre Company will mount an all-male “Taming of the Shrew,” directed

by Ed Sylvanus Iskandar and spilling into the lobbies and the street (through June 26). At the Folger, “District Merchants” is a reimagining

by Aaron Posner of “The Merchant of Venice,” set simultaneously in Shakespeare’s era, postCivil War America and contemporary times among black and Jewish populations (May 31– July 3). Close behind comes the Bard’s original “Merchant of Venice,” with Jonathan Pryce, presented by Shakespeare’s Globe on Tour at the Kennedy Center (July 27–30).

Studio Theatre offers a new version, by Mark O’Rowe, of another classic, Ibsen’s “Hedda Gabler,” directed by Matt Torney and starring Julia Coffey (through June 19). Also at Studio (at Studio X) is “The Object Lesson,” illusionist/actor/clown Geoff Sobelle’s immersive performance-installation (through June 5).

The inaugural season at Ari Roth’s Mosaic Theater Company closes with “When January Feels Like Summer,” an off-Broadway comedy

by Cori Thomas, directed by Serge Seiden at the Atlas Performing Arts Center (through June 12). Roth’s former home, Theater J, offers “Another Way Home,” a new play by Anna Ziegler about what happens to a family when a child goes missing at camp, directed by Shirley Serotsky (June 22–July 24).

Woolly Mammoth will stage “An Octoroon,” the D.C. premiere of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s incendiary take on a 19th-century play about slavery and abolition (May 30–June 26). In Columbia Heights, GALA Hispanic Theatre will mount “El Paso Blue,” Octavio Solis’s riff on Oedipus Rex, set in the Southwest and

The Kennedy Center's "District of Comedy Festival” includes a star-studded tribute to the late Joan Rivers hosted by her daughter, Melissa Rivers (June 22). Also on the festival schedule are: ‘The Second City’s Almost Accurate Guide to America” (June 19-July 31), “The District of Comedy Roast of James Carville” (June 23), Jane Lynch (June 24), “The Daily Show Writers Standup Tour” (June 24), “Robert Post Comedy Theatre for Kids” (June 25), “Dick Gregory: An Evening of Comedy & Jazz” (June 25) and vocalist-beatboxercomedian Reggie Watts (June 25).

FOLKLIFE ON THE MALL The themes of this year’s Smithsonian Folklife Festival are “Basque Innovation by Culture,” focusing on the unique culture of northern Spain and southwestern France, and “Sounds of California” (an arm-shaped state somewhat west of here). Evening concerts on the Ralph Rinzler Concert Stage on the National Mall will feature Basque and Californian musicians and dancers (June 29–July 4, July 7–10).

For music festivals in several genres in the surrounding countryside, see our In Country page in this issue.

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WILLIAM MERITT CHASE: A MODERN MASTER The Phillips Collection June 4 to Sept. 11

ALISON SAAR IN PRINT National Museum of Women in the Arts June 10 to Oct. 2

Indiana-born and Munich-trained, William Merritt Chase (1849–1916) was a brilliant observer and painter of contemporary life. As a teacher of artists, his only early 20th-century American rival was Robert Henri. Presented on the centennial of his death, this retrospective — the first in over three decades — will explore the interrelationships in Chase’s work, which ranged from portraits, still lifes and domestic interiors to urban and shoreline landscapes. Featuring more than 70 works, the exhibition will examine the full breadth of Chase’s achievements to shed new light on his aesthetic philosophy, artistic practice and working methods, also positioning his art and life within the vibrant international cultural climate at the turn of the century.

Alison Saar’s compelling prints are inspired by the artist’s deep interest in the history, identity and cultures of the African diaspora.

Having first observed printmaking and spiritual traditions through her mother, acclaimed assemblage artist Betye Saar, and by assisting her father, a painter and art conservator, Saar became intensely curious about visual art produced by a range of cultures. Her prints are rich with allusions to spiritual beliefs; she often portrays people interacting with evocative objects such as snakes, frying pans and knives. Saar also critiques cultural stereotypes, depicting figures that transform into brooms or consume cotton.

(ART)XIOMAS CUBAAHORA: THE NEXT GENERATION Art Museum of the Americas June 9 to Aug. 7 The word “axiomˮ means a self-evident truth. The recent graduates of Cuba’s University of the Arts whose work will be on display in “(Art)xiomas” face reality with a new gaze, free of the political elements that nonetheless penetrate their lives and works.

These artists favor fresh aesthetics while recognizing historical contexts; their discourses are more autobiographical than politically contextualized. This exhibition of contemporary Cuban art, which aims to bring nations together through art and culture, is organized by the Art Museum of the Americas of the Organization of American States in collaboration with the cultural office of the Embassy of Spain.

ONE LIFE: BABE RUTH National Portrait Gallery June 24 to May 21 No president, Hollywood star or athlete enjoyed the limelight for as long as the Sultan of Swat, Babe Ruth. Ruth’s photographic record alone is astonishing. He was arguably the most portrayed American from the beginning of his professional career in the major leagues, in 1914, to his death in 1948. This exhibition — which will display about forty objects, from prints and photographs of Ruth to personal paraphernalia and advertising memorabilia — will focus on Ruth’s legend and the marketing frenzy his name and image fueled prior to the age of electronic mass media (and before the routine commercialization of sports superstars). It will conclude with a look at some of the baseball greats who challenged the Babe’s long-standing records.

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CHINAMANIA Freer and Sackler Galleries July 9–June 4

Like “The Beach,” “Icebergs” is part of the National Building Museum’s annual Summer Block Party series. Created by James Corner Field Operations, “Icebergs” will be a oneof-a-kind destination in the museum’s Great Hall. Occupying a total area of 12,540 square feet, the immersive installation — built from re-usable construction materials such as scaffolding and polycarbonate paneling (commonly used in building greenhouses) — will simulate the underwater world of glacial ice fields. Visitors will be able to ascend a viewing area inside icebergs, traverse undersea bridges, relax among caves and grottos on the ocean floor, sample shaved-ice snacks and participate in programming that highlights landscape architecture, design and the environment.

Chinamania, the craze for Chinese blueand-white ceramics, swept London in the 19th century and still endures in the West today. Inspired by his travels in China and the kilns at Jingdezhen in southeast China, known as the “porcelain capital,” contemporary ceramic artist Walter McConnell will interrogate this phenomenon through his reinstallation of Kangxi porcelains similar to those originally displayed in James McNeill Whistler’s Peacock Room. The show will also include two monumental ceramic stupas from McConnell’s series “A Theory of Everything.”

“Chinamania” is the last in a series of special exhibitions organized in conjunction with “Peacock Room REMIX: Darren Waterston’s Filthy Lucre,” an immersive interior that reimagines the Peacock Room as a resplendent ruin.

“Spring Flowers (Peonies),” 1889. William Merritt Chase.

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‘High Art - Low Art’ on Book Hill

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“Trojan War Series”: abstract oils that suggest Richard Diebenkorn in their varied combinations of lines and planes and Mark Rothko in their strong, layered colors. A distorted tic-tac-toe motif that at times seems to transform into landscape is rooted in the Japanese stone markers that inspired an earlier series by Richardson.

Other than the series title and the names of the paintings — for example, “Achilles Seeking Kleos” — the signs that these works are about the experience of combat are, literally, signs (they could be considered sculptures but are not identified as such). Three quotes are painted on groupings of boards on the walls. And powerful Diomedes/froze him with a Glance/”Not a word of retreat./You’ll Never Persuade me…” reads one, one phrase per board. In the center of the second room stands a stanchion — a charred board, with text painted on one side and the locations of battles on the other, set vertically in cement with a military knife for a pinnacle.

The remaining room on the first floor displays Post’s work in several media. Two painted portraits are simultaneously decorative and aggressive, with hints of both Henri Matisse and Alice Neel.

In between them is the hard-to-look-away-from “Plisa,” a dense clustering of more than 200 small heads, somber white faces bordered by shadows in charcoal and India ink. It brings to mind the Holocaust and, in fact, is named “Achilles” from “The Trojan War Series.” David Richardson. Courtesy of the artist.

he weather cleared up and the crowds turned out for the annual Spring Art Walk in Georgetown’s Book Hill section last Friday. One of the halfdozen exhibitions that welcomed visitors that night, in a pop-up space at 1666 33rd St. NW, is called “High Art | Low Art: Works by David Richardson and Ari Post.”

The two artists, who met in a Dupont Circle art gallery in 2009, are unlikely colleagues: a Marine Corps Colonel who was deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, and a manager of curatorial programs for the Smithsonian’s Freer and Sackler Galleries (Post, art critic for The Georgetowner, is the latter).

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for the Lithuanian village of Post’s ancestors.

On the opposite wall are pairs of animal illustrations. In each case, the ink drawing and the linoblock print are so dissimilar — not only in medium but in style — that one would never guess they were by the same artist (never mind by the creator of the portraits and “Plisa”).

In several of the linoblocks, the strokes within the animal’s outline are not meant to represent its hide, instead resembling the patterns of paper-cut art.

The ink drawings — storybook animals — are preparation for what you’ll find upstairs. Post, who calls newspaper comics and political cartoons “his first true loves,” has drawn caricatures, mounted in gilt frames, of would-be presidential nominees Clinton, Cruz, Kasich, Sanders and Trump. Surrounding “Make America Great Again.” Ari Post. Courtesy of the artist. them is a series of 34 small drawings titled “The Four Humors, and Uncle Sams. There are also three reproducOther Temperaments,” which could have come tions of a signboard for, presumably, a gym from the pen of Richard Thompson, creator of in Ramadi, showing an Iraqi barbell-lifter.

“Cul de Sac” in the Washington Post.

To recreate its destruction by street gunfire, These illustrations, however, are from the which he witnessed in 2006, Richardson took “Ari Post,” a virtual newspaper intended, yes, a shotgun to the three paintings, blowing away to entertain us, but also to help us face our true half of the third. and often neurotic natures. Post has taken the One of Post’s most impressive works is in ancient theory of the four humors, believed for that room, a tall, narrow painting with five centuries to determine the moods and charheads stacked vertically. Perhaps referencing acter types of individuals, to a new level of a strip of movie frames or photo-booth picsubtlety (with a good dash of irony). tures, it is a portrait of painter Philip Guston, Among the titles of his cartoon snapshots: an Abstract Expressionist who later adopted a “Confronting one’s inherent banality,” cartoonish representational style. Each head, “Hungry, but not really hungry” and (under bordered by the four letters of the subject’s what is perhaps a portrait of the artist as a name, “Phil,” is colored differently, two only young man) “Misplaced guilt which, like a in yellow on the white canvas. phantom limb, is but the tingling reminder of having renounced your Jewish faith.”

Note: There will be another reception with In the other room on the second floor are Richardson and Post this Friday, May 20, from earlier works by Richardson that incorporate 5 to 9 p.m. symbols such as skulls, Statues of Liberty and

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Women & Wine Raises $450K Fashion for Paws Scoops Up $353K for Lombardi Cancer Center

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The 11th Annual Women & Wine event held April 20 at the Ritz Carlton Tysons Corner raised almost $450,000 for the Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. More than 600 of the D.C. area's top business women enjoyed the evening that began with a cancer briefing, given by Dr. Claudine Isaacs and Dr. Shawna Willey of Georgetown Lombardi on the latest research breakthroughs in cancer research that affect women. Before dinner, there was a silent auction which added to the proceeds, in addition to the tips “earned” by the “Wine Dudes,” a group of the region’s men in the commercial real estate industry

Washington Humane Society’s Fashion for Paws 10th Annual Runway Show gathered 1,000 guests to the Grand Hyatt Washington April 23 for its one-of-a-kind fashion event. The evening raised $352,000 to benefit WHS’s programs and services.

WJLA’s Katy Nelson of “The Pet Show” and senior political correspondent Scott Thurman hosted

the show, while “fundraising models” escorted fashionably dressed dogs down the runway. Jessica Abrahams was Model Washingtonian of the Year for raising $21,244 — followed by first runnerup Anthony Waddell and second runner-up Tara Kovalski.

Event co-chairs, Janet Davis and Barbara McDuffie with Spirit of Life honoree Claire Madden and Dr. Claudine Isaacs of Georgetown Lombardi.

Tara Kovalski, Jessica Abrahams and Anthony Waddell.

Scott Thurman.

Chilean Embassy Honors In Series

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Director of the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Dr. Lou Weiner serves cocktails to Greta Kreuz and her daughter, Faith Cerny.

Ambassador of Chile Juan Gabriel Valdés and his wife Antonia Echenique Celis welcomed supporters of the In Series of Performing Arts to their residence May 11 to honor its programs of Latin American and Spanish culture and to celebrate the birthday of artistic director and founder Carla Hübner. Following a buffet and a welcoming by Ambassador Valdés expressing respect for “fellow Chilean Carla,” guests enjoyed a performance that featured In Series artists accompanied by pianist Carlos César Rodriguez.

In Series will hold its 2016 gala and conferring of Fidelio Awards at the Atlas Performing Arts Center on June 18.

GALA Hispanic Theatre founders Rebecca and Hugo Medrano.

‘Tickled Pink, XIII’ For Make-A-Wish Children

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The 13th Annual Mother-Daughter Tea and Fashion Show — benefitting the Make-A-Wish Foundation, Mid-Atlantic — was held at the Washington Fairmont on May 7. Pink Palm Bethesda Row and the Fairmont partnered, as Lilly Pulitzer-clad models raised funds for the foundation, which grants the wishes of children battling life-threatening medical conditions. NBC4 News Chief Meteorologist Doug Kammerer emceed.

Colleagues Angie Goff, with daughter Adora, and Eun Yang, with daughter Carys Kang, were among the models.

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Angie Goff and Doug Kammerer of NBC4 News.

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Washington Ballet’s Bowie Ball: Let’s Dance

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BY RO B E RT DE VANEY, P H O TO S B Y X M B P H O TO G R APH Y/M EN A BR U N ETTE With its creativity, elegance and love of fun on full display, the Washington Ballet enchanted all in the Mellon Auditorium April 29 for its spring gala, the Bowie Ball.

The evening was inspired by rock star David Bowie.

The gala honored its own star Septime Webre and his 17 years at the Washington Ballet and introduced his successor, Julie Kent.

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The Opera Ball Under the joint chairmanship of Jane and Calvin Cafritz and Samia and A. Huda Farouki — and in celebration of Washington National Opera’s 60th Diamond Anniversary Season — the evening will feature pre-ball dinners hosted by ambassadors at their residences and embassies. This year’s ball concludes at the Organization of American States, where guests will experience an evening of dessert, music and dancing. Contact Kennedy Center Special Events at 202-416-8496.

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Washington Ballet company member Samuel Wilson.

Kreeger Museum Spring for Education A fundraising reception for the museum’s education programs celebrating art, architecture and music will be held in the Philip Johnson-designed building. Visit the galleries and enjoy wine and hors d’oeuvres on the sculpture terrace overlooking the reflecting pool.

Kreeger Museum, 2401 Foxhall Road NW. Visit kreegermuseum.org/support/ SpringForEducationFundraiser.

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26th Annual Chef’s Best: A Taste of Compassion

Councilman Jack Evans, Kay Kendall, chair of the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities (and former ballet board chair) and Septime Webre, departing artistic director of the Washington Ballet.

Bethesda-born ballerina Julie Kent, the new artistic director of the Washington Ballet.

Radiant Gala at Women in the Arts

BY R OBE RT DEVANEY, P H O TO S B Y N E S H A N H . N A LTC H AYAN The National Museum of Women in the Arts — its Photographers from Iran and the Arab World.”

The honorary chair was Maguy Maccario Doyle, great hall awash with Mideast light — celebrated its annual spring gala April 29, evoking the themes of Ambassador of Monaco to the United States, and gala chair was Shahin Mafi. its latest exhibit, “She Who Tells a Story: Women

A night of food, fun and philanthropy is presented by AT&T and honoring Christopher Wolf. Enjoy tastings from the region’s culinary stars, while raising funds to support children and adults living with life-challenging illnesses. Auction items include once-ina-lifetime adventures and local favorites, along with signature cocktails and desserts. National Building Museum.

Call 202-269-6826, or contact ljourdan@foodandfriends.org.

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30th Annual National Building Museum Gala The museum will recognize CoStar Group, Davis Construction and Casey Trees for contributions to the building industry and commitment to the local community. The evening will include a tribute to architect Colden “Coke” Florance, and festivities will include a garden party cocktail reception, dinner and award presentation, and after party.

Visit NBM.org, or call 202-272-2448.

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Tudor Place Garden Party

Maguy Maccario Doyle, Ambassador of Monaco to the United States, Wilhelmina Holladay, founder of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, and spring gala chair Shahin Mafi.

Sharon Casey, president of the George Town Club, with her husband Jack Casey.

The 24th Annual Garden Party to support Tudor Place — celebrating an American milestone, the national historic landmark’s bicentennial — will take place under a lawn tent in the

estate’s five-and-a-half acre garden from 6 to 9 p.m. Tudor Place, 1644 31 St. NW. Contact Mary Michael Wachur, director of development, at 202-580-7323 or mwachur@tudorplace.org.

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AIFIC Spring Benefit The American Initiative for Italian Culture — a two-way bridge between Italy and the United States seeking to promote the art and culture in both countries — supports and sponsors educational programs in architecture, art, cinema, design, literature and music, with particular emphasis on younger generations. Cocktail buffet begins 6:30 p.m. and includes a live auction. Dumbarton House, 2715 Q St. NW. For more information contact info@AIFIC.org or 202-329-6636.

28th Annual National Education & Leadership Awards Gala The Sons of Italy Foundation will honor Condoleezza Rice and others, as well as scholarship recipients — 6 p.m. reception; 7 p.m. dinner and program at the National Building Museum. For more details contact nelagala@osia.org or 202-547-8115.

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Washington Awards Gala Celebrate recipients of S&R Foundation Washington Awards with a reception in Evermay’s beautiful gardens, performances by the Washington Award winners and a seated dinner with special food and wine pairings.

Evermay, 1623 28th St. NW. Visit washingtonawards.org.

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20 Years: The Friends of Volta Park A classic Georgetown celebration continues — celebrating 20 years of the Friends of Volta Park. A reception and silent auction with neighbors and civic leaders starts a 7 p.m. Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School, 1524 35th St. NW. RSVP at voltapark.org.

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29th Annual Bark Ball Dr. Katy Nelson of “The Pet Show with Dr. Katy” and Scott Thurman of ABC7 News will co-host the benefit for the Washington Humane Society and Washington Animal Rescue League. This is the only black-tie gala where guests may bring canine companions as dates. A reception will be followed by silent and live auctions, dinner, program, dancing and special surprises. Washington Hilton. Visit

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