Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Vol. XLIV, No. 13
Serving Communities in Northwest Washington Since 1967
THE NORTHWEST CURRENT
City planners
to consider
Walmart bid
Census may not force
dramatic redistricting
R U N AT H O N
■ Council: Ward 2 will need
By KATIE PEARCE
to shrink to even out districts
Current Staff Writer
After receiving formal plans
March 14 for a 106,243-squarefoot Walmart at Georgia and
Missouri avenues NW, the Office
of Planning has about two months
to prepare a report on the controversial project.
During that time, said planning
director Harriet Tregoning, the
department will gather a flurry of
comments from affected city agencies, community groups and residents.
Meanwhile, Ward 4 D.C.
Council member Muriel Bowser
said, the city’s economic development team must push for official
“citywide agreements” with
Walmart on issues like hiring, as
the company rolls out plans for
four District stores.
In its submission to the city,
developer Foulger-Pratt concluded
that a new Walmart on Georgia
Avenue would “not have a negative
noise, environmental or traffic
impact” on the surrounding
Takoma and Brightwood communities.
For the former Curtis Chevrolet
site, the developer has proposed a
See Walmart/Page 4
By BRADY HOLT
Current Staff Writer
A large jump in the District’s
population recorded in the 2010
census was even enough across
most wards that the city will likely
avoid the extensive redistricting it
faced a decade ago, according to
D.C. Council members.
The population in the city’s eight
wards averaged out to around
75,215 each, representing a growth
of about 4,000 residents per ward.
Most wards are within 5 percent of
10-year Circulator plan
seeks route expansions
■ Transportation: U Street,
Bill Petros/The Current
Tenleytown eyed for service
MacArthur Boulevard played host on Saturday afternoon to a
children’s walkathon to benefit victims of the earthquake and
tsunami in Japan. The event helped raise more than $1,000 for
the cause.
By BRADY HOLT
Current Staff Writer
AU Park historical report moves forward
only “early houses” built before
Current Staff Writer
1911, and said there has been no
survey of the entire neighborhood,
where the majority of homes were
The D.C. Historic Preservation
built in the 1930s and 1940s.
Review Board last week designated
“The only possibility [for a histhree houses in American
toric district] is if the neighborhood
University Park as historic and forcomes to us,” Williams said.
warded them to the National
Research sponsored by the
Register of Historic Places along
Tenleytown Historical Society
with a “multi-property document”
Bill Petros/The Current caused some initial controversy
exploring the neighborhood’s archibecause, as in several other District
tectural history.
This AU Park house was one of
But, a board staffer said, there is three in the area deemed historic. neighborhoods, some American
University Park residents don’t want
no thought of making the entire
the preservation board to oversee exterior alterations or
neighborhood an historic district.
Kim Williams, the board’s expert on landmark nom- additions to their homes. The American University
See Houses/Page 17
inations, noted that the multi-property document covers
By ELIZABETH WIENER
NEWS
■ Rock Creek Cemetery
sees sculpture thefts.
Page 3.
■ Ward 4 school board
hopefuls vie for vacant
seat. Page 3.
that figure, as required, but Ward 2
has nearly 1,000 residents too many
and wards 7 and 8 each have several hundred too few. The ward-byward census information was
released Thursday.
The council’s redistricting committee will use input from the public
and from other council members to
redraw the boundaries so each ward
falls within the acceptable population range, according to Ward 2
member Jack Evans, who co-chairs
the committee. The full council
must approve the changes by July
14, he said.
The council can also choose to
change the boundaries of wards that
See Census/Page 11
SPORTS
■ St. John’s, Gonzaga
start strong in
lacrosse. Page 9.
■ Wilson baseball wins
tipoff tourney at Fort
Reno. Page 9.
The D.C. Department of
Transportation hopes to add service
in Upper Northwest to the DC
Circulator bus system over the next
decade and to increase fares, according to a new report, but any changes
would depend on public input and
available funding.
The department’s 10-year plan,
released this month, proposes to add
or extend 11 routes. The Circulator’s
existing six-line network is primarily concentrated downtown and on
Capitol Hill, with lines reaching into
Adams Morgan, Georgetown and
Rosslyn.
If the plan’s recommendations
are adopted and funded, the first
phase of new lines would be added
between 2012 and 2015, including
an extension of the Dupont CircleGeorgetown-Rosslyn route along U
Street to Howard University; a route
EVENTS
■ Exhibit features
Calder wire portraits.
Page 23.
■ ‘Grasses’ and ‘Nests
With a Twist’ on display
at Touchstone. Page 23 .
Bill Petros/Current File Photo
Most of the DC Circulator buses
run downtown and on Capitol Hill.
between Georgetown and Union
Station by way of the National Mall;
and the first service east of the river,
into Anacostia.
Between 2016 and 2018, the system would grow to include a line
that would run from Tenleytown
through Adams Morgan to
Brookland in Northeast and a direct
connection between Adams Morgan
and H Street NE. By 2020, the
Tenleytown line would extend to the
Georgia Avenue corridor into Silver
See Circulator/Page 18
INDEX
Business/19
Calendar/20
Classifieds/29
District Digest/2
Exhibits/23
In Your Neighborhood/16
Opinion/6
Police Report/8
School Dispatches/12
Real Estate/15
Service Directory/25
Sports/9
Theater/23
Week Ahead/3
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 2011
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District Digest
Wilson High School
tops science bowl
Wilson High School came in
first place at the U.S. Department
of Energy’s Washington D.C.
Regional High School Science
Bowl March 19.
The victory marked Wilson’s
second year winning the regional
competition, which is designed to
encourage students to explore science, engineering and mathematics.
The team will now advance to
the department’s National Science
Bowl, to be held April 28 to May 2
in Chevy Chase, Md.
Police seek suspect
in Ward 4 robberies
The Metropolitan Police
Department is seeking the public’s
help in finding a suspect in two
recent robberies on the 5500 and
5300 blocks of Georgia Avenue.
In both crimes, the suspect, who
robbed two people at gunpoint in
each incident, was described as a
black male, 40 to 45 years old,
between 5 feet 10 inches and 6
feet3 inches tall. He has a medium
complexion, brown eyes, gray hair
and facial hair, and was wearing a
black hat and eyeglasses, according
to a release from the department.
The robbery on the 5500 block
took place on March 16, just after 7
p.m., and the robbery on the 5300
block occurred on March 21, just
before 7 p.m.
Anyone with information about
these crimes can call police at 202727-9099 or 888-919-2746.
Anonymous tips may be submitted
at 866-411-TIPS or texted to
50411. Rewards are available.
Police make arrest
in fatal shooting
The Metropolitan Police
Department announced this week
that a suspect restrained by witnesses to a fatal March 27 shooting
has been arrested and charged with
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
In the Neighborhood
2011 AU CAMPUS PLAN:
“ADVANCING KNOWLEDGE,
BUILDING COMMUNITY”
Join us for a free reception to celebrate the opening of the
Spring 2011 Exhibitions at the AU Museum featuring
innovative works by 21 young Spanish designers and works
by Washington, DC artist Sam Gilliam and artist Robert
D’Arista. Also featured are photo collages by Gail Rebhan
which examine Tenleytown’s cultural history and AU’s Art
Department’s works by graduate students. Free parking is
available under the Katzen building. To become a museum
member, visit american.edu/museum.
EAST MEETS WEST:
SHESHBESH IN CONCERT & RECEPTION
Corrections policy
Event Highlights
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The Campus Plan’s goals include:
D Improved undergraduate housing
D A new home for the Washington College of Law
on the Tenley campus
D New recreation, dining, and activities space
D Improved science and research facilities
D Offices to attract and keep top faculty
D Athletic facilities for campus fitness
D Welcome center for new students and their parents
D Alumni center
The new plan builds on our accomplishments of the last decade
which included the opening of the LEED Gold-certified School of
International Service – the nation’s largest school of international
affairs; the creation of the Katzen Arts Center; and becoming the
only university in DC to be officially designated a local arboretum.
For more information and to volunteer your support, please visit:
http://www.american.edu/finance/fas/2011-Campus-Plan.cfm.
SPRING ARTISTS’ RECEPTION
6 – 9 p.m., American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center.
American University’s 2011 Campus Plan was filed with the
District of Columbia Zoning Commission, describing its exciting
building plans for the next decade.
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6:45 p.m. – 9 p.m., Abramson Family Recital Hall, Katzen Arts Center.
SheshBesh, the Arab-Jewish Ensemble of the Israel
Philharmonic Orchestra, is a unique collaboration of
orchestra members and musicians from the Arab community
in northern Israel. Free and open to the public, but an RSVP
is required to cutler@american.edu. Co-sponsors include
the AU Center for Israel Studies, the AU Performing Arts
Department Music Program, and the Embassy of Israel.
8-9
AU CHORUS: AMERICANA
8 p.m., Abramson Family Recital Hall, Katzen Arts Center.
The AU Chorus presents a concert of American sound,
featuring music from the American Revolution era and the
early/mid-20th century. Tickets: $10 regular admission; $5
seniors. For tickets call 202-885-ARTS or visit
american.edu/auarts.
8-9
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY DANCE PRESENTS:
VHF: VERY HIGH FREQUENCY
8 p.m., Harold and Sylvia Greenberg Theatre, 4200 Wisconsin Ave., N.W.
Our farmers’ market is back on
campus on the quad at the Ward
building on Wednesdays from
11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
To sign up for the monthly electronic newsletter, or for a full
listing of news and events, please visit american.edu/neighbors.
Contemporary dance directed by Melanie George features
choreography by guest artists Christopher K. Morgan and
Kimberly Karpanty. Post-concert discussion follows the April
8 performance. Tickets: $15 regular admission, $10 seniors.
For tickets call 202-885-ARTS or visit american.edu/auarts.
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Bike program offers
five-day membership
Capital Bikeshare, the District
Department of Transportation and
the National Park Service are coordinating efforts to make it easier for
visitors to bike to the cherry blossoms this year.
According to a release, Capital
Bikeshare has introduced a new
five-day membership option to
coincide with the festival, which
ends April 10. The new membership, geared toward visitors, costs
$15 for five days.
Capital Bikeshare will also have
staff available at the Independence
Avenue and 12th Street SW station
from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on festival
weekends to assist people with bike
rentals and docking.
The District Department of
Transportation is sponsoring valet
bike parking at the Jefferson
Memorial on Saturdays and
Sundays from 10 a.m. to 6 pm.
throughout the festival.
April 2011
News And Events
second-degree murder.
Officers responded to reports of
a shooting on the 1200 block of
11th Street NW at about 2:25 a.m.
Sunday, according to a news
release from the department. They
found 24-year-old Jose Hernandez
Romero, a resident of the 1400
block of N Street NW, suffering
from a gunshot wound. Romero
later died at a local hospital,
according to police.
Officers also found Alexis
Pineda, 24, on the scene. Witnesses
to the shooting held him until
police arrived, the release states.
Police also recovered a firearm.
KIDS @ KATZEN
1 p.m. at the American University Museum.
Kids ages 5-12 will join an artist in conjunction with AU
Museum’s new Spring exhibition to create a work of their
own. There is a $7 cash-only materials fee. RSVP is required
at american.edu/museum.
As a matter of policy, The
Current corrects all errors of substance. To report an error, please
call the managing editor at 202244-7223.
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Ward 4 school board hopefuls tout experience in lead-up to April election
By JESSICA GOULD
Current Staff Writer
Candidates seeking to represent Ward 4
on the State Board of Education are emphasizing their experience and affirming their
commitment to city schools in advance of the
April 26 special election.
The state board — which replaced the
D.C. Board of Education as part of the 2007
school reform act — advises the Office of the
State Superintendent of Education on standards and policies that affect public schools
in the District.
Four candidates are vying to fill the position vacated by former Ward 4 member
Sekou Biddle. Biddle was selected to temporarily occupy the at-large D.C. Council
seat vacated by Kwame Brown after Brown
was elected D.C. Council chairman. Biddle
is now running to hang onto the at-large
council seat in the special election.
Meanwhile, An Almquist, Kamili
Anderson, Andrew Moss and Bill Quirk are
angling for his spot on the school board,
which includes representatives from every
ward as well as an at-large member.
Almquist is a visiting professor at the
University of the District of Columbia’s
National Center for Urban Education.
Immediately prior to that role, Almquist
served as a master educator with D.C. Public
Schools, focusing on special education. In
that capacity, she said, she visited every middle and high school within the system.
From 2005 to 2009, Almquist taught and
served as a curriculum specialist at an alternative special-education day school. And
from 2002 to 2005, she was a teacher with
Paul Junior High School, now Paul Public
Charter School.
If elected, Almquist said, she would like
to focus on improving the special-education
services at D.C. public schools “by advocating for relevant and meaningful curricula.”
In addition, Almquist said she hopes to
boost public engagement and parental
involvement in the board’s activities. “I’m
about collaboration and communication,”
she said.
Almquist said she has dedicated her
career to improving education for children in
the District, and sees serving on the board as
a continuation of that work.
“Having been a teacher who has had to
work and teach with policy changes, I know
what makes a difference and what doesn’t,”
she wrote in an email. “Lastly, I have worked
with [acting Schools Chancellor] Kaya
Henderson and her administration and want
to be part of the process in a more formal
way that will bring a voice for the students
and their families.”
Sculptures go missing from Ward 4 cemetery
By KATIE PEARCE
Current Staff Writer
Sculptor Robert Phillips got a call recently that left
him speechless.
On the other end of the line was a staffer from Rock
Creek Cemetery, telling him the sculpture he had
worked on for almost two years — a 12-foot, intricate
bronze memorial to the late James Marshall Barnett —
had been stolen from the cemetery in the middle of the
night.
“I was shocked,” Phillips recounted from his metalworking studio in Philadelphia. “I absolutely couldn’t
speak. I couldn’t believe someone could rob a monument.”
The 800-pound sculpture is one of several items
stolen recently from the historic cemetery on New
Hampshire Avenue in Ward 4.
Another sizable memorial sculpture, also bronze,
went missing at the same time — either March 10 or
March 11, said the Rev. Rosemari Sullivan of St. Paul’s
Rock Creek Episcopal Parish, which operates the ceme-
tery. That was two weeks after 31 unmarked brass plates
disappeared from the cemetery’s columbaria, she said.
Sullivan estimated the total value of the stolen items
at more than $215,000.
Lt. Shane Lamond said the Metropolitan Police
Department is “working jointly with cemetery staff” to
patrol the 85-acre cemetery at night, as 4th District
detectives investigate the thefts.
No other similar crimes have been reported in the
District, he said.
Sullivan said she had heard of recent cemetery thefts
in Maryland. A representative of one cemetery in Prince
George’s County, who did not want to disclose details
due to an ongoing investigation, said several cemeteries
in the area had experienced recent metal thefts.
At Rock Creek Cemetery, it’s clear the crimes
required careful coordination. “We think it was prettywell-planned and -executed,” Sullivan said. “These
guys kind of waltzed in and out. … We’re not sure
how.”
The cemetery’s gates are locked between 7 a.m. and
See Cemetery/Page 18
The week ahead
Wednesday, March 30
AARP DC will hold a community forum on power outages and smart meters.
The meeting will be held from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the Tenley-Friendship
Neighborhood Library, 4450 Wisconsin Ave. NW.
■ At-large D.C. Council member Phil Mendelson will hold a town-hall meeting on the
proposed 2012 property tax assessments. The meeting will be held from 6:30 to
7:30 p.m. at the Tenley-Friendship Neighborhood Library, 4450 Wisconsin Ave. NW.
Thursday, March 31
The Ward 3 Democratic Committee will hold precinct elections to fill vacancies
for delegates from precincts 7, 9, 11, 12, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 and 138. The caucuses will be held from 7:30 to 7:45 p.m., and will be followed by a forum for candidates seeking the vacant at-large D.C. Council seat. The meeting will be held at
St. Columba’s Episcopal Church, 4201 Albemarle St. NW.
Saturday, April 2
Hearst Elementary School will host its third annual Community Electronics
Recycling and Free-cycle Event from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. The school is located at
3950 37th St. NW. A list of acceptable items is available at hearstes.org/e-cycle.
Monday, April 4
The Chevy Chase advisory neighborhood commission and the Chevy Chase
Citizens Association will hold a forum for candidates running for the vacant at-large
D.C. Council seat. The meeting will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Chevy Chase
Community Center, 5601 Connecticut Ave. NW.
Tuesday, April 5
The monthly meeting of the Palisades Citizens Association will feature a presentation by Sibley Memorial Hospital on what its recent merger with Johns Hopkins
Medicine will mean for the Palisades community. The meeting will begin at 7:30
p.m. at the Palisades Recreation Center, Dana and Sherier places NW.
Kamili Anderson, who has written for and
edited several journals devoted to issues in
education, has lived in the District for 38
years. She served as president of the
Brightwood Community Association from
2004 to 2009 and is now the chair of its business improvement committee. Her three
grandchildren currently attend D.C. public
schools.
Anderson said her understanding of the
“language and current conversations going
on in education” — gleaned from her writing
and editing work — has prepared her for a
role on the state board.
Language is also key to her platform,
which encompasses all the vowels: “A” for
accountability, “E” for equity, “I” for innovation, “O” for oversight and “Y” (you) for
community involvement.
If elected, Anderson said, she would make
See Board/Page 5
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one-story, glass-paneled Walmart
that would generate $2 million to
$3 million in annual taxes for the
District, according to the application. The project includes an underground parking garage, accessed
via Peabody Street, with spaces for
349 cars. Four loading docks
would be accessed on Missouri
Avenue.
The Takoma-Brightwood advisory neighborhood commission
this week felt too rushed to comment on the project, which is funneling through the city’s large-tract
review process. On Monday the
commission asked for an additional month to review the plans.
The current deadline of April 22
is “totally unrealistic,” commissioner Sara Green said in an interview. “We need to have some public meetings, we need Walmart to
… really present what it wants to
do. We need to make a genuine,
informed evaluation.”
Tregoning said the large-tract
review process sometimes allows
for extensions.
The multi-agency process
“allows the city to identify issues
associated with a project of a certain size … and get those issues
resolved,” Tregoning said.
Council member Bowser said
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retail bays on Georgia Avenue,
buffers around the property and
“visual interest on blank walls.”
The application also notes the elimination of six curb cuts from the
project.
Though she said she has not yet
examined the application’s traffic
study in depth, Bowser said she is
“surprised it didn’t show more of
an impact.”
Tregoning noted that “traffic
and circulation is a big issue” and
said the D.C. Department of
Transportation’s input will be critical.
The application’s traffic study,
conducted by Gorove/Slade
Associates, found that 26 percent
of drivers visiting Walmart would
be commuters stopping by on their
way to and from the District.
The study notes that the area is
already well-served by public
transportation, including five bus
lines, and that plans for bikefriendly features, like 37 bike-parking spots and a Capital BikeShare
station, would provide an alternative to arriving by car.
The Walmart would generate a
net increase of 188 car trips during
morning rush hour and 272 during
evening rush hour, according to the
application, which notes that other
types of development at the corner
would create significantly higher
traffic volumes.
In the past, Foulger-Pratt had
proposed creating a mixed-use
retail and residential project for the
corner, an idea that ended up fiz-
zling out. Developers have since
said a retail-only project makes the
most financial sense for the site.
One point of contention in the
previous Foulger-Pratt proposal
was the site’s historic car barn. In
last week’s Walmart submission,
the developer says the roof of the
new store “will incorporate the
reclaimed truss system for the car
barn,” while the store’s entrance
will pay homage to the neighborhood’s past with banners and historical photographs.
Several local merchants and residents have argued that Walmart’s
presence would hurt small businesses in the area.
The application says the store
would actually be a boon to local
business: “Redeveloping the site
with a Walmart will animate a corner of Georgia Avenue that has
been dormant in recent years and
will be a catalyst for development
on the corridor.”
The store, which is expected to
generate $40 million to $50 million
in annual sales, would create 300
permanent jobs and 250 jobs during construction, the application
says.
Neighborhood commissioner
Green said she has heard from constituents who “say they want to
shop at that Walmart and that they
think that a blighted corner doesn’t
do anybody any good whatsoever.”
“Maybe it’s not a perfect thing,”
Green said, “but we can’t hold out
for what’s perfect. We need some
economic development there.”
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truancy prevention a key focus of
her work, by encouraging the
District to increase enforcement
efforts. “There should be a bit more
at stake for parents,” she said,
adding that she would also like to
improve anti-truancy coordination
among schools, the Metropolitan
Police Department and the city’s
Child and Family Services Agency.
In addition, Anderson said she
hopes to enhance anti-bullying
efforts at school, perhaps by
including more diversity training in
sex education to address homophobia among students.
Anderson said she also hopes to
help shape assessments to reflect
the new common core standards
and strengthen residency verifications for public schools.
Meanwhile, Andrew Moss said
his motivation for running for the
Ward 4 seat is simple: “I have a
two year old and I would like for
him to attend a high achieving
public school in the neighborhood,” he wrote in an email.
Growing up, Moss attended
school in Ward 7, and he later
taught there for six years. Now he
is a compliance officer with the
U.S. Treasury Department, which,
he said, equips him with key skills
to exercise oversight of federal initiatives on the state board.
“Parents and taxpayers want
more accountability and transparency,” he wrote.
In fact, he said, he’d like to
encourage outside-the-box strate-
gies for addressing school performance with limited resources,
such as public-private partnerships
to benefit schools.
In terms of declining enrollment, Moss said the solution is not
consolidating and closing schools,
but replicating successful models.
He said he also hopes to
enhance public engagement
around education reform, increase
oversight of under-performing
charter schools, and review compliance with the plans outlined in
the federal Race to the Top competition.
Bill Quirk is chair of the
Petworth advisory neighborhood
commission and an attorney with
Children’s National Medical
Center.
In his professional role and as a
community activist, Quirk has
advocated for children for nearly a
decade, and he said he sees serving
on the board as an extension of that
work.
But, Quirk said, his primary
motivation for running for the
Ward 4 seat is that he and his wife
are expecting a child in May. And
he said he hopes to make the public school system a strong option
for his and other Ward 4 families.
To that end, Quirk said he’d like
to help the city implement existing
educational standards. “The board
has established the standards
already,” he said. “But I think we
need to work with the schools, the
chancellor’s office, the deputy
mayor for education and the council members to make sure they’re
being implemented.”
Quirk said he’d also like to see
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adding, “If you can correct it in
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communities where they locate,
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Quirk said he would also focus
on recruiting, retaining and
rewarding excellent teachers,
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THE NORTHWEST
CURRENT
Davis Kennedy/Publisher & Editor
Chris Kain/Managing Editor
Ethics 101
D.C. Council Chairman Kwame Brown, having given up his government-issued SUV, speaks of the need to renew the public’s trust
in the District government. It’s hard to disagree with the sentiment,
but it’s time for concrete action.
The first three months with new leadership in city hall have
indeed been challenging. Surely, everyone expected that, given the
trying fiscal times confronting the city.
What’s been surprising is that so much of the tumult has resulted
from errors of judgment and ethical lapses, whether it be exceeding
the permissible salary for a top aide or expecting taxpayers to pay
for a top-of-the-line ride.
This week’s ethics training session for Chairman Brown’s staff
and other council aides is a good first step, but hardly sufficient.
Given this backdrop, the Georgetown University Public Policy
Institute is performing a valuable service with its pro bono study of
how best the D.C. Council can foster high ethical standards.
Specifically, Chairman Brown asked the institute to review practices nationwide and recommend options for the establishment of a
council body with oversight on ethics issues.
The recommendations are not expected until later this spring, but
Chairman Brown has discussed a possible framework: a council
committee with two council members and three outsiders. The idea
seems to make sense, but it would be essential that the outside
appointees bring stellar reputations and solid professional backgrounds to their posts. At least one should be a non-Democrat —
preferably a member of the GOP, the city’s second-largest party.
We hope the Georgetown institute will be ready to make recommendations soon. The council should also act promptly — though
without short-circuiting public comment. It’s essential to keep in
mind the goal of renewing the public’s trust. That won’t occur if the
council ignores public input or sets up a weak, timid process.
Good neighbors
Most college graduates have more than a few fond memories of
their undergraduate years. But what was charming at 20 — like loud
music spilling into a residence-hall courtyard on a sunny spring day
— might not be so pleasant to more seasoned ears. That gap offers
insight into the culture clash that underlies town-gown tensions: Few
would want to buy a house next to their freshman dorm.
In the instance of American University’s recently submitted campus plan, proponents of building residence halls on the Nebraska
Avenue parking lot would do well to consider the vantage point of
the adjoining neighbors in Westover Place.
It’s tempting to dismiss their criticism by noting the inevitability
of the university developing the underutilized parcel. One could also
herald the smart-growth benefits of removing a sprawling parking
lot. Not to mention that the neighbors willingly moved into homes
near a university campus. Yet, it is something else entirely to construct dorms immediately adjacent to a neighborhood of town houses. There are clear impacts that require mitigation.
Ideally, the university would use the Nebraska Avenue lot for academic buildings, but that is just not a feasible solution. It would
require abandoning the historic layout of the campus, as well as
launching costly projects to rehab existing buildings.
Because the Nebraska parcel is so large, we believe that the site
can accommodate sizable residence halls — and we commend the
university for deciding to build more on-campus housing, and for
tweaking to some degree its plans in response to neighbors’ worries.
But it is essential that the projects include reasonable setbacks and
ample screening from the adjacent town houses, as the school has
said it will do. Creating a dense canopy of evergreen trees — full
size from Day 1 — could be the best solution, but perhaps a wall is
necessary to block sightlines and noise.
THE CURRENT
Who we are …
The new census numbers for the District were
huge, front-page news last week.
The headline finding was dramatic — the city’s
African-American population has dropped in 20
years from nearly 70 percent to barely 50 percent.
Referring to the nickname “Chocolate City,” one
person in The Washington Post was quoted as saying
ruefully, “Chocolate melts.”
Only majority-black
Ward 8 lost population.
There has been a lot
of economic development — especially new
housing — in Ward 8
and other parts of the
city, with larger families replaced by younger couples, many with few or no children.
A town house that may have been rented to two
or three families might now be a single-family
home. And the conversion of a four-unit rental apartment building into condos generally means far fewer
owners or occupants.
Demographers note that some African-American
families have sold homes in the District to share in
the American dream of better houses and better
schools in the outer suburbs, principally in Prince
George’s County.
But some fear that American dream is outdated,
that the city is where the future lies. With the city
offering improving schools, accessible cultural
amenities and shopping and decreased transportation
costs, the suburbs may be losing their luster.
It may be that we are moving toward a time
when the District — at least a majority of it — will
be the upper-income place to be, with poorer residents of any type crowding into the inner suburbs,
and the middle class occupying the outer suburbs.
That’s way too simplistic, but the point is that we
are changing. What does it mean and what will it
mean for our city, our politics and our lives? The
debate has begun.
■ Mayor’s big week. As this column was being
written, Mayor Vincent Gray was gearing up to give
his State of the District speech Monday night at
Eastern High School.
His advisers had been hoping to see the speech as
a “reset” for his administration. Gray, some said,
could address the ethical lapses of hiring children of
department heads, the overemphasis on city-funded
vehicles to drive officials around, and the general
feeling that his mayoral team is less ethical and
competent than it should be.
Washington Post columnist Colby King said the
mayor needed to refer to ethical lapses throughout
the government, including the D.C. Council.
But in his speech Monday night, Gray chose not
to address the concerns swirling around him. And in
the speech marked “final” just before he gave it, the
word “ethics” did not even appear.
Was it a missed opportunity? Many who like
Gray and want him to succeed as mayor say, Yes,
especially now that the council has begun hearings
on Gray’s hiring practices.
At-large Council
member David Catania
clashed Monday with
Ward 3’s Mary Cheh on
the issue. Catania
believes Cheh’s hearings on the Gray hiring
practices are not nearly tough enough. And Catania
is pursuing the witnesses relentlessly. Cheh, who
backed Gray for mayor against overwhelming support in her ward for Adrian Fenty, says she won’t
allow a “witch hunt.”
But most political observers believe Gray needs
to do a far better job of explaining the salaries, the
job for minor candidate Sulaimon Brown and other
nagging issues.
■ The speech. All of these “State of the District”
speeches tend to be a grab bag of platitudes that
touch on all the major aspects of public life — education, public safety, economic development, health
and human services. And that was Gray’s.
It would be nice, we think, to see and hear a
streamlined speech that focuses on what is being
done rather than what will be done. It’s a rough time
for governments all over the United States, and the
District is no different. We need a compass pointing
where we’re going, if anyone knows.
■ Specter of crime. Monday’s Post also had news
that property crimes in the District have surged. In
some cases the police are warning people not to use
cellphones and other devices in public because
snatch-and-grab criminals are on the loose.
It is stupid for people to leave a cellphone unattended on a bench or table, inviting theft, but given
our rapidly moving society, we’re not likely to stop
using our devices in public.
Metro transit police, if they’re not busy checking
your bags for terrorists, might pay more attention to
the cellphone thefts on transit trains.
The routine is for someone to wait until just
before a door closes, then snatch a phone before
jumping off the train.
Police presence is one way to combat crimes of
opportunity. Common sense by members of the public helps, too.
Tom Sherwood, a Southwest resident, is a political reporter for News 4.
TOM SHERWOOD’S
NOTEBOOK
LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR
Weaver best choice
for at-large council
I am writing to express support for Bryan Weaver’s candidacy for an at-large D.C. Council
seat.
Bryan’s reputation for honesty
and integrity is unfortunately limited to the Adams Morgan area, in
which he has served on the advisory neighborhood commission
for eight years. He takes strong
positions, but is not polemic in
delving into and understanding
the positions of others.
Bryan is somewhat rare in
D.C. city politics in that his perspective has been grounded in
protecting the well-being of the
city’s residents. He especially
works with teenagers. But he is
also rare in that his focus on residents does not obscure his understanding that the city needs profitable businesses, both to serve
the needs of residents and to produce revenue.
I cannot think of anyone
whose intelligence, integrity and
temperament I respect more than
Bryan’s. I hope others will follow
my lead in supporting him.
Vic Miller
Washington Heights
Officials shouldn’t
remove sycamores
No one will ever make any
sensible person believe in an
apartment-value-killing tree
foliage that some Watergate residents seem to “suffer” from —
forgetting in the process the lovely song “On the Banks of the
Wabash River, Far Away,” seen
through sycamore trees.
This ludicrous complaint
should have never been taken
seriously. What’s much more
worrisome, however, is the positive response to the residents’
silly request to remove large trees
that don’t even belong only to
them, but to hundreds of people
outside the Watergate. In authorizing tree replacement by those
residents not only did the
National Park Service cave in to
that ridiculous nonsense, but it
also ignored the wishes of the
bikers, runners, walkers and all
nature lovers who intuitively
know that no human structure
(including the Watergate!) will
ever compare to Mother Nature’s
magnificent natural cathedrals.
The decision should be overturned. Do not touch the park’s
beautiful and air-cleansing public
trees, the people’s trees.
Danielle Tronchet
Washington, D.C.
THE CURRENT
ABC process does not solve all problems
VIEWPOINT
BRIAN FU, ERNIE GREEN, JOHN HAMMOND,
RICK SCHREIBER, JUDY SNYDER, JERRY SULLIVAN
T
he recent Advisory Neighborhood Commission
2B report on the West Dupont liquor license
moratorium refers to “one bad actor” that
opened near the intersection of 22nd and P streets
more than four years ago.
Before the opening, the owners had said that the
220-seat Marrakesh Palace Pasha Lounge (formerly
Mr. P’s) would be an upscale restaurant. That proved
to be a Trojan horse for the nightclub that they also
opened on the upper floors under the same tavern
license. They cordoned off the public space in front
that had been approved for a sidewalk cafe and used it
as the nightclub entrance. Metropolitan Police
Department officials say that the West Dupont neighborhood wasn’t even a blip on their radar until then.
The owners have not complied with the terms of
their liquor license and D.C. ordinances. They did not
provide the required public notice of changes to the
facade, the square footage and the name (now the
Argana Lounge). The noise is unbearable for many of
the 350 residents of the buildings next door and across
the street. Unlicensed valet parking adds to the traffic
and noise and blocks fire lanes.
The nightclub attracts crowds responsible for untold
emergencies, even gunplay. The number of assaults
and assaults with deadly weapons almost tripled in the
P Street area between 2006 and 2009, from 14 to 40.
In April 2009, a 23-year-old patron was clubbed in
the forehead with a bottle and stabbed repeatedly in the
scalp. The police department paid him $1,800 from its
crime-victims compensation fund. But the Alcoholic
Beverage Control Board took no action.
In November 2010, a 19-year-old female struck a
fellow Montgomery College student on the dance
floor, and two other women began hitting her after she
fell. Yet another fight broke out as the police department’s watch commander took her report. Because the
victim declined to press charges against her assailant,
the Alcoholic Beverage Regulation Administration’s
LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR
Universities’ growth
requires city scrutiny
Across Northwest D.C., neighborhoods are being threatened by
ambitious expansion plans of universities seeking to do to us what
George Washington University did
to Foggy Bottom through its
makeover of a residential community into part of its campus.
Through our D.C. Council
members and advisory neighborhood commissioners, we have been
raising questions and offering alternatives. We hope the Zoning
Commission will take seriously the
almost universal community opposition. But the issues raised go well
beyond those the Zoning
Commission was designed to oversee.
Universities in the District have
increasingly assumed the role of
big businesses, seeing commercial
“investigative history” does not reflect that assault.
The alcohol board learns of such incidents mainly
from its investigators. Alcohol administration director
Fred Moosally’s response to our complaints has been,
“We’ll investigate.” But there has been no follow-up,
as the D.C. Code requires, and the problems persist.
Fifty-six owners and tenants of the Dupont West
condominium, who live next door to the establishment,
opposed renewal of its alcoholic beverage license.
Ward 2 Council member Jack Evans and Advisory
Neighborhood Commission 2B also protested.
The alcohol board has sole authority to issue,
renew, suspend and revoke liquor licenses. District law
requires that it consider the effect of an establishment
on the neighborhood’s peace, order and quiet; residential parking; vehicular and pedestrian safety; and property values. The board must also consider the
licensee’s record of compliance.
The board deliberates cases behind closed doors —
where, under chair Charles Brodsky, its critics maintain, it favors business over residents’ interests and
ignores the law, zoning and public space ordinances,
and even its own precedents.
Rather than chance that the board would maintain
its hands-off stance, we negotiated a new voluntary
agreement. Besides, our objectives in protesting the
application were to restore public safety, reduce the
noise and ensure the approved uses of public space —
not to shut the business down. To date, however, the
owners have not agreed to our terms.
The neighborhood commission’s moratorium committee report suggests that voluntary agreements and
the protest process address troublesome establishments
adequately. Clearly, that has not been our experience.
The voluntary agreement that we proposed would
close some loopholes, but, absent diligent enforcement
by District officials, it alone would not restore peace,
order and quiet. Because our group’s standing in this
matter basically has come to an end, we have virtually
no voice until the license comes up for renewal again
in another three years.
The authors — Brian Fu, Ernie Greene, John
Hammond, Rick Schreiber, Judy Snyder and Jerry
Sullivan — led the Dupont West protest group.
property management as an important institutional revenue source
while using the properties as extensions of their campuses (as “offcampus” student food courts, for
example). Meanwhile, the universities ignore the possible benefits to
their students and other communities by refusing to consider satellite
campuses elsewhere in the District.
Plans filed this year by
Georgetown University and
American University are unprecedented in their disregard for community input and their potential
impact on neighborhoods. In
response, communities have had to
take on disproportionate responsibilities for fighting these plans to
protect the future of our investments in the city and the quality of
life in our neighborhoods.
As it now stands, the Zoning
Commission tends to support university expansion as a matter of
encouraging development. But the
issues raised by the new form of
university business expansion go
well beyond what the current zon-
ing process foresaw. A proper
response requires a holistic
approach that only the mayor and
council can provide. It is time for
our leaders to bring current law and
policy into line with the universities’ modern business practices.
A first step would be for the
mayor and council to support the
necessary changes in the law and
regulations — including those governing the Zoning Commission’s
consideration of campus plans —
so the District government and citizens can take into account the full
range of issues raised by the
increasing activities of universities
acting as businesses. Among the
most pressing issues are District tax
exemptions, use of District financing for expansion and inclusion of
commercially zoned properties in
campus plans. Changes should
encourage coordination with neighborhoods and creation of satellite
campuses to better serve the entire
District.
Gerard M. Gallucci
Wesley Heights
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Police Report
This is a listing of reports taken
from March 20 through 26 in
local police service areas.
PSA 201
PSA
201
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Stolen auto
■ 3900 block, McKinley St.;
street; 8 p.m. March 24.
Theft (below $250)
■ 5500 block, Connecticut
Ave.; store; 9:45 p.m. March
25.
■ 5500 block, Connecticut
Ave.; store; 12:40 p.m. March
26.
PSA 202
■ FRIENDSHIP HEIGHTS
PSA
202
TENLEYTOWN/ AU PARK
Theft from auto (below $250)
■ 4400 block, 48th St.; residence; 7:15 a.m. March 23.
■ 4500 block, Ellicott St.;
street; 7 a.m. March 24.
PSA 203
PSA
203
■ FOREST HILLS / VAN NESS
Robbery (force and violence)
■ Connecticut Avenue and
Tilden Street; sidewalk; 2:20
a.m. March 22.
Theft (below $250)
■ 4300 block, Connecticut
Ave.; school; 10:10 a.m. March
21.
■ 2900 block, Van Ness St.;
unspecified premises; noon
March 26.
PSA 204
■ MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE
HEIGHTS/ CLEVELAND PARK
WOODLEY PARK / GLOVER
PSA
204
PARK
/ CATHEDRAL HEIGHTS
Robbery (force and violence)
■ 2700 block, Connecticut
Ave.; sidewalk; 1:45 p.m.
March 21.
Robbery (attempt)
■ 2200 block, 39th Place; sidewalk; 4:13 p.m. March 25.
Stolen auto
■ 2300 block, 40th St.; street;
3 a.m. March 23.
Theft (below $250)
■ 3400 block, Connecticut
Ave.; restaurant; 3:30 p.m.
March 21.
■ 3600 block, Wisconsin Ave.;
restaurant; 7 p.m. March 26.
Theft from auto (below $250)
■ 2600 block, Woodley Place;
street; 6 p.m. March 21.
PSA 205
■ PALISADES / SPRING VALLEY
PSA
205
WESLEY HEIGHTS/ FOXHALL
Burglary
■ 5400 block, Galena Place;
residence; 1:30 a.m. March
26.
■ 4900 block, Rockwood
Parkway; construction site;
3:30 p.m. March 23.
■ 5000 block, Overlook Road;
residence; 5 p.m. March 23.
Stolen auto
■ 4400 Massachusetts Ave.;
unspecified premises; 9:50
a.m. March 22.
Theft (below $250)
■ 4400 block, Massachusetts
Ave.; university; 4 p.m. March
24.
Theft from auto (below $250)
■ 4400 block, Reservoir Road;
street; 1:30 a.m. March 26.
PSA 206
PSA
206
■ GEORGETOWN / BURLEITH
Robbery (force and violence)
■ 1000 block, Wisconsin Ave.;
sidewalk; 6:45 p.m. March
22.
Burglary
■ 1200 block, 33rd St.; residence; 4:30 p.m. March 25.
Stolen auto
■ 3000 block, Orchard Lane;
residence; 2 p.m. March 24.
Theft ($250 plus)
■ 3200 block, M St.; store;
7:15 p.m. March 24.
Theft (below $250)
■ 3500 block, Whitehaven
Parkway; residence; 4 p.m.
March 21.
■ 3800 block, Reservoir Road;
medical facility; 3 p.m. March
22.
■ 1800 block, Wisconsin Ave.;
grocery store; 6:45 p.m.
March 22.
■ 2700 block, M St.; residence; 7 p.m. March 22.
■ 3200 block, Prospect St.;
restaurant; 9 p.m. March 22.
■ 1400 block, Wisconsin Ave.;
drugstore; 11 p.m. March 22.
■ 1000 block, Thomas
Jefferson St.; office building;
1:45 p.m. March 23.
■ 1200 block, Wisconsin Ave.;
store; 4:45 p.m. March 24.
■ 3000 block, M St.; store;
10:30 a.m. March 25.
■ 3000 block, M St.; store;
noon March 25.
Theft (shoplifting)
■ 1800 block, Wisconsin Ave.;
grocery store; 11:45 a.m.
March 23.
■ 1800 block, Wisconsin Ave.;
grocery store; 12:45 p.m.
March 24.
Theft from auto ($250 plus)
■ 3600 block, R St.; street; 9
p.m. March 24.
Theft from auto (below $250)
■ 1600 block, 30th St.;
street; 5 p.m. March 25.
PSA 207
PSA
207 BOTTOM / WEST END
■ FOGGY
Robbery (assault)
■ 800 block, 22nd St.; sidewalk; 11:55 p.m. March 22.
Theft ($250 plus)
■ 800 block, New Hampshire
Ave.; hotel; 10 a.m. March
21.
Theft (shoplifting)
■ 1100 block, 25th St.; grocery store; 10:10 p.m. March
26.
Theft (tags)
■ 2500 block, Virginia Ave.;
street; 6:30 a.m. March 23.
Theft from auto (below $250)
■ 1100 block, 25th St.; parking lot; 11 a.m. March 21.
■ 2100 block, K St.; parking
lot; 5:15 p.m. March 24.
PSA 208
■ SHERIDAN-KALORAMA
DUPONT CIRCLE
PSA 208
Robbery (force and violence)
■ 1000 block, 16th St.; store;
3:47 p.m. March 22.
■ 1700 block, K St.; sidewalk;
2:25 a.m. March 26.
Robbery (pickpocket)
■ 2100 block, K St.; office
building; 4:29 p.m. March 21.
Burglary
■ 1300 block, 19th St.; restaurant; 3:24 a.m. March 24.
Theft ($250 plus)
■ 1500 block, Connecticut
Ave.; store; 7:30 p.m. March
23.
Theft (below $250)
■ 1500 block, I St.; office building; 10 a.m. March 21.
■ 1500 block, 16th St.; sidewalk; 5:40 a.m. March 23.
■ 1500 block, 17th St.; street;
8:30 a.m. March 24.
■ 1800 block, K St.; office
building; 2:30 p.m. March 24.
■ 2000 block, K St.; medical
facility; 6 p.m. March 24.
■ 1700 block, Pennsylvania
Ave.; office building; 10 a.m.
March 25.
■ 2100 block, K St.; office
building; 5:15 p.m. March 25.
■ 1200 block, 18th St.; restaurant; 9:30 p.m. March 25.
Theft (attempt)
■ 1300 block, Connecticut Ave.;
store; 10:45 a.m. March 25.
Theft from auto ($250 plus)
■ 2100 block, Phelps Place;
street; 11:30 p.m. March 25.
Theft from auto (below $250)
■ 1300 block, 16th St.; street;
6 p.m. March 21.
■ 2100 block, California St.;
parking lot; 6:15 p.m. March
21.
■ 1700 block, De Sales St.;
street; 8:25 p.m. March 21.
■ 1800 block, Pennsylvania
Ave.; parking lot; 9 a.m. March
22.
■ 2000 block, K St.; parking
lot; 9:30 a.m. March 22.
■ 1500 block, Swann St.; alley;
9:35 p.m. March 22.
■ 1800 block, Jefferson Place;
street; 2:35 p.m. March 23.
■ 2000 block, N St.; street; 8
p.m. March 23.
■ 1700 block, Rhode Island
Ave.; street; 8 p.m. March 23.
■ 17th and M streets; street;
11:20 p.m. March 23.
■ 1900 block, Sunderland
Place; street; 8 p.m. March 24.
■ 1700 block, S St.; street;
9:30 p.m. March 24.
■ 17th and N streets; street;
7:30 a.m. March 25.
■ 1300 block, 18th St.; street;
5:50 p.m. March 25.
■ 1700 block, Swann St.; sidewalk; 7 p.m. March 25.
■ 1200 block, 20th St.; street;
7:50 p.m. March 25.
■ 1600 block, Church St.;
street; 11:30 p.m. March 25.
PSA 303
PSA
303 MORGAN
■ ADAMS
Robbery (pocketbook snatch)
■ 3000 block, 16th St.; side-
walk; 8:33 p.m. March 25.
Assault with a dangerous
weapon
■ 2400 block, 18th St.; sidewalk; 2:50 a.m. March 26.
Burglary
■ 1800 block, Columbia Road;
office building; 7 p.m. March
24.
Theft (below $250)
■ 1700 block, Columbia Road;
restaurant; 11:40 a.m. March
21.
■ 1600 block, Argonne Place;
alley; 7:06 p.m. March 22.
■ 2300 block, 18th St.; restaurant; 10:20 p.m. March 25.
Theft from auto ($250 plus)
■ Champlain Street and
Kalorama Road; street; 9:50
p.m. March 21.
■ 17th Street and Crescent
Place; street; 4:45 p.m. March
25.
Theft from auto (below $250)
■ 1700 block, Kalorama Road;
parking lot; 10 p.m. March 21.
■ Florida Avenue and U Street;
street; 10:30 p.m. March 24.
■ 1800 block, Belmont Road;
alley; 11:30 a.m. March 26.
PSA 307
PSA
307
■ LOGAN CIRCLE
Robbery (carjacking)
■ 1300 block, 13th St.;
unspecified premises; 6:45
a.m. March 26.
Robbery (fear)
■ 1300 block, 14th St.; sidewalk; 11 p.m. March 24.
Assault with a dangerous
weapon (knife)
■ 11th and N streets; sidewalk;
2:32 a.m. March 21.
Assault with a dangerous
weapon (other)
■ 1700 block, 15th St.; street;
2:10 a.m. March 26.
Theft ($250 plus)
■ 1100 block, Massachusetts
Ave.; residence; 4 a.m. March
26.
Theft (below $250)
■ 1300 block, 14th St.; sidewalk; 7 p.m. March 21.
■ 1100 block, 13th St.; sidewalk; 9:45 a.m. March 22.
■ 1000 block, P St.; street;
8:30 a.m. March 23.
■ 900 block, M St.; residence;
6 p.m. March 24.
■ 1400 block, Q St.; parking
lot; 8 p.m. March 24.
■ Unit block, Logan Circle;
unspecified premises; 10 p.m.
March 24.
■ 1300 block, 15th St.;
unspecified premises; 11:30
a.m. March 25.
■ 1100 block, Vermont Ave.;
store; 3:50 p.m. March 26.
Theft from auto (below $250)
■ 900 block, L St.; unspecified
premises; 10 a.m. March 22.
■ 1500 block, 9th St.; street;
1:30 p.m. March 24.
■ 1300 block, Corcoran St.;
street; 8:30 p.m. March 24.
■ 1000 block, O St.; street;
noon March 25.
■ 900 block, French St.; street;
5:24 p.m. March 25.
■ 10th and R streets; street;
12:01 a.m. March 26.
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ATHLETICS IN NORTHWEST WASHINGTON
Young St. John’s squad finds its way on the road against B-CC
By MIKE DEFABO
Current Correspondent
With the lacrosse season still in
its infancy, young talent emerged
for St. John’s Friday night.
Ryan Fornatora scored three
goals, including what proved to be
the game-winner. Fellow sophomores Alex Washington and
Taylor Valencia netted one goal
each, and freshman Bubba
Anderson added an assist as St.
John’s won at Bethesda-Chevy
Chase, 5-4.
“The coaching staff has kind of
been laughing about it. The average age of our offensive starter is
15 years and eight months,” St.
John’s head coach Dan Phillips
said after the game. “We’re really
excited to be working with such
young guys, and we think they’re
doing a heck of a job.”
St. John’s came out firing,
looking a lot like the team that
beat the same opponent by 11
goals last season. The Cadets kept
possession of the ball for much of
Sports Desk
Wilson softball looks
to reclaim top spot
Led by a new coach and a
senior pitcher-catcher duo,
Wilson softball should make
noise
in
the
D.C.
Interscholastic
Athletic
Association this season as the
Tigers try to get back to the
league title game.
Sarah Lauritsen, who can
throw from the fast-pitch
windup, missed some of last
season, and the team got off to
a slow start without her on the
mound. The Tigers fell short of
the championship match, and
Coolidge went on to win the
banner.
This year, though, Lauritsen
teams with senior catcher
Damah Conteh to give the team
as good a defensive combination as any in the league. The
pair also bats in the heart of the
Wilson lineup.
Under new coach Chuck
Caspari, the Tigers got off to a
strong start with a 15-10 victory over Bell Multicultural in
their first game last week.
Little League begins
Youth baseball officially
returns this weekend as Capitol
City Little League action kicks
the first quarter in the offensive
zone, but solid goaltending from
Preston Andersen kept them from
finding the back of the net — a
recurring theme in the contest.
“Their goalie tonight played
lights-out. I think we outshot them
today maybe 5-to-1, and he really
kept them in the game,” said
coach
Phillips.
“I
think
[Andersen] is probably one of the
top goalies in the Montgomery
[County] school area.”
With only 35 seconds remaining in the first quarter, Barons senior midfielder Kane Borders fired
a shot from just over the restraining line that bounced over goalie
Justin Rosenburg’s shoulder to
give the team a 1-0 lead.
Almost three minutes later,
Anderson juked a defender behind
the net, curled in front of the cage
and whipped a crossing pass to
Fornatora, who finished the easy
goal with 9:47 left in the second
quarter to tie the score.
“They weren’t really sliding
from the crease, so a lot of that
off with festivities at Lafayette
Field from 11 a.m. to 12:30
p.m. Saturday.
The Opening Day ceremony
will include the Little League
Parade at 11:45, followed by
Wilson senior Kaedy Fisher’s
singing of the national anthem.
After the festivities, two
games will take place at Guy
Mason Field, with the Yankees
taking
on the
Orioles
at 1 p.m.
and the
Phillies
battling
t h e
Giants
at 3 p.m.
T h e
Tigers
will play Capitol Hill Little
League at Upshur Recreation
Center at 3 p.m.
Capitol City Little League
vice president Linda Geen said
the club is looking for a local
sports personality to throw out
the ceremonial first pitch.
Last year, Capitol City AllStars won the D.C. Little
League Tournament and
advanced to Bristol, Conn., to
compete in the Mid-Atlantic
Regional competition. It was
Capitol City’s 22nd city title in
23 tries, and its first after a oneyear hiatus.
opened up. Other than that we
were just dunking it in on the
doorstep,” Fornatora, a team captain, said of the Cadets’ chances
on offense.
After Borders scored in the
opening minutes of the third to
give Bethesda-Chevy Chase a 2-1
lead, St. John’s had several good
scoring chances turned away by
Andersen, including a couple
from point-blank range.
But the Barons were unable to
clear the ball on two successive
attempts, allowing St. John’s to
keep possession for several minutes in offensive territory. With
5:16 left, Alex Washington scored
to knot the game at two, giving the
Cadets the momentum.
Moments later, St. John’s took
its first lead on a goal by Taylor
Valencia and held the advantage
into the final period.
But in the first minute of the
fourth quarter, Bethesda ChevyChase’s Eric Tschiderer got the
ball on the doorstep after two
See Cadets/Page 10
Courtesy of Josh Johnson
St. John’s has one of the youngest teams in the WCAC, but the
Cadets started off the season winning four of their first six games.
Hot Tigers cruise to tournament win
By BORIS TSALYUK
Current Staff Writer
Each year, Wilson’s baseball
team splits its focus, aiming both to
win the public school banner and to
play competitively against area private schools. The team is off to a
strong start on both fronts this season.
Matt Petros/The Current
With Ben Whitener, above, and
Jacob Polin leading a veteran
team, Wilson will have a shot
against tough opponents.
After dominating its first few
league contests, Wilson (7-0) hosted
the Tipoff Tournament at Fort Reno
Park Saturday, winning both contests over private schools to capture
the event title.
In the first contest, the Tigers
routed St. Anselm’s 11-1 behind the
strong pitching of Della Romano
and Jacob Polin. Romano earned
the win after pitching three innings,
giving up just one run and one hit,
striking out five and walking four.
Polin gave up no runs and just one
hit in three innings of work, striking
out two and walking two.
Sophomore sensation Robinson
Mateo drove in three runs and
Henry Martinez batted in two.
Overall, eight Tigers hit safely in the
victory.
Earlier this season, Wilson coach
Eddie Smith spoke with excitement
about the arrival of Noah Lipshie to
the varsity squad. In Saturday’s second game, a 16-7 victory over St.
Mary’s Ryken, Lipshie showed
exactly why, going 4-4 at the plate
with four RBIs and three runs
scored as Wilson cruised.
Lipshie was one of three Tigers
— along with Ben Whitener and
Vincent Femia — to have multiple
hits, and the team produced 15 hits
overall. Robinson Mateo and his
brother Pedro combined to drive in
five runs for the Tigers.
Whitener went 3-5 at the plate
with two RBIs and pitched three
perfect innings. Ciaran Walsh
pitched four frames and earned the
victory.
Wilson gets back to D.C.
Interscholastic Athletic Association
play Friday afternoon at Theodore
Roosevelt. So far this season the
Tigers have won all four league
games while outscoring opponents
68-0.
Saturday afternoon, the Tigers
will play Gonzaga at BrentwoodHamilton Field in Northeast in what
should be a close match. The team
will compete against top teams in
the Bill Bowman Tournament at the
University of Maryland on April 9.
10 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 2011
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Gonzaga still tough after losing talent
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Some felt the Gonzaga lacrosse program might fall
back after losing several key performers from last
year’s Cinderella team that won the Washington
Catholic Athletic Conference. But the Eagles (7-1)
have ripped off five non-league wins in a row after an
opening defeat and last week captured victories in their
first two league contests.
Two days after handling St. John’s 15-4 on the road,
Gonzaga beat Good Counsel — one of the better teams
in the league — with a score of 6-3 Thursday.
Sophomore attacker Alex Corboy netted a pair of goals,
sophomore goalie Timmy Farrell made 11 saves, and
the defense tightened late as the Eagles cruised.
It was a game of streaks, as Gonzaga jumped out to
a 3-0 advantage but relinquished the lead by halftime.
The Eagles then scored three times in the third quarter
and didn’t allow the Falcons to answer.
Gonzaga coach Casey O’Neill said Good Counsel’s
spurt in the second quarter had more to do with what
the Falcons were doing right than what his squad was
doing wrong. “They were scoring goals off things we
were doing in transition and on offense,” he said. “I
thought we were playing great defense.”
O’Neill stuck with the same defensive approach in
the second half, and Gonzaga’s work on ground balls
also limited Good Counsel’s opportunities. The Falcons
managed only five shots on goal, and Farrell turned
away all of them.
Matt Bowman, Kyle Brunn, Connor Reed and Sean
Whitcomb also scored goals for Gonzaga in the win.
Gonzaga senior David Planning didn’t score, but he
still leads the Washington area in goals with 19.
Teammate Sean Whitcomb, a junior, is second in the
area with 17 for the high-scoring Eagles.
On Friday, the Eagles face a tough early-season contest at home against Georgetown Prep, last year’s
Interstate Athletic Conference co-champion. The team
will try to stun Prep, one of the best teams in the country, the same way it did Landon a year ago in a game
that put the Eagles on the local lacrosse map.
After a meeting with Bishop McNamara Saturday,
Gonzaga will play at DeMatha Tuesday in a re-match of
last year’s wild Catholic conference championship
game.
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beautiful tick-tack-toe passes and
put it into the back of the net to tie
the score at three.
After Fornatora’s second goal
of the game for the Cadets,
Borders again provided the spark
for the Barons. He drove down the
left side and found Eric Tschiderer
just outside the crease to tie the
game at four with 5:56 left.
Two minutes later, St. John’s
got the decisive tally. Fornatora
floated what seemed like a harmless shot toward the goal, but the
ball — which may have been
deflected — tricked into the net. It
WEEKLY SCORES
Boys Lacrosse
Gonzaga 15, St. John’s 4
Gonzaga 6, Good Counsel 3
St. John’s 5, BCC 4
St. Anne’s Belfield (Charlottesville, Va.) 7, St.
Albans 3
St. Albans 6, Collegiate (New York) 4
Baseball
Sidwell 7, Landon 4
Landon 15, Sidwell 14
Matt Petros/The Current
Gonzaga’s improbable campaign in 2010 included a
regular season upset of nationally ranked Landon.
was an uncharacteristically soft
goal given up by the otherwise
stout Andersen.
The Cadets held on and
improved their record to 3-2 on
the season. They will play backto-back league battles this week
— at Good Counsel today and at
home against Bishop Ireton
Friday.
St. John’s 6, Cambridge Christian (Tampa, Fla.)
Wilson 14, McKinley 0
Wilson 9, Episcopal 1
Watsonville (Calif.) 2, Sidwell 0
Sherwood (Ore.) 11, Sidwell 1
St. John’s 13, Battle Ground (Wash.) 8
Atlantic (Port Orange, Fla.) 10, St. Albans 9
Sidwell 11, Loyola Blakefield (Towson, Md.) 10
Loyola Blakefield 7, Sidwell 3
West Boca Raton (Fla.) 10, St. Albans 8
Wilson 20, Cardozo 0
Shady Side (Ohio) 3, Sidwell 2
Shady Side 2, Sidwell 0
Eagle View (Jacksonville, Fla.) 7, St. Albans 1
Wilson 11, St. Anselm’s 1
Wilson 16, St. Mary’s Ryken 7
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new vibrancy, life and creativity,”
Mayor Vincent Gray said in his
State of the District speech Monday.
“But as we grow, we also need to be
sure that our city is a place where
those who have been here for many
years continue to have the chance to
live.”
Unlike during redistricting
processes, when everything was
done with a pencil and paper, Evans
said, such tools as the Greater
Greater
Washington
blog’s
“Redistricting Game” — at redistricting.greatergreaterwashington.org — offer an easy way for residents to offer their suggestions to
the D.C. Council.
Greater Greater Washington
founder David Alpert said he plans
to compile all the boundary maps
created on his site — nearly 3,400 as
of yesterday afternoon, he said —
into a report he will submit to the
A selection of this month’s GW events—neighbors welcome!
$
Directed by Maida Withers, the Spring Danceworks
will feature internationally acclaimed guest artist
Fran Morand (Chile), faculty as well as student
choreographers. Tickets are $15 for Adults and $10 for
Seniors and can be purchased at the door or by visiting
http://theatredance.gwu.edu
at Georgetown University
for a research study on
tinnitus, a chronic ringing
or buzzing in the ear.
Volunteers will be 18-80
years old with or without tinnitus, be willing to
undergo MRI, and have no
metallic implants, braces, or
neurological conditions.
Jessica McConnell
The Spring 2011 Danceworks will be directed by Maida Withers
and will feature internationally acclaimed guest artist
Fran Morand.
$
April 1, 2 at 7:30 p.m.
April 3 at 2 p.m.
New Plays Festival
Betts Theater
800 21st St., NW
Join the theater and dance department for their fourth
annual showing of student written one act plays.
Tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for seniors and can
be purchased at the door or by visiting;
http://theatredance.gwu.edu/Season/mainstage.html
April 1 at 3 p.m.
GW Softball vs. Saint Josephs
Mount Vernon Softball Field
2100 Foxhall Road, NW
April 2 at 6 p.m.
Dominic Hawkins, Junior Voice Recital
Phillips Hall B-120
801 22nd St., NW
Compensation will be given.
For more information,
please contact the
Rauschecker Lab:
202-687-4390
This event is free and open to the public.
For more information
on the GW community
calendar, please
contact Britany Waddell
in the Office of
Community Relations at
202-994-9132
or visit us at
www.neighborhood.
gwu.edu
The Last Lecture Series provides the opportunity to
connect with GW Faculty and share in their stories based
on the premise, “If you knew this was the last lecture
you’d ever give, what would you say?” This event is free
and open to the public.
$
April 7 at 8 p.m.
Acoustic Africa featuring Habib Koité, Oliver Tuku
Mtukudzi, and Afel BocoumLisner Auditorium
730 21st St., NW
The three guitar icons, backed by a traditional African
band, unite in song in a collaborative performance that
honors their African heritage while simultaneously
pushes contemporary musical boundaries. Tickets are
$25, $35 and $45 and are available from the Lisner Box
Office, 202-397-SEAT, and ticketmaster.com.
Support GW Softball as they take on Saint Josephs.
This event is free and open to the public.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
April 5 at 7:30 p.m.
Last Lecture Series: Professor John M. Sides
Marvin Center Amphitheater
800 21st St., NW
April 14, 15 and 16 at 7:30 p.m.
Spring Danceworks
Betts Theater
800 21st St., NW
April 2 at 10 a.m.
Women’s Tennis vs. Longwood
Mount Vernon Tennis Center
2100 Foxhall Road, NW
Support GW Women’s Tennis as they take on Longwood.
This event is free and open to the public
April 5 at 7:30 p.m.
Vocal Showcase featuring GW Voice Faculty
United Methodist Church
1920 G St., NW
Listen as the some the GW Voice Faculty showcase their
talents for the GW and Foggy Bottom Community. This
event is free and open to the public.
11
council.
Once the council adopts its ward
boundaries, each ward’s council
member will form committees to
study the boundaries of its advisory
neighborhood commissions, which
typically do not change significantly, and those commissions’ singlemember districts, which must each
have between 1,900 and 2,100 residents. Those boundaries must be
approved by the end of this year.
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APRIL
already have the required population, as long as the redefined wards
each have between 71,454 and
78,978 residents. In an interview,
Evans said he would like to make as
few changes as possible this year,
but that he would be open to the
suggestions of any of his colleagues
who want a change to their particular ward.
Council members representing
Chevy Chase, which was controversially split between wards 3 and 4
after the 2000 census, said they did
not expect to push for a reversal of
that move. “The redistricting should
really focus on the areas that need to
add or lose population,” Ward 4
member Muriel Bowser said.
“We’re very stable, and we’d like to
keep our boundaries the same.”
In an e-mail through spokesperson David Zvenyach, Ward 3 member Mary Cheh said she would
expect her ward to change only in
the case of a “domino effect”
sparked by boundary changes elsewhere in the city.
Evans said he expects the eastern
edge of Ward 2 to shift to Ward 6
and for wards 7 and 8 to spread west
of the Anacostia River, without
causing a broader impact on the
District’s ward boundaries.
Ward 8 was the only section of
the city that didn’t see its population
increase since 2000; Ward 1 grew
by 2,833 residents, Ward 3 by 3,434
and Ward 4 by 594. Ward 2 — the
second-smallest ward after the 2001
redistricting — increased by a
whopping 11,046, which Evans said
was likely driven by new condominium developments and the
ward’s growing attraction to young
professionals.
The District’s total population
increased by nearly 30,000, to more
than 601,723. “People are finding
the District of Columbia an attractive place to live, and are moving
back to our city — increasing our
tax base and infusing our city with
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 2011
April 10 at 1 p.m.
GW Women’s Lacrosse vs. La Salle
Mount Vernon Field
2100 Foxhall Road, NW
Support GW Women’s Lacrosse as they take on La Salle.
This event is free and open to the public.
April 14 at 7 p.m.
GW Music Department presents GW Symphonic
Band: The Roaring 20s
Lisner Auditorium
730 21st St., NW
Listen as the GW Symphonic Band showcases its talent.
This event is free and open to the public.
April 20 at 5 p.m.
GW Softball vs. James Madison
Mount Vernon Softball Field
2100 Foxhall Road, NW
Support GW Softball as they take on James Madison.
This event is free and open to the public.
Fridays from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m.
Jazz Jams
Phillips Hall B-120
801 22nd St., NW
Presented by the Department of Music, this weekly
event features live music performed by GW students
and faculty. This event is free and open to the public.
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Mrs. Mosher’s upper elementary
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Everyone created a scientific
question that could be answered by
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presentation board.
“It was fun,” said fourth-grader
Eva Gondelman, “because you get
to make your own experiment.”
“My favorite part was when our
parents came,” said fifth-grader
Sofia Brown.
Fifth-grader Ian Smith did an
experiment that used a parabolic
solar oven to roast marshmallows.
“It was fun to teach the little kids
and tell the adults that the toddlers
tried to eat the marshmallows,” he
said.
— Rowan Bortz and Jaquelin
Weymouth, fourth-graders
Annunciation Catholic
School
The middle school has been
researching the Greek gods. The
sixth-graders got to pick one god or
goddess while the seventh-graders
got to pick one demigod or minor
god, monster or titan.
We wrote papers on them and
presented them to the entire middle
school. Some of the gods were
Athena, Cronos, Demeter and
Typhoon. It was a fun project that
helped us with public speaking and
research skills, and we got to learn
about Greek mythology.
— Chiara Lari, sixth-grader
British School
of Washington
The prom committee has been
exploring different ways we can
raise money to make the prom of
2011 exciting and enjoyable for
years 10 through 13.
We organised a tuck shop at
break time for students in the secondary school. We are selling
everything for a dollar including
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snacks such as Capri Suns, croissants and cookies. We held our first
tuck shop in November, to experiment on how well it would run; it
proved a big success, so we decided to hold it every Wednesday.
We had good fun interacting
with younger students while raising money. Also, we are hoping
the tuck shop will encourage the
older students to come and
socialise with the younger students
so we can come together as a
community.
— Kathryn Hill and Amy Daw,
Year 12 Oxford (11th-graders)
Deal Middle School
Deal eighth-graders got to
choose self-defense for their Viking
Time activity last Thursday. The
kids learned how to twist, smack
and even turn someone’s weapon
against the yielder. They learned
how to twist a pole, bat, crowbar
— almost anything.
Another one of the Viking Time
activities was called “So you want
to be a reporter?” We talked about
the main things needed to make a
story interesting. We also walked
around the school doing a little
reporting ourselves.
We have a spring dance coming
up on April 1. Seventh-grade boys
are looking forward to Men’s Night
on March 30, a night when guest
speakers talk to the students over a
provided dinner. Everyone has
been kept busy preparing for the
DC-CAS testing. Every day in
March we have a different math
problem introduced during the
morning announcements. Ms. Neal,
one of our assistant principals,
finds a student to read the answer
to the question during the afternoon
announcements.
— Emma Buzbee and
Jacob Riegel, sixth-graders
Duke Ellington School
of the Arts
The instrumental, vocal and
dance departments currently have
students who are finalists in the
DC Capital Stars Talent
Competition. This is a competition
by the DC College Access
Program (DC-CAP), an organization that assists high school students in enrolling in college. Duke
Ellington’s student finalists will be
competing for DC-CAP college
scholarships.
Also this week, Sarai Reed, a
senior in the Literary Media and
Communications Department,
received a full four-year scholarship from George Washington
University. She was one of the 10
D.C. students to receive a Stephen
Joel Trachtenberg Scholarship.
Reed said that the news was both
surprising and a relief.
In the upcoming month, students will participate in the studentproduced “R Street Speaks.” This
will start as a showcase for
Ellington students but soon become
a showcase for youth artists in general. These students include vocalists, dancers and instrumentalists.
Students from the visual arts
department will have their artwork
on display. The showcase will take
place at the H Street Playhouse on
April 12.
— Kyndall Brown, 10th-grader
Eaton Elementary
The second-graders got on a bus
and went to the Gandhi Center. We
walked in and saw a big statue and
a picture of Gandhi.
A woman in a pretty Indian
dress told us you should always
bow and say “Namaste” when you
greet someone because you are
talking to someone’s heart. We
learned that “Shanti” means peace.
She told us that Gandhi and Martin
Luther King Jr. are alike, because
they both wanted peace and no violence. Gandhi always carried a statue of three monkeys making faces
to show “see no evil, say no evil
and hear no evil.”
We sang one of Gandhi’s
favorite songs, and then we had
Indian snacks. We went upstairs to
another building where a woman
did two Indian dances for us.
— Amir Acree, Savannah Dial,
Wyatt McCrary and Eric
Morgan, second-graders
Hearst Elementary
Every class will plant its own
seeds in a community garden on
the hill. We will plant flowers and
vegetables. We will put seeds on
the dirt. Then we will put some
water. The groundbreaking will be
April 8 at 2 p.m. Hearst will grow
veggies to eat.
— Brandon, second-grader
I would like to plant delicious
food in our garden. We should have
potatoes, flowers, tomatoes, corn,
apples and pineapple.
— Bryce, first-grader
I want trees, lots of leaves, flowers and lettuce in our garden.
— Lyric, first-grader
I will help water the plants and
help plant seeds. I don’t know how
to plant yet. I just know how to
water.
I want fruit in the garden, like
peaches, grapes, mangos, plums,
and also broccoli, green beans,
spinach, lettuce, tomatoes and
flowers, like roses.
— Zacariah, third-grader
Hyde-Addison Elementary
A few weeks ago, HydeAddison students collected toys,
games, learning supplies, backpacks, markers, crayons, pencils
and notebooks. We did this for
homeless children, so they would
have something to do during the
April vacation. We collected a carload of items for them.
We collected the things at HydeAddison and then took them to the
church where the Homeless
Children’s Playtime Project office
is located. There, volunteers put
them into 150 backpacks. In midApril, right before spring break, the
backpacks will be delivered to the
homeless center at the former D.C.
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— Zoe Edelman, second-grader,
and Ellika Edelman,
fourth-grader
Key Elementary
This morning we are having a
bake sale to earn money to send to
help Japan. We want to help all of
the people who are in need after
the devastating earthquake and
tsunami a few weeks ago.
This afternoon we are also holding a pizza sale and another bake
sale to earn more money. Everyone
is lending a hand. The parents
baked stuff and donated pizzas, and
the fifth-graders are working to sell
the items for the cause.
We are continuing to prepare for
the DC-CAS tests in April.
— Eli Mehring and
Gabriella Squitieri, fifth-graders
Kingsbury Day School
Our 12th-grade class went to the
Anacostia waterfront. We learned
about how pollution can affect us
and how it affects animals. Our
tour guides taught us a lot about
pollution, wildlife and teamwork.
We started the day off by
observing the birds in the area and
matching them with the ones on
our worksheet. We saw osprey and
seagulls and many more. We also
learned about each other’s favorite
birds by going around and sharing.
The tour guides divided us into
two groups to study the
Chesapeake watershed and then to
play “Jeopardy!” The Chesapeake
watershed consists of six states
plus the District of Columbia.
We went by the Blue Plains
Water Treatment Plant to test the
water for dissolved oxygen, turbidity, phosphate, nitrates and saline.
These tests were OK in terms of
safety, but we still have to work on
cleaning the water. The chemicals
in the water were strong. Some animals are fine and some have problems, like the catfish.
The last activity was fishing. We
caught black bass, sunfish and a
goldfish. We obviously put them
back into the water.
The trip was an awesome experience because we learned about
ourselves, our environment and
everything in between.
— Aiman I., 12th-grader
Lafayette Elementary
Have you ever been on a field
trip to the Kennedy Center? Maybe
you’ve even heard the National
Symphony Orchestra play. But
have you ever heard your own
music teacher singing on stage during the show? Our music teacher,
Ms. Liz Stinson, sang “Ode to Joy”
while the National Symphony
Orchestra played!
The third, fourth and fifth
grades went to the “Beethoven
Rocks” performance at the
Kennedy Center. This performance
featured Beethoven’s most famous
musical pieces. When asked how
she felt about being accompanied
by the orchestra while singing, Ms.
Stinson said, “It was a lot of fun,
but I was kind of nervous!”
Overall, the concert was really
enjoyable, but what we will
remember the most is our own
music teacher singing at the
Kennedy Center.
— Anna Nachbar-Seckel and
Talia Zitner, fourth-graders
Mann Elementary
Third-, fourth- and fifth-graders
will present our school musical,
“Ben Franklin: the Greatest
American Icon.”
Third- and fourth-graders will
dance to the songs and sing in the
chorus. Fifth-graders are the main
characters, so they sing and
dance, and they also get all of the
lines. This reporter (Jazba Iqbal)
doesn’t have too many lines,
because I’m on Team Fan, and I
spend lots of the time stalking
Ben Franklin.
The musical has about 26
speaking roles. Ms. Pace, the director, gave us our roles based on
monologues that we performed in
front of the judges and our classmates. Our play helps us learn
about the early history of our country. You might want to come to our
play in May!
— Katarina Kitarovic and
Bianca Berrino, fourth-graders,
and Jazba Iqbal, fifth-grader
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All the third-grade classes have
been learning about energy.
In Ms. George’s class, Mr. D
(David Lesmes, Lucas’ dad) has
been helping out by doing experiments with us.
“My favorite part is the experiments and videos,” said Nico
Acajabon.
Mr. D used a machine to measure how many watts of heat there
are in our classroom. The machine
looked like a thermometer. He put
it next to the radiator and the lights,
because they give off heat, too.
We also used a machine to
measure how many foot-candles
our classroom uses. A foot-candle
is the unit for measuring light. We
put the machine in a lot of different
spots. We discovered that there are
five different kinds of energy: heat,
light, electricity, potential and
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One of the most spectacular two level
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$2,295,000
Stunning new construction. Sensational 6,200 sf
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Quality new (2001) construction on four gorgeous
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$1,265,000
Expanded farmhouse circa 1924 tastefully
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Most sought after floorplan in Somerset II. 2,856
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$1,325,000
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Cleveland Park home showcases classic renovation
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t’s not difficult to find a renovated home in Cleveland Park,
but the updates made to this
Porter Street house accomplish an
ON THE MARKET
CAROL BUCKLEY
unusual feat: The residence maintains a connection to its 1920s origin — but in a comfortable, modern setting.
The key to this successful renovation — working within the
home’s existing vernacular — is
obvious, though it’s one too rarely
employed. But would-be renovators should pay attention, given the
result: Even in a thoroughly updated home, everything looks just as a
1920s residence should.
The property’s red-brick exterior, therefore, is offset by crisp
white trim and evergreen shrubs.
Inside, hefty white moldings surround six-over-one windows, some
of which are covered by plantation
shutters.
The living room can go more or
less formal, depending on a buyer’s
tastes. Built-in bookshelves line a
fireplace wall and are topped by
casement windows.
Owners went custom for those
built-ins and for several other
pieces during renovation work,
much of which occurred in 2006.
Radiator covers are also bespoke
and offer more than camouflage:
They provide an additional surface
for books or plants, and — in one
case — a built-in clothes hamper.
The layout here is a classic.
Beyond the living room, a sunny
dining room waits. That space
leads in turn to an open-plan
kitchen and family room.
It’s here that the owners’ talent
for maintaining a sense of authenticity in the home shines through.
The kitchen, transformed from a
small galley into a large, open
space, nevertheless is reminiscent
of pre-World War II kitchens in
large homes. The look is not overly
decorative — these were still utilitarian spaces — but clean and
white with occasional touches of
industrial chic.
Ample white cabinetry and
stainless-steel appliances, including
a six-burner gas range, are hallmarks of the look. A shiny nickel
faucet and vintage-look pendant
lights also keep the 1920s in mind,
as do reflective Ann Sacks tiles on
the backsplash and honed granite
— in a subtle green — on countertops.
A huge
kitchen island
bridges that space
and the adjacent
family room. A
dual exposure in
the casual living
area keeps the
room bright, and
the windows’
wavy glass adds
period charm.
Carol Buckley/The Current
Between the
connected rooms
This 1920s Cleveland Park home is listed at
sits a mudroom
$1,750,000.
and an exit to the
home’s backyard.
A finished top level offers an
There’s a bit of everything here: a
open, sky-lit space that could easily
terrace with space for dining or
be a home office or playroom.
lounging furniture, mature trees
There’s a separate bedroom on this
that support a hammock, and a
level as well. But even though the
green lawn bordered by perennials
home’s official bedroom count
about to burst into bloom. A rear
includes this and lower-level
gate leads to parking.
spaces, Realtor Marjorie Dick
Back inside, the home’s second
Stuart pointed out that these spaces
level offers four bedrooms and two can be used in “a million other
baths. The master suite has been
ways” than as sleeping spots.
expanded and improved; now,
The bottom level’s in-law suite
built-in bookshelves and a second
offers tons of storage and ups the
walk-in closet are among the
home’s bedroom tally to seven. A
amenities here. New tile and cabicentral living space connects to a
netry have been added to the masfull kitchen, and the level also feater bath, which — like other bathrooms in the home — maintains a
classic look.
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Fam rm w/drs to deck. MBR suite, Rec
rm, au pair suite below. $1,295,000
Bonnie Lewin 301-332-0171
Contemporary Gem
tures a bathroom and a separate
entrance.
This home will be a draw in its
own right, but the Cleveland Park
location also has a lot to offer.
Connecticut Avenue, just one block
away, is lined by shops, restaurants
and a Metrorail stop.
This seven-bedroom, 3.5-bath
home at 3006 Porter St. is offered
for $1,750,000. An open house will
be held Saturday 1 to 4 p.m. For
details, contact Realtor Marjorie
Dick Stuart of Randall Hagner
Residential LLC at 240-731-8079
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Palisades. Gorgeous home on secluded cul de Chevy Chase, DC. Great space in this 4 Br,
sac. Cathedral ceilings, skylights. Balcony or 3 BA house. Updated kitchen, family rm,
patio off every major rm. Newly renovated kit & office + bonus room. Great flow. $799,000
bas. MBR w/frp, loft & ba + 2 BR & BA
Laura McCaffrey 301-641-4456
Walk-out LL, 2 car gar. $1,249,000
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Linda Chaletzky 301-938-2630
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Great views $469,000
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Dupont. Chic corner apt w/two exposures.
Gracious foyer, Sleek contemporary kitchen, extra lge 1 BR w/walk-in closet. New York
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Erin McCleary 202-744-8610
Unexpected Treasure
Glover Park. Fabulous 1 BR, 1 BA condo
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and a foyer entry. Inside are lovely
hardwood floors and a spacious living
room. Southern light pours through
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21 meeting:
■ commission chair David Bender
announced that commissioner Eric
Lamar will lead a neighborhood
task force that will collaborate with
the project engineer on the sewer
and water project planned for
Massachusetts Avenue between
Sheridan Circle and Decatur Place.
■ commission chair David Bender
said the commission was looking
for volunteers to serve on a redistricting study group, which will help
with establishing the new borders of
the commission’s single-member
districts based on the 2010 census.
■ commission chair David Bender
reported that the city’s Historic
Preservation Office turned down a
request by the owners of the apartment building at 2100 Connecticut
Ave. to replace existing glass
blocks. The office said the replacement blocks must be identical to the
ones that are there now.
■ chair David Bender said not all
elements of the Sheridan-Kalorama
transportation management plan
have
been
implemented.
Commissioner Eric Lamar will
chair a residential task force to work
with the department on the project
and is seeking participants. It is now
difficult for drivers to see pedestrians walking from the bulb-out on
the corner of Phelps Place and
Florida Avenue, said Bender.
■ commissioners heard a report
that Casey Trees and Restore Mass
Ave had planted trees at the
Indonesian Embassy, the Church
of the Pilgrims and the Cosmos
Club. Restore Mass Ave will hold
an annual party on April 20 at the
British Embassy.
The commission will meet at
7 p.m. April 18 at Our Lady
Queen of the Americas Church,
California Street and Phelps
Place NW.
For
details,
contact
davidanc2d01@aol.com or visit
anc2d.org.
ANC
3B3B
ANC
Glover
Park
■ GLOVER PARK/CATHEDRAL HEIGHTS
The commission will meet at
7 p.m. April 14 in the cafeteria
of Stoddert Elementary School,
4001 Calvert St. NW.
For details, call 202-338-2969,
contact anc3b@aol.com or visit
dcnet.com/anc/3b.
ANC 3C
ANC 3C
Cleveland
Park
■ CLEVELAND PARK / WOODLEY PARK
Woodley
Park
MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE HEIGHTS
Massachusetts
Avenue Heights
CATHEDRAL HEIGHTS
At the commission’s March
21 meeting:
■ commission chair Anne-Marie
Bairstow announced that two fastfood restaurants — Noodles & Co.
and Cava Grill — will discuss their
plans to open in the neighborhood at
the April 6 meeting of the Woodley
Park Community Association.
commission chair Anne-Marie
Bairstow announced that the May 1
Walk for the Cure would pass
through the neighborhood. The
walk will stay on sidewalks, she
said, but may still impact motorists
at intersections.
■ commissioners voted 6-0 to support three applications to the
Historic Preservation Review
Board: for a garage at 2911 Porter
St.; rear and side additions and a
window reconfiguration at 3509
35th St.; and a rear addition at 2930
Macomb St. The commission supported the applications on its consent calendar with no discussion.
Commissioners Nancy MacWood,
Catherine May and Lee Brian Reba
arrived at the meeting after the vote.
■ Frank Gordon of National
Cathedral School discussed planned
renovations at the Woodley North
Campus this summer. The school
will renovate the interior of
Founders Hall, replace its windows
and wrap its concrete columns in
brick, and drill 18 geothermal wells
at 36th and Lowell streets.
The school plans to use the parking lane of northbound Wisconsin
Avenue between Woodley Road and
Lowell Street outside rush hour, and
the parking lane and sidewalk of
eastbound Lowell Street from
Wisconsin to 36th Street from June
to September. The Wisconsin
Avenue sidewalk will remain open,
Gordon said, and 20 spaces in the
school’s garage will be offered firstcome, first-served to nearby residents who are losing their Lowell
Street parking.
The commission took no action
on the plan but will write a letter to
the
D.C.
Department
of
Transportation confirming that the
school presented its plans to the
community.
■ commissioners voted 9-0 to support a D.C. Department of
Transportation plan to replace
streetlights along Connecticut
Avenue between Porter and
Macomb streets. The six-month
installation project will begin in
early April and will cause weekday
lane closures on northbound
Connecticut between 9:30 a.m. and
3:30 p.m.
■ commissioners voted 9-0 to support a new liquor license for Bistro
LeZinc at 3714 Macomb St., which
is replacing Sushi Sushi and whose
kitchen will be open until 10 p.m. on
weeknights and 11 p.m. on weekends. The 66-seat restaurant is
scheduled to open next month, said
owner John Warner.
■ commissioners voted 9-0 to write
a letter to the D.C. Department of
Transportation asking that it remove
signs warning of parked cars in the
3100 block of Massachusetts
Avenue. The commission had previously opposed allowing parking on
that stretch, but neighbors noticed
the signs had appeared before the
comment period ended.
■ commissioner Catherine May
announced that Temple Micah, at
2829 Wisconsin Ave., has said it
will no longer seek to add child-care
■
services but that it had not yet
rescinded its application formally.
■ commissioner Catherine May
announced that the InterFaith
Conference
of
Metropolitan
Washington is seeking to designate
two triangular parks along
Massachusetts Avenue as “interfaith
groves,” though they were already
designated as memorials of the Sept.
11, 2001, attacks. Commissioners
did not pass a resolution against the
new designation, but said they will
informally ask the conference to
find a “blighted park” elsewhere in
the city and improve it.
■ commissioner Lee Brian Reba
announced he has been meeting
with Ward 1 Council member Jim
Graham about the intersection of
Connecticut Avenue and Woodley
Road to discuss possible safety
improvements, and that the District
has installed a “Don’t Block the
Box” sign since their first meeting.
The commission will meet at
7:30 p.m. April 18 at the 2nd
District Police Headquarters,
3320 Idaho Ave. NW.
For details, call 202-657-5725 or
visit anc3c.org.
ANC 3D
ANCValley
3D
Spring
■ SPRING VALLEY/WESLEY HEIGHTS
Wesley
Heights
PALISADES/KENT/FOXHALL
The commission will meet at
7 p.m. April 6 in the new medical
building at Sibley Memorial
Hospital, 5215 Loughboro Road
NW.
Agenda items include:
■ police report.
■ community concerns.
■
presentation by American
University representatives on the
campus plan recently submitted to
the D.C. Zoning Commission. The
meeting will include time for questions and comments from commissioners and meeting attendees.
For details, call 202-363-4130 or
visit anc3d.org.
ANC 3E
ANC 3E
Tenleytown
■ AMERICAN UNIVERSITY PARK
American
Park
FRIENDSHIPUniversity
HEIGHTS/TENLEYTOWN
The commission will meet at
7:30 p.m. April 12 at St. Mary’s
Armenian Apostolic Church,
42nd and Fessenden streets
NW.
For details, visit anc3e.org.
ANC 3F
ANCHills
3F
Forest
■ FOREST HILLS/NORTH CLEVELAND PARK
The commission will hold a
community meeting on the
University of the District of
Columbia’s development plans.
The meeting will begin at 6:30
p.m. March 30 at the university
in Room A03, Building 44.
The commission will hold its
next monthly meeting April 11,
beginning at 7:30 p.m., at the
Capital Memorial Seventh-Day
Adventist
Church,
3150
Chesapeake St. NW.
For details, call 202-362-6120 or
visit anc3f.us.
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Park/Tenleytown advisory neighborhood commission
unanimously opposed submission of the multi-property
document to the national register, fearing it could lead to
designation of homes over the owners’ objection.
But the neighborhood commission supported individual nominations for three early American University
Park homes at 4624 Verplanck Place, 4628 48th St. and
4901 47th St., all dating to the 19th century. A fourth historic house at 4131 Yuma St. also won landmark designation, but it is technically within Tenleytown proper,
not American University Park. All nominations were
supported by the property owners.
Board members said the neighborhood commission’s fears about the multi-property document are
unfounded. “This doesn’t guarantee we will designate
every property,” said chair Catherine Buell. “It just
helps us tell the story” of the neighborhood, bounded
now by Western, Massachusetts and Nebraska avenues,
as well as River Road.
In fact, there was no controversy at the board hearing
last Thursday. No one from the neighborhood commission, and no opposing residents, showed up.
The document is “an opportunity to develop the historic context to better evaluate” future landmark nominations, Williams told the board. “Those nominations
could come immediately, or sometime in the future.”
The study period covers the three pre-Civil War farmhouses still standing as well as “suburban” dwellings
built before 1911, when development of American
University Park came to a grinding halt.
Jane Waldmann, president of the Tenleytown
Historical Society, outlined the history of the neighborhood. Once part of a 3,124-acre tract of land called
Friendship, the area remained largely rural into the late
1800s. Friendship’s main house, built in 1760 by John
Murdock, stood on the low hill just northwest of Ward
Circle now occupied by the president’s house at
American University.
It was the founding of that university in 1891, as well
as the hope of a streetcar extension, that attracted developers and speculators to what seemed a perfect location
for suburban development. The American University
Park subdivision was platted starting in 1896, including
a new street grid broken by the winding farm lane
known as Murdock Mill Road. Ten building permits
were issued in 1897, and roughly 20 “Victorian cottages” were built by 1911.
The three American University Park houses nominated for landmark status represent both the pre-Civil
War and the early “suburban” eras:
• The “Burrows” House at 4624 Verplanck Place, a
farmhouse built around 1850, originally stood near
River Road and Ellicott Street. President Abraham
Lincoln was a guest, apparently treated with kind hospitality — although the owners, Samuel and Harriet
Burrows, were Confederate sympathizers, according to
the historical society’s research.
After Harriet Burrows’ death in 1923, the farmhouse
was moved to Verplanck Place to make way for subdivision of its original site.
• 4901 47th St. was “clearly a spec house,” Williams
said, completed in 1897 in Queen Anne style, with a
prominent corner tower. It was purchased by the son of
one of the original developers and is still “an excellent
example of the Victorian cottage, incredibly intact, interior and exterior,” she said.
• 4628 48th St. is another Queen Anne-style house,
completed in 1899, with a broad porch and gable-roofed
central tower. The developer sold it to a U.S. War
Department clerk who left in 1903, frustrated that the
promised streetcar line had not arrived.
“Other than streets and the promise of a streetcar,
developers offered no amenities,” Waldmann said. With
the streetcar unbuilt, they instituted “wagonette” service
from Tenleytown, but it proved inadequate and home
buyers stopped coming to the fledgling subdivision.
Construction essentially came to a halt after 1903,
“leaving one lonely house per block, for 20 years,”
Waldmann said. “The original 19th-century subdivision
essentially failed, and by the time construction resumed,
styles had changed,” filling empty lots with the brick
Colonials and bungalows that now dominate the neighborhood’s streetscape, she said.
Scanning the blocks today, American University
Park seems dominated by neat rows of mid-20th-century homes. But a closer look shows one large Victorian
house, standing on a slight rise, on almost every block.
These freestanding Victorians might also be eligible for
landmark status, Williams said, if the owners support
the designation.
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7 p.m., she said, and all of its buildings are equipped with alarm systems.
To remove his sculpture, Phillips
said, “you would need a truck, and
you would need heavy industrial
equipment to get [the sculpture] off
of the base and onto the truck.”
Phillips was commissioned to
create the memorial to honor
Barnett, a psychoanalyst who died
in a car accident in January 2008 en
route to Philadelphia.
His wife, Camille Cates Barnett,
is a former D.C. chief management
officer. According to news reports,
the pair, who lived in Mount
Pleasant while in D.C., had planned
a move to Philadelphia as Camille
prepared to become managing
director for Mayor Michael Nutter.
After a lengthy design process
with Camille, Phillips spent six
months hammering at the plate
bronze and another six months fabricating the obelisk-shaped memorial, which features a vinelike latticework and various figures, such as a
buffalo and bear, that were meaningful to the couple. The sculpture,
titled “Resonating Steps,” was
installed in Rock Creek Cemetery
last August.
Camille Cates Barnett was
unavailable for comment.
The thefts are particularly glaring, Sullivan noted, because they
violate the “social norm … that bur-
Spring. “The proposed corridors
outlined in the plan offer new or
improved connections between
high-density, mixed-use activity
centers, supporting economic activity and improving mobility for
District residents, workers, and visitors,” Transportation Department
spokesperson John Lisle wrote in an
email.
The report projects an annual
operating cost increase of nearly
$53 million if the first phase of lines
is added, plus a $20 million purchase of new buses to service those
added routes. Lisle said his department is confident the District will
find money for the buses. “Given
the popularity and operational efficiency of the DC Circulator, DDOT
anticipates continued support for
the growth of the system,” Lisle
wrote.
Furthermore, the plan suggests
offsetting those costs slightly by
increasing cash fares from $1 to $2
and SmarTrip fares from $1 to
$1.50 — for an additional $1.1 million of annual revenue.
It also calls for the elimination of
underutilized service, including late
hours of the Woodley Park-Adams
Morgan-McPherson Square route
— on Friday and Saturday nights,
buses would stop running at 2 a.m.
instead of 3:30 a.m., an $80,000
savings per year — and the
Smithsonian-National Gallery of
Art and the Convention CenterSouthwest Waterfront lines for an
annual savings of $170,000 and
$2.7 million, respectively.
Under the plan, the Smithsonian
line would be replaced by other
routes, and the canceled Southwest
Waterfront line would be reinstated
when those new routes around the
Mall materialize.
The Transportation Department
will present the details of the 10year plan at 6 p.m. tomorrow in the
Ohio Room of the Capital Hilton
Hotel, 1001 16th St. NW. The full
draft report is also available at dccirculator.com, at the “Planning for
Tomorrow!” link; residents can also
submit comments about the plan on
that Web page.
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Police believe “the likely motive
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“That’s what I think they did …
cut it up and brought it to a metal
place, a scrap yard” where it could
be sold by the pound, Phillips said.
Another possibility, he said, is
that “Resonating Steps” and the
other sculpture stolen — a 4-foot
bronze memorial in the shape of a
wave — have become part of a
black-market art collection.
Lamond said the uniqueness of
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trace.”
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Designer Babette opens shop in Cady’s Alley
C
hic Washingtonians may
already be familiar with
Babette Pinsky, the designer
behind a new clothing store in
Cady’s Alley. Her offerings have
been available at local boutiques
for years, and D.C.’s is the eighth
free-standing Babette store to open
in the country.
Stumbling across one of her
other U.S. locations seems likely
for a Babette shopper, since on-thego women are Pinsky’s typical
clients.
“She designs for a sophisticated
woman who travels a lot,” said
Serab Lozins, manager of the new
Georgetown store. That’s because
Babette clothes travel well.
The designer first made her
mark decades ago with a pleated
raincoat, and crinkly, flowing folds
are a signature of her lines today,
making her pieces perfect for stuffing in a suitcase.
“They can be hand-washed and
they dry [very quickly],” Lozins
said.
Pinsky comes out with six collections per season, and one set is
always focused on pleats. But
there’s more to the shop than creases.
“She started in designing raincoats,” said Lozins. “Eventually
she moved into different fabrics.”
Fabric is clearly the inspiration
behind the clothes, almost all of
which are manufactured in Pinsky’s
own factory in Oakland, Calif. The
designer shops the world for her
awards for hotels and restaurants.
In D.C., the Four Seasons Hotel,
2800
Pennsylvania Ave. NW, and
BETH COPE
CityZen, 1330 Maryland Ave. SW,
materials, buying from Italy, France won the “Five Diamond Award,”
the travel authority’s highest desigand Japan.
The results are flowing, fashion- nation. This is the 22nd year The
Four Seasons has received the
forward looks directed largely at
women ages 40 to 70. Palettes shift honor, and the fifth year for
CityZen.
with the seaTwelve D.C.
sons, featuring
establishments
bold brights in
received the
the summer and
Four Diamond
muted grays in
Awards: The
the fall.
Hay-Adams,
Prices aver16th and H
age around
streets NW;
$350, with simBeth Cope/The Current The Fairmont
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Washington,
complicated
The new Babette store is the
2401 M St.
pieces hitting
designer’s eighth nationwide.
NW; The
higher or lower,
Willard InterContinental, 1401
such as a $750 cashmere and wool
Pennsylvania Ave. NW; The
coat in the fall collection that
Mayflower, a Renaissance Hotel,
Lozins expects will sell out at the
1127 Connecticut Ave. NW; Omni
shop’s mid-April trunk show.
Shoreham Hotel, 2500 Calvert St.
Twice-a-year shows allow the
NW; Hotel Monaco, 700 F St. NW;
stores to offer Pinsky’s entire line;
The Park Hyatt, 1201 24th St. NW;
typically only a selection is on display, with the shop receiving a new The St. Regis Washington, D.C.,
923 16th St. NW; Adour, 923 16th
shipment every two weeks.
St. NW; The Fairfax at Embassy
A grand-opening event is
Row, 2100 Massachusetts Ave.
expected in late April, but Babette
NW; Bourbon Steak, 2800
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Concert
■ Students from the Duke Ellington
School of the Arts will perform. 6 p.m.
Free. Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center.
202-467-4600.
Discussions and lectures
■ David D. Caron, president of the
American Society of International Law, will
discuss “Images of the Arctic and the
Futures They Suggest.” 6 p.m. Free.
Coolidge Auditorium, Thomas Jefferson
Building, Library of Congress, 10 1st St.
SE. 202-707-4351.
■ Author John
Darnton will discuss
his memoir “Almost a
Family.” 7 p.m. Free.
Politics and Prose,
5015 Connecticut
Ave. NW. 202-3641919.
■ Steve Monfort, director of the
Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute,
will discuss the science of climate change
and its cultural context. 7 p.m. Free.
Smithsonian American Art Museum, 8th
and F streets NW. 202-633-1000.
Films
■ The Embassy of Kazakhstan will present Akan Satayev’s 2009 film “Strayed,”
about a man who takes desperate measures to save his own life after his wife and
son disappear (in Russian with English subtitles). 6:30 p.m. Free; reservations
requested. Root Auditorium, Carnegie
Institution of Washington, 1530 P St. NW.
kazembus@gmail.com.
■ “Celebrating the Oscars at the
Nation’s Library” will feature Richard
Brooks’ 1960 film “Elmer Gantry,” starring
Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons and Arthur
Kennedy. 7 p.m. Free; reservations suggested. Mary Pickford Theater, James
Madison Building, Library of Congress, 101
Independence Ave. SE. 202-707-5677.
Reading
■ Jericho Brown will read from his poetry as part of the Visiting Writers Series. 6
p.m. Free. Butler Board Room, American
University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW.
202-885-2971.
Sporting event
■ The Washington Wizards will play the
Miami Heat. 7 p.m. $10 to $475. Verizon
Center, 601 F St. NW. 202-397-7328.
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Concerts
■ The West Virginia University Choir will
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Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.
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■ The National Symphony Orchestra
and violinist József Lendvay Jr. will perform
works by Rossini, Paganini and Schumann.
7 p.m. $20 to $85. Concert Hall, Kennedy
Center. 202-467-4600. The concert will
repeat Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m.
■ The Miró
Quartet and
classical percussionist Colin
Currie will perform. 7:30 p.m.
$32. Terrace
Theater, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.
Demonstration
■ Shirley George Frazier will present a
demonstration on “How to Create the
Perfect Gift Basket.” 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
$39. First Class Inc., 1726 20th St. NW.
202-797-5102.
Discussions and lectures
■ Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., will discuss “American Foreign
Policy and Africa.” 8:30
to 9:45 a.m. Free;
reservations required.
Kenney Auditorium,
Nitze Building, Johns
Hopkins University
School of Advanced
International Studies, 1740 Massachusetts
Ave. NW. 202-974-6341.
■ Dwight Bowers, curator of the
National Museum of American History, and
Fran Morris Rosman, executive director of
the Ella Fitzgerald Foundation, will discuss
“Ella Fitzgerald: First Lady of Song.” Noon
to 1:30 p.m. Free. Carmichael Auditorium,
National Museum of American History,
14th Street and Constitution Avenue NW.
202-633-1000.
■ Historian and gender studies specialist Margot Badran will discuss “The
Egyptian Revolution and Social Justice.”
12:30 p.m. Free; reservations required.
Room 270, Intercultural Center,
Georgetown University, 37th and O streets
NW. mem297@georgetown.edu.
■ Tracye Lynn McQuirter will discuss
her book “By Any
Greens Necessary: A
Revolutionary Guide for
Black Women Who
Want to Eat Great, Get
Healthy, Lose Weight,
and Look Phat.” 1 p.m.
Free. Mary McLeod
Bethune Council House National Historic
Site, 1318 Vermont Ave. NW. 202-6732402.
■ Róbert Ondrejcsák, state secretary of
the Slovakian Ministry of Defense, will discuss “Slovak Perspectives on
St. Columba’s Episcopal Church, 4201
Albemarle St. NW. 202-363-4119.
Films
Thursday, MARCH 31
■ Discussion: Artist Sam Gilliam will
discuss the inspiration and artistic
process behind his site-specific work
in the Phillips Collection’s elliptical
staircase. 6:30 p.m. Donation suggested. Phillips Collection, 1600
21st St. NW. 202-387-2151.
Strengthening European Union Defense
Capabilities in Cooperation With NATO.” 3
p.m. Free; reservations required. Room
500, Bernstein-Offit Building, Johns
Hopkins University School of Advanced
International Studies, 1717 Massachusetts
Ave. NW. 202-663-5880.
■ Tirso Moreno, leader of the
Farmworker Association of Florida, will discuss his work, and delegates from the
Rural Coalition and the National Immigrant
Farming Initiative will report on Via
Campesina’s Global Forum for Life,
Environment, and Social Justice. 5:30 to
8:30 p.m. $5 to $10 donation suggested.
Langston Room, Busboys and Poets, 2021
14th St. NW. 202-387-7638.
■ Cara Fama, executive assistant to the
director of the National Portrait Gallery, will
discuss Mary Cassatt. 6 to 6:30 p.m. Free.
National Portrait Gallery, 8th and F streets
NW. 202-633-1000.
■ A gallery talk will focus on the Italian
influences referenced in Philip Guston’s
paintings. 6 and 7 p.m. $12; $10 for seniors and students; free for ages 18 and
younger. Phillips Collection, 1600 21st St.
NW. 202-387-2151.
■ John Quackenbush, professor at the
Harvard School of Public Health, will discuss his book “The Human Genome.” 6:30
p.m. Free. Reiter’s Books, 1900 G St. NW.
202-223-3327.
■ “Remembering Lena Horne” will feature Susan Lacy, executive producer and
creator of the “American Masters” series
on PBS; Gail Lumet Buckley, Horne’s
daughter; Dwight Bowers, curator of the
National Museum of American History; and
Richard Golden, jazz producer at Sirius XM
Radio. The event will include a screening of
“Lena Horne: In Her Own Voice.” 6:30 p.m.
Free. National Portrait Gallery, 8th and F
streets NW. 202-633-1000.
■ Joseph Lelyveld will discuss his book
“Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His
Struggle With India.” 7 p.m. Free. Politics
and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW.
202-364-1919.
■ Sarah Cash, curator of American art,
will discuss the highlights, discoveries and
behind-the-scenes stories documented in
the new book and online catalog “Corcoran
Gallery of Art: American Paintings to
1945.” 7 p.m. $10. Corcoran Gallery of
Art, 500 17th St. NW. 202-639-1770.
■ Mark Braverman, author of “Fatal
Embrace: Christian, Jews and the Search
for Peace in the Holy Land,” will speak to
the St. Columba’s Peace Fellowship on the
role of Christian churches in bringing peace
to the Holy Land. 7 to 9 p.m. Free. Nave of
■ “From Page to Screen” will feature
Doug Liman’s
2002 film “The
Bourne
Identity,” starromg Matt
Damon. 6 p.m.
Free.
Georgetown Neighborhood Library, 3260 R
St. NW. 202-727-0232.
■ The Embassy of Kazakhstan will
present Sergey Bodrov and Ivan Passer’s
2005 film “Nomad: The Warrior,” a historical epic set in 18th-century Kazakhstan.
6:30 p.m. Free; reservations requested.
Root Auditorium, Carnegie Institution of
Washington, 1530 P St. NW.
kazembus@gmail.com.
■ The Rockman Film Series will feature
Douglas Trumbull’s 1972 film “Creature
From the Black Lagoon,” starring Bruce
Dern. 6:30 p.m. Free. Smithsonian
American Art Museum, 8th and F streets
NW. 202-633-1000.
■ The “All Roads Film Project: Women
Hold up Half the Sky” will feature the D.C.
premiere of Alanis Obomsawin’s 1993 documentary “Kanehsatake: 270 Years of
Resistance,” about the Mohawk tribe’s
passive standoff against the artillery-armed
Canadian Army. 7 p.m. $10. Grosvenor
Auditorium, National Geographic, 1600 M
St. NW. 202-857-7700.
Performance
■ Swiss jazz trombonist Samuel Blaser
(shown) and
pianist Bobby
Avey will present a night of
jazz and poetry.
7 to 9 p.m.
$20. Embassy
of Switzerland, 2900 Cathedral Ave. NW.
202-633-3030.
Sporting events
■ The Washington Nationals will play
the Atlanta Braves in the season opener.
1:05 p.m. $5 to $350. Nationals Park,
1500 South Capitol St. SE. 888-632-6287.
The series will continue Saturday at 1:05
p.m. and Sunday at 1:35 p.m.
■ The Washington Capitals will play the
Columbus Blue Jackets. 7 p.m. $60 to
$330. Verizon Center, 601 F St. NW. 202397-7328.
Tour
■ Smithsonian Orchid Collection specialist Tom Mirenda will lead a tour of the
exhibit “Orchids: A View From the East.”
8:30 to 10 a.m. $35. Constitution Avenue
entrance lobby, National Museum of
Natural History, 10th Street and
Constitution Avenue NW. 202-633-3030.
Friday,
April 1APRIL 1
Friday
Concerts
■ Pianist John Kamitsuka will perform
Schubert’s final piano sonata. 1:15 p.m.
Free. McNeir Hall, Georgetown University,
37th and O streets NW. 202-687-2787.
■ The Christ Church Cathedral Choir will
join the Washington National Cathedral’s
chamber vocal ensemble, Cathedra, to perform Fauré’s “Requiem.” 7:30 p.m. $25 to
$45. Washington National Cathedral,
Massachusetts and Wisconsin avenues
NW. 202-537-2228.
■ The Potter’s House will present
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Looney Tunes Jazz. Proceeds will benefit
the DC Rape Crisis Center. 7:30 to 10:30
p.m. $15 to $50 donation suggested. The
Potter’s House, 1658 Columbia Road NW.
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■ The Embassy Series will present the
Mendelssohn Trio performing works by
Beethoven, Haydn and
Schubert. 7:30 p.m.
$50. Embassy of
Austria, 3524
International Court NW.
202-625-2361.
■ The American University Jazz
Orchestra will perform works by Charles
Mingus, Dizzy Gillespie, Ernie Wilkins,
Tommy Newsom and Thad Jones, and the
American University Jazz Workshop will perform pieces focused on the compositional
legacy of Duke Ellington and John Coltrane.
8 p.m. $10; $5 for students sand seniors.
Abramson Family Recital Hall, Katzen Arts
Center, American University, 4400
Massachusetts Ave. NW. 202-887-2787.
Discussions and lectures
■ Experts will discuss “Nonviolent
Struggle: Lessons From Serbia Applied in
North Africa.” 12:30 p.m. Free; reservations required. Room 812, Rome Building,
Johns Hopkins University School of
Advanced International Studies, 1717
Massachusetts Ave. NW. 202-663-5880.
■ The D.C. Music Salon will feature a
talk on “Ellington: The Duke and the
District.” 5:15 p.m. Free. Watha T.
Daniel/Shaw Neighborhood Library, 1630
7th St. NW. 202-727-1288.
■ Peter Godwin will discuss his book
“The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the
Martyrdom of Zimbabwe.” 7 p.m. Free.
Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave.
NW. 202-364-1919.
Films
The National Gallery of Art will present Richard Dindo’s 2010 film “Gauguin in
Tahiti and the Marquesas” and his 2003
film “Aragon, the Book of Matisse.” 2:30
p.m. Free. East Building Auditorium,
National Gallery of Art, 4th Street and
Constitution Avenue NW. 202-737-4215.
The films will be shown again April 8 and
15 at 2:30 p.m.
■ The “All Roads Film Project: Women
Hold up Half the Sky” will feature the D.C.
premiere of
Alanis
Obomsawin’s
2009 documentary “Professor
Norman
Cornett,” about
a religious studies professor whose unconventional teachings caused his dismissal
from McGill University. 7 p.m. $10.
Grosvenor Auditorium, National Geographic,
1600 M St. NW. 202-857-7700.
■
Performance
■ The Dance Place Step Team, twice
nominated for a Metro DC Dance award,
and Daughters of Coyaba, a traditional
West African dance company, will perform.
6 p.m. Free. Millennium Stage, Kennedy
Center. 202-467-4600.
Special events
■ The third annual “NanoDays” will celebrate nanotechnology and provide information about the role it plays in our lives.
Activities and demonstrations will include a
liquid crystal display that changes color and
the construction of a giant model of a car-
bon nanotube from balloons. 10 a.m. to 4
p.m. Free. National Museum of American
History, 14th Street and Constitution
Avenue NW. 202-633-1000. The event will
continue Saturday and Sunday from 10
a.m. to 4 p.m.
■ Chan Heng Chee, Singapore’s ambassador to the United States, and the Asia
Society will host “A Dash of Singapore
Culinary Diplomacy,” featuring music,
Singaporean food and a talk by Cheryl Tan
about her memoir “A Tiger in the Kitchen.”
6 to 8 p.m. $30; $10 for students.
Reservations required. Embassy of the
Republic of Singapore, 3501 International
Place NW. 202-833-2742.
Sporting event
■ The Washington Wizards will play the
Cleveland Cavaliers. 7 p.m. $10 to $475.
Verizon Center, 601 F St. NW. 202-3977328.
Workshop
■ Floral designer Adrienne Summers will
present a “Spring Blossoms Floral Design
Workshop.” 10:30 a.m. to noon. $45.
Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens,
4155 Linnean Ave. NW. 202-686-5807.
Saturday,
April 2APRIL 2
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Children’s programs
■ The Saturday Morning at the National
series will present “Boogie-Woogie BowWows Canine Dance Theatre,” featuring
dogs riding skateboards and acting out
famous movie scenes. 9:30 and 11 a.m.
Free; tickets required. Helen Hayes Gallery,
National Theatre, 1321 Pennsylvania Ave.
NW. 202-783-3372.
■ The House of Sweden will present “A
Day of Family Fun,” featuring a scavenger
hunt, a painting corner and other hands-on
activities. 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Free. House of
Sweden, 2900 K St. NW. 202-467-2645.
Classes
■ Bart D. Ehrman, a leading authority
on the Bible and the
life of Jesus, will discuss “Who Wrote the
New Testament? The
Controversial Claims of
Modern Scholars.”
9:30 a.m. to 4:15 p.m.
$120. S. Dillon Ripley
Center, 1100 Jefferson Drive SW. 202-6333030.
Concerts
■ The Beau Soir Ensemble, joined by
cellist Barbara Brown, will perform works by
Bach, Ibert and Casterede. 1:30 p.m. Free.
Society of the Cincinnati, Anderson House,
2118 Massachusetts Ave. NW. 202-7852040.
■ Classical guitarists Mia PomerantzAmaral and Jorge Amaral will perform
works by Bach, Handel, Scarlatti and
Vivaldi. 2 p.m. Free. Renwick Gallery,
Pennsylvania Avenue and 17th Street NW.
202-633-1000.
■ Members of the Kennedy Center
Opera House Orchestra will perform works
by Beethoven. 6 p.m. Free. Millennium
Stage, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.
■ Longtime collaborators Toots
Thielemans on harmonica and Kenny
Werner on piano will perform jazz selections. 7:30 p.m. $45. Terrace Theater,
Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.
■ Grammy-winning vocalist Susan
McKeown will perform. 8 p.m. $15 in
advance; $18 on the day of the show. Sixth
& I Historic Synagogue, 600 I St. NW. 877435-9849.
Dance Company will perform classic and
contemporary works. 8 p.m. $22; $17 for
students, teachers, seniors and artists; $8
for ages 17 and younger. Dance Place,
3225 8th St. NE. 202-269-1600. The performance will repeat Sunday at 7 p.m.
Reading
■ Participants in Writopia Lab creative
writing workshops, for ages 8 through 18,
will read excerpts from their original stories.
2:30 to 5 p.m. Free. Second floor, TenleyFriendship Neighborhood Library, 4450
Wisconsin Ave. NW. 202-629-9510.
Saturday, APRIL 2
■ Concert: Dumbarton Concerts will
present Trio Solisti in “Pictures at an
Exhibition,” featuring works by
Dvorák, Piazzolla and Mussorgsky. 8
p.m. $33; $29 for students and seniors. Dumbarton United Methodist
Church, 3133 Dumbarton St. NW.
202-965-2000.
■ “Kol HaOlam: National Collegiate
Jewish A Cappella Competition” will feature
10 groups from across the country. 8 p.m.
$10 to $36. Adas Israel Congregation,
2850 Quebec St. NW. 202-362-6295.
Discussions and lectures
■ Experts will participate in a public
symposium on “Sights and Sounds of
Eighteenth-Century Venice.” 11 a.m. to 5
p.m. Free. East Building Auditorium,
National Gallery of Art, 4th Street and
Constitution Avenue NW. 202-737-4215.
■ Music scholar Saul Lilienstein will discuss “What to Listen for in Gustav Mahler.”
1 p.m. $15. Theater Lab, Kennedy Center.
202-467-4600.
■ Liz Lerman will discuss her book
“Hiking the Horizontal: Field Notes From a
Choreographer,” at 1 p.m.; and Jacqueline
Winspear will discuss her book “A Lesson
in Secrets: A Maisie Dobbs Novel,” at 6
p.m. Free. Politics and Prose, 5015
Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.
■ Paul MacLardy, owner of Arise Bazaar,
will discuss Japanese kimono traditions,
textiles and symbolism. 2 to 3:30 p.m.
$20. Hillwood Estate, Museum and
Gardens, 4155 Linnean Ave. NW. 202-6865807.
■ A park ranger will discuss the political
actions that led to the Civil War and the
development of a fortified capital city. 2
p.m. Free. Fort Stevens, 1000 Quackenbos
St. NW. 202-895-6070.
■ Ira Glass will discuss “Radio on the
TV: Stories
About ‘This
American Life,’
the television
show.” 8 p.m.
$40 to $50.
Lisner
Auditorium, George Washington University,
730 21st St. NW. 202-994-6851.
Film
■ The “All Roads Film Project: Women
Hold up Half the Sky” will feature the U.S.
premiere of Sam Kessie’s “Zum Zum: The
Career of Azumah Nelson,” at 4 p.m.; and
the D.C. premiere of Carol Black’s
“Schooling the World,” at 7 p.m. $10 for
each screening. Grosvenor Auditorium,
National Geographic, 1600 M St. NW. 202857-7700.
Performance
■ Dakshina/Daniel Phoenix Singh
Special event
■ A CD release party for “Jazz: The
Smithsonian Anthology,” a six-disc set with
an accompanying 200-page book, will feature a panel discussion with many of the
producers, compilers and writers involved in
the project. 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Free. Politics
and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW.
202-364-1919.
Sports event
■ The Washington Capitals will play the
Buffalo Sabres. 7 p.m. $95 to $355.
Verizon Center, 601 F St. NW. 202-3977328.
Walk
■ A park ranger will lead ages 8 and
older on a one-mile hike to Fort DeRussy.
10 a.m. Free. Rock Creek Nature Center,
5200 Glover Road NW. 202-895-6070.
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AprilAPRIL
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3
Book signing
■ Corkey Hay De Simone will sign
copies of her children’s book “Cherry
Blossom Friends.” 2 to 5 p.m. Free.
Museum Store, National Museum of
American History, 14th Street and
Constitution Avenue NW. 202-633-1000.
Cruz.” 3 p.m. $20 in advance; $25 at the
door. St. Ann’s Catholic Church, 4001
Yuma St. NW. trinitychamberorchestra.org.
■ Jazz vocalist, composer, producer and
arranger Nnenna Freelon will perform as
part of Howard University’s Jazz Week. 3 to
5 p.m. $15; $10 for students and seniors.
Rankin Memorial Chapel, Howard
University, 2400 6th St. NW.
jazzathowarduniversity.org.
■ Bass-baritone Steven Scheschareg
will present “Songs of Travelling,” featuring
works by Foote, Mahler and Williams. 4
p.m. $20. Phillips Collection, 1600 21st
St. NW. 202-387-2151.
■ The Washington Chorus and baritone
Stephen Salters will
present “New Music for
a New Age,” featuring
works by American
composer Elena Ruehr.
5 p.m. $21 to $34.
National Presbyterian
Church, 4101
Nebraska Ave. NW. 202-342-6221.
■ Washington National Cathedral artistin-residence Jeremy Filsell will present an
organ recital. 5:15 p.m. Free. Washington
National Cathedral, Massachusetts and
Wisconsin avenues NW. 202-537-6200.
■ Winners of the John and Susie Beatty
Competition for Classical Guitar will perform. 6 p.m. Free. Millennium Stage,
Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.
■ Inscape Chamber Music Project will
perform works by Messiaen. 6:30 p.m.
Free. West Garden Court, National Gallery
of Art, 6th Street and Constitution Avenue
NW. 202-842-6941.
Discussions and lectures
■ “The Sunday Forum: Critical Issues in
the Light of Faith” will feature Jesuit priest
James Martin discussing “Everyday
Spirituality the Jesuit Way.” 10:10 a.m.
Free. Washington National Cathedral,
Massachusetts and Wisconsin avenues
NW. 202-537-6200.
■ Cokie and Steven Roberts will discuss their book “Our Haggadah: Uniting
Traditions for Interfaith Families,” at 1
p.m.; and Paula Szuchman and Jenny
Anderson will discuss their book
“Spousonomics: Using Economics to
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Concerts
■ The World Percussion Ensemble will
perform. 2 p.m. Free. McNeir Hall,
Georgetown University, 37th and O streets
NW. 202-687-2787.
■ The Trinity Chamber Orchestra of
Washington will perform the premiere of
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at 5 p.m. Free. Politics and Prose, 5015
Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.
■ Mary Beard, professor at the
University of Cambridge, will discuss
“Heroes and Villains: In Miniatures, Marble,
and Movies” as part of a lecture series on
“The Twelve Caesars: Images of Power
From Ancient Rome to Salvador Dalí.” 2
p.m. Free. East Building Auditorium,
National Gallery of Art, 4th Street and
Constitution Avenue NW. 202-737-4215.
■ James Carroll, author of “Jerusalem,
Jerusalem,” will discuss “Warrior God:
Religion and the Quest to Contain
Violence.” Proceeds will benefit Salvadoran
Enterprises for Women. 7 p.m. $35 donation suggested; $15 for students. St.
Francis Hall, 1340 Quincy St. NE.
sewinc.org.
Films
■ “A Season of Rohmer,” featuring
films by the French director Eric Rohmer,
will feature the 1959 film “The Sign of Leo”
and the 1964 film “Nadja à Paris.” 4:30
p.m. Free. East Building Auditorium,
National Gallery of Art, 4th Street and
Constitution Avenue NW. 202-737-4215.
■ Busboys and Poets will present an
encore screening of
Beth Davenport and
Elizabeth Mandel’s documentary “Pushing the
Elephant.” A panel discussion will follow. 5
p.m. Free. Langston
Room, Busboys and
Poets, 2021 14th St. NW. 202-387-7638.
■ The Washington Ethical Society will
show the film “Trashed,” about one of the
fastest-growing industries in North America.
7 p.m. Free. Library, Washington Ethical
Society, 7750 16th St. NW. 202-882-6650.
Walks and tours
■ A park ranger will lead ages 8 and
older on a walk through Georgetown and
discuss the area’s many transformations
over the centuries. 10 a.m. Free.
Georgetown Waterfront Park, K Street and
Wisconsin Avenue NW. 202-426-6851.
■ Author Anthony S. Pitch will lead a
walking tour based on his book “‘They
Have Killed Papa Dead!’: The Road to
Ford’s Theatre, Abraham Lincoln’s Murder,
and the Rage for Vengeance.” 11 a.m. to 1
p.m. $20. Meet at the equestrian statue of
Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Square, 16th
and H streets NW. 301-437-2345. The tour
will repeat April 10, 17 and 24 at 11 a.m.
Monday,
April APRIL
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Monday
4
Concert
■ The Monday Night at the National
series will feature the Washington
International Chorus of Washington performing “Songs of Peace.” 6 and 7:30 p.m.
Free; tickets required. Helen Hayes Gallery,
National Theatre, 1321 Pennsylvania Ave.
NW. 202-783-3372.
Discussions and lectures
■ Irvin Ungar, chief executive officer of
the antiquarian bookseller Historicana, will
discuss “Arthur Szyk and His Passover
Haggadah: A Library of Congress
Treasure.” Noon. Free. Room 220, Thomas
Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, 10
1st St. SE. 202-707-3779.
■ National Museum of American History
curator John Edward Hasse will discuss
“Jazz at the Smithsonian.” Free. 1 to 2
p.m. Childer’s Recital Hall, Howard
University, 2400 6th St. NW.
jazzathowarduniversity.org.
■ Antonio Vázquez, executive chairman
and chief executive officer of
Iberia, will
speak as part
of the
Distinguished
Leaders Series
at Georgetown University’s McDonough
School of Business. 4:45 p.m. Free; reservations required. Hariri Building,
Georgetown University, 37th and O streets
NW. cmk68@georgetown.edu.
■ Henning Mankell will discuss his
novel “The Troubled Man.” 7 p.m. Free.
Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave.
NW. 202-364-1919.
■ James Carroll will discuss his book
“Jerusalem, Jerusalem: How the Ancient
City Ignited Our Modern World.” 7 p.m. $8
in advance; $10 on the day of the event.
Free; reservations required. Sixth & I
Historic Synagogue, 600 I St. NW.
sixthandi.org.
Films
■ “Marvelous Movie Mondays” will feature the 2009 film “The Secret of Their
Eyes.” 2 p.m. Free. Chevy Chase
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at the Watergate
Neighborhood Library, 5625 Connecticut
Ave. NW. 202-282-0021.
■ “Helke Sander in Focus” will feature
the filmmaker’s 2005 film “In the Midst of
the Malestream.” 6:30 p.m. $7. GoetheInstitut, 812 7th St. NW. 202-289-1200,
ext. 160.
■ Busboys and Poets’ Labor Series will
present “At the River I Stand,” about the
two months that transformed a local labor
dispute into a landmark event of the civil
rights movement. 8 to 9:30 p.m. Free.
Cullen Room, Busboys and Poets, 1025
5th St. NW. 202-387-7638.
Tuesday,
April 5APRIL 5
Tuesday
Concerts
■ Baritone saxophonist Leigh Pilzer and
the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks
Orchestra Ensemble will perform works by
Gerry Mulligan. 1 to 2 p.m. Free. Childer’s
Recital Hall, Howard University, 2400 6th
St. NW. jazzathowarduniversity.org.
■ Belfast-based Craobh Rua will perform traditional Irish music. 6 p.m. Free.
Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center. 202467-4600.
■ The Fessenden Ensemble will present
“Romantic Interlude,” featuring works by
Grieg and Schumann. 7:30 p.m. $30; free
for students. St. Columba’s Episcopal
Church, 4201 Albemarle St. NW. 202-3622390.
■ Clarinetist Wolfgang Gebhart and
pianist Sara Leila Sherman will perform.
7:30 p.m. Free; reservations required. The
United Church, 1920 G St. NW.
concert@wash.diplo.de.
Discussions and lectures
■ James Zogby, founder and president
of the Arab American Institute, will speak.
11:30 a.m. $30; reservations required.
Woman’s National Democratic Club, 1526
New Hampshire Ave. NW. 202-232-7363.
■ The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
will present a talk by George Ramick on
“China’s History Through 1976.” 12:15 to
1:15 p.m. Free. Room 6, Temple Baptist
Church, 3850 Nebraska Ave. NW. 202-8954860.
■ Peter Black, senior historian at the
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, will discuss “The Origins of Nazi Anti-Semitism.” 4
p.m. Free; reservations suggested.
Cleveland Park Neighborhood Library, 3310
Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-282-3080.
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■ Magician Steve Cohen will present a
magic show that re-creates parlor entertainment that characterized high society in the
early 20th century. 9 p.m. $75 to $100.
Peacock Lounge, Willard InterContinental,
1401 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. 866-8114111. The performance will repeat
Wednesday at 7 and 9 p.m.
Wednesday,
April 6APRIL 6
Wednesday
Monday, APRIL 4
■ Concert: Kagero, a Japanese gypsy
rock band, will perform. 6 p.m. Free.
Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center.
202-467-4600.
■ Leonard Harris will discuss his book
“Alain L. Locke: The Biography of a
Philosopher.” 6:30 to 8 p.m. Free.
Langston Room, Busboys and Poets, 2021
14th St. NW. 202-387-7638.
■ Author and curator Catherine
Coleman Brawer will discuss the development of the prolific, quintessentially art
deco muralist Hildreth Meière. 6:30 to 8
p.m. $20; $12 for students. Registration
required. National Building Museum, 401 F
St. NW. 202-272-2448.
■ Wayne Pacelle will discuss his book
“The Bond: Our Kinship With Animals, Our
Call to Defend Them.” 6:30 p.m. Free.
Barnes & Noble, 555 12th St. NW. 202347-0176.
■ Brian Kahn will discuss his book
“Real Common Sense: Using Our Founding
Values to Reclaim Our Nation and Stop the
Radical Right From Hijacking America.”
6:30 to 8 p.m. Free. Cullen Room, Busboys
and Poets, 1025 5th St. NW. 202-3877638.
■ Joe Yonan, food and travel editor at
The Washington
Post, will discuss his book
“Serve Yourself:
Nightly
Adventures in
Cooking for
One.” 7 p.m. Free. Politics and Prose,
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.
■ Former U.S. Sen. Bob Bennett, RUtah, will discuss his collection of paintings, which encompasses a range of key
Western artists. 7 p.m. Free. Smithsonian
American Art Museum, 8th and F streets
NW. 202-633-1000.
■ National Geographic photographer
Michael Melford will discuss his book
“Hidden Alaska.” 7:30 p.m. $18.
Grosvenor Auditorium, National Geographic,
1600 M St. NW. 202-857-7700.
■ Space scientist and World War II historian Armand Lakner will discuss his book
“From Mauthausen to the Moon.” 7:30 to
9 p.m. Free; reservations required.
Embassy of Austria, 3524 International
Court NW. 202-895-6776.
■ Adventurer and environmentalist
Alexandra Cousteau will discuss her efforts
to raise awareness about the human
impact on the global water supply. 8:15
p.m. Free; reservations required.
Intercultural Center Auditorium, Georgetown
University, 37th and O streets NW. 202687-7355.
Performances
■ First Draft at Charter Theater, a nonprofit devoted to the development of new
plays, will present a reading of “Keepers of
Concerts
■ Soloists from St. John’s Choir will perform Ivor Davies’ “Prayers From the Ark”
and other works. 12:10 p.m. Free. St.
John’s Church, Lafayette Square, 1525 H
St. NW. 202-347-8766.
■ Japanese violinist Midori (shown),
pianist Jonathan Biss,
violist Nobuka Iami
and cellist Antoine
Lederlin will perform
works by Haydn,
Schubert, Martinu and
Dvorák. 7:30 p.m.
$55. Terrace Theater,
Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.
Discussions and lectures
■ Patrick Hooper and Thomas Woody
will lead a seminar for first-time home buyers. 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Free. West End
Neighborhood Library, 1101 24th St. NW.
202-724-8707.
■ Ernest B. Furgurson will discuss his
book “Freedom Rising: Washington in the
Civil War.” 6:30 p.m. $15; registration
required. Tudor Place Historic House and
Garden, 1644 31st St. NW. 202-965-0400.
■ Garrett Graff, editor in chief of
Washingtonian magazine, will discuss his
book “The Threat Matrix: The FBI at War in
the Age of Global Terror.” 6:30 p.m.
$12.50. International Spy Museum, 800 F
St. NW. 202-393-7798.
Films
■ “Spirituality in Film” will feature Carl
Theodor Dreyer’s 1928 film “The Passion
of Joan of Arc.” Noon. Free. Second-floor
East Lobby, Martin Luther King Jr.
Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW. 202-7271281.
■ The Panorama of Greek Cinema
series will feature Pantelis Voulgaris’ 1991
film “Quiet Days in August.” 8 p.m. $11;
$9 for students; $8.25 for seniors; $8 for
ages 12 and younger. Avalon Theatre,
5612 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-966-6000.
Performance
■ Tzveta Kassabova will present “The
Opposite of Killing,” a piece exploring feelings related to the absence of a close
friend. 6 p.m. Free. Millennium Stage,
Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.
Special event
■ Barton Seaver, Esquire magazine’s
2009 Chef of the Year, will present sustainable seafood recipes from his book “For
Cod and Country.” 7 p.m. $85. Grosvenor
Auditorium, National Geographic, 1600 M
St. NW. 202-857-7700.
Sporting events
■ The Washington Capitals will play the
Florida Panthers. 7 p.m. $75 to $340.
Verizon Center, 601 F St. NW. 202-3977328.
■ D.C. United will play the Philadelphia
Union. 7:30 p.m. $23 to $52. RFK
Memorial Stadium, 2400 East Capitol St.
SE. 202-397-7328.
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Events Entertainment
Calder portraits display humor, insight
By MARK LONGAKER
FAURÉ
Current Correspondent
B
est known for his mobiles and stabiles,
Alexander Calder also made many portraits,
including whimsical airy wire sculptures —
drawings in space, some that hang from the ceiling and
change shape with the slightest breeze.
For the first time, these creations have been corralled and put on view, comprising a celebrity-studded
exhibition now at the National Portrait Gallery titled
“Calder’s Portraits: A New Language.” It features 75
sculptures, drawings, paintings and photographs by
Calder and others, many of famous artists, entertainers,
composers, sports figures and politicians in the earlyto mid-20th century.
“Such was the genius of Calder that he was able to
infuse his portraits with acuity and humor, with poetry
and humanity,” curator Barbara Zabel said during a
tour. He also was able to bring spontaneity and life to
ordinary wire and in so doing create what one critic
called “a new language.”
Calder began making wire portraits after moving to
Paris in 1926 as a 28-year-old newly awakened artist
with a degree in mechanical engineering. He focused
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Touchstone shows feature grasses and nests
T
ouchstone Gallery will
open two shows today and
continue them through
May 1.
“Grasses” presents etchings,
screenprints, monotypes and
On EXHIBIT
Janet Wheeler’s mixed-media
assemblages are on exhibit at
Touchstone Gallery.
mixed-media prints by Mary D. Ott
with grasses as their theme.
“Nests With a Twist” features
mixed-media assemblages
described as “spirit boxes” by Janet
Wheeler.
An opening reception will be
held Friday from 6 to 8:30 p.m.,
and an artist talk with coffee and
cake will take place April 10 from
2 to 4 p.m.
Located at 901 New York Ave.
NW, the gallery is open Wednesday
and Thursday from 11 a.m. to 6
p.m., Friday from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.
and Saturday and Sunday from
noon to 5 p.m. 202-347-2787.
■ Studio Gallery will open three
shows today and continue them
through April 23.
“Uncommon Boundaries” presents new abstract paintings by
Joyce McCarten that show her
delight in pigment.
“Rectangle Revisited” explores
the power and depth of simple
forms in paintings by Bud
Hensgen.
Veronica Szalus’ “transition” is
a site-specific installation made
from newspapers and reeds and
exploring the concept of transition.
A “First Friday” reception will
See Exhibits/Page 24
Scena Theatre brings ‘The Weir’ to D.C. stage
S
cena Theatre opened Conor McPherson’s “The
Weir” last week and will continue it through
April 24 at the H Street Playhouse.
On a dark, bone-chilling evening in Ireland, four
mates meet at a country pub. Suddenly a pretty,
intriguing stranger named Valerie joins them. Drinks
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and laughter follow, and the men tell ghost stories to
impress her. But it is Valerie who reveals the most
haunting story of all: why she fled Dublin.
Performance times are 8 p.m. Thursday through
Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $33; $20 for
employees of nonprofits; $18 for students. H Street
Playhouse is located at 1365 H St. NE. 703-683-2824;
scenatheater.com.
■ Histrio, Washington’s only French theater, will present “Leocadia” and “L’Alouette,” both by Jean
Anouilh, at 7 p.m. March 31 and 6:30 p.m. April 1 at
the Arts Club of Washington and the Alliance
Française de Washington, respectively.
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Scena Theatre’s production of “The Weir” will run
through April 24 at the H Street Playhouse.
Both shows will be followed by a reception. Tickets
cost $20; $12 for seniors, students and Alliance
Française members. The Arts Club of Washington is
located at 2017 I St. NW. The Alliance Française is
located at 2142 Wyoming Ave. NW. 202-333-2666.
■ The Washington Ballet will present “Le Corsaire
See Theater/Page 24
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Georgetown University Library
Special Collections Research Center
April 1 from 5pm - 9pm
Admission $40
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on the heady world of artists and
entertainers in freewheeling
Montmartre.
Unfortunately, one of his mostcelebrated portraits from this era, a
full-length dangling and jiggling
wire sculpture of the exotic
African-American dancer
Josephine Baker, failed to make it
into the show. In lieu of the original, a photograph of it is shown,
along with an explanation of the
omission: It seems the sculpture’s
owner, the Calder Foundation,
refused to loan it in protest of the
Portrait Gallery’s censorship of a
David Wojnarowicz video initially
included in the museum’s recent
“Hide/Seek” exhibition of gay art.
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Still, there are plenty of other
delights in this show, beginning
with a striking hanging wire head
of avant-garde composer Edgar
Varèse circa 1930. Visitors may
well stand transfixed as this spare,
expressive piece turns on a thread
from the ceiling, and light from
above casts a shadow of it onto the
wall behind. The piece paradoxically exists in two and three dimensions simultaneously, and even a
fourth dimension if you count its
transformations through time as air
currents gently turn it. In one
glance you can see its front and
back, for instance, one of wire and
the other of shadow, then watch
these change to side views.
“What you see are facial features in flux and by extension a
kind of life in flux, identity in
flux,” said Zabel. A nearby photo-
graph of Varèse shows how well
Calder captured the likeness, especially in the beetling brows and
deeply sunken eyes, which helped
give the composer what the curator
called a “mad scientist” look.
Though the Varèse piece
attempts to capture a true likeness,
others of Calder’s portraits are
clearly caricatures, distorting the
subject’s features for satirical
effect. Such is a mounted wire
sculpture of President Calvin
Coolidge, a conservative often lampooned for his taciturnity and minimal agenda. Calder gives him a
pointy head and prodigious chin,
suggesting someone with few ideas
but strong opinions.
A clever caricature of Babe
Ruth from about 1936, the year of
the slugger’s induction into the
Baseball Hall of Fame, portrays
him as a round wire head suspended in the air, like a baseball waiting
to be hit.
Another piece, made from fine
wire in exuberant loops and curls,
celebrates the historic first transAtlantic flight of Charles
Lindbergh, whose landing Calder
witnessed outside Paris in 1927.
Not specifically of Lindbergh, it is
more of what Zabel called “a
metaphorical portrait of flight
itself.” Indeed, it might be a
metaphor for the show, which
sends the spirit soaring in flights of
fancy.
“Calder’s Portraits: A New
Language” will continue through
Aug. 14 at the National Portrait
Gallery. Located at 8th and F
streets NW, the museum is open
daily from 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.
202-633-1000; npg.si.edu.
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the Kennedy Center.
The swashbuckling adventure of
pirates, pashas and slave girls
focuses on lovers Conrad and
Medora and the evil Seid Pasha.
Repetituer Anna-Marie Holmes
restages her Emmy Award-winning
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Ballet premiere.
Performance times are 8 p.m.
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take place Friday from 6 to 8 p.m.,
and an artists’ reception will be
held April 15 from 6 to 8 p.m.
Located at 2108 R St. NW, the
gallery is open Wednesday and
Thursday from 1 to 7 p.m., Friday
from 1 to 8 p.m. and Saturday from
1 to 6 p.m. 202-232-8734.
■ “Colors of Peace,” presenting
paintings by Patsy Fleming, will
open today at Foundry Gallery and
continue through May 1.
An opening reception will take
place Friday from 6 to 8 p.m., and
the artist will give a talk April 10 at
3 p.m.
Located at 1314 18th St. NW,
the gallery is open Wednesday
through Friday from 1 to 7 p.m.
and Saturday and Sunday from
noon to 6 p.m. 202-463-0203.
■ “Revive,” featuring constructions
and sculptures made from discarded wood by Chicago artist
Michelle Peterson-Albandoz, will
open tomorrow at Long View
Gallery and continue through May
1.
An opening reception will take
place tomorrow from 6:30 to 8:30
p.m.
Located at 1234 9th St. NW, the
gallery is open Wednesday through
Sunday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and
Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. 202232-4788.
■ “Stories in Stone 2011,” presenting stone sculptures and poetry by
Massimo Righini, will open Friday
in the MacFeely Gallery of the
Arts Club of Washington and
continue through April 30.
An opening reception will take
place Friday from 6:30 to 9 p.m.
Located at 2017 I St. NW on
the second floor, the gallery is open
Tuesday through Friday from 10
a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday from
10 a.m. to 2 p.m. 202-331-7282.
■ “Off in a Corner,” featuring
works by Adam Dwight and Dana
Jeri Maier about issues of drinking
and adulthood, will open Friday at
Flashpoint Gallery and continue
through May 7.
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. 202315-1305.
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Housing for Rent (Apts)
Seat Weaving – All types
EFF LARGE: 500 SF. Near Van Ness
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setup available. Mac experience. Call
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HIRING PT nanny/housekeeper to
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love dogs, have own vehicle and
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kinetic. Energy never goes away. It
just keeps transferring from one
object to another.
— Alexander Holmes,
third-grader
Murch fourth- and fifth-graders
took a field trip to the Kennedy
Center to see “American
Scrapbook: A Celebration of
Verse.” The show is based on
poems selected by Caroline
Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy
Onassis. The actors acted out some
of the poems by famous poets such
as Robert Frost, Langston Hughes
and Jack Prelutsky.
“It was fun and some of the
poems were also funny,” said
fourth-grader Nate Miles-Mclean.
“It was awesome!” exclaimed
Chau Bach.
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Adelaide Kaiser, fourth-graders
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I am taking a class called capitalism. We sell and buy stuff from
each other, compete in-class projects and follow the news closely.
We are watching what’s going
on in the New York stock market.
Each student in the class has made
a financial portfolio and picked
five to seven stocks. Currently the
stocks I picked are doing well, and
that has put me in the lead. I am in
the “positive” because Green
Mountain Coffee Roasters and
Starbucks recently established new
corporate ties, leading to a giant
jump in both companies’ stocks. In
other words, Starbucks now produces individual packages of coffee
to be roasted in Green Mountain
Coffee makers.
We are also talking about
Bernard Madoff and his Ponzi
scheme. Recently we got a chance
to invest in our teacher Ron’s
“amazing investment opportunity.”
Every “year” we would earn a
quarter in interest. The time you
decided to invest in his “business”
determined how much money you
earned. As the exercise went on,
we soon came to find out that we
weren’t making any money at all;
we were just receiving the money
that we had initially used to invest
in his business as interest.
To understand the recent housing bubble and the following crash,
we are each “buying” a house in
the Crestwood neighborhood. My
house cost about $750,000. Once
we found our homes, we had to
calculate what we would have to
put down as a down payment and
how much money we needed to
ask the bank for. We then had to
find a reasonable interest rate on a
30-year fixed loan that would be
our mortgage. To top it all off we
used mortgage calculators to figure
out what our monthly payments
would be and created amortization
tables for our mortgages.
— Reggie Hough, 12th-grader
Paul Public Charter School
Sixth-graders in Ms. Venti’s
English class will perform
“Hamlet” and “Richard III” at the
Folger Shakespeare Library on
May 9.
The other sixth-graders enjoyed
a performance by Bill’s Buddies at
the school’s auditorium on March
7. Bill’s Buddies is an acting group
from the Folger Theatre. They performed parts of “A Midsummer
Night’s Dream,” “Hamlet,”
“Romeo and Juliet” and “Titus
Andronicus.” The students loved
the show and thought it was really
funny. The audience learned that
Shakespeare is fun and his words
are meant to be spoken and acted.
The themes also relate to our lives:
love stories, parents and kids who
argue, and friends who disagree.
Students in Ms. Venti’s class
participated in a workshop and
learned to break down
Shakespeare’s words and put them
into our own words. Students did
warm-ups and techniques that real
actors do to prepare themselves to
perform on the stage.
— Daisy Gonzalez and
Jacqueline Moreno,
sixth-graders
St. Ann’s Academy
For the next few weeks until
Easter, St. Ann’s is observing Lent.
All of the grades go to Mass once a
week. The third- and fourth-graders
go on Wednesday. Each person
gives up something for Lent or
does something to help others. The
whole school is collecting money
for farmers in Haiti and collecting
canned goods for Catholic
Charities. We also do Stations of
the Cross every Friday.
Each class is doing its own project, too. We are working with the
first-graders to write letters to people in the military. The cards will
be very fancy and decorated like
mosaics. We painted paper a lot of
different colors, and next week we
will make the cards and write in
them.
I will give up video games for
Lent. Also I will give up my computer. During Lent we take more
time to pray.
— Patrick Snee, fourth-grader
St. John’s College High
School
I wanted to participate in a
spring activity at St. John’s. I chose
track because I have always
enjoyed running. But, as I discovered, track is not just running, but
requires skill, too.
Spring track began several
weeks ago, but now it is in full
swing. Since the workouts began,
the team has been training vigorously.
We practice almost every day
after school. Usually on Mondays
we go to Catholic University and
practice on their track, and on
Wednesdays we go to Georgetown
Prep.
The new coach, Mr. Walt Cline,
has an amazing background coaching many professional sports
teams. We also have two new assistant coaches who help in the workouts and at meets. So far, we have
had one practice meet.
— Emmett Cochetti,
ninth-grader
School Without Walls
This week, an accreditation
team from the Middle States
Association continued to observe
us. Teachers were instructed to
leave space in the back of their
classrooms for team members to
observe what normal days are like.
Some students were given pink
passes. At a certain time, they were
asked to join the observers to talk
about School Without Walls.
A large group of Norwegian students visited last week, too. They
were chosen to visit the United
States because they are studying
English and are in their last year of
school. The visitors came before
school on Tuesday. Seniors were
called down to the common room
and were given “buddies” to take
to their first three classes. The
Norwegians visited the Pentagon
that afternoon. On Wednesday, seniors had the same buddies. In the
afternoon, the visiting students,
their Walls buddies and the
Norwegian teachers went to Mount
Vernon.
— Lillian Audette, 12th-grader
West Education Campus
West is pulling together to help
one of our staff members, our
Japanese intern, Miki. She was in
Japan when the earthquake and
tsunami happened. Please come to
our West office through April 8 and
make a donation.
West Tiger students are preparing for the upcoming DC-CAS test.
We just wrapped up our DC-CAS
Prep Night on March 24.
West Fillmore students will be
traveling to a recording studio to
learn about the equipment and
recording process and to sing. They
will get a CD of their work at the
end of the year.
— Chioma Aneke, eighth-grader
Wilson High School
Wilson has been having trouble
with fire alarms being pulled lately,
and many staff members are getting upset and annoyed. On March
16, the alarm was pulled multiple
times and a few fights broke out.
Principal Pete Cahall tried to
restore order. He decided to implement a no-cellphone rule: Kids
who brought their phones to school
would be sent home.
Many students were upset and
expressed themselves on Facebook.
They invited students to a protest.
Some students were into doing the
protest and others were not. Some
thought that the protest would not
do anything and that it would just
embarrass our principal and show
officials that he might not be able
to control his school. That is not
the case. Mr. Cahall is a great principal and is always saying good
things about Wilson students. He
supports the teams and lets us have
fun activities and dances. He is just
trying to look out for his students
and staff members.
— Liana Kutos, 12th-grader
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