CITY GUIDE
Washington, D.C.
Come All Ye
Faithful
Seventh Annual Tree Lighting
D. C.’s popular radio show host of Man About
Town, Bob Madigan, once again officiates
this year’s holiday festivities at the Fairmont
Hotel, featuring a family-friendly tree lighting
ceremony, Christmas trees shimmering with
thousands of tiny white lights and more than
30 animated reindeer. Hot chocolate, cookie
decorating and, of course, Rudolph and Santa
Claus are in the mix, along with the music of
the award-winning Georgetown Visitation
Madrigals. Please bring an unwrapped toy to
donate, as this event benefits the U. S. Marine
Corps’ Toys for Tots. Entry is free and open to
the public. Dec. 1, 5–6: 30 p.m.
Local restaurateurs
Barbara and Jeff
Black of Black Res-
taurant Group will
host a November
The Season
of Giving
series of fundrais-ing events at their
area restaurants
in an effort to
raise $200,000
For additional event, attraction,
restaurant and hotel information,
visit arrivecityguides.com
toward building a
new, state-of-the
art kitchen for the
Children’s Hospital
Foundation. The
kitchen, part of a
$5 million expansion at Children’s
National Medical
Center, will be used
to support juvenile
diabetes patients.
The Blacks are
doing this in conjunction with Fran
Cogen, M.D., the
visionary behind
the new facility,
who is dedicated
to advocating for
patients and families managing diabetes. There also is
a personal connection for the Blacks:
Their son Simon
is diabetic and a
patient of Cogen’s.
blackrestaurant
group.com.
the
DOWNTOWN
TruthBeauty:
Pictorialism
and the
Photograph as
Art, 1845–1945
ve
Date
Through Jan. 9
This exhibition, from
the George Eastman
House collections,
chronicles pictorialism
from inception through
its effect on photography today.
phillipscollection.org
DOWNTOWN
Side by Side:
Oberlin’s
Masterworks at
the Phillips
Through Jan. 16
The Phillips Collection
presents 25 masterpieces from Oberlin
College’s Allen Memorial Art Museum.
phillipscollection.org
DOWNTOWN
Fourth Annual
Parade of
Trabants
Nov. 6
The Trabant automo-
bile, regarded as a sym-
bol of East Germany and
the fall of communism,
will be on display, and
experts will be on hand
to answer questions
about Trabants, the Cold
War and communism.
spymuseum.org
BETHESDA
An Evening
with Kris
Kristofferson
Nov. 13
Kris Kristofferson per-
forms in this stripped-
down solo concert at the
Music Center at Strath-
more. strathmore.org
BETHESDA
Ana Vidovic
and Anastasia
Petanova
Nov. 18
Croatian guitarist Ana
Vidovic performs clas-
sical masterworks by
Piazzolla and others
in a recital with flutist
Anastasia Petanova.
strathmore.org
