Georgetowner January 13, 2016

Volume 62 Number 7

january 13 - January 26, 2016

Mayor Bowser: Thinking Ahead

The Face of DC Homicides RIP: Father Rick Curry Exclusive: Plotkin With Vince Gray

GEORGETOWN $6,500,000 C. 1870, this Georgetown East Village estate is strikingly proportioned and features museum-like details and quality.

This historic, detached home is uniquely sited between Dumbarton Oaks and Tudor Place. The residence boasts more than 8,000 square feet on four levels with grand entertaining space, pool and two-car garage.

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GEORGETOWN $1,395,000

This all-brick Federal townhouse has been meticulously restored for refined living. The three-bedroom property features custom millwork, high-end kitchen and bathroom fixtures, and a secluded garden. Rose Park’s playgrounds, tennis courts, and seasonal farmers’ market are just steps away.

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ALEXANDRIA, VA $1,050,000

One of the largest homes in Potomac Greens. This awardwinning Fairfax model lives like a detached home with its wide, open rooms, high ceilings, and streaming natural light.

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PHILLIPS PARK $4,100,000

Built in 2015, this Greek Revival is an original Phillips Park home designed by Jones & Boer Architects. Encompassing more than 6,500 square feet, this home offers six bedrooms, a chef’s kitchen with La Cornue range, and generously proportioned public rooms with high ceilings.

GEORGETOWN $1,695,000 Stunning 2 bedroom, 2 bath plus den Georgetown waterfront condo at the award-winning 3303 Water Street building.

Expansive C&O Canal views, unparalleled European finishes, high ceilings, garage parking, storage, 24/7 concierge, rooftop pool, terrace, and fitness room.

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GEORGETOWN $649,000 This charming duplex at Trinity Walk has been expertly updated. The south-facing unit offers hardwood floors, crown moldings, a wood burning fireplace, built-in cabinetry, and recessed lighting throughout. French doors in the master bedroom lead to a private brick patio.

GEORGETOWN $16,500/month Located on Cooke’s Row, this residence boasts numerous architectural details including the grand 3-story curved staircase. This home is graced with 13-foot ceilings on the main level, seven bedrooms, five full bathrooms, five fireplaces and off-street parking with garage.

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Face of D.C. Homicides

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Mayor Bowser: Thinking Ahead

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up & coming January 14 Lecture and Book Signing with James Goode Dumbarton House is hosting a lecture and book signing with Dr. James Goode, an historian specializing in Washington, D.C., architecture and outdoor sculpture. His most recent book, “Capital Houses,” highlights 56 historic residences in the D.C. area — including Dumbarton House. A limited number of books will be available for a discounted price of $75. The lecture will be followed by a signing. Dumbarton House is handicapped accessible, and there is limited parking behind the garden at 27th and Q Street NW. Groups are welcome. To register for the event, visit dumbartonhouse.org.

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January 15 Falu’s Bollywood Orchestra

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Fronted by one of India’s most influential musicians, Falu — who’s collaborated with masterminds including Yo Yo Ma and A.R. Rahman — this ethereal ensemble combines the timeless elegance of Bollywood’s musical golden age with an inventive modern style. Catch Falu’s highly acclaimed vocals backed by an orchestra of Eastern and Western instruments for a one-of-a-kind performance. Tickets range from $22 to $27. For more information, visit wolftrap.org. The Barns at Wolf Trap. 1635 Trap Road, Vienna, Virginia.

Gladys Knight & The O’Jays “For the Love of Money,” boogie over to see the seven-time Grammy-winning “Empress of Soul” on a “Midnight Train to Georgia” and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame R&B trio who brought you “Love Train.” For ticket information, visit dar.org/constitutionhall. DAR Constitution Hall. 1776 D St. NW.

January 16 Chocolate Tour of D.C. Come join your expert tour guide for a delightful stroll through some of the Washington’s most decadent dessert boutiques and chocolatiers in the charming neighborhood of Georgetown. From handmade salted caramel truffles to postmodern takes on the dark stuff, the Chocolate Tour of Washington DC will take you to chocolate paradise. Tickets are $50. Old Stone House, 3051 M St. NW.

January 17 Step Afrika! Step Xplosion Step up and enjoy the rhythm and artistry of Step Afrika! The percussive dance troupe puts on an electrifying show that unites music, dance and storytelling to put forward an often overlooked aspect of American history. Tickets range from $25 to $40. To learn more, visit strathmore.org/events-and-tickets/step-afrika-15. Strathmore. 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, Maryland.

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January 18 10th Annual MLK Peace Walk and Parade Commemorating the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday, the Peace Walk begins at 11 a.m. and the Parade starts at noon. The parade will end at Living Word Church located at 4101 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave. SW. To learn more, visit mlkholidaydc.org.

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Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This musical celebration of the life and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., features Grammy Award-nominated gospel singer Yolanda Adams and the 2016 “Let Freedom Ring” Choir, directed by Rev. Nolan Williams. Georgetown University will also present the John Thompson Jr. Legacy of a Dream Award. To learn more, visit kennedy-center.org/calendar/event/PQAEM. The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. 2700 F St. NW.

January 22 ‘Mark Giaimo: The Secret Life of Toys’ Stop by Susan Calloway Fine Art for the opening reception of “Mark Giaimo: The Secret Life of Toys.” Whether painting still lifes of cheap plastic toys, portraits of friends, city landscapes and plein air paintings, or political caricatures, Giaimo mixes the mundane with the sacred, 19th-century painting techniques with contemporary pulp

and graphic illustration, creating both an homage to and satire of the past and present. His new paintings explore the mysterious pastimes of toys — their invisible struggles with life, death and love. For Mark Giaimo, more information, visit “Queen Hillary,” callowayart.com. 1643 2015.

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January 22-23 Folger Consort: ‘The Wonder of Will’ Inaugurating a year of Shakespeare celebration for the 400th anniversary of the Bard’s death, Folger Consort presents a collaborative program featuring the 12 stellar English voices of Stile Antico. Songs and dances from Shakespeare and music for his greatest patron King James I resound in the cathedral, along with music by contemporaries William Byrd and John Dowland, including the Lachrimae for five viols and lute. Viols and voices join in period anthems, and Stile Antico performs a setting of texts from Henry IV by acclaimed contemporary classical music composer Nico Muhly. Tickets range from $30 to $60. To learn more, visit events. folger.edu. Washington National Cathedral.

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ANC OKs Plan to End Liquor License Moratorium

The Georgetown-Burleith Advisory Neighborhood Commission unanimously voted at its Jan. 4 meeting to ask that the Georgetown liquor license moratorium be allowed expire by spring, allowing for a so-called “Georgetown Settlement Agreement Template.”

It resolved: “ANC 2E requests that the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board recognize the community’s action to adopt a Settlement Agreement Template aimed at addressing issues of hours of operation, noise disturbance, public space cleanliness and maintenance, and general concerns to ensure peace, order and quiet in the community” and “that the [board] adopt a protocol for reviewing CR and DR license applications in Georgetown consistent with that available to other jurisdictions in the city.”

GBA: Let Liquor License Ban Expire No Strings Attached

The Georgetown liquor license moratorium — in effect since 1989 and due to expire April 3 — has gotten a “no” vote from Georgetown groups. Last month, the Georgetown Business Association, which represents businesses throughout all of Georgetown, added its own unequivocal take on the debate: let the Georgetown liquor license moratorium expire, with no strings attached.

“Georgetown residents already have very extensive input into the ABRA process through CAG and ANC 2E, which has exercised great clout for many years, leading to the creation of numerous ‘voluntary’ or ‘settlement’ agreements,” wrote the GBA in a Dec. 28 letter to Fred Moosally, director of D.C.’s Alcoholic Beverage Regulation Administration. “This process is sufficient to protect the legitimate concerns of Georgetown residents without superimposing additional legal requirements that do not pertain in competing neighborhoods.”

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Saying goodbye to 2015 and welcoming 2016, the iconic sign for the former Georgetown Theater at Wisconsin Avenue and O Street NW was illuminated for several hours from Dec. 31 to Jan. 1. The capital letters, “GEORGETOWN” were aglow in neon-red at night and in the early morning light. The sign had not been lighted for more than 20 years.

Building owner and architect Robert Bell met with family and friends at the old theater on New Year’s Eve briefly for a champagne toast to the sign, the building and Bell’s years of work on the project.

The sign will be switched on for good sometime in the next few months. The official cere-

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On Christmas Eve, Metropolitan Police Officer Antonial Atkins met Santa Claus (Ed Solomon of Anthony’s Tuxedos & Wedding Creations) along with a couple of hundred others at the corner of Wisconsin Avenue and P Street. Businesses said they wanted to bring more Christmas spirit to Georgetown.

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Public, Mayor Say ‘Not So Fast’ to $1,000 Fine

The District Department of Transportation wants to put the pedal to the metal on the fine for “super speeders,” raising the penalty for driving 25 mph over the limit from $300 to $1,000. But members of the public, and perhaps the mayor, aren’t on board. At a hearing Friday called by Council transportation committee chair Mary Cheh, DDOT Director Leif Dormsjo had some explaining to do. Also on DDOT’s wish list: an increase in the fine for hitting a bicycle rider from $50 to $500 and in the fine for parking in a bike lane from $65 to $200 (private vehicles) and $300 (commercial vehicles). The 30-day period for public comment on the proposed changes, announced Dec. 11, has been extended to Jan. 31.

physical redesign, re-landscaping, new paths and benches, and repair of the 1930s fountain, the plan calls for an enclosed café, public restrooms, a children’s play area, farmers’ and holiday markets, outdoor movies and yoga classes.

Round-the-clock security and a code of conduct are apparently meant to address the presence of numerous, homeless park users.

On 13th Street, diagonally across from the Washington Post’s new K Street headquarters at One Franklin Square, sits the historic Franklin School, formerly a homeless shelter. In November, Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2F voted unanimously to support Thoron Capital’s proposed adaptive reuse of the school as a center for technology, media and the arts — the anchor tenant being Georgetown University — with classes, performances and a restaurant open to the public. An earlier plan to turn the school into an art museum, to be called the Institute for Contemporary Expression, was canceled by the Bowser administration.

Many, Many Benjamins Father Rick Curry of for Franklin Square Dog Tag Bakery Dies An $18 million plan to renovate Franklin Square Park, the tree-filled green space extending from 13th to 14th Streets NW between I and K, was approved last month. Work on the project, a joint venture of the National Park Service (which manages the park), the D.C. government, and the Downtown Business Improvement District, is expected to begin early in 2017 and end in 2018. Along with a

Cofounder of Dog Tag Bakery, Rev. Richard Curry, S.J., passed away Dec. 19 at the age of 72 of heart failure at the Jesuit infirmary at St. Joseph’s University in his hometown of Philadelphia.

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Co-founders Rev. Rick Curry, S.J., and Connie Milstein break bread and open Dog Tag Bakery on Grace Street in Georgetown on Dec. 6, 2014.

Curry, who was handicapped himself (born without a right forearm) was an extraordinary man of warmth, laughter and words, whose sentences and conversations seemed to be, like his bread itself, the staff and stuff of life.

A Jesuit brother for most of his life, Curry decided to become a priest late in life, enriching himself and those he ministered to in the process. He often told the story of a veteran who offered his confession and asked for absolution. Curry replied that he could not, as he was a brother in the Society of Jesus, the largest religious order in the Roman Catholic Church, and has not been called, as it were. The veteran replied to Curry: “Well, I’m calling you.”

A funeral Mass — with a sea of Jesuit and Diocesan priests and an archbishop on hand — was held Jan. 2 at Holy Trinity Church on 36th Street, where Curry was ordained. Words of remembrance were offered by Meghan Ogilvie of Dog Tag Bakery, Chad Creasey and his own sister, Sister Denise Curry.

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Former Mayor Vincent Gray’s vision of a city without expanded polystyrene foam containers became a reality on New Year’s Day, at least officially. The thin and slightly spongy white material we call styrofoam — which, as any scientist (or Wikipedia) will tell you, is not identical to the trademarked Dow Chemical product — has been banned. Following a six-month campaign in 2015 to notify restaurants, employee cafeterias, convenience stores, food trucks and other carry-out purveyors, the District Department of Energy and Environment will randomly inspect their premises and, in the event of foam found, issue a Notice of Violation. If uncorrected within 30 days, the violator will receive a Notice of Infraction and a $100 fine, doubling with future infractions up to a maximum of $800.

Not the Scoop They Had Planned On

As Mayor Muriel Bowser and Police Chief Cathy Lanier were briefing journalists last Wednesday about an anti-robbery task force launched in December, ABC7 received a more targeted communication. Burglars broke into the station’s van, parked near the Eastern Market Metro station, and scooped up equipment. As

of press time, it was unknown whether the van-breakers were repeat offenders, which is the focus of the new task force that includes representatives of the Metropolitan Police Department, the Metro Transit Police Department and the offices of the D.C. and U.S. attorneys general.

D.C. Most Expensive to Raise a Family

The Washington metro area is now the most expensive area to raise a family, according to an Economic Policy Institute report. A two-child, two-parent family needs $106,493 a year to “secure an adequate but modest living standard” in the D.C. area. Childcare for one child averages $1,472 per month, compared to $344 in rural South Carolina. For three kids, it jumps to $2,784. Around here, childcare costs often exceed the cost of rent, which is already among the highest in the nation.

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ing. Not because our fair city made the list, but for the attractions cited: the upscale CityCenter development (with a branch of New York restaurant Momofuku) and the National Museum of African American History and Culture (which, however great, won’t open till fall). Meanwhile, wrote Rachel Sadon, “we’re working on being weird, and even Georgetown is evolving.”

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Hoverboards Banned From Local Universities

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A panel of conservators and appraisers from Artex, Gurr Johns, Huntington T. Block and the Smithsonian American Art Museum will speak, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Call 202-803-2782. Artist’s Proof Gallery, 1533 Wisconsin Ave. NW.

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D.C. Goes Foam-Free

More than 30 college and university campuses have banned hoverboards — the nonhovering, two-wheel, Segway-like devices that were popular Christmas presents this year — including now Georgetown, American and George Washington universities. Citing the widely reported fires caused by faulty lithium-ion batteries, as well as serious physical injuries to users and potentially unsafe conditions on sidewalks and public spaces where they are used, many colleges have banned the storage and use of the hoverboards. They’ve also been banned from the streets of New York City as well as most US airlines.

The inclusion of D.C. in a recent New York Times listing of “52 Places to Go in 2016” was mocked in a Jan. 7 DCist post-

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CAG, Jan. 27 After a 7 p.m. reception, CAG will host a program from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. on aircraft noise issues. Representatives from Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, the Federal Aviation Administration and members of the D.C. Fair Skies Coalition will attend. Visit CAGtown.org.

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The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority will retool under its new leadership so that bus and subway riders can count on getting to work on time. Oh, yes, and won’t be killed in accidents or by assailants.

The D.C. Streetcar will finally be ready to roll, if not in 2016 then in 2017 … 2018 … 2019 … oh, never mind, we’ll take the bus.

D.C. shouldn’t wait to end homelessness in 2020. Go for it now.

A smidgen of that big money set aside for new school construction will be used to increase teacher’s salaries.

If there is to be a new Redskins stadium, leaders should make certain that it will be in Washington, D.C. — at the RFK Stadium site. (Come to think of it, the RFKs isn’t a bad name for a team.)

On balance, with a new manager, new faces and Bryce Harper, the Nationals should be championship material. Ditto for the Capitals (what with Alex Ovechkin on the rampage for a Stanley Cup) and for the Redskins. While we’re at it, the University of Maryland men’s and women’s basketball teams will go to the Final Four.

Speaking of Russian superstars, Vladimir Putin will inadvertently insult his friend Donald Trump at a May Day Parade. Soon afterward, rumors will begin to surface that Putin was actually born in Scranton.

If Donald Trump does win the presidency, the Trump Hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue will be renamed the Marion Barry.

Washington National Opera’s Ring Cycle will be a big success and spark a fad among culture watchers to work German phrases into their conversation. (They will give up after a series of disastrous mispronunciations, all of which can be found in the German words for “I love you”—“Ich liebe dich.”)

Former D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray will run for office, probably in Ward 7, his old stomping grounds. His goal after that? Governor of the nation’s 51st state: New Columbia.

President Obama will do another one of his patented executive orders directing the president of the United States to give an additional State of the Union address for children at a designated D.C. public school.

Finally, since President Obama and his family plan to remain in Washington, D.C., after leaving office, we have a suggestion. If they settle in—or near—Georgetown, it will be a most convenient location from which to write his new column for The Georgetowner.

O, Christmas Trees?!

Washington, D.C., glowed with magnificent Christmas trees a month ago — from Capitol Hill to CityCenter and the Ellipse. Sadly, save for some beautiful ones in our own homes, the Christmas trees usually seen on Georgetown’s commercial M Street were not there.

These trees have routinely been erected by the Georgetown Business Improvement District, which decided not to bring the trees back. It focused instead on its second installment of Georgetown Glow, with illuminated artworks at or near the C&O Canal. Fair enough, but not quite part of the Yuletide even Europe embraces.

Indeed, businesses on Wisconsin Avenue erected their own Christmas tree in time for Christmas Eve, and their own Santa Claus greeted about 300 persons on a P Street corner. They would tell you Georgetown needs to “make Christmas great again.”

Let’s get back on track in 2016 — and not be culturally insensitive. Let there be Christmas trees at their usual spots, across from the Four Seasons Hotel, on the east side, and at Francis Scott Key Park, on the west side. Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans has promised The Georgetowner that he will make sure that live Christmas trees return to those spots. (We will hold you to that promise, Jack.) We also ask other Georgetown groups to step forward, if other groups will not, and help make this “most wonderful time of the year” shine anew for our town — it’s good for the heart and good for business.

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Over the past few months, there have been several very concerning incidents in which people have been attacked and robbed on the Metro rail and bus systems by groups of juveniles. According to Metropolitan Police Chief Cathy Lanier, these incidents are part of a larger trend. Groups of this type are committing robberies across Washington, D.C. While small in number, the incidents have been violent and brazen. These teenage groups have committed robberies in daylight in front of numerous witnesses and, often, surveillance cameras. This is completely unacceptable. Identifying and apprehending the individuals committing these crimes is an urgent matter. To do so, we need to enhance and speed up collaboration among our public safety agencies and the public.

This week, the District announced the formation of a task force to improve the process through which the Metropolitan Police Department, WMATA’s Metro Transit Police and District prosecutors interact. This task force will increase available resources, allow for information to be shared quickly and ensure that prosecutors have everything they need to punish people for these crimes and prevent them from continuing to commit them.

In October, WMATA’s board of directors approved the spending of $4.32 million for additional cameras throughout the Metro system. These have begun to be installed, with more to come. The video they capture needs to be shared quickly with MPD, other police agencies and the public to identify robbery suspects.

The collaboration between MPD and MTPD will add to the public safety resources present in and around the Metro system. But if it proves insufficient, the WMATA board will need to increase funding for transit police officers. Safety in the system is the highest priority.

I will continue to keep you informed on this issue as a member both of the WMATA board and of the District Council’s judiciary committee. We’ve worked too hard for the past two decades to make D.C. safer for residents and visitors — and more attractive for people and businesses to move here — to allow these recent violent robberies to become an ongoing concern. It is essential that we commit the resources necessary to stop them now.

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

Exclusive: Vince Gray Is Not Going Away

By Mark Plotkin

First of all, all of you should be aware that former Mayor Vincent Gray knows the exact date of this year’s D.C. Democratic primary by heart. [Full disclosure: this columnist and the former mayor have known each other since their college days at George Washington University.]

During an exclusive interview with him last week, as I struggled with the precise date, he eagerly informed me that it was June 14. Is this not a harbinger of things to come?

Gray would not commit to stating he would definitely run for a seat on the District Council. But he did say the following: “I love public service.” Now, the question is: Will it be in his home ward (7) or District-wide (for an at-large spot)? I would bet it will be in Ward 7.

He bluntly said, “People want change out here.” The incumbent Council member Yvette Alexander, a former Gray protégé, succeeded him after he moved on to become Council chairman. Some observers (including me) presume that if he wins the Ward 7 Council seat, he will use it as a stepping stone to run for mayor in 2018.

With some intensity, Gray told me that this was not his plan.

When I pushed him, he made the point clearly: “No stepping stone.” But when asked if he would issue a Sherman (“If nominated I will not run, if elected I will not serve”), he refused.

The former mayor is upset and angry over the four-and-ahalf-to-five-year investigation that he has endured. In a matterof-fact tone, he said he looked on the entire matter as “nothing that complex” and “pretty straightforward.” It all came down to “Was I aware of the situation,” he said. “Was I involved?” To that central question, Gray emphatically has said, “I wasn’t.”

When I inquired about his repeated meetings with Jeff

Thompson (who pleaded guilty and is awaiting sentencing), Gray said that Thompson first declined when he approached him to help out with Gray’s campaign. But then, Gray recounted, Thompson called him and said, “I’d like to meet with you.” Gray admitted that there were two more meetings with Thompson, but said that Thompson “never asked me for a budget, nor did I give him one.”

Gray accused former U.S. Attorney Ronald Machen, who investigated and indicted individuals associated with the Gray 2010 campaign, of practicing “voter suppression.” He feels that, because Machen held a press conference three weeks before the April 1 Democratic primary, voters in Wards 5, 7 and 8 assumed that Machen would charge Gray and said to themselves, “I won’t show up and vote. Why bother?”

Vince Gray is adamantly proud of his record as mayor, pointing to education reform, fiscal prudence (he left his term with the city having “$1.87 billion in the bank”) and economic development, especially in the “east end of the city.” He is no fan of Mayor Muriel Bowser. He starkly commented about her: “I haven’t seen a vision for the city.” The citizens of D.C. are “still waiting,” he said.

It’s my opinion that Gray feels wronged. The only way to make it up is for him to jump back into the fray. That the attorney general closed the case was vindication, but that alone will not do. He seeks to be back in the game. Many, many years ago, I watched him play intramural basketball at the Tin Tabernacle at GW. He always went straight to the basket, and he usually scored. That won’t change.

Political analyst Mark Plotkin is a contributor to the BBC on American politics and a contributor to TheHill.com. Reach him at markplotkindc@gmail.com.

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The Face of D.C.’s Homicides Young, black males make up more than 75 percent of homicide victims in the District of Columbia

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his year, the face of homicides in D.C. is a 24-year-old black male. Your name is Joel David Midgett, Charles Newell, Stephon Demarrio Clark, Derrick Black, John Jones, William Clemments Herndon, William Conley. Change the name, add or subtract a year, but the face of homicides looks the same, year after year.

Your face won’t be the one remembered as the biggest tragedy of 2015. Your face doesn’t spur legislation, a eulogy on the floor of the U.S. Congress or an hour-long CNN special. Despite your family’s pleas not to be remembered as such, you are one of hundreds of homicides of black men this year: a statistic.

And you’ll die on the street, alone, after everyone scatters.

There were 162 homicides in Washington, D.C. in 2015. Of those victims, a majority of them were young, black males. The most common age at death for a black man killed in a homicide is 24, followed by 21 and 23. Of the homicides, an unofficial tally compiled by D.C. Witness (formerly Capitol Justice) shows 129 victims were black, and 120 of those were black males. D.C. Witness has tracked homicides in the district since the summer of 2015, but other concerned residents have tracked homicides through Twitter, such as the group D.C. Homicide Count, which tweets victim information about each homicide and keeps a tally of race, age and geographic information.

There is one constant: location. Most of the homicides happen in Southeast or Northeast, in Wards 7 and 8, places where the victims and the ones doing the killing were raised in the same circumstances.

MPD Sergeant Delroy Burton, who is black and a 22-year veteran of the department, also heads the police union. What he sees is not a city overrun with violent crime: “We don’t have distributed homicides, we have concentrated homicides. And it goes to the living conditions, economic conditions and family structure, you name it. A lot of things contribute to why we have that spike.”

Over the Independence Day weekend, Kevin Sutherland became the unwitting face of D.C.’s 2015 homicides. Sutherland, a white American University graduate who once interned for a Connecticut congressman, was brutally and repeatedly stabbed on the Metro Red Line at Union Station on July 4.

Within 12 hours, police sent out an official press release announcing his death, but according to Police Chief Cathy Lanier, police began distributing fliers searching for a suspect within hours. The next day, police circulated a picture of Sutherland’s alleged killer, under an all-caps headline “WANTED FOR MURDER.” Less than two weeks after Sutherland was killed, the mayor proposed a plan to increase penalties for violent crimes on public transit and at public parks. She recently criticized the D.C. council for not acting on that proposal, among other suggestions. According to the Mayor’s proposal, violators would face 150 percent of jail sentences and fines for violations at these locations.

Three other men were killed that same holiday weekend.

Twenty-six-year-old Dwayne Gene Dillard

was killed on July 4, police announced the next day. John Jones, 24, and Thomas Harris, 52, were killed on July 5.

Although these homicides were reported, they didn’t garner the same attention of Sutherland’s — no huge police fliers and no new legislation.

Lisa Wade, a sociology professor at Occidental University pointed out that the media tends to focus on the anomalies, rather than the common: “dog bites man” is never as big as “man bites dog.”

“It just doesn’t seem like news to people,” Wade said.

Wade says the media isn’t entirely to blame — but it does have a responsibility to not write off demographics entirely. When a white woman

is killed, though — which is the rarest homicide in D.C. — it makes the news because of the “man bites dog” philosophy.

“We’re not just talking about criminals, we’re talking about their moms and their sisters and the people who love them. We’re talking about the longtime livelihoods. If generations are in prison or dead, how do families form? How do taxes get paid? If we say it’s not newsworthy, it’s saying we don’t care about these people at all — not just the people who are victims or perpetrators, but anyone else that is associated.”

Ronald Carswell Jr. was an anomaly. He attended the hearings to represent his aunt, Loretta Carswell, the victim of a homicide allegedly at the hands of her cousin. His aunt’s death became a news headline only because of

a 31-hour stand-off between his aunt’s alleged killer and police — and because she was the 99th homicide victim in a violent year.

“I don’t want her to be remembered as number 99,” Carswell said. “I want her to be remembered for the person she was.”

Jennifer Swift is editor of DCWitness.org.

The site has been tracking homicides in D.C. since July of 2015. The purpose of the site is to track every homicide, and the details of each homicide — treating each homicide and victim as worthy of their own article and post, but also tracking any connections between them. The site, with added connectivity, will re-launch at the end of January.

A composite of images of many of D.C.’s homicide victims overlayed on each other, illustrating their stark similarities. Composite by Jon Agnew. Photos provided by the Metropolitan Police Department.

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Luck of the Irish? ABC Suspends Rí Rá Rí Rá Irish Pub at 3123 M St. NW was shut down by the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board Jan. 4 through 12 for “Sale to Minor Violation, Failed to Take Steps Necessary to Ascertain Legal Drinking Age.” During the Nov. 18 hearing at which the bar’s punishment was meted out, the ABC Board “accepted an Offer In Compromise: $4,000 fine to be paid within 30 days. Charge I — $4,000 and Charge II — dismissed. Suspension of the license for 15 days, 9 days served and 6 days stayed.

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Indefinite suspension of the license if the fine is not paid by December 18, 2015, 5-0.”

Along with the obligatory ABC poster on the Rí Rá window last week, the management offered its own earnest apology on the front door, promising its customers that such a violation would never happen again.

Ritz-Carlton Sold for $32.5 Million Hersha Hospitality Trust of Philadelphia purchased the Ritz-Carlton Georgetown at 3100 South St. NW from Millennium Partners for $32.5 million. Constructed in 2003 in a former incinerator with a 130-foot smokestack, the Ritz is part of a K Street complex that includes condos and movie theaters. It is one of only three AAA Five Diamond Hotels in Washington, D.C.

Former Savoy Suites Nearly Open for Business as a Kimpton The Savoy Suites Hotel at 2505 Wisconsin Ave. NW, near Calvert Street, is being renovated. It will become the Glover Park Hotel, managed by Kimpton. Reservations are now

being accepted for May 1 and later.

Holiday Inn Closed Striped of its signage, the Holiday Inn at 2101 Wisconsin Ave. NW is closed, empty and ready for reconstruction later this year (the Donohoe Construction offices are next door).

New condos and offices are expected.

OUT: HomeGoods Vacating Georgetown Park Space HomeGoods, the home furnishings store run by TJX Companies, will leave its M Street space. Part of a store at 3222 M St. NW shared with T.J.Maxx, also owned by TJX, HomeGoods opened in September 2013.

T.J.Maxx will remain, expanding to fill the space. The businesses occupy part of the Georgetown Park shopping complex, formerly an interior mall, which opened in 1981.

Georgetown Park’s stores are now entered from the street and share little common interior space. As HomeGoods wraps up, its shelves are spare and what’s left has been marked down. It will depart by the end of the month.

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A Sense of Rich Surprise at L’Enfant Gallery

By Ri char d Sel de n

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n 2000, when Peter Colasante decided to move in, the once-elegant storefront on the corner of Wisconsin Avenue and P Street, formerly an Italian men’s shop, was boarded up. The art gallery he was relocating from Connecticut Avenue was named for architect and engineer Pierre Charles L’Enfant (Colasante didn’t consider the 1960s office complex a fitting tribute to the designer of the District of Columbia).

Colasante, 67, is still pleased with his choice of location, calling Georgetown — outside of New York, which he says is “a different universe” — “the best place in the best city in the country to be.” The gallery’s window displays, meant to be “visual out-of-the-box experiences,” draw in the avenue’s enviable foot traffic. “I find out who they are later,” he says.

By now, the gallery has an international network of clients, a “nuclear family.” Dealers look to L’Enfant Gallery for Chinese art and Asian ceramics, and the Civil War is a focus (Colasante lent items to a major Lincoln exhibition recently), but the overall mix is eclectic in genre, origin and price.

Stepping inside, visitors face a red wall of paintings hung salon-style, assorted chandeliers above. That sense of rich surprise extends throughout the gallery’s four levels.

In November, after a volunteer archivist went through what was in storage, Colasante

The facade of L’Enfant Gallery on Wisconsin Avenue NW. opened the gallery’s basement to the public. It is now set up to resemble a Victorian viewing parlor, complete with a carved chief’s throne from Borneo.

Having decamped for Vienna, Virginia, Colasante no longer gets up at 3 in the morning to move paintings around. But he and his busi-

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Colasante’s eyes twinkle behind stylish frames when he recalls starting out with a much

smaller inventory. In December of 1973, he opened Calvert Gallery in an English basement on Connecticut Avenue, putting four things purchased at apartment sales in the window. The gallery grew as it moved from one location to another in the vicinity of Connecticut and Calvert, becoming L’Enfant Gallery in 1990.

Raised in Cliffside Park, New Jersey, Colasante attended Catholic University, where he failed to shine, as he tells it, either as an actor or a philosopher. He learned about art working in Oxon Hill, Maryland, as an eccentric collector’s cataloguer, then curator. His boss’s advice: Never specialize.

Colasante can remember three recessions, but calls the last five years “the worst it’s ever been.” The threshold for bread-and-butter purchases, formerly $10,000, has dropped to $3,000, he says. The good news is that he owns his building, having finally been able to purchase it from a trust in 2012. He also does appraisal work and counsels owners of art and antiques (he advises those wishing to hang on to treasured possessions to avoid the three Ds: death, divorce and downsizing).

In the end, Colasante explains, the business is about matchmaking. You can have the finest example of something in the world, but “unless the right person comes to buy it, it doesn’t matter.”

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Thinking Ahead: The Confident Muriel Bowser B y Gary T i s c h le r a n d R o b e rt D e van ey

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hen you’re the mayor, you know, that’s where the buck stops.

There are a lot of big decisions I have to make every day. The thing about making decisions is that some people are going to be happy and some people aren’t. I feel very comfortable. I tell people, even in the most difficult, challenging times we’ve had, that I’m glad that I am the one sitting here making the decisions.”

That was Muriel Bowser, talking with The Georgetowner in her offices in the Wilson Building near the end of her first year as mayor of the District of Columbia. In a Dec. 21 interview with senior writer Gary Tischler and editor-in-chief Robert Devaney, part of a blitz of end-of-the-year interviews she did with various news outlets in the city, she spoke with a solid self-confidence. The singular impression was that there was no question in her tone or her answers to questions that she owned the office and the job.

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The attitude and the confidence seem part of an evolutionary public process for Bowser, as well as Washington, D.C. She, and especially the city, have changed greatly since she first came into the political radar as a public figure.

Bowser’s time in the public eye in the District of Columbia has been relatively brief as political careers go. On paper — despite her climb from a serene Ward 4 upbringing, to a successful educational and professional life, to an advisory neighborhood commission seat, election and re-election, to the ward’s city council seat, to a successful run for mayor of the city — she is still at something of a getting to know you stage, a work in progress.

That impression may still exist for some District residents, but after a little over a year as D.C.’s mayor, you get the idea she knows exactly who she is and that she belongs where she is.

The confidence that you see and hear during the

interview is the same that we’ve seen in her forays all over the city — because it’s an aspect of the job she loves and has grown into with enthusiasm.

If you check out her recent schedule, you get a good sense of her energy and visibility: on Dec. 29 she signs her body-worn camera legislation; on New Year’s Day she hosts the Second annual Fresh Start 5K Run/Walk; Jan. 4 she kicks off her Safer, Stronger DC Tour and pushes the District Council to act immediately; on Jan. 6 she launches a robbery intervention task force after a noticeable rise in robberies in the city; on Jan. 7 she announces the appointment of the Director of the Office of Unified Communications; Jan. 8 she makes a traditional wager with her counterpart in Green Bay, ahead of Sunday’s Redskins-Packers playoff game (Green Bay won, in case you missed it); and also on Jan. 8 she talks about the District’s anti-human trafficking efforts.

It’s a mix of motion, all over the city, a visible effort to show that things are getting done, that she’s

responding to public safety needs, to crime and is initiating new policies — that she’s on the move. But it’s also something she clearly enjoys and handles deftly, as we’ve seen from her appearances in Georgetown Citizens and Business Association meetings and elsewhere. But it’s also something she’s grown at ease and comfortable with because she enjoys doing it.

“I do love that,” she told us. “I love community meetings, that’s where the rubber meets the road.”

She has, it’s been generally acknowledged, built a solid administration and team, and made allies out of one-time opponents. Both former Ward 6 Council Member Tommy Wells and prominent district restaurateur Andy Shallal are members of her administration, and Ward 2 councilman Jack Evans, who ran against her for mayor, are now key allies on the council.

“I’m a very hands-on person,” she said. “I have a great team, they’re very responsible for their areas of expertise.”

Her confidence has evolved from her first election to the Ward 4 Council seat, which she won with the strong support of then Mayor Adrian Fenty, who was a mentor to her. On the council, she was initially much less vocal.

But she grew into that job also, and felt strong enough to take on incumbent Vincent Gray, who operated under a cloud after a lengthy investigation into his campaign that ran straight through the Democratic Primary. Even after winning the critical Democratic primary that had its share of controversy, and sweeping aside David Catania in the general election, there were still plenty of questions of the kind that surround a new mayor.

Since the U.S. Attorney for D.C. declined to indict Gray, it’s become apparent that Gray, who is seemingly not a big fan of Bowser’s, may run for office again — most likely for his old Ward 7, or possibly an at-large, seat. Asked about the possibility of Gray’s presence on the Council, Bowser said, “We’re all trying to work together here, with the council. I think if anyone is going to come in with an agenda to create gridlock at city hall, they are going to lose.”

She had a big year in many ways, as she tackled ongoing issues in sometimes surprising ways — working on the seemingly intractable issue of homelessness, which is linked to the issue of affordable housing; tackling the city’s undeniably dramatic and hopefully unsustainable homicide total for 2015 (162); and negotiating for a Pepco-Exelon merger after an initial deal was rejected by the Public Utilities Commission.

Crime The homicide rate is troubling the whole city — although the deaths have been mostly in Wards 7 and 8.

“There’s no single issue and cause for this. We approach it as a comprehensive package, called ‘Safer, Stronger’.

We have to deploy more police, have tougher sentences.”

New mayors always have agendas, exude confidence and enthusiasm at inauguration. “We had a lot of things we wanted to do,” she said. “But look what happened.

We didn’t even have time to catch our breaths. It started snowing, and then there was the death and the fire at the Metro Station, and we had to deal with that right away.

“You learn,” she said. “I learned a lesson — that in big cities things are always going to happened. You need to be strong, communicate with the public and get back on your agenda.”

In the wake of the death of a black man in the custody of police in Baltimore and the resulting riots, the mayor doesn’t think something like that could happen here. “We need to do a lot of things, certainly, but our police department has a lot better relationship with the community than what existed in Baltimore,” she said.

“The police force has earned a certain amount of calm, knowing we will be forthcoming with information to the public.”

Columbia,” she said.

But she was emphatic that “I negotiated an excellent deal and that is the deal I support. … It secures the energy future for the city. … We now have a deal with that large company [Exelon] and if this doesn’t go through, I don’t think we’ll be in that position in the future.”

Housing and Homelessness Washington is obviously a city in a state of flux and change and that’s affected the existing population.

“Our focus on affordable housing has been robust — we have a $100 million program,” she said. “And we are definitely focused on ending homelessness — and it connects to affordable housing, to transition to affordable houses throughout the city. We’re closing D.C. General as a homeless shelter, and we have an eight-ward strategy to replace it.”

Education She touts the steady-as-you-go approach to school reform and a need to work closer with, and integrate with, charter schools, which are a hefty part of the public school system.

Progress comes in slow doses, over time, and rarely explodes all at once. The streetcar project, still not ready for prime time, is one example. The fight against homelessness remains a work in progress. Sometimes, it’s the little things that count.

Bowser said she was touched when she met a man who had gotten a job after 20 years of homelessness, who told her, “You don’t have to worry about me anymore.”

Development

Energy That deal, because of the way it happened, had its opponents — including some D.C. Council members — who said she had changed her mind about a deal. “I opposed the initial deal. I would say the deal first on the table was not good for the residents of the District of

Change has brought both prosperity and, well, change.

“On the business side, we are more attractive. We have a reserve that is the envy of the nation. Our bond status is good.” But with change, there’s a price. “We lost a chunk of our middle class and lost some diversity in our neighborhoods,” she said.

“I feel strongly that Washington is not just the monumental core … but nothing stays the same. That doesn’t mean you throw out the old for the new.”

She’s upbeat about the bigger changes — in Southwest, where “the biggest project on the East coast is the Wharf … The soccer stadium will deliver in 2016, and we’re connecting a missing link at St. Elizabeth’s in Southeast. We’ve got a jewel there with the Mystics (basketball team) practice court.”

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With the ambiance of an elegant country inn, 1789 features classically-based American cuisine – the finest regional game, fish and produce available.

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202–333–4710 dasethiopian.com DAS Ethiopian offers you a cozy twostory setting, with rare outside dining views and al fresco patio dining. DAS is located at the eclectically brilliant historic corner of the internationally renowned shopping district of Georgetown.

A tent under which all come to feast is the very Amharic definition of DAS. From neighborhood diners, nearby students and journalists to international visitors and performers, all enjoy the casual but refined atmosphere that serves up the freshest Ethiopian dishes from local and sustainable food sources.

BISTRO FRANCAIS 3124-28 M ST., NW 202–338–3830 bistrofrancaisdc.com

A friendly French bistro in the heart of historic Georgetown since 1975.

Executive chef and owner Gerard Cabrol came to Washington, D.C., 32 years ago, bringing with him home recipes from southwestern France. In addition to daily specials, our specialties include our famous Poulet Bistro (tarragon rotisserie chicken), Minute Steak Maitre d’Hotel (steak and pomme frites), Steak Tartare, freshly prepared seafood, veal, lamb and duck dishes and the best Eggs Benedict in town.

THE GRILL ROOM 1050 31ST ST., NW 202-617-2424 thegrillroomdc.com

Tucked up along the historic C&O Canal, a national park that threads through the Georgetown neighborhood, The Grill Room at Capella Washington, D.C., specializes in hand-cut, bone-in, artisan meats, bracingly fresh seafood and tableside preparations. Framed with a wall of floor-to-ceiling windows and fluid geometric lines, the ambiance is one of relaxed refinement.

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Visit ENO Wine Bar and enjoy wine flights, charcuterie, cheese, chocolate & seasonal small plates. ENO offers 100 bottles under $50 & 45 wines by the glass starting at $9. The Cellar is an intimate lounge perfect for a date night or private events. Monthly ENOversity: Sunday Wine Classes $50 & Wednesday meet local producers for free tastings.

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Filomena is a Georgetown landmark that has endured the test of time for over 30 years. Our old-world cooking styles and recipes brought to America by the early Italian immigrants alongside the culinary cutting-edge creations of Italy’s foods of today executed by our Executive Chef and his team. Open 7 days a week 11:30am11:00pm. Free salad bar with any lunch entrée Mon-Sat and try our spectacular Sunday Brunch Buffet complete with carving stations, pasta stations!

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CAFE BONAPARTE

1522 WISCONSIN AVE., NW 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.

We look forward to calling you a “regular” soon!

CLYDE'S OF GEORGETOWN 3236 M ST., NW 202–333–9180 clydes.com

This animated tavern, in the heart of Georgetown, popularized saloon food and practically invented Sunday brunch.

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Family-owned restaurant serving authentic Brazilian food in Washington, D.C., for more than 23 years. Our Executive Chef, Alcy de Souza, cooks with the heart and soul. Live music on Thursday nights is a romantic blend of bossa nova, jazz, samba, choro and forró.

Malmaison opened in June 2013 and features elegant French dining in Washington D.C’s historic Georgetown waterfront. Housed in a majestically refurbished industrial warehouse reminiscent of NYC’s Meatpacking District, the modern restaurant, pastry shop and event lounge features the culinary talents of legendary 2 Michelin Starred French Chef Gerard Pangaud and Pastry Chef Serge Torres (Le Cirque NYC).

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Monday – Thursday 4:30 to 10:30 pm Friday 4:30 to 11:30 pm Saturday noon to 11:30 pm (brunch until 4 pm) Sunday noon to 10 pm (brunch until 4 pm) Parking validation available for breakfast, lunch and brunch.

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1264 WISCONSIN AVE., NW 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 family owned restaurant.

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SEA CATCH RESTAURANT

1054 31ST ST., NW 202–337–8855 seacatchrestaurant.com Overlooking the historic C&O Canal, we offer fresh seafood simply prepared in a relaxed atmosphere. beautiful fireside dining available Join us for Happy Hour, Mon.-Fri. from 5 to 7 pm, featuring $1 oysters and halfpriced drinks. Book your holiday parties now. Available for 20-300 people.

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THE OCEANAIRE 1201 F ST., NW 202–347–2277 theoceanaire.com

Ranked one of the most popular seafood restaurants in D.C., “this cosmopolitan” send-up of a vintage supper club that’s styled after a '40’s-era ocean liner is appointed with cherry wood and red leather booths, infused with a “clubby, old money” atmosphere. The menu showcases “intelligently” prepared fish dishes that “recall an earlier time of elegant” dining.

Lunch Mon.–Fri. 11:30 a.m.–5 p.m.

Dinner Mon.–Thu. 5–10 p.m., Fri.-Sat. 5–11 p.m., Sun. 5–9 p.m.

TOWN HALL

2340 WISCONSIN AVE., NW 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 7PM, and during warmer months, our outdoor courtyard is one of DC’s best kept secrets.

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tephanos Andreou plans to open Sakerum, an Asian-Latin restaurant and sushi bar (hence the sake and rum combo name), at 14th and W Street across from Kapnos, with seating for 110 on two levels. His chef has a strong background in sushi and Latin foods. Sakerum will offer dinner and late night dining. A February 2016 opening is planned. Stephanos also owns Barcode at 17th and L Street NW. Fabio and Maria Trabocchi signed a lease to open Sfoglina, a casual Italian restaurant featuring handmade pastas, in the new building development near BreadFurst at 4445 Connecticut Ave. NW. The plan is to serve lunch, dinner and Sunday brunch in the 2,800 sq. ft. restaurant. A fall 2016 opening is planned. This will be the Trabocchi’s fourth D.C. restaurant.

Tracy Stannard and John Fielding of Broad Branch Market in Chevy Chase, D.C., plan to open Soapstone Market, an urban grocery and fast casual restaurant offering grab-and-go items, baked goods and deli counters. They’ll serve beer and wine, too, in the Park Van Ness building at 4465 Connecticut Ave. NW. A summer opening is planned. John Fielding will also join Paul Pelt, formerly of Tabard Inn, to open Chao Ku, a casual Chinese restaurant in Shaw in first quarter 2016.

C-C-Changes: Owner Andy Shallal is making major changes to Eatonville, at 14th and V Street NW. It closes on January 17 and

re-opens in February with a new name: Mule Bone — and a new chef. Andy has configured a contest for his new chef competition. He has enlisted the aid of hometown favorite and star of ABC’s “The Chew,” Carla Hall, to help him judge the finalists. Where did Mule Bone come from? It’s the name of a play written by folklorist Zora Neale Hurston, who’s from Eatonville, and Langston Hughes, who was the inspiration for Busboys and Poets. It will be a southern food joint … Kimpton’s Morrison House hotel in Alexandria is renovating the property, and along with it The Grille restaurant, which closes on January 18. The new restaurant will be an entirely new concept with new staff. Targeted re-opening is second quarter 2016 …

Justin Abad, co-owner of Cashion’s Eat Place in Adams Morgan, with chef John Manolatos, are now focusing on its QSR sister spot next door, Pop’s SeaBar. That may be their expansion concept. Training to take over Cashion’s dining room is Dustin Beruta.

Rose’s Luxury owner Aaron Silverman plans to open Pineapple and Pearls, located next door to Rose’s Luxury on Barracks Row on Capitol Hill. The fine dining restaurant with a prix-fixed menu will take reservations. It will seat 30 and be open for dinner only. The cafe will open before the restaurant does, serving pastries, sandwiches and coffee for daytime takeout.

ANXO Cidery & Pintxos Bar plans to open in first quarter 2016 in Truxton Circle’s 300 Florida Ave. NW, featuring cider made on premise with the help of Kyle Sherrer of Millstone Cellars. Their beverage director will be Tim Prendergast, formerly of Boundary Road.

Quick Hits: Not Your Average Joe’s in Reston Town Center may be the first new restaurant to open in 2016, on January 4 … Bullfrog Bagels will open its second location in the Eastern Market area on 317 Seventh St. SE, with seating for 30 on two levels. The original is on H Street NE … Atlanta-based Eric Shin will open Seoulspice, a Korean QSR concept, at 145 N St. NE in Two Constitution Square in January … Smashburger opens in Rockville, its 11th location in the D.C. metro area in late January…Tim Ma’s new restaurant at 1924 Eighth St. NW, Kyirisan, is slated to open in February … Little Sesame Hummus Shop is a new venture from DGS Delicatessen co-owner Nick Wiseman and Israeli chef Ronen Tenne. It’s scheduled to open in January on the lower level of the DGS deli, in the restaurant’s former private dining space.

Just Opened: Nazca Mochica Restaurant, serving Peruvian cuisine at 1633 P St. NW, fea-

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tures Sol De Ica Pisco from Ica Peru. Dave & Buster’s opened in Springfield Town Center.

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Cocktail of the Month: The Bob Marley B y Jody Kurash

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aaahhhhh! I let out a deep sigh as I leaned back in the cushy, raised lounge chair which served as a barstool at One-Eyed Jack’s, the newest bar-restaurant in Moalboal, a lazy beach town on the west side of Cebu island in the Philippines. I spent the entire day diving, watched a vibrant sunset and now I was eager to enjoy an evening cocktail.

Before I had the chance to talk to a bartender, my eyes were immediately drawn upwards to the drink list scratched onto chalkboards above the bar. Being a spirits writer, my eyes are always on the lookout for a cocktail menu, but this seemed a little too easy to spot.

As it turns out, it was. After meeting the owner, Wayne Bruey, I discovered that the menu was specifically positioned to be in direct eye contact with customers lazing about on the comfy chairs. This is my kind of bar, I decided.

While many of the selections were geared towards the “party hardy” crowd, I found a few gems. I quickly found out that the positioning of the recliners and overhead menu was not the only visual trick in this joint. Colorful layered drinks appeared to be their specialty.

Take for example, the reggae-inspired Bob Marley, a tricolored offering that mimicked the hues of the Rastafarian flag. I watched as bartender Jocel Dionaldo carefully layered this creation with red, orange then green. After sipping one of these tipples, it was easy to determine that the red came from grenadine and the yellow was fresh fruit juice. But the green had me perplexed. I detected notes of candied orange and an oaky vanilla vibe, but I couldn’t pinpoint it. The flavor didn’t match any green liqueurs that I was familiar with, plus this drink packed a kick, so I ascertained there was some type of hard liquor.

I soon learned that the jungle-green layer was created from the mahogany color of barrel-aged rum blended with bright blue curacao.

Being a rum lover, I was intrigued by the local Philippine rum, Tanduay. Their 5-year dark offering had the typical dark sugary and mature flavor, but it finished with slightly nutty and smoky notes.

Another visual trick was the Shark Bite.

On an island catering to divers and famous for its population of whale and thresher sharks, a shark bite may be the last thing a visitor wants to experience, but at Jack’s it was a pleasurable experience.

This drink had an added bit of showmanship. It was forged by inverting a shot glass of vibrant grenadine in a tumbler, then filling the glass to the brim with ocean-blue curacao. For the performance, Wayne carefully removed the inverted shot glass, allowing the grenadine to mingle with the curacao, creating the illusion of blood seeping into the sea.

The other peculiar drink that caught my taste buds was the Duck Fart. I never got a good explanation for the name, but it featured a layered combination of Kahlua, Baileys Irish Cream and Jack Daniels. It had a sweet coffee shop smell but with lingering scents of a whiskey bar. Truly an international effort (Mexico, Ireland and USA), this concoction started off with a strong bourbon smack that was followed by the mellow notes of the coffee and cream liqueurs.

During my weeklong holiday, I managed to make it through the cocktail list, all the while enjoying the local brew, San Miguel. With live music and tasty American comfort food, like chilidogs, tacos and massive plates of fish and chips, One-Eyed Jack’s offers a bit of home for a westerner living (or vacationing) in the Philippines. Wayne hails from Austin, Texas, and he compared the people of Cebu with his crowd from Texas. “Like Austin,” he said, “The locals here love to sing and have fun and enjoy life.”

And I certainly found a lot to enjoy at this rustic seashore spot.

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IN COUNTRY

An Increasingly Spirited Washington

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hen you’re searching for a smooth gin or a smoky whiskey to warm you against a long winter evening, your mind may wander to the damp green hills of Scotland, the rolling English countryside or the grain-scented farmsteads of Kentucky. An area that probably does not come to mind is Washington, D.C. — but one day soon, it just well might.

2015 was a landmark year for distilling in Washington, with Ivy City, the small Ward 5 neighborhood in Northeast, developing into a sort of unofficial Distiller’s Row. A concentration of spacious, affordable warehouses — old distribution and storage facilities from the early 20th century — have made the area a breeding ground for emerging local libation producers. Residing along a one-mile stretch of road are One Eight Distilling, manufacturers of vodka, gin and whiskey; New Columbia Distillers, producers of the fantastic Green Hat Gin; Jos. A Magnus & Co., another fine gin producer; and the craft beer makers Atlas Brew Works. (Later this year, keep an eye out for the opening of Republic Restoratives Distillery, a small batch, woman-owned distillery and cocktail bar; and Cotton & Reed, a rum distillery in NoMa).

In the wider Delmarva region, Catoctin Creek distillery in Purcellville, Virginia, is a husband-and-wife-owned producer of unique

Left: Catoctin Creek, rye.

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‘Marvelous Objects’ at the Hirshhorn

By Ari P os t

Alberto Giacometti. "Woman with Her Throat Cut," 1932, cast 1949. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. © 2015 Alberto Giacometti Estate / VAGA and Artists Rights Society, New York.

Jean (Hans) Arp. "Shirt Front and Fork," 1922. National Gallery of Art, Washington. © 2015 Artists Rights Society, New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.

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hen you enter “Marvelous Objects: Surrealist Sculpture from Paris to New York,” at the Hirshhorn Museum through Feb. 15, you are greeted by a small door. It is a double door, simply made and painted the color of ocean turquoise, one that might open onto the veranda of some rustic, lemon-scented villa in southern France. A “readymade” sculpture

by Marcel Duchamp titled “Fresh Window,” it's a fitting bit of allusion — an intrinsic symbol of welcome — for the entrance to an exhibition on Surrealism.

Hanging beside it, however, is “Bottle Rack,” another Duchamp readymade (titled quite literally), hanging from the ceiling by a wire like some medieval torture chamber displayed in a traveling circus. Perhaps this is a warning, a way to tell you something about this show. Though, if you take Duchamp at face value, perhaps it means nothing.

This interplay of varying, often conflicting, emotional triggers is Surrealism at its finest. And that is precisely what “Marvelous Objects” offers. It is a sweeping — at times stunning — show of the landmark 20th-century art movement that altered the course of our cultural history.

It is also the first major museum exhibition devoted to a comprehensive view of Surrealist sculpture, bringing together more than 100 works created by more than 20 European and

Salvador Dalí. "Lobster Telephone," 1938. West Dean College, part of the Edward James Foundation Group. © 2015 Salvador Dalí, Fundació GalaSalvador Dalí, Artists Rights Society, New York.

American artists from the 1920s to the 1950s.

As such, it fluidly traces the migration of the movement from Europe to America through the mounting international conflicts that became the Second World War. You can see, for instance, how the painted reliefs of Jean Arp from the 1920s — like whimsical, primordial germs in Technicolor — laid the foundation for artists like Isamu Noguchi, a Japanese American who spent four months in an internment camp in Arizona following the Pearl Harbor attacks. Depressed and scared in the years following his release, Noguchi adopted Surrealism's practice of emotional and psychological exploration to interpret his experiences and confront his trauma; his works are all bones and body parts, skewered and barbaric, abstracted with great finesse into undulating forms bathed in eerie glowing light.

Arp was the founding patriarch of organic abstraction, one of the exhibition’s two thematic focuses. The other is found-object assemblage, originated by Duchamp (see “R.Mutt”), in many ways the more influential idea, shaping the development of contemporary art to this day.

Man Ray's camera-less photograms are perhaps the most graceful example of foundobject work, where he exposed household items like lampshades, irons and table fans on photosensitive paper, allowing their forms to

leave haunting impressions over the surface like the nuclear shadows at Nagasaki. All four photograms on display are landmark images in the development of conceptual art and art photography.

I would be remiss not to mention the room of Alberto Giacometti sculptures. Best known for his violently elongated portrait busts and figural sculptures with their wonderful “chewed-gum” patinas, this small collection of works removes the artist from the recent, stifling context of being a multimillion-dollar auction-house darling. These sculptures have a bizarre kind of Afro-Freudian appeal, like ancient ivory deities for our modern-day perversions. Within these twisted, mutilated figures, there is a heightened primal sense of craving; they are expressions of the desire in our natures for carnal pleasure, violence, isolation and death (you need look no further than today's most popular films for living proof).

Surrealism came to the United States throughout the 1930s and early 1940s. But by the early ’30s, some keen Americans — notably Joseph Cornell and Alexander Calder — had already begun devising their own variant interpretations.

An early Calder, “Apple Monster” of 1938, shows evidence of the foundation of the artist's signature style of hanging mobiles and steel-based work. A branch from an apple tree painted with bright colors and crowned with a

cow vertebra for a “head,” his spindling interpretations of natural forms is given sudden and great clarity.

Following a striking gallery of sculptures

by Calder, Henry Moore, David Smith and Joan Miró, you are ushered into the “Industrial Age” of Surrealism — namely, the mature work of Calder and Smith.

Calder, who trained as an engineer, began using industrial-grade sheet metal to create fantastic and enormous imaginary creatures. “Big Bird” and “Fish,” though very different from one another — one is a twisted vertical iron plane and the other a craft-like mobile — are both classic and emblematic works.

In similar fashion, Smith was a professional welder, which more than explains his proclivity for making those brawny, iron-andgunmetal sculptures with exposed rivets and welding scars along the seams. Assembled from bits of old dismantled farm machinery, and painted Florida orange, “Agricola I” (Latin for ‘farmer’) conveys a sense of mythic grandeur that simultaneously evokes the hard-edged ethos of our modernity.

These grand constructions laid the groundwork for the next generation of American sculptors and beyond (look no further than Richard Serra or Robert Smithson). Like so many of the great developments in the history of art, you see within “Marvelous Objects” the ripple effects of Surrealism. It has conditioned our notions of humor and drama, our cultural affinities for randomness and ambiguity and our now-innate understanding of gut instinct as true perception.

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As reported late in 2015 by the New York Times and Washington City Paper, the Senate Finance Committee is looking into the tax-exempt status of 11 museums created by art collectors, including D.C.’s Kreeger Museum, founded by the late David Kreeger, and Glenstone, founded by Mitchell Rales on his Potomac, Maryland, estate. Unlike the Kreeger, Glenstone, which has a much larger endowment, has little public visitation or programming.

The College Art Association, the national organization of art history and studio art faculty members, will hold its 104th annual conference in D.C. Feb. 3 to 6 at the Marriott Wardman Park. Discounted CAA membership and

conference registration are available for students, retirees, part-time faculty and independent visual arts professionals.

Tickets to the book and trade fair are $25.

The Arts Club of Washington, based in the former home of President James Monroe at 2017 I St. NW, is marking its centennial with a scholarship competition for college students to compose a chamber trio. The deadline is March 2. The winning piece ($2,500 prize) will be performed at the club’s James Monroe Dinner on April 23.

A site-specific artwork using hundreds of thousands of three-inch plastic balls (from the National Building Museum’s “Beach”) will be the first Dupont Underground

installation in the former trolley station. “Re-Ball!” will run April 29 to June 1. The deadline to enter the open design competition, with a $3,500 first-place prize, is March 4.

Gianandrea Noseda — music director of Turin’s opera house and principal guest conductor of the Israel Philharmonic — will take over the National Symphony Orchestra podium from Christoph Eschenbach beginning with the 2017-18 season (he will be music director designate in 2016-17).

Noseda is conducting “The Pearl Fishers” at the Metropolitan Opera through Feb. 4.

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At Mosaic: Voices From a Changing Middle East

By Gary T is chl er

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f ever there was a critical time to hold a theater festival called Voices From a Changing Middle East, that time is now and today.

The festival, which evolved out of a Voices From a Changing Israel project launched at Theater J in 2000 — and was at least an ingredient in the departure of former Theater J Artistic Director Ari Roth — has just begun a five-play run at Roth’s new Mosaic Theater Company of DC, based at the Atlas Performing Arts Center on H Street.

These days, for better or worse, the Middle East is a recurring theme in the national political conversation, the flash point for a host of foreign and domestic issues that seem to dominate the debate among the candidates for the Republican and Democratic nomination for president. So much of what we talk about on a daily basis centers on the region.

“The festival is in many ways what we are about at Mosaic,” Roth said in an interview.

“Now more than ever, everything in it is keenly important and resonant. Our aim with our plays has always been to get people talking, to talk with one another, about these issues — not just people who agree with each other or their group, but people from different places, with different opinions. And I think this theater accomplishes that. Especially in terms of the Israeli-Palestinian issue, where things seem

to have stalled, it’s crucial to be talking about these things.”

Roth noted that the Peace Café, which encouraged and held post-performance conversations on the issue, has started up again. The program was initiated by Roth; Andy Shallal, proprietor of Busboys and Poets, a native of Iraq who is a member of the Bowser administration; and Mimi Conway (both Shallal and Conway are on Mosaic’s governing board).

The festival began this week with “Wrestling Jerusalem,” written and performed

by Aaron Davidman and directed by Michael John Garcés. It’s a one-man show, commissioned by Theater J in 2007 and still evolving as one man’s journey to comprehend the IsraeliPalestinian conflict. It runs through Jan. 24.

“Hkeelee” (“Talk to Me”), written and performed by Leila Buck and directed by Noelle Ghoussaini, is a portrait of a LebaneseAmerican matriarch as remembered by her Lebanese-American granddaughter, an epic that touches on what it means to become an American. The show will have a threeperformance run at the 200-seat Arlene and Robert Kogod Cradle at Arena Stage, April 30 to May 1.

Then there is “I Shall Not Hate,” based on a memoir by Izzeldin Abuelaish and directed

by Shay Pitovsky, the story of a Nobel Peace Prize-nominated Gaza fertility doctor who

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Top: Aaron Davidman in his one-man show “Wrestling Jerusalem.” Left: Gassan Abbas, who plays Izzeldin Abuelaish in “I Shall Not Hate.” Above: Motti Lerner, author of “After the War.” All photos courtesy Mosaic Theater Company of DC.

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refuses to give up on Palestinian-Israel coexistence even after a tragedy strikes his family.

Gassan Abbas, one of Israel’s top Palestinian actors, stars as Abuelaish. The play, running from Jan. 23 to Feb. 14 in Atlas’s Paul Sprenger Theatre, will be performed in Hebrew and Arabic, a hallmark of plays brought to Theater J

by Roth in earlier editions of the festival.

Pitovsky is coauthor with Shachar Pinkas of “Promised Land,” directed by Michael Bloom, former director of the Cleveland Playhouse.

Originally created by the youth ensemble of Israel’s national theater, Habima, the play is a kaleidoscopic, documentary-flavored work about the waves of Sudanese refugees that entered Israel legally and illegally, only to become stranded in a drama of displacement and relocation. The production will be staged from Feb. 29 to March 6 in Woolly Mammoth’s 100-seat rehearsal hall.

Roth calls “After The War” by Motti Lerner, author of the controversial “The Admission,” the tent play of the festival — that is, its most ambitious production. The full-length

production is about a world-famous concert pianist and Israeli expatriate who returns to Tel Aviv after an 18-year absence to perform with the Israel Philharmonic. Borrowing some events from the life of conductor Daniel Barenboim, the play, running March 24 to April 17 in Atlas’s Theresa and Jane Lang Theatre, examines the role of the artist as a public citizen.

“We have a long history with this festival, and we felt that it needed to survive, especially now,” Roth said. “If you look at it, it has many, many voices, and touches on issues everyone, not just politicians, are talking about. There’s the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Syrian refugee crisis, there is the issue of multiple identities held by emigrants and immigrants in America, there is the question of whether art can provide a bridge in times like this.”

Roth himself is not directing any of the productions. “I like being a facilitator for the festival and its plays, making things happen, bringing people to our theater, bringing people together.”

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hen people learn I’m a personal trainer and a best-selling author, their first question is: “What exercise should I do to tone [or tighten or flatten] my stomach?” My answer usually disappoints. They’re hoping for topsecret exercises with names like the “Deep Sea Six-Pack Plank” or the “Special Forces Super Abdominal Crunch.”

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Overly simple statements, such as “It’s all diet” or “Manage people in one minute,” are popular, but always wrong. Changing the appearance of your midsection (or any body part) is about keeping the muscle you have and losing the fat covering it. The three key factors are nutrition, strength training and overall lifestyle. They all matter.

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Separate Over the Holidays?

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Dear Stacy, I have been married for three years to my best friend. We dated for three years before getting engaged, did premarital counseling and, I think, went into the marriage with our eyes wide open. Neither of us is interested in being a parent, and our families know this and understand (or at least they pretend to).

But after making it through the holidays this year, I realized that there is something kind of strange about how we deal with our families.

Every year that we have been together (now seven years), we have spent Christmas apart.

Our families live in different cities, so we visit them separately. We’ve never been together on Christmas and haven’t actually discussed it at all. This time, I found myself truly missing him. I think part of it is because my sisters have small kids now, and being in the midst of all that family stuff made me miss having him there. I guess my question is whether it’s weird that we don’t spend the holidays together and how can I make a change if I want to?

— Not at Home for the Holidays Dear Holidays, Let’s start by saying that nothing is “weird” unless it sits “weird” with you — and it sounds like, this year, it did sit weirdly for you not to be with Husband on Christmas. That’s our starting point.

You say you truly missed your best friend on a major holiday. That sounds perfectly appropriate to me. You say that being surrounded by sisters with babies while actively choosing to be

child-free also made you miss your partner in that seemingly “countercultural” choice. That makes total sense to me as well. You needed Husband in those moments because having him there regulates you. Contrary to any advice you’ve heard before, that’s actually what a relationship is supposed to do: reassure you, protect you and help you feel comfortable. The holidays are a time when that vital need is front and center.

What has me a bit worried is how scared you sound about asking to change things. He’s your favorite person in the whole world — of course you want to spend the holidays with him. Yes, things will be different for a few years as the two of you create your own traditions (e.g., trading off between in-laws each year, planning a big trip for just the two of you, hosting everyone at your house), but, believe me, your families are expecting things to change. Even if they don’t love it immediately, they know that this change is part of your growing up. My advice is to tell Husband that you missed him and that you have a new idea about how to spend the holidays.

Start now (this might take a few conversations to get through) so you can have a strategy and a plan in place by next winter.

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Auction block

The Auction Block

Bringing the Hammer Down

By Ari P os t

Final selling prices for last month’s featured Auction Block items.

Bonhams “Lower Away” Montague Dawson (1890 – 1973) Estimate: $60,000 – $80,000 Auction Date: January 28 This elegant painting by Montague Dawson, the renowned painter of 18th- and 19th-century clippers and warships, is part of Bonhams' next Important Maritime Paintings and Decorative Arts auction. Also in the sale: a major maritime painting by James Edward Buttersworth (1817 – 1894), more by Dawson and a number of exquisite models.

Potomack Company

Christie’s Marble Head of an Athlete, c. 2nd century B.C. Auction Date: December 9 Estimate: $120,000 – $180,000 Final Selling Price: $365,000

Bonhams Sapphire and Diamond Ring Tiffany & Co. Auction Date: December 8 Estimate: $400,000 – $600,000 Final Selling Price: $1,349,000

Doyle New York Platinum, Gold and Fancy Yellow Diamond Ring Tiffany & Co. Auction Date: December 16 Estimate: $50,000 – $70,000 Final Selling Price: $93,750

“Ecce Homo” 17th-Century Follower of Caravaggio Estimate: $15,000 – $30,000 Auction Date: February 6

Weschler’s Serpentine Chest of Drawers, c. 1800-05 Attributed to Nathan Lombard (1777 – 1847) Auction Date: December 4 Estimate: $30,000 – $50,000 Final Selling Price: $20,000

This painting, after a lost work by Caravaggio, is one of more than 150 Old Master paintings, drawings and sculptures from a private collection to be offered next month by the Potomack Company. The theme of “Ecce Homo” (“Behold the Man”), from the Gospel of St. John, was taken up by the Caravaggesque painters during the 16th and 17th centuries.

Doyle New York “Marlene Dietrich,” 1930s Engstead-Higgins Estimate: $200 – $300 Auction Date: January 27 Four vintage photographs of Marlene Dietrich by Clarence Sinclair Bull and Engstead-Higgins from the 1930s are part of the Collection of Marion Barbara “Joe” Carstairs (1900-1993), an unconventional oil heiress with whom Dietrich had a brief but tempestuous liaison. These hazy, intoxicating, golden-era glamour shots depict Dietrich smoking in a gray blazer and wearing a large cocktail ring.

Sotheby’s

Sotheby’s “À la Source,” 1982 Baltasar Lobo (1910 – 1993) Auction Date: December 7 Estimate: $60,000 – $80,000 Final Selling Price: $81,250

Freeman’s “Two Old Men and a Dog: Checkers,” 1950 Norman Rockwell (1894 – 1978) Auction Date: December 6 Estimate: $60,000 – $100,000 Final Selling Price: $75,000

Christie’s “A Standing Moroccan” Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix (1798 – 1863) Estimate: $60,000 – $80,000 Auction Date: January 27 Part of an upcoming Old Master and British Drawing Sale at Christie’s, this is one of a series of studies of Moroccan costume by Delacroix, who traveled to Morocco in the winter of 1832 as official artist of the French diplomatic mission to the sultan. Encountering the Arab world with passionate and vivid interest, the artist was struck by the region's direct contact with antiquity.

“Lute Player” Hendrick Terbrugghen (1588 – 1629) and Studio Estimate: $250,000 - $350,000 Auction Date: January 29 Terbrugghen’s dated works — including this painting, part of a Master Paintings and Sculpture Day Sale at Sotheby’s — span no more than a decade. All were painted in Utrecht after his return from Italy. Terbrugghen's interest in daylight and in luminous color set him apart from the other Dutch Caravaggists: the artists who went to Rome and fell under the influence of Caravaggio and his immediate followers.

Freeman’s "Summer Day," 1897 John William Godward (1861 – 1922) Estimate: $20,000 – $40,000 Auction Date: January 25 This charming portrait by Godward, an English Neo-Classicist, is part of this month’s European Art and Old Masters auction at Freeman’s, featuring etchings by Rembrandt and other stunning works from the Italian and Spanish schools. Wearing a straw hat and a white blouse with a brooch, this half-length figure gazes directly at the spectator with an easy country manner.

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Social Scene

D.C. History Via Polaroids

Ph otos b y J e f f Ma le t f o r t h e H i s to r i c a l S o ciety of Wash in gton The Historical Society of Washington, D.C., celebrated photographer Chris Earnshaw at the Jan. 6 opening of his exhibit at the Carnegie Library building. Called “District,” it is a solo photography show that explores Washington, D.C., during the 1960s and 1970s. “Originally captured on Polaroids and nearly lost to time and neglect, these gritty images show the demolition, desperation, beauty, and energy in the every-day of the era's capital city,” according to Earnshaw, whose show runs through Feb. 26.

Golden Globes Zing

Ph otos c ou rtesy of E lizabeth Webster Elizabeth Webster of the District Council was out and about in Hollywood for its big awards weekend — the People's Choice Awards and the Golden Globes — to meet her California friends and to promote film production in Washington, D.C. She ran into quite a few stars, but luckily not Golden Globes host Ricky Gervais.

Joyce Chow and Peter Fonda.

Anne McDonough, library and collections director; artist and archivist Joseph Mills; John Suau, executive director of the Historical Society of Washington, D.C.; and photographer Chris Earnshaw.

Matt Damon, winner of a Golden Globe for “The Martian,” and Vincent De Paul.

Reception-goers check the original Polaroids from the 1960s.

Elizabeth Webster and Lady Gaga, winner of a Golden Globe for “American Horror Story: Hotel.”

Photographer Chris Earnshaw talks about one of the photos taken in downtown D.C.

Antiques Though Child’s Eyes by mary b ird

The Washington Winter Show set 2016 off to an elegant start as top antique dealers brought their finest wares to the Katzen Arts Center at American University. This year’s theme, “Through the Eyes of a Child,” highlighted a loan exhibit from Gunston Hall. Supporters at the Jan. 7 Preview Night not only got a first glimpse but enjoyed temptations provided by Susan Gage Caterers. James Farmer headlined Friday’s Lecture & Luncheon, regaling guests with his tales of entertaining in the Deep South. He also signed his newest opus, “A Time to Celebrate.” The Levine School of Music Jazz Band entertained Saturday evening and children enjoyed “Sundaes on Sunday.” The event benefits the Bishop John T. Walker School for Boys, THEARC and The Founders Board of St. John’s Community Services.

Diana Bittel, Washington Winter Show doyenne Hannah Cox.

Ellen MacNeille Charles, Eric and Harriet Fraunfelter.

Roger Winter, Jay Gates, Cathy Wrisley, Ben Hastings.

Interior designer Skip Sroka, Russell Reid.

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POTOMAC, MARYLAND NEW PRICE! Renovated home with over 6,000 square feet of finished space on three levels.

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UPPERVILLE/DELAPLANE, VIRGINIA NEW PRICE! Lovely brick five bedroom home on twenty-five acres. Stunning cherry floors, superb views to southeast, professionally landscaped, excellent condition, and great location! $1,050,000 Carole Miller 540-687-2233

GEORGETOWN, WASHINGTON, DC NEW PRICE! Updated 3-bedroom townhome in East Village near Rose Park. High ceilings, hardwood floors, private rear patio, fireplace, and beautifully renovated kitchen. $985,000 William F. X. Moody Robert Hryniewicki 202-243-1620

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