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CHATTER Foaming at the Mouth

In which readers are chill about a ‘Styrofoam’ ban, but the opposite of chill about conspiracy theories

Darrow MontgoMery

In response to Jessica Sidman’s report on the

recently enacted foam food container ban (“Foam Rule,” Jan. 8), there were some unexpected tattletales, like Jason c who snitched that “Carolina Kitchen using foam.” Sadly, City Paper does not currently maintain a Styrofoam SWAT team, but we are considering taking it up as a side gig. jason pointed out that, like the coursing artery of the Anacostia River, foam might be sullying your precious bodily fluids, as well. “Its not just a pollution thing, Styrofoam is poison to your health.” Is it as bad for you as gluten, though? And in response to Loose Lips’ column on Kathy Patterson, D.C.’s new auditor (“Shock and Audit”), yet more wild theories circulated in the comments section. MikeInDc blew a conspiracy wide the hell open by sharing a photo of Mayor Muriel Bowser apparently fraternizing with Patterson.

“Remember when the independent city auditor was at the football game with MB in a suite? How can you trust what she’s saying/doing?” Rob piled on: “Less government regulation and oversight means opening the city’s coffers to private entities who specialize in milking taxpayers under the guise of promoting free market competition. There was at least some accountability and oversight (elected school board) prior to the mayoral takeover of the public schools.

But then again, this was just part of the grand design of things...read into it what you want.” But the aptly-named commenter Peace managed to look on the bright side. “It’s one of those articles that make me think...’Ooh child, things will get brighter...’. DC needs people like DC Auditor Patterson. Yay!” Wait... is that sarcasm? —Emily Q. Hazzard Editor’s note: In an excerpt from 9:30: A Time and a Place published in last week’s issue, The Slickee Boys’ Mark Noone recalls 9:30 Club booking Minor Threat and Trouble Funk on the same bill at the club. As City Paper contributor Steve Kiviat noted, that show did not occur at the 9:30 Club, but at Lansburgh Cultural Center in downtown D.C. Want to see your name in bold on this page? Send letters, gripes, clarifications, or praise to editor@washingtoncitypaper.com.

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Tomorrow’s history today: This was the week District residents obsessed over a $1.5 billion Powerball jackpot, even though D.C. taxes would make the payout one of the smallest in the country.

Breaking Thad How sex and drugs brought down a Senate staffer

By Will Sommer

Last April, a kilo of GBL, an illegal chemical akin to “date rape drug” GHB, made its way from China to the District. And it brought two investigators—one from the Metropolitan Police Department and one from the Department of Homeland Security—to the home of U.S. Senate staffer Fred Pagan.

“We know who you are and who you work for,” Homeland Security special agent Mark Waugh told Pagan, 49. “That’s the reason we didn’t break down your door.”

Later, Pagan’s lawyer would claim Waugh’s remark was a threat to expose Pagan’s hidden life—a volatile mix of hard drugs and gay sex—to his longtime boss and father figure, U.S. Senator Thad Cochran (R-MS). But for now, Pagan’s job had just saved his front door.

Waugh said he knew who Pagan was. But Pagan’s real identity changed depending on who was describing him. To Cochran, Pagan was a loyal staffer trusted with access to the senator’s bank account and apartment. To the senator’s daughter, he’s nearly a member of the family after he cared for Cochran’s late wife. For his Senate coworkers, he was the selfserious staffer who instructed party-minded interns on how to wear their gas masks.

To some members of the District’s gay community, Pagan was a loyal but increasingly distant friend. To some other men around the D.C. area, Pagan was a sex partner, reliable drug connection, and, for one man, a key player in a cross-country drug trafficking scheme.

As investigators led a drug dog through Pagan’s Sixteenth Street Heights home, they seized possessions that were less Senate staffer and more stash house. Pagan had hundreds of dollars in cash, a scale, and plastic bags sized for individual portions of methamphetamine.

In his bedroom, Pagan kept methamphetamine in a safe. Under his mattress, investigators discovered more than 100 grams of pure meth.

Pagan’s position in the Senate might have earned him a discreet search from investigators, but he was arrested anyway.

Now Cochran—and everyone else in his

life—would know about the drugs.

Pagan’s arrest, characterized as the result of a sex-for-drugs scheme, earned media coverage from Politico to People magazine. Pagan was suspended from his position as Cochran’s office manager. A statement from Cochran’s staff described the senator as “deeply saddened.”

In August, Pagan pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. Now, as he faces years in prison at his sentencing this Friday, investigative and court records show how an intimate to one of Washington’s most powerful senators became a supplier in Washington’s drug-fueled “party and play” sexual lifestyle.

In 1983, a semester-long Senate page internship in Cochran’s Senate office offered the 16-year-old Pagan temporary respite from an abusive upbringing. When his semester ended, Pagan would face a return to closeted life in Biloxi.

Instead of going back to Mississippi, Pagan asked Cochran—then a freshman senator—if he could work in the office for the whole school year. Except for a few years in the 1990s, Pagan would never leave again.

Pagan’s work for Cochran extended off Capitol Hill. Cochran’s daughter, Kate Cochran, recalls Pagan caring for her mother, Rose Cochran, as Rose began a decline that would put her in a nursing home for 13 years. While many of Pagan’s own relatives disowned him for being gay, he was a fixture at Cochran weddings and funerals. One friend remembers Pagan coaxing Rose to smile for a picture, even as she was stricken with dementia.

“One family has always stood by Fred— the Cochrans,” Pagan’s lawyer, Kobie Flowers, wrote in court papers. Flowers declined to comment for this story.

While Pagan’s importance in Cochran’s office increased, so did his interest in drugs. Pagan would later tell police that he used meth in the early 2000s, only to drop it for a decade.

By last year, though, Pagan had used his sixfigure Senate salary to establish a drug habit so prolific that the investigators on his case

suspected he was lying about it.

Wi t h t h e h e l p of his sexual partners, Pagan burned through an ounce of meth and a half-kilo of GBL each month.

In an interview with police, Pagan said the Pagan (far right) poses with Thad and Rose Cochran. The drugs were his sex- photo is part of Pagan’s court file. ual “currency.” He would smoke some meth with his partners, even more reckless. In early 2015 on a hookdrink some GBL, then sleep with them. up site, Pagan met a younger nursing student “I hope people didn’t come over just for who dabbled in drug-dealing. Pagan says he that,” Pagan said. started buying cheap eightballs of meth from In letter to U.S. District Court Judge the student, whom Washington City Paper Beryl A. Howell on Pagan’s behalf, his isn’t naming because he hasn’t been charged friends and family speculate that Pagan in the investigation. turned to drugs in an attempt to win accepAs the student’s drug business expanded, tance. One of his friends describes his spiral he started flying to California to score meth “as something that just happens” to some gay to distribute in the District. To get the drugs men in the District. across the country, the student mailed the “I would equate [the meth and GBL] more packages to Pagan. to refreshments, for lack of a better term, at Pagan had already figured out how to orany regular party,” the friend wrote. der GBL online from China and Poland. But In November 2014, Cochran faced his the student’s arrangement allowed Pagan to sixth re-election campaign for his Senate seat. order an ounce of meth at a time. In a report That’s also when Pagan started using meth made after Pagan’s arrest, a forensic psychiaagain, according to court records. trist speculates that Pagan took the packages Cochran easily beat his Democratic gener- and risked his career because he was in love al election opponent. But earlier in the cam- with the aspiring nurse. paign, supporters of Cochran’s Tea Party Pagan’s attorney has asked for three years primary challenger launched a bizarre plot of probation at Friday’s sentencing, where Coagainst some of the most important people chran is expected to speak on his behalf. Prosin Pagan’s life. ecutors, who say Pagan misled them about the Looking to prove that Cochran was cheat- source of some of his meth, have asked Howing on his wife with a staffer—whom he ell for as much as seven years in prison. would later marry after his wife’s death in But for the Senate page turned staffer turned December 2014—conservative activists drug connect, the harshest punishment may be launched a scheme to photograph Rose Co- behind him. In a letter to the judge, Cochran’s chran in her nursing home. The scheme re- new wife, Kay Webber Cochran, writes that Pagan’s “greatest regret” was disappointing sulted in criminal charges and the suicide of his friends—and disappointing Thad Cochran one alleged participant.

CP “I have to think this stress was acute for Fred was the worst of all. and contributed to the poor choices that he’s Send tips to LL at lips@washingtoncitypaper.com made,” one Cochran staffer wrote in a letter.

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Let RGIII Go. Please.

By Matt Terl O n t h e d a y t h e P i g s k i n s w e re eliminated from the playoffs, Alex Ovechkin scored his 500th career goal, making him the fifth-fastest to that mark in NHL history. Then he scored his 501st. It was his second two-goal game of the weekend, contributing to a dominating 7–1 win for the Caps that kept them atop the NHL standings and continued their impressive season.

You couldn’t really be that unhappy about the Pigskins themselves—the playoff loss was ugly, sure, but it was a lot less ugly than the grim 4–12 and 3–13 finishes of recent years. And this is not claiming a “moral victory”—it is simply acknowledging that the team exceeded expectations throughout the season, and did so with very little public embarrassment or drama, in a way that they may even be able to build on moving forward.

For a sports town that inspires a lot of doom and gloom, there sure are a lot of exciting things happening. How about the 15–2 Terps?

So it was a little frustrating—and totally unsurprising—to see how much of the conversation on Monday revolved around Robert Griffin III. Every time I flipped on the radio, I was inundated by chatter about Griffin packing his locker, Griffin being done, Griffin leaving a note behind.

The Washington Post’s DC Sports Bog, as good an arbiter as any of what people are going to be chatting about, had two major Griffin farewell posts: One, from Scott Allen, includes Griffin’s departure from the stadium following the game, “RGIII’s likely FedEx Field farewell ends with lots of hugs.” The other, from O.G. Bogger Dan Steinberg, is more of a retrospective: “RGIII’s imminent exit is as unbelievable as his arrival.”

As of Tuesday morning, the FedEx Field farewell has 65-plus comments, and the Steinberg piece has more than 270. The Bog’s Ovechkin piece, written by Des Bieler and posted Sunday night, has 15 comments.

I don’t particularly want to dredge up the perpetual battle of “why don’t the Caps get more coverage,” because it seems like the answer is pretty obvious, if

mercenary: The NFL gets the clicks, the eyeballs, the radio numbers, and whatever other kind of attention people have to offer. Those things are what let sports media folk keep sports-media-ing, and coverage will always skew accordingly. The decision to keep a focus on Griffin—at plenty of other outlets in addition to the Bog and sports radio—is motivated the same way. I understand all of that.

What I don’t understand is why people are still this interested in Griffin. Everyone largely agrees that Griffin was an amazing teammate this year, and that the way he achieved that was by being totally quiet and not a distraction at all. We have heard barely anything from him for 18 weeks, except in some very specific situations—and in each of those situations, just so he could give a harmless non-answer.

Prior to this extended period of silence, Griffin was alternately disappointing on the field and weirdly divisive off of it. The last time he seemed to be a unifier was also the last time he seemed truly transcendent on the field: It was in 2012, during his incandescent rookie campaign… and even that, in hindsight, seems pretty well peppered with the seeds of what would become future controversies.

This end wasn’t sudden. It’s definitely, inarguably been coming for nine weeks. It’s been all but inevitable for 17 weeks. And, if we’re being honest with each other, it’s been increasingly likely for a couple of years.

This isn’t waking up in the morning and finding out that David Bowie is dead. This is suddenly getting upset about Robin Williams all over again.

We knew Griffin was leaving. We know there will be a second act somewhere else.

We can be all but certain that he will eventually break his silence, and explain his side of his bittersweet tenure in D.C. And that will definitely be worth discussing, and dissecting, and talking about.

But until that happens, I really wish we could all focus a little more on the things that have already been great in 2016, rather than continuing to dwell, just a little bit longer, on that doomed brush with greatness CP from 2012.

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Gear Prudence: My daily bike commute takes me past an elementary school. The other day when I rode by, a truck pulled out from the alley without looking, and I had to slam on my brakes to avoid a collision. Reflexively I unleashed a barrage of curses at the driver to express my feelings about his carelessness. I then realized I was doing this right in front of five-year-old kids and their mortified parents. This got me thinking: Given how visible bicyclists are, do we have a special obligation to watch our language, especially around kids?

—Cracked Under Street Stress Dear CUSS: Your response to nearly getting run over was some foul language in front of some kids, and afterwards you felt like a motherfucking asshole son-of-a-bitch shithead for it. Do cyclists, given that they’re not encased in a vehicle with windows to muffle their discontent, have a special obligation to watch their language? GP doesn’t think so. Should you, if you notice that there are constituencies with delicate ears around, try to mitigate the colorfulness of your cursing? Sure. No one wants to look like a crazy angry person, even if the circumstances warrant it in the heat of the moment following a close call. But if any of these kids are being regularly driven to school through D.C. traffic, there’s likely nothing you can say about drivers that they haven’t heard —GP from mommy or daddy before.

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—Storage Help Entreaty, Dude Dear SHED: Some folks keep their bikes on porches and chain them to high heaven in the hope they don’t wander off, but if you can fit it, a locked bike shed is probably the way to go.

You’ll want to make sure that it’s secure, that there’s room enough to get the bikes in and out easily, and that the shed has access from another outside point (unless you’re willing to roll the bike through the house to get to it, which might not be great on rainy days). To discourage thieves, cover the shed in camouflage netting or write “CAUTION: Radioactive Snakes” on the outside. Of course, storing radioactive snakes might get you in trouble with your HOA, so be ready to explain if pressed.

If you can’t fit a shed, you could try a tarp, which is a pretty inexpensive though less secure, solution. Or you could just keep them inside which, if the bikes are especially dear, is —GP probably the best idea anyway.

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SAVAGELOVE As a queer man of color—I’m Asian—I feel wounded whenever I am exposed to gay men in New York City, Toronto, or any city where white gay men dominate. Gay men, mostly whites and Asians, reject me because of my race and no one admits to their sexual racism. I understand that sexual attraction is subconscious for many people.

But it is unfair for a gay Asian like myself to be constantly marginalized and rejected. I fight for gay rights, too. I believe in equality, too. I had the same pain of being gay in high school and the same fears when coming out. Why is there no acceptance, no space, no welcome for me in this white-painted gay community? I’m six-foot-one, 160 pounds, fit, and very good-looking. What can I do? I might as —Enraged Dude well be a sexless monk.

Details Infuriating Experience “I relate to a lot of what EDDIE is feeling here,” said Joel Kim Booster, a Brooklyn writer and comedian. “The double-edged sword of living in a city with a large gay community is that the community gets so large that we finally have the opportunity to marginalize people within it.”

Jeff Chu, a writer who also lives in Brooklyn, can relate: “Racism still thrives in the gay community, just as in broader society,” said Chu. “Many of us who are Asian American come out of the closet and walk into this weird bamboo cage, where we’re either fetishized or ignored. Many times I’d go into a gay bar and see guys playing out some gross interracial porno in their heads—with me playing the part of their Chinese pocket gay.

Others (the ones I was interested in, to be candid) would act as if I were wearing an invisibility cheongsam.”

Chu feels there’s plenty of blame to go around for this sad state of affairs. “It’s the gay media,” said Chu. “It’s Hollywood. (Even with all the LGBT characters we have on TV now, what images do we have of Asian American ones?) It’s that LGBT-rights organizations still haven’t diversified enough, especially in their leadership. And it’s all of us, when we’re lazy and don’t confront our own prejudices.”

Booster and Chu are right: Racism is a problem in the gay community, some people within are unfairly and cruelly marginalized, and we all need to confront our own prejudices.

Even you, EDDIE. You cite your height (tall!), weight (slim!), and looks (VGL!) as proof you’ve faced sexual rejection based solely on your race. But short, heavy, averagelooking/unconventionally attractive guys face rejection for not being tall, lean, or conventionally hot, just as you’ve faced rejection for not being white. (The cultural baggage and biases that inform a preference for, say, tall guys is a lot less toxic than the cultural baggage and biases that inform a preference for white guys—duh, obviously.)

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“As a stereotypically short Chinese guy, my first reaction to reading EDDIE’s letter?

Damn, he’s six-foot-one! I’m jealous,” said Chu. “And that’s also part of the problem.

I, like many others, have internalized an ideal: tall, gym-perfected, blah blah blah—and, above all, white.”

Booster was also struck by your stats. “It’s hard for me to wrap my head around any sixfoot-one, fit, VGL guy having trouble getting laid,” said Booster. “On paper, this is the gay ideal! I don’t really consider myself any of those things—and I have a perfectly respectable amount of sex.”

Booster, who somehow manages to have plenty of sex in New York’s “white-painted gay community,” had some practical tips for you. “EDDIE should stay away from the apps if the experience becomes too negative,” Booster said. “If logging on to a hookup app bums him out, take a break. Being a double minority can be isolating, but living in a big city can be great. There are meet-ups and clubs and activities for all stripes. Join a gay volleyball league—truly where gay Asian men thrive—or find one of the many gay Asian nights at one of the gay bars around the city.

They’re out there.”

Chu has also managed to find romantic success in New York. “I’ve been where EDDIE is, except shorter, less fit, and less good-looking, and somehow I found a husband,” said Chu. “The monastery wasn’t my calling, and I suspect it’s not EDDIE’s either.”

A quick word to gay white men: It’s fine to have “preferences.” But we need to examine our preferences and give some thought to the cultural forces that may have shaped them.

It’s a good idea to make sure your preferences are actually yours and not some limited and limiting racist crap pounded into your head

by TV, movies, and porn. But while preferences are allowed (and gay men of color have them, too), there’s no excuse for littering Grindr or Tinder or Recon—or your conversations in bars—with dehumanizing garbage like “no Asians,” “no Blacks,” “no femmes,” “no fatties,” etc.

And while racism is a problem in the gay community (sometimes thoughtless, sometimes malicious, always unacceptable), according to 2010 US Census data, as crunched by the Williams Institute at UCLA, same-sex couples are far likelier to be interracial (20.6 percent) than opposite-sex couples (13.9 percent). So there’s hope—and I don’t mean “hope that EDDIE will one day land a magic white boyfriend,” but hope for less racism in the gay community generally and fewer racist Grindr profiles specifically.

The last word goes to Booster: “A note to the rice queens who will undoubtedly write in about this man: We like that you like us.

Italians pet with their teeth? Good to know.

But liking us solely because our race can be uncomfortable at best, and creepy as hell at worst. In my experience, it’s perfectly OK to keep some of those preferences behind the curtain while you get to know us a bit as humans first.”

Jeff Chu is the author of Does Jesus Really Love Me?: A Gay Christian’s Pilgrimage in Search of God in America. Follow him on Twitter @jeffchu. Follow Joel Kim Booster on —Dan Savage Twitter @ihatejoelkim.

I am an Italian bisexual 25-year-old guy. I’m in love with a great guy, but he lives far away, and we see each other only one time per month and sometimes less. A few weeks ago, I had sex with a female university colleague. It wasn’t anything special: She was somewhat drunk and hurt me with her teeth during petting, so I didn’t have a good erection and I didn’t come. But I liked having sex with a woman. I want to do it again, but I love my boyfriend and I don’t want to hurt him. Am I des—More Or Less tined to be unfaithful?

Italians pet with their teeth? Good to know.

Also good to know: yourself. Now, I would never suggest that bi guys can’t honor monogamous commitments—even though I routinely say just that about straight guys, gay guys, straight women, and lesbians—but it would be foolish for you to make a monogamous commitment. Not because you’re “destined to be unfaithful,” MOL, but because you’ve already been unfaithful.

Here’s what you know about yourself: You’re bisexual, you want to have sex with women and men, and you don’t want to cheat.

Which means you’ll have to either renegotiate the terms of the relationship you’re in now— get your boyfriend’s OK to have sex with a woman once in a while—or end the relationship and find a boyfriend (or girlfriend) who —Dan will give you their OK. Send your Savage Love questions to mail@savagelove.net.

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Nov. 20, 2015 was not the first time District crews had visited the encampment of homeless people off Virginia Avenue near the Kennedy Center to conduct a “cleanup.”

But this time, TV news cameras and reporters stood by while employees from the Department of Public Works collected items—mattresses, garbage, shopping carts, even tents, according to some advocates—and threw them into trash trucks. People in their tents could direct cleanup crews to pack select items into plastic containers that, according to city protocol, the Department of Human Services had to store for at least 30 days.

While DHS is primarily responsible for managing D.C.’s homelessness services, the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services, led by Brenda Donald, oversees and manages encampment protocol. If that office determines that an encampment on D.C.-government land “presents a security, health, or safety risk or becomes a significant community nuisance,” per a 2012 agreement signed by more than a dozen city agencies, it orders a cleanup and instructs the District Department of Transportation to post signs notifying camp residents of a sweep 14 days before it occurs.

“We have been working with everyone not only in the last few days but in the last few months to identify appropriate housing and other accommodations,” Donald told reporters. “For months, outreach teams from the Department of Behavioral Health and the Department of Human Services have been working with residents of the site to get them the services they need, such as housing services, food, and mental health services,” she wrote in an email to concerned advocates that day.

Outreach workers from DBH, DHS, nonprofit organizations, and churches serve on the frontlines of D.C.’s homelessness crisis,

establishing relationships with people who have been homeless for months, years, and even decades. They offer everything from basics like socks and gloves on cold nights to big-picture assistance like housing and service assessments.

While outreach work has historically been underfunded in D.C., the city will be able to greatly expand its outreach services this year with a $9 million, three-year federal grant awarded to DBH. In addition, the D.C. Interagency Council on Homelessness—a collective of public and private agencies—has been working to establish a uniform outreach protocol and create a more formal working relationship between groups.

As the weather turns dangerous for people sleeping on the streets or in makeshift shelters, the work of these outreach teams becomes even more urgent. But as encampment cleanups for the first time ever continue into hypothermia season—when homeless citizens have a right to shelter— advocates worry that people unwilling or unable to go inside will be left without lifesaving protections.

It’s around 5 p.m. on a recent Monday, and the temperature outside is 34 degrees and dropping. Ron Esquivel is checking in with a man at the corner of Pennsylvania and North Carolina avenues SE. Esquivel offers him a new pair of gloves—he’s wearing a white tube sock on one of his hands— and asks where he plans to sleep that night.

The man doesn’t want to go to a shelter, but says he’s willing to go to Banneker Recreation Center, which houses 50 beds for men on nights on which the city activates a hypothermia alert. Esquivel asks another member of the team to call the United Planning Organization to request a van pickup for the man, despite the man’s assertions that he can

get there by city bus.

These two first met on a rainy day in November a block away, when the man was standing near a CitiBank branch next to a pile of boxes. The corner was recently the site of a city cleanup, but the man has remained in the area.

Esquivel is a member of the outreach team Community Connections created last year with a grant from DHS. On this night, the four-person group is doing targeted outreach, visiting areas where, based on their work since November, they expect to find people preparing to sleep outside. The temperature is expected to dip into the 20s, and the team has come prepared with free socks, long johns, gloves, hats, and Dunkin’ Donuts gift cards, as well as information about shelter options. Of the people they interact with that night—a woman with blankets in a chair near the L Street underpass in NoMa, a group of people in tents under a bridge on First Street near Union Station—nearly all seem prepared to sleep outside.

“People adapt. People learn to live outdoors, they learn to develop resources, anything really to survive in that environment,” Esquivel says. On the previous Monday, when D.C. called its first cold emergency of the season, he says most people they approached chose to stay outside, despite the frigid temperatures.

Determining whether or not a person is able to safely sleep outdoors is just one part of the outreach team’s job. The main objective is to establish a relationship and build trust. “A lot of the stories we hear are that, ‘What are you going to do that other people didn’t do?’” says Jamaal Crone, a member of the outreach team. “We have things like gloves or hats; those are things that especially in these winter months they’re more willing to just take advantage of and engage in

conversation over.”

While the ultimate goal may be housing (1,425 people were housed as a result of street outreach in 2015, according to DHS), an outreach team’s job is to determine “what immediately can we do to support you,” Esquivel says.

If a person is willing to give his or her name, a team member can check it against a database to see if the person is connected to other service providers or has been assessed through the coordinate entry system. If not, they can offer to do a coordinated entry assessment, which helps determine which services and housing opportunities are available to the person. They also help clients obtain income, like Social Security, and basic identification documents.

“We’ve had to create identities for people who don’t know their own names,” says Pathways to Housing DC Executive Director Christy Respress. “Having the outreach team there to do the activities on the front end is crucial.”

Beyond outreach, Community Connections and Pathways to Housing offer a number of other services—from mental health care to housing—to homeless adults. But not all homeless adults are ready to accept help right away.

“If we’re, as a community, committed to ending homelessness for people with serious mental health issues and other chronic health conditions, sometimes that takes a lot of upfront work and getting to know people well enough so they accept the services in the first place,” Respress says. Of the 3,821 homeless single individuals identified during a January 2015 count, 14.9 percent reported chronic substance abuse, 13.3 percent reported severe mental illness, and 11.1 percent reported both.

Several public and private agencies play some role in homelessness outreach to adults, both formally and informally. The D.C. government has its own street outreach workers—DBH employs an eight-person team— while it also funds grants to community organizations. Pathways to Housing, for example, currently employs 12 people to conduct street outreach with funds from DHS, as well as from the Downtown BID and Golden Triangle BID. While different outreach groups have communicated and shared information about their work for decades, a D.C. ICH committee has been working to make that relationship more formal by developing a uniform outreach protocol.

One of the first things the Outreach Policy Work Group did was map out existing coverage, says Kristy Greenwalt, executive director of the D.C. ICH. “We can’t afford to have our outreach workers working the same case without knowing it,” she says. In November, they conducted a census to get a sense of where people who need outreach services are during the day. (It wasn’t as “comprehensive” as the annual, late-night Point-in-Time count, Greenwalt notes, which will take place later this month.)

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Greenwalt says the federal grant awarded to DBH will “double” the city’s outreach capacity. Ten new teams—run by Community Connections, Pathways to Housing, Green Door, and Miriam’s Kitchen—are expected to start work by February. Per the grant’s requirements, the teams will engage people with mental illness, substance abuse issues, or both, and will include a housing navigator and a certified peer specialist (a person who is or who has a family member recovering from a mental illness or substance abuse issue). The teams’ goal is to get this population of homeless veterans and people who are chronically homeless prepared for housing, so that when it’s available, they can take advantage of it as soon as possible.

“Every area of the city will have coverage,” Greenwalt says, adding that there will be a specific point of contact for different areas. “I really want to make sure that each outreach team has a specific caseload, that they’re working to help get their [clients’] documents ready and assist with benefits while we’re waiting for the housing opportunity to come up… It’s about having a more purposeful approach.”

What’s been exciting about the ICH’s work, Respress says, is “how we together as a community have created more protocols; that we’re sharing information, trading the protocols, and the procedures, and the processes to make this work consistent and sustainable over time.”

Privacy concerns have been and continue to be a challenge for outreach providers.

The city is still working to find a balance between protecting a client’s personal information and allowing organizations to see needed data in the Homeless Management Information System.

But the progress already made will help keep homeless men and women on the streets from falling through the cracks.

These street outreach changes are important parts of the Homeward DC plan, which, among other things, aims to end chronic homelessness by 2017.

“Sometimes it takes days, and other times it takes years,” Respress says. “If we don’t go to them, they will die on the streets. They will stay on the streets forever. And we see that all the time.”

“David Holt.” “Michelle Dancy.” “John Doe.” In December, more than 100 people carried signs bearing the names of the 41 men and women who advocates say died in 2015 as a result of being homeless. The march, from Luther Place Memorial Church to Freedom Plaza, was held as part of the People for Fairness Coalition’s Overnight Homeless Vigil.

“Housing saves lives,” Albert Townsend of the coalition told those assembled at Luther Place. That sentiment turned into a demand when marchers shouted “What do we want? Housing. When do we want it?

Now!” as they made their way down 14th Street NW. For some homeless adults, the first step in

what may be a long journey to housing is a connection with an outreach worker.

“I don’t know people who don’t want housing,” Respress says. “I know sometimes people are hesitant or scared or not ready to say ‘yes’ yet.

And the outreach team’s job is to help them figure out what’s getting in the way. Maybe it’s the symptoms of their mental illness. Maybe they believe they’re not worthy for housing.”

In the interim, many people will choose not to accept shelter over safety fears, concerns about bedbugs and other pests, or because they want to stay with a partner or pet.

(The 2015 Point-in-Time count identified 544 unsheltered single adults.)

Some may chose to live in encampments, which can offer a sense of community or security.

The People for Fairness Coalition, an advocacy group made up of homeless and formerly homeless individuals, has called on the deputy mayor’s office to stop encampment cleanups during the cold weather months, but so far their efforts have failed.

“It’s not like we clean up the encampments and we’re in a house with our heater,” says Robert, a homeless member of the coalition.

“It don’t come to mind that those people they clean out could be dead.”

Robert stays outside. Shelters can be chaotic places, he says, where fights break out over things as simple as a fan. Low-barrier shelters are only open from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m., and to get a spot, you may have to line up hours before the doors open, sometimes in the rain.

He attended a meeting in December with Donald and other city officials where advocates expressed concerns about the encampment sweeps. The city has refused to stop them. In an email, Donald told advocates “we will not put a moratorium on encampment clean ups but will continue to act responsibly and responsively to address the issues.”

An update to the encampment protocol is apparently in the works, and a spokesperson for the deputy mayor says “our team is working to incorporate feedback from the [ICH] outreach group into the [memorandum of understanding] now, so there will likely be some changes soon.”

Ann Marie Staudenmaier, a staff attorney at the Washington Legal Clinic for the

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All photos from Nov. 20 encampment cleanup

Homeless, says she’s concerned that valuable belongings are being destroyed during the cleanups. And while some people are being housed, others “were just displaced.”

The encampment sweeps may also push people, many of whom are chronically homeless, into less visible areas or to a place where an outreach worker doesn’t know where to find them.

“They can see the direct effects of it with people being moved,” Staudenmaier says of the outreach workers she’s spoken to. “All of the work that the outreach worker puts in with connecting with somebody and building a rapport and getting them to trust them is going to be destroyed if that person suddenly comes back to where they were staying and everything’s gone… and then the person disappears. All that work goes out the window. If the city really wants people to be in a certain place to connect with outreach, to get into housing programs that we suddenly have money for, they can’t be moving people every two weeks to a new place.”

Respress says their outreach team “understand[s] why people would chose to live on the street rather than a shelter.”

“I don’t know that… things that have happened [with the encampments] have jeopardized our relationships with people, because it’s not our outreach workers who are making any decisions about encampments,” she says.

“They are there to support people through any changes if they’re in encampments and... be a consistent presence in their life through whatever’s next. It’s a really challenging and difficult situation.”

Judy Williams describes her outreach teamlike a “wastebasket”—in a good way.

“When there are challenges with homeless people in the city, people are looking to throw things in our hands so we can take care of them,” says Williams, who leads DBH’s Homeless Outreach Program.

Williams’ team gets the call when someone is naked or wearing pants soaked with urine or exhibiting another behavior that raises concerns about a mental illness or substance abuse issue. The calls come from “everybody”: community members, DHS, outof-state relatives looking for a missing son or daughter, MPD, nonprofit service providers.

They start with simple questions—what’s the person’s name? Age? What’s the behavior that you’re concerned about? One or two members of the team, depending on the situation, will meet the person on the street.

They try to engage the person and, if they can, provide “brief case management that is solution-oriented,” she says. For the woman in the soiled pants, that could mean offering a shower, fresh clothes, or a trip to a doctor to see if there’s an underlying med-

ical issue. “We troubleshoot for people.”

Williams works out of the Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program building on the D.C. General campus.

It’s where DBH provides emergency psychiatric services to people brought in by police or a member of its own mobile crisis services team.

When a person who is homeless is brought to the facility, Williams and her team “help to close the [information] gap.”

A person in distress who may not be willing to give her name to a police officer may engage with Williams or her team if they’ve already established a relationship.

“We don’t like to release people who are John and Jane Doe, because that doesn’t help them,” she says. “We want to relink them.”

Williams describes her team as the bridge, while the case managers from DBH or a communitybased service provider are the road. “Never on the journey do you carry the bridge with you,” she says. “You go along the road. The bridge is just there to help you.”

She characterizes her team as care coordinators. They are people who can sit with a client in a hospital for hours or spend the day helping a person apply for benefits or accompany them to court. It’s an intense amount of work for a team that encounters thousands of people a year across the city. They only record interactions with people to whom they offer a service, but they keep an eye on all of them.

That work becomes even more important in winter. When the city activates a cold emergency—when the temperature with the wind chill dips to 15 degrees or below, or 20 degrees or below if there’s precipitation— Williams’ team goes into “nighttime operations.” By 7 p.m., they’re out in school buses from the Office of the State Superintendent and visiting places they know or believe homeless people will be.

The DBH team can use the city’s FD-12 form to take a person into custody for emergency hospitalization if he or she is unwilling to enter shelter or go to a warming site and is in danger. Williams says they sometimes have to “browbeat” people into accepting this help on extremely cold nights. “We have people who would rather die than go to shelter,” she says.

But they try to make accommodations

that remove barriers, like a reluctance to leave bags and belongings. Her team uses the handicap lifts on the buses, for example, to transport shopping carts to the shelters or warming sites.

“When they see us now, we don’t have to do that much heavy lifting,” Williams says. “They know we’re really serious about their health.”

DBH is also responsible for part of the encampment cleanup process. Williams says the city has seen “an explosion of tents.”

“We had the tents pop up because of the presence of a provider,” she says, referring to the Walmarts that have opened in D.C., allowing both homeless people and wellmeaning bystanders to buy cheap tents. “But those people were there all along. They were just invisible.”

There are “adversarial” moments in the work that Williams’ team does, like when they have to use an FD-12. The key is showing up at the hospital the next day and maintaining the relationship. “Once [a client is] safe,” she says, “we’re back in the relationship.”

But while everyone on Williams’ team can use an FD-12, only she and the team social worker attend encampment cleanups. “It’s hard for me to reconcile sending you out to care for somebody and then sending you out to stand by while DPW throws your stuff in the trash,” she says. “When [outreach workers] go out, the face of DBH is psychiatric care for ending your homelessness, for getting your benefits that you need.”

Trust is a word outreach workers use a lot.

Trust that is often hard-earned and easily lost.

“It’s persistence. It is consistency,” Respress says. “You have to show up when you say you’re going to show up.”

In 2014, Williams says, the city housed two clients her team had been engaging with: Both had been homeless for 15 years.

One of the people didn’t want to talk to anyone and insisted he was not mentally ill. “He kept sabotaging the [housing] process with DHS,” she said. Finally, a DHS worker told him there was an apartment he could look at that day. “‘Just go and we’ll bring you back,’” the DBH outreach worker told the man, Williams says.

The man saw an apartment at La Casa, a permanent supportive housing building in Columbia Heights, and decided he didn’t want to go back to the streets. He “didn’t want a single thing” from his previous life, Williams says.

“It took ten years of our team intermittently working with him,” Williams says.

That doesn’t mean daily or weekly visits, but rather keeping up the connection. Engaging, Williams says, with conversations like “How are you doing? Hey, it’s your birthday! Hey man, you’re still here. I’m sorry to see you’re still here. Do you have some water? It’s really hot out today… What can we do differently?

Can we get you some mental health services?

How about you go see a doctor?”

Williams describes it as “like dropping in on family.”

“Ten years of that. And he finally said, CP ‘OK.’”

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Vendetta on H Street NE is transforming from a bocce bar into a red-sauce Italian joint, then into a brewpub.

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Pick-Up Artists Not all restaurants are fans of food delivery services.

It took two months for Kangaroo Boxing Club to remove itself from Postmates’ food delivery service.

The problem? Owner Peyton Sherwood says the menus were frequently inaccurate, and people would order dishes like collard greens when they hadn’t been available for two months. Other times, he felt drivers were rude, impatient, and didn’t take enough care getting food to the customer.

At its worst, Sherwood told his servers to stop taking Postmates credit cards when couriers showed up to pick up orders. Instead, the staff would eat the food themselves or throw it out, taking a loss. Sherwood also took to Twitter to air his grievances and plea for Postmates to remove Kangaroo Boxing Club from its app and website. Behind the scenes, he threatened to call a lawyer.

“I even told them that I’d rather catapult my food across the city to my customers. It had a better chance of showing up looking good than it did with their drivers,” Sherwood says.

Sherwood is one of several restaurateurs who has a complicated or antagonistic relationship with food courier services like DoorDash or Postmates. The market for food delivery has exploded in recent years with a range of apps and websites touting meals from restaurants that haven’t traditionally offered their food to-go. For restaurateurs, the extra business is often welcomed, but introducing a third party can create problems, especially for businesses that aren’t built around a takeout model.

Most people don’t realize that ordering from these services does not make them customers of the restaurant; they’re customers of the particular service being used. Typically, there’s no contact directly between the person ordering and the restaurant staff. Res-

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taurants can receive orders just by being open for business.

“We simply list you. We have your menu and a small inventory in our system, and we point people toward you,” says Postmates Senior Vice President Holger Luedorf.

Food delivery service DoorDash is likewise not entirely opt-in and will accept orders for any restaurant that offers takeout. Company spokesperson Eitan Bencuya says DoorDash does try to reach out and have formal relationships with all the businesses it lists on its site,

but that doesn’t always happen.

“In those cases, we make our best effort to contact the owner of the restaurant and offer them the opportunity to partner with us in order for them to improve the ordering process, gain better insights and analytics, and improve their in-store efficiency,” Bencuya says.

Mandu chef and owner Danny Lee began receiving orders from DoorDash shortly after the service launched in D.C. in early 2015—even though he’d never had a conversation with anyone from the company. He noticed that some of his prices listed on the app and website had been inflated.

DoorDash declined to comment specifically on the pricing or details of Mandu’s situation. But a quick menu search online reveals other examples where the cost of ordering menu items from DoorDash is more than you’d pay in-restaurant, even before delivery fees are tacked on. For example, ordering a large cheese pizza from Vace in Cleveland Park through DoorDash will cost $12.50 plus tax and a $6.99 delivery fee, compared to $10.50 with tax on site. Or you can order from Maple in Columbia Heights and pay $19.95 plus tax for a plate of lamb ragu tagliatelle instead of the advertised $18 menu price.

Lee declined to continue with the service when he was formally approached by the company later in the year.

With these services, there’s no guarantee that a business’ hours or menu will be properly updated online. Lee changes Mandu’s menu once a week, something not reflected on Postmates. Lee says he’s also wasted a lot of food due to incorrect orders from Postmates. For example, he won’t find out about vegetarian substitutions until dishes are already cooked due to a lack of communication between Postmates and the customer. When a customer directly calls in an order, restaurants can ask about dietary restrictions.

Adding to the stress is the fact that some restaurants aren’t set up to handle a large volume of to-go orders.

“Just the simple act of putting food in a to-go container disrupts service,” Lee says.

Postmates’ orders have pushed Mandu to its limits. The majority of takeout orders at Mandu are still done by walk-in guests, though, Lee says.

At Scarlet Oak in Navy Yard, a busy night of service or packed brunch might exhaust a popular side dish like Brussels sprouts. Co-

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DCFEED(cont.) owner Brian Schram says in these cases, the restaurant can’t communicate directly with the customer to come up with an alternative and are left either calling the service or coming up with a replacement on the fly.

Even the process of taking orders can be inefficient. Schram, who’s also a partner at Southern Hospitality in Adams Morgan, made the decision to use DoorDash to help connect customers to his restaurants, and he’s had success doing so. But he says that processing the emails he gets from the service when an order comes through isn’t nearly as simple as it might seem. He often finds himself monitoring email for incoming food orders while at a Washington Nationals game or lounging around on a Saturday morning.

At some points, he says, it can be a challenge to make sure the email connection gets made with the restaurant manager on duty and that the food gets out the door.

“I forward the message along to the restaurant and hope it works,” Schram says.

Scarlet Oak’s menu prices are the same on DoorDash as they are in the restaurant. The business then pays a commission on the orders they sell.

Some services, including DoorDash, offer to loan point-of-sale tablets to assist restaurants with receiving and logging orders.

In Schram’s opinion, though, his restaurant is already dealing with too many devices, and he feels it’s easier to monitor emails himself.

Food quality is another big concern for both restaurants and delivery services, and not all food is designed for takeout. Transporting pizza or Chinese food across town is easier than intricate or temperature-sensitive entrees that were designed to be eaten at a restaurant table.

This is especially the case at Medium Rare, where getting a perfectly-cooked steak delivered to your door just isn’t realistic. Coowner Mark Bucher says he’ll do eight to 10 DoorDash orders on a good night, and more when it’s cold or raining (which also happens to be when the restaurant dining room is less busy). Bucher tries to manage expectations by providing information on his restaurant’s DoorDash profile that the fries could be cold and the steak will only be cooked medium unless requested well-done.

After all, it’s not just the food quality, but the restaurant’s reputation at stake. Sherwood says that Kangaroo Boxing Club has received negative Yelp reviews with photos of jostled deliveries. “It looked like someone had taken the box and shook it,” he says. “All of these people who are using the app, they think it’s our fault. Whatever the problem is, they think it’s our drivers, they think it’s our people doing these things, and it’s not.” Kangaroo Boxing Club still does

a lot of takeout business, but not with any third parties.

Despite all of the frustrations, it’s becoming tougher and tougher for many restaurateurs to ignore these delivery services. They often bring in a lot of business. Georgetown Events restaurant group has found success bringing in new customers using DoorDash at Jetties, Surfside, Bayou, and Due South. Events Manager Michael Tabb estimates each of the restaurants gets 30 delivery orders a day. (He says he’s had only fast and professional drivers, and no issues with updating menus and taking orders.)

“They’re somewhat game changers in the business,” Bucher adds of these delivery services. Still, he was never one to do online ordering in the past, even when he was formerly involved in the quick-service business with BGR The Burger Joint.

“I wanted all my customers to come in the restaurant and experience my environment,” he says. Now though, he says it’s all about catering to the food cravings of 20- or 30-yearolds who are ordering food on the fly.

Smoke and Barrel has partnered with another service called Caviar to manage its deliveries. It offers a smaller version of its main menu, but that doesn’t stop the Postmates calls from coming in. In fact, there are so many takeout barbecue orders from Postmates that it just wouldn’t be possible to stop accepting them, says General Manager Zach Myers.

Another restaurateur concern is that Postmates allows its couriers to rate customers and vice-versa but provides no such system for merchants to weigh in. That leaves no way to report a rude or otherwise less-than-stellar courier, and it’s something the company says it’s working on.

“Ideally, we have to have all key constituencies being able to voice their concerns,” says Luedorf. He also pointed out that D.C. is one of the company’s top markets, and that serious complaints by businesses make up the small minority of all feedback.

With this concern in mind, Luedorf says the company is working to increase the number of direct relationships with restaurants, allowing them to more easily do things like update and customize menus and operating hours.

The company doesn’t give out specific numbers but said they have hundreds of merchant partners in the city.

At Mandu, Lee is still debating how to deal with Postmates and other options on to-go orders going forward. In the meantime? “We’re not going to pull the plug just yet,” he says.

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what we ate last week:

Omakase, $50, Sushi Capitol. Satisfaction level: 5 out of 5 what we’ll eat next week:

Spicy pickled vegetable onigiri, $7, Twisted Horn. Excitement level: 4 out of 5

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B. Nektar Necromangocon Mango and Black Pepper Mead Seasonal Pantry is closing in April.

Post-holiday juice cleanse season

New York Times travel story touts one D.C. restaurant: a New York transplant Jackie’s Restaurant is closing at the end of March.

The Dish: Vegan Pork Rinds Where to Get It: Smoke & Barrel, 2471 18th St. NW; (202) 319-9353; smokeandbarreldc.com or snacklins.com Price: $3 What It Is: A vegan, gluten-free interpretation of pork rinds. “We wanted to take something beautiful and destroy it,” says Snacklins co-founder Logan McGear.

McGear is also the chef at Smoke & Barrel, a barbecue joint that goes the extra mile for vegans and vegetarians. After two years of tinkering with the Snacklins recipe, McGear and his partner, musician Samy Kobrosly, settled on a blend of dehydrated-then-flashfried mushrooms, onions, and yucca. The snacks come in three flavors: barbecue, soy ginger, and Chesapeake Bay-style. More flavors are on the way including some bespoke varieties for celebrities, like Three 6 Mafia.

Gwyneth Paltrow invests in Beefsteak.

Taylor Gourmet is now serving a truffled cheesesteak.

Are you gonnA eAt that?

“They contacted us, and they’re into it,” McGear says.

What It Tastes Like: A pork rind doppelgänger in both texture and flavor. They’re salty, crunchy, and full of air pockets just

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like the real thing, and they even leave a fine sheen of grease on your fingertips. The Chesapeake Bay-style is the best iteration— tasting like Herr’s Old Bay Potato Chips, only with more heft. The barbecue flavor brings enough heat to have you grabbing a beer.

Only the small size of the bag keeps you from overindulging.

The Story: Snacklins made its debut in December, and McGear and Kobrosly are in talks to sell their product at local grocers, Bedrock Billiards, 3 Stars Brewing Company, and DC Brau. “It’s a hand-made, cool little product from D.C.,” Kobrosly says. “People are always trying to button us up, but we can be hippies like San Francisco too.” The duo is currently producing Snacklins start-up style out of borrowed commercial kitchens until a space is secured, but they’re dreaming big. “You always have to have an end goal, and our end goal is to sell the company to Beyoncé,” Kosbrosly says.

—Laura Hayes

Klaatu Barada Nektar B. Nektar Meadery, located just north of Detroit, has been churning out creative ciders and meads since 2008. For almost that long, bottles like Zombie Killer, a hard cider brewed with Michigan honey and cherries, have been easy to find throughout D.C. and Maryland. With its mango and black pepper mead Necromangocon, B. Nektar seems to take as much pride in local ingredients as it does local “culture.” The name plays off of Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead movies. The film series is set in Michigan and revolves around a fictional ancient text called the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis that awakens the dead from their graves.

Gimme Some Sugar, Baby Necromangocon looks, smells, and tastes exactly as it is described: a mango and black pepper mead with no surprises save the fact that its atypical mix of flavors actually works.

It has the expected appearance of a mead: crystal clear and pale gold in color with a quickly dissipating white head. Its nose is mild, with honey aromas and just a hint of fruit and flowers. Despite its dark, foreboding namesake, Necromangocon is light-bodied with a prickly feel. The taste is on the sweeter side (it is mead, after all). Honey and mango flavors appear up front, followed by spicy heat from the black pepper in the finish. My only gripe is a slightly off-putting bitter aftertaste. Try a bottle alongside my least-loathed film of the series, Army of Darkness. A sixpercent-alcohol bottle of Necromangocon might help you giggle more easily at Bruce Campbell’s cheesy, macho antics. Maybe.

—Tammy Tuck

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Hilton: Thrilling… is that the right word? I’m certainly not burnt out on it.

The “first Internet-only music show” is how a Washington Post clip from 2000 describes the curious new NPR project by Bob Boilen, who was then director of All Things Considered. The goal? To collect the songs he played in between news stories and put them online, for curious musiclovers to devour. Sixteen years later, All Songs Considered— with its hosts Boilen and Robin Hilton—is still leading the conversation on new music.

And like any self-respecting 16 year old, All Songs Considered threw a big birthday bash—heavy on the nostalgia, with a slate of mostly surprise guests, all of which have been meaningful to the show’s history. The only two previously announced guests, Baltimore electronic musician Dan Deacon and the virtuosic singer-songwriter Sharon Van Etten, are both perennial All Songs favorites that represent the twin thrills of NPR Music’s beloved Tiny Desk Concerts: funsized sets from maximalist live acts who shrink their show down to cubicle-size and intimate sessions with tomorrow’s most prolific artists.

From All Songs’ inception in the dial-up age all the way through to their most recent Christmas episode, which featured skits from famous friends like Carrie Brownstein, Dan Auerbach, and Ben Folds, Boilen and Hilton’s winning formula hasn’t changed: They are two fans with the seamless rapport of radio pros and a boundless fascination for music. It’s like hanging out with the nicest record store clerks on the planet.

City Paper recently spoke with Boilen and Hilton about 16 years of All Songs Considered, the thrill of discovering new music, and the evolution of the local music scene.

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

Boilen: I find it thrilling. Always. I go out to shows all the time, and I still find it thrilling, I still find adventure in listening to a bunch of music, nine out of 10 are just OK or less, and one— that one is the one you keep trying and hoping for. And that’s what our show is. Each week, each of us individually, without

WCP: Something that’s been a constant with All Songs Considered is that it’s rooted in a sense of discovery. Is discovering music still thrilling for you?

Robin Hilton (left) and Bob Boilen (right)

Hilton: I was just thinking [about] when I was younger, how hard it was to discover music before the Internet. I lived in a small town, and you really only heard what was on Top 40 radio… I sometimes wonder if the thrill is still there for people, that hard-fought music discovery, because people have access to so much now that we didn’t used to have. I think the difference between the past and now is in the past, it was, ‘Would someone please help me find something—anything—out there.’ And now, it’s, ‘There’s so much out there, can you please help me make sense of what the needles are in this massive haystack.’

Bob, if you could take us back 16 years, and talk about how your time as director of All Things Considered eventually led to All Songs.

Boilen: It just so happens that one of the parts of directing a live two-hour news show every night, one of the quirky things directors do for All Things Considered, is that they play music in between news stories. And one thing I felt, because I had a background [and] knowledge in music, I chose good music [between stories]. So we would get tons of letters about the music that we played on ATC. And it was at a time—the late ’80s and through the ’90s—that music radio was being gobbled up and homogenized, and there really wasn’t a place for discovering things on the radio. So they were writing to me, and I realized they were music-starved. They just didn’t have a place, so that was the impetus to start—we’ll call it an Internet radio show —in 2000. I still don’t know if there were others, I don’t know of any others. I’m not going to say we were the first, but we were among them.

And you played the first 9:30 Club show!

Tell us what music in D.C. looked like at that time.

Boilen: Before the 9:30 Club, there was one good radio station, WGTB, [Georgetown University’s] radio station, that played amazing music, and they were a focal point for the community of music lovers. But there were hardly any clubs to go hear original music by original bands —most clubs wanted to sell alcohol, and they would bring in mostly cover bands who would sneak an original two or four songs in their set, but would mostly play hit songs on the radio. s/NPR Mito Habe-Evan Handout photo by

An interview with All Songs Considered’s Bob Boilen and Robin Hilton on the show’s 16th anniversary

the other knowing it, goes through a ton of music, and we each bring three to the table. We never know what each other will play. And that’s where the serendipity happens.

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Urban Verbs, who formed in ’78. I saw their first show at what was called the Atlantis Club, which was the very same space as the [original] 9:30 Club. It was a restaurant by day, run by this guy who had no interest in music at all, but Robert helped make that a music venue. Everyone hated it there because the owner just didn’t understand, and the sound was terrible. But it was a place where someone like The Urban Verbs—an original band from Washington, D.C.—could play music. And it was them, and The Slickee Boys, and White Boy, and you could feel a scene coming and bubbling. And it was a small scene, you knew everyone, and it grew really well and fast. The club cared a lot about the artists that played —the woman who owned the club, Dody [Desanto], was an artist herself. She was a mime in the theater. And she tried to encourage young people, not just alcohol drinkers, to come to the club, and would do this “three bands for three bucks” night, and just wanted people to make a scene. Which is how you wound up getting hardcore in D.C.

cal bands like us. They don’t do that anymore, those days are gone. It was an encouraging scene, it was a place where things could happen, very much a ‘big fish, little pond.’

Do you still think it’s like that?

Boilen: When I go to little house shows, I feel that. But to get to a club and open for a national act? It doesn’t happen as much. And it doesn’t necessarily have to do with the clubs. It has to do with a whole different chain of events, the way booking happens, the way bands pair up with other bands to tour.

Comet Ping Pong is a place that still does that. What they’ll often do is sandwich a local band between national acts, so it’s not like they’re just the opener where 17 people are there.

Any other venues you’re consistently seeing do a good job?

Boilen: I made my list of all the shows I’ve seen [in 2015], and the two places I went to most were the 9:30 Club and DC9. DC9 has turned out to me to be one of my very favorite venues—the sound got really good, and the booking is really good. I go less to Rock & Roll Hotel than I used to. The backstage at Black Cat is smaller than the old 9:30 club, but captures that feeling of being in a room and looking around and seeing all the faces, where everyone’s tightly packed.

Hilton: From a mime, D.C. hardcore.

Boilen: There were a few other places around town, there was the Ontario Theatre, where bands like Talking Heads and The Clash and folks like that would come. Seth Hurwitz, who’s I.M.P. Productions, would put shows on there. Usually, every time you would see a national band in a nightclub like 9:30, you would see a local band open, which was huge for lo-

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Hilton: For Bob, it’s called death. I’ve talked about, ‘Do you think you might be able to do this until you’re 80? [I’d] really appreciate it if you could do it until you’re 80.’

Boilen: It’s hard to imagine—the thing is, music’s got to still feel vital to me. And in some ways, I can feel times when the “vital” music of the day, I don’t connect with. And that’s part of aging. Let’s say the big community loves EDM: I’m like ‘Fine, this music is throbbing, it’s not lyrical, there’s rarely melody, the things that I care about in music.’ And if those things vanish from music and I don’t like music, then maybe we won’t do it. But the beauty of music these days is that there’s something for everyone, so I imagine that we will always be.

Hilton: We couldn’t have predicted the 16 years that we’ve had, and there’s no way to predict what the next 16 will be.

But one thing about our personalities—and the way we’ve become such good friends and how well we work together—is [that] we’ve stayed very curious. And I still feel very curious, moving into the future. And as long as you’re curious, some CP things can happen.

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w e i v e r P n i Year

A new year, a new slew of cultural happenings to get excited for. From exhibitions to productions to new albums, 2016 has a lot in store for local arts lovers of all types. Below, City Paper writers share the up-

The Cornel West Theory

The T.A.B.L.E. Stand-Out Track: No. 10, “Other Side of the Line (Anita).” The Cornel West Theory kicked off 2016 in style, with a new album, which dropped just three months after its last one. The T.A.B.L.E. was inspired by DJ Premier and Royce da 5’9”’s 2014 project PRhyme, and that boom-bap hip-hop influence is evident throughout.

Musical Motivation: Full of scratch- and sample-heavy production, T.A.B.L.E. is a side-step from the group’s more raucous and writhing anti-establishment fare. The “Anita” of the song’s title is a nod to the chopped and reconstructed Chapter 8 sample that lays the sonic foundation.

The Anita Baker–led track is best known for its use in Bone Thugs-n-Harmony’s “1st of tha Month,” although the loop here is less obvious and sets forth a groove that’s moody without being dark and heavy.

“Just to Let a Brotha Know What’s Happenin’”: Sampled lines from Lords Of The Underground stand in for a chorus here, setting the tone for the societal critiques and personal anecdotes rappers Rashad Dobbins and Tim Hicks offer in their respective verses. Dobbins’ poetic stream of consciousness warns against complacency and misplaced priorities, reminding us that “evil only wins cuz you thinkin’ it’s sweet.”

On the second verse, Hicks walks us through some of what he says are “real life experiences that have taken place in our lives over the past year.” Although the hardships are apparent, so it is the underlying thread of perseverance and striving. “It’s about the continued struggle,” Hicks says. “About smiling, fighting, laughing, crying your way thru, but never stopping.”

—Nena Perry-Brown Listen to “Other Side of the Line (Anita)” at washingtoncitypaper.com/go/cornelwesttheory2016.

coming arts happenings they’re most looking forward to in 2016.

—Matt Cohen

Am Anne Hutchison/I Am Venus IHarvey Milk at Strathmore I’m pretty pumped on Venus—a new short film that provides an insider’s take on an insanely niche aspect of D.C.’s music scene.

—Keith Mathias

A Broadway star, two historical luminaries, and rising-star local theater director at a venue that usually hosts orchestras and dad rock —Rebecca J. Ritzel

Untitled Maria Schneider Composition

“She who Tells a Story: women Photographers from iran and the arab world” at national Museum for women in the arts

Schneider, one of the most imaginative and important big band writer–leaders in jazz, is working on a new commission from the Library of Congress. We have no information about title, compositional concept, or featured musicians; the only detail that’s been announced is that her 17-piece orchestra will premiere the work at an April 15 concert at LoC’s Whittall Pavilion.

—Michael J. West

The upcoming photo and video exhibition at the National Museum for Women in the Arts will feature more than 80 works and should be very politically engaging.

—Erin C. Devine

Sweaty Betty

The debut film of Maryland locals Joe Frank and Zachary Reed concerns a pig living in an African-American neighborhood in Cheverly. It’s already been booked at festivals nationally and is getting rave reviews.

—Steve Kiviat

New Music from Title Tracks and Puff Pieces

Two of D.C.’s finest bands—Title Tracks, the power-pop project of John Davis, and postpunk trio Puff Pieces— are expected to drop LPs this year. Color me excited. —Matt Cohen

The washington Ballet Presents Bowie & Queen at the Kennedy Center

Weird glam ballet to the music of David Bowie and Queen.

Should be an entertaining and fitting tribute to The Thin White Duke.

—Elena Goukassian

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FilmShort SubjectS Dark Horse

Mustang

Mustang Directed by Deniz Gamze Ergüven The opening scenes of Mustang, a tender and transfixing film by Turkish director Deniz Gamze Ergüven, depict the feeling of freedom in its purest state. Five sisters ranging in age from about eight to 16 leave school for the last time before summer vacation, romp in the shallow sea with their male classmates, and then wander home through the trees, picking apples as they go. But don’t get too comfortable; their childlike innocence doesn’t last beyond the first reel. Over the long summer that follows, the girls turn into women, and their personal liberties are snatched away by a male-dominated culture.

Raised by their grandmother and uncle after the death of their parents, the girls held onto their childhood by forming a tight-knit group. Whenever possible, Ergüven shoots them all in the same frame to emphasize their unity. But after a local busybody spots them at the beach that day and spreads gossip that they were behaving immorally with boys, their cruel uncle decides it’s time to break up the group and marry them off.

What follows is a tense and emotional social drama, but also a valuable exposé of the realities of arranged marriage. Each girl receives a different, seemingly random fate. Sonay (Ilayda Akdogan) gets to marry her boyfriend, while Selma (Tugba Sunguroglu) is matched up with a quiet, unappealing neighbor. Capturing the absurdity of the arrangement, the latter two are introduced in front of their parents and sit in awkward silence next to each other until Selma’s grandmother remarks, apparently without irony, “The children seem to like each other.”

And yet it’s not just absurd; it’s violently misogynistic. On Selma’s wedding night, her husband suspects she has lied about being a virgin.

They take her to a hospital where the doctor determines she was being forthright, but her father-in-law has brought along his pistol just in case. Meanwhile, the midnight trips made by the girls’ uncle into one of the house’s many bedrooms pays off tragically, effectively dramatizing how a culture that requires its women to be silent is also inexorably unequal.

As for the elephant in the room: Turkey is, of course, a Muslim country, but Ergüven wisely keeps religion out of the picture. Mustang is not a polemic, and it masterfully walks a razorthin tightrope to avoid falling into more divisive subject matter. The filmmakers approach their characters not as political objects but as rare humans grappling with that unique moment when childhood gives way—painfully but sometimes beautifully—to brutal realities.

These women’s performances are miraculous—even more so when you consider that all but one is making her screen debut—but the youngest deserves a special mention. In a year

Son of Saul full of standout child performances (Jacob Tremblay in Room, Abraham Attah in Beasts of No Nation), the acting done by Günes Sensoy as Lule, the film’s guileless narrator, might be the best of all. Moving seamlessly between childish glee and painfully earned wisdom, she embodies all of the film’s social complexities in a powerfully natural performance. Like the film’s namesake, she’s built to run free, an unstoppable force powering the —Noah Gittell year’s first great film.

Mustang opens at Landmark Bethesda Row Cinema on Friday.

WanDering scar Son of Saul Directed by László Nemes It’s relatively safe to assume that moviegoers who buy a ticket for Son of Saul don’t need the details of the Holocaust spelled out for them. So when director and co-writer László Nemes drops you in the middle of the action in his feature debut (and Golden Globe winner), it doesn’t take long to get ori-

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ented. The opening shot, in a field in 1944 Auschwitz, is blurred, with a figure walking toward the camera. When the man stops, the lens focuses, showing in sharp profile of Saul (Géza Röhrig), a Hungarian Jewish prisoner of the Sonderkommando ordered to help put his people to death.

We’ll stay with Saul throughout the film’s 147 minutes. The camera follows him—often just behind his back so we see what he sees— as he helps herds of less fortunate prisoners into gas chambers, collects the valuables from their clothes, and scrubs blood off the floor and walls after the bodies are disposed of. At other times, Saul might be charged with shoveling ashes or helping his commanders with more palatable tasks such as picking a lock.

It’s likely that Saul typically carried out these duties robotically and perhaps with a waning will to live. He regains a sense of purpose, however, soon after the film’s first gassing. A boy survives the fatal fumes and is dragged, coughing, onto an examination table, where a doctor completes the job. Saul approaches and says that the boy is his son, and requests that he not be cremated yet. The doctor turns out to be a prisoner himself and

agrees to let him have five minutes with the body at the end of the day. Now Saul has a singular mission: to find a rabbi who can help give his child a proper burial.

Nemes and co-writer Clara Royer, also a first-time scripter, fill Son of Saul with little center-stage dialogue but maintain a cacophony of languages, shouting, wails, and gunfire in the background, adding to the sense of chaos and uncertainty amid which Saul must secretly search for a rabbi. The Sonderkommando are as closely guarded and frequently shoved around as the Jews marked for death; one suspicious move, and Saul could be killed, too.

The filmmakers expertly set up the Nazis’ savage mindset and the camp’s atmosphere with the first group of the gassed; the victims are told that they’re needed for jobs, to remember where they set their clothes, and that they will be given soup after taking their showers, making the truth all the more gutting.

Though you may try to suss out what’s going on around Saul—particularly the revolt the Sonderkommando are organizing—the director leans on long, immersive takes to keep you with the main character. The technique adds a propulsion to Saul’s effort, who continually insinuates himself into pockets of men and whispers “Rabbi?” to others who may not speak Hungarian or even be from his camp.

Throughout, it’s unclear whether the boy is actually Saul’s son, a reminder of his youth, a symbol of innocence among brutality, or something else, but it doesn’t matter: That he get a respectful burial has ignited a passion within Saul, a motive that matters more to him than his own life. Son of Saul, therefore, shouldn’t be brushed off as just another Holocaust film. It’s a story of a man who fights for triumph in the worst of circumstances, a parable about how the slightest glimmer of light can give those engulfed by tragedy a renewed —Tricia Olszewski sense of life.

Son of Saul opens Friday at Landmark E Street Cinema and Bethesda Row Cinema.

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Galleries

Space Oddities

The Washington Project for the Arts’ latest looks to the stars for big questions, only to find little answers.

“Other Worlds, Other Stories” At the Washington Project for the Arts to Feb. 20

By Kriston Capps

pee. It’s funny but infuriating to think we carry our limitations forward even as we exceed them.

Heidi Neilson and Douglas Paulson turn such petty frustrations into petite bourgeoisie obligations with the “Menu4Mars Kitchen” (2015), a full-service spacefarer’s guide to dining in space. Dozens of recipes and freeze-dried food packages on display at the gallery hint at a performance. One is planned for Feb. 6, in fact: a “Mars-feasible Ethiopian dinner,” according to the group’s literature. “Menu for Mars,” which is supported by New York’s Flux Factory, scratches the itch for non-representational art, but the project is so pedestrian, so intentionally perfunctory, that it brings us back to the show’s central question: Don’t we want to leave this all behind? Who, besides technicians at NASA, looks to the stars and dreams of

“Space is the place,” said Sun Ra, the pharaoh philosopher from another dimension, and Jefferson Pinder would seem to agree with him. That’s the sense that brims over in “Black Hole” (2016), a painting by Pinder that takes the form of a dark glittering roundel. It’s a nod to Afrofuturism and American minimalism: black and assertive—speckled through with gold, backlit by an unseen light like a solar eclipse—yet reserved and confident, almost wry. It’s as if Pinder set out to make something as declarative as a Sun Ra performance but as restrained as an Ellsworth Kelly exercise.

There’s a moment in Space Is the Place (1974), the film (and album)

by Sun Ra and His Intergalactic Solar Arkestra, when Ra and his brethren chant, “It’s after the end of the world/ Don’t you know that yet?” David Bowie, our planet’s amanuensis of the stars, said it only slightly differently on “Space Oddity” (1969): “Far above the Moon/ Planet Earth is blue/ And there’s nothing I can do.” The sentiment is the same. We have touched the celestial spheres. Now what?

If there’s a single thread to tie together “Other Worlds, Other Stories,” a forward-looking show at the new Washington Project for the Arts, it’s this sense of stumbling progress.

Jeffry Cudlin, mission control for this exhibit, has assembled 11 artists doing mostly representational or figurative works. This comes as a surprise, knowing Cudlin’s penchant for conceptual art from his time as curator at Arlington Arts Center. After all, tweedy conceptualism might be “Black Hole” by Jefferson Pinder; 2016 the best tool for uncorking a topic as mind-expanding as space. preparing thermostabilized meals for the crew?

Instead, Cudlin (an occasional City Paper contributor) is To be sure, there is some preciousness in “Other Worlds, concerned with a question that’s closer to home: What does Other Stories.” Casey Johnson’s “Oculus” (2014) is a woodit mean to leave Earth but never really leave it behind? Steve en sculpture in the form of a space capsule, a vintage-looking Strawn, one of the artists in “Other Worlds, Other Stories,” suborbital ascender that might have been dreamed up by Jules conveys space travel as a cynical endeavor. “Mars Is Great” Verne; it hangs in the space like a matte golden ornament.

(2015), a photo, shows a bunch of astronaut figurines sitting Peer into its porthole, though, and inside is an LED starscape. around what could be a campsite. There’s a miniature grill, That’s what I’m talking about: the sheer sense of wonder cona miniature portable toilet, and miniature spacemen kick- tained in the bolts and widgets of a worldly contraption. The ing back. The diorama, which looks like it might have been Apollo-Soyuz Test Project at the National Air and Space Musnapped in a sandpit, is supposed to capture the smallness of seum looks like it’s made of aluminum foil and bubble gum, space travel—the smallness of the traveler. Even millions of but this claptrap vehicle can transport me to another time and miles into an adventure through the cosmos, we still have to space. The very physical manifestation of the celestial in John26 january 15, 2016 washingtoncitypaper.com

son’s “Oculus” is the same portal, but from a different era.

Roxana Pérez-Méndez’s “New Espacio, Edicion Final” (2007-15) deploys an optical illusion called Pepper’s ghosts to plant a hologram of an astronaut in the middle of a rocky lunar landscape. (It’s the same 19th-century technology, more or less, that put the departed Tupac Shakur onstage with Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg at the Coachella Festival in 2012.) This one might have spoken to the fact that, even though our space technology changes, our needs—comfort, warmth, pressure, a way to pee, something to talk about—really never do. Or something. I couldn’t quite read the combination of goofy special FX and elegant, free-floating sculptural form. The Puerto Rican flag on the capsule and planted on the planet didn’t convey much about a Puerto Rican space program, other than the fact of it. There isn’t enough alt-history to Pérez-Méndez’s science fiction, although her execution is fantastical.

Gray Lamb’s “New Institute of Historical Cosmological Exploration (NIHCE)” (2015) is another conceptualist piece, but it’s one this show could do without. NIHCE compiles portraits, artifacts, and documents from NIHCE, a NASA-style bureaucracy from some other alternate dimension or timeline.

The bar for this sort of fictional museum display—whether it’s about aliens or the Illuminati or asteroid landings—has been raised very high by the innumerable projects like this that emerge in art school, especially throughout this region.

Ostensibly their focus is museums and their predilections, but these mock-investigations are never barbed and the documentation is nowhere near tedious, obsessive, or exhaustive enough to be compelling.

My favorite stroke of the show might be Cudlin’s decision to include Lucy West, a painter based in Idaho.

Her practice is about as far from the contemporary art gallery circuit as her studio: West is a space landscape painter, a member of the International Association of Astronomical Artists.

Her work is fascinating in the sense that it forms the visual basis for things that remain very much unseeable and unknowable: far-off clusters or stellar nebula whose light we only know from long ago. Artists’ depictions of deep space inform what we understand and believe about how space works. In that sense, the straightforward way that we—earthlings in this dimension and timeline—understand the space around us is every bit as fantastical as some of the alternative modes suggested throughout the show.

For the most part, “Other Worlds, Other Stories” declines to tackle the big questions, focusing instead on the little answers. It might seem like a paradox in science fiction: As the science comes into view, the fiction falls away. Instead of asking what’s out there, we merely inquire: How are we going to go, and what will we eat when we get there? In the end, I side with artworks like Pinder’s that seek to hold the truth at bay, to indulge in the sense of anticipation, like an eclipse that dazzles with possibilities. I fear the truth is closer to what a lot of the other works here suggest: When we get there, unwashed and somewhat slightly dazed, the stars CP won’t look that different after all.

2124 8th St. NW. Free. (202) 234-7103. wpadc.org.

Saturday, January 16, 2016, 1-7 pm Kogod Courtyard | FREE For one day, SAAM, MAGFest, and American University’s Game Lab present an indie arcade! Play some of your favorite video games, participate in game building workshops, and try new indie games—courtesy of the International Game Developers Association’s Indie Arcade: Coast to Coast competition. Classic arcade games include Asteroids, Pac-Man, Tron, Star Wars, Arkanoid, Donkey Kong, and more. Don’t miss the arcade!

This program is supported by the Entertainment Software Association and the Director’s Circle. Media partnership from the Washington City Paper.

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TheaTerCurtain Calls ConfliCt Revelations

Aaron Davidman’s one-man show wrangles a complicated topic with aplomb.

It might seem glib for the first line of a show about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to also be the title of a Nancy Meyers romcom.

But when Aaron Davidman strides on stage and begins his one-man show, Wrestling Jerusalem, by exclaiming“It’s complicated!”… somehow, it works.

Of course, it would be unfortunate if Davidman left us only with this lesson. But as he launches into an energetic litany of dates, places, events, recriminations, and lamentations, enthusiastically demonstrating his encyclopedic knowledge of the topic, it becomes clear that he’s more than up to the challenge of fashioning the subject matter into a satisfying, moving evening of theater.

Wrestling Jerusalem opens Mosaic Theater Company’s Voices From a Changing Middle East Festival, the brainchild of its Artistic Director Ari Roth, who conceived of the festival in 2000 at his former home, Theater J. The choice of Davidman’s piece as the opener of this year’s return edition of the festival is clearly a personal one for Roth: An earlier iteration of the project was initially commissioned from Davidman by Theater J for its 2007 Voices Festival.

The show faces a number of existential obstacles. A one-man show is, necessarily, something of a high-wire act; a one-man show on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict carries with it an even higher degree of difficulty. Not only is the material highly controversial, but it’s been examined seemingly ad nauseam by academics, historians, politicians, and artists alike.

So while the production may lack for material originality, that’s not exactly Davidman’s fault. His job is to imbue these same old questions with a sense of urgency, to probe them in revealing, interesting ways that resonate with an audience of partisans and novices alike. And throughout the 85-minute production, Davidman unleashes a multitude of different approaches that prove him to be up to the task. He generally structures the show around his personal journey to understand the conflict more clearly, making it known that, as an American Jew, the questions he’s trying to answer are personal, and the stakes are accordingly high.

It’s a technique that pays dividends: As Davidman switches between monologue and dialogue (most memorably through an “argument” with a Hamas-supporting American medical student), he allows himself to act as 28 january 15, 2016 washingtoncitypaper.com

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Wrestling Jerusalem Written and performed by Aaron Davidman Directed by Michael John Garcés At Atlas Performing Arts Center to Jan. 24

both the interlocutor of, and the respondent to, the questions that have no answers. Davidman is a masterful impressionist and a solid physical performer. He also exhibits a delightfully dry sense of humor: Grinding his momentum to a halt early in the show, he stares into the audience and intones, “A rabbi walks into a bar…”

Yet Davidman’s greatest quality as a performer is his empathy. He inhabits more than a dozen characters, Israeli and Palestinian alike, without reducing any to caricature.

It’s this empathy that’s absolutely crucial to the success of the performance. What comes through so effectively in Davidman’s account is just how certain everyone is about who’s to blame for the situation. And, paradoxically, this means that Davidman occasionally struggles to keep us fully focused.

At a certain point, as we see yet another earnest, resolute individual, speaking intently and directly to the audience, there’s the sense that there’s only so much certainty one can take. It’s this reaction that reveals yet another existential challenge the show faces: the natural inclination of its audience to throw its hands up and absolve itself of responsibility for such a mess.

But Wrestling Jerusalem ultimately triumphs far more often than it falls short. Michael John Garcés’ unobtrusive direction expertly takes advantage of Davidman’s multitudinous gifts, and the superb lighting and sound design of Allen Willner and Bruno Louchouard, respectively, maintains the dramatic tension throughout the performance. Yes, it’s complicated. But as Davidman fervently argues, we need to keep —John Krizel trying to figure it all out.

1333 H St. NE. $20–$40.(202) 399-7993. mosaictheater.org.

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ChroniCles of CyniC The Virus Chronicles: The Culling

By Michael Acosta and Eric Donaldson Tate Publishing, 228 pp Doom is a hot topic these days.

Between climate change and a world economic meltdown just a few years ago, grim sci-fi visions of dystopia are easy to come by. The Virus Chronicles, by Michael Acosta and D.C.-area scientist Eric Donaldson, depicts an earth crashing and burning due to the wildfire spread of a lethal superbug from outer space, which kills rapidly and across nature’s kingdoms—not only do people drop dead, but so do crops and livestock. And if that weren’t enough doom for you, the outbreak causes humanity to spin out of control into tribal barbarism, killing more people than the virus, which wipes out hundreds of millions, while survivors slaughter each other for food. If this sounds like the stuff of pulp fiction, well, it is—and very readable too.

But The Virus Chronicles is also a tale of military power gone way awry. From the epidemic’s start— with the army hunting CDC scientists, to the novel’s litany of the military’s true-life, hair-raising crimes in bioweapons research— The Virus Chronicles depicts an out-of-control and sinister force, headed up by the Pentagon. Indeed, the hero is a former government virologist so leery of Big Brother that he lives totally off the grid, while the novel’s most vicious villain embodies a psychotic military cult of death. “Doctor, if I had you on my team, we could have destroyed civilization years ago,” jokes the one bioweapons scientist who hasn’t gone totally dark. This theme of military power abused is what pulls the novel back from the deep recesses of extreme corn.

In fact, The Virus Chronicles might have been stronger if, instead of outer space, the virus sprang from a government bioweapons lab, as the hero initially surmises. I’m not sure why the authors decided to pull this punch; maybe—hopefully—because they know that no such super-virus is anywhere close to being available.

This portrait of the military run amok distracts from a serviceable but sometimes unremarkable prose and from how the characterization occasionally misses a beat. In one instance, a character is confronted with a new dilemma, but the reaction is depict-

ed as if it’s a long-standing problem. Still, the novel’s doomed landscape of looting, starvation, plague, and despair is vividly presented. Lunatic cults spring up, which even martial law cannot quell. “Almost forty thousand people converted that afternoon, and the rest were gunned down…” Meanwhile, those who escape these insane zealots “wandered the lands until they were eventually killed by other groups of violent and desperate vagabonds.” In the midst of this apocalypse, a small band of scientists thread their way to a secret lab to attempt a treatment and a cure. But the clock is ticking: implacable military fanatics pursue them and, even worse, every one of them is already infected.

Though The Virus Chronicles presents an imaginary world with a distinct novelistic and cinematic genealogy—akin to postapocalyptic pop culture fare like The Water Knife, The Road, 12 Monkeys, Helix, and The Walking Dead—what makes this book even more disturbing is that its authors write from the source (you know, if all this were to actually go down): Acosta is a United States Naval Academy retiree, while Donaldson works in a government lab.

Their novel’s frightening undercurrent is swift and strong: namely, that bioweapons research has been with us a long time, has a grisly secret history, and all it would take is one accidental plague—given climate change and the probability of another economic collapse—to crumble the already rotting edifice of consumer capitalism into chaos.

—Eve Ottenberg

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Friday Rock

9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Lettuce, Rome Fortune. 8 p.m. (Sold out) 930.com. birChmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Eddie From Ohio. 7:30 p.m. (Sold out) birchmere.com. roCk & roll hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388ROCK. The Duckwhales, Kid Claws, Yum. 9 p.m. $12. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

Funk & R&B howard theatre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

“Thankful for Amy” featuring Elise Testone. 8 p.m. $17.50–$35. thehowardtheatre.com.

Villain & Saint 7141 Wisconsin Avenue, Bethesda. (240) 800-4700. Footwerk. 9 p.m. $8–$10. villainandsaint.com.

ElEctRonic u Street muSiC hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 5881880. Chrome Sparks, Moon Diagrams, Lance Neptune. 10 p.m. $12. ustreetmusichall.com.

Jazz mr. henry’S 601 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. (202) 5468412. The Lionel Lyles Quintet. 8 p.m. Free. mrhenrysdc.com.

BluEs the hamilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

Popa Chubby, Karl Stoll and the Danger Zone.

8:30 p.m. $15.25–$20.75. thehamiltondc.com.

countRy GypSy Sally’S 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. The Hillbilly Gypsies, The Walkaways, The Suitcase Junket. 8:30 p.m. $10–$12. gypsysallys.com.

WoRld kennedy Center millennium StaGe 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. DakhaBrakha. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

classical kennedy Center ConCert hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. National Symphony Orchestra with Neeme Järvi, violinist Baiba Skride performs Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 1, Sibelius’s Symphony No. 2, and Eller’s Five Pieces for String Orchestra.

8 p.m. $15–$89. kennedy-center.org.

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CITY LIGHTS: FRIDAY

THE CASUAL DOTS Punk veterans Christina Billotte, Kathi Wilcox, and Steve Dore can namedrop a slew of impressive former bands they’ve played with, but for now, the trio is focusing on their band The Causal Dots. Coming from Autoclave, Bikini Kill, and The Finger, respectively, the D.C.-born band will release a new album for the first time in over a decade. Billotte and company know what it takes to make purposefully sonic and complex songs; their 2004 self-titled album was able to present The Casual Dots as a new trio with a full set of teeth, showcasing a chasm of deep emotion on “I’ll Dry My Tears” and a clear understanding that its music needs no explanation on “Derailing.” There are no details about what The Dots’ new album will sound like, but live shows are the best place for new surprises and with Casual Dots, you know it’ll be a good one. The Casual Dots perform with Sneaks and Governess at 10 p.m. at Comet Ping Pong, 5031 Connecticut Ave. NW. $12. (202) —Jordan-Marie Smith 364-0404. cometpingpong.com.

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birChmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Eddie From Ohio. 7:30 p.m. (Sold out) birchmere.com.

Villain & Saint 7141 Wisconsin Avenue, Bethesda. (240) 800-4700. The GoodFellas: A Tribute to The Beatles. 9 p.m. $8–$12. villainandsaint.com.

Funk & R&B

GypSy Sally’S 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700.

Splintered Sunlight, Black Muddy River Band. 9 p.m. $15. gypsysallys.com.

howard theatre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Reggae Fest vs. Soca featuring JP, Yung Rae, Maga, and Tech. 10 p.m. $20. thehowardtheatre.com.

the hamilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

Atlas Road Crew, People’s Blues of Richmond.

8:30 p.m. $15–$18. thehamiltondc.com.

ElEctRonic

roCk & roll hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388ROCK. The Captivators, The Scotch Bonnets, Free

9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. The Knocks, Cardiknox, Sofi Tukker. 10 p.m. $18.

930.com.

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u Street muSiC hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 5881880. Horse Meat Disco, DJ Lisa Frank, The Needlexchange. 10 p.m. $5. ustreetmusichall.com.

Jazz mr. henry’S 601 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. (202) 5468412. Anita King with Dial 251. 8 p.m. Free. mrhenrysdc.com.

classical

sunday Rock

birChmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Eddie From Ohio. 7:30 p.m. (Sold out) birchmere.com. blaCk Cat baCkStaGe 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Chrome Pony, The Grey A. 7:30 p.m. $10–$12. blackcatdc.com.

kennedy Center ConCert hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. National Symphony Orchestra with Neeme Järvi, violinist Baiba Skride performs Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 1, Sibelius’s Symphony No. 2, and Eller’s Five Pieces for String Orchestra.

8 p.m. $15–$89. kennedy-center.org.

kennedy Center millennium StaGe 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Cabruêra. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

kennedy Center millennium StaGe 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Rob Downing and D.C.’s Apollo Chamber Orchestra. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

roCk & roll hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388ROCK. Color Palette, A Marc Train Home, Jonny Grave, Calm & Crisis. 8 p.m. $12. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

dJ nights

Funk & R&B

blaCk Cat baCkStaGe 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Common People with DJ lil’e. 10 p.m. $7. blackcatdc.com.

mr. henry’S 601 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. (202) 5468412. Julia Nixon. 6:30 p.m. & 8:45 p.m. $18.50–$22.50. mrhenrysdc.com.

boSSa biStro 2463 18th St NW. 202-667-0088.

DJ Dola. 10 p.m. $5. bossadc.com.

tropiCalia 2001 14th St. NW. (202) 629-4535.

Zusha. 8 p.m. $10–$15. tropicaliadc.com.

dC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Peach Pit: A Gay Dance Party. 10:30 p.m. $5–$8. dcnine.com.

Jazz

roCk & roll hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388ROCK. DJs Rex Riot and Basscamp. 11 p.m. Free. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

Villain & Saint 7141 Wisconsin Avenue, Bethesda. (240) 800-4700. Chaise Lounge. 6 p.m. $20. villainandsaint.com.

boSSa biStro 2463 18th St NW. 202-667-0088.

Cabruêra. 9 p.m. $10. bossadc.com.

CITY LIGHTS: SATURDAY

INDIE ARCADE In 2012, the Smithsonian’s American Art Museum confirmed what many have known for years: that video games aren’t mindless wastes of time; they’re works of art. The “Art of Video Games” exhibit, which ran for six months, showcased the history and artistic merits of video games—from the earliest Atari and arcade classics, to the latest Playstation and Xbox consoles. On Saturday, the American Art Museum is bringing back video games, but in an entirely different fashion. The Museum’s Kogod Courtyard will be transformed into an Indie Arcade, with everything from classic arcade games like Pac-Man, Asteroids, and Tron, to console games and indie games by new young developers. There will also be game-building workshops so you can attempt to create a product on your own. If you’ve ever had a reason to put away the Pringles and Mountain Dew and pry yourself away from hour 22 of playing Fallout 4, it’s this. You know, for art’s sake. The event begins at 1 p.m. at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, 8th and F streets NW. Free. (202) 633-7970.

—Matt Cohen americanart.si.edu.

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TONIGHT! Fri, Jan 15

Secret Society {Feel-good urban jams}

CITY LIGHTS: SUNDAY

CHRISTIAN SCOTT

Christian Scott {Bold jazz trumpet}

Sun, Jan 17

Big Pants & Hot Flashes Julia Scotti & Kevin Meaney with host Rahmein Mostafavi

Co-presented with Cool Cow Comedy

{OUTstanding comedy}

Fri, Jan 22

ChopTeeth

{Jazz, funk, Afrobeat}

Sat, Jan 23

Marcus Johnson {Urban jazz, local favorite}

Fri, Jan 29

The Crawdaddies {Zydeco, ska, & bayou beats}

Sat, Jan 30

The VI-Kings

{Mixtape of 1960s rock}

Sat, Feb 6

Julia Nixon

{Sassy, sensuous R&B}

Fri, Feb 12

Full Schedule Online 11810 Grand Park Ave, N. Bethesda, MD Red Line–White Flint Metro

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New Orleans-born trumpeter Christian Scott calls his genre (and his latest album) Stretch Music. Yes, it’s rooted in jazz, but Scott and his band have expanded the parameters a bit. Scott’s drummer uses a djembe drum and an electronic midi kit to add both African and bass-heavy, club-influenced beats to his sound, while his guitarist is fond of jazz fusion and rock. Scott, meanwhile, offers notes inspired by the Mardi Gras Indian revelers he grew up with and melodic old-school Miles Davis tracks, enhanced with his own unique phrasing. Though he uses academic terms like “forecasting cells” to describe the open-ended, hybrid chords in his compositions, he balances the high-concept work with straightforward language. After he says police officers pulled him over and threatened him late one night, Scott responded by crafting an alternately noisy and melancholy tune called “K.K.P.D. (Ku Klux Police Department).” Musically, Scott may sound most appealing when his work is more traditional and direct. On “Liberation over Gangsterism,” from his latest effort, his band begins with busy drums and piano rhythms, but it’s Scott’s gorgeous, ethereal tone that’s most powerful. Christian Scott performs at 8 p.m. at AMP by Strathmore, 11810 Grand Park Ave., North Bethesda. $30–$40. (301) 581-5100.

—Steve Kiviat ampbystrathmore.com.

go-go

Jazz

howard theatre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Rare Essence, Junkyard Band, EU. 9 p.m. $22–$45. thehowardtheatre.com.

Villain & Saint 7141 Wisconsin Avenue, Bethesda. (240) 800-4700. Sunflare. 8 p.m. $5. villainandsaint.com.

classical

gospEl

kennedy Center terraCe theater 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. The Kennedy Center Chamber Players perfrom works by R. Strauss, Mozart, J.S. Bach, and Mendelssohn. 2 p.m. $36. kennedy-center.org.

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

930.com. dC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Liberation Dance Party with DJs Bill Spieler and Shannon Stewart. 10 p.m. $2–$5. dcnine.com. roCk & roll hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388ROCK. MLK Weekend with DJ Ozker. 8 p.m. Free. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

kennedy Center ConCert hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Let Freedom Ring with Yolanda Adams. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

tuesday Rock

blaCk Cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Jukebox the Ghost, Greg Holden. 7:30 p.m. $20–$25. blackcatdc.com. kennedy Center millennium StaGe 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. The Battle of Santiago. 6 p.m.

Free. kennedy-center.org.

Monday

roCk & roll hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388ROCK. Torres, Palehound. 8 p.m. $13. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

Rock

Vocal

9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Jess Glynne, Avery Wilson. 7 p.m. (Sold out) 930.com.

dC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. A People’s Choir DC. 8 p.m. Free. dcnine.com.

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Wednesday Rock

9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Guster, David Wax Museum. 7 p.m. (Sold out) 930.com. blaCk Cat baCkstage 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Bayonne, Airhead DC. 7:30 p.m. $12. blackcatdc.com. bossa bistro 2463 18th St NW. 202-667-0088.

Battle of Santiago. 9:30 p.m. $10. bossadc.com.

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Sotano, Throwdown Syndicate, Holdfast. 8:30 p.m. $8. dcnine.com. gypsy sally’s 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700.

Comic Book Colors, Zydeco Jed. 8 p.m. $8. gypsysallys.com.

Funk & R&B HowarD tHeatre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

SWV, TTYL. 8 p.m. $37.50–$75. thehowardtheatre.com.

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

Dirty Bourbon River Show, The Bumper Jacksons.

7:30 p.m. $8–$12.25. thehamiltondc.com.

Thursday Rock

9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Grace Potter, Eliza Hardy Jones. 7 p.m. (Sold out) 930.com. blaCk Cat baCkstage 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Elena y Los Fulanos, Near Northeast, Ballad’ve. 7:30 p.m. $10–$12. blackcatdc.com. bossa bistro 2463 18th St NW. 202-667-0088.

Joe Keyes and the Late Bloomer Band. 10 p.m. $5. bossadc.com.

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Tor Miller, Sean McVerry. 9 p.m. $10–$12. dcnine.com. gypsy sally’s 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. Linwood Taylor Trio, Smooth Hound Smith. 8 p.m. $10. gypsysallys.com.

Jazz

HowarD tHeatre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

VIPER Rocks the Top Gun Soundtrack. 9 p.m. $10–$15. thehowardtheatre.com.

kenneDy Center MillenniuM stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Jazzmeia Horn. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

Villain & saint 7141 Wisconsin Avenue, Bethesda. (240) 800-4700. O.M.B. Garage Band. 9 p.m. $8–$10. villainandsaint.com.

CITY LIGHTS: MONDAY

“E MAU KE EA: THE SOVEREIGN HAWAIIAN NATION” Among its many unique distinctions, Hawaii is the only U.S. state that contains an actual palace that royalty once lived in. Until Americans overthrew it in 1893, Hawaii was an independent kingdom, led by generations of native islanders. The National Museum of the American Indian’s latest exhibit explains to residents unfamiliar with this particular example of imperialism just what the archipelago looked like under the command of King Kamehameha and Queen Lili’uokalani. From the sugar industry, which greedy businessmen were eager to take control of, to native cultural traditions that fell out of favor or were appropriated by others, visitors will learn seldom-told stories from the 50th state. The whole endeavor is meant to be as faithful to Hawaiian history as possible (curators consulted scholars, community members, and political leaders while preparing it), so if you’re looking to pick up a cone of Dole Whip in the cafeteria on the way out, you’ll be disappointed. The exhibition is on view daily, 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., at the National Museum of the American Indian, 4th Street and —Caroline Jones Independence Ave. NW. Free. (202) 633-1000. nmai.si.edu.

Funk & R&B birChmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Morris Day and the Time. 7:30 p.m. $69.50. birchmere.com.

ElEctRonic u Street muSiC hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 5881880. Tomsize, Willy Joy. 10 p.m. $12. ustreetmusichall.com.

countRy mr. henry’S 601 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. (202) 5468412. By & By. 8 p.m. Free. mrhenrysdc.com.

In a Different Key: The Story of Autism. Politics & Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Jan. 20, 7 p.m.

Free. (202) 364-1919. harry jaffe Jaffe, a writer for Washingtonian magazine, relies on his roots in Vermont to tell the story of the state’s senator come presidential candidate in Why Bernie Sanders Matters. Politics & Prose.

5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Jan. 19, 7 p.m. Free.

(202) 364-1919. elaine kamarCk The author explains the baffling presidential nomination process that annoys insiders as much as it annoys everyday citizens in her new book, Primary Politics. Kramerbooks & Afterwords Cafe. 1517 Connecticut Ave. NW. Jan. 20, 6:30 p.m.

Free. (202) 387-1400.

tropiCalia 2001 14th St. NW. (202) 629-4535. The Dhol Foundation, Black Masala, DJ Rekha. 8 p.m. $10–$15. tropicaliadc.com.

paul liSiCky The celebrated author reads from The Narrow Door: A Memoir of Friendship, in which he looks at the death of a close friend, the end of his marriage, and his own reactions to natural disasters like the Haitian earthquake. Lisicky discusses his work with Richard McCann, president of the PEN/ Faulkner Foundation. Politics & Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Jan. 16, 6 p.m. Free.

(202) 364-1919.

Books

Galleries

WoRld kennedy Center millennium StaGe 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. The Dhol Foundation. 6 p.m.

Free. kennedy-center.org.

ChriS bohjalian The popular historical novelist discusses his 15th work, The Guest Room, about a middle-class couple who get wrapped up in the world of international human trafficking. Politics & Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Jan. 17, 5 p.m.

Free. (202) 364-1919.

the athenaeum 201 Prince St., Alexandria. (703) 548-0035. nvfaa.org. OngOing: “Notes on the State of Virginia.” Artist Suzanne Stryk presents a series of assemblages inspired by Thomas Jefferson’s book and her subsequent travels around the state.

Dec. 17–Jan. 31.

john donVan, Caren ZuCker The journalists examine the theories, treatments, and mysteries about autism spectrum disorders in their new book,

Greater reSton artS Center 12001 Market St., Ste. 103, Reston. (703) 471-9242. restonarts.org.

OngOing: “Continuum.” Abstract sculptures and

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CITY LIGHTS: TUESDAY

TORRES

Browse many “Best of 2015” lists and you’re likely to find Torres’ Sprinter near the top. With her unvarnished songs about reconciling her identity with her past, Mackenzie Scott’s second album triggers anxieties and makes muscles seize until all that energy becomes kinetic and fuels a surge of guitars and dauntless vocals. It’s powerful on record and downright overwhelming live. Scott will scream until her voice is ragged and the audience cracks. Then she’ll whisper—like when she sings “I am afraid to see my heroes age” on “The Exchange”—and everyone crumbles. Her performances will leave you emotionally spent and wondering how she performs every night. This fall, Torres opens for Garbage and Brandi Carlile, so catch her while she’s still headlining and leaving smaller rooms stunned. Don’t arrive late: Opener Palehound is whip smart, like Speedy Ortiz, with intricate and creative lead guitar lines. Torres performs with Palehound at 8 p.m. at Rock & Roll —Justin Weber Hotel, 1353 H St. NE. $13. (202) 388-7625. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

DIRTY DOZEN BRASS BAND REDMOND, LANGOSCH AND COOLEY JOE CLAIR & FRIENDS COMEDY SHOW DOO-WOP SHOW: WINSTONS, INTRUDERS, FRANK WASHINGTON, & KIM GLAUDE THE GRAINGER JAM THE BRIAN CUNNINGHAM PROJECT SYLVER LOGAN SHARP DAVY KNOWLES PLUS GOIN’ GOIN’ GONE CARL’S RARE ROAST BEEF BAND DC FUSION

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If Wendy Wasserstein’s 1988 play The Heidi Chronicles was the Lean In of its generation, showcasing the benefits of second-wave feminism while questioning the “have it all” lifestyle that every modern woman must now aspire to, then The Sisters Rosensweig, Wasserstein’s next play, looks at how our aspirations affect our relationships. Set in London at the 54th birthday party of eldest sister Sarah, a banker, The Sisters Rosensweig focuses on how each woman has made her own success, albeit in very different ways. Middle sister Gorgeous is a married mother and works as a radio shrink in the model of Frasier Crane, while youngest sister Pfeni is a globetrotting journalist with no desire to stay in one place. Despite living thousands of miles apart, the affection between the sisters gives the work enough emotional heft and plenty of laughs to boot.

At Theater J, a cast of veteran local actors give life to this most human of comedies.

The play runs Jan. 13 to Feb. 21 at Theater J, 1529 14th St. NW. $17–$47. (202) 518—Caroline Jones 9400. theaterj.org.

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paintings inspired by the work of scientists by artist Rebecca Kamen. Dec. 1–Feb. 13.

FRI, JAN 29

hemphill fine artS 1515 14th St. NW. (202) 234-5601. hemphillfinearts.com. Opening: “How to Survive Your Own Death.” Painter Colby Caldwell’s abstract paintings in this series are both connected to and independent of one another, prompting the viewer to consider how they relate to the exhibit’s title. Jan. 16–March 5.

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liGht SwitCh danCe theatre The group presents NEST: every human deserves a home, a new work by

Sandra Atkinson that examines the idea of “home” and what it means to have one or not through movement, visual art, film, and music. At each performance, the company will collect donations for homeless service organizations. VisArts. 155 Gibbs St., Rockville. Jan. 15, 7 p.m.; Jan. 15, 8 p.m.; Jan. 16, 8 p.m.; Jan. 16, 9 p.m. $10. (301) 315-8200. visartsatrockville.org. national ballet of Canada The Toronto-based dance company performs The Winter’s Tale, choreographed by the acclaimed Christopher Wheeldon and based on Shakespeare’s comedy about a jealous king. Kennedy Center Opera House. 2700 F St. NW. Jan. 19, 7 p.m.; Jan. 20, 7 p.m.; Jan. 21, 7 p.m. $39–$149. 202-467-4600. kennedy-center.org.

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the CritiC and the real inSpeCtor hound Shakespeare Theatre Company opens 2016 with two plays in one evening, both behind-the-scenes looks at life in the theater. Jeffrey Hatcher’s adaptation of Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s 18th-century comedy The Critic is followed by Tom Stoppard’s The Real Inspector Hound, a mystery about two critics who become suspects when they see a murderous play. Lansburgh Theatre. 450 7th St. NW. To Feb. 14. $20–$108. (202) 547-1122. shakespearetheatre.org. a Gentleman’S Guide to loVe and murder In this Tony-winning musical, a distant heir to a family fortune aims to claim it by “eliminating” the eight members who stand in his way. Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater. 2700 F St. NW. To Jan. 30. $64–$229. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org.

GeorGie: my adVentureS with GeorGe roSe Actor Ed Dixon remembers his friendship with actor George Rose, known for his roles in My Fair Lady and The Mystery of Edwin Drood, in this one-man show that has Dixon playing dozens of different characters. Signature Theatre. 4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington. To Feb. 7. $25–$45. (703) 820-9771. signature-theatre.org. the SiSterS roSenSweiG Three sisters come together to celebrate a birthday and reconnect after being apart in this classic comedy by Wendy Wasserstein. Theater J. 1529 16th St. NW. To Feb. 21. $27–$57. (202) 518-9400. theaterj.org. weSt Side Story This tragic tale of warring gangs and devoted lovers comes to Signature for the first time. Featuring classic songs like “Tonight,” “America,” and “I Feel Pretty,” this production is directed

by Signature regular Matthew Gardiner. Signature Theatre. 4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington. To Jan. 24. $40–$96. (703) 820-9771. signature-theatre.org. wreStlinG jeruSalem Actor and playwright Aaron Davidman assumes the personalities of 12 characters on different sides of the Israel-Palestine conflict in this solo work, presented by Mosaic Theater Company as part of its “Voices From a Changing Middle East Festival: The War Comes Home.”

Atlas Performing Arts Center. 1333 H St. NE. To Jan. 24. $20–$40. (202) 399-7993. atlasarts.org.

by Will Smith, begins fighting for greater safety precautions. While his reports are supported in the medical community, the NFL hesitates to take action. Peter Landesman directs this film based on true events. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) Creed Michael B. Jordan stars as Adonis Creed, the son of the late Apollo Creed, in this spin-off of Rocky. Sylvester Stallone resumes his role as Rocky Balboa, whom Adonis seeks out and asks to train him. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) daddy’S home Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg star as a stepfather and a father who battle to win the affection and respect of their children in this goofy comedy directed by Sean Anders. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) joy Jennifer Lawrence stars as Joy Mangano, the Long Island-based working mother who went on to invent and sell household products on QVC. David O. Russell directs this biographical film that also features Robert DeNiro, Isabella Rossellini, and Bradley Cooper. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) alonG 2 Ice Cube and Kevin Hart reunite n ride for the sequel to their 2014 film. This time, the police officers collaborate to bring down a drug lord in Miami and naturally, hi jinks ensue. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) room Brie Larson stars as Joy Newsome, an abused woman trapped by a mad man in a garden shed in this dark drama adapted from the acclaimed novel

by Emma Donoghue. As she comes to terms with her need to escape, Joy must make a decision that benefits both her and her son. Directed by Lenny

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Abrahamson. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) SiSterS Left to pack up their parents’ house, two sisters decide to throw a final party in their childhood home. Antics ensue in this comedy starring Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) SpotliGht Investigative reporters at the Boston Globe discover decades of misdeeds by the Catholic Church and its priests in this drama based on true events. Starring Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo, and Rachel McAdams. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) Star warS: the forCe awakenS The battle between good and evil still rages in this Star Wars sequel set 30 years after The Return of the Jedi. The First Order and the Resistance fight to find Luke, the final Jedi, and return order to the galaxy. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information)

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Remember the ’90s? It’s really not that hard, considering nearly every aspect of it is currently fetishized to an unhealthy degree (seriously, do we need to bring back Full House?).

In the latest mining of ’90s nostalgia, Fox announced last year that they would be bringing back its cherished, long-running sci-fi hit The X-Files for one more six-episode miniseason. The X-Files is perhaps my favorite TV show of all time, but I’ll be the first to admit: This new season looks like utter garbage. Give me the classic years: before Mulder and Scully became an item; back when The Smoking Man was still just a shadowy figure toying with Mulder’s obsession; and before that God-awful second movie. Playbackthetape—the District’s VHS screening series—will celebrate those golden years with a screening of three classic episodes from seasons three and four. Bonus: They’re recorded straight from their original air date, meaning you’ll get all those vintage mid-’90s commercials to fondly recall. The event begins at 7 p.m. at The Coupe, 3415 11th St. NW. Free.

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hourS: the SeCret SoldierS of benGn 13 haZi Action director Michael Bay turns his attention to true events in this adventure flick, which tells the story of a hidden security team that defended the U.S. Embassy in Libya after it was attacked by terrorists in 2012. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) bridGe of SpieS Tom Hanks stars as a lawyer recruited to help the CIA negotiate a spy exchange during the height of Cold War tensions in Steven Spielberg’s latest historical drama. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) Chi-raq Director Spike Lee adapts the Greek comedy Lysistrata, about women who withhold affection from their partners as a consequence of entering a war, into a satire set on Chicago’s south side amid gang violence and feuds. (See washingtoncitypaper. com for venue information) ConCuSSion After investigating the death of a former NFL player, a forensic pathologist, played

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