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To facilitate entry and for the convenience of visitors, the museum is offering a timed pass option at nmaahc.si.edu. Photo: Courtesy of the National Museum of African American History and Culture
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On Friday, Sept. 23, noon to 5 p.m., on the Washington Monument grounds, the National Museum of African American History and Culture presents “Freedom Sounds: A Community Celebration Conceived.” Presented in festival fashion, Freedom Sounds programming includes musical performances, spoken word, oral history activities and evening concerts. Freedom Sounds continues on Saturday and Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. and 6 to 9 p.m., both days. This three-day event is free and open to the public. On Saturday, Sept. 24, 10 a.m. (Musical prelude at 8 a.m.), the public can witness the outdoor Dedication Ceremony. No tickets are required. Large-screen viewing areas will be well-positioned for crowds during the ceremony. The museum itself opens after the ceremony at 1 p.m. nmaahc.si.edu.
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To celebrate the re-opening of the East Building Galleries, the National Gallery presents three performances in the East Building Auditorium, two of which highlight a major exhibition opening on Sept. 30: “Los Angeles to New York: Dwan Gallery, 1959–1971.” On Friday, Sept. 30 at 12:30 p.m., pianist Vicki Chow performs Tristan Perich’s Surface Image. Perich, who is also the grandson of collector Virginia Dwan, composed the full-length work for piano and 40 one-bit speakers. There will be a performance of Yves Klein’s Symphonie Monotone-Silence. The late artist’s work is featured in the Virginia Dwan collection. He is remembered for his use of a single color, the rich shade of ultramarine that he made his own: International Klein Blue. Klein’s highly eccentric symphony requires a 32-piece orchestra and 40-voice choir to sustain a D-major chord for 20 minutes; and then to sit, frozen in silence for 20 minutes. This performance will take place on Oct. 1 at 4 p.m. To close out the weekend, American composer Philip Glass will appear in performance and discussion on Sunday, Oct. 2 at 2 p.m. nga.gov. There will be a community weekend, Nov. 5 and 6, to celebrate the reopening of the East Galleries featuring live music and inspiring performances, interactive tours of modern art, and hands-on art making.
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American composer Phillip Glass will perform October 2, 2:00 p.m., East Building Auditorium and discuss the creative process of collaborating with the visual arts. Washington, D.C. composer Steve Antosca moderates. Photo: Courtesy of Fernando Aceves
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3 WashingCon Tabletop Gaming Convention
On Sept. 10 and 11, join fellow tabletop game enthusiasts at The Georgetown University Hotel and Conference Center, 3800 Reservoir Rd. NW, for the second WashingCon Tabletop Gaming Convention. Organizers are saying that “everything is bigger and better this year with ten times the space, six times the people and twice as many days.” They’re selling tickets and tee shirts now. Admission is $40 or $45. The website is clever and fun and may be an indication of the tone of this event. Visit washingcon.com.
4 Be In Brookland/ Experience Edgewood Celebrates Community
From Sept. 8 to 17, Dance Place celebrates its 2016-2017 season and the opening of 8th Street Arts Park with a week of (mostly) free activities for all ages. Here’s a list of what’s going on: live music, hip-hop, jazz, modern dance, African dance, face painting, step team, community clean-up, basketball, games, teen night, recycled art workshop, gardening, BBQ, mosaics class, ballet, tap...it’s hard to keep up. Visit their website for details at danceplace.org. Dance Place is at 3225 Eighth St. NE. There’s street parking; and it is two blocks from the Brookland Metro on the Red Line.
In a neighborhood rife with racial tension, a local girl falls for a recent arrival who is the victim of prejudice and shame. “Balcony” is at E Street Cinema on Sept. 9, 9 p.m. Photo: Courtesy of DC Shorts
5 DC Shorts Film Festival
The 2016 DC Shorts Film Festival showcases one of the largest collections of short films in the USA. Out of over 1,300 entries from around the globe, their programmers have selected 131 unique films that reflect the 33 nations they represent. The 13th Annual DC Shorts Film Festival is Sept. 8 to 18. All screenings are 90-minutes in length and include seven to nine films. They are at E Street Cinema and the United States Navy Memorial. For a complete listing, visit festival.dcshorts.com. Sit back and watch over 75 of their selections anywhere. Online access is only available during the festival until midnight on Sept. 18.
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AREA FESTIVALS & SPECIAL EVENTS Art All Night: Made in DC. DC’s free overnight arts festival returns September 24, 2016. Starting at 7 PM, it runs until 3 AM the following morning. The festivities span seven DC Main Streets neighborhoods, bringing visual and performing arts including painting, photography, sculpture, crafts, fashion, music, dance, theater, film, poetry and much more to indoor and outdoor public, private spaces and businesses.
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Barracks Row Fall Festival. Sept. 24, 11 AM to 5 PM. Festival features restaurants, food trucks, United States Marine Corps Silent Drill Platoon, community information tables and a main stage for live entertainment. Chesty, the Marine Corps Bulldog mascot, will be walking the midway to meet fair goers and pose with fans. Eighth Street SE is closed to traffic and booths of all description line the midway. barracksrow.org.
This year, the festival celebrates the “Made in DC” initiative. Art All Night is presented by the DC Department of Small and Local Business Development in partnership with Destination Congress Heights, Dupont Circle Main Streets, H Street Main Street, North Capitol Main Street, Inc., Shaw Main Streets, Tenleytown Main Street, Van Ness Main Street and The DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. Check www.artallnightdc.com for the full schedule. Follow the event on Facebook,
Twitter and Instagram for updates on artists, performance schedules, contests and special offers from sponsors, partners, and participating businesses! Facebook: @artallnightmadeindc. Twitter: @artallnightdc. Instagram: @artallnightmadeindc. ICEBERGS at the National Building Museum. Through Sept. 5. Representing a beautiful, underwater world of glacial ice fields spanning the Museum’s enormous Great Hall, the immersive installation emphasizes current themes of landscape
representation, geometry and construction. National Building Museum, 401 F St. NW. nbm.org. Maryland Renaissance Festival. Weekends and Labor Day Monday, Aug. 27 to Oct. 23, 10 AM to 7 PM. Adult admission $19 to $24; Kids, $8 to $10. 1821 Crownsville Rd, Annapolis, MD. rennfest.com. National Shrine Annual Tower Tour. Sept. 7, 10 AM to 4 PM. Visitors will ascend the Tower by elevator to the observation level
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Capitol Hill Village – helping the community navigate the future. where they can take in the spectacular view. Visitors will be admitted on a firstcome, first-served basis. Visitors must be able to climb 85 steps and be in good physical condition. For more information, call 202-526-8300. nationalshrine.com. Prince George’s County Fair. Sept. 8 to 11, Show Place Arena, 14900 Pennsylvania Ave., Upper Marlboro, MD. countyfair.org. Inaugural 202 Arts & Music Festival. Sept. 10, 11 AM to 10 PM. Featuring live performances, art exhibitions, interactive workshops and more. Plus DC’s biggest outdoor dance party to end the night. Canal Park, 1000 Second St. SE. dcarts.dc.gov. Kreeger Museum Open House. Sept. 10 (rain or shine), 10 AM to 4 PM. Live jazz, outdoor art activities and children’s stories, Djembe Drum Circle and art talks. Lunch at food trucks. The Kreeger Museum, 2401 Foxhall Rd. NW. kreegermuseum.org. Adams Morgan Day Festival. Sept. 11, noon to 6 PM. Vendors, sidewalk cafes, cultural activities and performances. 18th Street NW between Florida Avenue and Columbia Road. facebook.com/adamsmorganday. Truckeroo. Sept. 16, 11 AM to 11 PM. Last Truckeroo of the season. Enjoy cuisine from 25 of DC’s best food trucks accompanied by music, games, plenty of covered seating and adult beverages. DC Fairgrounds, 1201 Half St. SE. foodtruckfiesta.com. National Garden 10th Anniversary Celebration. Sept. 17, 10 AM to 4 PM. This day-long festival showcases the amazing diversity of American plants through the Mid-Atlantic Regional Garden, Rose Garden and Butterfly Garden with special activities and programs. Free; no preregistration required. US Botanic Garden, Conservatory Terrace. usbg.gov. Snallygaster Beer Festival. Sept. 17, 1 to 6 PM. Features 350 craft beers and ciders, food trucks, music, entertainment and family fun. Tickets, $35 to $60. First and N Streets SE, Yards Park. snallygasterdc.com.
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Aging Parents Don’t Come with Manuals – Call on Capitol Hill Village to help figure it out. The joys and challenges of long life impact an entire family. Whether it is the opportunity of having parents as part time babysitters, recognizing dementia onset , or responding to crisis. Increasingly, families are recognizing that longevity, like any other phase in life, benefits from working together, knowing resources and planning proactively.
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Let’s Talk. Have you seen? Have you heard? Capitol Hill Village’s numerous free, public programs? Sept. 12th 19th, 26th: Tai Chi. Learn the ancient martial art of Tai Chi, reknowned for its calming effects and contribution to longevity. 2 pm -- Space is limited—call the office to reserve a space. Sept. 13th 7pm: Village Voices -- School Libraries – preserving the past, designing the future School libraries used to be the place where you went to learn about history. Today they are centers for imagining and interacting with the future. Delia Neuman. Ph.D, has dedicated her career to understanding how children, use information and learning towards problem solving. She will speak about the role of school libraries their impact on learning and information acquisition. 7:00 pm at the Northeast Public Library, 330 7th St. NE. Registration preferred: Call (202) 543 1778. Or email: info@capitolhillvillage.org. September 15th: Purls of Wisdom Knitting Group. Bring your needles and sense of fun to join other friends and village members for a few hours of knitting. There is not going to be lessons or technical assistance, this is for folks with some level of experience. 4-6pm Space is limited—call or email to reserve a space. September 16th: Balance Class. This monthly class, which will help you recognize that strength and agility are the best defenses against falls. Practice skills that will keep you on your feet. The class is taught by a volunteer physical therapist from Physiotherapy Associates. 12:30-1:30 pm—call or email to reserve a space.
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Park After Dark. Sept. 17, 6 PM. Fundraiser to benefit the C&O Canal National Historical Park. This unique event is held at the Historic Great Falls Tavern in Potomac, MD. Attendees will enjoy live music, great food, libations, live and silent auction items, a campfire and more. Tickets at ParkAfterDark.org.
features more than 60 creative dishes from more than 30 of the neighborhood’s best restaurants. K Street NW between Wisconsin Avenue and Thomas Jefferson Street. tasteofgeorgetown.com. Taste of Bethesda. Oct. 1, 11 AM to 4 PM. More than 50 restaurants and five stages of entertainment and a children’s area featuring art and craft activities, balloons and face painting at Bethesda’s Woodmont Triangle. bethesda.org.
King Street Art Festival. Sept. 17, 10 AM to 7 PM and Sept. 18, 10 AM to 5 PM. Old Town Alexandria on King Street from Washington Street to the Potomac River waterfront. ArtFestival.com. Annapolis Craft Beer and Music Festival. Sept. 17, noon to 6 PM. Over 120 beers from more than 50 regional and national craft breweries, beer seminars, live music all day and fine food. $40. Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium, Annapolis, MD. theannapoliscraftbeerandmusicfestival.com.
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H Street Festival. Sept. 17, noon to 7 PM. This year’s event will span 10 blocks of H Street NE with 14 staging areas, dozens of interactive attractions and displays. More than 250 businesses, restaurants, community organizations and vendors participate. H Street NE between the 400 and 1400 blocks. hstreet.org.
Colonial Market & Fair at Mount Vernon. Sept. 18 and 19. More than 40 artisans will demonstrate their trades and sell their wares while two stages of family entertainment delight audiences with 18th-century amusements. mountvernon.org.
ZooFiesta. Sept. 18, 10 AM to 2 PM. Family activities include animal feedings, arts and crafts, musical entertainment, educational activities highlighting conservation research in Central and South America, and authentic gourmet cuisine at a Latin America-inspired food bazaar. National Zoo. nationalzoo.si.edu. 2016 National Book Festival. Sept. 24, 10 AM to 10 PM. Approximately 120 authors, illustrators and poets will make presentations in stages dedicated to Children; Teens; Picture Books; Books to Movies; Contemporary Life; Graphic Novels; Fiction; Food & Home; History & Biography; International Programs; Mysteries, Thrillers & Science Fiction; Poetry & Prose; and Science. A Main Stage of 2,500 seats will feature six of the most popular festival authors. A Poetry Slam will also be held. Walter E. Washington Convention Center, 801 Mt. Vernon Pl. NW. loc.gov/bookfest. Taste of Georgetown. Oct. 1, 11 AM to 4 PM. The event
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LAST OF THE SUMMER OUTDOOR MOVIES & MUSIC Union Market Summer Drive-In Movies. Friday, Oct. 7, Ghostbusters. Gates open at 6:30 PM; close at 8:30 PM. Film begins at 8 PM/sunset in the Union Market parking lot, 1305 Fifth St. NE. unionmarketdc.com.
NSO Labor Day Concert at the Capitol. Sept. 4, 8 PM. Gates open at 3 PM. Open rehearsal at 3:30 PM. The NSO performs its annual free Labor Day weekend concert, this year featuring patriotic favorites like The Washington Post March and the Armed Forces Salute plus a selection of American Songbook standards including “The Lady is a Tramp,” “My Funny Valentine,” and “Maybe This Time,” among others. West Lawn of the US Capitol. Meet America’s Army Live Performances. Sept. 6, 14 and 21, 9 AM to Noon at the Lincoln Memorial. usarmyband.com. Outdoor Concerts at the Botanic Garden. Sept. 8 and 22, Oct. 6 and 20; 5 to 7 PM. Free. US Botanic Garden, 100 Maryland Ave. SW. USBG.gov. Films at the Stone at the MLK Memorial. Sept. 9, 8:15 PM, “Fly By Light”. For more information, visit FilmsAtTheStone.com. Cinematery: Movie Night in the Cemetery. Sept. 16 (Sept. 23, rain date), 7 to 10 PM. Join neighbors on the Congressional Cemetery grounds for a screening of “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?” This creepy, campy classic is the
perfect movie to start off the 2016 Halloween season. Suggested donation is $10. BYOB and dinner. congressionalcemetery.org. All Things Go Fall Classic at Yards Park. Oct. 8. Featuring Empire of the Sun, Passion Pit, Sylvan Esso and Christine and the Queens. $65 to $75. Yards Park. allthingsgofallclassic.com.
MUSIC Northeast Library Musical Instrument Petting Zoo. On Friday, Sept. 9, 4 to 5 p.m., Northeast Library, 330 Seventh St. NE, will have multiple orchestral instruments for children of to handle and play some music on with help from DC’s best music instructors. This activity is for children ages five through nine. Blues Night in Southwest. Every Monday, 6 to 9 PM. Sept. 5, Lil Margie & Friends; Sept. 12, Southbound Steel; Sept. 19, 10th Blue Monday Blues Anniversary Jam Session; Sept. 26, Nadine Rae & the All-Stars. $5 cover. Children free under 16 years old. Reasonably priced meals offered. 202-484-7700. Westminster Presbyterian Church, 400 I St. SW westminsterdc.org. Music at Mr. Henry’s. Thursday Night Bluegrass. Sept. 15, By & By; Sept. 22, Moose Jaw; Sept. 29, Truck Farmers. Friday Night Jazz: Sept. 2, Dial 251 for Jazz; Sept. 9, The Kevin Cordt Quartet; Sept. 16, Herb Scott; Sept. 23, Aaron L. Myers II; Sept. 30, Elijah Jamal Balbed. Saturday Night Ladies of Jazz: Sept. 3, Denyse Pearson and her Gentlemen of Distinction; Sept. 10, Candice Bostwick; Sept. 17, Maija Rejman; Sept. 24, Barbara Papendorp. Karaoke Tuesdays: Hosted by India Larelle Houston from 7 to 11 PM, every Tuesday. No cover; music is 8 to 11 PM. Capitol Hill Jazz Jam every Wednesday night. Shows run 8 to 11 PM.; doors open at 6 PM; no cover; two items per person minimum. Henry’s Upstairs, 601 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. 202-546-8412. mrhenrysdc.com. Labor Day Weekend Music Festival. Sept. 2 to 4, 7 PM, each night. Sept. 4, Sol Roots, Freddie Dunn, Ayanna Gregory Band, Eric Byrd Trio. Three nights of music, featuring jazz, blues, rock, funk, Go Go, Americana and more. Historic Lincoln Theatre, 1215 U St. NW. Tickets are free. For more information and a complete listing of programs, visit dcarts.dc.gov or call 202-724-5613. Music at Rock and Roll Hotel. Sept. 3, Bey vs. Jay; Sept. 4, Porches; Sept. 7, Basement; Sept. 8, Vandaveer; Sept. 9, Skywlkr; Sept. 10, The Felice Brothers; Sept. 11, Tribulation; Spt. 12, The Anniversary; Sept. 13, The Skatalites; Sept. 14, Billy Talent; Sept. 15, Allah-Las; Sept. 16, White Ford Bronco; Sept. 23, Jah Wobble & The Invaders of the
Heart; Sept. 24, Tiger Army; Sept. 29, the Suffers; Sept. 30, This Wild Life; Oct. 1, Russian Circles; Oct. 4, Ash; Oct. 5, The Dear Hunter. Rock and Roll Hotel, 1353 H St. NE. 202-388-7625. rockandrollhoteldc.com. Jazz Night in Southwest. Every Friday, 6 to 9 PM. Sept. 9, JN Jazz Legends Series #7 featuring Steve Novosel; Sept. 16, Allyn Johnson Organ Experience; Sept. 23, Thad Wilson Big Band-A Tribute to John Coltrane. $5 cover. Children are free under 16 years old. Reasonably priced meals offered. 202-484-7700. Westminster Presbyterian Church, 400 I St. SW. westminsterdc.org. Music at Corner Store. Sept. 10, 8 PM, Pianist Peggy Stern & Friends; Sept. 25, 5 PM, “Folk & Fury� Mioi Takeda & Lynn Bechtold With guest artist Machiko Ozawa, violin. The Corner Store, Ninth Street and South Carolina Avenue. SE. cornerstorearts.org. Church of the Epiphany Weekly Concerts. Every Tuesday, 12:10 PM. Sept. 6, Tzu-yi Chen, piano; Sept. 13, Elizabeth Adams, violin and Melinda Baird, piano; Sept. 20, Ralitza Patcheva and Sam Post piano and harpsichord; Sept. 27, Mayron Tsong, piano; Oct. 4, Washington Bach Consort. 1317 G ST. NW. 202-347-2635. epiphanydc.org. Global Sounds on the Hill-The Mehmet Polat Trio. Sept. 8, 7:30 to 9:30 PM. With roots in the Ottoman, ancient Anatolian, Balkan and West African music traditions, the trio galvanizes audiences with its singular and eclectic musical authenticity. $12 in advance; $15, day of performance. Hill Center, 921 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. hillcenterdc.org. Notes from the Crypt. Sept. 11, 4 to 5 PM. Free. Historic Congressional Cemetery Chapel, 1801 E St. SE. congressionalcemetery.org. Chiarina Chamber Players and District5 Wind Quintet. Sept. 11, 4 to 6 PM. Experience fresh interpretation of new and old works as these dynamic players present gems of the string trio repertoire and
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Dead Man’s Run at Congressional Cemetery. Oct. 1, 6 p.m. Race starts with a toll of the funeral bell, continues throughout the cemetery and onto the Anacostia Trail for a ghostly evening run full of spooky music and fun. Costumes encouraged, with prizes for best costumes and team costume. Form a team to compete with your friends.Registration is $40. hccemetery.wixsite.com/deadmansrun. Photo: Historic Congressional Cemetery metery newly conceived transcriptions for wind quintet. Each ensemble takes one half of the program. $15 in advance; $20, day-of. Hill Center, 921 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. hillcenterdc.org. DC Jazz Preservation Festival. Sept. 26, noon to 7 PM. Westminster’s famous Friday Jazz Night community invites you to a daylong celebration to honor DC’s own great jazz musicians. Enjoy fish, chicken, ribs and more prepared by the great Friday Jazz Night chefs. Check out the arts and crafts vendors. 400 I St. SW.
THEATER Longacre Lea’s “Fear” at CUA. Through Sept. 4. A professional garage theatre gets a large donation to go off-brand and try to “solve” Shakespeare. What is the best way to tell his stories now? What really are the reasons to continue to produce his plays after hundreds of years? Callan Theatre at Catholic University, 3801 Harewood Rd. NE. longacrelea.org. Hand to God at Studio. Extended through Sept. 18. Like nothing you’ve seen before, this blasphemous Broadway hit is a ruthless comedy about sex, sinners and sock
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puppets. Studio Theatre, 1501 14th St. NW. 202-332-3300. studiotheatre.org. Scena Theatre’s Report to an Academy by Franz Kafka. Through Sept. 25. An intelligent African ape is captured. To survive, “Peter” imitates his jailors and learns to behave like a human. He ultimately presents his fascinating transformation to a leading scientific academy. Atlas Performing Arts Center, 1333 H St. NE. 202-399-7993. atlasarts.org. Mosaic’s Satchmo at the Waldorf. Through Sept. 25. This is a one-man, three-character powerhouse play set in March of 1971 on the night of Armstrong’s last public performance. Atlas Performing Arts Center, 1333 H St. NE. 202-399-7993 ext. 2. mosaictheater.org. Come From Away at Ford’s. Sept. 2 to Oct. 9. On Sept. 11, 38 planes with 6,579 passengers were stranded in a remote town in Newfoundland. The locals opened their hearts and homes, and hosted this international community of strangers for a week — spurring unexpected camaraderie in extraordinary circumstances. Featuring a rousing score of folk and rock, Come From Away honors the better angels of our nature, revealing hope and humanity in a time
of darkness. Ford’s Theatre, 511 10th St. NW. 202-347-4833. fords.org. The Last Schwartz at Theater J. Sept. 7 to Oct. 2. Nothing is funnier than family dysfunction. The Schwartz family has been on their last legs since Papa died a year ago. Norma’s husband isn’t speaking to her, Herb and Bonnie are having baby troubles, and Simon wants to be an astronaut. Theater J, 1529 16th St. NW. 800-494-8497. washingtondcjcc.org. Rorschach’s A Bid to Save the World. Sept. 9 to Oct. 2. After suffering the loss of her beloved brother, a young woman conjures a world where Death no longer has power over the living. Atlas Performing Arts Center, 1333 H St. NE. 202-3997993 Ext. 2. rorschachtheatre.com. Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Boops at Woolly. Sept. 12 to Oct. 9. Betty is rich. Betty is lonely. Betty’s a dutiful wife, but Betty’s busy working on her truck. Betty wants to talk about love and Betty wants Betty; but Betty needs to hit something. Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, 641 D St. NW. 202-393-3939. woollymammoth.net. Romeo & Juliet at Shakespeare. Sept. 13 to Nov. 6. The most famous love story in the world and one of Shakespeare’s early poetic masterworks, Romeo & Juliet follows two star-crossed lovers from love at first sight to eternal life hereafter. Lansburgh Theatre, 450 Seventh St. NW. 202-547-1122. shakespearetheatre.org. The Gulf at Signature. Sept. 13 to Nov. 6. Betty and Kendra waste away a languid summer day fishing on the Alabama Delta. Suddenly, their lazy afternoon turns to chaos when the motor breaks, stranding the two and their tumultuous relationship, in the Gulf. Signature Theatre, 4200 Campbell Ave., Shirlington, VA. signature-theatre.org. brownsville song (b-side for tray) at Anacostia Playhouse. Sept. 15 to Oct. 9. Life in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn can feel predictable and inevitable, but Tray has a way out. Then, when a senseless act of violence cuts his life
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The Little Foxes at Arena. Sept. 23 to Oct. 30. There are people who eat and there are those who get eaten. First in line to be served is Regina Giddens, clawing her way to wealth with her equally calculating brothers. Arena Stage, 1101 6th St. SW. 202-488-3300. arenastage.org. Selma ’65 at CUA’s Hartke. Sept. 24, 25, and 26 at 7:30 PM and Sept. 26 and 27 at 2 PM. In remembrance of the 50th anniversary of the Selma voting rights march, award-winning playwright Catherine Filloux brings to life the interconnected stories of Viola Liuzzo, white civil rights activist, and Tommy Rowe, FBI informant, undercover with the Ku Klux Klan. The Catholic University of America Hartke Theatre, 3801 Harewood Rd. NE. drama.cua.edu. Secrets, Lies and Scandals at THEARC. Sept. 24, 3 PM and 7:30 PM. Most people are no longer surprised to learn that a spouse has been unfaithful or that a best friend has turned into one’s worst frenemy. However, when one confides in and give 100 percent trust to your Pastor, one never believes that he will turn out to be your biggest foe.... for an Offering!!! $40 to $50. THEARC, 1901 Mississippi Ave. SE. 202-889-5901. thearcdc.org. What We’re Up Against at Keegan. Sept. 24 to Oct. 15. A scathing, ferocious comedy about sexism in the workplace by one of today’s most acclaimed and provocative playwrights. Keegan Theatre, 1742 Church St. NW. 202-2653767. keegantheatre.com. Broken at the Anacostia Arts Center. Oct. 1, 4 to 6 PM. This play is a testament of strength and empowerment. In this day in age there are times you may feel alone and that you will never make
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it out of adversity. There’s good news! You will! Come join us for a night of encouragement, empowerment, and fun. $20. Anacostia Arts Center, 1231 Good Hope Rd SE. AnacostiaArtsCenter.com.
SPORTS AND FITNESS Washington Nationals Baseball. Sept. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 26, 27, 28, 29, and 30; Oct. 1 and 2. washington.nationals.mlb.com. Washington Mystics. Sept. 7, 9, 11 and 18. Verizon Center. mystics.wnba.com. DC United at RFK. Sept. 24, 7 PM vs. Orlando City SC; Sept. 28, 7:30 PM vs. Columbus Crew; Oct. 16, 5 PM vs. New York City FC. dcunited.com. St. Mark’s Yoga. Half-price pass sale, Sept. 6 to 12, in class 301 A St. SE or online stmarks.net; Love Your Heart Yoga with Debbie Sheetz, Sept. 11, 2 to 4 PM. Learn how Yogic postures, breathing and mindfulness contribute to heart health, based on the work of Dr. Dean Ornish; Yoga Nidra (deep relaxation) with Pamela Wilson, Sept. 18, 6 to 7:30 PM, at St. Mark’s Yoga center, 301 A St. SE; class pass or $15 drop in. stmarks.net. Nation’s Triathlon. Sept. 11, 7 AM to 11:30 AM (Awards Ceremony and Finish Line Festival). Triathlon begins and ends at West Potomac Park and includes a swim in the Potomac River and bike course through the streets of Washington and along Rock Creek and Potomac Parkways. The race finishes with a run along the water and a spectacular finish south of the FDR Memorial. nationstri.com. Freedom 5K at President Lincoln’s Cottage. Sept. 24, 9 AM. This year’s 5K is on Saturday, Sept. 24, and commemorates Abraham Lincoln’s issuance of the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. $35. lincolncottage.org. Inaugural Relay For Life of Washington, DC. Sept. 25, 3 to 8 PM. The American Cancer Society Relay For Life movement is the world’s largest and
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most impactful fundraising event to end cancer. The Bullpen at Half Street Fairgrounds, 1201 Half St. SE. main.acsevents.org. BicycleSPACE Free Weekly Group Rides. All the rides originate from one of three locations: (1) Adams Morgan, 2424 18th St. NW. Hills of Rock Creek, Sundays, 8 AM. (2) Downtown, 440 K St. NW, #HappyThursday Social Ride, Thursdays 7:30 PM; Hills of Anacostia, Saturdays, 8:30 AM; City Explorers, Sundays, 11:30 AM; Cupcake Ramble, Saturdays, 11:30 AM; Brompton Folding Thunder, Mondays, 6 PM. (3) Ivy City 1512 Okie St. NE. Nice & Easy Ride, Saturdays and Sundays, 10 AM; Downtown and Adams Morgan, Saturdays, 10 AM. Rides very with the seasons. Read more at bicyclespacedc.com. Yoga Mortis at Congressional Cemetery. Mondays through October, 6:30 PM. Historic Congressional Cemetery, 1801 E St. SE. 202-543-0539. congressionalcemetery.org. Practice with Love Yoga Gathering at the Botanic Garden. Saturdays through fall except Labor Day weekend and Oct. 1; 10:30 to 11:30 AM. Free. Bring your own mat. usbg.gov. Nearby Free Public Tennis Courts. King Greenleaf Recreation Center, 201 N St. SW; Garfield Park, Third and G Streets SE; Randall Park First and I Streets SW; Rosedale Recreation Center, 1701 Gales St. NE; Sherwood Recreation Center, 640 10th St. NE. All courts are open daily, dawn to dusk. Courts are available on a first-come, first-served basis for one hour intervals; extended use of tennis courts requires a permit. Proper shoes and attire required. 202-671-0314. dpr.dc.gov.
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Nearby Outdoor Pools. Open nearby outdoor pools are East Potomac Pool, 972 Ohio Dr. SW, closes for the season on Sunday, Oct. 16, 6 PM; and Rosedale Pool, 1701 Gales St. NE, closes for season on Mon., Sept. 5, 6 PM. Free for DC residents. Have ID. dpr.dc.gov.
MARKETS AND SALES Friends of SE Library Book Sale. Sept. 10 (monthly on the second Saturday), 10 AM to 3 PM. Most books are $1. Proceeds benefit children’s programs. Southeast Neighborhood Library, 403 Seventh St. SE. 202-6983377. dclibrary.org/southeast. Friends of SW Library Book Sale. Sept. 17, 10 AM to 3 PM; Sept. 18, 1:30 to 4 PM. Most books are $1. They have had numerous book donations and have lots of new stock. All proceeds go to library speakers, equip-
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Sense and Sensibility at the Folger. Sept. 13 to Oct. 30. Reason and passion collide in Jane Austen’s beloved tale of sisterhood and romance. When sudden financial straits force the Dashwood family to move to a distant cottage, sisters Elinor and Marianne become ensnared in heart-wrenching romances. Folger Theater, 201 East Capitol St. SE. 202-544-7077. folger.edu. ment, events and supplies. Southwest Neighborhood Library, 900 Wesley Pl. SW. 202-724-4752. dclibrary. org/southwest. Maury Elementary Yard Sale. Maury Elementary hosts its annual yard sale at 1250 Constitution Ave. NE on Sept. 24 from 9 AM to 1 PM. Sale items include clothes, toys, baby gear, housewares and more. The event features a “couture corner” with higher-end, name brand, clothes and baby gear sold for consignment-like prices. All proceeds help the Maury PTA. SW Market. Fourth Fridays, Sept. 23 and Oct. 28, 4 to 10 PM. Featuring arts and crafts, jewelry, accessories, bath/beauty, furniture, furnishings, accessories, collectibles, live-music, food trucks and a beer garden. Market is at the Waterfront Station, Fourth and M Streets SW. marketswdc.com. Maury Yard and Bake Sale. Sept. 24, 9 AM to 1 PM. Sale items will include clothes, toys, house-wares, and more. You can drop off donations at the school during the week prior. The event features a “couture corner” with higher-end, name brand, clothes and baby gear sold for consignment-like prices. All proceeds help the Maury PTA. Maury Elementary, 1250 Constitution Ave. NE.
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Christ Lutheran Church Annual Yard Sale. Sept. 24, 10 AM to 4 PM and Sept. 25, noon to 4 PM. Everything on Sunday is half price. 5101 16th St. NW. christlutheran-dc.org. Crafty Bastards Arts and Crafts Fair. Oct. 1 and 2, 10 AM to 5 PM. $5 daily admission. Union Market, 1309 5th St. NE. Smithsonian Craft2Wear Show and Sale of Wearable Art. Oct. 6 to 8. View oneof-a-kind clothing, jewelry and accessories, update your look, purchase unique gifts for everyone on your list, and support the work of the Smithsonian. $15 at door. The show is at the National Building Museum, 401 F St. NW. smithsoniancraft2wear.org. US Department of Transportation’s Farmers’ Market. Tuesdays, 10 AM to 2 PM. Corner of M and Third Streets SE. Starburst Plaza Farmer’s Market (new). Wednesdays through Oct. 26, 3 to 7 PM. Starburst Plaza, 1501 Maryland Ave. NE. H Street NE FRESHFARM Market. Saturdays, 9 AM to 12:30 PM. Located at H and 13th Streets NE. freshfarmmarket.org. Eastern Market. Daily except Mondays and important holidays. Weekdays, 7 AM to 7 PM; Saturdays, 7 AM to 5 PM; Sundays, 9 AM to 5 PM. Flea market and arts and crafts market open Saturdays and Sundays, 9 AM to 6 PM. Eastern Market is Washington’s last continually operated “old world” market. 200 and 300 blocks of Seventh Street SE. 202-698-5253. easternmarketdc.com.
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CIVIC LIFE Ward 6 Dems 2016 Election Panel. Ward 6 Democrats are sponsoring a panel discussion called “Election 2016: Impact USA” on Tuesday, Sept. 20, from 7 to 9 PM at Friendship Chamberlain Elementary and Middle Public Charter School, 1345 Potomac Ave., SE. There are four panelists from both parties: John Feehery, president of Quinn, Gillespie Communications and columnist for The Hill; Amy Meli, vice president of consulting for Aristotle International former staffer for Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC); Martin Frost, an attorney with Counsel, Polsinelli and Shugart and frequent contributor to MSNBC and Fox News; Charles M. Brain, president of Capitol Hill Strategies and former White House Legislative Liaison for President Bill Clinton. For more information, visit the Ward 6 Democrats at www.ward6dems.com
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ANC 6A. Second Thursday, 7 PM. Meeting at Miner Elementary School, 601 15th St. NE. 202-423-8868. anc6a.org. ANC 6B. Second Tuesday, 7 PM. Meeting at Hill Center at the Old Naval Hospital, 921 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. 202-5433344. anc6b.org. ANC 6C. Second Wednesday, 7 PM. Meeting at Heritage Foundation, 214 Mass. Ave. NE, first floor conference room. 202-547-7168. anc6c.org. ANC 6D. Second Monday, 7 PM. Meeting at 1100 Fourth St. SW, DCRA meeting room, 2nd floor. 202554-1795. anc6d.org. ANC 6E. First Tuesday, 6:30 PM. Meeting at Northwest One Library (new location), 155 L St. NW. anc6e.org. Have an item for the Calendar? Email calendar@hillrag.com. ◆
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THE GLORY OF A REMODELED GALLEY KITCHEN by Bruce Wentworth, AIA
B Y TA K I N G D O W N W A L L S , G A L L E Y K I TC H E N S C A N B E T R A N S F O R M E D I NTO T H E H U B O F T H E H O M E any Capitol Hill homes come with galley kitchens, and while this design can be efficient, it often lacks in space and aesthetics. One of the first things to consider when remodeling a galley kitchen is how to open it to adjoining rooms to make it the true hub of the home. For instance, in a recent remodel in a DC rowhouse, the 1920s galley kitchen no longer worked for the family of five. They RIGHT: The remodel of this galley kitchen in a DC rowhouse opened the kitchen to the dining room, creating harmonious entertainment spaces. Photo: Geoffrey Hodgdon BELOW: Existing wood flooring in the dining room was sanded and refinished to match the new wood floor in the kitchen. Photo: Geoffrey Hodgdon
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THE CASE FOR BATS by Cheryl Corson, RLA, ASLA
potential Zika virus host, the mosquito Aedes aegypti, has over-wintered on Capitol Hill since 2011. In a wonderfully ironic instance of having your mistakes come back to bite you, the Hill is home to some of the same members of Congress who left for summer recess without appropriating additional Zika research funds. Though the virus has not appeared in the Hill mosquitoes, entomologists note that this is the only known instance of the insects over-wintering north of Alabama (www.washingtonian.com/2016/02/26/zika-virus-mosquitoes-capitol-hillaedes-aegypti/).
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Zika or not, low-lying Capitol Hill has what mosquitoes Bat Basics like: access to water via the Anacostia River, plus small pools of Bats are small mammals that nurse their young just like standing water (maybe in your own backyard?) in plant saucers, other mammals. They are nocturnal and are most easmoist outdoor basement stairwells, or puddles made ily seen at dusk. Bats native to our area are very small, by leaky hoses. It also has weighing about the same as a nickmoisture in the underel. They hibernate in caves or abanground Metro, plus doned mines, and in our area mithe heated tunnels One important bat trait is grate south in winter, just like many around the Capibirds. Though they have very good tol complex. I’ve that they eat mosquitoes vision, they use their superpower of written about echolocation to locate prey in the this microcli– lots of them. dark. It is said that they can navimate before with respect to gate around something as fine as a roses, which thrive on the Hill. This is human hair. For more on echoloanother, though less desirable, examcation see http://animals.howstuffple. What to do? works.com/mammals/bat2.htm. One important bat trait is that they eat mosquitoes – Don’t Shoot! lots of them. Reports vary, but most say that a single bat can If you spray insecticide to kill mosquitoes, you are effectively eat 600 mosquitoes in one hour alone. That is why some killing other beneficial pollinators like caterpillars which belocal governments are encouraging them as nontoxic, polcome butterflies or, if eaten before then, food for songbirds, linator-friendly, bug-eating machines. who would also be poisoned. Working up the food chain, Do they have rabies? Will they fly into your hair and spraying for mosquitoes directly impacts the food web of the bite? Sources say that one-half of one percent of all bats Anacostia River and unavoidably the Chesapeake Bay. have rabies. This is less than other mammals. Vampire bats There are other pollinators that could be harmed by live in Central and South America, not here. Yes, if you see mosquito spraying that would like nothing better than to eat a bat in daylight, do not approach it, and keep your cat and mosquitoes every night by the hundreds: bats. Lately, towns like West Hempstead, Long Island, have formally endorsed these much maligned flying mammals by installing bat houses in public parks and gardens. With the northward creep of tropical diseases like Zika, dengue, and West Nile, bats are increasingly seen as part of the mosquito solution. While for some they lack the allure of a tiger swallowtail butterfly, for others they are as cute as hamsters. In favor of bats, not bombs, lifelong bat advocate Merlin D. Tuttle writes, “Chemical poisons kill natural mosquito predators more effectively than mosquitoes. Over time, predators such as fish, insects, and bats die out while mosquitoes develop resistance, multiplying in ever larger numbers in a losing battle often referred to as ‘the pesticide treadmill.’” (www.batcon.org/pdfs/bathouses/mosquitocontrol.pdf ) Before signing an insecticide application contract, consider the gentler alternative – inviting bats into your yard and your life. It’s not a panacea, but as we’ve already seen, Locally purchased bat house newly installed in Capitol Hill neither is spraying. alley. photo: Cheryl Corson.
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Scout troop 2170 (the Zika patrol) voted to use some of their Girl Scout cookie earnings to buy the materials so that they could make bat houses. Then in early May, as an activity during one of the normal Thursday-evening meetings, the girls gathered in the basement of the Liberty Baptist Church, which graciously lets the troop meet in their basement. Each of the girls got some preCapitol Hill Girl Scout Troop 2170 building bat houses with cookie proceeds. cut wood, a hammer, and Photo: Emily Rand nails. After a brief instrucdog current on rabies shots. But there is much to tion they started putting togain from developing an acquaintance with bats. gether their own bat houses.” We have not yet heard whether these bat houses are occupied, but perhaps Bats on the Hill now that the school year is starting we will receive You may already have bats roosting in your tall trees. some positive reports. Check your yard at dusk and see if you observe any. There may be up to 10 different species in our area. Bats Like Flowers Too We are better at identifying birds than we are bats, Remember, bats are pollinators and they are nocturbut it’s something to aspire to. Congressional Cemetery Executive Director Paul Williams confirms that the cemetery has quite a few. Williams says, “They roost in the tall trees on our 35-acre property and we see them quite late into the fall,” adding, “it seems appropriate to have them in the cemetery.” Frager’s Garden Center manager Kristen Sampson has unpainted cedar bat houses for sale made by Audubon. “They should be installed at least eight feet high, and facing south or east,” she says. The bats “need a clear flight path into the bat house, which can be tricky for some Hill homes.” If you install a bat house and nothing happens after a year, try moving it to a new location. Ginkgo Gardens also sells bat houses and will give you advice when you go. Although it’s September, it’s not too late to try a bat house at your place. Shop local so you can share your stories and help others learn. Architect and Capitol Hill resident Jon Penndorf has observed bats from Australia to Austin, plus a cool exhibit at the Baltimore Aquarium which he highly recommends. He was disappointed when the National Zoo closed its bat exhibit. His daughter Maggie is a member of Girl Scout troop 2170 (the Zika patrol) that recently embarked on a bat house building project. Says Hill bat enthusiast Emily Rand, “the girls of Girl
nal, so this means planting evening or night-blooming flowers to attract them. One friend’s mother always plants moonflowers for her bats. Other good options include evening primrose, phlox, Nicotiana, and four o’clocks.
Wanted: Batman
You don’t research bats long before running into the name Merlin D. Tuttle. This man has done for bats what Jane Goodall did for primates. And now the international NGO he founded, Bat Conservation International (BCI), is searching for a new executive director for its staff of 28. Bat lovers, nonprofit execs, environmentalists – this could be your next DC gig! See the listing at www.batcon.org/about-us/about-bci/ career-opportunities. But if your bat aspirations are more modest, check out BCI’s helpful hints about bat house building and installation: www.batcon.org/resources/getting-involved/bat-houses/build. If you have a bat story to share, please let us know! Cheryl Corson is a licensed landscape architect and writer practicing on Capitol Hill and beyond. For design assistance see www.cherylcorson.com. u
Lots of good reasons to be kind to bats. image: Bat Conservation International.
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LOOKING OUT FOR YOUR HISTORIC WINDOWS by Rindy O’Brien
In this castlelike building the windows come in non-standard sizes, requiring custom work. Photo: Rindy O’Brien
f you Google “windows” these days, you find more about Microsoft software than about the character-defining features of your house. Yet soon we will be facing the drafty days of winter, and now is the perfect time to tackle the issue of replacing or repairing windows. Fortunately homeowners on Capitol Hill have a number of experienced firms to choose from, and can get more information from resources listed in theis article.
Windows: Key to Preserving the Historic Quality of Your Home
Owning an historic home comes with special privileges and obligations. Capitol Hill is the largest historic district in the city, and part of its charm is the preservation of Victorian
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and Colonial rowhouses. Windows play a big role in the ornamentation, scale, and design of many Hill homes. DC’s Historic Preservation Review Board (HPRB) has issued “Window Repair and Replacement Preservation and Design Guidelines” to help homeowners and contractors with the technical and aesthetic considerations for window repair and replacement (www.preservation.dc.gov). The Capitol Hill Restoration Society (CHRS) has prepared “Windows: The Eyes of a Building,” written by Judith M. Capen and illustrated with photographs and drawings of Capitol Hill windows (http://chrs.org/history-and-preservation/chrs-historic-district-guidelines/). The sheer size of these publications is a good indication of the complexity of the job. Alex Szopa, owner of Windows Craft Inc., has been working on Capitol Hill for over 15 years, and his specialty is historic windows and doors. Originally from Poland, he brings a knowledge of Europe’s centuries-old buildings to the Hill’s hundredyear-old homes. “I work with Capitol Hill residents to preserve the beauty and historical nature of their home,” says Szopa. “Often replacement, when done by experts, is a better investment than refurbishing the window.” The Capitol Hill Restoration Society prefers that original material be saved if possible. Its windows booklet says that “complete replacement of historic windows should only be a last resort.” The importance of windows to the architectural styling of a home make this decision one that should be made after careful review.
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The HPRB says that permits are granted for both refurbishment and replacement, and that it is the duty of their office to make sure that homeowners and contractors are upholding the high standards of the historic district. A permit is not going to be granted unless “no harm” is done to the integrity of the building.
One Size Doesn’t Fit All
Part of the charm of historic homes is their unique nature. The flip side is that nothing ever seems to be of standard size, meaning homeowners always have to pay extra for custom-made. Windows Craft uses a national brand company, Marvin Windows, for its manufacturing because of the quality of the firm’s products. Szopa says he has used lesser-known brands but often finds that the work has to be returned, which costs time and proves frustrating to homeowners. Renewal by Andersen is an-
Windows and Doors for Taste as Discerning as Yours other company working on Capitol Hill with historic windows and doors. The company prides itself on its ability to control the work from start to finish. In fact, says showroom representative Ruth DeHart, the firm is hosting a one-hour seminar, “Hassle Free DC Window Replacement Seminar,” on Sept. 8. It will take place between 6:30 and 7:30 p.m. at the firm’s center at 5081 Nicholson Lane, Rockville, Md. It’s an opportunity to learn more about the permitting process and the options homeowners have in replacing windows and doors. The Andersen company has been in business for more than 110 years and says it has installed over two million windows and doors. Its windows differ from those of other companies in two ways. First, Andersen uses a wood composite, Fibrex, rather than hard wood in the framing and window treatment. The composite meets historic preservation requirements in DC. Second, the company uses a different mixture of gases between the two glass panes, to provide longer-lasting insulation. It helps reduce heat loss and blocks ultraviolent rays. Both Szopa and DeHart advise that measuring the window space is paramount in doing the job right. The HPRB is strict that new windows be the identical size of the replaced ones. Unfortunately many homeowners take a shortcut. By doing so they devalue the house and take away from its historic quality. Quality materials are important to preserve the historic character of the house. Materials used in the front, visible from the street, may be required to be wood-type materials to match the period when the home was
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The good news is that you can do basic repair to historic windows without a permit. For instance, if you need to replace glass or glazing compound, repair wood damage, paint, or apply weather stripping, no permit is required. The HPRB also allows installation of window screens, security bars, and window air-conditioning units as long as they do not permanently alter the windows or the openings. For all other work the HPRB must review the project in advance. In the permitting process the homeowner must show photographs of existing windows and the building. If the windows are going to be replaced, the homeowner must photograph the deterioration to demonstrate the need. An expereinced firm will help expedite the permitting process because they will do the photographing, produce
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the required drawings that provide the measurements of the existing and proposed windows, and provide the manufacturer’s specification sheets. These sheets tell the HPRB what kind of materials are being used, dimensions, and other key data. Window replacement is a very important home improvement, and done right it can help protect the value and improve the livability of your home. Take advantage of all the expertise in our neighborhood, and you will be smiling through the coldest days of winter. Rindy O’Brien is a long-time Capitol Hill resident and can be reached at rindyobrien@gmail.com. ◆
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RENOVATING THE CLOSET by Christine Rushton onsider a standard closet make up: shoes sit piled on the floor, clothes hang from an eclectic assortment of plastic or wire hangars, one rod extends across the width of the space, a few boxes may stack on a shelf above the rod, and random old items gather in another corner pile. But your daily life and spatial sanity don’t need to suffer. With the help of a professional closet designer or by following do-it-yourself tips, anyone can build a closet space to serve both daily life and permanent storage needs. And it can come with a touch of style. Successful closet organization comes by thinking about what problems you want to solve in your daily routine, not by trying to get rid of everything you think clutters your space, said Vincent Sagart, a designer and principal at Poliform: Sagart Studio. “Answer what is it that you’re trying to solve, what would you like to have? For example, It really drives me crazy that every day I can’t find my glasses, or It’s hard to dress the kids in time,” Sagart said. People who come to local designers Closet Factory or Poliform: Sagart Studio can work with consultants who design furniture and structures that fit the specific layout of a closet. But a consultation requires a few basic starting points that DIYers can capitalize on, said Deborah Broockerd, a Closet Factory senior design consultant.
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First, invest in a rolling garment rack. Take everything out of the closet and hang it up. Understanding what you’ve stored in the space can help determine what is needed to organize it and what items no longer need “real estate” in your daily life, Broockerd said. “We tend to hang on to things far too long, and our closets get incredibly cluttered,” she said. “Get it all out and be ruthless. Get rid of things that are not worn. If there are things that you can’t bear to part with, find somewhere else for them to live.” Broockerd recalled working with a woman in her 60s, and her closet contained clothes from high school years as well as from her mother’s wardrobe. She kept clothes in four different closets around her house. Next, Broockerd suggested taking an inventory of all the items. How many inches of short-hanging clothes do you have? Longhanging (dresses and slacks)? How many
Closet Factory after: the finished design of a walk-in closet. Photo: Closet Factory
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A closet organization design meant for smaller reach-in closets. Photo: Closet Factory
pairs of shoes or folded stacks of clothing? Those measurements and amounts will determine what rods and shelves will go into the new design. Also take the time to whittle down a bulging wardrobe, she said. Some people don’t realize that they bought the same black skirt four times until they pull everything out of the closet. “Step back and look at your space with fresh eyes,” Broockerd said.
Understanding Your Available Space and Layout
Closets come in several shapes and sizes, from large walkins to reach-ins, and from high to low ceilings. Most closet designers will recommend installing shelving as high as 12 inches from the ceiling, Broockerd said. If your closet has a nine-foot ceiling, going right up to the last foot will keep space usable. “While you may need a stepstool to get to it, it’s a great space to store off-season shoes or clothes or handbags,” Broockerd said. “The more you can use vertically, the more BEFORE space you’re going to have.” Vertical space can also allow for more than one rod for hangars. Based on the inventory of clothes and ratio of lengths, you or a designer can install two levels of rods in the closet. This gives more room for hanging items and also utilizes the vertical space to its full capacity. Then consider what kind of furniture you might be able to Closet Factory before: a client’s closet before the move to the closet and open up redesign. Photo: Closet Factory
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space in your bedroom. A professional closet installer can build cabinets, drawers, and even countertops into larger walk-in closets. For DIY projects, a small set of drawers or a dresser that can fit into a closet will keep items organized while also freeing up space in the main bedroom or living area. Always consider the depth measurement when ordering or visiting a store and selecting the furniture. The items must first fit in through the closet doorway, and second, match the depth of the interior without sticking out or obstructing the use of drawers or doors. Like designer California Closets, Closet Factory offers the option of installing shelving and drawers on paneling of three-inch industrial melamine board. Adjustable panels let you move or redesign the closet as your needs change. Broockerd cautioned against using wire shelving, though. “We throw out at least one or two dumpsters full of it every week because people are paying us to rip it out,” she said. Builders put in the wire option because it’s cheap, she added. But it doesn’t always hold up and takes away from a clean look. You can then stack containers, shoes, folded clothing, purses, and more on the shelves.
Personalizing for Your Own Style
A closet offers a personal space to enter each day, so choose paint, decor, and accessories to match your personality, Broockerd said. Some people prefer small hooks or large “S” hooks to hang jewelry or scarves where they can see them every day when dressing. “If you have a walk-in, a lot of clients now put in more fun things like small chandeliers,” she said. Make sure whatever lighting you install illuminates the front area of the closet so that clothing doesn’t block the light from coming through. In her own closet with high ceilings and measuring eight feet deep and six feet wide,
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Broockerd installed track lighting. She can put anywhere from two to eight lights along the track to illuminate different angles of the closet. As for paint, light versus dark colors again depends on personal preference. Broockerd did warn against using excessively dark colors in a smaller closet. You need light reflection to see inside. “It’s really a place to let your personality shine,” she said.
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a neW rooF For YoUr HoMe? by Tom Daniel
H E R E I S W H AT Y O U N E E D TO K N O W would venture an educated guess that as recently as 20 to 30 years ago more than 75 percent of Capitol Hill flat and low-slope roofs were standingseam tin roofs (or terne roofs as they are often known). I say “educated” because our family has been working on Capitol Hill roofs for nearly 100 years and I think we have seen it all! You would also have seen some copper roofs and slag roofs (also known as asphalt-and-gravel roofs). And, continuing our look-back in time, the steeply sloped turret roofs you see on many streets on the Hill, especially Eighth Street SE and E Street NE, were made of natural slate tiles that lasted more than a century. Now let us look to the present. Say it is time for you to consider a new roof. First, how do you know you need a new roof, and what are your options? There are telltale signs to look for
A new modified bitumen roof.
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and information to consider. If your roof is over 15-20 years old, if you have leak stains in the ceiling or walls, and if there are leaks on and off for a few years, it may be time for a new roof. Get an
If your roof is over 15-20 years old, if you have leak stains in the ceiling or walls, and if there are leaks on and off for a few years, it may be time for a new roof.
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inspection to determine the condition of your roof and to consider the options. If you and your roofing professional determine a new roof is the way to go, what are your options? In the old days you probably would have needed to consider a tin roof replacement for your flat roof. A great option, but tin is not really available these days and would be expensive. The roofing industry, like many others, has seen a substantial increase in innovation and technology. In slag roofs, which have been used extensively for commercial application for many years, an innovation was the membrane roof. The new flat-roofing systems are now widely used for residential application and are found throughout Capitol Hill. The leading types of membrane roofing system we see on the Hill are TPO (thermoplastic membrane, similar to synthetic rubber) and modified bitumen (consisting of asphalt and rubber modifiers). These newer materials help inhibit expansion and contraction as well as reflect much of the UV rays, and are more energy efficient and less prone to leaks than the old slag roofs. Membrane roofs are often a good solution for replacement of an old tin roof because of the above considerations, and the pricing is cost effective. There is also room in this discussion for an update on metal roofs. If you want a new metal roof, whether your roof is flat or sloped, you do have options even though the
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supply of tin roofing materials has been exhausted (due to business contraction by the primary tin roofing manufacturer). Copper roofs appeal to a segment of the Capitol Hill market for their historic appeal, extremely long lifespan, and esthetics, and the materials are readily available. Every year we install numerous copper roofs. Innovation has also applied to the development of aluminum roofs as an option for sloped roofs. Aluminum is a good, cost-effective option for sloped roofs. It is very durable, lightweight, and offers significant environmental benefits including natural reflectivity that increases a building’s efficiency and reduces air-conditioning costs. After you and your roofing professional have determined the best new roofing system and have decided your path forward, it is important to know what the DC permit requirements are. If your home is in the historic district the requirements will be more restrictive. Enjoy your new roof!
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by Wendy Blair A friend says that she can dig her garden soil with her bare hands! Woe is I. Even with a sharp trowel I have trouble digging my own. Although watered daily, my plants look exhausted. Any ideas? Gardeners make much about the “friability” of their soil. Your friend probably added fresh compost annually for the past 40 years. Relax. It’s true that garden soil should be about 50 percent air, but plants, like all of us, make do in less than optimal conditions. Roots have trouble if they can’t access water and minerals unless tiny air pockets (“pores”) let these get through. Worms, those essential replenishers of soil, also need both air and moisture to survive. But there is no quick way to aerate soil. Clay soil needs to be dug up, as much as half of it thrown out, and the rest diluted with organic material such as composted leaves. But your soil won’t enjoy being dug up and turned over all at once. Spread two inches of compost over one section, then mix the compost in to a depth of 12 inches or more in that part. Do more when you can. This autumn, mulch your whole garden with an inch or two of compost. Most soil gets compacted by being walked on. Add flat steppingstones or make little paths.
MacKay Roofing Flat RooF SpecialiStS What’s your favorite easy-care perennial for fall color? New England asters (aka Michaelmas daisies), which come in stunning bright colors – dark purple to mauve to pale pink to bright fuchsia to red. They survive our hot summers and bloom from late August until frost. Which perennials should be divided around now? Divide only clumps that seem compacted. Day lily, iris, Shasta daisy, Veronica, salvia, peony are all good candidates. Cut peony roots with a sharp knife, keeping at least three “eyes” on each bulb segment, and when replanting make sure the eyes are no deeper than two inches below the soil surface. Make sure the roots of bearded iris are planted shallow enough for the top of the horizontal root to be half an inch above the soil surface. Use a sharp knife to divide Siberian and Japanese iris roots. Now is a good time to divide overgrown ferns too, and start bringing fern plants indoors. Why are alliums so expensive? I want more than ever in my garden this year. Because they’re so popular. Shop around. Prices online vary widely, even for the very tall ones. Be sure to plant those ones very deep. The next public meeting of the Capitol Hill Garden Club is on Monday, Sept. 13. Find membership details at capitolhillgardenclub.org. We meet at the Northeast Public Library, corner of Seventh Street and Maryland Avenue NE. Meetings are free and open to all. Feeling beset by gardening problems? Send them to the Problem Lady c/o dearproblemlady@gmail. com.Your problem might prove instructive to others and help them feel superior to you. Complete anonymity is assured. u
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Fall Planning For A Great Spring Garden by Derek Thomas
ill gardeners who have decided it is time to take the plunge into a new or improved garden can do their homework this fall to be prepared for the big dig come spring. Through proper planning, a great garden can be renovated or completely redone. You should consider space, exposure, and research plants, shrubs, and trees so that you choose not only what you like, but what will work best in this microclimate, and in the space you have. The focal plant you see that is cute in the garden center may outgrow your garden or become a ferocious competitor chocking out more delicate plantings. Pre-thinking will help the new garden be a success. Some considerations are: 1. Time 2. Perennials or annuals. 3. Evergreens or deciduous. 4. Focal elements. 5. Overall structure and design.
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4) Important elements; water features, stones, statuary. What are the elements that are important in your ideal garden? Take the time and do the research. There are many great, functional, scaled to townhome size, products on the market. Remember that your space is limited and less can be more. 5) Structure and design. What is the overall look and feel that you want for your garden? This can be decided by using garden design books. Take the time to walk through neighborhood streets and get ideas from existing gardens. You can take a class on garden design or hire a landscape professional to consult, design, install, and maintain your garden.
The Next Steps The next important consideration is exposure during the growing season (full sun vs. total shade) and all the microclimates that can exist even in the smallest of landscapes. Exposure must be determined if you want your plants to thrive. There are many reference books on the market. You can ask your garden center professional which plants perform best in your particular situation. After sun exposure is determined, then your soils condition must be assessed. In the Washington area the soils tend to be heavy clay. This is not an impossible gardening condition. Clay is loaded with nutrients, however, amending a heavy clay soil with compost
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and an organic fertilizer will greatly improve the success and happiness of your garden plants. Compost should be applied twice a year. Organic fertilizers can be applied according to the products directions. Make sure that you do not over fertilize. Over fertilizing can be just as stressful on plants as no fertilizing. Watering must be considered. Proper watering will help to establish a healthy root system. As a basic rule, it is better to water deeply every second or third day when plants are newly installed, usually for the first two weeks. If installing in the summer, keep a watch on plants that have smaller root systems as they may need to be watered every other day for the first three to four weeks. Also consider the exposure, southern exposures will dry out quicker than northern. Mulch will help to retain moisture in your soil. Mulch also adds beauty, and as it breaks down increases the organic content in you soil. You are well on the way to a great garden next year. Through, thoughtful planning this fall, you too can have a victorious, full garden next spring. Enjoy. Derek Thomas is principal of Thomas Landscapes. His garden designs have been featured on HGTV’s Curb Appeal, and Get It Sold. His weekly garden segment can be seen on WTTG/Fox 5 in Washington. He can be reached at www.thomaslandscapes.com or 301.642.5182. You can find and friend us on Facebook at Facebook/Thomas Landscapes. Follow us on Twitter @ThomasGardenGuy For Great Garden Tips. u
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MCCs in DC DCHFA now offers Mortgage Credit Certificates (MCCs) to D.C. homebuyers! An MCC provides qualified borrowers the ability to claim a federal tax credit of 20 percent of the mortgage interest paid during each calendar year. Borrowers may purchase an MCC when obtaining a Conventional, VA, FHA 30 Year Fixed Rate First Trust Mortgage or certain FHA Adjustable Rate First Trust Mortgages through a lender of their choice or apply for a DC Open Doors First Trust loan through one of DCHFA’s Participating Lenders. Visit DCOpenDoors.com for the list of participating lenders.
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Bulletin Board Remaining Washington Nationals “Pups in the Park” Games Remaining Pups in the Park Games are Thursday, Sept. 8, 7:05 p.m. vs. Phillies; and Saturday, Oct. 1, 4:05 p.m. vs. Marlins. Purchase a ticket for a favorite family pet and support the Washington Humane Society. Ten dollars for every dog ticket purchased will benefit the Washington Humane Society. All those with tickets purchased for Pups in the Park must enter through the Right Field Gate. All Pups in the Park attendees must print, sign and bring the waiver with them to Nationals Park. Tickets are $26 for owners and $10 per dog. For more information, visit washington.nationals.mlb.com.
Arena Stage Co-Founder Zelda Fichandler, 1924-2016
Capitol Hill’s Rainbow History
Arena Stage was founded in 1950 by Zelda Fichandler, Tom Fichandler and Edward Mangum. More than 65 later, Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater is a national center dedicated to American voices and artists, serving a diverse annual audience of more than 300,000. Zelda Fichandler, who died on July 29 at the age of 91, dedicated her early career to the establishment of America’s resident theater movement. When she co-founded Arena Stage, there were few non-commercial theaters in the United States and fewer committed to providing a full range of worldclass drama to its community with a resident company of professional actors. It took time for the idea of regional theater to take root, but the Fichandlers, together with the support of audiences and donors in the nation’s capital, worked patiently to build the fledgling theater into a diverse, multifaceted, internationally renowned institution. When Arena opened its doors in 1950, both of Washington’s commercial theaters were segregated and Actors’ Equity did not permit its members to perform in segregated houses. From its inception, Arena Stage welcomed anyone who wished to buy a ticket, becoming the first integrated theater in this city. There will be a public celebration of the life of Arena Stage Co-Founding Artistic Director Zelda Fichandler on Oct. 24, 2 p.m., at the theater.
On Monday, Sept. 19, 7:30 p.m., the Overbeck History Lecture Series welcomes speaker Mark Meinke who will highlight the role of Capitol Hill residents, organizations and entertainment establishments in Washington’s emerging LGBTQ movement. Meinke, co-founder of both the Rainbow History Project and Rainbow Heritage Network, will share his deep knowledge of the 1960s through 1980s when the Hill became known as one of the “go-to” areas for gay and lesbian activism and socializing. Meinke will re-introduce many of the sites and people that contributed to the LGBTQ community on Capitol Hill and the city. The lecture will be held at the Hill Center at 921 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. As always, admission is free but a reservation is required due to limited seating. Call 202-549-4172.
Save the Date: October House Expo Capitol Hill features a wide variety of historic houses from 19th century frame and brick houses to 20th century Craftsman-inspired porch-front houses. Owners want to protect their homes and preserve their investment. And all enjoy the charm of walking streets lined with lovingly maintained vintage properties. How best to accomplish that?
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Get answers at the House Expo on Sunday Oct. 16, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., in the Eastern Market North Hall sponsored by the Capitol Hill Restoration Society. Finding qualified contractors and skilled craftsmen is essential. A good place to start is with local firms, familiar with the materials and techniques used to create historic homes, plus an understanding of modern technology. For example, skilled masonry contractors will know the proper type of mortar to use to tuck-point brick houses built in different eras. Ironworkers can restore an elegant stoop or fence, delighting future generations of passers-by. Plasterers can repair elaborate medallions and friezes, and experts on cabinetry can make your doors, window frames and base-
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spired by the story of African-American families who built their homes in the historic Barry Farm/ Hillsdale neighborhoods by candlelight after returning home from a long day’s work. The 2016 Lantern Walk is on Saturday, Sept. 17, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m., starting at The Yards Park, 355 Water St. SE and ending at the Anacostia Arts Center, 1231 Good Hope Rd. SE. The walk is free and open to the public.
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Francis Case Memorial Bridge Illuminated On Aug. 18, Mayor Bowser switched on the lights and illuminated the Francis Case Memorial Bridge. The bridge artwork lights up the waterfront neighborhood every night. This grand work of public art was designed by Citelum, the lighting architects of the Eiffel Tower, the Oriental Pearl Tower in Shanghai and the London Bridge for the London Olympics. Celebrating the connection between the mile-long, $2 billion development on the Southwest Waterfront to East Potomac Park, the project as it turns the bridge on the city’s busiest artery into a beautiful landmark. The Case Bridge lighting is one of the very first parts of Hoffman-Madison Waterfront’s vision of enhancing the Southwest waterfront. boards look good-as-new. An able roofer, one who understands flat roofs or turrets, is arguably most essential of all. It is equally important to accommodate modern expectations of comfort and convenience in the quaint footprint of an earlier time. Contractors specializing in Capitol Hill restorations and renovations have experience in equipping bathrooms and kitchens, getting the most out of closets, and squeezing in heating and cooling systems. Local experts in these and other building trades will be in attendance at House Expo. For more information, to volunteer or to participate as an exhibitor visit www.chrs.org, email caphrs@aol. com or call 202 543-0425.
Get Ready for the H Street Festival The 2016 H Street Festival will take place on Saturday, Sept. 17 from noon to7 p.m. This year’s event will span 10 blocks with 14 staging areas, dozens of interactive attractions and displays and over 250 businesses, restaurants, community organizations and vendors. Organized by H Street Main Street, the annual event highlights the unique spirit of the H Street NE Corridor attracting a crowd of over 125,000 fun-
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seekers. The Festival features some of the best local and regional performers in Go-Go music, rap, R&B, jazz, rock-n-roll, soul music, gospel and more. There will also be pie eating and tattoo contests, dance performances from a variety of cultures and disciplines, martial arts demonstrations and many more non-musical acts. The culinary offerings will span everything from American staples such as barbeque and fried chicken to exotic and unusual dishes from all corners of the globe. There are multiple beer and liquor gardens. H Street Main Street‘s mobile app goes live for the H Street Festival. It allows visitors to keep abreast of H Street Main Street activities and stay connected to the Corridor. With a tap, users can get a bird’s eye view of the Festival grounds identifying stages, performers and major activities. Featured businesses will also be labeled. The app is available for both iPhones and Android phones. Search for H Street Main Street.
2016 Lantern Walk The 11th Street Bridge Park and Washington Performing Arts present the Lantern Walk, a commemorative community event. The Walk is in-
The north edge of Yards Park at the corner of Water and Fourth Streets, SE has now been closed to make way for District Winery, the first urban winery within the District of Columbia. District Winery will feature the most popular components of its sister winery in Brooklyn, including a full-service restaurant and wine tasting area, a private events space with an open-air terrace, and an impressive collection of wines, crafted and aged onsite. District Winery will occupy 16,000 square feet as the sole tenant of a new pavilion building designed with a façade of alternating wood and glass to complement both the Lumber Shed and the surrounding Yards Park.
Join The ReServe Experienced professionals, ages 55+, who want to give back to their communities, are invited to attend a meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 27, from 1 to 2:30 p.m. at the Southeast Neighborhood Library, 403 Seventh St. SE. Learn about ReServe, an innovative nonprofit founded in 2005 that leverages skills and talents of experienced professionals for social good. It connects individuals seeking meaningful engagement through part time volunteer work with local non-profits and government agencies. “Reservists” are paid a stipend for their service. To attend this orientation, register at reserveinc.org. If you have questions or to confirm your registration, call 202-469-3477.
Carolina Mayorga is CHAW’s Gallery Artist Mayorga will be presenting a series of works on paper, including a site-specific drawing created live in the CHAW Gallery in the weeks leading up to the Saturday, Sept 10, 5 to 7 p.m., opening reception. All are invited to drop in at the CHAW gallery to interact and engage with Mayorga throughout the drawing process, which will begin on Aug.
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29. Artist Engagement times are as follows: “Live Drawing:” Monday, Aug. 29 and Thursday, Sept. 1, noon to 4 p.m. “Open Conversation with the Artist:” Tuesday, Aug. 30 and Wednesday, Aug. 31, 6 to 6:30 p.m. Opening Reception: Saturday, Sept. 10, 5 to 7 p.m. The CHAW Gallery is free and open to the public. For more information, call 202-5476839 or visit chaw.org.
Carolina Mayorga has exhibited her work nationally and internationally for the last 20 years. A Colombian-born and naturalized American citizen, she has had one-person exhibitions in Colombia, Mexico, at the University of Kansas and in the DC area. She has also participated in group exhibitions in Europe, Central and South America and numerous cities in the United States.
ATLAS10 Birthday Bash On Friday, Oct. 7, 7 to 11 p.m., join the Atlas, 1333 H St. NE, for an evening of joyful celebration featuring live musical performances, disco dancing, and food and specialty drinks from some of H Street’s finest restaurants. Individual tickets are $225. atlasarts.org. The Atlas Performing Arts Center has spent a decade building a community of arts, culture and connection on H Street NE. It has brought unique, high quality performances that challenge people to venture out and discover new and interesting art throughout the year and through the critically acclaimed INTERSECTIONS Festival. Through its educational programs, early-childhood programming and community partnerships, the Atlas has been an anchor of the continuously growing and thriving H Street Corridor.
Volunteer at the H Street Festival The Little Foxes is at Arena Stage Sept. 23 to Oct. 30. Illustration: Sam Spratt
Southwest Nights at Arena Stage People who live or work in Southwest DC can buy discounted tickets for specially designated performances of each production. Tickets are $35 for musicals and $25 for non-musicals, plus fees. Proof of Southwest DC residency or employment for each member of the party must be presented at the time of pick-up. Tickets are based on availability. Southwest Night for the 2016-2017 season are: The Little Foxes, Oct. 12, 7:30 p.m.; The Year of Magical Thinking, Oct. 30, 7:30 p.m.; Carousel, Nov. 8, 7:30 p.m.; Moby Dick, Dec. 23, 2 p.m.; Roe, Jan. 23 8 p.m.; Watch on the Rhine, Feb. 14, 7:30 p.m.; Intelligence, March 12, 1 p.m.; A Raisin in the Sun, April 16, 7:30 p.m.; Smart People, May 21, 7:30 p.m. arenastage.org.
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The H Street Festival is looking for volunteers. Sign up at signup.com/login/entry/835191044091. The H Street Festival, H Street NE, between Fourth and Fourteenth Streets, is on Saturday, Sept. 17, noon to 7 p.m.
New DC Streetcar Online Guide The District Department of Transportation has launched a new H/Benning corridor guide for DC Streetcar passengers. This online feature of the DC Streetcar’s website showcases offerings for both residents and tourists, including restaurants, shops, entertainment and specialty services near each stop along the streetcar route. The online business guide is designed to help passengers discover all the activities available
along the system’s eight stops while also bringing attention to long-standing and well-loved institutions in the area. As investment in the community continues, the page will be updated. Visit dcstreetcar.com/guide-to-h-benning.
Pet-a-Palooza and Barktoberfest On Sunday, Sept. 18, the Washington Humane Society presents The DC Walk for the Animals and Pet-a-Palooza featuring Barktoberfest. The DC Walk for the Animals is a one mile walk around the Capitol Riverfront area to raise money to benefit WHS-WARL and the 60,000 animals they serve each year. Entry fee is $35 for walkers, $20 for those under 21, and includes a t-shirt and gift bag. Enjoy vendor booths, dog contests, prizes, music, pet adoptions and kids’ entertainment. The location for this one-of-a-kind event is the SE Capitol Riverfront at the corner of M and First Streets SE.. Get tickets at dclovesdcanimals.org.
Learn Modern & Traditional Building Materials Local contractor Gary Barnhart will compare the characteristics of modern and traditional building materials and techniques on Thursday, Sept. 15, 6:30 p.m. at Ebenezer’s Coffee House, Second and E Streets NE. The presentation will end with a discussion and questions. The event is free, handicapped accessible and the public is encouraged to attend. chrs.org.
CHRS Walking Tour of Emerald Street NE The Capitol Hill Restoration Society will have a free walking tour of homes on Emerald St. NE on Sunday, Sept. 11. Learn about the history and development of the square and the architectural details of the houses. Meet at the corner of 13th and Emerald Streets NE at 7 p.m. chrs.org.
William Penn House Birthday Celebration On Oct. 8, celebrate William Penn House’s 50 years of service and activism. The day begins with hands-on work projects supporting William Penn Quaker Workcamps’ urban gardening program helping promote food justice in DC neighborhoods. In the tradition of Quaker workcamps, they
honor the light in others, build community and make love visible. Enjoy a BBQ lunch back at William Penn House, complete with a visit from William Penn himself. Tour William Penn House and learn about its history of service and activism during the afternoon Open House. Families, individuals, and groups of all ages are welcome. This event is free, but registration by Sept. 26 is required at williampennhouse.org.
Volunteer for the Southwest Clean-Up Southwest neighborhood clean-ups focus on parks where volunteers will pick up debris and lay fresh mulch. Trash bags, gloves and rakes will be provided by the Mayor’s Office. Volunteers meet at King Greenleaf playground on Saturdays, Sept. 17 and Oct. 22 at 10 a.m. To sign-up or get more information, email Katelynd Mahoney at katelynd.dc@gmail.com or Rachel Mariman at rachel.mariman@dc.gov.
Learn Home Buying 101 On Tuesday, Sept. 20, 6:30 to 8 p.m., join Joel Nelson and Ned Kraemer of Keller Williams Capital Properties for a free, informative Home Buyer Seminar. These veteran guides to Capitol Hill’s real estate market will map out the steps of buying a first home, from loan pre-approval through settling into a dream home. Professional tips will be provided for refining location search, evaluating property specifics and negotiating a successful contract followed by execution of the terms to a smooth and stress free closing. Register online at hillcenterdc.org or call 202-549-4172.
History Book Club at NE Library On Monday, Sept. 12, 7 p.m., join the History Book Club at their monthly meeting to discuss “Once
in a Great City: a Detroit Story” by David Maraniss. All are welcome, even if you have not completed the book. Northeast Neighborhood Library, 330 Seventh St. NE. 202-6980058. dclibrary.org/northeast.
New Capitol Riverfront Website The Capitol Riverfront BID has launched a new website with visibly vibrant video and photography to reflect the dynamic energy of DC’s fastest growing neighborhood. Visit capitolriverfront.org.
National Day of Service at Kenilworth Park On Sunday, Sept. 11, 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., join the Student Conservation Association to commemorate the September 11th National Day of Service and Remembrance at Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens. Cut lotus for removal later in the month. Remove invasive plants, Prep the gardens for the fall season. There is a free lunch and t-shirts for all volunteers. Register at FindYourParkSCAdc.eventbrite.com. Contact Roland Richardson, SCA Events Coordinator, atrrichardson@thesca.org or 703-842-4234 with any questions.
Little Lights Receives Leadership Award Do More 24 grand prize winner, Little Lights Urban Ministries, has been recognized by the Center for Nonprofit Advancement as the 2016 winner of the Board Leadership Award. Little Lights will receive a $10,000 grant; communication exposure through print, radio, television and social media; and training and development opportunities for the board and CEO from BoardSource and through the Center’s Learning & Leadership Institute. For over 20 years Little Lights Urban Ministries has been committed to
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Through a clever mix of stop motion animation and interviews, The Wanted 18 recreates a remarkable true story: the Israeli army’s pursuit of 18 cows whose independent milk production on a Palestinian farm was declared “a threat to the national security of the state of Israel.” Photo: Courtesy of Intuitive Pictures
learn the principle parts of a sewing machine. Cut and mark a pattern. All students leave with a completed project. The class is designed as an introduction to sewing and is great for people with little to no prior experience. The class will also include basic information on sewing supplies, pressing tools and selecting fabric and a pattern. $149 per person for this four week course. Purchase tickets online at hillcenterdc.org.
WACIF Recognized as One of DC’s Best Nonprofits
The Washington Area Community Investment Fund (WACIF) has been named Set in the late 1980s against the backdrop of the first Intifada, “The by the 2016-17 Catalogue Wanted 18” begins when some residents from the predominantly Chrisfor Philanthropy: Greater tian Arab village of Beit Sahour in the occupied West Bank decide to Washington as one of the rebuy 18 cows and produce their own milk as a co-operative. Wanting gion’s best community-based self-sufficiency, an alternative to purchasing Israeli goods, the residents, charities. This award reflects many of whom have never seen a cow, smuggle the herd into their vilWACIF’s status as a highly eflage and begin to learn the fine art of milking. Their venture is so sucfective local charity, working cessful that the collective farm becomes a landmark and the cows beto create economic opportucome local celebrities. Then, the Israeli army declares the farm “a threat nity through access to capito the national security of the state of Israel.” A team of Canadian and tal. The Catalogue’s vetting Palestinian film-makes have recreated the story with a montage of acprocess is rigorous: members tors, animation, home videos, Claymation and interviews to highlight of a 130-person review team, an absurd footnote in the history of the Israeli and Palestinian conflict. made up of foundations, corOn Monday, Sept. 19, 6 p.m., there will be a culinary demonstration porations, peer nonprofits followed by Middle East Mezze with a screening of The Wanted 18 and the philanthropic advisoand a presentation from producer Saed Andoni at St. Mark’s Episcory community, evaluate charpal Church, 301 A St. SE. Suggested donation is $15. ities on the basis of program impact and fiscal soundness. providing sanctuaries of encouragement, hope and Each featured charity is vispractical assistance to at-risk children, youth and ited on-site by at least one member of the review families living in two of the last public housing team. To receive a complimentary copy of the Catcomplexes on Capitol Hill. Little Lights has realogue, visit cfp-dc.org. cruited more than 2,000 volunteers and serviced more than 900 children through providing free afHelp Document Eight DC tercare, 1:1 mentoring, and family services. Learn Neighborhoods more at littlelights.org. The Historical Society of Washington, DC invites artists and photographers to submit documentaLearn Sewing at Hill Center tion of the city’s built environment to For the ReOn Sundays, Sept. 18 to Oct. 10, 2 to 3:30 p.m., cord, its third annual juried competition. This
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annual exhibition and fundraising sale, opening April 2017, will recognize the best photographs and works of art that capture: Howard Town/Pleasant Plains, Burleith, Palisades, Shepherd Park, Ivy City, Buzzard Point, Kenilworth and Congress Heights. Proceeds from the sale support the programs offered by the Historical Society. Entrants will compete for cash prizes. In addition to a $500 prize for “Best Overall” work, the artists ranking first, second and third for photography win $350, $250, and $100 respectively. New this year are eight “Best in Ward” designations that award $100 for the best photograph or artwork representing each ward. Online submissions, with an entry fee of $50, will be accepted from Sept. 6, 2016 through midnight Jan. 3, 2017. Entries received by Oct. 31, 2016 will receive half-off and those received by Nov. 30, 2016 will receive $15 off. For more information, visit dchistory.submittable.com/submit.
31st Annual Mayor’s Arts Awards The Mayor’s Arts Awards are the most prestigious honors conferred by the city on individual artists, teachers, nonprofit organizations and patrons of the arts. The public is welcome at the award ceremony on Thursday, Sept. 22, 7 p.m., at Historic Lincoln Theatre, 1215 U St. NW. A reception follows. Artists and organizations will be recognized in six categories: Excellence in the Arts; Excellence in the Humanities; Excellence in Creative Industries; Outstanding Student Award; Excellence in Arts Teaching; Outstanding New Artist. Special Awards will be given to individuals and organizations, recognizing their outstanding support to DC arts, humanities and creative industries.
Long Bridge Project Public Meeting, Sept 14 The District Department of Transportation (DDOT) and Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) invite you to attend a public scoping meeting for the Long Bridge Project Environmental Impact Statement (EIS): Wednesday, September 14, 2016 ; 3:00 to 6:00 p.m.; L’Enfant Plaza Club Room, Promenade Level, 470 L’Enfant Plaza, SW. L’Enfant Plaza Metro and VRE Station The Club Room is located in the hallway between retailers Gadget TLC and Kay Jewelers.
Thursday, September 29, 2016 8:00 am - 1:00 pm Walter E. Washington Convention Center www.DCRAEntreeDC.com The scoping meeting will provide the public an opportunity to express their comments on a comprehensive study to address long-term railroad capacity and reliability issues for the Long Bridge corridor, which crosses the Potomac River from Arlington, VA into Washington, DC. Conducted as an open-house, interested members of the public are invited to stop in at any point from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. If you are from unable to attend the scoping meeting, FRA and DDOT are accepting public comments August 26 - September 26, 2016. For more information, visit www.longbridgeproject.com. or call 202-671-2218.
Sing with Washington Encore Chorale The Encore Chorale, the nation’s largest choral for older adults, is open for the fall season of singing starting in September for 15 weeks at the First Congressional UCC, 944 G St. NW. Encore singers improve their voices and meet new friends. Enjoy a new adventure singing challenging music in four parts in preparation to join other Encore Chorales from the Baltimore/Washington area for exciting free community concerts. There are no auditions and singers may sit to rehearse and perform. Registration is at encorecreativity.org.
Making DC History Awards The Historical Society of Washington invites Washingtonians to join in honoring five new recipients of the Making DC History Awards on Friday, Oct. 7. This annual award presentation and fundraiser recognizes local individuals, families and organizations for their outstanding contributions to the community and its history. Wendy Rieger of NBC4 News hosts the awards. The honoree reception and award dinner take place at Carnegie Library at Mount Vernon Square, followed immediately by an opportunity to step back in time at the 1930’s Art-Deco themed After Party. Tickets are currently on sale at bit.ly/2ajMOQk. Former Mayor, Anthony Williams, will receive the Making DC History Award for Distinction in Civic Leadership. The Washingtonian magazine will be cited for Distinction in Local Media; the Meyer Foundation for Distinction in Local Philanthropy; and the Asso-
ciation of Oldest Inhabitants of DC for Distinction in Historic Preservation. In addition, the McGuire Family of McGuire Funeral Services is this year’s recipient of the Legacy Families of Washington, DC Award.
PARK(ing) Day PARK(ing) Day returns to the District of Columbia on Friday, Sept. 16, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Initially created by the San Francisco design studio Rebar, PARK(ing) Day is an event in which residents and businesses re-think how they use public space by converting metered on-street parking spaces into temporary parks. Since its inception in 2005, the event has spread to cities around the world, taking place on the third Friday of September. PARK(ing) Day is open to anyone seeking to sponsor a seven-hour temporary park. The “pop-up” parks are limited to metered parking locations without time-ofday restrictions and will be located in the middle of blocks as a safety precaution. Read more at ddot.dc.gov/page/parking-day. The deadline to apply for a permit is Wednesday, Aug. 31.
SW Waterfront AARP Meeting On Wednesday, Sept. 16, noon, join the Southwest Waterfront AARP Chapter for a fall “muncheon” at River Park Mutual Homes’ South Common Room, 1311 Delaware Ave. SW. Mayor Bowser is the guest speaker. Lunch is $5. For more information, contact Chapter President Betty Jean Tolbert Jones at bettyjeantolbertjones@yahoo.com or 202-554-0901.
Free Small Business Legal Clinic Existing and aspiring small business owners meet one-on-one with an attorney at this brief advice clinic. Get information on business formation, contracts, leases, taxes or any other small business legal issues. The attorneys can help spot legal issues or give general advice. The clinic is on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 5 to 7:30 p.m., Impact Hub DC, 419 Seventh St. NW, Third Floor. Bring any relevant documents. This is a walk-in clinic. However, one can preregister at impacthubsbc.eventbrite.com. Language translation services are available upon request. For more information, call Darryl Maxwell at 202-737-4700, ext. 3369.
Senior Entrepreneurship Program Date: Thursday, September 1, 2016 Time: 10:15 am – 11:45 am Location: Congress Heights 3500 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue S.E. Washington, D.C. 20032 To Register: http://dcbiz.ecenterdirect.com/events/41363
A Comprehensive Guide for Small Business Planning Date: Thursday, September 8, 2016 Time: 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm Location: DCRA – 1100 4th Street SW, 4th Floor (Room E-4302) Washington, D.C. 20032 To Register: http://dcbiz.ecenterdirect.com/events/41934
How to Open a Small Business by Navigating through DCRA’s Regulatory Process Date: Wednesday, September 14, 2016 Time: 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Location: DCRA – 1100 4th Street SW, 2nd Floor (Room E-200) Washington, D.C. 20024 To Register: http://dcbiz.ecenterdirect.com/events/41242
SmartStart Integrated Licensing and Money Smart for Small Business Program Date: Monday, September 19, 2016 Time: 9:00 am – 11:00 am Location: DCRA – 1100 4th Street SW, 2nd Floor (Room E-268) Washington, D.C. 20024 To Register: http://dcbiz.ecenterdirect.com/events/42969
The Regulatory Process of Starting a Business Date: Monday, September 19, 2016 Time: 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Location: Francis A. Gregory Neighborhood Library 3660 Alabama Avenue SE Washington, D.C. 20020 To Register: http://dcbiz.ecenterdirect.com/events/41351
Navigating Government Contracting with DCPTAC: Creating an Effective Capability Statement Date: Thursday, September 22, 2016 Time: 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Location: DCRA – 1100 4th Street SW, 4th Floor (Room E-4302) Washington, D.C. 20024 To Register: http://dcbiz.ecenterdirect.com/events/42137
Understanding Your Rights Seminar for Landlords Date: Thursday, September 22, 2016 Time: 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Location: DCRA – 1100 4th Street SW, 2nd Floor (Room E-200) Washington, D.C. 20024 To Register: http://dcbiz.ecenterdirect.com/events/42545
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First Fridays at Community Forklift On the first Friday of each month, 6 to 8 p.m., Community Forklift stays open late to host live bands, artists, food trucks and a popup bar with craft beer and wine. It’s a kid and adult friendly event. All ages and even friendly, leashed pets are welcome. This event is free and open to the public. Bring cash for food, beverage, and art purchases. Community Forklift is at 4671 Tanglewood Dr., Edmonston, MD. CommunityForklift.org.
ODCA Launches New Blog and Podcast The Office of the District of Columbia Auditor (ODCA) has launched new blog and podcast pages entitled, “Checked & Balanced.” The goal is to give District residents ready access to ODCA reports that detail how the District government is operating and how tax money is being spent. Focusing on past and future ODCA audits, both platforms feature a wide variety of topics and discussions for readers to explore as well as the opportunity to provide feedback. Both platforms allow readers to learn more about the ODCA mission, staff and analyses. The new platforms add to the agency’s online presence, which already includes a public website and Twitter account. Visit dcauditor. org/blog.
Comment on Climate Ready DC Survey Higher summer temperatures, increased precipitation and more intense storms. These are just some of the impacts that DC is beginning to experience due to climate change. DC’s Department of Energy and the Environment has worked with experts to develop “Climate Ready DC,” a draft climate adaptation action plan. This draft document is available for public comment through Sept. 2. Go to doee.dc.gov.
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Call 811 Before You Dig Nationwide, every six minutes someone damages an underground utility line because of digging without first calling 811, according to the Common Ground Alliance, which promotes the 811 phone number and safe digging practices. When calling 811, customers and contractors are connected to District One Call to provide information about their project. District One Call will notify Pepco and all member utilities of plans to dig. The utilities will then mark their underground facilities. Calls are required at least three business days in advance of digging.
Interconnected Paved Trail System Envisioned The National Park Service has released its final “Paved Trail Study,” setting a vision for future planning and coordination in the NPS National Capital Region paved trail network. The study prioritizes opportunities to expand multi-use trails in DC area national parks as funding becomes available. Download the Paved Trails Study at parkplanning.nps.gov/ NCRtrailplan_final. There are nearly 100 miles of paved trails in DC area national parks. The extensive network is helping to define the region as a pioneer in multi-modal transportation infrastructure. The plan established the concept of a National Capital Trail consisting of four loops, which offer between 18 and 45 miles of diverse trail experiences and link national parks and other destinations. The NPS will use criteria in the plan to prioritize projects and align limited resources for maximum regional benefit.
Donate to Community Forklift Donated building materials are the cornerstone of Community Forklift. Donations can qualify for a tax deduction. They disposal costs, keep items out of the landfill and support the community. Community Forklift accepts most new and salvaged building and landscaping materials, appliances and
tools, as well as antique and vintage housewares. They also accept furniture and commercial materials on a case-by-case basis. Visit communityforklift.org/ donate/donate-materials/donation-guidelines for details. Community Forklift is at 4671 Tanglewood Dr., Edmonston, MD. CommunityForklift.org.
Comment on Changes to Residential Permit Parking The DC Department of Transportation (DDOT) is extending the public comment period on the proposed Residential Permit Parking Rulemaking to amend Chapter 24 (Stopping, Standing, Parking, and Other Non-Moving Violations), Chapter 26 (Civil Fines for Moving and Non-Moving Infractions), and Chapter 99 (Definitions), of Title 18 (Vehicles and Traffic) of the District of Columbia Municipal Regulations (DCMR), to establish regulations for residential permit parking. The original thirty day public comment period, scheduled to end on Sept. 10, is being extended to a sixty day comment period, scheduled to end on Oct. 10. All persons interested may file comments in writing, not later than Monday, Oct. 10, with Alice Kelly, Manager, Office of Policy and Governmental Affairs, Office of the Director, District Department of Transportation, 55 M St. SE., Seventh Floor, Washington, D.C. 20003. Comments may also be filed electronically to publicspace.policy@dc.gov. Electronic submission is preferred.
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Are High-Poverty DC Schools Shortchanged When It Comes to Extra Resources for ‘At-Risk’ Students? by Soumya Bhat
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he District is now devoting substantial funds to meet the needs of low-income students, but the money is not all being used as intended. Instead of supplementing services at high-poverty schools, such as afterschool programs or additional counselors, about half of DC Public Schools’ “at-risk” funds are going to positions that all schools are supposed to have, like attendance counselors. This is a lost opportunity. DC policymakers should do more to ensure that this funding truly supplements services in our high-poverty schools, to help narrow the wide achievement gap between low-income and higher-income students.
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Low-income children often face hunger and housing instability, and may be exposed to violence at a young age. Living in stressful environments can lead to “toxic stress,” with long-term impacts on a child’s healthy development. This means that low-income children come to school with additional educational needs. In recognition of those needs, the District changed its school funding formula in 2014 to provide about $2,000 additional for every student who is low-income or otherwise at-risk of academic failure, following the recommendations of an education adequacy study. In the coming school year, over $80 million will go to support 40,000 “at-risk” students attending DC public
schools and public charter schools. There are early signs that the new funding is helping. Highpoverty schools are now devoting more to literacy initiatives, an extended school year, and additional staffing for social and emotional services. Unfortunately not all of the at-risk funds are being used as intended. In the 2016-17 school year DC Public Schools allocated nearly half of its at-risk funding to support core staffing and programs in school budgets. This means that nearly half of the resources considered extra for schools are being used for functions that are required at all schools as part of DCPS’s staffing model. Outgoing Chancellor Henderson says she is worried that these concerns over at-risk funds will result in “remediating students to death” instead of focusing on the whole child. But that’s not the point of at-risk funding at all. High-poverty schools can use their at-risk money for school-wide initiatives that benefit all students. The real question is whether at-risk funds truly are available to supplement services. It is also not clear that all DCPS principals have the same amount of discretion or are even aware these funds exist. That’s why the DCPS budget process should be modified so that at-risk funds can only add to what schools get in base funding and positions, essentially creating a firewall between funding streams. This means paying for core staffing positions at all schools with core DCPS funding. It also should mean giving principals, teachers, and parents a clearer sense of the at-risk funding available at their
school, and more say in how those funds are used to supplement student services. There is another question here. If DCPS needs to use supplemental resources to support core school functions, does this mean that base school funding is inadequate? The mayor and DC Council do not automatically increase the perpupil funding formula for inflation each year. And the school funding formula is not regularly evaluated to ensure it is truly meeting the needs of students, especially those with unique needs such as English language learners and special education. The good news is that the DC State Superintendent’s Office has formed a working group to examine the formula this fall, in time to offer recommendations to the mayor as she creates the 2017-18 schools budget. Ultimately what is needed is better funding and oversight to make sure school funding is being used effectively and in ways that supplement, not supplant, the good work happening in our public schools. We also need to make sure all schools are getting enough, so that they do not need to use at-risk funds for basic functions. Soumya Bhat is education finance and policy analyst at the DC Fiscal Policy Institute (www.dcfpi.org). DCFPI promotes budget and policy solutions to reduce poverty and inequality in the District of Columbia and to increase opportunities for residents to build a better future. u
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Disabled Children Battle Access at Aging Schools Nearly 40 Percent of DC Schools Fail ADA Standards by Christine Rushton Jamie Davis Smith and her daughter Claire in front of Lafayette Elementary School, 5701 Broad Branch Rd. NW. Photo: Jamie Davis Smith
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amilies touring the newly renovated Lafayette Elementary School (5701 Broad Branch Road NW) got a sneak peek of the modernization on Aug. 18, four days before school started. From 6:00 to 7:30 p.m., parents, children, and siblings came to the open house, walked through, and left for home. But as the staff closed up the rooms for the night, one family stood alone, waiting for 20 minutes in the lobby. Jamie Davis Smith and her four children couldn’t leave, not without the key to the chairlift to lower her 10-year-old daughter’s wheelchair. “It felt like we were trapped in the school,” Smith said. Smith’s daughter Claire attends St. Coletta of Greater Washington (1901 Independence Ave. SE) in Ward 6 because the school caters to her disabilities – autism, developmental delays, and wheelchair confinement – caused by a duplication of chromosome two in her DNA structure. Smith’s three other children will feed into Lafayette Elementary School though. Although Lafayette included disability amenities in the new building, the first impression at the open house on Aug. 18 again reminded Smith that most don’t realize how much more time, effort, and understanding it takes to navigate everyday tasks in a wheelchair. If it’s her turn to read in her son’s class and she has Claire with her, will she need to allot an extra hour of time to get help accessing the chairlift and the elevator? “It’s a huge oversight,” Smith said, explaining that any developer who thinks about the amenities for meeting standards of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) should give more thought to how people will actually use the space. Smith and her children represent one of many District families struggling to find schools that can best educate and support their disabled members. Despite recent modernizations in the DC Public Schools (DCPS), about 40 percent of them don’t meet the ADA requirements, according to the results of a report requested in June under the Freedom of Information Act by Chris Miller, commissioner of Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC) 6C05. While this may seem high, it’s a problem many school districts across the country face.
A Slow Response to Changing Standards In Iowa, where the state conducts voluntary annual reviews of districts, IowaWatch.org published an investigation in May revealing that 47 of the roughly 357 school districts tested for equity since 2010 reported failures to meet ADA. In December 2015 a US attorney in New York published a report showing that 83 percent of New York City’s schools were not “fully accessible” for disabled students. Nationwide, about 4,806 complaints for disability-related school issues were reported in 2015, according to the US Department of Education Office for Civil Rights. About 214 of those dealt with orthopedic or physical accessibility problems. ANC Commissioner Miller noticed the problem in DC when he visited J.O Wilson Elementary (660 K St. NE). The school entrance doesn’t allow for wheelchair accessibility and the school doesn’t have elevators, among other issues. A student at Wilson testified in April before the DC Council Committee on Education and explained that the school needs renovations. “I love my school. But right now, not everyone who wants to be a Cardinal can be one,” said Carys Gills, then a second grader at the school. “If kids are in wheelchairs or need help to get around, they have to go to a different school, one that has an elevator or ramps. That’s just not right!” Miller knows the struggles of people with physical disabilities. He was born with the amniotic band wrapped around his left arm, leaving the mobility and nerve response limited in that arm. When he saw the problems at J.O. Wilson he filed the FOIA request with the District to see how many DCPS schools don’t comply. He plans to follow up on the result with Tony Goodman, new chief
of staff for the DC Council’s Education Committee chair, David Grosso. But he hopes that DCPS and the Department of General Services (DGS) will take these issues into serious consideration during the ongoing modernization process. “Just because DCPS can maintain ADA at other schools or other parts of the building, it’s still not fair,” Miller said. “Every kid should have the opportunity to browse around the library instead of having books brought to them.” Though the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) of 1975 and Title II from the 1990 Disabilities Act call for “free and appropriate public education” for all qualified students regardless of disability, that didn’t mean the schools had to alter the construction of buildings to meet those needs. But as of 2010, any school “designed, constructed or altered” after 2012 must comply with certain ADA accessibility standards, according to the US Department of Justice’s updated requirements in the 2010 ADA Standards for Accessible Design. The trouble comes, though, when some renovations, especially in decades-old buildings, simply can’t accommodate amenities like elevators if builders wish to keep the foundational structure intact.
Balancing Problems of Aging Buildings with Practical Solutions “The city faces a tremendous problem because its building stock is very old, especially on the Hill,” said Sharon Raimo, chief executive officer at St. Coletta. Raimo helped District officials design and build St. Coletta in 2006, which now serves at least 400 disabled children and parents in the DC area. Raimo made sure the new structure allowed for seven elevators, ramps, doorways, and hallways sized for multiple wheelchairs to pass.
EMERALD STREET WALKING TOUR A fascinating walking discussion of the history of Emerald Street development. Meet at 13th & Emerald Streets, NE 10 a.m., Sunday, September 11
P R E S E R V AT I O N C A F E Modern & Traditional Materials & Techniques Local contractor Gary Barnhart compares modern and traditional building materials and techniques. Thursday, September 15 at 6:30 p.m. Ebenezers Coffee House, 2nd & E Streets NE.
“MISSING BONES, WASHINGTON’S LOST CEMETERIES” Historian Matthew Gilmore gives a talk on Washington’s many lost cemeteries. Wednesday, September 28 at 7 p.m. The Chapel at the Congressional Cemetery, 1801 E St. SE. A L L E V E N T S A R E F R E E A N D T H E P U B L I C I S E N C O U R A G E D T O AT T E N D .
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The exterior of J.O. Wilson Elementary School (660 K St. NE) showing that the front doors do not allow for wheelchair access. (Photo: Christine Rushton)
While Raimo expects her school to exceed ADA standards, she understands the problems other public schools face. “They were built before a time when children with disabilities went to school,” she explained. “Retrofitting these buildings is a tremendous thing to do. Many do not have elevators, and fire requirements need two staircases.” If a designer tried to put in an elevator shaft in an older school, that large structure would take up a few classrooms worth of space, Raimo said. Even then, the historic status and preservation requirements for many schools on Capitol Hill won’t allow for such dramatic changes. DCPS and DGS “are in a pickle and it really isn’t their fault,” Raimo said. “It’s the fault of an old, crumbling school system with buildings that are old but can’t be demolished.” Most of the children St. Coletta serves have level-four disabilities – moderate to severe intellectual disabilities. Students who come into the district with less severe disabilities don’t fit in the St. Coletta program, she said. DCPS does its best to place those students at schools that offer the necessary access amenities. Sometimes that circumvents a family’s choice or hope that their child will get placed at a school close to home.
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Fighting for ADA compliance doesn’t come with a deadline, said Doreen Hodges, executive director for Family Voices of DC Inc. She advocates for families facing problems in both public and charter schools throughout the District. “They continuously fail to implement [ADA standards],” Hodges said. “They say they implement and they turn and around and they don’t.” While people like Raimo support DCPS’ placement of children in schools that comply with standards, Hodges doesn’t. Each student and each family deserves access to whatever school they want based on the results of a fair lottery process, not based on what extra support service they require, she said. “If they don’t have a ramp for a child to be able to go up to the second floor, what happens is these children are being left on the main floor with no access to integrate with their peers and the curriculum,” she said. “They lose out,” she added. She said that in September Family Voices of DC will finish gathering data on whether or not DCPS scrutinizes students with disabilities and places them in schools that suit the District’s needs, not the student’s lottery choice. “It’s been a long time and it’s going to continue to be a long time as
But public school officials can’t meet every parent’s expectations, Raimo said. “When your child is orthopedically impaired, you have to pick what’s best for them,” she explained. DCPS and DGS acknowledge the ongoing problems that schools face and said in a statement that they will continue to work together to solve the issues in the Capital Improvement Plan for modernizations. “We recognize that we have to address accessibility issues at our school buildings on a case-by-case basis,” DCPS said in a statement. “We have done this by moving classrooms to the bottom floor of school buildings, adding elevators and ramps to buildings and redesigning classroom spaces.” DCPS pointed to renovations at Turner Elementary School (3254 Stanton Road SE), which constructed a classroom and medical suite for students with fragile conditions; and River The wheelchair ramp around the side of the school at J.O. Wilson Terrace Education Campus (405 Elementary School (660 K St. NE). (Photo: Christine Rushton)
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they continue to restrict our kids into compliance,” Hodges said. Jamie Smith knows that fight too. When she’s not acting as a mother for her four children, she dedicates time and her training as a lawyer to advocate for disability rights, right now with University Legal Services. She said it’s not enough to meet the standards, people need to fully understand how others will use these tools and buildings on a daily basis, not just students attending the school but parents, relatives, and siblings who may visit for events or activities. While stopping at Lafayette one day with her daughter, Smith said she parked in the disability spot to help get Claire’s wheelchair out. A staff member in the building suggested that the spot was only meant for attending students with disabilities. “We’re glad to see that efforts are being made to make the school more accessible,” Smith said. “But there were times I had to have someone watch [Claire] outside because I had to go get someone to help her inside, just to get the wheelchair into the school.” In the case of Lafayette’s renovation, the nearly $80 million venture completed this year, the changes show a prime effort to add disability access. But the practical use fails in some aspects, Smith said. For example, all elevators and the chairlift require a key from someone in the main office to use. “I was hoping it wouldn’t require a lot of planning to have her visit and see her siblings,” Smith said. “But you learn how to cope with it better. We identify spaces that are easier to go to with her wheelchair and that have more accessibility.” u
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Protecting Her Home, 18 Years Wiser
Commander Morgan Kane Took Over MPD’s First District in August by Christine Rushton But it took her a matter of seconds to decide. “I drastically with development, jumped at it,” she said. “You know, ‘One D’ is leadership, and a more relahome for me. This is where it started, this is where tionship-based policing apI was a rookie.” proach. She’s ready to take Kane originally moved to DC from her home part as a district commander in Niagara Falls in upstate New York in 1993 to in MPD’s next phase. First District Cmdr. Morgan Kane. earn her bachelor’s in paralegal studies at MaryPolice Chief Cathy LaniPhoto: Christine Rushton mount University. She later earned her master’s er announced her retirement in public administration from the University of on Aug. 16 after nearly a decade the District of Columbia. She knew she wanted in her role and 26 years on the few neighbors along M Street and to work in justice, but realized later she wanted to force. She will step down in September to join the First Terrace NW stood on the cortry law enforcement. National Football League (NFL) as senior vice presner of their block on a recent TuesDuring her career with MPD she patrolled ident of security operations. In the interim, Assisday in August. They talked as a black as an officer in the First District and later moved tant Police Chief Peter Newsham will take over ununmarked police SUV rolled through up to sergeant and lieutenant. She earned her protil Mayor Muriel Bowser can conduct a search for a their streets. One man saw the car and threw up motion to captain and as an inspector in 2015. permanent replacement. his arms, waving to flag down the officer. The SUV She has also served on the Homeland Security and Before Lanier made her decision she promotslowed, the window rolled down, and he shoutCounter-Terrorism team, the Organizational Deed former First District Cmdr. Robert Contee to ased at the driver, “Good morning, good morning, velopment team, and in the Executive Office of sistant chief. This move puts him in a position for good morning.” First District Commander Morthe Chief of Police. She started her new position consideration as a candidate in the search for the gan Kane smiled and replied, “Good morning, as commander on Aug. 14. new chief. Stephen Bigelow, vice chair of the DC good morning. Is it afternoon? I think it might be!” Kane brings experience and knowledge of police union, told reporters he personally prefers It takes more than an hour’s driving to navithe field, said Robert Pittman, First District chair Contee as a possible new chief because of his sucgate through the Northeast, Southeast, Southwest, for the Chief of Police’s Citizens Advisory Councess in implementing strong communication netand Northwest areas of the First District, but the cil (CAC). Contee’s move to assistant chief alworks, as well as his background in recruitment. new commander knows them by heart. She startWith the coming changes, Ward 6 ed her career with the Metropolitan Police DepartCouncilmember Charles Allen said he ment (MPD) as a patrolman in the First District looks forward to continuing to work with nearly 18 years ago. MPD leaders on improving the safety of Driving through the streets in Northwest, the city. “MPD is going to go through Kane pointed to a block near K and Fourth streets some leadership changes, but that’s why where she said she came face-to-face with the first it’s so important to have a deep bench and person who wanted to fight her. He just wanted to a talented team,” he said. “We have some challenge an officer, she said. Around the corner outstanding members of MPD up and she came across the block where she made her first down the line.” arrest, for drugs. “One time, someone leaned out of a window of one of the buildings, they egged our ‘One D’ Is My Home car,” Kane said, pausing in a parking lot now surMorgan Kane got the phone call from rounded by high-rise developments. “This area was Chief Lanier while drinking coffee with so rough. Let me just say, rough.” her father in Atlanta, Ga. She was floored. In the time since she started on the force Cmdr. Kane drives through the streets she once patrolled as The offer came as a complete surprise. in 1998, Kane has watched the District change a rookie officer. Photo: Christine Rushton
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ADVISORY NEIGHBORHOOD COMMISSION 6A PHIL TOOMAJIAN, CHAIR, PHILANC6A@GMAIL.COM Serving the Near Northeast, North Lincoln Park, Rosedale, and H Street communities ANC 6A generally meets the second Thursday of the month, at Miner Elementary School, 601 15th Street, NE.
www.anc6a.org lows the department to capitalize on his skills as a mentor for young officers, and gives Kane an opportunity to command what he called one of the greatest police districts in the city. “With the communication tools in place – Listservs, police service area (PSA) meetings, etc. – we work well with One D,” Pittman said. “I think we will see that strengthen even more with the new commander.” Councilmember Allen also welcomed Kane to the job and back to the area she knows so well.
Remembering Why She Polices Back in her original district, each day on the job reminds Kane of why she chose a career with MPD. But a particular day in her time as a patrol officer in One D sticks with her. “I remember we got a call for a sexual assault,” Kane recalled. “I remember going in there for the call, and she had been beaten. Her eyes were swollen, her face, and brutally raped. I had to go in the room with her as we were investigating.” The woman had such strength, Kane remembered. She spent more time worrying about her family, friends, and even the officers, which stuck with Kane. She said it triggered a feeling in her, an affirmation that she made the right choice in choosing law enforcement. The investigators closed the case and arrested the woman’s coworker for the attack, she said. “We need to work hard to make sure those things don’t happen,” Kane said. “And when they do, we need to work hard to bring justice for the victim, to close the case.”
Pushing Prevention with Her Family in Mind When Kane isn’t reading through stacks of reports or patrolling her new command, she’s wrapping her life around her 20-month-old son she calls “Sweet Face.” “For me, it’s work and him. For me, it’s work and Sweet
Face,” she said. In July she moved to the First District from their home in Virginia. The commute into her job took away too much of the time she preferred to spend with him. Now she gets to see him – and listen to his favorite Baby First TV show with Tillie the duck – more each day. Knowing she helps protect their home heightens her appreciation for the value of her work. “You’re that much more critical,” Kane said. “It’s for him and his future, so that he’s OK.” That’s what she hopes to instill in her young officers: that the people they serve and protect are just that, people. “I always say, treat folks the way you want your mother, your daughter, your brother to be treated,” Kane said. She has three main goals to start her command: keep residents safe by focusing on visibility; build trust between the community and the officers; and develop young officers to carry MPD’s mission into the future of the city. Part of this starts with remaining attentive to the community Listservs and newsletters, calling community members who may have suffered in some way, and getting all of the officers, from lieutenants to patrolmen, to walk their police beats. “I’m a firm believer that we can actually prevent crime if we deploy appropriately,” Kane said. “But in those situations where we cannot prevent it, we need to have closure of that case.” Driving through the streets she once patrolled as a rookie, Kane thinks about whether she ever considered leaving the force to pursue a legal career again. It takes her seconds to come up with an answer: No. “It’s something new every day, and here [in the nation’s capital] you really feel like you’re making a difference,” she said. “You can see the rewards of what you do.” u
Next ANC 6A meeting is 2nd Thursday, September 8th 7 p.m, Miner E.S., 601 15th St. NE Alcohol Beverage Licensing Committee - Tuesday, September 20th 7pm at Sherwood Recreation Center • 640 10th St., NE Jay Williams - Co-Chair (906-0657) / Christopher Seagle - Co-Chair
Transportation & Public Space Committee - Monday, September 19th 7pm at Capitol Hill Towers Community Room • 900 G St., NE J. Omar Mahmud - Co-Chair (594-9848) / Todd Sloves - Co-Chair
Economic Development & Zoning Committee - Wednesday, September 21st 7pm at Sherwood Recreation Center • 640 10th St., NE Brad Greenfield - Chair (Brad.greenfield@gmail.com 202 262-9365)
Community Outreach Committee - Monday, September 26th Held every 4th Monday of the month 7pm at Maury Elementary School • 1250 Constitution Ave., NE Multi-purpose Room (enter from 200 Block of 13 Street) Dana Wyckoff - Chair (571-213-1630)
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Ups and Downs of Maryland Avenue Redesign
Community Members Lay Out Concerns At An August 10 Meeting by Christine Rushton
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t a community meeting on Aug. 10 about a hundred residents offered suggestions and feedback on the 30 percent plan for the redesign of Maryland Avenue from Third to 15th streets NE. They submitted their concerns to the DC Department of Transportation (DDOT) and JMT Design on Aug. 19. Some expressed frustration at learning only recently about the upcoming changes, but most seemed open to DDOT’s proposed plan, said Scott Price, commissioner of Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC) 6C03. The city started to assess the need for changes in 2010 and 2011. Here are the main concerns neighbors shared: • The need for a shield to protect windows from the night-time light pollution from the proposed historic streetlights. The current lights point downward. • An explanation of how garbage trucks blocking the bicycle lane will navigate safely with one lane, especially when school buses need to pass. • Assurance that crosswalks and light signals are
effectively marked and timed for the number of pedestrians, including students, who use the roadways. The “road diet” plan includes a reduction of the roadway to one lane in each direction, a designated bicycle lane, and changes to light patterns in order to alleviate safety problems caused by speeding cars and poorly marked crosswalks. Residents at the meeting gave feedback as DDOT representatives guided them through a block-by-block look at the plans. One later commented that the proposed relocation of a bus stop on the corner of 11th Street would disturb privately landscaped homes on the block between 11th and 12th streets. On the Hill Rag’s website a commentator wrote on Aug. 21 that “neighbors on the block turned out en masse to voice their deep concerns about safety, littering, damage to our gardens and retaining walls, noise pollution, and the threat to burgeoning home prices.” After all, “who would pay from $800,000 to $1 million to live in front of a bus stop?” On a block by the Northeast Library, Price said, DDOT and the city need to find a way to slow commuters and speeding cars for the safety of pedestrians along the route. “The number of near hits is just horrific. I used to get one or two complaints per month about near hits near the library,” Price said, adding that DDOT’s temporary white posts and crosswalk signs had helped alleviate the problem. The reduction to one lane will remove the opportunity for speeding drivers to weave in and out of cars going at the speed limit, Price said. And DDOT’s traffic assessments and a successful lane reduction in Northwest show that the change won’t cause a significant problem for traffic. Maryland Avenue already sees fewer cars during most of the day than is necessary for two lanes. With about 193 new residences and more development coming to the area, Price said the changes need to happen for the safety of bicyclists and pedestrians. The project is set to finish in 2018. But Price said he has one concern about DDOT’s plans. He wants the community to see the design at the 65 percent finished stage, not just the 30 percent and 90 percent. “The problem with that is, by the time the 90 percent is out there’s virtually nothing than can be done,” he said. u
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Family Fest 2016 Bands, games, raffles, food, & fun!
2:00 to 5:00 p.m. @Garfield Park 3rd & G Streets SE Everyone is welcome at MOTH Family Fest. A celebration for Capitol Hill families and their friends.
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hink it’s getting hotter in DC? You’re Research conducted as a part of Climate Ready right! DC’s climate is changing. DC found that the District will continue to experiCompared to 1950 there are now an ence increased storms, flooding, and extreme heat. average of nine more days per year Unfortunately the study also found that residents with a maximum temperature greatof Wards 7 and 8, with their high levels of unemer than 95 degrees Fahrenheit. According to a study ployment, poverty, obesity, and asthma, as well as a commissioned in 2015 by the DC Government, avlarge elderly population, will be more impacted by erage temperatures have increased by two degrees climate change and less able to adapt. from 1947 (when they began documenting temperAs a part of the plan Climate Ready DC has diature at National Airport) to 2014. There’s no denyvided actions into four response categories. ing that our climate is changing. And these chang• Transportation and Utilities: Activities focus on es are bringing about others including a prolonged reducing flooding risks through better drainseason for mosquitos and other pests. age infrastructure and permeable surfaces, waRecognizing that climate changes will impact ter recycling, increased use of renewable enDC, in July the Department of Energy & Environergy, improving Metro’s resilience to flooding, ment (DOEE) released a draft climate adaptation and improving communication channels for plan that was compiled by national consultants, 15 information about storms and flooding events. District government agencies, and 11 communityDC will also expand efforts to mitigate floodbased organizations, and with input from two coming of the Metrorail system. (Did you see the munity meetings. “Climate Ready DC” identifies pictures of the Cleveland Park Metro flooding current and future impacts of a changing climate from June? They’re amazing!) on the District’s infrastructure, public facilities, and • Buildings and Development: Activities include residents and includes 74 actions necessary over the identifying critical buildings, including those next 20 years to ensure the safety and prosperity of needed as neighborhood cooling centers, and the District. ensuring that they have access to backup power “From scorching summer temperatures to higher precipitation and more inDC’s climate is changing. tense storms, we’re already experiencing Photo: N Sundt the consequences of a changing climate,” said DOEE Director Tommy Wells. “To mitigate the catastrophic effects from acute weather events like the 2012 derecho and address longer-term concerns like sustained high heat advisory days, we must take action immediately. Climate Ready DC is the answer to that charge.” DC is one of few major US cities with two free-flowing rivers passing through it. While the Potomac and Anacostia provide important natural resources, the rivers and their tributaries also mean that parts of DC are particularly susceptible to flooding. With major storm events becoming more frequent – such as the hailstorm that hit much of the city in July – the District needs to have plans and infrastructure in place to protect residents and business owners. Climate Ready DC
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sources. Actions will also include ensuring that waterfront setbacks and buffers allow for future sea-level rise, changes in precipitation patterns, sustainable landscaping practices, erosion, and flood risks. Neighborhoods and Communities: Plans include continued efforts to identify and reach residents with greater vulnerability to climate change, and provide training to home-healthcare and other service providers who engage directly with vulnerable residents. Thermal mapping will help identify urban heat-island hotspots and areas with the greatest potential for cooling. Cooling centers will also be evaluated on their ability to accommodate pets and provide security and child-friendly amenities, accessible restrooms, medical assistance, backup power, sleeping areas, and proximity to transit. Governance and Implementation: Actions include integrating climate change adaptation into the District’s hazard mitigation plan and emergency planning efforts, engaging agencies such as the Historic Preservation Review Board, Zoning Commission, and Public Service Commission to ensure that projects incorporate climate change resilience as a part of the design and permitting process. DC will also work to identify potential sources of funding from emerging financing tools such as green/climate bonds. Keya Chatterjee, a Ward 6 resident and executive director of the US Climate Action Network (US CAN), recognizes the value of this plan. “Everyone in DC should read this report detailing the impacts of climate change in DC and comment about their own experience dealing with heatwaves, heavy downpours, and more!” Meanwhile, have you thought about what you can do to make your own home climate ready? Stayed tuned for some ideas on how to do that! Catherine Plume is a lifelong environmentalist, a writer, and a blogger for the DC Recycler: www.DCRecycler.blogspot.com; Twitter @DC_Recycler. u
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South by West by William Rich The Wharf Is Slowly Coming Together
cies, including the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts and the Coast Guard. Also present at the ceremony was Ward 6 Council member Charles Allen After more than two years of construction, the first (taking a respite from paternity leave) and other signs of what’s to come at the Southwest waterinvited guests who assembled at District Pier for front are becoming clearer. Now that almost evcrab and lobster rolls, music and the bridge lightery building in Phase One of development is at ing. Others gathered in boats in the Washington least out of the ground and most of the public Channel or stood at Hains Point to get a good view piers have been installed, the size of the buildof the bridge. ings change constantly – new floors are being addAfter Bowser pressed the button, the Case ed about every week. While completion of Phase Bridge, which carries Interstate 395 over the Washington Channel, was illuminated with a blue light strip along the south-facing side of the bridge and soft white lights highlighting the stonework on the pillars. The reflection of the blue light strip gives the waters of the Washington Channel near the bridge a blue hue. Citelum designed the LED lighting scheme for the bridge. It is the same The Francis Case Memorial Bridge over the Washington Channel will now be firm that was responsiilluminated every night. Photo: William Rich ble for lighting the Eiffel Tower in Paris. AcOne will not be completed for more than a year, companying the unveiling was a fireworks show at least one permanent change is now visible: the which lasted several minutes. lighting of the Francis Case Memorial Bridge. Reaction to the new bridge lighting scheme On August 18 at a ceremony held on District on social media was generally positive: Pier at 9th Street and Maine Avenue SW, Mayor Muriel Bowser had the honor of pressing a big David Garber (@GarberDC) button to illuminate the Bridge over the Wash8/18/16, 9:46 PM ington Channel. Prior to the lighting ceremony, Awesome. Love seeing all these details at @ PN Hoffman CEO Monty Hoffman told the story TheWharfDC come together! twitter.com/swtlqtc/ about how long it took to get approvals for the projstatus… ect and noted the Mayor’s (then Ward 4 Council member) interest and support for the redevelopDiane Schulz (@dihicobra) 8/18/16, 9:55 PM ment of the Southwest Waterfront even though it Ok, I have been very negative about the blue was not in her ward. Just for the bridge lighting, light. I think the reflection in the water is nice. approvals were needed by city and federal agenWhere is stonework?twitter.com/capitalcommnew...
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Emmie J. (@Emmie__Jay) 8/19/16, 9:27 AM @GarberDC @KoppDC @SWTLQTC That’s really cool. Will it be lit every night? Hope so! Mayor Muriel Bowser (@MayorBowser) 8/19/16, 10:56 AM ICYMI: I had a great time @TheWharfDC’s bridge lighting last night! #DCProud twitter.com/ SWTLQTC/status… The new lighting scheme on the Case Bridge is permanent and is part of the two billion dollar transformation of the Southwest waterfront to The Wharf. Blue lighting will also be added along The Wharf’s promenade and marinas. Over the next year or so, other components of The Wharf will be completed, including Waterfront Park, a revamped Municipal Fish Market, Wharf Hall concert venue, forrent and for-sale housing, two office buildings, three hotels, several restaurants and other retail, as well as a water taxi service, public piers and marina.
Parcel 11 Furthest Along The first units have settled at 525 Water, one of two condo buildings in phase one of The Wharf. At least four units have settled so far, and all of them belong to leadership at PN Hoffman, the master developer. More than 50 percent of the units at 525 Water have sold so far, which means that settlements can begin. The building received its certificate of occupancy in late July. 525 Water is part of Parcel 11 at The Wharf, which will be the first buildings to deliver in Phase One. The new St. Augustine’s will open its doors on Wednesday, September 24 with a convocation service, starting at 4 p.m. Infrastructure work continues at Waterfront Park, a three-acre open space adjacent to 525 Water, and construction should be completed either late this year or by early next year. The remaining Phase One buildings from 7th Street to the Municipal Fish Market will deliver in the fall of 2017.
Coast Guard’s Former Buzzard Point HQ to Become Riverpoint The former Coast Guard headquarters building
The Coast Guard’s former headquarters building on the Anacostia River waterfront will be transformed into a mixed use development. Photo: William Rich
at 2100 2nd Street SW in Buzzard Point is slated to be redeveloped as a mixed-use project with apartments, condos, and retail. A development team including Akridge Development, Western Development, Jefferson Apartment Group, Orr Partners, and Redbrick LMD will take on the Transpoint Building project, which has been renamed Riverpoint. From the press release: Located at the site of the former U.S. Coast Guard headquarters at Buzzard Point, Riverpoint will deliver 80,000 square feet of restaurant and retail space, as well as over 450 apartment and condominium units and waterfront activities with new piers, floating restaurants and the continuation of the Anacostia Riverwalk Trail. The project will create a vibrant, mixed-use community, connecting the area with the new D.C. United stadium and other developments along the Capitol Riverfront, including the Ballpark District, and The Wharf. Riverpoint will boast three sides of unobstructed water views. This is one of two office buildings in Buzzard Point that are
planned to convert to residential. Earlier this year, Douglas Development filed plans with the Zoning Commission to convert an office building on Half Street to 462 apartment units and 24,032 SF of retail space. Riverpoint is located just to the south of 100 V Street, an empty lot owned by Akridge that was partially taken by the city through eminent domain to build the new D.C. United stadium. Previously, 100 V Street SW was envisioned as an office campus for a federal tenant; however, the changing dynamic of Buzzard Point and a soccer stadium next door will likely mean those development plans will be altered. With 100 V Street SW and Riverpoint, Akridge will have a large presence in Buzzard Point. Construction of Riverpoint could start within 12 months, adding to the bevy of construction activity coming to Buzzard Point over the next three years, including Douglas’ project, a new D.C. United stadium, Pepco substation, Marina View condos and a new Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge and traffic oval. William Rich is a blogger at Southwest…The Little Quadrant that Could (www.swtlqtc.com) u
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olks who live in intended to remove “filth, neighborhoods stench and disease” by isoalong the Anlating the wetlands with a acostia River seawall along the river and have long wondraining them for the benby Bill Matuszeski dered why the wetlands we efits of flood control, malarsee from the East Capitol ia eradication, and navigaStreet Bridge and other crossings and trails look so bedraggled. Now the answer tion. Today we have found other means to control malaria, and we have learned is in, as well as a set of actions to change things for the better. After a multithat channelizing streams and eliminating wetlands usually worsens flooding year process the National Park Service has released and begun to implement and causes sediment to build in the navigation channels. Even in the Anacosits Anacostia Park Wetland and Resident Canada Goose Management Plan. tia the pollutants are under increasing levels of control. The plan has two parts: one is to rebuild the vegetation that has been systemBeginning in the 1990s we began to restore the wetlands in the Anacosatically destroyed by the excess of resident (non-migratory) Canada geese; the tia. Between 1993 and 2016 the Park Service and others created nearly 100 second is to permanently reduce the number of geese. acres of new wetlands in a number of areas in Anacostia Park to serve the traOn June 29 the National Capitol Regional Director for the Park Service, ditional roles of flood control and natural habitat in places like Kenilworth Bob Vogel, signed a record of decision to implement Alternative B from the Marsh, Kingman Marsh, Heritage Island, Poplar Point, and Buzzard Point. final environmental impact statement, which presented five options, of which Then around 2000, Park Service employees began to notice a major inAlternative B was the most aggressive and costly. This completed a nearly 10flux of non-migratory Canada geese which appeared to consume large amounts year process of study and scientific analysis of options. of grasses. Studies initiated to compare areas fenced off from geese from open Some background on the issues will help. The tidal Anacostia River hisareas confirmed the severe impact of their numbers on the wetlands vegetatorically included nearly 2,500 acres of wetlands, an enormous spread which tion and nearby grasslands. The studies also looked at hydrologic regimes, helped to absorb floodwaters, provided habitat for fish, shellfish, and a wide sediment deposits, planting methods, insects, plant disease, soils, and invasive range of amphibians, and produced oxygen from all the grasses and other vegeplants and other issues to better understand how to restore the wetlands once tation. Nearly all of these acres were eliminated in the early 20th century by the the goose population was under control. US Army Corps of Engineers through a series of so-called reclamation projects More about the geese and where they came from. In the early 1900s Canada geese were near extinction, as were many other bird species providing feathers for ladies’ hats. Restoration and recovery programs were started and hunt clubs began releasing their own captive-bred geese, using some as decoys. These and others did not retain the seasonal urge to migrate, and over time the resident populations became large and destructive to habitat. All this and other work, including analysis of alternative means to control the geese, led to the development of the management plan, with a draft environmental impact statement (EIS) in 2012, a final EIS in 2015, and the record of decision at the end of June. The desired conditions outlined for the Anacostia are wetland systems that are self-sustaining with high-quality functions, and no adverse effect from resident geese. To restore the wetlands themselves a number of additional actions beyond current efforts are outlined including new erosion controls (shoreline buffers, fiber logs, flow deflectors, bog mats, and shoreline steepness reduction); removing structures that cause erosion; dealing with upland runoff; enforcing no-wake zones; high-density plantings; improved management of invasive species; removal of the sheet piling separating the river from the fringe wetlands; and new rain gardens. But when it comes to controlling the resident Canada geese, hard decisions had to be made. In 2010 the goose count in the Anacostia Park was 564; most think that if anything it is higher today. Using a variety of credible studies, research, and analysis by the US Fish and Wildlife Service and others, the number that could be sustainably handled should be 28 in the park’s wetlands and 26 in its turf areas, for a total of 54, or a 90 percent reduction. How could this be achieved and sustained? The plan lays out how it could happen. To begin, between 40 and 60 per-
Tough Love for The Anacostia – From Science
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90% of the resident Canada geese will need to be eradicated to insure healthy wetlands. Photo: Anacostia Watershed Society
cent of the reduction goal would be achieved “by lethal controls,” that is, by killing the geese. This would be done through a combination of round-up, euthanasia (what we often call “putting to sleep” in the case of our cat or dog), or shooting. Certified healthy breast meat would be offered to programs providing meals to the needy. The remaining reductions would be attempted by oiling, addling, or replacing eggs in nests (in order to prevent the females from laying a new clutch). If these egg-related measures fail to achieve their goal, the plan allows lethal control to increase to 90 percent. This sounds pretty tough but it is backed up by a great deal of study in the Anacostia and experience elsewhere. It seems to be the way we and all the other critters along and in the Anacostia will get our wetlands back and assure they are permanently productive. Sometimes we need to allow science to trump sentiment, and I think there is a good case to have it happen here! Bill Matuszeski writes monthly about the Anacostia River. He is the retired director of the Chesapeake Bay Program, and a member of the Mayor’s Leadership Council for a Cleaner Anacostia River. u
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pcoming elections were the first thing on the agenda at the Eastern Market Community Advisory Committee (EMCAC) on July 27. EMCAC’s elections will be held in September. The independent community member seat held currently by Tom Kuchenberg, is up for election. Anyone interested in running for this seat should submit a resume to Chuck Burger (CBurger@cbmove.com) who is Chair of the Nominations Committee. EMCAC is the legislatively created advisory body which provides the benefit of advice and comments on Market matters to Market management—the DC Department of General Services
Five Year Plan Chair Donna Scheeder reported that EMCAC’s response to a proposed Five Year Business Plan had been sent to the Director of the Department of General Services along with a cover letter. A number of issues have been carefully addressed in EMCAC’s report but among the salient ones are: all entities in EMCAC be included in the RFP process; any external contractor chosen to develop a Five Year Plan be completely familiar with the Eastern Market Act and that any recommendations for the Market be consistent with the Act; and finally, that any Five Year Plan include a requirement to produce an extensive analysis of the buying and demographic characteristics of existing customers. This report is in response to DGS’s Forest Hayes late spring proposal for an FRP to create a Five Year Plan which in turn is a response to EMCAC’s repeated efforts to secure funding for capital improvements. There is no funding mechanism for capital improvements at the Eastern Market. Regrettably both Hayes and Director Chris Weaver of DGS are no longer with the agency. Months of meetings and community work now sit in abeyance as Acting Director Greer Johnson Gillis settles into her new position. In the meantime other long standing issues continue unabated with the focus on the Five
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by Peter J. Waldron Year Plan. South Hall merchants remain without their long-promised leases. The Enterprise Fund adopted by law as the Market repository of revenues has a zero balance. Market revenues captured by DGS are swept annually into the District’s general revenue fund. EMCAC awaits the long-delayed final report of FY 2015 profit and loss statement even as FY2016 is one month from closing.
Main Streets The Market Row Merchants Association, comprised of Eastern Market bricks and mortar businesses, has launched an effort to reorganize itself as the Eastern Market Main Streets. Main Streets are a special 35-year-old program under the guidance of the National Trust for Historic Preservation set up to fund development of business communities in need of revitalization and are administered by the District’s Dept. of Small and Local Business Development. The boundaries of this effort remain unclear with suggestions that it will include businesses all the way from the Eastern Market to 2nd St. SE along Pennsylvania Ave. and bordering the Capitol grounds. Both 8th St. SE, otherwise known as Barrack’s Row, and the resurgence of H St. NE have used this model to resuscitate and strengthen new business life. Eastern Market Main Streets was voted funding in May by the City Council and must complete its application for this project by September 8. Community input is one of the conditions for the funding which can be as much as $250,000 annually for development. There were a number of issues under discussion including the very brief time frame to work through these issues. According to Diane Hoskins, the ANC representative who sits on EMCAC, ANC6B had been briefed earlier in July by the new Main Street organization. With a looming deadline Hoskins said that she had encouraged the new entity’s leadership to engage with the community, adding that ANC6B has issued a
letter of support and that the “concept is great,” but that ANC6B “wants to hear more.” One issue under discussion was that this new organization is calling itself Eastern Market Main Streets and using an identical logo used by the Eastern Market itself. Angie Brunson of Blue Iris Flowers who had attended a briefing objected to this preemptive adoption of the Market’s logo , expressing concerns about the Eastern Market brand and how to preserve it. There was a wide ranging discussion of the impact these newly organized Main Street brick and mortar businesses will have on the Market vendors. It was suggested repeatedly by non food vendor representative Erika Rubel that this new Main Streets organization hold a public meeting with the vendors so that information can be shared, meeting a requirement of the Main Street funding and application process. Yet another point raised by EMCAC members as to how this expanded entity would fit into the Eastern Market community are the requirements that bind EMCAC by law and that must be adhered to. Scheeder pointed out that “there are many unanswered questions” and “we need to have everyone aligned so that everyone can be successful. “ Scheeder proposed a meeting of the officers of this newly proposed Main Streets entity with members of the EMCAC. A motion was made and passed unanimously.
Market Manager’s Report Market Manager Barry Margeson reported that June revenues were $62,870.17. North Hall revenues were significantly down at $8,400.00. Outdoor vending is $30,895. Leases were discussed as they are often at monthly meetings and Margeson responded: “I spoke with Jonathan (Kayne, Interim Director of DGS) yesterday and the day before and we will be talking with the Director tomorrow and once we talk with the Director…………….I think that we will have some news for you.” u
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Emerald Street From Empty Spaces to Queen Anne Places by Beth Purcell
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merald Street NE (between E, F, 13th, and 14th streets) is a great Capitol Hill story of boom, bust, and boom again. In 1890 Emerald Street did not exist, and the square where it’s located was open fields and only existed on paper. But in 1892 everything changed. Two speculators, William Mayse and Louis D. Wine, formed a syndicate and bought the entire square for $72,000. This parcel (square 1029), like the other squares on Capitol Hill, was surveyed when the city was founded. It had 26 lots fronting on E, F, 13th, or 14th streets, with access to an H-shaped alley. Mayse and Wine had big plans for square 1029. A housing boom in the middle-class market was underway on Capitol Hill and they were going to get in on it. Several factors created the housing demand. Early in the 19th century businesses and residences appeared near the Capitol and the
Navy Yard. After the Civil War Washington expanded rapidly. During the 1870s the District’s government paved roads and installed water and sewer lines and streetlights. Although most of this work was done in Northwest, where the wealthy elite lived, improvements were also made on Capitol Hill. The Organic Act of 1878 obligated Congress to fund one-half of the city’s expenses, ensuring that Washington would remain the nation’s capital. Civil service reform, enacted in 1883, ended the spoils system and offered stable employment for federal employees. Business leaders also accepted that the city would never become a manufacturing center, but instead its economy would center on government and real estate, providing work for government employees and members of the building trades. During the 1880s and 1890s, Capitol Hill was one of the few areas in the city with both amenities (commercial areas and transportation) and
Queen Anne-style houses at 1306-1308 Emerald St. NE, designed by Nicholas T. Haller and built by George P. Newton in 1893. Photo: Beth Purcell
Emerald Street Walk, Sept. 11
The Capitol Hill Restoration Society will host walking tours of Emerald Street on Sunday, Sept. 11, and again on Saturday, Oct. 8. Meet on the corner of 13th and Emerald streets at 10 a.m. Neighbor Elizabeth Nelson in front of a row of George P. Newton’s Queen Annestyle houses of 1895 with a narrow corbelled table with brick dentils at the cornice, segmental arches over the windows.
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Square 1029 in the Hopkins DC atlas of 1893, showing Mayse and Wine’s subdivision of the original 26 lots into 169 rowhouse lots.
Square 1029, with 26 lots, as surveyed in 1797. Image: DC Office of the Surveyor
affordable land. After the new Eastern Market opened in 1873, brick rowcourses as window sills, and window openings with wood fluted pilasters, with houses were built, primarily two- and three-story dwellings, for the middlescrolled spandrels above. Over the door and window openings are brick segclass market. mental arches with pearl molding. Newton designed some houses and the Development gradually spread eastward, where Mayse and Wine enarchitect Nicholas T. Haller designed others. tered the picture. They planned to re-subdivide square 1029 into the maxiNewton was a speculative builder who borrowed to finance his operamum number of rowhouse lots, and then sell the lots. They could have creattions. He was successful, vacationing at the beach with his family, as reported ed lines of rowhouse lots wrapping around E, F, 13th, and 14th streets. But if in newspaper society columns, and droving a Cadillac runabout. He built 400 they eliminated the original alley and added a one-block street running east to or 500 houses between 1887 and 1906. But he never kept financial records west between 13th and 14th streets, it would allow many more lots fronting on and had no way of knowing if he was making or losing money. In 1906, after a street, yielding a total of 169 lots where there had been 26. The new byway realizing that he was running out of money, he declared bankruptcy but conwas called Emerson Street, maybe because it’s betinued to build houses and apartment buildings. tween E and F streets. Emerson Street’s name was The 1900 Census, the first census after buildchanged to Emerald Street in 1950. ing began in 1892, shows that all the residents of Mayse and Wine did very well. By 1893square 1029 were white and worked in middle-class 94, 43 new owners, including several developers, occupations, as government clerks, printers, comhad bought all but four lots. One of the developpositors, bookbinders, and pressmen. Two worked ers, George P. Newton, built 28 brick rowhouses in the building trades, a carpenter and an electrion Emerald Street by the end of 1893 and went cian. George P. Newton lived at 526 14th St. NE on to build 32 more on Emerald Street between in a house that he built. Other occupations includ1894 and 1896, plus 32 houses on 14th, E, and ed policeman, fireman, teacher, insurance agent, F streets. grocery clerk, bookkeeper, milliner, and physician. Newton’s houses on Emerald Street are red Almost all working-age residents said that they had press brick, in the then-popular Queen Anne been continuously employed; 52 percent owned style. Press brick gives a smooth, monumental their houses (most had mortgages), and 48 percent appearance and lends itself to surface ornament. were renting. The first residents of Square 1029 Queen Anne style is eclectic exuberant, with a lot were typical Capitol Hill residents, exactly the marof variety in ornament. Judith Capen, in a publiket that Mayse, Wine, and Newton had targeted. cation of the Capitol Hill Restoration Society, deAfter finishing his houses on Emerald Street, scribes the style as “variety in pressed brick, and Newton turned to the Classical Revival style for as belt and string coursing ... brick door and winhis next set of houses at 1364-1372 E St. NE. Dedow hoods. To enliven the roof line, row houssigned by Haller, they have a prominent brick pares acquired large and elaborate roof cornices.” apet and an overhanging metal cornice. During Newton’s houses express the Queen Anne style construction Newton and the building inspector George P. Newton’s home at 526 14th St. NE, built through a corbelled table at the cornice, string got into a dispute about the spacing of the floor in 1898. Photo: Elizabeth Nelson
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joists, and the inspector issued a stop-work order. After Newton corrected the spacing, work resumed, and he completed the houses in 1905. Emerald Street continued to be a mostly white, middleclass neighborhood as of 1940. But by the 1950s and 1960s disinvestment set in, evidenced by foreclosures and citations for unsanitary houses. After the riots following Dr. Martin Luther King’s assassination in 1968, DC’s government launched urban renewal programs in several areas of the city, including the H Street Urban Renewal Area, which embraced Emerald Street and all of square 1029. Although no houses on Emerald Street were damaged during the riots, the DC Redevelopment Land Agency (RLA) designated Emerald Street as a mid-rise rehabilitation area and oversaw rehabilitation of a total of 88 houses in the square, including 39 on Emerald Street. The first house to be rehabilitated under RLA’s section 312 assistance program for homeowners was 1308 Emerald St. in 1971. “Few areas of DC are as special as Emerald Street,” according to Stephanie Zimny, advisory neighborhood commissioner for ANC 6A06. “As you walk down the street of beautifully colored homes, you will see neighbors chatting with one another, walking dogs, or talking about the next block party. The sense of community and friendship on this little one-way street is truly unmatched throughout the city. Emerald Street is a true jewel of Capitol Hill!” For more information, visit The Capitol Hill Restoration society at www.chrs.org. u
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Women Together The Hill’s Lesbian Heritage by Robet S. Pohl
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ith the recent closing of Phase 1, a memento of an important chapter in the history of Capitol Hill – that of the role that gays and Lesbians played in its revival – is in danger of being lost. Back in the 1960s, when many still feared going southeast of the Capitol, there were others who saw low rents, attractive homes, and the opportunity to start something for themselves. Phase 1 was not the first LGBT establishment on the Hill, nor was Robert Pohl, current owner of 219 11th St. SE, along with Tisha Allen of the DC Preservation League. Joan E. it the first to cater to Lesbians. That honor goes to Biren, former Fury, and Mark Meinke after the Historic Preservation Review Board hearing on the nomination of the Fury House. Photo: Robet S. Pohl JoAnna’s, a bar at 430 Eighth St. that opened in May 1968. While JoAnna’s only lasted for about a blog TheNewGay in 2008, a place to which “everyone returns ‘home’ at some decade, it was the first to offer same-sex dancing – point and everyone has planted roots of their own in this bar.” and encouraged Chris Jansen and Allen Carroll, who had previously opened the Phase 1’s situation was not always easy, located as it was on Barracks Row, notorious gay bar Ziegfield’s/Secrets, to open one catering to Lesbians. directly across from the Marine Barracks. There was a notorious incident in October 1979, when a canister of tear gas was thrown in. For a while they felt Phase 1 the need to institute a policy of no unaccompanied men. Nonetheless, of all This new bar opened in February 1970 and soon became a favorite, drawing pathe many famous and infamous gay and Lesbian bars that have sprung up on trons from across the greater Washington area. It was, as “Meaghan” wrote in the Seventh Street and around the corner on Pennsylvania Avenue, this one survived the longest. Now it appears that the end is nigh. Carroll has offered the bar for sale or lease, and whether it will survive the change is uncertain at best.
The Furies Collective
Phase 1 on Barracks Row. Photo: Robet S. Pohl
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The Hill was not just a hotbed of Lesbian bars, it was also a place of living and working, sometimes in the same place. One such address was 219 11th St. SE, where in late 1971 a group of Lesbians who called themselves the Furies founded a newsletter of the same name. While the members were fairly young, they had impressive resumes in various civil rights movements but felt unwelcome in many of their endeavors. They decided to strike out on their own, live together, and create an ongoing manifesto describing their separatist intentions and encouraging others to join them. While there were a total of a dozen Furies, only three of them actually lived at 219. All, however, went there to put together the newspaper, and the basement was the ideal place to lay out the newsletter as well as to prepare it for posting across the world. In the application for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places, Mark Meinke noted that the “house provided space for collective meetings, consciousness raising sessions, and educational/training sessions.”
The former home of the Women’s Cooperative Bakery today houses Pendragwn Productions. Photo: RSP
The Furies getting their newspaper ready for delivery in the basement of 219 11th St. SE. From left: Ginny Berson, Susan Baker (who was not a Fury), Coletta Reid, Rita Mae Brown, and Lee Schwing. (Joan E. Biren)
While the Furies house did not attract the unwelcome attention that Phase 1 did, it was kept under surveillance by the FBI, and an October 18, 1972, report mentioned that a car known to be used by two members of the Furies “was one of many vehicles parked at that address.” The report also mentioned the first edition of the newsletter, but whatever views the anonymous author had on this edition was blacked out of the report as eventually released by the FBI. The Furies did not last long. Only 10 issues of the newsletter were published over the span of a year and a half, and before the final edition went to press the members had scattered. Even as they went their separate ways, they continued to work to make things better for the Lesbian community, and each has been successful in her own way.
The Women’s Cooperative Bakery In marked contrast to the earlier groups, the Women’s Cooperative Bakery was not a Lesbian organization, though it was owned and run by women. Nonetheless, the empowerment of women was an important part of its mission, and the side of the delivery truck pro-
claimed, “Common woman is as common as a common loaf of bread ... and will rise!” Founded in 1975 in Maryland, it moved into a disused pretzel bakery at 736 Seventh St. SE in 1979. It soon became an important supplier of organic bread across the region, though the bread’s limited lifespan precluded shipment farther away. While there was a small storefront, the main customers were grocery stores such as the Bethesda Co-op in Cabin John and restaurants, including the Tabard Inn. Along with baking bread, the collective trained women in the skills needed to run a business. Sadly, the collective did not last. In 1992 the dozen members bowed to the realities of dropping sales and rising debt, both engendered by increased competition from other bakers, and shut the doors. The effort to remember this past continues, however, and with the addition of 219 11th St. SE to the National Register of Historic Places in May, one small step has been made to save the memory of those years when Lesbians felt the need to separate themselves from the rest of society. u
Photographers from the Historic American Building Survey set up to take pictures of 219 11th St. SE. Photo: Robet S. Pohl
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In Memorium
A Celebration of Bernadette Blum
Bernadette Blum, director of River Park Nursery School
by Jody Pratt
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n the epicenter of one of the most powerful cities in the world, there is an intersection where the US Capitol, the Supreme Court, and the Library of Congress form a temple complex of some of our nation’s most important grownup business. One block behind it, in a side entrance to a church and up a flight of unassuming stairs, there is a tidy little preschool classroom. And in that classroom, there is a Blue Carpet. For twenty years, the Blue Carpet—caps intentional, because it is truly as distinct a place as any of the important buildings that neighbor it—was an epicenter of its own. It was the official boundary between the outside world and ure, and a child psychologist as she was a teacher of our children. In a way that the peaceable kingdom of River Park Nursery School. On its serged edge, kids was both scientific and instinctual, she knew what made little kids tick. Her deep and grownups said goodbye for the morning; the abiding rule being that caregivunderstanding of their minds helped her calm their insecurities, nurture their ers stayed on one side of the carpet, children and teachers on the other. It made imaginations, and guide them into becoming solid little neighborhood citizens. for a clean goodbye and a clear transition from home life Beginning as an elementary school teacher in the to school and back again. A celebration of the life of Ms. 1960s, Ms. Bernadette dedicated her entire life to early Benignly ruling the Blue Carpet for two decades, Ms. Bernadette Blum—always in her trademark sturdy white Bernadette will be held at the childhood education. As a grammar school teacher, she sneakers—helped raise a generation of preschoolers to be Church of the Reformation, observed that many of the issues that stymied her students secure, conscientious, and kind students. We lost Berna212 East Capitol Street, on Sep- grew from habits they learned when they were younger. Catch them at the beginning of their school years, she dette this June, at the age of 75, just weeks after she comtember 10th from 11:00-2:00. reasoned, and you could give them a firm foundation that pleted another inimitable year as River Park’s director exEvents will include kids’ enter- would set them on a path to social and academic success traordinaire. tainment, lunch, and a com- for life. It is hard to put into words what an incredible nursery munity remembrance for the Out of this inspiration was borne a preschool teaching school teacher we had in Ms. Bernadette. To all who knew method that is quite truly the stuff of Capitol Hill legend. grownups. All are welcome. her, she was as much a parenting coach, a grandmother figSo big was Ms. Bernadette’s influence and approach that when she took over as director of River Park in the 1990s, her name quickly became synonymous with the school. Equally legendary were her results. Colleagues often commented that River Park alums could easily be spotted in a classroom as the kids who were calm, confident, and ready to learn. Her methods were so effective that parents eagerly imitated them at home. “Ms. Bernadette is the voice in my mom head,” said parent alum Kate Crisham. “More than anyone else, she is who I hear nearly every day, sometimes many times a day, as we go through life with small children.” As an educator, Ms. Bernadette believed strongly that preschool should be focused on behavioral, not academic, learning. In an era when there was a national push to introduce reading and math at a younger and younger age, Ms. Bernadette urged patience, believing that the most effective learning was built on a foundation of good social behavior and an introduction to academics in their proper season. At River Park there was no early literacy training. No language immersion or STEM programs. Instead, kids learned about being a conscientious friend, following teacher instructions, behaving safely, and both understanding and modulating their emotions and impulses. Ms. Bernadette and some of her first River Park students.
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Ms. Bernadette River Park remained one of the most popular preschools on Capitol Hill, due in large part to its outstanding reputation and the enthusiasm of alumni families. “My daughter is almost 22. And Ms. Bernadette is still a part of our lives,” said Marcia Leonard, whose daughter attended River Park in the late 90s. “Her teaching, her style, her incredible devotion to children, shaped both my parenting and our choice of schools and even our daily expressions.” “Ms. Bernadette was so much more than a nursery school teacher,” said past River Park president Rosie Nathanson. “She was a mother to all of us mothers. She was a neighbor, a friend, a mentor and a confidante. She influenced all of those who had the pleasure of knowing her.” And now it is us, her friends, neighbors, and families, who are standing on one side of the figurative Blue Carpet. It is time for us to say goodbye to her at a place where our feet cannot pass. But we leave with her wise words on our lips and her sound advice in our heads. The students she taught will continue to grow and thrive as good scholars and good citizens. As much as any of the prominent people working in those important buildings down the block, she has left our neighborhood—and our world— in better shape than she found it. For this and for all the wonderful memories she has given us all, she has our enduring thanks and love. River Park Nursery School will continue to operate in the fall with Erin Crouse as director and Morgan Powell as assistant teacher. Ms. Crouse was personally chosen as the next director of River Park by Ms. Bernadette. u
Always the Good Angel 1941–2016 Celebration of Life Saturday, September 10, 2016 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Lutheran Church of the Reformation 212 East Capitol Street NE All are welcome to gather for kids’ entertainment, lunch, and a community remembrance for the grownups.
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Our Neighbor Gloria Junge, 1947-2016
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by Elizabeth Nelson
loria Junge, Secretary of the Capitol Hill Restoration Society (CHRS), passed away on July 31, following a short illness. She was born in New Jersey in 1947 and went to Viet Nam with the Red Cross in the mid 1960’s. Soon after, she joined the State Department, spending most of her career abroad with postings to Iran, Brazil, Swaziland, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Botswana and Uganda. Adventure and challenge were never in short supply as she left Iran just before the hostage crisis and served in Uganda while Idi Amin was still in power. She bought her house on Capitol Hill in 1990 where it served as her home base during her overseas deployments. Gloria returned to the District, permanently, in 2001 and became the CHRS Office Manager from 2008 until retiring from that position in 2014. She also served as the Finance Committee Chair for the North Lincoln Park Neighborhood Assn. (NLPNA) and was the very best of neighbors. She cared deeply for animals, including a long procession of pets, the cheetahs at the National Zoo and the squirrels in her neighbor’s tree. Her display of animal figures collected during her Foreign Service career in Africa was endlessly fascinating to children passing by her yard on North Carolina Ave. She is survived by her brother and sister-in-law, Bobby and Terry Junge; her nephew, Thomas Alburtus; and her cousins, Paul and Ann Pawchak; her beloved African gray parrot, K.C., whom she rescued from a street bazaar in Kampala City, Uganda; her cat, CocoPuff, and a host of friends and neighbors. Donations in her memory can be made to the ASPCA, World Wildlife Fund or CHRS. A memorial service will be held Sunday, September 18, 1-3 p.m., at Hill Center, 921 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. u
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“Portraits of Citizens” at Hill Center’s Young Artists Gallery by Elizabeth Nelson
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hat does it mean to be a citizen? Four and five year old preschool students at J.O. Wilson ES pondered that question last spring under the guidance of Elizabeth Wyrsch-Ba and Lisa Ochieng. The two teachers collaborated on the Children
Are Citizens Project, connecting the idea of citizenship to as many parts of the curriculum as possible. The project is a RegPhoto: Lisa Ochieng gio Emilia-inspired professional development and research initiative based on the premise that “young children can be fully engaged citizens of Washington, DC–not hypothetical or future citizens.” The curriculum focuses on exploring places in the city that are of significance to the children. Ms. Wyrsh-Ba was particularly concerned that the students “identify that they themselves are citizens.” Students learned about portraits on view in the school art room and made a field trip to the National Museum of Women in the Arts to study those hanging there. The kids then created their own self-portraits using markers, colored pencils and oil pastels on paper. As the children finished their drawings, each was asked what it means to be a citizen. Some focused on the responsibilities of citizenship: according to Cathleen, a citizen is “somebody who does what they are supposed Photo: Elizabeth Wyrsch-Ba to do”; Micah says, “A citizen is somebody who helps you whenever you get hurt and gives you a The Portraits of Citizens show will Band-Aid”; or as Alice puts it “someone who helps hang in the Young Artists Gallery on the the world.” Others recognized that they and othground floor at HillCenter, 921 Pennsylers they know are citizens: from the general per vania Ave, SE through the end of OctoCharles, “A citizen is the kids in our class” and ber. Ms. Wyrsch-Ba hopes viewers are as Destiny, “My family and friends are citizens” to delighted as she is by “the students’ charmthe highly specific: from Tarje ,”A citizen can be ing understandings of what it means to be an artist and a President” and Max, “A citizen is a citizen.” Come see the exhibit and consomeone who lives close to the Washington monsider what citizenship means to you. u ument who is 27 years old.”
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Celebrate the Hill Center’s 5th and 150th Birthdays by Guy Martin Then, on Sunday, Oct. 2, starting at 2:00 p.m., Hill Center will hold its annual, free-to-all, Family Day, with music, food, games and other attractions on the Center’s beautiful grounds, along with horsedrawn wagon rides for the children. You’ll be greeted by volunteers in peThe renovated facade of Hill Center at the Old Naval Hospital. riod costume and other reminders of Photos: Courtesy of Hill Center the site’s rich history. Thanks to an award-winning ill Center at the Old Naval Hospirestoration, the Old Naval Hospital building today tal is about to celebrate a double looks much as it did 150 years ago, but it’s interanniversary. On October 1st, it will esting to contemplate how different it would have be exactly 150 years since the Naappeared back then in relation to the surrounding vy’s newly constructed hospital at neighborhood. When the facility opened in 1866, 9th and Pennsylvania S.E. admitted its first patient, shortly after the Civil War, the four-story structure a wounded African American veteran of the Civil with its mansard roof and monumental iron fence War. And on that same date five years ago, the longwas the most prominent building on the Hill exneglected building reopened, after a meticulous recept for the Capitol, which had just received its furbishing, as Hill Center. new dome. There were no Library of Congress We at the Center are commemorating both buildings, no Union Station, no House and Senevents with public celebrations, and we’re asking ate office buildings, no Supreme Court building. you to please join us. There also would have been rather little to At 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 1, officers and see in terms of residential development to the veterans of the Navy medical corps, along with a north of the hospital, across Pennsylvania Avenue. Navy band and color guard, will gather at Hill CenThe handsome red brick homes that now fill that ter’s south entrance (on E Street) for the unveiling area weren’t constructed, for the most part, until of a marker describing the facility’s proud history as the 1880s and later. Hence the hospital’s southa hospital and medical training school. erly orientation toward the Marine Barracks and the Navy Yard, which had been the neighborhood’s economic anchor since the beginning of the century. The site’s sad decline in the late twentieth century, long after the Navy had moved its hospital to larger quarters downtown and then to still larger quarters in Bethesda, led a hardy band of Capitol Hill neighbors to form the Old Naval Hospital Foundation in 2002 with the goal of winning control of the site, restoring and renovating it, and devoting it A photo from the early years. The Old Naval Hospital opened to community use. With strong supin 1866.
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port from the community, the foundation eventually won the city’s bidding competition and raised about $11 million to create the vibrant center for the arts, education and culture that stands here today. Since opening in 2011, Hill Center has remained open every day except major holidays, offering a wide array of classes and courses, musical performances, book talks, lectures, art exhibitions, and rental space for public and private events. And in 2014 the family-friendly Bayou Bakery, Coffee Bar & Eatery opened in the carriage house that once sheltered horses and horse-drawn ambulances. Over 50,000 visitors came through our doors in just the past year, and if you were one of them you no doubt felt the place’s special, can-do spirit. That spirit is an extension of the Capitol Hill community and the hundreds of individuals who
Children play on the exquitely landscaped grounds of Hill Center.
The Hill Center Gallery exhibits draw art lovers from across the region.
have devoted their time and resources to Hill Center’s success since the idea first germinated fourteen years ago. Over the years, more than twenty community members have served on the Center’s governing board, where four of the founders still serve. But the heart of Hill Center today is its dedicated staff, led by our multitalented executive director, Diana Ingraham, along with an amazing corps of volunteers and the many friends we’ve made on the DC Council, in the office of the Mayor, in Congress and among the Hill’s businesses and non-profit institutions. Now, as we prepare to celebrate our first five years of operation, it’s important to remember that Hill Center still has 60 years remaining on its lease of the Old Naval Hospital property. That’s three generations. To make sure this wonderful facility will still be here to benefit the community long after we’re gone, it’s critical that we continue to bring in new people – new board members, new staff, new volunteers, new donors – and also new programs and services to meet the changing needs of our community. So if you live on the Hill or nearby, one of the gifts you can give to your children and grandchildren is to get involved in some way in sustaining Hill Center’s success. Please contact me, Diana Ingraham, or visit Hill Center online or in person to get more information on how you can particiapte. Catch the Hill Center spirit and help us perpetuate this great legacy. And again, please join us on October 1st to commemorate the Old Naval Hospital’s history and on October 2nd to celebrate the site’s rebirth as the arts and cultural center of our community. Guy Martin is Board Chairman of the Hill Center at the Old Naval Hospital (www.hillcenterdc.org) u
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H Street Life by Elise Bernard
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eptember can be an odd month in the District. Kids are back at school, and Halloween is right around the corner, but summer often refuses to relinquish its grip on the region. One of my favorite annual traditions during this time of seasonal transition is attending the H Street Festival. It’s one day a year when the local businesses really strut their stuff for both locals and visitors to our little corridor.
Are You Ready for the H Street Festival!?
if you’re not the bashful sort. Leashed dogs are welcome, but the festival can get crowded, so keep that in mind when deciding whether to bring Fido along. Three things you definitely should bring are sunscreen, a full water bottle (DC Water typically has a station set up where you can refill your bottle), and cash (the ATMs sometimes run low during such events).
Craft Beer Cellar Opens on H Street NE
Craft Beer Cellar DC stocks 500-600 different beers at any given time.
It’s time again for the H Street Festival, an annual celebration of the H Street NE Corridor and its diverse attractions. This year’s festival will take place Craft Beer Cellar DC (301 H St. NE, https://crafton Saturday, Sept. 17, from 12 to 7 p.m. Spread over beercellar.com) has generated a great deal of buzz 10 blocks, the family-friendly event has in past years in the few weeks since its opening. It was packed drawn crowds in excess of 125,000. The live music, when I stopped by on opening day, and a few hours arts and crafts, and food and drink vendors promise earlier the line actually stretched down the block. a little something for everyone looking to explore Luckily I had a chance to chat with owner Erika Goand enjoy the area. edrich the week before, and she laid out her hopes In addition to the musical and dance perforand plans for the shop. mances, other favorites will return this year, inThis is the first DC-area location for the Craft cluding the tattoo contests, Beer Cellar (CBC) franthe pie-eating competition, chise, which now boasts chess lessons, and the Kids 24 outlets across the counZone. You’ll also find pertry. Each store is individualformers dressed as the superly owned and operated. Acheroes from DC Comics. cording to Goedrich, CBC Join the fun by entering a will stock between 500 and superhero costume contest. 600 different beers at any Pikachu hunters, and anygiven time, and she’ll rotate one with a low cell phone that stock frequently. A brief charge, can head over to the perusal of the shelves proves PokemonGo Zones at the she’s not playing around. intersections of two PokeYou can pick up a crisp pilStops. The lounge areas, sner, a tart summery gose, a equipped with charging stahopped-up American IPA, a tions, will also offer beveragdark double chocolate stout, es for purchase. or even a rauchbier (a smoky Grab your spot early at German style). The shelves any of the outdoor beer or liare organized by country of quor gardens, as these tend origin, and the American to be popular. Pluck up beers are further broken your courage and take your down by region, but head The H Street Festival draws people from place on the karaoke stage over to the coolers and you’ll around the region for a day of fun.
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find brews grouped by style. CBC offers a modest selection of gluten free beers, ginger beers, ciders, wines, hard liquors, and liqueurs. I even spotted a non-alcoholic Erdinger weissbrau among the recent additions. All liqueurs and liquors are either produced locally, like Green Hat Gin (1832 Fenwick St. NE, http://greenhatgin. com) or Jos. A. Magnus Bourbon (2052 West Virginia Ave. NE, http://josephmagnus.com), or products from brewers who also distill. CBC also stocks a small variety of food products, which generally are either locally produced, like Jerkface Jerky (http://jerkfacejerky.com), or condiments and other products made with beer (think mustards and BBQ sauces). The store has started hosting regular tastings. Plans call for tastings multiple times a week once things are settled. If the tremendous variety of available beers overwhelms you, fear not: Craft Beer Cellar allows you to create you own six-pack (or threepack, or two-pack). What you cannot do is buy a lone 12-ounce beer, because it’s prohibited by a Ward 6-wide singles ban. What is this, really, but a great excuse to try new beers and new varieties without committing to a whole six-pack? All bottles and cans are individually priced within the mixed packs. In mid-August CBC began offering kegs of beer by special request. Depending on the availability of the keg and the distributor’s schedule, Goedrich told me that two to three days is typically enough notice. Customers seeking inspiration can always look to the shop’s style of the month. Failing that, don’t be afraid to ask the staff for help. Right now
all employees are either certified Cicerone level 1 or working toward that goal. Goedrich was shooting for level 2 when we first spoke. Those committed to expanding their beer horizons can sign up for CBC’s Beer of the Month Club, in which the staff selects 12 small bottles and three large bottles for members to enjoy ($57.95 a month, also available in half size for $32.95).
Portions of the Florida Avenue Market May Become a Historic District The Florida Avenue Market, often referred to as the area surrounding Union Market (1309 Fifth St. NE, http://unionmarketdc.com), has seen a great deal of change in the last decade. As DC’s wholesale food center, it’s long been a bustling commercial district, but recent years and the NoMa Metro station have brought the upscale Italian restaurant Masseria (1340 Fourth St. NE, www.masseria-dc.com), the food focused Union Market, and other attractions with more glitter than grit. The DC Preservation League has applied for a historic district nomination for a part of the old Union Terminal Market that stands within the Florida Avenue Market. The nominated area runs from Florida Avenue to Penn St. NE between Fourth Street and Fifth Street NE, and appears intended to also include the south side of the 500 block of Morse Street NE. The buildings here date from the early years after the
market’s establishment in 1929, when it was selected to replace Center Market, which later became the site of the National Archives. According to the application, the designated area contains 74 distinct addresses, 70 of which are listed as contributing structures (68 of them were constructed between 1929 and 1931). Although the buildings have undergone various alterations and additions, they generally retain their original bones from a time when the vendors might have been more likely to sell you fresh produce and eggs than croissants and Korean influenced tacos.
The Daily Rider Is Moving (But Not Far) Popular local bikeshop the Daily Rider (1108 H St. NE, http://thedailyriderdc.com) recently announced plans to relocate to the newly constructed Apollo building (600 H St. NE). The move down the street won’t happen until 2017, and the current location will remain open until the new shop is up and running. I spoke to owner Loren Copsey, who explained that the Daily Rider has simply outgrown its current home. “Our space limitations mean that customers don’t always find the size and color option that they want on our floor. Add to that our focus on family biking and cargo bikes, and our floor gets crowded pretty quickly” he told me. At about 2,400 square feet, the 600 H St. site will be substantially larger than the Daily Rider’s current home. That will allow for additional retail stock, as well as the possibility of holding events. Copsey suggested that the shop might “put in a public stand for people to do their own small repairs and offer repair classes that in the past were difficult to conduct in a crowded shop.”
The Daily Rider will move into a larger space just blocks from its current home.
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A New Season Offers More to Enjoy and Explore in the Capitol Riverfront
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summer full of outdoor movies, concerts, fitness, and festivals is winding down in the Capitol Riverfront neighborhood. Children are returning to school and the cooler fall months are upon us, yet the neighborhood continues to buzz with festivals, Nationals baseball, ongoing construction, and plenty to enjoy at local shops and restaurants. There will be two more concerts as part of the signature Friday Concert Series in Yards Park this month. Almost Journey performs on Sept. 2 and Party Like It’s… on Sept. 9, so be sure to soak up the last bit of the series with a picnic, local take-out food, and tasty cuisine from onsite vendors like nationally known favorite Ice Cream Jubilee. The festival fun remains throughout late summer and early fall for people and pups of all ages. • 202 DC Arts and Music Festival, Sept. 10 – Join the DC Arts Commission at Canal Park from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. for a full day of arts and music activities for the entire family. It features live performances, art exhibitions, interactive workshops, and more, plus DC’s biggest outdoor dance party to end the night. • Snallygaster, Sept. 17 – The beast is back for the fifth installment of this epic outdoor beer festival, starting at 1 p.m. at First and N streets SE and featuring no fewer than 350 craft beers from across the globe, including a bunch of DC debuts, autumn seasonals, a huge collection of cask ales, assorted barrel-aged brews, craft cans, and more.
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DC Walk for the Animals & Pet-a-Palooza featuring Barktoberfest, Sept. 18 – Pet-a-Palooza will include vendor booths, live music, kids’ activities, pup agility courses, and much more. Barktoberfest will give beer enthusiasts unlimited sampling of many local craft brews and bites to eat from local food trucks (donating a percentage of sales to the Washington Humane Society-Washington Animal Rescue League). The event is from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at New Jersey Avenue and M Street SE, with a one-mile DC Walk for the Animals at 1 p.m. Osteria Morini 3rd Annual Pig Roast, Sept. 18 – A whole roast pig, meatballs, pasta, watermelon, and pie; beer, wine, and cocktails; a Whaley’s shrimp boil; cupcake decorating; silent auction; and celebrity pie-toss fundraiser are all part of this event from 1 to 4 p.m., held on the Yards Park Overlook. DC VegFest, Sept. 24 – Back for its fifth year, DC VegFest is at First and N streets SE from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. This free outdoor festival celebrates the very best of everything vegetarian in and around the nation’s capital, with something for everyone to enjoy, so bring along family and friends and furry four-legged companions. Wiener 500 Oktoberfest, Sept. 24 – From 1 to 5 p.m. in Yards Park listen to live music, drink cold beverages, grab food from DC’s best food trucks, compete in an official stein hoisting competition, and cheer on the dachshunds as they race for glory and prizes in the Fifth Annual Wiener 500 Dachshund Dash, broadcast live on a 17-foot jumbotron. There’s even a Best Dressed contest. Chef Fest Presented by Lipton, Sept. 24 – Hosted by Chef Michael Symon, this foodie festival at Canal Park is serving up celebrity guests, live
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music, and delicious meals designed to pair perfectly with Lipton iced tea (time TBA). • All Things Go Fall Classic Music Festival, Oct. 8 – Enjoy and discover new favorites in today’s live music scene in the Capitol Riverfront. The festival will be held at First and M streets SE from 12 to 10 p.m. and feature Empire of the Sun, Passion Pit, Sylvan Esso, Christine and the Queens, and more. As the Washington Nationals enter the last month of regular season play, the team’s NL East ranking is high along with neighborhood Natitude. Head to the Capitol Riverfront for the last bit of regular season baseball, while enjoying food and fun before and after the games at our 36 restaurants and bars, and stay tuned for more announcements on postseason events and activities in the neighborhood. The late summer and early fall also bring new milestones for Van Ness Elementary, an important civic entity of our neighborhood. Van Ness completed its Arts Wing in August after beginning construction of the LEED-certified building at the end of the last school year. The two-level wing includes a multipurpose room with a stage and gymnasium, filled with natural light from open windows facing M Street SE; a cafeteria that serves family-style meals; and a community room for PTO meetings and a parents’ resource area. And that’s only the first level! The second level includes an art room with a kiln for pottery projects, a music room, a staff lounge, and a media center containing a library, multipurpose space for a computer lab, and open project space. The outdoor space at Van
Ness Elementary, still under construction, will complete this fall and feature an open field, a playground for children of all ages, and a garden. Along with these renovations the school has increased the staff and more than doubled its student population, adding first grade as well as more kindergarten and 3K classes. The labors of love that have been accomplished by DC Public Schools, Van Ness Elementary educators, and parents in such a short time are commendable. Summer may be coming to a close, but DC’s fastest growing neighborhood remains active with parks, waterfront recreation, convenient shopping, world-class dining, sports attractions, and premier events. The Capitol Riverfront website now has a new look that reflects the neighborhood’s dynamic energy. Whether you live in the Capitol Riverfront or are contemplating a move; thinking of the neighborhood as your next office, restaurant, or store location; or visiting for a weekend away, check out the website at www.capitolriverfront.org as your one-stop shop for exploring things to do and places to go in the neighborhood. Let a curated list of itineraries provide ideas for dining, shopping, seasonal attractions, and your next riverfront activity; and hear straight from residents about their Capitol Riverfront favorites. Check out more of this vibrant neighborhood that is DC amplified and life simplified by visiting the website, heading to a fall festival in the parks, or dining out before and after a Nationals game. Explore, connect, and thrive in the Capitol Riverfront.
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Volunteering on the Hill Reaching Out to the Homeless
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omelessness remains pervasive on provides snacks and seasonally appropriate supTraining in street outreach techniques preCapitol Hill despite progress to replies to the homeless year-long. Even more impares HART volunteers to help the homeless acduce it in the District. Factors leadportantly, it helps to build relationships that can cess shelter. This initial training is typically orgaing to homelessness are multiple, make a lasting difference not only for those who nized once a month, on the third Tuesday. Once and so are the required responses. are homeless but also for the volunteers who help. properly trained, volunteers deploy in pairs on eveCapitol Hill Group Ministry (CHGM) is a leadAndrew Anderson, one of the HART volunnings year-round. The program focuses on serving er in the community for homelessness prevention teer program leaders, explains it well. “Serving our chronically homeless individuals who live in Ward and for services to families and individuals who are homeless neighbors has changed my perspective 6, including the Eastern Market neighborhood and currently homeless. A charitable organization with toward this vital societal issue,” he says. “The proaround Union Station. 501c(3) status and a long history of commitment gram has convinced me that homelessness is solvThe work of the HART volunteers is an esto the poor, CHGM was founded almost 50 years able. At a personal level, getting to know and care sential complement to the work of professional ago. Despite its name and the fact that CHGM for my homeless neighbors has been a transformcase workers who connect homeless individuals highly values its relationships with congregationing experience. The greatest gift I can provide is with community resources in the areas of menal partners, it is not a faithtal health care, medical care based organization. (with Unity Healthcare), acCHGM operates a cess to food stamps and othsuite of efforts ranging from er welfare benefits, and other preventing family homelessservices. For many homeless ness to housing programs individuals CHGM’s outfor the homeless, commureach programs have been innity support projects, and strumental in leading to staShirley’s Place, a hospitalble housing. ity center that provides acAs part of our Capitol cess to laundry, light meals, Hill pro bono initiative, my showers, computers, and Rotary Club is partnering phones. The great news for with CHGM to conduct a those interested in helprapid assessment of the beneing out is that CHGM has fits of the HART program for an innovative program for the homeless, for volunteers, volunteers called HART and for the city. From dis(Homeless Assistance Recussions with Sypek it seems sponse Team). Training in street outreach techniques prepares HART (Homeless Assistance Response Team) volclear that the benefits are likeunteers to help the homeless access shelter. Volunteers deploy in pairs on evenings year-round Abby Sypek, the coly to be large. to provide snacks and seasonally appropriate supplies to homeless neighbors. ordinator for HART, was a If you would like to volguest speaker at my Rotary unteer with CHGM through Club’s bimonthly meeting this past month. I was not a sandwich, granola bar, or a cup of hot chocthe HART program please contact Abby Sypek and impressed by her commitment and engaging perolate – although this does help break the ice. What her team by sending her an email at volunteer@ sonality. She explained that when temperatures are matters most is that I show that I care by having a chgm.net. very low, the homeless are at risk of hypothermia, conversation, remembering a person’s name, ofQuentin Wodon is president of the Rotary Club of which makes it essential to have teams of volunfering her a way to get to warm shelter, and reCapitol Hill, which meets on the second and fourth teers ensuring that all those who need it can acturning the next week to show a consistent, sinTuesdays of the month, at 7:30 a.m., at the Dubliner cess shelter. cere concern for her condition.” As one homeless on F Street. To contact Wodon or to learn more about But the idea behind HART is that beyond neighbor told him, “It means so much to me that the Rotary Club of Capitol Hill Pro Bono Initiative winter emergencies there are benefits from homeyou care about me. It gives me great hope in the please send him an email through the Contact Me less outreach programs throughout the year. HART future of this country.” page of his blog at www.rotarianeconomist.com. u
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Sat. 10am class featuring Virginia “Ginny” Fontana, William Hudson, Sydney “Bella” Pounds, Lola Sanger, Evelyn Webster, and Nicola Yee.
Sat. 11am class featuring Asia Alexander, Haleigh Holman, Electra Hurwood, and Deanna Hampton.
St. Mark’s Dance Studio Recital A Capitol Hill Tradition
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ance teachers Rosetta Brooks, Jessica Sloane, and Dorothy Walker of the St. Mark’s Dance Studio gave Capitol Hill a taste of grace and elegance on June 4, that showcased all their students’ hard work. The morning recital featured the youngest of the studio with their adorable costumes. The afternoon recital offered impressive performances by teens and adults. See www.stmarksdancestudio.org for information on how to register for Fall 2016 classes. u
Tue. 5:15pm class featuring Ashley Alexander, Lily Barnes, Sonia M. Bautista, Zoe Byers, Valencia Green, Caroline Mastel, Rose Norton, Reece Pauling, Kai Robinson, Mary Jane Schmidt, Olivia Schoell, and Jessica Thomson.
Adult Pointe class featuring Renee Braden, Kitty Felde, Mary Freed, Patricia Hill, Leyla Mocan, and Rhonda Sincavage.
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s the saying goes, the three most important things in real estate are location, location, location. If you’re trying to buy a house on Capitol Hill, that location is over a barrel. We’re one of the hottest neighborhoods in the country, and that’s before the Trader Joe’s is finished. Experts warn that the housing bubble could burst soon, but we don’t have a housing bubble, we have a housing thunderdome. “For Sale” signs are sprouting up like a game of real estate whack-a-mole, and row homes are flipping faster than Simone Biles on meth to keep up with demand. The Capitol Hill real estate market is like a Viagra commercial: prices are inflated, competition is stiff, and more often than not, somebody’s getting screwed. My wife and I just recently ended our search after a year of poking our heads into every open house on the Hill. We wrote and lost nine offers. Nine. We signed and initialed so many documents, I’m having to type this column with my feet because the carpal tunnel is so bad (thank the editors when you’re done reading). We almost tacked a sign to a lamp post that said, “We Can’t Buy Houses!” It’s demoralizing when you think you’ve got a solid offer and you’ve mentally moved your
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furniture into a place, only to be emotionally evicted when someone goes 50 grand over asking or has no contingencies on their offer. Maybe we’re overcautious, but we couldn’t bring ourselves to waive the inspection clause on a 100-year-old house. There’s lead, asbestos, and just by the law of averages one of those places is probably haunted. When the walls start bleeding, you’ll wish you had the inspection clause.
And while we’re talking about the fragile psyches of the desperate buyer, I’d like to address the selling agents for a moment. I get it. You’re excited that you made a sale. Good for you. But is taunting really necessary? All you need to say on your sign is “Sold.” Not “Gone” or “Too Late!” If it weren’t for the character limit, we’d probably
also see “Nanny Nanny Boo Boo, I Didn’t Sell to You You.” Show some class. Act like you’ve been there. If you’re planning on being a tribute in the Capitol Hill Shelter Games, you should be aware of a few things: 1. As you may know, DC has a limit on the height of buildings. There is also a limit on how high you should get your hopes up when deciding to put in an offer. 2. Don’t worry about the quality of schools. In order to keep up with demand, all of the schools will eventually be turned into condos, so either way, your kids will end up being home-schooled. 3. You can generally tell a house has been flipped by the font of the address, also known as flipper’s numbers. It’s a font that says, “I’m modern, and these numbers were on sale at Home Depot.” 4. Be wary of escalator clauses in your offer. Most of them end up being out of order. Thanks, WMATA. If you’re reading this, just know that there’s a light at the end of the English basement. If you’re patient, one day you can live walking distance to Trader Joe’s. The struggle is real estate. Jared Stern is a local standup comedian who has been making strangers laugh at him for over a decade. Follow him on Twitter @FunnyJared. u
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Real Estate MATTERS by Heather Schoell Safety First!
Inside this tiny Bluetooth-enabled safe
Someone asked me about lie the keys to the kingdom. the safety of selling a home while it’s still occupied, and how a seller can know that the person coming in is an agent. Great questions. Real estate agents are lightly vetted – they have to sign a clean hands certificate before getting licensed, which swears to not owing the District more than $100. It doesn’t guarantee that agents are not bad people. This is a good reason why personal recommendations are so important – you need to know what kind of person you’re dealing with! I have an agent forgets to put the keys back. never heard of an agent who The lockbox in the picture is stole anything or harmed anyone in Bluetooth-enabled, but not all are. the home, but people are people. It’s It can be shackled to the door or the nature of the business. You do fence and programmed to open need to take a leap of faith. only during certain times, or we can This business is not cheap. make it so it won’t open without verThere are a lot of fees to be paid for ified permission. licensure, membership, and operOnce the home is under conations. That ought to cut out a lot tract, we can take off the SentriLock of people who want to make a buck box and switch to a shackled combiby stealing stuff. Anyone can do that nation lock to admit the bank’s apfor free at an open house! (Please praiser, the home inspector, and the remove your valuables and meditermite inspector. And then, hurray! cations from the home before your We take that one off too. open house.) A licensed agent has a key card Escalation Clauses with a chip or an online application Ever heard of an escalation clause as with a code that grants them access part of an offer to purchase a propto the SentriLock box, which is preterty? It’s pretty common in DC’s hot ty much a tiny safe. You stick in the market, where a property gets multicard and punch in your code, or ple bids the day it goes live on the bring it up on your phone and put market. An escalation clause basicalin your code. This is how we get the ly says that we’re prepared to beat all house keys to access properties once other offers by $X,XXX, but not to they’re on the market. The listing go above $XXX,XXX. For example, if agent can see who has accessed the my clients are putting in a full-price lockbox, which is very helpful when
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offer for a property listed for $789,000 and I know there are three other strong offers on the table (because I asked), then I’d talk to my clients about submitting an escalation clause to beat other offers by $3,000 (increasing by $3,000 then another $3,000 if necessary), but not to go over $807,000. That means we’d increase by $3,000 no more than six times. The doubleedged situation with this, of course, is that now we’ve played our hand – the seller knows we can go up to $807,000! In this market you’ve got to use whatever tools you can, but you might do better by just coming in strong with the offer of $807,000 right off the bat. Buyers don’t want to overpay, and that’s understandable, but what is overpaying when it comes to real estate? More than the appraised value of the home? More than anyone else is willing to pay? If someone is willing to pay whatever amount, then the market has spoken. If you want that property, you’ve got to best all the other people who want that property – all the other people who are just as tired as you of being outbid. But the jury is out on whether an escalation clause is going to get you there.
the District. People move two blocks to be in-boundary for their school of choice. What do you need to know when you’re searching for a home and you care about being in-bounds for School XYZ? Or you don’t care about the school, but you care about appreciation for a house in-boundary for this hotshot school everyone’s on the waitlist to get into? Go to find.myschooldc.org and type in the address. Every school in the District is going to come up, unless you click the button for Display In-Boundary Schools Only in the box beneath the address. The mobile version is clunky (I’m being generous). On your phone go to myschooldc.org, click Schools, then School Finder, hit the in-boundary selection, and then Search. Or wait
Real Estate and Schools Real estate and schools are like chocolate and peanut butter, strawberries and cream, and maybe death and taxes – especially in
Screenshot of the in-boundary schools using my office address.
Lawrence J. Chartienitz Served US Marine Corps until you’re at your desk. Note that you have to apply online at this same website for PK3 (pre-kindergarten for three-yearolds) and PK4 (for four-year-olds). These two grade levels, because not every school offers them and because they are not required by law, are part of a citywide lottery. You may only apply online, not through the schools. If you are applying for a school other than the one your family has a right to attend, you must do it through this website, for each child individually. It might seem a little cumbersome but it actually cuts down on multiple schools preparing to receive the same students, which used to happen all the time. It also helps keep the wait lists more accurate. Back to real estate, desirable schools can be a huge deal when it comes to home values. Ask anyone who bought around Maury or Brent elementary schools in 2004 versus 2014! Of course things can change for better or worse. Boundaries may not look the same from year to year. Schools that aren’t the first choice today may have the longest waitlist in five years. One way to tip the scales in your favor is to support your neighborhood schools on beautification days or other volunteer days, and help your home value and your community in the process. Hilloween 2016 – Save the Date! Oct. 28, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Details to come. Ever wonder how something in real estate works, or why? Email me with RE Q in the subject line at heathersdc@gmail.com. Heather Schoell is a Capitol Hill REALTOR with Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices PenFed Realty and can be reached at heathersdc@gmail.com, at the office at 202-608-1880, or by cell at 202-321-0874. u
Died July 30, 2016 at age 70 Son of Elizabeth and Anthony Chartienitz. Loving husband of the late Sheila M. Power. Survived by daughters Jessica Mencunas, Julia Chartienitz, Lydia Chartienitz; son Joshua Chartienitz; sister Janice Kilroy; and grandchildren Cameron and Gracie Mencunas. Larry was a Realtor in the Washington DC for many years. He previously worked for Senator John F. Kerry in his state office doing constituent services for Massachusetts veterans. An early supporter and proponent of Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA), Larry worked passionately alongside the founders of the VVA in support of legislation and greater public awareness of the issues faced by Vietnam-era veterans and their families. A memorial remembrance and mass was held at the St. Peter’s Church Mass on Friday, August 5th. A full military service and internment will be held at Arlington National Cemetery at a later date to be announced. In lieu of flowers, donations are welcome in his memory to the Vietnam Veterans Association or American Cancer Society.
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Changing Hands Changing hands is a list of most residential sales in the District of Columbia from the previous month. A feature of every issue, this list, based on the MRIS, is provided courtesy of Don Denton, manager of the Coldwell Banker office on Capitol Hill. The list includes address, sales price and number of bedrooms. neigHBorHood
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Fee simple 16tH street HeigHt 5702 16TH STREET ST NW 1303 EMERSON ST NW 1404 DECATUR ST NW 1358 JEFFERSON ST NW 5406 COLORADO AVE NW 1412 ALLISON ST NW 5600 COLORADO AVE NW 5500 13TH ST NW 1313 KENNEDY ST NW 1357 NICHOLSON ST NW 1330 FARRAGUT ST NW
adams morgan 1652 KALORAMA RD NW
$1,595,000 $1,232,000 $1,100,000 $855,000 $800,000 $776,000 $768,000 $749,000 $697,900 $635,000 $399,000
5 5 5 5 6 3 5 3 3 6 3
$695,500
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ameriCan university park 4722 CHESAPEAKE ST NW 4716 BUTTERWORTH PL NW 4830 BRANDYWINE ST NW 4426 WINDOM PL NW 4713 ALTON PL NW 4516 45TH ST NW 4425 46TH ST NW
anaCostia
1321 VALLEY PL SE 1778 W ST SE 1776 W ST SE 1771 W ST SE 2316 NICHOLSON ST SE 2249 14TH ST SE 1906 Q ST SE
Berkley
1930 FOXVIEW CIR NW 2501 FOXHALL RD NW 2425 FOXHALL RD NW 4612 CHARLESTON TER NW 2217 46TH ST NW 4401 W ST NW 4644 RESERVOIR RD NW 4887 MACARTHUR BLVD NW
Bloomingdale
16 SEATON PL NW 1836 NORTH CAPITOL ST NW 126 RANDOLPH PL NW
Brentwood 1356 W ST NE 2302 13TH PL NE
BrigHtwood
1439 WHITTIER ST NW 6209 4TH ST NW 519 TUCKERMAN ST NW 518 WHITTIER ST NW 1317 SHERIDAN ST NW 811 DOGWOOD ST NW 6300 5TH ST NW 5109 4TH ST NW
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$1,630,000 $1,450,000 $1,450,000 $1,138,400 $1,087,500 $1,067,000 $900,000
4 5 4 3 3 3 3
$529,000 $425,000 $422,500 $420,000 $405,000 $350,000 $240,000
4 4 4 4 3 3 3
$5,300,000 $4,700,000 $2,750,000 $1,750,000 $1,585,000 $1,504,000 $1,415,000 $1,150,000
7 5 6 5 4 6 4 4
$981,000 $875,000 $855,000
3 4 3
$345,000 $340,000
3 3
$685,000 $620,000 $595,000 $590,518 $549,000 $525,000 $505,000 $587,000
4 3 3 4 4 2 3 3
Brookland
1315 RANDOLPH ST NE 3308 7TH STREET NE #846 1356 GIRARD ST NE 2923 CHANCELLORS WAY NE 4213 12TH ST NE 2867 CHANCELLORS WAY NE 61 FRANKLIN ST NE 1300 WEBSTER ST NE 1326 NEWTON ST NE 1219 KEARNY ST NE 4025 7TH NE 4300 10TH ST NE 4602 SARGENT RD NE 2521 3RD ST NE 4963 8TH ST NE 3107 14TH ST NE 1017 CRITTENDEN ST NE 218 CHANNING ST NE 231 HAWAII AVE NE 915 PERRY PL NE 808 BUCHANAN ST NE 216 ADAMS ST NE
BurleitH
4013 MANSION DR NW 4016 HIGHWOOD CT NW 1920 35TH PL NW
Capitol Hill
1016 EAST CAPITOL ST NE 951 14TH ST SE 216 12TH ST SE 1009 D ST SE 612 CONSTITUTION AVE NE 722 9TH ST SE 811 EAST CAPITOL ST SE 819 C ST SE 621 E ST NE 1430 INDEPENDENCE AVE SE 430 6TH ST NE 704 NORTH CAROLINA AVE SE 333 11TH ST SE 509 6TH ST NE 327 13TH ST NE 503 F ST NE 1104 E ST NE 236 14TH ST NE 210 14TH PL NE 1316 MARYLAND AVE NE 635 ELLEN WILSON PL SE 344 14TH ST SE 124 16TH ST NE 822 G ST SE 520 24TH ST NE 623 ORLEANS PL NE 1538 D ST SE 125 13TH ST NE 1437 IVES PL SE 324 E ST NE 1816 POTOMAC AVE SE
Capitol Quarter 1033 5TH ST SE
CHevy CHase
3825 MORRISON ST NW
$1,095,000 $882,900 $859,000 $820,000 $749,000 $745,000 $732,000 $644,000 $625,000 $620,000 $610,000 $570,000 $569,000 $560,000 $519,900 $510,000 $499,000 $490,000 $467,000 $400,000 $395,000 $330,000
4 3 4 3 5 3 4 5 5 2 4 3 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
$1,595,000 $1,455,000 $650,000
3 3 2
$1,850,000 $1,350,000 $1,285,000 $1,170,000 $1,170,000 $1,150,000 $1,100,000 $1,070,000 $990,000 $964,500 $953,500 $899,000 $853,000 $812,000 $795,000 $783,000 $782,500 $763,000 $760,000 $748,500 $740,000 $739,000 $725,000 $700,000 $650,000 $645,000 $635,000 $475,000 $649,000 $1,959,000 $665,000
6 6 5 4 6 2 3 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 3 2 3 3 3 2 2 3 4 2 4 3 2 3 3 3 2
$810,000
3
$2,053,000
5
3832 GRAMERCY ST NW 5420 32ND ST NW 3610 LIVINGSTON ST NW 3279 VAN HAZEN ST NW 3229 MORRISON ST NW 3220 MCKINLEY ST NW 3316 RUNNYMEDE PL NW 3101 ABERFOYLE PL NW 6338 31ST ST NW 5606 NEBRASKA AVE NW 2920 RITTENHOUSE ST NW 5516 30TH PL NW 2914 LEGATION ST NW 5340 28TH ST NW 2928 NORTHAMPTON ST NW 6652 32ND ST NW 3524 DAVENPORT ST NW
Cleveland park 3125 38TH ST NW
ColumBia HeigHts
1030 PARK RD NW 720 PARK RD NW 1475 GIRARD ST NW 1341 SHEPHERD ST NW 503 PARK RD NW 3546 ROCK CREEK CHURCH RD NW
$1,475,000 $1,302,700 $1,299,000 $1,200,000 $1,125,000 $1,090,000 $1,050,000 $1,019,000 $980,000 $975,000 $955,000 $936,000 $910,000 $899,000 $849,000 $805,000 $962,000
5 5 4 4 8 5 5 3 3 3 4 4 4 3 3 3 4
$4,150,000
6
$1,060,000 $1,060,000 $1,020,000 $915,000 $855,000 $830,000
6 5 4 5 5 4
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FOR YOU! 1014 SPRING RD NW 758 GRESHAM PL NW 3028 SHERMAN AVE NW 772 HARVARD ST NW 3708 13TH ST NW 623 ROCK CREEK CHURCH RD NW 781 FAIRMONT ST NW 430 NEWTON PL NW 1032 QUEBEC PL NW
$766,500 $746,990 $732,500 $710,000 $710,000 $705,000 $664,500 $577,500 $490,000
Congress Heights 165 CHESAPEAKE ST SW 726 CHESAPEAKE ST SE 543 LEBAUM ST SE 3315 MARTIN LUTHER KING JR AVE SE 761 UPSAL ST SE 618 BRANDYWINE ST SE 626 CHESAPEAKE ST SE
$380,000 $290,000 $249,000 $200,000 $199,950 $181,000 $155,100
Crestwood 1800 UPSHUR ST NW 1731 WEBSTER ST NW 1701 UPSHUR ST NW
$1,025,000 $730,000 $680,000
Deanwood 1460 EASTERN AVE NE 4257 BROOKS ST NE 1017 48TH ST NE 118 47TH ST NE 213 49TH ST NE 4716 BLAINE ST NE 850 DIVISION AVE NE 550 48TH PL NE 903 52ND ST NE 6138 BANKS PL NE 5066 JUST ST NE 277 56TH ST NE 4926 JAY ST NE 210 35TH ST NE 4807 FITCH PL NE 5050 JUST ST NE 4920 AMES ST NE 420 57TH ST NE
$420,000 $418,000 $399,000 $350,000 $306,000 $296,500 $285,000 $282,000 $280,000 $280,000 $255,000 $249,999 $230,000 $219,000 $199,000 $175,000 $165,000 $110,000
3 4 4 4 3 3 4 3 3
3 3 3 4 5 4 3 4 3 3 3 2 2 2 3 3 2 3 1 3 2
$1,600,000 $1,735,000 $805,000
Eckington 146 R ST NE 316 SEATON PL NE 142 U ST NE
$725,000 $495,000 $475,000
Foggy Bottom 4 SNOWS CT NW
$662,000
Forest Hills 2700 CHESAPEAKE ST NW 5109 34TH ST NW
$2,850,000 $1,077,000
Fort Dupont Park 3944 PENNSYLVANIA AVE SE 4644 HILLSIDE RD SE 1143 45TH PL SE 1515 FORT DUPONT ST SE 438 BURBANK ST SE 4515 ALABAMA AVE SE 1308 45TH PL SE
$408,000 $385,000 $375,000 $304,800 $245,000 $230,000 $205,000
Fort Lincoln 3277 THEODORE R HAGANS DR NE 2505 HURSTON LN NE
$575,000 $485,000
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1229 Massachusetts Avenue, SE $1,299,000 5BR/4.5BA
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1609 A St. NE $1,000,000 4BR/3.5BA
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The craftsmen of Quest Home Builders did it again! Amazing attention to detail in this FULLY renovated family home featuring 3BR/2BA up, spacious 4-room main level, and lower level den, bed, and bath suite. Wide porchfront profile, deep back yard, and private driveway beyond. Zoned for Maury E.S., a 3-block stroll to Lincoln Park, and the same to Metro escalator.
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909 14TH St. SE 3BR/2.5BA $850,000
Beautifully restored Semi-Detached 1908 Capitol Hill Victorian. Wide, 3 story w/ finished Basement + kitchenette. Renovated kitchen, large dining room, two gas fireplaces w/orig. stone mantles, rear sunroom, restored original HW floors throughout, orig. clawfoot tub. Newly repointed brick. Classic, Spacious, and Convenient! One block to Potomac Metro & Harris Teeter. Easy walk to Eastern Market and Lincoln Park.
329 17th St. SE $575,000 2BR/1.5BA
Just 2 blocks from Congressional Cemetery and Metro, among a tidy row of front gardens and Colonial facades. Inside #329 - a graceful flow with a central staircase dividing living and dining areas, with powder room, kitchen & outdoor space beyond! Up the turned staircase to the sky-lit bedroom level you’ll find two REAL bedrooms plus renovated central bath featuring marble and crisp finishes. Outside, a private rear patio and garden with reserved parking. It’s the complete package for city living!
This stunning castle overlooks Lincoln Park! Classic Victorian with 3,400 sf over 4 levels. Wide, open Living, Dining, & Entertaining spaces. Huge renovated gourmet kitchen with maple cabinets, stainless, soapstone counters. Rear screened porch. Orig. HW floors. Owner’s suite with mega closets + built-in dressing room + hotel-style bath. BONUS penthouse bed/bath or media room! Lower Level: 1Bed/1Bath apartment with C of O. For this seller, we achieved $68,000 above the list price!
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Dupont 1773 T ST NW 1840 15TH ST NW 2120 FLORIDA AVE NW
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918 East Capitol Street NE $955,000 3BR/2.5BA
A truly IDEAL Hill location one block from Lincoln Park and a short stroll to Eastern Market. This gracious 3 bed/2.5 bath home is a stand-out with its deep front yard. The wide profile equals spacious room dimensions. Tradition meets modern conveniences. New kitchen with connected rear bonus den, modern owner’s bed-bath suite, immaculate case molding throughout. A delightful private rear patio and lush gardens awaits. For this Seller, we achieved $30,000 above the list price! G IN ! M N O C OO S
439 12TH St. NE 3BR/2.5BA $849,000
Spacious, bright, semi-detached Victorian in Historic Capitol Hill! Original details throughout: newly refinished heart pine floors, pocket doors, high ceilings, skylight, entry foyer, corner moldings. Sep. dining room opens to big, renovated kitchen. 2 large Beds, 2 baths Up. Lower level Den plus 3rd BR. Serene private back patio/garden. Wonderful quiet block across from Lovejoy Park.
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Foxhall 4470 RESERVOIR RD NW
$899,000
4
Garfield 2641 GARFIELD ST NW
$1,585,000
Georgetown 3257 N ST NW 3120 N ST NW 1069 THOMAS JEFFERSON ST NW 1667 35TH ST NW 3322 DENT PL NW 3409 O ST NW 1620 30TH ST NW 1337 30TH ST NW 3424 P ST NW 2804 DUMBARTON ST NW 3232 VOLTA PL NW 1304 27TH ST NW
$4,925,000 $3,175,000 $2,900,000 $2,475,000 $2,200,000 $2,100,000 $1,860,000 $1,805,000 $1,775,000 $1,100,000 $1,100,000 $900,000
Glover Park 2126 37TH ST NW 2456 TUNLAW RD NW
$725,000 $725,000
Hawthorne 6940 32ND ST NW
$999,999
Hill Crest 3716 CARPENTER ST SE 2030 34TH ST SE 3429 HIGHWOOD DR SE 3537 HIGHWOOD DR SE 1717 38TH ST SE 1732 30TH ST SE 1412 35TH ST SE 1115 BRANCH AVE SE
$550,000 $475,000 $464,900 $415,000 $415,000 $399,950 $382,700 $310,000
Kalorama 2401 KALORAMA RD NW 29 KALORAMA CIR NW 1854 WYOMING AVE NW 1939 CALVERT ST NW
$7,100,000 $3,500,000 $2,500,000 $1,509,000
6 6 5 5 5 4 5 3 4 3 3 2 2 5 6 4 3 3 3 3 4 3 4 3 6 6 8 8
Kent 2816 BATTERY PL NW 5121 CATHEDRAL AVE NW
$1,550,000 $855,000
Ledroit Park 11 ADAMS ST NW 119 ADAMS ST NW 37 RHODE ISLAND AVE NW 1915 2ND ST NW 2128 2ND ST NW
$1,050,000 $790,000 $785,000 $700,000 $600,000
Lily Ponds 3453 EADS ST NE 3324 BLAINE ST NE 3312 CLAY ST NE
$231,000 $183,000 $152,500
Logan Circle 1412 COLUMBIA ST NW
$1,595,000
Marshall Heights 5314 BASS PL SE 5354 E ST SE 5208 DRAKE PL SE 5357 ASTOR PL SE 112 49TH ST SE 5552 B ST SE 853 51ST ST SE 744 51ST ST SE
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$417,000 $352,000 $342,000 $330,000 $310,000 $197,000 $157,000 $156,000
5 2 4 4 5 3 3 3 2 2 3 5 3 4 3 4 3 3 3
Michigan Park 1822 TAYLOR ST NE 4100 18TH PLACE NE
$679,999 $665,000
Mount Pleasant 1750 KENYON ST NW 2069 PARK RD NW 1846 KENYON ST NW 2033 PARK RD NW 3162 17TH ST NW 1752 KENYON ST NW 1627 HOBART ST NW 1831 INGLESIDE TER NW 3219 WALBRIDGE PL NW 1844 KENYON ST NW 1614 NEWTON ST NW
$1,495,000 $1,395,000 $1,225,000 $1,175,000 $1,150,000 $1,032,300 $1,026,000 $957,000 $910,000 $875,000 $686,000
North Cleveland Park 3611 ALBEMARLE ST NW 3606 VAN NESS ST NW 4232 RENO RD NW
$1,720,000 $1,175,000 $1,000,000
Observatory Circle 3913 WATSON PL NW 3909 WATSON PL NW
$1,200,000 $1,100,000
Old City 615 6TH ST NE 430 KENTUCKY AVE SE 644 5TH ST NE 647 MORTON PL NE 424 KENTUCKY AVE SE 332 11TH ST NE 311 13TH ST NE 739 10TH ST SE 609 ORLEANS PL NE 502 GROFF CT NE 1354 L ST SE 513 14TH ST SE 301 K ST SE 1420 D ST NE 1237 C ST SE #REAR 1121 D ST NE 610 L ST NE 1616 F ST NE 1632 ROSEDALE ST NE 1617 A ST SE 1419 D ST SE 223 17TH ST SE 1237 K ST SE 1719 BAY ST SE 1242 CARROLLSBURG PL SW 2041 ROSEDALE ST NE 2110 R ST NW 2002 R ST NW 1517 8TH ST NW 1641 V ST NW 11 N ST NW 448 N ST NW 22 BATES ST NW 19 N ST NW 88 P ST NW
$1,100,000 $851,000 $850,000 $832,500 $811,000 $780,000 $762,500 $750,000 $737,000 $735,000 $715,000 $690,000 $680,000 $660,035 $650,000 $649,900 $639,000 $635,000 $629,900 $627,300 $625,000 $580,000 $580,000 $565,000 $520,000 $360,000 $1,725,000 $1,675,000 $1,400,000 $875,000 $730,000 $705,500 $680,000 $625,000 $395,000
4 3 4 6 5 5 8 3 4 3 4 4 3 5 5 3
$1,347,800 $1,175,000 $873,200 $799,000
Petworth 4842 KANSAS AVE NW 622 EMERSON ST NW 5001 9TH ST NW
$850,000 $808,000 $800,000
$714,500 $702,000 $700,000 $675,000 $675,000 $670,000 $661,000 $650,000 $619,900 $617,500 $541,000 $520,000 $515,000 $510,000 $510,000 $499,900 $485,000 $475,200 $475,000 $452,600 $422,750
Randle Heights 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 0 2 3 3 3 2 2 3 2 2 3 2 6 6 3 3 4 2 3 4 1
Palisades 5243 SHERIER PL NW 4537 WESTHALL DR NW 45171/2 MACARTHUR BLVD NW 4619 GREENE PL NW
808 DECATUR ST NW 4209 3RD ST NW 5125 5TH ST NW 5011 5TH ST NW 5414 7TH ST NW 619 JEFFERSON ST NW 5413 4TH ST NW 217 FARRAGUT ST NW 826 MARIETTA PL NW 245 ROCK CREEK CHURCH RD NW 4908 7TH ST NW 5002 4TH ST NW 4424 NEW HAMPSHIRE AVE NW 219 FARRAGUT ST NW 1134 JEFFERSON ST NW 5024 N CAPITOL ST NW 5123 3RD ST NW 817 LONGFELLOW ST NW 605 DECATUR ST NW 620 FARRAGUT ST NW 4804 KANSAS AVE NW
4 3 3 3 4 4 4
3145 STANTON RD SE 1951 S ST SE 2026 SAVANNAH PL SE 3501 21ST ST SE 2008 MISSISSIPPI AVE SE 2437 SKYLAND PL SE 1861 TUBMAN RD SE 2415 WAGNER ST SE 1481 HOWARD RD SE 3430 24TH ST SE 3437 25TH ST SE 2551 ALABAMA AVE SE
$355,000 $305,000 $305,000 $297,000 $295,000 $292,783 $268,000 $225,000 $219,975 $205,000 $195,000 $100,000
Riggs Park 1256 EMERSON ST NE 5579 CHILLUM PL NE 521 MADISON ST NE 745 JEFFERSON ST NE 469 MADISON ST NE 5733 5TH ST NE 5006 10TH ST NE 745 KENNEDY ST NE 4901 SOUTH DAKOTA AVE NE
$575,000 $489,900 $479,000 $470,000 $401,999 $389,000 $384,000 $275,000 $475,000
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Shaw 1414 3RD ST NW 1813 6TH ST NW 1647 NEW JERSEY AVE NW
$860,000 $654,000 $511,500
Shepherd Park 1509 KALMIA RD NW 1300 LOCUST RD NW 1435 GERANIUM ST NW
$830,000 $790,000 $758,000
Spring Valley 5063 OVERLOOK RD NW 4929 HILLBROOK LN NW 3645 49TH ST NW 3717 COREY PL NW 4738 MASSACHUSETTS AVE NW
$3,850,000 $2,295,000 $1,600,000 $1,250,000 $1,250,000
Takoma Park 6137 1ST PL NE
$474,000
3 2 2 4 4 3 6 7 4 4 5 3
Trinidad 1248 FLORIDA AVE NE 1118 FLORIDA AVE NE 1286 MORSE ST NE 1727 LYMAN PL NE 1157 NEAL ST NE
$797,500 $750,000 $555,000 $525,000 $460,000
4 4 3 3 2
1227 TRINIDAD AVE NE 1830 H ST NE 1200 16TH ST NE 1700 L ST NE 1275 PENN ST NE 1747 L ST NE 1719 HOLBROOK ST NE
$450,000 $417,000 $330,000 $320,000 $310,000 $305,000 $295,000
Wesley Heights 4401 CATHEDRAL AVE NW 4616 GARFIELD ST NW 4317 WESTOVER PL NW
$4,350,000 $1,600,000 $1,050,000
3 2 2 2 3 2 2 3 3 4
Woodley 2829 31ST ST NW
$1,462,500
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Woodridge
1155 23RD ST NW #7L 2425 L ST NW #305 400 MASSACHUSETTS AVE NW #215 920 I ST NW #807 1155 23RD ST NW #4L 616 E ST NW #618 920 I ST NW #907 1133 14TH ST NW #208 1111 25TH ST NW #819 1010 MASSACHUSETTS AVE NW #1011 2113 N ST NW #301 777 7TH ST NW #706 616 E ST NW #801 631 D ST NW #334 1150 K ST NW #607 1230 23RD ST NW #618 1312 MASSACHUSETTS AVE NW #702 1124 25TH ST NW #201 777 7TH ST NW #834 1260 21ST ST NW #113 1330 NEW HAMPSHIRE AVE NW #205
$985,000 $975,000 $724,900 $705,000 $695,000 $692,900 $644,900 $634,000 $630,000 $575,500 $575,000 $570,000 $458,000 $442,000 $439,000 $425,000 $399,000 $370,000 $320,000 $318,000 $310,000
2004 EVARTS ST NE $1,050,000 6 2411 RANDOLPH ST NE $685,000 4 1903 JACKSON ST NE $642,500 3 2007 PERRY ST NE $525,000 3 2832 27TH ST NE $407,500 3 Cleveland Park 4021 22ND ST NE $325,000 3 2730 ORDWAY ST NW #2 $599,000 2403 30TH NE $325,000 3 3401 38TH ST NW #913 $485,000 2414 PERRY ST NE $247,000 3 3851 PORTER ST NW #E281 $485,000 3840 PORTER ST NW #F384 $480,000 $421,500 CONDO 3896 PORTER ST NW #C339 3883 CONNECTICUT AVE NW #702 $391,500 3607 38TH ST NW #102 $360,000 Adams Morgan 2509 17TH ST NW #3 2305 18TH ST NW #302 2611 ADAMS MILL RD NW #202 2550 17TH ST NW #212 1441 EUCLID ST NW #106 1821 BELMONT RD NW #2
$650,000 $459,000 $406,000 $279,900 $329,600 $630,000
Anacostia 1304 TALBERT CT SE
$330,000
Bloomingdale 16 R ST NW #2 1812 1ST ST NW #2 16 R ST NW #1 132 V ST NW #1 1812 N CAPITOL ST NW #101 1812 N CAPITOL ST NW #202
$749,000 $710,000 $672,500 $625,000 $587,650 $487,750
Brentwood 1303 ADAMS ST NE #A 1337 ADAMS ST NE #4 6425 14TH ST NW #102
$280,000 $245,000 $250,000
Brookland 3312 9TH ST NE #II 711 IRVING ST NE #3 1212 HAWTHORNE CT NE #12 711 IRVING ST NE #2 1031 MICHIGAN AVE NE #202 3000 7TH ST NE #212
$689,000 $330,000 $315,000 $300,000 $248,000 $229,900
Capitol Hill 1391 PENNSYLVANIA AVE SE #301 1020 PENNSYLVANIA AVE SE #503 1717 INDEPENDENCE AVE SE #A 218 20TH ST NE #1 644 MASSACHUSETTS AVE NE #201 1125 MARYLAND AVE NE #13 1627 MASSACHUSETTS AVE SE #103 11 2ND ST NE #106
$780,000 $775,000 $755,000 $460,000 $350,000 $290,000 $257,500 $230,000
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Central 2425 L ST NW #315
$1,475,000
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Columbia Heights 2723 13TH ST NW #3 1224 EUCLID ST NW #2 1451 BELMONT ST NW #304 1135 HARVARD ST NW #1 1319 HARVARD ST NW #2 1322 KENYON ST NW #2 1020 GIRARD ST NW #2 1103 PARK RD NW #6 728 PARK RD NW #4 1208 LAMONT ST NW #1 1335 FAIRMONT ST NW #5 619 NEWTON PL NW #A 1390 KENYON ST NW #104 1358 MONROE ST NW #A 919 FLORIDA AVE NW #803 1380 Quincy ST NW #4C 2750 14TH ST NW #605 2750 14TH ST NW #402 3579 WARDER ST NW #1 1523 PARK RD NW #101 1461 HARVARD ST NW #5 1527 PARK RD NW #203 1390 KENYON ST NW #316 1348 EUCLID ST NW #203 1390 KENYON ST NW #704 1438 COLUMBIA RD NW #402 1333 EUCLID ST NW #104 2750 14TH ST NW #207 1417 NEWTON ST NW #107 921 RANDOLPH ST NW #B 1340 FAIRMONT ST NW #1 1108 COLUMBIA RD NW #204 1321 FAIRMONT ST NW #405 3900 14TH ST NW #604
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Congress Heights 212212 OAKWOOD ST SE #312 4725 1ST ST SW #203
$190,000 $39,500
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Dupont 2303 ONTARIO RD NW #9 1626 15TH ST NW #201
$1,025,000 $470,000
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Forest Hills
2732 ORDWAY ST NW #5 3883 CONNECTICUT AVE NW #T2 4007 CONNECTICUT AVE NW #406 2939 VAN NESS ST NW #440 3701 CONNECTICUT AVE NW #311
georgetown
1015 33RD ST NW #406 2516 Q ST NW #Q203 3020 DENT PL NW #20W
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3919 FULTON ST NW #4 3915 FULTON ST NW #3 4000 TUNLAW RD NW #1026 2610 TUNLAW RD NW #203 2320 WISCONSIN AVE NW #401 2610 TUNLAW RD NW #1 4000 TUNLAW RD NW #411 2400 41ST ST NW #206
grant CirCle 15 GRANT CIR NW #2
H street Corridor 1367 FLORIDA AVE NE #402 911 12TH ST NE #1 1034 6TH ST NE #301
Hill Crest
2008 FORT DAVIS ST SE #202
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kalorama
2225 CALIFORNIA ST NW #P-1 2022 COLUMBIA RD NW #305 1829 California ST NW #PH1 1829 CALIFORNIA ST NW #304 1829 California ST NW #302 1829 CALIFORNIA ST NW #303 1826 BILTMORE ST NW #3 1829 CALIFORNIA ST NW #204 1829 California ST NW #301
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$875,000 $831,000 $325,900 $322,000 $295,000 $197,000
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$485,000 $364,900 $331,900 $249,000 $190,000
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$1,137,000 $975,000 $569,000
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$700,000 $690,000 $409,000 $398,000 $395,000 $379,900 $278,000 $247,000
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$485,000 $469,900 $350,000
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$80,000
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$649,000
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ledroit park
531 T ST NW #202 2128 1ST ST NW #1 35 RHODE ISLAND AVE NW #A
logan CirCle
1222 11TH ST NW #4 24 LOGAN CIR NW #8 1239 VERMONT AVE NW #402 1405 W ST NW #202 1306 12TH ST NW #B 1210 R ST NW #P-87 2125 14TH ST NW #432 1202 T ST NW #2 1401 CHURCH ST NW #306 1304 RHODE ISLAND AVE NW #3 1108 T ST NW 1104 T ST NW 1239 VERMONT AVE NW #202 1300 N ST NW #514 1435 CORCORAN ST NW #1 1117 10TH ST NW #1002 1117 10TH ST NW #W5 1001 L ST NW #708 1001 L ST NW #102
meridian Hill
1650 BEEKMAN PL NW #C
mount pleasant
1628 BEEKMAN PL NW #D 3345 17TH ST NW #1 1682 IRVING ST NW #4 3314 MOUNT PLEASANT ST NW #21 2630 ADAMS MILL RD NW #108 3314 MOUNT PLEASANT ST NW #33 1661 PARK RD NW #102 2422 17TH NW #305 3314 MOUNT PLEASANT ST NW #9
mt vernon triangle 811 4TH ST NW #620
navy yard
1025 1ST ST SE #1010
oBservatory CirCle
2801 NEW MEXICO AVE NW #1005 2801 NEW MEXICO AVE NW #1022 3051 IDAHO AVE NW #220 2111 WISCONSIN AVE NW #112 2800 WISCONSIN AVE NW #802
old City
1025 1ST ST SE #506 1110 6TH ST NE #1 245 15TH ST SE #104 1301 SOUTH CAROLINA AVE SE #5 1422 EAST CAPITOL ST NE #1422 3 14TH ST NE #3
$609,000 $599,000 $550,000 $542,500 $529,900 $469,964 $449,000 $406,500 $391,000 $355,000 $279,000 $219,900
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4570 MACARTHUR BLVD NW #205 4471 MACARTHUR BLVD NW #103
$871,000 $762,500 $762,000 $363,500 $342,500 $339,900 $264,500 $259,900 $220,000
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420 16TH ST SE #107 1341 I ST NE 1740 T ST NW #1 1700 Q ST NW #4 1440 CHURCH ST NW #302 1401 17TH ST NW #812 931 WESTMINSTER ST NW #A 1625 S ST NW #1 1801 16TH ST NW #201 1715 15TH ST NW #401 1520 O ST NW #302 475 K ST NW #1104 811 4TH ST NW #803 1441 RHODE ISLAND AVE NW #119 2109 10TH ST NW #G01 1610 11TH ST NW #2A 16 O ST NW #16-B 2125 14TH ST NW #725 1245 13TH ST NW #102 456 M ST NW #1 1401 17TH ST NW #513 1245 13TH ST NW #105 555 MASSACHUSETTS AVE NW #1412 555 MASSACHUSETTS AVE NW #510 2001 16TH ST NW #702 1815 19TH ST NW #1 1390 V ST NW #406 1200 Q ST NW #302 1314 W ST NW #A 1736 WILLARD ST NW #301 1111 11TH ST NW #102 1545 18TH ST NW #214 1245 13TH ST NW #915 1930 18TH ST NW #32 315 R ST NW #1 66 NEW YORK AVE NW #405 1711 MASSACHUSETTS AVE NW #627 1 SCOTT CIR NW #604
palisades
781 MORTON ST NW #B
petwortH
404 SHEPHERD ST NW #2 16 GRANT CIRCLE NW #C1 404 SHEPHERD ST NW #1 4122 5TH ST NW #1 4215 8TH ST NW #1 5041 1ST ST NW #8 804 TAYLOR ST NW #106 5611 5TH ST NW #14 738 LONGFELLOW ST NW #115
randle HeigHts
3109 NAYLOR RD SE #203 2844 HARTFORD ST SE #101
rla (sw)
58 G ST SW #115 700 7TH ST SW #720 700 7TH ST SW #320 700 7TH ST SW #718
sHaw
925 M ST NW #1 431 R ST NW #2
sw waterFront 700 7TH ST SW #306
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$269,500 $262,500
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$65,000 $40,750
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$659,000 $280,000 $277,100 $180,000
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$1,395,000 $1,042,000
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$249,000
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1155 23RD ST NW #6L $999,000 2 2425 L ST NW #316 $604,000 1 1230 23RD ST NW #607 $450,000 1 2201 L ST NW #110 $285,000 0 3 WASHINGTON CIR NW #202 $390,000 1
CoOp 3025 ONTARIO RD NW #403 1820 CLYDESDALE PL NW #210
$337,000 $274,900
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$119,900
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$473,500 $362,000
Cleveland Park 3024 TILDEN ST NW #401-C 3601 Connecticut AVE NW #605 3020 PORTER ST NW #304 3409 29TH ST NW #13 3022 PORTER ST NW #1
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$499,000 $265,000 $255,000 $240,000 $200,000 $180,000
3001 VEAZEY TER NW #1031 3001 VEAZEY TERRACE NW #1229
$530,000 $260,000
Glover Park 3900 TUNLAW RD NW #418
$180,000
Kalorama 2122 CALIFORNIA ST NW #357 1870 WYOMING AVE NW #303 2540 MASSACHUSETTS AVE NW #501
$625,000 $600,000 $375,500
Mount Pleasant 3025 ONTARIO RD NW #307 1705 LANIER PL NW #205
$339,000 $317,000
North Cleveland Park 3031 SEDGWICK ST NW #304
$570,000
Observatory Circle
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Adams Morgan
Forest Hills
1 1 3 1 2 1 2 2 1 2 1 1 0 0 0
4000 CATHEDRAL AVE NW #844B 3900 CATHEDRAL AVE NW #708A 2720 WISCONSIN AVE NW #206
$1,107,500 $270,000 $155,000
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$240,000
Rla (SW) 520 N ST SW #425 S 429 N ST SW #S-609 429 N ST SW #S203 1311 DELAWARE AVE SW #S636
$550,000 $218,000 $201,000 $145,000
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Paint the Town Mary Belcher painting at her home studio.
Discovering the Artists of Eastern Market by Karen Cohen
Eastern Market flowers painting by Mary Belcher.
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here can you stroll past tent after tent of diverse and eclectic handmade creations ranging from watercolor paintings, fabric art, custom-made jewelry, knitted hats, antiques, fine art prints, and maps amid vegetables, flowers, meats, and all sorts of consumables? Eastern Market is a DC landmark that has been operating on Seventh Street SE for over 150 years. In the heart of Capitol Hill, right off Pennsylvania Avenue, neighbors, families, and tourists come every Saturday and Sunday to scoop up treasures of every kind. On my weekend pilgrimage to Eastern Market I happened upon a gorgeous illustration of Rock Creek Park where I had just hiked the week before. The illustrator and mapmaker, Mary Belcher, sells her topographical creations and cityscapes at Eastern Market and has done so since 1996. “I love Eastern Market!” she exclaimed. Formerly she was a writer and newspaper reporter with a penchant for history and informational things. “Maps are a nice cross section for me,” she elaborated. “But there is no easy explanation of why an artist gets involved in a subject.” Detailed and accurate, she offers a selection of over 100 watercolor views and maps of DC, originals and lim-
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ited-edition prints in all sizes. “I have been commissioned by the White House Historic Society and DRA among other prestigious government establishments.” Thirty percent of the clients have commissioned her to paint a specific scene, perhaps their block of rowhouses or a historic building they love. Collectors seek out and know her signature work. Another knockout artist at Eastern Market, Rayhart (one name), won runner-up for Best Visual Artist of 2016 by Best of DC. A self-taught artist, he draws inspiration from going deep inside his head. “I began to doodle drawings and random thoughts on scrap paper tossed about my room,” he wrote on his website. “Years would pass … I had acPridon Giosashvili at Eastern Market. Photo: Karen Cohen cumulated a vast amount of these doodles and poetic random thoughts,” and then one ket most weekends and has for decades. (A giclee, day Rayhart discovered his purpose. “I paint by feel according to Wikipedia, is a fine art print made rather than what I see; I disappear into my imagion an inkjet printer.) He also travels to art and nation and I leave this place,” he explained. “I go music festivals. I ran into him at the Maplestock to these places and bring back images. Nothing Festival in Maplewood, N.J., my husband’s homeis contrived. Past memories of Southern women town, while we were visiting family last weekend. show up in my art. It is not literal.” We bought two of his giclee prints to take home! Rayhart assured me that everyone can find Colors so vibrant and expressive that your some element to relate to in his acrylic paintings. heart skips a beat is how I describe Pridon GoisashCall them surreal, abstract, or faceless, each work vili’s paintings. Compelling, brilliant, masterful, is filled with tender emotion and gentle rhythm. Giosashvili is a full-time artist who trained as a fine He sells both originals and giclees at Eastern Marart and illustration artist. A native of Georgia in the Caucasus region, Goisashvili exhibited his work in the State Museum, the Academy of Arts, and the National Gallery, before moving to the District in 2002. His originals, many lush and colorful DC iconic scenes, are painted in watercolors, oils, or acrylics, and many are sold as giclees. “I’ve been painting since I’m three years old and it is hard to explain why I paint,” Jackson Collins at Eastern Market. he explained, “or the Photo: Karen Cohen feeling I have when I
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paint. I can tell you that I’m happy when I paint!” Whether you are a visitor looking to take home a bit of Capitol Hill or a resident who wants to display your home town as a work of art, Goisashvili has a great selection of DC scenes that will make your walls glow with color. Americana, pure and simple. Red, white, and blue flags painted on wooden pallets, or DC’s iconic three stars with two stripes – Jackson Collins says the flag has fascinated him and he renders it over and over with color changes, textured backgrounds, graphics that jump out. Collins produces art that is made to take home, hang up immediately, and sit back and admire. I see his work in many homes on the Hill and it is immediately recognizable. A self-taught artist born in Mississippi, he has fronted the vendor’s tents at Eastern Market’s big brick building for over 20 years. Collins also exhibits soulful and haunting paintings of the blues and jazz greats – Miles, Billie Holiday, Coltrane, to name a few. A quiet man who prefers not to talk about himself, Collins says he loves what he does and has exhibited his work throughout Europe and the United States. Check out these remarkable local artists who paint our town, and take home their shared visions. Eastern Market is located at 225 Seventh St. SE, Washington, DC 20003, 202-698-5253. Hours of operation: Tuesday to Friday, 7 a.m.-7 p.m.; Saturday, 7 a.m.-6 p.m.; Sunday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday, closed. The Eastern Market Metro station (Orange/Blue lines) is at Seventh Street and Pennsylvania Avenue. u
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Herbs and flowers growing at Garrison. Photo: Karen Cohen
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by Karen Cohen costs involved in production and shipping: biocides, water, electricity, gasoline, truck drivers, assorted handlers/pickers, packaging. You can be certain these costs are built into the price per pound. Is it going from the farm to your table? Yes, but what a long, costly and environmentally unsound path it has taken to get here. That is why food advocates preach “Eat locally!” Do you know who grows the veggies and fruit that you give your family? Do your kids think that the grocery store makes their food? In 2013 Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack initiated “Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food,” a program the USDA developed for local and regional food systems. Since then the number of farmers’ markets has skyrocketed in the US. Go to the outdoor market in your town’s center square and meet the farmers, introduce yourself, thank them. Eastern Market, one of DC’s oldest fresh food markets right here on Capitol Hill has sold locally grown produce for more than 136 years. Scores of farmers sell their produce there every Saturday and Sunday. A smaller group of growers are set up outside on Tuesday, 3-7 p.m. Daily, except on Monday, food vendors inside the market offer fresh meat, seafood, flowers, vegetables, fruit, cheeses, breads, and desserts. Shop daily for the freshest ingredients. Different parts of the country grow different veggies and fruits at different seasons. Here in the DC area, springtime arrives with fresh spinach, radishes, parsley, strawberries, and lettuces. We yearn
for summer corn, tomatoes, eggplants, red and green peppers, and plums, and by August we have had our fill of zucchini. Fall is known for the harvest of apples, carrots, garlic, squashes, and big orange pumpkins, and even in the winter greens such as kale, turnips, Brussels sprouts, and cabbages warm our plates and palates. Cooking with seasonal, locally grown produce was voted the top food trend in 2010 by nearly 2,000 chefs. Rob Weland, chef on the Hill and native of the garden state, New Jersey, knows exactly where his food is grown. He supports local, organic farmers and creates sensational celebrations with locally produced ingredients at Garrison, his restaurant on Eighth Street SE. It recently celebrated its firstyear anniversary on Barracks Row. In February the Washingtonian listed Garrison among the 100 best restaurants in DC. Having trained with Larry Forgione, often called the godfather of American cuisine, plus 13 years’ living in southern France where food is market-driven and seasonal, Weland aims to “nurture the community.” He serves food in season and also extends the season by canning, pickling, and brining. Weland develops his menus daily based on what his farmers and dairy and meat producers offer during personal visits. The menu is not overbearing and long because Weland crafts each dish to perfection. Summertime squash blossoms, carrot salads, and heirloom tomato salads, for instance, are mouth-watering “in season”
veggies to pair with specialties featuring fiddlehead ferns and rhubarb vinaigrette. Different, inventive, thought provoking and delicious. Outside of Garrison’s front door grows a colorful explosion of potted herbs and blossoms, Mike Protas picked daily for dishof One Acre es served that night. Farm. Photo: Ed Palaszynski Also a member of a local community garden on the Hill, Weland raises heirloom tomatoes such as green zebra, yellow taxi, pineapple tomatoes, and big, juicy, old-time favorite Brandywine. You won’t find them at the supermarket because they don’t ship long distances as well as the baseball-hard round varieties that have no real tomato taste. Weland laughs and says, “I would love to grow fields of garlic, too!” Garrison serves up pastas and meat and fish dishes with the signature freshness of flavor that makes it one of the best restaurants on the DC food scene. Michael Protas, organic grower of One Acre Farm in Maryland, drives to Garrison on Thursdays with a truckload of his produce. Farmer and chef have bonded over food; they chat about vegetables and swap ideas. Weland makes his purchases and sometimes suggests new crops to his farmer friend. Ground cherries was a new crop for Protas to grow for Garrison. Also known as husk cherries, small orange fruits, sodium- and cholesterol-free, they are sweet and pair great with salads, desserts, and sauces. How does chef use them in his dishes? You’ll have to dine at Garrison to find out. You might also encounter salsify, gill feather turnips, and long red and white French breakfast radishes. Unusual and less known items such as these become fast favorites of diners who seek something new and different. “We are in our second year working with a restaurant,” Protas explains. “I like my relationship with Chef Weland. It is more important for me than the money.” He adds, “As a farmer there isn’t much money in it and you don’t get rich doing it.” Protas explains his role as farmer:
“I learned after 15 years of growing that you cannot plan out a week ahead and must be flexible.” So many variables go into growing food: rain, sunshine, temperature, pests, nutrients, and soil. Along with his creative wife Kristin and two young daughters, Protas runs a CSA (community supported agriculture) operation, feeding about 200 family members/subscribers as well as local restaurants like Garrison. It is all about community-building and education through food. His farm is open for membership, with public tours three times a year, and there is an annual farm party/dinner for members. Weland notes that many of his dining regulars are also members of One Acre Farm. They buy, cook, eat, and dine out on locally grown organic produce for environmental, health, and economic reasons. Famed American novelist and poet Wendell Berry wrote, “Good farmers, who take seriously their duties as stewards of Creation and of their land’s inheritors, contribute to the welfare of society in more ways than society usually acknowledges, or even knows. These farmers produce valuable goods, of course; but they also conserve soil, they conserve water, they conserve wildlife, they conserve open space, they conserve scenery.” Eating seasonally and locally can be a challenge, for sure. We unconsciously pile boxed and processed foods into our shopping carts. Frozen dinners stack up in our freezers and too often fresh veggies and fruit get tossed into the trash due to rot. Daily planning, shopping, and cooking may seem a task too big for today’s busy workers, parents, spouses, and singles. Convenience gets priority over nutrition and good health. Ask yourself if what you feed yourself and your children on a daily basis supports growth (and I don’t mean waistline growth) and health. Or are we consuming a heap of empty calories that use sugar and salt as flavor enhancers? Real food from real farmers? You decide for yourself. •
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Dining Notes by Celeste McCall Cider Rules Washington is discovering Basque cooking. The 2016 Smithsonian Folklife Festival showcased the culture and cuisine of this autonomous region, wedged in the Pyrenees between France and Spain. Basque history predates Roman times, and the 2.2 million inhabitants speak their own language, Euskera. About 58,000 people of Basque heritage live in the United States. Similar to Spanish with its own unique flair, Basque cooking relies heavily on grilled meats (especially lamb; many Basques are sheepherders) and seafood, with a variety of herbs and spices. Other local restaurants have offered Basque dishes and at least two Capitol Hill wine shops – DCanter and Schneider’s – sometimes carry Basque wines. Now Anxo Cidery and Pintxos Bar has arrived at 300 Florida Ave. NW (Truxton Circle, the edge of Shaw). Chef Alex Vallarba’s menu encompasses pintxos, similar to small tapas: cured meats and cheeses. Thirty kinds of cider – house-made and from around the world – are poured by the glass. Anxo’s cuttingedge design was created by Michael Blake of beststudio Architecture. A 660-gallon Mastro Battaio wine barrel greets patrons. While awaiting our table in the upstairs dining room we perched at the bar as the bartender poured us samples. “Cider is just wine made from apples,” he explained. Favorites? Snowdrift Red (from Washington State) and Domaine Bouche Brut, squeezed in Normandy. By now our table was ready. Peter sipped the aforementioned Norman cider while I
A giant wine barrel greets patrons at Anxo Cidery & Pintxos Bar, located near Shaw. Photo: Celeste McCall
Cider-poached pulpo (octopus) is a favorite seafood dish at Anxo. Photo: Celeste McCall
A trio of snacks and pintxos (like tapas) tempts Anxo diners. Photo: Celeste McCall
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A prime destination for dining, large or small private events, late night dancing & drinking, and weekend bottomless mimosa brunch! ordered Seis de Luberri Rioja Alavesa (red wine). Cantabrian (Spanish) anchovies were artfully arranged on a plate with olive oil and tiny breadsticks; moist cod fritters were enhanced with salsa Vizcaina; cider-poached, tender pulpo (octopus) – our favorite – was ringed with delicious saffron-scented mashed potatoes. We gobbled crispy roasted quail segments with our fingers and polished off our Basque repast with wedges of idiazabal, sheep’s milk cheese, which complemented the dab of quince perfectly. Service, rendered by Madrid native Diego, was excellent. Dinner for two came to an amazingly reasonable $78 before tax and tip. Anxo is open Tuesday through Saturday for dinner only, closed Monday. Call 202-986-3795, but online reservations are preferred. Visit www. anxodc.com.
Spanish 101 We are still mourning the loss of Sona Creamery and Wine Bar. However, a Spanish restaurant, SER (Simple, Easy and Real), is taking over the space at 660 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. Javier and Christiana Candon, who operate their original SER in Ballston (Arlington), have applied for permits, and their predecessor’s cheese-making equipment is gone.
More than Pizza En route to a Nationals game on a steamy Sunday we stopped for lunch at Il Parco, 202 M St. SE, a few blocks from the stadium. It was too hot to sit outside; the mercury hovered near the century mark as children and dogs frolicked in the fountain out front. Il Parco’s interior is bright
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which arrived with netting to keep seeds out of our food, a thoughtful detail. But we could not resist the pizza, which emerged from the wood-fired oven with a crust crisp and delightfully charred around the edges. We chose “tricolore,” crowned with spinach, herbs, pepperoni strips, and lots of cheese. A brief pasta listing and a few desserts round out the menu. The full bar includes a brief wine and beer listing with several Italian selections. A pleasant pinot grigio was poured into Crispy calamari with a zingy sauce joins pizza at Il Parco, near Nationals a plain water glass, a la downPark. Photo: Celeste McCall home South Philly eateries. Lunch for three came to $56 and cheerful. We arrived just before noon, but the before tip. Open daily; call 202-484-0699 or visit place was empty. The bartender explained that, www.ilparcodc.com. surprisingly, Il Parco does not cater to Nats fans, and opens at 12, rather than 11 a.m. as listed on Brunch Bunch the website. No problem. Other patrons soon arSeventh Hill Pizza, 327 Seventh St. SE (next to rived and our group of three perused the menu. Montmartre), has added breakfast pizza – actuWhile Il Parco specializes in Neapolitan-style ally a calzone – to its regular lineup of neighpizza, we found lighter fare like Caprese and Caeborhood-themed selections. From 11:30 a.m. to sar salads, as well as a generous beet and spinach 4 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, you can get the salad, which we shared. Candied walnuts added baked turnovers stuffed with bacon, eggs, and crunch. Calamari fritti, crunchy squid circlets inSwiss cheese. Price: $8 plus tax. To drink: miterspersed with carrot and zucchini strips, was esmosas, bloody Marys, and sangria. Call 202-544corted by a zippy marinara sauce and a lemon half, 1911 or visit www.montmartredc.com/seventhhill. Hanks on the Hill, 633 Pennsylvania Ave. SE, has unveiled a new brunch menu showcasing hangtown fry, smoked trout hash, and huevos rancheros. Dinner patrons may choose seafood or meat plus two sides – Maine lobster, fish tacos, lobster mac-and-cheese, grilled duck breast, baby back ribs, or grilled lamb chops. Specials change regularly according to season. Hank’s halfpriced oyster bar goes from 3 to 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. until closing every day. Call 202-733-1971 or Many kinds of pizza reign on the menu at Il Parco, near Nationals Park. visit www.hanksoysterbar.com. Photo: Celeste McCall
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On Barracks Row, EatBar, 415 Eighth St. SE, serves weekend brunch from noon to 4 p.m. Choose from EatBar’s regular menu, then add an egg ($1) or bacon ($2). Best bets for enhancements: pork burger with garlic kale, beef burger with mozzarella, or pastrami with pickled red cabbage. Not all selections marry well with such adds-ons, but we ordered grilled octopus with chickpeas and green tomato gazpacho. Likewise zucchini noodles (like coleslaw) with Caesar dressing and crunchy deep-fried anchovies. Zesty bloody Marys arrived with a trio of stuffed olives. Mimosas tasted of fresh-squeezed orange juice. Brunch for two with drinks came to $60. Near Nationals Park, Justin’s Cafe, 1025 First St. SE, has instituted weekend brunch from 11:30 a.m. until 4 p.m. Bountiful platters, with offbeat names like Felix, Savage, and Limehouse, are heaped with scrambled eggs, Applewood bacon, bison, baby spinach, couscous, Italian sausage, mozzarella, you name it. Each entree arrives with choice of sides including mixed fruit, salad, or sweet potato fries. Full bar. Call 202-652-1009 or visit www.justinscafe.com.
Coming Soon Arriving next year at The Wharf, the massive mixed-use development on the Southwest waterfront, is French/Mediterranean La Vie. Part of the Social Restaurant Group, which operates several downtown hotspots, La Vie will offer amenities including a 1,100-square-foot waterfront terrace and access to a rooftop space for private gatherings. La Vie will have lots of culinary company, including Hank’s on the Water, Rappahannock Oyster Bar, and Cordial Craft Wine, Beer & Spirits, which will expand from Union Market to The Wharf.
Here and There Bullfrog Bagels is set to unveil its Eastern Market outpost (the parent eatery is on H Street NE) sometime in September. You’ll find it at 317 Seventh St. SE. At Lincoln Park Kitchen & Wine Bar, 106 13th St. SE, kids eat free on Tuesday. Open for dinner only, closed Monday, and shuttered until Sept. 4. Call 202-506-7013. The Argonaut, 1433 H St. NE, has apparently departed. The entrance is padlocked and the phone number is “temporarily” out of service. u
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Opens on Capitol Hill
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by David J. Hoffman
erhaps only in Washington would a “beer summit” need to be called, as it was at the Obama White House in the opening months of his first term. Flashback! A Harvard University professor, Henry Louis Gates Jr., had been arrested at his home in Cambridge and charged with disorderly conduct while he was trying to enter a door jammed shut. A neighbor had called the police warning of a possible breaking and entering. Police arrived. Words were spoken. Prof. Gates was arrested and booked. And he was black. President Obama then weighed in publicly, as a friend of Gates from Martha’s Vineyard summers, calling the incident an example of stupid and possibly racist police behavior. Later, however, after the charges against Gates were dropped, Obama admitted he had acted hastily. Peace was restored when Obama invited all parties to the incident to the White House Rose Garden for a meeting to clear the air. Beer was served. And it was immediately dubbed, of course, the “beer summit.” If only it were so easy, these parlous days, to clear the heavy-hanging sense of political doomsday in
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this time of Trump temper tantrums and Hillary hijinks with her “hincty” emails! But of course it isn’t. Good news, however, from H Street NE at the start of the street’s hipster stroll, going east from Union Station. On Aug. 6, Craft Beer Cellar DC opened, directly across from the Giant Supermarket, under the supervision of owner-manager and selfproclaimed “beer geek” Erika Goedrich. A queue of over 100 thirsty folks from the neighborhood waited expectantly outside when the door opened, and soon they were milling about inside, happily glancing at the over 400 different labels stocked on the neat shelves, from India pale ales – now the nation’s most popular so-called craft beer – to porters and stouts and lagers and pilsners, with many odd brand names abounding such as Rigor Mortis Abt, a sweet-malt brown ale inspired by Trappist monks, from a craft brewer in Quebec. Speaking 10 days later, Goedrich, who lives in Shaw, pronounced herself “humbled” by the enthusiasm from neighbors, about “how we’ve been embraced, with people coming back repeatedly.” She says that “DC is a big city” but that her sudsy corner of it is “almost like a neighborhood, and even though we’re not a
bar, we’re a craft beer bottle retail store, we’re already like a neighborhood hangout, we’re like the ‘Cheers’ of beer stores.” Several more visits later confirmed this claim. Craft Beer Cellar has indeed been adopted by the beer-connoisseur locals, as well as those new to beer, crowding in almost every evening for a new set of the mix-and-match fourpacks or sixpacks, and to sample new flavors at company-rep-curated beer tastings. Craft beer, of course, is a booming business. Instead of Coors Light and its ilk, which beer aficionados dismiss contemptuously as “bottled water,” craft beers are self-consciously “special,” brewed at small brewers, independently-owned ones, customized and created using traditional brewing methods, by definition at idiosyncratic “microbreweries,” not industrial-scale macro-breweries of the mass-produced brands. Craft breweries have been opening nationwide at the rate of two a day, jumping from under six percent of market share in 2011 to over 12 percent in 2015, and reaching over $22 billion in retail dollars out of a total value for all beers that year of $106 billion. Of 4,269 US breweries last year, 4,225 were craft breweries. Goedrich, who seems dedicat-
Beer enthusiasts enjoy the Craft Beer Cellar DC grand opening celebration. Photo: Craft Beer Cellar DC
ed to all things beer, says “I’ve been a beer geek since college.” A Texas native who attended Drake university in Des Moines, she worked there for a few years as a TV news producer. “I got tired of living off of other people’s tragedies,” she says, referring to the attitude in local news of “If it bleeds, it leads.” As for beer, friends introduced her to it at Drake. Before that she disliked beer. “My parents drank Coors Light,” she says, “and I didn’t like the flavor of it.” Now she has a corner, not just her H Street NE corner location, on a retail specialty in craft beers, though they are widely available elsewhere, but without her emphasis upon the personal touch, enthusiasm, hospitality and education. And also with many fewer individual brand offerings. She plans a series of special beer and cider tastings, to be announced on her website, dc.craftbeercellar.com. Her store is part of a family of 26 franchisees spun off from the original retail store in Belmont, Mass. Yes, cider as well as beer, for she says about five percent of her offerings will be
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from what she calls craft cideries. She also offers other accoutrements such as beer greeting cards and even artisanal chocolates from a DC chocolatier, Harper Macaw, with its current election-season offerings including Red State, with an elephant logo. Another is labeled DC Taxation Without Representation. So if there’s ever another beer summit, President “Trump-Ton,” be sure to stop by and order something appropriate from Goedrich! Craft Beer Cellar DC is located at 301 H St. NE. It’s open from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., six days a week, with shorter hours on Sunday. For details visit dc.craftbeercellar.com and also sign up for the monthly emailed newsletter. David J. Hoffman is a freelance writer living near H Street NE and covering arts and entertainment as well as politics. He is vice president for programs at the Woman’s National Democratic Club, since 1927 a fixture of feminist and progressive activism based in Dupont Circle. David says, “Yes, men are also active members!” u
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At the Movies
Second Look: An Annual List of Films That Got Away
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s usual my September column looks back at movies “that got away,” feature films of the past year (2015) that were little noticed or publicized when released. This selection thus eschews mainstream Hollywood fare of raunch, explosions, and comic book heroes for films offering something distinctive, discriminating, or offbeat. Most of the films mentioned below had short runs and modest box office returns. A reader of mine some years ago tagged this round-up column “For the Fridge,” since you can cut it out or print it and tape it on your refrigerator to remind you of what to look for in your next movie rental or streaming video. If you read this column you know that this reviewer has a catholic taste in films. As in most movie seasons, there are standout individual performances that too few people see and are forgotten about once awards season has passed. I cite first two outstanding female performances.
by Mike Canning 45 Years This constitutes both an advance acting class and a moving chamber piece for two long-time English stars, Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay, as the Mercers, an older couple poised to celebrate 45 years of steadfast marriage when a letter to the husband arrives which tests their union and leads the wife to question her relationship with him. There is nothing flashy here. Everything moves at its appropriate, measured pace as directed by filmmaker Andrew Haigh, but the superb Brit-style understatement of gesture, visage, and tone evokes hidden motivations longing to surface.
Grandma At age 76, Lily Tomlin gets the role of a lifetime in “Grandma,” where she carries a road movie about her seeking an abortion for her granddaughter. Tomlin fans will appreciate her familiar performing style including the usual wisecracks and ironic asides, used artfully in a script written with her in mind by writer-director Paul Weitz. Providing a lovely foil to Tomlin’s grumpiness is Julie Garner as her winsome but clueless granddaughter. Avoiding the stereotype of the jaded, wise-ass teenager, she emerges as a naive yet practical schoolgirl who needs help and guidance. The past year also showed some stellar works based on the lives of real creative artists. Here are three examples.
Mr. Turner Lily Tomlin (left) as Elle and Julia Garner as Sage in “Grandma.” Photo: Glen Wilson courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics
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British director Mike Leigh exercises an entirely new set of movie
Lily Tomlin (left) as Elle and Julia Garner as Sage in “Grandma.” Photo: Glen Wilson courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics
muscles with the use, for him, of an entirely new cinematic eye. Known for 30 years for his gritty, offbeat, unscripted slices of contemporary English life, Leigh takes on this historical biography and invests it with a wondrous look, evoking both J.M.W. Turner’s 19th century period and especially his radiant seascape paintings. Timothy Spall, as Turner, presents a peculiar persona, looking like an upstanding gopher given to grunts and snarls, but you still come to believe in his craft, his eye. A marvelous performance.
The End of the Tour A rare and layered examination of the writer’s life is revealed through the thin guise of a Rolling Stone interview. David Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg) is the Stone correspondent who convinces his editor to interview the hottest new US writer, David Foster Wallace (Jason Segel) over a five-day sojourn of hanging out in the Midwest. Talk here is the thing (dialogue by David Margulies), and the two men, Lipsky, resentful yet worshipful, and Wallace, touchy and woeful, have rich exchanges about growing up, relationships, culture, watching TV, and especially, writing well. Segel, known for shambling comic roles, shines as the troubled but talented Wallace.
Love and Mercy A splendid, personalized biography in two interlaced parts, one showing the young Brian Wil-
son (leader of the Beach Boys) on the brink of a ghastly breakdown, and the second part featuring a mature, troubled Wilson and his fight to escape a paranoid state. Paul Dano as the young Wilson is touching and wholly convincing as a self-taught soul, culling harmonies from a fevered brain, while John Cusack, as the older man, incarnates a caged being enslaved by the voices in his head. Elizabeth Banks also shines as a sensitive and magnanimous soul, trying to salvage a wreck like Wilson. I also favor important foreign-language films, such as the following gems.
The Second Mother How class consciousness plays out in contemporary Brazil is superbly handled in this film about the commitment of a house servant, Val, to a wealthy family not her own in today’s Sao Paulo. Her own independent-minded daughter comes to live with her, and how they adjust to class conflicts generates the humor and the poignancy of “The Second Mother.” The movie’s engine is Regina Case as Val. She makes her ever-deferential character both understandable and complex, never cloying or sappy. She gets all the best laughs too, and though long cowed by her drudging life and class she is finally able to break free.
to a shredded dignity, while the local pol will stop at nothing to feather his nest. The protagonist, Kolya (the excellent Alexei Serebriakov), is no paragon, and sympathy for him is hard-earned, while his antagonist, the mayor, a leftover USSR apparatchik, is as cruel as he is officious. “Leviathan” contains moments of offhand humor, but you just know this semimoral fable is not going to end with any roseate conclusion. Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film. Finally, the category of documentary, one that contributes much to contemporary cinema. I cite here two examples, each excellent in in its own way, that could hardly be more different.
The Look of Silence Documentarian Joshua Oppenheimer follows up his unsettling “The Act of Killing” with another take on the 1965 Indonesian massacre of leftists, this time from the point of view of a mildmannered optometrist, Adi, a man haunted by the death of his older brother who seeks out and queries his brother’s killers. Adi’s unrelieved placidity may seem alien to us Westerners used to acting out. What is riveting, however, is his seeking the truth about his family history and thus closing the circle on that past’s pain.
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Seymour: An Introduction
The most honored Italian film of 2014, “Human Capital” eschews linear narrative, observing major events through three main characters’ perspective over a six-month timespan, while spinning out a mystery about who, among a group of well-off Milanese, was responsible for a fatal accident. The diverse and able cast is singular in its variety and contrasts, from the almost purely comic foil to a troubled and delicate soul. Director Paolo Virzi said he was aiming for a combination of a sharp Italian comedy, a mournful existential drama, a tale of searching youth, and finally “a cold, dark thriller,” and he achieved his aims.
This charming documentary is a paean to a little-known but treasured member of the classical musical world, the 87-year-old pianist and teacher Seymour Bernstein, a keyboard prodigy who left the concert stage to coach talented pupils. Enlivened by ample interviews with the charming Bernstein, the movie was directed by actor Ethan Hawke, who met the musician at a dinner party and set out to tell his story. For classical music fans the excerpts of classic piano works will just whet the appetite for more, while any moviegoer will be left with memories of a true talent and a graceful soul.
Leviathan This picture is a vivid sketch, at the micro level, of the corruption that permeates modern Russia, in this case depicting a small businessman in an obscure village trying to hang on
Hill resident Mike Canning has written on movies for the Hill Rag since 1993 and is a member of the Washington Area Film Critics Association. He is the author of “Hollywood on the Potomac: How the Movies View Washington, DC.” His reviews and writings on film can be found online at www. mikesflix.com. u
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nne Marchand dives into the dark emptiness of possibility with a theme as expansive as universal space – the primordial splash of Big Bang creation as glimpsed by the Hubble Telescope. She captures much of that force with explosive color that challenges the defined space and compels visual movement with the tension of expanding and contracting light. I wrote that 10 years ago. Now Anne has essentially turned the seeking force of Hubble around. She is focusing her intensity of thought and exploration on us – the “Little Blue Marble” that seems to float in airless air – a vacuum of nothingness. She explores the realities of a metaphysical world through the pure force of mythology. Anne uses the metaphor of masculine and feminine energies. The energies are not gender-exclusive, but the masculine energy of competitiveness and domination has become overpowering. She sees the offsetting feminine energy, both intuitive and nourishing, as being trampled in the great, accelerating stampede to gain national and international advantage in everything. For Anne painting is the yin and yang of the masculine and feminine energies. First, ideas take shape and she begins with
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a geometric underpainting laid out in black and white, in the proportions of the “golden ratio.” Then the power of emotional color begins to happen. It’s spontaneous. Pigments – acrylic, enamel, ink – are brushed or poured, and other materials like beads and bark and silk from India are added, creatArtist Anne Marchand at work, ing barely controlled order Jackson Jarvis Project Space. Photo courtesy the artist. from chaos. Anne loves to work large and is currently working on a series of 6 x 6-foot paintings in a Jackson Jarvis studio space in Mt. Rainier. She has an Artist Fellowship Grant from the DC Arts Commission. It is with this body of work that Anne is waging her ferocious struggle for balance on our fragile blue marble. I’ve said it before: Anne Marchand paints with a power rarely seen. www.annemarchand.com Her work can be seen this month in the Athenaeum Invitational. (See Galleries.)
Jim Magner’s Thoughts on Art
BIRTH OF VENUS, 2016, enamel, acrylic, ink on canvas, 60x60 in. Photo Credit: Greg Staley Photography
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We started getting pictures of Earth from “out there” as early as 1946, using German V-2 rockets. They were only partial pictures but showed the curvature of the earth. The first from deep space came in the mid-60s from a lunar orbiter. The planet was shown in black and white and half-shrouded in shadow. But the real stunner was from the Apollo 17 moon mission in 1972. The fully illuminated Earth was hanging out there in nothingness: “The Little Blue Marble.” Then came the great collective WOW! What the hell are we doing to this little ball of rock and water that flies around the sun? It’s covered with billions of us humans, striving, conniving to control the surface and the stuff just under the surface, and use it all up as fast as possible. Wait a minute, everyone said, existence is not really about money and power. We have to be kind to this little blue marble because that’s all there is! Just kidding. No, it didn’t change human greed and stupidity, but at least some thinkers, and artists, got it – the fullcolor realization that this is it. We don’t know why this planet is as it is, but it’s the only one of its kind that you and I are ever going to stand on. For untold generations the Earth has been the symbol of indestructible strength. But now, not so indestructible. We have the power to make it uninhabitable in a hurry – just unleash a few nuclear, biological, or chem-
the place where water and pigment come to play. These are loose and free, without losing form. katherineblakeslee@hotmail.com Athenaeum Invitational 201 Prince St. Alexandria, Va. Sept. 22-Nov. 6 Reception: Sept. 25, 4-6 p.m. Anne Marchand is included in this exhibit with the theme “Oh! The Joy!” Artists are challenged by that exclamation, from William Lewis upon his first sight of the Pacific Ocean, to express that spontaneous moment of ecstasy. The paintings of Anne Marchand powerfully express moments of pure joy, pure triumph, and pure wonder. www.nvgaa.org
PEGASUS, 2016, Enamel, Acrylic, Ink on Canvas, 60x120 in. Photo Credit: Greg Staley Photography
ical weapons. Maybe the greatest irony is that the astronaut who took the picture, Jack Schmitt, later became a US senator and wasn’t a crusader to protect the planet. Au contraire. Is it possible for artists to bring sense to humankind through the immense power of visual thought? Anne Marchand believes so. I hope she’s right.
is to provide the audience with an aesthetically pleasing experience of “one of the most undesirable insects in the world.” It’s the third installment of a multimedia project that “comments on ethnicity, gender and the role that aesthetics and beauty play in popular culture.” Come to the Sept. 10 reception for a short gallery talk by the artist, with wine and cheese.
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Regional Juried Exhibition Hill Center Galleries 921 Pennsylvania Ave. SE — Oct. 2 Seventy-five artists have been selected by the juror, Eric Denker, senior lecturer at the National Gallery of Art. You will see all manner of art in just about every style and medium. With a huge selection and modest prices, this may be a good place to get ready for the upcoming gift giving season. (Yes, I’m afraid it’s not far off.) www.hillcenterdc.org
Carolina Mayorga Capitol Hill Arts Workshop 545 Seventh St. SE —Sept. 24 Reception: Sept. 10, 5-7 p.m. Carolina Mayorga presents “Pink: The Art of Infatuation and Embellishment,” which includes “The Life of a Pink Fly,” a 10 x 12-foot drawing on the site. She will be working on it during the week of Aug. 29 and will be available to talk and answer questions. The purpose
Katherine Blakeslee Foundry Gallery 2118 Eighth St. NW —Oct. 2 Reception: Sept. 10, 5-8 p.m. With “Land and Sea” Katherine Blakeslee searches for that “ever magical, sometimes invisible” line where sky, land, and water come to play. Her watercolors are also
Nancy Previs The Corner Store 900 South Carolina Ave. SE Sept. 16-25 Reception: Friday, Sept. 16, 6-8 p.m. “Urban Nature: From Dublin to DC,” the recent series from printmaker Nancy Previs, records “nature’s forms, textures, and tones.” Her fascination is with the beauty that surprises us from seemingly random patterns and processes. It’s that orderly disorder we find in everything from savannas to swamps, from mountains to mankind. The biotic displays in urban centers can be just as mysteriously beautiful. She etches aluminum and solar plates to create limited-edition prints. cornerstorearts.org A Capitol Hill artist and writer, Jim Magner can be reached at Artandthecity05@aol.com. Jim’s award-winning book, “A Haunting Beauty,” can be acquired through www.ahauntingbeauty.com. u
From “The Elements,” a print by Nancy Previs. Corner Store, Reception September 16, 6-8.
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CHAW Introduces Community-Focused Artist Residency Program by Phil Hutinet Mission of the Residency Program Starting on Aug. 26, the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop (CHAW) began a community-focused artist-residency program leading to a solo exhibition opportunity for the resident artist. The Gallery Residency @ CHAW will provide a safe space for experimentation while functioning as an artist incubator space that interacts with the community. An organization with a proven track record of building community through the arts, CHAW established the residency to engage artists with members of the Capitol Hill community. Resident artists will create work in CHAW’s gallery during regular hours, culminating in an exhibition. Hannah Jacobson, CHAW’s director of marketing, development, and strategy, elaborates that “this component of the residency will allow the general public to understand and experience an artist’s creative process. People are interested in that – often finding it very mysterious – so having someone available to talk about their work is very appealing for people of all ages.” Ellen Cornett, the CHAW Gallery’s residency manager, has personally experienced a similar residency. In September 2015, at the Brentwood Arts Exchange in Brentwood, Md., gallery director Phil Davis challenged her to create a largescale drawing in public view that she describes as “a game-changer.” Says Cornett, “It was terrifying but also exciting. I got to do something I hadn’t done; take some risks in my work.” She goes on: “We want the community, artists and non-artists alike, to see and understand that artists don’t do a single thing – that they’re not stuck in a moment in time – they evolve, change, grow, and create new work. Often an artist won’t know how to make something work or if it’s going to be successful but to move forward, she must be willing to crash and burn and fail epically.” The CHAW Residency will be a safe and supportive space, explains Cornett, “a growth opportunity for the artist and also the community that gets to observe and interact with the artist.”
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Carolina Mayorga Artist Carolina Mayorga will inaugurate the Gallery Residency @ CHAW. Mayorga has exhibited her work nationally and internationally for the last 20 years. A Colombian-born and naturalized U.S. citizen, she has had one-person exhibitions in Colombia and Mexico and participated in group exhibitions in Europe, Central and South America, and numerous cities around the US. Mayorga has exhibited extensively in the DC area at the following galleries and venues: Vivid Solutions, EMULSION 2015, Artisphere, Evolve Urban Arts Project, Washington Project for the Arts, GRACE, and the Organization of American States. Her work is represented in public and private collections across the country and internationally and has been reviewed in publications in Colombia, Sweden, Spain, and the United States. Some of Mayorga’s public artworks are recognizable across the city, including the most recent sculpture, CHAWmper, located at the intersection of Seventh and G streets SE, as part of the Capitol Hill Alphabet Animal Art Project. Throughout her career Mayorga has received scholarships, grants, and awards. As recently as last year she was awarded an Artist Fellowship by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. Mayorga received a BFA in art and textiles from Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia, and an MFA in sculpture from the University of Kansas. She has taught drawing and sculpture to children and adults at Capitol Hill Arts Workshop for the last 12 years. Mayorga’s work addresses issues of social and political content, which often translate into sitespecific installations and multimedia pieces including video, performance art, photography, and drawing. The artist has always had an interest in insects. Her studies of their anatomy, behavior, and habitat have resulted in series of drawings, video works, and site-specific installations with references and interpretations that, in her words, “go beyond the animal kingdom.” Her series of
Artist Carolina Mayorga. Photo: Wolf Lloyd
drawings entitled “Warriors, 2008” depicts a line of beetles, flies, and flees that references war. “For the site-specific installation Infestation, 2013,” she continues, “I invaded the former Artisphere building in Rosslyn, VA with approximately 1500 vinyl ants to comment on issues of migration.”
‘Pink: The Art of Infatuation and Embellishment’ Most recently Mayorga has worked on “Pink: The Art of Infatuation and Embellishment,” a multimedia project that comments on ethnicity, gender, and the role of aesthetics and beauty in popular culture. The project also expresses her obsession with pink, a beautifying agent that, when applied to skin, objects, and creatures, provides value, social acceptance, and emotional gratification. Installments of this project include
a video-installation based on reactions to issues of war and violence entitled “La Vie en Rose” and a series of vignette-style videos, drawings, and manipulated photographs inspired by recent travels to Paris and Colombia. “For the third installment of this project,” she explains, “I am presenting a series of housefly drawings that includes my largest drawing to date, a 10 x 12-foot, site-specific pink fly that will spend its entire life at Capitol Hill Arts Workshop.”
She intends the project as a comment on stereotyped views of beauty and identity by providing the audience with “an aesthetically pleasing experience of one of the most undesirable yet familiar insects in the world.” The drawings are also inspired by her experience of teaching drawing for CHAW’s children and adult programs, she explains.
‘Life of a Pink Fly’ Mayorga will began the process of bringing her pink fly to life on Aug. 26. The public is invited to witness this process as part of Mayorga’s gallery residency. CHAW will hold a public opening reception to dedicate the completed work on Saturday, Sept. 10, 6-8 p.m. Located at 545 Seventh St. SE, the CHAW Gallery is free and open to the public and can be accessed at any time during CHAW business hours. For more information call CHAW at 202-5476839 or visit www.chaw. org/event-created/month. The Gallery Residency @ CHAW is made possible through sponsorships and support from the community, including Frager’s Hardware and private donors. To sponsor future residencies contact Hannah Jacobson at 202547-6839.
Common name: Pink fly Size: 10 x 12 feet Color: Pink Legs: 6 Wings: 2 Antenna: 2 Lifespan: 30 days (Aug. 26-Sept. 24) Habitat: In proximity to the humans of Capitol Hill Arts Workshop
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leaves you wanting more. Thankfully, the second book in the series, “Tides,” is coming soon. E.J. Wenstrom is a fantasy and science fiction author who calls herself “a DC girl at heart.” “Mud,” her debut novel, has been recognized as a Royal Palm Literary Award semifinalist. Visit her at www.ejwenstrom.com.
The Book of Esther In “Escape from Sobibor” author Richard Rashke interviewed Esther Raab, one of the 300 Jews who escaped from that notorious Nazi death camp. When the book became a movie in 1987, Rashke asked Raab to serve as its surviIn “Mud” a golem descends vor-consultant. And when her name appeared into the Underworld to find an angel’s lost love – and in the film’s credits, it changed her life. gain a soul. Teachers found her and begged her to come talk to their students – which she did, Adem Down Under for more than 20 years. In “Children’s Letters to Pity the poor golem. Created from mud to do a Holocaust Survivor: Dear Esther” Rashke offers man’s dirty work, Adem dwells alone in his tower, a sampling of the more than 2,000 missives Raab forced to kill anyone who seeks the magical box received, as well as the moving and powerful play that is both his treasure and his curse. “Every day he wrote based on them. is the same,” he thinks. “There is no rest.” Then an In the letters her young fans praise Raab’s angel appears and offers him a path to freedom. All courage, sympathize with her pain, and strughe has to do is descend into the Underworld and gle with the horror of what she witnessed (“How bring back the angel’s human lover and he will be could the Nazis kill so many people they didn’t granted a soul. even know?”). Some are inspired to new-found “Mud,” E.J. Wenstrom’s first book in her resiliency (“I don’t have my own room, but you “Chronicles of the Third Realm Wars” series, is a stayed in a haystack for months! So I’ll survive.”) fantastical tale of gods, demon kings, evil, and love, They also provide what Rashke calls “a chotold in the voice of the golem. Adem is a faithful rus of hope,” pledging to become living witnesses. narrator of his dangerous quest, often muddled, “I promise to tell my kids,” writes one. And another sometimes despairing. “More questions, nothing adds, “As future leaders of the world, we will make but questions,” he laments. “Almost wish I could sure that the treatment of the Jews during World disappear back into my War II is not forgottemple tower …” ten. Thank you for … Yet he presses on, [sharing] your story risking his life and makwith us.” And thanks ing mistakes that could to Richard Rashke for set in motion the third sharing Esther’s story and final Realm War. with all of us. Will he get a chance Richard Rashke to make right what he is also the author of has broken before the “The Whistleblower’s world explodes in cataA local writer Dilemma: Snowden, clysm? Will he ever get compiles letters Silkwood and Their that children wrote a soul? The dark but abQuest for the Truth,” to a woman who sorbing mythology of escaped a Nazi “The Killing of Karen “Mud” reels you in and death camp.
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Silkwood,” and “Useful Enemies: John Demjanjuk and America’s Open-Door Policy for Nazi War Criminals.”
Science Sleuths Matt is on a whalewatching trip, but there’s not a baleen to be seen. Then the captain spots some large dots on sonar and assures him they’ll be in luck soon. But wait. Don’t fish stay under the water? How does the captain know that the whales will actually surface?* Local publisher Science, Naturally! is once again making learning fun with its new bilingual book for grades 4-8 called “One Minute Mysteries: More Short Mysteries You Solve with Science!” Match wits with the father-daughter writing team of Eric and Natalie YoLocal publisher Science, Naturally! der, who have created presents a new bilingual book of science mysteries that science mysteries. take only a minute to read but challenge reading, reasoning, and language skills as well as knowledge of science. Now both Spanish- and native English-speakers can enjoy the bilingual edition. For more visit www.sciencenaturally.com. *A whale is, of course, not a fish but a mammal and has to come to the surface to breathe. But you knew that already (naturally!).
National Book Festival More than 120 writers, poets, and illustrators will converge on the Walter E. Washington Convention Center on Saturday, Sept. 24, from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. for the 16th annual National Book Festival. The Library of Congress event has attracted a
On the Hill in September East City Bookshop presents Gregg Shapiro, author of “How to Whistle,” Sept. 1, 6:30 p.m.; Judy Polumbaum, editor of the photography book “Juxtapositions,” Sept. 9, 6 p.m.; Austin Camacho, author of the Hannibal Jones mystery series and the Stark and O’Brien adventure series, Sept. 10, 12 p.m.; ECB Fiction Book Club, discussing “The Stranger” by Albert Camus and “The Meursault Investigation” by Kamel Daoud, Sept. 12, 6:30 p.m.; Cynthia Kane, author of “How to Communicate Like a Buddhist,” Sept. 15, 6:30 p.m.; Ed Luce, creator of the “Wuvable Oaf” series, Sept. 16, 6:30 p.m.; Charles Free, author of “Bygone Days,” Sept. 17, 2 p.m.; Amanda Moniz, author of “From Empire to Humanity,” Sept. 22, 6:30 p.m.; and a reading celebrating Banned Books week, Sept. 27, 6:30 p.m. www.eastcitybookshop.com or 202-290-1636 Folger Shakespeare Library hosts the annual PEN/Faulkner Celebration, with authors reading original works on the theme of “Risk,” Sept. 26, 6:30 p.m. Tickets at 202-544-7077 or www.folger.edu The annual Library of Congress festival brings authors The Library of Congress features from around the world to DC. journalist Larry Tye, author of a new biography of Robert Kennedy, Sept 14, noon; veritable who’s who of literary lions this year, America’s Award for Children’s and Young Adult including Salman Rushdie, Edwidge Danticat, Literature, sponsored with the Hispanic Division Calvin Trillin, Marilynne Robinson, Richard and Consortium of Latin American Studies ProRusso, Joyce Carol Oates, Bob Woodward, and grams, Sept. 16, 3 p.m.; and “America Reads,” Michael Cunningham. Also appearing will be an exhibition celebrating the public’s choice of NBA superstar Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, filmthe top 40 books by American authors, continumaker Ken Burns, and Rep. John Lewis, who ing through Dec. 31. www.loc.gov has published a graphic novel about his role The Smithsonian Associates presents “Litin the civil rights movement. erary Baltimore,” a day-long tour, Sept. 10, All literary genres will be well represented 8:30 a.m.-9:30 p.m.; “Roald Dahl: The Curand a special International Stage has been set mudgeon Who Built Charlie’s Chocolate Facup to highlight writers from around the world. tory,” Sept. 13, 6:45 p.m.; and a four-session The Main Stage opens with a presentation in book group, “Conversations on Contemporary recognition of Stephen King and his lifelong Novels,” beginning with “The Inheritance of work promoting literacy. Everything is free, but Loss” by Kiran Desai, Sept. 26, 6:45 p.m. www. the King event will be ticketed. For more visit smithsonianassociates.org u www.loc.gov/bookfest.
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If I were to leave them two glasses of milk, even across my tombstone would be the words: daughter, wife, mother. Identities like anchors, so heavy I would carry them even after death.
End of Summer Wine-Down Top 10 Wines to Say Goodbye to Summer
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s summer comes to a close, it’s time to squeeze every last drop of fun out of the season. Summer isn’t over yet! There is still time to party on the patio, enjoy evening picnics, and drink thirstquenching summer wines before welcoming the shorter days and cooler air. Summer wines are meant to be crisp and chilled. As we bid farewell to the season, try these wonderful wines that, while refreshing, are weighty and complex enough to transition into fall (much like my favorite denim jacket). While some red wines can taste overly powerful, rich, and heavy for the warmer months, the reds on this list are light-bodied and fresh. Some handy tricks for keeping the reds fresh on 90+ degree days: chill them! Refrigerate your reds for about 30 minutes before serving. It is amazing how much brighter and more aromatic they will become with a slight chill. Also, make sure your summer/fall reds are low in tannin. Tannic and astringent wines are too powerful in warm weather. Enjoy these wonderful and diverse wines this Labor Day – all are food-friendly, ideal for dining alfresco.
white flowers, spice, and lychee. Pair this zesty and fragrant wine with spicy Thai cuisine and Indian curries.
Top 10 Summer-To-Fall Transition Wines:
2015 Bedouet Le Domaine Muscadet ($11.99):
Barrique Cellars is part of our private label collection at Schneider’s. We partner with world-renowned vintners and winemakers from our nation’s most iconic growing areas. This Dry Creek Valley Zinfandel from Sonoma County is no exception. It is loaded with aromas of cedar and baking spice, followed by bright raspberries and tart cherry on the palate, with a rich mouth feel and long finish.
Bright with the zippy acidity of freshly-squeezed lime, this little guy is light and refined. Made from Melon Blanc grapes grown in France’s Loire Valley, it has a salty character making it the prefect accompaniment to raw oysters.
2013 Tablas Creek Patelin de Tablas Rouge ($19.99):
2012 Terra do Castelo Godello ($9.99): The Godello grape is enjoying a revival and for good reason. It’s tasty, complex, and round. Indigenous to Northwest Spain, this wine bursts form the glass with notes of apples and citrus, along with wonderful flinty minerality. Often likened to Chardonnay, Godello, tends to be brighter and more viscous.
2014 Altos de Cristimil Albariño ($19.99): Summer in a bottle! If you’ve never tasted Albariño form Northwest Spain before, it’s like Pinot Grigio… on steroids. It has intense aromas of fresh pear, apples, and lemon peel on the nose, with hints of white flowers and stony minerality on the palate. Pair this wine with steamed clams, Hamachi Poke, or any delicate white fish. This particular Albariño even has the body to stand up to grilled chicken.
2014 Erste + Neue Pinot Grigio ($19.99): These Pinot Grigio grapes are grown on steep terraced slopes in Alto Adige nestled within the Italian Alps. Erste + Neue Pinot Grigio is far more complex than many of its siblings. Dramatic day-night temperature swings create bracing acidity and crisp freshness lacking from some other Italian Pinot Grigio wines. This baby is dynamic and fresh – the ideal picnic wine.
2012 Wunsch and Mann Gewürztraminer St. Remy Organic ($19.99): In your glass you’ll find highly aromatic character with rich notes of ginger,
2012 Clos DuBreuil Clara Rosé ($29.99): This deeply colored rosé from the Saint-Émilion region of Bordeaux drinks like a light red rather than a rosé. Now is the time to make the switch from lighter Provence rosés of summer to one with more body and complexity. Rich, fresh strawberry notes explode from the glass along with highly concentrated aromas of blackberry and pear. Bright acidity keeps the wine in perfect balance.
2013 Barrique Cellars Dry Creek Zinfandel ($19.99):
The famed Perrin family of Château de Beaucastel in Châteauneuf-du-Pape, partnered with Robert Haas, longtime importer and founder of Vineyard Brands, to create this bright and earthy wine in Paso Robles, CA. Bringing the best of the Rhône Valley varietals to California, this wine has fresh red berry aromas and white pepper on the nose, with notes of violet and spice on the palate with wonderfully tangy acidity. Priced at only $20 this wine drinks like a $50 Old World bottle.
2011 Thibault Liger-Belair Moulin-à-Vent La Roche ($49.99): Cru Beaujolais is the perfect wine with which to settle into the crisp fall months while still being light enough to enjoy in the summer. It’s medium-bodied, low in tannin, and has tons of structure. A serious Gamay that’s loaded with lush and spicy fruit. Pair it with spicy ribs, juicy burgers, and crunchy coleslaw this Labor Day.
2011 QUO Gastiago Grenache ($24.99): This is a smoky, spicy, peppery, and bold wine. Pair this savory Spanish Grenache with slow cooked, fatty roasts of pork or lamb. It will also pair beautifully with summer BBQ, sweet sauce and all. u
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Pamila Wilson uses a combination of classic yoga poses and stretching exerises in her water yoga class. Photo: Pattie Cinelli
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ary Ternes started doing yoga in the 1970s. Two years ago she developed pain in her hip. “I had to stop my yoga practice. I was too embarrassed about how hard it was for me to get up and down off the floor.” Then she discovered yoga in the water. “It just didn’t hurt when I did poses in the water” she said. “I got the support I needed, but I received the same benefit as doing poses on the floor.” After getting a hip replacement this past June, Mary continued her yoga in the water. “Both my physical therapist and surgeon were overwhelmed by how quickly I could function so well after surgery.” Pamela Wilson, who has been teaching yoga on land for almost 30 years, started her yoga in the water class about six years ago at Waterside Fitness & Swim Club in southwest DC. “You can get all the benefits of land yoga – balance, flexibility, strength and endurance—in the nurturing environment that water that gives you. You gain a strong link between mind, body, and spirit.” Christine Brahmi Romero, director of St. Mark’s Yoga Center on Capitol
Hill, has found practicing yoga in the water to be therapeutic. Last year when she broke her ankle she could practice poses that were impossible to do on land. “Holding on to the edge of the pool keeps you safe while the water does its work. Retraining atrophied muscles is aided by the gentle movement of the waters, as the body checks and rests. A deep squat, such as malasana, painful and difficult on land, when practiced in shallow water, releases my low back and stretches my calves and quads with ease.” Pamela loves the idea of making yoga accessible to more people. “I have students who just love yoga and students who love the water. Because we are buoyant in the water, weight is taken off our joints which gives us the ability to further explore a pose. The classes also include men and women who are very adept physically, are all ages, and are all shapes and sizes. Yoga in the water is very adaptable.” Pamela said that, “with a little creativity almost any asana (pose) will translate to the water.” She said that practicing yoga in the water puts less stress and strain on the muscles, joints, and bones. “It’s an invigorating workout that’s less
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they develop the physical side of yoga. At East Side Yoga, owner Alia Khan presents yogis with options. She offers at least one rooftop class every day of the week (weather permitting). Nick Rome has been practicing yoga in a studio for more than 10 years. But this summer he has found a way to enhance his practice by connecting with the outdoors at
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Every Wednesday morning during the summer I have had the enjoyment of starting my day on the rooftop of a private office building at the bottom of Capitol Hill, teaching yoga to students before they start work. At 7:30 most mornings, even during the heat wave, a breeze blew across the roof keeping us cool under the awning. When I looked to my left I saw the Capitol dome. To the right was the Washington Monument. I thought, “What a fantastic way to start my day.” Practicing yoga on the rooftop gives students a way to allow their spirit to connect with nature as
Sati teaching on the roof of East Side Yoga. Photo: Courtesy East Side Yoga
East Side Yoga. “Practicing on the rooftop is incredible. Breathing fresh air and feeling a cool breeze wash across your body, paired with the mental and physical benefits of yoga leaves me in a state of utter tranquility. During summer evenings, I love watching the sky evolve and transition with the class. Beautiful clouds and colorful sunsets compliment my movements. I can’t think of a better way to wind down after a long day.” Alia has enhanced East Side Yoga’s rooftop experience by offering a special yoga on the roof, live music, desserts from Grassroots Gourmet and beverages. In September, Alia will teach classes on Sept. 10 and 24 at 8 p.m. Each evening will feature a different musical guest. “The class will flow to a custom set list performed live by that evening’s musical guest,” explained Alia. “Afterwards, you can enjoy the company of other yogis (age 21 and older) while sipping bubbly alcoholic or non-alcoholic beverages.” If you enjoy moving in the elements, yoga in the water or on the rooftop affords a connection to nature that can give either a practiced yogi or a novice a new experience. East Side Yoga will offer its rooftop yoga with live music Sept. 10 and 24. For more information on classes: East Side Yoga, 518 10th Street, NE: www.eastsideyogadc.com. Pattie Cinelli teaches and practices yoga on land, although when on vacation last month she explored poses in a pool. She has taken her Sunday afternoon classes outside in Garfield Park on occasion. Pattie has been writing her health/fitness column for more than 25 years. You can email her with questions or comments at: fitness@pattiecinelli.com. u
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ave you ever wanted to partake in a fun-filled rock climbing event? Experience either a gym or natural outdoor landscape setting while enjoying time with like-minded friends? Rock climbing is a vigorous sport that requires strength, endurance, agility, and balance when scaling up, down, or across natural rock formations or artificial rock. It strengthens and tones muscles, can increase flexibility, aids in the prevention of chronic diseases due to its cardiovascular health benefits, and improves mental cognition with its problem-solving skills in climbing up the routes. Rock climbing is rewarding each step of the way, helping you to reach your peak destination. Scaling a rock wall by placing your feet and hands in or on the small cracks and protruding rock, then finally reaching the top for a beautiful sight, is an invigorating experience. After soaking in the challenging climb and gorgeous views, you can enjoy a relaxing return down the rock as your belayer-controlled rappel slowly lets you down. There are several forms of rock climbing such as lead climbing, traditional climbing, or bouldering, but my most recent rock climbing outing, with a colleague, was an outdoor toprope class. The class was led by two excellent instructors, Cory and Rick, who taught 12 active outdoor enthusiasts the foundational skills of rock climbing, such as proper belaying, knot-tying, rappelling, crack-climbing, and anchoring, and the equipment to get jump started to climb safely outdoors. Top-roping has minimal injury risk, as long as your belaying partner is doing their duty, as it requires another person to assist as you climb. “Your partner is responsible for feeding you rope and lowering as you descend your route, utilizing an ATC as you go,” stated Cory. An ATC is an air
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Classmates climbing and belaying at the Sandbox.
traffic controller, which is a belaying device. “Top-roping is not only a great way for rookies to learn, but excellent for veterans to practice a new route.” My colleague and I had a third partner, Ann Dunn, a wonderful addition to our climbing team. Usually a third person is not needed when climbing, but with a three-person team we could gain experience with different climbing partners and belayers and have an extra set of eyes and hands to guide one another. Even if you are not a fan of heights, it’s a wonderful way to get out and tackle fear of falling, since being strapped to a harness limits the falling distance. Take Ann for instance. “I’m not a fan of heights, but I like the challenge,” she stated. She skillfully dominated the rock, making climbing look easy! Two excellent locations to rock climb and boulder during the warmer months around DC are Carderock at the C&O Canal National Historic Park and the Sandbox at Great Falls Park. We met at the Sandbox, which is “a wonderful compact area with a handful of easy to moderate climbs for beginners and scramblers,” explained Rick. The routes ranged from 25 to 45 feet in vertical gain, giving you the option of completing all the routes in one day. The Sandbox gets its name from the mix of deep sand and small shells separating the rock-climbing wall from the dangerous Potomac River cliffs. That makes it a better place to fall in case of an accidental slip when free soloing or leading the routes. Climbing on weekday afternoons or early weekend mornings is highly recommended given the site’s popularity from spring to fall. Weekday afternoons offer smaller crowds and shaded routes that make it much more pleasant to climb than on the sun-scorched rocks of mid-day, unless you are a speedster in getting up the rock wall.
Instructor Cory demonstrating knot-tying techniques.
There are various degrees and levels of rock-climbing classes, so be sure to engage in activities that match your experience. Have you done climbing and are you looking to get out on the rock with like-minded climbers? REI has a weekly rock climbing club throughout the warm season where you can come and go throughout the evening for a minimal fee. All you need is your own harness, climbing shoes, helmet, and the demonstrated ability to safely tie in and belay. With the transition to fall, now is the time to participate in an outdoors event of your choice before the winter hits.
More information about the REI climbing club, classes, and other active outdoor events can be found at www.rei.com/outdoorschool. Stacy Peterson, MS, MA, CSCS, CHHC, is a nutrition-based holistic health, wellness, and strength and conditioning coach practicing whole-foods nutrition and physical training to individuals of all ages on the Hill, with an integrative aspect to health and performance. For more information about reaching optimal health or achieving fitness goals contact Acceleration Sports by visiting www.accelerationsports.net, emailing stacy@accelerationsports.net, or calling 805-704-7193. To an active and healthy you! u
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anic was a 17-year-old Jack Russell Terrier who had canine dementia. He was so closely bonded to owner Alan Platt that it created stress for both when Platt had to travel. “We hired sitters but they didn’t have the same level of attention and care for Panic as I did. They didn’t know what to do. They weren’t familiar with his idiosyncrasies. I hated to leave him.” Platt’s discomfort was alleviated when he found Pawticular Pet Care and Alexis Mitchell, a licensed veterinary technician (LVT) who provides care to medically needy, behaviorally particular, and older pets. “It was like having a clone of myself,” explained Platt. “Alexis gave Panic the same quality of care that I would give. It’s a real testament that someone can pick up, adapt, and learn all the special needs my Panic had. Alexis is special. I don’t know how she does it.” Platt continued, “I think the hardest thing as a human is what to do with a loved one.” When it became time to let go of Panic, he said it was comforting to have someone guide him through that process. Mitchell explained, “I was able to provide end-of-life, quality-of-life experience and helped Alan determine when it was best to let Panic go. I fell so hard for this little guy. It was a challenging case. Panic often slept during the day and was up at night which meant I got little sleep. It was so rewarding for me to be able to provide this service.”
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Mitchell’s business, Pawticular Pet Care, developed out of her love of animals and her passion for animal welfare. After she graduated from college with a degree in criminology, she worked for Booz, Allen & Hamilton. When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, Mitchell’s services were contracted out to FEMA and the Department of Homeland Security in the area of animal emergency preparedness and response. “From that work experience I realized I wanted to get more involved in animal welfare,” she remarked. In 2012 Mitchell became an LVT and worked at the McLean Animal Hospital. “I recognized how many people in the metro area needed someone with my skills who could stay at their home and care for their pet with special needs.” She has cared for animals with diabetes and cancer, pets
Help Your Brain Adjust to Stress Visit a Chiropractor who need care after surgery, and animals who are old and dying. Her compassion and intuitiveness for the animals is extraordinary. Mitchell has not only academic credentials and professional expertise but personal experience in caring for an animal with special needs. “I rescued a dog in kidney failure,” she said. “I was told he would last six months. He lived three years and four months.” During that time she never left him in a hospital or a cage. “He was the love of my life.” “As an owner of a special needs pet,” she continued, “I learned firsthand how challenging each day can be. As an LVT I can make it easier for an owner to attend to unexpected issues that arise each day or to take that vacation that keeps getting postponed.” Her services are less expensive than leaving a pet in a hospital. She offers owners the ability to keep their pet in a comfortable setting so both pet and owner can feel at ease. She also offers a blend of restorative yoga and animal therapy when needed. Another client hired Mitchell to provide basic post-operative care for their animal. “They were so appreciative for the kind of care I offered, they requested me for regular pet sitting.” In addition to her in-home pet care services, Mitchell works for the ASPCA as part of its field investigative response team. She also is under contract with an animal shelter in Maryland. For more information about Alexis Mitchell and Pawticular Pet Care log onto www.careforyourspecialpet.com or call her at 202-417-7198. Pattie Cinelli is a journalist who specializes in health and fitness topics. She is also a holistic health and fitness coach. For more information about her work log onto www.pattiecinelli.com or email her at fitness@ pattiecinelli.com. u
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Reducing Food Waste: Bringing It Home! by Catherine Plume
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ast month I wrote about federal- and DCgovernment efforts to reduce food waste through standardized food labeling, coordinating with local food banks, and composting – among other initiatives. Forty percent of food produced in the US annually is wasted and represents some $165 billion. With this article I’m bringing it home, literally, by looking at things you can do to reduce food waste in your home. Here are a few ideas. 1. Be realistic about how much food you need, and buy in quantities that your household is reasonably able to consume. While this may seem obvious, with the bounty of quality fresh local produce
Chard covered and stored in green vegetable bags in the fridge is looking good, even after three weeks!
offered by farmers’ markets and community-supported agriculture (CSA) it’s easy to indulge – and end up with a lot of spoiled food. Many CSAs offer mini shares, or maybe it makes more sense to share with a neighbor. 2. Know your food labels. According to the USDA, “use by” dates usually refer to best quality “and are not safety dates. Even if the date expires during home storage, a product should be safe, wholesome and of good quality if handled properly.” Legislation introduced in the US House and Senate would create a national standard for expiration dates and require labels to clearly distinguish between foods that reach their peak freshness by a particular date and foods that are unsafe to eat after a certain date.
I found a lot of delicious peach on these peaches that were heading to the compost bin.
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3. Know how to store fruit and vegetables to minimize spoilage. Radishes, celery, and carrots will stay fresh for weeks if stored completely submerged and covered in a jar of water in the fridge. Remove any green tops asap – and try them in a salad.
4. Onions will keep longer when wrapped in a pair of old stockings or hose. (You always wondered what to do with those, right?). No need to refrigerate. 5. Chard and most lettuces will keep for weeks when completely enclosed in green plastic vegetable bags. If the stalks are long, put one bag over the base of the stalks and another over the top of the leaves. 6. Did you get carried away buying corn on the cob? Shuck it and pop it in boiling water for three minutes, cut it from the cob, put it into a plastic bag, and freeze. It will be delicious this winter. While you’re at it, buy some fresh green beans and blanche them for three minutes. They’ll be a great addition to a soup this fall. Freeze the cob and use it as a part of soup stock. 7. Learn to can. It’s really not that hard and you can take advantage of all the delicious fresh fruits and vegetables in their prime. Invite a friend to join you, and start with smallish quantities and a two- or three-hour block of time. Frager’s Hardware has the supplies you’ll need. The possibilities are limitless: canned tomatoes, salsa, marinara, applesauce, blueberry, strawberry, and grape jam. Canned peaches packed in a light syrup will be a welcome dessert in January. 8. Turn cabbage into sauerkraut and cucumbers into pickles. It’s easy to do and doesn’t require heat processing – just a crock (order online at TrueValue or Ace Hardware and get free delivery to a local outlet. 9. Buy “ugly” fruit and vegetables at the farmers’ market or grocery store. I’m not urging anyone to buy produce that’s on the verge of rotting – rather, it’s a plea to buy the odd-shaped tomato, the multilegged carrot, and the eggplant that looks like it has a nose. Tons of food are rejected by retailers annually merely because they don’t meet predetermined esthetic guidelines. In an effort to reduce this waste, Giant Eagle and Whole Foods both announced in March that they would begin selling “imperfect” produce as a pilot in some stores. In July Walmart got in on the action, announcing that it would begin to sell “weather-dented” apples at a discount in 300 of its Florida stores. While these are great initial steps, it’s as important for consumers to buy “imperfect” produce to get the system to work. That dual-leg carrot has the same nutritional value as the single-root “ideal” one. Buy it! 10. Compost. While it’s not the best use of food, composting fruits, vegetables, corn husks, leaves, dog and human hair, masking tape, paper bags, newspapers, and the like is a good way to reduce waste and pressure on landfills while providing an excellent homegrown fertilizer. If you lack space for your own bin, check Compost Cab, Veteran Compost, and Fat Worm Compost, which offer residential, commercial, and special-event composting. Make sure that none of the $165 billion we waste on unused food is coming out of your pocket! Catherine Plume is a lifelong environmentalist, a writer, and a blogger for the DC Recycler: www.DCRecycler.blogspot.com; Twitter @DC_Recycler. u
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he most common source of chronic pain in dogs is arthritis, also known as degenerative joint disease. Arthritis develops with age in many dogs, but can also begin earlier in life in dogs with hip or elbow dysplasia or as the consequence of an injury. In a select few cases surgery may help, but in most dogs treatment involves attempts at preventing further joint damage, increasing mobility, and decreasing pain. The best way to treat arthritis is via a multimodal approach combining several different therapies and medications to achieve a better result than one treatment alone. Your dog does not have to be in pain. I will discuss some of the options available below. As always
by Dr. Dan Teich prior to starting any therapies and treatments, have a good discussion with your veterinarian about the condition at hand.
Joint Supplements/ Nutraceuticals Omega-3 fatty acids, as found in cold-water fish oils, are known to have anti-inflammatory properties and may reduce some joint inflammation. Regular fish oils may work well, but there are veterinary specific brands that may have an even better effect. Many people use flaxseed oil, but it is not as effective in dogs because the oil in flax seeds needs to be converted in the body to an omega-3 fatty acid, and humans are much more efficient at this than dogs. Stick with fish oil.
Glucosamine and Chondroitin Sulfate Cartilage is composed of a number of elements including chondroitin sulfate and glucosamine metabolites. These compounds are the building blocks of cartilage, and by supplementing the diet with them you are assuring that your dog has them available to repair damaged cartilage. Glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate are available in oral chewable supplements, making administration very easy. Dogs have been found to absorb glucosamine better than humans, making it potentially more effective than in people. There may even be a subtle antiinflammatory effect. We have seen some remarkable results with glucosamine supplementation, but there a few caveats: it takes several weeks to months to show an effect, and the quality of the product is essential. Most glucosamines on the market (especially human-use brands and generics) are of poor quality and are not absorbed well. The branded veterinary products are tested and found to be far superior. We are happy to chat with you about them.
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Free radicals are compounds that can damage cells and are thought to contribute to aging. They are formed in the body via natural processes and from external sources, such as pollution, sunlight, or food contaminants. For humans, free radical scavenging molecules are being used to help retard aging and possibly arthritis. This is still a new field. Antioxidants include Vitamins C and E, S-adenyl Methionine (sAMe), and Superoxide Dismutase.
MSM MSM, or methyl sulfonyl methane, is frequently combined with glucosamine chondroitin sulfate. It too has anti-inflammatory properties. The compound contains a large amount of sulfur, an essential element in glycosaminoglycans, a main component of cartilage that enables cartilage to absorb water and stay soft. MSM provides another building block to help repair cartilage.
Adequan(R) Polysulfated Glycosaminoglycans These supplements and nutritional additives are taken by mouth, but there is one that has proven very effective and is approved by the FDA for use in dogs that is given via injection. Adequan(R), composed of glycosaminoglycans, stimulates cartilage repair, inhibits destructive enzymes, and increases joint fluid. Giving Adequan(R) is not as scary as it sounds, because many dogs tolerate injections well, and we can even show you how to give them at home. The biggest fear is conquering your own fear of injections. The dogs don’t care! Adequan(R) is highly recommended for most dogs with arthritis, and the side effects are minimal. Next month I will discuss medications for the control of arthritis. As always, if you have questions about your pet please feel free to contact us or your veterinarian. Drop us a note: desk@districtvet.com. Hill resident Dan Teich, DVM, practices at District Veterinary Hospital, 3748 10th St. NE, 202-827-1230. u
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N O T E B O O K National Book Festival Features Children’s Authors The 16th Annual Library of Congress National Book Festival is on Saturday, Sept. 24, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. (doors open at 9 a.m.), at the Washington Convention Center, 801 Mt. Vernon Pl. NW. Approximately 120 authors, illustrators and poets will make presentations in stages dedicated to Children; Teens; Picture Books; Books to Movies; Contemporary Life; Graphic Novels; Fiction; Food & Home; History & Biography; International Programs; Mysteries, Thrillers &
Women in Aviation and Space Family Day Throughout the history of aviation and space exploration, women have fought to be on equal terms with their male counterparts. On Saturday, Sept. 17, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., enjoy learning about the significant contributions women have made. The day features presentations by women in the field, hands-on activities and stories. National Air and Space Museum, Independence Ave. at Sixth St. SW. airandspace.si.edu. Astronomers from the University of Maryland give kids a chance to see a few things up close at the Women in Aviation and Space Family Day. Photo: Dane Penland, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution
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Science Fiction; Poetry & Prose; and Science. Read more at loc.gov/bookfest. Children’s books authors in attendance: Sharon Robinson and Calvin Trillin, 10 to 10:30 a.m.; Doreen Cronin, Betsy Lewin and Callista Gingrich, 10:40 to 11:10 a.m.; Thomas Gonzalez, Janet Nolan and Brendan Wenzel, 11:20 to 11:50 a.m.; Melissa Sweet and Kate Beaton, noon to 12:30 p.m.; Ken Burns and Aaron Becker, 12:40 to 1:10 p.m.; Jerry Pinkney and Andrea Beaty, 1:20 to 1:50 p.m.; Juana Medina and Shannon Hale, 2 to 2:30 p.m.; Nadia Hashimi and Raymond Arroyo, 2:40 to 3:10 p.m.; Tonya Bolden, 3:20 to 3:50; “Letters About Literature,” 3:20 to 4:45 p.m.; “A Book That Shaped Me Contest,” 3:20 to 4:45 p.m.; Sophie Blackall, 4 to 4:30 p.m.; Pam Muñoz Ryan, 4:40 to 5:10 p.m.; Jason Reynolds, 4:55 to 5:25 p.m.; Louise Borden, 5:20 to 5:50 p.m.; Hervé Tullet, 5:35 to 6:05 p.m. Teen’s books authors in attendance: Edwidge Danticat, 10 to 10:30 a.m.; Ali Benjamin, noon, 10:45 to 11:15 a.m.; Kwame Alexander, 11:30 a.m. to noon; Meg Medina, 12:15 to 12:45 p.m.; Lois Lowry, 1 to 1:30 p.m.; Paul Rudnick, 1:45 to 2:15 p.m.; Gene Luen Yang, 2:30 to 3 p.m.; Holly Robinson Peete, 3:15 to 3:45 p.m.; Brendan Kiely, 4 to 4:30 p.m.; Jo Knowles, 4:45 to 5:15 p.m.; Kiersten White, 5:30 to 6 p.m.
Annual MoTH Family Fest, Sept. 18 On Sunday, September 18, 2016, from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. at Garfield Park, 3rd & G Streets SE. Bands, games, raffles, food, & fun! MOTH Family Fest 2015 was a tremendous success and involved the entire community. Hundreds of area families with children of all ages enjoyed the event. At the height of the event, we had over 1,700 people bouncing in the moon bounces, listening to music, eating cupcakes, and playing in the park. Many area
businesses supported the festival and we even ran out of vendor tables for the first time ever. Come out and join the fun!
Con Las Puertas Abiertas On Saturday, Oct. 1, 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, the entire family is invited to a fun-filled day of free performances, demonstrations and hands-on activities inspired by Latino culture. Events for youth of all ages will take place throughout the Terrace Level of the Kennedy Center (in the Atrium & Foyers, Terrace Gallery, and Nations and States Galleries). kennedy-center.org.
Helping Teens Find Families Fundraiser The Family & Youth Initiative will hold its annual fundraiser “Establishing Roots” at Eastern Market’s North Hall on Wednesday, Oct. 5, 6:30 to 9 p.m. The nonprofit works exclusively with older foster children in the District to find them families or adults who will be in their lives forever. Almost 600 young people are currently waiting for these services. Tickets ($50 adult; $35 student/nonprofit/ young professional) include wine, beer, soft drinks and tastings from restaurants including Acqua Al 2. There are also silent auction items such as Nats tickets, vacation/hotel deals, restaurant gift cards and hand crafted clothes. For more information, or to find out how you can help change a foster child’s life, visit dcfyi.org.
Flowers Stink at the Botanic Garden Living in a big city, a.k.a. “the concrete jungle,” sometimes it’s hard to appreciate the great outdoors. That’s definitely the case with one middle school girl, who’s struggling with writing a nature-themed poem for school. Giving up, she tweets: “#poetryisstupid #natureis-
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borings #flowersstink.” Suddenly, two zany and loveable plants magically come to life in her room, encouraging her to open her eyes, ears and mind to the beauty all around her. Mixing plenty of singing and dancing with folk, bluegrass, blues and gospel, this is a colorful world premiere musical by the Helen Hayes Award-winning creators of Dizzy Miss Lizzie’s Roadside Revue. Flowers Stink is on Saturdays, Sept. 24, Oct. 1, 8, 15, 22 and 29 at 11 a.m. It’s free. Flowers Stink is performed outdoors on the Amphitheatre stage at the US Botanic Garden, 100 Maryland Ave. SW. In case of rain, the show will be in the Conservatory in the West Gallery. usbg.gov.
Night Adventures at the Botanic Garden Ever wonder what it’s like to be at the US Botanic Garden late at night after the public and gardeners have gone home? On Friday, Oct. 7 and Saturday, Oct. 8, 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., a night adventure awaits. Venture out on a flashlight tour of the Jungle. Explore night-blooming flowers and night pollinators. Experience the cool of the night desert. Join in several hands-on plant science experiments. Participants must be between the ages of 9 and 12 and be accompanied by an adult. No adults may enroll without registered children. Parents must remain on-site during the program. The Saturday program is a repeat of the program on Friday. Free but preregistration is required. usbg.gov.
Three-day Theater, Film, TV and Commercial Event for Kids This weekend-long, Oct. 7 to 9, Actors Connection event is jam packed with prominent industry guests who will work with young actors, ages 8 to 13, in the DC market. Actors
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Connection and The Little Theatre of Alexandria developed DC Connection to provide the young actors with the opportunity to study, train and network in a focused, supportive environment. DC Connection is held at The Little Theatre of Alexandria. To register or request additional information, contact Christopher Dietrich, Actors Connection President, at christopher@actorsconnection.com. The cost is $895 and payment plans are available. actorsconnection.com.
Newseum Summer Fun Deal Through Labor Day, the Newseum waives admission for visitors age 18 and younger. Up to four kids visit for free with each paid adult or senior admission. The regular admission price for ages 7 to 18 is $13.95. Kids six and under are always free. Newseum is at 555 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. newseum.org.
Childbirth Class at Hill Center This four week, eight hour class will cover various topics of childbirth and labor preparation. This course, designed and written by ProDoula, gives all the tools and information woman and couples need for the labor and birth process. The class is informative and provides non-judgmental support. Topics include staying comfortable in late pregnancy, medical interventions, writing a birth plan and comfort measures. The classes are Wednesdays, Sept. 7 to 29, 7 to 9 p.m. at Hill Center. $275 per couple. For a description, visit hillcenterdc.org.
Ghoulishly Good Concert This year’s Capital City Symphony family concert is inspired by the spookiness and fantasy of Halloween. Come in costume. On Sunday, Oct.
16, 3 to 4 p.m., at the Atlas Performing Arts Center, 1333 H St. NE, face the ghosts and ghouls of Saint-Saëns’ Danse Macabre and Mussorgsky’s “Night on Bald Mountain,” or enter the fairy tale world of Stravinsky’s “The Firebird.” Along the way you’ll learn how the instruments of the orchestra combine to bring these amazing stories to life. 30 minutes before show meet the musicians at the Instrument Petting Zoo. Kids, 16 and under, are free; students are $15 and adults, $25. Reach the box office at 202399-7993. atlasarts.org.
Family Day at President Lincoln’s Cottage Family Day at President Lincoln’s Cottage is on Saturday, Sept. 10, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Enjoy the live entertainment and creative activities inspired by the Lincoln family and their life at the Soldiers’ Home. At the petting zoo, ride a pony, chase the peacocks and play with Tad Lincoln’s favorite pets. Make cards for veterans and create a top hat. Enjoy lunch at the picnic tables or on the south lawn, either pack a picnic or buy from vendors. Listen to live music and tour the cottage. Everything’s free except lunch. President Lincoln’s Cottage is at 140 Rock Creek Church Rd. NW. lincolncottage.org.
Dinosaurs Alive 3D at the Natural History Museum See the earliest creatures of the Triassic Period to the monsters of the Cretaceous in a “life-sized” IMAX presentation. Join renowned paleontologists as they discover new fossils and uncover evidence that dinosaur descendants are still among us. Realistic
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Children’s Hawaiian Program at the American Indian Museum This is an entertaining educational program about Hawaiian traditions and culture. Traditional hula teacher Melissa Mokihana Scalph shares Hawaiian culture through stories, dance, song, games and crafts. Visitors have the opportunity to learn the basic movements of hula and how the dance is used to tell a story. Recommended for ages 5 and up. The Children’s Hawaiian Program is on Sept. 13 and 25; at 10:45 a.m. and 12:15 p.m., at the American Indian Museum. nmai.si.edu. Melissa Mokihana Scalph is a certified school teacher and a graduate of Halau Mohala `Ilima, a traditional hula school in Kailua, Hawai`i. She has been performing and teaching hula since 1981. Mokihana’s classes and programs strive to dispel stereotypes about hula and teach a correct understanding of the people, history and culture of Hawai`i through traditional hula, crafts and storytelling. Photo: Roger Whiteside, Copyright NMAI
Saturday Mornings at The National On select Saturday mornings, The National Theatre hosts free programs designed to engage and inspire the young mind. Saturday programming is best suited for children four to 10 years of age. Siblings and friends are always welcome. Performances take place Saturdays at 9:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. in the Helen Hayes Gallery. The National Theatre is at 1321 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. Tickets may be reserved one week prior to the performance. The reservation system closes at 10 a.m. on the Friday before the performance. Walk-ins are welcome if there is room. Register and get more information at thenationaldc.org.
and scientifically-accurate computer generated animation brings dinosaurs back to life…in a big way! Runtime: 40 minutes. Four shows every day at the National Museum of Natural History, 10th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. naturalhistory.si.edu.
LEGO Family Day at SAAM On Saturday, Sept. 17, 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., is the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s LEGO Family Day Budding architects can use problem-solving skills and imagination to make works of art and architecture at LEGO building stations. Recreate some of their famous sculptures on display in the galleries, or invent new creations. Examine USPTO’s LEGO model of their historic building, home to the US Patent Office in the nineteenth century. The model will remain on public view through Oct. 5. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Eighth and F Streets NW. americanart.si.edu.
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Anacostia Community Museum’s Fall Family Festival On Saturday, Sept. 10, noon to 4 p.m., enjoy live entertainment, face painting, mask making, storytelling and art activities for the kids at this annual free museum event. Entertainment includes Sylver Logan Sharp and Band, GoGo Fitness and the Savoy Players, Savoy Elementary performing scenes from the Broadway musical Hairspray. Anacostia Community Museum is at 1901 Fort Pl. SE. anacostia.si.edu.
Race for Every Child 5k and Kids’ Dash The Race for Every Child 5k is one of the largest community events focused on children’s health in the Washington region. It raises critical funds to help kids grow up stronger. The race is on Oct. 1, 7 a.m., at Freedom Plaza. Registration for the 5k is $50 and closes Sept. 27. The Kids’ Dash is $15. childrensnational.donordrive.com.
“Kids Ride Free” Program Improves The District of Columbia and the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority have made improvements to the Kids Ride Free program designed to make it simpler and more flexible. Through the Kids Ride Free, public school students are allowed to take bus and rail trips for free within the District to travel to school, and school-related activities. The program uses an electronic Kids Ride Free pass that is loaded onto students’ DC One Cards. To be eligible, students must be enrolled in school, be under 22 years old and live in the District. Private school students are eligible for the free bus benefit only. The time-of-day and day-of-week restrictions on bus travel have been removed. Students may take free bus trips all day, every day, to get to school and extracurricular activities within the District. The electronic pass is now issued to all eligible public school and public charter school students with DC One Cards. Students are no longer required to sign-up for the program online. Students can check the status of their Kids Ride Free pass as well as any stored value on their DC One Cards on an improved dconecard.dc.gov website. For more information, contact DDOT’s School Transit Subsidy Office at 202-673-1740 or visit ddot.dc.gov/node/537462.
Afghan Fighter Kites Workshop On Saturday, Sept. 17 and Sunday, Sept. 18, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 2 to 4 p.m., visit the exhibition Turquoise Mountain with teaching artist Mukhtar Ziarmal. Learn about kite fighting, a popular activity for kids in Afghanistan. Then, return to the classroom to collaborate with family and friends on constructing and decorating a kite. This program
is designed for children ages 6 to 12 and adults to enjoy together. The Arthur M. Sackler Gallery is at 1050 Independence Ave. SW. asia.si.edu.
Serve Your City Fall Season Lineup Serve Your City (SYC) has announced its fall schedule: Rowing will run from September through October from 4:30 ñ 6 p.m. on Thursday and Sundays at the Anacostia Community Boathouse, 1900 M St. SE. Tennis is scheduled from 5-7 p.m. on Fridays at Eastern High School, 1700 East Capitol St NE. The Aquatics program starts a bit later in the season, the end of October through November, 5-7 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays at Turkey Thicket Recreation Center, 1100 Michigan Ave. NE. And tutoring will be offered until the winter break, from 4-7 p.m., Mondays through Thursdays at Janís Tutoring House, 1529 Pennsylvania Ave SE. Athletic programs are $50 per season; tutoring is free. To register your child, email info@serveyourcitydc.org or call 202.341.1732. SYC is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that creates essential learning opportunities for District youth.
Local Students Launch App to Help Children with Autism Students from Derwood, MD have created an app to help children with autism that is available for free download in Google Play. The AutBuddy app allows users to improve their focus and learn how to better understand and manage their tasks through an array of features. The students are one of the nine Best in Nation winners of the fourth Verizon Innovative Learning App Challenge, a unique, no-coding-skills-needed app design contest. As winners, the students earned $20,000 from the Ve-
rizon Foundation for Adventures in Science. They got to work alongside experts from the Center for Mobile Learning at the MIT Media Lab to turn their app concept into a working mobile application. The team owns the full rights to their app; and hopes it will be used by autistic children, their parents and their teachers across the country. The 2016-17 App Challenge is open to any team of middle and high school students. To enter, students only need to have an idea for an app that could solve a problem in their school or community. For more information on how to register for the Verizon Innovative Learning App Challenge, or to download the completed apps, visit verizon.com/ appchallenge.
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Fort Ward Civil War Artillery Day On Saturday, Sept. 10, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., learn about the role of artillerymen at a fort in the Defenses of Washington from reenactors portraying the 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery, a unit stationed at Fort Ward during the Civil War. Activities include cannon firing demonstrations, camp life, and equipment display. Program is weather dependent. Fort Ward Museum & Historic Site, 4301 W. Braddock Rd., Alexandria, VA. visitalexandriava.com.
Volcanoes: Bilingual Tales of El Salvador In Mayan volcano is ixcanul (fire mountain). A volcano’s fire is hot, alive, and beautiful, like the stories and folktales from El Salvador. A fun-filled musical spectacle for children five to ten, Volcanoes combines past and present, myth and stories of everyday life. Volcanoes: Tales of El Salvador by Cornelia Cody is at GALA, Oct. 8 to 22. Tickets are $12 for ages 15 and older; $10 for ages
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2 to 14. Infants one year and under are free. GALA Hispanic Theatre is at 3333 14th St. NW. galatheatre.org. GALita is dedicated to producing children’s theater in both Spanish and English that inspires a sense of joy, discovery, pride and self-identity in the community’s youngest members. GALita’s presentations are bilingual and accessible across language barriers, thus nurturing children’s curiosity and tolerance for cultures other than their own.
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Ever loved a special doll or stuffed toy? Abilene adores her china rabbit doll, Edward Tulane. But, Edward is spoiled and ungrateful until fate takes him on an emotional rollercoaster of an adventure through the 20th century. He is lost overboard on an ocean liner, fished up by a kindly villager, dumped in a heap of garbage, rescued by a hobo and his dog, turned into a scarecrow and adopted by a little boy who gives him as a gift to his sickly sister. Little by little, Edward discovers goodness and humility. Kate DiCamillo’s award-winning book translates beautifully to the stage. Best for ages 6 and up. Tickets are $15 to $35. The show runs Oct. 8 to 30 at Imagination Stage, 4908 Auburn Ave., Bethesda, MD. 301-280-1660. imaginationstage.org.
Last Chance for Kids to Run the Bases Kids, ages 4 to 12, can run the bases after select Nationals games. Kids Run the Bases begins immediately following the game, weather permitting. Remaining date this season is Sept. 11. An adult must accompany runners to the field. One adult per child on the field. The line forms outside of the park on the sidewalk along First Street SE. washington.nationals.mlb.com.
Family Dances at Glen Echo On Sundays, Sept. 11, Oct. 9, and Nov. 13, 3 to 5 p.m., the Folklore Society of Greater Washington hosts an afternoon dancing to live music and called dances. Bring the entire family, neighbors, a birthday party or a girl or boy
scout troop. All ages are welcome. Admission is $5 for age 4 and older. Glen Echo Park is at 7300 MacArthur Blvd., Glen Echo, MD. 301634-2222. glenechopark.org.
OAG Punishes Fraudulent Enrollers in DCPS The Office of the Attorney General has won a $539,000 judgment against a couple for fraudulently enrolling their three children in DC Public Schools while they lived in Maryland and Virginia. The decision comes in District of Columbia v. Hill, et al., 2015 CA 004210 B (D.C. Super. Ct.), a case the District first brought last year. While residing at homes in Maryland and Virginia, Alan and Candace Hill avoided paying non-resident tuition for their children by providing a false DC address on enrollment forms they submitted to DCPS. Their children attended DCPS from 2003 to 2013. At no point during this period did the Hills live in the District. In her order granting a judgment for the District, Judge Ronna Lee Beck of DC Superior Court awarded the District $448,047 in damages under the DC False Claims Act. She also awarded $74,219 for unjust enrichment and civil penalties totaling $16,500.
All the Way Live! Hip Hop Show In this interactive performance, Baye Harrell, a Helen Hayes Award nominee, and Paige Hernandez, a Kennedy Center Citizen Artist Fellow, collaborate on the spot to “remix” everything from folk tales to classical art. History is revived through a Hip Hop lens. Paige and Baye tell stories and perform to original beats by Nick “Nickthe1da” Hernandez with the help of a magical boom box that needs the audience’s help to power the songs. This show explores not only the language of words, but also the language of the body, sounds and numbers. Most enjoyed by age 5 and up. Tickets are $20. All the Way Live! is at the Kennedy Center, Saturday, Oct. 15, 11 a.m., 1:30 and 5 p.m.; and Sunday, Oct. 16, 1:30 and 4 p.m. kennedy-center.org. Have an event for the Kids & Family Notebook? Email bulletinboard@hillrag.com. u
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School Notes by Susan Braun Johnson Friends Community School
Capitol Hill Montessori at Logan
FCS Enrolls 240 Students; 34 from Capitol Hill
This past school year Capitol Hill Montessori at Logan (CHML) graduated 14 students in its first eighth grade class. Those students will matriculate to a wide array of high schools: Paul PCS, McKinley Tech High School, Archbishop McNamara High School, KIPP DC, Eastern High School, Duke Ellington, Friendship PCS -- Collegiate Academy, School Without Walls, and George School. This coming school year CHML middle school will continue to grow with 20 seventh graders and 20 eighth graders. CHML welcomes new staff this year: visual arts teacher, Mary Jo Lombardo; special education teacher Melissa Duane; French teacher Anna Hylton; new primary teacher Karen Via; middle school science teacher Alicia Chambers; social worker Fatima Lambert; and school counselor Tarah Payton. As CHML continues to grow, the staff and
parent community is committed to continuing to provide a premiere Montessori learning environment for our students. Capitol Hill Montessori can be found at 215 G St. NE. Learn more at www.capitolhillmontessorischool.org, on Facebook at Capitol Hill Montessori PTSO communications@capitolhillmontessorischool.org. – Sara Burns
Friends Community School started the school year having reached its enrollment goal of 240 students, including 34 from Capitol Hill. The rest come from other parts of Washington and from Maryland, where the school is located. Over the last eight years, the school has grown from 180 students Maury Elementary to 240, the size at which it will remain. It has an Welcome Amanda Mentzer – New Think average class size of 12 in kindergarten and about Tank Coordinator 16 in grades 1-8. When Amanda Mentzer learned, in 2014, that her Three years ago, the school opened new arts husband’s career would bring them to the District, and classroom space. The addition included a lowshe knew she wanted to live “in the heart of the er school science lab, an art studio, performing arts city” on Capitol Hill. Researching schools for her space and student lockers, as well as classroom, oftwo children, she fell in love with Maury because of fice and tutoring space in its LEED Silver Certithe Roots of Empathy program. She was impressed fied building. that the school was “preparing students to achieve “I value Friends because it has a strong academgood test scores and still finding time to teach them ic curriculum and a robust arts program, all in the setto be good citizens.” Last year she joined the school ting of a vibrant and supportive community,” said Trish Petty, an FCS parent and board member. This year the school community will focus on the theme of equality. Equality is one of the Quaker SPICES, six principles representing Quaker values that are part of the curriculum at Friends. The SPICES are Simplicity, Peace, Integrity, Community, Equality and Stewardship. “As part of our study of the Quaker testimonies, our faculty and students will deepen our exploration of issues of equality,” said Larry Clements, head of the school. “This will be especially timely as our nation experiences an unprecedented election season.” Aside from work that students will do in this area, Jennie Claiborne, an eighth grade language arts teacher, and Adriana Murphy, the head of the middle school, will lead a book group for parents on diversity, inclusion and identity. Friends Community School is a progressive Quaker school that welcomes students of all beliefs. For more information about the school, contact Connie Belfiore, director of admissions, at connie@friendscommunityschool.org or 301- 4412100 x129. Friends Community School is located at 5901 Westchester Park Drive, College Park, MD. More information can be found at www. friendscommunityschool.org. – Eric Rosenthal. Amanda Mentzer, Maury Think Tank Coordinator, with her Mathademics team
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Open Houses 2016-17 family as a classroom aide. When she learned that the Maury Think Tank Coordinator position, originated by the inimitable Vanessa Ford, would be open, she was eager to apply. Her undergraduate work is in Civil Engineering so it is a natural fit – her “dream job.” Ms. Mentzer looks forward to adding a few twists of her own; she expects to focus more heavily on the technology and engineering components of STEM, especially in the upper grades She also plans to collaborate with the art teacher, Lauren Bomba, “expanding STEM into STEAM”, as she puts it. Ms. Mentzer’s teaching background is largely at the middle school level and all too often, she says, she saw students entering “with almost no science background or weak math skills and an extremely negative attitude toward the subject, or just lack of confidence in their ability to learn it.” She looks forward to sending her Maury students off to middle school, excited to learn more. She wants “all of our students, including those from populations that are underrepresented in science and engineering, to feel prepared for these fields if they choose them.” Maury Elementary, 1250 Constitution Ave., NE. Call 202-698-3838 or visit www.mauryelementary.com to learn more. – Elizabeth Nelson.
St. Peter School Welcome Back, Welcome Back, Welcome Back! 148 years of tradition, values and academic excellence welcomed back students to the same old place kids learned and laughed in just a few short months ago! In those hallowed halls and classrooms students also found so much great newness. New interactive whiteboards, computers, Project Zero and associated culture of thinking curriculum, and several new teachers will all contribute to a 21st Century learning environment
that will sustain, grow, and helps student achieve their true capacity for learning.
The Wow! Rising fourth grader Chloe Morton was recently honored at an award ceremony sponsored by Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (CTY). Chloe was one of more than 30,000 students from more than 60 countries who participated in the CTY Talent Search, and was recognized for scoring exceptionally high on a rigorous, above-grade-level test given to advanced students in an effort to reveal their true capacity for learning. The CTY recognizes academic talent and supports the growth of exceptional K-12 students with services and resources specifically designed to meet their needs. Go to http://cty. jhu.edu/ to learn more about CTY.
Parents are invited to attend an Open House. All begin at 9 a.m. sharp. Tuesday, October 18 Saturday, November 5 Thursday, November 17 Friday, December 2 Saturday, January 7 Tuesday, January 10 Application Deadlines: Dec. 1 (Early); Jan. 13 (Reg.) 5901 Westchester Park Drive, College Park, MD 20740 Tel: 301.441.2100 www.friendscommunityschool.org Only 15-20 minutes up the Baltimore-Washington Parkway!
School Blessing Magnificent morning sunlight served as a perfect backdrop for the blessing of St. Peter School, on September 2, where Monsignor Hart, Pastor of St. Peter Church, extended a blessing upon the school campus and community of students, faculty, families and neighbors that they may be filled with the strength, devotion, and compassion to contribute to robust learning, competitive and safe displays of athleticism, selfless service, and deeper connections with the Capitol Hill community. St. Peter School is located at 422 3rd Street, SE. To learn more call: 202-544-1618; email: info@stpeterschooldc.org or log on to www. stpeterschooldc.org. – Tony Militello
JO Wilson There was a bustle of activity outside JO Wilson this summer. The installation of a rain garden is complete, and students came back to a great outdoor learning space. The new and
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Ludlow-Taylor Elementary School Welcome Principal Smith!
The new rain garden in front of JO Wilson was developed with a grant from RiverSmart Schools.
improved garden is the result of a grant from RiverSmart Schools, awarded in 2014. The completed garden is much more efficient in managing stormwater runoff, which helps to protect our local waterways. JO Wilson is also continuing its ongoing partnership with Cultivate the City, who manage the extensive school garden. The garden will continue to provide the school community with produce and supply a weekly market stand. JO Wilson is partnering with AARP’s Experience Corps to bring volunteers into the school to lead a new literacy initiative. Volunteers—many retired from education careers—are working in first, second and third grade classrooms daily to lead small groups of students in a powerful program designed to help students meet academic goals. AARP’s Experience Corps is dedicated to bringing volunteers, ages 50 and over, into public schools to serve as literacy tutors. Technology can be used to enhance and extend instruction and this year, JO Wilson will be a Technology Demonstration Model School for DC Public Schools. Staff members will get training in better ways to integrate technology into the classroom, and each teacher will get a new Surface Pro to use in the classroom. Later this year, additional technology will be rolled out to the students. Best practices piloted at JO this year may be adopted by additional DCPS schools in the future. JO Wilson is located at 660 K St. NE. For more information, visit: www.jowilsondc.
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It has been an exciting summer at Ludlow-Taylor Elementary School. Ludlow-Taylor welcomed new principal Andrew Smith in June. Principal Smith joins Ludlow-Taylor from Garrison Elementary School where he served as the instructional coach and assistant principal. Previously, he taught fourth and fifth grade at Tubman Elementary School.
RiverSmart Project Transforms Schoolyard During summer vacation, Ludlow-Taylor’s outdoor space was transformed by the DC Department of Environment’s RiverSmart School program. The existing playground and concrete were removed and replaced with a new schoolyard green space that features a FoodPrints school garden, an outdoor classroom, rain gardens and shade trees. These features allow rainwater to stay on site and soak into the ground. Natural processes help remove pollutants that harm the Potomac and Anacostia Rivers and the Chesapeake Bay. This gar-
den is an outdoor classroom that provides students with hands-on learning opportunities in many areas of study, including ecology, gardening, and water conservation. The community is invited to see the new space and help plant the gardens at the Grand Opening Celebration and Community Planning Day on Saturday, September 24 from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. LTES is located at 659 G St. NE. For more information, visit their new website at www.ludlowtaylor.org. Follow on Facebook at www.facebook.com/LudlowTaylor/ and Twitter @LTPrincipSmith. – Karen Fligger
Amidon-Bowen Elementary Welcome New Principal TaMikka Sykes! Ms. Sykes taught in Washington, DC schools for nine years and since 2013 has served as the founding principal of LEARN Charter School, an elementary school in Chicago. As a school leader, she is committed to listening to the voices of all stakeholders, including students, parents, staff, and community members. Sykes began her career as a second grade teacher in Compton, CA with Teach for America. She holds a bachelor’s degree in human communication studies from Howard University and a master’s degree in school leadership from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The Amidon PTA hosted several “Meet the Principal” events including a BBQ on July 30 with support from Near Southeast Community Partners. Amidon has added a full time science teacher and a new science lab, which was funded by Near Southeast Community Partners, who will continue as the Adopt-a-School Partner in SY2016-17. Amidon-Bowen Elementary is located at 401 Eye St SW. Visit www.amidonbowen.org for more information. – Bruce DarConte.
Capitol Hill Day School Sharing Summer Fun and Learning
Near Southeast Community Partners Board Directors Bruce DarConte and Martin Welles. NSCP works with Amidon-Bowen Elementary as an Adopt-a-School partner.
This summer, Capitol Hill Day School teachers traveled far and wide, honing skills and gathering innovative ideas to share with students, including: • Creative problem-solving using Design Thinking at Stanford University. • Learning about upcoming NASA research missions and analyzing data collected in space at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. • Studying westward expansion and the importance of the American West at the Gilder Leh-
rman Institute of American History in Boulder, Colorado. Early Childhood teacher Amy Rothschild described her travels to Iceland and Greenland as a 2016 Lindblad Expeditions and National Geographic Grosvenor Teacher Fellow: “My time in the high Arctic was an incredible ‘field education’ experience where I got to engage in hands-on learning in nature, test myself in a new context, and engage in academic study that connected with each place. I love that CHDS students get that, too, through our field education program.” CHDS families and faculty will gather for the annual Back to School Picnic in Garfield Park on September 10 to enjoy ice cream, Tortilla Coast tacos, moon bounce, inflatable obstacle course, live music, face painting, games and prizes, and a balloon magician.
Summer Camp Summary: Campers: 318; field trips: 225; camps: 54; counselors:21 including 7 CHDS alumni. Visit CHDS to see how a progressive prekindergarten through eighth grade program sparks joy in learning, and encourages curiosity, exploration, creativity, and play. Small group tours at 9 a.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays, beginning September 20. Open House events: Oct 21, Nov 3 (Grades 2-4), Nov17 (Grades 5-7), and Dec 2. Contact admissions@chds.org for more information. Capitol Hill Day School is located at 210 South Carolina Ave, SE. Contact them at 202-386-9919 or www.chds.org; Facebook @CapitolHillDaySchool; Twitter @explorewithCHDS. – Jane Angarola
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grant. Even over the summer, Capitol Hill Community Foundation helps our school! Eliot-Hine IB Middle School is located at 1830 Constitution Ave. NE, For more information call 202939-5380; @EliotHine FB EliotHine. – Heather Schoell
Tyler Elementary Tyler Elementary got ready to welcome both staff and parents back to school this week with a Teacher Breakfast and an Ice Cream Social. Teachers were treated to a full breakfast on their first work day back Watkins new assistant principals Ms. Jackson and Ms. Croft – waffles, fruit, omelets, pastries – the works. The administration and Eliot-Hine Middle parents wanted to make sure that staff felt appreciReboot ated and fuel them up for a hard week of preparing Eliot-Hine begins their first full year as an accreditclassrooms and saying goodbye to summer break. ed International Baccalaureate World School with The Ice Cream Social was also a huge success not only that prestige and expectation of depth and with well over a hundred people in attendance. well-roundedness in instruction and learning, but Such a success that they ran out of ice cream! Rithere is a new principal to lead that charge. At the ta’s served up various flavors to new and returnsixth grade orientation meeting over the summer, ing students while teachers introduced themselves Principal Isamar Vargas said to families, “I don’t get to their new families. The PTA paid to come to work to drink coffee.” Her goal is enrolled many new families and for all students to leave eighth grade fully prepared looks forward to getting lots of to advocate for themselves, equipped with the skills new parents involved on Back needed for success in whatever students choose to to School Night, September 1st. do with their lives. Ms. Vargas takes a proactive apBack to School Night will give proach to running the show and has high expectaparents a chance to hear from tions for every person in the building. She’s ready their student’s teacher, meet othto rock. Ms. Vargas maintains an open-door policy er parents from their class, find – contact her at Isamar.vargas@dc.gov or on Twitout about school programs such ter at @IsamarVargasCo2. as Food Prints, and learn how they can support their child’s edWelcome, Watkins! ucation and development. Crews worked over the summer to split Eliot-Hine Tyler Elementary is located into two independent schools, with Watkins Eleat 1001 G St SE. To learn more mentary in the east wing swing space during their call 202-939-4810 or www.tyschool’s complete renovation. Eliot-Hine students lerelementary.net; FB: John Tyler will continue to enter from Constitution Ave., Elementary; – Elsa Falkenburger while Watkins students will come in through a door on 17th Place. There is a new playscape on Friendship Collegiate the C Street blacktop for the younger students. Academy Welcome, Watkins!
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Friendship Alumni and Columbia University Graduate Receives Award Percee Goings-King, who gradu-
ated from Columbia University this year and is an alumni of Friendship Public Charter School’s Collegiate Academy in D.C.’s Ward Seven earned recognition as Most Outstanding College Graduate. The award ceremony was held by the D.C. Association of Chartered Public Schools, which represents District public charter schools. Mr. Goings-King was born, grew up and went to school in Northeast D.C., is a first generation graduate and is now working as a software engineer with the aim of becoming a tech entrepreneur. With his 4.1 GPA and scholarships, he credits the preparation for college that he received at his high school, which boasts a 92 percent on-time graduate rate, and the broadening scope of his knowledge through college with his success to date. “Upon graduation from college, look at where I am now and where I want to be. Columbia University has had a remarkable impact on my outlook in so many ways,” he said. “As I look to the future, I feel confident that more of what has taken me to this point will take me further still. And backing up all of the positive influences in my life were scholarships—Friendship Scholars; the D.C. Association for Chartered Public
Friendship alumni Percee Goings-King, who graduated from Columbia University this year earned recognition as Most Outstanding College Graduate.
Schools; Columbia Financial Aid; and Grace UMC, helping with my dreams when it became time to go to college.� Friendship Collegiate Academy is a college preparatory public charter high school offering Advanced Placement and honors courses at 4095 Minnesota Avenue NE. Learn more at friendshipschools.org. – Barnaby Towns.
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Payne Elementary Opening the Door to a New School Year As the final phase of modernization wraps up and the new school year begins, there are exciting new features for Payne Wildcats to be thrilled about...
New Playgrounds! The Tot Lot and elementary grades playgrounds have been demolished and rebuilt with equipment from Landscape Structures. The brand new playgrounds are intended for play and learning, as well as physical and cognitive skills development and social relationship building. Designed based on these core values, the fitness-focused playgrounds are also inclusive spaces with engaging features for children of all abilities. Additionally, new bike racks have been installed near the larger playground.
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New Courts! The basketball and tennis courts received a makeover with new asphalt, basketball hoops and tennis net. The chain link fencing surrounding the courts has been replaced and coordinates nicely with the new decorative fencing encasing the perimeter of the grounds. This fencing protects
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the new outdoor classroom space outfitted with wooden benches along C Street.
New Kiln! Young potters will soon embark on new adventures in ceramics with the installation of the kiln. This extremely heavy piece of equipment made its way safely up to the second floor of the East Wing via the long-awaited new elevator! Walt Disney is quoted as saying: “We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and These Cluster School students, who graduated in June, spent their entire academic careers (ages 3-13) at the school. curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” With new kins teachers and staff finished packing up for the Capitol Hill Cluster School administration leading the charge in the newly big move to Eliot-Hine Middle School, which will Peabody Early Childhood School modernized Payne Elementary, curious Wildcats graciously host Watkins for the 2016-17 school year Peabody hosted Peabody Playdates August 20 and are on the right path for the new school year! while the Watkins building undergoes an exten28 in Stanton Park for Pk3, Pk4, and KindergarPayne Elementary School “Where genius sive renovation. ten to introduce students to fellow classmates and lives!” is located at 1445 C St, SE. To learn more: start the year off well. Peabody students will enjoy a www.paynedc.org; Facebook: PayneES; Instagram: wide range of afterschool electives this year includStuart-Hobson Middle School PayneDCPS; Twitter: @PayneDCPS. – Rakecia ing, gymnastics, yoga, keyboard and beginning muMore than two dozen graduating eighth-graders Whitaker Hanna sic, games and strategies, and beginning Spanish. have been Cluster scholars for their entire school career – from 3 to 13 years old. These 11-year ClusDC International School ter students have gone off to high schools across Watkins Elementary School International travel is at the core of DCI’s mission the region, after posing for a photo in the renovatWatkins is welcoming two new assistant princiand curriculum. DCI has created immersive, sered gym at Stuart-Hobson at the eighth grade gradpals this year: Ashley Croft and Nikeysha Jackson. vice-based trips for all students to attend twice over uation at the end of last school year. Ms. Croft was previously a middle school teachtheir middle and high school years. DCI is excited Seven Stuart Hobson students studied abroad er and assistant principal in Nashville, Tenn. She to announce that the first round of trips for each this summer through DCPS’ Global Education graduated from Vanderbilt University with a B.S. language track will take place in Summer 2017. Team’s Cultural Immersion program. The proin Elementary Education and Human & OrganiEach trip will immerse students in the host comgram provides students with access to funded travzational Development. She also holds an Ed.M. munity, culture, and language through service el focused on global leadership, language immerin School Leadership from the Harvard Graduprojects and exploration. sion, and service learning. Stuart-Hobson students ate School of Education. Ms. Jackson has been a In an effort to bring international-mindedstudied Spanish in Madrid and completed comsecond grade and kindergarten teacher, as well as ness into the classroom, DCI is also hosting celmunity service while learning local culture in Eca math coach, for Prince George’s County Pubebrations of major cultural holidays associated uador and on the Mediterranean Coast. lic Schools. She recently completed a year as a with DCI’s three languages - Chinese, Spanish, Peabody is located at 425 C St. NE. Watkins Resident Principal with New Leaders, a nationaland French. This month, students will experience is located at 420 12th St. SE. Stuart-Hobson is loly recognized program that develops talented edulunch speakers, activities, and snacks to celebrate cated at 410 E St. NE. The Capitol Hill Cluster cators into transformational school leaders. Before Hispanic Heritage month! School’s website is www.capitolhillclusterschool. becoming a teacher, she had a career in human reDC International School is located at 3220 org and features weekly updates for all three camsources. She holds a Bachelor’s degree from Geor16t St. NW. To learn more log on to www.dcinterpuses. Facebook.com/CHCS.DC; twitter.com/ gia Institute of Technology and a Master’s degree nationalschool.org. or call 202- 808-9033. – LauCHCSPTA] – Katharine Kaplan from George Mason University. This will be a big ren Games year for Watkins. As soon as school ended, Wat-
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Two Rivers Public Charter School Teachers and Staff Continue Learning into the Summer At Two Rivers, learning is active and rooted in a continuous journey of inquiry, reflection, and sharing. Creating a community of lifelong learners is one of the core values of Two Rivers. This summer, teachers and staff participated in a variety of professional development opportunities. Jeff Heyck-Williams, Director of Curriculum and Instruction, hosted eight Two Rivers teachers during the Summer Task Design Institute. Early childhood, elementary, and middle school teachers worked together to create short performance tasks, administration guidelines, and scoring rubrics that assess problem solving skills. Two Rivers has been applauded by many for its innovative approach to assessing deeper learning skills. This weeklong institute was funded by a generous Breakthrough Schools Grant from the CityBridge Foundation. Several teachers at Two Rivers were also invited to share their knowledge with the education community. Teachers and staff presented on the
No better place for Blythe-Templeton students to do a deep dive into U.S. politics.
use of critique at WISSIT, a citywide conference for progressive educators; offered ways to use formative assessments at the DC Data Summit; and coached school leaders at the EL Education Leadership Institute. Two Rivers invests in high-quality professional
development opportunities to ensure that staff receives the tools needed to design and implement innovative and instructionally sound units and lessons. Two Rivers Public Charter School has three schools located at 1227 4th St NE (elementary school); 1234 4th St NE (middle school); and 820 26th St NE (elementary school). Follow @TwoRiversPCS on Twitter and Facebook. Questions? Call 202-546-4477, email info@tworiverspcs.org, or visit www.tworiverspcs.org. – Chantele Martin
Blyth-Templeton Academy School Year Starts with Focus on Elections and Politics
Rising Two Rivers’ sixth grader, Azar, grapples with this problem solving assessment during the Summer Task Design Institute.
Blyth-Templeton Academy Term 1 classes kicked off this fall with a focus on the upcoming presidential election and its impact on current and future generations both in and out of the classroom. Students enrolled in the Introduction to Political Science course taught by Hill Center’s Resident Humanities Scholar, Dr. Sharita Thompson. They will explore concepts such as the history and evolution of political parties, the voting process, and how they can each become active constituents in their voting districts. Students taking twelfth grade English explore, discuss, and analyze literature of power and politics in classic and contemporary text. Math classes discover how math is connected to the political process and Chemistry examine the connection between science and politics. There are unlimited opportunities to connect what students are studying to what is happening in DC and the nation. Blyth-Templeton is located at 921 Pennsylvania Ave SE. To learn more visit www.blythtempleton.org. Connect via www.facebook.com/ blythtempletonacademy; twitter.com/blythtempleton or instagram.com/ blythtempleton/. – Sarah Richards. u
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the last word Larry Chartienitz In the late 1980’s, I had the pleasure and good fortune of meeting Larry Chartienitz. At the time, he was building a life here on Capitol Hill as a real estate broker and working with a competitor. Over the next several years, we got to know each other better and we ended up working together at Coldwell Banker for the next 20 years. Larry used to jokingly say that, as a teenager in South Boston, he had gotten himself into some trouble and the judge had given him a choice – jail or the Marine Corps. In the late 60’s, that was a tough choice but, in the end, he picked Paris Island and ultimately, Vietnam picked him. Like many, that tour left a lasting mark on the man that he would become. If you have ever Larry Chartienitz served in an environment like Vietnam, you know that the significance of that tour and the people that you knew as brothers and sisters, only grows with the passing of the years. As a Vietnam vet, I know that we were not so popular upon returning. No one really wanted to talk about it and somehow we had been made to feel that our service was something less than honorable. Most of us took off our uniforms and never looked back. Not so with our friend Larry. While he was vehemently antiwar, he was passionately pro veteran. That passion never faded. Larry worked on many veterans’ campaigns in his home state of Massachusetts. From there, he followed a number of his activist veteran friends and his friend John Kerry here to Washington DC. He ultimately decided to settle here and started building a life among us on Capitol Hill. It was here, on Capitol Hill, that Larry met
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his future wife, Sheila Power. It was quite moving to see Josh (Larry’s son), Sheila and Larry enjoying the sights and sounds of this wonderful neighborhood. In 1999, they were blessed with the birth of twin daughters, Lydia and Julia. They joined a growing group of families with twins here on the Hill. In his final years, I had the pleasure of getting to know his oldest daughter, Jessica. Grown and living with her young family in Rhode Island, she showed relentless devotion to her Dad. She became his medical advocate and his regular contact with the outside world. When Larry passed, she was on a plane landing in Baltimore – coming to say a final goodbye to her Dad. Over the past several years, Larry was fighting the battle of his life – cancer. He never lost his lust for life and his determination to live. By this time, Larry was living just outside of the District. His medical care was at the VA center on North Capitol. Getting back and forth for treatment every day was not going to be easy. The call went out and for several months, volunteer upon volunteer showed up every day to transport this vet back and forth between his home and the VA. A grateful nation finally saying thank you. We thought that he had beaten the odds and then, three months ago, the cancer returned and this was going to be a battle fairly fought but not to be won. Goodbye to an old Marine, loyal to the end. – Don Denton, Vice President, Coldwell Banker Capitol Hill Brokerage, ddenton@cbmove.com
Thank You Engine Co. No. 18/ Truck Co. No. 7 on 8th Street SE Every night for 12+ years, my short little black dog Hank and I would walk past the 8th St. SE Firehouse. When the weather was nice, some of the firefighters of Engine Co. No. 18/Truck Co. No. 7 would be out front, interacting with the neighborhood. Hank saw them from a block away and would run to meet them - for the treats they gave him, yes - but more so for the love and attention they bestowed. If the firefighters weren’t out front they would happily come to the front door to greet Hank. He couldn’t contain his excitement and they reciprocated in kind.
As was said around the Hill, you couldn’t look at Hank and not smile. Photo: Barbara Carlsson
Many nights the firefighters were out responding to a call, the firehouse doors closed, no trucks inside. Hank would sit and wait, looking at the front door, tail wagging, eagerly awaiting his friends. I would tell him “Hank they are out risking their lives to save lives; that’s more important. Here’s a treat from me.” He wouldn’t budge – staring at the firehouse door, tail wagging. My sweet little buddy Hank crossed the Rainbow Bridge a short time ago and is now running free in heaven. The love I have for him was only exceeded by the happiness that sweet, smart, short dog brought into my life. Anyone who has ever loved and shared their life with a dog understands. The Firefighters of the 8th Street firehouse have honored Hank by hanging his picture on the wall in the front office of the firehouse; this warms my heart that his spirit lives on at the place and with the firemen he loved. I write this in appreciation of all the Firefighters who work at the 8th St. Firehouse. You were busy and had more important matters to tend to, yet you always took the time to greet Hank by name (“Hey Hank!” or “Hank the Tank”) and it made his night to see you and get a treat and a pat on the head. My heartfelt thanks to the 8th Street Firehouse for your kindness and community involvement. You make a difference and you help make this a wonderful place to live. – Barbara Carlsson, bjc@arinc.com u
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Case Bridge Illuminated
On Aug. 18, Mayor Bowser switched on the lights and illuminated the Francis Case Memorial Bridge (14th Street Bridge). The bridge artwork lights up the waterfront neighborhood every night. This grand work of public art was designed by Citelum, the lighting architects of the Eiffel Tower, the Oriental Pearl Tower in Shanghai and the London Bridge for the London Olympics. Celebrating the connection between the mile-long, $2 billion development on the Southwest Waterfront to East Potomac Park, the project as it turns the bridge on the city’s busiest artery into a beautiful landmark. The Case Bridge lighting is one of the very first parts of Hoffman-Madison Waterfront’s vision of enhancing the Southwest waterfront.
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photos by Andrew Lightman
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