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Town Topics 8 Editorial/Opinion 10 Business 11 Haute & Cool

R E A L E S TAT E 12

All Things Media 13 Featured Property 14 Sales 15 Auction Block

C OV E R S T OR Y 18

Cuban Dreams

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T R AV EL 28

Turks & Caicos

BODY & SOU L 27

Murphy’s Love

ART 28

Mary Bacon as Mary Lincoln 29 National Gallery Shows American Prints

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Events

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Cocktail of the Month 22 Latest Dish

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Via Umbria Wine Tasting Open House with Chef Simone Join Via Umbria for a guided tasting of Chef Simone’s favorite wines from Montefalco. In addition to leading a sensory tasting, Simone will speak about the role of wine in Umbrian culture, food-wine pairings and the personalities, terroir and varietals that distinguish Umbrian wines. For more information, visit www.facebook.com/viaumbria. 1525 Wisconsin Ave. NW. Ice Yards at The Yards Park After the success of the popular Splash Yards last summer, The Yards is bringing it back – on ice, with Ice Yards. This free-toattend, 21-and-over event transforms the park into a winter wonderland complete with ice bars, hot tubs and fire pits. The actionpacked days’ activities will include: Ice Bars and Cocktails, Frosty Beer Garden, Adult Snow Cones, Outdoor Fire Pits, Hot Tubs, Ice Sculptures, Interactive Winter-themed Video Games, DJ and Live Music, and much more. The Yards Park at 355 Water St. SE. For more information, email shelby@ brandlinkdc.com.

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Cathedral Sings! Vivaldi “Gloria” Join us for a community sing-along of Vivaldi’s “Gloria,” RV 589. Singers of all abilities are welcome. The night will be led by Cathedral Choral Society Music Director J. Reilly Lewis with Todd Fickley at the Great Organ.

For more information, call 301581-5204 or email auditions@ citydance.net.

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E-Reader Rescue Weekend Did you get a new e-reader, tablet, or other digital device over the holidays? Want to use it to access library e-books, e-audiobooks, popular magazines, and more? Then join the Georgetown Library for a special extended instructional session from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Rendering of a New Waste to Energy Plant plus Ski Slope that will where library staff will provide be part of an upcoming Exhibit: Hot to Cold at the National Buildone-on-one assistance for all ing Museum. Rendering courtesy BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group. of your library digital resource Soloists include sopranos Melissa Mino and needs. To learn more, visit www.

Shantelle Przybylo, and mexxo Aleksandra dclibrary.org/georgetown. 3260 R St. NW. Romano from the Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program at WNO. For more inforLouisa May Alcott and Walt Whitman in Civil mation, visit www.cathedralchoralsociety.

War Washington org. Washington National Cathedral; 3101 Join the Georgetown Neighborhood Library’s Wisconsin Ave. NW. Peabody Room at 1 p.m. for “Louisa May Alcott and Walt Whitman in Civil War Dance Theatre of Harlem Summer Intensive Washington: How Helping Wounded Soldiers in Partnership With CityDance Audition Changed Them Forever.” Jean Freedman of Audition to train with Dance Theatre of Montgomery College’s Women’s and Gender Harlem artists this summer in Washington Studies Program and nationally syndicated D.C! Intensive runs June 19 through July 2 op-ed columnist Jamie Stiehm will offer inat the CityDance School & Conservatory at sights into Alcott and Whitman and their time Strathmore. Auditions are restricted to those in the nation’s capital. The Peabody Room between the ages of 8 to 19. Auditions will is located on the third floor of the library at be held on Sunday, Jan. 18 at Duke Elling3260 R Street NW. This event is free. For ton’s temporary location at Garnet-Patterson, additional information call 202-727-0233 or 2001 10th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20001. email jerry.mccoy@dc.gov.

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DDOT and Particiapting Jurisdictions Capital Bikeshare Open House From 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. The District Department of Transportation (DDOT), Arlington County, City of Alexandria and Montgomery County—the jurisdictions that own Capital Bikeshare—will host an Open House on Wednesday, January 28. Representatives will present proposed fare increases, review system highlights and performance, solicit feedback from riders and discuss other issues related to the growth and development of the region’s most innovative transportation network. MLK Library – Room A5 901 G Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001 Hot to Cold: An Odyssey of Architectural Adaptation After the resounding success of their maze at the National Building Museum last summer, Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) brings “Hot to Cold,” an exhibit on how local culture and climate shapes the firm’s design solutions, to the space. More than sixty three-dimensional models will be suspended from the second floor balconies of the museum’s historic Great Hall in an unprecedented use of this public space. Featured projects from across Europe and the United States will draw from the firm’s extensive archive of process material. The exhibit runs through Aug. 30. For more information, visit www.nbm.org. 401 F Street NW.

TOWN TOPICS

P Street 7-Eleven Robbed Twice in 48 Hours

7-11 on P ST NW. The 7-Eleven convenience store at 2617 P St. NW was robbed 5:13 a.m., Wednesday, Jan. 7., and again at 2:20 a.m., Friday, Jan. 9, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.

The robber on Jan. 7 wielded a handgun and was seen on surveillance tape wearing a dark jacket with white stripes around the waist and sleeves, light blue jeans, white gloves and black shoes with white details.

His face was mostly covered by a hood and a face mask. Police say the suspect was a black male weighing between one hundred and one hundred twenty pounds and between 5’2” and 5’5” in height.

A 7-Eleven employee said that the robber got away with about $40 and some packs of cigarettes.

Two days later, in the wee hours of Jan. 9, four black males robbed the store. A surveillance photo from the store shows one wearing a dark bomber hat lined with a light fur lining, a leather jacket and white gloves.

Another man is wearing an orange and blue jacket, a bandana over his face and sunglasses and the third a dark jacket, red bandana and black hat. Police say the robbery occurred at 2:23 a.m.

The store’s owner, Girma Hailu, posted to a neighborhood safety message board that he is “very stressed out” by the incidents and that the second robbery was worse than the first, though no one was harmed in either incident. He also said that on both occasions the robbers used “27th St. as cover,” taking advantage of the dark street and the store’s largely covered window on that side.

The MPD is urging anyone with information about either robbery to contact the department at 202-715-7300.

McFadden’s Closed After 5 Stabbed; 1 Stabbed at Zanzibar Club Stabbings in the last 10 days at late-night bars on Pennsylvania Avenue NW, in the West End and near the White House, have added to the recent uptick in violent crime in the District.

A Dec. 27 stabbing of five persons in McFadden’s, near Washington Circle, resulted in the restaurant’s immediate closing by the Metropolitan Police Department and the D.C. Alcoholic Beverage and Control Board. Located at 2401 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, McFadden’s was popular with college students, especially those from nearby George Washington University.

A representative of McFadden’s said that the restaurant is permanently closed.

None of the stabbing victims – who did not have life-threatening injuries – were identified as college students. The MPD has made no arrests and has not found the knife supposedly used by “a black man in a trench coat.”

According to the Washington Post, “no weapon was recovered, and two witnesses saw a bar-back ‘mopping up blood’ instead of preserving the crime scene. The manager admitted there were ‘about 215 patrons’ at McFadden’s, when the maximum capacity is 136.”

On Jan. 3, a week after the McFadden’s stabbings and five blocks away, police arrested a man for stabbing and critically injuring another man in Zanzibar Night Club at 1901 Pennsylvania Ave. NW (the entrance is on 19th Street). Zanzibar and its adjacent restaurant, Heritage India, are shut down and their future status is unknown.

Meanwhile, the MPD is looking for two persons of interest concerning the Dec. 27 incident at McFadden’s. Anyone with information is asked to call the police at 202-727-9099.

Anonymous information may be submitted to the department’s Text Tip Line by text messaging 50411.

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Taxicab Commissioner Steps Down D.C. Taxicab Commissioner Ron Linton resigned from his post after three years of work on updating outdated regulations. Under his post, taxis were mandated to install credit card readers and, in March, the city will test its own app for hailing cabs. Mayor Muriel Bowser has appointed former administrator for the D.C. Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs Eric Rogers to fill the position.

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TOWN TOPICS

Ellington School Construction Over Budget The $139-million Duke Ellington School for the Arts Modernization Project is running over budget, according to the Department of General Services, and may also miss its deadline: the start of the historic high school’s 2016-17 academic year.

Ellington students have moved to Eugene Meyer Elementary School on 11th Street NW. The construction will expand the 1898 school building at 3500 R St. NW – originally

known as Western High School – to 294,900 square feet. The plans include a new atrium, an 850-seat theater and a classroom and limiteduse space on the roof.

The school’s main portico will be preserved. Plans for exterior changes to the school still face scrutiny by the Historic Preservation Review Board.

The formal groundbreaking for the modernization project, by then mayor Vincent Gray, D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson, other local politicians and school officials, took place Dec. 19.

May Start for 2-Year, $21-Million Key Bridge Rehab

Rendering of Duke Ellington School plans.

At the Dec. 19 groundbreaking, officials lined up; in center were Mayor Vincent Gray, School Chancellor Kaya Henderson and school co-founder Peggy Cafritz.

In Memoriam Every year we commemorate and remember. It’s our human nature, especially at newspapers, to take stock, to look back and to remember the lives and presences we lost during the course of the year.

Maya Angelou Richard Attenborough Lauren Bacall Marion Barry Kimberly Durham Bates Shirley Temple Black Thomas Hale Boggs Ben Bradlee James Brady David Brenner James MacGregor Burns Sid Caesar Joe Cocker Michele Conley Thomas Duncan Phil Everly Al Feldstein Eileen Ford James Garner Gerry Goffin Suzi Gookin Nadine Gordimer Tony Gwynn Tana Hicken Philip Seymour Hoffman Geoffrey Holder Bo Hoskins Martha Hyer

P.D. James Dick Jones Casey Kasem Ralph Kiner Lorin Maazel Gabriel Garcia Marquez Brittany Maynard Richard McCooey Joan Mondale Walter Nicholls Mike Nichols Tom Quinn Tommy Ramone Oscar de la Renta Paul Revere Joan Rivers Johnny Rivers Mickey Rooney Maximillian Schell James Schlesinger Pete Seeger Georgia Shallcross Ariel Sharon Elaine Stritch Ralph Waite Eli Wallach Robin Williams Johnny Winters

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A two-year rehabilitation of Key Bridge is set to begin in May, the D.C. Department of Transportation announced. Corrosive deterioration of the underside of the concrete deck has prompted this round of repairs to the oldest existing bridge across the Potomac River.

Most of the work will occur under the bridge. Other improvements include: new streetlights, strengthened guardrails and painting. According to DDOT, drivers should expect non-rush hour, single-lane closures and pedestrians should expect temporary sidewalk closings. The federal government will pay 90 percent of the cost.

The arched structure is termed “structurally deficient” and has been the backdrop for two speeches by President Barack Obama on the nation’s deteriorating infrastructure. It is named for Georgetowner Francis Scott Key, who wrote “The Star-Spangled Banner” and whose home, now demolished, was on M Street.

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D.C. Shows Solidarity in Wake of Terror Attacks in France Hundreds gathered inside and outside the Newseum on Pennsylvania Avenue Jan. 7 to stand with those in France and elsewhere in protest of the massacre of 10 journalists and two police officers earlier in the day in Paris by Islamic terrorists -- and to stand for the right of free expression for everyone everywhere.

Three gunmen burst into the editorial offices of Charlie Hebdo, a satirical news publication also known for its provocative cartoons, shooting editors, writers and artists, and then shot a wounded police officer as they fled.

At the Newseum, many held signs that read, “Je Suis Charlie” (I am Charlie) and “Nous Sommes Tous Charlie” (We are all Charlie), supporting the right of the humor magazine to express itself, whoever or whatever is insulted.

(The Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo had been bombed in 2011 because of its depiction of the Prophet Mohammed, founder of Islam.)

Other signs read “The pen is mightier than the sword” and “Liberte. Egalite. Fraternite.” The group stood in front of the sidewalk display around 7 p.m. in temperatures dipping into the teens.

On hand among the crowd, many of whom were French, was Christine Lagarde, head of the International Monetary Fund, who echoed the sentiments of many lovers of democracy and free expression: “It’s an attack against the freedom of speech, and what it changes is that you have masses of people gathered here in Washington. You have masses of people who are standing up today to say freedom of press is critical.”

Lagarde also appeared at a silent march organized by the French Embassy on Jan. 11.

The march progressed from the Newseum to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial and was led by Gerard Araud, France’s ambassador to the U.S. The Washington Post estimated that 3,000 people marched with Araud.

On both occasions, the group chose the Newseum because the non-profit is a wellknown museum of journalism with a mission

“to champion the five freedoms of the First Amendment through exhibits, public programs and education.”

In the wake of the Jan. 7 terror attacks, the museum wrote: “The Newseum joins with journalists and all others who support freedom of expression to declare that such cowardly attempts to thwart free speech and a free press will not succeed, and that all people should be able to express themselves freely and without fear.”

A demonstrator holds a sign at a Je Suis Charlie rally at the Newseum. Photo by Paul Simkin.

Community Meetings Jan. 21, 6:30 p.m.—The Georgetown Business Association will hold its monthly networking reception on Wednesday, Jan. 21. at the George Town Club.

Jan. 26, 6 p.m.—Georgetown Business Improvement District is holding a meeting on Jan. 26 at the House of Sweden (2900 K St. NW) to review the Georgetown 2028 plan. The BID is inviting community members to provide input and learn more about the plan.

Feb. 2, 6:30 p.m.—Georgetown’s Advisory Neighborhood Commission holds its next monthly review on Monday, Feb. 2 in the Heritage Room at the Georgetown Visitation School.

Feb. 5, 9 a.m.—The Old Georgetown Board will hold its monthly meeting on Thursday. Feb. 5 at 401 F St. NW. An agenda for the meeting can be found at www.cfa.org.

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EDITORIAL/ OPINON

2015 Challenges for Mayor Bowser There’s a lot on the plate for new District of one priority, especially in Ward 8 and Ward 7, Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser, who outlined both of which suffer from high unemployment. some of her plans in a general way at her inauShe still seems, as do residents, lukewarm guration earlier this year. about the proposed focus on getting streetcars One of he more optimistic expectations going in the District. So far, the existing project was “winning the Olympics in Washington DC is behind schedule, and has proven unreliable in in 2024.” She won’t have to worry about or some ways in test runs, filled with accidents and look forward to that one. The U.S. Olympic delays. Bowser has called Metro the fulcrum of Committee chose Boston to represent the United any transportation plan, with a focus on buses.

Transportation is a challenge for a changing States as a possible host city.

That being said, Bowser has to grapple city—with an influx of over a thousand residents with the states of the city, which she accurately per month, it’s key to have a coordinated transpordescribed as “both rich with prosperity and rife tation plan to deal with the newcomers, and the with inequality.” resultant lack of parking, increased traffic density She’ll have to deal with the dichotomy—how (in spite of a marked increase in bicycle use. to spread the prosperity all While crime statisover the city in terms of tics have improved under well-paying jobs, further Police Chief Cathy Lanier, improved schools, affordrecent weeks have shown able housing, protecting a marked increase in and improving the plight violence and homicide in of the homeless. the city. The murder rate Conversely, while the for 2014 surpassed 2013. city is considered prosWhile every politician perous, not to mention who’s run for something hip, cool, and a destination Mayor Muriel Bowser. Photo by Erin Schaff or is planning talks about place for not only new resiaffordable housing, no dents but visitors, it does have a budget deficit of one has yet to proffer a true definition of what around $200 million, a matter that will have to that means. Middle class residents are struggling be resolved before it’s brought before a strongly to meet mortgages, or rent prices, while renting GOP controlled Congress that’s not apt to be stock is becoming increasingly out of the reach all that sympathetic to the city’s problems, and of people who don’t make a six-figure salary, or may not resist the temptation to fiddle with city are in the lower double digits in terms of income. legislation, even if passed by the council and Bowser will also be dealing with a District approved by the mayor. It’s happened before and Council that is headed by veteran liberal Phil there’s no reason to think it won’t again.

Mendelson, and is packed with a majority of That’s why Bowser, who is personally members who have served only five years or popular, is already promising to work on the less, with two seats still open for special elecDistrict’s relationship with Congress, alongside tions this year.

Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, the District’s Bowser has already shown that she’s a quick only member of the House of Representative, study in the arena of city-wide electoral politics. albeit a non-voting one.

School is, of course, out on her cabinet choices, Getting further development into the city is who should be given a chance to show their stuff..

Nous Sommes Charlie. Where Were We? The world seemed to show up in Paris last Sunday, after the terrorist attack at the offices of French magazine Charlie Hebdo. Ten staffers at the satirical (some would say wildly offensive) publication and two police officers were gunned down Jan. 7.

The next day, a police officer was slain, and on the following day – just before the Jewish sabbath – the same person killed four persons at a kosher grocery in the French capital.

Three days of terror left 17 persons dead, excluding three Islamists killed by police.

On Jan. 11, world leaders – along with almost four million others – came together in Paris to rally for freedom of expression and the ideals of the Enlightenment. The biggest assembly ever in France, it was not so much a protest march as a proclamation of unity and support for the values of Western civilization. Whether you were there or just watched it on television, it took your breath away.

Yes, this time it seemed different . . . a new chapter in our new normal, a struggle that may come to define the 21st century. France called the attacks their 9/11 and declared the country at “war against terrorism, against jihadism, against radical Islamism, against everything that is intended to break fraternity, liberty, solidarity.”

In D.C., the first night after the attack, people rallied at the Newseum for free expression and to honor the memory of the Charlie Hebdo victims.

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On Sunday, there was a march from the Newseum to the Law Enforcement Officers Memorial.

Christine Lagarde, head of the International Monetary Fund, who has held ministerial posts in the French government, was at both events.

No one representing the federal government attended either event.

By now, everyone is aware that the Obama administration sent no one to Sunday’s rally in Paris – save Jane Hartley, the U.S. Ambassador to France. The omission revealed a lack of emotional intelligence and lack of leadership by the White House. It moved the New York Daily News to write a striking headline to the administration: “You let the world down.”

We missed the moment. Shame on the administration. Shame on us.

Aside from a renewed sense of cooperation in fighting terrorism, what do we take away from this moment? How steadfast are we in defending the right of free expression for everyone and every opinion – which includes the right to offend? Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes called it the “freedom for the thought that we hate.”

Our citizens should follow that lead; the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects both freedom of the press and freedom of speech.

Let’s keep talking freely. It is one of our greatest weapons against terrorism and extremism.

Jack Evans Report: 3 New Bills

BY JAC K EVAN S The D.C. Council held its first legislative meeting of the new session – Council Period 21 – last week, with a flurry of legislation being introduced.

Council rules limit members to three introductions at any Council meeting, and I am proud to have introduced bills to remove the Council from review of city contracts, support disabled veterans through a property tax exemption and re-establish the Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation to revitalize “America’s Boulevard.”

The “Council Contract Review Repeal Act of 2015” would limit the way the Council is able to intervene in the contracting process.

Too often there have been allegations of ethical violations by members of the Council when they are seen to be for or against a particular vendor – possibly due to the vendor’s personal or campaign connections to members or to their political opponents.

To attack the pay-to-play culture, we should go right to the source of the problem. The Council’s contract review is typically either a rubber stamp – with 90 percent of the contracts not getting read by anyone – or an opportunity for mischief. I believe contracting should happen through a merit-based selection process insulated from political pressure.

The “Disabled Veterans Homestead Exemption Act of 2015” would provide an exemption from a portion of the property taxes assessed on

the primary residence to (a) veterans classified as having a total and permanent disability and (b) veterans paid at the 100 percent disability rating level as a result of unemployability. This is an important piece of tax legislation that recognizes the contributions of our veterans.

In the 1970s, the Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation was created by the federal government to help revitalize – and, at that point, clean up – the main thoroughfare from the U.S. Capitol to the White House. My bill, the “Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation Act of 2015,” would re-establish this entity to coordinate with all federal and local agencies for a smooth transformation of this grand boulevard. Given the recent attention to some of the federally-owned buildings along Pennsylvania Avenue NW – including the conversion of the Old Post Office into a luxury hotel and the ongoing efforts to relocate FBI headquarters – a coordinating entity is critical to ensure that the area is developed in a comprehensive manner with input from all stakeholders. It will also enable the District to leverage private as well as public resources.

These three bills are important to our Ward and to our District. I was pleased to have numerous co-introducers and co-sponsors on all three pieces of legislation. I look forward to working with my colleagues to get these bills passed this session and to continue to move the District forward Jack Evans is the Ward 2 Councilmember, representing Georgetown since 1991.

Letters to the Editor: Park Service Pushback

I have had two recent and direct experiences with the National Park Service (Constitution Gardens and P Street Beach) which contradict the position expressed by Charles Pinck in the Georgetowner’s last issue. The National Park Service is not fulfilling its mission of maintenance of the pockets of land unjustifiably owned by them. The Georgetown waterfront receives more NPS attention than the vast majority of their holdings but the pocket areas we all pass every day are miserable ... trash, tree limbs, duck detritus, unpruned bushes, etc. ... and are testimony to the fact NPS is not doing its job. When that occurs in any other area in the economic system under which we operate, action is taken.

And the action required is to turn over all those pocket parks to the city.

To assert that the city will not be a good steward of this land is to cite past history and fail to acknowledge the present good record of our Departments of Parks and Recreation and Public Works. To excuse the National Park Service based on their stewardship of the Georgetown waterfront or Yellowstone National Park is irrelevant to the quality of life in the Nation’s Capital.

This issue is not related to private developers swooping in to take over Juarez Circle on Virginia Avenue; it is an issue of inadequate stewardship

by NPS. Linda Frees

Uber Stalled?

I had to chuckle about Jack Evans column on Uber. It’s funny how the District government, which can’t manage its own affairs, seems to be so intent on telling a private business how to run theirs. This is an entity that can’t issue business licenses in a timely manner. The Dmv? I would love to go one time, as I stand in the never ending line, and not see somebody in tears due to frustration.

Ease of traffic is a major factor in creating a livable city. Uber gets people through town for a reasonable price. The district government does not know how to create a traffic circle (if the traffic engineers took a freshman class in design they might discover you don’t put a light every 40 feet), time traffic lights or just turn the damn things off at times. How many people have gone to the train station early in the morning with nobody around and sit at a traffic light every block?

We would be better off if Jack Evans would focus on getting his own house in order and keep out of private businesses. I’ll put my faith in Uber over DC government any day.

Sincerely, Boyd Lewis

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DC SCENE

Jack the Bulldog of Georgetown University at the Verizon Center. Photo by Erin Schaff.

In the Capitol, Chief-of-Staff Mike Sommers congratulates John Boehner on being reelected as Speaker of the House. Photo courtesy of Office the Speaker

Former D.C. mayors Anthony Williams and Adrian Fenty at the inauguration of Mayor Muriel Bower. Photo by Erin Schaff.

People having a fun afternoon on the reflecting pool in front of the U.S. Capitol. Photo by Richard Barnhill via Flickr.

Mayor Muriel Bowser receives the Seal of the District of Columbia at her inauguration. Photo by Erin Schaff.

40 Years of Home Rule and Nothing to Show for It

BY M AR K P L OT K IN

Let’s stop kidding ourselves. It’s been 40 years since D.C. got “limited Home Rule,” and nothing has changed. We are still, as former Mayor Sharon Pratt so memorably said, “not part of America.”

Here is the situation. In our national legislature, we have no voting representation. We do have a non-voting delegate who is not permitted to vote on the House floor.

We have no presence at all in the U.S. Senate.

Every law which our local legislature passes can be overturned by the U.S. Congress. Every penny of our locally raised funds can be negated. Our local judges are appointed by the president -- not by locally elected office holders.

Why has nothing changed in over four decades? First and foremost is the lack of advocacy by our own elected officials. The District Council views itself not as a temporary transitional body, but as a permanent institution. It

is more interested in preserving its status than creating real self-government.

Our non-voting delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton is a major impediment to any real change. This champion of incrementalism is most dangerous to our advancement by the language she uses. She continually labels defeat as victory. This behavior goes back more than 20 years.

There was one vote on D.C. statehood in the House of Representatives -- in November 1993. Up to 151 Democrats voted for it. Norton at a post-vote press conference raved that 60 percent of the Democrats had voted for the bill. The number needed for passage was 218.

We were to be comforted or pleased that we made a modest showing. That was supposed to be sufficient.

Four months ago, there was a D.C. statehood bill introduced in the Senate. Norton refused to go to the four uncommitted Democratic senators on the relevant committee (Claire McCaskill, Mark Pryor, Jon Tester and Heidi PUBLISHER

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Heitkamp) and ask for their vote. Council member Mary Cheh lobbied Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) for his sponsorship of the bill -- not Norton. A hearing on the bill was good enough for Norton. When it was her turn to testify she never once asked for a mark-up of the bill or a vote on the bill, even though Democrats had a nine-to-seven majority.

Norton holds the moniker, “Warrior on the Hill.” This is an enormous misnomer. She is a perpetuator of the status quo. Her very presence in office holds us back.

In assessing blame, we cannot forgive the local population. What a passive lot! We are treated as third-class citizens. We accept it. We are excluded from democracy. We don’t make a fuss.

No meaningful civil disobedience. No active effective citizens movement. No, we just take it.

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been personally insulted. We are far too polite, far too well behaved.

Be under no illusion. Full and complete self-government means one thing: statehood for D.C. Anything less is incomplete.

We missed two golden opportunities for making D.C. the 51st state. In 1993, there were 56 Democrats and 44 Republicans in the Senate; 259 Democrats and 176 Republicans in the House. In 2009, 60 Democrats and 40 Republicans comprised the Senate with 257 Democrats and 178 Republicans in the House.

Both times, there was a Democratic president.

The stars were perfectly aligned. We failed.

We were on the right side of history, but we lacked a strategy and a fierce discipline. Let us vow: never will we let these opportunities pass us by again.

Mark Plotkin is a columnist for The Georgetowner and The Downtowner as well as a political analyst to the BBC on American politics and a contributor to TheHill.com.

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Business Ins and Outs

BY R OBE RT DEVANEY

IN: Forever 21 Opens Jan. 17 The clothing and accessories megastore Forever 21 will open on M Street 10 a.m., Saturday, Jan. 17. The store reports that the first 300 customers in line at 10 a.m. will receive a free gift card ($10-$210 value) and there will be an additional 50 percent off sale items.

Forever 21 will occupy part of the sidewalkfronting retail space owned by Georgetown Park, 3222 M St. NW, in the 20,000-square-foot space once occupied by H&M (which moved a few doors down to larger digs).

Founded in 1984 in Los Angeles as Fashion 21 by husband and wife Do Won Chang and Jin Sook Chang, Forever 21 has more than 480 locations. The Georgetown store will be the company’s second D.C. location.

IN: New Hotel on P Street to Open in September A 15-room boutique hotel, the Avery, is planned for the 2600 block of P Street (2616 and 2620 P St. NW). On one side are the Jerusalem Baptist Church and Chichie’s Grooming Spa for dogs. On the other are a new restaurant, After Peacock Room, and, on the corner, the Georgetown office of Washington Fine Properties, which brokered the property sale.

The new hotel is being created from two office townhouses, Samantha Schneck of the Avery Georgetown LLC told the Washington Business Journal. She said she and her husband Justin Schneck expected the Avery could open

by September after major interior reconstruction. There will be no changes to the exterior.

Planners for the Avery expect its clients to be parents of Georgetown University students or guests of embassies.

“We plan to bring a lot of cool ideas to it to modernize the inn concept,” Schneck told the Journal. “We’re hoping the neighborhood embraces it.”

IN: VaporFi Coming to O Street “With sales expected to exceed $2 billion in 2014 and continue to grow exponentially, opportunities abound in the exciting e-cig industry, with franchising being one of the biggest.”

So reads the International Vapor Group’s description of its business, VaporFi, which will soon open a franchise at 3210 O St. NW, next to Chinese take-out Kitchen 21. VaporFi will occupy the space that housed William Donahue’s Antiques of Georgetown for decades until it closed in 2012.

Underway: West End Library and Fire Station Projects Two long-awaited EastBanc projects got underway after a Dec. 15 groundbreaking: the redevelopment of the West End Public Library at 24th and L Streets NW and the D.C. firehouse at 23rd and M Streets NW. Here are details from EastBanc: “Plans for EastBanc’s West End Library and Fire Station development project call for a new

21,000-square-foot library and 7,300 square feet of retail topped by 164 market-rate units – 71 condos and 93 rentals – and a new fire station topped by 55 affordable units and Squash on Fire — a state-of-art squash facility with eight courts and full-service restaurant. … The company is committed to bringing more residents to the West End neighborhood, expanding retail offerings … EastBanc has engaged world-renowned architect Enrique Norten of T.E.N. Arquitectos of Mexico City to design both buildings.”

The projects involve a public-private partnership between the District of Columbia, EastBanc, the JBG Companies and Clark Enterprises.

OUT: Could Clairvoyant Healing Center Become a Cat Cafe?

Closed? We did not see this one coming.

The Georgetown Clairvoyant Healing Center, formerly at 3211 O St. NW, left town last month.

But, wait . . . word on the street is that a cat cafe could locate there. (More details to come.)

OUT: Glover Park Hardware Closes The popular Glover Park Hardware Store, at 2251 Wisconsin Ave. NW for almost 10 years, will close its doors Jan. 15.

Owner Gina Schaefer told customers that the business could not reach an agreement with property owner Chesapeake Realty Partners.

She also indicated that she hopes to reopen Glover Park Hardware somewhere else in the neighborhood.

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Other small hardware stores nearby include Bredice Brothers Hardware and Shoe Repair at 1305 35th St. NW, District Hardware and Bike Shop at 1108 24th St. NW and Schaefer’s other Ace Hardware store in Tenleytown.

OUT: Pinkberry Franchisee Files for Chapter 7 The local franchisee for Pinkberry frozen yogurt shops has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, according to the Washington Business Journal.

The store owner has indicated he hopes to keep some of the shops open.

The future of Pinkberry Mid-Atlantic LLC’s frozen yogurt outlets in the area, including shops in Georgetown, Dupont, Arlington, Fairfax, Tysons Corner and National Harbor, is in question. A Pinkberry store in Leesburg closed in 2014.

In court documents, the company lists debts at over $1.2 million and assets at around $820,000. Mid-Atlantic banking behemoth BB&T is the largest creditor, with claims upwards of $500,000.

Pinkberry also owes tens of thousands of dollars to Sysco Food Services and area utilities and close to $100,000 each to Arlington County and the State of Virginia in back taxes.

The Chapter 7 filing could mark the end of D.C.’s frozen yogurt fling, which began with a flurry of openings in 2009 and 2010 but has since dried up. Pinkberry arrived in D.C. in 2010.

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ALL THINGS MEDIA

2014 Is So Last Year

BY AMOS GE L B

Goodbye 2014 - Hello 2015 Rather than look back, I thought perhaps a way to start 2015 was to look forward and see some of the fun that might be to come. So here are 10 big media things to keep an eye on:

1. Local Television

2014 ended with a big shuffle. Sinclair Broadcast Group took the reins of WJLA and longtime news director/station guru Bill Lord headed out that door and straight up Wisconsin to the ailing WUSA. Can he repeat his magic farther up the dial? How will WJLA fare under new ownership with a news operation that takes its marching orders from a centralized news hierarchy?

Hometown Machiavelli: Frank Underwood (played by Kevin Spacey) of House of Cards.

fortunately very effective media strategy, and will legitimate governments finally figure out a way to counteract them?

2. The Washington Post There’s a lot of new energy now that the Age of Bezos has dawned. New culture, new publisher (Fred Ryan, the former general from WJLA and Politico) and new building will generate plenty of armchair analysis.

5. Net Neutrality This is the single most important issue facing anybody who uses the internet for anything.

The outcome, to be decided this year, will define all our worlds.

3. Social Media Bloopers

6. Hometown Machiavellis

What will be the next great faux pas to enliven our humdrum lives? It’s been a while since a Weiner popped up, and everyone has now learned that you don’t dis the Obama gals.

But it is the gift that keeps on giving. More to come, guaranteed.

Will Frank Underwood and Olivia Pope, the lead characters of the shows “House of Cards” and “Scandal,” continue to give us Washingtonian the guilty pleasure of thinking that we are indeed smarter than everyone else (oh, come on, don’t deny it)?

4. Radical Fundamentalists

Steven Colbert posing in-character on the set of The Colbert Report.

7. The New Republic TNR is dead, long live TNR. Can the Facebook-billionaire owner really reinvent the icon of American liberalism after its very public self-immolation at the close of 2014?

8. CNN President Obama joked last year that CNN was in search of its dignity. The big question for 2015 is whether it can find its identity. The Network of Record has been best known more recently for its endless coverage of events long after there is nothing to say (along with the uninformed wanderings of a misanthropic cook).

9. Voice of America Less on the radar but still important: What

What will they come up with next in their un-

is the future of VOA? Elements in Congress seem intent on making it a propaganda agency, while the journalists who work there are committed to journalism. The venerable agency’s survival is by no means assured.

10. Colbert Finally, the biggest and most pressing unknown in all of American media for 2015: Colbert. What will he look like now that he has shed his Comedy Central persona and moved into his new CBS chair? And just as important, can he challenge the Grand Wizard of Late Night, Jimmy Fallon?

ATM is all a-Twitter to see (or at least something social).

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They will be offered as part of Christie’s sale of Important American Silver during Americana Week New York.

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Indo-Portuguese Table Cabinet Oil on canvas Estimate: $2,000 – $3,000 Auction Date: Jan. 28 The exterior of this beautiful teak chest with iron handles is inlaid with flowerhead engraved lozenges and pastilles. The fall front opens to a series of small drawers with pierced green and red-stained bone drawer fronts backed with brass foil. It is part of Freeman’s International Sale, featuring an array of items from Roman portrait busts and bronzes to Near Eastern tapestries and ceramics.

SOTHEBY’S

31-Star American National Flag, 1850-58 Estimate: $40,000 – $60,000 Auction Date: Jan. 23-25 This rare flag, with hand-sewn double-appliqued cotton muslin stars configured in a “double oval wreath” or “double oval medallion,” is said to have been used in Abraham Lincoln’s 1860 presidential campaign. It is a highlight of Sotheby New York’s auction of Important Americana, part of American Week New York, Jan. 16-26..

DOYLE NEW YORK Flemish Tapestry, 18th century Black walnut and rosewood Estimate: $12,000 – $18,000 Auction Date: Jan. 28

This tapestry from Flanders depicts a couple in the foreground, with hunters chasing prey in the wooded landscape behind. It will be offered as part of Doyle’s auction of Important English & Continental Furniture & Decorations / Old Master Paintings & Drawings. In addition to a broad selection of important furniture, decorations, porcelain, Georgian silver, tapestries and rugs from the 17th century through the early 19th, there will be paintings and drawings from the Renaissance through the 19th century.

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John Mecray (American, b. 1939) “Shamrock V,” 1995, Oil on canvas Estimate: $60,000 – $80,000 Auction Date: Jan. 28 Part of Bonhams sale of Important Maritime Paintings & Decorative Arts, this electrically charged painting by Mecray depicts the J-class yacht Shamrock V, probably the best known of the J-class yachts. Shamrock V was designed by Charles Nicholson for Sir Thomas Lipton (who established the brand of tea) to compete in the 1930 America’s Cup.

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Septime Webre’s

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CUBAN DREAMS

Back in December, when the Obama administration announced it would be normalizing relations with Fidel Castro’s Cuba after 50 years of severed relations, the news sparked a renewed interest in All Things Cuba—cigars, music, tourism, food, baseball, history, culture—as well as flashes of old political battles.

For one Washington cultural leader, it could mean the fulfillment of a journey that began before he was born.

The son of an American sugar planter and his Cuban wife, Septime Webre has been the artistic director of the Washington Ballet for 15 years. Throughout his life, Cuba has been at the root of his coming to terms with a complex personal identity.

Sometimes, he seemed to imagine it in his head, even as he grew up in multicultural, often exotic, places: New Orleans (briefly), where he was born; the Bahamas, where his father conducted business; and Brownsville, in South Texas, just across the border from Mexico.

“I was the seventh son in the family. When my parents had to leave in 1959, all their property, including a sugar mill, their family home and all their financial assets, were taken after Fidel Castro toppled the dictator Fulgencio Batista.

“For a long time, I’d often wondered who I was in terms of my culture, because, growing up, I’d had all of these different influences, long before I got interested in dance in a serious way. Mexican food and music, the rhythms of the Islands and all those stories I would hear from my family, my mother and father, my sisters and brothers, cousins, about Cuba: the music, the land, the big ocean wall at Havana.”

To Webre, Cuba was part of his dreams, part of the way he thought and created.

“Some of my relatives in Miami, my brothers, cousins, they would say I had this Mexican way about me, from growing up in school in Texas,” he said. “And I’d think about the ocean in the islands and the music.”

By the time Webre had come to New York to begin a career in ballet, first as a dancer, then as a choreographer, he’d had plenty of time to think about it. When he became artistic director in Washington, he had his first opportunity to visit the country he thought of, in some sense, as home.

In 1999, he traveled to Cuba and met Alicia Alonso, the legendary cofounder of Ballet Nacional de Cuba. The meeting resulted in a historic trip to Cuba in 2000 by Webre and the Washington Ballet to appear in Ballet Nacional de Cuba’s 17th International Festival.

Webre brought the whole company, as well as then Mayor Anthony Williams and other officials, local arts leaders (including theater directors Molly Smith of Arena Stage and Joy Zinoman of Studio Theatre) and Washington Ballet founder Mary Day, who was in her nineties.

“That trip, that experience of performing there, bringing my company, that was a big thing for me,” he said. “It wasn’t until then that I really discovered how Cuban I really was, how much everything about Cuba was in my soul, in what I did, how I approached dance and ballet.

“It was a moment, a true moment—not just for me, but it was also a time were people were taking an interest in Cuba again. . . . This was the time when ‘The Buena Vista Social Club,’ which was about a number of great Cuban musicians, was very popular.”

Everywhere he went, he took in the sights, the sounds “and the smells. Cuban music is very lively and colorful, it’s soaked in all sorts of traditions: salsa, island rhythms, Latin American strains, the Spanish guitar and the music of Africa from the days of slavery here.

But always, it’s about movement, everywhere.

“They say a Cuban child learns to dance before they can walk,” he said. “It’s in the soul of people, they walk in a very musical, stylized way.”

He recalled the strong visual impact. “I loved seeing the city and the countryside in detail for the first time. In those days, economically, things had been stale for a long time. You saw and still do a lot of old American cars, there was rust and decay, rusted old Chevrolets and Cadillacs, that sort of thing, those colors on the side of buildings. I love the colors of rust, what rust does to material.”

Cuba, said Webre, is “in the blood and soul. You listen to that music, the languages, the style.” He remembers the palm trees, the experience and sound of the ocean and how the sounds of the oceans infiltrate the music. “Some of that style, I think, has crept into my choreography, into my identity as an artist, no question about it.”

“To me, in spite of years under the economic and political hardship of Communism, the island, the people had retained their soul, their culture, their hearts. That’s what I responded to.”

During his tenure with the Washington Ballet, Webre has had several Cuban dancers in the company. This past year, two new members arrived, under quite different circumstances.

Gian Carlo Perez, from Havana, a member of Ballet Nacional, toured Spain with the company on its 70th anniversary. Emigrating legally with a work visa, he is now a member of the Washington Ballet.

Miguel Anaya, also a Ballet Nacional dancer, came to the U.S. and the Washington Ballet the hard way. Touring with the company in Mexico City, he took a bus to the Laredo border and walked across the bridge, seeking political asylum.

“They’ve certainly added a lot to the company, a rich flavor,” said Webre. “You saw that in how male dancers in Cuba perform. They have some of those classic moves you see in matadors. Both of them will be dancing leading roles for us, in the upcoming ‘Sleepy Hollow,’ for instance.”

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Back to the Latin Playground?

BY RICHARD SELDEN

B

orn March 2, 1917, Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III became the symbol of America’s love affair with Cuba, the country from which his wealthy and prominent family fled in 1934.

Ironically, the original TV run of “I Love Lucy,” in which Desi Arnaz played bandleader Ricky Ricardo, nearly coincided with the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, who led the revolt that sent Arnaz’s family – and many others – into exile in Miami.

During the Desilu decade of the 1950s, Cuba was the “Holiday Isle of the Tropics,” 90 miles from Key West. Havana was the Latin Las Vegas.

An earlier wave of Cuba tourism lasted from the 1920s through the early 1930s, the Prohibition years, when famous and infamous Americans went to Cuba to drink, gamble, golf, fish and perhaps sin. After a few visits, Ernest Hemingway bought his winter retreat, Finca Vigía, in 1940. It is now a museum, a mandatory stop along with his favorite Havana bars, La Floridita (for daiquiris) and La Bodeguita del Medio (for mojitos).

But since the 1959 revolution led by Fidel Castro – now aged 88 and ailing, having stepped down from Communist Party leadership in 2011 – Cuba became known as a police state rather than a vacation paradise. Along with others, the politically powerful Cuban exile community in the United States made sure that economic sanctions, including a travel embargo, remained in effect.

Then, on Dec. 17, President Obama announced a move to reestablish diplomatic relations with Cuba, following negotiations (with the assistance of Pope Francis) that led to the release of American Alan Gross, imprisoned since Dec. 2009, in exchange for three Cuban agents.

Unimpeded travel to Cuba from the U. S. will require Congressional approval. However, several regulatory changes will make things easier. For instance, U.S.-based credit and debit cards will now be accepted in Cuba, and U.S. travelers will be able to bring home up to $400 worth of Cuban goods.

The U.S. government will also issue what are called general licenses, for citizens who wish to travel for humanitarian reasons, to perform or compete and for other specific purposes.

Currently, only special licenses, requiring an arduous application process, are available. Americans who travel to Cuba without a license or through a travel provider that is not licensed by the Department of the Treasury are breaking the law and risk substantial fines.

The regulatory amendments putting these changes into effect are supposed to be issued “in the coming weeks.” More information may be found online at treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/pages/cuba.aspx, where there is a link to sign up for Cuba Sanctions email updates.

In the meantime, the easiest, if expensive, legal option to visit Cuba is through a “people-to-people” group tour organized by an authorized travel provider, either open to the public or under the auspices of a university, a museum or another nonprofit.

The Cuban government has been investing in tourism since the 1990s, restoring sections of Old Havana and building resort hotels with foreign, but not American, partners. Capacity is limited, and most facilities have not been modernized.

By far the largest source of international visitors to Cuba – nearly a million per year – is Canada, whose citizens tend to go to Varadero, about 14 miles east of Havana, for inexpensive beach and nature vacations. While around 650,000 U.S. citizens visit annually, the vast majority are Cuban Americans with visas to visit family members.

Over the next few years, there will be a strong curiosity factor. Americans will seek to feel the aura of Capone, Hemingway and Sinatra, gawk at the vintage cars, visit unfamiliar beaches and see for themselves what the country and the people are like.

After a few years of opening to America, and, presumably, a surge when the ban is finally lifted, the place that Cuba will come to occupy in the panoply of Caribbean destinations is unknown.

But wouldn’t it be nice to toast Desi’s 100th birthday with rum and cigars in Santiago de Cuba, where both his father and grandfather were mayor?

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YOUR DINING GUIDE TO WASHINGTON DC’S FINEST RESTAURANTS

1789 RESTAURANT 1226 36TH ST., NW 202–965–1789 1789restaurant.com

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

Open seven nights a week.

Jackets suggested.

Complimentary valet parking.

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.

Clyde’s is the People’s Choice for bacon cheeseburgers, steaks, fresh seafood, grilled chicken salads, fresh pastas and desserts.

MALMAISON

3401 K ST.,NW 202–817–3340 malmaisondc.com 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).

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.

DAS ETHIOPIAN 1201 28TH ST., NW

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.

MARTIN’S TAVERN

1264 WISCONSIN AVE., NW 202–333–7370 martinstavern.com Don't let the beer fool you, it's a compliment to your dining experience.

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 its walls. Fourth generation owner Billy Martin, Jr., continues the tradition of Washington’s oldest familyowned restaurant.

Serving Brunch until 4 p .m.

7 days a week!

BISTROT LEPIC & WINE BAR

1736 WISCONSIN AVE., NW 202–333–0111 bistrotlepic.com

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

Come and see for yourself why Bistrot Lepic, with its classical, regional and contemporary cuisine, has been voted best bistro in D.C. by the Zagat Guide.

And now, with its Wine Bar, you can enjoy “appeteasers,” full bar service, complimentary wine tasting every Tuesday and a new private room.

The regular menu is always available.

Open every day for lunch and dinner.

Now serving brunch Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m.–3 p.m.

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.

Reservations suggested.

ENO WINE BAR

2810 PENNSYLVANIA AVE., NW 202–333–4710 enowinerooms.com Visit ENO Wine Bar and enjoy wine flights, charcuterie, cheese, chocolate & small plates. ENO offers 100 bottles under $50 & 30 wines by the glass starting at $9. The ENO Experience is perfect for a pre-theater meal or try our dessert wine & chocolate flights after. Outdoor seating available.

Enjoy select bottles of wine 50% OFF Sunday & Monday WINE DOWN Sun –Thurs from 5 pm -7 pm & sip wines on tap for $5.

Mon- Thurs 5 pm - 12 am Fri & Sat 4 pm – 1 am Sun 4 pm - 11pm

PIER 2934

2934 M ST., NW 202–337–4536 pier2934.com Pier 2934 is a family owned establishment that wants to share with the Nation’s Capital the same values we hold: having fun, eating good food, and bringing people together. So come in and enjoy a Cajun boil on a warm summer night with the family on our spacious, yet cozy patio, or meet up with friends at the bar for happy hour and some fried finger food and oysters.

All you can eat Snow Crab Legs.

RESERVATION ONLY. $30/ per person.

Not valid with any other offers.

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THE GRILL ROOM

Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily.

Brunch Sat.-Sun. 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.

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'tmiss 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!

FILOMENA RISTORANTE

I-THAI RESTAURANT AND SUSHI BAR

Filomena is a Georgetown landmark that has endured the test of time and is now celebrating 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 award-winning Italian chef. Try our spectacular lunch buffet on Friday and Saturday or our Sunday Brunch.

I-Thai Restaurant and Sushi Bar offers a taste of authentic Thai cuisine and Thai noodle dishes, where quality is never compromised. Using only the freshest ingredients, each dish is carefully prepared by our talented house chefs. With their extensive knowledge and expertise they are able to transform each dish with the perfect blend of herbs and spices into a delightful experience with the boldest and most genuine flavors possible.

1063 WISCONSIN AVE., NW 202–338–8800 filomena.com

3003 M ST., NW 202–580–8852

Open 7 days a week for lunch and dinner.

Sun.–Thu. 11:30 a.m .–10:30 p.m.

Fri.–Sat. 11:30 a.m.–11 p.m.

SEA CATCH RESTAURANT

THE OCEANAIRE

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. Outdoor dinning available.

Join us for Happy Hour, Mon.-Fri. from 5 to 7 pm, featuring $1 oysters and half-priced drinks

Lunch Mon.–Sat. 11:30 a.m.–3 p.m.

Dinner Mon.–Sat. 5–10 p.m.

Complementary Valet Parking

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.

FOOD & WINE

Cocktail of the Month

BY JODY K URA S H Without a doubt, winter has arrived in our nation’s capital. Whether it’s a Georgetown preppie clad in cashmere and Burberry plaid or a hipster walking down 14th Street with boot socks, fringed jacket and infinity scarf, everyone in the metro area is bundled up and trying to beat the cold.

My December visit came as a shock to my body. As a D.C. expat living on a tropical island, I am accustomed to temperatures of 30 degrees Celsius, not Fahrenheit. While dressing in layers and pulling warm clothes out from my storage bin helped my plight, I found a more jovial cure: hot cocktails to soothe the soul and defrost my frozen bones.

On the weekend before Christmas, I felt like I was turning into a snowman while shopping at the outdoor holiday market downtown.

Fortunately, a remedy was close by. Across F Street, Nopa Kitchen + Bar features a diverse menu of winter-warmer cocktails. I sampled three of their hot tipples, each one completely different.

The first was called Nopa’s Punch, their version of mulled wine, a Northern European winter staple. Served hot, this beverage is usually made with red wine, various mulling spices and citrus fruits. It is often enhanced with another flavored liquor such as schnapps or brandy.

It immediately took me back a few years, when my partner and I strolled through the Christmas market in Belfast, Ireland, admiring the local crafts, riding a Ferris wheel and

Nopa hot toddy.

taking a break from Guinness as we stayed cheerful with a soothing glass of spiced hot wine.

Nopa’s version starts off with a good quality red wine. Beverage Director Jesse Hiney says that doing so is important because

the flavor comes through in the finished product. The wine is mixed with a spice mixture, Granny Smith apples, orange, lime and Becherovka, a Czech liqueur spiced with ginger and cinnamon.

The result is a drink that is a bit bolder, with a more pronounced spicy flavor than most of the mulled wines I have tried. It is served with a gluten-free ginger cookie that echoes its snappiness. Hiney says he has received many compliments from European customers accustomed to drinking mulled wines, who call Nopa’s version especially nice.

Nopa also offers a classic hot toddy with a striking twist. The base liquor for this drink is a cardamom-infused bourbon that dominates the flavor. According to Hiney, whole cardamom pods are left to infuse in bourbon for a month. The whiskey is combined with lemon juice, spiced apple syrup, honey and hot water, then topped off with an amaretto meringue made by Nopa’s pastry chef, Jemil Gadea.

The final result tasted like a hot lemon meringue pie from an exotic land, the cardamom flavor shining through. The fluffy topping merged seamlessly into the hot liquid, with the amaretto and spiced apple syrup tempering the strong spicy flavor.

Finally, for a truly decadent treat, one should not miss Nopa’s adult version of hot chocolate. Starting off with 65-percent, singleorigin Ecuadorian chocolate, this delicacy is served with a choice of liqueurs including Frangelico, Grand Marnier and Kahlua. By

using superior chocolate, Nopa has created a delectable and incredibly rich dessert in a glass.

Hiney suggested I sample it mixed with Patrón XO Café Incendio, a liqueur forged from arbol chiles, Criollo chocolate and Patrón tequila. This newly created spirit magically combines the flavors of spicy and sweet with a touch of heat. When used in Nopa’s hot chocolate, the result is extraordinary.

It comes served with a light and pillowy homemade marshmallow, a special touch. The marshmallow easily blends into the rich and thick chocolate, giving it a smooth, silky finish.

By the time I had sampled all three of these warmers, my body had thawed. I had shed my alpaca poncho and faux fur jacket. I was ready to face the bitter chill and carry on – full of cheer – with my holiday errands. Readers can sample these cocktails at Nopa Kitchen + Bar, 800 F St. NW.

Nopa Hot Toddy 1.5 ounces cardamom-infused bourbon .75 ounces lemon juice .5 ounces spiced apple syrup .25 ounces honey Add ingredients to a glass and fill with boiling water. Top with amaretto meringue.

3251 Prospect St. NW. Washington, DC 20007

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The Latest Dish

BY LINDA ROT H Pizza Studio plans to open two personalized fast-casual restaurants this month. It’s a gourmet-pizza-quick-casual-create-your-own pizza-cooked-in-two-minutes concept. They will be the first locations for the company in the D.C. and Baltimore metro areas. The D.C. store will open in Dupont Circle where Baja Fresh was. The Baltimore location is in Charles Village near the Johns Hopkins University campus. The principals, who now reside in California, have local connections: Samit Varma used to live in Rockville and partner Ron Biskin lived in Owings Mills, a suburb of Baltimore.

Chicago-based Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises loves the D.C. metro area and has plans to open a few more restaurants. In 2015, the plans include opening Summer House Santa Monica in North Bethesda’s Pike & Rose neighborhood. It’s a California-inspired American restaurant (not to be confused with Summer House in Rehoboth Beach). Stella Barra Pizzeria, serving artisanal pizza, small plates and handcrafted pastries and breads is also slated for Pike & Rose. And LEYE will open RPM Italian, a modern Italian restaurant, in partnership with celebrity couple Giuliana and Bill Rancic. It will open at 601 Massachusetts Ave. NW in the second quarter of 2015. Joe’s Seafood Prime Steak and Stone Crab is their most recent entry into the D.C. market, celebrating one year at the end of January.

OAKFIELD

Upperville, Virginia • $4,900,000

Stone manor house in spectacular setting • 86.81 acres • Highly protected area in prime Piedmont Hunt • Gourmet kitchen • Wonderful detail throughout • 5 BR • 5 BA • 3 half BA • 3 fireplaces, classic pine paneled library • Tenant house • Stable • Riding ring • Heated saltwater pool • Pergola • Full house generator.

Paul MacMahon

(703) 609-1905

ECHO HILL

The Plains, Virginia • $1,699,000

Stone English country home in top location between Middleburg & The Plains on 13 acres • Large boxwoods & classically planted gardens • 4 BR home with new kitchen & main level master suite • Hardwood floors, built-in book cases, fireplaces & bright open family room • Bluestone terrace overlooks new pool & entertaining area • Separate guest cottage/pool house & garage • Whole-house generator.

Helen MacMahon

(540) 454-1930

info@sheridanmacmahon.com

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Bo Blair plans to open another Surfside, a fast-casual restaurant, in Dupont Circle this month. The first one is in Glover Park. His new southern concept, Due South, is due to open in the Lumber Shed Building at the Navy Yard in the third quarter of 2015. Rusty Holman, who has worked for Bo at Bayou in the West End, has been tapped as executive chef. Next up for Bo in this area is a Millie’s, which should open in Spring Valley. The original Millie’s is in Nantucket. (This one will have the same menu if not the same amazing seaside view.)

Chef Update: Frank Ruta, formerly of the now closed Palena, takes over as head chef of The Grill Room at the Capella Hotel in Georgetown. His pastry chef from Palena, Aggie Chin, will join him at Capella. Will Greenwood will be taking over the chef duties at Elizabeth’s Gone Raw in D.C. Will the new restaurant that José Andrés will open at the new Trump International Hotel (where the Old Post Office was) be anything like his Bazaar at the SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills? That takes over much of the lobby and has various rooms creating the overall concept.

Stay tuned.

Jose Garces may be opening a 20,000-square-foot market that will offer a range of Latin groceries and prepared foods at Union Market in D.C.’s NoMa neighborhood.

It will be located in a new 520-unit residential building. It’s not the Philadelphia-based chef’s first venture in this market; he opened

FARAWAY FARM

Middleburg Area • $3,350,000

Solid stone home with copper roof on 70 acres • Original portions dating from the 1700’s • First floor bedroom & 3 additional suites • Original floors • 8 fireplaces • Formal living room • Gourmet kitchen • 2 ponds • Mountain views • Stone walls • Mature gardens • Pool • Log cabin • Piedmont Hunt.

Helen MacMahon (540) 454-1930 Paul MacMahon (703) 609-1905 Ann MacMahon (540) 687-558

STONEWOOD

Middleburg, Virginia • $970,000

Charming stucco, log and frame home • 10 acres • 3-4 bedrooms • 3 1/2 baths • 2 fireplaces (one in the kitchen with antique brick floor) • Beautiful reclaimed pine flooring • Bright and sunny family room opens to bluestone terrace • Master bedroom opens to private balcony • 2 car garage • 4 stall barn with tack room with 2 paddocks • 2 recorded lots.

Paul MacMahon

www.sheridanmacmahon.com

(703) 609-1905

Rural Society in the Loews Madison Hotel Openings Update: Tadich Grill is now last summer. expected to open in late February or early Quick Hits: Charlottesville-based GreenMarch. berry’s coffee shop plans to open in downtown D.C. on the corner of 18th and E Sts. NW...

Potomac’s Grilled Oyster Company will open a 4100-square-foot seafood restaurant at the new Cathedral Commons development on Wisconsin Avenue NW. The original location is at Cabin John Mall in Montgomery County … Liam LaCivita, former chef at Liberty Tavern, Lyon Hall and Northside Social, plans to open Bar Civita in Woodley Park where Murphy’s was at 2609 24th St. NW. The restaurant will serve modern American food. An opening in the first quarter of this year is planned.

David Guas’s Bayou Bakery, Coffee Bar & Eatery in Arlington is opening a second location in D.C. at 921 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. Renovations to a two-story carriage house will create a 53-seat restaurant on the first floor and a kitchen on the second floor, with seating for 36 in the summer garden.

Local restaurateur Ammar Daoud will take over management of The Heights in Columbia Heights this month. His plans include an update to the menu and the décor, but not to the staff.

The Heights will continue to honor EatWell (previous management company) gift certificates through March 31. EatWell DC will conButtermilk Biscuits and spread at Bayou Bakery in tinue to focus on their restaurants: The Pig, Logan Tavern, Commissary DC and Grillfish. Arlington, VA.

TROUGH HILL FARM

LIBERTY HILL

Middleburg, Virginia • $2,750,000

A pastoral 5 bedroom c. 1830 farmhouse and a grand stone pavilion • Elegant but unfussy • 103 acres of open farmland • The pavilion serves as a pool house, greenhouse, banquet room, and guest quarters • Great location.

Paul MacMahon Ann MacMahon

(703) 609-1905 (540) 687-5588

Boyce, Virginia • $1,900,000

Mountain top retreat with 60 mile panoramic views of the Shenandoah Valley • 215 acres • 1/3 pasture • Main house circa 1787 • 3 BR, 1 BA • 2 fireplaces • Random width pine floors • 2 BR, 1 BA guest cottage • Stone & frame barn circa 1787 • Remnants of formal garden • Old cemetery • Spring fed pond • Gazebo.

Paul MacMahon Helen MacMahon

(703) 609-1905 (540) 454-1930

WASHINGTON STREET

THE CORNER GARDEN BUILDING

Classic Virginia colonial • Circa 1926 • Stone and frame construction • 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 baths • Hardwood floors • High ceilings • Screened side porch on .65 acre in town • 2-car garage with apartment • Beautiful gardens and rear terrace.

Classic old Middleburg fixture • Zoned C-2 • Lovely large front porch and old stone walls - nice visibility one block south of the main street • Extensive plantings, room for expansion and full of charm • Approximately 2,300 sf building on .11 acre lot • Front portion dates from 1870’s.

Middleburg, Virginia • $825,000

Paul MacMahon

(703) 609-1905

Middleburg, Virginia • $650,000

Helen MacMahon

(540) 454-1930

110 East Washington Street Middleburg, Virginia 20117 (540) 687-5588

IN COUNTRY

In Country Calendar JAN. 16

Wine Dinner with Sunset Hills Vineyard Join us for a special wine dinner with Sunset Hills Vineyard on Friday, Jan. 16, at 7 p.m. at Piedmont’s Table restaurant in The Golf Club at Lansdowne.The cost is $75 per person for the five-course tasting menu with wine pairings. The menu will be prepared by Lansdowne Resort chef Kevin Brackett. Visit lansdowneresort.com to learn more. 44050 Woodridge Parkway, Leesburg, VA.

Yoga on the Wine Trail at North Gate Vineyard

Start your morning with a flowing yoga practice at the Vineyards along the Loudoun Wine Trail followed by a fun-filled and joyful journey touring the winery. Complete with wine tasting, you can then re-energize with light fare perfectly paired with wine. Fireside practice will follow with a tasting with experienced vineyard staff or winemaker, warm lunch, bread, cheese, fruit, and tasty dessert. The last event sold out – Registration is limited so reserve early! Admission: $55.00.

Groups of 4 or more are $45.00pp. for more info, visit yogafourlife.com. North Gate Vineyard; 16031 Hillsboro Road; Purcellville, VA 20132.

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region, reserved and a bit aloof, it takes a bit of time to get to know the wines from Piedmont. To learn more, visit 868estatevineyards.com. 14001 Harpers Ferry Rd, Purcellville, VA.

JAN. 23

Corks to Craft Night

Enjoy a glass of fine wine while making something crafty with corks. All craft supplies are provided to guests. Visit otiumcellars.com/index.html to learn more. Otium Cellars; 18050 Tranquility Rd, Purcellville, VA.

keswick, virginia 202.390.2323 www.castlehillcider.com events@castlehillcider.com

JAN. 24

Burns Night Supper at Oatlands

Join Becky and Scott Harris, owners of Catoctin Creek Distillery, to celebrate the birthday of poet Robert Burns. A traditional Scottish dinner of local lamb, neeps, tatties, and trifle will be served.

And, of course, there will be haggis! The supper costs $100 per person and advance reservations are required. The event will include a cash bar featuring local wines and Catoctin Creek Distillery whiskey. Call 703-777-3174 ext. 103 or visit oatlands.org for more information. 20850 Oatlands Plantation Lane, Leesburg, VA.

23rd Hunt Country Winter Antiques Fair

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A Sunny Christmas in the Turks and Caicos Islands The stunningly serene sands of Grace Bay Beach, voted #1 in the world by Trip Advisor in 2011. ©Three Wishes Travel

BY WALLY GREEVES amous for its salt production in the 1600s, now it’s the potcake-puppy culture, pirate shipwrecks, pink flamingos and Keith Richards that all thrive on the powdery white sands that make up the Turks and Caicos Island chain in the British West Indies.

The popular but uncrowded beach town of Providenciales, TCI’s largest city, where I stayed in December at the Ocean Club Resort, seemed to have the perfect ratio of condos, resorts, restaurants, and shopping venues, with just the right amount of nothing thrown in. Nobody tried to sell me anything on the beach once.

The original Turks and Caicos Islanders lived in peace for 700 years until the European arrival in the early 16th century eradicated the population through

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After a vacant period of 150 years, the salt industry, and later cotton, demanded the use of slaves who, after being emancipated in 1834, really formed the basis of the population there today. Americans form the majority of tourism now, and many snowbirds from Canada and the East Coast spend substantial parts of the year or retire here. Tourism, offshore banking and fishing account for most of this British Overseas Territory’s industry.

Thanks largely to an extremely comprehensive talk and music demonstration at Ocean Club West

by Turks and Caicos Islands Culture Director David Bowen, I felt like I understood for the first time some of the challenges associated with historically interrupted areas like TCI, when it comes to recognizing, defining and promoting its own culture. Bowen

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The night of my arrival I had an almond-crusted fried grouper with coconut sauce right on the beach at the resort that was phenomenal. A dinner at the resort’s signature restaurant Opus was also a culinary bull’s eye, where I gleefully inhaled the crudo fish tasting and coconut curried conch.

Since Ocean Club has two locations a mile apart on Grace Bay, both of whose amenities were avail-

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Off-campus dining favorites included Da Conch Shack, an open-air compound devoted to showcasing the conch from the water to the table in every way possible, and the weekly Wednesday night Island fish fry. With at least 20 restaurants there hawking their chewables, I spent a small fortune wolfing down grilled spiny lobster, varieties of jerked chicken and pork, enough plantains to fill a Fiat, and some little red pepper things that were great. If you suddenly find yourself

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watered oasis on the limestone island, and I ended up playing two rounds of golf here during my short stay. A first for me was a golf course that had pink flamingos on it that were there by choice. Conversations with club pro Dave Douglas were representative of the interactions I had with almost all activities management in Providenciales: friendly and story-abound, affirming of the small island’s obvious network of friendships. While it may be the only game in town, it was clear from talking to other golfers that it was a focal point activity for many of the repeat travelers and condo owners on the Island.

A second first was the introduction of Moringa to me by Douglas. Moringa is the newest protein leaf on the rise that he swears will soon be in every North American supermarket. He and his sons have planted them on the course. I can’t tell if my glass of Moringa Tea helped me hit the ball any farther than usual, but it tasted good.

Jumping at the chance to go saltwater fly-fishing with the resort’s game-fishing partner Silver Deep, I was channeling Hemingway, while whipping line back and forth from the skiff’s bow, but the elusive bonefish remained elusive and I had to settle for a small barracuda in its place. Shark sightings in crystal clear water and the countless bird species abound were amazing. An afternoon sailboat excursion was beautiful and the snorkeling colorful. I spent a relaxing evening touring the mangrove flats with a knowledgeable tour guide who showed me how to pick up jellyfish at rest and told good glow worm stories. I had a locally hand-rolled cigar each evening on the porch, while I listened to the warm winds blow through the palm trees. I had a really good time.

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Dear Stacy: I am exhausted. I feel this way all the time.

It’s not a medical condition, I’ve been checked out. It’s because I do too much, too often, all the time. My calendar is out of control.

A couple times a year I will splurge on a spa weekend. A few times a month I get a night away from the kids. But the good feelings never seem to last and I always wind up feeling exhausted very soon after. I just don’t know how other moms do it, and I find myself thinking about how they do it a lot, which is also exhausting. I know this makes my marriage harder than it needs to be, but I also don’t feel like he’s very supportive when I need time off.

– Mother of the Year Dear Mother: I hear you trying very hard to take care of yourself. You’re just doing it wrong.

You know you need time for yourself. In fact, a few times a year, you get an uninterrupted break for yourself. But you wonder why the results don’t last.

Let’s take that same view and apply it to something else: a diet. Imagine a person who wants to lose weight choosing one or two weekends a year to eat healthy, then expecting to feel energized every other day. That doesn’t

work for dieting – oh, but if it did! – and it doesn’t work for self-care.

You have to make self-care into a habit, a lifestyle change. It has to be part of every single day: two minutes of meditation, morning stretching, emailing a friend, taking a walk at lunch, listening to a podcast about the Real Housewives – the list of personal self-care options is limitless.

I understand that you may not feel supported by Husband, but imagine it from his point of view. You are harried and exhausted much of the year, and then leave him with the kids so you can get relief, only to return to him and snap back into tired mode. I wouldn’t support that either.

Once again, this needs to be something the whole family both supports and enjoys. A mom who builds healthy self-care into her weekly routine models healthy self-care for her family.

You have to put yourself on that calendar, too.

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Mary Bacon as Mary Lincoln: No Lady Macbeth

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ctress Mary Bacon, her husband Andrew Leynse and their young son live in New York near Columbia University.

Leynse is artistic director of Primary Stages, an Off-Broadway company that stages new plays by both established and emerging playwrights. Bacon, a veteran of stage, screen and television, frequently performs there.

And yet, here she is, in effect making her Washington debut.

“The Widow Lincoln” opens at Ford’s Theatre Jan. 23 and runs through Feb. 22. In a landmark Washington theatre, Bacon will play Mary Todd Lincoln, an iconic figure of historic Washington.

“I don’t know why I haven’t performed here,” she said. “This city has quite a lot of theater to offer – what with Arena, or Ford’s and all the others. It just never happened.”

She has been in some ways in thrall to her experience here.

“When you step into this theatre, and there’s the box where he was killed, in this place, and we are Mary Bacon as Mary Lincoln for the Ford’s Theatre production of “The Widow doing this play here, well, it just Lincoln.” Photo by Scott Suchman. really affects you. That’s not the kind of experience you have in New

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NOW PLAYING Choir Boy A new play by MacArthur “Genius” Fellow Tarell Alvin McCraney, author of “The Brother/Sister Triology.” Directed by Kent Gash, it’s a story of coming of age at Charles R. Drew Prep, famed for its tradition of preparing young black men to lead. At the center of the drama is Pharus, a talented student about to take over the school’s prominent gospel choir.

At Studio Theatre through Feb. 22.

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stormy, magical island. An emotionally stirring production and a delight for the eyes. At the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Sidney Harman Hall through Jan. 18.

Diner Pop-rock chanteuse Sheryl Crow and film director Barry Levinson provide the sound and feel of this world-premiere musical based on Levinson’s classic movie about a group of Baltimore friends preparing for a wedding. Directed and choreographed by Kathleen Marshall. At Signature Theatre (Arlington) through Jan. 25.

LOOKING FORWARD

The T Party The return of Forum Theatre’s world-premiere production of Natsu Onoda Power’s play, an “immersive theatrical event which transgresses, transforms, and transcends gender norms.”

Directed by Power, a member of the Forum Ensemble, which developed the play based on stories told by local residents about their experiences. At Forum Theatre (Silver Spring) through Jan. 17.

Mockingbird A world premiere based on Kathryn Erskine’s National Book Award-winning novel about an 11-year-old girl on the autism spectrum who is helped by her brother to think beyond black and white. Commissioned by the Kennedy Center and Very Special Arts and adapted by Julie Jensen. At the Kennedy Center’s Family Theater, Jan. 17–Feb. 1.

The Tempest Ethan McSweeny returns to STC to helm the Bard’s autumnal play about the revengeminded Prospero (the dashing Welsh actor Geraint Wyn Davies) and his daughter Miranda (Rachel Mewbron), stranded on a

Mary Stuart Two of the best actresses on the Washington theater scene square off in the Folger’s production of Friedrich Schiller’s classic historical play, a battle of wills between the Scottish Queen Mary Stuart (Kate Eastwood Norris) and Elizabeth I of England (Holly Twyford).

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York. It makes everything more vivid, every moment.”

Bacon remembers her mother having a strong interest in Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln. And there’s the issue of grief.

“I think this is a play about grief, how to handle it, what to do with it, recognizing it.”

Having lost both her parents within a space of eight years, Bacon knows a bit about grief.

“It’s always about coping, about loss,” she said. “Nobody is truly ready for the death of a loved one. So if you can find a personal place, an experience, it helps with this part.

“It’s usually about the playwright for me, the voice. I know James Still and we’ve worked with him. I trust his voice. It’s all about character and words and trusting the script, the play.”

Unusually, this is a play with an all-female cast. Bacon explained that there are “a number of characters who are essentially generic widows, women who speak with her, who have lost sons and husbands in the war. It’s a mechanism for coping. There is also Elizabeth Keckley, her seamstress in the White House, a free black woman and highly successful businesswoman.”

And at the center of it all is the Widow Lincoln. “There was always all this talk – she’s some sort of Lady Macbeth, a power monger, power behind the throne, she was hysterical or a spendthrift,” said Bacon. “But I think she was quite a presence in the White House. And as far as the marriage goes, well, that was a marriage that was in so many ways highly unusual for the time. It was a partnership, I think, in every sense

The play begins after Mary has been imprisoned by Elizabeth, who is trying to decide whether to have her executed. Richard Clifford directs. At the Folger Elizabethan Theatre, Jan. 27–March 8.

Cherokee The latest from stirring, finger-on-the-pulseof-the-way-we-live-now playwright Lisa D’Amour (“Detroit”). Directed by John Vreeke, “Cherokee” is about two couples – one white, one black – who flee the burbs to reconnect with nature on a camping trip in Cherokee, N.C. At Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Feb. 9–March 8.

Life Sucks (or the Present Ridiculous) The very busy Aaron Posner is the author and director of this new play, a world premiere said to be loosely based on Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya” – presumably in the same way that Posner’s “Stupid F------ Bird” was loosely based on Chekhov’s “The Seagull.” At Theater J, Jan. 14–Feb. 15.

Rapture, Blister, Burn An area premiere of Gina Gionfriddo’s new comedy about modern gender politics (much in the news of late and in the future), a Pulitzer Prize finalist. Catherine the academic and Gwen the mom focus on one other’s very different lives with dramatic and funny results.

Directed by Shirley Serotsy. At Round House Theatre (Bethesda), Jan. 28–Feb. 22.

of the word. It was volatile, often, but the presidency was a shared experience. ‘We have won,’ he wired Mary after his victory. Not I, but we.

“You have to consider all of her various facets: she was a Southerner, she was a lady, very much so, she was extremely intelligent. And I think they shared everything. Intellectually, she was as smart, if not smarter, than Lincoln. She was very well educated. And she was, it was clear, frustrated. She saw something in Lincoln, his ambitions, his talents and his gifts. She was, after all, courted by Stephen Douglas.”

Mary Todd Lincoln was also quite the dresser, apparently. There are pictures of Bacon dressed in black, in the big gowns and clothes of the times.

“It’s very difficult to move comfortably in those dresses. It takes some getting used to,” she said. “I’ve done period pieces here and there on stage and film, but this really gives you an idea of how women were treated and lived in those days. There’s the hoops, all those layers and buttons, it’s very restrictive. Men’s clothing was not inhibited at all in that sense.”

She points out that it was not just the clothes that were restrictive and inhibiting. “Men, the officials, ran the state funeral and that journey to Springfield. She did not participate. Wives weren’t expected to participate in funerals for fear that they might get too emotional.”

You get the feeling that Bacon intends to get Mary Todd Lincoln right, and to do right by her.

Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery Tony Award-winning playwright Ken Ludwig (“Crazy For You,” “Lend Me a Tenor”) has written a sharp comedy featuring the Victorian criminologist with more staying power than most empires. Five actors play 25 parts in this fast-paced foray into Holmesland. Directed by Amanda Dehnert. At Arena Stage’s Kreeger Theater, Jan. 16–-Feb. 22.

Gigi This brand new, pre-Broadway limited engagement dusts off a trunkful of sources: a story

by French novelist Colette, a straight play featuring the then unknown Audrey Hepburn, a Lerner and Loewe movie musical and a Tony Award-winning Broadway musical.

Vanessa Hudgens stars and Broadway veteran Eric Schaeffer, Signature Theatre’s founder and artistic director, directs. At the Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theater, Jan. 16–Feb. 12.

The Widow Lincoln Veteran stage, screen and television actress Mary Bacon embodies the life and spirit of a grieving Mary Todd Lincoln in a new play

by James Still, who wrote the dazzling “The Heavens Hung in Black” (which re-opened the renovated Ford’s in 2009). Directed by Stephen Rayne with an all-female cast. At Ford’s Theatre, Jan. 23–Feb. 22.

ART WRAP

National Gallery Shows American Prints

BY AR I POS T

Arshile Gorky. “Study for Nighttime, Enigma and Nostalgia,” 1934. Pen and black ink on wove paper sheet. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen.

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n The Georgetowner’s last issue of 2014, I wrote about the National Gallery of Art exhibition “A Subtle Beauty: Platinum Photographs from the Collection,” which closed Jan. 4. One could see how advances in photography in the late 19th and early 20th century opened the door to an entirely new understanding of composition, value and spatial relationships.

The new photographic technology re-energized artists’ methods and creative visions.

However, with the ability of the photograph to capture the existing world, painting and drawing were left to find a new direction of visual communication.

That new direction is traced in another exhibition at the National Gallery. “Modern American Prints and Drawings from the Kainen Collection,” on view through Feb. 1, looks at 20th-century developments in drawing and printmaking. This is a notable perspective to take, since many of art’s great evolutions begin at the molecular level of smaller-scale drawings

Willem de Kooning.” Untitled,” 1976. Oil on newspaper mounted to canvas sheet.

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen.

and prints, where the artist has greater freedom to rapidly experiment.

The first room of this two-gallery exhibition covers the period leading up to World War II, in which artists such as Childe Hassam and Stuart Davis departed from strict representation. The second room moves toward pure abstraction in the postwar period, with works by Jackson Pollock, David Smith and Willem de Kooning.

A surprising piece is Max Weber’s “Repose (Peace)” (1928), a lithograph of three women which reads like a rich mash-up of Rubenesque beauty, impressionist line work and PicassoRomanesque physiques. It is completely fun and lovely.

Stuart Davis’s lithograph “Place Pasdeloup, No. 2” (1929) is a whimsically minimalist scene that could have inspired every quaint caricature of France, from Looney Tunes to Steve Martin’s stage play “Picasso at the Lapin Agile.” Much less fractured than the other two works of his in the show, this is a lighthearted geometry of pleasant, simple luxury.

Louis Lozowick’s lithograph “Crane” (1929) is of a different ilk, with the stark depiction of the looming industrial machine like an oil rig out of George Stevens’s film “Giant,” echoing the menacing grandeur and architectural fetishism of the Futurists.

In the postwar gallery, there are many works, but none as powerful or enjoyable (to this writer) as those by Arshile Gorky and David Smith. The two drawings by Gorky, simple penon-paper from the early ’30s, show the height of the artist’s acumen as an innovator in visual

Dorothea Tanning. “At These Rites,” 1973. Color aquatint and sugar-lift aquatint on wove paper.National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen.

abstraction. As he strived for surrealism and broke boundaries of traditional composition and form, his work would go on to profoundly shape Abstract Expressionism.

David Smith’s “A Letter” (1952) is cryptic and playful, like a Krazy Kat comic strip on hallucinogens. It is strangely intoxicating, occupying a rare arena of something that is both warmly familiar and refreshingly new.

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Winter Show Sails to ‘Ports of Call’

BY M ARY B IRD

The Washington Winter Show themed “Ports of Call” was held at the Katzen Arts Center at American University Jan. 8 to 11 to raise funds for three local charities serving the needs of at-risk children and families by sponsoring an annual show devoted to antiques and fine arts. The Sponsors, Benefactors and Designers Champagne Reception provided an advance look at the exhibits of 45 premier dealers from the United States and Europe. The Jan. 9 lecture and luncheon featured attorney and museum professional Amy Herman, who has trained medical and law enforcement officials to hone their observation, perception and communication skills by analyzing works of art. Historian and sailor Gary Jobson spoke Jan. 10 on the Oracle Team’s successful defense of the America’s Cup trophy.

The 2015 Loan Exhibit, “Vessels of Victory,” displayed silver trophies awarded for victories in naval battles and in competitive sailing.

Tudor Place docent Elizabeth Taylor with Tudor Place curator Erin Kuykendall.

Washington Winter Show luncheon lecturer Amy Herman, Leila Beale, wife of the Ambassador of Barbados and Washington Winter Show honorary diplomatic chairs.

Washington Winter Show Executive Director Jonathan G. Willen and Helen Sessions.

D.C. Hospitality Salutes Departing Mayor Gray

BY ROBERT DEVANEY PHOTOS BY CHRIS BURCH PHOTOGRAPHY Mayor Vincent Gray was given a high-spirited farewell by the D.C. Hospitality Alliance at Tony and Joe’s Seafood Place on Dec. 22. The heavy-hitter group is composed of Events D.C., Destination D.C., Restaurant Association Metropolitan Washington and the Hotel Association of Washington, D.C. Officials, politicians and well-wishers applauded Gray for his years of service, as they focused on his support of projects that built up downtown and benefitted neighborhoods, increasing residents, visitors and the tax base.

With jokes and friendly banter all around, Gray, a happy warrior for the city, took the microphone. He mentioned his official farewell speech on Dec. 17 on Dunbar High School. “I got carried away,” he said. “It was the longest speech I’ve ever given.” The mayor went on to say that D.C. was the hottest community in the nation.

Greg Casten of Tony and Joe’s, Paul Cohn of Boss Shepherd’s Restaurant and Andrew Kline of Restaurant Association Metropolitan Washington.

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Solomon Keene, Jr., of Hotel Association of Washington, D.C., Greg O’Dell of Events D.C., Kathy Hollinger of Restaurant Association Metropolitan Washington, Mayor Vincent Gray and Elliott Ferguson of Destination D.C.

Now a former mayor, Vincent Gray with Tony Cibel of Tony and Joe’s Seafood Place.

Tim Wisniewski, executive assistant to the president, Reingold Link; Zachary Abaie, project manager, Reingold Link; and Harry Wingo, president and CEO of the D.C. Chamber of Commerce.

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Good Times at Golden Globes, People’s Choice PH OTOS B Y J OY CE C H O W

The District Council’s Elizabeth Webster -- staffer for at-large council member Vincent Orange, who is an advocate of small businesses in D.C. and film and TV production -- was in Los Angeles Jan. 9 to 12 for the People’s Choice Awards and Golden Globes Awards Show and the many parties around town. Webster met up with the usual suspects as well as some newcomers. Webster’s and his friend Joyce Chow wore dresses by Sue Wong. “I was glad to see 93-year-old Betty White get ‘Favorite TV Icon” at the People’s Choice Awards,” Webster said. “It was also nice that Ben Affleck received the Humanitarian Award.” Webster was also “glad to see Kevin Spacey grab a Actress Blanca Blanco, Miss Golden Globes 2015 Greer Grammer and John Savage at the HBO party.

Golden Globe for ‘House of Cards.’ “

Fêting Afghanistan’s Future Women Leaders PHO TO BY NESHAN H. NALTCHAYAN

Shahin Mafi and Christine Warnke hosted a dinner Jan. 10 for 17 of Afghanistan’s future women leaders. The women are enrolled at eight U.S. colleges and universities through the Initiative To Educate Afghan Women, a grass roots education and leadership program. Guests included Harriet Fulbright and other luminaries of the international education and advocacy communities. Also in attendance were senior level members of the Department of Defense who have served the cause of women’s education in Afghanistan. Since 2002, the Initiative To Educate Afghan Women has provided U.S. undergraduate education and leadership training to 97 Afghan women in support of a growing network of women helping girls and women in Afghanistan. Graduates of the program serve as leaders in the development of their homeland.

Airokhsh Faiz Qaisary, an Initiative student from Juniata College, Marti Boone, Initiative board member, and Husnia Aziz, Initiative student from Brenau University.

Amy Adams’s fiance Darren Le Gallo, actor Vincent de Paul, Elizabeth Webster and Amy Adams (“Big Eyes”).

Meeting Molly Sims, ‘Everyday Supermodel’ Friends of DryBar met model Molly Sims, whose new book, “The Everyday Supermodel, Molly Sims,” offers “beauty, fashion, wellness secrets made simple.” DryBar Bethesda was the place to be for advice and bubbly on Jan. 8.

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