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At this year’s inaugural Georgetown Fashion Show (formerly Splash on the Waterfront), a talented lineup of international and local designers will showcase their spring 2018 and fall 2017 collections surrounded by partnering yachts, representatives of local restaurants and featured fashion brands. Tickets are $25 ($50 VIP). For details, visit eventbrite.com. Nick’s Riverside Grill, 3050 K St. NW.
Celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Friends of Rose Park at Evermay, a Georgetown estate built in 1801 to the designs of Nicholas King, the first surveyor of Washington, D.C. Tickets are $175 for one and $325 for two. Please note that a strict occupancy number has been set by Evermay. For details, visit roseparkdc.org. Evermay, 1623 28th St. NW.
SEPTEMBER 30 AND OCTOBER 1 AMERICAN FIELD DC American Field is a pop-up market of authentic brands that connects consumers directly with makers. The American Field Movement raises awareness of quality brands and strives to inform consumers, making it easy to decide where to spend their money. For details, visit americanfield.us. Dock 5 at Union Market, 1309 5th St. NE. Final Performance: ‘Don Juan Tenorio’In this new, high-voltage adaptation at GALA Hispanic Theatre, the legendary seducer pursues his conquests with fierce determination until the purity of love brings him to his knees. Other performances are Thursday, Sept. 28; Friday, Sept. 29; and Saturday, Sept. 30. Tickets are $25 to $45. For details, visit en.galatheatre.org. 3333 14th Street, NW.
OCTOBER 2 FREDERICK DOUGLASS AND THE VISUAL ARTS Two free lunchtime talks about Douglass and the visual arts in Washington, D.C., will be given by Sarah Cash, associate curator, department of American and British paintings, National Gallery of Art, and Ka’mal McClarin, museum curator, Frederick Douglass National Historic Site Collection. For details, visit nga. gov. National Gallery of Art, West Building Lecture Hall, 401 Constitution Ave. NW.
OCTOBER 3 DC YOUTH ORCHESTRA AT THE KENNEDY CENTER Under the baton of Mariano Vales, some 60 musicians from the 700-member DC Youth Orchestra will perform Beethoven’s “Consecration of the House Overture,” Mendelssohn’s “Violin Concerto in E Minor” with soloist Sydney Ebhersol and other works to reopen the Terrace Theater. For details, visit dcyop.org. Kennedy Center, 2700 F St. NW.
OCTOBER 5 INSIDE SIGNATURE WITH HOLLY TWYFORD “Sex with Strangers” star Holly Twyford, who is returning to Signature Theatre in her first professional musical role as Desiree Armfeldt in “A Little Night Music,” will talk about why she’s taking this step and how it feels to sing “Send in the Clowns” every night. Admission is free. For details, visit sigtheatre. org. 4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington, Virginia. Craft2Wear Opening Night The Smithsonian Women’s Committee invites area residents to “Find Your Fabulous” at the Craft2Wear Show, featuring limited-edition, hand-crafted clothing, jewelry and accessories. Proceeds support education, outreach and research. Tickets to the opening night party are $50, including a one-day pass to the show on Oct. 6 or 7 (otherwise $13 in advance or $15 at the door). For details, visit smithsoniancraft2wear. org. National Building Museum, 401 F St. NW.
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OCTOBER 7 AND 8 SOLAR & GREEN HOME TOUR The annual Metro Washington, DC Solar & Green Home Tour offers persons who are considering solar electric or hot-water solutions for their home or business a chance to meet with homeowners who have invested in such systems. Residents at 3023 O St. NW, 4815 V St. NW, 2112 Huidekoper Place NW and 4958 Ashby St. NW will be available at their homes to discuss the benefits and learned lessons from their installation of solar energy technology. For details, visit solartour.org.
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Appreciating Sally’s Magic Maybe not surprisingly, last Thursday, Sept. 21, was a busy day for Sally Quinn. Her book, “Finding Magic: A Spiritual Memoir,” was out, and she was doing four interviews, book talks and signings, including “a 3 a.m. West Coast interview that morning, and putting a together a dinner for 24.” Listening to her schedule, you’re not exactly shocked. It sounds like — well — a Sally Quinn day. And Sally Quinn, even with a book out, or not, seems always on the move. “I’m not a person who likes to sit around.” The book has stirred things up a bit, depending, as is often the case with Quinn, on whom you talk with or who’s doing the talking. Despite its quasi-helpful title, the book isn’t that easy to categorize. It’s a lot of this and that. It’s a memoir that makes long trips to the story of a person trying to find nothing less than the meaning of life, of the presence of God and spirituality, of how faith impacts a person at meaningful moments in life — moments often transcendent or wrenching and harrowing.
It also (as has been often and at length noted in reviews) talks about hexes, cast by herself with ominous results, voodoo, spells, astrology, the presence of spirits and ghosts in her life: stories by a woman who first described herself as an atheist when she was a little girl. She’s not surprised that these parts of the book have received so much attention. “That was bound to happen to some degree, but really, it’s only a small part of the book.” Still, these stories are revealing, new and fresh; they had not been part of her many incarnations and codas that we know about over the years. But they are not necessarily the heart and core of the book, which flows with the energy of her two novels, “Regrets Only” and “Happy Endings.” Initially, Quinn was asked to write a book about how she came to oversee the Washington Post website OnFaith, and came to look at religion and faith in different ways, even after being a self-professed (if not defined) atheist. Her atheism arose early on, when she found
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Sally Quinn. Photo by Tony Powell. photographs of the Holocaust, was alarmed that God allowed this to happen and did not get a satisfactory explanation from her Army general father. After her husband Ben Bradlee’s death in 2014, she said: “I wanted to do a different book. How events in my life each had an important meaning for me in terms of finding out about God and religion and how my beliefs expand and what they meant to me.” In Washington, of course, anybody who follows the city’s political, social and media life might sometimes feel as if he or she knows entirely too much about Quinn: her work and rise at the Washington Post, how she was hired by Bradlee even though she had never written anything. (“Nobody’s perfect,” Bradlee replied.) Their love story has been
written about and documented elsewhere many times, and in this book its retelling feels entirely authentic, deep, passionate and, truth be told, intensely intimate. She covered Washington’s social scene, wrote profiles of the high and mighty, the Georgetown ruling set, of which she eventually became a part. In the course of things, she made some enemies, and members of that very same set responded scathingly, with snark and snide. “I can’t say I liked that,” she said. “I mean, some people looked at me entirely differently in terms of who I was.” She had her detractors, but also friends and admirers — notably Jon Meacham, the Pulitzer-Prize winning biographer of Thomas Jefferson and Bush senior, and Post editorial writer and author David Ignatius.
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While leaving sprinklings and hints at the magic in religion and spirituality along the way, “Finding Magic” shifts gears midway through. The early sections — about her family, her father, her vivacious mother — speed along energetically with her travels, her experiences, the love-match marriage to Bradlee, the Bradlees’ life in Washington — the second section becomes less spritely, more thoughtful. It began with the birth of her son Quinn Bradlee in 1982. He was born with velocardio-facial syndrome, a condition which put him at risk on a daily basis and tested his mother’s will and courage. This was followed by the death of her mother and then her father, and finally her husband’s long decline and death three years ago. “Everything that had happened led me into further exploration of various aspects of religion, of definitions of God, of belief, of the words creator and the meanings,” she said. “This is not about being one sort of religion. I’m not a Hindu, a Muslim, a particular Christian, but I studied all of it and took from that a way to try to be at peace and happy, to understand my life and accept and explore.” The amount of tragedy, loss and difficulty that Quinn experienced seems almost overwhelming. She seems to have come out of the experiences stronger. She appears also to have found “the magic” in religion, its
transcendent aspects, from meditation to the use of labyrinths, and astrology and tarot readings. Her descriptions of Bradlee’s illness and dementia, a kind of daily failing and disappearance, are graphic and sometimes difficult to read, but they are authentically moving, even shattering. It’s easy to focus on the more sensational and intimate stories in this book. But it seems, too, to go way beyond the stories of parties, of the changes in Washington and the social setting, because it’s a picture of how one woman gets to larger meanings while handling devastating losses.
Commuter Boats to the Wharf Start Oct. 12 A new commuting service by boat from Georgetown will begin Thursday, Oct. 12, when Potomac Riverboat Company adds an hourly high-speed water-taxi service from the Georgetown waterfront to D.C.’s District Wharf. The new entertainment, restaurant, residential and office complex officially opens that day. “The water-taxi trip will take about 25 minutes each way to and from Georgetown and the Southwest Waterfront district,” said Lisa McClure, Potomac Riverboat’s sales manager,
Courtesy Entertainment Cruises. at a Georgetown Business Association reception on Sept. 20. “It will run seven days a week between March and December depending on weather conditions, from around 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Later-evening service will probably be made available for special events. Up to 10 daily departures at each location may take place during peak times.” The new water taxis were designed in the U.K. and built by Louisiana-based Metal Shark. They are fuel-efficient and have a low environmental impact, according to Potomac Riverboat. Most important, they generate low wakes — a crucial factor in the Georgetown part of the river, where there are
numerous rowing crews, canoers, kayakers, paddleboarders and the like. Two more boats will be added in March to run between the Wharf and National Harbor in Maryland. Water taxis already go from the Georgetown waterfront to Alexandria, Virginia, where there are regular commuter boats to National Harbor. The new water-taxi operation is expected to create more than 100 jobs and carry 300,000 people, both tourists and commuters, to and from the Wharf each year, according to Potomac Riverboat, now owned by Entertainment Cuises.
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Alternative to HydeAddison Opens Oct. 1 Oct. 1 is move-in day for the newest school in Georgetown. ”We are all so excited,” Elissa Alben, a Georgetown mother of three school-aged children, told The Georgetowner on Sept. 23. The following weekend, the faculty, staff, parents and children of the new Myse (pronounced MEE-suh) School plan to move furniture and equipment into their brandnew, one-room schoolhouse, a generous space lent to them by Halcyon Arts Lab in the old Fillmore School building on 35th Street NW, a block from Wisconsin Avenue. Alben has a right to be happy. She has been working every day since last November to find a local replacement for Georgetown’s only public elementary school, Hyde-Addison, on P Street a block from Wisconsin Avenue. That’s because, at a tumultuous meeting on Nov. 29 with DC Public Schools officials, attended by Mayor Muriel Bowser, parents were told that Hyde-Addison’s 300-plus students would be bused to a swing school some 40 minutes away for the next two to three years, during HydeAddison’s reconstruction. The parents were given no choice; either let the kids be bused or go elsewhere. But Alben was adamant. She wanted her kids to be together and not spend hours on a bus. Since the few alternative schools in the
area were full or too expensive, she decided this was the opportunity to build a new and unique school experience right in Georgetown. Alben found her answer in the Myse oneroom-schoolhouse system. There is a small staff of full-time teachers and a curriculum expert, but much of the learning experience happens off-site in museums and libraries, art and yoga studios, parks and farms. Chloe Kaplan, for instance, is offering Mysa and other Georgetown primaryschool students her creative writing program Amore Learning at the Georgetown Public Library once a week. At present, there are about a dozen students. But Alben expects more as they settle into the Georgetown location. Annual tuition is $17,000, well under the tuition of other private primary schools in the area.
Georgetown University Mandates Sexual Misconduct Education An expanded, multi-course classroom and online education program on sexual misconduct and relationships will soon be a requirement for all undergraduates, graduates, faculty and staff at Georgetown University, according to the university’s Sexual Assault and Misconduct Task Force report, released Sept. 15. The mandatory courses will include
Georgetown University. intensive bystander-intervention training for both undergraduates and graduate students, eventually including all campus employees. “First-year students will be the first to go through the mandatory training,” announced Vice President for Student Affairs Todd Olson. Olson called “Bringing in the Bystander,” the intensive new program, “the heart of what’s new and all first-year students are going through.” “It is very important for the faculty and staff to be well-versed and be well-trained in what resources and what their reporting obligations are in the event that a student decides to take them into their confidence,” Vice President for Institutional Diversity and Equity Rosemary Kilkenny said, campus newspaper the Hoya reported. The university will also examine the possible connections between “power differentials” in exclusive club cultures at Georgetown University, according to Laura Cutway, the university’s full-time Title IX Coordinator. “This includes the ‘partying’ culture and alcohol consumption that facilitates sexual assault.” Public awareness campaigns and additional staffing of Health Education Services will also be part of the program. The new mandates were released a week after U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos announced, on Sept. 7, the end of the Obama administration’s guidelines, which had broadened the definition of sexual assault on U.S. campuses to include perceived sexual harassment. The guidelines also broadened the punitive powers of campus administrators at
sexual-assault hearings. Secretary DeVos indicated in her order that she was “deeply concerned about addressing the views of the accused, whose stories are not often shared.” “Regardless of what the Department of Education does, we want to let it be known that the university is very committed to eradicating sexual misconduct, sexual assault and sexual harassment,” Kilkenny said. Under the new program, campus police officers should also receive additional training, Cutway said, according to the Hoya. “Sexual Assault Response Team officers will receive more intensive training, while all other university officers will receive a baseline training in handling instances of sexual violence.”
D.C. Rats Go National Uh oh. Don’t know if this is good news or bad news, but our local rats have gone national. That is to say, news about D.C.’s — and Georgetown’s — rats has increasingly appeared in the national media. In the past month, feature stories have run in USA Today, on Fox News, even in the Seattle Times. Social media sites like Reddit, Mashable and the Interrobang have carried stories, some with clickable headlines like “Giant Rat Found Near White House.” Rush Limbaugh (of all people) featured capital rodents in a video on Sept. 16: “Rat Problem Out of Control on Dupont Circle.” Both Fox News and USA Today channels featured stories on how rats had brought
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New Flight Paths Are Disruptive BY JAC K EVAN S
A Unusual NFL Sunday Those rallies, they do something to President Donald Trump. They do something to the United States of America, too. They make them less united. That’s what happened Friday, when the president, apparently chafing after days of being in presidential mode, let loose at a campaign rally in Huntsville, Alabama, for U.S. Senate candidate Luther Strange. He let loose against the National Football League and, especially, Colin Kaepernick, the San Francisco quarterback who, in the summer of 2016, knelt during a pre-game rendition of the national anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner,” protesting racism and police killings of black men. President Trump said anybody who took a knee was being disrespectful of the flag, the national anthem, police and the military. The most memorable Trump quote from that rally in Alabama? “Wouldn’t you love to see one of these NFL owners — when somebody disrespects our flag — say, ‘Get that son of a bitch off the field right now. Out. He’s fired. He’s fired!’” The next day, the president suggested that team owners fire any player that took a knee in protest. A barrage of tweets along similar lines followed. With all that was said, it made for an unusual NFL Sunday. In a startling show of unity as well as diversity, the NFL — players, owners and coaches — took visceral umbrage to the president’s words, attitudes, tones and suggestions. Trump’s outburst seemed to come out of nowhere. Kaepernick’s protests, and those by other players on other teams, took place last year. Though they continued to some degree, things had quieted down, and Kaepernick, who had become a free agent, was not picked up by any team. Many saw this as unspoken blackballing. Everything changed with the Trump explosion. Almost every team in the NFL reacted in some way or another, blasting, criticizing and protesting against the president’s comments, gathering together, linking arms on the field, staying in the locker room or, at times, kneeling or sitting. This was mostly a sharp rebuke of Trump — but it was also an uptick in Kaepernick-style protesting. The Washington Redskins, who were
The cover of the Oct. 3 issue of Time Magazine. playing a Sunday-night game, finally gathered on the field, arm in arm, owner Dan Snyder included. Even Robert Kraft, the owner of the New England Patriots, a Trump friend who contributed a million dollars to his campaign, sharply criticized him. In stadiums across the country, fans let their feelings be known too, some booing the players, some cheering them. So, what was at stake here? We’re thinking it was freedom of expression, tolerance of other peoples’ opinions, the right both to give respect and to earn it. These are what our most treasured national institutions — including the flag and the national anthem — symbolize. These things have meaning. They touch the heart with no false sense of patriotism. The president, who has a gift for dividing not uniting, managed to bring an entire sport together in, mostly, outrage. Nobody was fired that day. Trump chose to spark a firestorm — amid his dangerous “Little Rocket Man” feud with the leader of North Korea, amid an ongoing and devastating tragedy in Puerto Rico, which he did not address — when there was no reason or need for one. We think “The Star-Spangled Banner” is an occasion for unity. It was written by Georgetowner Francis Scott Key during times that questioned our unity. Our national anthem is a way to celebrate all our cherished rights, including the one that should allow us to protest silently by taking a knee — and, yes, the right to protest that protest.
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If you’re a District resident and you’ve noticed more noise from airplanes, you’re not alone. In 2016, there were 36,653 noise complaints made to the Metropolitan Washing ton Air por ts Authority. Increased noise complaints are a result of the Federal Aviation Administration changing airplane f light paths into and out of National Airport several years ago. The District hired Freytag & Associates to conduct a noise assessment over the past several months to determine what impacts noise from airplanes are having on District communities. The findings will be used to develop recommendations to revise air traffic procedures, the goal being to minimize noise impacts. Last week, the District Department of Energy and Environment hosted a meeting to discuss the 2017 DCA Airplane Noise Assessment. Georgetown and Palisades residents packed the room to listen to the findings of the report and make their voices and concerns heard. As the Council member representing these neighborhoods, I have heard from many residents regarding the growing noise levels along flight paths to DCA. I was encouraged by the turnout and to know that residents are as concerned as I am.
MWAA conducted a noise assessment prior to changing the flight paths, but only looked at noise levels within 1.5 miles of the airport. Based on that, the recommendation was to move flights east to mitigate noise over Virginia. This is what caused the noise issues in the District. Noise monitors that Freytag put inside homes along the new flight paths showed that residents had a 34-percent chance of being awakened by airplane noise during nighttime hours and that, in addition, the noise was disturbing students inside classrooms. Another interesting fact was that flights out of DCA are kept much lower at takeoff than at other airports, and that contributes to the noise. Also, almost every flight takes off to the north, again impacting District residents. How do we fix this growing problem? To start, I reached out to MWAA and demanded that the FAA restore flight paths to their original pattern prior to the change, in an attempt to decrease noise pollution in Ward 2 and in other parts of the city. My hope is that the FAA will initiate changes based on the study’s findings. However, I will remain persistent in my calls to the FAA to change the flight paths and lessen the effects of airplane noise on constituents’ lives and sanity. Jack Evans is the District Council member for Ward 2, representing Georgetown and other neighborhoods since 1991.
Dear Melania: Please Attend BY STEPH AN IE GR EEN Dear Mrs. Trump, You need to go to the Kennedy Center Honors in December. As a loyal supporter of your husband’s administration, I have no compunction about giving you unsolicited advice, especially when it’s this well-intentioned. When I read that the president would be declining to attend the program, bucking a decades-long tradition, I didn’t blame him. The behavior of the honorees has been petulant and, to use a common Trumpism, “sad.” When you accept such a prestigious award, you agree to attend all of the events, not just the ones you find politically comfortable. Otherwise, decline the honor altogether. Norman Lear should learn from Barbra Streisand, who gamely greeted President George W. Bush in 2008, though she had been blogging vociferously against him. At the ceremony, the two even kissed! “I found him warm and completely disarming, even though I think he was kissing me hello, and I was kissing him goodbye,” Streisand wrote about the meeting, tongue in cheek. This, of course, demonstrates the power of the arts, especially the American arts, which define our culture in so many ways. Without diving into too many clichés here, if there is anything that can bring us together these days, it’s our collective love for our music, films and television shows.
This is where you can make a major power play, and outclass them all. Sure, your husband ducked out, rightly, to relieve the tension of the situation. But by attending you will send a much-needed message: the Trump administration stands with artists, even those who disagree with the president. You will go and, wearing a fabulous dress, smile warmly to the crowd. You will shake the hands of the honorees and turn Lionel Richie into a pile of jelly with your disarming elegance. As a journalist who has covered the Kennedy Center Honors many times, I’ve seen how this event brings a certain détente to our community, even after vicious campaigns. Presidents and their wives always make time to attend, sitting through the often interminable ceremony. You have a penchant for saving the day (as you have so many times) and are on track to be the true gem of your husband’s presidency. Your United Nations speech advocating for children and your quiet grace provide the perfect antidote to our sometimes very ugly world. This is yet another opportunity for you to be an ambassador for American beauty. You have referenced many times on your Twitter feed #thepowerofthefirstlady. Now is your chance to use it, big league. Stephanie Green is a freelance journalist and writer, who has lived in Glover Park since 2001.
IN YOUR TOWN
COMMUNITY CALENDAR MONDAY, OCTOBER 2 ADVISORY NEIGHBORHOOD COMMISSION 2E
ANC 2E represents the Burleith, Georgetown and Hillandale neighborhoods in Ward 2 and reviews all development in the historic district and all local liquor licenses. The monthly meetings are held at 6:30 p.m. at Georgetown Visitation School, Heritage Room, 2nd floor, 35th Street and Volta Place NW. For details, visit anc2e.com.
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COMMISSION OF FINE ARTS
The monthly meeting of the Commission of Fine Arts will be held at 10 a.m. at the National Building Museum, 401 F St. NW, Suite 312. For details, visit cfa.org.
The shelter, operated in conjunction with several local congregations, offers a safe haven to the community’s most vulnerable homeless neighbors during the coldest months of the year.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3 GEORGETOWN BID
The Georgetown Business Improvement District quarterly member meeting will be held 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the City Tavern Club, 3206 M St. NW. Along with BID program updates, Destination DC will give a special presentation on tourism in Washington, D.C.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5 OLD GEORGETOWN BOARD
OGB meetings are held at 9 a.m. on the first Thursday of each month except August at the National Building Museum, 401 F St. NW, Suite 312. For details, visit cfa.org.
Ashley Lane, Sabrina Burrell, Jeremiah Cassidy, Gunther Stern, Sarah Hartley, Pat Davies, Eliza Smith, and Carolyn Landes. Courtesy Georgetown Ministry Center.
The Phoenix.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25 GBA NETWORKING MEETING
The Georgetown Business Association will hold its monthly reception at 6:30 p.m. at the Phoenix, 1516 Wisconsin Ave. NW. For details, visit georgetownbusiness.org. Send your community event listing to editorial@georgetowner.com or call 202-338-4833.
During the 2013 Spirit of Georgetown reception, which saluted Page Evans, family friend Vice President Joe Biden stopped by. Courtesy Georgetown Ministry Center. Photo by Alfredo Flores.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19 SPIRIT OF GEORGETOWN In this watershed year, it seems only fitting that GMC’s upcoming annual benefit, the Spirit of Georgetown, will be headlined by two big D.C. names. Held each fall in a historic Georgetown home, the benefit raises the lion’s share of GMC’s funding for its programming and supplies. This year’s Spirit of Georgetown will be hosted by author, journalist and storied D.C. hostess Sally Quinn. The 2017 event will honor Mayor Muriel Bowser for her dedication to the District’s chronically homeless population. An annual affair that guarantees both a sense of exclusive intimacy and the lowkey, sophisticated glamour characteristic of the D.C. social scene, the 2017 Spirit of Georgetown promises a memorable evening, filled with celebration and a reflection of what the spirit of community truly means. This year’s Spirit of Georgetown will be held Thursday, Oct. 19, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the home of Sally Quinn, 3014 N St. NW. For details, visit spiritofgeorgetown.org.
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f you’re a Georgetown resident, chances are you’re familiar with any neighborhood establishment that has been around for three decades. In the ever-evolving landscape of Georgetown commercial doorsteps, such places are rarities. However, in 2017, one organization with which you may not be familiar is quietly marking 30 years in the community. Georgetown Ministry Center — a nonprofit whose entryway is tucked discretely into an alleyway on the side of Grace Episcopal Church on Wisconsin Avenue — has been serving individuals experiencing homelessness in Georgetown since its humble beginnings in 1987. Georgetown Ministry Center’s anniversary is being recognized both as a celebration of the progress that has been made and as a solemn reminder of the oft-hidden societal issue that still permeates the neighborhood’s historic streets. GMC was founded after Georgetowners were moved to find an appropriate community response to the death of an elderly homeless man named Freddie, who died of exposure in an icy phone booth on M Street in 1984.
The Georgetown Clergy Association and Georgetown University were instrumental in organizing a governing board and raising start-up funds. A short time later, GMC began operating from a cubicle-sized room in Grace Church. It has since grown to include a servicerich drop-in center, a street outreach program and a winter shelter. The shelter, operated in conjunction with several local congregations, offers a safe haven to the community’s most vulnerable homeless neighbors during the coldest months of the year. GMC is marking more than one milestone this year. Not only is it commemorating 30 years of service in the community, but its executive director, Gunther Stern, is planning his retirement after a tenure nearly as long. Stern joined GMC as its executive director in the fall of 1990. In the ensuing years, his name has become synonymous with the organization — both to its supporters and to the homeless individuals he visits on the street. Stern is credited with reaching Georgetown’s most isolated members of society; his is a familiar face that even the most withdrawn individuals have come to trust.
President — Alexander Bullock
GEORGETOWN MINISTRY CENTER
Vice President — Jeremiah Cassidy
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Treasurer — John Lange
Best email: info@gmcgt.org Best phone: 202-338-8301 _______________
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Gunther Stern, executive director (With Stern’s upcoming retirement, GMC is interviewing a new executive director and expects to have one before the end of 2017.) Annual budget: $650,000.
Secretary — Page Robinson GMC’s daily activities are managed by a small, paid staff, supported through the help of volunteers. GMC is governed by a volunteer board of directors, composed of one or two representatives each from the Georgetown Clergy Association, Georgetown University, and member congregations. GMC also has a representative from the Citizens Association of Georgetown, Georgetown Business Association, the Georgetown Business Improvement District and a formerly homeless person.
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launched the boutique on Pennsylvania Avenue four years ago so that Washingtonians could experience the beauty and elegance of shopping Italian style (without the jet lag!),” wrote Ayres. “This is a welcome opportunity to transfer ownership to the iconic Rubinacci brand. No doubt you are wondering: what will brand ownership mean for our customers? The answer is: an even better Amina Rubinacci experience — with a more comprehensive line of clothing and accessories.” Stefania Ciuffi remains as store manager and Italian stylist and AnnMaria Baldine as senior stylist. Former owner Ayres added, “I plan to be involved as a special advisor to the boutique.”
In: Dockless Bike-Share Companies Gear Up Alessandro Spada of Amina Rubinacci in Naples, Italy, with Merribel Ayres, founder of the Georgetown Amina Rubinacci shop, and Carlo Spada. Photo by Robert Devaney.
Amina Rubinacci Georgetown Bought by Company The Amina Rubinacci company of Naples, Italy, liked the Amina Rubinacci boutique at 2822 Pennsylvania Ave. NW in Georgetown so much that it bought the business from Merribel
Ayres, who opened the store in 2014. It is now the first Amina Rubinacci company-owned boutique in the United States. “I take great personal satisfaction in having
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Within a week, four new bike-share companies entered the Washington, D.C., market: Jump DC, Lime Bike, Mobike and Spin. With apps for each, Lime Bike, Mobike and Spin require a credit card, a phone number and your location. The cost is about $1 per halfhour. Using a lock on the rear wheel, the bikes are released and later simply left by the rider on a sidewalk. (The online agreement asks users to put the bike in an appropriate spot.) Jump DC is an electric-assist bike that riders need to lock to a bike rack with the bike’s own lock. The cost is $2 for a half-hour, but the energy boost sounds worth it.
A Lime Bike on Potomac Street.
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In: Take a Meeting at Breather “Conference Room Space on Demand” is what Breather is all about. A Georgetown spot will open mid-October at 1413 Wisconsin Ave. NW, above Redzz Trading clothing store and next to the CVS pharmacy. “It’s a great concept, allowing folks to instantly have a place to meet either here in Georgetown or numerous other locations in D.C.,” said James “Jamie” Connelly of Summit Commercial Real Estate. Founded in 2013 in Montreal, the company has locations in other major North American cities and in London.
In: Chubbies Tuck In on Wisconsin Avenue Chubbies, the friendly store with the colorful, fun-loving resort and weekend garb, has settled in at 1251 Wisconsin Ave. NW. The shorts specialist arrived in Georgetown a few Christmases ago in Cady’s Alley and returned this summer at 3025 M St. NW as a pop-up with another clothing retailer, Of Mercer. On behalf of the Chubster Nation, the website declares, “Good to see ya, Georgetown.” Good to see ya, too.
In: Wine Outlet on Grace Street It looks like the Wine Outlet, planned for 3210 Grace St. NW, is moving forward. Less than 1,000 square feet, the shop will be located off the lobby of a condo building at that address. “We don’t expect to have more than 10 people in the shop and tasting at any one time,” said manager Jeff Hancock, who added that the shop will be open until 8 p.m. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights and until 7 p.m. on other days. There won’t be tables and chairs or wine service.
Out (But Never In): Footlocker Deal Off Footaction, the expected tenant for the renovated Georgetown Theater property at 1351 Wisconsin Ave. NW, has pulled out of the deal. Property owner and architect Robert Bell told The Georgetowner: “On the day of signing a 20-year lease, after eight months of negotiations, completion of contract drawings and construction scheduled to start October 1, 2017, Footlocker downsized its future — and withdrew from the lease agreement.” Footlocker, parent company of Footaction, sent the following to Bell: “Due to the recent sales trends and reduction in capital, the decision was made not to move forward with the deal on Wisconsin Avenue for Footaction. I am so sorry for all the time and work that everyone has put into this deal.” “This is bittersweet for me,” Bell told The Georgetowner. “Although I am disappointed not to have a lease for the next 20 years and have the theater in full use, I am optimistic that the theater will have a more inspiring retail business to revitalize the building and the neighborhood. “Alternative tenants have already contacted me since Friday,” Bell continued. “I am also debating whether I should accept offers from potential purchasers for the theater.” Bell presented designs for signage on the property to Georgetown’s Advisory Neighborhood Commission earlier this month. Have a business news tip or profile suggestion? Also, let us know when your business anniversary is coming. Email editorial@georgetowner.com.
BUSINESS
Sweetgreen Founders ‘Never Done’ BY SELMA K HENISS I
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t’s been 10 years since Georgetown University graduates Nicolas Jammet, Jonathan Neman and Nathaniel Ru opened their first Sweetgreen restaurant on M Street NW. On Sept. 15, the trio opened a new location in the neighborhood where their business idea first took off. “We’re thrilled to be, 10 years later, back in Georgetown,” Jammet said. For the three men, now in their 30s, the university setting played an important role in bringing Sweetgreen to life. Nicholas Jammet, who goes by Nic, met Jonathan Neman (he calls him Jon) at Harbin Hall during his freshman year. Neman was living next door and Jammet then met Ru through Neman. While the three of them were studying at Georgetown, they discovered a problem that needed solving: Where could they get something healthy to eat? They decided to take matters into their own hands. “We wanted to create a place where the food was healthy and delicious,” Jammet said. So they got to work, testing out recipes in their dorm rooms. They also made the most of the courses they took as undergraduates at Georgetown (Jammet majored in business management, while Neman and Ru majored in finance).
Nathaniel Ru, Jonathan Neman, and Nicolas Jammet.
One that stood out was an entrepreneurship course taught by Will Finnerty, who became a mentor to the cofounders and an early investor in Sweetgreen. By the time the three students were seniors, they had worked out a business plan. They sought advice from friends and that curiosity became an important part of their modus operandi; to this day, the three businessmen seek out feedback from customers. According to Jammet, an important part of their mission is to have open and honest conversations. That way, there can be a sense of community through their business’ ability to connect with people and food. This constant curiosity and the desire to learn are included in the trio’s values. “Ten years out of college, we’re still students,” said Jammet. The result is a business that has expanded to more than 70 restaurants in D.C., Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, Illinois and California. Their goal of serving healthy, delicious food that is made from scratch and has a known provenance is part of a movement also associated with British chef Jamie Oliver. This work, Jammet said, is a lifelong journey. “We’re never done,” he said.
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Equifax: The Stakes Are High BY JOHN GIROUARD
Unless you have been living under a rock for the last 30 days, you have probably heard about the Equifax data breach. On Sept. 7, Equifax, one of America’s three main creditreporting agencies, announced that hackers had exposed vital personal identification data — including names, addresses, birth dates and Social Security numbers — of as many as 143 million consumers, roughly 55 percent of Americans aged 18 and older. Over my career as a Certified Financial Planner, I’ve experienced global catastrophes, major market meltdowns and the housing crisis. Yet nothing has created as much confusion and uncertainty as the realization that one’s personal financial records are at risk of being compromised by anonymous cybercriminals. This single issue is far more concerning because in today’s world one’s credit score determines if you can participate in the economy or not. Your credit score dictates whether you can take out a mortgage, borrow money to pay for your children’s education or even sign up for cable service. The internet, as much as we are dependent on it, is still very abstract for many people. We can’t see it, touch it, feel it or even understand how it functions. And this is dangerous. Even with the stakes this high, many people think they don’t have to worry, proclaiming: “I
Photo by Tami Chappell. never buy anything online, I don’t pay my bills online, I don’t even access any of my accounts on the internet. So I’m okay, right?” Wrong. Just because you have not participated in the internet’s benefits doesn’t mean that you are protected from its risks. If you have a bank account or a credit card, your information is on the internet somewhere. This breach is not anything to sneeze at. If your information has been hacked, it means that all your personal account numbers on any credit card, loan or line of credit, as well
as any address where you’ve ever lived, is susceptible. On top of that, all the answers to those private security questions that you are asked to answer when you go online can be found on those same hacked credit reports. So what should you do? Going back to Equifax to ask them to protect your credit may make you uneasy, and I don’t blame you. As one of my clients said, “It’s like going back to a doctor that sexually abused you for your annual physical.”
Signing up with a credit-monitoring company is one helpful option. But think of them only as insurance against your losses; they fall short of actually preventing identity theft. They help to alert you to fraudulent activity, but repairing your credit is ultimately still a personal problem. Perhaps the safest way to protect your identity is to monitor your accounts for fraudulent activity. The easiest way to do this is to link all your accounts to an online service, such as an account aggregator, that notifies you whenever a financial transaction occurs. If you want the most up-to-date advice on how to protect your information, a more detailed explanation of your options is posted on the Georgetowner website. You can also contact me at j.e.girouard@capitalamg.com and I can walk you step by step through your options. Author of “Take Back Your Money” and “The Ten Truths of Wealth Creation,” John E. Girouard is president and CEO of Capital Asset Management Group, a registered principal of Cambridge Investment Research and an investment advisor representative of Capital Investment Advisors in Georgetown.
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The Beautiful Schools of Washington, D.C. BY D ONNA E V E RS
The District’s history of building and promoting public schools has had surprising peaks and troughs over the past 150 years. While the scholastic status of D.C. schools has often been at the bottom of the list of states, there were also times when Washington schools led the nation in academics as well as aesthetics. For example, from 1890 to 1930, the District had the best public schools in the country for black students. As a reminder, public schools in the United States were racially segregated until the 1950s, with separate black schools and white schools until 1954, when the District became the first city in the country to desegregate its schools. In 1868, one of the foremost schools in the country to promote the advancement of black students was the Thaddeus Stevens School at 1050 21st St. NW. A handsome structure, it was the finest school of its kind for that time, producing graduates including singer Roberta Flack and surgeon Charles Drew. It captured public attention again in the 1970s for a different reason: in an unprecedented move, President Jimmy Carter sent his daughter Amy
There were so many beautiful schools built here in the 19th century that Washington, D.C., won a prize for its public-school architecture at the 1893 World Exposition in Vienna, Austria. Some of the finest buildings included the Wallach School at 7th and D Streets SE, Franklin School at 13th and K Streets NW, Sumner School at 17th and M Streets NW and Jefferson School at 801 7th St. NW, all built between 1864 and 1872. Thaddeus Stevens School. Courtesy DC Preservation League. there, since it was the neighborhood public school for 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. The District’s early commitment to building aesthetically pleasing schools ran from the mid-1800s right up to the 1940s. It probably peaked at the turn of the last century during the City Beautiful movement. In the early 1900s, many famous architects came to Washington to design mansions for the boomtime millionaires lobbying Congress to pass legislation favorable to their businesses. In addition, the McMillan Commission was following through on L’Enfant’s plan for the nation’s capital, adding monuments and parks to complete his grand design. There was a lot of talent in Washington, and these architects got commissions to build schools as well as homes. There were so many beautiful schools built here in the 19th century that Washington, D.C., won a prize for its public-school architecture at the 1893 World Exposition in Vienna, Austria. Some of the finest buildings included the Wallach School at 7th and D Streets SE (since demolished), Franklin School at 13th and K Streets NW, Sumner School at 17th and M Streets NW and Jefferson School at 801 7th St. NW, all built between 1864 and 1872. By 1874, the Office of Building Inspectors was established to approve school construction. It quickly approved a whole series of handsome redbrick schools in the general style of Romanesque Revival. By the 1900s, there was an added emphasis on comfort as well as beauty, with the addition of better heating and ventilation, laboratories, gymnasiums and even swimming pools. In 1909, the District appointed its first municipal architect, Snowden Ashford, and he designed the beautiful Eastern High School on East Capital Street NE, Dunbar High School (since demolished) and the stately Central High School, now Cardozo High School.
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Most of these schools were built for white students. When whites began leaving the city for the suburbs between 1930 and 1950, the D.C. population became predominantly black — leaving the black schools overcrowded and underfunded and the white schools almost empty. The situation got worse before it got better. In 1954, desegregation meant that black students were able to use all the schools. The system was hardly desegregated, however, since the bulk of the remaining white population responded by fleeing the city for the suburbs. Many of these historic buildings are still in use, and the reincarnation of one such storied school, Thaddeus Stevens, is underway. The fate of this shuttered school has been through many twists and turns in recent years. First it was going to go condo, then it was going to be a school for special-needs children, a plan that was approved by the neighborhood but never came to fruition. Currently it is slated to become an extension of the School Without Walls, to be used as a learning center for infant and toddler development — a proposal eagerly anticipated in this popular urban neighborhood of condos, townhouses and families with babies and young children. It will be good to see the doors of this grand old school building in use and open to the public again. Donna Evers is the owner of the largest woman-owned and woman-run real estate firm in the Washington metro area, the proprietor of Twin Oaks Tavern Winery in Bluemont, Virginia, and a devoted student of Washington-area history. Reach her at devers@eversco.com.
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BY KAT E OCZ Y P OK
D.C. wants to become the site for Amazon’s second headquarters.
D.C. Queues Up for HQ2
Mayor Muriel Bowser announced that D.C. plans to submit a bid to become home to Amazon’s second headquarters. In a video that played off Amazon’s popular Echo device, run by virtual assistant “Alexa,” Bowser asks: “Alexa, what is the best city for Amazon HQ2?” The response? A montage of D.C. highlights. The city’s bid is being coordinated by the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development, Brian Kenner.
More rats are plaguing D.C. than ever before.
We’re Third Rattiest D.C. has dealt with rats for years, but there has been a recent surge in residents’ complaints about the critters. Over the last three fiscal years, rat calls have risen by more than 1,000 calls. Last year, calls spiked to a total of 3,286, Fox 5 reported. Orkin Pest Control has named D.C. the third rattiest city in the country after Chicago and New York.
A woman who tried to abduct a child from a Metrobus was arrested.
Abduction on Metrobus Stopped Transit police arrested a 39-year-old woman who tried to abduct a 7-year-old from a Metrobus in Northeast D.C. Aug. 30, NBC Washington reported. The victim and his sister were riding the bus to school when Thalia Denise Brown approached them and asked where their parents were. She then told the boy, “When we get off this bus, you’re coming with me. We going to the feds.” Other passengers came to the children’s assistance.
A Bold Bite has opened in downtown D.C.
Bold Bite Opens in Golden Triangle Fast-casual eatery Bold Bite Market opened at 1028 19th St. NW on Sept. 25, serving breakfast, lunch and dinner. The menu features hand-spun milkshakes, fries and items from 202 Donuts and TapaBar, other ventures of brothers Alonso and Alvaro Roche. There will also be a Vigilante Coffee espresso bar. Carnivores can chomp on a Black Angus hickory-smoked burger or a grilled half-smoke.
Be Very Afraid … of Pumpkin Cocktails
Remember the long lines at the “Game of Thrones” pop-up bar in Shaw last summer? Well, the folks behind it — who decked out a Christmas-themed bar last holiday season — have devised a Halloween-themed popup, P.U.B. Dread, to run the entire month of October, Washingtonian magazine reported. Visitors will enter through a haunted forest and weave their way into a crypt. There are also plans for a creepy doll room. As for cocktails, expect a lot of apple and pumpkininfused drinks.
A 21-year-old is in deep trouble for vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial.
No Signing the Lincoln Memorial A foreign student who used a penny to etch his name in Cyrillic letters (reported by linguistically challenged Park Police as HYPT MAEK) on a pillar at the Lincoln Memorial has been arrested. Nurtilek Bakirov, 21, apologized repeatedly, telling officers he didn’t know carving was prohibited, according to DCist. The potential penalties are up to a decade in prison and a $25,000 fine. The embassy of Bakirov’s home country, the Kyrgyz Republic, was notified. Earlier this summer, someone spray-painted F**K LAW on the memorial.
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Hot Tickets!
Welcome to the Fall Gala Season BY SELMA K HENISS I
Bring on the autumnal coolness, O Muses, and if it please you, let us go to galas that are stunning, graceful and happy. And let us be at ease, meeting old friends and meeting new ones, all in the name of charity — by and large. The Georgetowner sought answers from a few friends around town about the hottest galas coming up this fall, their all-time favorites and their favorite charities. One of the first and most amusing replies was from New York Times columnist MAUREEN DOWD: “I don’t do galas! Try Sally Quinn.” And so, we did. SALLY QUINN replied: “Hottest gala in fall 2017 is going to be the Alzheimer’s gala at the Reagan Building.” A favorite charity? Children’s Hospital in Washington, D.C., and the National Center for Learning Disabilities. LINDA ROTH wrote: “’Tis the season and there certainly are lots of galas. Hottest gala this fall is Knock Out Abuse Against Women on Nov. 2 at the Ritz-Carlton. They have always been a charity that is near and dear to me. My all-time favorite that no longer happens was the Larry King Cardiac Foundation gala. The performers were awesome: Celine Dion, Seal, Tim McGraw, Aretha Franklin, Patti LaBelle, Stevie Wonder, Wynonna Judd, Ricky Martin, Bill Maher, James Brown, Martin Short, Lewis Black.” STEPHANIE GREEN chimed in: “It’s not really my thing, but I’m looking forward to the Meridian Ball. Most memorable: Opera Ball of 2010, the year that Russia hosted. It was so extravagant (caviar buffets, huge ice sculptures of bears and these cakes that were designed to look like Fabergé eggs). It looked like a Fabergé egg — I’ve never seen anything like that and probably never will.” PAMELA LYNNE SORENSEN replied: “I’m looking forward to the Colon Cancer Alliance Blue Hope Bash at the Mellon Auditorium Oct. 19. It’s a cause near and dear to me (my friend Michael Sapienza is the CEO) and I love that venue. I have to say, the Shakespeare Theatre Company gala and Will Award each year has blown me away — from the performances, to the fun walk over to the Building Museum where the dinner is, to the out-of-this-world decor, to the dancing, to the star-studded stage.” Favorite charity? “Humane Rescue Alliance!” KRISTIN RAE CECCHI, one of last year’s co-chairs of the Georgetown Gala, wrote: “The Georgetown Gala is always one of the best parties in town, and the Meridian Ball is also a hot ticket this fall! The spring 2017
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gala for the 30th anniversary of the National Museum of Women in the Arts is my favorite. I co-chaired this event with Amy Baier, Jamie Dorros and Cindy Jones, board president. The flowers and decor (designed by Cindy Jones) were absolutely breathtaking. It was the most beautiful event I have ever attended. “There is no shortage of worthy and deserving causes in this city, but Children’s National Medical Center is always one of my favorites. It is near and dear to the heart of the Cecchi family, especially to my in-laws, Mercedes and Giuseppe Cecchi. They credit Children’s Hospital for saving the life of their youngest son and my husband, G. John Cecchi, when he was an infant more than 40 years ago.” MICHELLE KORSMO, COLMAN RIDDELL and AMY PORTER STROH, co-chairs of this year’s Georgetown Gala, put on by the Citizens Association of Georgetown at the Four Seasons Oct. 21, agreed that hottest gala this fall is — no surprise — “the Georgetown Gala, of course!” One favorite Stroh recalled was the 2013 Children’s Hospital Heroes Gala. Riddell said the CAG gala’s theme will be “The Streets of Georgetown” and urged: “Come and represent all the streets you’ve lived on in Georgetown!” Her favorite charity is the Georgetown Ministry Center. MARY BIRD, The Georgetowner’s veteran social correspondent, also spoke up: “I am not the best on choosing the hottest gala. I think it is a matter of what people like and want to support: the arts, medical research, food, animal welfare, etc. The National Symphony season-opening gala, Ambassadors Ball, Harman Center for the Arts gala, Meridian Ball, Knock Out Abuse Gala and Fight Night, Lombardi Gala and the Choral Arts Society of Washington’s Holiday Concert and Gala are all important. The Kennedy Center Honors will be interesting with the first family not attending.” All-time favorites? “I am a huge animal supporter and love the summer Bark Ball supporting the Humane Rescue Alliance.” What are your favorites, dear reader? Visit The Georgetowner’s Facebook page and share your thoughts about this fall’s hot tickets.
Colman Riddell, Amy Porter Stroh and Michelle Korsmo, co-chairs of this year’s Georgetown Gala
OCTOBER 21 CITIZENS ASSOCIATION OF GEORGETOWN GALA At the annual Georgetown Gala, more than 450 guests will celebrate Georgetown and the Citizens Association of Georgetown’s mission of historic preservation and improving the life of the community. The evening will include cocktails, a high-end silent auction, a dinner buffet, a cigar bar on the terrace and music by For the Win, one of D.C.’s premiere party bands. Four Seasons Hotel. Email cagmail@cagtown.org.
FALL GALA GUIDE COMPILED BY MARY BIRD
Gala Guide fall 2017
Courtesy Shakespeare Harman Center.
OCTOBER 3 ARENA STAGE WINE AUCTION Judith N. Batty and Sandra Taylor are the event chairs for an evening that starts with a sparkling-wine reception and a silent auction, continues with a five-course dinner with wine pairings and culminates in a live auction. Rare bottles and opportunities, including 1966 Chateau d’Yquem Sauternes and 1981 Pétrus, Pomerol Bordeaux blend (Magnum), will be offered. Arena Stage. Call Carmen Joya at 202772-4334 or email carmen.joya@cc-dc.org.
OCTOBER 5 SMITHSONIAN CRAFT2WEAR OPENING NIGHT Enjoy a cocktail reception with creative hors d’oeuvres, meet the artists and be among the first to shop their chic and unique creations. Produced by the Smithsonian Women’s Committee to benefit Smithsonian Institution programs, the show continues through Oct. 7. National Building Museum. Call 888-8329554 or visit smithsoniancraft2wear.org.
OCTOBER 6 OPERA CAMERATA Under the gracious patronage of Ambassador of Colombia Camilo Reyes, Opera Camerata will present Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro” featuring Colombian American soprano Sophia Benedetti. The performance will be preceded by a cocktail reception and a buffet dinner. Residence of the Ambassador of Colombia. Email info@operacamerata.org.
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Over the past 38 years, the annual National MS Society Ambassadors Ball has raised more than $20 million to support the National MS Society. The 39th Ambassadors Ball welcomes members of Congress, ambassadors, business and philanthropic leaders and their spouses to honor the diplomatic corps for their charitable activities and humanitarian endeavors. The evening is highlighted by a grand silent auction. Marriott Marquis. Call Andrew Edwards at 202-375-5602 or email andrew.edwards@nmss.org.
The Meridian Ball brings together members of the public and the private sector to celebrate Meridian’s ongoing efforts to prepare leaders for a complex global future. Guests have the option of choosing between an intimate ambassador-hosted dinner or the White-Meyer dinner on Meridian’s campus. Following the dinners, guests gather for dancing, dessert and conversation at Meridian House. Meridian International Center. Call Olivia Dorieux at 202-939-5892 or odorieux@meridian.org.
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OCTOBER 22
HARMAN CENTER FOR THE ARTS 10TH ANNIVERSARY GALA
MARK TWAIN PRIZE FOR AMERICAN HUMOR
The evening will honor Laura Linney, Anthony Williams, Jack Evans and Natwar Gandhi. After watching world-class multidisciplinary performances in Sidney Harman Hall, guests will proceed to the National Building Museum to mingle with the stars of the evening and enjoy a gourmet dinner and dancing. The event benefits the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s arts education and community engagement programs. Call Amanda Herman at 202-547-3230, ext. 2330, or email hcagala@shakespearetheatre.org.
An outstanding lineup of entertainers will gather to salute David Letterman, recipient of the 20th annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. The prize will be given at a taped gala performance featuring some of the biggest names in comedy. Contributions help support the Kennedy Center’s yearround educational and artistic initiatives, which reach millions of students, educators and families throughout the nation. Kennedy Center Concert Hall. Call 202-416-8196 or email mtp@kennedy-center.org.
OCTOBER 16 PEN/FAULKNER CELEBRATION PEN/Faulkner will hold the 29th annual celebration in support of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the Writers in Schools program. Master of ceremonies Calvin Trillin will present specially composed works by leading authors on the theme of belonging. Cocktails and readings followed by a reception featuring food prepared by local chefs. The Showroom, 1099 14th St. NW. Call 202-8989063 or email rsvp@penfaulkner.org.
NOVEMBER 2 KNOCK OUT ABUSE GALA At the 24th annual gala, more than 700 guests will join together for an evening of inspiration, entertainment and raucous fundraising. Cocktails and a silent auction will be followed by a dinner program with a performance by a Grammy-winning artist. At 10 p.m., the ballroom will be transformed into a clubby nightclub lounge and dance floor. Knock Out Abuse is a D.C.-based organization that envisions a community free from domestic violence. Ritz-Carlton Washington, D.C. Call 202-223-1906 or email rebecca@knockoutabuse.org.
FIGHT NIGHT
Courtesy Fight for Children.
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BLUE HOPE BASH
SMITHSONIAN FOOD HISTORY GALA
The Blue Hope Bash is the premiere fundraising event of the Colon Cancer Alliance, which seeks to end colon cancer within our lifetime. The five-year strategic plan is to invest $10 million in research, save 15,000 lives through increased screening and double the number of constituents served. Mellon Auditorium. Email bluehopebash@ccalliance.org.
Courtesy Knock Out Abuse.
The third annual Smithsonian Food History Gala, a fundraiser for future food history programs, research and collecting, will feature the presentation of the Julia Child Award to Danny Meyer at a seated blacktie dinner. The gala kicks off the annual Smithsonian Food History Weekend, which continues for two more days and includes four other events. National Museum of American History. Call Kari Fantasia at 202-633-3302 or email fantasiaka@si.edu.
The late Joseph E. Robert Jr. started Fight Night 28 years ago as an opportunity to get his friends and colleagues together for a fun night to support a great cause: improving the lives of at-risk children throughout the Mid-Atlantic region. Fight Night has generated more than $60 million, fueling work at Fight For Children and continuing Joe Robert’s mission of improving early-childhood education. Washington Hilton. Call Judy Wrench at 202-772-0417 or judy.wrench@fightforchildren.org.
N0VEMBER 4 NATIONAL ITALIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATION GALA The National Italian American Foundation’s 42nd anniversary gala weekend is Nov. 3, 4 and 5. The event is highlighted by the celebrity-laden gala on Nov. 4, supporting the foundation’s mission to preserve, protect and promote Italian American heritage. Marriott Wardman Park Hotel. Email gala@niaf.org.
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DECEMBER 3
LAB SCHOOL OF WASHINGTON AWARDS GALA
KENNEDY CENTER HONORS In a star-studded, black-tie celebration on the Kennedy Center Opera House stage, the 2017 honorees — Carmen de Lavallade, Gloria Estefan, LL Cool J, Norman Lear and Lionel Richie — will be saluted by today’s leading performers from New York, Hollywood and the arts capitals of the world through performances and tributes. Email honors@kennedycenter.org.
The Lab School celebrates 50 years of honoring outstanding achievers with learning differences. The evening begins with a reception and a silent auction, followed by a dinner, the awards program and dancing. All net proceeds fund need-based financial aid for students at the school, which raises awareness about learning differences and recognizes people who have overcome their own learning differences and gone on to achieve great heights in their careers and lives. National Building Museum. Email Marty Cathcart at martycathcart@labschool.org.
NOVEMBER 18 LOMBARDI GALA
DECEMBER 8 IMAGINATION STAGE’S ‘BELLA NOTTE’ GALA Celebrating Imagination Stage’s 38 years as the largest and most respected multidisciplinary theatre-arts organization for young people in the D.C. metropolitan area, the gala will feature a seated dinner complemented by Italianinspired performances by Imagination Stage students and professional actors. Embassy of Italy. Email events@imaginationstage.org.
Courtesy Lab School of Washington.
The Lombardi Gala, a black-tie event benefitting the Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, features a cocktail reception, a silent auction, a raffle for a Lexus automobile, a dinner, a presentation of awards to remarkable individuals for their efforts to fight cancer, an after-hours lounge and dancing. Proceeds from the gala help fund Lombardi’s worldclass research, which leads to clinical trials and innovative new treatments that change the lives of people with cancer. Ritz-Carlton Washington, D.C. Email Cristy Heffernan Seth at c1175@georgetown.edu.
DECEMBER 10 WASHINGTON BALLET’S NUTCRACKER TEA PARTY Ginger Dietrich and Andrea Rinaldi will co-chair a “Nutty Tea” with handson activities and the opportunity to pose for photographs with members of the cast of “The Nutcracker.” The tea benefits the Washington Ballet’s education and community development programs. Proceeds raise critical funds to provide quality dance performances and training. National Museum of Women in the Arts. Call Elissa Staley Holub at 202-2744518 or email estaley@washingtonballet.org.
NOVEMBER 19 AMERICAN PORTRAIT GALA This black-tie event includes a chic cocktail reception, lively entertainment and a seated dinner in the Robert and Arlene Kogod Courtyard. During dinner, guests will enjoy presentations of the Portrait of a Nation Prize, recognizing the accomplishments of contemporary Americans who have made an impact on our history, development and culture and whose portraits reside in the National Portrait Gallery collection. All proceeds from the gala will strengthen the museum’s exhibition endowment. Call 202-633-8553 or email npg_gala@si.edu.
Washington Ballet Nutcracker Tea Party.
DECEMBER 18 CHORAL ARTS SOCIETY HOLIDAY CONCERT AND GALA To top off the year-long centennial independence celebration Suomi Finland 100, Ambassador of Finland Kirsti Kauppi will be the honorary patron for an elegant and festive celebration of the season benefitting Choral Arts. The evening begins with “A Choral Arts Christmas,” a concert with the Choral Arts Chorus in the Kennedy Center Concert Hall, followed by a reception and a silent auction on the Roof Terrace, a gourmet dinner and dancing. Kennedy Center. Call Carolyn Purcell at 202-244-3669 or email cpurcell@ choralarts.org.
NOVEMBER 29 WILLIAM H. WEBSTER DISTINGUISHED SERVICE DINNER This International Spy Museum event honors William H. Webster, former director of the CIA and the FBI. The evening includes cocktails, a dinner and an awards ceremony. Ritz-Carlton Washington, D.C. Call Rebecca Diamond at 202-654-0954 or email rdiamond@ spymuseum.org.
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Courtesy National Portrait Gallery.
Choral Arts Society. Photo by Russell Hirshorn.
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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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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.
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202–333–4710 | dasethiopian.com DAS Ethiopian offers you a cozy two-story setting, with rare outside dining views and al fresco patio dining. DAS is located at the eclectically brilliant historic corner of the shopping district of Georgetown. A tent under which all come to feast is the very Amharic definition of DAS. Enjoy the casual yet refined atmosphere that serves up the freshest Ethiopian dishes from local and sustainable food sources.
202–295–2826 | 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.
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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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MurLarkey Distilled Spirits, based in Bristow, Virginia, was awarded five medals by the American Distilling Institute, the most won this year by any Virginia distillery. Divine Clarity Vodka won gold in the grain-to-glass vodka category. Brutality Limited Reserve Whiskey, Cincerity (cinnamon) Whiskey, Justice White Whiskey and Imagination Gin were awarded bronze medals. As a result, MurLarkey has stepped up its tastings in D.C. A variety of MurLarkey whiskeys are available in Georgetown at Martin’s Tavern. Would you like a deposit slip with that croissant? Capital One Financial Corporation is rolling out a new café concept with 21 locations in eight states. The bank’s first two Capital One Cafés in the District will be in Georgetown at 3150 M St. NW, where Nathan’s used to be, and in Penn Quarter at 732 7th St. NW, where Radio Shack and Sprint used to be. Both are expected to open in late 2018. The bank-café concept features coffee, pastries, free WiFi, lounge seating, ATMs, meeting rooms and financial advice. Addie’s is back. Black Restaurant Group reopened the legendary restaurant, named for Jeff Black’s grandmother, in the new Park Potomac development in Potomac, Maryland. The Aug. 22 opening date has special meaning, as Addie’s opened 22 years ago. Yes, they will still serve Addie’s Mussels and the Addie’s Rolls, which persist as best-selling items on other Black Restaurant menus. There is a six-seat oyster bar and an outdoor patio. Executive chef Dane Sewlall and GM Doug Doyle, both Black Restaurant Group veterans, are part of the team. Also in the group: Black Salt Restaurant & Fish Market, Pearl Dive Oyster Palace, Black Jack Bar and Tilt
Sidebar, Black Market Bistro, Black’s Bar and Kitchen and Republic Takoma Park. Quick Hits: Adams Morgan musical chairs. Now in the spot that used to be Ben Tre Vietnamese Cuisine (and, before that, Yamas), is #1 Juicy Cajun Seafood at 2418 18th St. NW, next to another newly relocated (from Shaw) Ethiopian restaurant, Zenebech Injera … Mr. Chen’s Organic Chinese Food will be coming to the NamViet space at 3419 Connecticut Ave. NW … Tony Tomelden of The Pug in Northeast DC and John Solomon of Solly’s U Street Tavern and Brookland’s Finest plan to open a bar next to Joe’s Seafood, Prime Steak & Stone Crab on 15th Street NW called Union Trust, probably because it’s in the Union Trust Building … Adam Greenberg plans to open Coconut Club near Union Market next spring, with islandinspired small plates and fresh tropicaljuice cocktails in the 3,000-square-foot restaurant. The Hawaiian-themed cocktail program will lead with rum … Jason Maddens will open Ah-So, a wine-focused restaurant with a modern American menu, at the Brambleton Town Center in Virginia. He was previously at Clarity in Vienna. Legal Sea Foods has launched Legal C Bar, a smaller-sized restaurant geared to airports and train stations. Although the chain has a history at DCA, they will open this smaller (71-seat) branded concept at Union Station.
Linda Roth is president of Linda Roth Associates, a public relations and marketing firm that specializes in the hospitality industry. Reach her at linda@lindarothpr.com.
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TURNING JAPANESE, I REALLY THINK SO • 2 ounces Smith & Cross navystrength rum • .5 ounces Amaro Sfumato • .5 ounces sweet vermouth • 2 dashes of orange bitters Stir all ingredients with ice, strain into a coupe (martini) glass and garnish with an orange peel.
sake does double duty, taking the place of both the rum and the lime of a traditional mojito, and the cucumber gives this tipple a garden-fresh flavor. Manager Justin Cho hailed its virtues, describing it as a perfect summer cocktail. To appeal to the younger crowd, there are two offerings from Sakerum’s frozen daiquiri machine. But don’t expect some sickeningly sweet, slushy drinks reminiscent of spring break. Chersevani has designed these drinks to be upscale and sophisticated. One is a ginger grapefruit rosé that surpasses any frozé drink in town. The second one, forged from green tea and wasabi, is a little more plucky. Also popular with the younger crowd, according to Cho, are the rum and tonics made with Sakerum’s house-flavored tonics. The dual personalities of rum and sake are also reflected in the décor. The downstairs lounge has a sultry feel, with dimmed lights and Latin textiles, while the upstairs is light and bright with a retractable glass roof. Either floor provides a stylish environment to imbibe Sakerum’s imaginative cocktails.
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As a lover of rum, I’m always on the lookout for innovative cocktails and combinations. The resurgence of tiki culture helped put rum back in the spotlight, with cocktails that highlight the nuances and flavors of different varieties. More and more mixologists have begun pushing the envelope by mingling this complex spirit with inventive ingredients. During my recent jaunt to Washington, D.C., an Asian-Latin fusion restaurant on 14th Street caught my attention. Its name, Sakerum — melding my favorite spirit with the traditional Japanese drink — piqued my interest. Immediately my mind began envisioning combinations of sunny tropical spices and vanilla, layered with earthy and tangy sake. The potential couplings aroused my taste buds. When I finally strolled into Sakerum on a late Friday afternoon, I was not disappointed. The eclectic drink menu features many rumand sake-based drinks, but also a few choices with whiskey and tequila. Legendary D.C. mixtress Gina Chersevani, who is known for her unconventional creations, designed the cocktails. Many have names as whimsical and creative as their components. I started out with the Turning Japanese, I Really Think So, which gets its moniker from an early ’80s New Wave hit about self-pleasure. An innovative riff on the Manhattan, this concoction is forged from Smith & Cross pot still rum, Amaro Sfumato, vermouth and orange bitters. I fell in love almost immediately. This cocktail has a bold and bitter flavor up front, a far cry from the sweetness usually associated with the Caribbean spirit. At first, it was hard to believe it was actually rum. However, after savoring it for a few sips, some butterscotch-like nuances began to develop and its taste gradually softened to make room for the ripe and full-bodied flavor of the Jamaican rum. Sampled on its own, the overproof Smith & Cross rum packs a “wow,” with a wide range of subtle tangs across the spectrum. The wine-based amaro imparts a prevalent smokiness that gives the drink a bit of a scotch character. This is definitely a grownup cocktail. I was eager to try a combination of sake and rum, so I sampled another cocktail called the I Don’t Know Where We’re Going, But It’s Going To Be Fun. The name captured my feelings trying these two spirits combined for the first time. This uplifting drink is made of Yuzu sake, Caña Brava three-year-old rum and cava. I was impressed with its unique twang and slightly sweet profile. The addition of sparkling wine made it a light and breezy treat. One of my favorite rum drinks is the mojito. Sakerum has an interesting alternative called the Godzilla Crush, mixed with Kimoto sake, mint and cucumber. The
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This year’s International Gold Cup, one of the country’s most anticipated steeplechase events, will take place Saturday, Oct. 28, at Great Meadow in The Plains, a town of not more than 250 residents in Fauquier County, Virginia. A few hours after the gates and betting stations open at 10 a.m., the town’s population will surge to some 35,000, as spectators arrive by car, limo, van, minibus and motorcoach. (The parking fees per vehicle are $75, $300, $300 again, $450 and $750, respectively.) Some are true racing aficionados, knowledgeable about horseflesh, jockeys, trainers, owners, the history of the International Gold Cup (which relocated to Great Meadow in 1984) and its storied spring counterpart, the Virginia Gold Cup. They know that the term
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“steeplechase” comes from races that began at one church steeple and ended at another, with streams, stone walls and other obstacles in between. But many come mainly for other attractions, namely, the Terrier Race (11 a.m.), the Tailgate Contest (11:55 a.m.), the Hat Contest (2:30 p.m.), the picnicking (ongoing) and the mint-julep sipping (while they last). Tailgate Contest Tip: “The best tailgates have a theme, decorations and special food and drinks recipes.” Hat Contest categories: Best Racing Theme, Funniest/Most Outrageous, Most Glamorous/Elegant, Best Child (under 18) and Best Men’s Showing. After the post-Terrier Race excitement has subsided, the day’s official opening ceremony at 11:45 a.m. will feature Fauquier High School senior Charlotte Langford singing the national anthem and the Liberty High School Junior ROTC Color Guard. The main event, the running of the International Gold Cup at 3 p.m., is the fifth of the day’s eight races. The others are: the Sport of Kings Maiden Hurdle, the Steeplethon, the Orlando Heart of the District’s Allowance Hurdle, the Zeke Ferguson Memorial, the Virginia Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association Maiden Flat (twice) and, at 4:45 p.m., the Old Dominion Turf Championship. Those who did not renew or request a reserved space or a private tent, or purchase
“Some are true racing aficionados, knowledgeable about horseflesh, jockeys, trainers, owners, the history of the International Gold Cup wand its storied spring counterpart, the Virginia Gold Cup.” a vehicle pass, can find detailed ticket information at vagoldcup.com. The $75 general-admission car pass admits a vehicle and up to six occupants. As the website notes: “Historically, the North Rail [to the left of Members Hill as you face the course] has
a younger, Washingtonian crowd while the South Rail is a favorite of locals.” Also from the Virginia Gold Cup website: Q: “What do people wear?” A: Afternoon dress is suggested for this event. Women guests on Members Hill
customarily wear summer/spring dresses and hats. Flat heels are suggested. Men wear lightweight sport coats and ties. Shorts are not appropriate for Members Hill. Attire on the rails is marginally more relaxed — we recommend a sportswear look for women and khakis with collared shirts for men. Jeans are rarely seen at Gold Cup. Other upcoming steeplechase events include the Virginia Fall Races on Saturday, Oct. 14, at Glenwood Park in Middleburg and the Montpelier Hunt Races on Saturday, Nov. 4, in Montpelier Station, Virginia.
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Healthful Benefits of Chilling Out BY R E B E K A H K E L L E Y Professional and Olympic athletes, highly trained military SEAL teams, cutting-edge motivational speakers and Hollywood stars are paying big bucks to freeze their butts off. Why? They are using full-body cryotherapy to improve their physical performance, to feel rejuvenated and to gain energy and a sense of well-being. RECOVERY FROM PAIN AND INJURY
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Athletes use the treatments to minimize delayed onset muscle soreness, reduce swelling, improve joint strength and boost recovery after exercise, and recreational athletes are following suit. The New York Knicks have two machines (according to CNN), professional soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo is said to have his own machine and Kobe Bryant and Floyd Mayweather Jr. are reported to use and love cryotherapy.
During a cryotherapy treatment, a user strips down to his or her underwear, socks and gloves and is shut in a body-sized chamber. Dry, nitrogen-chilled air then blasts the body with temperatures as low as minus-300 degrees Fahrenheit for two to four minutes.
BEAUTY AND ANTI-AGING Cryotherapy can help maintain a youthful appearance while reducing the signs of aging, such as wrinkles, fine lines and blemishes. Cryotherapy stimulates collagen production in the deeper layers of skin, resulting in a smoother, firmer and more youthful look. A cryotherapy facial — or “Frotox” — is used to freshen and tighten the face and neck before a big event or a night out. WELLNESS AND IMMUNE SUPPORT Cryotherapy facilitates the healing of damaged tissues and is reported by users to relieve pain and improve blood circulation and metabolism. Additionally, it increases serotonin levels, providing a sense of well-being, while boosting an individual’s immune system.
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The Need to Label a Relationship … or Not BY STACY N OTA R A S M U R P H Y Dear Stacy, I am dating a woman and we are both in our 50s. We have each had serious relationships in the past (she’s divorced, with grown kids) and have been truly reveling in how wonderful it is to just enjoy spending time with each other and taking advantage of the city. Our sex life is great and we spend most of our weekends together. Neither of us wants to move in together — that’s been very clear so far. But she does seem to want us to define our relationship (e.g., are we exclusive, am I seeing other people?). I am really struggling with why that is important to her. We are on the same page about most things, but she has gotten worked up a few times and asked me to help her by putting a label on our relationship. I am afraid this is going to ruin a good thing. Do I have to name it with her? — About to Ruin a Good Thing Dear Good Thing: It sounds like, for whatever reason, you are not feeling outwardly “pro commitment” at this point. That’s okay. Personally,
and professionally, I am outwardly pro commitment. And so is Girlfriend. That’s also okay. Girlfriend’s very human need for security in her relationship is perfectly normal. Your desire not to be labeled is also perfectly normal. The issue is that you have chosen to be in a relationship with a person whose normal desire is in contrast to your own. Girlfriend’s longing to know that you are there for her and to understand whether you might be seeing other people reflects the most essential truth about humans: secure attachment to our loved ones allows us to feel safe and to live our lives without obsessive worry that we will be abandoned. She is not asking you to give her a ring; rather, it sounds like she is just asking you to tell her if you are seeing other people. If you are seeing other people and don’t want to tell her, that’s not her problem. Instead it is something for you to consider on your own. You can define your connection however you’d like — but do define it, because that’s what she’s asking you to do. Girlfriend needs it not because she’s “needy,” but because it will help her know how to navigate her world. (By the way, neediness is hardwired into our
humanness; find me an infant who survived without having needs met.) You spend time together and have intimacy — that makes it a relationship. If it’s not what you want, I see that you have two choices: either break up or explore why you don’t want to define it as such (meaning you should explore it within yourself). My suggestion is that you explore it. I find it incredibly interesting that you are living your life with Girlfriend in a decidedly biofriendly manner, but when she asks for the safety and reassurance afforded through a relational definition, you shut down. Take some time to consider why this might feel so threatening to you, and then share that with her. Both partners in a relationship are responsible for the care and emotional feeding of the other. See if she can be there with you. 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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Tap Stars Reunite — and More October Dance BY GARY T ISCHL ER
Dance — like music, like theater — is an enrichment. A generous dose, in three of its manifestations, is about to hit D.C., lighting up the spirits of area performing arts audiences. Narrative ballet and dance will appear in the guise of Matthew Bourne’s production of “The Red Shoes,” at the Kennedy Center Opera House from Oct. 10 to 15. You may remember “The Red Shoes” as an art-house and popular film starring the elfin Moira Shearer, who dreams of becoming a ballet star. Now in the role is Ashley Shaw, a star of Bourne’s New Adventures company. It’s also time for a different and diverse local enterprise, the ninth annual Velocity DC Dance Festival, taking place Oct. 6 and 7 at Sidney Harman Hall. Work by 19 dance companies and individual artists will be presented at two Saturday evening performances and a Sunday matinee, expressing the range of dance offerings, styles and genres. The productions are co-presented by the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, the Shakespeare Theatre Company and Washington Performing Arts.
Participating in the festival are Company Danzante Contemporary Dance, El Teatro de Danza Contemporanea, Farafina Kan, Gin Dance Company, the National Hand Dance Association, Orange Grove Dance, Prakriti Dance, Rachel Shaver, Priore Dance, S.J. Ewing & Dancers, SOLE Defined, Therese Gahl, Urban Artistry, Heart Stück Bernie, Lucid Beings Dance, Capitol Movement, City Dance, the Washington Ballet Trainee Program and the Xuejuan Dance Ensemble. And then there’s tap. For one night only, Saturday, Oct. 7, you can see the past, present and future of tap, tap dance and tap dancers, when six award-winning artists and performers — all of whom were part of the cast of the revolutionary Savion Glover production “Bring in ’da Noise, Bring in ’da Funk” in the 1990s — reunite in a special performance in the Kennedy Center’s newly renovated Terrace Theater. A tribute to this uniquely American genre, rooted in American history, the blues, gospel and jazz, the show, “Lotus: Stars Reunite to Celebrate the Art Form,” is
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“Lotus” tappers in action. Photo by Earnie Nicholson. directed by Joseph Webb, a tap artist, choreographer, actor and educator. Along with Webb and another D.C.-area native, Baakari Wilder, the cast includes Omar Edwards, Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards, Derick K. Grant and Jason Samuels Smith. What is it about tap? While its roots go back to vaudeville, minstrel shows and old Hollywood, tapping — to do it and excel at it, to watch it and go with it — has always had universal appeal. “It’s like jazz,” said Webb. “The trick with it has always been to make it look it easy, while it’s actually really difficult. When you have a group tapping together, it works like a good jazz quartet. One person might start with a particular thing and then the others pick up on and work off it. It’s tight, but it’s improvising. “The thing that separates tap from other forms of dance is the noise. It’s syncopated. In fact, a lot of tap artist see themselves as musicians, not dancers, or in addition to dancing. You don’t just watch tap, you hear it. And that’s part of what makes it so enticing. It’s a percussion instrument.” For some reason, this writer is transported every time he’s in the presence of a tap performance — whether live, in the movies or on video. And the terminology of styles, types and moves is vividly descriptive and pungent, resurrecting the whole world of tap: the shuffle, the shuffle ball change, the hop shuffle, the flap, the flap heel, the pullback, the shim sham shimmy, the Lindy, the Cincinnati, the paradiddle and single- and double-toe punches. It’s stars are legendary. The Nicholas Brothers got a whole new audience in the 1940s in the black-and-white film
Joseph Webb. “Stormy Weather.” Tap’s popularity expanded even more when the likes of Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly took up the form. “My mother got me into dance classes when I was about 5 or 6,” Webb said. “So there was ballet, but there was tap, too. And I watched all those black-and-white 1930s movies, and later, you know, there was Gregory Hines and his brother Maurice.” Glover’s production accentuated a new style of tap, one in tune with popular music, including hip-hop. “Yeah, I’d say that,” agreed Webb. “But I think tap is closest to jazz. You could say it’s a form of jazz. “I think there’s a fascination with it. It’s a joyful thing that looks smooth and easy. It always makes you feel good. I’m 38 now, and I’ve seen masters, the old guys, in their 70s, do it the way it should be done. People who do tap choose to do it. It’s a lifelong journey. “I’d like to maybe see other things come from this particular event,” he continued. “We all kept up with each other, see other, stayed in touch, so we thought that this was a great way to honor tap itself. I have to say it was an amazing time. I was going to school in the daytime and coming to this big Broadway show at night. And I was only 19.”
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John Wetenhall oversaw the 2015 relocation of the Textile Museum, founded in 1925, from a Kalorama mansion to a modern building on the George Washington University campus that also houses the new George Washington University Museum. He will talk about that project and describe the current and future programs at this unique dual museum.
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OVERHEARD AT LUNCH: DIPLOMATIC ENCOUNTERS
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Meridian Offers a Special Welcome
D.C.’s Own ‘Real World’? Vice Studios is casting for a reality TV show in which 18-to-45-year-olds will live in close quarters in D.C. The draw, according to the Hollywood Reporter, is that the individuals will be from “all walks of life and political extremes.” Per the casting form, the show is looking for individuals who are passionate about their political beliefs and want to “get their voice heard.” So, the moral of the story is, if you’re still mad you never auditioned for “The Real World” when you were growing up, now’s your chance.
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Ed Sheeran played Capital One Arena and a local living room.
Ed Sheeran Has a Steak, Sings, Sings Again
Christoph Waltz will direct and star in a film about a Georgetown murder.
Waltz Makes Directorial Debut With ‘Georgetown’
Singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran was spotted with a large group of friends at Mastro’s Steakhouse downtown before his Tuesday, Sept. 19, concert at Capital One Arena, the Washington Post reported. The next day, the flame-haired singer Sheeran played in a Cathedral Heights living room as part of a fundraiser for refugees sponsored by Amnesty International and Sofar Sounds. The intimate gathering was hosted by Holly Branson, daughter of Virgin founder Richard Branson (however, the home Sheeran played in wasn’t Branson’s).
Annette Bening will join Christoph Waltz and Vanessa Redgrave in the upcoming movie “Georgetown,” the first movie directed by Waltz, Variety reported. The screenplay is based on the New York Times Magazine article by Franklin Foer about the marriage of wealthy widow Viola Drath and the much-younger Albrecht Muth. In 2011, Drath was found dead in her Georgetown home and Muth was convicted of first-degree murder. The names have been changed and Montreal will stand in for Georgetown.
Engaged: Quinn Bradlee and Fabiola Roman at the Taste of Georgetown Sept. 24. Photo by Robert Devaney.
Straight Out of SNL: Spicy in Disguise
Quinn Bradlee Keeps It Real
Sean Spicer, former White House press secretary, told the New York Times last week that he wore a disguise on his way to appear at the Emmy Awards earlier this month. Though Spicer didn’t say what the disguise was, the Hill reported that it may have included facial hair. An easier way to travel would have been to just tell those who recognized him that he was actually Melissa McCarthy.
While his mother, Sally Quinn, said she has not put hexes on anyone for decades and would not even put one on President Donald Trump, Quinn Bradlee said he looked forward to seeing the Dec. 4 HBO premiere of its biopic on his father, Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee, who died in 2014. A few months ago, the young Bradlee became engaged to Fabiola Roman, who works at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. He popped the question to her on the Ferris wheel at National Harbor.
A doorway to America and a window on the world, Meridian International Center welcomes Washington’s many diplomats to life in Washington while, at the same time, offering Washingtonians a unique exposure to the world outside. Standing regally just off 16th Street NW, Meridian encompasses two historic mansions designed by well-known architect John Russell Pope, architect of the Jefferson Memorial, the National Archives Building and the Residence of the Brazilian Ambassador. Built by two American ambassadors as their retirement homes, Meridian’s two magnificent buildings — Meridian House and the White-Meyer House, Katharine Graham’s childhood home — serve as a diplomatic center for the 177 embassies located in our capital. Stuart Holliday has been at Meridian’s helm, often referred to as the best job in Washington, for the past 11 years. Holliday says that, like all jobs, it has its challenges, but he finds it “truly a gift to walk into the doors of these beautiful buildings, to look out at the gardens and to work with a staff full of passion for what they do and optimism for what they can do for the future.” Coming from a diplomatic background himself (his father was a diplomat), Holliday was a perfect candidate to take over the reins from his predecessor, Walt Cutler. Before assuming his role as Meridian’s president and CEO, Holliday served at the State Department, as an ambassador at the United Nations and in the White House — all jobs which he says were about how to engage with people from other countries. Having joined Meridian at the age of 40, he says: “I am a bit older now, but I never thought I would be here this long. Both my predecessors stayed for a very long time. I now understand why. It is a great job with a critical mission, increasing daily in importance as the world gets smaller and smaller.” To help Meridian along in fulfilling its many goals is, Holliday says, a joint effort. Although she has a full-time job in Georgetown, his wife Gwen still finds time to play a significant role in engaging the diplomats and their spouses. Since its founding in 1961, Meridian’s mission has been the promotion of international understanding through the exchange of people, ideas and cultures. Our embassies around the world select potential future leaders — young and upcoming politicians, journalists, authors, artists, academics, community organizers and other professionals — to visit America for specially designed international leadership programs. Here they confer, exchange ideas and build partnerships with their U.S. counterparts. Working closely with the State Department, Meridian arranges these programs for about 3,400 visitors each year. The visitors range widely, from African
Stuart Holliday, president and CEO of the Meridian International Center. Photo by Didi Cutler. women entrepreneurs and Saudi Arabian school administrators to members of a British-American parliamentary group and Chinese managers of a renewable-energy project. Holliday is particularly proud of the current Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative, hosting 250 entrepreneurs from Latin America and the Caribbean. Through these intense exchanges of ideas and experiences, Meridian helps to provide future global leaders with insights and a broad sense of possibilities. Among the international participants in Meridian’s programs have been more than 175 individuals who rose to become heads of state, including Theresa May, Margaret Thatcher, Hamid Karzai, Tony Blair, Nicolas Sarkozy, Anwar Sadat and F. W. de Klerk. Meridian is also the home of THIS for Diplomats, an organization dedicated to offering diplomats and their families a variety of programs to help them engage in Washington life, including home hospitality, cultural events and language conversation groups. To help raise funds to enable Meridian to carry out its many diverse activities, Meridian holds an annual ball attended by more than 800 guests. Considered by many to be D.C.’s premier diplomatic gala, the ball will mark its 49th year on Friday, Oct. 20, with music and dancing in Meridian House and its surrounding gardens. A special part of the evening are the pre-ball dinners hosted by approximately 30 embassies. Guests may also dine at the White-Meyer House. Secretary Ann Korologos and Ambassador Tom Korologos are this year’s chairs, along with honorary co-chairs Speaker Paul Ryan and Sen. Mark Warner. Glenn and Suzanne Youngkin and Andrew and Heather Florance are the co-chairs for the White-Meyer dinner preceding the ball.
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GOOD WORKS & GOOD TIMES
The Washington Opera Society BY MARY B IRD
On Sept. 23, Ambassador of Colombia Camilo Reyes and Gloria Ritter Reyes welcomed guests of The Washington Opera Society (WOS) for a presentation of Donizetti’s “L’Elisir d’Amore.” Guests enjoyed a glorious buffet with lobster paella before gathering for a pocket opera performance featuring internationally renowned singers under the baton of Maestro Julien Benichou. The ambassador said “music is probably the best way to provide food for our souls” and impresario Michael Reilly recalled that opera was originally produced in private homes and churches.
Mark Ohnmacht, Edward Purcell and David Lloyd.
Bill Anawaty and WOS board president Barbara Bennett.
Tenor Jesús Daniel Hernández, who sang “Nemorino”, with his wife Gretchen.
BY M ARY B IRD Commissioner José Alberto Uclés chaired the DC. .Commission on the Arts and Humanities 32nd Annual Mayor’s Arts Awards presentation at the Historic Lincoln Theatre on Sept. 14. Following a red carpet arrival, Wilhelmina Cole Holladay, co-founder of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, received the Mayor’s Arts Award for Lifetime Achievement. Ari Roth, Artistic Director of Mosaic Theatre Company, garnered the Mayor’s Arts Award for Visionary Leadership and jazz musician and educator Davey Yarborough took the Mayor’s Arts Award for Distinguished Honor. In addition, 24 individuals and organizations were finalists across six categories. Mayor Muriel Bowser said “we are proud to highlight the hardworking professionals who make life better for Washingtonians and visitors alike.
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Honoring the thriving arts and culture of Monaco, the Wolf Trap Ball bedazzled 850 party-goers on the Filene Center stage at Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts Sept. 23. The ball benefited Wolf Trap Foundation’s arts and education programs to the tune of nearly $1.5 million. Maguy Maccario Doyle, Ambassador of the Principality of Monaco to the United States, served as honorary host for the evening. The ball was co-chaired by Nancy Laben and Jon Feiger and Karen and Fred Schaufeld.
Netherlands Ambassador Henne Schuwer, Monaco Ambassador Maguy Maccario Doyle, Kazakhstan Ambassador Erzhan Kazykhanov, Ireland Ambassador Dan Mulhall. Photo by Tony Powell.
Mayor’s Arts Awards
Richard de Sonier; Kay Kendall, chair, D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Marvin Bowser.
Wolf Trap Ball Snags $1.5 Milllion
Choral Arts Artistic Director Scott Tucker with executive director Tad Czyzewski.
Wolf Trap President and CEO Arvind Manocha, Dorothy McAuliffe and Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe. Photo by Tony Powell.
2501 Debuts in West End
The 2501 Residences on M Street — at 2501 M St. NW in the West End, two blocks from Georgetown — got to show itself off Sept. 21 with a reception for its million-dollar-and-up condos. The decades-old corner property once housed a medical association and, after a major reconstruction, now boasts more and even fancier digs — along with a Nobu restaurant, which provided the sushi. Arigatou.
Prospective buyer Laura Colin and David Mayhood, president of the Mayhood Company, sales agent for 2501. Photo by Robert Devaney.
Krista Johnson of Ella-Rue and Reem Sadik of King & Spalding. Photo by Robert Devaney.
GOOD WORKS & GOOD TIMES
Hoedown on R Street
ADL Honors Jack DeGioia
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BY R OBERT D EVAN EY
Toe-tappin music from a two-banjo, one-fiddle, one-bass band greeted some 200 guests in jeans, plaid shirts and cowboy boots at the Stroud Foundation’s fourth annual hoedown fundraiser Sept. 16 for dinner and dancing. Young couples and parents mingled with long time donors and family friendS and in the backyard of Brooke and Stephane Carnot’s home on R Street, as they decided which of the dozens of silent auction items, from vacation housing to athletic event box tickets, to bid on. The Stroud Foundation for Children with Learning Differences was established in 2008 to honor the memory of Dr. Frank Stroud.
At the Four Seasons Hotel Sept. 18, the Anti-Defamation League presented Georgetown University President John J. DeGioia with its 2017 Achievement Award, the highest award bestowed by Washington, D.C.’s ADL, which said, “DeGioia has an unyielding commitment to civil rights, religious tolerance, and creating a community where all faiths are welcome and respected. At Georgetown, Dr. DeGioia has helped create the pioneering Center on Jewish Civilization and has partnered with ADL to help establish the Bearing Witness program.” The award came during reported instances of swastika graffiti on the university’s main campus.
Shannon Stroud, Megan Darby and Alison Cricks. Photo by Robert Devaney.
Professors Andrew Sobanet and Charles King with Public Affairs Vice President Erik Smulson and G.U. President Jack DeGioia.
Susan Blumenthal and Kandie Stroud. Photo by Robert Devaney.
Ted Leonsis, G.U. President Jack DeGioia and Frank McCourt.
Chelsey Wiseman, John Galligan and Jeni Hansen. Photo by Robert Devaney.
Paul Tangliabue, Theresa DeGioia and son John Thomas (J.T.).
Freer Ready for Its Return A special preview of top supporters of the Freer-Sackler gathered Sept. 14 to celebrate the midOctober reopening of the Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery — “where Asia meets America” — as it showcases its renovation after being closed for almost two years.
Carol Huh, Mariko Ikehara, Antoine and Emily van Hathael attend the Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery black-tie party. Photo by Patrick G. Ryan.
Jaedene Levy, Rep. Doris Matsui (D-California.) and Charles Levy.
Jon Parrish Peede, acting chairman of National Endowment for the Humanities, and Dorothy Kosinski, director and CEO of the Phillips Collection.
Lori Taylor, Cristin Canterbury Bagnall, Nicolas Cords and Kojiro Umezaki from the Silk Road Ensemble attend the Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery black tie party. Photo by Patrick G. Ryan.
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