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Georgetowner • March 30, 2016

HERE: FRINGE MUSIC

February 18th, 2016 at 09:00 PM | Free | melanie@capitalfringe.org | Tel: 202-737-7230 | Event Website

HERE is an event that allows artists to have the free space to explore new avenues of expression.

ACE ONO is a Washington, D.C.-based singer, songwriter who plays in the spaces between soul, pop and electronica.

Address

Logan Fringe Arts Space; 1358 Florida Avenue NE

The Soldier Experience Series: African-Americans in World War I

February 19th, 2016 at 09:00 AM | Free | abran@susandavis.com | Tel: 202-414-0798 ext. 798 | Event Website

This exhibit chronicles the African-American experience during World War I, including reference to of the evolution of African Americans in the U.S. Army from the Revolutionary War through today.

As the centennial celebration of America’s participation in World War I approaches, this exhibit affords Army enthusiasts and the general public with an opportunity to familiarize themselves with this critical time in U.S. Army and American history.

February 19, 22 and 23

Address

2425 Wilson Boulevard; Arlington, VA 22209

Arlington Arts Center Open Call

February 19th, 2016 at 12:00 PM | megan.rook-koepsel@arlingtonartscenter.org | Event Website

Arlington Arts Center selects 10 to 14 artists from across the Mid-Atlantic region for solo exhibitions in AAC’s seven separate gallery spaces or outside on the grounds. Fall Solos will open October 15 and run through December 18, 2016, while Spring Solos will open April 8 and run through June 11, 2017.
We are looking for artists who produce cutting-edge contemporary art in any and all media. Submissions for the Fall and Spring SOLOS is March 7, 2016.

Address

3550 Wilson Blvd; Arlington, VA 22201

DC Shorts Wins!

February 19th, 2016 at 07:30 PM | $15-$25 | Media@dcshorts.com | Tel: 202-393-4266 | Event Website

DC Shorts Film Festival, named “Coolest Short Film Festival” by Moviemaker Magazine, showcases the 2015 festival’s award-winning films including their Oscar-nominated shorts. The event is a great opportunity for people to see the films they missed at the 2015 festival and gear up for the Oscars! The event will run two nights, February 19 and 20, with two showcases each night. The first showcase begins at 7:30, and the second begins at 9:30, both running 90 minutes.

Address

Burke Theater, U.S. Navy Memorial Heritage Center; 701 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

6th Annual Political Cartoon Exhibit

February 19th, 2016 at 08:00 PM | $20 | rsvp@artsoiree.com | Tel: 2024702642 | Event Website

With a touch of humor and art, Art Soiree takes a look at the candidates and the hottest debate topics surrounding 2016 US Presidential Elections.

KEVIN “KAL” KALLAUGHER (The Economist), TOM TOLES (Washington Post), MATT WUERKER (Politico), DARYL CAGLE (Cagle Cartoons Inc.), JIMMY MARGULIES (AM New York and Newsday), CHRISTO KOMARNITSKI (Sega), ROBERT L. ARIAIL (The State)

Address

3100 South Street NW, Washington DC 20007

JP Jofre & The Hard Tango Chamber Band

February 20th, 2016 at 08:00 PM | $35 adults, $30 seniors (65 and up), $30 students | office@dumbartonconcerts.org | Tel: 2029652000 | Event Website

Dumbarton Concerts welcomes the master of Argentinian tango music, bandoneon player and composer JP Jofre in a dramatic event celebrating both traditional and contemporary renditions of tango.

Address

3133 Dumbarton St. NW

Cathedral Choral Society: Vivaldi Gloria with the Washington Bach Consort

February 21st, 2016 at 04:00 PM | $25-77 | lsheridan@cathedral.org | Tel: 202-537-2228 | Event Website

Famously nicknamed “The Red Priest” for his brightly colored hair, Vivaldi spent most of his life teaching, conducting, and composing brilliant works at the Ospedale della Pieta in Venice, an orphanage and music school for girls. Jubilant and spontaneous, the triumphant Gloria is one of his greatest accomplishments.

Music Director J. Reilly Lewis; Jennifer Ellis Kampani, soprano; Robin Beckman, soprano; Roger Isaacs, countertenor; Patrick Kilbride, tenor; and Karl Hempel, bass.

Address

Washington National Cathedral; 3101 Wisconsin Ave. NW

WINTER COMPLINE

February 21st, 2016 at 08:00 PM | FREE AND ALL ARE WELCOME | sam@stjohnsgeorgetown.org | Tel: 202-338-1796 | Event Website

This 30-minute traditional service is chanted by the St. John’s Choir in the warmth and beauty of candlelight.

Join us for this ancient rite of contemplation as we reflect and meditate on a quiet night at the end of a Winter day.

Warm beverages and sweets follow in Blake Hall.

Address

St. John’s Episcopal Church; Georgetown Parish; 3240 O St. NW

Living the Dream…Singing the Dream A Choral Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

February 22nd, 2016 at 07:00 PM | $25-$70 | choralarts@choralarts.org | Tel: 2022443669 | Event Website

Choral Arts and the Washington Performing Arts Gospel Choirs raise joyful voices in performing music that has given voice to the voiceless for generations in our annual tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The collaboration of styles, music, ages, and cultures provides a powerful and moving performance. This performance features the presentation of Choral Arts’ 13th annual Humanitarian Award to an individual who embodies Dr. King’s message of nonviolent struggle for civil rights.

Address

2700 F St NW

Food for Life: New Year, Best You Cooking and Nutrition Course

February 23rd, 2016 at 06:00 PM | Free; to register, email RSalatamacchia@pcrm.org or call 202-527-7314. | RSaltalamacchia@pcrm.org | Tel: 202-527-7314 | Event Website

WHEN: Feb. 23 to March 29, (Tuesdays), 6 to 8 p.m.

The class details are as follows:

Feb. 23, 6 to 7:15 p.m. – Introductory Lecture by Barnard Medical Center clinicians

March 1, 6 to 8 p.m. – Power of Your Plate

March 8, 6 to 8 p.m. – Let’s Go!

March 15, 6 to 8 p.m. – Getting in Gear

March 22, 6 to 8 p.m. – Breaking the Food Seduction

March 29, 6 to 8 p.m. – Keys for Natural Appetite Control

Address

Barnard Medical Center, 5100 Wisconsin Ave., N.W., Ste. 400 (a short walk from the Friendship Heights metro stop on the red line).

Robert Devaney •

The Georgetown Business Association held its monthly networking reception March 16 at Good Stuff Eatery near the intersection M and 33rd Streets. The popular hamburger joint was opened by local chef Spike Mendelsohn also three years ago.

The GBA heard a presentation about DC Water’s Green Infrastructure from Joanna Schmickel of Cox Graee + Spack Architects. She is a GBA board member.

The business group is celebrating 40 years as an advocate and promoter of the Georgetown business and professional community. The GBA plans a 40th-anniversary party in June and is scheduled to be at the Capella —let’s see what the reported sale of the property makes of this event.

As most of us know, Good Stuff Eatery offers “handmade burgers, hand-cut fries and handspun ice creamshakes,” it says, and is “committed to freshness, fellowship and friendliness.” It averages about 1,000 hamburgers per day at the M Street location. (We especially like the Prez Obama burger.)

The original Good Stuff Eatery is on Capitol Hill; the second in Crystal City in Arlington, Va. Other restaurants headed by Mendelsohn include We, the Pizza and Bearnaise, a steak frite place, which opened a week ago. Mendelsohn is well known for his appearances at cable TV’s “Top Chef.”

The next GBA networking reception will be April 20 at Chaia Tacos on Grace Street.
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Juliana Zovak •

The liquor license moratorium and cap in Georgetown — in place since 1989 — will expire on April 9, the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board announced March 30.

Restaurants and other “multipurpose facilities,” such as galleries and theaters, may apply for a liquor license on April 9, according to the control board statement, which added that there will be no limit on the number of licenses issued.

The change does not apply to any nightclubs or taverns in the Georgetown area, as a separate law limits the number of tavern licenses to six, all of which are filled at this time.

The board noted that its decision was based in part on feedback from the community and local businesses about the decrease of problems like noise and trash that originally warranted the restrictions.

The moratorium has been in place for 27 years and extends 1,800 feet in all directions from the corner of Wisconsin Avenue and M Street, according to the Alcoholic Beverage Regulation Administration. It limited the number of liquor licenses issued to restaurants to 68. (The cap did not apply to hotels or to businesses at Washington Harbour on K Street.)

Georgetowner •

**St. Paddy’s at Bourbon Steak**

MARCH 17TH, 2016 AT 06:30 PM | $225 PLUS TAX AND GRATUITY | DAVID.FASCITELLI@FOURSEASONS.COM | TEL: 202-944-2026 | [EVENT WEBSITE](https://www.bourbonsteakdc.com)

Taste five of Pappy Van Winkle Family Reserve’s bourbons paired with tapas by chef Joe Palma.

Address

2800 Pennsylvania Ave. NW

**Okinawa Matsuri Family Days**

MARCH 18TH, 2016 AT 11:30 AM | FREE | MUSEUMINFO@GWU.EDU | TEL: 202-994-5200 | [EVENT WEBSITE](https://https://museum.gwu.edu/matsuri-family-days)

As part of the National Cherry Blossom Festival, visitors can take part in games and art activities to celebrate the culture of the Japanese island of Okinawa.

Address

George Washington University Museum and Textile Museum, 701 21st St. NW

**Symposium on President Abraham Lincoln**

MARCH 19TH, 2016 AT 09:00 AM | FREE | [EVENT WEBSITE](https://fords.org)

The Abraham Lincoln Institute and Ford’s Theatre Society present a symposium on the presidency of Abraham Lincoln.

Address

Ford’s Theatre, 511 10th St. NE

**Fabrege Egg Family Festival**

MARCH 19TH, 2016 AT 10:00 AM | $5 TO $18, FREE FOR 5 AND YOUNGER | TEL: 202-686-5807 | [EVENT WEBSITE](https://hillwoodmuseum.org)

Hillwood hosts a day of craft activities and fun in honor of the egg-squisite Fabrege eggs created for the Russian royal family.

Address

Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens, 4155 Linnean Ave. NW

**Manuel Barrueco Guitar Performance**

MARCH 19TH, 2016 AT 08:00 PM | $12-20 | [EVENT WEBSITE](https://levinemusic.org)

A concert by famed classical guitarist Manuel Barrueco, faculty artist at the Peabody Conservatory and artist in residence at Levine Music.

Address

Church of the Epiphany, 1317 G St. NW

**”Women in Hellenistic and Roman Athens”**

MARCH 20TH, 2016 AT 02:00 PM | FREE | TEL: 202-737-4215 | [EVENT WEBSITE](https://www.nga.gov)

A talk by Anna Vasiliki Karapanagiotou of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports connected to the “Power and Pathos” exhibition of bronze sculpture at the National Gallery of Art.

Address

National Gallery of Art East Building, 4th St. and Constitution Ave. NW

Richard Selden •

Legendary below-ground jazz club Bohemian Caverns, a U Street mainstay, will close for good at the end of the month, when the current five-year lease expires.

Managing partner Omrao Brown, who owns the club, the restaurant Tap & Parlour above it and the nightclub Liv above that, made the decision to close the three venues with his partners — his brother Sashi and Jamal Starr — after two years of losses.

Brown’s group bought Bohemian Caverns from its former operator, Al Afshar, the building’s landlord. Their fractured relationship and the club’s complicated history, dating back to 1926, are described in an article by Michael J. West in this week’s City Paper.

The room’s unique cavernous décor is a relic of Club Crystal Caverns, which opened on New Year’s Eve 1932. During that era, it hosted such stars as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Billie Holiday. Later, in the classic years under the name Bohemian Caverns, from 1959 to 1968 (when it closed, a few months after the riots), John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald and Thelonious Monk, among others, performed.

Since reopening as Bohemian Caverns, the club has become a showcase for rising jazz artists and home to a 17-piece big band that plays every Monday. Recent setbacks have included the recession, a car crashing into the back of the building in 2013 and a negligence lawsuit filed last year in relation to an alleged sexual assault in 2012.

Percy Metcalfe • March 24, 2016

Georgetown University’s Lecture Fund, a student-run organization, has invited Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood, to deliver a speech on campus on April 20. Richards’s acceptance of the invitation has triggered considerable backlash from the university’s student-run Right to Life organization, which claims the event is contrary to Georgetown’s identity as a Jesuit institution.

Two petitions have been launched — by Georgetown University Right to Life and Students for Life of America and by the Cardinal Newman Society — both calling for Richards’s visit to be cancelled, citing Planned Parenthood’s status as the nation’s largest abortion provider.

A statement issued by administrators defended the Lecture Fund’s actions, stating that the university sought to “provide a forum that does not limit free speech.” However, the statement also referred to the continued strength of Georgetown’s Jesuit identity and reaffirmed the university’s commitment to the “sanctity and human dignity of every stage of life.” Michael Khan, president of Georgetown University Right to Life, has condemned the administrators’ “lack of moral courage” in refusing to oppose Richards’s upcoming speech.

The Archdiocese of Washington, led by Cardinal Donald Wuerl, also released a statement, which criticized the absence of “morality, ethics and human decency” on a campus that purports to uphold Catholic values.

Juliana Zovak •

With the National Cherry Blossom Festival underway and anticipated peak bloom only a couple days away, the Federal Aviation Administration released a video last Thursday reminding festival-goers that the Tidal Basin is a part of the “no-drone zone.”

Eager photographers will not be able to use any unmanned aircraft systems to capture pictures of the blossoms from above.

The Special Flights Rules Area that extends in a 30-mile radius from Reagan National Airport includes an inner 15-mile radius in which drones are prohibited at all times.

“Flying a drone within these areas at any time, including the National Cherry Blossom Festival, is against the law, and violators could face stiff fines and criminal penalties,” according to the video. “Enjoy the National Cherry Blossom Festival, but leave your drone at home.”

The festival began on Sunday and will continue until April 17. The National Park Service estimates that peak bloom will begin March 23 or 24.

View the video [here](http://www.faa.gov/tv/?mediaId=1280). For more information on the festival, visit http://www.nationalcherryblossomfestival.org.

Georgetowner •

The Georgetown Business Improvement District will host its annual Community Engagement Meeting tomorrow, Tuesday, March 22, at 6 p.m. at Pinstripes, 1064 Wisconsin Ave. NW.

The meeting’s focus will be the 2016 Update Report on the Georgetown 2028 Action Agenda. Of the 75 action items in the Georgetown 2028 15-Year Vision and Action Plan, launched in January of 2014, the BID has completed or made substantial progress on 57.

Among the accomplishments that the BID cites are:

• Creating a new non-profit organization to lead restoration, improvements and activation of the C&O Canal, entering into partnership with the National Park Service to create a master plan for the canal and securing funding for major capital improvement projects and the purchase of a new canal boat; and

• Organizing and facilitating the process ending the 26-year old liquor license moratorium in Georgetown, in partnership with the ANC and Citizens Association of Georgetown.

For details, visit georgetowndc.com.

Georgetowner •

Police are on the lookout for a black male, 5-foot-6, 140 pounds, in his mid-50s, who robbed a person at gunpoint at 4:45 p.m. Saturday, March 19, on the 1500 block of Wisconsin Avenue.