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EVENT SPOTLIGHT Sesame Mosaic Education: A Two Way Street . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

MEDIA SPOTLIGHT The Radio-Television Correspondents Association’s 62nd Annual Dinner . . . . .

POLLYWOOD Eco-producer Laurie David . . . . . .

POP POLITICS Nature’s Partners: Maccoby and Pearson cross the political divide for energy literacy . . .

JET SET Men who fly their own planes . . . . . . . . .

Mile high style: Marquis Jets and Telluride Flights . . . . .

FASHION The 19th Hole . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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COLUMNS HOLLYWOOD ON THE POTOMAC with Janet Donovan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Q & A CAFÉ with Erica Jong .. . . . . . . . .

ART AT AUCTION by Renee Drake. . . . .

AROUND TOWN by Donna Shor . . . . .

GLAMOURATI by Deborah Gore Dean . . . .

OVER THE MOON by Vicki Moon . . . .

THIS TOWN by Michael Strange . . . . . .

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EDITOR’S LETTER . . . . . . . . . . . .

CONTRIBUTORS . . . . . . . . . . . . .

CALENDAR OF EVENTS . . . . . . . .

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PERFORMING ARTS . . . . . . . . . .

POWER PROFILES Mary Shapiro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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WHAT’S HOT Make the cut in style: golf gear TREND REPORT The look of Lanvin . . .

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REAL ESTATE & HOME DESIGN INSIDE HOMES Jim Kimsey’s Frank Lloyd Wright home photographed for the first time . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

RE NEWS with Mary Mewborn . . . . . . . . . . . . .

OPEN HOUSE Dream properties . . . . . . . . . . . .

REAL ESTATE ROUNDTABLE Jonathan Taylor, Karen Briscoe and Melinda Estridge discuss setting realistic pricing goals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

WL SPONSORED EVENTS THE BOATING PARTY at the Phillips Collection . . .

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LIFE OF THE PARTY Ayenda Afghan Children Initiative with the “Kite Runner” .

George Stevens, Jr.’s book party at Cafe Milano . . . . . .

A Toast to Russ Sullivan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Ron Kessler Book Party . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Profiles in Courage at Tiffany & Co.. . . . . . . . . . .

Bachelor and Spinsters Ball . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Garden Party for Lady Walton at Villa Firenze . . . . . .

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The National Alzheimer’s Gala . . . . . . . . . . . .

Upperville:The Stettiniuses’ Easter Hunt. . . . . . . . .

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Claudia Krieger FASHION EDITOR

Barbara McConaghy STYLE EDITOR

Alison Lukes EDITORIAL ASSISTANT

Clay Gaynor COLUMNISTS

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Mark Bisnow, Dana Buchman, Kevin Chaffee, Jack Davies, Donna Evers, Raul Fernandez, Ann Geracimos, Shweta Govindarajan, Dr. Khaled Hosseini, James V. Kimsey,Vicki Moon, Joe Robert, Beth Solomon, Mark Warner, Michael Wharton and Christina Wilkie ART DIRECTOR

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CULINARY DELIGHTS. ROMANTIC SIGHTS. CITY OF LIGHTS. The weekend of royal proportions returns to Nemacolin Woodlands Resort on June 23 – 25, 2006 as we journey from London to Paris. Royal Reception XVI brings “The City of Light” to life with a weekend of celebrity entertainment, plus fabulous black-tie dinners and so much more.

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ing and yang, positive and negative, the “good comes with the bad,” Democrat and Republican … balance in life is found in opposites – and no two words seem to be as diametrically opposed as capitalism and philanthropy.Yet, as our cover story shows, the two can work together. Ask Venture Philanthropy Partners (VPP) co-founders and cover subjects Mario Morino, Raul Fernandez, and Mark Warner (who we might be seeing a lot more of during the 2008 presidential election), about how the two terms relate, and they’ll tell you that what worked for venture capitalists during the Internet boom can be applied to building better nonprofits in the region (more on that inside).

Give to thy mother Giving is a good idea on Mother’s Day, and we have some wonderful ideas for you (did someone say Louis Vuitton?) .... A good book might be nice as well (hint: put it inside the new bag).

Mother-author Leslie Morgan Steiner writes about her new book, “Mommy Wars” in this issue, as does fashion designer Dana Buchman.

And while we are on the topic of female authors, you’ll love the always provocative Eric Jong in Q&A Café.

Take a break Looking to take some time for yourself? Look no further than our “Washington’s Hottest Spa Treatments” special. Or, better yet, take a mile high break in your own private jet, like John Mason does in his Jet Set profile.

Going green Thanks to filmmaker Laurie David, Senators John McCain and Joseph Lieberman, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Nora Mccoby and Rachel Pearson, May is looking green. If you were thinking global warming “might be something to worry about in a few years,” think again. So, don’t forget to save the date for SILVERDOCS (June 13-18) and the WLsponsored screening of David’s Al Gore global warming documentary, The Inconvenient Truth on the 14th. The former Veep will be there! And we will be hosting a party with him at Ceviche in Silver Spring.

What’s Hot to see the latest gear for your next trek to the country club (we suggest Lansdowne Resort outside Leesburg, by the way). Tee off with a sparkling Mojo ball from Nike and some cutting-edge Calloway Fusion Irons!

Closer to home Find a dream home in Open House and get advice from top local real estate agents Karen Briscoe, Jonathan Taylor and Melinda Estridge as they discuss how to swiftly sell a home in a crowded market. In Inside Homes we give you the first ever look at AOL Founder Jim Kimsey’s beautifully renovated Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home in McLean – proving it is “Wright” to preserve a masterpiece.

Events, Balls and Galas Is it just me or does the spring social calendar seem busier than the Christmas holidays? Recently, WL has been the exclusive magazine sponsor for the March of Dimes Gourmet Gala, a number of Saks Fifth Avenue special events, the Philips Collection Launch of the Boating Party soiree at Mark Ein’s Georgetown home, The Creative Coalition’s party, the Corcoran Ball, the Vital Voices benefit, and by the time you read this, the Mosaic Gala (with H.M. Queen Rania AlAbdullah of Jordan as guest of honor). Look for us in May at the WL sponsored Shakespeare Theatre Will Award Gala, the Charity Works 100 Point Vintage Wine Event, the Washington Nation Opera “Opera Ball,” and finally the Washington Ballet’s “Beatles’ Ball” on June 1st.

And don’t miss The Tiny Jewel Box’s antique and pearl show on June 16th and 17th, featuring one of a kind antiques collected from Europe and the United States, here for two days only and rare pearl pieces in a rainbow of colors collected from Australia and Tahati. This once a year event promises to amaze with natures miracles and history’s treasures.

With so much going on, it’s not easy to find the balance between give and take – but, not to worry, that’s why we’re here!

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DANA BUCHMAN Buchman designs an 1 anonymously named clothing line for “real women. A Special Education, which she co-wrote with her daughter, Charlotte, is her first book.

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JACK DAVIES Jack Davies was founder and president of AOL Inter national. He is a member of the board and the executive committee of Venture Philanthropy Par tners.

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RENEE DRAKE Renee Har r ison Drake has had a diverse career in the ar ts. While living in Washington, D.C., she was a curator for the U.S. Depar tment of State’s Ar t in Embassies Prog ram.

She moved to become the manag ing editor of Sotheby’s Preview magazine and Ar t at Auction. After eight years, she left Sotheby’s to make the documentar y film “The Way Back.” She is cur rently a freelance wr iter and independent curator.

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JANET DONOVAN Janet Donovan is the founder and president of Creative Enter pr ises Inter national, a Washington, D.C. publicity fir m whose clients include celebr ities, authors, politicians and publications. She created and hosted The Beltway Broads radio show and wr ites the column Hollywood on the Potomac.

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SHWETA GOVINDARAJAN

Shweta Govindarajan wr ites on politics, health and beauty and has contr ibuted to the Los Angeles Times and Cox Newspapers. She cur rently works as a repor ter for Congressional Quarterly.

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Hosseini was bor n in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1965. Khaled’s f amily asked for and was g ranted political asylum in the U.S. He moved to San Jose, Califor nia, with his f amily in 1980.

He attended Santa Clara University and g raduated from UC San Diego School of Medicine. He has been in practice as an inter nist since 1996. The Kite Runner is his first novel.

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A former producer for Larry King, Charlie Rose and Chris Matthews, is the owner of the popular Georgetown restaurant, Nathans. After 9/11, Joynt began hosting monthly neighborhood power lunches.

The lunches feature the city’s best known figures speaking candidly in an intimate atmosphere. When not at Nathans, Joynt focuses her time raising her son, Spencer.

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JAMES V. KIMSEY

James V. Kimsey is a lifelong Washingtonian and the founding CEO of America Online, Inc. (AOL).

He transformed what began as Quantum Computer Services in 1985 into AOL, the nation’s leading independent provider of interactive online services to consumers. He is a founding investor in Venture Philanthropy Partners.

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GARY LANNDSMAN

Gary Landsman’s has been 11 a photographer for over 20 years. His extensive experience includes shooting still life subjects from food to full scale interior architecture.

BARBARA MCCONAGHY

Barbara McConaghy, fashion editor for Washington Life, is a nationally recognized stylist, show producer and editor.

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She has produced tours for YM and Seventeen magazines, and has dressed stars such as Lauren Hutton, Brandy and Jennifer Love Hewitt.

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Vicky Moon has chronicled 13 the lives of, the famous, and the not-so-famous for more than twenty years. She has covered local murders and prominent lives in Middleburg,Virginia for People Magazine, and the Washington Post; and written about Middleburg’s hunt balls, steeplechase races, and parties for Town and Country, Millionaire,Veranda, and Southern Accents magazines. She lives in Middleburg,VA.

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Mario Morino is chairman of Venture Philanthropy Partners and chairman of the Morino Institute. Before retiring from private industry in 1992, Mario enjoyed a 30-year career in information technology, where he co-founded and helped build a corporation that became a market leader and one of the industry’s then 10 largest firms in software and services.

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Beth Solomon is a director in the Washington, D.C. office of Christian & Timbers, a global executive search firm. She recently spent two years in Hollywood at Endeavor, a top-five talent agency.

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LESLIE MORGAN STEINER Leslie Morgan Steiner is the editor of Mommy Wars: Stay-at-Home and Career Moms Face Off on Their Choices, Their Lives, Their Families (Random House). She works at The Washington Post and lives in Georgetown with her family. Photo

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MARK WARNER Mark Warner served as governor of Virginia from 2002 until January 2006. Previously he was a technology investor, who co-founded the company that became Nextel. He is a founder of Venture Philanthropy Partners.

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MICHAEL WHARTON Michael Wharton left the Center for Scientific Review at the National Institutes of Health to become an editor at America Online CityGuide where he covers D.C. and Baltimore nightlife. He can be heard Friday mornings at 9:10 a.m. on WTOP radio.

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CHRISTINA WILKIE Christina Wilkie moved to Washington in July of 2001 after graduating from Trinity College. Currently working for the Aspen Institute, she is based out of the Institute’s Washington D.C. headquarters.Wilkie was raised in Europe and the Northeast, and she is an avid musician and songwriter.

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Joe Robert is founder, 15 chairman and chief executive officer of the J.E. Robert Companies. In 1990, he founded Fight for Children, a non-profit organization which strives to create brighter futures for children. He is a founder in Venture Philanthropy Partner.

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MARY MEWBORN With degrees in International Relations and a penchant for travel, Mary Mewborn has written for publications worldwide.

She has served as a feature writer, contributing editor, and columnist for WL for over six years.

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helps Jubilee score a home run for families striving to achieve greater independence; creative black-tie; 6 p.m.; Ronald Reagan Building/International Trade Center; $250; call (202) 328-2498 for more information or to purchase tickets.

KENNEDY CENTER SPRING GALA The

John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts hosts its 14th annual Spring Gala with a premiere benefit to support the Center’s education, and outreach initiatives.

Guests will be looking forward to a grand reception, dinner and special performances; The Kennedy Center; contact www.kennedy-center.org for more information.

THE M O S A I C FOUNDATION’S TH ANNUAL BENEFIT GALA The

Mosaic Foundations Annual Gala benefits the Sesame Workshop to SPONSORED develop new Arabic language multimedia initiatives to help educate young Arab children. Join Queen Rania of Jordan, the guest of honor, at an elegant black-tie dinner. 6:30

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LEXUS PRESENTS JAZZMATAZZ

Children’s National Medical Center hosts an evening with music icon Tony Bennett at Jazzmatazz. CNMC is a leader in the development of innovative new treatments for childhood illness and injury. 9:15 p.m.; Ronald Reagan Building &

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GALA The Jubilee Gala brings

together over 700 executives for dinner, dancing, games and auctions—all in support of a good cause. This year’s “Baseballthemed evening at the “ballpark”

p.m.; National Building Museum; $500; call (703) 288-4500 or www. mosaicfound.org.

SECOND ANNUAL WOMEN AGAINST MS LUNCHEON Support the fight

against MS by attending the second annual “Women Against MS” luncheon. The event, hosted by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society and co-chaired by Amy Knight and Carrie Marriott, features keynote speaker Rain

Pryor, daughter of the late comedian Richard Pryor. Noon; Wardman Park Marriott Hotel; $125 ticket; call (202) 296-5363 or www.MSandYOU.org for more information.

SHAKESPEARE THEATRE WILL AWARD GALA The

Shakespeare Theatre honors Kevin Spacey with the Will Award for his work in classical theater.

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Black-tie; 6:30 p.m.; Mellon Auditorium; $500; call (202) 547-3230 ext 2330.

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CELEBRATING AFRICAN MOTHERHOOD Held

annually, in conjunction with Mother’s Day, the event recognizes the influential contributions of African women to society. Honorees include President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia; Chrys Johnson, Bethel World Outreach Church International; Jackie Kakembo, president, African and African American Women’s Association; Dr. Chinwe Effiong, Mrs. Rose Nana, CEO, NINA Food International;

black-tie; 6 p.m.-11 p.m.; Greenbelt Marriott, 6400 Ivy Lane, Greenbelt Maryland; $75 ticket; call (410)375-7626.

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The M a ke - a - W i s h Foundation hosts its Third Annual Mother/Daughter Afternoon Tea Fashion Show, an event which features local celebrities and their daughters in clothes from Lilly Pulitzer’s spring fashion line. Guest receive a goodie bag of Lilly Pulitzer items, afternoon tea treats, mimosas and prizes for best ‘Vintage Lilly’, courtesy of

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Tickled Pink; 1 p.m. - 3 p.m.; The Fairmont Washington, D.C., 2401 M Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20037; $80 adults, $50 children; contact Diana K. Bulger, diana. bulger@fairmont.com.

CARE ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION MARKS YEARS CARE, a leading

humanitarian organization fighting global poverty, celebrates its 60th anniversary with a series of dinners hosted by more than 40 ambassadors and followed by the annual CARE Ball at the Organization of American States. 7 p.m. dinner; call (202) 595 – 2800.

C H A R I T Y W O R K S POINT VINTAGE WINE EVENT Ten of D.C.’s top

celebrity chefs prepare a fivecourse meal paired with “100 point” wines as determined by Wine Spectator at the home of Joe Robert, Jr. Proceeds benefit the Higher Achievement Prog ram to expand SPONSORED after-school and summer programs for at-r isk children; call (703) 286-0758 or

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B I R D S & B E E S B A L L The

Birds & Bees Ball includes dinner, dancing and an auction.

Proceeds support Discover y Creek’s commitment to bringing e nv i ro n m e n t a l e d u c a t i o n to children, teacher s, and communities throughout the Washington area; “whimsically sophisticated” attire; cocktails at 7 pm; The Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium; tickets starting at $300; contact Courtney Kissell at (202)337-5111 or at discoverycreek. org for more information.

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The Kreeger Museum’s

annual gala, ‘A Spr ingtime S e r e n a d e ,’ b e n e f i t s the educational programs, exhibitions and special programs will be followed by a musical interlude featur ing Mar ia Pollicina, a soprano from Opera Australia; black-tie; cocktails 7:30 p.m., dinner 8:30 p.m.; The Kreeger Museum, 2401 Foxhall Road, NW; $250 per person; contact Kimberly Ingall at (301) 983-4848.

WASHINGTON PERFORMING A R T S S O C I E T Y ’ S T H ANNIVERSARY GALA AND A U C T I O N WPAS’ annual

gala features a performance by The Washington Ballet’s internationally acclaimed Chinese Beatles Bach Project pianist Lang Lang. Hosted by the Chinese Ambassador and Madame QUARTET UNDER THE May 22nd; contact Claire Shoolin, Xie, the evening will have a special STARS Young professionals (202) 416-8072. emphasis on the colors, music, and from the Greater Washington area are flavors of the nation; Ronald Reagan invited for cocktails, hors d’oeuvres and serenades to support the young Building and International Trade patrons of the National Symphony Center; call (202) 293-9325 for more Orchestra. The fundraiser provides THE WASHINGTON information or to purchase tickets. young professionals with the BALLET’S “BEATLES’ THE CH O R A L A R T S opportunity to be an intimate part BALL” The Washington Ballet’s benefit features a brief SOCIETY’S “A NIGHT of the city’s most prominent cultural performance followed by O F C E L E B R A T I O N ” The institution, The John F. Kennedy SPONSORED dinner and a lot of dancing.

Choral Arts Society’s Night of Center for the Performing Arts; Celebration promises to be a Roof Terrace, Kennedy Center; $45 Tickets start at $500; contact events@ magical evening filled with a members, $55 non-members, $60 after washingtonballet.org. glorious selection of choral masterworks with SPONSORED a full orchestra, acclaimed Save the Date! soloists and conductors. Capped by a private VIP dinner and Save the date for these WL sponsored events: champagne toast in the Roof Terrace Restaurant; cocktail attire; Corcoran 1869 Society’s Gala • June 3

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Named for the two Labradors in her life, Katharine Ordway’s new boutique offers ladies who lunch, moms to be, and every woman in between a new Capitol Hill fashion stop. Maggie and Lola stocks Sweetees and Fourtys, and Ordway’s own line of baby wear. Located inside a former B & B, the boutique also has a Wisteria-filled garden available for bridal parties or baby showers. Visit Maggie and Lola at 1013 E Street S.E. or check out www.maggieandlola.com.

Soldier’s Portfolio﹕ Servicemen’s Photographs of Life in Iraq,” provide very different looks at the current conflict in Iraq. The former is Bremer’s account of his 14 months spent as Ambassador to Iraq in 2003-04 as the struggle to rebuild began; the latter is a collection of 256 personal photos taken by soldiers serving in Iraq. Both touch issues that the American public is dealing with every day.

SITE SET ON SITTERS Is it a battle every weekend to book the only teenaged babysitter on the block? Babysitters﹒com, based in Potomac Falls, allows parents to search a database of potential sitters in their area. Founded in 2001 by Michael Cravens, formerly AOL’s director of small business product and business development, the site features over 18,000 sitters in all 50 states. The service costs $29.95 for the first three months and $8.95 per month thereafter. For more information visit www.babysitters.com.

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FROM B B TO BONNIE There’s something for everyone this year as Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts celebrates its 35th anniversary: B.B. King will stop by during his final world tour; slide-guitar siren Bonnie Raitt will play two dates around the Fourth of July; and Elvis Costello will ask “What’s So Funny About Peace, Love and Understanding?” in June. For schedule or ticket information visit www.wolf-trap.org or call (703) 255-1900.

Left, top to bottom– Images from “This is our war” / Cover of “My Year in Iraq” / B.B. King, courtesy of Wolf Trap / The Filene Center at Wolftrap, courtesy of Robert Llewellyn

Your need for speed, eye for design or love for things expensive and Italian can all be satisfied at the Ferrari Club of America’s annual meet, to be held this year at the Westfields Marriott International Conference Center in Chantilly.

The meet expects to attract 250 to 300 Ferraris of all types which will be on display to the public June 1 at Great Meadow near The Plains, Va. Admission is free; visit www.fca2006. org for more information.

Right, top to bottom– Maggie and Lola boutique store / A classic Ferrari sports car

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That includes entertainment at the Kennedy Center, where NSOvation will host its annual “Quartet Under the Stars” on May 25 on the Roof Terrace. But there’s a catch – you’ve got to be a “young professional” to get in. NSOvation, the young patrons group of the National Symphony Orchestra, works to cultivate a new generation of patrons (ages 25-40) in supporting our nation’s orchestra. Besides the amazing view, guests can enjoy cocktails and hors d’oeuvres as they’re serenaded at sunset by a quartet of NSO Youth Fellows. Tickets on sale April 24; call (202) 416-8040, e-mail NSOvation@kennedy-center. org or visit www.kennedy-center.org/nso/calendar for more information.

A Family Tradition ONE WOMAN’S UNWANTED BAG IS ANOTHER WOMAN’S TREASURE That’s the principal behind eSpot, a service that sells its customers’ luxury goods for them over eBay. Operated by Toby Moore, Justin Lesher and Adam Vitarello, friends from high school at Washington’s St. Albans, the company takes the hassle out of “eBaying” – they take the photos of the product and run the auction – you just collect a check at the end. eSpot, located in Georgetown, sells everything from antiques and collectibles to high-end electronics and automobiles, though they specialize in designer brand clothing, shoes and accessories, as well as jewelry and watches. They don’t accept items with an anticipated value of less than $100, so forget getting rid of that cozy sweater your aunt Edna knitted.

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Top to bottom– The Kennedy Center, photo by Carol Pratt / Adam Vitarello, Justin Lesher and Toby Moore

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The Washington Ballet Is Back In Action Beatles Ball photos by Brett Bagley

Septime Webre and his dancers on the first day of rehearsal after the strike

Both Septime Webre and the dancers of The Washington Ballet were eager to start rehearsals for the Beatles Bach project after successful negotiations ended the strike.

The Beatles Bach Project collides classical master Bach with the 1960’s mania of The Beatles, a unique endeavor choreographed by Webre and resident choreographer Trey McIntyre. See you at the ball!

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Mary Schapiro OCCUPATION CEO National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD); former SEC commissioner; and both the first woman and youngest chairman ever of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission WASHINGTON LIFE What piqued your interest in securities?

MARY SCHAPIRO Nelson Bunker Hunt and his brother trying to corner the world silver market. I was fascinated by the idea that there were people who thought they were more powerful than market forces.

WL It’s not easy getting to where you are. Any trying moments you can share?

MS I was once dismissed as a “blond, 5-foot-2-inch girl” by the head of the Chicago Board of Trade and by New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer as “cowed.”

WL Math or science?

MS I’m not a math type. I can’t help my sixth grader do her math homework.

WL Does NASD know that? I would have thought they’d give you a math test.

MS It’s not really about numbers as much as understanding market structure, the importance of intermediaries and markets, and the public policy that governs them.

WL Most memorable scandal?

MS Enron and WorldCom. WL For the uninitiated; what is NASD? MS It’s a $400 million private regulatory agency that governs the Goldmans, Merrills and Morgan Stanleys of the world.

WL Are you the first women to chair the agency?

MS Yes. WL Care to comment on any future trends…?

MS As the baby boomers age, there is going to be tremendous effort put into creating products that allow them to ensure that their accumulated wealth lasts for the duration of their retirement, because we’re all living so much longer.

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CHRIS MATTHEWS It’s going to be a rather large book on what I’ve learned in a third of a century working amid the political world.

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“THE BOATING PARTY” April 7th The Phillips Collection PHOTOS BY KYLE SAMPERTON

THE EVENT George Vradenburg, chairman of the Phillips Collection and Gala Chairwomen Pat Sagon and Margaret Hunter pulled out all the stops for the return of the Phillips Collection’s beloved Renoir masterwork, “The Luncheon of the Boating Party,” and the opening of the museum’s addition which includes the new Rothko Room, library, auditorium and sculpture garden. Many prominent guests including Laughlin Phillips, founder Duncan Phillips’ son, were on-hand to tour the museum, drink champagne and admire the glamorous gowns. THE SCENE Guests at Katharine Graham’s former home, currently owned by Mark Ein, were whisked right into the painting with a white and yellow tent reminiscent of the se ing of “The Boating Party.” Designer David Tutera modeled the tables a er the original luncheon with over 10,000 yellow roses and tulips and custom dyed blue french lace linens while Le Paradou chef Yannick Cam created a delicate combination of lobster and quail entrees. THE GUESTS Mayor Anthony and Diane Williams, Donald Beyer, Vernon and Ann Jordan, Roger and Vicki Sant, George Vradenburg, British Ambassador Sir David Manning and Lady Manning, Bill and Ann Nitze, Mike and Pamela Peabody and Rep. Nancy Pelosi.

Jay Gates and Margaret Stuart Hunter

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MARCH OF DIMES GOURMET GA March 28th • National Building Museum PHOTOS BY KYLE SAMPERTON

THE EVENT Senators and Cabinet members giving Michel Richard a run for his money by cooking and serving their favorite recipes such as Rep. Fred Upton’s “Michigan Apple Walnut Pate.” Local celebrity judges including Paul Zucconi of La Colline and Roger Wiles of The Historic Georgetown Club. Highest honors went to Rep. Todd Tiahart’s “Aloha Wichita” and Rep. James Sensenbrenner, Jr.’s “Farmers’ Napoleon.” THE SCENE Guests mingled with members Congress at twenty serving stations before sitting down to a formal dinner. The event, which raised over $1.2 million, supported “Mama & Baby Bus” a program for free prenatal and dental care to underserved pregnant women in Washington. THE CHEFS Co-chairs Barbara Johnson and Sandie Knollenberg; Senators (and their spouses) Lamar Alexander, George Allen, Robert Bennett, Jiff Bingaman, Christopher Bond, Conrad Burns, Mike Enzi, Mitch McConnell, Pat Roberts, and Debbie Stabenow; Representatives (and thier spouses) Robert Aderholt, Spencer Bachus, Phil Gingrey, Robin Hayes, Stephanie Herseth, Jim Kolbe, Howard McKeon, Charlie Melancon, John Mica, Dennis Moore, James Sensenbrenner, Clay Shaw, John Tanner, Mike Thompson and Frank Wolf, and Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta among others.

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Sen. Ben Nelson and Diane Nelson preparing Nebraska Beef Tenderloin in Wine Sauce

Secretary of HUD Alphonso Jackson and Marcia Jackson, with Dr. Jennifer Howse

Rep. Tom Udall and Jill Udall

Tena Van Loan, Sen. Carl Levin and Barbara Levin

Sen. Mitch McConnell and Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao

Harry Johnson, Sen. Richard Lugar and Richard Marshall

BLUE RIBBON RECIPES ALOHA WICHITA The Honorable Todd Tiahrt and Mrs. Tiahrt

1/4 tsp. garlic, minced 8 oz. goat cheese 1/3 cup cheddar cheese, finely grated 1/4 tsp. tarragon, minced Salt and pepper, to taste Extra tarragon sprigs for garnish

3 mangos, chopped Juice of 1 lime 1 inch fresh ginger root, peeled and finely chopped 1 cup cilantro, chopped and loosely packed 1 pinch of salt Combine all ingredients. Serve with tortilla chips.

FARMERS’ NAPOLEONS The Honorable F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr. and Mrs. Sensenbrenner 12 oz. portabella mushrooms caps 2 tbsp. fine olive oil 2 red bell peppers

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Begin by preheating the broiler or grill. Mix goat cheese, garlic and minced tarragon and season with salt and pepper. Now broil both sides of mushroom caps until brown and juices begin to exude. Set juices aside with caps. Then cut the mushrooms into thin bias slices. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Char peppers until skins are black. Cover with plastic wrap and let steam. Remove charred skins, seeds, stems and membranes from peppers. Lightly oil about a 2 inch mold (for example, a small empty can with both ends removed) and begin to build one napoleon.

First, put a mushroom layer, then a thin layer (about 2 teaspoons) of goat cheese mixture. Next, put a pepper layer and then a goat cheese layer. Continue with these thin layers (trimmed to fit mold) until you have four layers vegetables and three layers goat cheese, ending with a pepper layer. Remove the mold and sprinkle with grated cheddar cheese.

Insert sprig of tarragon into top (like a feather) and drizzle with dressing (recipe follows). Repeat for each napoleon. Chill until served.

Dressing: 2 tbsp. fine olive oil 1/2 tbsp. fresh lemon juice 1/2 tsp. fresh tarragon, minced Salt and pepper, to taste Blend all ingredients together.

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GIRLS NIGHT OUT March 31st • Saks Fi h Avenue at Chevy Chase PHOTOS BY RACHEL SMITH

THE EVENT Professional women with attitude and style gathered for a “Girls Night Out” fashion show complete with all the latest spring styles.

GNO is a diverse group of young women (ages 25-50) who have been meeting since 1998 to network socially and professionally, raise money for good causes and, of course, have a good time. THE SCENE GNOers enjoyed massages, make overs, drinks from BlueGin and Vitamin Water and tasty bites from Cabanas and Tony and Joe’s Seafood between lively conversation and the evening’s runway show. THE GUESTS GNO Founder Ami Aronson, GNO Chair Sarah Ingersoll, Melissa Torres, Nicole Backus, Andrea Banks, Jamie Shor and Gail Percy.

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AYENDA AFGHAN CHILDREN INITIATIVE March 16th Residence of the Ambassador of Afghanistan PHOTOS BY KYLE SAMPERTON

THE EVENT Afghan Amb. Said T. Jawad and his wife Shamim, hosted a benefit dinner for Ayenda, the Afghan Children Initiative. Ayenda, which means “future” in Dari, works to implement projects that promote the welfare, education, health and artistic and athletic abilities of Afghan Children.

THE SCENE Guests listened to remarks by First Lady Laura Bush and Dr. Khaled Hosseini (author of “The Kite Runner”) speakbeforediningonatraditionalAfghanbuffetthatincluded Mantu (ground beef and scallion-filled dumpling topped with yogurt) and Firnee (cornstarch pudding with pistachios). Fariba Jahanbani,who organized a silent auction with sponsor Cartier, shared that this was an important evening because it “planted a seed” in the children of Afghanistan that will help them grow.

THE GUESTS Kuwaiti Amb. Salem Al- Sabah and his wife Rima, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and his wife Joyce, Kathleene Card, Michael and Linda Sonnenreich and Jordanian Amb. Karim Kawar and his wife Luma.

BY DR KHALED HOSSEINI “My first novel, The Kite Runner, is an account of family and friendship, a story of atonement and personal salvation. But it is is also a story of childhood and innocence lost. For children in Afghanistan, innocence is a rare commodity. They have been traumatized by bombings, landmines, human rights abuses, and chronic malnutrition. They’ve been orphaned and maimed. They have witnessed acts of violence against their parents and relatives. Trauma, hunger, and fear are the daily facts of life for far too many of them.

During a 2003 visit to Kabul, I was moved that despite the atrocities, the brutalities, and the hardships Afghan children have endured, there was in them humility, astonishing grace, and sturdy resilience. The children I saw struck me as willing, eager, desperate even to learn, to work, to contribute, to improve the lot of their lives. In other words, They still had their hope.

Diana Rowan Rockefeller, First Lady Laura Bush and Shamim Jawad

Mirella and Dani Levinas

Iman Jawad and Afghan Amb. Said Jawad

Mary Apick and Fariba Jahanbani

Mojgan Rassael

Paula Dobriansky and Rima Al-Sabah

Nick and Mary Marshall and Joyce Rumsfeld

Timothy Albrecht

That is why I feel the Afghan Children’s Initiative (ACI), a project that promotes the well being, the education and safety of Afghan children is so vital.

It was my pleasure and honor to add my voice to this cause, to help ACI in whatever small way to meet the critical needs of Afghanistan’s children.

Because maybe Afghanistan can find its way with children who’ve had lost their innocence, but not with children who’ve lost their hope.”

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BOOK PARTY FOR GEORGE STEVENS, JR. April 10th • Café Milano PHOTOS BY KYLE SAMPERTON

THE EVENT Franco Nuschese, Ann and Vernon Jordan, Elaine and Jim Wolfensohn and Judy Woodruff and Al Hunt hosted a party to celebrate George Stevens, Jr.’s new book, “Conversations with the Great Moviemakers of Hollywood’s Golden Age.” The book features Q & A sessions with some of history’s premier movie-making talents. THE SCENE Stevens signed copies of his book as 250 guests enjoyed cocktails and canapés.

THE GUESTS Ethel Kennedy, Liz Stevens, Jim Hoagland and Jane Hitchcock, Mandy Ourisman, Joe Robert, Dr. Susan Blumenthal, Mark Shields, Cathy Wyler, Alan Greenspan, Rima Al-Sabah, Debbie Dingell and Jack and Mary Margaret Valenti.

George Stevens and Katherine Evans

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HONORING RUSS SULLIVAN March 25th • The Weiss Residence PHOTOS BY IMMANUEL JAYACHANDRAN

THE EVENT Lobbyists Jeffrey and Juleanna Glover Weiss held their merlot glasses high in honor of long-time friend Russ Sullivan, founder of Work, Achievement Values and Education, Inc. (WAVE), who was awarded the Lewis Hine Award for exceptional service on behalf of children and youth. THE SCENE Cocktails turned out to be a touching tribute to Sullivan, whose organization has helped over 500,000 disadvantaged youth through community programs and construction of new school classrooms. THE GUESTS Keith Lippert, Norah O’Donnell, Marc Adelman, Cythnia McDowell, and Fred Malek, Jr.

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THE RELEASE OF LAURA BUSH AN INTIMATE PORTRAIT OF THE FIRST LADY April 10th • Private Home PHOTOS BY KYLE SAMPERTON

THE EVENT An intimate cocktail party for the release of an Intimate Portrait of the First Lady Laura Bush by Ronald Kessler, the first biography published with the cooperation of the First Lady. Guests were eager to sneak a peek of the book which includes interviews with former boyfriends and many close pals. THE SCENE A quiet night at a private home in Northwest with hors d’ oeuvres and a chance to celebrate the author’s complimentary reviews. THE GUESTS Christopher Ruddy, Nancy Brinker, Winton and Hap Holladay, Dina and Rick Powell, Anne and Clay Johnson and Liz and Terry Johnson.

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Best Presentation Award Secretary Jim Nicholson and Suzanne Nicholson Pine Mountain Pesto

Health & Happiness Award Senator Christopher S. Bond and Linda Bond Fishing Trip Gravlax

American Regional Cuisine Award Senator Jeff Bingaman and Anne Bingaman Antojitos Minis with Cilantro Sauce An Intimate Portrait of the First Lady

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PROFILES IN COURAGE AT TIFFANY’S April 3rd • Tiffany & Co. Chevy Chase PHOTOS BY KYLE SAMPERTON

THE EVENT More than 100 guest of the Kennedy Library Foundation gathered at Tiffany & Co. in Chevy Chase to celebrate the 50th anniversary of “Profiles in Courage,” John F. Kennedy’s book on eight U.S. senators whom he admired for their acts of political heroism. The evening, cohosted by Caroline Kennedy and Sen. Edward Kennedy, launched a $9.2 million fundraising drive for the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award program. THE SCENE Guests listened as former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright gave an emotional speech, saying, “For me and for millions of others, the term ‘profiles in courage’ will always be associated with what John Kennedy did as well as what he wrote. The phrase itself has become part of our vocabulary.” THE GUESTS Rep. John Lewis, former Governor of Michigan James Blanchard and his wife Janet, former I.R.S. commissioner Mortimer Caplin, Jack Valenti and Jane Friedman, president and CEO of Harper Collins, the publisher of “Profiles in Courage.”

Madeleine Albright and John Shattuck

Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, Timothy Shriver and Linda Potter

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BACHELORS & SPINSTERS April 1st • City Tavern Club PHOTOS BY IMMANUEL JAYACHANDRAN

THE EVENT The invitation-only Bachelors and Spinsters Ball, brought out 400 of Washington’s most eligible singles dressed in their best black-tie finery at the balloon-filled City Tavern Club. As hosts Christopher van Roijen and Chris Larsin noted, it was all for a good cause since a small silent auction raised money for Tragedy Assistance Programs for Survivors. THE SCENE Girls in sultry strapless cocktail dresses and dapper men in tuxedos twisted hips and twirled to the band, while others waited in a never ending line for Ketel One’s martini bar. THE GUESTS Bob “Scooter ” Spencer, Ashley Taylor, Hadley Gamble, John Cecchi, Lindsay Stroud and Holidae Hayes.

Christina F.H. Martin, Tom Antistel, Karina Homme and Steve Boyd

Florence Schurch and Jim Maas

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GARDEN PARTY FOR DY WALTON AT VIL FIRENZE April 8th • Italian Ambassador’s Residence PHOTOS BY KYLE SAMPERTON

THE EVENT A rainy Saturday afternoon tea party at Villa Firenze, the residence of the Italian Ambassador, Giovanni Castallanetta and his wife Lila, honoring Lady Walton, widow of Composer Sir William Walton. Some consider Walton the most important English composer of his generation with a signature style on classical themes. THE SCENE Adjusting gracefully to the inclement weather, the Ambassador and his wife opened their home to a group of the Washington Chorus’ friends and supporters.

The highlight was Lady Walton’s hilarious recollections of life with Sir William, which had the entire party in stitches. The passed Italian hors d’hoerves were delicious. THE GUESTS British Ambassador Sir David Manning and Lady Manning, Olympia De Bonis, Katy Moss, Paul and Nancy Ignatius, Alessandra Vinaguerre, Bill and Ann Nitze and Lolo Sarnoff.

Laurell Coless and Lila Castellaneta

British Amb. Sir David Manning and Amb. Celless

Italian Amb. Giovanni Castellaneta and Lolo Sarnoff

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Christina Wilkie and William Nitze

Robert Schaeffer, Dianne Peterson, Maria Kanpik and Lady Walton

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Sesame Mosaic Education: A Two Way Street Mosaic Foundation’s Gala Launches Sesame Street Foundation Partnership

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t first blush, it may seem that Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit organization behind Sesame Street, and the Mosaic Foundation, an organization founded in 1998 by the spouses of the Arab ambassadors to the U.S., would have little in common. Most people, after all, know Sesame Street as the American children’s educational program but have no idea of its global impact.

Sesame Workshop has taken its mission of harnessing the educational power of media to help children reach their highest potential far beyond the borders of the United States.

Since its debut here in 1969, Sesame Street has grown into the longest street in the world, reaching children in 120 countries across the globe.

Sesame Workshop also has a long history in the Arab World. In 1979, we created our first production in Arabic with Iftah Ya Simsim in Kuwait. Currently, the Workshop also has Egyptian, Jordanian and Palestinian coproductions.

In creating our international co-productions, we collaborate with local educators, child

development experts, artists, writers and producers to develop content and curricula that not only teach literacy, but also address the specific needs of the children of that country.

In Egypt, for instance, Alam Simsim places a particular emphasis on girls’ education.

On South Africa’s Takalani Sesame, an HIVpositive Muppet named Kami is helping to reduce the stigma of AIDS and break the culture of silence.

I first learned of the Mosaic Foundation from Kathy Bushkin of the United Nations Foundation, a past recipient of Mosaic’s annual grant. Not long after that, I had the opportunity to witness its important work first-hand, when Rima Al-Sabah and Susan Blumenthal invited me to attend the foundation’s annual gala. I was struck by their mission to help improve the lives of understanding and respect for differences and women and children and to foster a better similarities between themselves and children understanding of the Arab world in the of different cultures.

The Mosaic Foundation’s May 9th United States. Two gala will fund our exciting project, years later, thanks Save the Date!

Sesame Mosaic, reaching over 40 to the enthusiastic million preschool children in the Arab support of Princess The 9th world. The evening’s entertainment Haifa Al-Faisal, Luma Annual Mosaic will include a performance of Zade Kawar, and Nermin Foundation Dirani, a Jordanian pianist, along with Fahmy, we at Sesame the International Youth Orchestra.

Workshop are deeply Gala, May 9th I’m thrilled that Khokha will be honored to be the coming all the way from Alam latest recipient of a Mosaic Foundation grant. Thanks to this Simsim in Egypt generosity we are working to create Sesame to be with us as Mosaic, a groundbreaking new educational well, reminding television program and multi-media initiative us that friends to educate young Arab children and build an really do come appreciation for the cultural diversity within in all colors, the Arab world. In addition, we will create shapes and sizes programming about Arab children and culture … and together to be distributed in the United States. As a they can create beautiful result, whether children live in Detroit or a Dubai, they will have an opportunity to gain mosaic.

Left to Right, top to bottom– Sherrie Rollins Westin with Elmo / H.M. Queen Rania Al-Abdullah of Jordan, Guest of Honor / Luma Kawar, Gala Chairman and wife of Jordanian Ambassador Karim Kawar / Nermin Fahmy, Chairman and President of the Mosaic Foundation and wife of Egyptian Ambassador Nabil Fahmy.

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Cheney Lets Loose (kind of)

BY JAN ET DONOVAN PHOTOS BY PAUL SIMKIN

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he Radio-Television Correspondents Association’s 62nd annual dinner at the Washington Hilton was a feisty laughin replete with all the expected self deprecation and blame transference one would expect from politicians.

“I was a little startled by the size and the diversity of the crowd tonight,”Vice President Dick Cheney told the crowd. “When I agreed to do this, I was told, ‘Hey, don’t worry about it, they’ll all be from Fox.’” Those trading gossip and sushi at the pre-dinner party included Senators Arlen Specter, Patrick Leahy, former Senator John Breaux, former presidential candidate General Wesley Clark, NPR’s Juan Williams, former Clinton Secretary of State Madeline Albright, actors Ron Silver and Bo Derek, Rep. Charles Rangel, Bob Novak, former HLS honcho Tom Ridge and on-air FOX personalities Mike Jerrick, Julie e Huddy, Geraldo Rivera, Brian Wilson, Laurie Dhue, Tony Snow and Gretchen Carlson.

More than two thousand guests dined on mustardrubbed filet mignon while theVice President took the podium for an image fix.

“My wife told me to be a little more sociable, but I know how to have fun – I’m a real party animal,” the VP said. “In 1969, I was an assistant to Donald Rumsfeld and cannot shake the feeling to this day that he still sees me as an underling. I asked the President himself to explain to Donald that the Secretary of Defense does not outrank the VicePresident of the United States.”

The crowd also enjoyed a touch of “W” thanks to political comedian Frank Caliendo. His use of “Bushisms” such as “scarifying” were perfect “He’s kind of like a slot machine because every time he opens his mouth he knows he is gambling,” the funnyman said about the President. “You know how he is when he gets to that last sentence and won’t be able to think of the last word.”

How everyone got into the CNN after-party remains a mystery, but those getting in their last licks at the ice cream bar included WMAL VicePresident Chris Berry, Democratic strategist Donna Brazille, CNN’s Bob Franken and Wolf Blitzer, and PR gal Edie Emery.

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CNN’s Peter Bergen, David Ensor and Justine Redman

Maureen Orth

Rep. Ed Markey and WJLA’s Kathleen Matthews

John Robert of CNN Tammy Haddad and Jim Bell

Jamie Whitehead

Harry Jaffe

George Stephanopolous Gloria Borger

Amb. Marc Ginsburg

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HOLLYWOOD ON THE POTOMAC Rules, blackouts and bees … while two legends hold court Looking for Art Buchwald? Dial party central… Ever since the perpetual funny man checked

into Upton Street’s Washington Hospice, the community room resembles a casting call’s dream featuring Ben Bradlee, The Kennedys, Jim Lehrer, Diane Rehm, Myra MacPherson and interviews with Brian Williams, Tim Russert and Tom Brokaw, to name a fistful. All the world’s a stage and no one knows that better than “Artie”, as he is known to his friends. The revolving door ushers in a daily cornucopia of colorful characters creating serial marquee moments and he loves it, despite the fact that he has denied life prolonging dialysis and is ready to take his schick elsewhere. After authoring a zillion books and columns, the Pulitzer winning, self-deprecating satirist told People Magazine: “Dying is easy, parking is impossible.” Happy in his defiance of nature and always on his game, he continues to reiterate: “I’ll Always Have Paris.” And we, of course, will always have Artie.

Across town, it was no laughing matter! It was not a belated April

Fools Day joke when the Dirksen building was evacuated on the 3rd of April, minutes after the lights went out.Although interrupted by the warning, that didn’t stop Golden Globe winner and two-time Oscar nominated actor Ed Norton, who was in town shooting “24 Hrs”, from continuing the kick-off briefing for National Public Health Week. “If there was ever an issue that Republicans and Democrats should be able to agree on, it should be creating healthy communities for American children,” said Norton, unfettered by the circumstances.

Some visitors got little more than a few minutes to leave the premises before mild pandemonium broke out and sent visitors into blackness.

Taking their cue from Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (D-Georgia), who got into an incident with the Capitol police recently over not showing her I.D., everyone remained calm, cool, collected and willingly showed theirs.

Who rules America? Jr’s, IIIs and IVs… At the AFI Silver Docs premiere

of “The American Ruling Class”, retiring editor of Harpers Magazine and now documentarian, Lewis Latham was joined by director John Kirby and producer Libby Handross as they explored the oft taboo subject of class, power and privilege in a democratic republic. Unlike Court TV’s Dominique Dunne’s “Power, Privilege and Justice” that covers the dark side of the rich and powerful,

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Latham explores how they get there in the first place by following two recentYale graduates, one rich, one poor. A complicated interwoven scenario ensues where each grad struggles with the responsibility of power. Casting included Walter Cronkite, Kurt Vonnegut, Pete Seeger, Hodding Carter III, Harold Brown, The NewYork Times’ Arthur Sulzberger Jr. and William H. Haft IV. Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis According to

Dictionary.com, it’s the longest word in the English language; so if you are trying to win The Scripps National Spelling Bee Championship, you may want to check it out.That’s what Keke Palmer (Akeelah Anderson) did in Lionsgate’s “Akeelah and the Bee”, which was screened recently at an event organized

by Reel Progress and The Center for American Progress. The feel good film follows Akeelah, a precocious eleven-year-old minority girl from Los Angeles with an aptitude for words (think “Karate Kid” meets “Jeopardy”). Palmer, along with director/writer Doug Atchison and actor/producer Laurence Fishburne took part in the post-screening Q&A. Said Fishburne:“I loved the script, I loved the character, I loved the story but was saddened by the fact that there weren’t a lot of people that had come forward to finance it. So, I threw my hat in.”

All the King’s men Larry King proved he can pull an audience off screen as

well at his Annual Cardiac Foundation Gala where guests included Larry Jr., brother Marty Zeiger, producers (Sheik) Nile Rodgers and (Angela’s Ashes) David Brown, coach Joe Gibbs, Redskins owner Dan Snyder, artist Bill Dunlap, honoree Joe Robert and singer Quincy Jones. But it was singer/ songwriters Denise Rich, Patti LaBelle, Vanessa Williams, and Shawn King that claimed the night as well as Cosmopolitan lady Helen Gurley Brown.

Take Two He may have left his heart in San Francisco years ago, but he

sure got it back in time to share it with friends, admirers, colleagues and Congressional members last month that included Charlie Rangel (D-NY), Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas), Gene Green (D-Texas), Mark Foley (R-Fla.) and Clay Shaw (R-Fla.) at an all star musical tribute in his honor at The Cannon House Office Building hosted by The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. So what’s with all the Texans? “We appreciate good music, good artists,” said Congressman Charlie Gonzalez, a Texas Democrat of course.

Left to right– “Akeelah and the Bee” stars Keke Palmer and Laurence Fishburne at the Center for American Progress screening / Shawn King, Patti LaBelle and Larry King / Tony Bennett performs on the Hill for The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers / Joe Robert and Quincy Jones at Larry King’s Annual Cardiac Foundation Gala

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Laurie David: Too Hot Not to Handle

Documentary producer’s HBO film an environmental wake-up call

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eat waves, melting glaciers and rising sea levels. Catastrophic storms, migrating viruses and population displacement. Not to mention hybrid vehicles and alternative power... “Too Hot Not to Handle” has it all.

“Too Hot,” Laurie David’s follow-up to the Sundance documentary sleeper “An Inconvenient Truth,” starring Al Gore, premiered April 22nd on HBO, but Washingtonians received a special advanced screening early last month. The packed event included speeches from David as well as Washington green heavyweights such as Senator John McCain, Senator Joseph Liebermann and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Afterwards, David sat down with WL and gave her insight on the film, her Stop Global Warming Virtual March, and what she would do if she were president.

Washington Life: Is this a political film?

Laurie David: The issue itself is not political, it is moral. I think that shift has happened this year – people are starting to realize this is about all of us; we are all guilty, and we all need to be part of the solution.

WL: Are you coordinating with any other green groups during the Stop Global Warming March?

LD: The fact that we have gotten all the major environmental groups to sign onto this march, to blast it out to their email lists and say “we want you to march too,” is a huge statement. But this isn’t just an environmental issue anymore. Global warming is a national security issue, a public health issue and an economic issue.

WL: What specific public policy changes are you pushing for?

LD: Washington is the last hold on this issue; the rest of the world is already engaged. We haven’t

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GLOBAL EMERGENCY • The U.S. accounts for five percent of the world’s population, yet is responsible for 25 percent of the world’s CO2 emissions • Heat waves in the U.S. have increased threefold since 1950 • The average temperature in Alaska has risen five degrees, putting 99 percent of its glaciers in danger of melting for the first time in 5,000 years.

• Rising sea levels caused by ice melt may eventually displace up to 50 percent of Americans • Catastrophic storms, such as Hurricanes, which draw their strength from warm air have increased in size and frequency • Viruses like West Nile, enabled by higherthen- average temperatures, are spreading to new parts of the globe

even gotten to the point where this country and our government has acknowledged that we’re causing global warming. We need the government to put the debate about the problem behind us and talk about the solutions we need to get to quickly.

Eighty-seven percent of the American public say global warming is real. Fifty-nine percent said they would pay a gas tax if they new that the money went directly to solving global warming. That’s a huge change, against all conventional wisdom that says Americans wouldn’t sacrifice anything.

WL: If you were President Bush what would you do about it?

LD: I would be launching a huge national campaign to fund clean energy solutions and add incentives to solutions that already exist. I’d make this a number one national priority, and show leadership to the rest of the world that we can start slowing our carbon emissions down. The CEOs of coal companies are saying that they need regulatory mandates—that’s another huge shift. We have to start mandating technology to clean up our power plants. The technology already exists to start doing that, but there’s no federal legislation saying that they have to do it. The technology is sitting on the floor in a basement somewhere. There are a thousand things this president can do: Tomorrow, raise fuel economy standards substantially. It is criminal that we are not allowing cars made in this country to get 40 miles per gallon.

WL: Are companies not “going green” because it’s not profitable enough for them?

LD: The truth is that being green is going to save money and it is being proven every single day. There have been great reports about what DuPont, Johnson & Johnson, and GE are doing. They are reducing

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their carbon emissions and saving millions of dollars doing it. It is documented —it was in Business Week magazine. It is a complete and utter lie that the economic cost is stopping global warming; the opposite is true.

we launch on a clean industrial revolution. This is where it is heading and the only question is how long will it take, how fast will it happen.

And that goes back to the American people. The people have to start demanding this.

WL: So why do the majority of our cars still run on oil?

LD: Because automakers are stuck in their old ways and change is hard. They’re talking about waiting for hydrogen in twenty years.

We don’t have to wait for hydrogen, we have ethanol. We have bio diesel. We have the hybrid engine. We have everything that we need to start solving this problem.

WL: How long do you think it will take before we hit the tipping point?

LD: Scientists say that we have less than 10 years to really start addressing this problem. So, to me that says we probably have five years. We’ve come a long way in this one year, what can we accomplish in another year? I am optimistic that we are going to get on the case and start making changes—not sacrifice, but changes, changes for the better.

WL: Can we rebuild New Orleans as America’s first true green city?

LD: I think it’s completely doable, that’s such an interesting topic; I agree with you—absolutely yes. I think we have to—it’s not sustainable to build any other way.

WL: Is Green Living the next American revolution?

Will it have the same affect on society as the locomotive and the automobile?

LD: In the documentary, we talk about the fact that it was only 60 years from the time when Lindberg flew the first non-stop transatlantic flight to the time we landed on the moon. The future and the irony of the whole thing is that there is nothing that is going to give America more jobs and more economic security than if

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Get your passes now for SILVERDOCS: JUNE 13 - 18, 2006 WL is the offical magazine sponsor of the festival, so, look for us at: JUNE 5: Heart of the Game kick-off screening with Sheila Johnson JUNE 14: Reception with Al Gore at Ceviche JUNE 15: Reception with Martin Scorsese Ticket and festival info: www.silverdocs.com

Above– Senator John McCain, Documentary producer and environmentalist, Laurie David and Robert F. Kennedy, JR. at the screening of HBO’s “Too Hot Not To Handle.”

“Raising fuel efficiency by one mile per gallon would save as much oil as we could ever get from the national wildlife refuge. Raising it 2.7 miles is equal to as much oil as we were ge ing from Iraq and Kuwait combined during their peak of production. By raising it 7.6 miles, we will save more oil than we import from the Persian Gulf.”

SEN. JOHN MCCAIN

“I went to the Antarctic and we got on a ship with the Norwegian Prime Minister.

When it stopped, he showed me a satellite photo and said: “that’s where the glacier was twenty years ago.” We went another ten miles north, and that’s where the glacier is now. They are going to have to rename Glacier National Park because there are not going to be any more glaciers.”

SEN. JOSEPH LIEBERMANN

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A Natural Alliance

Partisanship aside, Nora Maccoby and Rachel Pearson of Nature’s Partners have teamed-up to change the way you view energy

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Technicolor Sunday morning cartoon starts with an updated School House Rock anthem and a teenager plugging an iPod into their bedroom wall. We zoom through the electric outlet in a high-voltage voyage through the wiring in the wall, over a drop-wire outside and to a nearby electric pole. From there we emanate over the nation’s power lines and, hopefully, into the collective conscious of U.S. consumers.

party at the Sulgrave club, genially conversing with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Afterwards, the account was written-up in the New York Post: “After a half-hour of Maccoby lecturing Rummy that energy independence through renewable clean sources should be the heart of a national security strategy, a grinning Rumsfeld bleated to those nearby, ‘I can’t believe this—this girl’s kicking my ass, and she’s right.’ Then to Maccoby, ‘Call the Secretary of Energy. You can use my name. By the The cartoon is part of an education series that Nature way, how old are you?’ Maccoby: ‘Why?’ Rumsfeld: ‘I Partner’s Nora Maccoby and Rachel Pearson are producing have a son, actually.’” Soon after, Defense Secretary Donald along with the group’s fellow co-founders, Michael Rumsfeld sent a snowflake around the Pentagon calling for Wilson of Florida Power and Light, and David Brown the creation of a “centralized point in the Department” of Exelon Corporation. The goal is to educate to work on energy conservation. It seems Maccoby’s Americans on a modern grass-roots level about and the Defense Secretary’s impromptu debate came nuclear, wind, wave, coal, gas, oil, biomass, and at the right time. photo voltaic solar energy.

“Let’s deal with energy literacy, let’s deal The drive to improve energy literacy among with teaching people efficiency, let’s deal with Americans comes fortuitously at a time when commonsense issues: the infrastructure of our the White House is pushing the President’s democracy,” says Maccoby. “We’re at a turning Advanced Energy Initiative. The plan aims point environmentally and economically in to replace more than 75% of our oil imports terms of losing out to other countries such as from the Middle East by 2025 and provides for China [which she just toured with a delegation a 22% increase in clean-energy research at the of energy experts] that are going forward with Department of Energy. new economic infrastructures based on new With nearly $10 billion having already been spent technologies and renewable energies that we helped by the U.S. since 2001 for cleaner, cheaper and more to innovate,” she says. reliable alternative energy sources, Nature’s Partners China, for its part, has pledged US$181 has sprung up at the right time. If it were billion over the next five years for renewable up to Maccoby and Pearson, in the energyNORA MACCOBY energy. “It’s cheaper to find a new course than independent future, choosing whether your to stick with a bad one,” Maccoby says. home’s energy comes from nuclear or wind Recently nicknamed “enviro-babe” For Nature’s Partners Republican attaché or oil would be as simple as getting cable by the New York Post for her work Pearson, the fact that two activists on opposite (without having to wait for the installer all with the inter-disciplinary Pentagonsides of the political spectrum united over day, one would hope.) heavy Energy Consensus Network, energy literacy, speaks volumes for the issue’s “We’re striving to create a level playing field Maccoby is also a screenwriter, having ability to bridge the partisan divide. so that everybody between the ages of seven co-scribed the feature film Buffalo Pearson recalls: “Nora and I met during the and 70 can have a basic understanding of what Soldiers, among others. She recently summer before the last presidential election; happens when you plug something into a socket. completed The Believer, a feature it was heated then, everybody was angry and Where does it go? What is the grid system? about controversial Iraq figure Dr. declaring sides — particularly in this town. I’m What is electricity? How is power generated?”

Ahmad Chalabi as well as Female a Republican, Nora’s a Democrat — and we says the left-leaning Nora Maccoby.

Suspects for Sony/Columbia Pictures. knew that instantly. But there was a point for us At the end of the year, Maccoby found when we knew we weren’t interested in getting herself at Izette Maccoby Folger’s birthday

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into the partisan debate. So, I invited her to the earth,’ a topic Pearson feels hits home the 2004 Republican National Convention in with the President, commenting, “The issue resonates on several levels with the President,” New York.”

Maccoby interjects with a hint of irony: “My she says.

Still, party differences exist. The same Pew ex-roommate was leading the demonstration against the Republican Party, and I was in The Research report states 44% of Americans support the idea of promoting nuclear Plaza — it was a turning point.”

“Energy and the world environment are power to address the country’s energy needs, while 49% are opposed. While the only areas left in this country roughly four-in-ten Democrats favor where the right and the left can promoting nuclear power, an equal have a conversation. Every number of Republicans oppose other area is so fractured,” say the idea. Similarly, while 57% of Pearson, “I hope we are not too Democrats oppose allowing oil polarized for this.” drilling in the Arctic National According to a recent Wildlife Refuge, a third New York Times/CBS supports the proposal News poll, we’re not.

— hardly a unified Their findings show party position. major ities of The President both parties favor and Senators renewables — and Barack Obama, more Republicans John MacCain and than Democrats Jo e L i e b e r m a n n (82% vs 77%) support h ave come out ‘more research’ on for decreasing our renewables. dependence on foreign A Pew Research oil for both environmental and Center report dated national security reasons, but February 28, 2006 bi-partisanship is not as simple states: “With high fuel as whistling “Conjunctionprices and instability j u n c t i o n , w h a t ’s yo u r in the Middle function?”

East, Amer icans “Saying America is addicted are increasingly to oil without following a real concer ned about plan for energy independence the nation’s energy is like admitting alcoholism situation. In January, and then skipping out 58% rated ‘dealing on the 12-step program,” with the nation’s RACHEL PEARSON commented Sen. Obama. energy problem’ Working to elect Republican senators So, as our leaders work to a top priority, up takes up a large part of Pearson’s time. enact legislation to incentivize from just 47% a Her company, Pearson & Associates is green technologies, Nature’s year ago.” ten years old this spring. It specializes Partners will be working The topic even in political fundraising and development to educate us on how str ikes a chord consulting.

She was a consultant to both to intergrate it into our with evangelicals Bush campaigns. everyday lives, assuring us on the grounds that it is as easy as ABC. of ‘stewardship of

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A GLOBAL TAKE • 2004 renewable energy market leaders were: Brazil in biofuels, China in solar hot water, Germany in solar electricity, and Spain in wind power. – REN21 • At least 48 countries now have some type of renewable energy promotion policy, including 14 developing countries. – REN21 • China imports some 3.5 million barrels of oil per day, approximately half of which comes from the Middle East. – US Energy Information Agency • The Pentagon is the single largest buyer of fuel in the United States, accounting for 1.7 percent of the national consumption

AMERICA: HOME OF THE AUTOMOBILE • There are an estimated 250 million vehicles on America’s highways; more than 17 million vehicles will be purchased this year • Despite record profits, the oil industry saved $7 billion in royalty payments in 2005 thanks to a ‘90s era law designed to promote domestic production. The Interior Department loophole lets companies pump an estimated $65 billion worth of oil from public land over the next five years without paying any royalties to the government. – The New York Times

Q & A CA F É

Fearless Jong

From best sellers to booze, sex and demons in between (including Martha Stewart) is also a writer. There was a while when she was a child in crisis and you didn’t know what was going to happen.

EJ:She grew up too fast in Manhattan and went to private school where all the kids had credit cards.

There were a lot of drugs and Prada. That’s, all I’m going to say about it because it’s her story not mine.

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hen Erica Jong first published her best-selling book, Fear of Flying, over 30 years ago, it was clear she was not afraid to speak her mind. After a string of successful novels and memoirs, Jong proves that point again In Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life (Tarcher, March 2006) which poignantly chronicles her professional career and its toll on her personal life. In a recent Q & A Café interview with WL contributor Carol Joynt, Jong holds nothing back.

Carol Joynt: Why don’t you start by answering

this question: How do we pronounce your name?

Erica Jong: (Zhong). When I was very young I had a schizophrenic first husband and I thought that the cure was to immediately marry a psychiatrist So I married a Chinese-American doctor named Allen Jong and published under that name but people see me and think I am Dutch.

CJ: And you’re married now to?

EJ: Kenneth David Burrows. Erica Jong had become a brand. I loathe and despise the fact that writers are branded, but there it was – you sell a lot of books and you’re a brand.

CJ: You must be a very proud that your daughter

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CJ: Even though she did take one of your stories?

EJ: She takes a lot of my stories but it’s okay for a daughter to take her mother’s stories, but not okay for a mother to take her daughter’s stories. I would not have written about Molly’s graduation from Hazelton if she had not written about it first.

CJ: What would you have done differently, looking back and talking about all the forces that may have conspired to make her life challenging. Would you have not sent her to private school? How could you have raised her differently than you did?

EJ: Well I really couldn’t because I was divorced when she was four. My former husband, her biological dad, Bio-Dad as we call him, was very bitter and kept suing me for custody, and dragging me into court hoping to cost me as much money as possible. I just wanted peace at any price, but he was very angry.We’ve [since] made peace.

CJ: Why did you write this book?

EJ: For 15 years I have had in my computer for a book of advice for writers with all kinds of interesting stuff… Don’t expect approval for telling the truth. Use everything. Remember that writing is dangerous if it’s any good. Forget critics. Remember to be earthbound, and wild.

Write for the charm in yourself and others.

CJ: Those are good points. Have they all served you?

EJ: They were really the rules I made up for myself when I was totally blocked and couldn’t write. The book was meant to be a series of meditations for young writers. As I began to put together all of these pieces I’d been working on for many years, my editor kept saying to me, “but

what these young writers really want to know is, how did you do it? You had a huge bestseller when you were very young and usually that stops people cold and they can’t do anything after that.”

I began writing little stories about the toughest things I went through after Fear of Flying was published. All my old friends from high school and college hated me and would go out of the way to say horrible things about me.

CJ: But that’s just early on. That didn’t endure.

EJ: [It] endured for enough time to affect me. I realized you lose a lot of friends when you get successful, but you gain new friends.

CJ: You write quite elegantly about the price of fame – you think you’re getting into it because you get good tables at restaurants, but then you find out that there is a good side and a bad side. They don’t teach you how to be famous…

EJ: No, there is no course, although I could give one. [laughter] . So I began writing these anecdotes and I wrote about the old lizardy publisher who seduced me in his office…

CJ: That was at the Algonquin, right?

EJ: Right.

CJ: Good place to be seduced by lizardy old publishers.

EJ: They always do that. I told the story about going to the Frankfurt Book Fair where hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe, and falling into bed with a man, who was not only my publisher, which was really dumb, but was married to a woman who is not a good enemy to have… Martha Stewart… [laughter].

CJ: While you were known for sexual frankness in literature, you say that it is almost silly now to go back and read some of the books that were shocking then. Your books were sort of a vanguard of a new kind of frankness…

Above - Erica Jong holding nothing back at Nathans.

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EJ: My main demon is creativity. I need to write and sometimes writing is very dangerous.

If you write honestly you can alienate your entire family, your spouse, your best friend, all the people you depend on.

EJ: Because the law changed. Those of us who are old enough to remember that when we were in college we couldn’t get John Cleland’s Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure. Unless you went to the rare book room, they were locked up.You couldn’t get Tropic of Cancer unless you went to Paris. Then the law changed.

CJ: You’ve said that sex is everywhere in the media, but ecstasy is absent. Does literature take part of the blame for that?

EJ: I don’t think literature ever gets the blame.

Exploring yourself through reading and learning about how other people live is never a negative.

It’s part of our growth process.

CJ: Was it our liberation that caused that?

EJ: Our liberation in the 1970’s was about women being entitled to sexual fantasies…

We were not thinking about little girls giving [oral sex] all over middle school, pleased with themselves because it’s something they can do that boys get off on. These girls are not experiencing any sexual satisfaction. So is that the triumph of feminism? No, it’s about control. Girls have learned that this is the way you can control boys. This seems to be a strange perversion of the 1970’s revolution.

CJ: What are the secrets to writing sex in literature?

EJ: Being honest.Very often, like the anecdote I tell about the old publisher who takes me up to this little office to show me the first edition of Leaves of Grass and somehow I find myself on my knees. Be honest because human beings are very self deluding creatures. We lie to ourselves most of the time. We lie to ourselves a lot in the bedroom. We want something out of sex other than ecstasy at times and the only way to write about sex is to write about it as a human interaction where often you are lying to yourself or the other person is lying to himself.

CJ: Apart from your own writing, have you been reading other authors?

EJ: Phillip Roth does it so well it blows my mind.

One of his most unpleasant books, Sabboth Theatre has a repellent hero. He stays over at a friend’s house and he goes through the wife’s lingerie to turn himself on. This guy is the houseguest from Hell –

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“The only way to write about sex is to write about it as a human interaction where often you are lying to yourself or the other person is lying to himself.” — Erica Jong people hated the book because the main character is so repellent when he comes to the Mexican cleaning woman and she says, “No, Sir, five Children’s,” and he had her bend over the bed, which she’s making.

Ok. This is writing about the craziness of human sexuality and people will read it and probably think Phillip [Roth] did that– [but] I doubt it. Although I’m sure he’s done a lot of other things. Good sexual writing is about the human aspect and people who are self destructive, as we all can be sexually. It’s easy to write about bad sex because you can be funny but good sex – tantric sex, the joining of two souls, as I write about in my new book Seducing the Demon –is really hard to write about because you sound Christian or a terribly boring guru.

CJ: When you know you have a sex scene coming up is that particularly traumatic for you?

EJ: Well you usually get turned on writing it.

CJ: You write, “Without sex there is no poetry,” and “Without adultery there is no novel.”

EJ: The French say without adultery there is no novel. I did make up that the “news screws.”

There is an aspect of creativity and sexuality that are alive.The muse for a woman is a demon lover.

But I’m speaking metaphorically, not literally.

CJ: What are your demons, since that is what you are seducing in your book?

CJ: You’ve never been able to be anything but who you are. That comes across. You’ve tried acting. You wrote about bi-sexuality. That wasn’t who you are.

You’ve tried being a drunk and that wasn’t who you are.You keep coming back to who you want to be, don’t you?

EJ:That’s really true. And the older I get, the more I know who I really want to be.

CJ: You have said open marriages are a crock.

EJ: Well, you know in the 1970’s we all tried open marriages. Many of us did. Jonathan and I tried open marriage…[before that] I was married to Alan Johns and he didn’t think we had an open marriage. He thought he was in a normal cheating marriage. [laughter] and that he was cheating without telling me, in the old-fashioned way,…adultery. He didn’t tell me until years later when he was really mad at me.

CJ: When did you realize you had a drinking problem? I gather that at some point it was Robert Redford who may have caused your sobriety?

EJ: I was seated at a dinner party at the Brokaw’s next to Robert Redford. They tried to fix me up with him and I was so terrified to be sitting next to a movie star that I drank four glasses of wine in rapid succession and passed out. Such are the delights of fame. I realized that when I was anxious, I tend to overdo.

CJ: Do you still drink?

EJ: I occasionally drink wine.

CJ: You say that working out is an antidepressant, but you also say writing is an antidepressant.

EJ: If I don’t write, after a while I start to feel like a lunatic. I get anxious. I was given a certain talent and if I don’t use it I start to feel a little nuts.

The Q&A Café at Nathans in Georgetown is open to everyone. For more information please visit www.nathansgeorgetown.com Located at the corner of Wisconsin and M Street.

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ART AND AUCTION

Sun Rises on Contemporary Art Judd and Lichtenstein works are set to make auction history

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fter the largest collection of Donald Judd’s works ever offered at auction is sold by the Judd Foundation at Christie’s New York, Roy Lichtenstein’s iconic Sinking Sun is set to make auction history at Sotheby’s.

Competition is fierce in the art world, especially when it involves masterworks by the modern sculptor Donald Judd and the Pop art painter Roy Lichtenstein. Rival auction houses Sotheby’s and Christie’s will present important works by both artists this month in their quest to achieve coveted market share in the Contemporary Art collecting field.

The action will begin May 9th at Christie’s evening sale of Post-War and Contemporary Art. A group of important Judd works consigned by the late artist’s foundation is a controversial coup for the auction house’s Contemporary specialists.

The collection is the largest presentation of Judd works in the United States after the 1988 Whitney Museum of American Art retrospective on the artist. Judd’s minimalist sculpture, fashioned from industrial materials like metal, Plexiglas and plywood, often incorporating bold colors, and are a marvel of symmetry, classical beauty and craftsmanship. Spanning the range of Judd’s entire career, these pieces come, as they say in the trade, fresh to the market. There is no question that their quality and range are extraordinary, making them appealing to serious collectors; however, art world insiders question the decision by the Judd Foundation to offer so many works at once, virtually flooding the market. However, Brett Gorvy, deputy chairman Christie’s Americas and International cohead of the Post-War and Contemporary Art department, feels confident that the strength of the market, as witnessed over the past several years, is exceptionally strong. “Works

by Donald Judd have appeared at auction only

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on rare occasions and his oeuvre is relatively undiscovered,” he said. The selection for sale not only comes with the best of provenances but also offers an extraordinary overview of the artist’s career which will provide new and established collectors a unique opportunity to acquire key pieces at a range of price levels.”

As provenance plays a huge part in desirability to collectors, it is interesting to note that several pieces offered in the sale were part of the Tate Modern’s traveling survey of Judd’s work in 2004-2005. The most impressive individual lot, Untitled 1993, is a six-part Douglas fir plywood and colored, transparent Plexiglas wall piece executed the year before to Judd’s untimely death. If all goes as planned, that piece will achieve a price in the range of $2 to $3 million

and the collection as a whole could collectively achieve in excess of $20 million. Proceeds will go to create an endowment to support the Judd Foundation’s existing installations, the Judd archives, a catalogue raisonné and other Judd Foundation publications.

Collectors will be waiting for another sun to set when Roy Lichtenstein’s profound Pop era painting, Sinking Sun, is offered at Sotheby’s evening sale of Contemporary Art. Estimated to fetch as much as $20 million, this modern icon will surely evoke a bidding war among top collectors in the field.

After chasing the work over the course of almost five years, Tobias Meyer, chief auctioneer and worldwide head of Contemporary Art at Sotheby’s, was able to persuade Joe Helman,

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a collector and art dealer, to put the work in the May sale at Sotheby’s. Highly desirable to collectors for several reasons, the painting is large in scale (68 by 80 inches), a rarity for the artist at that time, and was executed at a turning point in Lichtenstein’s career when he was consciously making a transition from his comicbook iconography to an Op-art style. Sinking Sun’s appealing composition is a masterpiece of graphic design painted in a schematic

“ALTHOUGH IN PAST YEARS THERE HAVE BEEN SEVERAL GOOD LICHTENSTEIN PAINTINGS SOLD AT AUCTION THERE HAS BEEN NOTHING OF THIS CALIBER FOR TOP COLLECTORS TO ACQUIRE ” arrangement of flat lines and Benday dots of red and blue. The final rays of the sun shoot out behind puffy clouds that anchor a yellow and red slash representing the horizon. According to Mr. Meyer, “the great thing about this painting is that it is in a sense Lichtenstein’s swansong to his comic strip paintings, as many comic strips traditionally end with a sunset, so it really can be seen as the last frame in an American love story, as told by one of the most important painters of our time.”

Executed in 1964, one year after the assassination of President John F.Kennedy, the painting can also be interpreted as a metaphor for the end to America’s period of Post World War II optimism. Acquired by Dennis and Brooke Hopper after its debut in the 1964 Landscapes exhibition at the Leo Castelli Gallery, Sinking Sun hung in the couple’s Los Angeles home until it became part of the current owner’s collection in New York.

Although in past years there have been several good Lichtenstein paintings sold at auction, there has been nothing of this caliber

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for top collectors to acquire. This means that followers of Contemporary art sales can expect to witness history with a new world auction record for Lichtenstein when the painting is offered on the open market May. For over 30 years, artists, collectors, critics and curators have acknowledged Sinking Sun as one of the most important paintings in the field of Pop American Contemporary Art and its presentation on

the auction block is without doubt the most exciting individual lot being offered in May Contemporary art auctions.

Left– Roy Lichenstein’s Sinking Sun, which is expected to sell for close to $20 million this May at Sotheby’s. Photo courtesy of Sotheby’s.

Above– Donald Judd’s Untitled estimated to sell for at least two million dollars. Photo courtesy of Christie’s.

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“Flying is a skill you acquire,” Mason says.“The secret is to keep it up. ” Being a good pilot is “a question John Mason in the cockpit of his Gulfstream G100 of training,” he notes. Pilots often train on simulators that can replicate hile many of his contemporaries are hitting the links on Saturday any situation a pilot may encounter, including afternoons, John J. Mason engine loss, a reality Mason has faced.

“I had an ‘uncontained failure’ in a jet,” Mason can likely be found at the Montgomery County Airpark or in the cockpit says as he displays photos of an engine that blew apart due to a faulty turbine wheel. “But you’re of one his planes. trained for it. Once you’re sure the plane is flyable From his first flight when he was 16, Mason you get so busy with checklists and things that can remember a fascination with aviation. That you forget about being scared.”

In addition to the 12 to 15 airplanes he has fascination grew when he was a fighter squadron crew member with the Marine Corps reserves at owned over the years, Mason has trained on the old Anacostia Naval Air Station. The passion many others, including a P-51 Mustang WWII fighter plane. He has also flown simulators didn’t fade after he left the marines.

“I continued to fly and bought my first plane of several other military aircraft, including in ’63,” says Mason, now a licensed commercial the new F-22 fighter jet. “It is unbelievable pilot with 7,500 hours of airtime. In his hangar technology,” Mason says. “It has a Star Wars he currently has a Gulfstream G100 and an kind of cockpit.”

Even after more than 40 years of owning Aerocommander twin engine prop plane he’s and flying airplanes, John Mason’s fascination owned “a really long time.”

The Gulfstream, which Mason co-owns with for aviation hasn’t faded. “It’s just something local businessmen and close friends Robert I enjoy doing. There’s always new technology Snyder and Joseph Gildenhorn, is equipped to and new things to learn. I have always felt fly non-stop to Europe, as well as South America privileged to be able to pursue something I’ve loved for so long.” and the Caribbean.

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CHANGE Venture Philanthropy Partners serves at-risk children by combining traditional philanthropic methods with the lessons learned from their venture capital, private equity and high tech leadership experiences. And $30 million in donations doesn’t hurt, either.

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ver the past five years, VPP has been quietly showing that many of the business practices that helped build the region into an economic powerhouse can be adapted to the philanthropic and nonprofit sectors to yield high social returns. But, is the traditional non-profit world really ready for a capital injection of “venture philanthropy”?

It’s the year 2030. At a high school somewhere in Northern Virginia, D.C., or Maryland, a bespectacled student cracks open her history book to chapter ten. It’s entitled “The Internet Boom” and leads off with a sweeping overview of the rise of the Internet in the 1990s, highlighting the entrepreneurs who soared and the venture capitalists who funded them, noting the wealth creation and change they spawned in the region before the “millennial bust” ensued.

Lost in the academic sound bite might be the lasting impact the entrepreneurs, high-tech CEO’s and venture capitalists have had on the local economy, sports teams, politics and philanthropy in the region. Also lost in the shuffle might be the simple fact that the classroom where the student is reading exists because of the philanthropic work of those same innovators.

AmErica: Making History and The History of Giving Philanthropic funding from unusually wealthy individuals is not a new development on the American scene. In 1643, Harvard College conducted what is believed to be the country’s first recorded fund raising drive, – raising 500 Pound to support its educational endowment.The modern notion of philanthropy began with Andrew Carnegie, who in an essay titled The Gospel of Wealth published in 1889, gave birth to the idea that the rich should, instead of “leaving their wealth to their families, administer it as a public trust during life.” The Carnegie essay paved the way for John D. Rockefeller, Sr., who in 1891 hired staff to help manage his philanthropic enterprises. In 1921, pressured by tremendous need and an increasingly charitable America, Congress finally enacted tax relief in exchange for personal giving. (Corporations had to wait until 1935 and the Great Depression.)

Never in their wildest dreams would these early philanthropists and legislators have imagined that the transfer of wealth in the United States would exceed $41 trillion over the next 50 years. The amounts now being given by those who have made millions (or billions) during the tech boom are unprecedented. Bill Gates, today’s pre-eminent philanthropist, has given an astonishing $31 billion to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, mostly to tackle health problems of the world’s poor.

This generosity earned the couple Time’s nomination as 2005’s people of the year, along with activist rock star Bono … In today’s world, such generosity has never been so public or popular.

Given America’s economic growth over the past few decades, it’s only natural that philanthropic methods would evolve as well. Venture Philanthropy Partners represents one of the more recent approaches to philanthropy and social change – one that draws on the principles of venture capital and private equity investments to build stronger, more effective nonprofit organizations serving atrisk children via after-school programs, K-12 education, college guidance and mental health services. Welcome to the era of venture philanthropy,VPP style.

VPP focuses on the National Capital Region but does not accept grant proposals. Instead, its in-house professional investment team identifies nonprofits, headed by visionary leaders, in need of capacity and infrastructure funding.They commit large sums over multiple years in a manner not entirely dissimilar to the way venture funds and private equity firms seed and finance both nascent and more established businesses. Thereafter, a senior member of the investment team becomes an integral advisor to the nonprofit’s staff and board, often meeting with them weekly (similar to the way a VC or private equity manager would become directly involved in advising the management of a business they invest in). VPP’s 29 founding investors draw on their personal networks to attract other donors and resources in order to maximize the recipients’ prospects for meaningful social progress. Over the past five years VPP has committed nearly $30 million in grants through its philanthropic investment fund, allowing the nonprofits to attract additional millions more while developing some unique private-public partnerships.

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Breaking the Paradigm

by Mario Morino

After 30 years in the software business, I was ready for a new mission.

It had to help children of low-income families because too many today don’t have the same opportunities to succeed that I had growing up in the 1950s.

For eight years, I talked with hundreds of people from all walks of life, digging in to understand the nonprofit world and how social services are funded and delivered in our nation. What I found was both inspirational and disturbing. Smart, dedicated nonprofit leaders are developing workable solutions to the toughest problems in our communities.

But while the current efforts of foundations, volunteers and donors work fine for small nonprofits; these same sources come up short for organizations seeking to scale their impact. These nonprofits need more capital and more support than traditional sources can provide. In fact, too often, nonprofits with bold goals are asked to run on a shoestring, discouraged from strengthening their operations, and often forced to veer from their missions in search of funds.

Compounding the problem is an acute shortage of executive-level talent to help these organizations grow.

We believed there was another way to invest in and support highimpact nonprofits and their leaders. Not a better way, but a different way to help them scale their impact. One that had helped many of VPP’s investors build their own small businesses into world-class enterprises.

Our approach gives nonprofit leaders large amounts of growth capital.

It provides hands-on strategic assistance from experienced executives.

It encourages them to build strong, lasting institutions. And, it gives them access to resources by opening doors, tapping networks and more. In short, we’re taking the best elements of venture capital investing and adapting them for investing in the nonprofit sector.

After five years, VPP’s approach is working: We’re helping great leaders build stronger, more effective organizations to serve more children better.

But, we are only scratching the surface of what needs to be done. We want and need your help in “breaking the paradigm” to ensure the doors of opportunity are open to all children in the National Capital Region.

Mario Morino is Chairman of Venture Philanthropy Partners and was founder of Legent Corporation.

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Tackling our Toughest Problems

by Raul Fernandez

My roots in the National Capital Region run deep. I was born here, raised here, went to college here, started businesses here and now I’m raising my family here. I know this region’s problems, its potential and have seen first hand how it has changed in the last 39 years.

That’s why I was so enthused at the chance to co-found Venture Philanthropy Partners. It allowed me to join with 28 other investors from different political and economic backgrounds to find common ground to achieve common good for our region.

VPP was created to bring about change. It does not shy away from working with organizations that are tackling our communities’ toughest problems, and our portfolio of nonprofit investments proves this. For example, VPP’s nonprofit partners are addressing some of the region’s newer issues by playing a critical role in assisting immigrant populations with the challenges they face.

By supporting nonprofits like the Centronia, Mary’s Center, AALead, and the Center for Multicultural Human Services, VPP is helping these organizations respond to the requests for assistance by the growing number of those in need in our community. Similarly, VPP’s nonprofit partners are dealing with some of the more traditional problems of education and opportunity this region faces by investing in the Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Washington, Heads Up, Friendship Public Charter School, See Forever Foundation, The SEED School and more.

Finally, VPP is showing the importance of cross-sector solutions to the health of this region. Recently, VPP’s work with the Latin American Youth Center and its Maryland expansion efforts helped lay the groundwork for a unique partnership between the LAYC and the Archdiocese of Washington.

This partnership will bring LAYC’s proven youth development model to the Archdioceses’ planned new facility in Prince Georges County. My family foundation also supported bringing this effort to an area of high need.

I am fortunate in many ways. I am the first generation son of new immigrants to this country and I have lived the American Dream. I had an opportunity to compete and succeed because of the education and opportunities I received, but that’s not the case for many in our region. VPP and the nonprofit organizations it funds are helping to change the outcomes and opportunities for all children and youth in our area so that each of them has the chance to find the American dream.

Raul Fernandez founded Proxicom, and is now CEO of ObjectVideo and an owner of the Washington Capitals,Wizards and Mystics.

philanthropic methods and the day-to-day exper ience of professional non-profit organization management. VPP partner Jim Kimsey, founding CEO of America Online, has his own take:“One of the things that every philanthropist ought to do is read the Hippocratic Oath,” the Vietnam veteran says.

“Being a good philanthropist is more difficult than earning the money that you are giving out to people; it’s not as easy as capitalism where the bottom line is the bottom line.”

The New Breed Philanthropist

“WHAT WE DO IS MARRY THE MORE BUSINESS-ORIENTED APPROACHES TO VENTURE CAPITAL INVESTMENT WITH TRADITIONAL APPROACHES TO PHILANTHROPY IT’S A HYBRID IN MANY WAYS RATHER THAN A NEW THING ”

In February of this year, – MARIO MORINO The Economist ran a 14-page VPP Co-Founder special report on wealth and philanthropy focusing specifically on the new generation of donors and their efforts, bringing to light the nascent domain of “philanthrocapitalism,” as the magazine put it.

Is “Philanthrocapitalism” merely the latest etymological invention contrived to encompass a host of matters involving the betterment of man through activation of his social conscience by business practices? The cynical skeptic may query whether this is innocent tomfoolery in fancy dress. Such splendid amourplated wordsmithery on the surface, may seem to embody a contradiction in terms, namely, capitalists putting the good of others before themselves? How could that be? Philo, is from the Greek word for “loving”; anthro refers to “anything human”; and capitalism, according to the Random House dictionary, is an economic system in which investment in and ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange of wealth is made and maintained chiefly by private individuals or corporations.

A confusion of terms, perhaps, the problem being how to imagine the concept in action – doing good by your fellow man while watching out for number one?

Notwithstanding suspicions about linguistic obfuscation the truth is that VPP’s founding investors have funded and worked with nonprofits that are making a meaningful difference in the lives of more than 50,000 children and youth from lowincome families in our community.

Ken Slaughter, an attorney and children’s advocate who cares deeply about the region, was highly skeptical when he first heard aboutVPP and its mission while serving as a board member of Heads Up, which provides after-school programs. “Who are these rich guys,” he asked himself.“Why do they want to do this, and are they going to be another big donor who will tell us how to run our organization?” Over time, and “after a bumpy start,” however, it soon became apparent to Slaughter thatVPP was different.“They were real, and they were here to help us, not control or change us.And they backed up their expectations with big money and executive support.” Slaughter

now sits on the boards of three nonprofit organizations in whichVPP has invested.

“Trying to marry philanthropy and capitalistic actions has been going on for perhaps 10 to 15 years, but they are kind of opposite extremes,” says VPP CoFounder Mario Morino. “If you take them as they are and put them together, they’re going to break. But if you blend them, you find what works best.”

In June 2000, Morino and VPP’s other co-founders, Proxicom CEO Raul Fernandez and former Virginia Governor Mark Warner (along with 26 other local technology and business leaders and several foundations) did some blending of their own, coming together to create and collectively contribute to VPP’s first charitable investment fund.

Investors each contributed $500,000 to $4 million. Their mission was far reaching, but focused: to alter the status quo for children in need of opportunity and, at the same time, create a different, innovative approach to philanthropy. The Morino Institute, Morino’s private foundation also provided separate funding to create, incubate, and build the organization.

Now,VPP is developing another fund, focusing on the core development needs of at risk children and reaching out to a broader and more diverse group of potential investor donors.

“It isn’t as if there’s a new approach to philanthropy that’s better than the ways things have been done in the past,” Morino says. “It’s just a different approach. We marry the more business-oriented model of venture capital investment with traditional approaches to philanthropy. It’s a hybrid, rather than something new.”

“The whole sense of social entrepreneurship is growing,” says Warner, a likely 2008 Democratic presidential candidate who got involved with VPP before taking office as governor of Virginia in 2002. “Mario and Raul came to me and said we could take the financial resources and the entrepreneurial spirit and combine them to help strong leaders in our communities grow successful non-profits in the region. That made great sense to me – but how do you take things to scale?”

Philanthropy and Business: A Numbers Game Over five short years, VPP and its nonprofit partners have leveraged the initial $30 million in investment grants into nearly $70 million in value received by the region’s nonprofit sector. Specifically, an additional $27 million has been contributed by individuals, traditional foundations, and organizations. The VPP professional investment team and firms such as McKinsey & Co. have also provided another $14 million in management consulting and other services.

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VPP’s Lessons for Lawmakers

by Mark Warner

When I first co-founded Venture Philanthropy Partners in June 2000, I knew it would have an impact. After all, it had great leadership, was supported by some of the best minds around, and its venture-type investment approach had helped many of us build highly successful global enterprises.

But it was only after I was elected Governor of Virginia did I realize the true significance of VPP’s work – and the need for more of it. Every day in the Governor’s office was a series of choices that must be made with finite resources: how do we improve health coverage for our people? How do we train and retain a world-class workforce? How can we best help kids in under-performing schools? How can we ensure that we are creating opportunities for every child?

VPP’s demonstrated successes in helping compelling community leaders build stronger, more effective nonprofit institutions offer real-life lessons to policy makers in two key areas. First is innovation. VPP’s support and assistance to good nonprofit leaders is not only helping them be more effective in tackling difficult social problems, but also giving them the opportunity to think differently about how to move their organizations to the next level of impact for children in our region.

Second is the importance of breaking down silos. By being uniquely positioned at the intersection of the business, philanthropic, and nonprofit worlds, VPP can assist in brokering cross-sector partnerships that make a lasting difference.

It is VPP’s work in education, however, that has probably had the most impact to date. Not only is VPP heavily invested in breakthrough K12 organizations with the potential to become national models, it is also investing millions in organizations that support these young people outside of school. These include programs for early childhood development, afterschool, mentoring and those that help qualified students navigate the college admissions process.

VPP’s impact today is wider than I could have ever dreamed when we started six years ago. Our organization, along with a handful of others like it, is helping make a real difference in the lives of thousands of children.

Mark Warner was governor of Virginia from 2002-2006, and in his business career helped create more than 70 telecommunications and information technology companies.

Invest in Social Change continued “HOW DO WE DRAW ON OUR BUSINESS EXPERIENCE TO IMPACT SOCIAL CHANGE? HERE’S ONE EXAMPLE … AFTER VPP MADE A GRANT TO HEADS UP, RICHARD HANLON AND I CONVINCED THE BOARDS OF SCHOLASTIC, INC. AND MICHAELS STORES (ON WHICH WE RESPECTIVELY SERVE) TO DONATE BOOKS AND CRAFT SUPPLIES (TOGETHER WITH CRAYOLA) FOR THEIR AFTER-SCHOOL CURRICULUM. RICHARD THEN REALIZED THAT MICHAELS COULD ACTUALLY SELL THESE AS “READ AND CREATE” CRAFTS PACKS IN THEIR STORES, GIVING BACK A PERCENTAGE OF THE PROCEEDS TO HEADS UP, THIS NOT ONLY CREATED A NEW SOURCE OF REVENUE BUT HAS BUILT GREATER COMMUNITY AWARENESS OF HEADS UP’S AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAM.” -- JACK DAVIES

Highly Engaged Philanthropy

by Jack Davies

After I stepped down from my role as president of AOL International in early 2000, I wanted to make a difference in the lives of children in this community. But I was looking for more than just writing checks or attending charity events – I wanted to be more involved and leverage my experience in the business world.

I WAS VPP resonated with me because it represented LOOKING FOR a pragmatic, business-like and highly engaged approach to philanthropy.

MORE THAN Since getting involved, I have had the opportunity to observe VPP from a number of JUST WRITING different perspectives: as an investor, as a VPP board and executive committee member, and CHECKS OR as a board member for two of VPP’ s nonprofit ATTENDING partners, HeadsUp and See Forever Foundation.

I have seen how VPP works shoulder to shoulder CHARITY with our partners, from the initial strategic planning process to helping the organization better define EVENTS.” its goals and objectives, to working closely with them as they successfully implement their plans to improve the lives of the children and families they are serving. Certainly, the money VPP commits is important, but most of our nonprofit partners would say that the management assistance and support we provide is even more valuable.

When I became involved with VPP, I thought primarily of what I could bring to our partners – my network of contacts, my business experience, and of course, financial support. But I had no idea that I would get back so much more in return – the joy of seeing children benefit from VPP’s work has been the ultimate return on investment.

Jack Davies was founder of AOL International and is involved in a number of philanthropic activities in the National Capital Region.

The 12 organizations in which VPP is currently invested are now on track to serve more than 80,000 low-income families by 2010. With input and expertise from local tech players Steve Case, Jack Davies, Kathy Bushkin and Jim Kimsey, among others,VPP’s early results show that what worked for AOL and the high-tech sector can also be applied to help community leaders build schools, education, and health infrastructure across the National Capital Region.

“I joined VPP along with a lot of other people from AOL,” says former AOL executive Kathy Bushkin.“We felt that it was a turning point in the way people thought about philanthropy. It wasn’t just something you did privately; for the first time, you weren’t just a passive donor,” she says. Buskin is currently executive vice president and chief operating officer of the United Nations Foundation, an organization that was transformed by businessman philanthropist Ted Turner’s one billion dollar donation to the U.N. in 1998.

VPP’s founding investors are encouraged to use their significant web of contacts from the political, social and financial worlds to affect lasting change and achieve results by increasing donor participation and the nonprofits’ accountability.“Trying to understand what metrics you use to measure and find success is difficult,” Kimsey admits.“But that’s one of the things that all of us are used to doing.”

Former AOL International President Jack Davies describes VPP as the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval for nonprofits. “People know that if we are providing funds to a particular organization, that organization has gone through our considerable process of analysis and due diligence,” Davies explains.“We’ve got a lot of investors who are very passionate about the community in which they live, and this represents a unique opportunity to give back in a business-like, quantifiable fashion.”

Access to business leaders is a key toVPP’s approach and appeal.The group includes what experts call “deep bench” management consultants from a series of advisorpartners such as StrategicHire.com who helps nonprofits chart their staffing needs, and McKinsey and Co. which offers long-term management and planning expertise.

EARLY RESULTS ....

VPP is working with twelve nonprofit partners in order to help them reach their goals. Here’s a quick breakdown:

ASIAN AMERICAN LEAD After-school and familysupport services for Asian-American youth.

Key Accomplishments: Will respond to the region’s changing demographics and expand to Maryland, tripling the number of children served by 2010.

Capital Committed: $425,000 since November 2002

CHILD AND FAMILY NETWORK CENTERS Free and fully accredited preschool and family support to communities in Alexandria and Arlington.

Key Accomplishments: Nearly doubled the number of children served and essentially doubled the number of hours that children receive preschool education.

Opened seven new classrooms in four new sites.

Capital Committed: $600,363 since December 2001

SEE FOREVER FOUNDATION Creates learning communities in lower income areas and helps students, who haven’t succeeded in traditional schools, reach their potential.

Key Accomplishments: Nearly tripled the number of students served over three years, created a precedentsetting partnership with D.C. Public Schools, and had a graduation rate of 92% in 2005.

Capital Committ: $2,443,000 since July 2002

COLLEGE SUMMIT Increases the college enrollment rate of low-income students by putting college access “know-how” and support within the reach of every student.

Key Accomplishments: Created partnerships with three universities and five high schools and has doubled (to 800) the number of young adults it reaches in the region.

Capital Committed: $734,000 since December 2004 **

MARY’S CENTER FOR MATERNAL AND CHILD CARE Integrated set of health care, education, and social services to a culturally diverse community.

Key Accomplishments: Becoming a Federallyqualified health center resulted in an annualized financial benefit of approximately $1.1 million. Added COO and CFO to senior management team.

Capital Committed: $3,386,507 since April 2004

CENTER FOR MULTICULTURAL HUMAN SERVICES Mental health, educational, legal and social services in 32 languages to residents of the Washington metropolitan region.

Key Accomplishments: Almost tripled the number of children served. Expanded in D.C. through partnership with Covenant House.Trained almost 10,000 people since 2002 to provide more culturally appropriate mental health services to children and families.

Capital Committed: $2,984,830 since December 2001

HEADS UP After-school and summer education programs for children in the most under-resourced neighborhoods of Washington, D.C. Key Accomplishments: More than doubled the number of students served daily over four years, expanded its hours of service by 70 percent, and substantially improved its curriculum.

Capital Committed: $2,074,000 since July 2001

FRIENDSHIP PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL Largest public charter school in D.C., operating five campuses with more than 3,500 students.

Key Accomplishments: Will grow to serve 5,000 children on seven campuses, including a Career Technical School, and a K-12 International Baccalaureate School that will be one of the most rigorous academic programs in the nation.

Capital Committed: $2,900,000 since May 2005

CENTRONÍA Childhood/elementary education and family programming in bilingual multicultural communities in D.C. Key Accomplishments: Doubled the number of children served over three years in part through opening a bilingual charter school.

Capital Committed: $2,420,000 since November 2002

LATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER Serves multicultural youth in D.C. and Maryland with educational, work skills, advocacy, and residential programs.

Key Accomplishments: Establishing three new centers in Montgomery and Prince George’s Counties (MD) and entered into new partnerships, including major collaboration with Archdiocese of Greater Washington.

Capital Committed: $1,824,191 since March 2003

THE SEED FOUNDATION ManagesThe SEED Charter School ofWashington D.C. – the first college preparatory urban public boarding school in the nation.

Key Accomplishments: Graduated two classes so far; in each, 100% of the graduating students accepted and attending four-year colleges. Plans are in place to open a second school in the National Capital Region.

Capital Committed: $387,000 since June 2005**

BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER WASHINGTON After-school academic enrichment and athletic activities for almost 35,000 children throughout the region.

Key Accomplishments: Energized board ensured that over 30,000 children and youth in the region were served without interruption while working though a complex merger, an intense planning process, and a highly successful CEO leadership transition.

Capital Committed: $898,962 since March 2004 **

** Capital committed to date, with multi-year investment still to be completed.

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Ready for the Next Level

Championing for Children

by Joe Robert

As a former boxer, I know that winning in the ring takes commitment, passion and dedication (a good left hook helps as well.) As a philanthropist, I see first hand how important these same traits are to winning the fight for our at-risk children.

I’ve dedicated most of my adult life to fighting for children who come from tough circumstances. Over the past five years, VPP has shared my passion for helping youth get the opportunities they need, particularly in the areas of education and health care. Virtually no other organization is doing what VPP is in terms of helping vital nonprofits reach the next level of impact. Its combination of growth capital and hands-on executive help creates a “VPP’S LEADmultiplier effect for organizations looking to ERSHIP STYLE move to a higher level.

VPP’s leadership style is quiet and IS QUIET AND behind the scenes, yet its influence goes beyond the groups it directly invests in.

BEHIND THE One example is my own organization, Fight for Children, which is leading efforts SCENES, YET for educational reform in public, private ITS INFLUENCE and parochial schools. Not only have we benefited from VPP’s knowledge of the GOES BEYOND region and its systems, but we’ve also used VPP’s learning to refine our own approach THE GROUPS and efforts.

Now we need to build on the successes IT DIRECTLY of VPP’s first five years. There are major INVESTS IN.” opportunities for the region’s nonprofits and its children. The bottom line is that our country can’t afford to let the American dream disappear for millions of children in need of opportunity. This is a fight we can win. Get in the ring and join us – become a champion for children.

Joe Robert is chairman and CEO of JER Partners, and is founder of Fight for Children, a nonprofit organization.

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During its formative years,VPP kept a low public profile. Now, after five years of learning and adapting its investment approach, the group feels it has made sufficient progress to reach out to a wider audience.“Our approach has been pretty much about keeping quiet until we have something really tangible and substantial to talk about.We feel we have that now,” Davies says.

Joe Robert, founder of the nonprofit Fight for Children, which works directly withVPP, has seen the positive outcomes.“I’ve seen organizations that were quite small grow, serve more children, solve more problems, and get on sound footing; whereas before they were struggling to make the progress that they were achieving” he says. “The early signs are very good, but ultimately, five years from now, history will make the judgment about whether or not the successes were sustainable.We’re all hopeful that they will be.” Morino believes venture philanthropy is still an emerging concept, but notes, “We have more and more people paying attention to it. I think it’s a natural evolution.”

Emerging or not, their work has made an impression on foundations old and new, says Annie E. Casey Foundation Senior Vice President Ralph Smith. “VPP is on the right side of history and has established itself at the leading edge of philanthropy,” Smith says.

There have been bumps in the road. Not only are there daunting cultural differences between the business and nonprofit worlds, but traditional foundations, which oversee a large percentage of philanthropic funding in America, often have a raised eyebrow view of their venture philanthropist counterparts.

VENTURE PHILANTHROPY BREAKOUT: KATHY BUSHKIN, VPP FOUNDING INVESTOR “AS FOR ‘OLD’ VS ‘NEW’ – BOTH SIDES HAVE HAD AN IMPACT ON THE OTHER. THE NEW PHILANTHROPISTS HAVE LEARNED THAT IT ISN’T AS SIMPLE AS SAYING WE’RE USING BUSINESS PRINCIPLES, SO PHILANTHROPY WILL BE EASIER. PHILANTHROPY IS A VERY HARD THING TO DO – BOTH SIDES KNOW THAT.”

Kathy Buskin is currently executive vice president and COO of the United Nations Foundation.

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There is some skepticism that the new guys can fundamentally affect and make change in philanthropy – that money can have the transformational social effect that VPP has in mind,” Bushkin says. “I think the old philanthropic guard feels they are doing a good job on accountability; that they are doing a good job on measuring results. There is some sensitivity that these new principles are going to come in and undercut everything.”

Bushkin believes that, in fact, somewhat of the inverse has occurred: “What has happened is that everybody has stepped up their game. The sector was ready for more rigorous accountability standards, and it was time for people to bring in new blood. As for ‘old’ versus ‘new’ – both sides have had an impact on the other. The new philanthropists have learned that it isn’t as simple as saying we’re using business principles, so philanthropy will be easier. Philanthropy is a very hard thing to do – both sides know that.”

Old or new, venture or traditional; in philanthropy, the end tends to justify the means. If VPP’s “ends” have proven anything, it’s that the burgeoning paradigm of venture philanthropy has made it past its early beginnings and is now primed for growth. In its recent survey, The Economist called Venture Philanthropy Partners “perhaps the best example” of venture philanthropy in practice.Yet despite its early successes,VPP is in reality just scratching the surface of what needs to be done to support high impact nonprofits and to drive change in the field. If it continues to be successful, there just might be a new chapter in the history books.

VENTURE PHILANTHROPY BREAKOUT: CAROL THOMPSON COLE, VPP MANAGING PARTNER “THE LEADERS OF OUR NONPROFIT PARTNERS HAVE DEDICATED THEIR LIVES TO IMPROVING THIS REGION, STRENGTHENING ITS SOCIAL FABRIC, AND ENSURING THAT ALL OF ITS CHILDREN HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO GROW UP AND LIVE THE AMERICAN DREAM.”

Carol Thompson Cole was chief of staff and city manager for the District of Columbia and served as White House liaison to the District for President and Mrs. Clinton.

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The Importance of Investing In Good Leaders

by Jim Kimsey

Experience in the military, in the business world and in philanthropy has repeatedly shown that good leadership is sine qua non of any effective organization. Without it, an organization cannot meet its mission, whether it’s taking a hill from the enemy, starting up a successful corporation or giving opportunities to children who need them.

But too often in the nonprofit world, even good leaders get diverted from their “ONE OF mission. They have big visions and bold ambitions, but often are consumed by the THE THINGS daily constraints of running a mid-sized enterprise on a shoestring budget. Instead THAT EVERY of seeing the big picture, they see a million PHILANTHROPIST pixels.

That’s why the work of Venture OUGHT TO DO IS Philanthropy Partners is so critical. VPP’s approach to investing in breakthrough READ THE nonprofit leaders provides them the funding and assistance they need to HIPPOCRATIC transform their organization and move it to a greater level of impact. That means OATH.” growth capital – lots of it over multiple years – so that nonprofit leaders can invest in building organizational strength so they become better positioned to do more to improve the lives of children.

VPP’s new style of investing in nonprofits is helping good leaders build great organizations. This is crucial because we will not solve our region’s or our country’s most pressing problems unless we give our most effective and promising leaders the support and assistance they need.

Jim Kimsey, founding CEO of America Online, Inc., is a combat veteran who is currently involved in numerous business, philanthropic and international diplomacy efforts.

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THE OTHER FOUNDING INVESTORS OF VPP Meet Some of the Regional Business Leaders that Have Made Venture Philanthropy a Reality

Peter Barris Managing General Partner,

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David Bradley

Katherine Bradley

John Burton Managing Director, Updata Capital

Art Bushkin Chairman and CEO, Stargazer Group

President CityBridge Foundation

New Enterprise Associates

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Jean Case CEO, The Case Foundation

Steve Case Chairman and CEO, Revolution

Will and Denise Dunbar Will is MD of

Core Capital Partners

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Richard A. Kay Pres. Strategic Management Consultants, LLC,

George Kettle CEO George F. Kettle Enterprises, LLC

Jeong H. Kim President, Bell Laboratories

Len Leader Former President, AOL Time Warner Venture Group

Ted Leonsis Vice Chairman, America Online, Inc.

Art Marks General Partner, Valhalla Partners

Bill Melton CEO Melton Investments

Patricia Smith Melton Founder and Exec Dir, PEACE X PEACE

Ken J. Novack Retired Vice Chairman, Time Warner

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Doug Smith, Founder/CEO of Omnipoint (now T-Mobile)

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MARK RUSSO — wearing Lacoste long-sleeve polo tee ($82), ZegnaSport turquoise pima cotton with white striped sleeves($275), and ZegnaSport white denim pants ($150), all BLOOMINGDALE’S, Titleist Driver($450.00), WASHINGTON GOLF CENTER / ELENA RUSSO — wearing Prada white denim jacket ($565) and matching Prada white cuffed denim capris($445), both NEIMAN MARCUS; Azalea cable V-neck sweater ($148), JCREW; Eliza B. green with pink seahorse print belt($33), LEMON TWIST; Coach multi-colored patchwork small hobo handbag($228), BLOOMINGDALE’S; Foot Joy white with beige argyle golf shoes ($80), Nike Iron($650 set), WASHINGTON GOLF CENTER / BJ FISHER — wearing Alara blue and white pinstriped french-cuffed shirt($97.50), Polo Ralph Lauren light pink V-neck sweater ($97.50), and

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Polo Ralph Lauren white linen pants ($225), all BLOOMINGDALE’S; Foot Joy Classics Tour Shoes white with chestnut crocodile print detail ($250), Callaway Driver($400), all WASHINGTON GOLF CENTER / NAYEON HAN — wearing Lilly Pulitzer white polo shirt ($69), Lauren Active Ralph Lauren white polyester sleeveless vest with pink stripes ($129), Lilly Pulitzer pink and yellow pa erned skirt with bow ($138), all BLOOMINGDALE’S; Pink-bowed flip flops ($32), LEMON TWIST, Ping Iron ($800 set). ON GOLF CART: Lilljenquist white cable V-neck sweater ($138), BLOOMINGDALE’S. Honma Twin Mark Silver golf bag with Beres golf clubs ($4,000) and MACGREGOR Bobby Grace pu er ($200), WASHINGTON GOLF CENTER WA S H I N G T O N L I F E

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he Country Club lifestyle has long been an integral part of Washington life, and rumor has it that almost as many power deals have been made over drives-and-drinks on the links as on “K” Street. Nothing says “County Club” like golf, and what you wear on the course or clubhouse can say volumes about you … luxury fabrics, the latest equipment and state-of-the-art accessories are all part of the game. “Preppy” looks have always prevailed for golf (and still do), but today’s rising stars and young pros also demand comfort and performance from their fashion classics. Natural fibers like cotton and linen will always be in vogue, but increasingly golfers are choosing blended fabrics that provide stretch, flexibility, durability and often have “wicking” properties. Once you hit the 19th Hole all fashion bets are off and it’s all about the look, attitude, and chic nonchalance.

KRIS TSCHETTER — wearing Lacoste pink short-sleeve pique polo($72), BLOOMINGDALE’S; Callaway white microfiber jacket($195), Tommy Hilfiger white textured capri pants ($65) and, Callaway Driver ($400), all WASHINGTON GOLF CENTER; Salvatore Ferragamo white wooden sandal ($320), SALVATORE FERRAGAMO / KIRK LUCAS — wearing Lacoste blue cable knit pullover ($275) and Lacoste long sleeve polo T ($82), Polo Sport white linen pants($225), all BLOOMINGDALE’S, TAG black leather watch ($2,295), FINK’S JEWELERS; Adidas Tour Euro white golf shoes ($130), Ping golf club ($800 set), both WASHINGTON GOLF CENTER / JOEY CURLY — wearing Lacoste lime green polo T-shirt ($72), Polo Ralph

Lauren white sweater ($250), both BLOOMINGDALE’S; White chino shorts ($75), JCREW; Martinis & More pink belt with lime green cocktail print belt ($35), LEMON TWIST; Hugo Boss white Italy golf shoes($199), HUGO BOSS; Callaway white cap ($20) and Ping G2 8iron ($899 set), WASHINGTON GOLF CENTER / CHRIS CURLY — wearing clover green argyle short sleeve V-neck sweater($118), JCREW; Anne Klein white co on french cuffed shirt ($88) and Inc. white stretch denim cropped pants ($89), both BLOOMINGDALE’S; Callaway driver ($400) and Ping iron ($800 set), both WASHINGTON GOLF CENTER. Keri multi-striped golf bag ($400), all WASHINGTON GOLF CENTER.

ELENA RUSSO host of the midAtlantic’s Golf Road Show, has graced the catwalks from New York to Milan. Born and raised in Washington, DC, she made the leap from modeling to television via the sports industry. Her resume runs the gamut from the Baltimore Orioles Magazine Show to CNN Headline News to America’s Most Wanted.

Above– Coach white multicolored small tote ($168) and patchwork hobo bag ($228), both BLOOMINGDALE’S.

Elena Russo, wearing St. John Sport lime woven cardigan ($545) with matching St. John Sport lime camisole ($275) and St. John Sport white cargo capris with silver buckled strap ($275), all BLOOMINGDALE’S; David Yurman two-row wheat donut necklace ($980) with lemon citrine enhancer ($1,250), lemon citrine bracelet ($2,750), diamond pave end bracelet ($1,600), diamond pave center bracelet ($980), pave square diamond earrings ($1,590), quartz/citrine ring ($950), TAG white stainless steel watch with diamonds ($1,895), all FINK’S JEWELERS.

KRIS TSCHETTER LPGA, has already surpassed the $2 million mark. This working mom and Liz Claiborne model/representative is also founder of the Kris Tschetter Celebrity Golf Benefit for Kids, an event that raises money for children’s charities in the Sioux Falls, SD area.

KIRK LUCAS is married to Kris Tschetter; they have two children. Kirk is the founder of “The Farm,” a 75acre facility that provides golfers the opportunity to replicate any golf course situation and game improvement.

As a teaching pro, he coaches top amateurs, collegiate golf club players, promising juniors, and pros from all tours including 2002 PGA Tour rookie of the year and two time PGA Tour winner Jonathan Byrd.

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Le – Kris Tsche er, wearing peach-quilted vest ($580) and white chiffon print belt scarf with natural padded buckle ($125), both SALVATORE FERRAGAMO; Anne Klein khaki bermuda shorts ($195), BLOOMINGDALE’S; David Yurman pave diamond huggy earrings ($470), FINK’S JEWELERS. | Kirk Lucas, wearing Bugatchi striped shirt ($90), WASHINGTON GOLF CENTER; Hugo Boss white co on pants ($135) and Hugo Boss belt($115), both HUGO BOSS.

Top, le to right– Kris Tsche er, wearing Lacoste pink short-sleeve pique polo ($72) and Callaway white microfiber jacket($195), Tommy Hilfiger white textured capri pants ($65), all WASHINGTON GOLF CENTER | Kirk Lucas, wearing Lacoste blue cable knit pullover ($275) and Lacoste long-sleeve polo T($82), Polo Sport white linen pants ($225), all BLOOMINGDALE’S, TAG black leather watch ($2,295), FINK’S JEWELERS; Adidas Tour Euro white golf shoes ($130), WASHINGTON GOLF CENTER WA S H I N G T O N L I F E

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Le to Right– NAYEON HAN a 17-year-old junior at Langley High School, placed 8th in States and has already won the 3rd Titleist Championship. JOEY CURLY freshman at St. Stephens and St. Agnes High School in Alexandria, he won the championship at the Innisbrook Golf Resort in Palm Harbor, FL for the Boys 1213 Division in 2005 during the PJGT tour. His handicap is 7. BJ FISHER﹐ freshman at The Highland High School in Warrenton, made First Team All Conference and finished 5th overall in the conference. CHRISTINE CURLY﹐ senior at James Madison High School, was the first female golfer to win the Virginia Liberty District golf title (71-78) in 2005. She is a golf member at TPC Avenel Golf Club and plays junior intraclub for Westwood Country Club in Vienna, VA where she was awarded Player of the Year. Her handicap is 4.

Above–Nayeon Han, wearing Lacoste white short-sleeve polo ($69), BLOOMINGDALE’S; Argyle cashmere V-neck sweater($168), JCREW; Nike white golf skirt ($60), Callaway white visor ($15), and Ben Hogan pu er ($150), all WASHINGTON GOLF CENTER. | Joey Curly, wearing Lacoste orange and yellow collared polo shirt($72), Polo Ralph Lauren co on neon orange cargos ($165), both BLOOMINGDALE’S; Lilly Pulitzer green with pink and white striped belt ($45), LEMON TWIST. | BJ Fisher, wearing Lacoste khaki co on jacket ($250) and Lacoste caiman green polo T-shirt ($72), Polo by Ralph Lauren plaid shorts($65), all BLOOMINGDALE’S; Callaway orange cap ($20) and Callaway X Driver ($300), both WASHINGTON GOLF CENTER. | Chris Curly, wearing Lacoste pink pima co on V-neck sweater($125), BLOOMINGDALE’S; Nike white woven shirt ($80), WASHINGTON GOLF CENTER; Stone cropped heritage chinos($54), JCREW; Hot pink fedora ($50), PROPPER TOPPER; Douglas Paque e green with pink polka dot belt ($30), LEMON TWIST. Below, Le to Right– Raymond Weil white rectangular watch with diamonds ($1,595), FINK’S JEWELERS / Callaway HX golf balls ($49.99), WASHINGTON GOLF CENTER. WA S H I N G T O N L I F E

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M ARK A.R USSO , (in orange jacket) is PGA and head professional at the Country Club of Woodmore. Mark earned his membership in the PGA of America in May 2005 and is a member of the organization’s President’s Council. He is active in the Mid-Atlantic section of the PGA and has volunteered for the Booze Allen Classic program to introduce inner-city youths to the game of golf.

Le fo right- Kris Tschetter — wearing Anne Klein brown spaghe i strap silk yarn dress with ocean blue polka dots and flowered accent($180) and Via Spiga light blue strappy sandals($86), both BLOOMINGDALE’S; David Yurman blue topaz charm bracelet($830) and post clip earrings($790); both FINK’S JEWELERS. / Kirk Lucas — wearing Hugo Boss navy and khaki pinstriped co on

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jacket($595), sky blue sweater($165), and khaki flat front pants ($135), all HUGO BOSS; Salvatore Ferragamo navy driving shoes with silver metal toggles($375), SALVATORE FERRAGAMO. / Mark Russo — wearing Polo Ralph Lauren Congressman Classic coral jacket ($595), Polo Ralph Lauren white linen button-down shirt($80), Polo Ralph Lauren white linen pants($225),

all BLOOMINGDALE’S; Hugo Boss white slip-ons($235), HUGO BOSS. / Elena Russo — wearing Carmen Marc Valvo red and white floral print strapless dress with balloon hemline($500), NEIMAN MARCUS; Salvatore Ferragamo white with red strap and yellow accent stile os($410), SALVATORE FERRAGAMO. Martini glasses, set of 4,($100) WASHINGTON GOLF CENTER

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Produced and styled by Barbara McConaghy; Fashion Assistants and Editorial Credit by Elizabeth Moon and Michelle Barren. Photographed by Mark Dreibelbis, 301-975-9800. Special thanks to: Lansdowne Resort and Marketing Director Josh Herman for their support and hospitality; Washington Golf Center for their golf expertise; Vidal Sassoon Salon Top Stylist, Allison Lyle and Assistants, Jun Kim and Janet Rivera; and Anita Bahramy Make-Up, T.H.E. Artist Agency, Georgetown.

he Country Club lifestyle has long been an integral part of Washington life, and rumor has it that almost as many power deals have been made over drives-and-drinks on the links as on “K” Street. Nothing says “County Club” like golf, and what you wear on the course or clubhouse can say volumes about you … luxury fabrics, the latest equipment and state-of-the-art accessories are all part of the game. “Preppy” looks have always prevailed for golf (and still do), but today’s rising stars and young pros also demand comfort and performance from their fashion classics. Natural fibers like cotton and linen will always be in vogue, but increasingly golfers are choosing blended fabrics that provide stretch, flexibility, durability and often have “wicking” properties. Once you hit the 19th Hole all fashion bets are off and it’s all about the look, attitude, and chic nonchalance.

KRIS TSCHETTER — wearing Lacoste pink short-sleeve pique polo($72), BLOOMINGDALE’S; Callaway white microfiber jacket($195), Tommy Hilfiger white textured capri pants ($65) and, Callaway Driver ($400), all WASHINGTON GOLF CENTER; Salvatore Ferragamo white wooden sandal ($320), SALVATORE FERRAGAMO / KIRK LUCAS — wearing Lacoste blue cable knit pullover ($275) and Lacoste long sleeve polo T ($82), Polo Sport white linen pants($225), all BLOOMINGDALE’S, TAG black leather watch ($2,295), FINK’S JEWELERS; Adidas Tour Euro white golf shoes ($130), Ping golf club ($800 set), both WASHINGTON GOLF CENTER / JOEY CURLY — wearing Lacoste lime green polo T-shirt ($72), Polo Ralph

Lauren white sweater ($250), both BLOOMINGDALE’S; White chino shorts ($75), JCREW; Martinis & More pink belt with lime green cocktail print belt ($35), LEMON TWIST; Hugo Boss white Italy golf shoes($199), HUGO BOSS; Callaway white cap ($20) and Ping G2 8iron ($899 set), WASHINGTON GOLF CENTER / CHRIS CURLY — wearing clover green argyle short sleeve V-neck sweater($118), JCREW; Anne Klein white co on french cuffed shirt ($88) and Inc. white stretch denim cropped pants ($89), both BLOOMINGDALE’S; Callaway driver ($400) and Ping iron ($800 set), both WASHINGTON GOLF CENTER. Keri multi-striped golf bag ($400), all WASHINGTON GOLF CENTER.

ELENA RUSSO host of the midAtlantic’s Golf Road Show, has graced the catwalks from New York to Milan. Born and raised in Washington, DC, she made the leap from modeling to television via the sports industry. Her resume runs the gamut from the Baltimore Orioles Magazine Show to CNN Headline News to America’s Most Wanted.

Above– Coach white multicolored small tote ($168) and patchwork hobo bag ($228), both BLOOMINGDALE’S.

Elena Russo, wearing St. John Sport lime woven cardigan ($545) with matching St. John Sport lime camisole ($275) and St. John Sport white cargo capris with silver buckled strap ($275), all BLOOMINGDALE’S; David Yurman two-row wheat donut necklace ($980) with lemon citrine enhancer ($1,250), lemon citrine bracelet ($2,750), diamond pave end bracelet ($1,600), diamond pave center bracelet ($980), pave square diamond earrings ($1,590), quartz/citrine ring ($950), TAG white stainless steel watch with diamonds ($1,895), all FINK’S JEWELERS.

KRIS TSCHETTER LPGA, has already surpassed the $2 million mark. This working mom and Liz Claiborne model/representative is also founder of the Kris Tschetter Celebrity Golf Benefit for Kids, an event that raises money for children’s charities in the Sioux Falls, SD area.

KIRK LUCAS is married to Kris Tschetter; they have two children. Kirk is the founder of “The Farm,” a 75acre facility that provides golfers the opportunity to replicate any golf course situation and game improvement.

As a teaching pro, he coaches top amateurs, collegiate golf club players, promising juniors, and pros from all tours including 2002 PGA Tour rookie of the year and two time PGA Tour winner Jonathan Byrd.

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Le – Kris Tsche er, wearing peach-quilted vest ($580) and white chiffon print belt scarf with natural padded buckle ($125), both SALVATORE FERRAGAMO; Anne Klein khaki bermuda shorts ($195), BLOOMINGDALE’S; David Yurman pave diamond huggy earrings ($470), FINK’S JEWELERS. | Kirk Lucas, wearing Bugatchi striped shirt ($90), WASHINGTON GOLF CENTER; Hugo Boss white co on pants ($135) and Hugo Boss belt($115), both HUGO BOSS.

Top, le to right– Kris Tsche er, wearing Lacoste pink short-sleeve pique polo ($72) and Callaway white microfiber jacket($195), Tommy Hilfiger white textured capri pants ($65), all WASHINGTON GOLF CENTER | Kirk Lucas, wearing Lacoste blue cable knit pullover ($275) and Lacoste long-sleeve polo T($82), Polo Sport white linen pants ($225), all BLOOMINGDALE’S, TAG black leather watch ($2,295), FINK’S JEWELERS; Adidas Tour Euro white golf shoes ($130), WASHINGTON GOLF CENTER WA S H I N G T O N L I F E

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Le to Right– NAYEON HAN a 17-year-old junior at Langley High School, placed 8th in States and has already won the 3rd Titleist Championship. JOEY CURLY freshman at St. Stephens and St. Agnes High School in Alexandria, he won the championship at the Innisbrook Golf Resort in Palm Harbor, FL for the Boys 1213 Division in 2005 during the PJGT tour. His handicap is 7. BJ FISHER﹐ freshman at The Highland High School in Warrenton, made First Team All Conference and finished 5th overall in the conference. CHRISTINE CURLY﹐ senior at James Madison High School, was the first female golfer to win the Virginia Liberty District golf title (71-78) in 2005. She is a golf member at TPC Avenel Golf Club and plays junior intraclub for Westwood Country Club in Vienna, VA where she was awarded Player of the Year. Her handicap is 4.

Above–Nayeon Han, wearing Lacoste white short-sleeve polo ($69), BLOOMINGDALE’S; Argyle cashmere V-neck sweater($168), JCREW; Nike white golf skirt ($60), Callaway white visor ($15), and Ben Hogan pu er ($150), all WASHINGTON GOLF CENTER. | Joey Curly, wearing Lacoste orange and yellow collared polo shirt($72), Polo Ralph Lauren co on neon orange cargos ($165), both BLOOMINGDALE’S; Lilly Pulitzer green with pink and white striped belt ($45), LEMON TWIST. | BJ Fisher, wearing Lacoste khaki co on jacket ($250) and Lacoste caiman green polo T-shirt ($72), Polo by Ralph Lauren plaid shorts($65), all BLOOMINGDALE’S; Callaway orange cap ($20) and Callaway X Driver ($300), both WASHINGTON GOLF CENTER. | Chris Curly, wearing Lacoste pink pima co on V-neck sweater($125), BLOOMINGDALE’S; Nike white woven shirt ($80), WASHINGTON GOLF CENTER; Stone cropped heritage chinos($54), JCREW; Hot pink fedora ($50), PROPPER TOPPER; Douglas Paque e green with pink polka dot belt ($30), LEMON TWIST. Below, Le to Right– Raymond Weil white rectangular watch with diamonds ($1,595), FINK’S JEWELERS / Callaway HX golf balls ($49.99), WASHINGTON GOLF CENTER. WA S H I N G T O N L I F E

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M ARK A.R USSO , (in orange jacket) is PGA and head professional at the Country Club of Woodmore. Mark earned his membership in the PGA of America in May 2005 and is a member of the organization’s President’s Council. He is active in the Mid-Atlantic section of the PGA and has volunteered for the Booze Allen Classic program to introduce inner-city youths to the game of golf.

Le fo right- Kris Tschetter — wearing Anne Klein brown spaghe i strap silk yarn dress with ocean blue polka dots and flowered accent($180) and Via Spiga light blue strappy sandals($86), both BLOOMINGDALE’S; David Yurman blue topaz charm bracelet($830) and post clip earrings($790); both FINK’S JEWELERS. / Kirk Lucas — wearing Hugo Boss navy and khaki pinstriped co on

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jacket($595), sky blue sweater($165), and khaki flat front pants ($135), all HUGO BOSS; Salvatore Ferragamo navy driving shoes with silver metal toggles($375), SALVATORE FERRAGAMO. / Mark Russo — wearing Polo Ralph Lauren Congressman Classic coral jacket ($595), Polo Ralph Lauren white linen button-down shirt($80), Polo Ralph Lauren white linen pants($225),

all BLOOMINGDALE’S; Hugo Boss white slip-ons($235), HUGO BOSS. / Elena Russo — wearing Carmen Marc Valvo red and white floral print strapless dress with balloon hemline($500), NEIMAN MARCUS; Salvatore Ferragamo white with red strap and yellow accent stile os($410), SALVATORE FERRAGAMO. Martini glasses, set of 4,($100) WASHINGTON GOLF CENTER

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Started in 1889 by Jeanne Lanvin, this French maison de couture has become extremely popular among fashionistas and Hollywood starlets alike. Since becoming creative director of the line in 2002, Alber Elbaz has brought Lanvin to new heights. Elbaz is known for expert tailoring, incredible design innovations and creative use of jewelry and satin detail to give each look a uniquely elegant appeal. Lanvin has been spotted on such stars as Cameron Diaz, Demi Moore and Angelica Houston.

lbaz has cra ed a stunning ready-to-wear summer collection that includes obi inspired accents and clean straight lines. Pencil skirts, pleats and sexy silk blouses will complete the wardrobe of the fashionable lady-about-town.

Le to right– Black wool gabardine belted double-breasted jacket lined with ecru silk.

Black co on and washed silk skirt with ecru organdie trim. / Ecru silk blouse with pleated back. Dark blue silk dress with black elastic belt and V-neck back. / Ecru metallic satin jacket. Ecru silk satin straight skirt. / Black silk and paper jacket. Black wool gabardine straight skirt. / Saffron gazar dress with obi bow at neckline and plunging back / Ink silk chiffon blouse. Black radzimir straight skirt with round pleats at the waist.

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If you are concerned about comfort, try Lanvin’s new Ballerines. The flat shoe has a one centimeter heel and comes in several bright colors. Paired with jeans and a clean white bu oned-down shirt, you’ll be ready to shop the length of Georgetown’s Wisconsin Avenue in comfort and style.

THE PLATFORM

Who do you think started the wooden platform trend, or at least brought it back? Lanvin of course! Take a look at the ho est new shoe trend.

THE ACCESSORIES

Delicate yet modern Orchid brooches in cool jeweled tones add a distinctive touch to any classic suit. This Pearl and Metal Origami Necklace is the “dernier cri” to any causal outfit.

Le to right, top to bo om– Ballerines in satin / Cone high heeled shoes in satin. / Stick high heeled shoes in Lizard Skin / Metal and Strass Orchids: Brooch, comb, bracelet, (black, violet, white) / Pearl and Metal Origami Necklace

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TREAT YOURSELF WL’s Guide to the Hottest Treatments in Town In our rush to succeed we often find ourselves out of balance with our general well-being… and looking a bit tired as well. Both can be easily remedied with strategically timed spa visits. Here are some of the city’s more interesting options.

ANNE SÉMONIN SIGNATURE FACIAL THE SPA AT THE FOUR SEASONS Just in time for spring, the latest luxury offered by the Four Seasons spa is the Anne Sémonin Signature Facial, an intensive, customized treatment designed to pamper and heal according to your skin type. The Fours Seasons is the only Washington spa to provide the Anne Sémonin line.

To begin, an esthetician performs an analysis of your skin to customize the ingredients just for you. The Purifying Facial for sensitive skin, for example, features a seaweed exfoliation mask that’s applied and gently brushed off by hand – a European alternative to the standard method of rinsing off the mask with water. A relaxing cloud of steam follows to help open up pores, with 86

a high frequency wand to soothe the skin and stimulate blood flow to the muscles of the face. The most memorable part of the experience lies in the aromatic ingredients – rose, geranium, lavender and sage are but a few – and the ever-changing sensation of each application on your face. Next, a customized mask is painted on; in the purifying treatment, this contains such natural ingredients as sea cabbage and sea water concentrated in trace elements, mixed with essential oils such as lavender, cypress, ylang ylang and palmarosa.

To finish the purifying facial, a pure trace cream containing seaweed and macadamia nut oil is rubbed into the skin.

Inside tip: From May 8th to 13th, Anne Sémonin will be at the spa along with European facialist Erwa Berkman. It’s part of a new “Four Faces of the Four Seasons” program that introduces seasonally customized skin treatments.

“Summer Solstice” is the first of the specialized facials. ñShweta Govindarajan

Treatment: Anne Sémonin Signature Facial, 80 minutes, $150 Get there: Four Seasons Hotel Washington 2800 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Contact: Caitrin Garrett, spa director, 202-295-2705

OLAVIE LE VIN CHARDONNAY BODY THERAPY I SPA AT THE WILLARD INTERCONTINENTAL HOTEL From the moment you enter the Willard InterContinental’s flower-filled lobby, you sense you will be in good hands. Located in one of Washington’s most historic hotels, the Willard I Spa beckons with its newest series of treatments featuring chardonnay grape seed extract (imported from the Burgundy region of France) combined with essential oils.

Highly recommended is The Olavie Le Vin Chardonnay treatment line—in particular, the Chardonnay Body Therapy. Trust me: You’ve never had white wine quite like this.The treatment begins with a white grape seed sugar exfoliating scrub followed by a soothing coat of wine body butter. Next, you’re cocooned in a warm towel soaked in Willard Chardonnay and wine is poured over the length of your body, after which you’re covered in a blanket to help your skin retain the softening antioxidants of the wine therapy. Perhaps the most exhilarating element of the treatment is washing away dead skin cells in the I Spa’s 12-jet shower, a truly oceanic experience.

The I Spa features an extensive menu of services, so if wine therapy already feels old hat, try a soothing rose milk bath to calm and

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revive lifeless skin instead, or the Hot Stone Bio– Morphosis Signature Facial that combines the effects of heated stones with a seaweed matrix mask that nourishes and hydrates dry skin.

Inside tip: Before running off on your next errand, savor the sensation with a little more relaxation by enjoying a refreshing plate of fruit sushi and a pot of Numi flowering tea, served in the women’s lounge. ñShweta Govindarajan

Treatment: Olavie Le Vin Chardonnay Body Therapy, 90 minutes, $225 Get there: 1401 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20004 Contact: Movita Hernandez, spa director, 202-942-2700 ABHYANGAM MASSAGE PARMA SPA Parma Spa takes an eastern approach to health and wellness by basing its treatments on the principles of Ayurveda, the ancient Indian science that uses the five elements – earth, air, fire, water and space – to restore a natural balance in the body by eliminating impurities. Parma’s holistic approach offers clients a total body experience that not only awakens the five senses but also works with your unique body chemistry to create an individualized experience.

I decided to try to the Abhyangam massage, a full body treatment illustrative of the spa’s Ayurvedic mission. During the Abhyangam therapy, a heated mixture of oils, including some imported from India, is rhythmically kneaded into the skin to remove toxins and promote relaxation. From there, the course of the massage

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depends on your personal condition. To soothe tight, knotted muscles, for example, warm sand packs infused with detoxifying herbs are rubbed up and down the length of your back, arms and legs, gently easing soreness. Perhaps the highlight of the treatment comes right at the beginning: A therapeutic foot soak in an authentic copper basin sure to revive your aching arches.

Inside tip: For one-stop-shopping, let Parma’s team of medical doctors and specialists meet your wellness needs with both alternative and traditional medicine. Parma offers a host of dermatological procedures as well as referrals for a range of medical services, including gynecology, cardiology and oncology. ñShweta Govindarajan

Treatment: Abhyangam massage, 60 minutes, $105.

Get there: Parma Spa, 8212-B Old Courthouse Road, Vienna, Va, 22182.

Contact: Telephone: 703-506-8401, Christina Clark, spa director.

GET PERSONAL SOMA FIT There was a time when sprawling gyms were in. The busy hubbub of people coming and going after their workouts created an infectious buzz that made tramping along in a line of 30 treadmills somehow enjoyable – I still don’t get what people see in those places (other than lots of other sweaty people, of course). At Soma Fit, you’ll find a haven of everything not “chaingym”: personable staff, personalized attention and most importantly, personal space.

The hybrid fitness center and day spa is housed in a minimalist orange and warm-wood-designed

8,500-square-foot space just above Georgetown.

Need a personal trainer? Check.Yoga and Pilates classes? Check. Nutrition counseling followed by a muscle-relaxing massage and facial? Check, check, check. On this day, I’m booked for a 50-minute SomaFit Body Massage with Larry ($95), and a SomaFit Signature Facial with Hiromi ($95).

“Jazz, New Age or Classical?” Larry asks as I slip under a warm blanket. “Jazz,” I say. On request, he spends extra time on my tight shoulders.

Afterwards, I sleep walk over to my facial with Reiki-trained esthetician Hiromi, who has a way of combining signature facials with mommyisms: “Did you wear Sunscreen today,” she asks (knowing I didn’t). “No,” I respond guiltily. She chides me: “Tsk, tsk, you should always wear sunscreen. You want to look young, don’t you?”

The Signature Facial itself consists of a thorough cleansing with steam, exfoliation, and a custom mask followed by a face massage. It’s one of ten different facials SomaFit offers.There is definitely something to be said for having your gym, spa (and Mom) all under the same roof.

Inside Tip: Get there early for your spa treatment so you can enjoy a personalized training session (50-minute session from $68 to $80). ñMichael Clements

Treatment: 50-minute SomaFit Body Massage ($95); SomaFit Signature Facial ($95) Get there: 2121 Wisconsin Avenue, NW Contact: www.somafit.com, 202.965.2121 Left page – Mandarin Oriental Spa pool Above– Soma Fit exercise room / The Spa at the Four Seasons treatment room

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SPA-ING SOON… L’Institut de Guerlain has chosen The Watergate as its next U.S. location, with a scheduled completion date in 2007. Therapies will highlight the Guerlain Méthode – a patented facial and body massage technique offered at the Champs Elysées Guerlain Institut in Paris since 1938, as well as the complete range of Guerlain skincare, fragrance and make-up products.

Spa treatments for him ...

BY KEVIN CHAFFEE

METRO FACIAL HELA SPA

THE GENTLEMEN’S FACIAL I SPA AT THE WILLARD INTERCONTINENTAL

CHAKRA BALANCING WITH HOT STONES THE SPA AT THE MANDARIN ORIENTAL

You immediately sense a certain je ne sais quoi upon entering this quiet, streamlined Georgetown spa. If you haven’t figured it out by the time you’ve filled out the detailed medical questionnaire, you will after meeting Jonathan Drysdale, the spa’s tall, tri-lingual partner/practitioner-in-residence.“This is not a beauty parlor. You don’t come here for nails. I’m a doctor,” the Georgetown Universitytrained internist says as he shows off the high tech digital skin imaging box in his miraculously quiet office overlooking Wisconsin and M. A significant number of his patients are men, he reports, adding that most want to remove or reduce body hair or get rid of acne, sun spots and pre-cancerous skin lesions. But some come in for laser removal of their beards as well. “If you never want to shave again, it’ll take five to seven treatments,” he notes (at $400 a pop). Drysdale suggests a Metro facial (50 minutes/$90), a special treatment for men applied by Amber Meyer, the spa’s top aesthetician, with products from Alchimie. Soon I’m on a heated table absorbing a deep cleaning, exfoliation, cooling masque and “nourishing hydration” that includes painless extraction of a few minor blemishes. (I emphasize “painless” because I was asleep during much of the process.)

This recently installed 5,000-square-foot facility tucked away on the hotel’s second floor offers more than 25 massage, facial and hydrotherapy treatments in addition to a gym, steam room and a large outdoor relaxation deck perfect for a hideaway snooze on a cushy chaise lounge. I opted for the Gentlemen’s Facial, an hour-long indulgence that utilizes superior products by The Art of Shaving company in New York. The process starts with an expert lathering and series of gentle fingertip strokes followed by hot and cold orange and lemon towel wraps and the application of the “essential” oil of choice (sandalwood, lavender, lemon or unscented). Next comes a calming after-shave mask, then a moisturizer. The result: a mug as soft as a proverbial baby’s bottom.

Without doubt the best facial I’ve ever had and well worth the stiff ($140) price. Consider as well the half-hour Gentleman’s Scalp Massage ($70), which, although it did not stimulate any telltale follicle growth to my balding pate, did ease me to brief slumber whilst I was brushed, exfoliated, toweled and hot oiled to tip top perfection.

Dying to disappear from the office for an extra long lunch? Slip in to the cool confines of the Mandarin Oriental’s zen-like spa, where Chinese, Ayurvedic, European, Balinese, and Thai therapies are incorporated in a menu of over 40 treatments. Escape with the $530 “Gentleman’s Journey” package which includes an hour’s consultation with a personal trainer (a yoga instructor may be substituted, if available), pedicure, facial and a two-hour Chakra Balancing with Hot Stones. I settled on the latter treatment alone ($300) despite not being terribly impressed with previous hot stone treatments.

This one was different. The effect was akin to a warm, soothing balm over my bones and joints, particularly effective where I’d had a nasty sprain earlier in the week. In fact, the application felt so much like a balm that I had to ask the masseuse if she was mistakenly applying hot liquid to my skin. But no, it was the incredibly tranquilizing volcanic stones. Suffice it to say that my back was one hundred percent improved over what it had been when I’d limped in several hours before.

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Stay At Home Or Stick With Your Career Author Leslie Morgan Steiner Discusses a Mother’s Struggle

BY LESLIE MORGAN STEINER

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stood in a friend’s Los Angeles living room a few weeks ago, reading from my new book Mommy Wars. The house was filled with forty tanned and gorgeous working and stay-at-home California moms—and pale-faced me. We were talking and laughing, giddy to be out for a night without kids. As I read aloud the essay I’d written three years ago about my own mommy war—the endless debate inside my head about whether I’m giving enough of my life to my kids, my work, my husband and myself—I was struck by how angry my words sounded.

Just 36 hours before, I’d sat on a stool next to Katie Couric on the set of The Today Show.

Katie surprised me with her first question: “I thought the Mommy Wars were over?”

Her mommy war may be over. However, many women, especially new moms and women unhappy with their choices (or lack of choices) regarding work and motherhood, find the inner battle continues to rage. Our guilt, frustration and doubt can drive us to demean other women who’ve made different decisions.

Especially in Washington. In her Mommy Wars essay “Good Enough,” Chevy Chase writer Beth Brophy explains why moms are under particularly intense pressure in the Washington area: “In D.C., what you do isn’t more important than who you are. It is who you are. Everyone here, including the guy who delivers your pizza, believes he influences the fate of the nation.”

Stay-at-home mom Page Evans describes a scene in “Sharks and Jets” when a male acquaintance at a Cleveland Park dinner party dismisses her entire life with two sentences: “I’m basically a stay-at-home mom,” I say.

“Oh well, that’s such an important job. Kids grow up so fast, don’t they?”

“Yeah, they do,” I say.

And that’s the end of it. Turn and pivot.

Iris Krasnow, an Annapolis mom, communications professor at American University and the author of Surrendering to Motherhood, explains in “My Baby’s Feet Are Size 13” that even if you surrender to motherhood as she did, sometimes the inner mommy war continues.

“Children do leave. Parents die.

Jobs change. We can count only on ourselves.This hard and lonely destiny we all face is a great incentive to discover a self beyond Mommy while kids are still at home so we don’t fall apart when they are gone.”

That night in California, reading my own emotional words, I realized Mommy Wars changed me. Spending three years listening to hundreds of moms in D.C. and the rest of the country struggling to balance work and kids and to feel good about themselves along the way constituted nothing short of group therapy for me. Other moms helped me strike a separate peace about my decisions regarding

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kids and career. I’m no longer angry (or at least not as angry) about the fact that there is no true “balance” between work and kids, and that no one can “have it all” all at once.

The best gift of ending my mommy war is seeing that we moms need each other no matter what our decisions about how we work and how we raise our kids. The powerful, primal forces of motherhood should unite women, not divide us. For me, that’s the true promise of Mother’s Day. Leslie Morgan Steiner is the editor of Mommy Wars: Stay-atHome and Career Moms Face Off on Their Choices, Their Lives, Their Families (Random House). She works at The Washington Post and lives in Georgetown with her family.

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Say It With Words…

From a humorous memoir about being a new mom to a story about the grief of motherhood, these books may just express what you’re looking to say this Mother’s Day.

Sippy Cups are not for Chardonnay

By Stephanie Wilder Taylor Taylor’s humorous but human story shares her transition from glamorous television producer living in Los Angeles to becoming a stay-at-home mom. Along the way she shares the truth on issues from breast feeding to leaving the workplace, and everything else women usually don’t share.

Kinkead’s Cookbook: Recipes from Washington D.C.’s Premier Seafood Restaurant

What would Jackie Do? An Inspired Guide to Distinctive Living

The Women at the Washington Zoo: Writings on Politics Family and Fate

By Shelly Branch and Sue Callaway

By Majorie Williams and Timothy Noah

By Bob Kinkead

Two sassy writers dish secrets and share stories about the glamorous life of Jackie O and how the Washington icon entertained, approached family matters, and of course, dressed.

Known for her political profiles in The Washington Post and Vanity Fair on the District’s favorite women,Williams’ book eloquently shares the inner workings of the city and the women who live there.

After taking Mom to one of Washington’s favorite restaurants, Kinkead’s, give her the opportunity to cook one of the chef’s awardwinning recipes, including Fried Ipswich Clams with Fried Lemons or Chocolate Daquoise with Cappuccino Sauce.

Mother: A Cradle to Hold Me

Dare to Repair Your Car

My Life in France

Silver Spoon

By Maya Angelou

By Julie Sussman and Stephanie Glakas-Tenet

By Julia Child and Alex Prud’Homme

By Phaidon Press

On her first trip to France in 1948, Child chronicled how she arrived without knowing how to cook to eventually enrolling in the Cordon Bleu. Prud’Homme, Child’s nephew, laces these diary entries together with striking black-and-white images from her time abroad and the beginning of her dynamic career.

Considered the most influential and successful cookbook in Italy, this comprehensive guide includes over 2,000 illustrated recipes and contributions from the leading Italian chefs of the past 50 years.

Renowned poet Maya Angelou celebrates motherhood with a new collection of poems that honor the most important woman in our lives, mom.

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BOOK SIGNING FOR “A SPECIAL EDUCATION” March 20th • Saks Fi h avenue, Chevy Chase PHOTOS BY KYLE SAMPERTON

THE EVENT A ladies literary luncheon and fashion show at Saks Fi h Avenue to celebrate the release of fashion designer Dana Buchman and her daughter Charlo e’s first book, A Special Education – One Family’s Journey Through the Maze of Learning Disabilities. THE SCENE Hosts Margaret Bush, Nancy Bubes, Lynda Camalier, Diana Goldberg and Sally Quinn all donned Buchman’s classic American designs. THE GUESTS Jillian Copeland, Allison Bernstein, and Lisa Lambert.

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Charlotte, Sally Quinn and Dana Buchman

Margaret Bush

Myrtle Katzen, Linda Camalier, Sally Smith and Nancy Bubes

Carol Wheeler and Lisa Lambert

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A Mother’s Special Love

BY DANA BUCHMAN

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I decided to write the book Special Education: One Family’s Journey Through the Maze of Learning Disabilities (Perseus Books Group, 2006) when my daughter Charlotte became a senior in high school. I realized that at the start, when she was diagnosed with dyslexia and ADD 15 years before, I would have never have dreamed it would turn out this way, that Charlotte would bloom and mature so beautifully and that I would also learn some life lessons. I thought that if I could talk about my “special education” as well as hers, maybe some parents at the beginning of the journey wouldn’t find it so difficult and fearsome.

Writing this book was one of the most amazing things I have ever done. It was both wrenching and cathartic. By talking about the feelings that I had long kept hidden, I freed myself of their poison. I examined my lifelong drive toward perfectionism and realized that it was keeping me from my full enjoyment of being human.

I would get up early in the morning to write at my computer which is in the front of the loft. When I would hit upon a memory that was difficult I felt a tingling in my neck and thought, “I can’t say this!” For example, when I confessed how angry I would sometimes get that Charlotte would dress so slowly for school when she was young, I would think, “I can’t write that—what will Charlotte think of a mother getting furious at her for something she couldn’t help?” But I would write it anyway. And when I showed her, Charlotte would laugh and say, “Mom, I knew that you were angry!” Moms get angry at their kids—right or wrong. I had never been comfortable admitting that. But when I did admit it I realized that, even if it wasn’t admirable, it wasn’t so unspeakable. And that a lot of moms of LD children would feel that.

My daughter has been thrilled with the response to the book. She is hoping to help take away some of the stigma of having a learning difference. Learning to say “Can you help me with this? This is hard for me” has freed her up. Learning differences are not shameful, they’re just a state of being.

Through writing the book, Charlotte and I got even closer. We talked openly and in detail about how huge an impact her LD had on she and I. I understood more what it felt like to be her and she understood the same about me. I feel lucky to have a smart beautiful daughter that I can talk to so closely!

There’s no training to be a mom—I trained to be a designer and learned more “on the job,” but motherhood is something you learn by doing. With all the trial and error that comes with that. I hope this book gives parents a heads up: LD is not a childhood disease that the child gets, takes medicine for and gets over. LD affects the whole family—child, parent and siblings--and it never goes away. But it’s far from the end of the world.

I would never say, “I’m glad Charlotte has LD.” But her LD forced me to confront my own type A personality and expectations—and that was good. I feel more human and alive now that I don’t have to be an “A” student all the time.

On Mother’s Day, I hope moms remember that they’re human and they’ll make tons of mistakes raising their children. And that’s just the way it is.

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Something Special for Mother’s Day Spoil Mom with a few of these indulgences.

LOUIS VUITTON’S RED EPI KEEPALL BAG $950.00, 1-866-VUITTON, www.louisvuitton.com

CUTTING EDGE FLOWER ARRANGEMENT BY VOLANNI (202) 342-3248, www.volanni.com

SILK SCARF

BY HERMES $320, 1-800-441-4488, www.hermes.com

MIU MIU’S LOCK FRAME SATCHEL $1,020, available at Neiman Marcus, (703) 761-1600 www.neimanmarcus.com

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LIGNE ROSET’S ROCKING CHAIR IN ORANGE $1,405, Available at Ligne Roset Georgetown, (202) 333-6390, www.lignerosetdc.com MM PASHA DE CARTIER WATCH IN K WHITE GOLD AND DIAMONDS $38,200, Available at Cartier Boutiques, 1-800-CARTIER, www.cartier.com

TALI GILLETTE’S “MAMA NECKLACE” $2,395, available at Kbaby, (202) 333-3939, www.kbaby.com

PRADA’S DEERSKIN DRIVERS IN GREEN $350, Available at Saks Fifth Avenue, www.saksfifthavenue.com

SAVE THE DATE MOTHER’S DAY MAY Make your reservation early for some of the best Mother’s Day brunches.

1789, (202) 965-1789 Café Milano, (202) 333-6183 Cityzen, (202) 554 8588 Le Paradou, 202) 347-6780 Seasons Restaurant at the Four Seasons, (202) 342-0444

AARON BASHA’S ENAMEL AND K GOLD BABY SHOE CHARM $2,200, Lilijenquist and Beckstead, (703) 448-6731, www.landbjewelry.com

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THIS MONTH BEAM THEM UP • TEENAGER’S TRIUMPH • OMNIBUS ALMANAC • MUSIC MAESTRO PLEASE

WITH DONNA SHOR

AROUND TOWN PEACE X PEACE’s mission is to connect and empower women for peace. The group hosted its first fundraising gala at the Cultural Office of the Embassy of Kuwait on March 17th. Kenyan mercy chidi was honored with the Voices of Pe@ce Award and Former Virginia Governor mark warner served as the event’s keynote speaker.

“Suited for Change” held their 14th annual launch at Intermix on March 30th. The group provides professional clothing and ongoing career education to low-income women seeking employment. . -Photo by Zaid Hamid

BEAM THEM UP

History was made at former U.N. diplomat Esther Coopersmith’s dinner when a pair whose records can never be topped were linked: Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, and Sen. John Glenn, one of the first American man in space.

Valentina, a twenty-six-year-old Russian was dubbed “The Seagull” as she orbited the earth; “Forty-eight times!” she reminded us happily, “for three days.” John Glenn went into space again at age 70, astounding everyone, including wife Annie, who nixed the idea of a repeat when the question was raised at dinner.

Among the guests was author Susan Eisenhower, (Ike’s granddaughter), long active in Russian-linked matters, often with Esther, who has a finger in so many global pies.

CROISSANTS AT THREE PACES

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Economic Council Gala looked like a scene from Animal House.Texan R. Allen Stanford, the honoree of the Council’s 2006 Excellence in Leadership Award, (hunky enough to have appeared on Dallas), is also the visionary founder of a global wealth-management and financial services company, and a philanthropist. His projects range from St. Jude’s Hospital to the National Civil Rights Museum’s Freedom Awards, (whose 2005 honoree was Oprah), and include scholarships and grants of low-interest loans to small businesses across Latin America.

Laid-back Stanford also enjoys a joke, and he took it like a champion when, in retaliation for his bread-ball ambush of some of the group last year, they responded in kind, first announcing a special presentation for him, then pelting him as he stood waiting at the microphone.

The crowd of ambassadors, socialites and business men included Washington’s former ambassador from Ecuador Ivonne Baki, now that

country’s Minister of Commerce (and one of the pelters), her artist and fashion-designer daughter, Tatiana Baki, Harriet Mayor Fulbright, Patricia Bennett Sagon and Barry Featherman.

ANOTHER OLE EVENING

Author Gail Scott was mistress of ceremonies at the OAS for the Latin Students Fund Gala, which provides tutoring and academic support to over 500 D.C. public school students, and 40 private and parochial schools.

Costa Rican ambassador Tomas Duenas praised founder Rosalia Guitierrez-Huete Miller for all she has accomplished in only 12 years.

Sponsored by OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza and his wife Georgina, guests included new Federal Reserve Board chairman Ben Bernanke, and his wife Anna, and Washington Post publisher Donald Graham. Ambassadors included Costa Rica’s Guillermo Castillo and his wife Flor Maria, Paraguay’s

James Spalding and wife Maria, and the OAS Nicaraguan ambassador Jose Luis Velasquez.

TEENAGER’S TRIUMPH

When pianist Sara Daneshpour concluded a brilliant performance the whole audience rose at once, as if pulled up by a puppeteer’s strings, in a long-lasting ovation.

Triumph is no new thing for Sara, a beautiful and endearing nineteenyear-old hailed for her musicianship here and abroad. Sara appeared at the National Museum of Women in the Arts as part of the Shenson Concert Series, whose artistic directorship is under Gilan Tocco Corn, joined

by Linda Hohenfeld Slatkin, wife of National Symphony conductor Leonard Slatkin. Among the audience, Wilhelmina Cole Holladay, CEO and founder of the museum, and her husband Wallace Holladay, Climis and Carol Lascaris, Mary Mochary, Nancy and Dr. Roger Stevenson, Magda Chrobog, wife of

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Members of the Junior League of Washington, D.C. were treated on April 13 to a complete Indian experience by kalpana sen, wife of Ambassador ronen sen of India. The afternoon featured Indian fashion and cuisine as well as Yoga Sessions. -Photo by Immanuel Jayachandran

Above: corinne bensahel, marie-cecile levitte, French designer dominique sirop and grace bender at a Saks Fifth Avenue Checy Chase luncheon for Sirop and his Fall 2006 ready-to-wear collection -Photo by Kyle Samperton

the former German ambassador and Dr. Milton Corn.

AN OMNIBUS ALMANAC

Notables with ancestral ties to Nordic lands or the Baltics, from the late Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist to multitalented “Rings” actor Viggo Mortensen, are profiled in an entertaining volume honored with a reception hosted by the new Ambassador of Finland, Pekka Lintu.

This “phone-book plus” NordicBaltic-U.S. Almanac covers all eight northern countries: their diplomacy, business, trade, science, investment, education, histories, peoples and cultures. Editor Jay Ryfa includes 3,000 comprehensive listings for government departments, related businesses and heritage organizations here and abroad in the volume published by Stephen Strickland.

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and his wife Sylvia; Sen. Ben Nelson and his wife Diane; the ambassadors of Norway, Iceland, Sweden, Estonia, Lithuania; the deputy chiefs of mission of Denmark and Latvia; and three members of parliament from Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.

The touching Rehnquist memoir, which he released to Strickland shortly before his death, tells of his Swedish ancestral roots.

Among the socialite crowd was lively Washingtonian Evelyn Stefansson, widow of profiled explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson. Evvie shared his Dartmouth years, learned his native Icelandic language, lectured and wrote four books herself.

MUSIC MAESTRO PLEASE!

Jane Sloat chaired an outstanding gala at the Russian Federation saluting Maestro Valery Gergiev, the artistic and general director of the Mariinsky Theater, who with the Kirov Opera, Ballet and Orchestra has toured 45 countries including the

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U.S.The evening was under the aegis of the American-Russian Cultural Cooperation Foundation, headed by James Symington, and included all the usual suspects including his wife headed by longtime patron of the arts Gerson Nordlinger.

KALEIDOSCOPE

A party-with-a-purpose was greatly appreciated by the guests of Jordanian ambassador Karim Kawar and Luma as it brought New York Times writer Tom Friedman here to discuss his best-seller The World Is Flat.

The three-time Pulitzer Prize winner outlined future and present changes in our globally complex world …

Heard at a recent Giorgio and Anna Mari Via hoe-down: “I haven’t seen so many ambassadors in one space since the Fourth of July party at the American embassy.”…Hors d’oeuvres, wine and beer fueled a rollicking evening for a serious cause at The Michelle Susan Kogod Memorial “Casino Night” at the Manor

Country Club. The foundation was named after the late daughter of Bernie and Bonnie Kogod, the co-chairs of the event with Matthew and Jamie Kogod-Levin to benefit The Wellness Community-Greater Washington DC. President and CEO Paula Rothenberg told us 21 Wellness Communities in the US, and two international sites bring nocharge cancer support, education and hope to sufferers funded by corporate and individual donations.

If there is an upcoming event Around Town should know about, email donnashor@washingtonlife.com.

Left page, left to right– Mary-Frances Wain, executive director of Suited for Change, at Intermix / Former VA Gov. Mark Warner congratulates Mercy Chidi as Patricia Smith Melton, founder and director of PEACE X PEACE, listens / (in red) Suraya Paksad.

Right page, right– The Junior Leaguers watch women dressed in Indian national attire – the Saree.

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THE NATIONAL ALZHEIMER’S GA April 5th • Grand Hya Washington PHOTOS BY KYLE SAMPERTON

THE EVENT The Alzheimer’s Association National Capital Area Chapter hosted its annual gala to raise the profile of this debilitating disease and promote advances in Alzheimer’s research. THE SCENE Frazier sidekick David Hyde Pierce, an Alzheimer’s advocate, hasn’t forgo en that his father and grandfather suffered from the disease, nor does he dwell on it. “Every time I forget something I think this must be it, although I mainly focus on finding a cure,” Pierce said. He was joined at the podium by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chris Ma hews, whose mother died from the disease. Guests also viewed “Voice Prints,” a short film in which Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV described his mother’s bout with the disease. THE GUESTS Chairwoman Trish Vandenburg and her husband George, Dr. Susan Blumenthal, Mario Morino, Cynthia Howar, Maggie Shannon, Bob Keefe, Katherine Wood, Meryl Comer and Dianne Kay.

Myrna Haft and James Adduci, II Wiley and Janis Buchanan

Reginald Van Lee and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton

Rep. Ed Markey and Mark Shriver

George McNeely Jim and Marsha Rosenheim

Mario Morino and Ellen and Sam Schreiber George and Trish Vradenburg with David Hyde Pierce Cynthia Howar and Rob Lilley

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THE EVENT Sarah and Ted Stettinius hosted a country lunch and egg hunt on Easter Sunday followed by hay rides and horseback jaunts atop “Pescado.” THE SCENE Once word got out that the Easter Bunny had been spotted on horseback in Upperville, it was only a matter of time before lots of little egg hunters arrived to fill their baskets with treats. Of course, no Easter Egg Hunt is complete without a golden egg, which was discovered by Graham Gewirz, son of Cleo and Michael Gewirz. THE GUESTS Frank Benevento, Mary Ballou Ballentine, Joe and Regina Stettinius, Diana and Roland Reynolds, Jack Davies and Tom Arundel.

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THE EVENT The Gucci fashion power house celebrated its grand opening at the Collection at Chevy Chase with typical style. The boutique joins other prestigious luxury designer brands such as Tiffany & Co., Cartier, MaxMara, Louis Vui oun, and Bulgari at the elegant 100,000 square foot retail space. The Gucci Group, one the world’s leading multi-brand luxury goods companies includes Gucci, YSL, Bo ega Veneta, and Stell Mcartney, among others. The fresh vision of Frida Giannini, creator director of the label since 2006, has infused Gucci’s rich heritage with modern sex appeal. THE SCENE Several hundred style savvy guests came to shop for a good cause and support Knock Out Abuse Against Women which raises money to aid victims of domestic violence. THE GUESTS Rebecca Kay, Ann Walker Merchant, Kathryn Minor, Michelle Fenty, William C. Miller, Jr. and Saundra Seaman

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“ROCK STAR CHIC” FOR THE WASHINGTON ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE March 31st • Pearl Lounge PHOTOS BY JAIME WINDON

THE EVENT Local event planner and native Washingtonian Jamie Hess celebrated his 34th birthday in “Rockstar Chic” style at Pearl Lounge. In lieu of presents the birthday boy asked that the city’s younger social set make donations to his favorite charity, The Washington Animal Rescue League.

THE SCENE More than 300 friends sported their ho est styles on the dance floor as Miami’s DJ Theresa spun a mix of house, hip-hop and rock ‘n’ roll. Grey Goose and Veuve Clicquot were flowing when 34 birthday balloons were released over the crowd at midnight. THE GUESTS Ray Regan, Jeffrey Cohen, Katie Jelonchick and Oda Solms.

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BY JANET DONOVAN “I’ve played a Senator so many times, I’m beginning to feel like one,” actor Bruce Davison joked at the WL party for the Creative Coalition’s Capitol Hill Celebration of the Arts at the ultra cool Le Bank in Adams Morgan.

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The baby-faced 1971 Oscar nominee, director and producer joined colleagues and members of congress earlier in the day to lobby for the future of federal funding for the arts and to oppose the White House’s proposed $35 million in cuts. Davison spent his day volleying between the White House and the Senate, educating opponents and reinforcing supporters that included Sen. Arlen Specter, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Reps. Mary Bono and Diane Watson.

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Robin Bronk, executive director of The Creative Coalition, told the crowd, which also included actors Giancarlo Esposito, Kerry Washington and producer Tom Fontana, the day’s lobbying efforts focused on “funding for NEA (National Endowment for the Arts), NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) and education funding for schools which was zeroed-out in the President’s budget. We are also interested in CPB (Corporation for Public Broadcasting) and PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) funding.”

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Jason Ri er, the mirror-image son of the late John Ri er and star of the TV series “Joan of Arcadia,” also spoke out against cu ing school arts funding, telling the crowd, “Kids need arts. When you get rid of the arts, we are ge ing rid of a vital organ.”

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one are the days of debutantes and dashing young men in uniform dancing till dawn to Peter Duchin and his orchestra at the Mayflower Hotel. So are the nights when rubbernecking socialites peered through forests of potted palms to get a glimpse of Jacqueline Kennedy having supper with Marlon Brando. Georgetown neighbors peeking through slits in heavy curtains to see who Joseph Alsop had chosen to brief the handsome young President over terrapin, roasted pheasant and a bottle of Château Talbot? Peggy Lee showcasing at the Blue Room of the Shoreham? Intimate cocktails on the Hotel Washington’s roof?

All have disappeared into the mist along the Potomac, never to be seen again.

We asked a noted journalist whom he would pick as our most glamorous citizens. He stumbled, noting that Washingtonians think “too much glamour is suspect.” In other words, we have put too high a value on seriousness. Gravitas trumps gravlax no matter what. We celebrate our wonkishness and in so doing have painted the town battleship gray. We’ve lost the ability to listen and learn from one another over a quiet meal. The Marquess of

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Queensbury wouldn’t be able to keep a political discussion civil in this town. If someone brings up politics, hostesses put away the good crystal.

Perhaps the latest generation misunderstands the definition of glamour as well as it’s potential.

Certainly, the cornerstone of a truly glamorous life is personal style. Style isn’t something that can be acquired; it’s a way of living life with confidence, wit, humility and a love of beauty. It transcends class, race and religion. And most importantly, it doesn’t require wealth. It costs a lot less than what some people spend to look -I’m sorry- drab.

What people with style have in common is how they feel in their own skin – comfortable and secure. A splendid sense of self assurance and ease, not conceit, are what we notice first, way before we spot the designer clothes and art masterpieces. Couture gowns and jewelry are mere accessories to a life well lived.

Two friends I’ve had since childhood, Sarah Tanguy and Abigail Adams Greenway, are the most uniquely stylish women I know. I never know if they are wearing jewelry that they’ve made, bought on QVC or inherited from their great grandmothers. And I’ve stopped asking.

A glamorous home is defined by how a guest feels when they are there, not just the lavishness or even beauty of the décor. I have always noted that the most comfortable and chic houses have a bit of quirkiness to them. A home is not just where you live but how you live, so if you invite someone there, they should immediately sense your presence and your spirit. Sister Parrish, the famed designer once mistaken for a nun by The Washington Post, always counseled people to have a bit of red in every room. My advice is to have something that you have actually read in every room…..

Where the Glamorous People Live….

Marion and Bob Rosenthal have said “no mas” to the Watergate and have moved to Washington’s best high rise achievement, 3303 Water Street. Old Guard buildings like 2101 Connecticut Avenue are great as long as the high ceilings and lobby are

more important to you than a workable floor plan.

Christopher Hitchens and Carol Blue have made theirs work and entertain lovingly using every room in their vast apartment on Columbia Road. Politics can be discussed here, but your political affiliation is not as important as your power of persuasion.

Hillandale is home to Isabelle and Ricardo Ernst as well as Thomas Pheasant and Juan Carlos Rincones.Theo Adamstein and Olvia Demetriou have spread out in Foxhall near Andrea Mitchell and Alan Greenspan. Anthony Browne, decorator to Oprah and Oatsie, has found character and a bit of olde London off Dupont Circle. Georgetown, however, is where many people who “do” the news prefer to dwell. Allie Wentworth and George Stephanopoulos, Sally Quinn and Ben Bradlee, Elsa Walsh and Bob Woodward, Leslie and Andrew Cockburn and Jane Hitchcock and Jim Hoagland all have perfect houses for entertaining.

Who Are the Most Glamorous Women in Washington?

Slim Keith and Gloria Guinness were known for looking as good in capri pants as they did in Adrian and Dior. They became legends for their personal style. In Washington there are still a few legends lurking among us. A former Miss America, Yolande Fox, looks as comfortable and sexy in her big sweaters and flats walking her dog through Georgetown as she did the day she won the crown. Her fabulous home decorated by Billy Baldwin is filled with character and also the “characters” she has befriended. Politics can be discussed in this home but I suggest that it’s safer to be a Democrat.

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BIG THINGS ARE HAPPENING TO TWO OF THE BIGGEST ESTATES IN THE WASHINGTON AREA NOT SINCE THE ’S HAVE THE TWIN SISTERS MARWOOD IN POTOMAC AND MERRIWOOD IN MCLEAN HAD SIMULTANEOUS RENOVATIONS Babe Paley was known for her fabulous couture gowns but heads turn just as fast for her daughter, Alison van Metre Paley; Nini Ferguson, Jane Cafritz, Jacqueline Leland, Sheila Johnson Newman and Grega Daley. Mary Ourisman and Katherine Bradley set the bar awfully high as well, showing us that social Washington is not always about government.

These women can wear anything and still be beautiful. But they should be admired not for their appearance but for how many times they appear and lend their name to causes bigger than themselves.

Many glamorous women have made Washington their second home. Frequent visits from Constance Bennett, Lena Horne and Elizabeth Taylor made this city a little spicier.

Today, it is the diplomatic corps that wreaks of chic. Rima Al-Sabah is well loved because she has great intelligence, humility and enthusiasm underlying a great sense of personal style. Other Embassy Row icons such as Pamela Aparicio and Jellie van Eenennaam make difficult and arduous duties seem pleasant and effortless.

A dedicated group of Washingtonians from abroad has added a new flare to what can be very stately affairs. Mariella Trager, Rosalind Steiner and Corinne Bensahel all show that supporting important causes can be fun and refreshing. When I see Corinne breeze into a party with a fabulously relaxed costume and fabulously large jewelry, I

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am reminded of Lee Radziwill and Diane von Furstenburg. How can you not have fun?

Who’s Doing Whom?

Big things are happening to two of the biggest estates in the Washington area. Not since the 1940’s have the twin sisters, Marwood in Potomac and Merriwood in McLean, had simultaneous renovations. Both formerly inhabited by various Kennedys and their relations, the enormous homes both became too much to keep up until recently.

They are still the grandes dames of the Potomac.

Their architecture can be copied but never the views. Steve Case’s Merriwood is getting its glam back from Barry Dixon, and Chris Rogers has hired Mary Drysdale to completely re-create Marwood, inside and out. Although Merriwood has always been kept in good shape, Marwood is lucky to still exist. Long neglected and badly redecorated; it will be nice to see the old girl shine again.

In hunt country, lots of people are standing by the mail slot, hoping to be invited to anything Sheila Johnson Newman might host at Salamander Farm. Johnson Newman is known for her fine taste and her partnership with Thomas Pheasant will surely be something to see.

In Georgetown, the Hollerith House, the fabulously large 29th Street mansion with the columns once owned by the designing duo of

Brown-Davis and then sold to Marie Louise Burkart, has been sold to Jill and J. Rock Tonkel.

They have hired David Herchik of JDS Designs to re-do everything, including a new addition.

The house was once owned by two sisters, IBM heiresses, who started the Garden Club of Georgetown. Rare specimen trees are found throughout the property and it seems like the perfect place to have a garden party. David Jones is the architect, so it will be absolutely perfect.

Betsy Stires of Frog Hill Designs is working on four projects, all based on the kitchen being the central focus of family life. I am guessing these are pretty nice kitchens.

Architect Travis Price has gotten the job to create a warm and inviting space for Odegaard Carpets move to Cady’s Alley. ML2K is also moving in this summer, so the place is jumping.

Finally, lots of news to report on Jose Solis Betancourt, who is in constant travel mode between Washington and Puerto Rico, New Jersey, New York and Florida.We are going to make him sit down and tell us what he’s up to. Look for details next month.

Left page– Marion and Bob Rosenthal Right page, left to right– Abigail Adams Greenway / Nini Ferguson, Carolyn Boutte and Mary Ourisman / Power architects Olvia Demetriou and Theo Adamstein have settled in Foxhall.

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here has long been a sense among the collectors of artistic masterpieces that the paintings or sculptures they acquire never really “belong” to them in the traditional sense of the word. Great collectors are not owners, but rather stewards, entrusted with the preservation of a piece of history for the benefit of future generations. Of course, this is easy to understand in the case of a Picasso or a Michelangelo….but what if the masterpiece were a house, on your property?

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The Marden House exhibits many elements that characterize Frank Lloyd Wrightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Usonian style, particularly the concrete slab flooring, built-in furniture, and abundant natural views. The use of construction materials drawn from nature (opposite page, bottom) is in keeping with Wrightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s belief that buildings should grow naturally from their environment.

Much of the furniture in the house was designed by the architect, including the cabinetry that runs across the far side of the living area (opposite page, above). The restrained exterior features a flat copper roof (top). The half-moon space overlooking the Potomac (above right) includes glass curtain walls that Wright favored greatly over traditional siding.

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(Clockwise from above): An original blueprint for the house helps to add color to the otherwise minimalist master bedroom; Natural light filters through slit windows, imbued with additional texture from a wooden sconce; Wright’s chaise and matching ottoman invite visitors to sit still while taking in the views of the Potomac; The deep orange tile initialed “F.L.L.W.” can be found on nearly all of his later designs.

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his was precisely the question that Washington philanthropist and AOL co-founder James V. Kimsey faced when, in 2000, he purchased the property adjacent to The Falls, his 21,000 sq. foot house overlooking the Potomac River in McLean.The masterpiece in this case was none other than a Frank Lloyd Wright house built in 1952 – one of only three properties that Wright designed in the Washington area.

Known to Wright’s disciples as the Marden House, this hemicycle design set into the rocky hillside was named after Luis and Ethel Marden, the photographer and mathematician couple for whom the home was designed. The Marden’s occupied the residence until 2003.

Presented with a choice, Kimsey decided to do what any steward of a masterpiece would, and he undertook its restoration to exactly what the artist intended it to be.

Kimsey even visited Wright’s archivists at the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, housed at Taliesin West in Arizona, and in 2004, he began the $1 million-plus restoration. The result is pure F.L.W., a cinderblock work of minimalist genius suspended over a torrent of rapids half a mile south of the Key Bridge.

Great collectors are not owners, but rather stewards, entrusted with the preservation of a piece of history for the benefit of future generations.

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(Clockwise from top): When viewed from above, facing downriver, the shape of the house hints at the prow of a ship; An iconic Arco floor lamp soars over the central living space toward a stone fireplace. Wright often described fireplaces as “the heart and soul of a house.”; In between photography assignments for National Geographic, Luis Marden enjoyed fishing along the Potomac.

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he entire building is only 2,600 sq. feet, and it is one of a series of low-slung cinderblock houses that Wright designed, which have come to be known as Usonian homes. Upon arrival, the first thing a visitor notices is the flat copper roof, but once inside, the unassuming entryway leads up a few steps to reveal a classic Frank Lloyd Wright “breathtaker”: a half-moon of perfect Brazilian rosewood that stretches 80-feet, with floor to ceiling windows along the entire vista. The central living area is anchored by huge stone fireplace, and nearby, a shallow bed of river stones serves as a constant reminder of the bond that exists between the dwelling and the river it overlooks. On the opposite side of the house the master bedroom offers an uninterrupted view up the hillside.

The majority of the furnishings throughout the house are Wright-designed, and they include a beautiful reading armchair and a sofa that would look perfectly at home today in a chic SoHo loft.

One of the most interesting characteristics of the residence is that unlike most Frank Lloyd Wright houses open to public view, the Mardens did not abide by Wright’s ideal vision of absolutely minimalist interiors, during the nearly 50 years they lived here. Instead, they used the myriad surfaces and alcoves in the house to display a fascinating collection of art and artifacts.

The result of their unique taste is that the house is a strikingly self-assured combination of Wright’s iconic furnishings and the Mardens objets d’art.

In many ways, the house illustrates two distinct but equally important ways that personal life can interact with artistic masterpieces. The first is the legacy of its original owners, who put the stamp of their lives and their travels on an iconic structure.The second is the preservation and meticulous restoration of Jim Kimsey, who knows that the proper stewardship of a masterpiece is an end in itself.

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BY MARY K M EWBORN have played tennis often at her home. After her husband died in 1983, Mrs. Friendly oversaw the Alfred Friendly Press Fellowships that has allowed some 200 foreign journalists to train in the U.S. and visit in her home.

The Friendlysâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; circa 1810 estate, with expansive lawn and brick pathways leading to a two-bedroom cottage, artist studio, greenhouse and goldfish pond, is one of the most serene settings in Georgetown. The main Federal era

house is grand but not overly formal. Among its historic architectural elements are a Mansard slate roof and custom-made wrought iron ornamentation on windows and doors. Vintage random width pine floors and carved marble mantles above six fireplaces grace its classically proportioned rooms. The six-bedroom home four and half bath home was listed for $3.2 million by Washington Fine Properties agents Giselle Theberge and Marylyn Paige.

Dr. J. Gardner, is parting with O Streetďš? Nďš&#x2019;Wďš&#x2019; with an asking price of $2,075,000.

The five-bedroom home with four full baths was listed by Washington Fine Propertiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Cecelia Leake and is currently under contract.

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Piper Gioia and Eric Gioia, formerly an executive vice president with Robbins-Gioia, have bought 6451 Kedleston Court in McLean for $3.67 million. townhouse backs over an acre of parkland and has three bedrooms and three and a half baths. The sellers, author Patricia Randolph and attorney Jerome Randolph, received $1.479 million from Susana and Carlos Elbirt, a World Bank economist. Long and Fosterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Nancy Itteilag was the listing agent.

Nancy Itteilag was the selling agent for Winfield Lane representing Jonathan and Kelly Gardner in their $1,725,000 purchase.

The sellers are Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Y. Millian, who bought the house new twenty-four years ago. Ken Millian is chairman of the consulting firm Millian Byers Associates. Previously he was corporate vice president of W. R. Grace & Co. and before that spent a quarter century with the Foreign Service in Latin America and Asia.

Washington Fine Propertiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; realtor Jim Bell and mortgage banker Mark Scott are set to sell their Kalorama home at Wyoming Avenueďš? Nďš&#x2019;Wďš&#x2019; The two purchased the property in late 2002 for $1,950,000. After extensive renovation it is now under contract with an asking price of $3,999,900. Built in 1911, the home was featured last year in Washington Life and is noteworthy for its size and period details.

Comprised of a 7,000 square-foot main house, two-story carriage house and staff quarters, there are a total of nine bedrooms, six bathrooms, two half bathrooms and four kitchens. The oval dining room and formal living room feature magnificent mahogany floors. Most of the public rooms also have antique wall moldings and original fireplaces with recessed stained-glass

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Marci Mathews Sliman is selling her beautifully restored 1925 Wesley Heights cottage at th Streetďš? Nďš&#x2019;Wďš&#x2019; Highlights include hardwood floors, two walls of windows offering garden views, and French doors leading from the dining room to a tiered entertainment deck.The living room features a wood-burning fireplace.

The family room has a bay window, and the eatin kitchen contains state of the art appliances.

There are three bedrooms and two and a half baths. Patrick Chauvin with Washington Fine Properties has the property under contract with a list price of $1,189,000.

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By press time, the elegant estate at Curry Manor Court in Bethesda is expected to have a new owner. With all the amenities it takes to curry favor with the lord of the manor the 9,000 square-feet white stone manse is in a class by itself. Set in a beautifully landscaped compound with a gated entry, the home was built in 2001 and boasts six bedrooms, seven full and three half baths, six fireplaces, a sauna, a wine tasting room, and a four-car detached garage with an office and guest suite above. Extra conveniences include two laundry rooms, a built-in sound system and an underground sprinkler system.The impressive abode had been home to C. Hopkins. The prospective buyer is Scott Mills. Washington Fine Properties agent Ruffin Maddox listed the property for $2,995,000.

VIRGINIA The French chateau-style home situated on two secluded acres at Towlston Road in McLean has sold for $2.8 million. The fivebedroom house with six and two half baths features more than 10,000 square-feet of living space including two master bedroom suites and four additional bedrooms, a two-story family room, large recreation room, library and eatin kitchen. Its rich interior features include red oak flooring and ten-foot ceilings with elaborate crown moldings. The listing agent was Penny Yerks. The sellers were attorney Michael Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Shea and his wife Elizabeth. The purchasers Rachel and Theodore Georgelas paid $65,000 less than the asking price.

Weichert realtor Piper Gioia and Eric Gioia, formerly an executive vice president with Robbins-Gioia, have bought the five-bedroom house at Kedleston Court in McLean for $3.67 million. The seller was David Decker a high-end builder who renovated the home after it was damaged by fire.The selling agent was Mrs. Gioia, Weichert Realtorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Penny Yerks. Highlights of the property include a pool and pool house and his and her studies.

Please Send Real Estate News Items to: Mary_ Mewborn@Yahoo.com Clockwiseâ&#x20AC;&#x201C; 3024 45th Street in Wesley Heights was built in 1925, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s under contract for $1,189,000. / The 9,000 square-feet white stone manse at 6501 Curry Manor Court in Bethesda.

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Belmont Bay $1,497,777 Waterfront home. Water access & room for dock. 4BR, 3.5BA. 2 car gar. 4 balconies. Brick patio. 4 fin lvls.

4200sqft.HWFS.Min to VRE.

Vienna $1,197,777 3 sides brick col minutes from Vienna Metro. Madison Schls.

Deck & patio. 7BR, 4.5BA. HWFs. 9ft ceilings. Lrg BRs. 3 fin lvls. Designer paint.

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Alexandria $967,777 Beautifully renovated home w/ slate patio. HWFs. Kit w/SS appl. 5BR, 3.5BA. 2 frpl. 3 car gar. Mst BA w/tumbled marble & ceiling w/Douglas fir inlay.

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13,800sf, 7BR, 7BA stn est.

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Manassas $847,777 Brick frnt colonial in great neighborhd. Wooded 2.4AC. 4BR, 4.5BA. 3 fin lvls.

5300sqft. Granite. Frpl.

HWFs. Walkout LL.

Great Falls $1,850,000 Stunning custom home on 1AC. Custom paint & molding. 3 fin lvls. 3 car gar. 5BR, 6.5BA. 2 Frpl. Kit w/ceramic, marble & Viking. Sunrm.

Aldie From $847,777 Three new homes on large estate lots in charming Aldie.

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Fairfax $514,777 New carpet, paint & tile. End unit. Lake views. Patio, deck.

4BR,3 .5BA. HWFs. 3 fin lvl.

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Leesburg $1,079,900 New home (2005) & still under builder s warranty. Backs to pond & golf course. HWFs. 5BR, 4.5BA. Mst suite w/ balcony & wet bar.

Great Falls From the low $2m Stn & brick masterpiece bdown a long private drive.

Situated on 6AC & offers a 3 car gar, elegant receiving hall w/open floor plan.

N. Arlington $875,000 IMMEDIATE DELIVERY. New home. Min to Metro & Ballston. 4 fin lvls. 4BR, 4.5BA. Garage. Gorm t kit. FR w/frpl.

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Clifton $2,750,000 Stunning home situated on 5AC between 2 ponds. Deck, ingrnd pool. 5BR, 3BA, 3 pwder rms. 3 car gar w/ apartment. 3 fin lvls. HWFs.

McLean $1,577,777 Towering home on private, lushly landscaped acre. 5BR, 3.5BA. 3 fin lvls. 4 frpl. Updated kit w/ceramic, granite, SS appl. 2stry DR w/skylights.

Oakton $1,297,777 Set back down a long drive to 3AC, this home features every upgrade. Ingrnd pool.

Porch. 4BR, 3.5BA. 3 fin lvls.

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N. Arlington $799,900 Corner lot. Walk to Metro, parks, shops & dining. 5BR, 2.5BA. 2 car gar. Screened-in porch. Frnt porch. 3 frpl. 3 fin lvls. HWFs mn & upper lvls.

Fairfax $767,777 NEW HOME-IMMEDIATE DEL. 10k in closing costs.

4BR, 2.5BA. Heart of FFX. 2 car gar. HWFs. Frpl. Granite.

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McLean $859,900 Luxury twnhome. 4 fin lvls.

HWFs. Frpl. 2 car gar. Circular stairs. Deck. Kit w/ ceramic, granite & maple.

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BRIGADOON VI HENDERSON ROAD CLIFTON VIRGINIA

Built three years ago, Brigadoon VI, named for the six fenced acres it sits on, features a sculpted stone exterior, 18-foot-wide driveway and flagstone rear terrace.The seven bedroom, seven bath estate also features five interior staircases (each with individual themes) and custom crown molding with stenciling from local artisans. Two unique, and different, features: a formal salon with a $20,000 Dresden chandelier and a “mud room” with individual storage space for each family member.

Asking: $4,500,000 Listing: Casey Margenau and Associates RE/MAX Distinctive Real Estate, Inc (703) 442-8600, www.margenau.com

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JEFFERSON PIKE KNOCKSVILLE MD

Located in an area of scenic and historic renown, this 76.17 acre estate is protected by national and local easements.The 6,019-square foot manor house embodies gracious living, with eleven-foot ceilings on the first and second floors, seven fireplaces, seven bedrooms (including three with dressing rooms), four full baths and screened porches. Sweeping lawns and rose gardens create a beautiful landscape, and extras include a caretaker’s cottage and a full barn.With the agricultural property presently leased to a neighboring farmer, this is a compelling offering for the ultimate country retreat.

Asking: $1,950,000 Listing: Tim Healy, (301) 980-4085, Long and Foster Realtors

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LIFE’S A BEECH This extraordinary new home, designed by acclaimed architect Thomas Manion, boasts the finest modern amenities. The stone exterior features a dramatic wrap-around porch while the interior includes two master bedrooms suites (one on the main level). From the gourmet kitchen to the great room to the private upper-level library and office, no detail has been spared. Situated on a level twoacre lot, the house is within a quarter mile of Potomac Village and just around the corner from Great Falls Park and the C&O Canal.

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This residence is designed for both family living and formal entertaining. It combines awardwinning design, elegant architectural elements, luxury and ample amenities. From the grand foyer to the step-down family room to the well appointed dining room and chef ’s kitchen, every space has been completed with attention to quality and superior craftsmanship.The entertaining rooms include a glass-tiled sports bar, theater with tiered leather seating and a state-ofthe-art sound system. The house also features intricate moldings, arched passageways, vaulted, beamed and coffered ceilings, elaborate millwork, custom built-ins and window treatments and a beautiful wine cellar.

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REAL ESTATE ROUNDTABLE

A Quick Sell

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1. Jonathan Taylor Taylor is the managing partner of Tu , Taylor & Rankin Sotheby’s International Realty. With over 50 agents in offices in Georgetown and Downtown Washington and nearly $500 million in sales in 2005, TTRSIR is one of the top independently owned and operated real estate firms in D.C., Maryland and Virginia. The recent affiliation with Sotheby’s International Realty brings an international network of contacts, marketing and technology to the clients of TTRSIR.

3. Melinda Estridge Estridge, of the Estridge Group, Long and Foster Real Estate, has been selling real estate in the Washington area for 25 years. She focuses primarily on Bethesda, Chevy Chase, South Potomac and Northwest Washington.

Her full-time staff, buyer specialist and 7 daya-week real estate advice provide the highest level of service possible, placing Estridge in the top 1/2 percent of all agents nationwide.

2. Karen Briscoe Briscoe recently partnered with Sue Huckaby of Weichert Realtors to form The Huckaby Briscoe Group. The Huckaby Briscoe Group consistently sells over $100 million in the Northern Virginia market specializing in McLean, Great Falls and North Arlington. Briscoe began her real estate career 25 years ago developing residential lots for the Trammell Crow Co. in Dallas and relocated to the Northern Virginia area about 13 years ago.

4. Mark Bisnow B i s n o w h a s b e e n a l a w y e r, p o l i t i c o a n d b u s i n e s s m a n i n Wa s h i n g t o n f o r n e a r l y three decades and publishes a growing n u m b e r of e l e c t ro n i c n e w s l e t t e rs , i n c l u d i n g Re a l E s t a t e We e k l y, w h i c h f e a t u r e s i n t e r v i e w s w i t h t o p Wa s h i n g t o n - a r e a ex p e r t s . H e a l s o w r i t e s a c o l u m n c a l l e d “BizKnow,” a weekly personality column in t h e Wa s h i n g t o n B u s i n e s s Jo u r n a l .

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neck with last year on the number of houses that have gone under contract in those three months.

But what’s different is that we have huge inventory and so buyers can be much more selective.

Would you say the condo market looks overheated and overbuilt?

Taylor: It appears that way. Although March condo sales were really up. It was the second-highest condo sale month in the history of D.C.

Bisnow: So days a house is on the market is longer than a year ago?

Briscoe: Double what it was last year.

Bisnow: What about singlefamily houses?

Taylor: In the last month I have seen a huge increase in townhouse sales in Dupont, Kalorama, Columbia tr iangle and Adams Morgan. These townhouses in the $1.5 million to $2 million range have been selling quite quickly. We just sold one on the 1700 block on R Street listed at $2.25 million.

The Market Mark Bisnow: Where is the real estate market?

Karen Briscoe: I know the buyers are buying because I lost two contracts in a bidding war two days ago! If you look at January, February and March, we’re pretty neck and

Bisnow: Jonathan, how is D.C. looking?

Jonathan Taylor: We’re seeing a tremendous improvement in March.

Bisnow: How about all the condos that have poured into the market?

Bisnow: How about the other areas of Northwest?

Taylor: It is definitely a little sluggish and very price sensitive. People aren’t afraid if they go away without making an offer on the house that it won’t be there later.

Bisnow: Melinda, what are you seeing in terms of current trends in Maryland?

Melinda Estridge: Houses are staying on the market longer – we have a glut of new homes in the $1.5 to $2 million range in Bethesda where builders are not able to sell them because there are so many choices. If the home is priced slightly above market then you might find the right buyer within 30 days. I always tell the seller if you have eight qualified people for your property then there should be a buyer for your property and those statistics work over and over again.

Bisnow: Are you seeing differences in the high end between Chevy Chase, Bethesda and Potomac?

Estridge: Not so much. Inventory in Chevy Chase is pretty low for certain kinds of product, so if you have something special that comes on the market buyers are all over it with multiple contracts.

The Price is Right Bisnow: How do you arrive at the price for a client’s property? And how do you persuade them if they don’t agree?

Briscoe: I would have to say a lot of it is viewing properties. It is a bit of a gut reaction. You have to know what your wildcard is on a property. Does it sit on a lot?

Is it close to a busy street? How updated is it? Everybody knows it is a buyers market… price is everything. If it is priced right, it is going to sell. If people understand pricing strategies, they are much

more likely to price where they need to be.

Bisnow: Do you have a formula of how long to wait before you have a heart to heart with the client if a property doesn’t sell?

Briscoe: If it is overpriced then I try to do it within one week.

Taylor: Get feedback on why buyers aren’t making offers and let the seller know. Sometimes it works. One of the lines I hear a lot (from sellers) is ‘let them make an offer’. Well, they aren’t making offers. People are far less prone to make offers now.

Bisnow: So if a qualified buyer doesn’t come back for a second look that tells you to talk to the client about pricing.

Briscoe: Right. Then we will do comparables to try and show them what their house compares to and what other houses our selling for.

If they are serious about selling they will adjust their price.

Bisnow: What is the name of that Web site where you can type in your address and get the value of your house? Is it any good?.

Estridge: Zillow.com. Yes, it’s good, but most of the time prices are either too low or high depending on certain weights and calculations.

Briscoe: I think the hard thing we are seeing r ight now is people gettting their tax bills and their houses are worth less than their assessments.

Bisnow: Do you lose valuable time and momentum if you price wrong at the beginning?

Taylor: Absolutely.

Estridge: People are competing.

A perfect example is a home on Bradley Boulevard that we priced at $1.2 million and then dropped it to one million. It opened up a whole new price range of buyers, and we had three contracts that drove the

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Bisnow: If you ask other agents to drop by a house, fill out a form and let you know what they think, do you get a concensus on price?

Briscoe: You have to ask the right persons.

Taylor: We just did that in-house last week and we asked people from other companies too.

People who are professionals in the market generally see eye to eye. A good agent will trust a lot of other agents to come in and assist pricing it.

“March condo sales were really up.

It was the second highest condo sales month in the history of DC”

Bisnow: I was very surprised Dan Snyder’s house didn’t sell for more. It was actually listed for over $5 million.

It was on a well-known, beautiful street but only sold for $3.6. Do you know why it didn’t sell for $5 million?

Apparently he mis-priced it and he’s mr. marketeer?

Estridge: He’s not a marketeer in real estate.

Taylor: Lots of these high-end buyers are cautious because they don’t want their friends to think they made a mistake and overpaid.

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Curb Appeal Bisnow: Suppose you are thinking about putting your house on the market for $1.5 million or above.

What things are reasonable for you to do to maximize its appeal?

Taylor: It depends on what your daily maintenance patterns are with your house. For some people it is virtually nothing; for most people it’s a lot of work cleaning up and putting clutter away.

Bisnow: Should you take out 50 percent of the things from your house?

Estridge: That’s a very good idea for some people. Sometimes it’s 90 percent - including furniture. Just move it on out.

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Briscoe: That’s what Pods are made for. Drag it away.

Bisnow: Would you paint it if it hasn’t been painted for five years?

Taylor: Yes. Or if the colors are outrageous.

Estridge: I have used interior decorators to help clients understand what they need to do. They meet with the clients to introduce some cleaning and paint colors. It’s worth it to get that perspective on everything.

Bisnow: Would you hire a handyman for a month to go around and fix every little thing in the house?

Estridge: We do pre-inspections and get a pretty good idea of what is wrong with the property. Then you choose what to fix and what not to fix so you essentially have an asset sale.

Bisnow: If your front lawn has lots of weeds but you’re going to put it on the market in a couple of months would you dig up the lawn and put in sod?

Taylor: It makes a difference, curb

appeal is critical.

Estridge: If you price it low enough they might overlook weeds.

Briscoe: Yes, but if you are in a $1 - $2 million price range, I don’t see how it would be acceptable to have a house with weeds.

Taylor: You’re selling a lifestyle as well as the property.

Briscoe: People want to see themselves living there.

Estridge: And it needs to be sexy.

or family room in an older house. Let’s say in Northwest a buyer is looking for that $1.5 million pr ice range. But then it’s got an old master bedroom and a bathroom that two people can’t stand in at one time and it doesn’t work for the person that has the $2 million dollars to spend.

Estridge: Proper landscaping.

You have to drive up the appeal to make it more inviting.

Bisnow: What about updating interior features like dated kitchens and baths?

Taylor: It’s worthwhile if at the end of the renovation your house is worth that investment plus a substantial profit.

Bisnow: And if you do the whole redo to perfection then spending all the money pays off?

Taylor: Yes. It’s not that hard to do it tastefully. It’s amazing how many people personalize things too much – it just eliminates others from liking it.

Bisnow: If it’s a really high-priced house would you advise against renovating because the people who can buy that particular house would have their own taste and would end up ripping it out?

Estridge: I hear more people in that price range say I would rather have nothing done so we could tear it out and do what we want. Kitchens and bathrooms are very particular for people.

Briscoe: If you get a $3.5 million house and it has an amazing kitchen and bathrooms that have been done tastefully then you would pick that over a house that is tired. Renovations take energy and time.

Bisnow: What should people do if they want to live in the house for a year or two and then sell?

Briscoe: Paint, redo floors, new carpet.

Taylor: Proper master bedroom and closet space. A lot of times in some of these renovations they would blow out the kitchen

The Closing Bisnow: You know people like glamour. What’s the highest end thing you’re dealing with? Anything to get excited about?

Taylor: We have some loft-style condos above what used to be City’s Restaurant (now Left Bank in Adams Morgan). The properties are listed for $2.4 and $1.8 million and both of them are being pursued right now. We have a house in Kalorama at 1824 23rd Street that we have a great new price on. It started at $3.85 million and been on the market for about 6 months and just got to $2.995 million. It would have been history if had we started there – as we said high prices diminish the enthusiasm.

Estridge: I have a great town home in Gaithersburg. It’s probably about $1.6 million and is not that huge, but it is a very interesting property because there are not many contemporaries around.

Bisnow: Fantastic, it’s a wrap!!

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Octogenarian Ann MacLeod has lived in the village of Upperville (estimated population 150) since moving into Dunvegan Farm as a newlywed in 1945. She met her husband Colin “Sandy” MacLeod, Jr., while living and working in Army intelligence in Austria. “I’m a retired lady spy,” she says. They settled into life in the country, raised a son and bred and raced horses on the 150-acre family property.Through the years Ann’s been an active member of the local community and is one of several stylish grandes dames in this pocket of posh.

Ann makes an authoritative distinction between Upperville and Middleburg, just eight miles to the east along John Mosby Highway. “Upperville is a hotbed of social rest, quiet and bucolic,” she says. “And Middleburg is the mink and manure set.” Ann lost her husband in 1977. In 1995, she

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carved off 13-acres for herself, sold the farm and built a smaller home.

The original property became Horsefields and passed through several families. It has a five bedroom stone manor house (with renovations

by Upperville architect Tommy Beach), two tenant houses and a charming barn. Tatiana and Sergio Pino of Coral Gables recently purchased it for $6.7 million and now commute to Virginia by private jet. He is founder, president and CEO of Century Partners Group in Miami and also directs his original business endeavor, Century Plumbing.

Meanwhile, Ann is preparing for the annual Stable Tour on Memorial Day weekend (cochaired by Dorothy Gow and Leah Creighton).

She’s posted at the Goose Creek Bridge, the longest remaining four-arch stone turnpike bridge in the state. It was built when Thomas Jefferson was president and renovated with a

government grant on 12-acre meadow donated

by Senator John Warner. It’s lovingly cared for by the Fauquier and Loudoun Garden Club, of which Ann is a member.

SAY CHEESE

Many mistakenly mention The Trinity Church (frequently referred to as the “Mellon Church”) as English; actually it’s inspired by a 12th century French country church. It was donated by Bunny (an active and elegant 96) and the late Paul Mellon. The late H. Page Cross of New York designed the church buildings.

Cross also designed the stunning stables at Rokeby, the Mellon farm, which will be open

Above– Ovoka Farm, encircled by more that 3,000 acres of perpetually preserved hillsides, meadows, and forests, will part of this year’s Hunt Country Stable Tour.

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this year. In addition to the horses, there’s a little known extra attraction here … the cheese. For years, the Mellons have had a boutique dairy with fresh products from seven Brown Swiss cows including milk, cream, (a luscious 65 percent fat content), cottage cheese and butter. Several years ago, cheesemaker Allen Bassler went through the rigors of state inspection and began to offer 20 varieties of Oak Spring cheeses for sale, including a selection of white and yellow cheddar, caraway derby, marbled Colby and jalapeno red pepper derby.

MASTER OF THE HOUSE

Upperville has several new residents, including Jennifer and Jamie Gore (whose family once owned the Marwood estate on River Road in Potomac and the old Fairfax Hotel on Massachusetts Avenue).The couple has purchased the 55-acre circa 1840 Seaton Place for just under $2 million last December.Wonderful weatherman Willard Scott’s 15-acre place (Cape Cod house, pool and stables) just up the road has been listed for $2.3 million.

Cricket Bedford Whitner, daughter of the late Master of the Piedmont Fox Hounds Erskine L. Bedford, recently parted with the family farm known as Old Welbourne. The 328acre property is considered a local treasure — having been in the Dulany family for generations until Bedford purchased it in 1961. After much agonizing, the adorable Cricket — now a single

mother of two — wrote a letter to her dear father about the difficult decision.

The next day, she received a contract from Mary and Tom Catlett, who have three daughters and family in the area.The selling price was $6 million.

Back in 1840, Richard Henry Dulany (see above) was the founder of the Piedmont Fox Hounds and in 1853 started the Upperville Colt and Horse Show — the oldest horse show in the United States (The hamburgers at the food stand manned by the fire department are a must.)

OLD SHOW/NEW SHOW

The mistress of Fox Lair Farm, Elizabeth “Luv Luv” Busch Burke (her father August A. Busch, was a co-founder of the beer company) will be dancing at the Upperville Horse Show Kickoff Party. During the show, she’ll be cheering from the sidelines as her daughter, Lysa Horkan and granddaughters Ashley Burke, 11, and Brittany Horkan, 12, compete.

For culture vultures, the Middleburg Players are taking their current production, “Plaza Suite” (starring Little River Inn owner Tucker Withers in the part once portrayed by Walter Matthau) on the road for a four-day run at Buchanan Hall in Upperville. Buchanan Hall, built by the Dulany family in 1920, was deeded to Upperville for civic use by Ann Dulany and H. Rozier Dulany, Jr., in 1933.

Linden Wiesman, a Three Day Event team Bronze medal winner at the 2000 Olympics, is the current squeeze of Gregg Ryan, an amateur steeplechase rider/insurance executive and one of People magazine’s Most Eligible bachelors.

For anyone wanting to join in all the fun in Upperville (and maybe even have your place on the Stable Tour), Linden is selling, Roscommon, her family farm. The property includes a stylish stone and stucco main house and for true horse lovers a barn constructed by the Pennsylvania Amish, with eleven paddocks and an indoor arena. Asking price? Just over $3.3 million.

For a tiny village there’s sure a lot going on.

Left– Anne Dudley and Coventry Burke at the Orange County Hunt Point-to-Point Races. Above– Cheese logo from Bunny Mellon’s Oak Spring Dairy.

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Lauren Marsden and Meredith Bass at 32nd annual running of the Marlborough Hunt Races at historic Roedown Farms.

WORD ON THE STREET

Patsy (lawyer/lobbyist for Marathon Oil) and Joe Richards (owner of Arlington Builders, Inc) hosted their annual “Tailgate in a Tent Party” at the Orange Country Hunt Point-to-Point races. Donald O. “Speck” Campen, Jr. was up from Richmond ... the retired office manager of former Rep. David E. Satterfield, III has landed an acting part on “Commander In Chief ” introducing the president on the floor of the House of Representatives.

HUNT COUNTRY DATES

May11-14: The Middleburg Players will present “Plaza Suite” at historic Buchanan Hall in Upperville. Contact@ middleburgplayers.com, (703) 327-6742, www.middleburgplayers.com.

May 12: Upperville Horse Show Kick Off Party featuring the Andre Fox Band to benefit the United States Equestrian Team. uchs@crosslink.net, (540) 687-5740 or (540) 592-3858, www.upperville.com

May 27-28: Trinity Episcopal Church Hunt Country Stable Tour in and around Upperville. All proceeds support the Church’s numerous Outreach Programs. leahcreighton@msn.com or betsy@ trinityupperville.org, (540) 592-3711. www.trinityupperville.org.

June 5-11: Upperville Colt and Horse Show featuring the $100,000 Budweiser Upperville Jumper Classic. uchs@ crosslink.net, (540) 687-5740 or (540) 5923858, www.upperville.com

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ews may atone for their sins in October on Yom Kippur and the Catholics may do it as often as possible in the confessional, but darlings, for those who have to stay a “sample” size 8, atonement comes in the spring – that’s when my girlfriends slip out of town for a pre-summer tune up at their favorite fat farm. The main items on the menu are detox and weight loss, but if they also need a little nip and tuck or a bit of botox and a peel, they’ll get that, too. The conservative girls head to Florida or California, while my more adventurous friends jet off to Switzerland or Brazil. Oh, and it’s not supposed to be mentioned, but often the men go too; there’s more reasons than one for the two week Congressional spring break.

Me? I set the “out of office” reply on my email, hang a “go away” sign on the front door and make Washington my spa. There are so many options for self-pleasure in this town. Let me count the ways.

First of all, I time my self-contrived Washington spa week for when Mr. Strange and his cronies are off on their annual Bermuda golf trip. On an island he can get into mischief, but not that much mischief. Having the little Georgetown manse to myself, I go into spa mode. Pastora heads to the market with my shopping list and returns with enough green leafy vegetables and nonfat yogurt to mastermind a serious fast, detox and de-puff.

Coming from a country where they believe in miracles she is my perfect ally. She also concocts a wicked vegetable juice that becomes the main event of my diet for the week.

But there are other allies in this city of hidden possibilities. David Keller shows up every other morning to triple my standard fitness routine.

When he’s done putting me through boot camp in the back garden, on the C&O Canal towpath, and up and down the “Exorcist steps,” my body is as worked out as if I’d taken every

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“THERE ARE SO MANY OPTIONS FOR SELF-PLEASURE IN THIS TOWN LET ME COUNT THE WAYS ” class at Rancho la Puerta and Miraval. On the alternate days, I spend a few hours with Steve Kostorowski at Water Street gym. You can hear my screams out on K Street, but how else to get the lower regions ready for the Tara Matthews dragonfly string bikini? As a reward for the sweat and strain, each afternoon I slip into “Down Dog” for an hour or so of relaxing yoga. When I return home my Egyptian masseur kneads out the kinks with 90 minutes of deep tissue work after which Pastora treats me to a tall glass of green goo, a ready hot bath and my bed turned down to look like the welcome mat at heaven’s door.

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est you think my home spa program is all torture, let me assure you it is not. Toward the end of the week I ease up a little and indulge more. My favorite is the two-hour time treatment at the Mandarin Oriental, where they serve tea in a serene dark room, massage my feet, scrub me with salt, drip hot oils, massage with hot and cold stones, cover me with herbal mud and

wrap me in warm linen, rinse and send me off like a Geisha. It’s after this that I usually call Mr. Strange at the Mid Ocean Club and encourage a little phone sex.

I finish my last day with a facial from Lance at Blue Mercury and pedicure and manicure from Colleen George at the Four Seasons, then zip over to get my color and cut at Cristophe.

By the time the G-5 lands at Reagan with hubby and pals I’m as fresh and dazzling as a bouquet of Casablanca lilies and ready for Churchill Downs for the fast horses, Monaco for the fast cars, and Cannes for the fast actors.

Oops, did I say that?

Readers wishing to get in touch with Michael can email her at:MichaelStrangeDC@aol.com

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No one knows how he does it, but Phil Mickelson has become one of the game’s all-time greats by taking chances other pros won’t. From skipping a ball off a lake on to the green for an eagle, to playing chip shots that fly backwards over his head, Phil’s daring and creative game is a magical thing to behold.

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