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It may be the most alienating issue among District residents, more emotional and robustly divisive for some than even housing, gentrification, and identity—perhaps because it manages to roll all of these into one big, messy controversy. Yes, we’re talking about the proposed 25-acre, mixeduse development at the site of the historic McMillan Sand Filtration Facility in Northwest D.C., whose competing forces make the rapport between Vince Gray and Muriel Bowser seem utterly flirtatious.

“The forces of ‘no’ pulled off their final coup on Dec. 8, when the D.C. Court of Appeals delayed the plan to transform the McMillan ... site into a mix of housing, stores, and parkland, thanks to a suit filed by activists,” City Paper architecture and urban planning critic Amanda Kolson Hurley wrote briefly last week in an introduction to a piece about the state of building here (“How D.C. Architecture Got Better in 2016,” Jan. 6). But even the most neutral and throwaway mention of the topic riled both allies and foes.

“Does the author really think that VMP’s McMillan Town Center would enhance DC’s architectural profile?” aerie commented on our website (the acronym refers to the project team Vision McMillan Partners). “As a totality, and building-by-building, McMillan Town Center is banal and pseudo-urban, not to mention destructive of the sense of place and counter to the District’s Preservation Law and the preservation covenant in the deed that transferred ownership of the site from the Federal government to the District.”

Then there was commenter Bloomie. “Here’s hoping that the exciting architecture plans for McMillan—that would provide a real park, open space, a grocery store, needed housing, new jobs, new retail, all while treating the historic site with the respect it deserves—are built in 2017.

The real residents of Bloomingdale—not folks who don’t even live in the neighborhood that are holding the project hostage through their lawsuit— are all hoping for the existing plans (sic) quickly come to fruition with no change.”

To which Eric responded, “Please explain how the architecture plans for McMillan are exciting. The rowhouses? The office buildings and condos are exciting? What is exciting for the developers is how much money they will be making off this deal.”

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DistrictLine Full Court Press

By Andrew Giambrone In the ongoIng struggle against his landlord, Vaughn Bennett is already plotting his next move.

On a recent Wednesday, the bespectacled chess instructor and former District firefighter hustles between two affordable housing buildings in Brookland known as Dahlgreen Courts. The historic apartments—one is four stories, the other five—underwent a major renovation from 2011 to 2012 after residents brought in Philadelphiabased nonprofit Mission First Housing Group to buy and redevelop the site through D.C.’s Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act. Just four years later, residents say the buildings have fallen into disrepair, citing everything from cracks in the walls and water spots on ceilings to broken floorboards and possible mold. Paint peels in hallways and apartments as rodent droppings fester under stairwells.

Dozens of photos on the association’s public Facebook page document these issues, which tenants say began to emerge shortly after the renovation was complete. Last month, 35 tenants signed a letter to Mission First’s CEO expressing their grievances and highlighting “deplorable housing conditions.”

Inspection reports furnished by DCRA show roughly 160 housing-code violations— including window, ceiling, and door damage—in more than 25 units and common areas in 2014. Last year, the count was down to 120 housing-code violations across 20 units and common areas.

Originally constructed in the 1920s, Dahlgreen Courts was ready for a makeover when reconstruction began six years ago. At that time, a central boiler system provided irregular heat, the electricity was unreliable, and the buildings lacked modern sprinkler and firealarm systems. They also weren’t handicapaccessible and the plumbing was old.

The total redevelopment cost some $20 million, but only about $9.5 million went toward construction. The rest paid for acquiring the property, legal fees, transaction costs, and in-

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terest. Typical of affordable housing deals, it drew upon both private investment and government funds. The D.C. Housing Finance Agency provided Mission First $6.2 million in tax-exempt bonds; the Department of Housing and Community Development gave it $5.1 million through a federal Community Development Block Grant; and Capital One Bank loaned it nearly $4 million. Mixed financing enables developers to create or rehabilitate units and rent them out below market.

Bennett, who is vice president of the Dahlgreen Courts Tenant Association, says Mission First and its management arm, Columbus Property Management, have dropped the ball.

His is one of 32 households that lived in Dahlgreen Courts before the makeover and remained in the complex after reconstruction.

They wonder how their buildings could have gotten a multimillion-dollar overhaul—complete with new kitchens, bathrooms, HVAC units, and common spaces—and started to decline within a matter of a few years.

Some have even alleged fraud, which Mission First wholeheartedly denies. The nonprofit points to an audited, independent cost certification for the project and numerous layers of oversight as evidence that all work was done properly and legally.

On Monday, CEO Alfredo de la Peña took a train from Philadelphia, where Mission First is based, to D.C. to address the complaints. Giving an overview of the nonprofit’s work from a vacant (as well as clean and problem-free) unit at Dahlgreen Courts, la Peña says plainly, “We’re going to have to provide more resources here.”

The organization says it’s committed to developing and managing affordable housing for low-income and special-needs populations, like the elderly and people with behavioral-health issues. One of the group’s specialities is connecting tenants with supportive services, its executives note. It originated in the late 1980s.

Mission First’s D.C. portfolio includes 843 units across about 10 properties. The District has often partnered with the organization on developments, including Severna on K and Plaza West, a forthcoming 223-unit building

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Tenants want to know where their complex’s multimillion-dollar rehabilitation went wrong.

that will in part serve “grandfamilies” (seniors raising grandkids). Mission First has over 1,600 units in Pennsylvania, and hundreds more across the Mid-Atlantic.

Dahlgreen Courts Is occupied by households who earn up to 60 percent of the area median income, or $65,000 for a family of four. Units range in size from studios to twobedrooms. Some tenants report paying more than $1,000 a month in rent, while those who stayed in the buildings through the rehabilitation spend less than 30 percent of their income on rent. (The size of the latter demographic has shrunk from 32 families in 2013 to 23 now.)

In the context of Northeast’s burgeoning housing market, the rents are modest.

Bennett, an ex-neighborhood commissioner in his early fifties, is behind the social-media shaming and other efforts to get officials’ attention on Dahlgreen Courts. A longtime rabble-rouser who’s lived at the complex since 2006, he knows how to navigate the District’s alphabet soup of bureaucracies.

Bennett says his toil—sending emails, making phone calls, and attending city meetings— is about empowering others. “If you don’t stand up for what’s right, you’re part of what’s wrong,” the peppy chess player says. He ap-

pears to practice what he preaches. In 2012, Bennett was among the agitators who filed suit against developers and the District to block an Ivy City parking lot from becoming a bus depot—an endeavor to protect low-income residents that succeeded. In 1999, a City Paper article characterized him as “the D.C. Fire Department’s biggest complainer.”

“On the surface, I have to tell you, it looks nice,” Bennett confesses of the property where he lives. “But when you look just a little bit underneath the surface, you see that they’ve done a bath-fitters approach: They put a new tub over your old tub. ...We have people here since the ’70s. We have children here. And we deserve better than this.” (He has previously fought with Mission First in housing court.)

Bennett has contacted the offices of Mayor Muriel Bowser, Ward 5 Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie, who represents Brookland, and At-Large Councilmember Anita Bonds, who chairs the legislature’s housing committee. Last month, he offered testimony about Dahlgreen to Bonds’ committee, and in recent weeks he has solicited aid from D.C.’s attorney general, tenant advocate, and community activists. McDuffie, who visited the buildings this month and attended a 2013 ribbon cutting following the renovation, says in a statement that

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DistrictLinE what he witnessed there was “unacceptable,” noting that he’s contacted “the appropriate agencies.” McDuffie adds that “I will continue to press [those] agencies for action and stand with the tenants of Dahlgreen Court.”

McDuffie isn’t the only District pol looking into the buildings. Joaquin McPeek, a spokesman for Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development Brian Kenner, whose office oversees affordable housing projects subsidized by D.C. dollars, says: “In addition to numerous inspections, and subsequent citations to the property, our team has been in constant contact with the residents’ representatives at Dahlgreen Courts and will continue to engage them until the matter is resolved.”

Bennett says he’s particularly troubled by what he perceives as a dearth of “lead-safe practices” during work on the buildings. In response, Mission First says that all units were extensively tested for lead because the apartments are historic, and surfaces ruled to contain the substance were repaired and painted over so that any lead would be “encapsulated.”

In what were perhaps the most distressing recent incidents for residents, sewage has

backed up into Dahlgreen Courts’ rental office in the four-story building, and a December kitchen fire in the five-story building displaced two families. The business center beneath the unit in which the blaze broke out was wrecked and is now being reconstructed.

Tenants have also discovered missing insulation in certain walls and floors. But Mission First says insulation was installed under the refurbished roofs, and the interior walls are made of thick plaster. In addition to wood floors and exterior bricks, the property group explains that it could neither remove nor significantly alter plaster due to historic preservation requirements. The upside for the group was getting additional financing through historic tax credits.

As for the spewing sewage, Mission First’s reps say they are just as mystified about its cause as tenants are, adding that engineers have been asked to find a fix.

“We are committed to our residents and providing them a quality living environment,” the group’s managing director Sarah Constant says, noting that Mission First is currently inspecting every unit at Dahlgreen Courts, conducts “regular” exterminations, and has a “24-hour on-call staff ” in case

ple’s concerns.

“There’s no need to talk with them,” Bennett says when asked about the organization’s recent outreach. “We’ve had enough discussion. Two years ago, we went through the same exact thing.” Bennett wants new management. Of various abatement promises, he says, “I’m not optimistic.”

Mission First admits some fault. Employees say it will hire a third “resident-services provider” in the District and take steps to ensure Dahlgreen Courts has fewer management upheavals than in the past. “We are concerned with the turnover with on-site staff and now have a highly qualified manager in place,” says Elizabeth Askew Everhart, a senior development manager. Everhart adds that since 2010, the apartment complex has had six different property managers.

For the weariest tenants, though, such reassurances may be too little, too late. On Monday, on the first floor of Dahlgreen Courts, an elderly resident who’s lived at the property since before the renovation told Everhart that she got a great deal on a new home and is moving with her husband to Southwest Virginia.

She said the complex had gone “downhill” and become “ghetto.”

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of emergencies. “We take these concerns of our residents seriously, and are reaching out to the tenant association to address these issues.” The inspections began last Friday and are expected to take half an hour a unit over the course of two weeks.

Still, with this round of inspections, some residents are anxious. “They’re going to come in here like stormtroopers,” says a tenant who asked to remain anonymous, fearing retaliation from management. The resident, a senior citizen, worries that Mission First could proceed with evictions if it finds lease violations, such as hoarding and unauthorized occupants, during its sweep of the property.

“I know right now that we’re going to be fighting, and they’re going to turn up the heat,” the resident contends, describing the way Mission First has treated tenants as “almost like you’re living in the projects. It’s really hard to deal with that mentality when you’re an intelligent person. You want to respect them, but they’ve got to earn it.”

The nonprofit insists that it’s striving to make amends, in part by having tried to arrange sit-downs with the tenant association over the past few weeks—but to no avail. It plans a Jan. 18 resident meeting to hear peo-

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DistrictLinE Meet the Marchers

Women descending on D.C. for inauguration weekend never needed a perfect plan.

Obama cOndOms. Jack Black. U2. A 100minute speech in the freezing cold, leading indirectly to the death of the president. As the site of every inauguration since Thomas Jefferson took office, D.C. has endured more than its fair share of eclectic street vendors, fanatics, and road closures.

This year will be no different, but at least the day after will have a different tenor. As many as 200,000 women, men, and children (but mostly women) plan to descend on the city to “send a bold message to our new administration on their first day in office, and to the world that women’s rights are human rights,” says the Women’s March on Washington website.

Among these bold messengers is Colleen Ament Rasey, a labor and delivery nurse from Baywood-Los Osos, California. She’s never marched in her life, but this time is different, she says. “I feel like I need to act, be part of this big group that’s sending a message.” And although this will be her first foray into large-scale political activism, she hopes it won’t be her last, so she’s calling herself a “baby activist.”

Across the country, women like Rasey have high hopes for the march. Buses full of protesters will arrive from as far away as upstate New York, Illinois, and Michigan, some for only a few hours before making the long trip back home.

Airbnb expects well over 10,000 bookings on inauguration weekend, although many of these visitors are coming for the inauguration itself.

A local organizing Facebook page is busy with announcements of planning meetings, feminist gear for sale, information about nonviolent direct action training sessions, and plans to host friends and even strangers from out of town. Some 300 D.C.-area houses of worship have offered space to host groups from out of town, and more than 250 people have signed up to stay in—or as close as possible to—Washington for the march through the website Couchsurfing, which allows locals to open their homes for free to visitors.

Some of the houses are as far away as Wilmington, Delaware, but marchers will take what they can get.

As the nation’s capital, D.C. is tasked as much with logistics—like where to put the Porta Potties—as with bigger questions, like how to build a lasting movement in the face of a president only blocks away. Local organizer

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Jackie Savage, a Montessori school teacher, says she was shocked by the tone and hatred of the recent election. “There was language in that election that I don’t allow in my classroom,” she says. “And now that language is the president.”

Savage says local organizing efforts have exposed political issues within the city too.

An initial structure organized by ward has transitioned into a central organizing committee to avoid uneven representation across wards. Now the committee’s role is to ensure everything runs smoothly and to persuade local ambassadors to sign up to help guide marchers. But she says the march itself isn’t really the point. “It’s one day,” she says. “This is the catalyst. It’s just the start of the movement. At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter what celebrities and organizations there are. The half a million people living in D.C., we’re the ones who matter.”

That movement is developing, slowly—organizers for the Women’s March will be attending a Martin Luther King Jr. Day march on Monday, hoping to create even more connections for future activism.

Meanwhile, Rasey’s friend Suzanne Whetsel, of Harrisburg, Virginia, sees the march as a way to reclaim her identity as an American, which she feels has eroded in the wake of such a divisive election. “We have a country to fight for here,” she says. Like Whetsel, many women are hoping to use the march as part of a personal healing process.

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Jane Tremblay, a small business owner from Palm Beach, Florida, says that she’s flying into Baltimore in the early morning, driving to D.C., and leaving again from Baltimore that same night. (Luckily, she has a car because all morning trains arriving to D.C. from Baltimore before 11 a.m. are sold out). Despite the commute, she writes in an email to City Paper, “I HAD to be there just so I would be able to live with myself, knowing that I had done all that I could to help get this message out.”

The march’s Facebook page is rife with comments from women returning to activism for the first time in decades. Gail McBride, from Bisbee, Arizona, is flying in with her daughter, granddaughter, and friends—but she hopes she’ll be joined by a group especially dear to her heart.

As a first-year teacher in the 1970s, McBride taught her 8th grade students in New Jersey about social justice issues, even staging a play about Susan B. Anthony. When the school district wouldn’t let her take the class to the state capital for a vote on the Equal Rights Amendment, she used her own money to rent a bus and drive her students out to Trenton. “The news was there, they made signs, it was amazing,” she says, noting that she got “in a ton of trouble” when they arrived back at school. “There we were, forty-some years ago, trying to take action. Looking at where we are today, the danger of all these hardfought-for rights drifting away. … It would be

wonderful to be together again at this point in history.” McBride has contacted her former students on Facebook and is trying to recruit them to march with her.

As the date nears, an organization that was initially plagued by charges of racism (the name Million Woman March was scrapped over accusations of racial appropriation) and bad planning has coalesced into a nationally and locally structured machine. Despite the loss of a crucial element of its branding (the National Park Service was slow to grant permits for Mall protests, in part because of a higher volume of applicants than usual), a diverse organizing committee and support from organizations as large as Amnesty International and Planned Parenthood have put the march back on track.

Sister demonstrations are being organized in state capitals nationwide for those who can’t make the trip, and organizers secured a new location on Independence Avenue and Third Street SW in early December after applying for a permit through the city and working with D.C. police, rather than the federal government. They will protest near the Capitol, with the march taking place along Independence to the Washington Monument.

Jackie Savage says she isn’t sure exactly what the message of the march will be, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have one. “You can’t figure out what you mean until you have everyone there,” she says. “We don’t know what this is, but it’s a movement. We’re here, and we’re loud, and we’re watching.”

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Gear Prudence Gear Prudence: Any tips for biking down to the inauguration and/or Women’s March? I know that driving down there will be impossible and taking Metro will probably suck, so I’m thinking that biking is the best option.

—Consider Riding Or Walk, Drive, Subway?

Dear CROWDS: Both events are likely to draw lots of attendees, so you’re correct to be skeptical of either driving or taking Metro. When asked, “should I bike there?” GP’s response is always going to be “duh.” First, let’s consider the inauguration. Due to security concerns, there will be many more street closures, and you can’t ride or even bring your bike in certain areas around the Mall and by the Capitol. In fact, bikes—like drones, selfie sticks, and explosives—are on the list of banned items. If you ride your own bike, expect to lock up kind of far away and walk.

Thankfully, Bikeshare will operate two corrals (17th and K NW and 4th and E NW), and this a great option, especially if you decide to get home via a different mode. And remember, no bikes on Metro.

For the march, fewer roads will be closed, so you’ll be able to lock up closer to the action.

As of today, GP knows of no organized bike parking, so expect crowded racks and sign posts. If you’re marching, you might want to lock up closer to the end of the route than the beginning for a more expedient exit rather than fighting through the crowds to get back to your bike. As always, never try to ride through massive groups of pedestrians. That’ll frustrate everyone.

—GP Gear Prudence: I just moved into an apartment building with a big bike room, but in order to use it, they want me to put an ugly sticker on my bike.

I don’t want it on my frame and I don’t want to advertise where I live when I’m biking around.

Why do buildings do this? Is it for insurance?

—Room Entry Necessitates Tacky Emblem, Registration Dear RENTER: GP doubts this sticker insures anything. Most buildings explicitly state that use of bike rooms is at your own risk, and if your bike is stolen or damaged, it’s way more likely that the building manager will tell you to file a claim against your renter’s insurance than pay anything out.

The sticker could serve a few purposes: proof of registration (if access to the bike room is contingent upon having a registered bike), verification of payment (if they charge you a fee to store the bike), or, most likely, a means of identifying the owner when it’s time to clean out the bike room. A lot of people forget/abandon bikes when they move out, so the number on the sticker is a good way to check if the bike belongs to a current resident or can be junked.

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My partner and I have been playing with male chastity devices. We’ve been considering going to a strip club while his cock is caged up and getting him lap dances. Is there some etiquette for this with the dancers? Do we let the dancer know before she is on his lap? Or do we not mention it?

Is it rude to get a dancer involved at all? I’ve not yet found an etiquette guide for this situation.

—Letting Our Cage Kink Show “I think I speak for most dancers when I say I don’t care what’s going on underneath a customer’s pants,” says Bobbi Hill, a lap dancer based in Portland, Ore., strip club capital of the United States. “Grazing over a stiff object in the crotch region is not an uncommon experience when giving a lap dance, and depending on the texture of the device, I might not even give it a second thought.”

While your concern for lap dancers is commendable, LOCKS, the person most at risk of injury is your partner. Nothing is more fun than inducing an erection in someone who’s locked in a male chastity device—a necessarily painful and punishing erection—but the devices are unyielding (ideally) and the cock flesh is weak (even when hard). A dancer who grinds down on your partner’s crotch is likelier to hurt him.

That said, lap dancers don’t like surprises. If a dancer grinds down on your partner’s crotch and feels something hard, clunky, and un-cock-like in his pants, “she might go into air-dance mode,” says Hill, “which is essentially a lap dance where you make as little contact with the customer’s crotch as possible. Of course, you can never go wrong investing in a stripper’s patience and well-being— try handing her a Benjamin as you explain your situation.”

Just in case you’re not interested in female dancers, LOCKS, I ran your question by a male stripper.

“I don’t think most dancers would mind if a customer was wearing a male chastity device as long as it caused no physical harm or discomfort,” says Aaron, a dancer at Stag PDX, Portland’s new male strip club. “If all parts of the device are safely tucked away between your legs while you receive the lap dance, there should be little to worry about. But if the device has parts that protrude—and could possibly harm an overzealous dancer while they grind up on you—you may want to be more cautious. It also never hurts to ask the dancers what they’re comfortable with.”

Strippers! They’re just like us! You can ask them questions! They will answer them! They respond positively when you take their comfort into account! They also appreciate large tips! And good personal hygiene! And clients who aren’t completely shitfaced!

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There are definitely more straight men around today who aren’t afraid of their own assholes.

I met my boyfriend at a gay night in a club. I thought he was gay because he was dancing shirtless. But he loves going down on me, the PIV sex is the best I’ve ever had, and I believe him when he says he’s straight. He’s got an above-average cock, but he likes me to tell him it’s small and compare him unfavorably to men I’ve been with who had bigger cocks. I’ve had bigger and I don’t mind degrading him like this. (It’s a nice change of pace to be with a guy who doesn’t want me to pretend like I’ve never seen another cock before!) So that’s not the reason I’m writing. This is: He likes to be called a “faggot” when he’s fucking me. It makes him incredibly horny, but I feel guilty for using an antigay hate term while we’re having straight sex. Is this okay? Is it fucked up? Should we stop?

—Female Anxiously Grants Slurs

I recently left my husband and moved from the suburbs to my own apartment in Philadelphia.

It’s very liberating, and I have been starting to venture out for some great sex, something missing in my 25-year marriage. Two weeks ago, I decided to be adventurous and went to a clubby bar around the block and brought a guy back to my place. The guy was in his 40s, lean, and muscular.

The sex was great! He was very oral, unlike my vanilla husband. When we got this stud’s clothes off, I saw that his pubic area was completely shaved, basically from his navel down. I don’t know if I looked as shocked as I felt. While he was humping away—I have never had anyone with such stamina and power—he told me to feel his anus, and that area, too, was shaved. I didn’t want to ask him why he shaves, but I am wondering if this is common these days? Is there some “meaning” to it? And is anal touching now customary? I am really out of it and thought I’d ask you.

—Confused Over Under-Garment-Area Region

It’s not okay, it’s completely fucked up, and you don’t have to stop. And if you feel the least bit guilty about calling your boyfriend a fag when he’s fucking you, FAGS, an hour on gay Tumblr will make you feel better about that. The number of gay men out there who think it’s hot to call their own assholes or other men’s assholes “cunts” will both surprise you and make you feel less conflicted about calling your straight boyfriend a fag.

—DS

While I love your signoff, COUGAR, sleeping with a lean, muscular guy in his 40s who likes to have his anus touched doesn’t earn a woman her cougar wings or whiskers or whatever.

You’re going to have to fuck a few boys in their 20s if you want to be a cougar.

In regards to your recent hookup, the removal of pubic hair has definitely become more common over the last 25 years. Studies have found that upwards of 60 percent of women regularly remove most or all of their pubic hair; there aren’t studies about men removing their pubic hair, but many men do.

Shaving or waxing doesn’t necessarily mean anything in particular, other than a preference for hairless junk. And the younger people are—chronologically or in spirit—the likelier they are to remove their pubes.

And while I wouldn’t describe anal touching as customary, there are definitely more straight men around today who aren’t afraid of their own assholes.

—DS

I recently stopped reading your advice column due to its current focus on homosexuality. Just letting you know the heterosexuals are still alive and doing well.

—Bored Reading Endlessly Experimental Deviants Exploring Rectums Over the last year, BREEDER, I published 140 questions from readers who identified themselves as gay, lesbian, bi, trans, or straight.

Twenty-six of those questions were from gay men (18 percent), 16 were from bisexuals (12 percent), six were from trans people (4 percent), two were from lesbians (1 percent), and 90 were from straight people (65 percent). Almost all of the bisexuals whose letters I responded to were in opposite-sex, aka “straight,” relationships, and the same goes for half the letters from trans people. (Lots of trans people are straight identified and in opposite-sex, aka “straight,” relationships.) So nearly 80 percent of the questions I answered last year focused on straight people and/or straight sex.

If a sex-advice column that’s about straight people and/or straight sex 65 to 80 percent of the time is too gay for you, BREEDER, then my “current focus” isn’t the problem—your homophobia is. I would say that I’m sorry to lose you as a reader, BREEDER, but I’m not.

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the One Republican D.c. electeD in nOvembeR How Trump supporter Ashley Carter upset a Democratic school board incumbent—with surprising support from black voters

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ashley carTer, a Republican who was elected in November to the D.C. State Board of Education, speaks in sound bites that no parent can resist. Her talking points sound as if she has repeated them hundreds of times.

That’s because she has.

Carter is a director of coalitions for a national nonprofit focused on women and families. She describes herself as an education advocate by way of literacy volunteer, and her message is simple: Close the achievement gap in District schools, raise graduation rates, and direct resources to students “no matter where they live.”

“I really spoke to a lot of residents around the city,” Carter says, reflecting on her comfortable margins in Wards 5 and 6, eclipsed by even wider margins east of the river. “I spent a lot of time in Wards 7 and 8. Parents feel spoken at, instead of being asked what is going on with their child.”

Carter says she campaigned the old-fashioned way. “I had a lot of doors closed in my

face,” she says. “But I wanted to make sure my presence was felt all over the city, not just in Wards 2 and 3. And I’m living up to that.”

Carter’s victory in a high-turnout election over the more experienced and heavily endorsed incumbent Mary Lord was utterly unexpected. Lord—a Democrat and school board member since 2007 and the President of the National Association of the State Boards of Education—concedes that her opponent ran a more effective campaign.

“She wanted it more,” says Lord, a mother, journalist, and longtime D.C. resident.

“We’ve hugged and I’ve wished her well. I’m sure she like the rest of us will find the work meaningful.”

Lord credits Carter for staying on message in what was a nonpartisan race in a very partisan city. Yet she is stung by how Carter downplayed her Republican bona fides.

“Most people, all they need to know is that she’s Republican,” Lord says. “There’s a tendency to dismiss Republicans because there’s

no two-party system in D.C.” Carter says she didn’t hide from her politics—or the kinds of school reform strategies her party champions. Running in staunchly Democratic and predominantly black neighborhoods required discipline, she says. “I was running for a nonpartisan seat,” she says. “I was not there to talk about taxes. If I wanted to run as a Republican, I would’ve run for something else.”

Lord tried to make party affiliation an issue, especially in Wards 7 and 8, Carter says.

“I did not deny it. I stuck to an education platform. I made sure people felt as if their voice would be heard, which is something my opponent did not do. She was not visible in their part of the city.”

Ronald Williams Jr., a Ward 8 activist who campaigned for school board candidate Tony Donaldson Jr., applauds Carter for keeping politics out of the campaign— while also neutralizing race as a potential voter issue. “Ashley did well to not an-

nounce herself as a Republican,” Williams says. “You have to do that over here if you’re white. Don’t tell your party affiliation, and you’ll get somewhere.”

More to the point, Williams says, Carter appealed to residents who feel disenfranchised, regardless of race. “There’s been black politicians for years who haven’t done shit,” he says. “A lot of people saw her as a fresh face with a lot of vigor. She had everyone lined up against her, and she whacked ’em. This is the Chocolate City, and this young lady came in and whacked ’em. When it came out she was a Republican, I just didn’t care.”

The nine-member educaTion board is a policy-making body with no budget authority whose role is often lost in the politics of school reform. Candidates who campaign to serve on the body run in what is always a down-ballot race, but a seat can also be a stepping stone to higher office. Most recently, Trayon White served on the school board

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before parlaying it into a seat as a Ward 8 D.C. councilmember.

Lord, 63, says she never saw the school board in opportunistic terms. “I’m not a politician,” she says of her original foray into school policy-making. “I’m a mom, I have two jobs, I volunteered at my kids’ middle school where things were getting out of hand.”

When D.C. dissolved its former school board and placed D.C. Public Schools under mayoral control in 2007, Councilmember Jim Graham drafted Lord to run for the new board. “It was ‘terra incognita,’” says Lord, who was drawn to the challenge of “developing an architecture for excellence.”

She saw her role as nonideological—her children have attended both traditional public schools and charter schools—and says she was on the fence about running for a fourth term. A former Newsweek correspondent, Lord is now an editor and writer at the American Society for Engineering Education’s magazine, which keeps her busy. But when the federal “Every Student Succeeds Act” replaced “No Child Left Behind,” school board powers expanded and she decided to run again, with endorsements from the Post, Greater Greater Washington, The Current, and six D.C. councilmembers.

Carter, who is in a long-term relationship and speaks of someday raising children in the city, emerged virtually out of nowhere.

Raised on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, she’s the first in her immediate family to attend college, she says. When campaigning, she touted her family ties to D.C.—a grandmother who grew up off Bladensburg Road and a grandfather who was an MPD police detective for 25 years.

Carter graduated from the University of Maryland and started law school at Catholic University before earning her law degree from University of Baltimore, which taught her the importance of education, she says.

“Education can take you places,” says Carter, who lives near Capitol Hill. “I’m still immersed in learning every day.”

Through volunteer work at women’s shelters and her job as a coalition director at the conservative Independent Women’s Forum, Carter found herself speaking around the country about the importance of women in elected office. “I followed my own advice,” she says. “I had never sought to run myself.”

For Two candidaTes with no stated ideological agendas, Carter and Lord cast two vastly different images. Inevitably, the campaign devolved into a battle to define and denigrate one another.

Early on, Lord called attention to Carter’s conservative bent: She volunteers with the Junior League and works for the Independent Women’s Forum, which is devoted to “free markets and personal liberty” and a return to “limited, constitutional government.” (The IWF’s board includes analyst and pundit Larry Kudlow—who endorsed Trump—and Trump spokeswoman Kellyanne Conway, who is on a leave of absence. Lynne Cheney, wife of former Vice President Dick Cheney,

“i was running for a nonpartisan seat. i was not there to talk about taxes. if i wanted to run as a Republican, i would’ve run for something else.” is a former director.)

Carter also served as election day operations director for Virginia GOP gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli in 2013,and identifies her mentor as Jeanne Allen, who served at the U.S. Department of Education under Ronald Reagan and worked on education policy at the Heritage Foundation for six years. A C-SPAN telecast of a panel entitled “Trump and Women Voters” during the GOP Convention in Cleveland features Carter presenting a glowing Trump endorsement based on focus group research conducted by the Independent Women’s Voice.

After Lord branded her opponent as an agent of the right, the Carter campaign struck back. In October, City Paper reported that someone using Carter’s account on the D.C. Urban Moms and Dads blog posted insulting remarks about Lord’s age, appearance, and fashion sense. Carter denied responsibility, dismissed the campaign volunteer who wrote the post, and apologized to Lord. She criticized Trump for his more outrageous conduct yet remained a supporter. In December, she tweeted, “Betsy DeVos will be a breath of fresh air for American education”—support for Trump’s education secretary pick that made Democrats and traditional education advocates shudder.

Knowing that she still needed to steer clear of knee-jerk reactions to her true leanings, Carter turned to a more subtle strategy. Although the school board is nonpartisan, and the District is charter-friendly even among Democrats, she was bound to stand out as a young, white woman campaigning in Wards 7 and 8. A direct mail campaign appears to have

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killed two birds with one stone.

With “Smarter with Carter” emblazoned on the top and a handwritten signature stamped on the bottom, a campaign letter obtained by City Paper was distributed to homes in Ward 7 in the kind of plain white envelopes that people tend to open. “We cannot let current leadership cut programs like Universal Pre-school that leaders like former Mayor Vince Gray fought so hard to implement and build,” Carter wrote, aligning herself with a Democratic council candidate who was on his way to a resounding victory.

(Gray campaign officials say he has no affiliation with Carter.)

Carter’s letter also emphasized her volunteer efforts “east of the river” and derided a disparity in school resources in Wards 2 and 7. Then, back to her central message, she pledged to improve graduations rates, offer students equal career and tech opportunities, and provide more individualized classroom attention for all students. Carter confirms sending similar letters in other wards, but she declined to show them to City Paper.

Throughout it all, Carter avoided being tagged with a partisan label. “I’d like to know how she won,” says Paul Trantham, a Ward 8B Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner who says he never saw her and knew nothing about her. “They said there’s a flyer, but I’ve never seen it. I doubt if people would’ve voted for her if they knew she supported Trump.”

Patrick Mara, executive director of the D.C. Republican Committee—and the only other Republican ever elected to the school

board—says the at-large school board seat is the most winnable race for members of his party. And because much of D.C. already embraces charter schools and vouchers—models that almost all conservatives favor— Carter could have gone far to the right on education reform without most people in other parts of the city batting an eye, he says. “It’s not shocking in D.C. to have views on education that are consistent with Betsy DeVos’ views on education.”

But Mara, who actively recruited Carter, also says Carter just might have outworked her opponent. “Ashley kept chugging along,” he says. “When she didn’t get the Post endorsement, she started going door to door, set up a call bank, sent out mail pieces. She’s a worker.”

Carter made her own breaks, but some say she had help—including from Jacques Patterson, a well-financed and highly visible candidate and charter school director who was forced to drop out of the race when Lord successfully challenged his ballot signatures before the D.C. Board of Elections. Once out of the race, Patterson says he “worked actively” against Lord in his home Ward 8 and “talked to people” in Ward 7.

Political operatives who spoke with City Paper on condition of anonymity doubt that Patterson played a spoiler role. Washington Teachers Union President Elizabeth Davis sees the upset victory from the opposite end of the spectrum: “Mary did not have a strong grassroots presence in Ward 8,” Davis says. It’s also worth noting that popular incoming Councilmember Trayon White did not support Lord.

Ronald Williams says he anticipated Patterson’s disqualification and worked with other political factions to defeat Lord.

Either way, Patterson insists he has the pulse of his community. “We didn’t endorse anyone else, but we couldn’t speak to anything [Lord] had truly accomplished,” he says. “She speaks to issues west of Rock Creek Park, but she really couldn’t speak to issues here. Those who supported her over there could not help her.”

“At the end of the day,” Patterson continues, “there’s one word that draws people together: accountability. If you’re speaking to accountability, and closing the achievement gap, you’re gonna get my vote. Parents don’t care if you are a Republican or a Democrat or a Libertarian or an Independent. They want to know, ‘How are you going to help my child learn.’

Ashley spoke to accountability. Period.”

Ashley Carter had another thing going for her too, Patterson says: the Post endorsement of Mary Lord.

People east of the river are frustrated with the status quo and are looking to hold someone accountable, Patterson says. This time, it was Mary Lord. “People are tired of lip service from on high about everything, of being told that everything is going well when it’s not true. Don’t sell us a bill of goods. Don’t go into a neighborhood and tell us what to do. If you have a missionary mentality, you will fail.”

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By Laura Hayes “This isn’T a place for need, it’s a place for want,” says Sandra, who’s working the register at the Upscale Resale Thrift Shop in Rockville, Maryland. She’s right. The strip mall store is full of cheerleading medals, a cane covered in fur, a clay jar that reads “Ashes of Old Lovers,” framed jigsaw puzzles, and other artifacts that could have come from Betty White’s basement. Think of them as White Elephant gifts for coworkers you love to loathe.

What Sandra doesn’t know is that we are here for a need, a very specific one—quirky or vintage glassware to take back to 2 Birds 1 Stone on the 14th Street NW strip. The cocktail bar is known for its barware, among other things. To keep the collection fresh, bar director Adam Bernbach, bar manager Lucy Dunning, and bartenders Alex Witt and Aleksandra Kilibarda occasionally pile into a van to go on a glass quest.

We come away from Upscale Resale with only a handful of beer koozies that read “VIP” and a single Collins glass with Grimace (of McDonald’s fame) painted on the side. The total bill is $7.35.

That’s nothing compared to the $240 the 2 Birds 1 Stone team spent at Wagging Tails Thrift & Gifts, also in Rockville. The sprawling, 12,000-square-foot store operates as a nonprofit with close to 100 percent of all goods sold going to the Montgomery County Humane Society, hence the name.

“The only rule is $5 or less, unless it’s undeniably cool,” Bernbach instructs his flock as they peruse shelves of barware organized by color, creating a rainbow effect. Only here, the rainbow itself is the treasure. More specifically, Bernbach is looking for highball glasses, double Old Fashioned glasses, Collins glasses, and stemware for wine.

Like a “guess my weight” carnival game, the group is able to eyeball how many ounces each glass can hold once they factor in what type of ice cubes they’ll use. After a half hour of shopping, they take the haul to the register, where employee Pam James asks who’s getting married.

Some of Adam Bernbach’s favorite finds

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Once the glasses are back at the bar, the effort spent hunting for novelties starts to pay off. For example, Dunning’s favorite find— an Old Fashioned glass brandished with the words “First Date,” is fun to plunk down in front of a couple working their way through get-to-know-you questions. “We’re only going to use it on Tuesdays—you know—Tinder Tuesdays,” she jokes.

“It’s really great when you can make a really corny joke without saying anything,” Witt adds.

“You just put the glassware down. The cowboy Old Fashioned glass was great for that, and we had another one that said, ‘The Swinger.’”

Glassware is good for a laugh or a smile, but it’s also an integral part of the allure at 2 Birds 1 Stone and other bars such as Dram & Grain, Buffalo & Bergen, and Columbia Room.

That’s why area bartenders go to great lengths to score cool things to clink.

“When you walk in the door, it’s like you’re a judge when you’re a guest at a bar,” Bernbach says. “It’s like a competition where everything adds up—creativity accounts for 2 percent of your score, and glassware is part of that.”

Dram & Grain bartender Andy Bixby agrees. “If we served every drink in a rocks glass, there wouldn’t be a wow factor,” he says.

Because not every guest recognizes the ingredients listed in a cocktail, it’s often the name of the drink or the glassware it’s served in that determines an order.

Some of Bixby’s favorite glasses at Dram & Grain include copper gnomes made by Absolut Elyx, a ceramic treasure chest that Bixby had custom made at London’s Bespoke Bar-

ware, and Capri Sun-impersonating pouches.

He likes to break out the gnome to add value for certain customers. “If I have a pregnant woman come in, I make her a mocktail in the copper gnome,” he says. “If you’re not going to get booze, we want to give you a fun experience.”

Drink Company founder Derek Brown says he also tries to tap into customers’ emotions using glassware. Since Columbia Room’s reopening in Blagden Alley, some of his favorites include a Viking-inspired cocktail served in a cow’s horn, a drink that comes with a zen garden made of pink “sand,” and carved-out, weathered library books holding flasks containing a cocktail with a tincture flavored with old books.

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the book cutouts. “They took maybe 30 hours,” Brown says. “I hope people know that when they’re complaining about $14 cocktails.”

Brown came up with the zen garden drink to ward off something he hates—bar art. “It’s when people rip up a coaster for you to pick up later, or a napkin, or a straw,” he says. “Sometimes people are in nervous situations talking about something emotional and they need something to do, so I created something.”

While Columbia Room is clearly innovating, Brown says it’s not doing anything new in a historic sense. “Going back to early human experiences with mixed drinks, people always ritualized glassware,” he says. “We drink first with our eyes. It’s critical to create a scenario where a person is delighted from the moment they see a cocktail.”

History is exactly what inspired Gina Chersevani when she was getting Buffalo & Bergen off the ground. The soda-shop-style cocktail bar in Union Market serving bagels, egg creams, and more feels like a plant from an earlier era. The glassware had to match, so Chersevani combed antique stores in Maryland and Delaware. “They had all those pharmacies that had soda fountains,” she says. “As they closed, the glasses got dumped into Salvation Army stores.” That’s where she found her Libbey glasses.

Chersevani, who has long collected vintage glassware like Boopie glasses and punch sets, explains that two manufacturers—Libbey, founded in Massachusetts in 1818, and Anchor Hocking, founded in Ohio in 1905— produce most glasses. Knowing this makes it possible to hop on eBay to search for replacements should anything break.

She further explains that glassware then, and now, is made with intention. “Having a drink in proper glassware makes it even more special because these glasses were made for specific reasons,” she says. The Old Fashioned glass, for example, has a big mouth to account for an imbiber’s whole nose and mouth, creating an olfactory experience. “There’s a whole science to it, and it’s quite amazing,” Chersevani says.

More than science, having drink-appropriate glassware or glassware that stands out is good for business because it can lead to the most effective form of peer-to-peer advertising—both while guests are still in the bar and, later, online.

Bixby describes a table of three people who were working their way through a five-cocktail tasting menu—no small feat—yet they had to order one more after seeing the gnome land on other tables. “They actually said, ‘I’m having gnome envy,’” Bixby says, adding that tiki bars should be credited with first creating glass jealousy among a room full of guests with showpieces like flaming scorpion bowls.

Then there’s Instagram. “Having cool glassware will definitely create a social media buzz push, a revenue push,” Bixby says. Bernbach

Unfortunately, glassware can also threaten a restaurant’s bottom line because things break and glasses have a bad habit of going home with guests. and Chersevani agree. “We get people all the time that take pictures for Instagram with tags like #drinkart and #drinktalent,” Chersevani says. “They’re into the colors, composition, and garnish. They basically grade you.”

That said, the contents of the glass have to sing too. Chances are if a bar invests in its glassware, it also pays close attention to other details such as service and recipes. “If you put that much care into the vessel, everything in the drink will probably be amazing too,” Chersevani says.

Unfortunately, glassware can also threaten a restaurant’s bottom line because things break and glasses have a bad habit of going home with guests. Bixby says Dram & Grain started with close to 60 punch glasses sourced from antique stores, and now they’re down to 25.

But what’s a bar to do? Some accept it as the cost of doing business, often writing stolen glasses off as advertising. Others, like Dacha Beer Garden and Midlands Beer Garden, are taking steps to safeguard their wares.

Tired of losing its boots of beer, Dacha collects customer IDs, returning them only when the boots are returned. Midlands takes a different approach that isn’t being received well by all customers, including one who slammed the bar on Yelp, causing a stir on reddit.

When customers enter Midlands, a doorman informs them that their bags will be subject to search when they leave. “We’re not the TSA,” Midlands owner Peyton Sherwood says.

“We’re just doing a quick peek into bags.”

Reacting to a Y&H blog post about glass theft, Sixth Engine’s employee Donato Alvarez says the key to this approach is to avoid singling anyone out. If an employee confronts a guest and they’re wrong, it’s much worse than a simple glimpse inside a bag. “People will feel targeted unless everyone is equally scrutinized,” he says. “A bag check seems like a minor inconvenience to help your local bar stay open.”

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Mess Hall’s 2016

By The NumBers

Northeast D.C.’s food incubator is entering its junior year in operations. The 10,000-squarefoot facility with four shared kitchens is not just an event space for buzzworthy parties like Ramen World and Blazed & Glazed. It’s also home base for some of the city’s most exciting food startups like Republic Kolache and Prescription Chicken. Founder Al Goldberg provides a snapshot of Mess Hall’s 2016, by the numbers.

—Laura Hayes

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1: Number of bat mitzvahs hosted 4: members who folded iN 2016 The Dish: Snail Kibbeh Where to Get It: Zaytinya, 701 9th St. NW; (202) 638-0800; zaytinya.com Price: $8.50 What It Is: Kibbeh are normally made with ground beef formed into football shapes that are fried or pressed into a pan like a meatloaf, so this preparation takes a chef-y license with the term. The bottom of each snail is crusted with a meatless mixture of potatoes, bulgur wheat, cumin, and Aleppo pepper. The snails receive a shallow fry until the bottoms crisp up, then they’re served atop creamy labneh (strained yogurt) spiked with a baharat spice mix that includes turmeric, cumin, clove, and fenugreek.

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flavor comes from the snails, which pack a welcome earthy taste, but the whole dish comes off as mild despite the advertised spices. It would be more

successful if it weren’t served lukewarm, which Chef Michael Costa says is intentional—and perhaps inevitable since only the bottoms of the snails are cooked and the labneh is cold. Still, Costa says it’s been on the menu for years and has outperformed expectations, adding that it’s actually popular for a snail dish.

The Story: Costa describes this as a Lebanese twist on the French appetizer of snails in a pastry cup known as escargot vol-au-vent. He sought to make high-quality snails more palatable to Americans, who he admits generally don’t dig their chewing gum-like texture. “What I wanted to do was to serve it in a way that enhanced its natural texture,” he says.

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UnderServed The best cocktail you’re not ordering

What: ODB with Del Maguey Vida Mezcal, house-made chipotle syrup, and Scrappy’s Chocolate Bitters Where: Taco Bamba, 164 Maple Ave. W, Vienna, VA; (703) 436-6339; tacobamba.com Price: $12 What You Should Be Drinking: This cocktail is big, bold, and badass, yet it’s not named for the Wu-Tang Clanfounding rapper (and Fugees producer) plagued with legal woes during his short but influential life. Beverage manager Amin Seddiq’s play on the name of Rick Bayless (whom he refers to as Ol’ Dick Bayless) pays tribute to the chef’s contribution to Mexican cooking in the U.S., including the Michelin-starred Topolobampo in Chicago. Seddiq boils chipotle peppers in adobo and water with piloncillo—minimally processed Mexican brown sugar—removes the peppers, freezes the mixture, scrapes off the top layer of fat, then melts what’s remaining into a syrup. It’s stirred with Del Maguey Vida Mezcal and Scrappy’s Chocolate Bitters. “It’s a compliment to our big, spicy flavors,” he says. “You have this great smoke and spice.”

Why You Should Be Drinking It: What could be a more simpatico sidekick for a spirit distilled from agave roasted in an underground fire pit than chile peppers that have been dried over smoke?

Even if you typically pass over mezcal as one note (it can actually be way more nuanced), embrace the smoke in Del Maguey’s most popular offering, an organic, single-village spirit made from 100 percent Espadin agave. The brown sugar used for the syrup adds caramel and sweet sherry notes, while the bitters—made in Seattle from organic cacao nibs—lend dark chocolate, spice, and oak. The overall effect is an Old Fashioned by way of Oaxaca that’s quaffable with any of Taco Bamba’s messy, satisfying carne tacos like the one combining skirt steak and chorizo.

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Richard Nelson captures the nuances and anxieties of a year in the life of one family in his new, marathon three-play cycle.

The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family

Written and directed by Richard Nelson At the Kennedy Center Theatre Lab to January 22

By Chris Klimek In LuIs BuñueL’s 1972 surrealist film The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, several couples spend the entirety of the 102minute run time on their way to a fine meal they never actually get to eat. I haven’t seen that movie in years, but my memory of it was one of many I involuntarily revisited during a long Sunday afternoon and evening spent ingesting Richard Nelson’s Gabriels cycle—three intimate plays each set in the kitchen of the same Rhinebeck, New York family home on different days in 2016.

In all of them, some portion of the six Gabriels, ranging in age from late 40s to early 80s, make dinner. Each show ends when they adjourn to the dining room. The Kennedy Center’s 388-seat Theatre Lab is already one of the coziest performance spaces in the building, but it’s been outfitted with overhead microphones and speakers for this production to allow these six superb actors to perform in conversational tones. The effect this has on the believability of their performances is far more remarkable than it, er, sounds. The smallness of the room also allows the place to fill up with the smell of freshly chopped onions and red peppers during the first play, which is called Hungry. (I hope all that fresh food isn’t going to waste.)

As they cook, these disaffected Gabriels talk about the things that grownup members of families talk about: money, memories, waning jobs, waning health, the kids who’re too busy to talk to them, the apparently unstoppable transformation of their Hudson Valley village (pop. 2,657) into a weekend retreat for the uber-wealthy. Many words are expended on food, where the meal is almost never the real subject. In Hungry, set on the evening after the family has scattered the ashes of a brother/ son/ex-husband who died after a long illness, they mourn. Never for a moment in this act, or the next two—five-plus hours

of yakety-yak, when all is said and done—does anyone sound like they’re in a play. Only rarely do they sound like they’re discussing politics. Nelson’s uncanny gift for mimicking the eddies and cul-de-sacs of real conversation makes him a bravura craftsman if not a genius, but it also invites a certain, my-kidcould-paint-that skepticism.

So does the fact that he has used this gimmick before. His four Apple Family Plays looked in on a half-dozen middle-agedand-up members of a different family (in the same town!) on

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The two families would seem to occupy a similar socio-economic sphere, but the years since Nelson began this grand project have not been kind to the Gabriels. Mary (Maryann Plunkett), widowed by the recently departed Thomas, was a physician, but she allowed her license to expire and she’s cowed by the task of reactivating it decades after she finished med school. Her brother-in-law George (Jay O. Sanders, Plunkett’s real-life spouse) is a skilled carpenter who gives piano lessons to make ends meet, at least until the Gabriels are forced to sell their cherished piano for a fraction of its value. He’s married to Hannah (Lynn Hawley), who has become the only English-speaking maid at a local inn as her catering business has slowed. Joyce (Amy Warren), George’s sister, is a costume designer for theater and movies. Karin Gabriel (Meg Gibson) is an actor and teacher who was married to Thomas long before Mary was, but kept his name after their split on the advice of her agent.

Nelson has always had at least one of his not-wealthy characters working in or retired from showbiz; maybe he believes the notion that it’s a real profession needs defending. (And maybe he’s right.) Thomas, the brother who died, was a playwright whose fame was great enough that the Gabriels hope to settle some debts by auctioning off his personal papers and correspondence.

Is it necessary to see all three to get the complete sense of what Nelson is channeling? I don’t think so; this is not like the two parts of Angels in America, where the very enormity of time invested is central to its effect. This is a major work but a cellular What Did You Expect?

The second part of The Gabriels trilogy.

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four politically consequential days circa 2010-2013. Both cycles relied heavily on the device of having one character read aloud from an old journal or an archaic document. All seven of the combined Apple/Gabriel plays are about 105 minutes long, and performed sans intermission.

One difference: The Apples were always eating, not cooking.

one, with the considerable strengths of the whole fully present in each piece. If you see all three, and I would never dissuade you from doing so, there is an option to catch them on consecutive Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday evenings.

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CPArts the same cast, in 2013 and 2015. The Kennedy Center has simply imported the Public Theatre’s 2016 Gabriels cycle wholesale, cast intact. As with the Apple plays, each one in this triptych first premiered on the day it takes place.

That last fact must’ve been an especially bitter pill in the case of the final Gabriels play, Women of a Certain Age. It ends at around 7 p.m. on Election Day, when nearly everyone, including Nate Silver, President-Elect Donald J. Trump, and Russian President Vladimir Putin, still believed Hillary Clinton would win. Foreknowledge of the outcome gives these three plays about people trying to recall the promise of the country they remember a more sour resonance than they might’ve had for the audiences who saw them in New York last year.

“What happened to that Hillary?” the Gabriel women repeatedly ask one another after rereading one of Clinton’s youthful statements. Hawley’s Hannah, at least, seems quietly angry and desperate enough to have voted Trump.

Hungry, part one of The Gabriels trilogy.

That’s a credit to her and to Nelson, who is a master of trapping life under glass. His own strata of life, at least; he’s white and in his 60s, like most of his characters, and he’s lived in Rhinebeck for years. But he is particularly strong writing for women.

(George is the only male character here.)

What Did You Expect, the middle part of the trilogy, finds the Gabriels wrangling with the news their elderly mother (Roberta Maxwell) has reverse-mortgaged away the family home and run up debts at her assisted-living facility.

As each play begins, the actors begin dressing the set with the props, even covering the fridge with magnet-affixed snapshots. This was clearly ritual, not functional; even on the Sunday marathon I attended, where nothing else was happening in the Theatre Lab between performances, the stage was still cleared and redressed before every performance, though the setting for each was nearly identical.

Nelson and his actors remind us at the top that this is all artifice, and then once again, they miraculously make us forget.

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Women of a Certain age 20th Century Women Directed by Mike Mills

Mike Mills’ 20th Century Women is actually about a boy. Granted, the 15-year-old kid is surrounded—or smothered—by three females of varying sanities: Julie, his childhood friend; Abbie, a photographer who rents a room in his home; and lastly Dorothea, his single mother, who calls upon the other two to help raise him.

It’s 1979 Santa Barbara, and Mom is about as California as they come.

Except when she isn’t. Annette Bening, in perhaps her most unlikeable role, plays Dorothea, the ruler of this peculiar roost. Long divorced, she doesn’t feel capable of parenting Jamie (Lucas Jade Zumann) alone, even though he seems as well-adjusted as any other teen boy. Dorothea first tries to foist him upon her other tenant, a handyman named William (Billy Crudup), but Jamie finds him boring. So she turns to Julie (Elle Fanning) and Abbie (Greta Gerwig) to “make him a good man.” (“What does that even mean these days?” she reflexively asks.) The two are as baffled as the audience will be, and a touch resentful. “I’m his friend,” Julie says.

“I don’t want to be his mom.”

From the very beginning, 20th Century Women is busting with psychobabble. Dorothea is especially full of pseudo-insightful one-liners such as “Wondering if you’re happy is just a great shortcut to being depressed.”

Abbie, who introduces Jamie to punk, uses words such as “disempowering” and tells Jamie to say “Age is a bourgeois concept” when hitting on older women. And though Julie is the most grounded of the three, her response when Jamie says he’s in love with her is, “But it’s just (with) your version of me. It’s not me,” whatever the fuck that means.

Feminism is a big theme here, with Abbie being its primary source. She gives Jamie the

book Our Bodies, Ourselves, among other female-centered literature, at least until Dorothea gets angry about it. “Do you know that you actually don’t know what you’re doing with him?” she asks. Uh, probably, which is why his own mother maybe shouldn’t have outsourced her responsibility. Instead, all Dorothea seems to do is smoke and look bewildered. Sometimes she’s bohemian and other times old-fashioned. Some may call her character complex; I call it inconsistent.

Mills (Beginners), who also wrote the screenplay, throws around the word “interesting” to an infuriating degree, which is partly why Dorothea is so difficult to warm to. When William, for example, plays her a punk record— she must, after all, understand why her son likes what he likes—she asks him to interpret the speed-of-sound lyrics and then says, “Is that interesting?” (Really: Would that be the first question that any person in the real world would ask?). Abbie speaks of punk’s interesting dynamic and tells Jamie he must get out of Santa Barbara if he wants to lead an interesting life. If you drank every time the word is uttered, you’d be sloshed by the time the credits roll.

The director’s bigger misstep, however, is attempting to take on seemingly every aspect of human existence. Obviously, there are women’s issues: fertility, the introduction of home pregnancy tests, the key to sexual pleasure, and, in one particularly uncomfortable dinner scene, menstruation. But Mills also covers loneliness, life expectations, the impending internet, fear of commitment, Y2K, illness—the list goes on.

Often during Dorothea’s voiceovers, he punctuates the story with random photos, such as different bands or kids dancing. The result is a film that alternates between universality and navel-gazing, with the latter turned irritating and the former too superficial. With a tighter focus and a less moony mom, 20th Century Women might have been, well, interesting.

—Tricia Olszewski 20th Century Women opens Friday at Landmark Bethesda Row, Landmark E Street Cinema, and the Angelika Film Center.

mourning Call Julieta

Directed by Pedro Almodóvar Grief can be solitary. While in the throes of it, the aggrieved do not consider those closest to them, lacking the emotional capacity to fathom what others must be feeling. Julieta, the new film from Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar, is about how this unpleasant truth infects the life of a middle aged woman. Almodóvar can be a transgressive filmmaker—his films are notorious for their surreal depiction of sexuality—yet here he shows restraint to instead focus on the inward growth of his characters. Julieta pads out its premise with repeated shots and themes, and yet there is an incisive core to the material that raises it above mere melodrama.

Julieta (Emma Suárez) is a retired academic who lives in Madrid. She is about to move to Portugal with her boyfriend Lorenzo (Dario Grandinetti—an Almodóvar regular), but then she has a chance encounter with Beatriz (Michelle Jenner), a woman from her past. Beatriz was once inseparable from Julieta’s daughter Antía, so seeing her awakens Julieta’s aching need for her child. Most of Julieta is told in flashback—Adriana Ugarte plays Julieta as a younger woman—and we learn the story of how she met Antía’s father.

They met on a train, then had Antía while living harmoniously in a seaside town, and yet a tragedy ultimately led to Julieta’s estrangement from her daughter. Julieta recounts her past in a letter to Antía, a last-ditch effort to finally reunite.

Almodóvar films in rich, sun-drenched colors. His films always look abundantly saturated, as if the cinematography heightens the passion, loss, and redemption of his characters. Julieta is no different: the opening shot is of a blood-red dress, one that serves as a metaphor for his hero’s unflappable, cosmopolitan outlook. Julieta unravels as the film unfolds— we see her as a confident young woman and

as a grief-stricken mother—and the exteriors serve as a constant metaphor for her mental state.

While the sunnier parts of Julieta look like a travelogue, the more e vo cat i ve m o ments take place at night. After Julieta meets Xoan (Daniel Grao), the man who eventually becomes Antía’s father, they share a passionate love scene. It is a striking, gorgeous image: Almodóvar films their reflections on the window of a train car, with Julieta and Xoan’s silhouettes moving alongside the midnight-blue countryside.

Julieta has flashbacks, with several actors sharing roles, and despite the convoluted chronology, the plot is thin in comparison to other Almodóvar films. That is by design: The film is an adaptation of several Alice Munro short stories, an author who is renowned for revealing the inner lives of her characters. We see how events unfold at a surface level, with most of the focus on Julieta, only to understand later the impact she has on others.

At first, this happens on a minor scale: She and Xoan bond over shared, sudden grief over a fellow train passenger who committed suicide.

The passenger could not have predicted the ripple effect his death would have on Julieta, Xoan, and even Antía. There is a similar ripple over another death, except Julieta experiences this tragedy in a more acute way. This is the sort of film that might reward a second viewing, just to comprehend the full weight of all that happens.

The trouble is there is little to this story beyond inner lives, so Almodóvar pads out a film that’s already on the short side.

There are hard-learned lessons in Julieta, and they all amount to the need for empathy.

For a long while, Julieta does not understand the full breadth of her parental failures, since her feelings of rage and resentment are easier than anything more probing. All the actors are well-matched for the material. In particular, Suárez and Ugarte do not attempt to mimic each other, focusing instead on the requirements of each individual moment.

More than most European filmmakers, Almodóvar’s work has the potential to reach beyond the usual art-house crowd. This is a minor entry among his work, one that fans will admire more than those who do not count Volver and Talk to Her among their favorite films. No matter who sees Julieta, however, all of them will feel a need to call their mom afterward.

—Alan Zilberman Julieta opens Friday at Landmark’s Bethesda Row Cinema.

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Grace and Justice on Death Row: The Race against Time and Texas to Free an Innocent Man Brian W. Stolarz Skyhorse Publishing, 228 pages $24.99

According to Amnesty International, the death penalty is not a deterrent to violent crimes, and it claims innocent lives. Its research shows that 140 people have been released from death rows in the U.S. due to evidence of wrongful conviction since 1973, and the 14 states without capital punishment have homicide rates at or below the national rate. Harris County, Texas, leads the nation in death row executions, according to The Death Penalty Information Center, though capital punishment there is on the decline. Still, since 2010, 99.5 percent of U.S. counties sentenced fewer people to die than Harris County. Alexandria-based lawyer Brian W. Stolarz was part of the legal team that got the most recent death row inmate in Harris County, Alfred Dewayne Brown, exonerated. And his new book, Grace and Justice on Death Row, walks readers through a detailed account of the 2003 double homicide for which Brown was sentenced to die—even though he wasn’t even present at the crime scene.

Stolarz, a self-avowed Catholic, shines a spotlight on the injustices that landed Brown in prison and nearly took his life, including witness harassment, prosecutorial misconduct, withheld evidence, a now-defunct Grand Jury selection system that reeked of conflicts, and the disturbingly low wages paid to lawyers who

defend the poor.

The book begins with the events of the April 2003 shooting— offering a detailed account of Brown’s crime-ridden neighborhood and some of its inhabitants trying to survive by working for minimum wage, robbing stores, and dealing drugs.

From the beginning, it’s clear Brown is innocent, but Stolarz takes the reader on an interesting and infuriating ride toward his incarceration. Brown’s girlfriend says he was at her house at the time of the shooting, but she changes her story after the prosecution threatens her and locks her up on trumped-up perjury charges.

Other supposed friends of Brown throw him under the bus for various reasons, including fear of their own incarceration and promises of reward money. Though Brown is ultimately determined to have mental disabilities, a supposed “expert” manipulates mental health assessment data to say what the prosecutors want to hear.

No spoilers here about how the case goes wrong and is eventually righted—Brown was held on death row until June 8, 2015—but it’s worth noting that Stolarz includes some chilling comments about capital punishment from the late Antonin Scalia, including this one: “One cannot have a system of criminal punishment without accepting the possibility that someone will be punished mistakenly. That is a truism, not a revelation.”

But the book has its faults. It loses some steam when Stolarz writes about his own life, his Catholicism, and superfluous references to how horrible he’s feeling during the years he works on the writ of habeas corpus—the process by which Brown is eventually exonerated. You sometimes get the impression that Brown’s freedom is more about Stolarz than Brown, and the book suffers from too much self-congratulating.

There’s also a dizzying telling and re-telling of what actually happened at the crime scene.

It all gets a bit complicated and muddy, but this storytelling flaw doubles as a strength in light of the morass of a justice system that appears to be in place in Texas. If you get lost in the sequence of events—and the details surrounding the multiple miscarriages of justice—it’s possible the witnesses, the families of the victims, and the jury were likewise mired in confusion and obfuscation.

Stolarz cites some star reportage by Lisa Falkenberg of the Houston Chronicle, who won a Pulitzer for her work on Brown’s case.

And the book’s final plea to abolish the death penalty—or at least to establish reforms in all states that require DNA evidence linking the accused to the crime—seems like a no-brainer.

Stolarz also makes a compelling argument for increased funding for attorneys who defend the poor, an improved social service system for death row exonerees, and disbarment and criminal investigation for prosecutors who deliberately withhold evidence in death row cases, as happened in Brown’s case.

—Amy Lyons

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UnnatUral SelectionS Natural Causes Chester Hawkins Intangible Arts

Like many pioneers of the modular synthesizer and experimental electronic music, Chester Hawkins is concerned with the natural world. That might seem ironic, as there’s nothing natural about synthesized electronic music. But since Don Buchla manufactured his signature synthesizer for a new generation of musical luminaries in the early 1960s, there’s been a deep fascination with exploring natural surroundings through very unnatural sounds.

Suzanne Ciani did it in her 1982 solo debut Seven Waves, which melds oceanic field recordings with cascading synths. British techno pioneer Anthony Child’s latest album of freeform modular synthesizer work, recorded in the jungles of Maui, is a deep meditation on the unspoiled environment around him. And on Natural Causes, Hawkins delivers a dense, excellent record that fits nicely into the deep canon of musical conversations between natural and manufactured worlds.

Commissioned and recorded as the soundtrack to Tim Ashby’s feature film Pale Trees, Natural Causes stands on its own as an immersive audio experience (especially considering that the film is still in post-production, so no one, other than the filmmakers, knows how it fits in with the film). It begins, ominously, with field recordings of Rock Creek Park: crows cawing as leaves crunch beneath footsteps. A menacing synth drone slowly fades in, establishing the anxious tone of Hawkins’ soundtrack.

Like all of Hawkins’ experimental and

noise works since the mid-1980s, most notably those under the moniker Blue Sausage Infant (which was retired a few years ago), there’s a confluence of influences at play here: sneering psychedelia, deep drone, the experimental elements of krautrock, dark Brian Eno-esque ambient soundscapes, and the synthesized soundtracks of John Carpenter’s most notable horror and sci-fi films.

More than anything, though, all of these influences work together to evoke a sense of utter dread that underscores the album’s 44minute runtime, even when it cascades into more upbeat territories.

After more than three decades of sonic exploration, Hawkins has established himself in the District’s buoyant noise scene as a master of improvisation. But curiously enough, Natural Causes is by Hawkins’ own admission “a strictly composed affair, born in the studio under comparatively sterile laboratory conditions.” That’s significant for two reasons: It showcases the careful nuance and consideration that Hawkins put into every sound that occupies the album; and it shows an artist who’s not just still evolving, but also intent on pushing his musical explorations to greater depths.

Though Natural Causes is a commissioned soundtrack to Ashby’s film, it at times feels like the soundtrack to present-day D.C.: Walls of natural and synthesized sound ebb and flow over a pulsating, warbly groove, creating a somewhat menacing, dreadful vibe that something dark this way comes. With D.C.’s rapid development in the past few years and the incoming administration, it’s hard not to feel like Natural Causes is a conversation between Hawkins and his surroundings—both natural and unnatural.

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9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Lotus. 8 p.m. $25. 930.com. birChmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Eddie From Ohio, Sara Niemietz, Snuffy Walden. 7:30 p.m. $39.50. birchmere.com.

Gypsy sally’s 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. Katita and the Fajitas, The Milestones. 9 p.m. $10–$13. gypsysallys.com. iOTa Club & Café 2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. (703) 522-8340. Covered With Jam, Revelator Hill featuring Jonathan Sloan. 8:30 p.m. $12. iotaclubandcafe.com. rOCk & rOll hOTel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

Good Time Boys, Sex Type Thing, Lithium. 9 p.m. $15. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

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kennedy CenTer COnCerT hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. National Symphony Orchestra performs Stravinsky’s The Firebird and Ravel’s “Left Hand” Concerto. 11:30 a.m. $15–$89. kennedy-center.org. musiC CenTer aT sTraThmOre 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Baltimore Symphony Orchestra performs Beethoven Symphony No. 7. 8:15 p.m. $35–$99. strathmore.org.

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Bud, not Buddy

At the end of Bud, Not Buddy, Christopher Paul Curtis’ award-winning novel, Bud receives a saxophone from the members of his grandfather’s band, The Dusky Devastators of the Depression.

Trumpeter Terence Blanchard, the musician working to adapt Curtis’ novel into a stage musical, knows a thing or two about that kind of gift. The 54-year-old horn player was born and bred in New Orleans and is one of the high priests of the Crescent City’s jazz legacy. As a bandleader, Blanchard brings a distinct, funky sound that embodies the spirit of Congo Square. Now the trumpeter enters the world of the theater, joining forces with celebrated playwright Kirsten Greenidge to bring the Depression-era world of Bud, Not Buddy to life. Justin Weaks stars as Bud, a young man who sets off to find his family and finds a band, music, and much more in 1930s Michigan. The play runs Jan. 12 to Jan. 15 at the Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater, 2700 F St. NW. $20–$60. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center. org.

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flash 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Mind Against, Edo. 8 p.m. $10–$15. flashdc.com. sOundCheCk 1420 K St. NW. (202) 789-5429. UMEK. 10 p.m. $20. soundcheckdc.com.

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amp by sTraThmOre 11810 Grand Park Ave., North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Luther Re-Lives. 8 p.m. $25–$35. ampbystrathmore.com.

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beThesda blues & Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. Suttle. 8 p.m. $20. bethesdabluesjazz.com. hOward TheaTre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Liv Warfield. 8 p.m. $25–$55. thehowardtheatre.com. kennedy CenTer millennium sTaGe 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Aaron “Ab” Abernathy. 6 p.m.

Free. kennedy-center.org.

barns aT wOlf Trap 1635 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. Kevin Griffin. 8 p.m. $25–$27. wolftrap.org.

The hamilTOn 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

Greg Brown. 8 p.m. $25–$50. thehamiltondc.com. iOTa Club & Café 2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. (703) 522-8340. Karen Jonas, Emily Henry, Olivia Mancini.

8:30 p.m. $12. iotaclubandcafe.com. rOCk & rOll hOTel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

The Shadowboxers, Sweet Earle Greene. 8 p.m. $15. rockandrollhoteldc.com. sixTh & i hisTOriC synaGOGue 600 I St. NW. (202) 408-3100. Piers Faccini. 8 p.m. $15–$18. sixthandi.org.

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blaCk CaT 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. We the People with DJ Dredd and Adrian Loving. 9:30 p.m. $10. blackcatdc.com.

musiC CenTer aT sTraThmOre 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. National Philharmonic: Bach Double. 8 p.m. $30–$78. strathmore.org.

World hOward TheaTre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Reggae Fest vs. Soca. 10 p.m. $20. thehowardtheatre.com.

Folk hill COunTry barbeCue 410 7th St. NW. (202) 556-2050. Folk Soul Revival. 10:30 p.m. $12–$15. hillcountrywdc.com.

Jazz blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Stanley Jordan. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $25–$30. bluesalley.com. kennedy CenTer millennium sTaGe 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Tal Shtuhl. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

Twins Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Jim Snidero. 9 p.m.; 11 p.m. $15. twinsjazz.com.

ElEctronic flash 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Fred P, Oskar Offermann, Hot Coffee. 8 p.m. $8. flashdc.com.

blaCk CaT baCksTaGe 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 6674490. Fresh to Death with DJ Carrie Nation and DJ Jennder. 9:30 p.m. $5. blackcatdc.com.

u sTreeT musiC hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

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Funk & r&B

kennedy CenTer COnCerT hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. National Symphony Orchestra performs Stravinsky’s The Firebird and Ravel’s “Left Hand” Concerto. 8 p.m. $15–$89. kennedy-center.org.

Gypsy sally’s 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. Dub City Renegades, Thunder Body, The Pocket Band.

8:30 p.m. $10–$13. gypsysallys.com.

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Twins Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Jack Waugh and John Lee Quartet. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $10. twinsjazz.com.

birChmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Eddie From Ohio, Sara Niemietz, Snuffy Walden. 7:30 p.m. $39.50. birchmere.com.

Monday

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blaCk CaT 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. City of Caterpillar, Pygmy Lush, Malady. 7:30 p.m. Sold out. blackcatdc.com.

Galaxy huT 2711 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. (703) 5258646. The Grasping Straws, Pagan Reagan. 9 p.m. $5. galaxyhut.com.

dC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Cherry Glazerr, Slow Hollows. 9 p.m. Sold out. dcnine.com.

hOward TheaTre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Eric Gales, The Charles Wright Trio. 8 p.m. $25–$55. thehowardtheatre.com.

Gypsy sally’s 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. Half Step, The Allman Others Band. 8 p.m. $10–$12. gypsysallys.com.

iOTa Club & Café 2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. (703) 522-8340. The Bachelor Boys. 8 p.m. Free. iotaclubandcafe.com.

dJ nigHts

9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Dark and Twisted featuring Ultra Naté. 10 p.m. $35–$45.

930.com.

Jazz

blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Dwayne Adell Trio. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $22. bluesalley.com.

classical

musiC CenTer aT sTraThmOre 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Baltimore Symphony Orchestra performs Beethoven Symphony No. 7. 3 p.m. $35–$99. strathmore.org.

Funk & r&B

birChmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Anthony David, Carol Riddick. 7:30 p.m. $29.50. birchmere.com.

go-go

hOward TheaTre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

3rd Annual MLK Birthday Celebration featuring Rare Essence, Junkyard Band, Sugar Bear & EU. 9:30 p.m. $22.50–$45. thehowardtheatre.com.

kennedy CenTer millennium sTaGe 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Let Freedom Ring! A Celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. with Gladys Knight. 6 p.m.

Free. kennedy-center.org.

Hip-Hop

tuEsday

eChOsTaGe 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. (202) 503-2330. Fetty Wap. 9 p.m. $60. echostage.com.

World

rock

kennedy CenTer millennium sTaGe 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Betsayda Machado with La Parranda El Clavo. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

linCOln TheaTre 1215 U St. NW. (202) 888-0050.

Tom Chaplin. 8 p.m. $35. thelincolndc.com.

country

classical

Jazz

Hip-Hop

kennedy CenTer millennium sTaGe 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

The hamilTOn 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

Chris Carmack, Keelan Donovan. 7:30 p.m. $20–$25. thehamiltondc.com.

u sTreeT musiC hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 5881889. D.R.A.M., River Tiber, Ari Lennox. 7 p.m. Sold out. ustreetmusichall.com.

blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Stanley Jordan. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $25–$30. bluesalley.com.

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Voting Launch Party 2017 Date: Wednesday, January 25th Time: 5:30—7:30 pm Location: Bourbon DC Tickets: $20 Ticket includes 2 drinks and a Adams Morgan 2321 18th St NW Washington, DC 20009

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Afghan singing great Ustad Farida Mahwash was the first female vocalist in Afghanistan to receive the honorific “Ustad,” a Persian word that means master teacher or musician. Known for her highpitched voice and skill at using vibrato, Mahwash was originally a secretary at Radio Afghanistan.

The station director gave her a chance to sing in the late 1960s, which established her name and led to her performing at elaborate weddings and events around the nation. In 1991, she fled socio-political problems in her home country and moved to Pakistan before receiving asylum in the U.S. Since then, she has toured North America and Europe with fellow exiles, often in large ensembles. At the Sackler, she will be joined for more intimate appearances by Khalil Ragheb on vocals and harmonium. That instrument offers accordion and organ-like sounds that feel slightly psychedelic. Their special appearance is presented in conjunction with the museum’s “Turquoise Mountain: Artists Transforming Afghanistan” exhibit that offers a taste of the arts, crafts, and commerce found in a Kabul neighborhood. Ustad Mahwash performs at 1 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 1050 Independence Ave. SW. Free. (202) 633-4880. asia.si.edu.

—Steve Kiviat

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If your New Year’s resolution involves seeing more live go-go in 2017, here’s an excellent way to start: The inimitable Rare Essence hits the Howard Theatre for a Martin Luther King Day celebration with Junkyard Band and Sugar Bear & E.U. 2016 was a year of ups and downs for the makers and shakers of D.C.’s signature sound. On the upside, RE celebrated more than 40 years as a band with Turn It Up, its first studio album in 15 years; the National Museum of African American History and Culture opened with a sizable collection of go-go memorabilia and a performance by E.U.; and new go-go tracks found their way into regular rotation on the radio for the first time in a while. On the downside, 2016 saw the deaths of go-go legends like Ivan Goff, Preston Blue, “Go-Go” Lorenzo Queen, and Byron “BJ” Jackson. What does 2017 have in store for go-go? It’s hard to say, but in the face of four dark years to come, one thing is for sure: Supporting your local go-go scene is vital. Rare Essence performs with Junkyard band and Sugar Bear & E.U. at The Howard Theatre. 620 T St. NW. $22.50-$45. (202) 803-2899. thehowardtheatre.com.

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orcHids: a MoMEnt

Unless you’ve got a terrarium on your desk or a ficus growing in your living room, most plants are dead in the depths of a D.C. winter. If you want to see brightly colored blossoms, you’re better off traveling to the Southern Hemisphere, but for a few months, you can simply visit the National Mall. Starting this week, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden hosts the 22nd annual Smithsonian Gardens orchid exhibition. The ornate, delicate flowers will be set up throughout the museum and are intended to play off the stark architecture of the building. Visitors can also watch time lapse video of the plants as they bloom so they can start to understand the biology behind the beauty. The orchids come from the collections of the Smithsonian Gardens and the U.S. Botanic Garden and will change over the course of the four month run, something that can’t be said of many other museum exhibitions. The exhibition is on view daily 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., to May 14, at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 7th Street and Independence Avenue SW. Free. (202) 633-1000. hirshhorn.si.edu.

—Caroline Jones

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BLACK CAT’S WEEK OF

In an interview on the Rap Radar podcast, legendary neo-soul goddess Erykah Badu announced “If George Clinton, Ol’ Dirty Bastard, and D’Angelo had a baby, that’s D.R.A.M.” Between his breezy, no-fucks-given ethos, his natural ability to flow from a soulful falsetto to jovial rapping in the same breath and the funky Parliament-Funkadelic-inspired instrumentation on his debut self-titled album, Badu’s statement couldn’t be more accurate. In 2014, when D.R.A.M. dropped his #1EpicSummer mixtape featuring the famously fun-loving hit “Cha Cha,” he strayed from old school, gun-slinging raps and ushered in a refreshing wave of feel-good hip-hop. D.R.A.M. made the most of the dumpster fire that was 2016 by flexing a smile that lights up the whole world, showing off pictures of his adorable Goldendoodle, Idnit, and of course, releasing animated, optimistic anthems like the Lil Yachty-assisted “Broccoli” and “Cash Machine.” But more importantly, D.R.A.M. has proven himself to be a genuine, multi-faceted artist, a dynamic performer, and a truly commanding presence. Expect nothing less from his performance at U Street Music Hall. D.R.A.M. performs with River Tiber and Ari Lennox at 7 p.m. at U Street Music Hall, 1115 U St. NW. $20. (202) 588-1889. ustreetmusichall.com.

—Casey Embert

Jazz

blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Geneva Renee. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $20. bluesalley.com.

Funk & r&B

Twins Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Future Prospect. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $10. twinsjazz.com.

hOward TheaTre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

The Young Senators Reloaded. 8 p.m. $20–$40. thehowardtheatre.com.

WEdnEsday rock

blaCk CaT baCksTaGe 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 6674490. Cigarette, Governess, Scanners. 7:30 p.m. $12. blackcatdc.com. dC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. The Lemon Twigs, Cut Worms. 9 p.m. $13–$15. dcnine.com. fillmOre silver sprinG 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Reel Big Fish, Anti-Flag, Ballyhoo!, Direct Hit!. 8 p.m. $25. fillmoresilverspring.com. hOward TheaTre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Red Not Chili Peppers, Ms. Sara. 8 p.m. $15–$18. thehowardtheatre.com. sixTh & i hisTOriC synaGOGue 600 I St. NW. (202) 408-3100. Kyle Morton, Allen Tate. 8 p.m. $15–$17. sixthandi.org.

country

Gypsy sally’s 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700.

Roosevelt Dime, The Herd of Main Street. 8 p.m. $8. gypsysallys.com.

Jazz

beThesda blues & Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. Vocal Workshop Showcase. 7 p.m.; 9 p.m. $10. bethesdabluesjazz.com.

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blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Peter Fraize. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $20. bluesalley.com.

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ElEctronic

9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Wax Tailor, L’Orange. 7 p.m. $25. 930.com. flash 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Purity Ring, Basscamp. 9 p.m. $25. flashdc.com. sOundCheCk 1420 K St. NW. (202) 789-5429. X&G. 10 p.m. $12–$15. soundcheckdc.com. u sTreeT musiC hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Plaid, Outputmessage. 9 p.m. $15. ustreetmusichall.com.

tHursday rock

blaCk CaT baCksTaGe 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 6674490. TV Girl, Poppet, Johnny Fantastic. 7:30 p.m. $12. blackcatdc.com.

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fillmOre silver sprinG 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Frank Turner andThe Sleeping Souls, Murder By Death, Arkells, Will Varley.

6:45 p.m. $28.50. fillmoresilverspring.com. iOTa Club & Café 2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. (703) 522-8340. Damion Wolfe. 8 p.m. $10. iotaclubandcafe.com. wOnderland ballrOOm 1101 Kenyon St. NW. (202) 232-5263. Eastern Standard Time, Control This.

8:30 p.m. $10. thewonderlandballroom.com.

dJ nigHts

9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. And Still We Dance: A Dancefloor Journey featuring DJs Ultra Naté

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7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda, MD (240) 330-4500 www. BethesdaBluesJazz.com

The best part about D.C.’s music scene is its capacity to rally together in the face of darkness and use its resources for good. In the days surrounding the inauguration of anthropomorphic racist diarrhea puddle Donald Trump, there’s no shortage of musical events happening to protest the new fascist regime, but this little gig at the Black Cat Backstage is the best way to kick it all off. The soulful slowcore quartet Cigarette—whose latest 7-inch included some of the most hazy, gorgeous sounds to come out of the District in 2016—headlines a stacked benefit show, along with goth-tinged surf-pop trio Governess and power-pop trio Scanners. It all benefits the D.C. Abortion Fund, one of the many local organizations that will surely need all the money it can get, what with a new administration coming into power that has a proven track record of hating women and minorities. It’s more important than ever for D.C.’s music scene to band together to fight fascism. Cigarette performs with Governess and Scanners at 7:30 p.m. at the Black Cat Backstage, 1811 14th St. NW. $12. (202) 667-4490. blackcatdc.com.

—Matt Cohen

and James “DJ Dub” Graham. 11:30 p.m. $30–$40.

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ClassiCal

Kennedy Center ConCert Hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. National Symphony Orchestra, with conductor Gianandrea Noseda, performs Portraits of America featuring Rhapsody in Blue. 7 p.m. $15–$99. kennedy-center.org.

Kennedy Center Family tHeater 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Alisa Weilerstein, Inon Barnatan, and Anthony McGill. 7:30 p.m. $50. kennedy-center.org. mansion at stratHmore 10701 Rockville Pike, North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. TwoPianists. 7:30 p.m. $30. strathmore.org.

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Country

musiC Center at stratHmore 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt. 8 p.m. $55–$95. strathmore.org.

Jazz

Blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Roy Ayers. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $43–$48. bluesalley.com. twins Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Twins Jazz Orchestra. 8:30 p.m.; 10:30 p.m. $10. twinsjazz.com.

ElECtroniC

soundCHeCK 1420 K St. NW. (202) 789-5429. Cazzette. 10 p.m. $15–$20. soundcheckdc.com. u street musiC Hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

DJ Sega, Steven Faith, Mathias. 10 p.m. $10. ustreetmusichall.com.

Funk & r&B

Gypsy sally’s 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700.

Obama’s Mic-Drop: A Presidential Goodbye Party featuring The Congress, The Dawn Drapes. 9 p.m. $13–$15. gypsysallys.com.

Theater

Bud, not Buddy Christopher Paul Curtis’ awardwinning young adult novel about a young man

searching for his family and a place to call home in Depression-era Michigan comes to the stage in a new adaptation from playwright Kirsten Greenidge and jazz trumpeter Terence Blanchard. Local actor Justin Weaks stars as Bud in this world premiere production that also features Frankie Faison and KenYatta Rogers. Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater. 2700 F St. NW. To Jan. 15. $20–$60. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org.

CHarm Set at a LGBTQ community center, this play follows Mama Darleena Andrews, a black trans woman who teaches etiquette classes to a diverse ensemble of characters. While they struggle to understand the importance of manners and charm at first, “Mama Darlin” shows them how their behavior can affect their future goals. Natsu Onoda Power directs this award-winning play, which features performances from local favorites Kimberly Gilbert, B’Ellana Marie Duquesne, and Justin Weaks. Atlas Performing Arts Center. 1333 H St. NE. To Jan. 29. $20–$60. (202) 399-7993. atlasarts.org.

CopenHaGen Michael Frayn’s drama about a conversation between Werner Heisenberg and Niels Bohr, two physicists racing to create the atom bomb, aims to answer questions that historians have puzzled over for decades. This production, directed by Eleanor Holdridge, stars Sherri Edelen, Tim Getman, and Michael Russotto. Theater J. 1529 16th St. NW. To Jan. 29. $17–$47. (202) 777-3210. theaterj.org. tHe GaBriels Playwright Richard Nelson presents a new series of three plays, set at different points throughout 2016, about family members who come together to discuss and process the way the world is changing. Presented in collaboration with New York’s Public Theater, the Kennedy Center will show Hungry, What Did You Expect?, and Women of a Certain Age individually and also offer several day-long marathons of all three plays. Kennedy Center Theater Lab. 2700 F St. NW. To Jan. 22. $49–$80. 202-467-4600. kennedy-center.org. roe Lisa Loomer’s world premiere play looks at both sides of the abortion issue through the lens of Norma McCorvey, the woman who, under the alias Jane Roe, helped secure abortion rights for all women in the landmark Supreme Court case. Narrated by Norma and her attorney, Sarah Weddington, the drama follows the pair past the oral arguments to see what happens after laws and opinions are changed. Arena Stage. 1101 6th St. SW. To Feb. 19. $40–$90. (202) 4883300. arenastage.org.

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Frank turnEr and tHE slEEping souls

Who declared that sincerity can’t be a lot of fun? After performing more than 2,000 shows, scorched romantic Frank Turner digs deep to craft insightful songs his fans sing along to. He transforms the forlorn despair of hitting rock bottom into a noisily joyful anthem backed by a full band in “Recovery,” from 2013’s Tape Deck Heart. His 2015 record, Positive Songs for Negative People, closes with the plaintive “Song for Josh,” about his late friend Josh Burdette, recorded live at the 9:30 Club, where Burdette was club manager and crew chief: “I’ll remember you making a hole through the kids in the crowd/ And I’ll remember you lifting me up each time I fell down.” In advance of inauguration day, Turner also has a song that sums up his audience’s reaction to the event. “Pain can be killed, with aspirin tablets and vitamin pills. But memories of hope, and glorious defeat are a little bit harder to beat,” he wails near the end of 2008’s “Love Ire & Song,” an angry, yearning call to arms for when optimism feels impossible. Frank Turner and The Sleeping Souls perform with Murder By Death, Arkells, and Will Varley at 6:45 p.m. at The Fillmore, 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. $28.50. (301) 960-9999. fillmoresilverspring.com.

—Diana Yap sOmeOne is GOinG TO COme In this stirring drama presented by Scena Theater, a couple seeking solitude buys a house in a secluded area but grows increasingly anxious that an unexpected visitor may arrive at any moment. Robert McNamara directs this psychological play by Norwegian playwright Jon Fosse, which Scena first workshopped in 2014.

Atlas Performing Arts Center. 1333 H St. NE. To Feb. 5. $20–$40. (202) 399-7993. atlasarts.org.

TiTaniC: The musiCal The stirring musical about the sinking of the famous ocean liner is reimagined at Signature by director Eric Schaeffer. Designed to be performed in the round, the production tells the story of the ship’s final minutes. Signature Theatre. 4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington. To Jan. 29. $40–$108. (703) 820-9771. sigtheatre.org.

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20Th CenTury wOmen A woman raising her teenage son in the late 1970s, his love interest, and his punk rock babysitter explore life and love in this drama from writer and director Mike Mills. Starring Annette Benning, Elle Fanning, and Greta Gerwig. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) amiTyville: The awakeninG The creepiness continues in this latest addition to the Amityville Horror canon, which finds a mother moving her family into the haunted home where they begin to experience unusual phenomenons. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) JulieTa Pedro Almodovar’s latest film follows a lonely woman who tries to salvage her life and her rela-

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