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BUSINESS · 10 Ins & Outs

COVER STORY· 12-13 Martin’s Tavern at 85

FALL ARTS PREVIEW DC Artswatch Visual Arts Performance Glenstone: A Modernist Vision

REAL ESTATE · 14-15 Featured Property Real Estate Sales Auction Block

Georgetowner Was First Miss America

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Miss America Margaret Gorman in front of her family’s Cambridge Place home.

Inside the Kavanaugh Hearing (photo)

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Brett Kavanaugh in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Photo by Brett Kavanaugh.

FOOD & WINE · 16-17 Dining Guide Recipe: Roasted Eggplant

INCOUNTRY · 18-19 Chef at the Inn at Perry Cabin

BODY & SOUL · 21 The Power of a WellGroomed Brow

Jekyll Island: A Festival of the Senses

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The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children gives annual awards to persons in law enforcement who have gone above and beyond the call of duty to recover a child. This year, the honorees will be recognized at an on-field presentation before the Nationals play the Mets.

For details, visit hero.missingkids.org. 1500 South Capitol St. SE.

At this annual event, sponsored by the Georgetown Business Improvement District, attendees eat their way through some of the neighborhood’s best restaurants — more than 30 are participating — while supporting the important homeless services work of Georgetown Ministry Center. For details, visit tasteofgeorgetown.com.

‘COSMO COUTURE’ AT THE CATHEDRAL

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The Washington Metro City Center of the International Interior Design Association MidAtlantic Chapter will hold its ninth annual ‘Cosmo Couture’ fashion and interior design event at Washington National Cathedral.

Tickets are $125 to $225. For details, visit cosmocouture.org. 3101 Wisconsin Ave. NW.

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In partnership with the Saint Andrews Society and the Scottish-American Women’s Society, Dumbarton House hosts a Scottish Heritage Night, to include scotch tastings, live music and dance, food, kilt-draping and broadsword demonstrations. Tickets are $30, additional $20 for scotch tasting. For details, visit dumbartonhouse.org. 2715 Q St. NW.

The Washington Bach Consort will open its 41st season and welcome new Artistic Director Dana Marsh with a program that includes Handel’s Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day, Bach’s cantata “Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied” and, as the concert finale, Bach’s Magnificat. Tickets are $10 to $69. For details, visit citychoir.org.

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‘YOU’VE GOT A FRIEND’ CONCERT The American Pops Orchestra will open its fourth season with an evening of music by the greatest American singer-songwriters, including James Taylor, Carole King, Joni Mitchell and Joan Baez. Tickets are $25 to $75.

For details, visit arenastage.org. Arena Stage, 1101 Sixth St. SW.

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OPENING RECEPTION: DE LA CRUZ ART GALLERY Artist Jeffrey Gibson will premiere a new performance-art piece inspired by the music of Dionne Warwick, Native American dance and queer identities at this free opening reception for “Jeffrey Gibson: Don’t Make Me Over,” the inaugural exhibition at Georgetown University’s Maria & Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery.

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Town Hall on Small Cell Facilities, Sept. 13 Almost everyone agrees that Georgetowners increasingly depend on our mobile phones and other wireless devices to do our personal, professional and leisure activities around town. Or, rather, we depend on good, fast, dependable, capable, efficient and immediate connectivity.

That is why the District has developed a new project to provide faster data coverage and increased capacity. According to D.C.’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer, the Small Cell Facilities Project will institute a more efficient and streamlined process for vendors to install wireless communications facilities on poles throughout the city, improving the quality of wireless service throughout.

It seems inevitable that small cell technology — variously pictured as big and small boxes with a tangle of wires emanating from them — is coming to a utility pole in Georgetown near you, and soon. At least five providers with executed master license agreements are expected to file applications for permits through the District Department of Transportation’s Online Permitting System, known as TOPS. The system “will consider the aesthetic and safety impacts of Small Cells, as well as the District’s technical specifications for such devices,” according to the Office of the Chief Technology Officer, once those have been determined. The master license agreement requires the providers to adhere to the public right-of-way accord. It also outlines (or will outline) requirements related to construction and maintenance activities; design, technical and siting standards for small cells; and costs associated with such facilities.

But Georgetowners and other D.C.

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An example of small cell nodes. residents are already raising concerns. “We are hearing worries from residents about the distribution density of the technology on poles, construction and maintenance details, design and appearance specifications and technical and siting standards,” said Joe Gibbons, chair of Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E. “Others cite concern about public health effects.”

A town meeting will be held on Thursday, Sept. 13, at 7 p.m. at the City Tavern Club, 3206 M St. NW, sponsored by the ANC 2E, the Citizens Association of Georgetown and the Georgetown Business Improvement District.

Spokespersons from the project, which is being facilitated by the District Department of Transportation, the Office of Public-Private Partnerships and the Office of the Chief Technology Officer, are expected to attend.

“It will provide an opportunity for members of the public to learn more about the project, ask questions and offer feedback,” Gibbons said at the ANC 2E meeting on Sept. 5.

The five companies with executed master license agreements are Verizon, Crown Castle, AT&T, Mobilitie and ExteNet Systems.

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Family and friends gathered for Mass Sept. 9 at St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church on Monroe Street NE for the baptism of Miranda Bowser, the adopted daughter of Mayor Muriel Bowser.

Godparent and brother Marvin Bowser, baby Miranda and mother, Mayor Muriel Bowser.

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On Sept. 3, Kimberly and Michael Copperthite renewed their vows at St. Matthew’s Cathedral, where they married in 1983. Mike is the scion of ConnecticutCopperthite Pie Co., once one of Washington’s biggest businesses.

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Voyeur Rabbi’s Victims: $25,000 Each Fifty-two women secretly videotaped by an Orthodox rabbi in Georgetown between 2004 and 2014 as they undressed to immerse in a mikvah, a Jewish ritual bath, will get $25,000 each if a settlement reached between them and four Jewish organizations is approved by a D.C. judge. A number of others who had disrobed but were not confirmed to have been videotaped may get $2,500 each.

The total amount of the settlement is $14.25 million, according to Kesher Israel, the modern Orthodox synagogue at 2801 N St. NW where Barry Fruendel, who was convicted of voyeurism in 2015, served as rabbi. Freundel, who pleaded guilty, was sentenced to and is currently serving six and a half years in prison.

Besides Freundel and Kesher Israel, the National Capital Mikvah, the Rabbinical Council of America and the Beth Din of America, a court of Jewish law, were named in the settlement. A class-action lawsuit, including more than 150 women who were confirmed to have been videotaped, had sought $100 million.

According to a press notice released on Sept. 3, Jewish organizations had sought to dismiss the cases, arguing that they were not at fault because they had “no prior knowledge of Freundel’s illegal actions.” After that, the victims entered into settlement discussions.

“Although Kesher is confident that it would have been found without fault if the case were litigated to final judgment, Kesher believes that resolving the case at this time is in its best interests, as well as the best interests of the community and the victims,” Kesher Israel President Andrew Cooper said.

“The settlement would enable the parties to avoid the further burdens of litigation, and would allow Kesher to continue its focus on serving the needs of the Jewish community in Washington, D.C., without the distraction of the lawsuits.”

The victims were “very happy” with the settlement, according to Alexandra Harwin, a partner at Sanford Heisler Sharp, which handled the class action. “One of the things that is very appealing to the class members is that payments are easy to access and don’t require an intrusive inquiry,” she said. “What this settlement does is provide substantial and prompt recovery for class members instead of the delays and risks of protracted litigation.”

Approval by the D.C. Superior Court was supposed to have taken place on Sept. 7 but had not been confirmed as of press time.

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Powered Scooters, Bikes Beating Out Pedals Electric-powered scooters and, increasingly, bikes — excuse us, we mean “pedal assist e-bikes” — may be an even more familiar sight in Georgetown after the recent extension and expansion of the District Department of Transportation’s demonstration project.

“Our riders will now have the opportunity to commute longer distances with a little more power behind the pedal,” wrote DDOT Director Jeff Marootian.

The new e-bikes, powered by batteries, are about 15 pounds heavier than regular bikes and can go up to 18 miles per hour. Riders can switch between pedal assist and regular pedal capabilities by pressing a power button. They come in both docked — from Capital Bikeshare — and dockless renditions. Riders can rent the pedal-assist bikes for single trips or via 24-hour passes; Capital Bikeshare members can use their current key fob or the service’s app to unlock and lock the bikes.

DDOT’s demonstration program, originally from October of 2017 through last April, was extended through August and now will run through the end of the year. But it comes with a caveat that appears to be killing the bike’s market advantage: the requirement that all dockless bikes have locking capability.

As a result, Lime, based in San Francisco, has decided to no longer offer dockless bikes in D.C. — only scooters. According to a company

An electric scooter parked on 36th Street. Photo

by Patrick G. Ryan. spokesperson (pun intended), the District’s cap of 400 vehicles per company — scooters, bikes or both — is “very, very low” given D.C.’s size, and the new requirement for dockless bikes to have locking capability is not in line with Lime’s strategy. The company said it hopes that District officials will reconsider.

Uber-owned Jump, which deploys 400 electric bikes in D.C., is now the only dockless company to provide bikes in the city. Earlier this month, San Francisco-based Spin also said it would pivot to an all-scooter fleet here. In July, China-based operators Ofo and Mobike exited D.C. DDOT says it will publish draft dockless regulations for public comment this month. It hopes to implement long-term rules in January.

One question is whether to maintain a cap on the number of vehicles.

Those regulations may have to require stricter enforcement of the use of the right-ofway, as D.C.’s — and particularly Georgetown’s — already narrow and heavily trafficked roads become jammed with bikes and scooters. Some riders have been known to disregard stop signs, sidewalks and even bike paths.

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Rats: It Takes a Village D.C. rats are back in the news. Last week, the Washington Post reported that in some D.C. neighborhoods (not Georgetown, but close), their numbers — or at least the number of sightings and complaints — appear to be doubling.

The neighborhood with the highest number of complaints in 2017 was Petworth, followed

by Columbia Heights, Capitol Hill, Near Northeast, 16th Street Heights, Logan Circle, Park View, U Street and Shaw. Complaints in those neighborhoods represented about 43 percent of the complaints lodged last year, according to city officials. From 2016 to 2017, those neighborhoods saw increases of between 25 and 74 percent in rodent complaints. This year, they are on pace to see a repeat or an increase in those percentages.

The city has not been passive in its response.

Mayor Muriel Bowser increased the budget of the Department of Health’s rodent control division for the next fiscal year by nearly $1 million — up from $1.36 million. This will enable the division to hire additional staff, provide handheld devices so inspectors can input real-time data and pilot a rat sterilization program.

The District already has beefed up trash disposal regulations and requirements for residents and commercial establishments, especially eateries; increased the number of

inspectors; and strengthened enforcement measures, with higher fines for repeat violators.

Grants were even provided for businesses to lease commercial trash compactors.

Last year, the city began using dry ice to suffocate rats in their burrows and installed state-of-the-art solar trash cans in “rat hot spots.”

Still, new residents and new construction add to the volume of trash. “If it isn’t stored properly, that will mean more rats,” said Gerard Brown, who oversees the rodent control division. And the recent mild winters caused fewer rats to die from frigid temperatures.

“The rats are in some ways a byproduct of the success of the city,” said Ward 2 Council member Jack Evans, noting the city’s population passed 700,000 this year. In Georgetown, many new restaurants and cafes are being planned.

It takes a village, a neighborhood, a street to deal with the inevitable growth in rats. “This is not an individual issue — we can’t address it house by house ... and we need to think about it on a larger scale,” said Colleen Gallopin of Northeast D.C., who was dealing with a rat problem so bad that, she said, “it got to the point of absurdity.” Finally, it decreased after she and four other neighbors coordinated this summer to hire a private pest control company and worked with their advisory neighborhood commission representative to ensure that nearby restaurants

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A dead rat on N Street. Photo by Patrick G. Ryan. improved trash storage.

That happens in Georgetown, too. At the Sept. 5 meeting of the Georgetown-Burleith Advisory Neighborhood Commission, Arlette Cahen-Coppock, owner of the Fourth Lock Hair Salon on Canal Street, complained about the constant trash and rat problem on the alley behind her business, parallel to 31st Street. But Inspector Sonya Chance was there and ANC Chairman Joe Gibbons saw to their getting together right there to make a plan.

Department of Health spokeswoman Alison Reeves said she expects improvements in all eight wards when the new initiatives are implemented, noting that when restaurants install trash compactors, they have seen a decrease in rodent activity.

Man Killed by Own Car in Glover Park A man died in the driveway of his home in Glover Park after being pinned by his own car against an outside wall, D.C. Fire and EMS reported. What is believed to be a bizarre accident — the automobile apparently rolling downhill against the man — happened in the rear alley of the 2300 block of Tunlaw Road NW. The man was pronounced dead at the scene.

“It does appear to be an accident based upon preliminary indicators,” Metropolitan Police Department Capt. Robert Glover told the press on Sept. 5, also reporting the incident at the Georgetown-Burleith Advisory Neighborhood Commission meeting that evening.

Many houses in Glover Park have driveways in the rear that connect to narrow alleyways.

Most of those driveways slope down to the basement level of the homes and residents back in to park their cars facing the alley.

A relative checking on the man, who did not respond to calls earlier, discovered him in the driveway around 10 a.m. on Sept. 5.

“Neighbors said they heard a commotion

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Car at rear driveway on the 2300 block of Tunlaw Road NW. Georgetowner photo.

Tuesday night but didn’t know what to make of it,” reported NBC4 News, adding: “Neighbors said the man lived there for 20 years or more.

He worked for the International Monetary Fund, and his son had just left for college, leaving the man alone in the house.”

MPD told The Georgetowner: “At this time, the incident appears to be accidental; however, this case remains under investigation. No further details have been released from our agency.”

The victim’s BMW was left in the driveway after he was extracted.

ANC Notes • Richard Livingstone, formerly Mayor Muriel Bowser’s liaison to Ward 2, was given a Community Commendation on Sept. 5 by the Georgetown-Burleith Advisory Neighborhood Commission for his work here. ANC Chair Joe Gibbons praised Livingstone and called him “the ninth ANC 2E commissioner.”

• Commissioner Zac Schroepfer said people are talking about ways to make the green space south of Georgetown University’s Lauinger Library, at the corner of Prospect Street and St. Mary’s Place, more of a real park, with such things as picnic tables and seats. The

At the Sept. 5 Georgetown-Burleith Advisory Neighborhood Commission meeting, the Metropolitan Police Department again stressed that theft from auto was the more frequent crime in the neighborhood — hitting east side and west side — as “a crime of opportunity,” whether by “smash and grab” or because of unlocked doors. It is important to put everything out of view or in the trunk. If you see someone checking car doors, call it in to 911.

It is also important to have “calls for service,” whatever the incident, to get the police more involved. “Calls give us a reason to stop someone,” police said.

There were two burglaries in the last 30 days — at Brooks Brothers at 3077 M St. NW and on the 3700 block of Reservoir Road (through the back door, with a person sleeping upstairs), according to MPD. On Sept. 3, a man was hit in the back during a robbery in an alley behind Thomas Jefferson Street. On Aug. 15, someone pointed a gun at a driver of a Vespa scooter.

Police also said that car thefts are on the rise in Northwest Washington.

The department is considering “an eight-to-10 officer increase” and to put together a task force that will look for “serial perpetrators.”

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• Developer Robert Elliott, owner of Georgetown Court, the complex of restaurants, shops, residences and offices at 3251 Prospect St. NW, faced criticism from ANC 2E and the Citizens Association of Georgetown for the massing and height of his proposed four-story residential building at 3255-59 Prospect St. NW. The land is now occupied by a Domino’s Pizza and its parking lot. Elliott LLC has hired architects Noritake Associates of Alexandria, Virginia, for the project.

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Early Swimming Pool Closure Is All Wet Washington, D.C., has plenty to brag about as a great place to live and even to raise kids. One reason is the number of public swimming pools around the city.

According to the Department of Parks and Recreation, “D.C. is ranked in the top five of cities nationwide when it comes to pool access per 100,000 residents. This means that no matter which ward you call home, DPR has a pool for you and your family, just minutes away from your front door.”

The pools are free to all (with minimum proof of residency) and clean, with beautiful water and generally friendly lifeguards.

The Georgetown area has three outdoor pools: the pools at Volta Park and the Jelleff Recreation Center and the Francis Pool on N Street in the West End. “Whether you’re interested in swim lessons or just a way to cool off on a hot summer day, DPR has got you covered,” boasts the department.

But that wasn’t the case as the muggy days of mid-August began. As residents headed for the pools on their pre-Labor Day staycations, they found them … closed.

The sparkling clear water, lane dividers, lifeguard stands and lounge chairs were (and are still) all set up. But there was no one around. The gates were locked. They were done for the season.

The D.C. pools began to shut down on Aug. 2. By Aug. 20, all were closed.

In The Georgetowner’s opinion, the

early closure of the District’s public outdoor swimming pools, generously funded with tax dollars, is all wet — a dereliction of duty. The schedules seem to be dominated by some ancient bureaucratic belief that the pools are for kids only. They open when schools close for summer vacation and shut down as soon as the yellow buses start to roll.

In part, this is because the pools are largely staffed with 18-to-23-year-old residents who qualified for D.C.’s Mayor Marion S. Barry Summer Youth Employment Program, which ran from June 25 to Aug. 3.

But Georgetown students, singles of all ages, families and seniors have the right to enjoy their pools from early June well into September. We believe the city has a responsibility to keep them open. They will be used — schoolchildren will even come after school. And they need not be staffed solely by youth grant recipients.

Here’s an idea. The Washington Post recently published a story with the headline: “Why your pool’s lifeguard is more likely to be a senior citizen.” Not in the District.

But we’re certain that there is a pool (so to speak) of healthy, active seniors who are excellent swimmers — included some former lifeguards — ready, willing and able to work at our pools a few days a week from mid-spring through early fall.

BY JAC K EVAN S The D.C. Council is in the final week of its annual legislative recess, as Council members and staff begin to prepare for the first legislative meeting since July. Be on the lookout for announcements of the public roundtable and hearings of the Committee on Finance and Revenue, which I chair, in my electronic newsletter during the week of Sept. 17. If you are not already receiving this biweekly newsletter, please send an email to jevans@dccouncil.us or call my office at 202-724-8058 and ask to be placed on the list.

As we transition into fall, there are some updates from the District Department of Transportation regarding bikes and scooters for rent around the city. DDOT released new guidelines for its Dockless Vehicles Program in an Aug. 30 statement.

First, the pilot program will extend through December, with the requirement that all dockless bikes must contain a lock. I’m pleased that this is one of the measures DDOT pursued. Since the beginning of this program in September of 2017, dockless bikes have obstructed walkways — either by being left in the middle of pedestrian paths or by being knocked over. Currently, only one company requires a rider to lock the bike to an appropriate rack or post. I’m looking forward to the remaining companies complying with the new regulations.

Second, DDOT will install additional bike racks to accommodate private bikes as well as

dockless bikes. If the city is requiring bikes to be locked, then we need more infrastructure, plain and simple. Currently, each bike company is allowed to roll out 400 bikes within the city. By this fall, 600 additional racks will be installed. Some areas of Ward 2, including Georgetown, will benefit from this additional bike parking.

With the recent announcement from DDOT, I’m beginning to see a framework for regulations on the dockless bike operators.

Over the past year, my office received many expressions of concern about dockless bikes and electronic scooters. I’m glad that some of these concerns are being addressed. However, we need to know more about DDOT’s findings come December. Pease feel free to share with my office any concerns you have or hear about.

Whenever a new transportation option is introduced, it changes traffic patterns and travel habits. DDOT piloted this program in a way that has been and will be convenient for riders. But DDOT also has a responsibility to make sure that users of dockless bikes and the companies that supply them are respectful of the need to share space with pedestrians. I’m eager to learn of more findings, which will help determine how this program can best be implemented for all concerned.

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

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR [The Georgetowner received an unsigned postcard in the mail with a Capital District postmark. The handprinting was legible and clear.

Pasted on the card was part of a copy of page 23 from the Aug. 8 issue.

The missive referred to Social Scene coverage of a book signing party for former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer and his new book, “The Briefing,” at the Trump Hotel. Images of the event included Spicer as well as current White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckebee Sanders.]

Really! You drag your paper down to the Trump depths.

Shame on you.

How can you now get it by now? It is not wealth, influence, power, etc.

This is common decency — which Trump and all supporting him do not have. Get wise.

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John McCain distinguished himself as a humble, resolute, public servant who never wavered in his commitment to stand up for what’s right. Government, he once said, “should take care of those in America who can’t care for themselves,” a sentiment that was expressed in his voting record on behalf of animals.

McCain supported a bill to end the killing of bears for the purpose of selling or trading their organs, backed another to stop interstate shipments of live birds for cockfighting, co-sponsored a resolution that opposed commercial whaling, and co-sponsored the Horse Slaughter Prevention Act, which called for a prohibition on slaughtering equines for human consumption.

His impressive career is a reminder that each of us can help prevent cruelty and practice kindness toward all living beings. To honor his legacy, we should heed his call.

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Local Catholics Grapple With Clergy Sex Scandals, Cover-Ups At Sunday Mass at Holy Trinity Catholic Church on 36th Street in Georgetown, before the final blessing and departing hymn, upcoming parish events are announced. On Sept. 2, after the call for fellowship and doughnuts in McKenna Hall, the Rev. Kevin Gillespie, S.J., pastor, stood up to read part of a letter sent by the Archbishop of Washington, Cardinal Donald Wuerl, to all priests within the archdiocese.

Wuerl was the bishop of Pittsburgh between 1988 and 2006, during the alleged sexual abuse of children by priests in Pennsylvania. He has been accused of covering up some of those crimes.

At the altar, Gillespie read from part of Wuerl’s letter: “This Sunday in our churches all across this great archdiocese, I ask you please to let your people — the men, women and children — we love and minister to and hold in our pastoral care know that I do recognize and share their pain. Let them know I wish I could wipe it away even though that is simply not possible. I would give anything, as would all of us, to turn the clock around and have the Church do everything right. But I do join them in sorrow for all that has happened. I plead for their prayerful support as I with you and them try to do whatever I can to help move this Church closer to the pathway that leads us from this darkness …

“Finally, we need to hold close in our prayers and loyalty our Holy Father, Pope Francis.

Cardinal Donald Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington, and Rev. Kevin Gillespie, S.J., pastor of Holy Trinity Church in Georgetown, in December 2015. Photo

by Robert Devaney.

Increasingly, it is clear that he is the object of concentrated attack …

“Dear brother in the Lord, I hope you will sense something of my anguish for those who have suffered and my sorrow for any of my failures to be there for both the abused and all who now feel a sense of alienation. In my heart, I now ask myself what is the way I can best serve this Church that I, too, much love.”

North of Georgetown at Annunciation

Church, the cardinal was celebrating Mass for the installation of its new pastor, Monsignor Michael J. Mellone. At that Mass, one worshiper stood up and cried, “Shame on you.” A few others walked out. Outside on Massachusetts Avenue, there were several D.C. police cruisers parked, according to news reports.

The following day, Sept. 3, Wuerl met privately with the priests of the Washington Archdiocese.

Holy Trinity Church scheduled “listening sessions” for parishioners to “express their personal experiences of the crisis” on Sept.

8 and 9. That effort is led by the Voice of the Faithful, a group that supports survivors of clergy sexual abuse.

At Georgetown University, students have called for the school to take back the honorary degrees it awarded to Wuerl and to ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, a former archbishop of Washington, who was forced to resign this summer due to revelations of sexual abuse.

Others, including D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine and Trinity Washington University’s Patricia McGuire, have called for Wuerl’s resignation. Still others, in response to the allegations by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, former Vatican ambassador to the U.S., that Popes Benedict and Francis knew of the McCarrick crimes, have called for the resignation of Pope Francis.

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GEORGETOWN COMMUNITY DAY The event is a chance for Georgetown residents to connect with the Georgetown University community. The event will take place at Healy Lawn from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. For details, guevents.georgetown.edu.

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Registration opens at 7 a.m., though earlier registration is encouraged by September 10.

The race starts at 8 a.m. and ends at 10 a.m.

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Guapo’s at Washington Harbour made its Georgetown debut on Aug. 27. Georgetowner photo.

In: Guapo’s Shimmers at Washington Harbour Guapo’s, the Tex-Mex restaurant chain that began in Tenleytown almost 30 years ago, finally got its Georgetown waterfront spot, its ninth location. Situated in the former Orange Anchor restaurant space at 3050 K St. NW — next to Nick’s Riverside Grill, with Fiola Mare around the side — the new Guapo’s opened on Aug. 27. On the ground level of Washington Harbour, right in front of the fountain/ice rink, the restaurant has 100 seats inside, 16 at the bar and 40 outside on the patio. With the Potomac mere yards away, Guapo’s shimmers with an ultramodern vibe. Executive chef Nathan Breedlove and sous chef Sergio Galindo are part of the new team, with Elissa Reyna as pastry chef.

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by Sweet Frog frozen yogurt. The Bethesdabased Fresh Baguette is known for its fresh breads, pastries, sweets and sandwiches. With a spot on Florida Avenue, Pica Taco is a Mexican-American takeout joint, replacing Gtown Bites and, before that, the longtime Georgetown Dinette, at 3206 O St. NW.

Happy 5th, Gypsy Sally’s The “music venue for serious music lovers who don’t take themselves too seriously,” Gypsy Sally’s at Water and 34th Streets, is ringing in its fifth anniversary this month with rock ‘n’ roll. The Grateful Dead and the Allman Brothers were covered on Sept. 8 at this jam-band venue, started by David and Karen Ensor to help fill the live-music void in the city.

On the Way: Domino’s, Indian Eatery In other Glover Park news, the word is that Domino’s Pizza will be moving to the same block, opposite the old Whole Foods, and an Indian restaurant will take the place of the old Bruegger’s Bagels. We also hear that Town Hall, a preppy favorite, is shopping for buyers, as is All About Burgers, just down the avenue.

Paolo’s: 1987 to 2018. Georgetowner photo.

Out: Paolo’s Ristorante A part of the Georgetown dining scene since 1987, Paolo’s Ristorante at 1303 Wisconsin Ave. NW closed its doors for good Aug. 22. Part of Capital Restaurant Concepts, a company co-founded

by Paul Cohn and Bechara Nammour in 1984, Paolo’s, while applauded for its happy hour, breadsticks and olive tapenade, pizza and minestrone soup, suffered from mixed reviews by diners and an out-of-date menu. The company tried to revive the establishment but had also closed other Paolo’s restaurants around the region.

Another CRC company restaurant on M Street, Old Glory Barbecue, closed and reopened as José Andrés’s America Eats Tavern. The original J. Paul’s Dining Saloon remains but faces an uncertain future, one restaurant insider told The Georgetowner.

The new eatery expected to move into the former Paolo’s space will reportedly involve SpanishAmerican cuisine.

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The new Wingo’s on Wisconsin Avenue in Glover Park. Photo by Stephanie Green.

In: Wingo’s Spreads Out in Glover Park Wingo’s is back, bigger than ever — in Glover Park. The original O Street eatery in Georgetown has been closed since a brutal fire on June 26, which mercifully didn’t involve any injuries. Staff had been receiving half their salaries, according to owner Mike Arthur. The Glover Park Wingo’s, at 2218 Wisconsin Ave. NW, opened Sept. 3 and is able to employ all of the O Street workers and then some. In the former Mad Fox Taproom, the 5,000-square-foot new digs, complete with flat-screen TVs, is a perfect football-watching venue. The 18-year-old Wingo’s on O will reopen in November or December, says Arthur, and will keep its cozy takeout vibe. The Glover Park restaurant is a traditional diner, focusing on the Wingo’s signature items — burgers, fried chicken and hot dogs — but also serving alcohol. Arthur plans to offer brunch on Friday, Saturday and Sunday later this fall (we’re already excited about the bloody marys and waffles). What’s more, an Adams Morgan Wingo’s is coming in January of next year.

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DC ARTSWATCH: 6 New Leaders

BY RICHARD SELDEN The announcements of new D.C. arts leaders have been coming fast and furious. Here are six of the latest.

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On Aug. 1, 2019, following the “Grand Finale Season of Michael Kahn,” artistic director of the Shakespeare Theatre Company since 1986, Simon Godwin will don STC’s creative crown. Associate director of the National Theatre of Great Britain, which operates three London theaters on the south bank of the Thames, Godwin earlier held associate director positions at the Royal Court Theatre and the Bristol Old Vic. In the coming months, he will be planning STC’s 2019-20 season while continuing to direct productions elsewhere, notably an “Antony & Cleopatra” with Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo at the National Theatre and a “Timon of Athens” starring Kathryn Hunter as Timon at the Royal Shakespeare Company. Godwin has a degree in English from Cambridge University and later studied physical theater and “devising” at the London International School of Performing Arts. His Royal Shakespeare Company version of “Hamlet” with Papaa Essiedu, the first black to be cast as Hamlet in an RSC production, came to the Kennedy Center last May as part of an international tour.

Continued on page 6 Simon Godwin. Photo by Johan Persson. Courtesy STC.

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ARTECHOUSE New Nature

Oct. 12 to Jan. 13

A first-of-its-kind digital art space, Artechouse, 1238 Maryland Ave. SW, opened in June of 2017.

“New Nature” — the first large-scale solo exhibition for technologist and digital artist Mateusz “Marpi” Marcinowski — explores the organic world through an immersive, interactive audiovisual experience, incorporating computer learning (A.I.), responsive technology and music. Driven by sensory movements, the multi-user artworks create real-time generative patterns, forming a virtual terrarium of insects, plants, creatures, landscapes and planets.

NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART Corot: Women Sept. 9 to Dec. 31

“The Muse: History,” c. 1865.

Camille Corot. Courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Rarely seen outside his studio during his lifetime, the figure paintings of French landscape master Camille Corot made an impact on such artists as Cézanne, Picasso and Braque. The 45 paintings in “Corot: Women” at the National Gallery, created between the mid-1830s and the early 1870s, are largely divided into three major subjects: costumed single figures, nudes and allegorical studio scenes.

Dressed in rustic Italian costume or stretched nude on a grassy plain, Corot’s women read, dream and gaze directly at the viewer, conveying a sense of their inner lives. The artist’s sophisticated use of color and deft, delicate touch applied to the female form resulted in pictures of quiet majesty.

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THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION Nordic Impressions Oct. 13 to Jan. 13 Spanning nearly 200 years, “Nordic Impressions” presents works by 53 artists from Denmark, Iceland, Finland, Norway and Sweden, as well as the islands of Åland, Faroe and Greenland. From idealized paintings of the untouched landscape to melancholic portraits in quiet interiors and mesmerizing video works, this art focuses on themes that have long held a special place in Nordic culture: light and darkness, inner life and exterior space, the coalescence of nature and folklore and women’s rights and social liberalism. While celebrating the diversity of Nordic art, the exhibition demonstrates how Nordic artists have inspired each other across national boundaries while honoring deeply rooted traditions.

“Betty Selvage and Faith Speights,” 2012. Dawoud Bey. Courtesy NGA.

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FREER GALLERY OF ART AND ARTHUR M. SACKLER GALLERY Japan Modern

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Dawoud Bey: The Birmingham Project Sept. 12 to March 24 For more than 40 years, photographer Dawoud Bey (b. 1953) has portrayed American youth and marginalized communities with an unusual degree of sensitivity and complexity.

His series “The Birmingham Project" is a monument to the victims of the church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, on Sept.

15, 1963. Coinciding with the tragedy’s 55th anniversary, the exhibition focuses on Bey's representation of the past through the lens of

the present. Each of Bey’s diptychs pairs two life-size portraits, one showing a young girl the same age as one of the victims and the other a woman 50 years older — the child's age, had it not been for the bombing. Alongside these photographs is a split-screen projection that juxtaposes a recreation of the drive to the 16th Street Baptist Church with slow pans that move through such everyday spaces as a beauty parlor and a lunch counter.

Celebrating a major recent acquisition, “Japan Modern: Photography from the Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck Collection” features a selection of works by groundbreaking 20th-century photographers.

Whether capturing evocative landscapes or the gritty realities of postwar Japan, this presentation focuses on Japanese artists’ search for a sense of place in a rapidly changing country. Dating from the 1920s to the 1980s, the images — ranging in style from powerful social documentary to the intensely personal — highlight destinations both rural and urban.

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“Landline Bend Triptych,” 2017. Sean Scully. Photo by Robert Bean. Courtesy Hirshhorn. © Sean Scully.

HIRSHHORN MUSEUM Sean Scully: Landline Sept. 13 to Feb. 3 A major highlight of the 56th Venice Biennale, Sean Scully’s acclaimed “Landline” series makes its U.S. debut at the Hirshhorn Museum. Featuring never-before-seen artworks from the series, the exhibition of watercolors, oil paintings and sculptures shows the Dublin-born artist’s transition away from his earlier hard-edged minimalism to his current, more expressive style. “I think of land, sea, sky,” says Scully, 73. “And they always make a massive connection. I try to paint this, this sense of the elemental coming together of land and sea, sky and land … stacked in horizon lines endlessly beginning and ending.”

SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM Between Worlds: The Art of Bill Traylor Sept. 28 to March 17 Born into slavery in Alabama, Bill Traylor (c. 1853–1949) was an eyewitness to the Civil War, Emancipation, Reconstruction, Jim Crow segregation, the Great Migration and the rise of African American urban culture in the South. Starting around 1939, when he was in his late 80s, living on the streets of Montgomery, Traylor made the radical steps of taking up pencil and paintbrush. When he died in 1949, he left behind more than 1,000 works of art: distillations of tales and memories and vibrantly colored abstractions.

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Dana Marsh conducting the Washington Bach Consort. Photo by David Betts.

WASHINGTON BACH CONSORT The new artistic director of the Washington Bach Consort, founded in 1977 by J. Reilly Lewis, who died in 2016, is Dana Marsh, associate professor of music and director of the Historical Performance Institute at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. In 2016, he launched an annual conference at IU, “Historical Performance: Theory, Practice and Interdisciplinarity,” that has attracted scholars and performers from a dozen countries.

Trained as an organist at the Eastman School of Music — he has served as assistant director of music and director of chapel music at Girton College Cambridge and as canon organist and director of music at Christ Church Cathedral in Indianapolis — he also studied singing, performing as a countertenor with many ensembles. In addition, he earned a master’s degree and a doctoral degree in historical musicology at Oxford.

Maria Goyanes. Courtesy Woolly Mammoth.

WOOLLY MAMMOTH THEATRE COMPANY Maria Manuela Goyanes has joined Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company as artistic director, succeeding co-founder Howard Shalwitz. Previously, she was director of producing and artistic planning at New York’s Public Theater. Earlier, she was an associate producer at the Public, managing such shows as “Hamilton” by Lin-Manuel Miranda, “Straight White Men” by Young Jean Lee, and “Here Lies Love” by David Byrne and Fatboy Slim. Currently an adjunct faculty member at the Juilliard School, from 2004 to 2012, she was the executive producer of 13P, an awardwinning company that produced new plays by 13 emerging and mid-career writers. Goyanes, whose parents emigrated from the Dominican Republic and Spain, was raised in Jamaica, Queens, and earned a B.A. from Brown.

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THE 2018.19 BALLET SEASON IS HERE! SEASON OPENER:

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Ballet Stars Assemble for Two Programs of Extraordinary Balletic Dimension

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Verdi’s ever-popular “La traviata” — his musical tribute to the life and especially death of every courtesan that ever entranced a swain and an audience — will kick off Washington National Opera’s 2018-19 season at the Kennedy Center Opera House (where else?), directed by Artistic Director Francesca Zambello and conducted by Renato Palumbo. The production’s Violettas are Venera Gimadieva, Jacqueline Echols and, at the Oct. 19 Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Performance, Marlen Nahhas (Oct. 6 to 21).

Serenade + Bolero SOMBRERISIMO + Les Sylphides Plus, Three Breathtaking Pas de Deux

In the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater, Opera Lafayette will present Niccolò Jommelli's 1772 opera “Cerere Placata” in a new edition prepared and conducted by Charles Brink (Oct. 28).

Kate Lindsey to be featured in the Washington Concert Opera. By Richard Dumas at Alpha Classics.jpg And later this fall, in Lisner Auditorium, Washington Concert Opera will feature mezzosoprano Kate Lindsey in Charles Gounod’s “Sapho,” in which competing romances play out at the Olympics in Ancient Greece. Artistic Director Antony Walker will conduct (Nov. 18).

CLASSICAL The NSO Pops will perform the score of the Oscar-winning comedic thriller “Get Out,” about a young African American man who visits his white girlfriend’s family, at a screening of the film in the Kennedy Center Concert Hall. “Get Out” composer Michael Abels will conduct (Sept. 20).

Two days later, the National Symphony Orchestra will hold its season-opening gala, with a performance of Gustav Holst’s “The Planets” and other space-themed works conducted by Music Director Gianandrea Noseda and featuring violinist Joshua Bell (Sept 22).

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Maestro Noseda will also conduct a performance of Benjamin Britten’s “War Requiem” by the NSO, the Choral Arts Chorus and the Children’s Chorus of Washington — with soprano Karina Flores, tenor Ian Bostridge and baritone Matthias Goerne as soloists — in the Kennedy Center Concert Hall (Nov. 29 and Dec. 1).

Along these lines, for a program titled “Armistice 1918,” Leonard Slatkin will guest-conduct the Cathedral Choral Society’s world-premiere performance of Alexander Kastalsky’s “Commemoration for Fallen Brothers,” written in 1917, at Washington National Cathedral (Oct. 21).

Also at the National Cathedral, presented by Washington Performing Arts, Yo-Yo Ma will perform as part of a two-year journey, bringing Bach’s complete cello suites to audiences around the world (Nov. 29).

Washington Performing Arts will also bring to the Kennedy Center Concert Hall the Czech Philharmonic and cellist Alisa Weilerstein for a

Dvořák program conducted by Semyon Bychkov (Oct. 29) and Daniel Barenboim’s West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, made up of young Palestinian, Israeli and Arab musicians, to perform Strauss’s “Don Quixote” and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 (Nov. 7).

Lisner Auditorium will present the Africa Umoja Spirit of Unity Tour, with a South African cast performing the history of South Africa through music and dance and paying tribute to the late Nelson Mandela (Sept. 21, 22 and 23). The following week, the Embassy Series will mark the 100th anniversary of Mandela’s birth with a performance at the Embassy of South Africa featuring South African cellist Jacques-Pierre Malin (Sept. 26).

The Walt Whitman bicentennial is coming in 2019, but there are two musical lead-ins in D.C.: PostClassical Ensemble’s “I Sing the Body Electoral” at Washngton National Cathedral (Nov. 11) and the Russian Chamber Art Society’s “Two Poets in Music: Whitman and Pushkin” at the Embassy of France (Dec. 6).

Other fall highlights: Wolf Trap’s Chamber Music at the Barns series will present the duo of cellist David Finckel and pianist Wu Han (Nov. 3). Alejandro Hernandez-Valdez will conduct the New Orchestra of Washington and the Choral Arts Chamber Singers in a Día de los Muertos concert featuring Mozart’s Requiem at the Mexican Cultural Institute (Nov. 3 and 4). And British baritone Sir Simon Keenlyside will make his Washington debut as part of the Vocal Arts DC season in the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater (Nov. 30).

THEATER What would D.C. theater be without William Shakespeare? Luckily, we don’t have to find out. But we will have to find out what D.C. theater would be without Shakespeare Theatre Company Artistic Director Michael Kahn — though not quite yet. 2018-19 is the “Grand Finale Season of Michael Kahn,” who began as artistic director in 1986. Later on, he will be directing two shows: “The Panties, the Partner and the Profit” by David Ives and Ellen McLaughlin’s adaptation of Aeschylus’s “The Oresteia.”

Coming up this fall at STC’s Lansburgh Theatre is Shakespeare’s “The Comedy of Errors,” directed by Alan Paul (Sept. 25 to Oct. 28), with two sets of identical twins, two servants, two masters, etc. — as confusing as internet dating. Speaking of twins, another production of “The Comedy of Errors” will be at Annapolis Shakespeare Company (Sept. 28 to Oct. 28).

More comedy by the Bard: “Measure for Measure,” directed by Declan Donnellan, will be presented in a coproduction by the English theater company Cheek by Jowl and the Pushkin Theatre Moscow, in the Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater (Oct. 10 to 13).

And not so funny, but with singing and dancing witches, the Folger Theatre is giving D.C. audiences “Macbeth” with a twist. The production, which stars Washington treasure Kate Norris and Ian Merrill Peakes, uses the Restoration-era adaptation by William Davenant, directed by Robert Richmond with period music

by Folger Consort (through Sept. 23).

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A different kind of politics — the dreamy, aspirational kind — is at work in playwright John Strand’s “Lincolnesque,” which opens Keegan Theatre’s season. It concerns two brothers, one a struggling speechwriter, the other a troubled soul who thinks he is the incarnation of the 16th president (Sept. 22 to Oct. 14).

Also promising in a very different way is Theater J’s “The Pianist of Willesden Lane,” a unique production about a young Jewish pianist, Lisa Jura, whose dream of playing at the Musikverein in Vienna is dashed by the war. It’s performed by Jura’s daughter, noted pianist Mona Golabek. With Theater J’s space being renovated, the venue is the Kennedy Center Family Theater (Sept. 12 to 30).

“Macbeth” at Folger Theatre. Photo by Brittany Diliberto.

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company has a new artistic director, Maria Manuela Goyanes, but it also has, for a season opener, everything that Woolly has espoused and stood for since its beginnings: a play by the irrepressible playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, who has explored hot-button topics, including race, in several plays staged at Woolly, including the eye-popping “An Octoroon.” He returns to Washington with “Gloria,” a play about what happens when an ordinary day at a trendy and prestigious New York magazine turns into a nightmare (through Sept. 30).

That’s followed at Woolly by “The Fever,” a storytelling show performed “in complete collaboration with the audience” from

Obie-winning theater experimentalists 600 Highwaymen. If that’s not cutting edge, we don’t know what is. Immerse, everyone (Oct. 23 to Nov. 4).

Politics are everywhere these days. Onstage, they are sometimes imagined, sometimes pertinent and real. Real and relevant is “Turn Me Loose,” a play about the life and times of civil rights leader, political firebrand and comedian Dick Gregory, now at Arena Stage. The play, by Gretchen Law, is directed by John Gould Rubin and stars Edwin Lee Gibson, himself a stand-up comedian of note, but also a theatrical veteran of such productions as “Battlefield” by Peter Brook and “Love and Information” by Caryl Churchill (through Oct. 14).

Also of note: The classic “Born Yesterday” at Ford’s Theatre (Sept. 21 to Oct. 21); GALA Hispanic Theatre’s “Como agua para Chocolate,” an adaptation of Laura Esquivel’s “Like Water for Chocolate” (through Oct. 7); “If I Forget,” Bethesda native Steven Levenson’s play about divisions in a modern Jewish family, at Studio Theatre (through Oct. 14); Paula Vogel’s “How I Learned to Drive,” about breaking the cycle of sexual abuse, at Round House Theatre (Oct. 10 to Nov. 4); and “The Agitators” by Mat Smart, about the 45-year friendship between Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass, at Mosaic Theater Company (Oct. 24 to Nov. 25).

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The Washington Ballet returns to the Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater with “TWB Welcomes,” two programs danced to live music performed by the Washington Ballet Orchestra: Balanchine’s “Serenade” and Ratmansky’s “Bolero” (Sept. 26, 27, 29 and 30); and Fokine’s “Les Sylphides” and Ochoa’s “Sombrerisimo” (Sept. 28, 29 and 30), both plus three pas de deux danced by four guest artists: Ballet Manila principal Katherine Barkman, Houston Ballet principal Connor Walsh, American Ballet Theatre principal Stella Abrera and former ABT principal Marcelo Gomes.

The following month, San Francisco Ballet will perform in the Kennedy Center Opera House with the Opera House Orchestra (Oct. 23 to 28).

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Dana Tai Soon Burgess Dance Company will give the premiere of “Silhouette,” inspired by the National Portrait Gallery exhibition “Black Out,” in the Portrait Gallery’s McEvoy Theater (Oct. 27 and 30).

Ragamala Dance Company will perform “Written in Water,” a work that combines classical Indian dance, Sufi poetry, contemporary music and the board game Snakes & Ladders, in the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater (Nov. 2 and 3).

Finally, also in the Terrace Theater, NYCB principal dancer Robert Fairchild, who appeared on Broadway in “An American in Paris,” will sing and dance at “An Evening With Robert Fairchild” (Oct. 12).

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A MODERNIST VISION

BY ARI POST

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he development of Modernism during the late 19th century was, at its core, a series of extravagant experiments: experiments in philosophy and design, in constructions both social and physical, in living consciously amid a society rendered nearly incomprehensible by its sudden industrial complexity.

The tools of the Industrial Revolution enabled artists to realize their visions on grander scales than ever before. With this newfound material control, early 20th-century artists developed a strangely rigid philosophy that, in contrast to their political egalitarianism, was aesthetically sort of fascist.

They wanted everything to be the work of one mind, providing designs for typography, posters, metalwork, jewelry and ceramics, as well as everything to do with furnishing, from wallpaper to light fixtures.

On the one hand, it’s intriguing to imagine Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West in the Arizona desert was the architect’s winter home and school from 1937 until his death in 1959.

Donald Judd acquired a defunct army base in Marfa, Texas, in the 1970s and effectively created a laboratory for his own creative output.

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This is Glenstone’s rare success. It is a private museum that exists in service to the unification of art, architecture and environment, with a Modernist sensibility. Guided by monumental ambition and facilitated by inconceivable financial resources, it is indeed an extravagant experiment, but its results are laudable and hopefully long-term.

There are other art spaces in the world that have dealt successfully with similar constructions. Dia:Beacon, in upstate New York, is a paradigmatic example. What makes Glenstone so remarkable in this context is the particularity of its vision. Rather than a museum or an artists’ compound, Glenstone was designed and built by collectors as an uncompromising site for art and landscape in the 21st century.

Glenstone has existed on the periphery of the Washington arts scene since opening in 2006.

A private museum about 30 minutes away in Potomac, Maryland, its original 9,000-squarefoot gallery houses exhibitions from the jawdropping collection of owners and founders Mitchell and Emily Wei Rales. Mitchell is a co-founder and a director of a Fortune 500 conglomerate headquartered here in D.C. Emily, who acts as Glenstone’s director, is an art historian and a curator.

On Oct. 4, Glenstone will open its new building, the Pavilions, and the surrounding

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Glenstone Water Court. Photo by Iwan Baan. Courtesy Glenstone. grounds to the public. I am confident that it will become a museum to reckon with — not just in Washington, but internationally.

The Pavilions building is made up of subterranean galleries connected by a glassedin passage that encloses a vast sunken water court glistening with water lilies and irises.

The new galleries add 50,000 square feet of exhibition space. To put that in perspective, the Hirshhorn has 60,000. And the quality of Glenstone’s collection is also on par.

There are 11 distinct rooms of artworks from Glenstone’s collection, with several spaces currently dedicated to single-artist installations, including major works by Cy Twombly, Brice Marden and Lygia Pape, along with mesmerizing installations by Michael Heizer.

A gallery of 52 artists occupies the largest room in the Pavilions, a labyrinthine, columnfree space that features an extensive selection of masterworks from 1943 to 1989. It is a collection of keen taste and staggering depth.

Here are some of the artists’ names I jotted down, in no particular order, after my tour of this gallery: Pollock, de Kooning, Giacometti, Calder, Rothko, Gorky, Duchamp, Flavin, Basquiat, Warhol, Kline, Stella, Reinhardt, Rauschenberg, Johns, Oldenburg, Haring, Kruger, Nauman, Truitt, LeWitt, Beuys, Hesse.

These are all major pieces. The de Kooning on view, “January 1st” (1956), is a mid-century masterwork, maybe his best painting on view anywhere in Washington (“Asheville,” at the Phillips Collection, is a contender). Painted in the heyday of Abstract Expressionism and at the height of the artist’s power, it is a bold and roiling lattice of color and brushwork.

But the artwork now on display, albeit a treasure for our city, is only a small piece of the new Glenstone.

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through years of exploring museums and art spaces, like a wishful discussion (or maybe a pleasant delusion).

It is unbelievably beautiful and exceedingly modern in its execution. It elevates the natural world in the context of art. Glenstone is the realization of a new form in the true Modernist sense. It offers a blueprint for the future of art in the fabric of private and public life.

The galleries employ natural lighting through a network of frosted windows that diffuses sunlight in every direction from a sort of inverted trench. The low-lying glass-andconcrete structure is like the distillation of an Italian hill town, cubic forms scattered about as if out of a Cézanne. From the outside, they do not even look connected.

Architect Tom Phifer designed it this way after studying the sun’s movement across the landscape. The way that light and shadows undulate throughout the galleries and across the architecture both inside and out is enveloping, like walking underwater.

A reading room is located halfway through, featuring a boat-like bench designed by Martin Puryear. From a full-wall window, it overlooks a distant cluster of honey locust trees on a hill, fruiting trees that attract wildlife. You sit and look out at perfect nature, contained within the vast frame of the window like a giant canvas, which eliminates sound and weather.

It is surreal, and it should feel sterile or at least dystopian in a Huxleyan sense. But instead it is transcendental, sensorially expansive, reconfiguring nature to the experience of art.

This is not to say that Glenstone removes nature from its context. Quite the contrary.

Glenstone almost demands communion with nature. The parking lots (also beautiful) are a quarter-mile outdoor walk to the galleries,

along a gravel path cut through a meadow of wildflowers, tall grasses and native trees.

All 230 acres are organically maintained, using cutting-edge composting and fertilizer.

An environmental center at the edge of the property will be open for visitors to learn about Glenstone’s sustainability efforts. Eroded streambeds are being restored and 8,000 native trees have been planted. Copper beech trees can be seen scattered about from windows throughout the galleries — they are some of Mitch Rales’s favorites.

Glenstone also fosters a collection of entrancing outdoor sculpture that includes site-specific works by Andy Goldsworthy and Richard Serra. Existing somewhere between the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden and David Smith’s Storm King, the sculptures are woven throughout the expansive grounds.

One sculpture fully embodies the mission and wonder of Glenstone: Jeff Koons’s “SplitRocker” (2013). The monumental work peaks over an empty horizon, the head of a halfpuppy, half-dinosaur rocking horse made entirely of flowers. Geraniums and marigolds are coaxed into a fantastical, colossal form.

From a distance, their colors blend to create the features of a toy rocker, but up close they dissolve into a riotous display of thousands of individual blossoms.

This shift between representation and abstraction, between art and nature, greets you upon arrival and ushers you upon departure back into the maddening world. It is a perfect vision of Modernism, and a model for the transformative power of art in the 21st century.

Glenstone, 12100 Glen Road in Potomac, Maryland, is free and open to the public by appointment Thursday through Sunday starting Oct. 4. For details, visit glenstone.org.

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THE POTOMACK COMPANY 8.21 CARAT DIAMOND SOLITAIRE RING ESTIMATE: $150,000 - $180,000 AUCTION DATE: OCTOBER 2

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SOTHEBY’S “HAPPY CHOPPERS,” 2006 BANKSY (B. 1974) ESTIMATE: $400,000 – $600,000 AUCTION DATE: OCTOBER 4 The collection of Robin Williams and his wife, film producer Marsha Garces Williams, will be offered at the Sotheby’s auction “Creating a Stage: The Collection of Marsha and Robin Williams.” A portion of the proceeds will benefit charities they championed. The sale will showcase Hollywood memorabilia — autographed scripts, awards, props and wardrobe items — along with contemporary art, including works by Niki de Saint Phalle, Shepard Fairey and Banksy, over 40 watches, furniture, sports memorabilia, toys and bicycles.

DOYLE ROSE GOLD AND SAPPHIRE FLOWER CLIP-BROOCH VAN CLEEF & ARPELS ESTIMATE: $10,000 – $15,000

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Jewelry from the estate of Barbara Wainscott, for example, this brooch with 110 sapphires, will be auctioned as a highlight of Doyle’s Important Jewelry sale. A resident of Palm Beach and New York, Wainscott was also a familiar face at the White House, Newport, Royal Ascot, the French Open and NFL Super Bowls. Her career in protocol, public service and philanthropy included positions with the Nixon White House, the Bicentennial Commission, Prince Philip’s charities and the Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award Foundation.

The Bonhams photographs department holds two sales a year in New York. The October auction will feature this iconic image of Madonna by Herb Ritts, just weeks after her 60th birthday. Other names highly sought-after: Ansel Adams, William Henry Fox Talbot, Julia Margaret Cameron, Gustave Le Gray, Diane Arbus, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Bill Brandt, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Irving Penn, Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, Peter Beard, Edward Weston, Sebastião Salgado, Weegee and Andreas Gursky.

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WESCHLER’S “SURF,” 1968 SAM GILLIAM (B. 1933) ESTIMATE: $30,000 – $50,000 AUCTION DATE: SEPTEMBER 14 Weschler’s, now in Rockville, will offer an extensive and varied collection of contemporary and postmodern American art at its next Capital Collections auction. Highlights include works by Washington Color School artists Thomas Downing, Kenneth Noland, Paul Reed, Howard Mehring and Sam Gilliam, notably Gilliam’s painting “Surf,” created in 1968, a seminal year in his career. The sale will also include a number of Gilliam’s smaller works, including pastels, watercolors, a serigraph from 1985 and a collotype on handmade paper.

CHRISTIE’S “SINGLE ORIENTAL POPPY, NEW YORK, 1968,” PRINTED 1989 IRVING PENN (1917–2009) ESTIMATE: $60,000 – $80,000 AUCTION DATE: SEPTEMBER 26 “Rooms as Portraits: Michael S. Smith” is a collection sale incorporating three interiors decorated by the visionary designer. The auction will feature English and European furniture and decorative arts; carpets; 20th-century design items; works of Asian, American, postwar and contemporary art; and photographs including this Irving Penn still life — all reflective of Smith’s aesthetic: a blend of European style and American modernism, equally appropriate in a California interior or in a high-rise overlooking Central Park.

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Redevelopment of the RFK Stadium site has begun.

D.C. Breaks Ground on RFK Campus Project Mayor Muriel Bowser and Events DC kicked off phase one of the redevelopment of the empty Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium. This initial phase includes three turf fields, a 27-acre parking lot, a playground and a picnic area. The estimated cost of a complete revamp of the 190-acre campus — adding a sports and entertainment complex, a market hall and a memorial to RFK — is $490 million.

New Ride-Sharing App Coming to D.C. Safr, a new ride-sharing app, will be expanding to D.C. this fall. The app will focus on safer rides, particularly for women.

Men and women can sign up to ride or drive for the Boston-based company, which lets passengers select a driver gender preference.

The app was created in response to Uber’s background-check policies, which have been criticized for their lack of stringency.

D.C. Rivers: Swimmable Soon?

Bad water quality has been one of many reasons Washingtonians have not been able to swim in local rivers. Now there are hopes that will change. Potomac Conservancy gave the Potomac River a B grade in 2018, up from a D a decade ago. The Anacostia River did not do as well, with a D-minus rating from the Anacostia Watershed Society. It was, however, the river’s first passing grade.

Researchers have noted less trash, reduced nitrogen and healthier fish.

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attached nine-story tower. The 134-unit project is called Modera Sedici. Along with the usual modern accoutrements — fitness center, courtyard, grills and roof terrace — the complex features restored parquet flooring, a grand piano and a ballroom with fireplaces.

Research: D.C. Employers Discriminate Based on Distance As part of a study, a Notre Dame University economics professor sent out fictional resumes with real addresses, applying for, in most cases, low-wage positions in the center of D.C. The study found that hiring managers were less likely to contact applicants with a long commute. For every additional mile between an applicant’s residence and a job, the percentage of callbacks fell by more than a percentage point.

Raccoon Poses for Pic on Circulator Bus First, in February of 2017, a raccoon was spotted on the back of a trash truck in Rosslyn, Virginia. Then, last month, a fellow raccoon was seen peering through the back window of a D.C. Circulator bus. The National Mall and Memorial Parks Facebook account posted a picture of “bus raccoon” with the caption: “Look who decided to take a ride on the bus! Take the DC Circulator National Mall Route around National Mall and Memorial Parks. It’s only a dollar!

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Roasted Eggplant

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This dish of eggplant, roasted until caramelized and tender, then served over stewed lentils with an extraordinarily light and creamy tahini sauce and crunchy pine nuts, is a great fall dinner or lunch meal.

From a smoky roasted eggplant dip to a vegan stir-fry filled with chunks of glazed eggplant, these recipes take a different look at the eggplant and never leave flavor behind.

DIRECTIONS For the Lentils: Adjust oven rack to center position and preheat oven to 450°F to prepare for roasting eggplant. Meanwhile, heat 2 tablespoons olive oil in a medium saucepan over medium heat until shimmering. Add carrots, celery and onion and cook, stirring, until softened but not browned, about 4 minutes. Add garlic and cook, stirring, until fragrant, about 30 seconds. Add lentils, bay leaves, stock or water and a pinch of salt.

Bring to a simmer, cover with the lid partially ajar and cook until lentils are tender, about 30 minutes. (Top up with water if lentils are at any point not fully submerged.) Remove lid, stir in vinegar and reduce until lentils are moist but not soupy. Season to taste with salt and pepper, cover and keep warm until ready to serve.

For the Eggplant: While lentils cook, cut each eggplant in half. Score flesh with the tip of a paring knife in a crosshatch pattern at

1-inch intervals. Transfer to a foil-lined rimmed baking sheet, cut-side up, and brush each eggplant half with 1 tablespoon oil, letting each brushstroke be fully absorbed before brushing with more. Season with salt and pepper. Place a rosemary sprig on top of each one. Transfer to oven and roast until completely tender and well charred, 25 to 35 minutes. Remove from oven and discard rosemary.

To Serve: Heat 2 tablespoons olive oil and pine nuts in a medium skillet set over medium heat. Cook, tossing nuts frequently, until golden brown and aromatic, about 4 minutes. Transfer to a bowl to halt cooking. Stir half of parsley and rosemary into lentils and transfer to a serving platter. Arrange eggplant halves on top.

Spread a few tablespoons of tahini sauce over each eggplant half and sprinkle with pine nuts.

Sprinkle with remaining parsley and rosemary, drizzle with additional olive oil and serve.

INGREDIENTS

EGGPLANT

FOR THE LENTILS

2 large Italian or small globe eggplants, about 1 pound (450g) each 4 tablespoons (60ml) extra-virgin olive oil Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper 4 large sprigs fresh rosemary

2 tablespoons (30ml) extra-virgin olive oil 2 small carrots, peeled and cut into 1/2inch chunks (about 1 cup or 170g) 2 small stalks celery, cut into 1/4-inch slices (about 1 cup or 115g) 1 medium onion, finely diced (about 1 cup or 225g) 6 medium cloves garlic, thinly sliced 12 ounces (340g) brown or de Puy lentils 2 bay leaves 4 cups homemade vegetable stock or water (about 1L) Kosher salt 2 teaspoons (10ml) red wine vinegar, apple cider vinegar or sherry vinegar Freshly ground black pepper

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he champagne in my glass barely budges as our 55-foot Hinckley yacht purrs across the Chesapeake, handling any swell that dares to touch its gleaming hull as if it were a mere ripple. We are en route to the Inn at Perry Cabin as part of this posh St. Michaels waterfront resort’s “Skip the Bridge” program.

For those (like me) who dread driving across the 4.5-mile Bay Bridge, this sumptuous arrival option is a blessing. From the moment we leave our car at Pier 7 in Annapolis, reality is left behind and our fantasy weekend of decadence begins. Luxury travel is all about escaping the day-to-day world and the inn’s yacht is the perfect way to begin our journey to paradise.

My memories of this idyllic Miles River getaway go back to the frou-frou days when the inn was owned by Sir Bernard Ashley of the Laura Ashley design empire. At that time, the inn was filled with enough chintz to decorate an entire English village. Thanks to the current owner, Richard Cohen of Capital Properties and Belmond, a high-end hotel management company, the inn has been

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undergoing major updates.

Leading the charge of change is Michael Hoffmann, the new Swiss-born GM. With prior positions at name-dropper hotels such as Claridge’s and the Waldorf-Astoria, he is overseeing every detail right down to the cookies left nightly on your pillow. All 78 guest rooms have been contemporized, while maintaining a nod to the inn’s colonial history and nautical charm. “Even though the

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The addition of a golf course has been the vision of Cohen ever since he bought the inn in 2014. To turn this dream into reality, he purchased the nearby Harbourtowne Golf Resort and Conference Center plus adjacent property to create a driving range. His next call was to Dye, a world-famous golf course architect, to ask him to redesign the course.

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many of his designs are family affairs.

“The four par-threes are as strong as any golf course in the world,” says P.B., Dye’s son. Perry Cabin’s 17th hole, an island green, is reminiscent of the one Dye designed at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, the most photographed golf hole in the world.

“When people play golf on vacation, they like excitement, and playing Perry Cabin’s island green is exciting,” he adds. In keeping with Dye’s tradition of naming his favorite golf holes, P.B. named the last three the Goodnight Kiss. Why? Because you never forget the goodnight kiss on your first date; ditto for these three golf holes.

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INCOUNTRY More changes include the addition of three Har-Tru tennis courts, a spa freshening and a new chef. Yes, Chesapeake crab remains, but the suckling pig with saffron chorizo rice and wild striped sea bass with Jerusalem couscous deserve a round of applause.

While change is in high gear, some things have stayed the same. The jaw-dropping vistas of the Miles River from the dining room and the outdoor patio remain intact.

The formal boxwood garden, an herb garden that provides the chef with a fresh supply and a greenhouse where many of the resort’s flowers are grown are staples. Fishing and crabbing excursions guided by local residents are a mainstay, plus paddleboarding, sunset sails and a sailing school. Not to mention the pleasure of taking a cocktail cruise on an elegant 33-foot French canal boat.

For oenophiles, informal — and fun — wine competitions between California and French wines continue. So do seasonal demonstrations of “Porto tonging” (extracting the cork of a vintage bottle with tongs) and sabraging (opening champagne with a saber). My favorite pastime? Daydreaming by the open firepit while watching the moon’s reflection on the Miles River, glass of pinot noir in hand.

On our last night, I savor memories of every detail — from blissfully quiet mornings lingering over hearty omelets to the delicious scent in the air as we stroll through the serene gardens. Isn’t it the little things that make for memorable experiences?

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Eyes may be the windows of the soul, but, let’s face it, eyebrows are the window dressing.

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‘American Lady: The Life of Susan Mary Alsop’ R EVIEW E D BY KIT T Y K E LLE Y

For the “American aristocrat” who hobnobbed with Washington’s power elite for four decades, maintaining her place in society mattered most.

The jacket copy makes your mouth water with tantalizing promises of wealth, glamour and power. Even the title bespeaks upper-class gentility: “American Lady: The Life of Susan Mary Alsop.”

This biography, by Caroline de Margerie, is the story of “the second lady of Camelot.” Many of us thought in the Kennedy administration that title belonged to the vice president’s wife, Lady Bird Johnson. While we’re never told who bestowed the honorific on Mrs. Alsop, we are assured that she is “an American aristocrat,” who “reigned over Georgetown society for four decades, her house a gathering place for everyone of importance, including John F. Kennedy, Katharine Graham and Robert McNamara.”

As someone who lives in Georgetown and enjoys reading about the myths of Camelot and American aristocrats, I could hardly wait to gobble up this book.

Perhaps the author, a member of the Conseil d’État, the highest administrative court in France, and once a diplomat, could not shake her silk-stocking background long enough to probe beneath the surface. Or maybe she drew too close to Mrs. Alsop’s family, who gave her access to letters, papers and diaries that she barely quotes.

Perhaps it was the author’s intercontinental collaboration with her sister, whom she credits with helping her complete the book. Then again, it might be the translation from French to English that makes this book — at 256 pages — read like Biography Lite.

“Slim” is the word de Margerie uses to describe Mrs. Alsop, an understatement for the

stick-thin woman I met in Washington, D.C. (we went to the same Georgetown hairdresser). At 5 foot 7, she was almost skeletal and appeared to weigh no more than 95 pounds, with blueveined skin tissued over protruding bones. Even her son, William S. Patten, described his mother as “anorexic.” Yet her biographer chooses a polite characterization that is fathoms from the destructive disease of anorexia.

“Slim” seems to be the operative word for this book. Its euphemisms keep readers removed from knowing the woman whose life intersected with many charismatic figures of her era: Roosevelt, Churchill, Garbo, Noel Coward, Edith Wharton, Brooke Astor, Ho Chi Minh, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and President and Mrs. Kennedy.

Born in Rome in 1918, Susan Mary Jay Patten Alsop was the great-great-great-granddaughter of John Jay, who signed the Treaty of Paris in 1783 and became the first chief justice of the United States. “She had always preferred lords to cowboys,” writes her biographer. She herself declared that she saw “no future in being an ordinary person.”

Susan Mary, as she was called, grew up in South America, traveled in Europe, lived in Washington and New York and summered in Maine. She graduated from the Foxcroft School, took a few courses at Barnard College and, at the age of 21, married Bill Patten, Harvard Class of 1932, nine years her senior.

Severely asthmatic (like her father), Patten was declared unfit for military service. So his mother-in-law, Mrs. Jay, got him hired by the U.S. State Department to work for Sumner Welles, undersecretary to Cordell Hull. Patten’s first assignment was Paris, where he and Susan Mary lived from 1945 to 1960, when he died of emphysema.

Susan Mary soon fell out of love with her “sickly but sweet” husband and became besotted with their close friend, Duff Cooper, the British ambassador to France, the great love of her life. Her biographer maintains that Bill Patten “never showed signs of torment or bother” over his wife’s affair, and Susan Mary “was convinced he did not know.” She gave birth to Cooper’s son in 1946 and kept the paternity secret from her husband, finally telling her son when he was 47 who his real father was.

Three months after Bill Patten Sr. died, his Harvard roommate, Joseph Alsop, proposed. A powerful (and pompous) political columnist, he was syndicated in more than 300 newspapers.

After the election of John F. Kennedy, Alsop decided he needed a hostess to entertain the president and first daddy. He wrote to Susan Mary, saying they could become a part of history if she married him. Admitting he was homosexual, he said he did not expect her to be in love with him and that she could take a lover at any time.

Reckoning that her son and daughter needed a stepfather and she needed a place in Washington society, Susan Mary accepted. The marriage did not last, but their friendship endured to the end of their lives.

Following her separation from Alsop, she asked him for permission to continue using his name. At the age of 56, she became a writer and published her first book, “To Marietta from Paris: 1945–1960,” a compilation of her letters to her best friend, Marietta Peabody FitzGerald Tree. She published three more books, then became a contributing editor to Architectural Digest for many years.

Toward the end of her life she was plagued by near-blindness, drug addiction and alcoholism.

She died in 2004 at the age of 86 in the

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SEPTEMBER 15 British Ambassador Kim Darroch and his wife Vanessa will be the honorary hosts of this year’s black-tie ball supporting the Wolf Trap Foundation, which offers varied performance and education programs for people of all ages. Filene Center. Call 703255-4030 or email events@wolftrap.org.

Staci and Tony Capuano will chair the evening, including cocktails, a dinner and a program, which will recognize Academy Award-winning director Jeffrey Brown for his outstanding film, “Sold.” Innocents at Risk is a child-advocacy nonprofit dedicated to protecting children from all forms of abuse and working to end child exploitation and child trafficking everywhere. Mayflower Hotel. visit innocentsatrisk.org.

The evening will present readings of original work written especially for the occasion by acclaimed authors, who will be joined by two D.C. high school students, winners of the Writers in Schools program’s annual citywide essay contest. This year’s theme is “Magic.”

The program will be preceded by a cocktail hour and followed by a seated dinner. Folger Shakespeare Library. Visit pfgala.org.

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The evening includes a reception, a dinner and silent and live auctions. Nyumbani, or “home” in Swahili, was founded in 1992 by Father Angelo D’Agostino. After discovering that orphanages in Kenya were turning away infants with HIV/AIDS, he took matters into his own hands. Today, Nyumbani is a recognized world leader in providing HIV/ AIDS services to children and affected families in Kenya. Fairmont Hotel. Visit nyumbani.org.

In conjunction with the National Advocacy Conference, the gala will honor Annie Simonian Totah, who for over 40 years has been a leading defender of human rights, a vocal advocate of Armenia, Artsakh and the Armenian American community, a political fundraiser and a staunch supporter of cultural, charitable, religious and education programs in the D.C. area. Marriott Marquis. Call 202393-3434 or email info@aaainc.org.

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TREES FOR GEORGETOWN Betsy Emes will chair a Sunday-evening garden party to support Trees for Georgetown’s mission to plant and maintain the trees that line residential streets. A committee of the Citizens Association of Georgetown since 1989, the volunteer group has planted some 2,000 trees, contracted watering services during drought periods and provided preventative maintenance of at-risk trees. Tickets are $175. Dumbarton House. Contact Christi Cline at 202-9972787 or christimcline@gmail.com.

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Georgetown house she had inherited from her mother. Her obituaries barely mentioned her career as a writer, celebrating her instead as a “socialite,” “hostess” and “Washington doyenne.” Most assuredly, she would have been pleased by these plaudits; her first priority as an American lady was maintaining her place in society.

Readers accustomed to hearty biography will go away hungry from this little morsel, feeling deprived of the banquet promised on the book jacket.

Georgetown resident Kitty Kelley has written several number-one New York Times best-sellers, including “The Family: The Real Story Behind the Bush Dynasty.” Her most recent books include “Capturing Camelot: Stanley Tretick’s Iconic Images of the Kennedys” and “Let Freedom Ring: Stanley Tretick’s Iconic Images of the March on Washington.”

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SEPTEMBER 25 33RD ANNUAL MAYOR’S ARTS AWARDS DC Commissioner on the Arts and Humanities José Alberto Uclés will chair the event, which includes a show and a reception. Red/gold or creative cocktail wear is suggested for a red-carpet arrival. Historic Lincoln Theatre. Call 202-734-5613 or visit dcarts.dc.gov.

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Monaco, NASA and Mars

202 Creates Touts D.C. Creatives

PHO TO S BY JENNIFER KNO X PHO TO G RAPHY. Ambassador of Monaco Maguy Maccario Doyle and Ellen Stofan, director of the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, Ellen Stofan, met Sept. 6 for the Washington Diplomat’s Insider Series at the Line Hotel in Adams Morgan. The discussion was moderated by the publication’s managing editor Anna Gawel. Before Grace Kelly, there was Princess Alice of Monaco, who was born in New Orleans, and Monaco is hosting a 60th anniversary celebration of NASA. Stofan, daughter of a NASA scientist, is Air & Space’s first female director and spoke of space tourism and humans landing on Mars by 2030.

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With other speakers and performers, Angie Gates, director, Office of Cable Television, Film, Music & Entertainment as well as director of the Commission on Arts & Humanities, kicked off the third annual 202Creates Aug. 29 at City Winery DC. Mayor Muriel Bowser launched 202Creates in September of 2016 to celebrate D.C.’s creative and entrepreneurial culture and community. What started as a September-only celebration has turned into a year-round series of live and video programs, along with educational and grant-support initiatives.

The 202Creates kick-off party was at the City Winery DC in Ivy City.

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Angie Gates, director, Office of Cable Television, Film, Music & Entertainment, which coordinates the 202Creates

DJ Farrah Flosscett.

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The DowntownDC Business Improvement District hosted the inaugural District of Fashion Runway Show Sept. 5 to promote local and international fashion through an D.C. kickoff event to New York Fashion Week. Hosted by television personality Paul Wharton at The Showroom in downtown Washington, the event attracted 350 guests.

Ambassador of Jamaica Audrey Marks and Anna Gawel, managing editor of the Washington Diplomat.

Lynda Erkiletian of THE Artist Agency and TV personality Paul Wharton.

Francesca Craig of the Motion Picture Association of America, Ambassador of Monaco Maguy Maccario Doyle and Kevin Chaffee of Qorvis Communications.

Designs by Corjor International.

Modeling Le Tam at the District of Fashion.

Le Tam at the District of Fashion.

Kate Arnold and Ellen Stofan of the Air & Space Museum.

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