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Larry Brown Quartet at Grace Church Thursday, August 19th
Enjoy jazz with the Larry Brown Quartet Thursday, August 19th starting at 7 pm at Grace Episcopal Church, 1041 Wisconsin Avenue. Contributions are welcome but this is a free event.
This group won the 2009 “Wammie” for best jazz group in the DC area, and their appearance is the latest in a summer series of "Music on the Lawn." For more information, visit Grace Church Episcopal Church.
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Soon to be knocking on your door -- ANC candidates begin petition process
You're in a hurry to enter the grocery store. But some of those people with clipboards asking for your signature want to be your Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner. They’re asking for your support so they can, for no money, spend two years and vast amounts of time in meetings, conversation, and reading large documents about zoning, social service programs, health, police protection, sanitation, and recreation so that they can advise the District government about issues impacting you. Not surprisingly, there are not yet any competitive races for Georgetown ANC 2E commission seats.
Below are the candidates (also incumbents) who have picked up petitions.
- 2E01 ED SOLOMON
- 2E02 RON LEWIS
- 2E03 BILL SKELSEY
- 2E04 AARON L. GOLDS
- 2E05 BILL STARRELS
- 2E06 TOM BIRCH
- 2E07 CHARLES F. EASON, JR.
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Casting Call: Transformers III films in D.C.
Michael Bay's Transformers 3 is preparing to film in Washington later this summer -- and seeking extras! Dates and details are not yet finalized.
Those interested in working as an extra on this film can send an email to movie@taylorroyall.com with the below information. The casting agency will not take submissions over the phone. Only one submission per person, the agency asks. Due to the expected volume of submissions, "If you don’t get a response please know that we did receive your submission – there is no need to resubmit," says the agency.
Instructions:
SUBJECT LINE: T3 extra – Your Name – Union OR Non-union
Name
Phone Number
Email
Union or non-union?
If union, SAG #
Height
Weight
Shirt size
Pant size
Shoe size
Jacket or Dress size
Do you have a car?
If so: Make & model
Year
Color
Have you done precision driving? (if so, please submit your resume)
Please be sure to attach a recent photo of yourself.
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Philly Pizza – a toaster or a pizza oven?
The Philly Pizza saga continues. Readers will remember the Potomac Street takeout that attracted top District officials to support for Georgetown neighbors who had fought a long organizing, expensive regulatory battle to shut it down for trash, noise, zoning and other violations.
“We listened to our Georgetown residents and it was clear this business was not being a good neighbor,” Mayor Adrian Fenty said at a March press conference. He was joined by Ward 2 resident Attorney General Peter Nickles and Department of Consumer Regulatory Affairs Director Linda Argo. The ever-feisty Nickles compared the Philly Pizza closure decision to shuttering to closing brothels and used car lots.
However, owner Mehmet Kocak has not given up. He applied for a sandwich and prepared food shop in the old storefront, one that would feature, according to Marty Sullivan, the lawyer for the neighbors, a 3-foot.-by-3-foot conveyor oven that would heat food at 550 degrees for ½ hour. This is not the warming-of-prepared-food in a toaster or microwave contemplated in DCRA’s regulations. “In two great leaps” the owner is trying to turn a toaster into a toaster-oven into a conveyor-oven, and “still call it a toaster,” said Sullivan.
A recent meeting at DCRA clearly demonstrated the careful consideration being given this application. The participants included Kocak and his lawyer, the neighbors and their lawyer, Commissioner Starrells, DCRA Director Argo and a lawyer from Attorney General Nickles’ office
Bill Starrells, who represents the community on the Advisory Neighborhood Commission, remains adamantly opposed to this application. “A flower shop, yes, but this is a lousy spot for a restaurant,” he said. “This guy has burned his bridges.”
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Democrat, Republican, Other? Monday last day to change voter registration for primaries
Current registered voters who want to change parties before they vote in District’s September 14th primaries must do so by 5:00 pm August 16th. Call it a glitch in the new D.C. voting regulations that allows same-day voting for never-before-registered residents -- the new law prohibits already-registered voters from switching party affiliation on primary day.
The D.C. Board of Election and Ethics states:
Voters who would like to change their party have until next Monday, August 16 to visit www.dcboee.org and download, print and sign a new voter registration application. The Board will be open for voters who want to change their party in person from 8:30 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. (D.C. BOEE is located at 441 4th Street, NW, Suite 250 North Washington, DC 20001)
Of the three major parties -- Republican, Democrat and D.C. Statehood Green – only the Democrats have multiple candidates vying to represent their party in the general election. The Republicans will have no candidate for mayor on their ballot. D.C. Statehood Green party members can vote for bugle-blowing, frequent candidate Faith for mayor. All voters can write in candidates.
Longtime Republicans, independents and D.C. Statehood Greens have been known to switch party affiliation to participate in the Democratic primary which usually determines who will run the city. In Washington, 75.32% of the total 436,669 voters are registered as Democrats.
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What’s Happening
The Georgetown BID offers these suggestions:
Restaurant Week: $8 Parking Promotion
In addition to great Restaurant Week menus, 8 participating restaurants are offering an $8 rate at 4 area Colonial parking garages. Ristorante Piccolo, Mie N Yu, Farmers and Fishers, Hook, Bistro Francais, Bodega, Filomena and Bangkok Joe's are all offering the $8 rate with validation after 5 p.m. for the week of August 16-22. Twenty Georgetown restaurants are offering Restaurant Week menus. Details.
Parish Gallery: Summer Group Show of Gallery Artists Parish Gallery (1054 31st Street, NW) is hosting a summer group show now until September 14. The artists, including Tayo Adenaike, Alex Bay, Deborah Brisker Burk, and others, represent an array of works and creative inspirations. In this show, the selected artists reshape the visual experience and challenge the viewer to look closely at how they view the world around them. Details. |
Georgetown Boot Camp Georgetown Boot Camp is kicking it into high gear with three morning classes this summer - Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 6 to 7 a.m. Exercise outdoors in your favorite Georgetown locations. Learn more at www.gtownbootcamp.com or email gtownbootcamp@gmail.com. First class is free. |
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Spotted: White House women at Hook
White House women feted departing Council of Economic Advisers Chair Christy Romer at dinner at Hook, Georgetown's elegant dining spot, reports Politico's Mike Allen in his must-read newsletter, Playbook. "Over wine and some of Washington’s best seafood," Allen writes, attendees included Melody Barnes, Lisa Brown, Carol Browner, Stephanie Cutter, Nancy-Ann DeParle, Valerie Jarrett, Alyssa Mastromonaco, Jen Psaki, Susan Sher and Nancy Sutley.
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Georgetown names Uribe to SFS
“We are looking forward to having President Uribe join our university community,” said Georgetown University President John J. DeGioia. “Having such a distinguished world leader at Georgetown will further the important work of students and faculty engaging important global issues.
Uribe joins an international affairs faculty including former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright and former Spanish Prime Minister José María Aznar.
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You too can vote for your favorite cupcake
The Georgetown Metropolitan provides a fabulous comparison of the attributes of Georgetown Cupcakes and those of Baked and Wired. GM says long lines and tourist distract, generosity with icing can be a pro and size does matter. Make sure you go to the bottom of GM’s post and vote for the cupcake of your choice.
GM says:
Yesterday’s morning post discussed a neighbor’s ostentatious show of loyalty for Baked and Wired steps away from Georgetown Cupcake’s notorious line of customers. It’s a heated issue around town, and it seems to GM that most Georgetowners come down pretty clearly on one side or the other.
On the Georgetown Cupcake side, you’ve got a couple pretty strong points:
- The cupcakes are nearly as nice to look at as they are to eat
- The flavor variety is pretty incredible
- They’re aspirational
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Tickets on Sale August 12th for Fall 2010 District Sample Sale in Georgetown
Tickets for the Fall 2010 District Sample Sale will go on sale Thursday, August 12th at 10:00 am exclusively at www.districtsamplesale.com. General Admission tickets are $40 and VIP tickets are $100.
The September 16th event will be held Thursday, September 16th from 5:30 – 9:30 pm in Georgetown at 3336 M Street. The George Washington University Medical Center’s Mammovan, a program providing mobile digital mammograms to women in need throughout the metro-D.C. area, will be the event's charity beneficiary.
Founded in the fall of 2006 by Mary Schmidt Amons, Shannon Haley, Liberty Jones, Barbara Martin and Jayne Sandman, the District Sample Sale has become on of the most coveted tickets in Washington, D.C. Known as “the season’s most fashionable charitable event,” the twice-annual event has raised over $187,000 for its past local women’s (fall) and children’s (spring) chosen charities. Supporting DC area charities has been the cornerstone of the DSS Foundations’ mission.
The District Sample Sale hosts over 700 women from up and down the east coast for a night of designer bargain shopping. Over 20 of Washington’s best designer clothing and shoe boutiques liquidate their end-of-season wares up to 90% off, plus many sell current season designer frocks at DSS-exclusive pricing.
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