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appy New Year, Georgetowners. 2009 came and went, and with it a whole host of happenings, some happy, some sad, some historic, some as everyday as waking up in the morning. We saw a historic inauguration, tragedies in the spring, a beautiful summer amid a painful recession. We saw a breathless and lurid story about fameseekers far away, then one right here at home. Then we saw, just days before Christmas, a gentle snowfall become a paradise — or catastrophe, depending on your view — two feet deep. Whether you cashed in or out this year, laughed or cried on New Year’s Eve, you can’t say it hasn’t been a ride. 2010, we hope, will be even more exciting. Here goes our first issue of the decade:

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Jeff Kouri’s winning photograph “Cold Misty Morning,” featuring the steeple of Georgetown University’s Healy Hall.

The National Cathedral can be seen in the background.

4-5 — GT Observer ANC Update Word on the Street 6-7 — Editorial/Opinion To the Editor Report card: Barack Obama Jack Evans Report Passages in the Art World Remembering: Robert Smith George Michael

• Real estate ace Donna Evers brings us Boss Shepherd writ large, the Washington titan who rivaled Tammany Hall’s Boss Tweed in feistiness and dubious politics. He also helped transform the muddy, noisome, provincial District into to the cosmopolitan city it is today. Take this fascinating glimpse at our local history on page 10.

• We are proud to announce Jeff Kouri as the winner of our 2010 photography competition.

After carefully reviewing the over 50 submitted photos, the judges’ panel across the board lauded Mr. Kouri’s photographic acumen in capturing Georgetown’s skyline on a winter night. Congratulations!

John Blee chatted with our top 10 finalists, including Mr. Kouri, whose work will be featured in a gallery at Peacock Café (3251 Prospect St.) on Jan. 22. Can’t wait until then? Flip to page 15 for a preview of the talent. Thank you to all who participated!

• Did you rashly make a New Year’s resolution eat healthier? Are you unsure how to chow down without filling up on carbs and grease?

Let Katherine Tallmadge, our resident dietitian, give you a tip or two. Katherine offers five healthy foods for 2010 that taste great and keep those pounds off. She was recently interviewed

by CNN for a story about healthy dieting, and is spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association. New Year’s proclaimers, consider yourselves in good hands. Page 29.

Smith Bagley 8-9—All Things Media The Great Media Shift 10-11 — Feature/Mortgage The Don of the District A Turbulent Year for Housing?

12-13 — Real Estate Featured Property Walsh-McLean Mansion 15-17 — Cover Story Georgetown Clicks: Photo Competition Finalists 18-19 — Performance/The Opera Glass This Just “In” The Creation of an Opera Company 20-21 — In Country Dispatches from Hunt Country: Remembering Hugs and Kisses

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he Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E’s first meeting of the decade was a truncated one, given there were no Old Georgetown Board applicants to review (the board does not meet in January). This made attendance a little thin, but those who were there — the commissioners most of all — seemed to wear expressions of relief at the prospect of an early dismissal.

That shouldn’t be surprising. After all, by the time some ANC meetings adjourn, last call bells have already rung around the village.

On Jan. 11, though, each agendum was attended to succinctly and with gusto. Chalk it up to a sense of post-holiday urgency. Or maybe a New Year’s resolution.

• MPD’s Lieutenant John Hedgecock kicked things off with an update on holiday crime and police activity. Holiday incidents were relatively low, which the lieutenant attributed to the BID-sponsored reimbursable detail program in effect Thursday through Sunday. The program funds overtime pay for additional police personnel in Georgetown.

Hedgecock spoke briefly on a Jan. 10 incident in which a female Georgetown University student woke up at 6:30 a.m. with an intruder lying next to her in her bed. The suspect immediately fled the Glover Park residence. Neighbors fear the incident may be connected with a string of similar crimes popularly attributed to the so-called “Georgetown Cuddler.”

Hedgecock said the police department is working diligently behind the scenes to investi-

gate the incidents. He also noted that while each break-in is similar and the public is eager to pin them on a single suspect, authorities have reason to believe that several individuals may be perpetrating the assaults. The Sunday attacker reportedly gained entry via an unlocked door, which is common for student houses hosting friends or large parties. In his usual laconic and direct style, Hedgecock urged the community to be vigilant about locking up after a party or entertaining guests.

“This is the type of crime that is preventable,” he said. “Lock your door. It’s as simple as that.”

• Representatives from the D.C. Fire Department’s Engine 1 briefed the ANC on

the planned reconstruction of the fire station at 2225 M St. The station serves the bulk of Georgetown’s east village. Contractors are cur-

rently submitting bids, and all have agreed to construct an interim station so fire service is not interrupted.

• What a storm! Since The Georgetowner last went to print, Washington was buffeted by a year’s worth of snow in a mere 24 hours.

Georgetown received upwards of a foot and a half of the white stuff, and by the time it let up, neighbors were in the streets playing, building snowmen, and soaking in the silence.

Not everyone was feeling recreational, though. As the city ground to a halt, DDOT worked furiously to clear main roads and residential streets. The agency reportedly burned through a cool $4 million for the cleanup, which amounts to a major portion of the city’s snow removal budget.

ANC commissioners praised DDOT’s overall effort to clear the roads, which were made passable surprisingly quickly. Commissioner Bill Starrels reminded the agency to be diligent in the clearing of residential roads, some of which were missed or passed over during the storm.

The commission also reminded residents to clear their sidewalks so pedestrians, especially the elderly and disabled, may pass through.

• Craig Muckle of Safeway spoke briefly on the construction process of the Social Safeway — the Wisconsin Avenue grocery nexus that has been sorely missed by residents since renovation began in April. Muckle showed a mock-up of the ultramodern, Whole Foods-esque buildingto-be, which is tentatively slated for completion on May 5. The revamped store will feature an

expanded wine and beer section staffed by two knowledgeable wine stewards, and will also contain a number of small boutiques up front.

Talks with potential tenants are in progress.

Muckle, always chummy with the commissioners, was optimistic about the project, calling it “probably the best store in the company.”

• Finally, commissioners reminded attendees of the Board of Zoning Adjustment hearing on Jan. 12, which is expected once and for all to determine the fate of Philly Pizza, the controversial junk food mecca serving as the latest town-gown inflammation in the community.

The BZA was selected to hear an appeal of the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs’ October decision to revoke Philly’s certificate of occupancy on grounds it was operating as a take-out instead of a restaurant.

Nearby residents have complained repeatedly about late-night customers buying pizza and discarding trash on their property. Philly Pizza owner Matt Kocak received a stay on the DCRA’s ruling, which has allowed his business to operate during the appeals process.

At press time, the BZA hearing was still in session and no ruling had been reached.

Word on the Street: • New parking rules to take effect this month As mandated by the FY2010 Budget Support Act, the District will begin enforcing parking meter payment requirements on Saturdays at all metered spaces in the city. Crews will begin

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• Georgetown’s archives preserved The bulk of Georgetown’s historical documentation, nearly wiped in a 2007 fire, has finally been given a green light for public use. Jerry A. McCoy, archivist of the Washingtoniana Divi-

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Coming up in Georgetown: • Middleburg’s Coach Stop closes Jan. 3 was a sad day for country-inclined Georgetowners in Middleburg, where The Coach Stop served its final dinner before shut-

• Christ Church, Georgetown (31st and O Streets) continues its choral evensong series on Jan. 17 at 5 p.m. with the music of Richard Ayleward, John Blow and Adam Drese. Sung by the professional choir of Christ Church, this

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Editorials/opinion

Report card: Barack Obama

By Gary Tischler

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ear the end of the year, President Barack Obama graded himself on his performance in his first year in office.

He gave himself a B+. That might be a little generous.

Not that I’m into grading that much, but I’d say it was closer to a plain old B. Although I think the president did pretty well, all things considered, he could have done lots better. In short he didn’t do as much as he might have, not withstanding the huge challenges he faced coming in.

Taking on health care reform when he did was probably a given for him, considering that he had made the issue a lynchpin of his campaign. Losing on this could still be a serious blow, but not trying at all would have been really bad.

Still, health care created an opportunity for the GOP, whose political vocabulary seems to have been reduced to only three words on any

proposals, activities or walks around the block by the president: NO, NO, NO. The tea party rallies and town hall meetings, so robustly hostile, drowned out any reasonable discussion for a much-too-long period of time.

But it was also a year in which Obama can take credit for saving the nation and the economy from a likely and onrushing depression. True, the stimulus plan wasn’t perfect, and had its share of pork complete with rinds, but it staved off potential disaster. The expected job gains did not appear, and remains a serious problem on the psyche of the country and its regular folks,

Smith Bagley

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n the Washington of politics, of parties and partisans, of elections and fundraising and insiders and outsiders, there are people who are Washington people.

Smith Bagley was a Washington people sort, even though he wasn’t to the politics born, didn’t come from here and didn’t stay here.

But he left footprints and memories, and in the Washington world, a good chunk of which runs not only on the Hill and congressional offices, but also on K Street, in mansions and at social gatherings and where the power elite rub shoulders and contributions together, that sort of thing counts.

Smith Bagley, who died recently of complications from a heart condition, was described in various ways that are a little vague — heir to a fortune, business executive, a major Democratic Party player and contributor, husband and father.

Together, all of it looks like a social, political and Washington kind of life accompanied by more ephemeral qualities that included confident bearing, looks, acumen, intelligence, and goodly doses of charisma.

He came to town with his then-wife Vicki Bagley, a solid Democrat searching to make his mark in that blurred arena of peoples that spring about around an incoming presidential administration, which, in this case, was Jimmy Carter’s, who brought an

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end to a Democratic draught that dated back to 1968. This was 1976, and there was a new sheriff in town, and Smith Bagley, heir to the considerable R.J. Reynolds fortune, and his wife soon made their presence felt in Georgetown with parties, gatherings and fundraisers. They were a political couple in a time when the Harrimans — Averill and Pamela — stood at the top of the heap in that arena and in that neighborhood.

Smith Bagley was president of the Arca Foundation, served on the Kennedy Center board, and worked hard for Democratic candidates over the years, eventually bringing his considerable energies and connections to a stint as national vice chairman for the Democratic National Committee.

Smith Bagley is survived by his wife Elizabeth Frawley Bagley, who was the U.S. Ambassador to Portugal in the Clinton Administration. His marriages to Sandra Peabody Robinson and Vicki Bagley ended in divorce.

Smith Bagley’s daughter, Nancy Reynolds Bagley, is editor-inchief of Washington Life, the glossy magazine founded by her mother.

and politically for the Dems.

If health care and any number of other issues have been difficult, this president has also appeared at times to be snakebit. The Gates fiasco took away from his first major health care speech. A loud “liar” shout-out by an obscure Southern congressman distracted attention from an equally impressive speech to a joint session of Congress. The congressman became a folk hero to the teabag crowd.

Try to throw your first state dinner in a really big way, and do it pretty much perfectly, and what’s the story the next day? You know, Salahis around the clock.

We think there’s a war out there, and not just in Iraq or Afghanistan, but right here at home. The president needs to get into the fight here, just a little more.

Here are some thoughts, Mr. President: • What part of “We can break him on this” don’t you under-

stand? You have by all accounts a tough and sometimes sharp sense of humor. Use it to take some shots at the other side.

• Make no mistake. There are no bi-partisans in the GOP ranks. This was clear from the beginning, and you can see it in the tight faces of Misters Boehner, Cantor, McConnell, DeMint, Bunning and even John McCain, who looks more and more like a bitter old man.

• Have a chat with Bill Clinton sometime if you ever get discouraged. He went through a first year in hell worse than yours if that’s possible, and his party lost control of both houses the following year. He knows something about persevering. Just don’t go near a steakhouse.

Use that famous eloquence of yours to lead. For God’s sake, don’t let Harry Reid do it for you in the Senate. Every time the opposition opens its mouth, it ought to be an opportunity for you. Be the leader that you were during the campaign.

Don’t assume that you can’t turn things around.

To keep it short: it’s time to stand up and talk back a little and a lot. Then you’ll have earned that B+ and more.

Passages in the Art World

By John Blee

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enneth Noland, the last significant member of the Washington Color School, died in his home in Port Clyde, ME last week. He had left D.C. back in the early ’60s to move briefly to New York, but later spent a long time living on a farm in South Shaftsbury, VT, formerly owned by Robert Frost.

Noland’s work was more diverse than what he is remembered for. He holds a certain point in the spectrum of painting that hewed closely to pure design. Noland, through his own deliberate self-limitation, also created a point in painting that he fully occupied. It is impossible to think of painting, as it is known, without that point.

Setting up a geographic territory within painting has always been an aspect of that art. It is sometimes very broad as with Turner and landscape, and sometimes seemingly limited as Mondrian and his geometry. However Mondrian’s geometry and Noland’s stripes do not exist in the same atmosphere, nor do they share metaphysics.

Mondrian’s paint has another dimension.

With Noland the stripe or circle (“target”) remains defiantly physical (without the meta-).

Noland through sheer scale and color juxtaposition plus the yards of unprimed canvas achieves something similar to the repetitive instrumental minimalism of Philip Glass.

It is also as Clement Greenberg has written about Noland, “His color counts by its clarity and its energy; it is not there neutrally, to be carried by the design and drawing; it does the carrying itself.”

When Noland and Morris Louis visited Helen Frankenthaler’s studio and saw “Mountains and Sea,” they went back to D.C. and did some jamming in paintings they worked on together.

In that fusion they infused the art scene in D.C. and ultimately, it rippled around the world.

Robert H. Smith, who also died recently, has been eulogized by Earl A. Powell III, director of the National Gallery of Art, as carrying on “the Mellon tradition of stewardship and philanthropy in a way that will have a lasting impact on the Gallery.” To compare Smith to Mellon is the highest praise from Powell.

Smith was formerly president and trustee of the National Gallery for several decades.

While Smith was president he helped guide the Gallery through years of substantial development. The Dutch Cabinet Galleries, the Sculpture Garden, and the West Building ground floor Sculpture Galleries were created during his time on the board. Robert H. Smith’s collection of Renaissance bronzes is of exceptional quality and has been promised to the Gallery.

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Robert Smith

Robert Smith

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he Christmas holidays are supposed to be days of celebration and rejoicing.

Often, however, they’re a reminder of

loss.

In recent days, the Washington area lost a number of people who left a mark and made an impact, in ways big and small, but none seemed to have a greater impact than Robert H. Smith, a dedicated, visionary builder and philanthropist, who seemed to define the conditions and terms of what builders and philanthropists ought to be in the best senses of the words.

Robert H. Smith rose to prominence as a Washington builder when he assumed command of his father’s business, the Charles E. Smith companies, building on the already major reputation and success of the company with his partner and brother-in-law Robert S. Kogod to the point that it became Washington’s biggest commercial real estate firm.

It’s one thing to build office buildings, develop apartment projects and the like. It’s another to in effect invent a city, but that’s what Smith did when he saw the possibilities in a rundown, poor neighborhood area of Arlington, Virginia. Because of his vision and business savvy, that area eventually became Crystal City, a high-rise community of apartment buildings, and office buildings, 40 in all, all beginning with the construction of two modest apartment buildings.

Smith, along with other powerhouse builders and developers, has been credited with leading the way to major investing in downtown Washington.

His business enterprises alone would be enough to guarantee Smith’s place in a Washington area hall of fame of people who made a difference. But he didn’t stop there.

In the current parlance, he gave back to the community, not just by giving millions to historic homes, universities (The University of Maryland was his alma mater where the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center is named for his

wife in another one of his bequests), and museums, but he collected art actively, and made his mark in that community. He left numerous major works of art to the National Gallery of Art where he was president of the board of trustees for ten years.

At the National Gallery, he became founding co-chair of The Circle, the Gallery’s membership group, chaired the NGA’s 50th anniversary Gift Committee as well as its New Century Fund.

Here’s what he had to say on the 20th anniversary celebration of The Circle: “We are here to celebrate the great power of philanthropy.

The course of human history is determined not by what happens in the skies, but by what takes place in the hearts of men and women. It is important to know not only how to make a living, but also how to make a life. We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”

“The National Gallery of Art owes a profound debt of gratitude to Bob Smith for his unfailing generosity, connoisseurship, and leadership throughout some four decades,” Earl A. Powell III, director of the National Gallery of Art said. “He carried the Mellon tradition of stewardship and philanthropy in a way that will have a lasting impact on the Gallery—its collection, staff, scholars and visitors—for generations to come.”

George Michael

By Gary Tischler

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f you follow local sports, you more than likely harbor strong feelings about George Michael, the legendary sportscaster whose emphatic, in-your-face, high-volume style made him hugely popular in the Washington area and earned him nation-wide exposure and deserved stature.

All of his success here — he was the longtime WRC4 sports anchor, from which he launched the innovative George Michael Sports Machine, where a rich barrage of game footage and his own inimitable bang-up approach generated big ratings and wealth —didn’t prevent viewers from maintaining something of a loveirritation view of him. But there was no denying his enthusiasm, his own strong emotions, and, perhaps best of all, an ability to laugh at himself and let others do it too, a rare quality in the land of big egos.

You could argue that Michael, especially in his coverage of the local church of Redskins, was way too close to coaches and owners, especially Joe Gibbs, and recently Dan Snyder, whom he wouldn’t criticize or allow to be criticized. But, by himself, or paired with another local icon Sonny Jurgensen, he was always entertaining, always vivid and charismatic, which, in a so-called cool medium, was actually pretty cool.

He was a task-master by all accounts, but, as was evident by his on-air interaction with coworkers, especially anchor Jim Vance, impossible not to like. His presence, in fact, helped

create the image of a tightly-knit familial atmosphere on WRC 4, one that persisted until Michael quit after big staff layoffs and his own football show was dropped because of budgetary issues.

Michael in a way predated the rough-and-tumble and over-the-top ESPN style of sports coverage. But he did some things that others didn’t even bother with. He covered NASCAR racing long before anyone else did, something that’s now become a rip-roaring national fetish. Ditto for bull riding and rodeos, wrestling, and, yup, even Jack Russell dog racing, part of the yearly

horse shows here. He was a gentleman horse fancier who lived on a big ranch.

You could argue, because sports was a fully engaged passion for him, that he had trouble being objective, and even acted the controversialist at times. When actually fulfilling his duties about who won and lost, he often got team names and scores wrong in his rushed way, and proudly butchered foreign names during Olympic coverage. That too, was a form of entertainment.

Mastering rock ’n’ roll as a famed and legendary deejay in Philadelphia and New York and becoming basically a much beloved sports legend here are no small feats. They’re about strongly held affections that last a long time.

Michael passed away at 70 during the holidays after a long struggle with leukemia.

People miss him. His successors, both young and attractive, can’t quite hold the camera the way he did, nor create such loud echoes. Want to know how l ong memory lasts? I went to a neighborhood food-fest in an Italian section of the Bronx back in the ’80s where I was a mistrusted visitor until I mentioned Michael’s name. “That guy was a legend as a deejay. He played the Drifters a lot,” somebody said. “We loved him.

Have some of momma’s cookies.”

Jack Evans Report

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ast Thursday, the District and the Greater Washington Boys and Girls Club (GWBGC) signed a historic agreement whereby the city purchased three clubs — the 10th Street Club in Adams Morgan, the Eastern Branch Club on Capitol Hill and the Jelleff Boys and Girls Club here in Georgetown

For several years the GWBGC has been having financial problems. A slowing-down in fundraising, internal management issues and expanding program costs have pushed the club to the brink of insolvency and, as such, they have decided to sell some of their properties.

Clearly, Jelleff has the most value, although it has limited use as a developable piece of property.

Jelleff has a long history in our city. Many thousands of people all over D.C. attended programs at Jelleff. I personally take my children roller skating there on Saturday nights, have had their birthday parties there and my children have played in basketball and soccer leagues and clinics. People from all walks of life and all parts of the city feel at home at Jelleff.

Because of this, the city decided to purchase the three clubs. Mayor Fenty identified $20 million in last year’s budget for the acquisition, at my urging. Chairman Gray, myself, and many of my colleagues worked together to put the deal forward. After much back and forth with the GWBGC, a deal was finally reached last week and was announced at a press conference on Thursday. In addition, the city has entered into an agreement with the Maret School to renovate the fields and the swimming pool.

We hope to have all the construction finished next summer. This is a very exciting and positive development for D.C. and the Georgetown community.

The author is a city councilmember representing District Ward 2.

An ability to laugh at himself and let others do it too, a rare quality in the land of big egos

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MEDIA

THE GREAT MEDIA SHIFT

By Gary Tischler and Garrett Faulkner

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ast year was not a fun year to be in what you can still call the business and profession of journalism.

Last year, the industry itself fully discovered that it was in big trouble, after a decade of not paying enough attention to the effects of the World Wide Web and the repeated arrival of all sorts of nifty gadgets that were sowing confusion in the media world.

It wasn’t just that two major newspapers — the venerable Rocky Mountain News in Denver and the Seattle Intelligencer — closed up shop. It wasn’t just that other big city newspapers, titans all at one time, were tottering, or barely surviving, with the Boston Globe, for instance, just missing being shut down by its parent company. Everywhere newspapers are trying to figure out how to catch up and respond to the major and revolutionary inroads made by digital delivery systems.

Magazines are disappearing, too. Last year, over 393 magazines shut down for good or only published online versions, including a number of glossy, lifestyle mags like House and Garden, Domino, Southern Accents, Cottage Living, Gourmet, Modern Bride, Country Home,

Portfolio, Cookie and the National Geographic’s Adventure Magazine.

Why such long-standing, popular publications should take the hit remains a bit of a mystery, given that, confusion aside, over 200 startups also made their debuts.

Any time publications close, even without the Internet as a background, there are usually two culprits — a major decline in advertising and, the usual suspect, rising printing costs.

When it comes to life-style magazines, they soldier on with a high dependency on producers of high end products.

Hence, Vanity Fair, Harpers Bazaar, Vogue and Gentleman’s Quarterly seem to be still putting out fat editions. But the smaller, less visible pubs may have had trouble getting enough of a shrinking advertising base.

Nobody actually knows for sure. It could be a kind of perfect storm that nobody saw brewing.

There’s the recession which affects everything and everybody. There’s the slow awakening to the problem and difficulty presented by search Engines, Twitter, Social Networking, bloggers, and online publications that do the same things

that magazines and newspapers do.

Last year, even the Senate became aware of the issue, holding hearings on the future of journalism, including one at which net execs from Google, former reporters and editors, academics and publishers and Ariana Huffington testified in front of a clearly confused but concerned group of Senators.

Casualties continue: recently the company that published several nationwide local newspapers that including the Washington Blade, a prominent gay newspaper, folded up its tent.

Editor and Publisher closed, which says some-

thing.

And the survivors don’t look the same. They look as if they’ve taken the journalism version of these popular crash diets so you might be seeing ads where a newspaper publisher might be touting that “Last month, we’ve lost 20 pages of copy and a couple of dozen writers, editors and sales people.

We’re skinny.”

Take a look at Time Magazine and Newsweek. They’re so thin (except for Time’s yearend double issue) that you can read them for breakfast. They’re new, revamped-a contemporary look and feel for the better by Time, Newsweek, not so much.

Last year, over 393 magazines shut down for good or only published online versions.

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by dropping another batch of employees, getting rid of its sports department and announcing that it would focus on news, minus home delivery, which had already stopped. For all that, it doubled its newsstand price to a buck.

The Washington Post has its own problems.

Over the last year, it’s begun an obvious and continuous kind of revamping and attempts to save space and money. Sections have been chopped down in size, reporters have been bought out, or moved around, or doubled up, some big name writers have disappeared while others are writing columns with hand-drawn, Wall-Street Journal type portraits. Even baseball box scores, while not eliminated, have been downsized.

It’s hard to tell day-to-day what the Post is really about these days, although they still have some talented, younger writers, Monica Hesse in the Style section among them. But to go through the Post is to see the sign of the times,

or the handwriting on the wall. Even though the Post itself was one of the pioneers in mounting an effective website, it hasn’t yet figured out how to make money from it. Few publications really have.

The Internet and the digital world is the most inventive arena that’s out there right now and it keeps coming up with things that don’t bode well for traditional media. Up until Christmastime last year, Amazon’s Kindle had been the only mainstream gadget that elevated e-books from mere novelty status to a readable, relevant medium. Not only could it display text comfortably, it wowed techies with its ability to download a book faster than you could

flip through a real one. Conceived in the age of near-microscopic storage media, the Kindle could store enough books to stock a small library — a thousand minds and words crammed into your hand at a fraction of the cost. As it did with the iPod, the world gasped, then regrouped, then slowly began to realize the possibilities. Last November, longtime rival Barnes and Noble released the nook, a sleeker Kindle with a color display. Rumors are flying about an upcoming equivalent from Apple. A market has been born.

And the news, the news as we know it, will have to jump on board, or go the way of the typewriter and eight-track.

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THE DON OF THE DISTRICT

By Donna Evers

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Boss Shepherd’s is a rags-to-riches story of a man who modernized Washington, D.C. In came Boss Shepherd to save the day. He placed 157 miles of paved roads and sidewalks, 39 miles of gas mains, 123 miles of sewers and 30 miles of water mains. He planted 60,000 trees, built the city’s first horse-drawn trolley system and installed city street lights. He and his favorite architect, Adolf Cluss, built some of the most beautiful Victorian public buildings in the country, including the Eastern Market on

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His story is a genuine rags-to-riches saga. He was born to a poor family in Southwest Washington in 1835, quit school at the age of 13 to become a pipe fitter, ended up buying the plumbing company he worked for, and then went on to amass a fortune buying and developing real estate. He had a mansion on K Street (now torn down) and a country home in Shepherd Park (named after him), where he wined and dined power players in the nation’s capital. He got Congress to make the District a territory, had himself appointed to the Board of Public Works and quickly took over its operations to build infrastructure for a city which had doubled in size by the end of the Civil War. At the same time, the so-called roads were mud ruts, there was no running water or sewers and few street lights.

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When he decided he didn’t like the unsightly railroad tracks that crisscrossed the Mall and he knew the railroad company wouldn’t allow him to remove them, he took a crew of 200 men to the Mall after dark one night and tore them out.

The railroad owner was so amazed at the sheer audacity of the move, that he offered the Boss a job.

Boss Shepherd reached the pinnacle of his power when he was appointed territorial governor in 1873, but the glory didn’t last long. An audit of the city’s books showed that Shepherd overran the budget by $13,000,000, an enormous sum at the time, and the city had to declare bankruptcy. It was also discovered that he rewarded his cronies with government contracts and favored improvements in areas where he and his friends owned property.

In hindsight, he still gets credit for the mammoth achievement of modernizing Washington, which ensured that the District would remain the home of the nation’s capital. But he was still fired, left Washington in disgrace and moved to Mexico, where he struck it rich with a silver mine and made a second fortune.

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ew rules and a volatile interest rate environment ushered in the new year.

Before the holidays mortgage interest rates for most confirming loan amounts were in the upper 4 percent range with little or no points.

At the start of the New Year, rates were in the low 5 percent range. Rates were last at these levels in August of 2009. Although higher, the rates are still attractive by historical standards.

Yields on the 10-Year Treasury notes went up to levels not seen since early last fall. The yields were around 3.85 percent. This was around 25 basis pints higher then over the last several weeks.

The rise in yields was attributed to high expectations for the economy as a whole and uncertainty about the future of possible inflation. With

money flowing into the stock market, less money was going into the bond market. All these factors combined helped drive yields higher.

There are still few signs of inflation on the horizon. In a Merrill Lynch report, it was pointed out that Microsoft is set to lower the prices of its Office software suite. Outside of fuel prices, it seems like there is little to no inflation.

The Department of the Treasury has announced that it will stop buying mortgage-backed securities. This program, which has been going on for a year, has helped to stabilize the mortgage market. In some aspects the program laid the foundation for lower mortgage interest rates. Many rate watchers expect rates to increase when the program ceases.

Other 2010 changes for the mortgage industry include new Good Faith Settlement statements and new HUD I settlement forms. The purpose of the new standards is to simplify and help clarify both parts of the mortgage process for the consumer.

So far the new regulations have people in the industry holding their breath. The new form for the Good Faith Estimate jumps from one page to over three. The new HUD I goes to several pages from two. Settlement companies have had to invest tens of thousands of dollars in new updated software.

It will be interesting to see how real settlement companies; mortgage banks and ultimately the consumer will review the new “improved” forms. It will take considerable time for the evaluation to happen.

Expect rates to remain in a fairly turbulent state for the next several weeks. Rates will remain in their slightly elevated range until the markets calm down. Remember that historically, rates are still attractive.

Bill Starrels is a senior loan officer and lives in Georgetown. He specializes in purchase and refinance mortgages. Bill can be reached at 703625-7355 or by email at bill.starrels@gmail. com.

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wonderful selection of photographs greeted judges Neshan Naltchayan, Lauretta McCoy, Jeff Malet, Tom Wolff and myself at the Georgetowner office last week for the cover competition. The contest rules allowed “up to five photographs taken of Georgetown or anywhere in Georgetown, and the coolest, most incredible, eye catching, blow-usaway photograph will win the front cover of our publication.” Many facets of Georgetown were revealed through the eyes and lenses of readers of our newspaper and Web site. It was a difficult to narrow down the choice and the judges were diverse in their responses.

It is exciting to wrap the cover of the Georgetowner with the stunning view of the familiar hill where Georgetown University rises on the

crest of its hill above the Potomac as photographed by Jeff Kouri. It is a very evocative, almost painterly shot with mood mystique.

Jeff is not a resident of Georgetown or D.C., but is an engineer and lives in Colorado Springs.

He visits D.C. on business and loves taking pictures. Again and again with all the photographers involved in this contest, it is a love of photography that distinguishes them.

It was last March on an “incredible foggy morning at around five or six” that the picture was taken. Jeff says that being an engineer is very technical, but “I have always this artist in me. When I’m in D.C. I seem to end up in Georgetown and one of my favorite things is street photography. I feel comfortable in Georgetown, people are friendly and it’s a fun place to walk around.”

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Architecture

(Pictured top left) Mary Tharin was off to India when I caught her on her cell phone at JFK. She felt that her shot of the Georgetown sign on the now defunct theater (famous in its day for having an endless run of “Caligula”) portrayed a “different grungier side of Georgetown. It’s cool in a rundown way.”

Mary has worked for several non-profits, including the International Labor Rights Forum, and is a huge fan of National Geographic photography. She is originally from the Bay Area in California.

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(Pictured bottom left) The judges selected the eye-catching views of Georgetown photographed by Adam Paine, which featured the spires of Georgetown University and a panoramic Key Bridge. Adam recalls getting up early on a misty morning, and says “I carry my camera with me; whatever I see I capture.” He has worked as a commercial photographer, working several years for “Trial” magazine.

Adam’s father, who was a senior art director at the “National Geographic” for thirty-three years and subsequently worked designing stamps for the US Postal Service, is a source of inspiration. Adam also enjoys doing editorial work and is studying photography at the Art Institute of Washington, D.C.

(Pictured above) Tom Ward’s wonderful view of Key Bridge, this time in a tight shot, won for its compositional dynamism. Tom describes himself as an amateur photographer who lives in Arlington and Texas. He comes daily to meet friends for coffee in Georgetown. Tom finds history in even the shadows of Georgetown.

Tom’s image is pristine in that it has not been Photoshopped. He finds the sublime in Georgetown and enjoys the vibrancy of its denizens. Tom had a career in the military, and is now giving back. His son was wounded in Iraq and he started a foundation in Texas to aid wounded soldiers.

(Pictured top right) Douglas Sonders is a professional photographer with published credits, including work featured in Rolling Stone and Time magazine. His work with rock bands is well known, and he also does video. Shooting inside Dumbarton Oaks, Douglas’ shot features Betsey Johnson clothing on willowy models. Douglas’ work is celebrated for his lighting and it shows. He is used to taking a generator out into the middle of nowhere and setting up lights to create the mood.

Upon graduating from RIT he was hired to tour and photograph a rock band, many a photographer’s dream.

We can only imagine the music playing during the shot, and it probably wasn’t Stravinsky’s “Dumbarton Oaks Concerto”!

(Pictured bottom right) Malek Naz Freidouni makes us all jump for joy when we look at her photograph. Naz is a vibrant Washingtonian who came in early childhood from Tehran. Her accomplishments include graduating from the Corcoran, and she has vast experience in everything from portraiture to fashion and architectural photography. Naz is a jack-ofall-trades in photography, even able to repair photographic equipment, but we celebrate her vision!

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(Pictured above) The judges selected the eye-catching views of Georgetown photographed by Adam Paine, which featured the spires of Georgetown University and a panoramic Key Bridge. Adam recalls getting up early on a misty morning, and says “I carry my camera with me; whatever I see I capture.” He has worked as a commercial photographer, working several years for “Trial” magazine.

Adam’s father, who was a senior art director at the “National Geographic” for thirty-three years and subsequently worked designing stamps for the US Postal Service, is a source of inspiration. Adam also enjoys doing editorial work and is studying photography at the Art Institute of Washington, D.C. (Pictured top left) Claire Reynolds feels Georgetown provides endless opportunities for a photographer. She has lived in Georgetown for eight years and is continually fascinated by its architecture. Claire’s shot with the sun at the horizon creates a keen geometry with its interesting angles.

Claire moved to Georgetown at age 11, yet she feels connected to the part of her childhood she spent outdoors in upstate New York and Vermont. She appreciates how different “each dawn and dusk really is. My sunrise series began by chance. I live in a dorm at Georgetown with a magnificent view overlooking the Potomac River across from Rosslyn. Most mornings I would wake up with the first light of day to run before classes. I always wish I ran with a camera because the images that impress me most are those when the city seems empty.”

(Pictured bottom left) Ray Regan’s scenic view of rowers on the Potomac was photographed on his iPhone near Thompson Boat Center. Ray has been a professional rower since 1987, as well as a coach. He uses photography as an instructional tool to help the young women he coaches fine-tune their rowing technique. It alerts them to possibly changing body position and timing, small things that add up to increase rowing function.

Ray says, “Georgetown offers a very unique experience as it feels like an historical Virginia country town. The Potomac River is one of the most amazing rivers to row on. Parts of the river seem miles from any city. I’ve seen some of the most fantastic sunrises (we row at 5:30am).”

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(Pictured top right) A classic shot of rowers on the Potomac by Chad Fleschner, a trainer who also participated in the Olympic trials in rowing in 2004, connects with something that goes very deep in his own personal history. He speaks of the discipline of rowing and how one has to connect rhythmically to the rest of the team, taking each stroke in unison.

Chad has always enjoyed photography. He relates that digital photography has eliminated the expense associated in the past with photography. Chad is empowered by the memory of his father who tried to make a living being a photographer, but had to change his occupation to support his family. Chad is carrying on his father’s dreams.

(Pictured bottom right) Jamie Hess has lived in Georgetown from his childhood, and his shot of the canal barge is a personal expression of his fascination for that icon. He has a love affair with his Leica that he carries all the time. Jamie photographed the barge while on a walk with his dog. An event planner who also does nightlife PR, he is an avid amateur photographer.

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PERFORMANCE

THIS JUST “IN”: MOZART HEADLINING IN SERIES’ WINTER LINEUP zart’s life by staging a generous dose of some of

By Gary Tischler

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sked how long the In Series has been around as one of the city’s most eclectic performance art institutions, founder Carla Hubner paused a second, then said, “Oh, just about forever.”

Actually, it’s been 28 years, beginning as a concert series at Mt. Vernon College, before going out on its own as an independent group almost 10 years ago.

These days, that’s an unusually long run for a group that produces some of the most unusual productions you could ask for this side of a bohemian enclave. The In Series, under Hubner, has provided productions that involve cabaret, classical music, opera, dance, contemporary and historic art music and international and local happenings, for want of a better word. In a way, the In Series have been successful by mounting intimate, beyond-category productions that illustrates, if not realizes, Wagner’s grand ambition to pull all the arts together into one epic showcase.

“Well, not quite,” Hubner will tell you.

“Wagner never did that but I know what you’re saying. And in the process, we do something else. We use known (and sometimes not so well known) material and put it together in such a way that the result is something brand new.”

In the process, the In Series, which includes an in-house group of singers and musicians, has forged a collaborative path in the D.C. arts community, most notably with the Washington Ballet and its artistic director Septime Webre.

The latest result will probably be the illustration of what the In Series is all about you can get. That’s when the group will stage “WAM!” (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart), a celebration and exploration through music and dance of Mo-

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Mozart’s best known works, and using them to illuminate different aspects of the uber-genius’s life.

Performances will be at the Atlas Performing Arts Center Jan. 23 at 8 p.m., Jan. 24 at 3 p.m.

Jan. 30 at 8 p.m and Jan. 31 at 3 p.m.

“WAM!” is being done in collaboration with the Washington Ballet Studio Company’s corps of young dancers who perform extensively with the company and Webre himself. David Palmer will perform directing duties for the Washington Ballet, while Hubner and Carlos Cesar Rodriguez will handle direction for the In Series. Webre, Palmer and Jaret Nelson have created the choreography from a story line which Palmer based on Mozart’s letter and known biographical material.

The performers will include the 12 young international ballet stars from the Wash-

ington Ballet Studio Company and a cast of six In Series’ opera singers, with Rodriguez conducting from the piano. The singers include sopranos Laura Lewis and Laura Wehrmeyer, mezzo Anamer Castrello, tenor Peter Burroughs and bass Sean Pflueger.

The production follows Mozart from his childhood, where he traveled throughout Europe as a boy genius with his father, through his romances, triumphs, disasters and tragedies.

“The selections illustrate the life through performance and music,” Hubner said. “So, for instance, the children’s opera ‘Bastien and Bastienne’ is meant to show something about the young Mozart, who wrote this when he was 12, not be a performance of the opera per se.”

Other selections include sections of “The Marriage of Figaro,” “Abduction from the Seraglio,” “A Little Night Music,” “The Magic Flute,” “Idomeneo” and several piano compositions.

“This is the third time we have worked with the Washington Ballet,” Hubner said. “It’s been an amazing process. We did “Fallen Angels” in 2008, an art-song and cabaret which included songs by Wagner and music from the Weimar

Republic and the Berlin cabaret.

This particular production involved a fivehour retreat among the key participants as they steeped themselves in Mozart music and material.

In his blog, Webre calls the piece “epic” but also “intimate,” which might also be a good description of the In Series and its history and works. The Mozart production is a tradition with the Series. “We always do something around Mozart in January,” Hubner said. “You’ll never get to the end of it. “We have done full-length operas, we’ve done a production that featured pieces around the men in Mozart’s life, those dark and light presences, most especially his father, but also the major characters in his operas.”

“I think we’ve been very fortunate,” she said.

“Our long stay and association with Mount Vernon allowed us a great degree of artistic freedom, we didn’t have to worry so much about a little thing like audience size. It allowed us to experiment, to be inventive and innovative and intimate, hence ‘The In Series.’ We could explore, and surprise ourselves and the audience.”

The In Series have some quite a bit of exploration: music, themes and subjects have included Noel Coward, the U Street musical history (“From U Street to the Cotton Club”) Latin American music (“Viva Zarzuela”) to Offenbach (“Orpheus in the Underworld”).

“In some ways, while you use all that great music, you do create something new, and shed light on the old,” Hubner, who’s from Chile and is a trained pianist who happens to love counterparty classical music, as well as so called “art music”, said. “And you know what has happened, even though we have been something of a vagabond institution in the sense of having no theater of our own, audiences have responded.”

Last year, in fact, the In Series had a hefty jump in attendance and ticket sales, a good thing in economic times where arts funding, like expensive restaurants for regular folks, is the first thing to be cut.

“That’s helped,” she said. “So we are optimistic.”

The In Series most often performs at the Source Theater and the Atlas Theater, but has also been at the Tivoli Theater, the home base for the Gala Hispanic Theater.

“WAM!” will, of course, be at the Atlas Performing Arts Center at 1333 H Street N.E., site of an exploding, high-energy neighborhood full of new restaurants, performing arts spaces (The H Street Playhouse is nearby) and off-beat night spots like the Rock and Roll Hotel.”

Looks like the In Series is becoming, well, in.

For more information, go to the In Series website at www.inseries.org.

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Because I have spent so much time with opera at the Kennedy Center, I had not realized until I attended the last production of Virginia Opera at the George Mason University’s Center for the Arts of Donizetti’s “The Daughter of the Regiment” of what a sophisticated and professional opera company we have in our midst. This goofy opera has lovely music and had an outstanding lead singer, a young French woman named, Manon Strauss Evrard. Keep her name in mind because a bright future looms. Director Dorothy Danner kept the ridiculous plot moving swiftly in creative Groucho Marx style.

H

ow does one develop an opera company where none existed? This was the challenge for Peter Mark, a founder and general director of Virginia Opera.

It helps if you have a lifelong background as a musician. Maestro Mark started as a boy soprano with both the New York City Opera and the prestigious Metropolitan Opera. His first opera, in fact, was as Menotti’s “Amahl.” When his voice changed, he shifted his musical emphasis to violin and viola but never forgot his vocal roots and love of opera.

A phone call in 1975 from founding President Edythe C. Harrison of the Virginia Opera to Mark expressed interest in forming a professional opera company with his help. She had already put on a pilot project that had proven that opera could succeed in Norfolk, VA. He found her direct approach appealing and recognized that they could work together. She deeply understood the important interaction between the artistic side and the support side (namely, the

board). Consequently, the first project was for a successful three weeks of Verdi’s “La Traviata” starring a future diva, Diana Soviero, who went on to a successful international career.

Maestro Mark served as general director of the company for another 25 years, after which he relinquished the general directorship to focus solely on the company’s artistic direction. He is currently the artistic director, helping the company put on 16 performances in Norfolk, eight at the Carpenter Theatre at Richmond’s Center

Stage and eight at George Mason’s Center for the Arts in Fairfax. It’s a grueling task, but apparently a successful one.

Among the other successes were tours where he brought singers and the company not only to New York and Los Angeles but also to China, Africa, Argentina and Mexico, for example. In addition, no opera company can be without an education program and one was created and is functioning.. Between operas, Peter Mark

Composer Gaetano Donizetti, born in 1797, was one of the most prolific composers of the great bel canto period. He moved to Paris in 1838 and produced three French operas almost at once, one of which was “La Fille du regiment”. There is scintillating music for the tenor with eight high Cs in a row, a great test that was met by tenor, Gennard Lombardozzi.

Luciano Pavarotti’s international career was partly launched by those high notes I was particularly impressed by the quality of the orchestra, so ably conducted by Joseph Walsh.

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DISPATCHES FROM HUNT COUNTRY: REMEMBERING HUGS & KISSES

The author with Hughey (left) and Mr. Luke

By Patricia Daly-Lipe Whenever an animal is somehow forced into the service of men, every one of us must be concerned for any suffering it bears on that account. No one of us may permit any preventable pain to be inflicted, even though the responsibility is not ours.

No one may appease his conscience by thinking he would be interfering in something that does not concern him. No one may shut his eyes and think the pain, which is therefore not visible to him, is non-existent.

— Albert Schweitzer

H

e was big, from what I could tell, looking into his small, dark, untidy stall. Going around and around in circles within his confined area, the horse was clearly needing attention. I asked to have him brought outside so I could look at him more carefully and possibly get on him to ride around the place.

Once outside, I could see Hughey was beautiful. A 16.3-hand gelding, his chestnut hair and his flaxen mane and tail reflected his Belgian heritage and his tall, thin legs and small feet reflected his thoroughbred side. He was happy to be out in the sun and particularly pleased to be allowed to nibble the grass while my husband held him loosely by a lead rope. I went to the car to

fetch my saddle and bridle, came back, saddled him up and took him or allowed him to take me on a tour of the property. At a trot, his gait was comfortable, nice long strides, smooth and graceful.

His canter was a charm, floating over the ground, head down, relaxed, no tension and loose reins.

The family who owned him had no idea of his age. We had our vet come check him and she guessed he was about 18 years old. The horse had been purchased for a preteen-aged girl to show in Children’s and Junior Hunter Divisions. In the beginning, she won many ribbons on Hughey, whose show name was Hugs and Kisses.

But as she entered her teen years, riding took less of a precedent.

Hughey’s happiness was no longer her top priority. Towards the end, he was totally ignored. Although the family was paying what I consider a fortune to board this kind horse, he was only being turned out for three hours a day and rarely ridden. His feet were overdue to be shod and his stall was only cleaned once a day. If a horse is confined almost 24/7, cleaning this

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infrequently is not enough. A 1,000-pound horse (and Hughey was larger) produces about 31 pounds of manure daily. The smell can be horrific if not cleaned up, let alone the environmental and health issues that can and do arise. The amount of bedding removed from a stall where a horse is confined measures about 12 tons annually.

In warm weather, flies deposit eggs on the top of moist manure, which hatch in only seven days. For Hughey, this indeed was a miserable life.

So when we brought him home with us, he adjusted easily to our small farm life. Mr. Luke, my husband’s quarter horse, and he be-

far down the line from the blue ribbon.

Hughey had a wonderful smile. He would put his head on my shoulder, nuzzle me and then give me one of those happy, contented looks, a smile with teeth showing and eyes twinkling. When he finished his meals, he would stick out his tongue between his teeth as if cleaning any leftover grains that might be caught in his gum. That was a sight I wish I had caught on camera.

Whenever we had guests, it was Hughey who stuck his head out of his stall to say hi. He loved attention and he was an expert at giving back love.

came great pals, grazing together, nickering at each other when in Then came the day we dreaded. Horses are tough. In the wild, their stalls, splashing water about in the trough and playing follow- they can’t show any pain or they will be attacked. Domesticated, the-other’s-tail in circles on the grass. Two or three times a week, they still retain the solid demeanor even when they are dying. A we took the horses out on trail rides near our farm as well as sev- few days before, we had called our veterinarian in when Hughey eral rides through the Manassas Battlefields. Once I took Hughey showed signs of bowel upset. He had a fever of 104. The vet susto a small, local horse show. He was excited. But it was a nervous pected severe gas, cleaned his intestines out, gave him an injecGeorgetowner.01.13.10:Layout 1 1/11/10 4:46 PM Page 1 excitement, a bit out of control, and although we placed, we were tion, waited for his fever to subside and took a blood sample. The

initial results showed that he was anemic, but any further analysis would take time. Since he shouldn’t graze, the pasture was closed to him. So that evening, in addition to his stall and runway, we gave him the sacrifice area around the barn. This would allow him room to roam a bit plus, we hoped, walking about would help his digestive system. The other horses were turned out in their pastures but within sight of Hughey. Sadly, in the morning, there was no sign of a bowel movement. Hughey was playing with the water, but not drinking much. I offered him some pellets but he showed no interest. Later in the day, when I returned to the barn, Hughey was throwing himself down on the stall floor. Then up for a moment and down again. No whining or whinnying. But obvious pain. The emergency veterinary service was called. We were able to get Hughey outside, but once in the pasture, he threw himself down again and we couldn’t get him up. I checked his mouth. His gums were dry. We took his temperature. 103.7 and rising. He was in severe pain. When the vet arrived, we had a decision to make. No, that isn’t true. Hughey had made his decision; we simply needed to help him make his transition less painful. As I held his head and told him I loved him, he peacefully left us. It took awhile for his body to lose its energy, but Hughey was gone.

He is buried on our property, now free, without bondage.

Patricia Daly-Lipe is a writer living in Haymarket, VA. This memoir is condensed from her short story collection “Messages from Nature,” released in 2007.

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Open seven nights a week.

Jackets required.

Complimentary valet parking. www.1789restaurant.com

BISTRO FRANCAIS

3000 K St NW

3124-28 M St NW

Come and enjoy contemporary Thai cuisine & Sushi bar deliciously prepared at Bangkok Bistro. The restaurant’s decor matches its peppery cuisine, vibrant in both color and flavor.

Enthusiasts say we offer professional, prompt and friendly service. Experience outdoor sidewalk dining in the heart of Georgetown.

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A friendly French Bistro in the heart of historic Georgetown since 1975. Executive chef and owner Gerard Cabrol came to Washington, D.C. 32 years ago, bringing with him home recipes from southwestern France. Our specialties include our famous Poulet Bistro (tarragon rotisserie chicken); Minute steak Maitre d’Hotel (steak and pomme frit¬es); Steak Tartare, freshly pre¬pared seafood, veal, lamb and duck dishes; and the best Eggs Benedict in town. In addition to varying daily specials, www.bistrofrancaisdc.com

Open for lunch and dinner.

Sun.-Thurs.11:30am - 10:30pm Fri.-Sat. 11:30am - 11:30pm

Georgetown introduces Washington’s first “Dumpling Bar” featuring more than 12 varieties.

Come and enjoy the new exotic Thai cuisine inspired by French cooking techniques. Bangkok Joe’s is upscale, colorful and refined. Absolutely the perfect place for lunch or dinner or just a private gathering. www.bangkokjoes.com

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CAFE BONAPARTE

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1522 Wisconsin Ave

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One Washington Circle, NW Washington, DC 22037 Circle Bistro presents artful favorites that reflect our adventurous and sophisticated kitchen.

Featuring Happy Hour weekdays from 5pm-7pm, live music every Saturday from 8pm-12midnight, and an a la carte Sunday Brunch from 11:30am-2:30pm.

Open dailyfor breakfast, lunch and dinner.

1736 Wisconsin Ave., NW Come and see for yourself why Bistrot Lepic, with its classical, regional and contemporary cuisine, has been voted best bistro in D.C. by the Zagat Guide.

And now with its Wine bar, you can enjoy “appeteasers”, full bar service, complimentary wine tasting every Tuesday and a new Private Room. The regular menu is always available.

Open everyday.

Lunch & dinner.

Reservations suggested. www.bistrotlepic.com (202) 333-0111

CHADWICKS

HASHI RESTAURANT

3205 K St, NW (est.1967)

1073 Wisconsin Ave., NW Hashi Sushi Bar

Cafe Milano specializes in setting up your private party in our exclusive dining rooms. Our detail-oriented staff also will cater your corporate meetings & special events at your office, home or other locations. Check out our website for booking information or call 202-965-8990, ext. 135.

Cafe Milano is high on the restaurant critics’ charts with excellent Italian cuisine & attention to service. Fresh pastas, steaks, fish dishes, & authentic Italian specialties. Lunch & dinner. Late night dining & bar service.

A Georgetown tradition for over 40 years, this friendly neighborhood restaurant/saloon features fresh seafood, burgers, award-winning ribs, & specialty salads & sandwiches. Casual dining & a lively bar.

Daily lunch & dinner specials. Late night dining (until midnight Sun.Thu., 1A.M. Fri-Sat) Champagne brunch served Sat. & Sun. until 4P.M. Open Mon-Thu 11:30A.M.-2A.M. Fri-Sat 11:30A.M.-3A.M.Sun 11A.M.-2A.M.Kids’ Menu Available. Located ½ block from the Georgetown movie theatres, overlooking the new Georgetown Waterfront Park

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CITRONELLE

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(The Latham Hotel) 3000 M St, NW Internationally renowned chef and restaurateur Michel Richard creates magic with fresh and innovative American-French Cuisine, an exceptional wine list and stylish ambiance.

3236 M St, NW This animated tavern, in the heart of Georgetown, popularized saloon food and practically invented Sunday brunch.

Open for Dinner.

Clyde’s is the People’s Choice for bacon cheeseburgers, steaks, fresh seafood, grilled chicken salads, fresh pastas and desserts.

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BISTROT LEPIC & WINE BAR

3251 Prospect St. NW

1039 31st Street, NW

Captivating customers since 2003 Café Take a stroll down memory lane.

Bonaparte has been dubbed the “quintes- Serving Georgetown for more than 35 years - Since 1974 sential” European café featuring award winning crepes & arguably the “best” Chef Jean-Claude Cauderlier coffee in D.C! Located in sophisticated A bit of Paris on the Potomac.

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DAILY GRILL

1310 Wisconsin Ave., NW Reminiscent of the classic American Grills, Daily Grill is best known for its large portions of fresh seasonal fare including Steaks & Chops, Cobb Salad, Meatloaf and Warm Berry Cobbler.

Open for Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner.Visit our other locations at 18th & M Sts NW and Tysons Corner. www.dailygrill.com

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Our Special 3 Rolls $10.95 Monday- Friday 12-5PM All rolls are seaweed outside! (any kind of combienation) Tuna Roll Salmon Roll Shrimp Roll Avocado Roll Cucumber Roll Asparagus Roll White Tuna Roll Kanikama Roll Spicy Tuna Roll Spicy Salmon Roll (No Substitution, togo, or extra sauce)

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FILOMENA RISTORANTE 1063 Wisconsin Ave., NW One of Washington’s most celebrated restaurants, Filomena is a Georgetown landmark that has endured the test of time for almost a quarter of a century. Our oldworld cooking styles & recipes brought to America by the early Italian immigrants, alongside the culinary cutting edge creations of Italy’s foods of today, executed by our award winning Italian Chef. Try our spectacular Lunch buffet on Fri. & Saturdays or our Sunday Brunch, Open 7 days a week for lunch & dinner. www.filomena.com (202) 338-8800

FAHRENHEIT Georgetown 3100 South St, NW Restaurant & Degrees Bar & Lounge The Ritz-Carlton, As featured on the cover of December 2007’s Washingtonian magazine, Degrees Bar and Lounge is Georgetown’s hidden hot spot. Warm up by the wood burning fireplace with our signature “Fahrenheit 5” cocktail, ignite your business lunch with a $25.00 four-course express lunch, or make your special occasion memorable with an epicurean delight with the fire inspired American regional cuisine. www.fahrenheitdc.com 202.912.4110

M | STREET BAR & GRILL & the 21 M Lounge 2033 M Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036-3305 M Street Bar & Grill, in the St. Gregory Hotel has a new Brunch menu

by Chef Christopher Williams Featuring Live Jazz, Champagne, Mimosas and Bellini’s. For Entertaining, small groups of 12 to 25 people wishing a dining room experience we are featuring Prix Fixe Menus: $27.00 Lunch and $34.00 Dinner.

Lunch and dinner specials daily.

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JETTIES

1609 Foxhall Road, Intersection Foxhall & Reservoir

Celebrating over 29 years of keeping bellies full with good food and thirsts quenched with tasty beverages.

Jetties serves freshly-made sandwiches, and houses a salad bar.

Indoor & outdoor seating. Open every day of the week, Jetties is a great for lunch and dinner.

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Jetties serves 25 flavors of ice cream. Freshly made coffee is served, too.

Including: Miller Lite bottles for $2.25 each

Parking Available on Foxhall Mon.-Fri. 11am-9pm.

Sat & Sun 9am-9pm.

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LA CHAUMIERE 2813 M St. Northwest, Washington, DC 20007 Whether it’s a romantic dinner or a business lunch, enjoy wonderful Boudin Blanc, Fresh Dover Sole Meunière, Cassoulet or Pike Quenelles by the fireplace in this unique “Country Inn”. Chef Patrick Orange serves his Award Winning Cuisine in a rustic atmosphere, where locals and celebrities alike gather. La Chaumiere also offers 2 private dining rooms with a prix-fixe menu and an affordable wine list.

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PEACOCK CAFE

SEA CATCH

Established in 1991, Peacock Cafe is a tradition in Georgetown life.

Lovers of history and seafood can always find something to tempt the palette at the Sea Catch Restaurant & Raw Bar. Sea Catch offers fresh seafood “simply prepared” in a relaxed atmosphere. Overlooking the historic C&O Canal, we offer seasonal fireside and outdoor dining. Private party space available for 15 - 300 Complimentary parking Lunch Monday - Saturday 11:30am - 3:00pm Dinner Monday - Saturday 5:30pm - 10:00pm Closed on Sunday Happy Hour Specials at the Bar Monday - Friday 5:00pm -7:00pm www.seacatchrestaurant.com

3251 Prospect St. NW

The tremendous popularity of The Peacock Happy Day Brunch in Washington DC is legendary. The breakfast and brunch selections offer wonderful variety and there is a new selection of fresh, spectacular desserts everyday. The Peacock Café in Georgetown, DC - a fabulous menu for the entire family.

Monday - Thursday: 11:30am - 10:30pm Friday: 11:30am - 12:00am Saturday: 9:00am - 12:00am Sunday: 9:00am - 10:30pm (202) 625-2740

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SEQUOIA

SMITH POINT

THE OCEANAIRE

TOWN HALL

3000 K St NW, Suite 100 Washington, DC 20007

1338 Wisconsin Ave., NW (corner of Wisconsin & O St.)

1201 F St, NW

2218 Wisconsin Ave NW

Eclectic American cuisine, Coupled with enchanting views of the Potomac River make Sequoia a one of a kind dining experience.

Smith Point has quickly become a favorite of Georgetowners. The Washington Post Magazine calls Smith Point “an underground success” with “unusually good cooking at fair prices.” Chef Francis Kane’s Nantucket style fare changes weekly, featuring fresh combinations of seafood, meats, and farmers market produce.

Ranked one of the most popular seafood restaurants in , DC, “this cosmopolitan”send-up of a vintage supper club that’s styled after a ‘40’s-era ocean liner is appointed with cherry wood and red leather booths, infused with a “clubby, old money” atmosphere. The menu showcases “intelligently” prepared fish dishes that “recall an earlier time of elegant” dining. What’s more, “nothing” is snobbish here.

Town Hall is a neighborhood favorite in the heart of Glover Park, offering a classic neighborhood restaurant and bar with contemporary charm. Whether its your 1st, 2nd or 99th time in the door, we’re committed to serving you a great meal and making you feel at home each and every time. Come try one of our seasonal offerings and find out for yourself what the Washington Post dubbed the “Talk of Glover Park”Make a reservation online today at www.townhalldc.com

Offering a dynamic atmosphere featuring a mesquite wood fire grill, sensational drinks, and renowned River Bar. No matter the occasion, Sequoia will provide an unforgettable dining experience. www.arkrestaurants.com /sequoia_dc.html (202) 944-4200

Open for dinner Thurs- Sat from 6:30 pm-11pm. www.smithpointdc.com (202) 333-9003

Lunch: Mon-Fri- 11:30am -5:00pm Dinner: Mon-Thur 5-10pm. Fri & Sat 5-11pm. Sun-5-9pm. www.theoceanaire.com (202) 347-2277

Serving Dinner Daily5PM-10:30pm Brunch Sat & Sun 11:30AM-5PM Free Parking available (202) 333-5640

MARTIN’S TAVERN Corner Wisconsin & N St, NW Since 1933, family owned and operated Martin’s Tavern has been popular with the local crowd, journalists, dignitaries and politicians who appreciate its top-notch food and welcoming atmosphere.People continue to return for the classic American fare of Prime steaks, chops, seafood, fresh pasta and shellfish and good old fashioned comfort food.Ask where LBJ, JFK and Nixon sat as regulars!

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SETTE OSTERIA 1666 Conn. Ave at R St. NW (Dupont Circle) Edgy. Witty. Casual.

THE patio near Dupont Circle for peoplewatching. Pizza masters bake delicious Neapolitan thincrust pizzas in a wood-fire oven.

Menu favorites include pastas, salads, lasagnas, Italian specialty meats and cheeses, and lowcarb choices.

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ZED’S 1201 28TH St, N.W. ETHIOPIAN IN GEORGETOWN Award Winning Seafood | Poultry | Beef Vegetarian Dishes also available 100 Very Best Restaurants Award 100 Very Best Bargains Award Also, visit Zed’s “New” Gainesville, Virginia location (571) 261-5993 At the Corner of M & 28th Streets 1201 28th Street, N.W. Email: zeds@zeds.net (202) 333-4710

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By Miss Dixie “Oh, the weather outside is frightful, and the cocktails are delightful, and since we’ve no place to go, let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.”

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ell, that’s not exactly how the song goes, but it would have made an appropriate soundtrack last December when the Museum of the American Cocktail hosted a holiday soiree at Bourbon restaurant where some of D.C.’s best bartenders shared their favorite winter cocktail recipes.

As the temperatures dropped outside, participants warmed up with a sampling of seasonal tipples, including Irish coffee and hot buttered rum.

Gina Chersevani, the renowned mixologist from PS 7’s, mixed up one called Apples and Ale, a steaming concoction that would kindle the soul on even the most frigid winter day.

The toddy, as its name suggests, is based around apples and ale, which are cooked on the stove with honey and a toasted spice mixture of cinnamon sticks, star anise, and cardamom pods. The hot base is combined with bourbon and Domaine de Canton, a French ginger liqueur made from Cognac, Provencal honey, Tunisian ginseng, and fresh baby Vietnamese ginger.

Gina, whose fun and bubbly demeanor spread holiday cheer throughout the crowd, delivered a step-by-step cooking demonstration worthy of Rachel Ray. She started by peeling and quartering the apples. Gina said that pink lady apples, because of their juicy texture, are best suited for this recipe. Next she demonstrated how to toast the spice mixture in a dry pan, which intensified the flavor and aroma.

The fruit and spices were then added to a saucepan and simmered together along with two cups of raw honey and two quarts of either pale or brown ale. The exact brand of beer is a personal preference, Gina said, but her suggestions included Dale’s Pale Ale or

APPLES & ALE 8 apples (pink lady preferred) 2 quarts pale or brown ale 2 cups raw honey 2 cinnamon sticks 5 cardamom pods 1 star anise 10-12 ounces bourbon 10-12 ounces Domain de Canton Peel and quarter apples. Wrap and tie toasted spices in a cheesecloth or tea infuser. In a pot, heat ale, spice ball, honey and apples. Let simmer for 20 minutes just before it boils.

In mugs, pour 1 ounce bourbon and 1 ounce Domain de Canton. Fill with the ale mixture. Serves 10-12.

Newcastle Brown Ale. After cooking, Gina noted that the alcohol from the beer had evaporated, so it could be offered as a virgin cocktail.

The final cocktail was served in a mug with a hot apple slice and a healthy dose of bourbon and ginger liqueur. While similar to hot cider, Gina’s combo had a more robust and savory flavor provided by the Domaine de Canton and spices. It had a thermal zing, which felt like the addition of an instant fireplace in the room. Her creation would make a great elixir for a group gathering or a romantic evening for two.

Ingredients to make Apples and Ale may be purchased at Dixie Liquor at 3429 M Street in Georgetown. For more information on upcoming events visit the Museum of the American Cocktail at www.museumoftheamericancocktail.org.

WRIGHT ON FOOD

IS THE GASTROPUB DEAD IN AMERICA? Charcuterie board with brawn, potted pork, terrine, country ham, piccalilli, onion marmalade and pickled mustard seeds All photos by Jordan Wright

cally raised Scottish Highland beef rib-eye and Yorkshire pudding, and bangers and mash. But here is a whole new paradigm.

The wine list at AGAINN gave me pause. The wines by the glass were dispiriting and without the usual glass wine pairing menu, I couldn’t find anything remotely palatable. With over a hundred wines by the bottle, I sought out professional help from trusted friend and professional oenophile, Larry Austin. Austin is a Harvard-educated lawyer, banker and conductor of international wine seminars with an unparalleled passion and knowledge of wines, and who, as a serious collector, vowed to provide me with some insight.

By Jordan Wright

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he term “gastropub” was coined by British chefs in the ’90s to define upscale eats served in a casual pub atmosphere. But before the trendy nomenclature could sink its British tentacles across the pond and set down its twiny roots in American soil, owners at the two-monthold AGAINN (pronounced ah-gwen) declared it dead — at least as an artful descriptor for their first foray into the world of concept restaurants.

At AGAINN the food is too serious for Yankee sensibilities to be considered “pub food.” Pubs are imagined as the average Englishman’s other living room, serving up greasy newspaper-wrapped fried cod and chips or Branson pickles and ploughman’s Liquor locker with Kentucky Knob Creek Bourbon and Glenmorangie cheese sandwiches with a pull of Guinness. This Quinta Ruban whisky watering hole’s $500-a-year liquor lockers are too committal for the blue-collar worker and its ultra-modern interiors too retro-chic for the typi He noted stellar wines including the 2003 Antinori “Pian Delle cal English family’s neighborhood gathering spot, Celery root soup with grated apple and stilton mousse Vigne” Brunello di Montalcino, a slew of top quality premier cru lest it conjure up Gramps and the kids after Sunday French chardonnays, a 2005 Nickel and Nickel “Harris” merlot, a service.

2006 Miner Family “Stage Coach” from Oakville and a 2006 Se No, no, no, they cried before it could catch on. quoia Grove, Rutherford, from what he referred to as the two best They would hereafter be referred to as a “European parts of Napa Valley. A 2007 Luca Malbec from Mendoza caught bistro,” a concept much tossed around but surely his eye, along with a 40-year Tawny port by Dow’s. To his tally of indicating a more sophisticated approach to dining favorites he added a 2007 zinfandel, Biale “Black Chicken” from and drinking.

Napa and a 2008 Cloudy Bay from New Zealand, “whose vine On a recent visit to AGAINN I had the chance to yards revolutionized the world’s thinking on sauvignon blanc and commend their change of heart. Here was a restauput New Zealand on the wine map!” he exclaimed. I lost him after rant with a serious chef guarding a strong philosothat plumbing the depths of a serious collection of Spain’s exemphy and respect for the land, an extensive, worldplary riojas. Wine for thought indeed! wide wine list and a penchant for success.

Two desserts swept me off my feet. Eton Mess, harkening from But don’t come here expecting spring mix salad the English boarding school of the same name, was made with with a tumble of heirloom tomatoes — at least not huckleberries, baked meringue, lemon curd and sticky toffee pudin the off-season. Chef Wesley Morton is bucking ding, a familiar face in the Anglo crowd, but this version was comthe naysayers and keeping true to seasonal. This plete with a surprisingly delicious stout ice cream. writer was mightily impressed by such gastronom Morton, assisted by sous-chef and five-year accomplice Miic bravery. Swim against the tide, Morton, and you chael Sindoni, has taken an extraordinary route by channeling top will find you can create your own waves.

Michelin-starred chefs, such as Gordon Ramsay, Mark Aikens and I found a dreamy celery root soup topped with award-winning chef Tom Hix, of London’s Oyster and Chophouse grated apple and smooth counterpoint Stilton Banoffee with bananas, caramelized milk, graham biscuit, cream and ganache fame. Though he counts his Cajun grandmother as his muse, he mousse, freshly opened Blue Point oysters (brine has embraced and conquered the new British-influenced cuisine like pickled mustard seed, piccalilli and onion marmalade to bal- and trumpeted the local, organic, sustainably and humanely raised intact) with shallot mignonette (the dreaded red sauce thankfully nowhere to be found), corned tongue with pun- ance the rich meats. This is “nose-to-tail” eating, as described by cuisine that is the culinary wave of the future. tarelle, a lovely winter green similar to chicory and only in season British chef Fergus Henderson, and it is sublime.

I expect exciting things to come from this Texas transplant. from November to February. Prawns are served with Marie Rose Within the confines of Morton’s kitchen the beef is corned, the Whether gastro or Euro, it’s an epicurean direction that will break sauce, a delicious throwback accompaniment recently revived by sausage hand-stuffed and the grass-fed Shenandoah lamb from tradition by reclaiming it.

Blue Rooster Farm, a Tuesday special, fabricated in-house. Even British Chef Andy Waters at Edmunds, his restaurant in Henley.

Morton breaks down whole cows and pigs from neighboring such comfort food as a ham and cider pie incorporates house-made Contact Jordan Wright at jordan@whiskandquill.com. farms to make his soul-stirring charcuterie — blood sausage, pot- ham with heirloom apples and cabbage.

Visit AGAINN at www.againndc.com. ted pork, “brawn” and black pudding — creating homey relishes There are nods to pub food with dishes like shepherd’s pie, lo-

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FIVE FOODS FOR 2010

By Katherine Tallmadge, R.D.

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f your New Year’s resolution includes eating healthier, these five foods will help you get there:

Think green

Established studies have found green tea consumption may reduce cancer, heart disease and even boost the immune system. New research has found even more exciting results: green tea drinkers have lower body fat, particularly belly fat. This is especially important because belly fat is the most dangerous type of fat and increases your risk for heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. One reason proposed for the effect is that tea catechins (the beneficial compounds in tea) increase the action of norepinephrine, which releases fatty acids from fat cells and plays important roles in metabolism. And because belly fat is more metabolically active than other types of fat, it is particularly responsive to these effects. Green tea has more catechins than any other type of tea. Use three to six tea bags per day to receive the most benefits

Think red

For decades, large epidemiological studies have confirmed a link between moderate alcoholic beverage intake and reduction in heart disease, as compared to no alcohol or high alcohol intakes. One reason: alcohol raises HDL (good) cholesterol, which clears fat from the blood stream. But red wine contains the most benefits

of all alcoholic beverages. Why? The seeds and skin of the purple grape. Since most of the antioxidants are found in the seed and skin, a juice’s or wine’s antioxidant content will be higher if they’re included. This is why red wine contains eight to 10 times the polyphenol content (the beneficial compounds) of white wine. Red wine is made by mashing red or purple grapes with their skin and seeds and letting it sit to ferment, whereas white wine is made skin- and seedless.

Red wine contains tannins, resveratrol and other compounds, which reduce blood clotting, prevent blood vessel damage and may help prevent certain cancers (though if you are at high risk for breast cancer in particular, alcohol may increase that risk). You get the most benefit when you drink small quantities consistently with meals.

Women should limit their wine intake to five ounces per day, and men 10 ounces per day.

Rye

You’ve already heard that oats lower LDL (bad) cholesterol, but barley and rye are two other grains which do the same. The Scandinavians have known for years that rye lowers LDL cholesterol and contains many beneficial health-giving compounds, but it is not a grain commonly used in the United States. Too bad, as whole rye breads and crackers add a nutty, crunchy element to any meal. Rye is not only heart-healthy but has a low glycemic index.

That means it keeps blood sugar lower, especially when compared to wheat or even whole wheat bread. And that is great news for anyone with high blood glucose or diabetes: rye bread, especially if made predominantly of whole rye (look on the ingredient label), is on your “eat more” list! I recommend eating three to four one-ounce whole grain servings per day and trying a variety of grains, including rye.

Soy

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of complete, high-quality protein containing all of the essential amino acids, comparable to animal protein. Soy is one of the best plant sources of iron, and it’s absorbed well by the body. It also contains healthy fats and no cholesterol.

Replacing high-fat meat and dairy products with soy is a way to keep your protein intake high, while reducing artery-clogging saturated fat and LDL cholesterol. For each 1 percent decrease in blood cholesterol, a 2 percent drop in heart disease risk is expected, according to the National Academy of Sciences’ Food and Nutrition Board. Soy may also reduce breast cancer risk, increase breast cancer survival rates, prevent prostate cancer and relieve menopausal symptoms.

Whether it is proved to be a cure-all or not, whole soy foods, such as soy beans, edamame, tofu, tempeh, soy milk and soy protein — as opposed to isolated soy compounds such as the isoflavones genestein and daidzein (some animal studies have found negative affects of the pure isoflavones) — make a healthy addition to any diet.

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WASHINGTON ANTIQUES SHOW PREVIEW Ambassador of France Pierre Vimont served as Honorary Chair of the 55th Washington Antiques Show, which held its preview night party at the Katzen Arts Center at American University on Jan. 7.

This year’s theme, Flights of Fancy, highlighted fine arts depicting birds and other flying creatures, machines and flights of the imagination. The Society of Cincinnati organized the loan exhibition exploring the artistic use of the eagle as a symbol of the nation and the society in early America. The show is the major annual fundraising event of the Thrift Shop Charities, with all net proceeds directly benefiting four charitable, all-volunteer endeavors. — Mary Bird

Katherine Wood, Cheryl Krongard

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STEPHEN DAY’S CHESAPEAKE RHYTHMS Stephen and Sara Day’s many friends and admirers simply donned an extra layer of insulation and braved the bitter cold on Jan. 8 to attend a reception for his current exhibit at Thos. Moser’s Georgetown Showroom in Cady’s Alley. Day is the first of four Susan Calloway gallery artists whose work Thos. Moser will display in 2010. The British-born artist is self-taught. His largish oil paintings include waterscapes, abstracts and bird portraits. The current exhibit, which focuses on the Chesapeake Bay and the abstract fusion of sky, land and water, will be on view through March. — MB

Artist Stephen Day

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arLington, Virginia

BerKLey, Washington, Dc

georgetoWn, Washington, Dc

georgetoWn, Washington, Dc

Jennifer Harper Thornett 202-415-7050 Micah A. Corder 571-271-9828

Ellen Morrell Matthew B. McCormick 202-728-9500

Nancy Taylor Bubes

Nancy Taylor Bubes

NEW LISTING! Beautiful 3-year-old Colonial offers ample living space & gracious floor plan with 5 BR, 4.5 BA. Hardwoods, gourmet kitchen, first floor library, sun-filled master & luxurious bath, spacious bedrooms, & finished LL. $1,335,000

Beautifully sited across from Battery Kemble Park, this 4 story Colonial has 5 bedrooms, 4 baths, 2 fireplaces, garage, beautiful outdoor terrace, and is near the shops of Macarthur Boulevard & Georgetown. $1,275,000

Semi-detached 2 bedroom, 1 bath Federal on quiet street with exquisite details, 2 fireplaces, and spacious renovated kitchen leading to private patio and garden. $849,000

202-256-2164

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32 January 13, 2010 GMG, Inc.

NEW PRICE! Ideally situated on Pomander Walk, one of Georgetown’s hidden gems. Quaint cottage-style 1 BR/1 BA townhouse with a fireplace, open kitchen, and a private rear patio. $599,000

202-256-2164