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March 30, 2025 · 10:28 pm

The Week Ahead…& Some Photos from the Past Week

The Week Ahead…& Some Photos from the Past Week

by Larry Janezich

Posted March 30, 2025

Congressional Cemetery held its Spring Fair on Sunday, March 30, featuring more than two dozen vendors, an Introduction to Green Burial in the Chapel, a tour of historical trees and grave sites, and a presentation on Equinox Gardening. 

Vendors included HCC Gift Shop, Adopt-A-Plot at HCC, The Roving Hare, Republic Restoratives, Chippin Pet, From Here to Home Essentials, Catalyst Hot Dogs, Second Story Honey, Black Radish Handmade, The Witch Wife Crafts & Treasures, Open to Being, Green Garden Vintage, Earth-Worker, Hands Along the Nile, Rough Seas Productions, Slow Drip Refashions, Paloma Vintage Designs, Amaya Accessories, Amethyst Alchemist Art, One Seed Designs, D’Bohomama, Necos Boutique, Great Mothers Garden, Solutions, and Folger Theatre. 

Congressional Cemetery Associate Lily Buerkle presented the introduction to green burial.  It involves, no embalming, body shrouded or placed in a casket of natural material, no grave liner or vault, lowering by hand or by device, a natural marker or a traditional head stone.  This is an alternative burial for those not wanting a typical American funeral.  Those funerals are – according to National Geographic – responsible each year for felling 30 million board feet of casket wood, 90,000 tons of steel, 1.6 million tons of concrete for burial vaults and 800,000 gallons of embalming fluid.  The average cost in the DMV area is around $2000 to $4000.  Green burials are allowed in any plot in the cemetery which is the only cemetery in DC which offers green burials.  A helpful resource is the Green Burial Council:  https://www.greenburialcouncil.org/

Sharon Metcalf, also an Associate, conducted a tour of historical trees and sites of the cemetery.  One of the stops on the tour was at the memorial for Civil War photographer Matthew Brady, dedicated on September 17, 2022.  This is of the back of the Memorial. 

And here’s a photo of the monument’s striking front, surmounted by a sculptured raven and skull, referencing Brady’s photo of Edgar Allen Poe and featuring a selection of Brady’s photos.

A photo of the stop at John Philip Sousa grave.  Sousa, known as the March King, became U.S. Marine Band leader in 1880 and served in that position for 12 years.  He wrote over 100 marches (including the “Washington Post” and “Stars and Stripes Forever”), 10 light operas, and other works.  Bands from around the world come to play at his grave.

The Circle of Life Tree-henge.  The Circle of Life is a recent installation of land art or earth art which celebrates nature’s perseverance.  The site comprises a 60 foot circle of linden trees aligned with the points of a compass and serves as an observation site of the sun’s path during solstices and equinoxes.  It celebrates and pays tribute the natural environment, invites meditation and reflection, and offers an opportunity to record those thoughts in a journal kept on site.  It was created by a group of friends interested in Congressional Cemetery and green burial in partnership with Congressional Cemetery and a testimony to those who choose green burial as a simple and sustainable end to their existence.  For more, go here:  https://bit.ly/42c1D2O

The Association for the Preservation of Historic Congressional Cemetery is a private nonprofit organization established in 1976 and dedicated to the restoration interpretation and management of Congressional Cemetery.  It is a predominantly volunteer based organization relying on over 400 neighbors, history buffs, conservators, dog walkers, and armed forces personnel each year to help restore and maintain this national treasure.  In 1979 Congressional Cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and became a National Historic Landmark in 2011.  For info on joining the association or to make a donation to help their cemetery, email staff@congressionalcemetery.org or go here:  www.congressionalcemetery.org

The Week Ahead….

Tuesday, April 1

MPD 1D Community Advisory Committee will hold a virtual meeting at 6:00pm.

Agenda:

  • Safety Briefing and open dialogue with residents, ANCs, businesses, and other civic and professional organization in the First MPD District.

ANC6B Alcoholic Beverage & Cannabis Committee will hold a hybrid meeting at 7:00pm. 

Meeting location will be 700 Pennsylvania Ave SE; Second Floor, Conference Room 1 (entry adjacent to Trader Joe’s).

Among items on the draft agenda:

  • Bombay Street Food 2, 524 8th Street, SE; Renewal of Class C Restaurant.
  • Aatish On The Hill, 609 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE; Renewal of Class C Restaurant.
  • Torai Grill & Sushi Inc t/a Torai Grill & Sushi, 751 8th Street, SE; Renewal of Class D Restaurant’
  • Young Chow Asian Restaurant, 312 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE.
  • The Duck & The Peach/The Wells/La Collina, 300 7th Street, SE; Renewal of Class C Restaurant.
  • I Egg You CH, LLC t/a I Egg You, 517 8th Street, SE; Renewal of Class C Restaurant.
  • Chiko, 423 8th Street, SE; Renewal of Class C Restaurant.
  • 721 8th Street, SE; Renewal of Class C Restaurant.
  • Little Pearl, 921 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE; Renewal of Class C Restaurant.
  • Pineapple and Pearls, 715 8th Street, SE; Renewal of Class C Restaurant.
  • Rose’s Luxury, 717 8th Street, SE; Renewal of Class C Restaurant.
  • Paraiso, 1101 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE; Renewal of Class C Restaurant.
  • Bullfeathers, 410 1st Street, SE; Renewal of Class C Restaurant.
  • Sanpan Thai Cuisine, 653 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE; Renewal of Class C Restaurant.
  • Kenneth H Nash Post 8 t/a Kenneth H Nash Post 8 American Legion, 224 D Street, SE; Renewal of Class C Club.
  • Trattoria Alberto, 504 8th Street SE. Renewal of Class C Restaurant.

Wednesday, April 2

ANC6B Transportation Committee will hold a virtual meeting at 7:00pm. 

Among items on the draft agenda:

  • Pepco Update on the G St Conversion Project and its expected impacts on 6B08 and 6B09 in the coming months.
  • DDOT presentation on the signals design for Potomac & Pennsylvania Avenues intersection rebuild.
  • Watkins Alley: Support Efforts by Residents of Watkins Alley for Bollards or Other Safety Measures to Protect Pedestrians in the Alley.
  • Item from March Full Meeting: letter to DDOT, in collaboration with 6A, regarding Lincoln Park.

ANC6C Planning, Zoning & Economic Development Committee will hold a virtual meeting at 6:30pm. 

Among items on the draft agenda: 

  • 304-308 K Street, NE.  Revised application of 304, 306, 308 K Street, LLC for a special exception for the residential use of an alley lot and an area variance from the requirements for creation of a new alley record lot, and an area variance from the lot dimension requirements and subdivide an alley record lot into two record lots, and to construct two semi-detached, two story, principal dwelling units in the RF-1 zone.
  • 313 2nd Street, NE.  Historic Preservation Application of St. Joseph’s Catholic Church for concept approval for renovation and expansion of an existing carriage house, razing of two structures (the current Parish Center and a single-vehicle garage), and landscape alterations.

Thursday, April 3

ANC6B Planning and Zoning Committee will hold a virtual meeting at 7:00pm. 

Among items on the draft agenda:  TBA

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March 26, 2025 · 1:14 pm

DC Funding Bill In Limbo as FreeDC Lobbies 379 Congressional Offices

Activists gather outside Rayburn Office Building

DC Funding Bill Limbo as FreeDC Lobbies 379 Congressional Offices

by Larry Janezich

Posted March 26, 2025

Tuesday morning, almost 100 activists organized by FreeDC gathered outside the Rayburn House Office Building to hear FreeDC cofounder Alex Dodds’s instructions on how to lobby Members of Congress.  The advocacy group is urging House Members to pass the DC Local Funds Act to restore DC’s ability to spend local money on local services for the rest of the fiscal year.  Without this authority being restored, DC will be forced to reduce spending by over $1.1 billion over the next six months.

After receiving instructions and Member Office assignments, the activists – divided into teams of three – headed into the Cannon, Longworth, and Rayburn Buildings where they visited offices, left letters with the receptionist, and asked to speak to the Member or Chief of Staff.  If neither was available, the visitors said they would wait until someone was available.  The tactic for requesting a personal engagement and gathering contact info was often successful.  At day’s end, 379 Congressional Offices had been visited.  The FreeDC lobby effort is scheduled to continue today through 2:00pm on Thursday, with calls and visits to undecided Members. 

The DC spending authority is routinely included in the funding bill which keeps the government running when the annual appropriation bills have not been passed (which is the case this year).  The DC provision was apparently inadvertently omitted from the funding bill which passed Congress the week of March 11.  The bill, without the DC provision, controversially passed the Senate with the help of 9 Democrats (including Minority Leader Schumer) plus Independent Senator Angus King who voted to cut off a filibuster against the bill. The funding bill then passed the Senate by a vote of 54 – 46, including support from Democratic Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire and Senator Angus King of Maine. 

Schumer then immediately called up a “stand alone bill” to restore spending authority for DC, which passed unanimously and sent it to the House.  The Senate bill is being “held at the desk” in the House while lawmakers decide how to proceed.  It is uncertain when the House will take up the bill on the House floor, and lack of guidance from the Speaker’s Office, as well as the Office of Appropriations Chair Tom Cole, suggests that House Republicans may be considering attaching conditions on DC’s ability to spend the money.  If any change is made to the Senate bill or if a new House Bill is passed, it would require further action by the Senate.  President Trump supports the Senate bill as – reportedly – does House Appropriations Chair Tom Cole. 

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March 23, 2025 · 11:06 pm

The Week Ahead…& Some Photos from the Past Week

The Week Ahead…& Some Photos from the Past Week

by Larry Janezich

Posted March 23, 2025

Currently at the Rubell Museum.  American Vignettes: Symbols, Society, and Satire.

September 27th, 2024 – Fall, 2025.  65 I Street, SW.  11am – 5pm.  You can probably find parking on a nearby side street. 

American Vignettes: Symbols, Society, and Satire showcases nearly 100 artworks spanning painting, photography, sculpture, installation, and mixed media by over 40 emerging and established artists, all from the Rubells’ collection of more than 7,700 works of contemporary art. Here’s a selection of some pieces categorized as Symbols which address our and the artist’s relationship to flags, emblems, and slogans.  

Piotr Uklanski.  Untitled (American Eagle).  Styrofoam.  79 X 118 in.

“In an untitled American Eagle Piotr Uklanski depicts the eagle used on the American quarter. The eagle is a symbol with layered implications, emblematic of the United States, Uklanski’s  native Poland, and many other countries, while also being associated with the Nazi Party and later appropriated by Neo Nazis worldwide. In engaging with such imagery, the artist challenges viewers to recognize and reinterpret symbols across cultural codes, whether political or historical.”

Natalie Ball. Bang Bang. Elk hide, rabbit fur, oil stick, acrylic, charcoal, cotton and pine.  84 X 124 in.

 “Bang Bang came from my solo exhibition in New York at Half gallery titled Bad Lucky Indian. … I was thinking through gesture, materiality, complex narratives, form, assemblage, but mostly humor.  In the studio I was looking at the great seal of the United States and I started to think about what that seal and its eagle means to me, what it means for our history, and what it means to be a dual citizen: to be a citizen of the Klamath Tribes, of a sovereign nation, but also a citizen of the United States…..I wanted my own seal.  The eagle and its symbolism have been appropriated historically. It has a significance in my culture too, and I wanted to bring that forward and honor it in a different way.

Sterling Ruby.  Flag.  Bleached and dyed fabric and elastic.  174 X 343 in. 

Damian Ortega.  Transportable Obelisk.  Fiber glass with metal base and wheels.  236 1/8 x 23 5/8 x 23 5/8 in.

“I am thrilled by the idea of a work that commemorates an imprecise moment, which could be associated with anything, just by the fact of moving the piece to one place or another. This work is a mobile print of reference.  It is a point of departure but also a full stop, even though it could change its position.”

Vaugn Spann.  Dark Days Bring New Hope (Never Forget).  Polymer paint, pulp, mixed media, terry cloth, canvas on aluminum stretcher bars.  160 x 220 in.

“This painting centers around the idea of hope but also around the idea of gloom or even doom. Dark days bring New Hope (Never Forget) is from Flag series. The series is a postmodern idea of how we might take these symbols, our relationship to these icons, and splice new meanings into them. The totallity of the piece is about the idea of claiming space and holding on to that proximity to the flag to interpret it on my own.  In the painting the flag is very dark; it’s a gloomy flag because there’s a lot of darkness and trauma we as a nation are perpetually working through.”

Glenn Lignon.  Condition Report D.  Iris print and iris print with serigraph, each 35 x 26 in.

“The text displayed on both panels of this diptych derives from protest placards from the American civil rights movement of the 1960s, specifically the Memphis sanitation workers strike in 1968. During this strike, over 1000 African American men went on strike for better pay and safer working conditions. Martin Luther King Junior went to Memphis to march with these workers and make speeches in support of their strike.  He was assassinated in Memphis the following day. Ligon first created a painting of the protest placard in 1988, untitled (I Am A Man), which the print on the left directly mirrors. For the right panel, Ligon gave his painting to an art conservator to create a condition report with handwritten annotations, which was in turn made into a print. In addition to the historical depth of the text presented, Ligon allows the object to be reinterpreted in a new context.”

The Week Ahead….

Highlights: 

  • Friday:  CM Charles Allen holds community office hours at Quill & Crumb at the Folger Shakespeare Library (see below).
  • Tuesday, Wednesday & Saturday:  (See Free DC Events under “Capitol Hill Corner Would Also Like You To Know About” below)

Monday, March 24

ANC7D 7D01 Hold a Special Virtual Meeting to confirm election/voting details for filling Single Member District 7D01 seat at 6:30pm. 

ANC6A Community Outreach Committee will hold a virtual meeting at 7:00pm.    

Among items on the draft agenda:

Announcements and Reminders:

  • People’s Front of H Street, Sunday Clean Ups in 6A01.
  • Mardi Gras Feedback.
  • Free DC Update.
  • ANC 6A Grant Application.
  • Public Safety Discussion & Brainstorm: Mutual Aid & Caring for Our Community.
  • Community Comments.

The ANC6B Public Safety Task Force Meeting, schedulted for Monday night, has been cancelled.

Tuesday, March 25

ANC6B Executive Committee will hold a virtual meeting at 6:30pm. 

For info on how to join the meeting, go here:  https://anc6b.org/

Among items on the agenda:

  • The agenda for the ANC6B April meeting will be discussed, voted upon, and adopted.
  • Prior to the April agenda being adopted, the Executive Committee will address the items below, deferred from the March full ANC6B meeting:
  • ANC6B Resolution on B26-48.
  • Historic Preservation Application re 4-5 Library Court SE: Second floor additions to two adjacent attached alley dwellings.
  • Update on ABC Protest of restaurant license for Acqua Al 2

ANC6A Alcoholic Beverage Licensing Committee will hold a virtual meeting at 7:00pm.

Among items on the draft agenda:

  • Discussion of the renewal of a Class C restaurant license with entertainment and summer garden endorsements at Granville Moore’s, 1238 H Street, NE.
  • Discussion of a new Class C Restaurant license with extended holiday hours, carry out and delivery endorsements at Tapori 600 H Street  NE, located within ANC6C.
  • Discussion of the status of the application for a new medical cannabis license for Proper Exotic, 313 8th Street, NE.

Friday, March 28

CM Charles Allen holds community office hours at Quill & Crumb at the Folger Shakespeare Library from 4 to 5:30pm.  RSVP here:  http://charlesallenward6.com/calendar

Capitol Hill Corner Would Also Like You To Know About:

Free DC Event – Tuesday, March 25

Members of Congress Office Visits: Encourage House Reps to pass the DC Local Funds Act – 10:00am to 3:00pm .

Rayburn House Office Building, 45 Independence Avenue Southwest, Washington, DC,

For more info and to register, go here:  https://freedcproject.org/event-list/office-visits-encourage-house-reps-to-pass-the-dc-local-funds-act

Free DC Event – Wednesday, March 26

March Campaign Orientation, online – 6:00 pm – 7:30pm.

For more info and to register, go here:  https://freedcproject.org/event-list/campaign-orientation-mar-26

Free DC Event – Saturday, March 29

Community Art Build! – 10:00am to  3:00am – St. Martin’s of Tours Church

1908 North Capitol Street Northwest, Washington, DC. 

For more info and to register, go here:  https://freedcproject.org/event-list/community-art-build

Hill Center Event

Thursday, March 27 – 7:00 pm – $10

Memoirist Kat Chow Discusses Her Bestselling book Seeing Ghosts in Conversation with Jung Yun.  Kat Chow is a reporter, teacher, writer and the author of Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir, named a Notable Book by The New York Times.

For more info and to register, go here:  https://bit.ly/4iV5LuQ

Hill Center Event

Saturday, March 29 – 2:00 pm – FREE

Volunteer Capitol Hill

Sponsored by Hill Center Private Events.  Local organizations will be present to share how you can help them meet their mission. Find the right fit for your talents as we build a better community.

For more info and to register, go here:  https://www.hillcenterdc.org/event/volunteer-capitol-hill-2/

Hill Center Event

Friday, March 28 – 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm – $20

Global Sounds on the Hill Celebrating Bolero with Miramar, a Richmond-based bolero group.

For more info and to register, go here:  https://bit.ly/4hGa6kt

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March 16, 2025 · 11:05 pm

The Week Ahead….6B Chair Steps Down & Some Photos from the Past Week

The Week Ahead….6B Chair Steps Down & Some Photos from the Past Week

by Larry Janezich

Posted March 16, 2025

Edward Ryder 6B08 (right) resumes Chair of ANC6B as Chair Vince Mareino 6B07 (center) steps down, and Karen Hughes 6B09 (left) becomes Vice Chair.

Last week, at its regularly scheduled March meeting, ANC6B elected a new Chair and Vice Chair after Chairman Vince Mareino announced that he was stepping down after leading the ANC for two months because of professional and family obligations.  Former Chair and current Vice Chair Edward Ryder agreed to resume the office and nominated Commissioner Karen Hughes to be Vice Chair.  The nominations were agreed to by acclamation of the ANC. 

On Monday, March 10, more than a thousand people representing DMV – DC, Maryland, and Virginia – rallied on the West Front of the Capitol to protest firing of government employees.  Representative Jamie Raskin (D) MD spoke on the authoritarian approach to goverance.  He ended his remarks with a quote from American Founding Father Thomas Paine’s The American Crisis:  “Tyranny like hell is not easily conquered, but we’ve this saving consolation.  The more difficult the struggle, the more glorious in the end will be our victory.” 

This view gives a better sense of the crowd size.

Also on Tuesday, March 11, Free DC sponsored a community meeting in Northeast Library, following up on the social get together and celebration it sponsored at As You Are a week ago last Sunday.  Keja Chattergee, former ANC6A Commissioner and one of the five co-founders of Free DC was the spokeswoman who encouraged attendees to join Free DC’s efforts in the following days to lobby Senators to vote against a Congressional funding bill that would limit DC budget spending to the 2024 Fiscal Year levels – resulting in a $1.1 billion reduction in spending for the next six months.

Here’s a wide shot of the crowd – more than 100 residents turned out for the meeting.

MTP says enforcing Metro fare evasion has helped reduce serious crime.  Metro Transit Police Commander Aaron Donald told the First District Citizens Advisory Committee on March 4 that when DC decriminalized fare evasion, crime rates went up and “when they brought back criminalization and we started to enforce it crime rates immediately took a nose dive – we finished 2024 with a 33% decrease in part one (very serious) crimes.  In 2023 we issued 7000 fare evasion tickets in DMV and closed out 2024 with about 17,000 fare evasion tickets.  Through that we arrested more than 400 – not just for fare evasion alone – and recovered 81 guns – some thru fare evasion and some thru other police work.  So we saw a drastic decrease in crime numbers – so far this year we’ve seen a 62% decrease in part one crimes compared to last year which also had a drastic decrease.  Our Criminal Investigation Division did a study on those individuals arrested for very serious crimes – 97 % of those individuals failed to pay their fares.”  

Update on Lobby Bar.  Here’s a peek at the current buildout of The Lobby Bar.  Owner Adam Shulman hopes to open in April and says his goal is for the 2000 square foot restaurant to be a gathering place for all, with 18 bar seats, booths, a communal table for larger parties, and a sidewalk patio.  The menu will feature modern American cuisine while the beverage list will lean toward classic and creative cocktails.  The restaurant is across the street from Eastern Market, at 224 7th Street, SE, the location of the former Boxcar Tavern.   

The Week Ahead

Monday, March 17

ANC6A Transportation & Public Space Committee will hold a virtual meeting at 7:00pm.

Among items on the draft agenda: 

  • Old Business.
  • West Virginia Avenue NE. There is a pending signal installation to attempt to streamline the West Virginia Avenue, 8th & K Streets intersection which causes most of the queueing but a community member expressed continued concern.
    • Capitol Hill Sidewalk Safety Update. Scott Price from Capitol Hill Village will provide an update.
  • New Business. 
  • Open Streets Capitol Hill. This is slated to occur on Saturday June 28, 2025 taking place mostly in ANC 6B but running through Lincoln Park.
    • DDOT Public Space Permit.  This is a sidewalk application from Ben’s Chili Bowl at 1001 H Street NE. 

ANC6B Parks & Public Spaces Committee will hold an IN PERSON ONLY Meeting at 7:00pm

  • The meeting will be on the second floor of 700 Pennsylvania (Conference Room #1).

Among items on the draft agenda: 

  • Review and potential comment on the DPR presentation on RUMSEY ACQUATIC CENTER.  What is too much?  What is missing?
  • Review of the revised Mission Statement. 
  • Possible discussion items: 
    • Park Manager at Eastern Market Metro Plaza Park.
    • Missing sculptures at the Eastern Market Metro Park.
    • Physical improvements at Seward Square to increase activity there.

Tuesday, March 18

ANC6D will hold a virtual meeting at 7:00pm.

Among items on the draft agenda:

  • Public Safety Report (PSA 103,105,106)
  • Government Announcements (Executive and Legislative Branch)
  • DOEE Briefing on RiverSmart Homes
  • DDOT Update on 2025 Traffic Operations and Parking Plan
  • Consent Agenda
  • ABC Matters
  • Shall the ANC ask DPR to look into transferring Banneker Park to District control?
  • Shall the ANC allocate $600 for a DC government email account for the ABC committee?
  • SMD Updates
  • Chairman’s Report

Wednesday, March 19

ANC6A Economic Development and Zoning Committee will hold a virtual meeting at 7:00pm.

Among items on the draft agenda: 

  • Old Business
    • 1355-1359 H Street, NE.  Zoning Adjustment Application to combine five lots (2 facing H street NE, 3 facing alley) and convert to a retail and eating and drinking establishment,
  • New Business
    • 917 Constitution Avenue, NE.  Zoning Adjustment Application to construct a second story addition to a detached garage, in the rear of an existing, attached, two-story plus cellar, principal dwelling unit in the RF-1 zone.
    • 901 H Street, NE.  Zoning Application.  Informational presentation for proposed fast casual restaurant.

Capitol Hill Corner Would Also Like You to Know About

Tuesday, March 18 – 5 to 6:30pm/

Telephone Town Hall for the DC Federal Workforce.  

Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton is hosting this town hall, where residents can dial in to 833-408-1990. It will also be live-streamed at https://norton.house.gov/live.

Wednesday, March 19 – Northeast Library – 6:00pm. 

Capitol Hill Restoration Society Board meeting. 

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March 13, 2025 · 10:41 pm

CHUCK GREGORY (1976-2025)

CHUCK GREGORY (1976-2025)

Chuck Gregory, a native Washingtonian, died in San Francisco on February 22 after a long struggle with cancer. He was 49. The son of Janice and Neal Gregory,  Chuck was born at Georgetown Hospital on January 8, 1976, and grew up on Capitol Hill. His formal name was Chellis O’Neal Gregory III, but he was always known as Chuck.

A service of remembrance and a celebration of his life will be held at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church at 1:30 pm on Sunday, March 30.

Chuck was an acolyte at St. Mark’s, a member of the Boy Scouts and a star soccer player for his Soccer on the Hill championship team. A lifelong interest in public policy and politics began during the summers when he was a page for the U.S. House of Representatives. He attended Peabody and John Easton Public Schools, St. Anselm’s Abbey School, and graduated from Edmond Burke High School.

He received a degree in communications and film from Tulane University, where he was a member of SAE fraternity. He worked as a desk editor in the Washington Bureau of ABC Television News, later joining the staff of the Vancouver International Film Festival in Canada, working in promotion and development. He met Akiko Kano – who became his wife – in Vancouver while they were both teaching English as a foreign language. 

He earned a master’s degree in international relations at the University of British Columbia and was a development officer for UBC’s Sauder School of Business. Ten years ago, he moved to San Francisco as a development officer for Sutter Health, which operates 24 hospitals and over 200 clinics in Northern California.

Chuck had a dry wit and was always smiling. His fellow students and coworkers delighted in his storytelling talents. He had an uncanny ability to adopt the accents and mannerisms as he related tales from a wide variety of characters.  He could imitate Louisiana Cajuns, Southerners, Texans, New Jersey mafia, Boston Irish and variety of other groups with comic accuracy.

In addition to his parents, Neal and Janice Gregory, Chuck is survived by his wife Akiko Kano and their 11-year-old daughter Sara Gregory of San Francisco; and two sisters, Jennifer Cross of Santa Cruz, CA, and Kate Stark of Scotts Valley, CA.

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March 13, 2025 · 6:55 pm

City Scales Back Rumsey Aquatic Center Plan

More than 100 residents turned out for Wednesday night’s community meeting on the Rumsey Renovation plans which was held in the North Hall of Eastern Market.

City Scales Back Rumsey Aquatic Center Plan

by Larry Janezich

Posted March 13, 2025

Thursday night, DPR and DGS presented design options for renovation of the Rumsey Aquatic Center which were substantially different from the more ambitious plans of CM Charles Allen, who secured additional funding for the project based on those plans. 

The boost in $15 million in funds for the Rumsey renovation was intended to support a new second story with community amenities like a senior center with a tech lounge, a business incubator space, and an indoor fitness center.  These were in addition to the DPR’s initial budget ($20 million) to expand and renovate the swimming pool which would occupy the first floor of the new building.

That’s not what the designers brought back to the community.

Instead, developers presented to the community three slightly different proposals, all of them without a build-out on the second floor, as well as a host of reasons why the original vision could not be realized. In addition to what they characterized as a limited overall budget of $35 million, the designers cited the cost of LEED/net zero certification as a significant constraint. 

Here’s Allen’s reaction: 

“Two years ago, I asked DPR and DGS leaders what it would cost to build a second floor to expand services and programs while modernizing Rumsey pool. They gave me an exact number, and I found that exact money – that’s the budget we have.  It’s clear from tonight’s meeting there’s not enough space on one floor to meet the needs of the community here, and I’m frustrated how quickly they’re trying to walk away from the fully funded second floor. I will work to get them back on track and believe we will find a solution to deliver the generational project everyone wants.”

ANC6B Commissioner Jerry Sroufe, in whose single member district the Rumsey Center falls, said “if you only have three options and no second story that’s a bitter pill to swallow.  I didn’t think they were very responsive to the concerns raised and I don’t think that the things they said they couldn’t do because of various restrictions are true.  I am sure they could do things differently if they wanted to – exceptions can be made and they didn’t make any.  I didn’t like any of the options in particular.  It seems they wanted one story.” 

Two polls taken during the meeting to which there were 66 respondents showed a clear preference for bigger and better pool space and fewer amenities.  Regarding the possible amenities squeezed into the first floor – a hot tub, a yoga studio, and a fitness studio – a 40% plurality chose “none of the above.” 

The three options can be viewed here:  https://dgs.dc.gov/page/rumsey-aquatic-center    

Go to “March 12 Community Presentation.”

Roy Philips, a neighbor and frequent user of Rumsey Pool who attended last night’s meeting, said that “the presenters didn’t provide options that capture what the community is looking for.  In building options they have lots of constraints ….  Due to the constraints they said all they can do is build a new structure that is roughly the size and footprint as the current building. They can make the pool about 12 feet wider to accommodate 2 more swimming lanes. There were no options to extend the building into the plaza or with a second floor…It seems like they are focused on all the impediments rather than a vision of what the community really wants.”

Here’s the sequence of events for the next steps:

TBD Community Meeting 3 – Design Update.

TBD Community Meeting Final Design.

(Permitting Phase)

TBD Community Meeting Construction Kick off.

TBD Construction Updates

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March 9, 2025 · 10:34 pm

The Week Ahead…Rumsey Meeting Wednesday Night & Some Photos from the Past Week

The Week Ahead…Rumsey Meeting Wednesday Night & Some Photos from the Past Week

by Larry Janezich

Posted, March 9, 2025

Community Meeting on Rumsey Pool Wednesday Night.  DC Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR) and the DC Department of General Services (DGS) will host a community meeting to discuss the survey results and see the initial concept designs for Rumsey Aquatic Center.

(Also, Rumsey Aquatic Center will be closed starting Monday, March 10, for annual scheduled maintenance. The pool is expected to reopen on Monday, March 17.)

The Flea Market at Eastern Market Returns to 7th Street SE.  On Sunday, Diverse Markets Management brought the flea market back to 7th Street SE, after its January – February winter hiatus.  Diverse Markets: “The Flea Market at Eastern Market remains an essential space for small businesses, artists, and creative entrepreneurs to exhibit their products. bFrom vintage fashion to one-of-a-kind artistic impressions, the Flea Market continues to be a creative force of local culture. Alongside our colleagues in the Eastern Market Main Street corridor, we are optimistic for the season of our entire community.”  For more market updates, follow the Flea Market at Eastern Market Facebook page and Flea Market Instagram:   https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=the%20flea%20market%20at%20eastern%20market &  (https://www.instagram.com/fleamarketateasternmarket/?hl=en  )

Barracks Row Aloha Medical Marijuana Application Runs into Trouble.  Last Tuesday night, ANC6B’s Alcohol and Cannabis Committee considered the medical marijuana license application for Aloha, at 539 8th Street, SE – formerly LaVagna.   The committee agreed to 1) file a complaint with ABCA that Aloha’s parent company, Tobacco King at the same location, is selling (or gifting) cannabis illegally, 2)  a motion to recommend the full ANC protest the license on the grounds of peace, order, quiet, parking, property values, and proximity to a school, and 3)  a motion that the committee file its own complaint that ABCA improperly accepted the application for a medical marijuana license because the store’s location is within 400 feet of a school.    

Work Has Begun on the Pennsylvania/Potomac Avenues Intersection Project.  Construction started on February 18 and is expected to take 700 days to complete, without counting snow and weather days.  The hoped for completion date is December 28, 2026.  Construction of bike lanes east on Pennsylvania Avenue will begin once the circle project is complete.  The National Park Service will maintain the circle.  The canopy for the Potomac Avenue Metro entrance has been put off until 2026. 

Garfield Park Renovation Update.  Construction on the project – including installation of playground surfacing and restriping of the tennis courts – was paused recently pending the arrival of warmer weather. As of now, the new tennis court surface has been poured and cured but painting the surface requires consistent temperatures in the 40s and 50s and is scheduled to occur in early April.  DGS says the general contractor is continually monitoring the forecast and will improve upon the schedule as weather permits.  The project was to have been completed last fall but has fallen behind schedule.  Here’s a link to the kick off construction presentation in June of 2024 where readers can judge where DGS is in the process.  They look to be close.  https://app.box.com/s/mixr9jrjfy8lmor9ozprk6xuvayjee09

Here’s a shot of the resurfaced tenns courts.

Folger Park Renovation Update.  The National Park Service closed Folger Park near 2nd and D Streets SE, to the public on Monday March 3 for renovation.  It will remain closed until December 31st 2025. The renovation will include: 

  • Improving the historic walkways
  • Restoring the historic flagstone plaza
  • Repairing and adding benches
  • Restoring vegetation in the plaza

The Week Ahead…

Tuesday, March 11

ANC6B will hold a hybrid meeting at 7:00pm.

  • Meeting location will be 700 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE; First Floor (entry adjacent to Trader Joe’s).

Among items on the draft agenda: 

Consent Calendar

  • Letter in support of DDOT Lincoln Park study, in partnership with ANC 6A.
  • Late Breaking – Write DDOT urging a stop sign on Independence @ 5th St SE.
  • Support BZA application for 1227 Independence Avenue, SE.
  • Support HPA Application for Library Court, SE.
  • Support Withdrawal of Barney Circle Historic District application.

Presentations

  • Office of Charles Allen
  • Office of the Mayor
  • Metropolitan Police Department
  • Late Breaking – Ms. Skye Webster of RiverSmart Homes Program

Other business: 

  • Acqua al 2, 212 7th Street, SE.  Application for restaurant liquor license – possible Settlement Agreement. 
  • Aloha, 539 8th Street, SE.  Application for Medical Cannabis license. 
  • Discussion.  Update on presentation invitations to DC Attorney General Schwalb and Office of the US Attorney for DC. 
  • Letter to request a DDOT Lincoln Park traffic study, in partnership with ANC6A.
  • Update on Rumsey Aquatic Center Renovation. 
  • Follow-up on Eastern Market Community Advisory Committee letter about security barriers.
  • Late Breaking – Elections. (ANC6B Chair Vince Mareino is stepping down as chair, citting professional and family obligations.)

ANC7D will hold a virtual meeting at 7:00pm.

Among items on the draft agenda (TBA)

Wednesday, March 12

ANC6C will hold a hybrid meeting at 7:00pm.

Among items on the draft agenda:

  • Request for approval of legal assistance, ABCA application 130329, Consortium, 201 Massachusetts Avenue.

Announcements

  • Commissioner announcements.
  • DC agency informational announcements.
  • Office of the Ombudsman for Public Education.
  • Other community announcements.

Consent calendar

  • Tapori, 600 H Street NE, class “C” tavern liquor license.

Plenary agenda       

  • Capitol Hill Classic, May 18—Jayme Johnson.
  • St. Joseph’s Church project, update.
  • Notice of Intent from DDOT.  6th and K Streets: modifications to parking and traffic patterns.
  • DDOT Public Space Application.  6th and K Streets: benches, various locations.
  • 304-308 K Street NE. BZA application to subdivide an alley and construct two semi-detached, two-story dwelling units.

New Business

  • Contingency planning    

Thursday, April 13

ANC6A will hold a virtual meeting at 7:00pm.

For info on how to join the meeting, go here:  https://anc6a.org/community-calendar/

Among items on the draft agenda: 

Community Presentations

  • Zoning Regulation Change Affecting Ability to License Group Homes for Foster Youth over the Age of 18.
  • Priscilla Hall, Resource Development Specialist, Office of Planning, Policy and Program Support, Child and Family Services Agency.
  • RiverSmart Homes – DC’s Residential Stormwater Management Program Skye Webster, RiverSmart Homes Environmental Protection Specialist, Department of Energy & Environment.

Consent Agenda

  • Recommendation: ANC6A and ANC6B send a joint letter to DDOT requesting a traffic study around Lincoln Park.

New Business

  • Suggested Motion: ANC6A send an official Letter of Appeal to the Director of OANC asking for reconsideration of the denial of ANC 6A’s 2024 grant of $1,000 Guerilla Gardeners.  The purpose of the grant was to hold a public, community event to plant Tulips around the periphery of Sasha Bruce House. The appeal letter should capture the public benefits of this grant.

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Tuesday, March 11

Free DC is having a Ward 6 meeting at 6pm at the Northeast Library (7th and Maryland Ave NE). According to Free DC co-founder Alex Dobbs, “For anyone interested in joining our effort you can come to one of our campaign organizing meetings – we provide an overview of our strategy and how to get involved.

Wednesday, March 12

Hill Center Event

Our City. Our Music. Our Writers.  7:00 pm - 9:00 pm $10.00

Two eminent, essential local writers on jazz are featured in the March 12 session of the series.: Georgetown University Professor Maurice Jackson and NEA Jazz Master Willard Jenkins

Go here for tickets:  https://www.hillcenterdc.org/event/our-city-our-music-our-writers/  

Tuesday, March 11

Folger Library Event

The Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize.  7:30pm. $20.00.

The Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, created in honor of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Anthony Hecht, is awarded annually for a poetry collection by a poet who has published no more than one previous book of verse. This season, the O.B. Hardison Poetry Series and co-sponsor The Waywiser Press celebrate Julia Thacker, the 19th winner of the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize with this year’s prize judge, Irish poet, critic, playwright, and translator Paul Muldoon, who will read with Thacker.

For more info and tickets, go here: 

https://www.folger.edu/whats-on/2025-anthony-hecht-poetry-prize-with-paul-muldoon/

Please note: Children under the age of 4 are not permitted.

Friday, March 14

Hill Center Event 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Award-Winning Duo Veronneau Perform the Music of Joni Mitchell & Carole King,

Veronneau perform the music of two iconic artists, from their iconic albums – Joni Mitchell’s “Blue” & Carole King’s “Tapestry.” “Inspiring & Joyful…excellent performers” – The Washington Post “The kind of thoughtful artistry one can expect from masters of the music.”  – Washingtonian Magazine.  Tickets $20.00

For more info and tickers, go here:  https://www.hillcenterdc.org/events/category/concerts/

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March 5, 2025 · 10:53 am

Dealing with Death at Congressional Cemetery

Dealing with Death at Congressional Cemetery

By Larry Janezich

Posted March 5, 2025

Last week, Congressional Cemetery wrapped up a month long series of Death Doula Pop Ups held inside the cemetery’s chapel.  These “Mortality Tea Rooms” were an extension of the “Death Café” program sponsored by the cemetery.  The “Death Café” is a loose knit international movement to facilitate regular discussions about death over food and drink with a dozen or so participants. 

This series was coordinated and hosted by Congressional Cemetery’s Death Doula in Residence, Laura Lyster-Mensh. 

A visit to one on the events last week found Lyster-Mensh offering tea and information through a series of exhibits illustrating a death doula’s mission and her own approach to her practice.

And that’s what death doulas do – provide information about end of life choices both for families and individuals and support for terminally ill persons and their families. 

Lyster-Mensh conducts a tour of her Mortality Tea Room exhibits:  

Impermanence

Every day, she starts a new nature mandala – a geometric shape made of things in nature picked up on the cemetery grounds by visitors to the chapel.  She says, “People are shy about things associated with bodies – so I’ve invited people to be part of building this geometric shape as a study of impermanence.  At the end of the day, I wash it away – and we start over the next day. 

Community Mourning

She references the Mexican tradition of Day of the Dead and said that that on the Day of the Dead last year an ofrenda was set up in the chapel.  (Ofrenda means “offering” in Spanish and refers to the colorful altars set up to honor deceased loved ones on the Dia de los Muertos Mexican holiday.)  She says that it displayed “hundreds of objects and photographs and flowers.  It was just splendid – a way of introducing ancestors and a way of talking about the past.” 

Choose Your Corpse’s Adventure

She moved on to what she called her pet project, a game called Choose Your Corpse’s Adventure.  She says, “Most people don’t think about what happens to their body after they pass – that causes expensive chaos.  So I set up toys to show people their options – how much money will it cost you to die and how much carbon will it take?   I get them to think – if you have as much money as you want and as much carbon as you want, how much do you need?  I ask them to think about that.  Given options such as water cremation, human composting, or fire cremation, what is the actual cost financially and environmentally? And the party – what about the party you might have after you’re gone?  By end of the game, people have gotten a better idea of death’s costs and impacts.  The real thing is the conversation, especially with couples.  That’s my goal – to get people talking and to think about their behavior in these terms.”

Library and Life Planner Area

Lyster-Mensh has a lending library including books and life planners.  She lends them out and people bring them back.  She wants people to organize and think about the chaos the day after they die.  She adds, “There are so many kinds of organizers – some are funny and some are serious.  I hand them a stack and let them go through them.” 

Immortality

Lydia-Mensch doesn’t talk about immortality, but she alludes to it by giving away plant cuttings. 

She says, “All living things come from something that has died.  The cuttings are all from my mom’s plants.  It’s a symbolic thing – I encourage people to think about taking my plants home; they will live or die and all these are coming from my mom’s plants which come from other plants and I like that idea.  Snake plants, Swedish ivy, tradescantia, spider plants – I love the idea that they are going out into the world.” 

Last February was the first month-long mortality workshop – which she says is a completely new way of encouraging contemplation of end of life scenarios – “It happened because the chapel was open for the month of February, and I asked to do it.  Last year, I did individual appointments.  The year before I did weekly gatherings and events.”  She says the cemetery will probably repeat the experience next year. 

Asked what motivated her, Lyster-Mensh says, “I’ve always had an interest even as a kid.  As I get older and lose more people and get closer to death the ‘eye-rolling’ (encountering people’s annoyance or reluctance to take the issue seriously) motivates me.  When I sit with dying people – and I’m with dying people a lot – their families and friends are often too frightened to be there and so they’re alone and that doesn’t have to be.  So I feel that death awareness is a way to bring people back to being more loving and taking care of each other rather than just leaving people to suffer in fear and isolation.” 

For more information and to sign up for a Death Café, go here:  https://bit.ly/3QNeZxb

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March 3, 2025 · 4:53 pm

Free DC Mobilizes to Protect DC Home Rule

Free DC Mobilizes to Protect DC Home Rule

by Larry Janezich

Posted March 3, 2025

Here’s the scene at As You Are on Sunday afternoon, as attendees listen to Free DC organizer Alex Dodds.

Here’s a detail of Dodds rallying the crowd.

A Free DC volunteer makes signs for the campaign.

Sunday afternoon, Free DC held its first Ward 6 meeting on Barracks Row’s at As You Are.  Event organizer Alex Dodds said that the purpose of the gathering to kick off the Home Rule effort was a and introduction and a “celebration with our Ward Six team.” More than a hundred supporters crowded into the second story of As You Are to express solidarity, interact, and to cheer approval as they listened to Dodds assert DC’s right to self-determination.     

Asked for comment, Dodds said “Free DC is a new campaign to protect home rule and win dignity for people in communities of the District. Free DC is organizing in all eight wards, mobilizing people to protect ourselves from this administration and this congress.” The movement, she said, “started two years ago during the overturning of the Revised Criminal Code – Congress disapproved of a DC law for the first time in over 30 years, and no matter how you felt about that legislation, we felt very strongly that it was the right and responsibility of the people of the DC to decide the laws here.  So a lot of the organizers who are involved now first started organizing two years ago when that happened. “

As for next steps, Dodds said, “For anyone interested in joining our effort you can come to one of our campaign organizing meetings – we provide an overview of our strategy and how to get involved.  They happen every other week alternating in person and on line.”  The next Ward Six meeting is Tuesday, March 11th from 6:00pm – 8:00pm in North East Library.    

Free DC is a special non-profit project of Community Change, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, and Community Change Action, a 501(c)(4) tax-exempt organization.  It’s co-founders are Alex Dodds, founder and lead strategist for the public relations and campaign firm Worthy Studio; Nee Nee Taylor, Executive Director of Harriet’s Wildest Dreams;  Kelsey Adams, co- director of DC Vote; and Keya Chattergee, member, Evergreen Advisory and Governing Boards and Executive Director of US Climate Action Network.

For more info, go here:  https://freedcproject.org/about

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March 2, 2025 · 10:20 pm

The Week Ahead…French Bakery Update & Some Photos from the Past Week

The Week Ahead…& Some Photos from the Past Week

By Larry Janezich

Posted March 2, 2025

French Bakery Update – a source tells CHC that the progress on the opening of the long-awaited St. Georges Boulangerie across from Eastern Market is bogged down in the city’s interminable and increasingly stringent permitting process.  The owner must be anxious to open, but timing is uncertain. 

Razom for Ukraine appears to have set up camp at 603 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE.  Razom is a U.S. based 501(c)(3) which seeks to help build a secure, prosperous, and democratic Ukraine. In 2023, Forbes Ukraine declared Razom one of the top 10 nonprofit organizations in Ukraine. (Wiki)  Charity Navigator gives Razom a four star rating.  Here’s a link for more info and to donate:  https://www.razomforukraine.org/

DC’s first Mushroom Church is open on Barracks Row.  An Instagram post for the “Entheogenic* Temple” says it wants to “bring the Divine to all people through our Sacred Sacrament the Mushroom.  Mushrooms are only available for purchase for members of our Church through verified membership on location or through a Member Portal.” 

*Entheogens are psychoactive substances, including psychedelic drugs (such as magic mushrooms) used throughout history in sacred contexts. (Wiki)

The Church is located in the space formerly occupied by Metropolitan Wellness Center and then by Mr. Nice Guys, over the former and future Popeyes on Barracks Row at 409 8th Street, SE. 

Here’s a capture from the Mushroom Church’s Instagram page illustrating one of their products.  On March 15, 2021, DC’s Initiative 81 went into effect, which did not legalize psychedelic mushrooms, but made policing and prosecution for use of them a low priority.  Some groups seek a religious exemption from the DEA for use of psychedelics but there’s an application process – not just declaring yourself a church.  The IRA as well may be curious about the legal status of an organization declaring itself a church. 

Razom for Ukraine appears to have set up camp at 603 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE.  Razom is a U.S. based 501(c)(3) which seeks to help build a secure, prosperous, and democratic Ukraine. In 2023, Forbes Ukraine declared Razom one of the top 10 nonprofit organizations in Ukraine. (Wiki)  Charity Navigator gives Razom a four star rating.  Here’s a link for more info and to donate:  https://www.razomforukraine.org/

ABCA continues the crackdown on the illegal weed gifting shops, issuing a Notice of Closure to The U Smoke Shop at 607a Pennsylvania Avenue, SE. 

The Week Ahead…

Highlight:  Multiple representatives of the federal and local criminal justice system (maybe including Acting US Attorney for DC Edward Martin) will appear at Tuesday’s MPD’s 1st District Community Advisory Committee meeting – see below). 

Monday, March 3

ANC6B Transportation Committee Meeting will hold a virtual meeting at 7:00pm.

Among items on the draft agenda:

  • Discussion:  DDOT Lincoln Park Study, in partnership with ANC6A. 
  • Discussion:  WMATA Better Bus Initiative.

ANC6D will hold a virtual Administrative Meeting at 7:00pm. 

ANC6B Southeast Library Task Force will hold a hybrid meeting at 6:30pm.

The meeting location will be 700 Pennsylvania Ave SE; Second Floor (entry adjacent to Trader Joe’s)

Among items on the draft agenda:

  • Follow up on testimony to the DC City Council.

Tuesday, March 4

MPD 1D Community Advisory Committee will hold a virtual meeting at 6:00pm.

Among items on the draft agenda:

  • Introduction of Acting US Attorney for DC Edward Martin (pending availability).
  • US Capitol Police Assistant Chief of Police Ashan Benedict report and preparations for upcoming State of the Union Address. 
  • US Office of DC Attorney for the 1st District Doug Klein and Chris Wade – community outreach report. 
  • Metro Transit Police – Captains Aaron Donald and Beau Perrizo – police enforcement on buses and trains.
  • Mayor’s representatives report on Rental Act and resolution of Capitol Hill Towers issues.
  • Office of DC Attorney General Juan Ulloa.
  • CSOSA Report
  • 1st District Overview with Commander Colin Hall and 1st District officials and officers.

ANC6B Alcoholic Beverage & Cannabis Committee will hold a virtual meeting at 7:00pm.

Agenda:

  • Alcohol License and follow-up for Acqua al 2, 212 7th Street, SE.

Wednesday, March 6

The ANC6CPlanning, Zoning, and Economic Development Committee usually meets virtually on the first Wednesday of the month at 6:30 pm.  TBA. 

Thursday, March 6

ANC6B Planning and Zoning Committee will hold a virtual meeting at 7:00pm. 

Among items on the draft agenda:

  • Discussion:  Closing the Barney Circle Historic District nomination. 
  • Discussion:  Comprehensive Zoning Plan Review.

The ANC6C Transportation and Public Space Committee usually meets virtually on the first Thursday of the month at 7:00 pm.  TBA. 

ANC6C Community Walk with 6C Commissioners, CM Charles Allen, and MPD.

  • 5:30pm on March 6, 2025
  • Meet at 7th & G St NE
  • There will be a post-walk community safety conversation with MPD at Fresca Taqueria, located at 7th and H Street, NE.

Here’s a link to register:  https://bit.ly/3XnYWJM

Capitol Hill Corner would also like you to know about:

Tuesday, March 4

Folger Theater presents A Room in the Castle.  On Stage through April 6.  Tickets:  $20 – $84.

How does a woman survive the court of Denmark? How does anyone? A Room in the Castle finds Ophelia, her handmaid, and Queen Gertrude on the other end of a wild prince’s antics and realizing just how dangerous life in this castle has become.

For more info and tickets, go here:  https://www.folger.edu/whats-on/a-room-in-the-castle/

Thursday, March 6

Folger Library Book Club.  Virtual.  6:30pm.  Free. 

The Tower, by Flora Carr

About The Tower:  A bold, feminist debut novel, reimagining Mary, Queen of Scots’s darkest hour, when she was held hostage in a remote Scottish castle with a handful of loyal women while plotting a daring escape to reclaim her country and her freedom.

Register here:  https://www.folger.edu/whats-on/folger-book-club-march-2025/

Thursday, March 6

Congressional Cemetery Death Café. 6:00pm – 7:30pm. 

Historic Congressional Cemetery Chapel 1801 E Street, Southeast.

Death Cafe is a global movement to encourage discussion about the often-taboo subject of death. These are intimate informal gatherings where we discuss death while eating cake and drinking tea to remind us of comfort and sweetness even in difficult times.

For more and to reserve a seat, go here:  https://congressionalcemetery.org/event/death-cafe-at-congressional-cemetery-3-2/2025-03-06/

Friday, March 7

Folger Library Pres-show talk.  6:30pm. 

Creative conversation: A Room in the Castle.  $25.00. 

For more info and tickets:  https://www.folger.edu/whats-on/creative-conversations-room-in-the-castle/

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