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Weekend Round Up September 24, 2015
• September 28, 2015
Side-by-Side with Gun and Dog
September 25th, 2015 at 10:00 AM | Tel: (540) 687-6542 | Event Website
Side-by-Side with Gun and Dog and the accompanying in-depth exhibition catalogue explore the quintessential relationship between man and sporting canines in eighteenth- through twentieth-century British, European, and American portraits and landscapes. This ambitious loan exhibition organized by the NSLM brings together forty-five paintings and sculpture from public and private collections.
Address
National Sporting Library & Museum; 102 The Plains Road; Middleburg, VA 20117
Friendship Betrayed
September 25th, 2015 at 07:30 PM | $35 | 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
DC Walk for the Animals
September 26th, 2015 at 10:00 AM | Free | events@washhumane.org | Tel: 202-735-0323 | Event Website
The event will include games for all guests with activities such as toy making, face painting, musical sit and dog pools. There will be exciting prizes as well as food trucks & a bake sale! You don’t want to miss this!
Address
The Kingsbury Center; 5000 14th St. NW
Fall Arts Festival
September 26th, 2015 at 10:00 AM | FREE | info@workhousearts.org | Tel: 703-584-2900 | Event Website
The Workhouse Arts Center, presents its inaugural national arts festival featuring 100+ artists exhibiting contemporary fine art and fine craft, jewelry and hand-crafted furniture.
The two-day outdoor festival will include work by artists from across the Mid-Atlantic region.
Enjoy free admission and parking, local gourmet food vendors, indoor and outdoor exhibition venues, local beer and wine for purchase, live music, children’s craft tent and activities.
Address
Workhouse Arts Center; 9518 Workhouse Way; Lorton, VA 22079
St. Nicholas Cathedral Bazaar
September 26th, 2015 at 11:19 AM | free | gkokhno@gmail.com | Tel: 7038019911 | Event Website
Please join us to enjoy Russian, Ukrainian, Georgian, and Serbian food and a variety of Slavic folk music and dance performances. Admission is free!
After trying some blini, pirozhki, or golubsty, we invite you to try a poppy seed pastry, enjoy a folk music performance, start your Christmas shopping in our gift shop, take a Cathedral tour, and listen to Orthodox-related lectures. For families with children we also have activities for kids including face painting and crafts.
Address
3500 Massachusetts Ave. NW
Capital Streetcars: Early Mass Transit in Washington, D.C. By John DeFerrari
September 26th, 2015 at 01:00 PM | This event is free and open to the public | jerry.mccoy@dc.gov | Tel: 202) 727-0233
Washington’s first streetcars trundled down Pennsylvania Avenue during the Civil War. By the end of the century, streetcar lines crisscrossed the city, expanding it into the suburbs and defining where Washingtonians lived, worked and played. Join author John DeFerrari on a joyride through the fascinating history of streetcars in the nations capital.
Address
Peabody Room (3rd floor); Georgetown Neighborhood Library; 3260 R Street NW
Sunday Serenity: Fall Yoga in the Park
September 27th, 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 Wedding Ring
September 27th, 2015 at 12:00 PM | free | info@exclusivelyentertainment.com | Event Website
The Wedding Ring is a complimentary seminar designed to help engaged couples understand how to approach the entire wedding “shopping” process. Now in its second iteration, the educational seminar will be followed by a meet-and-greet with the full “ring” of speakers and vendors. Engaged couples are also invited to enjoy hors d’oeuvres and refreshments!
Address
The Westin Tysons Corner; 7801 Leesburg Pike; Falls Church, VA 22043
Dinner with a Spy: An Evening with Jon Monett
September 29th, 2015 at 07:00 PM | $300 includes hors d’oeuvres and three-course dinner with wines. | lhicken@spymuseum.org | Tel: (202) 654-0932 | Event Website
Jon Monett served more than 26 years at the CIA in the Office of Technical Services as a technical operations specialist and ultimately becoming responsible for managing the CIA’s technical activity worldwide. At this gathering, International Spy Museum Executive Director Peter Earnest will lead a conversation with Monett about the technological advances in intelligence operations and more. You will be one of only twelve guests at nopa Kitchen+Bar for this three-course dinner.
Address
noPa Kitchen+Bar/International Spy Museum; 800 F Street, NW
Spanish Monarchs Visit Georgetown University
• September 23, 2015
Spain’s King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia were joined by Georgetown University President John DeGioia and wife Theresa and others for dinner on Copley Lawn in honor of the royal couple Sept. 16. The king — who earned a master’s degree from the university — addressed the opening of the Joint Meeting of Spanish Scientists in the United States in Riggs Library on the main campus. [gallery ids="102314,126445" nav="thumbs"]
Man at Washington Harbour Jumps Into Potomac, Later Dies
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After disrobing on the dock alongside Washington Harbour, a man jumped into the Potomac River Sept. 8, WUSA first reported. He was pulled from the river by Metropolitan Police and later died in a hospital.
“D.C. police divers found the man under murky water about 20 feet from the dock,” according to WUSA9. Witnesses told the news station “that the man appeared high, threw off his clothes and jumped into the river.” Police would not comment before an autopsy was completed regarding the presence of drugs in the man’s system.
Sidwell Friends to Purchase Washington Hospice Property
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The children of the District’s wealthiest and most powerful residents will soon have an expanded school campus. Over the next year, Sidwell Friends School, which counts President Obama’s daughters among its student body, will expand next door into Washington Home, D.C.’s only inpatient hospice facility, resulting in the relocation of more than 100 residents.
Citing long-term financial sustainability issues, in 2011 Washington Home hired CEO Timothy Cox away from the Armed Forces Retirement Home, where he trimmed expenses for eight years and was sued by residents after attempting to cut costs by 30 percent in one year. While that lawsuit was eventually settled, the Government Accountability Office deemed it necessary in the interim to notify the Pentagon that veterans at the home might have been at risk.
Georgetown Theater Sign Lighting Delayed
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The iconic sign for the former Georgetown Theater was returned to its proper place at Wisconsin Avenue and O Street NW over the summer. However, the re-lighting of the sign, planned for Sept. 23, has been pushed to late October or early November.
Owner and architect Robert Bell delayed the lighting because of a personal injury. He bought the old theater property in October 2013 and is renovating the building at 1351 Wisconsin Ave. NW as retail and residential space. The theater’s neon sign, aglow in neon-red, will display the illuminated word “GEORGETOWN.”
‘Light the City’ Begins New Tradition
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“Light the City — Georgetown,” a community celebration of unity and faith, was held the evening of Sept. 12, beginning with a Vigil Mass at Holy Trinity Catholic Church. Afterwards, “human luminaries” with candles walked from the west side of Georgetown to a gathering at Epiphany Catholic Church on the east side of town, praying at or visiting churches along the way.
Participating churches included Christ Church, Dumbarton United Methodist Church, Epiphany Catholic Church, First Baptist, Georgetown Lutheran, Georgetown Presbyterian, Georgetown Visitation Monastery Chapel, Grace Episcopal, Holy Trinity, Jerusalem Baptist, National Community Church and St. John’s Episcopal.
Andy Kohut Loses Fight Against Cancer
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Georgetowner Andrew Kohut, co-founder and first president of the organization that would become the Pew Research Center — arguably the most accurate and unbiased polling company — died Sept. 8 following a long battle with leukemia. He was 73.
Known by his peers as uncommonly nonpartisan in the methods he used to accurately poll the public, he never belittled the opinions of his subjects. Not content with “liberal,” “conservative” and “independent,” he developed an evolving categorical system of up to 12 types of voters, based in part on how they acquire the information that informs their opinions, which he called “political typography.”
Donations in Kohut’s memory should be directed (with a notation specifying that they are made in his memory) to Friends of Rose Park, 1404 27th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20007.
Exorcist Steps to Get Special Plaque, Oct. 30
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Perhaps the most famous movie about Georgetown will be commemorated Oct. 30 by a special plague 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 (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.
One Liquor License Up for Grabs in Georgetown
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Starting at 8:30 a.m. on Sept. 15, restaurant owners in Georgetown and other interested parties can put their hat in the ring to obtain the last of 68 liquor licenses allowed in the neighborhood. According to the D.C. Alcoholic Beverage Regulation Administration, the license became available after a liquor license application for a restaurant in town was withdrawn Sept. 9.
Applications must be submitted in person to the Frank D. Reeves Municipal Center at 2000 14th Street, NW, Suite 400 South, and will be reviewed on a first-come, first-served basis.
