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■ Northwest football preview: St. Albans seeks an IAC title while Gonzaga, St. John’s aim to derail Good Counsel in WCAC. Page 11.

■ Recently renovated School Without Walls sustains earthquake damage. Page 5. ■ Glitch delays many tax bills. Page 3.

NEWS SPORTS■ Signature musicals among offerings at Page-to-Stage event at Kennedy Center. Page 21.■ Exhibits feature Corcoran alums. Page 21.

EVENTS INDEXCalendar/18Classifieds/26 District Digest/4Exhibits/21In Your Neighborhood/16Opinion/8

Police Report/6Real Estate/15School Dispatches/12Service Directory/22Sports/11Theater/21

By BRADY HOLTCurrent Staff Writer

A plan to overhaul the central plaza of the Washington Harbour and add an ice rink will transform the area from a seasonal to a year-round destination, the property’s owners said Monday. MRP Realty, which bought the mixed-use site in the 3000 block of K Street last June, is envisioning the first major change to Washington Harbour since its construction in 1986. “What we would like to do is take the knowledge and the lessons learned from the last 25 years to make minor modifications surgical-ly to the existing design,” MRP

representative Charles McGrath said at Monday’s meeting of the Georgetown advisory neighborhood commission. The firm’s proposed design removes landscaping from the pla-

za’s fountain and reshapes the foun-tain to provide better walking space around it. The change would also allow the area to double as an ice rink during the winter. At 11,000 square feet, the rink would be D.C.’s largest ice surface, McGrath said, likely oper-ating from November to March. The firm hopes to begin construction in the first half of next year. Although the neighborhood commission passed a resolution generally in support of the plans, some commissioners and neighbors raised concerns about the appear-ance and logistics of the reimagined Washington Harbour plaza. Some residents at the develop-

Ice rink planned for Georgetown harbor

Rendering courtesy of MRP RealtyThe 11,000-square-foot rink would be D.C.’s largest.

By DEIRDRE BANNONCurrent Correspondent

A pilot program to create safe drop-off and pickup areas for par-ents driving students to school start-ed up along with the academic year as part of the D.C. Department of Transportation’s Safe Routes to School initiative. Four schools in Northwest are participating in the pilot: Bancroft, Key and Ross elementary schools, as well as the Latin American Montessori Bilingual Public Charter School. At issue citywide is the limited number of parking spaces for par-ents who drive their children to school, as well as the traffic conges-tion and safety concerns that ensue when a large number of people try to get to the same place in a short window of time. Last spring, the D.C. Council sought to address parents’ concerns by bringing in the Department of Transportation to assess the situa-tion and create a pilot program that would first look at one school in each ward. Jennifer Hefferan, a Safe Routes to School coordinator who is lead-

ing the pilot, said that while there is no “one-size-fits-all” solution, par-ents who drive their children to school typically exhibit one of two key behaviors. Parents with older children tend to pull up to the curb, drop students off and continue driv-ing; parents with younger students often prefer to, and are sometimes required to, escort their children to their classrooms. “Since there is limited curbside parking, when parents use the same spaces for both purposes, neither

Program aims to improve safety at drop-off, pickup

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By BRADY HOLTCurrent Staff Writer

As D.C. officials wind down their cleanup efforts from the weekend’s storm, the common refrain is that it could have been worse. Hurricane Irene’s outer edges brought down dozens of trees across the District overnight Saturday and left standing water on some D.C. roads, officials said. Winds gusted to 60 miles per hour and three to four inches of rain fell on the city. But the District avoided the far-reaching wind damage suf-fered farther south and the large-scale flooding that hit areas to the north. It also escaped the widespread and lingering power outages many residents and offi-cials had feared; at the peak, about 31,000 Pepco customers were without electricity, and most D.C. homes and businesses

Hurricane response wins praise

By BRADY HOLTCurrent Staff Writer

A redistricting plan for the Georgetown advisory neighborhood commission appears to be illegal discrimination against the neighbor-hood’s university students, accord-ing to at-large D.C. Council mem-ber Phil Mendelson, co-chair of the council’s redistricting subcommit-tee. A committee of 16 residents of Advisory Neighborhood

Commission 2E voted earlier this month to recommend adding a sec-ond single-member district covering Georgetown University. But it rejected broader changes that would create equal-size districts — includ-ing a third district largely comprised of university students — at the expense of traditional boundaries. “The goal of approximately 2,000 [residents] per district has many exceptions in statute,” com-mission chair Ron Lewis, who also co-chaired the redistricting working group, said at Monday’s neighbor-hood commission meeting. “You can deviate for 10 percent for no

Council member calls boundary plan illegal■ Redistricting: Changes considered for ANC districts

Photo courtesy of George BeronioKey is one of four Northwest schools participating in the pilot.

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See Schools/Page 14See Harbour/Page 7

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Bill Petros/The CurrentHurricane Irene’s high winds toppled dozens of D.C. trees over the weekend, including one at this 39th Street home in Glover Park.

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Nearly a third of the District’s biannual property tax bills were issued later than usual this month, eliciting worries from some taxpay-ers accustomed to the usual sched-ule. D.C. Office of Taxation and Revenue officials blamed a com-puter glitch for many of the delays. Although bills for the second half of the year are typically mailed out in mid-August, the revenue office routinely sends out a few of them later in the month. It takes extra time to calculate some bills, and other delays emerge when an assessment amount is in dispute, said Natalie Wilson, spokesperson for the Office of the Chief Financial Officer. The delayed bills, which were mailed Aug. 26, are due Sept. 26 instead of the usual Sept. 15.

This year, the office’s automated system applied a $98 trash credit to tens of thousands of properties that weren’t actually eligible for it, Wilson said. The number of delayed bills increased nearly ninefold com-pared to last year, she said, to a total of 53,579. “A large number” of those delayed bills were the result of the erroneous trash credit, she said. “In reviewing the bills before they were mailed, we did notice that some accounts were assessed the trash credit,” said Wilson. “During our quality assurance process, the error was discovered and the bills were delayed to make the necessary account adjustment. … We were glad we caught this before the bills were mailed.” Residents unaccustomed to such delays took to community listservs for information. Some complained that they would have appreciated

Glitch pushes back mailing of many property tax bills

By KATIE PEARCE Current Staff Writer

Developers proposing a Walmart for Georgia Avenue can apply for building per-mits now that the D.C. Office of Planning has concluded its review of the project. After taking input from several city agen-cies, the Planning Office determined that the planned Walmart “addresses the goals” of

District regulations, according to an Aug. 10 report. The Foulger-Pratt firm has planned a one-story, 106,2430-square-foot retail building for the corner of Georgia and Missouri avenues in Ward 4, a former car dealership site. The pro-posal includes 346 underground parking spots (to be accessed via Peabody Street), a wider Georgia Avenue sidewalk, and a pocket park at the property’s southwest corner.

Despite the development’s steady progress through the city’s “large-tract review” pro-cess, a group called Ward 4 Thrives intends to continue its fight against the controversial plan. “We think this is not finished business,” said Willy Baker, a Ward 4 Thrives member who lives within a mile of the project site. He said his group, which fears the retail giant’s impact on local business and quality of life, is

planning future protests and conversations with city officials. Another Ward 4 Thrives member, Baruti Jahi — who is challenging Ward 4 D.C. Council member Muriel Bowser for her seat next spring — said the group is also looking into a lawsuit focused on the potential strain on the Georgia and Missouri intersection. “We have the attorneys,” Jahi said, adding

Walmart’s proposed Georgia Avenue store clears interagency city review

By ELIZABETH WIENERCurrent Staff Writer

A walled enclave overlooking the Potomac River could become the District’s latest historic district. But unlike other residential and commercial districts popu-lar with preservationists, the Old Naval Observatory complex would remain largely closed to public view. The D.C. Preservation League is pushing for desig-nation of the entire 13-acre site at 23rd and E Streets NW as a historic district, and the city’s Historic Preservation Review Board will decide whether to accept the nomination. The original observatory build-ing was designated a national landmark in 1965, but the preservation league believes the entire complex — including a collection of century-old Navy medical buildings — deserves protection. The complex, wedged between the Kennedy Center, State Department and new Institute of Peace, has long been off limits to the public because of its military ties. Preservation League director Rebecca Miller said her group is allowed a tour once a year, and Navy medical historian Jan Herman said he also arranges tours, although photographs are tightly restricted. The preservation league put the complex on its list of

“most endangered places” in 2007, after then-Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte reportedly considered making it his headquarters, and possibly bulldozing some old buildings in the process. That never happened, and now the U.S. State Department is slated to take over most of the buildings for temporary office space next year. The public would still be barred, although Miller said she will try to nego-tiate for more public access if the historic district is approved. Meanwhile, the acreage also known as the Potomac Annex and Observatory Hill — and referred to in a

Observatory complex may be landmarked

Bill Petros/Current File PhotoThe observatory complex was originally built for the Navy, but is now poised for State Department use.

Wednesday, Aug. 31 The Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2B Redistricting Task Force will hold a forum on proposed boundaries for the commission’s single-member districts. The meeting will begin at 7:30 p.m. at the Washington Hilton, 1919 Connecticut Ave. NW.

Wednesday, Sept. 7 The Ward 4 Democrats group will hold its monthly meeting, which will feature a presentation by D.C. Council Chairman Kwame Brown and an update from Ward 4 D.C. Council member Muriel Bowser. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. at Emery Recreation Center, 5701 Georgia Ave. NW.

Thursday, Sept. 8 The Ward 3 Advisory Neighborhood Commission Redistricting Task Force will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room A-03, Building 44, University of the District of Columbia, 4200 Connecticut Ave. NW.

Friday, Sept. 9 The D.C. Department of Real Estate Services will hold a public meeting on the leasing of 6428 Georgia Ave. The meeting will be held from 7 to 8 p.m. at the 4th District Police Headquarters, 6001 Georgia Ave. NW.

Monday, Sept. 12 The National Capital Planning Commission will hold a forum on “Redefining Security a Decade After 9/11.” Speakers will focus on how to maintain a balance between securing federal facilities and preserving openness and access. The event will be held from 6:30 to 8 p.m. in the auditorium at the U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 14th St. NW. To register, visit ncpc.gov/rsvp.

Tuesday, Sept. 13 The University of the District of Columbia will hold a community meeting to discuss the launch of the new UDC Community-Campus Task Force. The new group is intend-ed to address a range of physical planning issues relating to university growth and operations, and to enhance communication about campus-related issues. The meet-ing will begin at 7 p.m. in Room A-03, Building 44, University of the District of Columbia, 4200 Connecticut Ave. NW. For details, contact Thomas E. Redmond at 202-274-5622 or tredmond@udc.edu.

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City crews will pick up hurricane debris The D.C. Department of Public Works has announced special debris removal procedures in the wake of Hurricane Irene. Through Friday, residents should place branches that have

been trimmed to 4-foot lengths and tied into bundles no more than 2 feet in diameter into the tree boxes or next to the curbs in front of their homes. Other bagged or loose debris — except for rocks, stones or concrete — should also be placed in tree boxes or next to the curb, according to the agency. Residents should avoid placing storm debris in the gutter or street so that street sweep-ers can operate efficiently and clogged gutters won’t cause floods. After Friday, residents should place storm debris with their trash for removal, the release states. The department also encourages residents who hire workers to cut fallen trees and limbs to have the workers remove branches and debris. According to the release, resi-dents should not yet discard their sandbags, as hurricane season extends through November. If they can’t keep the bags, residents should empty the sand and use it to aerate potting soil or for some other use; sandbags should not be placed with trash for removal.

Donations requested for library book sale The Federation of Friends of the D.C. Public Library and the Books Plus bookstore at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library will hold their annual fall book sale

next month, and organizers are inviting a final round of donations of new or like-new books and DVDs through Sept. 4. Donations are welcome in all categories except textbooks, maga-zines and obsolete nonfiction. Residents may drop off books — up to two boxes — any time the library is open at the donation cen-ter across from the circulation desk in the Great Hall of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW. Larger donations should be delivered to the library’s G Place loading dock Wednesday to Friday between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.; after the boxes are unloaded, contact Rob Schneider at 202-727-6834. The annual sale will be held Sept. 10 from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. in conjunction with the Penn Quarter’s “Arts on Foot” festival. Proceeds will benefit reading pro-grams.

Whole Foods to open new store next week Whole Foods will open its new Foggy Bottom store Tuesday, launching its fourth D.C. site at 10 a.m. with a traditional bread break-ing, followed by food and festivi-ties. The 2201 I St. NW shop will feature a coffee/espresso bar, made-to-order burgers, rolled-to-order sushi from Kaz Sushi Bistro, an

organic salad bar, Neopolitan-style pizza and, new to Whole Foods, a prepared-foods kiosk ordering sys-tem, among other features. There will be 27 seats and free Wi-Fi for those who wish to eat in, according to the release. “We’re proud to introduce our new store to the Foggy Bottom community and we have worked hard to bring new features and products tailored especially for them,” Donovan Morris, team lead-er for the Foggy Bottom store, said in a news release.

Participants sought for Dupont festival Organizers of the second annual 17th Street Festival are seeking art-ists and vendors from the Dupont Circle area to display and sell their wares at the Sept. 24 event, accord-ing to a news release. Participants can apply for festi-val space at 17thstreetfestival.org, paying $100 for a tent, $50 for a table or $25 for a shared table, the release states. The event will run from 2 to 6 p.m. “Last year’s Festival was amaz-ingly successful,” Lee Granados, who co-founded the event, states in the release. “With more interest from the community and more excitement surrounding this year’s event, we expect a great crowd for the artists and vendors showcasing their offerings.”

NCS gets new head for middle school Jody Reilly Soja, a former ninth-grade ancient history teacher at Millbrook School in Millbrook, N.Y., is the new director of the National Cathedral School’s middle school. Soja replaced Scott Erickson, who has been named head of Phillips Brooks School, an elemen-tary school in Menlo Park, Calif. Soja previously worked at Indian Mountain School in Lakeville, Conn., as dean of facul-ty, head of the upper school and a history teacher. She also has been a visiting committee member for the Connecticut Association of Independent Schools accreditation program. “Mrs. Soja’s energy and enthusi-asm for working with young women and faculty will be an asset to NCS,” head of school Kathleen O’Neill Jamieson said in a release. “She has a successful track record of working with and supporting teachers, as well as overseeing cur-riculum development and faculty evaluation systems.”

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The back-to-school transition hasn’t been smooth for the 500-plus students at School Without Walls. First, an earthquake hit last Tuesday, damaging the historic school building’s chimney and bell tower. Then school was canceled for three days, even as other D.C. Public Schools students returned to class. As the weekend approached along with Hurricane Irene, Walls students were told they would spend Monday at Eastern High School, across the city from their home base in Foggy Bottom. Walls students remained at Eastern yesterday as earthquake-related repairs continued, but were cleared to return to their school at 2130 G St. today. The Aug. 23 earthquake “shook up loose mortar that was holding bricks into place on the [school’s] chimney and bell tower,” according to D.C. Public Schools spokesper-son Fred Lewis. Terry Lynch, vice president of Walls’ home and school association, said workers stabilized both the chimney and bell tower by yester-day morning and “more permanent repairs can continue while students occupy the school.” Despite an extensive renovation and addition in 2009, the age of Walls’ building probably contribut-ed to the level of damage, according to Lynch. The public magnet high school resides in the 1880 historic

Grant School building — which is “20 years older than the National Cathedral,” he pointed out. The day after the quake, D.C. Public Schools closed all of its buildings and initially “red-flagged” several schools — including Walls, the Columbia Heights Education Campus, McFarland Middle School and Lafayette and Eaton elementary schools — as sites of damage. According to Lewis, principals and staff at each school gave their buildings a first look before the city’s Office of Public Education Facilities Modernization sent struc-tural engineers to do further analy-sis, following federal guidelines. By Thursday, all city schools were ready to open — except Walls. Lynch said he was troubled that the office of D.C. Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson didn’t seem to give more urgency to the situation at Walls, which he said was “the most seriously damaged” school building in the system. But he said a site visit on Thursday from City Administrator Allen Lew helped “jumpstart the needed repairs and alternative learning schedule.” And for the interim, he said, Eastern High School provided a perfect temporary home. The recently renovated school at 1700 East Capitol St. NE had the extra space: It’s hosting only ninth-grad-ers this year, with plans to expand to the upper grades incrementally. And its location right by the Stadium-Armory Metro station was also convenient, he said.

Recently modernized school sees damage from earthquake By JESSICA GOULD

Current Staff Writer

The Field School plans to add a sixth grade next year in an effort to better accommodate area fami-lies. Field, located at 2301 Foxhall Road NW, will begin offering tours and information sessions to prospective parents this fall. The new sixth grade will debut for the 2012-13 academic year. The announcement at Field, which is a private school, comes amid calls for additional middle

school options from Ward 3 parents. Earlier this month, Ward 3 D.C. Council member Mary Cheh wrote a letter to D.C. Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson expressing concerns about climb-ing enrollment at area elementary and middle schools. She asked the chancellor to consider build-ing a new middle school at the Palisades Recreation Center to accommodate the burgeoning student population. Deal, the only middle school in Ward 3, is already overpopulated, she said. Henderson responded that the city has contracted

Field School plans to offer sixth grade in fall 2012

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PSA 201

Stolen auto■ Nevada Avenue and Patterson Street; street; 9:30 a.m. Aug. 24.Theft (below $250)■ 5800 block, Chevy Chase Parkway; residence; 3 a.m. Aug. 23.Theft from auto (below $250)■ 6200 block, 29th St.; street; 7:30 a.m. Aug. 22.■ 3200 block, Worthington St.; street; 8 a.m. Aug. 25.

PSA 202

Robbery (pickpocket)■ 4500 block, Wisconsin Ave.; store; 3:45 a.m. Aug. 23.Stolen auto■ 3800 block, Van Ness St.; street; 4 a.m. Aug. 21.■ 5100 block, 44th St.; street; 7 a.m. Aug. 23.■ 5100 block, 44th St.; street; 8:30 a.m. Aug. 23.Theft ($250 plus)■ 4400 block, Massachusetts Ave.; university; 6:10 a.m. Aug. 22.■ 4100 block, Albemarle St.; school; 4 a.m. Aug. 23.■ 4300 block, 43rd St.; resi-dence; 5 a.m. Aug. 23.Theft (below $250)■ 5200 block, Wisconsin Ave.; office building; 12:30 p.m. Aug. 25.■ 4800 block, Wisconsin Ave.; street; 12:15 p.m. Aug. 27.■ 5300 block, Wisconsin Ave.; store; 2:25 a.m. Aug. 28.■ 4400 block, Harrison St.; street; 10 a.m. Aug. 22.■ 4900 block, 44th St.; street; 9 a.m. Aug. 24.

PSA 203

Theft (below $250)■ 3700 block, Connecticut Ave.; parking lot; 4:45 a.m. Aug. 21.■ 4600 block, Connecticut Ave.; residence; 6 a.m. Aug. 28.

PSA 204

Burglary (armed)■ 4000 block, Cathedral Ave.; residence; noon Aug. 26.Stolen auto■ 2500 block, Porter St.; street; 9 a.m. Aug. 26.Theft (below $250)■ 3800 block, Porter St.; side-walk; 7 a.m. Aug. 21.■ 2200 block, Wisconsin Ave.; office building; 9:58 a.m. Aug. 22.■ 3000 block, Idaho Ave.; office building; 3 a.m. Aug. 24.■ 3900 block, Benton St.; resi-dence; 6 a.m. Aug. 24.Theft from auto ($250 plus)

■ 3100 block, 38th St.; street; 3 a.m. Aug. 21.Theft from auto (below $250)■ 3100 block, Woodland Drive; residence; 6 a.m. Aug. 21.■ 2900 block, 39th St.; street; 5 a.m. Aug. 22.

PSA 205

Assault with a dangerous weapon■ Tilden and Sedgwick streets; sidewalk; 2:05 a.m. Aug. 25.Theft from auto (below $250)■ 4100 block, 49th St.; unspeci-fied premises; 12:03 p.m. Aug. 25.

PSA 206

Burglary■ 2800 block, M St.; store; 11:45 a.m. Aug. 23.Stolen auto■ 1700 block, 35th St.; street; 8:30 a.m. Aug. 22.Theft ($250 plus)■ 1000 block, Wisconsin Ave.; office building; 4 a.m. Aug. 24.■ 1200 block, Wisconsin Ave.; store; 4 a.m. Aug. 28.Theft (below $250)■ 3800 block, Reservoir Road; university; 3:12 a.m. Aug. 22.■ 3100 block, M St.; store; 4 a.m. Aug. 23.■ 1000 block, 33rd St.; store; 12:01 p.m. Aug. 24.■ 2900 block, N St.; residence; 7:30 a.m. Aug. 25.■ 1200 block, Wisconsin Ave.; store; 7:52 a.m. Aug. 25.■ 3100 block, M St.; restaurant; 11:30 a.m. Aug. 27.■ K Street and Wisconsin Avenue; street; 1:30 a.m. Aug. 28.■ 1500 block, Wisconsin Ave.; store; 4:45 a.m. Aug. 28.Theft from auto (below $250)■ 2500 block, P St.; street; 6 a.m. Aug. 21.■ 2400 block, P St.; street; 10:30 a.m. Aug. 23.■ 2400 block, P St.; street; 3 a.m. Aug. 23.■ 1900 block, 37th St.; street; 11:40 a.m. Aug. 24.■ 3500 block, S St.; street; 3:10 a.m. Aug. 27.■ 1500 block, 29th St.; street; 4 a.m. Aug. 27.

PSA 207

Theft (below $250)■ 2100 block, Pennsylvania Ave.; office building; 3 a.m. Aug. 23.■ 2400 block, Pennsylvania Ave.; residence; 10 a.m. Aug. 26.Theft from auto (below $250)■ 2400 block, N St.; street; 9 a.m. Aug. 21.■ 22nd Street and Constitution Avenue; street; 1:15 a.m. Aug. 27.

PSA 208

Robbery (carjacking)

■ 1800 block, Q St.; street; 2:05 a.m. Aug. 27.Robbery (snatch)■ 15th and S streets; sidewalk; 6:05 a.m. Aug. 22.Robbery (stealth)■ 1700 block, I St.; tavern; 1 a.m. Aug. 25.Burglary■ 1200 block, 23rd St.; office building; 10:45 a.m. Aug. 24.Stolen auto■ 1800 block, K St.; street; 10 a.m. Aug. 22.■ 19th and M streets; street; 11 a.m. Aug. 24.■ 1600 block, I St.; street; 12:30 p.m. Aug. 26.■ 2100 block, California St.; sidewalk; 6:15 a.m. Aug. 26.Theft ($250 plus)■ 18th and M streets; restau-rant; 2 a.m. Aug. 23.■ 1100 block, Connecticut Ave.; store; 1 a.m. Aug. 28.Theft (below $250)■ 2100 block, Massachusetts Ave.; residence; 10 a.m. Aug. 22.■ 1800 block, I St.; restaurant; noon Aug. 22.■ 1800 block, 18th St.; restau-rant; 12:30 p.m. Aug. 22.■ 1500 block, I St.; parking lot; 3 a.m. Aug. 22.■ 1800 block, I St.; office build-ing; 3:30 a.m. Aug. 22.■ 1100 block, 17th St.; office building; 5:05 a.m. Aug. 22.■ 1100 block, 15th St.; restau-rant; 12:30 p.m. Aug. 23.■ 1300 block, Connecticut Ave.; restaurant; 2:15 a.m. Aug. 23.■ 1600 block, Connecticut Ave.; restaurant; 6 a.m. Aug. 24.■ 2000 block, L St.; unspecified premises; 8 a.m. Aug. 24.■ 1700 block, Connecticut Ave.; restaurant; 11:13 a.m. Aug. 25.■ 1300 block, Connecticut Ave.; restaurant; 1:43 a.m. Aug. 25.■ 1600 block, Connecticut Ave.; store; 3:25 a.m. Aug. 25.■ 1900 block, M St.; store; 3:30 a.m. Aug. 25.Theft (below $250)■ 1800 block, 18th St.; store; 3:49 a.m. Aug. 26.■ 2100 block, N St.; sidewalk; 1:30 a.m. Aug. 27.■ 1600 block, R St.; sidewalk; 4:45 a.m. Aug. 27.■ 1600 block, Connecticut Ave.; store; 5 a.m. Aug. 28.Theft from auto ($250 plus)■ 1700 block, T St.; street; 11:30 a.m. Aug. 21.Theft from auto (below $250)■ 1700 block, Willard St.; street; 6 a.m. Aug. 21.■ 2200 block, N St.; street; 4 a.m. Aug. 22.■ 1300 block, 17th St.; street; 6:31 a.m. Aug. 22.■ 1800 block, P St.; street; 10 a.m. Aug. 23.■ 1700 block, N St.; street; 5:30 a.m. Aug. 24.■ 1700 block, Rhode Island Ave.; alley; 6:30 a.m. Aug. 24.■ 18th and T streets; street; 8:15 a.m. Aug. 24.■ 1600 block, O St.; street; 10 a.m. Aug. 25.■ 1500 block, Q St.; park area; 8 a.m. Aug. 26.■ 1400 block, U St.; unspecified premises; 1 a.m. Aug. 27.

■ 1700 block, N St.; street; 5 a.m. Aug. 27.■ 1200 block, 17th St.; street; 3 a.m. Aug. 28.

PSA 303

Robbery (gun)■ 1800 block, Columbia Road; alley; 3:20 a.m. Aug. 27.Robbery (force and violence)■ 2600 block, Mozart Place; alley; 9:25 a.m. Aug. 24.■ 2400 block, Ontario Road; sidewalk; 11:30 a.m. Aug. 25.Robbery (snatch)■ 18th Street and Columbia Road; sidewalk; 12:15 p.m. Aug. 26.Theft ($250 plus)■ 1700 block, Columbia Road; store; 5:29 a.m. Aug. 24.Theft (below $250)■ 1900 block, Biltmore St.; resi-dence; 7 a.m. Aug. 22.■ 1900 block, Connecticut Ave.; hotel; 9 a.m. Aug. 22.■ 20th Street and Florida Avenue; street; 9:30 a.m. Aug. 22.■ 1600 block, Florida Ave.; resi-dence; 9 a.m. Aug. 23.■ 2500 block, Ontario Road; street; 2 a.m. Aug. 24.■ 1700 block, Seaton St.; unspecified premises; 3 a.m. Aug. 25.■ 2300 block, 18th St.; tavern; 11 a.m. Aug. 27.■ 2400 block, Ontario Road; res-idence; 12:20 p.m. Aug. 28.■ 1700 block, Columbia Road; restaurant; 5:12 a.m. Aug. 28.Theft from auto ($250 plus)■ 1600 block, U St.; street; 3:30 a.m. Aug. 25.Theft from auto (below $250)■ 2500 block, Ontario Road; street; 11 a.m. Aug. 21.■ 2600 block, Mozart Place; street; 8 a.m. Aug. 22.■ 1700 block, Euclid St.; street; 3:22 a.m. Aug. 24.■ 2300 block, Ontario Road; street; 10:15 a.m. Aug. 25.■ 1800 block, Connecticut Ave.; street; 9:40 a.m. Aug. 25.

PSA 307

Robbery (gun)■ 1200 block, 10th St.; side-walk; 9:15 a.m. Aug. 22.Assault with a dangerous weapon (gun)■ 1600 block, 11th St.; park area; 6:50 a.m. Aug. 23.Theft (below $250)■ 1000 block, O St.; residence; 5:30 a.m. Aug. 24.■ 900 block, O St.; unspecified premises; 6 a.m. Aug. 24.■ 1100 block, P St.; unspecified premises; 9 a.m. Aug. 24.■ 1600 block, 14th St.; store; 5:20 a.m. Aug. 25.■ 1300 block, M St.; parking lot; 8 a.m. Aug. 25.■ 1200 block, Vermont Ave.; street; 7 a.m. Aug. 26.Theft from auto (below $250)■ 1300 block, Vermont Ave.; street; 8 a.m. Aug. 25.■ 1400 block, Massachusetts Ave.; street; 7:45 a.m. Aug. 26.

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the revenue office telling them what was going on. “If you’re in a rhythm of taxes being due middle of April, middle of September, you start worrying,” said Foggy Bottom resident Sally Blumenthal. “Did it get lost? Did it get put in the wrong box in my building? What’s going on here? And you’d think the city would have issued a news release or some-

thing.” Tenleytown resident Robin Wilson also reported worrying about a lost bill. “I received a tax bill for my parking space but not others so I was concerned and needed to call. At first I thought it might be a USPS issue,” Robin Wilson wrote in an email to The Current, add-ing, “All good, I called up and my bill is one of the ones being delayed — with the due date to be delayed as well.” Natalie Wilson, the taxation office spokes-person, said she wishes the error had been noticed earlier but that widespread notifica-

tions would have been impractical. “Even if we were to mail a notice to the taxpayer, they would have gotten the delayed bill either simultaneously or after the bill,” she said. “We did post a notice on our website.” The notice, on the Real Property Tax Bills section of the office’s website, reads in full: “While most real property tax bills are mailed at the same time, a range of issues can delay the mailing of some of these bills. The due date for these delayed real property tax bills is adjusted accordingly.” The website also includes a PDF document

listing each delayed property; residents and other property owners were able to search the document’s 1,665 pages to see if they should expect their bill to come late. Blumenthal said she did find the webpage but the information there was insufficient. “There’s no explanation of why, and there’s no information about when to expect the tax bills to be sent out,” she said. Natalie Wilson said resident complaints did not appear to be widespread, though. “Very few property owners called the office to inquire,” she said.

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ment’s condominiums would rather not see extensive winter activity there, said Martin Sullivan, repre-senting several condo owners. “They deal with the bar noise for eight months, and the other four months is their downtime,” he said, adding, “I think [the plan is] out of scale and not in character with what’s there now.” McGrath said MRP envisions the ice rink as a destination for families, rather than the more “sin-gles” crowd attracted to Washington Harbour’s outdoor bars. He said the firm would be willing to close the rink at 9 or 10 p.m., and strict poli-cies would separate skaters and bar patrons. “This isn’t something that no one has ever done,” he said. “Most ice rinks in an urban environ-ment have businesses that sell alco-hol near them, and we’re confident it’s a very manageable risk.” Representatives of the Washington Harbour Condominium Association said its homeowners — though divided over the plans — were glad that MRP has been in regular communication with resi-dents. “Overall, I think it’s fair to say that we’re very appreciative of the effort to try to move forward and create a higher use for this property than it currently is,” said one board member. The plan’s most outspoken opponent at the Monday meeting was Arthur Cotton Moore, architect of the original Washington Harbour design. Moore said he supported the concept of an ice rink, but he criti-cized the broader design changes to the plaza. “The skating rink can be put in here without the massive demolition that is being used,” said Moore, referring to changes near the reshaped fountain that he said would disrupt the symmetry he established. “You’re changing things all around here and in a patchwork fashion. Some things are staying. Some things are going. And it will be an enormous uglification of the proj-ect.” The neighborhood commission was voting Monday on its recom-mendation to the Old Georgetown Board, whose meeting tomorrow will include another presentation of the Washington Harbour plans. In their resolution, commissioners urged the board to carefully review Moore’s concerns about the design while endorsing aspects of the plans.

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GW COMMUNITY CALENDARA selection of this month’s GW events—neighbors welcome!

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$Friday, Sept. 2 at 4 p.m.GW Women’s Soccer vs. IowaMount Vernon Field2100 Foxhall Road, NWSupport GW Women’s Soccer as they take on Iowa. This event is free and open to the public.

Saturday, Sept. 3 at 8 p.m.Kankouran West African Dance Company presents KanKouran: LegendsLisner Auditorium730 21st St., NWCome celebrate at the KanKouran’s 28th Annual National Conference of African Dance & Drumming. A local institution based in Washington DC, KanKouran West African Dance Company has been an integral part of the dance community for over twenty years! This year’s concert production entitled “LEGENDS” is a celebration of the legacy and artistry of dance’s living legends, Melvin Deal and Chuck Davis. Tickets are available for $30, $25 for GW Students and Alumni, and can be purchased at the Lisner Box O�ce.

Friday, Sept. 9 at 7:30 p.m.The Washington Concert Opera presents AttilaLisner Auditorium730 21st St., NWAttila may have been one of history’s �ercest warriors, but he is no match, according to Giuseppe Verdi, for one woman’s sworn revenge. John Relyea, who proved to be as stunning an actor as a singer in our WCO production of Gounod’s Faust, portrays the dreaded Hun, with the divine Brenda Harris as his nemesis, Odabella, in Attila, one of Verdi’s most dramatic and compelling operas. Tickets are available for $40, $45, $50, $85, $100 and can be purchased at the Lisner Box O�ce.

Saturday, Sept. 17 at 1 p.m.GW Men’s Soccer vs. BryantMount Vernon Field2100 Foxhall Road, NWSupport GW Women’s Soccer as they take on Bryant. This event is free and open to the public.

Sunday, Sept. 18 at 8 p.m.Public A�airs Alliance of Iranian Americans presents Passing the Torch of Success to Washington DC Lisner Auditorium730 21st St., NWOn Sunday, Sept. 18, 2011, a group of highly accomplished Iranian Americans will share their stories of success with the audience, hoping to inspire and empower the next generation of Iranian Americans. The event will be co-hosted by Maz Jobrani, well-known Iranian American comedian and Rudi Bakhtiar, former CNN anchor. Tickets are $50 for public, $25 for GW students and alumni and can be purchased at the Lisner Box O�ce.

Friday, Sept. 23 at 4 p.m.GW Women’s Soccer vs. LibertyMount Vernon Field2100 Foxhall Road, NWSupport GW Women’s Soccer as they take on Liberty. This event is free and open to the public.

Saturday, Sept. 24 at 4 p.m.GW Men’s Water Polo vs. PrincetonSmith Center Pool600 22nd St., N.W.Support GW Men’s Water Polo as they take on Princeton. This event is free and open to the public.

Saturday, Sept. 24, 8 p.m.Live Nation presents Arabs Gone Wild Lisner Auditorium730 21st St., NWTickets for The Comedy Revolution Tour can be purchased for $30; GW Students: $25 at the Lisner Box O�ce

Saturday, Sept. 24 at 8p.m.GW Men’s Water Polo vs. Johns HopkinsSmith Center Pool600 22nd St., N.W.Support GW Men’s Water Polo as they take on Princeton. This event is free and open to the public.

Wednesday, Sept. 14 to Friday, Oct. 14Kay Jackson ExhibitionLuther W. Brady Art Gallery 2nd Floor, 805 21st Street, NWThe Luther W. Brady Art Gallery is the professional showcase for art at GW. Six to eight exhibitions are featured each year and include University-related shows and Permanent Collection exhibitions; as well as shows of historical and contemporary signi�cance, often with a focus on the Washington area. The gallery is open Tuesday through Friday, 10am to 5pm. For more information on exhibitions please visit www.gwu.edu/~bradyart/home.html. This event is free and open to the public.

Wednesdays at 3 p.m.Foggy Bottom MarketEye Street Mall I St. between New Hampshire and 24th Street, NW.The Foggy Bottom market returns for another season. O¤erings include fresh fruits, vegetables, eggs, organic and grass-fed meats, handmade cheeses, breads, desserts, preserves, herbs, ¥owers, plants and more. Every Wednesday from 3-7 p.m. through Nov 23. For more information, visit www.freshfarmmarket.org.

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Attracting high-tech Quite a few high-tech start-ups establish themselves here in the District and then move to Virginia, where business taxes are lower and the ability to build a high-rise can help offset land costs. Thankfully for the city, the District is increasingly popular with young workers who want to live here to easily take advantage of our cultural attractions and active nightlife. The Dulles Toll Road has long been Main Street for the region’s tech industry, but the area is beginning to lose a bit of steam with the high tolls that are coming to fund the planned Dulles Metro stop — estimated by the Washington Business Journal to be as high as $10 each way come 2020. The biggest advantages Virginia high-tech firms have over those in D.C. are their comparatively lower tax rates on business real estate and profits. Virginia’s corporate income tax rate is 6 percent, while the District’s is 9.975 percent. Fairfax’s commercial property tax rate is $1.20 per $100 of valuation and Loudoun’s is $1.285, while the District’s is $1.65 per $100 valuation for the first $3 mil-lion and $1.85 above that. We think it would be wise for the District government to investi-gate the possibility of lowering real estate and profits taxes for high-tech firms to Virginia’s levels. So few of these types of firms are located here that the short-term tax loss would probably be minimal, yet the long-term revenue gains would be considerable. We could also investigate ending the District’s ban on skyscrapers in some areas, such as parts of wards 7 and 8 — assuming the com-munity agrees — where the need for jobs is tremendous. If the District were to relax its building height restrictions in these limited areas, as Mayor Vincent Gray has tentatively explored, we could then push the federal government to end its ban there. To see the potential benefits, all we have to do is look across the Potomac River at Rosslyn. Many of the firms there are refugees from our high tax rates and skyscraper ban. There is little doubt that if these issues could be addressed successfully, the District would over time substantially increase its tax revenue and ease some of its acute unemployment problems.

Stripped-down logic We’re confused by the D.C. Alcoholic Beverage Control Board’s reasoning in its recent order to renew the liquor license of JP’s, a strip club in Glover Park. Neighbors had objected to the renewal for a number of reasons, including the club’s proximity to a playground and the growing number of children in the area. The board rejected these arguments, saying that simply having children in the neighborhood does not prove the business is inappro-priate, and noting that there is no evidence that families or children have been harmed by JP’s. Yet the board also says it is concerned about the club’s location between two residential zones. “Specifically, we are concerned that patrons coming to the neighborhood to visit the establishment and participate in nightclub activities during the day may disturb nearby residents and potentially interfere with the use of the Guy Mason Recreation Center,” the order reads. Saying it must “balance the needs of residents in residential zones with the needs of businesses located in commercial zones,” the board ruled that JP’s must begin its daily operations no earlier than 5 p.m. We don’t understand this logic. First, if JP’s is too disruptive to the surrounding residential community at 4 p.m., why are its opera-tions acceptable at 6 p.m.? Guy Mason Recreation Center is often in use well into the evening, as is the rest of Glover Park’s commercial strip. The board makes no mention of whether children figure into this calculation, other than the reference to Guy Mason, but if young people are a factor, then 5 p.m. surely isn’t sufficient to limit their exposure, particularly in the summer. It should be at least 8 p.m.

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We wrapped up our hurricane work for tele-vision early on Sunday, retiring in the afternoon to the Cantina Marina, an out-

door bar and restaurant on the Southwest Waterfront. Sitting on the upper deck, we ordered a crab cake and not one, but two cold Coors. The first was just a way to exhale from the frenzy of the past week. The second bottle was a silent toast to the public service workers, the emergency responders and, yes, the journalists who tracked and responded to the hurri-cane and the earlier earthquake. Some notes we made along the way:■ Earthquake, No. 1. This region proved once again that it’s everyone for him or herself in a major disaster or terrorist strike. It’s just abundantly clear now that without extraordinary efforts, few people are going to “shel-ter in place” if they believe they can get out and get home. “People are just going to leave,” said Transportation Department director Terry Bellamy. “ … Any city in the world. They’re just going to do it.” Yet Bellamy said the city will continue its efforts to make “sheltering in place” a reality. But maybe the region’s effort ought to focus on organized traffic evacuation, not just urging worried parents, partners and guardians to sit tight. There appears to be no coordinated effort in the District (or ’burbs) to have police, traffic control aides and other emergency personnel staff critical intersections or choke points. “It’s another missed opportunity,” said Greater Washington Board of Trade president Jim Dinegar. Despite the decade that’s passed since the horrors of 9/11, this region is still talking about and planning coordinated emergency responses. And people are still pouring into the streets. ■ Hurricane, No. 1. No sooner had the sun come out Sunday than some people were second-guessing the decision to postpone the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial dedication. It wasn’t that bad here, they said, people would have put up with the wet ground, et cetera, et cetera. It’s important to say that such sentiments are not even accurate in hindsight. They’re just wrong. There were 30,000 folding chairs sitting out in a wide-open field. They would have been tossed around like toys in the winds. The ground was satu-rated. It would have been dangerous. People had to get back south and to the northeast ahead of the storm or risk being stuck here. As heartbreaking as the decision was to postpone, it was the right one. ■ Earthquake, No. 2. After the earthquake hit, the big question was whether the schools would open the next day. Inspectors were out looking at all 126 operating D.C. school buildings. At 10:59 p.m. — a minute before the 11 o’clock

news — journalists were told that all but three school buildings would open on time. Then some-where around 4 a.m. everyone was told that all the schools would be closed. One of the toughest things to do in a crisis is to get consistent, accurate information out to the public and to those clamoring journalists. In the age of Twitter, snippets of information travel fast. If the politicians close the schools, parents scream

that they overreacted. If they leave them open, parents scream that their kids might be unsafe. If they change their minds and the decision, they get it from all sides.

The main thing for politicians is to know what you know and then tell it. The public will accept uncertainty if you’re clear that you’re trying.■ Hurricane, No. 2. What would you do with five sandbags? One person sent me a message that five bags “would make a nice coffee table.” We ask because the city’s Department of Public Works expended a great deal of effort to pass out 7,000 sandbags to the city, but it gave out only five bags per person. First the lines seriously backed up when the city first started in Southeast near the base-ball stadium. Some people waited for more than an hour for their five bags. The next day, the sandbag effort was moved to RFK Stadium, where the city could accommodate the long lines. But still, it was only five bags per vehicle. Most homes have two entrances and many have basement-level windows. How five bags really helped, we’re not sure. That’s one of the reasons we live on the second floor.■ A disaster P.R. move? As the city was roiling from the earthquake and the hurricane, D.C. Council Chairman Kwame Brown was sending out news releases about the events. But he wasn’t showing up at any of the mayor’s multiple news conferences. When your Notebook tweeted about this absence, Brown acknowledged he was out of town, saying he was at a staff member’s wedding.■ A final word. Former D.C. Council member Nadine P. Winter has died. She was 87. Winter was elected in 1974 to serve on the first council under home rule. She served Ward 6 from 1975 until 1991. Her body will lie in repose at the John A. Wilson Building on Thursday night from 5 to 7. Winter was a feisty and colorful character. She had a big smile that any caricaturist would love. She’d flash it whether she was angry or happy. Winter moved to Washington in 1947 and was an early housing activist for seniors, youths and the homeless. She fought for rent control and homeown-er rights. She twice served as one of the city’s three formal electors in presidential contests. Our condo-lences to her family. Tom Sherwood, a Southwest resident, is a politi-cal reporter for News 4.

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TOM SHERWOOD’S NotebooK

Resident has helped battle rat problem In my comments to your reporter about rat abatement at Guy Mason Recreation Center in Glover Park [“City renews fight against rats in Glover Park,” Aug. 24], I neglected to mention the work of Glover Park resident Mitch Wander, who has dedicat-ed himself to overseeing the trash management around the ball field and playground. Mitch deserves a standing

ovation for his diligence and commitment to the improvement of our neighborhood.

Jackie BlumenthalCommissioner, ANC 3B02

bond tax may drive family from District I totally agree with the Aug. 24 letter “Any bond tax might alienate local voters.” The taxing of non-D.C. municipal bonds will double, repeat double, the D.C. income tax we pay, and therefore it will eliminate one of the attractions for D.C. residence. My wife and I have owned a

home and lived in D.C. for more than 40 years, and I am now retired. We have been exploring downsizing to an apartment. This tax will weigh heavily in a deci-sion on whether to stay in the District or choose a location in Virginia, Maryland or elsewhere, where the rents and taxes are more favorable. Incidentally, it is not just wards 2 and 3 that will be signifi-cantly affected by this tax. We live in Ward 4. It is our hope that our D.C. Council member, Muriel Bowser, wlll become more active in seeking its repeal.

William B. KellyChevy Chase

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parking rules create much inconvenience I would caution Northwest resi-dents to think carefully about changing parking permit rules, par-ticularly extending the hours of restriction or the days — as is advocated by Damon Harvey of the D.C. Department of Transportation in your recent article on parking in Glover Park [“Glover Park ANC tackles parking issues,” July 20]. The Department of Transportation’s interests are not necessarily the interests of the resi-dents of Glover Park or any other Northwest neighborhood, as park-ing ticket fees appear to be a major motivator of the D.C. government. Once you extend parking permit days or hours, you will never get it undone, even if unintended conse-quences convince the residents it is not working. If you extend hours to midnight, you essentially cannot have a dinner party and expect your out-of-neighborhood guests to find anywhere legal to park. Everyone enjoys the nearby res-taurants, yet residents do not want to compete with out-of-neighbor-hood diners for parking. On the other hand, if you take away all of the parking, those restaurants may not be able to remain in business for the enjoyment of the neighbor-hood due to a lack of out-of-neigh-borhood customers. Be careful what you ask for.

Hilary SillsCleveland Park

retroactive or not, bond tax is bad idea Opinions in The Current about the new tax on non-D.C. bonds have focused on retroactivity and grandfathering. Beyond these basic issues of fairness, is this tax an effective way of generating reve-nue for the city? Standard & Poor’s recently cau-tioned that D.C.’s less-than-stellar bond rating is in danger of being downgraded. The D.C. chief finan-cial officer and the mayor have argued that this tax is necessary to encourage D.C. residents to buy D.C. bonds. So D.C. residents will be asked to hold riskier and rela-tively illiquid D.C. bonds to retain their tax exemption. Diversified bond funds hold fewer D.C. bonds than those of any state. Individuals will have to pay a substantial premium when seeking to invest small amounts in D.C. bonds that are not easily trad-ed. Unlike such states as Virginia and Maryland, D.C. does not have a state-specific bond fund that offers greater diversification and

lower management costs. Therefore, D.C. residents who pur-chase available D.C. bonds will suffer from historically low yields and an admittedly higher risk of losing their principal; however, this will do nothing to strengthen D.C.’s bond ratings in a federal city with a $5.3 billion budget and uncertain revenues. D.C. residents who replace their existing bonds with D.C. bonds will also pay capital gains taxes, commissions and markups. Federal and D.C. taxes on the capital gains realized by selling a long-term bond fund purchased 30 years ago would average about 10 percent of current principal. Commissions and markups on D.C. bonds would cost another 5 percent. A typical retiree could lose 15 percent of his principal and thousands of dollars in the process. This will cost D.C. residents much more than D.C. collects in taxes. D.C. will become the only non-state that does not exempt interest income from the bonds of all 50 states. In contrast, U.S. territories and possessions encourage capital formation and put their residents on an equal footing with state investors. This tax will make D.C. a less attractive jurisdiction for investment and drive away much greater sources of revenue such as real property and estates. The new tax should be repealed — not postponed or modified — because it will be a net loss for the city overall. The immediate cost to the 20,000 D.C. residents who hold non-D.C. bonds will far exceed the $13 million in addition-al revenues that the D.C. chief financial officer expects in 2011. In the future the tax will become even more counterproductive as investors shift their assets else-where.

Neil WilliamsThe Palisades

plan for babe’s site would harm tenley On Sept. 8, representatives of the developer of the Babe’s Billiards site at Wisconsin Avenue and Brandywine Street are sched-uled to present their development plans at the Advisory Neighborhood Commission 3E meeting. The developer plans a six-story condominium of 60 units and two floors of commercial space. No parking is to be provided. The con-dos are extremely small and are likely to be marketed to American University students. In addition, because the site offers no alley access, the building will be ser-viced from Brandywine Street. The impact on the community of such a development is easy to imagine:• There will be no on-street parking

available to area residents or cus-tomers of existing businesses. • Traffic throughout the neighbor-hoods will increase, as will illegal parking in private garages. • Traffic on Brandywine Street will be disrupted with double-parked valet parkers, moving vans, trash trucks and other service vehicles. The neighborhood commission-ers have held at least two closed-door meetings with representatives of the developer to discuss this pro-posal. The commissioners appear strongly in favor of the proposed dormitory. No one knows why they would choose to support a project that is clearly not in the best inter-ests of their constituents. So far as is known, no traffic or community impact studies have been conduct-ed. The Babe’s site has been an eyesore, an embarrassment and a danger to the community for far too long. The site is valuable and needs to be developed. However, any development of the site needs to be sensitive to the needs of the community. As currently con-ceived, this development is remark-ably insensitive to those needs. I would urge anyone with a con-cern about the development of the site to attend the commission meet-ing on Sept. 8 at 7:30 p.m. at St. Mary’s Armenian Apostolic Church, 42nd and Fessenden streets NW, and make those con-cerns clear to your commissioners.

Dr. Peter S. GlassmanDirector, Friendship Hospital

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Georgetown group deserves support Many thanks for The Current’s Aug. 17 editorial about the new arrangements at our local agency, the Georgetown Ministry Center. It inspired me to go down to their lit-tle building just off the C&O Canal and see for myself. This is such a fine agency help-ing our people in need, and now, as you pointed out, it is even better. In addition to the outreach, medical help, telephone and mail service, shower and bathroom the center provides, there is now a pleasant sitting room, where I saw about five guys sitting at comput-ers, trying to access jobs, shelters or families. Two others were in sit-ting in the reading area, presum-ably awaiting their turns. Executive director Gunther Stern and outreach director Roy Witherspoon were hovering nearby, ready to handle any questions. This is certainly an organization to which we can all give our wholehearted support. Thanks so much for calling our attention to it!

Frida BurlingGeorgetown

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IAC St. Albans begins the 2011 sea-son with two main challenges: a target on its back, thanks to 2009 and 2010 championships, and a new starting quarterback. But coach Gary Schnell thinks his team has the talent to overcome those hurdles. Sophomore Mike McCurdy, who started at quarterback for the junior varsity squad in 2010, is the new leader on offense, taking over for graduated senior Will Strother. But he’s not a total newbie: McCurdy earned varsity experience last sea-son when he played late in games that St. Albans (9-1, 4-0 in 2010) already had under control. And Schnell believes his new quarterback has the tools needed to play well at the most critical posi-tion. “He’s very smart, he’s poised, he knows what we want to do,” the coach said Monday. St. Albans was senior-heavy a year ago, and the Bulldogs will need to replace 26 players in total. But they’ll have 11 seniors this year including some top players from last year’s title winner. Arthur Jones returns to spearhead the backfield, and he’ll have help from Charles Cato, who also plays linebacker. Senior Matt McJunkin, a three-year starter, will anchor the offense line from his guard position, and classmate Marquis Johnson – All-Interstate Athletic Conference on

the defensive line last season – should also assist up front on offense. They’ll have help from Steve Bodine and 6-foot-6-inch, 225-pound Christian Miller, both seniors. The Bulldogs went undefeated in the IAC last season thanks in large part to a rock solid defense. And while they don’t have quite as many players as they had a year ago, the talent is still evident, Schnell said. “We have a lot of good players and we’re anxious to see how the young kids step in.” Starting with the season opener at St. Mary’s (Annapolis, Md.) on Sept. 2 and finishing with the yearly showdown with Landon at home on Nov. 12, the Bulldogs plan to take it one game at a time in 2011. “The challenge is for the kids not to feel the pressure of thinking about defending the championship,” said Schnell. WCAC Gonzaga got off to a red-hot start last year, holding on to first place for much of the season before faltering down the stretch and losing to Good Counsel in the playoffs. Second-year coach Aaron Brady has to figure out a way to get Gonzaga (7-4, 5-2) to Navy Stadium (Annapolis, Md.) for the champion-ship game amid fierce competition in the Washington Catholic Athletic Conference. Gone is quarterback Kevin Hogan, last year’s WCAC Player of the Year, who is now taking snaps at Stanford University. Enter a pair of rising junior signal callers —

Connor Ennis and Chris Schultz – who will look to fill some pretty big shoes. “They both work really hard at it — they’re year-round quarter-backs,” Brady said. Ennis and Schultz, whom Brady plans to rotate at the position this year, will benefit from an excellent wide receiver corps that includes senior Davon Graves, juniors Brady Malone and Paris Person and sopho-more Robbie Walker. In the backfield, the team should have plenty of punch with Duane McKelvin and Demitrius McNeil, back for their senior years. The pair will face the task of replacing lead-ing rusher DeLante Martino, an All-WCAC performer who graduated last spring. The Eagles also return seven starters on defense, including senior tackle Grey Congo and senior line-backers Danny Flynn and Nick Anzallo. Those players will be key in stopping top weapons in the con-ference such as Stefon Diggs, Good Counsel’s senior wide receiver, who is rated as the top player at his posi-tion in the country. “It’s a great challenge. You get a chance to be seen by every college office in the country, so go make some plays. You should look for-ward to those kind of opportuni-ties,” said Brady. The team kicked off its season with a 21-2 victory over Archbishop (Akron, Ohio) on Saturday, running off 21 unanswered points. Both of the Eagles quarterbacks threw touchdown passes, and junior Devin Butler returned an interception for a score in the victory. Gonzaga will host Georgetown Prep in the annual Jesuit Gridiron Classic on Sept. 17. A year after giving DeMatha a run for its money in the WCAC semifinals, St. John’s (5-6, 4-3) should make another dash for the playoffs in 2011. The Cadets return 11 seniors this year, but they’ll have a fresh face at quarterback in talented senior Ben Onett. The 6-foot-2, 206-pound Temple University commit left DeMatha a week before last season began to play for Central Catholic High in Lawrence, Mass. But he’s back in the WCAC this year and should give St. John’s the best pock-et passer it’s had in years. Other players to watch for the Cadets include three seniors: wide receiver/defensive back Billy Webb, running back/defensive back Kyler Sims and mammoth lineman Ian Smith. Also keep an eye on sopho-more Devin Williams, a linebacker who has already committed to Stanford.

The team should be battle tested by the time DeMatha comes to town on Oct. 15. The Cadets gave the Stags quite a battle in last year’s playoffs before falling 34-20. MAC Maret (4-5, 1-3) doesn’t get much local hype because it com-petes in the smaller Mid-Atlantic Conference. But the Frogs, led by innovative coach Mike Engelberg, have been one of the most fun teams to watch in recent years, and that should be no different in 2011. Last year, Maret was hurt by graduation before the season began and injuries during, and struggled to just one win in conference play. They Frogs have only six seniors this year, but one — senior Sean Davis — is already helping to put the school on the map. Davis, who plays running back, wide receiver, defensive back and even quarterback for the Frogs, showed off his unusual skill set while working out for colleges this summer and has committed to the University of Maryland. Engelberg should have plenty of packages for his star player as Maret looks to unseat defending champion Potomac this year. Quarterback/defensive back Tre Henderson is another playmaker to watch for the Frogs, who will begin league play on Oct. 7 at Potomac. Sidwell (0-9, 0-4) drew a great deal of criticism for getting blown out of several contests a year ago

and failing to come away with any victories. But veteran coach John Simon thinks last year was an anomaly and that the Quakers should have much more success in 2011. “It was a numbers game — we had some guys get injured that were seniors and we had to play a ton of freshman that were young and inex-perienced and some that had never played football before,” he said. This year, the Quakers return four starters on the offensive line including three seniors — Nicky Kirsch, Stephen Wiener and Will Mendez — and one sophomore, Nick Matzelevich, who started at guard much of last season and is now the team’s top center. “Our line is what I’m counting on to help us win some games this year,” said Simon. Chase Plebani, last year’s start-ing quarterback, will share time at the position in 2011 with senior Jackson Mills. That should allow Sidwell to keep both players fresh and give Plebani, a junior, more of a chance to make an impact on defense, where he has developed into a solid linebacker. Sidwell took on an easier sched-ule this year and is focused on get-ting the program going in the right direction again. “We’re not talking about winning championships — we’re just talking about winning games,” Simon said. The Quakers’ first major test will come at home against St. James Oct. 6.

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Matt Petros/The CurrentGonzaga’s Demitrius McNeill, above, and St. Albans’ Arthur Jones, below, should steer their teams’ rushing attacks this year.

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School Without Walls The first week of school is always interesting. There are new classes to find, new students to meet, friends you haven’t seen all summer, and friends you saw the day before. Students are nervous, excited, frightened, intimidated and steeling themselves for another 10 months. This year, the School Without Walls hosts a freshman class that is one of the largest in its history, pushing the student population to more than 500. Classes and corri-dors seem more crowed, and get-ting through the front door is a bat-tle, as those without student IDs must sign in by hand. There are new faces this year — and not just in the student body. Walls has lost several faculty mem-bers for various reasons, including budget cuts. Replacements have been made in the math and science departments and the office of assis-tant principal. Yet it was neither the influx of new students nor the attrition to our faculty that set this beginning stretch apart from those of the past. On Aug. 22, an earthquake of a 5.8 magnitude struck the D.C.-Maryland-Virginia area. Along with other D.C. schools, Walls was closed on Wednesday as inspectors examined the building. Due to damage to the chimney and bell tower, the school remained

closed Thursday and Friday. Until repairs are complete, the School Without Walls will be temporarily relocated to Eastern High School, beginning what will be another interesting week.

— Keanu Ross-Cabrera, 12th-grader

Shepherd Elementary Hello, Fellow Mustangs! For the new students who do not know me yet, my name is Sophia-Rose Herisse. I will be the student correspondent for The Current this school year. I hope you had a won-derful summer. Our teachers have a great year of learning and fun planned for us. Your responsibility is to do your best every single day and do it the Shepherd way! I encourage you to share cool news tips and comments. Please contact me at snherisse@yahoo.com. Thank you for reading my column.

— Sophia-Rose Herisse, fourth-grader

Stoddert Elementary Hi, my name is Kennedy. I’m new to Stoddert this year. I came from Whittier Elementary School. My goal is to get a good education. I’m in Mrs. Bostic’s fifth-grade class, and we play math and read-

ing trivia. You pick from either math or reading for a question. You can also choose the grab bag. I got a random question from the grab bag. If you ask for a math question, you might get a multiplication problem. The reading bag includes questions like, “Who was the first president?” I also found out this week that we get homework passes. All the teachers are nice, and I’ve met some nice girls like Addie and Allyse. We are talking and playing together. ■ Hi, my name is Robert. My teacher is Mr. Dingledine. He told us that they might increase the time for P.E. I would really like that more because I don’t like to sit and learn all day. I want to get some exercise. There was an earthquake this week and that was different for the first week of school. Now we’re going to have a hurricane. We were in the computer lab when the quake started and everything started shak-ing. We were taking a typing test. The computers and the Promethean board were moving back and forth. Our teacher came and took us out-side. I’ve met some new people this year. It’s my second year here. It’s nice to have new people at the school.

— Kennedy Monroe and Robert Williams, fifth-graders

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reason at all; others are you can deviate for neighborhood cohesive-ness and … respect for the political geography of the district.” University students have argued that the school’s 5,000 on-campus students — who now elect only one commissioner — shouldn’t be shoe-horned into two of the commis-sion’s eight districts while some sections of the neighborhood have fewer than 1,700 residents. In a brief comment last week on a Georgetown Dish blog post, Mendelson agreed. “I will not sup-port a plan that unnecessarily cre-ates a range of 1680-2500,” he wrote. “Clearly, there’s a purpose here and the purpose is to disenfranchise the students,” Mendelson said in an interview with The Current. He posted the blog comment, he said, to “send a signal that folks ought not to spend so much time on a proposal that is so grossly discriminatory.” Georgetown University Students Association president Mike Meaney asked that the working group recon-sider its proposal; group members will decide whether to do so by early next week. “If the ANC redistricting task force chooses not to accept our posi-tions, we will appeal to the Council and arbitrate a more equitable situa-tion,” Meaney said Monday. The working group’s recommen-dation will be passed on to Tom Birch, a Georgetown commissioner who is collecting the proposals from each Ward 2 commission to pass along to Ward 2 Council member Jack Evans. In an interview, Evans said he hadn’t seen the proposal for Georgetown and couldn’t comment on it, but that he will address any concerns he has once he receives the report from Birch. The full council can also change boundaries when it considers them later this year, but members like to defer to local preferences. “We’re not as close to the neighborhood,” said Mendelson. Nevertheless, he said, if a plan he considers dis-criminatory and illegal comes before him, he will seek changes, he said. Drafters of the plan have said they worked to align the boundaries of single-member districts with clearly defined neighborhoods, such as Burleith and the university cam-pus. Such a move helps ensure that a commissioner best represents his or her constituents, they said. To adopt an alternative plan pitched by student John Flanagan to have a third student-heavy district just east of the university would mean “leaving hundreds of perma-nent residents to basically be aban-doned, not represented by who they’d want to be represented by,” said Lewis. Many residents who attended Monday’s meeting agreed. One woman noted that students live throughout the neighborhood and are free to run for office where they live regardless of how the lines are

drawn. “The girls living next door to me have the same rights to run for the ANC as I do,” she said. “But we don’t have to give them special con-sideration to run in the other dis-tricts. …. I want to be represented by somebody who has my interests at heart.” Students who attended the meet-ing argued that that was the very concern they were facing. “If we accept the logic being put forward here, we are fated to be represented by people who the commission believes cannot represent us,” said graduate student Paul Musgrave. One resident argued that proper-ty owners deserve more representa-tion than students who overwhelm-ingly rent their properties. But that’s not a factor in the law, said Mendelson. “They can’t just simply turn a blind eye to the prin-ciple of one man, one vote,” he said. “If there’s a proposal to create [sin-gle-member districts] of wildly dif-ferent size[s], lumping students into one or two grossly oversized SMDs and then having non-students … in the remaining undersized SMDs, that would be a violation of the law.” Mendelson said he recognizes neighbors’ concerns, but the city must adhere to the requirements in the redistricting law. “I certainly don’t want to mini-mize the aggravation that can be caused by students,” he said. “But there are other ways of dealing with this problem of students and ANC redistricting.” Maps of the proposal and the existing commission boundaries are available at tinyurl.com/2e-districts.

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station and bus routes will make it unnecessary for students, faculty and staff to drive to the neighbor-hood, it states. The campus would be designed for up to 2,000 law school students and 500 faculty and staff members, officials said. Greg Ferenbach, president of the Tenley Campus Neighbors Association, which opposes the campus plan, said he hadn’t yet read

the new filings by The Current’s deadline and therefore couldn’t comment in detail. He did meet with university officials last week to dis-cuss the appearance of the proposed buildings, which he said has improved even if the scale of the project remains too large. “I think they’ve made some progress on the design,” Ferenbach said, “but AU takes the position that building this massive development will have no impact on the sur-rounding properties at all, which is hard to take seriously.”

The university is planning to demolish three 1955 buildings on the site and renovate the historic Capital Hall, chapel and Dunblane House, the submission says. The school also hopes to build new four-story buildings on Nebraska Avenue and Yuma Street. The law school would move to the site from a Spring Valley office building it has outgrown, and stu-dents currently housed on the Tenley campus would live in new dorms proposed for the university’s park-ing lot near Ward Circle.

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work well,” said Hefferan. So this year at the pilot schools, separate parking areas have been designated for drop-offs and for 15-minute parking. New signs are in place at the participating schools, and parents received notification from their schools and PTAs. “So far, we’ve noticed a big improvement — overall parents and school administrators have been impressed with the changes,” said Hefferan. At Key Elementary School in the Palisades, there are roughly five spaces in front of the school entrance on Eskridge Terrace newly desig-nated for drop-off only, and room for about three 15-minute parking spots for those who drive pre-kin-dergarten students, who must be escorted to their classrooms. “Congestion and safety [prob-lems] go hand in hand,” said George Beronio, the Key PTA’s Safe Routes to School coordinator. “Before, we had a lot of people parking on both sides of Eskridge, a two-way street, tying up traffic in both directions. We tried to have parents avoid going upstream, but commuters and others would often get caught up in the traffic pattern.” Key principal David Landeryou said the school has grown “signifi-cantly” in recent years, creating new issues. Modular classrooms are cur-rently situated in the school’s park-ing lot, which has displaced faculty and staff parking, creating more competition for street parking around the school. “Our biggest concern was that there wasn’t a place to safely park and get our children into school,”

said Landeryou. “The new program has been really great — we’re excit-ed about it, and it’s had a positive impact so far.” Beronio noted that the new sys-tem “forces cars to get to the curb to keep traffic flowing,” and called it “safer and quicker for the kids.” He referenced a survey the PTA

created in collaboration with Landeryou and the Safe Routes to School program, asking parents how they chose to transport their children to school and why. He said many families that live within the walk- or bike-to-school boundaries said they choose to drive because there aren’t sidewalks on every street along their route. Beronio praised Hefferan’s work, saying she is “went above and beyond, meeting with us repeatedly last year.” But he also noted that the “single most important thing the city can do beyond easing traffic is to install more sidewalks.” If the pilot program continues to go well, it will be rolled out to addi-tional schools in the city. Hefferan was quick to note that any school experiencing problems with drop-off and/or pickup proce-dures or walking or biking to school can contact the Safe Routes to School office directly and officials will work with schools individually, even if they’re not part of the pilot program. “If a school contacts DDOT, we will help,” she said.

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despite its proximity to Connecticut Avenue. Back inside, the sunroom con-nects via French doors to an ample living room centered on a wood-burning stove. Both rooms have the original 1930s hardwood floors, as does the rest of the first floor. The living room sits just to the side of a charming two-part foyer. A small entry offers coat closets, and then up a few steps there’s another central space at the foot of the stairs. The current owner keeps a traditional phone table here,

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hall bath offers a tub with walls to make it shower-ready as well. The second and third bedrooms here are tastefully decorated. The first, with powder-blue walls, is used as a guest room, while the second is set up as an office. A third floor offers additional bed-room possibilities: With a little work, the two rooms tucked under the roof here could function as extra sleeping spaces. The bottom floor offers still more living space. This finished

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The commission will meet at 7 p.m. Sept. 7 at Mary’s Center, 2355 Ontario Road NW. Agenda items include:■ public safety report.■ update on the 18th Street recon-struction project.■ consideration of grants to St. Joseph’s House and the Adams Morgan Basketball Association. For details, call 202-332-2630 or visit anc1c.org.

ANC 2AFoggy Bottom

The commission will meet at 7 p.m. Sept. 21 at Heart House, 2400 N St. NW. For details, visit anc2a.org.

ANC 2BDupont Circle

The commission’s zoning, preservation and development committee will hold a meeting to discuss the proposed development by the First Baptist Church of the City of Washington, D.C., and Keener-Squire Properties at 17th and O streets and the restoration/renovation of the triangle park at 20th and Q streets and Connecticut Avenue. The meeting will be held Sept. 6 at 7 p.m. at the Dupont Circle Hotel, 1500 New Hampshire Ave. NW. The commission will hold its monthly meeting at 7 p.m. Sept. 14 in the Brookings Institution building, 1775 Massachusetts Ave. NW. For details, visit dupontcircleanc.net.

ANC 2DSheridan-Kalorama

The commission will meet at 7 p.m. Sept. 19 at Our Lady Queen of the Americas Church, California Street and Phelps Place NW. For details, contact david-anc2d01@aol.com or visit anc2d.org.

ANC 2EGeorgetownCloisters

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

ANC 2FLogan Circle

The commission will meet at 7 p.m. Sept. 7 at Washington Plaza Hotel, 10 Thomas Circle NW. Agenda items include:■ consideration of requested street closures for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Light the Night Walk, So Others Might Eat’s Trot for

Hunger and AIDS Walk Washington.■ consideration of Alcoholic Beverage Regulation Administration matters: Mood Lounge, 1318 9th St., license revocation; Ghana Cafe; Tortilla Coast Restaurant, 1454-1460 P St., voluntary agreement; and The Pig, 1320 14th St., volun-tary agreement.■ committee reports.■ consideration of community development committee matters: a request by the National Park Service for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority to change the name of the Smithsonian Metro sta-tion to National Mall-Smithsonian; 901 New York Ave., Starbucks, sidewalk cafe application; 700 14th St., Starbucks, sidewalk cafe appli-cation; 1328 14th St., applications to the Board of Zoning Adjustment and the Historic Preservation Review Board for a new residential building with ground-floor retail; 1321-1325 Naylor Court, Stables at Naylor Court, applications to the Board of Zoning Adjustment and the Historic Preservation Review Board for renovation of a former stable to convert it to a residential building; and 1275 Pennsylvania Ave., building renovation requiring Commission of Fine Arts approval under the Shipstead-Luce Act.■ discussion of redistricting issues affecting the commission’s area, including voting precinct boundar-ies.■ discussion of noise complaints regarding Donovan House.■ discussion of a community round-table invitation to D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton. For details, call 202-667-0052 or visit anc2f.org.

ANC 3BGlover Park

The commission will meet at 7 p.m. Sept. 8 at Stoddert Elementary School and Recreation Center, 4001 Calvert St. NW. For details, call 202-338-2969, contact info@anc3b.org or visit anc3b.org.

ANC 3CCleveland ParkWoodley ParkMassachusetts Avenue Heights

The commission will meet at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 19 at the 2nd District Police Headquarters, 3320 Idaho Ave. NW. For details, call 202-657-5725 or visit anc3c.org.

ANC 3DSpring ValleyWesley Heights

The commission will meet at 7 p.m. Sept. 7 in the new medical building at Sibley Memorial Hospital, 5215 Loughboro Road NW. Agenda items include:■ presentation by Brenda Barber of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on recommendations for the clean-up of 4825 Glenbrook Road.■ update by Jerry Price, senior vice president for real estate and con-struction at Sibley Memorial Hospital, on the hospital’s master plan.■ presentation by American University on the planned North Hall dormitory, the subject of a fur-ther-processing application filed with the Zoning Commission on July 19.■ discussion of a resolution on the taxation of non-D.C. municipal bonds.■ consideration of a public-space application for 2507 Foxhall Road.■ consideration of a Board of Zoning Adjustment for a special exception to allow a two-story addi-tion at 5133 Sherier Place.■ consideration of an Alcoholic Beverage Control application by Al Forno Pizzeria and Trattoria, 3201 New Mexico Ave., for a restaurant-class license (Italian restaurant serv-ing dishes such as pizza and panini; no live entertainment; daily hours of operation, sales, service and con-sumption from 10 a.m. to midnight in the summer garden and interior). For details, call 202-363-4130 or visit anc3d.org.

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Northwest Real EstateCitizens Association of Georgetown As summer winds down, I am excited to see the many volunteers who make our association so effective begin to return to town. Thanks to all of their help, we are continuing to grow and also remain true to our core missions: historic preservation and public safety. We are always in need of more volunteers to work with us to make all of this successful. This work is not only fascinating but also vital to Georgetown. If you are interested, please consider serving on an association committee; no experience is necessary. It is fantastically fun. You get to meet your neighbors, get the skinny on what’s hap-pening in Georgetown, and know that you are helping to make your community better. There are many opportunities to serve, including as oral history interviewers, public safety block captains and members of the univer-sity relations committee. Volunteers may also focus on beautification, trees, the neighborhood library, events like the Georgetown Gala and on and on. It is individuals who make a difference in our community. We can use your help. I hope to hear from you. And if you are already signed up — welcome back! And thank you.

— Jennifer Altemus

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had their power restored relatively quickly. “Overall, I would say D.C. gets an A on this one: residents, businesses, city government, everyone,” said Ward 2 Council member Jack Evans, praising residents for heeding warnings and workers for speedy cleanup. And Pepco? “They get an A for effort,” Evans replied. “If my power were off right now, I’d be pretty angry, but I know they were quite prepared for the storm and are working diligently to get it restored.” Ward 4 Council member Muriel Bowser said she was also impressed with Pepco’s preparations and response to the storm. “I’m just very pleased that we had a lot of neighborhoods that have persistent outages that didn’t lose power this time,” she said. “And I don’t know if it’s a function of how the storm has hit, or if the amount of improvements to the infrastructure that we’ve insisted on are starting to bear fruit.” There was one hiccup in Pepco’s response, said Ward 3 Council member Mary Cheh: coordination with the D.C. Department of Transportation when a street tree had fallen across or was leaning on a live wire. “I have been dealing with emails from sites where DDOT was there with their crane ready to go, but Pepco hadn’t turned off the power yet,” Cheh said. But “by and large DDOT and Pepco are diligently working through the problem that we have.” A Pepco spokesperson didn’t return messages this week. As of yesterday afternoon, there were 2,968 cus-tomers in the District without electricity, about a third of whom are in areas west of Rock Creek Park, according to the company’s website. According to a news release from the Transportation Department, 11 traffic signals

were also still without power from the grid yesterday afternoon, relying on emergency backups. Transportation Department spokesperson John Lisle, whose agency is responsible for roadways and street trees, said all roads blocked by trees or other storm debris should now be open, and the last roadside detritus should be cleared away by the end of the week. “Because of the combination of how much rain we got and the high winds, that’s when you see a lot of these trees just start to give way,” Lisle said. Citywide, the Transportation Department has been addressing more than 670 work orders to repair storm damage, said Lisle, and the agency fielded 80 percent more calls for service than it did in the wake of a par-ticularly destructive thunderstorm last summer. “I would say we certainly realize it could have been a lot worse than it was, but at the same time it did cause a lot of damage in the city,” he said. The D.C. government may be found liable for pri-vate property damage from a fallen street tree if the tree toppled because of a District agency’s negligence, said Phillip Lattimore III, director of the D.C. Office of Risk Management. “If a citizen called and complained for days or weeks on end that the trees are defective, we received informa-tion that branches were falling over a period of time … then if the tree falls, they have a case to make a claim,” said Lattimore. “If we do not have any information that the tree was a problem tree ... then more than likely it would be a very difficult claim for a citizen to make.” Lattimore said no Irene-related claims had been filed with his office as of yesterday, but the office was field-ing an unusually high call volume as residents asked about city responsibility for tree damage. Last year, the office paid 396 property damage claims out of nearly 2,300 filed, officials said.

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2006 article on the complex in The Washington Post as “one of the most beautiful secret squares in Washington” — remains a mystery even to nearby residents. The landmark application, how-ever, contains stunning photos and detailed descriptions of the facility in its several incarnations. Pierre L’Enfant, laying out the federal city, recognized the site’s strategic location on high ground, with sweeping views of the Potomac to the north and south, and thought it an ideal site for a fort. George Washington envisioned building a university there, according to the landmark application. Instead, in 1844, the Navy built an imposing two-story brick struc-ture, topped by a circular dome, to serve as its observatory. The Greek Revival building played a signifi-cant role in research on navigation, astronomy and oceanography, according to the application. The “Great Equatorial Telescope” for-merly lodged in the dome was used to discover the two moons of Mars in 1877. But in 1893, the observatory was

relocated to higher ground on Massachusetts Avenue NW, in part to escape the fog coming off the river and the foul air of then-indus-trial Foggy Bottom, Herman said. The grounds overlooking the Potomac then became the Navy’s prime medical facility, with a Museum of Hygiene and then a medical school occupying the old observatory. The Washington Naval Hospital was established in 1904 and was soon surrounded by a group of Georgian style buildings whose names reflected medical care of the era: a Female Nurses’ Quarters, Sick Officers’ Quarters and Contagious Ward, for example. A grand staircase, built in 1911, provided a new formal entrance from E Street. But it was demol-ished in the early 1950s to allow construction of the E Street ramp to Interstate 66. Other landscape fea-tures, including iron grillwork, a single gas lamp, a circular drive and a statue of Benjamin Rush, surgeon general of the Continental Army, remained even after the Navy hospi-tal moved to Bethesda in 1942. Since then the buildings have been largely occupied by the Navy’s Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, the administrative headquarters for the force’s medical wing. But the

bureau is slated to move to a reno-vated office building in Falls Church next year, along with medical head-quarters of the other armed forces, as part of Congress’ mandate to consolidate military facilities. Herman said most of the 13-acre complex will be turned over to the State Department for office space when the Navy moves out. He said he fears maintenance of the old observatory could suffer, and wor-ries about the fate of the other his-toric hospital buildings as well. “As a historian, I’m 100 percent behind [the landmark application], or any-thing to preserve this site,” he said. State Department spokesperson Beth Gosselin said Tuesday that the department expects to “accept trans-fer” of most of the buildings next year, to be used as temporary space during renovation of the agency’s main building across 23rd Street. Gosselin said restrictions on public access will continue for secu-rity reasons, although tours of the observatory itself “may be possi-ble.” She said the department “intends to follow all federal, state and local codes” involving historic preservation, and noted that the department does not intend to use the already-landmarked observatory building “at this time.”

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with a firm to study capacity issues across the District. At the Field School, the new sixth grade will allow more families to consider the school, according to Will Layman, director of admissions and communication. When Field first opened its doors in 1972, serving seventh- through 12th-graders, most elementary schools ran through sixth grade, he wrote in an email. “In recent years, more and more of the area school

systems have shifted to ending their elementary schools in 5th grade and running a 6-8 middle school,” Layman wrote. “As a result, we have heard from more and more families who wish that we started in 6th grade as well; they want to consider The Field School but do not want to have their student in three different schools in three consecutive years (an elementary school for 5th, another middle school for 6th, then Field for 7th).” He said the school expects to maintain its current enrollment of 320 students by enrolling fewer new stu-dents in the upper grades. The school will host informa-tion sessions on Sept. 24 and Oct. 18.

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Wednesday, Aug. 31

Class ■Aweeklyworkshopwillofferinstructionin“SahajaYogaMeditation.”7p.m.Free.WestEndNeighborhoodLibrary,110124thSt.NW.202-724-8707.

Concerts ■NewTrickswillperformacousticstraight-aheadjazz.6p.m.Free.MillenniumStage,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600. ■TheHarbourNightsconcertserieswillfeaturesinger/song-writerJasonMasi.7to9p.m.Free.Plaza,TheWashingtonHarbour,3050KSt.NW.202-295-5007. ■TheU.S.MarineBandwillperformworksbyPatrickS.Gilmore,HermanBellstedtandJohnPhilipSousa.8p.m.Free.WestTerrace,U.S.Capitol.202-433-4011.

Discussions and lectures ■TheRev.CarolynBoydwilldiscussherbook“TheFiveStepstoForgiveness.”6:30to8p.m.Free.LangstonRoom,BusboysandPoets,202114thSt.NW.202-387-7638. ■DrewMagarywilldiscusshisnovel“ThePostmortal.”7p.m.Free.PoliticsandProse,5015ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-1919.

Film ■NCMFathomandUniversalStudiosHomeEntertainmentwillpresentascreeningofthecultfavorite“Scarface,”starringAlPacino.7:30p.m.$12.50.AMCGeorgetown14,3111KSt.NW.fathomevents.com.

Open house ■ExcelsiorCollege—aprivate,nonprofit,regionallyaccrediteddistance-learninginsti-tution—willhostanopenhousewithinfor-mationaboutitsdegreeprograms,federalfinancialaidprograms,paymentplansandhowtotransferpreviouslyearnedcollegecreditandmilitarytraining.5to8p.m.Free.

ExcelsiorCollegeD.C.Center,Suite304,115017thSt.NW.202-506-6007.

Thursday,Sept.1

Book signing ■GeorgeNorfleetwillsigncopiesofhisbook“APilot’sJourney,”abouttheTuskegeeAirmen.Noonto5p.m.Freeadmission.NationalMuseumofAmericanHistory,14thStreetandConstitutionAvenueNW.202-633-1000.

Children’s programs ■Aparkrangerwillleadascavengerhuntandhikeforchildrenages4andolder.10a.m.Free.MontrosePark,RStreetbetween30thand31ststreetsNW.202-895-6070. ■Aparkrangerwillleadchildrenages3andolderonaDiscoveryHikealongtheWoodlandTrailinsearchofsignsofanimals.4p.m.Free.RockCreekNatureCenter,5200GloverRoadNW.202-895-6070.

Concert ■TheJazzonJacksonPlaceserieswillfeaturetheYvonneJohnsonTrio.6:30to8:30p.m.$25.DecaturHouse,748JacksonPlaceNW.202-218-4332.

Discussions and lectures ■AmericanUniversityprofessorAkbarAhmed(shown)andCambridgeUniversityprofessorEdwardKesslerwilldiscuss“ReflectionsontheEveof9/11:What’sChanged?WhatHasn’t?”6:15p.m.Free.Founder’sRoom,SchoolofInternationalServiceBuilding,AmericanUniversity,4400MassachusettsAve.NW.202-885-1000. ■AmyWaldmanwilldiscusshernovel“TheSubmission,”aboutthecontroversysparkedbythechoiceofaMuslimtodesigna9/11memorial.7p.m.Free.PoliticsandProse,5015ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-1919.

Performance ■TheTopazHotelBar’sweeklystand-upshowwillfeaturelocalcomics.8to10p.m.Free.1733NSt.NW.202-393-3000.

Special events ■The“Live!onWoodrowWilsonPlaza”serieswillfeature“GameShowMania.”Noonto1:30p.m.Free.RonaldReaganBuildingandInternationalTradeCenter,1300PennsylvaniaAve.NW.202-312-1300. ■“PhillipsAfter5”willfeatureaMoscow-themedpartywithfoodanddrink;ashow-caseoffiveOscar-nominatedanimatedshorts;aperformancebytheAlexandriaKleztet;andagallerytalkon“Moscow:Kandinsky’sEnduringMuse.”5to8:30p.m.Costvariesbyactivity;registrationsuggested.PhillipsCollection,160021stSt.NW.phillipscollection.org/phillipsafter5. ■TheArtMuseumoftheAmericaswillholditssecondannualafter-hoursparty,featuringcutting-edgemusic,videoandper-formanceart.8p.m.tomidnight.$25inadvance;$30atthedoor.ArtMuseumoftheAmericas,20118thSt.NW.amamuseum.org/aad11.html.

Sporting event ■TheWashingtonMysticswillplaytheAtlantaDream.7p.m.$10to$300.VerizonCenter,601FSt.NW.202-397-7328.

Tours ■ASmithsonianhorticulturistwillleadatourofthemuseum’sheirloomgardenanddiscusssomeoftheplantsthere.1p.m.Free.MallTerrace,southwestcorner,NationalMuseumofAmericanHistory,14thStreetandConstitutionAvenueNW.202-633-1000.ThetourwillrepeatSept.15at1p.m. ■Aparkrangerwilllead“AGardenGathering,”achanceforages8andoldertoexplorethetrees,flowersandotherplantsintheOldStoneHouse’sgarden.2p.m.Free.OldStoneHouse,3051MSt.NW.202-426-6851. ■AtouroftheWashingtonNationalCathedralwillfocusontheGothicstyleand

itsuniquecharacteristics,purposesandbuildingmethods.3p.m.$5.Meetatthewestenddocentstation,WashingtonNationalCathedral,MassachusettsandWisconsinavenuesNW.202-537-6200.The tour will repeat Sunday at 1:30 p.m.

Friday,Sept.2

Concerts ■The“Live!onWoodrowWilsonPlaza”serieswillfeaturetheTommyLepsonBandperformingbluesandsoulclassics.Noonto1:30p.m.Free.RonaldReaganBuildingandInternationalTradeCenter,1300PennsylvaniaAve.NW.202-312-1300. ■CharlesMiller,ministerofmusicattheNationalCityChristianChurch,willpresentanorganrecital.12:15p.m.Free.NationalCityChristianChurch,5ThomasCircleNW.202-797-0103. ■The“JazzintheGarden”serieswillfea-tureviolinistBrunoNastaandtheNextWave,aU.S.NavalAcademyBandensemble.5to8:30p.m.Free.SculptureGarden,NationalGalleryofArt,7thStreetandConstitutionAvenueNW.202-737-4215. ■SalutSalon—aclassicallytrainedquartetoriginal-lyfromHamburg—Germany,willperformamixofclassic,pop,chansonandfolkmusic.6p.m.Free.MillenniumStage,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600. ■VocalistElisabethLohninger,pianistWalterFischbacher,bassistGaryWanganddrummerYatakaUchidawillperform.7:30p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.EmbassyofAustria,3524InternationalCourtNW.202-

895-6776.

Discussion ■ActivistsNaomiKlein,BillMcKibbenandMelinaLaboucan-MassimowilldiscusseffortstostoptheKeystoneXLTarSandspipeline.8:30to10:30p.m.Free.CullenRoom,BusboysandPoets,10255thSt.NW.202-387-7638.

Films ■“ThisOtherEden:IrelandandFilm”willfeaturePeterLennon’s1968film“RockyRoadtoDublin”andPaulDuane’s2004film“TheMakingof‘RockyRoadtoDublin.’”2:30p.m.Free.EastBuildingAuditorium,NationalGalleryofArt,4thStreetandConstitutionAvenueNW.202-737-4215.

Performance ■BettmannDanceswillpresent“QuisCustodiet,”theculmina-tionofayearlongexplo-rationofsecurityissuescoincidingwiththe10-yearanniversaryof9/11.7p.m.$25.WoollyMammothTheatre,641DSt.NW.quis.bettmanndances.com. Sporting event ■TheWashingtonNationalswillplaytheNewYorkMets.7:05p.m.$5to$350.NationalsPark,1500SouthCapitolSt.SE.888-632-6287.The series will continue Saturday at 7:05 p.m. and Sunday at 1:35 p.m.

Saturday,Sept.3

Children’s program ■Ages5andolderwilllistentoastoryaboutscientistAlbertEinsteinandcreateaspecialpieceofart.1to4p.m.Free.NationalPortraitGallery,8thandFstreetsNW.202-633-1000.The program will repeat Sunday from 2 to 5 p.m.

Concerts ■The23rdannualDCBluesFestivalwillfeaturePrestonShannon,GradyChampion,NadineRae&TheAllstars,Anthony“SwampDog”ClarkandtheDCBluesSocietyBand.Noon.Free.CarterBarronAmphitheatre,16thStreetandColoradoAvenueNW.202-426-0486. ■SingerNancyScimonewillperformjazzselections.7:30to11:30p.m.Free.BlueBarLounge,HenleyParkHotel,926MassachusettsAve.NW.202-638-5200.

Films ■“ThisOtherEden:IrelandandFilm”willfeatureJohnFord’s1952film“TheQuietMan”andSidneyOlcott’s1910film“ALadFromOldIreland.”1p.m.Free.EastBuildingAuditorium,NationalGalleryofArt,4thStreetandConstitutionAvenueNW.202-737-4215. ■TheTextileMuseumwillpresent“AmericanExperience:RachelCarson’s

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SilentSpring.”2p.m.Free.TextileMuseum,2320SSt.NW.202-667-0441,ext.64. ■“APolishQuartet:JerzySkolimowskiinthe1960s”willfeaturethedirector’s1964film“IdentificationMarks:None.”4p.m.Free.EastBuildingAuditorium,NationalGalleryofArt,4thStreetandConstitutionAvenueNW.202-737-4215.

Performances ■The10thannualPage-to-StageFestivalwillfeatureArtsontheHorizonperforming“DrummingWithDishes,”anonverbaladven-tureaboutatoddlerandherimaginaryfriendwhoturnordinaryhouseholditemsintoextraordinarymusicalinstruments.6p.m.Free.MillenniumStage,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600. ■TheMeadTheatreLabatFlashpointwillpresentaworkshopperformanceofRoneePenoi’s“IndianSchoolStories:AnAmericanSongCycle.”8p.m.Pay-what-you-can.MeadTheatreLabatFlashpoint,916GSt.NW.202-315-1305. ■KanKouranWestAfricanDanceCompanywillpresent“Legends,”acelebra-tionofthelegacyandartistryofMelvinDealandChuckDavis.8p.m.$30.LisnerAuditorium,GeorgeWashingtonUniversity,73021stSt.NW.202-397-7328.

Walks and tours ■Aparkrangerwillleadages8andolderonahiketoFortDeRussyanddiscusshowtheforthelpeddefendWashington,D.C.,duringtheCivilWar.10a.m.Free.RockCreekNatureCenter,5200GloverRoadNW.202-895-6070. ■Aparkrangerwillleadanall-ages“PawsinthePark”hikeinMontrosePark.Dogsonleasharewelcome.10a.m.Free.MontrosePark,RStreetbetween30thand31ststreetsNW.202-895-6070. ■AbustourwillvisitD.C.locationsusedasbackdropsinmorethan50televisionshowsandmovies,including“TheExorcist,”“TheWestWing”and“WeddingCrashers.”10a.m.$34;reservationsrequired.TourdepartsfromalocationnearUnionStation.800-979-3370. ■RoccoZappone,anativeWashingtonianandfreelancewriter,willleadaninteractive“WalkingTourasPersonalEssay,”filledwithhisreminis-cencesandimpressionsofalifetimeinD.C.10a.m.orbyappointment.$25.MeetatthestatueofAndrewJacksoninLafayetteSquare,16thandHstreetsNW.202-341-5208. ■AmyKunzwillleadadog-friendly“WalkandWag”tourofMountPleasant.11a.m.$15;reservationsrequired.MeetinfrontoftheCapitalCityPublicCharterSchool,304715thSt.NW.washingtonwalks.com. ■Aparkrangerwillleada“HollywoodontheC&O”walkingtour,featuringvisitstositesfrom“St.Elmo’sFire,”“TheThief,”“Dick”and“TheExorcist.”12:15p.m.Free.C&OCanalNationalHistoricalParkVisitorCenter,1057ThomasJeffersonSt.NW.202-653-5190. ■TheGrossNationalProductcomedygroup’s“ScandalTours”willdebutanupdat-edversionfeaturingnewsites,includingtheCongressionalGymandNewsCorp.’sgovern-mentrelationsoffice.1and3p.m.$35;$30forseniors;$25forstudents.Meetatthe

BenFranklinstatueinfrontoftheOldPostOfficePavilion,1100PennsylvaniaAve.NW.202-783-7212. ■Aparkrangerwillleadages10andolderonatourofFortStevensanddiscusstheactionsinthesummerof1864thatledtoJubalEarly’sraidonWashingtonandthetwobattlesthatstoppedtheConfederatetroops.2p.m.Free.FortStevens,1000QuackenbosSt.NW.202-895-6060.

Sunday,Sept.4

Concerts ■TheweeklySteelDrummerSundaysconcertserieswillfeatureLennardJack.Noonto3p.m.Free.Plaza,TheWashingtonHarbour,3050KSt.NW.202-295-5007. ■PunjabifolksingerSatinderSartaajwillperform.7p.m.$35to$100.LisnerAuditorium,GeorgeWashingtonUniversity,73021stSt.NW.202-397-7328. ■Amasschoirfeaturingapproximately130singersfromacrosstheUnitedStatesandCanadawillperformworksbyWilberg,Goeller,Mozartandothers.7:30p.m.Free.WashingtonNationalCathedral,MassachusettsandWisconsinavenuesNW.202-537-6200. ■TheNationalSymphonyOrchestra’sLaborDayCapitolConcertwillfeatureamusicaltributetoJohnPhilipSousa,DukeElllingtonandChuckBrown.8p.m.Free.WestLawn,U.S.Capitol.202-416-8114.

Films ■“ThisOtherEden:IrelandandFilm”willfeatureMurielBox’s1959film“ThisOtherEden.”2p.m.Free.EastBuildingAuditorium,NationalGalleryofArt,4thStreetandConstitutionAvenueNW.202-737-4215. ■“APolishQuartet:JerzySkolimowskiinthe1960s”willfeaturethedirector’s1965film“Walkover.”4:30p.m.Free.EastBuildingAuditorium,NationalGalleryofArt,4thStreetandConstitutionAvenueNW.202-737-4215.

Performance ■The10thannualPage-to-StageFestivalwillfeatureD.C.’sCommediadell’ArtetheatercompanyFactionofFoolspresentingtheirnewcreation.6p.m.Free.MillenniumStage,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600.

Sporting event ■TheWashingtonMysticswillplaytheConnecticutSun.4p.m.$10to$300.VerizonCenter,601FSt.NW.202-397-7328.

Walks and tours ■Aparkrangerwillleadages8andolderonatourofHerringHill,avibrant19th-centuryAfrican-AmericancommunityintheheartofGeorgetown.10a.m.Free.OldStoneHouse,3051MSt.NW.202-426-6851. ■Aparkrangerwillleada“ToolsoftheTrade”tour,featuringalookatthetoolsusedbyconstructionworkers,laborers,engineers,locktendersandboatmenontheC&OCanal.12:15p.m.Free.C&OCanalNationalHistoricalParkVisitorCenter,1057ThomasJeffersonSt.NW.202-653-5190. ■Aparkrangerwillleadanall-ages“DogDayAfternoon”trektoFortDeRussyandsharestoriesofdogsasfaithfulcompanionsduringtheCivilWar.Dogsonleasharewel-come.2p.m.Free.RockCreekNatureCenter,5200GloverRoadNW.202-895-6070.

Monday,Sept.5

Performance ■The10thannualPage-to-StageFestivalwillfeatureSignatureTheatre’sMusicalTheaterShowcase,withselectionsfrom

world-premieremusicals“TheBoyDetectiveFails”and“TheHollow.”6p.m.Free.MillenniumStage,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600.

Sporting event ■TheWashingtonNationalswillplaythe

LosAngelesDodges.1:05p.m.$5to$350.NationalsPark,1500SouthCapitolSt.SE.888-632-6287.The series will continue Tuesday and Wednesday at 7:05 p.m. and Thursday at 1:05 p.m.

Tuesday,Sept.6

Classes ■CircleYogawillbeginaweeklongpre-viewofitsyogaclasses.7a.m.,10:30a.m.,6p.m.and7:15p.m.Free.CircleYoga,3838NorthamptonSt.NW.202-686-1104.Classes will continue at various times through Sept. 11. ■TeacherandtherapistHeatherFerriswillleadaweeklyyogaclass.Noon.Free.WathaT.Daniel-ShawNeighborhoodLibrary,16307thSt.NW.202-727-1288.

Concerts ■TheHarbourKidsconcertserieswillfea-tureMr.KnickKnack.10:30a.m.tonoon.Free.Plaza,TheWashingtonHarbour,3050KSt.NW.202-295-5007. ■The“Live!onWoodrowWilsonPlaza”serieswillfeatureaconcertbyVibeCollectiveperformingsmoothjazz.Noonto1:30p.m.Free.RonaldReaganBuildingandInternationalTradeCenter,1300PennsylvaniaAve.NW.202-312-1300. ■TheU.S.NavyBand’sCommodores

jazzensemblewillperform.6p.m.Free.MillenniumStage,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600. ■TheGermanEmbassywillpresentaconcertbytheJungeKammerphilharmonieRhein-Neckar.7:30p.m.Free.TheUnitedChurch,1920GSt.NW.202-331-1495.

Demonstration ■VolunteersfromtheAnnapolisQuiltGuildwilldemonstratequilting,piecingandotherquilt-makingtechniques.11a.m.to1p.m.Secondfloor,NationalMuseumofAmericanHistory,14thStreetandConstitutionAvenueNW.202-633-1000.

Discussions and lectures ■LouisaThomaswilldiscussherbook“Conscience:TwoSoldiers,TwoPacifists,OneFamily—ATestofWillandFaithinWorldWarI.”Noon.Free.McGowanTheater,NationalArchivesBuilding,PennsylvaniaAvenuebetween7thand9thstreetsNW.202-357-5000. ■NationalGalleryofArtcuratorialassis-tantMichelleBirdwillinterviewCubanartistCarlosGaraicoa.12:10p.m.Free.EastBuildingSmallAuditorium,NationalGalleryofArt,4thStreetandConstitutionAvenueNW.202-737-4215. ■ArtistPeterWaddellwilldiscussthepaintingsintheexhibit“AnArtistVisitstheWhiteHousePast:ThePaintingsofPeterWaddell.”1:30p.m.Free.WhiteHouseVisitorCenter,1450PennsylvaniaAve.NW.

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Monday, SePTemBer 5■Concert:ALaborDayconcertwillfeatureAnneFeeney(shown),JoeUehleinandtheU-Liners,Emma’sRevolution,LuciMurphy,theDCLaborChorusandtheCharmCityLaborChorus.ProceedswillbenefitFeeney,whowasrecentlydiagnosedwithcan-cer.6to8p.m.Free;$20donationsuggested.CullenRoom,BusboysandPoets,10255thSt.NW.202-387-7638.

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202-737-8292.ThetalkwillrepeatweeklythroughSept.27. ■HishamMatarwilldiscusshisnovel“AnatomyofaDisappearance.”7p.m.Free.PoliticsandProse,5015ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-1919.

Film ■Aseriesofscreeningsbasedon“AFI’s100Years…100Movies”listwillfeatureNo.77—AlanJ.Pakula’s1976film“AllthePresident’sMen,”starringRobertRedfordandDustinHoffman.6p.m.Free.GeorgetownNeighborhoodLibrary,3260RSt.NW.202-727-0232.

meetings ■TheClevelandParkChessClubwillreviewhistoricalgames,studyscenariosandplaychess.3:30p.m.Free.ClevelandParkNeighborhoodLibrary,3310ConnecticutAve.NW.202-282-3080.The group meets every Tuesday. ■RecoveryInternationalwillhostagroupdiscussionforpeoplesufferingfromstress,anxiety,panic,depression,sleepproblems,anger,fearandothermental,nervousoremotionalproblems.7p.m.Free.ChevyChaseCommunityCenter,5601ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-2680. The group meets every Tuesday.

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

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Concerts ■The“Live!onWoodrowWilsonPlaza”serieswillfeatureacon-certbyYahZarahper-formingneo-soul.Noonto1:30p.m.Free.RonaldReaganBuildingandInternationalTradeCenter,1300PennsylvaniaAve.NW.202-312-1300. ■TheHarbourNightsconcertserieswillfeatureHandPaintedSwinger.7to9p.m.Free.Plaza,TheWashingtonHarbour,3050KSt.NW.202-295-5007.

Discussions and lectures ■ArchivistTimothyK.Nenningerwilldis-cuss“WayofDuty,Honor,Country:TheMemoirofCharlesPelotSummerall.”Noon.JeffersonRoom,NationalArchivesBuilding,ConstitutionAvenuebetween7thand9thstreetsNW.202-357-5000. ■JoeAllenwilldiscusshisbook“PeopleWasn’tMadetoBurn:ATrueStoryofHousing,Race,andMurderinChicago.”6:30to8p.m.Free.LangstonRoom,BusboysandPoets,202114thSt.NW.202-387-7638. ■HannesAndroschwilldiscusshisbook“Austria:Past,PresentandFuture.”6:30to8p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.EmbassyofAustria,3524InternationalCourtNW.202-895-6776. ■WashingtonPostreporterDanaPriestwilldiscussherbook“TopSecretAmerica:TheRiseoftheNewAmericanSecurityState.”7p.m.Free.PoliticsandProse,5015ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-1919. ■SusanMcCorkindalewilldiscussherbook“500AcresandNoPlacetoHide:MoreConfessionsofaCounterfeitFarmGirl.”7p.m.Free.Barnes&Noble,3040MSt.NW.

202-965-9880. ■TheFriendsoftheTenley-FriendshipLibrarywillpresentatalkbylocalauthorMarkSteinonhisbook“HowtheStatesGotTheirShapesToo:ThePeopleBehindtheBorderlines.”7p.m.Free.Tenley-FriendshipNeighborhoodLibrary,4450WisconsinAve.NW.202-727-1488.

Film ■ThePanoramaofGreekCinemaserieswillfeatureOlgaMalea’s1999film“TheCow’sOrgasm.”8p.m.$11;$9forstudents;$8.25forseniors;$8forages12andyounger.AvalonTheatre,5612ConnecticutAve.NW.202-966-6000.

Performance ■Themulti-instrumentalduoTheSweaterSetandswingbandShotgunPartywilljoincircusperformersKatieBalloonsandMabJustMabforacircus-themednightofentertainment.8p.m.$10inadvance;$12onthedayoftheshow.Sixth&IHistoricSynagogue,600ISt.NW.800-745-3000.

Tour ■ASmithsonianhorticulturistwillleadatourofthemuseum’s“VictoryGarden”anddiscusssomeoftheplantsthere.1p.m.Free.Welcomedesk,ConstitutionAvenueentrance,NationalMuseumofAmerican

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Children’s program ■Aparkrangerwillleadages3andolderonaDiscoveryHikealongtheWoodlandTrailinsearchofsignsofanimals.4p.m.Free.RockCreekNatureCenter,5200GloverRoadNW.202-895-6070.

Concert ■The“Live!onWoodrowWilsonPlaza”serieswillfeatureacon-certbysaxophonistArtSherrodJr.Noonto1:30p.m.Free.RonaldReaganBuildingandInternationalTradeCenter,1300PennsylvaniaAve.NW.202-312-1300.

Discussions and lectures ■MarvinKalb(shown)andDeborahKalbwilldiscusstheirbook“HauntingLegacy:VietnamandtheAmericanPresidencyFromFordtoObama.”11:30a.m.$30.Woman’sNationalDemocraticClub,1526NewHampshireAve.NW.202-232-7363. ■RayAllen,professorofmusicandAmericanstudiesatBrooklynCollegeandtheCityUniversityofNewYorkGraduateCenter,willdiscuss“NewLostCityRamblersandFolkMusicAuthenticity.”Noon.Free.MaryPickfordTheater,JamesMadisonBuilding,LibraryofCongress,101IndependenceAve.SE.202-707-5510. ■JackW.Curran,presidentofLEDTransformations,willdiscuss“LEDLighting:AClashofCultures.”12:30p.m.Free;reserva-tionsrequired.NationalBuildingMuseum,401FSt.NW.202-272-2448. ■“ReligionandtheAmerican-MuslimCommunityPost-9/11”willfeatureJohnL.Esposito,professoratGeorgetownUniversityandfoundingdirectoroftheAlwaleedBinTalalCenterforMuslim-ChristianUnderstanding;DavidCole,professoroflawatGeorgetownUniversity;LindaMoreno,attorney;ArsalanIftikhar,foundingmanagingeditorofTheCrescentPost;andKarenArmstrong,author.1to4:30p.m.Free;reser-vationsrequired.Fourthfloor,HaririBuilding,GeorgetownUniversity,37thandOstreetsNW.mem297@georgetown.edu. ■NationalPortraitGalleryeducatorMiriamSzubinwilldiscussNancyReagan.6to6:30p.m.Free.NationalPortraitGallery,8thandFstreetsNW.202-633-1000.

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Films ■TheAmericanRepertoireserieswillfeatureJohnHuston’s1941film“TheMalteseFalcon.”6:30p.m.Free.NationalPortraitGallery/SmithsonianAmericanArtMuseum,8thandFstreetsNW.202-633-1000. ■TheCharlesGuggenheimCenterfortheDocumentaryFilmwillpresentthe2010film“LunchLine,”aboutthenationalschoollunchprogram.Apost-screeningdiscussionwillfeatureformerSecretaryofAgricultureDanGlickman,nutri-tionistMargoWootanandfilmmakerMichaelGraziano,amongothers.7p.m.Free.McGowanTheater,NationalArchivesBuilding,PennsylvaniaAvenuebetween7thand9thstreetsNW.202-357-5000.

Performance ■TheLocalDanceCommissioningProjectwillfeature“Hammock,”acollabora-tiveworkthatusesmovement,textandanoriginalsounddesigntoexaminenotionsofrestandrestlessnessintoday’ssociety.6p.m.Free.MillenniumStage,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600.The performance will continue Friday at 6 p.m.

Walks and tours ■Aparkrangerwillleadanall-agesnaturehikeinMontroseParkandpointoutearlysignsofautumn.10a.m.Free.MontrosePark,RStreetbetween30thand31ststreetsNW.202-895-6070. ■Aparkrangerwillleadages8andolderonatouroftheoldesthouseintheDistrict.Noon.Free.OldStoneHouse,3051MSt.NW.202-426-6851.

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“Transformers,” featuring new works by 15 Corcoran College of Art

+ Design alumni who graduated between 2002 and 2010, will open today in Gallery 31, the Corcoran Gallery of Art’s free exhibition space. It will continue through Oct. 2. An opening recep-tion will take place tomorrow from 6 to 8 p.m. at Gallery 31. Gallery 31, located at 500 17th St. NW, is open Wednesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursday until 9 p.m. 202-639-1700. In tandem with the exhibit, Transformer Gallery will simulta-neously mount “trans-formers: the next generation,” an exhibit of new works by five 2011 graduates of the Corcoran.

Transformer Gallery, located at 1404 P St. NW, is open Wednesday through Saturday from 1 to 7 p.m.

202-483-1102.■ “Containment and Diversion,” featuring some 15 mixed-media works on paper by Capitol Hill artist Thomas Burkett, will open tomorrow at Long View Gallery and continue through Oct. 2. The artwork examines high-profile topics in the news.

An opening recep-tion will take place tomorrow from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Located at 1234 9th St. NW, the gallery is

open Wednesday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. 202-232-4788.

■ “Line Literacy,” featuring large-scale works on paper by Ai-Wen Wu Kratz, will open tomorrow in the main hallway on the first floor of the main building of the Georgetown University Hospital.

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Thomas Burkett’s “Trap 2 (Fish Ladder)” is part of an exhibit at Long View gallery.

The Kennedy Center will host its 10th annual Page-to-Stage new-play festival Sept.

3 through 5. More than 40 theaters from the

D.C. area will take part in the cen-ter-wide event, presenting readings and open rehearsals of new plays and musicals. Offerings will include a performance by Signature Theatre of scenes from two world-premiere musicals, “The Hollow” and “The Boy Detective Fails.” Performance times vary. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis, and doors open 30 minutes prior to the start of each event. 202-467-4600; kennedy-center.org.■ Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Sidney Harman Hall will host the Broadway musical “FELA!” Sept. 13 through Oct. 9. Presented by Jay-Z, Will and Jada Pinkett Smith, and Ruth and Stephen Hendel, “FELA!” is the true story of the legendary Nigerian musician Fela Kuti, whose Afrobeat rhythms ignited a generation. Inspired by his mother, a civil rights champion, he defied a cor-rupt and oppressive mili-tary govern-ment and devoted his life and music to the struggle for freedom and dignity. Tony nominee Sahr Ngaujah stars in the title role, which he orig-

inated in the Broadway production. Performance times are 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Tuesday and Wednesday; 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday; and 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Tickets cost $45 to $115. Sidney Harman Hall is located at 610 F St. NW. 202-547-1122; shakespearetheatre.org.■ Theater J will present Deb

Margolin’s “Imagining Madoff” at the Washington DC Jewish Community Center’s Goldman Theater Aug. 31 through Sept. 25.

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Bernard Madoff sets the record straight from his prison cell, recounting an all-night study ses-sion with Solomon Galkin, a

Holocaust survivor, poet and investment client. Performance times generally are 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Wednesday and Thursday; 8 p.m. Saturday; and 3 p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $45, with certain discounts available. The Washington DC Jewish Community Center is located at 1529 16th St. NW. 202-777-3230; theaterj.org. ■ The Longacre Lea theater com-pany is presenting the world pre-miere of Kathleen Akerley’s “Something Past in Front of the Light” at Catholic University’s Callan Theatre through Sept. 4. What would you do if the devil wanted to collaborate with you on a documentary film about himself? Would you fear for your soul, or just your artistic integrity? Performance times are 7:30 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $15 to $18, with discounts for students

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Sidney harman hall will host the Broadway musical “FeLa!” Sept. 13 through Oct. 9.

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Antiq. & Collectibles

Furniture Restoration• Refinishing • Repairs • Painting• Chair Caning & Any Woven Seating• Picture Hanging & Frame Restoration• Experienced w/ Reasonable Rates

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Seat Weaving – All typesCane * Rush * Danish * Wicker

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CHAIR CANING

STEVE YOUNG • 202-966-8810

Carpet Cleaning

Residential and Commercial 301-865-1500

* Carpet cleaning * Tile/ grout cleaning and sealing* Small and large flood clean up* OWNER ON EVERY JOB* Serving the area for over 25 years

CURTIS FIBER CLEANING, INC.

Child Care AvailableNANNY AVAILABLE -Experienced nanny with great reference offering de-pendable child care services. Full time, live out. Please call 301-891-0001.

The Little Red PlayschoolIs accepting 3 year olds for a new 3 day/week program on Tue.,Wed. & Thurs. mornings, 9:30-12:30. Call barbara at 202-537-5192 for more info or www.littleredplayschool.comFacebook: Little Red Playschool

Child Care WantedHIRING PT nanny/housekeeper to care for 4 and 5 yo girls and home in Chevy Chase DC. Hrs 1:15-6:15 Tues-Fri. Must be legal, non-smoker, clean driving record. We supply car. (202) 413-5836.

Child Care WantedWORKING COUPLE with home in Embassy Row neighborhood is seek-ing a meticulous housekeeper for work one full day per week to begin immedi-ately.Impeccable references required. Compensation is negotiable. Please phone 312-622-8010 to arrange an in-terview.

Cleaning Services

Benny’s Cleaning Co., Inc.Residential & Commercial

Weekly/Bi-Weekly - One Time Experienced cleaners, Own trans.Excellent work, Reasonable PricesGood References • Lic. & Insured

703-585-2632 • 703-237-2779

GOOD OLD fashioned housekeeper for an old fashioned price. Good refer-ences, one time, weekly, or bi-weekly. Call 240-351-3548.

HOUSE CLEANING service, weekly, bi-weekly, monthly. Customer satisfac-tion 100%. Excel. Ref’s. Call Solange 240-855-1099.

I CLEAN houses in NW DC. Honest, reliable, hardworking. Please call 202-689-4429 & leave a message.

INDEPENDENT HOUSEKEEPER is looking for general housekeeping Monday through Friday. 240-997-4520

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WONDERFUL HOUSECLEANER is looking to clean houses/ apts. in NW DC. Exp., ref’s, legal. 703-430-5784.

Commercial Space-Rent/Sale

Corner store fron for rentas is.

1,000 suare feet. $2,500/mo.

“Near the new Denny’s.”202-706-0691

Computers

Computer problems solved,control pop-ups & spam,upgrades, tune-up, DSL /Cable modem, network,wireless, virus recovery etc.Friendly service, home or business. Best rates.

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New Computer? iPod?Digital Camera?

NW DC resident with adult training back-ground will teach you to use the Internet, e-mail, Windows, Microsoft Word, nu-merous other programs, or other elec-tronic devices. Help with purchase and setup available. Mac experience. Call Brett Geranen at (202) 486-6189. ComputerTutorDC@gmail.com

Handyman

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HANDYMANDonald Davidson

202-744-3647• Sash Cords, Glass, Wood Rot, Blinds• Doors, Locks, Mail-Slots, Shelves• Decks, Steps, Banisters & Moulding• Carpentry, Tub Caulking & Safety Bars• Furniture Assembly & Art Hanging

23 years experienceRecommended in May ‘03,‘04 ‘05

“Washingtonian Magazine”

Handy Hank ServicesSERVICES:

• Carpentry • Painting Int/Ext• Gutters/Downspouts

• Drywall/Plaster Repairs • Light Rehab – Tile Installation

• Flooring – Wood/Tile

Established 1990Excellent Local References

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Handyman

TToomm WWaassss HHaannddyymmaann SSeerrvviicceeHauling • Cleanouts

Drywall Repairs • Glass Pane repairsCarpentry • Furniture Assembly

Tilework • PaintingPrep Home for Re-saleCall 301-412-0331

Hauling/Trash Removal

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Bulk Trash Pick Up

• Sofas as low as $15.00• Appliances as low as $25.00• Yards, basement & attic clean-up• Monthly contracts available

VeryLow Prices

MMiikkee’’ss HHaauulliinngg SSeerrvviicceeJunk Removal

Commercial and ResidentialServing NW DC Since 1987

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Help Wanted

BOOKKEEPER / CUSTOMER SERVICE position available. Work easily and earn weekly payment; This position is responsible for

maintaining the accounting records of the company and the

integrity of all financial and operational data. It's easy work

for you, Its fun and you will be glad to work.

Send inquiry/resumes to : jw.householdcompany@gmail.com

St. David's Episcopal Churchin NW Washington, D.C., is seeking a part-time Children & Youth Chris-tian Formation Coordinator. Approxi-mately 15 hours per week, including Sunday mornings. Salary: Negotia-ble, depending on experience. Re-sponsible for building and oversee-ing Sunday School, Youth Group, teaching training, and administrative and logistical support. Send resume, cover letter, and three references to

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Housing for Rent (Apts)

AU / Cathedral AreaIdaho Terrace Apts – 3040 Idaho Ave, NW

SSttuuddiiooss:: $$11,,005500--$$11,,225500All utilities included. Sec. Dep. $250

Controlled entry system.Metro bus at front door.

Reserved parking.Office Hours: M-F, 9-5

202-363-6600Vista Management Co.

Housing Wanted

40 YEAR old female physician part-time DC resident wants to rent quiet, private space with private bath such as carriage house or in-law unit, with easy access to Rock Creek park. Would also consider house share with an elder in exchange for cooking or occasional company and outings. Please call. 202-536-2905.

Instruction

Cooking ClassesGlover Park/ Burleith

Simple, delicious, everydayvegetarian cooking.

Eat dinner first, then learn howto make it!

Contact Juliette @healthylivinginc@earthlink.net

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LEARN PIANO In the convenience of your home.

Patient, experiened teacher. Beginners welcome.

202-342-5487

PATIENT PIANO TEACHERHappy to help you have fun begin-

ning or advancing your playing. I en-joy making music with both children and adults. Off-street parking at my

NW teaching studio. (202) 234-1837

Start Eating for Well-Being!• Healthy Cuisine Cooking Classes• Private Cooking Instruction• Personal Health Coaching Nancy@NutritionMattersNow.com

www.NutritionMattersNow.com202-330-3047

TUTOR: Teacher with over 30 years

experience available for grades 2-7. Math, reading, writing, homework

and study skills. Bethesda/DC area.Call 301-312-8846.

VIOLIN LESSONSwith experienced teacher

Masters of Music from Yale U.All ages All levelsLocated near A.U.

Call Rachel @202-342-5487

Landscaping

TERRA VERT GARDEN CAREis now scheduling Fall shrub,perennial and bulb planting,

end-of-season garden clean-up.Your personal,

professional gardener.Call 202 503-8464.

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NANNY AVAIL 7:30 am to 12:30pm.Monday through Friday. Loveschildren, excellent refs. Drives. FluentFrench and English. 240-643-3632.

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• Mid Day Dog Walks• Kitty Visits• In-Home OvernightPet Sitting and otherPet Care Services

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Moving/Hauling

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Parking/StorageLOCAL CONTRACTOR who also lives in the Barnaby Woods area needs a one or two car garage for sim-ple storage of extra equipment. Yearly rent paid in advance. Please leave message for Robert at 301.913.9111.

Personal Services

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Pets

ADOPT “RUSSELL” Fabulous 1-yr. orange/white tabby. suoer sweet, gen-tle, handsome. A real dreamboat! Ote-hers avail + pics. 202-244-0556.

Cat Care Services Providing loving, attentive care for your cat(s) while you are away by doing more than just cleaning the box & filling the bowl.• Over 15 years experience.• Am/pm & weekend visits• Short term & long term. Will also take care of other small in-door pets, water plants & bring in mail. References available upon re-quest. Great rates! Located in The Palisades.

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Dog BoardingSusan Mcconnell’s Loving Pet Care.

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202-966-3061

TWO FEMALE pit bulls (Red Nose), both spayed, house broken, sisters, 3 years old, love people and other dogs. Need a good home. Contact Mariko 202.352.1043.

Pressure Washing

Powerwashing • Neighborhood college student • Decks and Patios • References• Free Estimates

Call 202-329-6006

Professional Services

General office/clerical assistance Flexible hours. Ideally suited for the busy executive working from home.Able to assist with filing, organizing documents, Accounts Payable, or-ganization. etc.Reasonable Rates • Palisades AreaPlease call Ann at 202.352.1235.

Senior CareHIGHLY RECOMMENDED caregiver/companion with decade of experience excellent reference is available for day, night or weekend. Lavern 301-996-1385.

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The exhibit will continue through Sept. 30. Located at 3800 Reservoir Road NW, the building is open daily 24 hours a day. 202-444-2000.■ “Systems at Work,” a permanent exhibit about the workings of the U.S. Postal Service distribution system over the last 200 years, will open tomorrow at the National Postal Museum. Located at 2 Massachusetts Ave. NE, the museum is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. 202-786-2120.■ “Art After Dark,” an art party that includes music, video and per-formance art, will take place tomor-row from 8 p.m. to midnight at the Art Museum of the Americas, 201 18th St. NW. Admission is $25 in advance and $30 at the door. amamuseum.org.■ “War on Terror: The FBI’s New Focus,” a new section of the Newseum’s permanent “G-Men and Journalists” exhibit, will open Friday. Located at 555 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, the museum is open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $21.95 for adults; $17.95 for seniors, military person-nel and students; $12.95 for ages 7 through 18; and free for ages 6 and younger. 888-639-7386.■ “September 11: Remembrance and Reflection,” featuring more than 50 objects from the three sites of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, will open Saturday at the National Museum of American History and continue through Sept.

11. The items will be on display on open tables, without cases. Located at 14th Street and Constitution Avenue NW, the museum is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. 202-633-1000.■ The Freer Gallery of Art will

open two exhibits Saturday in its ongoing “Seasons” series and con-tinue them through March 4. “Seasons: Arts of Japan” pres-ents seasonal Japanese paintings and calligraphy. “Seasons: Tea” highlights exam-ples from the Freer’s collection that show how tea utensils reflect changes in the weather. Located at 12th Street and Jefferson Drive SW, the gallery is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. 202-633-1000.■ “The Bright Beneath: The Luminous Art of Shih Chieh Huang,” featuring works that evoke the bioluminescent creatures of the ocean depths, will open Saturday at the National Museum of Natural History and continue through Dec. 4. Located at 10th Street and Constitution Avenue NW, the museum is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. 202-633-1000.

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Works by Shih Chieh Huang are on display at the National Museum of Natural History.

and seniors. The Callan Theatre is located at 3801 Harewood Road NE. 202-460-2188; longacrelea.org. ■ Shakespeare Theatre Company is presenting “Julius Caesar” through Sept. 4 at Sidney Harman Hall as its 21st annual “Free for All” production. Performance times are 7:30 p.m. Wednesday; 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday; and 2 p.m. Sunday. Free tickets can be reserved through an online ticket lottery the day before each show or picked up at the box office two hours before the performance. Season subscribers and Friends of Free for All members may reserve tickets in advance. Sidney Harman Hall is located at 610 F St. NW. 202-547-1122; shakespearetheatre.org.■ Shakespeare Theatre Company will open its 25th-anniversary sea-son with the world premiere of David Ives’ “The Heir Apparent” Sept. 6 through Oct. 23 at the Lansburgh Theatre. Performance times are 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Sunday; 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday; and 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Tickets cost $39 to $95. The

Lansburgh Theatre is located at 450 7th St. NW. 202-547-1122; shakespearetheatre.org.■ No Rules Theatre Co. will pres-ent Diana Son’s drama “Stop Kiss” Sept. 7 through Oct. 1 at the H Street Playhouse. Performance times generally are Thursday through Saturday at 8 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m. Tickets cost $25. H Street Playhouse is located at 1365 H St. NE. norulestheatre.org.■ Studio Theatre will present the U.S. premiere of Alan Bennett’s comedy “The Habit of Art” Sept. 7 through Oct. 16. Performance times are 8 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday; 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday; and 7 p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $35 to $69. Studio Theatre is located at 1501 14th St. NW. 202-332-3300; studiotheatre.org.■ Arena Stage is offering a sum-mertime run of its hit production of “Oklahoma!” through Oct. 2 in the Fichandler Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater. Performance times generally are 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Sunday; 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday; and 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Ticket prices start at $45, with certain discounts available. The theater is located at 1101 6th St. SW. 202-488-3300; arenastage.org.

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