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The home at 2329 California St. NW is on the market for $4,675,000. The four-story home, formerly the residence of the ambassador for the Organization of American States, was built in 1919.
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This booking photo from Aug. 24, 2011, shows Onyango Obama, who was arrested in Framingham, Mass., for several infractions, including operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol. He is the uncle of President Obama. (Associated Press)
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Temporary Exhibit "Covering Katrina" Outside the Convention Center in New Orleans on Sept. 1, 2005, Hurricane Katrina survivor Angela Perkins begs journalists to tell the world what was happening, screaming, “Help us, please!Ó (Brett Duke/The Times-Picayune)
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Play: 'Or' The title of Liz Duffy Adams' play is a nod to the habits of Restoration playwrights. Wordy fellows, 17th century playwrights often gave their plays two names. There was "The Man of Mode; or, Sir Fopling Flutter" by George Etherege; "The Rump; or, The Mirror of the Late Times" by John Tatham; and "All for Love; or, the World Well Lost" by John Dryden, to name but a few. Dual titles is not the only thing Restoration dramas had in common, however. Like most literary forms of the day, it was also dominated by men. Aphra Behn would change all that with "The Rover; or, The Banish'd Cavaliers." Having previously been a spy and a resident of debtor's prison, Behn was quite familiar with the concept of duality (the topic of Adams' play) by the time she became one of Britain's most successful professional female writers. Through September 18 at Rep Stage, 10901 Little Patuxent Pkwy, Columbia, MD, 21044. Phone: (410) 772-4800. Web: repstage.org
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Book talk: Sacha Z. Scoblic The addiction memoir will come full circle any day now, from rare to ubiquitous, and hopefully back to rare. There's nothing wrong, of course, with turning tragedy into cash. But as the culture has liberalized, so has our sense of normalcy. People who drink, snort, and smoke too much don't feel the need to hide anymore, which makes stories about drinking, snorting, and smoking too much rather dull. If the genre is to evolve, let's hope it moves in the direction of Sacha Z. Scoblic's "Unwasted: My Lush Sobriety," in which Scoblic muses humorously and honestly about life after alcoholism. Sept. 8, 555 12th St. NW. Phone: (202) 347-0176. Web: barnesandnoble.com.
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Vandals spray-painted the phrase "they were flammable" and a Nazi swastika as well as other anti-Semitic graffiti on a monument dedicated to Jews from the town of Jedwabne, Poland, who were rounded up and burned to death by their Polish neighbors in 1941. The vandalism was discovered on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2011. (AP Photo/Michal Kosc)
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** FILE ** In this July 27, 2011, photo, assembly line worker Sarah Lowidon moves a door into position for a Chevrolet Volt at the General Motors Hamtramck Assembly plant in Hamtramck, Mich. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
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About 500 North Koreans gather to wave flags while revolutionary marches blared over loudspeakers to send off the Mangyongbong. (Associated Press)
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"Desperate Housewives" stars (from left) Felicity Huffman, Eva Longoria, Teri Hatcher and Marcia Cross may be ending their run with the show after this season, but their characters will live on in a new Turkish version of the hit show called "Umutsuz Ev Kadinlari." (ABC via Associated Press)
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"The Jefferson-Hemings Controversy: Report of the Scholars Commission" is a new look at a very old dispute about American history. (Carolina Academic Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS A sign displayed at Home Depot in the Brooklyn borough of New York on Monday makes its policy clear to shoppers who have splurged on hurricane readiness supplies but now have buyer's remorse.
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Jason Ashton checks out a new Dodge Durango at a dealership in Warren, Mich., on Thursday, Aug. 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
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**FILE** In this photo from Jan. 27, 2011, a pedestrian passes signs at the entrance to News International in Wapping, London. (Associated Press)
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Martin O'Malley (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Search and rescue teams search for two Hockessin men who are missing after Hurrican Irene Monday, Aug. 29, 2011 in Hoskessin, Del. New Castle County Police Cpl. John Weglarz says 25-year-old Christopher Valentine of Hockessin and 25-year-old Jean Baptista of Clark, N.J., were last seen around midnight Saturday during the height of the Category 1 hurricane. (AP Photo/The News Journal, Sucha Pederson) NO SALES
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Sgt. Michael Jarrett, of the 171st Eng. Co. turns back a dog walker from getting any closer to the broken sections of Highway 12 in Rodanthe, N.C., Monday, Aug. 29, 2011. The highway, the only road link between Hatteras Island on the N.C. Outer Banks and the mainland was cut by heavy waves during Hurricane Irene. (AP Photo/The News & Observer, Chuck Liddy)
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Jason Sanderson, owner of Prudential Clear Water Realty in New Bern, N.C., left, points out a broken water main to Barbara Jackson as they stand in the ruined second floor of his downtown office building on Monday, Aug. 29, 2011. (AP Photo/The New Bern Sun Journal, Byron Holland)
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Matt Pelmear of Hoboken, N.J. adjusts the hose on one of four pumps he was using to remove several feet of water from the basement of the building he lives in Hoboken. (AP Photo/Joe Epstein)
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Takoma Park resident Felix Perez cleans out his SUV on Monday after it was smashed by a falling tree on Sunday as Hurricane Irene passed through. "I knew something fell," he said, "but as long as it didn't hit the [house] roof I wasn't terribly concerned." (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Workers with C.W. Wright Construction Company, a subcontractor for Pepco, work to secure a newly installed power line on Woodland Avenue in Takoma Park on Monday, while tree specialists with Arbor Care Inc. remove pieces of a large tree that knocked down the lines on this residential street. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
