News & Politics

Robert Devaney • January 23, 2012

A new year brings new schedules, new meetings and new officers at the Georgetown Business Association, which will meet Wednesday, Jan. 18, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., at The Georgetown Club, 1530 Wisconsin Avenue, N.W. With complimentary light fare and refreshments, the reception is free to GBA members; $25 for non-members. It is a good opportunity to meet old and new friends and business colleagues. RSVP to Karen Ohri at Karen@georgetownfloorcoverings.com

The Georgetown Business Association is a non-profit membership organization committed to maintaining and improving the climate for conducting business in Georgetown. Its prime goals are to connect Georgetown businesses with potential customers, other businesses and Georgetown and D.C. leadership and to advocate on behalf of the Georgetown businesses and professionals.

The GBA’s 2012 officers are

— Rokas Beresniovas, HSBC Bank USA, president

— Riyad Said, Wells Fargo Advisors, vice president

— Karen Ohri, Georgetown Floorcoverings, treasurer

— Janine Schoonover, Serendipidy3, secretary

Robert Devaney •

The Citizens Association of Georgetown will meet Wednesday, Jan. 18, 7 p.m., at the City Tavern Club (3206 M St., N.W.) to honor well-known Georgetowners who have been interviewed for CAG’s Oral History Project. The program will begin at 7:30 p.m.

These residents have recorded their recollections about life in Georgetown in one-on-one interviews with CAG’s oral history volunteers. The following will be honored for documenting the “living history” of Georgetown:

— Catherine Bowman, leader and unofficial historian of the black community

— Barry Deutschman, pharmacist at Morgan’s whose clients swear he knows everything

— Kay Evans, insider in the fabled Georgetown journalism world and widow of the syndicated columnist Roland Evans

— Georges Jacob, last surviving founder of the famous French Market on Wisconsin Avenue

— Margaret Oppenheimer, long-time resident, who along with husband Franz, raised three sons on O Street

— Frank Randolph, lifetime Georgetowner and renowned interior designer

— Don Shannon, 40-year Los Angeles Times foreign correspondent and 50-year Georgetown resident
Annie Lou Berman will introduce the program with a summary of the project. The interviewees will talk informally about their memories of growing up in or moving to Georgetown, pursuing careers here, raising families, building business, entertaining, renovating houses — and more.

The City Tavern Preservation Foundation, which recently marked its 50th anniversary of the purchase of the historic City Tavern by the City Tavern Association, is hosting the CAG meeting and reception. As the City Tavern Preservation Foundation is hosting this special meeting, please RSVP to cagmail@cagtown.org or 337-7313 if you plan to attend.
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Gary Tischler •

When the folks at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington decided to add to its celebration of the company’s 25th anniversary by including a series of conversations between its artistic director Michael Kahn and celebrated (and classically trained) actors, they may not have guessed what a rich gift they’ve presented to Washington theater buffs.

But a gift the series is — and for free, no less — and has so far included dense, entertaining, enlightening theater talk between Kahn and a Starfleet captain, the star of “A Fish Called Wanda,” and, most recently, one of the Bingo Long Traveling All Stars.

Okay, truth be told, Patrick Stewart, Kevin Kline and James Earl Jones managed to come up with memorable theatrical performances before (and after) they ever appeared in a motion picture, including notable roles in the plays of William Shakespeare.
If the series—we hope it will be permanent—was intended to be grounded in discussions about the craft, education and performance of classical theater, they quickly became much more than that, because of Kahn, with his own long history as a director in the theater, with his puckish, sly sense of humor and gift for story-telling and sharing.

While there was always talk about the how of acting and theater, about process and methodology, it’s never sounded like that. Rather, it sounded like two theater friends, talking about stuff over a glass of water in front of a few hundred people, as it were, as if in a play, or many plays. Kahn and the three actors so far—all of them stage actors who had found almost pop culture fame in movies and/or television—were swapping fascinating, almost insider stories around a campfire, but they were also familiar tales, familiar to us because we had encountered their art, their gifts somewhere, in a theater like this, in a movie theater or at home on television. If we were here in attendance, then these men had been, at some time or another, a part of our lives, sometimes a large part.

Certainly, that’s true of James Earl Jones, a large man with large gifts, who made his way to the stage slowly, but in very cool fashion. Jones is just over 80 years of age, but going strong, working the stage a lot now—back to Big Daddy, to “Driving Miss Daisy” and prepping for a new production of Gore Vidal’s vital-still American politics play, “The Best Man.”

We know Jones, of course, from “The Great White Hope,” which first found life in this area at Arena Stage back in the 1960s, a revolutionary, long, dynamic and outsized play about the controversial fighter Jack Johnson who became the first African-American boxer to win the heavyweight title, incensing the predominantly white boxing world, and then, taking it one step further by having a white wife. Jones owned that passionate, taxing part lock stock and barrel and also starred in the film version with Jane Alexander.

“People always say that nobody could really play that part but you,” Kahn said. “Well, that’s not true, but I know I’m associated with it, that it’s mine. But Yaphet Katto (who also shared “Fences” with him), and Brock Peters did great with that part. But it changed my life, it gave me a certain amount of fame and standing, that’s for sure.”

Kahn asked him, as it is with many actors who have done film and stage work, the difference between the two. “Well, different aspects of your craft are emphasized and required,” he said. “But it’s different for everyone. I was told by the film director of “Great White Hope” not to overact the part, that things would be done in the editing room. I didn’t yet know what I was doing and I can’t say I did a perfect job. I think Jane (Alexander) struck the right balance.”

Jones’s fame and familiarity are historical—with his size he opened big doors and other African-American actors walked right through it. “Of course, you’re aware of who you are, the social aspects, the injustices, the disparities, your own history. But you cannot be bitter, you cannot just blame, or you will never succeed. I tell young black actors everything they will encounter, what’s unfair, the parts they won’t get. But you know, it’s a hard profession, period. It’s hard for young white actors, too.”

Jones was a stutterer, a fact about him that isn’t always commonly talked about. “I had help and good advice. I find that on the stage I don’t stutter, because the language, the spoken word is so strong, so musical, almost, it’s like singing, when you’re passionate, you can speak clearly.”

When it comes to films, he had a nice little start: his first movie role was as the bomber who couldn’t get the bomb loose in Stanley Kubrick’s “Doctor Strangelove.” “What a great film, I was lucky with that. So, Slim Pickens had to ride the bomb down to Moscow.” This was in the 1960s when his peers where people like George C. Scott, Richard Harris and Richard Burton among others.

Jones had the part the common soldier who gets into an argument with King Henry in “Henry V,” about how war is different for the king and the soldiers, not knowing he’s talking to the king, in a Joseph Papp-directed version of the play. “This was the ’60s, you remember, and everyone thought he was somehow making an anti-war statement by casting me,” Jones said. “He wasn’t, as far as I know. I was a spear carrier.”

He became much more than that. Especially when he encountered “Othello.” “My god, I have played Othello seven times,” he said. “I still don’t think I got it right. I don’t know. Different Iagos, different Desdemonas. I sometimes I think when I played it with Christopher Plummer, I sometimes think I should have grabbed Iago and stuck his head and near-drowned him in a fountain when I said, ‘Prove my wife a whore,’ to add emphasis.”

He was asked if he thought Iago, the man who plotted against him and made him believe his wife had betrayed him, was a racist.

Jones took his time answering. “On balance, I do think so,” he said. “It’s not good enough, as some people suggest just to say he’s naturally evil, like Richard III. He mesmerizes people, including Othello. But he has an advantage. He talks to the audience. Othello doesn’t.” This led to discussions about Shakespeare’s intentions and feelings vis-a-vis race and prejudice, a controversy that also simmers every time out over “The Merchant of Venice,” and its central character of the Jewish moneylender Shylock.

It’s something we all forget sometimes. In the life of these men, they have played many parts, and we remember their bearing, their voices—especially the resonant, powerful voice of Jones. They are in our minds and dreams and the way we remember them mostly is: Stewart making the U.S.S. Enterprise go to warp, the voice of Darth Vader, in movie images. The tales of the stage are just that: memories.

I happened to see Jones and Plummer in “Othello,” which happened to include an over-the-top performance by a pre-“Frazier, “pre-“Boss” Kelsey Grammer. And you realize then that while those of us lucky enough to be able to see many plays, nevertheless, see them really only once. To Jones, there must be a thousand Othellos in his head, the voice modulated a little here, a line slipped there, the hand on Desdemona’s throat softer or stronger each night.

But, we remember too and being with them like this makes us think and remember. Later, going home from the talk in a cab, the Ethiopian cab driver talked heatedly about Othello, although he has only seen a film version, while I remembered Plummer and other Iagos, saying “I hate the Moor.”

These classical conversations have been classics. Bravo.

David Post •

2011 was so much fun in Congress. Will 2012 offer the same? The House of Representatives convened on Tuesday, January 17th, and the Senate will return next week. The fun hasn’t quite started yet, but it will and it will be loud.

Here are my economic predictions for 2012:

• Last month, Congress extended the payroll tax cut that saves the average American family $1,000 per year. It expires again in a few weeks. Expect another cliff hanger. It will be extended through December. The debate will be contentious, and its outcome will hinge on a political fight disguised as an economic fight. Republicans still want the oil pipeline from Canada to Texas with minimal environmental study, and Democrats still want to increase tax on millionaires. Same old, same old.

• The debt ceiling was increased last August – but only for a few months – after almost throwing international markets into turmoil. The time has come to do it again. This time, Congress will do it without threatening to blow up the economy. With an election in progress, many will make incendiary speeches about wasteful government spending. After a short round of shouting, Congress will approve the increase.

• In March, President Obama will present his 2013 budget, showing more large deficits driven by high safety net costs and reduced revenues related to the poor economy. The president’s annual budget has no legal impact, so it will only become a source for making speeches. All of the Republican presidential candidates are attaching themselves to President Reagan’s coattails. Interestingly, of the eight budgets President Reagan prepared, Democratic Congresses passed budgets with lower deficits in seven of those eight years.

• The two largest banks in the country, Bank of American and Citibank, are underwater like many of their mortgage borrowers. The market says they are worth a lot less than the value on their books. With only three large U.S. banks still standing, our nation’s economy is dependent upon them. So, they are truly too big to fail. As long as they are sick, the entire banking world will suffer, loans will be hard to come by and the economy can only sputter.

• For every foreclosed house on the market, banks have almost two more that could go into foreclosure. Pushing all of them into the market will harm both the banks and the housing market even more. Declining real estate values have not only decimated the construction industry but have pushed local governments and school systems to the brink. This pattern will continue in 2012.

• Real estate sits underneath every job. Because banks are nervous about lending and foreclosures have created an overload of housing stock, the demand for new real estate construction is very restrained. Real estate will not recover in 2012. Thus, job growth will be limited, and the unemployment rate will remain well above acceptable levels.

• Occupy Wall Street has, if anything, upset people about the increasing wealth gap between rich and poor. Occupy Wall Street will die down as the year goes on. Consumer confidence will improve somewhat, but it will be an anemic and nervous improvement because most new job creation will be in low-paying service sector jobs.

• Every presidential candidate and most politicians are promising that they can simplify the tax code by closing loopholes (which increase tax collections) and reducing rates (which decrease tax collections). At first, so-called tax loopholes are born as tax incentives. It’s an indirect way that government picks winners and losers. As incentives age, they become loopholes. Those loopholes have armies of lobbyists. It is hard to take away what has been given. The tax code will not change much.

• Last August, Congress appointed a super committee to identify $1.2 trillion in budget cuts with automatic cuts – half from defense and half from domestic spending – to begin in 2013 if the super committee failed. It failed. Regardless of who wins, that deal will be re-written after this November’s election.

• The Bush tax cuts are scheduled to expire at the end of this year. If they expire, the deficit will be reduced by $4 trillion over the next ten years, ironically the amount that most agree should trimmed from the budget. 90 percent of those tax cuts went to those earning over $250,000. Republicans want to make them permanent arguing that they are necessary for job creators. Democrats want to preserve the tax cuts for those earning below $250,000. Expect a colossal fight as the year closes.

Georgetowner •

Vera Wang Fall 2012 Wedding Dress Trunk Show

January 20th, 2012 at 10:00 AM | Tel: (240) 396-5411

Saks Jandel will host Vera Wang’s Fall 2012 Wedding Dress Trunk Show showcasing non-traditional hues Thursday- Saturday all day. Appointment necessary.

Address

Saks Jandel

5510 Wisconsin Avenue

Chevy Chase, MD

Make sure to pick up The Georgetowner’s Wedding Issue on February 8th for bridal ideas and tips!

Saturday Night Sips Ticket

January 21st, 2012 at 06:30 PM | $125 | Event Website

January 21st, 2012 at 06:30 PM | $125 | Event Website

Cocktail party features tastes from the D.C. area’s best chefs. The event benefits D.C. Central Kitchen and Martha’s Table.

Address

Newseum

555 Pennsylvania Avenue NW

Mad Hatter’s Dance Party

January 21st, 2012 at 09:00 PM | $95 | Event Website

Washington Ballet Jete Society hosts one of the best parties of the year with an Alice in Wonderland theme, a 5 hour open bar, gourmet hors d’ouevres, a DJ and a performance by the ballet.

Address

The Ritz Carlton

1150 22nd Street NW

Washington DC

FREE CONCERT FOR 18 & UNDER: “The Human Spirit”

January 22nd, 2012 at 03:00 PM | $14 adult, $10 senior/college student, free for ages 18 & under | events@aypo.org | Tel: 703-642-8051 | Event Website

Comps for Kids Concert: Free for Ages 18 & Under!

The Human Spirit

American Youth Philharmonic

Daniel Spalding, Music Director & Conductor

Guest Artist: Dotian Levalier, harp

Program:

Miguel del Aguila: The Giant Guitar

Mark Adamo: Four Angels, Concerto for Harp and Orchestra

Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 1 in E minor, Op. 39

Comps for Kids is generously sponsored by Target. No reservations are necessary and free tickets will be available at the door.

Address

Center for the Arts, George Mason University

4373 Mason Pond Drive, Fairfax, VA 22030

Cocktail party features tastes from the D.C. area’s best chefs. The event benefits D.C. Central Kitchen and Martha’s Table.

Address

Newseum

555 Pennsylvania Avenue NW

Living the Dream…Singing the Dream: Celebrating the Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.

January 22nd, 2012 at 07:00 PM | $25-$45 | choralarts@choralarts.org | Tel: 202.785.9727 | Event Website

The Choral Arts Society of Washington and Washington Performing Arts Society (WPAS) Men, Women, and Children of the Gospel Choirs raise joyful voices together in the annual community concert celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr., “Living the Dream…Singing the Dream.” Including classical music selections, moving Gospels, hymns and spirituals, this 24-year-old tradition honors Dr. King’s values of unity, peace and brotherhood.

Address

Kennedy Center Concert Hall

2700 F Street, NW

FotoWeekDC and International Lifeline Fund invites you to Deborah Terry’s Opening Reception

January 25th, 2012 at 06:30 PM | $20 | lifelinefundevents@gmail.com | Tel: 202-530-8550 | Event Website

International Lifeline Fund and FOTOWEEKDC cordially invite you to Deborah Terry’s Photography Works Opening Night on Wednesday, January 25 from 6:30 until 9:00pm. The exhibit will be up until Wednesday, February 1, 2012.

All proceeds from the event, sales or donations, will benefit the International Lifeline Fund and FotoWeekDC organizations.

Address

L2 Lounge

3315 Cadys Aly NW,

Washington, DC 20007

Georgetowner • January 17, 2012

DC DMV’s ticket amnesty program is drawing to a close. All open parking, moving violation and photo-enforcement tickets issued prior to January 1, 2010, qualify for amnesty. During the amnesty period, all late penalties on eligible tickets are waived.

Pay your amnesty tickets online at www.dmv.dc.gov, over the phone (866-893-5023) or in person at DMV Adjudication Services, 301 C Street, NW, 8:15 a.m. – 5:00 p.m, Monday-Friday. If you are unsure of what you owe, visit www.dmv.dc.gov and click on ticket amnesty to complete an online request form.
Don’t miss this opportunity! The program ends on January 27, 2012.

Robert Devaney •

A big, new restaurant requires a big ribbon cutting. The Hamilton got one with Mayor Vincent Gray and D.C council members and Clyde’s corporate officers Jan. 9. Flanked by D.C. Council chair Kwame Brown and Ward 2 council member Jack Evans, Mayor Gray held the big scissors at the center of the downstairs live music stage.

The Hamilton, Clyde’s Restaurant Group’s new 37,000-square-foot restaurant at 14th and F Streets, is making the scene in no small way. It is as big in space and in time as the ambition of the first Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, whose federal department is but a block away with the White House nearby.

The same goes for the food and the music. Under the care of executive Brian Stickel, the menu is an expansive mix: steaks, seafood, salads, munchies, muffulettas and burgers, too. It changes for the time of day, there is a breakfast, brunch and lunch menu and more. There is an Eggs Hamilton on the late night menu. It will be the first Clyde’s joint (the original opened 1963 in Georgetown) ever to serve sushi. And, as in 24/7, the Hamilton which opened Dec. 18 never closes?

In keeping with the restaurant designers of Clyde’s, the artwork is custom, the woodwork perfection and the look and details contemporary but classic. Check out the Lady Liberty hanging lamps. The Hamilton is in the old Borders space, where before that was the flagship of Garfinkel’s department store. It is the 15th Clyde’s restaurant; Old Ebbitt Grill, owned by the group, is one block away on 15th Street.

A lot of patrons can show up: first floor restaurant areas, 400 seats; upstair Loft private dining room, 80 seated/100 standing; live music seating, 260 seats, 100 bar stools. Downstairs, the sound-proofed, high-tech music space has its own menu for “quiet food,” such as sliders, pizza or sushi. [gallery ids="100453,115393" nav="thumbs"]

Georgetowner •

Water Street Gym Supports Georgetown Ministry Center

January 12th, 2012 at 04:33 PM | trish@waterstreetgym.com | Tel: 202.812.5050

Water Street Gym is celebrating their one year anniversary at their new location by giving back to the community. Help with their effort to support Georgetown Ministry Center and the homeless in Georgetown by bringing any unwanted warm winter coats to the Water Street Gym (3255 K Street, NW, Georgetown Waterfront above CycleLife) from now to January 31st.

You can also organize an internal drive at your place of employment or business and email trish@waterstreetgym.com for a scheduled pick-up. 202.812.5050

Address

3255 K Street, NW,

Georgetown Waterfront above CycleLife

MLK- The Making of a Holiday

January 13th, 2012 at 06:00 PM

Join On The Potomac Productions and Destination DC for a private screening of “MLK- The Making of a Holiday” at L2 Lounge on Friday, January 13,2012 at 6pm.

“MLK: The Making of a Holiday” highlights the life and accomplishments of Dr. Martin Luther King and the popular movement that led to the passage of congressional legislation to create a national holiday in his honor. The one hour film, co-hosted by actors LeVar Burton and Marla Gibbs, features exclusive interviews with Coretta King and Stevie Wonder.

Address

3315 Cadys Alley Northwest
Washington D.C.

1K Wine and Beer Walks

January 14th, 2012 at 02:00 PM | 35-40 | info@crystalcity.org | Tel: (703) 412-9430 | Event Website

Get ready to lace up your walking shoes and sip your way to the finish line, but you won’t find energy drinks along the way. Instead, walkers can sample more than 30 different wines as they make their way through a fun, indoor course at the Crystal City Shops during the one and only 1K Wine Walk. The event returns on January 14th and 15th, 2012. Walkers can tap into extra fun with the inaugural 1K Beer Walk the following weekend.

Address

2200 Crystal Drive, Arlington, VA, 22202

Quis Custodiet

January 14th, 2012 at 07:00 PM | $25.00 | tinabarksdale@yahoo.com | Tel: 315-212-1901 | Event Website

The Examiner called Artistic Director Robert Bettmann’s last piece “An example of artistic craftmanship”, and the company’s new work, Quis Custodiet, includes videos by renowned local artist Tim Tate as well as choreography by Bettmann. The dance explores the issue of Security through the performance of intersecting narratives, including a re-telling of the biblical stories of Adam and Eve, and Cain and Abel. What do we do to keep ourselves safe as nation, and as individuals?

Address

Woolly Mammoth Theatre

641 D Street NW Washington, DC 20004

Corcoran offers FREE Admission to ’30 Americans’

January 16th, 2012 at 10:00 AM | FREE | Event Website

Join the Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art + Design on Martin Luther King Day, January 16 when the Gallery will honor Dr. King and celebrate the landmark exhibition 30 Americans with FREE admission and additional promotions:

Chef Todd Gray of Todd Gray’s Muse has prepared a special MLK brunch for Sunday January 15 from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Please call (202) 639-1786 for reservations

All visitors on MLK Day will receive a two-for-one voucher to the Gallery to use before February 12, when 30 Americans closes, allowing visitors to come back and bring a friend for the price of one!

30 Americans (October 1, 2011–February 12, 2012) is a wide-ranging survey of work by many of the most important African American artists of the last three decades. Selected from the Rubell Family Collection, the exhibition brings together seminal figures such as Jean-Michel Basquiat and David Hammons with younger and emerging artists such as Kehinde Wiley and Shinique Smith. Often provocative and confrontational, 30 Americans focuses on artistic community as well as issues of racial, sexual, and historical identity in contemporary culture. For more information on 30 Americans, please visit www.corcoran.org/30Americans.

Address

Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art + Design

500 Seventeenth Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20006

Georgetowner •

Metro is accelerating its efforts to improve safety and return the system to a state of good repair. Their new track maintenance approach to major weekend track work involves temporarily closing individual stations or clusters of stations at a time and substituting buses for rail service. While it isn’t the most preferable thing to have the metro running sluggishly through the weekends, it’s a pretty decent way to go about it all things considered.

Metro says that the benefits to this new approach are that trains will operate more normally outside the work zone and with fewer delays, necessary track work will get done faster, and fewer customers will be inconvenienced by track work at a given time.

Shuttle bus service between the closed tracks are free.

This weekend, Metro will be shutting down the Orange and Blue line between L’Enfant Plaza and Eastern Market, which put the Federal Center and the Capitol South stops out of commission.

With metro delays and the surprisingly nice summer weather, this might be a good time to sign up for Capital Bikeshare!. Happy travels!

Georgetowner • January 13, 2012

Allergist Jonathan E. Zucker, who for years was the authoritative voice giving the region’s daily pollen count on radio and television for Washington, D.C., died of a heart attack Dec. 27, while vacationing in La Quinta, Calif., where he and his wife Kitty Kelley spent recent winters. Zucker, who was a longtime resident of Georgetown, was 70.

Dr. Zucker, who was board certified in allergy and immunology and pediatrics, grew up in patrician surroundings on Fifth Avenue in New York City, but intentionally established his medical practice in Upper Marlboro, Md., reaching traditionally undeserved areas.

He was born in New York City on March 15, 1941, and was the salutatorian of New York’s Riverdale Country Day School in 1958. He attended Yale University for two years before transferring to Columbia University, where he graduated in 1962 and completed medical school in 1966. He was an intern, resident and chief resident of Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City and served at the Bureau of Radiological Health in Washington, D.C., as a member of the U.S. Public Health Service.

He completed a fellowship in pediatric allergy and immunology at Children’s Hospital in Washington, D.C., before joining the long-standing Washington, D.C., pediatric practice of Dr. Ewell Black. He went into solo practice in 1973 for 35 years in Prince George’s County, retiring in 2008.

For years, Dr. Zucker recorded a daily report on WTOP radio and television on the pollen levels in Washington, D.C., information that was crucial to the region’s thousands of allergy sufferers.
Dr. Zucker was an enthusiast of sports, wine and good food. He was the president of the D.C. chapter of the International Wine and Food Society, a gastronomic society founded in 1933. He hosted many gatherings at Washington area restaurants with society members to sample unusual menus and vintages.

Survivors include his wife, author Kitty Kelley, whom he married in 1991; a son, Jeremy Zucker and daughter-in-law Gretchen Zucker; a daughter, Amanda Bowker, and son-in-law David Bowker, and four grandchildren, Eli, Eve, Jonah and Vivian, all of Washington, D.C., and a sister, Jane Zucker, of St. Anselmo, Calif. An earlier marriage to Nancy Baum ended in divorce.

Memorial services will be held Jan. 1 in La Quinta, Calif., and at a later date in Washington, D.C. The family asks that any contributions in Dr. Zucker’s memory be directed to D.C. Public Library Foundation, 901 G St. NW, Suite 400, Washington, D.C. 20001; DCPLFoundation.org.