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ON THE COVER To Photoshop, or not to Photoshop: that is the question. We thought we’d have a little fun with the mighty Michael Kahn of the Shakespeare Theatre Company for the cover photo illustration. Photo of Michael Kahn is courtesy of Shakespeare Theatre Company. Photo by Kevin Berne of actor Robert Joy — who portrays the imagined King Charles in the Shakespeare Theatre Company production of “King Charles III” — is also courtesy of Shakespeare Theatre Company.
E DI T O RI A L /OP I N I O N 8 F I N A NC E 9 Travel Doesn’t Have to Break The Bank
BUSI N E S S . 10 -11 Ins & Outs ‘Awakened Warrior’ Strides into Down Dog Yoga
RE A L E S TAT E . 12-13 Historic DC Feature Property
F OOD & W I N E . 14 -15 he Latest Dish T Warm Welcomes for the Literate Drinker
W E B E XC L USI V E S King Charles is Robert Joy’s Role of a Lifetime
C OV E R . 18 -19 The Mighty Kahn
BY G A RY T I S C H L ER The highly recognizable Canadian actor is starring in “King Charles III” at the Shakespeare Theatre Company through March 18.
A R T S . 20 -23 Performing Arts Preview Visual Arts Preview Museums Are Our Responsibility
I N C OU N T R Y & G E TAWAY . 24 -25
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Kusama’s Dots, Pumpkins and Mirrors at the Hirshhorn (photos)
BO DY & S OU L . 27 Fashionably Fit: Art-Print Gym Bags Zinc Fights Colds, Flus and Aging
DOW N T OW N E R D C . 28 -29 Town Topics
Alvin Ailey, Sweethearts & Patriots, Women In The Arts, Washington Ballet’s Amuse Bouche
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BY J EFF M A L E T Hirshhorn Museum visitors will be able to enter six of Yayoi Kusama’s “Infinity Mirror Rooms” through May 14. The installations are part of an exhibition of more than 100 works by the celebrated Japanese artist.
All About Politics: Republicans and the New D.C. Overlord BY M A R K P LOT K I N In this column: Cabinet confirmations, D.C.’s new overlord and the 2018 mayoral race. Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah).
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Jeanne Paulsen as Camilla and Robert Joy as Charles. Photo by Kevin Berne. Courtesy STC.
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Strike Out Colon Cancer Bowling Tournament
This day of games, crafts, hands-on learning and prizes celebrates and promotes nutritional literacy. Open to the public, the free event is designed to teach children from 3 to 13 to eat smart and make healthy lifestyle choices. YMCA Anthony Bowen, 1325 W St. NW.
This bowling tournament — with unlimited games, raffle prizes and a silent auction — is hosted by the Colon Cancer Alliance Young Professional Board. Team fundraising opportunities are available. Tickets, including food, non-alcoholic drinks and shoe rental, are $100 for a two-person team, $55 for adults and $15 for kids. For details, visit ccalliance.org. Pinstripes Georgetown, 1064 Wisconsin Ave. NW.
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Hawaiian Music at Wolf Trap
Soprano Inna Dukach.
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Russian Art Songs at French Embassy
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The Russian Chamber Art Society will present soprano Inna Dukach and baritone Kevin Wetzel performing art songs by Rachmaninov, Glière and Medtner — who studied together at the Moscow Conservatory — with pianists Vera Danchenko-Stern and Azamat Sydykov. Violinist Emil Chudnovsky will also appear. Tickets, including a wine and dessert reception, are $55. For tickets, visit thercas.com. Embassy of France, 4101 Reservoir Road NW.
Together, these masters of Hawaiian music will share the delightful experience of kī-hō‘alu (slack key guitar) — the distinctly Hawaiian style of open tunings — ukulele and Hawaiian vocals. Tickets are $25 and $30. For details, visit wolftrap.org. Barns at Wolf Trap, 1635 Trap Road, Vienna, Virginia.
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Dumbarton Reconciling Service At this Sunday celebration, Dumbarton United Methodist Church in Georgetown will celebrate its 30th anniversary of being intentionally welcoming to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transsexual persons. Joey Heath-Mason, United Methodist chaplain at American University, will speak about “reconciling congregations.” Following worship, there will be a Mardi Gras pancake brunch. For details, visit dumbartonumc. org. 3133 Dumbarton St. NW.
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Designing Buzzard Point Buzzard Point, a peninsula in Southwest D.C. between the Anacostia River and Washington Channel, is being transformed into a new mixed-use neighborhood. D.C. Office of Planning Director Eric Shaw will give a presentation about the development underway and the future vision for the area. Admission is $10. For details, visit go.nbm. org. National Building Museum, 401 F St. NW.
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Bishop Walker School Annual Dinner Dr. John Silvanus Wilson Jr., 11th president of Morehouse College, a historically black men’s liberal arts college in Atlanta, will be the guest speaker at this year’s
dinner, which directly supports the Bishop John T. Walker School for Boys and its 90 students in kindergarten through sixth grade. Tickets are $300. For details, visit bishopwalkerschool.org. Willard Hotel, 1401 Pennsylvania Ave. NW.
MARCH 3
Opening Reception for ‘Scribbles’ Lisa Tureson’s work in “Scribbles: An Urban Art Series,” on view through April 2, is inspired by a simple Danish wall. While walking the streets of Copenhagen on a summer day, Tureson saw a white wall with peeling and deteriorating paint, revealing layers of colors, papers, street art and writings. A white bicycle parked alongside the wall was a perfect representation of both the old and the modern city. For details, visit touchstonegallery.com. Touchstone Gallery, 901 New York Ave. NW.
Free Friday Comedy Night First-timers, amateurs and newbies are welcome at this standup-comedy open mic at Chinese Disco. After the show, there is a joke contest for audience members with a $25 cash prize. Attendees may bring in carryout food from anywhere (no food is served at Chinese Disco). No reservations: first-come, first-seated. 3251 Prospect St. NW.
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Homeless Camp Demolished On Valentine’s Day, local churches were coordinating an email appeal to Mayor Muriel Bowser to “spread the love” and commit $17 million to doing something about homelessness. Meanwhile, city officials from the District Departments of Sanitation, Public Works and Health, among others, were doing something. They demolished the large tent encampment that had appeared increasingly permanent under the crisscross of freeways near the Watergate complex at K Street NW, the Whitehurst Freeway and Rock Creek Parkway. “The camp had become particularly problematic with mounds of trash and increasing numbers of rodents, especially rats,” the mayor’s spokespeople told the Washington Post. “There were no bathroom facilities and people were defecating in yards, going out and panhandling and creating a chaotic situation,” Ward 2 Council member Jack Evans said. “The encampments are illegal, and it’s not a victimless crime.”
Airbnb has grown exponentially since the concept — an online network connecting travelers looking for a place to stay with residents who could make such spaces available — was first formulated in 2008 by young techies in San Francisco. It has grown to be the largest hospitality network in the world. “The largest international hotel network offers 750,000 room. We have 5 million,” Tosi told the Georgetown students. “We are adding 60,000 rooms a week.” And Washington, D.C., is becoming a key player. During the inauguration, an estimated 18,500 visitors booked stays through Airbnb. Critics say the program is being abused and that it is taking rental space off the longterm market in favor of more lucrative shortterm tourist rentals. “Commercial operators are taking over the market,” Valerie Ervin, senior advisor at Working Families, told the Washington Post. She cited a rent-controlled building in Columbia Heights where all 20 units were being advertised as short-term rentals, turning it into a hotel. When that happens, it drives up residential rental rates. Council member Kenyan R. McDuffie plans to introduce legislation Feb. 21 that would limit hosts to renting out only one unit at a time on
A crumpled tent and an empty suitcase are all that remains of the large tent homeless encampment by the Watergate, demolished on Valentine’s Day.
New Airbnb Regulations Proposed for D.C. Just as Airbnb CFO and Georgetown University alumnus Laurence Tosi was speaking Feb. 9 to more than 300 entrepreneurship students in Lohrfink Auditorium about the launch of “City Hosts,” a new worldwide travel host project, the District Council was considering legislation to more strictly control the burgeoning home-hotel business.
a short-term basis, and then only in their personal permanent residence. New York City, New Orleans and Santa Monica, California, have all put such legislation in place. McDuffie’s legislation would allow hosts to rent out their residence on Airbnb and other home-share networks for a maximum of 15 days a year. It would also require owners to have a new type of business license from the city and to post the license number on the network website. Noncompliance could result in a fine of $1,000 for the owner and for the network for the first violation. Town Topics continues on page 6
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TOWN TOPICS torn-up street and sidewalks of 34th Street winding up from Water Street to the C&O Canal is now completely repaired. It looks good and we are very happy to have that one done so well,” said Zubair Popol, owner of Malmaison, a restaurant and café at the corner.
Arlington County Leaves Gondola Hanging
K St. Construction Nightmare: Part 1 Is Done A very loud kaboom shook the corner of K (Water) and 34th Streets NW for an instant when a bulldozer dropped a massive container on the ground at the riverfront site. Dust flew up from behind the DOT construction fences and the barriers that blocked the usual view of the water and the arches of Key Bridge. That is what it has been like for the residents and business owners along the far end of the waterside street, just before the Capital Crescent Trail and other bike and walking trails begin. Multiple construction projects by multiple agencies and companies have been going on for months. Still, there is good news. “Just two days ago, the Pepco project manager came to tell me personally that the
After contributing some $25,000 for a comprehensive study of an aerial gondola system over the Potomac River between Rosslyn and Georgetown, the Arlington County Board has, in effect, left the project hanging, omitting it from the county’s capital improvement plan. In a letter to the Gondola Study executive committee made public Feb. 10, Arlington County Board Chair Jay Fisette wrote: “Arlington already has a large number of transportation projects in the County’s Master Transportation Plan, including several in Rosslyn that will require substantial resources and attention over the next several years.” He continued: “Given our identified and pressing transportation needs, along with some ongoing concerns about the long-term value of the gondola, the Board is not in favor of any further funding of the gondola project.” “We respect their priorities very much,” said Will Handsfield, transportation director for the Georgetown Business Improvement District, which spearheaded the study along with the Rosslyn BID. “This is still very much a developing project, involving some 22
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Unlocking history: A crane and crews for the National Park Service remove the old wooden gates that served as Lock 3 for the C&O Canal Feb. 20. The wood was sawed up and removed. The stonework of the 187-year-old canal at Lock 3 and Lock 4 is also being refitted. Photo by Robert Devaney. agencies and multiple jurisdictions. With over a million new residents expected in the area the next few decades, the project remains the most feasible and inexpensive way to move large numbers of people across the river.” A funding plan is just now being developed, according to Handsfield. The total construction is estimated to cost some $85 million. The operational costs could total around $3.25 million annually. “No one group has been asked to commit any funds at all to the project at this point. We just sent out the comprehensive study and are gathering the feedback,” Handsfield said. “We do think that the gondolas are a good idea, maybe the best idea yet to deal with a new population of commuters. Compared to other
proposals like Metro tunnels under the river and widened highways and bridges, this is the easiest to implement while taking the most people off the impacted roads.” “It also offers the most pleasant riding experience,” BID CEO Joe Sternlieb pointed out at a recent meeting. Several people who had been skeptical of the project before the presentation indicated they liked it after learning more about it, Handsfield noted. “All of these projects take time. The Metro took three decades. There is definitely some positive feedback for this project.” The next action step would be to fund and carry out an environmental impact study, which could cost anywhere from $500,000 to $1 million.
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There was a burglary on the 3600 block of S Street NW Feb. 3 during the overnight hours. The fact that residents were inside the house asleep caused some alarm among crime watchers, who continue to advise: “Remember to check for locked exterior doors and windows throughout your house.” On Feb. 17, an attempted break-in on the 3200 block of Scott Place NW was reported to the Metropolitan Police Department. According to the homeowner, the failed entry at a window was caught on video cameras positioned outside the house. The suspect was later seen walking toward another house. (MPD recommends that cameras be set up by residents. For specifics on camera usage, contact antonial.atkins@dc.gov or safety.cag@ georgetowncitizens.com.) The U.S. Park Police continues to keep a close eye on suspected criminal activity on Water Street under Key Bridge, near Key Bridge Boathouse — and particularly by the remains of the old Aqueduct Bridge, where there was a double mugging in January. (Most of the land along the Georgetown waterfront is controlled by the National Park Service.) On Feb. 13, Lt. Christopher Cunningham of the U.S. Park Police, Commander, Rock Creek Station, reported that officers conducted
an operation in the area of the Old Aqueduct Bridge. According to USPP, 10 contacts were made with the following results: — Minor drug violation (MJ), no arrest; — APO (assault on a police officer), juvenile contact grabbed an officer by the vest, no injuries were reported (arrest); — Citizen called and reported a subject had a gun in his vehicle and his female companion had a warrant (Contact was made with the subjects, and investigation proved the allegations were false). Earlier, USPP reported: “Yesterday evening, members of the U.S. Park Police conducted an operation in the area of the Old Aqueduct Bridge. Three separate groups of subjects were stopped for a total of nine contacts. These efforts recovered 30 grams of marijuana and drug paraphernalia. We will continue to conduct these operations as we continue our investigation into the recent robberies.” “This is a great outcome of community communication. Thanks to those of you who continue to share their concerns about illegal activity in that area. It is in part based on these communications that USPP has been allocating additional time to monitoring this area,” said advisory neighborhood commissioner Lisa Palmer.
TOWN TOPICS
School ‘Walkability’ Doesn’t Apply to Hyde Students, It Seems
OVERHEARD AT LUNCH: BY KATE OCZYPOK
Formerly Neglected Correspondents: ‘Thanks, Spicey’
The Citizens Association of Georgetown has resolved that the D.C. government “must identify a swing space location for HydeAddison elementary and pre-school students that is acceptable to the School Improvement Team” — a local organization of school stakeholders — during the construction project scheduled to begin this fall. At present, Deputy Mayor for Education Jennifer Niles is insisting that the Georgetown students be bused for nearly an hour to an out-of-district school. CAG also resolved that “The school’s original approved design, including the separate gym, cafeteria and properly located security site, be restored.” Ironically, Mayor Muriel Bowser recently announced a new city “walkability preferability” regulation that would give every D.C. student admissions priority to a school within a halfmile walk.
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A longtime White House correspondent for a ethics publication (who doesn’t personally like Trump), muttered last week as she put on makeup, preparing to go to the daily press briefing: “I’ve been covering White House press briefings for eight years under Obama and only got called on twice to ask a question. Since [Sean] Spicer has been press secretary and started calling reporters from other than the first row of mainstream media reporters, I’ve been called on twice already in three weeks. I have to give that to him.” Her encircled photo was one highlighted in a Feb. 14 New York Times article about seven reporters who formerly felt neglected. In the Oval Office Feb. 13: President Trump, Ivanka Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Courtesy Ivanka Trump.
What Happens at Solidcore. . .
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23 Decorating, Collecting Art
Join CAG members for a reception amid art (all for sale) as well as a panel discussion with art experts Amy Kuhnert (Murphy Kuhnert Art Consulting), Samira Farmer (Doyle Auction House) and interior designer Tricia Huntley (Huntley and Co.). DTR Galleries, 2820 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. Reception, 7 p.m.; program, 7:30 p.m. Call Citizens Association of Georgetown at 202-337-7313, or email CAGmail@ CAGtown.org.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27 ANC 2E Meeting
The “March” public meeting of ANC 2E will be held at 6:30 p.m. at Georgetown Visitation Prep, 35th Street NW at Volta Place, main building. For details, visit anc2e.com/meetings.html.
THURSDAY, MARCH 9
CAG Meeting on West Heating Plant The Citizens Association of Georgetown will host a 6 p.m. meeting on the West Heating Plant project with updates from architect David Adjaye and landscape designer Laurie Olin at the Four Seasons Hotel, 2800 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. For details, visit cagtown.org.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15
GBA Monthly Networking Meeting The Georgetown Business Association will host its monthly reception at 6:30 p.m. at a location to be determined. For details, visit georgetownbusiness.org. Send your community event listing to editorial@georgetowner.com or call 202338-4833.
Front page pictures of actor Alec Baldwin as President Donald Trump — and the real Benjamin Netanyahu, prime minister of Israel. Courtesy El Nacional.
Solidcore founder Anne Mahlum is in a bit of trouble after posting on Facebook that Ivanka Trump, using an alias, took a class at her gym (whether in the West End or at Cathedral Commons on Wisconsin Avenue is unclear), Cosmopolitan reported. She then wrote about requesting a meeting with the first daughter to talk about the elder Trump’s actions since he’s been in office, which could directly affect her employees. Mahlum got some negative feedback for revealing personal information about a client.
Rosapepe: Dems Better Off With Trump “Impeaching Trump or forcing him to resign is the worst thing for Democrats’ chances to get back the White House,” Maryland State Sen. James Rosapepe said recently at a meet-and-greet in College Park. The liberal state senator, Ambassador to Romania (appointed by President Bill Clinton) and University of Maryland trustee added that replacing President Trump with Vice President Mike Pence would put in the Oval Office a nice, reasonable Republican, one the establishment GOP likes, to set up the 2020 election campaign. Dems, he feels, need Trump’s outrages and foolishness to help them win in 2020.
Fake Trump Makes Front Page of Real Newspaper Alec Baldwin’s impersonation of President Donald Trump may be just a little too good. Variety reported that Dominican newspaper El Nacional acknowledged its mistake after printing a photo of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu alongside one of Baldwin performing as Trump on “Saturday Night Live” — instead of Trump himself — on its front page.
Ivanka Can’t Catch a Break, Even While Seated During the White House visit of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, President Trump and the Canadian leader met with women business leaders, as well as with first daughter Ivanka Trump. Later, Trudeau and the Trumps posed in the Oval Office with Ivanka sitting at the president’s Resolute desk — cause for the raising of eyebrows by some.
Sally Quinn Puts Grey Gardens on the Market Former Navy SEAL Carl Higbie in line to be press secretary? Courtesy Carl Higbie.
Will Trained SEAL Replace White House Press Secretary? Is “Spicey” on his way out? Washingtonian magazine reported that the White House interviewed former Navy SEAL Carl Higbie for the position of press secretary, currently held by Sean Spicer. Higbie, who is close with the Trump family, denied via his Twitter account that he’d been formally interviewed.
D.C. journalist and socialite Sally Quinn is selling Grey Gardens, the Long Island, New York, estate she and husband Ben Bradlee (who died in 2014) purchased in 1979 from Edith Bouvier Beale, first cousin of former first lady Jackie Kennedy. Bradlee and Quinn paid $220,000, according to ABC News. Quinn is asked $19 million for the 14-room East Hampton house, built in the 1890s.
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DeVos Gives D.C. Public Schools a Wake-Up Call Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, who was confirmed Feb. 7 with a historic tiebreaking vote by Vice President Mike Pence, made her Washington debut in a manner that might have been envied by President Donald Trump. She stirred people up, one way or another, right from the beginning. DeVos has been a champion of what her supporters describe as school choice, with her efforts focusing primarily on vouchers and government economic support for private — including religious — schools. She has not been a champion of the department she’s supposed to lead, saying only recently (and not for the first time) that there might not even be a need for it. Be that as it may, DeVos made a visit to a Washington public school recently, with some strange results. Demonstrators outside Jefferson Academy last week barred her from entering the school by the front door, so she had to go in another way. Eventually, she got into the school and was understandably angry at this cool reception, calling the protesters “hostile to change in education.” But that’s not all. Afterward, while praising the teachers as “wonderful, sincere teachers who pour their heart and soul into their classrooms and their students,” she also said the teachers were in “a receive mode. They’re waiting to be told what they have to do and that’s not going to bring success to an individual child.” This brought an immediate outcry — from the teachers themselves and from both new D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Antwan Wilson and his predecessor, Kaya Henderson. Henderson called DeVos’s comments amateurish and
unprofessional. “We deserve better than that,” she said. Wilson commented: “Defying expectations takes experience and a lifelong dedication to all students. DCPS is rich with educators who have this experience.” Considered one of the fastest improving schools in the system, Jefferson is classified as a “rising” D.C. school. More than the controversy over the visit and its results, the fact that DeVos is the secretary of education ought to give local educators pause, and hopefully spur a discussion about choice, about vouchers and charter schools and the nature of America’s public schools — and how they might change under DeVos. “Choice” has been a term used loosely, and sometimes misused, by educators and parents alike. It should be noted that charter schools make up around 50 percent of the D.C. system. Though publicly funded, they are all in one way or another different from public schools. The secretary of education’s policies — yet to be fully articulated — may pose problems for DCPS. If vouchers and privatization are pursued, they have the potential to change the public schools radically — and even become a threat to their survival. The role of charter schools — and all the related issues, such as staffing, curriculum, who gets to go where and how the schools are funded and run — is due for some fresh attention. This would be a good time for DCPS leaders to examine the strengths and weaknesses of the schools and their methodology to reach consensus on a plan to best serve our city’s rapidly changing population, especially given the new faces in the federal government.
Jack Evans Report
D.C.’s Strong Financial Position BY JAC K EVAN S
The District Council is in the midst of its annual performance oversight process, the best opportunity for members of the public to share their experience with D.C. agencies over the past year and influence the programs and investments the city undertakes in the coming year. The oversight process kicked off earlier this month with the release of the District’s 2016 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR). This year’s audit marked the 20th consecutive year in which the District has received a clean opinion from auditors and the second year in which the independent auditors found no material deficiencies in the District’s financial management. Since I became the chairman of the Council’s Finance and Revenue Committee in 1999, we’ve established fiscal discipline throughout the District government and restored trust in our city’s financial management. In addition to receiving the CAFR, the Council undertakes oversight hearings for every agency in the government. Last week, my committee held hearings on the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority and on the Commission on the Arts and Humanities. Metro General Manager Paul Wiedefeld reported that, due to the SafeTrack accelerated maintenance program, the transit system is experiencing significantly lower ridership and revenue than were previously budgeted.
While Wiedefeld has been able to cut expenses in order to match the revenue decline, this development only further heightens the need to make Metro reliable once again. Regarding the Commission on the Arts and Humanities, I continued to stress to my colleagues on the Council that we need to support arts programming and artists in every neighborhood across the city. I believe strongly that every student in D.C. should be exposed to the arts and that the arts are the cornerstone of our community. This week and next, my committee will hear from EventsDC, DestinationDC, the Office of the Chief Financial Officer, the DC Lottery and the Real Property Tax Appeals Commission. If you are interested in testifying or submitting written testimony about these or any other agencies, please contact me. As I do every year, I’ll be visiting the major credit-rating agencies next month to insist that the District is long past due to receive a triple-A (AAA) credit rating. Quite frankly, the District is in its strongest-ever financial position. As we move through the oversight and budget season, I’ll keep advocating that we capitalize on this strong financial position by investing wisely in education and infrastructure — which will strengthen the District economy for years to come — and continuing to lower tax rates, making it easier to live and to open a business here in D.C. Jack Evans is the District Council member for Ward 2, representing Georgetown and other neighborhoods since 1991.
On Homeless Camp, D.C. Does the Right Thing
Elizabeth Powell The Georgetowner is saddened to report the passing of Elizabeth Powell on Saturday, Feb. 18, from cancer. A wife and mother, the energetic and personable Powell was involved in many community efforts, including the Georgetown House Tour, historic preservation and beautification of the town. Memorial services will be private.
It is perhaps harsh to say — and some Georgetowners may disagree — but we’re pleased that D.C. officials, supported by our own District Council member Jack Evans, stepped up to the plate and completely demolished the homeless encampment adjacent to the Watergate, the Whitehurst Freeway and the Interstate 66 exit near Rock Creek Parkway. The camp, with large tents, was not only an eyesore but a health hazard. There were growing mounds of trash and increasing numbers of rats. Some of the occupants were defecating in nearby yards and begging in nearby neighborhoods. Some occupants were accused of stealing bicycles. Being so close to multiple freeways and highway exits, it was also dangerous for those living there.
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What do you do when people willfully — and even belligerently and openly — defy the law? What do you do when philanthropic and advocacy organizations say people have the right to do what they want in spite of the law? At some point, humane enforcement action has to be taken. That is what appears to have been done. There was plenty of warning. Eligible families were given homes. On demolition day, sanitation workers helped the occupants sort through and gather their belongings. All were offered free transportation to shelters, though none of the occupants apparently took up the offer. “The solution is to connect people with housing,” Lara Pukatch of Miriam’s Kitchen, an organization that seeks to end chronic
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homelessness, told the Washington Post. “We have places for the folks and that’s the answer at this point in time,” said Evans. But no one can force them to stay there. Good job, D.C. officials. It seems you did the best you could.
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Travel Doesn’t Have to Break the Bank BY J O H N E . G I RO UA R D When I was growing up, traveling meant driving from Connecticut to Massachusetts. I still remember our biggest trip: all six of us piling into the family station wagon, without seat belts (it was the 1970s), to drive to Florida for the Christmas holiday. I was 16. We all agreed to forgo Christmas gifts and pool together our gift money for gas. Have you heard of Rachael Ray’s television show called “$40 a Day”? My mother would have been her biggest fan. In fact, I think the first time I ever got on a plane I was 21 years old. Travel planning didn’t involve staying in an Airbnb or taking an Uber to the airport; back then, it meant figuring out how far you could drive on even-days, since your license plate determined the days you could buy gas. Obviously, besides giving away my age, any travel tips from those days are probably outdated. But that doesn’t mean that traveling needs to break the bank. It didn’t in the 1970s and it doesn’t today. Once our kids were old enough, we tried to travel somewhere new every year — making up for lost time. Now that they’re older, they still have the travel bug. Unfortunately, it’s hard for that bug to fly on a 20-something’s salary. Today, for everyone from millennials to retirees, the number-one most popular goal is to travel. In a recent AARP survey, 64 percent of respondents indicated that travel was their top priority, while at the same time 34 percent worried about having enough money to retire
A marina in Guadeloupe, a French overseas territory, in the Caribbean. Photo by Aidah Fontenot. comfortably. Clearly, these go hand in hand. The best advice I can give clients is to make a goal and create a plan. And make it a personal goal as well as a financial goal. As travel blogger Matthew Karsten puts it, “investment in travel is an investment in yourself.” Here are a few tips that can help you save — and also protect — your money when you
travel. • Get information about fees and charges for overseas usage ahead of time. Not all credit or ATM cards are alike, especially when it comes to converting dollars to local currency. • Think outside the box. It’s usually cheaper to travel from Monday to Wednesday than from Thursday to Saturday.
• If you’re afraid of blowing your budget and getting a surprise bill when you come home, consider a prepaid credit or debit card. • Check the tipping policy in the country you’re visiting. The U.S. is one of the only countries where tipping is expected. • If you are retired and flexible, last-minute bookings can save you a lot of money if a cruise line or a tour group isn’t fully booked up. • Rent your home or do a house or apartment swap while you travel. Airbnb and similar programs allow you to make money when you’re away from home. • Travel light and, if you can, mail a suitcase or golf clubs to your location to save on baggage fees. • Finally, be careful of outrageous mobile phone and roaming charges. If you aren’t careful, they can add up to a couple nights’ stay. Most restaurants, stores and hotels have free Wi-Fi, so be sure to take advantage of it when you can. In fact, when traveling out of the country I often only use Wi-Fi to cut down on extra charges — plus, it means I can enjoy my vacation and truly disconnect.
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Park Service Says Yes to New Boathouses on Waterfront and George Washington universities come true, the Georgetown riverfront will look very different. At a National Park Service public ‘scoping’ meeting held on Feb. 5 at the D.C. Palisades Public Library, the agency unveiled plans they intend to make a reality for the hotly contested Georgetown waterfront — from 34th Street to a parcel of land just upstream of the Washington Canoe Club. “The 1,500 feet of riverfront is now considered some of the most valuable land in the city, and it is owned and controlled by the NPS. “The NPS push toward new rowing facilities is based on the belief that the Thompson Boat Center has long been inadequate for the growing needs of rowers. The project to change the area into a center for elite collegiate and scholastic rowers, as well as a place for recreational paddlers to launch from, has been bounced around since the 1970s.” The NPS’s FONSI, EA, Errata and associated documents are available for viewing online via the NPS Planning, Environment and Public Comment website: parkplanning.nps.gov/nmbzea_fonsi.
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It’s official: The National Park Service has approved “a plan for the Georgetown Nonmotorized Boathouse Zone Development Plan and Environmental Assessment.” As anticipated, Bob Vogel, national capital regional director for the NPS, signed off Feb. 13 on a “Finding of No Significant Impact for the development of the nonmotorized boating facilities and related park improvement along the District of Columbia side of the Potomac River in the Georgetown area.” Translation: the NPS has approved the concept. It also means that boathouses will eventually be built on the shore of the Potomac at 34th and Water (K) Streets NW, between Key Bridge and Georgetown Waterfront Park — and more upstream. In discussion for decades, the new waterfront spaces will take years to become a reality. Decisions are still to be made if something new will replace Key Bridge Boathouse and if a boating area will go between the Aqueduct Bridge ruins and the partly shuttered Washington Canoe Club, which continues its activities next to the building. Also along the shoreline is the Potomac Boat Club. The Georgetowner reported in 2015: “In the next few years, if the dreams of Georgetown
Boathouse near Key Bridge. Courtesy Georgetown BID.
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Mazza Gallerie was built by Herb Miller’s Western Development Corporation, which also developed Potomac Mills in Woodbridge, Virginia, and, in Georgetown, Georgetown Park and the Washington Harbour. The twoacre complex, which opened on the Maryland border at 5300 Wisconsin Ave. NW in 1978, is across from Chevy Chase Pavilion, in D.C., and the Shops at Wisconsin Place, in Maryland.
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Mazza Gallerie Sells for $78 Million Mazza Gallerie, the enduring retail center at Wisconsin and Western Avenues NW in Friendship Heights, was sold for $78 million to an affiliate of Ashkenazy Acquisition Corp of New York (Ashkenazy purchased the longterm master lease at Union Station in 2006).
The sale was first reported in the Washington Business Journal. The 300,000-square-foot shopping center — which includes Nieman Marcus, Ann Taylor, Saks Fifth Avenue men’s store, AMC Theatres and jewelry stores Chas Schwartz & Son and Pampillonia, among other retailers — was owned by the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association, or TIAA, which paid $76.5 million for it in 2004.
We’re a few months late, what with all the changes afoot in Washington, D.C., but we’re still happy to report that the old Basil Thai Restaurant at 1608 Wisconsin Ave. NW has been replaced by Georgetown Thai House. One of the owners, who goes by Nikki Y., hails from Chiang Mai. Having sharpened her chef and English-language skills working at restaurants here, she says she wants the clientele to experience not only the authentic cuisine but the Thai ideal of “kreng jai,” the welcoming quality that includes the desire not to offend.
Out: Postmodern Foods Closes M Street Outpost
Postmodern Foods packed up its store at 2920 M St. NW last week, after opening in late 2015. Owner Denise Hicks started the organic
The soon-to-open Ella Rue at MGM. operation three years ago in Great Falls, Virginia, where the main store continues to offers cold-pressed juices, smoothies, salads, savories and desserts, also taking orders for office delivery. Quite the expert on organic food, Hicks writes nutrition reports available at postmodernfoods.com.
In: Ella Rue Expanding to MGM National Harbor “MGM, baby,” reads an Instagram post by Ella Rue, the popular women’s clothing store at 3231 P St. NW run by Krista and Alexa Johnson. On March 1, the shop — which features designer overstock, consignments and accessories — will open another location, Vegas style, at the MGM National Harbor Resort and Casino in Oxon Hill, Maryland. The $1.4-billion complex, launched in December, boasts a 300-room hotel, a 3,000-seat theater, retail spaces with shops such as SJP by Sarah Jessica Parker and restaurants from the likes of José Andrés — and a 125,000-square-foot casino floor.
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‘Awakened Warrior’ Strides into Down Dog Yoga BY PEG GY S A NDS
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t feels different as soon as you walk in. It’s the well-known Down Dog Yoga, now located in a charming one-story building facing a busy Georgetown street, with a wall of large-paned windows looking onto historic residences. There’s a juice bar, a spacious area for lounging and warming up and even window benches for sitting, gazing and musing. It feels friendly, warm, neighborly — a part of the Georgetown community. “That’s exactly what we are,” said Patty Ivey, cofounder of Down Dog Yoga, in an interview last week. “We are about community.” Ivey and her husband Scott started the business in 2003 in an old building overlooking the C&O Canal on Potomac Street, across from Dean & DeLuca. “But it was small and there was no place for our clients to lounge, to bond, to build community,” Ivey said. “For years I would pass this lovely, window-filled former art gallery [Govinda] at 34th and Prospect Street near Georgetown University and think, ‘That would be the perfect place for my studio.’” Three years ago, Ivey’s premonition came true. The art gallery moved out. The building’s owner met her and things clicked. Some of Ivey’s clients have been coming from the beginning. Others, John Paleologos for example, took it up after his wife became a regular. The
Patty and Scott Ivey. Photo by Erin Schaff.
genial, six-foot-plus yoga enthusiast now comes daily. He isn’t the only male coming in with a rolled mat under his arm. “We’re getting more and more men as regulars,” Ivey said. Starting Feb. 26, Down Dog is offering a new six-week commitment program called “The Awakened Warrior Project.” Its purpose: “to challenge your personal philosophy and overcome the fears and limiting beliefs that stand in the way of an awakened life.” The program includes, among other things, six yoga practices per week, both in studio and at home, combining a balance of power and yin styles, daily mediation and a focus on health and nutrition. There will be a “gentle detox” regime in the third week, along with weekly journaling and community sessions. The result, according to Down Dog? “By the end, you will understand that your health and vitality is simply an extension of your heart and intention.” Down Dog Yoga has three other locations. A Dec. 2014 Georgetowner cover story reported that the Iveys’ first Baptiste-style yoga studio had become a multimillion dollar business, with more than 75,000 people having rolled out their mats. The old Georgetown studio on Potomac Street was going to be used as a training center for yoga instructors, but will soon house another hot business, Blue Bottle Coffee.
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Kalorama: An Architectural Treasure BY D O N N A E V ERS
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ounded by Rock Creek Park, Massachusetts Avenue, Columbia Road and Florida Avenue, Kalorama, a neighborhood favored by presidents and dignitaries, is majestically situated on high ground overlooking the city. What is now the setting for impressive row houses, grand townhouses and stately mansions was once a 600-acre spread of woods and fields outside the city proper, since it was located on the other side of Boundary Road (now Florida Avenue). In 1807, poet and statesman Joel Barlow purchased 30 acres of what remained of the original farm for $14,000 and hired Benjamin Latrobe, architect of the U.S. Capitol, to design a mansion where he could entertain. Barlow named it Kalorama, Greek for “beautiful view,” and his circle of visitors included Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and Robert Fulton. During the Civil War, the property was confiscated by the Union Army and used as a hospital for smallpox victims. The former mansion had burned and was torn down by the D.C. government when S Street was extended. The land was sold and subdivided in the late 1880s. When the streetcar came up Connecticut Avenue, the building boom began. The prospect of impending development was met with the same opposition we often see today. In 1889, historian Mary Lockwood said
she feared that the idyllic rural site would “give way to broad avenues and architectural monstrosities which are an abomination to sight and sense.” Well, not quite. The District’s finest examples of revival architecture are found in the neighborhood. Kalorama Triangle has a variety of handsome townhouses built in the Arts & Crafts, Romanesque, Mediterranean and Georgian Revival styles. The SheridanKalorama neighborhood has homes and apartment buildings designed by such renowned architects as Thomas Franklin Schneider, Waddy B. Wood, John Russell Pope, James G. Hill, George Oakley Totten Jr., Albert Beers and Glenn Brown. A unique building is the Lindens at 2401 Kalorama Road NW. One of the oldest houses in Washington, it was originally built in Danvers, Massachusetts, in 1754. In the 1930s, the house was purchased by George and Miriam Morris for $10,000, shipped to Washington in six railroad freight cars, then reassembled and embellished over a three-year period by Williamsburg craftsmen. The last time it changed hands, in August of 2016, it went for $7,100,000. More U.S. presidents have resided in Kalorama than in any other Washington neighborhood. The Obamas’ choice to live on Belmont Road NW adds one more to the list,
which includes Woodrow Wilson at 2340 S St. NW, now a museum, with Herbert Hoover up the block at 2300; 2215 and 2314 Wyoming Ave. NW, where William Howard Taft and Warren Harding lived, respectively; and 2131 R St. NW, the home of then Secretary of the Navy Franklin Roosevelt. (Add to that the Kalorama choice by first daughter Ivanka Trump and her family as well as that of Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis.) In his book, “Best Addresses,” James Goode called attention to Kalorama’s trove of old-world apartment buildings, converted to condominiums and cooperatives in the 1970s and highly sought after to this day. The first to be built, in 1907, was the Mendota at 2200 20th St. NW. Twenty more were constructed over the next 26 years, including the Dresden, the Wyoming, 2101 and 2029 Connecticut Ave. NW, the Woodward and the Altamont. Both the houses and the apartment buildings were the work of the finest and most prolific American architects of their time, young men who were part of the City Beautiful movement that sought to relive and refine the great classic building patterns of the past. Washington was lucky they were here when the area began to boom, so that — instead of the outcome that Mary Lockwood feared — we have an entire neighborhood that is a world-class example of truly fine architecture.
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Celebrating our 40th Anniversary, La Chaumiere is as close to dining in the French countryside without flying there as you can get. Chef Orange serves cassoulet on Thursdays, Hearty Choucroute Alsacienne in the winter, Dover Sole Meuniere, Boudin Blanc, Pike Quenelles and many other French specialties. And your dinner wouldn’t be complete without a luscious Grand Marnier Souffle or warm Apple tart with caramel sauce.
Ranked one of the most popular seafood restaurants in D.C., “this cosmopolitan” send-up of a vintage supper club that’s styled after a '40’s-era ocean liner is appointed with cherry wood and red leather booths, infused with a “clubby, old money” atmosphere. The menu showcases “intelligently” prepared fish dishes that “recall an earlier time of elegant” dining.
Fifth generation Lauren Martin learns about the family business from her dad, Billy Martin, Jr. Since 1933, the warm atmosphere of Martin’s Tavern has welcomed neighbors and world travelers looking for great food, service and years of history within it’s walls. Fourth generation owner Billy Martin. Jr. continues the tradition of Washington’s oldest familyowned restaurant.
Tucked up along the historic C&O Canal, a national park that threads through the Georgetown neighborhood, The Grill Room at Rosewood Washington, D.C., specializes in hand-cut, bone-in, artisan meats, bracingly fresh seafood and tableside preparations. Framed with a wall of floor-to-ceiling windows and fluid geometric lines, the ambiance is one of relaxed refinement
Captivating customers since 2003, Cafe Bonaparte has been dubbed the “quintessential” European café, featuring award-winning crepes and arguably the “best” coffee in D.C.! Other can't-miss attractions are the famous weekend brunch every Saturday and Sunday until 3 p.m. and our late-night weekend hours serving sweet and savory crepes until 1 a.m.
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Situated just north of Georgetown on Wisconsin Ave, Town Hall has been a neighborhood mainstay in Glover Park since 2005. Whether you’re popping in for dinner, drinks, or weekend brunch, Town Hall is the spot you’ll want to call home to Gulp, Gather & Grub. Free parking is available nightly after 7 p.m., and during warmer months, our outdoor courtyard is one of DC’s best kept secrets.
DAS Ethiopian offers you a cozy two-story setting, with rare outside dining views and al fresco patio dining. DAS is located at the eclectically brilliant historic corner of the internationally renowned shopping district of Georgetown.
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Filomena is a Georgetown landmark that has endured the test of time for over 30 years. Our old-world cooking styles and recipes brought to America by the early Italian immigrants alongside the culinary cutting-edge creations of Italy’s foods of today executed by our Executive Chef and his team. Open 7 days a week 11:30 a.m. - 11:00 p.m. Free salad bar with any lunch entrée Mon-Sat
Family-owned restaurant serving authentic Brazilian food in Washington, D.C., for more than 23 years. Our Executive Chef, Alcy de Souza, cooks with the heart and soul. Live music on Thursday nights is a romantic blend of bossa nova, jazz, samba, choro and forró. Monday – Thursday 4:30 to 10:30 p.m. Friday 4:30 to 11:30 p.m. Saturday noon to 11:30 p.m. (brunch until 4 p.m.) Sunday noon to 10 p.m. (brunch until 4 p.m.) Parking validation available for breakfast, lunch and brunch.
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Warm Welcomes for the Literate Drinker BY KAT E OCZ Y P OK
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s much as it’s about politics, D.C. is also a very creative city, full of passionate people who are experts at their chosen craft. Speaking of craft — as in breweries, distilleries and cocktails — we’ve put together a roundup of perfect spots for all you literate, artistic and theatrical imbibers to visit after a long, hard day of creative effort.
Quarter+Glory 2017 14th St. NW Quarter and Glory is the quintessential midcentury American cocktail bar. Celebrating one year on the D.C. scene, the bar’s name has a literary origin. Famed playwright Eugene O’Neill started a secret literary society where members would gather, raise their glasses and share the vow of “Quarter and glory!” (You know what glory means. Quarter means mercy, as in “Spare my life!”) Among the 25 specialty cocktails on the menu is the Zelda, made with Rock Town vodka, Giffard Pêche de Vigne, lemon, honey, an egg white and sparkling water. Also worth noting is the Victorian Punch: gin, Laird’s applejack, lemon, honey and cinnamon.
Petworth Citizen and Reading Room 829 Upshur St. NW Bookish types unite — this cocktail bar and reading room is perfect for the literary men and women of D.C. With punch-packing cocktails like the Blackout — made with gin, lime, simple syrup and blackberry — it’s easy to relax at Petworth Citizen. Monday night is all-night happy hour; every other day it ends at 7 p.m. Snacks like whiskey onion rings and bourbon-glazed chicken wings are a fine accompaniment to the books and the booze.
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The Gibson 2009 14th St. NW
The Rye Bar 1050 31st St. NW
The Gibson has a speakeasy vibe reminiscent of places F. Scott Fitzgerald and the like would frequent. The mood is smart and sexy, with flickering candles and a rule of no standing (be sure to make reservations). Cocktails are changed seasonally, with winter drinks like the Ain’t No Tellin’, made with Avua aged cachaça, cinnamon, chocolate and orange bitters and the Midwestern Erotica, made with Appleton Jamaican rum, Cocchi di Torino, apricot liqueur, allspice dram and old fashioned bitters. When the weather gets warmer, the Gibson has a back patio perfect for getting some writing in while sipping blender-mixed drinks like hurricanes or margaritas.
The Rye Bar, located in the Rosewood Hotel, is extremely swanky — think supple leather chairs, a gold counter and $18 old fashioneds. With a patio overlooking the canal and heaters and blankets on hand, it’s easy to sit outdoors and let inspiration strike. The bar’s winter cocktails are mostly classic, like Manhattans and hot toddies. Some are a bit more whimsical, though, with one playing off the popular HBO show “Game of Thrones” titled Winter is Coming! with 16-year-old rye, mezcal, Cynar, lemon juice and grapefruit cinnamon syrup. Get romantic with a fellow writer or thespian and try some of the Rye Bar’s snacks, like their delicious oysters. Or share a plate of decadent mezzi rigatoni in a pork bolognese with shaved Reggiano.
16th and I Streets NW. Serving breakfast, lunch and dinner, the restaurant also has catering rights for the private events space on the top floor that overlooks the White House. Hotel Restaurant Update: At The Line hotel, slated to open in early May, Erik BrunerYang will open a casual restaurant, Brothers and Sisters, with a bar called Eastern Bar Parlour. Broken English will be his more formal dining space. Spike Gjerde will open A Rake’s Progress, A Rake’s Bar and The Cup We All Race 4 (sounds similar to Baltimore’s legendary The Horse You Came In On) …
Nakazawa by Chef Daisuke Nakazawa will open this summer in the Trump International Hotel, care of New York-based Bedford Street Hospitality. New restaurant signs spotted in Rehoboth: The Blue Hen (in The Avenue Inn), The Vineyard, Mason’s Famous Lobster Rolls.
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hef & GM Update: Chad Medina is kitchen manager at SteelFire Kitchen & Bar in the Maple Lawn development in Howard County. He comes from Bluestone seafood restaurant in Timonium (north of Baltimore). Kristin Shedd is general manager … Alex Levin of Osteria Morini in Southeast joins The Schlow Restaurant Group as executive pastry chef, overseeing all restaurants in D.C. (The Riggsby, Tico, Alta Strada, Conosci, Casolare) as well as in Los Angeles and New England … Brian Drosenos is the new chef de cuisine for The Hay-Adams hotel.
over the Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge leading to Georgetown, seating 234 … Reverie — from chef Johnny Spero of Minibar, currently executive chef at Columbia Room — is expected to open this summer on Grace Street in Georgetown, serving modern American food and seating 60 … Black Restaurant Group’s Addie’s is planning their second-quarter opening at Park Potomac Development.
Nobu Restaurant. Courtesy noburestaurant.com.
The bar at Osteria Morini. Pidzza, offering Turkish-inspired pizza, opened in the Hecht Warehouse in Ivy City in December. Owner Koray Bozkurt plans to expand into Penn Quarter at 736 6th St. NW, as well as into the H Street and U Street corridors. Nicholas Acker has been hired as area manager. Quick Hits: Chef Nobuyuki Matsuhisa’s Nobu is slated to open at 2501 M St. NW, just
Bar Bao will open March in Clarendon at 3100 Clarendon Boulevard, where Mad Rose Tavern used to be. It’s brought to you by Social Restaurant Group (Provision No. 14, The Prospect, Pamplona). Bar Bao will specialize in bao, fluffy white buns filled with savory flavors, a popular street food in Asia. Another big (337 seats) steak house will open in downtown D.C. in the third quarter of this year. Wisconsin-based Noble Chef Hospitality plans to open Rare Steakhouse & Tavern in the Laborers’ International Union building at
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.
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THE Mighty Kahn
A Director of Shakespearean Proportions Prepares to Step Down BY GA RY T ISCHL ER
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ichael Kahn, artistic director of the Shakespeare Theatre Company for the past 30 years — who announced his retirement last week — doesn’t really have a bucket list. That’s probably because what Kahn has accomplished here, in this city and with this company, has pretty much fulfilled his ambitions, dreams and expectations. “I don’t really have any thoughts about doing plays that I haven’t done. There’s no big task, no regrets or unfulfilled plan or anything like that,” he said. “I think by the time a new person is hired, I like to think they’ll be in a position to fulfill and bring their own ideas and visions to the task, and that they’ll be about the future of the theater moving forward.” Mind you, Kahn, whose impact has been enormous and far-reaching, isn’t retiring just yet. The summer of 2019, when he plans to depart, is more than two years away. Much sooner, on March 9, he will be the featured guest at Georgetown Media Group’s next Cultural Leadership Breakfast at the George Town Club. Kahn is the 18th speaker in the series, which began in 2014. Preceding him, in alphabetical order, were: Amy Austin of Theatre Washington, Jenny Bilfield of Washington Performing Arts, Melissa Chiu of the Hirshhorn Museum, Neil Harris of the University of Chicago (author of “Capital Culture”), Julie Kent of the Washington Ballet, Steven Knapp of George Washington University, Arvind Manocha of Wolf Trap, Rebecca Medrano of GALA Hispanic Michael Kahn in 1986. Theatre, Julian Raby of the Freer and Photo by Martha Swope. Kahn, Sackler Galleries, Ari Roth of Mosaic Theater who married interiorCompany, Deborah Rutter of the Kennedy Center, Kim Sajet design architect Charles Mitchem in May of 2015 (Justice of the National Portrait Gallery, Rita Shapiro of the National Ruth Bader Ginsburg officiating), had been mulling over his Symphony Orchestra, Sunny Sumter of the DC Jazz Festival, professional transition for a couple of years. “You’re looking Septime Webre of the Washington Ballet, Martin Wollesen for the right time. It takes at least a year before a new person of the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center and Francesca comes in to put together their own season.” Zambello of Washington National Opera. His own experience was different. Kahn arrived in Washington in 1986 as a confirmed New Yorker, mainly to help stabilize — or more accurately rescue — what was then called the Shakespeare Theatre at the Folger Shakespeare Library. He did so with aplomb, energy and style, with memorable productions of “Richard III,” “The Merchant of Venice” and many others. Some of the casts were headed by
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From the day I arrived in Washington, I have been determined to make this city a destination for lovers of theater and performing arts.
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major stars of the screen, including Patrick Stewart, Stacy Keach and Kelly McGillis. McGillis — at the height of her movie star fame (“Witness” and “Top Gun”) — became a mainstay of Kahn’s company, with turns in “The Merchant of Venice,” “Twelfth Night” and “Much Ado About Nothing,” among others. “It wasn’t about stars,” Kahn said. “It was, then, about finding the best actors for the roles, and they were the best actors.” Kahn moved the company downtown to the Lansburgh Theatre on 7th Street NW when the effort made him a pioneer, along with restaurateur Jose Andres, ACCENTS who opened his Jaleo around the same time. “You would not recognize the area then. It was not that far removed from the riots. There was a bar across the street and some sex shops, I believe. It was a rundown area,” he said. That was already six years after Kahn had arrived in Washington, probably longer than he had expected to stay. “We are looking at 30 years,” Kahn said. “If anybody had told me I would be here for 30 years, well, I had no idea and no intention to do that. It wasn’t my style. I thought, well, maybe a few years, maybe two or three or more, and things didn’t turn out that way.” What did turn out was a Washington institution, complete with powerful adjunct parts and the innovative spirit of Kahn himself. In his retirement statement, Kahn said: “From the day I arrived in Washington, I have been determined to make this city a destination for lovers of theater and performing arts. I wanted to make STC accessible to all and introduce new audiences to classic theater.” Among his innovations have been the annual Shakespeare Free For All, originally at Carter Barron Amphitheatre, from which nearly 700,000 theatergoers have benefited, and the popular “Text Alive!” program, which saw the company going into classrooms and bringing students to the stage. He formed the Academy for Classical Acting at George Washington University, and its graduates have filled the ranks of regional theater communities — including Washington’s — with gifted and experienced actors.
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hen I first came here, there was not that large a body of actors to choose from. We had Ted [van Griethuysen] and Floyd [King] and Fran [Franchelle Stewart Dorn]. But we have a large, and gifted group of actors now, like Holly Twyford and Ed [Gero].” Kahn and then Kennedy Center President Michael Kaiser were the guiding forces behind a citywide Shakespeare in Washington Festival in 2007, in which some 40 cultural organizations, encompassing theatre, dance and music, took part. It went on for about half a year. “We started out thinking in terms not quite that large or for that long a time, but it had a momentum of its own,” Kahn said. Under Kahn, the Shakespeare Theatre Company — which went from the Folger to the Lansburgh and added its
Sidney Harman Hall centerpiece in 2007 — won a Tony for outstanding regional theater company in 2012. Productions he directed, including “The Oedipus Trilogy,” have toured nationally and internationally. He hasn’t lost his directorial knack or desire, either. Last year’s double bill of “The Critic” and “The Real Inspector Hound” were sharp exercises in classic, fast-paced wit and comedy — not to mention the helter-skelter but stylish “The Metromaniacs.” “We’ve done a lot of Shakespeare plays that people had not seen before,” he said. “I can’t say that I’ve done all the plays — ‘The Comedy of Errors,’ for instance, I didn’t see the need, and ‘The Tempest.’” But, to be clear: “I don’t have a bucket list. I think I’ve done most of what I wanted to do, and I thought it was just the right time for me to retire.”
Marjorie Owens
Lisner Auditorium Washington, DC
Watching Kahn, and watching Kahn’s work over the years, you realize that perhaps three fourths of what you know about or have experienced of Shakespeare comes from him. That’s probably true of at least a couple generations of Washingtonarea theatergoers. You remember his personal flair for humor, his intelligence, the complete march through the history plays, his gift for finding the heart of Tennessee Williams. Actors respect him for the ages. As Elizabeth Ashley explained when she took over the lead role in “Mrs. Warren’s Profession” after the death of Dixie Carter: “Michael called me. When the mighty Kahn calls, you go.”
Simon O’Neill
Eric Halfvarson
Celena Shafer
Alan Held
Antony Walker Artistic Director/Conductor
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PERFORMANCE
PERFORMING ARTS BY G ARY T IS CHL ER
Opera
This spring, Washington National Opera will give us two operas that in sound, look and style are distinctly a part of our times. “Dead Man Walking” (Feb. 25 to March 11) brings together composer Jake Heggie and playwright Terrence McNally in a powerful adaptation of a true story — you will recall the 1995 film starring Sean Penn and Susan Sarandon. It’s followed by “Champion” (March 4 to 18), which pioneers something of a new form, a jazz opera, with a score by trumpeter Terence Blanchard and a libretto by Michael Cristofer. Mezzosoprano Denyce Graves — one of our hometown heroines — portrays the mother of a closeted boxer who knocks out a homophobic rival with tragic results. Traditional opera gets its due in two ways. Washington Concert Opera concludes its 30th season with the Washington premiere of Beethoven’s “Leonore” (March 5), the first version of the composer’s “Fidelio,” at GW’s Lisner Auditorium. Rising star Marjorie Owens takes the title role, with Simon O’Neill as Florestan and Eric Halvarson as Rocco. Two months later, Washington National Opera will stage Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” (May 6 to 21) with a double cast, conducted by Plácido Domingo and Eugene Kohn. Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo. Photo by Zoran Jelenic. Courtesy Kennedy Center.
Dance
Washington dance patrons will get a chance to see more examples of Washington Ballet Artistic Director Julie Kent’s vision this spring, when the company presents a new version of the ethereal “Giselle,” restaged by Kent and her husband, Associate Artistic Director Victor Barbee, at the Kennedy Center (March 1 to 5). The company’s 40th anniversary season continues at the Harman Center with works by Jiří Kylián, Justin Peck and William Forsythe (March 29 to April 2) and at the Warner Theatre with works by George Balanchine, Alexei Ratmansky and Twyla Tharp (April 26 to 30). For something totally different, here’s looking at the Kennedy Center arrival of Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo (March 21 and 22). Founded 40 years ago, the “Trocks” are an all-male dance company performing on pointe and in drag in spoofs of classic ballets.
Jazz
Legendary trumpeter Roy Hargrove will check into Blues Alley for a week this spring (March 28 to April 2). The National Endowment for the Arts will honor 2017 NEA Jazz Masters Dee Dee Bridgewater, Ira Gitler, Dave Holland, Dick Hyman and Dr. Lonnie Smith at a concert at the Kennedy Center (April 3). Strathmore’s Shades of Blues festival continues through May, including its “Ladies Sing the Blues” concert, presented by Jazz at Lincoln Center (April 8). At the top of the bill for the 13th annual DC Jazz Festival (June 9 to 18) are: Gregory Porter, the Robert Glasper Experiment, Pat Metheny, the Kenny Garrett Quintet, Black Violin, the Roy Haynes Fountain of Youth Band, the Ron Carter-Russell Malone Duo, Jane Bunnett and Maqueque, the Odeon Pope Saxophone Choir, the Mary Halvorson Octet, the Hiromi and Edmar Castañeda Duo, Kandace Springs, Chano Domínguez and Mbowie and the Blast. Robert Orth and Aubrey Allicock in “Champion.” Photo by Ken Howard. Courtesy Washington National Opera.
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Classical
Pianist Hélène Grimaud will be the soloist in a performance of Brahms’s “Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat Major” with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra conducted by Marin Alsop at Strathmore (March 2). A week later at the Kennedy Center, Christoph Eschenbach will conduct the National Symphony Orchestra in Shostakovich’s “Cello Concerto No. 1 in E-flat Major,” written for the late Mstislav Rostropovich, with soloist Alisa Weilerstein (March 9 to 11). Washington Performing Arts and the Kennedy Center will co-present “Shift,” a festival of American orchestras that also features the San Francisco chamber group the Knights (March 27 to April 2). The 40-yearold Emerson String Quartet continues its 37th season in residence at the Smithsonian with two concerts at the National Museum of Natural History’s Baird Auditorium (March 19 and May 14). The quartet will also play at Wolf Trap (April 28). The East Coast Chamber Orchestra will play music of this century and the last — by Caplet, Lutosławski, Suk and Theofanidis — in the National Gallery of Art’s East Garden Court (April 23).
Other Venues, Other Genres
Just begun: Atlas Arts Center’s Intersections Festival “Where the Art World and the Real World Intersect” (Feb. 24 to March 5). Some notable names coming to Wolf Trap: Livingston Taylor (March 2), Toad the Wet Sprocket’s Glen Phillips (March 30) and Over the Rhine (April 7). At DAR Constitution Hall: Regina Spektor (March 14). At Lisner, “Nufonia Must Fall” (March 18): “A tender love story between a robot and a human” with “live puppet theater, video, string quartet, electric ukulele, turntables, percussion, and sound effects.” And at D.C.’s big top, the Verizon Center: Green Day’s Revolution Radio Tour (March 13), John Mayer (April 6), the Red Hot Chili Peppers (April 12) and Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey’s Final Farewell (March 31 to April 2).
Theater
The Kennedy Center is bringing the world to Washington with a series of plays directed by top international directors. On tap: Canadian Robert LePage’s “Needles & Opium” (March 16 to 18), Cuban Carlos Diaz’s “Atigonón” (March 21 and 22), Kuwaiti Sulayman Al Bassam’s “Petrol Station” (March 24 to 26), legendary British director Peter Brooks’s “Battlefield” (March 19 to April 2) and Russian Lev Dodin’s “Three Sisters” (April 26 to 30). There seems to be a run on the sisters. Studio Theatre is presenting two versions, a “Three Sisters” (March 8 to April 23) directed by New Neighborhood’s Jackson Gay and a “No Sisters” (March 16 to April 23) written and directed by D.C.’s let’s-mess-with-the-classics man Aaron Posner. Some other spring theater hightlights: Ford’s Theatre’s production of the epic American musical “Ragtime” (March 10 to May 20); a provocative new play by Sarah Treems, “The How and the Why,” which explores a female take on science and the mysteries of sex, at Theater J (through March 12); “Parade,” Alfred Uhry’s musical about the sensational 1913 Leo Frank trial in Georgia, at the Keegan Theatre (March 11 to April 8); the national tour of “Fun Home,” the Tony Award-winning best musical, the first show written exclusively by women — original story by Alison Bechdel, music by Jeanine Tesori, book and lyrics by Lisa Kron — at the National Theatre (April 18 to May 13); “The Select,” a highly unusual take on Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises,” a production of Elevator Repair Service at the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Lansburgh Theatre (through April 2); “Intelligence” by Jacqueline E. Lawton, which tells the story of CIA operative Valerie Plume, focal point of a scandal that rocked the administration of George W. Bush, at Arena Stage (through April 9); and “Pike St.,” solo star Nilaja Sun’s one-woman show on Puerto Rican immigrant life, at Woolly Mammoth (March 27 to April 3).
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Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater
Hannah Yelland as Valerie Plame in “Intelligence.” Photo by Tony Powell. Courtesy Arena Stage.
LOOKING ANEW AT THE ART OF PHILIP JOHNSON AND THE DESIGN OF THE KREEGER MUSEUM CURATORS: Michael E. Hickok, FAIA and Yolanda Cole, FAIA, of Hickok Cole Architects
Photographers Cynthia Connolly, Frank Hallam Day, Avi Gupta, Max Hirshfeld Franz Jantzen and Colin Winterbottom interpret the architecture of Philip Johnson through the lens of their cameras. Each photographer has created work specifically for this exhibition 2401 Foxhall Road, NW Washington, DC 20007 www.kreegermuseum.org
Ayano Kimura and Jonathan Jordan by Carol Pratt
Horst P. Horst/Vogue, May 1, 1964 © Conde Nast
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Coming Soon:
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TUDOR, ASHTON, WORLD PREMIERE
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May 25 – 27 Kennedy Center Opera House
BALANCHINE, RATMANSKY, THARP
Studio Company
April 26 – 30 Warner Theatre
ALADDIN March 18 & 19 THEARC Theater
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VISUAL ARTS
Museums Are Our Responsibility BY AR I P OS T
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ne of our new president’s campaign promises was to eliminate government waste, pledging to cut all unnecessary federal spending. This includes line items like federally funded research and development centers, governmentassisted health and human service facilities, environmental regulatory agencies and public education. It should come as no surprise that one of the budget lines on the chopping block is the National Endowment for the Arts, which gives grants to arts institutions around the country. Amid this new administration’s exasperating victory lap of blunders, lies, obvious incompetence, despotic threats and violations against minorities, immigrants, women, ecology and reality, it’s hard to know where to focus your indignation. So allow me to alleviate some of your stress: do not worry about the elimination of the NEA. This is not because I believe that the arts should weather the storm while we fight for those more critically at risk. The reason is simply that art does not need the NEA to survive. Museums, theaters and other arts
institutions will endure this moment. It is an important distinction that NEA grants largely benefit arts institutions, which frankly benefit a disproportionately small number of artists. This funding is beneficial to the development of art and cultural programs, but not once have I ever heard an artist express concern over the elimination of government arts spending. There is great value in creating public arts projects around the country, particularly in areas that don’t have dozens of museums and theaters in their backyard. The NEA also sponsors art programs for children in lowincome communities, art therapy for veterans and a number of small but significant services aimed at bringing more beauty and value to peoples’ lives. However, art in America has always been a dominantly free-market enterprise, funded by the wealthy because it overwhelmingly benefits the wealthy. The vast majority of all artwork in the National Gallery and the Smithsonian museums, our national bastions of art and culture, originated as private collections and were bestowed as donations to their respective institutions.
For as much public outreach as organizations like the NEA offer, it is at donor galas and exhibition openings that their name is most prevalent, usually in conjunction with private sponsors. As long as we have a coherent society with food, functional plumbing and electricity (all miracles), artists will keep making art and looking for places to show it. Artists, museums and cultural institutions face far more serious threats from this new administration — by way of its stoking of cultural discrimination and popularizing contempt for creative and scientific enterprises — than the proposed elimination of the NEA and NEH. Ignorance and intolerance are the real danger, not federal budget cuts. Museums are important because they give us access to great art. I believe that is inherently valuable and a position that should not need to be decorated, defended or explained. I am aware that many of these institutions are enormous beneficiaries of NEA sponsorship, but their vitality and relevance has always been the responsibility of private citizens, through our support and involvement.
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The president does not have the power to shut down museums. He can hinder their efforts, but it is on us to care, to defend their value. If you are reading this, you probably don’t control the federal budget, but you do control what you honor and support. Honor art. Support museums. They are more than couriers of history and extravagant objects — they are evolving centers of community, public discourse and empathy. Museums work to instill meaning and relevance in their assets and exhibitions, to feature work of a continually diversifying world of artists and to connect with an ever-broadening audience. Washington museums do that magnificently, and it is our responsibility as privileged and culturally conscious citizens to support them as we always have. The spring art season is almost here, and the upcoming exhibitions featured in this issue offer a remarkably diverse range of subjects, themes, ideas and interests. See them all. Choose to honor art. Choose to support museums.
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Yayoi Kusama with recent works in Tokyo, 2016. Photo by Tomoaki Makino. Courtesy Hirshhorn Museum.
“Germantown & Chelten,” c. 1950. Robert Riggs. Courtesy National Gallery of Art.
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS ‘Border Crossing: Jami Porter Lara’ Opened Feb. 17
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN ‘Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors’ Opens Feb. 23
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART ‘The Urban Scene: 1920–1950’ Opens Feb. 26
While visiting a remote area along the U.S. border with Mexico, Albuquerque-based artist Jami Porter Lara found the remains of ancient pottery alongside plastic bottles discarded by migrants. Intrigued by this juxtaposition, she began to reconceptualize the plastic bottle, using a millennia-old process to make pottery resembling this ubiquitous icon of modern life. Porter Lara’s art blurs the line between what we see as natural and what we see as manufactured, illuminating the bottle as an unlikely precious object — a vessel that carries life-sustaining water.
“Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors” is a celebration of the legendary Japanese artist’s 65-year career and a sensory journey through her mind and legacy. Visitors will have the unprecedented opportunity to discover six of Kusama’s captivating “Infinity Mirror Rooms” alongside other key works. From her radical performances in the 1960s, when she staged underground polka-dot “Happenings” on the streets of New York, to her wild new pumpkin sculptures, this exhibition will showcase Kusama’s full range of talent for the first time in Washington, D.C.
American artists of the early 20th century sought to interpret the beauty, power and anxiety of the modern age in diverse ways. Through depictions of bustling city crowds and breathtaking metropolitan vistas, the 25 black-and-white prints in “The Urban Scene: 1920–1950” explore the spectacle of urban modernity. The exhibition includes prints by artists such as Louis Lozowick and Reginald Marsh, as well as by lesserknown artists including Mabel Dwight, Gerald Geerlings, Victoria Hutson Huntley, Martin Lewis and Stow Wengenroth.
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SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM ‘June Schwarcz: Invention and Variation’ Opens March 10 June Schwarcz, who died in 2015 at age 97, is considered one of the most innovative enamel artists of the late 20th century. Over more than 60 years, Schwarcz created inventive forms in metal that set new standards for the field. Her extensive body of work centered around ancient vessel-making traditions, which defied convention because, as she wryly noted, “They simply don’t hold water.” All unique, her vessels — more than 50 of which are on view — show the influence of sources such as Japanese ceramics and textiles, Scandinavian design and the California Arts and Crafts movement. Theaster Gates, 2014. Photo by Sarah Pooley. Courtesy National Gallery of Art.
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART ‘In the Tower: Theaster Gates’ Opens March 5 Over the past decade, Theaster Gates has explored the built environment and the power of art and culture to transform experience. For the second exhibition in the reopened East Building Tower 3 galleries at the National Gallery of Art, Gates will present a new body of work, “The Minor Arts,” featuring several pieces created for the space. The installation will examine how discarded and ordinary objects, including the floor of a Chicago high school gym and the archives of Ebony magazine, acquire value through the stories we tell.
“Red and Black Compression,” 2011. George Condo. Courtesy Phillips Collection. “Apollo’s Pool,” 1993. June Schwarcz. Courtesy Smithsonian American Art Museum.
NATIONAL BUILDING MUSEUM ‘Architecture of an Asylum: St. Elizabeths 1852–2017’ Opens March 25 For the past decade, St. Elizabeths — a sprawling campus in Anacostia that opened in 1855 as the Government Hospital for the Insane — was largely closed to the public. But recent efforts to redevelop this National Historic Landmark have created new opportunities to access its rich legacy, as well as its potential to help revitalize one of the city’s most underserved wards. This multidisciplinary exhibition tells the story of St. Elizabeths, reflecting our nation’s evolving ideas of how to care for the mentally ill and documenting the current initiative to reconfigure the historic campus as a federal workplace and a mixed-use urban development.
THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION ‘George Condo: The Way I Think’ Opens March 11 Born in Concord, New Hampshire, in 1957, painter George Condo is best known for his rich pictorial inventions, existential humor and imaginative portraits, which incorporate a hybridization of art-historical influences, such as Goya, Velázquez, Manet and Picasso. This exhibition of roughly 200 drawings and sketches will offer unprecedented insight into the mind and process of Condo, who has long challenged painting’s primacy over drawing. It is in his drawings that Condo’s process of “painting memory” (the title of a course he taught at Harvard) — in which his mind’s eye takes a “snapshot” of his imaginary subjects, and the resulting figurative compositions become infested with abstraction — reveals itself.
“Mercury Salutes the Square,” 2016. Frank Hallam Day. Courtesy Kreeger Museum.
“Moon at Shinagawa” (also known as “Moonlight Revelry at Dozō Sagami”), c. 1788. Kitagawa Utamaro. Courtesy Freer and Sackler Galleries.
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NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY ‘The Face of Battle: Americans at War, 9/11 to Now’ Opens April 7
2017 marks the 50th anniversary of the completion of the Kreeger Museum, designed by Philip Johnson in 1964. On this occasion, the museum has asked two prominent Washington architects, Michael E. Hickok and Yolanda Cole, to conceive and curate a special celebratory exhibition. Going beyond archival material, the show offers a vision of the Kreeger through a fresh lens: some of the region’s most prominent photographers. Each will create images that challenge us to look at the building from his or her point of view. In this way, Johnson’s design becomes the inspiration for an exhibition rather than its subject.
Since September 11, 2001, the United States has been engaged in multiple wars, varying in intensity and consequence. After 15 years, warfare has become normalized into our cultural landscape — ongoing, yet out of sight. “The Face of Battle” explores the human costs of these wars through portraiture, reorienting our view of war from questions of strategy and tactics to its personal toll. Featuring 56 works by six artists — including Ashley Gilbertson, Tim Hetherington and Vincent Valdez — this poignant exhibition puts a face on recent wars through work that pictures the experience of ordinary soldiers.
FREER AND SACKLER GALLERIES ‘Inventing Utamaro: A Japanese Masterpiece Rediscovered’ Opens April 8 In 2014, the Okada Museum of Art in Hakone, Japan, revealed that it had discovered a painting by legendary artist Kitagawa Utamaro (1753–1806) that had been missing for nearly 70 years. Titled “Snow at Fukagawa,” the immense work is one of three paintings by Utamaro that idealize famous pleasure districts in Edo (now Tokyo). The three paintings reached the Paris art market in the late 1880s and were quickly dispersed. Now, for the first time in nearly 140 years, the trio will be reunited in the exhibition “Inventing Utamaro” at the Freer and Sackler Galleries, the only location to show all three original works.
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The Very Romantic Month of February BY M I C H E L L E G A L L ER Love messages span the centuries. Interwoven with culture and history, they create a touching view of actual people and their sentimental values, providing insights into the concept of love and romance in different historical periods. Although the roots of Valentine’s Day stretch back to A.D. 496 (when it was established by Pope Gelasius I to commemorate the life of a Christian martyr), historians agree that the holiday did not become associated with any romantic notions until the late Middle Ages. Prior to the 1400s, when the first printed reference to the pairing of birds on ‘Saint Volontyne’s Day’ appears, messages of love were spoken or sung. Even though love tokens were exchanged throughout the year as simple tributes of love and affection, it was the month of February that became associated with romance, possibly since it marks the beginning of the mating season for birds. The precursors to valentines were works of scissor cutting (in German: scherenschnitte). Various religious sects used the technique to make devotional objects, joyful expressions of the artists’ religious faith. Beautifully executed works of art emanated from Frenchand German-speaking countries. Vellum was delicately knife-cut to emulate the finest tatted lace and often adorned with gouache
miniatures of saints. These religious tokens provide a significant link in the development of the valentine, helping us to understand their important role in the intimate personal communication between friends and lovers so many years ago. Although paper valentines were exchanged in Europe — they were especially popular in England — early Dutch settlers in the American colonies celebrated Valentine’s Day according to the customs they brought with them to the New World. A young Dutch woman was likely to believe that the first man she laid eyes upon on Valentine’s Day was to be her future spouse. It wasn’t until the 1700s that colonists began exchanging handmade cut-paper valentines, frequently with a written message and carefully applied colors. Early paper manufacturers were inspired by the designs and the motifs that endured during the evolution from handmade to manufactured valentines. As the precursors to the magnificent machine-made lace paper marvels, 19th-century hand-cut designs are notable landmarks in a modern collection, and are still occasionally available. In the early 1800s, valentines began to be assembled in factories and were made with real and paper lace and ribbons. As they became more sophisticated, they acquired elegant cameo-embossed, satin-covered
surfaces, and often incorporated secret panels and hidden messages. Mechanical cards were a popular invention, as were cobweb and openwork lace paper. Recognized for elegance in furniture and design, the Biedermeier period, around 1820, also stimulated the creation of some of the most elegant greetings ever seen. Tiny handpainted and embossed paper ornaments, gilded die-cuts and mother-of-pearl were affixed to silk chiffon and framed with engraved messages, forming beautiful compositions. In the mid 1800s, Esther Howland of Worcester, Massachusetts, became known as the “Mother of the American Valentine.” Her distinctive handmade cards, made of paper, lace and ribbons pasted together, are cherished by collectors to this day. Collectors love Victorian valentines featuring die-cut images that open into three-dimensional views. Some collectors look for postcard valentines, die-cut school-type valentines from the 1920s, ’30s and ’40s and mechanical valentines with moving parts from the 1950s. One of the most important things to recognize in purchasing an antique valentine is the condition of the piece. Collectors acquire the highest quality pieces; however, these are becoming increasingly scarce due to our ability to shop anywhere in the world with the click of a mouse or the touch of a finger.
One of the earliest hand-colored, cut out valentines was sent to Elizabeth Sandwich from Henry Drinker in Philadelphia in 1753. She eventually became his wife. Courtesy Colonial Sense. Some early valentines have recently sold at auction for upwards of $1,200. Collectors seek the same rare and beautiful pieces that have survived generations. Over time, these will be removed from the marketplace and added to collections all over the world. Also, ephemera (which describes all paper antiques) are very perishable. Delicate paper lace, German die-cut scrap and honeycomb tissue paper deteriorate if not properly stored. People had a tendency to tuck valentines into old scrapbooks, sometimes even applying old cellophane tape or glue to the backs or the corners, which greatly lowers their value. Michelle Galler is an antiques dealer, design consultant and realtor based in Georgetown. Her shop is in Rare Finds, on Main Street in Washington, Virginia. Reach her at antiques. and.whimsies@gmail.com.
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Georgetown’s Mirror Image: Old Town Alexandria STO RY A ND P HOTOS B Y R I C H A R D S E LD E N Before there was a District of Columbia, there were two flourishing Potomac River ports trading in tobacco — and, yes, slaves — at the edges of the 10-by-10-mile diamond designated in 1790 as the site of the new federal city: Georgetown and Alexandria. (Alexandria and the rest of the District of Columbia across the Potomac River were retroceded to Virginia in 1846.) In some ways a mirror image of Georgetown, Old Town Alexandria has likewise retained many of its 18th- and 19th-century buildings and much of its historic character and charm. Over the past several decades, both communities have become increasingly desirable places to live, shop, dine and sightsee. It’s a good time of year for Georgetowners to head about seven miles due south for an Old Town excursion. During Alexandria’s Winter Restaurant Week, through Sunday, Feb. 26, some 70 restaurants (not all in Old Town) are offering a three-course dinner or dinner for two for $35. Roughly half are also offering lunch specials for $10, $15 or $20 per person. And Alexandria’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade,
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one of the nation’s earliest, is the following Saturday, March 4. While Georgetown has two retail spines, M Street and Wisconsin Avenue, almost all of Old Town Alexandria’s retail and restaurant activity takes place on King Street, which extends west to east for about 18 blocks from the King Street Metrorail station to the waterfront. The free King Street Trolley runs every 15 minutes or so until midnight Thursday to Saturday (until 10:15 p.m. other days). A steady stream of shoppers, many pushing strollers or walking dogs, flows along King Street’s brick sidewalks, especially in nice weather. There are several Capital Bikeshare stations, which are popping up throughout Alexandria. Near the King Street Metro are a handful of hotels and some of the hundreds of professional associations — the American Peanut Council, the International Association of Refrigerated Warehouses and the National Stone, Sand and Gravel Association, to name a few — that are
Shops on Cameron Street between N. Royal and N. Fairfax.
The Potomac Riverboat Company’s “Cherry Blossom” is docked at the Old Town waterfront.
Ramsay House, owned by Alexandria’s first mayor, William Ramsay, is now the Alexandria Visitor Center.
a mainstay of the city’s economy. Heading east, one finds a winning mix of bookstores, cafés, home and garden stores, antique shops, boutiques, restaurants and bars. Past Washington Street, a busy north-south boulevard, the national chains are out in force. At Market Square, it’s worth making a detour to the block of Cameron Street between N. Royal and N. Fairfax, behind City Hall. Gadsby’s Tavern, visited by our earliest presidents, is here, offering guided tours in the museum portion and meals in the restaurant. Inviting shops, some reached through a mid-block archway, line the north side of Cameron. Returning to King Street on N. Fairfax takes one past Carlyle House, a stunning stone mansion — with an 18th-century-style garden in back — that was British General Edward Braddock’s French and Indian War headquarters. Around the corner on King is the Alexandria Visitor Center (restrooms, shop, brochures) in historic Ramsay House. A free “Walking with Washington” tour leaves from the visitor center on Sunday, Feb. 26, at 2 p.m. The pace picks up as King Street slopes down to the river, with sidewalk dining, ice cream shops
In her Torpedo Factory studio, Tatyana Schremko stands next to her sculpture, “Emerging.” and, at the Scottish Merchant and Tobacconist, cigars. At the waterfront, along with sightseeing boats and sprawling seafood restaurants — Vola’s Dockside Grill, Blackwall Hitch and the Chart House — is the Torpedo Factory Art Center. The renovated naval munitions plant is home to the Art League school, with several galleries and more than 80 artist’s studios open to the public on three floors. A large-scale waterfront development plan, with residential, retail and hotel components, is moving forward in fits and starts after decades of controversy. The 137-year-old Old Dominion Yacht Club sold its clubhouse and parking lot to the city in 2014, but the new clubhouse nearby is still a construction site. Back uphill, on Prince Street, is the porticoed Atheneum, a Greek Revival building where Robert E. Lee banked. Now the home of the Northern Virginia Fine Arts Association, it is a venue for talks and exhibitions. Coming up next: a show about former Corcoran printmaker Dennis O’Neil’s Hand Print Workshop International, on view through April 2 with a reception on Sunday, Feb. 26, and a panel discussion on Saturday, March 4.
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D.C. Eater is reporting that farm-to-table restaurant Table served its last meal on Valentine’s Day. The four-year-old restaurant “had a good run,” according to executive chef Akhtar Nawab. Nawab and a group of investors are gearing up for their next big venture — he’s signed a lease on a restaurant he hopes to open later this year. The location or cuisine type is yet to be known. The closure of A&D Bar and Chao Ku and now Table has caused some to nickname the shutterings the “9th Street Massacre.”
The Hay-Adams Hotel has introduced a new pocket-size adult coloring book for its guest rooms. The book includes 13 pages of D.C. monuments to color in, along with six colored pencils. Cartoonist Matt Wuerker, a Pulitzer Prize winner, designed the book. His work is also found in the hotel’s famous Off the Record bar — he designed the collectible, political-themed drink coasters.
D.C.’s main public library, named after Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., will close March 4 for major renovations. Courtesy Library of Congress.
Hay-Adams coloring book with art from Pulitzer Prize winner Matt Wuerker. Courtesy Hay-Adams.
Central Library Checking Out Until 2020
Cotton Annex No Longer Mothballed
The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, D.C.’s central public library, will close for renovations March 4. The modernization project is expected to last three years. The 45-year-old building, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, is set to reopen in 2020. The work will include the creation of new fabrication spaces, an interactive kids’ area, a café, an auditorium and a green roof.
Whole Foods With Pub and Patio Coming to H Street The H Street neighborhood is next on the list in D.C. to get a Whole Foods grocery store. The 40,000-square-foot store, opening March 15, will feature an expanded Paper Horse, Erik Bruner-Yang’s Chinese diner-style café; baked-from-scratch breads made from recycled brewer’s grain; exclusive local products like Cava restaurant sauces; a mezzanine pub with 16 local beers on tap, wine by the glass and a gourmet hot dog cart; and H Street’s only outdoor patio.
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. Courtesy Betsy DeVos.
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Park Hyatt’s Troy Knapp. Courtesy Park Hyatt.
Vacant for years, the federal government’s 1936 Cotton Annex building in Southwest D.C. has been sold for $30.3 million at an auction that drew two dozen bidders, the Washington Business Journal reported. Also known as the Bureau of Agricultural Economics Building, 300 12th St. SW was built for classifying and standardizing cotton and tobacco. The identity of the winning bidder had not been released at press time.
Protests have continued in the nation’s capital, with sign-carrying residents and visitors voicing their concerns about a variety of issues. Earlier this month, protesters blocked newly approved Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos from entering Jefferson Middle School Academy in Southwest D.C., CNN reported. Some even yelled at her “Game of Thrones” style, shouting “Go back! Shame! Shame!” as she reentered her SUV and drove off. The past few weekends have also seen multiple immigration-related protests, including last Friday’s “A Day Without Immigrants.”
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The Park Hyatt in the West End has tapped Troy Knapp as its executive chef. Knapp plans to focus on creating seasonal menus while maintaining respect for regional traditions. Originally from Seattle, he was previously executive chef at the Driskill Hotel in Austin, Texas, and, before that, worked at Hyatts near Malibu, in Phoenix and in San Antonio.
The Cotton Annex building on 12th Street NW. Courtesy General Services Administration.
The White House. Courtesy the White House.
White House Tours to Resume in March Just in time for the spring tourist season, White House tours will start up again in March. Those wishing to visit 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW should contact their representative in Congress to request a tour. The president is responsible for appointing the head of the White House Visitors Office, something Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama all did before they were sworn in, DCist reported. President Trump has yet to announce the new director.
New Music Venue to Anchor the Wharf’s Pearl Street It’s like Christmas every day for those who live near the $2-billion Wharf development. Like a gift that keeps on giving, the neighborhood seems to be making daily announcements of new shopping, dining and entertainment venues — most recently, the Pearl Street Warehouse, a venture from the owners of Cantina Marina. Anchoring the Wharf’s new entertainment street (aptly named Pearl Street), the Pearl Street Warehouse will offer live music
nightly. With Americana, rock, country, blues, bluegrass and alt-country coming to the venue, it will give Washington, D.C., a place to hear music that can be hard to find in the area. Bruce Gates, one of the founders of Pearl Street Warehouse, thinks there aren’t enough neighborhood music spots in town where you can “stop in for a coffee in the morning or a drink in the evening and catch a live show any night of the week. “We’ve been a part of the Southwest waterfront community for 15 years with Cantina Marina and are looking forward to being a part of the new iteration of it,” Gates said. “The Wharf will be an exceptional neighborhood that will change this city, and the Pearl Street Warehouse will be a jewel box in the heart of it.” Gates hopes Pearl Street Warehouse will be a place for local and regional artists to get their start, but also a place where national touring artists will want to play. With a capacity of 300 and the audience only 25 feet from the stage, every patron will be given a front-row, up-close-and-personal music experience. Phase 1 of the Wharf is set to open in October. The Phase 2 groundbreaking is planned for the middle of 2018, with completion in 2021. Along with residences and retail, the nearly mile-long development area will include new parks and public spaces.
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Alvin Ailey Enjoys 18th D.C. Opener More than 800 guests contributed a record total of $1 million Feb. 7 to support the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, its school and programs. The opening night gala at the Kennedy Center featured performances celebrating the centennials of jazz legends Ella Fitzgerald (Robert Battle’s “Ella”) and Dizzy Gillespie (Billy Wilson’s “The Winter in Lisbon”) — both born in 1917, like President John F. Kennedy. The evening also featured Swedish choreographer Johan Inger’s striking “Walking Mad,” as well as music by minimalist master Arvo Pärt.
Alvin Ailey dancers performing Billy Wilson’s “The Winter in Lisbon.” Photo by Teresa Wood.
Alvin Ailey Artistic Director Robert Battle and Mayor Muriel Bowser. Photo by Tony Powell.
Co-chairs Gina Adams and Sela Collins flank Chris Womack. Photo by Tony Powell.
Opening Reception at the Museum of Women in the Arts BY M A RY B I R D “Border Crossing: Jami Porter Lara” and “New Ground: The Southwest of Maria Martinez and Laura Gilpin” are two not-to-be-missed exhibitions at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, which fortunate members previewed at an opening reception March 16. Museum Director Susan Fisher Sterling tapped her wine glass to welcome guests and hail Jami Porter Lara as one of the first beneficiaries of the museum’s emerging artist fund, which the recipient said made her “freak out at a solo exhibition.” “It’s never too late to become an artist,” Porter Lara opined, as she spoke of the continuity of objects at the border, from ancient pottery shards to plastic bottles.
Dale Pastor and Betty Lee.
Gamila Karjawally and MMWA Board President Cindy Jones.
Featured artist Laura Gilpin.
Sweethearts & Patriots Lights Up City Tavern BY RO B ER T D E VA N E Y. P H OTO S BY V E R A G E DA LI A
A lively crowd of 21st century “Sweethearts and Patriots,” with a tip of the tricorn to early years of the republic, filled up the City Tavern Club on M Street Feb. 4 to benefit Dog Tag Bakery. Each year, the annual gala, co-hosted by young professional members of the District of Columbia Society of the Sons of the American Revolution and young members of the District of Columbia Daughters of the American Revolution, benefits a different local organization that supports our nation’s military, veterans and military families. Revolutionary War re-enactors mixed with musicians and some very elegant ladies and gentlemen.
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Kiley Knott and Dave Loda, 18th-century re-enactors.
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February-March
Washington Ballet’s Amuse Bouche at the Embassy of France
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St. Jude Gourmet Gala
BY M A RY B I R D. P H OTO S BY N ES H A N H . N A LTC H AYA N The Women’s Committee of the Washington Ballet’s Amuse Bouche, “a taste of France, dance, romance and chance,” took place at the Embassy of France Feb. 10. Artistic Director Julie Kent had a prior commitment in the Netherlands, but extended her warm wishes on video. As board chair Sylvia de Leon noted, “There is no ballet step that isn’t French.” Embassy chef Daniel Labonne prepared a lavish repast, each course paired with handpicked French wines. The live auction raised an impressive amount in support of the ballet’s education and community engagement programs. The Washington Ballet will present “Giselle” at the Kennedy Center March 1 to 5.
The 18th St. Jude Gourmet Gala, presented by WH Administrators, showcases some of the finest food in the area with tastings from leading celebrity chefs alongside live and silent auctions and other presentations. The event supports the lifesaving work conducted at St. Jude Children’s Research at St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital. National Building Museum. Email alexis.polakoff@stjude.org or call 703-650-4515.
MARCH 4
2017 Night of Vision “Oh, Say Can You See?” is the title of this year’s gala, benefiting the Prevention of Blindness Society of Metropolitan Washington. The evening includes cocktails and a silent auction, followed by dinner and dancing. NBC4 Chief Meteorologist Doug Kammerer will be master of ceremonies. The society, the largest local blindness prevention agency in the U.S., is dedicated to the improvement and preservation of sight by providing services, education, advocacy and innovation. Four Seasons Hotel. Call 202-234-1010 or email events@youreyes.org.
MARCH 9
Latino Student Fund Puerto Rico will be showcased at this year’s gala, which includes cocktails, a silent auction and a dinner featuring the best of Spanish and Latino cuisine. The event raises awareness and funding for LSF’s academic programs, benefiting local Hispanic students from pre-K to grade 12. Organization of American States. Contact Maria Fernanda Borja at 202-244-3438 or mborja@latinostudentfund.org.
MARCH 11
Washington Performing Arts 50th Anniversary The gala will honor and celebrate Reginald Van Lee, chairman of the board of directors, and the 50th anniversary season. Proceeds benefit Washington Performing Arts’ artistic and educational art initiatives focusing on Washington-area children and families. Mellon Auditorium. Contact Roger Whyte at 202-533-1891 or rwhyte@ washingtonperformingarts.org.
Co-chairs Natalie von Seelen, Sarah Foster and Jacqueline Henry with Women’s Committee President Marsha Muawwad, second from right.
Fashionable ‘Affair of the Heart’ for Women’s Health
BY M A RY B I R D. A timely salute to Valentine’s Day and women’s heart health, the 69th annual “An Affair of the Heart” luncheon and fashion show, featuring Bloomingdale’s and the spring collection from Hobbs London, was presented by the Women’s Board of the American Heart Association at the Marriott Wardman Park Feb. 6. ABC7/WJLA-TV news anchor Alison Starling emceed the luncheon. American Heart Association CEO Nancy Brown came from Dallas to speak and introduce research-grant recipients. Net proceeds from the luncheon and distributions from the Marriott Research Endowment will advance promising research projects focusing on the treatment and prevention of heart disease.
Leukemia Ball The 30th annual Leukemia Ball supports the world’s largest voluntary health agency dedicated to blood cancer. The evening will include dinner, a silent auction and entertainment by comedian Jim Gaffigan and pop star Andy Grammer. Walter E. Washington Convention Center. Contact Kelly Kent at kelly.kent@lls.org or 703-3992930.
MARCH 12
Wacky & Whimsical Tea for THEARC This fantasy-filled Sunday afternoon tea features adventurous delight for the entire family. All proceeds benefit the Town Hall Education Arts Recreation Campus (THEARC), located east of the Anacostia River, providing children and adults living in underserved communities access to quality, free and low-cost educational, health, music, dance and art programs and social services. The Ritz-Carlton, Washington, D.C. Email Rahsaan Bernard at rbernard@thearc.org.
MARCH 14
N Street Village N Street Village’s largest annual fundraising event, the gala provides an opportunity to recognize members of the community who exemplify the organization’s spirit. The evening of awards and dinner will honor Ruth Sorenson of N Street Village’s board and Arne Sorenson, CEO of Marriott International. Marriott Marquis, 901 Massachusetts Ave. NW. Contact Stuart Allen at sallen@nstreetvillage.org or 202-939-2085.
MARCH 18
Chamber Dance Project Bash Magnifique The Bash Magnifique supports Chamber Dance Project’s June 2017 season and community engagement programs. Decatur House. Email info@chamberdance.org. On either side of Maggie Shannon are granddaughter Caroline Shannon Miller and daughter and luncheon producer Linda Shannon Miller.
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