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DISTRICT LINE 4 Critical Transport: The considered elimination of a bus to BWI Airport worries the riders who rely on it.

6 Loose Lips: Jack Evans’ D.C. Council tenure ends with a whimper.

SPORTS 8 Minor Keys: Rookies on two-way contracts make significant contributions for the injury-ravaged Wizards.

FOOD 20 Pour Planning: A global fight over aircraft manufacturing subsidies is forcing increases in wine costs.

ARTS 22 Good Character: An interview with local stage star Craig Wallace 24 Liz at Large: “Sun” 24 Short Subjects: Zilberman on Just Mercy 25 Speed Reads: Ottenberg on Andie J. Christopher’s Not the Girl You Marry

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Critical Transport The B30 bus to BWI Airport is on the chopping block.

The few riders who count on it consider it a lifeline.

Amy is wAiting for her bus at Baltimore/ Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport on Tuesday, as she does every weekday at 7 a.m. Joining her on the B30, a line that runs between BWI and the Greenbelt Metrorail Station, are five others who arrived at the bus stop just before sunrise. Later, at the second stop at Arundel Mills Mall, they’ll be joined by six more.

Amy greets the bus driver, Cynthia Eaglin, as she boards the B30. They’ve become pals over the past few weeks and chat as Eaglin drives along the Baltimore-Washington Parkway. The two women discuss grim news they recently learned—that Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority is possibly cutting their bus line.

While Eaglin depends on the bus for her job, Amy relies on it to get to the airport for shelter.

She is a former paralegal, displaced from her D.C. apartment in 2018 due to a mold infestation that turned into a months-long legal dispute with her landlord. She doesn’t want anyone to know about her situation because she faces prejudice when people learn she’s unhoused. City Desk agreed to use a pseudonym.

For the last year, Amy has been without a permanent home, so she stays at whatever shelter she can find. Since mid-October, that’s been BWI. “This is my last resort. I feel safe there— there’s security, there’s heat, air conditioning, restrooms, food for me to purchase, and it’s a public building so it’s open 24 hours. There’s really no other options. Shelters are not open 24 hours a day. They’re obviously not safe,” says Amy, 46. “I am disabled. I’ve already had some run-ins with the homeless population.

I’m a woman. I don’t feel safe.”

At the airport, Amy tries to keep a low profile. She carries a duffle, so she looks like any other traveler. It’s not until Amy gets on the B30 that she speaks above a whisper, usually with the bus driver.

Amy takes the first bus into Greenbelt to grab a shower at a public pool, and food at a local church, both conveniently off the Green line. Then Amy takes the evening bus back to

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Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport BWI where she stays overnight, often in baggage claim. Her routine is prescriptive because it has to be. She has trouble getting around due to various disabilities: blood clots in her lungs, poor eyesight, and uncontrollable swelling in her legs and feet. She says she’s currently being

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tested for cancer so she doesn’t know the full extent of her medical conditions. MetroAccess, a reduced fare program for people with disabilities, gives her free rail and bus access.

In the mornings, Amy is usually joined by a dozen passengers, give or take. It’s a relative-

ly quiet bus on Tuesday morning, as most riders take advantage of the 40-minute ride to nap. Antonio is dozing on-and-off during the commute. He says he moved to Baltimore two years ago for his nephew, who took a job there.

But his daughter and grandchildren are still in Prince George’s County, just off the Green line.

He prefers the B30 over the other transportation options, namely Amtrak and MARC train, because WMATA is the only one that pays for his fare in full. He qualifies for MetroAccess because he has a disability, sickle cell anemia.

“This is very convenient for a whole lot of people—especially me. For people that are disabled, this helps us out a whole lot,” he says.

Toward the front of the bus that morning is Alma, a D.C. housekeeper who rides the B30 every weekday and declines to give her last name.

“Ay, no,” she gasps when she learns WMATA is debating whether to cut her bus—it’s her preferred way to travel to work. Nayankumar Patel, too, would rather get to his consultant job in Southeast D.C. by Metro bus and rail. The BWI Amtrak and MARC station is often desolate in the early mornings, and it’s a shuttle bus ride away from the airport—an option that feels less safe. The B30 stop is right at the airport next to a bunch of other bus stops, not to mention all the other foot traffic that comes with a bustling airport. But Patel doesn’t always take the bus, only when the weather’s bad, as it was on Tuesday.

“You have all kinds of people,” says Eaglin of those who ride her bus. “There are just people from everywhere and I love it—I love transporting the people and the people love this bus line.” She lists them: travelers, airport workers, folks who live in Baltimore but work in D.C. (or vice-versa), and people looking to hang out at Arundel Mills Mall, where there’s plenty of entertainment to choose from, including a casino. When Eaglin arrives at Greenbelt Metrorail Station at 8:20 a.m., 10 people are waiting for her. Most of them are carrying luggage, but Eaglin spots one of her regulars.

Metro General Manager Paul Wiedefeld first proposed eliminating the B30 last year as a way to balance the transit agency’s budget. The proposal is included in the 2021 budget, and is one of 21 bus lines that could be eliminated due to “redundancy” or “low ridership.” A WMATA spokesperson says riders are increasingly choosing Amtrak and MARC over the B30. Amtrak can cost upward of $45 for a one-way ticket, while MARC costs $7. Each takes about 20 minutes to get from Union Station to the airport, a shorter commute than the bus. And the B30 costs 50 cents more per ride than the MARC; its price tag has more than doubled since 2010.

The average weekday ridership on the B30 is 192, the spokesperson says. With 14 scheduled trips, that’s about 13 people per bus.

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The B30 isn’t going to be terminated just yet. slept there again, taking her photograph and The proposal still needs to go to the WMATA name. A Dulles spokesperson did not respond board for consideration and requires a public to questions about this incident, but says that hearing. A decision is unlikely until the spring. the airport’s policy changed in October, banThe last time it was on the chopping block, in ning non-ticketed persons in the airport over2016, the B30 survived. WMATA did, however, night. Reagan National airport also has a ban.

An acquaintance of Amy’s, Tara, who’s increase the fare and got rid of weekend service.

Eaglin says this just exacerbated the problem, been staying at BWI since 2018, says she’s decreasing ridership even more. It was set up been cited by Maryland Transportation Auto fail this way—a shame, the B30’s defenders thority Police twice, and Amy’s worried that’ll say, because Balimore deserves options to and happen to her. “They basically want us to wait from the airport. It’s unclear if the B30 will sur- down by the [MTA] Light Rail instead of us coming all the way vive this time around.

“People will just “This is my last resort. into the airport,” Tara says, declining to give adjust,” says the 8 p.m. bus driver to I feel safe there—there’s her last name. “They Amy. “Not me,” Amy security, there’s heat, air try to segregate us.”

Depending on the replies.

She’s the only rid- conditioning, restrooms, officer, people experier on the B30 that eve- food for me to purchase, encing homelessness sometimes sleep ning. Other times, at and it’s a public building can anywhere at BWI withthis hour, Amy says so it’s open 24 hours. out harassment. But she’s joined by a few. between 5 and 7 a.m., Before the New Year, There’s really no officers go from pera silver-haired womother options.” son to person, walking an accompanied her them up so they can on this particular bus.

Amy believes the woman was also staying at take public transportation and leave. At around 6 a.m. one morning, City Desk saw one officer BWI for shelter.

When Amy arrives at BWI, she walks toward wake up two people who were lying on benches.

A BWI spokesperson didn’t respond to spethe very end of the airport, where international travelers pick up their luggage. She plans to cific questions about the officer waking people sleep on a chair by a Christmas tree, where up. He only says, “We continue to work very there’s a heat vent. She’s not the only one at closely with several partners to help these inthe airport that night for shelter—there’s any- dividuals receive information and specialized where between 50 to 100 people experiencing care from appropriate professionals.”

Amy is trying to get her affairs in order homelessness who stay.

Amy doesn’t like to sleep at the same spot mul- and obtain housing. Eliminating the B30 tiple days in a row for fear of getting in trouble. would make it even harder for her to do that.

She used to sometimes stay at Dulles Interna- “There’s nowhere else to go that would be tional Airport, but stopped in the fall. She says consistent, and I need consistency,” she says. police threatened to arrest her in October if she “I’m not well.”

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DISTRICTLINE LOOSE LIPS

Here Lies Jack Evans’ Political Career May 13, 1991–Jan. 7, 2020 Ward 2 CounCilmember Jack Evans’ political career passed through the pearly gates just before 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 7, surrounded by colleagues, D.C. Council staffers, a gaggle of reporters, and a small but disgruntled cohort of residents.

As Council Chairman Phil Mendelson closed what would be Evans’ final legislative meeting, the fair-haired legislator rose from his seat and handed the chairman a single piece of paper.

“After nearly 40 years of public service to the District of Columbia, I have advised the Board of Elections that I resign my position as the Ward 2 Councilmember on the Council of the District of Columbia, as of close of business on Friday, January 17, 2020,” Evans’ letter said. “I believe Washington, DC to be the pride of the nation and I am proud of the contributions I have made in helping to create a vibrant city. It has been an honor and a privilege to serve the District of Columbia and the residents of Ward 2,” it continued.

His career was just shy of 30 years old. Selfserving and compromised ethics are listed as the causes of death.

Some of those gathered in the Council chamber during the legislative meeting were anticipating the final moments of the longest career in the history of the D.C. Council, though the timing came as a bit of a surprise.

“This is a sad day for the Council and for Mr. Evans himself, but despite his excellent career over these many years, it has been marred by such serious compromises of ethics that we had to take this step,” said Ward 3 Councilmember Mary Cheh, who sat next to Evans on the dais.

“It wasn’t a surprise. The exact timing was a surprise. That he would resign before there was an expulsion vote was inevitable.”

In December, an ad hoc committee comprising all 12 of Evans’ Council colleagues hammered the proverbial final nail in his career’s coffin with a unanimous vote in favor of forcibly removing Evans from the Council.

Had he not resigned, Evans would have almost assuredly been the first member ever expelled from the body. The final expulsion vote was scheduled to take place on Jan. 21.

By late last year, battles over chronic ethics violations and accusations of corruption had

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Jack Evans during his final legislative meeting all but ended Evans’ career, at least in the eyes evans’ Career in D.C. politics, as a previous of most D.C. residents. The only thing left for LL reported, began with a girl. Working as a lawyer for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Comhis Council colleagues to do was wait.

In December, Mendelson scheduled a hear- mission and living in Shirlington, he went on a ing to take place after the Jan. 7 legislative meet- date with a woman who derided his place of resing where Evans would have had a chance to idence as “suburban death.”

Fearing for his romantic life, Evans bought defend his career, call witnesses on his behalf, a condo in Dupont Circle and question those who testified against him. But His career was just and jumped into D.C. politics. He helped essuch a deathbed trial was apparently more than Ev- shy of 30 years old. tablish the Ward 2 Democrats, served as the ans’ career could handle.

Self-serving and treasurer for the D.C. It opted instead to end quietly on a snowy after- compromised ethics Democratic State Committee (on which he noon. Following its passare listed as the currently serves as the ing, Mendelson offered a elected national commitfew words of optimism. causes of death. teeman), and was elected “It saves the Council from going through more of this time and dis- to the Dupont Circle advisory neighborhood traction from the business we ought to be do- commission in 1989.

Evans’ career as a D.C. lawmaker, rainmaking,” he said, before Evans’ career was even cold. “I also think this is an important step in er, and ethics troublemaker began in 1991, restoring the integrity of the institution and with a narrow special election victory. He dethe trust of the public. It’s very sad that we’ve feated a former aide to Mayor Marion Barry by just 400 votes. come to this point.”

During his tenure on the Council, Evans deMendelson previously expressed trepidation over the precedent the Council could set fended LGBTQ rights, championed the local by expelling Evans from the body and encour- arts community, helped rebuild a city in finanaged Evans to resign. Now, the chairman can cial ruin, and catered to the interests of professional sports teams and big business. worry no longer.

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Evans also tried to elevate his career with two unsuccessful mayoral campaigns before settling for a mantle the Washington Post bestowed on him: “Vice Mayor.”

For nearly the entire length of his Council career, Evans pursued a second one as a legal consultant. He worked for legal and lobbying firms, and in 2016 opened his own consulting shop in his Georgetown home. In retrospect, that was the beginning of the end.

It was Evans’ side gigs that ultimately doomed his political career. An investigation that Evans’ fellow councilmembers authorized found repeated violations of the Council’s ethics rules associated with his outside work as well as failures to disclose his private consulting clients. The investigation determined that Evans was paid more than $400,000 “for doing little or no documented work for consulting clients most, if not all, of whom were also ‘prohibited sources,’” meaning they have or could have business with the District or are subject to government regulation.

The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority conducted its own investigation into Evans, who served as the board’s chair, and found similar ethics misbehavior. D.C.’s Board of Ethics and Government Accountability fined Evans $20,000 in August for using his Council staff and email address to send business pitches seeking outside consulting work.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office is also investigating Evans; federal agents raided his home last summer. Evans has not been charged with a crime.

In its final report, the Council’s ad hoc committee found that the Evans’ shenanigans amounted to a “pattern and practice of sustained and repeated violations of the Council’s Code of Conduct.”

Evans’ career is survived by those of his 12 current D.C. Council colleagues. It was predeceased by the careers of former Chairman Kwame Brown, former At-Large councilmember Vincent Orange, and former Ward 5 Councilmember Harry Thomas Jr. After Evans handed Mendelson his resignation letter, the longtime Ward 2 rep made a beeline for the side door and beat feet down to his office as reporters trotted behind him. Evans disappeared behind a locked door without answering questions. The Post reports he left the building at 1:10 p.m.

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Minor Keys An injury riddled Wizards team is relying on unlikely sources for sudden success.

Anžejs Pasečņiks

Two days before the 2019 NBA Summer League began, at around 11 p.m., Anžejs Pasečņiks received a call. Pack your bags and fly to Las Vegas to join the Washington Wizards, his agent told him.

The instructions caught Pasečņiks by surprise. After being selected in the first round of the 2017 NBA Draft by the Orlando Magic, he was traded to the Philadelphia 76ers, who ultimately renounced their draft rights to him last July. The 7-foot-1 Latvian calls that moment “the lowest point” of his NBA journey and figured he’d spend this season competing for a team in Europe.

“It’s been a long way ’cause I had a feeling like I made it two years ago when I get drafted,” Pasečņiks says. “But the things didn’t turn [out] so well, and now I’m happy for that because I have to overstep all that, and it made me mentally stronger.”

He eventually joined the Wizards’ G League affiliate, the Capital City Go-Go, and on Dec. 17, signed a two-way contract with the Wizards.

Pasečņiks, 24, is one of two rookies, along with Garrison Mathews, on a two-way contract with the Wizards this season. Both have received extended playing time recently due to the team’s many injuries.

Bradley Beal (lower right leg soreness), Rui Hachimura (groin injury), Thomas Bryant (right foot stress reaction), Davis Bertans (right quad strain), Moritz Wagner (sprained left ankle), and C.J. Miles (left wrist surgery) have all spent significant time on the inactive or injury list. Five time All-Star guard John Wall is rehabbing a left Achilles tear and it’s unclear if he will return to the court this season.

In their place, lesser-known and infrequently used players like Pasečņiks and Mathews have shined. Mathews averaged 6.6 points over 14 games with the Wizards before spraining his right ankle against the Boston Celtics on Jan. 6. Pasečņiks made his NBA debut on Dec. 18 against the Chicago Bulls and is averaging 7.8 points and 6.5 rebounds over 11 games. According to the Washington Post, the Wizards are considering converting Pasečņiks to a standard NBA contract before the Jan. 15 deadline to do so.

Neither player envisioned playing significant NBA minutes this season.

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“It’s rare,” says Go-Go head coach Ryan Richman of two-way players receiving heavy NBA playing time. “The league is so much about opportunity, and it’s unfortunate in a lot of ways that we’ve had these injuries, but the silver lining is that these guys have been able to step up and contribute, and it will only make everyone stronger in the end.”

Facing the Miami Heat on Dec. 30, Mathews scored a career-high 28 points against the third-ranked defense in the league. By the end, fans at Capital One Arena began to chant “MVP!” at the undrafted rookie.

“Just hearing the crowd, and even when I checked back in the second half, everybody went crazy. It sent chills down me,” Mathews says.

Mathews, 23, played at Lipscomb Univer-

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sity, a mid-major program in Nashville, Tennessee, and did not expect to get drafted.

He had 14 NBA Draft workouts scheduled, but only completed seven before suffering a stress reaction in his shins right before Summer League began. The injury forced him to miss six weeks.

Still, Mathews impressed the Wizards with his work ethic and shooting ability and they signed him to a two-way contract in June.

“Garrison is somebody you need to kick out of the gym, or lock the gym, and maybe he’ll leave the gym,” Richman says. “You know, maybe he won’t come if you do that. He’s like that type of guy.”

During a week-long stretch recently, Mathews played six games in seven days be-

tween the Go-Go and Wizards. Players on twoway deals, Mathews says, typically find out which team they’re playing for the day before a game, leading to a potentially hectic schedule.

“The challenge is just getting rest,” he says.

“I go from having six games in seven days, playing Detroit, fly back and play in the G League, then play for the Wizards, then the G League. It’s really just getting rest. It’s tough for sure, trying to find a way to let your body recover. [But] it’s not for me to think about. It’s for me to do my job.”

Both Mathews and Pasečņiks have been part of the energetic second unit led by journeyman point guard Ish Smith. Against the Denver Nuggets, the second place team in the Western Conference, on Jan. 4, the pair of rookies combined to score 20 of the franchiserecord 92 bench points. Two days later, against the Boston Celtics, one of the best teams in the league this year, Pasečņiks scored seven points and set consistent screens for Smith, who scored 27 points.

“He’s really growing right in front of our eyes and it’s great to see,” Wizards coach Scott Brooks says of Pasečņiks. “His feel around the basket, he can finish with either hand … Defensively he has pretty good verticality. His screen setting is really high level for a younger player. Him and Ish, their synergy on pick-and-roll is pretty impressive.”

Two-way contracts, which began in the 2017 offseason, stipulate that players cannot spend more than 45 days with their NBA teams. Due to the injuries, the Wizards have decided to front-load Mathews and Pasečņiks’ schedules.

Asked if he feels more pressure now to prove his worth in the NBA, Mathews keeps his unexpected NBA rookie season in perspective.

A year ago, he says, he would have laughed if someone told him he’d be playing significant minutes in the league.

“I feel like I’ve made a good case for myself, but nothing is guaranteed here,” Mathews says of earning a guaranteed spot on an NBA roster. “To be honest with you, I try not to be too concerned about that. Just try to everyday to see what I can do to get better. And if I work as hard as I can, I don’t need to worry about all that stuff.”

Pasečņiks also wants to stay in the moment instead of thinking too far ahead. Six months ago, he was in Latvia, unsure of when his next chance at the NBA would be, so he leaped at a chance in the G League.

“I felt I wanted to be here,” he says. “I have to do everything, whatever it takes to get to the NBA, so that was the only way. It was the hard way but we choose it. It’s a little bit risky too, but we went that way. Now it seems like it was the right decision.”

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Uphill January, 2020 Two bikes siT chained to a bike rack at the base of the hill. They serve as a warning to all who dare attempt to summit this peak: Not everyone makes it. Some leave their bikes at the bottom. This is the type of hill where people on sidewalks yell out encouragement to cyclists who huff and puff their way north.

It’s late in the morning, and the traffic around Malcolm X Park has thinned. Pedestrians jaywalk with ease and a handful of cyclists roll by on W Street NW. None, so far, dare to turn left and begin the climb.

Eventually a woman begins to approach from the south. She moves slowly, wearing a jacket that is perhaps too warm. She has two bike bags stuffed full. The hill leading up to The Hill is, itself, significant, and she wills the bike forward.

As she advances, the eddy of one way roads, drivers, and pedestrians swirls in anticipation of an intrepid cyclist. Another bike coasts down The Hill—no need to pedal as gravity guides the rider downtown.

She arrives at The Hill, just barely making the light and keeping her momentum, but as she arrives at The Hill’s base she stops, dismounts, and begins to walk. Today is not the day. She continues upward slowly, disappearing into the bike lane’s S-bend.

Quiet time passes. Finally, another man approaches from the south. He makes quick work of the preliminary hill as he climbs. Then suddenly, at the base of Malcolm X Park, he turns right onto W Street NW. —Will Warren Will Warren writes Scene and Heard. If you know of a location worthy of being seen or heard, email him at wwarren@washingtoncitypaper.com.

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On a typical week at Washington City Paper, the staff is concerned almost exclusively with facts: when a certain event happened or will happen, who was or is involved, and what the consequences could be. When we do deal with fiction, it’s usually a story someone tells to cover for a misdeed of some sort, and we’re always eager to poke holes in those tales.

Not this week. As we have in years past, we’re opening the year by having writers from around the region make up stories that nevertheless contain some kernel of truth about life in the District of Columbia, either as it exists now or how it existed some time in the past.

The three stories that follow did just that, taking readers past a nowtransformed shopping area, to the top of towers, and through the decades in a single apartment. In those same stories, readers will see how places, relationships, and cultural standards change over time.

Whether you’ve resolved to read more fiction in the new year or just enjoy a break from the news, we hope these stories will make you look at the District a little differently.

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Apartment 101

sidewalks during the day, looking for sunny spots to spend a few hours.

Near midnight, Wallace suggested that they go outside. “They’re having fireworks on the Mall—I bet we could see them. Can we get on the roof?”

“There’s no way to get up to the roof.”

“There’s always a way to get up to the roof!”

Wallace announced.

They put on their coats and left, Elaine careful to lock the door behind her. In the back of the building was a fire escape. Wallace led them up.

“I don’t like this,” Holly said.

“It’s fine! Look!” Wallace exclaimed, climbing up a skinny ladder and disappearing into the darkness.

Gingerly, Elaine followed, holding fast to the iron rungs affixed to the building.

And then they were on the roof, a dark square in the lit neighborhood.

“Oh my god, this is scary,” Holly said. There were no guardrails, nothing to stop them from falling three stories to the street below.

Elaine clung to Wallace, holding on to his arm.

And then, with a boom, it began. Out of the night sky, a blast of color, a rocket crescendo of light flashing over the neighborhood.

Elaine was in love with the city.

By Joe Flood 1989 Reginald had gotten sloppy. He knew that.

His mom wanted him to go to college. Had the money saved up from her Printing Office job. Almost two decades of work there, churning out the Federal Register near Union Station.

She proofed the thick volumes as they came off the line, her hair going gray and her vision becoming worse until she was a stooped old lady, half-blind but always with a smile on her face.

As a boy, Reginald had toured the plant with her, all those noisy machines consuming rolls of paper the size of cars and reducing them down to volumes of inscrutable print.

“He’s going to college,” she bragged, as her co-workers rubbed his cheeks with fingers permanently dark with ink.

But it didn’t work out. Admitted and failed out of College Park after a year.

His fault, of course. He just had too much fun on campus, partying with the frats and becoming the de facto drug dealer due to his DC connections. Of course he knew where to find crack—who didn’t who grew up in the city?

Mom got him a job in the Printing Office.

But he couldn’t do the basics. “Just do the basics!” his mother would exclaim, hitting him upside the head. His shift started at 6 a.m. which was impossible. After a dozen absences, he was let go. Fired.

What he could do was find drugs for people. Pot, crack, heroin, PCP—he knew someone who had it.

After a few months of pointing hungry people in the right direction, he decided that he wanted in on the trade. He began holding and selling. Mostly crack, because it was easy and cheap. A $10 rock he could sell for $50. Soon enough, he had thousands in cash stuffed under his bed.

Mom began asking questions. “Why aren’t you working? How come you have money to go out?”

So he found himself an apartment. Dupont East, the landlord said, though they were blocks from Dupont. Much closer to 14th St., with its abandoned auto dealerships and boarded-up buildings.

Lots of traffic down the side streets at night.

Hookers in the alleys. A building full of junkies on T Street NW. And crack everywhere.

Apartment 101 was little more than a drafty box. Brown water came out of the tap. The walls rustled with mice. But he could look out onto the street. Onto his corner. 15th and Swann.

Once it got dark, he’d step outside, sell some rocks and then come back in to get high.

Reginald knew his clientele. Most were neighborhood folks. People who looked like him. People who just wanted a little fun. Sometimes, strangers drove by and asked to buy. He was cautious but sometimes sold to them, especially if they paid top dollar. He sold to a guy with an accent because he flashed a wad

of cash. The guy came back the next night and bought more.

The apartment door reverberated with a thud. He had put a big deadbolt on the metal door. Again, the sound, shaking Reginald off the couch, where he was watching Family Matters. Urkel laughed at his predicament.

The door burst open. Flashlights found him on the carpet. A dozen men piled into his tiny home, roughly handling him.

Reginald had been sloppy.

1999 It was her first apartment.

Elaine was proud of the achievement and invited her friends to celebrate New Year’s Eve. “Oh, it’s so cute!” Wallace exclaimed, as the door opened to 450 square feet of living space with a column in the middle of it. He was carrying Champagne, his cheeks red with cold.

Squeezing behind him was Holly, who lived in Cleveland Park.

“That walk from Dupont was something!” she said. “Are you safe here?”

“Yes, it’s fine,” she said. Elaine took cabs after dark.

She put the drinks into a fridge stuffed with snacks from Safeway. The Soviet Safeway, they called it, where the lines stretched to the back of the store and you had to check to see if your produce was rotten.

The three of them settled together on the futon couch to watch Dick Clark. The futon was normally her bed but it could be folded up.

“Are you warm enough?” she asked.

Out of politeness, they said they were. The heater noisily chugged under the window.

With two windows facing each other, it was impossible to keep the apartment warm. Her first electric bill had been nearly $200! She had taken to turning the heat off during the day and sometimes at night too.

Holly talked work—she was a web producer, whatever that was. Wallace chattered about the gay bars on 17th Street NW and the interesting little places that were opening on 14th.

“Have you been to the Black Cat?” he asked.

Elaine tended to avoid 14th Street NW. Men from the homeless shelter drifted down the

2009 The Bulgarians were first. A noisy crew that started late and ended early. Then came the Koreans, just a couple of them. Very polite in the hallway and when he asked them to stop drilling, they did. But the Salvadorans had no such compunction. They pretended not to understand him, even when he spoke Spanish.

They had a job to do and they were going to do it.

Aziz complained to the landlord. “The building is going condo,” she explained.

“I know, but I still live here.”

Apartment 101 was his home, crammed with books and papers from his studies. He knew that the landlord referred to him as “the hoarder” but everything he kept, he kept for a reason. And what the reason was—she didn’t need to know.

The building was being flipped. An investor had purchased it and enticed all the tenants to leave. All except Aziz.

He liked his sunny spot overlooking the street. Liked the brick walls, even if they were drafty. Liked the neighborhood, especially Malcom X Park, where he could sit by the fountain and read. He didn’t want much—one room for his materials wasn’t too much to ask, was it?

All the other units in the buildings were being gutted. Grimy carpets torn out. Ancient appliances extracted from their cubbyholes. Formica countertops replaced with cool marble.

Aziz looked at the prices on the new units and thought they were obscene, a festival of greed.

“What do you do in there all day?” the investor had asked. He was from Potomac and liked to park his Audi in front of the fire hydrant.

“None of your concern,” Aziz had replied, quickly closing the door.

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The man had come by with another offer. $20,000 to leave. His neighbors had accepted far less.

Aziz knew that the law was on his side. He couldn’t be forced from the apartment. He could remain in 101 forever, even if the entire neighborhood became nothing but expensive condos and gaudy boutiques, a playground for the rich to flaunt their ill-gotten gains.

He was a hoarder, the investor explained later for the TV cameras. The flames began somewhere in his piles of papers, the very trash that prevented his escape. But we’re going to get it cleaned up, he said, and put it on the market. Apartment 101 will make a beautiful condo.

The Battle of Dupont: A Story of Love and War in the Nation’s Capital

By Carmen Munir Russell-Sluchansky Martina stared down the scope, slowly moving the crosshairs across the Mall. From her perch at the top of the Smithsonian Castle, it appeared empty. Intelligence indicated the Able Men were planning a rally but she saw no one.

Sensing movement off in the distance, she locked on a man in a pressed grey suit, a suitcase in his right hand and a glock dangling by his left. She recognized him—a senior staffer for Senate leadership.

Martina squeezed the trigger. She watched as he dropped the suitcase, grabbed his abdomen, and fell.

More movement. Camouflage-clad men sprung out of hiding, training their sights on her position. She was made.

“Damn. Time to go,” she said to no one and made for the stairs.

Outside, she spotted a figure crawling on the ground. Moving quickly to kick his pistol away, she turned him over. His ripped, red soaked shirt told her he had taken a hit from close range. Martina recognized him, too: Joshua Stiller, White House aid. Benjamin must have gotten him. Despite the trap, it was a good day for the Green Energy Alliance: two high-value targets.

Joshua’s eyes betrayed fear. “Help me,” he said weakly. Martina leaned down, slowly licked her bottom lip, and smiled. In an uncharacteristically soft voice she said, “No.” Seeing Benjamin, she leapt over Joshua and ran to him.

“You okay?” Ben asked.

“I’m good!” She felt giddy.

“It was a setup.”

“Ya think?” Martina responded. “Whatever.

We kicked ass! Nice job on Stiller.”

“Wait... what?” Ben asked.

“You didn’t know? That was Joshua Stiller.

And I sniped Byron Wilson.”

Ben smirked. It was already a high-point day and it wasn’t even noon.

“Well, anyway, their buddies are on their way,” Martina said. “We need to go.”

Ben held up his walkie-talkie. “Someone from the CBA wants to meet us at Dwell.”

“Oh cool. I love those guys. We can take the orange line to Metro Center and grab the X2.”

Ben sighed. “An Uber would be easier.”

“Let’s try to remember who we are,” Martina shot back. “The environment still matters.”

“There’s an army out there trying to shoot us and you want to wait for a bus.”

She glared, he relented. “Fine.”

At the Metro, Martina scanned the large dots of paint all over the walls, turnstiles, and trains, each splatter a circular reminder of the dissolution of the American political system.

The federal buildings, marble monuments, museums. Everything was painted.

The District’s new color palette was an unexpected byproduct of President White winning a Supreme Court-sanctioned third term.

Most of the country went about its usual business: Texas produced oil, Hollywood made movies, and Wall Street continued to accumulate atrocious amounts of money.

But the nation’s capital had exploded. By the end of the week, staffers had morphed into mercenaries, drawing lines in figurative sand.

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It was initially sparked by a Facebook invite for a fight at Dupont Circle posted by the same guy who called for the massive Snowmageddon snowball fight years before. Thousands showed up to express grievances: Clitonites, Berniecrats, Whiters, Able Men, Libertarians, Greenies, DSA. In the melee, the neo-Nazi Dick Rincer lost an eye.

Once the shooting started, it didn’t stop.

It quickly spread throughout the capital and no one went back to work; it just didn’t seem worth it. No legislation was being passed in Congress. Federal agencies were eviscerated, their personnel, authority, and morale stripped away. Most federal employees were furloughed. Anger and disillusionment abounded. Interns coming to D.C. to live out Aaron Sorkin’s The West Wing instead found themselves in The Hunger Games.

Before things got more out of hand, leaders from different factions met to establish ground rules: Authorized guns only, no shooting in the face, and no breaking any laws... except the obviously unavoidable ones. They devised a point system for total kills with extra points for high-profile targets like Stiller and Wilson.

For Martina, it was all too familiar. At fourteen, the Bosnian refugee had joined the fight against Slobodan Milošević, becoming known as “Sniper Girl” for her uncanny aim. Worried for Martina’s safety, her family fled to the U.S. Now, deja vu set in: Her mother called her dai-

ly to ask her to leave D.C. “Molim te, come home, draga,” her mother would say. “I’m concerned about you.”

“Don’t worry, Mama. It’s fine. It’s not that dangerous and I’m really good at it.”

More importantly, Martina finally felt like she was doing something worthwhile. After years of fighting for public transportation, the arrival of autonomous vehicle companies had essentially washed all her efforts away. Then the president shut down the EPA. The battle was lost.

Being an advocate now was much more satisfying. At a party, a tech entrepreneur told her that busses were for “riff-raff,” not for him. In the past, she would make a painstaking rational argument, carefully weighing what she surmised about the man to earnestly appeal to his sense of conscience on why he should ditch his SUV. This time she simply cocked her pistol and shot him.

Turning to her boyfriend, Ravi, she was elated: “That felt great!” Seeing his expression, she added, “What? I followed the rules.

I didn’t shoot him in the face.”

Trinidad’s Dwell, a carriage house on an alley parallel to Florida Avenue NE near Bladensburg Road NE, was an underground music venue where Ravi had performed many times. Now, warring factions used the dilapidated two-story structure for meetings.

Martina and Ben arrived to find Billy, the

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leader of the Communist Black Alliance, resting in the old leather sofa upstairs. Martina and Billy greeted each other.

“Hey, man! I know you!” Ben exclaimed. “I saw you at the Battle of Dupont!”

“Yeah, that’s right,” Billy said.

“You shot out Dick Rincer’s eye!”

“No, that wasn’t me.”

“I saw it! Hey, no judgment. If it had been me, I would have shot the son of a bitch in the face, too.”

Billy looked at Martina to say, “Hey, it was before the rules were in force.” Martina just shrugged.

Billy then got to the point. “The CBA wants to help you in Ward 6.”

“Why?” Martina asked. “Don’t you have enough to worry about with 7 and 8?”

Billy laughed. “Man, no one even comes east of the river and we want to be part of the action.”

Before Martina could respond, sniper fire from the front windows flung the room into chaos. Another trap.

Billy was hit. Martina and Ben jumped out the back windows. Martina thought she heard Ben shout “Bernie would have won!” as he crashed through the glass. They landed on strategically placed mattresses below.

Martina stood. She could see Ben had taken one in the back and was struggling to sit up.

“Are you okay?” she asked.

“I think so.” Another shot hit the ground.

“You should go.” Martina ran to her house just a few blocks away.

Reaching her porch, she could hear Ravi practicing a song, yet another melancholy tune. Before the Battle of Dupont, Ravi had been legal counsel for a Senate committee but saw his furlough as a chance to focus on his music. The problem was no one went to shows anymore. Plus, he seemed to get shot a lot.

She opened the door, saw his stained shirt, and knew he had been hit. “Oh my god, Babić, you okay?”

“I think so,” he said as he continued to look down and strum his guitar. “It really hurts.”

“I can imagine. It looks like you took a whole barrage. What happened?”

“I was going to Petworth to pick up a microphone and some Whiters were at the fountain. They couldn’t have known what faction I’m with.”

“Well, it’s kind of easy to tell you’re not with them,” Martina responded. “Go take a shower and get that paint off. I can’t wait to tell you about my day.”

Ravi looked up and said “I love you.” Martina wanted to say “I love you, too” but found herself wishing Ravi was a little more ambitious.

Would it hurt him to pick up a gun every now and then and help out? And now their weekend plans were ruined. It was in the rules, after all.

As Ravi left the room, he turned.

“Do you ever think about getting out of the District, maybe moving to Portland and living normal lives?” he asked.

Martina gazed at her boyfriend for what seemed to Ravi like an eternity. Smiling, she licked her bottom lip, and in an uncharacteristically soft voice said, “No.”

*** Downtown, Joshua and Byron were sitting at the smoky bar of Shelly’s Back Room. Joshua held his cigar in his right hand, clutching his heavily bruised side with his left.

“Those paintballs really hurt close range.”

“I got hit from a thousand feet away and it still hurt bad,” Byron retorted.

“Who was that girl? She was mean. It’s just a game.”

“Some people take it too seriously,” Byron said, downing the rest of his bourbon.

“Snowflakes.”

Visiting Aunt Laurie

By Rhonda Green-Smith On an Oddly serene Saturday morning, right in the middle of winter 1986, I learn so much of what I need to know about life in just one day. I do not hear my mother humming in the kitchen, nor can I smell vanilla pancakes, breakfast potatoes or eggs, and for a while I begin to think that maybe I have my days mixed up, that it’s Sunday instead of Saturday. In a tiny two-bedroom apartment east of the Anacostia River, I wake up to a bustle of brown sparrows chirping and flapping uncomfortably close to my windowsill as if they’re trying to tell me something. They fly over to the rooftop of the building directly across the street— pecking at a fresh dusting of snow and I’m wondering why they waited so long to migrate to the south.

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When I am done watching the birds, I walk into my mother’s room and stand at her bedside and wait for her to wake up. She is not smiling nor is she frowning and this makes it hard for me to figure out if she’d rather be asleep or awake. Three deep lines appear and then disappear near the corners of her eyes and for a moment I can see what others see when they look at the two of us —I can see a little part of me in her, a little of her in me. I wave two fingers in front of her face casting shadows of bunny ears across her cheeks and forehead. She can’t hear me laughing, but I cover my mouth just in case. Traces of burgundy lipstick settle into the thin intersecting crevices that zigzag and crisscross her lips. It reminds me of a tricky maze I’d seen on the back of my breakfast cereal boxes. Her room doesn’t smell like heavy cigarette smoke the way it used to. Fumes still linger, stifled somewhere in between the coffee she likes to drink in the morning and a blueberry candle she lights in the evenings.

Along the wall on the right side of our narrow hallway are two pieces of dark green luggage packed with some of my good clothing.

My mother has decided that a visit to Aunt Laurie’s for a short while would be good for both of us, and though I don’t agree, I decide that it’s best to not talk back, just let things be. I have never spent one day away from my mother and though Aunt Laurie is one of the most interesting grown-ups I know, it feels as though I’m going off to a foreign country. I’ve decided to wear a pair of black jeans and an old red sweater that I haven’t seen in years. It had been my favorite outfit for quite some time, until Noel Fuller told me that he was tired of

seeing me with it on. I retired it from school after that. Because it is perfect for a visit to Aunt Laurie’s, I try pulling the hooded fleece over my head but it won’t budge. My head is stuck near the neck of the sweater for what seems like hours. I’m pulling at it until my ears start to burn and I’m out of breath. I’m looking around at all the little lint balls inside and am imagining them traveling up my nose and settling on my lungs with every inhalation. There isn’t enough air inside. I’m feeling dizzy and smothered. I’m going to die. I pull one more time and the sweater comes down burning my forehead and ears before it settles around my neck.

My mother is awake. I can hear her shuffling around in her room. She looks into my room and waves, unaware of my near brush with death.

“You’re up early,” she says.

“And you’re up late,” I say not loud enough for her to hear me.

“It’s snowing,” she says.

“Yes I know. That’s why I put my clothes on already.”

She doesn’t apologize for waking up late and I decide not to mention it.

“Are you excited about visiting Aunt Laurie?” she asks yawning and smoothing her hair back so she could cover it later with a warm hat.

I pretend not to hear this question. “I’m going to go play outside for awhile” is what I offer instead.

“You can’t,” she says. “We’ve got to get a move on it before the snow comes down harder.”

I follow her into the bathroom where she brushes her teeth and washes her face. I do the same.

“That’s good,” she says looking at my face and teeth. “Don’t ever leave the house without washing your face and brushing your teeth, no matter what. Be good and proper to yourself and always wear earrings too.”

“OK,” I say feeling hot and tired of walking around in a sweater and jeans.

“Did you eat breakfast?” she asks.

Did you fix me breakfast I want to ask her.

“No, not yet,” I say.

“You have to learn to fix yourself breakfast.

I’ve shown you before,” she says, walking into our kitchen and grabbing cereal from the pantry and milk from the fridge. “I’ve shown you just what to do plenty of times.”

“Yes ma’am,” I say remembering that today was my day to fix my own self some breakfast.

“You can’t sit around and wait until someone does it for you. Aunt Laurie will take care of you as much as she can, but still. You’re a big girl. So lovely and smart. That don’t mean nothing if you can’t do things for yourself.” She’s not squinting and her jaws aren’t clenched. She’s not upset with me for not thinking to fix my own breakfast.

I’m nodding my head to all of this. Watching the snow pile up outside, she starts to pick up pace. We are in her room and she’s still giving me instructions on how to live without her, but it’s so much information, I can’t sort all of it.

“There are going to be times when you feel alone, but you’re not. You’re not alone,” she

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says staring into space before finding herself in her mirror attached to her dresser. “There are millions of people in the world that you can talk to—millions of places to visit. Life is about improvising, finding a way through it all. Meet people, visit places, and you’ll manage. She’s nodding her head to her own advice. Though I can’t recall any stories of new people and travel, out of all the ones she’s told me. I take my last bite of cereal and repeat out loud what she’s just told me.

She’s having one of her moments so I drink my milk without her having to remind me that I should.

“I’m having hot flashes,” I finally tell her knowing that she can understand how I’m feeling because she’s been having plenty of them ever since she’s come home from the surgery. “I need a glass of water,” I say.

“You’re not having hot flashes,” she says grinning.

She likes to repeat what I say to her.

I’m frowning at her smiling at me. Her smile turns into a long hard cough. The cough is so loud it’s enough to split her right down the middle, in two. I walk over and pat her back three times, the same way she pats mine. She covers her mouth and turns her face away from me even though I cannot catch the cancer from her. When the coughing isn’t so bad she puts her jacket on and grabs the green luggage against the wall. I take one last look around the apartment because something tells me that it’ll be awhile before I see it again.

The snow is coming down harder in slow spirals, each layer wrapping around an old hardwood tree next to our car, and settling in its thick brown groves. We’re in the car, me next to the suitcases, my mother and her purse up front. She’s warming the car and while we’re waiting for it to stop humming and shaking, I notice something that somehow changes the course of things. Our Matryoshka nested doll set is tucked inside one of the smaller pockets on the side of the suitcase. The nested doll set is something that’s never left the house since my grandmother, whom I’ve never met, gave it to my mother as a child. We played with them as much as we could possibly play with limbless hollow dolls. It was her favorite toy as a child and because she could not part with it or bring herself to give it to me as the sole owner, we settled on sharing it.

She does not turn the radio on so we drive out of the city in silence, past the Hechinger mall where nice dresses and blouses are and then past Union Station where people from all over the world come in and out of D.C. We are quiet, just the shaking of the car until she decides, out of nowhere, to offer me another piece of advice.

“Listen to Aunt Laurie. Do whatever she tells you to do even if you don’t like it. She knows what’s best for you.”

“OK, I’ll be good,” I tell her.

The coughing starts again and each time it does, I cross my fingers and hope that what I’m imagining is impossible. I’m always thinking that one day the loud hacking will crumble her into a million colorful puzzle pieces that I’ll need to put back together.

By the time we reach Aunt Laurie’s house I feel stuffed like the green suitcase my mother is pulling out of the car and onto the sidewalk. The snow is up past my ankles and coming down even faster than this morning.

Aunt Laurie is standing in front of her big house as if she’s put the whole thing together by herself. She is tall and skinny and has hair that reminds me of cotton candy, a special chocolate edition. She opens her arms wide enough to fit the both of us in. We walk into her great big house and I have a feeling that I will become the daughter, the best friend, the husband, and all the other things she’s never had.

I sit down on a shiny red bar stool looking at all the wonderful things that I can not touch here. There are toys sitting on the kitchen table that I suppose are from Aunt Laurie to me, to ease the transition. The wood floors are so polished, I look forward to dropping a snack on it and looking at myself when I go to pick it up and eat it. No plastic on the furniture. Real fruit in the fruit basket and real flowers in the vase sitting on the kitchen table. Oil paintings on five of the walls, and a glass cabinet with expensive trinkets, a bookcase with way too many books for one person to ever read. My eyes are full. Aunt Laurie’s house looks like one of the many ads that my mother has dogeared in her JC Penny catalogues. I can hear them sniffling in the room and just before I start to feel lonely, they come out.

“Well,” my mother says to Aunt Laurie, “I’m going to head out before I get stuck out there.”

I shrink underneath her words, down to the size of the final wooden doll inside of the nested doll set. Aunt Laurie, with her big and fluffy light brown hair, walks us to the door. She and my mother have already said their goodbyes and so she lingers in the background while we spend what feels like our last moments together.

My mother kneels down in front of me on one knee, she looks different—sick. I reach into my coat pocket to take out our favorite thing in the world. I give her half the set and put the others back inside my coat. She hesitates to take this because she wants to pretend, for my sake, that today is not the end. That the toys still have two owners.

We hug for what seems like an entire schoolday and I don’t mind at all. She is swallowing— hard. She doesn’t realize how tight she’s hugging me and I can barely take a deep enough breath to inhale. She is untying the silk scarf from around her neck. I have asked to borrow it a million times, though I know now that the black and white flowers cascading down a large tree stitched in the middle are better suited to her than me. I feel dizzy and prickly. We walk out into the snow, Aunt Laurie standing close behind to carry me inside, in case I fall apart from all of this.

My mother, her jeans soaking wet from kneeling in the snow, can’t seem to bring herself to get up and walk away—so I walk away, backwards, and it feels as though I’m drifting just a little above the ground. Before I realize it, Aunt Laurie and I are watching my mother from her doorway.

“Mom,” I call out to her before I close the door, “It’s cold. Get up. Go.” CP

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How the local wine industry could become an unlikely victim of an international dispute over aircraft subsidies.

Wines at Cork Wine Bar experiencing a price increase

By Laura Hayes Diane Gross Doesn’t want to scrap her selection of wines by the glass and start anew, but she doesn’t see a choice. She’s had to raise prices on about 30 percent of her wines at Cork Wine Bar & Market since October, when the U.S. imposed a 25 percent tariff totaling $7.5 billion on some wines and other products from France, Germany, Spain, and Britain.

The price increases tied to the tariff are especially glaring for wines by the glass. With the tariff, a glass of Bourgueil from France would cost $5 more, bringing it past the $20 thresh-

old. Glasses at the 14th Street NW wine bar are typically in the $10 to $14 range. Gross didn’t think the swollen price tags would sit well with customers, so she replaced some of those wines.

“Our job is to find things that meet the middle ground where our guests are comfortable,” she says, adding that Cork has focused on finding value for customers since opening 12 years ago. “We have to do that because that’s who we are and what we do.”

Gross and others employed in all facets of the wine industry—already anxious and frustrated—now fear that the situation could wors-

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en into a crisis with enduring ramifications.

In mid-December, the Trump administration threatened to dramatically expand the 25 percent tariff to a proposed 100 percent tariff on hundreds of products from all European Union countries. Everything from wine, whiskey, swordfish steaks, and pineapple jam to tapestries, sweaters, and tweezers became pawns in a worsening dispute over aircraft manufacturing subsidies. If the escalated 100 percent tariff goes through, it would take effect in early 2020. The deadline to submit comments to the U.S. Trade Representative on the proposed tariffs is Jan. 13.

The Trump administration’s move stems from a May 2018 ruling when the World Trade Organization found that the European Union unfairly subsidized aircraft manufacturing to the tune of billions of dollars. The subsidies put France’s Airbus at a better competitive advantage than U.S.-based Boeing.

D.C. drinks more wine per capita than every state except Idaho, according to 2018 data from the National Institutes of Health (though a city-to-state comparison isn’t perfect). City Paper sought to understand the current impact of the existing 25 percent tariff as well as the potential consequences of the widely expanded 100 percent tariff. Among wineries, importers, distributors, retailers, restaurants, and consumers—no one escapes unscathed.

Swapping a California chardonnay for a French Chablis seems like a small-potatoes problem, but local experts contend that the attempt to deliver a gut punch to Europe is in reality threatening American small businesses and jobs in addition to pricing out American consumers from enjoying a robust variety of wines.

And Cork might be uniquely screwed. The neighborhood restaurant and wine retail shop exclusively serves and sells European wines, and most of their bottles are from small wineries that were brought over by small importers and disseminated by small distributors. Everything about the supply chain is boutique.

“All the distributors and importers I work with—they’re family-run, they’re small,” Gross says. She worries they won’t be able to compete with behemoth businesses, which are better positioned to absorb the costs associated with the tariff instead of passing them on to the restaurant or consumer. “This is their life’s work. It’s so upsetting on so many levels. The big importers are just going to absorb it. They’ll get bigger.

The little guys just can’t do that.”

Nicholas Lewis, a wine enthusiast who works a couple shifts a week at Weygandt Wines in Cleveland Park, has been in contact with importers and distributors. The dust is still settling from October’s 25 percent tariff and now they’re bracing for further impact.

“It’s making them feel sick to their guts—especially the smaller companies,” says Lewis, who’s British. “Along the East Coast, I’ve had two different importers say, ‘I’m going to sell what’s in my warehouse and if this doesn’t go away in 12 months, I’m retiring early.’” Others sent him messages lamenting that their businesses won’t survive 2020.

“You’ve had these small companies that have been around through the ’80s,” Lewis continues. “They’ve seen financial crises. They’ve seen more turbulent times, worse times than the 25 percent tariff. But 100 percent—that’s uncharted territory. If they pull the trigger on it, it will change the wine scene forever in America.”

Prestige Ledroit Distributing Co. COO dislikes along the way. “It’s going to be really Alex Thompson concurs. “We were able to hard to keep the choice and diversity of what game plan around 25 percent increased costs, we have for our guests if it happens,” Gross but it’s a lot more difficult if more products are says. “Things people have enjoyed for years impacted and it’s a 100 percent tariff,” he says. may double in price or go away.”

She believes businesses like hers need these “It’s hard to wrap our heads around it.”

Thompson’s company is locally owned and wineries more than the wineries depend on operates in D.C., Maryland, and Delaware. U.S. consumption. “A lot of these wineries “The trust we’ve developed with our custom- make a choice to sell to the U.S.,” she says, ers is of paramount importance to us,” he says. citing some of her grower Champagnes and “This uncertainty throws a wrench into the wines from cult producers. They make such works in terms of being able to provide infor- small quantities of sought-after wines that they could easily sell them elsewhere. “We’re mation to customers.”

Fortunately, Thompson says, Prestige lucky to get these beautiful wines. But if it’s goLedroit’s diverse portfolio offers the compa- ing to cost them more, they’re going to sell to ny some protection: “We have plenty of prod- other places. ‘Japan, take my wine! The rest of ucts to sell, both domestic and imported and Europe, take my wine!’”

Others wonder if the quality of wine will both wine and spirits. Other small importers and distributors rely substantially or solely on suffer if wineries have to seek out cost-cutting products from these countries. You’re going to measures to temper a 100 percent tariff. “Peosee a lot of small businesses hang it up once ple won’t have the luxury of being biodynamic or organic if they have to find a cheaper way of they run out of product to sell.”

The small businesses importing, distribut- making wine,” Lewis proposes. Making wine without chemicals and ing, selling, and serving wine don’t operate in a “You’ve had these small pesticides often requires more labor and vacuum. “There’s all companies that have grape yields are typisorts of cottage induscally smaller. “We’re tries around our indusbeen around through trying to be better for try as a whole that rely the ’80s. They’ve seen the world in wine, but on this sale of goods,” financial crises. They’ve you’re tying one hand Thompson explains, behind their back,” pointing to the ships seen more turbulent Lewis says. that ferry the wine and times, worse times than “We’re trying to be the small customs brobetter for the world in kerage firms that rethe 25 percent tariff. wine, but you’re tying ceive the wine when But 100 percent—that’s one hand behind their it arrives on U.S. soil. uncharted territory.” back,” Lewis says.

“The impact is much There are no clear broader than those of us that sell European wine. And, the consum- winners if the 100 percent tariff is imposed on all wine coming in from European Union er will pay the ultimate price.”

Inevitably, wine retail shops and restaurants countries—not even American wineries, who will need to pass some of the increased costs would presumably stand to increase their marof European wines onto customers. Gross, for ket grab if consumers balked at higher prices example, worries Washingtonians won’t be of Burgundy and Bordeaux.

The president, don’t forget, purchased a willing to buy a $30 bottle from her retail shop to pair with the roast chicken dinner they’re Charlottesville, Virginia, winery back in 2011. cooking when it used to cost much less. Mean- The Trump Winery website now claims its regwhile, Lewis says the $15-and-under section istered trade name is Eric Trump Wine Manat Weygandt Wines has already become the ufacturing LLC. Trade flows both ways, an article in Vine$20-and-under section, and that’s just in rePair explains. The European Union is the sponse to the 25 percent tariff.

Some businesses are taking steps to edu- U.S.’s largest export market. According to the cate the public about the tariffs, including new California-based Wine Institute, American Truxton Circle wine shop Domestique. On wine sales to the E.U. totaled $469 million Jan. 7 they’re hosting an “anti-tariff wine tast- in 2018. The institute’s president and CEO, ing” from 6 to 8 p.m. Importers will pour wines Bobby Koch, issued a statement in October from their portfolios whose prices would be arguing that Europe could fire back with its higher under the proposed 100 percent tariff. own tariffs, setting back U.S. efforts to grow But higher prices aren’t the only drawback. exports. Retaliatory tariffs could be particu“The biggest impact I’ve felt as someone who larly devastating for California wineries damruns the operations for a distributor is avail- aged by wildfires in 2019.

Should the U.S. impose the 100 percent tarability more so than price,” Thompson says.

“Importers’ instinct is to delay bringing prod- iff, Lewis thinks that retailers and restaurants uct over to the U.S. in the hopes that things would ultimately have a “slightly easier time” will be resolved, making availability unpre- selling domestic wines. But, he doesn’t support slapping tariffs on products unrelated to dictable. Things are out of stock.”

One of the best parts of drinking wine is the the trade war at hand. “I don’t feel like this is sense of exploration it offers. You can taste the really helping out our nation,” Lewis says. “No terroir of different countries or even different matter who you vote for on the Hill, it’s makvillages, constantly refining your likes and ing America look like a bully.”

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Good Character How a local thespian prepares for his iconic roles

Hear from 7DrumCity’s owner Miles Ryan about the organization’s brand new music venue, The Pocket. washingtoncitypaper.com/arts speare is that I got to meet people. And people introduced me to other people. And then I got to learn under some great people: Ed Gero, Ted van Griethuysen, Floyd King, Fran Dorn, and Emery Battis. I worked with them all the time so I got to watch and learn and eventually use what I learned to create my own path.

WCP: What are the things you saw people like Ed or Ted do that clicked in your mind, and you now do yourself?

CW: Discipline, preparedness, commitment.

All of those things are so very important. I think what young people should understand is that directors love actors that are helpful. A director wants to direct, but he also wants something to direct. A good director doesn’t want a clean slate. He wants somebody who’s got ideas at the ready so that he can hone and improve and build on them.

And that’s what I got from those guys. Those guys were always coming in prepared, ready to work, ready to explore, ready to grow, ready to take direction. All those kinds of things go a long, long way. And I believe I’ve achieved that.

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WCP: You’re always touting hard work.

Is that something you picked up from those folks you’re talking about or were you always that way? Where does that come from?

Craig Wallace as Scrooge in Ford’s Theatre’s A Christmas Carol

By Will Warren Craig WallaCe is prolific. This holiday season the local actor donned the nightcap and selfish outlook of everyone’s favorite Christmas redemption hero, Scrooge, 10 times a week. In addition to starring in Ford’s Theatre’s A Christmas Carol for the past four years, the 25-year veteran of the D.C. theater scene recently wowed audiences as Troy in August Wilson’s Fences, and Willy Loman in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman. In April, local theatergoers can see him onstage at Round House Theatre in Cost of Living. City Paper spoke to Wallace about how he prepares for his roles, the hard work of being an actor, and how he

reacts when an audience member whips out a cellphone when he’s mid-monologue.

This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.

WCP: You’ve said that a high school performance of Guys & Dolls changed your life. What do you remember about that performance?

Craig Wallace: Just how much fun rehearsal was. Discovering, learning how to rehearse.

Discovering the camaraderie and the sense of ensemble. All of that stuff was new to me. I went into this kicking and screaming.

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I didn’t want to do it. And then I got there and it was just wonderful. The songs were fun and the dances were fun and I found that I liked to do it and it was great. It was time well spent.

WCP: You’ve pretty much only acted and taught since college in terms of jobs.

Now you’re booked back to back to back to back. How did you get here from the beginning?

CW: You know, I just was always in the window and finally someone said come on in.

Seriously, I started at the Shakespeare Theatre. What was great about being at Shake-

CW: I don’t know if I was always that way.

My years at Shakespeare, doing those plays, at least the way Shakespeare does them, or used to do them, is hard work. It’s 30 people on a cast, and if you’re not the star you’re playing four or five roles. So there’s not a lot of time for play. We have a good time doing it, but what I mean by play is there’s not a lot of time for not being focused. So I carry that into every situation that I’m in. And as I start to play bigger roles, the responsibility is there for me to work hard. I started working on Fences almost a month before we got into rehearsal because I knew that Troy never leaves the stage. And he never stops talking. So I knew that I had to come in and be prepared to shoulder that.

WCP: A month before the show even starts rehearsing, what is Craig Wallace doing?

CW: I’m figuring out what I’m saying. What I wanted to do was be as familiar with the script as possible as we went into rehearsal. I’ve never been able to memorize before the first rehearsal. I just can’t do it. But what I could do

CPARTS is put all the words on tape. I was just with the words. So that when I came into rehearsal I knew what the beats were, I knew what I was saying, and as we put it on its feet I could start to learn it.

a different way. But because I had done my homework it was easy to adjust.

WCP: I talked to the director of Fences, Timothy Douglas, about directing you, and he said that specifically for the role of Troy, there’s a lot of work that he and the actor have to do to figure out what motivates Troy.

But he said that you came to him very prepared for the role. Was that your experience?

CW: You know, I did Louis Armstrong at Mosaic a couple of years ago. Much of the play is direct address. So I’m looking out at the audience. And some guy pulls out his phone. And you can see the light from his phone. So I gotta stay in it, but in my mind I’m going, “Why is he doing that? Why, why do you have a cellphone?!” In Fences, there was one particular performance where everyone was late, so there were like 50 people coming in during the late seating break. And I’m doing this monologue. And once again I have to stay in it, but in my mind I’m like, “What is happening?” You’re always dual. I call it taking your eye off the ball. As soon as you think “Oh, I got that laugh there,” boom, it’s gone. It happens 100% of the time. But sometimes you can’t help it. Sometimes someone takes their phone out. Or your scene partner has really bad breath and you’re talking to them and they’re like hitting you with this breath and you’re like, “Oh my god, I gotta stay in this scene though, you know?”

CW: I felt like I knew who he was. I saw a little bit of my father in him. Which helped ... I believe that imagination is a huge, huge thing for an actor. As I thought about my father and I thought about other people he reminded me of, I started to formulate a picture of him in my mind. And it was that picture that helped me frame the rhythm of how I said the words and why I said the words. And it just so happened that Timothy agreed. And we did go back and forth on some things. There were some things I felt strongly about that he made me see in

WCP: When you’re onstage, what is your internal monologue?

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CW: I’ve done a lot of Shakespeare and of course, you know, most of Shakespeare’s characters are European. And so when I play a European character I think to myself, “OK, what of me, what of Craig, and who Craig is, can I bring to this character, this traditionally white character?” So in that regard, yes, I pull from me all the time. Also, you know, imagination is another thing that’s so great. Like, there are parts of Troy that are reprehensible to people that I enjoy playing because it’s like, how often do you get a chance to go there or say those things or take that risk.

WCP: And it’s not just in Shakespeare that you’ve played what people think of as traditionally white characters, like Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman. Is it the same process there?

CW: Same process. Willy Loman had to be Willy Loman from me, not Brian Dennehy’s Willy Loman or Dustin Hoffman’s Willy Loman, the traditional Willy Loman.

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from who I am and through my lens. Like Torvald in A Doll’s House, Part 2. I heard many people say “there weren’t black people in Sweden,” and I thought “Well, OK, but the play and the character are universal.

There’s nothing specifically in the play that says he has to be European.” So now that we’ve taken care of that. Let me figure out who this guy is. And then let me present that guy, as part of the story. And of course that guy comes from me.

WCP: And are there parts of you in Scrooge also?

CW: Laughs. Yeah. Absolutely. In order for me to embrace the character I have to find things in the character that I relate to. And so, you know, Scrooge, at least my Scrooge, is very practical. Scrooge compartmentalizes because of hurts that he’s had in his life.

And who can’t relate to that. There is a safety blanket in shedding parts of yourself off so that you’re not exposed to hurt. And I’ve experienced that. Who hasn’t? So then when he does it, I relate. I’m like, “Yeah, I know why he’s doing that.” Because he doesn’t want to feel. I don’t think that drives me in life, but I can certainly relate.

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“Sun” by Liz Montague Liz Montague is a D.C.-based cartoonist and cat mom. You can find her work in The New Yorker and City Paper.

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The facTs of Walter “Johnny D.” McMillan’s Alabama murder case are simple: Dozens of people could confirm his alibi—he was nowhere near the scene of the murder—and the only eye witness was a convicted felon coerced by the police. But, in a country which upholds institutional racism, McMillan remained on death row for years. Just Mercy is a stirring, persuasive legal procedural about the true-life fight for McMillan’s exoneration, and director Destin Daniel Cretton skillfully conveys its inherent frustration.

When McMillan (Jamie Foxx) first meets Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson (Michael B. Jordan), he’s deeply skeptical.

Lawyers had burned McMillan before, and he doesn’t want to get his hopes up. But eventually McMillan accepts the help, and the two get to work. The screenplay, co-written by Cretton and Andrew Lanham, shows just how much the pair are up against. Up until this case, no one ever left Alabama’s death row alive, and Stevenson’s team faced regular intimidation and threats.

It’s refreshing to see Jamie Foxx, who’s recently been hosting the Fox game show Beat Shazam, in a complicated, meaty role like this again. He conveys a heartbreaking mix of anger and resignation as a victim of a system designed to abuse him. In his scenes with fellow death row inmates we see his full humanity, and McMillan does his best to find camaraderie in unlikely places.

While the scenes of McMillan in prison are where Just Mercy finds its heart, most of the drama follows Stevenson and his legal mo-

tions. It presents Stevenson as a selfless idealist, the sort who can earn the trust of McMillan’s family and give a stirring courtroom argument. The film nearly veers into hagiography, but Jordan is a convincing lead man, and a selfless idealist is just the sort of person who could eventually free someone like McMillan.

Brie Larson also appears as Stevenson’s legal aide, and while her presence serves to suggest that not every white person in Alabama is a racist, Jordan is always the film’s center.

The film makes no attempt to “solve” racism, but instead portrays it realistically, and that’s what makes it so compelling: The district attorney uses passive-aggressive redirection to hide his thinly veiled bigotry. Just Mercy suggests that overwhelming evidence is only the first step to exonerating a black man in Alabama. The white people in power must also be humiliated, both in the courtroom and the court of public opinion, until they relent out of fear of being seen as a pariah. Cretton’s simple, unassuming style serves that sense of outrage, as does his curiosity about human nature.

Like his earlier film Short Term 12, he has a way of letting little character moments convey a lot about who these people are.

Just Mercy is not the only film about death row that opens this week. Director Chinonye Chukwu’s dark drama Clemency also follows an inmate as he awaits his execution. Although both films depict state-sponsored killing, Clemency is not based on a true story, and focuses more on the queasy truths of how inmates suffer and the psychological toll their pain takes on them. Just Mercy shies away from grim realities simply because its purpose is to inspire, not provoke. That does not make it a weaker film. Since the justice system and good ol’ boys are already so biased against them, death row inmates and lawyers like Stevenson cannot function without a sense of hope.

—Alan Zilberman Just Mercy opens Friday in theaters everywhere.

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11 | Ak Dan Gwang Chil

January 10–23 10 Fri. | Water Seed

NEW ROMANCE Not the Girl You Marry

By Andie J. Christopher Berkley, 320 pages

Andie J. Christopher’s Not the Girl You Marry follows the basic romance novel formula—girl meets boy, boy rips girl’s clothes off, they have fantastic, very detailed sex. But it has a few twists that elevate it above the genre’s run of the mill specimens. The protagonist, Hannah, is biracial. Her boyfriend, Jack, is white. This interesting deviation from the standard formula allows the author to do more than describe oral sex, like this meditation on Hannah’s ex, Noah: “He’s wanted her to become more reserved and proper and go to law school so they could be a black power couple.”

Instead, Hannah became an event planner in Chicago, where she encounters Jack, an advice reporter who wants to advance to covering politics. She vastly prefers Jack to her ex, who “wanted her despite the fact that her family wasn’t good enough, her language was crass, and she didn’t have the capacity to sprinkle the kind of bullshit that was his area of expertise.” In yet another twist, Noah falls in love with a white society girl.

Romance novels aren’t for everyone. And Not the Girl You Marry does appeal to readers who want what a much earlier era would have called vulgarity but what is now de rigueur, namely, extremely explicit sex. A romance writer knows if they can’t do soft-core porn, their publisher will find someone else who can.

Christopher is no exception. She delivers on the racy stuff and lots of it.

Though Not the Girl You Marry functions pretty well as a novel, the author is determined to jam it into the romance formula. If not for

this, the book would have been about belonging. As one child asks Hannah, “You’re not white, but you’re not black, what are you?” Instead, Not the Girl You Marry glides over such questions with graphic sex and asides spoofing contemporary dating and dating apps: “They’d both be more successful looking for unconditional love if they stuck to canines.

Maybe there was an app for that, too. They could each swipe right on the Fido of their dreams.”

The novel has a simple plot complication that strings out the action for most of the book, along with lengthy cogitations on being the child of divorce. Both Hannah’s and Jack’s parents divorced, and both suffer emotional consequences. They play out in romantic relationships, causing repeated failures, a topic to which Christopher devotes many pages and one that’s perfect for a romance. It’s also relevant, since there are, after all, plenty of children of divorce out there, swiping left and right on Tinder. The novel’s title tackles this question of marriage, who should marry and stay married or not.

Despite its quirks, Christopher’s book remains a typical romance. It’s been updated to fit the millennial scene, notably in the chapters which comprise sexting and in its portrayal of dick pic etiquette. Thirty years ago, romance heroines were not torn about jilting men on account of phone photos of genitalia. Mores have changed, and for anyone wanting to know how, Not the Girl You Marry is a good guide. But much has stayed the same. The pick-up scene in the bar that opens the novel could have occurred in 2019 or 1989, and so could the meditations on commitment: Reminiscences about previous relationships and how they soured are not subject to the latest technological fads. This novel is a lighter, more modern, and sassier version of something that’s been around for a long time.

And like its romance genre predecessors, people will doubtless buy it to get a healthy dose of its steamy sex.

—Eve Ottenberg

Spearheading the progressive R&B movement, the New Orleans band is reminiscent of the funkier side of the genre.

11 Sat. | Ak Dan Gwang Chil The award-winning Korean traditional music group performs repertoire ranging from the sacred, shamanic, and secular gut (ritual music), and minyo (folk song) traditions of the Hwanghae-do region.

12 Sun. | Barre3

In Studio K at the REACH Join us for a class by this beloved D.C. studio for a full-body balanced workout combining strength conditioning, cardio, and mindfulness. Limited seating available.

Free general admission tickets will be distributed outside Studio K in the Peace Corps Gallery starting at approximately 5 p.m., up to two tickets per person.

Limited seating available.

13 Mon. | Sofiane Saidi with Malzada

The Algerian crooner joins forces with the synths, horns, and percussion of the band to create a fizzing fresh take on the classic Raï genre, which fuses Arabic and Algerian folk elements with Western rock.

16 | Xenia França

20 | Chaka Khan

14 Tue. | Ramy Essam

A MUSICAL TRIBUTE TO DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. WITH CHAKA KHAN

The rock artist and human rights defender’s journey from the hub of the Egyptian revolution to the international stage has included viral hits and awards as well as moments of struggle.

15 Wed. | Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra Musicians from the KCOHO play classical works.

16 Thu. | Xenia França

The Latin Grammy®– nominated singer works to revive and disseminate the African-Brazilian culture.

17 Fri. | NSO Prelude

Members of the National Symphony Orchestra play chamber works.

18 Sat. | C4 Trío

The celebrated trio of cuatro players—Jorge Glem, Hector Molina, and Edward Ramírez —dazzle audiences with their four-stringed instruments.

19 Sun. | Nimesh Patel

In Studio K at the REACH Patel has appeared on @ midnight, Comedy Knockout, and Late Night with Seth Meyers.

Contains mature themes and strong language. Free general admission tickets will be distributed outside Studio K in the Peace Corps Gallery starting at approximately 5 p.m., up to two tickets per person.

20 Mon. | Let Freedom Ring! Celebration

In the Concert Hall The Kennedy Center and Georgetown University host a musical celebration of Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy, featuring 10-time Grammy Award® winner Chaka Khan.

Free general admission tickets will be distributed in the Hall of Nations starting at approximately 4:30 p.m., up to two tickets per person.

21 Tue. | Maryland Classical Youth Orchestra Chamber Music Program The MCYO offers talented young musicians the opportunity to closely work in small chamber ensembles with exceptional faculty, perform in master classes, and participate in concerts and competitions.

22 Wed. | DC Music Summit Founded in 2016 by three black women who love music, the Summit supports musicians in building their creative business through their craft.

23 Thu. | Rochelle Rice

The D.C.-based vocalist and composer combines the best of past and present American music. Join us for this show prior to another D.C. favorite, Elijah Jamal Balbed Quintet’s ticketed performance in Studio K.

For details or to watch online, visit Kennedy-Center.org/millennium.

The Millennium Stage was created and underwritten

by James A. Johnson and Maxine Isaacs to make the performing arts accessible to everyone in fulfillment of the Kennedy Center’s mission to its community and the nation.

Generous support is provided by The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation and the Embassy of the United Arab Emirates.

Additional support is provided by Kimberly Engel and Family-The Dennis and Judy Engel Charitable Foundation, The Gessner Family Foundation, The Irene Pollin Audience Development and Community Engagement Initiatives, The Isadore and Bertha Gudelsky Family Foundation, Inc., The Meredith Foundation, Dr. Deborah Rose and Dr. Jan A.J. Stolwijk, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Millennium Stage Endowment Fund.

The Millennium Stage Endowment Fund was made possible by James A. Johnson and Maxine Isaacs, Fannie Mae Foundation, the Kimsey Endowment, Gilbert† and Jaylee† Mead, Mortgage Bankers Association of America and other anonymous gifts to secure the future of the Millennium Stage.

Daily food and drink specials | 5–6 p.m. nightly | Grand Foyer Bars Take Metro to the Foggy

Bottom/GWU/Kennedy Center station and ride the free Kennedy Center shuttle departing every 15 minutes until Metro close.

Get connected! Become a fan of KCMillenniumStage on Facebook and check out artist photos, upcoming events, and more!

The Kennedy Center welcomes guests with disabilities.

Free tours daily by the Friends of the Kennedy Center tour guides. Tour hours: Mon.–Fri., 10 a.m.–5 p.m., and Sat./ Sun. from 10 a.m.–1 p.m. REACH tours available Mon.–Fri. at 11 a.m. & 2 p.m. and Sat./Sun. at 11 a.m. For information, call (202) 416-8340.

Please note: Standard parking rates apply when attending free performances.

All performances and programs are subject to change without notice.

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CITYLIST

The Club at Studio K

Music 27 Books 28 Theater 32 Film 32

Opening Weekend!

Music FRIDAY

CITY LIGHTS: FRIDAY

Martin Amini T H U . , JA N . 1 6 | 7 : 3 0 P. M .

GIRLS GOTTA EAT

Stretch and Bobbito + the M19s Band: No Requests Album Release Concert

CABARET

F R I . , JA N . 1 7 | 7 : 3 0 & 9 : 3 0 P. M .

SIGNATURE THEATRE 4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington. (703) 820-9771. Ol’ Blue Eyes: Frank Sinatra. 8 p.m. $38. sigtheatre.org.

Jazzmeia Horn

COUNTRY

SOLD OUT

SAT. , JA N. 1 8 | 7 : 3 0 & 9 : 3 0 P. M .

9:30 CLUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Yola. 8 p.m. $20. 930.com.

Elijah Jamal Balbed Quintet: The Karma Suite

FILLMORE SILVER SPRING 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Chris Lane. 8 p.m. $25– $131. fillmoresilverspring.com.

DJ NIGHTS

T H U . , JA N . 2 3 | 7 : 3 0 P. M .

FOLK

Hip Hop Karaoke

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

Scene Kids II. 10 p.m. Free. ustreetmusichall.com.

LIMITED AVAILABILITY

SONGBYRD MUSIC HOUSE AND RECORD CAFE 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. The Iris Bell. 8 p.m. Free. songbyrddc.com.

F R I . , JA N . 2 4 | 7 : 3 0 P. M .

Kassa Overall’s “Blue Swamini” featuring Carmen Lundy

FUNK & R&B

PIE SHOP DC 1339 H St. NE. (202) 398-7437. Kenneth Whalum. 8 p.m. $15–$20. pieshopdc.com.

ROCK

S A T. , JA N . 2 5 | 7 : 3 0 & 9 : 3 0 P. M .

THE POCKET 1506 North Capitol St. NW. (202) 6437424. Fellowcraft, Shovel, and Laws of Average. 7 p.m. $8–$10. songbyrddc.com.

M A S O N B AT E S ’ S KC J U K E B OX

Juan Atkins, Godfather of Techno

VOCAL

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

T H U . , JA N . 3 0 | 7 : 3 0 P. M .

WORLD

BOSSA BISTRO 2463 18th St NW. 202-667-0088.

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

SATURDAY CABARET

SIGNATURE THEATRE 4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington. (703) 820-9771. Ol’ Blue Eyes: Frank Sinatra. 2 p.m.; 8 p.m. $38. sigtheatre.org.

COUNTRY

FILLMORE SILVER SPRING 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. The Dead South. 8 p.m. $25. fillmoresilverspring.com.

ELECTRONIC

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

Greg Downey. 10 p.m. $15–$25. ustreetmusichall.com.

FOLK

The Time Machine Roast Are you hungry? Whether you’re craving some greasy food or relationship advice, Ashley Hesseltine and Rayna Greenberg, two self-professed food lovers and media mavens, have you covered. The duo’s podcast is, fittingly, called Girls Gotta Eat, and the show’s simple magic is that it covers topics at the heart of universally asked relationship questions: When is it OK to get seriously committed? Why isn’t he that into you? Can you date your co-workers? More importantly, how do you balance today’s social media landscape with sex and romance? Episodes of the podcast feature sex therapists, fertility experts, and writers, so as to cover a variety of topics in-depth. But Hesseltine and Greenberg previously have stated that their live shows offer a more well rounded comedic and educational experience. Entering 2020 with an international tour and a resolution to “fuck more, cry less,” the pair promises a highly entertaining night. Plus, you’ll hopefully come away with a little bit more relationship insight—or at least some confidence in your nightly Tinder swiping. The show begins at 8 p.m. at the Lincoln Theatre, 1215 U St. NW. $35–$70. (202) 888-0050. thelincolndc.com.

—Sarah Smith

JAMMIN JAVA 227 Maple Ave. East, Vienna. (703) 2551566. Susan Werner. 7:30 p.m. $20–$28. jamminjava.com.

SONGBYRD MUSIC HOUSE AND RECORD CAFE 2477

ROCK

songbyrddc.com.

18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Casual War. 9 p.m. Free.

SUNDAY

WORLD

9:30 CLUB BACKBAR 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930.

Mighty Mouse. 11 p.m. $10–$15. 930.com.

BOSSA BISTRO 2463 18th St NW. 202-667-0088.

POP

bossadc.com.

S A T. , F E B . 1 | 7 : 3 0 P. M .

Kennedy-Center.org (202) 467-4600

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

CABARET

SIGNATURE THEATRE 4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington. (703) 820-9771. Ol’ Blue Eyes: Frank Sinatra. 2 p.m.; 8 p.m. $38. sigtheatre.org.

Tumbao y Raul Morel. 10:30 p.m. $5–$10.

Broccoli City Festival Preview

Major Support for Comedy:

9:30 CLUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Svdden Death. 10 p.m. $25. 930.com.

SONGBYRD MUSIC HOUSE AND RECORD CAFE 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. The Can’t Evens. 8 p.m. $12. songbyrddc.com.

F R I . , JA N . 3 1 | 7 : 3 0 P. M .

Major Support for Jazz: The Buffy and William Cafritz Family Foundation Major Support for Hip Hop and KC Jukebox: The Irene Pollin Audience Development and Community Engagement Initiatives Additional Design Support: Vicente Wolf of Vicente Wolf Associates and Margaret Russell

JAMMIN JAVA 227 Maple Ave. East, Vienna. (703) 2551566. JAGMAC, Jack Hess, and Co-Exist. 6 p.m. $15– $25. jamminjava.com.

David M. Rubenstein Cornerstone of the REACH

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

For entire schedule go to Birchmere.com Find us on Facebook/Twitter!

Tix @ Ticketmaster.com

AVERY*SUNSHINE 12 CHRISETTE MICHELE

Jan 9

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BIG BAD VOODOO DADDY

17&19

An Evening with

EDDIE FROM OHIO

21&22

An Evening with

RICHARD THOMPSON (Solo)

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THE NEW BIRTH

25 Newmyer Flyer Presents The Best of

JANIS JOPLIN & JIMI HENDRIX

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An Evening with

COWBOY JUNKIES 31 WILL DOWNING Feb 6 LIZZ WRIGHT 8 ERIC ROBERSON 13

In the

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DURAND JONES & THE INDICATIONS with Y LA BAMBA

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in BURLESQUE-A-PADES LoveLand

featuring ANGIE

15

PONTANI, MURRAY HILL

Daryl Davis Presents

THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES 2019!

16

CHANTÉ MOORE

17

The Voice of SLAVE

20

An Evening with

STEVE ARRINGTON

DREW & ELLIE HOLCOMB The You and Me Tour

21

THE KENTUCKY HEADHUNTERS

HARMONY SWEEPSTAKES A CAPELLA FESTIVAL 23 JEFFREY OSBORNE 22

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DIGABLE PLANETS

25 Peter

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Asher & Jeremy Clyde

PETER & JEREMY SARAH HARMER

28&29 Mar 1

CHRIS PUREKA

ARLO GUTHRIE 20/20 Tour

HAYES CARLL

ROCK

FILLMORE SILVER SPRING 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Motion City Soundtrack. 8 p.m. $32.50. fillmoresilverspring.com.

PIE SHOP DC 1339 H St. NE. (202) 398-7437. Bones Conway Group, Brotherband, and Skaii. 8 p.m. $10. pieshopdc.com.

SONGBYRD MUSIC HOUSE AND RECORD CAFE 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. So. Dakota. 9 p.m. Free. songbyrddc.com.

CITY LIGHTS: SATURDAY

CIMAFUNK

MONDAY JAZZ

BLUES ALLEY 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. The Capitol Lab Band. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $22. bluesalley.com.

TUESDAY CABARET

SIGNATURE THEATRE 4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington. (703) 820-9771. Ol’ Blue Eyes: Frank Sinatra. 7:30 p.m. $38. sigtheatre.org.

JAZZ

BLUES ALLEY 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Connie Han. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $25. bluesalley.com.

POP

SONGBYRD MUSIC HOUSE AND RECORD CAFE 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Eva B. Ross and Jack Symes. 9 p.m. $10. songbyrddc.com.

ROCK

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

THE POCKET 1506 North Capitol St. NW. (202) 6437424. Sadie & The Ladies, Barking Carnies, and Mistress Tigers. 7 p.m. $8–$10. songbyrddc.com.

WORLD

BOSSA BISTRO 2463 18th St NW. 202-667-0088.

Mames Babegenush. 6 p.m. $15–$20. bossadc.com.

BOSSA BISTRO 2463 18th St NW. 202-667-0088.

Cheick Hamala. 9:30 p.m. Free. bossadc.com.

WEDNESDAY CABARET

SIGNATURE THEATRE 4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington. (703) 820-9771. Ol’ Blue Eyes: Frank Sinatra. 7:30 p.m. $38. sigtheatre.org.

FOLK

9:30 CLUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Hiss Golden Messenger. 7 p.m. $26. 930.com.

JAZZ

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

POP

SONGBYRD MUSIC HOUSE AND RECORD CAFE 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Yacht. 8 p.m. $15. songbyrddc.com.

UNION STAGE 740 Water St. SW. (877) 987-6487. Ron Pope. 7:30 p.m. $25–$40. unionstage.com.

One day, Erik Iglesias Rodríguez was in a Cuban medical school class, thinking not about biochemistry, but about the inspiring singer he had recently seen onstage, Ray Fernandez. That’s when Rodríguez decided to give up on becoming a doctor and to become a musician instead. He utilized his teenage choir background and his passion for music from the ’60s through the ’90s to get a job five years ago on a cruise ship singing Motown songs. Back in Cuba, he then started a band, and began referring to it—and himself—as Cimafunk. He derived that name in part from his own heritage as a “Cimarrón,” a name for Africans who resisted and escaped slavery in the Caribbean. The “funk” portion of the name refers to his favorite music genre, which flavors much of his 2017 debut album Terapia. On album cut “Basta,” Cimafunk’s sound draws from James Brown, Prince, and Maroon 5. This now-Havana-resident sounds best, though, when he combines those U.S. influences with homegrown ones. “Parar el Tiempo” is a ballad that could fit in a mix with chart topping pop-reggaeton, while on 2019 single “El Potaje,” he collaborates with a who’s who of Cuban music legends, including Omara Portuondo, Orquesta Aragón, and Chucho Valdés. Cimafunk performs at 10:30 p.m. at Union Stage, 740 Water St. SW. $30–$50. (877) 987-6487. unionstage.com.

—Steve Kiviat

ROCK

BOSSA BISTRO 2463 18th St NW. 202-667-0088.

Ramy Essam. 8 p.m. $20. bossadc.com.

JAMMIN JAVA 227 Maple Ave. East, Vienna. (703) 2551566. Fix Your Hearts, Better Homes, and Starcoast.

7:30 p.m. $10–$20. jamminjava.com.

SONGBYRD MUSIC HOUSE AND RECORD CAFE 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Baby Grill and Mint Green. 9 p.m. Free. songbyrddc.com.

UNION STAGE 740 Water St. SW. (877) 987-6487. Ron Pope. 7:30 p.m. $25–$40. unionstage.com.

JAZZ

BLUES ALLEY 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Kirk Whalum. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $50–$55. bluesalley.com.

BOSSA BISTRO 2463 18th St NW. 202-667-0088. MSJ Trio. 9 p.m. $10. bossadc.com.

POP

9:30 CLUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. American Authors and Magic Giant. 7 p.m. $25. 930.com.

THURSDAY

MIRACLE THEATRE 535 8th St. SE. (202) 400-3210.

Boogie Babes Presents: Rainbow Rock. 10:30 p.m. $6. themiracletheatre.com.

SONGBYRD MUSIC HOUSE AND RECORD CAFE 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Mavi. 8 p.m. $12–$15. songbyrddc.com.

MIRACLE THEATRE 535 8th St. SE. (202) 400-3210.

Damien Jurado and Nick Thune. 8 p.m. $25–$30. themiracletheatre.com.

HIP-HOP

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ROCK

PIE SHOP DC 1339 H St. NE. (202) 398-7437. Jackie and the Treehorns and Goodbye July. 8 p.m. $10. pieshopdc.com.

Books

ABBE SMITH Smith discusses her new book Guilty People, a look at what it means to be a defense lawyer for an obviously guilty individual. Solid State Books. 600 H St. NE. Jan. 16, 7 p.m. Free. (202) 8974201. solidstatebooksdc.com.

ADA CALHOUN Calhoun will discuss her new book on Gen X women and their midlife crises, Why We Can’t

Merriweather Post Pavilion • Columbia, MD

JUST ANNOUNCED!

JANUARY

FEBRUARY (cont.)

D NIGHT ADDED!

THIS WEEK’S SHOWS

FIRST NIGHT SOLD OUT! SECON

Yola w/ Amythyst Kiah.................F 10 BASS NATION PRESENTS

Svdden Death w/ Phiso .........Sa 11 Hiss Golden Messenger w/ Lilly Hiatt ................................W 15

American Authors and MAGIC GIANT w/ Public ........Th 16 STEEZ PROMO PRESENTS

Sullivan King w/ Eliminate .....F 17 Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven Early Show! 6pm Doors ....................Sa 18

w/ Jamila Woods & DJ Duggz .......Su 9

Saint Motel..............................Tu 11 Echosmith

w/ Weathers & Jayden Bartels....W 12

ALL GOOD PRESENTS

Big Something and Andy Frasco & The U.N.

w/ Kyle Ayers ...........................Th 13

Galactic feat. Anjelika Jelly Joseph

Twiddle w/ Scrambled Greg.....Sa 25

ALL GOOD PRESENTS

Cory Wong w/ Scott Mulvahill..Su 26 Atmosphere w/ The Lioness • Nikki Jean • DJ Keezy..................M 27

Metronomy w/ Joy Again ..........F 31 FEBRUARY

The Neil Diamond Tribute ....Th 20

Lane 8

DC’s All-‘90s Band

Late Show! 10pm Doors ..................Sa 22

Allen Stone .............................Tu 25 Josh Abbott Band • Randy Rogers Band • Pat Green ..Th 27 Drive-By Truckers ....F 28 & Sa 29

ALL GOOD PRESENTS

Spafford w/ Eggy .......................W 5 Cold War Kids w/ Overcoats ....Th 6 ALL GOOD PRESENTS

The Dustbowl Revival w/ Birds of Chicago

Early Show! 6:30pm Doors ..................F 7

Late Show! 10pm Doors........................F 7

w/ Justin Townes Earle & Worriers .MAR 13

AEG PRESENTS

Bitch Sesh .............................. JULY 31

Whindersson Nunes .......... MAR 16 thelincolndc.com • impconcerts.com •

U Street (Green/Yellow) stop across the street!

Soulwax .....................................Su 1 of Montreal w/ Lily’s Band ........M 2 Koe Wetzel w/ Read Southall ...Th 5 La Roux ........................................F 6

BASS NATION PRESENTS

PEEKABOO

w/ Moody Good • ZEKE BEATS • Isoxo Late Show! 10pm Doors ..................Sa 7

Silversun Pickups ..................Su 8 The Districts w/ And The Kids .Tu 10 Radical Face w/ Axel Flóvent ..Th 12 ALL GOOD PRESENTS

The Motet & Tauk .................F 13 ZZ Ward w/ Patrick Droney.......W 18

MANY MORE SHOWS ON SALE! 930.com impconcerts.com

9:30 CUPCAKES

Sucker For Love ................... FEB 14 Julius Dein ................................ FEB 23 Jonathan Richman & Bonnie “Prince” Billy ........ MAR 7 Brian Fallon & The Howling Weather

Blood Orange w/ Tei Shi......... MAR 18 Welcome to Night Vale .......APR 2 Walk Off The Earth ................APR 5 Last Podcast on the Left ..APR 10 Kurt Vile with Cate Le Bon .............................APR 24 Watch What Crappens........ MAY 2

MARCH

Early Show! 6pm Doors ....................Sa 7

Early Show! 6pm Doors ......Sa 1

Electric Guest w/ Soleima

Early Show! 6pm Doors ..................Sa 22

The Lil Smokies & Joe Pug

U STREET MUSIC HALL PRESENTS

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

STORY DISTRICT’S

Super Diamond -

ALL GOOD PRESENTS !

D SHOW ADDED FIRST SHOW SOLD OUT! SECON

For more info and a full lineup, visit m3rockfest.com merriweathermusic.com • impconcerts.com • Ticketmaster.com * Presented by Live Nation

AN EVENING WITH

White Ford Bronco:

w/ Des Rocs ..................................F 24

Kix • Tesla • RATT • Night Ranger and more! ..................MAY 1-3

STORY DISTRICT’S Top Shelf ................................... JAN 25

DC101 PRESENTS ELLIOT IN THE MORNING’S NEW YEAR’S CONFUSION FEATURING

ALL GOOD PRESENTS

M3 ROCK FESTIVAL FEATURING

(Sa 15 - w/ Southern Avenue).F 14 & Sa 15

Refused w/ Youth Code ..............F 21 Wolf Parade w/ Jo Passed

AJR and Angels & Airwaves..W 22 Ripe w/ The New Respects ........Th 23 The Glorious Sons

* w/ Cheap Trick ...............................SAT AUGUST 15

On Sale Friday, January 10 at 10am

Raphael Saadiq

The Budos Band

w/ Paul and The Tall Trees Late Show! 10:30pm Doors................Sa 18

ROD STEWART

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9:30 CLUB PRESENTS AT U STREET MUSIC HALL

Temples w/ Art d’Ecco

All 11/8 9:30 Club tickets honored. . M JAN 20

HRVY .........................................Th 5 9:30 CLUB & ALL GOOD PRESENT

Great Good Fine OK The Soul Rebels .........................F 6 w/ Aaron Taos ...............................F 31 070Shake Palace .................................M FEB 3 All 10/10 tickets honored. ..................Sa 7 Poppy w/ Vowws ...........................Sa 8 Tall Heights w/ Victoria Canal .......Tu 10 Anna of the North w/ Dizzy Fae....Th 13 Shing02 & The Chee-Hoos: 9:30 CLUB & ALL GOOD PRESENT A Tribute to Nujabes .................W 11 Moon Hooch ...........................Sa 22 City of the Sun.........................Sa 14 Sango w/ Anik Khan & Savon............W 26 Mondo Cozmo VÉRITÉ ......................................F 28 w/ Reuben and the Dark ...................W 18 GARZA Colony House (Rob Garza of Thievery Corporation) .Sa 29 w/ Tyson Motsenbocker ..................Sa 21 Audrey Mika...................... W MAR 4 Dorian Electra ........................Th 26 • 930.com/u-hall • impconcerts.com • Buy advance tickets at the 9:30 Club box office. •

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CITY LIGHTS: SUNDAY

TAB

BENOIT

STUDIO + LABORATORY AND SURFACE FROM UNDER THE MICROSCOPE

W/ WHISKEY BAYOU REVUE

FEAT. JOSH GARRETT

SATURDAY JAN

11

MAGIC CITY SUNDAY!

HIPPIES W/ ARGONAUT & WASP

WILL LIVERMAN, baritone KEN NODA, piano

FRI, JAN 17

JAN 12 | MATINEE

W/ JOSE RAMIREZ

CHAMBER MUSIC AT THE BARNS

BAILEN

OLD SEA BRIGADE JAN 17

MASTERS OF HAWAIIAN MUSIC JAN 24 + 25

INTERNATIONAL GUITAR NIGHT

20TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW

JAN 29 + 30

TUESDAY

JAN 14

VANESSA COLLIER SAT, JAN 18

AN EVENING WITH

RAY ON MY MIND SUN, JAN 19

RARE ESSENCE W/ DUPONT BRASS WED, JAN 22

AN EVENING WITH

TAIMANE, HER QUARTET & POLYNESIAN DANCER

CALIFORNIA GUITAR TRIO MONTREAL GUITAR TRIO

FRI, JAN 24

ART GARFUNKEL

SAT, JAN 25

PAUL HUANG, violin DANBI UM, violin ORION WEISS, piano

“THE HITS & THE DEEP SHOW”

FEB 6

FEB 7–9

CHAMBER MUSIC AT THE BARNS

FEB 14

THE LAST BANDOLEROS FEB 22

AN EVENING WITH

WHITE FORD BRONCO AN EVENING WITH

EARLY ELTON TRIO THU, JAN 30

AN EVENING WITH

G. LOVE & SPECIAL SAUCE W/ JONTAVIOUS WILLIS FRI, JAN 31

CHERISH THE LADIES

DONNA THE BUFFALO

BRENTANO STRING QUARTET

TOWN MOUNTAIN

FEB 25 + 26

CHAMBER MUSIC AT THE BARNS

FEB 28

KIRAN AHLUWALIA FEB 29

LIV WARFIELD MAR 5

RIDERS IN THE SKY MAR 12

JOHN LLOYD YOUNG’S BROADWAY! MUSIC DIRECTION BY TOMMY FARAGHER

Sleep, with Bethanne Patrick. Solid State Books. 600 H St. NE. Jan. 14, 7 p.m. Free. (202) 897-4201. solidstatebooksdc.com

JANE MCALEVEY McAlevey will discuss her book A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy in conversation with Sara Nelson. Politics and Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Jan. 15, 7 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919. politics-prose.com.

WED, FEB 5

BOB GARFIELD Garfield will discuss his book American Manifesto: Saving Democracy from Villains,Vandals , And Ourselves in conversation with Mark Leibovich. Politics and Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Jan. 14, 7 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919. politics-prose.com.

JODY BOLZ AND JOHN BALABAN Bolz and Balaban will discuss their books The Near and Far and Empires. Politics and Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Jan. 11, 1 p.m.

Free. (202) 364-1919. politics-prose.com.

SLOW BURN LIVE IN DC: TUPAC SHAKUR & NOTORIOUS B.I.G.

BURT SOLOMON Solomon will discuss his book The Attempted Murder of Teddy Roosevelt. Politics and Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Jan. 11 6 p.m. Free.

(202) 364-1919. politics-prose.com.

JT ELLISON Ellison will discuss the new psychological thriller Good Girls Lie with Alma Katsu. Solid State Books. 600 H St. NE. Jan. 15 7 p.m. Free. (202) 8974201. solidstatebooksdc.com.

CASSIE CHAMBERS Chambers will be discussing her book Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains. Politics and Prose.

5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Jan. 12, 1 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919. politics-prose.com.

KATE ARONOFF, PETER DREIER, AND MICHAEL KAZIN Arnoff, Dreier and Kazin, all editors of We Own the Future: Democratic Socialism—American Style will discuss their book. Politics and Prose at Union Market. 1270 5th St. NE. Jan. 16, 7 p.m. Free. (202) 3641919. politics-prose.com.

SAT, FEB 1

W/ BUFFALO WABS & THE PRICE HILL HUSTLE SLATE PRESENTS

FRI, FEB 7

AN EVENING WITH

THE AMISH OUTLAWS SAT, FEB 8

NEWMYER FLYER PRESENTS

LOVE SONGS: THE BEATLES VOL. 7

MAR 14

AND MANY MORE! Tickets At TheHamiltonLive.com

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Simultaneous National Academy of Sciences exhibits probe both the workspaces and the work products of scientists. Stefanie Bürkle, an art professor at the Technical University of Berlin, pairs artists’ studios with scientific labs, in a style that owes a deep debt to Dusseldorf School photographers Andreas Gursky and Candida Höfer. The rooms she documents—always devoid of people—are lived-in yet crisply portrayed down to their reflective tinfoil, their spaghetti networks of wires, and their delicate polygonal models hung from the ceiling. Jeffrey Kent’s art, meanwhile, meditates on the story of Henrietta Lacks, the African American tobacco farmer whose unusual cancer cells became a vital foundation for medical breakthroughs after her death—but were taken without her consent and used without familial compensation for decades. Kent’s dreamy paintings offer a range of bulbous, cellular forms, many of them heavily impastoed and lacquered, as if they were microscopic samples under slides. Some works feature fields of black, always in the background. The exhibitions run to Jan. 31 (Bürkle) and March 13 (Kent) at the National Academy of Sciences, 2101 Constitution Ave. NW. Free. (202) 334-2415. cpnas.org.

—Louis Jacobson

CHIP WALTER Walter will discuss his book Immortality,Inc:Renegade Science,Silicon Valley Billions, and the Quest to Live Forever. Politics and Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Jan. 11, 3:30 p.m.

Free. (202) 364-1919. politics-prose.com.

ELIZA NELLUMS & DAMIEN ANGELICA Nellum and Angelica will be discussing their books All That’s Bright and Gone & The Dead Girls Club. Politics and Prose at The Wharf. 70 District Square SW. Jan. 14, 7 p.m. Free. (202) 488-3867. politics-prose.com.

KATYA CENGEL The Committee to Protect Journalists and Loyalty Bookstores present a conversation between Katya Cengel, author of From Chernobyl with Love, and journalist Shilpa Jindia. Loyalty Bookstores Upshur. 827 Upshur St. NW. Jan. 15, 7 p.m. Free.

(202) 726-0380. loyaltybookstores.com.

KILEY REID Reid will discuss her book Such a Fun Age. Politics and Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Jan. 10, 7 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919. politics-prose.com.

CITY LIGHTS: MONDAY

ALEXANDER BOXER

From celebrity social media posts to the modern convenience of the Co-Star app, the human fascination with astrology has been piqued, not dampened, by 21st-century technology. In Alexander Boxer’s A Scheme of Heaven: The History of Astrology and the Search for Our Destiny in Data, readers can enjoy an engrossing narrative that examines the ancient origins of astrological belief and runs through the subject’s vast changes over thousands of years. Boxer argues that astrology’s role as a cutting-edge scientific tool perfected by the greatest astronomers and mathematicians is intrinsically linked to humanity’s search for patterns in data. Just as modern data scientists seek to illuminate the world in the present day, astrology was once a concerted effort to understand and systemize the world, a legacy that persists into 2020, where stressed out millennials use it to try and decode their romantic and professional lives. Alexander Boxer speaks at 7 p.m. at Politics and Prose at The Wharf, 70 District Square SW. Free. (202) 364-1919. politics-prose.com. —Tristan Jung

CITY LIGHTS: TUESDAY

A Mesmerizing Celebration of Symphonic Video Game Music!

League of Legends, World of Warcraft, and more

CONNIE HAN

Jazz pianist Connie Han is carefully crafting an edgy, even punk-ish stage persona for herself. It’s in everything from her dark glower and “Bad Seed” T-shirts to her debut album’s title (Crime Zone).

Yet listeners who expect a loud, contentious, or contrarian sound from this not-yet-24-year-old pianist will be surprised. Han is actually rich in the tradition: a diligent student of Herbie Hancock, McCoy Tyner, and the blues who fits easily into the straight-ahead jazz landscape. She’s not looking to reinvent the wheel, let alone burn it all down—but she does have something new to say. Her compositions are fresh and full of energy; her touch is fierce; her improvisations are suspenseful and spectacular. Even her riffs, like the one that forms the core of her tune “A Shade of Jade,” carry a bite, an urgency that is itself an artistic statement (and perhaps a defiant one after all). If playing the provocateur brings your attention to that statement, that’s all the reason it needs. Connie Han performs at 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. at Blues Alley, 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. $25. (202) 337-4141. bluesalley.com.

—Michael J. West

Don’t miss this mesmerizing celebration of symphonic video game music in its world premiere! Game music legend Andy Brick conducts the NSO and The Washington Chorus in concert premieres from more than a dozen blockbuster video games— The Witcher 3, World of Warcraft, Diablo, Overwatch, Bioshock, Sid Meier’s Civilization series, and many more—combining world-class symphonic arrangements with stunning in-game HD videos and never-before-seen concept art. Plus! Arrive early to show off your skills with arcade games in the lobby.

January 8 at 8 p.m. | Concert Hall Kennedy-Center.org (202) 467-4600

AARP is the Presenting Sponsor of the NSO Pops Season.

Groups call (202) 416-8400 For all other ticket-related customer service inquiries, call the Advance Sales Box Office at (202) 416-8540 Additional Support is provided by Kathryn and J. Stephen Jones MD.

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CITY LIGHTS: WEDNESDAY

CITY LIGHTS: THURSDAY

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

AMERICAN AUTHORS AND MAGIC GIANT

There’s no better way to embrace a new year than with a bit of dystopia, right? Well, maybe not the current warmongering in the White House—try instead a screening of A Clockwork Orange at the West End Cinema. The adaptation of Anthony Burgess’ novel of the same name was initially banned in a lengthy list of countries including Ireland, Singapore, and South Africa. It focuses on teenager Alex (played by Malcom McDowell) and his so-called ultra-violence. Alex has a truly unique set of passions, including drugs, rape, and theft. Spurred on by his “droogs,” a group of local thugs, he commits violent crimes until he is captured by the police. But A Clockwork Orange isn’t a standard crime movie, and that arrest is far from the end of the plot. Experimental psychology, revenge, and the music of Ludwig van Beethoven combine to elevate the stakes (and the creepiness) of Stanley Kubrick’s film. To be extra prepared, bring a glass of milk to the screening. The film screens at 1:30 p.m., 4:30 p.m., and 7:30 p.m. at the West End Cinema, 2301 M St. NW. $9.75–$12.75.

(202) 534-1907. landmarktheatres.com.

—Sarah Smith OLAF OLAFSSON Olafsson will discuss his book The

You’ve probably heard of the New York-based band American Authors if you turned on your radio or shuffled through a Top 40 playlist on Spotify in 2013. That’s when the alt-rock group first burst onto the country’s airwaves with the feel-good anthem “Best Day of My Life.” The song went multi-platinum and set the Authors on their way to releasing their freshman album, Oh, What A Life, an indie-folk rock collection that spawned another hit, “Believer.” Since then, they’ve released a second album What We Live For, another Top 20 hit (“Go Big Or Go Home”), played Lollapalooza and Firefly, and dropped a third album, Seasons, which they describe as “the most genuine and pure thing we’ve ever done.” Seasons sounds like a departure from the group’s early 2010s output, though you’ll get a taste of nostalgia in “I Wanna Go Out.” The show will also sound like a departure, as American Authors are playing with festive folk trio Magic Giant, and the set list will include both bands’ individual songs and some group collaborations. American Authors and Magic Giant perform at 7 p.m. at 9:30 Club, 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. 930.com. —Christian Paz

Sacrament. Politics and Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Jan. 13, 7 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919. politics-prose.com.

PRACHI GUPTA Gupta will discuss her new biography of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, AOC: Fighter, Phenom, Changemaker. Solid State Books. 600 H St. NE. Jan. 13, 7 p.m. Free. (202) 897-4201. solidstatebooksdc.com.

RICHARD DAVIES Davies will discuss his new book Extreme Economies, a look at the global financial system, with Matthew Felling. Solid State Books. 600 H St. NE. Jan. 10, 7 p.m. Free. (202) 897-4201. politics-prose.com.

SID BALMAN JR. Balman will discuss his book Seventh Flag. Politics and Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Jan. 12, 5 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919. politics-prose.com.

THANE GUSTAFSON Gustafson discusses his book The Bridges: Natural Gas in a Redivided Europe. Politics and Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Jan. 12, 3 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919. politics-prose.com.

ZETTA ELLIOTT Elliott will discuss her new book of poetry for young adults, Say Her Name, with Breanna McDaniel. Loyalty Bookstores Upshur. 827 Upshur St. NW. Jan. 14, 7 p.m. Free. (202) 726-0380. loyaltybookstores.com.

Theater

LE CABARET DE CARMEN This 90-minute rendition of the Bizet opera is a tango-cabaret show that brings the ultimate femme fatale to life. Source Theatre. 1835 14th St. NW. To Jan. 19 $21–$46. (202) 2047800. sourcedc.org.

MY FAIR LADY “The most perfect musical of all time” tells the story of Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins, the man determined to make her a proper lady. Kennedy Center Opera House. 2700 F St. NW. To Jan. 19 $39– $159. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org.

PETER PAN Lauren Gunderson’s adaption of J.M. Barrie’s story of a boy who refuses to grow up puts Wendy—a budding scientist—at the center of the play. Sidney Harman Hall. 610 F St. NW. To Jan. 12 $35–$120.

(202) 547-1122. shakespearetheatre.org.

PILGRIMS MUSA AND SHERI IN THE NEW WORLD Egyptian immigrant Musa hooks up with waitress Sheri after her shift ends, and a night of passion becomes a night of undermining cultural assumptions. Mosaic Theater Company at Atlas Performing Arts Center. 1333 H St. NE. To Feb. 16 $20–$65. (202) 399-7993. mosaictheater.org.

PIPELINE Nya, a single mother of a teenage son, is trying to give Omari the best education—and life—that

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she can. But when an incident at his private school threatens his future, Nya must fight for her child in a broken education system. Studio Theatre. 1501 14th St. NW. To Feb. 16 $20–$80. (202) 332-3300. studiotheatre.org.

Kristen Stewart, T.J. Miller, and Jessica Henwick. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) SPIES IN DISGUISE The world’s best spy is accidentally turned into a pigeon and his nerdy fellow officer must help him save the world. Starring Tom Holland, Karen Gillan, and Will Smith. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information)

SHELTERED It is 1939, and Hitler’s assault on Europe has begun. Though much of the world has turned its back on the Jews of Europe, Evelyn and Leonard Kirsch suspect that the menace is real. This ordinary American couple makes a bold decision that could save the lives of many Jewish children and change the course of history, but first, they must convince their estranged friends to help. Theater J. 1529 16th St. NW. To Feb. 2 $34–$64. (202) 777-3210. theaterj.org.

LIKE A BOSS Two best friends start a beauty company together, but mixing business with pleasure threatens to tear them apart. Starring Rose Byrne, Tiffany Haddish, and Salma Hayek. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information)

THE STORY OF WALTER SigWorks’ Monday Night Play Readings puts on a reading of The Story of Walter, a play about Walter, a recently single father to a bright-eyed 7-year-old daughter. Signature Theatre.

4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington. To Jan. 16 Free. (703) 820-9771. sigtheatre.org.

1917 Two British privates have to deliver a message into deep enemy territory during World War I. Starring Andrew Scott, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Richard Madden. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information)

Film

UNDERWATER Aquatic scientists in a station at the bottom of the ocean have to try and save their facility from an earthquake—and from mysterious beasts. Starring

LITTLE WOMEN The four March sisters—Jo, Beth, Amy, and Meg—grow up as Jo fights for her dreams.

Starring Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, and Timothée Chalamet. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) JUST MERCY A defense attorney tries to save the life of a wrongfully convicted man on death row. Starring Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx, and Brie Larson. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information)

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I have a question about porn, and I can’t think who else I can ask that will give me an intelligent, educated answer. In modern porn, anal on women is gaining popularity. I’m a fan of anal with my boyfriend. However, in porn, it seems like the gaping asshole is a thing, a sought after thing, a desired thing. And I guess my boyfriend and I don’t get it. We can get quite vigorous when we have anal sex, but MY butthole never gapes open like that—my boyfriend assures me that when he pulls out, it goes back to its cute little flower-like effect. Why is the gaping asshole so popular? I promise this is not a frivolous question or just for titillation. We really do wonder: What gives? —Gaining Anal Perspective Entails Serious Question It’s funny how a chief fear about anal sex—that your asshole would gape open afterward and poop would fall out while you walked down the street—became eroticized.

(The asshole gaping open part, not the poop falling out part.) Did I say funny, GAPESQ? I meant predictable. Because a big part of the collective human subconscious is always at work eroticizing our fears, and the gaping-open, just-been-fucked, completely “wrecked” asshole many people feared inevitably became something some people found hot. And as more people began experimenting with anal sex—as anal went mainstream over the last two decades—people realized that the anal sphincter is a muscle and the secret to successful anal intercourse is learning to relax that muscle. Situationally, not permanently. You could relax, get loose, gape after, post the video to a porn tube, and then tighten back up. Now, not everyone thinks a wide-open, gaping asshole is desirable. And not everyone, in the immortal words of Valerie Cherish, needs (or wants) to see that.

—Dan Savage Honest question: If you, being a homosexual, don’t die from HIV, will you have to wear a diaper before the age of 42? Optional question: What does a prolapsed rectum look like?

I bet you can describe it without doing an image search.

—Sickening Homosexuals Are Malignant Errors Honest answers: I know you meant this to be hate mail, SHAME, but I’m just thrilled someone out there thinks I’m not 42 yet. Also, I’m HIV-negative—last time I checked—but even if I were to seroconvert (go from HIVnegative to HIV-positive), a person with HIV who has access to meds can expect to live as long as a person without HIV. Also, a person with HIV who is on meds and has a zero viral load (no trace of the virus can be detect-

ed in their blood) cannot infect another person. So even if I were to contract HIV after all these years, SHAME, I would likely live long enough to die of something else, and, once I got on meds, I couldn’t pass HIV on to anyone else. And quickly: I’m way past 42 and not in a diaper yet, thank you very much. And while some people think a prolapsed rectum looks like a rosebud, I happen to think a prolapsed rectum looks like a ball of lean hamburger.

And the first one I ever saw—and, no, I didn’t need to do an image search because it makes a real impression—was in straight porn, not gay porn.

—DS P.S. If you can’t think about gay men without thinking about our poops and the diapers you hope we’re wearing and our meaty prolapsed rectums, SHAME, that says a lot more about you than it does about gay people.

My significant other wants me to delete any NSFW pictures of my exes, but I don’t feel comfortable with that. I don’t have an emotional attachment to my exes or really look at these pho-

“So it’s a catch-22: So long as you keep the women you date a secret, none of them are going to stay in your life for long. They’ll be either so damaged you want them out of your life or not damaged enough to want you in theirs.” tos anymore, but I feel that old pictures saved on old computers aren’t doing any harm and deleting them won’t fix my partner’s insecurity.

—Personal Images Causing Strife Accommodating a partner’s irrational insecurity is sometimes the price we pay to make an otherwise healthy and functional relationship work, PICS, as I recently told another reader. But one possible workaround—one possible accommodation—is telling your insecure partner what they want to hear even if it isn’t true. Telling a partner who is concerned about safety that you’re using condoms with others when you’re not isn’t okay, of course, just as telling a potential partner you’re single when you’re not isn’t okay. But telling a partner that you deleted photos you never look at on a password-protected computer they can’t look at … yeah, that’s a lie you don’t have to feel too awful about telling.

—DS

How long after using an oil-based lubricant do I have to wait before I can safely use latex condoms? Not right after, presumably. Next day? Next week? Next century? I’ve been experimenting with oil-based CBD lube for hand/toy stuff, but I’m worried about the timing relative to penetrative sex.

—Oily Inside “Oil and latex condoms do NOT mix, period,” said Melissa White, CEO of Lucky Bloke, an online condom shop, and a condom expert. “Using an oil-based lubricant with a condom can cause the condom to leak and/or break. And unlike water-based lubes, oils do not evaporate readily. While oil is absorbed over time, that absorption rate likely varies based on many factors, including age. Oiling up internally? Now we’re talking vaginal versus anal absorption rates! The bottom line: We have not found sufficient studies to issue a reliable recommendation on what an overall safe time frame might be. So here’s the deal: Oil or condoms—choose one.”

I would add only this: Condoms made out of polyurethane are more expensive, but you can safely use them with oil-based lube.

—DS I’m a straight guy who loves the female body—the look, touch, and smell. I’m in my mid-30s, I’ve never had a serious relationship, and I don’t know if I’m capable of falling in love. I’m exclusively into trans women, and I’ve kept it a secret because it’s nobody’s business. If I were in love, I’d make it public, but that hasn’t happened. I can’t help but feel like this is an addiction, and I’m ashamed of it.

I’m sure I’m not the first straight guy who’s into trans women who’s written to you. Where do I go from here? —Straight And Struggling While dating someone in secret isn’t impossible, SAS, it rarely leads to long-term love. Being kept hidden because you’re trans (or you’re gay or you’re big) and the person you’re dating hasn’t gotten over their shame about being attracted to trans people (or members of their own sex or bigger people) … well, it sucks to be someone’s dirty secret.

And a healthy trans (or gay or big) person— the kind of person you might be able to fall in love with—isn’t going to put up with that shit. So it’s a catch-22: So long as you keep the women you date a secret, none of them are going to stay in your life for long. They’ll be either so damaged you want them out of your life or not damaged enough to want you in theirs.

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

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SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PROBATE DIVISION 2019 ADM 001266 Name and Address of Attorney Reed Spellman, 6404 Ivy Lane, Suite 400, Greenbelt, Must see! Spacious Maryland 20770. semi-furName nished 1 BR/1 Mattie BA basement of Decedent, apt,Coates Deanwood, $1200.

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SUPERIOR COURT Miscellaneous OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA NEW COOPERATIVE SHOP! PROBATE DIVISION 2019 ADM 001291 FROM EGPYT THINGS Name of Decedent, AND BEYOND B. Johnson Jones aka 240-725-6025 Barbara Camille Johnson www.thingsfromegypt.com Jones.

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SUPERIOR COURT Events OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Christmas inDIVISION Silver Spring PROBATE Saturday, December 2, 2017 2019 ADM 001280 Veteran’s Plaza Name of Decedent, 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Jessica-Elise Come celebrate Turner Christmas in Austin. of Apthe heart ofNotice Silver Spring at our pointment, to PlaVendor Village Notice on Veteran’s Creditors Notice to za. There willand be shopping, arts Unknown Curtiswith and crafts forHeirs, kids, pictures Santa, music and II, entertainment Homer Austin whose to spread holiday cheerFlorida and more. address is 1128 Proceeds the market DC will Ave NE, from Washington, provide a “wish” toy for children 20002 was appointed in need. Join us at your one stop Personal Representashop for everything Christmas. tive of the estate ofcontact For more information, Jessica-Elise Turner Futsum, Austin who died on Aprilor info@leadersinstitutemd.org 16,301-655-9679 2019, without a Will call and will serve without General Court Supervision.

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Broccoli City Festival Preview

Martin Amini

F E B R U A RY 1 | 7 : 3 0 P. M .

JA N UA RY 1 6 | 7 : 3 0 P. M .

MASON BATES’S KC JUKEBOX

Ekhodom and Mason Bates

F E B R U A R Y 2 7 | 7 : 3 0 P. M .

MASON BATES’S KC JUKEBOX

Jeremy Kittle’s Whorls with Joshua Roman and the Verona Quartet M A R C H 2 6 | 7 : 3 0 P. M .

Stretch and Bobbito + the M19s Band No Requests Album Release Concert JA N UA RY 1 7 | 7 : 3 0 & 9 : 3 0 P. M .

Jazzmeia Horn

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Linda May Han Oh, Aventurine

Story District’s Funnier Than Fiction

F E B R U A RY 6 | 7 : 3 0 P. M .

F E B R U A R Y 2 8 | 7 : 3 0 & 9 : 3 0 P. M .

Jason Palmer, Upward

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D OU T!

F E B R U A R Y 2 9 | 7 : 3 0 P. M .

F E B R U A RY 7 | 7 : 3 0 & 9 : 3 0 P. M .

BGR!Fest Secret Shows

JA N UA RY 1 8 | 7 : 3 0 & 9 : 3 0 P. M .

M A R C H 5 – 7 | 9 : 3 0 P. M .

Chris Distefano

Elijah Jamal Balbed Quintet The Karma Suite

F E B R U A RY 8 | 7 : 3 0 & 9 : 3 0 P. M .

Bilal: Valentine’s Day Residency

Hip Hop Karaoke

FEBRUARY 13 & 14 | 7:30 & 9:30 P.M.

JA N UA RY 2 4 | 7 : 3 0 P. M .

SPOTLIGHT ON IMPROV COMEDY

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Kassa Overall’s “Blue Swamini” featuring Carmen Lundy

Baby Wants Candy: Historical Hip Hop Edition

JA N UA RY 2 5 | 7 : 3 0 & 9 : 3 0 P. M .

F E B R U A RY 2 0 | 7 : 3 0 & 9 : 3 0 P. M .

M A R C H 1 1 | 7 : 3 0 P. M .

Jazz Doodle Jam! Jason Moran & The Bandwagon + Mo Willems S O M A R C H 1 3 | 7 : 3 0 P. M .

MARCH 14 | 11 A.M.

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DIRECT CURRENT

Camila Meza and the Nectar Orchestra M A R C H 1 4 | 7 : 3 0 P. M .

MASON BATES’S KC JUKEBOX

Juan Atkins, Godfather of Techno

M A R C H 2 7 | 7 : 3 0 P. M .

Made in Puerto Rico A P R I L 2 – 4 | 8 P. M .

Clarence Penn, Penn Station A P R I L 9 | 7 : 3 0 P. M .

jaimie branch’s Fly or Die

JA N UA RY 2 3 | 7 : 3 0 P. M .

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Kevin Ross A P R I L 1 0 | 7 : 3 0 & 9 : 3 0 P. M .

The Second City & Kennedy Center’s Jazz Comedy Experiment A P R I L 1 6 – 1 8 | 7 : 3 0 P. M .

MASON BATES’S KC JUKEBOX

Michael Abels and Rob Garza A P R I L 2 3 | 7 : 3 0 P. M .

Washington Improv Theater’s iMusical

The Black Version

The Amours

F E B R U A RY 2 1 | 7 : 3 0 & 9 : 3 0 P. M .

M A R C H 1 9 | 7 : 3 0 & 9 : 3 0 P. M .

The Time Machine Roast

Wild Horses

Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah

Jason Moran’s Fats Waller Dance Party

JA N UA RY 3 1 | 7 : 3 0 P. M .

F E B R U A RY 2 2 | 7 : 3 0 & 9 : 3 0 P. M .

M A R C H 2 0 & 2 1 | 7 : 3 0 & 9 : 3 0 P. M .

A P R I L 2 5 | 7 : 3 0 & 9 : 3 0 P. M .

A P R I L 2 4 | 7 : 3 0 P. M .

JA N UA RY 3 0 | 7 : 3 0 P. M .

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