In this issue CyTy says it’s News 1–4 easy to find out what Lifestyle 5 Muslims were really doing Entertainment 6 D.C.’s WWI Sports 7 after 9/11 attacks Viewpoints 8 memorial page 5 On the Street 9 pages 2 & 3

Volume 25 • Issue 25 • November 2015 • Artomatic 2015 pops up in PGC Riley Isakower Arriving at the festival Wednesday, mally empty and a developer partners enced artists can also have a learning Young D.C. Nov. 11, YDC was greeted by a four- with Artomatic. This is why the event experience with the professional de- This month, the Artomatic art fes- floor, seven-section exhibition ranging only happens every couple of years. Yap velopment workshops that are offered tival came to the Hyattsville, Md, in from simple paintings and drawings to said that they filled every corner of the throughout the event. Prince Georges County. Artomatic is a glass sculpture and ceramic artwork. building with artists’ works. She added festival where local artists display and The huge variety of artwork ranges that the event that can take six months Riley Isakower, 16, is a junior at the sell their work in a common place with from the realistic to the absolutely ab- to coordinate but can be put together in Lab School of Washington in the other artists. Do you need to buy a gift surd. Most, if not all, of the artwork on a short period of time. This years’ event District of Columbia. for an art enthusiast in your family? display seems to be for sale from the art- was put together with great ef- You can find some great local art that ists. Every form of art you could think fort in two months. There are so he or she will like. of is on display: photography, painting, many incredible, unique works If you want a social event you can sculpture, mixed media, cartooning, of art, that are all the product of go to Artomatic and socialize with all movies, kinetic art – even slam poetry. a free, open to all-ages, un-juried the other art enthusiasts at the event. The staff members of the festival are art show that you need to see it to This event is free for all ages for people mostly artists volunteering their help in believe it. of all ages. Thousands of people visit exchange for display space. And for the future, if you are Artomatic every time the festivities YDC spoke to Artomatic director, an artist who wants to get your happen. There are many different kinds Wuiping Yap. She said that each event work out there, Artomatic selects of arts at the Artomatic showing that is driven by the space that organizers the art that is shown on a first- their really is something for everyone. can secure for the massive exhibit. The come-first-served basis. Inexperi- It even has live music, performing arts, building used each time for Artomatic and filmmaking for people to enjoy. dictates the size of the event and how The show features sculptures, many artists can exhibit each time. The paintings, drawings, films, and music. Hyattsville show includes over 700 art- There are many different forms of vi- ists exhibiting their works. sual arts to be explored and enjoyed. Buildings that are selected are nor-

Photos by Riley Isakower Artomatic offers four floors of diverse art and installations at 8100 Corporate Ave., Hyattsville, Md. News t Young D.C. t November 2015 New national WWI Young D.C. is an independent newspaper memorial may eclipse written by and about metropolitan area teens. Address correspondence to: [email protected] or tribute to D.C. WWI vets Young D.C. 1904 18th Street, NW Unit B Celia Parr Washington, D.C. 20009-1707 Young D.C. tel: 202.232.5300 fax: 202.232.5306 Last year, 2014, marked the centennial city alongside monuments for the other wars www.youngdc.org of the beginning of World War I, which started of our history. Copyright. All rights reserved. with Austria-Hungary’s declaration of war on This past May, a bill was passed to pro- Reporters: David Anderson, homeschooled (Md.); Zawadi Serbia on July 28, 1914. By the end of that tect the current D.C. War Memorial and to es- Carroll, University of Wisconsin (D.C.); Liam Connolly, summer, most European countries were par- tablish Pershing Park as a national memorial. Lab School of Washington (D.C.); Che Demczuk, Lab ties in the Great War, but the “The D.C. War Memorial is a historic but lo- was neutral until April 1917. In observance of cal memorial that deeply symbolizes the con- School of Washington (D.C.); Kellyn Henry, University of the centennial, the US World War I Centen- tinuing struggle of District residents, particu- Virginia (Va.,); Layla Huff, Walter Johnson HS (Md.); Ri- nial Commission, established in 2013 with the larly our veterans, who served without equal ley Isakower, Lab School of Washington (D.C.); Jack Ka- goal of planning, developing, and executing congressional representation, equal rights ltenheuser, Lab School of Washington (D.C,); Gigi Levin, projects and activities commemorating the as citizens, or equal control over their local Parkmont School (D.C.); Celia Parr, The Madeira School centennial, undertook a redesign of Pershing government,” said D.C.’s Congresswoman (Va.,); Anna Prytkova, James Madison HS (Va.); Abby Park – located on 14th Street near the White Eleanor Holmes Norton on the subject. “I am Tanen, Woodrow Wilson SHS (D.C.); Bezawit Tefera, Park- House – to turn it into a national WWI me- pleased that, with today’s bill, this status will mont School (D.C.); William Walde, Lab School of Wash- morial. It would honor the more than 116,000 be protected and maintained, while simultane- ington (D.C.); Biniam Zemedkun, Parkmont School (DC); Americans who died and 204,000 who were ously achieving another important goal – giv- wounded in the war. It is expected to draw ing Pershing Park the attention and care it de- Photographers: Grayson Butler, Lab School of Washing- different types of people, including WWI en- serves to honor World War I veterans.” thusiasts, those paying their respects to fallen The monument will be funded solely by ton (D.C.); soldiers, D.C. residents who would use it for public donations, and the organizers hope to lunch or for a walk, visitors, commuters, and raise around $15 million. In May 2015, an Board of Directors: George Curry (chairman), Rich Fos- those who see the park as a work of art. international competition opened to find the ter, Mary Hanley, Barbara Hines, Judy Hines, Kathleen There is some dissention on the place- design for the park. Submissions were judged Reilly Mannix (ex officio), Flo McAfee, Phillip Reid, Terry ment and existence of this national monu- by a jury of people from the military, the arts, Thielen ment. Some are content with the D.C. War and government, as well as ordinary citizens. Memorial, which is located at 1900 Indepen- In August, five finalists were chosen from the Advisory Board (Emeritus Directors): Hector Ericksen- dence Avenue, SW, across from the Martin bunch. The winning design concept will be Mendoza, Sean Jensen, Cynthia Farrell Johnson, Rosa- Luther King Memorial. Built in 1931 and announced in January 2016. To look at the de- mond King, Sarah Menke-Fish, Bob Neuman, David R. renovated in 2011, this neo classical temple is signs, visit http://www.worldwar1centennial. Rapp, Samara Sit the first monument on the National Mall that org/index.php/stage-ii-finalists.html. includes African Americans and women in a The World War I Centennial Commis- Volume 25 of Young D.C. is supported by The Herb Block salute to military service. A national memo- sion expects the park to be dedicated by Nov. Foundation, sponsors of Cartoons & Cocktails 2015, an rial at Pershing Park might overwhelm this 11 2018, the anniversary of the end of the auction of editorial art tp be held Nov. 19, 2015, and the monument. Others argue that there is already Great War. YDC alumnae/i who funded the 25=Thrive Project (see a national monument to WWI in Kansas City. page 4). However, it seems about time that the Great Celia Parr, 18, is a senior at The Madeira War should be recognized in the US’s capital School in McLean, Va. Letters to the Editor are welcome and sometimes published, whole or in part. Letters are subject to Note to readers: See the D.C. War Memorial on page three, right column, second from bottom image. editing. Readers writing to the editors should include contact information: name, age, telephone number.

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Correction The first name of cartoonist Ann Telnaes was misspelled in the May 2015 issue. Young D.C. regrets the error. November 2015 t Young D.C. t News YDC checks out memorials to US vets

Grayson Butler, 16, is a junior at the Lab School of Washington in the District of Columbia. News t Young D.C. t November 2015 StoryCorps encourages teens to enlist in its Great Thanksgiving Listen Biniam Zemedkun Young D.C.

StoryCorps latest project is to save a generation’s ideas and stories for future generations to learn and enjoy. When you sign up for The Great Thanksgiving Listen, you get a free specially designed edu- cator’s toolkit from StoryCorps. It comes with all the DIY information. Some of the skills you can build are planning, researching and archiving. By developing the best questions to prompt an elder in your family into speaking freely, you will grow your speaking skills, enabling you to express ideas clearly and to increase in your connection with your community. Most of all, there is the sense of social awareness by appreciation and respect for others. Just remember that one person’s actions are not futile and can cause a big effect. If your teacher is leading a Great Thanksgiving Listen initiative at your school, It may or may not be an optional assignment to download the app and start interviewing your elders. All you need to start is a smart phone and the app StoryCorps to participate. So sign up for a one in a lifetime op- portunity to save a generation before it is forgotten forever. Optional or Mandatory, there’s no reason to feel pressured about this. It is also a chance for you to reconnect with your family and learn something you didn’t know. StoryCorps is a non-profit organization that preserves the stories of Americans from all around the country from all backgrounds and religions. It has done many stories about veterans Barry Romo and his nephew Bobby Romo, They both went to Vietnam but only Bobby came back, There are love stories– some with a partner who has a terminal illness. It also documented reactions September 11. For more information, visit to StoryCorps.org. Both StoryCorps and The Great Thanksgiving Listen have Facebook pages and you can access the app through those pages.

Biniam Zemedkun, 15, is a junior at the Parkmont School in the District of Columbia. Young D.C. gratefully recognizes these generous former staffers whose donations kicked off our 25th volume Lory Alexander Laura Hertzfeld Matt Nam Nguyen Qadira Ali-Huff Managing Editor, Volume 6 Aimee Duvall Phelps Annet Isa First Managing Director Clio Andres Managing Editor, Volume 9 Managing Editor, Volume 12 Nathan Postell IV Rose Jaffe Micah Baskir Managing Editor, Volume 4 Sean Jensen Ross Kochman Brondfield Aisha Russell Sean Kennedy Managing Editor, Volume 13 Eddie Ferrer Managing Editor, Volume 5 Eric Shansby Jeff Fishman Rosamond King Managing Editor, Volume 2 Managing Editor, Volume 1 Evan Sisley Patty Gray Mei-Wah Lee David Starke Managing Editor, Volume 14 Liz Logan Christine Stoddard Anne Henochowicz Sally Mannix Lauren Wells Managing Editor, Volume 11 Managing Editor, Volume 15 t t November 2015 Young D.C. News Li f e St y l e Conclusion of study challenges common assumptions about modern and olden snoozers Celia Parr Young D.C. There’s a lot of electronics around these days, from video games to televisions and phones. And all these electronics tend to be both distracting and light- emitting. So it would make sense to think that they were the cause of some lack of sleep, right? People must have gotten a lot more sleep when there were no electronics around. But apparently, according to new research published in October, that’s not really true. Researchers studied the sleeping habits of 94 people from three hunter-gatherer communities in ru- ral areas of Africa and South America: the Hadza of Tanzania, the San of Namibia and the Tsimane of Bo- Image courtesy of UCLA Psychiatry and Biohavioral Sciences Center for Sleep Research Red dots show locations of the communities of preindustrialized people studied. livia. They studied them for over three years, and what they found was that these traditional people aren’t ex- wake up before the sun rises. declining temperature. In contrast, in most modern actly getting nine hours of sleep a night either. In fact, There is one big difference, however. Only 1.5 settings, while we may turn the temperature down at the researchers found that the average amount of sleep to 2.5 percent of the people studied proved to have night, it is not declining.” they get is around six and one-half hours. In compari- insomnia, unlike in industrial society, where around The use of temperature to effect sleep may be son, an average person living in industrial society gets 10-30 percent of the population has insomnia. The something that can be used to help those with insomnia around seven to eight hours of sleep. disorder is in fact so rare among these hunter-gath- or other sleep disorders. Drugs such as sleeping pills The study’s senior author Jerome Siegel, a sleep erer communities that they do not even have a name have been shown to provide only fifteen minutes of researcher at the University of California, Los Ange- for it. extra sleep, while the difference between the amount les, said, “We find that contrary to much conventional What really influences how much sleep these of sleep obtained in summer and winter is a whole wisdom, it is very likely that we do not sleep less than communities get is not based on daylight but rather hour. Siegel said in an interview with LiveScience, our distant ancestors.” on temperature. When the night becomes colder over “Our data suggests that environmental manipulation These traditional people, like those living in in- time, and declines to be more frigid, the people get may more effectively control sleep than any drug.” So dustrial societies, don’t go to sleep as soon as the sun more sleep. This is different in comparison to an in- if you’re having trouble sleeping, it might help to start sets. They spend time at night doing activities such dustrial society, where temperatures can be regulated. with the thermostat. as making weapons, preparing dinner, eating, and You may turn down the heat at night, but it stays at preparing for the next day. They usually sleep around a constant temperature. As Siegel puts it, “In natural Celia Parr, 18, is a senior at The Madeira School in McLean, Va. beginning around three hours after dark. Then they conditions, humans sleep [more] during a period of

Cyberian Tyger CyTy uses Internet to debunk 9/11 ‘memory’ Liam Connolly news footage, aired Sept. 11, 2001, on lie to people, he should remember to account for things Young D.C. Fox, of reactions from a small group of like Internet fact-checking. Republican presidential candidate Palestinians by visiting https://www.you- Liam Connolly, 17, is a junior at the Lab School Donald Trump recently – and repeatedly tube.com/watch?v=KrM0dAFsZ8k, but of District Columbia – spoke about how he saw thousands of Jersey City and Jerusalem aren’t the same Muslim Americans cheering in the streets place. Editor’s note: In addition to Google, CyTy used of Jersey City, N.J, Sept. 11, 2001. He People use the Internet daily to ac- the November 2001 issue of Washington Report claimed they cheered and danced when cess large amounts of information that on Middle East Affairs to fact-check the Trump the 9/11 terrorist attacks caused the col- would otherwise take hours to find. It has claim: http://www.wrmea.org/2001-november/ lapse of the World Trade Center twin allowed us to get information quickly so how-did-palestinians-react-to-the-attacks-on- towers in Manhattan across the river from we can move onto more important mat- the-united-states.html Snopes.com, an excellent Jersey City. This can be researched through a quick ters in both our personal lives and the world. By giving site to use for tracking down rumors, also pub- Google search and instantly proven false, showing just us this information people are not able to lie about lished information on footage of Palestinians cel- how reliable a source the Internet can be. We can find facts as easily as before. Now the answer to ebrating (see http://www.snopes.com/ rumors/cnn.asp). Snopes also debunks almost anything with just the click of a mouse nowa- almost any question is just a finger click the Trump claim: http://www.snopes. days. CyTy typed keywords from Trump’s claim into away for us. There is vast knowledge on the com/2015/11/22/donald-trump-cheer- Google and found absolutely no evidence of any event Internet of any subject one can think of. So ing-911/ taking place in Jersey City that day. You can see video the next time someone like Trump tries to t t Entertainment Young D.C. November 2015

Photo courtesy of Channel 4 (UK public-service television) The IT Crowd ensemble is played by Chris O’Dowd as Roy, Richard Ayoade as Moss and Katharine Parkinson as Jen. Great series available through streaming Liam Connolly and Gulliver’s Travels or the television series Moone Boy, will not prepare you Young D.C. for Roy. Then there’s Moss, played by the very funny Richard Ayode. Moss is a Feb 3, 2006, the United Kingdom was introduced to The IT Crowd, one of genius and fan favorite who struggles to understand common social situations, the funniest sitcoms ever made. The show lasted four seasons and had one TV preferring to talk about computers. Lastly there’s Jen, played by Katherine Par- special before ending on September 27, 2013. The show centers around the in- kinson. Jen is the head of the IT department who has a passion for shoes and men formation technology department of the fictional Reynholm Industries. The main but knows absolutely nothing about computers. cast consists of two socially awkward IT geeks and their computer-inept boss as The trio not only has to deal with never being thanked but must put up with they try to keep Reynholm Industries running without ever receiving recognition their boss Douglas, who is constantly getting into shenanigans of his own. On from their work colleagues. The gang is known to get into some hijinks while occasion, the IT trio must deal with Richmond, a goth who lives in the storage doing their jobs, including an accidental fire and wrong-place-wrong-time expe- room. He always makes scenes a million times funnier with his gothic humor. riences with a female employee’s desk. It’s all these reasons and more that without a doubt make The IT Crowd my The show’s characters are the real hook for series. They are likable, funny favorite show of all time. I highly recommend watching it immediately if you’re and memorable. First is an IT technician named Roy, a lazy Irishman who says a fan of comedy or just want to have a good long laugh. the show’s memorable catchphrase “Have you tried turning it off and on again?” Roy is played by actor Chris O’Dowd, who started getting offers to do American Liam Connolly, 17, is a junior at the Lab School of District Columbia shows and movies thanks to the show’s popularity. His roles in filmsBridesmaids November 2015 t Young D.C. t Sp o r t s YDC previews men’s college Facts to test ESPN’s choice of Terps as number one in nation Riley Isakower Senior guard D’Vauntes Smith-Rivera is one of the five players in the DMV Young D.C. named to the Wooden Top 50 list this month. According to The Washington Post, ESPN says that University of Maryland is number one in the nation., but the first-team all-Big East guard flirted with thoughts of the NBA late last March, YDC is checking out more than one local team. but his parents and Hoya coach John Thompson seem to have convinced him to go A few new facts from College Park for his diploma after this season ends. University of Maryland men’s basketball is led by sophomore point guard Hoyas starting lineup: Melo Trimble, a graduate of Bishop Denis J. O’Connell High School in Arlington, G D’Vauntes Smith-Rivera Va., and three big men. They are senior forward , junior forward G L. J. Peak Robert Carter and freshman center Diamond Stone. Carter transferred from Geor- F Marcus Derrickson gia Tech and was red-shirted last year. A McDonald’s All-American at Dominican F Isaac Copeland HS in Milwaukee, Stone was one of the top high school recruits in the nation. C Bradley Hayes In the 2015 NCAA Tournament, the Maryland Terrapins suffered an early UVa looks beyond its back-to-back ACC championships defeat in the round of 32 of to West Virginia. Having recruited one of the top high Last year University of Virginia coach Tony Bennett’s young Cavaliers made school talents in the country to its already talented group of players, coach Mark it to the NCAA Tournament due to their strong defense. After successfully defend- Turgeon’s Terps are expected to do great things this season and may make a deep ing their 2014 ACC championship in 2015, the Cavs lost to Michigan State in the run in the tourney. second round of March Madness. Nov. 17, the Los Angeles Athletic Club announced Layman and Trimble is returning for his senior year. He is the team’s best over made it to the pre-season Top 50 contenders for the John R. Wooden Award, the all offensive player, leading the team in scoring the past two seasons. A finalist for most prestigious individual player award in college basketball. the John R. Wooden Award last year, Brogdon made the top 50 Wooden nominees Terps starting lineup: this year. Forward Anthony Gill is also a nominee. G Melo Trimble Virginia hopes to have a better tournament than they had last year. For a pre- G Rasheed Sulaimon view, check out the Dec. 1 Big Ten/ACC Challenge where the Cavs will face the F Jake Layman Ohio State Buckeyes. F Robert Carter Jr. Cavs starting lineup C Diamond Stone G Marial Shayok After dodging a big bullet, Georgetown eyes improved performance G Malcom Brogdon Although the Georgetown Hoyas of the past few seasons have had great re- G London Perrantes cords, a team has not made it to the second weekend of NCAA March Madness F Anthony Gill since its Final Four run in 2007. C Jack Salt Georgetown hopes to put tournament woes in the past and make it beyond the opening rounds of the tournament and hopefully bring home the title. Riley Isakower, 16, is a junior at the Lab School of Washington in the Dis- trict of Columbia.

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Send your tips in an e-mail: [email protected] Vi e w p o i n t s t Young D.C. t November 2015 Teen news sources may be better than some adult ones Celia Parr there’s the most public level, which is posts from established news organizations. Young D.C. The most common methods, however, are the first two levels. When people like Speaking from personal experience as a teenager, I honestly don’t spend a and share articles and videos, they pass them onto their own networks. People considerable amount of time looking into the news. Most of what I pick up I either tend to trust what they see in a newspaper and on TV more than what they see on- find casually through social media or by watching shows like the Daily Show and line. The Knight Foundation’s study found that high school students believe TV, Last Week Tonight. And, according to the research that I’ve done, I’m not exactly followed by newspapers, are the most accurate and trustworthy news sources. So- alone on that. cial media is the least trusted source. However, people in these networks are more According to a 2007 Harvard University study, war and politics are largely likely to open and read articles shared on social media because they trust their ignored by American teenagers. The study found that 60 percent of teenagers pay friends and family more immediately than a journalist or other news source. little attention to daily news, with 28 percent saying that they pay almost no at- While normal news can be seen as tedious and uninteresting, the aspect of tention to news every day. 46 percent of students also get news and information at social media adds some value. Social Media + Society says of the topic, “the per- least once a week from entertainment shows such as The Daily Show, The Colbert sonal connections with friends and family in social networks served as news ‘fil- Report and, apparently, South Park. A survey by the Knight Foundation also said ters’, bringing various stories to the teens’ attention and helping them understand that 76 percent of teenagers use online social networking like Facebook and Twit- their relevance via posted commentaries.” The feature of adding comments also ter to get news at least several times a week. adds something to the experience, like a connection to the story and the opening of There are a few explanations for why young people, and people in gen- discussion about the topic. News on social media is ever present. It becomes inte- eral, steer clear of the grated into everyday life, news. Many people who either as a focus or part of do watch the news tend to the background. It’s easy either not remember what to keep up to date when they see or not understand news is at your fingertips it. The news, according to with a smart phone. a study done by Social Me- The 2015 study pub- dia + Society, leaves these lished in the journal Social people quote “feeling like Media + Society describes outsiders looking on at a the idea of news being drama that even the lead- universally available as ing performers did not ex- being closely tied to “me- pect them to understand.” dia convergence,” a term So people either don’t un- that describes the integra- derstand the news or find tion of media content and it irrelevant. Following the sources. With traditional news can give them the il- news sources, previous lusion that they are being generations received the informed, which is why same news content from

they would still read and Courtesy of businessinsider.com/study-watching-fox-news-makes- similar media channels. watch the news. However, only 10 percent of teens involved in the Knight Foun- you-less-informed-than-watching-no-news-at-all-2012-5 But today’s audiences can Fairleigh Dickenson University’s Public Mind poll published dation’s 2006 study said that they were not at all interested in the news, and it was May 3, 2012 found that people learn most from NPR, Sunday customize the news flow. mostly because they feel it isn’t presented in an interesting way. morning news shows and The Daily Show. Researchers Users on social media can asked four international questions and five national news But just because teenagers don’t read the daily newspaper or watch the news questions. individualize the informa- every night doesn’t mean that we’re disinterested in news and politics. We just tion they receive based on have different sources for our information, such as friends and family, entertain- who and what they follow. ment, and social media. While it can be argued that people can choose to read what they want to in news- It’s true that print news has become increasingly obsolete over the years, and papers, they also know what they’re skipping, while online users often don’t know teenagers’ use of the medium is certainly consistent with this fact. The Harvard what they’re not reading. The perspectives you can get online are different than University Study found that only one out of 20 teenagers rely on a daily newspa- those you can get from traditional news sources, but people might not be getting per. This is compared to the 23 percent of Americans who read a print newspaper. all sides of an issue like they might otherwise, since people tend to follow news There are plenty of reasons why online media would be a preferable source. Pri- sources that are more opinionated. marily, social media allows news to break in real time. And according to several In general, young people like opinionated news above objective news, and teens who talked to Mass Live, the best place for that is Twitter, but Facebook is soft stories about celebrities over hard news stories like congressional votes. How- a close second. A different study had 63 percent of people saying that Twitter and ever, even though teenagers seem to shy away from reading print newspapers and Facebook serve as a source for news about events and issues outside the realm of watching daily news on TV, we get information through sources like social media, friends and family. However, 59 percent of those people said they follow breaking TV shows, and family members, often without searching for it. And this isn’t a news on Twitter, nearly double the amount who said they use Facebook to do that bad thing. After all, people who watch no news at all are still more informed about (31 percent). 49 percent of Twitter users under 35 say that Twitter is an integral international issues than people who watch MSNBC and Fox News, see the May part of how they get the news. 2012 graph below from Business Insider, an international online newspaper. If you The process of sharing news on social media sites happens on three different really want to be informed, I’d try NPR. levels. First, someone can post their thoughts and comments on current events in their own social media circles and pages. Then other people can comment on Celia Parr, 17, is a senior at The Madeira School in McLean, Va. those posts and in turn share them with their own followers and circles. Of course, November 2015tYoung D.C.t Grayson Butler, 16,is ajuniorat the LabSchool ofWashington intheDistrict ofColumbia. O n

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Photos by Grayson Butler November 2015, clockwise from top: Gingko trees on Swann Street, NW, face sculpture near intersection of New Hampshire Avenue and 17th Street, NW, Man Bird Sculpture by Robert T. Cole also at S Street Dog Park.