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By KATIE PEARCECurrent Staff Writer

There’s no clear consensus on what to do with the about-to-expire 17th Street liquor license moratorium, but the topic is inspiring some broader talk about the neighborhood’s direction.

At a small forum last week, several Dupont Circle community members spoke of the need for studies on the economic and retail conditions on 17th Street. As one resident suggested, it’s time “to look at that boring street and think about what we want.”

The full Dupont Circle advisory neighborhood com-mission is slated to vote on the license moratorium tonight, after three recent forums where commissioners and residents have debated whether the city should pre-serve, modify or scrap it.

At last Wednesday’s session, several commissioners recommended taking the middle road — maintaining the 23-year-old moratorium, but tweaking it to allow new restaurants. But there were also some calls for the com-mission to avoid a vote on the moratorium and instead ask the D.C. Alcoholic Beverage Control Board for an emergency extension.

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Debate continues over 17th St. license limits

Brian Kapur/The CurrentDupont Circle neighborhood commissioners are set to vote on whether to extend the moratorium.

By KATIE PEARCECurrent Staff Writer

As redevelopment of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center churns forward, one local group is trying to make sure the site’s Civil War histo-ry doesn’t get buried.

That group, the Alliance to Pre-serve the Civil War Defenses of Washington, has taken on a sort of watchdog role for historic preserva-tion as both the U.S. State Depart-

ment and D.C. government reimag-ine the sprawling campus. That role is particularly relevant as the site is poised for designation as a historic district.

The alliance — a coalition of history-focused groups, community activists and Civil War buffs — has been highlighting the property’s sig-nificance to the pivotal Battle of Fort Stevens in 1864.

“It’s almost a constant need to call the attention of the project team and the developers that this is also a vital dimension to this project they’re doing at Walter Reed,” said Benja-

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Group highlights Civil War heritage at Walter Reed site

By BRADY HOLTCurrent Staff Writer

All residents of blocks with Resi-dential Permit Parking can soon request a free visitor parking placard that will be good for a year starting Oct. 1, the D.C. Department of Transportation announced last week.

The program refines a system that was already in use in wards 1, 3, 4, 5 and 6, in which the one-year passes were mailed automatically to every eligible household. Now, resi-dents must specifically order the passes, which waive two-hour park-ing restrictions within the boundar-ies of a particular advisory neighbor-hood commission. The Transportation Department had said last summer that it intended to roll out a version of the program

citywide this fall, when the already-issued passes are set to expire. But officials also indicated they wanted to make changes to protect against overuse or abuse, particularly before introducing the passes to the park-ing-starved neighborhoods of Ward 2. A popular proposal was a “coupon book” allowing for a set number of free uses while charging for addi-tional days of guest parking. Last week’s announcement that

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D.C. unrolls citywide visitor passes

By KATIE PEARCECurrent Staff Writer

The D.C. Court of Appeals has cleared the way for development to proceed at the West End library and fire station sites, after dismissing an activist group’s objec-tions to the process.

Developer EastBanc now plans to start construction at the start of next year, said company executive Mary Mottershead. The firm is working on construction financing and sorting out the details for interim facilities for the library and fire station, she said. They will be located at the Watergate and Stevens Elementary School, respectively.

“We’re obviously happy with the Appeals Court deci-sion; at this point it means we can keep moving forward as quickly as possible,” she said.

The D.C. Library Renaissance Project, founded by Ralph Nader, had challenged last year’s zoning approval

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West End projects advance after ruling

■ Parking: Critics say plan is a poor fit for Ward 2 streets

Rendering courtesy of EastBancThe D.C. Library Renaissance Project challenged various aspects of EastBanc’s plans, but the court upheld the Zoning Commission’s project approval.

■ Preservation: Campus poised for historic district

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A school-by-school breakdown of 2013 DC-CAS test scores

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NEWS EVENTS

GU student group forms to protect tenants’ rights

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Brian Kapur/The CurrentMayor Vincent Gray declared Aug. 12 “Clyde’s of Georgetown Day” in honor of the restaurant’s 50 years of operation. He visited the M Street standby Monday and presented Clyde’s Restaurant Group president Tom Meyer with the proclamation.

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By KAT LuCEROCurrent Staff Writer

The Sherman Building experienced plenty of drama in the past two years.

When a 5.8-magnitude earthquake struck the District on Aug. 23, 2011, the historical landmark — housed within the confines of the Armed Forces Retirement Home property in the Petworth area — sustained major damage, especially to its iconic clock tower.

A total of 200 stones fell from its parapets, chimneys, gables and the tower, damaging the exterior grounds, classrooms and the mess hall. The tower’s cracks were so prominent that they were visible more than 100 feet below.

A few days later, Hurricane Irene swept through the area, bringing strong gusts of winds that threatened to destroy more of the 160-year-old structure.

“There was a lot of uncertainty,” said Carrie

Burton of the first few days of disarray. Burton is the managing partner of Preserve Scapes, which oversaw the stabilization and recovery efforts at the retirement home.

Two years and at least $13 million later, the renovation of the Sherman Building is nearly complete.

Compared to the attention some popular tourist spots received after the earthquake, reconstruction efforts at this castle-like struc-ture haven’t received much publicity. Housed

in the 272-acre government retirement facility at 3700 North Capitol St., the Sherman Build-ing is not open to the public.

But last Saturday, several members of the D.C. Preservation League toured the newly refurbished space. This included climbing the two-story winding staircases that lead up to the clock tower, which commands striking views of the city.

“Everyone is aware of the damage and

Renovation to undo earthquake damage wraps up at Old Soldiers’ Home

By BRADY HOLTCurrent Staff Writer

George Washington University is tweaking aspects of its current con-struction work in response to com-plaints about traffic from Foggy Bottom residents. But university officials said at a community meeting last week that many disruptions in the area are inevitable as the school modernizes and upgrades its campus and streetscapes — at the same time as a major renovation takes place at the International Monetary Fund head-quarters and a city project rebuilds New Hampshire Avenue. “Our impacts I can’t say are zero, but we’ve coordinated to reduce

what those impacts are,” university operations vice president Alicia Knight said at the meeting. The impacts include blocked sidewalks, parking prohibitions and travel lane closures at several sites on the campus. Construction of a new public health school is nearing completion between 24th Street, New Hamp-shire Avenue and Washington Cir-cle, leaving 24th Street as one-way southbound. Renovations at Ross Hall, at 24th and H streets, and con-struction of a new Science and Engi-neering Hall one block east, involve their own lane and sidewalk clo-sures. More work will soon affect the 2100 blocks of H and I streets for

GWU defends coordination on its construction projects

Current Staff Report A business group in Adams Mor-gan wants the city to establish for-mal loading zones in the medians on 18th Street and Columbia Road — where trucks already park while making deliveries — on a temporary basis to see if the arrangement is workable. The Adams Morgan Partnership Business Improvement District says a representative of the city Transpor-tation Department suggested pilot-ing new legal loading zones as a way to improve safety. The business group is asking for a 120-day pilot in the 2300 and 2400 blocks of 18th Street and the 1700 and 1800 blocks of Columbia Road. Last week, the group’s leaders presented the concept to the Adams Morgan advisory neighborhood commission, which voted to request a study of the issue but not necessar-ily to support establishing loading zones in the medians. The goal is to find spots “where commercial loading and unloading can be performed in a safe manner where pedestrian and vehicular sightlines are not obstructed,” the commission wrote in a resolution. At the commission’s meeting, several people said having trucks loading and unloading in the medi-ans could be dangerous. Kristen Barden, the business

group’s executive director, said trucks are already parking in the medians, so temporarily legalizing that practice would help determine whether it can be done safely. She said a Transportation Depart-ment representative suggested allowing loading only between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., when traffic is at its lowest. Barden said her group wants the agency to test the zones during two different times in the year to get the most accurate results. Neighborhood commissioner Wilson Reynolds, who voted against the resolution, noted that the com-mission’s planning, zoning and transportation committee had already opposed the idea. “I’m scared to death of loading trucks in the middle of the street,” Reynolds said. “It’s not safe.” He made two motions to call for no parking in the street medians, but both failed for lack of a second. Arianne Bennett, the business group’s vice president, said the truck drivers are going to park in the medi-ans even if they face a ticket. “They do it every day,” she said. And with-out regulation, she said, some park dangerously close to the crosswalk. Denis James, president of the Kalorama Citizens Association, said parking in the medians would increase the risk of truck drivers jaywalking with heavy loads.

Adams Morgan group seeks look at median loading zones

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Saturday, Aug. 17 At-large D.C. Council member David Catania, chair of the committee tasked with oversight of the D.C. Public Library system, will discuss issues affecting the city’s public libraries, to be followed by the annual business meeting of the Friends of the Cleveland Park Library group. The event will begin at 10 a.m. at the Cleveland Park Library, 3310 Connecticut Ave. NW. For details, call 202-669-6235.

Thursday, Aug. 22 The D.C. Department of Transportation will host a meeting of the moveDC Transportation Plan Advisory Committee from 6 to 8 p.m. in the second-floor pub-lic meeting room at the Reeves Center, 2000 14th St. NW.

Saturday, Aug. 24 Mayor Vincent Gray will lead a D.C. statehood march and rally in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. The event will begin at 9 a.m. at the D.C. War Memorial, located on the north side of Independence Avenue SW between the World War II Memorial and the Lincoln Memorial. At 9:30 a.m., attendees will march to the Lincoln Memorial to join the main rally.■ D.C. Public Schools will hold its annual Beautification Day from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Volunteers are needed at more than 100 sites to help ensure that schools are ready and welcoming for the first day of school; activities will include landscaping, trash pickup, light painting and planting flowers. Registration is requested by Aug. 16. For details, visit dcps.dc.gov, email dcps.beautificationday@dc.gov or call 202-719-6601.

Wednesday, Sept. 4 The D.C. Board of Elections will hold a public hearing on whether a proposed measure on decriminalizing the possession of small amounts of marijuana for personal use is a proper subject matter for a ballot initiative. The hearing will be held at 10:30 a.m. in Suite 280, One Judiciary Square, 441 4th St. NW.

The week ahead

By KAT LUCEROCurrent Staff Writer

Rat infestations. Flooded base-ments. Faulty smoke detectors. Mold in the ceilings. Broken front door locks.

These are some of the problems many Georgetown University stu-dents say they’ve faced when it comes to their off-campus living situations in Georgetown, Burleith and other D.C. neighborhoods. The conditions have frustrated not only students but also long-term residents who live alongside deteriorating rental properties.

Alyssa Peterson, a rising George-town senior, struggled to find a liv-able apartment off-campus last year. Hearing of friends dealing with unresponsive landlords and more reports of problematic property owners from the university’s Office of Neighborhood Life — which advises students living off campus — inspired her to take matters into her own hands.

“We finally need to stand up for ourselves,” said Peterson.

Working with the neighborhood life department, Georgetown Uni-versity Student Association, the D.C. Department of Consumer and Regu-latory Affairs, and the D.C. Office of the Tenant Advocate, she created the Georgetown Student Tenant Associ-ation. Launched in late July, the new group will aim to protect the rights of students living off campus, as an independent nonprofit entirely oper-ated by students.

In doing so, student volunteers trained by the city’s Tenant Advo-

cate Office will help their peers understand the basics of a standard lease; serve as university liaisons to the city government on problems such as illegal rent increases, infesta-tions, broken facilities and landlord harassment; and educate students on their rights as tenants in the District.

The group may go on to serve as a model for other D.C. universities, but for now, Peterson is busy imple-menting programs at Georgetown for the upcoming school year. Her new group is also already assisting five students who are experiencing landlord problems.

College students, especially those new to the city and first-time renters, are often intimidated dealing with government or clueless about the legalities of renting an apartment, said Johanna Shreve, the city’s chief tenant advocate, whose office worked closely with Peterson in developing the association’s incor-poration documents and bylaws.

So it’s important that this popu-lation has a liaison to city services that can help solve their problems, she added.

“People lose control of their envi-ronment,” Shreve said of students leaving their comfort zone to attend college in another city. “Until they become comfortable ... they’re abso-lutely vulnerable. … Students will have a place to find out about other services in the city.”

She said her agency has always worked with colleges and universi-ties in the city to improve off-cam-pus student life. With stronger ties to Georgetown, her office will be able

GU student group tackles tenant-landlord relations By BRADY HOLT

Current Staff Writer

Most college students living in D.C. are tempo-rary residents, part of a transient population that often doesn’t have the same connection to the community as do longer-term neighbors. But Kathryn Tinker, a 21-year-old rising senior at American University, did most of her moving around before starting college. The D.C. native grew up mostly in Hong Kong and Singa-pore, never living in the same neigh-borhood for more than three years — until she rented a condo unit in Cityline at Tenley, 4101 Albemarle St., while attending school. “I’ve never really had the chance to get to know a community intimately — get to know the history of a build-ing, a tree or a street,” Tinker said in an interview. “This is the first time I’ve said, ‘This is going to be my home and I’m going to learn about it.’” Tinker was sworn in over the summer as the first undergraduate student in recent years to serve on the Tenleytown/Friendship Heights advisory neighbor-hood commission, representing single-member dis-trict 3E01. The district is bordered very roughly by 38th Street to the east, Yuma Street to the south, 47th Street to the west and Brandywine Street to the north — comprising not only a stretch of dense develop-ment on Wisconsin Avenue but also neighborhoods

of single-family homes on either side. (It does not include American University’s Tenley Campus.) The seat became open when commissioner Eliza-beth Haile moved out of D.C. Like her four former colleagues on the commission, Haile is a parent who lived in a single-family home.

In contrast, Tinker said she can offer the views of someone living in the sort of transit-oriented development the commission has already been urging for the Wis-consin Avenue corridor, while also sharing the perspective of a student.

For instance, in a debate about park-ing needs for a business, Tinker said she would be able to share how her car-free friends would walk or bicycle there, “whereas the other commission-ers can come at it with the angle of, ‘This is how I would travel there with my family.’” Fellow commissioner Matt Fru-min praised Tinker as “a very quick

study” on local issues and said he will appreciate her contributions. “I think there are lots of different kinds of people who live in our community and having people who come from different backgrounds is a very important part of being a representative body,” Frumin said. “Though I think it’s safe to say we will share many of the same values.” Tinker also emphasized that she does not identify herself as a “student commissioner” — “I’m some-

AU student fills vacancy on Tenleytown ANC

Kathryn Tinker lives in Cityline at Tenley.

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District joins lawsuit over airline merger The District is joining a lawsuit that seeks to block the proposed merger of US Airways and Ameri-can Airlines, according to a news release from the Office of the Attor-ney General. D.C. joins the U.S. Justice Department and six states in the suit, which claims that the merger would decrease competition and

violate federal antitrust law. D.C. officials fear that the move — which would leave the United States with just four major airlines — would discourage companies from expanding or adding service at Reagan Washington National Air-port. “Reagan National Airport pro-vides a unique and important ser-vice for D.C. consumers and should not be dominated by any one air-line,” Attorney General Irv Nathan

said in the release, which notes that the merger would leave US Air-ways with 69 percent of the slots at the airport, rather than the 55 per-cent it has now.

Agency to stagger fall pool closings The D.C. Department of Parks and Recreation will close its out-door pools for the season on a stag-gered schedule, according to a news

release. In Northwest, the Jelleff and Volta Park pools will close at 6 p.m. Aug. 25; Banneker, Francis and Upshur pools will close at 6 p.m. Sept. 2. Two Ward 1 children’s pools — Parkview and Happy Hol-low — will close Aug. 18.

Cheh calls for action on school crowding Ward 3 D.C. Council member Mary Cheh is calling on D.C. Pub-lic Schools to address crowding in her ward’s schools, asking for a written plan within two months. In an Aug. 9 letter to D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Kaya Hender-son, Cheh writes to “reiterate” her concerns about the issue, noting that every school in Ward 3 was overen-rolled beyond capacity last school year — the worst, Hearst Elementa-ry, by as much as 152 percent. Cheh points out that she has offered suggestions in the past, including analyzing and possibly altering school boundaries, and con-structing new facilities. Since those efforts have been rebuffed, Cheh writes, she is seeking a written plan to address the problem, including a timeline, within 60 days.

New taproom set to open in glover Park The owners of the Mad Fox Brewing Co. in Falls Church will open a Glover Park taproom next year, taking over the former Town Hall space at 2218 Wisconsin Ave. Owner Bill Madden, who spent 10 years as executive brewer at Capitol City Brewing Co., opened Mad Fox three years ago in Virgin-ia. The bar offers award-winning handcrafted beers with draught and English-style cask service, as well as a full menu. “Building upon the success of our Falls Church location, we fully

expect the Mad Fox Taproom to become a Glover Park destination, with craft beer lovers from all over DC coming to taste our beers,” Madden says in a news release. The new bar, which will have 127 seats, is expected to open in the first quarter of 2014 depending on renovations and permitting.

Ted’s Bulletin adding 14th Street location Capitol Hill hotspot Ted’s Bulle-tin will open a second location on Monday, adding another new dining option to busy 14th Street. Located at the corner of 14th and Swann streets, the new Ted’s will serve breakfast (all day), lunch and dinner in a 1930s-style dining room with 160 seats. The diner is known for comfort foods including grilled cheese sandwiches made with Wonder Bread and served with tomato soup; meatloaf with a ketch-up glaze; and homemade pop-tarts. The latter will be part of a bakery operation also featuring gourmet doughnuts, pastries and cookies. “Since opening up the first Ted’s in 2010, we have had our eye on this neighborhood,” said Drew Kim, one of the partners in match-boxfoodgroup, which also owns all of the area’s Matchbox restaurants. Located at 1818 14th St., Ted’s Bulletin will be open 7 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. Sunday through Thurs-day and 7 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday.

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By KAT LUCEROCurrent Staff Writer

The Logan Circle advisory neighborhood commission is push-ing a series of parking recommenda-tions aimed at solving one of the area’s most daunting problems.

The commission unanimously passed four parking proposals last week, including one that addresses the long-running parking tensions between Sunday churchgoers and residents.

That recommendation proposes a formal process for making normally off-limits parking spots available not only to the crowds that flock to Logan Circle’s multiple churches each Sunday, but also to other types of community groups.

Commissioner Walt Cain noted that the city has already made sig-nificant progress in working to open up a number of spots, some owned by private entities, for churchgoers. He said the D.C. Department of Transportation has also shown “an extraordinary willingness to work with community groups” in devel-oping plans for their own parking needs.

The commission’s community development committee, which Cain chairs, helped develop the parking recommendations over the past few months.

Another proposal suggests cen-tralizing the city’s parking enforce-ment under one office — the Depart-ment of Public Works — so there will be a uniform set of rules. Cur-rently, the Public Works Department enforces parking Monday through Saturday, while the Metropolitan Police Department takes over on Sundays.

According to Cain, the police department doesn’t enforce the rules

the way the other agency does.“In conversations with MPD,

they essentially said, unless you call and report these incidents, they’re not going to enforce parking,” said Cain. “That leads to kind of a real lack of enforcement on Sundays in comparison to other days of the week.”

The third suggestion encourages the city to continue its Enhanced

Residential Parking Pilot Program, which restricts one side of a block to residents, leaving the other available to other cars. The community devel-opment committee noted that resi-dents should be made aware that if a sufficient number on their block object, they can opt out of the pro-gram.

The last recommendation is for the commission to consider a visitor parking program prior to implemen-tation of the D.C. government’s planned citywide version. But just last week, the Transportation Depart-ment announced that it was launch-ing that citywide program, a devel-opment Cain described yesterday as an “interesting wrinkle.”

“We’re in the process of evaluat-ing and determining if the plan is something we’re amenable to,” he said.

A series of community forums,

hosted by the eight-member com-munity development committee, led to these four recommendations. With the help of committee mem-bers, Cain endeavored to take a sys-tematic look at the root of Logan Circle’s parking problems.

The commission tabled the park-ing ideas in June to allow the public enough time to go over the issues.

At last week’s meeting, attendees focused most on Sunday parking, with some objecting to the set-aside of spaces for churchgoers and others backing the arrangement.

“The membership is profoundly affected by the parking challenges,” said a member of John Wesley Afri-can Methodist Episcopal Zion Church on 14th Street.

“Sunday is a day of family reuni-fication. It’s a day of rest … Metro is no longer the reliable option for Sunday travel,” said one member of the community development com-mittee. “Policy is good policy, but it has to soften on Sundays to allow families to visit their friends.”

Commission vice chair Mike Connolly noted that he has sought out other organizations in the neigh-borhood that would provide parking space on Sundays.

“We went to Horizon House, which has a bunch of space. They graciously agreed to give parking to ... the church. I think there are other opportunities like that going for-ward,” he said.

Cain said this type of solution is effective as a compromise between congregation members and Logan Circle residents.

“Our suggestion to the congrega-tions is to work with these business-es” such as the upcoming CityCen-terDC in downtown and City Market at O in Shaw to offer up their ample parking spaces, he said.

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This is a listing of reports taken from Aug. 5 through 11 by the Metropolitan Police Depart-ment in local police service areas.

PSA 101

Robbery■ 800-819 block, 13th St.; 4 a.m. Aug. 6.

Assault with a dangerous weapon■ 12th Street and Madison Drive; 12:15 p.m. Aug. 10.

Theft■ 900-999 block, G St.; 2:30 p.m. Aug. 5.■ 1000-1099 block, 14th St.; 9:36 p.m. Aug. 9.■ 900-999 block, F St.; 6 p.m. Aug. 10.■ 1000-1099 block, F St.; 9:25 p.m. Aug. 10.■ 1000-1099 block, F St.; 11:57 p.m. Aug. 10.

PSA 102

Robbery■ 400-499 block, L St.; 5:15 a.m. Aug. 6 (with gun).

Assault with a dangerous weapon■ 9th and F streets; 12:26 a.m. Aug. 8 (with knife).

Theft from auto■ 401-698 block, New York Ave.; 11:40 a.m. Aug. 5.■ 4th and G streets; 9 a.m. Aug. 7.■ 600-699 block, K St.; 5 a.m. Aug. 11.

Theft■ 400-499 block, L St.; 9:43 a.m. Aug. 5.■ 800-899 block, E St.; 11 a.m.. Aug. 8.■ 600-699 block, F St.; 5:10 p.m. Aug. 8.■ 600-699 block, H St.; 10:44 p.m. Aug. 8.■ 400-499 block, K St.; 9:10 a.m. Aug. 10.■ 800-899 block, F St.; 7:30 p.m. Aug. 10.■ 600-699 block, K St.; 4:50 a.m. Aug. 11.

PSA 202

Motor vehicle theft■ 4700-4799 block, Brandy-wine St.; 2:45 p.m. Aug. 5.

Theft from auto■ Unspecified block, 42nd Street; 5 p.m. Aug. 7.■ 4300-4399 block, Harrison St.; 8:45 p.m. Aug. 8.

Theft■ 4500-4599 block, Fort Drive; 8:06 p.m. Aug. 5.■ 4612-4699 block, 42nd St.; 10:30 a.m. Aug. 8.■ 4500-4599 block, Nebraska

Ave.; 11:41 p.m. Aug. 9.■ 4500-4599 block, Fort Drive; 12:50 p.m. Aug. 11.■ 4500-4599 block, Fort Drive; 8:06 p.m. Aug. 5.

PSA 204

Motor vehicle theft■ 2111-2199 block, Wisconsin Ave.; 7:56 p.m. Aug. 5.■ 3300-3399 block, Idaho Ave.; 9:52 a.m. Aug. 8.

Theft from auto■ Connecticut Avenue and Dev-onshire Place; 1:43 p.m. Aug. 9.

Theft■ 2400-2798 block, Calvert St.; 10:37 a.m. Aug. 5.■ 4000-4299 block, Cathedral Ave.; 5:14 p.m. Aug. 6.■ 3000-3199 block, Wisconsin Ave.; 1 p.m. Aug. 7.■ 3800-3899 block, Benton St.; 8:01 p.m. Aug. 9.

PSA 207

Robbery■ 2100-2199 block, L St.; 3:50 a.m. Aug. 8.

Motor vehicle theft■ 1800-1899 block, M St.; 12:11 p.m. Aug. 5.■ 18th and L streets; 1:47 p.m. Aug. 8.

Theft from auto■ 1130-1199 block, 17th St.; 1:50 a.m. Aug. 10.

Theft■ 1200-1299 block, 24th St.; 11:25 a.m. Aug. 5.■ 2400-2499 block, N St.; 2:38 p.m. Aug. 5.■ 1100-1199 block, 15th St.; 1 p.m. Aug. 6.■ 2200-2299 block, I St.; 4:59 p.m. Aug. 7.■ 1800-1899 block, F St.; 6:44 p.m. Aug. 7.■ 2400-2499 block, M St.; 9:33 a.m. Aug. 8.■ 2200-2299 block, G St.; 9:37 a.m. Aug. 8.■ 1900-1999 block, K St.; 3:11 p.m. Aug. 8.■ 1900-1949 block, Pennsyl-vania Ave.; 5:19 p.m. Aug. 8.■ 1100-1199 block, Vermont Ave.; 9:31 p.m. Aug. 8.■ 600-699 block, 14th St.; 1:16 a.m. Aug. 9.■ 800-899 block, New Hamp-shire Ave.; 11:57 a.m. Aug. 9.■ 2000-2099 block, M St.; 7:18 p.m. Aug. 9.■ 1600-1699 block, K St.; 7:31 p.m. Aug. 9.■ 23rd and I streets; 10:55 p.m. Aug. 9.■ 23rd and I streets; 11:53 p.m. Aug. 9.■ 23rd and I streets; 12:19 a.m. Aug. 10.■ 1800-1899 block, M St.; 3:11 a.m. Aug. 10.

■ 2400-2499 block, L St.; 12:08 a.m. Aug. 11.

PSA 208

Theft from auto■ 1700-1799 block, Church St.; 1:01 p.m. Aug. 6.■ 1400-1499 block, Church St.; 6:34 a.m. Aug. 7.■ 2100-2199 block, O St.; 9:49 p.m. Aug. 9.■ 1500-1531 block, Church St.; 5:40 p.m. Aug. 10.

Theft■ 1200-1219 block, 19th St.; 12:40 p.m. Aug. 5.■ 1400-1499 block, P St.; 1:59 p.m. Aug. 5.■ 1200-1219 block, 19th St.; 11 p.m. Aug. 6.■ 1300-1699 block, Connecti-cut Ave.; 2 p.m. Aug. 7.■ 1400-1499 block, P St.; 6 a.m. Aug. 8.■ 1301-1319 block, 21st St.; 8:10 a.m. Aug. 8.■ 1728-1799 bock, 18th St.; 3:09 p.m. Aug. 8.■ 1700-1799 block, Connecti-cut Ave.; 3:39 p.m. Aug. 8.■ 1200-1215 block, Connecti-cut Ave.; 9:09 p.m. Aug. 8.■ 1300-1699 block, Connecti-cut Ave.; 4:28 p.m. Aug. 10.■ 1200-1249 block, 22nd St.; 9:06 p.m. Aug. 10.■ 1521-1599 block, 16th St.; 4:55 a.m. Aug. 11.■ 1300-1699 block, Connecti-cut Ave.; 11:30 a.m. Aug. 11.■ 2100-2115 block, M St.; 5:32 p.m. Aug. 11.

PSA 301

Robbery■ 1700-1780 block, U St.; 4:37 a.m. Aug. 11.

Assault with a dangerous weapon■ 1800-1825 block, 16th St.; 9 a.m. Aug. 8.

Burglary■ 1700-1799 block, Swann St.; 10 a.m. Aug. 9.

Theft from auto■ 1700-1749 block, R St.; 4:29 p.m. Aug. 7.■ 1615-1699 block, New Hampshire Ave.; 4:08 a.m. Aug. 9.■ 1700-1799 block, Johnson Ave.; 12:08 p.m. Aug. 9.■ 18th and Corcoran streets; 8:30 a.m. Aug. 10.

Theft■ 1900-1923 block, 16th St.; 8 p.m. Aug. 5.■ 1616-1699 block, 17th St.; 11:05 p.m. Aug. 5.■ 1400-1625 block, Corcoran St.; 11:29 a.m. Aug. 6.■ New Hampshire Avenue and Swann Street; 10 a.m. Aug. 7.■ 1700-1723 block, 17th St.; 5:47 p.m. Aug. 7.■ 2000-2099 block, 14th St.; 4:27 p.m. Aug. 9.

■ 1500-1599 block, T St.; 9:43 p.m. Aug. 11.

PSA 303

Robbery■ 1700-1799 block, California St.; 4:44 a.m. Aug. 11.

Assault with a dangerous weapon■ 2400-2499 block, 18th St.; 4:15 a.m. Aug. 10 (with knife).

Burglary■ 1800-1881 block, Kalorama Road; 10:30 a.m. Aug. 10.■ 1730-1797 block, Lanier Place; 9:49 a.m. Aug. 5.

Theft from auto■ 2322-2499 block, Ontario Road; 9:36 a.m. Aug. 5.■ 1730-1797 block, Lanier Place; 9:49 a.m. Aug. 5.■ 2100-2199 block, 19th St.; 10:42 a.m. Aug. 9.■ 20th Street and Belmont Road; 5:05 p.m. Aug. 10.■ 2700-2899 block, 16th St.; 3:37 p.m. Aug. 11.■ 2800-2999 block, Adams Mill Road; 6:45 p.m. Aug. 11.

Theft■ 1847-1999 block, Calvert St.; 6:42 p.m. Aug. 5.■ 2400-2499 block, 18th St.; 7 p.m. Aug. 5.■ 1800-1899 block, Biltmore St.; 10 a.m. Aug. 6.■ 2400-2479 block, 16th St.; 7:57 p.m. Aug. 7.■ 2500-2599 block, Mozart Place; 9:15 p.m. Aug. 9.■ 1600-1699 block, Kalorama Road; 4 p.m. Aug. 10.■ 2400-2499 block, 17th St.; 7:31 p.m. Aug. 10.

PSA 307

Burglary■ 1300-1399 block, 13th St.; 11:01 a.m. Aug. 7.

Motor vehicle theft■ 1300-1399 block, R St.; 2:17 p.m. Aug. 10.

Theft from auto■ 1600-1631 block, Vermont Ave.; 9:08 a.m. Aug. 5.■ 13th and Corcoran streets; 4:29 p.m. Aug. 5.■ 1300-1399 block, Rhode Island Ave.; 8:30 a.m. Aug. 6.■ 1300-1331 block, Q St.; 12:42 p.m. Aug. 7.■ 1700-1721 block, 13th St.; 12:13 a.m. Aug. 8.■ Q Street and Vermont Ave-nue; 9:23 a.m. Aug. 8.■ 1300-1321 block, M St.; 10:18 a.m. Aug. 11.

Theft■ 1200-1299 block, 13th St.; 12:02 p.m. Aug. 5.■ 1625-1699 block, 13th St.; 12:45 p.m. Aug. 5.■ 1513-1599 block, 14th St.; 3:20 p.m. Aug. 5.■ 900-999 block, N St.; 10:22 a.m. Aug. 7.

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of the EastBanc plans for two new mixed-use high-rises. But last week the Appeals Court deferred to the Zoning Commission’s judgment on various aspects of the development.

EastBanc’s plan includes replac-ing the library in the 2300 block of L Street and the firehouse at 23rd and M streets, as part of an intricate deal that lets the developer build on city-owned property. For both sites, East-Banc will add housing above the rebuilt public facilities.

The library activist group’s pri-mary argument was that the Zoning Commission should have evaluated the project’s finances, at which point the commission would have found that EastBanc was underpaying the city and would not have granted a waiver of affordable-housing requirements. It further argued that the project violates the D.C. Com-prehensive Plan.

Under the deal, EastBanc is essentially using the construction of the library and firehouse to pay the District for the land for its housing projects. The library group argued that the Zoning Commission should therefore not have counted the new public facilities as amenities associ-ated with the project.

But the court’s ruling states that it will “defer to an agency’s interpreta-tion of its own regulations unless that interpretation is plainly wrong or inconsistent with the regulations or with the statute under which the [agency] acts.”

The ruling states that while the Zoning Commission could have elected to consider the financial issues, it was reasonable to defer to the D.C. Council on a subject outside “the core of the Commission’s expertise in land-use matters.”

Oliver Hall, the attorney repre-senting the library group, said that this ruling isn’t entirely surprising. “Anytime you’re appealing an agen-cy decision, you have to prepare for the fact that the court is going to defer to what the agency decided.”

But Hall said the appeal never-theless “raised issues that are worth raising” about the way the city han-dles public-private partnerships. Deals like the EastBanc project, he said, are “giveaways” of city land.

Hall added that the group was “gratified that the court recognized that we had the right to bring this appeal,” with nearly half of the court decision justifying those rights.

Asher Corson, a Foggy Bottom/West End advisory neighborhood commissioner, said most community members seem relieved at last week’s sign of progress.

“I’m hearing that neighbors are happy to see this long-stalled project finally moving forward,” he said, noting that the development plans won support from all of the area’s citizens groups after months of com-munity meetings.

“I’ve always felt like the appeal was highly inappropriate,” Corson added, suggesting that the library group would have been better off voicing its concerns before the proj-ect secured various city approvals — “as opposed to trying to hijack the process after the fact.”

One angle the Library Renais-sance Project highlighted was the Zoning Commission’s decision to waive “inclusionary zoning” require-ments for EastBanc. The commis-sion agreed not to require the devel-oper to provide affordable housing because it was spending so much on public benefits. The city later pro-vided EastBanc with a $7 million subsidy to cover the cost of offering

some units below market rate. Attorney Hall, in an interview,

said “the loss of $7 million in cash that taxpayers are paying for these units, which the private developer is going to own, is an important issue that needs review.” He further ques-tioned the city’s appraisal of the land value at $30 million, noting that various other real estate experts have estimated it at closer to $65 million.

The library group argued further that the city’s Comprehensive Plan calls for retaining public facilities under government ownership unless they’re no longer needed.

The Appeals Court ruled that it is not unreasonable for the Zoning Commission to waive various rules, including affordable housing. The decision states further that the com-mission has the authority to weigh competing goals of the Comprehen-sive Plan.

The lawsuit prompted fears that the projects would be delayed. But Mottershead of EastBanc said “at the end of the day, [the appeal] didn’t really end up costing us a lot of extra time” due to the simultaneous delays to securing interim sites for the city facilities. She said the “extra legal fees” posed more of a burden.

The library has signed a lease for temporary quarters in the Watergate, and should launch its move in November, she said. Both the library and the former home of the Metro-politan Police Department’s special operations division — also a part of the land swap — should be torn down in January, she said.

She said relocating the fire station to its interim site at the Stevens School on 21st Street is a little more complicated, but should happen a couple months later.

Staff writer Brady Holt contrib-uted to this report.

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the program would change little as it grew citywide has attracted some criticism. Oppo-nents argued that making it easier for visitors to park for free will only make it harder for everyone else to find a spot in crowded blocks. “We’re disappointed to see DDOT take a step in the wrong direction after it seemed to signal it was going to be looking at compre-hensively re-evaluating the [Residential Park-ing Permit] program,” said Cheryl Cort, policy director for the Coalition for Smarter Growth. “Just mailing out a lot of free parking passes to most households in the city is not a good approach.” Ward 3 Council member Mary Cheh, who chairs the committee overseeing the Transpor-tation Department, said requiring residents to explicitly request a visitor pass is an improve-ment. But she agreed that further reform of D.C. parking programs would be valuable. “I love the visitor parking program,” Cheh said. “It’s important and well-used by people who need it for regular visitors. ... I just want to see a more comprehensive, thoughtful approach.” A common fear has been abuse of the passes, particularly in parts of Ward 2, where several advisory neighborhood commissions

voted against receiving visitor parking passes, in part due to concerns that they would be sold to commuters. The Georgetown commission had been working with the Transportation Department on a customized solution. “DDOT’s announcement was a surprise to everyone,” said Ron Lewis, chair of the Georgetown commission. “We’ve been work-ing with DDOT all along on parking issues, including sponsoring two well-attended public meetings. We learned that there are a lot of possibilities for improving visitor parking. Some of these are more flexible than the pro-posal of one placard per household.” Ward 2 Council member Jack Evans echoed that surprise, noting the opposition from his constituents. “It’s been made clear to DDOT that the leadership in Ward 2 doesn’t want these,” Evans said of the passes. “I thought this was a settled issue.” Transportation Department spokesperson Reggie Sanders said the latest reforms will help prevent misuse of the passes, such as sale or duplication, while retaining the convenience and simplicity of the earlier system. For instance, requiring residents to request a pass will reduce the number of passes in cir-culation and link each one to a particular per-son rather than an address. Furthermore, the new passes will have a scannable code associ-

ated with an individual and address, easing enforcement efforts, according to Sanders. The scan will also show whether the pass is being used in the wrong neighborhood — a common issue, he said. Requested replacements of a lost or stolen pass will also be tracked more easily, Sanders said, and duplications or other misuses could mean a $300 fine. Owners of cars regularly spotted overnight, even with a visitor pass, will also be asked to register locally or demonstrate that they live elsewhere. “Once the enforcement piece of it is estab-lished, they will see that people will be very careful about how they use these passes,” he said. He also urged residents to file a 311 report of a car they suspect of improper use of a pass. “We hope that the residents will be our eyes and ears; we hope that the residents who apply for these visitor passes will use the honor code to do the right thing,” said Sanders. Dupont Circle neighborhood commissioner Noah Smith said that although his commission had opposed the visitor passes previously, the new changes to the system are significant. In requiring orders, “they’re adding in a barrier to entry … and hopefully that will reduce the amount of visitor parking permits that are actu-ally out there,” he said. Sanders of the Transportation Department

said that simply expanding the existing visitor parking program could have increased parking pressures. But he said the revisions have addressed the issue, and he doesn’t believe that making passes more available will increase parking demand from legitimate guests. Responding to the coupon-book proposal, he said such a system would be more expen-sive to manage, for little gain. “Our feeling is and our feedback has been that paying for the pass is not necessarily a deterrent,” Sanders said. Cort disagreed. “Pricing is a very efficient tool for allocating something that is in demand,” she said. Cheh predicted that the city will move in that direction eventually. “I think even though [the visitor passes are] going to be free this coming year, [the Transportation Department] ought to signal somehow that it’s not always going to be free.” Sanders said the agency will continue to modify its programs. “This is not an end point,” he said. “We will continue to hear feedback from residents ... and we will continue to design this to help get us to a system where there aren’t any abuses.” The Transportation Department is accept-ing comments on the visitor parking pass modifications at publicspace.policy@dc.gov.

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Don’t defer maintenance It feels almost futile to even weigh in on this issue, as we’ve done it so many times before. But we can’t ignore the recent maintenance issues at the Wilson Aquatic Center and Tenley-Friendship Library — which are particu-larly troubling given the long, dispiriting history of lacking upkeep at city facilities. We’ll say it again: Pouring millions into new schools, libraries, pools and parks only to leave them to fall apart is foolish. Ward 3 D.C. Council member Mary Cheh has been calling for action at the two Tenleytown spots — both of which were totally renovated within the past four years — to address chronic problems, the most recent involving failing heating and cooling units. In July 29 queries to council members who lead the committees with rel-evant oversight, Ms. Cheh urges attention to the library and a hearing on the Wilson pool. We hope members Marion Barry (Ward 8) and Kenyan McDuffie (Ward 5) will schedule a hearing immediately upon their return from summer recess. Then, during the session, they should pin down the parks department and general services agency on how they are managing maintenance at the pool. Is there inadequate funding? Are there unfilled positions? Is nobody in charge? Because given the history, we can’t help but think there are some major systemic problems affecting the entire city. At-large Council member David Catania would do well to take a similar approach for the library. But the pool situation is particularly galling, because poor maintenance was the reason the 1970s facility had to be rebuilt in the first place. After a catastrophic failure in 1998, the new maintenance supervisor in charge of the city’s pools cited “a lot of neglect over time” and a history of “Robinson Crusoe fixes just to keep the pool operating.” Then, in 2003, an unrepaired leak caused a wall in the facility to partially collapse, requiring the pool’s prolonged closure. It took six years — and $34.7 million — for the city to rebuild it. And despite that investment, the list of troubles at the facility since 2009 includes a broken hot tub, insufficient water pressure (including at nearby homes) and a chlorine smell spreading into the neighborhood. High inci-dences of thefts at the facility are unrelated to maintenance, but they serve as another example of poor follow-up. Appropriate staffing at the site — where lifeguard shortages have caused closures — would surely help deter thieves. We understand that flashy new facilities draw lots of attention for the pol-iticians who can claim credit. But we’d like to see some local leaders touting their success in proper long-term maintenance, too.

Decision time More than a month after the D.C. Council passed the Large Retailer Accountability Act, we’re still waiting to see whether this ill-advised bill will become law. Mayor Vincent Gray has expressed concerns but not indicated whether he will veto the measure, which would increase the minimum wage by more than $4 per hour for large retailers including Walmart. Meanwhile, Council Chairman Phil Mendelson has been waiting to send the measure on to the mayor until he has enough supportive colleagues in town to override a veto. The result is a limbo that has major retailers questioning whether to open shops in the District, harming efforts to recruit national companies to the city. D.C. may traditionally slow down over the summer, but business and development nationwide doesn’t grind to a halt. Walmart, the target of the bill, has three stores under construction in Washington and three more planned. But officials from the megachain have said they would likely drop the planned stores should the bill become law. We’re troubled by this situation. D.C. loses about a billion dollars a year in sales to the suburbs, because they offer better shopping options for many of our residents. That’s $57.5 million in lost sales taxes. New Walmart stores — and other big retailers that would be similarly dissuaded by this measure — would help stem the tax tide, as well as a boost in property taxes. Plus, two of Walmart’s planned stores would open in areas across the Anacostia River, where residents desperately need more shopping options. Except for a scattering of liquor stores, there are relatively few local busi-nesses to be threatened by the big-box retailers. By and large, the shops that will be hurt when Walmart opens here are in the suburbs. The delay over the bill — and Mr. Gray’s delay in announcing if a veto is forthcoming — is harming efforts to recruit businesses to the city. Resolving this issue is extremely important. There’s no reason for D.C. to spend money luring retailers if this bill goes into effect and makes those efforts futile.

Summer is winding down and city scandal is heating up.

Longtime political operative Vernon Hawkins was the latest to do the U.S. District Court dance Tuesday. Hawkins, 74, is usually mild-mannered and most-ly easygoing. But he was awkward in the courtroom Tuesday morning, pleading guilty to a felony charge of lying to the FBI. Hawkins had to lean over to speak into the courtroom microphone. “You’re quite tall,” remarked Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly. “You need to speak up in a loud, clear voice.” Over the next hour and 40 minutes, the judge laid out the plea deal — how Hawkins admitted to being part of the shadow campaign that spent $653,000 off the books to help elect Vincent Gray mayor in 2010. Hawkins will be sentenced later, but only after he continues to cooperate with federal prosecutors. And given Hawkins’ closeness to Gray — who declines to comment on what he knew and what he did in his own campaign — it was an important step. “Vernon Hawkins was at ground zero of a scheme to design, staff, and execute an off-the-books shadow campaign,” U.S. Attorney Ronald Machen said in a statement to the media. Machen noted that Hawkins and others broke the law and then tried to cover it up. “This guilty plea takes us one step closer to under-standing the extent of the deception that tainted the 2010 campaign.” At this point we have four close associates of the mayor who have pleaded guilty and are cooperating fully with Machen’s probe into Gray’s campaign. Last summer Jeanne Clarke Harris pleaded guilty. She was a principal in the scheme. Campaign associ-ates — and Gray friends — Howard Brooks and Thomas Gore previously pleaded guilty to charges involving improper payments to minor mayoral can-didate Sulaimon Brown for his frequent criticisms of Adrian Fenty during the campaign. All are cooperat-ing with authorities. Mayor Gray this week was maintaining his “no comment” silence as his longtime associates went down one by one. Many in the public find it hard to believe that Gray — himself a stickler for details — did not at least know of the illegal campaigning or, worse, approve of it.■ Election approaching. As the prosecutor sorts out wrongdoing in the last election, the next one quickly is approaching. The primary for mayor is now sched-uled for April 1, 2014. That seems a long way away, but it isn’t really. Good-government watchdog Dorothy Brizill noted online this week that candidates can start pick-ing up petitions to get on the April ballot this Nov. 8. Completed petitions must be filed with the Board of Elections by Jan. 2.

That’s a fast timetable. And it requires campaign-ing right through the holidays. It’s possible that the D.C. Council, when it returns from recess in September, may move the primary from April 1 (April Fool’s Day) to as late as June. If it does, there will be a little more breathing room on those petitions.

And Mayor Gray, who has yet to declare for a second term, will get a little longer to see what dam-

age the U.S. Attorney’s Office will do to his political future. Some folks are suggesting that Gray has already decid-ed he’s not running. But we need to more clearly

see some of the pending legal developments before that can be said. ■ Watch Walmart. Council Chairman Phil Mendel-son said this week that he’s about ready to send to the mayor the bill that would force big-box stores to pay at least $12.50 an hour (including benefits). The chairman has been sitting on the bill since it passed 8-5 in July, just before the council went on its summer recess. Though Gray hasn’t announced his intentions formally, NBC4 has reported that Gray will veto the bill, declaring it anti-business and a threat to the city’s growing retail corridors. (Walmart has threatened to pull the plug on all six of city stores it has planned.) Mendelson is hoping to line up nine votes to override any veto, but he’s not there yet. Last week, former Mayor Tony Williams and other business leaders weighed in. Williams, who also heads a task force on the city’s revenue sources, is chief executive officer of the influential Federal City Council. Former Rep. Tom Davis, D-Va., is serving as president of the council. In a sternly worded letter sent last Friday, they and other business leaders called the Walmart bill “arbi-trary and discriminatory legislation.” More impor-tantly, they said the bill threatens economic develop-ment in key areas of the city. “In the city’s most under-resourced wards,” the leaders wrote, “jobs are scarce and access to afford-able retail and fresh groceries is nearly nonexistent.” They warned that “retailers will continue to build their new stores just over the city lines in Maryland and Virginia.” Davis, in an interview with NBC4, noted that dol-lars from District citizens “will follow them to the suburbs.” Labor unions and community activists who sup-port the higher wage bill for big-box stores aren’t impressed with the business leaders’ lament. “Surprise, surprise,” said the Rev. Graylan Hagler, a leader of a group urging the mayor to sign the bill when he gets it. “Typical of the Federal City Coun-cil,” Hagler told NBC4. “They are overseers of the plantation.” Tom Sherwood, a Southwest resident, is a politi-cal reporter for News 4.

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TOM SHERWOOD’S NotebooK

Zoning issues need further clarification It is important that Current readers hear about the significant changes being proposed as part of the zoning code revision. The Aug. 7 article “Planners issue revised rewrite of zoning code” helps to isolate some of the issues. But I want to clarify two of the Committee of 100’s positions. The Committee of 100 has a separate view on accessory apart-ments established in the home than for apartments established in

the rear yard in garages or acces-sory structures. Homeowners deserve the opportunity to create an apartment in a home as long as it is safe and doesn’t unreasonably affect neighbors and neighbor-hoods. It’s time that we learn how many units we have, who lives in them, how affordable and safe they are, and whether they help our seniors stay in their homes. Apartments created in garages or rear-yard accessory structures raise more issues than do apart-ments located within a home. We may find from our experience with accessory dwelling units in the home that it is unnecessary to have apartments in garages or other structures in the rear yard, or

that we should allow a neighbor-hood to decide whether it wants garage apartments. The Committee of 100 has offered the Office of Planning many comments about the format-ting of the proposed new code to make it more user-friendly. Charts and illustrations are new positive features, but at almost 900 pages the text is very cumbersome with many new terms, new zones and new concepts. There is change in the draft that does not improve over the current code, and those organizational alterations should be reconsidered.

Nancy MacWoodChair, Committee of 100

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spring Valley editorial on health unfounded The Current has for many years questioned and criticized the con-clusions of Johns Hopkins Univer-sity studies about the health of Spring Valley residents. The Current previously ques-tioned and criticized the 2007 study. The actual conclusions of the 2007 study by researchers of Johns Hop-kins (as recorded in the minutes of a May 8, 2007, meeting of the Spring Valley Restoration Advisory Board) were: “The community health is good compared to the nation: The mortality rates are low. The cancer rates are low. No associ-ation was found between the D.C. cancer registry cases and the [boundaries of interest].” The researchers also found: “The overall community health status of Spring Valley is very good. For 11 of the top 15 causes of death, the mortality rates in Spring Valley are 20% to 70% lower than U.S. rates.” The follow-up Johns Hopkins study in 2013 agreed with these overall findings by concluding: “[C]ommunity health in the Spring Val-ley and Chevy Chase areas contin-ues to be very good. … Incidence … and mortality rates for all of the selected cancers in the Spring Val-ley area are lower than US rates. … Residents can be assured that com-munity health is very good and most environmental indicators are in compliance with established stan-dards or are similar to conditions in other urban areas.” Despite these conclusions by researchers from one of the premier universities in the country and with absolutely no proof, The Current continues to criticize and question the conclusions. To support its posi-tion The Current in its Aug. 7 edito-rial outrageously and wildly specu-lates that members of the Bush family “might” have contracted dis-eases by once living in Spring Val-ley. A famous lawyer once said in a televised congressional hearing: “Have you no shame?” My dictionary defines fact as “a thing known to be true ... truth, real-ity.” Your repeated articles and edi-torials about the health of the resi-dents of Spring Valley continue to be based on speculation, not facts.

Malcolm Pritzker Spring Valley

bikes don’t belong on city sidewalks Please get bicycles off of the sidewalks of the District of Colum-bia! Sidewalks are for pedestrians, including the elderly and baby car-riages. Sidewalks are not for trans-

portation vehicles! Bicycles endanger the safety and security of pedestrians. I have been riding a bicycle in D.C. for 20 years and I can honestly say I never ride on sidewalks. If required to be on a sidewalk with my bicycle for a short period of time, I walk it. Additionally, I frequently walk from Van Ness to the West End and see bicyclists zooming down the sidewalks of Connecticut Avenue, heedlessly intimidating the elderly. I also regularly see people flagrantly breaking the law by riding their bicycles on sidewalks south of Massachusetts Avenue NW. Why is this situation allowed to persist?

Kenneth BordenWest End

Pumping stations are worse than tree loss I’m responding to Rock Creek Park superintendent Tara Morri-son’s July 31 Viewpoint about sewer work proposed in Glover Archbold Park. I think everyone can agree that doing nothing and letting the sewer lines degrade and leak sewage into our parks is the worst possible option. And since diverting the flow to other existing city lines has been ruled out, we must choose the lesser of two evils — the temporary removal of trees, or the building of 20 sewage pumping stations that will become permanent noisy, smelly fixtures in our area. The pumping stations are unde-sirable for many reasons. Foremost, one would potentially occupy part of a historic victory garden that has been in Glover Archbold for nearly as long as the park’s existence. However, I find the arguments against tree removals to be spe-cious. I understand the National Park Service’s commitment to pre-serving parkland and public access, but this finger of a park is less about natural habitat than it is about improved urban living. In the spirit of scrutiny, let’s take a view of the forest from the trees. Void now of most of its native resi-dents such as elk, black bears, cou-gars and coyotes, this park is a shell of its origins. So now it lends itself to joggers, hikers, dog walkers, children, community gardens — and let’s not forget the birds, foxes, turtles, deer, et al. But remember that these trees Ms. Morrison defends were planted less than 40 years ago, when the current sewer line was installed in the 1970s. The idea that 50 years will be needed to restore the loss is exaggerated. And to say that such removal will only fuel invasive plants seems to over-look the near decimation of native species in all our parks, not from sewer construction but an uncon-trolled deer population. It would seem that either

replacement or removal of the sewer line is going to limit public access and remove trees — tempo-rarily. So let’s all take a deep breath and recognize the facts: We could spend Herculean efforts defying gravity with some 20 sewage pumps, abandoning the concrete line to become a crumbling liability that would eventually need to be removed (with the same dear trees getting hacked). We ought to take this opportuni-ty to manage our discordant park as it is. As ugly and invasive as sur-gery can be, this could be a healing chance for the park to get a proper-ly sized trail to accommodate jog-gers, walkers and their four-legged friends — perhaps even a dog run. And at the same time look at inven-tive ways to reduce invasives and revive the native flora and fauna (well, perhaps not the cougars).

Matthew CarucciGlover Park

Walter reed site has supermarkets nearby There are many reasons to desire adding a Wegmans supermarket to the D.C. retail mix, as The Current advocates in its July 31 editorial “A Walter Reed milestone.” Wegmans is a market leader in the industry in terms of merchandising, the breadth of products offered, the wide range of gourmet and prepared foods, and a great number of in-store eating options — some stores even offer Italian restaurants or pubs. But counter to the statement in the editorial that “Wegmans would suit the site well because the Walter Reed campus doesn’t have any other supermarkets nearby,” lack of supermarket options for Upper Northwest residents is not one of those reasons. The reality is that what Upper Northwest lacks most is a variety of nonfood retail options (Friendship Heights excepted). There is a Safeway 0.4 miles south from the Walter Reed site. As The Current has reported, Harris Teeter will be including a store in a residential development at Georgia and Eastern avenues, 0.4 miles north of Walter Reed. Of course, one mile south there will be a Walmart in the 5900 block of Geor-gia Avenue, and 55 percent of Walmart’s revenues are from the sales of groceries. Safeway is also upgrading its Petworth store as an element of a residential development there, although that location is two miles south of Walter Reed. It would be a lot more helpful to residents if reporting on proposed developments considered the broad-er land-use context outside of the confines of the particular lot of the project being covered.

Richard LaymanWard 4

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ANC 1CAdams Morgan

At the commission’s Aug. 7 meeting: ■ commissioners voted unanimous-ly to spend $110 per month through December to continue renting meet-ing space at Mary’s Center, after commission chair Billy Reed was unable to secure the space he wanted at Marie Reed Learning Center. ■ Kristen Barden of the Adams Mor-gan Partnership Business Improve-ment District announced that the DC Health Benefit Exchange will hold an informational meeting Aug. 19 from noon to 2 p.m. at 2436 18th St. ■ commissioners voted unanimous-ly to purchase a 10-foot-by-10-foot canopy to use at Adams Morgan Day and other similar events.■ commission chair Billy Simpson described two proposed additions to the commission’s bylaws that would provide stricter guidelines for public notice. The first proposal would require agendas for commission and com-mittee meetings to be posted on the commission’s website at least 14 days in advance of meetings. A two-thirds majority could determine exceptions, for times when lack of notice would not be “adverse to the community” or when delays could cause community harm. Under the second proposal, the commission or committee chair must ensure that a “brief but infor-mative description” of all votes and the date, time and location of upcom-ing meetings is posted on the web-

site. At the request of an audience member, the information will also be sent to press representatives who normally cover commission meet-ings. Commissioners will vote on the proposed bylaws changes at their September meeting.■ commissioners agreed to consider a grant request at their September meeting from the Adams Morgan Basketball Association, which is seeking up to $1,000 for a tourna-ment in Kalorama Park. Group pres-ident Michael Taylor said the money would be used for T-shirts and med-als for the winners; for a $450 Department of Parks and Recreation fee to use the court; and to pay two referees $150 each. He said the asso-ciation is also raising money from local businesses. Commissioner Wilson Reynolds said the last time this group received a grant it failed to provide adequate documentation, and that it is not registered with the District as a non-profit organization. Denis James of the Kalorama Citizens Association said he would look into the possibil-ity of his organization working with the basketball association as a non-profit fiscal agent. ■ commissioners voted unanimous-ly to support the closure of the “paper alley” that runs through the 122-year-old house at 1753 Seaton St.■ commissioners unanimously agreed to conditionally support a curb cut for the renovated Dorches-ter apartment building in the 2400 block of 17th Street next door to the Harris Teeter store. The commission’s support is contingent upon certain conditions for trucks and loading. The resolu-tion suggests requiring that visiting trucks not be longer than 32 feet, not idle more than 10 minutes, and be monitored by building staff. The loading dock should be used only between 8 a.m. and 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday, and monitored by closed-circuit TV.■ commissioners voted 5-1, with Wilson Reynolds opposed, to request that the D.C. Department of Trans-portation study the idea of allowing limited commercial loading and unloading in the medians of the 2300 and 2400 blocks of 18th Street and the 1700 and 1800 blocks of Columbia Road. The Adams Mor-gan Partnership Business Improve-ment District is requesting a 120-day pilot to evaluate the concept, but the commission stopped short of calling for the pilot to be implemented.■ commissioners voted unanimous-ly to protest an entertainment endorsement for Doener Bistro, at 1654 Columbia Road, to preserve the commission’s procedural rights while negotiating a settlement agree-ment. ■ commissioners unanimously agreed to co-sponsor the VIDA Senior Center outdoor health fair from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sept. 26 at 1842 Calvert St. The commission will meet at 7

p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 4, at Mary’s Center, 2355 Ontario Road NW. For details, call 202-332-2630 or visit anc1c.org.

ANC 2AFoggy Bottom

The commission will meet at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 18, at Heart House, 24th and N streets NW. For details, visit anc2a.org.

ANC 2BDupont Circle

The commission will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 14, at the Brookings Institution, 1775 Mas-sachusetts Ave. NW. Agenda items include:■ announcements.■ consideration of a resolution thanking the Urban Forestry Admin-istration for tree removal.■ consideration of a resolution about joining the Ward 2 education coali-tion.■ consideration of a resolution marking the passing of Annie Kay-lor of Annie’s Paramount Steak House.■ consideration of a request by Chi-Cha Lounge, 1624 U St., to amend its settlement agreement to allow for a holiday hours extension.■ consideration of an Alcoholic Beverage Control application by Shoreditch Cooperative LLC for a new restaurant-class license at 1513 17th St. ■ consideration of a proposed reso-lution on the 17th Street moratori-um.■ consideration of a public space application for a sidewalk cafe at 1333 New Hampshire Ave.■ consideration of a public space application for a sidewalk cafe at 1717 Pennsylvania Ave.■ consideration of a public space application for the installation of bollards at 1050 Connecticut Ave.■ consideration of a Historic Preser-vation Review Board application for proposed signage at 1737 Connecti-cut Ave.■ committee reports. For details, visit dupontcircleanc.net.

ANC 2DSheridan-Kalorama

The commission will meet at 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 16, at Our Lady Queen of the Americas Church, California Street and Phelps Place NW. For details, visit anc2d.org or contact davidanc2d01@aol.com.

ANC 2FLogan Circle

The commission will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 4, at the Washington Plaza Hotel, 10 Thomas Circle NW. For details, call 202-667-0052 or visit anc2f.org.

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The moratorium sets restraints on the number and types of liquor licenses in a radius around 17th and Q streets, for example prohibiting nightclubs and limiting taverns and liquor stores. Currently 16 restaurant licenses are allowed — all of which are taken.

“We’re not hearing that people are against having new restaurants come in, provided they can go through … [careful] vetting,” said commissioner Kevin O’Connor,

who chairs the group’s alcohol poli-cy committee.

But commissioner Abigail Nich-ols pushed for a temporary exten-sion, saying the commission doesn’t yet have enough information on the impacts of the moratorium. “We’re definitely lacking a factual base, a documentation of public opinion,” she said, suggesting the community needs time to put together “a com-plete report.”

“This is a great chance to look at the 17th Street business area,” Nich-ols said, noting that the timing is ripe with the revival of the Historic Dupont Circle Main Streets group.

A few members of the Dupont Circle Citizens Association also sup-ported that logic, urging collabora-tion between the various neighbor-hood organizations. “Between DCCA, the ANC and Main Streets, we may be able to do some stuff to liven up the place,” said citizen asso-ciation member Susan Volman.

There was disagreement over whether the moratorium has encour-aged or hampered retail since it took effect in 1990.

Resident Judith Neibrief praised the retail options, noting she can walk to “a supermarket, dry cleaner, drugstore, hardware store, kitchen supply store, yoga studio [and] cof-fee shop.”

Others pointed to some dead spaces. Commissioner Kishan Putta read aloud a letter from a longtime resident who asked: “Are empty storefronts better for the neighbor-hood than additional restaurants?”

But Robin Diener of the citizens association questioned whether the commissioners’ proposal to get rid of the cap on restaurant-class licens-es — published in a draft resolution last week — would be effective. “People want good restaurants, one-of-a-kind, new ideas,” she said. “I don’t think by lifting the cap we’ll get that. We might, but we might get a chain.”

She also worried about the threat to retail diversity if landlords can obtain more rent from alcohol-sell-

ing businesses. “What will be the pressures on lower-grossing, lower-profit-margin, neighborhood-serv-ing retail businesses?” she asked, as “one of the main goals” of the mora-torium was to protect them.

But several community members agreed that another of the moratori-um’s original intents — to control the club scene on 17th Street — has lost some relevance.

“17th Street was once the place to come to – not anymore,” commis-sioner Leo Dwyer said of the area’s nightlife. He also spoke of the neigh-borhood’s spike in affluence, which has changed its needs. “Fifteen years ago, I could rent a one-bedroom apartment for $500 and buy one for $50,000. … Now it’s half a million.”

To Nichols’ suggestion to ask for an emergency extension, the three other commissioners present Wednesday night expressed reluc-tance if not opposition.

Even with 120 more days, as Nichols proposed, “I don’t think we’re going to have anything groundbreaking or anything that’s going to change the results of this,” said commissioner Stephanie Maltz.

O’Connor also said he gets the sense the board is moving away from the rigidity of moratoriums.

The “Dupont East Moratorium” is set to expire Sept. 23. The neigh-borhood commission will consider the issue at its monthly meeting at 7 tonight at the Brookings Institution.

min Frank Cooling, a local Civil War historian and board member of the alliance.

Cooling said his group is focused on “smart growth of … historic tourism” features at Wal-ter Reed. “It’s vital that the preservation of open spaces, combined with interpretative markers and possibly a visitors center, be incorporated, to carry on historic preservation … as this new neighborhood is developed.”

Today’s 113 acres of the Walter Reed site hosted combat and staging areas during the Battle of Fort Stevens, “ground on which Union and Confederate troops fought bitterly to capture the city of Washington and throw the Lincoln administration out of office,” Cooling said.

Fought on July 11 and 12, 1864, it was the sole Civil War battle that occurred within the boundaries of the District of Columbia, as Union troops stopped an attack by Confederate Gen. Jubal Early. Famously, it was also the only time a sitting U.S. president came under fire. Sharpshooters who aimed at Lincoln took position on parts of the present-day Walter Reed site.

Cooling — who has written extensively

about the Battle of Fort Stevens and recently published a book titled “The Day Lincoln Was Almost Shot” — summed up the broader his-torical significance in a 2010 position paper. “Events at Fort Stevens (and the grounds of Walter Reed) prevented the wounding, killing or capture of the American president, sacking of the national capital and major political re-direction of the nation,” he wrote.

Once the war ended, much of the area remained farmland until the Army medical center was established in the early 1900s; later the surrounding community grew more subur-ban.

Now, after years of planning and the official shutdown of the medical center in 2011, both the federal and D.C. governments are moving forward with redevelopment schemes for Wal-ter Reed. While the State Department plans an enclave of embassies for part of the site, the District is currently reviewing proposals from three competing development teams — all of which envision a mix of residential, retail and institutional uses on the city’s 62.5 acres of the campus, fronting Georgia Avenue.

One part of the process the Civil War alli-ance has been watching closely is a require-ment – as part of the complex transfer of the

Army’s land – to designate the Walter Reed campus as both a national and local historic district. That status would “control the demoli-tion, major alterations and new construction” on Walter Reed, said Loretta Neumann, the alliance’s vice president.

The Army is now developing the historic district nomination and plans to submit it this October, according to an Army staffer who spoke to The Current. At the same time, the Army is assessing the site’s archaeological resources to see if further research is warrant-ed.

Down the line, the Army is developing a plan for interpretive historical markers for the site, due by 2017.

The Army staffer said the property’s Civil War history “wasn’t a driving force of the pro-grammatic agreement” for preservation — the focus has always been the Army’s hospital buildings — but he said Civil War activists have been in touch and plans do incorporate that element.

Neumann said that in recent public meet-ings about Walter Reed, development teams seem “clearly aware there would be [preserva-tion] restraints on them” going forward. But she also said that when the specific topic of

Civil War history comes up, it’s usually com-ing directly from a member of her alliance.

The activist group started out as a scattered effort, organizing into a formal nonprofit a few years ago. Its primary cause, as the 150th anni-versary of the Battle of Fort Stevens approach-es, is to increase protection and unification of the immediate area’s collection of 19 Civil War forts. To that end, the group is now advocating for D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton to put forth legislation establishing a “Civil War Defenses of Washington National Park.”

Cooling said the Walter Reed land “fits into the overall story of the Fort Stevens event,” and its Civil War history has benefited from de facto protections “for years, preserved under the guise of the Walter Reed [Army Medical Center].”

As development looms, Cooling said the process to establish a historic district offers “some encouraging signs.” Beyond that, “all we can do is continue to press for recognition and work with developers and the city and the State Department.”

“Many of the plans they’re doing are fabu-lous,” he said, but “the more they rip it up, the more [the history] is lost to posterity … and the community’s knowledge base.”

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the “superdorm” project, and 21st and G streets for a new museum. “We now have construction vir-tually nonstop from 24th Street all the way down on H Street,” one resident said at Wednesday’s meet-ing. “Somebody had to have stag-gered those projects. We don’t ques-tion the needs you put forth; we question the timing that we all have to have everything at the same time.” At the public health school, two-way traffic — albeit with narrowed lanes and no parking — is set to be restored on 24th Street at the end of this month. Knight said the univer-sity will make each lane of 24th about 18 inches wider than original-ly planned — 11.5 feet instead of 10 — and will use chain-link fencing instead of Jersey barriers to further increase the perceived width of the lanes. “That is the most that, because of site logistics, that we can continue to bring it back,” she said. That layout will remain through December. Outside Ross Hall, Knight said, the university has shifted its H Street fencing farther from the 24th Street corner to increase visibility for motorists. The school will remove the fencing as soon as possible, but parking there will remain prohibited to leave room for temporary uses, she said. The closures there will wrap up by the end of December. Closures will last through November 2014 at the Science and Engineering Hall, a project that has all of Square 55 — bordered by 22nd, 23rd, I and H streets — under construction. Knight said the logis-tics are actually easier there, though, because work doesn’t have to accommodate other buildings. One travel lane, two parking lanes and two sidewalks on that square are closed, with the least impact on 23rd Street. At the site of the planned new museum building, which will house the Textile Museum and university exhibits, Knight said closures are “imminently coming” of the side-walks and parking lanes at the north-east corner of 21st and G streets. A parking and travel lane will soon be lost on a stretch of the 2100 block of H Street for the dorm project.

Visit tinyurl.com/gwmap2013, tinyurl.com/gwmap2014 and tinyurl.com/gwmap2015 to see maps show-ing year-to-year closure plans. At the same time, the IMF is shutting the 1900 block of H Street through 2016 except for one side-walk — on the north side of the street. University projects nearby make the sidewalks on the south side of H Street the only ones open for several blocks. Some residents at the meeting noted that so many northbound streets are affected by lane closures or other construction-related conges-tion that there’s no easy way out of the neighborhood. Barbara Kahlow of the West End Citizens Association requested that the university provide a flagman to allow two-way traffic on 24th Street. Knight said at the meeting that the university had not thought of that idea but would consider it. University spokesperson Michelle Sherrard said yesterday that the university had originally proposed a flagman but the Trans-portation Department instead requested one-way traffic south-bound at all times. In response to a neighbor’s com-plaint, Knight also promised to step up enforcement against contractors

parking their personal vehicles in closed-off lanes. The university is also expected to build a new office building at 2100 Pennsylvania Ave. and gut and rebuild a dorm, the former Howard Johnson’s hotel, at 2601 Virginia

Ave., but schedules for those proj-ects haven’t yet been determined. University officials were caught off guard by the number of attendees at last Wednesday’s meeting, quickly running out of handouts and chairs as more than three-dozen residents

squeezed into a conference room. “If I’d known we’d have 40 peo-ple, I’d have gotten a bigger room, maybe with a microphone,” said Knight. “It’s called planning!” one resi-dent shouted back.

to directly address student grievances about off-campus problems.

“We envision having a legal clinic on cam-pus at least once or twice a month so that as Alyssa and members of her association take complaints, we will have attorneys to meet and address those complaints,” she said.

In the past, Georgetown off-campus stu-dents have normally gone to the Office of Neighborhood Life to voice their discontent about uncooperative property managers.

Since February, interim director Cory Peterson said he has received a dozen com-plaints. All his office could do was direct his constituents to city services, such as the Office

of the Tenant Advocate.The director said the new nonprofit will

make this communication process “more effi-cient and more well-rounded.”

The Georgetown advisory neighborhood commission also supports the new student ten-ant organization. In the past year, the commis-sion — which includes two students at the university — has been actively discussing tenant issues in the neighborhood.

“This will address these student-tenant issues in a very positive step,” said commis-sion chair Ron Lewis.

Commissioner Jeffrey Jones, who co-chairs environmental and landlord initiatives for the Georgetown Community Partnership, also supported the new effort.

“We are working on a winning situation for the students, the community and the university. [The Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs] has informed us their intent is not to remove the student-tenants from their rental properties, but their primary focus is to ensure rental properties are safe,” Jones wrote in an email. “Now is an ideal time for landlords to reach out to DCRA to ensure their property is up to code. The Student Tenant Advocacy Association is an excellent resource for every student-tenant to reach out to whether they have a safety concern or not.”

A D.C.-based landlord who has been leas-ing his rental properties to Georgetown stu-dents for 25 years praised the university for maintaining good relations with long-term

residents and landlords in the past few years.“Georgetown has done a phenomenal job at

keeping stude nts accountable” with their liv-ing situation off campus, said the property owner, who asked not to be identified. “If [the tenant organization] gets a strong operation, then it’ll be worth their time.”

According to Shreve, Georgetown’s tenant advocate group is the first of its kind since the launch of her office in 2006. She said she hopes it becomes a template for other schools.

“We hope to use this one as a demonstration project this year as a program designed togeth-er so that we can introduce this to university campuses all over the city,” said Shreve. “I envision student-tenant associations all over the city hopefully in the next 24 to 36 months.”

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recovery that’s ongoing at the Wash-ington Monument and National Cathedral and so we’re excited to show the off-beaten path,” said Bur-ton during the presentation that took place before the tour.

At 10 a.m. Aug. 29, the retire-ment community will also open its doors to the public to showcase both the reconstruction efforts at the Sherman Building and the grand opening of the newly built Scott Building.

The Sherman Building, built in 1852 by Barton S. Alexander and Gilbert Cameron, first served as a dormitory for soldiers coming home from the Mexican-American War. In 1952, the building began to house adminis-trative offices.

Today, the Sherman Building — named after Union Army Gen. Wil-liam Tecumseh Sherman — still hosts administrative functions for the armed forces facility, which houses around 500 retired military members.

After the 2011 earthquake, crew members working on the new Scott Building shifted their focus to fixing the older structure. They worked all night to remove 180 unstable stones. Before Hurricane Irene passed through a few days later, they also wrapped straps around the clock tower.

“Most concerning was the clock tower. We had no idea the extent of structural damage at that time. It was too dangerous to go up there. Struc-tural engineers came up with the system using custom-made nylon straps to wrap around and hold it

together to withstand the wind,” said Burton.

The retirement home, also known as the “Old Soldiers’ Home,” enlist-ed The Christman Co. and a multi-disciplinary team that included Pre-serve Scapes and Quinn Evans Architects to take on the repairs.

The most significant feat was deconstructing the 120-foot clock tower, which was added to the origi-nal structure in 1868. A construction crane removed each stone and laid it

down on the ground, with Burton and her business partner Molly McDonald cataloguing each mason-ry. The heaviest stone taken out weighed 4,000 pounds.

A structural steel frame was then raised to strengthen the tower. Using a puzzle map, the crew put the his-toric stones back together around the frame.

League members were impressed by what was accomplished. “So much attention was given to the Washington Monument and Nation-al Cathedral,” said John DeFerrari, a blogger for Streets of Washington and a board member of the preserva-tion league. “It’s great that the Armed Forces Retirement Home was in a position to restore this. This is a real triumph.”

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one who represents the 2,000 resi-dents of my single-member district,” she said. She plans to go door-to-door throughout her area to get resi-dents’ opinions on key issues. “I want to ask around, look around, generally be proactive and find things to do to help this place,” she said. Tinker mentioned a few issues she’d already like to pay attention to, such as exploring new community uses for Fort Reno Park and spurring further redevelopment along Wis-consin. But overall, she said, “I want to go about learning what [residents] think needs fixing before setting about trying to fix it.” Tinker had her first meeting on a commission issue Monday — a pri-vate discussion between several commissioners and the new owners

of the Dancing Crab Restaurant, located at 4615 Wisconsin Ave. within her single-member district. She’ll attend her first full commis-sion meeting Aug. 29. It won’t be her first foray into politics, though. Tinker is a former president of the university’s College Democrats, and she canvassed Ward 3 for Mayor Adrian Fenty’s re-elec-tion campaign. She also has volun-teered as a tutor with Kid Power, which she said gives her insights into D.C. public schools. “If I see some-thing that, with a lot of work on my end, is going to benefit the commu-nity, I’m going to do it,” she said. Tinker predicts she’ll remain at Cityline through at least December 2014 and says she’ll likely stay in D.C. afterward, though perhaps not in Tenleytown. She laughed at a question about political ambitions. “People have said to me that

being an ANC commissioner makes you an elected official on your way to being president of the United States — no, no, no,” said Tinker. “This is something I’m really doing because I want to learn more and I’m interested in being more integrated into the Washington community.” Tinker is one of three American University students presently on advisory neighborhood commis-sions; the other two, Rory Slatko and Joe Wisniewski, serve in the Spring Valley/Wesley Heights commission around the university’s main cam-pus. Wisniewski, a friend of Tinker’s, encouraged her to run after learning about the vacant 3E01 seat, she said. Tinker was unopposed in her bid but needed to collect 25 signatures of registered voters within that single-member district. Her term will expire at the end of 2014.

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Tucked behind lush foliage in Wesley Heights sits an impressive brick Colonial,

on a corner lot atop a grassy knoll

in one of the most desirable neigh-borhoods in D.C. The street view is especially striking, as you encounter this 16,000-square-foot property down the bend of a winding road.

The six-bedroom, five-and-half bath and four-fireplace house at 4773 Dexter St. is on the market for $2,250,000.

Surrounding the home’s exterior is a wide array of mature greenery, including azaleas and crepe myrtle, holly, dogwood, maple and pine trees. The front yard boasts an expansive lawn, a driveway and a winding flagstone path leading to a cozy portico. Wrapping the rest of the house, the backyard also show-cases a lush lawn, as well as a small pond and a flagstone-patterned patio excellent for outdoor enter-taining.

Built in 1940, this charming abode presents an interior brimming with natural light from abundant windows.

The home’s radiance can be seen from the foyer. To the left, the all-white living room with random-width wood floors creates a wel-coming atmosphere. Natural light splashes from four oversized win-dows lined with ledges and crown moldings. The space also features a wood-burning fireplace with a man-tel and a set of four generously sized built-in bookcases with bot-tom cabinets.

The living room flows north through a set of French doors into an oak-paneled den. The dark hues contrast with the illuminated neigh-boring room, but plenty of sunlight floods into this space from more large windows and another set of French doors leading to the back-yard. A fireplace and three built-in bookcases adorn the walls, creating a reposing ambiance perfect for a music room — which is its current use — or a library.

At the center of this level sits a separate dining room that can seat up to 12 guests. Two built-in book-shelves bookend an oversized win-dow overlooking the backyard. Embellishing the ceiling is a French chandelier. Some buyers may elect to update the walls, which are cur-rently splashed with sea-foam blue paint and feature an off-white chair

railing. A door from

the dining room leads to a table-space kitchen. It’s outfitted with the latest stainless steel appliances, including a Sub-Zero refrigera-tor, but future owners may also want to modernize this area. To the rear is a mudroom, another port of entry to the back-yard.

The most airy feature of the house is a garden room, located on the other side of the first floor. It can be accessed by descending a few short wooden steps from the hallway.

The lowered space, which is cur-rently used as a family room, shows off cathedral ceilings, slate floors, glass doors crowned with arched windows, and walls of glass, all dis-playing views of the luscious back-yard.

Four of the six bedrooms rest on the second floor, with the master suite dominating the west end. The suite features a spacious sleeping

area with coved ceilings, a sun-lit dressing room with three closets, and a full bath with skylights. It also connects to a private wood-panel study complete with built-in bookcases and a handsome brick wood-burning fireplace.

The two smaller bedrooms in the middle of this floor are connected by a full bath, while a larger one, with its own private bath, is current-ly furnished as a second family room on the east side.

The hallway is lined with ample closet space and has another set of stairs leading to the third floor. This story features a generous wooden

landing, an insulated attic space and a large sleeping area connected to a full bath.

In the bottom level, you’ll find a spacious area that includes a ceram-ic-tiled recreation room with pine-paneled walls and a fireplace. The sixth bedroom and a utility room storing the washer and dryer are also housed on this floor.

This six-bedroom, five-and-half-bath property at 4773 Dexter St. is offered for $2,250,000. For more information contact Terri Robinson of Long & Foster Real Estate at trrestate@aol.com or 202-607-7731.

A Look at the Market in Northwest Washington August 14, 2013 ■ Page 15

Colonial offers luscious landscaping, sunny disposition

Photos courtesy of Long & Foster Real EstateThis six-bedroom Wesley Heights house is priced at $2,250,000.

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bancroft elementary RISING 52.3 47.4% 42.2% 5.2% 52.0% 49.4% 2.6% 42.9% 35.1% 7.8%

benjamin banneker Academic high REWARD 103.0 98.1% 91.7% 6.4% 100.0% 96.8% 3.2% 96.1% 86.6% 9.5%

bruce monroe elementary at park View REWARD 53.5 48.5% 34.2% 14.2% 56.5% 40.6% 15.9% 40.5% 27.9% 12.6%

cardozo high at meyer PRIORITY 30.6 26.1% 28.6% – 2.4% 32.6% 31.6% 1.0% 19.7% 25.5% – 5.8%

cleveland elementary RISING 73.6 69.7% 70.9% – 1.2% 68.1% 74.5% – 6.4% 71.3% 67.3% 3.9%

columbia heights education campus RISING 55.4 49.3% 44.0% 5.4% 51.9% 47.6% 4.3% 46.8% 40.3% 6.5%

h.d. cooke elementary FOCUS 40.1 37.1% 29.9% 7.2% 33.3% 29.1% 4.2% 40.8% 30.7% 10.1%

marie reed elementary RISING 60.1 58.4% 53.8% 4.6% 63.6% 58.0% 5.6% 53.3% 49.6% 3.7%

shaw middle at garnet-patterson FOCUS 32.3 28.6% 32.3% – 3.7% 26.5% 32.6% – 6.2% 30.7% 31.9% – 1.2%

tubman elementary RISING 74.6 71.0% 58.4% 12.6% 79.3% 65.0% 14.3% 62.7% 51.9% 10.8%

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booker t. Washington PRIORITY 23.8 17.5% 26.3% – 8.8% 17.5% 21.1% -3.6% 17.5% 31.6% – 14.1%

capital city — lower FOCUS 48.9 45.8% N/A N/A 44.0% N/A N/A 47.5% N/A N/A

cesar chavez — chavez prep RISING 71.2 65.6% 60.2% 5.4% 78.0% 72.9% 5.2% 53.1% 47.4% 5.6%

d.c. bilingual RISING 64.6 60.2% 50.2% 10.0% 57.6% 45.5% 12.0% 62.9% 55.0% 7.9%

e.l. haynes — georgia Avenue campus RISING 68.1 62.6% 62.3% 0.2% 64.5% 65.8% – 1.3% 60.5% 58.9% 1.7%

howard university middle school of math and science RISING 78.8 75.7% 76.0% – 0.3% 78.5% 78.9% – 0.4% 73.0% 73.0% – 0.1%

inspired teaching demonstration RISING 61.4 60.8% 34.6% 26.2% 64.9% 23.1% 41.8% 56.8% 46.2% 10.6%

meridian FOCUS 62.1 56.8% 50.0% 6.8% 56.6% 53.7% 3.0% 56.9% 46.3% 10.5%

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duke ellington school of the Arts REWARD 84.3 77.8% 66.1% 11.8% 75.4% 58.3% 17.1% 80.3% 73.9% 6.4%

Francis-stevens education campus RISING 58.7 51.6% 50.7% 0.9% 46.7% 49.6% – 2.9% 56.6% 51.8% 4.8%

garrison elementary FOCUS 36.0 31.9% 47.8% – 15.9% 32.8% 50.7% – 18.0% 31.0% 44.8% – 13.7%

hardy middle RISING 71.7 64.6% 65.6% -1.0% 66.8% 68.4% – 1.6% 62.5% 62.8% – 0.3%

hyde-Addison elementary REWARD 81.1 78.7% 82.2% – 3.5% 80.0% 81.2% – 1.2% 77.4% 83.2% – 5.8%

ross elementary REWARD 84.6 80.9% 68.8% 12.1% 78.7% 72.9% 5.8% 83.0% 64.6% 18.4%

school Without Walls REWARD 104 98.3% 98.2% 0.1% 97.3% 98.2% – 0.9% 99.3% 98.2% 1.1%

seaton elementary FOCUS 56.6 50.5% 43.0% 7.5% 67.0% 45.2% 21.9% 34.1% 40.9% – 6.8%

thompson elementary RISING 63.3 62.2% 51.9% 10.3% 68.1% 54.5% 13.6% 56.3% 49.3% 7.0%

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basis dc REWARD 84.2 79.2% N/A N/A 77.0% N/A N/A 81.3% N/A N/A

center city — shaw campus RISING 54.0 42.9% 38.8% 4.0% 45.2% 41.3% 4.0% 40.5% 36.4% 4.1%

community Academy butler bilingual RISING 76.2 73.7% 61.0% 12.7% 77.2% 63.2% 14.0% 70.2% 58.8% 11.4%

Kipp dc — Will Academy RISING 74.5 70.2% 60.9% 9.4% 78.5% 66.8% 11.7% 62.0% 55.0% 7.0%

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deal middle REWARD 92.2 85.6% 83.4% 2.2% 88.4% 84.7% 3.6% 82.8% 82.1% 0.7%

eaton elementary REWARD 85.3 84.5% 84.6% – 0.1% 84.8% 83.8% 1.0% 84.2% 85.5% – 1.2%

hearst elementary RISING 72.1 68.9% 61.7% 7.2% 67.0% 60.2% 6.8% 70.9% 63.3% 7.6%

Janney elementary REWARD 97.4 93.4% 91.2% 2.2% 92.5% 89.1% 3.4% 94.2% 93.2% 1.0%

Key elementary REWARD 95.9 90.6% 91.6% – 1.0% 89.9% 92.3% – 2.5% 91.3% 90.9% 0.4%

mann elementary REWARD 94.7 90.5% 85.1% 5.4% 89.5% 83.1% 6.4% 91.6% 87.1% 4.5%

murch elementary REWARD 86.0 80.8% 83.4% – 2.6% 79.7% 81.3% – 1.5% 81.9% 85.5% – 3.6%

oyster-Adams bilingual (oyster campus) REWARD 87.0 82.9% 82.8% 0.1% 84.0% 82.2% 1.8% 81.8% 83.4% – 1.7%

stoddert elementary REWARD 91.0 87.4% 81.2% 6.2% 89.7% 84.8% 4.9% 85.0% 77.6% 7.4%

Wilson high FOCUS 67.1 60.6% 59.9% 0.7% 60.0% 59.5% 0.4% 61.3% 60.3% 1.0%

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barnard elementary RISING 56.5 50.9% 57.1% -6.2% 48.5% 58.3% – 9.8% 53.3% 55.8% – 2.6%

brightwood education campus FOCUS 50.4 45.1% 34.1% 11.0% 47.7% 34.8% 13.0% 42.4% 33.3% 9.0%

coolidge high DEVELOPING 38.6 31.3% 33.1% – 1.8% 27.3% 31.6% – 4.3% 35.2% 34.6% 0.7%

lafayette elementary REWARD 92.7 91.1% 90.5% 0.7% 92.2% 90.8% 1.3% 90.1% 90.1% 0.0%

lasalle-backus education campus PRIORITY 38.3 32.7% 18.8% 14.0% 30.9% 17.6% 13.2% 34.6% 19.9% 14.7%

macfarland middle REWARD 60.9 50.8% 30.9% 19.9% 54.6% 34.5% 20.2% 46.9% 27.3% 19.7%

powell elementary RISING 56.6 54.0% 43.8% 10.2% 63.0% 50.8% 12.2% 45.0% 36.9% 8.1%

raymond education campus RISING 51.1 43.9% 41.2% 2.7% 41.5% 42.0% – 0.5% 46.3% 40.3% 6.0%

roosevelt high PRIORITY 29.0 20.4% 16.7% 3.7% 19.7% 17.9% 1.7% 21.1% 15.4% 5.7%

sharpe health N/A N/A 92.5% 90.5% 2.0% 95.0% 85.7% 9.3% 90.0% 95.2% – 5.2%

shepherd elementary RISING 78.7 73.6% 72.7% 0.9% 71.0% 69.1% 1.9% 76.1% 76.3% – 0.2%

takoma education campus FOCUS 50.0 43.4% 37.2% 6.2% 40.2% 37.2% 3.1% 46.5% 37.2% 9.3%

truesdell education campus RISING 52.7 50.0% 42.8% 7.2% 52.8% 47.2% 5.6% 47.2% 38.4% 8.8%

West education campus RISING 62.5 57.5% 49.1% 8.4% 60.2% 50.4% 9.7% 54.9% 47.9% 7.0%

Whittier education campus FOCUS 44.5 37.7% 41.2% – 3.4% 40.6% 42.9% – 2.4% 34.9% 39.4% – 4.5%

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capital city high RISING 74.9 67.1% N/A N/A 62.0% N/A N/A 72.2% N/A N/A

capital city middle RISING 60.7 56.5% N/A N/A 50.7% N/A N/A 62.3% N/A N/A

center city — brightwood campus RISING 66.8 62.8% 48.7% 14.0% 68.6% 51.8% 16.8% 56.9% 45.7% 11.3%

center city — petworth campus FOCUS 61.6 60.9% 53.6% 7.3% 63.8% 57.5% 6.4% 57.9% 49.6% 8.2%

community Academy — Amos i RISING 54.1 47.3% 44.0% 3.3% 47.3% 44.8% 2.5% 47.3% 43.3% 4.0%

community Academy — online RISING 69.8 65.0% 63.7% 1.3% 60.9% 61.3% – 0.4% 69.1% 66.1% 3.0%

e.l. haynes — Kansas Avenue campus RISING 60.8 54.5% N/A N/A 50.6% N/A N/A 58.3% N/A N/A

hope community — lamond campus DEVELOPING 41.5 38.6% 49.0% – 10.5% 37.1% 46.2% – 9.0% 40.0% 51.9% – 11.9%

hospitality FOCUS 44.4 32.7% 27.0% 5.7% 34.6% 26.7% 7.9% 30.8% 27.3% 3.5%

ideal Academy — north capitol street campus RISING 55.4 50.0% 40.6% 9.4% 50.0% 37.6% 12.4% 50.0% 43.6% 6.4%

latin American montessori bilingual RISING 77.3 73.8% 66.3% 7.6% 71.4% 62.5% 8.9% 76.2% 70.0% 6.2%

mary mcleod bethune day Academy — slowe campus RISING 53.3 46.0% 38.4% 7.6% 49.0% 36.6% 12.4% 42.9% 40.1% 2.7%

paul Junior high RISING 75.7 71.1% 64.0% 7.2% 81.2% 68.1% 13.1% 61.1% 59.9% 1.2%

roots RISING 60.4 59.7% 59.1% 0.6% 54.8% 47.7% 7.1% 64.5% 70.5% – 5.9%

Washington latin high REWARD 80.4 73.0% 61.3% 11.6% 68.9% 62.7% 6.1% 77.0% 60.0% 17.0%

Washington latin middle REWARD 83.9 79.0% 78.8% 0.2% 78.1% 77.1% 1.0% 79.9% 80.6% – 0.7%

For details about D.C.’s scores, see page 4

Events&Entertainment The CurrenT Wednesday, augusT 14, 2013 17

The Shakespeare Theatre Company will present its 23rd annual “Free for All” production — “Much Ado About

Nothing” — Aug. 20 through Sept. 1 at Sid-ney Harman Hall. This production, initially presented during 2011-2012 season, is inspired by 1930s Cuba — with the original play’s island milieu,

Catholic background and frothy mix of mili-tary and social conflict updated for a new era and continent. The most playful of Shake-speare’s romantic comedies comes to life through the sounds and rhythms of Afro-Cuban music and dance. Performance times are 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Tuesday and Wednesday; 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday; and 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Tickets are free and can be obtained by online lottery or in person. Sidney Har-man Hall is located at 610 F St. NW. Visit shakespearetheatre.org or call 202-547-1122 for details.

■ Rorschach Theatre will present Robert Kauzlaric’s adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s novel “Neverwhere” Aug. 16 through Sept. 15 at the Atlas Performing Arts Center. In this urban fantasy, a wounded girl appears on the London sidewalk in front of Richard Mayhew. Quickly, he’s plunged into an underworld where heroes and monsters are real and where death waits in the dark of Night’s Bridge. Performance times are generally 8 p.m. Monday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $15 to $30. The theater is located at 1333 H St. NE. 202-399-7993; rorschachtheatre.com.■ The National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts will present a staged reading of “Best Men” Aug. 19. Written by local playwrights Mario Baldessari and Chris Stezin, the play tells the story of two estranged best friends from col-lege — one straight, one gay — who are unexpectedly reunited by their spouses. Their rocky reunion takes them from a hospital waiting room back to the riverbank where their friendship ended 20 years ago.

The reading will begin at 7:30 p.m., with doors opening at 7. Admission is free. The National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts is located at 1556 Wisconsin Ave. NW. theconservatory.org/now-playing.html.■ The newly formed Fat and Greasy Citi-zens Brigade will stage an outdoor produc-tion of Shakespeare’s pastoral comedy “As You Like It” Aug. 14 through 18 at George-town’s Grace Episcopal Church. The group’s founders, Heather Cipu and Alexis Truitt, plan to offer D.C. free outdoor productions of the Bard’s works each sum-mer. Their first selection follows the heroine Rosalind as she finds safety and, eventually, love after fleeing to the Forest of Arden. Performance times are 8 p.m., with the grounds open for pre-performance picnicking at 7 p.m. Admission is free. Grace Episcopal Church is located at 1041 Wisconsin Ave. NW. For details visit fgcitizens.org.■ Theater Alliance will kick off its 11th sea-son with Nathan Louis Jackson’s family drama “Broke-ology” Aug. 14 through Sept. 8 at the Anacostia Playhouse.

This summer, Shakespeare’s ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ is available for free

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Photo by Scott SuchmanFloyd King and Ted van Griethuysen appear in the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s production of “Much Ado About Nothing.”

“Manifest: AR,” high-lighting the Manifest.AR collective of art-

ists who work with the burgeoning technology of augmented reality to

place their works in site-specific virtual spaces accessible by smart mobile devices, will open today at the Corcoran Gallery of Art’s free Gallery 31 space. Continuing through Sept 1, the exhibit is the second in the gallery’s “Manifest” series, which focuses on the relationship between art, tech-nology and exhibition spaces. On view are works by six artists that allow visitors to look through iPads, or similar devices, and see images from objective reality that have been altered electroni-cally. Cards will also be given out directing visitors to view virtual monuments on the Mall through their iPhones. Located at 500 17th St. NW, the gallery is open Wednes-day through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Wednesday until 9 p.m. 202-639-1700.■ “A Night at the Opera,” featuring manuscript and printed scores, librettos, photographs, correspon-dence and set designs from the late 18th through the early 20th centu-ries, will open tomorrow in the Per-forming Arts Reading Room at the Library of Congress’ James

Madison Building. Commemorating the bicentenni-als of iconic opera composers Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wag-

ner, the exhibit will continue through Jan. 25. Located at 101 Independence Ave. SE, the library is open Monday through Saturday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. 202-707-8000.■ “Go-Go Swing: Washing-ton, DC’s Unstoppable Beat,” a multi-

media celebration of the District’s signature sound, will open Friday with a gala opening reception at the 200 I Street Gallery. The D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities exhibit will continue through Oct. 18. Friday’s opening gala will fea-ture art, music, photography, fash-

ion and poetry. The “all-white attire” affair will be held from 7 to 10 p.m.; the event is free, but reser-vations are required at gogoswing.eventbrite.com. An “instrument petting zoo” will be held Sept. 14 from 3 to 4 p.m., and a gallery talk will take place later the same day from 4:30 to 5:30. Located at 200 I St. SE, the gal-lery is open daily from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. 202-724-5613.■ “Lions & Tigers & Bears: Through the Lens With National Geographic,” presenting 50 photo-graphs of these iconic animals by three of National Geographic’s top wildlife photojournalists, opened recently at the National Geograph-ic Museum, where it will continue through Feb. 2. Michael “Nick” Nichols took more than a million photographs of lions hunting, mating, fighting and socializing, the best of which have been selected for this exhibit. Steve Winter has traveled to India, Suma-tra and Thailand to document the

Corcoran exhibit features ‘augmented reality’

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“Manifest: AR,” a new exhibit at the Corcoran Gallery of Art’s free Gallery 31 space highlighting augmented reality, includes “creatAR,” by Mark Skwarek, Animesh Anand and Jeremy Hight.

© Paul Nicklen/National GeographicPaul Nicklen’s photograph of a protective mother with her cub is part of the National Geographic Museum’s new exhibit “Lions & Tigers & Bears.”

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Wednesday, Aug. 14

Classes and workshops■ The Downtown Business Improve-

ment District’s “Workout Wednesdays in Franklin Park” will feature a weekly fit-ness class. 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Free; reser-vations requested. Franklin Park, 13th and I streets NW. downtowndc.org. The classes will continue through Sept. 25.

■ The Vajrayogini Buddhist Center will host a class on “Who Am I? Who Are You? A Buddhist Perspective.” 7 to 8:30 p.m. $12. Vajrayogini Buddhist Center, 1787 Columbia Road NW. 202-986-2257.

Concert■ The Marine Band will perform works

by Sousa, Wagner and Copland. 8 p.m. Free. West Terrace, U.S. Capitol. 202-433-4011.

Discussions and lectures■ Olumbumi Bakare will discuss her

recent visit to Egypt. 5 p.m. Free. Juanita E. Thornton/Shepherd Park Library, 7420 Georgia Ave. NW. 202-541-6100.

■ In celebration of the 50th anniver-sary of the March on Washington, film-maker Brian Bullock will discuss his forth-coming documentary “The Richmond 34,”

about students at Virginia Union Universi-ty in Richmond and their February 1960 effort to desegregate a department store’s lunch counter. 6:30 p.m. Free. Tenley-Friendship Library, 4450 Wiscon-sin Ave. NW. 202-727-1488.

■ The Historical Society of Washing-ton, D.C., will present a book talk by How-ard University professor Ida E. Jones, author of “Mary McLeod Bethune in Washington, D.C.: Activism and Education in Logan Circle.” 6:30 to 8 p.m. Free. Langston Room, Busboys and Poets, 2021 14th St. NW. 202-387-7638.

■ Amanda Ripley will discuss her book “The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way.” 7 p.m. Free. Pol-itics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.

Films■ The Global Lens Film Series will fea-

ture Mohamed Diab’s 2010 film “Cairo 678,” about three women from different backgrounds who join together in uneasy solidarity to combat the sexual harassment that has

affected their lives. 6 p.m. Free. Watha T. Daniel-Shaw Library, 1630 7th St. NW. 202-727-1288.

■ The NoMa Summer Screen outdoor film series will feature John Hughes’ 1986 film “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” star-ring Matthew Broderick. 7 p.m. Free. Loree Grand Field, 2nd and L streets NE. nomabid.org/noma-summer-screen.

■ The Lions of Czech Film series will feature Milan Cieslar’s 2012 film “Love Is Love,” about the many faces of love. 8 p.m. $8.50 to $11.50. Avalon Theatre, 5612 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-966-6000.

Performances■ The Kalanidhi Dance Company will

perform traditional Kuchipudi dance. 6 p.m. Free. Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.

■ The collective LYGO DC will host a stand-up comedy show featuring Max Rosenblum, Adam Friedland and Sara Armour. 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. $10. The Cod-mother, 1334 U St. NW. lygodc.com.

■ An open mic event hosted by artist, activist and performer Jonathan B. Tucker will feature poet Kyla Lacey. 9 to 11 p.m. $5. Cullen Room, Busboys and Poets, 1025 5th St. NW. 202-789-2227.

Special event■ As part of D.C. Beer Week, New Bel-

gium Brewing Co. will present a tasting of a blended sour ale combined with Coun-ter Culture cold brew coffee. 7 to 11 p.m. $35 to $40. Tryst, 2459 18th St. NW. tinyurl.com/l2eeemp.

Sporting event■ The Washington Nationals will play

the San Francisco Giants. 7:05 p.m. $5 to $65. Nationals Park, 1500 South Capitol St. SE. 888-632-6287. The series will continue Thursday at 4:05 p.m.

Thursday, Aug. 15

Children’s programs■ Slim Harrison and the Sunnyland

Band will perform America folk music (for ages 5 through 12). 10:30 a.m. Free. West End Library, 1101 24th St. NW. 202-724-8707. The performance will repeat at 1:30 p.m. at the Chevy Chase Library, 5625 Connecticut Ave. NW; 202-282-0021.

■ Kids will learn about Rock Creek Park’s birds of prey as part of the junior scientist series. 4 to 4:45 p.m. Free. Rock Creek Park Nature Center, 5200 Glover Road NW. 202-895-6070.

Class■ The Tenleytown yoga studio lil omm

will host a complimentary vinyasa flow class. 11 a.m. Free; reservations required. 4708 Wisconsin Ave. NW. lilomm.com.

Concerts■ Vocalist Andréa

Wood will pay tribute to D.C. jazz legend Shirley Horn. 5 to 8 p.m. Free. Smithsonian American Art Museum, 8th and F streets NW. 202-633-1000.

■ The Freddie Dunn Quartet will per-form jazz selections. 6:30 p.m. Free. Mon-roe Street Market Arts Plaza, 8th Street and Monroe Street NE. 202-269-1600.

■ The D.C.-based band Caz and the Day Laborers will perform reggae music. 6 p.m. Free. Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.

■ The Marine Band will perform works by Sousa, Wagner and Copland. 7:30 p.m. Free. Yards Park, 355 Water St. SE. 202-433-4011.

■ The U.S. Army Band Downrange and Rock Orchestra will perform 1970s clas-sics as part of the “Sunsets With a Soundtrack” concert series. 8 p.m. Free. West Steps, U.S. Capitol. usarmyband.com. The concert will repeat Friday at 8 p.m.

■ Singer/songwriter Nila Kay will per-form pop and rock songs. 8:30 p.m. $5. Bossa Bistro & Lounge, 2463 18th St. NW. bossaproject.com.

Demonstration■ Gardening specialist Adrienne Cook

and nutritionist Danielle Cook Navidi will present a “Late Summer Bounty Cooking Demonstration.” Noon and 12:45 p.m. Free. Conservatory Garden Court, U.S. Botanic Garden, 100 Maryland Ave. SW. 202-225-8333.

Discussions and lectures■ Mark Holt, a nuclear energy policy

analyst at the Congressional Research Service, will discuss “Challenges for Con-gressional Action on Extending the U.S.-Republic of Korea Nuclear Cooperation Agreement.” 2 p.m. Free; reservations required. Rome Building Auditorium, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, 1619 Massachusetts Ave. NW. alanahn@thegabi.com.

■ A gallery talk will focus on “A Fusion of Styles: Renoir’s ‘Luncheon of the Boat-ing Party.’” 6 and 7 p.m. Free. Phillips Col-lection, 1600 21st St. NW. 202-387-2151.

■ Curator Renée Maurer will discuss “Georges Braque and the Cubist Still Life, 1928-1945.” 6:30 p.m. $10 to $12; free for members. Phillips Collection, 1600 21st St. NW. 202-387-2151.

Films■ The Sixth & I Historic Synagogue will

sponsor a “Dive-in Movie” screening of the classic 1980 comedy “Airplane!” starring Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty and Leslie Nielsen. 7:30 p.m. $10. Pool, Capitol Skyline Hotel, 10 I St. SW. 877-987-6487.

■ The Friends of Mitchell Park’s “Films in the Field” series will feature Ang Lee’s 2012 film “Life of Pi,” about the journey of a young man who survives a disaster at sea. 8:30 p.m. Free. Mitchell Park, 23rd Street and Bancroft Place NW. mitchellparkdc.org.

Meetings■ The Classics Book Group will dis-

cuss “The Mayor of Casterbridge” by Thomas Hardy. 6:30 p.m. Free. Barnes & Noble, 555 12th St. NW. 202-347-0176.

■ The Georgetown Book Club will meet to discuss “Snow-Storm in August: Washington City, Francis Scott Key, and the Forgotten Race Riot of 1835” by Jef-ferson Morley. 7:30 p.m. Free. George-town Library, 3260 R St. NW. 202-727-0232.

Performances■ Washington Improv Theater will

present performances by its five ensem-bles as well as special guests. 8 p.m. $12 to $30. Source, 1835 14th St. NW. washingtonimprovtheater.com. Perfor-mances will continue Friday and Saturday at 8 and 10 p.m.

■ The Topaz Hotel Bar’s weekly stand-up show will feature local comics. 8 to 10 p.m. Free. 1733 N St. NW. 202-393-3000.

Sale■ The National Building Museum

Design Show will feature custom decora-tive and functional objects, including home furnishings, fine art and photogra-phy, flooring, fabric, lighting and outdoor fixtures. 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. $8 to $10; free for ages 12 and younger. Great Hall, National Building Museum, 401 F St. NW. go.nbm.org/design-show. The event will continue Friday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sun-day from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Special events■ The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial

Library will provide chess sets for players of all ages and abilities. 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Free. Martin Luther King Jr. Memori-al Library, 901 G St. NW. 202-727-0321. The event will continue daily during the library’s operating hours.

■ The “Growing Local” series will fea-ture a screening of the 2009 movie “Julie & Julia” in honor of the 101st birthday of American culinary icon Julia Child. The event will feature drinks and locally pro-duced food, as well as tours led by Smith-sonian gardens staff members. 6 to 8 p.m. $20. Victory Garden, National Muse-um of American History, 12th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. americanhistory.si.edu/events/food-garden.

■ As part of D.C. Beer Week, New Bel-gium Brewing Co. will present a workshop on sour beer blending, led by sensory specialist Lauren Salazar. 6 to 8 p.m. and 9 to 11 p.m. $55. The Black Squirrel’s Tap Room, 2427 18th St. NW. newbelgiumsession1.eventbrite.com.

Friday, Aug. 16

Children’s program■ Park ranger Tony Linforth will lead a

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Concerts■ The U.S. Air Force Band’s Air Force

Strings ensemble will perform. 12:30 p.m. Free. National Air and Space Muse-um, 600 Independence Ave. SW. 202-767-5658.

■ Doc Scantlin’s Palmettos will per-form 1920s and 1930s big band sounds. 5 to 8:30 p.m. Free. Sculpture Garden, National Gallery of Art, 4th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. 202-289-3360.

■ The Hill and Wood, an indie rock group from Charlottesville, Va., will per-form. 6 p.m. Free. Millennium Stage, Ken-nedy Center. 202-467-4600.

Discussion■ Peter Ross Range will discuss his

book “Murder in the Yoga Store: The True Story of the Lululemon Killing.” 7 p.m. Free. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecti-cut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.

Films■ The seventh annual African Diaspo-

ra International Film Festival — Washing-ton DC will open with a screening of Tukufu Zuberi’s 2013 film “Afri-can Indepen-dence,” fol-lowed by a question-and-answer session with the director. Reception at 6 p.m.; film at 7 p.m. $20. Goethe-Institut, 812 7th St. NW. nyadiff.org. The festival will con-tinue through Sunday.

■ American University’s Neighborhood Family Movie Night will feature an outdoor screening of the 1979 classic “The Mup-pet Movie.” 7:30 p.m. Free. Woods-Brown Amphitheatre, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW. 202-885-2167.

Meeting■ A weekly bridge group will meet to

play duplicate bridge. 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. $6. Chevy Chase Community Center, 5601 Connecticut Ave. NW. 301-654-1865.

Performances■ The Sackler Gallery will host a per-

formance of the “Imperial Garden Ban-quet” scene from the 17th-century play “Palace of Everlasting Youth.” 1 p.m. Free. Sackler Gallery, 1050 Independence Ave. SW. 202-633-1000. The performance will repeat Saturday at 1 and 2 p.m.

■ Freddie Dunn and Carlo Perlo will present “Live Jazz and Hoop Jam.” 6:30 p.m. Free. Monroe Street Market Arts Plaza, 8th Street and Monroe Street NE. 202-269-1600.

■ The U.S. Marine Corps will host a weekly Friday Evening Parade with music and precision marching. 8:45 to 10 p.m. Free; reservations required. Marine Bar-racks, 8th and I streets SE. 202-433-6060.

Special events■ Maryann Priddy of Taylor Marie

Fashions will present a runway show fea-turing fashions designed for seniors, with the company’s line of women’s clothing and accessories available at discounted prices. 11 a.m. Free. Seabury at Friend-ship Terrace, 4201 Butterworth Place NW.

202-244-7400.■ The Fairmont Washington, D.C.,

Georgetown’s fourth annual Sustainability Fair will feature information about the hotel’s green program and displays by local firms, government agencies and environmental groups — along with treats from the hotel’s garden and its rooftop hives. 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Free. 2401 M St. NW. 202-429-2400.

■ The International Club of DC will host a Dumbarton House Jazz Soiree. 7 to 10 p.m. $20. Dumbarton House, 2715 Q St. NW. dumbartonhouse.org/events.

■ The Women of Faith 2013 Confer-ence will feature musical artists Third Day and CeCe Winans, comedian Mark Lowry, and authors and Bible teachers Sheila Walsh, Liz Curtis Higgs, Judah Smith, Angie Smith and Priscilla Shirer. 7 to 10 p.m. $49 to $109. Verizon Center, 601 F St. NW. womenoffaith.com. The confer-ence will continue Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

tour■ U.S. Botanic Garden public pro-

grams manager Ari Novy will lead a tour on “Fascinating Foods From Around the Globe.” 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Free; reser-vations required. Meet on the terrace by the conservatory entrance, U.S. Botanic Garden, 100 Maryland Ave. SW. 202-225-8333.

Saturday, Aug. 17

auditions■ The Washington School of Ballet will

hold auditions for the upcoming school year. Registration from 9:30 a.m. to noon with specific times depending on age. $30. Washington Ballet, 3515 Wisconsin Ave. NW. 202-362-3606.

Children’s programs■ A park ranger will explain George-

town’s seafaring history and how to tie knots like a sailor. 10 to 11 a.m. Free. Meet at the splash fountain in George-town Waterfront Park, Wisconsin Avenue and K Street NW. 202-895-6070.

■ A park ranger will lead a night sky tour in the Rock Creek Park planetarium. 1 to 1:45 p.m. Free. Rock Creek Park Nature Center, 5200 Glover Road NW. 202-895-6224. The program will repeat Sunday at 1 p.m.

■ Slim Harrison and the Sunnyland Band will perform American folk music (for ages 5 through 12). 3 p.m. Free. Mar-tin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW. 202-727-0321.

■ Park ranger Tony Linforth will lead a planetarium program about the weather in the solar system. 4 to 4:45 p.m. Free. Rock Creek Park Nature Center, 5200 Glover Road NW. 202-895-6070.

Classes and workshops■ Lay Buddhist teachers Chris

Jamison and Judith Stroman will lead a meditation workshop on “Level Headed: Wisdom During Stress.” 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. $30. Vajrayogini Buddhist Center, 1787 Columbia Road NW. 202-986-2257.

■ “Introduction to 3-D Printing” will offer an overview of the technology, web resources and the printing capability avail-able to the public in the Digital Commons. 11 a.m. Free. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW. 202-727-0321. The class will repeat Monday at 7 p.m.

Concert■ Listen Local First D.C. will present

the Afro-pop band Elikeh performing Togolese rhythms with American-influenced styles. 6 p.m. Free. Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.

Discussion■ U.S. Botanic Garden volunteer Todd

Brethauer will discuss “The Right Soil and Fertilizers: Nitrogen, Phosphorous and Potah, Oh My!” 10:30 a.m. to noon. Free; reservations required. U.S. Botanic Gar-den, 100 Maryland Ave. SW. 202-225-8333.

Festivals■ The Arts & Humanities Festival at

St. Elizabeths East will feature a summer celebration with appearances by Faycez U Know, Rashida “Tulani” Jolley, Aisha Strig-gles and Liberated Muse. 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Free. 1100 Alabama Ave. SE. ahfest.com.

■ “The Elements of Hip Hop: A Cultur-al Summit” will feature an artist market featuring prints, toys, canvasses, T-shirts and more. 1 to 6 p.m. Free admission. The Fridge DC, 516 ½ 8th St. SE. thefridgedc.com.

■ NoMa Beer Fest will feature live music, games and entertainment, as well as special summer ales by local brewer-ies. 2 to 8 p.m. Free admission; beer tick-ets available for advance purchase online. Parking lot, 1st and N streets NE. nomabeerfest.org.

Films■ West End Cinema will screen “The

Pharaoh’s Daughter.” 11 a.m. $18.80. West End Cinema, 2301 M St. NW. 202-419-3456.

■ “Classic Holly-wood Saturdays” will feature Orson Welles’ 1941 film “Citizen Kane.” 2 p.m. Free. Mount Pleasant Library, 3160 16th St. NW. 202-671-3121.

■ Pianist Robert Israel will provide accompaniment at “Ciné-Concert” screen-ings of Alexandre Volkoff and Ivan Mos-joukine’s 1923 film “Le Brasier ardent,” at 2 p.m.; and Volkoff’s 1924 film “Les Ombres qui passent,” at 4 p.m. Free. East Building Auditorium, National Gallery of

Art, 4th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. 202-737-4215.

Performances■ Rich Bennett and Matty Litwack will

star in “Wake & Bacon,” a weekly brunch and comedy show presented by the col-lective LYGO DC. 3 to 5 p.m. $10. Shaw’s Tavern, 520 Florida Ave. NW. lygodc.com.

■ The Capital City Showcase will fea-ture rock band The Grey Area, musician Matt Tarka and comedians Katherine Jes-sup, Matty Litwack, Ol Mike B and Gabe Zucker. 10 p.m. $10 to $15. District of Columbia Arts Center, 2438 18th St. NW. capitalcityshowcase.com.

Special event■ “Asia After Dark” will feature martial

arts performances and visuals, art activi-ties, themed cocktails, food trucks and more. 7 to 11 p.m. $15 to $30. Meyer Auditorium, Freer Gallery of Art, 12th Street and Jefferson Drive SW. 202-633-1000.

Walks and tours■ Geologist Chelsea Lewis will lead

“Secrets in the Soil,” an archaeological- and geological-oriented walking tour about the Rock Creek Valley (as seen from 300 feet above during a broad loop around the National Zoo). 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Free; reservations required. Meet outside the Woodley Park Metro station. chelsea_b_lewis@nps.gov.

■ A docent-led walk through the Folg-er Shakespeare Library’s Elizabethan Gar-den will focus on the plants, design and Shakespeare-inspired statues by Gregg Wyatt. 10 and 11 a.m. Free. Folger Shakespeare Library, 201 East Capitol St. SE. 202-544-7077.

■ Washington Walks will present a walking tour of the Mount Pleasant neigh-borhood, featuring highlights from the “Village in a City” heritage trail. 11 a.m. $15. Meet in front of the Capital City Pub-lic Charter School, 3047 15th St. NW. washingtonwalks.com.

Sunday, Aug. 18

Children’s program■ National Park Service volunteer

Libby Moulton will introduce games and toys that children played with during the 1770s (for ages 6 through 12 and their families). 3 p.m. Free. Old Stone House, 3051 M St. NW. 202-895-6070.

Classes and workshops■ “The Elements of Hip Hop: A Cultur-

al Summit” will feature a workshop led by Peerless Creatives artist Shaymar Higgs on “Screen Printing 101.” 1 to 3 p.m.

$15. The Fridge DC, 516 ½ 8th St. SE. thefridgedc.com.

■ A weekly Ukulele Circle led by Liz Ennis will offer beginners a chance to learn a few easy chords and more advanced players an opportunity to impro-vise and jam. 4 to 4:30 p.m. Free. Middle C Music, 4530 Wisconsin Ave. NW. 202-244-7326.

■ Pam Ginsberg, a butcher at Wag-shal’s Market, will lead a “Man Meats Grill 2.0” workshop, featuring tips on dif-ferent cuts of meat, preparation and how to cook lamb and chicken to perfection. 5 p.m. $18 to $20. Sixth & I Historic Syna-gogue, 600 I St. NW. 877-987-6487.

Concert■ Dahlak Restaurant will present its

weekly “DC Jazz Jam” session. 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Free. 1771 U St. NW. 202-527-9522.

Discussion■ Lecturer David Gariff will discuss

“The Art of Edvard Munch: Early Work.” 2 p.m. Free. East Building Auditorium, National Gallery of Art, 4th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. 202-737-4215.

Films■ As part of the Global Lens 2013

film series, the Freer Gallery of Art will present Suman Ghosh’s 2012 film “Shya-mal Uncle Turns off the Lights.” 2 p.m. Free. Meyer Auditorium, Freer Gallery of Art, 12th Street and Jefferson Drive SW. 202-633-1000.

■ Pianist Robert Israel will provide accompaniment at a “Ciné-Concert” screening of Alexandre Volkoff’s 1926 film “Casanova.” 4 p.m. Free. East Build-ing Auditorium, National Gallery of Art, 4th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. 202-737-4215.

■ The seventh annual African Diaspo-ra International Film Festival — Washing-ton DC will close with a screening of Nadine M. Patterson’s 2012 film “Tango MacBeth,” followed by a question-and-answer session with the director. Recep-tion at 4:30 p.m.; film at 5 p.m. $15. Goethe-Institut, 812 7th St. NW. nyadiff.org.

■ Trent Heminger and Kevin Gray of Beasley Real Estate will present an out-door screening of John Hughes’ 1984 film

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■ The Friends of Rose Park’s Movie Night will feature Chris Noonan’s 1995 film “Babe,” at 8:15 p.m.; and Phil Alden Robinson’s 1989 film “Field of Dreams,” at 9:30 p.m. Free. Rose Park, 26th and O streets NW. roseparkdc.org.

Performances■ The Sackler Gallery and the Winter-

green Kunqu Society will present a perfor-mance of Du Yun and Quian Yi’s new music-theater work “Dreaming of the Phoenix.” 2 p.m. Free. Sackler Gallery, 1050 Independence Ave. SW. 202-633-1000.

■ “Sunday Kind of Love” will include readings by emerging and established poets, followed by an open mic segment. 5 to 7 p.m. $5. Langston Room, Busboys and Poets, 2021 14th St. NW. 202-387-7638.

■ The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority will present some of the area’s top street performers. 6 p.m. Free. Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.

■ The collective LYGO DC will present a stand-up comedy show. 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. $10. Desperados, 1342 U St. NW. lygodc.com.

Special events■ Dumbarton House’s End-of-Summer

Ice Cream Sunday event will feature opportunities to make ice cream and to sample a flavor popular during the Feder-al period, as well as a tour of the historic mansion. 1 p.m. $8. Dumbarton House, 2715 Q St. NW. augusticecreamsunday.

eventbrite.com.■ A classic American car display will

feature vehicles from the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s provided by the Straight Eights Car Club, a chapter of Lambda Car Club International. 1 to 5 p.m. $5 to $15; free for ages 5 and younger. Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens, 4155 Linnean Ave. NW. 202-686-5807.

Walks and tours■ Rock Creek Park will host a “Fun

Run,” featuring a three- to four-mile loop and a five- to seven-mile option. 10 to 11 a.m. Free. Rock Creek Park Nature Cen-ter, 5200 Glover Road NW. 202-895-6227.

■ A behind-the-scenes tour will focus on the Washington National Cathedral’s gargoyles and grotesques. 2 p.m. $5 to $10. Washington National Cathedral, 3101 Wisconsin Ave. NW. nationalcathedral.org. The tour will repeat Thursday at 6:30 p.m.

Monday, Aug. 19

Class■ The Digital Commons will offer a

class on Adobe Photoshop CS6. 6 p.m. Free. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW. 202-727-0321.

Concerts■ The “Live! on Woodrow Wilson

Plaza” series will feature The JT Project performing jazz selections. Noon to 1:30 p.m. Free. Ron-ald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. 202-312-1300. Performances will

continue through Aug. 27 each Monday and Tuesday at noon.

■ The U.S. Navy Concert Band will perform. 8 p.m. Free. West Steps, U.S. Capitol. navyband.navy.mil.

Discussions and lectures■ The group 40Plus of Greater Wash-

ington will present a talk by Devora Zack on “Interview Skills.” 9:45 to 11:30 a.m. Free. Suite T-2, 1718 P St. NW. 40plusdc.org.

■ “At the Crossroads of Freedom and Equality: The Emancipation Proclamation and the March on Washington” — about the role of activists from the end of the Civil War to the historic 1963 march — will feature panelists Sandra Jowers-Barber, assistant professor of history at the Uni-versity of the District of Columbia; Hari Jones, assistant director and curator of the African American Civil War Memorial and Museum; and Roger Davidson Jr., assistant professor of history at Coppin State University. 6 p.m. Free. Black Stud-ies Center, Martin Luther King Jr. Memori-al Library, 901 G St. NW. 202-727-0321.

■ Robert Wilson will discuss his book “Mathew Brady: Portraits of a Nation.” 7 p.m. Free. Politics and Prose, 5015 Con-necticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.

Film■ The Goethe-Institut will present

Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1969 film “Love Is Colder Than Death,” about a small-time pimp and the friendship he forms with his tail from a large gangster syndicate. 6:30 p.m. $4 to $7. Goethe-Institut, 812 7th St. NW. 202-289-1200.

Meetings■ The Fiction Lover’s Book Club will

meet to discuss Sally Bedell Smith’s “Eliz-abeth the Queen: Life of a Modern Mon-arch.” 6:30 p.m. Free. Room 221, Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW. 202-727-0321.

■ The Film Discussion Group will dis-cuss “Spoiler Alert: Can We Be Surprised Anymore?” 7 p.m. Free. Barnes & Noble, 555 12th St. NW. 202-347-0176.

Performances■ The contemporary dance ensemble

NY2Dance will perform. 6 p.m. Free. Fam-ily Theater, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.

■ The National Conservatory of Dra-matic Arts will present a staged reading of “Best Men,” written by Mario Baldessari and Chris Stezin and directed by Tom Pre-witt. 7:30 p.m. Free. National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts, 1556 Wisconsin Ave. NW. theconservatory.org/now-playing.html.

Tuesday, Aug. 20

Classes and workshops■ Teacher and therapist Heather Fer-

ris will lead a weekly yoga class. Noon. Free. Watha T. Daniel-Shaw Library, 1630 7th St. NW. 202-727-1288.

■ The group Yoga Activist will present a weekly yoga class geared toward begin-ners. 7 p.m. Free. Cleveland Park Library, 3310 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-282-3080.

Concerts■ The Tuesday Concert Series will fea-

ture pianist Agnes Wan performing works by Bach, Schumann and Beethoven. 12:10 p.m. Free. Church of the Epiphany, 1317 G St. NW. 202-347-2635.

■ Pianist Terry Eder will perform Hun-garian music by Bartók, Dohnányi and Kodály. 6 p.m. Free. Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.

■ The U.S. Navy Band will perform. 7:30 p.m. Free. U.S. Navy Memorial, 701 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. navyband.navy.mil.

■ The U.S. Air Force Concert Band and Singing Sergeants will perform. 8 p.m. Free. West Steps, U.S. Capitol. 202-767-5658.

■ The band Parachute will perform, with singer/songwriter Andrew Ripp as the opener. 8 p.m. $16 to $18. Sixth & I Historic Syna-gogue, 600 I St. NW. 800-745-3000.

■ Singer/songwriter Jason Blum will perform. 8:30 p.m. Free. Hill Country BBQ, 410 7th St. NW. 202-556-2050.

Discussions and lectures■ Laura Gottesdiener will discuss her

book “A Dream Foreclosed: Black America and the Fight for a Place to Call Home.” 6:30 to 8 p.m. Free. Cullen Room, Bus-boys and Poets, 1025 5th St. NW. 202-789-2227.

■ “I Was There: Oral Histories of the March of Washington” will feature reflec-tions from retired Howard University administrator and academic Ella Kelly, social activists Chris Hager and Paul Kuntzler and journalist A. Peter Bailey. 6:30 p.m. Free. Black Studies Center, Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW. 202-727-0321.

■ Jesse Walker will discuss his book “The United States of Paranoia: A Conspir-acy Theory.” 7 p.m. Free. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.

Films■ A children’s movie matinee will fea-

ture Andrew Stanton’s 2008 film “Wall-E.” 3 p.m. Free. Martin Luther King Jr. Memo-rial Library, 901 G St. NW. 202-727-0321.

■ The Georgetown Library will present Terry George’s 2004 film “Hotel Rwanda,” star-ring Don Cheadle and Xolani Mali. 6 p.m. Free. Georgetown Library, 3260 R St. NW.

202-727-0232.■ A Czech film series will feature Jirí

Menzel’s 1974 drama “Who Looks for Gold?” 7 p.m. Free. Bistro Bohem, 600 Florida Ave. NW. bistrobohem.com.

■ The Washington DC Jewish Commu-nity Center will screen the first episode of the Israeli television show “Hatufim,” which inspired the American hit “Home-land.” 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. $9. Washington DC Jewish Community Center, 1529 16th St. NW. washingtondcjcc.org.

Meeting■ Recovery International will host a

group discussion for people suffering from stress, anxiety, panic, depression, sleep problems, anger, fear and other mental, nervous or emotional problems. 7 p.m. Free. Chevy Chase Community Cen-ter, 5601 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-2680. The group meets every Tuesday.

Performance■ Busboys and Poets will present an

open mic poetry night hosted by Droopy the Broke Baller. 9 to 11 p.m. $5. Langs-ton Room, Busboys and Poets, 2021 14th St. NW. 202-387-7638.

Sporting event■ The Washington Mystics will play

the Chicago Sky. 7 p.m. $12 to $300. Verizon Center, 601 F St. NW. 800-745-3000.

Wednesday, Aug. 21

Children’s program■ Children will learn how to make a

cornhusk doll during a hands-on program. 11 a.m. to noon. Free. Peirce Mill, Tilden Street and Beach Drive NW. 202-895-6070.

Classes and workshops■ The National Archives will host a

“Beyond the Basics” genealogy workshop on the Freedman’s Bank. 11 a.m. Free. Room G-25, Research Center, National Archives Building, Pennsylvania Avenue between 7th and 9th streets NW. 202-357-5000.

■ The Downtown Business Improve-ment District’s “Workout Wednesdays in Franklin Park” will feature a weekly fit-ness class. 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Free; reser-vations requested. Franklin Park, 13th and I streets NW. downtowndc.org. The classes will continue through Sept. 25.

Concerts■ The U.S. Air Force Strings will per-

form. 6 p.m. Free. Millennium Stage, Ken-nedy Center. 202-467-4600.

■ The Marine Jazz Combo will perform works by Charlie Parker, Peter Erskine and Pat Metheny. 8 p.m. Free. West Ter-race, U.S. Capitol. 202-433-4011.

Demonstration■ U.S. Botanic Garden staff members

will show off carnivorous plants such as flytraps and sundews. 1 to 1:30 p.m. Free. Conservatory Garden Court, U.S. Botanic Garden, 100 Maryland Ave. SW. 202-225-8333.

Discussions and lectures■ National Museum of Women in the

Arts associate curator Virginia Treanor will discuss the exhibit “Awake in the Dream World: The Art of Audrey Niffenegger.” Noon to 12:30 p.m. Free. National Muse-um of Women in the Arts, 1250 New York Ave. NW. 202-783-7370.

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Tuesday, auguSt 20■ Concert: The “Live! on Woodrow Wilson Plaza” series will feature vocalist Julie Mack performing Brazilian music. Noon to 1:30 p.m. Free. Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. 202-312-1300.

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■ Stephanie Chong of Seabury Care Management will lead a seminar on “The Challenges and Rewards of Aging.” 1 p.m. Free. Seabury at Friendship Terrace, 4201 Butterworth Place NW. 202-244-7400.

■ Ruth Trocolli, city archaeologist for the District, will discuss “Archaeology in the District,” including recent finds at a burial site in Georgetown. 6:45 p.m. Free. Mount Pleasant Library, 3160 16th St. NW. 202-671-3121.

■ Blogger Mark Rosenberg will discuss his book “Eating My Feelings: Tales of Over-eating, Underperform-ing, and Coping With My Crazy Family.” 7 p.m. Free. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.

Films■ The Textile Museum will present the

2012 documentary “Weavers’ Stories From Island Southeast Asia.” Noon. Free. Textile Museum, 2320 S St. NW. 202-667-0441.

■ The Global Lens film series will fea-ture Nahid Ghobadi and Bijan Zamanpira’s 2012 film “111 Girls,” about a government official who travels across Iranian Kurdis-tan with his driver and a young guide on a mission to stop 111 young Kurdish women from com-mitting suicide in protest against condi-tions that have left them spinsters. 6:30 p.m. Free. West End Library, 1101 24th St. NW. 202-724-8707.

■ The NoMa Summer Screen outdoor film series will feature Paul Feig’s 2011 comedy “Bridesmaids,” starring Kristen Wiig and Maya Rudolph. 7 p.m. Free. Loree Grand Field, 2nd and L streets NE. nomabid.org/noma-summer-screen.

■ The French Cinémathèque series will feature Alan Resnais’ 2012 film “You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet,” based on two works by the playwright Jean Anouilh. 8 p.m. $8.50 to $11.50. Ava-lon Theatre, 5612 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-966-6000.

■ The U Street Movie Series will fea-ture an outdoor screening of Mamoru Hosoda’s 2009 anime feature “Summer Wars.” Sundown. Free. Harrison Recre-ation Center, V Street between 13th and 14th streets NW. movies.ustreet-dc.org.

Performances■ The collective LYGO DC will host a

stand-up comedy show featuring Matty Lit-wack and Bengt Washburn. 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. $10. The Codmother, 1334 U St. NW. lygodc.com.

■ SpeakeasyDC and the Washington DC Jewish Community Center will present “Atonement: Stories About Confession, Redemption and Making Amends.” 8 to 9:30 p.m. $15 to $20. Washington DC Jewish Community Center, 1529 16th St. NW. washingtondcjcc.org/authorsoutloud.

■ Story League will hold a storytelling contest about villains, with a $100 grand prize. 9 to 11 p.m. $10. Langston Room, Busboys and Poets, 2021 14th St. NW. storyleague.org.

■ Busboys and Poets will host an open mic poetry night hosted by Jonathan Tuck-er. 9 to 11 p.m. $5. Cullen Room, Busboys and Poets, 1025 5th St. NW. 202-789-2227.

teen program■ “Crafts for Teens” will feature a class

on making colorful knotted bracelets. 1 to 2:30 p.m. Free. Georgetown Library, 3260 R St. NW. 202-727-0232.

tour■ National Zoo keepers at the Reptile

Discovery Center will lead a behind-the-scenes look at some of the most critically endangered species on the planet, includ-ing an Aldabra tortoise feeding and an ani-mal encounter. 9 to 11 a.m. $95. National Zoo, 3001 Connecticut Ave. NW. national-zoo.si.edu. The tour will repeat Aug. 24 at 9 a.m.

Thursday, Aug. 22

Children’s program■ As part of the junior scientist series,

kids will learn about the life of trees during a ranger book reading and short hike. 4 to 4:45 p.m. Free. Rock Creek Park Nature Center, 5200 Glover Road NW. 202-895-6070.

Classes and workshops■ Artists Ken Kewley and Jill Phillips

will lead a short discussion about the cur-rent Georges Braque exhibition that focus-es on the artist’s use of spatial arrange-ment and surface texture, and then partici-pants will respond to Braque’s work by cre-ating collages. 6 p.m. $25 to $35; reserva-tions required. Phillips Collection, 1600 21st St. NW. phillipscollection.org/events.

■ The monthly Fiber Arts Workshop will explore cross stitch. 7 p.m. Free. Cleveland Park Library, 3310 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-282-3080.

Concerts■ “Happy Birthday, Chuck!” — a tribute

to the godfather of go-go, Chuck Brown — will feature the band Vybe. 5 to 8 p.m. Free. Smithsonian American Art Museum, 8th and F streets NW. 202-633-1000.

■ The Duende Quartet will perform smooth Latin jazz. 6:30 p.m. Free. Monroe Street Market Arts Plaza, 8th Street and Monroe Street NE. 202-269-1600.

■ The Marine Jazz Combo will perform works by Charlie Parker, Peter Erskine and Pat Metheny. 7:30 p.m. Free. Yards Park, 355 Water St. SE. 202-433-4011.

■ The U.S. Army Concert Band will per-form as part of the “Sunsets With a Soundtrack” concert series. 8 p.m. Free. West Steps, U.S. Capitol. usarmyband.com. The concert will repeat Friday at 8 p.m.

Discussions and lectures■ William P. Jones will discuss his book

“The March on Washington: Jobs, Free-dom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights.” 3:30 p.m. Free. Room 307, Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW. 202-727-0321.

■ A gallery talk will focus on the Phillips Collection’s focus on artists with powerful, independent objectives that may or may not fit within specific categories or schools of art. 6 and 7 p.m. Free. Phillips Collec-tion, 1600 21st St. NW. 202-387-2151.

■ Stan Long will discuss his book “Black Bird Medley: The Transformation of a Gangster.” 6:30 to 8 p.m. Free. Langston Room, Busboys and Poets, 2021 14th St. NW. 202-387-7638.

■ William P. Jones will discuss his book

“The March on Washington: Jobs, Free-dom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights.” 6:30 to 8 p.m. Free. Cullen Room, Busboys and Poets, 1025 5th St. NW. 202-789-2227.

■ Historian Jonathan Nashel will dis-cuss “James Bond, All-American Hero.” 6:30 p.m. $8 to $10. International Spy Museum, 800 F St. NW. 202-397-7798.

■ Thurston Clarke will discuss his book “JFK’s Last Hundred Days: The Transfor-mation of a Man and the Emergence of a Great President.” 7 p.m. Free. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.

Performance■ The Topaz Hotel Bar’s weekly stand-

up show will feature local comics. 8 to 10 p.m. Free. 1733 N St. NW. 202-393-3000.

Walks and tours■ U.S. Botanic Garden education tech-

nician Alex Torres will lead a tour of the National Garden. 10:30 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. Free. National Garden Lawn Terrace, U.S. Botanic Garden, 100 Maryland Ave. SW. 202-225-8333.

■ A behind-the-scenes tour will focus on the Washington National Cathedral’s gargoyles and grotesques. 6:30 p.m. $5 to $10. Washington National Cathedral, 3101 Wisconsin Ave. NW. nationalcathedral.org.

Friday, Aug. 23

Class■ An AARP driver safety course will

offer instruction in proven safety strategies. 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. $12 to $14; reserva-tions required. Seabury at Friendship Ter-race, 4201 Butterworth Place NW. 202-362-0704.

Concerts■ The U.S. Air Force Band’s Air Force

Strings ensemble will perform. 12:30 p.m. Free. National Air and Space Museum, 600 Independence Ave. SW. 202-767-5658.

■ The Dixie Power Trio will perform zydeco, Cajun and Louisiana funk. 5 to 8:30 p.m. Free. Sculpture Garden, National Gallery of Art, 4th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. 202-289-3360.

■ The DC Casineros will perform Cuban salsa. 6:30 p.m. Free. Monroe Street Mar-ket Arts Plaza, 8th Street and Monroe Street NE. 202-269-1600.

■ Recording artist Bridgit Mendler will

perform. 8 p.m. $22.50 to $36.50. Warner Theatre, 513 13th St. NW. 800-745-3000.

Discussion■ Washington Post writer David Sheinin

will discuss his book “RG3: The Promise.” 7 p.m. Free. Politics and Prose, 5015 Con-necticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.

Film■ The Comcast Outdoor Film Festival

will feature Joss Whedon’s 2012 film “The Avengers,” starring Robert Downey Jr. and Scarlett Johansson. 8:15 p.m. Free. Carter Barron Amphitheatre, 16th Street and Col-orado Avenue NW. 202-426-0486.

Meeting■ A weekly bridge group will meet to

play duplicate bridge. 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. $6. Chevy Chase Community Center, 5601 Connecticut Ave. NW. 301-654-1865.

Performances■ The Kenendy Center and VSA will

present “Jazz Hand” as part of the 2013 Leadership Exchange in Arts and Disability Conference. 6 p.m. Free. Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.

■ The U.S. Marine Corps will host a weekly Friday Evening Parade with music

and precision marching. 8:45 to 10 p.m. Free; reservations required. Marine Bar-racks, 8th and I streets SE. 202-433-6060.

■ The last-ever Charlie Visconage Show will feature artists Matt Sesow and Dana Ellyn, rapper Born I Music, and Post Secret founder Frank Warren. 9 p.m. $15. District of Columbia Arts Center, 2438 18th St. NW. cvshow.brownpapertickets.com.

Sporting event■ The Washington Mystics will play the

Atlanta Dream. 7 p.m. $12 to $300. Veri-zon Center, 601 F St. NW. 800-745-3000.

The Current welcomes submissions for the Events & Entertainment calendar, although space constraints limit the num-ber of items we can include. Items must be submitted at least two weeks prior to the event and include a summary of the event and its date, time, location with complete address, and cost to attend (indicate “free” if there is no charge). Also, please list a phone number for publication and a phone number for an editor to reach a contact person. Entries may be sent to calendar@currentnewspapers.com or The Current, P.O. Box 40400, Washing-ton, D.C. 20016-0400.

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Thursday, auguSt 22■ Concert: Pianist Nicholas McCar-thy, who was born without his right hand, will perform as part of the 2013 Leadership Exchange in Arts and Disability Conference. 6 p.m. Free. Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.

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William King, a single father, has successfully raised two children despite challenging circumstances. Overcoming the death of his wife, King has instilled responsibility, loyalty, love and obligation in his sons. As his illness slowly takes over, the King sons are charged with decisions about his care. Performance times are 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, 2 p.m. Saturday and 7 p.m. Sunday. Tick-ets cost $15 to $25. The Anacostia Playhouse is located at 2020 Shan-non Place SE. 202-241-2539; theateralliance.com.■ The Studio 2ndStage will cele-brate its 25th anniversary with the horror comedy musical “Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show” through Aug. 17 in the Metheny Theatre. Two lovers, Brad and Janet, seek shelter from a thunderstorm in an old castle — and find themselves thrust into the laboratory of pansex-ual, cross-dressing mad scientist Dr. Frank ‘N’ Furter and his cadre of madcap minions. Performance times are 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday and 7 and 10 p.m. Saturday. Tickets start at $40, with some discounts available. The Studio Theatre is located at 1501 14th St. NW. 202-332-3300; studiotheatre.org.■ The Kennedy Center will host the hit Broadway musical “The Book of Mormon” through Aug. 18 in the Opera House. The irreverent show by “South Park” creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone received nine Tony Awards in 2011, including Best Musical. It is the story of two young, naive mis-sionaries sent to a remote village in Uganda overseen by a brutal war-lord. Performance times are generally 7:30 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday and 1:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Tickets cost $43 to $250. Limited tickets are available on the Kennedy Center website; there are also some obstructed-view seats available at the box office or by phone. 202-467-4600; kennedy-center.org.■ Scena Theatre will stage Oscar Wilde’s controversial one-act trage-dy “Salomé” at the Atlas Perform-ing Arts Center through Aug. 18. Victorian-era censors banned the

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Well, we knew rates would bottom out – and they did. From a low of 3.35% for 30-year fi xed mortgages at the end of April, rates jumped to 4.46% by the end of June. And that translates to a 12.6% loss of buying power. On the short-term, that has brought more buyers into the market to take advantage of still very low rates before they climb higher. However, this will undoubtedly put a damper on demand in the months ahead, and that will ease some of the upward pressure on home prices.

So why are we so confi dent the sky isn’t falling? In July 1980 when McEnearney Associates opened for business, mortgage interest rates averaged 12.71%. By September 1981, rates had climbed to 18.45%, representing a 30% loss of buying power in just over a year. (Already feel a little better about today’s rates?) But people still bought homes, and believe it or not, home prices actually rose slightly during that period of time.

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