Frye Store to Open in Historic Building in September
• September 9, 2013

Frye, the oldest continuously operating footwear company in the United States, will open its third United States location in Washington, D.C., in a few weeks in a building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The Georgetown store, at 1066 Wisconsin Ave., NW, will occupy the former space of Papa-Razzi Restaurant. Frye’s 2,700-square-foot store will be located in the historic Vigilant Firehouse, the oldest extant firehouse in D.C., which first housed Engine 5, now located on Dent Place.

The Georgetown store will open early September, a company spokesperson said. It will join Frye’s Boston and New York City stores. The Frye Company — known for boots, shoes, handbags and accessories — also plans to open a store in Chicago this fall.

Founded in Massachusetts in 1863, Frye is celebrating its 150th anniversary with a collection of footwear of its most iconic styles. With its boots, worn by soldiers, sailors, singers and actors, the company has fans that have ranged from Sarah Jessica Parker to General George Patton to John Lennon. A pair of Frye boots is even on exhibit on the Smithsonian.

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Red Line Closures and Weekend Track Work
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Water infiltration at Metro’s Friendship Heights and Medical Center stations on the Red Line could cause future major repair and closings at those stations.

The Red Line, one of the oldest on the Metrorail system, is suffering from water damage that will take longer than a weekend to repair. Water seeping through the walls at the stations is due to the geology surrounding the Red Line tunnels between Friendship Heights and Medical Center, according to a statement from Metro deputy general manager Rob Troup.

News4 reported the two stations could see complete closures for weeks, even up to a month and a half. However, Troup’s statement on WMATA.com said no decision has been made on the nature of repairs or the timeline and effect on service.

Troup also stated that the issue is not a safety concern, but a long-term reliability of the aging section of Metrorail.

“Currently, we are advancing the engineering work to determine the best course of action,” Troup said. “Once the engineering work is finalized, we will be able to tell you more about future plans to improve Red Line reliability.”

While Friendship Heights and Medical Center wait for repairs, the Red and Green lines will see work this weekend.

Red Line (this weekend)

Buses replace trains between Rhode Island Avenue and Forest Glen stations.

Brookland, Takoma and Silver Spring stations will be closed with No Red Line service at Fort Totten. Work at the stations includes platform reconstruction, new emergency trip station boxes, tie and insulator renewal and joint elimination.

Green Line (this weekend)

Buses replace trains between College Park and Greenbelt stations. Greenbelt station is closed. However, trains will run on Labor Day.

Labor Day Closings and Schedules

Offices, transportation and more change schedules in observance of Labor Day on Monday.
Closed —

Most banks, all federal and local government offices, Post Office (No USPS mail delivery except for Express Mail), courts (excluding adult arraignments and new juvenile referrals in the District), schools, libraries.

Parking

District: No city parking enforcement (except in National Stadium neighborhood). Maryland: Meters not enforced in Montgomery and Prince George’s counties (except for New Carrollton garage and National Harbor). Meters enforced in Howard County and Annapolis. Virginia: HOV restrictions lifted. Meters not enforced in Alexandria and Arlington County.

Trash & Recycling

District: No pick-up, collection slides to next-day for remainder of week. Transfer station closed. Maryland: No pick-up. Anne Arundel and Montgomery counties, collection slides to next day. Prince George County pick-ups are on next scheduled day. Anne Arundel Calvert, Charles, Frederick and Howard landfills and Montgomery transfer stations closed. Virginia: Arlington and Fairfax counties and Fairfax City, regular pick-up. No collection in Alexandria as pick-up slides one day through end of week. Landfills closed in Fauquier, Loudoun and Prince William counties.

Transportation

Metrorail runs on a Sunday schedule, beginning at 7 a.m. until midnight. Track work on Red Line between Forest Glen and Rhode Island Ave. stations will cause shuttle buses to replace trains. Orange Line trains run every 24 minutes between Vienna and New Carrollton stations. Metrobus on Sunday schedule. Metro Access on regular schedule (subscription calls are cancelled). CUE, Ride On, Dash, and Fairfax Connector all on Sunday schedule. ART (routes 41 and 51 only) on Sunday schedule. MTA Commuter Bus (route 201 only running) on weekend schedule. PRTC Omiride, Loudoun Bus, MARC and VRE not running.

Weekend Round Up August 29, 2013
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Fourth Annual Monty Alexander Jazz Festival to Deliver Lineup of Acclaimed Artists

August 29th, 2013 at 03:00 PM | Please Visit ChesapeakeJazz.org for pricing | info@chesapeakechambermusic.org | Tel: (410) 819-0380 | Event Website

The Monty Alexander Jazz Festival will take place in Easton on Labor Day weekend from August 29 -September 1st. This year, legendary jazz guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli will open with an intimate night club-style concert at Easton’s Academy Art Museum. The Festival will continue through the weekend with performances at Easton’s historic Avalon Theatre with returning jazz and gospel vocalist, Dee Daniels.

For further information on the Monty Alexander Jazz Festival,visit ChesapeakeJazz.org.

Address

Easton’s Academy Art Museum; 106 South St, Easton, MD 21601

Cyber In Securities

August 30th, 2013 at 06:00 PM | free entry, cash bar | bmurphy@wpadc.org | Tel: 202-234-7103 | Event Website

Washington Project for the Arts presents CYBER IN SECURITIES, an exhibition exploring contemporary data collection and imaging surveillance practices, highlighting artists whose work makes visible experiences of tracking and being tracked in a digital age. The exhibition is part of WPA’s Experimental Media 2013, the eighth installment of WPA’s Experimental Media program.

Address

Pepco Edison Place Gallery; 702 8th St, NW

Paddle for Humanity at the Washington Harbour

August 31st, 2013 at 07:00 AM | Prices start at $50.00 | Tel: (202)333-9749 | Event Website](http://www.paddleforhumanity.org/html/Events-WashingtonDC.html)

3rd Annual Paddle for Humanity and you are invited to join in the paddle sports community and festivities. Founded in 2009, the Paddle for Humanity (PFH) is a grass root paddling event series with the stated purpose to bring the paddling community together to support a common cause. It’s easy, fun and accessible to all ages and skill levels and you can compete against friends or simply paddle for the pleasure of it. You may register online or in person by Friday night on August 30th at Sequoia. While this is a mainly a SUP (Stand Up Paddle) event, all paddle sports are welcome. No rowing, sailing or non-human motors, but the rest is fair game.

Pre-registration is $50/one event or $80/two events. Add $15 for event day sign-up. Online registration is closed.

Register in-person at our Pre-Party at Sequoia on Fri, 8/30 from 6pm to 8pm OR on event day near Sequoia (on the boardwalk in front of Washington Harbour) from 7am to 8:45am. Credit card, cash or check payable to SUP ATX.

Pre-party Check-in and Bag Pickup at Sequoia

6:00- 8:00 PM Friday, August 30th, 2013: Come enjoy a cold beverage, check-in for the event or just hang out and talk story with others from the paddling world.

Address

Washington Canoe Club (WCC); 3700 Water Street NW

Pray. Eat. Love.

September 1st, 2013 at 10:30 AM | FREE | communications@nationalpres.org | Tel: 202-537-7494 | Event Website](http://www.nationalpres.org/PrayEatLove)

All are welcome to a morning of worship, fun, and service! A casual, music-filled worship service kicks off the morning at 10:30 a.m. Stay after the service for a complimentary buffet lunch with games and activities for all ages. There will also be family-friendly service projects to help those in need in our community. Ample free parking is available, or take a short walk from the red line metro.
Address

The National Presbyterian Church;4101 Nebraska Ave. NW

Mystique Pop-Up Store on Capitol Hill

September 5th, 2013 at 05:00 PM | free | emandros@mystiquejewelers.com | Tel: 703 | [Event Website](http://www.mystiquejewelers.com/)

Mystique Jewelers is bringing its sophisticated and chic fine jewelry to Capitol Hill. The Old Town Alexandria based jewelry store will host a three day pop-up store on Capitol Hill Thursday, September 5th through Saturday, September 7th.

Guests will enjoy champagne and a private showing of bridal designs from Andrew Meyer, as well as, every day wearable jewelry designs. Free pearl earrings with any purchase.

Thursday Cocktail Party from 5-7pm

Friday & Saturday open 10am to 5pm

Address

Tabula Rasa | event and meeting space; 731 8th Street SE

Vintage Poster Sale

September 6th, 2013 at 10:00 AM | FREE | GALLERY@CALLOWAYART.COM | Tel: 202-965-4601 | [Event Website](http://www.callowayart.com/)

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

50th Anniversary of the March: Beyond the Dream
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The 50th Anniversary March on Washington—and all the attendant events, commemorations, celebrations leading up to Wednesday’s fewer than 100,000 gathering on the National Mall—was not the 2013 equivalent of the Aug. 28, 1963, March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

There was no way it could have been because that march and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech made history and changed history. The anniversary accomplished no such thing, nor was it likely to.

But Wednesday’s march and marchers, and singers of freedom songs, and speechafiers — from Hollywood actor Jamie Foxx to many members of the King family, to President Barack Obama — they all came together to recall, to memorialize, to remind us of just what a unique, epochal event the 1963 march was, and of the the dangerous, contentious, seriously unequal and unjust world and country in which it took place, the parameters of which are difficult to imagine today.

What happened on the National Mall and at the Lincoln Memoria this week was a kind of bearing witness, and forms of truth-telling about a time-and-place, it was a salute not only to the principal heroes of the civil rights movement but to everyone who marched, who shouted out, who spoke and wrote, and stood up arm in arm with others on that day, to everyone, really, who was there.

The anniversary march and its participants resurrected the first march, a march and gathering, followed by a searing, soaring speech by King, both of which were events and achievements notable for their total and transforming originality. People did not always know or fully understand what had happened that day, and this anniversary march and the presence and words of the memorializers, the surviving witnesses, the children and grandchildren, the offspring of that day and time present on the mall made sure we understood, hitched that day to this day, and tried to re-ignite some of its aspirational spirit into the unfinished and unfulfilled business of King’s dream. This went on, even as those trying to enter through the one access point on 17th Street to the reflecting pool area waited for hours.

President Obama in a speech that in no way matched King’s, nevertheless, made the best case for King’s speech and for the events of 50 years ago, as did Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., the only survivor of the so-called Big Ten members, organizers and speech makers of that day. “You could not sit at lunch counters, you could not sit in the front of the bus, you could not drink out of the same water fountains,” Lewis thundered. “All that is gone. Those signs that read whites only, those signs are gone,” he reminded us.

The president, too, noted the tremendous effect of that day—that it came amid the violent upheavals of the push-back from Southern politicians against the surging efforts of the civil rights movement. He noted that Medgar Evers had been assassinated two months earlier in 1963, and that only weeks after the march, there came the bombings and killings of four young girls at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala.

“Much has changed, and they accomplished incredible things,” Obama said. “Don’t ever say anything different. To say that the dream is unfulfilled in no way diminished the achievements of Dr. King.”

Yet, that polling of dissatisfaction persisted into many of the speeches, most of which were full of calls to action, and the climate of the times, about the grievous wounding of the Voting Rights Act, about Treavon Martin, about the widening gap between the poor and the rich and the closing of doors to the middle class, about, about crime and incarceration, about frisk and search and stand your ground laws. There was a note that was both plaintive and angry, as if, because aspects of racism and injustice remained, that it was all in vain. “The marchers, Dr. King, the Kennedys, Medgar Evers, those girls, did not die in vain,” the president said. He suggested that everyone pick up their marching shoes—teachers, workers, laborer and envisioned a time for marching now.

Everyone wondered what Dr. King might have done and often imagined what he would say. But that was, in the end, difficult to know. He was among the absent and missing and what was left, even the presence of three presidents seemed not to match the mountain that was Dr. King.

It seemed, seen on television, an occasion that was muted, the bells tolled at 3 p.m. for sure, and there were songs heard and impassioned pleas and word for action in an attempt to tie the days of 1963 to the present day. The crowd, seen from scanning cameras seemed more diverse, and was in actuality, less so. In 1963, moderate Republican leaders showed up for the march, but on this occasion, in keeping with the stalemate, oppose-oppose climate of the Senate and the House, GOP members were noted for the absence, as if commemoration and the accomplishments of 1963 were a partisan occasion. By their absence, they made it so, at least for themselves.

The times are and were different. “Change came,” Obama said, “It came in state legislatures in the south and city halls. It came to Congress and, yes, it came to the White House,” as evidenced by himself.

President Bill Clinton recalled the day 50 years ago—it impressed and inspired and moved everyone in the whole country, “including a 17-year-old young man alone in a house in Arkansas.” He also noted the temperament of the times, and wondered “how some politicians want to make it so hard to vote and so easy to buy an AK-47.”

They all had their say—they marched, sometimes like ghosts, or like a member of a chorus where not everybody sang on key—Carter, Clinton and Obama, or Jimmy, Bill and Barack, not exactly like Martin, Bobby and John. The surviving members of Peter, Paul and Mary, (less Mary), sang “We Shall Overcome” in the company of Treavon Martin’s parents. Caroline Kennedy and Lynda Robb invoked their fathers, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson.

It drizzled all day long, in sharp contrast to the heat, and the fire of August 28, 1963. Everybody there today, made everybody then seem to move among us in spirit. On this occasion, we realized that while Dr. King had a dream, it was not just a dream.

Busy ANC Meeting: Ellington, Halcyon, Heating Plant
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Tonight, 6:30 p.m., the Georgetown-Burleith Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E will meet at Georgetown Visitation Prep on 35th Street.

Top items to be discussed include the renovation of Ellington High School (and its temporary closing), an ABC agreement for the new El Centro restaurant (the former Third Edition), visitor parking passes, S&R Foundation use of Halcyon House and an update on the reconstruction of the West Heating Plant next to the C&O Canal and the Four Seasons Hotel.

The following is the agenda for tonight’s meeting, as released by ANC2E:

We will be meeting this month at the Georgetown Visitation School, 35th and Volta Place, Heritage Room, first building on left by gatehouse, 2nd floor

Approval of the Agenda

Approval of September 3, 2013, ANC 2E Public Meeting Agenda

Administrative

Approval of July 1, 2013, Meeting Minutes

Public Safety and Police Report

Financial Report

Transportation Report

DPW Report

Community Comment

Update on the West Heating Plant

Duke Ellington School renovation/addition

Georgetown Community Partnership Cookout – September 14

New Business

DDOT proposed regulations for visitor parking

1900 37th Street, NW, DDOT Tracking No. 84460, Glover Park Citizens Association application to occupy public space for the purpose of paving sidewalks and install benches

DDOT/UFA Female Ginko Removal Policy

ABC

El Centro (formerly Third Edition), 1216 Wisconsin Avenue, ABRA -__, proposed Settlement Agreement

Zoning

Halcyon Georgetown LLC, 3400 – 3410 Prospect Street, NW, BZA No. 18604, Application for a special exception to establish a non-profit, Hearing September 10, 2013

Back Alley LLC and Ellsworth T. Simpson Trust, 1063 Wisconsin Avenue, NW, BZA Appeal No. 18610, Appeal for a variance from the nonresidential floor area ratio restrictions to subdivide and use all of the existing buildings on the property for nonresidential uses, Hearing September 17, 2013

3128 P Street, NW, BZA No. 18645, Application for special exception relief to construct an addition to the building which will extend the currently nonconforming lot occupancy, Hearing September 24, 2013

Old Georgetown Board

PRIVATE PROJECTS:

1. SMD 07, 1644 31st Street, NW, OG 13-295 (HPA 13-517) Tudor Place, Alterations to west entrance, fence and sliding gate, Concept

2. SMD 07, 2823 Q Street, NW, OG 13-282 (HPA 13-501) Residence, Replace wood garden gate with steel gate, Permit

3. SMD 02, 1632 32nd Street, NW, OG 13-315 (HPA 13-538) Residence, Alterations to rear, Concept For review by Historic Preservation Review Board

4. SMD 02, 1516 33rd Street, NW, OG 13-269 (HPA 13-488) Residence, Re-grading of rear yard, retaining walls, terrace, Permit For review by Historic Preservation Review Board

5. SMD 02, 1634 Wisconsin Avenue, NW, OG 13-304 (HPA 13-526) Commercial, Signs and awning for “Sleepy’s,” Permit

6. SMD 03, 3400 O Street, NW, OG 13-297 (HPA 13-519) Residence, Replace / repair box gutter, Permit

7. SMD 03, 3132 P Street, NW, OG 13-302 (HPA 13-524) Residence, Brick wall, gates and re-grading of side yards, Permit / Concept

8. SMD 03, 1305 and 1313 Potomac Street, NW, OG 13-265 (HPA 13-477) Residence, Fence screens off alley – existing, Permit

9. SMD 03, 3338 Volta Place, NW, OG 13-293 (HPA 13-515) Residence, Extension of front wing, Concept

10. SMD 03, 1328-1330 Wisconsin Avenue, NW, OG 13-288 (HPA 13-510) Commercial, One-story rear addition with basement, Permit/concept For review by Historic Preservation Review Board

11. SMD 03, 1332-1336 Wisconsin Avenue, NW, OG 13-289 (HPA 13-511) Commercial, One-story rear addition with basement, Permit/concept For review by Historic Preservation Review Board

12. SMD 05, 1025-27 31st Street, NW, OG 13-317 (HPA 13-540) Commercial, Alterations to rear, outdoor seating terrace, Concept

13. SMD 05, 3211 M Street, NW, OG 13-226 (HPA 13-382) Commercial, Sign for “Billy Reid” – existing, blade sign, light fixtures, Permit

14. SMD 05, 3213 M Street, NW, OG 13-301 (HPA 13-523) Commercial, Alterations to storefront, awnings, signs for “Pandora,” Concept

15. SMD 05, 3206 Grace Street, NW, OG 13-318 (HPA 13-541) Commercial, Roof top addition, alterations, replacement windows, awnings, blade sign, flagpole, Concept

16. SMD 05, 3255 Grace Street, NW, OG 13-291 (HPA 13-513) Commercial, Sign for “The Power House,” Permit

17. SMD 05, 1200 Potomac Street, NW, OG 13-285 (HPA 13-505) Residence, Stockade fence and timber retaining wall – existing, Permit

18. SMD 05, 3302 Prospect Street, NW, OG 13-272 (HPA 13-491) Residence, Demolition of brick garden wall (completed), metal gate and repaving of rear yard, Permit

19. SMD 05, 3104 M Street, NW, OG 13-306 (HPA 13-528) Commercial, Rear addition, Concept

20. SMD 06, 3009 M Street, NW, OG 13-305 (HPA 13-527) Mixed use, Rear addition, Concept

21. SMD 06, 1306 27th Street, NW, OG 13-268 (HPA 13-487) Residence, Replacement windows and doors, Permit

22. SMD 06, 3030 P Street, NW, OG 13-256 (HPA 13-446) Residence, Partial demolition of rear ell, 1-story rear addition plus basement, Concept

23. SMD 06, 3062 Q Street, NW, OG 13-284 (HPA 13-504) Residence, Alterations to openings on rear façade, Concept For review by Historic Preservation Review Board

No Review At This Time by ANC 2E: The following additional projects, which are on the upcoming September 4, 2013, agenda of the Old Georgetown Board, have not been added to the ANC meeting agenda for OGB-related design review and we do not propose to adopt a resolution on them at this time. If there are concerns about any of these projects, please contact the ANC office by Friday, August 30, 2013.

1. SMD 01, 3800 Reservoir Road, NW, O.G. 13-309 (HPA 13-531) Institution (MedStar Georgetown University Hospital – Pasquerilla Center), Communications antennas on penthouse for Verizon, Concept

2. SMD 02, 1511 33rd Street, NW OG 13-152 (HPA 13-251) Residence, Replacement windows at rear – existing, replacement front windows, Permit

3. SMD 02, 1566 33rd Street, NW, OG 13-308 (HPA 13-530) Residence, Replace vinyl windows, Permit

4. SMD 02, 1638 33rd Street, NW, OG 13-173 (HPA 13-296) Residence, Replacement windows and alterations to rear, Permit

5. SMD 02, 1622 34th Street, NW, OG 13-292 (HPA 13-514) Residence, One-story rear addition to replace one-story covered porch, Permit

6. SMD 02, 1661 35th Street, NW, OG 13-150 (HPA 13-249) Residence, Three-story rear addition, in-fill areaway, one-story side addition, alterations, Concept – revised design

7. SMD 02, 3247 Q Street, NW, OG 13-278 (HPA 13-497) Office, Replacement windows, Permit – revised design

8. SMD 02, 3247 R Street, NW, OG 13-286 (HPA 13-506) Pool House, Raze existing structure at rear, new building at rear, Permit – revision to permit

9. SMD 02, 1611 Wisconsin Avenue, NW, OG 13-190 (HPA 13-332) Commercial, Replace rooftop antennas with stealth canisters for Sprint, Permit

10. SMD 02, 1621 Wisconsin Avenue, NW, OG 13-298 (HPA 13-520) Commercial, Replacement windows at rear, Permit

11. SMD 03, 1417 31st Street, NW, OG 13-232 (HPA 13-411) Residence, Replacement windows, Permit

12. SMD 03, 3301 N Street, NW, OG 13-290 (HPA 13-512) Residence, Additions and alterations, Permit

13. SMD 03, 3210 O Street, NW, OG 13-283 (HPA 13-503) Commercial, Blade sign for “Bloomers”, window graphics – existing, Permit

14. SMD 03, 3210 O Street, NW, OG 13-263 (HPA 13-458) Commercial, Blade sign for “Bloomers”, window graphics – existing, Permit

15. SMD 03, 3615 O Street, NW, OG 13-312 (HPA 13-535) Residence, Replacement fence at rear, Permit

16. SMD 03, 3129 P Street, NW, OG 13-287 (HPA 13-507) Residence, Alterations to garage opening in front of house, Concept

17. SMD 03, 1365 Wisconsin Avenue, NW, OG 13-203 (HPA 13-359) Bank, Light fixtures for ATM at BB&T Bank, Permit

18. SMD 04, 3700 O Street, NW, OG 13-307 (HPA 13-529) Georgetown University – Athletic Training Facility, New construction, Concept –design development

19. SMD 04, 3700 O Street, NW, O.G. 13-310 (HPA 13-532) Georgetown University – Leavey Center, Communications antennas and equipment penthouse for Verizon, Concept

20. SMD 05, 2934 M Street, NW, OG 13-279 (HPA 12-498) Commercial, Awning and sign for “Pier 2934 Cajun Seafood,” Permit – revised design

21. SMD 05, 3125 M Street, NW, OG 13-300 (HPA 13-522) Commercial, Signs, light fixtures, replacement door, screen for rooftop equipment, Permit

22. SMD 05, 3222 M Street, NW, OG 13-294 (HPA 13-516) Commercial, Alterations to east and south elevations, sign for “Pinstripes,” Permit

23. SMD 05, 3222 M Street, NW, OG 13-296 (HPA 13-518) Georgetown Park, Alterations to storefront in-fill, Permit – additional information

24. SMD 05, 3320 M Street, NW, OG 13-299 (HPA 13-521) Commercial, Banner for “Maxalto” at third floor facing alley, Permit

25. SMD 05, 3508 Prospect Street, NW, OG 13-274 (HPA 13-493) Residence, Replacement slate, membrane and copper roofs, Permit

26. SMD 05, 1251 Wisconsin Avenue, NW, OG 13-280 (HPA 13-499) Commercial, Sign for “Reebok,” Permit

27. SMD 05, 1211 Wisconsin Avenue, NW, OG 13-270 (HPA 13-489) Commercial, Storefront alterations, sign for “Tory Burch,” Permit

28. SMD 05, 1218 Wisconsin Avenue, NW, OG 13-199 (HPA 13-355) Commercial Sign for “El Centro D.F.” Permit

29. SMD 06, 1354 27th Street, NW, OG 13-192 (HPA 13-344) Residence, Rear addition at fourth floor, Concept – revised design

30. SMD 06, 1354 27th Street, NW, OG 13-273 (HPA 13-492) Residence, Rear addition at fourth floor, Permit

31. SMD 06, 1600-1602 28th Street, NW, OG 13-277 (HPA 13-496) Residence, Alterations to planter curb – in progress, Permit

32. SMD 06, 1215 31st Street, NW, OG 13-271 (HPA 13-490) Georgetown Post Office, Rear addition at basement level, Permit

33. SMD 06, 1215 31st Street, NW, OG 13-267 (HPA N/A) Georgetown Post Office, Excavation, sheeting and shoring, underpinning, Permit

34. SMD 06, 3001-3007 M Street, NW, OG 13-276 (HPA 13-495) Mixed-use: retail / residential, Exterior exhaust duct, Permit

35. SMD 06, 2725 N Street, NW, OG 13-319 (HPA 13-545) Residence, Alterations to dormer at rear (change original gable dormer to wider shed dormer), Concept

36. SMD 06, 2912 N Street, NW, OG 13-313 (HPA 13-536) Residence, Rooftop mechanical equipment – existing, screening, Permit

37. SMD 06, 3040 O Street, NW, OG 13-183 (HPA 13-306) Residence, Enclose rear porch and alterations – existing, Permit – revised design

38. SMD 06, 3044 O Street, NW, OG 13-275 (HPA 13-494) Residence, Alterations, addition, shutters, replacement windows, swimming pool, construction entrance on stone wall, Permit

39. SMD 06, 2803 Dumbarton Street, NW, OG 13-314 (HPA 13-537) Residence, Two- story rear addition, Permit

40. SMD 06, 2718 Poplar Street, NW, OG 13-167 (HPA 13-290) Residence, Replace windows – existing, Permit

41. SMD 07, 1699 31st Street, NW, OG 13-311 (HPA 13-534) Residence, Relocate driveway, relocate curb-cuts on public space, Permit/concept

42. SMD 07, 3053 Q Street, NW, OG 13-316 (HPA 13-539) Residence, Rear addition at fourth floor, alterations, Permit

43. SMD 07, 3001 R Street, NW, OG 13-269 (HPA 13-488) Cemetery, Chapel Roofing Permit

44. SMD 07, 3245 S Street, NW, OG 13-281 (HPA 13-500) Institution, Handicapped access ramp at Guest House, Permit

45. SMD 07, 2516 East Place, NW, OG 13-303 (HPA 13-525) Residence, Alterations to rear, Permit

46. SMD 08, 3700 O Street, NW, OG 13-249 (HPA 13-439) Georgetown University, New construction – residence hall, Concept – additional information on site selection

{posted August 26, 2013, 5 p.m.}

Elmore Leonard: That Guy Was a Helluva Writer
• 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.

Drybar Closed for Not Having Permits
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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.”

Julie Harris: the Enchanting, Transforming Broadway Legend
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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.

Weekend Round Up August 22, 2013
• 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.

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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

Ev Shorey: Georgetown’s ‘Great Friend, Great Citizen’
• 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.