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Ambassador Jaime Aleman and Rokas Beresniovas

Guests gathered at the residence of the Ambassador of Panama via invitation from Fundacion Panama on Monday evening to enjoy an evening of fashion and music to benefit Fundación Sinfonía Concertante de Panamá, an organization that promotes the educational and cultural enrichment of Panama’s young people that reside in less privileged environments, as well as promote the musical arts.

After opening remarks by Pilar de Aleman, wife of Panama’s Ambassador Jaime Aleman and Fundacion Panama President Jessica Palmieri, guests were treated to a fashion show by CAbi followed by a musical presentation by award-winning singer/composer Manuel Escala.

Event attendees included Rokas Beresniovas, Janine Schoonover, Ambassador and Mrs. Jaime Aleman, Angelique Velez and David Pardini, Jessica James Golden and Nelson Lewis.

October 18, 2010 | by G’town Gravyboat

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Dancers including Victoria Rixey at the CAG Gala

An estimated 400 Georgetowners and friends traveled to Russia with Love Friday night — or at least to the elegant Russian Embassy complex — for the annual CAG Gala.

(Photo by: RJSmith) Carol Joynt, Jack Evans, Ambassador Sergey Kislyak and hostess Jennifer Altemus

Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak welcomed the glamorous group to dine and dance for the second year in a row. CAG President Jennifer Altemus led the festivities, recognizing Barbara Downs and Anna Fuhrman for their contributions to the community, and celebrating the continued neighborhood relationship between the Citizens Association of Georgetown and Moscow’s historic district known as the Arbat.

(Photo by: RJSmith) Nancy Taylor Bubes and Mark Tercek, CEO of The Nature Conservancy

The Right On Band ignited the dance floor after welcoming remarks by Councilmember Jack Evans and a live auction led by Carol Joynt. Former Councilmember Vincent Orange and a number of local officials were on hand for the event, which was chaired by Altemus, Nancy Taylor Bubes, and Lesley Lee.

(Photo by: Neshan H. Naltchayan ) Auctioneer for the evening, Carol Joynt

(Photo by: RJSmith) Annie Lou Berman and Erika Donohue

(Photo by: RJSmith) Mary Fox and her friend Jay

(Photo by: RJSmith) Marina and Igor Alekseev and Bonnie Cain

(Photo by: RJSmith) Laurie Beckeman, Michael Horst, Karen and Rick Murphy, Robin Jones

(Photo by: Neshan H. Naltchayan ) The Georgetown Dish’s Wendy Gordon

(Photo by: RJSmith) Florence Auld and Bill Boczany

(Photo by: RJSmith) Ashley Hubbard, Meghan Apfelbaum, Susan Hendrick and Elizbeth Maloy

(Photo by: RJSmith) Christine and Rokas Beresniovas

(Photo by: RJSmith) Former Councilmember Vincent Orange (third from left) with Commissioners Bill Starrels, Bill Skelsey and ANC Chair Ron Lewis

(Photo by: RJSmith) An ANC couple: Commissioner Aaron Golds, a GU student, and Hope Solomon, daughter of Commissioner Ed Solomon

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Photo by: RJSmith) ANC Commissioner Ed Solomon

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Rokas and Christine Beresniovas

Guests gathered at the historic home of Niloo and David Howe  as the Georgetown Ministry Center presented the  2010 Spirit of Georgetown Benefit. This year’s event honored  Rev. Stuart Kenworthy of Christ Church Georgetown for his many contributions to the community and for his long time support of the Georgetown Ministry Center.

Serendipity3 DC graciously arranged for the food, which was prepared by Modern Events who offered a delicious and serendipitous array of macaroni and cheese pizza, mozzarella and tomato skewers with balsamic glaze, beef and chicken satay, avocado pate and incredibly luscious  homemade cupcakes.

Those in attendance included real estate maven, Sherie Gabriel, K Street Kate, Kate Michael, Rokas Beresniovas of Wells Fargo and the GBA and his wife, Christine, Google marketing diva Kimberly Robinson, Georgetown restaurant doyenne, Janine Schoonover and writer Mary Bird.

The historic property hosting this year’s Spirit event was built in 1840 and has served as President Ulysses Grant’s coach house, a purported stop on the Underground Railroad, and a guest home for a number of celebrities, politicians and other DC notables.

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Rokas Beresniovas and Sue Hamilton at Washington Harbour

Fifty Georgetown business leaders and friends joined hosts GBA for a September networking reception Wednesday evening … on the Potomac. With picture-perfect weather and complimentary libations and hors d’oeuvres, Capital Yacht Charters provided the priceless river views from port to starboard.

Docked at Washington Harbor, guests were greeted outside Nick’s Riverside Grille before embarking by GBA President, Joe Giannino, VP, Rokas Beresniovas, Events Chair, Sue Hamilton, and Marketing Chair, Nathan Winstead.

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Jack Evans, Erik Wemple and Beth Solomon

Over 100 Washington journalists and friends toasted Robert Allbritton’s TBD Blog Community Network and its Georgetown media partner, The Georgetown Dish, Tuesday evening at Billy Martin’s Tavern in Georgetown.

About the future of community news and entertainment, TBD editor Erik Wemple was eager to engage the crowd. “We love to link,” he explained.

D.C. Councilmember Jack Evans, a few blocks from home, almost delayed his entrance to change into business clothes, but, prodded by The Dish, came in during the last yards of his daily five-mile run. After all, as he said, “I need to check The Georgetown Dish every day to see what they’re saying about me.”

Evans was in good company. Wemple often jogs home through Georgetown from TBD headquarters in Arlington. “It’s just three miles,” he says modestly.

Georgetown resident and renowned auteur Sally Quinn stopped by to congratulate TBD General Manager Jim Brady, former head of washingtonpost.com, and Steve Buttry, in charge of the community blog network. Dozens of

TBD writers, contributors, and new media staff attended.

Georgetown business leaders Rokas Beresniovas, Nathan Winstead, Leslie Wheelock of Georgetown Farmer’s Market, Ada Polla of Alchimie-Forever, Jeffrey Wingate of Restaurant Associates, Mel Davis of Michel Richard Citronelle, Patti Cumming, journalists Steve Gottlieb, Pamela Sorenson, Catherine Featherston and Tom Newberg, the USO’s Lynly Boor and Em Hall, Karen Szulgit, Hollywood on the Potomac’s Janet Donovan, the Washington Business Journal’s Jennifer Nycz-Conner, Robert Devaney, and Biznow’s Mary-Kate Rasa and Byrd’s Eye View’s Mary Bird were also there to party.

Buttry pointed out that one of numerous brainstorming sessions in search of a name for the new media juggernaut took place at Martin’s. Gracious host and fourth-generation owner Billy Martin was there at Martin’s Tavern Tuesday to oversee the latest step in TBD’s evolution.  TBD owner Robert Allbritton lives a few blocks away.

On Friday, September 24, the glitz and glamour of New York Fashion Week comes to the City Tavern Club in Georgetown as designer

Edwing D’Angelo’s previews his newest fashion collection. Also on hand will be internationally acclaimed Juilliard concert pianist Edvinas Minkstimas, fashion photographer Viktorija Juodenaite, Miss D.C. 2010 Stephanie Williams, former Miss D.C. Kate Michael, celebrity stylist Erwin Gomez, and Miss Peru, just to name a few.

Many prominent members of the Georgetown business community have donated their time and effort to produce this amazing evening of style and grace, including Janine Schoonover (Serendipity3), Rokas Beresniovas (Wells Fargo), Katy Adams (The Washington Examiner), Marilyn Thompson (WASH-FM), Jenny Zin (Betsey Johnson), H.E. W.Nelson Lewis (Rolling Stone Magazine), Christopher Swann (Thomson Reuters), and Melanie Zipperer (World Bank) and many others.

Support a worthy cause and enjoy one of the highlights of the early fall social calendar in Washington D.C.!

Sponsors include:

Charm Boutique
Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania to the United States
Fresh Boutique
Georgetown Business Association
Glittarazzi
Kavenchy Spa and Salon
Latham Hotel
Late Night Shots
Shadow Room
Serendipity3

Tickets and more information here.

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July 21, 2010 | by G”town Gravyboat

On the surface, Georgetown appears to be all for Fenty. But is that really the case?

The Dish has plenty of photographs that suggest that Georgetown is FentyTown. But is it?

Bloggers and reporters often peg Georgetown as solid Fenty territory, but after talking to community leaders about their views of mayoral candidates Vincent Gray, the City Council Chair, and Mayor Adrian Fenty, and what they sense among Georgetown voters, we”re not so sure that”s the case.

Take Rokas Beresniovas, a Georgetown-based Vice President with Wells Fargo who is active in the area”s business community. Beresniovas has said he is not impressed with Fenty”s campaign. An organization in which he is active, the Georgetown Business Association, recently released a statement warning that without the mayor”s presence at a candidate forum, the GBA would have a hard time deciding who to endorse in the race. His read on Georgetown is that there are voters in both camps—and that voters who are ostensibly for Fenty may not be as staunch in their support as one might think.

“There are many in the Fenty camp who are truly supporters, but a greater majority simply seem to be comfortable with “the devil they know” mentality,” he wrote in an email, “even if [they] openly acknowledge that Fenty’s promises to serve in the best interests of the Georgetown community haven’t done anything substantial for them.”

Others, meanwhile, are using the refrain that “it”s Fenty”s race to lose” in Georgetown. At a recent fund raising event for Gray, Davis Kennedy, publisher of the Current Newspapers said, “I imagine that a month ago [Georgetown] was overwhelmingly for Fenty, and it”s coming down from that now,” since Fenty has been absent from voters” view, particularly as he continues to shun candidate forums.

Still, Citizens Association of Georgetown Jennifer Altemus said she supports Fenty”s reelection effort and that she and most of the Georgetown residents she”s talked to about the race think “the city has come a long way under his leadership.”

And many more are still undecided. The members of the GBA are not alone in saying that they need to hear what both Fenty and Gray have to say about issues important to locals before they make their decision. Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner Tom Birch said that he and most of those who he has spoken to are undecided. His colleague, ANC Commissioner Ed Solomon, said more residents favor Fenty in Ward 2 and this community, but he is interested to hear more specifics from Gray about his plans to pay for programs he”s touting, where the City can make cuts, and taxes that “nickel and dime.”

What are the issues that the undecided voters of Georgetown care about the most? According to Altemus, it”s city services and the Georgetown University 2010 Campus Plan. Then there”s historic preservation and zoning issues, “whether [residents] know it or not.” Solomon said that residents care about the quality of schools in the area too. “Since Fenty has been making that one of his premier issues, I would think generally this community is supportive,” he explained. Birch mentioned the Campus Plan, development, and transportation.

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