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COVER STORY: THE FICTION ISSUE

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This year’s winning stories take readers on journeys throughout the District.

SPORTS 4 Data Dunk: The Wizards try to cure what ails them with analytics.

DISTRICT LINE 5 Housing Complex: A neglected Brightwood Park apartment building gets a new court-ordered receiver.

FOOD 12 Open Tables: Ten new restaurants we’re looking forward to trying in 2019

ARTS 14 Remembering D.C. Musician Andras Fekete, 1956–2018: Friends share memories of the experimental musician and bandleader.

CITY LIST 17 Music 20 Theater 21 Film

DIVERSIONS 21 Gear Prudence 22 Classifieds 23 Crossword On the cover: Illustration

by Stephanie Rudig

Pescatarians were building their own societies off the grid, collecting fish to live on and to sell, shunning traditional money-making activities since their sustenance was now a free gift of nature.

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EDITOR: ALEXA MILLS MANAGING EDITOR: CAROLINE JONES ARTS EDITOR: MATT COHEN FOOD EDITOR: LAURA HAYES SPORTS EDITOR: KELYN SOONG CITY LIGHTS EDITOR: KAYLA RANDALL LOOSE LIPS REPORTER: MITCH RYALS HOUSING COMPLEX REPORTER: MORGAN BASKIN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER: DARROW MONTGOMERY MULTIMEDIA AND COPY EDITOR: WILL WARREN CREATIVE DIRECTOR: STEPHANIE RUDIG CONTRIBUTING WRITERS: MICHON BOSTON, KRISTON CAPPS, CHAD CLARK, RACHEL M. COHEN, RILEY CROGHAN, JEFFRY CUDLIN, EDDIE DEAN, ERIN DEVINE, CUNEYT DIL, TIM EBNER, CASEY EMBERT, JONATHAN L. FISCHER, NOAH GITTELL, SRIRAM GOPAL, HAMIL R. HARRIS, LAURA IRENE, LOUIS JACOBSON, CHRIS KELLY, STEVE KIVIAT, CHRIS KLIMEK, PRIYA KONINGS, JULYSSA LOPEZ, NEVIN MARTELL, KEITH MATHIAS, PABLO MAURER, BRIAN MCENTEE, BRIAN MURPHY, NENET, TRICIA OLSZEWSKI, EVE OTTENBERG, MIKE PAARLBERG, PAT PADUA, JUSTIN PETERS, REBECCA J. RITZEL, ABID SHAH, TOM SHERWOOD, MATT TERL, SIDNEY THOMAS, DAN TROMBLY, JOE WARMINSKY, ALONA WARTOFSKY, JUSTIN WEBER, MICHAEL J. WEST, DIANA MICHELE YAP, ALAN ZILBERMAN

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Data Dunk

Stephanie Rudig

The Wizards are slowly embracing the NBA’s advanced analytics movement.

By Troy Haliburton After the WizArds defeated the New Orleans Pelicans in November, NBC Sports Washington sideline reporter Chris Miller showed Bradley Beal a stat sheet from the game. Beal responded with a sarcastic smile: “I don’t look at the stat sheet man, it’s just numbers. I’m not an analytics guy.”

Beal’s dismissal of analytics is not uncommon among NBA players and fans. Some view the analytics barrage as counter to simply watching and understanding basketball based on what they see from their own eyes and the box score.

In 2015, ESPN ranked the Wizards in the bottom 10 in the NBA in its analytics ranking.

The article labeled the organization as skeptics of analytics due to the team’s willingness to take mid-range jump shots under previous head coach Randy Wittman.

But the culture is changing. Leading the way is Brett Greenberg, the team’s director of basketball analytics who was promoted to his current position before the 2013-14 season.

In four years on the job, Greenberg has helped close the gap in the amount of analytics information that the Wizards basketball operations staff is using. He has also improved the lines of communication between his analytics department and the coaching staff and players.

“The Wizards have greatly improved their shot profile this season, as they are getting more field goal attempts at the rim and from three point range,” says NBA analytics expert Kevin Broom of SB Nation.

Greenberg has been with the Wizards since 2010, starting out as a video coordinator. He previously worked with the Miami Heat as a video intern and as a student manager for the Duke men’s basketball team. The Baltimore County, Maryland native often walks around the Wizards practice facility in Ward 8 or at Capital One Arena with a binder of printed data or his laptop, ready to breakdown statistical trends on a moment’s notice.

He is also tasked with relaying information to team president Ernie Grunfeld, helping him make decisions about which players to sign in free agency or trade. Head coach Scott Brooks can use Greenberg’s informa-

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“I feel like people are starting to know who I am,” says starting center Thomas Bryant. The 21-year-old has gone from NBA benchwarmer and G League player to one of the few positives for the Wizards this season. washingtoncitypaper.com/sports

tion to think through lineup decisions and style of play.

During a media availability two seasons ago, Wizards owner Ted Leonsis made it clear that the Wizards are attempting to do better when it comes to analytics.

“I think for us, of course we can do better,” he said. “I don’t think there is any team that can’t execute and do better. As the state of the art continues to improve around analytics and then there is more innovation, yeah, I think what we’re doing today is innovative. I’d like to see more teams, additional teams do it, but you can only do it if you have an organization that goes, ‘That’s cool. We probably can learn something.’ If they’re open-minded.”

Advanced metrics can improve the product on the floor by analyzing trends, team performances when certain players are on the court versus when they sit, and shooting efficiency.

But some players remain skeptical.

“I’m not really an analytical guy, so y’all asking the wrong dude,” Beal told reporters during training camp when asked about cutting down his mid-range shots for this season. “I don’t give a damn about how many threes we put up, as long as we win the ballgame. If that’s what’s going to win ballgames, we’re going to do it but I just want to win games.”

Even Brooks has said, “The only stat I care about at this point is wins and losses.”

Three major tenets of playing smart analytics-based basketball are shooting more three pointers, attempting more shots around the basket, and getting to the free throw line.

Washington has undergone a lot of changes to ensure that the team no longer takes inefficient “long twos.”

Starting point guard John Wall, who will soon undergo season-ending surgery, mentioned early in the season that Brooks has told the team to avoid mid-range shots when possible.

The Wizards are shooting 67.8 percent of their shots at the rim or behind the arc, compared to just 55.3 percent last season. As a team, Washington is shooting significantly more three pointers this season (32.9 three point field goal attempts per game as of Jan. 2, which ranks ninth in the league) than they did last season (26.5 per game, which ranked 23rd in the league.)

“If it’s an early shot clock situation, try to shoot threes, not deep twos,” Wall told reporters. “So trying to get situated with that. A couple of times in practice I’m like, ‘Oh, am I supposed to shoot this shot? Am I not supposed to shoot this shot?’ I think all of us are just trying to get adjusted to that style of play.”

The Wizards have made strides in adapting

to the current trend in the NBA, but the shots have not been falling.

One reason Washington has not shot well from three point range this season is because its best statistical shooter over the last three seasons, Otto Porter Jr., has missed significant time with a variety of ailments. Porter’s current knee injury has kept him out of the Wizards’ last ten games as of Jan. 2. The Wizards are 4-8 in the 12 games that Porter has missed this season.

While Porter has drawn the ire of fans because of his lack of aggressiveness and flashiness on the court, he has vocal supporters in the analytics community who label him one of the most efficient players in the NBA in recent seasons.

The best metric to evaluate someone’s efficiency as a shooter is true shooting percentage, which describes the rate at which a player turns any shot into points, taking into account two-point field goal attempts, three-pointers, and free throws. Over his career, Porter has a true shooting percentage of 58.3, including shooting 62.8 and 60.2 the previous two seasons, making him one of the most accurate shooters in the NBA over that time.

With Porter out, the Wizards leaned heavily on recently acquired forward Trevor Ariza to supplement some of the Wizards long-range shooting. Ariza is no stranger to the world of analytics.

During four seasons playing for the Houston Rockets, Ariza had an opportunity to see up close how the analytics movement has been able to decrease the statistical margins of error and give a team the best possible chance of winning.

Ariza admits that he’s still not a fan of analytics in terms of putting together a team or determining whether or not there is chemistry between the people on the court, but that he uses certain data to understand a player’s tendencies.

“I use it as a scouting tool,” he says. “I want to know some of the trends and tendencies of my opponents so that I can better defend them. If there is a guy on the other team who is not a good shooter according to the numbers, I know I can go under a screen or [play help defense] more than I can with a good shooter.”

The margin of winning in the NBA is razor thin and every tenth of a point matters. The Wizards are attempting to mitigate their poor performances on the court through an increased focus on analytics.

At several games below .500, the results have not been as promising as the team would like. But at least the franchise can say it is moving, however slowly, toward the future.

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DISTRICTLINE Delinquent Account A Brightwood Park apartment building should operate under a court-appointed receiver, judge says.

By Morgan Baskin A DC Superior Court judge on Friday handed a win to the office of Attorney General Karl Racine, who sued the registered agents of a limited liability company for neglecting to maintain an apartment building under their ownership.

Judge Elizabeth Wingo ordered a thirdparty receiver to assume responsibility for overseeing property maintenance and construction at 5320 8th St. NW, a 39-unit Brightwood Park apartment building whose tenants—many of them Latinx with limited English proficiency—say the complex has been deteriorating for years.

The District brought its lawsuit against EADS LLC, the company that owns 5320 8th St., as well as its registered agents Delores Johnson and Jason Saunders. (Johnson’s lawyer successfully petitioned the judge to have Saunders’ name removed as a defendant in the suit, arguing that he divested from EADS in 2014 and maintains no financial ties to the company.)

The District has legal grounds to appoint a receiver if “a rental housing accommodation has been operated in a manner that demonstrates a pattern of neglect for the property for a period of 30 consecutive days and such neglect poses a serious threat to the health, safety, or security of the tenants,” per D.C. Code.

City Paper wrote about 5320 8th St. NW in May, shortly after an electrical fire in the building displaced half a dozen people, including two pregnant women who gave birth before being relocated to their permanent homes.

Johnson blamed the fire on the presence of a living room partition erected by tenants in one of the affected units, a position she repeated in a December court appearance. (That argument “as a matter of logic … makes no sense whatsoever,” the judge said in her decision to appoint a receiver, adding, “What is clear is that you blame the tenants

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for everything.”)

At the time of City Paper’s reporting, tenants described conditions that included extensive mold, rat infestations, broken heating systems, and faulty electrical wiring. One tenant testified in a December court appearance that the heat went out in his apartment, the temperature dropping in his living room to 40 degrees.

Johnson is also listed as the registered agent for another company, Kentucky-Scott, that received $2 million in District loans to subsidize the operation of an apartment complex for low-income seniors at 135 Kennedy St. NW. (D.C. Auditor Kathy Patterson published a report in 2017 showing that the company never actually approved leases for low-income tenants at that address.)

A separate lawsuit against EADS, brought by the Children’s Law Center on behalf of some 5320 8th St. tenants, is ongoing.

“A landlord who has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars” on repairs in recent years “has not demonstrated a pattern of neglect,” Johnson’s attorney, Richard Schrager, said in court last month. Schrager also unsuccessfully argued that appointing a receiver could slow repair work currently happening on the property, further delaying critical repairs for tenants.

The receiver for 5320 8th St., Benjamin Gilmore, will provide the court with a housing code violation abatement plan by Feb. 11.

Wingo ordered the defendants to pay $35,000 into a fund accessible to Gilmore by Jan. 15 for expenses incurred during the initial assessment of the property.

After Wingo announced her decision and court adjourned, a small group of the 5320 8th St. tenants broke into tears, hugging District attorney Matthew Meyer in an antechamber of the court and breaking into chants of “Si se puede.”

A toddler, the son of one of the building’s tenants, ran hectically around the courtroom.

Rob Wohl, a tenant organizer with the Latino Economic Development Center, squatted down to take his hand. “Vamos a celebrar,” Wohl told him.

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Come to Solid State Books at 6 p.m. on Jan. 6 to hear these writers, and three more winners, read from their stories.

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We asked you for fiction firmly rooted in D.C.—stories that brought us into neighborhoods, and that weren’t just about the District, but of it. Nearly 50 writers answered the call with entries that had strong common themes connecting them.

Writing fiction can be a means of reckoning on the page with what confounds us in reality. Your entries provided insight into issues weighing heavily on our collective minds. Gentrification, climate change, Metro meltdowns, the search for housing that feels like home, the search for a kindred soul to connect with. The tales snuck us into a Georgetown mansion, ushered us into a pew in a Petworth church, and sat us on the sidelines of Shaw basketball courts. All with nary a congressperson in sight.

These stories, collectively, reflect a city not on the cusp of change, but one so caught up in it we sometimes find it difficult to recognize our own town. They remind us to appreciate the District as it is, honor its history, and to record the changes underway—for better and worse—in order to be resilient as we move forward.

It’s our job to be sure we still know ourselves and respect our neighbors wherever we are in D.C. To share our stories because we are our stories. —Tayla Burney

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By Danielle Stonehirsch The fish falling from the sky were more than a rainy Sunday inconvenience. They were a real hazard. Millie had heard from Jenna who had heard from Greg that a kid in Columbia Heights had had his neck snapped by a black sea bass at terminal velocity just last week. In this day and age you could do thorough research on car seats, make sure to get all the vaccines for your baby, teach them stranger danger, and still lose your kid to a fish out in the front yard.

That was America now.

Millie’s life hadn’t actually changed all that dramatically though. She had no kids and she worked from her home in Columbia Heights for a consulting firm. She had to start getting groceries delivered to the apartment, which was getting more expensive by the day, and she had cut back on the number of happy hours with what remained of her friends.

Her friends had all started having babies, so there weren’t that many left to see anyway even without the fish. She couldn’t say her life was any worse than before, though it was now much harder to date. But even that seemed only a new and amazingly credible excuse to give her father when he asked after his imagined grandchildren.

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It wasn’t the same for everyone, of course.

Some people were finding ways to make a ton of money, like selling extra strength, extra wide umbrellas designed to support the impact of medium to large falling fish. Home delivery services were getting more diverse and more expensive—home delivery liquor was a huge niche market that exploded immediately. Scented clothing was getting more and more popular as citizens looked for ways to mask the dead fish smell on every street. Fish markets were operating on remarkably low budgets and lower market prices, and while business on the coasts was suffering, fancy fish restaurants were opening all over the Midwest with great success.

Pescatarians were building their own societies off the grid, collecting fish to live on and to sell, shunning traditional money-making activities since their sustenance was now a free gift of nature. Still others went a step further and started worshipping the fish or the god they believed was sending the fish. Pescacults started popping up all over the southeast states like spring daisies, erecting fish-shaped shrines and sculpting fish gods from wood and stone. Christians were insisting it was a miracle of Jesus, a gift to ease their wait for the second coming, and mega churches were flooding with donations. For Millie, the religious

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fervor manifested in her life mainly as pescavangelists in the Metro making her few trips into the world just a little more obnoxious.

No one agreed on why it was happening, how it had started, or why it had settled exclusively over the United States. Canada and Mexico remained more or less fish free right up to the border walls. An occasional incident was reported within a five-mile radius, but the remainder of North America certainly hadn’t had their lives derailed. United States citizens were fleeing through Texas and North Dakota in droves, forcing Mexico and Canada to build walls to keep their own countries safe from the staggering influx of desperate American refugees.

In the early days, different news channels had different theories and it was all anyone talked about. Millie could hardly stand the workplace and bar chatter, and watched fights break out with disinterest and contempt. Millie had heard everything from miracles of Jesus to climate change to magnetic pulses caused

by Earth moving a few millimeters off its axis.

Aliens had been a popular idea in the beginning, but after a few months of none showing up to take credit, that hypothesis became the terrain of a small and specific fundamentalist sect in the southern tip of Nevada. Blame was cast left and right, and the president was

impeached in the chaos, accused by both major parties of collusion with the Chinese. Now though, after five years with no more information than they had had from the start, most people just didn’t mention it anymore, which in Millie’s opinion was a real blessing. She wanted to just enjoy her quiet existence and find her new normal. Life went on one way or another, and now you just had to watch out for fish falling from the sky in much the same way you once had to start watching out for internet predators and teenagers with selfie sticks.

It was amazing what you could get used to.

Millie bought an umbrella and a honeysucklescented rain jacket and signed up for a dumpling delivery service. She had even gotten a significant raise at work a year into the fish because too many employees had defected to the Pescacults or fled before the walls were finished, and companies around the country had to start offering incentives to their remaining staff. If Millie was being honest, which she rarely was, this new life suited her better than the old. She enjoyed the minimalized social contact, the increased home delivery, and the lack of stigma around her quiet, indoor life.

On this Sunday afternoon, Millie took her fish umbrella and honeysuckle raincoat out and walked to the Metro. Of all those who had made money from the fish, WMATA had ben-

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efited the most. Struggling and on the brink of ruin, the D.C. Metro hadn’t known what to do to save itself from a generation who all owned cars, took Ubers, preferred long bike rides, and rode those oddly compelling neon scooters. Now though, bikes and scooters were too unprotected from air strikes, and too many car owners had had their cars smashed up and dented to run the risk of driving. Metro cars and their thick metal casings were the perfect vehicle for those looking to travel farther than a mile or two, and were blessedly free of the fish smell. With the sudden influx of money, WMATA was able to upgrade their seats, their heating and cooling systems, maintain high standards of cleanliness, and increase their service.

Millie walked carefully down the sidewalk, sidestepping the occasional minnow or tuna that street sweepers hadn’t yet collected. In her area the street sweepers were out once an hour, but she knew that just a mile away, in the less gentrified part of town, they only collected every six hours. It was still pretty warm, an end of September warm with low humidity and a sharp edge on the breeze—a perfect day to venture into the suburbs to see her father, the last of her family who remained trapped in the U.S. Her mother had left for New Zealand before the fish began (unrelated), and her brother had been one of the first to get to Mexico because of his status with NASA. She descended into the Metro station and waited for a train with the crowd of people willing to leave their homes on a weekend. The streets were always empty now, and Metro provided one of the safest and cleanest spaces to interact with the community. Millie had always hated socializing, but there was something comforting in these times about standing among a group of casually chatting people who were not paying attention to her. It was one of the few public spaces left where people felt free to simply linger.

The ride was quick and pleasant, and the walk from the Glenmont Metro to her father’s townhouse was short enough that only six fish banged and slid unpleasantly off her umbrella.

She let herself in and climbed the stairs to the second floor, where her father was finishing setting the table for lunch. He had signed up for, among other things, a Sunday lunch international foods delivery service. This Sunday appeared to be Peruvian chicken with some vegetables that Millie did not immediately recognize through their sauces.

“I have incredible news,” her father said as he cut into the chicken, which was on a board balanced precariously half over the sink. Millie sat on one of the bar stools across from him, leaning her elbows on the kitchen island.

“Your brother was able to get sponsor rights for both of us. We can leave for Mexico by November.”

“That’s great!” Millie said, because those were the words anyone said if they were lucky enough to have a sponsor. Her father was beaming, and she returned his smile though her thoughts were racing. She was ashamed to feel it was not great at all.

“I can’t believe it’s finally happening. We

can rebuild our lives. Go back to work. Take walks. Drive cars. Everything won’t smell like fish. You’ll have a much easier time dating again.” He began to portion out the chicken, his hands shaking with excitement.

Millie did her best throughout lunch to give her father the right answers and return enough of his excitement as he went through plans for packing and travel, what he could sell and what he would have to accept as a loss. Her brother had already found her a new position nearly identical to her current one, her father told her, so she wouldn’t have to worry about anything. At no point did he ask her if she indeed wanted to go.

And why would he? Why would anyone want to stay in a decaying country covered in dead fish? Millie did not want to accept that she wasn’t normal, so she went along with her father during lunch, and for the next few weeks, and on the train ride to Mexico, and as she slept on her brother’s couch for the four weeks before she found a nice apartment nearby in Guaymas where a large American neighborhood had developed. The local immigrants called it the New Washington.

It did feel very much to Millie like D.C. Her new job felt very much like her old job before the fish, when everyone had to be in an office, and she once again felt the pressure to be friendly to coworkers and to attend happy hours. They always went to the same three bars that had a strong American presence and served French fries and PBR, neither of which Millie had especially enjoyed when she was in her own country.

“So what do you do?” Millie was out with three of her coworkers pretending to pay attention to them as a man at the bar to her left leaned into her peripheral vision with his question, uninvited. He had started with “hello,” and “what’s your name,” but Millie had not been paying attention to him either and they came through a fog. At this question, she turned to stare at him. He smiled, looking only for a friendly interaction. This was her fourth interaction with a bar stranger that month and the fourth time one had asked her this question. She could only stare at him, imagining a fat fish falling on his head.

She left without telling her coworkers and went home where she wished for her old-new life where it was perfectly normal not to want to go outside or drive a car or meet friends at happy hour or go to parties with strangers and everyone could work from home without justifying themselves. She was the only person in North America who wanted to get back into the United States rather than out. She was lonely for the first time in her life, when she ought to have been most grateful for the opportunity so many others had risked everything for.

Then a whale shark fell on Mexico City.

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By Rhonda Green-Smith Unattended and UnsecUred, 19.5 feet in the air, was no place for 8-year-old Ely March Jr. who was not happy nor relieved, in the least bit, when dozens of residents, store owners, and workers gathered onto Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and V Street SE the morning after he climbed The Big Chair’s 19.5-foot mahogany wood structure. He felt like a man that high off the ground, though 20 years earlier, unbeknownst to him, 21-year-old Lynn Arnold had already taken up residence on the chair, and for more than just a few short hours. She had not, though, scaled the unreasonably large piece of furniture with her own arms and legs like Ely. Instead, she reached the seat of the chair with the help of a forklift and stayed there for 42 days in a 10X10 makeshift apartment. Once the tips of his gloved fingers recognized the fabric of the seat, Ely Jr. hoisted himself up onto his elbows with two extraordinary pushes that catapulted him onto the seat of the chair.

Confused with exhaustion and charged with adrenalized energy, Ely Jr. stood in the middle of the seat and looked down the right leg of the chair, proud of his accomplishment. His mind remembered the staticky voice announcing the successful landing on the moon in the blackand-white film his history teacher played on the television in his third-grade classroom. He remembered his father’s smile and firm pat on his shoulders (a few years ago) for competently reading his great grandfather’s compass that led them back to their campsite in Rock Creek Park one summer evening. As if he knew he would be leaving the world sooner than he would have liked, Ely Sr. trained his only child in wilderness survival skills, which he believed were applicable and conducive to a black boy’s survival in harsh American terrain. Ely Jr. could tie and untie elaborate knots thanks to his father. He could build a fire with leaves and sticks; he could identify the 12 most common constellations across the darkest indigo skies and could open a can of beef stew with his father’s jackknife faster than most men.

He could do all of this, but could not bring himself to accept his mother’s decision to move out of the Barry Farm neighborhood one floor up from his best friend Carlos. Sure there was trash strewn about the neighborhood, but Ely Jr. would put on his father’s gloves to help his mother pick-up the juice bottles, the honey bun and chip wrappers, early Saturday mornings before heading to the grocery store. His mother, Mrs. May, assumed the responsibility of trashing the cigarette butts, crushed beer cans, broken beer bottles, and other adult trash. She complained in low mumbles from time to time, but still, it wasn’t enough to leave the neighborhood, Ely thought.

Police sirens blared in the distance and Ely

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Jr. thought of home—his warm bed covered in soft red flannel blankets, the sound of his little brother Gabriel sucking his pacifier throughout the night. Ely closed his eyes and allowed the city music to lull him into as peaceful a sleep as possible—with the day’s luscious experience at the forefront of his mind, the walk from Birney Elementary School and the long climb up the chair imbedded in his joints and muscle fibers and all nine of Michael Jackson’s songs from his 1982 Thriller album on the back of his tongue to be swallowed, sung again and again and never forgotten.

Closer to the sun than he had ever been before, Ely woke up shielding his eyes from its powerful rays and adjusting his ears to the familiar screech of the bus’ brakes as it moved down the avenue picking up men and women and children. He climbed out of his sleeping bag and walked to the edge of the chair and, to his surprise, police and the Anacostia Fire Station were looking up at him ready to coax him into accepting help down.

“Mr. Ely March,” the Chief began through his bullhorn. “First thing I’d like to say is, you’re a brave young man for climbing all the way up there. I’m glad you’re safe. We’re glad you’re safe,” he added, turning quickly to look at the community standing alongside him. Ely shook his head in agreement with the Chief. “...but we have to get you down, son”.

He looked east up the road in search of the apartment complex he’d be leaving in just a few short days. Ely hopped up on his feet to walk closer to the edge of the chair for a better look at his community in hopes that he’d see his best friend dribbling the basketball or drawing robots on the sidewalk with chalk.

The audience below him responded fearfully as he neared the edge of the chair.

“Ely...” the Chief called out. “Go back toward the center of the chair so that we —” The Chief was interrupted by Ely’s mother, whose voice came blaring through the bullhorn with clear directions for him to, “—get away from the edge of the chair, zippen your coat, put on your gloves, and cooperate while the firemen work to get you down.”

As Ely made his way back to the center of the chair, annoyed by the crisp fall breeze, his mother’s reasoning as to why they would be moving from the community in the first place harmonized about his mind to the melody of Michael Jackson’s 1989 “Human Nature.” He remembered the first time he had heard it in his living room with his dad and his uncle Earl and his family crooning and swaying in enjoyment. “Know who that is singing,” his father nudged him, playfully. “That’s your guy MJ. He loves him some MJ,” his father said to Uncle Earl and his wife. “He loves MJ doesn’t he

May?” he remembered the smile in his father’s voice. He remembered how proud his dad was at his ability to dance and memorize all of Michael Jackson’s moves and songs.

“Did you hear me Ely James March,” his mother called out to him again pleadingly.

Some shop owners hadn’t bothered to walk into the street with the majority. A few stood in between the doors of their shops with their hoods and coats on while others stood watching from inside their shops covered in warmth and enamored by the thriller unraveling before them. An Ethiopian woman Ely recognized stood watching from her hotdog stand and put one finger out to him signaling him to keep his attention on her as she grabbed a bag of chips which she waved at him as an incentive to agree to climb down. Ely saw his barber standing at the end of the block.

The crossing guard Ms. Twylla Campbell in her neon green reflective jacket kept her hands clenched together as if she were praying the entire time. Chief Mason reached toward Mrs. May for the bullhorn, but his mother declined and spoke into the mic again in hopes of finally driving some sense into her child who gazed up at the sky, into the growing crowd, and toward his apartment complex at Barry Farm.

“Start heading up,” Chief Mason directed his team.

“No,” Ely yelled down. “Nobody can come up here.”

“Give him a second,” Mrs. March pleaded with the Chief. “He’s afraid. Let me talk to him again.

“Ely, this is about the move isn’t it?” She adjusted her tone to a sympathetic plea afraid to rock the boat, or the chair for that matter.

“You’re going to have your own room. You won’t have to share with Gabriel who’s at home with Ms. Shelly worried about you, by the way,”.

Instead of walking toward the chair, Mrs. May walked farther back from it so she could see him well and to make sure he could see her.

“Please come down from there so we can talk about this over warm cider or chocolate.”

The truth was that May March was no happier than her son with how she and other community members felt thrust out of their homes.

As firemen placed the ladder against the chair and headed up, Ely Jr., channeling Michael Jackson, broke out into song and dance. He lifted his glove-covered hands and pointed toward the crowd, his foot in motion ready to twirl around.

As if he were Michael Jackson himself, Ely took to moonwalking back and forth, blew a kiss to his mother, and bowed toward onlookers as they clapped, amazed at the young man’s fortitude.

No matter where he moved, he had climbed the Big Chair, and that alone would keep him connected to his neighborhood.

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By Paul Vivari In the late ’90s, the courts on Rhode Island Avenue and Ninth Street in Northwest D.C. had a reputation for heavy rims and dull backboards, but next to Barry Farm in Southeast, it was one of the busiest courts in the city.

Crowds of locals strained to catch a glimpse of the local legends who gathered there every weekend, the best players from both in and outside of the city drawn by the opportunity to test their skills on the scuffed asphalt and unforgiving chipped orange steel.

Archie Weinblatt was not one of those local legends. Nobody went out of their way to watch him practice free throws on Monday af-

ternoons, when the courts were usually empty and he could get his favorite hoop all to himself, working on his form until he made exactly 50 shots from the cracked foul line. As shitty as his job was, he was grateful his schedule waiting tables in Dupont Circle at least allowed him to have Mondays off, when the streets in Shaw would empty as its tenants went back to work or school, and he could shoot his free throws in relative peace and obscurity.

As Archie approached the courts one Monday in the fall of ’98, his ball tucked under his arm as he finished the short walk from his apartment on 8th and P streets NW, he saw the courts were packed. He had forgotten it was Labor Day weekend, and two five-on-five full-

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court games were being played ferociously, players far better than he soaring high to block dunks and grab rebounds in traffic, outlet passes arcing and landing perfectly in the hands of their streaking teammates, shots from nearly half-court that touched nothing but the chain netting under the rim.

Well aware of his thick head of strawberry blonde hair and pasty, freckled skin, he decided not to call any more attention to himself than he already was. He let the game on the near side of the court finish and waited for it to empty, and watched as a half-court game of three-on-three sprang up on Archie’s favorite hoop. The one opposite, with the worst rim out of the four, was still open. Archie decid-

ed to take what he could get, and entered the courts through the open gate that led from the sidewalk.

He could feel the stares of the scattered onlookers, some turning away from the full-court game to get a look at one of the whitest boys any of them had ever seen. He was one of a handful of white guys in the predominantly black neighborhood, certainly the youngest, with the others mostly older hangers-on who had lived in Shaw from before the riots. He was probably the first caucasian to voluntarily move onto his block in years. He had gotten used to the occasional jeers and catcalls on the streets, but he was typically left alone, a curiosity more than a target, something to be stared at and laughed about and ultimately ignored.

He walked to the steel pole that held the backboard in place and removed his windbreaker; some hooting started from the sidewalk, where the players from the previous game were still congregating. A group of teenagers who were standing on the other side of fence had all pressed their faces against the black chain link.

Archie walked to the free throw line, in his usual yellow JCC summer league jersey, grey mesh shorts, and old, white Nikes, and dribbled the ball exactly three times. He mentally cycled through the B.E.E.F. method (balance, elbow, eyes, follow through), and set into his shooting form.

His cocked his right elbow to a perfect 90 degree angle, focused his eyes 15 feet away on the rim, flicked his wrist, and launched the ball.

A voice cried out from the group of teens behind the fence.

“Miss!”

He tried to hold his follow through, his fingers straight down like he was drying his nails after a manicure, but he felt his arm wobble.

Clang.

A light volley of laughter followed him as he went to retrieve the ball. Two older men, still sitting against the fence from the previous game on Archie’s side of the court, got their wallets out.

“Got a buck he misses the next one,” said the man on the right, who was missing his left arm.

“You’re on,” said the other man, old, fat, and the only other white person there. Archie recognized him; his name was Rosenthal, but everyone called him Rosie. He owned and lived in a small four-unit building on 6th Street NW that had been in his family for decades, and spent most of his time in a lawn chair either in his tiny hexagonal front yard or watching the games at the Rhode Island courts.

Archie walked back to the line. A few more spectators who were watching the full-court game opposite him had turned around to watch.

He set his form once again and arced the ball toward the rim. There were more shouts of “Miss!” than before as he released, but this time he he held his arm straight and perfectly still after the ball left his hand.

Clang.

The crowd shouted in unison before the ball even hit the ground.

“Ohhhhh!”

Archie saw Rosie reach into his pocket, then pause.

“Double or nothing?” he said.

“It’s your money,” said the one-armed man.

“You can lose it any way you want to.”

Archie glanced behind him as he retrieved the ball. The three-on-three game on the other half-court had come to a halt as both the players and audience started to gather around the periphery of Archie’s court, and he could hear more betting and side-betting being discussed among the crowd.

He went to the line, and brought the ball up to just above his right shoulder.

Someone shouted. “You better not fuck this up for me, Rockville! I got five ridin’ on this shit!”

The crowd laughed. Archie had gotten used to being called the names of towns in the lilywhite Montgomery County suburb. He never bothered to respond that he grew up in Illinois.

He reset his focus on the rim. His arm cocked, he tried to drown out the jeers surrounding him. As he shot, the crowd all cheered “Miss!” at once.

The shot was dead-on.

Clang.

“Man, shit,” the same guy shouted. More laughter, more jeering.

Rosie looked disgusted as he handed over his two bucks and immediately made a bet on the next shot with a teenage girl on his other side. Archie tried to keep his head down as he walked back to the free throw stripe, but

couldn’t help looking around him, seeing the crowd now forming almost a complete circle around him and the basket, the full-court game now also suspended, kids as young as 6 betting pennies or candy or whatever they could find in their pockets. He was pretty sure he saw someone bet half a sandwich up against a pack of batteries. The heavy money was against him making the next shot.

The ball was thrown back to him. He set his form and held it for several seconds, cycling through his head the steps before release, making sure everything was perfect.

The crowd began to get impatient.

“Hurry the fuck up and miss, Bethesda!”

There was scattered laughter and applause.

Archie tried to shake it off and concentrated on the rim. He brought his arm up. The ball flew through the air.

Clang.

The crowd roared.

Archie grabbed the ball off the bounce. Why was he still here? He couldn’t concentrate, nothing was going in on this rim, he was humiliating himself. It was time to leave. He headed to the fence to grab his windbreaker; the circle closed in and blocked him from getting near it. He looked around him; everyone was nearly shoulder-toshoulder, three or four deep. Insults rained down on him. Nobody was letting him through.

Rosie got up from the lawn chair he had brought to the courts, handed the teenager he was betting with a dollar, and waved his arms in an attempt to quiet the crowd as he walked slowly toward Archie.

He was booed loudly and purposefully.

“Holy Moses, kid, what are you doing to me?” he said, reaching Archie and slapping him on the shoulder. “Do you know how long it took me to convince this neighborhood that white guys can shoot?”

“I don’t know. I can’t focus with all these people around. I’m just trying to leave.”

“Leave? Leave? You can’t leave, you yutz.

Not until you make one.”

“Why?” “Because you’re a goddamn freak show, that’s why.” He grabbed Archie’s freckled arm.

“Everybody wants to get a look at the white kid who thinks he can just stroll onto the Rhode Island courts. You want to leave, first you need to prove you belong here. Make sense?”

The crowd was growing restless. An empty Rock Creek plastic soda bottle whizzed past Archie’s head.

“Look,” said Rosie. “You can’t leave until you make a shot. It’s as simple as that. It’s not going to be pretty when you do—there’s a lot of money against you. But you need to show everyone that you’re not a chump. Now get your ass back to the line and hit a goddamn free throw already.”

Rosie trudged back to his lawn chair. Archie walked reluctantly back to the white stripe.

He slowly dribbled the ball three times. He focused on the rim, envisioning his shot as he raised his elbow until his upper arm was perpendicular to his body, his left hand gently holding the ball in the palm of his right. He

blew out a sharp breath and released the ball.

He had put more arc on this shot than on the previous ones, and it seemed to hang in the air forever as Archie held his nails out to dry, begging the ball to go in.

Clang.

The crowd went berserk. The ball bounced straight up into the air, above the backboard, and hung at its apex for an eternity.

Swish.

The ball fell from its vertical ricochet perfectly into the basket, touching only the chain netting underneath.

“BOOOOO!!!” sang the crowd, hurling profanities down on him as the ball rolled away.

Fights broke out over money that was already taken when the ball hit the rim. A teen grabbed the ball, punted it over the fence, and flicked him off. He was being called insults for white people he’d never heard before, like peckerwood. The crowd started to dissipate, temporarily bottlenecking the opening in the fence.

Nobody cared about him anymore. Within two minutes, only Archie and Rosie remained.

“Now you can leave, you lucky schmuck,” said Rosie, and he folded up his lawn chair and left.

His ball now halfway down the block, and his windbreaker torn to shreds by some losing bettors, Archie decided to pass on trying to make 49 more free throws this particular Monday and walked home to P Street instead.

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Centrolina Chef Amy Brandwein is expanding across the alley into the former RareSweets space with a casual cafe and retail shop called Piccolina.

Expect plenty of house-baked bread and woodfired food for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Oyster Oyster’s marigold topped oysters

Open Tables 2019 promises to be a year full of exciting restaurants.

By Laura Hayes Sorry, purveyorS of white tablecloths and kitchen tweezers, but 2019 is not going to be your year. Ten of the most thrilling restaurants scheduled to open in the District this year are less about fine dining and more about fun and unabashed flavor. From a Korean pub that promises to bring the funk to a Trinidadian restaurant from an emerging chef, there’s a lot to look forward to. These restaurants already have us salivating, and they’re not even serving food yet.

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Anju 1805 18th St. NW This forthcoming Korean pub and grill is like

a phoenix, rising from the ashes of Mandu, which caught fire in July 2017. Damages were so severe that it forced the beloved neighborhood restaurant that helped introduce D.C. proper to classic Korean dishes to close. Rather than move on, co-owners Danny Lee and his mother, Yesoon, brought in Danny’s ChiKo business partners Scott Drewno and Drew Kim to add funk and fun. “Anju translates to food meant to be consumed while drinking alcohol,” Danny explains. The first floor will feature an open kitchen and a much bigger bar, where bartenders will sling infused soju paired with creative bar snacks. “We’re going to do whatever we think is fun and impactful,” Danny says. Upstairs, parties of six can reserve tables for a tasting menu that culminates in jeongol, Korean-style hot

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medium plates, building up to family-style mains such a colossal Argentinian steak or a whole fish.

pot. There will also be a full menu of appetizers and entrees that combine traditional Korean food and modern twists on classics.

“I’ve been doing a lot of research on centuries-old Korean dishes and preparations and finding ways to bring that on the menu,” Danny says.

Seven Reasons 2208 14th St. NW Before Chef Enrique Limardo opens Seven Reasons this spring, he’ll go on a whirlwind research trip to Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. “I’ll be spending time with several ancient tribes there to learn about their way of living and traditional cooking methods and their spiritual approach of paying tribute to their gods through food,” Limardo says. The chef, who has cooked in multiple countries and will lean on cooking techniques from China, Japan, and the Middle East, is best known in the region for his cooking at Baltimore’s Alma Cocina Latina. Washington Post food critic Tom Sietsema awarded the Venezuelan restaurant a 3.5 star rating in 2017. Limardo is partnering with first-time restaurateur Ezequiel Vázquez-Ger to open the South American restaurant on 14th Street NW. The menu will include small and

Oyster Oyster Location TBD Three of the region’s best and brightest restaurant minds will ask D.C. diners to eat like they give a damn when Oyster Oyster opens. Chef Rob Rubba, formerly of Hazel, and sommelier-turned-restaurateur Max Kuller of Estadio bonded over a shared vegetarian diet and a Saveur article about how diners should eat to put the planet first. A standout dish Rubba served at a November pop-up featured a crepe enveloping hearty greens, oyster mushrooms, tofu skin, and yellow beet mole. A selection of oysters will accompany the plant-based menu. Many vegetarians eat oysters because they don’t have a central nervous system and thus don’t feel pain, but oysters are also filter feeders that work to clean up local waterways. “As a father having two young children, I have to care about the world,” Rubba says. “Through food we can make a lot of change.” Bar savant Adam Bernbach, formerly of 2 Birds 1 Stone, will create unexpected drinks that nod at nature with ingredients like mushroom-infused cognac and seaweed.

Coconut Club 540 Penn St. NE When Chef Adam Greenberg announced he would open Coconut Club in D.C.’s Union Market District, he called it “Urban Outfitters meets a Wes Anderson movie.” The gregarious first-time restaurateur says fun will be an indispensable ingredient in the 80-seat concept that asks diners to hang loose. “It’s island and vacation inspired small plates with some larger format ‘sharables’ paired with fresh fruit tropical cocktails,” Greenberg says. He took a research trip to Hawaii in late 2017 to fish for ideas.

Expect dishes like spam fried rice cripsed on the flat top with a runny egg crown and three types of poke served with chips, nori, and lettuce wraps instead of rice. Greenberg tapped Dave Lanzalone to mix drinks, many of which will be served in rose gold disco balls.

Buffalo & Bergen 240 Massachusetts Ave. NE Fighting for a stool at Union Market’s Buffalo & Bergen is competitive. A second location of the deli-meets-soda-fountain will help more Washingtonians access boozy milkshakes and bialis. Founder Gina Chersevani selected a Stanton Park address for a

DCFEED larger, standalone Buffalo & Bergen, which should open this spring. While the Union Market counter is largely a breakfast and lunch joint, Chersevani looks forward to introducing dinner fare on Capitol Hill. “We’re so comfortable in our luncheonette concept, we’re going to explore what a night time New York deli is,” she says. Expect rebooted classics like chicken cutlets and lasagna paired with the expertly crafted cocktails Chersevani is known for.

Hatoba 300 Tingey St. SE #170 If the Nationals make a deep postseason run soon, there will be a ramen joint where frozen fans can warm up with big bowls of broth and springy noodles in Navy Yard. The same team that brought D.C. Daikaya, Bantam King, and Haikan, is expanding outside of Northwest for the first time with Hatoba, opening this winter. The 80-seat restaurant with indoor and outdoor spaces will have a menu that somewhat diverges from its siblings, most notably with cold noodle preparations and ingredients from the sea. Brian Miller, the senior design director at Edit Lab at Streetsense, hopes to transport Washingtonians to one of Tokyo’s most sought after streets for foodies, Kappabashi, where you can purchase every piece of cooking equipment imaginable and the plastic food models that are ubiquitous in window displays in Japan’s casual restaurants. Look out for some salutes to Sapporo’s baseball team, the Nippon-Ham Fighters.

Cane 403 H St. NE If you had the great pleasure of scraping Chef Peter Prime’s guava rum grilled oxtails clean at Spark, you should be even more excited for the Trinidadian chef ’s next venture coming to H Street NE. Prime is partnering with his little sister, Jeanine Prime, to open Cane in early 2019. When it opens, the 40-seat restaurant will serve breakfast and dinner. Lunch and late night service will follow later in the year. Here’s hoping the intoxicating smells of jerk seasoning, roti, oxtail, and curry fill the air and stick to your clothes, signifying to everyone that you just visited the Caribbean without leaving D.C. As the name implies, sugar cane will play a role in everything from decor to the rum-based drinks.

The Imperial 2001 18th St. NW Much like its sister bar, Jack Rose Dining Saloon, The Imperial will have three floors with varying vibes. “Imperial is a system of measurement, but it has a dual meaning,” says owner Bill Thomas. “We were trying to create something more opulent.” The first

floor dining room and modern raw bar has a bright and glitzy color palette and plenty of natural light streaming in through the windows. To create The Imperial, Thomas combined three storefronts into one and dug deep underground to carve out a fresh lair for speakeasy Dram & Grain, which will migrate from Jack Rose. There will also be a rooftop adorned with lush greenery where guests can grab lunch during the day and party at night.

While Thomas emphasizes that food is the focus at The Imperial, a rare vintage spirits collection will likely draw drink obsessives from across the region. Dram & Grain will be the first component to open in early 2019, followed closely by the rooftop and restaurant.

Hanumanh 1604 7th St. NW The mother and son duo behind Thip Khao in D.C. and Padaek and Sen Khao in Virginia are more than chefs and restaurateurs.

Seng Luangrath and Bobby Pradachith act as emissaries, bringing the D.C. region a love and understanding of their native Lao cuisine. Their next project, Hanumanh, will open in Shaw this winter. Named after a divine monkey god, patrons should expect a boisterous atmosphere reminiscent of Laotian night markets. Pradachith says they’ll use grills similar to the ones used for Japanese yakitori to cook fish, meat, and veggies. Pounded salads featuring fresh herbs will compliment the charcoal-kissed side of the menu. “The concept is my mom’s interpretation of her hometown dishes,” Pradachith says. Hanumanh will have a more robust bar than the family’s other restaurants. Expect classic cocktails that fold in Laotian ingredients; a small beer and wine list; and a selection of non-alcoholic drinks like juices, milks, and teas, some of which will utilize ingredients from the kitchen to cut down on food waste.

Stellina Pizzeria 399 Morse St. NE If you’re a fan of folded pizza and cones filled with fried foods, all with an Italian accent, look forward to Stellina Pizzeria, opening in early 2019. Former Lupo Verde partners Matteo Venini and Antonio Matarazzo split off to open something special of their own near Union Market. Venini, the chef, traveled to Italy and New York to weigh the merits of different styles of pie before formulating his own recipe. Pair a meal at Stellina with easy drinking Italian wines or a draft Negroni. The 88seat restaurant will be set up to make it easy for customers to dine in or take food to go, just as it should be at any pizzeria that aims to please its neighbors.

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Remembering D.C. Musician Andras Fekete, 1956-2018 Leader of the experimental art-rock band Boat Burning and organizer of mass guitar ensembles, Fekete was a relentless champion of D.C.’s music scene.

If you play live music in the District, there’s a good chance you’ve interacted with Andras Fekete. He made his mark on the D.C. scene as the brilliant and forward-thinking composer who organized mass guitar ensembles, in which he’d assemble upward of 100 area guitarists to perform symphonies of shrieking harmonies and beautiful feedback. He also led the experimental art-rock guitar ensemble Boat Burning.

On stage, Fekete could come off like a madman—a short and wiry person with cool jet-black hair, deepset eyes, and a piercing stare flailing his arms around and motioning commands like a deranged conductor. This Fekete stood in contrast to the off-stage Fekete: a kind, warm, and wildly ambitious artist who revelled in D.C.’s talented music community and the opportunity to collaborate with anyone and everyone.

“He was extraordinarily giving and generous in his praise,” says Geordie Grindle, his Boat Burning bandmate. “He worked with a wide variety of experienced players. He was patient.”

Fekete, who died on Dec. 21 at the age of 62, did not reside in D.C. nearly as long as some of his bandmates. But you would never know that considering how well-connected he was in the city. Since March of 2014, when Fekete led Boat Burning’s first mass guitar ensemble with 20 players, he set his sights progressively bigger: Black Cat in 2016 with 70 guitarists, and 9:30 Club in the beginning of 2018 with a whopping 100 guitarists.

Born in 1956 to Hungarian immigrants who fled to the U.S. to escape communism, Fekete grew up in Richmond, Virginia in a strict Roman Catholic household. Music was prominent, but limited to classical— the work of great European composers like Bach, Brahms, Chopin, and Schubert.

In 1975 he moved north to attend Boston University, where he was exposed to the city’s blooming postpunk scene, witnessing first-hand the rise of greats like Mission of Burma. (Fekete counted Mission of Burma guitarist Roger Miller among his many friends in various music scenes across the country.

Miller produced and mixed Boat Burning’s eponymous EP released in April.)

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Fekete had met and started playing music with a friend of Sherman’s, a cellist named David Rabin, along with violinist Mark Kapeluck. Rabin told Sherman that Fekete was looking for a drummer and asked if he’d be interested. So they started jamming.

“He wanted to do a completely improv thing, which was very, very interesting to me,” Sherman says.

Soon after the four of them started jamming, Fekete decided he wanted to organize a mass guitar ensemble in the District. The city’s first “Music For Massed Guitars” took place on March 14, 2014 at Union Arts with 20 players. Among them was Jonathan Matis, who would continue to play with Fekete as a permanent member of Boat Burning.

“He was relentless. He set his sights on something and would not give up,” Matis says.

“Relentless” is a word most of Fekete’s bandmates use to describe him. He had grand ideas of performing and would figure out ways to make them work, including one gig where Boat Burning played at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, with each player in a separate room, out of sight of one another.

“He often worried he was steering us into unknown territories,” Grindle says. “There was a lot of showmanship in this type of performing, but he was a fantastic organizer.”

But for as much showmanship as Fekete had, he matched it with generosity, openness, and enthusiasm—especially when it came to musical collaborations. “When we talk about experimental music, you have to be open to ideas. That’s the essence of experimental music,” Sherman says. “He was never a ‘my way or the highway’ person. He was just open to everything, and I think that’s what made [playing with him] such a joyful experience.”

More than anything, Fekete’s driving influence for his later musical endeavors was the city of D.C. and its thriving creative community.

“He would always say to me about these mass guitar events that the most important thing is that they’re about community. They brought people together,” Sherman adds. “What he was trying to achieve was not just something sonically amazing, but something that was communitybuilding among D.C.-area musicians.”

Diamond, who also plays in Boat Burning, recalls how much he thrived with the musicians who surrounded him. He would get giddy over new projects forming in the different musical scenes—especially ones that evolved from people meeting at a mass guitar event.

He would be energized seeing friends and acquaintances—musical comrades in a city that’s often overshadowed by the hollowness of politics and professional life—perform live.

“He loved Washington, D.C. musicians in this orbit that he ran in,” she says. “Wow, did he think they were special people and, wow, did he think the projects were unique and inspiring.”

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before living life on the move for a bit, with stints in New York and San Francisco. Eventually, he settled in Chapel Hill, North Carolina in 1988 where he married and raised two kids—Matthew and Erin Fekete.

In the Triangle, Fekete thrived musically. He started a Television cover band in 2007 as well as a garage-rock band called Thee Dirtybeats.

But his musical curiosity—fueled by his classical upbringing, formative punk years, and his fondness for improvisation, free jazz, and minimalism—inspired him to create something more.

The first iteration of Boat Burning formed a few years later in Chapel Hill, and included Pete Gamble, a guitarist Fekete played with in his Television cover band. Fekete organized his first mass guitar event in 2011 at the Nightlight in Chapel Hill, with about 25 people. He would go on to organize two more mass guitar concerts in the Triangle area, in 2012 and 2013, before he brought the project to D.C. Around the same time Boat Burning began, Fekete—who had long been separated from his wife—met his longtime partner, Robin Diamond, at a Patti Smith show at the 9:30 Club.

Diamond remembers the night they met— 11 years ago—vividly.

“I saw this guy standing outside waiting to get in … and I remember thinking ‘Wow!’ I hadn’t had that feeling in over a decade,” she recalls. “We met, you know, as older people.”

Moments later, Diamond ran into an old friend, Andras’ brother Mike Fekete, in line.

Andras was in town visiting from North Carolina to take his then 19-year-old son Matthew to the show. “Mike said, ‘Hey, we’re going to be hanging out downstairs in the back, let’s all meet up there.’ And in those moments it took, like, 30 seconds of ‘Hello’ introductions for [Andras] to say ‘Oh, I should have your contact information so we can stay in touch.’ And within two minutes … we were standing there holding hands, watching the show.”

Fekete and Diamond officially started dating a year later. “I couldn’t stop wanting to get to know him,” she recalls of those early years.

“I couldn’t stop thinking about him. I couldn’t stop being giddy when he was in my presence, but yet calm and kind of felt like I was in good hands, even with the uncertainty of a really new relationship.”

From 2007 to 2011, Fekete would drive to and from North Carolina to visit Diamond before he permanently moved to D.C. in July of 2011.

“I’ve known him for just a few years, but he was someone who came to D.C. and just connected with so many people,” says Grindle.

“D.C. can be a bit of a finicky town to break into, and his warmness and kindness reached so many people.”

Mark Sherman, Boat Burning’s current and long-time drummer, first met Fekete in 2012. “He had recently moved to D.C. and wanted to put something musical together,”

January 15–20, 2019 Opera House Kennedy-Center.org (202) 467-4600

Groups call (202) 416-8400 For all other ticket-related customer service inquiries, call the Advance Sales Box Office at (202) 416-8540

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MUSE

.......................................................................................................... APRIL 2 Ticketmaster

Merriweather Post Pavilion • Columbia, MD

THIS WEEK’S SHOWS ALL GOOD PRESENTS

Ozomatli w/ Chopteeth Afrofunk Big Band ............................................. Th JAN 3 No Scrubs: ‘90s Dance Party with DJs Will Eastman and Ozker

• Visuals by Kylos ............................................................................................. F 4 BENT: A New LGBTQ Dance Party featuring DJs Lemz, KeenanOrr, and The Barber Streisand // Performances by Pussy Noir, Donna Slash, and Bombalicious Eklaver . Sa 5

JANUARY

FEBRUARY (cont.)

Jay Pharoah This is a seated show. ........................F 11 Jumpin’ Jupiter and The Grandsons w/ Virginia and The Blue Dots

Dorothy w/ Spirit Animal .........Tu 12 Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness w/ Flor & Grizfolk .......................W 13 Bob Mould Band w/ Titus Andronicus ...................Th 14 Galactic feat. Erica Falls

& Dingleberry Dynasty ...............Sa 12 ALL GOOD PRESENTS

The Wood Brothers w/ Priscilla Renea ..........Th 17 & F 18 Cracker & Camper Van Beethoven ....Sa 19 Super Diamond .....................Th 24 Guster w/ Henry Jamison ...........F 25 & Sa 26 Poppy Early Show! 6pm Doors ......Th 31 Amen Dunes w/ Arthur Late Show! 10pm Doors ....................Th 31

FEBRUARY

Daley & JMSN ............................F 1 Sharon Van Etten w/ Nilüfer Yanya ............................W 6 Mandolin Orange ....................Th 7 COIN w/ Tessa Violet Early Show! 6pm Doors ........................F 8 BASS NATION PRESENTS

Space Jesus w/ Minnesota • Of the Trees •

(F 15 - w/ High & Mighty Brass Band)

.......................................F 15 & Sa 16

The Knocks w/ Young & Sick • Blu DeTiger ...Su 17 Jacob Banks ...........................Tu 19 LP w/ Korey Dane........................W 20 Vince Staples w/ Buddy Early Show! 6pm Doors ......................F 22 Cherub w/ Mosie Late Show! 10pm Doors ......................F 22 You Me At Six w/ Machineheart ........................Su 24 Pat Green and Aaron Watson ...............W 27 Big Head Todd & The Monsters w/ Blue Water Highway ..............Th 28

AEG PRESENTS

Huxley Anne

Late Show! 10:30pm Doors ..................F 8 ALL GOOD PRESENTS

Spafford ....................................Sa 9 Panda Bear w/ Home Blitz ......M 11

Cole Escola ................................F 1 Deerhunter w/ L’Rain Early Show! 6pm Doors ......................Sa 2 BASS NATION PRESENTS

Dirt Monkey Late Show! 10pm Doors ....................Sa 2

MANY MORE SHOWS ON SALE!

9:30 CUPCAKES

MARCH

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M3 ROCK FESTIVAL FEATURING

Whitesnake • Extreme • Warrant • Skid Row • Vince Neil • Kix and more! .....................................................MAY 3-5 For a full lineup, visit m3rockfest.com

Slayer w/ Lamb of God • Amon Amarth • Cannibal Corpse ................................ MAY 14 Train/Goo Goo Dolls w/ Allen Stone ...................................AUGUST 9 Ticketmaster • merriweathermusic.com • impconcerts.com

Lincoln Theatre • 1215 U Street, NW Washington, D.C.

Story District’s Top Shelf . JAN 19 Alice Smith ................................. MAR 9 AN EVENING WITH AURORA w/ Talos....................... MAR 10 The Disco Biscuits............... JAN 25 José González Must purchase two-night pass (with 1/26 Disco Biscuits at The Anthem) to attend.

D NIGHT ADDED! FIRST NIGHT SOLD OUT! SECON

Neko Case w/ Margaret Glaspy .. JAN 27 Capturing Pablo: An Evening with DEA Agents Steve Murphy & Javier Pena

A Conversation on Pablo Escobar’s Take Down and the Hit Netflix Show Narcos ................... FEB 2

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Norm Macdonald ................. MAR 21 Whindersson Nunes .......... MAR 23 Meow Meow + Thomas Lauderdale (of Pink Martini) .............................. MAR 25 Spiritualized ............................APR 16 Citizen Cope .............................APR 17 Imogen Heap With special guest

Fred Armisen ............................ FEB 8 Guy Sigsworth of Frou Frou ............... MAY 3 Yann Tiersen Story District’s (Solo In Concert) .........................MAY 24 Sucker For Love ................... FEB 14 AN EVENING WITH

ALL GOOD PRESENTS AN EVENING WITH

Apocalyptica-

The Mavericks ........................ MAR 8

Plays Metallica By Four Cellos Tour .MAY 28

• thelincolndc.com • U Street (Green/Yellow) stop across the street!

9:30 CLUB PRESENTS AT U STREET MUSIC HALL

gnash w/ Mallrat & Guardin .... Sa JAN 19 Windhand w/ Genocide Pact ..........Th 24 The Brummies ..........................F 25 KONGOS w/ Fitness .............. Sa FEB 2 Ripe w/ Brook and the Bluff & Del Florida ......W 6 Cherry Glazerr w/ Mannequin Pussy .......................W 13 MHD ..........................................F 15

UnoTheActivist ........................Sa 16 9:30 & TRILLECTRO PRESENT MadeinTYO w/ Thutmose & Key! ..... M 18

Julia Holter w/ Jessica Moss ........Tu 19 Parcels ....................................W 20 Gang of Four ...........................Th 21 AJ Mitchell w/ Marteen .................F 22 The Suffers .............................Sa 23 Donna Missal ..........................Su 24

• Buy advance tickets at the 9:30 Club box office • 930.com

TICKETS for 9:30 Club shows are available through TicketFly.com, by phone at 1-877-4FLY-TIX, and at the 9:30 Club box office.

9:30 CLUB BOX OFFICE HOURS are 12-7pm on weekdays & until 11pm on show nights, 6-11pm on Sat, and 6-10:30pm on Sun on show nights.

HAPPY HOUR DRINK PRICES impconcerts.com AFTER THE SHOW AT THE BACK BAR!

& The String Theory............ MAR 20

PARKING: THE OFFICIAL 9:30 parking lot entrance is on 9th Street, directly behind the 9:30 Club. Buy your advance parking tickets at the same time as your concert tickets!

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3701 Mount Vernon Ave. Alexandria, VA • 703-549-7500

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Music 17 Theater 20 Film 21

Jan 4

CHANTÉ MOORE

10

THE S.O.S. BAND

11&12

Music

CITY LIGHTS: FRIDAY 17

BLUES

18, 19,20

THE HAMILTON 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

Jonny Grave. 10:30 p.m. Free. thehamiltondc.com.

ANGIE STONE 22&23 TOMMY EMMANUEL, CGP & JOHN KNOWLES, CGP 21

KENNEDY CENTER MILLENNIUM STAGE 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Dakh Daughters. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

COUNTRY

HILL COUNTRY LIVE 410 7th St. NW. (202) 556-2050.

The Woodshedders. 9:30 p.m. Free. hillcountrywdc. com.

“The Heart Songs Tour”

of "Baked", From Here" TOM PAPA "Live 26 ATLANTIC STARR 27 THE KINGSTON TRIO 29&30 GAELIC STORM

FLASH 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Function.

8 p.m. $9–$15. flashdc.com.

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SOUNDCHECK 1420 K St. NW. (202) 789-5429. Kyau & Albert. 10 p.m. $15. soundcheckdc.com.

FUNK & R&B

BIRCHMERE 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Chanté Moore. 7:30 p.m. $59.50. birchmere.com.

PEARL STREET WAREHOUSE 33 Pearl Street SW. (202) 380-9620. Soul Crackers. 8 p.m. Free. pearlstreetwarehouse.com.

Feb 1&2

WILL DOWNING Carly 5 KASEY CHAMBERS Burruss

HIP-HOP

FILLMORE SILVER SPRING 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Yung Bleu. 8 p.m. $30– $50. fillmoresilverspring.com.

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"The You & Me Tour"

BETHESDA BLUES & JAZZ 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. Collaboration Featuring Lori Williams. 8 p.m. $30. bethesdabluesjazz.com.

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TWINS JAZZ 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Clarence Ward III. 9 p.m.; 11 p.m. $17. twinsjazz.com.

MUSIC CENTER AT STRATHMORE 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. BSO: Leon Fleisher’s Birthday Celebration. 8 p.m. $25–$80. strathmore.org.

COUNTRY

STATE THEATRE 220 N. Washington St., Falls Church.

(703) 237-0300. Sam Grow. 8 p.m. $16–$19. thestatetheatre.com.

ELECTRONIC

FLASH 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Afriqua.

8 p.m. $9–$15. flashdc.com.

MUSIQ SOULCHILD

8&9

ROCK

CLASSICAL

An Evening with

DREW & ELLIE HOLCOMB

JAZZ

SATURDAY

KYLE CEASE

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ELECTRONIC

ROCK & ROLL HOTEL 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

The Gimmicks. 9 p.m. $12. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

EDDIE FROM OHIO

w/ Sara Niemietz & Snuffy Walden (18,19), Jake Armerding (20)

CABARET

JAMMIN JAVA 227 Maple Ave. East, Vienna. (703) 2551566. The Tone Rangers. 8 p.m. $16–$20. jamminjava.com.

TRAVIS TRITT THE VENTURES

15&16

FRIDAY

GYPSY SALLY’S 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. Make America Jam Again. 8:30 p.m. $10–$13. gypsysallys.com.

RICKY SKAGGS & Kentucky Thunder

NORDIC IMPRESSIONS

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Wandering up to the third floor of the Phillips Collection is like entering a portal to an artsy magical world, like Narnia, only in this case, Narnia is Scandinavia. The third floor is home to Nordic Impressions, a major survey of Nordic art from the past 200 years featuring the work of 53 artists. That’s art from Denmark, Iceland, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, and the islands of Åland, Faroe, and Greenland. The exhibition is gorgeous and captures the diversity of Nordic art. Oil on canvas paintings are the stars, from the landscape of Helmer Osslund’s “A Summer Evening at Lake Kallsjön” to the colorful whimsy of Nils Dardel’s “The Dying Dandy” to Eggert Pétursson’s “Untitled,” which is simply stunning. But Nordic Impressions is not limited to the canvas.

There are video works and large installations: Outi Pieski’s room-consuming piece “Crossing Paths” was made with large pieces of wood and thread. The themes are evident and quintessentially Nordic—joy and melancholy, light and darkness, nature and folklore—with an undercurrent of the progressive politics for which this area of the world is known. If you’ve ever wanted to venture to these northern nations without hopping on a flight, here’s your chance. The exhibition is on view to Jan. 13 at The Phillips Collection, 1600 21st St. NW. $10–$12. (202) 387-2151. phillipscollection.org.

—Kayla Randall

ARLO GUTHRIE "Alice's Restaurant" Tour with Sarah Lee Guthrie

ESTELLE

“Experience Lover’s Rock Live!”

13

DAVID SANBORN

14

BURLESQUE-A-PADES IN LOVELAND “A Valentine's Day Spectacular”

feat. Angie

15

Pontani, Murray Hill, & more!

ERIC ROBERSON

17

THREE DOG NIGHT

21

JAMES McMURTRY (Solo)

22

10,000 MANIACS

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CITY LIGHTS: SATURDAY

gEORgE mASON uNIVERSITY cENTER FOR THE ARTS ConCert Band Friday, Jan. 11, at 8 p.m.

Commodores saturday, Jan. 12 at 8 p.m.

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BASEBALL AMERICANA & MEMBERS OF THE

BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA THURSDAY, JANUARY 17 8:30 PM Baltimore musician Dan Deacon is a singular artist who defies all genres and knows no bounds. Catch this one-night-only chance to experience this immersive electronic-acoustic collaboration, including the world premiere of several new compositions.

Join us in the lobby at 6 pm for happy hour drink specials, food from our favorite Baltimore spots and live music by JAMAL MOORE, AMY REID, STEWART MOSTOFSKY, ALEX SILVA and AMANDA SCHMIDT. MADE POSSIBLE BY THE WALLACE FOUNDATION • MEDIA PARTNERS: WTMD | BALTIMORE MAGAZINE BEVERAGE SPONSORS: THE BREWER’S ART | NATIONAL BOHEMIAN BEER BOORDY VINEYARDS | BALTIMORE SPIRITS COMPANY

The sounds coming from the room are unmistakable. Old-time announcers. Loudly cheering fans. The crack of a bat. It’s all there to greet you on two large screens when you walk into the single-room exhibition tucked away on the second floor of the Library of Congress’ Thomas Jefferson Building. Baseball Americana, a nostalgic and polished—and, some may argue, incomplete—showcase, takes visitors through the different eras of baseball, a sport that Americans “had transformed [from] a folk game into a complex, organized, and increasingly competitive endeavor” in the 1800s, according to the exhibition. Stop to gawk at the massive, wall-sized photo of Cal Ripken Jr. Take a few moments to touch the replicas of vintage equipment (fingerless gloves, a padless catcher’s mask). And pause to learn about the important roles black Americans, immigrants, and women played in the history of the game. Even the most ardent baseball fan will likely leave having learned something new. The exhibition is on view to summer 2019 at the Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, 10 First St. SE. Free. (202) 707-8000. loc.gov.

—Kelyn Soong

FOLK BIRCHMERE 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Schooner Fare and Buskin & Batteau.

7:30 p.m. $39.50. birchmere.com.

JAMMIN JAVA 227 Maple Ave. East, Vienna. (703) 2551566. The Michael Clem Trio of Five. 8 p.m. $15–$18.

JOSEPH MEYERHOFF SYMPHONY HALL

TICKETS FROM $25 • BSOMUSIC.ORG/PULSE • 410.783.8000

jamminjava.com.

JAZZ TWINS JAZZ 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Clarence Ward III. 9 p.m.; 11 p.m. $17. twinsjazz.com.

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OPERA ROCK

COMET PING PONG 5037 Connecticut Ave. NW. (202) 364-0404. Big Ups and FileSelect. 10 p.m. $10. cometpingpong.com.

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Stone Driver.

9:30 p.m. $10. dcnine.com.

GYPSY SALLY’S 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. On the Bus and John Kadlecik. 9 p.m. $14–$16. gypsysallys.com.

THE HAMILTON 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. The 19th Street Band. 10:30 p.m. Free. thehamiltondc. com.

CITY LIGHTS: SUNDAY ALL GOOD PRESENTS

SCYTHIAN

W/ KENTUCKY AVENUE

LIVE MUSIC | BOURBON | BURGERS

THURSDAY DEC

27

AN EVENING WITH

DAN AYKROYD,

JANUARY FR 4

SA 5

SU 6

TU 8

NEW NATURE

Polish-born, San Francisco-based digital artist Marpi takes a colorful and dynamic look at our vibrant ecosystems in New Nature, a new exhibition at ARTECHOUSE. While combining art, science, and technology, this exhibition allows visitors the rare chance to fully immerse themselves in an incredible visual odyssey. The artwork showcases interactive worlds encompassing plants, creatures, landscapes, planets, and other aspects of organic life. Visitors will find that the exhibition is driven by their own sensory movements, as the nature-inspired creations react in real-time to their gestures and actions. In his first large-scale solo exhibition, Marpi has morphed and transformed the organic world into something we can interact with digitally. It’s a new way to perceive the intricate ecosystems that surround us. The exhibition is on view to Jan. 13 at ARTECHOUSE, 1238 Maryland Ave. SW. $8–$15. dc.artechouse.com. —Malika T. Benton

THE HAMILTON 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

Scythian. 8 p.m. $22–$27. thehamiltondc.com.

PEARL STREET WAREHOUSE 33 Pearl Street SW. (202) 380-9620. The All-Star Graceland Tribute Band with Bakithi Kumalo and Ryan Tennis. 8 p.m. $20. pearlstreetwarehouse.com.

ROCK & ROLL HOTEL 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

The Reflex. 9 p.m. $20. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

SUNDAY BLUES

THE HAMILTON 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. The Official Blues Brothers™ Revue. 7:30 p.m. $25–$50. thehamiltondc.com.

CLASSICAL GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR THE ARTS 4373 Mason Pond Drive, Fairfax. (888) 9452468. “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band. 2 p.m. Free. cfa.gmu.edu.

MONDAY BLUES

BLUES ALLEY 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Anita King. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $22. bluesalley.com.

FUNK & R&B KENNEDY CENTER MILLENNIUM STAGE 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. John “Papa” Gros. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

TUESDAY COUNTRY

HILL COUNTRY LIVE 410 7th St. NW. (202) 556-2050.

Jackson Dean. 8:30 p.m. $10–$15. hillcountrywdc. com.

FOLK JAMMIN JAVA 227 Maple Ave. East, Vienna. (703) 2551566. Lankum. 7:30 p.m. $10–$20. jamminjava.com.

JAZZ

HIP-HOP

TWINS JAZZ 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Keith Butler Trio. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $12. twinsjazz.com.

9:30 CLUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Noname. 7 p.m. Sold out. 930.com.

JUDITH BELUSHI & MUSICAL DIRECTOR

SOUL CRACKERS “BETTER LATE THAN NEVER” NEW YEAR’S DANCE! FEATURING TOMMY LEPSON & THE TOO MUCH SISTERS

PAUL SHAFFER PRESENT THE OFFICIAL

THE ALL-STAR “GRACELAND” TRIBUTE BAND w/ BAKITHI KUMALO & RYAN TENNIS SWELLTUNE RECORDS “BOSTON TO AUSTIN” SHOWCASE w/ JITTERY JACK AND MISS AMY, SEAN MENCHER AND SHAUN YOUNG (OF HIGH NOON), AND SPECIAL GUESTS HAPPY BIRTHDAY ELVIS! A BENEFIT FOR THE LOVE HOPE STRENGTH FOUNDATION FEATURING VANILLA FUDGE + BUCK DHARMA (OF BLUE OYSTER CULT)

TH 10 AMERICANA NIGHT FEATURING DREW GIBSON (FULL BAND) w/ NICOLE BELANUS TRIO

WED, JAN 9

LIVE NATION PRESENTS

ASHLEY McBRYDE

THE GIRL GOING NOWHERE TOUR W/ SPECIAL GUEST DEE WHITE

FRI, JAN 11

LEYLA McCALLA SAT, JAN 12

RAYLAND BAXTER SUN, JAN 13

AN EVENING WITH

LEE CHILD AND NAKED BLUE

EXPLORING JACK REACHER THROUGH MUSIC

FRI, JAN 18

TOWN MOUNTAIN

FR 11 BOBBY THOMPSON TRIO, THE RON HOLLOWAY TRIO

SUN, JAN 20

RARE ESSENCE W/ BE’LA DONA

SA 12 AN ALL-STAR 70s YACHT ROCK TRIBUTE FEATURING MEMBERS OF PSYCHO KILLERS, THE BRIDGE, YELLOW DUBMARINE, ELECTRIC LOVE MACHINE AND MORE! FR 18 BILLY PRICE CHARM CITY RHYTHM BAND

FRI, JAN 25

STEEP CANYON RANGERS SAT, JAN 26

AN EVENING WITH EARLY

ELTON

THURS, JAN 31

G LOVE AND SPECIAL SAUCE

SA 19 NEW ORLEANS FUNK & SOUL NIGHT FEATURING FUNKY MIRACLE w/ THE VOYAGE

W/ RON ARTIS II & THE TRUTH

FRI, FEB 1

TH 24 ROCK N’ SOUL NIGHT FEATURING MITCHELL FERGUSON (OF THE VOICE), BRYAN CHERRY (OF THE VOICE) F 25

BLUES BROTHERS REVUE FRIDAY DEC 28

THE WALKAWAYS w/ ROOF BEAMS

SA 26 JUSTIN TRAWICK’S 9TH ANNUAL 29TH BIRTHDAY SHOW FEATURING JUSTIN TRAWICK AND THE COMMON GOOD w/ KENTUCKY AVENUE

FLOW TRIBE W/ THE BEAT HOTEL SAT, FEB 2

JUNIOR MARVIN: A BOB MARLEY BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE WED, FEB 6

AN EVENING WITH GREG

BROWN

THURS, FEB 7

AN EVENING WITH

WALTER TROUT AND ERIC GALES

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POP

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Tommy Siegel.

8 p.m. $10. dcnine.com.

CITY LIGHTS: MONDAY

Theater

ELF In this heartwarming family musical adapted from the film by the same name, a young elf learns of his true identity as a human and travels to New York to find his father while spreading the Christmas cheer. Olney Theatre Center. 2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney. To Jan. 6. $37–$84. (301) 9243400. olneytheatre.org.

KINGS Two D.C. congresswomen with differing approaches clash in this sharp new comedy by Alex-

andria native Sarah Burgess, directed by Marti Lyons.

Studio Theatre. 1501 14th St. NW. To Jan. 6. $25–$55.

(202) 332-3300. studiotheatre.org.

MISS SAIGON From the creators of Les Miserables comes this classic, Tony-winning Broadway spectacle. When a young Vietnamese woman encounters an American G.I. in a Vietnam bar at the height of the war, their lives are forever changed. Kennedy Center Opera House. 2700 F St. NW. To Jan. 13. $49–$175.

(202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org.

THE PANTIES, THE PARTNER AND THE PROFIT Playwright David Ives adapts and translates Carl Sternheim’s German comedic trilogy Scenes from the Heroic Life of the Middle Class into one play in this Michael Kahn-directed production. Lansburgh Theatre. 450 7th St. NW. To Jan. 6. $44–102. (202) 5471122. shakespearetheatre.org.

CITY LIGHTS: TUESDAY

SEBASTIANE

Mount Pleasant’s independent movie theater celebrates queer cinema this month with JarMANuary, a month-long tribute to director Derek Jarman, whose bold formal experiments, such as Wittgenstein, earned him a reputation as one of the boldest voices in British independent film. Sebastiane, a controversial 1976 drama and Jarman’s first feature, relates the trials of Saint Sebastian, an early Christian martyr whose gory persecution—he was shot full of arrows— made him a frequent subject of Renaissance painters and a gay icon. Jarman depicts Sebastian as a Roman soldier who hides his faith and becomes the lust object of fellow soldiers and his commanding officer. In addition to what was then startlingly frank sexuality, Sebastiane stands out for its dialogue—written completely in Latin—and a score by art-rock and future ambient legend Brian Eno. The film screens at 8 p.m. at Suns Cinema, 3107 Mount Pleasant St. NW. $10. sunscinema.com.

—Pat Padua

JAZZ

BLUES ALLEY 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Jose Andre Trio. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $22. bluesalley. com.

WEDNESDAY CLASSICAL

HOWARD THEATRE 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

NSO In Your Neighborhood presents Chamber Concert. 7 p.m. Free. thehowardtheatre.com.

COUNTRY

THE HAMILTON 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

Ashley McBryde. 7:30 p.m. $15–$30. thehamiltondc. com.

HIP-HOP

9:30 CLUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Noname. 7 p.m. Sold out. 930.com.

JAZZ

BLUES ALLEY 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Emmet Cohen Trio. 8 p.m. $22. bluesalley.com.

KENNEDY CENTER MILLENNIUM STAGE 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Yosvany Terry and Baptiste Trotignon. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

TWINS JAZZ 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Mosché.

8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $12. twinsjazz.com.

ROCK

GYPSY SALLY’S 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. Beggars Tomb and The Bob Band. 8 p.m. $8. gypsysallys.com.

THURSDAY COUNTRY

HILL COUNTRY LIVE 410 7th St. NW. (202) 556-2050.

Ryan Culwell. 8:30 p.m. Free. hillcountrywdc.com.

ELECTRONIC

FLASH 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Skream.

9 p.m. $10–$20. flashdc.com.

SOUNDCHECK 1420 K St. NW. (202) 789-5429. Borgeous. 10 p.m. $20–$25. soundcheckdc.com.

U STREET MUSIC HALL 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Calyx & Teebee. 9 p.m. $20–$25. ustreetmusichall.com.

FOLK

JAMMIN JAVA 227 Maple Ave. East, Vienna. (703) 2551566. The Other Favorites. 8 p.m. $18–$20. jamminjava.com.

FUNK & R&B

BIRCHMERE 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. The SOS Band. 7:30 p.m. $59.50. birchmere.com.

JAZZ

BLUES ALLEY 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Terence Blanchard & the E-Collective. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $40–$45. bluesalley.com.

KENNEDY CENTER MILLENNIUM STAGE 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Todd Marcus. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

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ASHLEE + EVAN

While their last names alone are marquee-worthy, Ashlee Simpson and Evan Ross truly shine as a duo. Ashlee, the younger sister of early aughts pop singer and reality star Jessica Simpson, is the creator of the iconic bop “Pieces of Me” who nearly brought down an episode of Saturday Night Live and Evan is the actor-singer son of music legend Diana Ross. Not only are the duo married and parents of a little girl named Jagger, they’ve also recently made their mark musically as a pair. Both have spent most of the last decade acting (Simpson onstage in Chicago and the short-lived Melrose Place reboot and Ross in The Hunger Games films), but they’ve put their talents and hearts together to make music and tour as a family affair. While Simpson’s musical past has veered more towards angsty pop, she’s grown past the lip syncing foibles and tabloid fodder of her youth and has developed, alongside Ross, a more mature, soulful sound. They both may have burst onto the scene from famous families, but it’s their personal passion and hard work that’s given them this new sound and focus. The duo performs at 8 p.m. at Union Stage, 740 Water St. SW. $25–$99. (877) 987-6487. unionstage.com.

—Diana Metzger

CITY LIGHTS: WEDNESDAY

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AQUAMAN Jason Momoa stars as Arthur Curry, who learns he is the true heir and future king of the underwater kingdom of Atlantis and must lead. Co-starring Amber Heard and Patrick Wilson. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) BUMBLEBEE Bumblebee, a Transformer now on the run in the 1980s, hides out in a beach town and befriends a teenage girl named Charlie. Starring Hailee Steinfeld, John Cena, and Dylan O’Brien. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) ESCAPE ROOM Six strangers find themselves trapped in a real-life escape room and must fight for survivial. Starring Deborah Ann Woll, Jay Ellis, and Taylor Russell. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) HOLMES & WATSON Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly star as detective Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson, respectively, in this humorous take on the classic Sir Arthur Conan Doyle books. Co-starring Ralph Fiennes and Kelly Macdonald. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information)

MDOU MOCTAR

The modern age has seen the proliferation of cultural exchanges that were unfathomable just a few decades ago. Take, for example, Mdou Moctar: A Tuareg singer-songwriter-guitarist from Niger, Moctar came to prominence across the Sahel thanks to a network that traded music through cell phones. One of his early hits, the drum machine and AutoTune-assisted “Tahoultine,” found a Western audience after it appeared on Music From Saharan Cellphones, a compilation of such music released by labelhead Christopher Kirkley. Moctar’s next breakthrough would look back to an iconic musical moment three decades prior, as he starred in and soundtracked the Tuareg remake of Prince’s Purple Rain. Titled Akounak Tedalat Taha Tazoughai, or Rain the Color of Blue with a Little Red in It (there is no word for “purple” in the Tuareg language Tamajeq), the film took The Kid’s journey to Niger, showcasing Moctar’s brand of psychedelic, hypnotic desert rock. In 2018, Moctar released a dubbed-out jam session collaboration with Portland, Oregon ensemble Elite Beat, digitally globetrotting his way into the future. Mdou Moctar performs at 7:30 p.m. at Union Stage, 740 Water St. SW. $15–$30. (877) 987-6487. unionstage.com.

—Chris Kelly

CITY LIGHTS: THURSDAY

SOHAILA ABDULALI

Content warning: This pick concerns rape and sexual assault. There should be many more books like Sohaila Abdulali’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape. At 17, the writer was gang raped and nearly killed in Mumbai. She wrote about this experience and her recovery from it three decades later in a 2013 New York Times op-ed. Her new book is somewhat of an expansion of that piece, an expansion on the conversation about rape, sexual assault, and rape culture, and an examination of how different cultures handle sexual violence. In addition to sharing her own story, Abdulali interviewed survivors from around the world and put these intensely personal stories on the page. It’s a book that stresses the fact that there is no singular response to rape, and asks questions that must be addressed: Who gets raped and why? And, if you’re a survivor, how do you recover a sense of safety and joy? It’s essential reading. Sohaila Abdulali speaks at 7 p.m. at Politics and Prose at Union Market, 1270 5th St. NE. Free. (202) 364-1919. politics-prose.com.

—Kayla Randall

IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK A pregnant young woman in Harlem—and her mother—desperately try to prove her fiancé innocent of a sexual assault. Starring KiKi Layne, Stephan James, and Regina King. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) MARY POPPINS RETURNS Magical nanny Mary Poppins returns to the Banks home decades after her first visit to help the now adult Banks children through hardship. Starring Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Ben Whishaw. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) MORTAL ENGINES Two young people meet and try to stop giant city-on-wheels London—in a postapocalyptic world where cities ride on wheels and devour each other—from destroying everything. Starring Hera Hilmar, Hugo Weaving, and Robert Sheehan. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) THE MULE Facing foreclosure on his business, an elderly man becomes a successful drug mule for a Mexican cartel, which draws the attention of law enforcement. Starring Clint Eastwood, Bradley Cooper, and Taissa Farmiga. (See washingtoncitypaper. com for venue information) ON THE BASIS OF SEX Felicity Jones stars as Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in this biopic about her fight for equal rights and all she had to overcome to ascend to the highest court in the land. Co-starring Armie Hammer and Justin Theroux. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) SECOND ACT A superstore assistant manager sets out to prove street smarts can be as valuable as book smarts when she loses out on a promotion and must reinvent herself. Starring Jennifer Lopez, Milo Ventimiglia, and Vanessa Hudgens. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE Brooklyn teenager Miles Morales becomes the Spider-Man of his reality and then crosses paths with counterparts from other universes, with the group joining forces to fight a universal threat. Starring Shameik Moore, Jake Johnson, and Hailee Steinfeld. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) WELCOME TO MARWEN A man, after suffering a brutal attack, creates his own fantasy world art installation to help him heal. Starring Steve Carell, Leslie Mann, and Janelle Monae. (See washingtoncitypaper. com for venue information)

Gear Prudence Gear Prudence: For the past three years, I’ve had the same New Year’s resolution: Bike more. And then like all resolutions, I don’t do it—partially because in January the weather sucks and by the time it’s nice enough to bike in spring, I’ve long since forgotten or given up on my resolutions. But this year will be different … if you can just tell me how.

—Regretfully, Effective SteadfastnessOften Lacking.

Very Exasperated, Demoralized.

Dear RESOLVED: This year will be different!

Because you won’t make the same New Year’s resolution about biking more. Make a different one and focus on not keeping that instead.

Maybe don’t go the gym more, or fail at drinking less—both of those are achievable and GP is confident that with minimal effort, you’ll be quite successful in not succeeding with either.

The January weather works against any kind of ‘bike more’ resolution, so if your goal really is to pedal a lot in the coming year, be realistic and a little more strategic. Don’t even think about biking right now. Wait until the first nice day, and ride then. Thereafter, ride on any day of equivalent or superior niceness. So long as you can hold yourself to this, you’ll find the miles racking up in no time. And if you don’t, there’s always next year!

—GP Gear Prudence: I always wear a bike helmet when riding, but I’ve never been able to find a comfortable hat that 1) keeps my head warm, 2) covers my ears, and 3) stays in place. I don’t think I have an abnormal head. Am I striving for the impossible here? Or is this something about winter hats under helmets that I just don’t get?

—Have Any Tips?

Dear HAT: GP will have to take your word regarding the normality of your head, but otherwise your story mostly checks out. If you ride in any kind of hunched position, keeping eyes on the road requires some neck craning and this can cause a hat to drift. Additionally, the fit of your helmet might preclude thicker headgear, but this doesn’t necessarily have to reduce warmth. Thin warm cycling caps with earflaps made of merino wool (the preferred wool of outdoorsy people who think nothing of shelling out unseemly amounts of money for wool products) would probably do the trick. If that doesn’t work, you’ll need to invest in a balaclava (the preferred ski mask-looking-thing of bank robbers) since this will definitely keep you warm, cover your ears, and stay in place. The only problem with balaclavas—aside from the palpable unease you’ll notice from bank tellers—is that they cover your face, and this might be overkill on days with more moderate temperatures. But a sweaty face might be a worthy trade-off to solve your other winter woes.

—GP

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