Farmers Market to Open June 5 at Former Neams-Marvelous Market Property
• May 25, 2016

Georgetown is set to welcome a summer farmers market at a corner that could use some life. The small parking lot at Wisconsin Avenue and P Street NW, part of the former Neams and Marvelous Market property, will offer produce and other items from Licking Creek Bend Farm of Needmore, Pennsylvania, beginning June 5.

Across from Thomas Sweet ice cream parlor, the property at the corner of Wisconsin Avenue and P Street housed the famed Neams Market for decades until 2000, when Marvelous Market opened at the spot and then closed in April 2014.

The incoming market will provide the community with healthy, naturally grown produce from a 60-acre farm tucked away in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains.

Michael Tabor and Esther Siegel, husband and wife operators of the organic farm, are no strangers to the D.C. farmers’ market scene. Their fresh produce has been sold at the Adams Morgan Farmers Market every summer since the mid-1970s.

The outdoor market will be at 3217 P Street, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., every Sunday, regardless of the weather, selling non-GMO fruit and vegetables, grown without chemical pesticides, picked just the day before.

Sivan Properties, Inc., purchased the property in 2015 from the Neam family.

‘Ireland 100’ Begins at the Kennedy Center
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The legendary Irish actress Fiona Shaw, acting as both director and long-gowned host of the opening night of the Kennedy Center festival “Ireland 100: Celebrating a Century of Irish Arts and Culture” at the Concert Hall, referred often to the contrasting fact that Irish culture, while it has the energy and variety of the modern, is rooted in ancient traditions.

There were lots of opportunities during the course of the evening — which amounted to a rapid presentation of highlights of the festival, something like a tasting menu — to see that premise in action. The festival itself was full of contemporary artists (visual, performing, music, theatrics, dancing) reaching backwards while making art for the here and now to echo in the future.

Lots of folks were there wearing green of one sort or another — shoes, jackets, shirts and ties and the odd bow tie — to acknowledge their roots, one supposes, this town being a pretty good celebrator of Irish drink, music and theater on a day-to-day basis. The guys at the security passages were not wearing green, and neither was the German shepherd, a working dog also on hand for security reasons.

All this bustling and checking and shuffling, on account of the presence of Vice President Joe Biden (with Finnegan family roots) and Enda Kenny, the Prime Minister of Ireland or Taoiseach, got things off a little slowly. Kenny proved to be a full-throated champion of Irish culture, which he said was spurred by a gift “for living in the moment,” not in the past and not yet in the future. Kenny noted the omnipresence of technology in modern life, how phones and screens become the center of attention, with owners seeking authenticity in a small frame, to the blissful disregard of everything around them. “I think you’ll find that what we have to offer is about right now, right this minute, in music, in dancing, in the arts and our culture.”

Shaw, always an imposing and often unforgettable presence on stage, trod lightly as a hostess, as did the program; there was not a lot of time for lingering, or malingering, for that matter. We got the essence of the here and now, and the now that was then, and the ancient past. Nothing seemed more characteristic and less familiar at the same time as the playing of a medley of songs on the traditional Irish Pipes, the Uilleann, different than most instruments because it is played through the elbows. The music — led by Amy Campbell, who is blind — was keening, rhythmic and strange; it sounded like something that was just born. Just as dramatic, and clear as a tear-given voice, was a saga of traditional Irish singing by a man with the wonderfully resonant name of Iarla O Lionaird.

There was a pianist, Barry Douglas, playing a nocturne; there was the Irish dancer Colin Dunne, who charged down the aisle clog-dancing with precise, even marshaled steps; there was an Irish tenor, Anthony Kearns, singing “Down by the Salley Gardens”; there was an Irish mezzo-soprano, Tara Erraught, singing with great and coquettish vitality from “Falstaff”; and there was a fiddler (there is always a fiddler in Irish celebrations).

And there was Shaw herself, reciting William Butler Yeats’s great poem “Easter, 1916,” when things were “utterly changed … transformed utterly,” “a terrible beauty is born.”

Yeats sounded the telling literary note about the Easter Rising in Ireland. It is part of “Ireland 100,” the celebration and commemoration of those events that led to years of division, defiance and the Troubles, even as Ireland transformed once again.

Part of the celebration — its site at the Kennedy Center — is of course the Irish-American relationship, and the president who embodied that culture and history, who in 1963 visited his homeland and spoke to the parliament there and quoted George Bernard Shaw, another literary giant in a land which seems unduly rich in them: “I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?’”

Weekend Round Up May 19, 2016
• May 23, 2016

Tot Rock with the Pop Ups
MAY 20TH, 2016 AT 10:15 AM | $6 ($3 FOR CHILDREN UNDER 2, $8 FOR ADULTS) | TEL: 202-633-8700 | EVENT WEBSITE

The Smithsonian Associates present this California musical duo who mix puppets, flashy dances, huge collages, a talking banana, drawing, surprise costume changes and giant beach balls into their act. Suggested for children ages 2 to 6. Shows at 10:15 and 11:30.

Smithsonian Discovery Theater, 1100 Jefferson Dr. SW

Padua Finishing School: Weaving for Beginners
MAY 20TH, 2016 AT 05:30 PM | $45 | TEL: 202-547-1122 | EVENT WEBSITE

Participants will learn the ins-and-outs of weaving from Linny Giffin of the Lemon Bowl, including the basics of setting up the loom, beginner stitches and how to finish a weaving so that it’s ready for display.

Sidney Harman Hall, 610 F St. NW

New Ambassador Reception: Bosnia and Herzegovina
MAY 20TH, 2016 AT 07:00 PM | $50 | TEL: 301-510-8939 | EVENT WEBSITE

A country whose history was war torn throughout the late 20th century is now a symbol of peace, progress and beauty and a close friend of the United States. The embassy invites young professionals to step onto foreign soil to sample a country rich in culture and history. The event includes native food, open bar, music, film, a unique rare art display and a meet and greet with the ambassador.

Embassy of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2109 E St. NW

DC Dragon Boat Festival
MAY 21ST, 2016 AT 08:30 AM | FREE | THALIALIN1129@GMAIL.COM | TEL: 2028951852 | EVENT WEBSITE

The 2016 Dragon Boat Festival is celebrating its 15th anniversary on May 21 and 22. This two-day annual festival is open to the public and features cultural exhibitions, craft demonstrations and live performances as well as breathtaking dragon boat racing on the Potomac River. Fifty teams comprising more than 1,500 paddlers from up and down the east coast will be fiercely competing for trophies. Renowned local dance troupes and artists will perform lion-dancing, martial arts, etc.

Thompson Boat Center, 2900 Virginia Ave. NW

Strut Your Mutt Dog Parade and Festival
MAY 21ST, 2016 AT 10:00 AM | $30.00 PER DOG | TEL: 240-447-4068 | EVENT WEBSITE

The Bethesda Chevy Chase Rotary Club in partnership with DC Actors for Animals presents the 11th annual Strut Your Mutt Dog Parade and Festival, a fundraiser for its charity foundation. The event begins at 10 a.m. and ends at 3 p.m. The dog parade will start at 10:45 a.m., followed by owner/dog contests and live music, as well as over 30 dog-related exhibitors, animal rescue groups and a kiddie area with moonbounces and games.

Downtown Bethesda at Woodmont Ave. and Bethesda Ave.

Ladies First
MAY 21ST, 2016 AT 05:00 PM | Free | GALLERIESNEPTUNEBROWN@GMAIL.COM | TEL: 2029861200 | EVENT WEBSITE

Gallery Neptune & Brown is pleased to host an opening reception for “Ladies First,” a group exhibition of outstanding professional women working today in various media. The exhibition will include works by Carol Barsha, Raya Bodnarchuk, Cianne Fragione, Emily Francisco, Janis Goodman, Tazuko Ichikawa, Linn Meyers and Beverly Ress. Each artist works steadily and consistently in the studio producing deeply personal, innovative and meticulous work.

1530 14th Street NW

Children’s Book Reading and Signing
MAY 22ND, 2016 AT 01:00 PM | FREE | INFO@UPSHURSTREETBOOKS.COM | TEL: 202-726-0380 | EVENT WEBSITE

Sara Pascoe reads from “Oswald, the Almost Famous Opossum,” set in D.C. and Maryland. The titular character, Oswald, is a fame-seeking opossum who must decide whether the promise of fame is more important to him than sticking by his friends. It’s a fantasy chapter book for 7-9 year olds with great educational details sprinkled in about language (Oswald is a poet) and fun facts about the different animal characters (did you know opossums have opposable thumbs on their back legs?)

Upshur Street Books, 827 Upshur St. NW

Poetry and Prose Open Mic
MAY 22ND, 2016 AT 02:00 PM | FREE | TEL: 301-654-8664 | EVENT WEBSITE

Sign-up for readers at this open mic event begins at 1:30 p.m. The reading starts at 2 and will be followed by a reception.

The Writer’s Center, 4508 Walsh Street, Bethesda, Maryland

Around the World in 20 Years
MAY 22ND, 2016 AT 04:00 PM | $25 TO $50 | TEL: 202-994-6800 | EVENT WEBSITE

At this grand finale for Children’s Chorus of Washington founder Joan Gregoryk, music from around the world, including a premiere by composer Andrea Ramsey, will be performed by the chorus’s ensembles, its alumni chorus and special guests.

Lisner Auditorium, 730 21st St. NW

Simone Dinnerstein, Piano
MAY 22ND, 2016 AT 04:00 PM | $35 TO $90 | TEL: 202-785-9727 | EVENT WEBSITE

Washington Performing Arts present the highly regarded American pianist performing Philip Glass’s “Selected Metamorphoses” and Franz Schubert’s “Selected Impromptus,” Op. 90, and “Sonata in B-flat Major,” D. 960.

Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, Maryland

Rev. Daniel Berrigan, S.J. (1921-2016)
• May 20, 2016

In an interview for the 2009 PBS documentary “William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe,” Rev. Daniel Berrigan, S.J., was asked, “Do you think we can change the world?”

He replied, “Well, I think we can live as though we are changed, you know, and that’s a start.”

Berrigan lived his life by that sentiment, becoming famous for his intense activism and wartime protests. The Jesuit priest, teacher, writer and professor died April 30, age 94, at the Jesuit infirmary at Fordham University in the Bronx.

He grew up near Syracuse, New York, entering the Jesuit seminary after high school. In 1968, he and his brother, Father Philip Berrigan, joined seven others in taking files from a draft board office in Catonsville, Maryland, and burning them in the parking lot with homemade napalm. He and the other Vietnam War protestors, who became known as the Catonsville Nine, were found guilty in federal court and sentenced to prison, but Berrigan managed to hide from the FBI for four months before serving his time.

That act was Berrigan’s most famous, but was by no means his only such protest. He broke into a General Electric plant — again with his brother — and hammered on the nuclear weapons. He continued to speak against war and violence throughout his life, in his later years turning attention to conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, among other issues.

Berrigan also made use of the written word, publishing more than fifty books as well as numerous poems.

His name will forever be connected to Dorothy Day and Thomas Merton, two famous faces of Catholic spirituality and social justice who were mentioned in Pope Francis’s speech in Washington, D.C., last year. Berrigan’s relationships with both greatly influenced his active stance in the anti-war movement.

In the PBS interview, reflecting on all his years as a protestor, Berrigan said that he did not see much progress in peace movements. But he was not discouraged.

“The value of the work is vindicating your own humanity and that of your friends, and living as though the truth were true. There’s a mood that can set in easily that would say, because I can’t do a big thing, I’m gonna do nothing. But, I mean, I love the Buddhist teaching that the good is to be done because it is good, not because it goes somewhere. I think that’s powerful, and I think, too, that if it’s done for the right reason, it will go somewhere.”

ANC Tonight: Silverman, Voting Machines, Commendations
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The Georgetown-Burleith-Hillandale Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC 2E) will hold its monthly meeting, 6:30 p.m., May 2, at Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School, 35th Street and Volta Place NW, Heritage Room, main building, second floor. The following is today’s meeting agenda, as provided by ANC 2E.

At-large Councilmember Elissa Silverman will join the meeting during a break in the agenda.

Approval of the Agenda

• Approval of May 2, 2016 ANC 2E

Public Meeting Agenda

• Approval of the April 4, 2016 meeting minutes

Administrative

• Public Safety and Police Report

• Financial Report

• Transportation Report

• Environmental Report

Community Commendations

• Community Commendation for Leslie Maysak

• Community Commendation for Kendyl Clausen

Community Comment

• D.C. Board of Elections — demonstration of new voting machines

New Business

• Updated resolution authorizing Rick Murphy to represent ANC2E on various BZA matters

ABC

No Review At This Time by ANC 2E: The following applications for alcoholic beverage license renewals, which will be reviewed by the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, have not been added to the ANC 2E May 2 agenda and we do not propose to adopt a resolution on them at this time. If there are concerns about any of these applications for renewal, please contact the ANC 2E office by Friday, April 29, 2016.

• PaperMoon

• SeaCatch

• Clyde’s

• AMCTheater

• Shanghai Lounge

• Taj of India

• Booeymonger

• Mai Tai

• BulldogTavern

Zoning

• 3015 P St. NW

• 1826 Wisconsin Ave. NW

• 3000 M St. NW

Old Georgetown Board

Private Projects

1. SMD 03 OG 16-183 (HPA 16-326) 1524 34th Street, NW Residence Alterations Permit

2. SMD 03 OG 16-173 (HPA 16-295) 3247 P Street, NW Residence Sliding gate, Garden walls, Site work Concept

3. SMD 03 OG 16-200 (HPA 16-356) 1335 Wisconsin Avenue, NW Commercial Storefront alterations, Replacement canopy Permit

4. SMD 03 OG 16-204 (HPA 16-360) 1413 Wisconsin Avenue, NW Commercial Roof deck and railing
Concept

5. SMD 03 OG 16-116 (HPA 16-188) 1525 Wisconsin Avenue, NW Commercial Rooftop mechanical equipment and ductwork – Existing alterations without review Revised permit

6. SMD 05 OG 16-205 (OG 16-361) 3000 M Street, NW Residence Addition, Alteration Concept

7. SMD 05 OG 16-193 (HPA 16-346) 3307 M Street, NW Commercial Replacement gate, Signs – East Banc Concept

8. SMD 05 OG 16-206 (HPA 16-362) 3100 Dumbarton Street, NW Residence Addition to garage, Alterations
Concept

9. SMD 05 OG 16-197 (HPA 16-350) 1200 Wisconsin Avenue, NW Commercial Door replacements, Signs – COS Permit

10. SMD 06 OG 16-189 (HPA 16-341) 1232 31 Street, NW Commercial Sign – Compass Permit

11. SMD 06 OG 16-203 (HPA 16-359) 2809 Dumbarton Street, NW Residence Alterations Concept

12. SMD 06 OG 16-210 (HPA 16-366) 3009 Dumbarton Street, NW Residence Rear addition, Shed demolition, Site work Concept

13. SMD 07 OG 16-191 (HPA 16-343) 1815 Wisconsin Avenue, NW Commercial Back-lit signs – Paisano’s
Permit

No Review At This Time by ANC 2E: The following additional projects, which are on the upcoming May 5, 2015, agenda of the Old Georgetown Board, have not been added to the ANC meeting agenda for OGB-related design review and we do not propose to adopt a resolution on them at this time. If there are concerns about any of these projects, please contact the ANC office by Friday, April 29, 2015

1. SMD 02 OG 16-190 (HPA 16-342) 1685 34th Street, NW Residence Roof and siding alterations
Permit

2. SMD 02 OG 16-045 (HPA 16-077) 1679 35th Street, NW Residence Two-story rear addition, Porch enclosure, Demolition Concept

3. SMD 02 OG 16-162 (HPA 16-282) 3417 R Street, NW Residence Three-story rear addition, Alterations, Demolition Permit

4. SMD 02 OG 16-141 (HPA 16-235) 3644 Reservoir Road, NW Residence New window opening
Permit

5. SMD 02 OG 16-184 (HPA 16-327) 3641 Winfield Lane, NW Residence Door replacement Permit

6. SMD 02 OG 16-140 (HPA 16-233) 3729 Winfield Lane, NW Residence Replacement windows
Permit

7. SMD 02 OG 16-110 (HPA 16-182) 3800 Reservoir Road, NW Institution New hospital building Concept

8. SMD 03 OG 16-159 1318 33rd Street, NW Residence Alterations, Garage door opening Permit

9. SMD 03 OG 16-137 (HPA 16-229) 1419 33rd Street, NW Residence Parking pad with overhead door
Concept

10. SMD 03 OG 16-180 (HPA 16-304) 3121 O Street, NW Residence Replacement stairs in public space Permit

11. SMD 03 OG 16-209 (HPA 16-365) 3107 Dumbarton Street, NW Residence Removal of DEFS – Existing alterations without review Permit

12. SMD 03 OG 16-168 (HPA 16-290) 1353-1355 Wisconsin Avenue, NW Commercial Storefront alterations, Replacement windows Concept

13. SMD 05 OG 16-199 (HPA 16-355) 3111 K Street, NW Commercial Alterations, Signs – AMC Theatres Permit

14. SMD 05 OG 16-196 (HPA 16-349) 3124 M Street, NW Commercial Storefront alterations, Sign – UBIQ Permit

15. SMD 05 OG 16-179 3101 N Street, NW Georgetown Baptist Church Driveway and parking pad pavers Permit

16. SMD 05 OG 16-186 3107 N Street, NW Residence Driveway paving Permit

17. SMD 05 OG 16-185 (HPA 16-334) 3109 N Street, NW Residence Driveway paving Permit

18. SMD 05 OG 16-187 (HPA 16-336) 3111 N Street, NW Residence Parking pad paving Permit

19. SMD 05 OG 16-195 (HPA 16-348) 3234 N Street, NW Residence Rear addition, alterations – Demolition Permit

20. SMD 05 OG 16-182 (HPA 16-319) 3342 Prospect Street, NW Residence Alterations, Deck, Fence Permit

21. SMD 05 OG 16-133 (HPA 16-224) 3348 Prospect Street, NW Residence Alterations, Replacement windows Concept

22. SMD 05 OG 16-202 (HPA 16-358) 1071 Thomas Jefferson Street, NW Mixed-use Awnings, Blade sign – Curio Permit

23. SMD 05 OG 16-201 (HPA 16-357) 1075 Thomas Jefferson Street, NW Commercial Roof trellis replacement Permit

24. SMD 05 OG 16-071 (HPA 16-119) 1044 Wisconsin Avenue, NW Commercial Alterations, Roof deck, Signs — Sweetgreen Concept

25. SMD 06 OG 16-134 (HPA 16-226) 1313 28th Street, NW Residence Alterations, Replacement windows and doors Concept

26. SMD 06 OG 16-177 (HPA 16-299) 1320 29th Street, NW Residence Alterations, Second story addition Concept

27. SMD 06 OG 16-175 (HPA 16-297) 3025 Dumbarton Street, NW Residence Alterations, Demolition, Parking pad and gates Permit

28. SMD 07 OG 16-207 (HPA 16-363) 1611 29th Street, NW Residence Chimney repair
Permit

29. SMD 07 OG 16-192 (HPA 16-344) 1607 31st Street, NW Residence Sitework Permit

30. SMD 08 OG 16-198 (HPA 16-354) 1221 36th Street, NW Institution Addition/alterations – de la Cruz Gallery of Art Permit

31. SMD 08 OG 16-194 (HPA 16-347) 3700 O Street, NW Institution Replacement rooftop mechanical equipment Permit

Government of the District of Columbia: Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E

3265 S St., NW, Washington, D.C. 20007

202-724-7098 anc2e@dc.gov www.anc2e.com

DC Water’s Brown-to-Green Initiative
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DC Water has another green initiative up its sleeve. The department has created a thermal hydrolysis process to recover biosolids from our city’s nutrient-rich wastewater and turn it into a product they call Bloom. Bloom is being provided to local partners to test by blending it with soil for use in gardening and landscaping. Not only is that green in and of itself, but DC Water is the first in the nation to take the main ingredient — i.e., the fecal matter in sewage — and harness it to produce a third of the electricity used by the wastewater treatment plant, which happens to be the city’s largest consumer of electricity. Made from the sterile byproduct of that process, Bloom is weed-free, drought-resistant and produced by you.

In D.C., Every Day Is Memorial Day
• May 18, 2016

 

Amidst the political turmoil of our time, we are coming up once again to Memorial Day, that mid-year break that has become a mixed bag and mixed signal in our American lives.
With it, we formally — with martial, but also sorrowful, pride — commemorate and memorialize those who fought (and, more pointedly, sacrificed their lives) in our country’s many wars. Our nation was given birth out of a war of independence and has continued from that beginning to fight wars that preserved our freedom, expanded our frontiers, pitted us against ourselves in the Civil War and expanded our roles and responsibilities in the world.

We fought in two world wars, at the end of which we emerged as the world’s greatest power, and a nuclear one. We have fought far-flung wars since then, in Asia, in the Middle East, in response to threats and attacks.

Memorial Day grew out of a Union soldiers’ group’s desire to haves a Decoration Day for the graves of Union soldiers in 1868. For many years, it has been celebrated in towns and cities across the country, in every place where the fallen have been laid to rest, or their sacrifice has been noted in town squares, in parks and cemeteries.

Always, there are parades of soldiers, often in the uniforms of long ago of varying fashion and color, from all branches of our military establishments. There are bands and cars and SUVs and jeeps of dignitaries. And there are beauty queens riding in convertibles and congressmen and senators and retired generals and war heroes with medals.

In the smaller towns across America, there are speeches and ceremonies, picnics and games. Memorial Day in this way also signals the beginning of summer, when school is out and the first football practice seems a long way off. All across America, for reasons that remain somewhat mysterious, mattress and furniture stores and car dealerships hold hugely advertised sales.

Memorial Day is special in Washington, D.C. The national cemetery for the fallen is here, and there is a section of the National Mall that seems reserved solely for the memorializing of the conflicts we fought in. The war memorials vary from the almost forlorn presence of the World War I Memorial, to the splendid, historic, wreathed and fountained World War II Memorial, to the clean sheen of the Vietnam Memorial, to the sculptures of the lone infantry company struggling in the barren Korean landscape.

The World War II, Korean and Vietnam memorials are especially resonant because we are among the survivors. The ceremonies and the landscapes there change a little every year: there is a kind of thinning out always present as the World War II vets dwindle in number, appearing more frail and vulnerable, like ghosts from another time. The Vietnam vets still search for missing comrades, still ride in on roaring motorcycles, but are also now visibly a part of the Baby Boomers, many tanned and tattooed, grizzled, bare-armed, carrying regimental insignias. The Korean War vets remain stuck in between, slightly younger than the Greatest Generation, quite a bit older than the ’Nam vets.

The same things happen all the time: the swaggering marchers, the high school bands, the batons thrown high in the air to catch the light, the memories, the history, the family of man on the Mall, the concerts, the reunions and old stories told over a picnic table. Every year, many go missing, the muster call marked by spots of silence.

This is what happens here: you see a man dressed as George Washington get out of a cab; you see an elderly man with medals, a D-Day veteran, wander among the fountains, being saluted by children; you see the big flags draped on the grass. Once you saw a Vietnam vet, blue jeans, sunglasses, with a striped shirt and a regimental cap, kneel and stare at a name on the wall and touch the name. And suddenly his whole body was shaking.

It was some days and a while ago, on Memorial Day.

But then, if you live here and roam, every day is Memorial Day.

Overheard at Lunch: D.C. Gossip Girl
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The Boss Goes Newsy

With all the White House Correspondents’ Dinner hype, you may have missed this one: Bruce Springsteen, the Boss himself, was in town last month for the nuptials of ABC’s Ali Weinberg, a journalist whose dad is drummer for the E Street Band, and CNN’s Josh Rogin. The Washington Post reported that it was quite the eclectic mix that attended — Wolf Blitzer and Steve Van Zandt to name two. Wonder what the topic of conversation was.

Georgetown: Neutral Ground?

Kathleen Matthews, who recently ran for Congress as a Democrat in Maryland (and lost to State Senator Jamie Raskin) hosted a fundraiser on N Street, as did Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.). Georgetown — we ignore and cross state lines! Maybe they consider us
neutral ground?

Residence Juggling by Former Rep.’s Ex

Former Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.) has moved out to the good old ’burbs. While he’s living the good life relatively out of the public eye, his ex-wife, LuAnn Bennett, spent the last few months getting harangued by the GOP about the condo she rents at the Ritz Carlton on 22nd Street. Republicans accused her of being an invader from D.C. (where her business is located). She told the Washington Post she rented out the property. According to her Financial Disclosure Report from the House of Representatives Ethics Committee, she received an income of $5,001 to $15,000 for the current year to filing (1-1-2015 to 3-15-2016), but the previous year she reported nothing. Zip. Zilch. Zero income. In addition to that whole mess, Bennett ran for Congress in the 10th District in Virginia, but numerous sites report that she no longer lives there and is in fact renting an apartment in McLean. Good thing Bennett didn’t win the election against Rep. Barbara Comstock (R-Va.) or else her mess would be a whole lot messier.

Publicists Skip WHCD, Pledge Allegiance to Bieber

Everyone knows the White House Correspondents’ Dinner weekend is the hottest ticket in town, but not this year for publicists Erika Gutierrez and Victoria Michael. The self-described “Beliebers” said, sorry, but baby baby baby ohhh, we have to go to see Justin Bieber in concert at the Verizon Center April 30. Just think really hard about it, ladies, if you choose to get a new face tattoo a la Bieber.

ANC Report: Departures, Oppositions
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The Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E met May 2 at Georgetown Visitation Prep and welcomed new executive director Ron Sacco. At the same time, commissioners honored departing executive Leslie Maysak and commissioner Kendyl Clausen, who had to resign as she is graduating Georgetown University and heading to Yale Law School. Commissioners authorized Rick Murphy to represent ANC 2E at the Board of Zoning Adjustment. Also, At-large council member Elissa Silverman addressed the room and spoke of her work on campaign finance reform, family leave for District workers and other programs.
Metropolitan Police Department reported that the April 24 death of Georgetown student Edward Blatz, Jr., involved no foul play and that MPD was investigating a robbery at Dolcezza at
1560 Wisconsin Ave. NW.

Citing late night noise and disturbance, commissioners unanimously protested Malmaison’s liquor license renewal application. They unanimously opposed a Board of Zoning Adjustment application at 3000 M St. NW for a roof deck, formerly the Latham Hotel property. They did support a zoning application by 3015 P St. NW for a one-story addition.
Commissioners got into a bit of pickle as residents and architects got into sharp disagreements about work and plans for 3420 P St. NW. One neighbor loudly complained of workers parking in his driveway and a long-sitting dumpster — among other comments.

DOEE to Create Green Infrastructure Credits
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Under a D.C. Department of Energy and Environment program intended to incentivize the voluntary installation of runoff-reducing green infrastructure, the Stormwater Retention Credit Purchase Agreement Program will allow the selling and trading of credits by property owners and investors in new projects within the area of the city that drains into bodies of water. While the program may increase investors’ confidence in investing in green projects, it also allows new large development sites to skirt up to 50 percent of the stormwater management regulations that went into effect in January 2014.

The DOEE has pigeonholed over $12 million for the purchase of SRC credits from private parties, educational institutes, faith-based and nonprofit organizations over a 20- to 30-year life cycle, with $500,000 reserved to support technical and outreach work to help identify cost-effective green infrastructure sites.

The program is intended to add “a market-shaping incentive for projects to be located in areas that provide the greatest benefit to District waterbodies,” according to a DOEE press release. The annualized program will allow the department to pay out much of its funding in the first few years, then reimburse itself by selling the credits to future regulated development projects.