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Georgetowner • September 9, 2013

Australia Home Land

September 6th, 2013 at 06:00 PM | Free to The Public | Event Website

CityDance resident artist, Sarah J. Ewing, is premiering her dance work, Australia Home Land, at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Millennium Stage on September 5 & 6 at 6:00PM. The performance is free to the public!

Australia Home Land, Ewing’s first full-length piece, was selected as one of two works commissioned in this year’s Kennedy Center Local Dance Commissioning Project. Five dancers struggle to co-exist on a dual-level set featuring a cross-section of Australia’s red earth. This unusual set uses the Millenium stage in a fresh and unexpected way. The tension created by the space is integral to the dancers interactions adding dimension to an already strong story.

Address

Kennedy Center Millennium Stage; 2700 F St NW, Washington

Vintage Poster Sale

September 6th, 2013 at 10:00 AM | FREE | GALLERY@CALLOWAYART.COM | Tel: 202-965-4601 | Event Website

Vintage Poster Trunk Sale with Mark J. Weinbaum Fine Posters and Prints, who works out of New York City, will exhibit up to 100 works over the September weekend. The collection focuses on decorative and rare historical posters, with a wide variety of categories and time periods available. All of his posters and prints represent the best quality available on the market place.

Address

Susan Calloway Fine Arts; 1643 Wisconsin Ave NW

Local 11th Street Bridge Celebration

September 7th, 2013 at 12:00 PM | 11thstreet@eventsmanagementdc.com | Tel: 202-558-6545 | Event Website

Free and open to all, this festive community event will commemorate the completion and full opening of the new local bridge portion of the larger 11th Street Bridge Project — which is the largest project in the District Department of Transportation’s history – and also again honor fallen Metropolitan Police Officer Kevin J. Welsh.

Address

Local 11th Street Bridge

“Al Gray, Marine… The Early Years 1950-1967” Book Signing

September 7th, 2013 at 12:00 PM | Free | dgregory@susandavis.com | Tel: 202-414-0785

Retired General Alfred M. Gray, Jr., the 29th Commandant of the Marine Corps, will be signing his book “Al Gray, Marine… The Early Years 1950-1967.”

Address

Museum Store at the National Museum of the Marine Corps 18900 Jefferson Davis Highway Triangle, VA 22172

8th Annual Events DC Nation’s Triathlon

September 8th, 2013 at 07:00 AM | Registration for 2013 Nation’s Triathlon is currently closed | Event Website

The 8th Annual Events DC Nation’s Triathlon to Benefit The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society will take place Sunday, September 8, 2013 in the nation’s capital, Washington, DC. It features a course that winds through Washington, DC’s monument corridor in the shadow of the nation’s best known memorials and national treasures. This International Distance triathlon, sanctioned by the USAT, includes a 1.5k swim in the Potomac River, 40k bike course through DC, and a 10k run through Washington, DC’s historical landmarks with a spectacular finish!

Address

West Potomac Park near West Potomac Park, West Basin Dr SW,

Opening Reception: Frank Day & Allison Hardy

September 10th, 2013 at 05:30 PM | Free | info@efronart.com | Tel: 2022231626 | Event Website

Boston Properties is pleased to open on September 10th at The Heurich Gallery an exhibition featuring photography by Frank Hallam Day and the drawings of Allison Long Hardy.

Address

The Heurich Gallery; 505 Ninth Street NW

Gary Tischler •

“It’s a girl!”

Living in Washington, it’s always difficult and tantalizing to juggle personal history with the kind that goes on right outside: a bus ride from the National Mall, a Metro ride to the Pentagon, a bracing walk to the White House, a jaunt along Embassy Row.

The world is with us always here in Washington in its various monumental manifestations, in the buzz that buzzes from the White House lawns, or those just walking by holding up signs. In Washington, we always live in several places at once—we live in our domicile, our hearth, heart and home, our block and neighborhood, where we work and how we work, in that great place just around the corner where the news always happen—world news, political news, foreign news, and news that seems foreign.

We recognize this more than ever during the course of a long, not-so-hot-around-here summer and its end” how the international, the national, the local and colloquial mash up.

So—“it’s a boy” was the long awaited news from London that Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, had a baby, heir to the British throne, which we all duly watched on the telly, read about—and continue to do avidly—in People and their ilk.

“It’s a girl” was a cry that echoed from a few blocks away the same time as it did over the air waves and the internet. It revealed the sex of the new panda cub, whose birth only a few days ago was met with universal jubilation that seemed every bit as precious as the news of the new prince. It was also related that Tian Tian was the father, and so the new cub is the daughter of Tian Tian (by way of artificial insemination) and Mei Xiang, and not Gao Gao, the wild boy from the San Diego Zoo who had been rescued from the wild by the Chinese.

The birth and identification of the new cub—may she live long and prosper—was an example of how big news here can be international. The Chinese, for sure, care about it, as do the thousands of visitors to the National Zoo who will have to content themselves with eyeing the “Panda Cam,” like the rest of us. But we who live in the city, and we who live just around the corner from the Panda domain, care a little more. It is, after all, a new kid in the neighborhood.

We, as does the rest of the world, receive this wee bit of news fully aware that people lately have been talking mostly about war, Syria, war crimes and air strikes—along with their efficacy, moral and practical. A lot of that talk is coming from right down the street on Pennsylvania Avenue, such that you think you can hear it echo sometimes. But a lot of that talk about Syria is also on the lips of Main Streeters all across the country, who are distressed about the pictures of dead children and who are less hungry to get into another mess in the region where we fought two long, costly and not all that fruitful wars.

We know where we live all the time—the city of monuments, memorials and momentous times and events where ripples from elsewhere—the not-guilty verdict in the Zimmerman-Martin case this summer—soon find their way into the halls of government, or are expressed in the remembrance and celebration of the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington and Martin Luther King, Jr., and his “I have a Dream” speech. Thousands of us went to the National Mall and others watched on television or saw or talked with the celebrants in our neighborhoods. Often, softly, and carefully, except perhaps at home, we talked about race, but rarely with people of different races than our own. In this city, which still has no voting representation in Congress, we are keenly aware of the echoes that we hear.

People—members of our elected government in the city council, our cultural and economic boosters and leaders—tell us we are living in a world-class city full of world class opportunities and life styles. We could be Parisians or New Yorkers, for all we know. I suspect, though, that we’re Washingtonians and the people that surround us in our neighborhoods, wondering if we could ever eat at all the new restaurants in our lifetimes, see all the new plays, hear all the new songs at both the 9:30 Club, Blues Alley and the Hamilton and drive out to Wolf Trap, too. We love the new bike racks, and curse the bikers, sometimes all at once. In our neighborhood in Lanier Heights, we are saddened about the disappearance of Romeo, the gray and white house cat at Joseph’s House.

Then, there are days or weekends, when we would rather be here than any place else in the world, real or imagined. To me, it was the weekend of the beginning of the celebration of the March, which was history up close and personal, once (or twice) as was the case for some, in a lifetime. The history-remembered songs and memories from that march weekend mixed in with the regular Sunday visit to the Dupont Circle market, for the pies, the crab cake man, the bouquet of flowers, the blueberry scone, and the couple from Virginia who make soup that flavor country with Asian tang and taste. I remember finding a CD at Second Story Books across the circle on P Street: “Eric Clapton: Me and Mr. Johnson,” the great blues player’s salute to the great blues man Robert Johnson. We came home and saw the grandfather across the street holding his son’s baby in his lap and waved.

The panda cub had just been born a day or so before.

And today: “It’s a girl!”

According to the National Zoo, the female cub “has a fat little belly.” Oh, happy day.

Gary Tischler • August 29, 2013

Elmore Leonard, the writer, died Aug. 20 of complications from a stroke, according to his researcher. He was 87. He had three wives, five children, 13 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren and also sired dozens of books, numerous short stories and numerous movies, made-for-TV movies and television episodes, based on the numerous short stories and novels that he wrote with a clean clarity that rivaled Ernest Hemingway, whose style inspired him, Leonard said, except that “he didn’t have a sense of humor.”

A lot already has been made over Leonard’s writing: that it was artful, stylish and included the best dialogue ever written, that his books looked you straight in the eye and were examples of American prose and American talk. Claims will be made for his work’s higher meaning, all of which Leonard, plain spoken, funny and tough, would probably smile about. But then again, lots of people think “Moby Dick” was about a white whale being chased by Gregory Peck.

I think it’s fair to say, nevertheless, that Leonard was a pro, a guy with a degree in English and philosophy, who wrote in the American vernacular. He probably had a philosophy — plus ten rules about writing — which centered around the sin of over-writing and taking oneself too seriously. This turns out to mean that he was a very serious man, who didn’t break his own rules too much. “If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it,” he said. That was rule numero uno.

Leonard started out writing westerns and short stories, working in the age of pulp fiction at the start, although his work always seemed a cut above such a useless category—because you could find people like Max Brand, Dashiel Hammett, Ross McDonald and Raymond Chandler in there. He was a working stiff, supporting a wife and five children, and he did mighty, fine work even back then, some of which would also become movies—the first version of “3:10 to Yuma,” starring Glenn Ford and Van Heflin, and the more recent version starring Russell Crowe. But he also sold a story that would become a movie called “Hombre,” starring Paul Newman as a half-breed gunslinger which got him enough cash to breathe a little easy, or long enough to enter the arena of what he liked to think of as regular novels.

Truth to tell, Leonard’s writings were thrillers or novels which centered around criminals and crimes of one sort or another, with complicated anti-heros, smart, tough and sexy women and villains that were psychopaths, killers, corrupt cops and politicians, scam artists, grifters, mobsters and hit men, a revolutionary or two, political hacks and the like. Many of them, even the most evil of men, waxed wise, when threatening folks or being threatened, or avoided commitment to jail or love. Some of his protagonists were better than they should be. Others fell way short, although not a guy named Shorty from a book called “Get Shorty.” And they talked—they talked more than three Irishmen at the same table in a bar or your mother-in-law.

Over time, I will admit to reading most of his books, because while you could be sure of the authenticity of the stuff in it, you never knew where it would go, where it was set, or how exactly it was going to end—partly because the good guys were so intimately connected to the bad guys and partly because there were smart female characters in them, who revealed very little except when they would end up in the bed of the leading male character. Even then, they gave up not so much.

The following are a few of my favorites in no special order.

= “52 Pick-Up”: a really nasty book in which a powerful guy gets blackmailed over adultery by psychotic types (Roy Scheider and Ann-Margret in the movie).

= “Get Shorty”: the best book about Hollywood and its scumbags ever written—take that F. Scott– funny, cheerfully mean-spirited, scathing and sharp with John Travolta as a made guy and fixer type, who looks like a crusader compared to the Hollywood types in the movie version, which featured Gene Hackman.

= “Cat Chaser”: drug dealers and other bad guys and women in Miami.

= “Out of Sight”: a bank robber who takes too much care with his give-me-the-money notes (George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez in the movie).

= “Cuba Libre”: set in the time of the Spanish American war.

= “Maximum Bob,” “Tishimingo Blues” and “La Brava”.

Oh, the hell with it. I loved everyone of the books I read, and I am about to start another for the sheer celebration of it. Why? I love the title: “Up In Honey’s Room.”

It starts this way: “Honey phoned her sister-in-law Muriel still living in Harlan County, Kentucky, to tell her she’d left Walter Schoen, calling him Valter, and was on her way to being Honey Deal again. She said to Muriel, “I honestly thought I could turn him around but the man still acts like a Nazi. I couldn’t budge him.” The last line of the book is: “ You gonna tell her about Honey walking around in her high heels, naked?”

My guess he won’t. That’s some woman, that Honey.

That’s some writer, that Elmore Leonard.

Robert Devaney •

Drybar should have the skills to untangle this mess of its own making with the D.C. government.

It seems the popular blow dry establishment, at 1825 Wisconsin Ave., NW, near Safeway, never quite applied for the correct business permits, when it opened almost a year ago. So, on Aug. 16, the D.C. Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs, shut it down.

“There was a technical glitch or error in the business license filing with the D.C. government. Drybar is working diligently with it to correct the error. Meanwhile, we are routing appointments to our Bethesda shop,” a company spokesperson told the Georgetowner.

“They came in to get their certificate of occupancy last week and are working to obtain the necessary salon business license,” emailed DCRA’s Helder Gil to Georgetown Patch, which first reported the closing.

“We truly and sincerely apologize and are working as quickly as possible to untangle this mess!” wrote Drybar founder and owner to her clients. “We will let you know as soon as it is resolved.”

Gary Tischler •

I saw Julie Harris for the first time in a live performance when I was in high school in the 1950s—it was Jean Anoulih’s version of the Joan of Arc story, “The Lark,” on Hallmark Hall of Fame when network television broadcast and produced live drama on a regular basis

I probably did not fully understood much of what I was seeing in those days, that it was live theater of a sorts, but I could sense that Harris was something pretty special, especially on stage.

Over the years, you could catch Harris in plenty of memorable film roles—opposite James Dean, no less, in “East of Eden, in the film version of Carson McCullers’s great and haunting novel, “Member of the Wedding,” in “The Haunting” and “Requiem for a Heavyweight,” and much later, in a small but striking role in “Out of Africa.” She was also in a television prime soap opera at one point, being part of the “Knots Landing” gang, a factoid which will no doubt lead of her obituary somewhere in some publication or blog.

Harris, who died of congestive heart failure at age 87 this past week, was, even with all the movies and television, a certifiable legend of the stage, a star of Broadway, a person who lived in the ephemeral world of a play being performed on a stage in front of breathing and feeling audiences. It’s a hard thing to become an acting legend this way—after a while, it’s all reduced to memory, rumor, story, someone’s long ago fragmentary keepsake of a thought.

She was fierce and fantastic in “Member of the Wedding,” playing the desperately lonely Frankie, but I never saw her on stage in that. It took a few years, but I caught up with her when I moved to Washington and saw my first play at the Kennedy Center. It was Harris in “The Belle of Amherst,” playing Emily Dickinson, bringing that notoriously secretive recluse to life.

I saw her again being driven around by Brock Peters in “Driving Miss Daisy,” and matching wit, heart and sarcasm with Charles Durning in “The Gin Game,” both also at the Kennedy Center. Later, she was in “Lettuce and Lovage,” a play by Peter Shaffer of “Amadeus.” It was a comedy, with a role that was originally written for Maggie Smith, but which Harris took on the road, eccentric, acidic and unforgettable.

I remember having a telephone conversation with her, and we talked mostly about the theater, her roles, other actors. She seemed a woman incapable of bragging, but she had a sense of humor. After a while, we were just telling each other about plays we had seen, or plays she had been in. It was theater talk of the kind that wasn’t necessarily quotable or memorable in its details but hard to forget in its warmth.

Theater isn’t easy, and being on the stage isn’t easy. Ask any movie star who takes to that high wire on a floorboard, misses his cues and waits for someone to yell “cut.” Harris, by all accounts, worked hard and almost always and certainly often. She had some impediments to stardom. She was of slight stature. She was not by the common definition a great beauty, although she could play one. Her voice was somewhat thin. She overcame these handicaps by dint of finely tuned emotion, by craft, by imagining and being the women she played. She had range. She could convince by the soft sharpness of a gesture and by making the most of all her gifts.

People forget: we all think of “Cabaret” and Sally Bowles as belonging to Liza Minnelli or the last woman to play her on stage. But it was Harris who is cited by author Cristopher Isherwood, upon whose “Berlin Stories” both “Cabaret” and the non-musical, “I Am a Camera,” are based. Isherwood said that Harris was more Sally Bowles than even the character he wrote.

Harris on stage was more than any person created on a page. She was an enchanter, a transformer, an actor and actress who created in front of our eyes and transformed us.

Georgetowner • August 26, 2013

End of Summer Party with Chance Encounters

August 23rd, 2013 at 06:00 PM | gallery@callowayart.com | Tel: 202.965.4601 | [Event Website](http://pinterest.com/callowayart/current-exhibit-chance-encounters/

On View: August 6 – 31

Susan Calloway Fine Arts ends the summer with Chance Encounters, curated by talented summer interns Ben Slyngstad and Sara Erickson. The exhibit highlights the unlimited conversations amongst the gallery’s collection. On exhibit are 13 groupings each a harmonious mixture of styles, media and eras, chosen more for their formal aesthetics – composition, color and strong opposition – rather than for subject matter.

Address

1643 Wisconsin Avenue NW Washington DC 20007

DC Wine Week Wine Tours: The Storybook Tour

August 24th, 2013 at 10:00 AM | $95 | emily@pivotpointcom.com | [Event Website](http://divinewineva.com/wine-tours/wine-tour-2-the-storybook-tour/

For the next few months leading up to DC Wine Week, we have partnered with DiVine Wine Tours of Virginia to offer a series of wine tours to various Virginia wineries.

Stops included: Zephaniah Farm Vineyard, Casanel Winery, North Gate Vineyard

Everyone loves a good story, and this tour is full of them. The wines are delicious on their own, but the stories behind these family-owned wineries will make the wine and your experience that much better.

Address

Please see website for details

Beasley Real Estate Presents “The Incredibles”

August 25th, 2013 at 07:30 PM

Join Beasley Real Estate on Sunday night for a free community movie night!
Now in it’s second year, the “Best of Summer” series is a great opportunity for new and old neighbors to get together and enjoy a great night under the stars. A two-story screen, free popcorn and other goodies too!

Address

Palisades Park; 5200 Sherier Pl NW

Technology for Older Adults

August 26th, 2013 at 03:30 PM | $0-$10 | lindajkh@mac.com | Tel: 202-234-2567

Many questions will be addressed at the next Dupont Circle Village Live and Learn seminar. Dr. Majd Alwan, senior vice president and executive director at the LeadingAge Center for Aging Services and Technologies, will explain new developments in fall detection and prevention, telehealth and remote patient monitoring and electronic health records.

Address

General Federation of Women’s Clubs; 1734 N Street NW

TECRO to sponsor free screenings of “Go Grandriders” on Aug. 26 and 27

August 26th, 2013 at 10:30 AM | Free | lishanlorenzo@gmail.com | Tel: (202) 895-1853 | [Event Website](http://gograndridersdc.eventbrite.com/)

The Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States is sponsoring two free screenings of “Go Grandriders,” the highest-grossing documentary in Taiwanese history. The screenings will be shown at the Avalon Theatre in Washington, DC, on Monday, August 26, at 10:30 a.m. Following the showing of the film, grandrider Chang Hon-dao and his wife (and fellow grandrider) Chang Chen Ying-mei will lead a discussion about their experiences and answer questions.

Address

Avalon Theatre: 5612 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC 20015

Gary Tischler • August 22, 2013

The obituary in the Washington Post for Clyde Everett “Ev” Shorey, who died July 23 of congestive heart failure at his home in Georgetown, tells a story of a career and a passion for the March of Dimes, the charitable organization for which he had been a top lobbyist for a number of years.

The interview with him in the Citizens Association of Georgetown’s Oral History Project in April 2010 tells the story of Ev Shorey, resident of West Lane Keys in Georgetown, where he lived with his wife of 63 years, Joan Burgess Shorey. It’s the story of Shorey, the concerned citizen of Georgetown, who committed to active service and participation in CAG and became its president for a time.

Neither story gives you a sense of the kind of impression Shorey, who was 91, could make if you met him or you watched him preside over CAG meetings.

His professional life of which a significant portion was his eight-year role as a lobbyist for the March of Dimes was surely sparked when his wife contracted Polio in 1953 at a time just before the breakthrough work of Jonas Salk bore practical results. A Yale graduate, Shorey had served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II and was a graduate of Columbia Law School. He had been an attorney in his father’s Chicago law firm and came to Washington where he was deputy general counsel of the U.S. Agency for International Development.

He helped in his role as lobbyist to widen the role of the March of Dimes to include a focus on comprehensive maternal and child health care and was on the organization’s board from 1962 to 1974. He was the first head of the organization’s government affairs office. He had lobbied for such programs as the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children.

In Georgetown, where he and his had moved after raising their children in Cleveland Park, Shorey soon became involved in the community life of the village, his neighbors and CAG. He helped with the creation of watch and guard programs and many other issues but his contributions were more subtly evidenced in his leadership style, which was to grow the organization, persuade other Georgetown resident to take part and lead on various issues.

Both his career on the national stage and his service on CAG were about substance and style, the cheerful and graceful embrace of principled duty. Talking about the people who participated in the block captain program, he called them “great friends and great citizens.” Called a “great motivator” during his interview, he said that “you have to be convinced yourself that you can make a difference. And that it is important to get people to work together to make things happen. “

It’s fair to if you met Shorey, you were not likely to forget him. He had a certain cheerful dignity about him, a friendly curiosity. CAG meetings sometimes—not often—could get volatile or bogged down. Shorey was a great defuser, and persuader a champion of people joining and working together. He was one of those disappearing types of men—he was a gentleman. The description he made of others fits him: for Georgetown and Georgetowners, Everett “Ev” Shorey, was “a great friend, great citizen.”

Shorey is survived by his wife, Joan Burgess Shorey, four children, C. Everett Shorey III and Katherine Herold, David Shorey and Alden Lattu and seven grandchildren.

Gary Tischler • August 21, 2013

Dennis Farina spent a good chunk of his life as a cop chasing crooks in Chicago where he grew up. Right there you have three important C’s of American pop and pulp entertainment: cops, crooks, Chicago.

Then something happened: he met Michael Mann, the stylish movie and television director who was filming a movie in Chicago called “Thief.” Farina, a detective working in burglary, knew something about thieves and worked as a consultant to film crews. Mann, who created the iconic white-suit-drug-dealers cop series “Miami Vice,” liked the cut of Farina’s gib—who wouldn’t—and hired him for a part in the movie. The rest is Farina history.

That look—dramatic eyebrows, a voice that could threaten and soothe, sometimes all at once, and, yes, the mustache—allowed Farina the actor to move smoothly between cops and crooks. As far as that mustache, well, only Tom Selleck could and still does use his mustache as an acting tool better than Farina.

Farina—who died of complications from a blood clot on July 22 at the age of 69—became a familiar face on television. Mann cast him as—hold onto your hats— a cop and star of “Crime Story,” Mann’s next project in television. Farina played Lt. Mike Torello who fought mobsters in Chicago and Las Vegas in the 1950s and 1960s. It was a period piece: stylish, tough, with both cops and mobsters wearing cool hats and often smoking stogies.

In films, including “Thief,” “Midnight Run” and the hugely entertaining “Get Shorty,” based on master crime writer Elmore Leonard’s novel, he played crooks. There was the guy with the big afro in “Thief;” a hood named Jimmy Serrano in “Midnight Run,” which also starred Charles Grodin and Robert DeNiro; and most memorably, a mobster named Ray “Bones” Barboni in “Get Shorty,” which featured John Travolta and Gene Hackman.

But he hit the endurance jackpot when he took on the role of Detective Joe Fontana on “Law and Order.” Nobody could take the place of Jerry Ohrbach as Lenny Brisco on LAO, but Farina gave it a shot in terms of sheer originality. He was a slick one that Fontana, a natty, showy dresser and a bit of a hustler, charming information out of nurses in any way he could. In one word, he was memorable.

In real life Dennis Farina was a Chicago guy, born and raised by Sicilian parents. He was a cop who chased crooks in the city.

In our memory, he played both a cop and a crook, and so he became, in the end, Joe Fontana in the pantheon of “Law and Order.” May Farina rest in peace and may our memories of his talent last forever.

Lisa Gillespie • August 19, 2013

D.C. government is considering building a new soccer stadium for D.C. United, and on July 25, business leaders and government officials proposed to build a 20,000-seat soccer stadium at Buzzard Point in Southwest, D.C. Council members are weighing the project, which might bring new jobs and development to an underutilized section of the city.

At-large councilwoman Anita Bonds said in a release that she wants to hear from residents on the cost and feasibility of the plan and on the impact that the development for waterways and environment, its effect on the construction of the upcoming Frederick Douglass Bridge replacement, the transfer of the Reeves Center as well as ramifications on the Southwest and Southeast neighborhoods. Since the first Major League Soccer season in 1996, United has played its home games at Robert F. Kennedy Stadium, a half-century-old football stadium with deteriorating infrastructure and outdated amenities. Meanwhile, United have seen its rival clubs build soccer-specific venues of their own as the league has grown. The new stadium would potentially open in 2016. [gallery ids="101422,154879" nav="thumbs"]

Georgetowner •

7th Annual African Diaspora International Film Festival – D.C.

AUGUST 16TH, 2013 AT 06:00 PM | $10-$12 | INFO@NYADIFF.ORG | TEL: (212) 864-1760 | EVENT WEBSITE

The African Diaspora International Film Festival comes to DC! The African Diaspora International Film Festival (ADIFF) presents an eclectic mix of urban, classic, independent and foreign films that depict the richness and diversity of the life experience of people of African descent and Indigenous people all over the world.

Friday, August 16, 2013?

Opening Night

?6 p.m. African Independence – Q&A??

Saturday, August 17, 2013?

1 p.m. Otomo?

3:30 p.m. Maestro Issa?

5:30 p.m. The Pirogue?

7:30 p.m. Nishan??

Sunday, August 18, 2013?

1 p.m. The Pirogue?

3 p.m. Return to Gorée?

5:30 p.m. Closing Night?

Tango McBeth

Get full film descriptions and ticket info at: http://nyadiff.org/adiff-washington-dc-2013/

Address

Goethe Institute?; 812 Seventh Street, NW?

Summer concert series hosted by Marine Corps Heritage Foundation

AUGUST 16TH, 2013 AT 07:00 PM | FREE | KDROUIN@SUSANDAVIS.COM | EVENT WEBSITE

The Marine Corps Heritage Foundation continues its outdoor summer concert series tradition with a performance by the Quantico Marine Corps Band. It will perform spirited and patriotic music, celebrating our nation and the history of the Marine Corps. Outdoor concessions will be available. The museum will remain open until the start of the concert. In the event of inclement weather, the concert will be held inside the museum.

Address

National Museum of the Marine Corps?; 18900 Jefferson Davis Highway ?Triangle, VA 22172

Summer Jazz Soiree with the International Club of DC

AUGUST 16TH, 2013 AT 07:00 PM | $20 | EDUCATION@DUMBARTONHOUSE.ORG | TEL: 202-337-2288 | EVENT WEBSITE

Discover one of Georgetown’s historic homes during an evening of jazz, dancing, food and meeting new people from 7-10 p.m. Stroll the gardens and museum, then enjoy a night of dancing to a live jazz ensemble.?? Pie Sisters – Georgetown will be selling a selection of individual sweet and savory pies – menu coming soon. Wine and champagne will be available for purchase from Tradewinds. Water and other drinks will also be on sale. Cash only.

Address

Dumbarton House; ?2715 Q Street NW?

Capital City Showcase

August 17th, 2013 at 10 p.m. | $10/$15 at the door | Tel: 202-431-4704 | [Event Website](

The Capital City Showcase is the variety show that brings you some of the best comedians, musicians, and performing artists in the DMV. Hosted by Christian Hunt, it has featured some of the DC area’s finest stand-up comedians, improv comics, rock bands, jazz bands, acoustic guitarists, and hip-hop artists.

Featured:

rock band [The Grey Area](www.mtv.com/artists/the-grey-area)

comedian [Katherine Jessup](www.twitter.com/titlehere)

comedian [Matty Litwack](www.mattylitwack.com)

comedian [Ol Mike B](www.twitter.com/olmikeb757)

musician [Matt Tarka](www.matttarkamusic.com)

comedian [Gabe Zucker](www.twitter.com/GabeZucker)

Address

D.C. Arts Center; 2438 18th St. NW

End-of-Summer Ice Cream Sunday

AUGUST 18TH, 2013 AT 01:00 PM | $8 | EDUCATION@DUMBARTONHOUSE.ORG | TEL: 202-337-2288 | [EVENT WEBSITE](http://augusticecreamsunday.eventbrite.com/)

Guests will make their own ice cream, and sample an ice cream flavors popular during the federal period. End your visit with a tour of Dumbarton House to learn about the history of early Georgetown and the Federal City.

Ice cream making will be available from 1-2 p.m. A guided tour of the home will commence at 2:15 p.m. or you may take a self-guided tour at any time. Historic lawn games will be also be available throughout the day for children and the young at heart.

Address

Dumbarton House?; 2715 Q Street NW?

Beasley Real Estate Presents ‘Sixteen Candles’

AUGUST 18TH, 2013 AT 07:30 PM

Join Beasley Real Estate on Sunday night for a free community movie night!? Now in its second year, the Best of Summer series is a great opportunity for new and old neighbors to get together and enjoy a great night under the stars.? A two-story screen, free popcorn and other goodies, too.

Address

Logan Circle; ?St. Luke’s; 1514 15th St NW (Corner of 15th & P)?