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STIRRING: The Villarrica volcano is shown Wednesday from Pucon, Chile, about 500 miles south of Santiago. The volcano, one of South America’s most active, began showing signs of life this week. Its last major eruption was in March 2015.
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Grinchy thieves beware: Steal packages off a porch in Knoxville, Tenn., and you might get more — or less — than you bargain for. Disturbed by reports of package thefts, Sam Tobin and his fiancee, Bonnie Saul, decided to leave a booby-trapped box on their porch just in case. They filled an old Amazon box with a special something — courtesy of their dog Oden, WUSA-9 reports. It’s “a gift that they’ll never forget,” Tobin says. (EXPRESS)
A Delta flight from New York City to Seattle had to make an unplanned stop in Billings, Mont., on Saturday after the plane’s toilets stopped working and passengers couldn’t hold it any longer. Upon landing, the plane had to taxi to a cargo area because no gate was available. Delta says ground crews rolled a stairway to the airplane so passengers could “disembark to find relief of built-up pressures.” (AP)
Representatives for a Maine Toys R Us store say a husband and wife stopped in to pay off $10,000 in layaway orders for other families. The couple asked to remain anonymous when making the payment at the South Portland store. Store manager Jay Roes said the money is enough to pay off the balance on about 100 layaway accounts. The gift will help make Christmas more affordable for dozens of families in the area. (AP)
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Generous person put a solid gold coin into Salvation Army kettle
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GAITHERSBURG, MD. From time to time, stories appear about valuable coins turning up in Salvation Army Christmas collection kettles, perhaps causing worries about what would happen if the coin counters failed to spot the rare gift. Last week, the Montgomery County Corps discovered a coin that was minted from solid gold. The special donor in this case took extra care to make sure that his gift was found. George Hairston, who spoke to ABC 7, was ringing the bell outside of Giant’s Flower Hill store in Gaithersburg, Md., last week when the donation came in. “That day, I noticed this man with a hospital mask on his face. And he had this big thing,” Hairston told ABC 7. “And it took time for him to put it in there. You can see the hole is not that big.” The Army said the coin was sealed in what was described as a custom floral envelope.
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Montgomery County’s Salvation Army got a valuable donation last week.
It contained, according to the charity, both the coin and a note of encouragement. According to Corps Officer Captain Karl Dahlin, the coin has a face value of $50, though it is believed to be worth $1,300 to $1,700. The ultimate worth will be determined when its taken to be appraised and sold. Dahlin voiced his personal thanks to the donor, whose
identity remains unknown. The money will help, said Major James Hall, area commander of The Salvation Army. He said donations at kettles were off slightly, so each one was important. Proceeds of the sale of the coin will help people in need in the county, Hall said, because money donated in the community stays in the community. MARTIN WEIL (THE WASHINGTON POST)
A young man from Silver Spring connected in real life with the grandma he befriended online through “Words With Friends.” Spencer Sleyon, 22, had played the word game more than 300 times with a Florida grandma, 81-yearold Rosalind Guttman. But Sleyon moved to New York and the two lost touch. When he told the story to Amy Butler, his pastor in New York, she wanted to orchestrate a meeting. Sleyon posted pictures last week of his meeting with Guttman in Palm Beach, Fla., and the pair became an internet sensation. (TWP)
Japanese-inspired Petworth restaurant Himitsu earned the D.C. Eater award for restaurant of the year, while Salt Line at the Southeast waterfront was the readers’ choice. The site also named Michael Rafidi of Arroz and Requin at the Wharf as chef of the year, citing the opening of the two restaurants. (EXPRESS)
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Court: Officer wrong in teen ‘sexting’ case Detective obtained search warrant to take photos of boy’s genitalia PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY The teenage “sexting” case that attracted national attention in 2014 is now enshrined in federal case law. A police detective who obtained two search warrants to photograph a teenager’s genitalia violated the teen’s Fourth Amendment right not to be unreasonably searched, a federal appeals court has ruled, reviving a lawsuit against the detective
that had been thrown out by a lower court. A dissenting judge wrote that the ruling could cause police to be less aggressive in their investigations. The ruling by the 4th Circuit appeals court continues the nationally renowned case of Trey Sims, who was 17 when police in Manassas, Va., and prosecutors in Prince William County, Va., began investigating him for sending a video of his genitalia to his 15-year-old girlfriend by text message. Manassas City Detective David E. Abbott Jr., the lead investigator, claimed that he was instructed to obtain
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the warrants by Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Claiborne Richardson, and both were sued by Sims in federal court last year. Richardson is still a prosecutor in Prince William County and currently a candidate for a Virginia circuit court judgeship. Abbott committed suicide in December 2015 as police attempted to arrest him on charges of molesting two young boys. His estate remains a defendant in the suit, while Richardson was dismissed from the suit by U.S. District Court Judge Claude M. Hilton in Alexandria. TOM JACKMAN
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Supporters march to keep Dream Act alive
THE DISTRICT | Demonstrators hold balloons saying “Dream Act Now” on Wednesday during a rally at the Capitol. Nearly 200 protesters were arrested after thousands gathered to demand legislation protecting about 690,000 young, undocumented immigrants whose work permits are being revoked by the Trump administration.
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Maryland’s medical marijuana dispensaries finally opened this week after years of delay, but many are running out of the drug as limited supply is struggling to keep up with high demand. Five of seven licensed dispensaries that started selling the drug in recent days say they’ve either completely or almost run out of flower — the raw part of the marijuana plant that is smoked or vaporized. The other two are limiting sales to a small group of preregistered patients. In Montgomery County, two dispensaries ran out of flower early this week and are awaiting the next shipments. “Nothing is perfect in a new industry, especially when it’s coordinated statewide,” said Bill Askinazi, one of the owners of the Rockville store Potomac Holistics. (TWP)
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The amount Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan received for his waterfront home in Edgewater, Md. Hogan sold the house last year, but it was reported this week by the website Maryland Matters. Hogan bought it in 2004 for $825,000. (AP)
Robber with assault-style weapon holds up convenience store Wednesday in NE D.C.
A report on the response to a white nationalist rally that turned violent this summer in Charlottesville, Va., has found missteps by law enforcement, including a “chaotic scene” in a joint incident command center and little “on-the-ground cooperation” between agencies. The report by the International Association of Chiefs of Police is the second review of the deadly Aug. 12 rally. Some of its findings overlap with a blistering, much longer report by former U.S. Attorney Tim Heaphy. But it is generally far less critical of the state’s response. ( AP) PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY
11-year-old boy shot when handgun goes off Police in Prince George’s County say an 11-year-old boy was shot when a neighbor’s handgun fired. Prince George’s County Police said the boy was in the neighbor’s care at the neighbor’s home in Suitland, Md., on Tuesday night. Officers say the neighbor, the legal owner of the handgun, was putting the weapon away when it fired once, striking the boy. The boy was taken to Children’s National Medical Center D.C., where police say he is in critical condition. (AP) BALTIMORE
Officer breaking up fight at school hit with bleach School officials say a Baltimore city school police officer was doused with bleach while breaking up a fight. Baltimore City Public Schools spokeswoman Edie House-Foster said an 18-year-old student at Achievement Academy threw bleach in the unnamed officer’s eyes Tuesday. She said the bleach also splattered in the eyes of a hall monitor. HouseFoster said the student will be charged with first-degree assault and reckless endangerment. She has not been named. The officer and hall monitor are expected to fully recover. (AP)
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Witness: Flynn assured end to Russian sanctions
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Former Trump adviser Michael Flynn has pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI.
business partners.” The episode indicates that Trump officials had planned to jettison sanctions that the Obama administration had imposed on Russia. Congress later passed a bipartisan measure that placed new sanctions on Russia, a bill Trump reluctantly signed in August. On Friday, Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to FBI agents about conversations he had in December 2016 with the Russian ambassador to the U.S. about the sanctions, among other topics. According to Cummings’ letter, the witness said he met Alex Copson, Flynn’s former business associate, at an inaugural event. The witness told Cummings and committee investigators
that Copson shared a text message he had just received from Flynn, who was on stage at the Capitol during Trump’s speech. As the president spoke, Flynn reportedly texted Copson that the nuclear project was “good to go,” the witness said Copson told him. Copson showed the witness the text on his phone. The witness could not read the text, but he saw that the time stamp was 12:11 p.m., according Cummings’ letter. “Mr. Copson explained that General Flynn was making sure that sanctions would be ‘ripped up’ as one of his first orders of business and that this would allow money to start flowing into the project,” Cummings wrote.
Astronomers have discovered a supersize black hole harkening back to almost the dawn of creation. It’s the farthest black hole ever found. A team led by the Carnegie Observatories’ Eduardo Banados reported in the journal Nature on Wednesday that the black hole lies in a quasar dating to 690 million years after the Big Bang. That means the light from this quasar has been traveling our way for 13 billion years. Banados said it provides a unique baby picture of the universe, when it was just 5 percent of its current age. “This discovery opens up an exciting new window to understand the early universe,” Banados said. (AP)
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New dino has look of duck, croc, swan
With a bill like a duck but teeth like a croc’s and a swanlike neck, a new dinosaur species looks like something Dr. Seuss dreamed up. It also had flippers like a penguin, and while it walked like an ostrich, it could also swim. That’s the first time swimming ability has been shown for a two-legged, meat-eating dinosaur, according to a study released Wednesday by the journal Nature. The tiny creature, only about 18 inches tall, roamed 75 million years ago in what is now Mongolia. (AP)
Turkish President Erdogan to visit Greece at time of frosty ties with EU, U.S.
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NATIONAL SECURITY As President Trump delivered his inaugural address on the steps of the U.S. Capitol, his new national security adviser, Michael Flynn, sent a text to a former business associate telling him that a plan to build nuclear power plants in the Middle East in partnership with Russian interests was “good to go,” according to a witness who spoke with congressional investigators. Flynn had assured his former associate that U.S. sanctions against Russia would immediately be “ripped up” by the Trump administration, a move that would help facilitate the deal, the associate told the witness. The witness provided the account to Rep. Elijah Cummings, Md., the ranking Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, who detailed the allegations in a letter Wednesday to the panel’s chairman, Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C. Cummings did not identify the witness, whom he described as a whistleblower. But he asked Gowdy to issue a subpoena to the White House for documents related to Flynn, saying that the committee has “credible allegations” that Flynn “sought to manipulate the course of international nuclear policy for the financial gain of his former
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Time magazine has named “The Silence Breakers” as its 2017 Person of the Year, recognizing the women (and some men) who came forward with stories of sexual harassment and assault and helped force a nationwide reckoning. Time calls them “the voices that launched a movement.” Among them are Ashley Judd and Rose McGowan, the actresses whose stunning accusations against movie mogul Harvey Weinstein helped lead to his downfall; and activist Tarana Burke, creator of the #MeToo movement, along with the Hollywood star who amplified it on social media, Alyssa Milano. “The galvanizing actions of the women on our cover … along with those of hundreds of others, and of many men as well, have unleashed one of the highest-velocity shifts in our culture since the 1960s,” Time’s editor-in-chief, Edward Felsenthal, told NBC’s “Today” show Wednesday. In choosing its Person of the Year, Time has said it names the person or people who had the greatest influence over the past 12 months. In 2015, Time chose German Chancellor Angela Merkel; in 2014, it was “The Ebola Fighters”; and in 2013, Pope Francis — “The People’s Pope.” Last year’s choice was President Trump. LINDSEY BEVER AND ABBY OHLHEISER
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Tales of horror from Libya About 400 Nigerian migrants return home after torture in camps
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LAGOS, NIGERIA Some knelt and placed their foreheads to the ground in prayer. Several carried small children. After being stranded in Libya on a failed attempt to reach Europe, more than 400 Nigerian migrants were brought home and began sharing stories of abuse and fear. “If they lock you up in a room, you hardly eat, that’s number one,” Ejike Ernest, one of the returnees, said on arrival late Tuesday in Lagos. “You’ll urinate there, you’ll defecate there and every morning, let me say three times a day, you will be severely beaten” until you can pay the money to be freed. Nigeria’s government, its president appalled by recent CNN footage of a slave auction in Libya where migrant Africans were “sold like goats,” has committed to bringing its citizens home, along with a number of other African nations. After disembarking from a plane chartered by Nigeria, the European Union and the International Organization for Migration, some of the newest arrivals looked exhausted, some clutching sleepy children. “It’s heartbreaking, especially when I see a 13-year-old come with a baby,” said Abike Dabiri-Erewa, senior special assistant to Nigeria’s president on diaspora and foreign affairs. “One 14-year-old girl said to us
Nigerians returning from Libya disembark from a plane Tuesday at the Murtala Muhammed airport in Lagos.
she doesn’t know how many men have slept with her, she can’t count. … You look at them and wonder whether their lives can ever be the same again.” The African Union and member states will repatriate more than 15,000 migrants stranded in Libya by the end of the year amid outrage over the slave auction footage, the AU’s deputy chairman said Tuesday. Between 400,000 and 700,000 African migrants are in dozens of camps across the chaotic North African country, often under inhumane conditions, AU Commission chairman Moussa Faki Mahamat said. The AU has a six-week plan to “access all detention centers in Libya and repatriate all those
Evacuation plan African and European leaders last week drew up an emergency evacuation plan for migrants, agreeing to airlift at least 3,800 stranded in one of more than 40 detention centers across Libya. Morocco, France and Germany will provide the air carriers, according to a Gambian foreign affairs official. Other African countries are now joining in on repatriations, including Ivory Coast and Cameroon. (AP)
who want to return home,” Mahamat said Wednesday. Europe has struggled to stem the flow of tens of thousands of Africans making the crossing of the Mediterranean. But many
still make the journey, risking death and abuse, saying unemployment and climate change leave them little choice. “I paid 500,000 naira [$1,600] to one Nigerian called Mr. Fix It in 2016 to facilitate my illegal journey to Europe through Libya across the Mediterranean Sea. But on getting to Libya, he abandoned all of us to our fate,” one man said. He said he and others were detained by Libyan militia members and kept in a makeshift prison where they were tortured and starved. More than 10 Nigerians, including girls, were sold as slaves. He was lucky to be rescued by security forces, he said, and was repatriated in July. LEKAN OYEKANMI AND CARLEY PETESCH (AP)
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The proportion by which the overall homeless population in California, Oregon and Washington grew over the past two years, according to a report released Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The unsheltered population — those who had no access to nightly shelters — in those states also climbed 23 percent. The annual report found that the nation’s homeless population increased by 1 percent this year from 2016, the first increase since 2010. The jump was driven by the surge on the West Coast. (AP) Ending speculation, Russian President Putin announces 2018 re-election bid
CUBA Doctors treating the U.S. Embassy victims of suspected attacks in Cuba have discovered brain abnormalities as they search for clues to explain hearing, vision, balance and memory damage, The Associated Press has learned. It’s the most specific finding to date about physical damage, showing that whatever it was that harmed the Americans, it led to perceptible changes in their brains. The finding adds to the skepticism that some kind of sonic weapon was involved. Testing has revealed the staffers developed changes to the white matter tracts that let areas of the brain communicate, several U.S. officials said. Physicians, FBI investigators and U.S. intelligence agencies have tried to piece together the puzzle in Havana, where the U.S. says 24 U.S. government officials or spouses fell ill starting last year in homes and hotels. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Wednesday he’s “convinced these were targeted attacks,” but the U.S. doesn’t know who’s behind them. Cuba has adamantly denied involvement. Physicians are treating the symptoms like a never-beforeseen illness. Most patients have fully recovered, some after rehabilitation, officials said. Many are back at work. About a quarter had symptoms that persisted for long periods or remain to this day. JOSH LEDERMAN (AP)
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CALIFORNIA | A fire drapes a hillside along U.S. 101 on Wednesday near Ventura, Calif. A new blaze erupted in Los Angeles’ exclusive Bel-Air section, while others continued to burn north and west of the city. Schools closed and TV series halted production due to the fires.
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President Donald Trump warned Wednesday that a government shutdown was possible this weekend because Democrats were demanding to have “illegal immigrants pouring into our country.” The comments risked roiling a bipartisan White House meeting planned for today aimed at averting a shutdown. Money for federal agencies will run out at midnight Friday, Republicans aim to push a bill through that would fund the government through Dec. 22. Democrats have pushed for spending boosts for health care and infrastructure as well as addressing the DACA program. (AP)
Six women sued Harvey Weinstein and men who served on the board of his film company Wednesday, accusing them of functioning like an organized crime group that used agents, producers and others to prey on young women seeking a break in the industry. The racketeering lawsuit in federal court in New York sought to represent “dozens, if not hundreds” of women who say they were assaulted by Weinstein. The lawsuit seeking unspecified compensatory and punitive damages followed the filing of a similar lawsuit in Los Angeles last month. A Weinstein lawyer declined to comment Thursday. (AP)
The Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to license sales and cultivation of recreational marijuana next year. The landmark vote came after a hearing in which council members characterized the rules as a work in progress almost certain to see revisions after California launches its recreational pot industry in January. Under the regulations, residential neighborhoods would be largely offlimits to pot businesses, and buffers would be set up around schools, libraries and parks. However, industry experts say it’s not clear how many businesses, if any, will be ready to open on Jan. 1. (AP)
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Trump holds up a proclamation recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
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POLITICS President Trump shattered decades of unwavering U.S. neutrality on Jerusalem on Wednesday, declaring the sorely divided holy city as Israel’s capital and sparking frustrated Palestinians to cry out that he had destroyed alreadyfragile Mideast hopes for peace. Defying dire, worldwide warnings, Trump insisted that after repeated peace failures it was past time for a new approach, starting with what he said was his decision merely based on reality to recognize Jerusalem as the seat of Israel’s government. He also said the United States would move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, though he set no timetable. “We cannot solve our problems by making the same failed assumptions and repeating the same failed strategies of the past,” Trump said. Harsh objections came from the Middle East to Europe and beyond, where leaders cautioned Trump that any sudden change on an issue as sensitive as Jerusalem not only risks blowing up the new Arab-Israeli peace initiative led by Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, but could lead to violence in the region. No government beyond Israel spoke up in praise of Trump or suggested it would follow his lead. Eight countries opposed to the decision asked for an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council this week. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hailed Trump’s announcement as an “important step toward peace.” But Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Trump’s shift serves extremist groups that want religious war and said the announcement is a “declaration of withdrawal” by the U.S. from the peace process.
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Protesters in Gaza and the West Bank burned U.S. and Israeli flags, and protests broke out in Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey. Trump’s declaration of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital is a powerfully symbolic statement about a city that houses many of the world’s holiest sites, all concentrated in the Old City, including the Western Wall that surrounded the Jews’ ancient
“President Trump has delivered a message to the Palestinian people: The two-state solution is over.” SAEB EREKAT, chief Palestinian peace negotiator, told Israeli newspaper Haaretz
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Temple, the Stations of the Cross that depict Jesus along his crucifixion path, the al-Aqsa Mosque, where Muslims say their Prophet Muhammad ascended to heaven and the iconic gold-topped Dome of the Rock. Adding to the mix, Jordan, the former ruler of the Old City, retains custodial rights over Muslim holy sites, while Morocco and Saudi Arabia also claim to be their protectors. The U.S. has never endorsed the Jewish state’s claim of sovereignty over any part of Jerusalem and has seen the city’s future as indelibly linked to a peace deal. Trump said he wasn’t delivering any verdict about where an Israeli-Palestinian border should lie. He described his declaration as recognizing the “obvious” reality that most of Israel’s government operates from the city. Across the Middle East and Europe, U.S. embassies and consulates issued warnings to Americans to watch out for violent protests. In Jordan, the U.S. said it would close its embassy to the public today and urged children of diplomats there to stay home from school. Trump’s statement made no recognition of the Palestinian claims to east Jerusalem. Israel claims all of Jerusalem as its capital, while Palestinians claim the city’s eastern sector, captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war, as the capital of a future independent state. While Israel controls the city, its annexation of east Jerusalem is not internationally recognized by law. After his remarks, Trump signed a waiver that officially delays any move of the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem for at least another six months, although he said he plans to make the move eventually.
In a powerful demonstration of support for his accusers, Senate Democrats pushed Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., to the brink of resignation Wednesday over mounting allegations he sexually harassed women. In a movement led by the Senate’s Democratic women, a surge of members said Franken should leave Capitol Hill roughly three weeks after he was first accused of inappropriate behavior. In total, more than half-a-dozen women have accused Franken of unwanted advances and touching. He has denied intentional wrongdoing and has apologized. “Enough is enough,” Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., told reporters after Politico published another allegation against Franken. “We need to draw a line in the sand and say none of it is OK, none of it is acceptable. We as elected leaders should absolutely be held to a higher standard, not a lower standard, and we should fundamentally be valuing women. That is where this debate has to go.” Franken’s office said he would make an announcement about his political future today. The sudden cascade of opposition came the day after Rep. John Conyers Jr., D-Mich., ended his 52-year career in Congress over accusations he behaved inappropriately toward female aides. ELISE VIEBECK,
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Tied to each other: QB and coach may stay or go together Repeats of the lackluster effort the team gave in a 38-14 loss to Dallas would reflect poorly on the coach and quarterback, maybe poorly enough to convince the impatient owner to let Cousins leave in free agency and send Gruden packing. Snyder needs to decide what he wants to do quickly. The Giants’ search for a coach has already started. Picking one requires fast action. If Snyder stalls, his team will be left with few options like it was in 2008, when a month-long search resulted in the disastrous promotion of offensive coordinator Jim Zorn. He went 12-20 over two seasons. If the Redskins fire Gruden, a new staff needs to be in place in time to evaluate quarterbacks at the NFL Combine in February. The team must decide by March 14 whether to tag Cousins a third time for $34.5 million or simply cut ties. It’s really a joint decision. If the Redskins are willing to shell out for another year of quarterback continuity, it
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Washington’s front office will spend the final month of the season analyzing whether the team should try to retain its high-priced quarterback. The answer could determine coach Jay Gruden’s future, too. If Kirk Cousins shows the Redskins what they’re looking for and agrees to a long-term deal, then there’s no reason to get rid of Gruden, who signed a three-year extension through 2020 before the season began. Gruden has had a fruitful relationship with Cousins, who’s on the verge of his third straight 4,000-yard passing season. But if Cousins and a team decimated by injuries stumbles to the finish line, a chain of events may lead to owner Dan Snyder falling back on a penchant for canning coaches. The Redskins (5-7) finish with a soft schedule with home games against the Cardinals and Broncos sandwiched between visits to the Chargers and Giants.
The Wizards play their third road game in four nights tonight in Phoenix (9, NBCSWA). The young Suns (9-17) are struggling, but Washington (13-11) hasn’t won two straight in three weeks. (EXPRESS)
wouldn’t make sense to get rid of Gruden and force Cousins to learn a new coach’s system. And Gruden’s ability to coax the most out of Cousins is the best case for keeping the coach. Gruden can’t assume all the blame for a 5-7 record. A promising start created hope for a 10-win season before injuries depleted talent on both sides of the ball. Gruden’s four-year mark of 26-33-1 looks ugly, but the players are behind him, and he’s played his hand well. He should be the first coach under Snyder to reach a fifth season. Washington should try to
keep Cousins after the best three-year stretch ever by a Redskins passer. Even after losing two 1,000-yard receivers in the offseason, Cousins has found a way to produce with lackluster replacements. Still, the bottom line is that the Redskins are almost certainly going to miss the playoffs for a second straight year. Now the final four games could very well decide if the Gruden-Cousins era continues.
Suns guard Devin Booker looks like a star — he had 46 points vs. the 76ers on Monday — but he’s out two to three weeks with a groin strain he suffered Tuesday.
2 Pesky lottery pick Small forward Josh Jackson, the No. 4 pick in June’s draft, is averaging a team-high 1.2 steals per game for the Suns. He enjoyed his first 20-point game last week at Detroit.
1 Beal’s follow-up Bradley Beal led the Wizards to a 106-92 win in Portland on Tuesday with a career-high 51 points, breaking Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s scoring mark for visiting players there (49).
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday his government will allow Russians to compete as neutral athletes at the 2018 Games in South Korea. The International Olympic Committee has banned the Russian team as punishment for doping violations at the 2014 Sochi Olympics. Individual Russians with clean doping records are still invited. A boycott would’ve been the biggest since the Soviet Union missed the Los Angeles Games in 1984. (AP)
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Goodell signs 5-year extension NFL owners have completed an agreement with Commissioner Roger Goodell on a five-year contract extension, according to multiple people familiar with the situation. The deal runs through 2024 and could pay Goodell, 58, up to nearly $40 million per season, close to 90 percent of which would be tied to incentives. The NFL compensation committee, led by Falcons owner Arthur Blank, informed the other owners of the deal Wednesday in a memo that was obtained by The Washington Post. It is not clear whether the deal will run into further opposition from Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, who threatened at one point to sue the league over Goodell’s extension but since has rescinded that threat. (TWP)
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All-Star point guard Isaiah Thomas played in a 4-on-4 scrimmage Wednesday in front of Cavaliers coach Tyronn Lue and members of the front office, taking a significant step in his recovery from a torn labrum in his right hip. Thomas, who has yet to make his debut with Cleveland after being acquired in a blockbuster trade that sent Kyrie Irving to Boston, didn’t appear to have any restrictions in the halfcourt workout. He needs to show how he recovers from contact before he can be cleared. It’s possible that Thomas, 28, will be activated well before a Christmas Day game at Golden State. (TWP)
Arkansas has hired SMU coach Chad Morris to replace Bret Bielema. Morris, 49, was a longtime Texas high school coach and former Clemson offensive coordinator before he turned SMU into a winner. He agreed Wednesday to a six-year contract worth $3.5 million annually. Bielema was fired after going 29-34 in five seasons — including 11-29 in the SEC. Morris leaves the Mustangs after compiling a 14-22 record in three seasons. He took over a team that finished 1-11 in 2014, won two games his first season and improved to 5-7 in 2016 and 7-5 this year. (AP)
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The basics “When the Christmas Bar first started” in Shaw in 2015, says Ivy and Coney co-owner Josh Saltzman, “we thought it was a great idea and started joking that we should do a Hanukkah-themed bar,” since half of the ownership team is Jewish. “It fits our idea of having a good time and enjoying
a little irreverent fun,” he says. This is new territory for Ivy and Coney, but beyond the menu and the decorations, including covering the ceiling of the rooftop deck in blue and white lights, the bar remains the same.
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Midwestern-themed bar Ivy and Coney (1537 Seventh St. NW) is transforming itself into Chai-vy and Cohen-y, a Hanukkah bar, to celebrate what it calls the “132nd most important holiday of the Jewish calendar” through Dec. 31. Here’s what’s in store for the Shaw bar. FRITZ HAHN (THE WASHINGTON POST)
Chai-vy and Cohen-y’s ShotNorah will lead to at least eight crazy nights.
affixed with multiple glasses to allow a group to down a drink at the same time — Ivy and Coney came up with the ShotNorah, a menorah that allows eight people to take shots of Manischewitz or Slivovitz, the Eastern European plum brandy, at once.
Featured drinks and food The bar stocks multiple flavors of Manischewitz wine (try it out of the ShotNorah for $2 a shot or in a $5 glass). The bar also has spiced cider ($3, or $8 for a spiked version), schnapps and He’Brew beers. Pair the drinks
There will be nightly events during Hanukkah — which starts Tuesday — including the traditional lighting of a menorah, but the biggest draw on the calendar is the free dreidel spinning competition on Dec. 19, the final night of the holiday. Saltzman says 50 to 60 contestants will see who can keep their dreidel spinning longest, but this event isn’t just about technique: “This is WWF dreidel,” he says. “You have to come up with a name and a shtick,” and costumes are a bonus: Saltzman has already dubbed himself “the Beltway Ganef.”
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Nick Cannon Presents: ‘Wild ‘N Out’ Live!
Electronic music wizard Dan Deacon recently scored “Rat Film,” a documentary that is ostensibly about rat infestations in Baltimore but digs much deeper. Deacon, who is based in Baltimore, might play portions of that score when he hits College Park, Md.’s, newest venue, MilkBoy ArtHouse, next month. GET TICKETS: Now, using Ticketfly.
Nick Cannon and his MTV variety series “Wild ’N Out” are heading to D.C. In addition to comedic antics from Cannon and his cohorts, the show will include music from rappers Wale and Yo Gotti. GET TICKETS: Now, via Ticketmaster.
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A week before St. Patrick’s Day, Boston-based Irish punk rockers Dropkick Murphys will bring a raucous live show — with tunes from this year’s “11 Short Stories of Pain & Glory” — to D.C. GET TICKETS: Friday at 10 a.m. via Ticketfly. RUDI GREENBERG (EXPRESS)
The indie pop duo sold out two nights at 9:30 Club earlier this year behind second album “What Now,” so Sylvan Esso will graduate to The Anthem next summer. GET TICKETS: Friday at 10 a.m. through Ticketfly.
Georgetown Glow Georgetown looks even more charming than usual this time of year, with all its red and green decorations. But the District’s oldest neighborhood takes a modern approach to holiday lights: Georgetown Glow is a month-long outdoor light-art exhibition (Friday through Jan. 7, 5-10 p.m. daily, free) that invites artists from around the world to illuminate entire blocks with neon installations. (THE WASHINGTON POST)
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Lunch would be at &pizza, where he’d order bacon, pepperoni and spinach on his pie. “It’s actually pretty good,” he says of his choice, though he admits he gets the spinach “because my mom makes me.”
Nathan Pham TINY TIM
Nathan Pham has two demands for his dream day: “FIFA 18” and “Mario Kart.” When we inform the 10-year-old actor that our Dream Days usually take advantage of D.C., his plans get a bit bigger than just video games. Pham, a fifth-grader who lives in Columbia, Md., is currently one of two boys playing Tiny Tim in the long-running Washington tradition that is the Ford’s Theatre production of “A Christmas Carol” (511 10th St. NW; through Dec. 31, $32-$105). He is returning to the role after playing Charles Dickens’ most famous non-orphaned kid last year and has found it’s easier this year. “I already know all my lines,” he says. “And with the other [new] actors, maybe they don’t know where they need to go and I tell them and they’re like, ‘Thank you!’ ” If given the day off from school and rehearsal (and video games), Pham would do, well, almost everything. After a breakfast of bacon and hash browns prepared by Mom, Pham and “a whole bunch, maybe 10” friends would head downtown to see “all the museums and zoos.” His current favorite is the
International Spy Museum, because “it’s cool, with all the gadgets” and “there is some stuff about James Bond.” The National Air and Space Museum is also on the list; he’d like to see a movie in the Lockheed
After lunch, Pham and his posse (which includes his parents, since, as he says, “I’m going to need some help”) would head to the National Zoo, making sure to see “the big animals,” particularly the lions and tigers. He’d prefer to skip the reptile and insect exhibits because “they’re kind of gross.” Afterward, “I want to take a tour of the White House. When I was little, I did the Easter egg [hunt], but I didn’t really go in, though.” Another first would be a trip to the top of the Washington Monument because “the Kennedy Center is, like, near there and I want to see it from a good view.” After we tell him about DC Ducks tours, Pham expresses an interest in taking one, particularly when told about the quacking noisemakers that passengers get. (His mom seems less enthused about this opportunity.) For dinner, Pham would choose Chipotle because he likes “their rice and their chicken and black beans,” though he thinks the bowls are too big. He’d like to spend his evening catching a play somewhere in town. Earlier this year, he saw his sister perform in Ford’s Theatre’s production of “Ragtime,” which was “very good” and his sister did “very well.” Whatever show he takes in on his dream day, it’s important that he gets home “not too late.” He does have school in the morning. KRISTEN PAGE-KIRBY (EXPRESS)
Now thru December 31 | Theater Lab Experience Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol like never before—with this holiday favorite from The Second City! The legendary comedy troupe brings its infamous improvisational skills and sketch comedy mastery to the timeless tale of Ebenezer Scrooge.
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It wouldn’t be Christmas without … The holiday season is the time of year when we take comfort in the familiar — which explains the sold-out crowds for perennial favorites such as “The Nutcracker,” Handel’s “Messiah” and “A Christmas Carol.” What keeps people coming back to the same shows again and again? To find out, we asked local families about their holiday arts traditions. SADIE DINGFELDER (EXPRESS)
Don’t bring mixed nuts to the Hardy family’s Christmas party. While their home in Prince George’s County is filled with more than 100 nutcrackers, not one of them actually works. “They are all decorative,” says Melvin Hardy, 53. The family started collecting them after Melvin took his oldest daughter, Elizabeth, to see the Washington Ballet’s “The Nutcracker” in 2001, when she was only 3. She sat through the entire show with barely a peep, Melvin recalls. “At the end of the performance
… she put her arms around my neck and said, ‘Thank you, Daddy, for taking me to “The Nutcracker,” ’ and I just melted,” he says. That kicked off an annual tradition, and now the whole family of four goes to see the show — which The Washington Ballet has been performing since 1961 and updated in 2004 — every year. Though the Hardys aren’t dancers themselves, or major ballet fans, The Washington Ballet’s “Nutcracker” captured their imagination, says Melvin’s wife, Johnetta.
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The Hardy family’s ‘Nutcracker’ love affair
In 2007, the Hardy family met The Washington Ballet’s then-director, Septime Webre, left. They’re fans of his all-American “The Nutcracker.”
“We really love Septime Webre’s American version, with George Washington as the Nutcracker,” she says. “Everyone
has their own favorite parts.” Elizabeth’s has always been the “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy,” she says. “That scene is
just so beautiful with the snowflakes and the other fairies dancing around, building to her solo,” says Elizabeth, now 19. Her sister, Victoria, 18, loves the score. “I can recognize any of the songs anywhere I go,” she says. “It’s just phenomenal music.” Elizabeth and Victoria are currently away at college, but they’re coming back to D.C. this month to see “The Nutcracker” with their parents. Even if they eventually settle down in other cities, they plan to see The Washington Ballet’s “Nutcracker” with their own families someday. Why? “It’s tradition!” Elizabeth says. Warner Theatre, 513 13th St. NW; through Dec. 24, $30-$150.
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stepdaughters noticed the second year she went. The family’s sense of tradition was jarred a bit when Ed Gero, the actor who had played Ebenezer Scrooge since 2009, left the part in 2016. “I wasn’t sure what to expect with the new Scrooge last year — it’s such a major role — but Craig Wallace did an amazing job, so we are looking forward to seeing him again this year,” Lindsey says. They’re also looking forward to playing a little prank on the cast.
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the kids to see over, so they were fidgety.” The third year the Alexandria family all went, they sat in the front row and the kids enjoyed the whole show. Last year, the Schmidt kids insisted on going to see “A Christmas Carol” even though their father, a Marine, was deployed at the time. “So it was just me and the kids,” Lindsey says. “They were still excited about going. It was important to them to not break the tradition.” Joe will be back in the audience this year with his family, who have become connoisseurs of the Ford’s Theatre production. “There are a lot of little details in the show that you wouldn’t pick up on unless you go to multiple shows,” Lindsey says. For instance, there’s a puppet cart onstage in the first act that displays the show’s set in miniature — something one of Lindsey’s
Craig Wallace, left, and James Konicek co-star in Ford’s Theatre’s “A Christmas Carol.”
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Lindsey Schmidt, 37, loves history, theater and Christmas, so when she heard about Ford’s Theatre’s annual production of “A Christmas Carol” in 2012, she knew “there was no way I was going to miss that,” she says. She went with a friend that first year, but in 2013 she was determined to take along her husband, Joe, and her two stepkids — then 7 and 9 — to see the traditional take on Charles Dickens’ famous tale of a stingy grump who is persuaded by ghosts to change his ways. The production, created by Michael Baron in 2009, has won accolades for its lavish Victorian costumes and sets, but it wasn’t an immediate hit with the Schmidt kids. “This was their first real theater experience, and they were not really open to it at first,” Lindsey recalls. “We sat on the balcony, which was a mistake because it was a little high for
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Joe Schmidt, his kids and his wife (not pictured) are big fans of Ford’s Theatre’s “A Christmas Carol.”
Before each show starts, some of the actors walk down the aisles in the audience, pretending to sell oranges for shillings, but no one ever takes them up on it. Well, the Schmidt kids bought some shillings on Etsy and are bringing them to the show to see if they can buy oranges, Lindsey says. “We are going to try to be a part of the show,” she says. “I hope it doesn’t throw the actors off.” Ford’s Theatre, 511 10th St. NW; through Dec. 31, $32-$105.
has been happening for about 25 years now, and anyone can show up with a tuba and play along. Last year, after an hour of practicing traditional songs including “O Come, All Ye Faithful” and “Deck the Halls,” Paul and his fellow musicians filed into the Concert Hall and filled the entire stage and balconies usually occupied by audience members. The audience for the free concert filled the rest of the seats. “I didn’t know what to expect,” says Paul’s mother, Laura. “When you think of tubas, you think of them having that deep marching band kind of a sound, so it’s hard to imagine them carrying a tune by themselves. And then when we went and heard it, it
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As soon as Paul Long, 11, walked into the room full of about 350 tuba players at the Kennedy Center last December, he was intimidated. “It was a bit overwhelming because I had only been playing for about two years at the time, and as I listened to everyone else practice around me, they just sounded so much better,” he says. The occasion for this mass of brass: Merry TubaChristmas, a holiday tradition that was born in 1974 at Rockefeller Plaza’s ice rink in New York City when hundreds of tuba, euphonium and sousaphone players got together to play Christmas carols. It’s since spread around the world — the Kennedy Center gathering
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The Long family’s splendor in the brass
At Merry TubaChristmas, left, hundreds of euphonium, sousaphone and tuba players fill the Kennedy Center concert hall with Christmas carols. Paul Long, right, joined them last year and will be back for Monday’s show.
was just glorious.” Paul quickly shed his stage fright. “After you start playing and you hear all the tubas together, it just sounds so great,” he says. His favorite song? “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing.” “It was really interesting having all the tubas playing a song that’s usually sung by people in such a high octave,” he says.
The family of six, who live in Burke, Va., had so much fun, they are making Merry TubaChristmas a family tradition. “I would go even if I didn’t know anyone playing in it,” Laura says. “I’m never missing it again!” As for Paul, the event cemented his love for an instrument that rarely gets the spotlight. “I think I will keep playing
tuba for a long time — the rest of my life, probably. It was really great to see people in their 50s who started playing as kids and are so good now, and I thought, ‘Wow, that could be me one day,’ ” he says. Kennedy Center, 2700 F St. NW; Mon., rehearsal at 4 p.m., performance at 6 p.m., free.
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As I sat in a room with plastic doughnuts hanging from the ceiling and a giant gingerbread man on the wall, I found myself craving sweets. “I thought you guys were serving fresh-baked cookies,” I said to one of the bartenders at Miracle on Seventh Street, a Christmas-themed pop-up bar in Shaw. “No cookies tonight,” the bartender said, “but we do have a cookie dough drink.” That’s how I ended up tasting a $14 cocktail called Snow Angels, Ice Skating, Cookie Dough and Snuggles, which is made with cookie dough-infused vodka and garnished with an actual blob of cookie dough. “This bar is a ‘one-and-done’ kind of situation,” observed a sensible woman sitting next to me. “Why?” I asked. “The drinks are really expensive and really sweet,” she said. Four drinks and one roaring headache later, I regretted not taking her advice. Miracle on Seventh Street — which is back for its third year and will stay open through Dec. 31 — consists of five densely decorated, Instagramfriendly rooms where you can get pricey cocktails in novelty
glassware. The pop-up debuted in 2015 in a space formerly occupied by a sherry bar. It turned out to be much more popular than its predecessor, attracting throngs of people willing to wait for hours just to get inside. Over the past year, the owners have used the space for a series of bars with seasonal and pop culture themes. I finally got around to visiting the place last Friday. My friend Dave and I met outside the bar at 7:30 p.m. with our pockets full of hand warmers, ready for an epic wait. In less than 10 minutes, we were inside and seated comfortably at one of the space’s four bars. “That wasn’t bad at all,” Dave said. The first room we entered immediately impressed us with its creative decor. An homage to the venerable Jewish tradition of Chinese food and a movie on Christmas Eve, the room is wallpapered with movie posters and Chinese restaurant menus. Another room is dominated by an antique sleigh that you can sit in, plus a mural of Beyonce in a Santa hat, her middle fingers extended in a double bird, with the caption “I sleigh all day.” There are also more traditionally decorated rooms, dripping
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Short of a Miracle: Skip the drinks and be merry
with red and green Christmas balls and thickets of twinkling lights. If only the drinks were as good as the decor. The first one I tried, Elf’s Breakfast, involves a complicated formula of Earl Grey tea, maple syrup and four types of alcohol. The bartender took a break from dancing to DMX’s version of “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” to ask me whether I was enjoying my drink. He looked so jolly, I just couldn’t tell him the truth. “It’s great!” I lied. In reality, my Elf’s Breakfast tasted exactly like a drink I made by accident last Christmas, when I dropped a candy cane into a cup of watereddown vodka and left it out overnight. The next morning, I drank that minty mess and claimed it counted as brushing my teeth. (Don’t judge. I have my way of dealing with holiday stress, and you have yours.) I asked the bartender if I could try something that
Pro tip: Do not let yummy garnishes influence your drink ordering. wasn’t quite so sweet, and he suggested a rum-based drink called Maccabeats by Dreidel. That one tasted like diluted, slightly alcoholic apple juice. Later, I tried a scotch-based concoction garnished with gumdrops. I took one sip of the foul-tasting liquid before pawning it off on Dave. “The gumdrops are, by far, the best part of this drink,” he said after a sip. It was time to give up on the cocktails, so I went in search of photo backdrops. Thanks to an impromptu consultation with a roving band of selfie experts — which is to say, millennials — I ended up with a fantastic photo of myself in the sleigh. “This will be perfect for my Christmas card,” I said,
as if the 20-somethings had any idea what I was talking about. Another thing I liked about Miracle on Seventh Street is that the whole place is already infused with holiday spirit. There we were, just one day into December, and the bouncers were merry, the bartenders were helpful, and strangers were chatting with each other like it was no big deal. If the line stays reasonably short, this Christmas bar is well worth a visit — though you might want to skip the cocktails and get a regular hot chocolate instead ($7). Before I left, a woman in a Rudolph sweater asked me to take her picture in front of the Beyonce mural. She scowled and extended both her middle fingers in imitation of Queen Bey’s pose. “Are you having a good time?” I asked. She broke out into a bright smile. “This is all I ever wanted as a kid — plus alcohol,” she said.
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Matt Bellassai is not happy about all this While the holidays are a time of joy and love and cheer, there’s also a lot of sucky stuff. Just ask Matt Bellassai, comedian and author of the new book “Everything Is Awful: And Other Observations.” The New York-based social media virtuoso, 27, emerged from BuzzFeed’s wine-induced “Whine About It” videos, and has since made a full-time profession out of getting drunk and complaining about life with his “Unhappy Hour” podcast and “To Be Honest” web series. Bellassai — who’s bringing his “Everything Is Awful” comedy tour to the 9:30 Club on Thursday — divulged to us several aspects of the season that can turn anyone into a big bah-humbug. BRYANNA CAPPADONA (EXPRESS) 9:30 Club, 815 V St. NW; Thu., 7 p.m., $40 (includes copy of book).
Intrusive relatives are awful
Holiday travel is awful
“I hate one question in particular: ‘Have you met anybody?’ Like, let me be the one who will make the announcement when that happens. You will know. I will issue a press release that I have met someone.”
“The past month, I’ve been on an airplane almost every day, so I’m like a pro. I know exactly where to whip my bag so I don’t hit anybody in the face. But honestly, it’s around the holidays where the most people who are not pros are traveling. My No. 1 pet peeve is when people get off the airplane, walk down the hallway thing, get to the entrance in the airport and then stand right in front of the door while they figure out which way to go. No. Step aside.”
Holiday hype is awful “I feel like my mom starts talking about Thanksgiving, like, two months in advance. ‘What are we going to do? Who’s coming?’ And by the time we get there, it’s always the same every year. Nothing changes. Everybody shows up at 2 p.m. and is gone by 7 p.m. And I’m like, all of this madness over nothing. It’s a meal. It’s a big meal, but it’s a meal.”
Like, what are your hobbies? I feel like when I have to ask the question ‘What should I get this person?’ it’s like suddenly I have never met them and I have no idea what they’re interested in.”
Cooking is awful “I avoid it at all costs. I’m here to eat what everybody else makes. I’ll compliment you and make you feel good about the work that you did, but I am not the one standing in front of an oven. Which is better for everyone, honestly.”
Shopping is awful “There’s just all of the work and none of the thrill when you have to give a gift to someone else. … My parents [are hard to shop for].
Dinner-table politics are awful “Especially in the current climate — we just need a blanket rule that we can only talk about
the food that is on the table and that is it. Because I’m also the type of person where my claws will come out at the table if I disagree with someone. So I at least want to make sure we get to dessert before I have to punch someone in the face because they
say something that’s idiotic.”
Getting gifts as an adult is awful “Honestly, I think I’ve reached the age where new socks are the best gift that you could get. That’s how you know you’re an adult.”
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Did this man just lick your chair? John Waters and Christmas shouldn’t go together so well, but somehow they just do. It could be because the twisted Baltimore-based filmmaker and the holiday are both exuberantly tacky at times. Or because, since 2000, the auteur behind “Pink Flamingos” and “Hairspray” has performed his one-man holiday stage show, “A John Waters Christmas,” more than 200 times in cities across the U.S. — addressing such pressing questions as “Is Prancer the only gay reindeer?” and “What unsafe toys should I buy for my child?” Before Waters, 71, brings the show to The Birchmere on Dec. 21, we talked to him about crackheads, nudity, curses, electric chairs and other holiday traditions. SADIE DINGFELDER (EXPRESS) Birchmere, 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria; Dec. 21, 7:30 p.m., $55.
Have you ever visibly shocked your audience with your Christmas show? I don’t have walkouts. Sometimes people are drunk and they pass out, but usually they are my fans and they know what to expect. I want to get together with [singer] Johnny Mathis and switch shows — I do my show for his audience, who would be horrified, and he would do his for mine, who would be just as horrified. It would be an experiment in Christmas anarchy.
Or you could show up at a “Nutcracker” and play the creepy uncle. I did “The Nutcracker”! I did a version in Boston two years ago. They have a naked lunatic “Nutcracker” and it runs for two weeks and I was in it. I wasn’t naked, though. Did you conceive of your show as a celebration of Christmas but also as a little bit of a takedown? No, it’s not a takedown, but it is self-help for people that hate it. I
talk about what you should give people, what you shouldn’t give people, what you should wear, how to deal with crazy relatives. What advice do you have for people who are visiting conservative relatives for Christmas? If you want to change someone’s politics, there is a Christmas curse I believe in. The way it works is, when a relative leaves the room, you run over and lick their chair. And then when they come in and sit back down, they might soften politically. You just can’t get caught doing it.
Always books — rare, weird books. Someone gave me a novelization of a very obscure Herschell Gordon Lewis film called “Moonshine Mountain.” And [Lewis] came to my house once and saw the book and said, “I never even saw this book before, and it’s my movie!” Where do you recommend people go shopping for presents? Atomic Books. That’s the best place to go Christmas shopping if you’re in Baltimore, and it’s in Hampden, which is also a great neighborhood to shop in.
Do you have any tips for gift giving? I believe you should never give gift cards to people — that means you think they are stupid and have no interests. I once got a Starbucks gift card and it was so humiliating.
Tell me about your holiday decorations. I have very insane Christmas decorations: I have a Unabomber birdhouse; I decorate the electric chair that Divine got fried in in “Female Trouble,” my movie; I have Christmas balls with ugly pictures of relatives.
What’s the best gift you’ve gotten?
Do you ever go caroling? No, but I always wanted to. I
never took crack, but I want to so I can go out with crackhead Christmas carolers and knock on doors and yell “Jingle Bells” really fast, just to see their faces. Where do you stand on the “war on Christmas”? I say, “Happy holidays,” but if someone says, “Merry Christmas” to me, I’ll say it back. I don’t say, “I’m taking you to court for saying that!” But maybe I’m going to do that this year. I’ll say, “How dare you assume that I believe in the virgin birth.” As long as you’re rewriting your Christmas greeting, are there any parts of your Christmas show that you’re rewriting this year? I always rewrite it in July, but with the current political climate, everything’s changing every day, so I have to keep rewriting it practically every day. We could have a new president by the time I come for Christmas. And that’d be the best present of all.
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Put the ho-ho-ho in holiday with “Miracle on 34th Street,” the 1947 Christmas classic that sets out to make you believe in Santa (and almost succeeds). When Macy’s employee and Santa skeptic Doris (Maureen O’Hara) needs to hire someone to staff the store’s North Pole, a man named Kris Kringle seems just right for the job. Granted, he also seems insane, since he claims to be the real Saint Nick. Will Doris learn to embrace the spirit of the season? Yes. Yes, she will. Because it’s a Christmas movie. AFI Silver, 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring; Fri. through Dec. 14, various times, $10.
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Celebrate Christmas with the ageinappropriate mayhem of “Home Alone,” a highlight of the Arlington Cinema and Drafthouse’s 2017 Christmas Movie Festival. Adorable imp Kevin (Macaulay Culkin) gets left behind by his family, eats a lot of pizza and … why are we telling you this? It’s “Home Alone.” You know what happens. Anyway, a $10 ticket gets you into the screenings of this and any other film in the festival, which wraps on Wednesday with “Gremlins.” Two violent movies for the price of one — it truly is the season of miracles. Arlington Cinema and Drafthouse, 2903 Columbia Pike, Arlington; Thu., 7:45 p.m., Mon., 4:45 p.m., $10.
‘White Christmas’
Stop arguing about whether “Die Hard” is a Christmas movie. No one cares, as it doesn’t affect the general awesomeness of the film. Spend that time embracing those movies that are unabashed about their membership in the holiday genre. One of them is 1954’s “White Christmas,” which features the song that’s now stuck in your head. Four performers put on a show (a CHRISTMAS show, of all things!) to save a friend’s failing Vermont inn. Bing Crosby will croon you into the Christmas spirit. There is no resisting. Miracle Theatre, 535 Eighth St. SE; Sat., 6 p.m., $8; Sun., 3:30 p.m., $6; Dec. 22, 6 p.m., $8. KRISTEN PAGE-KIRBY (EXPRESS)
Wunder Garten, 1101 First St. NE; through Dec. 17, Thursdays, 4-8 p.m., FridaysSundays, noon-8 p.m.
This beer garden has reinvented itself as a winter garden with fire pits and hot toddies. In addition to a market and a Christmas tree lot, Wunder Garden is offering DIY craft workshops and photos with Santa.
Downtown Holiday Market
Eighth and F streets NW; through Dec. 23, noon-8 p.m.
More than 150 exhibitors rotate through the booths during this 13-year-strong tradition, so if you don’t find the handbag or wool gloves you seek, come back another day. The market also has live music and food vendors.
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German Armed Forces Command, 11150 Sunrise Valley Drive, Reston, Va.; Thu., 4-9 p.m.
Germany’s famous Christmas markets get a local counterpart at the Reston office of the German armed forces. In addition to stands selling crafts and ornaments, there’s German music and a beer garden.
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Q. My cat Turtle yowls all day long when she’s bored, and it drives the neighbors crazy. I’ve bought her food-based cat puzzles and she solves them immediately. For Hanukkah, I want to get her a toy that will keep her engaged for more than two seconds. MY CAT IS HIGHER-MAINTENANCE THAN A BABY
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It’s that time of the year when you might find yourself in a frenzied state trying to check those last few people off your holiday shopping list. You’re not the only one: A few of us at the office have hit a roadblock in our search for a special something for that
Q. My dad is the best, but I can never find the right thing to get him. He’s a minimalist, but if he has his eye on something, he’ll usually just buy it for himself. He’s also into sports (read: Tom Brady), film (read: Al Pacino movies) and cooking (read: grilling). MY DAD IS LITERALLY THE
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A. If your dad loves grilling, he needs the best grill, says Victor Albisu, chef and owner of the fire-friendly restaurants Del Campo and Taco Bamba. And that’s the Big Green Egg. “It’s one of the best things on the market right now,” Albisu says. “Once you get it on your deck, you’ll never want anything else.” Since we’re not sure you love your father enough to spend $400 to $1,200 on a grill, we sought a second opinion from
ball of energy, Courtney Stamm, owner of the petcentric boutique The Cheeky Puppy (1709 Connecticut Ave. NW), suggests getting her The Cat Ball ($55-$99, thecatball.com), a bed that’s also a cushioned orb with two openings on the sides. “Cats like to hide under things and pop out from under things, so
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Deadspin and GQ’s Drew Magary, who wrote a book about parenting called “Someone Could Get Hurt.” “As a dad, the only thing I ever want is to be left the hell alone,” Magary says. “When people get me crap now, it’s either booze or some sort of office supply I find myself suddenly needing. Otherwise, I just wanna sit and not be bothered.” That gift is priceless.
A. The way to go here might just be a minimalist stocking stuffer. “I’m a big fan of little things,” says Rob Pegoraro, a Virginia-based freelance tech writer for Yahoo Finance and USA Today. “If you’re thinking, ‘I don’t know if I’d buy this for myself, but it looks neat’ — boom, there’s your gift.” His pick is a Universal 2nd Factor, aka a U2F, which is essentially a USB security
key fob that you can pair with apps like Facebook, Google and Dropbox. “It’s like the two-step verification you use when you get a text message to your phone, but this has one advantage — if you lose your phone, you’re not out of luck,” he says. He recommends opting for one certified by security group FIDO, like the FIDO U2F Security Key from Yubico ($18, yubico.com).
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The Plant Lady Q. I’m desperate to find a gift for my mom’s other children: her garden of approximately 8 million plants. Her windowsills are littered with flowerpots I’ve gotten her over the years, filled with succulents, leafy greens and cactuses grown with a green thumb that I unfortunately didn’t inherit. MOTHER NATURE’S CHILD
A. It seems like your mom has the plants covered, so Lily Cox, founder of the Bloomingdalebased plant and flower business A Strange Flower, suggests “upgrading her gardening kit.” Head to Little Leaf, a plant and flower shop with locations in Logan Circle (1401 S St. NW) and Union Market (1309 Fifth St. NE) to get Kikkerland’s gold vintage watering can ($36), or nab a pair of “totally
mom-worthy” pink-and-white floral twill gardening gloves from Terrain ($38). Cox also leads various plant and flower workshops, so you could get Mom a gift certificate to one of Cox’s macrame plant hanger classes ($60) at The Lemon Collective (3015 Georgia Ave. NW), where she can learn to make a beautiful hanging garden while discovering creative ways to save space.
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Repeal Day Ball The biggest event on Washington’s cocktail calendar is this swinging party celebrating the 84th anniversary of the end of Prohibition. The biggest names in local bartending mix exclusive drinks throughout the venue, while special guests include legendary mixologists and authors Dale DeGroff and Jeffrey Morgenthaler. New York’s BlackTail and Houston’s Julep run special
the event but some book signings, classes and demos cost extra, so check metrocookingdc.com before you plot your course. Walter E. Washington Convention Center, 801 Mount Vernon Place NW; Sat., 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Sun., 10 a.m.-5 p.m., $21.50. STAGE
FESTIVALS
MetroCooking DC The city’s annual cooking show returns, offering the chance to meet big-name food stars like local chefs Jose Andres and Carla Hall and “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives” host Guy Fieri. That’s on top of countless cooking demonstrations, food samples, seminars and vendors to shop at. A ticket grants you admission to
Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington DC: ‘The Holiday Show’ The Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington DC’s annual holiday concert has everything you could want this time of year, mixing both the irreverent and the traditional. Yes, you’ll hear multiple ensembles perform gorgeous choral pieces and a cappella doo-wop carols, but with a side of leather-clad reindeer
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top stops
Strauss Symphony of America Bernhard Schneider, conductor (Vienna)
European Singers, Ballet, Ballroom THURSDAY-SATURDAY
Enjoy Waltzes, Polkas & Operetta Excerpts
The Suzanne Farrell Ballet: ‘Forever Balanchine’
Saturday, Dec. 30, 2017 at 3:00 pm 301.581.5100 • strathmore.org Produced by Attila Glatz Concert Productions
Kennedy Center, 2700 F St. NW; Thu. & Fri., 7:30 p.m., Sat., 1:30 & 7:30 p.m., $29-$89.
The Suzanne Farrell Ballet — the Kennedy Center’s own company — is disbanding after a series of final performances, dubbed “Forever Balanchine” in honor of acclaimed choreographer George Balanchine, Farrell’s mentor. Two programs of his works — with such gems as “Chaconne” and “Tzigane” — will be staged over four shows with help from the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra.
-B ring Out The ChampagneChampagne B runch Weekends Unlimited Champagne by the Glass Saturdays – A-La-Carte $29.95 Sunday – Buffet $38.95 Voted 2016 “TOP TEN” Best Brunches Also Served New Year’s Eve - Sunday, December 31
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Holiday Steak Dinner $18.95 and an over-the-top take on “The Nutcracker.” Lincoln Theatre, 1215
of songs. 9:30 Club, 815 V St. NW; Mon., 7 p.m., $20.
U St. NW; Sat. through Dec. 17, $25-$65.
Mon. MUSIC
Hiss Golden Messenger
I St. NW; Wed., 7 p.m., $15.
Wed. BOOKS
Mike Solomonov and Steven Cook, ‘Federal Donuts’ Mediterranean-spiced doughnuts may sound odd on paper, but not in the hands of restaurateurs Michael Solomonov and Steven Cook. The pair behind Philadelphia’s acclaimed modern Israeli restaurant Zahav have turned their Federal Donuts into another Philly dining destination. Now, they want to show you how to re-create their fried dough goodies at home with “Federal Donuts: The (Partially) True Spectacular Story.” They’ll discuss
MUSIC
An Acoustic Christmas with Over the Rhine Linford Detweiler and Karin Bergquist, the husband-and-wifeduo behind the folky, Ohio-based band Over the Rhine, are drawn to Christmas music: They’ve recorded three albums of carols and their own seasonal compositions. The band takes its act on the road each December, playing songs that capture both the joy and loneliness of this special time of the year. The Birchmere, 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria; Wed., 7:30 p.m., $29.50.
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Happy Hour $3-$4-$5-$6-$7 Appetizers, Martinis & Drinks - 4PM-7PM
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New Year’s Eve Celebration Dinner $67.50* per person - Four Courses Includes Unlimited Champagne By The Glass Multiple Entrée Options – Live DJ and Dancing Served 7:00 To 10:30 PM *Tax and Gratuities NOT included
17th & Rhode Island Ave. NW 202-872-1126 www.BBGWDC.com
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Hiss Golden Messenger leader M.C. Taylor sees new album “Hallelujah Anyhow” as a collection of songs about hope rather than a protest album, even though it was mostly written and recorded in the wake of last year’s election. No matter how you view it, there’s an urgency to the folk rock songs, which draw influences from Tom Petty, Van Morrison and more. For Hiss Golden Messenger’s tour behind the set, the band is mixing things up every night and digging deep into Taylor’s growing catalog
the book — and their business — at Sixth and I with The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg. Sixth and I, 600
Served Nightly* –Thru December 30 Caesar or House Salad, 10oz. NY Steak and Fries
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B FEATURED LISTING B CPAA Productions Ltd. presents
Image China: Dragon Boat Racing
Fri., February 2 at 8:00
Set in 1930s China against the backdrop of the Japanese occupation, the Wenhua Award-winning dance drama follows two lovers whose passion for each other is equaled only by their passion for music. It tells the story of how one of the finest and most famous Cantonese compositions inspired an entire nation.
Sat., February 3 at 2:00 & 8:00 Sun., February 4 at 2:00
Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater Washington, DC
$30$150
“A Stormy Sea of Love and Song” - New York Times
FREE
Early Seating is advised! Holiday Reception follows the performance.
$12-60
Show opens this Saturday! Family friendly!
Tickets $19-$26
Free Parking on Lot B
(202) 467-4600 kennedy-center.org/tickets/
HOLIDAY EVENTS A Festival Of Nine Lessons and Carols
A Quebec Christmas Revels
Sunday, December 10 at 5 pm
Dec 9-17, 2017 matinee & evening shows
Celebrate the season in the tradition of King’s College, Cambridge, England with this beloved service sung in the beauty of candlelight with music by Rutter and Willcocks and traditional carols for all to sing! Join our cast of over 100, ages 8-85! Journey into the magic of the Quebec winter holidays and enjoy traditional tunes, toe-tapping dances, foot-stomping instrumentals, a spirited story with a flying canoe, sing-along carols and more. Welcome Yule!
Fri, Dec 8 &16 at 7:30 Encore Theatrical Arts Project Presents
Christmas at Quigleys
FOLGERCONSORT
Seasonal Early Music of Germany
Sat, Dec 9 &16 at 12:00, 4:00, & 7:30 Sun, Dec 10 &17 at 12:00 & 4:00
December 15 - 23
with viol consort Arcadia Viols and vocal ensemble Cathedra
Miracle on 34th Street The Musical
The Uncut Coming of Christ
November 16January 7, 2018
Saturday, Dec. 9 & 16 at noon & 6 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 10 & 17 at 6:30 p.m.
ETAP presents an original Song and Dance Musical that will put a twinkle in your eye and a bounce in your step. Appropritae for audiences of all ages
Celebrate the season with evocative Advent and holiday music from 15th through 17th-century Germany in the Folger’s festively decorated theater. “The best Christmas concert in DC” performs the music of Praetorius, Schütz, Schein, among others. This musical adaptation of the classic film is the holiday tale of a young girl who doubts the existence of Santa Claus. The perfect holiday treat for the entire family. Celebrate the reason for the season at a spectacular extravaganza featuring original music, great singing and awesome acting! This annual tradition is suitable for the family and folks of all ages, with a fantastic pre-show that includes live animals, characters, snacks and more! Don’t miss it! FREE!
St John’s Episcopal Church Georgetown 3240 O St. NW 202-338-1796 www.stjohnsgeorgetown.org
Lisner Auditorium 730 21st Street NW Washington, DC 20052 www.revelsdc.org
Richard J. Ernst Theatre 8333 Little River Turnpike Annandale, VA. 22003 www.encore-tap.org Tel: (703) 222-5511
Folger Theatre 201 East Capitol St., SE, DC 202.544.7077 www.folger.edu/consort Toby’s Dinner Theatre of Columbia 410.730.8311 Tobysdinnertheatre.com FBCG Worship Center 600 Watkins Park Drive, Upper Marlboro, MD 20774 301-773-3600 www.fbcglenarden.org/uncut
$50,
Community Sing on Dec. 17 at 4pm Discounts available. See website.
Call for tickets and info.
Dreams do come true, if you believe!
FREE!
Doors open one hour early for the fabulous “Bethelem Marketplace” before each show!
THEATRE A Tuna Christmas by Ed Howard, Joe Sears, & Jaston Williams
Through Dec 10 Fri & Sat at 7:30pm Sat & Sun at 2pm
Round House Theatre presents
Nov 29 – Dec 24, 2017
The Book of Will
Tues – Thu at 7:30 pm Fri & Sat at 8 pm Sat & Sun at 2 pm
By Lauren Gunderson Directed by Ryan Rilette
Two actors portray 22 characters in the 3rd smallest town in Texas in this hilarious satire. What if Shakespeare’s works had been lost forever? After the death of their friend and mentor, two actors are determined to compile the First Folio and preserve the words that shaped their lives. They’ll just have to borrow, beg, and band together to get it done.
The Callan Theatre 3801 Harewood Rd NE Washington, D.C. 20017 parlorroomtheater.com Round House Theatre 4545 East-West Highway Bethesda, MD 20814 240.644.1100 roundhousetheatre.org
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$16 Advance $20 Door
Featuring Dillon & Thomas DiSalvo
Tickets from $30
Written by the playwright of last season’s runaway hit Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley,
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THEATRE Curve of Departure Written by Rachel Bonds Directed by Mike Donahue
Duke Ellington’s Neighborhood
Foolish Fairytales
Now through Jan.7
3 matinees only! Sat, 12/9 at 12:30pm Sat, 12/9 at 2:30pm Sun, 12/10 at 1:30pm December 8 – 23 Fridays @6:30pm Saturdays @ 1pm & 3pm
The night before a funeral, family members share a single hotel room, struggling to prepare for the next day—and their uncertain futures ahead.
Studio Theatre 1501 14th Street NW Washington, DC 20005 202.332.3300, studiotheatre.org
$20-$85
Come groove along with the Duke’s jazz combo! Take your kids on an interactive journey and discover how a local hero became an international star
GALA Hispanic Theatre 3333 14th St. NW, WDC Inseries.org 202-204-7763 Parking garage at Giant
GA$25 SE $23 Stu$15
Hilariously Ever After!
Capitol Hill Arts Workshop 545 7th St SE WDC 20003 www.factionoffools.org
"Bonds has a unique sensitivity to dialogue..." —DC Metro Theatre Arts (about The Wolfe Twins) For group rates call 202-2047763
$10 $20
PERFORMANCES
Marine Big Band
Come enjoy a jazzy holiday set-list with big band arrangements of “Joy to the World,” “Christmas Bells Are Ringing,” “Let It Snow!,” “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” Ellington & Strayhorn’s arrangement of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutracker Suite, and more!
Sunday, Dec. 10 at 2 p.m.
Bowie Center for the Performing Arts 15200 Annapolis Road Bowie, MD 202-433-4011 www.marineband.marines.mil
FREE, no tickets required
Free parking is available
MUSIC - CHAMBER Dumbarton Concerts Presents
Barnes & Hampton Celtic Consort
Linn Barnes and Allison Hampton on lute, guitar, Celtic harp; Joseph Cunliffe on flute; Steven Bloom with percussion; Robert Aubrey Davis with poetry including Dylan Thomas’s A Child’s Christmas in Wales.
December 9 at 4pm and 8pm December 10 at 4pm
A Celtic Christmas
Dumbarton Concerts Dumbarton United Methodist Church 3133 Dumbarton St. NW Washington, DC 20007 202-965-2000 Dumbartonconcerts.org
$42 Adult $39 Senior
202-9652000
National Presbyterian Church 4101 Nebraska Avenue Washington, DC 20016 Free parking available.
$15-50 Group and student disc. avail.
For more information, visit citychoir.org or call (571) 206-8525
National City Christian Church 5 Thomas Circle, NW childrenschorusdc.org
$15-50
Reserved seating, including ADA; Child, Premium available. 80 minutes, no intermission.
National Presbyterian Church 4101 Nebraska Ave, NW (202)429-2121 www.bachconsort.org
tickets $25$69, 18 and under $10,1838 pay your age
Free pre-concert lecture
MUSIC - CHORAL The Holly and the Ivy: Music for Christmas
Sunday, December 17, 4:30 PM
TCCW’s annual holiday concert brims with seasonal cheer and traditional favorites. Join us and this year’s Partner in Song, A CAPPELLA! from James Hubert Blake HS, for holiday favorites as well as works by Vaughan Williams, Duruflé, Whitacre, and more!
Sunday, December 10, 4 p.m.
The 180 singers of Washington’s premier children’s chorus are truly “voices of light” to all, bringing joy and hope through song. Featuring the Concert Chorus, Chamber Ensemble, Young Men’s Ensemble, Bel Canto Chorus, and Treble Chorus in their annual holiday concert.
Robert Shafer, Artistic Director
Children’s Chorus of Washington Presents:
Voices of Light a holiday concert
MUSIC - CONCERTS Washington Bach Consort
Celebration: Christmas Oratorio Dana Marsh, Conductor
Saturday December 9 6:00 pm
Conducted by Artistic Dir. candidate Dana Marsh, Bach's narrative account of the Christmas story includes some of his most lavish and varied writing for chorus, soloists, and orchestra. Feat:Kate Vetter Cain, soprano~Kristen Dubenion-Smith, alto ~Robert Petillo, tenor~Steven Combs, bass
Free parking
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going out guide Selected listings from goingoutguide.com. Head online for venue information and more events and activities!
Sound
The Birchmere: Dar Williams, 7:30 p.m., through Dec. 9.
FRIDAY 9:30 Club: No Scrubs: ‘90s Dance Party with Will Eastman and Brian Billion, 10 p.m.
THURSDAY
The Howard Theatre: A Darlene Love Christmas, 8 p.m.
Bethesda Blues & Jazz Supper Club: Landau Murphy Jr.’s Holiday Show,
The Kennedy Center: Megan Hilty,
Black Cat: Incredible Change, Honest Haloway and Mystery Friends, 7:30 p.m.
8 p.m.
U Street Music Hall: Rico Nasty, 7
Gypsy Sally’s: Rumpke Mountain Boys,
Black Cat: The Interrupters, SWMRS
the Brokedown Hustlers, 8:30 p.m.
and the Regrettes, 8 p.m.
p.m.; Roni Size, Slant vs. Ken Lazee, Kian Asamoah, Brothers Brau x Locks, 11 p.m.
Lincoln Theatre: Robert Earl Keen,
DC9: The Score, Castlecomer, 7 p.m.; The NeedlExchange, Vanniety Kills, 10:30 p.m.
MilkBoy ArtHouse: Donny McCaslin Group, 7 p.m.
SATURDAY 9:30 Club: Gary Numan, Me Not You,
Gypsy Sally’s: New Potato Caboose,
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6:30 p.m.
8 p.m., through Dec. 9.
9 p.m.
Pearl Street Warehouse: Hayley
Library of Congress: McCoy Tyner
Jane and the Primates, 7 p.m.
Trio, Joe Lovano, 8 p.m.
The Fillmore: Shooter Jennings, Jason
Pearl Street Warehouse: Danny
Boland, 8 p.m.
Barnes Trio, 8:30 p.m.
U Street Music Hall: Busty and the
Rock & Roll Hotel: Foreign Air, Shaed
Bass, Caye, 7 p.m.; Truth, 10:30 p.m.
and Dizzy, 8 p.m.
Hot 99.5’s Jingle Ball: Kesha, above, is among the headliners at D.C. radio station Hot 99.5’s annual star-studded holiday show Monday at Capital One Arena. Other established (and rising) pop stars on the bill include emo rockers Fall Out Boy, Maryland-bred rapper Logic, EDM producer Zedd, and Camila Cabello and Liam Payne, a pair of singers who, respectively, used to be in Fifth Harmony and One Direction.
6 p.m.; Bear Grillz, Phase One, Dirt Monkey and Kompany, 10 p.m.
Bethesda Blues & Jazz Supper Club: King Soul, 8 p.m. Black Cat: Governess, Kid Claws and Bacchae, 9 p.m. DC9: Matt Pond PA, Ricky Lewis and Heatmap, 9:30 p.m. CONTINUED ON PAGE 36
MUSIC - CONCERTS Chamber Players Series
U.S. Navy Concert Band
Tues, Dec 19, 6 p.m.
Join members of The U.S. Air Force Band as they present an Evening of Music for Mixed Chamber Ensembles.
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Millennium Stage F Street NW, Washington, DC
Friday and Saturday, Jan. 12 - 13
Join us for the 40th annual Saxophone Symposium, held Jan. 12 – 13 at George Mason University. For more information on these two days of performances and educational events, please visit our website.
George Mason University Center for the Arts 4400 University Drive Fairfax, Va. 202-433-3366 www.navyband.navy.mil
Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30pm
A musical, political satire. We put the MOCK in Democracy! www.capsteps.com Info: 202.312.1555
Free and open to the public. No tickets
www.usaf band.af.mil
Free, no tickets required
Sign up for Concert Alerts on our website or text “navyband” to 22828!
$36
Discounts available for groups of 10+. 202-312-1427
COMEDY Orange is the New Barack
Ronald Reagan Building 1300 Pennsylvania Ave, NW Tix available at 202.397.SEAT ticketmaster.com
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Now on sale for March 2018: Jim Norton
December 7-9
Ron Funches Giggle it up with one of comedy's most distinctive voices. Five shows, $25 tickets.
HOPE FREEDOM
A STORY OF THE SONG OF
“ELICITS WIDESPREAD GASPS AND CHEERING FROM THE AUDIENCE!”
December 8
DMV Showcase
December 9
ComedySportz improv
December 14-17
Hypnotist Flip Orley
December 15
Hey Frase podcast
December 19
Merry Murder Mystery
December 21-23
Judah Friedlander
December 28-30
Finesse Mitchell
December 31
New Year's Eve celebration
January 5-7
Ryan Davis
-The Washington Post
“Nothing short of AMAZING!”
202.296.7008 dcimprov.com Metro: Farragut North
Join us for the 24th Annual Dibner Library Lecture
The Glass Universe: A Unique Scientific Library featuring Dava Sobel
Photo by
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Thursday, December 14, 2017 5:00 pm Lecture Hall S. Dillon Ripley Center 1100 Jefferson Dr, SW Washington, DC 20560 This event is free and open to the public
For questions, contact the Smithsonian Libraries at silrsvp@si.edu or 202.633.2241
STRICTLY LIMITED ENGAGEMENT
NOW - JANUARY 7 TH PLAYING AT MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE’S WORLD STAGE THEATER WASHINGTON, D.C.
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goingoutguide.com CONTINUED FROM PAGE 34
Large, 8 p.m.
Capital One Arena: Andrea Bocelli,
Gypsy Sally’s: The Shack Band,
The Anthem: Fantasia, Mali Music,
7:30 p.m.
FeelFree and Psylo Joe, 8:30 p.m.
8 p.m.
DC9: Michl, Mack, 8:30 p.m.
Pearl Street Warehouse: Chopteeth,
The Fillmore: Sister Hazel, White Ford
Sixth & I Historic Synagogue: Jake
8:30 p.m.
Bronco, 7:30 p.m.
Bugg, Shelby Blondell, 8 p.m.
Rock & Roll Hotel: The World Is a
The Kennedy Center: NPR’s A Jazz
The Birchmere: William Smooth
Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die, Two Inch Astronaut and Broken Hills, 8 p.m.
Piano Christmas, 7 p.m.
Wardlaw, 7:30 p.m.
Sixth & I Historic Synagogue: Storm
Campbell and Teresa Williams, 7:30 p.m.
TUESDAY Black Cat: Cinema Hearts, New Holland and Julian, 7:30 p.m.
U Street Music Hall: Cousin Stizz, Levi Carter, 7 p.m.
WEDNESDAY
Mansion at Strathmore: Robyn Helzner Trio, 7:30 p.m., through Dec. 14.
Savoy, 7 p.m.
9:30 Club: The White Buffalo, Suzanne
National Archives: U.S. Navy Band
7 p.m.
The Hamilton: Emmylou Harris, Larry
Santo, 7 p.m.
Brass Quintet, 7 p.m.
www.amctheatres.com/
The Disaster Artist (R) AMC Independent;Recliners;Reserved Seating: 7:00-9:40 Justice League (PG-13) CC/DVS;Recliners;Reserved Seating: 1:00-2:00-4:00-8:20 Thor: Ragnarok (PG-13) CC/DVS;No Green Or Red Tickets;Recliners;Reserved Seating: 12:45-4:00-7:10-10:15 Coco (PG) CC/DVS;No Green Or Red Tickets;Recliners;Reserved Seating: 1:30-4:307:15-9:15 Murder on the Orient Express (PG-13) CC/DVS;Recliners;Reserved Seating: 1:454:40-7:30-9:10 Blade Runner 2049 (R) CC/DVS;Recliners;Reserved Seating: 12:40 Wonder (PG) CC/DVS;Recliners;Reserved Seating: 12:40-3:30-7:30-10:15 A Bad Moms Christmas (R) CC/DVS;Recliners;Reserved Seating: 1:45-4:30-7:05-10:15 Daddy's Home 2 (PG-13) CC/DVS;Recliners;Reserved Seating: 2:15-5:00-7:45-10:15 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (R) AMC Independent;CC/ DVS;Recliners;Reserved Seating: 1:25-4:15-7:10-9:55 Justice League in 3D (PG-13) CC/DVS;RealD 3D;Recliners;Reserved Seating: 5:15 Roman J. Israel, Esq. (PG-13) CC/DVS;Recliners;Reserved Seating: 1:15-4:20-7:1510:10 Lady Bird (R) AMC Independent;Recliners;Reserved Seating: 1:20-4:00-6:45-9:40 Coco 3D (PG) CC/DVS;No Green Or Red Tickets;RealD 3D;Recliners;Reserved Seating: 6:15-10:15 Coco: The IMAX 2D Experience (PG) No Green Or Red Tickets;Reserved Seating: 12:30-3:30 Pitch Perfect Treble Marathon Dolby Cinema at AMC Prime;Recliners;Reserved Seating: 2:00-7:00
AMC Loews Uptown 1
www.amctheatres.com/
Murder on the Orient Express (PG-13) CC/DVS: 2:00-4:45-7:30
AMC Mazza Gallerie
www.amctheatres.com/
The Disaster Artist (R) AMC Independent: (!) 7:00 Justice League (PG-13) CC/DVS: 1:50-7:30 Thor: Ragnarok (PG-13) CC/DVS;No Green Or Red Tickets: 1:20-4:20-7:20 Coco (PG) No Green Or Red Tickets: (!) 1:10-4:10 Murder on the Orient Express (PG-13) CC/DVS: 1:30-4:15-8:00 Daddy's Home 2 (PG-13) CC/DVS: 2:50 The Man Who Invented Christmas (PG) AMC Independent;CC/DVS: (!) 12:30-3:00-5:30 Justice League in 3D (PG-13) CC/DVS;RealD 3D: 4:40 Coco 3D (PG) CC/DVS;No Green Or Red Tickets;RealD 3D: (!) 7:10 Wonder (PG) 12:00-2:20-5:00-7:40
Avalon Theatre 5612 Connecticut Ave
www.theavalon.org
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (R) 2:00-4:45-7:30 Lady Bird (R) 1:00-3:15-5:30-7:45
Landmark Atlantic Plumbing Cinema 807 V Street, NW
www.landmarktheatres.com/
Justice League (PG-13) CC/DVS;Handicap Accessible;Hard of Hearing: 12:05-12:152:25-4:50-7:20-9:50-10:00 Thor: Ragnarok (PG-13) CC/DVS;Handicap Accessible;Hard of Hearing: 12:00-2:305:00-7:25-7:35-10:10 Murder on the Orient Express (PG-13) CC/DVS;Handicap Accessible;Hard of Hearing: 11:50-2:15-2:40-4:40-5:00-7:10-9:35 Roman J. Israel, Esq. (PG-13) CC/DVS;Handicap Accessible;Hard of Hearing: 11:552:25-4:55-7:30-10:05 Blade Runner 2049 (R) CC/DVS;Handicap Accessible;Hard of Hearing: 12:15-3:307:00-10:15
Landmark E Street Cinema 555 11th St NW
www.landmarktheaters.com/
God's Own Country Handicap Accessible;Hard of Hearing: 1:15-4:15-9:50 The Divine Order (Die gottliche Ordnung) (NR) Ends Thursday;Handicap Accessible;Hard of Hearing;Subtitled: 12:45-3:00-5:15-7:30-9:45 The Killing of a Sacred Deer (R) CC/DVS;Handicap Accessible;Hard of Hearing: 4:10 Wonder Wheel (PG-13) Handicap Accessible;Hard of Hearing: 7:30-9:50 Darkest Hour (PG-13) CC/DVS;Handicap Accessible;Hard of Hearing: 7:00-9:45 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (R) CC/DVS;Handicap Accessible;Hard of Hearing: 12:30-1:00-3:30-4:00-6:30-9:15 The Man Who Invented Christmas (PG) CC/DVS;Handicap Accessible;Hard of Hearing: 1:20-4:20 The Florida Project (R) CC;Handicap Accessible;Hard of Hearing: 1:10 Lady Bird (R) CC/DVS;Handicap Accessible;Hard of Hearing: 1:00-2:15-3:15-5:307:45-9:00-9:55 The Shape of Water (R) CC/DVS;Handicap Accessible;Hard of Hearing;Partially Subtitled: 7:00-9:45
Landmark West End Cinema 2301 M St NW
Rogers and Wade Bowen, 8 p.m.
SUNDAY
DISTRICT
5300 Wisconsin Ave. NW
Mighty Pines, 8 p.m.
Lincoln Theatre: Kip Moore, Randy
9:30 Club: Mogwai, Xander Harris,
AMC Loews Georgetown 14
3426 Connecticut Ave N.W.
Gypsy Sally’s: Cranford Hollow, the
The Fillmore: Jagged Edge, London
Local movie times 3111 K Street N.W.
Black Cat: Bad Moves, Still a Great Night and Park Snakes, 7:30 p.m.
www.landmarktheaters.com/
Jane Handicap Accessible;Hard of Hearing: 1:45-7:00 Loving Vincent (PG-13) Handicap Accessible;Hard of Hearing: 1:00-3:15-5:30-7:45 Thelma Handicap Accessible;Hard of Hearing;Subtitled: 1:15-4:15-7:15 The Square (R) CC;Handicap Accessible;Hard of Hearing;Partially Subtitled: 3:45
(!) No Pass/No Discount Ticket Regal Gallery Place Stadium 14 701 Seventh Street Northwest
www.regmovies.com/
Justice League (PG-13) CC/DVS;Recliner;Stadium: 1:00-3:55-6:55-9:55 Thor: Ragnarok (PG-13) CC/DVS;Recliner;Stadium: 12:40-3:45-6:45-9:45 The Star (PG) CC/DVS;Stadium: 12:30-1:20-2:45-5:00-7:15 Coco (PG) CC/DVS;No Passes;Recliner;Stadium: 12:00-3:00-6:05-9:05 Murder on the Orient Express (PG-13) CC/DVS;Recliner;Stadium: 12:05-2:50-5:408:35 George Takei's Allegiance on Broadway (NR) No Pass/SS;Stadium: 7:30 A Bad Moms Christmas (R) CC/DVS;Stadium: 3:55-10:30 Daddy's Home 2 (PG-13) CC/DVS;Stadium: 12:25-3:05-5:35-8:05-10:35 Justice League in 3D (PG-13) 3D;CC/DVS;No Passes;Stadium: 9:30 Roman J. Israel, Esq. (PG-13) CC/DVS;Stadium: 1:15-4:10-5:55-10:45 The Disaster Artist (R) CC/DVS;Stadium: 12:00-2:30-5:10-7:45-10:15 Justice League (PG-13) CC/DVS;Stadium: 12:00-3:00-9:00 Coco (PG) CC/DVS;OC;Recliner;Stadium: 1:00 Wonder (PG) CC/DVS;Stadium: 12:55-3:45-6:45-9:45 Coco (PG) CC/DVS;Recliner;Stadium: 4:05-7:05-10:05
Smithsonian - Lockheed Martin IMAX Theater 601 Independence Avenue SW
www.si.edu/imax
D-Day: Normandy 1944 3D (NR) 2:40 A Beautiful Planet 3D (G) 4:20 Aircraft Carrier: Guardians of the Sea 3D (NR) 11:00-1:15-3:30 Dunkirk: The IMAX 2D Experience (PG-13) 7:00 Dream Big: Engineering Our World: An IMAX 3D Experience 12:25 Journey to Space 3D (NR) 10:25-11:50-2:05-5:15 Justice League: The IMAX 2D Experience (PG-13)
MARYLAND
AFI Silver Theatre Cultural Center 8633 Colesville Road
www.afi.com/silver
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (R) 12:00-2:20-4:40-7:05 Little Harbour (Piata lod) (NR) 5:10 Let the Sunshine In (Un Beau Soleil Intérieur)7:00 A Violent Life (Une vie violente) (NR) 9:20 Lady Bird (R) 11:20-1:20-3:20-5:20-7:20-9:40 You Disappear (Du forsvinder)9:00 Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) (NR)
AMC Center Park 8
4001 Powder Mill Rd.
www.amctheatres.com/
Justice League (PG-13) CC/DVS;Recliners;Reserved Seating: 12:15-1:30-3:15-6:157:15-9:15 Thor: Ragnarok (PG-13) CC/DVS;No Green Or Red Tickets;Recliners;Reserved Seating: 12:45-3:45-6:45-9:45 Coco (PG) CC/DVS;No Green Or Red Tickets;Recliners;Reserved Seating: (!) 12:00-6:00 Murder on the Orient Express (PG-13) CC/DVS;Recliners;Reserved Seating: 12:303:30-6:15-9:10 Wonder (PG) CC/DVS;Recliners;Reserved Seating: 1:00-3:45-6:30-9:30 Daddy's Home 2 (PG-13) CC/DVS;Recliners;Reserved Seating: 2:00-4:30-7:00-9:30 Justice League in 3D (PG-13) CC/DVS;RealD 3D;Recliners;Reserved Seating: 4:1510:00 Roman J. Israel, Esq. (PG-13) CC/DVS;Recliners;Reserved Seating: 12:30-3:20-6:109:00 Coco 3D (PG) No Green Or Red Tickets;RealD 3D;Recliners;Reserved Seating: (!) 3:00-9:00
AMC Magic Johnson Capital Ctr 12 800 Shoppers Way
www.amctheatres.com/
Justice League (PG-13) CC/DVS: 1:15-2:00-4:00-6:45-9:30 Thor: Ragnarok (PG-13) CC/DVS;No Green Or Red Tickets: 3:00-6:10-9:05 The Star (PG) CC/DVS: 12:40-2:45-5:00-7:10-9:20 Jigsaw (R) CC/DVS: 4:30-9:30 Coco (PG) CC/DVS;No Green Or Red Tickets: 12:45-4:45-6:30-7:45-9:30 Murder on the Orient Express (PG-13) CC/DVS: 1:30-4:15-6:50-9:25 Wonder (PG) CC/DVS: 1:10-3:50-6:25-9:10 Daddy's Home 2 (PG-13) CC/DVS: 12:45-3:10-5:45-8:15 Justice League in 3D (PG-13) CC/DVS;RealD 3D: 3:15 Marshall (PG-13) AMC Independent;CC/DVS: 12:30-6:00-9:00 Roman J. Israel, Esq. (PG-13) CC/DVS: 1:00-3:45-6:30-9:20 Tyler Perry's Boo 2! A Madea Halloween (PG-13) CC/DVS: 1:45-7:00 Justice League: The IMAX 2D Experience (PG-13) CC/DVS;Reserved Seating: 5:30-8:30 Coco 3D (PG) CC/DVS;No Green Or Red Tickets;RealD 3D: 3:45 Coco: The IMAX 2D Experience (PG) No Green Or Red Tickets;Reserved Seating: 2:25
Landmark Bethesda Row Cinema 7235 Woodmont Ave
www.landmarktheaters.com/
Wonder Wheel (PG-13) Handicap Accessible;Hard of Hearing;Reserved Seating: 7:30-9:50 Victoria & Abdul (PG-13) CC/DVS;Handicap Accessible;Hard of Hearing;Reserved Seating: 12:55 Last Flag Flying (R) CC/DVS;Handicap Accessible;Hard of Hearing;Reserved Seating: 4:25-9:50 National Theatre Live: Young Marx Handicap Accessible;Hard of Hearing;No Discount Tickets Accepted;No Passes;Reserved Seating: 2:00
Darkest Hour (PG-13) CC/DVS;Handicap Accessible;Hard of Hearing;Reserved Seating: 7:15-9:50 Murder on the Orient Express (PG-13) CC/DVS;Handicap Accessible;Hard of Hearing;Reserved Seating: 1:40-4:15-7:20 The Man Who Invented Christmas (PG) CC/DVS;Handicap Accessible;Hard of Hearing;Reserved Seating: 1:20-3:55-7:15-9:45 The Shape of Water (R) CC/DVS;Handicap Accessible;Hard of Hearing;Partially Subtitled;Reserved Seating: 7:00-9:45 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (R) CC/DVS;Handicap Accessible;Hard of Hearing;Reserved Seating: 1:00-2:00-4:00-4:50-7:00-9:35 Lady Bird (R) CC/DVS;Handicap Accessible;Hard of Hearing;Reserved Seating: 1:001:50-4:40-6:50-7:45-9:25-9:55
Regal Hyattsville Royale Stadium 14 6505 America Blvd.
www.regmovies.com/
Justice League (PG-13) CC/DVS;Stadium: 12:45-1:30-4:00-4:45-7:00-7:45-10:00-10:45 Thor: Ragnarok (PG-13) CC/DVS;Stadium: 1:00-4:15-7:15-10:15 The Disaster Artist (R) CC/DVS;Stadium: 7:00-9:45 The Star (PG) CC/DVS;Stadium: 1:00-2:00-4:30-7:00 Coco (PG) CC/DVS;No Passes;Stadium: 12:30-1:30-3:30-4:30-6:30-7:30-9:30-10:30 Murder on the Orient Express (PG-13) CC/DVS;Stadium: 1:30-4:15-7:15-10:15 Blade Runner 2049 (R) CC/DVS;Stadium: 3:15-6:50-10:30 Wonder (PG) CC/DVS;Stadium: 1:00-3:45-6:30-9:45 A Bad Moms Christmas (R) CC/DVS;Stadium: 3:45-6:15-9:00 Daddy's Home 2 (PG-13) CC/DVS;Stadium: 12:45-3:15-5:45-8:15-10:45 My Friend Dahmer (R) Stadium: 12:30-1:15-4:15-7:15-10:00 Marshall (PG-13) CC/DVS;Stadium: 1:00-3:55 Justice League in 3D (PG-13) 3D;CC/DVS;No Passes;Stadium: 9:30 Roman J. Israel, Esq. (PG-13) CC/DVS;Stadium: 12:30-3:30-6:45-10:00
Xscape Theatres Brandywine 14 7710 Matapeake Business Dr
www.xscapetheatres.com
Justice League (PG-13) AD;CC;PLF;Stadium Seating: (!) 11:20-2:10-5:00-6:30-7:509:20-10:40 Thor: Ragnarok (PG-13) AD;CC;Stadium Seating: 10:20-12:20-1:20-3:30-6:50-10:20 The Star (PG) CC;OC-Open Caption;Stadium Seating: (!) 11:00-1:30-4:10-6:40-9:00 Coco (PG) AD;CC;PLF;Stadium Seating: (!) 10:00-12:50-3:40 Murder on the Orient Express (PG-13) AD;CC;Stadium Seating: (!) 10:05-3:00-6:20-9:40 Wonder (PG) CC;Stadium Seating: (!) 11:10-1:55-4:35-7:20-10:15 Jigsaw (R) AD;CC;Stadium Seating: 10:50 A Bad Moms Christmas (R) AD;CC;Stadium Seating: 10:45-1:45-4:50-7:40-10:30 Daddy's Home 2 (PG-13) AD;CC;No Discounts: (!) 12:10-2:40-5:30-8:10-10:45 Marshall (PG-13) AD;CC;Stadium Seating: 11:30-3:10-6:10-9:10 Roman J. Israel, Esq. (PG-13) AD;CC;Stadium Seating: (!) 10:10-10:50-1:00-1:40-3:504:30-7:00-8:00-9:50 Justice League (PG-13) AD;CC;Stadium Seating: (!) 11:50-2:50-4:20-5:40-7:10-8:3010:00 Coco (PG) AD;CC;Stadium Seating: (!) 10:40-11:40-1:50-4:40-7:30-8:50
VIRGINIA
AMC Courthouse Plaza 8 2150 Clarendon Blvd.
www.amctheatres.com/
The Disaster Artist (R) AMC Independent;Recliners;Reserved Seating: 7:00-9:15 Justice League (PG-13) CC/DVS;Recliners;Reserved Seating: 1:30-4:15-7:00-9:45 Thor: Ragnarok (PG-13) CC/DVS;No Green Or Red Tickets;Recliners;Reserved Seating: 1:30-4:20-7:10-10:00 Murder on the Orient Express (PG-13) CC/DVS;Recliners;Reserved Seating: 2:154:50-7:30-10:10 Wonder (PG) CC/DVS;Recliners;Reserved Seating: 1:30-4:10-6:45-9:30 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (R) AMC Independent;CC/ DVS;Recliners;Reserved Seating: 2:00-4:40-7:20-10:00 Daddy's Home 2 (PG-13) CC/DVS;Recliners;Reserved Seating: 2:30-5:00-7:30-10:00 Justice League in 3D (PG-13) CC/DVS;RealD 3D;Recliners;Reserved Seating: 2:30 Roman J. Israel, Esq. (PG-13) CC/DVS;Recliners;Reserved Seating: 1:40-5:15-8:00 A Bad Moms Christmas (R) DVS;Recliners;Reserved Seating: 4:30
AMC Hoffman Center 22 206 Swamp Fox Rd.
www.amctheatres.com/
The Disaster Artist (R) AMC Independent: 7:00-9:30 Coco (PG) CC/DVS;No Green Or Red Tickets: 11:00-12:00-3:00-4:00-9:00-10:00 George Takei's Allegiance on Broadway (NR) Alternative Content: 7:30 Coco 3D (PG) CC/DVS;No Green Or Red Tickets;RealD 3D: 1:00-7:00 Pitch Perfect Treble Marathon Dolby Cinema at AMC Prime;Recliners;Reserved Seating: 12:00-4:00-8:00 Coco (PG) No Green Or Red Tickets;Spanish Spoken: 6:00
Angelika Film Center Mosaic 2911 District Ave
Darkest Hour (PG-13) Alcohol Available;Reserved Seating: 7:45-10:35 Thelma Alcohol Available;Reserved Seating: (!) 11:30-2:05-4:45-10:20 The Shape of Water (R) Alcohol Available;Reserved Seating: 7:30-10:45 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (R) Alcohol Available;Reserved Seating: 10:00-12:35-3:10-5:45-8:20-10:55 Murder on the Orient Express (PG-13) Alcohol Available;Reserved Seating: 10:30-1:153:50-6:45-9:30 The Man Who Invented Christmas (PG) Alcohol Available;Reserved Seating: 11:001:45-4:30
Lady Bird (R) Alcohol Available;Reserved Seating: 10:30-12:45-3:00-5:15-10:00 Roman J. Israel, Esq. (PG-13) Alcohol Available;Reserved Seating: 11:20-2:00-5:15-8:00 Thor: Ragnarok (PG-13) Alcohol Available;Reserved Seating: 10:00-1:00-4:00-7:0010:00 Justice League (PG-13) Alcohol Available;Reserved Seating: 11:15-2:00-5:00 National Theatre Live: Young Marx Alcohol Available;Reserved Seating: 7:00
Arlington Cinema 'N' Drafthouse 2903 Columbia Pike
www.arlingtondrafthouse.com/
Home Alone (PG) 7:45
Regal Ballston Common Stadium 12 671 N. Glebe Road
www.regmovies.com/
Justice League (PG-13) CC/DVS;Recliner;Reserved-Selected;Stadium: 1:00-2:20-4:005:25-7:00-8:30-10:05 Thor: Ragnarok (PG-13) CC/DVS;Recliner;Reserved-Selected;Stadium: 1:10-4:107:15-10:15 The Star (PG) CC/DVS;Recliner;Reserved-Selected;Stadium: 1:15-2:15-4:45-7:10 Murder on the Orient Express (PG-13) CC/DVS;Recliner;Reserved-Selected;Stadium: 1:05-3:45-6:30-9:20 Coco (PG) CC/DVS;No Passes;Recliner;Reserved-Selected;Stadium: 1:00-2:05-3:555:10-6:50-8:15-9:45 Blade Runner 2049 (R) CC/DVS;Recliner;Reserved-Selected;Stadium: 2:25-6:20-10:00 George Takei's Allegiance on Broadway (NR) No Pass/ SS;Recliner;Reserved;Reserved-Selected;Stadium: 7:30 Daddy's Home 2 (PG-13) CC/DVS;Recliner;Reserved-Selected;Stadium: 2:10-4:557:45-10:10 Marshall (PG-13) CC/DVS;Recliner;Reserved-Selected;Stadium: 4:35-7:30-10:15 My Friend Dahmer (R) Recliner;Reserved-Selected;Stadium: 2:30 Justice League in 3D (PG-13) 3D;CC/DVS;No Passes;Recliner;ReservedSelected;Stadium: 9:35 Lady Bird (R) CC/DVS;Recliner;Reserved-Selected;Stadium: 1:55-4:40-7:25-10:00
Regal Kingstowne Stadium 16 & RPX 5910 Kingstowne Towne Ctr
www.regmovies.com/
The Disaster Artist (R) CC/DVS;Stadium: 7:00-9:30 Justice League (PG-13) CC/DVS;No Passes;RPX;Recliner;Reserved-Selected;Stadium: 6:15-9:10 Thor: Ragnarok (PG-13) CC/DVS;Stadium: 12:20-3:20-6:20-9:20 The Star (PG) CC/DVS;Stadium: 12:15-12:50-2:35-4:55-7:50 Coco (PG) CC/DVS;No Passes;RPX;Recliner;Reserved-Selected;Stadium: 12:15-3:15 Murder on the Orient Express (PG-13) CC/DVS;Stadium: 1:10-4:00-6:45-9:40 Wonder (PG) CC/DVS;Stadium: 12:25-1:30-3:10-4:30-6:10-7:15-8:50-10:05 A Bad Moms Christmas (R) CC/DVS;Stadium: 12:30-3:05-5:35-8:05-10:30 Daddy's Home 2 (PG-13) CC/DVS;Stadium: 12:15-2:40-5:10-7:35-10:10 Marshall (PG-13) CC/DVS;Stadium: 3:20-6:30-9:30 My Friend Dahmer (R) Stadium: 1:25-4:15 The Man Who Invented Christmas (PG) CC;Stadium: 12:35-3:30-6:15-9:00 Justice League in 3D (PG-13) 3D;CC/DVS;No Passes;Stadium: 10:25 Roman J. Israel, Esq. (PG-13) CC/DVS;Stadium: 1:15-4:25-7:30-10:30 Lady Bird (R) CC/DVS;Stadium: 12:20-2:45-5:15-7:45-10:15 Justice League (PG-13) CC/DVS;Stadium: 12:40-3:50-7:10-10:00 Coco (PG) CC/DVS;Stadium: 1:00-1:45-4:05-4:45-7:00-7:40-10:05-10:30
Regal Potomac Yard Stadium 16 3575 Potomac Ave
www.regmovies.com/
Justice League (PG-13) CC/DVS;Stadium: 1:20-4:15-7:10-10:10 The Disaster Artist (R) CC/DVS;Stadium: 7:00-9:40 Justice League (PG-13) CC/DVS;No Passes;Stadium: 12:40-3:35-6:35-9:40 Thor: Ragnarok (PG-13) CC/DVS;Stadium: 3:15-6:15-9:15 The Star (PG) CC/DVS;SpanishSub;Stadium: 1:25-6:25 Coco (PG) CC/DVS;No Passes;SpanishSub;Stadium: 1:05-4:05-7:00-10:00 Murder on the Orient Express (PG-13) CC/DVS;Stadium: 12:50-4:00-6:55-9:50 Blade Runner 2049 (R) CC/DVS;Stadium: 2:35-6:05-9:35 Wonder (PG) CC/DVS;Stadium: 1:15-3:55-6:40-9:25 George Takei's Allegiance on Broadway (NR) No Pass/SS;Stadium: 7:30 A Bad Moms Christmas (R) CC/DVS;Stadium: 12:30-2:55-5:30-8:00-10:30 Daddy's Home 2 (PG-13) CC/DVS;Stadium: 12:30-3:00-5:30-8:00-10:30 Marshall (PG-13) CC/DVS;Stadium: 12:45-3:50 My Friend Dahmer (R) Stadium: 1:10-3:45 The Man Who Invented Christmas (PG) CC;Stadium: 12:55-3:30-6:10-9:05 Justice League in 3D (PG-13) 3D;CC/DVS;No Passes;Stadium: 9:00 Roman J. Israel, Esq. (PG-13) CC/DVS;Stadium: 12:40-3:40-6:50-9:55 The Star (PG) CC/DVS;Stadium: 12:30-1:00-4:10 Coco (PG) CC/DVS;No Passes;Stadium: 12:30-1:40-3:25-4:35-6:20-7:30-9:25-10:30
Smithsonian - Airbus IMAX Theater
14390 Air and Space Museum Pkwy www.nasm.si.edu/museum/udvarhazy/ D-Day: Normandy 1944 3D (NR) Stadium Seating: 11:10-4:00 A Beautiful Planet 3D (G) Stadium Seating: 12:35 Aircraft Carrier: Guardians of the Sea 3D (NR) Stadium Seating: 10:20-1:30-3:10 Dunkirk: The IMAX 2D Experience (PG-13) Stadium Seating: 7:00 Dream Big: Engineering Our World: An IMAX 3D Experience Stadium Seating: 2:20 Journey to Space 3D (NR) Stadium Seating: 12:00-4:50 Justice League: The IMAX 2D Experience (PG-13) Stadium Seating:
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National Museum of African American History and Culture: ”More Than a Picture: Selections From the Photography Collection” is an exhibition of more than 150 photographs and related objects that demonstrate the slavery era, Jim Crow, Black Lives Matter and other key historical and cultural events that illuminate African-American life, through Jan. 1.
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Afghanistan, Pakistan, Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia and Japan, through Oct. 1. 1050 Independence Ave. SW.
Anacostia Community Museum:
George Washington University Museum and the Textile Museum:
“Gateways/Portales”: Through the gateways of social justice, community access and public festivals, this exhibition explores the experiences of Latino migrants and immigrants in Washington, Baltimore, Charlotte, N.C., and RaleighDurham, N.C., through Jan. 7. 1901 Fort Place SE.
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery: “Encountering the Buddha: Art and Practice Across Asia”: An exhibition of Buddhist art from India, China,
“The Box Project: Uncommon Threads”: An exhibition of three-dimensional art works that fit inside a standard box; collector and former Textile Museum trustee Lloyd Cotsen challenged 36 fiber artists worldwide to create the works, through Jan. 29; “For the Record: Picturing D.C.”: An exhibition of images that document the city’s urban landscape from the perspective of artists selected through the Historical Society of Washington, D.C.’s annual juried
Are you having money and relationship problems? FREE Workshops on Stress Management, Communication, and Financial Management for COUPLES who have lived together for over a year. Workshops are available in Falls Church, Leesburg, Gaithersburg, College Park, and Bowie.
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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: “Ai Weiwei: Trace at Hirshhorn”: An installation that portrays activists, advocates of free speech and prisoners of conscience in 176 portraits composed of thousands of Lego blocks. The work centers on the artist’s personal experience in 2011, in which he was detained by the Chinese government and kept under surveillance for 81 days and then prohibited from traveling abroad for four years, through Jan. 1; “Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: The Utopian Projects”: An exhibition that features more than CONTINUED ON PAGE 39
Presented by National Theater of Norway Directed by Liv Ullmann Step into a deeply personal and heartbreakingly authentic world of secrets and explore what keeping those secrets does to one’s relationships.
Now through December 9 | Eisenhower Theater Performed in Norwegian with projected English titles. Recommended for age 16 and up.
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Ingmar Bergman (1918–2007) directed more than 60 films and documentaries and more than 170 plays. We invite you to celebrate this groundbreaking artist’s centennial with exclusive opportunities to experience some of his most eminent work reimagined for the stage.
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The Anthem
THIS WEEK’S SHOWS
901 Wharf St. SW, Washington, D.C. Behind the 900 Block of Maine Avenue, SW, on the Waterfront
NEW MEDIA TOURING PRESENTS
Matt Bellassai Everything is Awful Tour This is a seated show. ............... Th DEC 7 No Scrubs: ‘90s Dance Party with DJs Will Eastman and Brian Billion .. F 8 Gary Numan w/ Me Not You Early Show! 6pm Doors........................................... Sa 9 STEEZ PROMO PRESENTS
Bear Grillz w/ Phase One • Dirt Monkey • Kompany Late Show! 10pm Doors.. .. Sa 9 Mogwai w/ Xander Harris................................................................................ Su 10
JUST ANNOUNCED!
Dropkick Murphys
w/ Agnostic Front & Bim Skala Bim.................................................................SAT MARCH 10
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AN EVENING WITH
Hiss Golden Messenger ............................................................................ M 11 The White Buffalo w/ Suzanne Santo........................................................... W 13
THIS SATURDAY! CD ENTERPRISES PRESENTS
Fantasia - Christmas After Midnight w/ Demetria McKinney... DEC 9
DECEMBER
JANUARY
D NIGHT ADDED!
Angel Olsen w/ White Magic.....F 15
w/ Mindless Faith ...........................F 5
Boat Burning: Music for 100 Guitars
ALL GOOD PRESENTS
Victor Wooten Trio feat. Dennis Chambers & Bob Franceschini ...................Sa 16
The Wombats
w/ NAILS • Macabre • Shitfucker .Su 17 This is a seated show. .....................M 18
w/ Blaenavon & Courtship .............M 8 !
D NIGHT ADDED FIRST NIGHT SOLD OUT! SECON
STEEZ PROMO PRESENTS
Ookay .........................................F 22 OTHERFEELS PRESENTS NEXT UP II FEAT.
Tony Kill • Echelon The Seeker • OG Lullabies • Dawkins • FootsXColes • Sugg Savage .Sa 23 U STREET MUSIC HALL PRESENTS
Flosstradamus .....................Th 28 Can’t Feel My Face: 2010s Dance Party with DJs Will Eastman & Ozker with visuals by Kylos ...............F 29
Passion Pit ................................Tu 9 Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven ....Th 11 AN EVENING WITH
The Disco Biscuits Ticket included with purchase of tickets to 1/13 The Disco Biscuits @ The Anthem..F 12
ALL GOOD PRESENTS
Umphrey’s McGee w/ The Marcus King Band................. FEB 15
Portugal. The Man w/ Twin Peaks .................................. FEB 24
THE INAUGURAL NEW YEAR’S EVE
Thievery Corporation
AEG PRESENTS
w/ Gogol Bordello & Trouble Funk..................DEC 31
Tyler, The Creator w/ Vince Staples ............................... FEB 25
Little Big Town
Walk The Moon
w/ Kacey Musgraves & Midland......... MAR 3
w/ Company of Thieves..................... JAN 12
The Disco Biscuits w/ TAUK .JAN 13 POLICE PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS
Justin Moore w/ Dylan Scott... FEB 1 ALL GOOD PRESENTS
Greensky Bluegrass w/ Billy Strings ................................. FEB 3
RJD2 w/ Photay .........................Sa 13 Dorothy ....................................Su 14
Judas Priest w/ Saxon & Black Star Riders.......... MAR 18 AN EVENING WITH
Glen Hansard ...................... MAR 24 Lorde w/ Run the Jewels & Mitski .APRIL 8 Brandi Carlile .......................MAY 19
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ALL GOOD PRESENTS
Collie Buddz w/ Jo Mersa Marley
Lincoln Theatre • 1215 U Street, NW Washington, D.C.
& The Holdup..............................M 15
MANY MORE SHOWS ON SALE!
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A Very Uzi Christmas ....................... DEC 15
SOJA w/ Twiddle & Footwerk....... DEC 29
w/ Visuals by DC guerrilla projectionist Robin Bell .............Su 7
Municipal Waste
w/ Charlotte Cardin & Mikky Ekko.... FEB 13
Lil Uzi Vert
The Dead Milkmen
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Up and Vanished Live
TRILLECTRO PRESENTS
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds .............. FEB 12 BØRNS
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20 maquettes and whimsical models, including architectural structures, allegorical narratives and commissioned outdoor works. The Russian artist couple has been working collaboratively for nearly 30 years, creating installationbased works, through March 4; “Mark Bradford”: A site-specific installation of eight abstract paintings, each more than 45 feet long, encircles the museum’s entire third level. The African-American
artist draws directly from artist Paul Philippoteaux’s 19th-century cyclorama depicting the final charge of the Battle of Gettysburg, Pickett’s Charge, through Nov. 1. Seventh Street and Independence Avenue SW.
National Museum of African Art: “Senses of Time: Video and Film-Based Works of Africa”: Six African artists explore how time is experienced and produced by the body. Bodies stand, climb, dance and dissolve in seven
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National Museum of American History: “Religion in Early America”: An exhibition that explores religious diversity and growth from the Colonial era through the 1840s, including Thomas Jefferson’s “The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth,” which is also known as “The Jefferson Bible”; George Washington’s christening robe from 1732 and Wampum
beads; and the cloak worn by abolitionist Quaker minister Lucretia Mott, through June 4; “Ceramics From the U.S./Mexico Borderlands”: The museum’s “American Stories” exhibition will add artifacts related to different Latino traditions celebrating life and death, including a miniature ofrenda to honor deceased loved ones, through May 4. 14th Street and Constitution Avenue NW.
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Arts: “Inside the Dinner Party Studio”: An exploration of Judy Chicago’s “The Dinner Party” — a work that confronts the erasure of women from history — through archives, documentation and film. The process is illustrated through test objects, designs, documentation and behind-the-scenes footage shot by filmmaker Johanna Demetrakas, through Jan. 5; “Magnetic Fields: Expanding American Abstraction, 1960s to Today”: An exhibition that explores historical and
formal dialogue on abstraction among black women artists, featuring works by more than 20 women, including Mavis Pusey, Shinique Smith, Alma Woodsey Thomas and Chakaia Booker, through Jan. 21; “El Tendedero/The Clothesline Project, D.C.”: An installation that documents the results of “El Tendedero/ The Clothesline Project,“ in which artist Monica Mayer has asked women from different ages, professions and classes to respond to the statement “As a woman,
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layered so that changes in perspective create a parallax (the effect of shifting depth or distance) as viewers move underneath, through Feb. 11; “Murder Is Her Hobby: Frances Glessner Lee and the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death”: An exhibition of Lee’s detailed miniature crime scenes. The dollhousesized dioramas were created in the first half of the 20th century and are still used in forensic training today, through Jan. 28; “Rick Araluce: The Final Stop”: The exhibition is a large-scale installation of an abandoned underground subway platform created by Araluce, an artist and scenic designer based in Seattle, through Jan. 28. 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW.
U.S. Botanic Garden: “Season’s Greenings: Roadside Attractions”: This year’s seasonal model train and plant exhibition recreates iconic sights from across the U.S. including Texas’ Cadillac Ranch, Colorado’s hot-dog-shaped “Coney Island” Hot Dog Stand, South Dakota’s Corn Palace and a botanical version of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. See thousands of blooms throughout the Conservatory, including a showcase of heirloom and newly developed poinsettia varieties, through Jan. 1. 100 Maryland Ave. SW.
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Players present this holiday comedy about Buddy the Elf and his quest to travel from the North Pole to New York City. Moose Lodge, 9612 Fern Edge Lane Lorton, Va., through Dec. 9.
‘Annie’: The holiday 1977 musical, based on the 1920s “Little Orphan Annie” comic strip, is staged by Jason King Jones. Olney Theatre Center, 2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney, Md., through Dec. 31.
‘Crazy for You’: The Tony Awardwinning romantic comedy features music by George and Ira Gershwin. Signature Theatre, 4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington, through Jan. 14.
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An ode to musical genius Duke Ellington that explores his impact on Washington D.C. GALA Hispanic Theatre, 3333 14th St. NW, through Dec. 10.
‘Elf Jr. the Musical’: Northern Virginia
play about a living snowman is staged. All ages. Adventure Theatre MTC, 7300 MacArthur Blvd., Glen Echo, Md., through Dec. 31.
‘Hansel & Gretel’: An all-ages
‘Peekaboo! A Nativity Play’: A
production of the Grimm Brothers fairy tale. Synetic Theater, 1800 S. Bell St., Arlington, through Dec. 23.
comedic take on the classic nativity scene from playwright Anne M. McCaw. The Hub Theatre, 9431 Silver King Court, Fairfax, through Dec. 24.
‘Madeline’s Christmas’: In this
‘Duke Ellington’s Neighborhood’:
‘A Child’s Christmas in Wales and Other Stories‘: An evening of holiday works from Dylan Thomas, Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott and more. Washington Stage Guild at the Undercroft Theatre, 900 Massachusetts Ave. NW, through Dec. 17.
‘Nina Simone: Four Women‘: The play places the activist songstress in the bombed Alabama church where four girls were tragically killed in 1963. The play includes some of Simone’s most popular anthems, including “Mississippi.” Arena Stage, 1101 Sixth St. SW, through Dec. 24.
‘Frosty the Snowman’: The holiday
‘Charlotte’s Web’: E.B. White’s classic children’s story is directed by Kathryn Chase Bryer. Imagination Stage, 4908 Auburn Ave., Bethesda, through Jan. 7.
Directed by Nick Olcott. 1st Stage, 1524 Spring Hill Road, McLean, Va., through Dec. 17.
musical adaptation, Madeline’s schoolmates and tutor are all sick in bed on Christmas Eve. So it’s Madeline to the rescue! And with a bit of magic there is plenty of Christmas cheer. Creative Cauldron, 410 S. Maple Ave., Falls Church, through Dec. 23.
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‘SHAPE UP! A Family Christmas
premiere of the stage adaptation of the 1996 Swedish drama film directed by Liv Ullmann and written by Ingmar Bergman. Performed in Norwegian with projected English titles. The Kennedy Center, 2700 F St. NW, through Dec. 9.
adapted from Chaim Potok’s novel.
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Comedy’: A holiday whodunit with Tip’s neighborhood barbershop in the middle of it. Crossroads Baptist Church Auditorium, 5811 Hoffmans Lane, Falls Church, through Dec. 16.
‘Snow Day’: A live music and silent December 7 Mivos Quartet
December 10 The War and Treaty
December 19 U.S. Air Force Band’s
Chamber Players
production about a young girl named Skip on a snowy winter adventure with a playful elf. The Lab at Convergence, 1819 N. Quaker Lane, Alexandria, through Dec. 16.
‘Soldier Poet’: In the falling city of Aleppo, two American army rangers rescue an injured Syrian woman about to give birth. Anacostia Arts Center, 1231 Good Hope Road SE, through Dec. 21.
‘The Book of Will’: A comedic play
December 7–20
December 15 Diana Gameros
7 THU Mivos Quartet The New York–based group presents a program exploring the unanswered question of Leonard Bernstein’s famous Harvard lectures: Whither music?
Anacostia’s acclaimed 16-member gospel brass and percussion band performs a joyful holiday program.
8 FRI NSO Youth Fellows Participants in the National Symphony Orchestra training program offer a recital of solo performances.
17 SUN Largo High School
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Presented in collaboration with the Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Washington.
10 SUN The War and Treaty The husband-and-wife duo blends roots, folk, gospel, and soul, reaching back through their deep-rooted history to conjure up the strength of their ancestors. IN THE CONCERT HALL 11 MON Family
Night: MERRY TUBACHRISTMAS! 44th anniversary! This holiday tradition features hundreds of local tuba, sousaphone, and euphonium players performing traditional Christmas music. To play, grab your instrument and arrive at 3 p.m. for registration and rehearsal at 4 p.m. Or come later to watch. Free general admission tickets will be distributed in the Hall of Nations starting at approximately 4:30 p.m., up to two tickets per person.
The singer-songwriter, guitarist, and composer performs songs from her new album, Arrullo, a love letter to her homeland made up of 13 standout renditions of classic Mexican songs.
16 SAT Sweet Heaven Kings
Part of Leonard Bernstein at 100.
Join the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Washington Teen Art Program and alumni choir as they present a holiday pageant featuring gospel artist Maurette Clark, violinist Chelsey Green, steel pan drummer Victor Provost, and other special guests.
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Celebrate the holidays with opera from around the world with soprano Soldo, pianist Gligic, and special guest baritone Sacín. Presented in collaboration with the Embassy of Serbia.
13 WED Holiday Vaudeville
In Rejoice!, students re-tell a Christmas classic with a modern interactive presentation through dance, narration, instrumental, and vocal music.
18 MON Everyman Theatre In Lauren Gunderson’s all-female hit play The Revolutionists, when you put former queen Marie Antoinette, assassin Charlotte Corday, playwright Olympe de Gouges, and Caribbean spy Marianne Angelle in a room together, literally ANYTHING can happen—especially big laughs!
Cajun cellist Sean Grissom returns to host an evening of holiday music and laughs featuring juggler Jacob 19 TUE D’Eustachio and the Alexandria Kleztet.
inspired by Shakespeare’s First Folio. Round House Theatre, 4545 East-West Highway, Bethesda, through Dec. 24.
‘The Last Night of Ballyhoo’: A Tony Award-winning dramedy from the writer of “Driving Miss Daisy” about a Jewish family living in Atlanta on the eve of World War II. Theater J, 1529 16th St. NW, through Dec. 31.
‘The Pajama Game’: The musical comedy about a union strike at a pajama plant is directed by Shakespeare Theatre
Company associate artistic director Alan Paul. Arena Stage, 1101 Sixth St. SW, through Dec. 24.
‘The Real Americans’: Playwrightperformer Dan Hoyle’s solo show about traveling the nation cross-country to better understand America’s political divide. Best for ages 14 and older. Atlas Performing Arts Center, 1333 H St. NE, through Dec. 22.
‘The Revolutionists’: A comedic play where heads will roll when former Queen Marie Antoinette, assassin Charlotte Corday, playwright Olympe de Gouges and Caribbean spy Marianne Angelle all gather in a room together. Everyman Theatre, 315 W. Fayette St., Baltimore, through Jan. 7.
The Second City Presents ‘Nothing to Lose (But Our Chains)’: A man goes from being a drug dealer and state convict to making six figures in corporate America. Headlined by comedian Felonious Munk. Woolly Mammoth Theatre, 641 D St. NW, through Dec. 31.
The Second City’s ‘Twist Your Dickens’: A Second City spin on the classic Charles Dickens holiday story. The Kennedy Center, 2700 F St. NW, through Dec. 31.
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The ensemble celebrates Argentina’s 20 WED Nalamala National Tango Day with a lively A jazz, gospel, pop Latina powerhouse, concert of traditional tangos and nuevo this Colombian, three-part harmony tango selections by Astor Piazzolla and vocal group featuring rising stars his contemporaries. Natalia Martinez, Laura Kalop, and Presented in collaboration with the Embassy of Laura Otero celebrates the holidays. Argentina. Holiday event
Presented in collaboration with the Embassy of Colombia.
FOR DETAILS OR TO WATCH ONLINE, VISIT KENNEDY-CENTER.ORG/MILLENNIUM. The Millennium Stage was created and underwritten by James A. Johnson and Maxine Isaacs to make the performing arts accessible to everyone in fulfillment of the Kennedy Center’s mission to its community and the nation. Additional funding for the Millennium Stage is provided by Kim Engel and Family, The Gessner Family Foundation, The Isadore and Bertha Gudelsky Family Foundation, Inc., The Meredith Foundation, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, Dr. Deborah Rose and Dr. Jan A.J. Stolwijk, U.S. Department of Education, and the Millennium Stage Endowment Fund. The Millennium Stage Endowment Fund was made possible by James A. Johnson and Maxine Isaacs, Fannie Mae Foundation, the Kimsey Endowment, Gilbert† and Jaylee† Mead, Mortgage Bankers Association of America and other anonymous gifts to secure the future of the Millennium Stage. Kennedy Center education and related artistic programming is also made possible through the generosity of the National Committee for the Performing Arts and the President’s Advisory Committee on the Arts.
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The Technician will be responsible for all work tickets and scheduled & unscheduled maintenance activities; preventive maintenance work; timely maintenance and repairs of all apartments and common areas, preparation and turnover of vacant units, at least monthly building and property inspections, minor electrical, plumbing and drywall repairs, and maintenance of heating & air conditioning units in the residential units; other related duties.
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The Help Desk Technician will work closely with the Manager, IT to provide technical support for software & hardware issues to all AHC employees. The Technician will keep employee equipment running effectively and troubleshoot a wide range of technical, computer-related issues. There are 200+ users & workstations (multiple sites in Arlington, VA, Silver Spring, MD and Baltimore, MD).
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like Vine 2 is on its way. Dom Hofmann, the co-founder of the now defunct Vine app — which was shut down last January — tweeted the logo “V2” on Wednesday. Then, Twitter account @Vine2Creators appeared and tweeted: “#Vine2 is in production and will be released 2018.” That account is not verified, however. Nonetheless, fans of the six-second looping video app rejoiced. “2 vine 2 furious,” @ cdogwilly wrote. @bleuvaIentine tweeted: “the only thing that can cure my depression is the return of vine.”
Art Openings in
Downtown
Friday, Dec. 8 6-8pm
“On December 5, 2017, you think it’s okay to call this journalist a n-----. I don’t, but I could clap back and say a few things to you. But instead, I’ll let your words, Kathy Rae, speak for themselves.” CBS ATLANTA ANCHOR SHARON REED,
personally calling out on air a viewer who sent her a racist email. The woman called Reed a racial slur for addressing racism in the Atlanta mayor’s race. Reed shared the content of the email and the woman’s name on TV in response.
“This was conceived, reported and written by women. It was fact-checked by women. The video was shot and edited by women. The layout and photo spread were designed by women.” @CHARLOTTEALTER, a correspondent for Time, sharing her pride in the Person of the Year issue, which recognizes those who broke the silence around sexual assault. In the bottom right of the cover photo is the arm of a nameless hospital worker, to represent those who have not been able to come forward.
Superior Court of the District of Columbia
Bethesda
Mental Habilitation Volunteer Advocate Program
Enjoy an art-filled night with artwork by the region’s best artists. Gallery B
Studio B
(located across from the Original Pancake House)
Featuring resident artists Linda Button, Shanthi Chandrasekar, Judy Gilbert Levey and Jackie Hoysted.
7700 Wisconsin Avenue, Suite E
Featuring “between silences” by artist Loriann Signori.
7475 Wisconsin Avenue, Lower Level
For more information, www.bethesda.org or 301-215-6660.
Advocate for Persons with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in the District of Columbia
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fun+games Horoscopes
Scrabble Grams
PAR SCORE 140-150, BEST SCORE 214
Sudoku
DIFFICULT
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Promises are only valuable if they are kept, and you cannot maintain a trusting relationship if you continue to break your word. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) You may be interpreting messages received in the wrong way at this time. Try seeing things in a positive light. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) It’s time to give yourself a little relief from a situation that has proven quite taxing over the past few days. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) You don’t always have to follow the rules to the letter — but take care when you choose to bend yours. WEDNESDAY’S SOLUTION
ARIES (March 21-April 19) You may
be caught between a rock and a hard place today as you attempt to please another and yourself.
WEDNESDAY’S SOLUTION
may not be enough today — but take care that you don’t overindulge simply because you want more of a good thing. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) You may have the opportunity today to put your skills on display — but success will surely depend upon whom you choose to assist you. CANCER (June 21-July 22) You are recognized for doing things the oldfashioned way much of the time — but today you may surprise many by embracing a new method.
FOUR RACK TOTAL Make a 2-7-letter word from the letters in each row. Add points of each word using scoring directions at right. Seven-letter words get a 50-point bonus. Blank tiles used as any letter have no point value. Scrabble is a trademark of Hasbro in the U.S. and Canada.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Once
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POOCH CAFE | PAUL GILLIGAN
47 | 32 TODAY: We’re off to a colder start than Wednesday, with morning temperatures rising through the 30s. But with partly to mostly sunny skies, we’ll see afternoon highs similar to Wednesday, in the mid-40s to near 50. Winds should be light from the west. Look for lows in the upper 20s to low 30s tonight.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) You may have
one or two better ideas today, but the time may not be right for you to introduce them. You must be patient, willing to wait. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) You may feel as though you are farther from home than you have ever been — even though you may be under your roof. What’s really going on?
Need more Sudoku? Find another puzzle in the Comics section of The Post every Sunday and in the Style section Monday through Saturday.
PEARLS BEFORE SWINE | STEPHAN PASTIS
AVG. HIGH: 49 AVG. LOW: 34 SUNRISE: 7:13 a.m.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) You
can look upon another with more tolerance than usual today — and in the process come to a greater understanding of his or her situation.
RECORD HIGH: 79 RECORD LOW: 10 SUNSET: 4:46 p.m.
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
41 | 30
43 | 29
SUNDAY
MONDAY
39 | 28
44 | 25
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Now is
the time to make your desires known. Hide them — from another or yourself — and disappointment is sure to result.
DAILY CODE
today in histor y
WI
1941: During a series of raids in the Pacific, Imperial Japan’s navy launches a pre-emptive attack on the U.S. Navy base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, killing 2,400 people, about half of them on the battleship USS Arizona. (The U.S. declares war against Japan the next day.)
1972: America’s last moon mission to date is launched as Apollo 17 blasts off from Cape Canaveral.
1987: Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev sets foot on American soil for the first time, arriving for a Washington summit with President Ronald Reagan.
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fun+games Crossword 1 Urban greenspace 5 “Lethal Weapon” role 10 Hit opposite 14 Worshiped object
WORD MATH 3 43 Tabloid pair 44 Detroit squad 45 Apply it for an out 46 Tyrannical leader 49 West enders?
3 Tug-of-war necessity 4 “Wild Wild West” star Kevin 5 NBC’s former owner 6 Sick
15 Ireland county
50 Sound of escaping air
16 Peruvian empire builder
51 Greek war god
17 Annapolis, e.g. + acquires + sales add-on =
53 ___ ex machina
8 “Sanford and Son” spin-off
55 Sneeze sound
9 Glass beer mug
58 Square root of 64
10 Erred in a bee (var.)
20 Church words 21 Willis, in “Moonlighting” 22 Thin fishes 25 Canine cry 26 Acquire 29 Fork piece 31 Room to maneuver 35 Wallach of film 36 Major department store
62 Country + tire stuff + shady character =
7 Lady ___ (pop star)
11 Divisive word? 13 Jazzy instrument
66 Kind of flu
18 Blood-sucking fly
67 They’re good listeners
19 Egyptian river
68 Command to a dog
24 Slow gastropod
70 Makes a color change
DOWN
39 Madams + twoone link + abiding =
2 Actor West
1
It equals 12 points
WEDNESDAY’S SOLUTION
23 Deceives 26 Quite cold 27 Thrill 28 Shore slappers 30 A Muppet
38 Small street
55 Heal, as bones 56 Ferber or Purviance 57 Japanese sashes 59 Confederate color 60 On this very spot 61 Hardy heroine 62 “___ Complicated” 63 Homer hitter 64 Half ems
12 Read quickly
65 Add a bit of color
69 Eggy places
34 They perform safe jobs 37 Duel tool 40 Disproportion 41 House of Stuart monarch 42 Bond offerer, e.g. 47 Two-tone whale 48 Golestan Palace locale 52 Inebriated one 54 Positioned, to a builder
32 Is patient 33 Faris and Kendrick
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New Taylor just as emo as the old Taylor
Jeweler hangs ‘No plebeians allowed’ sign Cleave & Company, the jeweler that worked on the engagement ring Prince Harry gave to Meghan Markle, has been inundated with requests for replicas, but will not make copycat rings. “If you want a ring, then we’ll design you a different one,” director Stephen Connelly told the AP. Harry sourced a diamond from Botswana for Markle’s ring and paired it with diamonds his mom, Princess Diana, owned. (AP)
In lieu of participating in an interview, Taylor Swift penned a poem for British Vogue that was published in tandem with the magazine’s cover photo shoot starring Swift. Titled “The Trick to Holding On,” the four-stanza poem is described by Vogue as Swift’s reflection “on the lessons learned as she moves into the next chapter of her life.” The first two stanzas touch on relationships and growth: “Let go of the ones who hurt you/ Let go of the ones you outgrow … They don’t tell you this when you are young/ You can’t hold on to everything.” The poem concludes on a bittersweet note: “Suddenly you’ll know/ The trick to holding on/ Was all that letting go.” (EXPRESS)
Naya Rivera and husband having rough two weeks
Folks who make Oscar trophies already notified
“Glee” actress Naya Rivera has filed for divorce from husband Ryan Dorsey for the second time, TMZ reported. In legal documents, Rivera cited “irreconcilable differences” for ending their three-year marriage. She also requested joint custody of their 2-year-old son, Josey. This news comes after Rivera was arrested and charged with domestic battery in November. (EXPRESS)
Entertainment Weekly revealed that Lady Gaga will be credited under her birth name, Stefani Germanotta, in “A Star Is Born,” a new remake of the 1937 classic that she is starring in. The new film, directed by Bradley Cooper, follows a country music star (Cooper) mentoring an aspiring entertainer (Gaga). Cooper dished to EW about working with Gaga, saying she insisted on filming the music live on camera for authenticity. (EXPRESS)
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