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Town Topics Crime Report Community Calendar In Your Town

EDITORIAL/OPINION · 8 Jack Evans Report The Muffled Roar of Change Predictions for Georgetown Letter to the Editor

Sarah Gee Miller is a painter/collagist, based in Vancouver, British Columbia, who makes hard edge abstract collage and geometric drawings in ink. The cover image is from Miller’s theme grouping, “ The Eye of the Storm,” a series of hypnotic repetitions either in circular or hexagon form. “There is a striving for balance between optical thrill through saturated colour and calming an agitated mindset through rhythmic and repeated bands,” Miller writes.

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BUSINESS · 10-11

‘A New Day’ at Golden Globes

Ins & Outs

BY GARY TISCHLER

Georgetown’s Cafe Tu-o-tu Turns 15

Receiving the Cecil B. DeMille Award, Oprah Winfrey gave what was described as the speech of all speeches. “Time is up,” she said.

REAL ESTATE · 12-14 December 2017 Sales Featured Property Le Decor Auction Block

Winfrey at the Golden Globes on Jan. 7.

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DOWNTOWNER · 15 COVER STORY · 16-17 FOOD & WINE · 18

2017: A Year of Protests (photos)

Dining Guide

BY JEFF M AL E T

A Look Ahead at Georgetown Dining

The inauguration of President Donald Trump precipitated the massive Women’s March on Washington, followed by a full year of rallies and demonstrations.

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INCOUNTRY & GETAWAYS · 20-21 A Winter Getaway to Maine

“The Meteor Is A Chinese Hoax,” proclaimed this T. rex at the March for Science, held on a rainy Earth Day, Saturday, April 22, 2017. Photo

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ARTS · 22-23 Sylvia Plath at the National Portrait Gallery Women’s Voices Theater Festival Returns to D.C. DC Artswatch

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UP & COMING

January Events Calendar Camp Arena Stage.

Civil Rights March.

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This free open house for ages 8 to 15 will feature sample workshops and classes taught by camp staff, giving prospective campers and parents an opportunity to experience a taste of Camp Arena Stage. No reservations are required. For details, visit arenastage.org. 1101 Sixth St. SW.

“Awake and In Motion,” a free event at Washington National Cathedral, will feature music by Washington Performing Arts’ Children of the Gospel, Howard University Choir and the National Cathedral’s house band; contemporary dance and movement performances; and excerpts of Dr. King’s final Sunday sermon, preached at the cathedral on March 31, 1968. For details, visit cathedral.org. 3101 Wisconsin Ave. NW.

Manners and Mimosas.

New Orchestra of Washington family concert.

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‘MANNERS AND MIMOSAS’ CLASS Modern etiquette coach Maggie Oldham will lead a “Manners and Mimosas” class on social and upscale dining etiquette at the Watergate Hotel. The two-hour class, covering all aspects of American and European dining etiquette and table manners, includes a prix-fixe plated brunch. Tickets are $90. For details, visit thewatergatehotel.com. 2650 Virginia Ave. NW.

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CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF MLK

NOW FAMILY CONCERT New Orchestra of Washington presents a family concert with a colorful program that will engage listeners both young and young at heart. An instrument petting zoo and optional pizza lunch will follow the concert.

Tickets are $10 (add $5 for the pizza lunch, free for age 2 and younger). For details, visit neworchestraofwashington.org.

Westmoreland Church, 1 Westmoreland Circle, Bethesda, Maryland.

Vanessa Williams.

‘LET FREEDOM RING’ The Kennedy Center and Georgetown University host a musical celebration featuring Vanessa Williams and the Let Freedom Ring Choir to honor Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy. Though admission is free, tickets are required and will be distributed the day of the event beginning at 4:30 p.m.

For details, visit kennedy-center.org. 2700 F St. NW.

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GRASS IS DEAD AT GYPSY SALLY’S Grass is Dead is a bluegrass combo that pays homage to the Grateful Dead, arguably America’s first folk-rockers and one of the most influential bands of the last 50 years. Tickets for this 21+ event are $12. For details, visit gypsysallys.com.

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The show is 90 minutes of hilarious (and clean) stand-up comedy focusing on work, family, do-it-yourself projects, and other topics that baby boomers can relate to. Both baby boomers, Kent Rader and Jan McInnis have spent the past 20 years performing for thousands of audiences.

Tickets are $25. For details, visit cvpa.gmu.edu.

George Mason University Center for the Arts, 4373 Mason Pond Drive, Fairfax, Virginia.

“The Lathe of Heaven.”

JANUARY 25, 26 & 27 ‘THE LATHE OF HEAVEN’

Based on the sci-fi classic by Ursula Le Guin, “The Lathe of Heaven” is set in a future world racked by violence and environmental catastrophes, in which George Orr wakes up one day to discover that his dreams can alter reality. This production, adapted and directed by visiting assistant professor Natsu Onoda Power, features both student and professional actors. Tickets are $18 ($15 on Jan. 25, with discounts for seniors, faculty and students).

For details, visit guevents.georgetown.edu.

David Performing Arts Center, 37th and O Streets NW.

TOWN TOPICS

NEWS

BY PEG GY SA NDS

For Some, Dockless Bikes on Thin Ice The new dockless bike-share program, which seeks to bring more choice to citywide transportation, has been getting attention from Georgetown residents. The bikes can be parked on city property in a random fashion and would-be renters can check an app to see where the nearest ones are located. Seems simple enough.

But, for some, the randomness of where the bikes are parked is irksome. There have been community meetings on the bike program already.

Last week, one allegedly cranky Georgetown resident wrote on the Georgetown Forum, a community bulletin board maintained by the Citizens Association of Georgetown, that residents ought to call 911 about parked bikes that block the sidewalk — and even call 911 when they see the bicycles ridden along the streets.

The comment got blasted in social media to the detriment of Georgetown’s reputation, as if Georgetowners wanted such random bicyclists out of the neighborhood all together (not a good reflection on the oldest neighborhood in Washington, D.C.). Other commenters suggested that those obstructed by abandoned bikes call 311, a non-emergency number.

Such sniping aside, the Metropolitan Police Department felt the need to weigh in on this latest bike brouhaha with regard to calling 911: “It is difficult to accurately capture the total number of complaints. Much of the feedback and frustrations associated with the placement of dockless bikes we have received has been during community meetings, email exchanges and public interactions.

“At the last bikeshare meeting we hosted, we discussed the issues experienced thus far in D.C. We will continue to stay engaged with these companies and our communities to identify a solution that works for everyone.

“While we recognize some recent frustrations, the MPD urges residents to refrain from dialing 911 to report suspicious activity for merely utilizing bikeshare services. The law regarding false alarms and false reports is § 22–1319 False alarms and false reports; hoax weapons. We still encourage our residents and visitors to report any activity that they deem suspicious.”

Community activist David Abrams added to

“Please don’t park your dockless bikes in the middle of the C&O Canal.”

An Ofo bike on the frozen surface of the C&O Canal, just west of Georgetown. Courtesy TwoWheelsDC. the discussion: “While it may not be appropriate to call 911 to sic the police on dockless bike riders, it is entirely appropriate to call 311, if you see any dockless bicycle parked illegally or inappropriately. Illegal and/or inappropriate parking of dockless bikes means any dockless bike that is parked on, or leaning against, private property, leaning against a tree or blocking access to a doorway or a Metro stop.”

Sam Zimbabwe of the D.C. Department of Transportation, which is overseeing the bike program, was cited by Abrams: “Bikes have to be parked to leave a pedestrian-clear zone of at least five feet.”

Abrams continued: “If the bikes impede a clearance zone of five feet they are a public hazard and need to be reported to 311 to have them removed. DDOT would rather we call the individual private dockless bike companies to have individual bikes removed by the companies themselves. That is both an undue burden on tax-paying citizens and a clear example of this ill-conceived and not-thoughtthrough dockless bike program. It’s a shame that we have to waste city money on calling 311 but DDOT has left us with no reasonable alternative. When 311 is called, they will also e-mail you a copy of your service request so be sure to ask for that documentation.”

The bike saga will continue (the trial period concludes in April), no doubt — and move in new directions and places.

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Take, for example, last week’s comment by Kevin Donohue, deputy mayor for public safety and justice: “Please don’t park your dockless bikes in the middle of the C&O Canal.” An

Ofo bike was shown on Twitter parked on the surface of the frozen canal, just west of Georgetown.

To boot, technically, dockless bike-share operations are not authorized to operate on National Park Service land. As the C&O Canal is part of the National Park Service, its spokeswoman Jenny Anzelmo-Sarles told WTOP, “While dockless bike share services do not currently have authorization to operate on National Park Service land in the D.C. area, we are actively engaged in dialogue with DDOT and bike share operators to address the issue.”

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TOWN TOPICS

War on Waste Widens: Yes to Clean Pizza Boxes Under the motto of “Zero Waste,” the District Department of Public Works has issued new regulations, effective Jan. 1, expanding the number of items for residents to recycle. The list is now the same for residential and commercial users. But there is some confusion.

For instance, under the plastic category, no plastic bags, straws or utensils nor items made from foam polystyrene (often mistaken for Styrofoam, which is banned in the District) can be recycled. Bulky plastic items such as old buckets can be recycled as long as they are clean.

Pizza boxes are now recyclable, along with other paper goods such as magazines, newspapers, books, phone books, junk mail and office paper. However, to be recycled, pizza boxes — like paper and plastic plates, cups, bottles and other food containers — must be clean and empty of any trace of organic material.

The same goes for metal and glass items, including steel and aluminum bottles, cans and containers. Paint cans are still not accepted. As for glass recyclables, no windows or ceramics are accepted.

At 31st & South Streets, where townhouse suites sit above the street, next to the Rosewood Hotel.

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Rosewood to Annex Townhouses

Almost all food-service containers can now be recycled. However, they have to be larger than two inches by two inches and must be clean and empty (no organic waste).

Recyclables do not have to be bagged; they can be left loose in the recycling container.

DPW proclaims that it has a citywide goal of getting 80 percent of waste out of landfills. For details, visit zerowaste.dc.gov.

A design proposal by the Rosewood Hotel — next to the C&O Canal at 1050 31st St. NW — to convert six neighboring one-bedroom townhouses into luxury hotel suites was approved Jan. 3 by the Georgetown-Burleith Advisory Neighborhood Commission.

The townhouse hotel suites would “fill a niche market,” according to Rosewood Managing Director Pascal Forotti. “They would provide the services of a hotel but with more independence.”

Each townhouse would offer a ground-floor living room, a kitchen area, a single bedroom and a bathroom, plus an outdoor garden patio with a bistrot table and chairs. Each is about 1,000 square feet and could be rented by the day, the week, the month or even the year. Rates have not yet been determined, but a night’s lodging in one of the hotel’s suites runs between $1,000 and $3,000.

The idea was met with mixed feelings by the neighborhood last month. On the one hand, the hotel has been a classy addition to the neighborhood, according to Citizens Association of Georgetown spokesperson

Elsa Santoyo. On the other hand, extending the hotel by buying and painting six adjoining townhouses all the same color and with the same décor (identical awnings, etc.) would take away from Georgetown’s character of individuality. “We want to be sure the individualization does not disappear,” Santoyo said.

“Generally, we welcome it, but want to have a conversation about the details,” said Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner Lisa Palmer, in whose district the project lies.

“We want to make sure they respect the history of the area, where multiple individual townhouses were built from the 1800s.”

At press time, the hotel had agreed not to install awnings and to allow each townhouse to retain different exterior paint colors. The ANC concurred with architect Michael Winstanley’s plans to renovate the townhouses and repair windows, fix the walkways and the like for the owner, 31st Street Townhouses LLC. The specific properties are located at 1026, 1032, 1040 and 1042 31st St. NW and 3103 and 3105 South St. NW.

DC Streetcar Is Jan. 23 Topic An environmental assessment of the proposed Union Station-to-Georgetown streetcar will be reviewed at a public meeting on Jan. 23 at 6 p.m. in Room 108 of George Washington University’s Funger Hall, 2201 G St. NW. It will be the fourth planning meeting held over the past several years about the Georgetown streetcar link. This one will focus on potential storage and maintenance sites for new streetcar vehicles, which cannot be accommodated in existing facilities. It will also provide an update on the technical analysis being prepared by the Department of Transportation in accordance with national environmental policy and historic preservation regulations.

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link were not included in the District’s $13.8-billion 2018 budget, approved by the Council last June. The Council approved $6.6 million for the Benning Road Extension, giving that project full funding of $199 million, but $35 million for streetcar replacement was eliminated.

Council Chair Phil Mendelson had proposed cutting all streetcar funds a few weeks earlier, calling the project “horribly botched,” “wildly unpopular” and “a novelty that was likely to remain so.” Later, however, he conceded that extending the H/Benning segment made sense.

The Benning Road Extension is expected to begin construction in 2021, with completion in 2023. The current 2.4-mile H/Benning segment opened in February of 2016.

Pascal Forotti.

Burleith Pop-Up Gets Thumbs Down A request for a special zoning exception to build what is known as a pop-up house addition in Burleith at 3608 S St. NW engendered a lively discussion, passionate opposition by several neighbors in attendance, additional opposition in writing and finally a vote of unanimous disapproval by the GeorgetownBurleith Advisory Neighborhood Commission at its Jan. 3 meeting.

The planned house reconstruction would not only have almost tripled the size of the current home, from 1,038 square feet to 2,850, it would also have “popped up” the house

vertically, adding a full-floor third story with a balcony and a roof deck (roof decks are generally allowed in Burleith, but not in Georgetown).

Some 15 neighbors objected, saying that the addition was too big and of a massing inappropriate to the neighborhood and that it would reduce privacy and block sunlight from neighboring yards. That the immediate neighbor did not object was given little weight, since that home’s owner is an absentee landlord.

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CR IM E & PU B L I C SA F ET Y

Crime Stats, Food Trucks Discussed at ANC Circulator Comments Due Feb. 9 Major service and fare adjustments are being proposed for the DC Circulator buses, with the public invited to submit comments through Monday, Feb. 5.

Among the proposed changes is elimination of unlimited-use paper passes, which are valid only on the DC Circulator. The Circulator will continue to accept the unlimited Regional Bus Pass available on SmarTrip cards. No change is proposed to the base fare of $1 per trip.

DDOT is also formally proposing that the Georgetown-Union Station route include

regular late-night service between McPherson Square and Union Station from 9 p.m. to 3 a.m. on Friday and Saturday evenings.

“The service changes are intended to better align our resources with growing activity centers and improve the reliability of the service,” said DDOT Acting Director Jeff Marootian.

Details about the proposed service and fare adjustments, as well as the final Transit Development Plan document, can be viewed or downloaded at dccirculator.com/tdp2017.

During the public safety report at the Jan. 3 Georgetown-Burleith Advisory Neighborhood Commission meeting, Valerie Stewart of the Metropolitan Police Department said that, compared to the same 90-day period a year ago, there were three more thefts from an automobile, three more stolen automobiles and one more robbery. That same day, Stewart said, MPD arrested three women for shoplifting at an M Street store.

Stewart moved onto the issue of food trucks on Thomas Jefferson Street. She said she had received one complaint and had issued two tickets. The parking spots are for one hour only and the trucks

overstayed — "parking there all day," she said. The trucks are not part of a Department of Public Works lottery system that allows for longer stays. Stewart also indicated that the trucks in question had Virginia tags and may have violated some DPW regulations.

One neighbor knowledgeable about the food trucks on Thomas Jefferson Street said he considered them a nuisance at the very least — noisy, taking up spaces and sometimes blocking traffic. Several vehicles have a large number of outstanding parking tickets, he added. “Some kind of collusion is going on with DPW,” he said.

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EDITORIAL / OPINION

Jack Evans Report

Handling Dockless Bikes

BY JAC K EVAN S

The Muffled Roar of Change When we look back and look forward, change is always in the middle, the motor of any discussion.

In looking back at 2017, you can hear singular themes being struck. There’s a kind of muffled roar just outside your door.

It was, almost sad to say, the year of Donald Trump in Washington, D.C., as president of the nation, as chief of state, chief topic of conversation and chief stirrer of the chaos coffee cup with his constant tweets — the presence of which has now become institutionalized, at least for the duration.

This is not meant to be a discussion of Trump policies and popularity, such as they are, but rather of how the president, like no other, dominates media attention.

This often results in forgetting local concerns, both in our neighborhoods and in the city as a whole. In Georgetown, the powers that be and we as citizens have debated such matters as K Street traffic congestion, the everpresent West Heating Plant, the Mount Zion reclamation, the C&O Canal restoration and M Street condos. There are positive signs that more and more of us — community groups, businesses and residents — are collaborating.

In the city, including Georgetown, the economic expansion is obvious when we look at cranes on the landscape or revel in the impressive completion of the Wharf project, among others.

More and more neighborhoods are becoming revitalized at rapid speed — Petworth, for instance, and all roads leading to Anacostia. Folks in Adams Morgan await the opening of a new hotel and progress on a big (and controversial) construction project on Columbia Road. Meantime, there is no lack of new restaurants in what is becoming America’s eat-out city.

Yet, there is reason for disquietude. While crime statistics — including homicides — appear to be dipping from last year, a number of particularly violent killings have, by their sheer shock value and tragedy, undermined that notion of improvement.

The difficulty of defining — never mind solving — the District’s affordable housing challenges continues to confound legislators, the mayor and the Council. That means that efforts to enlarge help for the homeless (especially with weather like we’ve had lately) are also lagging.

Schools are making progress, but there’s that scandal at Ballou High School to consider.

We have an election coming up, although it may not be particularly dramatic, since there appear to be no viable challengers to incumbent Mayor Muriel Bowser.

More change is coming. Prosperity is still prosperous. And President Trump is still tweeting.

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Your editorial in the Dec. 20, 2017, Georgetowner is spot on. Our deliveries have been later and later, some after 8 p.m., letter carriers wearing lights on their heads like coal miners. But you missed another, even more serious problem: Firstclass mail being delivered to the wrong address. At least twice a week, we receive someone else’s mail — we can only wonder what is not being delivered to us.

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Last year, five dockless bike-share companies, each with its own colorful fleet of bikes, rolled out their products onto the streets of Washington, D.C. Since last September, the District Department of Transportation has been researching and reviewing the use of the bikes to determine if they have a future in our city.

Four Ward 2 advisory neighborhood commissions hosted a December town hall with representatives from DDOT, who presented the latest findings from the first three months of the demonstration period. Avid and casual bikers, as well as non-bikers, asked an array of questions. The one thing in common among the questions from the audience was that there were genuine concerns about having these bikes strewn about without any controls.

I’ve seen this on a daily basis when I go running and travel throughout the ward.

Whether it’s at the waterfront, at Memorial Bridge, at parks or on sidewalks, it’s obvious to me that these bikes are unsightly and can be dangerous.

Month after month, my office continues to receive messages from constituents about the same concerns raised at the town hall. Needless to say, many people around Ward 2 have mixed

feelings about the latest way to travel in the District — especially since many of the bikes end up in our neighborhoods.

Overall, I believe that bike-sharing is an important option for residents across the District to have, for commuting and for getting around. We should be open-minded when new methods of travel are introduced, but also take note of how these methods can be controlled and improved for most peoples’ needs.

Pedestrians and disabled individuals need to have open walkways without dockless bikes obstructing their path. I want Washington to continue to be a vibrant city with walkable, livable and safe neighborhoods.

The demonstration period ends in April and the community is being asked to identify any misuse. Refrain from calling the police about dockless bikes and those who ride them. I know it’s frustrating for many residents when bikes are blocking driveways and sidewalks. Instead, you should call 311 (or the number on the bike) if you see a bike improperly parked or if a bike might cause a dangerous situation.

Send your thoughts and concerns to dockless. bikeshare@dc.gov.

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

Predictions for Georgetown

BY PEGGY SAN D S Seems like everything is in transition right now, Georgetown included.

Though some businesses — like Martin’s Tavern and Georgetown Tobacco — have become iconic Georgetown brands that everyone needs to visit, some businesses will shudder or retire (as did Appalachian Spring and Unum) and others make their entrance, more and more often as pop-up shops.

The demographics of Georgetown are changing, and so are the services in demand.

Here are four broad predictions for 2018.

BUSINESS The business environment in Georgetown will keep on improving in 2018. Yes, there have been some disappointing closures, but there has also been renewal. Consider Thor Equities’ Latham Hotel reconstruction, which is moving along and attracting other investors to the block.

There is the added support from the Georgetown Business Improvement District, the Georgetown Business Association and the newly funded Georgetown Main Street.

While there is serious new competition for Georgetown’s restaurants and shops from other parts of redeveloping Washington, D.C., “Georgetown’s advantage is to continue to be a unique destination,” one restaurateur told The Georgetowner. “We will draw visitors and locals alike to Georgetown because of our world-renowned charm and historic places.

We need to offer unique experiences to be that destination place.”

DEMOGRAPHICS Georgetown has evolved into a family town of professional working millennials, 40-somethings with small children, well-off empty-nesters and international professionals. They are

multinationals who prefer the green, urban, engaged lifestyle: walkable neighborhoods near to shops, markets, restaurants, parks, bike paths, museums, think tanks, the river, historic sites, cafes and nonprofit volunteer opportunities and events. The challenge for developers and architects is how to address this diverse population within the footprint of tightly spaced homes and properties.

SERVICES With an increasingly age-diverse population, Georgetown will see more growth in services and facilities for families and seniors. Public schools, parks and senior-citizen organizations like Georgetown Village and Georgetown Senior Center — part of the “aging in place” or “aging in the community” movement — are definitely about to boom. This will also support the expansion of home-delivery services, the vehicles of which will come to clog more Georgetown streets more frequently.

JOBS The working world is changing, perhaps fastest of all, because of the internet and robots.

But people are social creatures and the human touch is irreplaceable. Job counselors now tell high school students and midlife careerchangers to choose a field that cannot be done by a robot or be “Amazonized.” Creative tasks remain that require human intuition and relationship building — jobs safe from robots, according to experts. These include service jobs, especially in the health, teaching, social and law-enforcement fields. In Georgetown, personal attention, friendliness, flexibility and personal customer knowledge have kept — and will keep — wonderful little stores in business for decades.

IN YOUR TOWN

COMMUNITY CALENDAR THE VI LLA GE THURS., JANUARY 11 ORAL ARGUMENT ON AIRPLANE NOISE

Georgetown and surrounding neighborhoods, in the form of the D.C. Fair Skies Coalition, is mounting a final legal challenge to the FAA’s flight-plan changes that have resulted in excessive airplane noise disrupting the quality of life in our neighborhoods.

The oral argument will be heard by the Federal Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit at 9 a.m. (arrive by 8:45 a.m.) in Courtroom 31 of the E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse,

Neighborhood Walk With D.C. Officials

Dumpsters, Noise, Traffic

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Georgetown’s Outreach and Service Specialist in the Mayor’s Office of Community Relations and Services (MOCRS) PERSONAL CONTACT Rich.livingstonedc.gov 202-535-1639 (work) 202-805-7122 (mobile) Livingstone is one of two specialists for Ward 2 and one of a total of 16 for D.C.’s eight wards.

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WED., JANUARY 17

GBA NETWORKING MEETING The Georgetown Business Association will hold its monthly reception at 6:30 p.m. at a location TBD. For details, visit georgetownbusiness.org.

TUES., JANUARY 23

CAG MONTHLY MEETING The Citizens Association of Georgetown will meet at 7 p.m. at Halcyon Arts Lab at Fillmore School, 1801 35th St. NW. Members will learn about Halcyon’s new arts program at the Corcoran’s former Georgetown campus. For details, visit cagtown.org.

THURS., JANUARY 25 HISTORIC PRESERVATION REVIEW BOARD

The District’s Historic Preservation Review Board will meet at 9 a.m. at 441 4th St. NW in Room 220 South. For details, visit planning.dc.gov.

MON., JANUARY 29

ADVISORY NEIGHBORHOOD COMMISSION 2E ANC 2E represents the Burleith, Georgetown and Hillandale neighborhoods and reviews development in the historic district and local liquor licenses. The monthly meetings begin at 6:30 p.m. at Georgetown Visitation Prep, Heritage Room, 2nd floor, 35th Street and Volta Place NW. For details, visit anc2e.com.

THURS., FEBRUARY 1

OLD GEORGETOWN BOARD OGB meetings are held at 9 a.m. on the first Thursday of every month except August at the National Building Museum, 401 F St. NW, Suite 312. For details, visit cfa.org.

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B Y P E G GY SAN D S More than a dozen officials from the District’s police, fire, waste disposal, public health, safety, public works, planning and transportation departments — along with Richard Livingstone, the mayor’s Ward 2 liaison, and Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner Jim Wilcox — spent almost two hours on Dec. 21 walking through the east side of Georgetown.

They met on the sidewalk and in the middle of streets and yards with homeowners and tenants, taking pages of notes about problems that the Georgetowners brought up.

Among the issues discussed were pothole repairs, garbage pickup, tree health and the response to downed cable wires and gas leaks, as well as parking spaces taken up by construction vehicles.

Officials also got a good look at the frequently chaotic traffic situation on 28th Street between M and Olive Streets NW. For 10 minutes, they observed traffic flow come to a dead stop, as both sides of the street were filled with legally parked cars while two more cars parked illegally on the M Street corners to pick up food at corner eateries.

In the meantime, cars from M Street and Pennsylvania Avenue tried to turn onto 28th Street and others tried to enter the M Street mainstream from 28th. At the same time, two cars from opposite sides of the street were trying to back into the middle of 28th from small driveways. “A lot of rude behavior going on,” remarked one official.

But the most consistent complaint was about dumpsters taking up three to four parking spaces — usually half of the block or more if there are driveways — on residential streets, for weeks, months and even (in one case presented to the visiting officials) for almost three years. That was the dumpster on the 2900 block of Dumbarton Street.

Though the large home on the corner of Dumbarton and 30th Streets has been under construction for years, the demolition requiring

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Among the issues discussed were pothole repairs, garbage pickup, tree health and the response to downed cable wires and gas leaks, as well as parking spaces taken up by construction vehicles. the large dumpster took only a few weeks, pointed out complaining neighbors. Now, it seems, the dumpster is permanently parked there for construction clean-up purposes.

The noise from the construction, between 7 a.m. and 4 p.m., has been constant as well, according to neighbors. And, until recently, a portable toilet was parked visibly on the sidewalk curb strip.

Livingstone agreed that the city could explore options to long-term construction noise and dumpster parking.

Three Metropolitan Police Academy cadets accompanied the group throughout the walk. They and police officers were pleased to note that there had been no complaints about safety and crime.

The walk-through was part of a new city program to record neighborhood issues “on the ground.” Livingstone assured The Georgetowner that there would be follow-up on the issues raised by residents.

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INS & OUTS

BY R OBE RT DEVA NEY

News Outlets Make Their Own Headlines The year 2017 ended and the year 2018 began with a couple of bangs in local journalism. The endangered Washington City Paper was saved by entrepreneur Mark Ein and the Current Newspapers, Inc., filed for Chapter 11. While

the first item is a happy rescue, the second bit of news is a cry for a lifeline. (A bit earlier, in November, snarky online news outlet DCist closed unexpectedly.)

Mark Ein Buys Washington City Paper It’s a good news story in the world of print journalism. On Dec. 21, local entrepreneur and investor Mark Ein, founder of the Washington Kastles World Team Tennis franchise and chairman and CEO of Capitol Investment Corp IV and Venturehouse Group, LLC, announced his intent to purchase the ailing Washington City Paper from Nashville-based owner SouthComm, Inc. The newspaper was for sale since October with no buyer in sight.

Ein’s surprising pre-Christmas involvement energized and delighted the feisty newspaper’s staff and supporters. Social media comments included “Much like Tiny Tim, the Washington City Paper @wcp did NOT die” and “Bountiful holiday gratitude.”

Besides providing financial stability, Ein intends to add a group of advisors as well as an

alumni group of former WCP staffers. Alexa Mills remains as WCP editor. “It’s impossible to overstate the importance of high quality journalism — particularly today,” Ein said.

“Every thriving community needs strong local news, and Washington City Paper has been a critical part of the fabric of our city, and a great incubator of journalistic talent, for decades. With a talented staff and the support of our initial groups of respected journalistic veterans and business and civic leaders, I want to do everything I can to insure that the City Paper continues producing great journalism and responsible local news for decades to come.”

The sale is to be completed by this week.

As to the transaction, “Ein paid $50,000 and agreed to assume the paper’s lease,” according to Washingtonian magazine.

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5 Eateries Closed Around New Year’s Georgetown took a hit in losing five eateries by the start of January.

The five are Unum, Maxime, Pier 2934, TbSP The Best Sandwich Place and TJ’s Gourmet Deli.

On the 2900 block of M Street, Unum closed in December. Next-door neighbor Maxime closed about a week ago — joined by their neighbor across the street at the corner of 30th and M, Cajun restaurant Pier 2934.

Down the street inside Jefferson Court was TJ’s Gourmet Deli, a breakfast and lunch sandwich joint with cold and hot buffets.

At Washington Harbour, next to Bangkok

Joe’s at the entrance to the esplanade, was TbSP The Best Sandwich Place.

Nearby, along Thomas Jefferson Street between K Street and the C&O Canal, several food trucks remain. They park on the east side of the street and feed the parking meters during the day to stay in their spots. How these food trucks may have contributed to the restaurant closures is uncertain.

As for the more upscale Unum and Maxime, several insiders said that the plan is to combine the two buildings and open another restaurant, owned by Middle Eastern investors who also own restaurants outside the U.S.

Current Newspapers Files for Chapter 11 This is a bad news story in the world of print journalism. The Current Newspapers, Inc., filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Jan. 3.

Headquartered at 5185 MacArthur Boulevard NW, the newspaper company celebrated its 50th anniversary in November. It began in 1967 as the Potomac Current but changed its name to the Northwest Current, later adding editions for Chevy Chase, Dupont Circle, Foggy Bottom and Georgetown. It hopes to restructure the business and operate normally, with the first issue of 2018 expected Jan. 10. The company’s lawyer is Philip McNutt of Hughes & Bentzen, PLLC, on Connecticut Avenue.

According to records at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Columbia, the Current

Pillar & Post Wins Holiday Window Competition “Staring in other people’s windows encouraged!” was the tagline for the Georgetown Business Improvement Association’s sixth annual Holiday Window Competition. When voting closed at 5 p.m. on New Year’s Eve, Pillar & Post — the British-themed antiques and home-décor shop at 1647 Wisconsin Ave. NW — was declared the winner, with 558 votes on the BID’s Facebook page (where photos of the windows may still be viewed).

Restaurants Unum and Maxime — at 2917 and 2915 M St. NW, respectively — have closed.

Newspapers has more than $1.2 million in liabilities and less than $50,000 in assets. The biggest debtor claims include $180,000 by Gannett Company printers and $105,000 by Bartash Printing, Inc., of Philadelphia. (The deadline for filing claims is May 18; for claims by the government, July 2.)

Davis Kennedy, the Current’s editor and publisher, who bought the company in 1994, wrote in a letter to the court: “Due to an interruption in cash flow resulting from outside printing costs, the Company needs to reorganize its business operations and finances in order to continue to serve its constituents with the same quality they have come to expect over the past number of years.”

ICYMI: Recent Ins & Outs of Note Leaving in ’18: Morton’s the Steakhouse.

According to the property owner of the complex, Georgetown Court, 3251 Prospect St. NW, as well as a real estate agency, Morton’s, the upscale steak restaurant, will depart its Georgetown location during the first half of next year. Morton’s has been on Prospect Street for almost 30 years. Connor McCarthy of Miller Walker Retail Real Estate said the 7,000-square-foot retail-restaurant space will be available in the spring of 2018 and has advertised it as such. Morton’s has not responded to inquiries from The Georgetowner.

IN: Paradiso Game Room is coming to Pizzeria Paradiso, 3282 M St. NW. It’s a basement game room with darts, pinball, video games and other playful activities.

IN: Guapo’s Tex-Mex restaurant will open soon at Washington Harbour, 3050 K St. NW, next to Nick’s Riverside Grill in front of the ice rink. The family-owned business has other locations in Tenleytown; Shirlington, Virginia; and Bethesda, Maryland.

OUT: The Daily Grill restaurant at the Georgetown Inn, 1310 Wisconsin Ave. NW, closed Dec. 17.

OUT: Johnson’s Florist & Garden Center, 4200 Wisconsin Ave. NW, the go-to garden business known to generations of Georgetowners, will close by Jan. 14. The 84-year-old business announced the closure in a letter and cited a “significant” hike in rent “and other related fees of occupancy” by the property owner, American University.

While its location off Van Ness Street will close, Johnson’s will continue to operate other stores in Kensington and Olney, Maryland. A demonstration to save the Tenleytown store was held at AU’s Katzen Arts Center on Jan. 4.

FOR SALE: Pearson’s Liquor, 2434 Wisconsin Ave. NW, is for sale — building and business — for $5.2 million. The business was founded in 1933. The store continues to operate. The Pearson’s parking lot with 18 spaces is also available in a separate sale.

BUSINESS

Georgetown’s Cafe Tu-o-tu Turns 15

BY SEL MA K HENISS I Upon entering Cafe Tu-o-tu, a newcomer notices how small the ordering space is, but also the warmth and welcome that emanate from the staff. Owner Mino Sarano, 56, says that he wishes he could expand the kitchen space, which he describes as very small. “It’s hard to expand,” he says of his Pennsylvania Avenue location, near the Four Seasons at Georgetown’s eastern gateway.

The original idea to open a Georgetown eatery came from a woman who became Sarano’s partner in launching Cafe Tu-o-tu in 2003. Four years later, when she got married, he became sole owner of the business.

The café is known for its coffee and there is a wide selection of salads, appetizers, paninis, sandwiches and wraps, plus Turkish baklava for dessert. The food is described as “Mediterranean food with a little Turkish twist.” Sarano estimates that there are more than 45 items from which customers can choose.

Among the sandwiches of note is the Fontina a la Turca panini, which features the Turkish cured-meat product sucuk, brought in from New Jersey. “Customers really like Fontina a la Turca,” he says. Another good seller is the kofte sandwich, lamb patties served in pita bread. The most popular seller,

[SARANO] BELIEVES IN USING FRESH INGREDIENTS AND IN PROVIDING REALLY GOOD SERVICE IN A FAMILY-FRIENDLY ENVIRONMENT.

Mino Sarano. Photo by Robert Devaney. however, is the chicken caprese melt.

Sarano moved to the United States from Istanbul in 1981 with his mother and three brothers, all of whom live 20 minutes apart.

He says that his family likes what he does and knows what kind of food he can whip up. “I bring them food, so they like it.”

If you expect the menu to change, don’t hold

your breath — Sarano believes in keeping the menu the same. He also believes in using fresh ingredients and in providing really good service in a family-friendly environment. “I always think I’m different from the others,” he says.

This business model worked well for him until 2016, with sales increasing every year

since Cafe Tu-o-tu opened. This past year, however, he has seen the business falter.

“Business is slower than before,” he says.

Sarano, though, is optimistic about this setback going away. “I think we will get back to normal soon.”

What is clear is the effort that Sarano has put into Cafe Tu-o-tu — and continues to, usually working six days a week. He is also seeking to increase sales by using technology to update his delivery service. “I have another 10 years at least,” he says.

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The Auction Block

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FREEMAN’S “Les Ombres Sur la Prairie” Blanche Hoschedé-Monet (1865– 1947) Estimate: $40,000 – $60,000 Auction Date: January 23 Blanche Hoschedé-Monet became part of a family at the core of the French Impressionist movement when her mother became Claude Monet’s second wife. She subsequently married Monet’s eldest son, Jean. Encouraged by her stepfather, she would paint next to him, and soon became his assistant and sole pupil. This painting depicts a field of poplar trees at Ajoux, between Giverny and the Seine.

DOYLE NEW YORK Gold-Mounted Quartz Model of a Duckling, 1899-1907 Fabergé, St. Petersburg Estimate: $15,000 – $25,000 Auction Date: January 31

Doyle will hold an auction of Russian Works of Art, showcasing a wide selection of Fabergé, icons, silver, bronzes and memorabilia from private collections, including works from the descendants of Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna and Grand Duke George Mikhailovich. Members of the imperial family purchased several hardstone models of ducks from Fabergé.

SOTHEBY’S “Samson Captured by the Philistines” Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, called Il Guercino (1591–1666) Estimate: $80,000 – $100,000 Auction Date: January 31 This powerful drawing by Guercino is a newly discovered compositional study for a painting now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. According to biographer Carlo Cesare Malvasia, the painting was executed in Ferrara in 1619 for Cardinal Jacopo Serra, the papal legate to the city. The drawing is the most finished preparatory study for the painting that has so far been identified.

BONHAMS Album of 47 Photographs of Hawaii, 1874-77 Estimate: $11,000 – $16,000 Auction Date: February 7 This early album of photographs of Hawaii, part of Bonhams’ Travel and Exploration Sale, was assembled between 1874 and 1877. Including five prints signed

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FREEMAN’S Rolex Watch With “Pepsi” Bezel, c. 1967 Auction Date: December 13 Estimate: $15,000 – $25,000 Final Selling Price: Unsold

DOYLE NEW YORK “Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite Valley, California,” 1944 Ansel Adams (1902–1984) Auction Date: December 14 Estimate: $25,000 – $35,000 Final Selling Price: $62,500

SOTHEBY’S Bronze Polish Synagogue Menorah Auction Date: December 20 Estimate: $7,000 – $10,000 Final Selling Price: $7,500

BONHAMS Tiffany Studios Table Lamp, c. 1905 Auction Date: December 14 Estimate: $50,000 – $70,000 Final Selling Price: $143,750

DOWNTOWNER

BY KATE O CZYPO K

Frigid temps have set off a wave of water main breaks.

Cold Is Cracking Water Mains Frigid temperatures in the D.C. area — along with a “bomb cyclone” — have set off a wave of water main breaks. Several were reported in the past two weeks, including two in Alexandria, Virginia, and one that shut down two lanes of traffic in Oxon Hill, Maryland.

Police Vehicle Kills Pedestrian

White: Investigate Graduation Scandal

Sen. Hatch Won’t Run Again

Maryland State Police are trying to identify an 18-to-20-year-old African American man hit and killed by a Metro Transit Police patrol vehicle in Brandywine, the Washington Post reported. The incident happened at 12:54 p.m. on New Year’s Day at the intersection of northbound Route 301 and Chadds Ford Drive.

The victim had attempted to cross where there was no crosswalk. The driver was a K-9 officer headed into work with his dog.

Council member Robert White has called for an independent investigation into the revelation that half of the Ballou Senior High School class of 2017 received diplomas but did not meet the basic requirements to graduate. In a statement, White said: “It is fully insufficient that the investigation into this matter is looking only at the school that made the news and not our public school system as a whole.”

Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) will retire rather than seek reelection, WUSA-9 reported. Hatch, who is 83 years old, is the longest serving Republican in the Senate, where he chairs the Senate Finance Committee. His retirement gives former presidential candidate Mitt Romney a chance to take his seat.

MPD: No 911 for Dockless Bikes

New Affordable Housing Regulations

The Metropolitan Police Department told residents to “refrain from dialing 911 to report suspicious activity for merely utilizing bikeshare services.” According to WTOP, a Georgetown listserv told neighbors to report the shared bikes — the colorful dockless ones in particular — to the police. Dockless bikeshare companies operating in D.C. include Jump, LimeBike, Mobike, Ofo and Spin.

D.C. has rolled out 11 pages of regulations to save affordable homes. Mayor Muriel Bowser said in her State of the District Address in March 2017 that her administration would put into effect a decade-old law designed to preserve low-income housing. Though the rules are now on paper, the funding must still be identified, Washington City Paper reported.

Children’s Museum to Reopen in Reagan Building

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The National Children’s Museum will reopen in March 2019 in the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, the museum’s third home since it opened in 1974.

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Looking LOOKING Back, FORWARD in Georgetown

BY RO BERT DEVANEY

“Twilights Last Gleaming” by Jeff Kouri.

With a year that saw a new Duke Ellington School and a Halcyon Arts Lab, we await the reopening of Dumbarton Oaks Gardens and water back in the C&O Canal — and a lot more.

A

s part of its new year’s reflections, The Georgetowner looked both back and forward with several community leaders — asking what were the challenges and accomplishments of 2017 and what they expect to see in 2018 — all the while keeping our eyes on the prize: a prosperous future for Georgetown.

STUDYING AND CHANGING TRAFFIC First, we asked about achievements in 2017. Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner Lisa Palmer named three: working with the District Department of Transportation to secure a promise for a traffic circulation study for key areas in Georgetown; getting

approval for modifications to K/Water Street, including installation of a bike lane; and bringing new members onto the ANC. “While I would have preferred to have said that the [traffic circulation] study has already been undertaken and changes are in the works,” said Palmer, “I appreciate that some of this work, including a traffic light study for K Street, has already begun and the rest will begin this spring. We are pleased to see that DDOT is already active and engaged in working to make getting in, around and out of Georgetown a more pleasant — and tenable — experience.”

She was clearly optimistic about the commission’s new blood, saying, “Not only is our ANC bright, thoughtful

and committed, but we also have a healthy respect for each other and each others’ opinions. This respect allows for commissioners to advocate strongly for issues affecting each of our respective districts, while also keeping our collective eye on what is best for our community at large.”

Getting down to brass tacks, ANC Chair Joe Gibbons cited his work with Commissioner Jim Wilcox on the Old Georgetown Board’s neighbor notification requirements.

In October of 2016, a law came into effect establishing notification requirements concerning certain applications for the demolition, construction and alteration of buildings, including applications made to the Commission of Fine Arts for concept and permit review.

Gibbons explained that the law requires the following actions to be taken immediately after an application is filed: (1) a notice of the application must be posted in plain view at the front of each property and building subject to review; and (2) the applicant must provide three items by hand delivery or by U.S. mail with a certificate of mailing both to the owners of record of all confronting or abutting properties and to the affected ANCs. “From the ANC’s experience in processing and evaluating applications to the Old Georgetown Board and the Commission of Fine Arts, although these legal requirements have been in effect for approximately five months now, compliance appears to have been sporadic and inadequate,” said Gibbons.

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A highlight of 2017 for Gibbons was working with Commissioner Monica Roache on the cleanup and organization of the Mt. Zion/Female Union Band Cemetery at 27th and Q Streets last April. Georgetown Visitation Headmaster Dan Kerns organized the Father and Daughter Committee to

provide the “muscle”; local architect Outerbridge Horsey worked to map out the cemetery boundaries, graves and tombstones; and Chris Murphy of Georgetown University and Council member Jack Evans committed funds to carry out the work and help provide long-term financial security for the historic cemetery.

Wilcox, also a long-term member of the Georgetown Business Association’s board of directors, proudly recalled how he and Gibbons interceded when a city contractor attempted to asphalt a brick sidewalk in Georgetown. “Joe and I, along with Joe’s dog, Scout, had to stand in the area about to be covered in asphalt and refused to move unless arrested in order to stop the contractor from proceeding,” he said.

Another ANC success, according to Wilcox, was getting the Department of Transportation to implement a “public inconvenience fee” when dumpsters are left on Georgetown streets for excessive time periods.

GEORGETOWN HERITAGE, GEORGETOWN GATEWAYS Joe Sternlieb, CEO of the Georgetown Business Improvement District, said: “Many of the new ideas that the BID works on were developed during the community-wide planning process for ‘Georgetown 2028’ that we released four years ago. In 2017, working in collaboration with Georgetown Heritage, a nonprofit group that the BID helps support, preliminary plans for the C&O Canal renovation and reimagination were developed for community feedback.”

He listed several “Georgetown 2028” initiatives that moved forward in 2017, including completion of the preliminary plan for Georgetown’s gateways; the approval of the K/Water Street reconfiguration mentioned by Palmer; and expansion of the BID’s communications tools, including the new byGeorge blog.

In 2018, according to Sternlieb, the BID will be launching a project to discuss ways to improve communication about, and the permitting process for, historic preservation reviews done by the Old Georgetown Board (see Gibbons’s comments above); doing more public art projects and focusing more attention on improving the aesthetic conditions under the Whitehurst Freeway as part of the BID’s Gateway Improvement Project; working with property owners and restaurateurs to expand food and dining options in Georgetown; expanding the hours that “clean team” members are deployed by introducing new mechanical street-sweeping equipment in the morning; and planning a curbsidemanagement pilot along a few commercial stretches, designating loading and Uber or Lyft pickup zones.

Looking further ahead, Sternlieb said he was hopeful that the plans to install artistic lighting of the Key Bridge arches will be completed by 2019.

A MAIN STREET GRANT “One of the biggest accomplishments of the Georgetown Business Association, to date, is receiving a Main Street grant in 2017,” said Hope Solomon, president of the Georgetown Business Association.

“While GBA continues to lobby on behalf of the entire Georgetown business community, the GBA is thrilled to announce the arrival of a Georgetown Main Street,” Solomon said.

“The mission of GMS is to promote and retain diverse small and local businesses along the Wisconsin Avenue commercial corridor — from K Street NW to Whitehaven Parkway,” she added. “GMS will work collaboratively with the GBA and the Georgetown BID to support the already successful businesses within the corridor, while helping to attract new businesses and strengthen the neighborhood economically. It is a new day for the business community in Georgetown!”

GEORGETOWN COLLABORATORS Last year saw “the addition of two new security cameras by the Public Safety program, the planting of more than 60 new trees by Trees for Georgetown and three highly successful Concerts in the Parks,” said Leslie Maysak, executive director of the Citizens Association of Georgetown, adding that tells only part of CAG’s story.

“CAG works with many other

local community organizations as well as a number of city and government agencies including Georgetown Ministr y Center, Georgetown Garden Club, St. John’s Georgetown House Tour, Waterfront Park, Rose Park, Volta Park, Book Hill, Tudor Place, Dumbarton House and Georgetown Village,” she said.

“We have partnered with the BID, the ANC, GBA and Georgetown Heritage/National Park Service on various issues throughout the year and are also part of the Georgetown Parking Coalition, Fair Skies (Aircraft Noise reduction) and the Georgetown University Neighborhood Partnership.

CAG regularly interacts with the D.C. Council, Historic Preservation Review Board and Old Georgetown Board/ CFA on issues related to Georgetown.

All of these organizations collectively work to improve life in Georgetown as well as the entire District.”

CAG, GBA, the BID and the Burleith Citizens Association now have a monthly voice at ANC meetings, said Gibbons, who called the arrangement “influential, because the community organizations have a monthly interaction with ANC 2E that is not predicated on a particular issue.”

“The BID tries to do as much as possible in collaboration with our community partners at the ANC, CAG, GBA and Georgetown University,” said Sternlieb. “We have either organized or participated in working groups on the Georgetown gateways, weekend sidewalk widening, Georgetown boathouse planning, holiday lighting, gondola planning, public safety and parking during the last year. In all of these working groups, BID tries to develop a consensus plan that can be embraced by as much of the community as possible.”

PROBLEMS & GOALS What are the biggest problems facing Georgetown in 2018?

Gibbons said: “I personally think this question might have similar responses in any year: parking, zoning and trash.

However, within parking we have traffic flow problems and enforcement issues. In zoning, we have commercial usage in our residential areas that is not limited to alcohol being served, noise — HVAC and garbage, delivery trucks — and privacy concerns. The zoning issues also contain BZA situations that have drastic and immediate effects on our neighborhoods.

“Furthermore, the zoning issues also involve the misuse of public space that has significant detrimental effects on our residents. The trash issues, beside

rodent abatement, also include the actual placement of the trash receptacles [and] the type of trash, and recyclables such as glass and paper, not being properly disposed of in the receptacles, which causes the trash to be littered on our blocks.”

An issue for Wilcox is successfully addressing and managing developments south of M Street. “There are overlapping needs and/or desires to improve public safety, enhance bike transportation, ease congestion, restore and maximize the economic potential of the canal, restore or redevelop the West Heating Plant, while protecting the major sewer line running only a few inches below the existing foundation, accommodate a streetcar running from Union Station and enable DC Water to construct major facilities on or near K and Water Streets, which it believes are necessary to reduce stormwater pollution into the Potomac River. Successfully effectuating all of the above presents a challenge.”

Sternlieb said that many of the problems facing Georgetown are similar to those facing other parts of the city and the region. He named three: competition from new retail and dining centers; transportation, mobility and access; and rising internet sales, which “take an increasingly large bite out of brick-and-mortar retail sales.”

He pointed out that “Placemaking is becoming a more important part of what we do, to create a great environment where people want to come, and where businesses want to locate.”

“Competition across the city is growing and we don’t want to lose mindshare or heart-share to the other exciting destinations citywide,” said Palmer. “Managing traffic is one of the key ways that we can stay relevant to both our residents and those coming to visit.”

“Three of the current big problems in Georgetown are vacant commercial properties (especially large ones) and high commercial rents, rodents, and a continuing lack of support from the city for high quality public school choices in the immediate neighborhood,” Maysak said.

WHAT ARE SOME OF THE GOALS FOR GEORGETOWN IN 2018?

Sternlieb foresees a lot of progress on the Georgetown-Rosslyn Gondola Project, including the launch of the federal environmental impact process by the end of the year, and the beginning of the Gateway Improvement Project’s implementation, starting with some

actions on K Street.

Noting that the Georgetown “Glow” exhibition of light art has been extremely popular with both the public and the media, bringing more people into the neighborhood during the month of December, Sternlieb said that the BID intends to expand it further.

Palmer said she was hopeful that the ANC and the Georgetown Parking Working Group will come to a consensus to create and implement a curbside-management plan that prioritizes curbside parking for residents while balancing other stakeholder priorities.

The C&O Canal project was high on Palmer’s list. “While coming to a consensus on this opportunity will be a challenge,” she said, “I believe that the revitalization of this treasured and historic resource is the most exciting thing to happen in Georgetown since the creation of the Georgetown Waterfront Park. Then again, I may be biased — it runs right through my single-member district.”

Maysak concurred: “One of the biggest projects on the horizon is the rehabilitation of the canal and the creation of a vision for its thoughtful redevelopment.”

Another goal for Palmer is “maintaining our neighborhood as one of the safest in Washington, D.C., while addressing and reducing the crime in our neighborhood, which continues to occur in specific locations throughout ANC 2E.” “I think Georgetown residents and businesses are anxious to see what can be done to keep Georgetown competitive with other rising neighborhoods in the District like the Wharf, U Street and Barracks Row,” Maysak said. “In order to keep up with hipper areas and remain a dynamic destination and place to live, some thinking outside the traditional Georgetown box will be required.”

On the topic of goals in general, Gibbons said: “It seems that goals big or small [once] achieved lead to other challenges, so I would personally want to create understandings of what an achievement of a goal entails. I would like to see our community’s issues always discussed at our meetings and working groups for effective implementations and refinements.”

“I hope we can make a lot of progress during 2018,” concluded Wilcox, likely speaking for all the participants.

Throughout 2018, The Georgetowner will be seeking and sharing opinions on neighborhood issues from other community leaders, both via interviews and guest columns.

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Georgetown often struggles to keep up with the pace of the restaurant boom that’s sweeping across D.C. Much of the attention in 2017 focused on high-profile chefs and openings in neighborhoods like the Wharf and Shaw’s trendy Blagden Alley. That’s not to say that Georgetown was totally left out of the fun.

Newcomers like Falafel Inc., Ladurée and Blue Bottle coffee created significant buzz around the city.

As 2018 kicks off, we’re anticipating an exciting year eating and drinking across Georgetown. Here’s what we’re most looking forward to see come to the neighborhood over the next 12 months, from fine dining to casual retreats.

Reverie sets out to become a D.C. dining destination. Johnny Spero, currently executive

chef at Columbia Room, is inching closer to opening Reverie, his first solo restaurant.

The restaurant at 3210 Grace St. NW should quickly become a white-hot reservation for Washingtonians. Spero has also worked at Minibar, so expect both his a la carte and tasting menus to be packed with creative ingredients and modern twists. If you can’t wait until the late-spring opening, Reverie is hosting a $185 all-inclusive preview dinner at Columbia Room on Jan. 16, including six courses with cocktails.

Pizzeria Paradiso’s new basement bar brings the fun. Pizzeria Paradiso, an M Street

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202–333–4710 | dasethiopian.com DAS Ethiopian offers you a cozy two-story setting, with rare outside dining views and al fresco patio dining. DAS is located at the eclectically brilliant historic corner of the shopping district of Georgetown. A tent under which all come to feast is the very Amharic definition of DAS. Enjoy the casual yet refined atmosphere that serves up the freshest Ethiopian dishes from local and sustainable food sources.

202–338–8800 | filomena.com A Georgetown landmark for over 30 years featuring styles and recipes passed through generations.

Balanced cutting-edge culinary creations of modern Italy using the fresh ingredients and made-from-scratch sauces and pastas. Seen on The Travel Channel, Award-winning Filomena is a favorite of U.S. Presidents, celebrities, sports legends, political leaders. “Don’t miss their bakery’s incredible desserts” - Best in D.C.

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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.

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institution for more than 15 years, is taking the bar-arcade trend to Georgetown in 2018. Later this month, its basement beer bar will be reborn

as a game room with activities like skeeball, pinball and arcade games. Of course, you can still savor the restaurant’s signature pies and peruse its top-notch local beer selection.

Church arrives on M Street as a new go-to watering hole. The Georgetown Park retail

complex plans to get a new bar and restaurant this year, featuring pews and other Churchthemed décor. Come for beer, food and games along with a coffee menu by day. Church is being developed at 3222 M St. NW by the team behind other D.C. hangouts like Penn Social, Lost & Found and Franklin Hall. There’s no official opening date yet.

Guapo’s brings margaritas and tacos to the waterfront. It’s expected that Georgetown

will be the second D.C. location of this area Tex-Mex chain. The plan is for it to slot into the space formerly held by Orange Anchor at 3050 K St. NW. While the food may not be fourstar, it’s a tough-to-beat location for sipping tequila or sharing a sizzling plate of fajitas — especially when the summer heat kicks in.

José Andrés re-opens his America Eats Tavern. This one is a bit of wishful thinking.

The renowned chef closed the Tysons Corner location of his ode to American cooking in 2016 with the intent of bringing it across the Potomac in 2017. A year has passed with no word on its progress or location, leaving it all a bit of a mystery. Having chef Andrés in the neighborhood would certainly give it a culinary injection. Let’s see if 2018 is the lucky year.

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The St. Regis Washington, DC has grown its culinary footprint downtown. Sébastien Giannini has been named executive chef of the hotel’s new modern Mediterranean St. Regis Restaurant. He was most recently executive chef and culinary director at the five-star W Montreal.

Food Halls are the hot trend for 2018.

Forest City plans to open Quarter Market, a new 25,000-square-foot hall in the Ballston Mall space in Virginia. There will be more than 12 restaurants, including Timber Pizza Company; Bartaco, from the folks who brought you Barcelona Wine Bar; Buredo; Cucina Al Volo; Ice Cream Jubilee; Baltimore-based Mi & Yu Noodle Bar; Baltimore-based Pinch Dumplings; Rice Crook, from the folks who brought you Bun’d Up; and Swizzler (gourmet hot dogs). A fall opening is targeted.

Smoking Kow BBQ food truck owner Dylan Kough plans to open a real store in Alexandria, Virginia, at 3250 Duke St. where Sinbad Mediterranean Food & Bakery used to be. It will be a full-service restaurant as well as a commissary for the food trucks.

Currently, Smoking Kow cooks out of Union

Kitchen.

Guapo’s plans to open its ninth location at the Georgetown waterfront where Orange Anchor used to be. It will seat 110 with 50 on the outdoor patio. Jorge Figueredo from Think Food Group is the new director of operations and Sergio Galindo is the corporate chef.

Quick Hits: Duke’s Grocery is expanding to Foggy Bottom where Kinkead’s used to be at 2000 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. The 4,500-square-foot restaurant will be the largest of its restaurants, and will include an outdoor patio … The enormous St. James wellness and entertainment center coming to Springfield, Virginia, in 2018 will include a full-service restaurant, an upscale lounge and a market café, provided by Spike Mendelsohn. It will be open to the public as well as to St. James members, with indoor and outdoor seating.

Read more at Georgetowner.com

Linda Roth is president of Linda Roth Associates, a public relations and marketing firm that specializes in the hospitality industry. Reach her at linda@lindarothpr.com.

BODY & SOUL

7 Steps to

Winter Skin Survival

BY R EB E K A H KE L L E Y

Here are the steps to take.

DRINK LOTS OF WATER. In extreme winter conditions, dehydration is quick. Hydration is key, and only drinking water will hydrate your skin.

Beauty takes a beating during the winter months. Extreme cold saps the moisture from the air and sucks the life out of skin, leaving behind hair that is frizzy and full of electricity and dry, flaking skin. Ongoing harsh conditions create red and irritated skin conditions, including eczema, psoriasis and extreme dry skin (xerosis). Skin care routines need to be adjusted for weather, just like we add sweater layers and puffy coats to keep warm.

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SET UP A HUMIDIFIER. One of the first things that happen during cold weather is that heaters switch on. The air gets dryer, not only outside but inside.

WATCH THE HOT SHOWERS. They can warm us up on a cold day, but they also sap the moisture from skin. Dilating the capillaries of the skin increases redness.

Keep showers lukewarm and brief.

SWITCH TO OIL-BASED MOISTURIZERS and cleansers and stop using chemical- and petroleum-based products that strip skin.

When it comes to therapeutic ingredients, think “higher,” not “heavier.”

ROUTINE WILL SAVE YOU. Hydrate by the clock, drinking water and moisturizing on a schedule. Why? If you get behind, and your skin starts to dry out, it is hard to catch up.

Prevention, prevention, prevention.

CHOOSE HYDRATING and omega-rich foods that feed the body and the skin. Watch the caffeine and dehydrating foods and drinks, like coffee and alcohol.

BEWARE OF EXFOLIATION products and scrubs. These can make the situation worse and leave your skin more fragile and vulnerable. Save them for when the weather warms up.

These steps will help keep you beauty-ready through periods of extreme cold and dry weather, assisting you in banishing dry, dull, flaky and irritated skin during the winter.

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Cold weather doesn’t have to stop your active lifestyle. With the right gear, you can take on the frigid temperatures while staying warm and dry during your workouts. With a femininefitting silhouette, the Cold Gear Reactor 1/2 Zip shirt ($56) by Under Armour is designed to keep you warm in low temperatures without the bulk of heavy material and the risk of overheating. The sweat-wicking material comes with anti-odor technology that dries quickly and keeps you insulated. Smartwool’s PhD Wind Tights ($140) have a close-to-skin fit along with drawstrings for adjustable fit and secure zip pockets in the back. Made with a merino wool blend and nylon, these tights will help you resist odors while keeping you warm against the elements.

Lululemon Athletica’s Run Rulu Run Pants ($108) have a looser feel for coolweather outdoor training. These soft, joggerstyle pants are wind resistant, stretchy and naturally breathable. The Absolute Zip Sports Bra ($25.99) by Champion offers maximum support while keeping you dry using Vapor technology. This bra is perfect for those highintensity outdoor workouts. Its perforated bottom band, mesh panels and zipper-locking front makes adjusting to your level of comfort easy. Lululemon’s breathable, tech-friendly Run With Me Gloves ($28) provide stretchy reflective detail to get you noticed.

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IN COUNTRY

A Winter

GETAWAY to Maine

BY STE PHANIE GREE N Georgetowners mostly think of Maine as a summer destination — thanks, in part, to those images of the Bush clan in Kennebunkport, boating in Ray-Bans and popped collars.

But the best time to enjoy the state’s natural beauty and quiet sensibility may well be in the winter. Just a stone’s throw from Portland in Cape Neddick, Cliff House Maine is now open year-round after extensive renovations to the 226-room luxury resort. It is easily reached from Boston Logan Airport or Portland Jetport.

Set on Bald Head Cliff, with a 90-foot drop to the Atlantic, the hotel offers panoramic views of the ocean’s sprays and guestroom

terraces with camera-ready vistas of Nubble Lighthouse.

On my first trip to Maine last month, I enjoyed a pink sunrise from my room — while wrapped in the warmth of my hotel bathrobe — and the New England hospitality of the staff and the locals from the village of Ogunquit.

“This is the place for the outdoors enthusiast, or for those who want to pretend to be an outdoors enthusiast through glass,” General Manager Nancy White, a Georgetown University adjunct professor, tells me over coffee in the Tiller, the property’s restaurant.

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England and Washington, where she teaches students in Global Hospitality, a program she developed at Georgetown’s School of Continuing Studies for future embassy and luxury-market professionals as well as hoteliers.

It’s a teaching method she’s put to the test herself, overseeing renovations that included adding a new wing, a movie theater, a hot tub and a pool. Following the completion of the second phase of the resort’s transformation, 2018 will be the first year that Cliff House Maine will be open year-round since its founding in 1872, an exciting milestone for White and her staff.

Although Maine may not be Palm Beach, it still has its charms, even if you have to bundle up for them.

“This ocean, no matter what time of year, is magical and puts everything into perspective,” White explains.

The reduced rates, quietude and romantic ambiance of New England covered in snow offer the perfect escape for frazzled District folk.

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I experienced Maine’s wintry magic firsthand when I took a leisurely jaunt around Marginal Way, one of the region’s most iconic coastal walkways, perfect for cuddling on the numerous benches along the path. You will feel very proud of yourself for braving the cold — until you notice the surfers riding Page 1 breaking waves in the distance.

You can complete your stroll by stopping for breakfast or lunch at the Greenery Cafe, one of the many eateries that ooze Yankee charm and where you get perhaps the best maple syrup French toast I’ve ever had.

Boston; Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Portland and Freeport, headquarters of L.L.Bean, are all within a short drive, but

with all that the hotel has to offer, you would do just as well to stay put.

Lobster season is year-round in Maine. In addition to the elegant entrees in the Tiller, the resort has Nubb’s Lobster Shack with a more “Down East” pub vibe, ideal for watching the Super Bowl. Take your celebration outside with a s’mores kit for more cold cuddling around the fire pit.

The Spa at Cliff House, a favorite with locals and guests, is also newly open 12 months a year, offering its signature greentea facials and aromatherapy massages. The spa’s relaxation room has yet another floorto-ceiling view of the rocky shoreline below your freshly pedicured toes.

End your day with your snow boots propped up in front of Cliff House’s roaring fireplace.

You can even do some reading or reflection there. I found it always to be quiet, despite being the central hub of the property.

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VISUAL ARTS

Sylvia Plath

at the National Portrait Gallery

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s a writer, you will never run out of ways to improve. You will never simply get on top of it. It is a form of expression that allows in its best moments an opportunity to always surprise.

There is constant discovery that happens on the page. You can fail spectacularly in one moment and watch as dread consumes you, as you realize that the past hours of your life must ultimately be discarded. You can then experience a deep personal enlightenment, elating and fortifying, which will cause you to search indefinitely from that point forward for the chance to feel it again.

As a writer, you learn in the moment, through unmediated forces of internal processing and (at least for me) constant low-level anxiety — a balance of frustration and elation, knowledge and ignorance, showmanship and concealment, brashness and delicacy, joy and desperation. All the while you are struggling to communicate clearly, simply and beautifully, not for yourself, but for the sake of ideas you believe are worthy of sharing with the world.

Sylvia Plath was one of the first writers who showed me writing’s capacity for beauty.

Showing me that even achingly personal words can be worthy of sharing with the world, she violently changed my perspective.

Through May 20 at the National Portrait Gallery, audiences can explore the life of

this remarkable writer and thinker. “One Life: Sylvia Plath” is the first exploration of her life in a museum of art and history.

The exhibition reveals how Plath shaped her identity visually as she came of age as a writer in the 1950s. Visitors will get a look into Plath’s personal life and her dualistic nature — which she explained as her “brownhaired” and “platinum” personalities.

Plath was one of the most dynamic and admired poets of the 20th century. By the time she took her life in 1963, at the age of 30, she already had a following in the literary community. In the ensuing years, her work attracted the attention of a multitude of readers, who saw in her singular verse an attempt to catalogue despair, violent emotion and obsession with death.

Intensely autobiographical, Plath’s poems explore her own mental anguish, her troubled marriage to fellow poet Ted Hughes, her unresolved conflicts with her parents and her own vision of herself.

In the New York Times Book Review, Joyce Carol Oates described Plath as “one of the most celebrated and controversial of postwar poets writing in English.” Of her poems, Oates wrote that, “many of them … read as if they’ve been chiseled, with a fine surgical instrument, out of arctic ice.”

Through personal letters, her own artwork, family photographs and relevant objects,

Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath in Yorkshire, 1956.

Photo by Harry Ogden. Courtesy Smith College and NPG. the exhibition highlights Plath’s struggle to understand her own self and to navigate the societal pressures placed on young women during her time. Her Smith College thesis, “The Magic Mirror: A Study of the Double in Two of Dostoevsky’s Novels,” suggests that she took an academic approach to studying her own dualities.

The show features a carefully selected array of images and objects from the Plath archives at Smith College and Indiana University’s Lilly Library, two collections that have never been brought together before in a museum exhibition.

It is quietly devastating to see how happy she really does look in pictures. Like the midcentury American dream, she is beautiful, fair, smiling on a bicycle, sitting with her children in a spring meadow, posing both gracefully and facetiously as Marilyn Monroe on the beach or leaning contentedly into the square frame of her husband, Hughes.

Yet her words always invoked a darker landscape. I remember reading her poem

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Tokyo-based artist Hiroshi Sugimoto (b. 1948) and his architectural firm, New Material Research Laboratory, will redesign the lobby of the Hirshhorn Museum, reconfiguring the entrance and furnishing the space with art objects by Sugimoto.

Olafur Eliasson’s prismatic light sculpture “Your oceanic feeling” will be installed in the new lobby, which will open in February, complete with a Dolcezza coffee bar.

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KanKouran West African Dance Company, led by Artistic Director Assane Konte, presents its annual celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. On Saturday, Jan. 13, at 8 p.m. and Sunday, Jan. 14, at 4 p.m., the company will perform a new work, “Bolo,” meaning “Bridge of Togetherness,” at Dance Place, 3225 8th St. NE. Tickets are $30 (with discounts for seniors, artists, college students and children). For details, visit danceplace.org.

Sunday, Jan. 21, the anniversary of the Women’s March on Washington and other protests following President Donald Trump’s 2017 inauguration, has been designated International Women’s Voices Day. On that day, in conjunction with D.C.’s Women’s Voices Theater Festival, theaters and theater artists worldwide are invited to present public or private readings of unproduced works by women playwrights. For details, visit womensvoicestheaterfestival.org.

On Thursday, Jan. 25, at 6:30 p.m., there will be a staged reading of “Bakersfield Mist” by Stephen Sachs at the Phillips Collection, 1600 21st St. NW. Inspired by true events, “Bakersfield Mist” tells the story of an unemployed, chainsmoking ex-bartender who believes the thrift-store painting she bought for $3 is an undiscovered masterpiece by Jackson Pollock. Admission is $12. For details, visit phillipscollection.org.

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Sylvia Plath with Frieda and Nicholas, Court Green, 1962. Photo by Siv Arb. Courtesy NPG. “Sow.” It had been given to me as an essay prompt in high school, and upon first reading it I was scared. The words were blistering in their tactility, eliciting horror and curiosity in a way that I could not conceive trying to communicate: On the move, hedged by a litter of feat-foot ninnies

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Collage by Sylvia Plath, 1960. Courtesy Smith College and NPG.

Shrilling her hulk To halt for a swig at the pink teats. No. This vast Brobdingnag bulk Of a sow lounged belly-bedded on that black compost, Fat-rutted eyes Dream-filmed. What a vision of ancient hoghood …

And then I began writing. I found through my own words the ways that Plath laced her literary and worldly interests with ideas and style wholly her own. It is one of the most valuable techniques I have ever learned, and one that accounts for most of the professional and personal success I have had in my life.

Plath taught me in many ways how to think, how to be critical and aware, how to embrace the beauty of a strange, warm darkness of spirit I had always inarticulately felt. There was great consequence to her own darkness, but it became a beacon of light for millions of others.

You must forgive the autobiographical nature of this article. It seemed somehow fitting, and yet, as always with one’s own writing, entirely inadequate.

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Women’s Voices Theater Festival Returns to D.C.

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hey’re back. Talk about serendipity.

The Women’s Voices Theater Festival, the big, groundbreaking festival of original plays by women playwrights that opened the 2015-16 Washington theater season, has returned. A citywide collaboration, the 2018 edition comprises 13 world premieres and 10 American or regional premieres.

Performances have already started and will run through February (some shows continue into early March). For the full schedule, visit womensvoicestheaterfestival.org.

“Voices” comes with a big capital letter.

“The emphasis is on this big collaborative effort, but also to point out the problem, which is so dire … the lack of gender equity for women playwrights and producing the work of women playwrights, not to mention women artists across the board in theater,” said Amy Austin, president and CEO of Theatre Washington. The organization is lending its support to the festival, which is being produced

by Nan Barnett of Flanagan Theater Projects.

In conjunction with the festival, the first International Women’s Voices Day will take place Jan. 21, in partnership with National New Play Network and New Play Exchange. The one-day event echoes the 2018 festival content, which — if the plays being staged are any indication — is decidedly global.

“That’s true,” said Austin. “There’s a real international flavor to the festival, plays from all over the world, and about issues and characters that resonate internationally, as well as issues familiar from our own backyard, careening through the world. There’s a very universal tone among the plays being produced. The need for gender equality in the theater, the possibility of having new plays by women playwrights staged, is of course not just an issue here in the United States, but all over the world.”

The first festival, in 2015, was the brainchild of a number of Washington artistic directors and theater heads. The originating companies were Arena Stage, Ford’s, Round House, Shakespeare, Signature, Studio and Woolly Mammoth.

Arena Stage Artistic Director Molly Smith, one of the festival founders, is directing “Sovereignty” by Mary Kathryn Nagle, a play about a young Cherokee lawyer fighting to

restore her nation’s jurisdiction.

Other founding-theater productions include: “Jefferson’s Garden” by Timberlake Wertenbaker, which explores the ideals and contradictions of the nation’s founding fathers at Ford’s; “Handbagged,” Tricycle Theatre’s Olivier Award-winning comedy about Margaret Thatcher and Queen Elizabeth at Round House; the Guantanamo-set “4,380 Nights” by Annalisa Dias, directed by Kathleen Akerley at Signature; “Noura,” an Ibsen-flavored play by Heather Raffo at Shakespeare; “The Wolves” by Sarah DeLappe at Studio, about girls’ soccer, and “Familiar” by “The Walking Dead” actress Danai Gurira at Woolly Mammoth, in which an immigrant family prepares for a wedding in Minnesota.

The participating theaters range widely in size and the shows vary in the length of their runs. Among the others are: “The Trojan Women Project” at Brave Spirits Theatre, “Digging Up Dessa” by Laura Schellhardt at the Kennedy Center, “Queens Girl in Africa”

by Caleen Sinnette Jennings at Mosaic Theater Company, Julia Cho’s “Aubergine” at Olney Theatre Center, “No Word in Guyanese for Me” at Rainbow Theatre Project and the world premiere of “All She Must Possess” by Susan McCully at Rep Stage.

More participants: 4615 Theater Company, Ally Theatre Company, Baltimore’s Center Stage, Convergence Theatre, Dog & Pony DC, Folger Theatre, Nu Sass Productions, Pointless Theatre, Rapid Lemon Productions, Strand Theater Company, Spooky Action Theater Company and Taffety Punk Theatre Company.

“The core is new work by women playwrights, and creating opportunities for staging, but it’s also about new plays in general.

All of the work is new, and that’s always a risky but challenging thing,” Austin said.

About that serendipity: the Women’s Voices Theater Festival arrives at a moment when the country — and that includes the media, politics, the arts and especially Hollywood — is fully engaged in a painful self-examination initiated by accusations of sexual harassment against Miramax founder Harvey Weinstein.

It turns out that the crisis is about a lot more than sexual harassment. It’s about the role of women in the workplace and how men and women deal with each other professionally,

Felicia Curry plays Susannah in the Ford’s Theatre production of “Jefferson’s Garden” by Timberlake Wertenbaker. Photo by Christopher Mueller. Courtesy Ford’s.

romantically and on a day-to-basis. And it has spawned a movement — #MeToo — which has given rise not only to daily accusations but to a nationwide (and worldwide) debate, perhaps a revolution.

“It’s not just about harassment, so it’s very pertinent to the festival, and issues of equity, and power, of equal representation, which is a

big issue in American theater, where the gender gap across the board is well documented.

That’s being reflected by a festival like this.

It speaks to this dire problem that women have not been equally represented not just as playwrights but as designers, directors, producers,” said Austin.

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OVERHEARD AT LUNCH

GOOD WORKS & GOOD TIMES

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Sarah Silverman Defends Franken Comedian Sarah Silverman spoke out in defense of former Sen. Al Franken (D-Minnesota). On New Year’s Day, Silverman told TMZ she was upset that Franken was forced to resign and mad that President Trump — who, like Franken, was accused of sexual misconduct — didn’t suffer the same fate. In the end, Silverman admitted it was important to respect the women who accused Franken.

Kal Penn had brunch at Busboys and Poets over Christmas weekend.

Kal Penn Brunches at Busboys Busboys and Poets tweeted a photo of actor, producer and former White House staffer Kal Penn during the holiday season. The actor stopped in for brunch over Christmas weekend. No word on what he had, but Penn did manage to pose with employees.

‘Today’ Kicks Off Year of the Woman The “Today” show rang in the new year Jan. 2 by announcing that longtime reporter Hoda Kotb, co-host of the show’s 10 a.m. hour, will replace Matt Lauer. Lauer was ousted in late 2017 after reports came out of his sexual misconduct. Kotb is now co-anchoring with Savannah Guthrie.

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Allison Janney Is Rosewood Curator Actress Allison Janney was named curator of the Rosewood hotel on 31st Street NW in Georgetown. Janney will share travel recommendations and insider tips on how to best experience D.C. What makes Janney qualified to orient visitors to our great city?

She spent six years exploring the area while filming “The West Wing” in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Vinny Guadagnino of “Jersey Shore” knows more about climate change than the president.

‘Jersey Shore’ Cast Member Schools Trump

Jarvanka may flee Kalorama for Massachusetts Avenue Heights.

Jarvanka May Flee Kalorama Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner are believed to be house hunting, the Washington Post reported. The first daughter and her husband, both White House advisers, are mulling a move from their Kalorama home, where paparazzi snap too many family photos.

They are looking in Massachusetts Avenue Heights, but Dad may not visit if they end up there — Hillary and Bill Clinton own a home in that neighborhood.

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Demonstrating more scientific knowledge than President Donald Trump, former “Jersey Shore” cast member Vinny Guadagnino tweeted: “I think climate change is more complex than global warming will make it hotter. It has to do with disruptions of atmospheric conditions, ocean patterns, jet streams and sh*t like that.” Trump’s Dec. 28 tweet advised those celebrating New Year’s Eve to “bundle up,” stating: “Perhaps we could use a little bit of that good old global warming that our country, but not other countries, was going to pay TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS to protect against.”

Prince Harry Coy Re Obama Invite People magazine reported that Prince Harry and fiancée Meghan Markle have not finalized the guest list for their May 19 wedding. Harry, a guest editor for the BBC Radio 4 program “Today,” declined to say whether or not the Obamas would be invited. The younger son of Prince Charles and the late Princess Diana struck up a friendship with the Obama family in recent years.

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The theme of the 2018 Washington Winter Show, Jan. 12 to 14, is “The Charm of Chinoiserie.” Australian Ambassador Joe Hockey is the diplomatic chair. Preview Night is Thursday, Jan. 11, and designer Charlotte Moss will speak at a Friday lecture and luncheon on how her travels have impacted her style. Tudor Place’s Grant Quertermous curated the show’s loan exhibition, “In the Chinese Style.” Proceeds will benefit THEARC, Bishop John T. Walker School and the Founders Board of St. John’s Community Services. Katzen Arts Center at American University. For details, visit washingtonwintershow.org.

JANUARY 13 THE 48TH ANNUAL RUSSIAN BALL Under the patronage of Grand Duchess of Russia Maria Vladimirovna, the Russian Ball, benefiting the Saint Nicholas Cathedral Benevolent Fund, will be held at a private club and feature the Richard Bray Orchestra and the Washington Balalaika Society. Dress is white tie, black tie or national costume.

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JANUARY 20 ANNUAL VETERANS AWARDS The Academy of United States Veterans and the Coalition to Salute America’s Heroes will hold the third annual Veterans Awards (the Vettys) with CNN’s Jake Tapper as host. The black-tie gala will honor six additional individuals and organizations that have demonstrated relentless dedication and selfless service to the veteran community and their families. Mayflower Hotel. Visit usv.academy.

The French-American Chamber of Commerce will hold its third annual La Soirée Champagne, a rare opportunity to taste different Champagnes from France’s leading houses, while mingling with chamber members, diplomats and VIPs. Residence of the Ambassador of France, Gérard Araud. Visit French-American Chamber of Commerce @FACCWDC on Facebook or Messenger.

FEBRUARY 9 D’VINE AFFAIR: BALLETTO & VINO IN VERONA Under the patronage of Ambassador of Italy Armando Varricchio and Micaela Varricchio, the Women’s Committee of the Washington Ballet presents its annual wine tasting. A multi-course Italian meal, featuring inspired wine pairings, will celebrate the upcoming performance of John Cranko’s “Romeo & Juliet,” performed during Valentine’s Day week at the Kennedy Center. Embassy of Italy. Call 202-362-3606 or email info@washingtonballet.org.

FEBRUARY 10 VALENTINE’S BALL AT EMBASSY OF ITALY At this Valentine’s event, recreating the culture and romance of Italy, guests will experience an evening of Italian food, an open bar, a live orchestra, a late-night DJ, dancing, opera and film. An optional VIP reception before the gala will include early admission, a private Champagne reception and a special early dinner menu. A portion of the event’s proceeds will benefit the American Cancer Society. Embassy of Italy. Call 301-519-8030 or email info@thingstododc.com.

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Operatic Songfest at Slovenian Embassy Golden Globes, Empowered Women

BY M ARY BIRD Following a buffet of national favorites, guests at the Embassy of Slovenia Dec. 16 were welcomed by Ambassador Stanislav Vidovič, who noted that tourism has increased 40 percent with a Slovenian-born first lady in the White House. Washington Opera Society Executive Director Michael Reilly said the non-profit’s mission is to produce affordable opera in embassies and private homes as well as to promote young singers and attract younger persons. “Opera was popular culture 300 or 400 years before Michael Jackson,” he said. Artistic Director Scott Beard accompanied Fairouz Foty, Jesús Daniel Hernández, Elizabeth Treat and others in a program of oratorio and opera selections.

Ted Jewell and wife Clara Register.

The 75th Golden Globes were held Jan. 7 at the Beverly Hilton — resulting in many memorable moments, especially Oprah Winfrey’s acceptance speech for winning the Cecil B. DeMille Award.

Here’s how The Georgetowner’s Hollywood Correspondent Elizabeth Webster described the scene: “The mood of the Golden Globes this year was solidarity showing overall support for women empowerment in Hollywood by both men and women wearing all black for the first time ever.

Oprah’s speech was very moving and created lots of emotion in the room. ... We are all expecting her to run for president in 2020!”

Tom Noll, Gayela Bynum and José Alberto Uclés.

Armie Hammer (won for Best Supporting Actor in a Film for “Call Me By Your Name”) and Elizabeth Webster.

Nitish Kannan, producer of “Circleplusplay.com” and Emily Ratajkowski, best known for Alan Thicke music video.

Tenor Jesús Daniel Hernández, Ambassador Stanislav Vidovič and Michael Reilly.

Celebrating NYE at Flavio

BY ELIZ A B E T H W EB S T E R While there were many great spots around town to ring in the New Year — Tony & Joe’s, Nick’s Riverside Grill, Peacock Cafe, Cafe Milano, Martin’s Tavern and the George Town Club as well as one’s own bed — we checked out the newly fresh Flavio on 31st Street. Happy New Year, all!

Joyce Chow, Vincent De Paul and Jason Bateman (nominee for “Ozark”).

Astronaut Buzz Aldrin and his girlfriend Sophia.

Mekki Karrakchou, owner of Flavio, and MiMi Bitton.

Jerry and Kenya Pierce.

Allison Janney (star of Emmy-winning TV show “Mom”), who won a Golden Globe for best supporting actor for “I, Tonya,” and Elizabeth Webster.

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