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10 banner year In the year since Donald Trump’s inauguration, the District has seen an steep rise in activism. Now local organizers are laying plans for sustained resistance. By Matt Cohen
Photographs by Darrow Montgomery
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18 Wild World: National Geographic photographer Michael “Nick” Nichols, the subject of a new exhibition at the National Geographic Museum, reflects on a life spent off the beaten path. 20 For Your Consideration: Inspired by Christoph Waltz’s Georgetown, we name other D.C. true crime stories that should be adapted for the screen. 21 Curtain Calls: Kurzius on Mosaic Theater’s Queens Girl in Africa 22 Short Subjects: Gittell on Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread
6 Housing Complex: Sanford Capital transfers treasured land in Congress Heights to its development partner, sparking legal action from D.C.’s attorney general. 8 Unobstructed View 9 Savage Love
food 15 Plight Russian: How are D.C.’s Russian and Russianowned restaurants faring as U.S. relations with their home country escalate to the tensest they’ve been since the Cold War? 17 Whine Bar: The most nit-picky reviews of D.C.’s finest dives 17 The ’Wiching Hour: The Touchdown at Little Pearl 17 Top of the Hour: Cava Mezze’s Mediterranean pub snacks and discounted drinks
City List 23 City Lights: Celebrate Martin Luther King Day at the Kennedy Center with singer and actress Vanessa Williams this Monday. 23 Music 27 Theater 29 Film
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DistrictLine Plot Twist By Andrew Giambrone In the wanIng hours of 2017, a new chapter appeared to open in the enduring conflict over a set of prized properties around the Congress Heights Metro stop that are poised for redevelopment. At stake is the fate of a steadfast group of longtime tenants. So too is the future of an ever-pricier D.C. neighborhood where, on Thursday, officials are scheduled to mark a construction milestone for the forthcoming Wizards practice facility. “I’m hot about it,” says Ruth Barnwell, 73, one of the tenant leaders. “You could see that it’s fishy.” On Dec. 27, Bethesda-based landlord Sanford Capital signed over three ailing properties along Alabama Avenue SE to an affiliate of CityPartners, a real estate firm headed by D.C. developer Geoffrey Griffis. Griffis and Sanford’s co-founders, Carter Nowell and Patrick Strauss, planned to raze the buildings and transform the land after Sanford acquired the properties in 2009 and 2010. Their vision called for a modern mixed-use project to rise above the Metro. It would be similar to those in other gentrifying neighborhoods and it’d be be the first of its kind in Congress Heights. Through a joint venture, in 2015 Sanford and CityPartners received approval for their plans from zoning officials. But work on the 89,000-square-foot site stalled due to tensions with the tenants. As City Paper and other outlets have reported, Sanford allowed the buildings to fall into shambles, just like it did at more than 60 buildings across the city. Rats, roaches, squatters, broken appliances, poor heat, illicit activity, and mold became common problems for hundreds of Sanford’s tenants. Meanwhile, the company took in millions of dollars a year via market-rate rents
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and taxpayer-funded rental vouchers. In Congress Heights, many tenants left the company’s properties, and only 13 households remain today. The atrocious conditions led D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine to sue Sanford Capital in 2016. That case is ongoing and it has suddenly intensified. The transfer of the properties from Sanford to CityPartners blindsided Racine’s office, the tenants, their pro bono attorneys, and their chosen nonprofit developer partner, National Housing Trust-Enterprise Preservation Corp. NHT-Enter3200 13th St. SE, a key vacant corner prise planned to build roughly 200 property owned by the District units of affordable housing on the site, and was working to persuade Nowell to sell the properties. (Strauss is no longer ington Legal Clinic for the Homeless who with the company.) represents the tenants, calls Griffis the “alter After almost two years in court, the tenants ego” for Sanford and “the brains of this operwere hopeful this would happen. In Novem- ation.” He says the transfer of the properties ber, D.C. Superior Court Judge John M. Mott is “a clear move to usurp” the tenants’ rights ordered Sanford to “negotiate exclusively with under a District law that lets tenants try to buy the tenants, or the tenants’ representatives” their properties when they go up for sale or about a potential sale, for a period that was to get slated for demolition. end earlier this week. “The ownership issue completely muddies But now Griffis appears to own the proper- the water on the receivership,” Merrifield exties, which have been in court-ordered receiv- plains. “They’re left without repairs.” ership since September. Receivership usualThe tenants recently received notice of a ly occurs when a landlord is found unwilling new management company, Crescent, and or unable to manage its properties safely. directions on how to pay rent to it. A subseThrough it, a third party fixes issues and col- quently dated letter from Griffis declares lects rent payments. “SANFORD CAPITAL IS OUT!” in large font Under the receivership order at Congress at the top of the first page and outlines “three Heights, Sanford faced up to $2 million in to- options for moving forward.” tal repairs. Over half of that was the estimatThose options are for the tenants to “tempoed cost of remediating toxic mold. rarily relocate” and move back with the same The abrupt change in ownership has caused rents they currently pay once new apartments consternation for the tenants and their back- have been built; to move out and receive a neers. They note that Griffis is no stranger to San- gotiated buyout amount; or to invest that buyford. He and Strauss met the tenants to discuss out amount in the project and become a parthe redevelopment plans in 2014 and he testi- tial owner in it. fied to the D.C. Zoning Commission in 2015. “(Please note CityPartners can’t assure or Will Merrifield, an attorney for the Wash- guarantee any return on investment, so we ad-
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Sanford Capital transfers treasured land in Congress Heights to its development partner, sparking legal action from D.C.’s attorney general.
vise you to discuss with a qualified professional),” the letter states. It adds that the “tenants will be given ample time to make an informed decision” and it touts job creation and other community benefits. Sanford and CityPartners also offered tenants buyouts and the promise of returning to the site before the attorney general’s litigation. Barnwell, who serves as president of the tenant association, says the new offers are really “nothing new.” “Why should we trust you now?” she says. “If you were a right person and had so much concern, you would already end your thing with Sanford.” The tenants aren’t the only ones who are skeptical about Sanford’s purported offloading of the properties. In new court filings, Racine’s office says it’s “deeply concerned” about the transfer. Racine argues that Sanford, and possibly CityPartners, violated the court’s orders establishing the recevership and the exclusive sale negotiations with the tenants. He says Judge Mott gave the receiver “sole authority to enforce or avoid mortgages or other loans on the property,” and that the transaction documents suggest Nowell wasn’t negotiating with the tenants in
DistrictLine good faith. Property records show that Sanford executed what are called “deeds in lieu of foreclosure” with CityPartners on Dec. 27, the same day Sanford’s legal counsel appeared in court with a check to pay the balance it owed to receiver David Gilmore for initial maintenance and repair costs. Such a deed resembles a friendly takeover of a property by a lender when a borrower defaults on a loan. Sanford didn’t disclose the transfer of the properties, per court papers Racine filed on Tuesday. NHT-Enterprise says this was a “surprise.” “By December the final offer was $3 million, and we believed negotiations were going well enough to begin preparing due diligence and financing in anticipation of closing on the properties in early 2018,” NHT explains in a statement. Nevertheless, on Jan. 2, attorney Stephen Hessler, who represents Sanford in Superior Court, submitted a motion to dismiss the case and terminate the receivership, arguing that Sanford doesn’t own the properties anymore. Racine says the receivership “stays in place” until the court rules otherwise. Hessler tells City Paper he can’t comment, and Nowell didn’t respond to a request for comment. Property records show that CityPartners assumed underlying mortgage debt from Sanford and took out a new, consolidated purchase loan worth up to $1,944,830 from EagleBank. (City Paper previously found that EagleBank has loaned Sanford more than $46 million for at least a dozen properties.) The Dec. 27 documents were all notarized by Ben Soto, a developer and former campaign treasurer for Mayor Muriel Bowser. He owns a high-volume title company and serves on EagleBank’s board. Soto’s development firm, Paramount, has partnered with Griffis on multiple projects in D.C., including the recently opened Wharf. Racine is petitioning the court for a hearing where Nowell and Sanford’s affiliates would have to demonstrate why they should not be held in civil contempt for the alleged violations. In a lengthy footnote in its filing on Tuesday, Racine’s office even discusses the availability of criminal contempt. In yet another footnote in that motion, the attorney general’s office says it “shortly intends” to ask the court to add “CityPartners and any other appropriate parties” as defendants in the 2016 lawsuit. Racine is additionally asking for broad discovery powers “to take depositions and request documents” from Sanford, Nowell, CityPartners, Griffis, Soto, EagleBank, and Revere Bank, another Sanford lender. In an interview on Monday, Griffis distanced himself from Sanford and said he’s committed to regaining the tenants’ trust. He said he’d like to meet with them soon. “I’ll take all the grief they want to give me,” Griffis said. “I told them years ago this isn’t going to be comfortable or easy, their lives are
going to change. I hope they’ll realize [it’s] for the better.” He said he plans to issue demolition notices “fairly soon” and expects to request permits from the District by May. CityPartners’ anticipated schedule is to break ground in 2019. Griffis claimed he was “very limited” in what he could do when Sanford owned the properties, and he called the situation “regrettable.” He cast himself and CityPartners as the “master developer” in the partnership, versus Sanford being the “property owners” in “more of an equity position.” “I can’t tell you why Sanford Capital did what they did because it wasn’t part of the protocol we had set up for this project,” Griffis said. “My sight was always on the larger potential at this site.” He added that he’d been unfamiliar with Sanford’s other properties before reading news reports. Over the past year or so, Sanford has gradually begun to sell off its portfolio. In some cases, it has done so via bankruptcies. As for how the Congress Heights properties came into CityPartners’ possession, Griffis said that after Sanford stopped paying its mortgages and bills, a bank asked him if he wanted to purchase the loans on the properties. (He declined to specify which bank. EagleBank holds the lion’s share of the mortgage debt on the properties.) Then, Griffis said, Nowell proposed handing over the deeds in lieu of foreclosure. Of the receivership, Griffis said it’d be worked out in due course. In a statement on Wednesday, Griffis said the transfer of the properties was “legal and proper” and that the tenants’ rights would be preserved. “We look forward to clarifying this to all interested and appropriate stakeholders,” he said. He did not address specific questions about whether he was aware of the court’s previous orders and whether he objects to Racine’s desire to add CityPartners to the case. But there’s another piece of the puzzle lying in wait. On the corner of the site is an abandoned building now owned by the District, which has said it would put that property up for bid once an ongoing 2014 lawsuit over its ownership is resolved. Both the tenants and Griffis consider the property as crucial for their respective redevelopment plans and are ready to lobby the District to acquire the parcel. The tenants seem to have a strong ally on the D.C. Council. Ward 8 Councilmember Trayon White says he’s organizing a meeting between them, Merrifield, activist Eugene Puryear, the attorney general’s office, and the D.C. Department of Housing and Community Development, which controls the property. “The residents have been in a terrible position living in these dilapidated properties for too long, and they deserve to get treated better,” says White. “And I want to use everything in my power to have them taken care of, regardless of who the owner or who the property manager is.” CP
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IwasarguIng with a friend the other day about the perpetually beleaguered D.C. NFL franchise. His contention is that they’re in a really bad place. Specifically, he believes that the fanbase is shrinking, that the hatred for Dan Snyder and Bruce Allen’s stewardship is outweighing lifelong loyalties, and that the outcome of the ongoing Kirk Cousins drama will probably shear off another chunk of the “greatest fans in the NFL.” None of that sounds wrong to me. What does seem wrong is his contention that this is unchangeable. The solution is incredibly simple, and, at the same time, impossibly difficult: The team just needs to win. Win more than 10 games in a season. Win a playoff game or two. Then do that again, for another few seasons, and suddenly the buzz will be back. My friend thinks that even if the team starts winning, the fans are gone for good. I think this is preposterous, and amounts to a sports-fan variation on what I think of as the Facebook Effect. I’m sure the Facebook Effect has an official name and sociological description that people have actually studied. It’s tied to the concepts of BIRG and FOMO, but more intuitively, it’s the idea that everyone else on your social media feed has a better life than you. The reasons you feel this way are simple: People are more inclined to share positive moments, partly because they’re the moments that feel share-worthy and partly because we as a culture are notoriously shy about publicly airing our failures and shortcomings. (Unless you happen to see my Facebook feed, an unending record of me being a subpar parent to my children.) Facebook is the Red Zone Channel of life: all highlights, no goddamned “Dilly dilly!” commercials. Being a D.C. sports fan means embracing and/ or wallowing in the idea that our sports pain is awful in a unique, special way. Everyone else’s teams may be bad, but our team is a special kind of toxic sundae. It’s the Reverse Facebook Effect. (This extends to local sports media—try telling someone who covered the Jim Zornera team that the current situation is a neverending tire fire and they will “Well in my day” you about bingo callers and Albert Haynesworth until you want to die.) And yet the last week in the NFL has shown us this isn’t true. For example, the Kansas City Chiefs lost in the wild card round of the playoffs, blowing an
18-point halftime lead to the underdog Tennessee Titans. They’ve lost six straight home playoff games, dating back to January 1994, in a stadium that’s considered one of the great home venues in football. Cleveland Browns fans held a literal parade to celebrate (or protest?) the team going 0-16, leading a few Browns players to openly criticize the parade-goers. On the productive side, Buffalo Bills fans, thirsty to end a 17-year postseason drought, donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to Cincinnati Bengals QB Andy Dalton’s charity to thank him for throwing a game-winning touchdown that knocked Baltimore out of playoff contention and slotted the Bills in. The Bills responded by losing a genuinely unwatchable first-round game against the Jaguars 10-3. Most notably, ESPN published a lengthy report detailing the cracks in the New England Patriots’ dynasty, with confidential sources talking about the very specific ways QB Tom Brady, owner Robert Kraft, and head coach Bill Belichick disagree. The Patriots put out a bland statement assuring the public that everything was fine, and gave similarly bland interviews to friendly reporters like Sports Illustrated’s Peter King. (This, it should be remembered, is the same franchise involved in Spygate, Deflategate, and Tuckgate.) If any one of the above things had happened in D.C., it would’ve been the sports apocalypse. Scorn and mockery would’ve rained down from blogs and social media and podcasts and local sports radio and TV and alternative weeklies. We would’ve talked about how it made D.C. look stupid in the eyes of the world, subsuming it into our ever-expanding identity as a cursed sports town. That would be wrong. These things can happen to any team (and, clearly, actually have). None of it establishes their identity. After the initial newscycle, no one really cares that much. Extended losing streaks are the same way. Many teams have hemorrhaged fans during futile years, only to see those fans return when things improve. The Patriots were terrible when I was a kid. The Seahawks were irrelevant through most of the 1990s. But they got better. Heck, even the Jacksonville Jaguars finally uncovered a bunch of tarped-over seats in their stadium. So don’t worry! Once the folks in Ashburn figure out how to win, all of this will turn around and things will be exciting again. Thinking about that sentence again, it’s probably okay to worry, even if this is totally normal. CP
SAVAGELOVE I’m a 67-year-old gay man. After a breakup 15 years ago, I believed the possibility of emotional and sexual intimacy with a partner was over for me. Then a couple of months ago, my desire for sexual contact increased dramatically. For the first time, I began using apps, and I felt like the proverbial kid in a candy store; it seemed strangely similar to when I first came out in San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood in the early 1970s. Also, I was surprised—not unpleasantly—by the whole Daddy phenomenon, never imagining that this old face and body would interest younger men. You can probably guess what happened next: I was contacted by a 22-year-old man who revealed himself to be mature, intelligent, sweet, and, fatally, the physical type that arouses me most. I fell hard, and he seems to like me too. Am I a creep? A fool? Is my judgment impaired? — Dumb And Daddy The sexy “Daddy” thing—which has always been with us—seems to be undergoing a resurgence. Perhaps our omnipresent abusive orange father figure is giving us all daddy issues that are manifesting (in some) as a burning desire to service kinder, sexier, more benevolent daddies. Or perhaps the internet is to blame—not for creating more people interested in intergenerational sex and/or romance, but for making it easier for people to anonymously seek out the kind of sex, and kinds of sex partners, they truly want. Even if the initial looking is anonymous, DAD, discussing one’s desires with others who share them helps people grow more comfortable with their desires and themselves—nothing melts away shame quite like knowing you’re not alone—and more people are coming out about their non-normative sexual desires, partner preferences, relationship models, etc., than ever before. That said, DAD, if the affections of a consenting adult 40-plus years your junior is your particular perk of aging, go ahead and enjoy it. Keep your expectations realistic (a successful STR is likelier than a successful LTR), don’t do anything stupid (see Father Clements, below), and reacquaint yourself with my constantly updated and revised Campsite Rule: When there’s a significant age and/or experience gap, the older and/or more experienced person has a responsibility to leave the younger and/or less experienced person in better shape than they found them. No unplanned or planned pregnancies, no sexually transmitted infections, no leading the younger partner to believe “forever” is likely. Do what you can to boost their knowledge, skills, and self-confidence while you’re together, and do your best to stick the nearly inevitable dismount—the chances that you’ll be together forever are slim, but you can forever be a friend, mentor, and resource. While the age difference will creep out some, DAD, that doesn’t mean you’re a creep.
Don’t want to be a fool? Don’t do anything foolish (see Father Clements, below). Worried about infatuation-impaired judgment leading you to do something foolish? Ask a few trusted friends to smack you upside the head if you start paying his rent or lending him your credit cards. And just as you don’t want to take advantage of this young man, DAD, you don’t want to be taken advantage of either. We associate age with power, but youth and beauty confer their own kinds of power, and that power can be abused—it can also lead seemingly sensible men to sign their life savings over to 24-year-old Romanian “models.” For example: “A 79-year-old retired priest has been left heartbroken and homeless after his 24-year-old husband left him just after their home was put into his name,” LGBTQ Nation reported. “Philip Clements sold his home in Kent, England, for £214,750, before moving to Romania and purchasing an apartment for the couple to live in in Bucharest. He signed over the property to Florin Marin, so that Marin would have security after he passed away … Marin broke things off just weeks after the apartment was put in his name, and Clements found himself homeless.” Keep Father Clements’ sad story in mind, DAD, but don’t be paralyzed by it. Because there are lots of examples of loving, lasting, non-creepy, non-foolish relationships between partners with significant age gaps out there. So enjoy this while it lasts, and if things start to get creepy—if he starts shopping for an apartment in Bucharest—then you’ll have to pull the plug. But if this turns into a loving, lasting, healthy, and unconventional LTR, DAD, then one day he’ll get to pull your plug. (When that day comes, which hopefully won’t be for a long, long time.) —Dan Savage
Someone at work—not my boss—asked me to fuck his wife. He’s a nice guy, his wife is hot, and I’m single. This is a first for me. Besides STI status, what questions should I ask? —Help Interested Straight Boy Understand Lust’s Limitations 1. “Are you a cuckold or is this a hotwife thing?” (Considering your sign-off, HISBULL, either you’ve assumed he’s a cuckold or he’s told you he is one. If he is a cuck, he may want dirty texts and pictures—or he’ll want to be in the room where it happens. Is that okay with you?) 2. “Have you done this before?” (The reality of another person sleeping with your up-to-nowmonogamous spouse can dredge up intense emotions, e.g., jealousy, sadness, anger, rage. If they’ve done this before and enjoyed it, you can jump right in. If they haven’t, maybe start with a make-out session at a time or in a place where you can’t progress to sex.)
3. “Can I speak directly with your wife?” (You’ll want to make sure she isn’t doing this under duress and that she’s into you, and you’ll want to independently verify the things he’s told you about their arrangement, health, experiences, etc.) —DS
I recently started seeing a gorgeous 24-year-old woman who’s smart and sweet and also happens to have a few out-there fetishes. There’s not much I’ll say no to, Dan, but one of the things she’s into is formicophilia (a sexual interest in being crawled on or nibbled by insects). I offered to get some ants and worms to crawl on her body while I fuck her, but she wants me to put earthworms in her vagina. Is there a safe way to do this? Female condom? I want to help, but putting worms in your vagina seems like it will end with an embarrassing trip to the ER. —Worries Over Really Messy Scenario “I thought I had heard everything,” said Dr. Jen Gunter, an OB-GYN in San Francisco. “Apparently not.” Dr. Gunter, “Twitter’s resident gynecologist,” first went viral when she urged women not to put jade eggs in their vaginas, just one of the many idiocies pushed by the idiots at Goop, Gwyneth Paltrow’s idiotic “lifestyle” website. Last week, Dr. Gunter had to urge women and men not to shoot coffee up their butts, also recommended by Goop. So I thought she might have something to say about stuffing earthworms in your girlfriend’s vagina. “This is obviously unstudied,” Dr. Gunter said, “but anything that lives in soil could easily inoculate the vagina with pathogenic bacteria. Also, I am not sure what earthworm innards could do to the vagina, but I am guessing the worms would get squished and meet an untimely demise during sex. How would you get the pieces of dead earthworm out of her vagina? I can think of a lot of ways this could go very wrong. I would advise against it.” I’m with Dr. Gunter (and, no doubt, PETA): Don’t stuff earthworms in your girlfriend’s vagina. That said, WORMS, tucking a few earthworms into a female condom and carefully inserting it into your girlfriend’s vagina without shoving your cock in there too… is a thoroughly disgusting thing to contemplate and blech. But while it would most likely kill the earthworms (maybe switch ’em out for gummy worms at the last second?), it probably wouldn’t damage your girlfriend or land you both in the ER. Even so, WORMS, don’t do it. Because blech. Read Dr. Gunter’s blog (drjengunter.wordpress.com), follow her on Twitter (@DrJenGunter), and check out her new column in the New York Times (The Cycle). —DS Email your Savage Love questions to mail@savagelove.net.
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banner year In the year since Donald Trump’s inauguration, the District has seen a steep rise in activism. Now local organizers are laying plans for sustained resistance. By Matt Cohen
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In the days following the election of Donald Trump, Natacia Knapper, like many District residents, was feeling helpless and overwhelmed. In this city of about 680,000— where approximately 96 percent voted against Trump—it’s particularly easy to feel helpless against the agenda of Congress and the White House. D.C. is simultaneously the most and least powerful city in the country; it’s home to the the U.S. government, and yet its residents don’t have any voting representation in Congress. So Knapper, 34, did what many young Washingtonians did after the election: She went to an organizing meeting. “I was really looking for ways to be a bit more involved in community organizing or volunteering, beyond just attending the occasional rallies, going to my councilmember’s community meetings, voting, all that stuff I was already doing,” she recalls. In the past year, Knapper channeled those feelings of helplessness into direct action— mostly on the local level. She started attending Black Lives Matter DC open house meetings and the DC Movement for Black Lives Steering Committee general assemblies. Through those meetings, she linked up with the Stop Police Terror Project DC—a community organization that works to combat systemic racism and militarization within regional police forces—and quickly found herself working most weekends with the grassroots organization. “The inequalities we see in black communities, and the violence and corruption, is something that I’m very interested in as a concept. And how it can be implemented,” she says. “So the Stop Police Terror Project, just on a base level, really appealed to me.” D.C. has a rich history of local organizing, but in the past year the level of activism has been stronger. Since the Women’s March on January 21, 2017—estimated to have been the largest single political demonstration in D.C. since the Vietnam War protests in the late 1960s and early ’70s— there have been at least 321 marches, rallies, protests, demonstrations, and actions in the District, per the DC
Action Calendar, a shared public calendar that a group of local activists started. Most of the actions were organized in direct response to the Trump administration’s policy agenda. Nearly a year has gone by since the Women’s March, and while protests and demonstrations aren’t as frequent as they were last winter and spring, the momentum has not dissipated. It’s evolved beyond $30 t-shirts emblazoned with Mitch McConnell’s now famous description of Elizabeth Warren: “Nevertheless, she persisted.” As the Trump resistance movement turns a year old, the energy for activism is as strong as it’s ever been, trickling down into grassroots movements within different corners of D.C.’s robust activist communities and inspiring new ways for people to get involved. The resistance hasn’t died, it’s hunkering down for the long haul.
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Like knapper, 28-year-oLd Elyssa Feder found herself dazed and dismayed after the election and wanted to get involved in activism of some kind. She went to an organizing meeting a couple of days after the election and found that it wasn’t what she was hoping for. “It was just disorganized,” she recalls. “It was a large group of really well-intentioned people who were also in a state of panic and wanted to do something good in the world. And there was just something missing.” Rather than go along with the disorganization, Feder took it upon herself to create the kind of meeting she’d been hoping for. She founded Rising Organizers at the end of November 2016—originally calling it Good Guys DC—as way to help people in the District use their energy toward activism in an effective way. Rising Organizers is essentially a mentorship and skills training program for new and beginning organizers. Feder, who is a lobbyist for a nonprofit that works in international conflict resolution, had plenty of prior organizing experience and quickly recruited three others—Kalyani Grad-Kaimal, Rachel George, and Josh Boxerman—to join Rising Organizers and form its leadership team. “We knew that we had this set of skills to help people in this particular moment,” Feder says. In the early days of 2017, Rising Organizers hosted free trainings on an “emergency basis,” Feder says, in the basement of the Martin Lu-
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ther King Jr. Memorial Library. The first few trainings each attracted about 150 to 200 people interested in learning how to get involved in organizing, including how to plan or prepare for a protest, march, or rally. But once it became clear to Feder and her co-directors that people had an enduring in-
terest in their methods, they retooled their approach and decided to focus their efforts on training for existing organizations. In these trainings, Feder says, her team helps resistance organizations figure out how to turn the anti-Trump energy people had post-election into long-term organizing. “It’s
really about trying to create a stable place for people to be held accountable for the work that they want to do,” she says, “and giving the skills that they need to actually make that work successful.” Thus far, Feder estimates Rising Organizers has trained more than 1,000 new activists and hosted about 20 events throughout the D.C. area. The work of Rising Organizers isn’t unlike that of DC Local Ambassadors, another volunteer organization that formed in the wake of the 2016 election to help different groups organize marches and protests. DC Local Ambassadors came into existence in the aftermath of the Women’s March, says co-founder Laura Sanders. She volunteered to help organize the march, along with thousands of other women in D.C. The process, she says, was nothing short of overwhelming. “As we were working, there were a couple points where we sort of looked around and were like ‘Wait, why isn’t anyone doing this?’” says Sanders, 39. “Given the extraordinary history of activism in D.C. … there were certain pieces of the process that we thought would be easier than they were. Or that we thought at least there would be resources.” Sanders spent hours in the weeks leading up to the Women’s March trying to find information about permitting processes and the proper number of Porta Potties for thousands of people. “Really sort of mathematical stuff,” she says. After the Women’s March was over, Sanders says that she and some other volunteers were at a happy hour, decompressing from all the work they did in helping to organize the march. She recalls someone saying: “Well, now that we know how to do it, why don’t we just keep doing it? Now that we’ve learned this … certainly there are other people who want this expertise.” At first, their idea was to create an online resource for people organizing marches, but Sanders says she soon realized “what was needed was the manpower to just do it.” She subsequently co-founded DC Local Ambassadors with Liz Ogorek, Megan Mamula, and Leah Crenson. In 2017, DC Local Ambassadors accrued more than 1,300 volunteers (at least 100 of them core volunteers that Sanders sees on a regular basis) and had a hand in organizing at
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least 35 events, including the March for Truth that took place in June and the March For Racial Justice in September. Most of their volunteers, Sanders notes, are either new or returning activists: high schoolers, college students, and recent grads “who are sort of becoming woke for the first time,” and a lot of recently retired people who have had experience in antiVietnam War demonstrations “and now their kids have left, they have a little more time, and they’re upset and want to get re-involved,” she says. Sanders says that the role DC Local Ambassadors plays in organizing is to offer a one-stop logistics shop. “We know who you should go to to rent your stage. We know who to call at Capitol Police. We know which routes through the city tend to create bottlenecks.” UnLIke Feder and Sanders, though, most of the work Knapper and the Stop Police Terror Project DC did in the past year was local, and had nothing to do with the Trump Administration. Elsewhere in the District, new and young activists have turned their attention to issues in their community, energized by the national resistance against the Trump administration. In June, hundreds of people participated in No Justice, No Pride, a day of action protesting Capital Pride’s partnerships with corporations with a history of oppressing and marginalizing queer and trans individuals. As a response to Trump’s crackdown on ICE raids, houses of worship across the DMV joined forces to re-establish a decades-old support system for the area’s immigrant community. In March 2016, the D.C. Council unanimously passed a bill— the Neighborhood Engagement Achieves Results Act—that advocates say could significantly decrease violent crime in the District through a community-based public health approach to violence prevention and intervention that would see the formation of two new government offices: the Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement and the Office of Violence Prevention and Health Equity. But the bill didn’t get funding in Mayor Muriel Bowser’s fiscal year 2017 budget, thus leaving it in a kind of legislative purgatory. That’s where the Stop Police Terror Project DC stepped in. Cofounded by local activist and former Council candidate Eugene Puryear in 2014, in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement after the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, the Stop Police Terror Project DC is a grassroots volunteer organization that works to oppose police brutality and injustices in the District, while building peacekeeping efforts to empower oppressed communities. Puryear, Knapper, and the rest of Stop Police Terror Project DC’s volunteers have spent the past year pouring all of their energy and resources into advocacy to help get the NEAR Act fully funded in the fiscal year 2018 budget.
Knapper didn’t have much knowledge of the NEAR Act before she got involved with the Stop Police Terror Project DC, she says, but once she read about it, she realized how important
it could be for the city. “I … didn’t even realize how close we were to having a set of programs that, I think, would really solve a lot of the huge violence issues we have in this city. “What spoke to me about the NEAR Act is [that] it really is a law that is geared toward empowering communities more in dealing with both violence interruption and violence prevention,” Knapper says. “A lot of what goes into making up the NEAR Act were concepts that I kind of had broadly thought about before.” Knapper spent the months of February and
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local activism for more than a decade, his organization’s successful effort to get the NEAR Act funded is a prime example of how this past year has been a watershed moment for local and national activism. “D.C., I think in the past, let’s say 10 years, has had a pretty active protest culture, but I think what we saw in 2017 was the emergence of more of a movement culture,” he says. “It was a sign, I think, in 2017, that this sort of surge of people … who are, like, ‘Yeah, let’s do it, let’s get involved.’ Rather than just be participants, people are looking for ways they can more meaningfully contribute. That, to me, is what kind of marks 2017 in a lot of ways.” aFter the Women’s March, the largest single-day protest in U.S. history, what followed for residents of the District were nearly three straight months in which rarely a day went by
March of last year canvassing for the NEAR Act around different parts of D.C. “pretty much every weekend,” mostly in Wards 4, 8, and 1, where she lives. “It was a really eyeopening experience because of the fact that I was able to have legitimate conversations with people … about the epidemic of violence in our community,” she says. In June, their efforts paid off. The council voted to pass the fiscal year 2018 budget, which includes more than $2 million to fund the act and pay for the creation of the ONSE and OVPHE. For Puryear, who has been a notable figure in
without a protest, march, or rally—usually in direct response to Trump. Major media outlets were there to cover the big events, like the days in late February when thousands of people gathered outside the White House in frigid temperatures to protest Trump’s travel ban. But smaller events filled in between the larger ones. About a hundred people rallied to prevent war with North Korea on Wednesday, April 26. On Saturday, July 22, several hundred
individuals held the Education March to protest the proposed education policy changes from Trump’s Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. Each week, it seemed, a new threat from Trump was grave enough to inspire a demonstration. And people showed up. For Medea Benjamin, a longtime political activist and co-founder of the grassroots antiwar movement Code Pink, the past year has been bittersweet. She is 65 and co-founded Code Pink in 2002 to oppose the war in Iraq. Since then she has become one of the leading figures in the anti-war and peace movement. She and her colleagues crashed events at the 2004 Democratic and Republican National Conventions. More recently, she interrupted former President Barack Obama’s speech on the War on Terror at the National Defense University on May 23, 2013. “It seems like the movement since Trump came [to office] is large in terms of numbers, but they’re more trying to hold on than to have major shifts forward,” she says. “That’s why this whole idea of resistance has been to hold on to some of the crappy things that we already have that we’ve been trying to get better.” Benjamin cites policies like the Affordable Care Act and the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Act as ones that the anti-Trump movement has been tirelessly fighting back against, but are are still problematic in their original form to a lot of activists. “Holding onto Obamacare when you ask probably any of the people in the movement and what they really want is Medicare for all,” she cites as one example. “You ask people around
the recent large demonstrations around DACA, they’re just trying to hold on to the bone that Obama gave. That is not what people wanted in terms of real immigration reform.” Still, Benjamin doesn’t deny that these existing policies are worth fighting for. Though Code Pink focuses on protesting the U.S.’s ongoing involvement in wars in the Middle East,
they’ve enthusiastically participated in all of the major protests this year. “I think we’ve felt with so many domestic issues under threat, that’s where the bulk of the progressive energy is focusing, and that we have to be supportive of those efforts.” Derek Musgrove, an associate professor of history at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County—and the author of both Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation’s Capital and Rumor, Repression and Racial Politics: How the Harassment of Black Elected Officials Shaped Post–Civil Rights America—has spent a lot of time in the past year thinking about the long-term impact of the events of the 2017. “The first question I always have about activism in D.C. is how much of it is national and how much of it is local. And how much of the two overlap,” he says. “I think it’s safe to say that in the last year we’ve had a pretty pronounced bit of national protest in D.C.” Musgrove looks back to the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and the local impact it had on D.C.’s civil rights movement. Only 10 percent of the march’s participants were locally based, he says, but that amounted to 25,000 people. He looks to the case of civil rights activist and former delegate Walter Fauntroy as an example of how such a large national protest in D.C. led to the rise of his career, which got both local and national attention. “That launches a career that becomes a defining career for the city,” Musgrove says. “Walter Fauntroy, had he been able to elect Sterling Tucker in 1978, would have been, hands down, the dominant figure in D.C. politics for a solid, you know, 20 years.” It’s too soon to tell what kind of long-term effects the 2017 protest movement will have in D.C., Musgrove thinks. But even though mainly national domestic issues have drawn people to the streets under the Trump administration, both Benjamin and Puryear agree that the spike in activism has dispersed to their causes. Knapper says that when she was first introduced to the Stop Police Terror Project DC, “it seemed to just be” Puryear. “There would be a couple of other people I would kind of get introduced to that had done work with Stop Police Terror Project DC, but he really was the only constant that I was seeing.” Since then, Knapper says that the Stop Police Terror Project DC has grown to have dozens of core volunteers and organizers— enough volunteers that they’ve had to put together a four-person executive committee “to kind of button things up a little bit and make sure there’s a bit more structure.” Puryear doesn’t think that this rise in local activism is unique to D.C. “My read of the country is that it’s similar in a lot of places, that people are really looking to get involved more locally in the wake of it,” he says. “I can say with absolute certainty that one of the results of the Women’s March—and I noticed this canvassing for the NEAR Act—is that people had been inspired to get involved locally.” Meanwhile Code Pink, Benjamin says, has similarly seen its fair share of new activists join their cause in the past year. “We’ve gotten a lot of new people—particularly young people—that
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have never been involved before who met us at the Women’s March or the Science March, or one of these other marches,” she says. “A lot of people have found us through these other ways and learned more about our issues and gotten more deeply involved with us.”
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marches? Have marches sort of served their function and we ought to be organizing something else? And it’s a really interesting conversation that we’re part of, but it’s a big challenge.” Keeping people engaged in certain causes— and effectively training them so they don’t get burnt out organizing for them—is a big part of what Rising Organizers teaches in their trainings. Feder says that’s one of the most important lessons for any grassroots organization to learn—but also one of the hardest. For Musgrove, another big struggle for activists, he thinks, is a lack of appropriate infrastructure for the protest movement to evolve, especially in the post-Obama era. “The unions are smaller. The NAACP is weaker in many states,” he says. “All these institutions that used to be able to channel all this type of anger really don’t exist in the way that they used to, if they exist at all. And I think that that’s sort of the struggle for many activists going forward.” For the new generation of organizers, Musgrove sees a trend of building new infrastructures to address the systemic evolution of organizing that Sanders and her DC Local Ambassadors are grappling with. “Millennials, I think, are sort of cutting a
was—and for as much energy and inspiration it gave activists both old and new—the fact remains that it can’t be replicated. And yet, its implications are still unfolding. It’s not hard to draw a line from the Women’s March, with its pro-feminist and anti-patriarchal themes, to the #MeToo movement. “And that, I think, is the biggest question: How is it that you take the energy that comes from something public that is so powerful for people and turn the work that you’re doing into a consistent, accountable home for people who share a care for the issues that they’re working on?” Feder wonders. “And how do you turn that into real political capacity and real effective activism?” Benjamin has spent her entire career as a political activist trying to answer that question. She hopes that the new generation of young activists that emerged this year will understand that their fight doesn’t end with a changing of the guard. “Activism should be a part of a lifetime commitment to making our society a better one,” she says. “And not to think that just getting Donald Trump out of the White House is going to be an answer for a lot of the problems that are plaguing our society.” CP
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How are D.C.’s Russian and Russian-owned restaurants faring as U.S. relations with their home country escalate to the tensest they’ve been since the Cold War? A sticker keeps reappearing on the menu displayed outside the Russia House restaurant. In a parody of a popular children’s song, the sticker reads “Tinkle Tinkle Puppet Czar, Putin Put You Where You Are.” Each time co - owners A r t u ras Vorobjovas and Aaron McGovern find it, they peel it off. “Like my mom said in Lithuania—the stick has two ends,” Vorobjovas says. The proverb is a gentle way to say, “Karma’s a you-know-what.” The owners say they are feeling the effects of deteriorating U.S.-Russian relations as special counsel Robert Mueller investigates whether Donald Trump colluded with Russian leaders during his 2016 campaign. “We got a rock through the window the weekend of the inauguration,” McGovern says. “It cost us about $5,000 because it wasn’t worth going through insurance. So you eat it, and it hurts, especially when you’re not as busy as you used to be.” McGovern calculates that revenue is down 30 percent. “Tense relations don’t help, and we’re not in the coolest neighborhood anymore,” he says. Located at 1800 Connecticut Ave. NW, Russia House sits atop the Dupont Circle neighborhood in what is technically Sheridan/Kalorama. You wouldn’t know business has taken a hit on a recent Saturday night, when the D.C. weather was mimicking winter in Moscow. Russia House has peeling wallpaper, a worn carpet, and stained menus, but its tables were full. Diners noshed on the bestsellers: borscht, pierogies, beef stroganoff, and chicken Kiev. Those eating downstairs spoke unaccented English, which is par for the course when it comes to clientele these days. Most patrons are business travelers or neighborhood regulars, not Russian diplomats, according to McGovern. “They have a bar on property, and they don’t promote drinking outside of your home or the embassy,” he explains. That said, Vorobjovas recalls when Vladimir Putin’s team of pilots visited in 2004. “It took us a while to crack who they were—until they got a little
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tipsy,” the Lithuanian says. Vorobjovas likens his restaurant to Epcot, saying Russian food and vodka make for more of a theme than anything else. But it hasn’t always been that way. Russia House was initially a private club founded by Edward Lozansky, a nuclear physicist who also founded the American University in Moscow. He currently serves as a columnist for the Washington Times. One of his recent articles bore the headline, “Let Trump be Trump—Ronald Reagan was Ronald Reagan.” Most know Lozansky for his dramatic love story, captured in print and on screen. “For Tatiana: When Love Triumphed over the Kremlin” is a movie about Lozansky’s relationship with the daughter of a high-ranking Soviet Union general. It took six years and a hunger strike for Tatiana Lozansky to rejoin her husband in America with their 11-yearold daughter. Lozansky told the Post in 1991 that royalties from the book and movie helped him purchase the Russia House building for $700,000 in the ’90s. He opened his club so powerful people could come together to help broker better U.S.-Russia relations. Lozansky met with McGovern and Vorobjovas in 2002, inviting them to lease Russia House and convert it into a public restaurant. Limited to the first floor only, it opened in March 2003. “We took the next level and the next level and eventually we took over the whole building,” McGovern says. “Finally, we bought the building from Ed.” “If you look in all of the articles, Ed mentions that he’s still a part of Russia House,” Vorobjovas says. “He has a key—he always comes in and sets off the alarm.” McGovern chimes in, “You can always tell when Ed’s here because he wears distinctive cologne.” “He’s worn the same cologne for 30 years—it must have been one of those cases that was on clearance at T.J. Maxx,” Vorobjovas jokes. Whether it has to do with Russia House’s origins as a private club or present day politics, it’s undeniable that a certain mystique surrounds the business. The owners welcome it, but only to a degree. “We’ve been told over the years that we’re mafia-owned,” McGovern says. “I can’t tell you how many times
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we’ve been told that we run prostitutes out of this place … We don’t break any laws, we pay taxes.” McGovern, the head chef, maintains
that the only thing secret about Russia House is his recipes. Russia House has no doubt taken a hit, but
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operating a restaurant that serves borscht isn’t necessarily as risky as a game of Russian roulette. Business is booming at Mari Vanna on the other side of Dupont Circle at 1141 Connecticut Ave. NW. The restaurant is appointed to look like a kitschy babushka’s house with its flower patterns, sunken couches, and framed photos. Mari Vanna has two locations in Russia and several in the U.S., and opened in D.C. in December 2012. General manager Tatiana Mis is from Belarus and manager Slava Grig is from Moldova. Both have been there since the beginning. “Business is really good,” Mis says. “Especially because it’s winter and it’s so cold. People are trying to reheat themselves. That’s why they come here for vodka.” She adds that Mari Vanna raked in at least 20 percent more revenue in December 2017 compared to December 2016. She doesn’t think strained U.S.-Russian relations have stymied business. “People who come—here they know where they’re coming, “ she says. “They are always really friendly. The only thing I would mention is that there’s a lot of interest. What dishes do you have? What do you sell here? What is Russian cuisine? But nothing aggressive or negative.” Grig adds, “People coming here can separate politics and cultural life … This news gives American people more interest in discovering Russian culture and Russian food. Even if it’s not the best news.” Mis suggests that Russia House has received the brunt of the backlash because it has the word Russia in its name. “If we would write, ‘Russia Mari Vanna,’ things might be different.” At the beginning, Mari Vanna’s clientele was predominantly Russian, but now more Americans are coming for dinner and to club when the second floor turns into a DJ-fueled dance party on weekends. The restaurant has loyal American superfans. “We have two regular guests—Bob and Edward—they’re here every day,” Grig says. “From the beginning, they’ve been here every day, and sometimes twice a day.” Another regular named Kevin made a Facebook group for Mari Vanna devotees. The restaurant offers different specials every night, which also helps build a regular clientele. For example, on Thursdays after 5 p.m., customers can pay $29 for unlimited caviar, blinis, condiments, salads, and a shot of vodka. While Americans continue to fill seats, Mis maintains that Mari Vanna is “the center of the Russian speaking community in D.C.” Unlike Russia House, Mari Vanna sees a fair share of people from the Russian Embassy, perhaps because Mari Vanna often pours vodka as a sponsor of the embassy’s cultural events. “They are good friends and come in here often,” Mis says. So do Russian hockey players who play for the home team. The Capitals’ Alex Ovechkin and Dmitry Orlov were at Mari Vanna for New Year’s Eve.
Mis is quite confident about the quality of Mari Vanna’s food and infused vodkas. When asked why she thought Russia House’s revenue has taken a small tumble, she chided, “It’s because of us.” It’s been business as usual at Dacha Beer Garden, too. The Shaw bar at 1600 7th St. NW borrows its name from the Russian word for a summer home. “The name is a feel,” says coowner Dmitri Chekaldin. “At a dacha you’re supposed to feel relaxed ... It’s a refuge in the bustling life of the city.” While the name is Russian and the bar is owned by a pair of Russian immigrants, you wouldn’t know the bar has a Slavic side. Most of the beers are German and the food menu reads like it was plucked from Oktoberfest save for hints of dill. Chekaldin grew up in the city of Perm, Russia before moving to Moscow in 1989. He came to the U.S. alone in 1994 to study and swim on the swim team at the George Washington University. His business partner Ilya Alter arrived about two years before Chekaldin, and came with his whole family as a part of a program that enabled Jewish refugees in Russia to migrate to America. Chekaldin and Alter consider themselves Americans and D.C. their home, but they say watching the news about their home country is surreal. “It’s unnerving at times,” Chekaldin says. “It puts a shadow on your origins and where you come from. People say, ‘Oh Russians, they’re sneaky. They’re not to be trusted.’” While Chekaldin says they “had a very good season” in Shaw, some anti-Russian sentiment crept into last year’s negotiations over the Dacha Beer Garden planned for 14th and S streets NW. The owners were met with plenty of push-back from dissenting neighbors, who were most concerned with the proposed capacity of 600 people and the noise that would come with it. Some cited that in 2015, the owners paid a fine of $42,500 for capacity-related violations of a settlement agreement. He says complaints occasionally got personal, especially on blogs similar to Reddit. “There were people saying, ‘You Russians are money launderers,’” Chekaldin says. He tried to laugh it off, noting that the restaurant industry is no money maker. “I didn’t really feel hurt. I think people say all sorts of things especially nowadays when nobody feels responsible for anything.” Chekaldin has a patriotic message. “If you really look at Russians or any other immigrants that come to this country, we come in, bring our culture, our aesthetic, our knowledge, and the success of America is based precisely on this,” he says. “It’s the advantage of America that it’s not a homogeneous society.” CP Eatery tips? Food pursuits? Send suggestions to lhayes@washingtoncitypaper.com.
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what we ate this week: Moscow borscht with beets, cabbage, braised short rib, and sour cream, $10, Russia House. Satisfaction level: 3 out of 5. what we’ll eat next week: ropa Vieja with shredded beef in tomato sauce, fried plantain, and black bean, $13.50, El Rinconcito Cafe. Excitement level: 4 out of 5.
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Dan’s Cafe 2315 18 St. NW As I walked back to my spot, I got comments from patrons. Guess what— it’s a crowded bar, sorry I brushed up on your Northface vest as I walked by you. If you think this place is a fun bar, I feel bad for you. —Emily R.
Player’s Lounge 2737 Martin Luther King Jr Ave. SE Former strip club, now straight dive. Patrons are very nice. Service is friendly, most of the time. Decent fried and baked chicken. That’s about it. —Jen C.
Trusty’s 1420 Pennsylvania Ave. SE I knew this restaurant was going to disappoint me when I looked at the menu and saw that they served chips with their sandwiches. This told me two things about the establishment: 1. They are either too cheap, too lazy, or both to get a deep fryer and create some french fries, onion rings, tater tots, or any other necessary fried side when you are eating at a bar, and 2. If they are too cheap to give me some fried deliciousness, then the sandwich I receive will inevitably have too little meat and be too small. —Adam A.
Harry’s 436 11th St. NW The beer I ordered came just as a bottle. No glass (I guess you have to order a pitcher to get a glass for your beer). —Josh R. Anyway, this might be a good place for whoever is from here and doesn’t know better, but we are from New York. —Juliana O.
Top of the Hour Drink specials: $4 draft beers, $5 house wines, and cocktails ranging from $6 to $9.
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Food specials: An assortment of dips, mini sandwiches, and other small bites, ranging from $3 to $5.
Hours: 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Mondays through Fridays
Pros: The Mediterranean flavors of the food specials are a notch above traditional pub food, and filling without being greasy. A plentiful selection of dips to accompany warm pita makes for easy sharing. The crazy feta hush puppies are a particular treat: perfectly crisp on the outside and creamy on the inside. Cava doesn’t get quite as packed as some more hoppin’ happy hours, so
Tune Inn 331 Pennsylvania Ave. SE I won’t be going back, although the food looked great on Triple D (Diners, Driveins and Dives), it just did not hold up with flavor. The deep fried burger with sweet potato fries and the mozzarella sticks were the only exception. I wish I had been there when Guy was … Oh, the deer butt on the wall was cool! —Lss J. First of all, the waiter announced it as chicken tenders, not chicken fingers. Disgrace. Second, my food was served and it came out on a STYROFOAM PLATE! I was like woah, I think this is the wrong order, because I ordered a basket, not a STYROFOAM PLATE! And the waiter just says, “that’s your food,” and walked away. You know what, that’s two strikes. But of course, then came strike three. The manager comes over and tells us a story of how JFK came and sat in the booth we were sitting in! Cool, but if JFK were to walk through that door, he would have received his chicken fingers in a BASKET! —Jay. A.
there’s no need to shout your conversation or stand awkwardly around the bar juggling your coat and drink. If you want an extra bargain, particularly for a group, stop by on Tuesdays for halfprice bottles of wine. Cons: Happy hour specials are only offered at the bar, which doesn’t benefit from the same natural light that streams into the dining room. And when there is a crowd, it can be hard to wiggle out of your seat. The good news is that during the warmer months, happy hour is also available on the small but charming patio. —Stephanie Rudig
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Yelp reviewers, particularly those who are still at it in 2018, are a strange breed. If you’ve ever scoured the site trying to get a sense of an establishment before you go, you’ve noticed that the reviews tend to be overly autobiographical and weirdly fixated on minor details of service. Dive bars, therefore, are rife with infractions that sharp-eyed Yelpers take as personal affronts, entirely missing the point that the service is supposed to be a little gruff and the food isn’t going to win anyone a Michelin star. Presented below are some of the most nit-picky and downright perplexing excerpts from D.C. dive bar reviews. —Stephanie Rudig
Post Pub 1422 L St. NW Awful food and dive-y ambience. —Jocelyn L.
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The Sandwich: The Touchdown Where: Little Pearl, 921 Pennsylvania Ave. SE Price: $12 Stuffings: Corned beef, provolone cheese, Thousand Island dressing, gem lettuce Bread: House-made white sandwich roll Thickness: 3 inches Pros: The combination of Thousand Island dressing, melted cheese, and corned beef is reminiscent of a Reuben, but a whole lot lighter and with less cabbage. Find it at the new cafe and wine bar from Rose’s Luxury and Pineapple & Pearls Chef Aaron Silverman. Gem lettuce replaces sauerkraut, giving the sandwich some freshness and making room for the tangy Thousand Island dressing, which subtly flirts with the salty meat. Cons: Despite being toasted, the roll gets a little soggy if the sandwich sits for too long. Resist the urge to get your sandwich packed in one of Little Pearl’s oh-so-chic to-go boxes and enjoy your lunch on site. Sloppiness level (1 to 5): 3. Thousand Island dressing is applied plentifully and will leak from this sandwich. The soft roll also allows ingredients to spill out, so prepare to rebuild your sandwich as you eat it. Overall score (1 to 5): 4. The fillings taste great and hit sweetness, saltiness, and tartness in equal measure. Were it a little more structurally sound, it would receive full marks, but that shouldn’t stop you from enjoying Silverman’s food at affordable prices. —Caroline Jones
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Wild World By Kayla Randall Seventeen yearS ago, a hippopotamus family slowly wandered down a white sand beach on the western coast of Gabon and Michael “Nick” Nichols followed them with his camera lens. He was on a long photography assignment for National Geographic, traveling more than 2,000 miles from the Republic of the Congo to Gabon with explorer Michael Fay and writer David Quammen, and would walk the beach in the mornings looking for animals. Soon, the heavy hippos got into the Atlantic Ocean and began to surf the waves. This serves a purpose, Nichols says, as they walk from their lagoon to the ocean in the mornings and use the waves to carry them down a few miles where they can feed on new grass at night. “It’s 4 a.m., we’re trying to get the surfing hippos coming up out of the surf,” Nichols said in his easy Southern drawl during a video diary at the time. “It’s very, very difficult to see them. But they symbolize something in my photography, too. Because I go after things that are unseen.” Nichols ran back and forth on the beach, trying to get precise shots that would illustrate his goal of “trying to tell a story that might make people care about nature, and nature being wild.” He succeeded. His surfing hippo photo was selected as one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential Images of All Time in 2016. Nichols, 65, hails from Muscle Shoals in northern Alabama, near the Tennessee River. His mother raised three children with a fourth grade education. While playing as a child, he’d create his own fantasy worlds. “A forest behind the house would be the jungles of Africa. That, I think, led to where I went.” The first time he picked up a camera in a college introductory photography course, he became enamored with the medium and knew he wanted to pursue it as a career. “I borrowed [a camera] that was on my shoulder for the rest of my life,” he says. That same
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semester, in 1972, he was drafted into the Army. He was able to keep up his skills during his service, however: His military identification card labeled him an official U.S. Army photographer. “S omehow, he persuaded them to hand him a camera instead of a gun,” Quammen said at a recent event. Quammen once asked Nichols what he would have done with his life had he been born long before the creation of photography. Nichols responded: “Well, I’d be in jail, I guess.” In the Army, Nichols was depressed. He was stationed at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, looking for a creative outlet. He began exploring and photographing the state’s caves on the weekends. It was on these excursions that he taught himself about lighting and the functional techniques required to be a professional photographer. After completing three years of military service, he left the Army in 1975. He started submitting his portfolio to National Geographic and received only rejection letters in return. But German educational magazine Geo, launched in 1976, was looking for reliable photographers stateside and came across his cave work. They were impressed, assigning him a cave story to photograph in 1978, which they published in 1979. He kept working for them, photographing dangerous river expeditions, rappelling off mountains in the Arctic. He went to caves all over the country, from Georgia to New Mexico. “People talk about danger, I never thought
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National Geographic photographer Michael “Nick” Nichols, the subject of a new exhibition at the National Geographic Museum, reflects on a life spent off the beaten path.
Tiger, Bandhavgarh National Park, India, 1996 about danger, I just wanted to get pictures,” witness chimpanzees be tortured in the name he says. of science. These challenges, he says, are a For the next ten years, he’d publish photos in way to make people care. Rolling Stone, Audubon, and Esquire. In 1989, he Using camera traps—remotely activated finally broke through with National Geographic, cameras with motion sensors—and every when the magazine asked him to return to manner of lens, he’s photographed Jane New Mexico to photograph Lechuguilla Cave. Goodall’s work and interactions with He continued freelancing for the magazine chimpanzees. He’s captured suffering chimps for years. In 1996, he was hired as a staff as scientists experiment on them, and chimps photographer and after that, he never worked encountering humans for the first time as anywhere else, retiring from his official duties thousands of insects swirled around him. as editor at large for photography in 2015. He’s gotten pictures of lowland gorillas, These days, he can look back on his lions and tigers with their cubs, bears taking career and all of the things he’s done with baths, herds of hundreds of elephants, owls the perspective he couldn’t have when he with talons larger than human hands, the was in the thick of it all. Nichols’ images for wilds of Yellowstone, and giant 3,200-yearNational Geographic are full of movement, old trees. brutality, and enduring life. Some are just as He now understands that his photos can challenging to look at as they were to take. help save the Earth and combat its humanSome required him to venture into dense accelerated destruction. forests that no human had ever entered, “‘Wild’ is an idea,” he says. “We don’t others to get intimate with elephants and understand it, but we’ve got it in us. A lot of our
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behaviors are driven by that. So, that’s what the animals taught me. The planet is just not intact without the wild. And we’ve got to help keep it wild, we don’t want to tame it. Tame is so boring. The unpredictability of the wild is so special.” In every project, he’s sure to not aggravate or harm the animals in any way. “If an animal told me it didn’t like what I was doing, I stopped doing it.” Once he realized that elephants hated camera flashes, he never used flashes again near them. His work with National Geographic has brought about real change. Photos and data from his 2,000 mile trek through central and western Africa, on which he photographed the surfing hippos, were shared with Gabon’s president Omar Bongo, who was shocked to learn that all this natural beauty existed in his own country. This led to the creation of 13 national parks in Gabon, and brought significant U.S. funding to the Congo Basin. “The most important thing in conservation is land, and that’s why what Fay and I did is so important, because we actually saved land,” Nichols says now. His last international assignment sent him to Tanzania’s Serengeti plains in 2012. He had always dreamed of doing a photo project on Serengeti lions and entering their world. Using a robotic camera, he did, getting up close with several prides. He shot 200,000 pictures of the lions. National Geographic cut that down to about 13, he says. But failures have also stuck with him and he’s learned from them. When he was on his final assignment at Yellowstone National Park from 2014 to 2015, he wanted to capture specific images of wolf packs. They didn’t let him, though, and avoided the areas where the cameras were set up. Nichols accepted the failure because the animals were wild, and the wild didn’t belong to him. “They defeated me completely. We learned that they are that wary, and it was cool to know that. Failure can
sometimes be very positive.” Now he and his wife Reba, who have two adult sons, live in Sugar Hollow, Virginia, near Charlottesville and are, fittingly, still surrounded by nature. Instead of lions and tigers, he’s fallen in love with owls and the occasional bear, and recently got an iPhone X to take photos of his Australian cattle dog, Thermal. He sets simple camera traps on his land to try and capture the elusive coywolf. He’ll never stop being a photographer. In all his adventures traversing the globe, his pictures haven’t come without a cost. By the time he got to the lion project, his body, he says, was starting to break. He’s contracted malaria more than 20 times, dealt with bouts of blackwater fever, and had five knee surgeries. “It was what I begged for in life,” he says. “Once I had it, I just took it all the way, all the time. Now that I reflect on it, it was incredible to see all that. It does change you.” For 40 years, he never stopped chasing adventure. Today, he’s trying to slow down. His photos currently adorn the walls of the National Geographic Museum on 17th Street NW in a new exhibit called Wild: Michael Nichols. It’s a celebration of his career and the nearly 30 photo assignments that have become storied images at the publication. He’s documented wildlife so well that each step of the exhibit is referred to as its own “room.” There’s a lion room, an elephant room, a chimpanzee room. The incredible photos on display represent everywhere he’s been. But where he’s going next, he doesn’t know. “I’m just taking care of my family and my life around me, and enjoying the world around me,” he says. “Maybe someday I’ll have another project that I want to do, but I don’t know what it is right now. I’m trying to put that National Geographic guy to bed, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to die and not be a photographer.” CP
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For Your Consideration The DMV has been host to an abundance of true crime stories worthy of the big screen or an elite streaming service. Hollywood loves true crime stories. And with the success of The Post, Hollywood is also really high on D.C. right now. The two themes come together in Georgetown, a new drama directed by Christoph Waltz based on the murder of elderly socialite Viola Drath, which captured local and national attention in 2011. Here at Washington City Paper, we have compiled a list of the best options. (And yes, we’re available to write the screenplays.) —Matt Cohen and Caroline Jones
Summer of the Slasher Directed by Spike Lee Northern Virginia, 2011. A group of teens working at the Fair Oaks Mall navigate complex feelings of love and identity over one summer while the community is gripped with fear as an unknown assailant has been stalking women in the mall slashing their butts with an X-Acto knife. Based on: Johnny Pimentel, a former day laborer, who pleaded guilty to four counts of malicious wounding and two counts of unlawful wounding, for slashing women’s butts in the summer of 2011. We Found Love Directed by Barry Jenkins A woman mourns the vicious murder of her daughter. A newspaper reporter investigates how the suspect convinced parole officers to let him out of prison early before he committed the murder. As their stories become more intertwined, will they be able to accept their past tragedies and love again? Based on: Neely Tucker, the Washington Post reporter who covered the 2002 murder of 9-year-old Erika Smith for the newspaper and subsequently married her mother, Carol Smith. The King of Ashburn Directed by Kathryn Bigelow At the top of Ashburn, Virginia’s rich and powerful there is one man who seemingly has it all: fast cars, fast women, and a decadent mansion that more closely resembles a palace. But what’s the price to pay for such a glamorous lifestyle? As it turns out, a life of crime and deception, which leads down the darkest of roads. Based on: The life and death of Osama El-Atari, the Loudoun County restaurant owner and playboy who was jailed for fraud and became a jailhouse informant, which led to his shocking murder.
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Aspen Hill Directed by David Fincher To their family and peers, Sam and Aaron may seem like just another pair of average teenagers—bored, guileless, introverted. But the duo harbor a dark secret: They want to be murderers. Over the course of a summer, Sam and Aaron meticulously plan a gruesome murder of a classmate, the ramifications of which will transform their quiet suburban Maryland community. Based on: The gruesome 1997 murder and dismemberment of Silver Spring teen Alfredo “Freddy” Tello Jr. by Samuel Sheinbein and Aaron Needle. The Lyons of Kensington Directed by Sofia Coppola March 1975. Two preteen sisters walk to the mall near their house to have lunch and never come home. Decades pass with no leads but their dedicated family never gives up hope that their killer will be brought to justice. Will they finally find out the truth about what happened to their daughters? Based on: The disappearance and presumed murder of Katherine and Sheila Lyon, who disappeared outside Wheaton Plaza in 1975. Lloyd Welch pleaded guilty to murdering them in Sept. 2017. House on Fire Directed by Patty Jenkins A D.C. mansion burns with the wealthy family that owns it inside. As the national media speculates about what went wrong, detectives search the rubble for answers. Based on: The 2015 murder of members of the Savopoulos family, which has never been fully explained.
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This Time, in AfricA Queens Girl in Africa
By Caleen Sinnette Jennings Directed by Paige Hernandez At Atlas Performing Arts Center to Feb. 4 When an intervieWer asked teen heartthrob Harry Styles if he felt pressure to appeal to a more mature audience as he transitioned into a solo career, he buoyed those of us who’ve ever been a pubescent girl by rejecting the question’s premise. “Who’s to say that young girls who like pop music—short for popular, right?—have worse musical taste than a 30-year-old hipster guy? That’s not up to you to say … Young girls like The Beatles. You gonna tell me they’re not serious?” Styles told Rolling Stone. “How can you say young girls don’t get it? They’re our future. Our future doctors, lawyers, mothers, presidents, they kind of keep the world going.” In the world premiere of Queens Girl in Africa, the first play of the second Women’s Voices Theater Festival, D.C. playwright Caleen Sinnette Jennings gets it. When we meet the show’s lead, 15-year-old Jacqueline Marie Butler (Erika Rose), she’s on a ship docking in Liverpool, squee-ing at being thisclose to her dream man Paul McCartney. In a lesser play, this would signal Jackie’s vapidity. Thankfully, Queens Girl in Africa, like Harry Styles, knows that liking The Beatles isn’t shorthand for superficiality. Jackie may have a crush, but she also has a “blowtorch in [her] belly” that fires up when she senses injustice. Both of these characteristics lead to comedic moments, but we’re not laughing at her. As New York City-born Jackie moves to Nigeria in 1965 with her parents, who bill the relocation as a return to their homeland, she struggles with questions of where, exactly, her family’s roots are. Keenly aware of the racism and op-
pression that black Americans face, she expects to find a sense of belonging in her new home. Instead, locals call her “oyinbo”—foreigner. Her family adapts to having a servant, even as her dad blanches at being called “master.” Jackie navigates a country that is both new to her and itself only five years old, on the precipice of civil war. If that isn’t tough enough, she’s also the new kid in school. The mid-to-late 1960s depicted in the play were cataclysmic both stateside and in Nigeria, a reminder that our modern day isn’t the first time the world felt like it was ripping apart at the seams. That doesn’t stop people from having crushes or tiffs, though. With sparse scenery and props, aside from some projections to show news footage and African geography, director Paige Hernandez cedes the stage to Rose. I could have spent the play’s entire 95 minutes watching Rose dance as Jackie, with a timidity that grows into exuberance as her confidence swells. While she is the only actor to appear on stage, it doesn’t feel quite right to call this a one-woman show. Rose quite literally embodies dozens of characters, from Jackie’s parents to friends to street vendors—adopting fresh cadences and mannerisms for all without veering into caricature. Even though Rose only speaks one line as a Benson and Hedges cigarette hawker, for instance, it’s with a fullness that signals this vendor has his own story. The semi-autobiographical Queens Girl in Africa is a sequel to the sublime Queens Girl in the World, which Theater J staged in the fall of 2015, though audiences can jump right in without having seen the prior play. “The world’s a ship that can’t be righted,” Jackie concludes as she leaves Nigeria. But on this matter, I tend to agree with Harry Styles. With her perceptiveness, humor, and moral compass, Jackie kind of keeps the world going. —Rachel Kurzius 1333 H St. NE. $20–$65. (202) 399-7993. mosaictheater.org.
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KC JAZZ CLUB
ALL PERFORMANCES AT 7 & 9 P.M. IN THE TERRACE GALLERY
LOUIS HAYES, SERENADE FOR HORACE FRI. & SAT, JANUARY 19 & 20 Louis Hayes presents a tribute to Horace Silver, the bandleader who first introduced him to the jazz world through recordings with Blue Note Records.
Threadbare Phantom Thread
Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
D I S C O V E RY A RT I S T
ARCOIRIS SANDOVAL’S SONIC ASYLUM QUINTET S AT. , F E B R U A RY 3 Pianist, composer, and educator ArcoIris Sandoval returns to the Kennedy Center with her quintet Sonic Asylum.
ERIC HARLAND, VOYAGER F R I . , F E B R U A RY 9 Drummer Eric Harland returns to the Kennedy Center with his band Voyager to showcase their “continuously inventive and artful” style (Buffalo News).
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Tickets also available at the Box Office. Groups call (202) 416-8400. For all other ticket-related customer service inquiries, call the Advance Sales Box Office at (202) 416-8540.
Discovery Artists in the KC Jazz Club are supported by The William N. Cafritz Jazz Initiative and The King-White Family Foundation and Dr. J. Douglas White. Support for Jazz at the Kennedy Center is generously provided by Elizabeth and C. Michael Kojaian.
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In the magnIfIcent Phantom Thread, Daniel Day-Lewis plays Reynolds Woodcock, a couture dressmaker with a penchant for secrecy. In 1950s London, his name is synonymous with prestige and status. He clients—the rich, famous, and sometime royal—don’t quite appreciate his art, so he sews secret messages into his creations as a way to express himself. He has all the trapping of success, including celebrity, riches, and scores of adoring young women whom he rotates in and out of his bed, but something inside him yearns to be seen by those who would take the trouble to look. On the surface, Phantom Thread looks a lot like other “male genius” films, the kind that ask viewers to forgive the abuse or neglect they heap on their wives so that we can celebrate their art. There is a brilliant male, Woodcock, and a beautiful young muse—Alma (Vicky Krieps, who matches Day-Lewis’s power in every frame), a country waitress whom Reynolds turns his intense gaze on and who quickly falls under his spell. For the first half of the film, their relationship unfolds according to his every whim. His work habits leave no room for meaningful human contact, and when the women he allows to share his home inevitably want more from him, his hard-edged sister and business partner Cyril (Lesley Manville) kicks them to the curb. As we watch the seemingly innocent Alma fall for Reynolds, her fate seems sadly predetermined. Though writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson films these sequences from Woodcock’s perspective, we are never fully on his side. In one of the funniest scenes, Woodcock gets visibly annoyed at Alma for buttering her toast too loudly over breakfast, when all he wants is peace and quiet. The film laughs at his self-seriousness, yet we still feel sympathy for his predicament. It’s a masterful perfor-
mance by Day-Lewis, who cleaves open the sexy, stern genius archetype and reveals the selfish child underneath. Under Anderson’s watchful, thoughtful eye, nothing is taken for granted. His camera (for the first time, Anderson acts as his own director of photography) glides through the elegant townhouse where Reynolds works and lives, and while some filmmakers would focus on the ornate architecture, Anderson is more interested in the human spaces. Often set against white walls or bright daylight, DayLewis’ face has never seemed more angular, hinting at hidden demons. Alternatively, Krieps’ face is pink and cherubic, which only tees you up for the surprising shift that occurs in the film’s second half when Alma shows that she will not be excised from his life without a fight. The shift is a small one—a tiny drop that creates a tidal wave of change—but it alters the story and its comment on the male genius significantly. When Alma claims a bit of power for herself (in a twist I wouldn’t dare to spoil), it sets up a confrontation between lovers that unfolds in unexpected ways. Especially in the #MeToo era, we may yearn to see Woodcock ruined for his attitudes toward women, but Anderson would rather see a balance achieved. As Day-Lewis and Krieps each seek the upper hand, insulting each other with both words and deeds, Phantom Thread emerges as Anderson’s funniest and most hopeful film yet, a relationship comedy hiding inside a gothic romance. It’s a delightfully wicked turn in a film so wonderfully out-of-step with Hollywood expectations that it might as well have been directed by an alien observing human life. There are no contemporary cinematic guideposts for Phantom Thread; it is moved only by Anderson’s peculiar vision. Looking at the human condition from an acute angle, it finds a secret passage directly into the perverse corners of the heart. I’m grateful it took the trouble to look. —Noah Gittell Phantom Thread opens Friday at Landmark E Street Cinema and Bethesda Row Cinema, and at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center.
CITYLIST
IAN MOORE
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Music
THUR. JAN. 25 ~ 8:30PM TIX: $20
CITY LIGHTS: FRIDAY
FRIDAY FOLk
Birchmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria. (703) 549-7500. Eddie From Ohio. 7:30 p.m. $42.50. birchmere.com.
HIp-HOp
SongByrd muSic houSe and record cafe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Yung Gravy. 8 p.m. $13–$50. songbyrddc.com.
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JAzz
BlueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Stanley Jordan. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $35. bluesalley. com.
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Kennedy center concert hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Sara Bareilles and Caroline Shaw. 9 p.m. $25–$75. kennedy-center.org.
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the anthem 901 Wharf St. SW. (202) 888-0020. Walk The Moon. 8 p.m. $35–$99. theanthemdc.com.
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9:30 cluB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. The Disco Biscuits. 8 p.m. Sold out. 930.com.
WORLD
2.13 2.15 2.17 2.19
the hamilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. Antibalas. 8 p.m. $20–$25. thehamiltondc.com.
SAtuRDAY DJ NIgHtS
2.20
u Street muSic hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889. Dimitri Max. 10:30 p.m. $10. ustreetmusichall.com.
2.22 3.2 3.3 3.14 3.15 3.17
FOLk
Birchmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria. (703) 549-7500. Eddie From Ohio. 7:30 p.m. $42.50. birchmere.com. milKBoy arthouSe 7416 Baltimore Ave, College Park. Paint Branch Creek. 7:30 p.m. $10–$12. milkboyarthouse.com.
HIp-HOp
9:30 cluB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. RJD2. 8 p.m. $25. 930.com. fillmore Silver Spring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Fetty Wap. 8 p.m. $35. fillmoresilverspring.com. SongByrd muSic houSe and record cafe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Beau Young Prince. 8 p.m. $10–$12. songbyrddc.com.
JAzz
BlueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Stanley Jordan. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $35. bluesalley. com.
ROCk
the anthem 901 Wharf St. SW. (202) 888-0020. The Disco Biscuits. 7:30 p.m. $40–$95. theanthemdc.com.
WORLD
pearl Street WarehouSe 33 Pearl St. SW. (202) 380-9620. Elena & Los Fulanos. 8 p.m. $10. pearlstreetwarehouse.com.
THE 19TH STREET BAND HONEYSUCKLE THE WOODSHEDDERS THE HIGHBALLERS AARON BURDETT
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SARA BAREILLES AND CAROLINE SHAW
In a very cool move, the National Symphony Orchestra named quirky troubadour Ben Folds artistic advisor, which allows him to curate some pretty fantastic nights of music featuring some of his very notable friends. In his second one of these nights, he’s called upon the triple-threat Sara Bareilles (a Grammy and Tony Award nominee who also appears in her own musical, Waitress, on Broadway) and Caroline Shaw (a composer who recently won the Pulitzer Prize for Music) to join him at the Kennedy Center for a night of intimate music on the big stage. Both Bareilles and Folds are known for their piano skills and their confessional lyrics, and it’ll be really special to see that paired with the exciting things Shaw’s been cooking up with modern classical music. This night is basically like getting invited to an all-night hang out with a talented, funny group of friends, and you wouldn’t want to miss that chance. I mean, what are your friends doing that night? The show begins at 9 p.m. at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall, 2700 F St. NW. $25–$75. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org. —Diana Metzger
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ALBERT CASTIGLIA ANGELA PERLEY & THE HOWLIN’ MOONS TRAGEDY: ALL METAL TRIBUTE TO THE BEE GEES & BEYOND ERIC LINDELL CALEB CAUDLE FOLK SOUL REVIVAL SCOTT H. BIRAM / THE HOOTEN HALLERS JON DEE GRAHAM ALSO FEATURING: BEN DE LA COUR JAMIE MCLEAN BAND LEFT LANE CRUISER SUZY BOGGUSS (TWO SHOWS) GANGSTAGRASS 6 STRING DRAG BARRENCE WHITFIELD & THE SAVAGES CORY MORROW SUNNY SWEENEY JIM WHITE / SYLVIE SIMMONS RAY BONNEVILLE WOOD & WIRE SLIM CESSNA’S AUTO CLUB & GALLOWS BOUND KELLEY STOLTZ GURF MORLIX
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CITY LIGHTS: SAtuRDAY
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RJD2
Even if you’ve never heard his name, you’ve certainly heard RJD2’s music: The percussive and orchestral attack of his 2006 track “A Beautiful Mine” soundtracked Don Draper’s fall from grace in the opening credits of Mad Men. That anachronistic tidbit gives you an idea of what to expect from RJD2, born Ramble Jon Krohn, a producer best known for eclectic collages that combine hip-hop beats with dusty samples and lush instrumentation but often forgo rap vocals. It’s a style he has pushed and pulled in different directions since his 2002 album Deadringer—a seminal release by Definitive Jux, the label co-founded by Run The Jewels’ El-P—and one that continues all the way through to 2016’s Dame Fortune. The album plays like a soundtrack to an unreleased film, from the swelling synthesizers of its opener to its Philly soul and extraterrestrial diversions. Just as the credits were but a 30-second introduction to the wide world of Mad Men, “A Beautiful Mine” is just a glimpse of RJD2’s world. RJD2 performs at 8 p.m. at 9:30 Club, 815 V St. NW. $25. (202) 265-0930. 930.com. —Chris Kelly
SuNDAY FOLk
Birchmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria. (703) 549-7500. Eddie From Ohio. 7:30 p.m. $42.50. birchmere.com.
JAzz BlueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Stanley Jordan. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $30. bluesalley. com.
ROCk 9:30 cluB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Dorothy. 5:30 p.m. $17.50. 930.com. fillmore Silver Spring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Black Alley. 8:30 p.m. $20. fillmoresilverspring.com.
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the hamilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. Yacht Rock Revue. 7:30 p.m. $20.50–$25.50. thehamiltondc.com.
WORLD anderSon houSe muSeum of the Society of the cincinnati 2118 Massachusetts Ave., NW. (202) 785-2040. Jason Vieaux and Julien Labro. 4 p.m. $20–$40. phillipscollection.org.
MONDAY FuNk & R&B
Birchmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria. (703) 549-7500. Angie Stone. 7:30 p.m. $59.50. birchmere.com. BlueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Unit 3 Deep. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $25. bluesalley.com.
THIS WEEK’S SHOWS
Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven .......................................... Th JAN 11 RJD2 w/ Photay .............................................................................................. Sa 13 Dorothy ......................................................................................................... Su 14 ALL GOOD PRESENTS
Collie Buddz w/ Jo Mersa Marley & The Holdup.......................................... M 15 JANUARY
FEBRUARY (cont.)
ALL GOOD PRESENTS
Circles Around The Sun ....Th 18 ALL GOOD PRESENTS
BoomBox ..................................F 19 ALL GOOD PRESENTS
The Infamous Stringdusters w/ Dangermuffin ........................Sa 20 D NIGHT ADDED!
FIRST NIGHT SOLD OUT! SECON
MØ & Cashmere Cat w/ Darius ....................................Tu 23 Tennis w/ Overcoats ..................W 24 Big Head Todd & The Monsters w/ Luther Dickinson ..................Th 25 Frankie Ballard .......................F 26 STEEZ PROMO PRESENTS
Manic Focus and Minnesota .....................Sa 27 Enter Shikari w/ Single Mothers & Milk Teeth ..Su 28 Black Rebel Motorcycle Club w/ Night Beats .............................M 29 Kimbra w/ Arc Iris ....................Tu 30 Typhoon w/ Bad Bad Hats .........W 31 FEBRUARY ALL GOOD PRESENTS
Greensky Bluegrass w/ Billy Strings Attendance included with purchase of
tickets to 2/3 Greensky Bluegrass @ The Anthem ..................................F 2
STEEZ PROMO PRESENTS
Emancipator Ensemble ......Sa 3 J. Roddy Walston and The Business w/ Post Animal ..........Th 8 White Ford Bronco: DC’s All-90s Band .......................F 9 COIN w/ The Aces ......................Sa 10
Múm ..........................................Su 11 Sleigh Bells w/ Sunflower Bean ......................W 14 U STREET MUSIC HALL PRESENTS
Matoma w/ Elephante & Youngr .............Th 15 ZZ Ward w/ Black Pistol Fire
& Billy Raffoul ..............................F 16
STRFKR w/ Reptaliens .............Sa 17 U STREET MUSIC HALL PRESENTS
Ganja White Night w/ Dirt Monkey & Subtronics ....Su 18 The Oh Hellos w/ Lowland Hum .........................W 21 U STREET MUSIC HALL PRESENTS
Lane 8 ......................................Th 22 ALL GOOD PRESENTS
Railroad Earth w/ Roosevelt Coliler .......F 23 & Sa 24 Rhye ...........................................M 26 Lights w/ Chase Atlantic & DCF .Tu 27 MARCH
Galactic (F 2 - w/ Butcher Brown) .... F 2 & Sa 3 Hippie Sabotage w/ Melvv & Olivia Noelle ..............Su 4 LP w/ Noah Kahan .........................M 5 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark w/ GGOOLLDD ......Tu 6 Cornelius ....................................W 7 Beth Ditto ................................Sa 10 ALL GOOD PRESENTS
J Boog w/ Jesse Royal & Etana .............Su 11 K.Flay w/ Yungblud ...................M 12
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Lincoln Theatre • 1215 U Street, NW Washington, D.C. THIS MONDAY!
Henry Rollins Travel Slideshow .......................... JAN 15 NIGHT ADDED!
FIRST NIGHT SOLD OUT! SECOND
Bianca Del Rio ...................... MAR 15 PostSecret: The Show ...... MAR 24
STORY DISTRICT’S
Top Shelf ................................... JAN 21 Rob Bell w/ Peter Rollins .......... MAR 27 ALL GOOD PRESENTS
The Wood Brothers
w/ The Stray Birds ................... JAN 26 & 27
Max Raabe & Palast Orchester.............APR 11
Calexico w/ Ryley Walker ............APR 27 Sucker For Love ................... FEB 10 Robyn Hitchcock Dixie Dregs and His L.A. Squires (Complete Original Lineup STORY DISTRICT’S
with Steve Morse, Rod Morgenstein, Allen Sloan, Andy West, and Steve Davidowski) ..................MAR 7
w/ Tristen .......................................APR 27
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9:30 CLUB PRESENTS AT U STREET MUSIC HALL Cuco + Helado Negro w/ Lido Pimienta ............................Tu JAN 23 Flint Eastwood w/ NYDGE ..............F FEB 2 Anna Meredith ................................... Sa 3 Why? w/ Open Mike Eagle ........................F 9 Anti-Flag & Stray From The Path .. Sa 10 Wylder ................................................ Sa 17
MAGIC GIANT w/ The Brevet .............. Su 18 Higher Brothers ............................... M 19 MAKO w/ Night Lights .......................... Sa 24 Gabrielle Aplin w/ John Splithoff ...... Su 25 Missio w/ Welshly Arms ...................F MAR 2 Ella Vos w/ Freya Ridings ....................... M 5 Amy Shark .......................................... M 12
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TICKETS for 9:30 Club shows are available through TicketFly.com, by phone at 1-877-4FLY-TIX, and at the 9:30 Club box office. 9:30 CLUB BOX OFFICE HOURS are 12-7pm on weekdays & until 11pm on show nights, 6-11pm on Sat, and 6-10:30pm on Sun on show nights.
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NOW OPEN
THE WHARF, SW DC DINER & BAR OPEN LATE!
JANUARY CONCERTS F 12 SA 13 TH 18 F 19 SA 20
THE ROCK-A-SONICS w/ THE JUDY CHOPS ELENA AND LOS FULANOS & RUN COME SEE FREE DIRT PRESENTS: WESTERN CENTURIES w/ VIVIAN LEVA & RILEY CALCAGNO 2-STEP DANCE LESSON INCL. IN TICKET PRICE! JONNY GRAVE w/ NAH DAN BERN w/ JACKSON EDWARDS
SU 21
CHARLIE MARS w/ SEAN HOLLORAN
F 26 SA 27
JUSTIN TRAWICK AND THE COMMON GOOD DEBUT ALBUM RELEASE AND 8TH ANNUAL 29TH BDAY SHOW! RUTHIE AND THE WRANGLERS w/ KENTUCKY AVENUE
FEBRUARY CONCERTS F2 SA 3 W7 F9 SA 10 W 14 TH 15
BLACK MASALA w/ SWIFT TECHNIQUE ERIC SCOTT & JONATHAN SLOANE GRAND PRIZE WINNER SONGWRITER CIRCLE BEN MASON • KIPYN MARTIN • TONY DENIKOS AZTEC SUN ALL GOOD PRESENTS: THE LIL SMOKIES THE EMPTY POCKETS ROBERT LIGHTHOUSE
F 23
AMERICAN IDOL WINNER
SA 24
THE JAMES HUNTER SIX w/ 3 MAN SOUL MACHINE
DAVID COOK
MARCH CONCERTS F2 SA 3 F9 SA 10 W 14 SA 24
THE MIGHTY PINES NO SECOND TROY w/ TOMMY GANN BUMPIN UGLIES w/ DUB CITY RENEGADES & JOINT OPERATION CRYS MATTHEWS w/ ECHO BLOOM
SHERMAN EWING
w/ SPECIAL GUEST JOHN JO JO HERMAN KYLE CRAFT
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CITY LIGHTS: SuNDAY
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VIVIAN GREEN Jake 12,14 EDDIE FROM OHIO Armerding 15 ANGIE STONE 16 DAN TYMINSKI 17&18 ERIC BENET 19 JUNIOR BROWN Lucy Wainwright 20 RUFUS WAINWRIGHT Roche 21 MAC McANALLY 22&23 GAELIC STORM 25 THE VENTURES 26& 27 RICKY SKAGGS & KENTUCKY THUNDER Allen Feb 1 TODD SNIDER (Solo)Thompson Jan 11
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COREY SMITH Shingleton 3 MAYSA 5
George
A Very Intimate Evening with
Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo 6&7 TOMMY EMMANUEL CGP with special guest
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BURLESQUE-A-PADES
In Loveland! featuring Angie Pontani & much more! Hosted by Murray Hill!
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WILL DOWNING CARLA BRUNI An Evening with
DREW & ELLIE HOLCOMB L 15 PHIL VASSAR H 16 ERIC ROBERSON 17&18 ARLO GUTHRIE exie ayden
Re:Generation Tour 2018 w/Arlo, Abe & Sarah Lee Guthrie
THE S.O.S. BAND 20 THE ASSOCIATION 22&23 JEFFREY OSBORN 19
LALAH HATHAWAY THE HONESTLY TOUR
Fri. Jan. 26, 8pm
Warner Theatre, Wash DC. NEW ALBUM
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IRANIAN FILM FEStIVAL
The Freer Gallery of Art’s annual festival of Iranian films has featured work from such awardwinning directors as Asghar Farhadi, whose The Salesman won last year’s Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and the late Abbas Kiarostami, whose final film, 24 Frames, makes its local premiere at the festival on February 18. Now in its 22nd year, the festival launches on its second day this weekend with director Narges Abyar’s drama about a 9-year-old girl who imagines that her poor family inhabits the beloved folktales she reads. Set during the Iranian Revolution of the 1970s and the start of the Iran-Iraq War in 1980, Breath captures a pivotal time in the nation’s history through a child’s hopeful eyes, conveyed with animated vignettes that are inspired by the nation’s art and calligraphy. The film screens at 2 p.m. at the Freer Gallery of Art, Jefferson Drive and 12th St. SW. Free. (202) 633-1000. freersackler.si.edu. —Pat Padua
VOCAL Kennedy center concert hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Vanessa Williams. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.
WORLD 9:30 cluB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Collie Buddz. 7 p.m. $25. 930.com.
tuESDAY COuNtRY Birchmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria. (703) 549-7500. Dan Tyminski. 7:30 p.m. $29.50. birchmere.com.
HIp-HOp Kennedy center millennium Stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Grand Tapestry. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.
JAzz BlueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Veronneau. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $22. bluesalley.com.
ROCk the hamilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. Alejandro Escovedo. 7:30 p.m. $25–$45. thehamiltondc. com.
WEDNESDAY BLuES
BlueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Tinsley Ellis. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $25. bluesalley.com.
FuNk & R&B
Birchmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria. (703) 549-7500. Eric Benét. 7:30 p.m. $69.50. birchmere.com.
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dc9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Deer Scout. 8 p.m. $10. dcnine.com. SongByrd muSic houSe and record cafe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Mary Lambert. 8 p.m. $20–$22. songbyrddc.com.
tHuRSDAY COuNtRY
pearl Street WarehouSe 33 Pearl St. SW. (202) 380-9620. Western Centuries. 8:30 p.m. $12. pearlstreetwarehouse.com.
FuNk & R&B
Birchmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria. (703) 549-7500. Eric Benét. 7:30 p.m. $69.50. birchmere.com.
JAzz
BlueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Joey DeFrancesco. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $25. bluesalley.com.
TRIVIA E V E RY M O N DAY & W E D N E S DAY
$12 BURGER & BEER MON-FRI 4 P M -7 P M
CITY LIGHTS: MONDAY
600 beers from around the world
Downstairs: good food, great beer: all day every day *all shows 21+
JANUARY 12TH
THE COMEDY BLOCK
(FREE SHOW) PRESENTED BY MELTING POT COMEDY DOORS AT 7PM
JANUARY 13TH
ALL MALE REVUE DOORS AT 7PM
JANUARY 15TH
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A feeling of reverence strikes Americans everywhere as they reflect on the work of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. His historic “I Have A Dream” speech rings congruously and reverberates around the nation during the Martin Luther King holiday. As you reflect on the life and legacy of Dr. King this year, consider doing so in conjunction with the Kennedy Center and Georgetown University as they collaborate in a concert featuring Grammy- and Tony-nominated singer and actress Vanessa Williams and the Let Freedom Ring Choir, directed by Rev. Nolan Williams Jr. During the show, Georgetown University will be honoring Little Lights Urban Ministries executive director Steve Park with the John Thompson Jr. Legacy of a Dream Award for exemplifying the spirit of Dr. King through his work with underprivileged communities and dedication to providing them with a diverse range of programs focused on racial justice and academic, spiritual, and economic empowerment. This MLK day, let freedom ring in your heart. The show begins at 6 p.m. at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall, 2700 F St. NW. Free. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org. —Mikala Williams
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4,380 nightS Tackling what it means to be American, D.C, playwright Annalisa Dias delivers 4,380 Nights, a play about a man being held without charge at the Guantanamo Bay prison. A timely critique of fear, power, and humanity itself the play is presented as part of the 2018 Women’s Voices Theater Festival. Signature Theatre. 4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington. To Feb. 18 $40–$65. (703) 820-9771. sigtheatre.org. crazy for you The songs of George and Ira Gershwin are reimagined by playwright Ken Ludwig in this musical about a banker, assigned to shut down a small-town theater, who decides to revive it instead. Featuring favorite songs like “I’ve Got Rhythm,” “Nice Work If You Can Get It,” and “Someone to Watch Over
Me,” this musical, arriving at Signature in time for the holidays, is directed by Matthew Gardiner. Signature Theatre. 4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington. To Jan. 14 $40–$108. (703) 820-9771. sigtheatre.org. everything iS illuminated Based on the bestselling novel by Jonathan Safran Foer, this stunning and hilarious stage adaptation tells the story of a young man — also named Jonathan Safran Foer — who sets out to find the woman who might or might not have saved his grandfather. Accompanied by an old man haunted by memories of the war, an amorous dog named Sammy Davis, Jr. Jr., and a young Ukrainian translator who speaks in a sublimely butchered English, Jonathan takes a quixotic journey into an unexpected past, where reality collides with fiction in a heart-stopping scene of extraordinary power. A highly anticipated East Coast premiere. Directed by Aaron Posner. Theater J. 1529 16th St. NW. To Feb. 4 $24–$69. (202) 777-3210. theaterj.org.
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“Peace, y’all. I’m out. I didn’t get in it for this.” And with that, Ta-Nehisi Coates pulled the plug on his Twitter account late last month after a spat with Cornel West, who slammed him as the “neoliberal face of the black freedom struggle.” Someone leaving Twitter wouldn’t normally make headlines, but when it’s Coates, a MacArthur Fellow and a National Book Award winner, among many other honors, it’s a different story. Over the last decade, Coates has emerged, much to his chagrin, as perhaps the leading public intellectual in America, especially on issues of race, politics, and culture. Those years are chronicled in We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy, a collection of eight essays written for The Atlantic during the Obama administration that are bracketed with memoiresque commentary about how a Howard University drop-out has reached such great heights. Thankfully, his spat with West might have pushed Coates off Twitter, but not out of the public eye. He returns to Sixth & I, where he has previously shared the reasons he did “get in it” with the self-effacing honesty of his work. The talk begins at 7:30 p.m. at Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, 600 I St. NW. Sold out. (202) 408-3100. sixthandi.org. —Chris Kelly
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Many may know Eric Benét as the man who married, cheated on, and then infamously ruined his relationship with Oscar-winning actress Halle Berry. His cheating on Berry is so notorious that Jay-Z even name-dropped him on “Kill Jay Z” from last year’s 4:44 album, saying to “never go Eric Benét.” But before that, the smooth R&B singer-songwriter put his soulful sound on display to great results. His sound is an homage to 1970s groups like The O’Jays and renowned R&B singers like Eddie Levert. That is the music that grown folks tell us “we don’t know nothin’ ’bout.” Luckily for us, Benét brought it back and added a degree of neo-soul cool to it. If anything, his hit single off 1999’s A Day in the Life “Spend My Life With You,” which featured vocalist Tamia, is still a jam and he’s sure to give a rousing performance of it. The show is worth it just for that. Eric Benét performs at 7:30 p.m. at the Birchmere, 3701 Mt. Vernon Ave., Alexandria. $69.50. (703) 549-7500. birchmere.com. —Mikala Williams the humanS Playwright Stephen Karam presents a humorous and heartbreaking look at a family whose deepest fears are laid bare for all to see. Taking place over the course of a Thanksgiving dinner, this one-act play takes the Blake family on a journey of self-discovery. Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater. 2700 F St. NW. To Jan. 28 $49–$139. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org.
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on your feet! Tracing their journey from humble beginnings in Cuba to pop stardom, this musical explores how Emilio and Gloria Estefan broke barriers and lived through tragedy. Directed by two-time Tony Award winner Jerry Mitchell, this musical features the most iconic music the Estefans have to offer. Kennedy Center Opera House. 2700 F St. NW. To Jan. 28 $59–$149. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org.
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