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Arts and Labor Is a renovation at the George Washington University’s Corcoran School of the Arts & Design making its students sick? P. 10

By Kriston Capps Photographs by Darrow Montgomery

housing: real estate Pro eNters CouNCil raCe 5 food: PouriNg oVer D.C.’s Coffee sCeNe 14 arts: the Coolest sPiDer-maN book yet 17

Divine Felines: Cats of Ancient Egypt Closes January 15, 2018 Organized by the Brooklyn Museum and generously supported by Jacqueline Badger Mars and Mars Petcare Figurine of a Standing Lion-Headed Goddess; 664–30 BCE; faience; Brooklyn Museum; Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.943E

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INSIDE

10 Arts AndlAbor Is a renovation at the George Washington University’s Corcoran School of the Arts & Design making its students sick?

By Kriston Capps

Photographs by Darrow Montgomery

4 ChAtter

Arts

distriCt Line

17 Character Study: Author and Oxon Hill native Jason Reynolds is revolutionizing the art of writing characters, both human and superpowered.

19 Sketches: Randall on T is for Television at the National Museum of American History

5 Housing Complex: Meet Marcus Goodwin, the 28-yearold real estate professional challenging Anita Bonds for her at-large D.C. Council seat.

6 Early Child Scare: Parents are surprised to learn that the city’s publicly funded pre-K programs are governed by different regulations.

8 Savage Love 9 Gear Prudence

food 14 Raising the Bar-ista: D.C. is riding the third wave of coffee culture, but how far have we advanced in terms of what we’re drinking, where, and the role of the modern day barista?

16 Buzz Skill: Two alternative ways to caffeinate in D.C. 16 Veg Diner Monologues: Vegan Hearts of Palm Cakes at Equinox 16 Hangover Helper: A Baked Joint’s bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwich

City List 21 City Lights: See a musical about the lives of international superstars Gloria and Emilio Estefan at the Kennedy Center on Wednesday.

21 Music 25 Theater 25 Film

26 Crossword 27 CLAssifieds

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CHATTER Out With the Old/ In With the New

In which your local arts editor predicts the trends for 2018

Darrow MontgoMery

Another year gone, another opportunity to reflect. Or, as The Washington Post’s intrepid Style writers have done for 40 years, another chance to predict what trends will be left in the rearview mirror in favor of new ones. Indeed, the Post’s annual In/Out list is a valuable national trend watch, but it so rarely tackles what we can expect in our fair city. And so, we present you with our 2018 D.C. In/Out list (even though, according to the Post’s new list, alt-weeklies are out). Stay gold, D.C. —Matt Cohen

Out

IN

corporate overlords

local ownership

pop-ups

pop-ins

saving mcmillan park

renaming rock creek park

standing in lines

sitting inside

Infinity mirrors at the hirshhorn

Infinity pool at the Anthem

#bikedc

#scooterdc

popville

local journalism

shitty media men

boss lady editors

metro

literally any other form of transportation

starting a band

experimental side projects

petworth

brightwood

poke

pokémon

The Post

Georgetown

dockless bikeshare

dockless bike theft

listservs

soft serve

displacing artists

displacing homeless 800 BlOck Of MONrOe Street Ne, Dec 30

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DistrictLine Developing Interests Meet Marcus Goodwin, the 28-year-old real estate professional running for an at-large D.C. Council seat.

were in a Dodge minivan and people’s babysitters were picking them up in Maseratis. It was like: What’s a Maserati?

By Andrew Giambrone Five challengers have emerged in the race for the at-large D.C. Council seat held by Anita Bonds, and the majority are millennials. Bonds is also running for the citywide seat, which she’s held since 2012. She chairs the Council’s committee on housing and the dysfunctional D.C. Democratic State Committee.

Given her deep roots in city politics, Bonds is a formidable incumbent. She was once an aide to Marion Barry and is now in her 70s.

She attained over half of the votes in the 2014 Democratic primary, when she had four opponents.

But one of her current rivals has amassed impressive support since declaring last fall.

First-time Council candidate Marcus Goodwin, 28, raised over $52,000 in campaign donations from Sept. 13 through Dec. 9. That’s two-and-a-half times what community activist Jeremiah Lowery raised during the same reporting period. Bonds raised only $150 in that period—from herself.

This week, City Paper sat down with Goodwin, an associate at Shaw-based real estate firm Four Points and a Ward 4 homeowner.

City Paper: Why are you running for D.C. Council and specifically this seat?

Goodwin: With eight kids in my family, we’re really from and about all eight wards. I can talk to all kinds of people. Jim Graham [whom I interned for in college] was a master at that, and an inspiration to see how you can be all about the working class, but have the savvy and je ne sais quoi to be liked and beloved by people in the development world. Balance that with the concerns of ANCs, nonprofits, and families— that’s the kind of experience I bring.

CP: Tell us about your family.

G: I grew up in Washington, first in Northeast.

My mother’s from Senegal. My father’s from South Carolina. I’m the fifth of eight.

CP: What’s that like?

G: It’s about being a bridge-builder. I know

Darrow Montgomery

housing complex

what it’s like to be on the older side, and I know what it’s like to be on the younger side.

My mom’s a DCPS teacher. My dad’s an environmental scientist for the EPA. They were very inspired by the Pan-Africanist movements. I have a brother named after Prophet Muhammad, and another after Malcolm X. I’m named after Marcus Garvey. Five of us went to John Quincy Adams Elementary. I did well academically. I played basketball.

CP: How did that make you feel?

G : Aspirational. Some people I grew up with saw guys with rims and earrings and studded belts, and I saw generational modest wealth. I was like, if I ever want to get out of this, it’s not going to be doing what my [parents do].

I attended [the University of Pennsylvania].

There were a lot of people saying, especially my classmates, you can’t get into Penn, that’s a school for the elite. I decided to pursue urban studies. After my sophomore year, I got great advice to not become a professional politician, but focus on understanding economic development.

CP: What position did you play?

G: Point guard. I’ve never been a big guy. But I’ve never been a small guy, in terms of my disposition. I started to go to basketball camp at St. Albans and see another side of the city.

My parents divorced. My mom lived in Columbia Heights, my father in Congress Heights.

We lived with my mom during the school year and my dad during the summers. I [entered St. Albans in] seventh grade. I was just wowed.

Seeing D.C. Public Schools versus this magical place where you didn’t have all the distractions or fights every day was incredible.

CP: Where did that advice come from?

G: Mostly from Adrian Fenty. He’s someone I learned a lot from, who has been a champion of much of the successful development that’s coming to life now. I met him [when] I worked the summer after my sophomore year in the office of Deputy Mayor Valerie Santos Young.

I switched gears and got a job at UBS, then at Morgan Stanley. I learned about investment and equity. The financial literacy in so many working-class communities is so low. If elected, I’d like to work on a youth empowerment initiative for financial literacy.

CP: How did that transition go?

G: St. Albans was transformative. I found out what a developer was. My friend’s father was a successful businessman who talked about building, and I thought it was all about architecture.

That was the first thing I was intellectually fascinated by: building, designing, master planning.

I came up in a working-class family. We

CP: How did you end up at Four Points?

G: I became disenchanted with New York. In terms of building a life and having a community I was firmly invested in, I didn’t have that.

I have that in D.C. [My family is] like D.C. Brady Bunch. I got a job at JBG Cos. Then I went to Harvard and studied real estate for a masters. I lived in Barry Farm when I worked at JBG and

I wrote my thesis about how successful development in Barry Farm could happen.

CP: What did you learn?

G: The only way we can create a successful development strategy is in-place development.

There are people who will fight tooth and nail to be on that land because it was their ancestors’. If you remove everyone, [few] are going to move back.

CP: What specific policies do you favor?

G: I want to help renters graduate into homeownership. I bought a house in 2016, in 16th Street Heights. It was what I could afford. I bid on houses across the District, got outbid everywhere.

Tax assessments are going up. Because we were a city in the red for the longest time and now we’re a city in the black, I wonder how much we have to tax our people, and at what cost. I want a city where people of all backgrounds can build wealth and be comfortable in their home without being compelled to leave.

CP: What would you say to a voter worried about your industry connections?

G: There’s a reason there’s never been someone with a development background on Council: There’s never been someone with my disposition who understands and is foremost concerned about the community. You probably have never seen a developer that looks anything like me.

I lived in Columbia Heights when Realtors knocked on people’s doors, giving them all-cash, below-market offers. The consumer education that that’s not a good deal hasn’t existed.

[My mom’s block] was almost exclusively black families. It’s probably 80 percent white now. The demographic upheaval isn’t just by chance and market forces. It’s about how we educate people.

CP: How would you describe your support?

G: It’s incredible. I’ve got at least 20 people who will meet me anywhere in the city right now and help canvas—doesn’t matter what the weather is. Five people ran a 5K with me yesterday. All energetic and enthusiastic volunteers under 40. I’m still on email, doing my [real estate] work. I don’t have a trust fund. I gotta work every day. I’m balancing a lot. I’m not sleeping as much as I used to.

CP: How are you handling that?

G: I’ve been beating daunting odds my whole life. This is just another challenge, and it’s one I’m passionate about. People say I started running in September, but I started running in 2007. I’ve been building trust and relationships around D.C. I just have friends. You should have seen my kick-off.

CP

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Early Child Scare

Parents are surprised to learn that the city’s publicly funded pre-K programs are governed by different regulations. legations.

Over the course of dealing with their issues, Judson and DaCosta-Azar began to realize that different pre-K programs across the city are governed by different rules and standards, and in turn, regulated by different agencies. Who sets the standards? Who holds who accountable?

D.C. is widely considered a national leader when it comes to early childhood education. In 2016, according to the National Institute of Early Education Research, 81 percent of District 4-year-olds and 70 percent of District 3-year-olds were enrolled in publicly-funded programs. These rates exceeded those of all states.

Like most states offering pre-K, the District employs a “mixed-delivery” system for publicly-funded early childhood education; parents can choose DCPS programs, privatelyrun programs, or charter school programs.

But these three sectors are not all governed by the same regulations, and are subject to differing levels of oversight. All three must comply with the city’s sanitation, building, and fire codes, but in other management areas there are differences.

Privately-run programs, also referred to as community-based organizations, are regulated by D.C.’s Office of the State Superintendent of Education. These programs all must be licensed as “child development centers,” meaning they all must comply with OSSE’s rules on child supervision, student-teacher ratios, and other safety and management standards. A parent who has an issue with a privately-run program can make a complaint to OSSE, and an OSSE official will investigate.

DCPS programs are not regulated by OSSE, and are not required to be licensed as child development centers. The DCPS Office of Elementary Schools and the federal Office of Head Start are tasked with monitoring DCPS programs, and most are regulated by federal Head Start standards. If a program were found to be out of compliance with Head Start rules, federal officials would work with DCPS leadDarrow Montgomery

Mary McLeod Bethune Day Academy Public Charter’s pre-K program is housed in the Sixth Presbyterian Church building

By Rachel M. Cohen Before Kate Judson pulled her 3-year-old twins out of Mary McLeod Bethune Day Academy Public Charter’s pre-K program, she says she noticed some troubling signs.

“We never had to sign our kids in or out, and the school was leaving their door propped open in the morning,” she says. “That seemed like a really scary safety concern.”

The last straw came in October, when Judson received a call from a teacher letting her know that her son Will had been crying all morning. Judson took her son to the doctor, where he was diagnosed with a dislocated elbow—a common injury for toddlers. The doctor quickly put it back into place.

After further investigation, Judson learned her son’s injury came from his teacher grabbing his arm. He had cried for more than two hours before another teacher noticed and called home. The teacher who grabbed him had been working alone that day, managing 17 2- and 3-year olds on her own because the classroom co-teacher was absent.

Will’s parents set up a meeting with the school’s early childhood coordinator, Claude McKay, to discuss what happened. McKay told them that though the school’s policy is to have a 9:1 student-teacher ratio, they had failed to adhere to their policy that day. He apologized, and later that day, according to emails obtained by City Paper, wrote to Judson that “disciplinary action” had been taken and promised the school would do better going forward.

Judson says another teacher she spoke with

following the incident told her this wasn’t the first time a teacher had called out sick and the school did not bring in a substitute. “We’re now paying for a private school, which is amazing—it’s safe, it’s secure—but the unsettling thing is we’re lucky that we have the means to do that,” says Judson.

Kim DaCosta-Azar pulled her daughter Olivia out of Mary McLeod Bethune this fall, too. She says she had early concerns about her daughter’s teachers, who arrived late to their first meeting and seemed to respond dismissively to DaCosta-Azar’s questions. In late September, when her husband arrived to pick Olivia up from aftercare, he found her standing by herself, crying with wet pants. He says one teacher was sitting on a nearby picnic bench not paying attention, while another was inside, tending to a group of children. The next day, Olivia’s dad found her again crying alone with wet pants.

DaCosta-Azar sent her concerns about supervision and student-teacher ratios to McKay. By early October, she decided to remove her child altogether and Olivia now also attends a private school. In an email sent to the charter’s board of directors, as well as the DC Public Charter School Board, DaCosta-Azar wrote that “the level of neglect, lack of safety, and disregard by all others needs to be addressed at the highest level.”

McKay did not return City Paper’s multiple requests for comment. PCSB’s spokesperson, Tomeika Bowden, says that that while they do not generally comment on individual complaints, they handle concerns through their Community Complaint Policy, a set of procedures that govern how the PCSB addresses al-

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ership to develop a resolution. If the problem persisted, the feds could cut off funding.

Early childhood educators working in community-based organizations are required to be paid on parity with DCPS teachers. “That’s something we feel really strongly about,” says Elizabeth Groginsky, OSSE’s assistant superintendent for early learning.

By contrast, charter schools have more discretion not only over teacher salaries, but also over curriculum, health and safety standards, and teacher-student ratios. Charter leaders aim to regulate quality using the PCSB’s performance management framework, a guide for holding programs accountable for student outcomes.

For example, Mary McLeod Bethune can set its own class sizes and student-teacher ratios. Judson’s son was among 18 3-year-olds in a class with a 9:1 student-teacher ratio. For both OSSE-regulated and Head Start-regulated programs, however, 3-year-olds must be in classrooms with 8:1 student-teacher ratios and a maximum of 16 students.

City Paper described Judson and DaCosta-Azar’s experiences to BB Otero, a veteran expert on pre-K in the District. For 25 years Otero directed CentroNía, a D.C. early childhood organization, and she worked on preschool issues while serving as deputy mayor for health and human services under Mayor Vince Gray.

“In order to be a licensed communitybased program, you have to have strict ratios, requirements around sign-in and sign-out, and so on,” says Otero. “Those parents likely came into that charter school with expectations from prior experiences. A parent without any formal experience may not have found all those things unusual.” Prior to coming to Mary McLeod Bethune, Judson and DaCostaAzar’s children had attended OSSE-regulated private daycare.

When parents choose early childhood programs for their children, are they aware of the different standards and regulations? Is it clear to them how violations of school policy are handled differently in different programs? For Judson and DaCosta-Azar, the answer was no.

Otero says she’s never been shy about saying that D.C. “should have a more standardized way to regulate early childhood education, keeping child safety and quality at the forefront.”

Groginsky, of OSSE, points to the Classroom Assessment Scoring System, an evaluative tool which applies to all D.C. pre-K classrooms, and resources like My School DC, My Child Care DC, and DC Child Care Connections. She says OSSE’s “goal is to get parents consumer information they can readily access.”

“I worry about the parent who is trying to manage multiple children, going to multiple schools, who may have multiple jobs, may be lower-income and not have transportation,” says Otero. “Is their ability to make these choices not hampered? Is it really equitable?

Available to all?”

“There have been some really significant attempts at improvement but there’s still a lot more to go,” she adds. “We’ve got to continually think about the user-end of all of this.” CP

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SAVAGELOVE I married my high-school sweetheart at 17, had a baby, together a few years, mental illness and subsequent infidelity led to things ending. My exhusband remarried, divorced again, and is now in another LTR. I’m in a LTR for a decade with my current partner (CP), we have a few kids, and I’m so in love with him, it terrifies me. My ex frequently makes sexual remarks to me, low-key flirts. I feel an animal attraction in the moment.

Whatever. I don’t want to be with him, my relationship with CP is solid AF, and I get amazing fucking at home from a man far more skilled. CP knows about ex-husband’s remarks and one actual physical advance. CP has offered to talk to my ex. I told him nah, I’ll deal with it and make it stop. I talked to my ex-husband today, and he said: “I’m sorry, it’s just teasing. I won’t make an actual move ever again, but you’re the only woman I ever just look at and get immediately hard for, and it’s only a few more years before our kid is fully grown and we don’t see each other anymore.

So humor me because you know we both enjoy it.”

And it’s true that I do enjoy it. But how harmful is it to engage in flirty banter without any touching, nudity, or worse? I hate having secrets, as I feel they are barriers to intimacy, but I’m a thirtysomething mom and it is so fucking unbearably sexy to be made to feel so desirable even after all that shit between us, and it’ll never, ever happen because hell no am I sleeping with my ex-hubby, but knowing this man will never get a whiff of my pussy again but can’t help but beg for it with his eyes gives me a sense of power like I’ve never fucking felt before, but even so I don’t want to be a terrible person for hiding this from my CP because I don’t like having secrets from him but this is just one that turns me on to no end, but I should nip this in the bud and put a stop to it yesterday because it’s wrong, right?

—Secret Longings Utterly Titillating I love a good run-on sentence—grammar fetishists are going to get off on diagramming that doozy you closed with—so I’m going to give it a shot, too: I don’t see the harm in enjoying your ex-husband’s flirtations so long as you’re certain you’ll never, ever take him up on his standing offer, but you are playing with fire here, SLUT, so pull on a pair of asbestos panties when you know you’ll be seeing your ex-hubby, and I don’t think you should feel bad about this secret because while honesty is great generally and while the keeping of secrets is frowned upon by advice professionals reflexively, SLUT, a little mystery, a little distance, a little erotic autonomy keeps our sex lives with long-term partners hot—even monogamous relationships—so instead of seeing this secret as a barrier to intimacy, SLUT, remind yourself that the erotic charge you get from your ex-hubby—the way he makes you feel desirable—benefits your CP, because he’s the one who will be getting a big, fat whiff of 8 january 5, 2018 washingtoncitypaper.com

your pussy when you get home and there’s nothing wrong with that, right?

—Dan Savage

I’ve been with my girlfriend “J” for two years. Her best friend “M” is a gay man she’s known since high school. M and I have hung out many times.

He seems cool, but lately I’ve been wondering if he and J are fucking behind my back. For starters, J and I rarely have sex anymore. Even a kiss on the cheek happens less than once a week. Meanwhile, J’s Facebook feed has pictures of M grabbing her tits outside of a gay club in front of her sister.

She told me he’s spent the night in her room, even though he lives only a few miles away. I’ve also recently found out that although M has a strong preference for men, he considers himself bisexual. I understand that everyone loves tits, even if they’re not turned on by them, and gay men can sleep with a girl and actually just … sleep. I also know that her antidepressants can kill sex drive.

All three things at once feel like more than just coincidence, though. At the very least, the PDAs seem disrespectful. At worst, I’m a blind fool who’s been replaced. Am I insecure or is there something to these worries? —You Pick The Acronym I Gotta Get To Work

I don’t see the harm in enjoying your exhusband’s flirtations so long as you’re certain you’ll never, ever take him up on his standing offer, but you are playing with fire here, so pull on a pair of asbestos panties when you know you’ll be seeing your ex-hubby.

Your girlfriend’s best friend isn’t gay, YPTAIGGTW, he’s bisexual—so, yeah, it’s entirely possible M is fucking your girlfriend, since fucking girls is something bisexual guys do, and according to one study, they’re better at it.

(Australian women who had been with both bi and straight guys ranked their bi male partners as more attentive lovers, more emotional-

ly available, and better dads, according to the results of a study published in 2016.) But while we can’t know for sure whether M is fucking J, YPTAIGGTW, we do know who she isn’t fucking: you. If the sex is rare and a kiss—on the cheek—is a once-a-week occurrence, it’s time to pull the plug. Yes, antidepressants can be a libido killer. They can also be a dodge. If your girlfriend doesn’t regard the lack of sex as a problem and isn’t working on a fix—if she’s prioritizing partying with her bisexual bestie over talking to her doc and adjusting her meds, if she hasn’t offered you some sort of accommodation/outlet/work-around for the lack of sex—trust your gut and get out.

—DS

I’m a recently divorced woman with a high libido. Now that I’m single, I’ve come out as a kinkster. I quickly met someone who swept me off my feet—smart, funny, sexy, proudly pervy, and experienced in the BDSM scene—and soon he declared himself as my Dom and I assumed the sub role. This was hot as hell at first. I loved taking his orders, knowing how much my subservience pleased him, and surprising myself with just how much pain and humiliation I could take. However, his fantasies quickly took a darker turn. When I say I’m uncomfortable with the extremely transgressive territory he wants to explore, he says, “I’m your master and you take my orders.” I think this is shitty form—the bottom should always set the limits. When we’re in play, he says that I chose him as my top precisely because I wanted to see how far I could go and that it’s his job to push me out of my comfort zone. I think he’s twisting my words. Arguing over limits mid-scene makes us both frustrated and angry. I’m not in any physical danger, but his requests (if carried out) could ruin some of my existing relationships. Did I blow it by not giving him a list of my hard limits in advance of becoming his sub? Or is he just a shitty, inconsiderate top trying to take advantage of a novice? After play, he checks in to see if I’m OK, which on the surface looks like great form—aftercare and all— but this also feels manipulative. How can I pull things back to where I’m comfortable? Do I run from the scene—or just this guy?

—Tired Of Overreaching From A Shitty Top A top who reopens negotiations about limits and what’s on the BDSM menu during a scene—a time when the sub will feel tremendous pressure to, well, submit—is not a top you can trust. The same goes for a top who makes demands that, if obeyed, could ruin their sub’s relationships with family, friends, other partners, etc. Run from this guy, TOOFAST, but not from the scene. There are better tops out there. Go find one.

—DS Email your Savage Love questions to mail@savagelove.net.

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2018 in Bicycling D.C. bicyclists can expect 2018 to be another year of steady (but slow) progress toward the improvement of the region’s bicycling scene. The local bike boom, such as it was, hasn’t gone bust, but it’s no longer zeitgeisty either. Instead, it’s reached a period of maturation marked by small but noticeable improvements. It marches on in incremental (not revolutionary) advances.

The region’s trail network is where this is most apparent. The Purple Line, a Maryland light rail project that has seemingly been planned since Lord Baltimore founded the colony, has broken ground after nearly interminable litigation, and accompanying it will be a reconception and improvement of the beloved Capital Crescent Trail.

This project will take a very long time, and trail users will be beset by detours throughout, but a new paved trail along the railroad right-of-way is coming. It will eventually find its way to the Metropolitan Branch Trail, another bit of regional bike infrastructure whose progress is best measured in decades. The next off-street portion of the MBT, which will run from Brookland to Fort Totten, will be under construction, extending the flattish trail’s reach northward. 2018 should also see a final decision about the routing of the next phase of the MBT through Takoma to Maryland.

Speaking of decisions, the Virginia Department of Transportation should render a final verdict on the trail parallel to the widened I-66 outside of the Beltway. Will it be behind a sound wall? Or next to the highway (which would be terrible)? We’ll find out! (It’ll probably be the terrible one.)

In April, D.C.’s dockless bikeshare pilot program will conclude and the District Department of Transportation will begin its review of how it went. If GP had to place a bet, he’d say that DoBi won’t be banned from the streets of D.C., so get used to seeing the colorful (if sometimes junky) bikes around. In fact, with the establishment of new permanent regulations on dockless bikes, we could even see massive expansion of these programs and way more bikes on the streets (and sidewalks). How dockless bikeshare fits into the transportation future of the District and surrounding jurisdictions (including those where they’re not operating currently) will be one of the more consequential stories of the year.

Then there are cycle tracks. White stripes alone no longer stir the hearts of the biking public. Protected cycle tracks are the new expectation, and D.C. will look to add a few more in the next year. Most notable might be the K Street/Water Street NW cycle track in Georgetown that will connect to the end of the Capital Crescent Trail. Also, new cycle tracks on Virginia Avenue SE, by the new soccer stadium in Buzzard Point, and potentially on 17th Street NW through Dupont are all possibilities.

And maybe, just maybe, the much-needed and long-stalled Shaw project (on 6th or 9th Street NW) will finally lurch forward.

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“The next day it was gone,” McCool says.

“None of us found out what it was. They never contacted us about it again.”

Arts and Labor

Is a renovation at the George Washington University’s Corcoran School of the Arts & Design making its students sick?

By Kriston Capps

Photographs by Darrow Montgomery

on november 30, officials at the George Washington University convened a town hall for students and faculty at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design. The school’s Flagg Building is part-way through a stem-to-stern renovation, which is making life difficult at the Corcoran. The session did not go over well.

“My body is not happy with the air quality in the building,” says Layla Saad, a junior in fine arts. “There’s dust everywhere, constantly. They do have air filters that are going, which is another problem, because they’re extremely loud and very disruptive for classes. It’s not really even fixing the problem.”

For the last year and a half, students have levied escalating complaints about conditions in the 120-year-old home of the former Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art + Design. When the Corcoran failed as an institution in 2014, George Washington University absorbed the school and its building at 17th Street and New York Avenue NW. The university soon after launched an unprecedented renovation, and decided to keep the school open to studios and classes for the duration.

This work has introduced disorder to students’ lives, they say. From ever-present rats to jackhammers drowning out instructors to catcalls from construction workers, their complaints detail a classroom environment that could be called messy at best.

During the November town hall, attendees described issues that go well beyond daily nuisances. Headaches, respiratory disorders, nosebleeds, and rashes were among the physical symptoms they enumerated. Some students, teachers, and staffers link these ailments to the $47.5 million building overhaul— loud and sometimes noxious work that is happening even as students attend lectures, print lithographs, or work the ceramics wheel.

One student testified that the construction effort has affected her fertility. Two students said that the Corcoran gave them fleas.

“In terms of this being an environmentally safe place to be, it is, and if it were not, I would shut it down,” said Darell Darnell, senior associate vice president for safety and security at the George Washington University, before the end of the proceedings.

The university’s Division of Safety and Security—the body with ultimate oversight authority over the Corcoran renovation—is abiding by standards set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Darnell said.

By the end of the hour-long townhall, the discussion had devolved into a shouting match.

“There’s no information being circulated throughout the student body from GW at all about the actual concerns at hand in that building when you’re working there,” says Yacine Fall, a junior fine arts major.

On the same day as the town hall, Maeve McCool, a senior studying fine arts and art history, posted a video to Facebook. A black oil drum had been left sitting in a basement hallway since the summer. Nobody knew what was inside, but it had begun to reek of sewage.

So McCool and some other students cracked it open. The drum was filled to the brim, a vat of inky water and floating sludge. The video shows curious onlookers fleeing the hallway with their shirts pulled up over their noses.

The renovaTion is the latest chapter in a Corcoran saga that stretches back years. Perhaps as far back as 1989, when the museum, under pressure from then-Senator Jesse Helms, a culture warrior from a pre-Trump era, canceled an exhibition of photography by the artist Robert Mapplethorpe and earned the ire of the art world.

This latest impasse dates back to a pivotal moment in 2014, when a D.C. Superior Court judge approved an order dissolving the Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art + Design. The move followed a slowburning identity crisis at one of D.C.’s premiere cultural institutions.

At its conclusion, the court agreement handed the 17,000-plus artworks from the museum’s encyclopedic collection to the National Gallery of Art, while the college fell under the purview of GW. Seniors today at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design are called the Corcoran’s “legacy” class—the last to enroll at the Corcoran before it became part of a private university known better for its soaring tuition and poli-sci pedigree.

The court order made national news. It determined the fate of the Flagg Building, a Beaux Arts landmark that opened in 1897.

GW took responsibility for the building and, per the order, financed a badly needed renovation with the proceeds of a controversial 2013 auction of fine rugs, which the Corcoran sold for $40 million just before it failed. GW also sold Corcoran classroom facilities in Georgetown and put that money toward restoring the Flagg Building.

Major renovations began in 2015 to address core problems in a beloved but neglected architectural gem. Some of this work happened before the Corcoran institution folded: In 2009, the Flagg Building closed for two months for a restoration of its signature bronze, copper, and glass roof. Today’s ongoing work is far less sexy, involving the installation or replacement of systems for sprinklers, air handling, electrical wiring, and other mechanicals.

“One sad irony is that the vast majority of the renovations being done are not transforming the interior architecture of the building in a way that is going to get the Flagg Building into an architectural magazine,” says a GW administrator who declined to be named. “It’s not like the building is going to be packed full of state-of-the-art classrooms with all of the bells and whistles.”

Press accounts from 2014 show that the university intended from the start to keep the school open during the building renovation.

Spokespersons for GW declined to say exactly who made this decision and when, or make any principals available for an interview. (Much of this reporting fell over the holidays.)

“The decision to continue to use the Flagg Building for classes during the renovation was made by the university after careful consideration of the needs of the program and in consultation with stakeholders across the univer-

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sity and the construction company,” reads a December 29 statement from the university.

Faculty and students alike say that the art school has been subject to chaotic conditions as the renovation push has moved through the building, and the university concedes that this work makes for difficult learning conditions at times. Teachers were sometimes forced to cancel classes, while critical workshop facilities were unavailable for long stretches. But as tempers flared at the townhall, several students said that working in the Flagg Building is simply dangerous.

Sarah Craft, a senior in fine arts—one of the Corcoran “legacy” students who enrolled before its demise as an independent art school—says that she spends between 8 and 12 hours per day working in the ceramics studio (where she is also a lab tech). Craft says that she started experiencing unusual symptoms in the spring semester of 2017: sinuspressure headaches, nosebleeds, and phlegm colored gray and black. “Which is usual if you’re a charcoal draftsman or something,” Craft says, “but I’m not. My snot should not look like that.”

Administrators from GW, including Adam Aaronson, director of campus development management, and Ben Vinson, dean of the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, were on hand at the November townhall to explain the school’s ongoing efforts to address these concerns, from monitoring air quality to installing air scrubbers throughout the building.

At the townhall, Darnell elaborated on GW’s testing methodology, noting, for example, an uptick in respirable dust and crystalline silica measured in September on the first and sec-

ond floors due to construction activity. The levels returned to normal in October, but by then administrators discovered an increase in silica dust in the sub-basement levels, where the Corcoran’s wood and metals shops are located. At all times, these levels fell within acceptable thresholds, according to Darnell.

“If hazardous work is being performed in an area of the building, all District of Columbia and OSHA rules and regulations are followed to ensure that these areas are under full containment and cannot be accessed by unauthorized students, faculty, and staff,” reads a statement from GW. The university has responded in real time to some egregious claims. After Yacine Fall presented a note from the GW Colonial Health Center saying that she had a rash consistent with insect bites—which she says she got in the building, when she was practicing a performance piece—the school called pest control twice. (No evidence of fleas was ever found.)

Rats in the hallways is another issue. The university is quick to point out that rats are on the rise everywhere in D.C. (One administrator said that it’s always been that way at the Corcoran.)

But it’s harder to dismiss claims of mounting respiratory ailments since the fall of 2016, when construction crews began active work inside classrooms. The university has since hired an outside environmental testing firm and issued hundreds of dust masks to students and faculty. If the problem is in students’ heads, then it’s in their sinus cavities.

Students have two broader questions: Why were they not told about the problems, such as the reported spikes in dust, as they were discovered? And moreover: Why did GW de-

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cide to keep the Corcoran building open during such an intensive construction dive in the first place?

“We’ve heard student complaints, we’ve sent them to Safety and Security,” says one GW staffer, who is familiar with the matter but not authorized to speak on it. “Either we’ve brought them directly ourselves or we’ve connected students to their email, their call desk, and said, bring these breathing concerns to them. For months, there was just no response at all.”

Laura Schiavo, program head and assistant professor of museum studies at the Corcoran School, came to the town hall prepared with three written pages of testimony from students and instructors about conditions in the building. She read one comment that she attributed to a guest lecturer, Nancy Bechtol, who is the director of the Office of Facilities Engineering and Operations for the Smithsonian Institution and came in to teach a class session. “[Bechtol] commented to the class about how the Smithsonian would not be allowed to be in occupancy during a construction project similar to this one,” Schiavo said.

“The space, facilities, and quality was, in her words, ‘uninhabitable.’”

(Bechtol confirms the broad strokes of those remarks. “I made a comment to the class about it being difficult to teach with all the work going on,” she said in an email. “I do not remember exactly what I said, so I cannot confirm this exact statement, but I would be willing to say it was difficult to teach with construction going on.”)

The university’s disclosure to the student body about its hard-hat status has taken the form of monthly air quality test reports posted to the school website since the spring. These forms include reports on mold, carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, volatile organic compounds, and other grody categories—though it might take an environmental scientist to make sense of the information. (“Samples were collected with an airflow of 15 liters/minute verified by a pre-calibrated rotameter for 5 minutes,” reads one passage.)

It’s less clear what steps GW has taken to spare women at the Corcoran lewd or uncomfortable remarks from construction workers. Several students described an atmosphere of street harassment inside the building where they spend their work days.

Fall recalls how construction workers came into her studio and remarked on images from her performance work, in which parts of her body were visible.

“The number of the student population is dwindling,” Fall says. “The bulk of the people who are in the Corcoran at all times—50 percent of them are construction workers, if not 60 or 70 percent. I used to watch construction workers blow kisses, whistle, clap, and yell at the female students who go by.”

One GW report, dated November 20, detailed a plain red flag on air quality. “Based on these findings for respirable dust and silica, it appears that construction dust is being generated and impacting air quality in the occupied areas of the building,” reads the report from

ECS Mid-Atlantic, a facilities engineering and consulting firm. “Due to the fact that the silica dust levels were so high, ECS recommends sharing this data immediately with the general contractor.”

To the university’s credit, Darnell opened with a discussion of this alert, as well as the university’s immediate measures to fix the problem, during the town hall—but to little avail.

“Yelling and screaming about it is not going to solve the problem,” Darnell said over objections.

“At a certain point, some of the students were using intentionally aggressive behavior or language, and it kind of did what you might expect in a tense situation—it escalated everything,” Saad says. “At that point, I think, the townhall became a lot less productive.”

The building renovaTion had just begun when Sanjit Sethi started as the director of the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design in October 2015. Since then, he has been leading the university’s other rebuilding job: absorbing a scrappy art school into a major research university while maintaining its prestigious reputation and independent streak.

The first big step came in May 2016, a bloodletting in which the university laid off more than half of the Corcoran’s faculty. Among the heads that rolled were widely loved professors and department chairs, including Muriel

Hasbun, Andy Grundberg, and Dennis O’Neil.

GW has since mashed its own fine-art and performing-arts offerings with those of the Corcoran into a single academic unit—a “mega-department,” as one professor describes it.

Currently, the school employs 54 full-time faculty. It has five open positions (in interaction design, exhibition design, visual-art foundations, theater, and music). An influx of performing arts students has buoyed the Corcoran’s enrollment numbers (232 undergraduates and 288 graduate students as of this fall).

But those figures were in freefall before: Attendance at the Corcoran fell from 200 undergrads and 193 grads in fall 2014 to 136 undergrads and 89 grads by fall 2016.

“We’re in a stage where the reincarnation of the Corcoran is about pivoting,” Sethi says.

“How do we see assets within being part of a larger research community, and how can those assets pay out for the benefit of students who come through our doors?”

Sethi says that positive changes are at hand.

The biggest will be when the renovation ends and the National Gallery of Art takes over the second floor for museum exhibits. The school’s proximity to a working museum was always one of its selling points. Beyond that, the Corcoran School is launching several programs afforded by its relationship with GW. Undergraduates pursuing a fine arts bachelor’s degree can now minor in German, for example. The school is also launching a dual-de-

gree program, so a student could, in five years, receive degrees in both political science and photojournalism.

Both the former Corcoran and GW art programs were underinvested in design, Sethi says, and the school is launching an interaction design program to help fix that. The Corcoran is doubling down on its exhibition design program, one of the only such programs in the country. Finally, in conjunction with the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy & Public Administration, the Corcoran is putting the finishing touches on a master’s degree for social practice—a thorny category of conceptual art that involves social discourse and community engagement.

“I believe that the do-it-yourself movement is over,” Sethi says. “I believe in the do-it-together movement.”

One faculty member says that the merger and the renovation together make too much change for everyone to endure all at once. Departments that once operated independently within GW’s Columbian College of Arts & Sciences are now a step removed from the dean.

Students who entered the Corcoran in fall 2014 or 2015 pay the old (lower) college rate, plus a 3 percent hike every year, for instruction from GW faculty. Students who started at GW and found themselves at the Corcoran School must suffer a building renovation they never asked for.

University administrators are forthcom-

ing about the fact that the renovation has had unintended consequences. Still, this is a cold comfort for students who claim they can sometimes see the air inside the building.

“When you talk about the things that come up over the course of construction, and they’re sort of unanticipated, and you deal with them as they occur—it seems to me that that’s why you don’t have people in a construction zone 48 hours a week,” Schiavo said during the townhall.

Sethi deferred questions about the building to GW’s Division of Safety and Security (who did not return requests for comment). But one GW staffer who spoke on condition of anonymity says that Sethi asked the university to relocate classes and studios from the Flagg Building to other facilities during construction. “The message came back, from a few different people, no, there’s no way we’re going to do that. You just have to get through this,” the staff member says.

Relocating a school is not entirely out of the question. In 2008, after a catastrophic Iowa River flood damaged the arts buildings at the University of Iowa, the university moved its studio art facilities to a former big-box department store on the outskirts of Iowa City.

Last winter, after eight years away, the program and all its printers, presses, and kilns finally returned to campus.

The Flagg Building was never destroyed, of course. And if the costs for renting a tem-

porary 70,000-square-foot building were high in Iowa City—$81,000 a month, per the Iowa City Press-Citizen—then finding a substitute space in D.C. might be next to impossible. Still, it’s unclear whether deep-pocketed GW considered any alternative. Before the university’s plan to absorb the Corcoran was even public, GW had already decided to muddle through, allowing some 75 classes a week to proceed in the deep construction of the Flagg Building.

The university’s decision has not come at no cost. To the extent that Corcoran students, faculty, and staff are suffering personally and physically—from cancelled classes to sexual jeers to asthma attacks—then the university has merely shifted the costs of its decision onto the Corcoran community.

“We’ve struggled through and we’ve become very close,” says Helen Jackson, a senior at the school. “We don’t let anything get us down now. I almost think we’re desensitized to it.”

The university says that the work at the Corcoran is now rounding third base. GW aims to complete construction inside the Flagg Building atrium in February, in time to host the “NEXT” thesis exhibit in the spring, one of the highlights of any student’s time at the Corcoran. The first phase of construction should be completed by summer 2018. The university is still seeking another $32.5 million in donations to finish the full $80 million job—maybe the most comprehensive renovation in the Beaux-Arts building’s long history.

Dampened morale comes at a difficult time for the school. Sethi is trying to right the ship at the Corcoran after it suffered a catastrophic blow in the form of the dissolution of the college and museum, following years of neglect from absentee trustees. The college has enjoyed a particularly wild ride. A decade ago, the Corcoran College harbored dreams of opening a second campus in Southwest D.C. and boosting enrollment to 800 degree-seeking students.

For the current classes in particular, the university’s call for patience is a bitter pill to swallow. While construction in the Flagg Building will be finished soon enough, so will their time in art school.

For Corcoran staffers, their office place has turned into a worksite. Faculty can’t expect to teach four-hour classes wearing dust masks.

“It doesn’t seem like there’s any way to hold the university accountable for what they’ve done,” says one Corcoran faculty member, who declined to be named, referring to the decision to keep the building open during construction. “I find it deplorable.”

A testy school merger on top of a total renovation is a tough trick to pull off. But so is college. School is hard enough in the best of times—which don’t include an oil drum that everyone jokes is hiding a body.

“The graduating body of students, instead of thinking that their university years are the glory years of their lives, are going to think, it sucked, but I got through it,” Jackson said at the town hall. She was answered by applause.

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Momo Yakitori is coming to the former Nido space in Woodridge early this year.

Couple Andrew Chiou and Masako Morishita are behind the restaurant. It will serve Japanese-style skewered grilled chicken and Japanese beer.

Raising The Bar-ista

D.C. is riding the third-wave of coffee culture, but how far have we advanced in terms of what we’re drinking, where, and the role of the modern day barista?

By Laura Hayes The DisTricT goT coffee for Christmas.

The Cup We All Race 4 opened inside The LINE DC Hotel on Dec. 20. So did two fresh locations of Compass Coffee downtown.

Two days later, the biggest Dolcezza to date opened at The Wharf, and New Yorkbased Gregorys Coffee debuted at 19th and L streets NW on Dec. 12.

The growth in coffee shops D.C. saw in just 10 days in December is not an anomaly. Coffee—specifically third-wave coffee and speciality coffee—is booming locally and the industry as a whole is maturing.

“Seven years ago when I started, people in D.C. didn’t know what speciality coffee was,” says Daps Salisbury, a barista at Georgetown’s Blue Bottle Coffee. Salisbury recalls, while working at Dolcezza back then, coaxing customers out of sticker shock and explaining why pour-over coffee takes time.

Speciality coffee accounts for a small percentage of the java sipped around the world.

It’s defined by the Specialty Coffee Association as hailing from geographic microclimates and having unique flavor profiles that score at least 80 out of 100 points in the organization’s cupping test.

After coffee’s popularity spread in the 1960’s with the advent of instant coffee from companies like Folgers, major chains like Starbucks made drinking coffee an experience for the masses with customizable espresso drinks.

Following these two “waves,” the third wave brought about heightened interest in quality and artisanship that can be compared to craft beer’s meteoric rise. Professionals today carefully roast and brew specialty beans to draw out the best flavor.

“Now D.C. has become a city for young working professionals,” Salisbury continues.

“People flocking to cities have a greater awareness of speciality coffee. They have an idea of what they want when they come in.”

Statistics back the idea that a more youthful population begets better coffee for all. At a 2014 coffee conference, Tracy Ging, chief

Stephanie Rudig

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es. “We roasted just over 150,000 pounds of coffee in 2017,” Vigilante says. His company gained three new wholesale partners in October alone.

The D.C. area is now home to several additional local roasters, including Compass Coffee, an offshoot of Peregrine Espresso called Small Planes Coffee, and Rare Bird Coffee Roasters.

Chad McCracken, who co-owns The Wydown on 14th Street NW and H Street NE, is happy to have variety. “Five or six years ago it was a Counter Culture heavy town,” he says.

“Having more diverse options in terms of roasters is really nice.”

“Specialty coffee is booming in the region, but is still way behind other cities,” argues Bruce White.

He owns Baltimore-based Perfect Brew Services and has been the main coffee equipment supplier and mechanic in the Mid-Atlantic for a decade.

“There are lots of people starting to do their own roasting nationwide. Lots of people can make green beans brown, and some are pretty good, but the challenge is how to make it consistent.”

D.C. is also experiencing an influx of major out-of-town roasters. Philadelphia’s La Colombe already has five D.C. locations and the Bay Area’s Blue Bottle Coffee planted a cafe in Georgetown.

“It’s not quite validating, but it recognizes that there’s a speciality coffee market here in D.C. that’s been overlooked for a long time,” says Reggie Elliott, the coffee director for The Cup We All Race 4 and A Rake’s Progress from Spike Gjerde inside The LINE DC Hotel.

commercial officer at S&D Coffee & Tea, offered some data: millennials started drinking coffee earlier in life (between 15 and 17) as compared to Generation X-ers, who held off until 19. Those between 18 and 35 also drink more coffee away from home.

The founder of Hyattsville-based roastery Vigilante Coffee agrees with Salisbury.

“Before it was like, ‘That’s fancy coffee,’ and now it’s, ‘This is good coffee, this is what I’m going to drink most days,’” Chris Vigilante says. “We pay for great quality beer. We’re accustomed to that. Coffee is more of a learning curve, but you have to think about the labor that goes into it.”

To understand D.C.’s coffee culture, Young & Hungry spoke with a variety of professionals to learn what we’re drinking, where we’re

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drinking it, and who’s making it.

What We’re Drinking When the term third-wave was first used in 2002 by Trish Rothgeb, there were three major speciality coffee roasters in the U.S.: North Carolina’s Counter Culture, Chicago’s Intelligentsia, and Portland, Oregon’s Stumptown Coffee Roasters.

“When I first moved here, most cafes serving speciality coffee were serving Counter Culture,” Vigilante says. He founded his company in 2012, giving D.C. specialty shops the opportunity to brew locally roasted beans. “At the time it was just me and Joel Finkelstein at Qualia.”

Fast-forward five years and you can find Vigilante Coffee at more than 100 business-

DCFEED Where We’re Drinking It “Over the past five years there was a boom of shops,” says Potter’s House barista Adam JacksonBey. He’s worked in coffee for six years and plans to launch two coffee businesses this year—Avalon and Tell Coffee.

“You see a lot of shops clustering in an area.

The biggest example is 14th Street [NW].”

The corridor has The Wydown, Colada Shop, Peet’s Coffee, Peregrine Espresso, Dolcezza, and Slipstream.

“There are plenty of neighborhoods in need of speciality coffee,” Vigilante says. “There are coffee shops, but I don’t think there is worldclass coffee on a widespread level yet.” He points to Colony Club in Park View as an example of a shop that took a chance on a neighborhood instead of only eyeing established coffee hubs.

Because it takes significant capital to open a coffee shop, there are very few proprietors who can make decisions free from investor input, and the result is areas cut off from specialty coffee, according to JacksonBey. “Investors will want you to put it somewhere with quick growth potential,” he says. “Maybe the second or third shop, you take a shot somewhere.”

McCracken set out to open both locations of The Wydown in dense neighborhoods with foot traffic and a mix of commercial and residential surroundings. “The affluence of the population is also a possible factor,” he says.

“Our coffee is not cheap. We know that.”

Who’s Making It Just as bartenders gained name recognition and new career opportunities with the craft cocktail movement, baristas are finding their way to financially viable careers within their field. Competitions, educational opportunities, and the diversification of the profession are contributing factors.

When Salisbury started as a barista there was a high turnover rate. “Back then there was no career path, so you had to cut your own,” says Salisbury. “As the industry has grown and demand for skilled baristas has increased, many experienced coffee pros won’t stick around for a job that doesn’t provide a living wage. It’s an employee’s market.”

There are also now jobs outside of the traditional coffee shop, including consultant gigs or positions within full-service restaurants. “Restaurants give baristas another avenue for expanding our skill set,” Elliott says. “With the cocktail and food scenes reaching out to the coffee scene more, that will help the coffee scene grow.”

“I’ve been able to live in D.C. for six years on a barista salary,” JacksonBey adds. “More people will be able to do that.” The coffee shop boom has created hundreds of jobs and most major cafes have a dedicated staffer to swiftly train-

up new employees. McCracken says 80 percent of people he hires have no coffee experience. “I can teach you how to make coffee,” he says. “I can’t teach you to be nice and kind.”

Diverse baristas make D.C.’s coffee culture distinctive. Take the U.S. Coffee Championship preliminaries that were held in September in D.C. as a litmus test. “There’s women and queer people and people of color,” Salisbury says. In contrast, Salisbury noticed that heterosexual white males dominated winners circles in other cities. Men made up the top eight in both Colorado and Seattle.

JacksonBey, who is African-American, plans to compete in New Orleans this year. “Traditionally it’s been a lot of white males that have won or done really well for reasons like money,” he explains. Those with the funds can hire a coach or afford better beans. “When two or three points separate 3rd from 4th place, that all comes into play.”

The tightly bonded D.C. barista community is on display at monthly Thursday Night Throwdown (TNT) events. Elliott, JacksonBey, and Salisbury are the current organizers of the decade-old, monthly latte art competitions. The next one is Jan. 11 at 8 p.m. inside Takoma Beverage Company.

“Looking at the baristas I interact with at TNTs and other events, there is no typical D.C. barista,” Dawn Shanks says. She’s the head coffee quality manager for Peregrine Espresso.

“A lot of baristas are focused on inclusivity in a way that I used to take for granted.”

Shanks wears a special “Force Majeure” pin at work. She and two other baristas, Sarah Rice Scott and Lenora Yerkes, made and sold them to almost 150 coffee professionals in the U.S., Canada, and Australia.

“It’s a statement pin worn by baristas who oppose the SCA’s decision to hold a competition in a country where some participating baristas may feel unsafe,” Shanks says.

Dubai in the United Arab Emirates is the host of the 2018 World Coffee Championships. “Of course we all think this is wrong and we want to brainstorm a solution,” Shanks says.

The SCA is moving ahead as planned, but adding an option for competitors to defer. JacksonBey says the backlash they got was important. “It got a lot of voices heard that wouldn’t have been heard two or three years ago.”

JacksonBey, Salisbury, and Elliott argue the next important step is promoting LGBTQ baristas and baristas of color into positions of leadership. “We need a wider range of people who run these shops,” Elliott says. “There’s more to coffee than tattooed white guys, and with D.C.’s gentrification issue, it’s even more important to embrace diversity.”

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Veg Diner Monologues A look at vegetarian dishes in the District that all should try

Two Alternative Ways To Caffeinate in D.C.

By Laura Hayes

Walk into Café Chocolat and enjoy a smell that makes you feel like everything is going to be OK. Heavenly wafts of three types of hot chocolate fill the air at the sweets-boutiquemeets-coffee-joint from chocolate industry veteran Gjergj Dollani.

To make the sweet, thick, satisfying beverages, baristas take chips of white, milk, or dark chocolate—Café Chocolat’s proprietary chocolate recipes—and melt them into cups using steamed milk. Dollani says customers have trouble choosing just one. “They’ll literally drink three different hot chocolates in one sitting,” he says.

Dollani stocks an array of chocolate bars for customers to pick up for personal consumption or as gifts, including two D.C. brands: Chocotenango and Harper Macaw. And if hot chocolate isn’t enough of a kick, Café Chocolat also serves La Colombe coffee. Dollani has been bringing in guest chocolatiers and hopes to continue hosting innovative tasting events in the New Year.

Café Chocolat is open Mon–Fri from 7 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.

Bôn Matcha 1928 I St. NW

In David Bae’s denomination of Christianity, it’s tradition for pastors to take their seventh year off to pursue a passion project. After working in New York and frequenting matcha shops there, the Northern Virginia native set out to open Bôn Matcha in D.C. The sidewalk stand serves everything from soft-serve ice cream to lattes flavored with the potent green tea powder. Bae sources his matcha from Kyoto, Japan, but he can’t divulge the name of his tea farmer, who insists on secrecy.

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simpletons. But A Baked Joint gives it the attention it deserves, and offers the option to add a medium-fried egg on top for just $2. The egg upgraded BELT is slightly salty, savory, and bursting with juicy flavors that are sure to spill out onto the plate.

The Story: Gray loves to develop innovative versions of classic American dishes that to appeal to carnivores, flexitarians, and vegans alike. “Knowing how popular our crab cakes were, we wanted to do something in the same style, but vegan, so we started with a vegan crab cake sandwich, and then came up with this dish where the ‘crab’ cake is really the star,” he says.

Why It Helps: Every bite of this sandwich delivers a fresh crunch that’s sure to TKO even your toughest hangover.

And no matter how long you lay in bed contemplating life with a case of the spins, this sandwich will be here waiting for you. It’s the most trustworthy of BLTs, available seven days a week on both the breakfast and lunch menu.

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Why Even Meat Eaters Will Like It: Hearts of palm have unique texture and are low in calories and cholesterol. Gray manages to manipulate the vegetable into a hearty entrée that he says has been popular with diners. The dish has all the elements of a delicious crab cake: a bit of heat, a hint of sweetness, tender filing, and a crusty exterior.

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Bae is adding a new drink to the menu this month. The “Matcha Bomb” will combine espresso and matcha tea for an extra boost of energy.

Price: $11

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Where to Get It: Equinox Restaurant

Bôn Matcha is currently open Tues–Weds from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Thurs–Sat from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Check their social media accounts for operating hours during inclement weather.

While matcha soft-serve remains his top seller, even as the polar vortex settles in, the drink that’s most indicative of Bôn Matcha’s mission is the matcha limeade. “What we wanted to do is combine the heritage and the flavors of our hometowns and our native country,” Bae says. He was born in Korea where matcha is popular, but grew up in a hispanic community in America where limes are used liberally in cooking.

Where to Get It: A Baked Joint, 440 K St. NW; (202) 408-6985; abakedjoint.com What It Is: This is a BLT on PEDs. The sandwich comes stacked with smoked applewood bacon, thick slices of tomato, bibb lettuce, and a hearty helping of mayo slathered on two slices of pain de mie—that’s French for pillowy soft bread that’s baked in house.

How It Tastes: In this town, the BLT is the red-headed stepchild sandwich of delis and diners. Often it’s mischaracterized as the lunch order of

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The Dish: Vegan Hearts of Palm Cakes

What It Is: The Mid-Atlantic is famous for having the best crab cakes in the country. Chef Todd Gray of Equinox Restaurant, known for his vegan culinary creations, is now serving a version of this regional favorite. To make patties that look like crab cakes, Gray braises hearts of palm in olive oil then shreds them. Next, he folds in diced sourdough bread, capers, lemon zest, dairy-free mayonnaise, parsley, salt, pepper, cumin, paprika, and chili powder. Then, he molds patties and sautés them, finally serving them with a side of vegetables. The result closely mimics the original dish.

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Character Study

Author and Oxon Hill native Jason Reynolds is revolutionizing the art of writing characters, both human and superpowered.

By Kayla Randall When Marvel CoMiCs calls, people answer. That seems to be a general rule.

But local author Jason Reynolds was hesitant when he got his call. Marvel had plans to publish a young adult novel about Spider-Man, specifically Miles Morales, an immensely popular iteration of the character and the first black boy to don the spider suit in the comics. Reynolds was the author the bosses wanted.

That he would be on Marvel’s radar as it identified authors to write about a black Puerto Rican teenager coming of age in Brooklyn comes as no surprise.

The Oxon Hill native, who now lives in Northeast D.C., has written nine books and become widely known over the past few years for writing complex young black characters, mostly boys.

His book Ghost was a finalist for the 2016 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature and As Brave As You was a 2017 Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book.

“I’ve written a gazillion books about black boys in Brooklyn, so it was kind of like ‘Look dude, this is your wheelhouse, will you take this on?’” Reynolds says.

His initial answer was “I don’t know.”

He was afraid the stranglehold of a corporation with huge intellectual properties to protect and monitor would stifle his writing. Then there was the immense pressure he’d feel to properly represent a beloved superhero in his own words.

Before Miles Morales first appeared in 2011, there had hardly ever been a superhero like him. In the comics, he’s rarely written by people of his skin color or his background. Reynolds liked the character on a base level. Morales and his friends speak colloquial slang and he has a loving family. Spanglish is ever-present in his household.

Reading one particular Morales comic deeply affected Reynolds. In it, Morales

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is fighting and his Spider-Man suit gets ripped, revealing his skin. A young woman notices and exclaims surprisedly and happily that SpiderMan is of color. In the next panel, Morales says, “And she cares why?”

Then eventually he says, “I don’t want to be the black Spider-Man. “It felt violent to me,” Reynolds says. “This was an opportunity I think was missed and furthermore, intentionally dodged. It hurt. It was the fear of going there, the fear of saying ‘Hell yeah I’m black, this is awesome.’”

He decided then that he’d write the novel, doing it for people like his 16-year-old little brother and his 43-year-old elder brother, who’s a comic book head.

“I do it for them, so that they know our stories, even in the supernatural world, even in a comic book world, matter. That the things that affect us don’t not affect us in that world.”

Marvel accepted his pitch for the story, so Reynolds faced the character head-on. The result, 2017’s Miles Morales: Spider-Man, was exceptional. This is a 16-yearold Spider-Man who used to wet the bed, which his father gently teases him about. He watches old sci-fi movies, helps his mother set the table for Sunday dinner, and participates in dunk contests. Reynolds’ Morales is sensitive, friendly, familiar, and infinitely knowable. He is all the things a good Spider-Man should be, but with the face of a young black boy. In that small yet monumental detail, Reynolds found his Miles Morales. He took the character that already existed and made sure that the cultural touches were there, making him whole.

In the book, he tackles the subject of race with nuance, in the form of Miles’ own quiet astonishment that he is in fact a black superhero. He

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CPArts writes, “Miles rolled the mask down over his forehead, over his eyes. For a split second, darkness. Then he lined up the holes so his vision cleared and continued stretching it over his nose, mouth, and chin. He looked at himself in the mirror. Spider-Man.” Reynolds was conscious to write Miles as a young person who hasn’t yet been taught to trust himself. He knows something is wrong, but the world has told him that the way he feels is unwarranted. We hear that all the time, Reynolds says, when people say millennials are just a bunch of entitled kids.

“What I wanted to show with Miles was confirmation of his own intuition, that he has the ability to intuit and how that has actually nothing to do with his spidey-sense,” he says. “It has everything to do with who he is, where he’s from, how he’s raised, and his environment. Spidey-sense to the black community is [a] survival skill, not a superpower.”

Reynolds also imbued his Spider-Man with a sense of survivor’s guilt and impostor syndrome, feelings present in his own life. He asked himself, “How does Miles deal with being the special one? Why him?” Those sentiments are tangible and continuously plague black communities like the one Reynolds grew up in. One doesn’t need to have superpowers to feel that guilt, just a career or a university degree.

The road to Reynolds getting here has been long and winding. He was 17 years old when he read his first novel cover to cover. He’d always thought his path was poetry,

not narrative books, and studied English at the University of Maryland before moving to New York after graduation to pursue his dreams of being a writer. He sold his independently published books of poetry as a teenager and he signed his first book deal when he was just 21.

Now 34, he never thought he’d be writing prose, traveling the country talking about his books. But the only way for him now is forward. He feels a responsibility to portray black bodies in an honest way, and takes it upon himself to work relentlessly, writing each day to fulfill it.

His most recent book, Long Way Down, is written entirely in verse, taking him back to his poetic roots. The story centers on Will, a young black boy whose elder brother was recently shot and killed. The entire story takes place during a single suspended minute in Will’s life as he rides in an elevator. It was long-listed for the 2017 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature and John Legend is currently in talks to produce the book as a film.

The idea was to use every single part of the story to mimic a traumatized brain, he says. In his mind, an elevator—tight, closed, cold, dark, shaky, and literally hanging by a thread— is the physical manifestation of trauma.

Between Will and Miles, he has transformed the art of writing young black masculinity, pain, anger, and emotion.

“I think America has a hard time dealing with anger,” he says.

“I think America has an even harder time dealing with black anger. As long as the anger is contained, everybody’s OK.

Once the anger grows legs, people get really uncomfortable, but it’s human.”

In so many ways, it’s the real people he grew up with in D.C., his friends and family, who show up in his work, fleshing out the characters he creates and giving them the texture and depth rarely seen in other works.

Reynolds’ busy 2017 will be followed by an equally busy 2018. He’s become prolific, putting out around three books each year, but says the work can’t stop for fear that the success could end at any moment.

His hard work and tenacity is working to great effect. He’s managed to charm just about everyone he meets. On a brisk October night, Reynolds strolls into the basement of Politics and Prose on Connecticut Avenue NW, to a room packed with children and adults. To him, the children are the best.

He writes for them: “Who else is there to write for?”

He’s all tattoos and dreads in a black t-shirt, his signature look. And when he opens his mouth, there’s a palpable authenticity. He speaks his truth and maybe yours, too.

The seats are all full. Many have resorted to standing in the back, angling their heads awkwardly to see him, holding the books they want him to sign when he finishes speaking.

He reads from Long Way Down and has a jovial questionand-answer session with the crowd. After he finishes, people cheer and nearly everyone in the room lines up to have newly purchased books signed. They wait and wait and wait. No one seems to mind.

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Children’s Television, Workshopped T is for Television

At the National Museum of American History to July 4, 2018 On a sunny day in 1969, singing kids asked a question for the first time: Can you tell me how to get to Sesame Street?

In the late ’60s, adults wondered what exactly their children were learning as they spent hours in front of television screens, and what impact the available programming had on kids. Thus began the push for children’s television to entertain and educate. Shows like Sesame Street and Mister Rogers’ Neigh-

borhood paved the way for contemporary educational television.

In 1990, Congress passed the Children’s Television Act, which required stations airing educational programming geared toward young audiences to limit the duration of advertising to no more than 10.5 minutes per hour on weekends and no more than 12 minutes per hour on weekdays. More pioneering

programming aired after that.

These programs revolutionized television and shaped generations of young minds who grew up watching them. While some programs have been lost to time, others have soldiered on and some have been rebooted for a new group of kids and nostalgic adults to watch.

Curators at the National Museum of American History celebrate these significant programs in the new exhibit T Is For Television.

Large glass cases are filled with items from the The Mickey Mouse Club, The Howdy Doody Show, Bozo the Clown, Sesame Street, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, Bill Nye the Science Guy, and Clifford the Big Red Dog. Though the exhibition itself could be larger, it succeeds in its purpose to showcase how children’s television evolved to be both entertaining and educational. The standout items are the ones that feel the most familiar, like a red knit sweater worn by Fred Rogers on a 1970s episode of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. It shares a case with a smiling Oscar the Grouch puppet from around 1989.

Across the aisle, there’s a sparkling Mouseketeer hat from Lonnie Burr, an original Mickey Mouse Club cast member from 1955 to 1958.

The items to which the most space is dedicated—nearly an entire glass case—are Bill Nye’s.

The D.C. native contributed his trademark lab coat, eccentric bowtie, and a 1998 Daytime Emmy Award to the exhibit—one of the 19 Emmys Bill Nye the Science Guy won during its five-season run.

If you were not one of the people affected by these shows, if they didn’t shape you or color your world in any way, it may be hard to grasp what makes T Is For Television so special. But for those who get it, especially the visitors who pass by the exhibit and feel moved to sing each show’s theme song, seeing these precious items behind glass might make museum-goers wish they could reach out and touch them. It would mean grabbing hold of something long lost: the innocence of youth.

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CITYLIST

NEW MUSIC VENUE

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THE WHARF, SW DC

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CITY LIGHTS: FRIDAY

FRIDAY BLUEs

Blues Alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Chris Thomas King. 8 p.m. $25. bluesalley.com.

DJ NIGhts

u street Music HAll 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Jungle Fever. 10 p.m. $10. ustreetmusichall.com.

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FillMore silver spring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Lightshow. 8 p.m. $20. fillmoresilverspring.com.

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JANUARY CONCERTS

Music center At strAtHMore 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Catherine Russell and John Pizzarelli. 8 p.m. $40–$95. strathmore. org.

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Rock

9:30 cluB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. The Dead Milkmen. 8 p.m. $25. 930.com.

BircHMere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Roamfest. 7 p.m. $20. birchmere. com.

Dc9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Thunder Dreamer. 6:30 p.m. $12. dcnine.com.

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tHe HAMilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

Popa Chubby. 8 p.m. $15.25–$30.75. thehamiltondc. com. rock & roll Hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

Oh So Peligroso. 9 p.m. $12. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

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BossA Bistro 2463 18th St. NW. (202) 667-0088.

Alfredo Mojica Group. 10:30 p.m. $5. bossadc.com.

BLUEs

Blues Alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Chris Thomas King. 8 p.m. $25. bluesalley.com.

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u street Music HAll 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Jellybean Benitez. 10 p.m. $10. ustreetmusichall.com.

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Dc9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Lobo Marino. 9 p.m. $12. dcnine.com.

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FEBRUARY CONCERTS

JUNGLE FEVER

Jungle Fever has hosted a myriad of forward-thinking special guests from the breezy, Norfolkbased production duo Sunny & Gabe to the Brooklyn-based hip-hop and club producer Brenmar.

But the pinnacle of the party is always the creators themselves, the D.C.-based duo Mista Selecta and Mane Squeeze. The two DJs are like sonic soulmates—always in sync behind the decks and steadfast on a mission to flaunt the worldly sounds of the District. Mista Selecta and Mane Squeeze launched Jungle Fever back in 2013 with the simple purpose of uniting party people who yearned to break a sweat and dance to a different kind of beat. And with that, the duo have created an undeniable good time with a rousing soundtrack of sexy reggae riddims, mid-tempo moombahton, raucous club music, and everything else in between. Jungle Fever begins at 10 p.m. at U Street Music Hall, 1115 U St. NW. $10. (202) 588-1889. ustreetmusichall.com.

—Casey Embert

Rock

BircHMere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Roamfest. 6:30 p.m. $20. birchmere. com. rock & roll Hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

The Dream Syndicate. 8 p.m. $20. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

WoRLD

kenneDy center MillenniuM stAge 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Areyto. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

BAKITHI KUMALO AND THE ALL-STAR GRACELAND TRIBUTE BAND “YOU CAN CALL ME AL” “GRACELAND” & MORE! JACOB JOLLIFF BAND w/ SPLIT STRING SOUP THE ROCK-A-SONICS w/ THE JUDY CHOPS ELENA AND LOS FULANOS & RUN COME SEE FREE DIRT PRESENTS: WESTERN CENTURIES w/ VIVIAN LEVA & RILEY CALCAGNO 2-STEP DANCE LESSON INCL. IN TICKET PRICE! JONNY GRAVE & THE TOMBSTONES w/ NAH DAN BERN CHARLIE MARS JUSTIN TRAWICK AND THE COMMON GOOD DEBUT ALBUM RELEASE AND 8TH ANNUAL 29TH BDAY SHOW! RUTHIE AND THE WRANGLERS

sUNDAY BLUEs

Blues Alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Chris Thomas King. 8 p.m. $25. bluesalley.com.

cLAssIcAL AnDerson House MuseuM oF tHe society oF tHe cincinnAti 2118 Massachusetts Ave., NW. (202)

785-2040. Vadim Gluzman and Angela Yoffe. 4 p.m. $20–$40. phillipscollection.org.

FUNk & R&B BircHMere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. MO'Fire. 7:30 p.m. $35. birchmere.

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BLACK MASALA w/ SWIFT TECHNIQUE ERIC SCOTT & JONATHAN SLOANE GRAND PRIZE WINNER SONGWRITER CIRCLE BEN MASON • KIPYN MARTIN • TONY DENIKOS AZTEC SUN ALL GOOD PRESENTS: THE LIL SMOKIES THE EMPTY POCKETS ROBERT LIGHTHOUSE DAVID COOK THE JAMES HUNTER SIX w/ 3 MAN SOUL MACHINE

MARCH CONCERTS SA 3 F9 SA 10 W 14

NO SECOND TROY BUMPIN UGLIES w/ DUB CITY RENEGADES CRYS MATTHEWS w/ ECHO BLOOM SHERMAN EWING & JO JO HERMAN

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CITY LIGHTS: sAtURDAY

thE NAkED GUN: FRoM thE FILEs oF poLIcE sQUAD!

For comedy fans of a certain age and disposition, there is little funnier than the deadpan hijinks of Police Squad!’s Lt. Frank Drebin. Played with the straightest of faces by former matinee star Leslie Nielsen, Lt. Drebin pratfalls his way through three Naked Gun films, a franchise built upon punny wordplay, hackneyed sight gags, and cringe-worthy geopolitical setups. And yet, the middle school humorist in me finds something new to laugh at every time I have an excuse to watch one of these absurdist masterpieces. The excuse for this showing is that the master curators at Suns Cinema have decided to include the original Naked Gun as a part of its crime-oriented January programming. Drebin isn’t the only comedy man included—the Dude and Ace Ventura find him in good company—but for my money, he is the most endearing, a well-intentioned man out of time who’ll do anything the job demands of him. That means protecting the Queen of England from a brainwashed Reggie Jackson, placing himself in compromising positions to save Barbara Bush from uncertain doom, or even the occasional swim in raw sewage. He loves it. The Naked Gun screens at 8 p.m. at Suns Cinema, 3107 Mt. Pleasant St. NW. $5. sunscinema.com.

—Matt Siblo

CITY LIGHTS: sUNDAY

oNE LIFE: sYLVIA pLAth

Sylvia Plath, who committed suicide when she was 30 years old, is known for her stark, fatalistic poetry. But the National Portrait Gallery paints a different picture of the poet we have come to think of as a quintessential tortured artist. Photographed smiling on a beach or happily posing with husband, Ted Hughes, she seems the picture of happiness, and such artifacts as her Girl Scouts uniform, Royal typewriter, and even a lock of hair are displayed as if they were the icons of a literary saint. It may be best to skip the interactive installation that makes use of glass bell jars (an on-the-nose reference to her famous novel) and recordings of Plath reading her poems. Yet on the whole, One Life is a fascinating portrait of Plath, one we may not recognize from her bleak words. The exhibit is on view daily 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. to May 20, 2018 at the National Portrait Gallery, 8th and F streets NW. Free. (202) 6338300. npg.si.edu.

—Pat Padua

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THIS WEEK’S SHOWS

The Dead Milkmen w/ Mindless Faith .................................................... F JAN 5 Hot in Herre: 2000s Dance Party with DJs Will Eastman and Ozker.... Sa 6 Boat Burning: Music for 100 Guitars w/ Trinary System featuring Mission Of Burma’s Roger Miller .......................... Su 7 JANUARY

FEBRUARY (cont.)

Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven ....Th 11 RJD2 w/ Photay .........................Sa 13 Dorothy ....................................Su 14

J. Roddy Walston and The Business w/ Post Animal ..........Th 8 COIN w/ The Aces ......................Sa 10 Múm ..........................................Su 11 Sleigh Bells w/ Sunflower Bean ......................W 14

ALL GOOD PRESENTS

Collie Buddz w/ Jo Mersa Marley & The Holdup ..............................M 15 ALL GOOD PRESENTS

Circles Around The Sun ....Th 18 ALL GOOD PRESENTS

BoomBox ..................................F 19 ALL GOOD PRESENTS

The Infamous Stringdusters ......................Sa 20 D NIGHT ADDED! FIRST NIGHT SOLD OUT! SECON

MØ & Cashmere Cat w/ Darius ....................................Tu 23 Tennis w/ Overcoats ..................W 24 Big Head Todd & The Monsters w/ Luther Dickinson ..................Th 25 Frankie Ballard .......................F 26 STEEZ PROMO PRESENTS

Manic Focus and Minnesota .....................Sa 27 Enter Shikari w/ Single Mothers & Milk Teeth ..Su 28 Black Rebel Motorcycle Club w/ Night Beats .............................M 29 Kimbra w/ Arc Iris ....................Tu 30 Typhoon w/ Bad Bad Hats .........W 31 FEBRUARY ALL GOOD PRESENTS

Greensky Bluegrass w/ Billy Strings Ticket included with purchase of tickets to

2/3 Greensky Bluegrass @ The Anthem .F 2 STEEZ PROMO PRESENTS

Emancipator Ensemble ......Sa 3

U STREET MUSIC HALL PRESENTS

Matoma w/ Elephante & Youngr .............Th 15 ZZ Ward w/ Black Pistol Fire

ROBYN HITCHCOCK And His L.A. Squires

w/ Tristen ....................................................................................................... SAT APRIL 28 On Sale Friday, January 5 at 10am

& Billy Raffoul ..............................F 16

STRFKR w/ Reptaliens .............Sa 17 U STREET MUSIC HALL PRESENTS

Ganja White Night w/ Dirt Monkey & Subtronics ....Su 18 The Oh Hellos w/ Lowland Hum .........................W 21

Henry Rollins -

Travel Slideshow .......................... JAN 15

Majid Jordan w/ Stwo ............... JAN 23 ALL GOOD PRESENTS

U STREET MUSIC HALL PRESENTS

The Wood Brothers

ALL GOOD PRESENTS

STORY DISTRICT’S

Lane 8 ......................................Th 22 Railroad Earth w/ Roosevelt Collier .......F 23 & Sa 24 Rhye ...........................................M 26 Lights w/ Chase Atlantic & DCF .Tu 27

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J Boog w/ Jesse Royal & Etana Su 11 K.Flay w/ Yungblud ...................M 12

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Bianca Del Rio ...................... MAR 15 PostSecret: The Show ...... MAR 24 Rob Bell w/ Peter Rollins .......... MAR 27 Max Raabe & Palast Orchester.............APR 11 Calexico w/ Ryley Walker ............APR 27 Yann Tiersen New date! All 12/5 tickets honored. .... JUN 17

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9:30 CLUB PRESENTS AT U STREET MUSIC HALL herMajesty & Honest Haloway w/ Greenland ..................................Sa JAN 13 Alex Aiono w/ Trinidad Cardona ........... Sa 20 Cuco + Helado Negro w/ Lido Pimienta ................................... Tu 23 Flint Eastwood w/ NYDGE ..............F FEB 2 Anna Meredith ................................... Sa 3 Why? w/ Open Mike Eagle ........................F 9 Anti-Flag & Stray From The Path .. Sa 10 White Ford Bronco:

Wylder ................................................ Sa 17 MAGIC GIANT w/ The Brevet .............. Su 18 Higher Brothers ............................... M 19 MAKO .................................................. Sa 24 Gabrielle Aplin w/ John Splithoff ...... Su 25 Missio w/ Welshly Arms ...................F MAR 2 Lil Xan w/ $teven Cannon ......................Su 4 Ella Vos w/ Freya Ridings ....................... M 5 DC’s All ‘90s Band ................................ F 16 Amy Shark .......................................... M 12 • Buy advance tickets at the 9:30 Club box office • 930.com

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MARCH

Galactic (F 2 - w/ Butcher Brown) .... F 2 & Sa 3 Hippie Sabotage w/ Melvv & Olivia Noelle ..............Su 4 LP w/ Noah Kahan .........................M 5 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark w/ GGOOLLDD ......Tu 6 Cornelius ....................................W 7 Beth Ditto ................................Sa 10

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TOWN MOUNTAIN AND JAY STARLING AND FRIENDS FEAT. DANNY KNICELY SUN, JAN 21

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HANNAH WICKLUND & THE STEPPIN STONES AND THE HIGH DIVERS SAT, JAN 27

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The Sackler Gallery’s Secrets of the Lacquer Buddha brings together three sixth and seventh century Chinese lacquer buddha sculptures, the only ones of their kind known to man, from around the world for the first time in art history. Together, the exhibit seeks to examine the unique textile, ash, wood, and lacquer composition of these three deceptively simple treasures of the art world. Secrets focuses as much, if not more, on the hard museum science— the analysis, research, and actual preservation work—that has helped bring the exhibit to life. This in turn gives visitors a more full picture of the historical background of each of these three life-sized buddhas, opening doors to the time period in which they were made.

In uniting these lacquer buddhas, the Sackler Gallery unites the Smithsonian’s curation and conservation sides, painting a fresh, more holistic picture of the institution’s mission. The exhibit is on view daily 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. to June 10, 2018 at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 1050 Independence Ave. SW. Free. (202) 633-1000. freersackler.si.edu.

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4141. Dwayne Adell Trio. 8 p.m. $22. bluesalley.com.

kenneDy center MillenniuM stAge 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Super Soul Bros. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

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9:30 cluB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Passion Pit. 7 p.m. $45. 930.com.

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Dc9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Weakened Friends. 8 p.m. $10–$12. dcnine.com.

Theater

An AMericAn in pAris The stage adaptation of the classic musical about a former soldier who falls in love with Paris and an attractive Parisian woman while making his way as an artist comes to the Kennedy Center for the first time. Featuring classic Gershwin tunes like “Stairway to Paradise” and “S Wonderful,” this production is directed and choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon. Kennedy Center Opera House. 2700 F St. NW. To Jan. 7. $92–$122. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org. crAzy For you The songs of George and Ira Gershwin are reimagined by playwright Ken Ludwig in this musical about a banker, assigned to shut down a small-town theater, who decides to revive it instead.

Featuring favorite songs like “I’ve Got Rhythm,” “Nice Work If You Can Get It,” and “Someone to Watch Over Me,” this musical, arriving at Signature in time for the holidays, is directed by Matthew Gardiner. Signature Theatre. 4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington. To Jan. 14. $40–$108. (703) 820-9771. sigtheatre.org. curve oF DepArture As family members come together for a funeral, they meet in a New Mexico hotel to discuss their futures and what they owe each other. Mike Donahue directs this story about relationships and the ways we learn from each other. Studio Theatre. 1501 14th St. NW. To Jan. 7. $20–$85. (202) 332-3300. studiotheatre.org. everytHing is illuMinAteD Based on the bestselling novel by Jonathan Safran Foer, this stunning and hilarious stage adaptation tells the story of a young man — also named Jonathan Safran Foer — who sets out to find the woman who might or

pRotEctING GABoN: thE EXpEDItIoN thAt chANGED coNsERVAtIoN

They were the first humans the chimpanzees saw. Twenty years ago, conservationist Mike Fay, National Geographic photographer Nick Nichols, and writer David Quammen took on a massive more-than-3,000-mile research journey from the Republic of the Congo to the Atlantic Ocean coast in Gabon called the Megatransect. There, they encountered land so wild that the resident chimpanzees of the forest had never laid eyes on humans before. As insects swarmed around him and the rest of the team, Nichols captured on camera the very moment the chimps saw him, and the rest, as they say, is history. The team went on to create a comprehensive database of the wild lands and animals they encountered, sharing the information with Gabon’s president at the time, who was shocked to learn that all this natural beauty was there in his country. This led to the creation of 13 national parks in Gabon, and significant U.S. funding to the Congo Basin.

Now, after years of being apart, the three men will come together once again to reflect on the dangerous expedition, how it changed them, how it changed conservation, and how, ultimately, it changed all of us. The talk begins at 6:30 p.m. at the Gilbert H. Grosvenor Auditorium, 1600 M St. NW. $25. (202) 857-7700. nationalgeographic.org/dc.

—Kayla Randall might not have saved his grandfather. Accompanied by an old man haunted by memories of the war, an amorous dog named Sammy Davis, Jr. Jr., and a young Ukrainian translator who speaks in a sublimely butchered English, Jonathan takes a quixotic journey into an unexpected past, where reality collides with fiction in a heart-stopping scene of extraordinary power. A highly anticipated East Coast premiere.

Directed by Aaron Posner. Theater J. 1529 16th St. NW. To Feb. 4. $24–$69. (202) 777-3210. theaterj.org. tHe HuMAns Playwright Stephen Karam presents a humorous and heartbreaking look at a family whose deepest fears are laid bare for all to see. Taking place over the course of a Thanksgiving dinner, this one-act play takes the Blake family on a journey of self-discovery. Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater. 2700 F St. NW. To Jan. 28. $49–$139. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org. les MisérABles The Tony-winning musical phenomenon about troubled people in 19th century France, based on the book by Victor Hugo, returns with a new production from Cameron Mackintosh. With beloved songs like “One Day More” and “I Dreamed A Dream,” the musical comes to the National Theatre direct from its two-and-a-half-year run on Broadway. National Theatre. 1321 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. To Jan. 7. $73.75–$118.75. (202) 628-6161. nationaltheatre.org.

on your Feet! Tracing their journey from humble beginnings in Cuba to pop stardom, this musical explores how Emilio and Gloria Estefan broke barriers and lived through tragedy. Directed by two-time Tony Award winner Jerry Mitchell, this musical features the most iconic music the Estefans have to offer. Kennedy Center Opera House. 2700 F St. NW. To Jan. 28. $59–$149. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org.

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Film

insiDious: tHe lAst key Parapsychologist Elise Rainier faces a terrifying haunting in her own home.

Starring Lin Shaye, Leigh Whannell, and Angus Sampson. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) Molly’s gAMe Molly Bloom goes from Olympiclevel skier to FBI target who runs an exclusive highstakes poker game. Starring Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba, and Kevin Costner. (See washingtoncitypaper. com for venue information)

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Gloria Estefan is a pop culture icon, especially for children of the 1990s, who spent countless hours dancing to her songs at elementary school parties. She taught us about resiliency when she returned to the stage after breaking her back in a 1990 bus accident, was there at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics singing â&#x20AC;&#x153;Reachâ&#x20AC;? with the Morehouse College Glee Club, and closed out the decade dueting with *NSYNC on the soundtrack to the 1999 Meryl Streep classic Music of the Heart. Decades later, her work still inspires creatorsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;her song â&#x20AC;&#x153;Get On Your Feetâ&#x20AC;? accompanies one of historyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s greatest physical comedy moments during the fourth season of Parks and Recreation. On Your Feet! is also the title of the biographical musical about Estefan and her husband Emilio that is now playing at the Kennedy Center Opera House. Jukebox musicals might seem passĂŠ, but when the songs are this good and the costumes are this flashy, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re worth embracing. After surviving late Decemberâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sub-zero temperatures, you owe it to yourself to spend a couple hours in this imagined version of Miami. The musical runs Jan. 9 to Jan. 28 at the Kennedy Center Opera House, 2700 F St. NW. $59â&#x20AC;&#x201C;$149. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Caroline Jones

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One can only hope his set includes a generationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s favorite hits: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mesmerize,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Put It On Me,â&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Always On Time.â&#x20AC;? As a bonus gift of the nostalgia gods, Ashanti will join him onstage in Massachusetts this month. If she can do it there, she can surely do it in D.C. Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hoping all appearances go a bit more smoothly than Ja Ruleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cosigned Fyre Festival. Ja Rule performs at 8 p.m. at the Fillmore Silver Spring, 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. $25. (301) 960-9999. fillmoresilverspring.com. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Jordan-Marie Smith

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