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The NorThwesT CurreNTWednesday, February 8, 2012 Serving Chevy Chase, Colonial Village, Shepherd Park, Brightwood, Crestwood, Petworth & 16th Street Heights Vol. XLV, No. 6

INDEXBusiness/9Calendar/26Classifieds/37 District Digest/4Exhibits/29In Your Neighborhood/8Opinion/10

Passages/15Police Report/6Real Estate/21School Dispatches/16Service Directory/33Sports/13Theater/29

By ELIZABETH WIENERCurrent Staff Writer

With plans to redevelop the Walter Reed Army Medical Center campus near final approval, the ambitious reuse project has lost its popular director. District economic development officials fired Eric Jenkins last week, days after he led a meeting in which the Walter Reed Local Redevelopment Authority Committee signed off on the 3.1-million-square-foot, mixed-use plan. The city’s economic develop-ment office said it “does not com-ment on personnel matters.” At a community presentation on the

city’s plan for Walter Reed last Thursday, Jeffrey Miller, director of real estate for the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development, said he is filling the project director slot “on

an interim basis.” Miller said a permanent replace-ment would be named this week, but he declined to state the reason for Jenkins’ sudden dismissal. “Eric did great work,” Miller said. “We’re sitting here tonight acknowledging the great work he did.” Jenkins, in an email to The Current, said that “transitioning the Walter Reed project to the next phase has been a topic of discussion for a number of months, but I won’t speculate as to why the Deputy Mayor chose to transition the proj-ect so abruptly.” He said he expects to join the private sector, focusing on large master plans and sustain-

Walter Reed project director loses city post

Bill Petros/Current File PhotoCommunity leaders worry the change in leadership may slow progress on redevelopment.

By BETH COPECurrent Staff Writer

The area surrounding the inter-section of 33rd and Quesada streets in Chevy Chase is poised to become a city pilot for stormwater retention efforts. Using a grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, the city plans to install permeable pav-ing in several alleys and on some portions of the roadways there, and to add “bumpouts” housing planted areas meant to capture water. Officials will monitor the results of the RiverSmart project to see how much water the efforts can divert from the city’s aging sewers. “The city has this permit … [that essentially allows it] to pollute,” said the D.C. Department of Transportation’s Meredith Upchurch. But it restricts how much pollution is allowed into local water-ways, and the most recently issued permit requires “retrofits to city streets and all properties” to address stormwater runoff. “So this project

will help us meet that requirement.” The project is still in an early design phase, but construction is expected to begin by late summer or early fall. Upchurch said seven or eight “bumpouts” — curb extensions tak-ing up a parking space or two and providing room for plants and pos-sibly drains — will help collect water that would otherwise go straight into sewers. So will the per-meable surfaces planned for several local alleys and portions of the affected roadways’ parking lanes. The goal is to collect 1.5 million gal-lons per year.

City to pilot stormwater project in Chevy Chase■ Environment: Grant will fund permeable alleys, more


Facing a mini-rebellion from District retirees, the D.C. Council Tuesday introduced separate bills to repeal a controversial tax on out-of-state municipal bonds, and to exempt most pension distributions from income tax withholding. Ward 2 member Jack Evans offered the bill to repeal the tax on income from non-District municipal bonds adopted last year. Evans said implementation has caused “enor-mous confusion and consternation” even though the tax applies only to future bond purchases. While the tax affects only bonds purchased after Jan. 1, 2012, Evans said the city finance office can’t fig-ure out how to deal with previously purchased municipal bond funds — popular with retirees — that contin-ue to buy and sell new bond issues. The tax was expected to raise about $2 million. “It’s just not worth it. It’s frankly impossible to administer,” Evans said. Meanwhile, at-large member Michael Brown is attempting to

D.C. Council weighs repeal of bond tax


A bill to ensure that residents and businesses shovel their sidewalks was buried in a blizzard of amend-ments Tuesday. The D.C. Council, in what was supposed to be a second and final vote on the Winter Sidewalk Safety Act, instead voted 8-4 to table it — leaving the fate of a measure that has been debated for two years now completely uncertain.

The bill, authored by Ward 3 member Mary Cheh and Ward 6 member Tommy Wells, is intended to put some teeth into a 1922 city law requiring property owners to clear adjacent sidewalks within eight daylight hours of a snowstorm. Current law requires the District government to shovel for violators, then go to court to collect reimburse-ment — a cumbersome enforcement system that is rarely if ever used. The proposed bill instead sets fines — $25 for residential property and $125 for commercial — with warn-ing tickets issued first, and escalat-ing fines for repeated offenses.

Blizzard of concerns halts snow-fines bill ■ Council: Legislators table proposal by Ward 3’s Cheh

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See Rainwater/Page 23See Project/Page 22

See Taxes/Page 25

Bill Petros/The CurrentCity officials met with residents Saturday to discuss the plans.

■ Gonzaga swims its way to WMPSSDL title. Page 13.■ Visitation edges Bullis on the hardwood in ISl showdown. Page 13.

■ WAMU radio plans move from Tenley to Van Ness. Page 7. ■ Report calls for more high-performing Ward 4 schools. Page 19.

NEWS SPORTS■ Childhood chums turn twentysomething tune-makers. Page 15.■ Local chorus offers Valentine’s Dayserenades. Page 15.

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Bill Petros/The CurrentPotomac Phil, a stuffed groundhog, made his debut in Dupont last week, predicting six more weeks of winter. The nonprofit Dupont Festival brought in the prop to give D.C. its own version of “Punxsutawny Phil.” Guests included Ward 2’s Jack Evans.

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Wednesday, Feb. 8 The University of the District of Columbia Community College will host a review session for continuing accreditation of its associate degree program in nursing. The meeting will be held from 4 to 5 p.m. at 801 North Capitol St. NE.■ The Logan Circle Community Association will hold a community meeting on “2012: The Year Ahead in Logan Circle.” The meeting will be held from 7 to 8 p.m. at the Washington Plaza Hotel, 10 Thomas Circle NW.■ The Shepherd Park Citizens Association will sponsor a Neighborhood Watch training program in conjunction with a community meeting for Police Service Area 401. The meeting will be held from 7 to 8:45 p.m. at the Juanita E. Thornton/Shepherd Park Neighborhood Library, 7420 Georgia Ave. NW.

Saturday, Feb. 11 Mayor Vincent Gray’s “One City Summit” will feature an opportunity for partici-pants to express their views on various issues in small-group discussions; discuss challenges facing the city; vote on priorities for action in the coming year; and learn about efforts to grow the District’s economy, improve public education and create more jobs. The event will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, 801 Mount Vernon Place NW. To register, visit onecitysummit.dc.gov or call 202-709-5132.

Tuesday, Feb. 14 The Brightwood Community Association will hold its monthly meeting from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the St. John United Baptist Church, 6343 13th St. NW.

Wednesday, Feb. 15 The D.C. Council Committee of the Whole will hold a public hearing on the mayor’s nomination of Rashida Y.V. MacMurray to serve on the D.C. Board of Zoning Adjustment. The hearing will begin at 10 a.m. in Room 123 of the John A. Wilson Building, 1350 Pennsylvania Ave. NW.■ The D.C. State Board of Education will hold its monthly meeting, which will include a review of graduation requirements in health and physical education. The board will also honor Langdon Education Campus’ Perea Brown-Blackmon, the 2012 D.C. Teacher of the Year, and Lafayette Elementary School’s Lisa Jensen, the 2011 D.C. History Teacher of the Year. The meeting will begin at 5:30 p.m. in the Old Council Chambers at One Judiciary Square, 441 4th St. NW.

Thursday, Feb. 16 The D.C. Council Committee of the Whole will hold a public hearing on the Early Warning and Intervention System Act of 2012, the College Preparation Plan Act of 2012 and the Early Childhood Education Act of 2011. The hearing will begin at 10 a.m. in Room 500 of the John A. Wilson Building, 1350 Pennsylvania Ave. NW.■ The Kalorama Citizens Association will hold its monthly meeting, which will feature Mayor Vincent Gray as guest speaker. The agenda will also include a discussion of new parking rules for Ward 1. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. at Good Will Baptist Church, 1862 Kalorama Road NW.

Wednesday, Feb. 22 Mayor Vincent Gray will hold a public hearing on the fiscal year 2013 operating budget for public schools in the District. The hearing will begin at 5:30 p.m. at H.D. Woodson High School, 540 55th St. NE. To testify, contact Joshua Thompson at 202-701-9289 or [email protected].

The week ahead

By BRADY HOLTCurrent Staff Writer

As part of a long-running update to D.C. land-use rules, the Office of Planning last week released draft sections of a rewritten zoning code that officials say incorporates new planning principles and corrects known issues with the existing regu-lations. The new sections, which encom-pass general policies and those spe-cific to residential zones, include only a few changes to existing rules. Much of the Planning Office’s task was to rearrange many of the code’s sections and change how material is presented in an effort to improve the text’s clarity. New proposals include:• decreasing the minimum side-yard requirement for buildings in R-1 and R-2 zones from 8 feet to 5 feet, or 10

percent of the total lot width, to bet-ter match existing conditions.• allowing small commercial estab-lishments to operate in residential row houses, limited to three within 500 feet (the approximate length of a city block), to provide more busi-nesses within walking distance of residents.• allowing homeowners in R-1 and R-2 zones to rent out a room or detached building that is smaller than 25 percent of the total main building. Some of those uses are already common in the city, but property owners now must seek a variance or special exception from the Board of Zoning Adjustment, a lengthy and often-costly process that gives neighbors the opportunity to resist the plans. If the Zoning Commission adopts the latest proposal, these uses

Planners release initial text as part of city zoning update By ELIZABETH WIENER

Current Staff Writer

A long-debated bill to reduce the concentration of control over District gas stations failed on a tie vote Tuesday, a clear victory for two distributors who now control more than 70 percent of the city’s gasoline market. The Retail Service Station bill by Ward 3 D.C. Council member Mary Cheh would have prevented — in the future only — gas distributors, or “jobbers,” from operating any more service stations. It would also clarify what Cheh said is existing law that allows operators to purchase gas from any jobber who offers

the station’s brand. Two firms — Capitol Petroleum Group and PNG — now distribute more than 70 percent of the gas sold in the city, at what Cheh said is a higher than average mark-up. Backers of Capitol’s owner, Joe Mamo, have been particularly vociferous in opposing the so-called “divorcement” bill. Cheh said the bill could bring down the city’s traditionally high gas prices, and also argued that any “near monopoly” is bad for both station operators and consumers. But opponents of her bill, led by at-large council member Vincent Orange, said it unfairly targets

‘Jobbers’ bill fails on tied D.C. Council vote

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Army to detonate two World War I munitions On Feb. 17 the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will destroy two World War I-era munitions that were found recently in the Spring Valley area, the agency announced Monday. The Army will use the “con-trolled detonation chamber” on fed-eral property behind Sibley Memorial Hospital that it used to

destroy more than 100 munitions last year and in 2003, according to a news release.

District alters policy for disabled parking The District is eliminating free metered parking for cars with hand-icap plates and placards, switching instead to a system of paid parking meters that will be reserved for dis-abled motorists, the D.C.

Department of Transportation announced last month. These “red top” meters were launched last month downtown and around Southwest federal buildings, according to an agency news release. The meters have longer hours than others nearby but still require payment, and vehicles park-ing there without disability placards or tags can be ticketed or towed. This month, parking enforce-ment personnel will issue warning

notices to vehicles parked at the “red top” meters; they will begin issuing tickets March 1. Traffic con-trol officers will also be stationed at the meters to explain the new pro-cedures. Also as of March 1, drivers with disabilities will need to begin pay-ing and adhering to time limits when they use meters elsewhere in the city, the release states. The city will consider installing additional “red top” meters in other areas upon request, but they will be most likely to appear near govern-ment buildings or special traffic generators, such as the convention center, recreational and entertain-ment centers and medical service facilities, according to the release. According to the release, the Transportation Department imple-mented the policy to reduce incen-tives for purchasing fraudulent handicap parking authorization; agency director Terry Bellamy states in the release that “the end result will be improved accessibility to parking for persons with disabili-ties in the District of Columbia.”

D.C. plans update to construction rules New construction projects may be required to incorporate the latest sustainable practices starting next year, according to a news release from Mayor Vincent Gray’s office. Gray announced last Thursday that he hopes to secure D.C. Council approval to incorporate 2012 International Code Council standards into the District’s con-struction code. According to the release, the current D.C. code is based on the 2006 international standards. The District’s Construction Codes Coordinating Board will be responsible for adapting the interna-tional standards to the District’s

needs, the release states. The new rules would go into effect March 1, 2013.

Broad Branch Road reopens in park The D.C. Department of Transportation reopened Broad Branch Road to two-way traffic last Wednesday, after closing it in December for repairs. In the 10 months since a culvert collapsed beneath the roadway, Broad Branch has been available only sporadically between Brandywine and Ridge roads in Rock Creek Park. The city first erected a temporary one-way bridge before starting permanent repairs. The project was originally projected to wrap up last August.

New judge sworn in at D.C. Appeals Court Former public defender Corinne Beckwith was sworn in Friday as an associate judge at the D.C. Court of Appeals, according to a news release from the court system. Beckwith, a Capitol Hill resi-dent, clerked for a 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals judge and U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, then worked as a public defender in Michigan and the District, the release states. President Barack Obama nominated her to the judicial post last year.

Rosa Mexicano opens in Friendship Heights A third local outpost of the Rosa Mexicano restaurant has opened in Friendship Heights, according to a news release. The new restaurant, opening at 5225 Wisconsin Ave. in the former Bambulé spot, offers 150 seats of indoor, outdoor and private dining. The menu features the chain’s sig-nature items such as fresh guaca-mole, lamb tacos and pomegranate margaritas. The upscale Mexican restaurant chain originated in Manhattan in 1984, and now features 13 restau-rants nationwide, according to the release.

Cafe chain plans first location in District The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf cafe will open its first D.C. area shop in mid-February inside Dupont Circle’s Washington Hilton, the hotel announced last week. The California-based specialty chain has more than 800 locations worldwide, the release states. The Hilton is located at 1919 Connecticut Ave.

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By ANNA WEAVERCurrent Correspondent

When a group in the Foggy Bottom and West End began surveying their neighbors about setting up a sup-port system for aging local residents, they weren’t sure what response they’d get. The “village” movement, which aims to help people stay in their own homes for as long as possible by offer-ing support services and social events, has already worked in other Northwest neighborhoods. But interim board members who supported the concept in Foggy Bottom and the West End wondered how their area’s large number of apartment buildings would affect prog-ress. They weren’t sure whether apartment dwellers would feel the need for help beyond their front desks or building communities. The largely positive response they received was a pleasant surprise, said Jacqueline Lemire, one of the board members who surveyed the residents of more than 170 single-family homes and 60 apartment buildings, condos and co-ops in the two neighborhoods.

“We were very surprised that we got the number of people we did who said they were willing to join and … willing to pay a fee,” she said. The group will build on that interest and flesh out plans for a Foggy Bottom/West End Village starting with an information meeting on Feb. 28. The Foggy Bottom Association is hosting that event, which starts at 7 p.m. at St. Stephen Martyr Catholic Church at 2436 Pennsylvania Ave. It was the Rev. Monroe Wright, pastor of The United Church in Foggy Bottom, who first brought up the idea. Working with his church’s elderly members, Wright found himself challenged to provide enough support and a true feeling of community. Because the neighborhood has a large transient stu-dent population through George Washington University, “there’s a longing for a sense of community,” he said. “As you age, you become more vulnerable to the trivialities of daily life, especially if you’re living alone or your family is at a distance,” said Wright, who is now a board member for the budding village.

Foggy Bottom group looks to create ‘Village’


With the District government enjoying an unexpected revenue hike this year, and an even bigger surplus from last year, officials are turning to the logical question: Should some of the windfall be used to reduce the myriad tax and fee hikes of recent years? An independent financial analy-sis released last week shows revenue estimates for this fiscal year up by $42 million, and a surplus over last year’s expenses — to be deposited by law in the city’s depleted reserve fund — of a whopping $240 million. That brings the city’s reserves,

spent down during the administra-tion of Mayor Adrian Fenty, to a healthy $1.1 billion — a sum offi-cials said reassured the major bond rating agencies last week that the District deserves to keep its good credit rating and low borrowing costs. The new Comprehensive Annual Financial Report also spurred an unusually optimistic report from Chief Financial Officer Natwar Gandhi at a D.C. Council hearing Monday. Although the city “faces chal-lenges” in the year ahead, Gandhi said — he noted the large number of residents still unemployed, the “sig-

District posts 2011 surplus, increases revenue estimates By BRADY HOLT


Wesley Theological Seminary is revising its plans for a new dorm backing onto University Avenue in Spring Valley after neighbors com-plained about large windows overlooking the resi-dential street, officials said. Seminary president David McAllister-Wilson said in an interview yesterday that architects had just prepared a redesigned dorm rendering, which will likely be shared with residents this week. The school delayed a hearing before the Zoning Commission to have more time to work with neigh-bors on the dorm and other issues with the semi-nary’s campus plan. The commission approved a 10-year develop-ment plan for the seminary in 2006, allowing the school to demolish and replace several existing buildings on the Massachusetts Avenue campus and

add new construction on the site of a surface park-ing lot. Declining enrollment and increased finan-cial pressures in the intervening years forced the school to put forth more modest goals, officials said at last month’s Spring Valley/Wesley Heights advi-sory neighborhood commission meeting. Under a replacement campus plan, which out-lines development goals through 2021, the seminary now plans to construct only one new dormitory, with 76 beds, and to renovate existing academic and residential facilities. If this new plan is approved by the Zoning Commission, which oversees university campuses in residential areas, the school will also slightly expand surface parking rather than replace it with a garage. The planned residence hall would be built into the hillside leading from the campus to University Avenue, a few feet from and parallel to the existing Straughn Hall dorm. The brick building would

Feedback to shape seminary’s dorm plans

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This is a listing of reports taken from Jan. 29 through Feb. 5 by the Metropolitan Police Department in local police ser-vice areas.

PSA 201

Theft (below $250)■ 5500 block, Connecticut Ave.; grocery store; 6 p.m. Feb. 1.■ 5500 block, Connecticut Ave.; grocery store; 4:20 p.m. Feb. 2.■ 3800 block, Kanawha St.; resi-dence; 12:10 a.m. Feb. 3.■ 5500 block, Connecticut Ave.; store; 4:17 p.m. Feb. 13.

PSA 202

Robbery (force and violence)■ 4500 block, Wisconsin Ave.; alley; 8:15 a.m. Jan. 31.Stolen auto■ Fort Drive and Chesapeake Street; street; 10 a.m. Feb. 3.Theft (below $250)■ 4600 block, Wisconsin Ave.; restaurant; 2 p.m. Jan. 31.■ 4000 block, Brandywine St.; unspecified premises; 5:45 p.m. Feb. 1.■ 4200 block, 37th St.; resi-dence; 7 p.m. Feb. 1.■ 5300 block, Wisconsin Ave.; store; 2:26 p.m. Feb. 3.■ 4000 block, Brandywine St.; unspecified premises; 5:40 p.m. Feb. 4.■ 3600 block, Veazey St.; street; 10:30 p.m. Jan. 31.■ 3800 block, Alton Place; street; 9 a.m. Feb. 1.■ 39th and Albemarle streets; street; 4:20 p.m. Feb. 2.

PSA 203

Theft (below $250)■ 4200 block, Connecticut Ave.; university; 9:40 a.m. Feb. 1.Theft from auto (below $250)■ 3000 block, Ordway St.; street; 8:30 a.m. Jan. 31.■ 3500 block, 30th St.; street; 6:30 p.m. Jan. 31.■ 2900 block, Ordway St.; street; 8 a.m. Feb. 1.

PSA 204

Burglary■ 2400 block, Wisconsin Ave.; restaurant; 11:30 p.m. Feb. 4.Theft (below $250)■ 3100 block, Wisconsin Ave.; church; 8:30 a.m. Jan. 29.■ 2200 block, Wisconsin Ave.; store; 9:10 p.m. Feb. 1.■ 3000 block, Wisconsin Ave.; school; 7:30 p.m. Feb. 2.■ 3900 block, Massachusetts Ave.; residence; 2:30 a.m. Feb. 4.Theft from auto ($250 plus)■ 39th Place and Calvert Street; street; 7 p.m. Feb. 4.Theft from auto (below $250)

■ 2800 block, Woodland Drive; street; 8:20 a.m. Feb. 5.

PSA 205

Assault with a dangerous weapon■ 4500 block, MacArthur Blvd.; residence; 12:30 a.m. Feb. 4.

PSA 206

Robbery (snatch)■ 30th and M streets; sidewalk; 8:10 p.m. Jan. 30.Burglary■ 3200 block, R St.; residence; 3:45 p.m. Feb. 1.Stolen auto■ 30th and N streets; street; 10:30 p.m. Feb. 3.Theft ($250 plus)■ 2900 block, M St.; store; 12:55 p.m. Jan. 31.■ 2800 block, Pennsylvania Ave.; restaurant; 2:30 p.m. Feb. 3.■ 1400 block, Wisconsin Ave.; store; 3:20 p.m. Feb. 4.Theft (below $250)■ 1000 block, Wisconsin Ave.; store; 2:18 p.m. Jan. 30.■ 1400 block, Wisconsin Ave.; store; 9:30 a.m. Jan. 31.■ 3200 block, O St.; unspecified premises; 8 p.m. Jan. 31.■ 3100 block, M St.; store; 9:35 p.m. Jan. 31.■ 3100 block, M St.; store; 5 p.m. Feb. 3.■ 3200 block, M St.; store; 7:30 p.m. Feb. 3.■ 37th and O streets; university; 2:30 a.m. Feb. 4.■ 3300 block, M St.; store; 7:40 p.m. Feb. 4.■ 1400 block, Wisconsin Ave.; street; 3:15 a.m. Feb. 5.Theft from auto ($250 plus)■ 30th and N streets; street; 11:30 a.m. Feb. 2.Theft from auto (below $250)■ 1000 block, Wisconsin Ave.; parking lot; 1 p.m. Feb. 5.

PSA 207

Burglary■ 1200 block, 25th St.; con-struction site; 4 p.m. Feb. 2.■ 1900 block, L St.; liquor store; midnight Feb. 4.Theft (below $250)■ 19th and L streets; street; 3:30 p.m. Jan. 29.■ 800 block, 21st St.; university; 9:52 a.m. Jna. 30.■ 1100 block, 15th St.; restau-rant; 2:30 p.m. Jan. 30.■ 1100 block, 14th St.; medical facility; 5:45 p.m. Jan. 30.■ 800 block, 15th St.; store; 9:10 a.m. Jan. 31.■ 900 block, 22nd St.; sidewalk; 1 p.m. Jan. 31.■ 700 block, 14th St.; restau-rant; 2:52 p.m. Jan. 31.■ 2000 block, L St.; unspecified premises; 6:30 p.m. Jan. 31.■ 2100 block, Pennsylvania Ave.; restaurant; 10 p.m. Jan. 31.■ 1000 block, Connecticut Ave.; store; 11:30 a.m. Feb. 1.

■ 1400 block, K St.; restaurant; 6 p.m. Feb. 1.■ 2000 block, L St.; unspecified premises; 6 p.m. Feb. 1.■ 2000 block, L St.; unspecified premises; 6 p.m. Feb. 1.■ 2000 block, L St.; unspecified premises; 6:35 p.m. Feb. 1.■ 1900 block, Pennsylvania Ave.; government building; 6:38 p.m. Feb. 1.■ 1100 block, 19th St.; medical facility; 8:30 a.m. Feb. 2.■ 1600 block, L St.; office build-ing; 11:45 a.m. Feb. 2.■ 1100 block, 24th St.; sidewalk; 6:30 p.m. Feb. 2.■ 1100 block, 19th St.; restau-rant; 6:30 p.m. Feb. 2.■ 1900 block, Pennsylvania Ave.; restaurant; 8 p.m. Feb. 2.■ 1100 block, New Hampshire Ave.; hotel; 1:45 a.m. Feb. 3.■ 1900 block, L St.; restaurant; 12:30 p.m. Feb. 3.■ 2200 block, I St.; grocery store; 7:15 p.m. Feb. 4.■ 800 block, 17th St.; govern-ment building; 8:45 a.m. Feb. 2.

PSA 401

Assault with a dangerous weapon■ 700 block, Butternut St.; street; 10 p.m. Feb. 1.Stolen auto■ 6900 block, Willow St.; street; 1:25 a.m. Feb. 4.Theft (tags)■ 500 block, Butternut St.; street; 7 p.m. Feb. 2.Theft from auto (below $250)■ 1600 block, Primrose Road; street; 6:30 p.m. Jan. 29.■ 1600 block, Primrose Road; street; 8 p.m. Jan. 29.■ 7300 block, Alaska Ave.; street; midnight Feb. 2.■ 7300 block, Alaska Ave.; street; midnight Feb. 2.■ 7400 block, 9th St.; street; 6 p.m. Feb. 4.

PSA 402

Robbery (fear)■ 1400 block, Van Buren St.; sidewalk; 6 a.m. Feb. 4.Burglary■ 5800 block, 9th St.; residence; 10:15 p.m. Jan. 30.Theft (below $250)■ 6500 block, Piney Branch Road; grocery store; 5:45 p.m. Jan. 30.■ 6500 block, Piney Branch Road; store; 12:03 a.m. Feb. 1.Theft (shoplifting)■ 6500 block, Piney Branch Road; store; 5:45 p.m. Jan. 30.Theft from auto (below $250)■ 1300 block, Peabody St.; street; 12:01 a.m. Feb. 3.

PSA 403

Robbery (gun)■ 1300 block, Kennedy St.; side-walk; 10:30 p.m. Jan. 31.Robbery (assault)

■ 800 block, Madison St.; side-walk; 11:15 p.m. Jan. 31.Robbery (snatch)■ 1500 block, Kennedy St.; street; 5:38 a.m. Feb. 4.Stolen auto■ 13th and Madison streets; street; 7 p.m. Jan. 30.Theft ($250 plus)■ 400 block, Kennedy St.; resi-dence; 5:30 p.m. Feb. 3.Theft (below $250)■ 5400 block, 5th St.; store; 7:05 p.m. Feb. 4.Theft (tags)■ 600 block, Hamilton St.; street; 10 p.m. Feb. 3.Theft from auto (below $250)■ 1300 block, Montague St.; street; 8 p.m. Jan. 29.■ 1400 block, Missouri Ave.; street; 9 p.m. Feb. 2.■ Georgia and Missouri avenues; unspecified premises; 11:25 a.m. Feb. 4.

PSA 404

Robbery (force and violence)■ 13th Street and Spring Road; sidewalk; 3:10 a.m. Jan. 30.Stolen auto■ 14th and Allison streets; street; 9 p.m. Feb. 4.Stolen auto (attempt)■ 16th Street and Arkansas Avenue; street; 5 p.m. Jan. 29.■ 4000 block, Arkansas Ave.; street; 9:50 p.m. Jan. 29.Theft (below $250)■ 1600 block, Webster St.; park-ing lot; 1 p.m. Jan. 31.■ 3700 block, Georgia Ave.; store; 2 p.m. Jan. 31.■ 4000 block, Georgia Ave.; store; 2:25 a.m. Feb. 2.■ 4000 block, Georgia Ave.; gro-cery store; 3 a.m. Feb. 3.Theft from auto ($250 plus)■ 3700 block, 9th St.; street; 12:30 p.m. Jan. 31.■ 1600 block, Taylor St.; parking lot; 11:40 a.m. Feb. 1.Theft from auto (below $250)■ 1500 block, Upshur St.; street; 9 p.m. Jan. 30.■ 3700 block, 9th St.; street; 3 p.m. Feb. 2.■ 800 block, Rock Creek Church Road; street; 2:30 p.m. Feb. 3.

PSA 407

Robbery (gun)■ 600 block, Delafield Place; residence; 6:20 p.m. Feb. 1.Assault with a dangerous weapon (knife)■ 800 block, Delafield Place; residence; 1 a.m. Feb. 3.Burglary■ 700 block, Webster St.; resi-dence; 2:30 p.m. Feb. 1.Theft (below $250)■ 4100 block, 8th St.; residence; 7 a.m. Jan. 30.Theft (tags)■ 4500 block, 9th St.; street; 9:30 p.m. Feb. 1.Theft from auto ($250 plus)■ 700 block, Randolph St.; street; 2:30 p.m. Feb. 1.■ 3700 block, New Hampshire Ave.; street; 8:30 a.m. Feb. 2.

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By BRADY HOLTCurrent Staff Writer

American University is wrapping up negotiations to purchase a Van Ness office building to house the WAMU public radio station and undetermined university functions, the school announced last Thursday. The radio station will begin oper-ating from the seven-story building at Connecticut Avenue and Windom Place early next year, according to the university, which owns WAMU’s broadcasting license for the 88.5 FM frequency. The university’s David Taylor said the school will pay the upfront cost of purchasing the building and renovating it to fit WAMU’s needs, and university staff will be respon-sible for security and maintenance of the building. The radio station will repay the costs over time. The station now operates out of a smaller, older building at 4000 Brandywine St. in Tenleytown, which is also owned by American University. “WAMU has outgrown its facility there at Brandywine, and this has been known for some years,” said Taylor. “When it moved over there in 1993, it was a fraction of the enterprise that it now is.” WAMU will occupy just over half of the 88,000 square feet in the new location at 4401 Connecticut Ave., compared to the 23,000 square feet it has on Brandywine Street,

according to Taylor. Caryn Mathes, the station’s gen-eral manager, wrote in an email that the extra space will be greatly appre-ciated. “In our current building, when we add a new element for listeners or online users, we must inevitably do so by squeezing people and pro-grams already in place — or else we end up locating new staff in pass-throughs and niches,” Mathes wrote. “This new building provides the space to realize our aspirations with-out taking anything away from our current service.” Mathes, who said she has over-seen two previous radio station relo-cations, said it’s also handy that WAMU will be able to transition quickly to its new space next year rather than “attempting to shelter in place surrounded by renovation.” American University hasn’t yet determined how it will use the vacat-

AU acquiring new building to house WAMU facilities By BRADY HOLT


After lifeguard shortages forced several unsched-uled closures of the Wilson Aquatic Center’s leisure pool, the D.C. Department of Parks and Recreation has hired three new employees for the facility, according to agency spokesperson John Stokes. Residents complained on listservs and to the rec-reation department that they would arrive at the aquatic center to find only one lifeguard was on duty, and that staffer could monitor only the 50-meter pool. In those cases, the shallower leisure pool — which includes short lap lanes and general recreation space

— was unavailable. “In a few instances the leisure pool was closed due to staff shortages,” Stokes wrote in an email to The Current yesterday. “DPR has hired additional employees which includes new staff assigned to the Wilson Aquatic Center. This will help alleviate dis-ruption in service.” Three new employees started last week, and Stokes said a fourth will also be hired for Wilson. Palisades resident Barbara Elsas wrote in a Jan. 23 letter to recreation department director Jesús Aguirre, which she provided to The Current, that “all pools need to be open at all times and the necessary amount of staff needs to be in place at all times.”

New hires ease Wilson pool staffing crunch

Bill Petros/The CurrentThe station will move to Van Ness from Tenleytown.

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The commission will meet at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 9, at St. Mary Armenian Apostolic Church, 42nd and Fessenden streets NW. Agenda items include:■ presentation and potential vote on a Board of Zoning Adjustment application for a special exception at 4601 Western Ave.■ presentation and potential vote on a public-space application for a valet parking permit at Rosa Mexicano, 5225 Wisconsin Ave.■ discussion of and possible vote on a resolution concerning traffic issues on 41st Street. For details, visit anc3e.org.

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At the commission’s Jan. 23 meeting:■ Metropolitan Police Department Sgt. Harry Hayes and Officer Bernardo Zuniga discussed crime in the neighborhood, including recent armed robberies. They said there are six officers assigned to Police Service Area 201 and three patrol cars. ■ commissioner Henry Griffin reported that the D.C. Department of Transportation has restored Kanawha Street to one-way and that the agency will now study the pos-sibility of installing a left-turn signal from northbound Connecticut Avenue onto westbound Military Road.■ commission chair Gary Thompson reported that the commission had a Jan. 30 meeting scheduled with the D.C. Department of Transportation to assess the speed humps in the neighborhood and whether they meet agency specifications.■ commissioners voted unanimous-ly to support a request to the Board of Zoning Adjustment for a rear addition that does not meet side-yard requirements at 5826 Nevada Ave. ■ Meredith Upchurch of the D.C. Department of Transportation and Steve Saari of the D.C. Department of the Environment presented a pilot RiverSmart rainwater retention proj-ect for the area surrounding the intersection of Quesada and 33rd streets. The work will involve install-ing bioretention areas on “bumpouts” in parking lanes and repaving alleys and some street areas with perme-able materials. Several residents and commissioners expressed concerns about a reduction in parking, an increase in traffic congestion, and long-term maintenance.■ commissioners unanimously agreed to send a letter to the D.C. Department of Transportation sup-porting the recent hiring of traffic-control officers for the reconstruc-tion of Nebraska Avenue and Military Road to control traffic diversion issues, and suggesting the city hire more.

Paul Hoffman and Tom Pipkin of the Transportation Department gave an update on the project, saying the work is on schedule and should end in October, weather permitting. The current 100-day phase is expected to end at the end of February, and the next phase, which will address the opposite sides of the streets, is expected to end by late April. They said they have deployed traffic-control officers “at major intersections” and that it’s “working pretty well.” They have also changed signage and relocated a bus stop. Judi Gold, an aide to Ward 4 D.C. Council member Muriel Bowser, asked why the traffic con-trol officers weren’t in place from the beginning of the work. Hoffman said the department thought the hol-idays would quiet things down and wanted to see what would happen before deploying them. The commission has canceled its Feb. 13 meeting. It will meet next at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 27, at the Chevy Chase Community Center, Connecticut Avenue and McKinley Street NW. For details, call 202-363-5803 or send an email to [email protected].

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The commission will meet at 7:15 p.m. Tuesday, March 6, at Fort Stevens Recreation Center, 13th and Van Buren streets NW. For details, call 202-450-6225.

ANC 4CPetworth/16th Street HeightsCrestwood

The commission will meet at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 8, at the Petworth Neighborhood Library, 4200 Kansas Ave. NW. Agenda items include:■ introduction of candidates for the Ward 4 D.C. Council seat.■ update from Ward 4 D.C. Council member Muriel Bowser.■ police report.■ presentation by Lisa Mallory, director of the D.C. Department of Employment Services.■ presentation on the 14th Street Art Place Grant.■ presentation by Doreen Thompson of the Petworth Library Friends. For details, call 202-723-6670 or visit anc4c.org.


In Your Neighborhood

Chevy Chase Citizens Association In these difficult economic times, it is particularly important for our community to support the local businesses that are an essential part of our neighborhood. The shops and restaurants along Connecticut Avenue and adjoining blocks help to create a vibrant “main street” for our Chevy Chase D.C. community throughout the year. Recently, one of our business members reported that while cus-tomer traffic along Connecticut Avenue in the winter months is typi-cally lower than other times of the year, customer traffic has been especially low this winter. We urge you to remember our local establishments, especially asso-ciation business members, for your dining, shopping and service needs. For a list of our business members, visit chevychasecitizens.org and click on “Business Corner.” On another subject, mark your calendar for the next meeting of the Garden Club. It will be held Feb. 22 at 7:15 p.m., at the Chevy Chase Community Center (5601 Connecticut Ave. NW). Jennifer Horn, a well-known horticulturist and landscape architect, will be back by popular demand. Horn will identify plants that do well in our climate zone, including those that thrive in hot, but shady, conditions. The meeting is open to everyone. For questions or more details, contact Barbara Baldwin at [email protected].

— Jonathan Lawlor

Shepherd Park Citizens Association The latest information about the Walter Reed parcel was shared on Feb. 2 at the Local Redevelopment Authority community meeting, when the group presented its unanimous recommendation. The recom-mendation’s highlights include preserving more than 21 percent of the site as green space, tearing down the new hospital building and expos-ing the lovely exterior of the original hospital. The next step in the process is to present the recommendation to the D.C. Council. The entire presentation from last week will be posted to the deputy mayor for planning and economic development’s website for community updates on Walter Reed, accessible at tinyurl.com/79ue5fs. For details, contact Jeff Miller at 202-727-6365 or at [email protected]. Meanwhile, be sure to attend the Police Service Area 401 meeting tonight, Feb. 8, at the Juanita E. Thornton/Shepherd Park Neighborhood Library. This meeting will include information on the activities that we as a neighborhood can get involved with to assist police and stem crime in our community. It is anticipated that we will launch a Neighborhood Watch program at this meeting. Also tonight, the annual “Songs of Freedom and Justice” concert will be presented at 6:30 in the auditorium of Shepherd Elementary School. This performance by Shepherd students and the DC Labor Chorus should not be missed.

— Cheryl Teare

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Christi Hay isn’t the sort of pediatrician patients spend hours in a waiting room to

see. In fact, they don’t sit in a wait-ing room at all. Hay’s one-woman practice, Palisades Pediatrics, makes house calls — for every appointment. “It’s kind of like bringing small-town medicine to the city,” said Hay. Named for a favorite D.C. neighborhood — and the one where Hay’s daughters go to school; the family lives in Maryland — her practice is the ultimate in accessibil-ity. Not only are all visits made to the patients’ homes, but Hay is available for their questions and concerns at all times. A phone call to the doctor? Goes to Hay’s cell-phone. Want to email her? No prob-lem. “Their access to me is seven days a week, 365 days a year,” she said of her patients. Part of the reason she can be so available is that she’s keeping her list of patients purposefully small — no more than 300, where an average pediatrician sees 3,000, she said. That means that she has lots of time to spend on each appointment, and can devote herself to preventa-

tive medicine, not just addressing illness. “I do a lot of screening. … [It’s] things that we’re trained to do, but people don’t do because there often isn’t enough time,” she said. There’s also “time for par-ents to ask me questions and time for me to pursue health education.” Education, in fact, is part of her background: Along with a medical degree from the University of Virginia, Hay has a master’s in public health from the University of Michigan. She has also worked in both education and medicine, starting as an assistant professor of pediatrics at Children’s National Medical Center and then shifting to a private clinic. With Palisades Pediatrics, she’s aiming to combine a love of treating patients with a passion for

teaching. The combination sounds logical for a pediatric doctor. The question is, how is it financially feasible to have just 300 patients? The answer is that she doesn’t accept insurance. “Patients pay annual fees,” she said. “It’s less than a cellphone bill. It is definitely reasonable.”

Insurance is still necessary, she says, for lab work, radiolo-gy, specialists and such. But the annual fee for her services covers as many visits a year from Hay as needed.

“We’re all really trained toward the tra-

ditional model” in which a patient sees a doctor once a year, she said. But she thinks that’s not the way it has to be. Navigating automated phone systems and heading to the office for every conversation — “it’s just not pleasant,” she said. “I think there’s value to, when you call, I pick up the phone.” More information is available at palisadespeds.net.

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Bill Petros/The CurrentPediatrician Christi Hay makes individual house calls.

By DEIRDRE BANNONCurrent Staff Writer

As the debate continues over food trucks and how they should operate in the District, two stakeholders have taken to the Internet to drum

up public support for their separate — and sometimes opposing — positions on Mayor Vincent Gray’s newly proposed street-vending regulations. The DC Food Truck Association, which held its first annual meeting last Wednesday and which generally supports the mayor’s proposal, decided on a strategy to take advantage of its strengths: social media and the thousands who track D.C. food trucks each workday when plotting lunch options. Through Twitter, Facebook and individual websites,

participating food trucks are directing their customers to a petition at change.org. The online form offers support for the proposed regulations while requesting a few tweaks. Customers are also encouraged to add their own comments. As of last night, the DC Food Truck Association’s petition had gathered about 1,300 signatures of support in less than a week. “We’re really grateful to Mayor Gray for these pro-posed regulations,” said Che Ruddell-Tabisola, the newly named executive director of the DC Food Truck Association. “While they’re not perfect, they update what they call the ‘ice-cream truck rules’ from more than 30 years ago, and that’s an improvement.” According to Ruddell-Tabisola, the association’s

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Save the surplus The District got a financial pick-me-up last week when Mayor Vincent Gray announced that an independent audit found D.C. had ended 2011 with a nearly $240 million surplus. But just as individu-als can mentally spend a supersized tax return lickety-split, some in District government are mulling tax cuts or new spending programs to eat up that windfall or a projected rise in this year’s revenues. We’re not fans of every measure that was taken to close last year’s budget gap — in particular, we opposed the income-tax hike on top earners. But to reopen the old wounds of that discussion and others, including cuts to social services programs, would do more harm than good. For several reasons, the city would be better off fol-lowing the mayor’s lead to bank the bulk of the surplus — and refrain from adding line items to next year’s budget — with an eye to eventually having two months of city expenses on hand. With the surplus, the $1.1 billion fund is two-thirds of the way there, accord-ing to the mayor. First, a large chunk of the surplus stems from a hike in estate-tax and capital-gains revenues. To saddle the city with recurring costs such as new program spending because of rises in these very volatile categories would be foolish. Second, as the past few years have shown, the economic recovery at the national and local levels has come in fits and starts. In such times, a healthy piggy bank is more a necessity than a luxury. Third, our banking the surplus today will limit our borrowing costs tomorrow, resulting in flexibility later for tax cuts or spending on social programs. In fact, even though Chief Financial Officer Natwar Gandhi has revised income projections for this year upward by about $42 mil-lion, his estimates for the following years’ revenues have been adjusted downward because of the likelihood of slow economic growth and reduced federal spending and employment. The city has a rare opportunity to achieve a savings goal that, as Mayor Gray has pointed out, few municipalities can. Given the cer-tainty that the fractious D.C. Council will not easily agree on spend-ing priorities — and would have to alter existing law to spend the surplus anyway — as well as the uncertainty the future holds, we urge council members to save the existing surplus, as well as any that might emerge from 2012.

The broader context The Logan Circle advisory neighborhood commission and its constituents have good reason to be frustrated with the Mood Lounge — and the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board. Late last year, a fight in the Shaw establishment spilled into the street and left two people stabbed. The police appropriately closed Mood Lounge pending a hearing before the alcohol board. The board initially suspended the license, but then allowed Mood to reopen under a few restraints. Considered in a vacuum, the conditions may make sense — for instance, mandating security training for relevant personnel, banning the use of outside promoters, and requiring a status update from Mood after 45 days. But the Dec. 30 stabbing was not an isolated incident. Neighbors have complained for months about problems like public urination, sex in alleyways and illegally parked cars. Regrettably, the board refused to allow the neighborhood commis-sion to participate in the hearing — on what commissioner Charles Reed described as “specious grounds.” Now, the Logan Circle commission is asking for a show-cause hearing to revoke Mood’s license because of an alleged failure to report an Oct. 30 assault in the establishment. City statutes and regulations may well have tied the board’s hands in this instance, but members ought to be able to consider issues more broadly when considering what to do after a violent incident. A history of complaints could offer valuable context.

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If you’re one of the more than 31,000 people who have gotten caught by the new speed camera on Foxhall Road NW, you may not want to read any

further. It’s not a sneaky speed trap. And there’s not much sympathy for you. “The residents have repeatedly complained,” Police Chief Cathy Lanier said last week on WTOP’s “Ask the Chief.” “The goal is to have [drivers] slow down out there.” Some motorists have complained that there are no warning signs. Sorry, not a good excuse. Some drivers have complained that the camera is on a downhill slope. Sorry, not a good excuse. Some have complained that it’s a four-lane road and that the 25 mph limit is ridiculously slow. Sorry, not a good excuse. Unless there’s a mechanical error with the police camera, you were all speeding. We stopped by the speed camera one day last week to watch traffic. It was demonstrably slower. That’s in part because of the publicity prompted by Geoff Tracy, the owner of Chef Geoff’s restaurant and the owner of three speeding tickets. Tracy didn’t deny he was speeding, but said he felt like the camera was unfairly nabbing people. He hired a guy to stand out on the roadway with one of the twirling mattress-sale signs, this one warning drivers of the speed camera ahead. Chief Lanier wasn’t fazed. “I’m all for it,” she told WTOP reporter Mark Segraves. “I hope he slows down, too.” Despite popular opinion to the contrary, Lanier said the principal purpose of cameras isn’t city revenue but citizen safety. She didn’t mention it, but the area of the new speed camera includes three schools: St. Patrick’s Episcopal Day, the Lab School of Washington and the Mount Vernon Campus of George Washington University. Lanier said that of the 31,000 tickets sent out, about 20,000 were given as “warnings” and another 11,000 were real tickets levying fines as high as $250. Some motorists complained they got the “warning” ticket in the mail too late — that they also got a real speeding ticket before the warning arrived. Bottom line in the city is this: Unless otherwise marked, all roads and streets have a maximum speed

limit of 25 mph. If you travel faster than that, you’re legally liable. Maybe the D.C. Council should change it to 30 mph or even 35 mph. But police know that people tend to drive just over the speed limit anyway. So, Segraves asked a key question. He wanted to know how much over the speed limit you have to be going in order to set off the camera. Chief Lanier wouldn’t say. She smiled and just replied, “When you speed.”

■ Full disclosure. Your Notebook knows more than a few people who have been nabbed by this camera, and we’re not entirely unsympa-thetic. We’ve received

only one radar ticket, a couple of years ago on Loughboro Road NW. We can’t say we don’t speed now and then, but we do pay better attention.■ Merry Valentine’s Day. Okay, we admit this is our annual rant. Valentine’s Day is this coming Tuesday. It is way past the time to take down your Christmas and other holiday decorations and to turn off the outdoor light displays. We’re happy to report that there appear to be fewer malingerers this year. And yes, we know that some people keep up white lights as “winter lights” rather than holiday lights. That’s fine with us; just take down the multi-colored lights, wreaths and especially those plastic blowup Santa Claus figures, et cetera.■ Foil Philly fans? We know the Super Bowl was just held, but the Washington Nationals are busy get-ting ready for the 2012 baseball season. Last week, the team announced an effort to end or at least ease the embarrassment level when the Phillies come to town. Nearly all of the seats are taken by Philly fans, including a healthy number of obnoxious ones who act out all game long. Now the Nats are offering a presale for local folks to buy up tickets for the first series with the Phillies here on May 4 through 6. The team is calling it “Take Back the Park.” If you want to be a part of it, check out nationals.com/ourpark. We hope this Nationals promotion works so we can get started on those New York Mets games. Spring training starts for the Nats players this coming weekend. It’s time for the fans to warm up, too. Tom Sherwood, a Southwest resident, is a politi-cal reporter for News 4.

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safety outweighs history in firehouses I am writing in response to The Current’s Feb. 1 article “Mayor’s agent to make call on firehouse.” The challenge of balancing historic preservation with public safety in the renovation of Engine Co. 29 (Palisades) and Engine Co. 28 (Cleveland Park) is very personal to me. My late grandfather, Charles Chamberlin II, was a career D.C. firefighter. He created a D.C. blood bank that provided dona-tions to firefighters and their fam-ily members in times of medical need, and in 1954 he was hon-ored as Fireman of the Year. His final position with the department was as a battalion chief’s aide assigned to Battalion 5, which was located in Engine Co. 28.

On March 1, 1965, while responding to a fire in the 3400 block of Connecticut Avenue, my grandfather died doing what he loved best — helping others. I was just 3 years old, and at that time his only grandchild. In 2010, I contacted the D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department and the Cleveland Park Citizens Association to find out what needed to be done to improve the Cleveland Park firehouse. Along with the association’s board members, I toured the building early that same year. It was a bittersweet experi-ence. For the first time, I was able to see where my grandfather worked and the place he called home for 56-plus hours a week. But I soon came to the disturbing realization that the current fire-fighters were living in a firehouse that had not seen any improve-ments since it was built in 1916. The substandard living conditions and inadequate heating/cooling

systems were, to say the least, disturbing. Since then, the balance between historic preservation and public safety has weighed heavily on my mind. Mindful of my grandfather’s legacy, I would like to preserve his last home, Engine Co. 28. But his life’s work was defined by helping others and ensuring public safety in the com-munity. There is only one suitable out-come: The building must accom-modate improved fire equipment, which will require changes to the front facade of Engine Co. 28. In the end, providing our fire-fighters with updated apparatus enables them to protect us all. In turn, we in the community need to see that they’re provided ade-quate resources and a safe, healthy firehouse. That is exactly what a fallen firefighter would want for the brothers he left behind.

Helen Chamberlin DimsdaleCleveland Park

letters tothe editor


cavalry, not calvary, sword shown in photo The Northwest Current’s Jan. 23 front page depicted the “cutting of a cake with a sword” (during an event at Knollwood military retire-ment home). The “sword” was described as a “calvary sword.” It should have been indicated as a “cavalry” sword. “Calvary” is the location of the Crucifixion; “caval-ry” is the traditional designation of formerly horse-mounted Army troops.

Nathaniel M. Adams Jr.Washington, D.C.

use surplus to open libraries on sundays With the announcement by Mayor Vincent Gray of a $240 mil-lion year-end budget surplus, city leaders should move prudently to put the money back into use for the benefit of those who helped to gen-erate it — D.C. residents, business-es and visitors. A smart place to start would be to reopen the city’s neighborhood libraries on Sunday afternoons. For several years, only the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library downtown has operated at those hours, much to the dismay of users across the city. Reopening neighborhood librar-ies year-round on Sundays is no budget-buster — it would cost about $975,000, less than half of 1 percent of the surplus — yet the benefits would be large. Sundays are when many people are free to be able to take advantage of the various services our D.C. libraries offer. Sunday afternoons are also a key time for students to work on homework or assignments. Many a Sunday, my children have sought to do research at libraries or to get books needed for assignments and special projects. Our city’s literacy rate and the performance of our students on D.C. Comprehensive Assessment System reading tests make clear that we need to do all we can to ensure that our residents and chil-dren have the tools necessary to succeed in our ever-more-competi-tive economies and learning envi-ronments. Opening the doors to our neighborhood libraries certainly would be a step in that direction.

Terry LynchExecutive Director,

Downtown Cluster of Congregations

Poll biased toward ward 4 incumbent The Ward 4 Democrats held a “straw poll” Feb. 1 to endorse a

candidate for the April 3 election for the Ward 4 Council seat. With the exception of the incum-bent, who has two staff members on the group’s executive board, all other Ward 4 candidates were informed about the “straw poll” only nine or 10 days before the actual forum. The decision to hold the forum was made at least three weeks before other candidates were noti-fied. Obviously, the incumbent, with two of her staffers involved in the decision-making process, had an unfair advantage because the forum is based on a candidate’s ability to turn out the vote. It is only ethical to give equal notice to all of the candidates about the date and time of the forum. Back in July 2011, Ms. Deborah Royster, seeking re-election as Ward 4 Democrats president, opened the election meeting at 7 p.m. and closed it at 7:05 p.m. to stop Ward 4 residents from voting for her opposition. Even if she was following the group’s bylaws, Ms. Royster’s action was not only prob-lematic; it was also unethical and suggests that the integrity of the process of any election under her guidance is compromised and ques-tionable to say the least. With the incumbent council member having an unfair advantage in the Feb. 1 straw poll, coupled with Ms. Royster’s unethical action, I could not in good conscience par-ticipate in any activity that Ms. Royster oversees.

Baruti JahiCandidate, Ward 4 D.C. Council seat

broad branch bridge repairs show the way The section of Broad Branch Road between Nebraska Avenue and Beach Drive has been for many years one of the most embarrassing examples of infrastructure dysfunc-tion in the District. Though it pro-vides in all seasons stunningly beautiful views, and runs besides a creek that tumbles delightfully year round over varied rock formations, Broad Branch Road is dangerous and dilapidated — and a depressing entrance to Rock Creek Park. Shoulders of the road regularly collapse into the creek. Rustic bridge features are crumbling. Concrete posts meant to protect drivers from an accidental dip in the water are even uglier — many are on their side or wavering precari-ously, held together only by rusting wire. Adding to the mess are curb-side invasive plants of all species, which obscure sight lines for driv-ers and generally aren’t cut until they start growing across the road. Pedestrians and bikers have no way to navigate this scenic byway, since there are lanes only for cars. Amazingly, the local authorities

recently acted to repair one section of the road in real time — and in the process demonstrated how greater improvements can be made in the near future. The Broad Branch Road bridge over the Soapstone Creek tributary failed last spring, closing off this major east-west route. (The stone bridge was a ruin anyway, missing many pieces and overgrown by invasive weeds that spouted inside the walls as well on the grounds nearby.) Officials quickly provided for a temporary span to be placed across the creek, and meanwhile agreed on a plan to repair the bridge. This job was finished last week, and it has made the modest crossing once again worthy of the city, the park and the nation. I include the latter because one can only imagine what the ambassador of Italy, whose resi-dence abuts the bridge, thought of the previous setting, which made the remnants of the Roman Forum look tidy in comparison. Residents should thank D.C. Council members Mary Cheh and Muriel Bowser, the District Department of Transportation, the National Park Service, the contrac-tors and others who came to togeth-er to facilitate this small miracle. While the Transportation Department is on record promising to repair much of Broad Branch Road near the park, and to study pedestrian/biker access, the success story at Soapstone Creek shows that it shouldn’t take authorities five or 10 years to complete this job. The District should work closely with existing park advocacy groups and citizens associations to make these improvements happen as soon as possible.

Steve DrydenMount Pleasant

residents will miss m street bookstore I would like to convey my heart-felt appreciation to all the staff at the recently closed Barnes & Noble store on M Street in Georgetown. Over the years, Barnes & Noble has been a major destination for my family. We bought countless birth-day and Christmas gifts there and often dropped in to browse and enjoy the busy, cheerful atmo-sphere. For my daughter, the chil-dren’s department was a home away from home, and most of her favorite books were purchased there. I particularly enjoyed chatting with the incredibly knowledgeable guys in music and DVDs. I still don’t understand why such a busy and successful store had to close. I hear that it is being replaced with yet another high-end sports or clothing store. This is a sad loss indeed for Georgetown.

Charlotte DonVitoFoxhall Village


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oregon avenue work will be disruptive I am writing to point out an aspect of the D.C. plan to con-struct sidewalks along Oregon Avenue that homeowners in the area should consider: Road con-struction work in D.C. inevitably causes major traffic tie-ups and historically takes an inordinate amount of time to complete. Many of you will recall the construction mess and traffic delays created when sidewalks were being built along the short stretch of Nebraska Avenue between Utah and Oregon ave-nues. This relatively simple proj-ect took more than two years to complete! During this period, a permanent concrete divider was installed along the middle of Nebraska. Huge construction equipment dominated the entire area. Flagmen often restricted the traffic along the road to a single lane, causing significant backups

in both directions. The Oregon project will be considerably more complex given the narrow roadway and the nature of the landscape along Oregon. I expect many trees will have to be cut down and utility poles moved. In many areas, concrete walls will have to be constructed to keep the hillsides free from erosion. Traffic will be a nightmare con-sidering the volume of cars that now use Oregon during rush hour to get from Wise Road to Nebraska Avenue. Traffic in both directions will have to be funneled into a single lane, causing huge backups. Since there are no practi-cal alternatives, traffic volume will certainly increase on streets such as Chestnut, Beech and Tennyson. I understand the safety con-cerns of those who periodically walk along Oregon. It is danger-ous on some stretches. But are concrete sidewalks the only solu-tion to this real problem? Why not consider a simple asphalt path fol-lowing the natural contours of the land a few feet from the roadway? Note the existing asphalt path that runs through Rock Creek Park

from Wise Road to Military Road. I am not suggesting that the com-munity use this path — just that officials build a similar path along Oregon. The path could be built to maneuver around trees and other obstacles to preserve the park-like setting along Oregon. And it could be built quickly at a fraction of the cost of concrete sidewalks. One such path that accommodates pedestrians was built around Knollwood just a few years ago.

Charles J. InfosinoBarnaby Woods

letter on bill filled with inaccuracies Mr. Gene Harrington’s letter in the Feb. 1 issue of The Current addresses “misstatements” in Mary Cheh’s earlier letter defend-ing her rodent protection act. In fact, to paraphrase a famous quote, one might reasonably conclude that every word of her defense was misleading and inaccurate, including “and” and “the.”

William HerronWashington, D.C.


Traffic crashes just do not ignite public passions the way crime does. Was Metropolitan Police Department Chief Cathy Lanier invited to come

out and talk to residents about beefing up traffic enforcement after a rash of pedestrian crashes in October when, in a space of two weeks, there were three pedestrian crashes with two deaths? Nonetheless, pedestrian issues appeared alongside crime on the flier advertising the Jan. 24 meeting of the D.C. Federation of Citizen Associations, which featured Chief Lanier. Sitting in the audience that night, I waited and waited for the chief — or anyone else — to bring up pedestrian safety, but no one did. I finally raised my hand and asked the chief to talk about the relationship between traffic enforcement and crime fighting. The chief’s response: “Traffic enforcement is important to fighting crime.” Yes, the police can fight crime and also enforce traffic laws. Even though it flies under the radar in “Law & Order” and “CSI,” good old traffic enforce-ment is effective because, as Chief Lanier puts it, “criminals are often terrible drivers.” In “Traffic Safety in the New Millennium: Strategies for Law Enforcement,” the International Association of Chiefs of Police lays out a strong case for traffic enforcement: “More people are killed and injured and the economic loss to society is greater from traffic crashes than that from crime, and police departments that are proactive in traffic enforcement have lower crime rates as well as lower traffic crash statistics, because traffic enforcement leads to the dis-covery of criminals and the recovery of drugs and weapons.” The D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department reports there are eight to 10 pedestrian crashes a day. And this figure doesn’t even include auto and bicycle crashes. For some reason, criminals pulling guns and steal-ing stuff gins us up much more than fatalities from transporting ourselves on our streets. Well, folks, we may fear crime more, but we are more at risk crossing our streets — and the cost of pedestrian fatalities and injuries is enormous. The National Safety Council estimates puts the average cost of a pedestrian fatality at $3.84 million (in 2005 dollars) when accounting

for wage and productivity losses, medical expenses, motor vehicle damage and employers’ insurance costs. The estimated cost of a pedestrian injury is $52,900. It’s great that Chief Lanier promotes traffic enforcement in connection with crime fighting and officers’ efforts to catch criminals. But traffic enforce-ment needs a broader focus. Making it safe for people to walk, bike and drive is a constant need, and enforcement is many times thankless and dangerous for cops. I have talked to police officers about traffic enforcement. Many of the officers who actually walk in this city are emphatic that traffic enforcement is an important part of their job. They tell me that we need more officers whose full-time focus is traffic enforce-ment. In the 2nd District, we have only three officers devoted to traffic enforcement. This district includes Connecticut and Wisconsin avenues — magnets for pedestrian crashes and fatalities — as well as Georgetown and part of downtown. How can this be enough to deal proactively with traffic enforcement? One recommendation is to staff each of the 2nd District’s eight police service areas with one such officer. Implementing this across the city would mean 56 traffic enforcement officers, a small percentage of the personnel assigned to police service areas. Photo enforcement can help, too. Some yell and scream about photo enforcement, but cameras are effective in reducing speeding and red-light running. Just look at how people drive north of Chevy Chase Circle versus south of the circle. And there is ample reason to slow down. An increase in speed from 30 to 40 mph almost doubles the risk of fatalities in crashes involving pedestrians. We’re glad to see that the District plans to ramp up photo enforcement — including ticketing motorists for blocking intersections and not stopping for pedes-trians in crosswalks — but photo enforcement can’t do the whole job. We still need officers to keep tabs on our driving, walking and cycling to reinforce traf-fic laws. Traffic enforcement is essential to protecting pub-lic safety. Chief Lanier, we need officers who can be on constant guard to remind us to make the right deci-sions on how we drive, walk and bike. Their presence would make for a much safer D.C. Marlene Berlin, a Forest Hills resident, is chair of the group Connecticut Avenue Pedestrian Action.

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By BRIAN KAPURCurrent Staff Writer

The Roosevelt indoor track squad anx-iously awaited the final tally of the D.C. Interscholastic Athletic Association champi-onship Wednesday night in Prince George’s County. Coming into the meet, the Rough Riders knew they could compete, and they expected a pretty good finish — but they didn’t know how good. Yet after several of their athletes finished in first place and others made strong showings, Roosevelt was in the conversation to finish in the top three. When the numbers were crunched, the Rough Riders had finished just short of Dunbar, which narrowly claimed first place 126-105. “These guys have worked hard all year long and trained in cross country, and it paid off,” said assistant coach Sarah Kelly. “They’re happy, and I’m happy, and hope-fully we’ll put it together and come in first [next year].” Among Roosevelt’s top performers were Blair Crutchfield, Deonte Miller and Abdur-rahma Kelly. Crutchfield won the 55-meter dash in a blazing 6.57 seconds. Miller won three events — the 300-meter dash, 500-meter dash and 1,000-meter run. “This was my first indoor season ever, and it’s a great accomplishment for me,” said

Miller. “I used to play basketball, but I took a break to win a track championship — just trying to spread my wings some more.” Crutchfield also claimed silver in the 300-meter dash. Kelly picked up silver in the 500-meter and 1,000-meter events. While Roosevelt’s boys dominated more races, it was Wilson’s boys who excelled in grueling long-distance runs. Simon Gigli won the 1,600-meter and 3,200-meter races. “It’s so awesome,” said Gigli. “This is my last time, being a senior. I still have spring track, but it means so much to me to win today.”


With first place in the Independent School League girls basketball standings hanging in the balance, Visitation senior guard Kate Gillespie refused to let the Cubs falter Thursday and led her team past Bullis 72-67. “She has a will like I’ve never seen. She just has a fire in her and won’t let us lose,” said Cubs coach Mike McCarthy. The Cubs had won 11 straight games and were a perfect 8-0 in league play going into a game against Sidwell last night. Thursday’s win put them in the driver’s seat to take at least a share of the regular-season title and the top seed in the postseason. “We were both the only undefeated teams in the ISL,” said senior Maddy Williams, who scored 15 points. “It meant a lot to win and get into first place.” Visitation’s veteran-laden team received contributions from all corners. Senior guard Kathleen Tabb carried the load early in the game and hit three treys in the first quarter. “She’s a great shooter,” McCarthy said of Tabb. “I want her to shoot more. The more she

shoots, the more she makes. Teams key on Kate and Maddy, but we can light them up from the outside.” The Bulldogs held a one-point lead at half-time. Gillespie took over the game in the second half, when the Holy Cross-bound senior scored 17 of her game-high 32 points. The teams battled to a 54-54 tie late in the third quarter. But down the stretch, the Cubs’


Growing up, Gonzaga senior swimmer Sean Sullivan trained with his brother Pat, who is four years older, but could never beat him. But on Saturday night, Sean won bragging rights at home when he broke Pat’s Washington Metropolitan Prep School Swim Dive League Championship record in the 50-yard freestyle. In doing so, Sean helped Gonzaga win its second WMPSSDL title in two years in dominating fashion. The Eagles topped Good Counsel 540-355. “Last year, we had a total team effort,” said coach Josh Klotz. “This year we had huge senior class that led us to an all-around victory.” Sullivan’s record-setting free-style time was 20.68 seconds. He also won the 100-yard freestyle, finishing the race in 46.54 seconds. “Breaking any record is always good, but having it be my brother’s is icing on the cake,” Sullivan said. “He was always a lot faster than I was, but, as you can see, I’m finally catching up.”

The Eagles’ Paul O’Hara nar-rowly won the 200-yard Individual Medley for Gonzaga as well. “I was ahead by a little going into the breaststroke,” O’Hara said. “I saw the other guy coming up at

the end, and I was really scared. I just gave it 110 percent and man-aged to out-touch him.” The Eagles also had a slew of second-place finishes. Gonzaga’s 200-yard medley relay squad and 400-yard freestyle relay team both took second. Seniors Tim Barry, Sean Spata, Sullivan and Patrick Reyes swam in the medley, while O’Hara, Spata, Sullivan and senior Madison Hardimon compet-ed in the freestyle race. Barry also finished second in the 100-yard backstroke.

Meanwhile, senior Daniel Tarbreake finished second in the 100-yard butterfly; sophomore Andrew Valentine took second in the grueling 500-yard freestyle; and Hardimon finished second in the

100-yard freestyle. “It’s been a good four

years,” said Tarbreake. “I love the team. This is by far the best team we’ve ever had.”

Several other local swim-mers also had strong showings.

Visitation sophomore sen-sation Bridie Burke continued her impressive season by matching last season’s win in the girls 200-yard Individual Medley and second-place fin-

ish in the 100-yard freestyle. The sophomore set school records in both events. “Bridie is fighting a good fight and swimming her best amongst the best high school swimmers from the D.C. private schools,” said Cubs coach Hadley Rowland. St. John’s senior Morgan Whyte finished in third place in the girls’ 50-yard freestyle. In addition, National Cathedral’s Morgan Johnson took second, and the team’s Nicole Orme claimed second in the 100-yard backstroke.

Gonzaga repeats as swimming champs

Matt Petros/The CurrentThe Eagles celebrate with their second straight WMPSSDL title.

Cubs clobber Bulldogs in ISL hoops showdown

Roosevelt runs to silver in DCIAA

Matt Petros/Current file photoCubs senior Kate Gillespie led the way Thursday with 32 points.

Brian Kapur/The CurrentDeonte Miller, No. 2, and Abdur-rahma Kelly, No. 1, had a strong meet.

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For three weeks, junior point guard Nate Britt could only watch as Gonzaga went 6-2 while he nursed a badly bruised calf. But the future University of North Carolina Tar Heel was back on the hardwood Saturday, although he played spar-ingly in his first appearance since Jan. 14. Even with Britt playing for only about 10 minutes, the Eagles con-trolled the game and Bishop Ireton, rolling to a 75-48 win at the Carmody Center. The Eagles are now 21-2 on the season and 10-2 in the Washington Catholic Athletic Conference going into a game against Bishop O’Connell after press time last night. “It was a total team effort,” said coach Steve Turner. “Tonight it was fun to watch our guys share the ball and play together.” Britt scored 11 points in limited action and showed no signs of rust

as he hit his first two shots. “I enjoyed it a lot. I was just having fun,” he said. When Britt wasn’t in the game, he cheered on the Eagles while rid-ing a stationary bike to keep his calf warm. The junior didn’t suffer any setbacks during the match. “It felt good,” he said with a smile. “In the next couple of games, I can play more and get back into the system and things.” While Britt was getting back in the swing of things, junior forward Kris Jenkins and senior center Will Rassman took advantage of the undersized Cardinals. The duo pounded their opponents in the paint while Jenkins scored 23 points and Rassman added 19. As a team, the Eagles grabbed a season-high 40 rebounds. “We did some high-low action and tried to exploit their lack of size. Kris and I were able to get some easy layups down low,” said Rassman. The Eagles have a huge week

ahead. They travel to DeMatha Friday for a rematch with the Stags and will host Paul VI on Sunday. Both games are expected to be sell-outs.

Gonzaga junior returns to help top Ireton

Wilson’s relay squads won med-als as well. The Tigers’ 4x200-meter boys relay team — William Carson, Nicholas Cooper, Nico Robinson and Yannick Mefane — claimed third place, and the 4x400 relay team — Gigli, Robinson, Cooper and Melfane — won sec-ond. Robinson also received a sil-ver medal in the 55-meter hurdles. Wilson’s Dylan Cooper also had a strong showing for the Tigers and finished in third place in the 1,000-meter run. Several Coolidge boys had a

good outing too. The Colts’ 4x200 relay team — Jeffery Nesbitt, Quinn West, Delarico Price and Ezekial Freeman — won silver. And individually, Calvin Brown

showed off his hops by winning the long jump and finishing in second place in the high jump. On the girls side, Wilson’s team had a strong showing, finishing in third place with a combined 89 points. Among Wilson’s best female performers were Margaret Kellogg, who claimed second place in the 1,000-meter run; Frances Menditto, who finished third in the 3,200-meter run; and Rachel Bonham, who grabbed second in the 55-meter hurdles. The Tigers’ 4x200 relay team — Bonham, Eileen Connor, Lindsay Cunningham and Khyla Link — finished second.

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seniors were too much for the Bulldogs. Williams and Gillespie sparked a 7-0 run to push the lead to 61-54. Then senior Kelsey Tillman made it a 10-point advan-tage with less than four minutes to play. “Those four [seniors] have been four-year varsity players and are just on a mission to win [the champion-ship] again,” McCarthy said of Gillespie, Tabb, Tillman and Williams. “You can’t teach that.”

Bullis cut the Cubs’ lead down to three with less than a minute to play, but Tillman hit critical free throws down the stretch to secure the win. “We still have to beat Bullis [again] and play at Flint Hill,” said McCarthy. “They’re going to be [close] games just like [this]. We have to keep playing at a high level and take it one at a time.” He noted, though, that the seniors are “determined to go out on top.” The Cubs also grabbed a dominating 57-25 win over Holton-Arms Saturday. Visitation will return to the court on Friday when the Cubs host Maret on Senior Night.

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Brian Kapur/The CurrentJunior guard Nate Britt makes a pass during Saturday’s game.

Four Quakers participated in a National Signing Day Ceremony at Sidwell Wednesday, signing letters of intent to play in college. Kara Wilson, who led the Quakers soccer team to the Independent School League regular-season champion-ship, signed with Duke. Boys basketball stalwart Jamal Lewis signed on to play in the Ivy League and remain a Quaker at the University of Pennsylvania. Olivia Grinker will dive for Yale next winter, and Alexa Rosenfeld will row for the University of California at Berkeley.

— Brian Kapur

Sidwell students sign with Division 1 schools

Matt Petros/The CurrentFrom second from left, Sidwell’s Alexa Rosenfeld, Jamal Lewis, Olivia Grinker and Kara Wilson

Matt Petros/The CurrentWilson’s Simon Gigli, left, and Dylan Cooper won medals.

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By DEIRDRE BANNONCurrent Staff Writer

Long before they were known as the band The Sweater Set, Maureen Andary and Sara

Curtin were childhood friends in Northwest D.C. who sang together in the Blessed Sacrament Church choir. The friendship they devel-oped back then has blossomed into a professional career that has won the duo accolades both here and abroad. The Sweater Set’s musical style is often described as folk-pop with jazz influences. But what makes them stand out are the harmonies that seamlessly blend their alto and soprano voices — that, and their multi-instrument bag of tricks, which includes the ukulele, banjo, guitar, flute, accordion and glocken-spiel. The kazoo and mouth trumpet are never far from reach either. “We have very different voices, and we like blending them togeth-er,” said Andary. “The irony is when we were younger, Sara was the soprano and I was the alto. We’ve swapped as adults as Sara’s voice naturally started to get lower.” Now in their 20s, both Andary and Curtin were raised in musical families. Andary says hers was more music-appreciation, with her dad’s rock music from the 1960s and ‘70s a constant presence grow-ing up. Curtin’s family was involved with production. Her mother was the director of the church choir where Andary and Curtin first met, and she regularly directs the Janney Elementary and Deal Middle School musicals. Curtin first played her grandfather’s accordion from Italy before switching to one of a more manageable size for The Sweater Set. “We didn’t have a pre-recorded idea of what we wanted the band to sound like. It was more, ‘What do we have to work with?’” said

Curtin. “The accordion is very entertaining for audiences, and it’s fun to switch instruments — it’s interactive and the audience tends to comment on it and talk with us about it after the show.” “Sometimes it makes us a bit of a circus,” she added. In fact, The Sweater Set started performing locally in 2008 with what Andary and Curtin call “side-shows.” Each month, they would perform their music, but also bring in other artists — including hula-hoopers, jugglers and magicians. The ladies behind The Sweater Set have been awarded two Young Emerging Artist grants from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities and nominated for a total of 15 Washington Area Music Association Awards, including four last week. Last year, they were art-ists-in-residence at the Strathmore music center in Bethesda. “The first time I saw them live, it was at a ukulele festival and I found them utterly charming,” said Betty Scott, the education and artist-in-residence coordinator at Strathmore. “But I didn’t want to get caught in the ‘aren’t they cute’ mode because they have high musi-cal integrity.”

It was while at the Strathmore that the pair completed their third and most recent album, “Goldmine.” “The thing about the two of them that makes them unique is their wonderful harmonies and sense of arranging them,” Scott added. “Sara and Maureen have a quirky side to them, and their won-derful sense of humor shows up in a lot of their lyrics — they really have a good time, and they play off of each other beautifully.” After impressing folk music icon Michelle Shocked at a showcase performance in Memphis, The Sweater Set last year opened for the singer/songwriter in cities in the Northeast as well as in the United Kingdom and Ireland. In 2011, the pair also opened for Dar Williams at The Birchmere in Alexandria. The band is glad to call D.C. home. Both Andary and Curtin have lived in New York City, but found that as they were getting started, they were commuting down to D.C. for opportunities to perform

at venues here. “The music community here is great, and the audiences here are great,” said Andary. “They’re edu-cated people who appreciate art and want to support original music.” The Sweater Set is currently hard at work on more original music — another album. “We don’t want to say too much yet,” said Andary. “But it has more of a country sound, since we’re working more with the accordion and banjo.” “I think it’s also the timbre of our voices,” added Curtin. “We don’t have a traditional country background — our styles are infused with country, jazz, folk and rock elements, as opposed to one thing. It’s definitely an exploration of genres.” For those looking to hear the band’s signature songs about love and love lost, The Sweater Set will hold its third annual Valentine’s Day concert next week at The Dunes, a new art gallery and perfor-mance space at 1402 Meridian

Place NW. Keeping in tune with the band’s collaborative nature, the event will feature award-winning mime Emma Jaster, who will perform both her own act and alongside The Sweater Set for one song — a first-of-its-kind accompaniment for the band. Also featured that night will be painter Rodger Schultz, who has a solo show at The Dunes. The D.C. native’s work includes reinventing images of the Cherry Blossom trees with modern geometric designs. As is their Valentine’s tradition, The Sweater Set will make home-made cupcakes, “baked with love,” for audience members, and the ven-ue’s decor, according to the band, will hearken back to viewers’ first boy/girl parties in childhood. “Sweet Talk With The Sweater Set: A Valentine’s Day Sideshow” will take place Feb. 14 at The Dunes. Doors will open at 7 p.m., with performances set to begin at 7:30. Tickets cost $10.

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D.C.-crafted Sweater Set warming far-flung stages

Left: photo by Christylez Bacon; above, photo by Rachel Fus of Gold Leaf StudiosSara Curtin, above left, and Maureen Andary were friends growing up in Northwest. Now in their 20s, they have won awards for their performances as The Sweater Set. The pair will perform an annual Valentine’s Day show next week at The Dunes in Columbia Heights.

A capella group offers private Valentine’s Day serenades

What to get for the valentine who has everything? How about a song? The Capital Accord Chorus is offering Valentine’s Day serenades for anyone who donates $50 to the a cappella group. A

group of four choristers will travel to your sweetheart, perform two songs and hand over a bag of chocolate. Recipients will also receive a digital photo as a memento. “It’s the favorite thing that we do all year long,” said chorus member Gana Browning. “We get dressed up in our per-formance costume and we send out a quar-tet, and we’ll go wherever you want us to go, and we’ll sing two Valentine’s songs to

your sweetie or your friend.”Browning said the group sings two out of three songs: “Let Me Call You Sweetheart,” “I

Can’t Give You Anything But Love” and “You’ve Got a Friend in Me.” The last

drew tears from a mother-daughter pair ser-enaded on a recent year. “They were having a little bit of difficul-ty,” so the mother hired the group to sing to her daughter, said Browning. “They both got very emotional.” For details, email [email protected] or visit capitalaccord.org and look under “Events.”

— Beth Cope

Passages, in brief

Spotlight on Schools16 Wednesday, February 8, 2012 The CurrenT

Aidan Montessori School On Friday, Jan. 27, Ms. Antonucci’s primary class went to the Sackler Gallery. They got to make masks that were based on Chinese art. Everyone liked making masks. There were monkeys in a foun-tain. There was also the word “monkey” in 21 languages. The word “monkey” means a lot to the Chinese. There were many artifacts on display, including statues. There were many myths described. There was a scavenger hunt where the stu-dents looked for pictures in the building. — Edvin Leijon, fourth-grader, and

Elliot Sealls, fifth-grader

Beauvoir School In science, each third-grader gets to adopt a tree for the whole year. I adopted the beech tree. The beech tree is a big, tall tree with some low and some high branches. Although it is not an evergreen, it still had its leaves in November. The beech tree has medium size

leaves, and it is good for climbing. I chose this tree because I can hang from it. The beech tree is awesome.

— Amelia Lamotte, third-grader

British School of Washington This term, the Year 5 classes have been learning about space. When we started our space topic, we had to design a small spaceship out of old bottles, pipe cleaners, plastic cups, balloons and a whole lot of tape! We all had to get into groups of three or four and build a ship to transport bottles of bubbles or sup-plies (as we called them) from one table to another, about 5 metres apart. There were some really wacky ideas. In my group, the only trouble was our ship (which was literally a bottle with some string threaded through it and a cup to carry the bubbles taped to the bottom) fell

apart. My opinion was that the cup wasn’t taped on properly, the string wasn’t taped to the table, or proba-bly both. Anyway, it was all fun. Around one or two weeks later, we started our personal project on space. What we have to do in our project is make a book about space. It needs to be interactive and fun. It’s actually a bit like the “ology” books (e.g., wizardology). Right now, we’re on the part where we get to create our own mythical story about our object in space. Mine is a coloured comic!

— Samuel Forrester, Year 5 Chicago (fourth-grader)

Holy Trinity School Each class is studying a different country for Holy Trinity’s International Festival. Our class, third grade, is studying Thailand. Our teacher, Mrs. Khanijoun, introduced us to her husband, who is from Thailand. He taught us all about his country. We learned Thai words and read a book called “The Umbrella Queen” in language arts, which inspired us to paint real umbrellas. At a lower school assem-bly where each class showed their work, we paraded with our umbrel-las. In art class, we made Buddha statues. In computer class, we made comic life pages, which included facts and pictures from Thailand. This week, we read about the floods that hit Thailand last October. We looked at some graphs in math class to see how much rainfall the capital of Thailand (Bangkok) usually gets. We compared those graphs to a graph that shows the average rainfall in Washington, D.C. It rains a lot more in Bangkok than in D.C. We each used Thai

numbers to show the day and month of our birthdays. It has been so much fun to learn about Thailand, and we can’t wait to find out what Thai activity we will do next!

— Virginia Tober, Lydia Furlong, Stephen DeCarlo and

Robert Linson, third-graders

Hyde-Addison Elementary The Children of Uganda group danced for students from several schools, including Hyde-Addison’s fourth-graders, during a perfor-mance at Georgetown University a couple of weeks ago. They came to the United States for their “Tour of Light.” The tour is trying to raise money and help make people more aware of the education and support this organization provides to hun-dreds of children orphaned by AIDS. The performers danced and sang about their East Africa culture and the things they do in their culture. Some of the things they danced about were things that people in Uganda consider important, such as the elbow because it allows humans to move their arms and balancing because they balance many pots on their heads. The performers told us a few interesting things. For example, many of the children got on an air-plane for the fist time to come on this trip. Many also ate pizza for the first time. They also got to see snow for the first time! They are ages 12 to 22. The Children of Uganda worked hard and taught us useful and interesting things. They danced very well. The whole entire audi-ence stood up and gave them a huge round of applause after they

finished.— Ryan Bradley and Lauren Xu,

fourth-graders

National Presbyterian School At National Presbyterian School, our basketball team is called the Cardinals. Our record is 1-4, with three more games to play. There are six sixth-graders and seven fifth-graders on the team. The coaches, Coach Washington and Coach Benton, train us to be the best bas-ketball players we can be. We do training like running and stretching and basketball drills such as running up and down the court, dribbling through the legs, practic-ing crossovers and doing jumping jacks. For fun, when we have time, we do a scrimmage. We have prac-tices on Wednesday and Thursday from 3:25 to 5:15 p.m. in the gym. We have a regular season, which is about to end, and the tournament from Feb. 16 to 24.

— Walter Rouse, fifth-grader

St. Albans School Recently, a group of 17 Form II boys from St. Albans went to Anacostia to visit the Septima Clark Public Charter School. Septima Clark is an all-boys school that goes up to fifth grade, which is the grade we were visiting that day. The goals of our visit were to help these stu-dents by modeling strategies for success in school and to have some fun. When we arrived, the students, or “scholars,” as they call them at Septima Clark, promptly introduced themselves. Next, all of us were paired up and were given interview sheets to get us started. It did not

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take very long, however, for us to branch out and really start getting to know the boys. Soon, we were well-versed in the ways of Septima Clark and our fellow scholars. Once we had gotten to know each other, it was time for some fun. We were told that we would be playing dodge ball with the fifth-graders! At first, we didn’t quite know what to think and were a little nervous about hurling balls at fifth-graders we had just met, but once we got going all of us were shocked at how good the Septima Clark kids were. We had to put in our full effort just to keep from getting out! Overall, it was a great visit, and we are eager to show the Septima Clark scholars our school when they visit St. Albans next month.

— Teddy Mott, Form II (eighth-grader)

St. Ann’s Academy This past week, St. Ann’s Academy, as well as every Archdiocese of Washington school, celebrated Catholic Schools Week. Every school has its own way of celebrating. Each day, St. Ann’s had a special theme. The week began on Sunday with a special Mass at St. Ann’s Catholic Church. The choir sang and every student who attended got a free dress day on Monday. On Tuesday, St. Ann’s opened

its doors to visitors and potential new families with an open house. Parent volunteers showed guests around the school and answered questions about the class size and curriculum. Wednesday was Teacher Appreciation Day. Many students brought their teachers small cards and gifts. All the teachers were treated to a catered lunch while parents stayed with classes for an hour at lunchtime. Thursday was Student Appreciation Day. Students were allowed to come to school out of uniform. In the afternoon, the entire school gathered in the gymnasium to play bingo. The festivities didn’t end there. Parents and faculty and staff were invited to a celebration after school at Guapo’s in Tenleytown. On Friday, Catholic Schools Week came to an end with our Grandmother’s Tea — this is a spe-cial event where grandmothers, mothers and special friends and rel-atives are invited to join students for afternoon tea. The third grade presented a wax museum for the guests. Third-graders chose a famous person and presented a short biography in full costume. You might think that you are in Madame Tussauds Wax Museum.

—Fifth-graders

St. John’s College High School With the booster club in full force and the red-clad student sec-

tion packed to the top of the bleachers, the St. John’s boys bas-ketball team pulled off an incredi-ble upset of its top rival, Gonzaga, 56-54, on Jan. 29. The obvious home-court advantage due to the presence of the loud and overflow-ing student section gave the Cadets the adrenaline needed to hand Gonzaga (which on Saturday entered the game as the No. 1 team in the area, according to The Washington Post) its first loss of the season. Led by sophomore Darian Anderson, who scored 22 points, the Cadets managed to keep a lead throughout the entire game, although they never were able to get the lead above 10 points.

Gonzaga lacked its star player, Nate Britt, but was boosted by 12-point performances from for-wards Kris Jenkins and Will Rassman. Jenkins, however, had trouble from the field and shot numerous air balls; the missed shots hurt Gonzaga in a big way. Nevertheless, Gonzaga was able to stay neck-and-neck with St. John’s throughout the second half, pulling within two points with less than 30 seconds on the clock. In the end, the Cadets were able to hold off Gonzaga’s final attempts. The riled-up student sec-tion, including those who were locked out of the gym in the first half due to overcrowding, rushed the court to exalt the winning team.

With numerous sports media out-lets in attendance at Gallagher Gymnasium, the Cadets proved that they are to be taken very seri-ously in the Washington Catholic Athletic Conference.

— Cam Kostyack, 12th-grader

School Without Walls On Saturday, Jan. 21, a number of Walls students, including the advisory board of the student gov-ernment, attended Mayor Vincent Gray’s Youth Town Hall for Ward 2. It was an opportunity for stu-dents to discuss two bills, the Early Warning and Intervention System Act of 2012 and the College Preparation Plan Act of 2012, as well as other issues. While the conversation began with critiques and feedback on the bills, the conversation shifted, as a result of the questions and com-ments of Walls students, toward D.C. Public Schools practices as a whole, including its approaches to ensuring teacher quality, addressing truancy and evaluating faculty. Although Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson was absent from the forum, Mayor Gray took into account all the questions and sug-gestions, reassuring the assembled students that the District govern-ment would do its best to look into these issues as they are vital con-cerns to not only Ward 2, but to students across the whole city. On Friday, the school went to George Washington University’s

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Two Northwest students will make their professional stage debuts this spring as part of Arena Stage’s production of the classic Broadway musical “The Music Man.” Ian Berlin, a fifth-grader at Maret School, will play Winthrop Paroo, the timid and lisping younger brother of librarian Marian Paroo. Berlin previously appeared in an original musical developed during a yearlong ensemble workshop at Imagination Stage, and he will star this month as Jojo in Maret’s production of “Seussical Jr.” Mia Goodman, a fifth-grader at Washington International School, will play one of the River City kids. Goodman sings with the Washington Girls Chorus and has participated in summer programs at Imagination Stage and Theatre Lab. Her stage credits include “Annie” and “It’s a Wonderful Life.” The two were among 120 young people who auditioned last month at an all-day casting call for the show, which will run May 11 through July 22.

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— Keanu Ross-Cabrera, 12th-grader

Sheridan School Recently, volunteers from the sixth, seventh and eighth grades attended a diversity conference. There were 500 to 600 middle school students attending from D.C., Maryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania. Since there were so many people, we were divided into two groups. The Georgetown Day middle school “Safe Place Theater” mem-bers performed scenes about racism and how to tackle it and turn it into “anti-racism.” Then groups went to the auditorium for a PowerPoint presentation about reasons that peo-ple are discriminated against, like skin color, body size, education, clothing, et cetera. Each group dis-cussed the categories people are put into based on how they are per-ceived as different from others. The slides showed how many stereo-types there are today, and how it can be hard to stop the stereotypes. Eighty small-group co-leaders met up with their groups and talked about bias in the world today. They

asked questions like “How is tele-vision working to stop bias in the world today?” The small-group leaders started out with icebreakers and questions until there was a good discussion. Even though many people had a good time, some people were a little apprehen-sive to talk at first. Afterward, the Sheridan group shared its experiences from the day. “I enjoyed meeting and discussing with kids my age who had similar problems and different back-grounds,” said seventh-grader Zoey. At the end, the director of the conference asked if there were any who would like to speak about their day. Many students from different schools shared their thoughts.

— Ellie Kimmelman and Vishnu Ramasawmy, seventh-graders

Washington International School As the lights went off, a tall man gracefully walked on the stage. I was waiting for a sound, maybe a scream or a simple word, but all I heard was silence. When my English teacher told my classmates and me that we were going to go see one of Shakespeare’s most famous and tragic plays, “Romeo and Juliet,” I was not aware it was going to be completely wordless. When I was first told, one thought came to mind: How? How was I supposed to understand the plot of the play or what was happening with no words? Little did I know that by the end of this performance, after sitting in the chair for approxi-mately 90 minutes on a rainy Wednesday, I was going to have a totally different perspective on Shakespeare, the play itself and silent acting. The production of “Romeo and

Juliet” by Synetic Theater was cre-ative and original. I was amazed by the actors’ ability to portray their passionate emotions while remain-ing completely silent. During this performance, I was able to think outside of the box, go beyond the text and explore this tragedy to its fullest potential. Most of the scenes were purposefully unclear and abstract, allowing our imaginations to take over. This performance was more successful than I had expected. It was inspiring and gave me a better understanding of the feelings behind each character, wordless acting and most significantly how words are not the only important element in Shakespeare’s plays.

— Emanuela Lombardi, eighth-grader

Washington Latin Public Charter School In Latin class, eighth-graders just completed a board game proj-ect. The purpose of this was to find a way to review grammar, culture and history in a fun environment, by creating games that our class could play. My board game was a fairy-tale board game, and I used Greek and Latin myths. The boards were full of colors, and we had images of gods and goddesses. Some students made their games in the shape of the map of Rome. Others created games that looked like a racetrack, with Roman chariots. The questions for each game asked about the definition of words in Latin, aspects of Roman culture and grammatical conjugations. From playing these games, I learned about religion, vocabulary and declensions.

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A recently released study of D.C. public schools found that an area of Ward 4 ranks second in the city in its need for higher-per-forming options. The study, commissioned by the D.C. dep-uty mayor for education, ranks each D.C. public and public charter school on one of four tiers of performance based on D.C. Comprehensive Assessment System scores. From there, the study focuses on 10 “neighbor-hood clusters” (out of 39 total in the city) where demand for performing schools is par-ticularly concentrated. For the Ward 4 area that includes Brightwood, Crestwood and Petworth, the study found that 62 percent of students are enrolled in underperforming schools. Only 38 percent of the neighborhood’s students attend two “Tier 1” high-performing schools: Community Academy Public Charter School and Washington Latin Public Charter School. The study recommends increasing enroll-ment at those two Tier 1 charter schools, which together are operating at only 55 percent of their buildings’ capacity, to add approximately 835 seats. It also suggests increasing invest-ment in six Tier 2 schools to bring them to higher standards and potentially add up to 1,000 seats. For the lower-ranked schools, the study recommends either turning them around or

closing them entirely. In this neighborhood, the Brightwood Education Campus and Roosevelt High School fall into the lowest-ranked Tier 4 category. Kamili Anderson, the Ward 4 representa-tive on the D.C. State Board of Education, said the study’s findings aren’t particularly surpris-ing, but its recommendations take a strong new slant. She said the report seems to propose the path of “basically abandoning the schools that aren’t achieving.” “I think there’s a real disconnect between the findings of this report and its recommenda-tions,” Anderson said. “I don’t think the data reveals anything we didn’t already know, [yet] its conclusions differ from conclusions that have been suggested recently.” The study came out a few days after an announcement from Deputy Mayor for Education De’Shawn Wright that renovation plans for two Ward 4 high schools — Roosevelt and Coolidge — would be delayed due to lack of funding. In addition, rumors have cropped up recent-ly that the city might choose to consolidate those two schools into one facility. At a recent community meeting, Wright did not guarantee that the two schools would remain open but said there’s no active plan to close either. Anderson suggested that the recent study “sets up a conversation by which the closure of some of [the lower-performing] schools is inevitable.” Any modernization plans will be “even more difficult” to achieve given this

backdrop, she said. “It’s shifting the discussion so far away from where many folks want it to be.” Similarly, the Washington Teachers’ Union expressed alarm that the study proposes clos-ing 36 traditional public schools while concen-trating resources on charter schools. “We acknowledge D.C. Public Schools’ responsibility to manage efficient public school facilities; however, if a school is slated to close or transform into a charter school, teachers will be forced out of their jobs,” union president Nathan Saunders said in a release. The $100,000 report, “Quality Schools: Every Child, Every School, Every Neighborhood,” was funded through a dona-tion from the Walton Family Foundation. Chicago-based nonprofit IFF (formerly known as the Illinois Facilities Fund), produced the study, which was released late last month. The study notes that two-thirds of D.C. students attend schools within the neighbor-hood cluster where they live, “yet for most students, a local [high-]performing school is not an option.” Only 34 percent of the school spots available for city students fall into the top “Tier 1” category. “Our goal is to ensure that children across the city have access to high-quality education opportunities in their neighborhood, while maintaining and supporting the diversity of our public schools,” Wright says in a release. According to information from Wright’s office, the study’s findings will be a “starting

point” for coming up with concrete solutions. Marc Bleyer, capital program manager for the office, said the first step is a series of gov-ernment-level meetings “to talk about how to reach out to the larger community moving forward.” From there, within the next six months or so, community meetings will take place within the 10 neighborhood clusters most in need of improvement. “We’re trying to take a magnifying glass to those areas… and work closely with the com-munity … to find what are the right set of solutions to address the gap,” Bleyer said. The study found that the neighborhood cluster of Congress Heights, Bellevue, Washington Highlands and Bolling Air Force Base has the highest need for performing schools. In Northwest D.C., the area including Columbia Heights, Mount Pleasant, Pleasant Plains and Park View landed on the list, in addition to the Ward 4 neighborhood cluster.

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Current Staff Report Former D.C. school board presi-dent Peggy Cooper Cafritz, who co-founded the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, said last week that the city should look to Ellington as a model for success. “A similar program should be in every high school in the District,” Cafritz told members of the Rotary Club of Washington, DC. Ellington has produced higher test scores than any D.C. public high school except for the academically selective pro-grams, such as Banneker and School Without Walls, she said. The key, Cafritz suggest-ed, is allowing students to pursue their passions as long as they complete their other schoolwork satisfactorily. “This would require DCPS to set up other themed high schools such as Ellington,” she said. Instrumental to Ellington’s suc-cess is that “kids come for some-thing they want” with the school’s arts curriculum, she said. “It makes all the difference in the world. ... Teenagers go to what they are inter-ested in.” But, she noted, Ellington students have to maintain their grades in order to participate in their preferred activities. Students there “spend more time in school than any regular public

high school,” she said, working on music programs and theater produc-tions in the afternoons — the time period when teenagers are most likely to get into trouble. Unlike the city’s regular high schools, the graduation rate of those entering as freshmen at Ellington has varied between 98 and 100 per-cent, and about 98 percent go on to college, Cafritz said. Yet students don’t necessarily enter Ellington primed for success. About a third of the students come in with reading abilities between sec-ond- and seventh-grade levels. “They are not tested until after they are accepted,” Cafritz said. Some students were considered “uneducat-able” by their previous schools, but every “special education” student in the school has graduated within four years, she said. Forty percent of Ellington stu-dents also come from families known to be below the poverty level. The real number is higher, she said, since many students refuse to accept free lunches. Cafritz described Ellington as effectively the first charter school in the District. Its governing board, which includes representatives of George Washington University and the Kennedy Center, “got a contract giving us complete control,” she said. The only exception was that the school could not fire any of its teach-ing staff; Cafritz said unwanted staff members were reduced through attrition.

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PALISADES $2,350,000BRAND NEW CONSTRUCTION! 6BR, 5.5BAhome featuring 4 fin levels, 3 stone Frplcs, 2FRs,LR w/mahogany tray ceilings, Dream KIT,Elegant sep DR, Priv MBR ste with WIC/DressingRm, Au Pair ste on LL and the list goes on...Leah Harris 202-421-8003Chevy Chase Office 202-363-9700

GEORGETOWN$999,000NEW YEAR – NEWPRICE! Charming clas-sic Gtown corner THsimply brimming withcharm. Mste with sepdressing room, loads ofclosets, eat-in KIT withdoors leading to fencedrear patio, basement in-law ste with sep entry.Enjoy all the shops and

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FOREST HILLS $1,500,000STATELY, brick Georgian on 16,000 SF lot facesRock Creek Pk. 5000 SF of bright, open space.6BR, 4.5BA, 4 fpls. Marble foyer, grand piano-sized LR, libr, great rm w/cath ceiling, large t/s KITw/brkfst bar & island, sep DR, rec rm, flagstoneterrace, 2 car garage. 4668 Broad Branch Rd NW.Denise Warner 202-487-5162Georgetown Office 202-944-8400

GEORGETOWN $1,645,000BRIGHT END UNIT townhouse with 3BR, 4.5BA,built in 1990. Fully finished on 4 levels. Large,open LR/DR w/southern light, Chef's KIT, Mste &terrace w/views of VA. FR opens to garden. 3 frpls,Sauna, Elevator, Garage. 3242 Reservoir Rd NW.Scott Polk 202-256-5460Tamora Ilasat 202-460-0699Georgetown Office 202-944-8400

BETHESDA$329,000

ENDLESS views fromthis beautiful sunlit2BR, 2BA condo.Lovely hardwoods,spacious Living Room,bright kitchen, bal-cony. Garage parking,pool, gym, sauna,party room, 24 hourdesk. Near CrescentTrail, Whole Foods

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NICELY updated 3BR,2BA home within walk-ing distance to all ofUpper-NW DC/Metro.Three finished levelswith HDWD, CAC, newappliances and roof,updated windows andoff-street parking. Greatviews in back; bordersFort Reno Park/Tower.

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GAITHERSBURG $345,000BEAUTIFULLY renovated colonial featuring 3 fin-ished lvls, brand new Pergo flrs, designer granite,FR of kit, screened in porch with set down deck,LL feature in-law suite w/BA. So much more!Sintia Petrosian 301-395-8817Friendship Hts 301-652-2777

U ST CORRIDOR $569,900SWEET PENTHOUSE - FHA Approved - 2 BlksU St Metro - New 5 unit boutique building. 2-Levels, 2BR/2.5BA w/open living, recess. lights,cherry flrs thru- out & a gourmet kit and somuch more!Phil Di Ruggiero 202-725-2250Friendship Heights Office 202-364-5200

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The Palisades neighborhood is a favorite for many house hunters, thanks to great

schools, a friendly vibe and an

appealing mix of restaurants and retail along MacArthur Boulevard. But for those buyers who want a clean-slate property and aren’t much interested in months of reno-vations, there aren’t too many options in this established area. Enter a newly built, energy-effi-cient home on quiet Sherier Place. The large property was built using the cozy Craftsman vernacular, and the result is a warm, inviting spot despite its size. A spacious flagstone porch is an inviting area on warm days. Large, glass-front doors open directly into the dining room, providing an easy way to maximize party circulation. The home’s front door is a behemoth that adds to the Arts and Crafts references found on the house’s exterior: a stone base topped by gray planks and shakes, with substantial, bright white trim. Inside, woodwork continues to be a highlight. Hefty crown mold-

ing is found throughout the home, and chunky millwork surrounds windows here. Though grounded in pedigreed domestic architecture, the ground-floor layout here is made for mod-ern living. A den and dining room flank the entry hall, which is broad enough for a wheelchair. An optional elevator that would open to this space is another potential accessible feature. A smaller room near the stairwell has been designed as a home office, but it could host other functions as well. The heart of this home, though, waits at the rear of the property. A sunny, open kitchen offers top-of-the-line appliances, including a Wolf range. Aesthetes will appreci-ate an under-the-counter micro-wave drawer that eliminates the functional facade from view. Those interested in form as much as function will also appreci-ate the cherry cabinets stained a warm, natural tone, as well as the granite countertops. The kitchen, like all the rooms on the first and second levels here, is lined in hard-wood flooring. The kitchen is open to a family room that is centered on a fire-place. Square windows flanking that hearth call to mind the config-

uration found in so many Craftsman homes. A rear deck that sits atop the home’s two-car garage is accessed from this open-plan space. If buy-ers wish, they may also purchase the adjacent lot and have a large yard. Otherwise, that space will soon be developed by this home’s builder. The best of old and new can be found near this kitchen. A butler’s pantry is a feature of many older homes, but a mudroom with built-in storage is a modern conve-nience. Upstairs, four bedrooms and three baths wait. All of the bed-rooms are sizable and feature ample storage, but the master suite

is the real draw here. There’s ample natural light, and a tray ceil-ing provides volume to the space. A pair of walk-in closets flank the approach to the master bath. Stone subway tiles are a luxe wainscoting, and floor tiles are larger slabs of the same material. A walk-in shower is a workaday treat, while a showpiece soaking tub is a weekend luxury. A double vanity with mirror-mounted sconc-es takes up a full wall here. Ample storage dots the second level, and a laundry room com-plete with a sink adds another use-ful space.

The bottom level is surprisingly bright, thanks to the home’s slop-ing lot that allows for full windows here. A bedroom, full bath and liv-ing space make this spot useful as an in-law or au pair suite, or sim-ply as a media room with a guest suite. A utility room contains the home’s top-notch systems. This five-bedroom, 4.5-bath home at 5040 Sherier Place in the Palisades is offered for $1,849,000. For more information, contact Andrew O’Neill, principal broker of O’Neill Realty Advisors, at [email protected] or 202-741-9405.

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New home in the Palisades is Craftsman writ large

Photos courtesy of O’Neill Realty AdvisorsThis newly built five-bedroom, 4.5-bathroom house on Sherier Place in the Palisades is priced at $1,849,000.

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able development, and is excited about “the next chapter of my career.” But the unexpected move upset some Ward 4 residents who have been closely involved in the devel-opment plans, which will have a major impact on their community. “We were shocked,” said Tim Shuy, a citizen member of the local redevelopment authority — “shocked and disappointed, because it speaks to the continuity of the process.” Randall Clarke, another citizen member, told the gathering that the redevelopment plan took years of effort, by city officials and local residents. Clarke gave a brief shout-out to the absent Jenkins, “to acknowledge the person who was our primary contact” during the endless series of community meet-ings and negotiations and “to acknowledge his hard work.” “He was the face of the project,” said one dismayed District govern-ment worker. The reuse plan for Walter Reed

is the result of a complex process laid out under the federal Base Realignment and Closure Act, which dictates some uses — certain types of nonprofits are favored, for example — and rules for public involvement. The District had to go through the process twice, since federal officials redrew the bound-aries last year to give the city a more desirable 67.5-acre chunk of land largely fronting on Georgia Avenue. Jenkins led the redevelopment project from its inception in 2009, and said he is proud of his work negotiating with the U.S. Army and State Department. He also cited the inclusion of sustainable strategies in the reuse plan, and the fact that development will occur “without the need for any subsidy from the District.” Leading dozens of meetings with officials and residents, he helped hammer out a final plan that includes market-rate housing, per-manent supportive housing for vet-erans and the formerly homeless, stores and restaurants, two charter schools, offices, a fire station and medical facilities for Howard University. The lengthy process has made

some residents impatient, especially after the closure of the Army hospi-tal last year robbed many small businesses on Georgia Avenue of their customer base — and left them with little hope for new customers because construction on the former campus is still years away. The conveyance of buildings and land to the city can begin only after multiple reviews are complete. Then the District plans to hire a master developer to oversee the demolition and construction. “I am very concerned about Eric Jenkins’ abrupt departure and the way it was handled,” said Alice Giancola, another citizen member of the redevelopment panel. “The entire development of Walter Reed will take from five to 20 years, and the lack of continuity … could jeop-ardize the expedited completion.” The plan will be submitted as legislation to the D.C. Council in February. Review by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is expected this sum-mer. “If the city really wanted this plan, wouldn’t it want to keep the key personnel in place who pre-pared it? ” another resident asked.

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nificant number of needy residents,” and the drying up of federal stimulus funds — the city’s budget watchdog said he has “every confidence the challenges will be met in a fiscally responsible manner.” The city’s “long-term fiscal sta-bility” is especially impressive, Gandhi said, at a time when many other jurisdictions, as well as the federal government, face huge defi-cits. But after a round of congratula-tions, council members indicated they may look again at taxes and fees — as well as spending cuts imposed on some social service pro-grams — when they tackle the bud-get for the next fiscal year. Last year, facing what were described as “spending pressures” and revenue shortfalls, the council increased the income tax rate on high earners, imposed a new tax on interest from out-of-state municipal bonds, agreed not to sunset an increase in the sales tax, and imposed a plethora of fee and fine increases on everything from parking tickets to building permits. “Everywhere I go, residents are tired of being ‘fee-ed’ to death,” Council Chairman Kwame Brown said at a legislative briefing earlier in the day. “Wherever I go in the city, I

hear, if we got all this money, when do we give them a break?” As to fee and tax reductions, Brown said, “everything should be on the table.” Ward 2 Council member Jack Evans said he was pleased with the surplus and the rebuilding of the city’s fund balance. But Evans, who opposed the income tax hike last year, said the council needs to explain “why we raised the income tax and furloughed employees for four days” when the city is now run-ning a surplus. Evans also noted that private development now revving up around the city should ensure new revenue for years to come. It’s unclear how the budget debate will spin out this spring, when there will also be pressure from advocacy groups to reverse cuts in services for the poor, the elderly, and disadvantaged children. City administrator Allen Lew boasted that Mayor Vincent Gray’s efforts to reduce overspending and rebuild reserves contributed to the huge “turnaround” in the fund bal-ance figures. But Lew also offered a note of caution. “There’s been much discus-sion on how to use the surplus,” he said. “But the surplus is one-time money and cannot be used for tax cuts that have recurring impact.” He said the surplus also can’t be used for new spending programs without a change in the law.

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ed Brandywine facility or the remainder of the new office build-ing, said Taylor, but because both are located in commercial zones, they are not governed by the school’s campus plan process. The new building includes 88 parking spaces and is located less than a block from the Van Ness-UDC Metro station. Taylor declined to say how much the university is paying for the new

building, and said it’s not yet clear what renovations will likely cost. According to property records, 4401 Connecticut Ave. was last sold for $21 million in 2004 and is now assessed at $31 million. The build-ing is vacant except for two retail tenants that front Windom Place, according to Taylor. WAMU, founded in 1961 as a campus radio station, now claims nearly 750,000 Washington-area lis-teners to its local news, National Public Radio and bluegrass-music programming.

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But as with many construction projects, this one has its detractors. “I don’t think that they really answered all the concerns,” said advisory neighborhood commis-sioner Allen Beach, referring to the discussion at a walkthrough Upchurch and others held with neighbors last weekend. “The [con-cerns] boiled down to … two issues. One was trees, and the other was the bumpouts.” In terms of trees, some fear the repaving efforts could threaten the roots of mature trees along the affected roads. But one of the most vocal neighbors on the issue — con-cerned about a large tree by her house — has changed her tune. “I recanted,” said Bonnie Loper, explaining that after complaining about the plan at last month’s advi-sory neighborhood commission meeting, she called an arborist to check city officials’ claims that the digging necessary to install the per-meable surface would not harm the tree. “[He] came out here and looked at it and said, ‘Ma’am, indeed they are correct.’ … So I sent them a mes-sage of apology.” In terms of bumpouts, there is concern over the parking spaces they will eliminate and their potential for

creating traffic congestion in the neighborhood, where Lafayette Recreation Center is a major draw for neighbors both near and far. “Especially on the weekends,” the park’s tennis courts draw lots of people, said one attendee at last month’s neighborhood commission meeting. “Bumpouts will create con-gestion … when our kids are out.” Upchurch said officials have been working to limit the number of parking spaces eliminated and to place the bumpouts strategically, not in prime residential spots, for instance. “The residents actually gave us some good suggestions on how we could do things a little dif-ferently to save a parking space,” she said. Upchurch noted that there are 160 spaces in the project area, and local households regularly use 118 of them. She said the project is likely to eliminate 10 to 15 spots. Some residents also raised ques-tions about long-term maintenance. “The bumpouts are going to be planted with perennial plants,” said Loper. “You’ve got to maintain perennials. … Who’s gonna do it?” Loper also noted that she’s heard that permeable surfaces can be chal-lenging for snowplows. Upchurch said that the city is “committed to maintaining these facilities,” though she noted that long-term funding is not yet secure.

She explained that officials chose the Chevy Chase location for several reasons, including that its dilapidat-ed alleys need repair, and that the impacts of stormwater reduction will be easy to test because all of the area’s water flows to the same place. She and Saari also explained that the city must test both an area where the city’s sewer system is separated — as it is in Chevy Chase, with run-off and waste disposed of separately — and in one where the sewer is combined. The second pilot site is around Georgia and Iowa avenues. D.C. is currently undergoing a major effort to reduce waste overflows into local waterways during heavy rains. The Chevy Chase pilot program also involves a private-property por-tion, in which homeowners can get up to $5,000 to make changes on their land, such as adding trees and rain gardens, installing environmen-tally friendly landscaping and hav-ing downspouts disconnected. The next step in the project is testing the soil in the neighborhood — which is happening this week — to determine where water will trickle down slowly and where drains are needed to help the process. After that information is collected, officials will update the designs and share their changes. Detailed plans are available at tinyurl.com/riversmartchevy and tinyurl.com/riversmartchevy2.

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stand three stories high facing Straughn Hall and four stories facing University Avenue, separated from homes there by new and exist-ing trees. But when the seminary presented plans at the neighborhood commission meeting, some residents complained that the large windows facing University Avenue would be disrup-tively bright at night. Officials later met with neighbors and are incorporating their feed-back into design revisions, said McAllister-Wilson.

Delaying the process “gave us more time to listen and to make changes that we need to do,” he said. The seminary has also recently strung rib-bons to mark the outline of the proposed new dorm, and marked which trees it hopes to save — a request from neighbors, said McAllister-Wilson. The seminary hopes to open the new dorm by August 2013, and to use the extra capacity as swing space to then renovate existing dorm rooms, enlarging them and converting some into office space, officials said. The school’s chapel and library have already been reno-vated. McAllister-Wilson said that even with a later Zoning Commission date, the project

should still be on track. As part of the campus plan, the seminary also hopes to modify its traffic pattern, wid-ening its Massachusetts Avenue driveway for two-way traffic and restricting the use of its University Avenue entrance to deliveries and emergency vehicles. It would also add park-ing spaces along the Massachusetts entrance. Some neighbors have questioned whether there would be enough parking capacity and whether the new traffic pattern could impact Massachusetts Avenue. The seminary is still working on its traffic study and parking plan, but officials at the neighborhood commission meeting said that they’ve observed decreased automobile use from students, faculty and

staff since the 2006 plan was approved. Residents said at the January meeting that they’re pleased that the seminary is no longer planning major growth, but they are still working out some issues raised by the new plan. “There’s good news in this — the reduced development is good news — but there are still some questions,” commissioner Tom Smith, whose single-member district includes the seminary, said at the January meeting. The seminary will hold a meeting to dis-cuss its revised plans at 7 p.m. Feb. 29 in Elderdice Hall in the seminary’s Kresge Academic Center. Officials are also posting updates to wesleyseminary.edu/campusplan.

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Mamo, an Ethiopian immigrant who Orange said worked hard to “open up markets to minorities. Now you want to break him down and take away everything he’s worked for.” Orange also blamed high gas prices here on high taxes, elevated real

estate prices and other market forces. “There’s no guarantee that sta-tions who save on gas will pass that on” to consumers, said Ward 8 mem-ber Marion Barry, who said he opposed breaking marketing agree-ments that require some stations to purchase their gas from Mamo’s firm. Disgraced former Ward 5 mem-ber Harry Thomas also opposed the

bill. But his departure has left the council with only 12 members, and the resulting 6-6 split meant Cheh’s bill failed on first reading. After the vote, a group of inde-pendent gas station operators stood stunned outside the council chamber. Aaron Manaigo, a lobbyist for the group, said he might support chang-es to the bill in an attempt to round up a few more votes.

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“What I realized with the elderly population is that there’s a great potential for Foggy Bottom and the West End to be a wonderful place to spend the last years of one’s life,” he added. “It’s such a rich place with culture and activity and education and civic life.” While there are close to 9,500 George Washington undergraduates in Foggy Bottom, the 2005-2009 American Community Survey found that outside the university area, 35.8 percent of Foggy Bottom residents and 20.2 percent of West End/West Dupont residents are between the ages 55 and 85. “It’s a pretty strong universe for creating the village,” said Rebecca Coder, vice chair of the local advi-sory neighborhood commission. And Coder said that both the col-lege and George Washington University Hospital would be great resources for the future village, in terms of volunteers and existing services like the hospital’s Senior Advantage program. She also believes in the village concept because of firsthand experi-ence with her parents, who live in the city. “[I] know they want to remain as independent as they can for as long as they can,” Coder said. “To provide the services to help them do that is very important.” In the village model, younger trained members, outside volunteers

and paid staff help older members with errands, chores and transporta-tion, and members participate in social events. The village associa-tion offers referrals — to a reliable plumber, for example — and keeps everything organized. Even if members aren’t yet at the age to need extra help, Wright said, “once you do need help, you’ve built up a level of trust and acceptance” with other village members. Nationally, the village movement started in 2001 in Boston’s Beacon Hill neighborhood. Since then, the idea has spread to other major cities. In D.C., village associations have started in Chevy Chase, Dupont Circle, Glover Park, the Palisades, Capitol Hill and Georgetown. Kalorama also launched a village movement, though it went on hiatus last year after some difficulty sus-taining interest. Lemire said that the Foggy Bottom/West End Village would look to partner with and model itself on other D.C. villages, while also determining the specific needs of its residents. The biggest concern the interim board heard through its survey was that residents feared not being able to afford annual member fees. Lemire said that as the village forms, subsidized and sliding-fee options will be considered. “In one sense, what we’re really going to have is hopefully a large cadre of volunteers,” Lemire said. “I think we’ll get to be even more of a community.”

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would be allowed as a matter of right; a physical change would require a building permit but no public input. In the case of side yards, many residents’ properties predate the zoning restriction and never met that require-ment, and that noncompliance complicates other chang-es residents hope to make to the properties. The existing requirement of 8 feet between the build-ing and the property line “wasn’t something that repre-sented the vast majority of the building stock,” the Planning Office’s Arlova Jackson said in an interview. “We want to not discourage people from improving their homes.” Some residents have argued, however, that it’s impor-tant to them to get the chance to weigh in on such changes to adjacent buildings. Chevy Chase resident Harlan Cohen, who said he learned about the zoning rewrite process from the neighborhood’s listserv, said allowing a house to expand to within five feet of the property line threatens its neighbors’ light, air and views. “It’s not that I’m against all change, but we buy our houses with an expectation that the current zoning will protect us from changes that are not allowed under the current zoning,” Cohen said in an interview. Alma Gates, a Palisades resident who serves on the advisory Zoning Regulation Review Task Force, feared

that revisions to the side-yard rules could combine with a series of other slight changes to encourage more devel-opers to replace smaller homes. “This kind of infill has a tendency to destabilize neighborhoods and neighbor-hood character,” said Gates. Jackson said she doesn’t expect the proposed zoning changes to have such a dramatic effect. “We’re not changing the lot-occupancy requirements — there’s still a limit to how much people can do,” she said. Before the latest proposals are enacted, the Office of Planning will receive input from the Zoning Regulation Review Task Force and host community meetings across the city. The Zoning Commission, which sets the zoning code, will also hold public hearings. The Planning Office will also publish additional pro-posals, for different types of zones, throughout this spring. Planners also haven’t yet decided whether to implement a parking maximum or whether to change requirements of universities’ campus plans. “There’s certainly plenty of opportunities left for the public to weigh in at this point,” said Jackson. Changes already endorsed by the Zoning Commission include eliminating off-street parking requirements for residential buildings with fewer than 10 dwelling units and for larger apartment buildings in denser zones or near transit. Another newly approved requirement calls for construction outside low-density residential areas to meet a “green area ratio” requirement — a calculation of its environmentally sustainable features.

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But the proposal has raised pro-tests about requiring seniors and disabled residents to shovel, and about hitting overtaxed residents with yet another fee or fine. In response, Cheh and Wells had already softened the bill by lowering fines, and requiring an exemption system to be put in place before any tickets could be issued. The bill passed its initial reading with only three dissents in January. Cheh said similar measures, some with stiffer fines, are in place in cities such as New York, Boston, Chicago and Philadelphia. She said clear sidewalks are necessary so children don’t have to walk in the street and seniors aren’t homebound after it snows. “This bill requires you to do your civic duty. The more we muddle it up and make it ineffective, it defeats the purpose,” she said. But Ward 4 member Muriel Bowser joined the opposition, say-ing residents are being hit with too many regulations, fees and fines. “Now we have a law [saying] you have to have a sidewalk even in remote areas. And even though nobody walks down it, we will give you a ticket if you don’t shovel it. It just goes too far.”

On final reading Tuesday, anoth-er storm of amendments hit. First, Ward 1 member Jim Graham proposed that the city issue tickets to non-shovelers only after it has sent in trucks to plow their streets. “There are sidewalks in Ward 1 that never see a plow,” Graham said. “This strikes a balance between what the government should do, and what we make our residents do.” Wells called that amendment “bizarre” and “anti-pedestrian.” “If you’re locked in because you can’t get your car out, and then you don’t have to shovel the sidewalk,” residents of the block will be “really stuck,” he noted. “Why ensure that if the street is not plowed, you can’t get out on foot, either?” “The notion that if the govern-ment fails us, we can fail our neigh-bors — that’s just rotten policy,” said at-large member David Catania, another supporter of the bill. “I don’t want to live in a city like that.” Graham’s amendment failed on a 6-6 vote. Then at-large member Vincent Orange offered an amendment to give residents “a more reasonable” 24 hours to shovel after a snow-storm, in case the snow ends when people are at work. “Not everybody has the ability to hire shovelers,” he said, as a group of Ward 5 residents — assembled in the chamber to sup-

port a separate bill limiting new strip clubs in their ward — cheered him on. “But if you wait more than eight hours, it’s almost impossible to get the snow off,” protested at-large member Phil Mendelson. “If you wait, it turns to ice.” He called the Orange and Graham amendments “proposals to make this bill com-pletely meaningless.” Ward 8 member Marion Barry — who observed earlier in the debate that “I’ve seen sidewalks not cleared in my neighborhood, and people still get around” — moved to table the entire bill. That motion passed on an 8-4 vote, with only Wells, Cheh, Catania and Chairman Kwame Brown sticking by the mea-sure. Cheh and Wells can try, at another session, to take it up again.

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clarify legislation that allows the city to withhold taxes — at the highest income tax rate — on all distribu-tions from pension and other retire-ment funds. The high withholding, which took effect in January, is caus-ing an outcry among seniors stunned by smaller retirement checks. Brown said the withholding change passed last year was intend-ed to target only retirees who took large, lump-sum distributions from retirement accounts and didn’t pay any District taxes. But a “technical change” by the city finance office “led to far more retirees being hit

than was ever intended,” he said. The current withholding system amounts to a “legally mandated zero interest loan” to the city from retir-ees on fixed incomes, Brown said, and is also unfair because the taxes are being withheld at a rate that should apply only to those earning over $350,000 a year. His bill would clarify that the new withholding system applies only to “significant” distributions, not annuities or periodic distribu-tions from retirement funds. Brown said it would shield “thousands of retirees” from the high bracket with-holding. Both bills were referred to the council’s Committee on Finance and Revenue, which Evans chairs.

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members are pleased with revised rules that would mean they no lon-ger have to be hailed by a customer in order to stop. Instead, most food trucks would be allowed to sit in any legal parking space for the duration of the space’s meter or other limits. Trucks that sell sweet (as opposed to savory) food, however, would be able to stay in a parking spot for only 10 minutes after serving their last customer. The association would like to see sweet trucks treated the same as savory trucks. “When we talk about regulations, they always need to be about health and public safety,” said Ruddell-Tabisola, who co-owns and operates the BBQ Bus with his husband Tadd Ruddell-Tabisola. “When you have hot steam tables and food, it’s not safe to drive away — we’re not ice cream trucks.” In addition to parking regula-tions, the association would also like to see food truck operating hours extended so that they mimic those of restaurants. Currently food trucks must close at 10 p.m. on weekdays and 1 a.m. on weekends. The group is particularly interested in staying open until 3 a.m. on weekends so trucks can serve patrons exiting bars. The group also wants a clarifica-tion in the language about the possi-ble creation of vending development zones so that it doesn’t create food-truck-free zones or otherwise restrict the number of food trucks able to serve a given neighborhood. The DC Food Truck Association took to online advocacy as a way to combat what other stakeholders, like the Restaurant Association Metropolitan Washington have — namely, money and political connec-tions. “We’re a very small organization of small-business owners, we’re less than a year old, and we’re all volunteer board members,” said Ruddell-Tabisola. “There’s a num-ber of different groups at the table that are much more well-funded, and they’ve been in business in D.C. much longer, they know people inside the Wilson Building much better than we do, so we just come to the table at such a great disadvan-tage.”

The Restaurant Association Metropolitan Washington, which represents many brick-and-mortar restaurants that say they have been adversely affected by competition from food trucks, countered with an online movement of its own on Feb. 1. The group is directing members to a website called fairstreetsdc.org, which says the proposed regulations create “un-fair streets” and asks sup-porters to tell the mayor to go back to the drawing board and listen to all sides of the issue. The association did not respond to repeated requests for comment by The Current, but it notes on its web-site that key concerns of the pro-posed regulations include parking rules and trash pickup. The associa-tion also states that the city’s Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs is “ignoring the current law that clearly states that designated spots must be assigned for mobile vending.” Helder Gil, a legislative affairs specialist at the department, said in an interview that while he hadn’t had a chance to look yet at fair-streetsdc.org, the trucks are not breaking current laws. “It’s important for people to know that these regulations are not final — they are proposed regula-tions — and we want to encourage substantive comments from the pub-lic stating why you support or don’t support what’s been proposed,” said Gil. The 30-day public comment on the proposed regulations is expected to close around Feb. 18, though Gil noted that if a surge of comments comes near that date, which is a Saturday, the city will keep the com-ment period open longer. In 2010, when the city last released proposed regulations for street vending, Gil’s office received more than 2,500 public comments, more than his agency had ever received on a proposed law. He said so far on this round of legislation, comments received overwhelmingly support the food truck association’s position. Once the public comment period closes, the regulatory agency will review feedback on the regulations before sending a final draft to the mayor, who would then forward it to the D.C. Council for a vote.

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Wednesday, Feb. 8

Book sale ■TheChevyChaseDCFriendsoftheLibrarywillhostapreviewofitswinterbooksale.6to8p.m.Freeadmissionwith$10membership.ChevyChaseNeighborhoodLibrary,5625ConnecticutAve.NW.ccdclibraryfriends.org.

Children’s program ■“RubyBridges:HerLifeasaYoungHero”willfeatureachancetolearnaboutBridges’roleasa6-year-oldinthecivilrightsmovement,hercurrentworkasacommunityleaderandthefamousNormanRockwellpaintingofher.Participantswillcreateacol-lagefeaturingtheirheroesanddreamsforsuccess.4p.m.Free.WestEndNeighborhoodLibrary,110124thSt.NW.202-724-8707.

Classes ■CaseyTreeswillpresentaclassonmajorpeststhreateningtheDistrict’surbanforest.6:30to9p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.CaseyTrees,303012thSt.NE.ct.convio.net. ■Aweeklyworkshopwillofferinstructionin“SahajaYogaMeditation.”7p.m.Free.WestEndNeighborhoodLibrary,110124thSt.NW.202-724-8707.

Concerts ■NationalSymphonyOrchestramusicdirectorChristophEschenbach(shown)andNationalSymphonyOrchestracon-certmasterNuritBar-Josefwillpresentaneve-ningofclassicalmusic.6p.m.Free.MillenniumStage,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600. ■ShepherdElementarySchoolstudentsandtheD.C.LaborChoruswillpresent“SongsofFreedomandJustice:150YearsofAmericanHistoryinSong.”6:45p.m.Free.Auditorium,ShepherdElementarySchool,[email protected].

Demonstration ■LocalfloraldesignerSarahvonPollarowillsharehertools,tipsandtricksofthetradeinademonstrationoffestiveandromanticfloraldesigns.5:30to7p.m.Free.WholeFoodsMarket,1440PSt.NW.202-670-8441.

Discussions and lectures ■TimothyMitchell,professorofMiddleEastern,SouthAsianandAfricanstudiesatColumbiaUniversity,willdiscusshisbook“CarbonDemocracy:PoliticalPowerintheAgeofOil.”5:30to7:30p.m.Free;reserva-tionsrequired.Room602,ElliottSchoolofInternationalAffairs,GeorgeWashingtonUniversity,1957ESt.NW.bit.ly/wnlhWC. ■MitchellSilver,presidentoftheAmericanPlanningAssociationanddirectorofplanningforRaleigh,N.C.,willdiscuss“TheValueofPlanningandDesigninthe21stCentury.”5:30p.m.Free.KoubekAuditorium,CroughCenterforArchitecturalStudies,CatholicUniversity,[email protected]. ■LeeThornton,professorofbroadcastjournalismandinterimprovostforequityanddiversityattheUniversityofMaryland,CollegePark,willdiscuss“MinoritiesintheMedia:NewDirections?”6:30p.m.Free.JuanitaE.Thornton/ShepherdParkNeighborhoodLibrary,7420GeorgiaAve.NW.202-541-6100. ■ChristopherSwan,professorofgeogra-phyattheUniversityofMaryland,BaltimoreCounty,willdiscuss“ImpoverishedorWealthy:BiodiversityinCities”aspartofthe“OntheEdge:UrbanSustainability”lectureseries.6:30p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.Room208,White-GravenorHall,GeorgetownUniversity,[email protected]. ■TheAmericanGoetheSocietywillpres-entatalkbyNationalGalleryofArtmuseumeducatorLorenaBaineson“DürerandtheIdeaoftheArtistintheRenaissance.”6:45p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.Goethe-Institut,8127thSt.NW.202-289-1200.

Films ■TheNationalGalleryofArtwillpresentHenri-GeorgesClouzot’s1956film“LeMystèrePicasso.”2:30p.m.Free.EastBuildingAuditorium,NationalGalleryofArt,4thStreetandConstitutionAvenueNW.202-737-4215. The film will be shown again Thursday and Friday at 12:30 p.m. ■“TheMet:LiveinHD”willfeatureanencoreshowingoftheMetropolitanOpera’sproductionof“TheEnchantedIsland,”fea-turingmusicbyHandel,Vivaldi,Rameauandothers.6:30p.m.$18.AMCMazzaGallerie,5300WisconsinAve.NW.fathomevents.com. ■CharneiceFoxRichardsonwillshowexcerptsfromhernewfilm“TheMLKStreets

Project”attheSt.Augustine’sArt&SpiritCoffeehouse.7p.m.Free.St.Augustine’sEpiscopalChurch,600MSt.NW.202-554-3222. ■TheDCMusicSalonwillfeaturethedocumentary“PhilOchs:ThereButforFortune.”AdiscussionwithSmithsonianFolklifeCollectionsarchivistJeffPlacewillfol-low.7to9p.m.Free.WathaT.Daniel-ShawNeighborhoodLibrary,16307thSt.NW.202-727-1288. ■TheLionsofCzechFilmserieswillfea-tureRobertSedlácek’s2010film“TheGreatestCzechs.”8p.m.$11;$9forstu-dents;$8.25forseniors;$8forages12andyounger.AvalonTheatre,5612ConnecticutAve.NW.202-966-6000.

Performances ■NewYork-basedvisualartistChristineRebetwillpresent“PoisonLecture:APerformanceAboutMagicandDeception,”abouttheseeminglyunlikelyconnectionsbetweenlegendarymagicianJohnMulholland,theCIAandthescienceofespio-nage.6:30p.m.$20.InternationalSpyMuseum,800FSt.NW.202-393-7798. ■AspartofamonthlongseriesexploringU.S.societyintheyearsbeforetheCivilWar,theGeorgetownTheatreCompanywillpres-entastagedreadingofThomasHailesLacy’s19th-centuryplay“Obi,orThreeFingeredJack,”aboutaslaverebellioninJamaica.7:30p.m.$10donationsuggested.GraceEpiscopalChurch,1041WisconsinAve.NW.georgetowntheatre.org.

Sporting event ■TheWashingtonWizardswillplaytheNewYorkKnicks.7p.m.$10to$500.VerizonCenter,601FSt.NW.202-397-7328.

Thursday,Feb.9

Book sale ■TheChevyChaseDCFriendsoftheLibrarywillhostitswinterbooksale.9:30a.m.to5:30p.m.Freeadmission.ChevyChaseNeighborhoodLibrary,5625ConnecticutAve.NW.ccdclibraryfriends.org.The sale will continue Friday and Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Monday (bag day and half-price day) from 4 to 8 p.m.

Concerts ■TheUniversityoftheDistrictofColumbiaSmallJazzEnsemblewillperform.12:30p.m.Free.MartinLutherKingJr.

MemorialLibrary,901GSt.NW.202-727-1261. ■TenorDougBowles(shown),sopra-noKarinPaludanandpianistAlexHassanwillperformacollectionofhot,romanticandboun-cytunes.6p.m.Free.TerraceGallery,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600. ■“TheRhythmRoad—AmericanMusicAbroad”willfeaturetheAriRolandJazzQuartetperformingpiecesbyjazzlegendsCharlieParker,DizzyGillespieandBillieHoliday,aswellastheirownoriginalcompo-sitions,at6p.m.;andMountainQuickstep(shown)per-formingthebluegrassandearlycountrymusicoftheAdirondack,AppalachiaandSmokyMountainregions,at7:15p.m.Free.GrosvenorAuditorium,NationalGeographic,1600MSt.NW.202-857-7700. ■TheNationalSymphonyOrchestraandviolinistNadjaSalerno-SonnenbergwillperformworksbyShostakovichandBruckner.7p.m.$20to$85.ConcertHall,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600. The concert will repeat Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. ■GrammyAward-winningtrumpeterandNewOrleansnativeNicholasPaytonwillper-formwithhisjazztrio.7:30and9:30p.m.$26to$30.TerraceGallery,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600.

Discussions and lectures ■KevinLaVineoftheLibraryofCongresswilldiscuss“MusicoftheRussianImperialCollection.”Noon.Free.WhittallPavilion,

JeffersonBuilding,LibraryofCongress,101stSt.SE.202-707-5502. ■JarrettWalker,authorof“HumanTransit,”willdiscussthefundamentalgeome-tryoftransitthatshapessuccessfulsystems.12:30to1:30p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.NationalBuildingMuseum,401FSt.NW.202-272-2448. ■KavitaDaiya,associateprofessorofEnglishatGeorgeWashingtonUniversity,willdiscuss“RememberingRefugees:StoriesFromthe1947PartitionofIndiaFromMumbai,andBeyond.”12:30to1:45p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.Room602,ElliottSchoolofInternationalAffairs,GeorgeWashingtonUniversity,1957ESt.NW.go.gwu.edu/DaiyaFeb9. ■Scholarswilldiscusstheimpactofcul-turalandpoliticaliconFrantzFanon,whosetheoriesontheroleofclass,race,nationalcultureandrevolutionhaveinspiredmove-mentssuchastheAlgerianrevolution,decol-onization,blackliberationandOccupyWallStreet.1to3p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.Room702,GelmanLibrary,GeorgeWashingtonUniversity,[email protected]. ■JohnRist,professorofphilosophyatCatholicUniversity,willdiscuss“GodInandOutofPhilosophy.”4:15p.m.Free.GreatRoom,PryzbylaUniversityCenter,CatholicUniversity,620MichiganAve.NE.202-319-5260. ■JohnDeFearrari,authorof“LostWashington,D.C.,”willdiscusstheabsentlandmarksheprofiled,includingGeorgetown’sKeyMansion,homeofFrancisScottKey.6to8p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.DumbartonHouse,2715QSt.NW.lostwashingtondc.eventbrite.com. ■Agallerytalkwillfocuson“Bonnard,Breitner,andBathingBeauties.”6and7p.m.$12;$10forseniorsandstudents;freeforages18andyounger.PhillipsCollection,160021stSt.NW.202-387-2151. ■ArthurGoldwagwilldiscusshisbook“TheNewHate:AHistoryofFearandLoathingonthePopulistRight.”7p.m.Free.PoliticsandProse,5015ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-1919. ■TheJewishLitLiveSeminarserieswillfeatureNadiaKalman,authorof“TheCosmopolitans.”7p.m.Free.Room308,MarvinCenter,GeorgeWashingtonUniversity,80021stSt.NW.gwu.edu. ■Apanelofexpertsandadvocateswilldiscussthelatestresearchonautism.7p.m.Free.Room208,White-GravenorBuilding,GeorgetownUniversity,37thandOstreetsNW. ■The“ImmigrantsinAmerica”bookdis-cussionserieswilldelveinto“TheBriefWondrousLifeofOscarWao”byJunotDiaz.7to8:45p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.ClevelandParkNeighborhoodLibrary,3310ConnecticutAve.NW.202-282-3072. ■“AlltheSingleLadies”willfeatureKateBolick,HannaRosinandGaranceFranke-Ruta,writersandeditorsattheAtlantic.7

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Wednesday, FeBruary 8■Discussion:EllisAverywilldiscusshernovel“TheLastNude.”7p.m.Free.PoliticsandProse,5015ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-1919.

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p.m.$10.Sixth&IHistoricSynagogue,600ISt.NW.sixthandi.org. ■CarolD.Litchfield,professoremeritusofbiologyatGeorgeMasonUniversity,willdis-cuss“HowHaloarchaeaAdapttoChangesinTheirSaltComposition:GeneticandEcologicalSignificance.”7:30p.m.Free.BowenCenterfortheStudyoftheFamily,4400MacArthurBlvd.NW.202-965-4400.

Films ■TheGeorgetownNeighborhoodLibrarywillpresent“AVeryBloodyAffair”and“ForeverFree,1862,”thesecondandthirdepisodesofKenBurns’“TheCivilWar.”4p.m.Free.GeorgetownNeighborhoodLibrary,3260RSt.NW.202-727-0232. ■ThePalisadesFilmClubwillpresentthe2011film“TheHelp.”4:15p.m.Free.PalisadesNeighborhoodLibrary,4901VSt.NW.202-282-3139. ■TheSitarArtsCenterwillpresentthestudent-produceddocumentary“LifeasaCollage,”aboutthelifeofartistandSitarteacherTimGabelandhisbattlewithtermi-nalcancer.6:30p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.SitarArtsCenter,1700KaloramaRoadNW.202-797-2145. ■The“CourtyardCinemaClassics”serieswillfeaturethe1936film“ModernTimes,”starringCharlieChaplinasabumblingfactoryworkerwhofallsinlovewithanorphangirl.7p.m.Free.NationalPortraitGallery,8thandFstreetsNW.202-633-1000. ■TheReelAbilitiesDisabilitiesFilmFestivalwillconcludewithashowingofRobertMilazzo’s2007film“WarEagle,Arkansas,”abouttherelationshipbetweenastarpitcherwithadebilitatingstutterandhisbestfriend,whohascerebralpalsy.7p.m.$10;$7forseniorsandstudents.WashingtonDCJewishCommunityCenter,152916thSt.NW.greaterdc.reelabilities.org.

Performances ■TheTopazHotelBar’sweeklystand-upshowwillfeaturelocalcomics.8to10p.m.Free.1733NSt.NW.202-393-3000. ■“NineontheNinth,”hostedbyDerrickWestonBrown,willfeaturepoet,activistandarchitectJadeFoster.Anopen-miceventwillfollow.9to11p.m.$5donationsuggested.LangstonRoom,BusboysandPoets,202114thSt.NW.202-387-7638.

reading ■PulitzerPrize-winningpoetYusefKomunyakaawillreadfrompiecesselectedinresponsetoworksonviewintheexhibition“Snapshot:PaintersandPhotography,BonnardtoVuillard.”6:30p.m.$15.PhillipsCollection,160021stSt.NW.202-544-7077.

Sporting event ■TheWashingtonCapitalswillplaytheWinnipegJets.7p.m.$42to$138.VerizonCenter,601FSt.NW.202-397-7328.

Friday,Feb.10

Concerts ■TheFridayMorningMusicClubwillpresentaconcertofselectedbaroquesongsandarias,aswellasworksbyMartinu.Noon.Free.CalvaryBaptistChurch,7558thSt.NW.202-333-2075.

■ThomasBailey,organistandchoirmas-teratSt.Peter’s-by-the-SeainBayShore,N.Y.,willpresentanorganrecital.12:15p.m.Free.NationalCityChristianChurch,5ThomasCircleNW.202-797-0103. ■“Arts@Midday”willfeaturethelocaltrioOperaBelleperformingmasterpiecesbyGlinka,Rimsky-Korsakov,TchaikovskyandRachmaninoff.12:15to1p.m.Free.St.Alban’sEpiscopalChurch,3001WisconsinAve.NW.202-363-8286. ■TheNakataniGongOrchestra,ledbyJapanesepercussionistTatsuyaNakatani,willperform.6p.m.Free.MillenniumStage,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600. ■SopranoViktoriaLoukianetzandpianistMariannaHumetskawillperform.7:30p.m.$40.EmbassyofAustria,3524InternationalCourtNW.703-955-2555.

Discussions and lectures ■LloydGerson,professorofphilosophyattheUniversityofToronto,willdiscuss“TheMythofPlato’sSocraticPeriod.”2p.m.Free.Auditorium,AquinasHall,CatholicUniversity,620MichiganAve.NE.202-319-5259. ■MitarKujundzic,ambassadorofBosniaandHerzegovina,willdiscusshiscountry’srelationswiththeUnitedStates.3to4:30p.m.Free.FoundersRoom,SchoolofInternationalServiceBuilding,AmericanUniversity,4400MassachusettsAve.NW.american.edu/calendar. ■AshrafKhalilwilldiscusshisbook“LiberationSquare:InsidetheEgyptianRevolutionandtheRebirthofaNation.”5to6:30p.m.Free;reser-vationsrequired.Room505,ElliottSchoolofInternationalAffairs,GeorgeWashingtonUniversity,1957ESt.NW.go.gwu.edu/2g. ■“BenjaminFranklin:InSearchofaBetterWorld”willfeaturepanelistsWalterIsaacson,authorof“BenjaminFranklin,anAmericanLife”;StacySchiff,authorof“AGreatImprovisation:Franklin,France,andtheBirthofAmerica”;andH.W.Brands,authorof“TheFirstAmerican:TheLifeandTimesofBenjaminFranklin.”Abooksigningwillfollow.7p.m.Free.McGowanTheater,NationalArchivesBuilding,ConstitutionAvenuebetween7thand9thstreetsNW.202-357-5000. ■SebastianSeungwilldiscusshisbook“Connectome:HowtheBrain’sWiringMakesUsWhoWeAre.”7p.m.Free.PoliticsandProse,5015ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-1919. ■TravelwriterPicoIyerwilldiscuss“APortableLife,”aboutthechallengesandrewardsoflettingoneselfbevul-nerableinforeignplac-es.7:30p.m.$20.GrosvenorAuditorium,NationalGeographic,1600MSt.NW.202-857-7700.

Film ■“IranianFilmFestival2012”willfeatureMortezaFarshbaf’s2011film“Mourning.”7p.m.Free.MeyerAuditorium,FreerGalleryofArt,12thStreetandIndependenceAvenueSW.202-633-1000.The film will be shown again Sunday at 2 p.m.

Performances ■SpeakeasyDCwillpresentitsfifth-annu-al“SuckerforLoveValentine’sSpecial,”fea-turingstoriesaboutromancefound,lostandimagined.8p.m.$10to$20.DancePlace,32258thSt.NE.speakeasydc.com. ■TheGeorgetownImprovAssociation’s

16thannualImprovFestwillfeaturetheUprightCitizensBrigadeTouringCompanyandOhioStateUniversity’s8thFloorImprov.8p.m.$10;$5forseniorsandstudents.GastonHall,GeorgetownUniversity,37thandOstreetsNW.202-687-3838.

Special event ■TheFrenchAmericanCulturalFoundationwillpresentitsfifthannual“LaSaint-Valentine,”featuringanopenbar,pas-tries,livemusicandasilentauction.8p.m.$85.LaMaisonFrançaise,4101ReservoirRoadNW.instantseats.com.

Sporting event ■TheWashingtonWizardswillplaytheMiamiHeat.7p.m.$10to$780.VerizonCenter,601FSt.NW.202-397-7328.

Saturday,Feb.11

Children’s programs ■The“SaturdayMorningattheNational”serieswillfeatureTheatreIVperformingamusicalversionoftheclassictaleof“JackandtheBeanstalk.”9:30and11a.m.Free;ticketsrequired.HelenHayesGallery,NationalTheatre,1321PennsylvaniaAve.NW.202-783-3372. ■TheWeekendFamilyMatineesserieswillfeaturetheJungleJimsinalivesingalongperformancepresentedbymusiKids.10a.m.$8.AvalonTheatre,5612ConnecticutAve.NW.202-966-6000. ■ThePhillipsCollection’s“JacobLawrenceandtheGreatMigration”willteach

participantsaboutLawrence’sartisticprocessandthehistoryoftheGreatMigrationandhelpthemhonetheirvisualliteracyskills(forchildrenages8through12).1p.m.Free.PetworthNeighborhoodLibrary,4200KansasAve.NW.202-243-1188. ■“ArtsforFamilies”willofferachancetocreateadragonpapermola—acolorfulappliquépanelmadebytheKunapeopleofPanamaandColombia(forchildrenages5through12).2to4p.m.Free.TextileMuseum,2320SSt.NW.202-667-0441,ext.64. ■TheFriendsoftheTenley-FriendshipLibrarywillcontinueitschildren’sauthorserieswithapresentationbyPaigeBillin-Frye,illustratorof“ABoxCanBeManyThings,”“FlowerGirl,”“ThisIsthePumpkin,”“TheWayWeDoItinJapan”and“EverybodyWins.”3p.m.Free.Tenley-FriendshipNeighborhoodLibrary,4450WisconsinAve.NW.202-727-1225.

Classes and workshops ■LauraPolewillpresent“EatingforaLifetime:EverydayPrinciplesforHealthyCooking.”10a.m.to12:30p.m.$30.SmithCenterforHealingandtheArts,1632USt.NW.202-483-8600. ■TheSmithsonianAssociateswillpres-entaclasson“RegencyEngland’sPleasuresandParadoxes.”10a.m.to4p.m.$120.S.DillonRipleyCenter,1100JeffersonDriveSW.202-633-3030.

Concerts ■TheWashingtonPerformingArtsSocietywillpresentcellistSolGabetta(shown)andpianistAlessioBaxper-formingworksbySchumann,Shostakovich,MendelssohnandServais.2p.m.$25.TerraceTheater,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600. ■IntimateWinds,thechambermusicensembleofDC’sDifferentDrummers,willperformclassical,jazzandeasylisteningmusic.3to4:30p.m.$20.HillwoodEstate,MuseumandGardens,4155LinneanAve.NW.202-686-5807. ■The21stCenturyConsortwillpresent“MultiplicityMultiplicity,”featuringworksbyConlonNancarrow,RobertBeaser,MarkKuss,DavidFroomandDanVisconti.5p.m.$20.McEvoyAuditorium,SmithsonianAmericanArtMuseum/NationalPortrait

Gallery,8thandGstreetsNW.202-633-3030. ■MembersoftheNationalSymphonyOrchestrawillperformclassicalworks.6p.m.Free.MillenniumStage,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600. ■TrumpeterCarlotDorvewillperformatabenefitconcertforthreenonprofitsassist-ingHaiti—Fonkoze,theHaitiMicahProjectandSt.Vincent’sSchooloftheHandicapped.6:30p.m.Free.St.Mark’sEpiscopalChurch,[email protected]. ■VocalistsSusanSevier(shown)andNatalieBarrenswillper-formduetsbyBrahms,Dvorák,SchumannandMendelssohn.ProceedswillbenefitChristHouse.7p.m.$10donationsuggested.CalvaryBaptistChurch,7558thSt.NW.calvarydc.org. ■JazzveteransBillyHarper,EddieHenderson,GeorgeCables,CecilMcBee,VictorLewis,DavidWeissandCraigHandywillperformasTheCookers.7:30and9:30p.m.$26to$30.TerraceGallery,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600. ■SingerNancyScimonewillperformjazzselections.7:30to11:30p.m.Free.BlueBarLounge,HenleyParkHotel,926MassachusettsAve.NW.202-638-5200. ■DumbartonConcertswillpresentthesix-voiceacappellaensembleNordicVoicesperforming“Lamentations.”8p.m.$33;$29forstudentsandseniors.DumbartonUnitedMethodistChurch,3133DumbartonSt.NW.202-965-2000.

Discussions and lectures ■SuzanneE.Smith,professorofhistoryandarthistoryatGeorgeMasonUniversity,willdiscussherbook“ToServetheLiving:FuneralDirectorsandtheAfricanAmericanWayofDeath.”1p.m.Free.Room311,MartinLutherKingJr.MemorialLibrary,901GSt.NW.202-727-1261. ■NadineCohodaswilldiscussherbook“PrincessNoire:TheTumultuousReignofNinaSimone,”at1p.m.;andBillPress(shown)willdiscusshisbook“TheObamaHateMachine:TheLies,Distortions,andPersonalAttacksonthePresident—andWho

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IsBehindThem,”at6p.m.Free.PoliticsandProse,5015ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-1919.

Films ■“TheMet:LiveinHD”willfeaturetheMetropolitanOpera’snewproductionof“Götterdämmerung”byWagner.Noon.$22.AMCMazzaGallerie,5300WisconsinAve.NW.fathomevents.com. ■“AmericanOriginalsNow:AmieSiegel”willfeaturetheindependentfilmmaker’s2008film“DDR/DDR.”2:30p.m.Free.EastBuildingAuditorium,NationalGalleryofArt,4thStreetandConstitutionAvenueNW.202-737-4215.

Performances ■TheGeorgetownImprovAssociation’s16thannualImprovFestwillfeaturetheWashingtonImprovTheater’sSeasonSixensembleandtheUniversityofMaryland’sTheBureau.9p.m.$8;$5forseniorsandstudents.BulldogAlley,LeaveyCenter,GeorgetownUniversity,37thandOstreetsNW.202-687-3838. ■TheCapitalCityShowcasewillfeaturecomedians,musiciansandotherperformers.10p.m.$10inadvance;$15atthedoor.DistrictofColumbiaArtsCenter,242818thSt.NW.captialcityshowcase.eventbrite.com.

Special events ■TheCapitolHillVillageandtheRotaryClubofCapitolHillwillhostapancakebreakfast.7to11a.m.$10;$5forchildrenages10andyounger.CapitolHillPresbyterianChurch,[email protected]. ■TheNationalParkServicewillcelebratethe194thbirthdayofFrederickDouglasswithmusic,are-enactmentofthegreatoratorandtalksonthe19th-centurycivilrightsleader.10a.m.to4p.m.Free.FrederickDouglassNationalHistoricSite,1411WSt.SE.202-426-5961. ■Aweekendfestivalwillexplorechoco-late’sculture,historyandplaceincontempo-rarysociety.10a.m.to4:30p.m.Free.NationalMuseumoftheAmericanIndian,4thStreetandIndependenceAvenueSW.202-633-1000.The festival will continue Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. ■Nana’sHandmadeValentineMartwillfeaturegiftsmadeby15localcrafters,aswellaslivemusicalperformancesanda

“MakeYourOwnValentine”tableforchildren.Noonto6p.m.Freeadmission.3068MountPleasantSt.NW.nanadc.com. ■TheDCAnimeClubwillhost“VideoGameDay,”featuringaMarioKarttourna-mentforNintendoDSandotheractivities(forages13andolder).2to5p.m.Free.RoomA-5,MartinLutherKingJr.MemorialLibrary,901GSt.NW.dcanimeclub.org. ■The13thannualWashingtonDCInternationalWine&FoodFestivalwillfeaturemorethan600winesfromaroundtheworld,dishesfromlocalrestaurantsandartisanalfoodsfromregionalproducers.2to6p.m.$85.RonaldReaganBuildingandInternationalTradeCenter,1300PennsylvaniaAve.NW.wineandfooddc.com.The festival will continue Sunday from 2 to 6 p.m. ■“Valentine’sEveningatTudorPlace”willfeatureachancetoenjoywine,cham-pagne,chocolate-coveredstrawberriesandotherdelightsamidhistoricSagopalmsandcitrustreeswinteringindoorsintheconserva-tory.Theeventwillincludemusicalentertain-mentandaspecialdisplayofantiqueValentinesdrawnfromtheTudorPlacearchives.5to8p.m.$12;$20percouple.TudorPlaceHistoricHouseandGarden,164431stSt.NW.202-965-0400. ■DancePlace’sannualValentine’sDancefundraiserwillfeatureheartfeltstoriesbySpeakeasyDCandmusicbyDJGlowstik.7p.m.$10.DancePlace,32258thSt.NE.202-269-1600. ■AnopeningnightpartyoftheOurCityFilmFestivalwillfeatureachancetodrinkD.C.-brewedbeer,meetlocalfilmmakersandenjoyentertainmentbyD.C.-basedperform-ersChristylezBacon,PartyGirlandEdgeTheory.8p.m.$8.Sixth&IHistoricSynagogue,600ISt.NW.sixthandi.org.

Walks and tours ■NativeWashingtonianandfreelancewriterRoccoZapponewillleadaninterac-tive“WalkingTourasPersonalEssay,”filledwithhisreminis-cencesandimpressionsofalifetimeinD.C.10a.m.orbyappointment.$25.MeetatthestatueofAndrewJacksoninLafayetteSquare,16thandHstreetsNW.202-341-5208. ■Aparkrangerwillleadages8andolderonawalkingtourofHerringHill,avibrant

1800sAfrican-AmericancommunityintheheartofGeorgetown,andsharestoriesofsacrifice,adversityandsuccess.Noon.Free.OldStoneHouse,3051MSt.NW.202-426-6851.

Sunday,Feb.12

Concerts ■MarineChamberEnsembleswillper-formworksbyHindemith,MartinuandVilla-Lobos.2p.m.Free.JohnPhilipSousaBandHall,MarineBarracksAnnex,7thandKstreetsSE.202-433-4011. ■U.S.AirForceBandensembleswillperformwithjazzvocal-istAllJarreau.3p.m.Free.DARConstitutionHall,18thStreetbetweenCandDstreetsNW.202-767-5658. ■TheCapitolHillArtsWorkshop’s40thAnniversaryConcertwillfeatureworksbycomposersRobertConveryandJefferyWatsonandincludeperformancesbyacho-rusofcommunityvoices,theCapitolHillYouthChorusandthenewlyformedChildren’sHonorChorusfromBrentElementarySchool.4p.m.Free.CapitolHillPresbyterianChurch,4thStreetandIndependenceAvenueSE.chaw.org. ■GuestorganistAnthonyHammondofCirencester,England,willperform.5:15p.m.$10donationsuggested.WashingtonNationalCathedral,MassachusettsandWisconsinavenuesNW.202-537-6200. ■MembersoftheKennedyCenterOperaHouseOrchestrawillperformworksbyVivaldiandSchoenberg.6p.m.Free.MillenniumStage,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600. ■TheEmersonStringQuartetwillper-form.6to8p.m.$63.BairdAuditorium,NationalMuseumofNaturalHistory,10thStreetandConstitutionAvenueNW.202-633-3030. ■DahlakRestaurantwillhostitsweekly

“DCJazzJam”session.6:30to9:30p.m.Free.1771USt.NW.202-527-9522. ■CavatinaDuowillperformmusicforguitarandflutebyBach,Piazzollaandothercom-posers.6:30p.m.Free.WestGardenCourt,NationalGalleryofArt,6thStreetandConstitutionAvenueNW.202-737-4215. ■TheSongwritersAssociationofWashingtonandBusboysandPoetswillpres-entanopen-miceventforsinger/songwriters.7to9:30p.m.$3.CullenRoom,BusboysandPoets,10255thSt.NW.202-387-7638. ■TheCathedralChoralSocietywillpres-entasingalongofMozart’s“Requiem,”fea-turingsoloistsfromtheWashingtonNationalOpera’sDomingo-CafritzYoungArtistProgram.7:30p.m.$10.WashingtonNationalCathedral,MassachusettsandWisconsinavenuesNW.202-537-2228. ■CatholicUniversity’smusicalschoolwillpresent“SongsofOldCUA,”amultimediaeventchroniclingthehistoryofCatholicUniversitythroughsongswrittenbyfacultyandstudents.7:30p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.GreatRoom,PryzbylaUniversityCenter,CatholicUniversity,620MichiganAve.NE.202-319-5608.

Discussions and lectures ■TheSundayForumserieswillfeatureatalkon“ThePresidencyofWoodrowWilson”byJohnMiltonCooperJr.,formerprofessorofhistoryattheUniversityofWisconsin-MadisonandtheauthorofseveralbooksonWilson.10a.m.Free.St.John’sEpiscopalChurch,LafayetteSquare,16thandHstreetsNW.202-347-8766. ■AparkrangerwilldiscusshowPresidentAbrahamLincolnusedexecutivepowerinatimeofcrisistoinfluencethedirectionoftheCivilWar.10a.m.Free.FortStevens,1000QuackenbosSt.NW.202-895-6070. ■“FlourPower”willexplorehowthecity’slastremaining1800sgristmillusedwaterpowertomakeflourandhelpadvancetheIndustrialRevolution.Noon.Free.PeirceMill,TildenStreetandBeachDriveNW.202-895-6070. ■DavidC.Driskell,artist,collectorandemeritusprofessorofarthistoryattheUniversityofMaryland,CollegePark,willdis-cuss“TheCollectingofAfricanAmericanArt”inconversationwithRuthFine,consultingcuratorofspecialprojectsinmodernartattheNationalGalleryofArt.2p.m.Free.EastBuildingAuditorium,NationalGalleryofArt,4thStreetandConstitutionAvenueNW.202-737-4215. ■“WooattheZoo”willfeaturetalksaboutanimalmating,datingandreproduc-tivehabits.Theeventwillfeaturecomplimen-taryhorsd’oeuvresandacashbarbeforeandaftereachlecture.4:30,6:30and8:30p.m.$22perlecture.VisitorCenter,NationalZoo,3001ConnecticutAve.NW.nationalzoo.si.edu. ■FredReiner,seniorrabbiofTemple

Sinaifrom1985to2010,willdiscusshisbook“StandingatSinai:SermonsandWritings.”5p.m.Free.PoliticsandProse,5015ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-1919.

Films ■TheOurCityFilmFestivalwillfeatureshortsthathighlightthecultures,residents,neighborhoodsandhistoryoftheDistrict.10:30a.m.and12:45,2:45,4:30and7:30p.m.$10perscreening.Goethe-Institut,8127thSt.NW.ourcityfilmfestival.com. ■CineforumItalianowillfea-tureClaudioCupellini’s2007film“LessonsinChocolate.”4p.m.$10.LetelierTheater,3251ProspectSt.NW.meetup.com/italiano. ■TheNationalGalleryofArtwillpresentJasonCohn’s2011film“Eames:TheArchitectandthePainter.”4:30p.m.Free.EastBuildingAuditorium,NationalGalleryofArt,4thStreetandConstitutionAvenueNW.202-737-4215. ■ITVSCommunityCinemawillpresentShukreeHassanTilghman’sdocumentary“MoreThanaMonth,”aboutthefilmmaker’scross-countrycampaigntoendBlackHistoryMonth.5p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.LangstonRoom,BusboysandPoets,202114thSt.NW.communitycinema-dc.org.

Performance ■TheaterJ’s“LocallyGrownFestival”willfeatureJonSpelman’s“TheProstateDialogues,”abouttheeffectsofprostatecan-cerandtreatmentonsexualityandrelation-ships.5p.m.$10to$30.GoldmanTheater,WashingtonDCJewishCommunityCenter,152916thSt.NW.202-777-3210.The per-formance will repeat Feb. 19 at 5 p.m.

Special events ■WaterStreetGym’sSpringKickoffwillfeatureaworkshopandexpoforrunners,tri-athletesandcyclists,aswellasatalkby“SmartMarathonTraining”authorJeffHorowitz.11a.m.to1p.m.Free.WaterStreetGym,3255KSt.NW.202-338-2711. ■TheWashingtonAnimalRescueLeaguewillhost“Catapalooza2012,”aValentine’sDayadoptionopenhouseandcelebrationofallthingsfeline.Noonto3p.m.Freeadmis-sion.WashingtonAnimalRescueLeague,71OglethorpeSt.NE.202-726-2556.

Walk ■AparkrangerwillleadawalkthroughtheGeorgetownWaterfrontParkanddiscussthearea’stransformationovertime.2p.m.Free.WisconsinAvenueandKStreetNW.202-895-6070.

Monday,Feb.13

Benefit ■TheWomen’sBoardoftheAmericanHeartAssociationGreaterWashingtonRegionwillpresentthe64thannual“AnAffairoftheHeart”luncheonandfashionshowtobenefitheartresearchandeducation.11a.m.to2p.m.$125.MarriottWardmanParkHotel,2660WoodleyRoadNW.703-248-1735.

Concerts ■ThePanAmericanSymphonyOrchestrawillperformLatinAmericanmusic.6p.m.Free.MillenniumStage,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600. ■“ShowTunes&CocktailsattheJefferson,”amonthlysingalongofBroadwaytunesledbypianistGlennPearson,willfea-turetheaterveteransTracyLynnOliveraand



Sunday, FeBruary 12■Concert:TheVoxareStringQuartetwillperform.4p.m.$20.PhillipsCollection,160021stSt.NW.202-387-2151.

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“Winged Spirits: Birds in Chinese Paintings,” an exhibit of paint-ings that depict more than 35

species of birds in flight, on the ground, in the water or perched on tree branches, will open Saturday at the Freer Gallery of Art and continue through Aug. 5. Located at 12th Street and Jefferson Drive SW, the gal-lery is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. 202-633-1000.■ “Emerging From the Curious: Common Place Anomalies,” the first solo show of Arlington artist Stephanie Williams, will open Friday at the District of Columbia Arts Center and continue through March 18. In these drawings and paintings, Williams “exam-ines and playfully prods con-structs formulated to understand our world,” according to a release.

An opening reception will take place Friday from 7 to 9 p.m.

Located at 2438 18th St. NW, the center is open Monday through Sunday from 2 to 7 p.m. 202-462-7833.■ “The Temptation,” an immersive installation by Arlington artist Jacqueline Levine, will open Friday at Flashpoint Gallery and con-tinue through March 16. The installation features a cast of characters in the form of large figurative sculptures that derive their stylistic influ-ences from primitivism, pop, surrealism and other sources. An opening reception will take place Friday from 6 to 8 p.m.

Located at 916 G St. NW, the gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday from noon to

6 p.m. 202-315-1305.■ Watergate Gallery will celebrate its 25th anniversary by opening an exhibit Saturday with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. On view through March 31, the show features 32 art-ists who have shown at the gallery over the years. Artist talks are scheduled for Feb. 22, March 1 and March 12, all at 6:30 p.m. Located at 2552 Virginia Ave. NW, the gallery is open Monday through Friday from

10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. 202-338-4488.■ The National Museum of American History opened two exhibits last week. “You Must Remember This,” coinciding with the grand opening of the museum’s new Warner Bros. Theater, is a 20-foot-long arti-fact wall of Hollywood memorabilia that will remain on view through the summer. “Snowboarding” is a display case about

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“Birds, Bamboo, and Camelias,” a handscroll with ink and color on silk (shown in detail), is part of an exhibition at the Freer Gallery of art.

Studio Theatre 2ndStage will present Natsu Onoda Power’s “Astro Boy and the God of

Comics” Feb. 15 through March 11. Action drawing meets physical

comedy in this highly visual, retro-sci-fi performance about the 1960s animation series “Astro Boy” and its creator, Osamu Tezuka. The play combines live-action cartooning with Tezuka’s life and the fictional world of Astro Boy, a crime-fight-ing boy robot. Performance times are 8:30 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday and 7:30 p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $38 to $43. Studio Theatre is located at 1501 14th St. NW. 202-332-3300; studiotheatre.org.■ American University will pres-ent “Ubu Rex (Ubu Roi),” Alfred Jarry’s bawdy spoof of “Macbeth,” Feb. 16 through 18 at the Greenberg Theatre. The crude language and violent, absurd vision of the world — cou-pled with the characters’ outra-geous greed, cruelty and cowardice — satirizes funda-mental attitudes and practices of Western civilization. Performance times are 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $15; $10 for students and seniors. The Greenberg Theatre is located at

4200 Wisconsin Ave. NW. 202-885-2587; american.tix.com.■ Georgetown University’s Mask and Bauble Dramatic Society will present “The 25th Annual Putnam

County Spelling Bee” Feb. 16 through 25 in Poulton Hall.

This Tony Award-winning one-act musical follows six neu-rotic kids as they compete for the treasured prize of becoming the winner of their county spelling bee.

Performance times are 8 p.m.

Wednesday through Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $12 for general admission and $8 for stu-dents. Georgetown University is located at 37th and O streets NW. 202-687-3838; performingarts.georgetown.edu.

■ Spooky Action Theater will present David Mamet’s “The Water Engine” Feb. 16 through March 11 at the Universalist National Memorial Church. Through the device of a live radio play, Mamet follows the agony of an inventor named Charles Lang, who attempts to pat-ent his revolutionary creation: an engine that runs exclusively on water. The play is set during the 1933-34 World’s Fair in Chicago. Performance times are 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $20 to $25. The church is located at 1810 16th St. NW; the theater entrance is off S Street at the building’s rear. 202-248-0301; spookyaction.org.■ Washington National Opera will present “Così fan tutte” Feb. 25 through March 15 in the Kennedy Center’s Opera House. Mozart’s whimsical opera is the wry tale of two young men who place a bet on fidelity, putting the women they love to the test through

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Studio theatre 2ndStage will host “astro Boy and the God of Comics” Feb. 15 through March 11.

Washington National Opera will stage Mozart’s “Così fan tutte” Feb. 25 through March 15.

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Stephanie Williams’ work is on display at the District of Columbia arts Center.

EvanCasey.7to10p.m.Freeadmission.TheQuillBarattheJefferson,120016thSt.NW.theatrewashington.org.

Discussions and lectures ■JohnDelaney,seniorimagingscientistattheNationalGalleryofArt,willdiscuss“UseofMulti-andHyper-SpectralInfraredImagingSpectroscopytoImproveInfraredReflectographyofPaintings,Drawings,andIlluminatedManuscripts.”12:10and1:10p.m.Free.EastBuildingSmallAuditorium,NationalGalleryofArt,4thStreetandConstitutionAvenueNW.202-737-4215. ■EgyptianactivistAhmedAbou-bakr,founderoftheEquality&DevelopmentPartyandacandidateforthePeople’sAssembly,willdiscuss“EstablishingaNewPoliticalPartyinEgypt.”2p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.Room241,BunnInterculturalCenter,GeorgetownUniversity,37thandOstreetsNW.acmcuegypt.eventbrite.com. ■PhilosopherRogerTrigg,academicdirectoroftheKelloggCentrefortheStudyofReligioninPublicLifeattheUniversityofOxford,willdiscusshisbook“Equality,Freedom,&Religion.”4p.m.Free;reserva-tionsrequired.Third-floorconferenceroom,BerkleyCenter,GeorgetownUniversity,3307MSt.NW.berkleycenter.georgetown.edu. ■LauraHolgateoftheNationalSecurityCouncilwilldiscuss“FromMoscowtoWashingtontoSeoul:LockingDownNuclearMaterial.”5:30to7p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.Room602,ElliottSchoolofInternationalAffairs,GeorgeWashingtonUniversity,1957ESt.NW.bit.ly/AcFPwx. ■DanielImhoffwilldiscusshisbook“FoodFight:TheCitizen’sGuidetoaFoodandFarmBill.”6:30p.m.Free.LangstonRoom,BusboysandPoets,202114thSt.NW.202-387-7638. ■PaulButler,professoroflawandassoci-atedeanforfacultydevelopmentatGeorgeWashingtonUniversity,willdiscusshisbook“Let’sGetFree:AHipHopTheoryofJustice.”6:30p.m.Free.MartinLutherKingJr.MemorialLibrary,901GSt.NW.202-727-1261. ■MatthewAidwilldiscusshisbook“Intel

Wars:TheSecretHistoryoftheFightAgainstTerror.”7p.m.Free.PoliticsandProse,5015ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-1919. ■GerlindeKaltenbrunnerwilldiscuss“Conqueringthe14,”abouthersuccessfulquesttobecomethefirstwomantosummitall14oftheworld’s8,000-meterpeakswith-outsupplementaloxygen.7:30p.m.$20.GrosvenorAuditorium,NationalGeographic,1600MSt.NW.202-857-7700.

Films ■AllianceFrançaisedeWashingtonwillpresent“LesLutinsduCourt-Metrage,”fea-turingFrenchshortfilmsof2011.6:30p.m.$8;reservationsrequired.AllianceFrançaisedeWashington,2142WyomingAve.NW.202-234-7911.The festival will continue through Feb. 19 at various venues. ■“ADeeperLook”willfeatureAndresVeiel’s2001film“BlackBoxGermany.”6:30p.m.$7.Goethe-Institut,8127thSt.NW.202-289-1200,ext.160. ■TheWashingtonPsychotronicFilmSocietywillpresentPeterManoogian’s1987film“EnemyTerritory.”8p.m.Donationsug-gested.McFadden’sRestaurantandSaloon,2401PennsylvaniaAve.NW.202-462-3356.

Performances ■“TravelingThroughMusicandHistory,”aBlackHistoryMonthperformance,willfea-turefourlocalchoirsandperformersdepict-ingaplantationworker,astoryteller,aUnionsoldier,amedicaldoctorandMaryToddLincoln’sseamstress.6p.m.Free.Ford’sTheatre,51110thSt.NW.202-426-6924. ■YoungPlaywrights’Theaterwillpresentastagedreadingofstudentworksabout“MadLove.”7p.m.Free.GALATheatre,333314thSt.NW.yptdc.org. ■TheaterJ’s“LocallyGrownFestival”willfeatureastagedreadingofLauraZam’s“MarriedSex,”aboutanewlywedwhoseekstounderstandhermarriage,herbodyandherpast.7:30p.m.$10to$30.GoldmanTheater,WashingtonDCJewishCommunityCenter,152916thSt.NW.202-777-3210.

Sporting event ■TheWashingtonCapitalswillplaytheSanJoseSharks.7:30p.m.$40to$138.

VerizonCenter,601FSt.NW.202-397-7328.

Tuesday,Feb.14

Classes and workshops ■TheWashingtonNationalCathedralwillhostatwo-dayworkshopon“FlowerArrangingforHolySpaces.”10a.m.to3p.m.$200.WashingtonNationalCathedral,MassachusettsandWisconsinavenuesNW.202-537-6215.The workshop will continue Thursday; it will also be offered Wednesday and Friday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. ■Arlington-basedwriter,bookartistandeducatorSushmitaMazumdarwillleadamemoir-writingclass.10:30a.m.tonoon.$10persession.IonaSeniorServices,4125AlbemarleSt.NW.202-895-9448,ext.4. ■YogainstructorLizNicholswillleada“LaughterYoga”classwithdeepbreathing,stretchingandlaughterexercises.12:30to1:30p.m.$10persession.IonaSeniorServices,4125AlbemarleSt.NW.202-895-9448,ext.4. ■ArtistChuckBaxterwillleada“TryYourHandatArt”class.2to4p.m.$10perses-sion.IonaSeniorServices,4125AlbemarleSt.NW.202-895-9448,ext.4. ■ThegroupYogaActivistwillpresentaweeklyyogaclassgearedtowardbeginners.7p.m.Free.ClevelandParkNeighborhoodLibrary,3310ConnecticutAve.NW.202-282-3080.

Concerts ■TheTuesdayConcertSerieswillfeaturetheWenYinChanclarinettrioperformingworksbyGershwin,BernsteinandBolcom.Noon.Free.ChurchoftheEpiphany,1317GSt.NW.202-347-2635,ext.18. ■MusicstudentsatCatholicUniversity

willperformthemusicofCyColeman,authorof“Witchcraft”and“TheBestIsYettoCome.”6p.m.Free.MillenniumStage,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600. ■TheKalichstein-Laredo-RobinsonTriowillperformworksbyBeethoven,ZwilichandSchubert.7:30p.m.$45.TerraceTheater,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600.

Discussions and lectures ■JacobBleacherofNASA’sGoddardSpaceFlightCenterwilldiscuss“NASA’sDesertRATS.”11:30a.m.Free.MaryPickfordTheater,MadisonBuilding,LibraryofCongress,101IndependenceAve.SE.202-707-5664. ■MichaelDavid-Foxwilldiscusshisbook“ShowcasingtheGreatExperiment:CulturalDiplomacyandWesternVisitorstotheSovietUnion,1921-1941.”Noon.Free.MumfordRoom,MadisonBuilding,LibraryofCongress,101IndependenceAve.SE.202-707-5221. ■CriminaldefenselawyerNancyHollanderwilldiscuss“Guantanamo:RuleofLawortheLawofEver-ChangingRules?”1p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.Room241,BunnInterculturalCenter,GeorgetownUniversity,37thandOstreetsNW.acmcu-guantanamo.eventbrite.com. ■MarwanBishara,seniorpoliticalanalystforAlJazeera,willdiscusshisbook“TheInvisibleArab:ThePromiseandPeriloftheArabRevolutions.”5:30to7p.m.Free;reser-vationsrequired.Room241,BunnInterculturalCenter,GeorgetownUniversity,37thandOstreetsNW.eventbrite.com/event/2849395619. ■ErwinUhrmann,InkaParelandCatalinDorianFlorescuwillreadanddiscusstheirworkataneventdedicatedtoemergingauthorsincontemporaryGermanliterature.7:30p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.EmbassyofAustria,3524InternationalCourtNW.202-895-6776.

Films ■NationalGeographicandITVSCommunityCinemawillpresentShukreeHassanTilghman’sfilm“MoreThanaMonth,”aboutthefilmmaker’scross-countrycampaigntoendBlackHistoryMonth.Noon.Free.GrosvenorAuditorium,NationalGeographic,1600MSt.NW.communitycinema-dc.org. ■TheGeorgetownNeighborhoodLibrarywillpresentFrankCapra’s1934film“ItHappenedOneNight,”starringClaudetteColbertandClarkGable.6p.m.Free.GeorgetownNeighborhoodLibrary,3260RSt.NW.202-727-0232. ■StephenShackelton,atopexecutiveandchiefrangerwiththeNationalParkService,willshowstillsandclipsoficonicU.S.parkslikeYellowstoneandYosemiteanddis-cusshowtheagencyusesthemediatopro-tectandconservethesenationaljewels.7p.m.Free.WechslerTheater,MaryGraydonCenter,AmericanUniversity,4400MassachusettsAve.NW.202-885-3408.

Performances ■SpeakeasyDCwillpresent“MakingWhoopie:Storiesaboutsex.”8p.m.$15.TownDanceboutique,20098thSt.NW.speakeasydc.com. ■WashingtonImprovTheaterwillpresent“LoveBites:ForLoversandHaters,andThoseWhoLove(andHate)Them.”8p.m.$15.Source,183514thSt.NW.washingtonimprovtheater.com.

■LocalperformerWayneManigowillhostaweeklycomedyshow.8to10:30p.m.Free.RASRestaurant&Lounge,4809GeorgiaAve.NW.202-291-2906. ■BusboysandPoetswillhost“TuesdayNightOpenMic,”aweeklypoetryevent.9to11p.m.$4.LangstonRoom,BusboysandPoets,202114thSt.NW.202-387-7638.

reading ■TheLannanCenterforPoeticsandSocialPracticewillpres-entareadingbyNoVioletBulawayo,recipientofthe2011CainePrize.8p.m.Free.CopleyFormalLounge,CopleyHall,GeorgetownUniversity,37thandOstreetsNW.202-687-6294.

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

Special events ■“Valentine’sTuesdayTea”willfeatureaguidedtourofthehistoricTudorPlaceman-sionandatraditionalVictorianservice,com-pletewithteasandwiches,scones,dessertsandhistoricteablends.1to3p.m.$25.TudorPlaceHistoricHouseandGarden,164431stSt.NW.202-965-0400. ■“PortraitsAfter5:ArtofLove”willfea-turelovesongs,imagesoficonicrelation-ships,aromance-themedmuseumscavengerhuntandspeeddating.5to7p.m.Free;res-ervationsrequiredforspeeddating.NationalPortraitGallery,[email protected]. ■“GunsandRoses:AValentine’sDayOpeningBenefit”—apartycelebratingthebicentennialofRussia’sdefeatofNapoleonandthenewexhibition“TheStyleThatRuledtheEmpires:Russia,Napoleonand1812”—willfeaturewine,roses,horsd’oeuvresandvodka.6to9p.m.$50.HillwoodEstate,MuseumandGardens,4155LinneanAve.NW.202-686-5807.

Wednesday,Feb.15

Class ■HousingCounselingServiceswillpres-entaforeclosure-preventionclinictohelphomeownersindangeroflosingtheirhomes.Noon.Free.Suite100,241017thSt.NW.202-667-7712. The class will repeat Feb. 22 and noon and Feb. 29 at 6 p.m.

Concerts ■ViolinDreamswillperformjazzworks.Noon.Free.SidneyHarmanHall,610FSt.NW.202-547-1122. ■TonyAward-winningvocalistAliceRipleywillperformmemorableBroadwaytunes.6p.m.Free.MillenniumStage,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600. ■The“CelebrateYouth!HighSchoolChoirFestival”willculminatewithapublicconcert.7p.m.Free.WashingtonNationalCathedral,MassachusettsandWisconsinavenuesNW.202-537-5538. ■VocalArtsDCwillpresentbaritoneFlorianBoesch(shown)andpianistRogerVignolesperforminganall-Germanprogram.7:30p.m.$45.Terrace



Monday, FeBruary 13■Discussion:NathanEnglanderwilldiscusshisbook“WhatWeTalkAboutWhenWeTalkAboutAnneFrank.”7p.m.$8inadvance;$10onthedayoftheevent.Sixth&IHistoricSynagogue,600ISt.NW.sixthandi.org.

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Theater,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600. ■“JazzattheAtlas”willfeaturetheBenAllisonQuartet.8p.m.$15to$25.AtlasPerformingArtsCenter,1333HSt.NE.202-399-7993.

Discussions and lectures ■NancyK.Millerwilldiscusshermemoir“WhatTheySaved:PiecesofaJewishPast.”Noonto1p.m.$7.GoldmanTheater,WashingtonDCJewishCommunityCenter,152916thSt.NW.202-777-3268. ■HebaRaouf,associateprofessoratCairoUniversity,willdiscuss“PoliticsofInformality:PowerofPublicSpheresofEgypt.”12:30p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.Room270,BunnInterculturalCenter,GeorgetownUniversity,37thandOstreetsNW.hebaraouf.eventbrite.com. ■SarahCoster,directorofCarlyleHouseHistoricPark,willdiscuss“FashionableGrief:SilkNeedleworkMourningImagesinEarlyAmerica.”12:30p.m.Free.DumbartonHouse,2715QSt.NW.202-337-2288. ■TheNationalWomen’sHistoryMuseum’slectureserieson“ThePast,Present,andFutureofU.S.Women’sHistory”willfeatureatalkbyYaleUniversityprofessorDoloresHaydenon“‘GrandDomestic

Revolution’:TheForgottenHistoryofFeminismandHousingDesign.”4to5:30p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.FlomAuditorium,WoodrowWilsonInternationalCenterforScholars,[email protected]. ■YevgeniaM.Albats,editorofTheNewTimes,willdiscuss“TheRussianSpring:DoesItStandaChance?”5to6:30p.m.Free;res-ervationsrequired.AlumniHouse,GeorgeWashingtonUniversity,1918FSt.NW.tinyurl.com/Albats. ■WilliamNoel,curatorofmanuscriptsandrarebooksattheWaltersArtMuseumanddirectoroftheArchimedesPalimpsestProject,willdiscuss“TheArchimedesCodex,”aboutthediscoveryandensuing12-yearefforttodeciphertheearliestsurvivingmanu-scriptoftheworkofArchimedes.5to7p.m.Room320AandB,PryzbylaUniversityCenter,CatholicUniversity,620MichiganAve.NE.202-319-5115. ■“EveningsWithExtraordinaryArtists”willfeatureactressJuneLockhart,whowilldis-cussherprofessionalandpersonalinterests,includingspacetravelandpolitics.5:30p.m.$20.ArtsClubofWashington,2017ISt.NW.202-331-7282. ■Britishavant-gardeartistAnthonyMcCall,knownforhisprojectionsthatempha-sizethesculpturequalitiesofabeamoflight,

willdiscusshiswork.6p.m.$10;reserva-tionsrequired.PhillipsCollection,160021stSt.NW.phillipscollection.org/calendar. ■JohnNicholswilldiscusshisbook“Uprising:HowWisconsinRenewedthePoliticsofProtest,FromMadisontoWallStreet.”6:30to8p.m.Free.LangstonRoom,

BusboysandPoets,202114thSt.NW.202-387-7638. ■PeterGroffmanoftheCaryInstituteofEcosystemStudieswilldiscuss“HotSpotsandHotMoments:NutrientDynamicsinCities”aspartofthe“OntheEdge:UrbanSustainability”lectureseries.6:30p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.Room208,White-GravenorHall,GeorgetownUniversity,[email protected]. ■GeographerMatthewJenningswilldis-cuss“Cartography:FromPtolemytoCrisisMapping.”6:45to8:45p.m.$25.S.DillonRipleyCenter,1100JeffersonDriveSW.202-633-3030. ■TimWeinerwilldiscusshisbook“Enemies:AHistoryoftheFBI.”7p.m.Free.PoliticsandProse,5015ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-1919. ■JoeTorre,MajorLeagueBaseball’srecentexecutivevicepresidentofbaseballoperationsandformermanageroftheYankees,Mets,Dodgers,BravesandCardinals,willdiscuss“ManagingMajorLeagueBaseball.”7to8:30p.m.$40.LisnerAuditorium,GeorgeWashingtonUniversity,73021stSt.NW.202-633-3030.

Films ■TheNationalMuseumofAmericanHistory’snewWarnerBros.Theaterwillshow

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

Performance ■AspartofaseriesexploringU.S.societyintheyearsbeforetheCivilWar,theGeorgetownTheatreCompanywillpresentastagedreadingofRobertMontgomeryBird’s19th-centuryplay“TheGladiator,”aboutthestoryofSpartacus.7:30p.m.$10donationsuggested.GraceEpiscopalChurch,1041WisconsinAve.NW.georgetowntheatre.org.

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Wednesday, FeBruary 15■Discussion:G.MartinMoellerJr.,seniorvicepresidentandcuratoroftheNationalBuildingMuseum,willdiscuss“UnbuiltWashington:TheCityThatCouldHaveBeen(andMightYetBe).”6:30to8p.m.;reservationsrequired.NationalBuildingMuseum,401FSt.NW.202-272-2448.


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Special event ■TheTaipeiEconomicandCulturalRepresentativeOffice’s“FilmandFeast”eventwillfeatureTaiwanesechefHouChun-shengservinghisversionofbeefnoodlesoup,followedbyascreeningofAngLee’sfood-centered1994film“EatDrinkManWoman.”6p.m.Free.FreerGalleryofArt,12thStreetandIndependenceAvenueSW.202-633-1000.

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Concerts ■TheNationalSymphonyOrchestra,ledbyconductorHerbertBlomstedt,willperformworksbyBeethovenandStrauss.7p.m.$20to$85.ConcertHall,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600.The concert will repeat Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m. ■YoungConcertArtistswillpresent20-year-oldvio-linistBenjaminBeilman(shown)andpianistYekwonSunyooperformingworksbyMozart,Strauss,Rogerson,ProkofievandKreisler.7:30p.m.$24.TerraceTheater,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600.

Discussions and lectures ■AuthorJoeHowellwilldiscuss“CivilRightsJourney:TheStoryofaWhiteSouthernerComingofAgeDuringtheCivilRightsRevolution.”11:30a.m.$30.Woman’sNationalDemocraticClub,1526NewHampshireAve.NW.202-232-7363. ■JonathanLyonswilldiscuss“IslamThroughWesternEyes.”Noon.Free.WestDiningRoom,MadisonBuilding,LibraryofCongress,101IndependenceAve.SE.202-707-8476 ■The“25Architectsin25Weeks”lec-tureserieswillfeatureatalkbyJonPenndorfofPerkins+WillArchitectson“GreeningYourHome.”Noonto1p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.DistrictArchitectureCenter,4217thSt.NW.202-347-9403. ■AuthorBlairRubleandjazzbroadcasterRustyHassanwilldiscussRuble’smostrecentbook,“Washington’sUStreet:ABiography.”1p.m.Free.GreatHall,MartinLutherKingJr.MemorialLibrary,901GSt.NW.202-727-1261. ■Agallerytalkwillfocuson“DeliberateDrama:Vuillard’sPaintingandPhotography.”6and7p.m.$12;$10forseniorsandstu-dents;freeforages18andyounger.PhillipsCollection,160021stSt.NW.202-387-2151. ■GershonBaskin,founderandchairoftheIsraelPalestineCenterforResearchandInformation,willdiscuss“IsIsraeli-PalestinianPeaceStillPossible?”6to7:30p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.Room602,ElliottSchoolofInternationalAffairs,GeorgeWashingtonUniversity,1957ESt.NW.tinyurl.com/mepf2-16. ■ArtistAlysonShotzwilldiscuss“Ecliptic,”herinstallationofyarndrawings.6:30p.m.Donationsuggested.PhillipsCollection,160021stSt.NW.phillipscollection.org/calendar. ■JoanneGriffith,editorofthebook“RedefiningBlackPower:ReflectionsoftheStateofBlackAmerica,”willdiscuss“TheMeaningofBlackAmericaintheAgeof

Obama”inconversationwithStudentNonviolentCoordinatingCommitteeactivistsCourtlandCoxandFreddieGreeneBiddle.6:30to8p.m.Free.LangstonRoom,BusboysandPoets,202114thSt.NW.202-387-7638. ■JamalJosephwilldiscusshisautobiog-raphy“PantherBaby:ALifeofRebellion&Reinvention.”7p.m.Free.PoliticsandProse,5015ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-1919. ■TheClassicsBookGroupwilldiscuss“MartinChuzzlewit”byCharlesDickens.7p.m.Free.Barnes&Noble,55512thSt.NW.202-347-0176. ■“MagnaCartaandtheConstitution”willfeatureA.E.DickHoward,professoroflawattheUniversityofVirginia;PeterOnuf,profes-sorofhistoryattheUniversityofVirginia;RenéeLettowLerner,associateprofessoroflawatGeorgeWashingtonUniversity;andZacharyElkins,associateprofessorofgovern-mentattheUniversityofTexas.7p.m.Free.McGowanTheater,NationalArchivesBuilding,ConstitutionAvenuebetween7thand9thstreetsNW.202-357-5000. ■LocalauthorGeorgeBrummellwilldis-cussBlackHistoryMonthandhisbook“ShadesofDarkness:ABlackSoldier’sJourneyThroughVietnam,Blindness,andBack.”7:30p.m.Free.TakomaParkNeighborhoodLibrary,416CedarSt.NW.202-576-7252. ■TheGeorgetownBookClubwilldiscussWalterMosley’snovel“TheLastDaysofPtolemyGray.”7:30p.m.Free.GeorgetownNeighborhoodLibrary,3260RSt.NW.202-727-0232.

Film ■TheGeorgetownNeighborhoodLibrarywillpresent“SimplyMurder”and“TheUniverseofBattle,1863,”thefourthandfifthepisodesofKenBurns’“TheCivilWar.”4p.m.Free.GeorgetownNeighborhoodLibrary,3260RSt.NW.202-727-0232.

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

reading ■RitaDove(shown),LindaGregerson,ElizabethNunez,JacquelineOsherow,LindaPastanandJaneSmileywillreadtheirFolger-commissionedpoemsandessaysfromthe“Shakespeare’sSisters”chapbook,anewanthologypublishedinconjunctionwith

theFolgerexhibitionofthesamename.7p.m.$25.FolgerShakespeareLibrary,201EastCapitolSt.SE.202-544-7077.

Friday,Feb.17

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

Concerts ■TheU.S.NavyBandBrassQuintetwillpresentaBlackHistoryMonthconcertabouttheintegrationofAfrican-AmericansintheU.S.Navy.Noon.Free.BurkeTheater,U.S.NavyMemorial,701PennsylvaniaAve.NW.202-433-3366. ■TheFridayMorningMusicClubwillpresentacomposersconcert,featuringworksbyKurtStern,MichaelFantus,EdgardVareseandJ.T.Martin.Noon.Free.CalvaryBaptistChurch,7558thSt.NW.202-333-2075. ■HansUveHielscher,organistandcaril-loneuratMarktkirche,Wiesbaden,Germany,willpresentanorganrecital.12:15p.m.Free.NationalCityChristianChurch,5ThomasCircleNW.202-797-0103. ■AspartoftheFridayMusicSeries,DuoAppassionatawillperformfour-handmusicforViennesefortepiano.1:15p.m.Free.DahlgrenChapeloftheSacredHeart,37thandOstreetsNW.202-687-3838. ■JazzsingerDianneReeveswillperform.7:30and9:30p.m.$55.TerraceTheater,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600.

Discussions and lectures ■PeaceCafewillpresentatalkbyWilliamParry,authorof“AgainsttheWall:TheArtofResistanceinPalestine.”6to8p.m.Free.CullenRoom,BusboysandPoets,10255thSt.NW.202-387-7638. ■RebeccaWalkerwilldiscussherbook“BlackCool:OneThousandStreamsofBlackness.”6:30to8p.m.Free.LangstonRoom,BusboysandPoets,202114thSt.NW.202-387-7638. ■HistorianTimothyStanleywilldiscusshisbook“TheCrusader:TheLifeandTumultuousTimesofPatBuchanan”(incon-versationwithBuchanan).7p.m.Free.PoliticsandProse,5015ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-1919.

Film ■CinemaNightwillfeatureThomasMcCarthy’s2007film“TheVisitor,”aboutacollegeprofes-sorwhotravelstoNewYorkCityforaconferenceandfindsayoungcouplelivinginhisapart-ment.7p.m.$5to$15.Woman’sNationalDemocraticClub,1526NewHampshireAve.NW.202-232-7363.

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



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Tickets cost $20 to $33. Ford’s Theatre is located at 511 10th St. NW. 202-347-4833; fordstheatre.org.■ Keegan Theatre is presenting Neil Simon’s “Laughter on the 23rd Floor” through Feb. 18 at the Church Street Theater. Performance times are 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $30 to $35. The Church Street Theater is located at 1742 Church St. NW. 703-892-0202; keegantheatre.com.■ The Kennedy Center is presenting the world pre-miere of “The Wings of Ikarus Jackson,” a dance/the-ater adaptation of the children’s book “Wings,” through Feb. 19 in the Family Theater. Performance times vary. Tickets cost $18. 202-467-4600; kennedy-center.org.■ Rorschach Theatre is presenting the world premiere of Fengar Gael’s “The Gallerist” through Feb. 19 at the Atlas Performing Arts Center. Performance times are generally 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $25. Atlas is located at 1333 H St. NE. 202-399-7993; rorschachtheatre.com.■ Studio Theatre has extended Donald Margulies’ “Time Stands Still” through Feb. 19. Holly Twyford leads the cast of this drama from Pulitzer Prize winner Margulies. It follows a globe-trot-ting photojournalist who returns home injured from the battlefields of Iraq. Performance times are 8 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, 7 p.m. Sunday, and 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Tickets cost $35 to $60. Studio Theatre is located at 1501 14th St. NW. 202-332-3300; studiotheatre.org.■ Theater J is presenting “Electile Dysfunction: The Kinsey Sicks for President” through Feb. 19 at the Washington DC Jewish Community Center. Performance times are generally at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday; 8 p.m. Saturday; and 3 p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $30 to $70. The center is located at 1529 16th St. NW. 800-494-7497; theaterj.org.■ The Washington Ballet will present “TwylaTharp: AllAmerican” Feb. 22 through 26 at the Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theater. Performance times are 8 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday; 2:30 p.m. Saturday; and 1:30 and 6:30 p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $20 to $125. 202-467-4600; washingtonballet.org.■ Arena Stage is presenting “Elephant Room” through Feb. 26 in the Arlene and Robert Kogod Cradle. Performance times are 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Sunday; 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday; and 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Tickets cost $40. Arena Stage is located at 1101 6th St. SW. 202-488-3300; arenastage.org.■ Constellation Theatre Company is presenting Federico Garciá Lorca’s “Blood Wedding” through March 4 at Source. Performance times are 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $20 to $40. Source is located at 1835 14th St. NW. 202-204-7741; constellationtheatre.org.■ The Folger Theatre is presenting Susanna Centlivre’s “The Gaming Table” through March 4 in the Elizabethan Theatre. Performance times are generally 7:30 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday; 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday; 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday; and 7 p.m. Sunday. Ticket cost $39 to $65. The Folger is located at 201 East Capitol St. SE. 202-544-7077; folger.edu.■ The Shakespeare Theatre Company is presenting “The Two Gentlemen of Verona” through March 4 at the Lansburgh Theatre. Performance times are 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Sunday; 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday; 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Tickets cost $37 to $90. The Lansburgh is located at 450 7th St. NW. 202-547-1122; shakespearetheatre.org.■ Arena Stage is presenting John Logan’s Tony Award-winning play “Red” through March 11 in the Kreeger Theater. Performance times are generally 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Sunday; 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday; and 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Tickets cost $40 to $85. Arena Stage is located at 1101 6th St. SW. 202-488-3300; arenastage.org.

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