We’ll Miss Them: Michael Stevens, Maureen O’Hara and Flip Saunders
• October 29, 2015

We’re all part of one sort of community or another, and when a community suffers a loss, we share in that loss. This month, the world of entertainment and performing arts lost two members of high achievement, one who was born and Washington and, with his father, co-produced the Kennedy Center Honors since 2003 and numerous film documentaries. The other was a legendary movie star from Hollywood’s Golden Age. The world of professional sports—locally and nationally—lost one of its most respected members, too.

This month we lost Michael Stevens, part of a major film-making family which included his father, George Stevens, Jr., a Georgetown resident. We lost Maureen O’Hara, 95, a bright, shining star in Hollywood’s golden age from the 1930s, when she came to the states as a teenaged Abbey Theatre actress, onward. This past week, we lost Flip Saunders, whose loss was deeply felt here where he coached the Washington Wizards for over two years and guided its budding superstar John Wall.

MICHAEL STEVENS, 48

The life of Michael Stevens seemed to be a story of fathers and sons and fathers and sons, twice over. He seemed destined to be in the film business one way or another. His grandfather was George Stevens, one of Hollywood’s great directors, whose work began in the silent era and progressed to such hits as “Gunga Din,” in the 1940s, and in the 1950s, winning two Oscars (for “Giant” and “A Place in the Sun”) and being nominated for “Shane.”

George Stevens Jr. followed in his fathers footstep although in his own way—as a young man he worked on many of his fathers films, then founded the American Film Institute, made a documentary about his father, and directed his own films, including “The Murder of Mary Phagan.” He produced the Kennedy Center Honors since its beginning, then co-produced with his son Michael until last year, when the relationship with the Kennedy Center ended.

Michael Murrow Stevens was born in Washington, where Stevens and his wife Elizabeth had made their home in Georgetown. He attended the Landon School in Bethesda and graduated from Duke University with a degree in English literature and political science.

While Michael ventured out on his own to work on films like “The Thin Red Line” in 1998 and two tough crime thrillers, “Bad City Blues” in 1999 and “Sin” in 2003, he worked steadily as a producer, often with his father. He shared five prime-time Emmys on the KC Honors shows aired by CBS. He also helped produce the AFI lifetime salutes to film stars over the years, and directed a number of “Christmas in Washington” variety shows.

Like his father and grandfather, he ventured into documentaries and directed, co-produced and co-wrote the celebrated 2013 documentary on the much beloved and honored Washington Post political cartoonist Herblock, called “Herblock: The Black and the White.” He also directed and co-produced the 2011 film version of his father’s play “Thurgood” on the life of Thurgood Marshall.

It seems on the bright surface of their lives that here were three men, connected by a life lived not on film, but in film, in the arts, on stages and sets, bonded by respect, talent and love, often sharing their gifts and working together in ways that few fathers and sons have the opportunity to do.

MAUREEN O’HARA, 95

They don’t make them like that anymore.

They don’t make movies like the ones Hollywood made in its own-self-acknowledged golden age and they sure as all-get-out don’t make movie stars like Maureen O’Hara, who was one of the shining lights of that era that roughly spanned the beginning of talkies in the 1930s during the Depression through the 1950s, when the major studios and their heads at last began to lose their grip on power.

For an avidly movie-hungry public trying to make it through a Depression and the tensions of a World War, the studios created clowns, comedy, spectacles, epics musicals, swashbucklers, adaptations of classics, kid movies, westerns, cops and robbers and movies dealing with serious social movies, plus a fantasy or two.

They gave them movie stars as opposed to mere celebrities, and in a densely populated firmament of stars, few female stars shined brighter than the O’Hara whose Irish-lass abundant red hair just about blotted out the sun. She was made for Technicolor, which was just beginning when O’Hara arrived from Ireland as a teenaged actress straight out of the Abbey Theatre. She proceeded to star in a black and white version of “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” opposite Charles Laughton as Quasimodo, hopelessly smitten with O’Hara as Esmerelda, the gypsy girl. With medieval Paris as a setting and O’Hara’s drop-dead beauty, the movie looked as if it were shot in color.

She proceeded to star in a number of grade A films, in the 1940s—“How Green Was My Valley,” set in a Welsh mining town and directed by John Ford, the anti-Nazi “This Land Is Mine,” again with Laughton and other Ford films, in which she was sometimes paired with John Wayne, the greatest man’s man star outside of Clark Gable. All the Irish got together in Ford’s irascibly Irish cliché and fantasy, “The Quiet Man,” in which O’Hara and Wayne were a battling—literally—couple—Barry Fitzgerald was a tipsy matchmaker, Victor McLaglen played O’Hara’s brother, Ward Bond played a priest, and Ireland played Ireland, only more so, with the countryside intensely green and her hair intensely red.

O’Hara also starred in numerous films in a genre of film hardly, if ever, made anymore: the swashbuckler—especially those involving pirates and musketeers, in which she resisted and dueled with swains played by Errol Flynn, Tyrone Power and Cornel Wilde. The lass could handle a sword and wear a corset properly.

O’Hara hadn’t made a film in quite a while—her last was in 1991 playing John Candy’s mother and courted by Anthony Quinn.
O’Hara died on October 24, at her home in Boise, Idaho. She lives on and on, incandescent, on Turner Classic Movies.

FLIP SAUNDERS, 60

Flip Saunders, who was coach of the Washington Wizards for a short time, made it to several playoffs with other teams including the Minnesota Timberwolves.

He never won an NBA championship. All he ever won was the respect, affection, love of the players he coached, his fellow professionals in the coaching world, and the world of hoops, and his family. He won a host of friends.

Not everybody—even title winners—can say that.

The basketball world responded yesterday and today with an outpouring of tributes from players, coaches and probably basketball scribes after it was learned that Saunders had lost his fight with Hodgkins Lymphona at the age of 60. He had been coaching in a return gig with the Timberwolves, where he was director of basketball operations.

Randy Whitman, the Wizards’ current coach, said, according to reports, that Saunders should be celebrated as a great man who was able to do much for the game he loved and the people and players he worked with. Adam Silver, the NBA Commissioner, said that Saunders’ death had “left a gaping hole in the fabric of our league.” And John Wall, who was coached by Saunders when he began his career as a number one pick said that Saunders “taught me what it takes to be a good player and a better man.”

‘Exorcist’ Steps to Be Commemorated by D.C.
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Perhaps the most famous movie about Georgetown will be commemorated Oct. 30 by a special plaque at the so-called Exorcist Steps at 36th and M Streets. The steps down to M Street from Prospect Street figured in the climatic scene of the 1973 film “The Exorcist,” when the priest sacrificed himself for the girl possessed by the devil, leaping from a window in a Prospect Street home and tumbling down the steps to his death.

Andrew Huff is coordinating the event in collaboration with the D.C. Office of Motion Picture and Television Development, the Executive Office of the Mayor, the Dupont Festival and Councilmember Jack Evans, at whose office he worked. On hand at the event, he says, will be the film’s director William Friedkin for a meet and greet (4 p.m.; top of the steps). The plaque dedication ceremony (6 p.m.; bottom of the steps) and a screening of “The Exorcist” (7:30 p.m., Georgetown AMC) will follow.

In addition, after the plaque dedication ceremony, the Georgetown Business Association will hold its monthly networking reception, this time Halloween-themed, at Malmaison starting at 6:30 p.m.

Georgetown University to Address Slavery History
• October 28, 2015

Following the dustup after announcing that one of Georgetown University’s two Jesuit residences, Mulledy Hall, will continue honoring former university president, Rev. Thomas F. Mulledy, S.J., current president John DeGioia charged a group of faculty, students and alumni with addressing the university’s slaveholding history. Mulledy infamously sold 272 slaves owned by the Society of Jesus in Maryland to plantations in Louisiana in order to maximize their value to the university, rather than free them as abolition expanded in the North.

“I have asked this working group to provide advice and recommendations to me on how best to acknowledge and recognize Georgetown’s historical relationship with the institution of slavery, examine and interpret the history of certain sites on our campus, to include Mulledy Hall, and convene events and opportunities for dialogue,” DeGioia wrote.

G.U. Hospital Plans $560 Million Upgrade
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Medstar Georgetown University Hospital may be getting a facelift. The hospital submitted plans to construct a new building, including a larger emergency room, and upgrade exist- ing medical and surgical units. If approved by District regulators, the renovation would cost $560 million with construction slated to being in late 2016.

According to D.C. law, the hospital must obtain a “certificate of need” before constructing a new health care facility in the city. Because the cost of Medstar’s proposed expansion, the company will pay the maximum city application fee of $300,000.
In a statement, Medstar Health, the company that has owned Georgetown University Hospital since 2000, said the upgrades are necessary due to a future increase in patients and the “structural limitations of their current facility that impede medical surgical care delivery upgrades.”

Mount Zion Kicks Off 200th Anniversary Celebrations
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As part of its 200th anniversary celebration, Mount Zion United Methodist Church, one of Georgetown’s historic black churches, held a march to Mount Zion Cemetery, next to Rock Creek Park, Oct. 18. The symbolic walk began at the “Mother Church,” Dumbarton United Methodist Church. Led by Pastor Johnsie Cogman, marchers gathered at the old cemetery for an African libation ceremony, an ancient ritual of pouring water, to honor their ancestors. The cemetery opened in 1808; interments stopped in 1950. Today, it awaits restoration work by the church and other community groups.

Weekend Round Up October 22, 2015
• October 26, 2015

Georgetown Shuck It Beer and Wine Festival

October 24th, 2015 at 02:00 PM | $75 Tel: 202-944-4545 | Event Website

Shuck’n Time! Last chance to get tix to this year’s Shuck It! 3rd Annual Beer & Oyster Festival. Don’t be left saying “Oh Shucks”… get your tix before they’re all shuck’n gone! Enjoy grilled and freshly shucked oysters by local suppliers, whole roast proqueta, steamship of beef, locally brewed beers, local wines, oyster shooters and live music entertainment by rockabilly band, Jumpin’ Jupiter.

Address

Tony& Joe’s Seafood Place; 3000 K ST NW (Georgetown Waterfront)

Disney on Ice: 100 Years of Magic

October 21-25th, 2015 | $35 | wsupport@onlinecitytickets.com | Tel: 844-854-1450 | Event Website

Disney On Ice celebrates 100 Years of Magic Presented by Stonyfield YoKids Organic Yogurt comes to the Eagle Bank Arena in Fairfax, Va

Address

EagleBank Arena; 4400 University Dr; Fairfax, VA 22030

The Sound of Music 50th Anniversary Screening

October 24th, 2015 at 07:30 PM | $20 | wolftrap@wolftrap.org | Tel: 703-255-1900 | Event Website

Lederhosen and veils welcome! Maria, the Von Trapp family, and even the Lonely Goatherd are back to bring you a few of your favorite things—don’t miss the 50th anniversary showing of this classic film starring Julie Andrews.

Address

The Barns at Wolf Trap; 1635 Trap Road; Vienna, VA 22182

A Far Cry: Transamericana

October 24th, 2015 at 08:00 PM | 30-35 | office@dumbartonconcerts.org | Tel: 2029652000, ext. 100 | Event Website

Four amazing works of the string orchestra literature open our season with Boston’s outstanding and innovative conductorless orchestra, A Far Cry. TransAmericana takes us on a journey through North and South America with Philip Glass, Symphony #3 for String Orchestra, Lena Frank’s Leyendas: an Andean Walkabout, Villa-Lobos – Bachianas Brasileiras #9 and Ginastera’s Concerto per Corde.

Address

Dumbarton Concerts; 3133 Dumbarton Street NW

Howl-O-Ween at Market Common Clarendon

October 24th, 2015 at 09:30 AM | 0 | Event Website

Market Common Clarendon has partnered with Homeward Trails and Doorways VA to host the 2015 Howl-O-Ween Dog Walk on Saturday, October 24 from 9:30 AM – 12:00 PM. The walk will start and finish at Market Common Clarendon with trick-or-treating, an exciting pet costume contest, and a dog agility course. Also joining in on the fun, 94.7 Fresh FM will be the official radio partner with The Tommy Show’s, Jen Richer, as host for the day! Be sure to register online at bit.ly/Howl15!

Address

Market Common Clarendon; 2700 Clarendon Blvd; Arlington VA 22201

Sunday Serenity: Fall Yoga in the Park

October 25th, 2015 at 09:30 AM | $5 | education@dumbartonhouse.org | Tel: 2023372288 | Event Website

Sunday Serenity continues through the fall! Join local yoga instructor Lauren Jacobs in the East Park at Dumbarton House, which provides a serene, tree covered outdoor space, for this 60 minute all-levels vinyasa flow class that should be fun and challenging for both experienced yogis and yoga skeptics alike! Bring your own mat.

Address

2715 Q Street, NW

English Country Dance

October 25th, 2015 at 12:30 PM | $5 | education@dumbartonhouse.org | Tel: 2023372288 | Event Website

English Country Dance is a social, folk dance form, which has earliest documented instances in the late 16th century. English Country Dance (ECD) was popular well into the Baroque and Regency eras. No partner or experience necessary. All that’s needed is a desire to have fun and the willingness to put your best (dance) foot forward!

Address

Dumbarton House, 2715 Q Street, NW

Alan Turing Decoded: An Evening with Sir Dermot Turing

October 26th, 2015 at 06:30 PM | $10 | info@spymuseum.org | Tel: 2023937798 | Event Website

Famous codebreaker and computer scientist Alan Turing’s legend has grown through books and films such as The Imitation Game, and it has become a challenge to discern the real man from the story. Now, Alan Turing’s nephew, Sir Dermot Turing, has taken a fresh look at the influences on Alan Turing’s life and creativity in his new biography Prof: Alan Turing Decoded.

Address

International Spy Museum; 800 F Street, NW

The Holocaust as History and Warning

October 26th, 2015 at 07:00 PM | free | Event Website

Today, fears that were familiar in Hitler’s time are being revived, asserts Yale professor Timothy Snyder. Join us for a discussion of his new book, ‘Black Earth’, which offers a provocative new perspective on the origins of the Holocaust. Snyder’s analysis urges us to learn the lessons of the past—and better understand our own nature—before it’s too late.

Address

U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum; 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW

Business Ins and Outs: October 21, 2015
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Sid Mashburn Opens on N Street

Over the weekend, Sid Mashburn opened its doors for the men’s side of the Atlanta-based clothing store at 3206 N St. NW in a soft opening in time for parents’ weekend at nearby universities. The women’s side, Ann Mashburn, is being finished up and will open soon. The new store, which stretches from N Street to Prospect Street, has been totally rebuilt in clean lines and full of light. It is part of the Georgetown Court complex and occupies the former space of Neyla Restaurant and a long-closed Chinese restaurant.

Also coming soon, next to Mashburn, will be the Dancing Goats Coffee Bar. The coffee shop will be at the west side of the store, facing the courtyard. The Washington State-based Batdorf & Bronson Coffee Roasters plans to open in November.

Founder Sid Mashburn worked as a designer at J. Crew, Ralph Lauren, Tommy Hilfiger and Lands’ End and made his vision of clothing and service a reality in 2007. His wife, Ann Mashburn, was an editor at Glamour and Vogue magazines. She writes that she “knew how to find the incredible among the so-so.”
Here is how Mashburn describes itself (from its website): “Our brick-and-mortar shops are a place to pick up a pair of jeans or get measured for a custom suit, but also to play ping-pong, listen to records, drink a Coke, and be properly taken care of in every way. Caran d’Ache pens and Musgo Real shave creams are stacked below Sartorio suits and Isabel Marant jackets; Danish cattle horns and classic editions of ‘The Secret Garden’ sit next to Laguiole knives and Mason Pearson hairbrushes; Levi’s 501s and Saint James minquiers hang alongside our full line of Sid Mashburn and Ann Mashburn products, leading to a juxtaposition that is really not such a juxtaposition at all — all these things are well-made, iconic, to us, even perfect.”

IN: Curry & Pie on 34th Street

What used to be Eat Enjoy, a fusion of fast food and Turkish cuisine in an old townhouse on 1204 34th St. NW, has transformed into Curry & Pie, a high-energy mixing of Indian and Italian food, which issued this statement: “We love good food, and we know you do too. We wanted to make you amazing Indian food, but thought, why get held down by conventional standards? Our team at Curry & Pie is bringing you combinations of all of our favorite foods in ways you’ve never expected. We started with two classics and turned them into one out-there fusion menu, featuring Indian curries, fresh baked pizzas and even more tasty eats in between.”

IN: Red Toque Cafe Near K Street

The Red Toque Cafe — Kabob Grill has opened a Georgetown location near K Street at 1003 Wisconsin Ave. NW. Its original location is in Shaw. The menu includes sandwiches, goat and lamb biryani and halal meat.

OUT: M29 at Four Seasons

After five years, tucked into the shopping arcade across the main entrance of the Four Seasons Hotel in Georgetown, M29 Lifestyle shop has closed.

Historic Black Church to Lead March to Cemetery
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As part of its 200th anniversary celebration, Mount Zion United Methodist Church, one of Georgetown’s historic black churches, will lead a march to Mount Zion Cemetery, next to Rock Creek Park, this Sunday, Oct. 18.

Marchers will gather for a libation service, an ancient ritual of pouring water, to honor their ancestors. The cemetery opened in 1808; interments stopped in 1950. Today, it awaits restoration work by the church and other community groups.

The day will begin at Georgetown Dumbarton Methodist at 3133 Dumbarton St. NW. There, pastors and Revs. Mary Kay Totty (Dumbarton Methodist) and Johnsie Cogman (Mt. Zion Methodist) will begin a dialogue and start the march along Dumbarton Street to Mount Zion United Methodist Church at 1334 29th St. NW. A “worship experience” will be at 11 a.m., Cogman told The Georgetowner. There will a press conference at 12:15 p.m. Drummers and singers will commence the march to the cemetery at 27th and Q Streets at 12:30 p.m. After the libation service, marchers will return to the 29th Street church for refreshments and conversation—popcorn included.

Please see The Georgetowner’s cover story about Mount Zion Cemetery.
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Weekend Round Up October 15, 2015
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Crystal Bowersox

October 16th, 2015 at 08:00 PM | $26-$28 | wolftrap@wolftrap.org | Tel: 703-255-1900 | Event Website

“Bluesy and soulful, with a voice incapable of artifice” (The Washington Post), this dynamic singer/songwriter from American Idol performs her brand of emotive folk, rock, and country music.

Address

The Barns at Wolf Trap; 1635 Trap Road, Vienna, VA 22182

Brem, Boots & Bling

October 17th, 2015 at 07:00 PM | $50.00 per person. $65 at the door | bremfoundation1@gmail.com | Tel: 410.491.9360 | Event Website

Join the Party this Saturday Night at Norbeck Country Club and Help Give Cancer the Boot! The evening supports The Brem Foundation to Defeat Breast Cancer, a foundation that funds biopsies for area residents who otherwise could not afford them, conducts research for the advancements of early detection and is there for women in crisis. The Brem Foundation also trains fellows to be top doctors back in their communities across the country. Get your tickets at Eventbrite! Lets kick cancer together.

Address

Norbeck Country Club; 17200 Cashell Road; Rockville, Maryland 20853

Stella and Dot Basics Bootcamp

October 17th, 2015 at 07:00 AM | Lgluck@stelladot.com | Event Website

Join Stella & Dot to learn more about its innovative Social Selling model and to view the latest fabulous accessories collection for the season!

Our social?selling company creates flexible full -time and part- time opportunities with great rewards! It’s a business model that works: to?date, our Stylists have earned over $270 Million in commissions! We’ll chat, answer questions, provide exciting sneak peeks, and all guests will receive one of this season’s most coveted styles!

Address

Crowne Plaza Tysons Corner-Mclean; 1960 Chain Bridge Road; McLean, VA 22102

American Field – October 17 & 18

October 17th, 2015 at 10:00 AM | Event Website

Largest Pop-Up Market of Made-in-America Brands is coming to Georgetown Park October 17 & 18. The event showcases American Made products, food and beverages (alcoholic and non-alcoholic options). American Field allows visitors to meet the people behind the best American brands and labels nationwide all in one location. Get your Americana fix at American Field this October 17 and 18 10am-6pm each day in Georgetown Park.

Address

Georgetown Park; 3222 M Street NW

Sunday Serenity: Fall Yoga in the Park

October 18th, 2015 at 09:30 AM | $5 | education@dumbartonhouse.org | Tel: 2023372288 | Event Website

Sunday Serenity continues through the fall! Join local yoga instructor Lauren Jacobs in the East Park at Dumbarton House, which provides a serene, tree covered outdoor space, for this 60 minute all-levels vinyasa flow class that should be fun and challenging for both experienced yogis and yoga skeptics alike! Bring your own mat.

Address

2715 Q Street, NW

An American Tale

October 18th, 2015 at 05:00 PM | $0-$25 | generalmanager@capitalcitysymphony.org | Tel: 202-399-7993 | Event Website

This concert celebrates American composers. We’re excited to perform the world premier of Charlie Barnett’s Mid-Century Mambo; it’s all about rhythm and joy. We will also play Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring, an iconic piece of Americana that still feels fresh and new. Leonard Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story complete the program. It includes everything from the wild dance numbers to the touching romantic theme.

Address

Atlas Performing Arts Center; 1333 H St NE

Washington International Horse Show

October 20th, 2015 at 07:00 AM | $10-$150 | info@wihs.org | Tel: 202-525-3679 | Event Website

The Washington International Horse Show (WIHS, the nation’s premier indoor metropolitan equestrian event, celebrates its 57th year in 2015. The show features show jumping, hunter and equitation competition, special exhibitions, boutique shopping and hospitality. Includes a free-to-the-public Kids’ Day and the world class $125,000 President’s Cup Grand Prix among other highlights.

Tickets: On sale Aug. 14 at Ticketmaster, or can be purchased at Verizon Center before and during the show.

Address

Verizon Center; 601 F Street, NW

Lunch & Learn with Nancy Feve

October 21st, 2015 at 12:30 PM | Free | pdubroof@iona.org | Tel: 2028959407 | Event Website

Our Lunch & Learn program offers guests the chance to learn from our featured artists in the Gallery at Iona. Join us at Iona for a free boxed-lunch and hear about Nancy Feve’s artistic process, tour our gallery, and much more.

To learn more about Nancy Feve, visit her website: http://www.fevequilts.com/

Address

4125 Albemarle Street NW

Weekend Round Up October 1, 2015
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Friendship Betrayed

October 1st, 2015 at 07:30 PM | Pay What You Will | wsc.tix@gmail.com | Tel: 703.418.4808 | Event Website

WCS Avant Bard presents this 17th-century play by María de Zayas y Sotomayor, which, like Sex and the City, explores what happens to female friendships while women look for and find love. Kari Ginsburg sets her production in the 1920s, a time when women were beginning to explore their sexual curiosities and passions.

Address

Gunston Arts Center, Theatre Two; 2700 South Lang St., Arlington, VA

Smithsonian Craft2Wear: Show and Sale of Wearable Art

October 2nd, 2015 at 10:00 AM | $8 | austrpr@si.edu | Tel: 888.832.9554 | Event Website

Explore the top tier of American craft artistry at the Smithsonian show of wearable art.One-of-a-kind articles of clothing, jewelry and accessories will be on exhibit and for sale. Update your look, purchase unique gifts for everyone on your list, and support the Smithsonian and the National Zoo.

Address

National Building Museum; 401 F Street, NW

Eric Lotke & Kelly Ann Jacobson at the Fall For the Book Festival

October 2nd, 2015 at 10:30 AM | Free | festivalmanager@fallforthebook.org | Tel: 703-993-3986 | Event Website

Eric Lotke is an author and activist, and has followed his novel 2044: The Problem isn’t Big Brother, it’s Big Brother, Inc. with Making Manna, a modern Horatio Alger story. Kelly Ann Jacobson has written several novels, including Cairo in White. Her newest novel, The Troublemakers, has been called “a feisty, funny celebration of friendship and grown-up girl power” by author Carrie Russell. Books will be available for purchase and signing at this free event, open to the public.

Address

Sandy Spring Bank Tent, Johnson Center Plaza; George Mason University; 4400 University Drive, Fairfax, VA 22030

SerbFest DC

October 2nd, 2015 at 05:00 PM | Free | Event Website

The First Annual SerbFest DC is presented by Saint Luke Serbian Orthodox Church and takes place on Friday, October 2 from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. and Saturday, October 3 from 11:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.

In its inaugural year, SerbFest DC aims to fill the void in the greater Baltimore/DC area for authentic Serbian food and culture. Saint Luke Serbian Orthodox Church is the epicenter for Serbian culture in DC and is proud to share ethnic cuisine, customs, and culture with the Capital!

Address

St. Luke Serbian Orthodox Church, 10660 River Road, Potomac, MD 20854

New Orchestra of Washington opens 2015-16 season with Fusion

October 2nd, 2015 at 07:30 PM | $30 in advance, $35 at the door; students 13-18 $15; 12 and under free | info@neworchestraofwashington.org | Tel: 240-235-5088 | Event Website

Concert features 5 works inspired by a different contemporary style – Rock, Pop, Grunge, and Soul:

Elastic Band by Joel Friedman (World premiere reduced orch)

Rush Hour by John Mackey

Imagine:Reimagined by Alejandro Hernandez-Valdez

Soul Garden by Derek Bermel

X Concerto by Scott McAllister

Address

Georgetown University, McNeir Auditorium; 37th and O St., N.W.

Paint the Town Red

October 2nd, 2015 at 08:00 PM | $85.00 | Jesse.garchik@heart.org | Tel: 703-248-1735 | Event Website

Paint the Town Red is a special evening that will feature cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, music, dancing, and a silent auction. The event supports the mission of the American Heart Association to build healthier lives free from cardiovascular diseases and stroke — the number one killers of women and men in this country, and its work to fight the growing epidemic of childhood obesity in this country.

Address

The Whittemore House, 1526 New Hampshire Ave NW

Potomac Country House Tour

October 3rd, 2015 at 01:00 PM | $30 advance ticket sold online, $40 day-of | PCHTinfo@gmail.com | Tel: 301-365-2055 | Event Website

Four exceptional homes are featured on the House Tour, which runs from 1-4 on Oct. 3-4. The homes include Hye Land House, Villa dei Leoni, English Country Manor House, and Holiday Carriage House. Boutiques offering the latest in gifts, accessories, home décor, jewelry and art and a silent auction at St. Francis are open to the public Oct.3-4 from 11AM-5PM. All proceeds are distributed to help fund programs addressing homelessness, hunger, children and women’s issues, and elderly care.

Address

10033 River Road, Potomac, MD 20854

Sunday Serenity: Fall Yoga in the Park

October 4th, 2015 at 09:30 AM | $5 | education@dumbartonhouse.org | Tel: 2023372288 | Event Website

Sunday Serenity continues through the fall! Join local yoga instructor Lauren Jacobs in the East Park at Dumbarton House, which provides a serene, tree covered outdoor space, for this 60 minute all-levels vinyasa flow class that should be fun and challenging for both experienced yogis and yoga skeptics alike! Bring your own mat.

Address

2715 Q Street, NW

The Blessing of the Animals at St. John’s Georgetown, 2 p.m., Sunday

Bring your pet to the traditional Blessing of the Animals Service at 2 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 4, on the front lawn of St. John’s Church on the corner of O and Potomac Streets. (If it rains, we’ll have it inside our large parish hall.) Bring your friends, and their pets, too. We’ll also be sure to say a special prayer for those pets that we have loved, but that are no longer with us—so, bring a picture if you’d like. There will also be treats for ALL of God’s creatures—provided by Cheeky Puppy (pets) and G’Town Bites (humans and pets).

Save Sight with a Say Hello to Fall Picnic

October 4th, 2015 at 02:00 PM | 75 per person, 150 for family (2 adults and 1 child) | cbaerveldt@iefusa.org | Tel: 1-240-290-0263 ext 118 | Event Website

Help the International Eye Foundation save sight with a fall picnic at the scenic farm of Dr. & Mrs. A. Raymond Pilkerton in Potomac. Embark on a culinary adventure with Argentinean grilled specialties by The Gauchito Grill while enjoying the toe-tapping sounds of King Street Bluegrass. Make your reservation now.

Address

Dr. & Mrs. A. Raymond Pilkerton; 15111 River Road; Potomac, MD 20854

Georgetown Concert Series: “The Phantom of the Opera”

October 4th, 2015 at 06:00 PM | $30.00 each Students @ $25.00 each | Tel: 202-338-1796

Start your Halloween early with a viewing of the original 1925 silent-movie, “The Phantom of the Opera.” Internationally acclaimed organist Todd Wilson will provide a hair-raising, improvised accompaniment on the magnificent Casavant pipe organ. See Lon Chaney as the Phantom in one of the greatest thrillers of the silent era and share the excitement as we watch it on the big screen. Popcorn for kids of all ages!

Address

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

Special Breast Cancer Research Benefits in October

Attend this year’s Girls and Pearls, a Shuck It! Soiree, “celebrating all the Girls behind breast cancer awareness and all the Pearls behind oyster recovery”—6 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 14, Tony and Joe’s Seafood Place, 3000 K St. NW, at Washington Harbour. Mix and mingle with Mother of Pearl, Nycci Nellis of The List Are You On It and WTOP’s Foodie and the Beast, while enjoying a raw bar with fresh shucked oysters and other signature hors d’oeuvres paired with local wines, local beers, and cocktails. Twenty percent of ticket sales to benefit the Nina Hyde Center at Georgetown University’s Lombardi Cancer Center; $55 per person—www.GirlsandPearlsDC.com.

Come to Norbeck Country Club for a night of Boots & Bling on Saturday, 7 p.m., Oct. 17, in support of the Brem Foundation to Defeat Breast Cancer. 17200 Cashell Road, Rockville, Maryland; www.bremfoundation.com.

Honor the memory of Michele Conley at the 11th Annual Living in Pink Lunch—11 a.m., Friday, Oct. 23, Columbia Country Club, 7900 Connecticut Ave., Chevy Chase, Maryland; www.LivinginPink.com.

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