The Georgetowner May 24, 2017 Issue

VOLUME 63 NUMBER 16

MAY 24 - JUNE 6, 2017

Happy Birthday, Jack Heating Plant Design Approved InCountry: Where Jackie Rode Nora Pouillon’s Legacy Summer Arts Preview: Washington Ballet’s ‘Frontier’

IN T HIS IS SUE

IN T HIS IS SUE N E W S . 4 -7 Up & Coming Town Topics

E DI T O RI A L /O PI N I O N . 8

Jack Evans Report Important Changes to the Mayor’s Budget Policing Our Changing City

BUSI N E S S . 10 -11

ON THE COVER The original AP photo, now in the public domain, shows President John F. Kennedy reading a newspaper aboard the yacht “Honey Fitz” in Aug. 31, 1963.

W E B E XCL USI V E S

Ins & Outs Art and Fashion Mix at Lynn Louisa

Wegmans Announces First D.C. Store

BY HANNAH DO DD The popular supermarket has taken space in the soon-to-be-former Fannie Mae headquarters at 3900 Wisconsin Ave. NW.

RE A L E S TAT E . 12 Commercial Property Featured Property

OV E RHE A RD AT L U NC H . 13

A rendering of the Fannie Mae property at 3900 Wisconsin Ave. NW in its Wegmans iteration. Courtesy Shalom Baranes Associates.

H AU T E & C OO L . 14 DOW N T OW N E R D C . 15 Town Topics

C OV E R . 18 -19

JFK We Knew Him Here

I N C OU N T R Y & G E TAWAY S . 20 -21 Into Equestrian Country By Carriage

Georgetown Scoop: Jerry, In Person

New Book Charts Obama’s Rise to Stardom

BY R IC H AR D SEL D EN

BY PEG G Y SANDS

The Ben & Jerry’s cofounder was in town to receive a Halcyon Business Luminary award (Ben got one, too).

After a lively presentation at Politics and Prose about “Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama,” our reporter spoke with the author and his major source.

Jerry Greenfield (center) with the Ben & Jerry’s staff at the 3135 M St. NW shop. Photo by Richard Selden.

Obama friend Robert Fisher and author David Garrow at Politics and Prose May 12. Photo by Peggy Sands.

DI N I NG G U IDE . 22-23 Dining Guide

BO DY & S OU L . 25 Murphy’s Love

A R T S . 26 -27

Summer Arts Preview

GOOD WORK S & GOOD T I ME S . 29 -30 Gala Guide Social Scene

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Events Calendar

MAY 28 BOTTOMLESS BRUNCH: SPRITZ EDITION Via Umbria’s authentic Italian kitchen will serve a selection of fresh pastries, sides, each diner’s choice of main course and a dessert, all paired with bottomless Aperol spritzes, mimosas or bloody Marys. Tickets are $25. For details, visit viaumbria.com.

MAY 30 CHORUS AUDITIONS IN VIENNA (VIRGINIA) The Fairfax Choral Society encourages children between the ages of 5 and 13 to audition for one of its three Viennacampus choruses. For details, visit fairfaxchoralsociety.org.

MAY 31 SPANISH CONVERSATION AT THE LIBRARY Those looking to grow, revive or begin their Spanish skills are invited to the Georgetown branch of the DC Public Library for weekly casual conversation hours led by Luz Verost. For details, email Julia.strusienski@dc.gov.

JUNE 1

JUNE 2

JUNE 7

‘XYZT’ EXHIBITION OPENING

HER CORNER COFFEE AND NETWORKING

SUNSET FITNESS IN THE PARK

Artechouse, a first-of-its-kind digital arts space, will open its inaugural exhibition, “XYZT: Abstract Landscapes,” showcasing 10 digital landscapes. Tickets are $15 during the day and $25 in the evening (21+), not including cocktails. Visitors can play, dance and marvel at the landscapes of lines, dots and letters in this virtual playground. For details, visit artechouse. com. 1238 Maryland Ave. SW.

Her Corner is a peer group for women entrepreneurs using the power of collective intelligence to help grow their businesses.

The free monthly events are a chance to talk about business ideas, answer questions and hear suggestions. For details, visit hercorner.com. Le Pain Quotidien, 4874 Massachusetts Ave. NW.

The Georgetown Business Improvement District presents Sunset Fitness in the Park, free one-hour outdoor fitness classes in Georgetown Waterfront Park. Each class is hosted by a Georgetown yoga, barre or Pilates studio. For details, visit georgetowndc.com. Water Street and Potomac Street NW.

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JUNE 3

JUNE 8

EXPLORING GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY’S ARCHIVES

DUMBARTON HOUSE RE-OPENING

SPEED FRIENDING

This year’s Hilltop Dialogue panel during Georgetown University’s Reunion Weekend is entitled: “Exploring Georgetown’s Archives: Highlights from Two Centuries of University History.”

University Archivist Lynn Conway and Prof. John Glavin will discuss highlights from the archives and explore what wisdom Georgetown’s past may have for its future.

For details, visit reunion.georgetown.edu.

Lohrfink Auditorium, Hariri Building, 37th and O Streets NW.

Jack Evans, Council member for Ward 2, will participate in the official noon ribbon-cutting to mark the reopening of Dumbarton House. With Anderson House, the National Museum of American Jewish Military History, the Phillips Collection and the President Woodrow Wilson House, Dumbarton House is opening its doors free of charge during the 34th annual Dupont Kalorama Museum Walk June 3 and 4. For details, visit dumbartonhouse.org. 2715 Q St. NW.

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The Georgetown branch of DC Public Library will celebrate National Best Friends Day with the return of speed friending, platonic matchmaking for busy people. Participants can sign up, show up and make new friends. Space is limited.

To register in advance (required), visit bit.ly/geospeedfriending. Georgetown Neighborhood Library, 3260 R St. NW.

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NEWS

BY P EG GY S A N D S A N D RO B E R T D E VA N E Y

Tree Lovers Upset

The magnolias in front of 3017 N Street, once home to Jackie Kennedy and her children, were pruned May 22, and many neighbors appear upset. “Everybody is just in an uproar,” said Betsy Emes, director of Trees for Georgetown, a program of the Citizens Association of Georgetown.

The owner of the property, Michael Hudgins, who lives next door, could not show a permit for the work to Emes, she said. “A permit must be on-site to show to the public,” Emes said. Hudgins said he used a licensed arborist, Emes said. Tree pruning or cutting in the District is controlled by the Urban Forestry Administration. Work without a permit can incur major fines to the property owner. “They look like special trees,” Emes said. Photo by Andy Cline.

Dumbarton House is re-opening!

Join our celebrations…

MUSEUM RE-OPENING RECEPTION Thur, June 1, 5.30pm-8.00pm

Fair Skies Coalition Blasts FAA on Aircraft Noise

In the spring of 2015, the Federal Aviation Administration’s implementation of a new northern flight route called LAZIR generated a ripple effect in noise complaints among D.C. residents. The Georgetown neighborhood, Georgetown University and nearby communities, including Foggy Bottom, Foxhall, Hillandale, Burleith and Palisades, have all been impacted by a decrease in quality of life and property values, the coalition contends.

The DC Fair Skies Coalition, a partnership of the Citizens Association of Georgetown, other organizations representing Potomac River communities and Georgetown University, filed a petition for review of the new flight path in August of 2015. The petition, sent to the D.C. Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, challenged the route as unlawful. Mayor Muriel Bowser, Council member Jack Evans and all at-large Council members signed it and pledged their support.

After hitting a wall with the petition, the group filed an opening brief with the Court of Appeals, hoping that the FAA will revert to the former flight path for northern departures until an intensive environmental review is conducted. The brief states that the FAA failed to make the required review, claiming that LAZIR had been in use since 2008.

The court must now arrange an oral argument to take place in the fall. The coalition’s aircraft noise fund is gathering donations — at cagtown.org/dcfairskies — to meet the goal of an additional $60,000 needed to pursue the case against the FAA.

Ticketed event in support of Dumbarton House Tickets $40 ($30 for Members), $50 on the night Details and booking on our website or by phone.

RE-OPENING RIBBON-CUTTING CELEBRATION Sat, June 3, 12 noon Free, all welcome

D.C Councilmember, Jack Evans, will attend

DUPONT-KALORAMA MUSEUM CONSORTIUM WALK WEEKEND Sat, June 3 & Sun, June 4, 10am-4pm Free, all welcome

New Opening Hours Tues-Sun, 10am-3pm

Dumbarton House, 2715 Q Street NW, Washington, DC 20007 202-337-2288 Town Topics continues on page 6

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Tempers, Tensions Rise Over Ellington Project

Rendering of the West Heating Plant, envisioned as the Fours Seasons Residences. Courtesy Adjaye Associates and Bloom.

Fine Arts Commission Approves Heating Plant Design The Commission of Fine Arts overrode a prior decision by the Old Georgetown Board, part of CFA, and unanimously approved the design concept for the West Heating Plant project at its May 18 meeting.

The good news stunned some of those on the development team for the conversion of the old heating building at 1051-55 29th St. NW into 60 to 70 luxury condominiums — to be called the Four Seasons Residences. It was the intent of the development team of the Levy Group, Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts and the Georgetown Company of New York to appeal the OGB rejection at the CFA meeting.

“The commission was thoughtful in its responses and questions,” said Richard Levy, the project’s lead developer, of the May 18 meeting. “It was a breath of fresh air.” The vote was 7 to 0.

Levy noted how commissioners spoke of not letting buildings “get trapped or coated in amber.” The commissioners found architect David Adjaye’s designs and interpretation “brilliant,” Levy said. There is a clear division between the old and new. “The board asked Adjaye to be bolder” in his designs, Levy added.

Next up on the approval track for the project

will be the D.C. Office of Planning’s Historic Preservation Review Board.

Redevelopment designs for the property have wide support from 29th Street neighbors and from the Citizens Association of Georgetown.

The designs also received approval a 7-to1 approval from the Georgetown-Burleith Advisory Neighborhood Commission.

British architect David Adjaye — lead designer of the Smithsonian’s new National Museum of African American History and Culture — presented his renovation plans for the West Heating Plant to Georgetown leaders and neighbors March 9 to general applause.

Summer is coming to Georgetown, school terms are ending and things are heating up.

Tempers and tensions, if not temperatures (so far), are rising along with the stunning new Duke Ellington School for the Arts, encompassing an entire block at 35th and R Streets. The project is seriously behind schedule and coming in more than double its intended budget of $78 million. After more than three years of construction, the new Duke Ellington is scheduled to be completed by the end of July, with move-in in August.

There are no more construction extension options left, said Ed Solomon, a Georgetown-Burleith Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner. That’s because the Ellingtondisplaced students must move out of their temporary digs at Meyer Elementary School across town. Contractors will be getting Meyer ready for Georgetown’s Hyde-Addison Elementary School students, who will move there (under parental protest) when their school on O Street shuts down for a two-year construction project in September.

“Everything is budgeted. Big money has been allocated,” said Solomon, who lives one

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block away from Duke Ellington. He is at the epicenter of years of neighborhood complaints about the construction. This spring, contractors began to rev up the work.

According to Solomon, neighbors reported that more than 300 workers, their trucks and private cars converge in the neighborhood’s narrow streets, including on Sundays, sometimes as early as 5:30 a.m. Residents’ cars have been damaged and unneighborly incidents have occurred. Hundreds of illegal parking citations have been issued. An earlier arrangement by Sigal Construction to have workers park at RFK Memorial Stadium and be shuttled to Georgetown is still “under review,” according to Solomon.

On May 4, a group of neighbors, including Solomon, demanded that the Department of Public Works stop the construction until some of their demands were met. They have an agreement with DPW but are waiting for a written letter of agreement.

Residents in general are in favor of — even excited by — what will be a state-of-theart performing arts academy at the historic school, once known as Western High School, Solomon said. “But contract agreements to control disruptions to the neighborhood will be seriously reviewed and monitored in the future.”

‘Kill The Potomac Rats’ Saga Continues

The “Kill the Potomac Rats” campaign has identified new suspects in its war against the ravenous rodents rambling in back alleys between 34th and 37th Streets. Could the fault lie with Georgetown University students and housing managers?

Roberto Coquis thinks so, and posted a note on the Georgetown forum: “University students on many occasions, either don’t put their garbage in the can or fill the cans where

Crime Report

BY HANNAH DO DD

Council member Jack Evans, honoree Tom Birch and Gail Nordheimer, board president of Georgetown Village.

Photo by Robert Devaney. the tops don’t shut and the University does not always come to empty the cans, even when they are informed. Unfortunately, the majority of the Georgetown students’ garbage is food, and with easy access, a great food source has been created for the rats.”

But Cory Peterson, director of the university’s Office of Neighborhood Life, is on the case. He puts partial blame on adjacent vacant properties, writing: “… we’ve been working closely with our contract exterminator, Terminex, to address the rat issue in the alley. Unfortunately, one of the challenges we have run into is there are a couple of vacant properties that have allowed their backyard areas adjoining the alley to become overrun with rat burrows.”

The case narrows, however. During commencement week, pickup days were missed, admits Peterson.

Meanwhile, the informal Chipotle Watch coffee group is eager to see if the M Street restaurant will install a cement base for its back-alley bins or build an enclosed — and rat-proof — cement structure.

Tom Birch Honored

Former advisory neighborhood commissioner Tom Birch was honored May 4 by Georgetown Village, a nonprofit which facilitates aging in place for Georgetown, Burleith and nearby residents, at its annual spring party in Foley & Lardner’s top-floor meeting space at at the Washington Harbour.

Birch, who served on the ANC for the last 14 years, was named a Georgetowner of the Year for 2016 by The Georgetowner newspaper and is on the board of Georgetown Village.

An attempted armed robbery occurred at Dean & DeLuca, 3276 M St. NW, on May 14 at 9:11 p.m. The victim was approached from behind by two offenders and held up at gunpoint. The offenders were unable to gain access to the store’s safe. They stole the victim’s license, fled the scene and were last seen running westbound through an alley between Potomac Street and 33rd Street NW. MPD is currently investigating the incident and has a person of interest.

A firearm was fired on the 1400 block of Wisconsin Avenue NW on April 28 at approximately 7:30 p.m. The suspect allegedly mishandled a weapon while removing it from the casing when it discharged. One round struck the victim sitting in a vehicle, causing a minor wound in the upper torso. After being arrested, the suspect admitted to the mishap and stated that he fled the scene immediately, leaving the gun in the vehicle. MPD is now investigating further to locate the firearm. The suspect was charged with carrying a pistol without a license and discharging a weapon in a public space.

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TUESDAY, JUNE 6

The Peabody Room at the Georgetown Public Library, 3260 R St. NW, will host a 1 p.m. talk by Jamie Stiehm: “John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Who Never Combed Gray Hair, Has His 100th Birthday.” For details, call Jerry McCoy at 202-7270233.

This benefit for Georgetown Heritage and its canal boat program will run from 5 to 8 p.m. at 3067 Canal Towpath NW. RSVP to 202-342-5625 or fourthlock@ hardynet.com.

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Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E

The monthly public meeting (for June) of the Georgetown-Burleith ANC will be held at 6:30 p.m. at Georgetown Visitation Prep, 35th Street NW at Volta Place, Heritage Room, main building. For details, visit anc2e.com.

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EDITORIAL / OPINION

Policing Our Changing City Now that the District of Columbia Council has made it official, approving Peter Newsham’s appointment as police chief, he — and also we the people — can start thinking in broader terms about policing, the changing city and the proper use of resources.

In Newsham, the city has one of the most experienced officers at the top that it’s ever had, an up-from-the-ranks officer who has led several districts in the city, including the Second District (which includes Georgetown).

He stood tall in the city’s last major policing challenge, the back-to-back national events in January: President Donald Trump’s inauguration, which saw focused demonstrations and a measured police response, and the Women’s March on Washington the following day.

More to the point, Newsham’s experience has given him an up-close-and-personal knowledge of the city and its geographically varied policing issues. In short, what works on Capitol Hill may not work in Georgetown, Dupont Circle, the changing Shaw neighborhood or Anacostia.

Newsham strikes most people as a strong leader, but the type who’s also accessible and down to earth, comfortable with all the citizens of the District.

The police force itself is facing some issues. For one thing, the force is by most accounts seriously understaffed, so putting some monetary resources into play would be useful. The practice of using body cameras still seems to be evolving.

In a more general way, we feel that community

policing — not just in terms of a patrol-car presence in the neighborhoods, but walkabouts and improvements in communication and access — needs more than ever to be strongly emphasized.

The reasoning is fairly simple in outline, but hasn’t been fully digested by politicians, elected officials, educators and other community leaders. In what sometimes seems to us like a madcap rush to become the San Francisco of the Beltway, this city is changing rapidly in its ethnic, racial and demographic makeup.

Neighborhoods are changing both in their identity and in their resources.

Mayor Bower and the Council are trying (it seems to us not very effectively) to pursue the ephemeral goal of “affordable housing,” while the public schools are shifting their resources to charter schools and the word “luxury” dominates almost every new development.

The changing culture and society make it very difficult for the working class and the middle class, as well as the cultural class, to make ends meet. We’re already seeing efficiencies going for $2,000 a month. That means there’s a lot of displacement happening in the city, a lot of elbow rubbing at the tipping points of change in every neighborhood, except perhaps Georgetown.

That’s a challenge for all of us, but it’s also a challenge for the city’s police officers and leadership. Having lived through this city’s recent transformation, Chief Newsham seem well suited to deal with the tensions sure to arise as it proceeds.

Noise and Silence for Those Who Have Fallen

Memorial Day in Washington, D.C., is a remarkably lively and even noisy day given its commemorative nature.

Arising after the Civil War from Decoration Day, it is meant to honor those men and women who have fallen in the service of their country.

We’ll see an outburst of activity at cemeteries around the country, from the largest cities to the smallest towns, not to mention at Arlington National Cemetery, where an annual wreathlaying ceremony is held (this year preceded by a ceremony marking the JFK centennial).

In D.C., there’ll be the big parade, complete with marchers dressed as members of the American military in all of its conflicts. There’ll be the big concert broadcast by PBS from the west lawn of the Capitol on Sunday and the Rolling Thunder Motorcycle Rally rolling through the Friday before on behalf of POWs and MIAs. Yet the thought of Memorial Day would also seem to have another effect. It is a time for silence and remembering and mulling over what the commemoration means. We are, after all, a nation born in war — whether you wish to call it revolution or not.

You might think that, for so young a country, we may have fought entirely too many wars, that the men and women we remember constitute a large part of our national human treasure.

You might think that the military and its leaders occupy a large spot in our minds. Quite

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a few of them at some point in their service start thinking about the presidency as a career move.

General George Washington did not have to choose; he was asked. But, for many years, after wars, a good number of our presidents and would-be president came from the ranks of the military: William Henry Harrison, the victor over Tecumseh who did not long survive a too-long inaugural speech in the rain; Andrew Jackson, a favorite hero of our current president; Ulysses S. Grant, who showed that military skills might not always translate well to politics; John Garfield, who was assassinated; Theodore Roosevelt, who was a Rough Rider. Even Lincoln served in the militia at one time.

We were spared the imperious ambitions of Douglas MacArthur, but did get Dwight David Eisenhower, the great coordinator of the Allied invasion of Europe, who at the end of his presidency warned us about the dangers of the military-industrial complex. Of late, service in the military has not accounted for much. Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump didn’t serve, though opponents called them out on it.

The Americans we remember on Memorial Day did serve, to the last full measure. With music, with speeches, with noise or silent thought, the day is theirs.

Jack Evans Report

Important Changes to the Mayor’s Budget

BY JAC K EVAN S

The D.C. Council is moving ahead with its review of Mayor Muriel Bowser’s proposed budget and financial plan. I’m happy to report that I’ve been able to secure several important changes to better utilize your tax dollars.

Among other initiatives, we’ve increased funding for education, the arts, legal assistance for low-income residents facing eviction and community liaisons within the District Department of Transportation, who will work with residents and Advisory Neighborhood Commissions to identify and handle basic infrastructure issues. We were able to make these changes without undoing the longpromised tax revisions and reductions the Council approved in 2014, which would have added to what is already a nearly $14-billion budget.

Specifically, Council committees have recommended that we add $12.5 million to the uniform per-student funding formula; utilize $4.5 million to create a new program to provide legal representation to low-income residents facing eviction; increase funding for the Commission on the Arts and Humanities from $20 million to $25 million; and add three new positions within DDOT to improve coordination with affected communities during repairs to our roads, alleys and sidewalks.

These recommendations and others were made by the Council’s eleven committees, each of which reviewed a section of the budget over the past two months. The committees —

transportation, finance, education, judiciary, etc. — held multiple public meetings to hear from community members and from the leadership of every department in the D.C. government. Last week, the committees reported out suggested changes to those agencies’ budgets.

The full Council will meet on Thursday, May 25, to discuss all the committee recommendations and work toward creating a single budget and an associated “Budget Support Act,” which supplies language for new policies and programs created in the budget.

On Tuesday, May 30, the Council will take the first of two required votes to approve the budget. Some amendments are likely to be proposed, but before we adjourn that day we’ll need a majority of the Council to affirm the budget for the upcoming year. Two weeks later, on June 13, we’re scheduled to take the second and final vote.

The city’s budget and financial plan is the articulation of our priorities for the upcoming year and beyond. I’m pleased that Mayor Bowser articulated most of the priorities we agree on at the beginning of this process.

Having worked with my colleagues to fund some of those priorities at different levels — or support those that weren’t initially included in the budget — I’m confident we’ll pass a budget in a few weeks that continues to move our city forward.

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

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FINANCE

Economics 101: Kennedy Years, Trump Days

BY J O H N G I RO UA R D

This year, we’re celebrating what would have been John F. Kennedy’s 100th birthday.

No matter where you go in Washington, you are reminded of this celebration. The other night, as I was passing the Kennedy Center — emblazoned with red, white and blue banners — it made me think: What would 45 think of our 35th president?

Interestingly, this administration seems to be setting an economic policy agenda that sounds vaguely similar to that of JFK. In 1960, it was “A Time for Greatness.” In 2016, we had “Make America Great Again.”

Both men understood media and the power of television to communicate with voters. JFK took office when we faced a struggling economy, rising unemployment, sinking corporate profits and a depressed stock market. In the early 1960s, the federal deficit was about .02 percent of GDP; today it is around 3.2 percent of GDP. JFK’s solution was to increase spending on transportation infrastructure and reduce personal and corporate taxes to stimulate the economy. Sound familiar? He also proposed increasing the minimum wage and expanding unemployment and social security benefits to encourage early retirement.

Let’s compare the economy of 1963 to that of 2017. In 1963, the top marginal tax rate was 91 percent, contrasted with today’s top marginal rate of 39.6 percent. The top corporate rate was 52 percent, versus 38 percent today. After JFK’s

assassination, Congress finally passed his taxcut proposal, leading to robust growth for years afterward.

In the first 100 days of JFK’s administration, the S&P 500 grew by 18.5 percent — but we were coming out of a recession and a 22.5-percent decline in the S&P, the second largest on record. Today, the S&P is celebrating nine years of positive returns and is up 5.32 percent in the first 100 days. The economy is in its 95th month of expansion — the third longest expansion in 163 years.

While there are many similarities, it’s reckless to assume the economic policy implemented in 1963 would lead to the same results today. The economy today doesn’t need a shock; it needs a logical plan to maintain its momentum. Everyone would love to have lower taxes (sign me up). And I agree with the need for comprehensive tax reform. However, in a recent survey by the University of Chicago School of Business, virtually no economist believes lowering taxes today will result in higher revenues. Many actually called it a possible economic disaster. That’s because 2017 isn’t 1963.

Kennedy’s tax cuts targeted the middle class, which led to the tax-cut “sequel” known as Reaganomics. We are still debating these policies today. But JFK coupled tax cuts with increases in social programs that helped seniors, the disabled and the unemployed.

Today, these programs are struggling, health care costs are rising and tax reform looks like it could eliminate critical deductions — including medical expenses, state and local income tax and student-loan interest.

I don’t want to get ahead of myself; the tax proposal is only a page. But if JFK’s legacy and history teaches us anything, it is that we will likely debate the legitimacy of supply-side economics until JFK’s next birthday.

Maybe someone should let President Trump

know that his tax cuts aren’t from Reagan, they were taken out of the Kennedy archives.

Unfortunately, as an economist, I’m skeptical we’ll see the same results.

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

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In: Hotel Hive Rooftop

Ins & Outs

BY R OBE RT DEVA NEY

Amazon Bookstore Coming to M Street It’s back to the future, as online retailer Amazon has plans for a brick-and-mortar bookstore on M Street — with a touch of irony. That’s right ... in good, old Georgetown.

The Washington Post (owned by Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos) had the story first, reporting: “Steven Roth, the chief executive of Vornado Realty Trust, told investors this week that Amazon has leased 10,000 square feet at 3040 M St. NW in Georgetown, a storefront previously occupied

by Barneys New York. He did not specify when the store is set to open.”

The future Amazon store is adjacent to the huge Nike store property, also owned by Vornado. The Nike store took over the large — and still missed — Barnes & Noble Books location, which closed on M Street in 2011, a victim of increased online book sales.

Amazon already has physical stores in Seattle, San Diego and Portland — with ones planned for New York City and New Jersey. Besides books, Amazon stores display Amazon products such as its TV streaming and Echo voice assistant. Expect some purchasepickup services as well. The Amazon app will be used for product information and to speed transactions.

Rendering of Sagamore Development’s project at Wisconsin & M Street NW. Courtesy High Rock Studios.

Under Armour Not Coming to Wisconsin & M What, is the rent too darn high? Once expected to become an Under Armour retail showcase, the building at Georgetown’s most famous intersection — Wisconsin Avenue and M Street — is going up for lease and will not show off the athletic apparel of the Baltimore company, according to the Washington Business Journal.

Sagamore Development, part of Under Armour founder and CEO Kevin Plank’s growing real estate and business empire, continues its reconstruction of 3150 M St. NW, which includes more than one building.

The work should be completed by the end of the summer.

The Plank group purchased the building for $12.25 million in 2014 from the Heon family, which owned it for 100 years.

Michael Lastoria, founder of &pizza, and developer Jim Abdo, owner of the Hotel Hive at 2224 F St. NW, greeted guests and inaugurated the rooftop May 3 for the micro-unit hotel, offering prosecco, beer, frosé — and slices of &pizza, samples of which include combinations for breakfast or dinner. Cool views of the Lincoln Memorial and over to Georgetown at the corner of F and 23rd Streets. Photo by Robert Devaney.

In: Falafel Inc.

Out: Flor Stor No Mor

Not far from Wisconsin and M, the space that housed Quick Pita at 1210 Potomac St. NW has been refilled by Falafel Inc. Owner and entrepreneur Ahmad Ashkar will give some of the eatery’s profits to refugee programs — appropriately, since falafel sandwiches are a common dish in Middle East refugee camps. Ashkar’s Hult Prize Foundation helps startup businesses.

Having gone bricks-and-mortar in 2012, carpet-tile system Flor has departed 1037 33rd St. NW and returned to the online world exclusively. The company’s carpet squares can be combined to make rugs, runners and wallto-wall flooring.

In: Bibibop Opens May 31 East Asian grill Bibibop will open a location on May 31 at 2805 M St. NW, formerly a Shophouse, Chiptole’s failed East Asian fastcasual chain. A Dupont Circle location at 1516 Connecticut Ave. NW will follow on June 1.

The business appears to get its name from “bibimbap,” Korean for “mixed rice.”

Out: Calypso St. Barth Calypso St. Barth has sailed away from its store at 3307 M St, NW. Founded in 1992, Calypso St. Barth began as a modest resortwear luxury brand. Since then, the boutique has grown into a luxury lifestyle brand. The high-end clothing store features pieces with rich textures, exotic colors and embellishments that appeal to modern women consumers. The closest store now is in Bethesda.

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Art and Fashion Mix at Lynn Louisa

BY KAT E OCZ Y P OK

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abby Klingman and Dominique Fierro look like they go back forever: two high school friends who decided to be in business together in Georgetown. It turns out that the two of them, who seem like old friends, have actually only known each other for about a year.

Klingman, owner of the Lynn Louisa boutique, and Fierro, artist-in-residence at the Wisconsin Avenue shop, which sells clothing, accessories and gifts, were introduced by a mutual friend. Fierro reached out to Klingman about the possibility of putting a studio on the upper level of Lynn Louisa.

“I remember I gave Gabby a hug and said ‘I love this place, please like me!’” Fierro joked. Klingman, of course, did. The two now spend most of their days together — Klingman downstairs in the boutique and Fierro upstairs creating her art.

“Dominique’s art and experience tied in seamlessly with what I had going on already,” said Klingman.

Fierro does sell art out of the boutique, doing a mix of painting, photography and styling. She started painting about two and a half years ago.

In addition, she does a lot of interior styling.

Lynn Louisa is dotted with Fierro’s photographs and art, including a large mural on one of the boutique’s walls. Fierro has also helped with product photos and editorial work.

A mural by Dominique Fierro at the Georgetown boutique.

Klingman’s experience stems from wholesale buying, working in both brick-andmortar and online retail. A lot of the designers she carries are West Coast-based or European.

She describes her inventory as “a West Coast chill vibe but more structural and minimalist.”

The shop itself is quite similar to that, with hardwood floors and wide-open spaces.

The name Lynn Louisa stems from two streets Klingman once lived between in her hometown of Seattle.

Fierro thinks Georgetown is a great community for a boutique with an artist-inresidence. “I think it needs it. It’s something that’s lacking in this area,” she said. “The more

Griff the dog, owner Gabby Klingman and artist-in-residence Dominique Fierro.

Dominique Fierro’s workspace.

“a West Coast chill vibe but more structural and minimalist” people that know about us can see that this can be a possibility for the neighborhood to rise up and become more colorful.”

Fierro joked that Klingman and she give the neighborhood some extra spice and sauce.

The two are certainly full of originality and personality, making the shop a refreshing and unique take on the quintessential Georgetown boutique. The two even have a store mascot of sorts: Klingman’s adorable year-old dog Griff.

Lynn Louisa is the first place in D.C.

that mixes fashion and art, and it does so effortlessly. “It’s a combo that naturally fits together,” said Fierro.

When they have a rare free moment, Klingman and Fierro enjoy exploring the neighborhood.

Klingman is interested in the new Ladurée on M Street and enjoys the waterfront. Fierro, a self-described nature lover, frequents the Georgetown parks and often ventures down side streets to look at gardens.

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Tiffany Trump Going to Georgetown Law

Ivanka Celebrates Mother’s Day in Georgetown

First daughter Tiffany Trump will be joining her father and older halfsister Ivanka and family in D.C. The 23-year-old has decided to matriculate at Georgetown Law School.

She won’t be the first Trump Hoya. Eric has a degree from Georgetown and Ivanka attended the Tiffany Trump. university for two years before switching to Wharton.

Ivanka Trump and her family finally did something relatable: they brunched at Clyde’s in Georgetown on Mother’s Day. The Washington Post reported that the family — including t he president’s Ivanka Trump with grandchildren, Arabella, her youngest son, Joseph and Theodore Theodore Kushner.

Kushner — enjoyed a leisurely meal of omelets.

Letterman Snags Mark Twain Prize

Radio DJ Tommy McFly and his fiancé Chrys Kefalas.

Tommy McFly Officially Off the Market 94.7 Fresh FM host Tommy McFly posted a photo on social media of himself and fiancé Chrys Kefalas holding their Maryland marriage license. With clapping emojis between each word, the caption read: “One step closer!” We can’t wait to see more of the adorable couple when they tie the knot.

‘Jack Ryan’ Star Bikes, Rows Nearby John Krasinski, who played everyman Jim Halpert on NBC’s long-running show “The Office,” has been spotted around town.

Krasinski will star in a new show, Amazon Video’s “Jack Ryan,” being filmed in D.C. A scene reportedly shot in Georgetown had the actor biking through the neighborhood. He was also seen getting some early morning rowing in on the Potomac for the series.

Save the Date for (Yet Another) March Mark — or should we say “bark”? — your calendars. Another march is being planned for early next month, the Hill reported. The “Bipawtisan March” will be held June 4, with proceeds benefitting the Humane Rescue Alliance. The march hopes to raise awareness of animal adoption and fostering — a cause we can all support, as love for a pet is universal.

Photo by Steven Rattinger

David Letterman has won the 20th annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, which will be presented Oct. 22 at the Kennedy Center.

Last year’s winner was Bill Murray. The former “Late Show” host has David Letterman. become an outspoken opponent of President Trump, so chances are there will be a few jokes about “Trumpy,” as Letterman has nicknamed our nation’s leader.

Miss DC Crowned Miss USA Miss Dist r ict of Columbia Kara McCullough made her mark on the pageant world earlier this month when she was crowned Miss USA in Las Vegas. The 25-yearold, a scientist at the Miss USA, Kara U.S. Nuclear Regulatory McCullough.

Commission, wore her hair natural to pay tribute to her mother, who died of lung cancer three months before the competition. This is the second year in a row that Miss DC took the Miss USA crown. Best of luck to McCullough at the Miss Universe pageant.

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D.C. No Longer Fittest in the Land Sadly, we have been demoted. After holding the “fittest city” title in the American College of Sports Medicine’s American Fitness Index for three years running, D.C. lost to Minneapolis by a lean one-point margin. Maybe it’s time to get back to the gym?

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Slice of the Lower East Side in D.C.?

Duck Safety Improved at Capitol Pool

Katz’s Delicatessen, made famous by the 1989 rom-com “When Harry Met Sally,” may set up shop in the District. WTOP reported that the nearly 130-year-old eatery on New York’s Lower East Side is considering a D.C. branch.

Twenty-seven-year-old owner Jake Dell — a member of the family that bought Katz’s from the Katzes — has been toying with expansion plans. Other cities on the list: Philadelphia and Boston.

Duck families will be just a little bit safer now. NBC-4 reported that the Architect of the Capitol consulted with City Wildlife and held a design contest on behalf of the four families of ducks that live in the Capitol Reflecting Pool.

The pool has slanted edges that make getting in and out difficult for the ducks, so ramps were installed for them. The ramps also remind duck-watchers to lay off the bread throwing.

Streetscaping Coming to Convention Center Events DC presented the initial concepts for exterior streetscaping at the Washington Convention Center earlier this month. The plans would revive the perimeter of the convention center and connect the building to the surrounding Shaw neighborhood. The proposal includes nine retail kiosks with seating on 9th Street, public art, murals, plants and light displays.

The Convention Center will be part of an upcoming streetscaping project.

New ramps have improved duck family access to the Capitol Reflecting Pool.

New York’s iconic Katz’s Deli may expand to D.C.

BET Leaving District for New York Black Entertainment Television, known as BET, a Viacom-owned cable and satellite network based in the D.C. area since 1980, will close its 1235 W St. NE headquarters and relocate to New York July 7. According to the Hollywood Reporter, CEO Debra Lee has put her D.C. home up for sale for $11.5 million and is moving to Los Angeles. The fate of the 20 full-time Washington employees is currently unknown.

Fix for Farragut North, Dupont Cooling Issues?

Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority GM Paul Wiedefeld is looking for a quick fix to the stifling temperatures in the Dupont Circle and Farragut North Metrorail stations. WTOP reported that a mere 500-foot stretch of pipe, connecting the chiller vault to a cooling tower, has been leaking for at least two years, making the stations very uncool.

Metro hopes to remedy the situation by renting a cooling tower.

Potholepalooza Resurfaces to Acclaim D.C.’s ninth Potholepalooza has wrapped, with more than 7,000 potholes filled in during the monthlong program that began April 3. District residents made some 1,200 service requests. The District Department of Transportation also provided four new “hot boxes” to recycle asphalt for this year’s Potholepalooza. During the annual event, crews work to make repairs in 48 hours instead of the typical 72.

First Pay-As-You-Whack Squash Courts A brand-new, pay-as-you-go squash facility has arrived at 2233 M St. NW. Squash on Fire, which opened May 20, is the first of its kind in the Washington area. Its central location downtown makes it easy to stop by after work. The Squash on Fire concept is to make the sport accessible to all, with coaches offering multiple programs throughout the day. Once everything is in place, expect to see a restaurant and bar, two terraces and a green roof space.

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JFK

We Knew Him Here

He did not make promises.

“what you can He asked us to look beyond He asked us to breathe freely

BY GARY TISC H L ER

W

hen Democrat John Fitzgerald Kennedy became President of the United States — by the thinnest of margins — I was a few months removed from high school graduation and weeks from my 22nd birthday when he was assassinated in Dallas.

With a national and a local flourish, we are now about to celebrate the 100th birthday of John F. Kennedy, on May 29, which (providentially) also happens to be Memorial Day, the day on which we remember those Americans who died in the service of their country.

The forward-seeking national spirit he inspired will be widely recalled and honored. A major celebration will take place on his birthday at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, which serves as a memorial to the man and to his insistence that excellence in the arts is among the highest achievements to which a country and a people can aspire.

Millions have died since his inauguration and millions have been born. John F. Kennedy lives on. He not only endures, but continues to inspire. His shocking death ended his life, but not the life he persists in owning.

He is not the same man who was part of a large Irish family that transformed this country with its life and blood, not the scholar, the voracious reader, the author, the war hero, the wit, the risk taker, the inspiration of millions and of memory. He is something other than himself, in addition to himself and larger than himself, but very much alive.

His life, his biography, his speeches and the images that remain as tokens, the words upon words written about him, the judgments made, will be unspooled and examined all over Washington — in think tanks and museums,

JFK 100 CENTENNIAL EVENTS The remaining days of May will see the culmination of tributes to President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, whose 100th birthday would have been May 29. In addition to a wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery and performances at the Kennedy Center — the only presidential memorial devoted to the arts — there is special programming at the National Archives and several Smithsonian museums.

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he was educated and intelligent without that creating a distance between him and us; he had self-evident physical courage; he had a sharp wit, informed by loss and tragedy. He came into office, if not fully formed, full of a life’s experience of loss, heroism, speechifying, achievement, knowledge of the world. He was no rookie.

He did not make promises. Instead, he exhorted us to ask ourselves “what you can do for your country.” He asked us to look beyond our borders and into the divisions of race, with which even he had little experience. He asked us to breathe freely and make it possible for others to do so. His phonetically mangled but historically stirring “Ich bin ein Berliner” came from somewhere deeper than a dictionary.

Memory has its way with heroes and presidents. After his death, secrets — shameful ones, exposing deep flaws and recklessness — emerged and seemed for a time to taint his memory. And then they didn’t. Rather, they became part of the man, the prince’s livery, no more, no less. He was a man who had, it’s fair to say, kept the missiles of October from flying.

He was a man who insisted that music and art were every bit as important as armaments (even if it’s likely that he preferred an Irish jig to Mozart). He was and remains the man who insisted we imagine the future, who asked us to look up and sent us on a mission to the moon.

That bust in the Kennedy Center foyer speaks of him, gives him silent voice and contains inside it room for all of us.

The poet Charles Wright wrote: “We’re not here a lot longer than we are here, for sure.”

Yet, here we are, and more important, here he is, as if all that happened restored and retained him, giving him a life forward, prodded by our imagination and memory, into our future.

He did not make promises.

“what you can He asked us to look beyond He asked us to breathe freely

He did not make promises.

“what you can

Sen. John Kennedy on the campaign trail in 1960. Photo by Stanley Tretick. Courtesy Kitty Kelley. at the Kennedy Center, in song and tome, in speeches and anecdotes. It will not be as if he had lived only for a time, or that his life stopped in that singular, violent moment, but as if the life he lived has become a permanent time machine that continues to have the power to inspire, to embrace the future, to show strength informed by tragedy, compassion, imagination and humor.

He was the product of immigrants, millions of them, often despised on their arrival from Ireland.

Georgetown is always a place haunted by his most accessible, lively aspect: the young politician, the young husband and father with the astonishingly unforgettable Jackie as his wife. At this newspaper, we have evoked the spirit and imagery often and with regularity

ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY Monday, May 29

At 8:30 a.m., the U.S. Army Military District of Washington will host an Armed Forces Full Honors Wreath-Laying Ceremony in honor of President John F. Kennedy at his gravesite. The annual National Memorial Day Observance will begin at 11 a.m. at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

JOHN F. KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS During the Kennedy Center’s celebration of its namesake, billed as JFKC (get it?), the familiar bust of Kennedy by Robert Berks has been supplemented by an original Elaine de Kooning charcoal sketch of the 35th president,

— Jack in a T-shirt so white it would make mothers proud, Jackie tousled and energized.

Georgetown is full of JFK touchstones and homes, streets he walked, restless on inauguration night. All of us somehow feel we knew him here, heard a broad Boston Irish accent in passing, just out of reach.

He and that Irish clan — noisy, boisterous, tight, at once Catholic and catholic — had a story already fully formed by the time he became president. In that brief time (less than three years), JFK became in action and in thought and rhetoric what we instinctively wanted in an American president. He became a leader, a quality in him that seemed both natural and hard-won.

He used words as if they had meaning beyond the breath it took speaking them;

He asked us to look beyond He asked us to breathe freely

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for whom the National Cultural Center was renamed in 1964. There is a free Millennium Stage performance in JFK’s honor daily at 6 p.m. through Memorial Day Monday, May 29, when the Navy Commodores jazz ensemble will perform.

be a live virtual reality performance, “The Hubble Cantata,” with opera stars Nathan Gunn and Talise Travigne, a 20-piece instrumental ensemble, a 100-person choir, a virtual reality film called “Fistful of Stars” and a postperformance panel.

Wednesday, May 24

Thursday, May 25; Friday, May 26; and Saturday, May 27

At 8 p.m., cellist Yo-Yo Ma will appear with the National Symphony Orchestra in a tribute concert featuring a new composition

by Composer-in-Residence Mason Bates incorporating JFK’s visionary words.

At 8 p.m., the Washington Ballet will present the world premiere of “Frontier” by Ethan Stiefel and works by Antony Tudor and Frederick Ashton (see Summer Arts Preview).

Thursday, May 25

Saturday, May 27

At 8 p.m., on the 55th anniversary of President Kennedy’s “moonshot” speech, there will

From noon to 10 p.m., the Kennedy Center will host an open house with numerous free

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he addressed Congress that May, saying: “I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the Earth. No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important for the long-range exploration of space; and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish.”

After John Glenn’s three orbits in February of 1962, Kennedy further outlined his vision for the space program in a speech at Rice University in September: “We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win.”

“This is a great time to be thinking about President John Kennedy and his impact on the space program,” retired astronaut Scott Altman told us.

“As I write to you, I am at the Kennedy Space Center for the annual Astronaut Hall of Fame induction weekend, sitting under the shuttle Atlantis on display at the Visitor’s Center and realizing none of this would be here without Kennedy’s inspirational challenge to the nation,” wrote the Georgetown resident, a former space shuttle commander.

“Every time I hear those words — ‘We choose to go to the Moon, and do the other things, not because they are easy but because they are hard’ — I get goosebumps. I think

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The iconic image of Aldrin on the lunar surface is the summation of Project Apollo.

In a 50th-anniversary tribute to the May 25, 1961, speech by President John F. Kennedy, Aldrin saluted JFK’s vision and added his own: “the establishment of permanent human presence on the surface of Mars by 2035.”

The Apollo 11 astronaut was following the Kennedy bravado, articulated in two major speeches.

were secured by pragmatism as well. Knowing that some found the race to the moon too expensive — or plain “nuts,” as President Eisenhower once uttered — Kennedy wanted everyone involved to understand the benefits, too.

Following the April 1961 orbital flight of Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space, and, less than a month later, the first space travel by an American, Alan Shepard, Kennedy upped the ante. For national pride, security reasons and sheer love of exploration,

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our borders and into the divisions of race... and make it possible for others to do so. performances and activities, as well as the National Memorial Day Choral Festival.

Monday, May 29 At 4 p.m., the grand finale of the Centennial Celebration will comprise readings and performances by prominent artists including Brian Dennehy, Renée Fleming and Martin Sheen, plus rare video footage. Before the show, visitors can get a complimentary hot dog, chips and soft drink on the River Terrace (weather permitting).

NATIONAL ARCHIVES Through Wednesday, May 31, there will be special activities in the Boeing Learning Center about JFK’s legacy at home, abroad

and in space exploration through documents and audio recordings. At noon on May 31, the Archives will screen “American Experience: JFK, Part Two,” which follows Kennedy into the White House.

SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM The exhibition “American Visionary: John F. Kennedy’s Life and Times,” on view through Sept. 17, brings together 77 images from the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, Getty Images, private collections and the Kennedy family archives. Free public programs connected with the exhibition will take place in June and July.

NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY The National Portrait Gallery owns 72 portraits of John Kennedy. A pastel portrait of JFK by Shirley Seltzer Cooper is on view in the gallery’s “Celebrate” space through July 9.

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY Beginning May 25, the museum will display nine photographs of the 35th President and his family within the “American Presidency” exhibition. The photographs, taken in 1961 by Richard Avedon, capture the Kennedys a few weeks before the presidential inauguration.

JFK captured the essence of what it is to be an American and to want to explore, to do more, to challenge ourselves to be better than we are. My career in spaceflight was built on the inspiration President Kennedy provided when he challenged us to fly to the moon — ‘before this decade is out’ — and the fact that we responded to that challenge and achieved it!”

Apollo was a technological and government program that succeeded beyond its Space Race origins. While its scientific benefits were apparent, its psychological breakthrough was just as powerful. Mythologist Joseph Campbell said Apollo forever changed our view of ourselves in the cosmos with its never-seenbefore image of an earthrise over the lunar horizon.

On July 20, 1969, the slain president’s goal was achieved, with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin affirming: “The Eagle has landed ...

That’s one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.”

The moon landings ended in 1972. Had we reached for the stars too soon, too dramatically — then pulled NASA budgets back to earth?

Have the space shuttle, the space station, the Hubble telescope and unmanned spacecraft elicited the same kind of fascination as did Apollo? In a few years, NASA will get a new opportunity with the Orion manned missions.

Their ultimate destination: Mars.

When that goal is reached, old-timers who recall watching live TV from the moon on that summer night in 1969 will look up to the fourth planet — and again to the 35th president — and see our world anew.

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Two strong but gentle carriage horses in their 20s, they pulled an open two-bench wagonette — decked with flowers and flags and equipped with wicker baskets full of croissants, strawberries and thick cream, petite baguette sandwiches, iced coffee and whipped cream and bottles of wine and champagne.

Three smiling ladies in elegant straw hats greeted and helped settle this reporter into the carriage. Soon we were sipping wine and coffee and swaying to the rhythmic clip-clop of hooves on hard dirt roads as we drove through Virginia’s rolling green hills.

For horse lovers, there is no better way to start a visit to Virginia’s famed equestrian country than this.

Middleburg is only 45 minutes away from Georgetown during non-rush hours. There is so much to do there for horse lovers: seasonal horse shows large and small; amateur and professional polo matches, steeplechases and point-to-point races; and, of course, fox hunting in the fall. Numerous riding stables offer lessons and trail riding year round, plus equestrian summer camps for children and adults.

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In and around Middleburg are several tack shops, where the smells of well-oiled leather saddles, bridles, harnesses and halters mix with the sight of racks of jodhpurs and hunting and riding jackets. Riding boots, both new and used, are sized for toddlers on up.

Books about horses can be found everywhere: in shops, art stores and especially at the National Sporting Library and Museum in Middleburg, where the special exhibition, through Aug. 13, is “Andre Pater: In a Sporting Light.”

Middleburg is also nationally known as the place where first lady Jacqueline Kennedy rode for years with her small children, Caroline and John-John. “She participated in many fox hunts with the Orange County Hunt Club, my club,” related Emily Ristau, one of the carriage-ride hostesses. “Members remember Jackie as being an excellent rider, wanting only to participate in the sport she loved as a regular person not someone special.” Some of those members, well into their 80s and 90s, are still riding with the club, she said.

We drove to two properties where the Kennedys often stayed. At Glen Ora, an almost 200-acre farm, Howard Allen took iconic photos of Caroline on her beloved pony Macaroni, next to her smiling mom, mounted on one of her favorites horses and often holding her toddler son in front of her.

The gates were closed and the service entrance blocked at Wexford, the estate that the Kennedys bought close to Middleburg.

Jackie designed a simple ranch-style home and presumably a stable there, but they were never finished after JFK’s 1963 assassination.

At Banbury Cross, a mile or so outside Middleburg, a family farm has been turned into a polo club where riders of all ages take lessons and can play two to three times a week in mixed-gender leagues. The weekly Sunday polo matches have themes. “And of course our two rescue donkeys — Jose and Cuervo — are always present,” laughed Breanna Gunnell, one of the owners. “They bring margaritas and other drinks to thirsty polo-match viewers in special margarita backpacks.”

There is always something horsey going on in the area. This week, tents are being set up for the Upperville Horse Show, one of the largest in the country. The 58th annual Hunt Country Stable Tour will take place May 27 and 28.

Of course, the Middleburg area isn’t just a setting for equestrian events. “More and more, vineyards and wineries are beginning to replace some of the paddocks and old stables,” Ristau said. While not particularly conducive to open-field riding, almost everyone who moves to Middleburg has one thing in common, according to Ristau: a profound love of the land.

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The story of Nora Pouillon, D.C.’s preeminent organic restaurateur — and the mother of the region’s longest running organic farmers market at Dupont Circle — brings to mind the saying: Nora Pouillon. Photo “What goes around,

by Linda Roth. comes around.”

Back in the mid-1960s, with her then husband, a French journalist, Pouillon came to the States armed with cookbooks by Elizabeth David and James Beard.

On May 1 of this year, she accepted the 2017 James Beard Lifetime Achievement medallion at a ceremony at the Civic Opera house in Chicago, at which she was called “a pioneer and champion of organic, environmentally conscious cuisine.”

When Pouillon opened Restaurant Nora in 1979 on the corner of 23rd Street and Florida Avenue NW, the term “organic” was not generally applied to food. She herself first learned about it in Austria during World War II. Born in Vienna in 1943, Pouillon escaped the bombings when her father leased a farm in the Alps. “We had no electricity, no running water,” she recalled.

“We lived with a farm family and these farmers worked day and night. I learned the whole process, that food is not just put on the table or bought in the store.”

Pouillon carried those experiences to Washington, D.C., starting a catering company and cooking school in the early ’70s.

In dealing with wholesale food suppliers, she discovered that, in America, some cows and chickens were treated with antibiotics to help them digest food they wouldn’t naturally eat. “That was my ‘aha’ moment,” Pouillon told the James Beard Foundation. “I started searching for farmers who do things in a more sustainable way.”

In 1976, she opened a restaurant in the historic Tabard Inn on N Street NW, where she insisted upon using as many natural and organically grown ingredients as possible.

Her suppliers — from the Maryland’s Eastern Shore to Amish Pennsylvania — became her network of local and organic farmers when she opened Restaurant Nora.

Pouillon organized (and continues to organize) bus tours of farms for area chefs, encouraging them to source ingredients locally. “So many of them didn’t even know there was local food. They were so used to calling a distributor on the phone,” she told the Beard Foundation. That’s when the farmto-table movement began to take root in our nation’s capital. It was just the beginning.”

But Pouillon is also well known in D.C. for starting the local open-air farmers markets. The first was in Dupont Circle, just blocks from her restaurant. She is still on the board. One of the biggest outdoor markets in the District, it is the only one open year round.

The Dupont market has evolved well

beyond housewives and cooks seeking fresh produce for Sunday dinner. Over half its offerings today are prepared foods, many cooked by immigrants from family recipes originating outside the U.S. More customers buy prepared dishes than items to cook.

“It’s a shame, but it’s what people want,” Pouillon told The Georgetowner. “They love to watch cooking shows but they don’t cook themselves.”

“All the food at the market is vetted,” said Parker Bowling, a manager at the Dupont market. “We make sure it is locally produced and healthy.”

Pouillon is moving on as well. Her restaurant and the building are for sale. She hopes that “the spirit and the message of Nora will be carried on by the next owner.”

In the meantime she has a lot of cleaning up to do, including “40 years’ worth of restaurant equipment and memorabilia. And over 1,000 cookbooks to sort through.” But

Photos by Timothy Riethmiller. she’s on five boards and intends to share her expertise by consulting. And she wants to spent more time with family and friends, here and in Austria, where she has a country home outside of Salzburg.

She leaves a national legacy. Michael Pollan, author of “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” wrote recently: “I think, for a lot of people, Nora changed the understanding of what organic could be.”

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BY EVA N CA P L AN Samuel Kim was named executive chef of 1789 Restaurant, the Georgetown culinary landmark at 1226 36th St. NW, in the summer of 2014.

Tell us about your career path.

Kim: I started my career in finance. I’m from Potomac, Maryland, originally. Shortly after, I decided to leave my investment banking job in New York to follow my passion for food. After coming to D.C., I walked into 1789 and without any kitchen experience asked chef Ris Lacoste for a job.

Luckily, she saw something in me and put me right to work. A couple of years later, I headed back up to New York City and spent the better part of the next decade working for Michelin-starred restaurants in Manhattan. In 2014, I got a call from my old friends at Clyde’s Restaurant Group. They were looking for a new chef for 1789. Soon after, Clyde’s Restaurant Group officially asked me to return to Washington, D.C., to serve as executive chef of 1789 Restaurant.

This brought me full circle to where my career began.

What is your specialty and why?

Kim: I’m classically trained in French cooking. You’ll notice other influences on my menu, such as some Asian flavors I grew up with, but my cooking is rooted in French technique.

What’s up next for you?

Kim: My team and I are very focused right now on the restaurant expansion that will begin this summer. It is an exciting project, and one that I think will really

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What’s the best part about being a chef?

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The Pitfalls of Familiarity

BY STACY N OTA R A S M U R P H Y Dear Stacy, I graduated from a D.C. university last year and then moved back to my home state to start my career. I’ll be completely honest, I didn’t like living in D.C. I was in a frat and the associated alcohol-focused hookup lifestyle was awful (not that I did anything to change it or try anything different). I didn’t really like my friends and my relationships with women were shallow. I chalked it up to a miserable college experience and assumed I would leave D.C. and start a new life for myself.

Well, that hasn’t really happened. One year later, I am still living with my parents and haven’t found a career-launching job. My old friends are just as unmotivated as they were in high school and I don’t want that to rub off on me. I’m writing because I came back to D.C. recently and it was amazing. I saw my friends in a different way and reconnected with an old crush that now feels like it has some real possibility. I am thinking about moving back permanently, but I am afraid that I am looking at my D.C. experience through the proverbial “rose-colored glasses.” Does it make sense to give D.C. another try?

— Recent Graduate

Dear Graduate, Thank you for this letter. I completely appreciate your question and feel your indecision. I hope you hear that sincerely, particularly when I decline to answer it.

Here’s my reasoning. You didn’t like living in D.C. before, but a homecoming-type of week made you feel nostalgic. You might like to give old friends and environs another try. I certainly could offer a basic yes or no, based on nothing but my current mood (or the fact that I love D.C.). A better path might be for you to spend more time thinking through your next moves once you pick your own lane.

Moving back home is challenging for all of us — in fact, even visiting home can be tough.

It takes our brains back to a very familiar space, often activating familiar yet immature behaviors. Moving back to D.C. could inspire the same process, returning you to that frat

experience in no time. The only thing that overrides the brain’s desire for familiarity is conscious intentionality. So whether you do it in Home State or in the District, be intentional about how you spend the next few years of your life.

Know that there are pitfalls that could take you back to using alcohol as a matchmaker.

(If this feels like more of a problem than you’ve let on, please consider getting help for that.) Surround yourself with comfortable old friends, but also make it a priority to try new things and welcome new people into your life.

Ask others to give you honest feedback, and be a good listener to what they say. This is probably one of the last times in your life when you can make a quick move to a new(ish) place without too much baggage. Be thoughtful and accountable — to yourself — about how you proceed.

Stacy Notaras Murphy is a licensed professional counselor in Georgetown.

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itamin D, despite its name, is more like a hormone than a vitamin. Like all hormones, it helps keep skin from becoming thin and fragile. Deficiency will cause skin sagging, dryness and wrinkles, inevitably aging us. Vitamin D is critical to helping skin maintain a youthful glow.

An estimated 45 percent of Americans are believed to be deficient in vitamin D — also called the “sunshine vitamin” because it is produced when skin is exposed to sunlight.

Why such a high percentage? We are outside less. And when we are outside, many of us wear sunscreen. Also, as we age, our skin is challenged to absorb and process UV light, losing about 75 percent of its ability to produce vitamin D. “We get about 90 to 95 percent of our vitamin D from the sun. It is essential for absorbing calcium, keeping our bones healthy and for protecting against serious chronic diseases later in life such as osteoporosis, type 2 diabetes, multiple sclerosis and many common cancers,” says Michael Holick, professor at Boston University School of Medicine and author of “The UV Advantage.”

What’s the D-eal? Get sun? Don’t get sun?

Two seemingly opposing messages can be confusing. Should we spend time out in the sun to get vitamin D or stay out of the sun and cover up with sunscreen to prevent aging and skin cancer?

How do you get enough sun without getting too much?

Holick recommends staying in the sun until your skin turns the lightest shade of pink, or

half the time it would take to get a mild sunburn.

For example, if you tend to get sunburned after 20 minutes, you should stay in the sun for 10 minutes.

To D or not to D? If your circumstances don’t allow you access to the sun, then you really only have one option if you want to raise your vitamin D: take a vitamin D supplement.

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SUMMER

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At some point soon, we will all need respite from the summer heat — some dimly lit, airconditioned place away from the blistering July sun, where we can pursue our curiosities and let sweat-soaked shirts dry cool against our backs. And when you’re inevitably walking your out-of-town guests around the Mall and the dirt kicks up like coal smoke around your throbbing ankles and the sun is turning the back of your neck into a medium rare sirloin, a museum is a most relieving sanctuary. Here are the museum exhibitions opening this summer that we are most looking forward to seeing.

ANTEBELLUM PORTRAITS BY MATTHEW BRADY National Portrait Gallery, opens June 16 Mathew Brady (1822–1896) may be best known today for his Civil War–era photographs, but he established his reputation more than a decade before the war. Brady opened his first daguerreotype portrait studio in New York City in 1844, just five years after the introduction of the first commercially practical form of photography. By 1851, he was among the most successful camera artists in the United States and claimed top honors for his daguerreotypes at the Crystal Palace exhibition in London. When a new photographic medium — the ambrotype — began to eclipse the daguerreotype in the mid-1850s, Brady adapted, creating some of

the most beautiful ambrotype portraits ever produced.

As the decade drew to a close, Brady’s studio remained in the vanguard of photographic innovation, producing handsome, saltedpaper print portraits from glass negatives.

This Daguerreian Gallery exhibition will trace the trajectory of Brady’s early career through portrait daguerreotypes, ambrotypes and salted-paper prints in the National Portrait Gallery’s collection. Contemporary engravings, as well as several advertising broadsides Brady used to market his portrait enterprise, will also be included.

Rendering of the “Hive” oculus at the National Building Museum. Courtesy Studio Gang.

SUMMER OF YOKO ONO Hirshhorn Museum, June 17 to Sept. 17 In celebration of the 10th anniversary of Yoko Ono’s “Wish Tree for Washington, DC,” the Hirshhorn will present a selection of the artist’s most emotionally charged installations and performances. Over the past decade, nearly 80,000 handwritten wishes tied by visitors onto “Wish Tree,” a gift from the artist in 2007, have been collected and sent to Ono’s “Imagine Peace Tower,” an outdoor artwork in Iceland that memorializes John Lennon.

Spanning the length of the museum’s lobby, the 40-foot-long installation “My

PARALLAX GAP Renwick Gallery, opens July 1

“Parallax Gap” transforms the Renwick Gallery’s Bettie Rubenstein Grand Salon into a visual puzzle. This immersive, sitespecific installation, designed by Los Angeles architecture firm Freeland Buck, explores examples of interplay between craft and architecture through a ceiling-suspended structure running the length of the Renwick’s iconic gallery. The installation embraces both Eastern and Western concepts of perspective through trompe l’oeil effects and multiple vanishing points, creating a sense of soaring architectural volume.

Mommy Is Beautiful” invites visitors to bring a photograph or write a thought or memory about their mothers and attach it to the canvased wall.

Finally, Ono’s “Sky TV for Washington, DC” of 1966, a 24-hour live feed of the sky outside, will be reinstalled on the Hirshhorn’s third level.

Conceived when Ono lived in a windowless apartment and dreamed of having the sky inside, “Sky TV” was one of the first works of art to harness the instant feedback capability of video, acting as a timely commentary on technology’s replacement of nature.

Drawings of ceilings of nine different iconic American buildings — including Union Terminal in Cincinnati and Newport’s Chateausur-Mer mansion — are fabricated using a collection of skewed vantage points. Laid near or atop one another, they create layers of both recognizable and abstracted architectural space that change as viewers move underneath.

These perspectival illusions operate through the concept of parallax, or how the distance or depth of objects appears to vary when viewed from different lines of sight.

HIVE National Building Museum, July 4 to Sept. 4

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Soaring 60 feet high to the uppermost reaches of the National Building Museum’s staggering Great Hall, “Hive” is an interactive architectural installation built entirely out of wound paper tubes. Varying in size from several inches to 10 feet high, the more than 2,700 tubes — all with a reflective silver exterior and a vivid magenta interior — will be interlocked to create three interconnected domed chambers.

Designed by Chicago-based Studio Gang, “Hive” recalls other built and natural structures: Saarinen’s Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Brunelleschi’s dome in Florence, vernacular

Musgum mud huts in Cameroon, even the curvature of a spider’s web. By utilizing this catenary shape, each chamber will balance structural forces and support its own weight, while attaining a height that enables a unique acoustic signature.

The installation’s smaller chambers will feature tubular instruments ranging from simple drum-like tubes to chimes suspended within the space. The large main chamber is topped by a soaring dome that filters the natural light of the Great Hall and creates intricate light-and-shadow patterns.

ARTS PREVIEW MATTHIAS MANSEN: CONFIGURATIONS National Gallery of Art, July 23 to Dec. 13 Matthias Mansen (b. 1958) is a contemporary Berlin-based artist whose work advances the long tradition of woodblock printing. Mansen masterfully layers printings from multiple blocks, sometimes employing “ghost prints” to achieve delicate modulations of tonal intensity and texture. Concerned with process nearly as much as final product, he works on numerous prints simultaneously and progressively carves and recarves his blocks. His projects are best exhibited in an ensemble, allowing the grammar and rhythms of his repeated cognate arrangements and consonant forms to become tangible.

PUNCTURED LANDSCAPE Art Museum of the Americas, through July 30 Marking the 150th anniversary of Canadian Confederation, “Punctured Landscape” explores Canada’s role as a country working toward a decolonized society, valuing the lives of Indigenous peoples, migrants and asylum seekers. The 17 contemporary artworks, and the moments in collective living memory they represent, are to be understood as “punctures,” asking the viewer to (re)consider his or her interpretation of Canada’s history, legacy and future.

“Kopf und Füße (Head and Foot),” No. 1, 1987. Mathias Mansen. Courtesy National Gallery of Art.

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Next month, the DC Jazz Festival (June 9 to 18) will stretch out across the city, with some 90 bands and 300 artists performing at more than 40 venues. Among the top acts: Pat Metheny, Gregory Porter, the Robert Glasper Experiment, Lalah Hathaway, the Kenny Garrett Quintet, the Roy Haynes Fountain of Youth Band, the Ron Carter-Russell Malone Duo, Black Violin, the Odean Pope Saxophone Quartet, the Sun Ra Arkestra, the Princess Mhoon Dance Project and the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra.

Melodically bridging June and July will be the Serenade! Washington D.C. Choral Festival (June 28 to July 3), a feast of choral works sung by groups from all over the world.

Best of all, Serenade! will take place on the Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage, which means that the performances are free.

More details to follow, but the Capital Fringe Festival (July 6 to 30) is a monthful (is that a word?) of seemingly hundreds of performances: plays, musicals, one-man and one-woman shows, comedy and much that is unclassifiable. One play, intriguingly called “Crazy Mary Lincoln: A New Musical” (June 1 to 18) is running at the Logan Fringe Arts Space, the Trinidad Theatre, before the official start of the festival. Other interesting titles: “The Dream Dancer,” “Clara Bow: Becoming ‘It’” and “In the Company of de Sade.”

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NUMEROUS MUSICALS Increasingly, and noticeably, summertime is the best time for musicals. Especially, as it turns out, at the Kennedy Center, which has bookended two unlikely pairs of popular Broadway musicals. In each case, the two shows, one in the Eisenhower Theater and the other in the Opera House, are essentially opposites: Rodgers & Hammerstein meets notRodgers & Hammerstein.

The cultish, punkish, identity-broaching and by-now-classic “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” (June 13 to July 2) has been matched with what is perhaps the purest form of inspirational and rousing G-rated musical theater, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “The Sound of Music” (June 13 to July 16).

A similar happy dissonance exists in the pairing of “Cabaret,” the Kander and Ebb classic of Berlin cabaret decadence by way of the Sam Mendes and Rob Marshall production (July 11 to Aug. 6), with “The King and I” (July 18 to Aug. 20). Wilkommen indeed.

A little more turbocharged are “Jesus Christ Superstar” at Signature Theater, lean and streamlined with that big-time rock score by Andrew Lloyd Webber (through July 2), and “Rent,” the great rock musical about artists, performers and drifters living

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SUMMER PERFORMING ARTS PREVIEW (Continued) on the edge in New York (think a punchy “La bohème”), coming soon to the National Theatre (June 20 to 26).

Finally, at Olney Theatre Center, where they’ve been doing great work with musicals the last several years, there’s Lerner and Loewe’s “My Fair Lady,” that obscure show with the George Bernard Shaw pedigree, directed by Alan Souza (June 21 to July 23).

Kathryn Tkel, Jon Hudson Odom and Erika Rose in “An Octoroon.” Courtesy Woolly Mammoth.

THREE ACTORS Rush to Studio Theatre while you can to see Florian Zeller’s play “The Father,” starring Ted van Griethuysen as a man struggling with dementia. I would go see van Griethuysen, who received a Helen Hayes Tribute this year, recite the minutes of a school-board meeting. He is a Washington treasure as much as or more than any monument (through June 18).

Ed Gero is another Washington actor of master-class stature. This summer, he will return to Arena Stage to reprise his role as the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in John Strand’s stirring “The Originalist” (July 7 to 30).

Speaking of Supreme Court justices, talented film and television actor Brian Anthony Wilson will take on Thurgood Marshall in “Thurgood” by George Stevens Jr. at Olney Theater Center (July 19 to Aug. 20).

Gregory Wooddell and Veanne Cox in “The School for Lies.” Photo by Tony Powell. Courtesy STC.

FIVE MORE PLAYS “Hir: A Play,” by Taylor Mac, seems like classic Woolly Mammoth material: a black comedy about revolution, change and gender (through June 18). Speaking of Woolly, check out the return of “An Octoroon,” Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s audacious take on race in America (July 18 to Aug. 6).

And speaking of race and other matters, MetroStage will present “Anne and Emmett,” a play which imagines a meeting and conversation between Anne Frank, the most famous Holocaust survivor, and Emmett Till, the black 14-year-old lynched in Mississippi in 1955 (July 28 to 30).

Also of note: “When We Were Young and Unafraid,” a Washington premiere at the Keegan Theatre, in which a woman in the 1970s offers a place of shelter for victims of domestic violence (June 17 to July 8).

Opening right around the corner is the last production of the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s season, “The School for Lies,” in which playwright David Ives and STC Artistic Director Michael Kahn — masters at adapting classic French comedies — team up again for a show based on Moliere’s “The Misanthrope” (May 30 to July 2).

(June 24) and Lionel Richie (June 27). More stars in July and August: Diana Ross (July 25), Aretha Franklin (July 29), The Beach Boys (Aug. 20) and Kenny Loggins (Aug. 22).

On the opera side, Philip Glass’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” (June 17) will be presented at Union Market (June 17); Rossini’s “The Touchstone” at the Barns (June 23, 25 and 28 and July 1); Puccini’s “Tosca” at the Filene Center (July 14); and, back at the Barns, a double bill of John Musto’s “Bastaniello” and “The Juniper Tree” by Glass and Robert Moran (Aug. 11, 13, 16 and 19).

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For old time’s sake, check out the tribute to Bob Dylan and the Band at Gypsy Sally’s in Georgetown, with the The Band band (is that clear?) keeping alive the sounds of a legendary collaboration (June 24).

Moving Through Space with the Washington Ballet

BY GARY T ISCHL ER

Last fall, the intriguing final entry in the program for the Washington Ballet’s 2016-17 season — the company’s first under renowned former American Ballet Theatre principal dancer Julie Kent — was: “Tudor, Ashton and a World Premiere.”

The world premiere, the new artistic director’s first commission, turns out to be “Frontier,” choreographed by Kent’s onetime ABT colleague, star dancer, director and creator Ethan Stiefel, to music by Adam Crystal performed by the Washington Ballet Orchestra under conductor Martin West.

“Frontier” was commissioned as part of the ongoing JFK 100 centennial celebration. Sharing the bill on May 25, 26 and 27 at the Kennedy Center Opera House are two classic works by English choreographers: “Lilac Garden” of 1936 by Antony Tudor, set to music by Ernest Chausson, and “The Dream” of 1964 by Frederick Ashton, based on Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and set to music by Felix Mendelssohn.

The combination reflects Kent’s seasonlong emphasis on the works of 20th- and 21st-century ballet’s most brilliant interpreters, including George Balanchine, Twyla Tharp, Jiří Kylián, Alexei Ratmansky, William Forsythe and the youthful (29) Justin Peck.

At the same time, she did not forget to serve history, with a 40th-anniversary celebration, a “Nutcracker” and a “Giselle.”

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this spring, right after the last performance of “Giselle.” Both of them can talk about dancers because both of them have been — are — dancers, and a lot of love for the company comes through in that talk. “We are co-directors,” she said. They are partners, it’s pretty obvious.

“I think part of doing what we do is to build the foundation of a company, to bring people together,” Kent said, touching on the buildingblock theme, but also pleased with the way “Giselle” had turned out. “It was so good and everybody got better. That was very exciting.”

Interviewing Kent is always a pay-totalattention experience. She speaks quietly, but intently and intensely. She is intellectually comfortable with and articulate about the broad goals and ambitions she has for the company. Barbee shares the articulateness, but, dressed casually, gives off the aura of being a rock for her, disguised as a laid-back presence.

“It’s a puzzle,” Barbee said. ”You’re building with different sorts of pieces, to make a healthy design, and I think we need to do this now, today, more than ever.”

Which brings us to “Frontier.” Stiefel saw it as about space exploration. Kent saw larger artistic themes as well, and thought Stiefel embodied some of those themes. “He is an example of the American ability to develop and nurture artists with a unique sensibility,” she said.

Stiefel had apparently been on a crosscountry motorcycle journey when tapped by

Kent. “It’s such a big subject,” he said. “I wasn’t sure I wanted to do it at first, but then I started thinking about the whole thing in terms of the astronaut, in space. While we don’t exactly use space suits, we did have some technical help from suit designers. Dance is always about how people move through space — there you are — and I tried to imagine what that was like, alone and in tandem. It would be a little abstract and vivid and, yeah, a little out there, so to speak.

“We try to imagine the astronaut experience, what that is like. Kennedy called it the New Frontier. It’s gravity trying to transform humans. It’s what JFK also did, he asked us to consider the new frontier, which is, to me, using imagination. Dancers know something about discipline, training and so I can appreciate what they go through — the astronauts.

“I think initially I had about eight minutes, now it’s close to half an hour.”

Stiefel isn’t shy. He’s been a youthful director of the Royal New Zealand Ballet, he’s been in films, there are rumors female sighs could be heard when he danced with ABT. And there probably isn’t a dance figure quite so eclectic — smart, funny, a newlywed (to longtime girlfriend and fellow dancer Gillian Murphy), nurturer of a finely turned moustache like the villain’s in “The Prisoner of Zenda.” He’s very much the cool, 21st-century guy in the room.

Dance isn’t easy. “It’s a strain on the body.

Your muscles take a beating all of the time,” he

Sona Kharatian rehearsing in astronaut costume.

Courtesy Washington Ballet.

said. “But even sometimes, when you’re hurt, you go on to the next thing.”

The next thing. The New Frontier. Space, the final frontier, rockets thrusting into the dark in a burst of flame, calling it flight.

Earthbound, dancers are still perhaps the only human beings who can approximate flight, wingless but soaring. On earth, space is how you move through it. For astronauts, there is the grandeur of the ability to move toward it.

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HILLWOOD ESTATE & MUSEUM SPECTACULAR GALA

Washingtonian magazine will hold its ninth annual party where guests will socialize while enjoying tastings from over 75 top-rated restaurants. All silent auction and a portion of ticket proceeds benefit the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. National Building Museum.

An Enchanted Evening in Her Garden, hosted by Shahin Mafi, THIS for Diplomats Advisory Board member and humanitarian — 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Shahin Mafi’s residence. The event will include live music, a silent auction, hors d’oeuvres, wine and valet parking.

The evening celebrates the new exhibit “Spectacular! Gems and Jewelry from the Merriweather Post Collection” as guests enjoy a cocktail reception and formal dinner on the Lunar Lawn. Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens.

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202 243-3974 or astarr@hillwoodmuseum.org John and Antonia Gore at the 2015 ‘Ingenue to Icon’ Gala Preview at Hillwood. Photo by Tony Powell.

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Youth leaders camp.

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Come out and receive the full “Glamping” (glamorous camping) experience, as we celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the D.C. National Guard Youth Leaders’ Camp.

This fundraiser will help send numerous Washington, D.C., metropolitan youth to summer camp. ncrmilitarysummit.org

WASHINGTON, D.C., CELEBRATORY GALA The Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation bring in some of the most powerful names in Washington, including senior leadership of the Marine Corps, members of Congress and scholarship recipients to honor those in uniform by enabling their children to pursue a college education. The event is black tie. mcsf.org

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JUNE 4 2017 NATIONAL CAPITAL A CINDERELLA BALL The Ball honors children of America’s men and women in uniform living with a life-limiting disability or illness who are many times sidelined from societal events. This quality-of-life public service initiative is hosted annually by pre-teen and teen members of The House Student Leadership Center. Their acts of kindness have become a social justice movement, creating an evolution from isolation toward meaningful inclusion. thehouse-inc.com

National Cinderella Ball.

This is a must attend event for the most influential industry and government leadership from across our area, and provides a great opportunity to celebrate the Total Army Force comprised of multicomponent Soldiers and Department of the Army Civilians and their contributions to national defense. ausaarsenalofdemocracy.org

JUNE 17 2017 BARK BALL The 30th Annual black-tie gala will be held on Saturday, June 17, 2017 at the Washington Hilton. This event is the only black-tie gala where movers and shakers of Washington DC can bring their canine companions as their dates. The Bark Ball draws many of the area’s most illustrious residents and their four-legged friends, all in honor of the programs and services of the Humane Rescue Alliance. humanerescuealliance.org

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The David Lynch Foundation will host a “National Night of Laughter and Song” to raise support for the foundation’s mission of providing stress-reducing Transcendental Meditation to veterans with post-traumatic stress, inner-city youth and women who are victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. The star-studded benefit will feature music and stand-up comedy from Jerry Seinfeld, Jay Leno, Hugh Jackman, Margaret Cho, Katie Couric, Kesha, Ben Folds, Angelique Kidjo, Sharon Isbin, Deborra-Lee Furness Jackman and more.

JUNE 23 SICILIAN BALL AT THE ITALIAN EMBASSY Step on to Italian soil for a very special and elegant evening celebrating Sicilian culture at the Embassy of Italy. Enter and be transported to perhaps one of the most admired countries in Europe. Experience an Italian and Sicilian evening, filled with Italian food, open bar, dancing, opera, film, and more. eventbrite.com/e/sicilian-ball-at-theembassy-of-italy-tickets-34252809074

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Refugees Int’l: Queen Noor Gives White Helmets of Syria Top Prize

Women’s History Museum Salutes Laura Bush

The Refugees International Annual Gala, held April 25 at the Mellon Auditorium, was emceed by RI board member Matt Dillon and included remarks by Ambassador Vlora Çitaku of Kosovo, RI board chair Eileen Shields-West, gala benefit chairs Maria and Fabio Trabocchi and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, among others. The top humanitarian award was presented to the White Helmets of Syria by Queen Noor Al-Hussein of Jordan.

The National Women’s History Museum honored first lady Laura Bush and others May 16 at the Carnegie Institution for Science with its Women Making History Awards, emceed by Cokie Roberts. Chuck Todd of NBC News led a discussion with Laura Bush. Founded in 1996, the NWHM has plans for building on or near the National Mall.

Kati Marton presents the Richard C. Holbrooke Leadership Award to Hassan Shire, executive director of the East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project.

Maria and Fabio Trabocchi, gala benefit chairs.

Photos courtesy Refugees International.

Representatives Ed Rouse (R-Calif.) and Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) with NWHM awardees Brig.

Gen. Wilma Vaught, Faye Laing, M.D., Rosie Rios, Diane Rehm and Maj. Gen. Charles Bolden. Photo

by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images for National Women’s History Museum.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Ambassador of Kosovo Vlora Çitaku and RI board member Matt Dillon.

Radio personality and awardee Diane Rehm with Susan Whiting, board chair of the National Women’s History Museum. Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Images for National Women’s History Museum.

Former first lady Laura Bush. Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Images for National Women’s History Museum.

Helen Hayes Applauds Ted van Griethuysen Princess Yasmine Pahlavi, Shamim Jawad and Mariella Trager.

RI board chair Eileen Shields-West, RI board member Queen Noor Al-Hussein.

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BY M ARY BIR D The 33rd annual Helen Hayes Awards were presented at the Lincoln Theatre May 15 with E. Faye Butler and Lawrence Redmond hosting. The awards are divided into “Hayes” and “Helen” categories, depending on the number of Equity members in a production.

TheatreWashington President & CEO Amy Austin said, “Thank you for making art for a world that demands it.” The evening was highlighted by the presence of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who presented the prestigious Helen Hayes Tribute to Ted van Griethuysen, starring in “Father” at Studio Theatre. “Washington is where I came of age as an actor,” said van Griethuysen, who added, “The theater is an art form, not a competition.”

The after-party was at the 9:30 Club.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg introducing honoree Ted van Griethuysen. Photo by Shannon Finney Photography, courtesy of Helen Hayes Awards. .

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Ambassador Walter Cutler Honored

BY PEGGY SAN D S Georgetown resident, ambassador and past president of the Meridian International Center, Walter Cutler, was honored April 29 with the Distinguished Service Award for the Advancement of Public Discourse in Foreign Policy by the American Committees on Foreign Relations. Ambassador Cutler served twice as Ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (1984-87, 1987-89); Tunisia (1982-84); and Congo-Zaire (1975-79). His wife Isabel (“Didi”) is well known for her photographs and books on the Middle East. The ambassador received the award at the National Press Club from Stuart Holliday, his successor at Meridian and Judy Hill of Santa Barbara, national president of the ACFR.

Walter and Didi Cutler. Photo by Peggy Sands.

CityDance’s DREAMscape: High Energy PHO TOS B Y XMB P HO TO G R A P H Y CityDance’s DREAMscape performance host Debbie Allen and after-party host Paul Wharton revved up the scene downtown, along with DREAMscape chairs Dafna Tapiero and Alan Fleischmann and Linda Potter and Tim Shriver. The DREAMscape artist lineup included ballroom stars Denys Drozdyuk and Antonina Skobina; Brooklyn Mack and Maki Onuki of the Washington Ballet; Bruce Wood Dance Project; Cervilio Miguel Amador and Chisako Oga of Cincinnati Ballet, along with guest artists from Complexions Contemporary Ballet and Step Afrika! — and tap star Cartier Williams and CityDance students.

Christylez Bacon and Kay Kendall.

Patricia and Lloyd Howell.

Debbie Allen with CityDance students.

Washington Chorus Gets Cosmic in Cathedral

BY M A RY BIRD Under the patronage of British Ambassador Kim Darroch, the Washington Chorus hosted its annual Chorus Ball fundraiser at the Washington National Cathedral May 2. The event honored outgoing music director Julian Wachner, hailed as a “visionary” and “musical genius.” A concert curated by composer Paola Prestini featured performances by cellist Matt Haimovitz, folk musician Claudio Prima, mezzo-soprano Katherine Pracht and singers from the Washington Chorus. Atmosphere Lighting provided a stunning lighting treatment evoking the cosmos as guests dined and danced in the nave, transformed into a medieval banquet hall.

Julian Wachner and Beth Morrison. Photos by Tony Powell, courtesy of Washington Chorus.

Rhona and Donald Friedman.

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