Freebie  Cultural Events, May 9 and beyond….. all events free unless otherwise noted – Scroll down for actual listings… ….  

YES, NO UPDATE THIS WEEK, BUT STILL SOME USEFUL INFO MID-LIST AND BEYOND….

check out Mid -city artists open studios, for example….

As always, check the blog roll to your right, and consider confirming all events.

For those new to the list, please think of making it as a “favorite” and spreading the news.

As noted, the blogroll includes comprehensive sites for art galleries and think tanks….

And for those of you uncomfortable with checking that blogroll to the right, you can click right here on the amazingly comprehensive site – www.gosmithsonian.com/calendar  and

And, once again, for additions, corrections, a quick review (much appreciated) or just to send some love, reach out to glennsblog@aol.com

The Philip Barlow classification system:

A = Art opening or art lecture                         L = Non-Art Lecture

B = Book Talk                                                          M = Music

D = Dance                                                                 P = Poetry (Grace C. insists!)

F = Film                                                                     T = Theater

May 9, Saturday

More Open Embassies!     10 AM – 4 PM   www.europe-in-dc.com

9 AM – free “brain yoga” class at Dahn  center. Res. required. 202-237-9642  5010 Ct. Ave. NW

L – 10 AM – experts lead a workshop on collecting the stories of veterans.  Historical Society of Washington DC at 801 K St. NW 

M – 10 AM – 4 PM – DC Record Fair – at Molly Ruppert’s Warehouse, 1021 7^th St. – next to Convention Center.  30 dealers plus Chuck Brown hanging out!   Yes, $2 admission.

L – 10:30 AM – “How to work with an architect and a contractor” res. required at the DC Chapter of the AIA – 1777 Church St. NW  202-667-1798

***11 AM – Noon – 7056 Carroll Ave – the downtown “old” block of Takoma PK. just off Eastern Ave. – Byron Peck and fellow muralists will demonstrate and discuss the mural in progess.  You know Byron’s work – among other works, the Duke Ellington mural on U St is his, and he he has  agreat record of working with the community – from inner city to the birkenstocks of T. P.

11 AM – 2 PM – Festival at Stead Park – the one on P St. between 16^th and 17^th.

11 AM – 3 PM – Lafayette Elementary School Fair

A –11 AM  – 8 PM – – 100 artworks by John Lennon – 3336 M St. NW  -  benefit for the food bank of DC.  $2 donation.

Noon  – free “brain yoga” class at Dahn  center. Res. required. 202-237-9642  5010 Ct. Ave. NW

12:30 – 2:30 PM – Music and dance from Cinco de Mayo, and a history talk by Library of Congress specialist Barbara Tenenbaum, at the mansion of the Mexican Cultural Institute, 2829 16^th St. NW, just above Meridian Hill Park

1-2 PM – Tai Chi by the Wong People of Hong Kong – Historical Society of Washington DC at 801 K St. NW 

2-5 PM – Yoga on the Mall – 15^th and Constitution Aves. NW  www.dcyogaweek.com

F – 2:30 PM – “RR” – an ode to freight trains and the vast terrain they traverse.  Nat’l Gallery

B – 4 PM – UMd’s Julie Greene on the bldg. of the Panama Canal and it’s effects. Busboys, 14th and V.

A – 4-6 PM – Sam Gilliam at Marsha Mateyka Gallery, 2012 R St. NW

M – 6 PM – adult recital at Middle C Music, 4530 Wisconsin Ave. NW

A – 6-9 PM – Foun Shan at Project 4 Gallery – 1353 U St. NW

A – 6ish – 8 ish -  1515  14th St. openings – next to Studio Theater just above P St.   Curator’s Office and Adamson Galleries are open, maybe more – the bldg is crawling with ‘em!

***A – 7-9 PM  – Group show at the Hamiltonian Gallery – 1353 U St. NW, including the provocative and fabulous conceptual artist Linda Hesh 

A – 6:30 – 9 PM – group show of works created during the final years of apartheid, 1987-1994, Int’l Visions Gallery – 2629 CT. Ave, NW, just above Calvert

Sunday, May 10

10:10 AM – Old Testament scholar Walter Brueggmann at the Nat’l Cathedral

M – 10:30 AM – modern klezmer by the Alexandria sextet, at 7^th and N. Carolina Ave. SE www.capitolhillcommunityfoundation.org

***** 11:30 AM – 7:30 PM – Last Day of  truly the greatest EVER exhibition of Lincolnia – Main Bldg of the Library of Congress.   Do NOT miss this exhibition!  a once-in-a lifetime opportunity.

A –11 AM  – 8 PM – – 100 artworks by John Lennon – 3336 M St. NW  -  benefit for the food bank of DC.  $2 donation.

M – 1 PM – country swing by the Bourbon Dynasty at 7^th and N. Carolina Ave. SE www.capitolhillcommunityfoundation.org

A – 2 PM – John House on Manet, Nat’l Gallery E. Bldg aud.

**F – 3 PM – Local documentary star Aviva Kempner (Partisans of Vilna, The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg) will present excerpts from her forthcoming film on comedy innovator  Gertrude Berg, writer, director and star of the radio then TV show “The Goldbergs”   Politics and Prose

M – 3 PM – The Mendelssohn Piano Trio perfroms a mother’s day program, SAAM, 8^th and G Sts. NW 

3 PM – Masters recipients will read from their works at the Kay Center of American University

F – 4:30 PM – Hungarian director Peter Forgacs will present his 2009 film about Hungarian Americans.  Nat’l Gallery of Art E. bldg aud.

M – 5 PM – the DC Youth Orchestra will perform a mother’s day concert, Atlas Performing Arts Center, 1333 H St. NW 

Monday, May 11

B – 5:30-6:30 PM – James J. McPherson will sign his book in the lobby of Ford’s Theater

***A – 12:10 and 1:10 PM in the Small aud. of the Nat’l Gallery E. Bldg, the very classy Lea-Ann Bigelow will discuss Alma Thomas’s ”Red Rose Cantata.”

B – 6:30 – 8 PM – Mark Rudd – remember him from 1968? – on “My Life with SDS and the Weathermen.”   Busboys at 1025 5^th St. NW 

B – 7 PM – The powerful and energetic Michael Eric Dyson at Politics and Prose. Among many many talents, Dyson can imitate brilliantly the speechifying styles of orators and preachers

7:30 PM – free “brain yoga” class at Dahn.  Res. required. 202-237-9642 5010 Ct. Ave. NW

May 12, Tuesday –

11 AM – curator Bruce Bustard on the upcoming Civil War exhib., at the National Archives

F – 7 PM – “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter,” introduced by Eliza McGraw, author of “Two Covenants: 20^th C. Representations of Southern Jewishness.” How much do I love that title?

Wednesday, May 13 –

8:30 AM – Cathedral Bird Walk – 202-537-2319

11:00 or 11:30 AM – BYO  lunch at the newly re-opened amphitheater at the National Cathedral. To confirm time, call 202-537-2319

M, B  – Noon – Music of the Great Depression, contrasted with the music of the Roaring 20s…with Michael Lasser of radio’s “Fascinatin’ Rhythm”  – Nat’l Archives

B – 6:30-8 PM – The masterful and charismatic former federal prosecutor turned GW law professor Paul Butler on “Let’s Get Free: A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice.”  He is a terrific presenter.  Busboys and Poets, 14^th and V, NW

B – 6:30 PM – Gershon Greenberg on ”Breaking the Holocaust Silence: A Hidden Hasidic Text of 1947”  Main Bldg., Library of Congress

7 PM – UNC- Chapel Hill’s Gerhard Weinberg on “Kristallnacht 1938: As Experienced Then and Understood Now.” Holocaust Museum.  Res. requested – 202-488-6162

7:30 – Arnold Eisen, chancellor of JTS, on “Israel, Zionism, and the Next Generation of American Jews.”

 May 14, Thursday

***Noon – early TV expert and author David Weinstein (day job – NEH program officer. night job – father of young twins) and TV director Arthur Forrest discuss and show clips of those early days – National Archives

6:30 PM – Three experts discuss the difficulties of interpreting Renaissance texts and maps.  Mumford Rm. of the Madison Bldg of the Library of Congress

 7 PM – “Free Expression and Democracy in America”  discussion with Profs. Steve Feldman of U Wyoming and David O’Brien of UVA  plus federal Judge Thomas Ambro and Ron Collins of the First Amendment Center –  Nat’l Archives

B – 7 PM – Sherrill Tippins on “February House: The Story of Carson McCullers, W.H. Auden, Benjamin Britten, and Gypsy Rose Lee, Under One Roof in Wartime America.”  Wow!  Sumner School, 1201 17^th St. NW at M.

7:30 – 9 PM – UC Berkeley’s Robert Alter on “The Challenge of Translating the Bible.  Res. required at the DCJCC, 16^th and Q Sts. NW  call 301-770-4787

F – 8 PM – noir inspired melodrama by John Bock, entitled PALMS. Hirshhorn Museum.

May 15 – Friday

A – 6-8 PM – Paul di Pasquale fashions sculpture out of handguns, and tells you the history of each confiscated weapon.  The Brady Center folk will be there, too.  Cross MacKenzie Gallery, 1054 31st St. NW in Canal Square, Georgetown

T -7:30 PM- in Alexandria, truly works for kids from 8 to 88. www.naturaltheatricals.com at the Lyceum, 201 S. Washington St.

May 16, Saturday

A – Noon – 5 PM –  Open Studios -  www.midcityartists.com    

*** Noon – 5 PM – A great open studios and festival just across the district line.  Yes, Margaret Boozer, Tim Tate, Laurel Lucaszewski and much much more! http://www.gateway-cdc.org/

May 17, Sunday –

11 AM – 5 PM – A Taste of Wheaton – downtown Wheaton at Reedie and Grandview

A – Noon – 5 PM – Open studios again at www.midcityartists.com

A – 1-3 PM – Martha Ortoway will give an artist talk on her works depicting her Georgetown Neighborhood, Washington Printmakers Gallery, 1732 Ct. Ave. NW, 2^nd floor, between R and S Sts. NW

May 21, Thursday -

T, M  - reading of the new play “The Real Anna Nicole,”  by local writing icon and guru Grace Cavalieri. Features a fine cast, including the amazing Holly Bass, at the Writers Center in Bethesda

 B, A – 7 PM – Michael Sragow and Brenda Wineapple, joint winners of the National Award for Arts Writing, will give a public reading on Thursday, May 21 at 7:00 p.m. at the Arts Club of Washington, 2017 I St. NW 

May 22, Friday –

T -7:30 PM- in Alexandria, truly works for kids from 8 to 88. www.naturaltheatricals.com at the Lyceum, 201 S. Washington St.

May 23, Saturday –

A – 4- 7 PM, collector and curator talk at Int’l Visions, 2629 Ct. Ave NW, just above Calvert. Exhib is late–apartheid era works of art

May 25, Monday -  Memorial Day Itself

***TV – 11 PM on WETA channel 26 – HALLOWED GROUNDS – on the 22 largely unknown but immaculate US military cemeteries overseas, each with amazing stories to tell

May 26, Tuesday -

***TV – 10 PM on Maryland Public TV, channel 22 – HALLOWED GROUNDS – on the 22 largely unknown but immaculate US military cemeteries overseas, each with amazing stories to tell

May 29, Friday –

First day of ARTOMATIC, at 55 M St. SE – very close to the new baseball stadium

T -7:30 PM- in Alexandria, truly works for kids from 8 to 88. www.naturaltheatricals.com at the Lyceum, 201 S. Washington St.

June 3 –

A – 7 PM – Panel discussion on art and “redefining the environment.”  Hamiltonian Gallery, 1353 U St. NW   I am going just to hear Linda Hesh!

June 6 –    65th anniversary of the D-Day landings at Normandy Beach – my dad was there

A – 1:30-4 PM – Artist’s talk and family weekend at the Athenaeum Gallery on U St.

A – 7 PM – Runway show on closing night of “Flaunt” at the Honfleur Gallery at 1246 Good Hope Rd. SE

June 7, Sunday -

TV -  Watch the Tonys on CBS – chance to see 5 great “live” numbers from different Broadway Musicals!  and some straight drama, too. 

June 8 -

7 PM – another lecture in the “evolution” series at the Nat’l Academy of Sciences at 2100 C St. NW 

June 15-22 –

SILVERDOCS  at the AFI Silver Theater – founded by Nina Gilden Seavey.  You better go, or I’m telling Nina!

June 19 –

Postponed from May 1 –

6 PM – midnight – at the Mott House next to the Supreme Court – should be a good party!  http://earthball2009.homestead.com  yes, $25, but to benefit urban vegetable gardening

July 5 –

Closing day of ARTOMATIC

Late July -  Fringe Festival!  www.capitalfringe.org  or is it .com?

Freebie  Cultural Events,  April 24 and beyond….. all events free unless otherwise noted – Scroll down for actual listings… ….   April 16-26 –  www.filmfestdc.org     there’s at least one film in there for each and every on of you!

The Big Read begins!  www.wdchumanities.org     www.neabigread.org   www.dclibrary.org

And it is still www.craftweekdc.com

Plus we have Andrea Kalin, Barr Weissman, Grace Cavalieri, Mary Cheh, Jamin Raskin, Lisa Marie Thalhammer, George Pelecanos, Chuck Redd, David Plouffe, and more!

As always, check the blog roll to your right, and consider confirming all events.

For those new to the list, please think of making it as a “favorite” and spreading the news.

And for those of you uncomfortable with checking that blogroll to the right, you can click right here on the amazingly comprehensive site – www.gosmithsonian.com/calendar 

And, once again, for additions, corrections, a quick review (much appreciated) or just to send some love, reach out to glennsblog@aol.com

The Philip Barlow classification system:

A = Art opening or art lecture                   L = Non-Art Lecture

B = Book Talk                                            M = Music

D = Dance                                                  P = Poetry (Grace C. insists!)

F = Film                                                      T = Theater

April 24, Friday –

10 AM – Noon – open studios in the Gateway area – Mt. Rainier mostly.  www.craftweekdc.com  

1:30-3:30 – Nat’l Crime Victims’ Rights Week Awards Ceremony and reception.  Mellon aud. 3101 Constitution Ave. NW  

M – 7:30 PM – “Seussical” by the Sidwell Friends Middle School.  Will any Obamas attend?

L – 7:30 PM – Lauren Winner of the Duke Divinity School on “Reconciling Politics and Spirituality: Lessons from a Faith Journey.  At Foundry Methodist Church – P and 16^th Sts. NW.  Yes, this is the church of Bill and Hillary Clinton.

April 25, Saturday

9 AM – 4 PM – National Arboretum Garden Fair – www.usna.usda.gov  or www.fona.org

10 AM – 4 PM – Open House at the U of MD.   www.marylandday.umd.edu

10 AM – 4 PM – Kingman Island Day.  50 acre river oasis!  – www.kingmanisland.org

10 AM – “Chat with Cheh”  Le Pain Quotidien  4874 Mass Ave. NW. Yes, Council member Mary Cheh

A – 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM – 5 master craftsmen discuss their work in the McEvoy Auditorium of the Smithsonian’s   American Arts Museum., 8^th and G Sts. NW

11 AM – Kick off event of the Big Read – Gallaudet University.  Elstad Auditorium. Never been?  This would be a good time.  George Pelecanos is your host

A – 11 AM – 5 PM – Open studios at 52 O St. NW  www.52OStreetstudios.org   Many studios, including the Department of Furniture, Lisa Marie Thalhammer and more,  but watch out for Gabriel Thys!

A – 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM – 5 master craftsmen discuss their work in the McEvoy Auditorium of the Smithsonian’s   American Arts Museum., 8^th and G Sts. NW

M – 1-6 PM – 5 bands perform sequentially at the “Big Band Jam” – Sylvan Theater on the Mall

M – 1 PM – “Seussical” by the Sidwell Friends Middle School.  Will any Obamas attend this 2^nd perf?

F, A – 1 PM – Films by Robert Frank – East bldg aud of the Nat’l Gallery.

P – 1-3 PM – Young poets read their works based on inspiration from objects at the Museum. Smithsonian American Arts Museum, 8^th and G St. NW

2-4 PM – “Victory Mail, Victory Music” – at the National Postal Museum   - right next to Union Station

A, P – 3:30 PM – Poetic avant-garde works in honor of Robert Frank.  Nat’l Gallery e. bldg aud.

A – 4 PM – artist’s talk by Robin Rose – somewhere (Katzen Center? Hemphill?).  

M – 5 PM – Jazz percussionist Chuck Redd will give a clinic and performance at Middle C Music, 4530 Wisconsin Ave. NW

L – 5:30 PM – res. required at Dumbarton Oaks,  202-339-6940 for Harvard prof Michael McCormick on “Climate Change in the Roman Empire.”

M – 7 PM – Midnight  - fine live music at  www.unit22art.com   at 5235 Beech Road, Unit 22
Temple Hills, MD 20748   worth the trek for nice atmosphere,  fine sounds, and to support Wilbur King and S.O.M.E.

Sunday, April 26 –

10 AM – Garden of the Righteous Ceremony – plantings to honor two Belgians who risked it all to save Jews during the Holocaust.   Front side of Adas Israel, 2850 Quebec St NW off CT. and Porter

10:10 AM – former Senator Chuck Hagel on “America: Our Next Chapter” – Washington National Cathedral

10 AM – Noon  – National Arboretum Garden Fair – www.usna.usda.gov 

A, F – 11 AM, 1 PM, and 3 PM – Documentary on the life and work of Louise Bourgeois, Hirshhorn  Mus.

Noon – 4 PM – Shakespeare’s Birthday Open House – cake, jugglers, jesters, and more at the Folger Shakespeare Library, 201 E. Capitol St.   close to Library of Congress and Supreme Ct.

M – 1:30 PM – Encore chorale ensemble – Smithsonian Art Museum – 8^th and G Sts. NW

****A, F – 2 PM – good guy DC based filmmaker Barr Weissman will present his documentary “A View from the Street: The Art of Lily Spandorf.”   Spandorf’s work is also on display there at the Historical Society of Washington DC, 801 K St. NW opposite the Convention Center.    Among many admirer’s of Spandorf and her work is National Gallery of Art ace presenter, Eric Denker.

A – 2 PM – Timothy James Clark on Picasso, again, at the Nat’l  Gallery E. Bldg aud.

M – 3 PM – Panamanian jazz trio featuring pianist and composer Danilo Perez.   Smithsonian Amer. History Mus.

A – 4:30 PM – famous cartoonist Roz Chast of the New Yorker will discuss even more famous New Yorker cartoonist Charles Addams – McEvoy aud of SAAM, 8^th and G Sts. NW

A, F – 4:30 PM – Discussion and films of the great iconoclast Bruce Conner, NGA E. bldg.aud.

L – 8:15 PM – Star studded panel on Obama’s first 100 days.  David Plouffe, Luke Russert, Tucker Carlson, Mika Brzezinski, and Michelle Bernard at the Bender Arena of American University.  202-885-6416

Monday, April 27 –

B – 6:30-8 PM – The energetic Jamin Raskin and Michael Avery on “We Dissent: Talking Back to the Rehnquist Court: Eight Cases That Subverted Civil Liberties and Civil Rights.”  Busboys, 14^th and V, NW

B -6:30 PM – The genuinely amusing Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, former Pres. of GW, on “Big Man on Campus,” a memoir of his tenure there, at Reiter’s Books, 1990 K St. NW.

P – 7-9 PM – If you have never seen Holly Bass perform, this is a good chance, as she reads with Kim Roberts and Dan Vera at the West End Library, 1101 21^st St. at L, NW

7 PM – High schoolers will read speeches from a variety of civil right’s champions, at Ford’s Theater

April 28, Tuesday –

L – 9 AM – 4 PM – 8^th annual DC fair housing symposium, at the historic True Reformer Bldg, 1200 U St. NW    www.ohr.dc.gov  to register

****B, F, A – 3 PM – Fabulous panel, with film excerpts, on the WPA Federal Writers’ Project, at the Mumford Rm. of the Madison Bldg of the Library of Congress.  The great DC based documentarian Andrea Kalin will be joined by author David A. Taylor, and the Smithsonian’s Peggy Bulger.

6-8 PM – “Friends Spring Barbeque” will celebrate the unveiling of a mural highlighting Foggy Bottom’s History.    Anniversary Park of GW, F St. between 21^st  and 22^nd.  202-994-9132

Wednesday, April 29 –

L – Noon – Main bldg, south gallery, of the Library of Congress – Ford Peatross discusses the building of the Lincoln Memorial.  and don’t we love the name “Ford Peatross!”

Noon – McGowan Theater of the Nat’l Archives – “What Really Sank the Titanic”

B – Noon – Bill White on “Intrepid: The Epic  Story of America’s Most Legendary Warship.” Navy Heritage Center, 701 PA. Ave. NW.  The subtitle is highly contestable, though…

M – Noon – at the Harman Center, 610 F St. NW, across from the Verizon Center – the Washington Balalaika Orchestra.  But it’s just not the same since Tom Tulenko retired. 

***P – 6:30 PM – at the Goethe Institute, 812 7^th St. NW at Gallery Place, the moving poetry of the late Holocaust survivor Hilda Stern Cohen will be presented and discussed by her husband Werner plus master story teller Gail Rosen and the multi-talented William Gilcher, with moderator Grace Cavalieri

L – 7 PM – “Eroticism and War among the Toltecs.”    Who knew?  Library of Congress, main bldg.

April 30 – many days of free embassy events -  www.passportdc.org  

April 30, Thursday –

L – 10 AM – Pryzbyla Center 321-323 of Catholic University – Historian David Wood gives a talk “Vaulting Ambition: Lincoln’s Self Fashioning.”

L, M  – 6:30 PM – at the Strathmore Center – “Music as Attack/Music as Escape” with Bret Werb, Director of Music at Holocaust Museum

Friday, May 1 –

6 PM – midnight – POSTPONED UNTIL JUNE – at the Mott House next to the Supreme Court – should be a good party!  http://earthball2009.homestead.com  yes, $25, but  to benefit urban vegetable gardening. and then there are Tiffany de Lisio and Alex Lawson to chat up….POSTPONED

May 2, Saturday –

10 AM – 4 PM – The Big Read Marathon at the MLK Library – 9^th and G Sts. NW

11 AM – 4 PM – Glen Echo Family Day.  If you’ve never been there, go!  www.glenechopark.org

A – 7-10 PM – 4 artists at PASS Gallery, in the alley behind 1617 S St. NW, but enter that alley off 17^th above S St.  Richard Seigman (Siegman?) lives!

M – 8 PM – midnight – no cover, no minimum at Casa Fiesta. 4910 Wisconsin Ave. NW for the HeeBeeGeeBees.    “This ain’t the Mud Club, or CBGB’s…” – David Byrne, with apologies to Scott Sherman and Warren Marcus

May 3, Sunday -

A – 5 PM – Artist’s talk by Ellington Robinson in Adams Morgan at the dynamic DCAC, 2438 18^th St. NW

Monday, May 4 –

**T – 8 PM – staged reading by the Washington Shakespeare Company of “Hercule de Bergerac”  at the Clark St. Theater, includes one of our absolute favorites, rising star Adam Jonas Segaller . The drive is as easy as going to National Airport by car.  Hope to see you there! http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=601+S.+Clark+Street%2C+Arlington%2C+VA

 May 7, Thursday  –

F – 8 PM – Democracy Challenge Finalists – the state dept. challenged filmmakers from the humble to the great for an international competition to make a 3 minute film addressing the meaning of democracy.    Hirshhorn Museum.

Sunday, May 10

***1:30 AM – 7:30 PM  Special Sunday hours for the last day  to see the greatest collection ever, a true once in a generation opportunity, of Lincoln treasures, including inaugural addresses, The Emancipation Proclamation, the Gettysburg Address, and more, wonderfully presented.  Main Bldg of the Library of Congress.   Do not miss this exhibition!

May 14, Thursday

F – 8 PM – noir inspired melodrama by John Bock, entitled PALMS.   Hirshhorn Museum.

May 21, Thursday -

T, M  - reading of the new play “The Real Anna Nicole,”  by local writing icon and guru Grace Cavalieri. Features a fine cast, including the amazing Holly Bass, at the Writers Center in Bethesda

May 25, Monday -  Memorial Day Itself

***TV – 11 PM on WETA –  HALLOWED GROUNDS – on the 22 largely unknown but immaculate US military cemeteries overseas, each with amazing stories to tell

Tuesday, May 26 -

***TV – 10 PM on Maryland Public TV -   HALLOWED GROUNDS – on the 22 largely unknown but immaculate US military cemeteries overseas, each with amazing stories to tell

June 8 -

7 PM – another lecture in the “evolution ” series at the Nat’l Academy of Sciences at 2100 C St. NW