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By BRADY HOLTCurrent Staff Writer

A proposal for a bicycle lane on New Mexico Avenue in Wesley Heights cleared a major hurdle last week after winning a narrow vote of non-objection from the local advisory neighborhood commission. Commissioners voted 5-4 not to oppose the D.C. Department of Transportation’s plan, which the agency and other proponents say will create a safer north-south connection for cyclists. Dissenting commissioners argued that New Mexico is a narrow, congested street that doesn’t have room for a bike lane. The Transportation Department proposal, which has been floating around for several years, is to install the 5-foot-wide bike lane on northbound New Mexico — the uphill side — between the travel lane and parked

cars. As part of the project, the street’s center line would shift slightly, and the travel lanes would narrow from 13 feet to 10.5 feet. Parking would not be affected. “There are a number of more bikers in the city, and people need a safe place to bike,” neighborhood com-mission chair Penny Pagano said at the meeting. “I think

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New Mexico Avenuebike lane clears ANC

Bill Petros/The CurrentThe bicycle lane would fit between the northbound travel and parking lanes on New Mexico Avenue.

By ELIZABETH WIENERand JULIA O’DONOGHUECurrent Staff Writers

With frenzied attention focused on the fate of three planned Walmarts in the eastern part of the city, Ward 4 D.C. Council member Muriel Bows-er is also worrying about other large retailers already operating in the District or considering locating here.

The D.C. Council last week voted 8-5 for final approval of a “living

wage” bill, which would require non-unionized large stores to pay $12.50 in hourly wages and benefits to employees — more than $4 above the District’s minimum wage.

“Lord & Taylor, Neiman Marcus, Macy’s ... they weren’t involved in this,” Bowser said of the bill, which would apply immediately for new stores and in four years for existing ones. “But I’m promising you in four years, you’ll hear the same uproar.”

The council’s vote came after Walmart officials threatened to can-cel construction of three superstores

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Wage bill’s passage prompts debate on economic impacts


Plans to rehabilitate sewer lines in two federal parks in Northwest are facing resistance from the National Park Service, which is worried about the likely impact on the parks’ trees.

The D.C. Water and Sewer Authority has proposed rehabilitat-ing its aging sanitary-sewer pipes in long stretches of Glover Archbold and Soapstone Valley parks. The agency’s first proposal was to build access roads for construction and maintenance vehicles, and conduct its work along 1.4 miles in Soap-stone Valley — an offshoot of Rock Creek Park in Forest Hills — and along 4.3 miles of Glover Archbold from near Tenleytown to around the

Potomac River. “The National Park Service has had a heart attack about it,” project manager Jessica Demoise said at last Wednesday’s Wesley Heights/Foxhall advisory neighborhood commission meeting. “They said it would affect too many trees, so we’re looking at, ‘Where is the pipe in worst condition?’” Park Service spokesperson Megan Nortrup said in a brief inter-

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Park Service questions sewer work

Bill Petros/The CurrentThe Northwest-based nonprofit Kidsave held a pizza party Saturday at the Lab School for potential adoptive parents and families to meet Colombian orphans and foster children spending the summer in Washington. The group’s annual summer program brings children ages 10 to 13 to the U.S.

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Georgetown community leaders have protested an application by George, the nightlife hotspot at 3251 Prospect St., to terminate a settlement agreement that caps its number of patrons. Owners of George signed the document — previ-ously called a voluntary agreement — years ago with the Georgetown advisory neighborhood commission and the Citizens Association of Georgetown. The agreement’s terms limit the restaurant’s capacity to 99 patrons, while the building is large enough to legally hold 200. “We’re seeking to modify our voluntary agreement in order to increase capacity for limited windows during the weekend,” George co-owner Reed Landry wrote in an email to The Current. “This will allow us to host a vari-ety of private and corporate events that we’re currently not able to accommodate.” Some residents say George sometimes acts more like

a bar than a restaurant, though its license identifies it as the latter. (George’s website describes it as “a neighbor-hood restaurant & tavern,” as well as a “prep bar,” and

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George seeks to double occupancy limit

■ Environment: Projects may harm hundreds of trees

Bill Petros/The Currentpatrons regularly line up in the plaza outside George, drawing noise complaints from neighbors.

■ Retail: Impact will extend beyond Walmart, critics say

Wilson rallies to win championship in summer league

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By ELIZABETH WIENERCurrent Staff Writer

A measure to allow undocumented immi-grants to obtain the same D.C. driver’s license as legal residents won initial approval from the D.C. Council last week. At the same legislative session — the last before a summer recess — the council also took a first vote on a much less controversial measure to encourage older driv-

ers to take safety courses.The first bill, originally proposed by Mayor

Vincent Gray, would allow undocumented residents to obtain a D.C. driver’s license or identification card if they have lived in the District for more than six months, can’t get a Social Security number, and can submit a valid passport or birth certificate from their native country.

Gray’s initial proposal would have required

those licenses or ID cards to be distinct from the ones issued to legal residents, making clear they are “not acceptable by federal agencies for official purposes.” Ward 3 Council mem-ber Mary Cheh ratcheted up the debate after her transportation committee agreed that the new licenses should be the same as those issued to legal residents.

Immigrants’ rights groups have been lobby-ing furiously for a license identical to those

issued to legal residents, saying a different license would target and stigmatize undocu-mented residents. Activists passed out stickers at last Wednesday’s council session playing on the mayor’s “One City” slogan. “One City/One License” read the stickers, which resem-ble D.C. tags.

In debate, Cheh said there are an estimated 20,000 to 25,000 undocumented residents in

Council approves bill to offer driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants

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By ELIZABETH WIENERCurrent Staff Writer

There are street fairs, block parties, neighborhood festivals and cultural tourism trails. Now Adams Morgan is planning a “StoopFest,” with local musi-cians playing on their front stoops and porches, to lure visitors into the residential streets of the historic but trendy neighborhood.

Adams Morgan’s first “StoopFest” is scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 5, from noon to 4 p.m., as announced last week by Kristen Barden, head of the Adams Morgan Partnership Business Improvement District, and Steven Shulman, executive director of Cultural Tourism DC.

The idea comes from Somerville, Mass., a small city just north of Boston that apparently boasts ample musical talent and has been hosting “PorchFests” —

using as many as 60 houses — for several years. Somerville, according to a local news report, created the “decentralized musical festival” in 2011, and now hosts it as an annual — and ever growing — event.

“Perhaps you’ve sat on your porch and overheard a neighbor strumming guitar on another porch? Porchfest takes this idea and multiplies it,” says a flier from the Somerville Arts Council, which calls that city’s porches “an underused public venue.” Per-formers this year ranged from “Bollywood funk,” to “cosmic Americana, killer blues, Moroccan, Balkan, gospel, American space rock and clawhammer banjo.”

“We’re stealing a great idea,” said Shulman, “but think it will work well in D.C., a city of neighbor-hoods.” Shulman said his organization, which encourages visitors to wander beyond the traditional

Adams Morgan invites musicians to the porchview that the federal agency hasn’t taken any formal action yet. “Of course our priority is to pro-tect the natural resources that we are obligated to care for,” said Nortrup. “Right now we’re still gathering information and considering all the options on the table and the com-ments that are coming in from the public.” If the water authority, also known as DC Water, focuses on isolated repair work, there would be less short-term impact on the park but a greater risk of pipe failure in the future, said Demoise. “So far, none of the options has a low-enough impact that the Park Service would be comfortable with it,” she said in an interview after the meeting. “So we might have to do it piecemeal, which we really don’t want to do.” Estimates have varied wildly about how much the project will affect trees, but no one is question-ing that the impact would be large under the water authority’s original plan. The authority’s count of trees in the potentially affected area included 600 to 800 in Glover Arch-bold Park and 200 in Soapstone Valley, Demoise said after the meet-ing. The figures include only trees with a diameter of at least 17.5 inches, the D.C. standard for a “spe-cial tree.” Demoise noted that these tallies — along with the Park Service’s separate estimates of several thou-sand affected trees — reflect the total number of trees in the area where the water authority intends to work, not necessarily the number that will be cut down. “We will not be going in and clear-cutting no matter what we do,” she said. The bulk of the disruption would come from 14-foot-wide access roads built along the length of the pipes, which would allow access for construction vehicles and a vacuum truck that would periodically clean out the sewage pipe, Demoise said. Because that access isn’t available now, the pipes are suffering from a lack of maintenance, she added. “Both sewer systems have pipe segments and manholes with cracks,

fractures, holes, and root growth inside the pipe,” water authority spokesperson Pamela Mooring wrote in an email to The Current earlier this month. “Although the sewers are not known to be leaking at present, DC Water is acting proac-tively.” Another alternative that has been raised is to relocate the pipes outside of parkland. Demoise said moving the pipes would make them more convenient for maintenance, but the process to reroute sewage flow and install large new fixtures would be extremely difficult. A series of pumping stations, including at least one large facility, would also be required under this option, because the sewage would no longer simply follow gravity. The work remains at least two years distant, according to Demoise. Under the best-case timeline, the water authority would have a com-pleted project plan approved by the Park Service by December 2014, have a contractor in place six months later, and then begin work in sum-mer 2015. About six months of work is envisioned at each of three project sites: Soapstone Valley, and north-ern and southern Glover Archbold. The work may take place concur-rently and might be allowed to take place only in winter to minimize impact on the parks, said Demoise. Temporary above-ground pipes would likely carry the sewage while the work is carried out. The worst-case scenario, Dem-oise said, would be for the project to not take place at all. If that happens, the pipes would continue to deterio-rate and would ultimately fail. At that point, the water authority would need to replace the pipes on an emergency basis — and clean up spilled sewage in the parks. The Park Service is soliciting input online — the site is available at tinyurl.com/pipe-project-comment — through Aug. 18, and a public meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. Thursday July 18 at the Methodist Home of D.C., 4901 Connecticut Ave. The meeting will focus on the Soapstone Valley portion of the work but include discussion of Glover Archbold.

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George Washington University has secured permission to build student housing atop a T-shaped alley on its campus, without the requirement — sought by some community leaders — that the school contribute funds toward construction of a second Metro station entrance for the area. But Ward 2 D.C. Council member Jack Evans has promised to find other ways to build the second entrance for the Foggy Bottom-GWU Metro stop. The council voted last week to approve the alley closing in Square 77, which is bordered by 21st, 22nd, H and I streets. The university

will renovate three existing dorms that abut the alley and build a taller connection between them that would cover the alley space, creating an 898-bed building informally dubbed the “superdorm.” Under District law, the council can close a public street or alley and let the land revert to abutting property owners if it’s demonstrated that the roadway is no longer needed in the street grid. The Square 77 alley serves exclu-sively university buildings and would be replaced with an internal loading dock in the new project. But the Foggy Bottom/West End advisory neighborhood commission and West End Citi-zens Association saw the request as a chance to get leverage for a long-awaited second entrance

to the neighborhood’s Metro station. They asked Evans to include the condition in the alley-closing legislation, but the council mem-ber said to do so would be inappropriate and unprecedented. But Evans said before the council vote that there are other ways to achieve the goal of get-ting another Metro entrance for Foggy Bot-tom, including working with the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, local businesses and the university to find funding. “Today I pledge to actively assist the com-munity to move this second entrance up on WMATA’s priorities and [secure] funding for elevators to provide access for the elderly and the disabled,” Evans said. “I do not think that conditioning the closing of a public alley on

Square 77 is necessary to achieve the commu-nity’s objectives.” The Foggy Bottom-GWU station is the busiest stop with just one entrance in the Metrorail system today, according to a Metro study Evans cited. The transit authority deter-mined in 2007 that a new entrance would be valuable, suggesting the location of 22nd and I streets. As part of its 2007 campus plan, George Washington University agreed to set aside space for the entrance when it redeveloped the corner, but the school declined to contribute financially in conjunction with the dormitory project. Neighborhood leaders tried to get the school to commit to funding the entrance as

Council approves GWU alley closing without Metro entrance condition

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Council votes to ban smoking in D.C. parks The D.C. Council has tentatively approved a major expansion of no-smoking zones in the city to include areas within 25 feet of any play-ground, private or public school play area, recreation center or Metrobus stop. The only caveats are that private homeowners or tenants who live within the 25-foot limit could still smoke on their own

property, and that the bill won’t cover federal parks. In a discussion last Wednesday, Ward 3 member Mary Cheh said the bill — combining proposals from at-large members Vincent Orange and David Grosso, Ward 1’s Jim Graham and Ward 2’s Jack Evans — responds to concerns that there is “no safe level of exposure to secondhand smoke, even out-doors,” and that children are the most vulnerable to its dangers.

At an earlier hearing, some crit-ics called the bill yet another exam-ple of a “nanny state,” and argued the restrictions would be difficult to enforce. But Cheh said some 300 other jurisdictions have similar laws, and said penalties have already been defined and used in an earlier D.C. law that allows busi-nesses to ban smoking within 25 feet of their entrances. The bill will require a second vote in September, and couldn’t

take effect until the council sets aside the estimated $190,000 need-ed to pay for no-smoking signs at the affected locations.

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City allows road tests through private firm The D.C. government is now allowing residents to take the city’s road test — necessary to obtain a driver’s license — through a third-party provider. Delays at the Department of Motor Vehicles have recently meant three-month-plus waits to schedule driving tests. On Monday, the city announced that it had certified Dex-terity Driving School to conduct the assessments as well. Dexterity manages it own sched-ule and may charge up to $100 for the test (possibly more for provid-ing a vehicle). The tests, which are available Tuesday to Saturday from 8:15 a.m. to 4 p.m., begin and end at D.C.’s road test facility, at 1205 Brentwood Road NE. Dexterity will follow the city’s test requirements, using the same routes and scoring sheet. Once a resident has completed the test, the Department of Motor Vehicles will process the license application. Details are available at dexteritydrivingschool.net/DC-DMV-RoadTest, which says tests are available within 48 hours; residents must call 202-291-6410 for appointments.

MLK Library unveils new digital offerings A “digital commons” area opens to the public today at the city’s Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library. The 11,000-square-foot space includes a Skype station; a video-phone for communicating via

American Sign Language; a 3-D printer; 48 PCs; 16 iMacs, four with Adobe Creative Suite software; work stations with outlets for lap-tops; and an Espresso Book Machine for self-publishing. The space also offers five “enhanced” conference rooms and a 50-person meeting room, all with Smart Boards. Reservations for the rooms can be booked online. “As technology continues to expand how people seek employ-ment, work, learn and interact, the DC Public Library is creating a place for the District’s growing community of entrepreneurs, devel-opers, designers, mentors, students and educators,” says a news release announcing the facility’s opening. Mayor Vincent Gray plans to attend today’s unveiling of the Digi-tal Commons, which is on the first floor of the library at 901 G St. NW.

Metro lifts water ban during city heat wave Due to the heat, Metro is allow-ing train riders to carry and drink water through the end of the day Friday — an exception to the usual ban on eating and drinking on the system. In a news release, Metro encour-ages passengers to carry their water in containers that are reusable or can be tightly secured and to dis-pose of bottles properly.

Classmates.com to pay $300,000 to D.C. Social networking site Class-mates.com will pay $300,000 and revise its marketing practices fol-lowing an investigation by the D.C. Office of the Attorney General. The office found that the site’s ads misled prospective customers by telling them their former class-mates were trying to reach them, according to a news release. The ads meant only that classmates might be on the site. Another com-plaint was that automatic member-ship renewals were taking place without sufficient disclosure. Classmates.com agreed to improve its disclosure practices to its D.C. customers and reimburse the District for the cost of its inves-tigation and attorneys’ fees.

Corrections An article in the July 10 issue on Georgetown University’s plans for a new dormitory misidentified Robin Morey, the university’s vice presi-dent for planning and facilities man-agement. Also, due to a production error, a photograph of a sign installation along Logan Circle’s new heritage trail was misattributed. It was taken by Logan Circle Community Asso-ciation president Tim Christensen. The Current regrets the errors. As a matter of policy, The Cur-rent corrects all errors of substance. To report an error, call the manag-ing editor at 202-567-2011.

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Wednesday, July 17 The Home and School Association of the School Without Walls at Francis-Stevens will host an open house to present the preschool-through-eighth-grade school’s plans to parents, prospective parents and the community at large. The event will feature principal Richard Trogisch, new staff members and senior administrators. It will begin at 6:30 p.m. in the auditorium at the school, located at 2425 N St. NW. For details contact [email protected].■ The D.C. Department of Transportation will hold a public meeting and workshop on transportation and pedestrian safety in Cleveland Park as part of an upcoming study. The meeting will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the community room at the 2nd District Police Headquarters, 3320 Idaho Ave. NW. For details contact Kelly Peterson at 202-671-4573 or [email protected].

Thursday, July 18 The Walter Reed Local Redevelopment Authority and the D.C. Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development will hold a community open house. Three short-listed “master developer” teams will present their plans for redevelopment of the former Walter Reed Army Medical Center. The meeting will be held from 6:30 to 9 p.m. at Tifereth Israel Congregation, 7701 16th St. NW.■ The George Washington University Mount Vernon Campus will hold its quarterly community meeting at 7 p.m. in the Webb Building on campus, at 2100 Foxhall Road NW. To RSVP contact Britany Waddell at [email protected].■ The D.C. Water and Sewer Authority and Advisory Neighborhood Commission 3F will host a community meeting to discuss a proposed sewer rehabilitation project in the Soapstone Valley section of Rock Creek Park. Discussion items will include the purpose and scope of the project, alternatives for repair of the existing sani-tary sewers, and the potential impact on trees. The meeting will be held from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Methodist Home of D.C., 4901 Connecticut Ave. NW.

Saturday, July 20 At-large D.C. Council member David Catania, chair of the Education Committee, will hold a Ward 2 community meeting on “The Future of Public Education in the District of Columbia.” The meeting will begin at 10:30 a.m. at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW.

Monday, July 22 The National Capital Planning Commission and the National Park Service will hold a public scoping meeting on an environmental study for the proposed Kennedy Center expansion project. The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. in the Grand Foyer of the Kennedy Center.

Tuesday, July 23 The D.C. Health Benefit Exchange Authority will host a Ward 1 town hall meet-ing on DC Health Link, a new online marketplace for comprehensive health cover-age. The meeting will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Columbia Heights Community Center, 1480 Girard St. NW.

Wednesday, July 24 The D.C. State Board of Education will hold a working session to hear a brief-ing on revisions to annual report cards on performance prepared by the D.C. Public Schools system and charter schools. The meeting will begin at 4:30 p.m. in Room 842, One Judiciary Square, 441 4th St. NW. ■ The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health will hold a community meeting to present findings from the 2013 Follow-Up Spring Valley Public Health Study and Community Health Assessment Survey for ZIP codes 20015 and 20016. The meeting will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. in Room 355, School of International Service Building, American University, Nebraska and New Mexico avenues NW. For details visit jhsph.edu/springvalley or email [email protected].

Thursday, July 25 The D.C. Health Benefit Exchange Authority will host a Ward 3 town hall meet-ing on DC Health Link, a new online marketplace for comprehensive health cover-age. The meeting will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Tenley-Friendship Library, 4450 Wisconsin Ave. NW.

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tourist spots and into the District’s varied communities, may try the idea in other neighborhoods if the event in Adams Morgan goes well.

Barden also said StoopFest seems a perfect fit for Adams Mor-gan, a neighborhood full of row houses with their ample and inviting front porches, as well as local musi-cians eager to get a gig. In an announcement on a neighborhood listserv, Barden wrote that the venue will spread across residential side

streets, “making the stunning archi-tecture there the backdrop as you follow your ears from house to house.” The event is, of course, free.

Barden is inviting local musi-cians interested in sharing their stoops or their songs to contact her at [email protected]. “Or just dust off the guitar and prac-tice on your porch that day,” she adds.

The StoopFest will come near the end of Cultural Tourism’s Art4All DC, taking place across the city from Sept. 13 to Oct. 6.

STOOPFEST: Event set for Oct. 5From Page 3

the District, and that without a driv-er’s license, “they may not be able to get to a job, take a child to school or to the doctor.” Denying licenses also creates “a serious safety problem,” she said, because “those who need to drive, will drive,” but without test-ing or auto insurance.

But critics say the single license for all will violate the federal REAL ID act, an equally controversial mea-sure that requires states to make applicants for driver’s licenses pro-

vide documentation of their legal status as well as Social Security numbers. A single license, they say, could be rejected by the Transporta-tion Security Agency when District residents try to board an airplane.

REAL ID, enacted in the wake of the 2001 terrorist attacks, is designed to identify foreign terrorists as well as illegal aliens, and to prevent them from boarding planes or entering federal buildings. Implementation of the act has been repeatedly delayed, as many states balk at the rules.

In response to the concerns, Cheh

noted that the federal REAL ID pro-gram “is not near to being imple-mented. I’m not at all insensitive to that. But I want to dispel the notion that we’re currently at risk.”

The second measure, proposed by Cheh and Tommy Wells of Ward 6, would make drivers 50 and older eligible for auto insurance discounts if they take an accident prevention course for senior drivers. Currently the course is offered only to drivers over 55. The bill would also reduce the required hours for the course, and allow the District to offer it online.

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This is a listing of reports taken from July 8 through 14 in local police service areas.

PSA 101

Robbery■ Pennsylvania Avenue and 13th Street; 5:35 p.m. July 13.

Burglary■ 800-899 block, 14th St.; 4:29 p.m. July 13.

Theft from auto■ 900-999 block, 10th St.; 8:02 p.m. July 13.

Theft■ F and 13th streets; 6 p.m. July 8.■ 1100-1199 block, G St.; 10:04 a.m. July 9.■ 1200-1299 block, G St.; 10:54 a.m. July 9.■ 1300-1399 block, F St.; 1:45 p.m. July 10.■ 1200-1299 block, G St.; 2 p.m. July 10.■ 12th and G streets; 3:45 p.m. July 10.■ 1300-1399 block, F St.; 3:23 p.m. July 11.■ 1300-1399 block, K St.; 7:11 p.m. July 11.■ Constitution Avenue and 7th Street; 10:07 a.m. July 12.■ 1200-1299 block, G St.; 1:20 p.m. July 13.■ 1000-1099 block, H St.; 10 a.m. July 14.

PSA 102

Robbery■ 1000-1089 block, 5th St.; 5:15 a.m. July 10.■ H and 5th streets; 10 p.m. July 12.■ 7th Street and Indiana Ave-nue; 9:50 a.m. July 13.

Theft from auto■ 700-799 block, 6th St.; 8:03 p.m. July 12.■ 1000-1029 block, 4th St.; 10:55 p.m. July 12.■ 600-699 block, K St.; 11:56 p.m. July 12.■ 600-699 block, K St.; 12:48 a.m. July 13.■ 600-699 block, K St.; 3:30 a.m. July 14.■ 7th and K streets; 5:59 a.m. July 14.

Theft■ 600-699 block, F St.; 8:20 p.m. July 8.■ 700-799 block, H St.; 5 a.m. July 9.■ 700-799 block, 7th St.; 2:30 p.m. July 9.■ 300-498 block, Indiana Ave.; 6 p.m. July 9.■ 600-699 block, F St.; 3:01 a.m. July 10.■ 700-799 block, 7th St.; 4:20 p.m. July 10.■ 700-799 block, 7th St.; 6:30 p.m. July 10.■ 400-499 block, L St.; 2:48 p.m. July 11.■ 400-499 block, Massachu-

setts Ave.; 8:20 p.m. July 11.■ 700-799 block, 7th St.; 11:55 p.m. July 11.

PSA 201

Motor vehicle theft■ 3700-3724 block, Military Road; 10:38 a.m. July 12.

Theft from auto■ 5921-6031 block, Utah Ave.; 3 p.m. July 8.■ 5400-5419 block, Connecti-cut Ave.; 11:35 a.m. July 12.

Theft■ 3700-3799 block, Oliver St.; 7:57 a.m. July 10.

PSA 202

Burglary■ 5000-5099 block, Wisconsin Ave.; 9:45 p.m. July 9.■ 4500-4599 block, Davenport St.; 2:32 p.m. July 10.■ 4400-4499 block, Butter-worth Place; 3:47 p.m. July 14.

Theft from auto■ Chesapeake Street and Wis-consin Avenue; 2:38 p.m. July 12.■ 4500-4599 block, Windom Place; 3:03 p.m. July 13.

Theft■ 3814-3989 block, Chesa-peake St.; 6:05 a.m. July 9.■ 4600-4699 block, Chesa-peake St.; 10:41 a.m. July 10.■ 4500-4599 block, 40th St.; 1:02 p.m. July 10.■ 5300-5399 block, Wisconsin Ave.; 3:12 p.m. July 10.■ 4500-4537 block, Wisconsin Ave.; 7:40 p.m. July 12.■ 5300-5399 block, Wisconsin Ave.; 7:45 p.m. July 12.■ 4500-4537 block, Wisconsin Ave.; 3 p.m. July 13.

PSA 203

Burglary■ 3100-3199 block, Rodman St.; 1:17 p.m. July 8.

Theft from auto■ 3500-3599 block, Yuma St.; 11:15 a.m. July 8.■ Reno Road and Tilden Street; 1:30 p.m. July 10.■ 3000-3379 block, Ordway St.; 5 p.m. July 13.■ 5000-5099 block, Connecti-cut Ave; 11 a.m. July 14.

Theft■ 5000-5099 block, Connecti-cut Ave.; 5:02 p.m. July 9.■ 4400-4411 block, 36th St.; 12:39 p.m. July 10.

PSA 204

Robbery

■ 2301-2499 block, Wiscon-sin Ave.; 6 p.m. July 12.■ 2600-2649 block, Connecti-cut Ave.; 1:38 p.m. July 14.

Theft from auto■ 4000-4299 block, Cathe-dral Ave.; 2:05 p.m. July 11.■ 2731-2899 block, Devon-shire Place; 10:44 a.m. July 12.

Theft■ 2900-2999 block, 28th St.; 9:28 a.m. July 12.

PSA 205

Theft from auto■ 5051-5099 block, Macomb St.; 8:47 a.m. July 8.■ 4200-4399 block, Embassy Park Drive; 8:08 p.m. July 9.

Theft■ 3200-3301 block, New Mexico Ave.; 10:40 a.m. July 9.

PSA 206

Burglary■ 71-1099 block, Wisconsin Ave.; 6:55 a.m. July 8.

Theft from auto■ O and 33rd streets; 11:17 a.m. July 8.■ 1738-1899 block, Wiscon-sin Ave.; 4:29 p.m. July 9.■ 1400-1499 block, 34th St.; 5:15 p.m. July 14.

Theft■ 3000-3091 block, K St.; 3 a.m. July 8.■ 1601-1647 block, 30th St.; 8:53 a.m. July 8.■ 1402-1442 block, Wiscon-sin Ave.; 12:57 a.m. July 9.■ 3200-3277 block, M St.; 11:25 a.m. July 9.■ 3100-3199 block, M St.; 5:12 p.m. July 9.■ 3100-3199 block, M St.; 7:06 p.m. July 9.■ 3600-3699 block, O St.; 12:11 a.m. July 10.■ 3300-3399 block, Volta Place; 10:10 a.m. July 10.■ 3200-3277 block, M St.; 11:29 a.m. July 10.■ 3100-3199 block, M St.; 7:40 p.m. July 10.■ 3000-3049 block, M St.; 3:04 p.m. July 11.■ 3101-3299 block, S St.; 7:15 p.m. July 11.■ 3100-3199 block, Q St.; 11:49 a.m. July 12.■ 3600-3699 block, O St.; 12:45 p.m. July 12.■ 2900-2999 bock, M St.; 2:52 p.m. July 12.■ 1000-1003 block, Thomas Jefferson St.; 1:25 p.m. July 13.■ 3200-3277 block, M St.; 6:41 p.m. July 13.■ 3300-3399 block, Water St.; 12:17 p.m. July 14.■ 3100-3199 block, K St.; 1:29 p.m. July 14.■ 3000-3091 block, K St.;

4:37 p.m. July 14.

PSA 208

Burglary■ 1500-1599 block, New Hampshire Ave.; 12:16 a.m. July 12.■ 1300-1399 block, 14th St.; 6:27 p.m. July 12.

Theft from auto■ P and 15th streets; 2:12 a.m. July 8.■ 1400-1499 block, Church St.; 4:46 p.m. July 8.■ 1125-1225 block, New Hampshire Ave.; 4:33 p.m. July 10.■ 1500-1599 block, N St.; 11:55 p.m. July 11.■ 1700-1799 block, Church St.; 10:42 a.m. July 12.■ N and 15th streets; 12:53 p.m. July 13.■ 1500-1599 block, N St.; 2:58 p.m. July 13.■ 1600-1629 block, 20th St.; 12:18 p.m. July 14.

Theft■ 1400-1499 block, P St.; 3:11 p.m. July 8.■ 1200-1219 block, 19th St.; 6:35 p.m. July 8.■ 1900-1999 block, Connecti-cut Ave.; 12:42 a.m. July 9.■ 1500-1599 block, O St.; 5:55 p.m. July 9.■ 1200-1219 block, 19th St.; 11:15 p.m. July 9.■ 1400-1499 block, P St.; 9:07 a.m. July 10.■ 1600-1699 block, P St.; 9:40 a.m. July 10.■ 2000-2099 block, M St.; 4:06 p.m. July 10.■ 1800-1899 block, M St.; 3:58 a.m. July 11.■ 1600-1629 block, 20th St.; 12:55 p.m. July 12.■ 1900-1999 block, Connecti-cut Ave.; 11:07 p.m. July 12.■ 1700-1799 block, Connecti-cut Ave.; 3 a.m. July 14.

PSA 301

Assault with a dangerous weapon■ 1600-1619 block, 15th St.; 1:17 p.m. July 11.■ W and 14th streets; 11 p.m. July 11 (with gun).

Burglary■ 1707-1799 block, S St.; 12:46 a.m. July 8.■ 1700-1799 block, T St.; 10:29 p.m. July 11.■ 1400-1499 block, T St.; 6:35 a.m. July 12.

Theft■ 1822-1899 block, 17th St.; 11:56 a.m. July 8.■ 1825-1899 block, 16th St.; 9:24 a.m. July 9.■ 2100-2199 block, 16th St.; 3:02 p.m. July 12.■ 1500-1599 block, U St.; 10:40 a.m. July 13.■ 1616-1699 block, 17th St.; 1 p.m. July 13.

psa 201■ chevy chase

psa 202■ Friendship heightstenleytown / aU park

psa 204■ MassachUsetts avenUe heights / cleveland parkwoodley park / glover park / cathedral heights

psa 205■ palisades / spring valleywesley heights / Foxhall

psa 206■ georgetown / bUrleith

psa 208■ sheridan-kaloraMadUpont circle

psa 203■ Forest hills / van nesscleveland park

psa 101■ downtown

psa 102■ gallery placepenn QUarter

psa 301■ dUpont circle

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boasts that it was picked in a 2010 Washington Post poll as “the preppi-est place in Washington.”) With just 35 seats and a handful of menu items, “that doesn’t really sound like a restaurant to us,” said the citizens association’s Jennifer Altemus. “It would be nice if they could serve some more food,” neighbor-hood commissioner Bill Starrels said in a separate interview. Landry — who has been involved in a number of nightlife ventures in Georgetown and Glover Park, including co-owning Mason Inn at 2408 Wisconsin Ave. — rejects such criticisms. He wrote that George has “never had an issue satisfying our food requirement,” referring to the city’s regulation that restaurants like his make 45 percent of their sales from food or at least $2,000 per occupant annually. Starrels said yesterday that nego-tiations with George are proceeding and include issues of menu selection and seating capacity. The neighbor-hood commission voted unanimous-ly at its July 1 meeting to file its protest; the citizens association had already done so. The protest proce-dure allows parties time to negotiate and ideally reach an accord, and a public hearing follows if that does not occur. Neighbors have also complained

of being woken up by George’s loud patrons, Altemus said. “We have heard from various people there is noise resulting from people waiting in line and coming and going through the courtyard,” she said. Also, Altemus said some nearby restaurants “aren’t happy with the clientele that George brings in … the number of people who are younger and more boisterous.” “We’ve had a few issues and the bottom line is, if you double the numbers, the chances of something becoming more of an issue is greatly increased,” said Starrels. Landry said that logic doesn’t apply to the situation at George. “The main noise issue we deal with is when we’re at capacity and patrons are forced to wait in line outside the courtyard,” he wrote. “By increasing the capacity to that which is allowed by the fire marshal, it will likely alleviate any noise issues that currently exist.” This latest effort is George’s sec-ond attempt to terminate its agree-ment with the community. The Alco-holic Beverage Control Board rejected an application submitted several years ago, a decision that was upheld by the D.C. Court of Appeals. Starrels said he’s hopeful a com-promise will be reached this time, citing “good rapport” and regular discussions with the restaurant’s rep-resentative.

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we can learn to drive and bike together.” Agency officials have said previously that the plans are scheduled to move forward by mid-November. In addition to the northbound bike lane, the project will include a southbound “sharrow” — bicycle logos painted on the street indicating that it’s intended as a bike route. Planners said downhill cyclists don’t need a separate lane because they move quick-ly enough to not interfere with car traffic, unlike cyclists traveling more slowly uphill. The neighborhood commission’s vote won sustained applause from a room dominated by cycling advocates from nearby and around the city, though several immediate neighbors were

also on hand to speak in opposition. Several community groups representing the residents along New Mexico also oppose the plan. The most vocal opponent at the meeting was Michael Gold, a neighborhood commis-sioner representing much of the 0.75-mile stretch of New Mexico Avenue. Gold said that while he supports bike lanes on principle, there is regularly congestion and disorder where delivery trucks unload to serve the street’s commercial buildings. “If we put in a bike lane on New Mexico, that’s not going to the change the situation with the loading. What we’re going to have is more bikes on the street that will be swerving around double-parked trucks,” said Gold. At the same meeting, the neighborhood

commission voted unanimously to request extra enforcement of the curbside loading zone, which is intended for two trucks at a time. “It threatens all three types of people who use New Mexico Avenue: motorists, pedestri-ans and bicyclists,” said commissioner Joe Wisniewski, who said loading zone problems are a separate issue from the bike lane. To Wisniewski, a bike lane wouldn’t change who uses the road, but simply clarifies which users go where. Commissioner Rory Slatko added: “We aren’t voting tonight on whether bikers are allowed on New Mexico Avenue. The fact of the matter is that they’re there.” According to several bike advocates at the meeting, many cyclists now use the narrow sidewalk — endangering pedestrians and

themselves — or take up a travel lane as they pedal slowly up the hill, holding up traffic. Several commissioners said they were uncomfortable with the lack of a formal traffic study for the corridor, and said the Transporta-tion Department should consider alternative bike routes on less-busy streets. The commis-sion’s resolution includes a request for a study, but the vote of non-objection was not contin-gent upon that study taking place. The commission’s resolution of non-objec-tion would have likely failed had commis-sioner Tom Smith been present, because his opposition would have led to a tie vote. Smith, submitted written comments stating concerns about increased congestion and the plan’s lack of analysis.

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part of a community amenities pack-age required by the development process, but the Zoning Commission rejected that call. The superdorm project already has approval from the Zoning Com-mission and Historic Preservation Review Board. The university intends to have it open by late sum-mer 2016. The new dorm will replace the school’s master lease at the City Hall building off campus at 950 24th St., as part of a commit-ment to house all undergraduates on campus. Few other council members par-

ticipated in last Wednesday’s discus-sion during the legislative meeting, but Ward 4’s Muriel Bowser said the council should consider requiring more community amenities in the future in exchange for street and alley closings. The city surveyor assessed the land on this alley at $2.8 million. Council Chairman Phil Mendel-son replied that the District govern-ment originally received land for the city’s streets and alleys from adja-cent property owners, which is why there is no cost for them to be closed and returned to those property own-ers. The city has only a right-of-way to use the land, not a title.

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An 11th-hour affront When Americans hear about political leaders postponing elections, their initial thoughts almost surely drift overseas — Egypt, Tunisia or Haiti, per-haps. Googling the term “delayed elections” this week turned up a story about “Violent scuffles in Kiev over delayed Mayoral elections.” In contrast, there was no violence, and little outcry, over the D.C. Coun-cil’s 11th-hour decision last week to postpone the District’s first election of an attorney general. Previously scheduled for April 2014, it now won’t occur until 2018 unless the council decides — wisely — to reverse course. What makes the idea all the more perverse is that the council is overturn-ing the clear will of the electorate. In 2010, 75 percent of voters approved a charter amendment to make the attorney general an elected office. The Board of Elections’ summary concluded: “If voters approve of this amend-ment and the U.S. Congress does not reject the measure, residents of the District of Columbia would begin voting for the Attorney General in 2014.” As it turns out, the language ought to have included a phrase about the D.C. Council changing its mind. The council is in the midst of reviewing Mayor Vincent Gray’s proposal to alter the government’s structure so that legal counsels within the executive branch agencies will report to the mayor rather than the independent attorney general. We’re sympathetic to the idea, since any mayor needs a legal team in line with his or her goals and policy initiatives. The attorney general’s office would continue to enforce D.C. laws through court proceedings, write legal opinions and adjudicate cases. But now the council, at the behest of Ward 2 Council member Jack Evans, is using that unsettled debate as a rationale to delay the 2014 election. Legislators say uncertainty about the attorney general’s role is the reason there are no candidates as of yet. Mr. Evans described the delay as the responsible thing to do: “It is not overturning the will of the voters. ... What we are saying is postpone the election until we are ready to have it.” At-large Council member David Catania correctly noted that the council’s unwillingness to adhere to the will of the voters deprives local leaders of credibility when they complain of congressional meddling and push for D.C. statehood. As Chairman Phil Mendelson aptly explained: “We are thumbing our nose at the voters — and we are doing it rather glibly.” Alas, they failed to sway their colleagues, losing an 8-5 vote (joined only by Ward 6’s Tommy Wells, Ward 5’s Kenyan McDuffie and at-large member David Grosso) just before the council went on its summer recess. We hope for a reversal as soon as they return in September.

Zoning minimums Under current zoning rules, developers must generally include parking spaces when constructing new buildings throughout D.C. But city planners had hoped to change that: The Office of Planning is updating the zoning code, and officials initially proposed eliminating the minimum requirements downtown and in other parts of the city that are well-served by transit. That idea drew some strong opposition, and last week the agency’s direc-tor announced that the minimums will remain in place everywhere but “downtown” (including the ballpark area and certain other neighborhoods). The goals of the original idea — to decrease car use, traffic and pollution — were honorable. And the thought process behind the scheme made some sense: If you provide fewer places to park, people won’t drive; maybe they’ll even forgo owning a car altogether. But behavior is only so malleable. Harriet Tregoning, who directs the Office of Planning, says 38.5 percent of D.C. households have no cars. But even the director is part of the next step up in vehicle use — a member of a “car-light” household, which includes an infrequently used auto. And even rarely driven cars need spaces. That’s what worries many residents who already struggle to find parking spots in their crowded communities. Even if all inhabitants of new residen-tial buildings were banned from getting street-parking permits, those resi-dents might still get visitors who come in cars, while retail and restaurant offerings are certainly likely to draw driving patrons. Transit, biking and walking just don’t work for everyone in all instances. Where minimums would be eliminated — the downtown area — there are fewer single-family residences and row houses, so spillover parking would be less of a problem. Public transit is also better there. We appreciate the effort to reduce driving in the city. Already we see some success: There are parts of town where most residents know they shouldn’t even try to park, so they turn to alternative methods. But the approach needs to be balanced. The debate over eliminating minimums has stood in the way of the much-needed overall zoning update. We hope this change will allow the package to move forward.

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If you’ve been to most any seashore amusement park, you’ve seen the copyrighted “Whac-A-Mole” game. We now have our own version here.The D.C. Council created Whack-a-Walmart last

week when it passed what it terms a “living wage” bill that targets big-box stores of 75,000 square feet and $1 billion in annual revenues (for the parent company).

The thinking is sim-ple: Such firms can afford to pay the wage of $12.50 an hour (counting benefits), and that’s that. The bill exempts union shops that negotiate wages.

Walmart, which had been wooed for more than a decade to open in the District, cried foul. Now store officials are bluntly saying that if Mayor Vincent Gray doesn’t veto the bill, they’ll dump three planned Walmart stores in the city and consider abandoning three others now under construction.

NBC4 reported last week that sources say Gray will veto the measure after he marshals support from business and community leaders appalled at the bill.

But those expecting action this week likely will be disappointed.

As of Monday, the council, which voted 8-5 to pass the bill, had not finished the paperwork to send it to the mayor. Once he formally receives it, he has 10 business days to sign or veto it. The council then would have 30 calendar days to meet for an override vote.

Council Chairman Phil Mendelson, who authored the original legislation, said he would discuss an override vote with other members once the veto occurs. Mendelson says he thinks the mayor should sign it, but he doesn’t seem too hopeful.

Other sources who support the Walmart bill pri-vately admit to News4 that the votes aren’t there to override the expected veto. The council would need nine of 13 votes to override Gray. But the five mem-bers who voted against the bill appear firmly against it, meaning a win for the mayor.

This is not an original game. We’ve seen it before in Chicago.

According to a New York Times report in 2006, Chicago aldermen voted 35-14 that summer to impose a similar wage bill of $10 an hour on big-box stores. That was a hefty margin of victory. It would have affected big-box stores that had $1 billion in

sales and stores of at least 90,000 square feet.But then-Mayor Richard M. Daley vetoed it.“We need jobs,” he said. “If it’s OK for suburban

areas, why not Chicago?” he asked. “You can enjoy the fruits of suburban area living with Walmart and no one objects! Labor people, union people, business people, reporters — all of you don’t object.”

Despite the lopsided vote in Chicago for the big-box wage, the council fell three votes short of over-

riding Daley’s veto. The bill never became law, and Walmart now likes to point out that it has built eight stores in Chi-cago and is about to open its ninth. The com-

pany also says it employs approximately 1,500 peo-ple in the city.

Here in Washington, Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development Victor Hoskins also has warned that other national retailers, like Wegmans and Lowe’s, are now skeptical about entering the D.C. market.

While the issue plays out, organized labor knows that it has a tough road to steer if it wants to keep the big-box bill alive. There is a compelling argument that the city spent more than a decade to lure major retailers only to move the goalposts. A lot of union members live in the suburbs and won’t depend upon these new stores (and can’t vote in city elections).

It could be that, in the end, all sides will win something.

The mayor, with his veto, will look strong even if organized labor is angry. (It’s already split over sup-porting him for re-election, so not a lot will change.)

The council members who back the mayor — including mayoral candidates Tommy Wells and Muriel Bowser — will burnish their image as com-munity builders. Ward 2 Council member Jack Evans, who is also running for mayor, has strong support from business already and won’t be punished for backing the Walmart higher wage.

Organized labor, even if it loses the battle, will have shown some muscle at a time when many believe its influence is waning.

And maybe the citizens in struggling communities will win something, too. Either they’ll get a law that insists they be paid higher wages, and the stores will comply, or the stores will pay lower wages and they’ll have somewhere, finally, to shop.

Tom Sherwood, a Southwest resident, is a political reporter for News 4.

The whack-a-Walmart game …

TOM SHERWOOD’S NotebooK

Mayor should veto living wage measure Good public policy is carefully thought out and responds to the complexity of the issues it addresses. The Large Retailer Accountability Act of 2013 fails to meet this criteria, and Mayor Vincent Gray should veto it. The bill purports to address the relatively low wages paid to ser-vice industry workers in the Dis-trict. Somehow, requiring a small number of large retailers who don’t happen to be either of the two unionized grocery chains in the city to pay 50 percent more than the current minimum wage is supposed to result in higher wages for all low-paid workers. The bill is full of logical falla-cies:■ The real reasons wages are low are two-fold. One, we do not have

a robust manufacturing sector, which generates higher-wage jobs. Two, we have a substantially higher unemployment rate in the city than in the suburbs, so there’s an oversupply of low-skilled workers for low-wage positions. This bill addresses neither issue.■ The bill would work against hir-ing unemployed D.C. residents and reward non-residents with higher wages. Numerous studies have shown that the District has a lack of “job-ready” applicants — those who are willing to show up on time, who offer a positive atti-tude, who are reliable and who have sufficient skills in basic liter-acy and math. If an employer has to pay a minimum of $12.50, there will be a natural tendency to hire a non-D.C. resident who has those skills, rather than pay that kind of money for someone with-out them, who might have started at a low wage but moved up to a higher wage by showing promise.■ Forcing retailers, especially gro-cery retailers, to pay higher wages

is deleterious to consumers. The grocery industry has notoriously low profit margins, so the increased cost of labor must be passed along to the consumer.■ While most of the discussion about the bill has focused on its effect on Walmart, there are a number of other large retailers that have indicated interest in locating here and are now reconsidering.■ The District is currently losing more than $1 billion of retail sales every year to nearby jurisdictions. Why would we want to restrict the entry of new retailers and con-tinue to lose sales tax revenue? So far as I can see from press reports, there is no successful example of a major city that has enacted such legislation. We need to continue to diversify our retail base, and bring additional goods and services to our residents, par-ticularly those living in the “food deserts” that several large retailers are planning to serve.

Ellen McCarthyChevy Chase

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sewer projects need more public scrutiny On June 18, the D.C. Water and Sewer Authority and the National Park Service held a brief communi-ty meeting on two upcoming proj-ects. They pointed out that the con-crete sewer lines running through the stream valleys in Soapstone and Glover Archbold parks needed refurbishment. The original plans for this work involved relining and restoring these sewers. These are summarized at dcwater.com/workzones under “Projects & Initiatives.” Most likely a technique called “cured-in-place” pipe relining would be used, using epoxy-resin-impregnated liners that are inflated at high pressure. It appears, however, that the Park Service would rather that the water authority “abandon in place” the existing sewer lines, avoiding the need to manage the impacts of

construction work in these parks. It is true, unfortunately, that refurbish-ing the sewer lines would require a construction road along the sewer route, for which trees would have to be taken down. A temporary road ought to be considered for the pur-pose of this work, so that upon removal it could become a meadow and, eventually, forest again. Alter-natively, perhaps an access right of way could be used for a bike trail. The alternative proposal, to abandon the sewer lines, involves intercepting the feeder lines to these sewers; building 20 to 24 sewage pumping stations outside the park borders; and then installing new sewer lines under the streets, through which sewage would be pumped uphill to another route to the sewage treatment plant. Appar-ently, possible sites for the two larg-est pumping stations would be across from Johnson’s Garden Cen-ter on Van Ness Street, and near the community garden off New Mexico Avenue. This option would have a great impact on many areas. Sewage

pumping stations create significant noise and odor, and they can release raw sewage when they fail. Addi-tionally, the amount of electricity required to pump all the diverted sewage uphill is significant. Despite the incursion required in the park to fix the existing gravity sewer, which has served D.C. well for more than 50 years, this is the best solution. Sewage pumping sta-tions would not be good neighbors. The street disruption of building the new uphill pressure sewer lines would be considerable as well. I urge residents to write to the water authority and to the Park Ser-vice to demand an extension of the public comment period on this plan. This now ends Aug. 18. The community still knows little about plans for these projects, which could affect our community greatly. Comments to the Park Ser-vice can be submitted at tinyurl.com/pipe-project-comment. Please demand more public comment time and more information.

Edward Bernton Cathedral Heights

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“Community” is not a word that outsiders often associate with the District. The per-ception is that D.C. is a transient’s town —

that no one actually grows up here. But that’s not true of Chevy Chase. This is a neigh-borhood where it’s not uncommon for one to have neighbors who have lived here for 20, 30, 40 years or more. There is a sense of Main Street USA that is absent in most near-urban areas of the country. As much as its residents look forward (notice the Prius on almost every block), they also have a strong sense of history and continuity. And perhaps no other place in the neighborhood encapsulates that dynamic like the Avalon Theatre on Connecticut Avenue, the oldest operating movie theater in the District. This year, the Avalon celebrates its 90th anniversary — cause for celebration not only for the theater’s longevity, but also our current standing as a vibrant, financially healthy community landmark. And soon we will meet a long-standing request from our neighborhood patrons: This month we began the installation of an elevator to our upstairs theater and the renovation of our Theater 2 lobby restrooms to bring them into Americans With Disabilities Act compliance. When the theater opened in 1923 as the Chevy Chase Theatre, it was a place where patrons paid 30 cents to watch a silent movie accompanied by pipe organ music. But, like our local residents, the theater — renamed the Avalon in 1929 — has always looked forward. The theater was wired for sound in 1929. A renovation in 1937 brought a modern art deco look (including the vertical sign that still exists today) and the installation of air conditioning. The upstairs theater was added in 1970. Another renovation in 1985 added the beautiful ceiling mural in Theater 1 and also made the Avalon one of the first theaters in the nation to present digital sound. Just a few months ago, the Avalon replaced its 35 mm projectors with a digital projection system in keeping with new industry-wide standards.

Still, with all these changes, the theater has kept sight of its history. In the mid-’90s, due to the efforts of local residents, landmark status was granted for the Avalon’s exterior. Unfortunately, that wasn’t enough to keep the theater from closing in 2001. But an incredible community effort brought the theater back from the dead as the nonprofit Avalon Theatre Project, which celebrated its 10th anniversary this year. Yet there has remained one glaring flaw that flies in the face of our mission to be a local film center that serves the best in film to the entire community — that is, some of our elderly and handicapped patrons have not been able to access our upstairs theater due to the absence of an elevator. Due to the age of the Avalon, we were not required to comply with ADA requirements. However, the board of directors has, ever since the Avalon became a non-profit in 2003, made it a goal to make the entire theater handicapped accessible. With this project, we are finally able to make that goal a reality.

The success of the Avalon is due to a relationship between the theater and the community that is essential for the long-term success of any local arts institution. This idea is not new. When the theater was under con-struction in 1923, a local newspaper article about the new venue opened with the sentence: “The community spirit prevails.” The article noted that the president of the theater promised “a community institution, one in which the individual shall have an interest.” Ninety years later, those words are still true. All decisions at the Avalon are made with our local com-munity members in mind. The process is sometimes chaotic, much like the construction in the next few months promises to be, but rewarding for all involved. And to ensure that landmarks like the Avalon contin-ue to thrive, they must have the active support and engagement of the public. Without the efforts of local citizens, the Avalon would have never made it to its 90th anniversary. Fortunately, Northwest D.C. is a place where “the community spirit” continues to prevail. Bill Oberdorfer is executive director of the Avalon Theatre, and Beth Anderson is marketing and digital content manager of the Avalon Theatre. Both are Chevy Chase residents.

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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 [email protected].

ANC 2EGeorgetownCloisters

The commission will meet at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 3, at Georgetown Visitation Preparato-ry School, 1524 35th St. NW. For details, call 202-724-7098 or visit anc2e.com.

ANC 3BGlover Park

At the commission’s July 11 meeting:■ Metropolitan Police Department Lt. Ralph Neal provided crime sta-tistics for Police Service Area 204 that showed general drops in crime compared to the same time last year. There was one recent violent crime: a robbery with a gun. Neal said bur-glaries have increased in neighbor-hoods surrounding Glover Park, but that police have apprehended a sus-pect. The lieutenant also said a sus-pect, who lives in the area, turned himself in for recent destruction of property on Bellevue Terrace. Com-missioner Joe Fiorillo said those crimes involved extensive damage to vehicles.■ Vera Ertem of the D.C. Urban Forestry Administration talked about her agency’s mission and recent activities. The agency planted more than 100 trees in the Glover Park area last year, she said, and all but one have survived. Ertem said the agency has adopt-ed a policy of attaching “gator bags” to newly planted trees for watering purposes; she also encouraged resi-dents to adopt street trees. Commission chair Brian Cohen relayed a resident’s concern that the administration has gone from plant-ing larger canopy trees to more “ornamental trees.” Ertem respond-ed that Pepco wires play a factor in that trend, since trees can’t be plant-ed in a way that interferes with the utility wires. When one resident reported that several trees on the 3800 block of W Street had been “butchered” recently in conjunction with Pepco work, Ertem explained more about Pepco standards and the way her agency coordinates with them. She encouraged calling 311 with concerns.■ Paul Hoffman of the D.C. Depart-ment of Transportation said work started recently to reconfigure the intersection of 37th Street and Tun-law Road, with the project expected to be finished by the end of July. Commissioner Jackie Blumen-thal said cars don’t seem to be fol-lowing the project’s detour direc-

tions, and that “pedestrian crossing is impossible.” Commissioners also told Hoffman that the traffic block-ade should be farther south. Hoff-man said he’d look into the matter. Hoffman also said he’d respond to an issue raised by commission chair Brian Cohen, who said the Transportation Department never reinstalled two “Yield to Pedestrian” signs at Fulton Street that were removed as part of the Wisconsin Avenue streetscape reconstruction.■ commissioners voted unanimous-ly to oppose two Alcoholic Bever-age Regulation Administration mat-ters related to the reopening of JP’s, the strip club at 2412 Wisconsin Ave. In their first resolution, commis-sioners objected to the renewal of the JP’s liquor license, which has been in a dormant period of “safe-keeping” for over two years. The opposition is based on ongoing con-fusion over the ownership of JP’s, and the applicant’s lack of “fitness for licensure,” the resolution says. The second resolution protests a substantial change application from JP’s that commissioners believe would allow a new type of operation that could be harmful to the com-munity. The resolution objects to JP’s proposal to use tabletop stages and to allow dancing within semi-private alcoves. Commissioner Jackie Blumen-thal said alcohol agency placards would be placed at JP’s that week announcing the license renewal and proposed changes, and citizens would have until Aug. 26 to com-ment.■ commissioner Mary Young pro-vided information from a recent meeting about plans for a sewer project that will affect parkland in Soapstone Valley, Foundry Valley

and Glover Archbold Park. Young said one complicated issue is the D.C. Water and Sewer Authority’s need to construct access roads (pos-sibly 14 feet wide) to make way for equipment for the sewer rehabilita-tion work — a proposal the National Park Service opposes. She also said residents are concerned about tree removals and the project’s need to vent sewer pipes. The water agency will be hosting another public meeting on the proj-ect July 18 and is accepting public comments through Aug. 18, Young reported. The commission will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday Sept. 12, at Stod-dert Elementary School and Glover Park Community Center, 4001 Calvert St. NW. For details, call 202-338-2969, email [email protected] or visit anc3b.org.

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The commission will meet at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 16, at the 2nd District Police Headquarters, 3320 Idaho Ave. NW. For details, visit anc3c.org.

ANC 3DSpring ValleyWesley Heights

The commission will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 7, in the Abramson Family Founders Room, School of International Service Building, American Uni-versity, Nebraska and New Mexi-co avenues NW. For details, call 202-363-4130 or visit anc3d.org.


In Your Neighborhood

Citizens Association of Georgetown During these dog days of summer, the Potomac River continues

to cool down the area below M Street as it always has. This impor-tant part of our community offers old and new treasures to be enjoyed this summer.

The Percy Plaza fountain is regularly filled with little ones squealing through the spray. Yachts, skimmers, kayaks, canoes, crew teams and even a pirate ship ply the waters of the Potomac past Georgetown, while people watch from the new steps in the Water-front Park that disappear into the river. Tourists from around the world read the etched granite slabs that describe what the waterfront was like in the 18th and 19th centuries, when the port was lined with wharves and seagoing vessels. And trees provide meaningful shade this summer to picnickers and people enjoying a quick nap on the park’s lawns.

A free exhibit at the Swedish Embassy tells the story of the emi-gration of 1.2 million Swedes who left their homes for a better future in the ‘’land of opportunity.” New and rejuvenated restaurants and outdoor bars at the Washington Harbour offer great people watching and time for enjoying each other.

Twinkling lights brighten in the trees, and fish jump from the Potomac to catch bugs in the twilight. You can even occasionally glimpse a bald eagle overhead or a deer on Roosevelt Island coming out for a quick sip of water. Turtles and fish swim near the surface in the C&O Canal hoping for bread from Sea Catch Restaurant. New restaurants and music venues join the old favorites.

The Georgetown waterfront, made up of the 25 blocks between M Street and the river, and home to more than 1,500 people, is going through a metamorphosis. If you haven’t been for a while, we rec-ommend you stroll down and prepare for a delightful surprise.

— Michele Jacobson

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By BRIAN KAPURCurrent Staff Writer

Summer league is where basket-ball teams build rapport and learn lessons on the hardwood without consequences in the loss column. Wilson’s boys basketball team took what it gleaned over the past month and turned it into a champion-ship performance. The Tigers knocked off Blair 65-60 to capture the More Than Basketball summer league title Thursday evening at Wil-son. “My biggest thing for summer is development,” said Wilson head coach Andre Williams, who attended the game but didn’t coach the team per summer league rules. “I don’t care about wins and losses — no one remembers who wins the summer leagues. We won it last year but fin-ished third in the city. We have a new team this year, and I’m thinking about chemistry and development for our players.” The game ended up providing a solid lesson for the Tigers, who played an uneven contest. Wilson struggled early on, trailing by double digits throughout the first half before going into halftime down by 12. “The team in the first half was extremely selfish — played individ-ual basketball, played a one-on-one game and threw up shots,” said Wil-liams. After the break, Angelo Hernan-dez, the Tigers’ assistant coach, who served as the summer squad’s coach, focused on cohesion. The adjust-ments proved to be good ones as Wilson chipped away at the Devils’ lead and made it a one-point deficit — 49-48 — with 5:23 to play. The Tigers then took the lead for good when guards Apronti Jones and Dimone Long came up with clutch free throws to push Wilson to a 51-49 advantage. “In the second half we passed the ball, pushed the tempo and played great defense,” said Williams. “We were able to capitalize by playing

team basketball.” Blair tried to rally with two min-utes left, but Wilson center Michael Knapp made an emphatic block, which led to a three-point bucket from Rasheed Shorter-Brice to put the game on ice. “Shorter-Brice is stepping up a lot,” said Hernandez. “I liked the effort I’ve seen from him. He’s a hard worker. He’s little, but he makes up for it with heart.” While Shorter-Brice got the trey, it was Knapp who made the play by providing Wilson with toughness in the post, which could be a major fac-tor this winter. “Our biggest surprise has been Michael Knapp,” said Williams. “He played on junior varsity two years ago, but last year he wrestled. I gave him my best sales pitch to come back and play. With wrestling he’s used to all the bumping and bruising. He’s really been a force for us. He’s probably had the biggest impact for us.” Along with Knapp’s emergence, the Tigers also found a new point guard option in Larry Holmes, who transferred from St. Albans. “He brings the grittiness to our team,” said Williams. “He never gives up. Although he’s small, he hits the floor a lot. He is really our toughest leader on the floor.” Hernandez was also impressed with Holmes. “He can really play,” Hernandez said. “He gets our guys open and gets them shots. He’s prob-ably the one that makes us go.” The Tigers also saw Brenton Petty blossom as a leader on the

team. “He calls all the guys for the games,” Williams said. “He sets up weight room stuff. He has really stepped up in being a leader this summer.” While watching Wilson develop has been Williams’ focus this sum-mer, he has also begun preparing for the new look of the D.C. Interscho-lastic Athletic Association. As announced in April, the league will no longer have east and west divi-sions for basketball. All of the teams will play each other twice — once at home and once on the road. Wil-liams explained that the change will reduce the school’s non-conference slate and early-season tournament prospects from 10 down to six games. “They’re trying to even out the playing field so people can keep their confidence up during the sea-son,” he said. Williams also had a chance to see

Coolidge and Theodore Roosevelt play summer league games. Those peeks at DCIAA rivals left the coach excited for the upcoming year.

“I was able to see our top oppo-nents play this summer,” he said. “It looks like it’s going to be another great season.”

Tigers repeat as summer league champs

Brian Kapur/The CurrentRising senior Michael Knapp, above right, emerged as a force that Wilson can count on in the post. Knapp will play for the Tigers’ varsity basketball team this winter after competing for the school’s wrestling squad last season. The Tigers also had rising senior Apronti Jones, bottom left, step up this summer.

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Northwest youngsters capture D.C. city Little League crown The 9- and 10-year-old Northwest Little League baseball squad won the D.C. city championship by knocking off Capitol Hill in a thrilling 9-8 ballgame at Banneker last Tuesday. The squad went on to play in the Mary-land State Little League tournament, but fell 5-3 to a team from Thurmont, Md. Northwest was then knocked out of the tournament by a squad from Easton, Md., 6-5 Sunday.

WIS grad to play soccer at UNC Francesco Amorosino, who graduated from Washington International School this year, will play soccer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the fall, the university said in a news release recently posted to goheels.com. The Tar Heels won the national champi-onship in 2011 and came up one game shy of the title game last season. “This is an exciting group,” North Caro-lina coach Carlos Somoano said of his recruit-ing class in the release. Last year, Amorosino received acommu-nity service award from Mayor Vincent Gray

for his work with the local nonprofit DC SCORES, where he volunteered weekly as a soccer referee at elementary schools and helped with the group’s summer camp.

Local hockey star joins Team USA D.C. native Connor Roth will head to the prestigious Maccabiah games as part of Team USA’s junior ice hockey team. Roth is a ris-ing senior at the Hotchkiss School, a prep school in Lakeville, Conn. He had attended St. Albans before switching to Hotchkiss for high school. The games are being held in Israel today through July 30.

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Photo coutesy of Leslie MaysakThe 9- and 10-year-old Northwest Little League team celebrates its title win.


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Three sets of French doors along the back wall open to a stone patio and backyard. Mature plantings include several rose bushes that line the perimeter of the yard. There’s also a two-car detached garage, accessible from the back alley.

Back inside, the home’s original staircase was kept intact, and it leads to the second level and three of the home’s six bedrooms.

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several windows that look out onto the side and backyards. A walk-in closet is ready to be customized by new owners. The master bath fea-tures a claw-foot soaking tub, dou-ble vanity and a spalike extra-large tiled shower with five showerheads.

Two additional bedrooms on this level are surprisingly large. One has two closets, and the other has an en suite full bath. That bathroom, which is also accessible from the main hallway, has a soaking tub and a penny-tile floor. There’s also a separate laundry room on this level with a stackable washer and dryer.

Two more bedrooms and a full bath are on the third level. The ceil-ings follow the pitched roofline, which is mimicked in the alcoves

above the windows. What’s most unexpected is the large rooftop ter-race off the main hallway, which looks out over the backyard, with treetop views of the neighborhood.

The basement also has been fully renovated. One room has all the necessary wiring and plumbing to be converted into a kitchen. It also has an exterior door that leads to stairs along the side of the house. There’s a large storage and utility room, a full bath and a spacious step-down bedroom and living area, perfect for a guest or au pair.

The house is within walking dis-tance of Lafayette Elementary School and the adjacent park, and the shops and restaurants on Con-necticut Avenue are convenient as well.

This six-bedroom home with four-and-a-half baths at 3513 Rit-tenhouse St. is offered for $1,999,999. For more information contact Mary Ellen Greene of the Greene McGowan Group, part of Keller Williams Capital Properties, at [email protected] or 301-717-4772.

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Recently renovated Colonial retains period details

Photos courtesy of Keller Williams Capital PropertiesThis center-hall Colonial in Chevy Chase is priced at $1,999,999. The six-bedroom home dates to 1925.

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in wards 5 and 7 if the act becomes law.

Supporters were not deterred by the corporate bluster. “It’s not just about jobs, but quality jobs,” said Chairman Phil Mendelson, author of the original bill, which has since been modified.

Major national retailers, Mendel-

son said, “have the economic power to pay a living wage, or to drive down wages in the larger economy. Walmart is the only large retailer that’s objected.”

The bill would cover all non-unionized stores of over 75,000 square feet whose parent companies gross more than $1 billion a year.

Bowser, chair of the council’s Economic Development Commit-

tee, said she believes two Walmarts now under construction in her ward — at Georgia and Missouri avenues, and at South Dakota Avenue and Riggs Road — will move forward. (The third Walmart currently under construction is located at 801 New Jersey Ave. NW.)

“They’re fairly far along in con-struction, and Walmart has signed leases for those stores,” she said of the two in her ward, noting that the Georgia Avenue outlet is expected to open in November.

But for the future, she’s worried about the Wegmans supermarket being wooed to anchor the redevel-opment of Walter Reed. “Will they just choose to relocate across the border?” she asked, referring to Maryland’s lower minimum wage.

Despite the concerns, some of the Ward 4 residents who are the most invested in Walter Reed’s develop-ment backed the living wage bill. Advisory Neighborhood Commis-sion 4B — which covers the area just across Georgia Avenue from Walter Reed — voted twice to sup-port the legislation.

“To be hanging this Walmart

issue on Wegmans, on anything else — it is just silly,” said commission chair Sarah Green. “It is a real dis-service to everybody.”

Dwayne Toliver, who sits on the neighborhood commission that rep-resents the Walter Reed site, said people can’t predict what type of effect the legislation could have. “Saying whether the legislation will impact Walter Reed is a guess at best,” he said.

Mayor Vincent Gray’s top eco-nomic development adviser, Victor Hoskins, will discuss three private development proposals the city has received for the Walter Reed site at a public meeting at Tifereth Israel Congregation July 18. Roadside Development, Forest City Washing-ton and Hines Interests/Urban Atlan-tic have all bid to become master developer for the project, according to the development office.

Meanwhile Gray is still weighing whether to veto the living wage mea-sure, a move that would take nine council votes to override. The coun-cil could reconvene during its sum-mer recess — which began Monday — to vote to override a veto.

Hoskins testified firmly against the legislation last week at a hearing before Bowser’s committee, warn-ing that it would undercut efforts to lure new stores to the District, par-ticularly to underserved communi-ties in the eastern part of the city.

The uncertainty over Walmart’s future was fueled by a July 9 state-ment from regional general manager Alex Barron, stating flatly that the company “will not pursue stores at Skyland, Capitol Gateway or New York Avenue if the LRAA is passed.” The Skyland and Capitol Gateway

sites are in Ward 7, while the New York Avenue site is in Ward 5.

Barron’s statement also men-tioned, with a bit less certainty, that passage of the bill would “jeopardize the three stores under construction, as we would thoroughly review the bill’s financial and legal implications on those projects.”

Bowser voted against the Large Retailer Accountability Act, arguing that while some parts of the District are enjoying a retail renaissance, “we haven’t arrived on Georgia Ave-nue, or at St. Elizabeths. Nobody is breaking down the door to come to Skyland.”

At-large member David Catania offered an amendment to exempt stores that are occupied by next July — presumably including the three Walmarts currently under construc-tion — from the higher wage require-ment. But his effort failed 3-10.

Several council members seemed unfazed by Walmart’s threat.

“D.C. has arrived. We’re at the point we don’t need these retailers; they need us,” said at-large member Vincent Orange. He said such big-box stores could easily offer wages that would keep workers and their families barely above the poverty line.

“Should we just bow down and say, ‘Thank God Walmart is coming to town?’ Walmart will come here because they want to make money,” said Ward 1 member Jim Graham.

Noting Gray’s longstanding effort to redevelop the battered Sky-land shopping center, Bowser said, “I sent a message to the mayor in a public forum. For one of the mayor’s top priorities to proceed, this bill cannot become law.”

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Wednesday, July 17

Classes■ The Downtown Business Improve-

ment District’s “Workout Wednesdays in Franklin Park” will feature a weekly fitness class. 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Free; reservations 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. The class will repeat weekly through Aug. 14.

Concerts■ Listen Local First D.C. will present a

performance by soul-rock ensemble Mis-sion South. 6 p.m. Free. Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.

■ The 2013 Capitol Hill Chamber Music Festival will feature “Italian Four-Par-ty Canzonas,” with Jef-frey Cohan (shown) on Renaissance and Baroque transverse flutes, Joseph Gascho on the harpsichord, Risa Browder on the violin and Leslie Nero on the viola. 7:30 p.m. $20 to $25 dona-tion suggested; free for ages 18 and younger. St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 3rd and A streets SE. 202-543-0053.

■ The Marine Band will perform works by Mozart and John Williams. 8 p.m. Free. West Terrace, U.S. Capitol. 202-433-4011.

Discussions and lectures■ A summer lecture series on architec-

ture will feature Lyn Rice of New York City’s Rice+Lipka. 5:30 p.m. Free. Koubek Audi-torium, Crough Center of Architectural Studies, Catholic University, 620 Michigan Ave. NE. architecture.cua.edu.

■ A panel of three North Korean defec-tor students will share their experiences in North Korea and South Korea. 6:30 p.m. Free. Room 500, Bernstein-Offit Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, 1717 Massachusetts Ave. NW. sais-jhu.edu.

■ Steven R. Conlon, an instructor in the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit, and Mary Ellen O’Toole, a retired profiler from the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit, will discuss “The Real CSI: Tracking Hidden Criminals With the FBI’s Elite Units.” 6:45 to 8:45 p.m. $30 to $42. Baird Auditorium, Nation-al Museum of Natural History, 10th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. 202-633-3030.

■ Columbia University neurologist Oli-

ver Sacks will discuss his book “Hallucina-tions” in a conversation with psychologist Kay Redfield Jamison. 7 p.m. $15; $25 for book and ticket. Sixth & I Historic Syna-gogue, 600 I St. NW. sixthandi.org.

■ Orville Schell and John Delury will discuss their book “Wealth and Power: Chi-na’s Long March to the Twenty-First Centu-ry.” 7 p.m. Free. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.

■ The Chevy Chase Library will host a discussion of “Groundbreaking Mysteries.” 7 p.m. Free. Chevy Chase Library, 5625 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-282-0021.

Films■ “The Met: Live in HD” will feature an

encore showing of “La Traviata.” 7 p.m. $12.50. AMC Mazza Gallerie, 5300 Wis-consin Ave. NW. fathomevents.com.

■ The NoMa Summer Screen outdoor film series will feature Wes Anderson’s 2012 movie “Moonrise Kingdom,” star-ring Bruce Wil-lis, Edward Norton, Bill Murray and Frances McDormand. 7 p.m. Free. Loree Grand Field, 2nd and L streets NE. nomabid.org/noma-summer-screen.

■ The West End Library will show Rob Reiner’s 2008 film “The Bucket List.” 7 p.m. Free. West End Library, 1101 24th St. NW. 202-724-8707.

■ The French Cinémathèque series will feature Chantal Akerman’s 2011 film “Almayer’s Folly,” an adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s debut novel. 8 p.m. $8.50 to $11.50. Avalon Theatre, 5612 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-966-6000.

■ The “Films on the Vern” outdoor series will fea-ture Bryan Singer’s 2013 fantasy adven-ture “Jack the Giant Slayer.” 8:30 p.m. Free. Quad, George Washington University Mount Vernon Campus, 2100 Foxhall Road NW. 202-242-5117.

Performances■ The collective LYGO DC will host a

stand-up comedy show featuring Herbie Gill and David Carter. 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. $10. The Codmother, 1334 U St. NW. lygodc.com.

■ 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.

■ Story League will hold a comedy sto-rytelling contest, with a $100 grand prize. 9 to 11 p.m. $10. Langston Room, Bus-boys and Poets, 2021 14th St. NW. comedystories.brownpapertickets.com.

Sporting event

■ The Washington Kastles will play the Springfield Lasers in Mylan World Team-Tennis competition. 7 p.m. $15 to $35. Kastles Stadium at The Wharf, 800 Water St. SW. 800-745-3000.

Thursday, July 18

Children’s programs■ The Blue Sky Puppet Theater will

perform “The Time Capsule,” a show designed specifically for the D.C. Public Library system (for ages 3 through 12). 10:30 a.m. Free. West End Library, 1101 24th St. NW. 202-724-8707.

■ Space Days at the National Archives will feature hands-on family activities and screenings of archival film footage on the U.S. Space Program under Presidents Richard Nixon and Jerry Ford. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.; screenings at noon. Free. McGowan Theater, National Archives Building, Consti-tution Avenue between 7th and 9th streets NW. 202-357-5000. The program will con-tinue Friday and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

■ The Blue Sky Puppet Theater will perform “The Time Capsule” (for ages 3 through 12). 1:30 p.m. Free. Watha T. Dan-iel-Shaw Library, 1630 7th St. NW. 202-727-1288.

■ Park rangers will lead a blindfolded nature walk as part of “How Well Do You Know Mother … Earth,” a hands-on pro-gram for “junior scientists” to explore the natural world. 4 p.m. Free. Rock Creek Park Nature Center, 5200 Glover Road NW. 202-895-6070.

Class■ Nancy Wing of the National Archives

will teach a course on using the archives.gov website for genealogy research. 11 a.m. Free. Room G-25, Research Center, National Archives Build-ing, Pennsylvania Avenue between 7th and 9th streets NW. 202-357-5000.

Concerts■ Students from the National Sympho-

ny Orchestra’s Summer Music Institute will perform chamber music. 6 p.m. Free. Mil-lennium Stage, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.

■ Dumbarton House and the Interna-tional Club of DC will present a tribute to jazz musician Abbey Lincoln, performed by Heidi Martin & The Simon Bros. Trio. 6:30

p.m. $10 to $15. Dumbarton House, 2715 Q St. NW. heidimartinjazz.eventbrite.com.

■ The Duende Quartet will perform Latin jazz music. 6:30 p.m. Free. Dance Place, 3225 8th St. NE. 202-269-1600.

■ The Fort Reno concert series will fea-ture Bearshark and the Washington Bach Consort. 7:15 p.m. Free. Fort Reno Park, 40th and Chesapeake streets NW. fortreno.com.

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

■ The U.S. Army Concert Band will per-form works for solo violin and French horn as part of its “Sunsets with a Soundtrack” series. 8 p.m. Free. West Steps, U.S. Capi-tol. usarmyband.com.

Discussions and lectures■ Horticulturist Adam Pyle will discuss

the importance of foliage texture in gar-dens. Noon to 1 p.m. Free; reservations required. Conservatory Classroom, U.S. Botanic Garden, 100 Maryland Ave. SW. 202-225-8333.

■ Catholic University professor William D’Antonio will discuss his book “Religion, Politics, and Polarization: How Religiopoliti-cal Conflict Is Changing Congress and American Democracy.” Luncheon at 12:15 p.m.; program at 1 p.m. $10 to $30. Wom-an’s National Democratic Club, 1526 New Hampshire Ave. NW. 202-232-7363.

■ Admissions representatives, alumni and current students from five universities will discuss careers in international rela-tions and admissions requirements for graduate school. 5:30 to 8 p.m. Free; res-ervations required. Kenney Auditorium, Nitze Building, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, 1740 Massachusetts Ave. NW. summerfest13.eventbrite.com.

■ Father Patrick Desbois, president of the Yahad-In Unum Association, will dis-cuss his organization’s efforts to locate every site in Ukraine where Jews were killed during the Holocaust. 6 p.m. Free; reservations requested. Auditorium, Bunn

Intercultural Center, Georgetown Universi-ty, 37th and O streets NW. jkiholocaustbybullets.eventbrite.com.

■ A gallery talk will focus on “Conflict and Culture: Braque and World War II.” 6 and 7 p.m. $10 to $12; free for members and ages 18 and younger. Phillips Collec-tion, 1600 21st St. NW. 202-387-2151.

■ Weaver Deb McClintock will discuss the simple looms and techniques used in Southeast Asia to create and store intri-cate patterns. 6 p.m. $20 to $25; reserva-tions required. Textile Museum, 2320 S St. NW. 202-667-0441, ext. 64.

■ The World Affairs Council-Washing-ton, DC, will sponsor a talk by Elena Popto-dorova, ambassador of Bulgaria to the U.S. 6:30 to 8 p.m. $25 to $35; reservations required. Embassy of Bulgaria, 1621 22nd St. NW. 202-293-1051.

■ NPR commentator Marion Winik (shown), author of “Highs in the Low 50s: How I Stumbled Through the Joys of Single Living,” and comic Ophira Eisen-berg, author of “Screw Everyone: Sleeping My Way to Monogamy,” will discuss love and relationships with Washington Post “OnLove” page editor Ellen McCarthy. A book signing will follow. 7 p.m. $12 to $38. Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, 600 I St. NW. 877-987-6487.

■ A panel of artists and local gallery owners will discuss collecting vintage and contemporary photographs. 7 p.m. Free. Abramson Family Recital Hall, Katzen Arts Center, American University, 4400 Massa-chusetts Ave. NW. 202-885-1300.

■ Novelist J. Courtney Sullivan will dis-cuss her book “The Engagements.” 7 p.m. Free. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.

Films■ The Southern Food Short Film Series

will show movies about regional cuisine. Noon. Free. Second-floor West Lobby, Mar-tin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW. 202-727-0321.

■ “Canal Park Thursday Movies” will feature an outdoor screening of Kenneth Branagh’s 2011 film “Thor.” Sundown. Free. Canal Park, 2nd and M streets SE. capitolriverfront.org.

■ The Friends of Mitchell Park’s “Films in the Field” series will feature Robert Zemeckis’ 1985 movie “Back to the Future,” starring Michael J. Fox and Chris-topher Lloyd. 8:30 p.m. Free. Mitchell Park, 23rd and S streets NW. mitchellparkdc.org.

Meetings■ The Classics Book Group will discuss

“The Inferno” by Dante Alighieri. 7 p.m. Free. Barnes & Noble, 555 12th St. NW. 202-347-0176.

■ The Georgetown Book Club will dis-cuss the thriller “Gone Girl” by Gillian Flynn. 7:30 p.m. Free. Georgetown Library, 3260 R St. NW. 202-727-0232.

Performance■ The Phillips Collection will host a

staged reading of Noël Coward’s 1936 play “Still Life,” about the relationships of two very different couples. 6:30 p.m. $8 to $20; reservations required. Phillips Collec-tion, 1600 21st St. NW. 202-387-2151.

Special events■ To honor civil rights icon and former

South African leader Nelson Mandela, Bus-boys and Poets will celebrate Mandela

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sion on “Heirlooms: Old, New, Local, Global” will feature Pati Jinich (shown), host of “Pati’s Mexican Table”; Rayna Green, curator at the National Museum of American Histo-ry and a Native American food and plant specialist; Hiu Newcomb of Potomac Vegetable Farm; and Ira Wallace of the cooperatively owned Southern Exposure Seed Exchange of Virginia. 6 to 8 p.m. Free. Victory Garden, National Museum of Ameri-can History, 12th Street and Consti-tution Avenue NW. 202-633-1000.

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Day. 6 to 8 p.m. Free. Cullen Room, Bus-boys and Poets, 1025 5th St. NW. 202-789-2227.

■ The Divine Science Church of the Healing Christ will present a special medi-tation series. 6:30 to 8 p.m. Free. 2025 35th St. NW. 202-333-7630. The series will continue July 25 at 6:30 p.m.

Sporting event■ The Washington Kastles will present

the 2013 Charity Classic, featuring politi-cians, media personalities and other local celebrities. 7 p.m. $10. Kastles Stadium at The Wharf, 800 Water St. SW. 800-745-3000.

Teen program■ The Albus Cavus art collective will

lead a workshop on analyzing and sketch-ing organisms in an urban environment. 5:30 p.m. Free. Georgetown Library, 3260 R St. NW. 202-727-0232.

Tours■ Education technician Alex Torres will

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

■ Melanie Choukas-Bradley, author of “City of Trees,” will dis-cuss D.C.’s arboreal history in a tour of the U.S. Botanic Garden. 5 to 7 p.m. Free; reserva-tions required. 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.

Trivia event■ The Ruth and Samuel Salzberg Fami-

ly Foundation will host a trivia night. 7 p.m. $18 to $20; registration required. Capitol Skyline Hotel, 10 I St. SW. tinyurl.com/skyline-trivia.

Friday, July 19

Benefit■ RaiseDC will host a one-year anni-

versary event with the band Brett and DJs Chris Burns and Sami Y. The event’s eight beneficiaries will include 826DC, Thrive DC, Earth Conservation Corps and Miri-am’s Kitchen. 10 p.m. $10 to $15. Mal-maison, 3401 K St. NW. theoneyear.splashthat.com.

Class■ An AARP driver safety course will

offer instruction in proven safety strategies. 9:30 to 5:30 p.m. $12 to $14; reserva-tions required. Iona Senior Services, 4125 Albemarle St. NW. 202-362-0704.

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

ensemble will perform. 12:30 p.m. Free. National Air and Space Museum, 6th Street and Independence Avenue SW. 202-767-5658.

■ Jazz-rock fusion group Euphonasia will perform. 5 to 8:30 p.m. Free. Sculpture Garden, National Gallery of Art, 4th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. 202-289-3360.

■ Students from the National Sympho-

ny Orchestra’s Summer Music Institute will perform chamber music. 6 p.m. Free. Mil-lennium Stage, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.

■ The 2013 Capitol Hill Chamber Music Festival will feature “Little Evening Concerts for Louis XIV,” featuring Jeffrey Cohan on Renaissance and Baroque trans-verse flutes, Risa Browder on the violin, Leslie Nero on the viola and John Moran on the viola da gamba. 7:30 p.m. $20 to $25 donation suggested; free for ages 18 and younger. St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 3rd and A streets SE. 202-543-0053.

■ The U.S. Army Concert Band will per-form works for solo violin and French horn as part of its “Sunsets with a Soundtrack” series. 8 p.m. Free. West Steps, U.S. Capi-tol. usarmyband.com.

Conference■ The National Business League of

Greater Washington’s eighth annual Pro-Biz Procurement Conference will feature speakers discussing the $10 billion in available contracts for area small busi-nesses. 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. $65. Kellogg Conference Center, Gallaudet University, 800 Florida Ave. NE. probiz2013.eventbrite.com.

Demonstration■ Gardening specialist Adrienne Cook

and nutritionist Danielle Cook Navidi will lead a demonstration in cooking stone fruits. Noon and 12:45 p.m. Free. Conser-vatory Garden Court, U.S. Botanic Garden, 100 Maryland Ave. SW. 202-225-8333.

Discussions and lectures■ The Greater Washington Board of

Trade will host a talk by John Hunter, author of “World Peace and Other 4th-Grade Achievements.” 8 to 10 a.m. $75 to $100. Rotunda, Ronald Rea-gan Building and Inter-national Trade Center, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. bot.org.

■ Economic historian Maury Klein will discuss his book “A Call to Arms: Mobilizing America for World War II.” 7 p.m. Free. Poli-tics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.

Films■ The Washington DC Jewish Commu-

nity Center will screen Woody Allen’s 1979 film “Manhattan” in a special early, “no-shush” showing for parents and children. 10 a.m. $11. Washington DC Jewish Com-munity Center, 1529 16th St. NW. washingtondcjcc.org.

■ “DC Drive-In” will feature Jonathan Lynn’s 1992 film “Distinguished Gentle-man,” starring Eddie Murphy. Lot opens at 7 p.m. for cars with reservations and 8 p.m. for others; pre-show activities begin at 7:30 p.m.; film starts at 9 p.m. Free admis-sion. Union Market, 305 5th St. NE. dcdrivein.com.

■ The 18th annual Made in Hong Kong Film Festival will feature Ching Siu-tung’s 1987 film “A Chinese Ghost Story,” about a traveling tax collector who falls in love with a dead woman. 7 p.m. Free. Meyer Auditorium, Freer Gallery of Art, 12th Street and Jefferson Drive SW. 202-633-1000. The film will be shown again Sun-day at 2 p.m.

■ As part of the annual Living Earth Festival, the National Museum of the American Indian will present the documen-tary “Watershed: Exploring a New Water Ethic for the New West.” 7 p.m. Free; reser-

vations required. Rasmuson Theater, National Museum of the American Indian, 4th Street and Independence Avenue SW. americanindian.si.edu/calendar.

■ The March on Washington Film Fes-tival will feature “The Black Press: Sol-diers Without Swords,” followed by a dis-cussion led by NPR’s Michele Norris. 7 p.m. Free; tickets required. NPR Head-quarters, 1111 North Capitol St. NE. marchonwashingtonfilmfestival.org.

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 People Objects Play group will

present a program of interactive move-ment with recycled objects. 6:30 p.m. Free. Dance Place, 3225 8th St. 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■ The annual Living Earth Festival — a

celebration of indigenous contributions to environmental sustainability, knowledge and activism — will feature presentations by tribally owned food cooperatives, perfor-mances, an outdoor farmers market and an “Iron Chef”-style cook-off. 1 to 5:30 p.m. Free admission. National Museum of the American Indian, 4th Street and Inde-pendence Avenue SW. 202-633-1000. The festival will continue Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

■ The Woman’s National Democratic Club will host an ice cream social and net-working event. 6 to 8 p.m. $15; includes snacks and one drink. Woman’s National Democratic Club, 1526 New Hampshire Ave. NW. 202-232-7363.

Sporting event■ The Washington Nationals will play

the Los Angeles Dodgers. 7:05 p.m. $5 to $65. Nationals Park, 1500 South Capitol St. SE. 888-632-6287. The series will con-

tinue Saturday at 7:05 p.m. and Sunday at 1:35 p.m.

Tour■ Curator Bill McLaughlin will lead a

tour of the U.S. Botanic Garden’s American food and flavor plants. 10:30 a.m. to noon. Free; reservations required. Conservatory Terrace, U.S. Botanic Garden, 100 Mary-land Ave. SW. 202-225-8333.

Saturday, July 20

Book sale■ St. Alban’s Opportunity Shop will

host an outdoor used-book sale. 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Free admission. 3001 Wis-consin Ave. NW. 202-966-5288.

Children’s programs■ “Saturday Morning at the National”

will feature a fast-paced introduction to ancient Greece by Bright Star Theatre. 9:30 and 11 a.m. Free; tickets required. Helen Hayes Gallery, National Theatre, 1321 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. 202-783-3372.

■ Children will hear a story about base-ball great Roberto Clemente. 1 to 4 p.m. Free. National Portrait Gallery, 8th and F streets NW. 202-633-1000. The program will repeat Sunday from 2 to 5 p.m.

■ Tudor Place will host a fairy-themed tea and dessert (for ages 3 and older). 1 to 2:30 p.m. $10 to $25. Tudor Place Historic House and Garden, 1644 31st St. NW. 202-965-0400.

■ Trevor Pryce will discuss his chil-

dren’s book “An Army of Frogs: A Kulipari Novel” (for ages 8 and older). 1 p.m. Free. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.

■ Artist Karen O. Brown will explain how to make art books out of everyday materials (for ages 6 through 12). 3 p.m. Free. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW. 202-727-0321.

Classes and workshops■ Choreographer Carla Perlo will lead a

workshop on creating flowers from recy-cled materials. 12:30 p.m. Free. Dance Place, 3225 8th St. NE. 202-269-1600.

■ Sarah von Pollaro, founder of Urban Petals Floral Design, will lead a “Build Your Own Terrarium” workshop. 1 to 4 p.m. $70 to $90. S. Dillon Ripley Center, 1100 Jef-ferson Drive SW. 202-633-3030.

■ Instructor Catherine Fleishman will lead a yoga class in Rock Creek Park, at 2 p.m.; and a Zumba fitness class, at 3:30 p.m. Free; reservations required. Rock Creek Park Nature Center, 5200 Glover Road NW. [email protected].

Concerts■ Argentine singer-guitarist Victorio

Menghi will perform tradi-tional tango music. 4 p.m. Free. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW. 202-727-0321.

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Friday, july 19■ Film: The Golden Triangle

Business Improvement District and the Heurich House Museum will present Michael Curtiz’s 1942 film “Casablanca” as part of the “Golden Cinema Series” of outdoor screen-ings. 8 p.m. Free. Courtyard, Heurich House Museum, 1307 New Hamp-shire Ave. NW. goldentriangledc.com.

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■ As part of the annual Living Earth Festival, the Indian Summer Showcase Concert will feature Quetzal Guerrero, a Latin soul singer, violinist, guitarist and per-cussionist; She King, an indie rock outfit from Toronto fronted by Six Nations vocal-ist Shawnee Talbot; and Ozomatli, a Gram-my Award-winning group that mixes hip-hop, salsa, cumbia, samba and funk influ-ences. 5 p.m. Free. Potomac Atrium, National Museum of the American Indian, 4th Street and Independence Avenue SW. 202-633-1000.

■ Students from the National Sympho-ny Orchestra’s Summer Music Institute will perform chamber music. 6 p.m. Free. Mil-lennium Stage, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.

■ Sligo Creek Stompers and Bumper Jacksons will perform traditional roots music. 7:30 p.m. $12 to $15. Sixth & I His-toric Synagogue, 600 I St. NW. 800-745-3000.

■ Folk Soul Revival, a band from the Appalachian Mountain region of Virginia and Tennessee, will perform. 9:30 p.m. Free. Hill Country, 410 7th St. NW. 202-556-2050.

Discussions and lectures■ The DC Fashion Foundation will pres-

ent a talk by marketing professional Marchlena Rodgers on merchandising basics for retailers. 10 a.m. to noon. $25 to $35; reservations required. Sherwood Recreation Center, 640 10th St. NW. eventbrite.com/event/6581833441.

■ Collectors Amy Rispin and John Howe will discuss the annual quilt auction held by the “old-order Amish” of St. Mary’s County in Southern Maryland. 10:30 a.m. Free. Textile Museum, 2320 S St. NW. 202-667-0441, ext. 64.

■ As part of the Architecture 101 lec-ture series, Illinois Institute of Technology professor Kevin Herrington will focus on the work and legacy of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, whose style was characterized by large expanses of plate glass, steel framing and minimal structural decoration. 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. $12 to $20. Reser-vations required. National Building Muse-um, 401 F St. NW. 202-272-2448.

■ Rock Creek Park interpretive volun-teer Olivia Collins will discuss her experi-ences exploring and researching ecology in Costa Rica. Noon. Free. Rock Creek Park Nature Center, 5200 Glover Road NW. 202-895-6227.

■ Artist Mequitta Ahuja — who casts herself as a character in a mythic drama in a series of drawings on display in “Portrai-ture Now: Drawing on the Edge” — will dis-cuss her techniques and works. 2 p.m. Free. National Portrait Gallery, 8th and F streets NW. 202-633-1000.

■ Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Wood will discuss the articles in his series “Beyond the Battlefield,” about wounded American soldiers and their families. 2 p.m. Free. Corcoran Gallery of Art, 500 17th St. NW. gallerytalkdavidwood.eventbrite.com.

■ Artist Bernhard Hildebrandt will dis-cuss his installation “A Conjugation of Verb.” 3 p.m. $10 to $12; free for mem-bers. Phillips Collection, 1600 21st St. NW. 202-387-2151.

■ Art Attack project artist Alberto Gai-tán, curator Jim Mahoney and writer Lee Fleming will discuss the aesthetic and political issues of the 1980s art scene in Washington. 3 p.m. Free. American Univer-sity Museum, Katzen Arts Center, Ameri-can University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW. 202-885-1300.

■ Journalist Camille Sweeney and illus-trator Josh Gosfield will discuss their new

book “The Art of Doing: How Superachiev-ers Do What They Do and How They Do It So Well,” at 3:30 p.m.; and Bruce Katz and Jennifer Bradley (shown) of the Brook-ings Institution will dis-cuss their book “The Metropolitan Revolu-tion: How Cities and Metros Are Fixing Our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy,” at 6 p.m. Free. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.

■ In celebration of Nam June Paik’s birthday, digital video artist Takeshi Murata will discuss how Paik’s work inspired his own career and what influences he draws from the “father of video art.” 6 p.m. Free. Smithsonian American Art Museum, 8th and F streets NW. 202-633-1000.

Family program■ The National Postal Museum will cel-

ebrate its 20th anniversary with a variety of favorite family activities, including a model train display and a stamp design contest. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Free. National Postal Museum, 1st Street and Massachu-setts Avenue NE. 202-633-4739.

Films■ The West End Cinema will screen

“Esmeralda,” Victor Hugo’s classic tale performed by Russia’s Bolshoi Ballet. 11 a.m. $18.80. West End Cinema, 2301 M St. NW. 202-419-3456.

■ The March on Washington Film Festi-val will feature a family screening of Robert Mulligan’s 1962 film “To Kill a Mocking-bird” (shown), starring Gregory Peck, at 2 p.m.; and a screening of Spike Lee’s 1997 film “4 Little Girls” and panel discus-sion about the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., at 5 p.m. Free; tickets required. Lutheran Church of the Reformation, 212 East Capitol St. SE. mar-chonwashingtonfilmfestival.org.

■ The Black and White Classics Film Series will feature Otto Preminger’s 1959 film “Anatomy of a Murder,” starring Jimmy Stewart and Lee Remick. 2 p.m. Free. Ten-ley-Friendship Library, 4450 Wisconsin Ave. NW. 202-727-1488.

■ The Phillips Collection will present Jean Renoir’s 1939 film “La Regle de Jeu,” about the relations and affairs of the French aristocracy and their servants on the eve of World War II. 2 p.m. $10 to $12; free for members and ages 18 and young-er. Phillips Collection, 1600 21st St. NW. 202-387-2151.

■ “The City in the ’60s: Forgotten Films From American Archives” will feature depic-tions of D.C., Los Angeles, New York and Chicago. 2 p.m. Free. East Building Audito-rium, National Gallery of Art, 4th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. 202-737-4215.

Performances■ DanceEthos dance troupe will per-

form “Unsung,” a story of war inspired by letters and interviews of soldiers stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan. 11 a.m. Free. Corcoran Gallery of Art, 500 17th St. NW. 202-639-1700.

■ David Carter and Sampson McCor-mick will star in “Wake & Bacon,” a weekly brunch and comedy show presented by the collective LYGO DC. 3 to 5 p.m. $10. Shaw’s Tavern, 520 Florida Ave. NW. lygodc.com.

■ Dancers from Russia’s Bolshoi The-atre and Mariinsky Theatre will perform excerpts from the repertoire of Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes. 3 p.m. Free. East Building Mezzanine, National Gallery of Art, 4th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. 202-737-4215. The performance will repeat Sunday at 1 and 3:30 p.m.

■ Busboys and Poets will host a youth-focused open mic poetry night. 5 to 7 p.m. $5. Cullen Room, Busboys and Poets, 1025 5th St. NW. 202-789-2227.

■ Timeless Entertainment & Demi-Mode Hair Studio will present the hit play “The Masks We Wear,” about balancing career, life and family. 8 p.m. $33. Atlas Performing Arts Center, 1333 H St. NE. 202-399-7993.

■ Dance Place will present its annual showcase of new work by established and emerging choreographers. 8 p.m. $8 to $22. Dance Place, 3225 8th St. NE. 202-269-1600. The performance will repeat Sunday at 7 p.m.

■ The Capital City Showcase will fea-ture rock band YellowTieGuy, musician Jonny Grave and comedians Dana Fleit-man, Adam Friedland, Ryan Schutt, Hay-wood Turnipseed Jr. and Tim Young. 10 p.m. $10 to $15. District of Columbia Arts

Center, 2438 18th St. NW. capitalcityshowcase.com.

Special event■ In honor of Belgian National Day, the

annual “Mussel Throw Down” will feature Belgian-influenced chefs competing to cre-ate the tastiest dish using mussels and a Belgian beer. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. $5 for admission plus one beer, water or one pot of mussels. Eastern Market Hall, 225 7th St. SE. belgianrestaurantweekdc.com.

Walks and tours■ Geologist Chelsea Lewis will lead a

three-mile introductory geology hike. 10 a.m. to noon. Free. Rock Creek Park Nature Center, 5200 Glover Road NW. 202-895-6227.

■ Washington Walks will present a walking tour of the Georgetown waterfront. 11 a.m. $15. Meet in the park at 28th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW. washingtonwalks.com.

■ A park ranger will lead a tour of the Old Stone House and discuss life in Georgetown in the late 1700s. 3 to 3:30 p.m. Free. Old Stone House, 3051 M St. NW. 202-895-6227.

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Children’s program■ Rock Creek Park 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.

Concerts■ The National Building Museum’s

Sunday Concert Series will feature the Luis Garay Percussion World Ensemble per-forming a blend of South American, Carib-bean and African rhythms. 2 to 3 p.m. Free. National Building Museum, 401 F St. NW. 202-272-2448.


■ 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.

Discussions and lectures■ Washington National Cathedral’s

director of worship, the Rev. Gina Camp-bell, will discuss behind-the-scenes work at the Cathedral. 10:10 a.m. Free. Washing-ton National Cathedral, 3101 Wisconsin Ave. NW. 202-537-6200.

■ Katherine Hill will discuss her novel “The Violet Hour,” at 1 p.m.; and Ken Lud-wig will discuss his book “How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare,” at 5 p.m. Free. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.

■ National Gallery of Art associate curator Sarah Kennel will discuss “The Rite of Spring: Race, Dance and Modernism in 1913.” 2 p.m. Free. East Building Auditori-um, National Gallery of Art, 4th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. 202-737-4215.

Films■ The Ciné-Concert series, featuring

accompaniment by pianist Philip Carli, will screen Alfred Hitchcock’s silent film “Downhill,” at 4 p.m.; and Adrian Brunel’s 1928 movie “The Constant Nymph,” at 5:30 p.m. Free. East Building Auditorium, National Gallery of Art, 4th Street and Con-



Saturday, july 20■ Tour: ■ A half-hour tour of

Peirce Mill and its grounds will feature a look at the 1820s technological marvel. 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Free. Peirce Mill, Tilden Street and Beach Drive NW. 202-895-6227. The tour will repeat Sunday at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.

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Scena Theatre opened Oscar Wilde’s controversial one-act tragedy “Salomé” last week at the Atlas Performing Arts

Center. It will continue through Aug. 18. The dark tale of revenge, lechery and deception tells the story of the beautiful step-daughter of King Herod Antipas. Performance times are generally Thursday

through Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m. Tickets cost $20 to $40, except for $10 previews July 10, 11 and 12. The Atlas Per-forming Arts Center is located at 1333 H St. NE. 202-399-7993; scenatheater.org.■ Alliance for New Music-Theatre will present “Sandaya: Burmese Lessons” through July 21 in the Sprenger Theatre at the Atlas Performing Arts Center. Told from the perspective of artists, musi-cians and other performers, this musical the-ater performance covers 20 years of Burmese history. Performance times are 8 p.m. Thursday

through Sunday and 3 p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $25 to $30. The Atlas Performing Arts Center is located at 1333 H St. NE. 202-399-7993; newmusictheatre.org.■ The Keegan Theatre will present David Lindsay-Abaire’s drama “Rabbit Hole” through July 21 at the Church Street Theater. Performance times are Thursday through Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m. Tick-ets cost $30 to $35. The Church Street The-ater is located at 1742 Church St. NW. 703-892-0202; keegantheatre.com.■ The Capital Fringe Festival will run through July 28, bringing 129 “uncensored” performances to 19 venues throughout D.C. The festival, now in its eighth year, includes one-acts, comedies, musicals, dra-mas, dance, improv, clowns, poetry and more. All tickets cost $17, plus a one-time pur-chase of a Fringe button ($7). Tickets can be bought at the Fort Fringe box office, at 607 New York Ave. NW, or by phone or online: 866-811-4111; capitalfringe.org.■ The Woolly Mammoth Theatre Compa-ny and Chicago’s The Second City will col-laborate to present “America All Better!!”

through Aug. 4. Performance times are Tuesday through Saturday at 8 p.m., Saturday at 3 p.m. and Sunday at 2 and 7 p.m. Tickets cost $35 to $67.50. Woolly Mammoth is located at 641 D St. NW. 202-393-3939; woollymammoth.net.■ The Studio 2ndStage will stage the horror comedy musical “Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show” through Aug. 4 in the Metheny Theatre. Performance times are Wednesday through Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 7 p.m. Tick-ets start at $40, with some discounts avail-able. The theater is located at 1501 14th St. NW. 202-332-3300; studiotheatre.org.■ Ambassador Theater will present the U.S. premiere of “The Third Breast” through Aug. 4 in the Mead Theater Lab at Flashpoint. Performance times are generally 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 2 p.m. Sun-day. Tickets cost $20 to $40. Flashpoint is located at 916 G St. NW. aticc.org.■ Arena Stage will reprise last year’s hit show “One Night With Janis Joplin” through Aug. 11 in the Kreeger Theater. Performance times are generally 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, Tuesday and Wednesday; 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday; and 2 p.m. Satur-day and Sunday. Tickets cost $45 to $99. Arena Stage is located at 1101 6th St. SW. 202-488-3300; arenastage.org.■ The Kennedy Center will host the hit Broadway musical “The Book of Mormon” through Aug. 18 in the Opera House. Performance times are generally 7:30 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday and 1:30 p.m. Satur-day and Sunday. Tickets cost $43 to $250. Limited tickets are available on the Kennedy Center website, at the box office or by phone. 202-467-4600; kennedy-center.org.

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“PER•FORM,” featuring prints that depict danc-ers, musicians, circus

performers and stars of the stage, will open Friday with a reception

from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Old Print Gallery. The exhibit will continue through Sept. 14. Located at 1220 31st St. NW, the gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5:20 p.m. 202-965-1818.■ “An Invitation From the Potomac: Li Keran Painting Acade-my Comes to Georgetown,” high-lighting works by five artists from the prestigious Beijing academy, opened yesterday at Susan Callo-way Fine Arts, where it will con-tinue through July 31. An opening reception will take place tomorrow from 6 to 8 p.m. Located at 1643 Wisconsin Ave. NW, the gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 202-965-4601.■ “Perspectives: Rina Banerjee,” an installation by Indian-born New York artist Rina Baner-jee that combines diverse objects into a form inspired by major Asian river systems, opened last week at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and will remain on view though June 8. Also recently opened at the Sackler is “Nine Deaths, Two Births: Xu Bing’s Phoenix Project,” which traces the evolution of the “Phoenix Project,” a massive instal-lation by Chinese artist Xu Bing at

the Massachusetts Museum of Con-temporary Art. The exhibit will remain on view through Sept. 2. Located at 1050 Independence Ave. SW, the gallery is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. 202-633-1000.■ “Raising Dust,” featuring works by five artists who combine clay with other media, opened recently at the Carroll Square Gallery,

where it will continue through Aug. 23. The artists are Margaret Boozer, Akemi Maega-wa, Melissa Mytty, Matt Price and Matt Ziemke.

Located at 975 F St. NW, the gallery is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. 202-347-7978.■ “Time and Naviga-

tion: The Untold Story of Getting From Here to There,” a permanent exhibition exploring the impact of revolutions in timekeeping over

three centuries, opened recently at the National Air and Space Muse-um. Located at 6th Street and Inde-pendence Avenue SW, the museum is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. 202-633-1000.■ “Grand Procession: Dolls From the Charles and Valerie Diker Col-lection,” featuring 23 colorful and meticulously detailed dolls, opened recently at the National Museum of the American Indian, where it will continue through Jan. 5. Located at 4th Street and Inde-pendence Avenue SW, the museum is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. 202-633-1000.■ “Mr. Time: Portraits by Boris Chaliapin,” showcasing 26 portraits by Chaliapin that adorned the cover of Time magazine between 1942 and 1970, opened recently at the National Portrait Gallery, where it will continue through Jan. 5. Located at 8th and F streets NW, the gallery is open daily from 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. 202-633-1000.

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Open house■ DC Dahn Yoga will hold an open

house to celebrate its ninth anniversary with aura readings, complimentary 10-min-ute evaluations with posture therapy and healing relaxation, and magnetic medita-tion training for focus and concentration. Noon to 2 p.m. Free; reservations request-ed. DC Dahn Yoga, 700 14th St. NW. 202-393-2440.

Performances■ “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 collective LYGO DC will present a stand-up comedy show featuring Jamel Johnson, Stavros Halkias and Nick Mullen. 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. $10. Desperados, 1342 U St. NW. lygodc.com.

■ Students from the Beijing Youth Per-forming Arts Group will perform songs, dances and choral selections. 8 p.m. $10 to $40. Eisenhower Theater, Kennedy Cen-ter. 202-467-4600.

Sporting event■ The Washington Mystics will play the

Indiana Fever. 4 p.m. $12 to $300. Verizon Center, 601 F St. NW. 800-745-3000.

Walks and tours■ Rock Creek Park will present 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 Center, 5200 Glover Road NW. 202-895-6227.

■ Ranger Tony Linforth will lead a horseback tour through Rock Creek Park. 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. $45; reservations required. Rock Creek Park Horse Center, 5100 Glover Road NW. 202-362-0117.

■ 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 July 25 at 6:30 p.m.

Monday, July 22

Children’s programs■ Slim Harrison and his handmade jug

band will perform American folk music (for ages 5 through 12). 10:30 a.m. Free. Pali-sades Library, 4901 V St. NW. 202-282-3139.

■ A children’s storytime will focus on “The Day the Crayons Quit” by Drew Day-walt and Oliver Jeffers. 11 a.m. Free. Barnes & Noble, 555 12th St. NW. 202-347-0176.

■ The Blue Sky Puppet Theater will perform “The Time Capsule,” a show designed specifically for the D.C. Public Library system (for ages 3 through 12). 2 p.m. Free. Petworth Library, 4200 Kansas Ave. NW. 202-243-1188.

■ Rebecca Klemm, author of “Num-bers Alive! Washington, DC,” will lead activ-ities and crafts focused on numbers (for ages 2 through 5). 3:30 p.m. Free. George-town Library, 3260 R St. NW. 202-727-0232.

■ The Blue Sky Puppet Theater will perform “The Time Capsule” (for ages 3 through 12). 6 p.m. Free. Mount Pleasant Library, 3160 16th St. NW. 202-671-3121.

Concerts■ The “Live! on Woodrow Wilson Plaza”

series will feature pianist Matt Wigler. Noon to 1:30 p.m. Free. Ronald 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 Fort Reno concert series will fea-ture Southern Problems and The Mauls. 7:15 p.m. Free. Fort Reno Park, 40th and Chesapeake streets NW. fortreno.com.

■ The U.S. Navy Band’s Country Cur-rent ensemble 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 Dawn Farqu-har on “Your Professional Image: Tips for Job Seekers.” 10 to 11:30 a.m. Free. Suite T-2, 1718 P St. NW. 40plusdc.org.

■ The Dupont Circle Village Live and Learn series will host an interactive com-munity discussion on “What You Need to Know When You Travel.” 3:30 to 5 p.m. Free for Dupont Circle Village members; $10 for others. Reservations requested. Conference rooms A and B, Human

Rights Campaign, 1640 Rhode Island Ave. NW. 202-234-2567.

■ Novelist Koethi Zan will discuss her psychological thriller “The Never List.” 7 p.m. Free. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecti-cut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.

Films■ The Fiction Lover’s Film Companion

series will feature Damien O’Donnell’s 1999 comedy “East Is East.” 6 p.m. Free. Room A-5, Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW. 202-727-0321.

■ The Watha T. Daniel-Shaw Library will screen the Ken Burns documentary “Prohi-bition,” with an audience discussion to fol-low. 6 p.m. Free. Watha T. Daniel-Shaw Library, 1630 7th St. NW. 202-727-1288.

■ “Mr. Stewart Comes to Washington,” a salute to legendary actor James Stewart, will feature Henry Koster’s 1950 film “Harvey.” 6:30 p.m. Free; tickets required. Helen Hayes Gallery, National Theatre, 1321 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. 202-783-3372.

■ The West End Cinema will screen Franco Zeffirelli’s production of “Aida” at Teatro alla Scala. 7 p.m. $18.80. West End Cinema, 2301 M St. NW. 202-419-3456. The film will be shown again July 27 at 11 a.m.

■ The Screen on the Green festival will feature Steven Spielberg’s 1982 sci-fi movie “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.” 8 p.m. Free. National Mall between 7th and 12th streets. friendsofscreenonthegreen.org.

Sporting event■ The Washington Nationals will play

the Pittsburgh Pirates. 7:05 p.m. $5 to $65. Nationals Park, 1500 South Capitol St. SE. 888-632-6287. The series will con-tinue Tuesday and Wednesday at 7:05 p.m. and Thursday at 12:35 p.m.

Tuesday, July 23

Classes and workshops■ Teacher and therapist Heather Ferris

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

■ Middle C Music will host a saxo-phone clinic. 2 p.m. Free; reservations required. Middle C Music, 4530 Wisconsin Ave. NW. 202-244-7326.

■ Instructor Jillian Penndorf will lead a gentle yoga class. 4 p.m. Free; reserva-tions required. Georgetown Library, 3260 R St. NW. 202-727-0232.

■ 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 “Live! on Woodrow Wilson Plaza”

series will fea-ture vocalist Kia Bennett. Noon to 1:30 p.m. Free. Ron-ald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, 1300 Pennsyl-vania Ave. NW. 202-312-1300.

■ Armonia Nova will perform medieval music by de Machaut, Harcourt and Johannes le Grant. 12:10 p.m. Free.

Church of the Epiphany, 1317 G St. NW. 202-347-2635.

■ Ethiopian ensemble Krar Collective will perform dance music centered on the traditional krar, a stringed harp. 6 p.m. Free. Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.

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

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

Discussions and lectures■ The Restaurant Association Metro-

politan Washington and industree will pres-ent a panel discussion with Kyle Bailey, executive chef of Birch & Barley, Church-Key, GBD and Blue-jacket; Bertrand Chemel, executive chef of 2941 Restaurant; Todd Gray, chef/owner of Equinox, Muse at the Corcoran and Mar-ket Salamander; Brian McBride, partner/chef of RW Restaurant Group; Geoff Tracy (shown), chef/owner of Chef Geoff’s and Lia’s; and Andrew Mark-ert, executive chef of Beuchert’s Saloon. 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. $25 to $45. Howard Theatre, 620 T St. NW. dcindustree.com.

■ Kenneth Pomeranz will discuss “Resisting Imperialism, Resisting Decoloni-zation: Making ‘China’ From the Ruins of the Quin, 1912-1949.” 4 p.m. Free. Room 119, Jefferson Building, Library of Con-gress, 10 1st St. SE. 202-707-5510.

■ Courtauld Institute of Art lecturer Maureen Cross will discuss the portraits painted by Gilbert Stuart during his time in Great Britain, and National Gallery of Art paintings conservator Joanna Dunn will discuss her experiences with Stuart’s por-traiture in America. 6 p.m. Free. Smithson-ian American Art Museum, 8th and F streets NW. 202-633-1000.

■ Radley Balko will discuss his book “Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces.” 6:30 to 8 p.m. Free. Cullen Room, Busboys and Poets, 1025 5th St. NW. 202-789-2227.

■ Textile historian Cecilia Anderson will discuss “Woven Art From the Navajo Loom: History, Design, and Techniques.” 6:45 to 8:45 p.m. $30 to $42. S. Dillon Ripley Center, 1100 Jefferson Drive SW. 202-633-3030.

■ New York Times Magazine chief national correspondent Mark Leibovich will dis-cuss his book “This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral — Plus, Plen-ty of Valet Parking! — in America’s Gilded Capi-tal.” 7 p.m. Free. Poli-tics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.

Films■ As part of its Groundbreakers series,

the Georgetown Library will screen the 1997 film “Seven Years in Tibet,” starring Brad Pitt. 6 p.m. Free. Georgetown Library, 3260 R St. NW. 202-727-0232.

■ The Pop-ular Movie Series will fea-ture Brian Hel-geland’s 2013 film “42,” about Jackie Robinson’s first season with the Brooklyn



Sunday, july 21■ Reading: The Joaquin Miller

Poetry Series will feature readings by Bernadette Geyer (shown) and Rachel Richardson. 3 p.m. Free. Rock Creek Park Nature Center, 5200 Glover Road NW. 703-820-8113.

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Dodgers. 6 p.m. Free. Room A-5, Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW. 202-727-0321.

Performance■ Busboys and Poets will host an open

mic poetry night. 9 to 11 p.m. $5. Langs-ton Room, Busboys and Poets, 2021 14th St. NW. 202-387-7638.

Sale■ St. Alban’s Opportunity Shop will

host a “Half Price Sale.” 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Free. 3001 Wisconsin Ave. NW. 202-966-5288. The sale will continue through Saturday.

Tour■ An in-depth tour of the Washington

National Cathedral will precede a tradition-al English tea. 1:30 p.m. $30. Washington National Cathedral, 3101 Wisconsin Ave. NW. nationalcathedral.org. The tour will repeat Wednesday at 1:30 p.m.

Teen program■ The Albus Cavus artist collective will

lead a workshop on fractals and natural structures in art. 5:30 p.m. Free. Cleveland Park Library, 3310 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-282-3080.

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Children’s programs■ The Blue Sky Puppet Theater will per-

form “The Time Capsule,” a show designed specifically for the D.C. Public Library sys-tem (for ages 3 through 12). 10 a.m. Free. Cleveland Park Library, 3310 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-282-3080.

■ Storyteller Kathy MacMillan will tell tales using American Sign Language (for ages 6 through 12). 10:30 a.m. Free. Georgetown Library, 3260 R St. NW. 202-727-0232.

■ Storyteller Sharon Gaston will share high-energy tales about character building (for ages 3 through 8). 1:30 p.m. Free. Chevy Chase Library, 5625 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-282-0021.

■ Slim Harrison and his handmade jug band will perform American folk music (for ages 5 through 12). 1:30 p.m. Free. Tako-ma Park Library, 416 Cedar St. NW. 202-576-7252.

■ Storyteller Kathy MacMillan will tell tales using American Sign Language (for ages 6 through 12). 1:30 p.m. Free. Tenley-Friendship Library, 4450 Wisconsin Ave. NW. 202-727-1488.

■ The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library will host a book talk about the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington (for ages 6 through 12). 3 p.m. Free. Mar-tin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW. 202-727-0321.

■ Storyteller Sharon Gaston will share tales about character building (for ages 3 through 8). 4:30 p.m. Free. Juanita E. Thornton/Shepherd Park Library, 7420 Georgia Ave. NW. 202-541-6100.

Class■ 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. The class will repeat weekly through Aug. 14.

Concerts■ Brazilian group Casuarina will per-

form original samba and choro music. 6 p.m. Free. Millennium Stage, Kennedy

Center. 202-467-4600.■ The Marine Band’s jazz combo will

perform works by Charlie Parker, Peter Ers-kine and Pat Metheny. 8 p.m. Free. West Terrace, U.S. Capitol. 202-433-4011.

Discussions and lectures■ The National Museum of Women in

the Arts’ Elizabeth Keaney will discuss selections from the exhibit “American Peo-ple, Black Light: Faith Ringgold’s Paintings of the 1960s.” Noon. Free. National Muse-um of Women in the Arts, 1250 New York Ave. NW. 202-783-7370.

■ Marc Mappen will discuss his book “Prohibition Gangsters: The Rise and Fall of a Bad Generation.” Noon. Free. McGowan Theater, National Archives Build-ing, Constitution Avenue between 7th and 9th streets NW. 202-357-5000.

■ Peace activist Sandra Tamari and Journal of Palestine Studies assistant edi-tor Nour Joudah will discuss “Failed Attempts to Return Home: Discrimination Against Palestinian-Americans at the Israe-li Border.” 12:30 to 2 p.m. Free. The Pales-tine Center, 2425 Virginia Ave. NW. 202-338-1290.

■ Artist James Huckenpahler will pres-ent “Welcome to Chocolate City: A contrary visual history of the District.” 6 p.m. Free. Hemphill Fine Arts, 1515 14th St. NW. 202-234-5601.

■ Printer Melanie Ouellette Karlins will discuss her influences and creative pro-cess. 6:15 p.m. Free. Smithsonian Ameri-can Art Museum, 8th and F streets NW. 202-633-1000.

■ Mark Kurlansky will discuss his book “Ready for a Brand New Beat: How ‘Danc-ing in the Street’ Became the Anthem for a Changing America.” 7 p.m. Free. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.

Films■ The National Museum of American

Jewish Military History will present the film “Above and Beyond the Call of Duty,” fol-lowed by a tour of a Congressional Medal of Honor exhibit led by retired U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Sheldon Goldberg. Noon to 2 p.m. Free. National Museum of American Jewish Military History, 1811 R St. NW. 202-265-6280.

■ The Textile Museum will screen “Dream Wanderers of Borneo,” the fourth part in the documentary “Ring of Fire: An Indonesian Odyssey.” Noon. Free. Textile Museum, 2320 S St. NW. 202-667-0441, ext. 64.

■ The NoMa Summer Screen outdoor film series will feature the Coen brothers’ 2010 movie “True Grit,” starring Matt Damon and Jeff Bridges. 7 p.m. Free. Loree Grand Field, 2nd and L streets NE. nomabid.org/noma-summer-screen.

■ The Women’s Learning Partnership will host a screening of the documentary “Because Our Cause Is Just.” 7 to 9 p.m. Langston Room, Busboys and Poets, 2021 14th St. NW. 202-387-7638.

■ The March on Washington Film Festi-val will present the documentary “Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment,” fol-lowed by a panel discussion. 7 to 9:15 p.m. Free; tickets required. Performance Hall, National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1250 New York Ave. NW. marchonwashingtonfilmfestival.org.

■ The Petworth Library will screen the 1932 film “Island of Lost Souls,” based on the H.G. Wells novel “The Island of Dr. Moreau.” 7 p.m. Free. Petworth Library, 4200 Kansas Ave. NW. 202-243-1188.

■ The Reel Israel DC series will feature Shemi Zarhin’s 2012 film “The World Is

Funny.” 8 p.m. $8.50 to $11.50. Avalon Theatre, 5612 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-966-6000.

■ The “Films on the Vern” outdoor series will feature Sam Raimi’s 2013 movie “Oz the Great and Pow-erful,” starring James Franco and Rachel Weisz. 8:30 p.m. Free. Quad, George Washington University Mount Vernon Campus, 2100 Foxhall Road NW. 202-242-5117.

Performances■ The collective LYGO DC will host a

stand-up comedy show featuring Tommy Sinbazo and Daylon Morrison. 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. $10. The Codmother, 1334 U St. NW. lygodc.com.

■ The Wonderland Circus will feature musician Deb Felz, storyteller Jennifer Tress, burlesque artist Private Tails and comedians Mariya Alexander and Becca Steinhoff. 8:30 p.m. $5 donation suggest-ed. The Wonderland Ballroom, 1101 Ken-yon St. NW. 202-431-4704.

Special event■ Beer historian Richard Wagner will

present “Beer Tasting and Brewing in the Age of Pirates,” featuring a demonstration of Colonial-era brewing techniques and a tasting of pirate- and seafaring-themed Heavy Seas brews. The event will include access to the “Real Pirates” exhibition. 5 p.m. $40. Grosvenor Auditorium, National Geographic, 1600 M St. NW. 202-857-7700.

Sporting event■ The Washington Mystics will play the

Chicago Sky. 11:30 a.m. $12 to $300. Ver-izon Center, 601 F St. NW. 800-745-3000.

Teen programs■ Author Marc Tyler Nobleman will dis-

cuss “Heroes With and Without Capes.” 4 p.m. Free. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW. 202-727-0321.

■ Local poet Candice Danielle Iloh will discuss and perform her spoken-word work. 5:30 p.m. Free. Petworth Library, 4200 Kansas Ave. NW. 202-243-1188.

■ The Albus Cavus artist collective will lead a workshop on fractals and natural structures in art. 5:30 p.m. Free. Tenley-Friendship Library, 4450 Wisconsin Ave. NW. 202-727-1488.


Wednesday, july 24■ Discussion: Author Daniel

Silva (shown) will discuss his book “The English Girl” in a conversation with NBC correspondent (and his wife) Jamie Gangel. 7 p.m. $12. Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, 600 I St. NW. 877-987-6487.


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The National Capital Planning commission (NCPC) and the National Park Service (NPS), acting as co-lead agencies in cooperation with the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will hold a public scoping meeting to share information and invite comments on the proposed Kennedy Center expansion project. The purpose of the proposed expansion is to im-prove the facilities of the Kennedy Center by adding space for classrooms, rehearsal rooms, event spaces and offices in a dedicated area. The project is needed because the Kennedy Center, with the largest performing arts education initia-tive in the country, contains no dedicated classrooms, a limited number of rehearsal rooms, and no dedicated event space. The project partially falls within the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway, which is under the jurisdiction of the NPS. NCPC will be reviewing the project under its authorities in the National Capital Planning Act.

Under the proposal, the Kennedy Center would expand on the south side of the Kennedy Center. As proposed, the pro-ject would include three pavilions. Two of the pavilions would be located on the south side of the Kennedy Center and would connect with the existing building underground and at grade via the main plaza. The third pavilion would be located across Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway, on a floating platform on the Potomac River. The third pavilion would provide space for an interactive family-oriented education facility for children to learn about and experience the performing arts. The project would also create a public waterfront connection and provide safe pedestrian access between the Kennedy Center and the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway Trail along the riverfront.

In accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the NPS and NCPC are preparing an Environmental Assessment (EA) to identify alternatives and assess the potential environmental impacts of the proposal. Concurrently, the agencies will conduct consultation under Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA). This informa-tional scoping meeting will include an “open house” format. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. The location, time, and date are presented below:

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Comment sheets will be provided at the meeting. If you need special accommodations or language assistance services (translation or interpretation) please contact Claudette Donlon, at least four days in advance of the meeting at [email protected] or by phone at (202) 416-8000. These services will be provided free of charge.

A 45-day public scoping period will be opened from July 15, 2013 through August 30, 2013. During this time, the public is invited to comment on the proposed action, and identify potential issues or concerns for consideration in the EA. Inter-ested parties are also invited to participate in accordance with Section 106 of the NHPA.

You may submit comments electronically at the NPS's Planning, Environment, and Public Comment website (http://park-planning.nps.gov/NAMA). Written comments may be mailed to: Stantec Consulting Services, Attn: Elizabeth Estes, 6110 Frost Place, Laurel, Maryland 20707.

Mailed comments must be postmarked by August 30, 2013 to receive consideration.

Before including your address, phone number, e-mail address, or other personal identifying information in your comment, you should be aware that your entire comment - including your personal identifying information - may be made publicly available at any time. While you can ask us in your comment to withhold your personal identifying information from public review, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to do so.

Once the EA is developed, it will be made available on the project website and at public libraries for public review for a 45-day period. If you wish to be added to the project mailing list for this or other announcements, please be sure to indi-cate that in your response.

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ARLINGTONLuxury abounds in this tastefully appointed 2 BR, 2 BA condo in Turnberry Tower with private-access elevator, Brazilian cherry floors, Italian cabinets, Meile, Sub-Zero, and a 300 foot balcony with views over the Key Bridge. $1,199,500 | ttrsir.com/id/ar8103268BILL ABBOTT +1 202 903 6533

LOGAN CIRCLEThis townhouse in an ideal location offers two units, a 4 BR, 3 BA unit, and a 1 BR, 1 BA unit. There are new systems and plumbing, as well as fully renovated kitchens and baths.$1,249,000 | ttrsir.com/id/dc8110080GARY WICKS +1 202 486 8393

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KALORAMAThis renovated home is restored with modern conveniences while reflect-ing the style of the early 1900s. Grounds feature a pool and detached 2-car garage. $4,500,000 | ttrsir.com/id/dc8097997MICHAEL RANKIN +1 202 271 3344

GREAT FALLSThis contemporary farmhouse is privately located on nearly 2.5 beautifully landscaped acres adjoining River Bend Country Club and features 5 bedrooms and 5 and a half baths. $2,875,000 | ttrsir.com/id/fx7951853PENNY YERKS +1 703 760 0744

KALORAMAThis stately brick residence features an impressive façade, mature landscaping and retains many of its original architectural details yet has been lovingly updated for today’s modern lifestyle. $2,595,000 | ttrsir.com/id/dc8036895MICHAEL RANKIN +1 202 271 3344

GREAT FALLSThis Georgian residence offers impressive scale and flawless interiors by designer, Barry Dixon. The 12,000 sf home accommodates large scale entertaining and casual living. There is also a 2 BR guesthouse and pool. $7,995,000 | ttrsir.com/id/20520320PENNY YERKS +1 703 760 0744

BETHESDAThis white brick 3 BR, 3 BA colonial features hardwood floors, renovated kitchen, 2 fireplaces, attached garage, garden and finished basement with rec room and bath. Walking distance to metro. $4,200 Rental | ttrsir.com/id/mc8080763 ZELDA HELLER +1 202 257 1226

McLEANMinutes from Chain Bridge, this spectacular BOWA custom built 5 bedroom, 5 and a half bath home sits perfectly on almost one acre with exceptional views of park land.$3,375,000 | ttrsir.com/id/20255440PENNY YERKS +1 703 760 0744

AMERICAN UNIVERSITY PARK This spacious brick, stone and cedar shake split level 5 BR, 5.5 BA home has been thoughtfully renovated to accommodate the need for conve-nience, privacy and space.$1,198,000 | ttrsir.com/id/dc8106763KATHERINE BUCKLEY +1 202 255 6536

CHEVY CHASEThis 6 BR, 4 full BA, 2 half BA home offers grand entertaining space combined with comfortable family living. The residence features a custom kitchen, remodeled bathrooms, 2-car garage, deck and flagstone patio. $1,850,000 | ttrsir.com/id/dc8101486DONNA MANK +1 202 550 5617

DUPONT CIRCLE Wonderfully remodeled 1BR at The Lauren, just 1.5 blocks from the Circle and Metro. Open floor plan with hardwood floors. Master bath is updated with a whirlpool tub. 24-hour front desk, on-site manager and rooftop pool. $340,000 | ttrsir.com/id/dc8128139JENNIFER KNOLL +1 202 441 2301

CHEVY CHASECharming, light-filled 4BR home just one block from Lafayette Park. Eat-in remodeled kitchen, large formal LR and DR. Lower level offers large remodeled family room. Large manicured yard and 2-car garage.$849,900 | ttrsir.com/id/dc8128091JENNIFER KNOLL +1 202 441 2301


Summer DelightWestmoreland Hills. Bright

& sunny Colonial w/beautiful pool. 4 BRs, 3.5 BAs. Sunroom.

2 frpls. 15x30 recreation rm. Convenient close-in

neighborhood. $1,139,000Guy-Didier Godat 202-361-4663

the total Package16th St. Heights. Large detached home w/approx. 3000 sf of living

space. 4 BRs, 2.5 BAs on 4 finished levels. Soaring ceilings, custom built-ins & detailing. Gourmet kitchen. Off st pkg. $699,000

Dina Paxenos 202-256-1624Lee Goldstein 202-744-8060

Flair & StyleBethesda. Luxury 2 level corner

unit w/ upgrades throughout. 2 BRs, 2.5BAs. Sep. LR & DR.

Office w/ built-ins. Loads of windows. 70’ balcony w/treed

views. Gar pkg. $974,000 Kathi Kershaw 301-613-1613

keePSake Quality Kent. Gracious home renovated & updated to

the highest level. 4 fin. levels w/7 BRs, 5 BAs, 2 HBAs. Gourmet eat in kit., 2 fam rms

w/firpls. art/loft studio, amazing MBR suite, home theater. LL au pair suite. Pool! $3,200,000

Beverly NaDel 202-236-7313meliSSa BrowN 202-469-2662

DazzliNg DeSigN

Georgetown. Transformed 3 BR,

3.5 BA home w/elevator. Gourmet eat-in kitchen, LR

w/granite frpl, family rm. Master BR w/adj office & dressing rm. Stone terraced patio. Gated community w/pool, tennis & 24 hour security.

$1,650,000

viNtage charmDupont/West End. Renovated one bedroom at the venerable

St. George. 800 sf. Fresh, sparkling and east facing.

Loads of light. Fabulous roof deck. $395,000

PeNNy mallory 202-251-6861

Star QualityLogan Circle. A smashing 1 BR at The

Eleven Condo blt in ‘04. Flooded w/light, bamboo flrs., cook’s kitchen w/brkfst bar. 1 garage space & extra storage included. Patio for grilling

& roof deck. Pets welcome. $399,000 Ellen Abrams 202-255-8219

Anne-Marie Finnell 202-329-7117

a SeNSe oF Style

Chevy Chase, MD The Hamlet

Lovely coop townhouse in great location.

4 BRs, 3.5 BAs. Spacious rooms,

kit w/granite counters. Walk-

out LL w/flexible suite. Flagstone

patio w/park view. $599,000

SittiNg PrettyChevy Chase, MD. Fabulous updated

Colonial w/lge family addition. near Rock Creek Pk.Sun filled 4 BRs, 3.5 BAs.

Updated kit, MBR w/sitting rm. Finished LL. Lovely landscaped yard. $799,000Delia mccormick 301-977-7273laura mccaFFrey 301-641-4456

coNtemPorary gemKenwood. Delightful 6 bedroom, 3.5 bath home in this sought after area. Oozes w/charm. Renovated by owner/architect. $1,250,000

Ashk Adamiyatt 202-607-0078

oNe oF a kiNDAmerican University Park. Exquisite &

impeccably expanded Colonial on 1/3 acre. 5,300sf interior includes 6 BRs, 3 BAs,

2 HBAs. brkfst rm, family rm. Patio & outdoor fountains. A work of art throughout.. $2,275,000Anne-Marie Finnell 202-329-7117

Ellen Abrams 202-255-8219

timeleSS StyleTown of Chevy Chase. Sunny & sophisticated. Thoughtfully expanded & renovated Colonial w/6 BRs, 3 BAs, 2 HBAs. Kitchen opening to family rm. Deck, patio, screened porch. Large

lot. $1,829,000Marcie Sandalow 301-758-4894Catarina Bannier 202-487-7177

imPreSSive & DramaticChevy Chase, MD. Grand renovation

& expansion w/5 BRs, 4.5 BAs is near completion. Soccer-size yard. Breathtaking

designer finishes. Gorgeous MBR suite. A beautiful, classic home that won’t

disappoint. $1,825,000mariNa kraPiva 301-792-5681

elegaNce DeFiNeDKenwood. Magnificent colonial on

2/3 acre grounds has 8 Brs, 6.5 Bas, great entertaining spaces, paneled

library, front and back stairs; beautiful street. $2,795,000

teD Beverley- 301-728-4338Pat lore 301-908-1242

claSSic StyliNgTown of Chevy Chase, MD. Close in home built in 2001 w/6 BRs, 4 BAs. Open spaces perfect for entertaining. 4 finished levels!

Lovely tree lined street. Short walk to Metro. $1,999,500

Eric Murtagh 301-652-8971

keNwooD claSSicKenwood. Masterfully renovated home on 1/3 acre. 7 BRs, 7.5 BAs on 4 finished levels. 1st flr BR & BA, fam rm overlooking deck & garden, sun rm. 3 BRs w/ensuite Bas on 2nd. 2 & 1 on 3rd. LL w/rec rm w/frpl & BA, Br w/ Ba. $2,649,000

Pat Lore 301-908-1214Ted Beverley 301-728-4338

Lynn Bulmer 202-257-2410

thiS oNe ShiNeSTown of Chevy Chase. Custom blt stone

home. Freshly staged, painted, restained flrs & new carpets. Lovely 4 BR, 3 BA (up).

Sited on 10,000 sf park like lot. Charming period details.Walk to Metro. $1,345,000

Eric Murtagh 301-652-8971Karen Kuchins 301-275-2255

eNgliSh elegaNceForest Hills. Light filled expanded Tudor.

Open spaces, designer kit., family rm. 5 BRs, 4 BAs includes skylit master bath,

2 half bas on 4 fin. levels. Landscaped 1/2 acre. $2,495,000

Andrea Evers 202-550-8934Melissa Chen 202-744-1235

Delia McCormick 301-977-7273

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