Georgetowner • February 16, 2012

With Feb. 14 less than 24 hours away, last-minute gifts is on the mind of many. Here are a few places in Georgetown to pick up a gift for that special someone:

Buy a Heart This Valentine’s Day

J. Chocolatier will be offering heart shaped truffles dusted with 24-carat gold. J. Chocolatier is located near Cady’s Alley at 1039 33rd St., N.W.

Make It Last

Looking for something that will leave a lasting impression? Check out the Phoenix, located on 1514 Wisconsin Ave., N.W., which is featuring Lulu Designs. Lulu Designs offers fresh and inspired jewelry infused with the energy of gemstones and metal.

Perhaps a More Traditional Gift?

Ultra Violet is offering a romantic arrangement and box of handcrafted fleurir chocolates for $150. Visit ultravioletflowersdc.com for more information.

Networking Beyond Cupid

For those who like to make it a Valentine’s week, head over to the Georgetown Business Association’s “Heart-to-Heart Networking” event on Wednesday Feb. 15, from 6:30 – 8:30 p.m., at Cafe Milano (Wine Room). Enjoy hors d’oeuvres, compliments of Cafe Milano and wine, compliments of GBA. Event Free for GBA Members and $25 for Non-Members. Please RSVP by Tuesday Feb. 14: rsvp@GtownBusiness.com.

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CPAC was in town, in case you didn’t notice, Thursday through Saturday. That’s the Conservative Political Action Conference to you, buddy. If you happened to live around the area of Calvert and Connecticut walking across the Duke Ellington Bridge to the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel on the hill near the Woodley Park Metro Station within the bluest part of the bluest city in the country, you might feel a little like Dorothy dropped on a Red Oz.

The hotel teemed with conservatives, many of them young people avidly waving banners, signs and placards, in every nook, coffeeshop, bar, room and speaking room. This was the 2012 gathering of the GOP which just by the look and sound of it was turning into the GOCP—the Grand Old Conservative Party.

Sponsored by the American Conservative Union, this gathering of the like-minded and right-minded happens yearly, just as a similar conference of young liberal types was held in this neighborhood last year with Bill Clinton a prominent guest.

But this year was different. The Republicans — that is, in this case, the conservatives — were in a fractious primary battle, with all of the candidates left standing making prominent and critical speeches. This was a party in flux, and just about every word spoken meant something because, well, it seemed the Florida primary had not locked things up for Mitt Romney, after all, and because almost immediately thereafter Rick Santorum won three electoral events in Missouri, Minnesota and, most surprising of all, Colorado, considered a safe bet for Romney.

The electoral dynamics provided a passionate backdrop for the conference, where red meat was the only thing on the menu. The other was President Barack Obama, who did the gathered conservatives a huge favor by igniting a needless furor by proposing that — per his health care plan—religious institutions and affiliates must provide insurance coverage for birth control for their employees. This incensed Catholics like the suddenly resurgent Santorum, the fundamentalist Mike Huckabee and the Mormon Romney, not to mention Newt Gingrich, who declared that Obama had declared war on religion in his must-impress speech late Friday afternoon.

Huckabee, in a speech early in the week, proving perhaps he has been hanging out with John McCain way too much, said “tonight, we are all Catholics,” a heretical notion coming from a man who obviously had never had to go to confession in his youth. “It’s not about contraception, it’s about freedom of religion, its about liberty and we won’t stand for it,” he said with great and impressive indignation.

Romney came into the conference still needing to prove that he is real conservative as opposed to a conservative-for-the-duration-of-the-primary-process. The Tea Party, which had its very own room there, along with a host of other groups including the National Rifle Association, still mistrust him like an old Irishman whose daughter has brought home an Italian for dinner.

So, Romney pulled up his sleeves and tried to do just that, in ways that you often don’t even hear conservatives talk.

Speaking in the main ballroom, Feb. 10, just before 1 p.m., Mitt Romney used the word “conservative” more than 20 times in his address, as in being “a severely conservative governor” in liberal Massachusetts. He was trying to convince the receptive audience as much as he was convincing himself. He noted he is the only candidate who has never worked a day in Washington. Romney’s main target aws President Obama whom he said would be “easy to defeat.” After all, Romney said, “Obama is the poster child for the arrogance of government.”

“We should acknowledge President Obama, the conservative movement’s top recruiter. Turns out, he really is a great community organizer. Although I don’t think we were the community he had in mind. . . . I know this president will never get it, but we conservatives aren’t just proud to cling to our guns and to our religion. We are also proud to cling to our constitution.”

“The Obama presidency as the last gasp of liberalism’s great failure and a turning point for a new conservative era,” Romney continued. But it’s not enough to show how they have failed. We must prove we deserve to lead. ” He then listed how his leadership would save America. And, as with the other candidates, he said his first act as president would be to “eliminate Obamacare.”

Which, lest we forget, was once Romney Care. There might come a day that Romney will disavow ever having been a Massachusetts governor, if this race drags on. He might cheerfully, given his bank account, renounce being a Mormon.

While Romney got a very good reception and did win the CPAC straw poll (just barely beating Rick Santorum), a lot of the attendees said they want to believe that he is sincere but are not yet convinced. That surely includes Rick Santorum, who Sunday suggested that there might have been some cheating going on in the straw poll.

And that surely included Gingrich, who, introduced by his dazzling wife Callista (who he said would be taking on a much more active role in the campaign) and a thunderously martial music, promised to eliminate Obamacare—first thing—the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy on his first day in office or thereabouts. “What are our differences? We are either a country of food stamps or paychecks and I know what we prefer,” he said.

He said he would also set up American shop in Jerusalem by putting our embassy there, a sure-fire way to reassure Israel — maybe — and win the hearts and minds of Palestinians everywhere.

He declared his anti-establishment credentials — a rebel, he — and hinted that that Washington establishment he was fighting against was made up of some Republicans as well.

Yet the infighting and the negative campaigning that had characterized the whiplash primary process for the GOP was muted here. Obama always provides a better target when more than one conservative are together in the same room, let alone a hotel full of them.

Not when you’ve got Sarah herself in the house.

All sorts of conservative stalwarts were everywhere — Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), Herman “9-9-9” Cain, whose candidacy is still on hold, actor Kirk Cameron, the right-wing blonde acid queens of the media Laura Ingraham and Ann Coulter, former UN Ambassador John Bolton, Michele Bachmann, Andrew Breitbart and former Georgetowner columnist Grover Norquist.

Norquist, president of American for Tax Reform, gave a terse, pep-rally speech on specifics and numbers needed for conservatives (aka the GOP?) to take over the Senate and the White House. “The Left is made up of competing parasites,” said the tax-pledge lobbyist as he explained that the agenda was set and all that was needed was the pen (President Romney’s?) to sign the legislation.

But nobody does it better than Palin, whose propensity for red meat rhetoric has no equal now that Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) will be retiring.

The woman herself walked onto the main ballroom stage, and the crowd went nuts. Not surprisingly, Sarah Palin can fire them up and shot off her typical verbal missiles: “Not just red America or blue America, but red-white-and-blue America . . . and Obama we are through with you.” “Hope and change? You better hope things change.” “He mucked it up.” “Win the future? W-T-F . . . I know,” she gladly sneered.

A few minutes into Palin’s speech, about eight protestors with the Occupy protestors yelled, “Mic check!” This is a so-called phrase for Occupy hecklers. The group was surrounded in seconds and whisked out of the ballroom. Upon hearing the noise, the audience thundered, “U.S.A.! U.S.A.!,” as if they’d just beaten the Russians in hockey.

Palin continued on her roll. The Washington swamp should be declared a wetlands, she said. Thus, the EPA would slow its growth. “D.C.’s crony capitalism is the root of the problem,” she said and imagined — perhaps rightly — that the Washington cesspool is a tempting hot tub for politicians, serving and retired. “Drain the jacuzzi,” said Palin, as she ended her speech, which happened to be on her birthday, Feb. 11.

It appears that we haven’t heard the last of Mama Grizzly.

Or anybody else.

Outside, a woman with a Santorium poster saw a group of Washington Stage Guild members wave placards and shout, “We are the 99 percent.”

“That’s me, too, “ the woman said. Makes you almost think we’re not that far apart.

Not.
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Georgetowner • February 13, 2012

The District Department of Transportation (DDOT) announced motorists will encounter single lane conditions and traffic stoppages along segments of Canal Road between Foxhall Road and Arizona Avenue in northwest Washington starting this Friday.

Flagger-controlled alternating lane closures and five-minute traffic stoppages will be in effect between 10:30 am and 2 pm on Friday, February 4 and between 7 am and 7 pm on Saturday, February 5, weather permitting, to allow crews to resurface the roadway.

Motorists are advised to use an alternate route or add extra time for travel to avoid delays.

Temporary signs and traffic control measures will be in place to alert and guide the traveling public through this area.

For additional traffic advisories please visit DDOT’s Traffic Alerts page or visit GODCGO.com for more information on transportation options in the District

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Shakespeare’s Sisters: Voices of English and European Women Writers, 1500- 1700

FEBRUARY 3RD, 2012 AT 10:00 AM | FREE | BEMELSON@FOLGER.EDU | TEL: (202) 675- 0342 | EVENT WEBSITE

Virginia Woolf famously evoked “Shakespeare’s sister” in A Room of One’s Own as she tried to imagine the difficulties women writers faced during the early modern period. In fact, Woolf was not aware of how many women actually were writing during that time, because many of their works were never published, and those that were, lay in relative critical neglect. This exhibition explores those women who were, in fact, writing during Shakespeare’s time.

February 3- May 20

Address

201 East Capitol Street SE

Washington, DC

20003

LOVE Show Reception

FEBRUARY 4TH, 2012 AT 06:00 PM

Celebrate that ultimate feeling between two people with the LOVE Show (poems, paintings and music)

Address

Mark Cottman Gallery

1014 S. Charles St

Baltimore, MD 21230

Fashion Takes Flight

FEBRUARY 4TH, 2012 AT 07:00 PM | $85 | EVENT WEBSITE

A ticket to this event includes cocktails, gourmet hors d’oeuvres, access to a fashion show with models and military service men and women sporting the District’s freshest new talent, a silent auction and an invitiation to the exclusive after-party at Lincoln. Come together to support an organization, Luke’s Wings, that aims to assist the families of those who serve.

Address

Washington Nationals Park

1500 South Capitol Street SE

Smithsonian at Little Washington

FEBRUARY 4TH, 2012 AT 08:00 PM | 10$-25$

Pièces de clavecin en concerts by Jean-Philippe Rameau, played by the Smithsonian Chamber Players. Rameau, the great French composer of the Baroque era, composed this music in 1741. This concert gives Theatre audiences the opportunity to hear some of the same concerts which are performed at the Smithsonian’s American History Museum on the Mall in Washington, D.C.

Address

The Theatre

291 Gay Street

Washington

VA 22747

Women On Stage: A Conversation about Susanna Centlivre

FEBRUARY 5TH, 2012 AT 02:00 PM | FREE | RESERVATIONS@NMWA.ORG | TEL: (202) 783- 5000

In conjunction with Folger Theatre’s production of Susanna Centlivre’s The Gaming Table, director Eleanor Holdridge, head of the MFA Directing program at Catholic University of America and Georgianna Ziegler, the Folger’s Head of Reference, discuss the 18th- century playwright’s theatrical legacy.

Address

National Museum of Women in the Arts

1250 New York Avenue NW

Washington DC

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Appalachian Spring Gift Wrap for Charity

February 10th, 2012 at 10:00 AM | info@appalachianspring.com | Tel: 202-337-5780 | Event Website

Appalachian Spring in Georgetown will be offering gift wrap of your Appalachian Spring Valentine’s Day purchases with a donation to Bread for the City from February 10-14. During store hours.

Bread for the City offers low-income residents of Washington, DC: food and clothing, primary medical care, legal advice and representation, and comprehensive social services.

Address

Appalachian Spring

1415 Wisconsin Ave

Washington, DC 20007

Spy at Night

February 10th, 2012 at 06:00 PM | 14.95-27.95 | vsmanagers@spymuseum.org | Tel: 202.393.7798 | Event Website

Next month, D.C.’s most mysterious museum debuts its revamped Spy at Night experience, providing area residents exclusive, after-hours access to its permanent collection and an evening full of intrigue, deception and cocktails. The first in the re-launched series is a James Bond-themed occasion on Friday, February 10, with future events occurring the second Friday of every month.

Address

International Spy Museum

800 F Street, NW

Washington, D.C.

Gallery Place/Chinatown Metrorail Station

Film Screening: HAPPY

February 11th, 2012 at 11:00 AM | $6.00

The film HAPPY is the latest from Academy Award-nominated director, Roko Belic, and is launching discussion about the state of our nation’s ‘happiness’ level in comparison with other countries, including Japan, Bhutan and Denmark. The film won the Audience Choice Award at the Arizona International Film Festival, the Best Feature Film Award at the Costa Rica International Film Festival, and numerous other similar awards.

Address

AMC Loews Georgetown 14

3111 K Street N.W.

Washington, DC 20007

One City Summit

February 11th, 2012 at 09:30 AM | Event Website

Join Mayor Gray at the One City Summit, “Let Your Voice Be Heard” to help the District become a more livable, vibrant and inclusive city for everyone.

Address

Washington Convention Center

801 Mount Vernon Place, NW

Washington, DC 20001

Woo at the Zoo

February 14th, 2012 at 04:30 PM | $11-$22 | Event Website

Woo at the Zoo, a fun-filled event for both singles, and couples, where they can learn about animal mating, dating and reproductive habits in a humorous way.

Address

Smithsonian National Zoo

Georgetowner • February 8, 2012

More at Shakespeare Theatre Company
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The Shakespeare Theatre Company continues its Bard’s Broadway series Jan. 27 – 29 at Sidney Harman Hall with a concert version of the Tony Award-winning musical ‘Two Gentlemen of Verona,’ subtitled a rock opera. Created by noted playwright John Guare, along with Galt MacDermot (of ‘Hair’ fame) and Mel Shapiro. Amanda Dehnert is directing with choreography by Terence Archie and a cast that includes Robin de Jesus, Javier Munoz, Danny Rutigliano and DC star Eleasha Gamble.

If that weren’t enough for a busy time, there’s the third installment of the STC’s and artistic director Michael Kahn’s Classic Conversations with noted theater and film actor James Earl Jones this Thursday at Sidney Harman Hall. Classic Conversations with Michael Kahn is a series of discussions with classically trained actors presented as part of the group’s 25th Anniversary Season and has already featured Patrick Stewart and Kevin Kline. Jones became a big star with his starring role in both the theatrical and film version of “The Great White Hope” and has been a powerful presence in the performing arts in America ever since.

For more information visit ShakespeareTheatre.org

‘Red’ and ‘Elephant Room’ at Arena Stage
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One of the more anticipated productions in Washington theatre is the mounting of ‘Red,’ the Tony-Award winning play by John Logan, which focuses on the brilliant, troubled American artist Mark Rothko at the height of his career, engaged in executing a monumental commission of paintings for the Four Seasons restaurant in New York.

The play was a big hit on Broadway, and now features Ed Gero, a four-time Helen Hayes Award winner who keeps getting bigger and better with age, as Rothko, and Patrick Andrews as Ken, a fictional assistant of Rothko’s who challenges the great artist. It is a battle of wills—not just Rothko VS a changing art world, but also the famous bouts of Rothko VS Rothko.

The production, which opens Jan. 20 and runs through March 4 in Arena’s Kreeger Theater, is much anticipated and has already engendered a weeklong extension. It’s directed by Robert Falls, the artistic director of the famed Goodman Theater in Chicago.

Not so famous, and quite a change of pace is ‘Elephant Room,’ which features magicians and semi-pro conjurers Dennis Diamond, Daryl Hannah and Louie Magic. (A magician named Magic, which should bode well). It’s coming to Arena’s Kogod Cradle Theater Jan. 20 – Feb. 26.

Billed as an absurdist magic show, ‘Elephant Room’ comes from the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival. What’s it all about? The press description goes like this:

“Combine the glory of a Styx reunion tour with the transcendental power of a 200-year-old Zuni shaman and add a dash of trailer park ennui, and you come close to describing the mystical pull of ‘Elephant Room.’”

I can get down with that.

For more information visit ArenaStage.org

Holly Twyford and Donald Margulies’ ‘Time Stands Still’ at Studio
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Holly Twyford, one of Washington’s most gifted actresses, stars as a globetrotting photojournalist who returns home from the wars in Iraq after being injured. At home the journalist, still missing the heat and thrill of covering a war, must choose between a real life and a professional one. Also featured are Laura C. Harris, Dan Illian and Greg McFadden. Susan Fenichell directs.

‘Time Stands Still’ is written by Donald Margulies and will run at the Studio Theatre.

For more information visit StudioTheatre.org

Scena, Carrie Waters, Brian Frield, Henrik Ibsen and Hedda Gabbler
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That’s the mix as Scena Theatre Artistic Director Robert McNamara directs noted Irish Playwright Brian Friel’s translation of Ibsen’s ‘Hedda Gabbler,’ featuring one of the most challenging roles for an actress ever written.
Carrie Waters, a long-time veteran of Washington, and a mightily underrated talent, is likely to handle the challenge with great power if her track record in such productions as ‘Happy Days’ and ‘The Persians’ are any indication.

Also starring are Eric Lucas (Waters’ husband), Rena Cherry Brown and Danielle Davy.

‘Hedda Gabler’ runs Jan. 12 – Jan. 29 at the H Street Playhouse at 1365 H Street, NE.

For more information visit HStreetPlayhouse.com

Lincoln and Douglass Meet at Ford’s Theatre
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Continuing its successful exploration of theater about Abraham Lincoln, Ford’s Theatre will present ‘Necessary Sacrifices,’ by Richard Hellesen, about the two documented encounters between Lincoln and the great African American abolitionist Frederick Douglass in the middle years of the Civil War.

‘Necessary Sacrifices,’ in which Douglass challenges Lincoln’s views on slavery and African Americans, will once again feature David Selby as Lincoln, a role he performed with astonishing power in Ford’s production of ‘The Heavens Are Hung in Black,’ a play about Lincoln’s White House years. David Emerson Toney stars as Douglass and Jennifer Nelson directs.

‘Necessary Sacrifices’ coincides with Ford’s opening of its Center for Education and Leadership, which will explore the lasting effect Lincoln’s presidency has had on our country. The show will run Jan. 20 – Feb. 12.

For more information visit FordsTheatre.org

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Citizens Council Meets With Police, Jan. 25

The monthly Citizens Advisory Council will meet Jan. 25, 7 p.m. at the Second District Metropolitan Police Department station at 3320 Idaho Avenue, N.W. — 202-715-7300. One of the goals of the Citizens Advisory Council is to offer a venue that encourages community participation in public safety issues by a unique partnership with the MPD’s Second District.

Co-chaired by Commander Michael Reese of MPD’s Second District, the meeting will include discussion of crime trends and police priorities in combating crime. There will be Officers of the Month awards by Reese selects with a presentation describing awardees’ accomplishments.

CAC’s board includes Trena Carrington, an assistant United States Attorney, assigned to the Second District. She will discuss recent crimes and prosecutions and answers questions.

“One area where we can make an impact is partnering with the newly established Community Courts,” Chair of the CAC, George Corey writes. “Our last meeting with the senior Judges of the Community Courts was the best attended event we had hosted. We would also be at the ground floor and could make a real contribution.”

Corey and his group want to get the word on their efforts. “Our speakers in the past year included well attended presentations on Internet Safety for Children and MPD and DEA coordination,” Corey writes. “We urge you to join us [Jan. 25] to discuss our participation in vital public safety issues in our community.”

For more information, contact [George S. Corey](mailto:coreygeorges@ymail.com), Citizens Advisory Council for the Police Second District.

Visions of Georgetown: CAG Presents Georgetown ARTS 2012 — Submission Deadline: Jan. 24

The Citizens Association of Georgetown is seeking Georgetown-based artists to participate in a show of artwork at the House of Sweden from Feb. 16 to 20. Hurry. Here are the details:

= The show is open to artists who either are current residents of Georgetown or who have studios in Georgetown.

= The show runs Feb. 16 through Feb. 20 with a Feb. 16 reception, 6 to 9 p.m.

= Work may be for sale or for display only, as the artist wishes. CAG will process sales and pay artists at the end of the sale. CAG takes no commission on sales.

= Artists pay a $50 entry fee to CAG to defray the cost of the show. In addition, each participating artist must complete a 3-hour volunteer shift during the show.

= The show is open to artists working in the following media: painting, photography, sculpture, prints, 2D and 3D mixed media. We cannot accept jewelry or anything requiring electricity. Pieces accepted into the show should be of a suitable nature to be viewed by families with children.

= There is no jury. Entry is first-come, first-served. Please get your application and payment in promptly to secure your space in the show.

= Artists may submit up to four pieces for inclusion in the show. The final number displayed will depend on space available. (Maximum size per piece is 48″ in the largest dimension.) All 2D work must be properly framed and wired for hanging, or it will not be accepted.

= CAG will advise you the exact time to deliver your work to the show site at The House of Sweden.

= Check with CAG and submit three jpegs of your artwork to [cagmail@cagtown.org](mailto:cagmail@cagtown.org) — Citizens Association of Georgetown, 1365 Wisconsin Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20007 — 202-337-7313

‘Children of Uganda’ at G.U.’s Gonda Theater, Jan. 26

Hailed as “first rate” and “inspiring” by The New York Times, “Children of Uganda” returns to the D.C. area at the end of January for the 2012 Tour of Light, to share the rich culture of East Africa through song and dance. The dance troupe’s goal is to raise funds to provide shelter, education and a bright future for children orphaned by AIDS.

Performances range from the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage to Georgetown University’s Davis Performing Arts Center Gonda Theatre, where the group will perform on Thursday, Jan. 26 at 7:30 p.m. All ticket proceeds and donations will benefit Children of Uganda.

[Children of Uganda](http://childrenofuganda.org/), a U.S. nonprofit that supports and educates several hundred children in Uganda, is sponsoring the 2012 Tour of Light, and bringing 20 talented young performers to America to showcase their culture, and share the stories of so many children in Uganda who, like them, have been orphaned by the AIDS pandemic.

For more information on the D.C. (and other city) performance schedule, please go to the tour blog: [touroflight.blogspot.com](http://touroflight.blogspot.com/p/tour-schedule.html), or call Patricia Davies at 202-337-0991.

‘Lost Washington, D.C.’ at Dumbarton House, Feb. 9, Focuses on Lost Home of Francis Scott Key

Feb. 9, 6 p.m. — lecture and booking signing: “LOST Washington, D.C.,” by author John DeFerrari. Free. Meet and listen to author John DeFerrari discuss his recently published book “LOST Washington, D.C.,” based on his blog, [the Streets of Washington](http://www.streetsofwashington.com/). DeFerrari will also talk specifically about one of the stories in his book — the Key Mansion in Georgetown, home of Francis Scott Key. For additional information, contact [Programs@DumbartonHouse.org](mailto:Programs@DumbartonHouse.org), or 202-337-2288 — Dumbarton House, 2715 Q St., N.W.

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Winter Contemporary Show Opening Reception

January 27th, 2012 at 05:00 PM | Free | info@oldprintgallery.com | Tel: (202) 965-1818 | Event Website

A nighttime reception, celebrating the opening of our Winter Contemporary Show. Over twenty different artists, who use printmaking as their primary medium for artistic expression, were selected for this show. The prints chosen resonate with skill and intention, and reflect the current eclecticism of contemporary printmaking. Highlights include prints by Bruce Waldman, Matt Phillips, Takamune Ishiguro, and local artists Jenny Freestone and Nikolas Schiller. Free admission and wine.

Address

1220 31st Street NW

Washington, DC 20001

Weschler’s Capital Collections Estate Auction

January 28th, 2012 at 10:00 AM | Event Website

The auction combines American and European furniture and decorations, Asian works of art, jewelry, coins & watches, fine art and 20th century decorative arts. The auction will also showcase a 3.30 carat oval diamond ring, an oil canvas by Wolf Kahn and a selection of Napolean III ormulu-mounted furnishings with estimates ranging from $500-$6,000.

Address

Weschler’s

909 E Street NW

Georgetown Safeway & DC Fire and EMS Present Wellness and Safety Fair

January 28th, 2012 at 10:00- 4:00 PM | FREE | Event Website

Community Wellness and Safety Fair, with an array of educational, fun and even life-saving activities for all ages, including:

Child Seat Safety Inspections and Installations

Stop, Drop and Roll Demonstration (fun for young children, but beneficial too)

CPR and AED Demonstrations

Blood Pressure and Glucose Screenings

Fire Extinguisher Simulation (learn to use one properly)

Smoke Alarm Registration

Jeanne Robertson “Looking for Humor”

January 28th, 2012 at 08:00 PM | $34.50 | Tel: (202) 994-6800 | Event Website

Humorist Jeanne Robertson, known for her family friendly and engaging brand of comedy, will be stopping at The George Washington University Lisner Auditorium on Sat. Jan 28, 2012 at 8:00PM as part of her multi-city “Looking for Humor” solo tour. This 68-year-old former Miss North Carolina stands tall at 6’2″ and has a personality, heart and sense of humor just as soaring.

Address

730 21st Street, NW,

Washington, DC 20052

A Free Ride for the Community

January 29th, 2012 at 12:00 PM | FREE | clarendon@revolvefitness.com | Tel: (703) 567-4516 | Event Website

Revolve is thrilled to announce their first ever Community Ride. The new Clarendon-based specialized indoor cycling studio created the special class to help Revolve’s neighbors get to know them better and see what all of the buzz is about. This Community Ride will last an extra 15 minutes and be taught by TWO instructors instead of one! Christianne and Francina will lead a Complete Body Ride, an all-encompassing class that combines cycling with upper body weight training.

Address

Revolve

1025 N. Fillmore Street

Arlington, VA 22201

McLean Rotary Chocolate Festival

January 29th, 2012 at 12:00 PM | $1 | Event Website

Come out for McLean Rotary’s 1st annual chocolate festival with everything and anything chocolate. Vendors will be selling local area chocolatiers’ specialties and 25% of all proceeds will go towards local community organizations.

Address

McLean Community Center

1234 Ingleside Ave

McLean, VA 22101

The Gaming Table

January 30th, 2012 at 07:30 PM | $30-$65 | bemelson@folger.edu | Tel: (202) 544-4600 | Event Website

Whimsy, wit, and wordplay sparkle in this effervescent comedy by Susanna Centlivre, one of 18th- century London’s most popular playwrights. An independent-minded widow with a penchant for gambling holds a nightly card game — teeming with revelers and rakes — which bankrupts some and entertains all. The opening night is Monday, January 30 and plays through March 4, 2012.

Address

Folger Theatre

201 East Capitol Street SE

Washington, DC 20003

Georgetowner • February 7, 2012

ANC Report: Full House on DCFEMS, DCRA, Pepco, Food Trucks and Evermay.

Got all that? In an especially full and varied meeting Jan, 30, Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E tackled a packed line-up:

**Fire & EMS**

Chief Kenneth Ellerbe, of D.C. Fire & Emergency Medical Services, fresh with his department’s safety and health demonstrations at the Georgetown Safeway Jan. 28, addressed the meeting and stressed the role of firefighters who are also paramedics and emergency responders.?Ellerbe’s insistence on the use of the full name?and not just “DCFD” (the chief ordered uniforms and t-shirts must show the full acronym, DCFEMS)? has some firemen and members of the union bothered. But the chief continues to talk about the department’s “soft presence on the streets” and the 161,000 calls in 2011: 130,000 were medical, and only 500 were real house fires. Ellerbe also said the department had gotten 25 new ambulances and defended the newly proposed firefighters’ working hours of?12 hours on, 12 off.

**Building Collapse Still Unknown**

Nicholas Majett, director of the D.C. Department of Regulatory and Consumer Affairs, talked about how the agency “touches everyone,” and then dealt with the partial collapse of the building at 1424 Wisconsin Ave., N.W., as well as regulations on the newly popular food trucks around the city. The partial collapse happening Thanksgiving Day, and there is a stop-work order on the site. The owner must hire a structural engineer to determine the cause?a possible conflict of interest that commissioners found troubling and said so to DCRA’s Bill Davidson and his boss. Citing a construction collapse of a Wisconsin Avenue building ten years ago, which was owned by the same businessman and about one block to the south, commissioner Bill Starrels recalled, “The owner has a history as a bad actor.” Owner Robert Solomon of the 1422 Wisconsin Ave. building complained about a window being bricked up. The cause of the collapse remains undetermined, and DCRA needs to know if it is to issue a permit for rebuilding at the site, which was slated to became a Z-Burger eatery.

**Where Food Trucks May Park**

As for food trucks, the commissioners voted to ask that they not park on residential streets. Current law allows them to park in any legal spot.?

**Evermay to House S&R Foundation**

Evermay’s zoning variance request was approved in a most collegial manner. Evermay LLC requested that the S&R Foundation, headed by the property’s new owners, biotech business partners and spouses Ryuji Ueno and Sachiko Kuno, be allowed to operate from the estate at R and 28th Streets with strict restrictions on frequency of events and number of employees. The foundation’s mission encourages musical and scientific excellence while it promotes American and Japanese ties and studies responses to disasters, such as tsunamis or earthquakes. S&R Foundation attorney Alice Gregg Haase listed the restrictions, which include parking all cars on Evermay’s land, no outdoor amplified music, no more than 100 persons on regular events and more. The ANC voted to review the approval after five years, not seven as was requested by the foundation. “This is the way it should work,” said ANC chair Ron Lewis. The zoning commission will make its final decision at the end of this month.

**Hey, Be Alert: Lock It**

The monthly police report by Metropolitan Police Department officer Kathryn Fitzgerald stated the obvious: lock your doors and secure your items. One business cash register was robbed when employees left keys in the register; another left its business office doors unlocked and was robbed. (The perps were caught.) As for iPhone thefts, need we say more?

**Better Wiring in the Hood**

Pepco officials were also at the meeting to discuss outages and how the utility is switching neighborhoods to different electrical grids, such as Hillandale, and upgrading lines as well?all to improve service in Burleith.

**Hang On, O and P**

For the O and P Street Project: the 3400 block of P Street should be complete now.? Check [FixingOandPStreets.com](http://www.fixingoandpstreets.com) for updates, such as a utilities turn-off next week.

Quick question: Who said the following? “Rocky’s Report should be taken with a grain of salt.” It was ANC chair Ron Lewis speaking of Georgetown University’s more personable approach to campus crime reporting.? More quotes this and next week on the zoning commission’s decision?expected momentarily?on the university’s 2010-2020 campus plan.