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TEMPLE SINAI HOLIDAY MART Temple Sinai’s annual Holiday Mart features food, gifts and crafts from more than 40 local vendors, a bake sale and activities for children. Proceeds support Temple Sinai and other nonprofits. Admission is free. For details, visit templesinaidc.org. 3100 Military Road NW.
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Hosted by the USO, this half-day summit brings military spouses, military-support organizations, business leaders and key USO supporters together for panels on education, employment, community building, peer networking and family-strengthening programs. For details, visit uso.org. Long View Gallery, 1234 9th St. NW.
Profs and Pints presents “The Story of American Cooking,” an examination of our nation’s culinary and eating habits over time, with Allen Pietrobon, who teaches history at American University and Trinity Washington University. For details, visit lapopdc.com. La Pop, 1847 Columbia Ave. NW.
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A nonprofit film festival with a social conscience, Flicks4Change screens captivating films from around the globe, with town hallstyle discussions among filmmakers, activists and audience members after each screening. For details, visit flicks4change.org. Halcyon, 3400 Prospect St. NW.
Formerly Heroines in Technology, in response to the growing demand from our community, the March of Dimes expanded this gala to honor women for their community service in various industries. Tickets are $300. For details, visit marchofdimes.org. Ritz-Carlton, Tysons Corner, 1700 Tysons Boulevard, McLean, Virginia.
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In advance of Veterans Day, Ralph Zotigh (Kiowa) and his son, Dennis Zotigh (Kiowa/ San Juan Pueblo/Santee Dakota Indian), will sing an honor song he composed for Native American women veterans. For details, visit americanindian.si.edu. National Museum of the American Indian, 4th Street and Independence Avenue SW.
The concert will feature the Chorale, the Concert Choir and three smaller ensembles, ranging from a half-dozen voices to more than 80, singing a wide variety of music. Tickets are $25 ($15 for students). For details, visit ellingtonschool.org. 3500 R St. NW.
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JOHN LLOYD YOUNG AT WOLF TRAP Winner of a Tony Award for originating the role of Frankie Valli in “Jersey Boys” on Broadway, actor and singer John Lloyd Young will perform classic hits of the 1950s and ’60s at Wolf Trap. Tickets are $35 and $45. For details, visit wolftrap.org. Barns at Wolf Trap, 1635 Trap Road, Vienna, Virginia.
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The four men of New York Polyphony — countertenor, tenor, baritone and bass — apply a distinctly modern touch to repertoire that ranges from austere medieval melodies to cutting-edge contemporary compositions. For details, visit stjohnsgeorgetown.org. 3240 O St. NW.
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Montrose Park’s Time Has Come BY PEG GY SA NDS Last April, The Georgetowner labeled Montrose Park the “Cinderella” of the five active parks of Georgetown. Set between Dumbarton Oaks Park and Oak Hill Cemetery, it offers nature trails that connect to Rock Creek Park, as well as a large children’s play area and two sets of paired tennis courts — one next to a unique summer gazebo. Administered by the National Park Service, 14-acre Montrose Park is one of Washington’s classic historic settings. But for decades, “the maintenance of Montrose Park has been marginal,” neighbor Marilyn Worseldine wrote The Georgetowner last spring. “Gates don’t work. The brick work is falling apart at the entrance. The 2 tennis courts are cracked and rarely used. The chain link fence has deteriorated over time. Falling trees have smashed a few,” Worseldine wrote. She didn’t think that sand had been delivered to the sandbox for years. “Montrose Park’s neighbors for years have longed for a new tennis court next to the charming but failing gazebo,” she lamented, noting that the $250,000 price tag seemed to put it out of reach. Well, that was then. Now Montrose Park’s
time has come. The National Park Service’s National Capital Region, the U.S. Department of the Interior and the Friends of Montrose Park have come together — after continual prodding by Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner Monica Roaché (who is retiring) — to plan a broad-based renovation and realignment of the tennis courts and the park space around them. “The plans are 80-percent finished. Twenty percent to go,” announced the Park Service’s Nick Bartolomeo and Alpha Corporation Senior Project Manager Dennis Quinn at the Oct. 29 ANC meeting. The major portion has already been approved by the Old Georgetown Board. The remainder addresses details of the storm water placement system proposed earlier. The plans should be finalized by the end of the year. But it’s those details that concern Georgina Owens, president of the Friends of Montrose Park. One of the tennis courts and some trees will be removed for the new storm water management structure, a key purpose of the project. Large patches of mud inevitably collect at the bottom of the lower tennis courts after just about any rain.
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That is a necessary fix, Owens agreed. “But the new storm water management system will be significantly larger and flatter than the previous one. With the removal of trees and siting at a higher level than now, the system will be much more visible than before.” Owens is concerned about the project’s visual impact and about the landscaping that will replace
treasured trees to the south of the tennis courts. “One of the finest examples of storm water management and low maintenance, natural and lush landscaping is Georgetown’s Waterfront Park,” said Bartolomeo. “That is the kind of system the NPS hopes to establish in Montrose Park as well.”
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Montrose Park, on R Street between Dumbarton Oaks Park and Oak Hill Cemetery, is set to undergo rehabilitation by the National Park Service. Plans should be complete by the end of the year. Courtesy Cultural Landscape Foundation.
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Last May, more than a quarter of the 570 students attending the Duke Ellington School of the Arts at 35th and R Streets NW were accused by D.C.’s Office of the State Superintendent of Education of attending the school fraudulently. There followed a number of what have been referred to by many as “clumsy moves” by OSSE to prove that its documentation was up to date. Parents protested and OSSE retreated. Penalties — including having to pay the $12,000 out-of-District tuition, a fine of possibly thousands and even expulsion — were held in abeyance. Now, deep into the fall semester, all is quiet. “I think all the students are back,” an Ellington teacher told The Georgetowner anonymously on the opening day of school. “About half of the cases have been cleared, but more than 100 cases are still pending,” said WAMU Education Reporter Jenny Abamu on the Kojo Nnamdi show on Oct. 16. “Even as D.C. parents continually complain they see many cars with Virginia and Maryland licenses picking up their kids from D.C. schools.” Still, what Mayor Muriel Bowser calls “the premiere performing arts high school in America” cannot seem to reach its goal of 600 registered students. Ellington’s student body is currently 77 percent black, 11 percent Hispanic, seven percent white, two percent
Georgetowner photo. Asian and three percent multiracial, with most students from low-income families. Applicants have to audition. There are scholarships for residents, but none for out-of-District students. Some activists smell a conspiracy in the tuition fraud mess-up. This March, the DC Urban Moms and Dads website published a letter to OSSE from Council member Mary Cheh (D-Ward 3), criticizing its handling of the residency issue and saying she thought the school “could be bifurcated into two campuses, Duke Ellington and Western High School, to help address crowding at Wilson High School.”
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Norton Seeks to Limit CFA Authority Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) is trying again to expand the power that the District of Columbia has over the federal authority that governs it. On Oct. 15, she announced that she will introduce a bill in Congress to remove the authority of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts to review development of District of Columbia-owned parks and buildings, as well as development of certain private properties. In addition to bills proposing statehood for D.C., the new bill joins three other Norton land-use bills that would: give D.C. the authority to appoint all the members of the D.C. Zoning Commission; give D.C. the
authority to appoint all the members of the D.C. Board of Zoning Adjustment, except when the board is performing functions regarding an application by a foreign mission with respect to a chancery; and remove the authority of the National Capital Planning Commission to review the development of District of Columbia-owned land. “As we continue to fight for statehood, we cannot sit on ways Congress could act now to remove unnecessary, undemocratic limitations on D.C.’s local government. That is why I am simultaneously moving to expand home rule, including for the most local of activities, such as land-use policies,” Norton said.
Gas Leaks: Will the People’s Counsel Act? Some 60 Georgetown gas leaks, mainly on the east side, have been reported to Washington Gas in the past few months, according to Georgetown resident Edward Segal. Segal has been tracking and lodging concerns about them via a blog and the formal complaint process of the DC Office of the People’s Counsel (its website says the office “serves as the statutory representative for District utility consumers”). But on Oct. 29, OPC spokesperson Cheryl Morse told the monthly meeting of Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E that the office “didn’t know why there are so many leaks at this point and what can be done to stop them.” “In addition to the issue of ongoing natural
gas leaks, there is the matter of unfinished repairs. There are at least three repair sites in Georgetown where, weeks after repair crews left, steel plates still cover the sites. I can provide you with those locations. There is no indication when Washington Gas will return to complete those repairs, remove the steel plates, and fill in the holes,” Segal wrote The Georgetowner after the meeting. The good news is that OPC is authorized to take utilities to court — eventually. And Georgetown gas subscribers were among the many District residents who got a surprise in their gas bills this month, thanks in part to OPC efforts: a $150 rebate.
Crime & Public Safety Body Recovered Under Key Bridge; Answers Wanted
D.C. Considers Widening Ban on Right Turn on Red
The body of 29-year-old Christopher Carney, a D.C.-area rapper, was found under Key Bridge on Oct. 24. The Metropolitan Police Department said it does not suspect foul play. However, according to ABC7 News, Carney’s mother and sister disagree and want answers. Carney was last seen by a female friend at Washington Harbour on Oct. 16. She texted her sister the following week, saying she left him after an argument.
Mayor Muriel Bower’s Vision Zero plan calls for no pedestrian deaths or injuries from street traffic by 2024, but the stark reality is that D.C. traffic fatalities are up from last year. This year has seen fatal car accidents that also involved 12 pedestrians, a man on a scooter at Dupont Circle and three bicyclists, prompting D.C. officials to consider adding 100 intersections to the no-turn-on-red list, most in downtown. District Department of Transportation Director Jeff Marootian told News4: “We’ll be making some announcements along those lines about some plans that we have to modify those operations. There are a number of things [we can do] — everything from the way we organize our traffic signals to things like right- and left-turn movements.” “Additionally, if anyone has video of the area last night, please call the number above. I know that I heard the shots and imagine that many others did as well too.”
MPD at the ANC At the Oct. 29 meeting of the GeorgetownBurleith Advisory Neighborhood Commission, Lt. Justin Bellavance of the Metropolitan Police Department offered the following information. Thefts from autos — 49 in October — are down 4 percent from last year at this time. Similarly, total crime is down 7 percent, he said. In October, there were two burglaries and one stolen auto. Bellavance mentioned a burglary on Water Street in October, but could provide no details. There was also a problem with marijuana smoking at Georgetown Waterfront Park, he said.
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Tree Lovers Decry Loss of Magnolia BY R OBERT D EVAN EY
An old magnolia tree was cut down at 3017 N St. NW. on Oct. 17. The homeowner reportedly is to receive a $52,000 fine from D.C. Georgetowner photo.
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One of the two tall magnolia trees at 3017 N St. NW was taken down last month after it was determined to be unviable. The action prompted criticism by neighbors of homeowner David Hudgens. “A shame and a crime,” said Betsy Emes, president of Trees for Georgetown, a committee of the Citizens Association of Georgetown. “These magnificent twin trees were grossly disfigured by pruning resulting in the death of one. The second will probably follow. Why didn’t the homeowner just get a permit for removal in the first place? Yes, it would have been expensive, but at least it would have been legal.” “Each tree on this block has been replaced in the last 20 or 25 years,” said Hudgens, who lived next door for years to the previous homeowner, his friend Yolande Betbeze Fox, Miss America 1951. A Georgetowner since 1997, Hudgens talked about ginkgo trees in the sidewalks in front of his house, which were cracked and had to be replaced, as well as the problem with secondary growth on trees which can cause their demise. “The front wall was being pushed by secondary growth and needed a root dam,” he said. “The neighborhood is extremely upset by the excessive ‘pruning’ of the magnolias and by the Urban Forestry Administration’s assurances
that this wouldn’t impair the viability of the trees, or at the very least that Mr. Hudgens would be fined,” said Jim Wilcox, the advisory neighborhood commissioner whose district includes the street in question. “Has UFA acted properly? Will UFA let Mr. Hudgens’ actions go unpunished?” “I’ve lived in Georgetown 40 years and loved those huge stunning heritage magnolias,” said next-door neighbor Micheline Klagsbrun. “The final cutting-down of this extraordinary living tree is just the latest of several steps taken by the owner of 3017 N Street to destroy trees on this block in the course of a year of constant remodeling. In January, the same owner got away with removing three apparently healthy trees from the public tree boxes in front of his house. He had requested a permit to remove the largest of the three trees, a mature Zelkova. The permit was denied. A few days later, all three trees were removed. The excuse given by the UFA (furnished at our request) was so flimsy as to be laughable.” The N Street home, built in 1794 and designated a National Historic Landmark, has been called the Beall-Laird-Peter House. It is undergoing a major renovation. “One hundred years from now, this will be a preserved structure,” Hudgens said. Meanwhile, Hudgens reportedly will receive a $52,000 fine from D.C.
Chiswell Dabney Langhorne Jr., 1940–2018 Chiswell Dabney Langhorne Jr. died peacefully at home on Oct. 12, surrounded by his family. Born June 26, 1940, in Lynchburg, Virginia, to Nora Petty Langhorne and Chiswell Dabney Langhorne, he graduated from Virginia Episcopal School, the University of Virginia and the University of Virginia Law School, also attending post-graduate programs at Harvard and at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. A banker, Langhorne was a member of the Metropolitan Club, the University Club, the Chevy Chase Club, the Society of the Cincinnati and the Washington Investors Club. He was a skier and a scuba diver for as long as his health allowed. Langhorne was past president of the Foundation for the Preservation of Historic Georgetown, in part an easement program to preserve open space in the historic district, where he had lived for 45 years.
Chiswell ("Chill") Langhorne, Jr. Family photo. He is survived by his wife Barbara, his sons Chiswell III and William, his daughter-in-law Samar and two granddaughters, Nora and Laila. A memorial service will be held at Christ Church Georgetown, 31st and O Streets NW, on Thursday, Nov. 15, at 11 a.m. The family asks that memorial gifts be directed to the Foundation for the Preservation of Historic Georgetown, P.O. Box 3603, Washington, DC 20007.
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100 Years of Shell Shock: Honor All Veterans One hundred years on, we commemorate Armistice Day, which officially ended the hostilities of World War I — specifically between France, Great Britain and the United States and Imperial Germany, the last combatants on the Western Front. In America, we now commemorate this day as Veterans Day. In Washington, D.C., we are belatedly preparing the National World War I Memorial in Pershing Park on Pennsylvania Avenue. While the United States declared war against Imperial Germany on April 6, 1917, American troops under Gen. John Pershing did not begin arriving (at the rate of 10,000 per day) until the following summer. By Armistice Day, Nov. 11, 1918, some 4.7 million American military personnel landed in France, 116,516 of whom died. Wars, armistices and peace treaties have consequences. While the Allied Powers won, the Treaty of Versailles that followed — onerous in terms of reparations and territorial changes — almost made it certain that there would be a Second World War. It was not “the war to end all wars”; it became a war that would start the next one. President Woodrow Wilson pushed for the
peace treaty and for American membership in the League of Nations, predecessor of the United Nations, but the Senate denied him. The absence of the new world power, the United States, assured that the League of Nations would not be effective. It could condemn military ventures by dictators like Hitler, who took Germany out of the league. It could censure Mussolini. But it could not offer military assistance or enforce its condemnations. A wave of disillusionment followed for those who had entered, fought in and supported the war with idealism and hope. That disillusionment was expressed in the postwar culture in Europe and the United States, in novels and poetry, in art that smashed traditions, in dissonant, often atonal, music: Hemingway’s bitter “The Sun Also Rises,” Remarque’s “All Quiet on the Western Front” (among the many books tossed into the flames in Nazi Germany), Wilfred Owen’s poems, the works of Stravinsky and Klee. During the Depression of the 1930s, dictators were on the rise. Soon enough, torches would be lit. As we honor all veterans, let us continue to learn from history, working to prevent a third war of catastrophic scope and consequences.
Common Ground About Georgetown’s Trees “I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest against the earth’s sweet flowing breast; a tree that looks at God all day, and lifts her leafy arms to pray ...” The poem “Trees” was penned by writer and U.S. soldier Joyce Kilmer, who was shot dead in France during World War I less than four months before the Armistice of November 1918. This simple ode could be the official poem of Trees for Georgetown, the Citizens Association of Georgetown group that looks after the health and plantings of trees along the town’s sidewalks. Lately, a diatribe has erupted between those who love ginkgo trees and those who don’t. The female of the species sheds what might be called an inconvenient fruit. Stepping upon the pods triggers a smelly mess on the sidewalk. Sometimes these big berries leave the tree en masse, sullying car windshields and hoods. An Olive Street resident recently got permission from the city to take out two female ginkgo trees.
Then, there’s the homeowner on N Street who removed an old magnolia, provoking the ire of neighbors. Though he maintains he obtained the proper permits, he reportedly is to be fined $52,000 by D.C.’s Urban Forestry Administration. Other Georgetowner stories cover the regulatory details, so we’ll go right to the root of the issue: Let’s all take responsibility for the care of our trees and their residue. Stop the talk, and do the work. How about taking the time to sweep the sidewalk in front of your home — especially if there are ginkgos nearby — removing fallen leaves and other slippery detritus? How about trimming some of the large trees in your yard? Are you taking proper care of your sidewalk trees? (Trees for Georgetown will gladly provide guidance.) As Kilmer’s perennial work concludes: “Poems are made by fools like me, but only God can make a tree.”
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For those of you who haven’t been following along, the conversation about sports betting is exploding across the country and even here in D.C. I addressed this topic in an article in September after I and five of my colleagues introduced a bill to legalize sports betting in the District. A lot has happened since then, so I wanted to share an update on the progress. With the introduction of Bill 22-944, my office and I started hearing from many different voices. Neighbors in Georgetown have voiced their thoughts on the best way to proceed with the bill, as have national organizations such as Major League Baseball, Draft Kings and others. On Oct. 17, I held a hearing to provide a public forum for people to offer their opinions on the bill. There were many noteworthy opinions and interesting discussions with the panelists on how to improve the legislation. Some have questioned why we would even legalize sports betting in the District, arguing that the potential revenue is not worth the downsides of the legislation. I happen to disagree with this last point. MGM National Harbor proves that Maryland will move into sports betting. District residents will then simply send revenue to Maryland. The period for public comment ended on
Nov. 1. My staff and I have already started to make changes based on feedback we have been given. We worked with the Office of the Attorney General to strengthen consumer protections and anti-fraud provisions in the bill. We worked with the National Council on Problem Gaming to include stronger protections against gambling addiction and find ways to help stem problem gambling. Finally, we worked with fellow Council members to direct funds to worthy causes, such as violence prevention efforts across the city and early childhood education. I will continue to fine-tune the bill in the next few weeks so that the District’s sports betting system becomes the model for the country. Once the changes are completed, I hope to successfully pass the bill out of my committee and hold the necessary two votes by the full Council before the end of the year. The bill will be sent to Congress for a 60-day review period after it is approved by the Council. My hope is that by the time of the hockey playoffs next year, you’ll be able to open an app on your phone and bet that our Caps will win another Stanley Cup! Jack Evans is the District Council member for Ward 2, representing Georgetown and other neighborhoods since 1991.
Letters To The Editor Feeling Trapped by Construction Work Allow me to respond to the Oct. 24 Georgetowner’s “New Traffic Plans for Foggy Bottom” news story. As a longtime resident of Georgetown, I find myself becoming a prisoner in my own home. Let me explain, the ride down 34th Street to Key Bridge is often backed up for blocks. Key Bridge this week is under construction and two lanes are blocked in both directions. Once in Rosslyn, massive construction at Lee Highway and building construction on the corner of Fort Myer Drive at the Exxon Station Church creates delay. Let’s not forget what happening on Memorial Bridge. If I go downtown, which I often do for work, I take 30th Street NW to the Rock Creek Park entrance on K Street. The Kennedy Center construction already inhibits traffic with a new pattern and tighter lanes. This new proposal will simply be a horror for D.C. residents who live and commute in the city.
If I choose to go out Reservoir Road to MacArthur Boulevard, I encounter backups at the Georgetown University Hospital construction. Once I get to MacArthur, I can find my way to Chain Bridge but the bridge had lane closures for construction this week as well. Forget about the George Washington Memorial Parkway. The Windy Bridge construction and airport construction make it a road to totally avoid unless you have an extra hour for your ride. Frankly, I am still trying to understand why pedestrians and bicycles get more preference on road space. If you haven’t noticed, people try to drive around this city. It is becoming impossible to get anywhere. My suggestion is to plan and coordinate the construction so that people can get around town. — Name Withheld Upon Request
Big Locks, Tiny Saplings Considering the vast amount of money being invested in the refurbishment of Locks 3 and 4 of the C&O Canal in Georgetown, not even considering the absent canal boat, you then view the spindly, leafless trees protruding from the huge base circles on the Foundry side of the ditch. You could get better specimens on Saturday morning outside of Home Depot. I know more mature trees are available as I see them often at the Merrifield Nursery.
Come on, pry open your purse, and let’s replace these excuses for timber with something closer to those that were uprooted and shredded into mulch two years ago and do it right. It is very easy to remove these, and I could do it with one hand. An abomination. — Elliott Moulton, Thomas Jefferson Street
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10 ‘LOST FARMS AND ESTATES OF WASHINGTON, D.C.’
Kim Prothro Williams will discuss her book “Lost Farms and Estates of Washington, D.C.” at 1 p.m. at the Georgetown Public Library, 3260 R St. NW. For details, contact Jerry McCoy at 202-727-0233 or jerry.mccoy@dc.gov.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14 POTOMAC RIVER TUNNEL PROJECT
The D.C. Water and Sewer Authority and the National Park Service will hold a public meeting on the environmental assessment for DC Water’s proposed Potomac River Tunnel Project (open for public comment through Nov. 30) at 6 p.m. at the West End Library, 2301 L St. NW. The project, to control sewer overflow into the Potomac River, may include Georgetown sites at the river, including Georgetown Waterfront Park. For details, visit parkplanning.nps. gov or dcwater.com.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15 JESUIT HERITAGE LECTURE AND STARGAZING
As part of Jesuit Heritage Month at Georgetown University, the Rev. Gabriele Gionti, S.J., an astronomer at the Specola Vaticana (the Vatican Observatory), will speak on “The Scientific Tradition of the Jesuits” at 8 p.m. in Regents Hall, Room 109, 37th and O Street NW. Afterwards, weather permitting, a stargazing reception will be held at 177-year-old Heyden Observatory. For details, visit missionandministry@ georgetown.edu.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 3 ANC 2E
Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E will meet at 6:30 p.m. at Georgetown Visitation School, 1524 35th St. NW. Agenda to be announced. For details, visit anc2e.com.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6 OLD GEORGETOWN BOARD
The Old Georgetown Board will meet at 9 a.m. at 401 F St. NW, Suite 312. For details, visit cfa.gov. Send your community event listing to editorial@georgetowner.com or call 202-338-4833
One of the chief visual charms of the residential streets of Georgetown is the phalanx of trees in tree boxes along every sidewalk. Most look healthy, beautiful and well maintained. There are few holes in the lines of street trees and a diversity of newly planted trees fill in what obviously had been gaps. The beauty and health of Georgetown’s street trees is certainly due in large part to a small but very forceful organization: Trees for Georgetown. It safely can be described as an organization of tough tree huggers. Hardly a week goes by that Betsy Emes, chair of Trees for Georgetown for some 15 years, and her cohort Christi Cline don’t receive an emergency call that a tree on a Georgetown block — or perhaps a large historic tree in a front yard, visible from the street — is under threat. They often literally rush to the scene. It may be that a tree is being trimmed too much or cut down, that a tree has fallen (or is about to) or that a tree is suddenly visibly sick and dying — perhaps from unexpectedly inclement weather. The 14 or so members of the organization seem to know just about every tree in the village “personally.” Most of all, they know which ones have been officially targeted for trimming or removal.
"There are thousands of us tree huggers in Georgetown." — Betsy Emes If a call comes in about work being done on a tree that’s not on their list, they will demand to see a permit of authorization or make calls to authorities in the Department of Public Works for a stop order. Most times they are successful. Sometimes they are not. Last week, the alarm went out about one of the giant magnolia trees in front of 3017 N St. NW — the residence to which a grieving Jacqueline Kennedy and her children moved from the White House after the assassination of President John F Kennedy. In October, the tree was being delimbed prior to its being removed. Emes pointed out that there was no permit displayed on-site; homeowner David Hudgens said he had all available permits. The dispute went on as the tree was removed. Protesters marched in front of the house, even as lines of Halloween trick-or-treaters climbed the stairs to accept bags of Cheetos from Hudgens, who wore a cheetah costume. Hudgens said he will be replacing the removed tree with one of a more appropriate size. Emes will be watching. Emes is equally adamant about plantings in tree boxes. When asked which are the best decorative plants to place next to a tree in a street box, she answers fiercely: “None! Every plant ruins the fragile roots of sidewalk-box trees, which inevitably grow out, not under, and
Betsy Emes, chair of Trees for Georgetown, with committee members Bob Laycock, Christi Cline and Frank Randolph. Photo by Robert Devaney. don’t need any more competition for valuable soil, nutrients and water. Similarly, dog urine is very caustic for the trees.” “Remember when D.C. used to sponsor a contest for best-decorated tree boxes? Well, we managed to stop that cold,” Emes says proudly. “We made them realize that that beautiful décor was damaging if not killing the trees in the boxes.” Emes is equally concerned about soil buildup around a tree, which could smother it, and watches out for that. Committee members spend hours every week informing Georgetown residents how to help maintain healthy street trees: by watering them, keeping the soil clean and packed down around them, not encasing them in a four-sided box and reporting any signs of trouble. Trees for Georgetown partners with city arborists and Urban Forestry Division investigators, as well as with a consulting arborist, to plant new trees in designated areas throughout Georgetown every year: over 70 in 2018 (slightly more than in 2017) and some 2,000 since the organization was founded in 1989 by the Citizens Association of Georgetown. Each tree costs approximately $1,500 to purchase, plant and install in a regulation tree box. The organization holds an annual fundraising event, typically in early fall, at a grand home in Georgetown. Almost all the money goes directly to buying trees. Species planted in the last two years include hackberry, London plane, “Happidaze” and “Worplesdon” sweet gum, Carolina silver bell (Halesia), disease-resistant American elm, bald cypress and chinquapin, overcup, swamp white, bur and willow oaks. But, mostly, the members walk the streets of Georgetown observing the trees. They note
gaps, the ones in trouble. They may even help an owner go through the rather difficult process of having an annoying tree — perhaps a stinky female ginkgo — put on the city’s official removal list. “There are thousands of us tree huggers concerned about Georgetown’s trees,” says Emes, with just a hint of warning in her tone.
TREES FOR GEORGETOWN COMMITTEE MEMBERS Betsy Emes, Chair Theresa Burt Mary Carter Patrick Clawson Christi Cline Bob Laycock Jacqueline Martin Theresa Mongan Betsy Rackley Frank Randolph Flo Stone Bill Weldon Jackie Weldon Keith Pitchford, Consulting Arborist Trees for Georgetown can be reached by emailing treesforgeorgetown@gmail.com or calling the Citizens Association of Georgetown at 202-337-7313.
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At the first ever Rose Park Neighborhood Businesses Autumn Weekend on Oct. 27 (26th and 28th Streets): Jean Pierre Sarfati of Jean Pierre Antiques, Girma Hailu, owner of the P Street 7-Eleven, Helen Zoltanski of Georgetown Emporium and Daniel Heider of TTR Sotheby’s International Realty. Photo by Robert Devaney.
Hristina Merdzhanov and Emil Merdzhanov of Georgetown Olive Oil Co.
Now Open: High Street Café
Now Open: Georgetown Olive Olive Co. on M
Manuel Iguina’s casual High Street Café, serving chops, fish, pasta and pizza, is now open for business in the former Paolo’s space, 1305 Wisconsin Ave. NW. The Puerto Ricoborn Iguina owned Mio downtown. With chef Vincent Torres providing a Latin twist, High Street Café will be open for dinner seven days a week for the first month, with lunch and brunch added later on.
In Soon: Sandbox Sandbox, a casual eatery with outside chairs, is the new name for Robert Elliott’s Cube & Bale, which replaced Chinese Disco within Georgetown Court, 3251 Prospect St. NW. The place will open after all the legal and governmental hoops have been jumped through by Elliott and his managers. Earlier, the location — behind Cafe Milano and Peacock Cafe — was occupied by George and, even earlier, by Georgetown Billiards.
In: Fresh Baguette Fresh Baguette, on the corner of S Street and Wisconsin Avenue, opened on Nov. 1 and has already become the neighborhood’s boulangerie préférée, as the French say. We stopped by on Friday for a Nutella brioche and chatted with Stéphane Grattier, baker par excellence, who says he’s already selling 1,000 baguettes a day. He explained to us, en français, that Georgetown was the likely choice for the bakery’s expansion outside Bethesda because it’s “the center of things and it’s chic.” Hey, we agree! Store manager Laura Souda said that the sense of community in Georgetown is similar to the feeling people have in France for their local mom-and-pop bakeries and markets. “The same people are coming in,” she said. “They become like family because they come in every week for their weekly baguette.” In addition to the traditional baguettes and croissants, which sell for $3.10, Fresh Baguette offers homemade sandwiches, quiche and decadent desserts. In keeping with their “piece of France” feel, the bakery also offers an assortment of French products. Fresh Baguette is open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
The Georgetown Olive Oil Company made its move from Wisconsin Avenue to 2910 M St. NW and is now open.
In: The Berliner, Sausage & Beer Hall, to Replace Malmaison The Berliner a new scratch-made wurst and beer garden will open later this month near the Georgetown waterfront in the 4,200-square foot space formerly occupied by French bistro Malmaison at 3401 Water St. NW. The Berliner is the latest concept from the Popal Group, the family-run restaurant group behind Cafe Bonaparte, Lapis Bistro, Lapop and the former Napoleon Bistro. Inspired by family ties and modern Berlin comfort food, the menu includes Bavarian classics such as bratwurst, schnitzel and homemade pretzels with beer cheese, in addition to modern fare such as doner kebabs and falafel.
Out: Alex and Ani The Georgetown location of Alex and Ani, the Rhode Island-based maker of bracelets, bangles and such, has departed 3068 M St. NW.
Developing: JPMorgan Chase Takes Prime Turf Get ready for yet another bank occupying a prime Georgetown storefront (or two). JPMorgan Chase has acquired the former Marvelous Market and Neam’s Market property at P Street and Wisconsin Avenue for $8.2 million, according to a deed posted to the D.C. Recorder of Deeds. Matt Alexander of Dochter & Alexander Retail Advisors, who represented the bank in the deal, confirmed to Bisnow that Chase plans to use the building and parking lot as a bank branch. The closed Sports Zone location at 3140 M St. NW — right next to the Capital One Café in the former Nathans Restaurant space at the corner of Wisconsin and M — is also being prepped for a JPMorgan Chase outlet.
Choudhury Family Settles in at Booeymonger BY S E L M A K H E N I S S I
Booeymonger’s Rummana and Amer Choudhury. Photo by Robert Devaney.
There’s nothing quite comparable to a good sandwich. The Booey Wrap at Georgetown’s Booeymonger deli has a balance of protein, vegetables and carbs, all tied together with a flavor that echoes the zestiness of the fries and dipping sauce — a house dressing seasoned with ranch powder and curry — which Amer Choudhury recommends. “We’re just looking for a good old-fashioned sandwich,” he said, explaining the decision to retain a lot of the Booeymonger menu when his mother, Rummana Choudhury, became the owner of the business in March of 2016. While it is true that Rummana is the official owner of Booeymonger, Amer and Rummana’s husband Donnie play important roles in how the eatery is run. Donnie was in the process of buying an IHOP franchise in 2004 and Rummana joined in.That was their first foray
into the restaurant world, a world in which, by now, they are pretty comfortable. Amer became acquainted with it while growing up. “My family has owned restaurants since I was five years old,” he said. With Booeymonger being around since 1973 — its Georgetown location at 3265 Prospect St. NW was the original — the question arises as to what will change and what will stay the same. Les Samuel, who used to own the business, still owns the building in which the Georgetown Booeymonger is located. And General Manager Ravi Abeynayake has been a part of the Booeymonger family for a long time. Abeynayake is full of lore from the past and present. He knows the story behind the turkey and avocado sandwich called The Georgetowner, for instance. It actually used to be called the Gruben, but because that sounded a lot like a Reuben, “People got confused,” he said.
Apart from that confusion, people do have their favorite sandwiches, whether Reuben, Georgetowner or Booey Wrap. “They know our sandwiches,” said Abeynayake. (Georgetowner Editor in Chief Robert Devaney prefers the Fifth Avenue.) Though Rummana loves the menu she inherited from the previous owners, she is also excited about the ideas that Amer has. For one thing, he wants to update the coffee menu to include not only espressos, cappuccinos and lattes, but chai lattes and mint tea drinks with cream in them. And he wants to have ATMs in two of the Booeymonger locations, including the one in Georgetown. Amer has learned a lot from Donnie when it comes to relating to customers, and all three members of the Choudhury family care about the people they interact with at Booeymonger. “It’s a people business,” said Rummana.
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STABLE A New Local Arts Community Takes Root B Y R I C HAR D SEL D EN
In This D.C. Arts Synergy, All Players Make It Happen Stable really was a stable — for a Nabisco factory, in the days of horse-drawn cookie deliveries. Come next February, it will be a stable again, metaphorically speaking, but this time a stable of artists. Explains photographer Caitlin Teal Price: “Stable is different because it’s really forming a community.” Painter Tim Doud envisions “a place that people aspire to be in.” “Stable is very intentional,” adds Linn Meyers, creator of sitespecific wall drawings. If you ride the Glenmont arm of the Red Line or the MARC Train to Union Station, you’ve passed through this part of Northeast D.C. and watched the office and condo buildings rise. Stable’s address, 336 Randolph Place NE, is on the eastern edge of Eckington. Its immediate neighbors are a nonprofit bike shop, two small Baptist churches, a DC Public Library facility and, trackside, an asphalt mountain, source of all pothole filler. Eckington isn’t especially artsy. Walk, run, bike or scoot the half-mile of the Metropolitan Branch Trail from the NoMa-Gallaudet U Metro station and you’ll take in some of D.C.’s finest wall art — spray painted during the Pow! Wow! DC mural festival last May — along with some garden-variety tagging. But construction will soon begin on the conversion of Stable’s 10,000-square-foot, two-level space into 20 studios for artists, plus shared spaces and a gallery. The three co-founders — Price, Doud and Meyers — will each have a studio and one will be used by a partner organization, leaving 16 for individuals and artist pairs. The studios range in size from 100 to 700 square feet. Annual rent, referred to as “dues,” will be between $21 and $23 per square foot. More than 100 applications have been received (the official deadline was Sept. 15) and a fiveperson panel of art professionals will make the selection by the end of this year. Artists who work in any medium are welcome
Caitlin Teal Price’s “Stranger Lives” series was shown in the Rotunda Gallery of AU’s Katzen Arts Center in 2016. Photo by Ted Eytan.
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as long as they bring their own equipment. There are also “post-studio” openings (between 15 and 20 such applications have been received) for artists who only need WeWork-type space, curators, critics and the like. The goal is to install an invigorating demographic and creative mix of “artists of excellence.” Says Price: “We are also looking for artists who are very dedicated to their craft.” About a third of the studios will be “rotating”: reserved for organizational applicants — including embassies and other cultural programmers — that propose to use them for visiting artists they sponsor. Stable has a 10-year lease, and there is no limit on how long an artist can occupy a studio. Renewals will be based on an annual interview. And there is room to expand in the building, which currently has tenants such as homegoods store Salt & Sundry and its sister plantand-paper shop Little Leaf. Right now, prior to partitioning off the large rooms and adding finishes and fixtures, it is easy to get lost in the space, which has a staircases-and-corridors-to-nowhere feel. The 1,100-square-foot gallery — to be run independently — is a generously proportioned if rough-surfaced box. The upstairs, with a small skylight and irregular windows and ceilings, still retains something of the feel of a horse stable. There is also a narrow courtyard, currently filled with bicycles, that will be available for programming. The architects for the project are Gregory Kearley and Hannah Irby, executive director and associate architect, respectively, at Inscape Publico, a nonprofit firm that has partnered with a dozen organizations, including Sitar Arts Center in Adams Morgan and Pyramid Atlantic Arts Center, which relocated from Silver Spring, Maryland, to Hyattsville in 2016. Move-in will take place, the co-founders hope, in February, with the inaugural gallery show following several months later.
Tim Doud’s “American Prize,” part of the National Portrait Gallery’s Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition in 2013. Courtesy NPG.
Linn Meyers at work on “Our View From Here” at the Hirshhorn Museum in 2016. Courtesy Linn Meyers.
3 ARTISTS WITH A SHARED VISION Having worked on Stable for about four years, the co-founders — though dissimilar in age, background and practice — clearly have bonded with one other and with the project’s mission and vision. Price got a bachelor of fine arts degree in photography from New York’s Parsons School of Design in 2002, then a master of fine arts degree, also in photography, from the Yale School of Art in 2009. About 20 years older, Doud, an American University faculty member who has also taught at the Corcoran, got his bachelor’s at Columbia College in Missouri and his master’s from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is an alumnus of the Skowhegan summer residency in Maine, which may have influenced his thinking about art colonies. The two met when both were among the 43 finalists (out of more than 2,500 entries) for the National Portrait Gallery’s Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition in 2013. Price’s entry was “Leslie,” a photograph of a woman under a New Orleans overpass. Doud’s was “American Prize,” depicting Rodney, an artist and set designer he has been painting since 1996, in a striped shirt and hat and three leis of red, white and blue pom-poms. Meyers, in between the other two in age, was already acquainted with Doud. Like Price a D.C. native, she got her B.F.A. from the Cooper Union in New York and her M.F.A. from California College of the Arts in San Francisco. In 2016 and 2017, her installation “Our View From Here” covered the entire inner-ring wall of the Hirshhorn Museum. Their vision for Stable grew from their perception of Washington as a city with limited studio space — getting scarcer by the minute — in which artists were too dispersed to form a genuine community.
Originally, Friendship Heights-based developer Bernstein Management backed their plan and sought to buy the 34,000-squarefoot building that became home to Stable. It was instead acquired in 2017 from its former occupant, the Art and Drama Therapy Institute, for $5.6 million by Foulger-Pratt of Potomac, Maryland, and Boundary Companies of Chevy Chase. Both have larger projects underway nearby. As developers in D.C. by now know well, to get most of what you want, you need to offer benefits to the neighborhood and in many cases to the District as a whole (parks, money for nearby schools, a percentage of affordable units, etc.). Including artist studios in the project made sense, also for branding purposes. But the larger vision for Stable was new. The developers were persuaded, but required the co-founders to raise $250,000. Thanks to relationships with partners who trusted them, recognized the need and saw the opportunity — plus a grant from the Bernstein Foundation and contributions resulting from presentations, dinners and at least one dance party — the project went $100,000 over goal. Stable’s success in recruiting high-powered board and advisory board members went hand in hand with the fundraising. In addition to the co-founders, the board includes Brigitte Reyes of Lanier Heights gallery Reyes + Davis and Peggy Sparks of Georgetown gallery Artist’s Proof. On the advisory board are: Kate Goodall of Georgetown-based Halcyon, Liz Norton of Stone Soup Films, Peter Nesbett of Washington Project for the Arts, Paul So of Hamiltonian Artists, Sanjit Sethi of George Washington University’s Corcoran School of the Arts, Vesela Sretenovic of the Phillips Collection and Victoria Reis of Transformer. Another partner is web journal The Studio Visit.
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INTERACTION AND DIALOGUE ARE KEY What is it about artist’s colonies? Dragging their easels into the woods, France’s Barbizon painters inspired the Impressionists. Before he abandoned Europe for Tahiti, Gauguin had a clique in Brittany; Picasso and his buddies launched modern art from the Bateau-Lavoir, a deteriorating Montmartre piano factory; and Pollock, Kline, de Kooning and Rothko got drunk at the Cedar in Greenwich Village. The closest thing D.C. has had to a cohort of nationally important artists was the Washington Color School more than half a century ago. Rents were lower then. Meyers, who lived in the Bay area when “it was scrappy,” references San Francisco’s Minnesota Street Project as a model. Other models for Stable were programs in Baltimore, the Fountainhead in Miami, 18th Street Arts Center in Los Angeles and Sharpe-Walentas and Pioneer Works in Brooklyn. A few studio buildings continue to operate in D.C., including the waterfront Torpedo Factory, managed by the City of Alexandria, Virginia; the Otis Street Arts Project in Mount Rainer, Maryland, in the Gateway Arts District; the Jackson Art Center in Georgetown; and 52 O Street, where Price currently has her studio. What makes Stable different? It won’t be open to anyone who ponies up the rent. It won’t be a “vanity space” or a place that artists use mainly for storage. And it’s not a commercial venture. A nonprofit, Stable won’t make money on rental income or on sales (there will be occasional open studio events, but work won’t be for sale, even in the gallery). The name Stable also refers to the community the co-founders hope to build. Many studio buildings have term limits in order to keep things fresh. Stable is a studio program, not a studio building, emphasizes Price Interaction and dialogue are key. All will enter and exit through the front door into shared space, not through their own private doors. A lounge and pantry area will be visible through glass. What’s called the Gray Space will provide an area for packing, photographing and showing work. Five projects a year — unrelated to the work going on in the studios — will be mounted in the gallery. These will be curated by partner organizations, with one of the five organized by a nonprofit from outside the Washington area. Stable’s program manager is Rebekah Pineda, a graduate of the University of North Carolina and of AU’s arts administration program who formerly worked at Sitar and Hamiltonian. One of her initial tasks is to “understand what Eckington is,” then answer the question “What does a good neighbor look like?” So far, she has met with organizations such as the Eckington Civic Association and Empower DC, also reaching out to the neighborhood’s McKinley Technology High School, McKinley Middle School and Langley Elementary. Meanwhile, gentrification continues apace. “We’re kind of late in the game,” says Doud. But for at least the next 10 years — the clock starts at move-in — Stable will be a creative anchor, benefiting the developers and the neighborhood, yes, but more importantly the 40 artists, give or take, at work in the studios. Things happen when artists have other artists as neighbors, providing input not just when work is done but during the process. And the building’s community will continually be refreshed by the visiting artists and exhibitions sponsored by partner organizations. Before long, when people hear “Eckington,” instead of asking “Where’s that?” they may well respond: “Of course, Stable. Things are really happening there.”
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“Washington, D.C. Government charwoman, July 1942.” Gordon Parks. Courtesy Library of Congress.
Stephanie Syjuco, featured artist in Renwick Invitational 2018. Courtesy SAAM.
“Asta su abuelo (“As far back as his grandfather”) from “Los caprichos,” 1799. Francisco de Goya. Courtesy NGA.
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART Gordon Parks: The New Tide, Early Work 1940–1950 Through Feb. 18
RENWICK GALLERY, SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM Disrupting Craft: Renwick Invitational 2018 Opens Nov. 9
(LAST CHANCE) NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART Sense of Humor Through Jan. 6
Within just a decade, Gordon Parks (1912–2006) grew from a self-taught portrait photographer and photojournalist to a visionary professional, becoming in 1949 the first African American photographer at Life magazine. For the first time, this exhibition provides a detailed look at Parks’s early evolution, also demonstrating how he influenced and was inspired by a network of creative and intellectual figures that included Charles White, Roy Stryker, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison. Featuring some 150 photographs, as well as rare magazines, newspapers, pamphlets and books, the exhibition opens with Parks’s elegant society portraits, which established his career as a professional photographer in Saint Paul and Minneapolis. It continues through his 1942 Julius Rosenwald Fund fellowship, in which he spent a year “portraying the Negro in his intellectual, professional, educational, social, farm, and urban life”; a variety of projects for government organizations and private corporations; and later assignments for major fashion and lifestyle magazines, including Ebony, Circuit’s Smart Woman and Glamour, in addition to his freelance work and early photo essays for Life.
The eighth installment of the Renwick Invitational, a biennial showcase for midcareer and emerging craft artists, “Disrupting Craft” presents the work of four artists who are challenging the conventional definitions of craft by imbuing it with a renewed sense of purpose, developing responses to the contemporary political landscape while analyzing their own cultural histories. Tanya Aguiñiga (b. 1978) infuses natural fibers with a performative and often surreal quality that reveals raw personal narratives with a scope of universality. Sharif Bey (b. 1974) interweaves his roles as educator, father and ceramicist, exploring cultural histories and identity with works that range from the utilitarian to the sculptural and purely abstract. Dustin Farnsworth (b. 1983) manipulates wood into haunting storylines that inhabit intricately detailed portraits of today’s youth. Stephanie Syjuco (b. 1974) uses social practice and the tropes of craft to challenge our perceptions of “types” in contemporary America, uncovering the manifestation of the handmade within digital processes and virtual networks of dissemination.
Prints and drawings have consistently served as popular media for humor in art. Prints, which can be widely replicated and distributed, are ideal for institutional mockery and social criticism, while drawings, unmediated and private, allow for free rein of the imagination. “Sense of Humor” celebrates the rich yet often overlooked tradition of humor in works on paper from the 15th to the 20th century. Emerging in the Renaissance, satires and caricatures began gaining popularity by poking fun at the human condition using archetypal figures from mythology and folklore. By the 20th century, this style of art had become a genre in itself: cartoons. Works by cartoonists such as R. Crumb, George Herriman and Winsor McCay are presented alongside mainstream artists like Calder, Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol. From Renaissance caricature to British satire in the 18th century and counterculture comics of the late 1960s, the show features a vast and giddying range of artists, including Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Jacques Callot, William Hogarth, Francisco de Goya, Honoré Daumier, Roger Brown, the Guerrilla Girls and Art Spiegelman.
DUMBARTON OAKS Juggling the Middle Ages Through Feb. 28
An artifact in the exhibition “Juggling the Middle Ages” at Dumbarton Oaks. Courtesy Dumbarton Oaks.
“Le Jongleur de Notre Dame,” or “Our Lady’s Tumbler,” is one of the earliest modern Western affirmations of the importance of art. A juggler gives up his career to join a monastery. There, he sees the monks worshipping a statue of the Virgin Mary. Struggling to think of a gift worthy of her, he decides to perform a juggling act before her statue. Mary, moved by his generous gift, blesses him. Featuring more than 100 objects — including stained-glass windows, illuminated manuscripts, household objects and vintage theater posters — “Juggling the Middle Ages” follows the tale from its rediscovery by scholars in the 1870s to its modern interpretations in children’s books, allowing visitors to consider the role of the Middle Ages in the fashioning of modernity, for example in Gothic Revival architecture and films inspired by Arthurian legend.
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Rings by Nick Barnes. Baltimore’s Hippodrome after years of abandonment. After a major renovation, it reopened in 2004. Amy Davis. Courtesy National Building Museum. NATIONAL BUILDING MUSEUM Flickering Treasures: Rediscovering Baltimore’s Forgotten Movie Theaters Opens Nov. 17 Since its first Nickelodeon opened in 1905, Baltimore, a thriving industrial epicenter at the dawn of the cinematic age, has been home to more than 240 movie theaters, many of them grand and historic. Only a handful still function as theaters, while others survive like ghosts on the streets of Charm City in such forms as pharmacies and churches. “Flickering Treasures” invites visitors to travel in time through a survey of Baltimore’s moviegoing past from 1896 to the present, using photography, oral histories, architectural fragments and theater ephemera to illuminate themes of memory, loss and preservation. Throughout, works by photojournalist Amy Davis offer contemporary views of these often abandoned spaces, alongside archival images depicting the rise and fall of an industrial metropolis, illuminating the impact of social and economic upheaval on the city. Through the lens of theater design, construction and use, the exhibition engages with a familiar architectural form that few have likely considered in relation to urban history.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Pulse Through April 28 Three major installations from Mexican Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s “Pulse” series come together in the Hirshhorn’s largest interactive technology exhibition to date. Known for straddling the line between art, technology and design, LozanoHemmer (b. 1967) has filled the museum’s entire second level with immersive environments that use heart-rate sensors to create kinetic and audiovisual experiences from visitors’ own biometric data. Over the course of six months, “Pulse” will animate the vital signs of hundreds of thousands of participants. Each installation captures biometric signatures and visualizes them as repetitive sequences of flashing lights, panning soundscapes, rippling waves and animated fingerprints. The exhibition begins with Pulse Index, which records participants’ fingerprints at the same time as it detects their heart rates, displaying data from the last 10,000 users on a scaled grid of massive projections. With Pulse Tank, sensors turn each visitor’s pulse into ripples on illuminated water tanks, creating ever-changing patterns reflected on the gallery walls.
WASHINGTON GUILD OF GOLDSMITHS SHOW
Transformer, D.C.’s nonprofit platform for emerging artists, will hold its 15th annual silent auction and benefit party on Saturday, Nov. 17, at George Washington University’s Corcoran School of the Arts & Design, 500 17th St. NW. The event’s diplomatic chairs are Greek Ambassador Haris Lalacos and Anna Michalopoulou. Works by emerging Greek artists will be among those featured in this year’s auction. Tickets are $175.
HOPI TRIBAL FESTIVAL
The opening reception for the 19th biennial juried show of the Washington Guild of Goldsmiths will be held on Friday, Nov. 9, at 6 p.m. at Waverly Street Gallery, 4600 East-West Highway in Bethesda, Maryland. Displaying hollowware, sculpture and jewelry, the show runs from Nov. 7 to 30. Hours are Wednesday to Sunday, noon to 6 p.m.
On Saturday, Nov. 17, and Sunday, Nov. 18, the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Fourth Street and Independence Avenue SW, will host a Hopi Tribal Festival. Members of the Hopi Tribe, a sovereign nation located in northeastern Arizona, will share artist demonstrations, history presentations and performances of music and dance. Admission is free.
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The National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Steven Reineke, will pay tribute to men and women in the U.S. military with a free Veterans Day concert on Monday, Nov. 12, at 1 p.m. at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. UdvarHazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. Joined by guest vocalist Nikki Renée Danielson, the orchestra will perform space-related works and American favorites.
On Sunday, Nov. 18, at 4:30 p.m. at Duke Ellington School for the Arts, 35th and R Streets NW, the Washington Performing Arts Men and Women of the Gospel Choir, under Theodore Thorpe III, will perform “With a Grateful Heart: A Gospel Thanksgiving.” The choir will be joined by Stellar Awards nominees Patrick Lundy and Roderick Giles and guest soloist Thomas Allen. Tickets are $25 ($10 for students).
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Hippodrome, 2013. Photo by Amy Davis. Used with permission
Opens November 17 at the National Building Museum Explore the architectural and social history of going to the movies. See photos by Baltimore Sun photojournalist Amy Davis, and historic images, theater ephemera, furnishings, and architectural fragments that evoke memories and illuminate themes of loss and preservation.
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DOYLE EGYPTIAN REVIVAL PENDANT NECKLACE, C. 1900 RENÉ LALIQUE ESTIMATE: $20,000 – $30,000 AUCTION DATE: NOVEMBER 19
FREEMAN’S “PORTRAIT OF HORACE BINNEY,” 1833 THOMAS SULLY (1783–1872) ESTIMATE: $5,000 – $10,000 AUCTION DATE: NOVEMBER 14 More than 60 portraits from the Library of the Philadelphia Bar Association, the nation’s oldest association of its kind, will be offered at Freeman’s sale of American Furniture, Folk & Decorative Arts. In 1802, a group of 71 lawyers established the Law Library Company of the City of Philadelphia — later the Law Association of Philadelphia and, ultimately, the Philadelphia Bar Association — to share law books.
CHRISTIE’S “CHOP SUEY,” 1929 EDWARD HOPPER (1882–1967) ESTIMATE: $70 MILLION – $100 MILLION AUCTION DATE: NOVEMBER 13
Christie’s will offer more than 90 works at An American Place: The Barney A. Ebsworth Collection. The sale will include such highlights as Edward Hopper’s masterpiece “Chop Suey,” Jackson Pollock’s “Composition with Red Strokes” and Willem de Kooning’s groundbreaking “Woman as Landscape,” along with standout pieces by Franz Kline, Georgia O’Keeffe and others.
Doyle’s California Jewelry auction in New York will feature exquisite designs by Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels, David Webb, Tiffany & Co. and other firms from prominent private collections and distinguished estates. This Egyptian Revival pendant necklace by René Lalique is a rare piece, depicting a scarab made of carved opal with outspread wings of gold and enamel.
BONHAMS “ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN,” 1948 ESTIMATE: $150,000 – $200,000 AUCTION DATE: NOVEMBER 20 Part of the Bonhams auction “TMC Presents … The Dark Side of Hollywood,” this billboard-size (24-sheet) poster, the largest created for Universal Pictures’ “Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein,” is the only one known to exist. The “Big Three” horror stars — Bela Lugosi as Count Dracula, Glenn Strange as Frankenstein’s monster and Lon Chaney Jr. as the Wolf Man — all appear, flanking Lou Costello and Bud Abbott.
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SOTHEBY’S “STARRY PUMPKIN SILVER,” 2014 YAYOI KUSAMA (B. 1929) ESTIMATE $1.2 MILLION – $1.8 MILLION AUCTION DATE: NOVEMBER 15 One of only a handful of Yayoi Kusama’s glittering mosaic pumpkins, this largerthan-life sculpture is encrusted with thousands of mirrored tiles. Bringing together the artist’s signature pattern and favorite shape, “Starry Pumpkin Silver” — part of Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Day Auctions — encapsulates her dexterous skill, meticulous technique and singular hallucinogenic vision.
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A Collector of Senegalese Jewelry Tells Her Story INTERV IE W BY RICHA R D S E LD E N The exhibition “Good as Gold: Fashioning Senegalese Women,” showcasing jewelry created by master goldsmiths in Senegal in the early and mid-20th century, opened on Oct. 24 at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art. It will remain on view through Sept. 29, 2019. The show celebrates the gift to the museum by Utah-based art historian Marian Ashby Johnson of more than 250 pieces of jewelry, along with photographs and other documentation. Johnson and her husband, historian G. Wesley Johnson, lived in Dakar for two years in the early 1960s and repeatedly returned to carry out research in their respective areas. Lightly edited excerpts follow from her recent interview with The Georgetowner. “We were very excited to go into Senegal because we were living in Paris and that was going to be a whole different thing. We had done some research to get ready for this. I got pregnant in Paris, so I was pregnant. It was 1963. We came up in the Lyautey, a little boat that went from France to Senegal. As we came up to the coast, I could see all the colors and all the handsome young men and beautiful women with all the fabrics. They were rushing everywhere and it was just so exciting I almost jumped out of the boat and swam over to the edge so I could be a part of them. It just really enchanted me in the first place. “I started looking at the markets, but as I got used to things the most exciting place to me was
Necklace, mid-20th century, Wolof artist. Gift of Marian Ashby Johnson. Courtesy NMAA. the ateliers of the goldsmiths — blacksmiths and goldsmiths, because at that time they were doing blacksmithing as well as goldsmithing. And I would go in and visit with them. I was working also at the archives at that time in Dakar. And I found that there was nothing written on the gold jewelry, except for two articles that were written by young artisans themselves. “Walking into their ateliers was one of
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the most exciting things I ever went through, because it was a very dark, dusty, smoky place with a little hole in the ground that was their furnace to melt things and get them together. There were young apprentices and then older gentleman, too, but the main goldsmith was always well-versed in French. It was so delightful to talk to him, because he wanted to talk about his family and his ancestors, because they had been goldsmiths as well. It was so exciting to see what they could do with the jewelry. And I was a little nervous about spending too much time with them, but I found that so many of them were willing and wanting to talk about it. They wanted to talk about their ancestors and they wanted to talk about the techniques and the tools and the styles. “One of the sad things about this was I could see things that I knew were old and traditional and very often they were melting them down or crushing them to make new things for some clients. It was so frightening to me that I just quickly started buying as many as I could. And I didn’t have very many funds. As I went, each time there was something new that I could find out, for example, the different names of things and how they gave them names. “The tradition of women known as señares started very early on. As the Europeans came to Senegal, they had no wives that they brought with them. Some of the upper-class women wouldn’t really have that much to do with them, but there were a number of women who did, and they would then get married in a contractual marriage. These women became known as señares. They learned the languages, they learned the ways of French or Portuguese or whatever, they learned all the ways of business. These women became very astute and very politically oriented. It went on for several generations. “The señares were very careful about their bodies. They had nice outfits that covered themselves and they also built them on an idea of what European dresses were all about and costumes were all about. But they embellished them very much. They had layers of fabrics, beautiful fabrics. These women had the opportunity to get the best of the furniture that came through this trade, the best of the fabrics that came through this trade. And they saw pictures of women in Europe and other places,
Marian Ashby Johnson in front of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art. Photo by Robert Devaney. so they could take parts of that to form their own jewelry and their own outfits. At that point, they became very interested in the jewelry. Some of these very wealthy señares had three floors of house, and on the bottom floor they would have their goldsmiths and their seamstresses and a whole slew of people who worked for them. “Both ethnic groups, Wolof and Toucouleur, have goldsmiths, but they had a lot of connections. There are certain aspects to the jewelry that is definitely more Toucouleur than it is Wolof. The heaviness and the more solid things is more Toucouleur. The Wolof is more delicate and light, more filigree. There’s kind of a weight to the Toucouleur jewelry. It just looks more dramatic rather than elegant. I’m making very broad statements. “Jewelry was very much a part of the whole social situation. Every one of the celebrations was always involving jewelry. They would wear these beautiful outfits and they’d borrow them or they would buy them or their people would. And they gave lots of jewelry and fabrics and things at all the celebrations — marriages and baptisms. And their grandmother’s jewelry was important because they used their grandmother’s and their great-grandmother’s and their greatgreat-grandmother’s jewelry. And they knew something about the goldsmiths that made them. “I think you can tell the love that I have of the people and the jewelry and how it all comes together, and how this is a really unique style and should be better known. They’re never saying “Senegalese art region.” I hope they are going to have an art region for Senegal. That’s very important to me. And I think it’s time to have some ‘ta-dum,’ some excitement on gold filigree jewelry from Senegal and these wonderful artisans that have been working so hard over many centuries.”
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Cocktail of the Month: The Sidecar BY JODY KURA S H Today, perhaps the most popular cocktail with WWI origins is the sidecar. This pre-Prohibition cocktail is forged from Cognac (or brandy), orange liqueur (or triple sec) and lemon juice. Its moniker refers to the motorcycle attachment used for transporting passengers. The exact place of invention is unclear, with stories ranging from Paris to London. In Harry MacElhone’s 1922 book “Harry’s ABC of Mixing Cocktails,” the author credits Pat McGarry, a bartender at Buck’s Club in London, as the inventor. McGarry also invented the lesser-known Buck’s Fizz cocktail. Later, in 1948, the recipe appears in David Embury’s revered cocktail book, “The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks.” According to “Difford’s Guide for Discerning Drinkers,” Embury says that the sidecar “was invented by a friend of mine at a bar in Paris during World War I and was named after the motorcycle sidecar in which a captain customarily was driven to and from the little bistro where the drink was born.” That bar is believed to legendary Parisian landmark Harry’s New York Bar (although there are rumors that it originated at the Ritz hotel). Like many other pre-Prohibition tipples, the sidecar went under the radar until the classic cocktail revival. Another boost in popularity came from the “Mad Men” effect. The cult TV series took viewers back to an era of stylish drinking, with vintage cocktails such
as Manhattans, martinis, gimlets and sidecars. Finding a bar to enjoy a sidecar on Armistice Day won’t be hard in cocktail-crazy D.C. Try Hank’s Cocktail Bar, the Round Robin Bar or All Souls. With only three ingredients, it is also easy to make at home. The star of the show is Cognac, which comprises a five-to-three ratio with both the orange liqueur and the lemon juice. So choose carefully, as that will have a tremendous effect on the flavor profile. For something with a fruity taste and floral aroma, try Martell Cordon Bleu. If you prefer some spice, a good choice is Delamain Vesper. As for orange liqueur, stick with a quality spirit such as Grand Marnier, Cointreau or Solerno. For a nice presentation, serve it in a coupe or martini glass. If your tastebuds lean to the sweet side, you can rim the glass with sugar.
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The Lodge at Woodloch: Unwind at the Perfect Getaway BY MARY ANN TREGER
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he minute I grasp the drumsticks — the percussion variety, not turkey — I am hooked. My inner rock star springs to life and I’m tapping everything in sight. I am not alone. Everyone is tapping right along with me and the class hasn’t even started. When it does, this band of strangers morphs into a rhythmic ensemble worthy of a spot in Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Cindy, our instructor, shouts rapid-fire orders with the intensity of a drill sergeant: “TAP TO THE LEFT! TO THE RIGHT! FRONT! BEHIND! ON THE FLOOR! OVERHEAD!” We follow her lead and pound the sticks on our “drums.” Well, they’re not really drums. Our instruments are large exercise balls anchored to stands so they won’t budge. Between thumps, we perform jumping jacks or other high-intensity cardio moves. Pulsating sounds, plenty of laughter and lots of sweat fill the hour.
Before my friend Linda and I arrived at the Lodge at Woodloch, a destination spa in Hawley, Pennsylvania, we’d never heard of drumming for fitness. In fact, when we see it on the activity schedule, we give it thumbsdown. We figure it’s a form of spiritual drumming and we want a workout. But after eavesdropping on another guest raving about the class, we decide to give it a shot. Morning yoga.
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Our four-day getaway is filled with pleasant surprises from the get-go. After a four-and-a-half-hour drive, we step into the lobby, where three chakra bowls displayed on a hand-carved wooden base greet us. I pick up a gong and mindlessly circle the rim of each bowl, producing tranquilizing sounds. Guests pass by — some wearing hiking boots, others spa slippers. All wear contented grins. Our arrival time wasn’t ideal. Lunch was ending and we figured we’d have to settle for a cereal bar. Instead, an on-the-ball receptionist said, before I uttered one word, “Don’t waste time checking in. Go have lunch.”
We watch a lone deer munch his lunch in the dense forest, while catching a glimpse of the resort’s 15-acre lake through the trees.
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Here I feel like I’m a guest at a friend’s private estate. We devour shrimp and pasta in silence, overwhelmed by the killer views through the dining room’s floor-to-ceiling windows. We watch a lone deer munch his lunch in the dense forest, while catching a glimpse of the resort’s 15-acre lake through the trees. My last visit to the Poconos, 20 years ago, was nothing like this. A tacky in-room bathtub shaped like a champagne glass was the highlight. Fortunately, times — and tubs — have changed. Here I feel like I’m a guest at a friend’s private estate.
With just 57 rooms on 150 wooded acres, the setting is cozy and idyllic. Almost every space — guest rooms, fitness rooms and sitting areas — boasts panoramic views. The lodge’s six fireplaces are flanked by handsome leather furniture, ideal retreats for our midmorning and afternoon breaks. And whenever we’re in the mood to nosh, coffee, tea, fresh fruit, nuts and snacks are within reach. That’s a benefit, since we work up a healthy appetite during back-toback fitness adventures each morning. “They’re better than any aerobics class,” says a young woman, describing the Ballet Barre and Bollywood Belly Dancing classes. She neglects to tell us how difficult they are. In ballet, I’m the clumsy Black Swan as I struggle with my demipliés and arabesques. The best part is moving to beautiful classical music. The back patio.
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Enjoy a beer and a massage. hung up on calories. The kitchen is dessertfriendly, too. Our scrumptious chocolate cake is “petite,” but no diet police would approve it. The chef’s philosophy is: Don’t deprive. Eat less. We leave for home two unwound women whose stresses have shrunk to the size of a whirlpool — if only for four glorious days. But I can still be caught belly dancing around my kitchen from time to time.
Indoor pool. Belly dancing brings a change of tune — and mood. Grown women in coin-trimmed sarongs gyrate, grind and giggle. For a moment, I fear I’ll wind up on YouTube. But we all quickly release our inhibitions and get into the groove. Since the classes wake up muscles that have long been dormant, each afternoon we head to the therapeutic hydromassage “water wall,” where the force of the cascading hot water massages our aching bodies. Later on, at the spa, our biggest decision is whether to get massaged, oiled or scrubbed. Sometimes, we simply take refuge in the Whisper Lounge, where sssssssshhh is the only sound allowed. Each night, the dining room is filled with a mix of couples on a romantic getaway, gal pals like us and singles enjoying a book or a martini (or both). While menu choices are diverse and healthful, the chef doesn’t get
Whirlpool hot tub overlooks the woods.
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The Plains ~ 2012 addition and complete restoration created a classic and elegant Virginia manor house. Attention to detail throughout including a custom designed kitchen open to the family room. Property also includes pool, guest house, 4 stall barn on 18 acres located in the Orange County Hunt Territory. Convenient access to I- 66, Rt. 50 and Dulles International Airport $2,999,000
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Marshall ~ Completely renovated brick home on 22+ acres in a private, park like setting. 4 BR and 4½ BA, including a separate au pair or guest suite with fireplace. Hardwood floors, antique mantles, 10 foot ceilings, 5 fireplaces and custom woodwork. 2 level 13 x 49 porch. Full basement with work out room & sauna; play room; 2 nd laundry and storage. 2 car garage. New 20 x 24 run in shed. In Orange County Hunt territory. $1,987,500
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Paris ~ Circa 1770, Lovely Stone and Stucco Farm house sits at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains, 20+ acres surrounded by Protected Lands, Spectacular protected views of Paris valley, Meticulous exterior renovations include Re-Pointed Stonework, Metal Roof, 2 Large additions, Covered Porch, Basement, Buried Electric, well and Septic, Fully Fenced, Mature Trees, Boxwoods, Ready for all your interior finishes. $1,300,000
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Bluemont ~ A long winding drive leads to a beautifully renovated, single story residence in a secluded setting. Gleaming wood floors grace the main rooms, multiple windows & glass doors bathe the rooms in natural light, a fabulous gourmet county kitchen is a true chef ’s delight, the luxurious master suite is a dream retreat. Barn & newly fenced paddocks make this a perfect hunt box. Excellent ride-out! $549,000
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‘Settle for More: A Memoir’ REVIEWED BY KITTY KELLEY
A refreshingly candid work from the Fox News [lately of NBC News] powerhouse. I groaned when the editor suggested I review Megyn Kelly’s memoir, “Settle for More.” “I couldn’t possibly,” I said. “The girl misspells her name.” (I go through life insisting on the extra “e” in my Kelley, getting grief from the one-e Kellys for putting on parlor airs.) The editor barked like Ms. Megyn herself on her prime-time Fox show, “The Kelly File.” She told me to suck it up. The book arrived with a staggeringly glamorous cover of the blond television anchor, looking beautiful but forbidding. Before you even get to page one, you know you’re not meeting Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. This is not the story of a warm and cozy girly-girl, all frills and fluff. Kelly knows she’s good as any, better than some. So prepare yourself for Cinderella on steroids: the success story of a young woman who learned early in life that hard work will open any door that’s not already kicked in by great good looks. Her book is a testament to slogging, bone-cracking, round-the-clock effort, which she soldered to a laser focus to succeed. “I believe in the Steve Martin mantra,” she writes. “Be so good they can’t ignore you.” Kelly’s memoir is also a love letter to her father, who died suddenly when she was 12. “Sometimes I wonder if he has seen me on TV, and whether he knows that what I’ve accomplished is in part an accomplishment of his. He gave me the confidence to do everything I’ve done.” But why write a memoir at the age of 46? Television’s czarina, Barbara Walters of ABC, waited until she was almost 80 and off the air to write her life story (and to reveal her love affair with Edward Brooke, the first African American to serve in the U.S. Senate). NBC’s Jane Pauley was 53 when she wrote her book and revealed that she’d been
institutionalized for bipolar disorder. Elizabeth Vargas of CBS was 54 when she wrote to reveal her alcoholism. And — make no mistake — a “reveal” is expected of a television anchor who receives a $5-million book advance. Kelly’s “reveal” comes at the end of her jaunty 320-page book, when she busts Roger Ailes for sexual harassment, only to get trashed by some of her Fox colleagues for disloyalty to the boss who made her a star. (For Fox trashers, see index under “O’Reilly, Bill.”) “I realized I had a choice to make,” Kelly writes. She could be quiet, or “I could ensure that the owners of Fox News Channel — Rupert Murdoch and his sons — understood they might actually have a predator running their company.” Bye-bye, Mr. Ailes. Before she lowers the boom on rutting Roger,
though, she relates the trauma of Trump, who made her “bleeding” a global issue and then called her a bimbo, a lightweight and a liar. He allowed his attorney to encourage 40,000 people to boycott her show and “gut” her after the presidential debate in which she slammed the then-candidate with a question regarding his piggish comments about women. Sounding like a disciple of Oprah, whom she calls her role model, Kelly writes: “Adversity is an opportunity,” and she proved it by asking her attacker to help launch her own Fox Broadcast special. Without consulting anyone at her network, she secretly met with Trump after his poisonous tweets and suggested he sit with her for an exclusive “Barbara Walters type interview.” Quelle surprise! — Trump agrees. Unfortunately, the special bombed. According to Vanity Fair, “The heavily promoted prime time interview was a critical and ratings disappointment.” Slate called her interview “disgusting” and “fawning.” This Kelly doesn’t mention. Overall, she writes with bawdy good humor and rarely “half-asses it,” as she says. “While discussing the Olympics, I said the word ‘shuttlecock’ made me feel uncomfortable … So sue me.” When her husband defended her to an angry Trump supporter, she told him, “You are definitely getting action tonight.” Born “lower middle class,” she says she’s “new to money,” having spent most of her life without it. She claims to be a practicing Catholic, but admits she doesn’t go to Mass every Sunday. She runs from being labeled a feminist, knowing she might alienate many in her audience, and professes to be an Independent. She doesn’t apologize for sounding racist by once proclaiming Santa Claus “is white,” and then adding, “Jesus was a white man, too.” Kelly, soon to be renegotiating her television contract for an estimated $20 million a year
(eeny, meeny, miny, moe — will she catch Fox or CNN by the toe?), is battling O’Reilly for dominance at Fox, although she dismisses him as an “ideologue” and a “pundit,” while describing her own show as “cool water over hot brain.” She’s also battling O’Reilly for first place on the bestseller list and, if you look at the top nonfiction books, hers could fit under any of several titles: once a “Scrappy Little Nobody,” she is now “Filthy Rich,” bathed in “Moonlight,” a trifle “Superficial,” but “Born to Run.” Kelly calls her memoir “Settle for More” because her mentor, Dr. Phil, changed her life when she heard him say on Oprah: “The only difference between you and someone you envy is, you settled for less.” As she writes: “This was the moment when I realized I could change my life. I did not have to settle for less. I could settle for more.” And she definitely has. [Editor’s note: This review originally ran on Dec. 30, 2016. O’Reilly left Fox last year after his sexual harassment settlements were revealed. After moving to NBC, Kelly’s show was canceled last month following racially insensitive remarks she made on-air.] Georgetown resident Kitty Kelley has written several number-one New York Times best-sellers, including “The Family: The Real Story Behind the Bush Dynasty.” Her most recent books include “Capturing Camelot: Stanley Tretick’s Iconic Images of the Kennedys” and “Let Freedom Ring: Stanley Tretick’s Iconic Images of the March on Washington.”
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The black-tie event — which includes a cocktail reception, a silent auction and an automobile raffle — raises funds for cancer research for the Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. Ritz-Carlton, Washington, D.C. Email Cristy Heffernan Seth at ch1175@georgetown.edu.
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The Lab School of Washington Gala honors outstanding achievers with learning differences. At the 34th annual event, a reception and a silent auction will be followed by a dinner, an awards program and dancing. Net proceeds fund need-based financial aid for students at the Lab School. National Building Museum. Email martycathcart@labschool.org.
Hosted by the John P. Mayhugh Foundation, the inaugural gala seeks to influence public policy in order to improve the quality and accessibility of services available to veterans and their families. Special recognition will be given to the Semper K9 organization. Arena Stage. Email info@johnpmayhugh.org.
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Knock Out Abuse Nears $1 Million
The young, the restless and the well-connected donned cowboy boots and Stetsons for the fifth annual Stroud Family Foundation Hoedown Oct.27. Held under a massive white tent in the backyard of Brooke and Stephane Carnot’s Georgetown home, the annual Hoedown raises funds to provide scholarships to children with learning differences in D.C. schools and honors the memory of Dr. Franklin Stroud, the beloved pediatrician. A live band took to the stage, and hardy Texans, like NBC’s Barbara Harrison and Ambassador Jim Jones, hit the dance floor to two-step and stomp the night away.
Knock Out Abuse Against Women’s 25th Anniversary Sparkle and Shine Gala, held at the Washington Ritz-Carlton Nov. 1, raised more than $950,000 through sponsorships, silent and live auctions, a live appeal and ticket sales. Funds will benefit women and children who are survivors of domestic violence. Late donations may see the gala raise $1 million. The chairwomen responsible for raising the record-breaking amount for the 25th anniversary gala were Denise Grant, Ann Walker Marchant and Norma Commons Ramsey. Speakers included former Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe, Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), Mayor Muriel Bowser, Kathleen Guinan, CEO of Crossway Community and “Break the Silence Award” winner. WUSA9 anchor Andrea Roane was again mistress of ceremonies. Singer-songwriter Shaléa captured the crowd’s attention with her rendition of “I Am Women.”
Kandie Stroud with Barbara Harrison, NBC4 anchor on the dance floor at the Stroud Foundation Hoedown. Photo by Neshan H. Naltchayan.
Co-hosts Stephane Carnot and Brooke Stroud Carnot on the dance floor. Photo by Neshan H. Naltchayan.
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), Knock Out Abuse Against Women co-founders Jill Sorensen and Cheryl Masri with former Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe. Courtesy Knock Out Abuse Against Women.
AIFIC Fete at Il Canale BY R OBERT D EVAN EY The fall fundraiser for American Initiative for Italian Culture brought out the food, courtesy of restaurateur Giuseppe Farruggio, and the music at Il Canale restaurant on 31st Street Oct. 25. Guest enjoyed pieces of la dolce vita — classic Italian tastes with entertainment by the Peabody School of Music. AIFIC says its mission “is to enrich the cultural exchange between the United States and Italy through bilateral exchange programs with a goal to fostering greater appreciation and understanding of both the American and Italian cultures.” Shannon Stroud, Lindsay Stroud, Megan Delany and Chris Darby. Photo by Neshan H. Naltchayan
Sustained Dialogue Institute Honors Wynton Marsalis, Igor Butman BY M A RY BIRD Jazz greats Igor Butman and Wynton Marsalis received the 2018 National Dialogue Awards Nov. 1 in recognition of their contributions to the principles and values of true dialogue, reconciliation and peace. The event chaired by Susan Carmel was appropriately held at the United States Institute of Peace. Institute President the Rev. Mark J. R. Farr noted that “only a cultural dialogue succeeds in uniting peoples.” Marsalis remarked that he and Butman “both share a love of humanity” only to
Gala chair Susan Carmel presents jazz musicians Wynton Marsalis and Igor Butman the 2018 National Dialogue Award in recognition of the contributions they have made bridging divides through the arts.
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Teresa and Guiseppe Farruggio, owner of Il Canale restaurant, (center) with members of the Peabody School of Music.
Mary Louise Serato, AIFIC secretary, Barbara Hawthown and Elisabetta Ullmann, AIFIC board chair.
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