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The Foggy BoTTom CurrenTWednesday, October 26, 2011 Serving Foggy Bottom & the West End Vol. VI, No. 45

■ Studio Theatre presents ‘The Golden Dragon.’ Page 37.■ National Portrait Gallery opens ‘Black List’ exhibit. Page 37.

EVENTS INDEXBusiness/11Calendar/32Classifieds/45 District Digest/4Foggy Bottom News/15Exhibits/37In Your Neighborhood/26

Opinion/13Passages/17Police Report/6Real Estate/25School Dispatches/18Service Directory/41Theater/37

By ELIZABETH WIENERCurrent Staff Writer

The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts voted approval last week for a long-awaited double stairway to connect the Kennedy Center’s west terrace with the parkland and Potomac River below. The preferred design involves two glass staircases, each surrounding an elevator, that will descend from the front terrace to a new plaza wedged between Rock Creek Parkway and a popular riverfront trail. That design differs only in minor detail from one proposed — and also approved in concept — four years ago. In the interim, funding issues slowed the project, while negotiations among four entities — the National Park Service, Federal Highway Administration, District Department of Transportation and Kennedy Center —

also prolonged planning. “It’s a very complicated project, involving four agen-cies, all with slightly different agendas,” Peter May, an associate regional director for the Park Service, told the fine arts panel last Thursday.

See Stairs/Page 46

Panel OKs steps linking Kennedy Center, park

Courtesy of the Kennedy CenterPlans for the Kennedy Center steps have been in the works for years, but were slowed by funding and agency negotiation issues.

By JESSICA GOULD Current Staff Writer

As a winter chill begins to set in, some residents are already prepar-ing for spring. As they do every year, the Friends of Book Hill Park will hold a daffodil planting at the park Saturday morning from 9 to 10:30. Friends co-president Ginny Poole said the group plans to plant 500 bulbs to replace the flowers that

have been lost or stolen over the past year. “Kids, families, all are wel-come,” she said, adding that the annual planting is a key part of the group’s ongoing efforts to keep the park clean and attractive. Meanwhile, the Rock Creek Conservancy is raising money for another Georgetown beautification project. The group is seeking funds to support the planting of 5,000 daf-fodil bulbs, 2,250 coneflower bulbs, and 2,250 wild blue indigo bulbs along Rock Creek Parkway at the Pennsylvania Avenue exit.

See Flowers/Page 46

Friends group plans to plant daffodils at Book Hill Park


The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts last week voted tentative approval for two mixed-use com-plexes in the West End, enthusiasti-cally supporting a striking 10-story building that will house the neigh-

borhood library, and also endorsing — with less enthusiasm — a stacked eight-story project that will include affordable housing atop a fire sta-tion and squash club. Plans for the library complex are “quite brilliant,” said one commis-sioner of the blocky asymmetrical building the EastBanc firm has pro-posed for 24th and L streets. It fea-tures eight stories of residential units “warped and twisted” on top of each other, looking like an unsta-

ble stack of blocks over a glassy two-story library that will stretch along L Street. The innovative design by archi-tect Enrique Norten includes ground-floor retail space on 23rd Street, with a corner storefront to be occupied by a privately run cafe that will be accessible from the library, and two levels of underground park-ing. “Our intention is to bring a cer-

See West End/Page 46

West End projects win early support

Bill Petros/The CurrentThousands of spectators — and many participants — turned out for the 25th anniversary of the Dupont high heel race on Tuesday night along 17th Street. The annual Halloween-season event began in 1986, when, as the story goes, a couple guys dressed in drag raced from one 17th Street bar to another.

H E E L S A N D A L L

By KATIE PEARCECurrent Staff Writer

A status update on “Operation Adams Morgan” last week evolved into a discussion on how to resolve what many see as an overconcentration of liquor licenses on 18th Street. Ward 1 D.C. Council member Jim Graham, at the Oct. 19 public meeting, said he plans to “put forward a proposal to reduce the number of licensees in the neigh-borhood,” since he is “absolutely convinced this is the central issue” behind Adams Morgan’s problems. Various city officials, including Metropolitan Police Department Chief Cathy Lanier, hosted Wednesday’s meeting to report on the progress of Operation Adams Morgan. The program, which kicked off in late July to control nightlife chaos, has placed extra cops and enforcement officers on and around 18th Street on weekend nights.

See Licenses/Page 38

Enforcement effort sparks license convo

■ Development: EastBanc designs clear fine arts panel

Bill Petros/Current File PhotoBoth city officials and area residents reported on the successes of “Operation Adams Morgan” but discussed the need for long-term fixes.

■ Landscape: Other group targets Rock Creek for plants

■ Board staff advises against landmarking for Walmart site. Page 9. ■ Group works to save original D.C. boundary markers. Page 7.

NEWS■ Rebellious DJs at Georgetown radio station reunite. 7.■ New program makes storytellers of memory-impaired seniors. Page 17.

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Thursday, Oct. 27 The National Park Service will hold a public meeting to discuss proposed safety improvements to the Rock Creek Parkway at Waterside Drive. The meeting will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Rock Creek Nature Center, 5200 Glover Road NW.

Saturday, Oct. 29 Volunteers will plant daffodils from 9 to 10:30 a.m. in Book Hill Park, at Wisconsin Avenue and R Street. For details, contact Ginny Poole at 202-944-2753.■ The Newark Street Park K-9 Friends will hold a one-year anniversary celebration and fundraiser for the Newark Street Dog Park. Activities will include training demonstra-tions, a storytime for children, a silent auction, a raffle, and collection of donated items for local animal shelters and rescue organizations. The event will be held from 10 a.m. to noon at the park, located at 39th and Newark streets NW.■ The West End Citizens Association will hold its fall meeting, which will feature guest speaker Donovan Morris, manager of the new Whole Foods Market in Foggy Bottom. The agenda also features a presentation by Peter Chew on George Washington University’s proposed museum, including the relocated Textile Museum collection. The meeting will be held at 2 p.m. at the School Without Walls, 2130 G St. NW.

Tuesday, Nov. 1 The D.C. Lottery and Charitable Games Control Board will hold a Ward 1 communi-ty meeting on plans for iGaming DC, its online gambling program. The meeting will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Marie Reed Learning Center, 2200 Champlain St. NW.■ The Palisades Citizens Association will hold its monthly meeting, which will feature remarks by D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson. The meeting will begin at 7:30 p.m. at the Palisades Recreation Center, Sherier and Dana places NW.

Wednesday, Nov. 2 The D.C. Council Committee on Public Safety and the Judiciary will hold a public hearing on enforcement of pedestrian and bicycle safety policies. The hearing will begin at 11 a.m. in Room 412 of the John A. Wilson Building, 1350 Pennsylvania Ave. NW.■ The State Health Planning and Development Agency will hold an information hear-ing on the application by Brinton Woods of Rock Creek LLC for the acquisition of Rock Creek Manor Nursing Home, a 180-bed skilled nursing facility at 2131 O St. NW. The hearing will begin at 11 a.m. in Room 407, 899 North Capitol St. NE.■ The D.C. Council Committee on Public Safety and the Judiciary will hold a public hearing on police response to reports of hate crimes. The hearing will begin at 2 p.m. in Room 412 of the John A. Wilson Building, 1350 Pennsylvania Ave. NW.■ The D.C. Office of the People’s Counsel will hold a town-hall meeting on “D.C. Utility Quality of Services and Reliability.” The meeting will be held from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the Chevy Chase Community Center, 5601 Connecticut Ave. NW.

The week ahead

By BRADY HOLTCurrent Staff Writer

American University hasn’t been willing to work with neighbors on design modifications to its planned North Hall dormitory, community leaders told the Zoning Commission last Thursday, saying the panel should reject the building plans until the school resolves the issue. The school hopes to house about 358 students and a fitness center on the site of a parking lot between the President’s Office Building and the Wesley Theological Seminary prop-erty, atop a tree-lined hill overlook-ing Massachusetts Avenue. University officials said at the hear-ing that they hope to have the resi-dence hall open by fall 2013, and neighbors have said the site is a good location for housing. But to the apparent surprise of university officials and zoning com-missioners, the Spring Valley/Wesley Heights advisory neighbor-

hood commission backed away from supportive statements made at its Oct. 5 meeting and in a subse-quent Zoning Commission filing. Commission chair Tom Smith testi-fied that the tall building would, as proposed, have a large, unsightly facade facing neighbors and Massachusetts Avenue passersby. “What we see is basically this indus-trial drab gray that is not in character for the community,” he said. The university recently rede-signed the planned L-shaped North Hall, pulling it back farther from Massachusetts Avenue and adding an eighth story to only the section facing existing residence halls. At the neighborhood commission’s Oct. 5 meeting, Smith hailed the revisions as the result of “a model working relationship between American University and the com-munity.” The neighborhood commission voted 7-1 to support the project on the conditions that the university

minimize the proposed eight-story building’s “visual impact”; work with the community to improve the planned facade; and submit con-struction, landscaping and stormwa-ter management plans. But at last week’s hearing, neigh-borhood commission chair Tom Smith said those conditions had not been met. “If AU is unable to design an attractive building that minimiz-es the visual impact along Massachusetts Avenue, one solution would be reduce the height of the building and increase the setback required from Massachusetts Avenue,” Smith testified. Smith’s testimony provoked a lively exchange with zoning com-missioner Peter May. “I find your testimony nothing short of shocking given the letter we’ve gotten,” May said. “The letter says, ‘We support it with these conditions.’ The condi-tions are pretty straightforward and seem to be achievable, but you’re

Residents back away from support of AU dorm

By ALLISON BRENNAN Current Correspondent

“When is the preservation of the park’s history more important than someone getting run over?” Dupont Circle advisory neighborhood commissioner Mike Silverstein asked of a panel of National Park Service personnel Saturday. D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton called a town-hall meeting that day to address local tensions with Park Service officials regarding spaces under the federal agency’s jurisdiction but located in District neighbor-hoods. “One of the complaints people had was reaching anybody with any authority,” Norton said.

And that was one of Silverstein’s concern when it came to the small triangular park at 20th Street and Connecticut Avenue. Community efforts to rehabilitate the Dupont park haven’t always meshed well with National Park Service historic preservation mandates. The most recent concern, Silverstein told Park Service officials, is the width of a sidewalk that runs along the park’s Connecticut Avenue side, which he said is insufficient to handle its heavy foot traffic. The park sits just north of one of the entrances to the Dupont Circle Metro stop, and its Connecticut Avenue sidewalk houses a bus stop, so pedestrian activity is busy. “That particular park was built in 1929, and since

Park Service, locals work through tensions

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Teenagers charged in separate homicides The Metropolitan Police Department last week arrested two teens suspected in recent Northwest homicides, according to news releases from the department. Police arrested Derek Johnson, 17, of Northwest, on Oct. 18 in connection with an Oct. 8 homicide in the Petworth area, the depart-ment announced last Wednesday.

Johnson is charged with second-degree murder in the stabbing death of Jamar Michael Freeman, 17, of Southeast, states a release. On Thursday, police arrested Christian Navarette-Rivas, 16, of Riverdale, Md., in connection with an Oct. 6 homicide in the 16th Street Heights area, according to a second news release. Police allege that Navarette-Rivas intentionally struck Miguel Angel Drullard Jr., 22, of Northwest, with a car on

14th Street. Navarette-Rivas was charged with second-degree mur-der. Both teens were identified because they were charged as adults.

Microsoft looking at St. Elizabeths site Victor Hoskins, the city’s deputy mayor for planning and economic development, told two local busi-

ness groups recently that Microsoft is considering establishing an “innovation center” on the St. Elizabeths Hospital site in Southeast. Hoskins said the company has built such centers, which its web-site describes as “applied research” facilities, in China and in Europe, but not in the United States. A big advantage of the St. Elizabeths site is that it is within view of and easily accessible from the U.S. Capitol building. Among the site’s visitors has been Microsoft’s director of innovation.

Federal aid sought for quake damage The District is requesting federal funding for repairs to public facili-ties and landmarks damaged during the Aug. 23 earthquake, according to a news release from Mayor Vincent Gray’s office. D.C. government facilities — mostly schools — collectively sus-tained more than $6.8 million in damage, the release says, and the Washington National Cathedral’s repair bill is estimated at $15 mil-lion. Mayor Gray sent a letter to President Barack Obama on Friday asking him to issue a disaster dec-laration, which would let the District apply for reimbursement from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

AIDS Walk celebrates 25th anniversary Whitman-Walker Health will hold its 25th annual AIDS Walk Washington fundraiser on Saturday, honoring three individuals who have been part of the event’s histo-

ry as “Grand Marshals,” according to a news release. The marshals will be Ward 1 D.C. Council member Jim Graham, who served as the health center’s executive director from 1984 to 1998; Whitman-Walker psycho-therapist Joe Izzo, who has partici-pated in the AIDS Walk every year; and former Army nurse Maudie Jones, who worked with AIDS patients. Residents can donate or register to participate at aidswalkwashing-ton.org. As of yesterday morning, the event had raised slightly more than $642,000 out of a $1 million goal, according to the website.

D.C. Chamber doles out business awards The D.C. Chamber of Commerce handed out several awards Saturday at its annual Chamber’s Choice gala at the Marriott Wardman Park hotel. Mark Ein, founder and chief executive officer of the technology holding company Venturehouse Group, was named Business Leader of the Year, and the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Mid-Atlantic States Inc. was named Business of the Year. EagleBank received the Economic Impact Award, and B. Smith of B. Smith’s Restaurant in Union Station won the Chamber’s Choice Award. The Chair’s Choice Award went to W. Christopher Smith, chairman and chief executive officer of the William C. Smith + Co. real estate firm.

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Reconstruction of the Raymond Recreation Center in Petworth is on track to begin next month, follow-ing a brief and unpopular suggestion to fold a new headquarters for the D.C. Department of Parks and Recreation into the plan. The project is now proceeding as originally planned, as a two-story, 24,000-square-foot new recreation center at 915 Spring Road, behind the Raymond Elementary School and within walking distance of the Petworth Metro station. Jesús Aguirre, director of the parks department, told Petworth

community members recently that the project — though lacking about $2 million in funds — should break ground within a few weeks. The agency had temporarily explored the idea of relocating its headquarters, now located in Columbia Heights at 3149 16th St. NW, into the renovated Raymond building. According to several sources, that change would have required another year or more of preparations. But the department “backed off” this concept quickly, according to local advisory neighborhood com-missioner David Tumblin. “They were just exploring the idea, and it

Project to expand Raymond Rec Center to kick off soon

By BETH COPECurrent Staff Writer

A handful of Oregon Avenue residents are so unhappy with the city’s plans to reconstruct their street that they have organized as a group and secured pro bono legal assistance to fight for a shift in direction. The Neighbors United to Preserve Oregon Avenue and Rock Creek Park, a seven-member com-mittee with more than 250 signato-ries to a general petition of con-cern, formed after the D.C. Transportation Department released its environmental assess-ment on the project. The assess-ment weighed four options for reconstruction, three of which involve adding sidewalks and straightening the roadway. “We all read the EA,” said Beth Lamoreaux. “Not only were we

shocked at the massive change that was proposed for the street, but many of us felt … it was not envi-ronmentally sound.” The group has retained support from the law firm Arnold and Porter, where one Oregon Avenue resident is head of the environmen-tal division. Members said they sought the legal help simply to sift through all of the information and figure out how to proceed. Of course, not all residents agree with Neighbors United. One point of contention has been side-walks, which the group opposes as an unappealingly urban change for their bucolic parkside road. Others say they’re crucial to improving safety along the street. “Literally, moms with their strollers will stop me and say, ‘Boy do we want a sidewalk on Oregon Avenue,’” said Gary Thompson,

Oregon Ave. reconstruction plans divide local residents

Current Staff Report In an address before the Washington Circle Business Association last week, Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs director Nicholas Majett said complaints about the agency have declined sharply in recent years. “Back in 1995, it was different,” he said. “Now, it’s a new DCRA.” Majett described many ways in which his depart-ment has increased efficiency by streamlining or simplifying processes. The agency is now doing a better job, for exam-

ple, at keeping track of its list of vacant properties in the city. And the number of vacant properties has been reduced — from 3,200 properties on the list in 2010 to 2,200 now, he said. Owners of vacant properties have to pay $5 per $100 of assessed value in taxes, compared to 85 cents per $100 for owners of occupied residential property; a third category for “blighted” buildings charges $10 per $100. The director got a laugh when he told the group about a D.C. Council member who called him to

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This is a listing of reports taken from Oct. 16 through 22 by the Metropolitan Police Department in local police service areas.

PSA 201

Burglary■ 3700 block, Jocelyn St.; resi-dence; 3 a.m. Oct. 22.Theft from auto (below $250)■ 3300 block, Military Road; street; 8 p.m. Oct. 18.■ 3700 block, Morrison St.; street; 5 p.m. Oct. 18.

PSA 202

Robbery (snatch)■ 5300 block, Wisconsin Ave.; store; 7:15 p.m. Ot. 20.Assault with a dangerous weapon (knife)■ 4700 block, Wisconsin Ave.; sidewalk; 2:30 p.m. Oct. 20.Stolen auto■ 42nd and Brandywine streets; street; 5 p.m. Oct. 19.Theft ($250 plus)■ 3900 block, Chesapeake St.; school; 2:07 p.m. Oct. 16.■ 5200 block, Wisconsin Ave.; store; 10:01 a.m. Oct. 17.Theft (below $250)■ 5300 block, Wisconsin Ave.; store; 12:45 p.m. Oct. 17.■ 3900 block, Chesapeake St.; school; 12:30 p.m. Oct. 19.■ 4400 block, Wisconsin Ave.; government building; 11 a.m. Oct. 20.

PSA 203

Burglary■ 4600 block, Connecticut Ave.; residence; 9:30 p.m. Oct. 19.■ 3600 block, Albemarle St.; res-idence; 3 p.m. Oct. 17.

PSA 206

Robbery (snatch)■ 3200 block, Prospect St.; side-walk; 7:20 p.m. Oct. 17.Assault with a dangerous weapon■ 3700 block, T St.; residence; 12:55 a.m. Oct. 23.Burglary■ 1900 block, 35th St.; resi-dence; 9 a.m. Oct. 19.■ 3000 block, M St.; store; 1:35 a.m. Oct. 19.■ 2800 block, N St.; residence; 1 p.m. Oct. 21.■ 2800 block, Olive St.; resi-dence; 9 p.m. Oct. 21.Stolen auto■ 1000 block, Wisconsin Ave.; street; 10 p.m. Oct. 20.Theft (below $250)■ 37th and O streets; university; 9 p.m. Oct. 17.■ 3000 block, M St.; store; 6:15 p.m. Oct. 17.■ Wisconsin Avenue and S Street; parking lot; 5:30 p.m. Oct. 17.■ 2500 block, P St.; residence; 9:50 p.m. Oct. 18.■ 3200 block, M St.; unspecified

premises; 7 p.m. Oct. 18.■ 1300 block, Wisconsin Ave.; restaurant; 3:30 a.m. Oct. 22.■ 1200 block, 36th St.; tavern; 12:01 a.m. Oct. 22.■ 3100 block, M St.; unspecified premises; 3:30 p.m. Oct. 22.■ 37th and O streets; unspeci-fied premises; 9 p.m. Oct. 22.■ 31st and K streets; street; 11:15 a.m. Oct. 23.Theft from auto ($250 plus)■ 2800 block, Dumbarton St.; street; 11:30 a.m. Oct. 21.Theft from auto (below $250)■ 1200 block, Wisconsin Ave.; parking lot; 9 p.m. Oct. 17.■ 1000 block, 30th St.; street; 11:30 a.m. Oc. 18.■ 3200 block, M St.; parking lot; 9 p.m. Oct. 19.■ 1300 block, Wisconsin Ave.; parking lot; 12:01 a.m. Oct. 22.■ 1200 block, Potomac St.; alley; 6 p.m. Oct. 22.■ 1000 block, 30th St.; street; 11 p.m. Oct. 22.■ 1000 block, Wisconsin Ave.; street; 1 a.m. Oct. 23.

PSA 207

Assault with a dangerous weapon■ 1700 block, F St.; sidewalk; 9:35 a.m. Oct. 19.Burglary■ 2100 block, I St.; residence; 1:40 a.m. Oct. 21.Theft (below $250)■ 2600 block, I St.; sidewalk; 1 p.m. Oct. 21.Theft from auto (below $250)■ 2500 block, M St.; street; 11 p.m. Oct. 21.■ 1100 block, 25th St.; street; 8:30 p.m. Oct. 21.■ 400 block, 18th St.; street; 1:30 p.m. Oct. 22.

PSA 208

Robbery (armed)■ 1000 block, Connecticut Ave.; office building; 10:40 a.m. Oct. 17.Robbery (force and violence)■ 1200 block, New Hampshire Ave.; sidewalk; 5:05 a.m. Oct. 22.■ Unspecified location; sidewalk; 1:30 a.m. Oct. 22.Assault with a dangerous weapon■ 1500 block, K St.; store; 4:05 p.m. Oct. 19.■ 1900 block, K St.; unspecified premises; 1:15 p.m. Oct. 20.■ 19th and N streets; sidewalk; 2 a.m. Oct. 23.Burglary■ 1500 block, O St.; residence; 2:45 a.m. Oct. 21.■ 1000 block, 19th St.; unspeci-fied premises; 4:58 p.m. Oct. 18.Stolen auto■ 16th Street and Riggs Place; street; 7:30 p.m. Oct. 20.■ 1500 block, T St.; alley; 6:30 p.m. Oct. 22.Theft ($250 plus)■ 1000 block, 16th St.; hotel; 10 a.m. Oct. 16.■ 1400 block, U St.; unspecified

premises; 1 p.m. Oct. 17.■ 1600 block, K St.; unspecified premises; 5 a.m. Oct. 18.Theft (below $250)■ 1800 block, I St.; office build-ing; 1:54 p.m. Oct. 16.■ 1500 block, 16th St.; street; 6:15 a.m. Oct. 17.■ 1500 block, Connecticut Ave.; street; 2:30 p.m. Oct. 18.■ 1500 block, 17th St.; restau-rant; 8:30 p.m. Oct. 18.■ 1800 block, M St.; sidewalk; 12:30 a.m. Oct. 20.■ 1700 block, Rhode Island Ave.; sidewalk; 5:45 a.m. Oct. 20.■ 1200 block, Connecticut Ave.; street; 7:20 a.m. Oct. 20.■ 1900 block, Pennsylvania Ave.; store; 3:42 p.m. Oct. 20.■ 1600 block, Connecticut Ave.; store; 7:30 p.m. Oct. 20.■ 2100 block, K St.; tavern; 1:30 a.m. Oct. 21.■ 1400 block, U St.; tavern; 11:30 p.m. Oct. 22.■ 1000 block, Connecticut Ave.; store; 1:25 p.m. Oct. 23.■ 1500 block, 16th St.; church; 10:55 a.m. Oct. 23.Theft from auto (below $250)■ 1500 block, 15th St.; street; 6 p.m. Oct. 17.■ 1500 block, 15th St.; parking lot; 9 p.m. Oct. 18.■ 1500 block, Church St.; park-ing lot; 11 p.m. Oct. 18.■ 1700 block, 15th St.; street; 2 p.m. Oct. 19.■ Florida Avenue and Q Street; gas station; 9:40 p.m. Oct. 21.■ 1500 block, T St.; street; 2:15 p.m. Oct. 22.■ 1900 block, N St.; street; 4:15 p.m. Oct. 22.■ 19th Street and Riggs Place; street; 6 p.m. Oct. 22.Theft from auto (attempt)■ 1500 block, Church St.; street; 6 p.m. Oct. 18.

PSA 303

Robbery (force and violence)■ 1800 block, Summit Place; residence; 7 p.m. Oct. 22.Robbery (snatch)■ 1800 block, Summit Place; sidewalk; 1 a.m. Oct. 18.Burglary■ 2400 block, Ontario Road; res-idence; 6 a.m. Oct. 23.Theft (below $250)■ 1800 block, Connecticut Ave.; unspecified premises; 6:30 p.m. Oct. 18.■ 2400 block, 18th St.; restau-rant; 11:15 p.m. Oct. 22.Theft from auto (below $250)■ 2500 block, 17th St.; street; 4 p.m. Oct. 18.■ 1600 block, Fuller St.; street; 4 p.m. Oct. 19.

PSA 307

Robbery (knife)■ 1200 block, 11th St.; alley; 4:27 p.m. Oc. 23.Robbery (assault)■ 1200 block, M St.; sidewalk; 2:23 p.m. Oct. 23.Robbery (force and violence)■ 1700 block, 13th St.; sidewalk; 6:15 a.m. Oct. 17.

Robbery (pocketbook snatch)■ 14th and L streets; sidewalk; 11:25 p.m. Oct. 22.Robbery (snatch)■ 1300 block, 14th St.; side-walk; 2:31 p.m. Oct. 23.Burglary■ 900 block, P St.; residence; 6:40 a.m. Oct. 23.Stolen auto■ 1400 block, 11th St.; street; 4 p.m. Oct. 16.■ 11th and O streets; street; 10:30 p.m. Oct. 17.Theft (below $250)■ 1400 block, P St.; unspecified premises; 11:16 a.m. Oct. 17.■ 1400 block, P St.; restaurant; 6:30 p.m. Oct. 19.■ 1300 block, 14th St.; restau-rant; 8:30 p.m. Oct. 21.■ 1400 block, Corcoran St.; side-walk; 7:30 p.m. Oct. 21.Theft from auto (below $250)■ 1300 block, Riggs St.; street; 9:30 p.m. Oct. 16.■ 1700 block, Johnson Ave.; street; 7:30 p.m. Oct. 17.■ 900 block, R St.; street; 6:27 p.m. Oct. 17.■ 1400 block, R St.; street; 7:30 p.m. Oct. 17.■ 1400 block, Church St.; park-ing lot; 4:30 a.m. Oct. 17.■ 1600 block, 13th St.; street; 7:30 p.m. Oct. 91.■ 1500 block, 14th St.; parking lot; 7 p.m. Oct. 20.■ 1300 block, S St.; parking lot; 7 p.m. Oct. 20.■ 1400 block, Corcoran St.; street; noon Oct. 20.■ 1100 block, 12th St.; street; 1 p.m. Oct. 21.■ 1600 block, 11th St.; parking lot; 6 p.m. Oct. 21.■ Unspecified location; street; 4 p.m. Oct. 22.■ 1200 block, L St.; street; 8 p.m. Oct. 22.

PSA 401

Robbery (gun)■ 7th and Dahlia streets; street; 9:40 p.m. Oct. 17.■ 6900 block, Blair Road; res-taurant; 11:19 p.m. Oct. 19.Assault with a dangerous weapon■ Aspen Street and Georgia Avenue; street; 1:30 a.m. Oct. 18.Burglary■ 7800 block, Eastern Ave.; store; 4:15 a.m. Oct. 19.Stolen auto■ 800 block, Dahlia St.; street; 9 p.m. Oct. 17.■ 400 block, Butternut St.; street; 2 a.m. Oct. 17.Theft (below $250)■ 6900 block, Georgia Ave.; resi-dence; 9 p.m. Oct. 19.Theft (shoplifting)■ 100 block, Carroll St.; drug-store; 8:20 a.m. Oct. 20.Theft from auto (below $250)■ 7800 block, 14th St.; resi-dence; 10:30 p.m. Oct. 17.■ 1700 block, Tamarack St.; street; 2 p.m. Oct. 17.■ 1300 block, Holly St.; street; 8:15 p.m. Oct. 20.■ 500 block, Cedar St.; street; 1:30 a.m. Oct. 23.

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By BRADY HOLTCurrent Staff Writer

The museum George Washington University hopes to construct on its campus will be three stories of lime-stone topped with a level of glass-faced office space, according to design renderings officials present-ed last week. As part of its campus plan, the university received preliminary zoning approval to construct a 65-foot-high museum on the site of an existing rose garden in the 700 block of 21st Street. The museum will house a donated collection of Washingtoniana artifacts and mate-rials the university already owns. Additionally, the Textile Museum will relocate from Sheridan-Kalorama to space in the new facil-ity. As planned, the museum will attach to the historic Woodhull House, and part of that building will also become exhibit space. Street-level access to the block’s central plaza space would remain. The museum’s primary visitor entrance and internal loading dock would be accessed from 21st Street. Both the District’s Zoning

Commission and Historic Preservation Review Board must sign off on design details before the university can get building permits to start construction. The school hopes to open the museum in mid-2014. Officials presented the plans for the building at last Wednesday’s meeting of the Foggy Bottom/West End advisory neighborhood com-mission, saying they expect to go before the preservation board Nov. 17. The Zoning Commission will review the impact of the building plans at a later date, but the historic review aims to ensure the plans

GWU presents designs for intended museum building By CARL STRAUMSHEIM

Current Correspondent

In 2005, Stephen Powers took his daughter to visit some of the 40 boundary stones marking the original border of the District. The occasion: a sec-ond-grade homework assignment about Arlington County. Surprised by the lack of upkeep, Powers went on to survey every stone, compiling notes about loca-tions and conditions. More than 3,500 photos and several months later, he reached an overwhelming conclusion: The historic sites were falling into disre-

pair. Powers’ findings inspired volunteers across the region, and since the spring of 2010, a group of civil engineers, land surveyors and concerned neighbors has been working to renovate the sites on a regular basis. Their work is part of a greater push by the National Capital Boundary Stones Committee to raise public awareness about some of the nation’s oldest monuments. “‘Stone fever’ is what I like to call it,” said Powers, who serves as a director for the National Capital Section of the American Society of Civil

On D.C. border, history hides along wayside

Current Staff Report Mayor Vincent Gray told the Chevy Chase Citizens Association Thursday evening that the District expects to record a surplus of between $100 million and $125 mil-lion for the just-completed 2011 fiscal year. He also discussed issues in edu-cation, public safety and job cre-ation, as well as health care for the city’s less fortunate. Establishing a stable fiscal envi-ronment, Gray told the group, is one of his four top priorities, especially as the city has not had a truly bal-

anced budget for several years. The city’s fund balance, he said, fell from $1.6 billion to $800 mil-lion during the Fenty administra-tion. Most of the remainder cannot be touched, he added, as it is required either for protecting out-standing bonds or by order of Congress. Thanks to the city’s strong credit rating and favorable market condi-tions, Gray said, the District was able to sell $800 million worth of short-term bonds at an interest rate of 0.27 percent to finance its expens-es until tax revenues are received.

But Gray stressed that those rev-enues must be collected fairly: To applause, the mayor said he disap-proved of the idea of taxing out-of-state municipal bonds that had been purchased prior to the legislation taking effect, as it is inappropriate to have a retroactive tax. Gray also touted his bona fides in promoting education reform, par-ticularly early-childhood schooling. “People doubted my commitment to education reform” during the may-oral campaign, Gray said, in spite of “shepherding education reform

Mayor talks budget, schools in Chevy ChaseCourtesy of George Washington University

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By JESSICA GOULDCurrent Staff Writer

Students across the city are soak-ing in information about sustainabil-ity through a new program called “Be Water Wise D.C.” “Be Water Wise helps kids engage in a real-world issue, which is water conservation and water management,” said Diane Wood, president of the National Environmental Education Foundation. The foundation created the pro-gram two years ago in Miami as a way to integrate water issues into typical math, science, reading and geography lessons.

This year, 15 D.C. schools — including Eaton Elementary, Mann Elementary, E.L. Haynes Public Charter School and Washington Latin Public Charter School in Northwest — are participating. The program, replete with train-ing sessions for teachers, is sched-uled to last 18 months, with support from HSBC Bank and Johnson Controls Inc. “As the kids learn about water in their schools, they’re using real data, they’re looking at real water bills, and they’re learning where water comes from, where it goes, what it costs and things that they can do right in their schools to manage

New program teaches kidsabout water conservation


The dispute over a planned Walmart on Georgia Avenue is moving to the city’s Historic Preservation Review Board Thursday, with board staffers recommending against landmarking the old car barn that Walmart’s developer wants to tear down. The staff recommendation posted Friday is an important part of the proceedings, but the

board will make its own formal decision. A hastily formed group of anti-Walmart resi-dents known as the Brightwood Neighborhood Preservation Association will also mount its case at the board’s hearing Thursday. And the local advisory neighborhood com-mission voted Monday to seek a one-month delay to allow a historian retained by the Brightwood group to flesh out research on the century-old street car barn at 5917-5929 Georgia Ave.

“They came to a conclusion without even hearing our insight,” Baruti Jahi, leader of the Brightwood group, said of the board’s staff report. “We all know the Walmart folks don’t want it landmarked. They’re basically saying no without hearing our historian’s argument or presentation.” The old brick car barn has become the lat-est battleground over Walmart’s plans to open four stores in the District, largely because a landmark designation by the preservation

board would create major obstacles — or at least, major delays — for developer Foulger-Pratt as it prepares the Georgia Avenue corner for a one-story, 106,000-square-foot retail store. “We look forward to a favorable decision” from the preservation board, Walmart spokes-person Steve Restivo said in an email. Restivo said he could not give a timeline for opening the store until construction begins, but he

Preservation staff advises against car-barn designation in Walmart case

Current Staff Report At a charity fundraiser last week, Ward 2 D.C. Council member Jack Evans got “roasted and toasted” for everything from his desire to be mayor to his failed attempts to tax highly paid athletes when they com-pete in the District. To help raise money for the Wounded Warrior Project, the Georgetown Business Association and political satire troupe Hexagon hosted the Oct. 19 roast of Evans at the Four Seasons Hotel. The night kicked off with D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton remind-ing Evans that he is the only D.C. Council member who can remember back when she was a “first-termer.” Norton became delegate months before Evans was first elected to the council just over 20 years ago. The master of ceremonies, Bob Madigan of WTOP radio, made fun of Evans’ penchant to always wear the same tie, reporting that in fact he owns more than one. Former Virginia U.S. Rep. Tom Davis, who stated that he had retired from Congress “undefeated and unindicted,” said Evans was once

given the choice between $20, a bottle of whiskey or some Biblical scriptures. Evans walked out with all three options, Davis said, dem-onstrating that he would definitely become a politician. Poking fun of Georgetown’s rep-utation for affluence, Davis said Evans represents “the one group in the District who can truthfully claim there is taxation without representa-tion.” He compared Evans’ part-time job with the Patton Boggs law firm to the post of U.S. vice president, “because nobody knows what either one does.” Linda Greenan, Georgetown University’s associate vice president for community affairs and a former Evans aide, remembered when she first met Evans back in 1980. “Jack came as a guest and never left,” she said. Greenan said her major memory of a visit to Dewey Beach was when Evans, in a singing session at Bottle & Cork, twisted the lyrics of “Mack the Knife” to “Jack the Knife.” Everyone muffled their ears with cocktail napkins, she said, but Evans was undisturbed by the reaction. Current columnist and NBC4 reporter Tom Sherwood said Evans likes to brag about being the lon-gest-serving council member. “It

Ward 2’s Evans faces friendly fire at Georgetown fundraiser

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Engineers — one of the organiza-tions featured on the committee. The stones were placed in 1791 and 1792 after a heated debate about where the new federal district should be located. Following astron-omer and mathematician Benjamin Banneker’s calculations, Andrew Ellicott led a team of surveyors that placed a stone for every mile they traveled. Back then, the stones rested in fields and forests. As the city grew, some of the stones became part of more modern landscapes: people’s front yards or, in the case of the northernmost boundary stone, an area between town houses and the stretch of East-West Highway that runs through Silver Spring. On Saturday, volunteers — armed with paint scrapers, primer

and stories about the stones’ history — were working to restore six stones along the District’s northern border. Like many Washingtonians, neighbor Allen Browne stumbled across the northernmost stone by accident. “I got stuck in traffic right here one day about 15 years ago, and I looked over to my right and saw this and thought, ‘That has to be the smallest cemetery I’ve ever seen!’” Browne said. On Saturday morning, the stone was covered by a thick layer of fallen leaves — invisible but for the wrought-iron fence surrounding it. The Daughters of the American Revolution added fencing around this and other stones in 1915 as part of a pledge to maintain the sites. But after nearly a century, some are showing signs of serious neglect. Powers’ group therefore faced little opposition when it set out to

restore the fences in 2007. So far, 13 of the original 40 sites — 36 of which now remain — have been renovated, their fences scraped and repainted. Other sites were not as lucky. One mile southeast of the northern-most boundary stone, a marker was accidentally bulldozed in 1952. Today, its absence is commemorat-ed by a plaque. Although the remaining stones

were added to the National Register of Historic Places by 1996, the Nation’s Capital Boundary Stones Committee is pushing for the sites to be designated as National Historic Landmarks. “With that designation, the National Park Service would have to take care of them. They’d have to be funded, maintained — and they’d get awareness through that,” Powers said. Now one stone — SW No. 9 — is recognized as a National Historic Landmark. It sits in Benjamin Banneker Park in Falls Church, Va., in memory of the original planner. Further attempts to grant individual stones that status have been turned down. With the fences celebrating their centennial in 2015, Powers and the rest of the volunteers appear to be on track with their plan to renovate every site. “It’s either all or nothing now,” Powers said.

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through the city council.” The mayor pointed out he had pushed legislation through the council for all District 3- and 4-year-olds to have access to preschool, noting that key brain development takes place before age 5. Answering a question about ensuring the quality of the pro-grams, he said the programs would increasingly fall under the auspices of public or charter schools rather than nonprofits, which have offered inconsistent results. “There was a group of very nice people who were not prepared,” Gray recalled. The mayor said he plans to expand the city’s offerings to include a program for children as young as six months. The children will be read to and enjoy what chil-dren from better educated families receive, said Gray, adding that non-profits could be very helpful in this area. “If you reach the kids earlier, you’re going to do better. ... Hearing words is how you build vocabu-lary.” The city, he said, will reap the benefits 10 to 15 years down the road.” Gray also announced progress in special-education spending. By next September, he said, the city will reduce expenses by $25 million to $30 million; it now spends $160 million on private schools plus $90 million on transportation. The sav-ings, he said, will be reinvested in education. Gray also boasted of an area in which he has increased spending — reopening the city’s police acad-emy, which was temporarily shut down due to budget cuts when Gray entered office. Now, the academy will train 300 new officers to more than make up for the 120 who leave the system each year. By year’s end there will be 3,200 officers; the goal, he said, is to have 3,800. Despite those hires, the key to ending the city’s 11 percent unem-ployment rate lies in the private sector, said Gray, who added that he is personally calling on firms to come here and to stay here. And one project — stalled in that pipeline for years — is already doing so, he noted. After a massive infusion of capital from the govern-ment of Qatar, construction is final-ly under way at the site of the old convention center. According to projections, CityCenterDC will lead to 3,000 construction jobs and 3,000 new permanent jobs. And there’s more good news in Shaw, Gray noted: The O Street Market development will break ground in mid-November. Gray also reported progress in keeping residents healthy. Asked about health care in wards 7 and 8, he said there soon will be three new clinics east of the Anacostia River. With only 3.2 percent of the District’s children not covered by some kind of insurance, “the prob-lem is access, not coverage.”

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Bill Petros/The CurrentVolunteers help restore the fence surrounding the northernmost boundary stone.

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When a lawyer ditches her nonprofit career and starts a pizzeria called

the Mellow Mushroom, you can bet people make assumptions about her new lifestyle. “I’ve never had so many people jealous of me in my entire life — and it’s mostly my lawyer friends,” said 33-year-old Pooja Mehta, who opened the restaurant at 2436 18th St. in Adams Morgan last week. But in fact, Mehta is working so hard that she’s been driven to new means of fending off exhaustion — like dancing with delirium. In front of her staff. In the middle of the night. “It’s either laugh or cry, man,” she said, laughing. “What do you want to see?” Mellow Mushroom is a chain of pizzerias — launched nearly four decades ago by three friends in Georgia — but each shop is a fran-chise, and Mehta and her co-owner, her 30-year-old brother, Amit, have franchising in their genes. Their father, Ashok, went from working as assistant manager of a Burger King in 1980 to owning 26 outposts in multiple states today. And both kids spent time helping out. “I loved it,” said Pooja Mehta. “I thought it was so fun. I would make my Whopper Jr.’s look so pretty.” The comfort food at Mellow Mushroom looks appealing, too: The shop offers 14 specialty pies and scores of choose-your-own-top-ping options — all of them hand-tossed pies with a little molasses in

the crust “so it caramelizes a little bit” when it’s baked on a stone, said Mehta. Mehta says she’s partial to the Philosopher’s Pie, which has an olive oil and garlic base, topped with grilled steak, portobello mush-rooms, arti-choke hearts and kalamata olives, as well as three cheeses: provolone, feta and mozzarella ($13.95 for a 10-inch pie to $25.95 for a 16-inch). She says other popular choices are the Kosmic Karma, which combines mozzarella, sun-dried tomatoes, spinach, feta and Roma tomatoes on a red-sauce base, and tops it all off with a pesto swirl ($12.95 to $24.95); and the Magical Mystery Tour, which takes a pesto-base crust and sauce and covers it with button and portobello mush-rooms, mozzarella, spinach, feta and jalapeños ($13.50 to $24.95). The menu also includes appetiz-ers like garlic bread and hummus, as well as salads, calzones, hoagies and desserts. And Mellow Mushroom is a great spot for beer, offering 24 varieties on tap — 22

regulars and two rotating choices — as well as 50 bottles. Mehta encountered the Mellow Mushroom concept years ago while visiting a relative at Auburn University. Later, when considering a franchise, she and Amit took a tour of the chain’s outposts.

“We got fat,” she said. “I really, really loved the food.” She also loved the attitude of the owners. “I

really felt the people we met [were], not like Kool-Aid happy, but they felt like they’d made the right decision.”

The newest Mellow Mushroom — and D.C.’s only; the clos-

est location otherwise is in Charlottesville, Va. — opened at 6 p.m. Friday to crowds of the chain’s fans. It “was packed with people from Atlanta, people from South Carolina, people from North Carolina,” said Mehta. So is her dad proud? “Oh, he’s over the moon,” she said. And he’s also on the floor: “[He’s] been here every day.” Mellow Mushroom is open 11 a.m. to 1 a.m. Sunday through Thursday and 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. Friday and Saturday, with the kitch-en closing at midnight during the week and 1 a.m. on the weekends.

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Preserving predictability D.C. has a strong preservation law that contributes mightily to pro-tecting our architectural and historical legacy, whether it be entire neighborhoods like Dupont Circle and Cleveland Park or individual landmarks like the Avalon Theatre and the old Columbia Hospital for Women. There’s also a vigorous historic preservation community. Yet there are recurring instances in which anti-development forces seek to harness the process for their own ends, irrespective of the his-toric value of their targets. In some cases, the board has rejected the suggested landmark; in most instances, staff members weed out ques-tionable applications, though the process still engenders delays. In the case of the century-old Georgia Avenue car barn, the newly formed Brightwood Neighborhood Preservation Association has sought to protect the structure from Walmart and developer Foulger-Pratt. We are glad to learn that the D.C. Historic Preservation Office staff has recommended against approval — in part because the “utili-tarian brick structure” has been so heavily altered over the years. But the decision rests with the Historic Preservation Review Board. In our minds, the timing is as problematic as the request itself. Walmart’s plans to open a store at the Ward 4 site have been in the news since late 2010, but the landmark request was not filed until last month. The backers organized after Foulger-Pratt began dismantling the car barn’s roof beams and filed for demolition permits. Though the Historic Preservation Office has moved quickly since to consider the application, it is now six weeks later, with the board slated to consider the application Thursday. The District needs to hone the process to avoid last-minute requests that do much to bolster an anti-business reputation for the city. We suggest that the city set up a way for property owners to seek board guidance early in the process — with an opportunity for public input — on whether a particular structure is a potential landmark. A “no” vote would preclude a landmark application later on. That would help offer developers certainty and avoid unnecessary delays and costly design revisions late in the game.

Making progress Back when Mayor Vincent Gray hired Victor Hoskins as deputy mayor for planning and economic development, the mayor told his new employee that the CityCenterDC project at the old convention center site had been in the planning stage for 11 years. “It needs to be done,” Mr. Hoskins recalled the mayor telling him. Now, 10 months later, the financing has been arranged and con-struction has started, which will include some 200,000 square feet of retail, 500,000 square feet of offices and 700 housing units. While Mr. Hoskins should not receive all of the credit, his drive and sense of optimism are major reasons the business community has such praise for the mayor. Said the former Maryland economic development official, “I’ve never been in a place with so many optimistic signals” as the District. Mr. Hoskins has worked to hone the city’s focus, using a tiered system to evaluate the 158 projects he faced when joining the office to concentrate on 24. And under his leadership, long-planned project after project has moved to the fore, with shovels in the ground. Given our high unemployment rate, nothing could be better. The CityCenterDC project alone will offer thousands of jobs, many of which will be filled by District residents. Unlike the agency’s past leaders, Mr. Hoskins has arranged for our mayor to meet with decision-makers who have shown an interest in locating here as well as local businesses considering leaving. As a result, Microsoft is now considering opening its first “innova-tion center” in the United States at the St. Elizabeths site in Ward 8. As Mr. Hoskins related at a recent D.C. Chamber of Commerce board meeting, when he first met his wife, he thought she was out of his league. But he asked, and she accepted. “You have to ask!” he told the chamber members.

Mayor Vincent Gray is shaking the federal money tree.

The mayor last week asked federal emergency management officials for $21.8 million in disaster relief funds because of the August earth-quake. But only a small part of that money is for District government damage. The mayor’s request includes $15 million for the Episcopal Church’s Washington National Cathedral. The rest is for damage to public schools and city government buildings. “We look forward to working with the federal government to identify the best ways to recover from damages to our infrastruc-ture and facilities like roads, bridges, schools and landmarks like the National Cathedral,” the mayor said in a prepared statement. Mayor Gray did a well-publicized tour of the Cathedral grounds last week. “We support the restoration,” he said, noting that the Cathedral is “far more than a religious institu-tion.” He called it an “iconic structure [that plays] an enormous role in the nation, not just the District of Columbia.” Cathedral officials are struggling to cover the repair costs, which they estimate will be at least $15 million. The last few years have been tough on the Cathedral’s finances. Aside from the quake damage, the annual operating budget has dropped from about $20 million to about $12 million. But Cathedral officials promised that any dona-tions given for building repair will be used for such work and not for operations of the Cathedral itself. “I would like to dispel any rumors that we’re using capital funds to support our operating budget,” said Andrew Hullinger, senior director of finance and administration. Hullinger acknowledged that it’s possible the Federal Emergency Management Agency may turn down the city request. “If we need to, if we do not receive FEMA fund-ing … we will go coast to coast” in search of donors to help restore the Cathedral, he said. The Cathedral has been draped in chain-link fenc-ing since the earthquake in August. Officials hope to reopen it the weekend of Nov. 12 and 13.■ Shaking the shackles. Yet another midlevel gov-ernment worker is headed to jail for corruption and theft. U.S. Attorney Ronald Machen’s staff reported last

week that 47-year-old Mary Ayers-Zander, a former tax examiner for D.C., pleaded guilty to wire fraud involving more than $400,000 in fraudulent tax refunds. She won’t be sentenced until February. Now, we really don’t understand the sentencing procedures, the delays and all that, but that’s not the point of this item.

We want to repeat the quote from the U.S. attor-ney that accompanied the news release about Ms. Ayers-Zander, who faces fines and impris-onment.

“This tax examiner was supposed to be pro-

tecting the public’s tax dollars, not squandering them on herself and her friends,” said Machen. “Today’s guilty plea demonstrates how vigilant we must be to detect abuses of the public trust in government agen-cies and how committed we are to prosecuting those who seek to enrich themselves at taxpayer expense.” That kind of tough language could have a few city officials doing their own shaking.■ Rolling snake eyes? The prospect of online gam-ing in the District has some citizens riled up. It began when activist Marie Drissel and others noted that the city passed the authorizing legislation — to allow “hot spot” gambling on computers all around town — almost in secret. Now the whole shebang has been delayed until community meetings can be held in each of the city’s eight wards. Three have been held so far. But there was more suspicion and outcry last week after the planned Ward 6 meeting was post-poned. The lottery’s notice didn’t reach many people, leading to complaints that the delay was an effort to cut down the size of the crowd. Lottery officials denied that, apologized and rebooted. After lottery officials talked to Ward 6 D.C. Council member Tommy Wells, the Ward 6 meeting was rescheduled for Nov. 21 to give people more time to plan. It’ll be held in the North Hall of Eastern Market on Capitol Hill. In all, there will be five iGaming meetings in the remaining five wards in November. After that, we may have a better idea of whether the city govern-ment feels comfortable going forward. The whole iGaming gig got off on the wrong foot, and every misstep — particularly in the current city atmosphere of corruption — just undermines the money-making idea. Don’t place your bets on iGaming happening yet. Tom Sherwood, a Southwest resident, is a political reporter for News 4.

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noël deserves seat on d.c. commission There is very strong support for Elizabeth Noël’s confirmation to the Public Service Commission throughout the District, especially among tenants. Why? Because she has provided fair, impartial and distinguished service through-out her public life, notably during her long tenure as head of the D.C. Office of the People’s Counsel. Every citizen in this city has benefited from her work. Tenants seek no special treatment, only fairness in utility rate paying and the ability to live in an affordable city. The rich can live anywhere; tenants can’t. Runaway rents and utility rates are forcing the most

vulnerable among us out of the city — and nobody understands these demographics and hardships better than Ms. Noël. The “conflict of interest” and “functionality” arguments against this nomination are completely bogus and were debunked by the vast majority of witnesses, lay and professional, at the D.C. Council’s recent confirmation hearing. Each is a red herring contrived by entrenched special interests, with Pepco in the lead. Ms. Noël has called this giant utility to account on unfair and excessive costs, and Pepco’s stri-dent opposition is nothing less than “get even” time. The defini-tive answer to both of these argu-ments against Ms. Noël was pro-vided by the D.C. attorney gener-al, the city’s top lawyer, who found no impediments whatsoever to Ms. Noël’s nomination. The most compelling reasons

to confirm are Ms. Noël’s out-standing qualities and the great need for them on the Public Service Commission now. She is an outstanding litigator, combin-ing legal brilliance with extraordi-nary integrity, decency and com-mitment to the public weal. As such, she would fill a key gap in a critical agency that has become largely moribund. As people’s advocate, she has befriended the tenant cause count-less times. Our organization’s board has unanimously supported her confirmation. We have testi-fied many times before the coun-cil and endorsed many outstand-ing nominees for public office. We believe Ms. Noël is the finest one to date, and we respectfully urge the council to act promptly and favorably on her behalf.

Jim McGrathChair, D.C. Tenants’ Advocacy Coalition

letters tothe editor


ward circle poses major safety risks I am concerned about the traffic in Ward Circle next to American University and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. I feel like the crossings and intersections have become a dan-gerous place not only for pedestri-ans, but also for drivers. If I’m driving, I worry I’ll get rear-ended when I stop for students and other pedestrians in the cross-walks. When I’m walking, I fear for my life trying to cross Nebraska and Massachusetts avenues. From my observations, some drivers have difficulty navigating which lanes of the circle they should be in. All in all, it’s very confusing and dangerous, I believe.

Thomas R. SnowdenMcLean Gardens

residents support wider sidewalks The Current’s Oct. 12 article “Businesses balk at plan for side-walks” was poorly written and researched and did not accurately report what happened at the Oct. 6 meeting of the Adams Morgan advisory neighborhood commis-sion. The Current failed to mention that community members spoke in favor of the resolution to keep as much of the newly constructed sidewalk as possible available for the public to walk on. Of the members of the business community quoted in the article, only one, the Amsterdam Falafelshop, operates a sidewalk cafe in Adams Morgan. Located on private space in front of the busi-ness, it will remain unaffected by the streetscape. Adams Morgan’s sidewalks must serve the 16,000 neighbor-hood residents, as well as the visi-tors drawn by the many restau-rants; there are approximately 7,000 seats at Alcoholic Beverage Control Board-licensed establish-ments in the neighborhood, and many more at restaurants that don’t serve beer, wine and spirits. These sidewalks have histori-cally been grossly inadequate to accommodate the volume of visi-tors and residents on busy week-ends and other nights. Pedestrians routinely walk in the streets due to sidewalk crowding. A prime pur-pose of the 18th Street streetscape project is to create safe, walkable sidewalks that will benefit resi-dents, visitors and business owners alike. Under the advisory neighbor-

hood commission’s recommenda-tion to the D.C. Public Space Committee, none of the 15 existing cafes in the area affected by the streetscape project would be reduced in size, so there is no threat of loss of seats. The addi-tional sidewalk width gained in many places will only bring the width into the typical ranges in the city’s current public space regula-tions (10 feet of clear unobstructed passageway, which the committee can reduce to 6 feet in its discre-tion). So, under even the existing rules, very few restaurants that don’t already have sidewalk cafes would be eligible to create them. This is due to the physical details of the street and has nothing to do with fairness.

Denis JamesAdams Morgan

university has taken valuable measures As residents of the communities near Georgetown University, we want to applaud the recent steps the university has taken to main-tain the quality of life in our neigh-borhoods. Since school started this year, the university has deployed twice-daily trash patrols on the streets of West Georgetown and Burleith, collecting more than 100 tons of trash — including non-university trash. The university has hired seven Metropolitan Police Department officers to patrol on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings, working with campus security officers to prevent and deter crime on our neighborhood streets. In addition, the university has started a new shuttle bus ser-vice to take students to and from M Street, which means fewer stu-dents traveling on foot through our neighborhoods late at night. Each of these new initiatives benefits residents who live near the university. But all District residents benefit from the economic devel-opment and services that the uni-versity provides to the city. Georgetown University is the largest private employer in the city, employing more than 9,800 people — 40 percent of whom live in D.C. Last year, the university spent $86 million on goods and services from D.C. businesses. Georgetown University undergraduate and graduate students provide count-less hours of volunteer public ser-vice to District residents each year at free health clinics, soup kitchens and other social service agencies. Overall, Georgetown University’s positive impact on our city is broad and deep. When the university prospers, it enhances all of our lives. We also applaud the university for listening to its neighbors to the

west by removing the so-called “loop road” proposal from the campus plan. The university is now proposing an approach to pro-viding better internal circulation for its commuter shuttle buses that will reduce the number of buses on neighborhood streets without building the loop road. It’s a win for everyone. Whether we moved here recent-ly or years ago, we each made a decision to live near Georgetown University, knowing that there are pluses and minuses to living near any large institution. On balance, we continue to think that the bene-fits of living near the university far exceed any negative impacts. We appreciate the importance of Georgetown University to our neighborhood and support its cam-pus plan, which includes these new community initiatives. And we thank Georgetown University for its continuing efforts to enhance our city and to be a good neighbor.

Grace BatemanGeorgetown

Elliott CrookeFoxhall

John Doolittle Cloisters

Erika HigleyGlover Park

Charlie SkubaHillandale

Tom and Sarah StrikeBurleith

area merchants can’t forget to be friendly The new Brooks Brothers outlet at 31st and M streets is a distinct asset to the neighborhood, with excellent displays and professional, courteous and helpful sales associ-ates. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for Sara’s Market at 30th and P streets, now under new own-ership. The former longtime owner, a neighborhood resident, employed friendly clerks who made it a pleasure to stop by and pick up a few items. Since the business has been sold, there has been a distinct change for the worse. The new clerk, whom I believe to be the owner as well, is unfriendly and seems to enjoy arguing. His communication skills are poor. Although the addition of an on-site dry cleaning establish-ment is a plus, unfortunately the same attitude and lack of customer service prevails there. There always seems to be an extraordi-nary spot/stain removal problem requiring extra (read: expensive) treatment. I removed the soil on one such area with a moist tissue! After six years as a loyal cus-tomer, I won’t be returning.

Betty M. van IerselGeorgetown


letters to the editorThe Current publishes letters and Viewpoint submissions representing various points of view. Because of space limitations, letters should be no more than 400 words and are subject to editing. Letters and Viewpoint submissions intended for publication should be addressed to Letters to the Editor, The Current, Post Office Box 40400, Washington, D.C. 20016-0400. You may send email to [email protected].


careful development appropriate for plant The U.S. General Services Administration is going to be sell-ing the unused West Heating Plant in Georgetown. The heating plant — the equivalent of an eight-story building — runs the length of an entire city block alongside the C&O Canal National Historical Park. South of the plant building is a large, mostly open coal yard and tank facility that runs on the east along Rock Creek and on the west along 29th Street down to its inter-section with K Street. The question is whether we can make this an opportunity of the sort that gave us our great Georgetown Waterfront Park and the C&O Canal Park, both created out of 19th-century industrial zones. These public spaces contribute immeasurably to the character and profile of Georgetown today. The opportunity before us is to take at least the area south of the plant

building — the large open-land portion of the site — and make it into parkland. This would create a broad lawn stretching from 29th Street to the bank of Rock Creek. We cannot let this opportunity pass. This will be our only chance to give our community access to a beautiful stream that for decades has been walled off by ill-con-ceived industrial development. Right now, Georgetown’s only access to Rock Creek is a narrow cement path behind two office buildings. Plans for the Waterfront Park drawn up around 2000 specif-ically called for the heating plant site ultimately to become parkland — a community goal for decades. Given the General Services Administration’s need to raise cash, some development appears inevita-ble. A win-win solution would be:■ develop just the plant building, with its huge footprint, as condos or a hotel;■ preserve some of the building’s art deco architectural features, while allowing the developer to cut open substantially more window space than the fortress-like plant structure has now;

■ develop the area south of the plant as an open-field, passive park with access to a “soft” bank of Rock Creek; and,■ allow the developer to build a multilevel underground parking structure under the parkland given that the developer cannot realisti-cally dig needed parking under-neath the massive plant building. Additionally, removing the soil under the yard and tank area for underground parking, and then covering it with fresh topsoil, would likely solve various environ-mental issues for the developer. If we can agree that such an approach makes sense, picking a developer with a track record of quality projects and sensitivity to Georgetown issues will be critical. Certainly Anthony Lanier’s EastBanc would fit this profile based on its successful redevelop-ment of the Georgetown incinerator plant at 31st and K streets; there may well be others. As long as public-interest prin-ciples are respected, a compromise on development can benefit all.

Steve CrimminsGeorgetown


The depth of public anger and loss of confidence in the conduct of D.C. elected officials cannot be overstated. The D.C. Council is now consid-

ering legislation proposed by some members to deal with this conduct. Generally, each bill focuses on one to three issues, but this type of piecemeal action will not result in real ethics reform or satisfy the current disillusionment. What is needed is comprehensive reform of our eth-ics laws and regulations. To make a real difference, it must curb the huge influence of money spent by spe-cial interests, eliminate conflicts of interest, and raise the standards of ethical conduct of elected officials. Also essential is a truly effective mechanism — now woefully lacking — to enforce ethics and conflict-of-interest laws. Many of the recent scandals involve violations of current laws that can only be explained by the fact that public officials assume the laws are not enforced. We need to consolidate all ethics oversight under a new independent ethics commission that includes the cur-rent responsibilities of the Board of Elections and Ethics, but expands them significantly. DC for Democracy, a leading progressive group, is proposing 18 specific measures that, if adopted, would help achieve real, comprehensive ethics reform. Our suggestions include:■ Prohibit any business or nonprofit entity that solicits or has a contract with the city from making contribu-tions to elected officials or candidates for elected office. Most states have some form of this requirement to thwart so-called “pay-to-play” schemes used to obtain contracts. ■ Ban contributions by lobbyists and lobbyist employ-ers to candidates for public office. ■ Bar elected officials from receiving free or discount-ed legal advice.■ Prohibit council members from outside employment, effective Jan. 1, 2014. The current salary of $125,500 exceeds that of almost 90 percent of District house-holds; it also exceeds the pay for city council members anywhere in the United States except Los Angeles. ■ Ban elected officials from receiving free or reduced prices that are not available to D.C. residents for sports, entertainment and other events.

■ Require council members to state on the record whether they have a conflict of interest or potential conflict prior to consideration of any proposed legisla-tion before a council committee or the full body. Any member with such a conflict would be required to refrain at all times from participating in the matter in any way. ■ Require any elected official with knowledge that another elected official or District employee has violat-ed the conflict-of-interest laws to report it immediately to the D.C. inspector general and a new D.C. ethics commission. ■ Establish an independent commission to strictly enforce all ethics matters, conflict-of-interest laws and financial reporting requirements of elected officials and candidates. The commission would not only look into allegations raised by others but also initiate its own investigations to determine potential violations. Of its seven members, four should come from community organizations, labor and business. The mayor and city council should each fill one seat; the D.C. attorney general (who will be elected beginning after the 2014 election) should be the seventh member.■ Eliminate council member constituent services funds. At present, members can raise up to $80,000 a year, most of which comes from special interests. When soliciting funds, members say these accounts will be used to assist residents with emergency needs, such as paying rent to avoid an eviction or an electrici-ty bill to avoid a cutoff of service. The fact is these funds are used mostly for activities to enhance their re-election. ■ Ban contractors and others from doing business with the city if they have misrepresented their experience, qualifications or abilities during a contract-award pro-cess in the past five years. ■ Ban anyone from doing business with the city who has been convicted or financially penalized in the past five years for insurance, financial, contracting or other types of fraud.■ Prohibit contributions for expenses of an elected official’s transition (instead use available government facilities, phones and supplies), and limit contributions for inaugural activities to $100. Currently, special interests can make contributions of $25,000 or more to both transition and inaugural committees, and no pub-lic reporting is required. Dan Wedderburn is chair of the government reform committee of the group DC for Democracy.

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The Foggy Bottom Association was formed by a group of citizensin 1955 and was formally incorporated in 1959. Attendance at FBAmeetings is open to all residents of Foggy Bottom and the West End.

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Nearly three years ago, Washington area native Sergeant Thomas Joseph Sullivan—a Marine Corps veteran, twice-decorated for valor during his tour of duty in the ongoing Iraq war— died suddenly at age 30 in his Northern Virginia home. He had suffered a progression of health complications that included chronic pain aggravated by severe inflammation, and intestinal, respiratory and cardiovascular disease.” His autopsy revealed life-threatening problems that medical tests had not detected with all his major organs.

The symptoms of Tom’s illness began in Iraq, worsened upon his return and were never fully explained by his physicians. “After Tom’s death, we learned that a significant number of veterans return from war with emerging medical problems,” says Foggy Bottom resident and Tom’s mother Jeanne Sullivan, who became motivated to found an organization to help veterans like Tom.

“Tom was my son,” says Jeanne. “My husband and

I helped him cope with the difficulties of the unexplained illness that defied both diagnosis and treatment in spite of our best effort and the efforts of many others. Tom never gave up trying to find out why he was becoming increasingly sick; he had doctors’ appointments at least weekly including a few days before—and on—the day he died. Tom was persistent. And likewise, I refuse to give up.”

The Veterans Administration reports alarming rates of debilitating, and even deadly, health concerns among service members returning from deployment in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Recent statistics indicate that over 4,000 veterans have died since

their return from those wars, many within two years of discharge. These are nearly the same numbers that have died in combat.

In the early months after Tom’s death, Jeanne envisioned creating a platform to get this information out. The idea grew into The Sergeant Thomas Joseph Sullivan Center, a charitable organization, formed by Jeanne, her husband Peter, and their son Daniel. The mission of the organization is to improve health outcomes for veterans returning from deployment with emerging health concerns. “We hope that by educating the public, veterans and their health care providers about this growing health crisis that fewer service

members will fall through the cracks in the system, and with more effective treatments, health will be preserved and lives will be saved,” says Peter Sullivan.

On Veterans Day, November 11th, the center will announce the steps it plans to take to provide information on improving healthcare for veterans with complex or unexplained illnesses and will also acknowledge the work of extraordinary persons who have advanced medical care for

our troops. “The message of the center will be one of hope and collaboration,” says Daniel Sullivan, who was charged with developing the Center’s mission. “Begun as a response to the death of one Marine, The Sergeant Thomas Joseph Sullivan Center is dedicated to the promotion of health security for our troops and to the principle that none should be left behind.”

To learn more about the Sergeant Sullivan Center, go to www.sgtsullivancenter.org.

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WEDNEsDAy, NOVEmbER 23—FREshFARm mARkEt sEAsON ENDs Until then, enjoy our Farmer and Producer Harvests: Atwaters; Blueberry Hill Farm;

Bonaparte; Chris Marketplace; Gunpowder Bison; Haskins Family Farm; Lynnvale Studios; People’s Bao; Pleasant Pops; Quaker Valley Orchards; Spring Gap Mountain Creamery; Sunnyside Farm & Orchard. Haskins Family Farm is taking Thanksgiving turkey orders.

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deposit required for each turkey ordered with balance due when turkey is picked up. Any questions? Email or call Haskins Family Farm: [email protected] or 540-869-3795. And, don’t forget! Food Stamps (SNAP) are accepted at the Foggy Bottom market.

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thE AiRmEN OF NOtE—2011 JAzz hERitAgE sERiEsThe Airmen of Note (AON) has performed its popular Jazz Heritage Series, bringing high-

quality music to audiences in our nation’s capital since 1990, with music critics and concertgoers alike having praised the series. Throughout its long history, the Airmen

of Note has regularly performed and recorded with the leading artists in the jazz world and its featured guest artists truly reads like a “who’s who” of the jazz music industry. This long-standing tradition continues with the 2011 Jazz Heritage Series providing

a wonderful opportunity for the public to experience the Air Force’s high level of professionalism through concerts featuring masters of the only

American-born art form—jazz music.Friday, November 4, Featuring grammy-winning saxophonist kirk Whalum—

Whalum has performed and recorded with an incredibly diverse array of artists, as well as being involved with a number of film scores. Whalum’s philosophy is best summed up in his

own words, “The music I like to play and write encompasses the four elements I grew up with: Memphis R&B, gospel, rock, and jazz. The emphasis, though, is on melody, period.”

Friday, November 18, Featuring trumpet legend Doc severinsen— He is known around the world as the musical director from 1967 through 1992 of the famed “Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.” Before his Tonight Show tenure began, he toured with other top bands of the day, including Tommy Dorsey and Benny Goodman.

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tuesday, November 15, 12:30 pm, Ambrose bierce’s short story “An Occurrence at Owl Creek bridge”—

Short Story Discussion/Film Screening. Reading/discussion and screening of the 30-minute film version.

Wednesday, November 16, 1:30 pm, Film screening “Lives of Others”— In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police, conducting surveillance

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Wednesday, November 16, 6:30 pm, book talk—Discussion of Arthur Miller’s play “Death of Salesman,” next in the series on

heroic adventure in western literature, led by Professor Ori Z. Soltes of Georgetown University and sponsored by the West End Library Friends.thursdays, November 10 and 24, 2:00 pm, Needle Arts Program—Workshop on practice of the needle arts from beginner to expert level.

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By JESSICA GOULDCurrent Staff Writer

At Iona Senior Services, the lunchroom is humming with memories.

“The best time in my life was when I got married and had a fami-ly,” one woman recalls. But when she tries to remember her children’s names, her smile fades. “My kids’ names,” she trails off. “My God. I can’t start thinking about that. It’s too hard.” Sharon O’Connor oversees the Tenleytown facility’s adult day cen-ter, which provides seniors with a suite of services. “They come here to our program if they need some extra assistance during the day, or maybe some oversight from a nurse,” she said. And according to O’Connor,

many of the participants struggle with various forms of memory loss. “It could be something as simple as mild cognitive impairment, where you would say, ‘Gosh, I can never remember where I put my keys,’” she said. “Or it could be memory loss that would be more dementia or Alzheimer’s, where you would say, ‘I’m not quite sure what these keys are for.’” That’s why, O’Connor said, she was so excited when she learned about a storytelling program designed specifically for people with memory loss. According to the program’s website, a University of Wisconsin professor named Anne Basting established TimeSlips in 1996 to “replace the pressure to remember with the freedom to imagine.” This fall, with support from the National

Storytelling Network, facilitator Liz Nichols began offering TimeSlips sessions at Iona. “It works by getting people together in a circle, in a quiet place, and starting with a photograph or something else to prompt everyone to make up a story together,” Nichols said. “And then we have someone write down and echo back what they’ve said. Because if peo-ple have short-term memory loss, 10 minutes later they might not remember what they’ve said.” On a recent morning, a group of seniors settled into a circle at Iona.Nichols handed out a photo of an old-fashioned airplane, gliding into the sunset. “Charles Lindbergh,” one partic-ipant called out. And so the story began. Words turned into sentences, and sentenc-

es became paragraphs. As each par-ticipant spoke, Nichols wrote down their contributions and echoed them back. Soon a full story emerged. “Charles Lindbergh and his wife are flying from New York to Paris,” Nichols said. “They visit museums and look at beautiful portraits. ... Then they’re out, strolling the streets of Paris, and they’re singing ‘Frère Jacques.’” The seniors sang along. “The idea behind TimeSlips is that, aside from the fact that people lose their language ability, even more so they lose their confidence in their ability to express them-selves,” Nichols said. “But with the right encouragement and the right setting, people can reveal a lot of creativity they still have, especially if you don’t press them to remem-ber.”

By DEIRDRE BANNONCurrent Correspondent

The Georgetown University radio sta-tion that Spiro Agnew once skewered as “the voice of third-world commu-

nism” celebrated its provocative history with a first-ever reunion of disc jockeys, station managers and fans during the university’s homecoming events this past weekend. WGTB, which was founded in 1946, was once known as one of the most controversial college radio stations in the country, thanks to its progressive music and news program-ming, which in the 1970s covered topics such as anti-Vietnam War protests, the labor movement and gay and lesbian issues. The station also aired ads for contraceptives. By 1979, conflicts between the university and the students and staff running the station climaxed, and the administration pulled the station off the air and sold the signal to the University of the District of Columbia for $1. In 1997, that school sold the signal to C-SPAN for $13 million. Georgetown’s radio station was regenerat-ed in the 1980s, and it went digital in 1996. Caroline Klibanoff, who has been a DJ since her freshman year and is now the sta-tion’s general manager as a senior, organized the reunion after she stumbled across some of the station’s archives when cleaning out the broadcast space this summer. “I heard that the alumni of the station had an active network, so their enthusiasm and the incredible history of the station combined with the archives I found -- I thought, ‘Wait, we have to do this,’” said Klibanoff. “We had something to show the alumni, we had peo-ple that wanted to come back and talk, and we have DJs that don’t know their history.” On Saturday in a room next to station’s

broadcast center, more than 75 people gathered for a two-hour open-mic session that was streamed live and included alumni, former staff and current stu-dents sharing stories about working at the station. For many alums, the station was the cornerstone of their undergraduate experi-ence at Georgetown and impacted the careers they have today. John Paige, one of the founders of the 9:30 Club, was a DJ in the 1970s while an undergraduate at Georgetown. He stayed on after graduating in 1973 until the station was shut down in 1979. “Because of the relationships we were able to build with importers, we had the first and sometimes the only copies of certain records on the entire East Coast,” said Paige, including work by David Bowie, Tubular Bells and Bob Marley and the Wailers. “Some of the music was really underground stuff that you couldn’t hear anywhere else,

and we became known as a progressive sta-tion.” Paige added that when the university threatened to shut down the station in 1979, the petition to keep WGTB alive was the largest that had ever been presented to the Federal Communications Commission. But it was the news coverage and the ads for contraception that truly tested the Catholic university’s patience. In 1971, the university hired Ken Sleeman as a station manager to help “fire the trouble-makers and hire squares,” according to

Sleeman, who now lives in Rockville and attended the reunion. But he said the same kinds of students gravitated to the station, so its message remained the same. Sleeman was fired at the end of 1975 and banned from campus. “They probably don’t know I’m here,” Sleeman said during the live broadcast. The final straw during his tenure came when the university opposed ads the station was running for a clinic in the District that offered referrals to abortion services. Sleeman noted that to this day, Georgetown’s radio station is still not allowed to discuss contraception on air. Today the station is completely student-run, and it airs exclusively online. “I hope that we bring a diverse voice to campus,” said Klibanoff, who competes for an audience these days with iTunes and iPods. “We give 200 people a chance to talk every week, and we hope we fill a need in the campus community that they can’t get anywhere else.”

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Rebel DJs reunite at WGBT, once-controversial GU station

Program makes storytellers out of memory-stricken seniors

Bill Petros/The CurrentLiz Nichols runs the TimeSlips storytelling program at Iona Senior Services.

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Aidan Montessori School On Oct. 14, the Aidan Montessori upper elementary class went to the Civil War battlefield called Monocacy where the last Confederate invasion of the North happened. The students also saw the slave quarters at Best Farm. Fourth-grader Edvin Leijon said, “I thought the museum was cool. I also liked the artifacts.” Fifth-grader Elliot Sealls said, “I thought it was cool to know what happened back then.” Ms. Shirley said, “I learned a lot, and it was my first time going there.” “I think it was really cool, and I learned a lot,” fifth-grader Lukas Leijon said. Everyone liked different things. Fourth-grader Julian Cunningham said, “I liked the museum and the canons.’’ Fourth-grader Stephen Sealls said, “I liked the bullet exhibit.’’ Sixth-grader Lucia Braddock said, “I liked the museum because of the scavenger hunt, and I learned a lot from it.” Fourth-grader Alexandria Bullock said, “It was awesome and fun!”

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British School of Washington There are five Year 13 students taking higher-level International Baccalaureate French, and I enjoy our small class because it allows us to casually discuss topics in French with each other. We have recently covered a unit on the media, which included sub-sections on “la télévision,” “la

radio” and “la publicité,” or adver-tising. We learned about advertis-ing by creating our own product and making posters to advertise it. We had to use techniques for per-suasion such as l’imperatif and the new vocabulary we learned. After we completed our posters, we pre-sented them to the rest of the class, which is good practice for the oral presentations we will have to do as part of our final IB grade in French. It was interesting (and in some cases very funny) seeing what oth-ers had done. Henry presented his product, a 1969 Ford Mustang; Laia and Robbie made an out-of-the-ordinary poster persuading con-sumers to buy a somewhat bizarre-looking green cereal called “Uranios”; and Savannah talked about her anti-smoking poster. My product was a personalized robot-école that does students’ homework for them! We then did a timed writing exercise, similar to what we will have to do in the end-of-year exam, writing letters of complaint to each other about the faults of each oth-er’s products. Inventing and pre-senting our products on posters was very fun. I am looking forward to the next unit, in which we will be learning about social problems such as homelessness.

— Anna Serrichio, Year 13 Berkley (12th-grader)

Deal Middle School At Alice Deal Middle School, there is never a shortage of excite-ment. Just in the past couple of weeks, we have had new activities,

fundraisers and even some major news. African, Chinese, American, Spanish and Mediterranean — we have all types of cultures at Alice Deal. These cultures come together on International Night, an event where all five of these backgrounds are featured. Everybody brings in one food dish from one of these cultures. Two Thursdays ago, all of the school came at night to enjoy these exciting and interesting foods. We raised $5,000 in support of school activities. Just this month the students at Alice Deal received some shocking news: Our beloved principal is leaving Deal to go on to do bigger and better things (although I ask myself, “What could be better than Deal?”). Principal Kim is leaving after six years as the head of our school. She leaves her principal’s role in good hands, though, because our vice principal, Mr. Albright, will be taking over. Ms. Kim’s final day as a true Alice Deal Viking will be in December. But she will always be a Viking in the hearts of the students. Just last week we started Viking Time, a favorite at Deal. Viking Time is a period at the end of the day when students do different activities with a teacher. The pur-pose is to get to know a teacher outside of the classroom. The activ-ities include World Responders, Garage Band, Walking Club and even an intense workout called Insanity.

— Ben Korn, sixth-grader

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praised Cuban children’s theater group La Colmenita came to Duke Ellington as part of a nationwide tour. The group, which is a UNICEF goodwill ambassador, performed “Abracadabra,” a play that mixes rock ’n’ roll, fairy tales and justice to tell the story of the relationship between the United States and Cuba. The cast members were a wide range of ages, and the high-octane performance was engaging and interactive. The group has vis-ited more than 25 countries. Carlos Alberto Cremata founded and directs La Colmenita. The school also had a special visitor this week when Ralph Johnson, of the legendary group Earth, Wind & Fire, came to the school to give a master class with percussion students. On Wednesday, Duke Ellington held its first open house of the school year. Students and parents from across the city got the chance to visit classes, meet teachers and view performances. There will be two more open houses, on Nov. 7 and Dec. 6. Students from the Literary Media and Communications Department took part in a press conference with journalists from the White House press corps. The event featured Time Magazine contributor Michael Scherer, and students were given the opportunity to put ques-tions to him and others. On Oct. 22, the Duke Ellington

ceremonial band had its inaugural performance at the Howard Homecoming Parade. The day before the event the school held a pep rally at Ellington Field to show its support for the band.

— Kat Patrong, 10th-grader

Edmund Burke School The eighth-graders have been visiting preschoolers. One of the schools they go to is BCDC, a day care across the street from Burke. The eighth-graders have made only two visits so far, but they loved every minute of them. Both times, they all came back to school chat-tering away about who was the most adorable child, who was the smartest and what fun they had together. The eighth-grade students visit the kids to teach them things. The first time, they taught the kids about biking safety, since the preschoolers were having a small event that involved riding bikes. The older kids read stories such as “Froggy Rides a Bike” while ask-ing questions such as, “What do you think Froggy is doing wrong?” The kids would respond with: “He’s not looking in front of him!” or “He needs to hold both of the handles.” The children loved it and bonded quickly with the Burke kids. The second class was about math. One group focused on teach-ing the kids about patterns and shapes using handmade worksheets and tiles with different colors. Surprisingly, all the preschoolers answered within seconds of being asked questions, and a few even

complained that the work was too easy! The Burke kids were happily surprised to find that the young stu-dents were much smarter than they had anticipated. All of the groups shared many laughs, and the pre-schoolers are looking forward to our future visits.— Catherine Boyd, eighth-grader

Hearst Elementary We spent the month of September reading biographies and learning about many famous peo-ple. We read about Harriet Tubman, Martin Luther King Jr., Frederick Douglass, Rosa Parks, Jimmy Carter, Abraham Lincoln, Sacagawea, Harry Houdini,

Georgia O’Keeffe and many, many others! We enjoyed learning about Harriet Tubman and Abraham Lincoln most of all. In library, Mrs. Vandivier taught us how to create time lines on the Smart Board to summarize a per-son’s life. In the classroom, our teacher read us biographies and we were able to read several biogra-phies on our own. At home, we completed a citi-zenship project. We picked a per-son to research, and we shared how the person served as a good citizen in the community. Some people chose to do the project on famous people, and others did their projects on family members or people in

their community. These projects taught us how Oprah Winfrey, Steve Jobs, George Washington, Herbert’s dad and many other peo-ple have used their lives to help people. Now that we’re done with the unit, we realize that even when people are mean to us we should keep on trying to be kind and help-ful. We can try this at school, at home and when we go out in our community.

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Bolts wrote their first realistic fic-tion stories of the year. After all their hard work of writing their sto-ries, they decided to have a pub-lishing party and a bake sale. Earlier, they had read a true story called “Fourteen Cows for America,” about how the Masai gave us 14 cows when our tragedy of 9/11 happened. When the horrible fire happened in Kenya and more than 70 people died, the Lightning Bolts thought of having a bake sale to raise money for them because they had helped us. So when the publishing party started, the parents came in and read the students’ stories. After the publishing party, the parents and kids bought a few goodies that the Lightning Bolts had brought in. When the parents left, there was still a bit of work to do until the students went to their regular schedule, including counting the money they all gathered up. Ms. Salute brought the box out and started counting $1, $2 … $100. Everyone screamed! Then they got it together again. In the end, they ended up with $103.04. They were all so excited. The fifth-graders were very kind and had a bake sale, too. All the money that they raised they gave to us to give to Kenya. They raised $200. We ended up with $300. When David Auerbach, the man who helped us deliver the money to Kenya, told the students that they had just bought a water container for each of 250 families, the stu-dents were all very happy with their help and work.

— Fiona Madrid, fourth-grader

Jewish Primary Day School On Oct. 12, the Jewish Primary Day School tried to help make a world record. The record that we were trying to set was for the most people doing jumping jacks for one minute within a 24-hour period.

First lady Michelle Obama brought up this idea because it helps kids and adults pay attention to the importance of exercise. At our school, the third-, fourth-, fifth- and sixth-graders were divid-ed into groups of 50. Then, one grown-up volunteer watched each group while we were doing jump-ing jacks. This was because the rules from the Guinness Book of World Records say that we need to have a complete tally of everyone who participates. The volunteers also needed to make sure to count only people who kept jumping. The younger kids jumped with their own classes and were also monitored. Teachers, administrators and a couple of par-ents jumped, too. We also brought coins to school as another part of the activity. The money will be donated to help buy sports equipment for people who don’t have very much. We raised $28.01. The kids at our school thought trying to make a world record was very exciting. They also thought that doing jumping jacks in the morning was really cool. In order to make the record, there needed to be 20,000 or more people doing jumping jacks within a 24-hour period. We don’t know yet whether we made the record or not. We hope we made a difference and set the world record!

— Ellie Goldenberg, fourth-grader

Key Elementary At Key School the week of Oct. 31, we will participate in the annual Halloween Costume Parade on the blacktop. The whole Key School community walks around campus in costume to cool songs like “Monster Mash.” The costumes are fun and creative, and many are homemade. Last year, our friend Jackson dressed up like a milk car-ton. Another unique costume was Poseidon, god of the sea. Idris wrapped an old sheet around him-self like a toga and put a patch on from a book. His sister made him a

crown. And he made a trident out of cardboard. Our friends Zack and Brett dressed up as Mario and Luigi (the Mario Brothers)! It was fun for everyone. Another exciting Key School activity to look forward to is the annual Fannie Mae Homeless Walk in the Palisades, on Nov. 4. Did you know that nearly 12,000 peo-ple in the Washington area are without homes? This walk raises money to support organizations that help to prevent or end homeless-ness in the D.C. area. Since 1988, the walk has gathered more than $85 million toward this cause. Everybody from Key walked in it last year. We are excited to help out again this year, and we hope the money we raise will make a differ-ence.

— Idris Hasan-Granier and Mica Gelb, fifth-graders

Lafayette Elementary There are many clubs at Lafayette. Three of them are Jewelry Club, International Club and Math Club. At Jewelry Cub, you make jew-elry with glass beads. You also make different patterns with the beads. This club is held on Tuesdays from noon to 12:30 p.m. There are no club officers, but the two teachers who run the club are Ms. Kerry Cassidy and Ms. Erin Brooks. Usually five to 10 students attend the club, which is held in Ms. Cassidy’s room. Third-, fourth- and fifth-graders are welcome. Another club is International Club, which has been at Lafayette for a really long time. At International Club, you learn about places all over the world. This club has four fifth-grade officers and two teachers who sponsor it, Ms. Erika Pereira and Ms. Irene Taguian. The club meets every other Friday from noon to 1 p.m. and usually has 10 to 20 members attend. Last but not least is Math Club. Math Club is held on Wednesdays at 8 a.m. The three teachers who run this club are Mr. Robert Thurston, Ms. Erin Betz and Ms. Blake Yedwab. In this club, as you might expect, you have fun with math, play games and find patterns. Usually 20 to 40 students go to Math Club. These are only three of the teacher-led clubs for students at Lafayette. There are lots more exciting clubs here. If you ever go to Lafayette, you should participate in one of these clubs.— Therese Dombo, Ally Heinrich and Rose Kelleher, fifth-graders

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kids who are doing well get harder worksheets to move to the next level, and they also help kids who might need just a little extra help so the class does well together. Specials, like music, art, P.E. and library, also teach your child about many different things. In music, we learn about musi-cal symbols and national anthems. In art, we learn how to make cool things, using materials like paper, paint, tape and scissors. In P.E., we get a fitness test and play exercising games. In library, the librarian reads a story and then the children then do an activity related to that book. At recess, your child will have half an hour to play with friends, which still leaves a lot of time to learn in the classroom. If it is rain-ing at recess time, your child will have indoor recess with free time indoors to write, draw, play games (like “Sorry!”), and not get wet or catch a cold. So choose Murch for your

school! We think it is No. 1!— Zara Kovner and Sigita Puskorius, third-graders

National Presbyterian School On Oct. 13, National Presbyterian School hosted its fourth annual Diversity and Community Dinner. In total, there were around 150 people. Some par-ents pitched in by arranging deli-cious food that fed the whole crowd. Also, some teachers helped. Ms. Williams, the math specialist, organized a big chunk of the event. A guest author, Paula Young Shelton, read her amazing book and true story about her troubles with segregation and how she per-sonally knew Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The book’s title is “Child of the Civil Rights Movement.” It was published in 2010. After the storytelling, the kids were invited to travel a short dis-tance over to the gym. There, they colored on paper houses, tents or castles and wrote what would be inside theirs and why that’s impor-tant. Then, the kids proceeded to the gym wall where a giant piece of

paper was and taped their structures on. All the students helped create a masterpiece of houses. All in all, the dinner was a very successful one.

— Elisa McCartin, sixth-grader

Ross Elementary We have a program at Ross called Everybody Wins! “I like EW! because I get to see happy kids that are reading,” said the director, Emie. “I enjoy EW! because I get to see my reading buddy,” said Becky, a mentor.

“I love seeing Mayra; she is always cheerful and polite,” said Mayra’s mentor. Teachers enjoy teaching at Ross because the children are always nice. “It’s rewarding and exciting because I get to educate students and the students teach me life les-sons every day,” said Ms. Reilly, a fifth-grade teacher. “I feel good cleaning and I love coming to work and it’s not spooky in the building here at night,” said Mr. Lancaster, our custodian. Students love Ross because

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— Students and teachers

St. Albans School School has gone smoothly since the drama of the crane collapsing at the Washington National Cathedral. The school has hosted visitors from the Association of Independent Maryland & DC Schools, other-wise known as AIMS, a group of

teachers from many private schools in Maryland and nearby areas that evaluate other schools and make sure they follow their “mission” statements. St. Albans also cele-brated homecoming and “beauti-fied” the entrance to our main gym. Over the last week, there have been many visiting teachers from AIMS. AIMS rates the school’s facilities and athletic and artistic offerings. In almost every class, there was a visiting teacher watch-ing while we solved a problem, or asking us, “How do I get to this room?” They were very nice to all the students they encountered. Perhaps the best part was the fact that the teachers weren’t allowed to

give tests or quizzes during that week. This year we had a great home-coming. The soccer game that was scheduled for Friday against Landon was rained out. But the football game against Episcopal went on, drawing a great crowd. Led by captains Arthur Jones, Matt McJunkin and Charles Cato, the team was in great hands. It seemed as if St. Albans would win the game by a narrow margin, but Episcopal managed to kick a field goal in the closing minutes to win the game. Even though we lost to Episcopal, our chances of winning our third-straight Interstate Athletic Conference championship aren’t

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St. Ann’s Academy In science, we have been learn-ing about pulling forces and motion. We even did a lab with toy cars to calculate acceleration. In social studies, we have been learn-ing about the physical geography of Latin America. In language arts, we have been doing a lot of fun activi-ties, including creating scary or suspenseful stories. In Spanish, we have been learning about verbs and body parts, and speaking using mostly Spanish. In math, we have been learning about adding, sub-tracting, multiplying, and dividing integers.

— Rudy Acree, sixth-grader I am new to this school, and so far it is going great. A week or two ago, the sixth-graders went to Camp Calleva. The first activity was the trapeze. We had to climb a tree, stand on a platform and then jump to try to reach the bar. The next activity was called Think Tank. We had to run down one by one to look at a design made of blocks, then come back to our sta-tions and re-create what we saw. Our next activity, after lunch, was the Giant Swing. We used a rope and pulley system to elevate our classmates, and when they felt comfortable and high enough, they released a tag to allow them to swing through the trees. Our last and final activity was the X-games. We had to imagine that a big blob was taking over our planet.

— Sainphorine Ewale, sixth-grader

School Without Walls On Tuesday the entire student body took a trip to the D.C. College Fair. Set in the vast Walter E. Washington Convention Center, the event had an overwhelming number of college representatives. However, students managed to make their way around successful-ly, and no one was lost on the trip back. A success! Minor note: A fight did occur as we were leaving, but no Walls stu-dents were involved. This week after school, most of the senior class reported to the common room to serve a near grade-wide detention. The previous week, while the rest of the school was engaged with the PSATs, the senior class was to have gone on a tour of the George Washington University campus and listened to an information seminar on the col-lege application process. Only 34 out of a class of more than 100 were present. In other news, the jazz combo played a gig Wednesday night at Ben’s Next Door on U Street. D.C. government officials as well as George Washington University fac-ulty members were present. Hopefully the lively music made up for any hard feelings sown by the previous week’s lack of senior attendance. Meanwhile, the school is gear-ing up for homecoming and spirit

week. The spirit days have been announced, the pep rally events are set, and tickets for Friday’s dance are being sold. Sadly, after the promise of a crazy-fun spirit week, it looks like things will return to normal in November with the onset of second advisory.

— Keanu Ross-Cabrera, 12th-grader

Shepherd Elementary On Oct. 6, Shepherd Elementary had its first Girl Scout meeting in the library for parents and students. Ms. Pethtel, one of our kindergar-ten teachers, was speaking about what we should do in order to have a Shepherd Elementary Girl Scout troop. She is an adult Girl Scout and would like to become a troop leader for Shepherd’s girls. At the meeting, there were about 20 students and parents who are interested in starting a Girl Scout troop. Ms. Pethtel asked us to sit in groups by grade levels to plan for our future troop. Girls in kindergar-ten and first grade are called Daisies, second- and third-graders are Brownies, and the fourth- and fifth-grade students are Juniors. There are also Girl Scout troops for students in middle school and high school. They are called, respectively, Cadettes and Ambassadors. The adult Girl Scouts, like Ms. Pethtel, can become troop leaders. I am a Junior from another troop. But I plan to participate in field trips with Shepherd’s Girl Scout Junior troop. Fellow Mustangs, like the Girl Scout slogan says, “Do a good turn daily”!

— Sophia-Rose Herisse, fourth-grader

Sheridan School On Oct. 17, the Sheridan first grade went to Mountain Campus in the Shenandoah Mountains for a day trip. The students had a lot of fun and did a lot of activities. First, they played nature bingo. We searched for natural things like leaves, acorns and mushrooms. We also looked for insects and animal tracks. We drew pictures and checked off what we found on a bingo board. Nature bingo was a lot of fun! After a lunch of mac and cheese, chicken tenders, carrots and celery, we headed to the field to solve team-building challenges. One team-building challenge involved getting out of a trap made by a rope. We had to go under the rope without using our hands! After team building, the first-graders played games. One game we loved was called People to People. Finally, we went to the pond to build rafts. We collected sticks and used twine to tie the sticks together. Then, we sailed the rafts across the pond. The rafts car-ried bread that had to stay dry. The first grade had a great trip full of fun and exploration!

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At one of the best-known addresses in the city, a key selling point for many units

is a generous dose of outdoor

space. But at 1,350 square feet, the terrace at this on-the-market prop-erty in Watergate West goes beyond, starting to feel like dupli-cate — and expansive — living and dining areas. Stone retaining walls curve to create ample space for plantings of annuals around the mature green-ery, including trees, already in place. A large swath of the terrace faces the Watergate’s courtyard, while a portion doglegs around a corner to abut the unit’s interior dining room. There are dozens of arrange-ments of outdoor seating and din-ing furniture that would work here, but all of them would likely enhance the terrace’s main attrac-tion: It’s ideal for entertaining. Parties could easily flow from the living room to the outdoor spot, and then back inside via the dining room entrance. Those spaces — both visible from outdoors by a

wall of win-dows — also sport a compa-ny-friendly open floor plan. Good for more than just entertaining, this two-level unit offers a range of built-in storage. In the moody entry hall, a large, deep-stained wood piece offers open and closed storage ideal for books and more. In the living room, a painted, warm-white built-in is suited to entertainment equip-ment. And in the dining area, mir-rored cabinets hold serving dishes in style. The kitchen is an efficient galley style, with whitewashed cabinets, travertine floors and granite coun-ters in a light palette that visually expands the room. Stainless steel appliances from brands such as Viking and SubZero also help bounce light around the space. A closet nearby holds a washer and dryer, and a door to the terrace allows easier entertaining; with access directly to the patio and,

from there, to a gated alley entrance, catering staff could easily and discreetly set up an event. The first level also holds a luxe powder room, which introduces decorative chinoiserie influences that appear in the upstairs master bath as well. That space is lined in marble, from the vanity to the spa tub sur-round. A separate shower is also lined in the stone, and brass fittings from Sherle Wagner serve to warm the room. The second bedroom sports ample built-ins that make this space suitable as a home office. A full hall bath — also with ample mar-ble — serves this room.

The master bedroom is very large, with a wall of windows look-ing out to the trees and Potomac River beyond. A dressing area waits in one corner of the bedroom, with mirrored doors hiding custom shelving and storage. On the oppo-site end of the room, a second stretch of closets lines the hall that leads to the master bath. A built-in entertainment center anchors the room, and wall sconces flank the logical spot to put the bed — ideal for late-night reading. Residents of Watergate West don’t have to go out for much: The

complex offers underground access to a grocery store, dry cleaners, res-taurants and more. And for enter-tainment, the Kennedy Center is steps away. But for the times driv-ing is necessary, the unit conveys with one parking space. Unit 112 at Watergate West, 2700 Virginia Ave., is a two-bed-room, 2.5-bath property offered for $699,000. Monthly fees, including real estate taxes and all utilities, total $2,730. For details, contact Realtors William F.X. Moody and Robert Hryniewicki of Washington Fine Properties at 202-243-1620.

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At Watergate West unit, outdoor living is easy

Photos courtesy of Washington Fine PropertiesThis two-bedroom property at the Watergate West cooperative, priced at $699,000, includes at 1,350-square-foot terrace.

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ANC 1CAdams Morgan

The commission will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 2, at Mary’s Center, 2355 Ontario Road NW. Agenda items include:■ announcements.■ public comments.■ update on the 18th Street recon-struction project.■ committee reports. For details, call 202-332-2630 or visit anc1c.org.

ANC 2AFoggy Bottom

The commission will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 16, at Heart House, 2400 N St. NW. For details, visit anc2a.org.

ANC 2BDupont Circle

At the commission’s Oct. 12 meeting:■ commissioner Mike Silverstein reflected on the life of gay-rights activist Frank Kameny, who died Oct. 11 at age 86. “Those who believe in human rights lost a great champion yesterday,” said Silverstein.■ commission chair Will Stephens announced that the commission is posting its annual reports dating to 1976 on its website.■ Curtis Farrar of the Dupont Circle Village announced that the organization is selling calendars for $15 to benefit its senior services.■ commissioner Jack Jacobson announced that the 17th Street Festival on Sept. 24 was a success. “And we’ll have a bigger and better one next year,” he added.■ commissioner Jack Jacobson criticized a new policy of Safeway to check the receipts of all custom-ers leaving the store. “It treats everyone as a criminal instead of assuming you’re not,” he said.■ commissioner Jack Jacobson announced that Lt. Scott Dignan has retired from the Metropolitan Police Department. John MacDonald is serving as the acting lieutenant for Police Service Area 208, Jacobson said.■ commissioners voted 7-0, with Phil Carney and Ramon Estrada absent, to support permits for a Nov. 5 all-star competition of the Stonewall Kickball league in Stead Park at 1625 P St.■ commissioners voted 6-1, with Mike Silverstein opposing, to sup-port the temporary closure of Vermont Avenue near Lafayette Park on Oct. 16. The Right2March event, promoting regulations on labeling organic foods, needed the site as a staging area for parade vehicles. Silverstein opposed because organizers didn’t attend the meeting.■ commissioners voted 7-0 to sup-port any permits needed for the 25th annual 17th Street High Heel Race on Oct. 26.

■ commissioners complained that they hadn’t received enough infor-mation about work planned for the south entrance of the Dupont Circle Metrorail station. A Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority representative was scheduled to speak at the commis-sion’s meeting but did not attend.■ commissioners voted 7-0 to ask the city and the U.S. State Department to take action against the Embassy of the Republic of Congo, 16th and Riggs streets, for its removal of trees and green space without a public-space permit.■ commissioners voted 7-0 to sup-port a Board of Zoning Adjustment application for renovations to an apartment building at 1250 New Hampshire Ave. The International Monetary Fund, which uses the property to host foreign guests, plans to gut the building to make it more modern and bring it into com-pliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. The renovations will result in a requirement for 30 parking spaces instead of the existing 26, but rep-resentatives said the existing spots are rarely used. The building also needs a special exception for a roof structure housing the elevator shaft.■ developers of the Third Church of Christ, Scientist, site at 16th and I streets discussed their plans to construct an office building incor-porating a new church. The com-mission will vote on various aspects of the plan at future meetings.■ chair Will Stephens said a group of restaurants seeking permission for valet parking are still working to amend their plan based on the com-mission’s previous concerns, and they will present the changes at the commission’s November meeting.■ commissioners voted 5-0, with Phil Carney, Ramon Estrada, Mike Silverstein and Victor Wexler absent, to support a restaurant liquor license for Boqueria, 1837 M St. The restaurant hopes to be open until 1 a.m. Sunday through Thursday and 1:45 a.m. Friday and Saturday nights and to include a 32-seat sidewalk cafe. The small chain is expanding its high-end Spanish cuisine outside New York for the first time, a rep-resentative said.■ commissioners voted 6-0, with Phil Carney, Ramon Estrada and Mike Silverstein absent, to protest a liquor license application for El Tamarindo, 1785 Florida Ave., unless the restaurant agrees to reduce the hours of operation for a planned sidewalk cafe by one hour — to 1 a.m. Sunday through Thursday nights and 2 a.m. Friday and Saturday.■ commissioner Mike Feldstein announced that the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority moved a bus stop a block south from the Dupont Triangle Park at Connecticut Avenue and Q Street, resolving problems of crowding there.■ commissioner Jack Jacobson suggested the commission sponsor

a community meeting to discuss bicycling in the neighborhood. Commissioner Mike Feldstein sug-gested the commission also spon-sor such a discussion about park-ing.■ commissioners voted 7-0 to request that the D.C. Department of Transportation discuss with the commission and the National Park Service any permits required to use D.C.-owned land adjacent to Dupont Circle Park. The Park Service, which owns the park, has threatened to shut down some activities at the site that also use the D.C. space unless they see evidence of a permit.■ commissioner Kevin O’Connor reported that Irish Whiskey, 1207 19th St., has agreed to seek shorter hours from the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, so the commission will no longer protest its license.■ commissioner Kevin O’Connor reported that the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board accepted the commission’s voluntary agree-ment with Penthouse Bar, 1612 U St., with only minor changes.■ chair Will Stephens said the com-munity still needs a polling loca-tion for D.C. Precinct 141.■ commissioner Kevin O’Connor reported that the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board decided not to shut down Marrakesh Palace, 2147 P St. but placed conditions on its operation that are very favorable to the community.■ commissioners Mike Silverstein reported that the commission has closed its savings account because a service charge exceeded the inter-est earned. The commission will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 9, in the Brookings Institution building, 1775 Massachusetts Ave. NW. For details, visit dupontcir-cleanc.net.

ANC 2CShaw

The commission will meet at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 2, at the Watha T. Daniel-Shaw Neighborhood Library, 1630 7th St. NW. For details, call 202-387-1596.

ANC 2DSheridan-Kalorama

The commission will meet at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 21, at Our Lady Queen of the Americas Church, California Street and Phelps Place NW. For details, contact [email protected] or visit anc2d.org.

ANC 2FLogan Circle

The commission will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 2, at Washington Plaza Hotel, 10 Thomas Circle NW. For details, call 202-667-0052 or visit anc2f.org.


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who chairs the Chevy Chase advi-sory neighborhood commission. Thompson also noted that there’s a similarly adamant group of neighbors — residents of the Moreland Place cul-de-sac and adjacent Oregon Avenue block — who do want sidewalks on the street. “They could band together and start a group and call it ‘Community for Safety on Oregon Avenue,’” said Thompson. One of those residents, Henry Custis, said he has a pro-sidewalk petition signed by everyone on Moreland Place and all the houses in the 5700 block of Oregon. “We need a sidewalk to get out,” he said, noting that there are 26 kids living on the cul-de-sac, who have no sidewalks for walking to school. The division over sidewalks has lessened recently: The Neighbors United group has shifted to sup-porting some sort of “natural sur-face walking trail,” and the neigh-borhood commission in July backed construction of “an ade-quate sidewalk or other walkway.” “In substance, we’re almost all in total agreement,” said Thompson. What remains to be seen is what the Transportation Department will propose after sifting through public

comments on the environmental assessment. For its part, the neighborhood commission declined to support any of the four alternatives described in the assessment, but instead listed what the commission would like to see done, including curbs, gutters and stormwater con-trol — but no change in the road’s basic footprint. The four options discussed in the assessment are a pro forma no-build “alternative,” and then three varying proposals for widening and straightening the road while adding sidewalks, curbs, retaining walls, lighting and stormwater manage-ment. Neighbors United believes all but the no-build option go “over-board,” proposing far more recon-struction work than is necessary. The group, as well as some other residents, says straightening the road and adding more paved surfaces would detract from the pastoral character of their road, which runs alongside Rock Creek Park. They also question whether the proposed stormwater manage-ment would adequately address the runoff that spills onto the street and park from communities to the west. Shortly after joining together to question the assessment, Neighbors United submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to the related federal and local agencies,

seeking all documents regarding Oregon Avenue. All but the city’s Transportation Department have responded with the requested papers; the transportation agency told Neighbors United last month that copying and search efforts would cost at least $1,800. The residents hope to have the fee waived, and they have sought help from the neighborhood com-mission and other local elected officials. But at its meeting Monday, the commission refused to write a letter of support, with no commissioner even seconding chair Thompson’s proposal to send such a missive. Neighbors United member Tim Ritzert said yesterday that the group is “deeply disappointed that the commissioners failed to com-prehend the benefits of NU’s efforts

to shine light on what is now understood to be a poorly con-ceived set of proposals.” On the other hand, two local D.C. Council members — Ward 4’s Muriel Bowser and Ward 3’s Mary Cheh — have weighed in. Both sent emails this month to the Transportation Department: Bowser asked the director to work with the residents on “reasonable fees,” while Cheh asked him to consider “modifying” the fee, according to staffers. Les Sotsky, the Oregon Avenue resident who works at Arnold and Porter (he is not on technically a member of Neighbors United, but works with the group), said the residents could go “door to door” seeking donations to cover the fee, but they shouldn’t have to: D.C. regulations say the department can

waive Freedom of Information costs when the request is “in the public interest.” If the group’s request “isn’t in the public interest, I don’t know what is,” said Sotsky. “To me it’s a matter of principle.” Another matter of principle, the group might say, is the way the Transportation Department has conducted the project. The resi-dents say their concerns haven’t been sufficiently heard — nor have they had a chance to ask questions. Neighborhood commissioner Carolyn Cook, who is helping Neighbors United with its efforts, said she’s working to set up a question-and-answer session for residents and department officials. “We need to just get the parties … together to have a real dialogue — a Q and A that has never hap-pened,” she said. Cook said such a meeting would be more productive than sifting through the agency’s paperwork on the matter, which is why she did not back Thompson’s proposed let-ter regarding Freedom of Information Act fees. Regarding the procedures, Transportation Department spokes-person John Lisle wrote in an email, “DDOT has had 3 public meetings in addition to attending ANC meetings. DDOT has never declined to meet with community members.”

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Bill Petros/Current File PhotoSome residents object to city plans to reconstruct and widen Oregon Avenue.

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noted that a poll commissioned by his firm last November found that “67% of Ward 4 residents” support Walmart’s plan. The 1909 car barn, one of 29 built to house streetcars that once plied the District’s major corridors, could be eligible for landmark status despite its “plain, utilitarian brick structure,” according to the report by city architectural historian Tim Dennée and city landmark coordi-nator Kim Williams. Four of the city’s car barns are in fact listed in the D.C. Inventory of Historic Sites, providing “a good representative sample,” the report says. But the fact that the Georgia Avenue structure was heavily altered when it was converted to a Chevrolet dealership in the mid-1950s, and again altered this fall

when Foulger-Pratt removed parts of the roof, seems the biggest argu-ment against landmark designation. The building has lost “significant integrity,” the staff report says: “More recent work has further diminished the building’s historic, even physical integrity,” the report states. “The roof decking, skylight and ventilators of the original and largest shed have been removed in accordance with a recent building permit. What remains of the roof are just the steel trusses, which appear to be merely resting on the walls below.” The report notes that one collapsed wall and “serious crack-ing” further jeopardize the car barn’s original structure. That comment makes Jahi espe-cially angry. “It’s blatant disrespect to Ward 4 residents to say the car barn is not historic based on demoli-tion of the roof, which was autho-rized illegally,” he said. Jahi and Foulger-Pratt officials

have jousted over permits issued this summer that allowed the partial demolition, with city officials back-ing the legality of the developer’s work. Work on the site was halted when the landmark application was filed. If the board rejects the appli-cation Thursday, Foulger-Pratt would apparently have the green light to resume demolition and con-struction. Despite uncertainty about the landmarking, Walmart recently signed a lease with Foulger-Pratt, signaling its intention to move for-ward at the Georgia Avenue site. Spokesperson Restivo said the company “continues to have good discussions with the city about ways Walmart can be a good community partner for years to come. The truth is we already do most things resi-dents want from development, such as hiring locally, supporting com-munity organizations and offering competitive wages and benefits.”

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calling for a complete redesign of the build-ing. You cannot tell me that those are some-how consistent positions.” “My testimony is very clear that the condi-tions we have laid out have not been met,” Smith replied. “What we are saying is if [uni-versity officials] can’t meet these conditions, then they need to go back and redesign the building.” In considering the North Hall project, the Zoning Commission must decide whether it is likely to create objectionable conditions for neighbors. University attorney Paul Tummonds said the school is confident the building would not, even as it’s now designed.

He added that the school can make minor design revisions based on further feedback. “We do not believe this is a project that needs to go back to the drawing board,” Tummonds told the zoning commissioners. “We believe this is a project that has the appropriate massing, scale and height, and we can work with community comments that coalesce around an idea of what the facade should be.” But that may be difficult, Tummonds added: “We’d heard earlier tonight that there were some residents of the community who wanted it to look like Katzen [Arts Center]. Some wanted it to look like the Kogod School of Business. Some wanted it to look like Wesley [Seminary].” Jeffrey Kraskin of the Spring Valley/Wesley Heights Citizens Association testified

that the neighbors just want something more attractive than the rather blank wall they fear the school will construct. “If the facade facing Mass Ave was a facade that reflected the nature of the residential area and the area sur-rounding it, I think we could be very happy with it,” Kraskin said. Despite the complaints about the facade, the North Hall proposal hasn’t seen the level of community objection that has arisen against some aspects of the university’s development plans, such as for its Nebraska Avenue park-ing lot site and its Tenley Campus. Smith, Kraskin and a representative of Neighbors for a Livable Community were the only residents to testify, in contrast with dozens who have appeared at other recent hearings. “It does seem to me that there is room for agreement between the university and neigh-

bors on how this building should look without having to start completely from scratch,” said zoning commissioner May. “So I would strongly urge the university to get together with the neighbors and the ANC on this, because we have some time before we can make a decision.” Additionally, zoning commissioners requested renderings that more clearly show the proposed building from Massachusetts Avenue and asked that the school consider offering more than the planned 54 bicycle parking spaces. Before the Zoning Commission can take a position on North Hall, it must vote on the university’s 10-year development goals as part of the broader campus plan process. Hearings on the plan will continue — and likely conclude — Nov. 3.

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complain about a vacant property. Majett followed up on the property, found it to be indeed vacant, and added it to the list. Then, when the tax notices came out, the owner complained to the same council member, who passed the complaint on to Majett. The director had to remind the council member that his complaint was the reason the prop-erty made the list in the first place. Vacant properties, he reminded association members, typically bring down the values of adjoining properties by about 5 percent. Another big department initia-tive has been allowing property owners to apply for building per-mits electronically. Typically, with major projects, up to six agencies must sign off before permits can be granted. Now, the property owner can apply to the regulatory agency elec-tronically, and the system forwards

the application to the others for simultaneous review. The other departments can comment online. The entire process normally takes less than a month, he said. By New Year’s Day, the online system will expand to businesses in need of a Basic Business License, he said. When asked if businesses would be required to use the online applications, Majett answered that they will “always be able to do it by hand” if they choose, adding that many small businesses in particular find it difficult to apply online. When restaurants apply for license renewals, the regulatory agency no longer requires a release from the Department of Health, which often caused delays of up to three weeks. The Health Department inspects restaurants on a regular basis, so Majett’s agency assumes all is fine after seeing problem-free Health Department records. When asked about possible new regulations for food trucks, Majett said they are now under review in the attorney’s general’s office.

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By DEIRDRE BANNONCurrent Correspondent

The Jewish Primary Day School of the Nation’s Capital will soon be expanding, thanks to the purchase of a second 16th Street building this month. The school bought the property at 4715 16th St. for $3.9 million, bolstered by a $3 million donation from Robert Schattner, a longtime D.C. resident. The gift, received

earlier this month, includes a $1 million dona-tion and a $2 million challenge grant, meaning Schattner will match every dollar the school can raise up to $2 million. The newly acquired building is currently home to Washington Latin Public Charter School, which has been leasing the property from the former owner, the British School of Washington, since 2008. The charter school’s lease, which will remain intact, is set to expire in December

2013. The Jewish Primary Day School then plans to renovate the building before moving in the pre-k and first-grade classes. Grades two through six will remain at the school’s current location at 6045 16th St., according to Naomi Reem, head of school for the Jewish Primary Day School. “For years we haven’t been able to accept all the children in the area that wanted a Jewish education,” said Reem. Adding that JPDS, as it is known, is the only Jewish school

in the city, Reem said, “Now we can accept three full kindergarten classes instead of two.” Jewish Primary Day plans to continue enrolling the same grades, pre-k to sixth, with the goal of increasing enrollment to 350 stu-dents from its current student body of 273. Martha Cutts, head of school for the Washington Latin Public Charter School, said that the school hopes to stay in the area. It will look for a new facility to lease long-term or buy.

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got out more quickly than they wanted it to,” he said. “They apologized for getting that information out when it was just an idea.” The proposal caught many Petworth resi-dents off-guard. The renovation project had already endured some delays (it was original-ly scheduled to launch in October 2010), and many have associated the recreation center’s poor condition with crime problems. A letter from residents, posted recently on the Prince of Petworth blog, describes drug dealers who park themselves around the center at night,

and men sleeping and urinating in the play-ground area. “This criminal element has a safe haven at Raymond Rec, as it is full of dark corners and numerous entry points for people to get in and out,” wrote authors who signed their letter “Friends of Raymond Recreation.” The letter also pointed to a recent homicide in the alley abutting the recreation center. On Oct. 8, 17-year-old Jamar Michael Freeman of Southeast D.C. was stabbed to death on the 900 block of Quincy Street; the Metropolitan Police Department announced last week that 17-year-old Derek Johnson of Northwest has been arrested and charged with second-degree murder in the case.

Neighbors feared that continued delays to the recreation center’s renovation would mean continued crime. Neighborhood commissioner Tumblin said the community was assured recently that the project would move forward. According to Tumblin, the city has committed to finding the additional $2 million or so necessary due to updated design estimates, while the mayor’s office has helped expedite permits. Parks department spokesperson John Stokes said yesterday that the current $11 mil-lion budget for the project “doesn’t include money for the field and lights,” but that work would proceed. Construction is expected to take 12 to 16 months, he said.

The new Raymond Recreation Center, which will replace a facility slated for demoli-tion, is planned as a limestone-and-brick-clad building housing a gym, weight and fitness room, computer room, game room and multi-purpose rooms. Outside, the project will include a new multipurpose athletic field, ten-nis court and basketball field, as well as an entry plaza featuring a playground and small amphitheater. The center will attach to Raymond Elementary School through a future addition to the school’s western wing. “It gives [the school] a gymnasium and a safe place to play,” said Tumblin, and “it gives the community the ability to finally do some programming.”

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then we’ve put in a Metro stop that takes 23,000 people a day, in and out. The sidewalk at one point was 26 inches wide,” and therefore in violation of Americans with Disabilities Act guidelines, Silverstein said, noting that the rules mandate at least 36 inches in width. Silverstein tried unsuccessfully for three years to get the sidewalk widened. “All we heard was, ‘We’re not interested in changing the 1929 design,’” he reported. He also said that a fence was proposed to preserve the grass in the park, but it would have restricted movement at the sidewalk’s slim-mest point, where the Park Service also placed a trash can, funneling foot traffic from the Metro and bus stops into the street. After his repeated queries to the Park Service went unaddressed, Silverstein had had enough. “I did the only thing I could do, which was to contact the Justice Department and file an ADA issue … and miraculously two weeks later, the trash can was removed, the sidewalk is a little bit wider and they are talking about moving the bus stop.” Bob Vogel, superintendent of the National Mall and Memorial Parks, responded to Silverstein: “I apolo-gize if we gave you the impression we were stonewalling,” he said. “I think it gets to a deeper issue … which you allude to, and again it’s how are we communicating or not communicating.” Vogel, who took on the position two months ago, said he is working to foster relationships between the National Park Service and District residents. He said the Park Service wants to be more involved with the community, and other superinten-dents at the meeting agreed. Norton said after the meeting that this attitude has changed the dynamic for future relations. “I think that the National Park Service officials, all of them rela-tively new, either brand-new or close to it, created an entirely changed tone between the Park Service and District residents, something of a breakthrough in their responsiveness,” she said. The Park Service is in a difficult position, Norton said, because it is a federal agency working at a local level, and residents can get irritated

with bureaucratic red tape. But the meeting served to create space for dialogue. “By the time that meeting was over, I think people had heard a far more responsive, people-friendly group of National Park Service offi-cials,” she said. Concrete changes also came out of the meeting. The Park Service will now post contact information for and maps of all its local parks on its website. Vogel is also working on a new model in which each park will have one contact point, to increase communication and reduce confusion. “We’re working on a system here at the National Mall where people can have one staff person that they call rather than, if there’s a trash situation, they call our chief of maintenance; if there’s a permit sit-uation, they call our permit office,” Vogel explained. “Sometimes when they are calling different people, we don’t hear how it is coming togeth-er.” With increased participation in the community, Norton hopes that the Park Service will get involved in more public-private partnerships that can give District residents more ownership of public parks and also help maintain the spaces. “I think that’s the best thing to happen bottom line from the town hall meeting — that you are going to see a more flexible, friendly National Park Service when it comes to our neighborhood parks and the Mall,” she said. “We’ve turned a corner,” Silverstein said after the meeting. “We have people who want to work more closely with the citizens of Washington … . We’ve made enor-mous progress.”

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Bill Petros/Current File PhotoResidents have sparred with the Park Service over this small park.

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went to the Heifer Global Village, which is a grouping of seven homes typical of places all around the world. The homes were from Tibet, Appalachia, Kenya, Guatemala, Mozambique, Thailand and a refugee camp that did not have a set location. The family groups were chosen by a lottery, and I ended up in the family from Appalachia with about 10 other students and one teacher. Each family was given a water bal-loon to take care of as if it were a baby. Every family was given resourc-es that they would have in real life. My group had carrots, potatoes and some silverware and dishes, includ-ing a pot. We had to cook over an open fire, which was very difficult to do in the rain. While some members of our group started the fire, others traded with others for resources such as water and rice. We let the refugee family use our fire because they didn’t have one. My family had some plans for our meal, but we ended up mixing our ingredients with the refugees’ in the pot over the fire. After three hours of cooking and eating our meals, we discussed our experience and headed back to campus. We returned at 7:30 p.m., extremely tired after a 13-hour trip. The trip to Heifer Global Village made me think about how other people live, and how lucky I am compared to so many others. This was a wonderful field trip that I really enjoyed.

— Isabel Kirsch, sixth-grader

Stoddert Elementary Today we had a visitor from the Washington Square dance group. His name is Mac McCall. He knows all about square dancing. He knows the history and the dances, and he dances a lot with his wife, Phyllis. He said he was going to be camping out and dancing with a group in Virginia over the week-end. We had Mr. McCall visit as part of our unit on Western Expansion (or Indian Eastward Encroachment). We are reading “Dear Levi.” It’s a book about a young boy named Austin who leaves Independence, Mo., to go west with his adopted family because his mom and dad are dead. He writes letters home to his broth-er. The Indians, or Native Americans, were here first, then white people in America wanted more land in the west, so they start-ed taking over. As they traveled by wagon train, they traded things. If they ran out of food, they could trade oxen for food. They also worked very hard and sometimes they’d get together with other wagon trains, and to relax and have a little fun they square danced. We learned lots of dances from Mr. McCall. We made a bridge and

danced under it and up and back through a line — do si do. We did circle dances where we clapped hands and took steps forward and backward. We danced with part-ners, too. We also did some funny dances like the gorilla dance (the kindergarten joined us for this one) and an elephant dance, along with the electric slide, cha-cha slide and the swim. Mr. McCall made the dancing fun. It was a unique experience, and we think everyone had fun.

— Casey Bressler and Tamer Whittle-Hage, fifth-graders

Washington International Our 11th- and 12th-grade Spanish classes recently went to see “¡Ay, Carmela!” at the Gala Theatre. The play portrays the effects of the Spanish Civil War from the point of view of the pro-tagonists Carmela and Paulino. The director showed us the past, when the two were alive, and the present, when Carmela’s ghost appears. With his management of space, his use of lighting and the performanc-es by Paulino and Carmela, director José Luis Arellano-García present-ed a fantastic play.

The Gala Theatre is relatively small, and that limits the quantity of objects that can be used. Likewise, it is very difficult to show the changes in time periods — the switches between past and present. Considering these limita-tions, José Luis Arellano-García used a screen to differentiate between the past and the present. When a scene takes place in the past, the lights are very bright; this helped the audience know the dif-ference between time periods. The script is quite complete, but the play is performed by only two

characters. The details of the play were enhanced by the music, light-ing, costumes and much more. It was easy to make a personal con-nection with the leads. Playwright José Sanchis Sinisterra and director José Luis Arellano-García have collaborated well to present this historic tragi-comedy. I recommend that all who have an interest in history or in the Spanish Civil War see this play — you won’t be disappointed!

— Ezti Fricano, 12th-grader (translated from

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Wednesday, Oct. 26

Class ■Aweeklyworkshopwillofferinstructionin“SahajaYogaMeditation.”7p.m.Free.WestEndNeighborhoodLibrary,110124thSt.NW.202-724-8707.

Concerts ■TheTokyoStringQuartetwillperformworksbyMozart,SzymanowskiandDvorák.7:30p.m.$45.TerraceTheater,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600. ■TheWashingtonPerformingArtsSocietywillpresenttheBudapestFestivalOrchestraperformingworksbyBartókandSchubert.8p.m.$39to$105.ConcertHall,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600. ■TheRealVocalStringQuartetwillper-form.8p.m.$25.MeltonRehearsalHall,WoollyMammothTheatreCompany,641DSt.NW.202-393-3939.

Discussions and lectures ■“OutreachEveningWithExtraordinaryArtists”willfeatureasalutetoJudithTerra,chairoftheD.C.CommissionontheArtsandHumanities.5:30p.m.$20;reservationsrequired.ArtsClubofWashington,2017ISt.NW.202-331-7282,ext.16. ■RitaDovewilldiscussherbook“ThePenguinAnthologyofTwentieth-CenturyAmericanPoetry.”6:30to8p.m.Free.LangstonRoom,BusboysandPoets,202114thSt.NW.202-387-7638. ■AnthropologistNinaG.Jablonski,authorof“Skin:ANaturalHistory,”willdis-cuss“SkinColorEvolutionandSignificance.”Abooksigningwillfollow.6:45p.m.$20.S.DillonRipleyCenter,1100JeffersonDriveSW.202-633-3030. ■CornellUniversityprofessorRobertH.Frankwilldiscusshisbook“TheDarwinEconomy:Liberty,Competition,andtheCommonGood.”7p.m.Free.Politicsand

Prose,5015ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-1919. ■FolgerShakespeareLibrarydirectorMichaelWitmorewilldiscusshisrecentworkinShakespearestudies,whichcom-binescomputeranalysisoftexts,linguisticsandtraditionalliteraryhistory.7p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.FolgerShakespeareLibrary,201EastCapitolSt.SE.folger.edu/folgertalks. ■LawrenceDouglas,professoroflaw,jurisprudenceandsocialthoughtatAmherstCollege,willdiscuss“DemjanjukinMunich:WarCrimesTrialsinHistoricalPerspective.”7to8:30p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.RubinsteinAuditorium,U.S.HolocaustMemorialMuseum,100RaoulWallenbergPlaceSW.uhmm.org/events/meyerhofflecture2011. ■DanielMcFadden(shown),the2000NobelLaureateinEconomicsStudies,andJaredDiamond,thePulitzerPrize-winningauthorof“Collapse”andaNationalGeographicexplorer-in-residence,willdiscuss“TheBigIdea:ThePowerofChoice,”aboutwhypeo-plemakedecisionsthewaytheydo.7p.m.$20.GrosvenorAuditorium,NationalGeographic,1600MSt.NW.202-857-7700. ■TheannualHymanS.&FredaBernsteinJewishLiteraryFestivalwillfea-tureatalkbyCharlesKingonhisbook“Odessa:GeniusandDeathinaCityofDreams.”7:30p.m.Free.WashingtonDCJewishCommunityCenter,152916thSt.NW.washingtondcjcc.org/litfest.

Film ■TheReelIsraelDCserieswillfeatureErezTadmorandGuyNattiv’s2007film“Strangers,”aboutastar-crossedromancebetweentwosportsfanrivals.8p.m.$11;$9forstudents;$8.25forseniors;$8forages12andyounger.AvalonTheatre,5612ConnecticutAve.NW.202-966-6000.

Performances ■TheKidsEuroFestivalwillfeatureSpain’srenownedpup-pettheaterBambalinain“Kraft.”6p.m.Free.MillenniumStage,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600. ■TheBeijingDanceTheaterwillpresent“Haze,”inwhichdancersperforminthemidstofasmogcloudonapaddedstage.8p.m.$22to$60.EisenhowerTheater,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600.The perfor-mance will repeat Thursday at 8 p.m.

Special event ■TheFriendsofRoseParkwillhost“PumpkinFest,”featuringpumpkinpainting,

applecider,snacksandacostumeparadeforchildrenofallages.4to6p.m.Freeadmission.RosePark,26thandOstreetsNW.

Thursday,Oct.27

Book signing ■GeorgeNorfleetwillsigncopiesofhisbook“APilot’sJourney,”abouttheTuskegeeAirmen.Noonto5p.m.Freeadmission.MuseumStore,NationalMuseumofAmericanHistory,14thStreetandConstitutionAvenueNW.202-633-1000.

Children’s program ■Aparkrangerwillleadchildrenages3andolderonascavengerhuntforautumnleavesduringahalf-mileWoodlandTrailhike.4p.m.Free.RockCreekNatureCenter,5200GloverRoadNW.202-895-6070.

Classes ■TrioConBrioCopenhagenwillpresentamasterclass,featuringaperformancebymusiciansfromtheNationalSymphonyOrchestraYouthOrchestraandadiscussionofinterpretationandtechnique.3to4p.m.Free.KreegerMuseum,2401FoxhallRoadNW.202-338-3552. ■MeditationexpertWilliamSmithwillteachsimpleandeffectivemeditationtech-niques.7p.m.Free.GeorgetownNeighborhoodLibrary,3260RSt.NW.202-727-0232.

Concerts ■ConductorLorinMaazelwillleadtheNationalSymphonyOrchestraandpianistSimonTrpceski(shown)inaperformanceofworksbyBerlioz,GriegandMussorgsky/Ravel.7p.m.$20to$85.ConcertHall,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600.The concert will repeat Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. ■AsmallensembleoftheWolkersdorfMunicipalBandwillperformtypicalBohemian-Moravianmusic.7:30p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.EmbassyofAustria,3524InternationalCourtNW.202-895-6776. ■IraniansingerandcomposerSussanDeyhimwillperform.7:30p.m.$25.GrosvenorAuditorium,NationalGeographic,1600MSt.NW.202-857-7700.

Discussions and lectures ■PulitzerPrize-winningauthorIsabelWilkerson,professorofjournalismatBostonUniversity,willdiscussherbook“TheWarmthofOtherSuns:TheEpicStoryofAmerica’sGreatMigration.”11:30a.m.$30.Woman’sNationalDemocraticClub,1526NewHampshireAve.NW.202-232-7363. ■Thefall2011fellowsintheInternationalReportingProjectattheSchool

ofAdvancedInternationalStudieswilldis-cusstheirexperiencesoverseas.Noon.Free;reservationsrequired.Room806,RomeBuilding,JohnsHopkinsUniversitySchoolofAdvancedInternationalStudies,1619MassachusettsAve.NW.202-663-7726. ■BiologistandnaturewriterJoanMaloofwilldiscussherbook“AmongtheAncients:AdventuresintheEasternOld-GrowthForests.”Noonto1p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.ConservatoryClassroom,U.S.BotanicGarden,100MarylandAve.SW.202-225-1116. ■SamHuffwilldiscusshisbook“ControlledViolence:OntheFieldandintheBooth.”12:30p.m.Free.Barnes&Noble,55512thSt.NW.202-347-0176. ■EvangelosLiaros,avisitingscholaratGeorgeWashingtonUniversity,willdiscuss“ABarrageofGrievances:ElectoralReformandPatternsofEthnicVotinginTurkey.”4to5p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.Room412,ElliottSchoolofInternationalAffairs,GeorgeWashingtonUniversity,1957ESt.NW.tinyurl.com/LiarasGWU. ■HistorianDavidWardwilldiscussSaccoandVanzetti.6to6:30p.m.Free.NationalPortraitGallery,8thandFstreetsNW.202-633-1000. ■Agallerytalkwillfocuson“BodiesinMotion—FromDegastoLawrence,”abouthowartistssuchasEdgarDegasandJacobLawrencehaveusedline,colorandshapetocapturethekineticenergyofhumanmove-ment.6and7p.m.$12;$10forseniorsandstudents;freeforages18andyounger.PhillipsCollection,160021stSt.NW.202-387-2151. ■DaveMaddenwilldiscusshisbook“TheAuthenticAnimal:InsidetheOddandObsessiveWorldofTaxidermy.”7to9p.m.Free.826DC,323314thSt.NW.826dc.org. ■IsabelWilkersonwilldiscussherbook“TheWarmthofOtherSuns:TheEpicStoryofAmerica’sGreatMigration.”6:30p.m.Donationsuggested.PhillipsCollection,160021stSt.NW.202-387-2151. ■YaleUniversityprofessorDavidBlightwilldiscusshisbook“AmericanOracle:TheCivilWarintheCivilRightsEra.”6:30p.m.$10;reservationssug-gested.PresidentLincoln’sCottage,UpshurStreetandRockCreekChurchRoadNW.202-829-0436,ext.31232. ■Apaneldiscussionon“ThePuertoRicoStatusQuestion”willfeatureRobertPastor,professorofinternationalrelationsat

AmericanUniversity;FranklinD.Lopez,for-merstate-democraticchairofPuertoRido;MarcosRigau,lawyerandformersenatorofthePopularDemocraticParty;andErickNegronRivera,lawyerandleadingmemberoftheIndependenceParty.6:30to9p.m.Free.AbramsonFamilyRecitalHall,KatzenArtsCenter,AmericanUniversity,4400MassachusettsAve.NW.202-885-2787. ■U.S.SupremeCourtJusticeStephenBreyerwilldiscusshisbook“MakingOurDemocracyWork.”7p.m.$22.Sixth&IHistoricSynagogue,600ISt.NW.sixthandi.org. ■DavaSobelwilldiscussherbook“AMorePerfectHeaven:HowCopernicusRevolutionizedtheCosmos.”7p.m.Free.PoliticsandProse,5015ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-1919. ■“FoodFrights!FoodSafetyThenandNow”willfeaturePhilipDerfler,deputyadministratoroftheU.S.DepartmentofAgriculture’sFoodSafetyandInspectionService;SuzanneJunod,seniorhistorianfortheU.S.FoodandDrugAdministration;CarolineSmithDeWaal,directoroftheFoodSafetyProgramattheCenterforScienceinthePublicInterest;andJoséAndrés,chefandchiefculinaryadviserforthe“What’sCooking,UncleSam?”exhibitattheNationalArchives.7p.m.Free.McGowanTheater,NationalArchivesBuilding,ConstitutionAvenuebetween7thand9thstreetsNW.202-357-5000. ■TheHymanS.&FredaBernsteinJewishLiteraryFestivalwillfeaturepanelistsRobertLipsyte,JohnBloom(shown)andDanSteinbergdiscussing“TellingItLikeItIs:Jews,Sports&Writing.”7:30p.m.$10.WashingtonDCJewishCommunityCenter,152916thSt.NW.washingtondcjcc.org/litfest.

Films ■The16thannualArabianSightsFilmFestivalwillopenwiththeAmericanpremiereofOlivierBaroux’sfilm“TheItalian,”aboutanAlgerianmanliv-inginFrancewhohasper-fectedafalsefacadeasagenuineItalian.Awineandcheesereceptionwillfollow.7p.m.$20.LaMaisonFrançaise,4101ReservoirRoadNW.202-234-3456.The festival will continue through Nov. 5 at various venues. ■CinematicTitanicLive,featuringtheoriginalcreatorandcastofthetelevisionshow“MysteryScienceTheater3000,”willpresentcommentarythroughoutashowingofthe1976horrorfilm“Rattlers.”8p.m.$25to$35.LisnerAuditorium,GeorgeWashingtonUniversity,73021stSt.NW.202-397-7328. ■TheAvalonTheatrewillhosttheworldpremiereofJanksMorton’sfilm“DearDaddy:AMessagetoOurFathers,”starringJonettaRoseBarras,JasmineBowdenandLandyThompson.8p.m.$10;registrationrequired.AvalonTheatre,5612ConnecticutAve.NW.deardaddy.eventbrite.com.

Performances ■TheKidsEuroFestivalwillfeaturetheCzechRepublic’sTonyDinatheatricalper-formancedepictingaWestern-styleshow-downbetweenmusicalgeniusAntonínDvorákandcommunistpoliticianZdenek

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Nejedly.11a.m.Free.MillenniumStage,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600. ■TheKidsEuroFestivalwillfeaturetheDCYouthOrchestraperformingCzechcom-poserAntonínDvorák’s“FromtheNewWorld.”6p.m.Free.TerraceTheater,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600.

Special event ■“TudorPlaceHistoryHaunt”willfeatureaguidedtourthroughTudorPlace’sghostlygarden,followedbychillingcocktailsandrefreshments.6to8p.m.$15;reservationsrequired.TudorPlaceHistoricHouseandGarden,164431stSt.NW.tudorplace.org/calendar.html.

Friday,Oct.28

Children’s program ■AHalloweenpartywillfeaturespookystories,acostumeparade,pumpkindecorat-ingandtrick-or-treatinginthelibrary.4p.m.Free.PetworthNeighborhoodLibrary,4200KansasAve.NW.202-243-1188.

Concerts ■TheArtsClubofWashingtonwillhostitsFridayNoonConcertSeries.Noon.Free.ArtsClubofWashington,2017ISt.NW.202-331-7282,ext.16. ■TheFridayMorningMusicClubwillpresentaconcertofworksbyChopin,Schubert,CassadoandBrahms.Noon.Free.CalvaryBaptistChurch,7558thSt.NW.202-333-2075. ■EricDombrowskiofGraceEpiscopalChurchinthePlains,Va.,willpresentanorganrecital.12:15p.m.Free.NationalCityChristianChurch,5ThomasCircleNW.202-797-0103. ■TheFridayMusicSerieswillfeaturetheWashingtonSaxophoneQuartetperformingoriginalcompositionsandworksbyBach,Mozart,BarberandFrancaix.1:15p.m.Free.McNeirAuditorium,GeorgetownUniversity,37thandOstreetsNW.202-687-3838. ■OboistWilliamWielgus,bassoonistLewisLipnickandpianistLisaEmenheiseroftheNationalSymphonyOrchestrawillper-formworksbyStill,Ben-Heim,SchulhoffandPoulenc.6p.m.Free.MillenniumStage,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600. ■TheCathedralChoralSociety,sopranoAlexandraBerti,mezzo-sopranoMagdalenaWór,tenorCoreyBixandbassAlekseyBogdanov(shown)willperformDvorák’s“TeDeum”andJanácek’s“GlagoliticMass.”7:30p.m.$25to$80.BasilicaoftheNationalShrineoftheImmaculateConception,400MichiganAve.NE.202-537-2228. ■TrioConBrioCopenhagenwillperform

worksbyHaydn,NorgardandTchaikovsky.7:30p.m.$35.KreegerMuseum,

2401FoxhallRoadNW.202-338-3552. ■ScottishsingerEuanMorton,aveter-anof“SondheimonSondheim”and“Taboo”onBroadway,willperformaspartofatheatercabaretseriescuratedbyBroadwaylegendBarbaraCook.7:30p.m.$45.TerraceTheater,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600. ■ViolinistDanielAunerwillperformworksbyBerg,Mozart,MendelssohnandBrahms.7:30p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.EmbassyofAustria,3524

InternationalCourtNW.202-895-6776. ■SwedishsingerSarahRiedelwillper-formjazzselections.7:30p.m.Free;reserva-tionsrequired.HouseofSweden,[email protected]. ■ViolinistDanielHopewillpresent“EastMeetsWest,”featuringworksbyDeFalla,Takemitsu,Ravel,MazumdarandBartók.8p.m.Free;ticketsrequired.JeffersonBuilding,LibraryofCongress,101stSt.SE.202-707-5502.

Discussions and lectures ■U.S.BotanicGardenlandscapearchi-tectNickNelsonwilldiscusshowtoputintopracticethetechniquesofsustainabledesignwithoutcompromisingaesthetics.Noonto1p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.ConservatoryClassroom,U.S.BotanicGarden,100MarylandAve.SW.202-225-1116. ■GordonA.MartinJr.willdiscusshisbook“CountThemOnebyOne:BlackMississippiansFightingfortheRighttoVote.”Noon.Free.JeffersonRoom,NationalArchivesBuilding,ConstitutionAvenuebetween7thand9thstreetsNW.202-357-5000. ■BethKeck,seniordirectorofsustain-abilityatWalmart,willdiscuss“TheRoleofthePrivateSectorinSustainableAgriculture.”12:30p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.Room806,RomeBuilding,JohnsHopkinsUniversitySchoolofAdvancedInternationalStudies,1619MassachusettsAve.NW.202-870-6677. ■LaurenFeldman,assistantprofessorofpubliccommunicationatAmericanUniversity,willdiscuss“TheEffectsofPartisanandSatiricNewsonPublicEngagementWithClimateChange.”3to5p.m.Free.LibraryTrainingandEventsRoom,BenderLibrary,AmericanUniversity,[email protected]. ■AmandaNelson,programdirectoroftheRareBookSchoolattheUniversityofVirginia,willdiscuss“Paperworks:IncipitVitaNova,”a16-foot-long,200-poundworkcreat-edincollaborationwithmorethan100mem-bersoftheWellesleyCollegecommunity.6p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.CorcoranGalleryofArt,50017thSt.NW.202-639-1770. ■ArtistNicoleEisenmanwilldiscussherwork.6:30p.m.Free.AbramsonFamilyRecitalHall,KatzenArtsCenter,AmericanUniversity,4400MassachusettsAve.NW.202-885-2787. ■TheAmericanResearchCenterinEgyptwillpresentatalkbyBetsyBryan,professorofEgyptianartandarchaeologyatJohnsHopkinsUniversity,on“ExecutionintheMutTemple:PrecinctExecrationRitual,HumanSacrificeorCapitalPunishment?”6:30p.m.Free.RomeBuildingAuditorium,JohnsHopkinsUniversitySchoolofAdvancedInternationalStudies,1619MassachusettsAve.NW.arcedc.org ■TheUniversityoftheDistrictofColumbia’s“BigRead”willfeatureapaneldiscussiononRebeccaSkloot’s“TheImmortalLifeofHenriettaLacks.”6:30to8:30p.m.Free.Auditorium,UniversityoftheDistrictofColumbia,4200ConnecticutAve.NW.udc.edu. ■GiladSharon—anIsraelicolumnistandanadvisertohisfather,ArielSharon,beforeandduringhistermasIsraeliprimeminister—willdiscusshisbook“Sharon:TheLifeofaLeader,”abouttheelderSharon’spoliticalandmilitarycareer.7p.m.Free.PoliticsandProse,5015ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-1919.

■HariJones,curatoroftheAfricanAmericanCivilWarMuseum,willdiscuss“AfricanFoundation”aspartofalectureserieson“ForLightandLiberty:AfricanDescentSpiesoftheRebellion.”7to9p.m.

$10;$5forstudents.Auditorium,AfricanAmericanCivilWarMuseum,1925VermontAve.NW.afroamcivilwar.org.

Films ■TheJapanInformationandCultureCenterwillshowYosukeFujita’s2008film“Fine,TotallyFine.”6:30p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.JapanInformationandCultureCenter,[email protected]. ■TheNationalMuseumoftheAmericanIndianwillpresentGeorgiaLightning’sfilm“OlderThanAmerica,”aboutthedarkrealitybehindIndianboardingschools.7p.m.Free.RasmusonTheater,NationalMuseumoftheAmericanIndian,4thStreetandIndependenceAvenueSW.202-633-1000.

Meeting ■TheClevelandParkChessClubwillreviewhistoricalgames,studyscenariosandplaychess.3:30p.m.Free.ClevelandParkNeighborhoodLibrary,3310ConnecticutAve.NW.202-282-3080.The group meets every Friday.

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Bazaar ■Achurchbazaarwillfeaturehandcraft-edjewelryandgifts,awhiteelephantsale,

bakedgoods,chilidogsanddrinks.10a.m.to4p.m.Freeadmission.DivineScienceChurch,35thStreetandWisconsinAvenueNW.202-333-7630.The bazaar will continue Sunday from noon to 4 p.m.

Book signing ■ThomasKaufmanwillsigncopiesofhisbook“StealtheShow.”Noon.Free.Barnes&Noble,3040MSt.NW.202-965-9880.

Children’s programs ■“SaturdayMorningattheNational”willfeature“BarrymoreEagle’sCostumeParade”andBlackCherryPuppetTheaterperforming“HanselandGretel.”9:30and11a.m.Free;ticketsrequired.HelenHayesGallery,NationalTheatre,1321PennsylvaniaAve.NW.202-783-3372. ■Children’sper-formerJohnHenryEnglandwillpresenthisseventhannual“HalloweenBash,”fea-turinglivemusicandacostumeparty.10a.m.$6.50.AvalonTheatre,5612ConnecticutAve.NW.202-966-6000. ■Aparkrangerwillhelpchildrenages5andoldercreateacorn-huskdolllikethosemadebyColonialchildren.11a.m.Free.PeirceBarn,TildenStreetandBeachDriveNW.202-895-6070.The program will repeat Sunday at 2 p.m.

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■HouseofSwedenwillpresenta“FamilyDay:PippiLongstockingattheKidsEuroFestival,”featuringperformancesbySwedishjazzsingerSarahRiedel,ascreen-ingof“LabantheLittleGhost”andSwedishtreatsforchildren.11a.m.to3p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.HouseofSweden,[email protected]. ■“HalloweenFunWithTheJimmies”willfeaturetheNewYorkCity-basedkindierockband.1p.m.$16;$12forchildrenages12andyounger.GrosvenorAuditorium,NationalGeographic,1600MSt.NW.202-857-7700. ■Childrenages5andolderwilllistentoastoryaboutGirlScoutsfounderJulietteGordonLowandcreateaspecialpieceofart.1to4p.m.Free.NationalPortraitGallery,8thandFstreetsNW.202-633-1000.The program will repeat Sunday from 2 to 5 p.m. ■Childrenages5through12willmaketheirownAfricanmasksusingcardboard,paintandraffia,combiningelementsandfeaturesfromthehuman,animalandspiritworlds.2to4p.m.Free.TextileMuseum,2320SSt.NW.202-667-0441,ext.64. ■Childrenages4andolderwillhaveachancetoplaywithclassic19th-centurytoysandmaketheirowncraftstotakehome.2p.m.Free.PeirceMill,TildenStreetandBeachDriveNW.202-895-6070.The pro-gram will repeat Sunday at 11 a.m. ■AHalloweencele-brationwillfeatureguestperformerRayOwen.2:30p.m.Free.ClevelandParkNeighborhoodLibrary,3310ConnecticutAve.NW.202-282-3080.

Class ■SuzanneFarrellwillleadan“ExploringBallet”classfornon-dancers.11to12:30p.m.$35.RehearsalRoom,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600.

Concerts ■GuitaristDoradoSchmittandthe

DjangoReinhardtFestivalAll-Starswillleadaparticipatoryjamsession.11:30a.m.$5.TerraceGallery,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600. ■TheU.S.ArmyBandContemporaryMusicEnsemblewillperformworksbyHuangRuo,AndrewEdwardsandDanRoberts.1:30p.m.Free.SocietyoftheCincinnati,2118MassachusettsAve.NW.202-785-2040. ■AspartoftheFranzLisztBicentenaryProject,cellistTamásZétényiwillpresent“GrayClouds:LateChamberMusicofFranzLiszt.”2p.m.Free;ticketsrequired.CoolidgeAuditorium,JeffersonBuilding,LibraryofCongress,101stSt.SE.202-707-5502. ■ViolinistReginoMadrid,cellistBenWenselandpianistAlejandroHernandez-Valdez—performingastheB.A.R.PianoTrio—willpresentworksbyMendelssohn,BabajanianandPiazzola.7p.m.Free.WestmorelandCongregationalUnitedChurchofChrist,1WestmorelandCircle.301-657-8565. ■TheDjangoReinhardtFestivalAll-Stars,featuringguitaristDoradoSchmitt,willper-formjazzselectionswithguestharpistEdmarCastaneda.7:30and9:30p.m.$45.TerraceTheater,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600. ■SingerNancyScimonewillperformjazzselections.7:30to11:30p.m.Free.BlueBarLounge,HenleyParkHotel,926MassachusettsAve.NW.202-638-5200. ■TheFounder’sDayConcertwillfeaturepianoduoAglikaGenovaandLiubenDimitrovper-formingworksbySchubert,Arensky,LisztandMilhaud.8p.m.Free;ticketsrequired.CoolidgeAuditorium,JeffersonBuilding,LibraryofCongress,101stSt.SE.202-707-5502. ■TheVermont-basedindierockbandChamberlinwillperform.9p.m.$8inadvance;$10onthedayoftheshow.Sixth&IHistoricSynagogue,600ISt.NW.800-745-3000.

Discussions and lectures ■TextileMuseumtrusteeandcollectorWendelSwanwilldiscuss“ShahsavanPileWeaving.”10:30a.m.Free.TextileMuseum,2320SSt.NW.202-667-0441,ext.64. ■TheSlovakAmericanSocietyofWashington,DC,willpresentatalkbyUniversityofOttawaprofessorMarkM.Stolarikonhisbook“ThePragueSpringand

theWarsawPactInvasionofCzechoslovakia,1968:FortyYearsLater.”2:15p.m.Free.EmbassyoftheSlovakRepublic,3523InternationalCourtNW.703-751-1456. ■PaulStarrwilldiscusshisbook“RemedyandReaction:ThePeculiarAmericanStruggleOverHealthCareReform,”at1p.m.;ChristineJahnkewilldiscussherbook“TheWell-SpokenWoman:YourGuidetoLookingandSoundingYourBest,”at3:30p.m.;andDr.JustinFrankwilldiscusshisbook“ObamaontheCouch:InsidetheMindofthePresident,”at6p.m.Free.PoliticsandProse,5015ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-1919. ■NurhanAtasoy,anexpertonOttomanartandarchitecture,willdiscuss“CostumesoftheOttomanSultans.”2p.m.$25;reser-vationsrequired.TextileMuseum,2320SSt.NW.202-667-0441,ext.64. ■MarkAuslanderwilldiscusshisbook“TheAccidentalSlaveowner:RevisingaMythofRaceandFindinganAmericanFamily.”5to7p.m.Free.CullenRoom,BusboysandPoets,10255thSt.NW.202-387-7638. ■TheannualHymanS.&FredaBernsteinJewishLiteraryFestivalwillfea-tureatalkbyUrsulaHegionhernovel“ChildrenandFire.”8p.m.$10.WashingtonDCJewishCommunityCenter,152916thSt.NW.washingtondcjcc.org/litfest.

Films ■The“OperainCinema”serieswillfea-ture“AdrianaLecouvreur,”performedattheRoyalOperaHouseinLondon.11a.m.$20.WestEndCinema,23rdStreetbetweenMandNstreetsNW.202-419-3456. ■“TheMet:LiveinHD”willfeaturetheMetropolitanOpera’snewproductionofMozart’s“DonGiovanni.”12:55p.m.AMCMazzaGallerie,5300WisconsinAve.NW.fathomevents.com. ■“LeCinémaFantastique”willfeatureJeanEpstein’s1928film“LaChutedelaMaisonUsher”andEricRohmer’s1965film“EdgarAllanPoe:HistoiresExtraordinaires,”at2:30p.m.;andJeanRenoir’s1959film“TheTestamentofDoctorCordelier,”at4:30p.m.Free.EastBuildingAuditorium,NationalGalleryofArt,4thStreetandConstitutionAvenueNW.202-737-4215.

Performances ■AspartoftheKidsEuroFestival,Cypruswillpresent“AlexandertheGreatand

theCursedSnake,”atraditionalshadowthe-aterperformance.6p.m.Free.MillenniumStage,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600. ■SpeakeasyDCwillpresentstorytellerssharingtalesaboutfrightfulencounters,terri-fyingmomentsandspookypredicaments.7:30and10p.m.$22;$10forstudents.DancePlace,32258thSt.NE.speakeasydc.com. A family-friendly version of the show will take place Sunday at 4 p.m. ■TheInstituteforSpiritualDevelopmentwillhostaHalloweenparty,talentshowandeveningbuffet.7:30to10p.m.$22.InstituteforSpiritualDevelopment,5419SherierPlaceNW.202-363-7106.

Special events ■BoyScoutTroop100’s23rdannualPancakeBreakfastwillfeaturepancakes,fruit,sausage,ham,juiceandcoffee.8to11a.m.$5perchild;$8peradult.St.Ann’sCatholicChurch,4001YumaSt.NW.202-421-4863. ■“RFKStadiumAppreciationDay”willfeaturea50th-anniversarymemorabiliadis-play,playerappearances,giveawaysandbehind-the-scenestoursofteamlockerroomsandthefield.9a.m.to7p.m.,withtoursat10a.m.,noonand2p.m.Free;res-ervationsrequiredfortours.RFKMemorialStadium,2400EastCapitolSt.SE.rfkstadium50.com/events. ■TheXiOmegaChapterofAlphaKappaAlphaSororitywillpresent“ThePinkProject2011:AsthmaPreventionandManagement,”featuringexhibits,demonstrations,flushotsandapaneldiscussion.10a.m.to1p.m.Freeadmission;reservationsrequired.XiOmegaCenter,441114thSt.NW.pinkprojectxo.eventbrite.com. ■Acelebrationoftheopeningof“ASongfortheHorseNation”willfeatureledgerartandbeadingworkshops,storytellingwithchil-dren’sbookauthorS.D.Nelsonandspecialtoursoftheexhibition.10a.m.to5:30p.m.Free.NationalMuseumoftheAmericanIndian,4thStreetandIndependenceAvenueSW.202-633-1000.The activities will contin-ue Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. ■TheLeDroitParkCivicAssociationandCommonGoodCityFarmwillhost“OktoberFest,”featurelivemusicandenter-tainment,games,food,children’sactivitiesandlocalvendors.11a.m.to5p.m.Freeadmission.ElmStreetbetween3rdand5thstreetsNW.ledroitparkdc.org. ■A“PumpkinCelebration”willfeaturepumpkincarvingandatastingofseasonalspecialties,includingpumpkinicecream,pumpkinpie,pumpkinsoupandspicedpumpkincocktails.ProceedswillbenefittheD.C.CentralKitchen.Noonto3p.m.$20donationsuggested;$10forchildren.Reservationsrequired.Ris,2275LSt.NW.202-730-2508. ■Artomatic’sthirdannual“SurrealDCHalloweenMasquerade”willfeatureacos-tumecontest,anopenbar,artinstallationsandperformancesbyMonroe,AtomsApart,ColorSchoolSNRGandDJAsuRock.8p.m.to2a.m.$25.WashingtonHarbour,3050KSt.NW.surrealdc2011.eventbrite.com.

Walks and tours ■Aparkrangerwillleadages7andolderonatwo-milehiketoMilkhouseFordanddiscussthediversenaturalandculturalresourcesthatsurroundthehistoricwatercrossing.10a.m.Free.RockCreekNatureCenter,5200GloverRoadNW.202-895-6070. ■AbustourwillvisitD.C.locationsusedasbackdropsinmorethan50televisionshowsandmovies,including“TheExorcist,”“TheWestWing”and“WeddingCrashers.”10a.m.$34;reservationsrequired.TourdepartsfromalocationnearUnionStation.

800-979-3370. ■NativeWashingtonianandfreelancewriterRoccoZapponewillleadaninteractive“WalkingTourasPersonalEssay,”filledwithhisreminis-cences and impressionsofalifetimeinD.C.10a.m.orbyappointment.$25.MeetatthestatueofAndrewJacksoninLafayetteSquare,16thandHstreetsNW.202-341-5208. ■AparkrangerwillleadatourofthenewlyrestoredPeirceMillanddiscussthemanymachinesandstepsnecessarytomakeflourusingwaterpower.Noon.Free.PeirceMill,TildenStreetandBeachDriveNW.202-895-6070.

Sunday,Oct.30

Children’s program ■“MonthlyStorytimeatMs.Kirby’sKids”willfocusonautumn,leaves,farms,thehar-vestandHalloween(bestforchildrenages1through5).4:30p.m.Free.241037thSt.NW.202-821-5464.

Concerts ■OrganistRobertChurch,flutistKermTowler,violistKristinGomezandpianistMaritzaSadowskywillperform“FlightsofFancyandFantasy,”featuringworksbyBach,Reineke,Ravel,StephenSchwartzandRandyNewman.2p.m.Free.MetropolitanMemorialUnitedMethodistChurch,3401NebraskaAve.NW.202-289-1216. ■AspartoftheKidsEuroFestival,SwedishjazzsingerSarahRiedelwillpresent“PippiinAmerica,”alargelyacousticperfor-mancecombiningwell-knownSwedishchil-dren’ssongswithjazz.6p.m.Free.MillenniumStage,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600. ■TheGenovaandDimitrovPianoDuowillperformworksbyLisztandothercom-posers.6:30p.m.Free.WestGardenCourt,NationalGalleryofArt,6thStreetandConstitutionAvenueNW.202-737-4215. ■DahlakRestaurantwillhostitsweekly“DCJazzJam”session.6:30to9:30p.m.Free.1771USt.NW.202-527-9522.

Discussions and lectures ■JoshRolnickandWillBoast(shown)willdiscusstheirbooks“PulpandPaper”and“PowerBallads,”respec-tively,at1p.m.;andAmosOzwilldiscusshisbook“ScenesFromVillageLife,”at5p.m.Free.PoliticsandProse,5015ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-1919. ■CarmenC.Bambach,professorattheCenterforAdvancedStudyintheVisualArtsattheNationalGalleryofArt,willdiscuss“LeonardodaVinci:ArtistofSketchbooksandNotebooks.”2p.m.Free.EastBuildingAuditorium,NationalGalleryofArt,4thStreetandConstitutionAvenueNW.202-737-4215. ■LorraeJordanwilldiscussherbook“GodKeptMe:MyStoryToldThroughPoetry.”5to7p.m.Free.LangstonRoom,BusboysandPoets,202114thSt.NW.202-387-7638. ■TheHymanS.&FredaBernstein



Sunday, oCtoBer 30■Concert:TheAmerigoTriowillperformworksbyBeethoven,CrasandSibelius.4p.m.$20.PhillipsCollection,160021stSt.NW.202-387-2151.

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JewishLiteraryFestivalwillpresentapaneldiscussionon“Glasnost’sChildren,”featuringnovelistsDavidBezmozgis,NadiaKalmanandHaleyTanner(shown).7:30p.m.$10.WashingtonDCJewishCommunityCenter,152916thSt.NW.washingtondcjcc.org/litfest.

Films ■“LeCinémaFantastique”willfeatureMarcelCarné’s1942film“LesVisiteursdusoir”andGeorgesMéliès’1904film“VoyageàTraversl’Impossible.”4:30p.m.Free.EastBuildingAuditorium,NationalGalleryofArt,4thStreetandConstitutionAvenueNW.202-737-4215. ■“CinemaFrançaisáMountVernon”willfeatureFrançoisOzon’s2010film“Potiche,”starringCatherineDeneuve,GérardDepardieuandFabriceLuchini.4:30p.m.Free.EcklesLibraryAuditorium,GeorgeWashingtonUniversityMountVernonCampus,2100FoxhallRoadNW.202-242-6673.

Special events ■TheannualHymanS.&FredaBernsteinJewishLiteraryFestivalwillfea-tureamorningofcrafts,folktalesandfunwithVickiWeber,authorof“It’sTooCrowdedinHere!”10a.m.$10;$8perfamily.WashingtonDCJewishCommunityCenter,152916thSt.NW.washingtondcjcc.org/litfest. ■Halloweenfestivitieswillinclude“SpookyTalesFromthePetCemetery”bystorytellerMarianneMeyersandachanceforfamiliestodecoratetheirownminipump-kins,usingwhimsicalwigs,hatsandothercreativetrimmings.1to5p.m.$15;$12forseniors;$10forcollegestudents;$5forages6through18.HillwoodEstate,Museum&Gardens,4155LinneanAve.NW.202-686-5807.A “Spooky Pooch Parade,” featuring a walk along the woodland trail and a costume contest, will be held from 3 to 5 p.m.; admis-sion costs $15 per dog with one or two own-ers.

Walk ■Aparkrangerwillleadages7andolderonatwo-mileautumnhikeanddiscusspresidentialvisitstoRockCreekPark.10a.m.Free.PeirceMill,TildenStreetandBeachDriveNW.202-895-6070.

Monday,Oct.31

Class ■TeacherandtherapistElizabethMuniotwillleadaweeklyyogaclass.5:30p.m.Free.WathaT.Daniel-ShawNeighborhoodLibrary,16307thSt.NW.202-727-1288.

Concert ■ParticipantsintheWashingtonNationalOpera’sDomingo-CafritzYoungArtistProgramwillperform.6p.m.Free.MillenniumStage,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600.

Discussions and lectures ■JeffreyEugenideswilldiscusshisnovel

“TheMarriagePlot.”7p.m.$12inadvance;$15onthedayoftheevent.Sixth&IHistoricSynagogue,600ISt.NW.202-364-1919. ■TheHymanS.&FredaBernsteinJewishLiteraryFestivalwillfeatureatalkbyAliciaOltuskionherbook“PreciousObjects:AStoryofDiamonds,Family,andaWayofLife.”7:30p.m.$10.WashingtonDCJewishCommunityCenter,152916thSt.NW.washingtondcjcc.org/litfest.

Films ■TheChevyChaseNeighborhoodLibrarywillpresentthe1990film“JourneyofHope.”2p.m.Free.ChevyChaseNeighborhoodLibrary,5625ConnecticutAve.NW.202-282-0021. ■AfilmseriesonchallengespresentedbyglobalizationandscientificprogresswillfeatureJensSchanze’s2010film“PlugandPray.”6:30p.m.$7.Goethe-Institut,8127thSt.NW.202-289-1200,ext.160. ■The“GentlemenPreferMarilyn”serieswillfeatureBillyWilder’s1959film“SomeLikeItHot,”starringMarilynMonroe,TonyCurtisandJackLemmon.6:30p.m.Free;ticketsrequired.HelenHayesGallery,NationalTheatre,1321PennsylvaniaAve.NW.202-783-3372. ■“AlfredHitchcockFilmfest”willfeaturethe1963film“TheBirds.”6:30p.m.Free.ChevyChaseNeighborhoodLibrary,5625ConnecticutAve.NW.202-282-0021.

Special events ■“HistoricHalloweenSpooktacular:TrickorTreatatTudorPlace”willofferachanceforchildrentodontheirHalloweencostumes,trick-or-treatthroughTudorPlace’sgardensandcreatetastyHalloweentreatstotakehome.3to6p.m.$7forchildren;$3foradults.Reservationsrequired.TudorPlaceHistoricHouseandGarden,164431stSt.NW.tudorplace.org/calendar.html. ■“HarvestFestandHalloweenFun”willfeaturepumpkinpainting,acostumeparade,treatsandhotcider.3p.m.Free.TakomaNeighborhoodLibrary,416CedarSt.NW.202-576-7252. ■AHalloweenpartywillfeaturekaraoke,snacks,amonsterfashionshowandtrick-or-treating.3:45p.m.Free.PalisadesNeighborhoodLibrary,4901VSt.NW.202-282-3139.

Tuesday,Nov.1

Book/CD signing ■HarryBelafontewillsigncopiesofhismemoir“MySong”andthecompanionCD“SingYourSong:TheMusic.”1p.m.Free.PoliticsandProse,5015ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-1919.

Classes ■TeacherandtherapistHeatherFerriswillleadaweeklyyogaclass.Noon.Free.WathaT.Daniel-ShawNeighborhoodLibrary,16307thSt.NW.202-727-1288. ■YogaActivistwillpresentaweeklyyogaclassgearedtowardbeginners.7p.m.Free.ClevelandParkNeighborhoodLibrary,3310ConnecticutAve.NW.202-282-3080. ■TheJewishStudyCenterwillpresenta

four-weekclasson“‘YouShallPursueJustice’:TextualFoundationsforJewishSocialAction,”featuringinstructorBatyaSteinlauf.7to8:15p.m.$75.NationalMuseumofAmericanJewishMilitaryHistory,1811RSt.NW.jewishstudycenter.org.The class will continue Nov. 15, 22 and 29.

Concerts ■TheTuesdayConcertSerieswillfeaturetheWashingtonBachConsortandsoloistToddFickley.Noon.Free.ChurchoftheEpiphany,1317GSt.NW.202-347-2635,ext.18. ■TheOrionStringQuartetwillperformworksbyBach,Schubert,BrahmsandWebern.7:30p.m.$38.TerraceTheater,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600. ■TheEmbassySerieswillpresentIsraelipianistRanDankperformingworksbyBeethovenandChopin.7:30p.m.$50.Venuetobeannounced.202-625-2361.

Discussions and lectures ■JonathanS.Landay,seniornationalsecurityandintelligencecorrespondentforMcClatchyNewspapers,willdiscussthecur-rentsituationinAfghanistanandwhethertheUnitedStatesshoulddeclarevictoryandwithdraw.11:30a.m.$30.Woman’s

NationalDemocraticClub,1526NewHampshireAve.NW.202-232-7363. ■ErnestoCordero,NationalActionPartycontenderforpresidentofMexico,willdis-cuss“Mexico’sSuccessFacingGlobalEconomicCrisis.”Noonto1:30p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.CityViewRoom,ElliottSchoolofInternationalAffairs,GeorgeWashingtonUniversity,1957ESt.NW.tinyurl.cc.ErnestoCordero. ■OsherLifelongLearningInstituteatAmericanUniversitywillpresentatalkbyRuthNemzoffon“Don’tBiteYourTongue:HowtoFosterRewardingRelationshipsWithYourAdultChildren.”12:15to1:15p.m.Free.TempleBaptistChurch,3860NebraskaAve.NW.202-895-4860. ■KasperMonrad,chiefcuratoroftheNationalGalleryofDenmark,willdiscuss“VilhelmHammershoiandHisContemporaries.”2p.m.Free.EastBuildingAuditorium,NationalGalleryofArt,4thStreetandConstitutionAvenueNW.202-737-4215. ■AlyssaAyres,deputyassistantsecre-taryofstateforSouthandCentralAsia,willdiscuss“IndiaandtheUnitedStates:ForgingaGlobalStrategicPartnership.”3to4:30p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.MortaraBuilding,GeorgetownUniversity,[email protected]. ■CarolinePrestonwilldiscussherbook“TheScrapbookofFrankiePratt.”6:30p.m.Free.Barnes&Noble,55512thSt.NW.202-347-0176. ■PhysicistPeterVolkovitskywilldiscuss“ScientistsandSpies:TheSovietNuclearWeaponsProgram.”6:30p.m.$9.InternationalSpyMuseum,800FSt.NW.202-393-7798. ■TravelexpertKristinaSchreckwilldis-cuss“ExploreChile:FromtheAtacamaDeserttoEasterIsland.”6:45to8:45p.m.$40.S.DillonRipleyCenter,1100JeffersonDriveSW.202-633-3030. ■PeterSíswilldiscusshisbook“TheConferenceoftheBirds.”7p.m.Free.PoliticsandProse,5015ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-1919. ■RichardThompson,creatorof“CuldeSac”and“Richard’sPoorAlmanac,”willdis-cusstheworldofcomicstripsandhighlightsomeofhisfavorites.7p.m.$20;$10forstudents.CorcoranGalleryofArt,50017thSt.NW.202-639-1770. ■IzabellaTabarovskywilldiscuss“SacredFragrancesoftheTanach.”7to8:30p.m.$35;reservationsrequired.NationalMuseumofAmericanJewishMilitaryHistory,1811RSt.NW.jewishstudycenter.org.

■HarryBelafontewilldiscusshislifeasaperformerandparticipantinthecivilrightsmovement.Abooksigningwillfollow.7:30p.m.$20.BairdAuditorium,NationalMuseumofNaturalHistory,10thStreetandConstitutionAvenueNW.202-633-3030. ■TheHymanS.&FredaBernsteinJewishLiteraryFestivalwillpresentapaneldiscussionon“Israel,LooseNukesandtheEndoftheWorld,”fea-turingauthorsAvnerCohen(shown)andRonRosenbaumandjour-nalistMarvinKalb.7:30p.m.$10.WashingtonDCJewishCommunityCenter,152916thSt.NW.washingtondcjcc.org/litfest.

Films ■TheGeorgetownNeighborhoodLibrarywillpresentthe1992film“Unforgiven.”6p.m.Free.GeorgetownNeighborhoodLibrary,3260RSt.NW.202-727-0232. ■NationalGeographicwillpresentascreeningofthenewNationalGeographicChannelfilm“SecretsoftheLostGold,”aboutthedis-coveryofatroveoftreasuresandbattlefielditemsthatconstituteEngland’smostimportantAnglo-Saxonarchaeologicalfind.Apost-screeningpaneldiscussionwillfeatureCarolineAlexander,authoroftheNationalGeographicbookandmagazinearticleaboutthediscov-ery;DavidSymonsoftheBirminghamMuseumsandArtGallery;andDebKlempererofthePotteriesMuseumandArtGallery.7:30p.m.$20.GrosvenorAuditorium,NationalGeographic,1600MSt.NW.202-857-7700.

Meeting ■RecoveryInternationalwillhostagroupdiscussionforpeoplesufferingfromstress,anxiety,panic,depression,sleepproblems,anger,fearandothermental,nervousoremotionalproblems.7p.m.Free.ChevyChaseCommunityCenter,5601ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-2680.The group meets every Tuesday.

Performances ■AspartoftheKidsEuroFestival,HungarywillpresentmagicianGáborHolczin


Monday, oCtoBer 31■Concert:MatsCarlsson,leadingtenoroftheSwedishRoyalOpera,willpresent“ATributetoJussiBjörling.”7p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.HouseofSweden,[email protected].

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“PowerofMagic.”6p.m.Free.MillenniumStage,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600. ■BusboysandPoetswillhost“TuesdayNightOpenMic,”aweeklypoetryevent.9to11p.m.$4.LangstonRoom,BusboysandPoets,202114thSt.NW.202-387-7638.

Sporting event ■TheWashingtonCapitalswillplaytheAnaheimDucks.7:30p.m.$46to$138.VerizonCenter,601FSt.NW.202-397-7328.

Wednesday,Nov.2

Class ■HousingCounselingServices,alocalnonprofit,willpresentanorientationsessiontohelpfirst-timehomebuyerstakeadvan-tageofloanprogramsofferedbytheD.C.government.6p.m.Free.Suite100,241017thSt.NW.202-667-7712.The class will repeat Thursday at 11 a.m.

Concerts ■MichaelLodico,associatechoirmasterandorganistatSt.John’sEpiscopalChurch,LafayetteSquare,willpresent“ToccatasandCarillons.”12:10p.m.Free.St.John’sEpiscopalChurch,LafayetteSquare,16thandHstreetsNW.202-347-8766. ■TheMonadnockMusicTriowillperformworksbyBogdanovic,Garner,Lindroth,NormanandSimpsoninhonoroftheexhibit“TheGothicSpiritofJohnTaylorArms.”12:10p.m.Free.WestLectureHall,NationalGalleryofArt,6thStreetandConstitutionAvenueNW.202-737-4215. ■EuropeanJazzMotion—Austria’sAngelaTröndleonvocals,Switzerland’sTobiasMeieronaltosaxandaltoclarinet,Estonia’sMarekTaltsonguitar,Finland’sAnttiKujanpääonpiano,Italy’sMattiaMagatellionbassandDenmark’sChristianWindfeldondrums—willperform.7:30p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.EmbassyofAustria,3524InternationalCourtNW.202-895-6776. ■Avanti,theOrchestraoftheFridayMorningMusicClub,willperformworksbyBeethovenandTchaikovsky.7:30p.m.Free;ticketsrequired.TerraceTheater,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600.

Discussions and lectures ■DeepaRao,researchassistantprofes-sorattheUniversityofWashingtonanda

licensedclinicalpsychologist,willdiscusseffortsinChinaandIndiatoreduceHIV-relatedstigma.Noonto1:30p.m.Free.MortaraBuilding,GeorgetownUniversity,[email protected]. ■PoliticalscientistsJohnP.Entelis,ChrisAlexanderandMelaniCammettwilldiscusstheTunisianelectionandpossibleoutcomes.Noonto1:30p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.Room602,ElliottSchoolofInternationalAffairs,GeorgeWashingtonUniversity,1957ESt.NW.bit.ly/mXKVzN. ■KeegandeLancie,displacementmoni-toringofficerfortheInternationalOrganizationforMigration—IraqMission,willdiscuss“CraftingDurableSolutionstoIraqiDisplacement.”Noon.Free;reservationsrequired.Room241,InterculturalCenter,GeorgetownUniversity,37thandOstreetsNW.eventbrite.com/event/2339549656. ■AuthorMeirShalevwilldiscusshisbook“MyRussianGrandmotherandHerAmericanVacuumCleaner:AFamilyMemoir.”12:30p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.CopleyFormalLounge,CopleyHall,GeorgetownUniversity,37thandOstreetsNW.eventbrite.com/event/2142534378/. ■TheShepherdParkBookClubwilldis-cussWesMoore’smemoir“TheOtherWesMoore:OneName,TwoFates,”abouttwochildrenwiththesamenamegrowingupinthesamedecayingcity.1:30p.m.Free.JuanitaE.Thornton/ShepherdParkNeighborhoodLibrary,7420GeorgiaAve.NW.202-541-6100. ■HideoLevy,thefirstwesternertobecomeacriticallyacclaimednovelistinJapanese,willdiscuss“TheWorldinJapanese.”2:30to4p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.JapanInformationandCultureCenter,[email protected]. ■Panelistswilldiscuss“ViewsFromtheFrontlines:FirstAccountsFromBurma’sConflictZones.”5p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.Room602,ElliottSchoolofInternationalAffairs,GeorgeWashingtonUniversity,1957ESt.NW.go.gwu.edu/BurmaNov2. ■Expertswilldiscuss“PreventionofPrescriptionDrugMisuseAmongYouth.”6to8p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.HouseofSweden,[email protected].

■ThedaPerdue,professoremeritaofSoutherncultureattheUniversityofNorthCarolinaatChapelHill,willdiscuss“AndrewJacksonandtheTrailofTears.”6:45to9p.m.$40.S.DillonRipleyCenter,1100JeffersonDriveSW.202-633-3030. ■AspartoftheFriendsoftheTenley-FriendshipLibrary’sLocalAuthorSeries,GilesKellyandAnnStevenswilldiscusstheirbook“Sequoia:PresidentialYacht.”7p.m.Free.Tenley-FriendshipNeighborhoodLibrary,4450WisconsinAve.NW.202-727-1225. ■AuthorSimonSebagMontefiorewilldiscusshisbook“Jerusalem:TheBiography.”7p.m.Free.PoliticsandProse,5015ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-1919. ■MeirShalevwilldiscusshisbook“MyRussianGrandmotherandHerAmericanVacuumCleaner:AFamilyMemoir.”7p.m.$10inadvance;$12onthedayoftheevent.Sixth&IHistoricSynagogue,600ISt.NW.sixthandi.org. ■ArtistJulieMehretuwilldiscussherwork,whichusesimagesorarchitecturalplansofpublicspacesfromaroundtheglobeasapointofdeparturetocreatesprawlingdrawingswithcolorful,geometricabstrac-tions,iconicimageryandlooselyfigurativemarkings.7p.m.Free;ticketsrequired.SmithsonianAmericanArtMuseum,8thandFstreetsNW.202-633-1000. ■TheclosingnightofHymanS.&FredaBernsteinJewishLiteraryFestivalwillfeatureatalkbyLucetteLagnadoonhermemoir“TheArrogantYears.”7:30p.m.$20.WashingtonDCJewishCommunityCenter,152916thSt.NW.washingtondcjcc.org/litfest.

Film ■“TheMet:LiveinHD”willfeatureDonizetti’s“AnnaBolena.”6:30p.m.$18.AMCMazzaGallerie,5300WisconsinAve.NW.fathomevents.com.

Performances ■The“HappeningsattheHarman”per-formanceserieswillfeatureworkbylocalchoreographers,curatedbyDance/MetroDCdirectorPeterDiMuro.Noon.Free.Sidney

HarmanHall,610FSt.NW.202-547-1122. ■AspartoftheKidsEuroFestival,IrelandwillpresentpuppeteerMiriamLambert’srenditionof“TheGingerbreadMan.”6p.m.Free.MillenniumStage,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600.

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Concerts ■Grammy-winnerRahimAl-Hajwillper-form.5:30to8p.m.Free.LangstonRoom,BusboysandPoets,202114thSt.NW.202-387-7638. ■TheNationalSymphonyOrchestraandpianistPeterSerkinwillperformworksbyShepherd,Messiaen,BenjaminandStravinsky.7p.m.$20to$85.ConcertHall,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600.The concert will repeat Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. ■ProMusicaHebraicawillpresentJaschaNemtsov&Friendsperforming“TheLastRomantics:JewishComposersofInterwarEurope.”7:30p.m.$38.TerraceTheater,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600.

Discussions and lectures ■TheGreaterWashingtonBoardofTradewillpresentTomBrokawdiscussinghisbook“TheTimeofOurLives:AConversationAboutAmerica.”8to10a.m.$115.Newseum,555PennsylvaniaAve.NW.bot.org. ■GeraldDarschandKathyEvangelosoftheU.S.ArmyNatickSolderResearch,DevelopmentandEngineeringCenterwilldis-cussthehistoryoffeedingthemilitaryandcreatingusablecombatrationsthatarebothnutritiousandtasty.Noon.Free.McGowanTheater,NationalArchivesBuilding,ConstitutionAvenuebetween7thand9thstreetsNW.202-357-5000. ■ScholarMarkGeigerwilldiscusshisbook“FinancialFraudandGuerrillaViolenceinMissouri’sCivilWar,1861-1865.”Noon.Free.Room119,JeffersonBuilding,LibraryofCongress,101stSt.SE.202-707-7678. ■Panelistswilldiscuss“PresidentObama’sUpcomingTriptoAustralia.”Noonto1p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.Room141,InterculturalCenter,GeorgetownUniversity,37thandOstreetsNW.auspol.eventbrite.com. ■“WhoShouldGoverntheInternet?”willfeaturepanelistsSeverineArsene,afellowattheInstitutefortheStudyofDiplomacyatGeorgetownUniversity;BertranddeLaChapelle,boardmemberoftheInternetCorporationforAssignedNamesandNumbersandprogramdirectorattheInternationalDiplomaticAcademyinParis;andLauraDeNardis,associateprofessoratAmericanUniversityandafellowattheYaleInformationSocietyProject.2:30to5p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.MortaraCenterConferenceRoom,MortaraBuilding,GeorgetownUniversity,36thandNstreetsNW.internetgovernance.eventbrite.com. ■RobertBailis,assistantprofessoroffor-estryandenvironmentalstudiesatYaleUniversity,willdiscuss“ArrestingtheKillerintheKitchen:ThePromisesandPitfallsofCommercializingImprovedCookstoves.”5:30to6:30p.m.Free;reservationsrequested.Room505,ElliottSchoolofInternationalAffairs,GeorgeWashingtonUniversity,1957ESt.NW.bit.ly/rkc49g. ■PoliticaltheoristTimothyMitchell,aprofessoratColumbiaUniversity,willdiscuss

“CarbonDemocracy:PoliticalPowerintheAgeofOil.”6p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.Room241,InterculturalCenter,GeorgetownUniversity,37thandOstreetsNW.eventbrite.com/event/2278683604. ■“TheFighttoBeHeardFromSusanB.AnthonytoHillaryClinton”willfeaturepanel-istsRep.TammyBaldwin(shown),D-Wis.;ChristineJahnke,authorof“TheWell-SpokenWoman:YourGuidetoLookingandSoundingYourBest”;andAnnLewis,presidentoftheNoLimitsFoundation.6p.m.$15.Sewall-BelmontHouseandMuseum,144ConstitutionAve.NE.sewallbelmont.org. ■ElizabethFerrerwilldiscussthecre-ativeandculturalexchangesbetweenEdwardWestonandManuelÁlverezBravo,twopioneersofmodernphotography.6:30p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.MexicanCulturalInstitute,[email protected]. ■FelixMatosRodriguez,presidentofHostosCommunityCollege,CityUniversityofNewYork,willdiscussthesocialhistoryofPuertoRicointhe1940s.6:30to9p.m.Free.AbramsonFamilyRecitalHall,KatzenArtsCenter,AmericanUniversity,4400MassachusettsAve.NW.202-885-2787. ■JohnsHopkinsUniversityastrophysicistAdamGuyRiesswilldiscuss“PuttingSomeLightonDarkEnergy.”6:45to8:45p.m.$40.S.DillonRipleyCenter,1100JeffersonDriveSW.202-633-3030. ■TomBrokawwilldiscusshisbook“TheTimeofOurLives:AConversationAboutAmerica.”7p.m.Free.PoliticsandProse,5015ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-1919. ■ShiniqueSmithandionarozealbrown,twooftheartistsfeaturedinthe“30Americans”exhibitionattheCorcoranGalleryofArt,willdiscusstheirworkandreflectontherolethatartisticcommunityplaysintheirartworkandprocess.7p.m.$20;$10forstudents.CorcoranGalleryofArt,50017thSt.NW.202-639-1770. ■JournalistScottWallacewilldiscuss“TheUnconquered:Brazil’sPeopleoftheArrow.”7:30p.m.$18.GrosvenorAuditorium,NationalGeographic,1600MSt.NW.202-857-7700.

Performances ■AspartoftheKidsEuroFestival,Portugal’sCativarwillpresent“ThePolesofOurEarth,”aplaythatusespuppets,storiesandsongstotellaboutthepolarregions.6p.m.Free.MillenniumStage,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600.

Special event ■“PhillipsAfter5”willfeatureinterac-tivemagicdemonstrationsbyDavidLondonandagallerytalkonPhillipsCollectionfounderDuncanPhillips’explorationoftheworkofemergingartists.5to8:30p.m.Costvariesbyactivity;registrationsuggested.PhillipsCollection,160021stSt.NW.phillipscollection.org/phillipsafter5. ■“ManyStories,OneNight,”acelebra-tionofD.C.’simmigrantcommunities,willfeaturethereleaseofapreliminaryreportonimmigrants’experiencesaccessingpublicbenefitsandthescreeningofRobertWinn’sfilm“CommunitiesinTransition,”abouttheimpactoflanguagebarriersduringemergen-ciessuchasa2008firethatdestroyedaMountPleasantapartmentbuilding.6to9p.m.$10donationsuggested.GalaTheatre,333314thSt.NW.202-621-1001.



Wednesday, noveMBer 2■Discussion:SpencerWells,explor-er-in-residenceatNationalGeographicanddirectoroftheGenographicProject,willdiscusshisteam’sworkincollectingandanalyzingDNAsamplestocreateageneticallybasedmapofhumanmigration.7:30p.m.$18.GrosvenorAuditorium,NationalGeographic,1600MSt.NW.202-857-7700.

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Friday, October 28, 7 p.m.

(HarperCollins, $29.99) This biography of Ariel Sharon by his youngest son, a columnist for an Israeli newspaper and an advisor to his father before and during his term as Prime Minister, draws on the elder Sharon’s diaries from all phases of his political and military career, offering insight into Sharon’s deci-sions on events ranging from the Yom Kippur War to the Gaza settlements.

Saturday, October 29, 6 p.m.

(Free Press, $26)As he did for the previous president in Bush on the Couch, Dr. Frank applies his psychoanalytic skills to Obama, offering new ways to under-stand the Chief Executive’s achievements and shortcomings. What does Obama’s turbulent childhood, for example, suggest about how he makes decisions? Are there clues in his past to his current handling of the economy or health-care reform?

Sunday, October 30, 5 p.m.

(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $22)In Tel Ilan, things may not quite be what they seem. One man hears mys-terious digging sounds. Another finds a cryptic note from his wife. In his new novel of linked stories, Oz, the renowned Israeli author of A Tale of Love and Darkness, Rhyming Life and Death, and many other works of fic-tion and nonfiction, profiles a multi-faceted community, facet by facet.


“The Black List: Photographs by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders,” presenting portraits of 50 African-

Americans to illustrate the struggles, tri-umphs and joys of black life in the United States, will open Friday at the National Portrait Gallery and continue through April 22. Located at 8th and F streets NW, the gallery is open daily from 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. 202-633-1000.■ The Ralls Collection will open an exhibit today of colorful abstract paint-ings by two artists, including John Blee’s “Orchard Suite” series and Adam Swart’s “Crimes and Celebrations” series. The show will continue through Dec. 31. Located at 1516 31st St. NW, the gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday from 11

a.m. to 4 p.m. 202-342-1298.■ “A Song for the Horse Nation,” a traveling exhibition about the importance of horses over the centuries to Native people, will open

Saturday at the National Museum of the American Indian and continue through Jan. 7.

Located at 4th Street and Independence Avenue SW, the museum is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. 202-633-1000.■ “Anglo-Saxon Hoard: Gold From England’s Dark Ages,” featuring pieces from the largest and most valuable collec-tion of Anglo-Saxon trea-sure ever discovered, will

open Saturday at the National Geographic Museum and continue through March 4.

Located at 1145 17th St. NW, the muse-um is open daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Admission costs $8 for adults; $6 for seniors, students and military personnel; and $4 for ages 5 through 12. Tickets are required. 202-857-7588.■ “Eclectica,” presenting thematically diverse photography by John Potter, will open with a reception Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Church of the Holy City and continue through Nov. 30. Located at 1611 16th St. NW in the upstairs chapel, the exhibit is open Monday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Tuesday until 9 p.m. 202-462-6734.■ “Agnes Bolt: Dealing,” highlighting new artwork by Bolt that documents her interac-tions with two art collectors, opened last week at Project 4, where it will continue through Nov. 26. Located at 1353 U St. NW on the third floor, the gallery is open Wednesday through Saturday from noon to 6 p.m. 202-232-4340.■ “Autumn Mix,” presenting sculpture by Michael Gessner and paintings by Lucy Clark, Kathryn McDonnell and Stuart

Greenwell, will close Tuesday at PASS Gallery. Located at 1617 S St. NW, rear, the gal-lery is open Tuesday and Saturday from 1 to 5 p.m. 202-745-0796.

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timothy Greenfield-Sanders’ 2007 photo of toni Morrison is part of the national Portrait Gallery’s exhibit “the Black List.”

Studio Theatre will present Roland Schimmelpfennig’s “The Golden Dragon” Nov. 2

through Dec. 11. In the cramped kitchen of an

Asian restaurant, four cooks pull the tooth of a young Chinese co-worker. His tooth ends up in the Thai soup of a flight attendant, who overhears the fight of a young cou-ple who live above the restaurant, whose fighting disturbs the shop-keeper of the dry goods store next door, who is more connected to the young Chinese man than anyone suspects. Performance times are 8 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday; 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday; and 7 p.m. Sunday. Studio is located at 1501 14th St. NW. 202-332-3300; stu-diotheatre.org.■ The Chevy Chase Players will present Neil Simon’s “The Gingerbread Lady” Oct. 28 through Nov. 12 at the Chevy Chase Community Center. Performance times are gener-ally 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, with a noon matinee on Nov. 12. Tickets, avail-able at the door, cost $15; $13 for students and seniors. The com-munity center is located at 5601 Connecticut Ave. NW.

■ GALita, a family program from GALA Hispanic Theatre, will present “Las aventuras de Don Quijote de La Mancha” Oct. 31 through Nov. 10. Based on the novel “Don Quijote,” this bilingual adaptation

follows the mis-adventures of the gentleman from La Mancha and his loyal squire Sancho Panza. Obsessed with chivalrous ideals, Don Quijote takes up his lance and sword to set wrongs to right, defend the help-less and destroy the wicked throughout the Spanish country-side.

Performance times are 10:30 a.m. Tickets cost $10. GALA is located at 3333 14th St. NW. 202-

234-7174; galatheatre.org.■ The Washington Ballet will revive artistic director Septime Webre’s adaptation of “The Great Gatsby” Nov. 2 through 6 at the Kennedy Center. Performance times are 8 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday, 2:30 p.m. Saturday and 1:30 and 6:30 p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $20 to $125. 202-467-4600; kennedy-center.org.■ Howard University will present Ntozake Shange’s “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf” Nov. 2 through 12 in the Environmental Theatre Space. A series of poems choreo-graphed to music express the tribu-lations of seven African-American women in their lives and loves. Performance times are 7:30 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday; 2:30 p.m. Saturday; and 10 a.m. Friday, Nov 4. Tickets cost $5 to $15. Howard University is located at 2455 6th St. NW. 202-806-7050;

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According to city officials and residents, it’s been a success so far. During September, Chief Lanier said, Adams Morgan saw a 40 per-cent reduction in overall crime and a 20 percent reduction in violent crime. Neighbors, meanwhile, talked about a change in perception in the area, with bad behavior on the decline due to the increased police presence. One woman who lives on 18th Street said she’d overheard people saying things like “We’re not coming here next weekend; there’s too much police.” According to Capt. Aubrey Mongal, the police department puts 30 to 40 officers in the neighbor-hood on weekend nights, while businesses separately fund several other officers. So far during the operation, said Assistant Police Chief Patrick Burke, police have made 225 arrests for violations like drinking or urinating in public. The program also involves other city enforcement officials, like alco-hol inspectors. Alcoholic Beverage Regulation Administration director Fred Moosally said his agency’s responsibilities include checking bars to “make sure they’re not over-serving” or “extending their space outside.” Inspectors have found 21 violations since July, he said. Though neighbors at the meeting praised the operation, they also questioned how the long the city can direct extra resources toward the broader, ongoing problems in Adams Morgan. “I get the feeling that we’re treat-ing Operation Adams Morgan as … a one-time surge of undetermined length,” one resident said. “From a resident’s standpoint, it’s a system problem. … You have too many liquor licenses in one place.” The resident also noted that the operation’s identified “targets” — visitors who come to tailgate and harass paying customers of 18th Street’s businesses, while never set-ting foot inside any themselves — aren’t the only ones damaging the area’s quality of life. “It’s the patrons, not the preda-tors,” the resident said of the crowds that straggle through the streets after hitting the bars — “peeing, dump-ing pizza boxes, having a party on the front stoop.” Resident Bella Rosenberg echoed those sentiments. “From our point of view, we need [the opera-tion] to continue as long as the problem continues … but that’s also

unrealistic,” she said. The city needs to “address this structurally,” Rosenberg said, “not as a police matter, but as an eco-nomic development matter.” Comments like these spurred conversation about the concentra-tion of liquor licenses in Adams Morgan — 87 total in one police service area, according to Chief Lanier. Denis James, president of the Kalorama Citizens Association, noted that a five-year moratorium on liquor licenses in Adams Morgan took effect in 2008, prohibiting any new licenses. But he said, “I can’t imagine that the time could be more ripe than now” for discussing a lower target number of licenses for the future. Council member Graham also talked about how Adams Morgan could use alcohol regulations to its advantage. The neighborhood could follow the lead of Georgetown, for exam-ple, and make a certain number of liquor licenses non-renewable once a business moves out. “If this neigh-borhood is ready to say … OK, as our nightclub licenses, as our tavern licenses, as our restaurant licenses expire … then they can’t be renewed in this particular neighborhood,” Graham said. “There’s been no appetite for this previously,” he said of the idea, but he added, “Maybe Adams Morgan is at that point.” Later in the meeting, Graham spoke more firmly of his plans to introduce a proposal — “hopefully in a way that will spark a lot of dis-cussion” — to reduce the number of licenses in Adams Morgan. Graham said the topic would surely come up during sessions of the task force he’s convened to dis-cuss and possibly revamp the District’s alcohol laws. “We’re going to involve businesses, involve residents, ANCs and so forth,” he said of such conversations. Another idea Graham mentioned more theoretically was to enforce earlier closing times in Adams Morgan. “The real restaurants would be happy, but the bars would be at a disadvantage,” he said. One woman argued against tac-tics that could punish restaurant owners. “You’re going to have a street full of empty vacant lots” if restaurants close, she said. Bill Thomas, who owns both Bourbon and Jack Rose Dining Saloon on 18th Street, said Adams Morgan needs to focus more on economic-development strategies, like financing support, to “attract good, quality establishments.”

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don’t compromise the protected Woodhull House. The university hadn’t yet filed its applica-tion with the preservation board, so the neigh-borhood commission took no action at last week’s meeting. But Barbara Kahlow of the West End Citizens Association recommended working to block the application until the

university can demonstrate that the plans won’t tie up traffic on 21st Street. The road is already congested, said Kahlow, and museum visitors and delivery trucks would exacerbate the problem. “Obviously we want the Textile Museum in our neighborhood, but it is the wrong place,” she said. Officials said the planned internal loading setup — which would be screened from the street except as a truck is entering or leaving — would be essential for protecting delicate

textiles. Only small trucks would be able to use the loading dock, they added. University attorney David Avitabile said the school will address traffic concerns later with the Zoning Commission, not with the Historic Preservation Review Board. Susan-Anne Cora, the university’s campus planning director, said she thinks the neigh-borhood will benefit from the planned muse-um. “It’s open to the public, and I think there will be a lot of really fun family-type pro-grams there,” she said.

In another George Washington University campus plan project, the school broke ground Thursday on its eight-story Science and Engineering Complex, which is replacing a parking garage at 22nd and H streets and sev-eral nearby buildings on the block. Officials hope to open that facility in 2015. Neighbors generally supported the planned complex but expressed disappointment that the large-scale construction on the Square 55 site wouldn’t include a second entrance to the Foggy Bottom Metrorail station.

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sounds like a prison sentence to me,” Sherwood quipped. He also lampooned Evans for

running for mayor in 1998, when he “failed miserably.” Radio host Mark Plotkin later chimed in that Evans actually did pretty well, getting sup-port from one of every 13 voters. At the end of the event, Evans took advantage of his time at the

mic to reply with digs at all those who had jabbed at him. The roast raised between $12,000 and $13,000, which will go to Hexagon as well as the Wounded Warriors Project, which aids to severely injured soldiers.

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it,” said Wood. For example, at Eaton, students spent a day last week scoping out stormwater runoff on the school’s grounds. “We did one of our first audits on the outside to see where water was pooling,” said fourth-grade teacher Susan Coti. “They can see right outside their doorstep what’s happening.” Meanwhile, with clipboards in hand, students visited the school’s bathrooms to get a sense of the amount of water flowing out of sinks and toilets. Coti said the students will use the information in

special projects designed to help conserve water and address runoff. The students will also make presenta-tions to D.C. leaders about their efforts next year. In a statement, Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson said she’s excited to see students develop their own solutions to such a pressing environmental problem. “We’re excited to have schools in our district partici-pate in the program this year and apply the problem-solving skills they have developed in the classroom to improve the local environment,” she said. Eaton fourth-grader Pearl Benjamin said the pro-gram has already made her think twice about how she brushes her teeth and does the dishes. “At first I thought, ‘Oh, there’s tons of water on Earth.’ Now I see that we really have to start saving water,” she said.

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coas.howard.edu/theatrearts.■ George Washington University will present “The Merchant of Venice” Nov. 3 through 6 at the Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre. Believed to have been written between 1596 and 1598, Shakespeare’s “Merchant” is classi-fied as a comedy, though it is prob-ably best remembered for its dra-matic scenes and for the towering character Shylock and his famous “pound of flesh” speech. Performance times are 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $10 to $15. The Marvin Theatre is located at 800 21st St. NW. 202-994-8072; gwu.edu/~theatre.■ Washington Stage Guild will present “Wilder Sins,” an evening of Thornton Wilder, Nov. 3 through 27 at Mount Vernon Place United Methodist Church. In portraits of ordinary people whose failings affect themselves and those around them, Wilder, by turns comic and serious, never fails to surprise his audience with the cosmic implications of the com-monplace. Performance times are 7:30 p.m. Thursday, 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Tickets cost $40 to $50. The church is located at 900 Massachusetts Ave. NW. 240-582-0050; stageguild.org.■ Shakespeare Theatre Company will present a special concert ver-sion of “The Boys From Syracuse” Nov. 4 through 6 at Sidney Harman Hall. Based on “The Comedy of Errors,” the play tells the story of two identical twin brothers separat-ed in a shipwreck as children. When the brothers, their wives and their servants (also long-lost identi-cal twins) meet in Ephesus, confu-sion and comedy lead them to dis-cover each other’s true identities. Adapted in the late 1930s, “The Boys From Syracuse” features music by Richard Rodgers and lyr-ics by Lorenz Hart. Performance times are 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday and 7:30 p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $55 to $75. Sidney Harman Hall is located at 610 F St. NW. 202-547-1122; shakespearetheatre.org. ■ Theater J will present Arthur Miller’s “After the Fall” Oct. 26 through Nov. 27 at the Washington DC Jewish Community Center. In the wake of the tragic death of his famous second wife, Maggie, Quentin desperately tries to move forward in his life and to pursue a relationship with Holga. Yet he is compelled to revisit his childhood losses, failed marriages and his actions in connection with the poli-cies of the 1950s black list. Performance times vary. Tickets cost $25 to $35. The center is locat-ed at 1529 16th St. NW. 800-494-8497; theaterj.org.■ Active Cultures will present “Hellspawn” Oct. 27 through 30 at

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company’s Melton Rehearsal Hall after a run in Riverdale, Md. Performance times are 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday; 8 p.m. and midnight Saturday; and 4 p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $20 to $25. Melton Rehearsal Hall is located at 641 D St. NW. 800-494-8497; activecultures.org.■ The Mead Theatre Lab at Flashpoint will present Timothy Guillot’s “We Fight We Die” Oct. 27 through Nov. 12. Performance times are 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $10 to $15, with a pay-what-you-can per-formance Oct. 27. Flashpoint is located at 916 G St. NW. 202-315-1305; flashpointdc.org.■ Catholic University will present Leonard Bernstein’s “On the Town” Oct. 28 through 30 in Hartke Theatre. Performance times are 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $10 to $15. Hartke Theatre is located at 3801 Harewood Road NE. 202-319-5416; drama.cua.edu.■ American University will close its presentation of the rock musical “The Who’s Tommy” Oct. 29 at the Greenberg Theatre. Performance times are 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 2 p.m. Saturday. Tickets cost $10 to $15. The theater is located at 4200 Wisconsin Ave. NW. 202-885-2587; american.edu/auarts.■ Georgetown University will close “Visible Impact” Oct. 29 at the Davis Performing Arts Center. Performance times are generally 8 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $7 to $18. Georgetown University is located at 37th and O streets NW. 202-687-2787; performingarts.georgetown.edu.■ The In Series will close “Love Potion #1” Oct. 29 at GALA Theatre. Performance times are 8 p.m. Friday and 7 p.m. Saturday. Tickets cost $20 to $40. GALA Theatre is located at 3333 14th St. NW. 202-204-7763; inseries.org.■ Ford’s Theatre will close the Washington premiere of the Tony Award-winning musical “Parade” Oct. 30. Performance times are 7:30 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. Thursday and 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Ticket prices start at $15. Ford’s Theatre is located at 511 10th St. NW. 202-347-4833; fordstheatre.org.■ A new 25th anniversary produc-tion of “Les Misérables” will close at the Kennedy Center Oct. 30. Performance times are 7:30 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday and 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday. Tickets cost $39 to $155. 202-467-4600; kennedy-center.org.■ Studio Theatre will close an extended run of Alan Bennett’s comedy “The Habit of Art” Oct. 30. Performance times are 8 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday; 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday; and 7 p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $35 to

$69. Studio Theatre is located at 1501 14th St. NW. 202-332-3300; studiotheatre.org.■ Arena Stage is presenting Karen Zacarías’ “The Book Club Play” through Nov. 6 in the Arlene and Robert Kogod Cradle. Performance times are at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Sunday; 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday; and 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Tickets cost $45 to $85. Arena Stage is located at 1101 6th St. SW. 202-488-3300; arenastage.org.■ Rorschach Theatre is presenting “After the Quake” through Nov. 6 at the Atlas Performing Arts Center. Performance times are generally 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $15 to $25. Atlas is located at 1333 H St. NE. 202-399-7993; atlasarts.org/events.■ The Apron Theatre Company is presenting Kyle Encinas’ “The Continuing Adventures of John Blade, Super Spy!” through Nov. 7 at the Letelier Theater. Performance times are 8 p.m. on Oct. 28 and 29 and Nov. 4, 5 and 7. Tickets cost $16. The Letelier Theater is located at 3251 Prospect St. NW. theaprontheatre.com.■ Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company has extended “A Bright New Boise” through Nov. 13. Performance times are generally 8 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday, 3 p.m. Saturday and 2 and 7 p.m. Sunday. Ticket prices start at $30. Woolly Mammoth is located at 641 D St. NW. 202-393-3939; woollymammoth.net.■ Keegan Theatre is presenting Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” through Nov. 19 at the Church Street Theater. Performance times are 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $30 to $35. The Church Street Theater is located at 1742 Church St. NW. 703-892-0202; keegantheatre.com.■ Constellation Theatre Company is presenting George Bernard Shaw’s “Arms and the Man” through Nov. 20 at Source. Performance times generally are 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $20 to $40. Source is located at 1835 14th St. NW. 202-204-7741; constellationtheatre.org.■ Scena Theatre is presenting “Greek,” a modern retelling of “Oedipus Rex,” through Nov. 27 at the H Street Playhouse. Performance times are generally 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $27 to $40. The H Street Playhouse is located at 1365 H St. NE. 703-683-2824; scenatheater.org.■ The Folger Shakespeare Theatre has extended “Othello” through Dec. 4 in the Elizabethan Theatre. Performance times are generally 7:30 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday; 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday; 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday; and 7 p.m. Sunday. Ticket cost $30 to $60. The Folger is located at 201 East Capitol St. SE. 202-544-7077; folger.edu.

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facade facing neighbors and Massachusetts Avenue passersby. “What we see is basically this indus-trial drab gray that is not in character for the community,” he said. The university recently rede-signed the planned L-shaped North Hall, pulling it back farther from Massachusetts Avenue and adding an eighth story to only the section facing existing residence halls. At the neighborhood commission’s Oct. 5 meeting, Smith hailed the revisions as the result of “a model working relationship between American University and the com-munity.” The neighborhood commission voted 7-1 to support the project on the conditions that the university minimize the proposed eight-story building’s “visual impact”; work with the community to improve the planned facade; and submit con-struction, landscaping and stormwa-ter management plans. But at last week’s hearing, neigh-borhood commission chair Tom Smith said those conditions had not been met. “If AU is unable to design an attractive building that minimiz-es the visual impact along Massachusetts Avenue, one solution would be reduce the height of the building and increase the setback required from Massachusetts Avenue,” Smith testified. Smith’s testimony provoked a lively exchange with zoning com-missioner Peter May. “I find your testimony nothing short of shocking given the letter we’ve gotten,” May said. “The letter says, ‘We support it with these conditions.’ The condi-tions are pretty straightforward and

seem to be achievable, but you’re calling for a complete redesign of the building. You cannot tell me that those are somehow consistent posi-tions.” “My testimony is very clear that the conditions we have laid out have not been met,” Smith replied. “What we are saying is if [university offi-cials] can’t meet these conditions, then they need to go back and rede-sign the building.” In considering the North Hall project, the Zoning Commission

must decide whether it is likely to create objectionable conditions for neighbors. University attorney Paul Tummonds said the school is confi-dent the building would not, even as it’s currently designed. He added that the school can make minor design revisions based on further feedback. “We do not believe this is a proj-ect that needs to go back to the drawing board,” Tummonds told the zoning commissioners. “We believe this is a project that has the appro-priate massing, scale and height, and we can work with community com-ments that coalesce around an idea of what the facade should be.” But that may be difficult, Tummonds added: “We’d heard ... that there were some residents of the community who wanted it to look like Katzen [Arts Center]. Some wanted it to look like the Kogod School of Business. Some wanted it to look like Wesley [Seminary].”

Jeffrey Kraskin of the Spring Valley/Wesley Heights Citizens Association testified that the neigh-bors just want something more attractive than the rather blank wall they fear the school will construct. “If the facade facing Mass Ave was a facade that reflected the nature of the residential area and the area sur-rounding it, I think we could be very happy with it,” Kraskin said. Despite the complaints about the facade, the North Hall proposal hasn’t seen the level of community objection that has arisen against some aspects of the university’s development plans, such as for its Nebraska Avenue parking lot site and its Tenley Campus. Smith, Kraskin and a representative of Neighbors for a Livable Community were the only residents to testify, in contrast with dozens who have appeared at other recent hearings. “It does seem to me that there is room for agreement between the university and neighbors on how this building should look without having to start completely from scratch,” said zoning commissioner May. “So I would strongly urge the university to get together with the neighbors and the ANC on this, because we have some time before we can make a decision.” Additionally, zoning commis-sioners requested renderings that more clearly show the proposed building from Massachusetts Avenue and asked that the school consider offering more than the planned 54 bicycle parking spaces. Before the Zoning Commission can take a position on North Hall, it must vote on the university’s 10-year development goals as part of the broader campus plan process. Hearings on the plan will continue — and likely conclude — Nov. 3.

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Todd Beckwith noted in an interview, and the nearby Dalecarlia Reservoir hasn’t shown significant perchlo-rate levels. Perchlorate has been found to disrupt thyroid functions, but only when taken internally. “Based on the data so far, I don’t expect that we’ll identify unaccept-able risks to the public that require remedial action, but we’ll have to let the process play out,” said Beckwith. Although perchlorate can come from a variety of natural and manmade sources, officials believe the con-tamination in Spring Valley and on the American University campus stems from the area’s World War I-era use as a chemical weapons testing site. Perchlorate concentrations are highest near the uni-versity’s Kreeger Hall, where the Army Corps will dig for what officials call “potential buried objects” this winter. Concentrations have also been detected near Sibley Memorial Hospital; the corps is planning to ana-lyze samples to determine whether both findings come from the same perchlorate source. The Army Corps has spent more than $200 million in the Spring Valley area since 1993, including $150,000, officials said, for the two new wells — one installed Friday and the other earlier this month. Fifty-one wells in the area monitor groundwater closer to the surface. Water samples will be drawn from the new wells every few months beginning this winter, according to Beckwith. These 6-inch-wide wells, which sit between the street and sidewalk, will be abandoned if no deep contamination is found. If the monitoring wells find a human health hazard from the perchlorate, the Army Corps would develop a

way to remove it. “That could include pumping the water out and putting it through a treatment system; it could include injecting sugars and edible oils into the groundwater that would promote biological activity that would reduce the contamination levels — there’s a wide range of options for cleaning up groundwater,” Beckwith said. “But it’s a little bit premature to be talking about cleanup now.” Kent Slowinski, a Wesley Heights advisory neigh-borhood commissioner who is active on the contamina-tion issue, said he worries the Army Corps’ monitoring practices are designed to avoid finding perchlorate, and he criticized the Corps for not removing what it’s already found. “They’ve detected perchlorate in the groundwater, but nothing’s being done about the issue,” he said. Allen Hengst, who works at American University and maintains a blog about the Army Corps’ work, said he isn’t as worried about the health risk from perchlo-rate. “It’s primarily for us a signal, or a sign, that some-thing’s going on under the ground,” said Hengst. “If you have that kind of perchlorate, then it’s got to be coming from somewhere.” The planned Kreeger Hall excavation should deter-mine that source, according to Beckwith. A survey over the summer with advanced metal detectors found “anomalies” that could be buried Army waste causing the contamination, he said. The Army Corps is holding a public meeting tonight about an unrelated project: the cleanup of 4825 Glenbrook Road, where the corps is proposing demol-ishing a vacant home to remove soil contamination down to bedrock. The meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m. at the Tenley-Friendship Neighborhood Library, 4450 Wisconsin Ave. NW.

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