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Gina Robinson • January 16, 2015

A 15-room boutique hotel, the Avery, is planned for the 2600 block of P Street NW — between the Jerusalem Baptist Church, Chichie’s Grooming Spa for Dogs on one side and a new restaurant, After Peacock Room, and the Georgetown office of Washington Fine Properties on the corner, which brokered the property sale.

Located at 2616 and 2620 P St. NW, the new hotel is being created from two office townhouses, Samantha Schneck of the Avery Georgetown LLC told the Washington Business Journal. She said she expected the Avery could open by September after major interior reconstruction but no changes to the exterior.

Planners for the Avery expect its clients would be parents of Georgetown University students or guests of embassies.

“We plan to bring a lot of cool ideas to it to modernize the inn concept,” Schneck told the Journal. “We’re hoping the neighborhood embraces it.”

The proposed hotel is on the agenda for community comment during tonight’s monthly meeting of the Georgetown-Burleith Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E at Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School on 35th Street, NW.

Robert Devaney •

Someone stole the hands of the clock, facing east, on Georgetown University’s Healy Tower last week, prompting an online posting of a picture of the hands-free clock with the accompanying words, “Timeless Tradition.” Of late, this dangerous prank occurs almost every year after a break that began in the 1990s.

Yet, within two days, the hands were back on the clock after university workers put replacement hands on it. This time, it seems the university was ready.

“We secured a set of hands in 2012,” the university’s spokesperson Rachel Pugh told the student newspaper, the Hoya. “The condition of the clock facing Healy Lawn permitted us to install new hands today while the scheduled repair was underway.” Pugh declined to reveal the cost of the clock fix. The Hoya added: “In addition to replacing the hands of the clock facing Healy Lawn, the university had the hands of the side of the clock facing Dahlgren Quad removed today as part of scheduled maintenance.”

The investigation into the theft continues by the campus police.

No word on whether or not the thieves plan to mail the lifted hands to the Vatican, as others threatened in the past. In 1989, the year of the university’s bicentennial, student mischief led to the hands being delivered to the White House. The Secret Service returned them.

Robert Devaney •

Stabbings at late-night bars in the last 10 days have occurred on Pennsylvania Avenue near the White House and in the West End — adding to the recent uptick in violent crimes for the District of Columbia.

A Dec. 27 stabbing of five persons in McFadden’s has resulted in the restaurant’s closing by the Metropolitan Police Department with a Jan. 9 hearing with the D.C. Alcoholic Beverage and Control Board, which also suspended its license and said the restaurant “presents an imminent danger to the health and safety of the public.”

Located at 2401 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, three blocks from Georgetown, McFadden’s is popular with college students, especially those from nearby George Washington University.

None of the stabbing victims — who did not have life-threatening injuries — were identified as college students. The MPD has made no arrests or found the knife supposedly used by “a black man in a trench coat.”

At the time of the crime, neither security guards nor victims were said to be fully cooperative with the police.

According to the Washington Post, “no weapon was recovered, and two witnesses saw a bar-back ‘mopping up blood’ instead of preserving the crime scene. The manager admitted there were ‘about 215 patrons’ at McFadden’s, when the maximum capacity is 136. And though McFadden’s has a settlement agreement with neighbors that requires it to have a reimbursable detail, or officers assigned to monitor the location, police say McFadden’s hasn’t paid for one since June.”

A week after the McFadden’s stabbings and five blocks away, police arrested a man for stabbing and critically injuring another man in Zanzibar Night Club at 1901 Pennsylvania Ave., NW (its entrance is on 19th Street) on Jan. 3.

From the MPD: “The investigation revealed the stabbing occurred following a verbal dispute between two males. The victim was transported to a local hospital. The suspect 35-year-old Joseph Ricardo Johnson of Northeast, D.C. was arrested and charged with Assault with Intent to Kill.”

Like McFadden’s, Zanzibar is shut down and will face alcoholic beverage regulators on any other future issues.

Meanwhile, the MPD is looking for two persons of interest concerning the Dec. 27 incident at McFadden’s. It offers descriptions of the subjects as follows:

“Subject one: pictured below is a black male, approximately 28 years-old, approximately 5-feet-11-inches tall, with a slim build, medium complexion, and goatee. He was wearing a mid-length coat with a belt, a hat or hood.

“Subject two: pictured below is a black male, approximately 25 to 30 years-old, 5-feet-8-inches to 5-feet-10-inches tall, with a medium build and medium complexion. He was wearing a white shirt, dark jacket with a faux fur collar and trim, and light colored jeans.

“Anyone with information about this case is asked to call the police at 202-727-9099. Additionally, anonymous information may be submitted to the department’s TEXT TIP LINE by text messaging 50411. The Metropolitan Police Department currently offers a reward of up to $1,000 to anyone that provides information which leads to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons wanted for any assault committed in the District of Columbia.”

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Gary Tischler •

Are you ready for the 2024 Olympics?

Some powerful folks in the District of Columbia are hoping that the city will get a strong shot at hosting the Olympics that year.

That includes Mayor-elect Muriel Bowser, who’s now joined a delegation heading to San Francisco tomorrow to make a final pitch for the District as a candidate to host the 2024 Olympics. The delegation, which includes Bowser, D.C. 2024 chairman and Caps and Wizards owner Ted Leonsis, Russ Ramsey, former NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue and Montgomery County Olympic swimming superstar Katie Ledecky, will make the city’s final pitch in front of the U.S. Olympic Committee in the city by the bay.

Advocates of bringing the Olympics to the District argue that a number of factors make D.C. a great place to host the Olympics: the city is ready and able to handle large crowds with regard to transportation and security; it is located near other cities like Richmond, Annapolis and Baltimore, which could host some events; and has a number of areas that would benefit from Olympic-sized economic development.

According to reports in the City Paper, District Council Chairman Phil Mendelson, after hearing from Olympic bid advocates, moved the legislative portion of the committee meeting to Wednesday. That allowed the mayor-elect, who’s still a council member, to join the delegation in San Francisco to push for D.C.’s bid.

D.C. will face off against San Francisco, Boston and Los Angeles in front of the USOC. USOC can choose one city to present to the International Olympic Committee for further determination, or decline to endorse any U.S. city. The U.S. hasn’t hosted the summer Olympics since 1996.

Gary Tischler •

Only two days in and newly sworn-in District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser was already on “Meet the Press.”

What caused all this ruckus? No ruckus. It appears that Chuck Todd of NBC News, himself a newbie as “Meet the Press” moderator, happened to notice, if not a trend, an actual first as of Sunday.

While women make up at least half of the population, their representation is not near that percentile for representation in legislatures and public executive positions. The leadership of Washington, D.C., is a stand-out with a female triumvirate in power.

With the swearing-in of Bowser Jan. 2, Washington, D.C., becomes—yes—the only city among the country’s 50 top municipalities to have women in the three leading jobs of mayor, school chancellor and police chief.

Thus, in a heavily promoted Sunday morning segment, “The Women Who Run Washington,” Todd of “Meet the Press” interviewed Bowser, D.C. Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson and Metropolitan Police Department Chief Cathy Lanier in full uniform.

Bowser happily announced, “We want the whole world to know we are a city on the move.”

Todd noted that “Meet the Press” was a show usually dominated by discussions of national and international events with interviews with such female leaders as Hillary Clinton. “Well, guess what, the city is already run by all women,” he said.

Todd twice pressed Bowser—who was upbeat throughout—whether she would sue Congress over its opposition and possible challenge to enactment of Proposition 71, the marijuana legalization proposal approved by voters. Bowser, didn’t exactly take the bait, saying only, “We’re going to explore every option” and “We want to work with our Congress, and we want the will of the residents of D.C. to be enforced.”

Henderson was also upbeat, saying more and more families were opting to send their children to D.C. public schools, although many of those are sending them to charter schools, which are a part of D.C. public schools.

Addressing the issue of protests in the streets—which have been largely peaceful in the District—in the wake of Ferguson and New York, Lanier said, “I think it’s really about building those strong relationships with the community and you really have to do it every single day.”

The discussion did not include comments about recent incidents in which one man was shot and killed by police who said he fired on them, and another was wounded.

Talking about transportation in another conversation over the weekend with NBC4 News, Bowser seemed especially enthusiastic about public transportation, especially Metro, and especially buses. “Our Metro system is really the engine of this region and we have to make sure that the system has the money that it needs to continue.

“I think, really,” she said, “that our future is in the bus.”

Gary Tischler •

Every year we commemorate and remember. It’s our human nature, especially at newspapers, to take stock, to look back and to remember the lives and presences we lost during the course of the year.

The losses add up in different ways in different years. In our world in Washington, where local news is national news and vice versa, some losses loom larger than others, and they seem to be both anticipating and evaluating history.

That was certainly the case in the passing of Marion Barry and his long goodbye recently, and in the loss of the stylish and classy, fearless Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee, who reigned over a history-making national, international and local newspaper at its zenith, even as the digital age began to whittle away at the important role of newspapers and anticipated its decline.

Barry’s death was still a shock. He had the kind of personal charisma and size, and a potent place in the city’s political and electoral history that was outsized, so that his death seemed sudden, implausible. After all, he was a four-term, media-dubbed and self-proclaimed “mayor for life” of the District of Columbia. His efforts to open the city’s job markets and government to include more African Americans radically changed the city. He was scandal-steeped, to be sure, and he was an often divisive figure in the city’s cultural, economic and racial divide. If his political fiefdom had shrunk to “East of the River” in his later years on the council, it remained a citywide phenomena in the public imagination—black and white– for better or worse.

Barry was of a generation, which had held sway since the beginning of home rule. His death signaled the end of something—the District Council is gaining some brand new members, and the new mayor Muriel Bowser is of a different generation.

Bradlee’s death marked the end of something, too—the beginning of the end of the critical importance of newspapers—major and minor—in how Americans get their news and digest it. While the Washington Post and the New York Times still maintain a posture of seriousness and importance, they are thinning like an old man’s hair, and, especially in the Post’s case, which was bought by Amazon CEO and founder Jeff Bezos, geared toward younger audiences and readers. Social media, bloggers, Twitter and the huge, very full spaces of the Internet, make a hashtag of confusion in how information is digested and rob newspapers of their capacity to deliver news that hasn’t already been broken.

Bradlee presided over a newspaper that toppled a presidency, braved government reprisal over the publication of the Pentagon Papers. With Bradlee, charismatic and profane, Wasp and buccaneer, the paper also gained a lot of Style (Section) flash and dash.

Barry’s passing shared the news here with the arrival of a kind of permanent demonstration in Washington, the presence on a daily basis of young activists—black and white—protesting and demanding action in the wake of three police killings of three black men by police. The deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, Eric Garner in New York, and 12-year-old Tamir Rice in Cleveland have sparked the kind of disruptive but peaceful protest for social and government action that a young man named Marion Barry once led as a civil rights activist in the South. They seem today not only like portents of future change but echoes of the past.

Death is personal to all of us—to those left behind, to ourselves who are chroniclers, it leaves behind not only loss but larger meanings or personal memories to define. Here at the Georgetowner we lost friends who meant more than stories to us—the recent death of Michele Conley, the founder of Living in Pink, who lost her last battle with cancer, and Georgia Shallcross, a friend, writer and supporter of our newspaper for years. Food and restaurant writer Walter Nicholls, beloved by many, succumbed to cancer. We—and our village—also lost Suzi Gookin, a sparkling social writer for our publication, and an outspoken citizen of our town. And we mourned the loss of Richard McCooey, talented restaurant owner and designer, and raconteur.

Over the course of time, one finds oneself writing many stories, meeting many people, and remembering the meetings. The Washington theater community lost two of its gifted actors—the redoubtable, graceful Tana Hicken who had the gift of being unforgettable in her roles, and in her life and Tom Quinn, ex-Marine, boxer and coach, Wall Streeter, Irishman, New Yorker and finally Georgetowner. He became a memorable actor late in life, a performer of red-faced intensity at local theaters like Arena, Studio and Woolly Mammoth and in films, including “The Pelican File.”

There is a whole category of death as indiscriminate robber of life which results in flowers by the side of the road, balloons in a field, and the shock of sudden violence—the torments of horrible storms, earthquakes, floods and tornadoes, two Malaysian Airlines crash with a loss more than 400 persons, one downed by a missile over Ukraine, another lost without a trace over the Indian Ocean (supposedly). There were school shootings, mass shootings, the thousands of victims of Ebola in Western Africa, the gruesome victims of Isis, and the thousands dead in the Syrian civil wars.

Closer to home, we will miss the kind presence of St. John’s Episcopal Church’s secretary Kimberly Durham Bates, a bright and beautiful presence in her Adams Morgan and Lanier Heights neighborhood, who leaves behind two children Naomi and Theo Bates.

We mourn and note the passing of 54 persons who died homeless in the District of Columbia in 2014. Their names were read aloud Dec. 19 on Homeless Memorial Day, following a candlelight vigil organized by the People for Fairness Coalition at Freedom Plaza.

Here are additional losses from 2014:

Pete Seeger—The giant of folk music, inspiring, redoubtable: “If I Had a Hammer,” “Where Have All the Flowers Gone” singing songs of freedom.

Mike Nichols—Astonishingly versatile stage and film director, adept with Neil Simon and Arthur Miller, directed “The Graduate” and “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf”.

Phil Seymour Hoffman—The man of many characters, the movie star as character actor, “Capote”, lost to an overdose.

Maya Angelou—The stirring national poet, who became hugely popular while never losing her cache as inspired Nobel Prize-winning articulator of the yearning for freedom.

Richard Attenborough—The British director with epic visions in “A Bridge Too Far” and “Gandhi,” and not a bad actor, either.

Lauren Bacall—One of the last of the old big movie star, she was Bogey’s baby first, and his best love in “The Big Sleep,” “To Have and Have Not,” “Key Largo.” She knew how to whistle, too, and became late in life a Broadway star.

Thomas Hale Boggs—Otherwise known in D.C. and at his law firm as Tommy, a lobbyist with high-class qualities

James Brady—Suffered grievous wounds in the attempt on President Ronald Reagan’s life, inspired gun control laws and kept a warm sense of humor.

Sid Caesar—Maybe the funniest and most eccentric of early television comedy, a giant on “Your Show of Shows,” who should have gotten more applause.

Oscar de la Renta—The fashion designer as red-carpet superstar.

Thomas Duncan—The first Ebola victim in the United States.

Phil Everly—As in Phil and Don Everly, the Everly Brothers, the chart-busting rock and roll and country singers who had a string of major hits, including “Wake Up Little Suzy” and “All I Have to Do is Dream.”

Al Feldstein—Founded Mad Magazine, the most unusual comedy and humor magazine ever.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez—Nobel Prize-winning Colombian Novelist and guiding light of magical realism in “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” and “Love in the Time of Cholera” among many great novels.

James Garner—Major Hollywood and All-American star on television “The Rockford Files” and “Maverick” and in films “Sayanora”, “Murphy’s Romance”, “Duel at Diablo and others.

Gerry Goffin—With Carole King, wrote super hits like “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?”

Bo Hoskins—British character actor, famous for being a private eye in “Who Framed Roger Rabbit.”

Tony Gwyn—One of the best hitters ever, Hall of Famer, San Diego Padre.

Martha Hyer—High-class dame in 1950s films, including “Some Came Running With Frank Sinatra.

Dick Jones—For television western fans of the 1950s, he was “Buffalo Bill, Jr.,” and the Range Rider’s sidekick. He was the voice of “Pinochio.”

Casey Kasem—The big national deejay.

Lorin Maazel—Music director or the Cleveland Orchestra and New York Philharmonic; founded the Castleteon Festival.

James MacGregor Burns—Political historian of great American eras.

Brittany Maynard—The young woman dying of cancer who chose to end her life in a cause-building public manner.

Tommy Ramone—The last of the Ramones.

Paul Revere—As in Paul Revere and the Raiders, 1960s rock group.

Johnny Rivers—Texan blues guitarist supreme.

Jane Mondale—The wife of former Vice President Walter Mondale.

Maximillian Schell—Oscar winner (for “Julia”) and star “Judgement at Nuremberg” and chronicler of Marlene Dietrich.

Elayne Stritch—Eccentric, magnetic Broadway star.

Eli Wallach—Of Brando’s generation, starred in “Baby Doll” and was the bad guy in “The Magnificent Seven” (You came back. Why?, the dying words).

James Schlesinger—Former defense secretary, exemplary Georgetown citizen and presence.

Ralph Waite—The good father on television to John John Walton and Leroy Jethro Gibbs on “NCIS.”

Shirley Temple—The first super child star in the Depression, ingénue in “Fort Apache” and UN Ambassador.

Ralph Kiner—Detroit Tigers supreme slugger.

Robin Williams–The zaniest, wildest, most profane and faster-than-the-speed-of-laughter creative comic, to suicide.

Joan Rivers — Always in your face, always on your mind, the female comic as outsized performer.

Joe Cocker — Rock and blues singer, best known for his rendition “With a Little Help From My Friends.”

Gary Tischler • January 5, 2015

Let’s hear it for Francesca Zambello.

If she has done or does nothing else, the Washington National Opera’s artistic director has just about managed in a very short time to institutionalize her cherished goal of involving children in opera as performers and audience members by programming children’s and family fare.

It’s a successful effort to which families and children stream to happy effect, as illustrated by the WNO staging of “The Little Prince,” based on the famed fable and book by French writer Antoine de Saint Exupery and on the original production staged at the Houston Opera and directed by Zambello.

To be sure, “The Little Prince” is not your usual fable, fairy tale or children’s book—it’s wispy, philosophical, and not easily digested as a story. But it is full of magical creatures and beings, as well as the little prince himself, who is a denizen of a tiny planet, where a rose is its most important apparition. He joins a human pilot whose plane has crashed in the desert on earth.

The narrative is not quick and fast, but the music—by film composer Rachel Portman—is accessible to children and adults alike, melodic and digestible.

“The Little Prince” is a kind of survivor’s fable which offers, instead of real adventures, nuggets of hope, tools not only to use to get by but to forge ahead and enlarge heart and soul.

It’s full of characters that are a performer’s (and costume designer’s) delight—a breathy, oily snake, a rose, the warm lamplighter, a king, a hunter and a warm, exquisite fox, played and sung in dazzling style by Aleksandra Romano.

This is the third children’s opera staged under Zambello—preceded by “Hansel and Gretel” and the lovely Christmas tale, “The Lion, the Unicorn and Me,” last season. “Cinderella” is coming up in the WNO spring season.

Precisely because it’s an opera (with non-traditional opera components) that doesn’t go down like your favorite ice cream but leaves room for food for thought, the reaction is all the more remarkable. I think the way it’s staged, the production fills up the heart and prods the imagination of adults and children alike.

Twelve-year-old Henry Wager, who played the angel last year in “The Lion, the Unicorn and Me,” sings movingly as a boy soprano, but it’s his stage presence that is undeniable. Slight, often somewhat bewildered but always open and curious, he’s the true heart of the production.

The production is aided by members of the Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program and the Washington National Opera’s Children Chorus.

In fact, the latter stir up the audience beautifully at the end of the first act, when they form double rows of lamplighters in the aisled of the Terrace Theater.

But “The Little Prince” is a little about education—the prince’s view of earth and adults and humans, the pilot’s education about the prince. Two notable lines remain in the mind: “What is essential is invisible to the eye” and the prince’s insight that “Grownups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.”

Mostly, “The Little Prince” was an exemplary example of the growth of WNO’s opera for children and the rest of the family, a production that left a rose-like imprint on the holidays.

Erin Schaff • December 29, 2014

The D.C. Ferguson protest movement again marched through Georgetown Nov. 29, stopping traffic, to protest the grand jury’s decision not to indict a Ferguson, Mo., police officer for killing 18-year-old Michael Brown on Aug. 9.

About 200 marchers met at the Foggy Bottom Metro stop around noon and proceeded west to Georgetown to make shoppers, visitors and residents aware that “black lives matter,” seeing Brown’s death as “police brutality” and asking observers to condemn racial profiling and racial bias by police departments across America.

The peaceful protesters blocked the intersection of Wisconsin Avenue and M Street — the center of Georgetown’s retail district — for more than 20 minutes. Driving south, car were blocked on Wisconsin Avenue. On M Street, cars traveling from Virginia idled on Key Bridge. The protestors then backtracked along M Street sidewalks to return to the Foggy Bottom Metro Station to head to Arlington, Va.

A light force of Metropolitan Police Department officers and cruisers closed and protected intersections, helping to coordinate the marchers’ flow along M Street. Some on-lookers took in the protestors’ arguments with sympathy; others asked why they would disrupt the start of the Christmas shopping season on Small Business Saturday. Marchers made the point: “No Justice. No Profits. . . . No Justice. No Peace.”

The protesters later met at Pentagon City Mall in Arlington, Va., with a demonstration that included a “die-in.” The Ferguson, Mo., police officer Darren Wilson — on administrative leave since the shooting — officially resigned from the city’s police department today, according to his attorney.
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Georgetowner • December 22, 2014

CityVision Final Presentation

December 18th, 2014 at 06:30 PM | Free

Learn more about local middle school students’ exploration of Washington, D.C., as CityVision participants share their view for their city. After studying the basics of urban design and architecture, students from Takoma Education Campus and Raymond Education Campus present their innovative plans for Buzzard Point, the proposed area for a new soccer stadium.

Address

401 F Street NW

Candlelight Tours at Oatlands

December 19th, 2014 at 05:00 PM | $12 adults, $10 seniors & active duty military, $8 kids 6-16, Free to Friends of Oatlands and childr | jstiner@oatlands.org | Tel: 703-777-3174 | Event Website

December 13, 19, 20, & 21 5-8 pm. Join us after hours to see the mansion sparkling with Christmas lights and old-fashioned decorations. Candlelight tours are open-house style so you may enjoy at your own pace. Reservations not required. Final admission is at 8pm. $12 adults, $10 seniors & active duty military, $8 kids 6-16, FREE to Friends of Oatlands and children under age 6.

Address

20850 Oatlands Plantation Lane; Leesburg, Va. 20176

Christmas by the Letter

December 19th, 2014 at 08:00 PM | Tickets at the door are $25. Advance tickets at $20 | Tel: 202-271-6680 | Event Website

The National Broadway Chorus will present “Christmas By the Letter,” an original comedy featuring popular seasonal songs such as:

“We Need a Little Christmas,”

“Merry Christmas, Darling,”

“Last Christmas,”

“Chestnuts Roasting (on an Open Fire),”

and much more!

The show focuses on a family of five (mother, father, adult son, adult daughter, grandmother) as they prepare to host their Christmas party.

Luke Frazier directs the chorus.

Address

Georgetown Lutheran Church; 1556 Wisconsin Ave. NW

The Gingerbread Chase — Christmas Theater at Oatlands

December 19th, 2014 at 06:30 PM | Adults $12, Children 2-12 $10 | jstiner@oatlands.org | Tel: 7037773174 | Event Website

At a bakery known for its beautifully decorated Christmas cookies, the newly baked Ginger cookie feels plain and simple. Ginger runs away, leading to a chase of family and friends in an effort to return the cookie to the bakery. Will fancy decorations bring happiness, or will Santa help everyone see that being special is about what is on the inside, not the outside? See http://stagecoachtc.com/ for tickets and more information.

Address

20850 Oatlands Plantation Lane; Leesburg, VA 20175

Christmas Illuminations at Mount Vernon

December 20th, 2014 at 05:30 PM | $30/adult, $20/youth | info@mountvernon.org | Tel: 7037802000 | Event Website

Ring in the holiday season with sparkling fireworks overlooking the Potomac River at George Washington’s Mount Vernon on Saturday, December 20! For the first time ever, Mount Vernon will open its doors for an evening of holiday-themed fireworks and special programs.

Address

3200 Mount Vernon Memorial Highway; Mount Vernon, VA 22121

Christmas in Fairfax With the City of Fairfax Band

December 20th, 2014 at 07:00 PM | Free (secure tickets online) | Tel: 703.642.3277 | Event Website

Make our tradition your tradition. Join the Fairfax Choral Society and the City of Fairfax Band in a glorious selection of seasonal favorites in this free, annual concert.

Address

Fairfax High School; 3501 Rebel Run, Fairfax, VA 22030

Chanukah Celebration

December 21st, 2014 at 03:00 PM | FREE | rabbi@amhatorah.org | Tel: 301-229-2751 | Event Website

Live Music: Featuring The Sinai Mountain Boys- A talented foursome of Jewish musicians combining Bluegrass and Jewish melodies!

Kid’s activities- Arts & crafts, games and a juggling and magic show at 3:30 and at 4:15.

Chanukah raffle and refreshments

This activity is not sponsored by, associated with, or endorsed by Montgomery County Public Schools or Montgomery County Government.

Address

Bethesda Elementary School 7600 Arlington Drive Bethesda MD