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Summer
READS
& Georgetown Authors
Hyde-Addison Build Begins Get Creative on Retail Rents Rickie Niceta at Meridian
IN T HIS IN HIS IS ISSUE SUE N E W S · 4 -7 Up & Coming Town Topics
EDI TORI AL /OPINION · 8
W E B E XCL USI V E S
Jack Evans Report July News: FBI, Skye and More Part 3: Rents Too High? Get Creative. Letters to the Editor
F I NAN CE · 9 My Summer Reading List
ON T H E C OV E R
BUSI N E S S · 10 -11 Ins & Outs Profile: Virginia Burton
A handful of The Georgetowner’s recommended summer reads (see inside, sorted by genre). Among the featured authors: superstars like Doris Kearns Goodwin and John Grisham and firsttime novelists like Elif Batuman and Marc Elsberg. Rendering by Aidah Fontenot.
RE A L E S TAT E · 12 Featured Property Commercial Property
OV E RHE A RD AT L U NC H · 13 H AU T E & C OOL · 14 DOW N T OW N E R DC · 15 Town Topics
News4 anchor Jim Vance in 2016. Photo by Neshan H. Naltchayan.
A Loss in the Family: Jim Vance BY GARY TISC H L ER The longest serving broadcaster in the D.C. area succumbed to cancer last Saturday.
C OV E R · 18 -20 Summer Reads & Georgetown Authors
D.C. Speed Cameras Make $99.2 Million
BODY & SOU L · 21 Foods That Make You Look Great Murphy’s Love
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BY HANNAH DODD Last year, the District Gave Out 994,000 speeding tickets.
F OOD & W I N E · 22-23
Dining Guide Chef of the Month
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I N C OU N T R Y & G E TAWAY S · 24 A Tony, Townie Getaway to Frederick
An Astonishing First Novel by George Saunders
A R T S · 28 -29
Woolly’s Founder: On the Brink of Second Act Donald Sultan’s “Disaster Paintings” at SAAM
GOOD WORK S & GOOD T I ME S · 30 -31 Social Scene
BY GARY TISCHLER In “Lincoln in the Bardo,” Abraham Lincoln mourns his son Willie at Oak Hill Cemetery.
Author George Saunders.
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Events Calendar JULY 27
ROOFTOP YOGA AT TOP OF THE GATE
CURATORS’ DIALOGUE AT THE PHILLIPS
Sunrise Yoga high atop the Watergate Hotel is offered every Friday at 6:30 a.m. Advance registration is recommended. To reserve a place, email argenttaspa@thewatergatehotel. com or call 844-617-1972. Watergate Hotel, 2650 Virginia Ave. NW.
Phillips Collection Director Dorothy Kosinski and Deputy Director Klaus Ottmann will discuss “Markus Lüpertz,” the German painter’s first comprehensive retrospective. The conversation will consider the culture of Berlin when Lüpertz created many of his works. Admission is $12. For details, visit phillipscollection.org. 1600 21st St. NW.
CYMBALS EAT GUITARS AT BLACK CAT The dream of the ’90s really is alive … at least for the boys of Cymbals Eat Guitars, a band that proudly wears its indie rock influences — Pavement, Weezer and Sonic Youth — on its sleeves. Tickets are $15. For details, visit blackcatdc.com. Black Cat, 1811 14th St. NW.
JULY 28 TUDOR PLACE GARDEN TOUR Participants in this expert guided tour of the five-and-a-half-acre landscape will learn about the six generations who created and cared for the Tudor Place gardens over two centuries. For details, visit tudorplace.org. Tudor Place, 1644 31st St. NW.
Melba Moore. “Chiapas Racers” by Los Angeles Times photojournalist Don Bartletti, documenting the desperate migration of Central American children searching for parents who had immigrated to the United States, won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography.
JULY 28 PULITZER PRIZE PHOTOGRAPHS GALLERY To mark the 100th anniversary of the Pulitzer Prizes, the Newseum has updated its exclusive Pulitzer Prize Photographs Gallery with new photographs and innovative ways to experience the stories behind the images. The exhibition is on view through Dec. 31. Tickets are $24.95 plus tax. For details, visit newseum.org. 555 Pennsylvania Ave. NW.
MELBA MOORE AT BLUES ALLEY Celebrating nearly five decades of performing and recording, Melba Moore radiates passion for what she does, appearing as energetic and engaged with her craft now as she was four decades ago. Tickets are $30 and $35 plus a $12 minimum. For details, visit bluesalleylive.com. 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW.
ROSÉ GARDEN AT THE RITZ CARLTON The Ritz Carlton’s Westend Bistro celebrates rosé season with the launch of its Rosé Garden. The public is invited to kick off this and every summer weekend from 4:30 to 7:00 p.m. by sitting back, relaxing outside and enjoying a specially crafted menu. 1150 22nd St. NW.
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JULY 29 CITI OPEN TENNIS TOURNAMENT The Citi Open, the only elite ATP World Tour 500-level event held in the United States, runs through Aug. 6. Single-session tickets start at $10. Courtside box seats and a variety of allsession and multi-session ticket packages are available. For details, visit citiopentennis.com. Rock Creek Tennis Center, 16th & Kennedy Streets NW.
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Changes to Circulator Route Opposed
BY P EG GY S A N D S
Hyde-Addison School Construction Project Begins
The future of the distinct red Circulator buses running up and down Wisconsin Avenue north of M Street is in question. Metro and the District Department of Transportation are taking a hard look at continuing service delays and inadequate maintenance. The agencies also seem to be playing a zero-sum game, contemplating a transfer of resources from the Georgetown route to a new one in the U Street corridor. “I can’t tell you how vigorously I support the Circulator route as it is,” Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner Joe Gibbons said in a phone interview. “The ANC passed a unanimous resolution in its support and I’ve heard nothing to the contrary from Georgetown’s D.C. councilman Jack Evans.” Gibbons’s district covers Wisconsin Avenue up to Safeway. Evans is board chair of Metro, the agency that currently oversees the Circulator’s operations (DDOT sets the routes). The Circulator was launched in 2005 as an inexpensive (one dollar) public shuttle from major D.C. transportation hubs like
Union Station to popular attractions and neighborhoods. As Georgetown does not have Metrorail service, the route to and from the neighborhood’s major commercial streets — K Street, M Street and Wisconsin Avenue — was one of the Circulator’s first. The Georgetown BID pays in $10,000 a year in return for free Wisconsin Avenue shuttle service on summer weekends. But the Circulator has been plagued with increasing delays and a consequent loss in overall ridership since its peak in 2012. Audits in 2015 and 2016 revealed that maintenance contractor First Transit has fallen short in tending to basic wear-and-tear. On any given day, more than a third of the Circulator’s 67 buses are taken out of circulation due to maintenance issues, including broken air conditioning. The Circulator’s operational oversight authority will be transferred from Metro to DDOT next summer. New buses are being added and RFPs for a new maintenance contractor may be issued early next year.
Mandy Ourisman — 1926-2017
With the playground demolished, the construction site is being prepared for Hyde-Addison School at 3219 O St. NW. Photo by Robert Devaney. It’s happening. The long anticipated, much negotiated, somewhat dreaded reconstruction and expansion of Georgetown’s only public elementary school, Hyde-Addison, has begun. On Sunday, July 23, the school’s playground and all its equipment lay in a crushed heap waiting to be hauled away. Fencing surrounds the site, with entrances for construction vehicles and materials on both P and O Streets in front of the very busy St. John’s Church. “Everyone concerned with this project wants it to go smoothly,” said Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner Joe Gibbons, who lives nearby. Lessons were learned from the just completed — and way over budget and schedule — Duke Ellington School of the Arts reconstruction project up the block. For years, the Ellington work had been a neighborhood nightmare, with agreements regarding parking, noise and the construction environment variously violated, ignored or dismissed. To try to prevent that kind of experience for the Hyde-Addison neighbors, ANC member Rick Murphy put together a list of 13 points that encapsulated the major concerns, Gibbons reported. On Thursday, July 20, representatives of all the major stakeholders met in a “kind of closed to the press” meeting to go over the points. “None were disputed,” Gibbons said. Attendees included Monica Dodge, coordinator of facility planning and design for DC Public Schools; Leslie Maysak, executive director of the Citizens Association of Georgetown; Hazel Denton, CAG transportation chair; Commissioners Gibbons and Murphy; the construction supervisor and
secondary supervisor from the contractors, MCN Build; and an official from D.C.’s Department of General Services. Everyone agreed to a “three strikes and you’re out” policy regarding constructionworker parking. The car licenses of the 40 to 60 people expected to be involved at the construction site would be registered and available for monitoring. Equipment delivery would be timed to not obstruct public transportation and other services. Work could be done only between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. on weekdays. Strict parameters were set and monitoring methods approved for measuring vibration, noise, pollution, pest control and lighting in and around the site. Most important, everyone agreed to monitored intermediate time lines, weekly progress reports and immediate communication when incidents that could impact the site’s neighborhood occur. “There is no reason to expect any surprises. We’ve tried to cover all the variables,” Gibbons said. “No one wants to involve the city departments of public works, health, environmental safety, police, etc. That is a waste of public resources and time when all of this can be handled among the neighbors, representative groups and construction supervisors through continual open communications, accountability and weekly reports.” Gibbons will be instituting a phone tree for immediate updates involving the construction. For further information, email him at 2E02@ anc.dc.gov.
Two great American literary lions and rivals got together once, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, who chronicled the doings of the aristocratic, wealthy class of the 1920s in “The Great Gatsby” said to Ernest Hemingway of “The Sun Also Rises” fame, “Ernie, the rich are different from you and I.” Hemingway, less enamored, responded, “Yeah, they have more money.” Mandell Jack “Mandy” Ourisman, who passed away July 5 in Palm Beach and whose name and family and signs of his charity and enterprise can be found all over the Washington area, had a lot more than just money. He had dignity, style, capital energy, taste, grace and a love of the arts, and a spirit of giving and charity. He expanded an automotive sales empire, to be sure, but also shared his passions and compassion with the immediate world through giving and leading. Ourisman Chevrolet, a business begun by his father Benjamin Ourisman in 1921, became
a flagship enterprise with 36 franchises in Maryland and Virginia. He attended Georgetown University and the U.S. Naval Academy and grew the family business, which is a familiar name in our television advertising. More than that, he was a captain of philanthropy — from establishing the Betty Lou Ourisman Breast Health Center at Georgetown University Hospital to his widespread support for the Kennedy Center of the Performing Arts to the Police Boys Club to the Meridian International Center and numerous other groups. His wife Mary served as U.S. Ambassador to numerous countries. A memorial service is planned for September at the Metropolitan Memorial Methodist Church. The family requests that donations be made to MedStar Health c/o the Betty Lou Ourisman Breast Health Center at Georgetown University’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center.
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TOWN TOPICS
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6,000 Reported Gas Leaks, Now What?
First he reported how Washington Gas would reserve blocks of parking spaces in tight Georgetown residential areas with no sign of work. Then it was masked gas men in the neighborhood. Now Georgetown resident Ed Segal has met with Advisory Neighborhood Commissioners to share his biggest concern: a gas company report last year revealing more than 6,000 gas leaks in the city, with no indication what the company is doing about them. “I’ve done deep dives into gas company documents looking for any substantive progress report on what is being done. Nothing,” Segal said. Similarly, he reported that he could find no information in the company’s 40-year plan about what has been done over the last five years to replace antiquated gas pipes throughout the city. Commissioners Jim Wilcox, Rick Murphy and Joe Gibbons expressed interest and concern about Segal’s complaints to the company about their lack of accountability, transparency and communication, according to Segal. He plans further study and action shortly.
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Solar Co-op First Phase Ends
“The first phase is done,” said Gregory Miller, former director of the solar energy co-op that met several times in Georgetown’s library to interest home owners in installing solar energy in their homes and businesses via a local volunteer collective arrangement. That co-op buy-in phase started in 2008. By June 2017, more than 40 property owners in the area had signed on (signs indicating membership can be seen on some residences). Through a system of credit certificates and cooperative arrangements, group solar members can expect to eventually save up to 20 percent of their energy costs. In June, the Georgetown-Burleith Solar Co-0p chose the Green Brilliance company to install their panels, according to news reports. Still, the New York Times reported that some areas are finding pushback from utility lobbyists. “That hasn’t happened here so much,” Miller told The Georgetowner at the Georgetown Business Association meeting on July 19. He is the owner of a small business himself: Georgetown Energy Solutions.
weekend and then disassembled and stored Sunday night. It narrows traffic movement and decreases parking opportunities in order to give pedestrians in Georgetown a more leisurely way to shop and merchants a chance to get to know them better. Is it working? “No one knew where to go,” Georgetowner Publisher Sonya Bernhardt texted one Saturday afternoon, with a photo of an empty pedestrian extension blocked by a blue cement barrier. It looked like an empty marathon runway. “We know,” sighed Will Handsfield, the BID’s transportation director. “We’ve planned to put up planters and street furniture, but no one wants to be outside in the heat. Probably our main usage issue right now is shade. We’re exploring how to bring shade trees temporarily to the extended pedestrian walkway. Something on coasters.”
Suicide of Beloved Robot Shakes Community
Tragedy struck the hearts of those who witnessed the death of Georgetown’s very own Robot Steve. His purpose was to patrol the streets in order to keep people safe. But, as it turned out, he himself was the one who needed saving. He had some good times in his six-day life span, but unfortunately his life came to an abrupt and shocking end. On Monday, July 17, the roving security camera committed what can only be described as a horrifying suicide. Robot Steve allegedly fell into a fountain outside Washington Harbour, and the only thing passersby could do was watch the tragedy unfold. “We were promised flying cars. Instead we got suicidal robots,” said Bilal Farooqui, an employee at the complex. Heroic community members attempted to rescue Robot Steve, but it was too late. Exactly how and why the event transpired remains unclear. A number of citizens have banded together to erect a memorial to the late Robot Steve. Photographs and kind words from near and far were placed onto his charging pad as a way to offer final goodbyes. You will be missed, Robot Steve.
Wider Sidewalks Not a Walk in the Park
The Georgetown Business Improvement District’s effort to widen pedestrian walking zones on the north side of M Street between Wisconsin Avenue and Key Bridge is coming under increased scrutiny. It’s a manual-labor-intensive idea. Blocklong barriers have to be assembled for the
Photo by Bilal Farooqui.
TOWN TOPICS COMMUNIT Y SPOTLIGHT
Harvey Looks Ahead to Georgetown Main Street Program B Y PEGGY SAN D S
COMMUNIT Y CALENDAR SATURDAY, JULY 29 New Farmstand at Wisconsin & Grace A new farmstand in partnership with Sweetgreen begins Saturday, July 29, operating in the parking lot on Grace Street. Featuring items from Hillside Meadow Farm in Pennsylvania, the farmstand will be open Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., until Oct. 28.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 1 Sunset Cinema: ‘Erin Brockovich’ The free summer outdoor movie series at Georgetown Waterfront Park, presented by the Georgetown Business Improvement District, continues with Steven Soderbergh’s “Erin Brockovich,” starring Julia Roberts. The screenings start around 8:30 p.m. For details, visit georgetowndc. com.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9 Special ANC Meeting Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E will hold a special meeting to discuss several items that must be considered before the regular September meeting. The Aug. 9 meeting will be held at 5 p.m. in the Heritage Room on the second floor of the Georgetown Visitation School, 1524 35th St. NW. For details, contact ANC Chair Joe Gibbons at 2e02@anc.dc.gov or 202836-2239.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 8 Sunset Cinema: ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ The free summer outdoor movie series at Georgetown Waterfront Park, presented by the Georgetown Business Improvement District, continues with David Frankel’s “The Devil Wears Prada,” starring Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway. The screenings start around 8:30 p.m. For details, visit georgetowndc.com. Send your community event listing to editorial@georgetowner.com or call 202-338-4833.
Ana Harvey, director, Department of Small and Local Business Development. The parts of District government that Georgetowners interact with most often are public safety and utilities. But the District’s Department of Small and Local Business Development is working to change that. “I used to think Georgetown’s small businesses didn’t need our help,” said Ana Recio Harvey, the department’s director, appointed by Mayor Muriel Bowser in 2015. “But after meetings the past year with small business owners about their many challenges, even on Wisconsin Avenue, Georgetown’s District councilman Jack Evans was able to successfully allocate funds for a DSLBD Main Street project dedicated to Georgetown.” Competitive proposals for projects, and to develop an infrastructure to manage them and carry out crucial project fundraising, are due to the DSLBD on Friday, Aug. 4 at 2 p.m. The Main Streets program is one of almost
two dozen services and programs that the DSLBD oversees and, in some cases, manages. Its stated vision is to “provide a range of services to meet the needs of both start-up and existing businesses in the District. The mission is to support the development, economic growth, and retention of District-based businesses, and to promote economic development throughout the District’s commercial corridors.” DSLBD services are broad ranged and individualized. They include one-on-one counseling, workshops and seminars for both entrepreneurs and small business owners. The department helps with securing government contracts and assures project and agency compliance. Main Streets comes under the department’s Neighborhood Revitalization division, which supports designated nonprofit organizations working to revitalize specific retail districts. “The individual boards must comprise equal representation from three groups: business owners, community people and building owners,” according to Martin Smith, director of the oldest Main Street program in D.C., Barracks Row. Projects must fall within a four-prong approach: commercial revitalization; promotion (i.e., branding campaigns and special events); design and streetscape projects, including those improving the appearance of business storefronts and interiors; and economic vitality projects to help businesses with retention, recruitment and expansion. “Main Street projects have absolutely transformed H Street, Shaw and Barracks Row commercial districts,” said Harvey enthusiastically. “We’re very excited for the prospects of the newest one, Eastern Market, and looking forward to what Georgetown
“Main Street projects have absolutely transformed H Street, Shaw and Barracks Row commercial districts. We’re looking forward to what Georgetown Main Street will do.” — Ana Harvey
Main Street will do.” In 2016, according to the DSLBD, DC Main Streets created 1,018 jobs, served 70 net new businesses and completed 55 rehabilitation projects and five public improvement projects. “A small business can have as few as one owner-employee up to around 100,” said Harvey, who knows personally how tough it can be to be a small business owner. Born and raised in Mexico City, she came to the U.S. as a foreign student and later started a single-owner Spanish-English translation business, Syntaxis LLC. It grew to be a fullservice multi-lingual communications firm, translating in 25 languages. In 2009, Harvey was appointed by President Obama as the Small Business Administration’s assistant administrator for the Office of Women’s Business Ownership. She developed collaborative programs with the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and served as the D.C. chapter president in 20072008. In addition, Harvey was appointed to the White House Business Council and the SBA’s Executive Review Board and Council on Underserved Communities.
Why Does Georgetown Need 3 Business Organizations? To better represent itself, the business community started the Georgetown Business Association more than 40 years ago. In the late 1990s, after the Mayor Barry years, when business services were pretty much defunct in the District, building owners got together and formed the Georgetown Business Improvement District. Now GBA hopes to implement a Main Street program in partnership with the DC Department of Small and Local Business Development and the National Main Street Center, a subsidiary of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The reason for three different organizations requires some explanation. Let’s begin with GBA and the fact that it is a 501(c)5, with member-based dues as its primary source of income. GBA can lobby since its revenue is not taxed based. The BID is a 501(c)6 nonprofit, its revenues derived from a selfimposed tax amounting to about $4 million
annually. The tax is based on the assessed value of the commercial buildings within the Georgetown BID area. Since many Georgetown businesses are directly or indirectly paying for the BID, they slowly stopped being members of GBA. Today, GBA’s member income is less than $30,000. What’s more, in light of the internet and the difficult retail climate — combined with the now-repealed liquor moratorium — Georgetown’s commercial district is not as vibrant as it once was, particularly on Wisconsin Avenue. This is where Main Street comes in. For the most part, Main Streets started in small towns; the program was developed to help revitalize these historic business areas. There are currently more than 2,300 designated Main Streets in the U.S. Washington, D.C., now has 12 Main Street programs, overseen by the Department of Small and Local Business
Development. Observing the success of these organizations, and the need to help revitalize Wisconsin Avenue, GBA started lobbying for the Main Street grant funding of $175,000 to be available in Georgetown. The goals of the proposed Georgetown Main Street are to help existing business owners and encourage new businesses — serving the needs of residents and visitors alike — to locate in Georgetown. There will be an executive director devoted to this cause and a board to help research best practices. For more information and to support the launch of Georgetown Main Street, contact Georgetown Business Association President Sonya Bernhardt.
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EDITORIAL / OPINION
Part 3: Rents Too High? Get Creative. Georgetown is more than 260 years old and internationally recognized. No matter where you travel, when you say you live in Georgetown, everyone recognizes the name — and wants to come visit. Despite competition from other neighborhoods, Georgetown is “still crowded on Saturdays,” said Jamie Scott, economic development manager for the Georgetown Business Improvement District. “It has a huge diversity” of shoppers walking around. But the plight of Wisconsin Avenue, lately suffering from a shortage of top-notch retail and restaurants, has left us wondering what to do. In the two previous editorials, we considered the situation from the perspective of tenants, then landlords. In this third (of three parts), our aim is to move toward a solution by asking key questions. ■ What do Georgetowners (and others) want? Where do they like to dine and shop? ■ How should we distinguish between M Street and Wisconsin Avenue? What are the opportunities and challenges of each? ■ How we develop a fresh vision for Georgetown’s revitalization? According to Scott, the solution is to get property owners working together with tenants. That’s not easy, though, with tenants being forced out by high rents and a lack of retail vision, restaurants included. How did this come about? Well, some new owners may have paid too much for a building and need high rents. The Georgetown market is traditionally strong, and some landlords think they can still wait for the next big tenant. Meanwhile, vacant storefronts detract, and landlords must recognize the fact that online sales take away opportunities from traditional
brick and mortar retail. There is another way, said Scott, who encourages property owners to get creative. How about a lower rent with the owner getting a percentage of retail sales? The store succeeds. The landlord succeeds. It is about understanding one another, and respecting Georgetown as a whole. It is also time to get innovative about retail, at every level. Look at independent shops like Salt & Sundry on 14th Street. And take a long look at the $6-billion Wharf project on the Southwest waterfront — a vision led by Monty Hoffman of PN Hoffman. Case in point in new developments: the C&O Canal, a Georgetown treasure, is undergoing a long-needed renovation by the National Park Service in collaboration with local groups and a world-class landscape design firm. And shall we mention the now defunct liquor license moratorium? Another nonprofit is coming on the scene to help small businesses along Wisconsin Avenue: Georgetown Main Street. If all goes well, it will be up and running this fall. What else should Georgetown do to get its retail back? What worked a few decades (or even several years) ago won’t get Georgetown moving forward. How people shop, dine, work, live and think is a continually changing thing — and where innovation finds its spark. The businesses that understand this principle are the ones that will succeed. So, let’s do a better job of communicating and collaborating to give Georgetowners and our visitors what we want — a great time in Georgetown.
Letters To the Editor Rent Requirements Rough on Retailers I am very pleased to see the approach and concerns of and for our magnificent town. I absolutely agree with the the assessment and point of view Titus Johnson in his Letter to the Editor in the July 12th Georgetowner. Here are my two cents as one of the oldest surviving mom and pop retailers in our town. We can do better, and we must. However, as great as landlords are, there are many factors affecting the landscape in our town. We have banks and convenience stores dotting Wisconsin Avenue because commercial brokers want tenants who are able to obtain 10- or 20-year leases. We tried expanding our business, and this preference is what we found we were up
against as a successful local business. There also are rent clauses called triple net. I can assure all that can be burdensome on most small businesses if the retailer is liable for roofs, garages and HVAC. This causes another loss when filling taxes and have an adverse affect when asking loan extensions with banks. I strongly believe Georgetown could have a very hard coming back — just as the Adams Bank property across the street from Everard’s took a long time to lease because of exorbitant rents. — Louis Everard, Everard’s Clothing, 1801 Wisconsin Ave. NW
Wawa? Remember Roy Rogers? How shallow is the debate about Wawa coming to Georgetown, replacing Restoration Hardware? After all, this was the site of a fast food restaurant for many years, Roy Rogers
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Jack Evans Report
July News: FBI, Skye and More BY JAC K EVAN S
Now that we’re in the peak of summer, please be mindful of the heat in the coming days. Temperatures are expected to stay in the mid- to upper 90s. Check in on your neighbors and friends and, if someone is in need, call 311 for information regarding cooling centers. Cooling centers are activated when the temperature reaches 95 degrees. Even though the Council is in recess, there are updates and news to share with the community. The region is still reacting to the Trump administration’s decision to end its search for a new site for the FBI headquarters. Last week, I wrote a letter to the president to outline the reasons why the FBI headquarters should be moved off of Pennsylvania Avenue, but still remain in the District. I support the administration’s decision to cancel the project and start over by looking for a site within the city. This project has been in the planning stages for 10 years and has only gotten more expensive. My recommendation is to relocate the FBI headquarters to Poplar Point in Southeast D.C. The federal government owns enough land at Poplar Point to accommodate the entire FBI program. Development of a new, modern FBI facility can begin immediately. As for Pennsylvania Avenue, I’m excited to continue the progress the city has made on this historic street by encouraging more businesses to open their doors. This is a win-win situation
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for the District and Ward 2. I’m hopeful that the administration will consider this proposal. Not only will the city retain jobs, the new location will bring added economic growth to the Poplar Point area. Additionally, I’m pleased to announce the grant program for commercial waste compactors is now available for licensed forprofit businesses in the District. For three years, I have been working hard to make this option available for our business community. The Commercial Waste Compactor Program’s purpose is to cut down on rodent and insect issues and promote clean streets and alleyways. For more information, visit dslbd.dc.gov/ compactor. Finally, I was pleased to meet with Skye Bork, who won the national Distinguished Young Women of America competition this year, the first D.C. resident to do so. This accomplished young woman is a Georgetown resident who graduated from National Cathedral School and is heading to Columbia University in the fall, now with additional scholarship funds. Everyone should join me in congratulating Skye on her achievement. If you know a woman who is going into her senior year of high school and may be interested in this merit-based scholarship program, visit distinguishedyw.org for application information. Jack Evans is the District Council member for Ward 2, representing Georgetown and other neighborhoods since 1991.
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My Summer Reading List BY J OHN E. GIROUA R D
Last but not least, these books are a written compilation of everything I’ve read and I experience daily in my practice. Enjoy! John E. Girouard is a registered principal of Cambridge Investment Research and an investment advisor representative of Capital Investment Advisors in Georgetown.
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economy and demonstrates how far China must go to catch up to the United States. “Dark Money” by Jane Mayer. Chronicling the birth of the radical right and the rise of big money in politics, this book is a frighteningly informative read both for Democrats and for Republicans. “The Ten Truths of Wealth Creation” and “Take Back Your Money” by John Girouard.
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Written by President Ronald Reagan’s budget director, who left politics for Wall Street, this book offers a great perspective on capitalism, greed and the inner workings of our government. It truly makes one think. “The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else” by Hernando de Soto. This book provides fascinating insight into the unique challenges facing the Middle East and emerging and third-world countries. Spoiler alert: the answer is property rights. “Liar’s Poker” by Michael Lewis. Honestly, I would argue any book by Michael Lewis is worth reading. But this book is a fun ride down Wall Street, giving an insider’s account of how greed can disrupt the markets. “James Madison: A Life Reconsidered” by Lynne Cheney. This biographical account of the man behind our Constitution puts the reader in Madison’s head while he wrote our founding document. “The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves” by Matt Ridley. If you really want to understand the way Donald Trump thinks, read this book. “Dealing with China: An Insider Unmasks the New Economic Superpower” by Henry Paulson Jr. This book delves into China’s
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couple years ago, I read an article about Mark Zuckerberg that said he reads two books a month. He even started a Facebook book club called “A Year of Books.” It seems to have worked out well for him, so why not me? Now, I’m not one of the 704,675 people who joined his book club. I did, however, start keeping a journal on my iPad, and I’ve met my goal every year. (I occasionally cheat and read a James Patterson beach read.) I am partial to historical fiction and nonfiction. I love every series by Ken Follett and I’ve enjoyed “The Fall and Rise of China” by Richard Baum. I will warn you: these books are about 4,000 pages, which can be a Herculean task. I recommend listening to them on tape. But my true passion is books about our presidents. I actually have a section in my office dedicated to all the presidents who have shaped our country. In case you were looking for some suggestions, I’ve compiled a list of books that have stuck with me over the years and transformed the way I think about finance, economics and politics. “The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America” by David Stockman.
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BUSINESS
Ins & Outs BY R OBE RT DEVA NEY
IN (Again): Subway, Now Part of Mini Food Court The Subway sandwich shop — which vacated 3275 M St. NW at the corner of Potomac Street and M, now the home of Aesop, the Australian upscale skin and body care store — has returned after a year’s hiatus to 3277 M St. NW, just across Potomac Street on the opposite corner. The new corner location is a larger space, with seating for at least 12. Sharing the space will be District Pizza and Greenberry, a coffee and frozen yogurt spot, creating a mini food court. Founded in 1965, the privately held company boasts about 45,000 stores, more than McDonald’s, in 112 countries; most are in the U.S., Canada and Mexico, but Australia, Brazil and the United Kingdom have thousands, too. Last month, a few restaurants introduced selfordering kiosks and gluten-free bread. This year’s slogan is “Fresh Forward.”
IN (Soon): Marine Layer Marine Layer, a San Francisco clothing story named for an air mass that forms over water (such as San Francisco Bay) due to a
Marine Layer founder Adam explains, I wanted to recreate a shirt that would feel like my old favorite from day 1.
Courtesy Marine Layer.
Emel Bayrak.
temperature inversion, will take the space vacated by Godiva Chocolatier at 3242 M St. NW. This is a store already on 14th Street NW. The fabric of their tees, sweaters and jackets is as soft, one trusts, as Potomac fog.
vision in mind: coffee and conversation. She looks forward to interviewing government officials on current events and becoming the catalyst of some of the District of Columbia’s most thought-provoking discussions.
OUT: Spice & Tea Exchange
IN (Almost): Café Georgetown
OUT: BCBG Max Azria
Café Georgetown, a community coffee and wine bar, is coming to 3141 N St. NW, next to EagleBank. The café’s owner, Emel Bayrak, a White House correspondent for Turkish Radio & Television, is opening the location with a
One out of more than 120 locations shutting down across the country, the BCBG Max Azria clothing store at 3210 M St. NW will close by mid-August. The store is running sales of 40-to-60-percent off to clear out remaining stock.
The cute shop at 1069 Wisconsin Ave. NW that sold spices, teas, salts and sugars from containers, giving the place an old-time feel, has closed. Founded in St. Augustine, Florida, in 2005, the Spice & Tea Exchange has been franchising since 2008. There are more than 55 stores in 26 states.
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Teresa Nielson of Long & Foster Real Estate, Leslie Maysak of the Citizens Association of Georgetown and Eleni Tousimis, M.D., of Medstar Georgetown University Hospital. The newly proposed Georgetown Main Street program was the subject of the Georgetown Business Association’s July 19 networking reception at Ella-Rue on P Street. Introduced by GBA President Sonya Bernhardt, Martin Smith, executive director of the Barracks Row Main Street, explained the benefits of a Main Street program. Georgetown’s would extend along Wisconsin Avenue from K Street to Whitehaven Parkway. The GBA has taken the lead in coordinating the application process. It is all about getting “feet to the street,” said Smith, who asked for participation from the businesspersons in attendance and accepted a donation for the proposed Georgetown Main Street from Ed Solomon, owner of Anthony’s Tuxedo and Wedding Creations, three doors from Ella-Rue on P Street.
Krista Johnson of Ella-Rue.
The Main Street program was originally created by the National Trust for Historic Preservation to help preserve and revitalize historic commercial districts. There are 12 Main Street programs in Washington, D.C. — from Eastern Market and Shaw to Columbia Heights and Tenleytown. Each district’s designated nonprofit receives a grant from the D.C. government through the Department of Small and Local Business Development. The fiscal 2018 D.C. budget allows for four new Main Streets — and Georgetown is one of the target neighborhoods. A decision will be made by October, with the new programs up and running as soon as November. A website, georgetownmainstreet.com, and an email address, info@georgetownmainstreet.com, are on the way.
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Virginia Burton: An Eye for Detail BY SELMA K HENISS I Virginia Burton, owner of Burton Optician, knows how to take care of a pair of glasses. She can tell when a pair of glasses looks crooked, needs new nose pads or requires a cleaning. “If you take care of your frames, they’ll last a long time,” she says. Burton has had glasses since the fourth grade, but she didn’t think about becoming an optician until a bit later. She was working as a clerk typist in the University of Texas library system and found that her salary wasn’t high enough to afford air conditioning. She met an optician, a friend of someone she knew, who bragged about his new car. After meeting him, Burton decided to become an optician. Burton fell in love with the eyewear industry. Her first optician job involved working with a person she described as the most vulgar and abusive person she had ever worked for. But she learned a lot from this person, she says, and decided that, to make the most of her situation, she had to keep her mouth shut. Then she applied for a job at Lugene, which she calls the “crème de la crème.” She found out that she was good at this; her sales were high. She was also reading books on
“I think of glasses as a fashion accessory”
— Virginia Burton
Virginia Burton. Photo by Tony Awad.
Courtesy Burton’s Opticians.
women and business, during a period when women’s roles in the workplace were still being stereotyped. Itching to move away from Texas, Burton wanted to work either on the West Coast or
the East Coast, with Washington, D.C., her first choice. In 1981, she was finally offered the opportunity to work at a D.C. branch of Lugene. However, after a while she decided to strike out on her own. She borrowed $50,000
from her younger brother and opened her own store in 1989. Burton paid back the loan with 10-percent interest in five years. She moved the business to its current location, 3252 Prospect St. NW, in 1999 and plans to stay there indefinitely. Now 72, she has clients she has known since they were in elementary school. Burton pays special attention to the needs of young women, who want glasses that will help them do better in the working world and glasses that will help them in their romantic lives. “I think of glasses as a fashion accessory,” she says.
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Democratic congresswomen donned sleeveless outfits in defiance of the House dress code.
Female House Dems Defy Sleeve Rule “The Little Couple” stars were in D.C. to advocate against Medicaid cuts.
‘Little Couple’ Duo: Don’t Cut Medicaid Jen Arnold and Bill Klein, stars of the canceled TLC series “The Little Couple,” were on Capitol Hill earlier this month to advocate against proposed cuts to Medicaid, the Washington Post reported. Arnold and her husband, who suffer from what is commonly known as dwarfism, took their two children along when they met with members of Congress who have supported the cuts.
Richie and Madden Root for Nats “Great News” actress Nicole Richie and her husband Joel Madden, lead vocalist of Good Charlotte, recently spent Nicole Richie and her family time in Nationals watched the Nats win earlier country with this month. their two kids. Prior to the July 7 game (the Nats beat the Braves 5-4), they were spotted taking selfies on the Mall. Richie donned a Nats cap at the ballpark and wrote on her Instagram account: “I’ve always thought of myself as a Ginger Spice, but last night I went to a Nationals game & now I’m thinking my summer vibe might be a Ginger/Sporty mix ... thoughts?” The family was visiting Madden’s parents, who live in Maryland.
Biden Book Tour Will Make D.C. Stop Chocolate chip ice cream for all? Former Vice President Joe Biden recently announced that he will go on an “American Promise Tour” this fall. The tour, a “series of conversations he’s hosting across the country,” according to his Twitter account, will coincide with the release of Biden’s book, “Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose.” The D.C. stop will be Friday, Nov. 17, at the Warner Theatre.
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Using a play on words, Democratic congresswomen donned sleeveless dresses and pantsuits in support of what Rep. Jackie Speier (D-California) tweeted as “the right to bare arms.” They were calling for the modernization of the House dress code, which requires arms to be covered. House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) denied reporters access to the Speaker’s Lobby earlier this month, citing the dress code. It’s not just an issue for women; men are required to wear jackets and ties.
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Kid Rock Running for Senate? It seems like everybody is running these days, doesn’t it? Kid Rock is hinting at a possible Senate run as a Republican. The Michigan-born Kid Rock musician and Friend of Donald confirmed that a campaign website with his legal name, Robert Ritchie, is real. His presumptive opponent would be Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Michigan), who is up for reelection next year.
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Chef Crosses Town from Civita to Umbria Chef Liam LaCivita of Bar Civita is shutting down the Woodley Park eatery and joining Via Umbria on Wisconsin Avenue as executive chef. Via Umbria owners Suzy and Bill Menard got to know LaCivita when they were Bethesda neighbors — the Menards running their Bella Italia market and LaCivita cooking at Centro Italian Grill. Proof that D.C. is truly all about who you know.
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TOWN TOPICS
BY KAT E OCZ Y P OK
Red Line tunnel between Metro Center and Gallery Place. Photo by Ben Schumin.
Gonzaga College High School.
701 Restaurant. Courtesy washington.org.
Weekend Bus Bypass for Red Line Tunnel
School-Placement Perk Over for D.C. Officials
New Executive Chef for 701
Crews will be attempting to repair a leaking Metrorail tunnel for a few more weekends. The work has forced a weekend shutdown of the Red Line between the Grosvenor and Friendship Heights stations. Express buses will run between those stops while the Bethesda and Medical Center stations are closed. Additional buses will get riders to the neighborhoods normally served by the closed stations.
A new regulation was signed by DC Public Schools Chancellor Antwan Wilson late last month. WAMU reported that current and former D.C. officials will no longer be able to request school-placements for their children without going through the yearly admissions lottery. Last May, it became known that the son of Deputy Mayor for Greater Economic Opportunity Courtney Snowden had been directly admitted to the highly competitive Capitol Hill Montessori School.
D.C. Ranks Low in Energy Costs Finally, a category in which we’re one of the least expensive. The D.C. metropolitan area trails the pack when it comes to energy costs. Reported by WalletHub to have an average monthly energy bill of $219, the city came in 17th in cost of electricity and 39th in electricity consumption per customer. We were ranked 16th in cost of natural gas and 51st in motor fuel consumption per driver.
José Andrés.
Small-Time Northeast Robber Apprehended
José Andrés Launches ThinkFoodLab
Earlier this month, D.C. police arrested a man responsible for five robberies in just over two weeks in the Northeast D.C. area, the Washington Post reported. Abdullah Malik Thomas was charged with five counts of armed robbery. Three of the robberies took place on the same Minnesota Avenue block and the others occurred at a Benning Road grocery store. Thomas’s biggest take was $659, but the average amount stolen was less than $200.
Celebrated chef José Andrés has launched a new test kitchen and pop-up space in Penn Quarter called ThinkFoodLab. The space will allow Andrés to test out an idea for a fast-casual food concept, get feedback from customers, tweak the menu, methods and presentation, then move on to the next idea. The new project comes on the heels of Andrés’s fast-casual concept Beefsteak, the motto of which is “Vegetables, Unleashed.”
Ashok Bajaj of Knightsbridge Restaurant Group named Bryan Moscatello executive chef of 701 Restaurant on Pennsylvania Avenue NW. Moscatello brings 28 years of experience to his new position, having previously worked at restaurants in the Napa Valley, Aspen and Chicago. His additions to the menu at 701: American allium soup, blood-orange-glazed Spanish octopus and sunchoke tortellini.
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Summer READS
Catching up on your reading over the summer isn’t just for kids and college students. Whether you flee D.C. in August for the rolling hills or the roiling waves (or just crank up the AC), here are The Georgetowner’s recommendations of recent books, sorted by genre. Best of all, though you’re welcome to, don’t feel you have to turn in a book report...
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BY R OBERT D EVAN EY
Biographies of presidents and politicians and political leaders are a lot like obituaries: summations of lives and their meaning in the stream of American history. These days, however, that’s often not the case. Some of the subjects are actually still alive and very much kicking (or maybe not so much). We are, it seems, in something of a golden age of political biographies, seeing the continued work of world-class biographers and historians: David McCullough, Ron Chernow (whose “Alexander Hamilton” will gain him eternal fame as source book for the bound-to-run-forever Broadway musical), Walter Isaacson, Edmund Morris (with his three-part life of Theodore Roosevelt and “Dutch,” his very unusual biography of Ronald Reagan) and Jon Meacham among them. Some of them have new works, some of them have built a body of work that includes books you should take to the beach and settle in for a steady and long read. Here are a few of the most notable recent biographies.
For political types in Washington, political books may involve persons we know in the neighborhood or meet at frequent, closeby events, whether literary or social. The following selection, keyed to the 2016 presidential campaign, is of the moment. After all, we’re not talking “The Federalist Papers,” “Democracy in America” or essays by Cicero here.
THE WRIGHT BROTHERS
Now in his eighties, with this book on the aviation pioneers David McCullough has returned to his other fascination (apart from presidents, that is): inventors. He produced to my mind the best American political and presidential biography ever: “Truman,” his first biography. Both “Truman” and his “John Adams” won the Pulitzer Prize.
DESTINY AND POWER: THE AMERICAN ODYSSEY OF GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH
Jon Meacham aimed for readability in his books on Andrew Jackson and Thomas Jefferson. But the surprise is this massive 2015 work (806 pages with notes), for which Meacham had access to the former president, an intimacy that enlivens the book and its story, which in the end should raise the stature of a man often maligned by his critics (“Read my lips”).
AMERICAN ULYSSES
Sharply written with insight, this portrait by Ronald C. White of the Civil War’s greatest general and arguably troubled twoterm president can serve as a bookend to Grant’s own memoir, which he wrote under the twin pressures of terminal cancer and trying to help his family financially. It’s considered an American classic.
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of the Clinton run — she was always the front-runner, no? While painful for partisan Democrats, the read is a necessary one for the sake of reality. The authors also penned a Clinton biography, “HRC.”
HILLBILLY ELEGY: A MEMOIR OF A FAMILY AND CULTURE IN CRISIS
This is where culture rams into politics, and it explains a lot about Appalachia and America — with insights for the 2016 campaign. James David “J. D.” Vance began writing his personal, family stories in Yale Law School, moved to venture capitalism and is now in demand for speeches and TV commentary. The book strikes a nerve and is a must-read.
THE BULLY PULPIT: THEODORE ROOSEVELT, WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT, AND THE GOLDEN AGE OF JOURNALISM
Doris Kearns Goodwin has her flaws (which have been documented), but she is deservedly praised for writing books that are splendid both as biography and as histories of the political process, notably “No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt,” and “Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln,” the basis for Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln.” Speaking of Lincoln, the best biography to my mind is the beautifully written and powerful “With Malice Toward None” by Stephen B. Oates, also the author of “Let the Trumpet Sound,” about Martin Luther King, Jr.
RISING STAR: THE MAKING OF BARACK OBAMA
This more than 1,400-page tome chronicles Barack Obama’s years from Hawaii to Chicago. After a Politics & Prose talk, Georgetowner senior correspondent Peggy Sands ended up having dinner — at Comet Pizza, no less — with the author, Obama’s former professor David Garrow, and his major source, Robert Fisher, Obama’s best friend at Harvard Law School. “My head is still spinning with all the insights Garrow and Fisher happily shared,” she wrote.
OBAMA: THE CALL OF HISTORY
Peter Baker of the New York Times paints a portrait of Obama’s eight years in office, along with photographs. Just out, it looks like a keeper.
SHATTERED: INSIDE HILLARY CLINTON’S DOOMED CAMPAIGN
Political writers Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes outline all the mess-ups and conceits
DEVIL’S BARGAIN: STEVE BANNON, DONALD TRUMP, AND THE STORMING OF THE PRESIDENCY
Since Cicero was mentioned earlier, let’s cite Dante, as in the “Inferno” … but we digress. Joshua Green of Bloomberg Businessweek’s direct account explains how President Donald Trump won the election: “Trump wouldn’t be president if it weren’t for Bannon.” Green depicts the unlikely partners as well as campaign insiders, all part of America’s biggest political upset and the ensuing chaos.
NOVELS
BY SELMA K HENISS I What with the essay collections and nonfiction books that make you feel better informed, novels can easily be ignored. To do so, however, would be to miss out on the pleasure that comes from reading a novel. Novels provide the opportunity to get lost in beautiful worlds where your attention is focused on a story. The result? Reading novels expands your mind, opening you up to ideas that you thought were already settled.
he cares about her. The mother eventually dies, but she lived a very long life. People who enjoy the dialogue that can be found in the movies “Good Will Hunting” and “The Perfect Storm” will love this book.
THE DEVIL AND WEBSTER
University students seeking societal justice has been much in the news, but it is a rare thing to see the university world from the perspective of an institution’s president. As in her previous book, “Admission,” Jean Hanff Korelitz infuses a university official with a human spark. This book serves as a reminder that not everything is black and white, and that members of the media and university officials should approach stories about race and culture with more caution. An interesting twist is the inclusion of the university president’s daughter, who, for a while, enrolled at Webster College, which her mother leads. While addressing tension-filled subjects in this book, the author writes with humor and grace.
MYSTERIES
BY PEGGY SAN D S
Americans love mystery books. Perhaps because, as some experts tell it, mysteries give a “safe thrill.” Deciding what thriller to put on your summer must-read shelf is an early summer mystery in itself. But this year the decision was clear early on.
alphabet, starting with “A is for Alibi.” Her latest, the next-to-last in the series, will be out in August.
ABOUT FACE
Donna Leon sets her police stories in Venice, Italy, where she has lived for more than 30 years. But her books are so popular in D.C. that she filled Politics & Prose to deep standing room last year. Her Commissario Guido Brunetti is a delightfully sensible family man who maneuvers cleverly through the tricky and slippery politics of Italian law enforcement to solve crimes that are compelling, complicated and ultimately satisfying. His rocks are his family of two teenagers, his academic liberal wife and the mouthwatering Italian meals he eats with them every day at lunch. This is Leon’s 18th, published this summer.
THE FIX
THE IDIOT
This book, by Elif Batuman, is about Selin, a Turkish American student at Harvard who gets drawn into the world of a few Eastern European students. She also tutors people in need and travels to Hungary. In “The Idiot,” Batuman explores how, once the Hunger Games-style admissions process is over and done with, college students can become lost as to how to spend their precious and hardearned time. Selin makes the decision to move away from the world she was curious about as a freshman and switch majors, from linguistics to philosophy. This is a great book for all kinds of people, but especially for parents and young people who want to understand the potential pitfalls of the college journey.
MOTHER LAND
If your idea of a perfect summer vacation is sitting on a beach and taking the time to read a long book, this is a book to include in your luggage. Author Paul Theroux tells the story from the perspective of Jay, a man who becomes a writer but constantly has to deal with the chaos that is his family. His father dies, leaving him with his mother as his main parent. When Jay translates what his mother “really” meant when she said something, he learns through another sibling that he upset their mother. Even two of Jay’s children ask him to stop ranting about her. The funny thing is, despite finding his mother to be a difficult person to talk to, he shows that
CAMINO ISLAND
FIXERS
Even in 2017, Wall Street is a mystery to many people who don’t obsess over the goings-on of the stock market. In this novel, by Michael M. Thomas, we get a disclosure from one of those Wall Street people. The narrator, Chauncey Arlington Suydam III, writes in a way that recalls a teenage girl writing in a diary, but with exceptional knowledge about the financial world. A WASP who attended Yale and became a member of the Skull and Bones secret society, he is the kind of person who enjoys the finer things in life and doesn’t want to lose such fineries. Railing at the election of President Obama, he shows that the financial sector is still a place that attracts an old boys’ club that resists change.
The new John Grisham suspense novel has been number one on almost every fiction best-seller list since June. On June 28, Grisham signed copies of “Camino Island” at Politics & Prose. What’s more, the crime this time around involves books: rare books, stolen manuscripts, book dealers, bookstores and a fascinating if more than slightly motley crew of authors who work variously at their craft on a Florida island beach resort. Their lives revolve around the Bay Books bookstore, its suave owner, his French (may or may not be) wife and a newcomer — a struggling writer with a Ph.D. planted there as a spy. Like all Grisham’s books, the ending is a big surprise. But the real mystery is how Grisham’s writing just gets better and better.
Y IS FOR YESTERDAY
There are so many women writing popular mystery series now, they’ve almost become their own genre. Often their books involve a special interest: quilting, baking, a tea shop, cats, even a book club. One of the most popular is Sue Grafton’s alphabet series. She places her stories in her hometown of Santa Barbara, California, in the pre-mobilephone 1970s. Her private detective, Kinsey Millhone, has been solving community mysteries and crimes for almost 20 years in real time as Grafton goes through the
David Baldacci’s newest thriller is the third about an investigator with an extraordinary memory. It’s his 34th book, of which many became highly popular movies (“Absolute Power,” for instance). Like Grisham a former lawyer, Baldacci lives in Richmond but often sets his books in Washington, D.C., sometimes in Georgetown.
THE TEMPLARS’ LAST SECRET
Martin Walker, a former D.C. journalist and think-tanker, wrote nine nonfiction books before turning to a mystery series about Bruno, chief of police in a small village in southwestern France known for its ancient cave paintings, vineyards and goose pâté. Walker highlights Bruno’s particular skills at community policing (arrest is the last option) while dealing with terrorists, aggressive political groups and the unresolved conflicts of past wars that inflict native French and immigrant residents alike. “The Templars’ Last Secret,” out this summer, is Walker’s ninth. But a warning: don’t read Bruno when you’re hungry. Descriptions of the food the charming policeman cooks up will drive you mad (Walker’s family is coming out with a Bruno cookbook soon). NPR’s Diane Rehm admits she’s hooked.
BLACKOUT
A new entry in the terrorist thriller mustread category is a first novel by an Austrian writer, Marc Elsberg. Set in various European countries from Sweden to Italy, it involves an all-too-real hacking of the entire European electrical grid. The book has sold over two million copies in German and has just been translated into English.
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CHILDREN’S BOOKS BY ANDY L AT IES The three-year-old #weneeddiversebooks movement — spearheaded by authors and illustrators — is bearing fruit as publishers this year bring record numbers of diverse characters to young readers. Meanwhile, the #ownvoices movement has been pushing a parallel agenda: to support greater diversity among the authors themselves. Parents love knowing that the authors speaking to their children are fully experienced with the kinds of diverse lives explored in these stories. The first-person narrative is the #ownvoices movement’s form par excellence. Here is a selection of the best first-person diverse narratives for children published in 2017 by diverse authors.
GREETINGS, LEROY
This lively, long-form picture book for ages 4 to 8 was written by Itah Sadu and illustrated by Alix Delinois. The first day at a new school is nerve-wracking enough, never mind when it’s in a new country. Roy, recently come from Jamaica, realizes while writing an email to an old friend that he may come to love his new home as much as he loves his old home.
JASMINE TOGUCHI, MOCHI QUEEN
Debbi Michiko Florence wrote this book for ages 5 to 8. Eager to do something her big sister has not done first, Jasmine Toguchi, chatty and audacious at age 8, decides to pound mochi with the men and boys when her family gets together for New Year’s.
CILLA LEE-JENKINS, FUTURE AUTHOR EXTRAORDINAIRE
In this book by Susan Tan, written for ages 6 to 9, 8-year-old Cilla Lee-Jenkins — 50-percent Chinese, 50-percent Caucasian — determines to make her mark as an author while facing the irritating arrival of a baby sister.
AMINA’S VOICE
Hena Khan wrote this book for ages 8 to 12. After tragedy strikes her community, a Pakistani American Muslim girl struggles to stay true to her family’s vibrant culture while simultaneously blending in at school.
THE EPIC FAIL OF ARTURO ZAMORA
For age 10 and up, this story by Pablo Cartaya of an extended Cuban family and a close-knit community in Miami is told by one determined boy trying to stave off development and preserve his neighborhood.
THIS IS JUST A TEST
MIDNIGHT WITHOUT MOON
The main character in this book by Linda Williams Jackson, for age 10 and up, is Rose Lee Carter, an African American girl who dreams of life beyond the Mississippi cotton fields during the summer of 1955. Her world is rocked when an African American boy, Emmett Till, is killed for allegedly whistling at a white woman.
Madelyn Rosenberg and Wendy WanLong Shang co-wrote this book for age 10 and up. In 1983, seventh-grader David Da-Wei Horowitz has lots of problems. His bar mitzvah’s coming soon, his Jewish and Chinese grandmothers argue about everything, his teammates for the upcoming trivia contest, Scott and Hector, don’t like each other, he’s beginning to notice girls and Scott has persuaded him to begin digging a fallout shelter — just in case the Cold War heats up.
SAINTS AND MISFITS
Sally Quinn, widow of newspaper editor Ben Bradlee, has written “The Party: A Guide to Adventurous Entertaining” and “We’re Going to Make You a Star.” September will see the release of her “In Finding Magic: A Spiritual Memoir.” In November, HBO will air a documentary on Bradlee, and in December, the Steven Spielberg film, “The Papers,” will be released, with Tom Hanks as Bradlee and Meryl Streep as Katharine Graham. (Both Bradlee and Graham wrote noteworthy autobiographies: “A Good Life” and “Personal History,” respectively.) For JFK’s centennial, Tom Oliphant and Curtis Wilkie co-authored “The Road to Camelot: Inside JFK’s Five-Year Campaign.” With John Sexton, Oliphant wrote the remarkable “Baseball as a Road to God: Seeing Beyond the Game.” He lives with his wife, CBS News correspondent Susan Spencer, on the east side of town. Maureen Dowd, who lives in a house where JFK once resided, is author of “The Year of Voting Dangerously: The Derangement of American Politics” as well as “Bushworld” and the less serious but equally outspoken “Are Men Necessary?” Mary Louise Kelly, a Georgetown University professor who teaches journalism and national security classes, has two thrillers, “Anonymous Sources” and “The Bullet.”
Often dispensing parenting advice on the radio or in her blog, Leslie Morgan Steiner is the author of “Crazy Love” and “Mommy Wars: Stay-at-Home and Career Moms Face Off on their Choices, Their Lives, Their Families.” Jane Stanton Hitchcock is the author of “Mortal Friends,” “The Witches’ Hammer,” “Social Crimes” and “Trick of the Eye,” as well as several plays. She lives with her husband, columnist Jim Hoagland, on Q Street in a house where Sinclair Lewis once lived. China expert Michael Pillsbury’s “The Hundred-Year Marathon: China’s Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower,” published in 2015, is an important book, called one of the top 10 of the year by the Christian Science Monitor. Deborah Tannen, linguistics professor at Georgetown University, is most famous for “You Just Don’t Understand: Women and Men in Conversation.” This year, she published “You’re the Only One I Can Tell: Inside the Language of Women’s Friendships.” Of course, there are many more authors around town, including those who contribute to The Georgetowner, such as John Girouard (“The Ten Truths of Wealth Creation”), Brent Glass (“50 Great American Places”) and Peggy Sands, who writes under her full name, Margaret Orchowski (“The Law That Changed the Face of America”).
This book, by S.K. Ali, is for age 12 and up. Fifteen-year-old Janna Yusuf, a Flannery O’Connor-obsessed book nerd and the daughter of the only divorced mother at their mosque, tries to make sense of the events that follow when her best friend’s cousin — a holy star in the Muslim community — attempts to assault her at the end of sophomore year.
Georgetown Authors BY ROB E RT DEVA N E Y
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eorgetown has always been known for its writers and — once upon a time — for its many bookstores. Here is a partial list of once and present Georgetown authors, as provided by biographer Kitty Kelley: Thomas Jefferson, Francis Scott Key, Sinclair Lewis, Larry McMurtry, Roald Dahl, Herman Wouk, Ward Just, William Peter Blatty, Katherine Anne Porter, George Will (well, at least he keeps his office in Georgetown, where he does most of his writing), Drew Pearson, Joseph Alsop, Herblock, Allen Dulles. “I realize most are long departed, but they are all part of the history — the literate history — of Georgetown,” said Kelley, who is also part of that pantheon. The subjects of Kelley’s sharp-penned biographies include Jackie Kennedy Onassis, Frank Sinatra, Elizabeth Taylor, the Bush and the British royal families and Oprah Winfrey. Pulling back from her sensational bios, Kelley has written “Capturing Camelot: Stanley Tretick’s Iconic Images of the Kennedys” and “Let Freedom Ring: Stanley Tretick’s Iconic Images of the March on Washington.” There is also a children book on Martin Luther King’s historic “I Have a Dream” speech. (Starting next month, Kelley’s stories will be on Reelz. “The Kitty Kelley Files” premieres July 29 with Drew Barrymore.)
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Walter Isaacson. Photo by Patrice Gilbert.
Bob Woodward of Washington Post and Watergate fame is a prolific author, whose books, some with co-authors like Carl Bernstein, range from “All the President’s Men” and “The Final Days” to “Bush at War” and “Obama’s Wars” — and, most recently, “The Last of the President’s Men.” He lives on Q Street with his wife, former journalist Elsa Walsh, who penned “Divided Lives: The Public and Private Struggles of Three American Women.” Walter Isaacson, who just sold his house on 28th Street and will move to New Orleans to teach history at Tulane University, has written biographies of Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, Henry Kissinger and Steve Jobs. Soon to step down as president and CEO of the Aspen Institute, Isaacson has also been Time’s managing editor and CNN’s chairman and CEO. His newest bio, coming out in October, is on Leonardo da Vinci.
BODY & SOUL
FOODS
That Make You Look Great BY R E B E K A H K E L L E Y
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he right foods can help clear your complexion, diminish wrinkles and brighten your overall appearance. A plant-based diet is key, and foods are best consumed raw to maximize the nutritional benefits of a diet rich in antioxidants, digestive enzymes, high fiber, dense nutrition and antiinflammatories. Five Raw Beauty Foods You Should Eat Leafy greens. Why? Because of their rich enzyme and mineral content. Containing carotenoids and anti-inflammatories, they will flush out toxins that are in your system and breaking out of your skin. Citrus. Lemons, oranges and grapefruits contain vitamin C, which is essential for collagen production and helps fight inflammation — while accelerating skin healing and recovery. Nuts and seeds. High in fiber, protein, essential fatty acids, minerals and vitamins E, these help skin fight off infection and repair itself quickly, also reducing swelling and inflammation. Berries. Jam-packed (pun intended) with antioxidants, these colorful and delicious antiaging wonders are perfect to swap out for a
typical dessert, providing a sweet skin treat. Avocados: Their essential fatty acids protect skin against sun damage, keeping the top layer moist, soft and healthy, helping skin look youthful and minimizing fine lines. Local and Delicious Raw Food Resources Here is how to get a delicious start on integrating raw beauty foods. Joanne Schneider of Nourished Body and Mind is a raw food coach in Potomac who offers personal consulting and seminars. Check out the offerings at nourishedbodyandmind.com and download the free healthy snacks e-book. Elizabeth’s Gone Raw, located at 1341 L St. NW, is open every Friday night, with a tasting menu that updates with the season. Go ahead and reserve on Open Table and allow owner Elizabeth Petty and executive chef Francisco Hernandez to create an upscale, unique and elegant experience for your evening. You will forever think about raw vegan food in a heavenly light. Amir Mostafavi of South Block Juice Co.,
Courtesy Elizabeth’s Gone Raw. located at 3210 Grace St. NW in Georgetown, offers fresh cold-pressed juices, smoothies and acai bowls — delicious tasting, insanely nutritious and easy to grab and go. Visit southblockjuice.com for other locations. Rebekah Kelley is the founder of Virtue Skinfood, a wholistic luxury skin care line. To find out more, visit virtueskinfood.com or One80 Salon at 1275 K St. NW.
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Murphy’s Love: Advice on Intimacy and Relationships
Getting Out of a Rut … or a Marriage BY STACY N OTA R A S M U R P H Y Dear Stacy, When do you know it’s time to end a longterm relationship? A little background: we’ve been married 10-plus years, have tween-aged children, used to argue a lot, but now we just don’t talk about anything serious, ever. We do not co-parent, we coexist. Separate bedrooms, zero intimacy. Both of us have a strong commitment to our family. This is not a crisis, it’s just not the life I thought I’d be living at this stage of my life. I’m in no rush to leave but I wonder if I should be? Your thoughts? — Stagnant Waters Dear Waters: My thoughts? So. Many. Thoughts. I am thinking how hard that must be for you both. I am thinking how easy it is for all of us to slip into complacency. I am thinking how disappointed your younger selves might be. I am thinking what this model is creating inside your tweens. I am thinking how challenging it can be for any of us to bring ourselves out of a rut like the one you’ve described. But that’s what it is: a rut. You have mutually agreed not to work on this. Even if those words were never spoken, an agreement is what this
is. I am sad for you both — that neither of you has decided to challenge this deal, that neither of you can imagine getting back to a place of connection together. You ask me when it’s time to leave, but I ask you: Could you ever consider using all that you’ve learned about human nature in starting your family — to which you say you both are committed — as a springboard? Could that process move you into a place where you could recreate the bonds of intimacy and love that created that family? I don’t think it’s time to leave until you’ve tried all you can try. Believe me, I know how dangerous it might be to be that vulnerable. Spouse may or may not be able to meet you in that space of reaching just yet. But it may be worthwhile to expend some patience and persistence in this effort — not only because you have a family with young brains developing all kinds of expectations and beliefs as they witness your distance from Spouse, but because you have put so much work into the experience of being with this person. Why not try to capitalize on that instead of starting over with a brand new one? Yes, I know this is going to feel like a huge task, but please don’t romanticize breaking up, moving out and starting over; those are enormous tasks as well. Try reaching for
Spouse again. At least you will know you tried. Stacy Notaras Murphy is a licensed professional counselor in Georgetown. Visit her on the web at stacymurphylpc.com. This column is meant for entertainment only and should not be considered a substitute for professional counseling. Send your confidential question to stacy@stacymurphylpc.com. Stacy Notaras Murphy is a licensed professional counselor in Georgetown. Visit her on the web at stacymurphylpc.com. This column is meant for entertainment only and should not be considered a substitute for professional counseling. Send your confidential question to stacy@stacymurphylpc.com.
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Tomatoes Are Coming … BY C H AR L EN E L OU I S
MARTIN’S TAVERN
CAFE BONAPARTE
202-333-7370 | martinstavern.com Fifth generation Lauren Martin learns about the family business from her dad, Billy Martin, Jr. Since 1933, the warm atmosphere of Martin’s Tavern has welcomed neighbors and world travelers looking for great food, service and years of history within it’s walls. Fourth generation owner Billy Martin. Jr. continues the tradition of Washington’s oldest familyowned restaurant.
202–333–8830 | cafebonaparte.com Captivating customers since 2003, Cafe Bonaparte has been dubbed the “quintessential” European café, featuring award-winning crepes and arguably the “best” coffee in D.C.! Other can't-miss attractions are the famous weekend brunch every Saturday and Sunday until 3 p.m. and our late-night weekend hours serving sweet and savory crepes until 1 a.m.
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FILOMENA RISTORANTE
CLYDE’S OF GEORGETOWN
202–338–8800 | filomena.com A Georgetown landmark for over 30 years featuring styles and recipes passed through generations. The menu is balanced with cutting-edge culinary creations of modern Italy using the fresh ingredients and made-from-scratch sauces and pastas. Winner of many awards, and seen on The Travel Channel, Filomena is a favorite of U.S. Presidents, celebrities, sports legends, political leaders. “Don’t miss their bakery’s incredible desserts” - Best in D.C.
202-333-9180 | clydes.com This animated tavern, in the heart of Georgetown, popularized saloon food and practically invented Sunday brunch. Clyde’s is the People’s Choice for bacon cheeseburgers, steaks, fresh seafood, grilled chicken salads, fresh pastas and desserts.
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The tomato is the gateway vegetable of the summer, the bellwether for when we reach the peak of the season. As they ripen from pale green to deep red, tomatoes are summer’s natural thermometers. Varieties of heirloom and other tomatoes are showing up at a number of area markets. Though the quality of supermarket tomatoes continues to improve, it’s still hard to beat the flavor offered by local farmers.
We’re fortunate that tomatoes are in season when the risk of sunburn (and skin cancer) is high. Tomatoes are full of essential nutrients, plus antioxidants like lycopene and vitamin C that help tamp down inflammation and reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease. The key to the following recipe is to use fresh, in-season tomatoes. If only flavorless supermarket tomatoes with poor texture are available, table this recipe for another time.
TOMATO SALAD • 6 to 8 ripe tomatoes, sliced • 2 shallots • 1 cup extra virgin olive oil • 3 to 4 tablespoons rice vinegar • 2 tablespoons brown sugar • salt and freshly ground black pepper • a handful of fresh parsley leaves, lightly chopped • 12 fresh basil leaves, chiffonade Combine shallots, vinegar, 1/2 teaspoon salt, oil and sugar in a small bowl. Gradually whisk in oil to blend. Set vinaigrette aside. Arrange tomatoes on a large platter. Season with salt and pepper and scatter basil on top. Whisk vinaigrette again and drizzle over salad.
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THE OCEANAIRE SEAFOOD ROOM
TOWN HALL
1201 F ST., NW
2340 WISCONSIN AVE., NW
202–347–2277 | theoceanaire.com The Oceanaire blends a sophisticated atmosphere with simple, seasonal and regionally-inspired cuisine – the result is “the ultra-fresh seafood experience”. From our wines and cocktails to our seafood, steak and desserts, our commitment to sustainable and locally-sourced ingredients is apparent in everything we do. Reserve your table today for an extraordinary dining experience.
202-333-5640 | townhalldc.com Situated just north of Georgetown on Wisconsin Ave, Town Hall has been a neighborhood mainstay in Glover Park since 2005. Whether you’re popping in for dinner, drinks, or weekend brunch, Town Hall is the spot you’ll want to call home to Gulp, Gather & Grub. Free parking is available nightly after 7 p.m., and during warmer months, our outdoor courtyard is one of DC’s best kept secrets.
DAS ETHIOPIAN
ENO WINE BAR
202–333–4710 | dasethiopian.com DAS Ethiopian offers you a cozy two-story setting, with rare outside dining views and al fresco patio dining. DAS is located at the eclectically brilliant historic corner of the shopping district of Georgetown. A tent under which all come to feast is the very Amharic definition of DAS. Enjoy the casual yet refined atmosphere that serves up the freshest Ethiopian dishes from local and sustainable food sources.
202–295–2826 | enowinerooms.com HAPPY HOUR: Offered nightly Tuesday - Thursday from 5 - 7 PM & Sunday from 4 - 7 PM. Enjoy select $7 wines on tap. Join us on Wednesday’s for College Nights from 9 - 11 PM and Sunday’s for 30% off bottles. Our delightful wines are best enjoyed with local charcuterie, cheese and small plates.
Chef Jeff Gaetjen. Courtesy Black Restaurant Group.
Tell us a bit about yourself. Jeff Gaetjen: I worked as a dishwasher when I was 15. I cut my teeth working in restaurant and catering kitchens. The very first week on the job, we did a party for Prince Charles and Lady Diana. I still remember — we served them venison with a red wine sauce. I went to the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York, graduating in 1988. I bounced around, working in New York and then France for a small hotel. When I came back to D.C., I worked for Bob Kinkead for 20 years, opening Kinkead’s and Colvin Run Tavern in Tysons Corner. Dig deeper into that background. What’s influenced you from your youth? JS: I believe a lot of what we love when it comes to food is from how we grew up — your grandmother’s cooking or, in my case, my father’s cooking. I was a teen living in Alexandria, Virginia, in the early ’80s, and we often went to Maine Avenue for crabs. Back then, they were only $25 per bushel for no. 1 male hard-shell crabs. Now it’s close to $200! I have always loved the native blue crab of our mid-Atlantic region, and produce like Silver Queen corn, Eastern Shore melons and strawberries. What’s the best part of your job? JS: My current role as fishmonger has given me the access to seafood from all
over the world. It is a dream job. I learn more and more about seafood every day — sustainability, market trends, seasonal availability, pricing and costing. What’s your favorite dish? JS: My favorite dish to cook is roast duck, either Peking style or French style, in which you confit the leg and sear the breast. I like to use the liver to make a sauce. I also have the freedom to bake breads. It’s a passion of mine. I enjoy making French country sourdough, pumpernickel, croissants and Danish.
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What’s your most interesting experience at a restaurant? JS: About 20 years ago, I was working a brunch service alone, cooking and expediting. Both sous chefs were no-shows and I had to butcher all the fish and meat for the whole day. What does it mean to you to cook in the Georgetown area? JS: Georgetown is steeped in history that is centuries old. Some of the best chefs have cooked in this part of the city, so it’s an honor to be a part of that legacy. Georgetown is great because you might be cooking for a student or a congressman — you never know! What should people try at your restaurant? What makes it unique? JS: Our fish market makes us unique. We source the best fish from all over the world with a focus on sustainability. With our resources, we acquire the most sought-after products. Our menu changes almost weekly, but we always have the best oysters, ranging in size and salinity, and also fine caviar.
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Each month, Evan Caplan speaks with a chef of a Georgetown-area eatery. In July, he chatted with Jeff Gaetjen, fishmonger and chef at BlackSalt Fish Market & Restaurant on MacArthur Boulevard. Jeff Gaetjen started his career as a dishwasher at a steakhouse in Fairfax, Virginia. After graduating from the Culinary Institute of America, he took some time to play rugby in France while honing his culinary skills. Returning to D.C., Gaetjen became executive chef of Kinkead’s in 1995, channeled his sports chops as the “Taste of the NFL” chef for a decade, then landed at Black Salt in 2015. He was recently named a James Beard Rising Star.
What’s the most interesting dish you’ve served? JS: Lionfish. It is an invasive species, so serving it is actually also doing a service to the environment. The flesh is white, sweet and delicious. Many customers are surprised about how great it is.
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For and Lebherz Oil & Vinegar Emporium. troll north from the Square Corner, the intersection of Market and Patrick Small-town businesses — barbershops, shoe repair places, tobacco shops, tattoo parlors Streets in downtown Frederick, and quirky boutiques — are also mixed in on Maryland, and a freestanding mansion will Market and Patrick, the two main drags. appear mid-block, like a bolt from the blue. Some shops are tucked away on side streets. Or should I say, a Volt from the blue? Visitors stop in their tracks when they On East Second Street, you’ll find Good Juju Juice Bar, Nanny Goat Crafts and Crisafulli’s realize this brick-and-brownstone Victorian Cheese Shop, where Sharon Crisafulli’s sole is the restaurant they’ve heard so much about, allotted wheel of Graskaas cheese, made with the one that put Frederick on the map. (Some the first milk from cows fed on early spring get another shock when they read the price fodder in Holland, is nearly gone. (Only of the chef’s tasting menu: $125, plus a $75 beverage flight.) 1,000 wheels of the creamy stuff are exported annually.) It’s been nine years since Frederick’s Farther down East Second, the three-acre own Bryan Voltaggio launched Volt with campus of Visitation Academy, established in partner Hilda Staples, losing to his brother 1846 by Visitation Sisters from Georgetown, Michael on “Top Chef” the following year. The historic community — where Francis was recently sold to an Annapolis developer for $2.75 million. The private Catholic Scott Key practiced law before moving elementary and middle school for girls closed to Georgetown — has been drawing new in 2016. reasidents from the D.C. area for decades, but In the townier (as opposed to tonier) the overnight success of Volt set off a boom blocks of North Market past Fourth Street are in upscale restaurants and shops. On your way to Volt, you’ll pass Perfect several art galleries and studios. East Patrick Street seems to specialize in home décor and Truffle, the Tasting Room, Zoe’s Chocolate, antiques; Emporium Antiques is a warehouse theT Pasta Palette, Brewer’s Alley, Cakes to Die & T_Georgetowner_7.7.2017_Layout 1 6/28/17 3:50 PM Page 1
Passersby check out the menu at Bryan Voltaggio’s Volt, which occupies a North Market Street mansion.
warren of 100 dealers. On West Patrick are the Weinberg Center for the Arts, a restored silent-movie palace originally known as the Tivoli, and Le Parc Bistro, a new French restaurant. Heading south from the Square Corner, you will cross over the mile-long Carroll Creek Park. Begun as a flood-control project, the landscaped linear park, with multiple bridges over the lily-filled creek, is Frederick’s answer to San Antonio’s River Walk. Several shops and restaurants, including Wine Kitchen on
the Creek, face the park. If you stay on South Market, look for Wag’s, a basement happy-hour hangout; the spic-and-span Potters’ Guild of Frederick Gallery, also below sidewalk level; and sleek Black Hog BBQ. At the edge of the historic district, along East Street, are the Frederick Visitor Center; a complex of shops called Everedy Square & Shab Row; and the Roads and Rails Museum, which houses one of the largest miniatureworld (zoo, circus, volcano, coal mine, castle,
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IN COUNTRY & GETAWAYS etc.) model-train displays anywhere. In terms of historic architecture, Frederick is right up there with Georgetown, Old Town and Annapolis. For 150 years, the town has been famed for its “clustered spires,” a phrase from John Greenleaf Whittier’s poem about Barbara Fritchie, who supposedly said to the Confederate soldiers marching by (if not to Stonewall Jackson himself): “Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, but spare your country’s flag.” The church spires are there, clustered (loosely) and set among late-18th-century and 19th-century commercial buildings and residences. Heritage Frederick leads a Civil War-themed walking tour on the first Saturday of the month, an art-and-architecture walking tour on the second Saturday and a generalinterest walking tour on the other Saturdays and on Sundays. Occupied by both the Blue and the Gray, Frederick is known as the Crossroads of the Civil War. A walk along South Market will take you to Mount Olivet Cemetery, where 311 Confederates are buried in “Confederate Row,” accompanied by many more, unidentified, who died in the nearby battles of South Mountain, Antietam and Monocacy. For this reason and others, Frederick is known as “Maryland’s Most Haunted City” (ghost tours depart from Brewer’s Alley). Mount Olivet is also the final resting place of Francis Scott Key, marked with a somewhat operatic monument dedicated
A view of Carroll Creek Park, where the Frederick Wine Festival will be held on Aug. 5.
more than 50 years after his death. The “StarSpangled Banner” lyricist’s 238th birthday is Tuesday, Aug. 1. During the Civil War, Frederick buildings were used as military hospitals by both sides. On East Patrick Street is the National Museum of Civil War Medicine, which offers walking tours on the first Saturday of the month. First Saturdays are a thing in Frederick, and the next one, Aug. 5, will be a doozy. In addition to galleries and many shops
Some of the pieces for sale at the Potters’ Guild of Frederick Gallery, below street level on South Market Street.
staying open until 9 p.m., the Frederick Wine Festival will bring 20 Maryland wineries and live entertainment to Carroll Creek Park. The Potters’ Guild is hosting Brain Freeze 2017, an ice cream social where $20 gets you a handcrafted bowl filled with South Mountain Creamery ice cream, benefiting the Frederick Rescue Mission. The troupe of Morris dancers known as the American Travelling Morrice will do several shows at 20 North Market Street and folk-rockers the Sweet Remains will perform at All Saints’
Episcopal Church to raise money for the Student Homelessness Initiative Partnership. Can’t make it to Frederick Aug. 5? The following weekend is the Four County Quilters Guild Quilt Show at the Frederick Fairgrounds and a three-game series between the Franklin Keys (as in Francis Scott) and the Potomac Nationals at Harry Grove Stadium; at the Aug. 12 game, Flying Dog Brewery is sponsoring a Jonathan Schoop Gnome Giveaway and fireworks. Shake Your Keys!
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Visitors to Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello will tour the gardens with Jessica Bryars, the estate’s fruit gardener. Tickets are $18. For details, visit tickets.monticello.org or call 434-984-9880. 931 Thomas Jefferson Parkway, Charlottesville, Virginia.
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Participants in this two-and-a-half-hour tour of historic Leesburg will stop at three of Leesburg’s craft breweries along the way. The tour includes a four-ounce beer at each brewery, along with a snack. Tickets are $35. For details, visit leesburgbrewcrawl.com or call 571-3636011. Tours are also offered on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Corner of Loudoun and Church Streets, Leesburg, Virginia.
AUGUST 5 ARTISAN TRAIL OPEN DOOR TOUR At this all-day event, trail sites across the county are featuring a diverse collection of artist classes, farm-to-table workshops and exclusive open studio experiences. For details, call 540-886-1684 or visit opendoortour.org. Harrisonburg, Virginia, and other sites in Rockingham County. Courtesy Monticello.
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JULY 28 CONCERT ON THE LAWN Greenhill Vineyards invites wine lovers to try local wines in the tasting room while listening to live music from 6 to 8 p.m. For details, visit greenhillvineyards.com or call 540-687-6968. 23595 Winery Lane, Middleburg, Virginia.
JULY 29 POLO IN THE PARK The gates open at 6 p.m. for picnicking and polo matches start at 7 and 8:30 p.m. Other dates: Aug. 5, 12, 19 and 26. Car passes are $40 ($35 in advance). For details, visit morvenpark.org or call 703-777-2414, ext. 6618. 17195 Southern Planter Lane, Leesburg, Virginia.
JULY 29 LIVE MUSIC AT THE VINEYARDS Visitor to Three Fox Vineyards can sip wine to live classic rock played by Movin’ On from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. For details, visit threefoxvineyards or call 540-364-6073. 10100 Three Fox Lane, Delaplane, Virginia.
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Woolly’s Founder: On the Brink of Second Act BY GARY T ISCHL ER
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ack in early June, the announcement came that Howard Shalwitz would be stepping down as artistic director of Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, which has given Washington consistently fresh, ahead-of-the-curve, cutting-edge theater for the past 37 — 37! — years. The announcement came as a surprise to many D.C. theatergoers, if not to Woolly regulars — and certainly not to Shalwitz himself. “I and we at the theater have been thinking about it for a number of years, and preparing for just such an occasion. And I feel this appears to be the right time to do this.” By the right time, Shalwitz means that he will give up the reins not now but at the end of the coming season, which he will kick off by starring as Biedermann in Swiss playwright Max Frisch’s “The Arsonists.” “It’s been a while,” Shalwitz said, “but I love acting and this seems to be a particularly right time to do that again.” Shalwitz’s performance in 2004’s “Lenny & Lou” by Ian Cohen still remains risibly in the mind. Both Shalwitz and Shakespeare Theatre Company Artistic Director Michael Kahn, who announced his retirement — set for the end of the 2018-19 season — in February, are part of a remarkable cohort of founders/ artistic directors/survivors/institutional leaders in Washington that also includes Studio Theatre founder Joy Zinoman, who retired in 2010. Still, Woolly Mammoth is unique. Shalwitz and his friend and cofounder Roger Brady moved to Washington “to create new plays, to challenge audiences, to provoke.” Their new company “would have actors that loved challenges and taking risks.” After more than 200 plays, including 78 world and U.S. premieres, 45 Helen Hayes Awards, several moves and a “rich” period of nomadism, followed by its secure arrival
“It’s been a while, but I love acting and this seems to be a particularly right time to do that again.” - Howard Shalwitz
Howard Shalwitz in “The Arsonists.” Photo by Cade Martin. Courtesy Woolly Mammoth.
at its current downtown location at 641 D St. NW, Woolly remains something new — as loud as an angry protest, often as deep as an unexpected meditation, as funny as a pratfall in church, urgent and unexpected as a desperate and sometimes deliriously incoherent outburst. There is no walking slow, no dearth of fresh ideas and ways of doing things. The announcement of Shalwitz’s retirement came just as “An Octoroon” (reprised from the 2015-16 season) returned, running through Aug. 6. The knife-sharp, wounding, funny play by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins hits just about every note on race in America ever imagined, and some never imagined. In that way, it’s an entirely characteristic Woolly play — an unexpected parting gift, a new arrival in a long line of new arrivals at the theater. “It’s a Woolly play, sure, that’s what we
do. We explore, in ways that move forward,” Shalwitz said. “It’s a remarkable play, a real play since it’s actually based on plays done just before the Civil War. It poses questions about identity — we see a man, a black man, putting on white paint because he didn’t have enough white actors. “And it’s shocking. Just when you’re laughing and it feels contemporary, it forces you to face your own thoughts about race and identity.” This writer can think back 30 years or so to a play called “The Vienna Notes,” about which Shalwitz remembers little. But it led to a decade’s worth of plays that featured an array of talented and unforgettable playwrights, as well as a roster of actors equally talented and unforgettable: Jennifer Mendenhall, Grover Gardner, the late Grainne Cassidy, Michael Willis, Rick Foucheaux, Sarah Marshall, Kimberly Gilbert, the always confounding
and affecting Nancy Robinette and a host of others. Woolly landed at the Church Street location just off 14th Street for a number of years, then performed at various theaters. Early plays there included “Christmas on Mars” by Harry Kondeleon, plays by Nicky Silver, even a production of “Harvey,” the seeming chestnut about a man whose best friend is an invisible rabbit. “I think it was a unique production. We didn’t send it up, it was fresh as it was,” said Shalwitz. While the theater waited to move into its current location, it had an astonishing stretch of plays, including “Recent Tragic Events” by Craig Wright, which Shalwitz called “the best play about 9/11.” Woolly followed that with “Grace,” a small and powerful play done at the Warehouse Theater, and Tony Kushner’s powerful “Homebody/Kabul,” when nobody wrote about Afghanistan. Shalwitz, a golfer and gardener who lives in Alexandria with his wife, plans to pursue teaching and “expand my horizons as a teacher, director and advocate for the theater.” He believes in a second act, for himself and for the theater, the kind that is just around the corner, in the next new play by the next new playwright who’s dreamed something incredibly new, about something that lies deep in our memories or in our most immediate future.
LOCAL SPOTLIGHT SITAR ARTS CENTER JULY 28 - SUMMER STUDENT SHOWCASE OPENING RECEPTION View the exhibition in the Sitar Arts Center’s The Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Gallery from July 27 to Sept. 8, weekdays from 5 to 6pm, or by appointment. Sitar Arts Center is a 501c(3) non-profit in Adams Morgan whose mission is to offer possibilities that transform the lives of children and teens born into a world of unequal access to opportunity. Sitar Arts Center provides after-school, weekend and summer classes in the visual arts, music, drama, dance, digital arts and creative writing to over 700 students a year. With 80 percent of its students coming from low-income households, Sitar Arts Center makes arts education affordable and accessible for students and families who otherwise would not have these opportunities. “We engage children and teens in the highest quality visual, performing and digital arts. We teach the arts so that our students learn about themselves and gain critical life skills. We create community for students and their families.” Learn more about Sitar Arts Center and how to support its programs at sitarartscenter.org. 1700 Kalorama Rd NW #101, Washington, DC 20009 Photos courtesy Sitar Arts Center.
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Donald Sultan’s “Disaster Paintings” at SAAM BY A R I P O ST
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n the 1980s, the painter Donald Sultan began a series of industrial landscapes that he called “Disaster Paintings,” transforming images from newspapers into large-scale, heavily wrought monuments to industrial devastation and environmental catastrophe. News photos of forest fires and freight-train derailments became vague yet hauntingly recognizable memorials to the daily currents of our history. Sultan worked with these subjects for nearly a decade. Together, the “Disaster Paintings” illustrate robust, man-made structures as fragile constructs that can be undone by catastrophic events. At the Smithsonian American Art Museum through Sept. 4, “Donald Sultan: The Disaster Paintings” is the first exhibition to focus on this series, the kind of ambitious, focused and far-reaching single body of work that few artists manage to achieve in a lifetime. The show includes 12 signature paintings from 1984 to 1990, including “Plant May 29 1985” from the Hirshhorn Museum. It is a unique lens through which to view an uncharacteristically long-term aesthetic focus on something as transient as daily news, a deeper look at a fleeting but substantial part of our lives. Born in 1951, Sultan’s career began with his first solo exhibition in 1977 in New York City, when he was just 26 years old. He rose to prominence in the 1980s. A painter, sculptor and printmaker, Sultan is highly regarded for his ongoing series of large-scale still-life paintings featuring structural renderings of fruit, flowers and other everyday objects, often abstracted and set against a rich, black background. While Sultan’s still lifes depict and strengthen fragile and ephemeral objects, the “Disaster Paintings” focus on the industrial grandeur — and sometimes terror — of our surroundings, which exhibit a level of fragility in their propensity to be unhinged by nature. Although the series was completed before the 21st century, haunting reverberations of recent events such as the Fukushima powerplant disaster, Hurricane Katrina and the earthquakes in Haiti and Tibet can all be felt throughout the galleries. Distinguished for combining such subject matter with industrial materials, such as tar, linoleum and Masonite tiles, the “Disaster Paintings” exemplify in both media and concept the vulnerability of the most progressive manufactured elements of modern culture. Demonstrating great physicality, Sultan’s series comprises a confluence of seeming dichotomies, merging the industrial materials of Minimalism with representational painting, stylistically combining figuration with abstraction and making references to high and low culture, ranging from topical events to art historical iconography. Featuring a wide array of disasters as subject matter — forest fires, railway accidents, arson, factories producing toxic plumes — the “Disaster Paintings” eternalize the real-life modern events we are faced with
“The series speaks to the impermanence of all things. The largest cities, the biggest structures, the most powerful empires — everything dies. Man is inherently self-destructive, and whatever is built will eventually be destroyed. That’s what the works talk about: life and death.” - Donald Sultan
“Polish Landscape II Jan 5 1990 (Auschwitz),” 1990. Parrish Art Museum, gift of the Broad Art Foundation. © Donald Sultan
daily in contemporary society, yet quickly forget when the next catastrophe occurs. It is a timely moment in history for the “Disaster Paintings” to be reconsidered. Sultan says that the key to his process is to use the heaviest materials he could find to make air. This is a wonderfully simple description of his paintings’ central irony. In this sense, the paintings rope together ideas of progress and decay, the future and the past. They are at once very specific renderings of individual traumas and generalized representations of dread, a combination that allows the paintings to reach well beyond the time they were made and resonate strongly today. “The series speaks to the impermanence of all things. The largest cities, the biggest structures, the most powerful empires — everything dies. Man is inherently selfdestructive, and whatever is built will eventually be destroyed,” Sultan says. “That’s what the works talk about: life and death.” This is not the most uplifting exhibition one will see this summer, but it is certainly among the most directly and aggressively in dialogue with our world, our time, our place, our politics and our inherent cultural and moral conflicts in the 21st century.
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Girls’ Robotics Team Applauded at Afghan Embassy
Tesla’s Birthday Celebrated at Croatian Embassy
BY R OBE RT DEVA NEY After getting the attention of the White House and the nation in securing visas to compete in the First Global Challenge robotics competition, the all-female, six-member team arrived at the Embassy of Afghanistan July 18 — after the event (it finished 114th) at Constitution Hall — to meet a packed room of admirers and diplomats, along with a few members of Congress. “These girls here represent all of our achievements,” said Afghan Ambassador Hamdullah Mohib.
BY R OBERT DEVANEY The Croatian Embassy hosted a Tesla Night & Rides with the International Club of D.C. and Tesla Motors July 7 on the occasion of the 161st anniversary of the birth of Croatian-born scientist Nikola Tesla, who was of Serbian descent. The event featured traditional foods and wine and live musical performances of traditional Croatian music.
There were rides offered in Teslas along Massachusetts Avenue and Rock Creek Parkway.
Afghan Ambassador Hamdullah Mohib (center) with Afghanistan’s all-female robotics team, dressed in traditional garb.
Rhoda Septilieri and Croatian Ambassador Josip Paro.
Rep. Susan Davis (D-California) and Rep. Suzanne Bonamici (D-Oregon) presented plaques to team members.
Youngest member of the team, Fatemah Qaderyan, tells the story of how her interest in robotics grew — and more, as the ambassador’s social secretary, Islamudin Ahmadzai, translates.
David Karg and wife Sdowaluk Srimungkla.
With the band: Kingsley Simon, with Charlene Pistiro behind him, enjoys the Croatian music.
Buy a Lady a Drink at Belgian Ambassador’s Residence PH OTOS B Y J OHN RO B I N S O N More than 150 guests gathered June 28 at the residence of Belgian Ambassador Dirk Wouters to support the Buy A Lady A Drink campaign, a partnership between Stella Artois and water.org that helps people worldwide get access to clean water. Guests dined on Belgian specialities and, of course, drank Stella Artois served in the brand’s iconic chalice. The purchase of each limitededition Stella Artois chalice provides five years of clean water for someone in the developing world. “The global water crisis today affects around 663 million people all around the world, and that is why I’m especially humbled but also determined to partner with Capital Eagle, Stella Artois and water.org to bring awareness to the global issue,” Wouters said.
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Erica Andrew, (left), Adrianna Hopkins and Ali Haveson.
Belgian Ambassador Dirk Wouters, Julie LaGuardia of Water.org and Katcef Companies’ Neal Katcef.
Ingrid Porciuncula, (left), Zara Korutz, Aiden Niepold, Morgann Rose and Carl Ray.
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Meridian Welcomes White House’s Rickie Niceta BY R OBE RT DEVA NEY
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“It’s nice to be at a party I didn’t have to plan,” said Rickie Niceta, President Donald Trump’s social secretary, to other social secretaries and guests at a party in her honor July 17 at Meridian International Center, due north of the White House on 16th Street. There were social secretaries from 50 embassies here and those who worked for presidents. For years, Niceta worked for Design Cuisine — so, yes, the food was top-flight.
Meridian International Center president Stuart Holliday presents White House social secretary Rickie Niceta with a scarf, depicting Meridian House. Photo by Neshan H. Naltchayan.
Reem Sadik, Didi Cutler and Meridian COO Lee Satterfield. Photo by Robert Devaney.
White House social secretary Rickie Niceta (right) with former White House social secretaries Capricia Marshall and Ann Stock. Photo by Neshan H. Naltchayan.
White House social secretary Bess Abell (President Lyndon Johnson) and her husband, Tyler Abell, who was a chief of protocol. Photo by Neshan H. Naltchayan.
How to: Build It in D.C. The Build It in D.C. conference — a one-stop-shop to connect with D.C. government decision makers, get access to permitting and regulatory information and learn from industry leaders— was held July 19. The unique gathering by the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs “exists to inspire, inform and connect the contractor and building improvement industry to resources they need to thrive in D.C.”
Panel for “Building The Future of D.C.: A Look Into The District’s Changing Landscape”: Brian Kenner, deputy mayor for planning and economic development; William Leibner, project manager of strategic initiatives at EventsDC; Louis Dubin, managing partner, Redbrick Development; and Jon McAvoy, vice president, PN Hoffman.
Melinda Bolling, director of the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs, and keynote speaker Chrystal Harris Stowe, director of community affairs and business development, Smoot Construction.
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