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■ St. Albans grapples way into tournament’s top 10. 1.■ Visitation hoops is led by seven seniors. Page 11.

■ City names new Walter Reed project manager. Page 5. ■ Board agrees to let recall backers circulate petitions. Page 3.

NEWS SPORTS■ District’s oldest Methodist church marks quarter century of progressive ideals as a ‘reconciling’ congregation. Page 13.

PASSAGES INDEXCalendar/20Classifieds/29 District Digest/4Exhibits/23In Your Neighborhood/16Opinion/10Passages/13

Police Report/6Real Estate/17School Dispatches/10Service Directory/25Sports/11Theater/23Week Ahead/3

By BRADY HOLTCurrent Staff Writer

Robbers struck three times along the Wisconsin Avenue corridor Monday night, just days after police backed off a theory that only a few criminals are respon-

sible for this year’s crime spree.Speaking last Thursday at the

Tenleytown/Friendship Heights advisory neighborhood commission meeting, Metropolitan Police Department Lt. Alan Hill said that publicity about the robberies and a

lack of arrests may have inspired additional robbers to come to the area. “We thought we had one small group of people doing it and now it’s become very popular. It’s the

thing,” Hill said at the meeting. “We believe it’s grow-ing to proportions where we’re not really sure we have suspects.” At least two of Monday’s three robberies do appear to be linked to each other, 2nd District Cmdr. Michael

See Robberies/Page 7

Three more robberies continue Ward 3 spree

Bill Petros/The CurrentSpeaking to reporters yesterday, 2nd District Cmdr. Michael Reese and Ward 3 Council member Mary Cheh urged residents to report suspicious activity.


As downtown office workers praise proposed regulations that would legitimize the city’s burgeon-ing food truck industry, some resi-dents are concerned with provisions that would allow a mobile restau-rant to set up shop in front of their homes. The Georgetown advisory neigh-borhood commission unanimously

passed a resolution Jan. 30 calling for the trucks to be banned on streets with Residential Permit Parking restrictions, and some Dupont Circle commissioners expressed similar concerns last week. The D.C. Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs’ proposed regulations would allow most trucks to sell from any legal parking space. As feedback pours in — some 1,400 comments had been received as of Monday evening — the agen-cy last week extended the comment

See Trucks/Page 24

Residential streets ill-suited for food trucks, some argue


A decision on Georgetown University’s campus plan was delayed for the second time on Thursday, as the Zoning Commission requested more time to evaluate new procedures designed to mitigate the

effects of students living off campus. The commission put off a ruling on the university’s 10-year plan until May to review an extra two months of data and additional feedback on litter pickup, bus service, security patrols and other university services. A university operating in a resi-dential zone is required to demon-strate that it is not adversely impact-ing its neighbors, and residents liv-ing near Georgetown argued in a series of hearings last year that noisy,

disruptive students were over-whelming nearby communities. Residents and the D.C. Office of Planning have said the only solution is for the school to offer enough dorm space on campus or in a satel-lite location to house all its under-graduates. The university is instead propos-ing to add 250 on-campus beds, which would increase its housing capacity from 76 percent to 80 per-

See Campus/Page 7

Zoning panel delays action on GU

Bill Petros/The CurrentDr. Kevin Maggs, of Active Sport and Spine, took part in Sunday’s kickoff event for the spring training season at Water Street Gym, at 3255 K St. NW. The day also featured a workshop and expo for runners, triathletes and cyclists.

S P R I N G I N G I N T O A C T I O N

By KATIE PEARCECurrent Staff Writer

A limit on liquor licenses in Glover Park now appears likely to continue, but with slightly looser terms. Following the pattern of years past, the Glover Park advisory neighborhood commission voted last week to back a mild expansion to an existing license moratorium. The change would allow a potential 14 liquor-serving restaurants, up from the 10 now operating. Also following the pattern of years past, the morato-rium and its renewal have inspired debate — and some divisiveness — about the business and restaurant culture in Glover Park. Thursday’s vote came after a storm of comments on the neighborhood listserv, where discussion has contin-ued since. It also followed a back-and-forth debate at the meeting itself, where a handful of young homeowners argued against choking out new restaurants.

See Licenses/Page 18

ANC supports renewal of license cap

■ Campus plan: Members want to study school’s efforts

Bill Petros/The CurrentThe Glover Park commission has recommended adding two new restaurant licenses to the area’s moratorium zone, which was created in 1996.

■ Regulations: City extends comment period on vending

■ CRIME: City seeks ways to deter theft of smartphones. Page 5.

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Thursday, Feb. 16 The Kalorama Citizens Association will hold its monthly meeting, which will feature Mayor Vincent Gray as guest speaker. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. at Good Will Baptist Church, 1862 Kalorama Road NW.■ The Cleveland Park Citizens Association will hold its regular meet-ing, which will focus on ways that Cleveland Park families with young children can better connect with one another. The meeting will be held from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Cleveland Park Neighborhood Library, 3310 Connecticut Ave. NW.

Tuesday, Feb. 21 The Chevy Chase Citizens Association will hold its monthly meeting, which will include an update from Ward 3 D.C. Council member Mary Cheh and an opening reception for the exhibit “Celebrating Artists in Our Community.” The meet-ing will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Chevy Chase Community Center, 5601 Connecticut Ave. NW.

Thursday, Feb. 23 The Crestwood Neighborhood League will hold a candidates forum for the Ward 4 D.C. Council race. The meeting will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. at Zion Baptist Church, 4850 Blagden Ave. NW.■ The Ward 3 Democratic Committee will hold precinct elections to fill vacancies for delegates from pre-cincts 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 26, 28, 29, 30, 32 and 138. The caucuses will be held from 7 to 7:15 p.m.; partici-pants must be registered to vote as a Democrat in the particular pre-cinct. The meeting will be held at St. Columba’s Episcopal Church, 4201 Albemarle St. NW. It will be followed by a forum for at-large D.C. Council candidates at 8 p.m. For details, visit dcward3dems.org.

The week ahead

By ELIZABETH WIENERCurrent Staff Writer

Advocates of recalling Mayor Vincent Gray and D.C. Council Chairman Kwame Brown have until Aug. 13 to collect about 45,000 signatures — a daunting 10 percent of the city’s registered voters — to get the measure on November’s ballot. The Board of Elections and Ethics on Monday approved the two recall petitions submitted by Dupont resident Frederick Butler, which include identical lan-guage to justify stripping both Gray and Brown of their offices. Signature pages approved by the board list as reasons “the multiple times that the National and social media [have] highlighted their breach of office through unethi-cal behavior,” and that the city leaders have failed to fulfill the duties of their offices. Neither Gray nor Brown sent representatives. But the two politicians had earlier submitted their own “answers” to the recall proposal, which will also be included on the signature pages. Gray’s response says he has “steadfastly remained focused on making progress” on his key priorities, including job creation, education, fiscal stability, public safety and “moving the District forward” on voting rights, taxicab improvements and sustainability. Brown said that as council chairman he “led the effort” to enact comprehensive ethics and job creation

legislation, and said he will continue to work on main-taining the city’s financial stability, improving middle schools and investing in job-training programs. Also this week, the board postponed consideration of a separate ballot initiative that would ban corporate con-tributions to District campaigns, transition and inaugural committees, council members’ constituent services funds and any city official’s legal defense fund. On Tuesday, the board announced a special meeting Feb. 27 at 10:30 a.m. to review the proposal. Sponsor Bryan Weaver said the brief delay is needed to fix a “technical glitch” in the petition language so that it will create stand-alone legislation if the initiative is approved, rather than attaching the contribution ban to a recently passed emergency ethics bill. He said he hopes to be back before the board with final language in about a week. The initiative, aimed at limiting corporate and lobby-ist influence over public officials, requires signatures from 5 percent of the city’s registered voters to appear on the Nov. 6 general election ballot. Last week, D.C. Attorney General Irvin Nathan released an opinion that the proposed ballot measure is “a proper subject” for an initiative under D.C. law. In a letter to the elections board, Nathan said the provisions related to contributions constitute a “valid governmental interest” and therefore, if adopted by voters, would pass constitutional muster under prior U.S. Supreme Court decisions.

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D.C. ready to seek ‘No Child’ waiver The District has closed a com-ment period on a new metric for measuring school progress, which it expects to submit to the U.S. Department of Education by Feb. 23. According to a news release from the Office of the State Superintendent of Education, just

25 out of 187 D.C. public schools last year met federal requirements for adequate yearly progress based on standardized test scores. Ten states have already received waivers from No Child Left Behind rules, and most others are applying.

School audit shows enrollment increase The District’s public school sys-

tem and public charter schools col-lectively increased enrollment 2 percent this school year to 76,753, according to data from an October audit published Monday. Charter schools drove the growth, increasing 8 percent to 31,562 students, while traditional public school enrollment dropped 1 percent to 45,191, the data show. According to a release from the Office of the State Superintendent

of Education, which conducts the annual enrollment audit, the 2011-2012 school year is the third in a row to see an increase.

Mortgage settlement brings D.C. millions District homeowners are collec-tively eligible to receive $40 million of a $25 billion national settlement against a series of banks, the D.C. Office of the Attorney General announced last week. Residents who held mortgages with Bank of America, Citi, GMAC/Ally, JPMorgan Chase or Wells Fargo may be eligible to receive a portion of the money. Contact the individual bank for information on your mortgage’s eli-gibility.

Local food forum planned for Feb. 18 The annual Rooting DC Forum, held this year on Feb. 18, will fea-ture cooking and food preservation demonstrations and panels on food justice, according to a news release from the sponsoring Field to Fork

Network. The free event will take place at Coolidge High School, 6315 5th St. NW, from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., the release states.

Target grant to fund new tutoring effort A new D.C. pilot program fund-ed by a grant from the Target Corp. will pay for tutors to help improve student literacy in elementary and preschool classrooms, according to a news release from Mayor Vincent Gray’s office. The Minneapolis-based retailer provided $150,000 to the DC Reading Corps, which is managed by the city’s Serve DC volunteerism office.

D.C. GOP names new executive director Adams Morgan resident Nicholas Jeffress has replaced Paul Craney as executive director of the D.C. Republican Committee, the group announced. According to a news release, Jeffress worked for the committee in 2010 to coordinate volunteers; the release credits him with helping Patrick Mara win the Ward 1 seat on the D.C. State Board of Education. Craney stepped down from the postion in order to move to Massachusetts, where he is taking a new job, according to a letter on the committee’s website.

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By DAVID GuTMANCurrent Correspondent

The District has seen a marked uptick in thefts and robberies in 2012, with early estimates ranging from a 33 percent to a 50 percent increase over last year, Mayor Vincent Gray said at a news confer-ence Friday. Last year’s numbers were already up 12 percent over 2010, according to the Metropolitan Police Department. The surge in robberies is not spe-cific to any ward, and it is almost entirely due to thefts of smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices, said Police Chief Cathy Lanier. Lanier said 40 to 50 percent of all robberies in the city are smartphone-related. “It is the single fastest rising crime issue that I’ve seen in a long time,” she said. The police force has been focused on this issue since the start of the new year. The department has

reassigned 200 officers and made 150 arrests, said Lanier. They’ve also set up a tip line offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to arrests or a $1,000 reward for anonymous tips leading to arrests. The robberies tend to be of the “snatch and run” variety, although victims have also been accosted by multiple assailants, Lanier said. “It’s not just a property problem — peo-ple are getting hurt,” she said. The phones are resold quickly, usually fetching anywhere from $100 to $300. There have even been reports of people coming to buy what they thought was a below-market-price smartphone who were then robbed by the would-be seller. Lanier said it’s a fairly easy crime to carry out. Smartphones are ubiquitous in the city, they’re porta-ble and they have a high resale value.

Police chief battles against rise in smartphone thefts Martine Combal, an urban planning and afford-

able-housing specialist, has been named project manager for the city’s ambitious effort to transform 67.5 acres at the former Walter Reed Army Medical Center into a mixed-use development of shops, offices, housing and charter schools. Combal replaces Eric Jenkins, who had guided the project since planning got under way in 2009. Jenkins was unceremoniously ousted from the post two weeks ago. The leadership change comes at a critical time for the project. Jenkins led a Local Redevelopment Authority of city officials and resi-

dents in honing, then approving in January, a master plan for the parcel. Combal, according to her biography, has degrees in urban and regional studies, as well as city plan-ning. After working for Clark Construction, she signed on with the District’s Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development to help implement affordable-housing programs, then in 2008 became manager of property acquisition and disposition at the D.C. Department of Housing and Community Development.

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This is a listing of reports taken from Feb. 5 through 11 in local police service areas.

PSA 101

Assault with a dangerous weapon■ 1100 block, New York Ave.; restaurant; 8:25 a.m. Feb. 8.Theft (below $250)■ 1100 block, F St.; restaurant; 2 p.m. Feb. 6.■ 1000 block, Pennsylvania Ave.; restaurant; 12:45 p.m. Feb. 7.■ 600 block, 13th St.; store; 3:10 p.m. Feb. 7.■ 900 block, F St.; store; 4:07 p.m. Feb. 7.■ 1000 block, H St.; hotel; 1:30 p.m. Feb. 8.■ 700 block, 13th St.; restau-rant; 2:15 p.m. Feb. 8.■ 1000 block, Pennsylvania Ave.; store; 7:45 p.m. Feb. 9.■ Unit block, 7th St.; restaurant; 3:30 p.m. Feb. 10.■ 1000 block, H St.; hotel; 6:30 p.m. Feb. 10.Theft from auto (below $250)■ 700 block, 10th St.; parking lot; 7:30 a.m. Feb. 6.

PSA 102

Robbery (fear and violence)■ 800 block, 7th St.; sidewalk; 2:45 a.m. Feb. 11.Robbery (pickpocket)■ 1000 block, 5th St.; restau-rant; 7:41 p.m. Feb. 9.Assault with a dangerous weapon■ 600 block, F St.; restaurant; 12:24 p.m. Feb. 12.Theft (below $250)■ 600 block, F St.; unspecified premises; 9 a.m. Feb. 7.■ 400 block, 7th St.; office build-ing; 5:25 p.m. Feb. 8.■ 700 block, H St.; restaurant; 3:54 p.m. Feb. 10.Theft (shoplifting)■ 400 block, L St.; grocery store; 10:28 p.m. Feb. 7.Theft from auto (below $250)■ 400 block, L St.; street; 5 p.m. Feb. 6.■ 400 block, 8th St.; parking lot; 9 a.m. Feb. 10.■ 600 block, E St.; parking lot; 5 p.m. Feb. 10.■ 500 block, 9th St.; parking lot; 8 a.m. Feb. 11.

PSA 201

Theft (below $250)■ 5500 block, Connecticut Ave.; store; 5:50 p.m. Feb. 8.■ 5500 block, Connecticut Ave.; drugstore; 8:20 p.m. Feb. 11.

PSA 202

Assault with a dangerous weapon (gun)■ 4700 block, Wisconsin Ave.; restaurant; 1:15 a.m. Feb. 6.Burglary (attempt)■ 4200 block, 46th St.; resi-

dence; 11 p.m. Feb. 8.Stolen auto■ 38th Street and Windom Place; street; 6 p.m. Feb. 7.■ 4100 block, Legation Street; street; 2 p.m. Feb. 11.Theft (below $250)■ 5300 block, Wisconsin Ave.; store; 12:33 p.m. Feb. 8.■ 4000 block, Brandywine St.; unspecified premises; 4 p.m. Feb. 8.■ 4500 block, Wisconsin Ave.; restaurant; 3:30 p.m. Feb. 11.Theft (tags)■ River Road and Wisconsin Avenue; street; 4 p.m. Feb. 9.Theft from auto (below $250)■ 5300 block, Wisconsin Ave.; parking lot; 7:55 a.m. Feb. 6.■ 4300 block, 38th St.; street; 8 p.m. Feb. 7.■ 3900 block, Huntington St.; street; 3:05 p.m. Feb. 8.

PSA 203

Breaking and entering (vending)■ 4900 block, Connecticut Ave.; government building; 9 a.m. Feb. 6.Theft from auto (below $250)■ 3600 block, Upton St.; street; 10 a.m. Feb. 5.

PSA 204

Burglary (attempt)■ 3300 block, Woodley Road; residence; 4:15 p.m. Feb. 9.Stolen auto■ 3700 block, Newark St.; street; 7:30 a.m. Feb. 11.Theft (below $250)■ 2100 block, Huidekoper Place; street; 5:30 p.m. Feb. 7.■ 4000 block, Wisconsin Ave.; unspecified premises; 6:45 p.m. Feb. 7.■ 4000 block, Wisconsin Ave.; unspecified premises; 6:50 p.m. Feb. 7.Theft from auto ($250 plus)■ 3800 block, Garfield St.; street; 11 p.m. Feb. 9.Theft from auto (below $250)■ 2700 block, Cortland Place; street; 6:30 p.m. Feb. 5.■ 2800 block, 29th Place; street; 11 p.m. Feb. 5.■ 4000 block, Wisconsin Ave.; parking lot; 1:45 p.m. Feb. 6.■ 2900 block, Macomb St.; street; 6 p.m. Feb. 8.■ 3800 block, Garfield St.; street; 5 p.m. Feb. 9.■ 2800 block, 39th St.; street; 6 p.m. Feb. 9.■ 2900 block, 39th St.; street; 11:40 p.m. Feb. 9.

PSA 205

Burglary■ 4400 block, Massachusetts Ave.; university; 6 a.m. Feb. 11.■ 4400 block, Massachusetts Ave.; university; 6 a.m. Feb. 11.■ 4400 block, Massachusetts

Ave.; university; 12:30 p.m. Feb. 11.Theft (below $250)■ 5000 block, Dana Place; school; 7:30 a.m. Feb. 7.■ 4900 block, Sherier Place; resi-dence; 8 a.m. Feb. 7.

PSA 206

Robbery (attempt)■ 1300 block, Wisconsin Ave.; store; 5 p.m. Feb. 9.Burglary■ 2700 block, Pennsylvania Ave.; gas station; 11:30 p.m. Feb. 10.Theft ($250 plus)■ 3000 block, M St.; store; 12:25 p.m. Feb. 7.Theft (below $250)■ 1200 block, Wisconsin Ave.; store; 3:39 p.m. Feb. 6.■ 3000 block, M St.; store; 4:30 p.m. Feb. 6.■ 37th and O streets; school; 1:50 p.m. Feb. 7.■ 1200 block, 36th St.; restau-rant; 10:30 p.m. Feb. 7.■ 1000 block, Wisconsin Ave.; store; noon Feb. 8.■ 1200 block, Wisconsin Ave.; store; 6:20 p.m. Feb. 8.■ 3100 block, M St.; tavern/nightclub; 9:30 p.m. Feb. 9.■ 1200 block, Wisconsin Ave.; store; 1:20 p.m. Feb. 11.Theft from auto (below $250)■ 3300 block, M St.; unspecified premises; 2 p.m. Feb. 5.■ 3100 block, K St.; street; 12:15 a.m. Feb. 10.

PSA 207

Robbery (force and violence)■ 19th Street and Desales Row; alley; 1:45 a.m. Feb. 11.Stolen auto■ 17th and H streets; street; 6:30 p.m. Feb. 10.Theft ($250 plus)■ 2400 block, M St.; hotel; 2:20 a.m. Feb. 6.■ 700 block, 23rd St.; university; 11 a.m. Feb. 7.■ 1100 block, Connecticut Ave.; store; 2:16 p.m. Feb. 8.■ 1000 block, Connecticut Ave.; store; 1:45 p.m. Feb. 11.Theft (below $250)■ 1800 block, I St.; restaurant; 4:30 p.m. Feb. 6.■ 2100 block, H St.; university; 6 p.m. Feb. 6.■ 2000 block, K St.; medical facility; 11 a.m. Feb. 8.■ 1000 block, Connecticut Ave.; store; 10:08 a.m. Feb. 9.■ 1100 block, 18th St.; medical facility; 5:15 p.m. Feb. 9.■ 1100 block, 15th St.; office building; 8:23 a.m. Feb. 10.■ 1200 block, 24th St.; sidewalk; 10 a.m. Feb. 10.■ 1700 block, I St.; sidewalk; noon Feb. 10.■ 1100 block, 15th St.; parking lot; 5:55 p.m. Feb. 10.■ 1900 block, M St.; tavern/nightclub; 11:40 p.m. Feb. 10.■ 1400 block, K St.; store; 7:20 a.m. Feb. 11.■ 500 block, 17th St.; govern-ment building; 3:30 p.m. Feb. 12.

Theft from auto (below $250)■ 17th and Desales streets; street; 12:54 a.m. Feb. 10.

PSA 208

Assault with a dangerous weapon■ 1800 block, Phelps Place; resi-dence; 7:30 p.m. Feb. 6.Stolen auto■ 19th and R streets; street; 1 p.m. Feb. 11.Theft ($250 plus)■ 1200 block, 22nd St.; hotel; 10 p.m. Feb. 11.Theft (below $250)■ 1200 block, 22nd St.; hotel; 10:25 p.m. Feb. 5.■ 2100 block, Wyoming Ave.; government building; 1:35 a.m. Feb. 6.■ 1200 block, 18th St.; restau-rant; 12:15 p.m. Feb. 6.■ 1400 block, P St.; grocery store; 8 p.m. Feb. 6.■ Unit block, Dupont Circle; drug-store; 7:57 a.m. Feb. 7.■ 1300 block, Connecticut Ave.; store; 1:10 p.m. Feb. 7.■ Unit block, Dupont Circle; store; 1:04 a.m. Feb. 8.■ 1200 block, 20th St.; restau-rant; 3:38 p.m. Feb. 8.■ 1800 block, Massachusetts Ave.; unspecified premises; 5 p.m. Feb. 9.■ 1200 block, 19th St.; sidewalk; 6 p.m. Feb. 9.■ 2200 block, P St.; church; 1 p.m. Feb. 12.Theft (attempt)■ 1200 block, 22nd St.; store; 5:10 a.m. Feb. 8.Breaking and entering (vending)■ 1700 block, Rhode Island Ave.; unspecified premises; 5:50 p.m. Feb. 12.Theft from auto (below $250)■ 1500 block, Church St.; park-ing lot; 6:35 p.m. Feb. 6.■ 1400 block, 16th St.; street; 12:30 p.m. Feb. 11.Theft from auto (attempt)■ 1800 block, 19th St.; alley; 9 a.m. Feb. 10.

PSA 301

Assault with a dangerous weapon■ 14th and V streets; alley; 4 a.m. Feb. 11.Stolen auto■ 16th and Swann streets; street; midnight Feb. 10.Theft ($250 plus)■ 1400 block, S St.; residence; 10 a.m. Feb. 11.Theft (below $250)■ 1700 block, 17th St.; store; 4:20 p.m. Feb. 8.Theft from auto ($250 plus)■ 1400 block, T St.; street; 12:05 a.m. Feb. 11.Theft from auto (below $250)■ 15th and R streets; street; 11 p.m. Feb. 5.■ 1700 block, V St.; alley; 9:10 p.m. Feb. 6.■ 1600 block, Corcoran St.; street; 1:30 p.m. Feb. 8.■ 17th and Q streets; street; mid-night Feb. 10.

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cent of its undergraduate enrollment. At their public meeting Thursday, zoning commissioners said they hope the university can find another way to resolve neighbors’ objec-tions. “Frankly, that’s an extreme measure and I’m not sure we can insist upon that,” commissioner Peter May said of the housing pro-posal, “and I would rather the uni-versity find some way to address these issues in a more proactive way. I don’t know what it is, but I just know that it hasn’t happened yet.” “Otherwise,” May added, “our only option is to go with what OP suggests.” Commission chair Anthony Hood said he hopes the programs the school added last fall will do the trick. University officials project those efforts will cost $1 million annually on top of existing initia-tives. The school began conducting twice-daily litter pickups in much of West Georgetown and Burleith, added a late-night bus service to discourage noisy students from walking through residential neigh-borhoods, and increased security patrols to crack down on rowdy behavior and crime. “I just think the things that were proposed by the university are great, ... but it’s not clear whether it works,” said Hood, adding, “We’re faced with the university bringing something down here that’s been three or four months, and there’s no proof to it. … It has not had time to run its course.” The commission had already delayed the end of its hearings on the campus plan from the summer to November to help resolve traffic issues; the university ultimately pledged $2.5 million in intersection improvements. Many residents were upset with even that delay, and com-plaints continued last week when the

decision was pushed back another three months. “I’m sort of exhausted by it,” said Jennifer Altemus, president of the Citizens Association of Georgetown. “I feel like it has been delayed over and over again, and the university keeps getting more time and chances to get it right and do it again. … [Commissioners] keep sending [the university] back to the drawing board to figure something out, and they don’t come back with anything different.” Altemus also said she worries that commissioners might be over-looking some of the community’s points offered in hearings nearly a year ago. She pointed to commis-sioners’ focus on undergraduate stu-

dents, despite impacts she fears from the 967 graduate students the school hopes to add over the next decade. University spokesperson Stacey Kerr wrote in an email that she is confident the Zoning Commission will be impressed when the school presents additional data on its pro-grams April 12 and discusses them at an April 30 hearing. “We look forward to providing the Commission with further infor-mation to show the effectiveness of our investments,” Kerr wrote. Unlike some recent university campus plans, Georgetown isn’t seeking approval for controversial new development; rather, residents say the university needs to correct problems caused by past growth.

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Reese said at a news conference yesterday afternoon: After one crime, he said, “they drove a short distance away and committed another robbery.” In the first incident, police said, three black men in their 20s punched and robbed a solitary pedestrian in the 3800 block of Warren Street in North Cleveland Park at about 7:15 p.m. and fled on foot. Another pedestrian was robbed by three gunmen at about 10:15 p.m. in the 5200 block of Western Avenue near Harrison Street in Friendship Heights. Five min-utes later, two more pedestrians were approached and robbed at gunpoint by three men in the 4300 block of Garrison Street near Wisconsin Avenue, about two blocks from the Western Avenue incident. In that third robbery, one woman was struck in the head with a handgun and both victims were forced to lie face-down. The suspects drove off in an “older model, dark colored vehicle,” according to a police listserv post. Suspects in all three cases wore ski masks, police said, and none of the Monday victims required hospital-ization. Police believe the latter two incidents were committed by the same robbers, and that the first may have been as well. Reese asked residents in the area, particularly on Warren Street, to report any suspicious vehicles or other

activities they witnessed around the time of the robber-ies. He also recommended that pedestrians stay alert while they walk through quiet streets and urged against talking on a cellphone. Earlier posts on the department’s listserv and Twitter page contained some incorrect times and locations of the robberies, according to Reese. Jonathan Bender, a Friendship Heights advisory neighborhood commissioner, posted on the Tenleytown listserv that he “apparently just missed being a candi-date” for the robberies as he walked home from the Tenleytown Metro station Monday night. “I think the only way to catch the perpetrators and/or deter further robberies is to keep [a high level] of offi-cers on the street for at least the near future,” Bender wrote in an email to The Current. “I hope the police will do so.” Reese said he has increased police presence in response to the robberies, both with uniformed officers and “covert operations” that he declined to discuss. At community meetings, Police Chief Cathy Lanier has said efforts also include deploying plainclothes officers, escalating the priority of 911 calls for suspicious activity and checking on previous suspects and convicts. “The actions taken by the police have given me con-fidence that they’re taking this very, very seriously,” Ward 3 D.C. Council member Mary Cheh said at yester-day’s news conference, adding, “I think that they are bringing to bear the resources and the strategies that will ultimately get these people.”

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That resale value is where Gray and Lanier say the fight against smartphone theft will be won or lost. Lanier recently had a conference call with the head of the Federal Communications Commission, the chief of the New York Police Department, and the five biggest wireless providers in the country. The officials hope to emulate a British program in which wireless providers permanently disable any smartphone that has been reported stolen, thus killing its resale value and removing the incentive to steal such devices. The motto of the British program is “A stolen phone is a useless phone.” So far, American wireless pro-viders have been hesitant. The deci-

sion must be unanimous among the providers, because none wants even the hint of a competitive disadvan-tage. They’re also wary of stepping onto what they see as a slippery slope of government intervention and service disruption, Lanier said. Paul Quander, the District’s dep-uty mayor for public safety and jus-tice, said the problem of smartphone thefts has no geographic boundar-ies. Lanier agreed, saying that she’s spoken with city and campus police chiefs all over the country and they’re seeing the same problem. “This is a national issue,” she said. “We’ve done all we can at the local level.” Ward 3 D.C. Council member Mary Cheh urged residents to be mindful when they have a smart-phone out and to be proactive if they see something suspicious. “Call the police and don’t be shy about it,” Cheh said. “Citizens need to be part-ners with their government.”

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Making progress Mayor Vincent Gray and other District officials are praising President Barack Obama’s support for D.C. budget autonomy in his just-released 2013 budget proposal. Such a move would be “consis-tent with the principle of home rule,” the document correctly states. We are also pleased with the president’s proposal, and we appreci-ate D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton for her role in pressing the issue and securing President Obama’s cooperation. Congressional feuding has made an already-untenable situation worse. Because the District’s spending is bound to federal appropria-tions, when Congress can’t agree on its budget, the city faces the threat of not being allowed to use its own tax dollars for trash collec-tion, libraries, building inspectors and more. Tying small, local concerns to the federal government’s budgetary behemoth also causes difficulties in planning. School officials, for example, have said that it’s hard to make budgeting decisions using the government’s fiscal calendar, which splits the school year in two. Local budget autonomy is the kind of issue that shouldn’t be one at all; most Americans, we’re sure, would agree that the District’s fis-cal affairs should be its own. But given the current political climate, we’re doubtful that President Obama’s suggestion will sail through Congress. And unfortunately, the president has shown that he’s will-ing to sacrifice District interests for larger political gains. It rankles to think that self-determination should be the subject of political horse-trading. But if a compromise can be reached, we hope that its trade-offs at least involve process rather than substance. That is, perhaps the city’s budget could be treated like its other laws, sub-ject to congressional review but allowed to stand unless action is taken within 30 days. We would prefer that to intrusive, policy-orient-ed restrictions placed on local dollars.

Not yet shovel-ready The dustings of snow we’ve seen so far this winter in Northwest are hardly enough to warrant sand and salt, much less a shovel. Yet the debate rages on in the D.C. Council over a measure that would give teeth to the city’s shoveling law. We agree with backers that the issue should be resolved before we get any real accumulation. Yet Ward 3 D.C. Council member Mary Cheh and her co-sponsors have drawn some flak for the proposal, and they’ll need to adequately address those concerns in order to get any traction. A general objection to the bill, which would let the city fine prop-erty owners who don’t clear their sidewalks within eight hours of a storm, is about piling on burdens: Many D.C. residents simply feel they are too nickel-and-dimed already. Some view the proposed fine as simply another way for officials to line the city’s coffers. Perhaps an adequate system of warnings — and exemptions for seniors and disabled residents who can’t shovel — would help chill these complaints. Council members Cheh and Tommy Wells, Ward 6, have already required that such an exemption be put in place before any tickets are issued, but we’d like to hear how it would work. One idea would be to direct any collected fines to a fund that would cover the costs of clearing paths for those who aren’t able. Local leaders should look to cities where a shoveling law is already in place — such as New York, Boston and Chicago — for ideas on that issue and other aspects of implementation. Despite the concerns, the success of shoveling laws in those and other cities suggests that it should be workable here, too. We already require citizens to shovel, which is clearly a public good; it seems silly to skip enforcement of a law we’ve already approved. Some have claimed that the city is one of the worst offenders, fail-ing to clear paths on its properties, and we agree that there should be a serious commitment to improve that track record. But inaction on the part of one doesn’t justify it for all, and we look forward to the days when we won’t have to trudge into the roadway to traverse our neighborhoods after a big storm.

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Many of the city’s political leaders piled out of the John A. Wilson Building on Monday to celebrate a crumb of recognition from

President Barack Obama. The president, who mostly prefers eating in our restaurants to paying real attention to city matters, included a modest statement about D.C. in his budget proposals. He said he agrees that the city should have “bud-get autonomy” to spend its tax revenues without the sluggish approval of Congress every year. It’s a big goal of the District because the city’s budget gets mired in and held up by congressional turf battles that have nothing to do with the District. D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton praised the president’s move, saying she had asked him for sup-port during a Martin Luther King Jr. holiday concert at the Kennedy Center. City leaders were so busy praising the president’s budget language that no one pointed out that the pro-posal isn’t actually in the budget itself. The president merely declared that he would work with Congress in the future to “pass legislation” on autonomy. There’s no fundamental reason to deny the city its right to spend local tax dollars as its leaders see fit. But the politics of scandal could get in the way. Some members of Congress — Republican and Democrat — may be reluctant to grant any budget freedom until the ethics air clears a bit more. The city was already embarrassed this year when former Ward 5 Council member Harry Thomas Jr. resigned and pleaded guilty to two felony corruption charges. He’ll be sentenced on May 3 — likely to prison — just as the Congress is getting down to business on the budget. Worse, there are the ongoing federal criminal investigations into campaigns run by Mayor Vincent Gray and Council Chairman Kwame Brown. Both probes have been going on for months, and both have the potential to severely embarrass the city’s political leadership. Mayor Vincent Gray told us on Monday that it would be unfair to continue denying District citizens the right to control their own fiscal affairs. We asked him if the scandal stuff would dampen congressional enthusiasm. “I really don’t know,” the mayor replied. “I think that we’ve demonstrated that this city is moving for-ward. We’ve balanced our budget in ways so many other states have not. I think we’ve proven ourselves to run a government.” Gray has made inroads to Republicans who con-trol the House, but the shadow of scandal can snuff out even the best of intentions. “We finally have a White House that’s taking somewhat of an interest in supporting our efforts to get budget autonomy, which is important,” said D.C.

Council finance chair Jack Evans. But he acknowl-edged that the air of scandal “certainly won’t help.” The District wants to press for budget autonomy, statehood and other political rights enjoyed by the states. And, as we have often written, it is admittedly unfair to hold scandal against the District. If scandal were the issue, Maryland would have lost its rights with the conviction of former Gov. Marvin Mandel. The same could be said for many other states.

The city is at a disad-vantage of its own mak-ing.

It has a new ethics law and — soon, we hope — a new ethics panel in place to investi-

gate and punish wrongdoing. The city’s established offices of the D.C. auditor, attorney general and inspector general also could toughen their staffs and their approach to ethics. We do give credit to former Attorney General Peter Nickels and current AG Irving Nathan for pur-suing the Harry Thomas Jr. scandal. Their work laid the foundation for the criminal charges brought by U.S. Attorney Ronald Machen. But there is nothing like the fresh air of “ethics autonomy” — real ethics reform and enforcement — to clear the air over both the Wilson Building and Capitol Hill, where Congress is watching.■ One City. One big bill. The preliminary bill for the mayor’s One City Summit last Saturday tops $600,000. About 1,700 people participated at the Washington Convention Center. Others participated online. Those who attended got the added advantage of a free lunch and the chance to talk directly with members of the mayor’s staff and cabinet as well as some council members. But the Notebook and others still wonder, what was the true benefit? Some called the $600,000-plus event little more than a “feel good” exercise. As we’ve pointed out before, the mayor just four days earlier had given a 58-minute State of the District address in which he laid out his priorities for the coming year. Wouldn’t that speech have more naturally followed the big citizen confab last Saturday?■ Batter up? We just want to mention that the Washington Nationals begin spring training this weekend in Florida. But the ball club already is urg-ing local folks here to buy tickets to the May home series with the Philadelphia Phillies. It’s a “Take Back the Park” campaign. The Nats are trying to minimize any repeat of previous games when Phillies fans overwhelmed the ballpark here. For now, the team is selling only to local D.C. area addresses. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., has groused his opposi-tion in a letter to Nats owner Ted Lerner. But you can be a home team booster by joining in. Tom Sherwood, a Southwest resident, is a political reporter for News 4.

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Ward 4 candidate’s complaints unfair Contrary to Baruti Jahi’s accu-sation [“Poll biased toward Ward 4 incumbent,” Letters to the Editor, Feb. 8], the Feb. 1 Candidates and Endorsement Forum sponsored by the Ward 4 Democrats was conducted in a fair and ethical manner. All can-didates were notified of this event immediately after it was approved by the members at the January 2012 meeting. Out of 314 votes cast at the

Feb. 1 forum, Mr. Jahi received four votes. The votes were count-ed publicly, and the outcome was not challenged by any of the can-didates or members of the public. Mr. Jahi’s characterization of the July 2011 elections of officers of the Ward 4 Democrats is also inaccurate. In addition to being consistent with the organization’s bylaws, the elections process was well-publicized for several months in advance of the elec-tions. Anyone who wanted to participate had every opportunity to do so and would have been able to had he or she attended and participated in the monthly meetings leading up to the elec-tions.

Ward 4 citizens who regularly attend meetings of the Ward 4 Democrats are also aware that these meetings always start on time at the designated hour, out of consideration and respect for the time and schedules of our members, and for this I will not apologize. Rather than posture and defame the volunteers who give of their time to participate in this process, Mr. Jahi needs to accept responsibility and accountability for his own failure to participate in the activities of the Ward 4 Democrats of Washington, D.C.

Deborah M. RoysterPresident, Ward 4 Democrats

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oregon avenue bike lanes inappropriate I read with interest Mr. Infosino’s letter in The Current’s Feb. 8 issue [“Oregon Avenue work will be disruptive”] concern-ing the reconstruction of Nebraska and Oregon avenues. While Nebraska Avenue’s reconstruction was inconvenient, the street’s resi-dents now benefit from a pothole-free road, new sidewalks and curbs

from Utah to Oregon avenues, new street lamps, new driveways, new embankment walls, new cross-walks, new parking lanes that dou-ble as bike and skateboard lanes, and improved drainage. It is worth noting that the city provided the advisory neighbor-hood commission with detailed plans of the construction project early on. The city also allowed for sensible modifications per neigh-bors’ wishes. For example, if you compare the north and south sides of Nebraska Avenue, you will notice that on the south side, the sidewalk and “parking” (the grassy

area between the curb and pave-ment) is 15 feet wide while on the north side the sidewalk is as narrow as 5 feet. While Oregon Avenue residents focus on sidewalks, they lose sight of the real problem, which is the city’s plan for dedicated bike lanes on the west side of Oregon. Not only are they unnecessary, but they would kill many trees. In my view, narrow sidewalks and curbs on the west side of Oregon would increase safety without destroying the bucolic nature of the street.

Frank BuchholzChevy Chase

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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].

In announcing a feasibility study to implement a non-motorized boathouse zone along the Georgetown waterfront from 34th Street to a site

immediately upstream of the Washington Canoe Club, the National Park Service stated that it will examine two questions: “What facilities and uses can be accom-modated in the zone?” and “How many facilities can be accommodated, and where might they be placed?” It is my intention in this Viewpoint to provide workable and compelling answers to these ques-tions. While there appear to be four possible sites within this zone, only three are acceptable. For these sites, there are three obvious stakeholders: George Washington University, Georgetown University and Jack’s Boathouse. The Park Service should, once and for all, deep-six the upstream site originally proposed for Georgetown University’s boathouse in the 2006 environmental assessment. This site is located inside the C&O Canal National Historical Park near the entrance to the Capital Crescent Trail. The public’s use and enjoyment of this treasured but congested area should be preserved and the historic and scenic features of the park protected. The C&O Canal Advisory Commission repeatedly rejected this site for a boathouse. Based on many well-documented concerns, there was signficant opposition to this site during the 2006 review process. Of the three remaining possibilities, George Washington University has been promised the site located between 34th Street and Key Bridge. To advance its claim, the university purchased two nearby town houses that it intends to convey to the Park Service in exchange for this site. Georgetown University’s boathouse should be locat-ed on the site commonly referred to as “Jack’s.” This site is between Key Bridge and the Potomac Boat Club and includes the town houses noted above. In order to acquire this property from the Park Service, Georgetown University would exchange its upriver par-cel and its mile-long easement over the Capital Crescent Trail. The estimated length of the Jack’s site is 200 feet along the river and 230 feet along Water Street; the depth from the street to the river is about 100 feet. The square footage is roughly 21,500. Thus, there is obvi-ously ample space at this site to accommodate all of the

university’s needs associated with its rowing program, including an interior rowing tank. (The proposed boat-house for George Washington University has a footprint of about 13,500 square feet, and it, too, will have a rowing tank.) There are many advantages for locating Georgetown University’s boathouse at this location, which is within the non-motorized boathouse zone but outside the C&O Canal Park. Unlike sites within the park, it would not adversely impact the historic and scenic features of the canal. Also, there would be

fewer height restrictions on the boathouse at this location. And since the site fronts on Water Street (unlike any pro-posed site within the park), it is easily accessi-ble, with no requirement for a vehicular turn-around. This location would also avoid safety problems inherent at the

narrow gateway of the busy Capital Crescent Trail. And finally, this site poses no environmental concerns. But most important, the selection of this site should have wide public support.

Jack’s Boathouse, a longtime popular venue, should be moved to the area adjacent to the Aqueduct Bridge, known as the Dempsey site. It would be easy to move the small office building currently located in the park-ing lot. Jack’s rental operation consists ostensibly of floating docks strung together on which kayaks and canoes are stacked. Thus, moving the Jack’s operation to the Dempsey site would result in only a minor incon-venience. The adoption of this proposal would “cluster” the two university boathouses and the Potomac Boat Club, thereby creating a “boathouse row” around the com-manding presence of Key Bridge — an aesthetic plus. In addition, the high school rowing programs would benefit since the two universities would vacate the Thompson Boat Center, reducing the overcrowded con-ditions in that facility and providing more space for the high schools. The university boathouses and relocation of Jack’s Boathouse must be approved environmentally after the preparation of either an environmental impact statement or an environmental assessment, but the projects could be considered together, avoiding a duplication of effort and expense. I hope the community and especially the stakehold-ers and the Park Service will embrace these recommen-dations. The acceptance of this proposal would finally provide that elusive light at the end of the tunnel. Robert Norris is a Cathedral Heights resident.

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Aidan Montessori School The upper elementary is putting together a class cookbook. It will include appetizers, entrees and des-serts. We decided to ask a few chil-dren some questions about the class cookbook and what they think of it. We started off by asking sixth-grad-er Sofia Brown what she is looking forward to and why. “I am excited about making the new class recipes because I like to cook and then eat!” she said. Next, we asked fourth-grader Leyu Negussie the same question. She said she is excited about the cookbook because her picture is going to be in it, and she thinks it will look very good. She is also excited for Jaquelin Weymouth’s chocolate pie recipe. Yum! After Leyu, we thought it was time to ask a fifth-grader a new question. It seemed as though Eva Gondelman was very enthusiastic about the cookbook, so we decided to interview her. We asked what she put in the cookbook. She said, “I put in two desserts. One was Mexican wedding cakes and the other was toffee. Mmm!” Sixth-graders Ian Smith and Lucia Braddock were up next. Ian put in spaghetti and shepherd’s pie. Lucia put in apple aebleskivers and chicken enchiladas. Our final question went to fourth-grader Alexandra Bullock. We asked her if she had ever done a project similar to this before. She said, “No, and that is what makes it exciting!”

— Eva Sophia Shimanski and Isabel Bouhl, fifth-graders

Beauvoir School There is a group of kids in our

class who like playing with domi-noes. Our goal is to make a really big domino track somewhere in the classroom. Sometimes, we set dominoes up along the tops of the cubbies. We try to make as long a track as possi-ble. It is a challenge to not have a big section fall down while we are still setting them up. People like to crowd around to watch when it’s time to knock them down. Someone knocks down the first domino, and it creates a chain reaction. The dominoes make a clicking noise. When they fall, it is really cool!

— Michael Harreld, third-grader

Blessed Sacrament School Blessed Sacrament School recently celebrated Catholic Schools Week, a week when Catholic students and teachers across the country celebrate Catholic education. This year, we reflected on faith, academics and service. We also had lots of fun activities. Students enjoyed an appreciation day, where they took a break from their usual uniforms with a free dress day and had a doughnut breakfast. On Teacher Appreciation Day, teachers received flowers and cards from their classes saying how much we are thankful for their hard work. When Catholic Schools Week begins in our school, we have an assembly and prayer service in our gymnasium, where a former Blessed Sacrament student speaks about being Catholic and his or her experience being educated in a

place like Blessed Sacrament. This year’s speaker, Mr. Patterson, went through Blessed Sacrament and now teaches at St. John’s College High School. He is also a father of Blessed Sacrament students. He talked to us about why we should treasure our faith and grow in it. To close the week, we had a Mass in our church.

— Emily Orem, fifth-grader

British School of Washington The world of business can be tough, yet Year 4 St. Louis has been learning to have a head for busi-ness. On Feb. 2, the class had a very successful money and trade busi-ness sale. The companies were Charlotte & Co, Cosmic Comix, Valentine Bows and Ocean Lily Pastries. What did they sell? Well, Charlotte & Co sold bracelets to do with the seasons spring, summer, fall and winter; Cosmic Comix sold Jake and John’s adventures comics; Valentine Bows sold cupcakes; and Ocean Lily Pastries sold cookies, cupcakes, muffins and croissants. Ocean Lily Pastries sold out first, then Cosmic Comix. After that was Charlotte & Co and finally Valentine Bows. This was all part of our International Primary Curriculum unit on money and trade.

— Lavinia Palmer, Year 4 St Louis (third-grader)

Duke Ellington School of the Arts The air has been moist with ado-lescent sweat, worry and excitement — in recent weeks, Duke Ellington School of Arts has been filled with

critical events. For parent-teacher conferences, students had the day off school and parents took their place in the busy halls, moving from class to class learning about their children. Later that week, prospective stu-dents dripped through the halls on their way to callbacks — follow-ups from the auditions for Duke Ellington that took place earlier. Theater callbacks consisted of a warm-up and a workshop to see how well students take direction. Next, on Wednesday, were call-backs for the Literary Media and Communications department; stu-dents were dropped into a simula-tion classroom and observed inter-acting with the teacher and assigned text. Finally, on Thursday and Friday, prospective students partici-pated in the vocal music callbacks. Current Ellington students also got a taste of the excitement when, last Tuesday, students in the dance department got the opportunity to attend a performance at the Kennedy Center by the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary. Also last week, the seniors at Duke Ellington pre-sented their Variety Show Fundraiser, which they had been preparing for more than a month. The show presents talent acts as well as afashion. On Monday, Ellington hosted a read-in for Black History Month where parents, teachers, students and other speak-ers read material by African-American authors.

— Barrett Smith, 10th-grader

Edmund Burke School On Jan. 27 and 28, the middle school performed a collection of eight one-act plays from two of David Ives’ anthologies: “All in the Timing” and “Time Flies.” There were two acts, with four plays in each act. Act 1 opened with “Sure Thing.” Two people meet and fall in love, but when they say any-thing awkward, a bell resets the conversation. It was followed by

“Babel’s in Arms,” where two con-struction workers are instructed to build the Tower of Babel and if they don’t, their boss will kill them, so they try to organize a way out of their predicament. After that was “Words, Words, Words.” Three chimpanzees typing into infinity try to write Hamlet. The final play in the first act was “Enigma Variations,” where a woman named Bebe W. W. Doppelganger is dis-cussing her déjà vu problem with her psychologist, while the same conversation takes place in a paral-lel universe. Act II began with “Time Flies.” Two mayflies on a date learn from David Attenborough that they have only one day to live. Following that was “Variations on the Death of Trotsky,” during which Leon Trotsky hallucinates his own death eight times. Third was “Soap Opera,” where a repairman is caught in a love triangle between a washing machine and his childhood girlfriend. The final play was “The Philadelphia,” where a man learns from his friend that he is caught in a pocket of reality called a “Philadelphia,” where if he wants something, he has to ask for the opposite. Students helped with set changes and props. The show had two eve-ning performances and one matinee over the weekend and was a terrific success. We are all most grateful to the director, Michelle Johncock; assistant director, Sean Felix; the technical director, Mel Bratz; and the high school students who helped us have a great production.

— Juliana Schifferes, eighth-grader

Holy Trinity School Holy Trinity held a schoolwide spelling bee on Jan. 30 as part of Catholic Schools Week. Fourth through eighth grades participated, and the whole school cheered them on. Holy Trinity has been holding spelling bees for the past three

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After DeMatha routed Gonzaga in front of a national television audi-ence last Friday, the Eagles had little time to dwell on the loss. Gonzaga had to play Paul VI — the top team in the Washington Catholic Athletic Conference — two days later. The Eagles showed resilience as they rebounded in a big way against the Paul VI Panthers and took them into double overtime. The game came down to the final shot, but there was no magical ending for the Eagles: A buzzer-beating shot went awry and Gonzaga fell 85-83 at the sold-out Carmody Center. “I tweeted after the DeMatha game that we as a team were going to learn from it,” said Eagles coach Steve Turner. “Tonight we showed people that we certainly learned from it even in a tough loss.” Had they beaten DeMatha and Paul VI, the Eagles would have had a shot at the top seed going into the WCAC playoffs. Instead, Gonzaga will likely be locked into the third seed after beating St. John’s last night at the Carmody Center. The

Eagles must win one of their two remaining games — or the Cadets must lose one of theirs — for Gonzaga to clinch the spot. “At this point, as long as you’re not in the play-in games, seeding doesn’t matter,” said Turner. “Everyone goes to 0-0, and you’re going to have to win three games to win the championship.” In Sunday’s game, Gonzaga jumped on the Panthers early and took a quick 17-10 lead. Junior guard Nate Britt and Kris Jenkins sparked the early run, providing a preview of what the pair would do in the rest of the game. Overall, they combined for 63 points. But by the end of the first quarter the Panthers had cut Gonzaga’s lead to 19-17. In the second quarter, the nip-and-tuck play continued, until Jenkins threw down a thunderous slam dunk and Britt swished a 3-pointer to propel the Eagles to a 33-36 lead at halftime. After intermission, the Eagles were unable to pull away from the Panthers. Paul VI managed to take a 60-56 lead with less than two min-utes to play, but Britt scored the Eagles’ last six points of regulation

to send the game into overtime tied at 64. “He made the biggest plays down the stretch and gave us an opportunity to win the game,” Turner said of Britt’s 35-point out-burst. The Eagles clung to a 75-72 lead late in the first overtime period and had a chance to sneak away with a win. But Paul VI hit a 3-pointer to send the game into a second over-time period. In that period, the game remained close as fatigue set in. But the Eagles were unable to hit the game-winner at the buzzer. “[After] being embarrassed on TV, we found a way to come back two days later and gut it out against the No.1 team in the league and had a chance to beat them,” said Turner. “To be right there with an opportu-nity to beat them, our guys are going to learn from that experience. We’re back in the right direction even with two losses.” Gonzaga will wrap up the regu-lar season by traveling to Good Counsel Thursday and hosting Senior Day against St. Mary’s Ryken Monday.

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Before Saturday, St. Albans hadn’t fin-ished in the top 10 of its annual invitational wrestling tournament since 1997. That changed when the Eagles emerged out of a tough 32-team field Saturday night to finish in ninth place. After the tournament, St. Albans coach Chuck Crossan recalled that pre-vious top-10 finish, when the Bulldogs came in sev-enth. “We had one of our more successful seasons ever. This is the first group of kids that we’ve had in a long time that are really dedicated to this sport.” The St. Albans Bulldog Wrestling Tournament has been a fixture in the District for more than six decades, and it brings together a slew of local and national talent. “It’s a huge event for us,” said Crossan. “We get some good wrestling schools from around the East Coast. The kids get to see some good wrestling. We’ve been doing that for 65 years.” The Bulldogs had several athletes place in the top eight of their respective weight classes to boost the team’s score.

Sophomore Andrew Neal, who competes

in the 120-pound weight class, finished in sixth place to win the Bulldogs’ first medal Saturday night. “I won three matches — got a bye in the first round and lost in the quar-terfinals. It means a lot [that] this is our

tournament. I’m pretty proud of what I did.”

Aram Balian also grabbed a sixth-place medal for the Bulldogs in the 285-pound division.

Three St. Albans grap-plers finished in seventh place: Corey Rich in the 138-pound division, Charles Cato in the 160-pound bracket and Marquis Johnson, who competed in the 220-pound division.

“It means a lot,” said Johnson. “This was pretty much my last wrestling match in this school. It feels good to come away with sev-enth place and to improve from eighth place last year.” Thomas Pack and Fred Lohner-Piazza also had strong outings for the Bulldogs. They finished in eighth place in the 126- and 152-pound weight classes respectively. “We are looking really good — especially for next week [in the D.C. City Championships],” said Neal. “We feel really good. I think we are going to come out on top. I’m pretty confident in that. I don’t think we have seen a team that can stand up against

us there.” Several other locals had good showings. Sidwell’s Jonathan Matts grabbed sixth place in the 126-pound division, while Gabe Baldinger finished in sixth in the 145-pound

division. Meanwhile, Patrick Wenzlaff of St. John’s grabbed the bronze in the 170-pound bracket. “I started off slow,” said Wenzlaff. “I lost to

Bulldogs wrestle way into top 10

Matt Petros/The CurrentAram Balian, top above, was one of seven St. Albans wrestlers to place Saturday. Patrick Wenzlaff of St. John’s, left, took bronze in the 170-pound bracket.

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Matt Petros/The CurrentJunior guard Nate Britt drives to the basket against the Stags. Gonzaga dropped two tough WCAC games last week.

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The foundation for Visitation’s undefeated run through the Independent School League was laid in 2001, when Maddy Williams and Maddie Dawson played basketball together in first grade. By their middle-school years, five of the Cubs’ seven seniors were playing for the Maryland Flames on the Amateur Athletic Union circuit. “I can’t imagine playing basket-ball without these people,” said Dawson. “I’ve never known it really. We all went to different grade schools. But in outside basketball, we all played together.” That friendship and chemistry on the court has propelled Visitation to one of its most successful seasons. “This is the best team I have ever coached at Visitation,” said Cubs coach Mike McCarthy. Before McCarthy started coach-ing the girls, Kate’s mother led their middle school AAU team. Even when they were in seventh grade, Kathy Gillespie said, she knew they

could be a top-flight team. “They were always just competi-tors,” said Gillespie. “We didn’t look very imposing. ... But they had this competitive drive that other teams couldn’t match.” Gillespie helped build the team that’s playing today, said Dawson. “We scouted Libby [Mosko] off the soccer field,” she said. “Mrs. Gillespie spotted Libby on the Little Flower soccer team and knew we had to have her. She wasn’t the greatest basketball player right off the bat, but she’s developed.” That same plucky performance that Gillespie fostered has served the girls through their four years at Visitation. The Cubs’ seven seniors — Dawson, Williams, Kate Gillespie, Kathleen Tabb, Libby Mosko, Emma McVearry and Kelsey Tillman — have had a deco-rated four-year run. They’ve won over 96 games together while losing just 19; only two of those losses were in ISL games. They’ve also won three league regular-season titles and two ISL tournament cham-pionships.

“It makes it easy on passing because we know where each other is going to be, because we’ve been playing together for so long,” said Gillespie. Gillespie is the only Cubs senior who will play at the college level next season, which has spurred the seniors to go out on top together. “Since Kate is the only one of us playing basketball in college, it’s our last time all playing,” said Mosko. “We want to leave, hopefully, win-ning the ISL and the ISL tournament — to have our last memory being as good as all of our other memories.” While the seven seniors have just two regular-season games remaining — on the road against Bullis Saturday and Flint Hill Sunday — and the conference tournament, they hope to make more history together. “I think we play for each other,” said Gillespie. “We’re all such good friends. It’s not just the seniors — it’s the underclassmen, too. We are all so close. We don’t just want to win for ourselves, but we want to win for each other the most, and that’s what drives us.”

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a kid and beat him later on in the tournament. I’ve stepped my game up from [the neutral position]. I’m not usually good from neutral, but I stepped my game

up.” Cadet Tom McNamara grabbed eighth place in the 195-pound division for St. John’s. Wrestlers from across the District will meet next Saturday at Model Senior Secondary School to deter-mine city champions and which competitors will move on to the regional competition.

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Boys basketballGrace Brethren-Clinton 100, Washington International 47Jewish Day 52, Edmund Burke 37Maret 64, The Heights 28Covenant Life 52, Field 46Sidwell 68, Georgetown Day 43Grace Brethren-Clinton 80, Edmund Burke 47GW Community School 58, Lab School 45

St. Albans 70, Landon 61Gonzaga 52, O’Connell 45St. John’s 74, McNamara 55Bell 47, Dunbar 35Coolidge 83, Roosevelt 58Hebrew Academy 42, Edmund Burke 32Sidwell 74, Flint Hill 69DeMatha 76, Gonzaga 47Maret 63, Georgetown Day 46Episcopal 68, St. Albans 59St. John’s 66, Carroll 57Roosevelt 83, Washington Metropolitan 16Coolidge 73, Wilson 48St. John’s 74, St. Mary’s Ryken 46Paul VI 85, Gonzaga 83

Saint Anselm’s 56, Washington International 42

Girls basketballCovenant Life 50, Edmund Burke 31Georgetown Day 56, Flint Hill 52Holton-Arms 49, Maret 27St. John’s 77, McNamara 45Visitation 58, Sidwell 41Coolidge 63, Roosevelt 33Bullis 58, Georgetown Day 51Edmund Burke 45, Sandy Spring 37Flint Hill 67, Sidwell 48St. John’s 87, Carroll 67Visitation 60, Maret 29Coolidge 58, Wilson 37

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Brian Kapur/The CurrentAll seven of Visitation’s seniors served as captains on Senior Day against Maret Friday.

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Dumbarton United Methodist Church is a handsome, late-19th-centu-

ry building that sits among historic row houses on a neat residential street in Georgetown. It’s the oldest Methodist church in D.C., and 2012 marks its 25 years among the most progressive Methodist congrega-tions in the country, its members say. That’s because a quarter of a century ago, Dumbarton members unanimously voted to join the Reconciling Ministries Network, which is made up of Methodist churches that welcome people of all backgrounds and sexual identities and support their full inclusion into active ministry. “In a lot of the world and even in parts of this city, those are still radical ideas,” said Chett Pritchett, Dumbarton’s lay leader and a gay member of the congregation. “We were doing it 25 years ago.” “Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people are part of the fabric of this congregation,” said church member Ann Thompson Cook, who helped lead Dumbarton’s nine-month explora-tion process in 1986 and 1987 as

the community decided to become a reconciling church. Dumbarton strives to be wel-coming to all. At church services, everyone gets a name tag, including guests. The sanctuary pews are set up in a semicircle to position peo-ple closer to the altar, and children are called up for an interactive les-son in front of the congregation before going to Sunday school. The Feb. 12 service given by Dumbarton’s pastor, the Rev. Mary Kay Totty, focused on Valentine’s Day and knowing the difference between romance and love. Totty asked all the couples in the congre-gation to stand up. There were a few young couples, some partners celebrating more than a half-century of marriage, and pairs both gay and straight. “We celebrate with you and we rejoice with you,” Totty said of the couples’ commitments. “There is so much more love in this world than romance.” In an interview a few days before the service, Totty said that when she was assigned as pastor to Dumbarton in 2009, she “knew it was the church that I always wanted to serve” because of its inclusive community. She estimates that about 15 per-cent of the 300-member congrega-

tion is gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender. Totty also pointed out that the United Methodist Church will not ordain openly gay ministers and also includes some discriminatory language against gays in its “Book of Discipline.” “It’s absolutely vital for churches to say publicly and with joy that gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgen-der people are God’s loved children just as they are, and that we need to welcome and celebrate all people,” she said. Dumbarton itself began as a tra-ditional Methodist congregation, founded in Georgetown in 1772. It moved into its current church in 1850. Member Michael Doan says that in the early 1970s, the congregation was transitioning from a more con-servative makeup to a more pro-gressive one that supported peace and social justice issues. Affirmation, a Methodist gay rights organization, began holding services at Dumbarton in 1979, but

as tenants and not as a sponsored church group. Then Affirmation members asked the congregation to go a step further and look into full inclusion of gay people in the church community. That began a church discern-ment process over several years including studies and education ses-sions for parents — on top of the nine months of meetings, a sermon series and seminars leading up to the 1987 vote to become a reconcil-ing church. It wasn’t an easy transition, church members say, and some members left the congregation. “It was an education process,” Doan said. “I don’t think it would have worked if it had happened all at once.” Doan admits that he himself was wary at first. Now, he said, “I don’t think of it as an issue. They’re just people in the church.” There are nearly 500 United Methodist churches in the Reconciling Ministries Network and about 33,500 United Methodist churches in the country. Each year since its members voted to become a reconciling church, the Georgetown congrega-tion holds a celebration on the Sunday before Lent, including a Mardi Gras pancake breakfast. This year’s 25th anniversary cel-ebration will take place this coming Sunday, and it will include a 10 a.m. talk by a former pastor, the Rev. Mary Kraus, on Dumbarton’s history of LGBT advocacy and an 11 a.m. worship service including a

guest sermon by Sean Delmore, a Methodist minister and gay rights advocate. Kraus is looking forward to cele-brating with her former congrega-tion, which she says helped educate her about the LGBT community. While she was pastor from 1990 to 2009, she saw a deepening of the congregation’s understanding of what it meant to be a reconciling church. “Children really helped lead us through it,” she said. “This genera-tion is just now raised in that kind of [inclusive] community that’s pro-viding key leadership in other jus-tice issues as well.” At a social hour following the Feb. 12 service, some of those chil-dren, along with adult members, helped sponge-paint multicolored banners that will hang in the church sanctuary for the 25th anniversary celebration. Thompson Cook pointed to the church members talking and snack-ing on refreshments and to the inclusive service beforehand and said, “You can tell … we’re com-pletely comfortable with each other.” Church administrator Melany Burrill, who is gay, said her parents time their visits to see her with the reconciling anniversary each year. “It’s one of our ‘high holy days,’” she joked. Burrill said she chose to join Dumbarton in 1995 because the congregation knows “the difference between talking community and liv-ing community.”

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Dumbarton Church marks 25 years of GLBT inclusion

Courtesy of Dumbarton United Methodist ChurchMoments at Georgetown’s Dumbarton United Methodist Church, clockwise from above: the baptism of members Jennifer and Amy Stapleton’s baby, Sam; a couple at services; an Easter celebration; and the Rev. Mary Kay Totty, who chose the church because of its inclusive approach, speaking to congregants.


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At the commission’s Feb. 8 meeting:■ commissioners voted 7-0, with Phil Carney and Victor Wexler absent, to support street closures for the May 13 Bike DC event. Because the event is non-competitive, police can periodically stop cyclists and let other traffic through intersections, according to a representative.■ commissioners voted 7-0 to sup-port street closures for the March 17 SunTrust Rock ’n’ Roll USA Marathon and a “motivation station” with live music in the Dupont Circle park.■ commissioners voted 7-0 to hold a meeting, date to be determined, to decide how to use available funds to improve Stead Park.■ commissioner Jack Jacobson dis-cussed a recent fire at an apartment building at 1630 R St., which author-ities say was caused by a metham-phetamine laboratory. An arrest was made in connection with the fire and the lab, said Jacobson.■ Aaron DeNu of Dupont Festival thanked participants in the commu-nity’s Groundhog Day celebration, and said he hopes it will become a tradition.■ commissioners voted 7-0 to speci-fy the penalties for a commissioner who is censured by his colleagues. The commissioner would be removed from committees and could lose an officer position, and would also be blocked from future commit-tee or officer posts. A censure is based on a majority vote and is designed to be used for commissioners who commit serious crimes, steal commission funds or seriously violate commission bylaws.■ commissioners voted 7-0 to oppose the D.C. Council’s Prostitution Free Zone Amendment Act of 2011, which would lessen probable-cause restrictions on police officers for prostitution suspects.■ commissioners voted 7-0 to sup-port updating regulations for food trucks, but asked the D.C. Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs for more time to comment and for an opportunity to weigh in on which areas are desig-nated as food truck zones. The commission’s original reso-lution also asked the agency to expand allowable hours for the trucks and to subject dessert trucks to the same rules as those selling other meals. Commissioners voted 5-2, with Jack Jacobson and Kevin O’Connor opposing, to remove those requests; the majority argued that the commission didn’t have enough information to make an informed vote on those points.■ commissioners voted 7-0 to sup-port a public-space application for the FreshFarm Market in the 700 block of Vermont Avenue to change its hours of operation from 3 to 7 p.m. to 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Thursdays, May through October.■ commissioners voted 6-0, with

Mike Silverstein abstaining from alcohol-related matters because he sits on the city’s alcohol board, to protest a liquor license for Stub’s Kitchen and Wine, 14th and T streets, until the establishment signs a voluntary agreement. Commissioners said they expect the agreement to address hours of operation for the planned sidewalk cafe, trash issues and delivery proce-dures.■ commissioner Ramon Estrada dis-cussed his participation on a liquor law task force overseen by Ward 1 D.C. Council member Jim Graham. Community leaders are discussing each aspect of the city’s laws for alcohol-serving establishments to see if any need to be changed.■ commissioners voted 6-0, with Phil Carney, Jack Jacobson and Victor Wexler absent, to support the nomination of Rauzia Ally, an archi-tect and former president of the Dupont Circle Conservancy, to the D.C. Historic Preservation Review Board.■ chair Will Stephens reported that the commission and its Adams Morgan counterpart signed a volun-tary agreement with El Tamarindo, 1785 Florida Ave., after disagreeing over its hours of operation. The commission will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 14, in the Brookings Institution building, 1775 Massachusetts Ave. NW. For details, visit dupontcircleanc.net.

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The commission will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 8, at Stoddert Elementary School and Recreation Center, 4001 Calvert St. NW. For details, call 202-338-2969, contact [email protected] or visit anc3b.org.

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The commission will meet at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 21, at the 2nd District Police Headquarters, 3320 Idaho Ave. NW. Its regular meeting date falls on Presidents Day. Agenda items include:■ consideration of a grant applica-tion from Casey Trees.■ consideration of a public-space application by Frozenyo, 3000 Connecticut Ave.■ consideration of a Historic Preservation Review Board applica-tion for a rear addition and window replacement at 3193 Porter St.■ consideration of a Historic Preservation Review Board applica-tion for a new parking structure at the rear of the Cleveland Park fire station, 3522 Connecticut Ave. For details, call 202-657-5725 or visit anc3c.org.

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Citizens Association of Georgetown Well, it turns out the final Zoning Commission hearing on the Georgetown University campus plan wasn’t. This is getting old. While the commissioners agreed that the university has created objectionable impacts in the residential neighborhood, they decided to hold off making any decisions on the case until at least May. They have asked university officials to offer a more substantive proposal on how they can remedy the situation. They also want to see how the programs instituted in the fall (more reimbursable police officers, the M Street shuttle, trash collection) are working. The community is expected to, once again, prepare documentation on how we perceive the situation. It involves a lot of work and input. I’ll be back in touch soon to let you know what you can do to help. On a brighter note, Georgetown ARTS 2012 opens this week with a lovely reception from 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday at House of Sweden. The works of 27 Georgetown artists will be on display (and for sale) through Monday. There will be art demonstrations throughout the weekend. This is a not-to-be-missed event. Come out and see the impressive talents of your neighbors and check out House of Sweden, our lead sponsor, which is in itself a noteworthy destination for beautiful con-temporary design and Potomac River views. They have graciously donated the use of two stunning large rooms for the show. We are extremely grateful for such a fantastic venue. And thank you to our other ARTS sponsors, Cynthia Howar and Washington Fine Properties, the Phoenix, Clyde’s Restaurant Group, Robin Hill, and Framers’ Workroom. For details, visit cagtown.org.

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quite a lot of interest. With stain-less-steel appliances from names like SubZero and a classic black-and-white palette, this space is made for a serious cook. Or, if buy-ers prefer to pick up the phone rath-er than a chef’s knife, a second entrance here allows caterers to come and go with ease. A long peninsula with space for stools offers guests a spot to perch while chatting with the cook, and more space beyond the kitchen allows for a casual dining area. Renovators also smartly extended cabinetry slightly beyond the kitch-en to create wine storage and a buf-fet ideal for serving during parties. This home will sparkle during those events, but day-to-day living

here will also feel luxe, thanks to renovations that have left behind high-end baths and ample storage space. The master suite’s closet, for example, calls to mind a bowling alley lined with rods and shelving. Though the other three bed-rooms here are sunny, spacious and welcoming, making this large unit — more than 3,600 square feet — a true alternative to a single-family home, the master bedroom is the behemoth that will likely seal the deal for the next owner. There’s more than enough space for a king-sized bed, sitting area and more. Glass doors open to a balcony, and windows line much of the room, giving the large spot a light airiness. The master bath is another draw,

with a stone-lined shower enclosure larger than some entire bathrooms. Two parking spots come with this property, but potential buyers will likely be drawn here by the amenities within walking distance, including the new Whole Foods next to the Foggy Bottom Metro stop. That development also includes new restaurants, while oth-ers are in the works elsewhere in the neighborhood. Watergate resi-dents can walk along the Potomac River for recreation or to quickly reach the shops and restaurants of Georgetown.

Of course, the number of ameni-ties within the Watergate, including a post office and drugstore, means that residents can find much of what they need right at home. But drivers have loads of options as well. It’s easy to access highways out of town from this spot, and Rock Creek Parkway is a scenic way to reach other parts of the city. The four-bedroom, 3.5-bath Unit 1209-S at 2500 Virginia Ave. is offered for $1,995,000. For details, contact Gigi Winston of Winston Real Estate at 202-333-4167 or [email protected].

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Glover Park is one of several areas in the District where a morato-rium limits the number of liquor licenses. It first took effect in 1996, prohibiting new licenses on and around the neighborhood’s central Wisconsin Avenue strip. In the years since, the Glover

Park neighborhood commission — which advises the city’s Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, the author-ity on the matter — has supported gradual tweaks. Each time, the board has followed the commission’s lead, according to commissioners. In 2008, the panel voted to allow three new “CR” licenses allowing sales of beer, wine and liquor. Those licenses ended up going to existing restaurants Breadsoda, Surfside, and

Rocklands Barbeque & Grilling Company. With the moratorium now set to expire in April, the Glover Park commission last week voted 3-1 to ask the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board to uphold the restrictions for another three years, while permitting two additional CR licenses on top of the 12 now authorized. Though commissioners who sup-ported this change framed it as a

compromise, a handful of residents at Thursday’s meeting voiced objec-tions. Joining the opposition was commissioner Ben Thielen, who cast the dissenting vote. “There’s been a lot of growth in this entire corridor,” said Thielen, who argued for removing restric-tions on CR licenses. “I think there’s room for more restaurants here.” Commissioner Jackie Blumenthal said many residents had participated in “really interesting conversations” online on the issue. Of the comments the commission reviewed, she said, “a vast majority” wanted to retain the moratorium but open it up “to attract more or diverse restaurants.” But commission chair Brian Cohen cautioned that “if we do open it up, we need to be careful” since residents can’t control for quality.

He also argued that while “every-one hates the empty spaces,” resi-dents “want a diversity of retail,” like stores selling pet products, toys or books. “Restaurants and bars can easily crowd out other retail,” he said. But resident Joe Kildea coun-tered that “it’s not economically viable” to launch those types of busi-nesses. “I think it’s unrealistic we’re going to have this wonderful mix.” Commissioner Charles Fulwood said his concern is quality of life. “If there’s a free-for-all … you are going to attract some consequences” like noise and fights at night, he said. Blumenthal also cited the poten-tial for parking problems to worsen. Thielen, though, said he was “highly skeptical” of Glover Park’s potential to explode as a major night-life corridor, given competition from more popular areas like U Street. When Blumenthal proposed add-ing two new licenses to the morato-rium, residents questioned whether that would make any difference. One woman pointed out that when licens-es were added in 2008, they simply went to existing businesses. One Glover Park restaurant owner, Paul Holder of Town Hall, discussed an economic angle of the moratorium on the neighborhood listserv Sunday. He and other restau-rateurs “paid the cost to do business” in an area with limited licenses, he wrote, and would face a disadvan-tage if more licenses become avail-able. “To completely do away with this tangible barrier to entry, you change the dynamic … .” He said no one should assume his position “is rooted in the fact that I am currently selling our old location.” Holder recently relocated Town Hall from 2218 to 2340 Wisconsin Ave., taking over the CR license of the former Blue Ridge. He intends to sell the license for the 2218 space — one of two currently unused CR licenses in Glover Park. The other, formerly owned by Margarita’s, is up for sale, according to Blumenthal.

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years. Mini-spelling bees in each language arts classroom determine the top two spellers in each class. Then those students are sent to the schoolwide spelling bee. Our fourth-grade representatives were Pierce Anthony, Adriano Bayz, Constantine Bayz and William Martinez. We asked Adriano how he felt about going to the spelling bee, and he said, “I’m happy and really grateful to have the opportunity to participate.” Pierce said, “I’m kind of nervous to be going into it with everyone watching, but I’m glad I’m in it.” The spelling bee was extremely intense. It was so intense that it went on for two days! Finally at the end of the competition there were three winners. Seventh-grader Sam Joyce was the champion, and the runners-up were eighth-grader Sylvia Gisler and seventh-grader Andrea Giordano. All three will go on to the cluster bee, and then hope-fully the city bee and national spell-ing bee. We wish them the best of luck.

— Abby Gallagher and Rose Norton, fourth-graders

Janney Elementary During the renovation and expansion of Janney, construction workers discovered a box of old documents. It turned out to be a school time capsule from 1986. Inside, we found a cassette tape on which Amanda Rocave, the stu-dent council president of 25 year

ago, was heard to say the box was hidden in a storage room “because there is pretty much no use for it, and no one will find it and throw it away.” Amanda said that the time cap-sule should not be opened until 2036. That meant that we opened it too early. We also found a copy of a 1986 student newspaper, which contained a book review by a student named Shana Zallman. She now is a sec-ond-grade teacher at Janney. “I don’t remember the time cap-sule,” Ms. Zallman said. “But when I had lunch with two of my friends, they remembered it and were excit-ed that it was found.” There were other treasures in the pile, too, such as an old M&M’s wrapper, a Mickey Mouse puffy sticker, a cardboard binder, a clip-board and a sticker showing two teddy bears skating on ice. Also, there was an ad in a copy of Time magazine. It showed an old Kodak camera — with film.

— Oliver Satola and Zara Hall, fourth-graders

Key Elementary During the cold winter months, Key has a program for kids of all ages to take fun and interesting after-school classes. It’s called ASEP, which stands for After School Enrichment Program, and it’s run by our PTA. Families regis-tered for classes online. There were many choices to choose from, for example: Fun in French, Hip Hop Dance, Jewelry Making, Chess Masters, Grossology, iMovie, all kinds of sports, Learn About

Dinosaurs! and much more. Fifth-grader Ollie Friman, who takes Chess Masters, says, “You get smarter when you think.” Another Key student, third-grad-er Mina Kassim, has really enjoyed her after-school classes. “I take iMovie. I like the enrichment class-es because my friends are with me and I get to learn new things.” Enrichment classes are a really fun way to learn new things during the cold months.

— Isabelle Shea and Samantha Squires, fifth-graders

Maret School In second grade at Maret, we get to study birds! We each choose a bird to research, and we will become experts on our birds. We go to the Zoo to visit our birds, and we will go birding in nearby parks to look for local birds. We will research our birds in books and on the computer. We will study each bird’s physical description, food, habitat, migration, nesting and young. All of our research will go in our bird books, which we will share with our parents during Maret’s Publishing Party! We will also learn about birds in Spanish, art, music and science. In Spanish, we will learn bird vocabulary. In art, we will make clay sculptures of our birds and also paint the cover for our bird books. In science, we will learn about bird beaks, feathers and feet. We will sing a song about birds in music. We also get to hatch buttonquail in our classroom! We will help turn the eggs in the incubator, and then

the chicks will stay in our class-room for about three weeks after they hatch. We will release the but-tonquail in Mrs. Thoeni’s parents’ aviary. We are interested in learning about how birds protect themselves from predators, and how they lay eggs. Studying birds is fun! We think it is so cool that birds can fly, and we can’t wait to learn about how they do it.

— Leila Granier, Ricky Hardart, Rohit Barrett and Rhian Jones,

second-graders

Murch Elementary For the past seven years, Murch fifth-graders have put on a play called “Jubilee” about the Harlem Renaissance. Ms. Anne Smith, the Murch music teacher, wrote the play and a couple of the songs. The play takes place during the Harlem Renaissance and is told from the perspective of a character named Dorothy West. The play brings together many people from the Harlem Renaissance to create this huge story. Some characters include Bessie Smith, W.E.B. Du Bois and

Langston Hughes. In total, there are about 15 fifth-graders putting on the play. The actors and actresses are tak-ing the emotions of their characters seriously, and they are doing a real-ly great job acting the way their characters would act. Sierra Johnson, who plays Dorothy West, shared this acting tip: “Make sure you’re in your character’s personali-ty, because then you will feel like your character and be more com-fortable with the crowd.” Ms. Vicki Otten, one of our fifth-grade teachers, and Ms. Smith are the directors of the play. The play is very fun, and you learn about the Harlem Renaissance and the chal-lenges people faced.

— Julia Arnsberger, fifth-grader

National Presbyterian On Jan. 27, the sixth-graders put on a performance that they started working on in September when school started. First, they had to pick a person from the 20th century who made an impact on the world and read a biography of them. Next, they

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Wednesday, Feb. 15

Concerts ■TonyAward-winningvocalistAliceRipleywillperformmemorableBroadwaytunes.6p.m.Free.MillenniumStage,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600. ■The“CelebrateYouth!HighSchoolChoirFestival”willculminatewithapublicconcert.7p.m.Free.WashingtonNationalCathedral,MassachusettsandWisconsinavenuesNW.202-537-5538.

Discussions and lectures ■YevgeniaM.Albats,editorofTheNewTimes,willdiscuss“TheRussianSpring:DoesItStandaChance?”5to6:30p.m.Free;res-ervationsrequired.AlumniHouse,GeorgeWashingtonUniversity,1918FSt.NW.tinyurl.com/Albats. ■WilliamNoel,curatorofmanuscriptsandrarebooksattheWaltersArtMuseumanddirectoroftheArchimedesPalimpsestProject,willdiscuss“TheArchimedesCodex.”5to7p.m.Room320AandB,PryzbylaUniversityCenter,CatholicUniversity,620MichiganAve.NE.202-319-5115. ■“EveningsWithExtraordinaryArtists”willfeatureactressJuneLockhart,whowilldis-cussherprofessionalandpersonalinterests,includingspacetravelandpolitics.5:30p.m.$20.ArtsClubofWashington,2017ISt.NW.202-331-7282. ■JohnNicholswilldiscusshisbook“Uprising:HowWisconsinRenewedthePoliticsofProtest,FromMadisontoWallStreet.”6:30to8p.m.Free.LangstonRoom,BusboysandPoets,202114thSt.NW.202-387-7638. ■PeterGroffmanoftheCaryInstituteofEcosystemStudieswilldiscuss“HotSpotsandHotMoments:NutrientDynamicsinCities”aspartofthe“OntheEdge:UrbanSustainability”lectureseries.6:30p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.Room208,White-GravenorHall,GeorgetownUniversity,[email protected]. ■TimWeinerwilldiscusshisbook“Enemies:AHistoryoftheFBI.”7p.m.Free.PoliticsandProse,5015ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-1919.

Films ■TheChevyChaseNeighborhoodLibrarywillpresentthefilm“Glory.”4:30p.m.Free.

ChevyChaseNeighborhoodLibrary,5625ConnecticutAve.NW.202-282-0021. ■TheNationalMuseumofAmericanHistory’snewWarnerBros.TheaterwillshowapreviewofthePBSfilm“Clinton,”the16thepisodeintheAmericanExperiencepresiden-tialbiographyseries.Apaneldiscussionwillfollow7to9:30p.m.Free.NationalMuseumofAmericanHistory,14thStreetandConstitutionAvenueNW.202-633-1000. ■TheFrenchCinémathèqueserieswillfeatureBertrandBonello’s2011film“HouseofPleasures.”8p.m.$11;$9forstudents;$8.25forseniors;$8forages12andyounger.AvalonTheatre,5612ConnecticutAve.NW.202-966-6000.

Performance ■“DisneyonIce:100YearsofMagic”willfeatureDisney’sbest-knowncharactersandstories.7:30p.m.$20to$75.VerizonCenter,601FSt.NW.202-397-7328.Performances will continue through Tuesday at various times.

Sale ■TheSt.Alban’sOpportunityThriftShopwillholdahalf-pricesale.9:30a.m.to3p.m.Freeadmission.3001WisconsinAve.NW.202-966-5288.The sale will continue daily through Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.; there will also be a $7 bag sale on Friday and Saturday.

Thursday,Feb.16

Concerts ■TheNationalSymphonyOrchestra,ledbyconductorHerbertBlomstedt,willperformworksbyBeethovenandStrauss.7p.m.$20to$85.ConcertHall,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600. The concert will repeat Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m. ■YoungConcertArtistswillpresent20-year-oldviolinistBenjaminBeilman(shown)andpianistYekwonSunyooperform-ingworksbyMozart,Strauss,Rogerson,ProkofievandKreisler.7:30p.m.$24.TerraceTheater,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600. ■Soul,jazzandgospelsingerRobertE.Person,aD.C.native,willperform.8and10

p.m.$20.BluesAlley,1073WisconsinAve.NW.bluesalley.com.

Discussions and lectures ■AuthorJoeHowellwilldiscuss“CivilRightsJourney:TheStoryofaWhiteSouthernerComingofAgeDuringtheCivilRightsRevolution,”abouthisexperiencesworkingfortheStudentNonviolentCoordinatingCommitteeandgrowingupprivi-legedinNashville,Tenn.,duringthelastyearsofJimCrow.11:30a.m.$30.Woman’sNationalDemocraticClub,1526NewHampshireAve.NW.202-232-7363. ■JonathanLyonswilldiscuss“IslamThroughWesternEyes.”Noon.Free.WestDiningRoom,MadisonBuilding,LibraryofCongress,101IndependenceAve.SE.202-707-8476 ■MikeGuardiawilldiscusshisbook“ShadowCommander:TheEpicStoryofDonaldD.Blackburn—GuerrillaLeaderandSpecialForcesHero.”Noon.Free.InternationalSpyMuseum,800FSt.NW.202-393-7798. ■The“25Architectsin25Weeks”lec-tureserieswillfeatureatalkbyMarcieMeditchofMeditchMurpheyArchitectson“ZeroEnergyHouse.”Noonto1p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.DistrictArchitectureCenter,4217thSt.NW.202-347-9403. ■JonathanLaurence,associateprofessorofpoliticalscienceatBostonCollege,willdis-cuss“TheEmancipationofEurope’sMuslims:TheState’sRoleinMinorityIntegration.”Noonto2p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.Room241,BunnInterculturalCenter,GeorgetownUniversity,37thandOstreetsNW.laurence.eventbrite.com. ■AuthorBlairRubleandjazzbroadcasterRustyHassanwilldiscussRuble’smostrecentbook,“Washington’sUStreet:ABiography.”1p.m.Free.GreatHall,MartinLutherKingJr.MemorialLibrary,901GSt.NW.202-727-1261. ■Agallerytalkwillfocuson“DeliberateDrama:Vuillard’sPaintingandPhotography.”6and7p.m.$12;$10forseniorsandstu-dents;freeforages18andyounger.PhillipsCollection,160021stSt.NW.202-387-2151. ■GershonBaskin,founderandchairoftheIsraelPalestineCenterforResearchandInformation,willdiscuss“IsIsraeli-PalestinianPeaceStillPossible?”6to7:30p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.Room602,ElliottSchoolofInternationalAffairs,GeorgeWashingtonUniversity,1957ESt.NW.tinyurl.com/mepf2-16. ■ArtistAlysonShotzwilldiscuss

“Ecliptic,”herinstallationofyarndrawings.6:30p.m.Donationsuggested.PhillipsCollection,160021stSt.NW.phillipscollection.org/calendar. ■Panelistswilldiscuss“What’satStake?2012andNationalSecurity.”6:30to8p.m.Free.AbramsonFamilyFoundersRoom,SchoolofInternationalSchoolBuilding,AmericanUniversity,4400MassachusettsAve.NW.american.edu/calendar. ■JoanneGriffith,editorofthebook“RedefiningBlackPower:ReflectionsoftheStateofBlackAmerica,”willdiscuss“TheMeaningofBlackAmericaintheAgeofObama”inconversationwithStudentNonviolentCoordinatingCommitteeactivistsCourtlandCoxandFreddieGreeneBiddle.6:30to8p.m.Free.LangstonRoom,BusboysandPoets,202114thSt.NW.202-387-7638. ■JamalJosephwilldiscusshisautobiog-raphy“PantherBaby:ALifeofRebellion&Reinvention.”7p.m.Free.PoliticsandProse,5015ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-1919. ■TheClassicsBookGroupwilldiscuss“MartinChuzzlewit”byCharlesDickens.7p.m.Free.Barnes&Noble,55512thSt.NW.202-347-0176. ■“MagnaCartaandtheConstitution”willfeatureA.E.DickHoward,professoroflawattheUniversityofVirginia;PeterOnuf,profes-sorofhistoryattheUniversityofVirginia;RenéeLettowLerner,associateprofessoroflawatGeorgeWashingtonUniversity;andZacharyElkins,associateprofessorofgovern-mentattheUniversityofTexas.7p.m.Free.McGowanTheater,NationalArchivesBuilding,ConstitutionAvenuebetween7thand9thstreetsNW.202-357-5000. ■LocalauthorGeorgeBrummellwilldis-cussBlackHistoryMonthandhisbook“ShadesofDarkness:ABlackSoldier’sJourneyThroughVietnam,Blindness,andBack.”7:30p.m.Free.TakomaParkNeighborhoodLibrary,416CedarSt.NW.202-576-7252. ■TheGeorgetownBookClubwilldiscussWalterMosley’snovel“TheLastDaysofPtolemyGray.”7:30p.m.Free.GeorgetownNeighborhoodLibrary,3260RSt.NW.202-727-0232.

Films ■TheGeorgetownNeighborhoodLibrarywillpresent“SimplyMurder”and“TheUniverseofBattle,1863,”thefourthandfifthepisodesofKenBurns’“TheCivilWar.”4p.m.Free.GeorgetownNeighborhoodLibrary,3260RSt.NW.202-727-0232. ■CineFrancophonewillpresent“LesLutinsduCourt-Metrage,”featuringFrenchshortfilmsof2011.6:30p.m.$8.Letelier

Theater,3251ProspectSt.NW.202-234-7911,ext.837.

Performance ■TheCulkinSchoolofTraditionalIrishDancewillpresentastudentshowcase.6p.m.Free.EisenhowerTheater,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600.

Reading ■RitaDove(shown),LindaGregerson,ElizabethNunez,JacquelineOsherow,LindaPastanandJaneSmileywillreadtheirFolger-commissionedpoemsandessaysfromthe“Shakespeare’sSisters”chapbook,anewanthol-ogypublishedincon-junctionwiththeFolgerexhibitionofthesamename.7p.m.$25.FolgerShakespeareLibrary,201EastCapitolSt.SE.202-544-7077.

Friday,Feb.17

Children’s program ■“CrossingaBarrierofFootlights:AnOperaDemoforKids,”highlightingD.C.cul-turalhistoryandAfrican-Americanaccom-plishmentinopera,willfeaturemusicalselec-tionsfromVerdi’s“LaTraviata”and“Aida”performedbyWashingtonNationalOperaart-ists(forchildrenages8through12).1p.m.Free.GeorgetownNeighborhoodLibrary,3260RSt.NW.202-727-0232.

Concerts ■TheU.S.NavyBandBrassQuartetwillpresentaBlackHistoryMonthconcertabouttheintegrationofAfrican-AmericansintheU.S.Navy.Noon.Free.BurkeTheater,U.S.NavyMemorial,701PennsylvaniaAve.NW.202-433-3366. ■TheFridayMorningMusicClubwillpresentacomposersconcert,featuringworksbyKurtStern,MichaelFantus,EdgardVareseandJ.T.Martin.Noon.Free.CalvaryBaptistChurch,7558thSt.NW.202-333-2075. ■HansUveHielscher,organistandcaril-loneuratMarktkirche,Wiesbaden,Germany,willpresentanorganrecital.12:15p.m.Free.NationalCityChristianChurch,5ThomasCircleNW.202-797-0103. ■AspartoftheFridayMusicSeries,DuoAppassionatawillperformfour-handmusicforViennesefortepiano.1:15p.m.Free.DahlgrenChapeloftheSacredHeart,37thandOstreetsNW.202-687-3838. ■CatholicUniversity’smusicaltheaterprogramwillpresent“TheMusicofCyColeman,”featuringsongsbythecomposerofclassicssuchas“TheBestIsYettoCome,”“BigSpender”and“TheRulesoftheRoad.”7p.m.Free.EmbassyoftheRepublicofBulgaria,162122ndSt.NW.202-319-5414. ■TheAmericanUniversitySymphonyOrchestrawillholdthefirstroundofitsannu-alConcertoandAriaCompetition,featuringstudentinstrumentalistsandsingers.7p.m.Free.AbramsonFamilyRecitalHall,KatzenArtsCenter,AmericanUniversity,4400MassachusettsAve.NW.202-885-2787.The final round will be held Sunday at 3 p.m. ■JazzsingerDianneReeveswillperform.7:30and9:30p.m.$55.TerraceTheater,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600.

Discussions and lectures ■WardWilson,seniorfellowattheJamesMartinCenterforNonproliferationStudies,willdiscuss“RethinkingNuclearWeapons.”Noonto1:30p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.Room505,ElliottSchoolofInternationalAffairs,GeorgeWashingtonUniversity,1957ESt.NW.bit.ly/xbhhHS.

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(Thomas Dunne Books, $27.99)A sharp observer of American politics from across the pond, Stanley, an Oxford historian, has the necessary critical distance to deliver a thorough and balanced account of the life of Pat Buchanan, the controversial conservative, three-time presidential candidate, and Republican insider who became a populist outsider. Stanley will be joined by Pat Buchanan.

Saturday, February 18, 6 p.m.

(Basic Books, $26.99)In her call-to-action to keep digital frontiers open, MacKinnon, co-founder of Global Voices Online and a Fellow at the New America Foundation, heralds the opportunities—political, personal, and economic—made possible by social media, even as she issues an urgent caution against allowing corporate and national interests to abridge digital freedoms.

Sunday, February 19, 5 p.m.

(Oxford Univ., $24.95)“Wartime” was once considered exceptional—an interruption to the norm that was peacetime. But as Dudziak, USC professor of law, history, and political science, observes in her thought-provoking study, the U.S. has been involved continuously in various overseas armed conflicts for the past century. Given this new, never-ending nature of war, what are the implications for law, politics, and culture?

■JackWarren,executivedirectoroftheSocietyoftheCincinnati,willdiscussthed’Oyréjournalandletters,aseriesofFrenchdocumentsontheYorktowncampaignprevi-ouslyunknowntoscholars.12:30p.m.Free.SocietyoftheCincinnati,2118MassachusettsAve.NW.202-785-2040. ■ThePeaceCafewillpresentatalkbyWilliamParry,authorof“AgainsttheWall:TheArtofResistanceinPalestine.”6to8p.m.Free.CullenRoom,BusboysandPoets,10255thSt.NW.202-387-7638. ■RebeccaWalkerwilldiscussherbook“BlackCool:OneThousandStreamsofBlackness.”6:30to8p.m.Free.LangstonRoom,BusboysandPoets,202114thSt.NW.202-387-7638. ■LeslieAnnWardenoftheWestVirginiaUniversityInstituteofTechnologywilldiscuss“EgyptianAdministrationDuringtheOldKingdom.”6:30p.m.Free.RomeBuildingAuditorium,JohnsHopkinsUniversitySchoolofAdvancedInternationalStudies,1619MassachusettsAve.NW.arce.org. ■HistorianTimothyStanleywilldiscusshisbook“TheCrusader:TheLifeandTumultuousTimesofPatBuchanan”(incon-versationwithBuchanan).7p.m.Free.PoliticsandProse,5015ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-1919.

Films ■AllianceFrançaisedeWashingtonwillpresent“LesLutinsduCourt-Metrage,”fea-turingFrenchshortfilmsof2011.Inconjunc-tionwiththescreenings,theHillwoodman-sionandaspecialexhibitionwillbeopenforviewing.5:30to7:30p.m.$8.HillwoodEstate,MuseumandGardens,4155LinneanAve.NW.202-686-5807. ■CinemaNightwillfeatureThomasMcCarthy’s2007film“TheVisitor,”aboutacollegeprofes-sorwhotravelstoNewYorkCityforaconferenceandfindsayoungcoupleliv-inginhisapart-ment.7p.m.$5to$15.Woman’sNationalDemocraticClub,1526NewHampshireAve.NW.202-232-7363. ■“GlobalGlimpses:ForeignLanguageFilmNominees”willfeatureIraniandirectorAsgharFarhadi’s2011film“ASeparation.”7p.m.$8.GrosvenorAuditorium,NationalGeographic,1600MSt.NW.202-857-7700. ■“IranianFilmFestival2012”willfeatureBahramTavakoli’s2011film“HereWithoutMe.”7p.m.Free.MeyerAuditorium,FreerGalleryofArt,12thStreetandIndependenceAvenueSW.202-633-1000.The film will be shown again Sunday at 2 p.m.

Performance ■D.C.-basedtheatercompanyFactionofFoolswillpres-entacommediadell’artever-sionof“RomeoandJuliet.”6p.m.Free.MillenniumStage,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600.

Saturday,Feb.18

Children’s programs ■Acelebrationofthe50thanniversaryofEzraJackKeats’“TheSnowyDay”willfeatureareadingoftheclassicchildren’sstoryandhands-onactivities.11:30a.m.Free.PalisadesNeighborhoodLibrary,4901VSt.NW.202-282-3139. ■GinaMarieLewis,professorofartat

BowieStateUniversity,willleadaworkshopforchildrenages8through11onAfrican-AmericanartistFaithRinggold.Participantswillcreatecollagesoffemalecivilrightslead-ers,tourthehomeofMaryMcLeodBethuneandviewanoriginalquiltmadebyRinggold.1p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.MaryMcLeodBethuneCouncilHouseNationalHistoricSite,1318VermontAve.NW.202-673-2402.

Concerts ■TheCarolinaChocolateDropswillper-form.2p.m.Free;ticketsrequired.CoolidgeAuditorium,JeffersonBuilding,LibraryofCongress,101stSt.SE.202-707-5502. ■MembersoftheWashingtonNationalOpera’sDomingo-CafritzYoungArtistProgramwillpresentmusicalhighlightsfromMozart’s“Cosìfantutte.”6p.m.Free.MillenniumStage,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600. ■TheWashingtonPerformingArtsSocietywillpresentviolinistJuliaFischer(shown)andpia-nistMilanaCeryavskaperformingworksbyMozart,Schubert,DebussyandSaint-Saens.8p.m.$40.Sixth&IHistoricSynagogue,600ISt.NW.800-745-3000.

Discussions and lectures ■PhotographersFranzJantzen,BruceMcKaigandAnneRowlandwilldiscussper-ceptionandthevisualsensesasbothrelatetotheirwork.10a.m.Free.HemphillFineArts,151514thSt.NW.202-234-5601. ■YvonneCaruthersoftheNationalSymphonyOrchestrawilldiscusstheculturalhegemonyofBudapest,PragueandViennaintheirimperialcenturiesasthecentersofclas-sicalmusicandopera.2p.m.$15.TerraceGallery,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600. ■TheNationalMuseumofAmericanHistorywillpresent“ForCountry:JapaneseAmericanSoldiersandCitizensandthe70thAnniversaryofExecutiveOrder9066.”2to4p.m.Free.WarnerBros.Theater,NationalMuseumofAmericanHistory,14thStreetandConstitutionAvenueNW.202-633-1000. ■RebeccaMacKinnon,co-founderofGlobalVoicesOnlineandafellowattheNewAmericaFoundation,willdiscussherbook“ConsentoftheNetworked:TheWorldwideStruggleforInternetFreedom.”6p.m.Free.PoliticsandProse,5015ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-1919.

Family programs ■“DiscoverEngineeringFamilyDay,”forchildrenages5through13andtheirfamilies,willfeaturehands-onactivitiessuchasmak-ingslime,playingwithrobots,puttingaHot

Wheelscarthroughawindtunnel,andlearn-ingaboutthescienceofpopcorn.10a.m.to4:30p.m.Free.NationalBuildingMuseum,401FSt.NW.202-272-2448. ■“MagnaCartaFamilyActivities”willfea-turehands-onactivities,anepisodeofthe1960ssci-fitelevisionseries“TheTimeTunnel”and13th-centurymusicperformedbyConsortAnon.11a.m.to2p.m.Free.NationalArchivesBuilding,ConstitutionAvenuebetween7thand9thstreetsNW.202-357-5000. ■PresidentialFamilyFunDaywillfeaturemusic,stories,hands-onactivitiesandspecialguests.11:30a.m.to3p.m.Free.NationalPortraitGallery/SmithsonianAmericanArtMuseum,8thandFstreetsNW.202-633-1000.

Films ■AReelPortraitsDoubleFeaturewillfea-turethe2011documentary“TheBlackPowerMixtape1967-1975,”at1p.m.;andthe1994film“PulpFiction,”at3p.m.Free.NationalPortraitGallery,8thandFstreetsNW.202-633-1000. ■“AmericanOriginalsNow:AmieSiegel”willfeaturerecentshortfilmsbytheindepen-dentfilmmaker,including2010’s“BlackMoon.”TheeventwillincludeatalkbySiegel.2:30p.m.Free.EastBuildingAuditorium,NationalGalleryofArt,4thStreetandConstitutionAvenueNW.202-737-4215. ■“GlobalGlimpses:ForeignLanguageFilmNominees”willfeatureBelgiandirectorMichaëlR.Roskam’s2011film“Bullhead,”at5p.m.;andIsraelidirectorJosephCedar’s2011film“Footnote,”at8p.m.$8perscreening.GrosvenorAuditorium,NationalGeographic,1600MSt.NW.202-857-7700.

Performances ■D.C.poetlaureateDoloresKendrickandtheD.C.CommissionontheArtsandHumanitieswillhostthe10thannual“PoetinProgressReadingSeries.”6:30p.m.FoulkeRoom,HaskellCenter,FolgerShakespeareLibrary,301EastCapitolSt.

SE.202-724-5613. ■TheGayMen’sChorusofWashingtonwillpresent“TheKidsAreAllRight,”featuringauthor/activistCandaceGingrich-JonesandthePittsburgh-basedperformingartstroupeDreamsofHome.8p.m.$25to$55.LisnerAuditorium,GeorgeWashingtonUniversity,73021stSt.NW.202-293-1548. ■DanielBurkholderandSharonMansurwillpresentaneveningofduets.8p.m.$8to$22.DancePlace,32258thSt.NE.202-269-1600.The performance will repeat Sunday at 4 p.m.

Walk and tours ■Aparkrangerwillleadages8andolderonawalkingtourofHerringHill,avibrant1800sAfrican-AmericancommunityintheheartofGeorgetown,andsharestoriesofsacrifice,adversityandsuccess.10a.m.Free.OldStoneHouse,3051MSt.NW.202-426-6851. ■“OutofSight:LifeandWorksofEnslavedandDomesticServantsatTudorPlace”willexploredomesticservicefrom1816throughmodernday.10:30a.m.$10;reservationsrequired.TudorPlaceHistoricHouseandGarden,164431stSt.NW.202-965-0400. ■Aparkrangerwillleadages8andolderonarigoroustwo-milehikeuptheTeddyRooseveltTrailtoPulpitRockandbackviatheValleyTrail.Noon.Free.PeirceMill,TildenStreetandBeachDriveNW.202-895-6070. ■AparkrangerwillleadawalkthroughtheGeorgetownWaterfrontParkanddiscussthearea’stransformationovertime.2p.m.Free.WisconsinAvenueandKStreetNW.202-895-6070. ■TheKreegerMuseumwillofferitsmonthlypublicarchitecturetour.2p.m.$10;$7forseniorsandstudents;freeforages12andyounger.KreegerMuseum,2401FoxhallRoadNW.202-337-3552. ■WashingtonWalksandtourguideBrianKraftwillpresentthethirdannual“ColumbiaHeightsHistoricalDrinkabout,”featuringanexplorationoftheneighborhoodwithstopsatseveralofitscafesandbars.2to5p.m.$20;reservationsrequired.washingtonwalks.com.

Sunday,Feb.19

Concerts ■ClassicalguitaristAndrewYorkwillper-form.4p.m.Free.ChevyChasePresbyterianChurch,1ChevyChaseCircleNW.202-363-2202. ■ArcoVoceandsopranoRosaLamoreauxwillperform.4p.m.$20.PhillipsCollection,160021stSt.NW.202-387-2151. ■TheprofessionalchoirofChristChurchwillperformworksbyPhilipRadcliffe,CliffordHarkerandJacquesArcadelt.5p.m.Free.ChristChurch,Georgetown,31standOstreetsNW.202-333-6677.

■GuestorganistFedericoAndreoniofMontreal,Quebec,willperform.5:15p.m.$10donationsuggested.WashingtonNationalCathedral,MassachusettsandWisconsinavenuesNW.202-537-6200. ■TheKennedyCenter’sConservatoryProjectinitiativewillfeatureaperformancebystudentsfromtheCurtisInstituteofMusic.6p.m.Free.TerraceTheater,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600. ■ThePhillipsCameratawillperformchambermusicwrittenbetween1890and1921inhonorofanexhibitofdrawingsbyPabloPicasso.6:30p.m.Free.WestGardenCourt,NationalGalleryofArt,6thStreetandConstitutionAvenueNW.202-737-4215.

Discussions and lectures ■TheSundayForumserieswillfeatureatalkon“TheRoleofPresidentWoodrowWilson’s‘FirstLadies’”byKristieMiller,authorof“EllenandEdith:WoodrowWilson’sFirstLadies.”10a.m.Free.St.John’sEpiscopalChurch,LafayetteSquare,16thandHstreetsNW.202-347-8766. ■ThePreventionofBlindnessSocietyofMetropolitanWashingtonwillhostaseminaron“Glaucoma:TheSneakyThiefofSight.”2to3:30p.m.Free.MedicalBuilding,SibleyMemorialHospital,5215LoughboroRoadNW.202-234-1010. ■MartinJ.Powers,professorofChineseartsandculturesattheUniversityofMichigan,willdiscuss“SolvingtheEast/WestConundruminModernChineseArt.”2p.m.Free.EastBuildingAuditorium,NationalGalleryofArt,4thStreetandConstitutionAvenueNW.202-737-4215. ■MaryDudziakwilldiscussherbook“WarTime:AnIdea,ItsHistory,ItsConsequences.”5p.m.Free.PoliticsandProse,5015ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-1919.

Films ■“OperainCinema”willfeatureapro-ductionofPuccini’s“IlTrittico”broadcastfromtheRoyalOperaHouse.11a.m.$20.WestEndCinema,23rdStreetbetweenMandNstreetsNW.202-419-3456. The film will be shown again Tuesday at 7 p.m.

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Saturday, FebRuaRy 18■Children’s program:TheWeekendFamilyMatineesserieswillfeature“JohnHenry’sWinterShow.”10a.m.$5.75.AvalonTheatre,5612ConnecticutAve.NW.202-966-6000.

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■“GlobalGlimpses:ForeignLanguageFilmNominees”willfeaturePolishdirectorAgnieszkaHolland’s2011film“InDarkness,”at2p.m.;andCanadiandirectorPhilippeFalardeau’s2011film“MonsieurLazhar,”at6p.m.$8perscreening.GrosvenorAuditorium,NationalGeographic,1600MSt.NW.202-857-7700. ■“LesLutinsduCourt-Métrage:FestivalofNewFrenchShorts”willfeature“TheLastJourneyofMaryseLucas,”“TheLittleTailor,”“BirdsGetVertigo,Too”and“TreOre.”5p.m.Free.EastBuildingAuditorium,NationalGalleryofArt,4thStreetandConstitutionAvenueNW.202-737-4215.

Performances ■TheaterJ’s“LocallyGrownFestival”willfeatureJonSpelman’s“TheProstateDialogues.”5p.m.$10to$30.GoldmanTheater,WashingtonDCJewishCommunityCenter,152916thSt.NW.202-777-3210. ■“SundayKindofLove”willfeatureemergingandestablishedpoets,followedbyanopen-mikesegment.5to7p.m.Free.LangstonRoom,BusboysandPoets,202114thSt.NW.202-387-7638.

Walks and tours ■InhonorofPresidentsDay,aparkrang-erwilldiscusshowTheodoreRooseveltlaidthegroundworktopreserveandprotectthecountry’snaturalandculturalresourcesforfuturegenerations.10a.m.Free.WisconsinAvenueandKStreetNW.202-895-6070. ■Aparkrangerwillleadages8andolderonastrollthroughhistoricGeorgetowntotheFrancisScottKeyMemorialanddiscusstheinspiringstorythatledtothewritingofthenationalanthem.Noon.Free.OldStoneHouse,3051MSt.NW.202-426-6851. ■Aparkrangerwillleadages7andolderonamoderatelystrenuoustwo-milehike

whileexplaininghowTheodoreRoosevelt,WoodrowWilsonandotherU.S.presidentsenjoyedRockCreekPark.2p.m.Free.PeirceMill,TildenStreetandBeachDriveNW.202-895-6070.

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Concert ■TheKennedyCenter’sConservatoryProjectinitiativewillfeatureabrassrecitalbystudentsfromtheBienenSchoolofMusicatNorthwesternUniversity.6p.m.Free.TerraceTheater,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600.

Discussions and lectures ■DoronPetersanwilldiscussherbook“StickyFingers’Sweets:100Super-SecretVeganRecipes.”6:30to8p.m.Free.LangstonRoom,BusboysandPoets,202114thSt.NW.202-387-7638. ■TritaParsi,presidentoftheNationalIranianAmericanCouncil,willdiscusshisbook“ASingleRolloftheDice:Obama’sDiplomacyWithIran.”7p.m.Free.PoliticsandProse,5015ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-1919. ■LocalauthorJoeHowellwilldiscuss“TheApostlePaul:HisLife,TimesandBeliefs,”focusingonPaul’sconversionandearlyyears.7p.m.Free.FriendshipTerraceRetirementCommunity,4201ButterworthPlaceNW.202-244-7400.

Film ■TheWashingtonPsychotronicFilmSocietywillpresentKenShapiro’s1974film“TheGrooveTube,”featuringChevyChaseandRichardBelzer.8p.m.Donationsuggest-ed.McFadden’sRestaurantandSaloon,2401PennsylvaniaAve.NW.202-462-3356.

Special events ■InhonorofPresidentsDay,theLibraryofCongresswillhostapublicopenhouseof

itsMainReadingRoom,withreferencelibrari-ansavailabletodemonstrateonlineresourc-esanddiscussaccesstothelibrary’svastonsitecollections.10a.m.to3p.m.Free.JeffersonBuilding,LibraryofCongress,101stSt.SE.202-707-8000. ■“CelebrateGeorge”willfeatureself-guidedtoursthroughthehistoricTudorPlacemansion,aspecialexhibitofrareWashington-relatedobjects,andcraftsactivi-tiesledbycostumedinterpreters.10a.m.tonoon.$10;$5forchil-dren.TudorPlaceHistoricHouseandGarden,164431stSt.NW.202-965-0400. ■ActorandsingerMichaelMcElroywillpresentaBlackHistoryMonthcelebrationofthelifeandmusicofNat“King”Cole.7p.m.Free;reservationssuggested.NationalPortraitGallery,8thandFstreetsNW.202-633-8520.

Tuesday,Feb.21

Class ■TheJewishStudyCenterwillpresentaclassbyJoninaDukeron“AmericanJewishLifeThroughItsCookbooks.”7to8:15p.m.$20.NationalMuseumofAmericanJewishMilitaryHistory,1811RSt.NW.jewishstudycenter.org.

Concerts ■TheTuesdayConcertSerieswillfeatureMikeFlahertyandDixielandDirectperforming“MardiGrasatEpiphany.”Noon.Free.ChurchoftheEpiphany,1317GSt.NW.202-347-2635,ext.18. ■MembersoftheWashingtonNationalOpera’sDomingo-CafritzYoungArtistProgramwillperformselectionsfromvariousoperet-tas.6p.m.Free.TerraceTheater,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600.

Discussions and lectures ■Dr.DavidRabin,vicechairoftheInstituteforUniversalHealthCare,willdis-cuss“CanWeHaveGoodHealthCareatLowerCost?”11:30a.m.$30.Woman’sNationalDemocraticClub,1526NewHampshireAve.NW.202-232-7363. ■TheWestEndBookClubwilldiscuss“TheAutobiographyofMalcolmX.”12:30p.m.Free.WestEndNeighborhoodLibrary,

110124thSt.NW.202-724-8707. ■Panelistswilldiscuss“Syria’sUprising.”12:30to2p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.Room602,ElliottSchoolofInternationalAffairs,GeorgeWashingtonUniversity,1957ESt.NW.go.gwu.edu/syriauprising. ■AmbassadorDennisRosswilldiscuss“ChallengesAhead:AmericaandtheMiddleEast.”6to7:30p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.Room602,ElliottSchoolofInternationalAffairs,GeorgeWashingtonUniversity,1957ESt.NW.go.gwu.edu/2j. ■G.DerekMusgrovewilldiscusshisbook“Rumor,Repression,andRacialPolitics:HowtheHarassmentofBlackElectedOfficialsShapedPost-CivilRightsAmerica.”6:30to8p.m.Free.LangstonRoom,BusboysandPoets,202114thSt.NW.202-387-7638. ■ScienceCafewillfeatureadiscussionof“QuantumMechanics:EmbracetheWeirdness,”ledbySteveRolston,physicistattheUniversityofMarylandandco-directoroftheJointQuantumInstitute.6:30to8:30p.m.Free.CullenRoom,BusboysandPoets,10255thSt.NW.202-387-7638. ■Pulitzer-winningjournalistKatherineBoowilldiscussherbook“BehindtheBeautifulForevers:Life,DeathandHopeinaMumbaiUndercity.”7p.m.Free.PoliticsandProse,5015ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-1919. ■ThePalisadesBookClubwilldiscuss“MajorPettigrew’sLastStand”byHelenSimonson.7:30p.m.Free.PalisadesNeighborhoodLibrary,4901VSt.NW.202-282-3139.

Film ■StephenShackelton,atopexecutiveandchiefrangerwiththeNationalParkService,willshowstillsandclipsoficonicU.S.parkslikeYellowstoneandYosemiteanddis-cusshowtheagencyusesthemediatopro-tectandconservethem.7p.m.Free.WechslerTheater,MaryGraydonCenter,AmericanUniversity,4400MassachusettsAve.NW.202-885-3408.

Performance ■AYouthPoetrySlamwillfeaturelocalresidentsreadingorrecitingoriginalpoetry.5to7p.m.Free.NationalPortraitGallery,8thandFstreetsNW.202-633-1000.

Special events ■TheWashingtonNationalCathedralwillholditsannualShroveTuesdayPancakeRaces.12:30p.m.Free.Westfrontgrounds,WashingtonNationalCathedral,MassachusettsandWisconsinavenuesNW.202-537-6200. ■TheMuseumoftheAmericanCocktailwillpresent“CocktailsoftheLostGeneration,”aboutthedrinksfavoredbywrit-ers,artistsandothersin1920sParis.6:30to8p.m.$45inadvance;$50atthedoor.TabardInn,[email protected]. ■“StitchesforSoldiers”willofferachancetoworkonstitchingprojectsforactivemilitarypersonnel.6:30to8p.m.Free.NationalMuseumofAmericanJewishMilitaryHistory,1811RSt.NW.202-265-6280.

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Class ■LincolnSmith,founderofForestedLLC,willleadaclassonforestgardensasawayto

producewhatpeopleneedinhealthyecosys-tems.6:30to9p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.CaseyTreesHeadquarters,303012thSt.NE.ct.convio.net.

Concerts ■TheKennedyCenter’sConservatoryProjectinitiativewillfeatureaclassicalrecitalbystudentsfromtheClevelandInstituteofMusic.6p.m.Free.TerraceTheater,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600. ■“MusicFromJapan:EchoesoftheSilkRoad”willfeatureancientinstrumentsbroughttoJapanalongtheSilkRoad,includ-ingthelong-extinctPersianharp.7p.m.Free;ticketsrequired.MeyerAuditorium,FreerGalleryofArt,12thStreetandIndependenceAvenueSW.202-633-1000.

Discussions and lectures ■JohnC.Brittain,professoroflawattheUniversityoftheDistrictofColumbiaDavidA.ClarkeSchoolofLaw,willdiscuss“IsDeFactoSchoolSegregationIncreasing?”Noon.Free.MartinLutherKingJr.MemorialLibrary,901GSt.NW.202-727-0321. ■PaulStillwell,formerdirectoroftheNavalInstitute’shistorydivision,willdiscusshisbook“TheGoldenThirteen:RecollectionsoftheFirstBlackNavalOfficers.”Noon.Free.JeffersonRoom,NationalArchivesBuilding,ConstitutionAvenuebetween7thand9thstreetsNW.202-357-5000. ■CharlesWaldheim,professorofland-scapearchitectureatHarvardUniversity,willdiscuss“LandscapeasUrbanism.”5:30p.m.Free.KoubekAuditorium,CroughCenterforArchitecturalStudies,CatholicUniversity,[email protected]. ■SolarphysicistPaalBrekkewilldiscuss“OurExplosiveSun:TheSourceoftheNorthernLights.”6:45to8:30p.m.$35.RasmusonTheater,NationalMuseumoftheAmericanIndian,4thStreetandIndependenceAvenueSW.202-633-3030. ■DavidUngerwilldiscusshisbook“TheEmergencyState:America’sPursuitofAbsoluteSecurityatAllCosts.”7p.m.Free.PoliticsandProse,5015ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-1919. ■EllenClark,directoroftheSocietyoftheCincinnati’slibrary,willdiscusscelebra-tionsofGeorgeWashington’sbirthdaysinceitwasfirstobservedbythetroopsatValleyForgein1778.7p.m.Free.SocietyoftheCincinnati,2118MassachusettsAve.NW.202-785-2040. ■AuthorsMarkLongandJimDemonakosandillustratorNatePowellwilldiscusstheirbook“TheSilenceofOurFriends.”7p.m.Free.WathaT.Daniel-ShawNeighborhoodLibrary,16307thSt.NW.202-727-1288.

Films ■TheNationalSocietyoftheColonialDamesofAmericaintheDistrictofColumbiawillpresentthe2011film“TheWashingtonsofSulgraveManor.”6to8p.m.Free;reserva-tionsrequested.DumbartonHouse,2715QSt.NW.202-337-2288. ■TheReelIsraelDCserieswillfeatureDinaZviRiklis’2011film“TheFifthHeaven.”8p.m.$11;$9forstudents;$8.25forseniors;$8forages12andyounger.AvalonTheatre,5612ConnecticutAve.NW.202-966-6000.

Performance ■TheNextReflexDanceCollectivewillperform.Noon.Free.SidneyHarmanHall,610FSt.NW.202-547-1122.

Sporting event ■TheWashingtonWizardswillplaytheSacramentoKings.7p.m.$10to$475.VerizonCenter,601FSt.NW.202-397-7328.

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Wednesday, FebRuaRy 22■Film:TheeighthannualShowcaseofAcademyAward-NominatedDocumentariesandShortswillfeatureDanfungDennisandMikeLerner’sfilm“HellandBackAgain.”7p.m.Free.McGowanTheater,NationalArchivesBuilding,ConstitutionAvenuebetween7thand9thstreetsNW.202-357-5000.

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“Ulysses Marshall: The Journey of Hope,” featuring mixed-media works by the Georgia-born

Marshall about the African-American journey through slavery and freedom, will open tomorrow at International Visions Gallery and continue through March 17. An opening reception will take place Friday from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Located at 2629 Connecticut Ave. NW, the gal-lery is open Wednesday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. 202-234-5112.■ “Georgetown ARTS 2012,” the third annual art show of the Citizens Association of Georgetown, will open with a reception tomorrow from 6 to 9 p.m. at House of Sweden. Continuing through Monday, the show features paintings, watercolors, prints, sculpture and photography by Georgetown artists.

Located in the House of Sweden at 2900 K St. NW, the exhibit will be open Friday through Monday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. 202-

337-7313.■ “Politics and the Dancing Body,” exploring how chore-ographers from World War I through the Cold War used dance to celebrate their cul-ture, voice social protest and raise social awareness, will open tomorrow in the James Madison Building of the Library of Congress and continue through July 28. Located at 101 Independence Ave. SE, the library is open Monday through Saturday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. 202-707-8000.

■ “Ñew York: Latin American and Spanish Artists in New York City,” highlighting Latin

American and Spanish artists who live in New York, will open tomorrow at the Art Museum of the Americas. Continuing through May 20, the exhibit presents diverse works about urbanity, mobility and migration. An opening reception and gallery talk will take place tomorrow at 6 p.m. Located at 201 18th St. NW, the museum is open Tuesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 202-463-0203.■ “Every Four Years: Presidential Campaigns and the Press,” exploring how media cover-age of presidential campaigns has evolved from the time of William McKinley in 1896 to Barack Obama, will open Friday at the Newseum and continue through Jan. 27. Located at 555 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, the museum is open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission costs $21.95 for adults; $17.95 for seniors, students and military personnel; and $12.95 for ages 7 through 18. 888-639-7386.■ “Can You Walk Away? Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking in the United States,” challenging perceptions of slavery in America today and raising awareness of a growing humanitarian crisis, will open Friday in the

Robert H. Smith Visitor Education Center at President Lincoln’s Cottage and continue through Aug. 31. Located at the Armed Forces Retirement

Mixed-media works highlight African-American journey On exhibit

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The In Series will present “Shuffle to Show Boat,” a 1920s Broadway tribute,

Feb. 24 through March 4 at Atlas Performing Arts Center. In 1920, two musicians meet in

New York City’s famed Tin Pan Alley, falling in love with the music and each other and creating a dynamic new synergy that leads to the American musical. The cab-aret pays tribute to forgotten musi-cal treasures from the period through the eyes of a group of per-formers. Performance times are 7 p.m. Feb. 24 and March 2; 4 p.m. Feb. 25 and March 3; and 5 p.m. March 4. Tickets cost $18 to $37. Atlas is located at 1333 H St. NE. 202-399-7993; atlasarts.org.■ The Georgetown Theatre Company began presenting “North, South, Race & Class,” a series of staged readings of 19th-century plays, at Grace Episcopal Church last week and will continue the series through March 7. The plays illuminate questions of individual identity and overlap-ping group identities that fed into the tensions leading to the Civil War. Each reading will be followed by a discussion led by a literature or history scholar. “The Gladiator,” on Feb. 15, tells the Spartacus story; “The Octoroon,” on Feb. 29, sensational-ized the peril of a young slave woman at the hands of an evil white man, and “The Escape, or A Leap for Freedom,” on March 7, was written by an escaped slave and is reputed to be autobiographi-cal.

Readings begin at 7:30 p.m. There is a $10 suggested donation. The church is located at 1041 Wisconsin Ave. NW. 703-271-7770; georgetowntheatre.org.■ Ford’s Theatre is presenting Richard Hellesen’s “Necessary Sacrifices” through Feb. 18. Performance times are generally 7:30 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and 2 p.m. Saturday. Tickets cost $20 to $33. The theater is located at 511 10th St. NW. 202-347-4833; fordstheatre.org.■ Keegan Theatre is presenting Neil Simon’s “Laughter on the 23rd Floor” through Feb. 18 at the Church Street Theater. Performance times are 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday. Tickets cost $30 to $35. The Church Street Theater is located at 1742 Church St. NW. 703-892-0202; keegantheatre.com.■ Rorschach Theatre is presenting Fengar Gael’s “The Gallerist” through Feb. 19 at the Atlas Performing Arts Center.

Performance times are generally 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $25. Atlas Performing Arts Center is located at 1333 H St. NE. 202-399-7993; rorschachtheatre.com.■ Studio Theatre has extended Donald Margulies’ “Time Stands Still” through Feb. 19. Performance times are 8 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, 7 p.m. Sunday, and 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Tickets cost $35 to $60. Studio Theatre is located at 1501 14th St. NW. 202-332-3300; studiotheatre.org.■ Theater J is presenting “Electile Dysfunction: The Kinsey Sicks for President” through Feb. 19 at the Washington DC Jewish Community Center. Performance times are generally at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday; 8 p.m. Saturday; and 3 p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $30 to $70. The center is located at 1529 16th St. NW. 800-494-7497; theaterj.org.

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period to March 1. The comment phase was originally scheduled to close over the weekend; it was extended in part because of the vol-ume of input and in part because of conflicting information about the deadline, according to agency spokesperson Helder Gil. Once comments are in, the regu-latory agency expects to spend two months meeting with representa-tives of the food truck and restau-rant industries to discuss any chang-es to the proposed regulations, said Gil. If the changes are significant, there will be another public com-ment period; otherwise, the regula-tions will go before the D.C. Council for an up or down vote and likely go into effect by the end of the year. So far, said Gil, “the overwhelm-ing vast majority” of the comments have supported food trucks. But some residents’ concerns remain. “With three neighborhood com-mercial strips surrounded by resi-dential areas, I cannot support food trucks being able to say, ‘Oh, I can’t get on the main street, I’ll go in front of the houses right around the corner,’” Dupont Circle commis-sioner Bob Meehan said at last week’s meeting. “That’s not accept-able to me.” Speaking to the Georgetown commission last month, regulatory agency director Nick Majett said he doubted food trucks would try to set up on residential streets even if they had that authority. “They’re not going to be doing that, because there’s no business on the residen-tial streets,” he said. Georgetown commission chair Ron Lewis was less certain. “We get a lot of foot traffic close to Wisconsin [Avenue] and M [Street] on residen-tial streets, so I can see some park-ing half a block in,” Lewis said.

“And those food trucks are wide and the streets are narrow.” The bulk of the proposed regula-tions for food trucks focuses on the downtown area where the trucks are already most common. Within that area, vendors would need to com-pete for assigned spaces and pay an annual fee. Anywhere else in the city, trucks would need only to pay parking meters and obey standard

restrictions on how long they could occupy a spot. The agency would also have the authority, in the future, to designate additional specialized food truck zones with more rigorous restric-tions. The Dupont Circle commis-sion unanimously requested that neighborhood commissions be allowed to weigh in on the estab-lishment of any such zones. Right now, few rules govern the trucks, because city officials did not anticipate how prevalent they would become in some sections of the city. The agency first developed pro-posed regulations a year ago, and it released a comprehensive revision last month. At the Georgetown meeting, Majett emphasized that even after the regulations are in effect, resi-dents will still be encouraged to offer feedback. “If it gets to the point where there’s a situation that needs to be changed, we can always amend these regs,” he said. “We’ll be mon-itoring the progress of these food trucks to make sure it’s not a bad effect.”

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F ox ha l l , D CRecently completed new construction! The finest materials have been artfully combined to create a 6 BR, 6.5 bath masterpiece with spacious rooms, a gourmet chef’s kitchen, soaring ceilings and unique architectural details on an 11,000+ sf lot with views to Virginia. Elevator ready. $2,195,000.

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C h e v y C hase , D CStunning mid-century home fully renovated and ideally located on quiet cul-de-sac near Rock Creek Park. Incredibly spacious 3,200 sf with 4 BR, 3 baths, chef’s dream kitchen with banquette, wonderful large fam rm, rec. room, dramatic LR, elegant DR, replacement windows, and lovely oak floors. Large landscaped yard, stone patio, pond, and garage. $865,000.Claudia Donovan 202.251.7011Richard seaton 202.907.8037

G e oRG etow n , D CBuilt circa 1900 and renovated by Gordon Architects, this semi-detached townhome is located in Georgetown’s prominent East Village. Period details seamlessly blend with modern systems and spaces in this stunning residence. This timeless home is flooded with light through the home’s southern exposure. The beautifully terraced outdoor gardens provide a quiet and secluded environment. 2 car garage. $2,595,000.Michael Rankin 202.271.3344

Pa l i s a De s , D CThis sweet 3 BR, 3 bath bungalow in the Palisades is located on a great street with many renovations presently taking place. Features of this home include hardwood floors on the first level, carpet on the second level, front porch and a rear deck. $825,000.

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sPR i nG va l l e y, D CA sweeping private circular drive opens to 1/2 acre of manicured grounds. Beautifully appointed 7 BR brick Colonial. With over 9,000 sf on 3 levels, this home offers grand rooms fit for entertaining. Additional features include an elevator, breakfast room overlooking the rear grounds, fitness room, fully-finished lower level and an attached 2-car garage. $2,399,000.Michael Rankin 202.271.3344tessa Morris 202.236.9543

G e oRG etow n , D CThis beautifully renovated 3 BR, 2.5 bath semi-detached row house in the East Village was painstakingly restored between 2006 and 2008. Sited adjacent to Rose Park, the house offers 3 exposures and an abundance of natural light. The high-end kitchen features granite counters and Viking Professional appliances. Picturesque rear garden with flagstone patio and stone bench. $1,275,000. Jonathan taylor 202.276.3344

C h e v y C hase , M DHidden jewel in Kenwood with 4 spacious BR, 4.5 baths, large deck off master bedroom and an incredible pool with stone waterfall and 2 level back patio. 3 fireplaces, recently added breakfast room, loads of charm, and room for expansion. $1,656,000.

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Relax & enjoyChevy Chase, MD. The Hamlet

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rec rm, br & ba. Walk-up attic. Patio. $1,125,000

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sensational penthouseChevy Chase, DC. 3 levels, 4,000+ sf of

luxurious open living space plus huge private roof top terrace. 4 BRs, 3.5 BAs includes

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9 year old bldg has concierge. $1,750,000Delia McCormick 301-977-7273

now and FoReveRGreenacres, Chevy Chase, MD Brand new! Four finished levels includes 4 bedrooms

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RoMantiC RetReatCleveland Park. 1917 Bungalow

loaded w/charm & original details. 4 BRs, 3 BAs, open LR/DR, eat-in kit, den w/stone frpl. Finished LL,

screen porch w/wooded views. Garage. $1,250,000

lynn BulMeR 202-257-2410

ClassiC BeautyForest Hills. Impeccable center hall

1940 Colonial. Exquisite luxury from top to bottom. 7 bedrooms, 5.5 baths,

on 4 finished levels. Lovely manicured grounds. One of a kind! $2,395,000ellen aBRaMs 202-255-8219

anne-MaRie Finnell 202-329-7117

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