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Gary Tischler • September 10, 2014

These days, if you want to talk about immigration, or naturalization, or American citizenship, people are likely to get angry.

Immigration, long a feverish political issue, discussed in terms of amnesty or no amnesty, has become a flashpoint topic that divides the country politically. Several presidents and legislatures have failed to come together on solutions. Recently, a huge influx of illegal immigrants coming from Central American countries has added fuel to the flames of the debate.

All this bellicosity, anger, and paralysis has obscured something essential about the United States. Everybody still wants to come here, live here, work here, and in astounding numbers, wants to become a citizen. Immigration and naturalization occurs every day and every year, in simple, and quite emotional, occasions all over the country. It’s an ongoing process that appears to be little noticed in all the media and political tumult.

In 2012, by May, some 500,000 people from all parts of the world had become citizens through the process of naturalization. Some 600,000 have done so so far this year. Every year, there are special occasions for large naturalization events, celebrating the long standing virtues of the United States¬—that this is a place where—not always, but most of the time—the door has been open for people from elsewhere in the world.
On Aug. 1, 25 children from countries all over the world received citizenship certificates by dint of the fact that their parents had already become citizens. The event was held in the North Garden at Dumbarton House (its director Karen Daly is shown below at a podium) on Q Street with the help of staff from the U.S. Citizens and Immigration Services, and was hosted in conjunction with the D.C. region’s Star-Spangled Summer War of 1812 Commemorative programming.

This was not a political event, but rather a celebration of proud children and proud parents who had become citizens of the U.S. They came from El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Iran, Iraq, Morocco, Pakistan, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Switzerland, Syria, Togo and Vietnam.

Naturalization events, in which immigrants pledge allegiance to the United States, after passing tests on American history and government, civics and English, were held in large numbers all over the country on the Fourth of July. On September 17, which is Constitution Day and Citizenship Day, similar events will be held at military bases, national parks, presidential libraries and historic sites, including Faneuil Hall in Boston; Glacier Point at Yosemite National Park; National Monument in Grand Junction, Colo.; the Harry Truman Presidential Library in Independence, Mo.; the National Archives in Washington, D.C.; the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas; Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii, and others.
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Robert Devaney •

Love locks, which have been showing up on the railing of Key Bridge that links Georgetown and Arlington, will be cut off the structure Thursday by the District Department of Transportation, the agency says.

While Washington, D.C., may not want to look like it is anti-romantic, the padlocks are seen as damaging to the bridge over the long term.

“We are all about love—a nice bridge is love, a working bridge is love—but we are going to have to take them down,” DDOT spokesperson Reggie Sanders told WJLA. “It is an aesthetic problem as well.”

While love locks have been around for a long time, love locks on bridges gained major popularity in Europe within the past 10 years. Locks are put on railings or fences with a special inscription for the two lovers. Locks have also been cluttering up the Brooklyn Bridge. In June, the love-famed Pont des Arts footbridge in Paris near the Louvre lost part of its fencing which collapsed under the weight of so many locks.

Sanders further argued to WTOP: “Locks are being removed because we don’t want to establish a precedence where our structures could become polluted with these types of campaigns. Also, it could jeopardize the functionality of the railings.”

Robert Devaney •

Besides the dumpsters and service vehicles lined up for house renovations across Georgetown, major projects have gotten underway that involve schools, parkland and an old theater.

Duke Ellington School of the Arts is closed until September 2016 for redesign, renovation and additions. It is surrounded by a painted plywood barrier. The $82-million project will expand the historic school — built in 1898 and originally known as Western High School — to 294,900 square feet. The interior of the school will contain an atrium and a new 850-seat theater. The rooftop will have a classroom along with limited-use space. The school’s main portico will be preserved.

Work on the addition for Hyde-Addison Elementary Public School is being set up. Here is what the D.C. Department of General Services has said, in part: “This project involves the construction of an addition to Hyde Elementary that will consist of approximately 9,500 feet of additional space as well as a Phase 1 modernization of the existing Hyde school. It is contemplated that the addition will house a ‘Gymatorium,’ a media center and building service space (i.e., additional bathrooms, custodial and circulation space). This project will NOT include interior renovations of the Addison building. Site work will be directed at conserving the existing parking availability, preserving existing playground areas and circulation management. Due to the historic significance of the school and surrounding neighborhood, this project requires presentation of the proposed design to the Old Georgetown Board, the Commission on Fine Arts and State Office of Historic Preservation.”

Part of Rose Park at 26th and O Streets is closed for reconstruction “until sometime in November,” says the D.C. Parks & Recreation Department and D.C. Department of General Services. The playground, tot lot, basketball court and recreation center, including restrooms, are closed. The tennis courts remain open as does the ball field along P Street. The tennis courts will close in late September for two weeks of resurfacing. For more details, contact David Abrams of the Friends of Rose Park at jake.chase@juno.com.

Demolition and rehab work has begun on the old Georgetown Theater property with its iconic “Georgetown” neon vertical sign. Owner and architect Robert Bell contacted the Georgetowner concerning the upcoming reconstruction on the building at 1351 Wisconsin Ave., NW: “I will be removing the old sign and having it rebuilt by the original manufacturer — Jack Stone Signs — who still has all the templates and parts. I expect to have it removed in September and returned renovated in October, during which time I will be removing the faux stone and stuccoing the front façade to return it to the 1940 design.”

Robert Devaney •

The D.C. Department of Parks and Recreation released the Outdoor Aquatic Facilities Closure Schedule for the 2014 summer season. DPR will implement the first phase of Outdoor Pool closures starting on Sunday, August 10. Below is information received from DPR.

• All Outdoor Pools will close in waves beginning on Sunday, August 10. Pools will close for the season at 6 pm on their respective Sundays.

• All Children’s Pools will close for the season at 6 pm on Sunday, August 17.

• All Spray Parks will close for the season at 7 pm on Labor Day, Monday, September 1. Please note that select spray parks will undergo renovations after September 1.

• East Potomac Outdoor Pool will close for the season at 6 pm on Sunday, October 19.

Below is the comprehensive closure schedule for the 2014 season. Pools are listed by type (Outdoor, Children’s and Spray Park) and then by date. Please call DPR’s Aquatics office at 202-671-1289 should you have additional questions or need further assistance.

2014 OUTDOOR AND CHILDREN’S POOLS CLOSURE SCHEDULE

– Closed August 10 for the season:

• Ward 5: Langdon Park Pool (2860 Mills Ave., NE)

• Ward 7: Kelly Miller Pool (4900 Brooks St., NE)

• Ward 8: Douglass Pool (1921 Fredrick Douglass Ct., SE)

– Closing at 6 pm on Sunday, August 17 for the season:

• Ward 1: Park View Children’s Pool (693 Otis Pl., NW)

Happy Hollow Children’s Pool (2200 Champlain St., NW)

• Ward 5: Harry Thomas Sr. Pool (1743 Lincoln Rd., NE)

• Ward 6: Lincoln Capper Children’s Pool (555 L St., SE)

Watkins Children’s Pool (420 12th St., SE)

• Ward 7: Benning Park Pool (5100 Southern Ave., SE)

– Closing at 6 pm on Sunday, August 24 for the season:

• Ward 2: Jelleff Pool (3265 S St., NW)

Volta Park Pool (1555 34th St., NW)

• Ward 5: Theodore Hagans Jr. Pool (3201 Fort Lincoln Dr., NE)

• Ward 6: Randall Pool (25 I St., SW)

• Ward 7: Fort Dupont Pool (830 Ridge Rd., SE)

• Ward 8: Anacostia Pool (1800 Anacostia Dr., SE)
Fort Stanton Pool (1800 Erie St., SE)

– Closing at 6 pm on Monday, September 1 for the season:

• Ward 1: Banneker Pool (2500 Georgia Ave., NW)

• Ward 2: Francis Pool (2435 N St., NW)

• Ward 4: Upshur Pool (4300 Arkansas Ave., NW)

• Ward 6: Rosedale Pool (1701 Gales St., NE)

• Ward 8: Oxon Run Pool (501 Mississippi Ave., SE)

– Closing at 6 pm on Sunday, October 19 for the season:

• Ward 2: East Potomac Pool (972 Ohio Dr., SW)

SPRAY PARKS CLOSURE SCHEDULE

– Closing at 7 pm on Monday, September 1 for the season:

• Ward 1: 14th & Girard Street Spray Park (14th & Girard Sts., NW)

14th & Park Road Spray Park (14th St. & Park Rd., NW)

Columbia Heights Spray Park (1480 Girard St., NW)

Harrison Spray Park (1330 V St., NW)

• Ward 3: Chevy Chase Rec. Ctr. Spray Park (5500 41st St., NW)

Friendship Spray Park (4500 Van Ness St., NW)

Macomb Spray Park (3409 Macomb St., NW)

Palisades Spray Park (5200 Sherier Pl., NW)

• Ward 4: Fort Stevens Spray Park (1327 Van Buren St., NW)

Lafayette Spray Park (5900 33rd St., NW)

Petworth Spray Park (801 Taylor St., NW)

Riggs LaSalle Spray Park (501 Riggs Rd., NE)

Takoma Spray Park (300 Van Buren St., NW)

• Ward 5: Joseph H. Cole Spray Park (1299 Neal St., NE)

Turkey Thicket Spray Park (1100 Michigan Ave., NW)

• Ward 6: Kennedy Spray Park (1401 7th St., NW)

• Ward 7: Fort Davis Spray Park (1400 41st St., SE)

Hillcrest Spray Park (3100 Denver St., NW)

• Ward 8: Fort Greble Spray Park (ML King Jr. Ave. & Elmira St., SW)

To contact DPR Aquatics Division, call 202-671-1289 or online at DPR Aquatics Activities or DPR Aquatics Facilities.

Robert Devaney •

The lively and delicious restaurant, Neyla, at 3206 N Street, next to Billy Martin’s Tavern, has lost its lease and will suspend operations on Sunday night, Aug. 17. Those involved with Neyla say they hope to find a new location.

Neyla is part of Capital Restaurant Concepts., Ltd. which owns nearby Paolo’s and its original place, J. Paul’s, on M Street as well as Old Glory and other spots.

Neyla — which means “fulfilled wish” — said this about itself: “the Mediterranean spirit of prosperity, abundance and success, is present in this urban caravanserai.” With its Lebanese and Near Eastern menus, Neyla was a welcoming spot for a simple meal or a VIP celebratory dinner.

The restaurant issued a statement on its website last week:

“Dear Neyla Friends and Family,

Thank you for letting us serve you over the past 15 years. Our lease at this location has come to an end. Our last day of business will be August 17, 2014.
Many of you are not just guests but friends and neighbors, and we will miss you.

It has been our please to serve each and every one of you our authentic Mediterranean cuisine.

We are actively looking a new location for Neyla. Let’s stay connected via Facebook, Twitter and our website for the news about Neyla.”

Georgetowner •

The Alcoholic Beverage Control Board has issued new guidelines today that will allow unlicensed websites and smartphone applications to provide alcohol services in the District.

The following is from the board:

The Alcoholic Beverage Regulation Administration (ABRA) recently reviewed several technology businesses that partner with liquor-licensed retailers to provide alcohol order and delivery services. ABRA informed companies Drizly and Klink today that the board did not find their business models in violation of District law.

The board advises technology companies facilitating the sale of alcohol through websites and apps to limit their operations to:

• Connecting consumers over the Internet to District retailers, such as liquor and grocery stores; and/or

• Promoting a retailer’s alcoholic products.

Technology companies are restricted from:

• Soliciting, selling and shipping orders for alcoholic beverages;

• Storing alcoholic beverages for sale to consumers; and

• Collecting any money, fees or transacting any credit or debit cards for the sale of alcoholic beverages.

Any credit or debit card information provided to a website or app would need to be transferred to a liquor-licensed retailer in order to complete the transaction. The licensee would also need to retain the discretion to process or deny any order. Complete details are available in the Board’s “ABC Board Advisory Opinion – Online Service Providers” and online, the ABC Quick Guide.
“We encourage businesses that facilitate the sale of alcoholic beverages to contact the agency before starting any new operations in the District,” said ABRA Director Fred Moosally. “This will allow us to ensure operations are compliant with the law before they begin.”

A technology company that violates D.C. law could be subject to criminal and civil penalties as well as an order to cease operations in the District. A licensed retailer that violates the law could face fines and possible suspension or revocation of its license.

Businesses that have questions can contact ABRA by email or call 202-442-4423. Complete District alcoholic beverage laws and regulations are available on ABRA’s website — www.ABRA.DC.gov.

Gary Tischler •

If cats have nine lives—and there was always something feline about her–Lauren Bacall had at least several in her life of legend.

Chapters in her early years can be boiled down to: before Bogey, with Bogey and right after Bogey. The rest involved a dwindling movie career, a resoundingly spectacular Broadway stage career with a cluster of roles that gave her diva status and a stately, always long-legged, glide into legend, an idea which she didn’t much cotton to.

As there always is, there was the last act, her death: at age 89 of a stroke Aug. 12 at the Dakota on the Upper West Side of New York City, where she lived for many years. It resurrected all in all of the venues of communications that comprise the forever industry and followed on the heels of the horribly sad loss of Robin Williams, who took his own life.

Hers was quite a life, if not quite a wonderful life, seeing as she began as a nice Jewish girl, named Betty Joan Perske. The name Lauren was chosen for her by director Howard Hawks—a man’s man director if there ever was one—who thought it sounded classy. She was not one of those stars who necessarily answered to her movie star name—she always preferred to be called Betty by her friends.

Hawks saw a 1943 cover that she did as a teen model in Harper’s Bazaar, all smoke and mirrors and sultry, and cast her in “To Have and Have Not,” a Warner Brothers classic tough-guy hero picture based on a novel by Ernest Hemingway, the ultimate tough guy writer, until Norman Mailer came along, and starring the premier Hollywood and American tough guy of deep cynicism and wise cracks, Humphrey Bogart. Into this booze-scented mélange of testosterone walked (and slithered and shimmied and even sang) Lauren/Betty, all of 19 years old, and Bogart—just watch the scenes sometime—looked like the 45-year-old-guy who’s forgotten how old he is. It didn’t happen in a second, but it was pretty fast for a time that didn’t have speed dating.

Bacall and Bogart made four movies together—“To Have and Have Not,” “The Big Sleep,” “Key Largo” and “Dark Passage,” the first three classics of the Hollywood black-and-white golden age of noir.

Bacall may have been 19 years old, and in youth astonishingly beautiful, but she looked and acted like an adult. She was in your face and imagination and mind even (and one time, especially, when she was walking away.) Movie buffs know all the lines from that movie (“To Have and Have Not”) and moments—she’s seen in a doorway, kind of posing, pulls out a cigarette and asks, “Anybody got a light?” Bogey, after some thought, throws her a book of matches, which she catches like a slick con woman. She lights up, starts to walk, turns around and says, “Thanks.” This single word hit Bogey like a paragraph. Or “You know how To whistle, don’t you? You just put your lips together and blow.” Or after a kiss, “It’s even better when you help,” and after yet another kiss, “And if you shave, maybe we could do it again.”

No wonder they got married, after so much smooching.

In the 1950s, when live drama was in vogue on television, they appeared together in a Producer’s Showcase production of “The Petrified Forest,” with Bogey, noticeably gaunt, reprising his role of the gangster Duke Mantee from the 1930s. Bacall took on the Bette Davis role, and Henry Fonda played the idealistic writer, originally performed by Leslie Howard.

Bacall said she didn’t care about the age difference and considered it a plus—she was 19, Bogey was 45, when she taught us how to whistle. It’s fair to say there were occasions of disparity and discomfort, nothing that could harm a relationship which endured mostly happy until his death from throat cancer.

Those years with Bogart spanned the last years and legends of studio-made Hollywood and made Bacall one of the last surviving members, a bigger than life figure, partly because of Bogart, and the other men in her life—an odd grouping of a caddish Frank Sinatra, a roaringly-drunk but gifted Jason Robards, and even Adlai Stevenson, the cerebral man who would be but never was president.

Her movies tended to be a uneven array—a splashy fashion romance with Gregory Peck called “Designing Woman,” a high society femme fatale who almost undoes the jazz gift of Kirk Douglas, in the China seas with John Wayne in “Blood Alley,” sparkling and outstanding alongside Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell (she’s the thin one) in “How To Marry A Millionaire,” being stalked by Michael Biehn and loved by James Garner in “The Fan,” a widow-lady in John Wayne’s last western, “The Shootist,” and being nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in the Barbra Streisand weeper, “The Mirror Has Two Faces,” in 1996.

Perhaps because of Robards, who was considered American theater’s most brilliant interpreter of Eugene O’Neill—and a pretty good movie actor, too—she found herself on Broadway, not with O’Neill but with lighter, diva-like fare, sharp comedies like “Goodbye Charlie” and “Cactus Flower.” To cap it all off, two Tony Awards for “Applause,” which was based on “All About Eve” (she had the Bette Davis part), and “Woman of the Year,” in which she played a woman journalist opposite Harry Guardino. It’s no surprise that the part was originated by Katharine Hepburn, or that she was a good pal of the marvelous Kate. Two of a kind, if you ask anybody.

In the end, Bacall became what she didn’t want to become: legendary, for all the right reasons, the best people and the best of times in Hollywood. Here’s looking at her, the kid.

Robert Devaney •

Georgia Kirk Shallcross died suddenly at her home in Marshall, Va., near Middleburg, Va., August 25. She was well known around Washington, D.C., especially in Georgetown, where she had lived with her family for 22 years — and wrote a column for many years for the Georgetowner.

Shallcross leaves behind her two children, James Halsey Shallcross, 19, and Marina Kirk Shallcross, 15, with her former husband Jim Shallcross. She is also survived by her mother Barbara Copanos, better known to her grandchildren as “Ba Ba,” and by her fatherJohn Demitri Copanos and brother John Copanos. She was 51.

Her mother Barbara talked to the Georgetowner about her daughter, noting her intellectual curiosity, and said, “She was a wonderful mother. And with her love and knowledge of art history, she explained so much to her children.”

Born on Oct. 9, 1962, Shallcross grew up in Baltimore and attended the Friends School of Baltimore and Garrison Forest School. She earned a B.A. in art history at Hollins College and a master’s degree in English literature at George Washington University. She also studied briefly at the Sorbonne in Paris. After college, she was a fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and then worked at the nearby, private Wildenstein Gallery for two years.

In New York, Shallcross met her husband Jim Shallcross. They moved to Georgetown and had two children, James Halsey Shallcross and Marina Kirk Shallcross. Upon their divorce, Jim Shallcross moved to Greenwich, Conn., and the son Halsey attends the Riverview School in Sandwich, Mass. Georgia Shallcross moved to Middleburg, Va., where her daughter Marina attends Foxcroft School.

For 18 years, Shallcross was a contributing columnist to The Georgetowner newspaper. This year, she began a column, called “The Georgetown Insider,” for Washington Life magazine. She also had written for Capitol File magazine. Among her other work activities, Shallcross was a life coach and an advisor on astrology.

“I have known Georgia for more than 23 years,” said Sonya Bernhardt, publisher of The Georgetowner. “She was insightful, creative, articulate, lots of fun and a very good friend. Our mutual interest in art drew us together and never left us. I am saddened beyond words.”

“Georgia was full of energy and full of life,” said John Arundel, associate publisher of Washington Life. “What happened was a true tragedy. She was a beloved person in Georgetown and involved in everything. She wrote with punch and flair. She was a beautiful writer.”

Georgetowner • September 8, 2014

Arvind Manocha, president and CEO of Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts, will headline a breakfast discussion on 8 a.m., Thursday, Sept. 11, at the George Town Club.

The event is the latest in the Cultural Leadership Breakfast Series with talks, hosted by the Georgetown Media Group—publisher of The Georgetowner and The Downtowner Newspapers. The speakers are all-stars in their fields as well as being newcomers to the Washington, D.C., arts scene.

The series continues on Oct. 9 with Melissa Chiu, recently appointed director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. On Nov. 6, Deborah Rutter, new president of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will meet us for breakfast and a talk.

These informal events for D.C. cultural insiders take place from 8 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. at the George Town Club, 1530 Wisconsin Ave., NW. The cost is $20 per person per breakfast ($15 for George Town Club members). To reserve a place, email richard@georgetowner.com or call 202-338-4833. Please note that space is limited.

Georgetowner • September 3, 2014

Smithsonian Collects Six FFA Jackets to Showcase Nation’s Agricultural Story

July 25th, 2014 at 10:00 AM | meeganl@si.edu | Tel: 202-633-3129 | Event Website

In a special donation ceremony, the National Museum of American History will collect six jackets worn by FFA members, including the one worn by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. The jackets will be on display in the museum’s upcoming exhibition, “American Enterprise,” in a section showcasing the nation’s rich agricultural heritage.

The museum is also collecting the donors’ photos and stories for its Agricultural and Innovation Heritage Archive, an online portal launched in 2013.

Address

Warner Bros. Theater; National Museum of American History Constitution Avenue, between 12th and 14th streets N.W.

Susan Calloway: Caroline Adams Egg Tempera

July 26th, 2014 at 10:00 AM | gallery@callowayart.com | Tel: 202 965 4601 | Event Website

Mix egg yolk with powdered pigment and you have egg tempera, a painting medium that has been used for over 1,000 years. A successful Kickstarter campaign provided the funding for Washington artist Caroline Adams’s project to make 50 paintings in egg tempera. Combining 21st century crowdsourcing with ancient techniques is a natural path for the classically-minded artist.

An artist reception will be held Friday, August 15 from 6 to 8 p.m.

Address

Susan Calloway Fine Arts; 1643 Wisconsin Ave NW

Extraordinary Acupuncture Seminar

July 26th, 2014 at 10:00 AM | Free | info@thegilbertclinic.com | Tel: 301-215-4177 | Event Website

Jonathan Gilbert, acupuncturist extraordinaire and former lecturer at Johns Hopkins and University of Maryland, presents a practical and engaging overview of acupuncture, how it works, what it is used for, and a brief history of the Han dynasty culture that created Traditional Chinese Medicine to answer health and medical questions of its time . . . and ours.

RSVP to (301) 215-4177 or info@thegilbertclinic.com.

Address

The Gilbert Clinic; Bethesda Crossing, Wisconsin Tower East; 7315 Wisconsin Ave, Ste 760E; Bethesda, MD 20814

Free Talk on Lucretia Mott

July 26th, 2014 at 02:00 PM | Tel: 202.727.0233

On Saturday, July 26th the nationally syndicated opinion columnist and Washington, D.C. resident Jamie Stiehm will present “The Triangle of Slave Emancipation: Lucretia, Frederick and Abraham. It took a Friend, an Escaped Slave and an Outsider President to Set Enslaved People Free.” The talk focuses on American Quaker, abolitionist, women’s rights activist, and social reformer Lucretia Mott.

Address

The Peabody Room, located on the third floor of the Georgetown Neighborhood Library (3260 R Street, NW.)

Unlimited Beer at The Block

July 26th, 2014 at 01:00 PM | $40 | ilovebeer@drinkthedistrict.com | Tel: 2026183663 | Event Website

Get your birthday hats and streamers ready… it’s time for Drink the District: Birthday Beer Bash! For a limited time, presale tickets are just $40, so buy them while you can! Come and over 100 national and international beers and select full pour options.

Whether you like to drink or party, the three hour sessions allow attendees to get out of the bars and into the sunshine to socialize with other young professionals, live music, play games and eat from the best food trucks DC has to offer.

Address

The Block; 500 New York Ave NW

Tom Principato

July 27th, 2014 at 05:00 PM | Free | Tel: 703-790-0123 |

Part of the Summer Sunday Concerts in the Park series. Tom Principato is one of the most unique guitarists around, combining his rich blues background with high-energy rock, and a highly charged, emotionally expressive delivery. Concerts will be held in the McLean Central Park Gazebo, located at Route 123 and Old Dominion Drive. Parking available at McLean Community Center.

Address

McLean Central Park Gazebo; 1468 Dolley Madison Blvd; McLean, VA 22102

Summer Concerts: Washington Performing Arts Children of the Gospel Choir

July 27th, 2014 at 02:00 PM | Free | marcommintern@nbm.org | Event Website

Free. This youth choir showcases uniquely talented voices in its distinctive style of high-energy performances.

Address

National Building Museum; 401 F St. NW