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DISTRICTLINE Bring the Campaign

Decades of District politics, in one race yet,” Bunn says. “Christopher has his father’s name. However, there is much work to be done in the ward.”

If the younger Barry had anything approaching an activist background in the ward, this race wouldn’t have more than 20 candidates in it. Alas, he doesn’t. What he has instead is a reputation as a guy who might not be up for the responsibilities of being an advisory neighborhood commissioner, much less a councilmember. (At one Barry memorial event, the audience took up a collection for him personally.)

Then there’s the baffling run-ins with the law, which show that, if nothing else, Barry has inherited his father’s skill for getting in interesting jams. In 2011, he allegedly Over 20 join jumped out a window to avoid police, race for Marionly to be busted with a vial of PCP. on Barry’s seat 2014 was his most criminally active year to date. He racked up a DUI charge after a Secret Service agent found him zoned out behind the wheel in downtown D.C. with synthetic marijuana.

Two months later, he was caught driving on a suspended license.

Also on Barry’s personal crime blotter from last year: an arrest after allegedly approaching a police officer with clenched fists during a neighborhood dispute, and violation of a stay-away order after that first arrest. Days after delivering a well-received speech at his ee at Gray’s Mayoral Youth Leadership Insti- father’s memorial, Barry headed to Superior tute event, one of the final appearances of his Court to take a guilty plea and receive probaadministration, tells LL that Gray mentioned tion on some of the charges.

Bunn as an ideal replacement for Barry.

And on Tuesday, Barry was allegedly inWilliams-backer Motley attributes much volved in a verbal altercation with a teller in a of Bunn’s success so far to her father, late Chinatown bank that, according to police, led businessman James Bunn. to the destruction of a surveillance camera.

“I think that her father really kind of made He did not respond to requests for comment. a way for her,” Motley says.

Christopher Barry isn’t the only candidate As for Bunn, she denies that her chances in the race with a legal past. Barry’s sometime are sunk by the new campaign of Christopher pal–turned–campaign rival Trayon White is Barry, whose father drew many of the same headed to a diversion program after allegedly disobeying a police officer during a traffic voters as Gray.

“I don’t think that it is all wrapped up stop. White blames the charge on police haDarrow Montgomery

We’ll probably never get a museum dedicated to the highlights and lowlights of District politics, but the next best thing is going on east of the river from now until April 28.

In the Ward 8 special election to replace the late Marion Barry, every major strain of District politics is being reenacted.

This race has everything. To start with, there’s the song that never ends: The Green Team, once the property of Adrian Fenty and now belonging to Mayor Muriel Bowser, tussling it out in one more proxy war with Vince Gray’s crew. There’s Barryism, this time reborn in the form of Christopher Barry, who’s so committed to restarting his dad’s act that he’s now going by his first name, Marion. To cap it all off, there’s that hallmark of District races: pols with criminal records.

Representing the Green Team in this corner is LaRuby May, businesswoman, community activist, and Bowser diehard. After coordinating Bowser’s Ward 8 campaigning, she’s now ready to soak up donations from contributors looking to ingratiate themselves with Bowser. May also has the backing of three former Ward 8 councilmembers, which she tells LL amounts to an endorsement of her leadership.

For now, Bowser has publicly stayed out of the race. That’s probably good news for her protege, who’s running in a ward that Bowser lost by nearly 30 points in the primary.

“I don’t see that Mayor Bowser has put herself in the midst of it,” says Rev. Anthony Motley, a prominent ward activist who’s backing Ward 8 Democrats President Natalie Williams for the seat.

May even shares Bowser’s less savory alliances, like former employer Phinis Jones, the Ward 8 heavy currently embroiled in the scandal of the Park Southern housing complex. Sandra Seegars, one of May’s rivals

in the race, says her affiliation with Jones will haunt her with voters.

“They don’t know LaRuby, but they know Phinis Jones is giving her money,” Seegars says.

May tells LL that she no longer works for Jones.

May’s run represents a chance for at least token revenge for Gray’s smarting loyalists, who got walloped in the primary but easily carried the impoverished ward. Their champion, former Gray deputy chief of staff Sheila Bunn, comes from a prominent ward family and has already brought former Gray spokeswoman Doxie McCoy into her campaign.

Like old rival Bowser, Gray has stayed quiet about his former staffer’s run. But an attend-

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rassment. Meanwhile, candidate and anti-violence activist Jauhar Abraham owes the city more than $500,000 for his role in allegedly cooking non-profit books for his group, Peaceoholics.

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By Will Sommer

IN DEADLY METRO INCIDENTS, LESSONS LEARNED (AND NOT LEARNED)

Everyday He’s Shuffling There’s a gold rush on in the Wilson Building.

The rich vein to be mined: control of the Council’s prestigious economic development portfolio. Our scruffy prospectors: Councilmembers Jack Evans and Vincent Orange.

Facing a swarm of freshmen members but unwilling to break his rule that newbies can’t run committees, Council chairman Phil Mendelson busted up the prestigious economic development committee and the not-so-prestigious government operations committee. Mendelson’s move put up for grabs oversight of the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development, a plum spot for any ambitious councilmember looking to gobble up campaign contributions.

Or so Orange and Evans thought. Mendelson kept DMPED in his own committee of the whole. Later that same day, Orange blasted Wilson Building denizens with a video of a small business event he organized.

“This is why Vincent Orange should have direct oversight over the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development, and the Office of Contracting and Procurement,” wrote the at-large councilmember, never shy about the third-person personal.

While Orange wants DMPED for his business and regulatory committee, Evans covets it for his tax and revenue committee. But they teamed up at the Council’s Jan. 2 organizational meeting to level of a host of complaints at vote against Mendelson’s committee plan.

The organization was “chaotic,” Evans said.

“You are not providing us the opportunity to exercise our expertise,” griped Orange, who declined to comment to LL about his attempts to get DMPED in his committee.

Asked about their complaints, Mendelson blamed it on the councilmembers’ quest to add DMPED to their portfolios. In the end, only Orange and Evans voted against Mendelson’s committee plan.

“Phil’s not an economic development person,” says Evans, the Council’s most prominent cheerleader of big-ticket projects. “He’s CP the antithesis of that.”

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Tomorrow’s history today: This was the week you woke up to snow for the second time in 2015.

End of thE linE?

In 1962, exactly 100 years after the Washington and Georgetown Railroad started running streetcars through downtown D.C., the last streetcars in the District ceased operations. A half-century later, the streetcar was on its way back. But anyone setting a countdown for the wheels to start turning would have had to hit the reset button more than a few times. Now, with the streetcar supposedly set to start running on H Street and Benning Road NE next week, let’s look back at the history of broken promises. —Aaron Wiener

SEpt. 2014 nov. 2013

Gray administration still shooting for 2014, possibly November.

Jan. 19, 2015 ???

dEc. 31, 2014

Gray: “I am now delighted to report that the week of January 19, 2015 is the target for getting H Street up to full speed.”

dEc. 30, 2014

Still no word on whether the streetcar will open in 2014.

Gray: “We’ll have passenger service probably starting in January, not later than early February.” 2014, that is.

2003

The Anthony Williams administration says passengers could be riding the Anacostia line in 2006.

May 2013

Mayor Vince Gray: “We have said all along that [service on H Street] would start in earnest this year, in 2013, and we’re still on track to be able to do that.”

2011 2007

The Adrian Fenty administration says the H Street-Benning Road line will be running by 2009.

Technical issues push the target date back to late 2013.

2009

Fenty is now shooting for a 2012 opening.

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Gear Prudence: I ride my bike on the Mount Vernon Trail at night. Occasionally I’ll see other cyclists who have high-powered lights set to blink.

I find this extremely annoying. Can you please tell them to not do this?

—Blinking Lights Indiscriminately, Needlessly Distress Dear BLIND: Sure. Don’t do this.

Other trail users don’t enjoy being subjected to the flashing strobe effect more at home in a discotheque or on a Christmas tree than along a mixed-use trail. I’ve never really understood why a bicyclist would want to use a blinking light to illuminate her path anyway.

“I can see! Now I can’t! I can see again!” she might exclaim as the light shines and disappears. Who knows what hazards might rapidly approach in the intermittent darkness.

A steady stream is more situationally suitable.

But be mindful of your beam’s brightness. You shouldn’t forswear a flashing light just to substitute it with a more permanent blinding of those around you. If your light is excessively bright, don’t hesitate to briefly shield it for the benefit of those coming in the other direction. And angle it down a bit so it doesn’t shoot directly into anyone’s eyes. Lumination is laudatory, but be —GP considerate.

Gear Prudence: I have a really nice touring bike, and I’d like to use it for actual touring. I’ve ridden up to Harpers Ferry a couple times and spent the night in the youth hostel there, but I’m kinda sick of this ride. Do you have any suggestions for overnight rides I can do from D.C.?

—Touring Routes In Proximity Dear TRIP: Head out the Washington and Old Dominion Trail toward Leesburg, Va. Around mile marker 20, leave the trail and proceed for the next few miles on surface streets directly to the ticket counter at Dulles International Airport. Get some rest as you jet off to an exciting international cycling locale. Southern France is no West Virginia, but it’d likely suffice.

If you’d rather not eat airplane food, closer options abound. Scenic byways can take you to Frederick, Md., where you can visit the final resting places of Francis Scott Key, antebellum Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney, and the first American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton. Or you could do less weird and morbid touristy things. If you enjoy anachronism, time your visit for August, when Frederick hosts the “Clustered Spires,” a high-wheeler bike race through its historic downtown.

The trip is about 60 miles each way, so bring —GP snacks. Always bring snacks.

Gear Prudence is Brian McEntee, who blogs at talesfromthesharrows.blogspot.com and tweets at @sharrowsdc. Got a question about bicycling? Email gearprudence@washingtoncitypaper.com.

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She acknowledges that it’s a normal thing but is unable to get past it. She has gone through two counselors on her own, and we have gone through two couples counselors. They have ALL said the same thing: “It’s completely reasonable to want him to not look at porn, and if he loves you, he won’t look at it anymore.” I have been asked how often I look at it, why I won’t stop looking at it, why is it so important to me. They have recommended “clinics” to help me abstain from porn.

This all happens after both of us say that our goal is for this—me looking at porn very occasionally—to not be a problem and even after we’ve told them that she used to be totally okay with it (four years ago) but now she feels crazy and doesn’t want to feel this way about it. Our last therapist said my refusal to go to a clinic showed that we had a toxic relationship! I’m dumbfounded. Every time we see a therapist like this, it damages our relationship. —Lack Of Sane Therapists “The therapists seen by LOST have drunk the Kool-Aid: Porn is automatically bad, stopping porn use is always the best answer, the person who doesn’t like porn is always right,” said Dr. David Ley, writer, clinical psychologist, and author of The Myth of Sex Addiction. “Such therapists develop target fixation when porn is involved and lose sight of other, real issues that need to be addressed.”

The most obvious issue that needs addressing is your fiancée’s evident and apparently metastasizing insecurity. (Yesterday you had to stop watching porn, today you can’t go to the beach, tomorrow you won’t be able to have female friends.) But since all the therapists you’ve seen thus far were batshit-crazy sexphobes—or “fixated” on porn, as Dr. Ley put it—her issues haven’t been addressed.

“LOST’s fiancée probably sees his use of porn as a reflection of his level of attraction to her,” said Dr. Ley. “Or she’s worried that a man who looks at porn is a man who will cheat. I understand and empathize with her fear.”

But Dr. Ley wonders if something else is at work here. “LOST’s fiancée might be dealing with a form of anxiety disorder, where obsession is sometimes expressed through irrational fears of infidelity,” said Dr. Ley. “A therapist who specializes in cognitive behavioral therapy (the ‘other kind of CBT’) for anxiety disorders may be helpful, and less likely to get distracted by blaming porn.”

To find a therapist who specializes in CBT and isn’t a batshit-crazy, smut-shaming sexphobe, Dr. Ley suggests you find a therapist through the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (aasect.org) or the “Kink Aware Professionals Directory” at the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom (ncsfreedom.org). “The therapists LOST will find there are more likely to be sex-positive,” said Dr. Ley, “and less likely to jump on the ‘porn is the root of all problems’ bandwagon.” You can follow Dr. David —Dan Ley on Twitter @DrDavidLey. My husband and I have been married for 10 years and have two children. We had a wild sex life in the beginning, but his job (he’s military) took him away so many times that our relationship (and the sex) took a nosedive. Upon coming back from deployments, he would always have an addiction to porn. I would believe him when he’d tell me that he stopped, but every time he’d come back it would start again. Last fall, he was gone for four months, and the addiction is still there. For the past year, he was going onto anonymous webcam sites and engaging in mutual masturbation with random women. I found out, and we are talking now about our problems and working to resolve them. The camming has stopped and we are going to attend counseling as a couple, but I also think he should attend

But since all the therapists you’ve seen thus far were batshit-crazy sexphobes...her issues haven’t been addressed. counseling for himself. Our newfound communication and intimacy has reawakened my libido, and now I want it more than him. I’m angry that the lack of frequent sex is what drove him to porn, but now the problem is that I want it too much! I don’t know how to handle my newfound libido and his lack of interest. I need him to be more adamant about showing me he wants me. Am I reading too much into it and being too needy?

—Paranoid And Reawakened “Increased porn use in men is very often a response to loneliness—due to divorce, separation, etc.—or stress or depression,” said Dr. Ley. Deployment to a war zone, needless to say, can be highly stressful and very lonely.

“Sexual arousal is VERY good at diverting us from things we’re bothered by,” said Dr. Ley. “For many people, that’s fine, and it works great to let off steam. But if you’re not taking care of the real issue—loneliness, depression, stress—then the porn use can sometimes become its own problem.”

Which is what seems to have happened in your case, PAR. Dr. Ley agrees that your husband should get some solo counseling in addition to the couples counseling you’re planning on getting together.

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This way, she would know that when he’s not interested in sex, it’s because he’s stressed or depressed, not because of the porn.”

My boyfriend likes to watch porn, but I do not.

(Male couple, both 22, together two years.) He sometimes wants to watch it “with” me, and this is our compromise: He sits on my face, I rim him while he watches porn, we stroke ourselves. He’s not “present” when we do this—he’s focused on his porn. My best friend says this isn’t sex and isn’t healthy. She says I’m being used and she thinks less of my boyfriend now. I don’t feel like I’m being used. We still have good “regular” sex with no porn. But it’s true that I wouldn’t do this (rim him while he basically ignores me) if it weren’t for my boyfriend’s desire to watch porn sometimes instead of having “regular” sex with me. Should I stop doing this? Am I being used?

P.S. I love eating his ass and I always come when —Really Into My Man we do this.

“If it’s working for him and his boyfriend, RIMM shouldn’t let anybody tell him what he should be feeling,” said Dr. Ley. “This is the epitome of healthy GGG compromise. Rim —Dan away.”

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Heh. One of my little researchers used to deride Purell users as germ wussies. It took one trip to Thailand, three hand-sanitizer-less days and many, many trips to the bathroom before she saw the light. That said, worrying about Purell resistance suggests some possible apples/oranges confusion on your part.

Antibiotics work by disabling certain specific functions of a bacterial cell. For example, penicillin weakens cell walls. Occasionally some rogue bacillus will have some genetic variant rendering its walls penicillinproof. Usually, your immune system can handle one or two of these guys. But when you take antibiotics needlessly, or incompletely, or off schedule, you may wind up wiping out the nonresistant bacteria and thus selectively breeding the resistant ones, which can then become the main source of infection.

Alcoholic hand sanitizers, on the other hand, kill germs by first dissolving their lipid-based outer membranes and then dehydrating the proteins inside. Since nearly all bacteria have lipid membranes, ten-second submersion in alcohol can destroy all sorts of deadly and otherwise unpleasant bugs, from E. coli to staph. (The exceptions are bacterial spores like anthrax, which are basically the cockroaches of the bacterial world: they’ve got extremely thick outer coats and can survive extreme temperatures, chemical damage, and probably nuclear warfare if it came down to it.) For most bacteria, alcohol does such sweeping damage that becoming resistant to it would require a monumental structural leap—it would be like humans developing the ability to breathe without oxygen. It’s not evolutionarily impossible, I guess, but so far the survival rate is zero.

So why don’t we cure tuberculosis with alcohol? You try soaking your lungs in 190proof ethanol—not only would you die, but they might burst into flame. Cool, perhaps, but ultimately ineffective. —Cecil Adams

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Get ready for a deluge of I-told-you-so email from vindicated mothers everywhere— in Bangladesh, for instance, where a 2006 study found that about one in eleven paper banknotes tested were contaminated with E. coli or similar bacteria.

This isn’t to say that Bangladeshis are literally wiping their butts with money (practically speaking, that’s more likely to happen on Wall Street) but rather that bacteria are everywhere, including on currency. And unlike public toilets, twenties don’t get hosed down every so often.

Lest you think Bangladesh particularly unhygienic, 103 different fungal colonies were found on 60 randomly selected Egyptian banknotes—some of which were producing toxins. Some Philippine currency notes carried the cysts and ova of intestinal parasites, and were subsequently eliminated from use. Topping the list of diseased and potentially hazardous currency is Nigeria, where 90 percent of paper money is a home for bacteria.

American money might be slightly cleaner.

A 2002 study in Ohio that collected and cultured 68 one-dollar bills produced a total of 93 bacterial samples; while 88 of these could pose a threat to people with compromised immune systems, five would be considered dangerous even to the healthy. For context, a similar experiment in Kentucky in 1972 turned up 26 of the scarier bacteria after swabbing 50 low-denomination bills, a rate more than seven times higher—evidence that in some limited ways American life may have become less disgusting over the last 40 years.

While I’m no more a fan of parasitic cysts than the next guy, let’s reiterate: pretty much everything has germs on it, and most of them won’t kill you. Gas-pump handles, kitchen sinks, your date’s mouth—you name it, it’s probably coated with invisible bugs. Furthermore, we couldn’t find any specific studies that tied illness incidence to handling money. If you’re really paranoid I suppose you could stick to coins, whose copper content seems to suppress their bacteria load. On the other hand, this will limit your cash purchases to gumballs, and may lead to even more awkwardness than usual when visiting strip clubs. Your mom probably warned you against those too, but we’ll keep —Cecil Adams our noses out it.

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GeorGe Pelecanos orders the creamed chiPPed beef.

It arrives steaming on two slices of white bread, toasted, with little pills of oil dotting the pool of cream.

“You’ll probably want to add some salt,” he deadpans in a slow baritone. A beat passes. He half-grins. “Just kidding.”

Pelecanos, poet laureate of blue-collar D.C., sits in a booth at the Tastee Diner, a greasy spoon eatery on Cameron Street in Silver Spring, not far from where he grew up. Priding itself as “one of the last original, authentic American diners,” the Tast-

ee is at least true to the tradition, with a long bar, spacious booths upholstered in vinyl, and an ultra-caloric menu. It’s a favorite of Spero Lucas, the protagonist of Pelecanos’ two most recent novels, The Cut and The Double.

The chipped beef isn’t high cuisine. But it’s good. The cream is smooth, and yes, salty; it lands in your gut like an affirmation, and the satisfaction is unholy. For a second, you forget Sweetgreen even exists.

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and-knife behavior. But Pelecanos tucks into his breakfast like a human being, which is exactly how he writes—with everyday art, uncommon observation, and superlative empathy. Reading his 19 novels, though, all of which are set in and around the District, you get a sense that Pelecanos should have done more food writing. He’s Anthony Bourdain without the smugness, with a fixation on soul food.

There’s a stubborn ethos to chow like this, a lack of pretense that increasingly feels like a statement in D.C., where restaurateurs spend

$6 million trying to capture the je ne sais quoi in French brasseries. Pelecanos doesn’t do pretentious—not in prose, not in food.

His characters eat a lot. What and where they eat says something about who they are, and what they need: the alcoholic investigator trying to hide from the world; the brokenhearted father looking for family and fellowship; the young Iraq vet reclaiming the youth he lost in the desert. Taken as a whole, Pelecanos’ body of work provides an alternative culinary map of the District, one that mirrors

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the mostly vanishing D.C. dining world that Pelecanos remembers from the pre-boom decades, but also accounts for the District’s onward (if not always directly forward) march.

It’s not Le Diplomate, but if you’re a Pelecanos character, you’re not looking for the pâté de campagne; you’re looking for satisfaction.

“If these places go away, a city loses its character,” he says. “When all you get is Chipotle, you might as well be living in Dallas.”

Pelecanos was born in the District in 1957, the second-generation American son of Pete and Ruby. His family moved to Silver Spring shortly after his birth, and Pelecanos lives there today with his wife and three children. In addition to defining D.C.’s literary noir canon, he wrote for and helped produce HBO’s superlative crime epic The Wire, personally penning the balcony scene between Stringer Bell and Avon Barksdale (“Just dream with me,” one crime lord says to another with all of Bal-

timore before them). Teaming up with David Simon of The Wire, Pelecanos also co-wrote and produced Treme, a New Orleans drama, and has a Times Square–set show called The Deuce in pilot production.

When he’s working on a book, he puts in the time as if it were any other trade, seven days a week, working a long morning until it’s time for a late lunch. At night, he cleans up the morning’s work. He wrote 19 books like this, the latest of which, The Martini Shot, arrived last week. It’s his first collection of short stories, and you’ll find it in the crime/ thriller section of your local bookseller.

That genre label isn’t misplaced—Pelecanos’ early touchstones were masters of the form like John D. MacDonald and Elmore Leonard; it just doesn’t fully encompass his work. He’s a social realist at heart, more Émile Zola than Lee Child, and for Pelecanos, the streets of his native city are more than canvases for spilled blood. They’re a character.

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“it was the old city’s soul diner, the warmest spot for a real southern breakfast.”—The Cut Take 2004’s Hard Revolution, which Pelecanos says is the novel he always wanted to write. Set in D.C. during the riots in 1968, it follows Derek Strange, a young black beat cop. Hard Revolution brings the District to life, making it jump off the page with vitality even as it’s burning itself down.

The book takes place during the summer Pelecanos started working at his father Pete’s lunch counter, The Jefferson Coffee Shop, at 19th and Jefferson streets NW. “My mother and father said, ‘You’re 11, it’s time to go to

work,’” Pelecanos says. “My job was to deliver food on foot to offices.” As Pelecanos developed his Garmin-like knowledge of D.C.’s streets and alleys, he picked up the fumes of revolution, too. “This was right after the riots,” he says, “a turbulent and ultimately cleansing event in the city’s history. Plus, the counterculture had descended upon Dupont Circle, and May Day was on the horizon. Plus, pretty girls, everywhere. So there was plenty of things for a boy like me to chew on, even if I didn’t fully understand what I was experiencing.” WOL and WOOK played on the Jefferson’s house radio, giving the 11year-old a “love of deep soul.”

For his grandfathers, food had been a means of rooting immigrant families in America.

George Pelecanos, the author’s paternal grandfather and namesake, owned a lunch counter at 5th and Florida. His mother’s step-father, Pete Frank, owned the Sun Dial on 14th Street NW near Park Road, and later ran Frank’s Carry Out at 14th and R, where he learned to cook soul food. At nights, locals would gather to watch boxing matches on TV. Readers get a version of Frank’s Carry Out in The Big Blowdown, a postwar epic of immigrants and crime. In the book, it’s Big Nick’s, and here it is on fight night: “Everyone was laughing and carrying on, trying to speak louder than the guy next to him, all of them having a fine time. Nick’s might have been a lunch counter during the day, but it was no different than any other beer garden at night.”

Nick Kendros, his mother’s biological father, owned the Woodward Grille at H and 15th streets NW; today, it’s Woodward Table, an upscale American eatery owned by Jeff Beuben (of Vidalia and Bistro Bis fame), where the server gushes over Pelecanos: “He’s, like, my favorite author. I grew up in Takoma Park.”

But it’s the Jefferson Coffee Shop that shows up most often in Pelecanos’ work. There, he gleaned the motifs that glue together his fictional kitchens: the bar with vinyl seating; the open kitchen; the friendly arguments between owner and chef. The lunch counter becomes a microcosm of the community and vitality that energizes Pelecanos’ blue-collar D.C., and a metaphor for the forces that divide it. Pay attention to who sits on which side of the counter. At the Jefferson, it was obvious enough to 11-year-old Pelecanos: “It wasn’t lost on me that, on one side of the counter, blacks and Greeks were serving white professionals who were seated on the other side.”

Today, that counter is owned by Art Carlson, and the place is called CF Folks. “Art improved the menu and the food, but it still looks pretty much the same,” Pelecanos says.

“I still go down there occasionally, have lunch, talk to Art and ‘visit’ with my dad.”

CF Folks does lunch. That’s it. And that’s all it needs, as anyone who’s tried to elbow their way through the door at noon can attest.

Though it has the dimensions of a shipping container, Folks hums with a pleasant chaos, the close quarters feeling cozy, not claustrophobic. It’s a professional crowd, the counter lined with guys in collared shirts and women

in knee-length skirts and stockings. On a brisk day, Carlson says, they’ll do 150 lunches.

John Twomey, the counter guy, sweeps back and forth, humming, forever asking: “Did you get your food?” or “Did you order yet?” Sweat beads on his forehead, but he doesn’t look like he’s working.

“Umm, Diet Coke?” Twomey says, panning the counter with a soft drink in his hand, having forgotten who ordered it. “Umm… no idea.” He dumps it into a sink labeled HANDWASHING ONLY. “We don’t really write down orders here,” he says. From the counter, you can see into the kitchen with its postage stamp-sized prep station, towers of pots and pans, every square inch maximized over more than three decades.

Though its operations look like a mosaic of chaos glued together by luck, the restaurant was founded in 1981 with a deliberate mission: Lunches only. No weekends, no holidays.

“Everybody here has a family life,” Carlson says. “And that’s hard to do, because our rent costs as much as anybody else’s.” In order to pull it off, forget about growth. Some would call this failure—not Carlson. “If you don’t grow, maybe you’re just less selfish.”

He inherited the ethos, he says, from Pete Pelecanos, a man Carlson describes with one word: “Gracious.” Shortly after getting CF Folks off the ground, Carlson invited the former owner for a bite on the house. Pete and Ruby sat in a deuce by the counter, eating, studying. After he cleared his plate, he gave Carlson a high pass and offered suggestions.

“Pete could pick up the mood, the sway, the music,” Carlson says. After that lunch, Carlson regularly invited Pete Pelecanos back to take the temperature. The elder restaurateur would get a free lunch, and Carlson would get some indispensable wisdom.

As for the food, Carlson lays it out: “We’re a gas station. People come here because they need fuel. Maybe they want regular, premium, or high test. We’re a fulfillment center for people working in the immediate two-block area.”

An hour past noon on a Thursday, and CF Folks is almost tapped out. Johnny slaps a Xeroxed specials menu on the bar and starts crossing things off. The rockfish livornese is gone; so are the chicken piccata and the French dip sandwich. The meatloaf stands out for its simplicity. In D.C., a city increasingly enamored with the haute-est of haute cuisine, it takes moxie to serve meatloaf without loading it with wild boar or Montana elk, or smothering the whole thing in a red wine reduction. No: They serve it falling off a hill of garlic mashers, with brown gravy. Contents: cow; pig.

The plates head to the washer precleaned. The lunchtime clamor lowers a few decibels, and Carlson eyes the register tape; not bad for a Thursday. It’s never easy, he says: “We dance to an ever-changing market.” It takes some savvy, a lot of luck, and determined fidelity to the vision set forth by Pete Pelecanos.

As for Carlson, he’s obviously a fan of Pelecanos the younger. His favorite Pelecanos novel is Shoedog; whenever he swings by Politics

“art improved the menu and the food, but it still looks pretty much the same.”

—George Pelecanos & Prose, he picks up the latest book. It’s reflex. “It’s my way of saying, ‘Go George.’”

Of D.C.’s old Greek diners, Pelecanos says, few remain (Carlson’s a Swede, a second-gen American like Pelecanos, but he wears the tradition with ease). The sons of Greek restaurateurs went to college, Pelecanos says, according to expectation, and grew out of the food business. Pelecanos was 19 when his father’s health began to collapse,

leading him to drop out of the University of Maryland and man the counter at Jefferson Coffee Shop. “I distinctly remember this lawyer in the building who said to me one day, ‘Why would you go back to school?

You should just take the place over. You people are so good at this business,’” Pelecanos says. “At the time I was a little offended, as I felt like he was telling me I should stay in my place. But when I thought about it, I realized that, well-intentioned or not, the guy was right. We are good at this. Sometimes it’s in your blood.”

In a George Pelecanos novel, restaurant scenes are like jazz solos, swinging along with kitchen talk and boom box music. It’s the kind of sharply-observed banter that can only come from experience: In 1989, Pelecanos worked in the kitchen at My Brother’s Place at 2nd and

C streets NW, washing dishes and writing his first novel, A Firing Offense, on spiral-bound notebooks after he hung up the apron.

My Brother’s Place—closed for business now as it becomes British-American pub The Alibi—shows up as The Spot in Nick’s Trip, the fierce and dark sequel to A Firing Offense.

Here’s how Pelecanos pays it tribute: “The common wisdom holds that there are no neighborhood joints left in D.C., places where a man can get lost and smoke cigarettes down to the filter and drink beer backed with whiskey. The truth is you have to know where to find them. Where you can find them is down by the river, near the barracks, and east of the Hill.”

Nick Stefanos, Pelecanos’ first and most autobiographical character, washes up at The Spot as day-drinker, recently unemployed after staging a shootout at his old job at the end

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of A Firing Offense. “I stepped down into the main bar, which was to the left and ran the length of the room,” he narrates. “There were two hanging conical lamps, which dimly illuminated columnar blocks of smoke. A blue neon Schlitz sign burned over the center of the bar. Billie Holiday was singing in mono through the speakers hung on either side of the room.”

Stefanos is looking for work, but halfheartedly, and The Spot gives pretext to a hidden urge. He walks in and comments on the neon blue Schlitz sign.

“We put up whatever the liquor distributors give us,” she said, then shrugged and gave me a weak smile. “Fuck it. You know?”

Yeah, I knew. It was my kind of place and I was due. I returned there every day for the next two weeks and drank with intent.

With little else to do and nowhere he’d rather be, Stefanos starts taking shifts behind the bar—an ideal trade for an out-ofwork investigator. Something falls in his lap before long, but The Spot establishes itself as a home base for Stefanos, and along with its cast of regulars, together a character in their own right. There’s the off-duty cop. There’s “reader,” who only ever orders black coffee; a fellow named Happy, a perpetual frowner who takes his Manhattans on the Sahara side of dry; Melvin, who drinks rail marti-

nis and turns troubadour after number five.

It’s straight up Shakespeare, a tavern scene out of Henry IV with Marvin Gaye on the speakers and Old Grand-Dad in the beveled shot glass.

For Stefanos, The Spot is what he needs it to be: a place to hide after the violence of A Firing Offense and a base of operations in Nick’s Trip as he tracks down a friend’s missing wife and pokes around the death of a Washington City Paper reporter. In Shame The Devil, Stefanos’ last proper novel, The Spot is place of refuge for Dimitri Karras, fellow Greek and grieving father of a murdered son. Stefanos gets Karras a gig in the kitchen, and the crew becomes a stand-in family. The hard, honest work helps bring Karras back from the dead.

Food, and the act of making it, becomes cathartic. Take The Spot at closing time, when the boom box turns to salsa, the cooks start dancing, and the staff settle down for some early morning dinners and shift drinks. As Karras finds his legs in the kitchen, Pelecanos rolls around in the jargon: “James?”

“Talk about it, Dimitri.”

“I got a bacon-cheddar, rare. I got provolone, well. And I got a plain, extra rare.”

“You want it bleedin’, huh?”

“Knock the horns off it and walk it through a warm room.”

For Pelecanos, a dive bar is never just a dive bar. It’s a plot driver. It’s heart and soul. For Stefanos, it’s shelter; for Karras, it’s resurrection. “Karras smiled ear to ear. His face felt odd, and then he knew why. He had forgotten what it felt like to smile with that kind of abandon. It had been a long time.”

Spero Lucas, the protagonist of Pelecanos’ last two novels, is a man of appetites. A former Marine and veteran of Fallujah, Lucas spent his early adulthood taking orders and courting death in the desert. He’s in D.C., his hometown, to live the life he feels he missed: “Sex, work, money, and a comfortable bed.

Everything he dreamed of when he was overseas,” he thinks in The Double. “A guy didn’t need anything else.”

“Lucas has big appetites in every facet of his life,” Pelecanos says, “and to him food and sex are inextricably linked.”

Throughout The Cut, Lucas’ debut, he frequents a certain class of District eateries, all mid-range, tidy, and subdued—perfect for wining and dining Constance, his lust interest. They both work for Tom Petersen, a defense attorney. Constance is the intern. Lucas’ the investigator.

Lucas has his origins in “Chosen,” a short

story included in The Martini Shot. In “Chosen,” a Greek-American couple adopts three babies of different races. “I have a similar family,” Pelecanos says, “so I wanted to write about the experience, not with reverence, but rather with humor.” The story focuses on the parents, Evangelos and Eleni, with a quick postscript about their kids, Leonidis and Spero: the former teaches English at Cardozo High School, and the latter is a Marine fighting in Iraq.

“At the same time, I was talking to a criminal defense attorney I know, and he told me that he primarily hired veterans as street detectives because they’re suited for the work,” Pelecanos says. “So the idea for a book came organically from the short story.”

Lucas chases down cases, searching for evidence to bolster Petersen’s defense. It’s hands-on work, the kind he can do in Dickies and a plain white tee—no frills, no bullshit. It doesn’t pay much, but Lucas pads his wallet by working as a “recovery expert” (a plot device Pelecanos says he borrowed from John D. MacDonald’s Travis McGee novels). Whatever he’s tasked to find, Lucas takes 40 percent of the object’s value. It’s his cut.

It’s enough. It lets him take girls like Constance out to Mourayo, the high-minded Greek restaurant north of Dupont Circle.

Mourayo, in The Cut, is “…airy, with warm wood trim, white walls and hardwood floors.

Where to eat in d.C., according to George Pelecanos For a quick look at the Greek tradition: Cava Grill. “The food’s a cut above the fast food norm.”

For a fish sandwich: Horace & Dickie’s.

“H&D was Boyd’s, originally. People claim Boyd’s served D.C.’s best fish sandwich.”

Horace & Dickie’s is home of Pelecanos character Spero Lucas’ favorite working lunch—a fish sandwich with hot sauce.

For avoiding P.F. Chang’s: Full Kee. “I wouldn’t describe the service as warm and fuzzy, but the brusqueness of the wait staff is

part of the experience, as is the loud dining room and constant clatter of plates and silver. Plus, the shrimp dumpling noodle soup is one of the best cheap lunches in town.”

For a D.C. tradition that lives up to the hype: “Yes, Ben’s Chili Bowl is everything it’s cracked up to be.”

For sit-down catfish: Southern Efficiency.

“Good bourbon selection there, too.”

For a dozen raw oysters: Eat The Rich. “Phil, one of the bartenders there, will do you right.”

For soul food with a fresh coat of paint: The Hitching Post. “I was taken aback to find that the owners, Alvin and Adrienne Carter, were gone, the Hitching Post had been modernized, and a new owner was in place. But the same kinds of people were eating there and seemed to be enjoying themselves, so I sat at the counter and had a good meal.”

For a drink with Spero Lucas: Petworth Citizen. “It’s a bike ride from [Lucas’] house in 16th Street Heights, it’s got a good vibe, and now there’s a bookstore attached to it.”

Where to eat outside of d.C., according to George Pelecanos As a writer and producer for HBO shows The Wire and Treme, Pelecanos has lived part-time in New Orleans and spent time in Baltimore.

On Baltimore: “Faidley’s in Lexington Market is famous for their crab cakes, but the prize goes to their haddock sandwich.

And the grilled mahi sandwich at Larry’s on

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Fort Avenue is pretty sweet, too. In Baltimore, you can get your fish and crab cakes on saltine crackers.”

On New Orleans: “It’s the best food town I’ve ever lived in. And so much fun.

Which is what a dining experience should be: fun.” Alan Richman, writing in GQ in 2006, disagreed: He called New Orleans a

“three-day stubble of a city,” and trashed its cuisine. In revenge, Pelecanos wrote him into an episode of Treme, where the show’s fictional chef tosses a glass of Sazerac in his face “as a rebuttal.” Richman showed up for the shoot and took it like a good contrarian.

“So he was a good sport. But he was dead wrong about New Orleans.”

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The busboys wore sailor shirts and fisherman caps.” They order marinated anchovies, grilled octopus with fava bean puree, sesame-encrusted halloumi cheese, and other assorted mezze. “They bake a fish that you’ll dream about,” he tells Constance, and when they wheel out the salt-baked branzino, disentomb it, and fillet the fish table-side, the reader can practically taste it. “God,” Constance says, and she means it.

Mourayo prides itself on fresh, honest food.

The octopus, for example, is served without fuss—just a warm char taste and a nip of lemon. This is a higher caliber of Greek food, says manager Maurizio Luise: “It’s not souvlaki. It’s not gyros.” But despite its refinement, Mourayo’s elegance is in its simplicity.

“Spero doesn’t like pretension or irony, so he tends to go to spots where he can be comfortable,” says Pelecanos. Mourayo is a place that’s “all about the atmosphere. People from different economic backgrounds and cultures, hanging out together, and not in a self-conscious, ‘Let’s try this’ way.’”

Mourayo returns his affection in abundance. At the bar, you can order a Pelecanos Cut: Bulleit Bourbon, Rakomelo (a Greek liqueur), orange bitters, lemon juice, clove tea and a sprig of thyme. Look to the left, and you’ll see another homage in gilded Hellenic script: “The George Pelecanos Room.”

“Corny, yes,” Pelecanos says, “but it makes my mother proud, and that means something to me.”

Of all Lucas’s date spots, Mourayo most clearly preserves the Greek tradition of The Big Blowdown. Family is central to the restaurant’s ethos, Luise says, both in the sense of the larger Greek community—it counts Father John Bakas of the Greek Orthodox Saint Sophia Cathedral among its regulars—and the smaller, chosen family. Luise blushes a little when he describes how Pelecanos dropped off a gift for the manager’s newborn son—a tiny “I Love D.C.” onesie.

“He’s such a part of the family,” he says.

Where Nick Stefanos sought out places to hide from others, and himself, Lucas chooses interiors that allow him to be himself.

“There’s a lot of men and women out here like me, Constance,” he tells her. They’re dining at Marvin, a Belgian/soul food fusion restaurant on 14th and U that serves moules frites alongside chicken and waffles.

“We’ve been through this war and we just look at things differently than people our age,” Lucas tells his girlfriend in The Cut. “I mean, there are certain bars I don’t hang in. The people, the conversations, they’re too frivolous.

I’m not gonna sit around and have drinks with people who are, you know, ironic.”

Which explains his affection for southern cuisine—food that really means it. There’s nothing cheeky or self-referential about a half-smoke breakfast at the Florida Avenue Grill, at Florida Avenue and 11th Street NW, where Lucas meets two young men connected to a case. “It was the old city’s soul diner, the warmest spot for a real southern breakfast,” Pelecanos writes. The patrons rep the crimson-and-gold of a Certain Local Football

Team, talk high school sports, “…and would have elected 88.5’s Kojo Nnamdi for mayor if only he would run.”

Lucas powers down on a plate of halfsmokes split under onions, grits, two eggs over easy, biscuits, and butter. “I been dreamin’ on these half-smokes,” he says. Meals are sacred, and he takes his time, not bothering to talk business until he finishes.

In The Double, he meets a retired detective at the Hitching Post, a southern eatery on Upshur Street NW in Petworth. Lucas orders them both fried chicken sandwiches with collard greens and mac and cheese. The chicken arrives bonein atop a slice of bread. “How one could eat it as a sandwich was one of the pleasant mysteries of the Hitching Post,” Pelecanos writes.

Ask Pelecanos to name his favorite Elmore Leonard novel, and he’ll qualify: Swag, but also Valdez Is Coming, Leonard’s Spaghetti Western masterpiece. Which is fitting— many of Pelecanos’ works, with their offwhite sense of honor and code, could be construed as urban westerns. His books, like his characters, defy irony and post-modernism. Guys like Lucas are simply old-fashioned, melding their lethality with an awshucks sense of chivalry.

You can’t call it nostalgia, and you shouldn’t call it homage, as Pelecanos inhabits his oldschool cool so completely as to make it entirely his. But when his characters get down on a meal, either in a good restaurant or surrounded by family, he imparts a sense of “…the kind of world we wanted, or said we wanted, when we were growing up around here.”

That is, a world where people can get together in a welcoming space and share something, regardless of race or class. And now, Pelecanos says, it’s happening here in D.C. “I do have complicated feelings about it,” he says. “It can be argued that the roughedged Washington was a more interesting city than it is today.” But as he watched the U and H street corridors resurrect themselves from the riots (however unevenly), he saw the night brighten a little, with new restaurants, bars, and retail spaces replacing the ruin. Land value jumped, and some turned a profit leaving the District, though renters and those living on a fixed income suffered. He says he’d like to see more affordable housing, but from where he stands, D.C. is a better place to live—if a little less interesting.

Which is funny, given that Pelecanos has built a career on making D.C. interesting— including the latter-day district of The Cut and The Double. But reading Spero Lucas, you don’t see Pelecanos emulating a young man; you just see a younger Pelecanos. Lucas eats where Pelecanos eats. He’s the author’s way of saying that some things never change, marquee restaurants and celebrity chefs regardless.

“I try not to feel any resentment for the changes,” he says. “If you live in one place your whole life, as I have, you see buildings, businesses, and landmarks disappear, one by one, until you’re left with your memories. But they’re good memoCP ries. Nostalgia, to me, is crippling.”

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Mockingbird Hill, and Kaz Sushi Bistro. Need some beer with that? No fewer than three alcohol on-demand delivery services—Klink, Ultra, and Drizly—launched in D.C. within the past year. Meanwhile, Postmates, new to the city as of Dec. 2013, will send a courier to pick up just about anything, although 90 percent of the orders are food.

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These options didn’t even exist five years ago when delivery food typically translated to kung pao chicken and pizIf you’re too time-pressed for a French press, plenty of za. Taylor Gourmet co-owner Casey Patten remembers machines will brew a coffee at the push of a button. And if a huge delivery disparity between D.C. and delivery mecca you don’t want a robot making your morning cup, a growing New York when he opened his first hoagie shop here in 2008. number of baristas are trained in the art of the pour-over. And “You have no problem with delivering a lobster in New York. if that’s too fancy, there’s always Starbucks (and the StarYou can get McDonald’s delivered,” he says. “And then I bucks across from the Starbucks). And if you’re not caffeincome back to Washington, D.C. and I couldn’t even get a ated enough to walk the three blocks, surely there’s a bored pizza from the corporate guys delivered to me.” intern around?

So Taylor Gourmet set up its own delivery operation, But in case all that is just too much, which now has about 30 drivers and makes there will soon be an even lazier way up 10 percent of the business. But when it to get your morning buzz. For $3 plus started, Patten says, he didn’t even have the the price of the drink, a new service option to outsource or partner with a delivery called Fetch Coffee will deliver cofservice, as many others do now. fee to you on-demand or in advance With a growing population of professionals from the nearest coffee shop or the with disposable incomes and a booming food cafe of your choice. The service aims scene, D.C. has become a magnet for food deto launch later this month. livery companies, just as it has for celebrity Montgomery County native Tony chefs and national chains. “The D.C. populaChen, a 24-year-old engineering tion as a whole is younger and more tech savgraduate from Cornell University, vy in that space of being open to new things,” quit his business strategy job at CapRelay Foods spokeswoman Sarah Yates says.

Between 50 to 60 percent of Relay Foods’ cusital One to start his own company, tomers in D.C. request delivery rather than which eventually became Fetch Cofpick-up. That’s significantly more than the fee. “Walking over to Starbucks, it’s company’s first two cities—Charlottesville and annoying,” he says. He spent a mornRichmond, Va.—where only 10 to 20 percent ing watching people come and go of business comes from delivery. from the chain and noticed that about Of the 18 markets where Postmates has 80 percent of customers were getting launched, D.C. is among the top five, says coffee to-go. What if they didn’t even spokesperson April Conyers. Meanwhile, have to get in line in the first place?

Caviar founder Jason Wang says local deChen believes there’s a market for livery orders have increased six-fold since Fetch Coffee in large part because the San Francisco-based company launched of the growing food delivery scene here last year, also making D.C. one of its in D.C. After all, there are now sites top five markets. and apps for every level of laziness Pizza and ramen—or really any kind of and craving. Relay Foods and Peapod will deliver your groceries, while Asian noodle soup—are among the most popScratchDC will drop off pre-chopped ular orders from Caviar. Similarly, noodle and and -measured meals that you assemsushi spot Nooshi was the top delivery destination on Postmates in 2014, followed by ble yourself. Caviar joined the likes Sweetgreen and Chipotle. Conyers says the of GrubHub and Seamless in restaurant delivery in April, but with a courier service sees a lot of healthy orders, like trendier set of previously unavailable Sweetgreen, at the beginning of the week and options like Toki Underground, Klink delivery guy Nitin Dayao brings two six-packs to Washington City Paper’s office. then more pig-out orders like Burger Tap & washingtoncitypaper.com JANUARY 16, 2015 23

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The fact that people are increasingly willing to pay an extra fee to get Bud Light delivered may come off as a symptom of laziness.

But Nadel suggests the rise of Amazon and other on-demand services like Uber mean everyone is simply accustomed to the convenience and instant gratification of summoning what they want when they want it.

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When Nadel and his fellow founders launched the company, they thought the service would be used predominantly by people who had run out of alcohol and didn’t want to leave their guests for a liquor store run. But they’ve since found a lot of their customers plan their orders in advance. Many of those customers are companies—not frat boys—who use the service for office events and happy hours. “We have quite a few that order every Friday or every other Friday,” Nadel says.

Online platforms also tend to offer more transparency: With Postmates and Caviar, you can use GPS tracking to see exactly where your delivery is. Relay Foods shows shoppers extra background about what’s in their products or how they were grown. You can’t click for more info on a grocery store shelf.

Aside from the utility, companies see more of an emotional appeal, too. Ice Cream Jubilee owner Victoria Lai initially launched her ice cream business exclusively through bike delivery and retail in July of 2013. But as she prepared to open her own shop in Navy Yard this summer, she stopped delivery. The demand was persistent enough, though, that she brought back a three-month ice cream subscription delivery option this winter (albeit not on bike anymore). “There’s something exciting about walking to an ice cream store,” Lai says. But when ice cream appears at your door and you can stay in your pajamas?

“There is a special level of exuberance.”

Likewise, Nadel says delivery makes an otherwise mundane thing—walking into a shop and buying something—an exciting moment. “It’s better than a liquor store and it’s more accessible than bottle service,” he says.

And whereas courier services used to be expensive and relatively inaccessible, the new generation of delivery services charge nominal fees. “It’s an indulgence that’s not an indulgence,” Nadel says.

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That people are increasingly willing to pay an extra fee to get Bud Light delivered may come off as a symptom of laziness. But Nadel suggests everyone is accustomed to summoning what they want when they want it. percent. But what do you pay the alcohol delivery guy? Or the woman who drops off your groceries?

Most food delivery services placed average tips around 15 percent. But others are doing away with gratuity altogether. For safety reasons, Relay Foods actively discourages people from tipping its delivery people so that they’re not carrying around a lot of cash as they’re driving around late at night. Caviar also doesn’t allow tips, preferring a service charge that’s automatically added in. “Instead of a variable tip, everything is done through a seamless way. There’s no awkward handing the delivery driver cash or fumbling around for coins,” says Caviar’s Wang. “We want to make it as easy as possible for the consumer.”

As the competition between delivery services gets more fierce, each is looking for new ways to step up the “easiness” factor and set themselves apart. Relay Foods, for example, is in the process of creating a meal planning service where shoppers can pick specific dishes and then automatically add all the ingredients they need to make it into their virtual carts. The company recently hired a nutritionist to create recipes, and customers will be able to enter their own recipes as well.

At the end of the December, Postmates began allowing companies to build on top of its platform and tap into its courier network without having to go through its app. Going forward, a restaurant could offer a Postmates delivery option directly from its own website.

And Klink will often send cocktail recipes based on what someone ordered. It’s also offered a bunch of promotions, including sending customers a mixologist if they ordered more than $300 worth of booze.

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Do You Want to Blow a Secret?

Old spouses keep a shared fiction and a boys’ school faces gay panic.

In Praise of Love

By Terence Rattigan Directed by Laura Giannarelli At Washington Stage Guild to Feb. 1 Choir Boy

By Tarell Alvin McCraney Directed by Kent Gash At Studio Theatre to Feb. 22

By Chris Klimek

Sir Rex Harrison was a Tony- and Oscar-winning actor whose stage career spanned seven decades. He was also, by many accounts, an enormous pain in the ass. Elizabeth Harris, the fifth of Harrison’s six wives, told her pal Roger Moore that Harrison would spend half an hour each morning dressing in his cape and boots before riding the lift down from his second-story bedroom for breakfast. He’d spend much of the morning choosing what wine he would drink and what clothes he would wear at lunch. When served whatever bottle he’d chosen from his own cellar, Harrison would frequently send it back.

Harrison’s earlier union with Kay Kendall was no less absurd, but briefer and sadder. Upon being informed that Kendall, his mistress, had leukemia—a cruel fact that was withheld from Kendall herself, somehow—he divorced his second and longest-serving wife, Lilli Palmer, to marry Kendall and comfort her until her death. Supposedly he and Palmer agreed to remarry once Kendall had passed.

They didn’t, but Kendall held up her part of the bargain: She died in 1959, two years after she and Harrison, 19 years her senior, were married.

It isn’t particularly odd that that Terence Rattigan chose, 14 years later, to write a play inspired by Harrison and Kendall’s story. Rattigan was in his 60s and in poor health at the time, and younger playwrights and critics had dismissed the middlebrow style that had brought him success

in post-war plays like The Winslow Boy and Separate Tables as square and unfashionable. What’s strange, though, is that Harrison starred in the play Rattigan wrote about him—playing, in essence, himself (too likably, in Rattigan’s estimation).

The play had its U.S. premiere at the Kennedy Center in 1974, with Harrison in the saddle.

And that, according to the Washington Stage Guild, was the last time In Praise of Love was seen in D.C. until the guild’s sturdy revival of this satisfying-if-plodding comic drama opened on New Year’s Day. Director Laura Giannarelli’s production, too, trades on its star power, whether or not you know Conrad Feininger’s name. A WSG regular who deserves to be seen on more stages more often, Feininger sinks his fangs into the marquee role of sardonic old novelist-turned-literarycritic Sebastian Cruttwell—an esteemed man of letters who is seemingly so helpless at the minutiae of daily life that he needs his wife’s aid to plug in a lamp.

Clearly, Rattigan performed his due diligence as a fiction writer, outfitting his characters with professions drastically different from those of the people who inspired them. Like Ian Fleming before him, Cruttwell is a newspaperman who worked in intelligence during World War II (the play is set in 1973). That’s how he came to know Lydia, his substantially younger Estonian refugee wife, no stranger to tradecraft herself. Her murky backstory is one of the piece’s most intriguing elements. Julie-Ann Elliott is easy to love as this survivor with plenty of practice keeping despair at bay, her Natasha Fatale (of Boris and fame) accent be damned.

They have a politically tuned-in 20-year-old son (Christopher Herring, who looks 15 years too old for his role, but he’s fine) to whom Sebastian can hardly be bothered to speak, and a mutual friend in Mark (Steven Carpenter), an American whose books sell better than Sebastian’s ever did, but who still covets something Sebastian has. Mark’s arrival in the couple’s cozy, book-lined living room chips a crack into their shared fiction, one that spreads slowly throughout the evening. Every so often Feininger unleashes a withering bon mot to reward our patience.

Unlike their real-life antecedents, Lydia and Sebastian have been together a long time. We infer that they’ve agreed sans discussion to play dumb with one another rather than to confront the fact of Lydia’s illness together. It seems puzzling, now, that Rattigan’s work was shunned as dowdy and didactic for so long.

This unhurried examination of love’s inarticulate complexities feels perceptive and free of judgment.

Maybe it should be called In Praise of Like.

Homo Perfectus: Bigotry might keep Pharus from his rightful honor.

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Choir Boy looks like a big hit, and it deserves to be. The musical melodrama, set in an all-black prep school for boys, comes from 34year-old MacArthur Fellow Tarell Alvin McCraney. Though Studio Theatre’s previously staged his Brother/Sister Plays, a trio with one

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foot in West African mythology, the prior Studio offering Choir Boy most recalls is Take Me Out, Richard Greenberg’s Tony-winning drama about a gay baseball star.

Let me count the ways: Both plays are about an exceptional young man of color reckoning with homophobia in an exclusively male environment. Both take their time to build a convincing world and establish compelling characters, then sprinkle in an act of violence when it seems they need a little nudge towards a resolution. And both of them—at Studio, anyway— feature abundant full-frontal nudity from a cast of vigorous young bucks as well as functioning onstage showers. (Someone told me once that the showers in Take Me Out were very cold.)

What Choir Boy adds, as you might infer, is music. Superb music. Charles R. Drew Prep, its fictitious academy, is renowned for its gospel choir, and the show’s music director, Darius Smith, coaxes potent a capella performances of Negro spirituals like “I Couldn’t Hear Nobody Pray” and “Keep Your Eyes on the Prize” (plus one New Edition jam from 1988) from six members of the seven-man cast as punctuation throughout the piece. Some of them don’t even interrupt the story: A performance of “Motherless Child” carries a montage wherein each of the five boys, credibly adolescent though the actors are obviously older, phones his remote parents.

Choir Boy’s protagonist, Pharus, is a scholarship student and the school’s most gifted singer. He’s determined to lead the choir, and his talent and relentless work ethic mostly protect him from those who don’t want to see “the little sweet boy they’ve been trying to straighten out for years” in such a high-profile position. But he’s got an enemy in Bobby (Keith Antone), an angry kid who’s also the headmaster’s nephew, and an ally in his roommate, AJ (Jaysen Wright, fresh off 1st Stage’s Take Me Out, wouldn’t you know). Pharus lands himself in hot water when he refuses to name the boy who attacks him with a homophobic epithet—to be a rat doesn’t jibe with the code of honor Drew wants its boys to live by.

When Pharus compliments AJ’s burly frame at length, AJ gently reminds Pharus that he’s straight—but AJ also fearlessly engages in flirtatious tickle-fights with the much smaller Pharus, making him possibly the most self-actualized straight 17-year-old who ever lived. Wright’s unaffected performance as the loyal and honorable AJ is almost enough to make you believe it. And as Pharus, Jelani Alladin is fully convincing as a the enterprising kid who talks such a good game that the occasional reminders he’s a lonely 17-year-old boy feel powerful and true.

It’s strange to see a young, much-lauded black playwright

rely on the oft-lamented trope of a white authority figure summoned to help the black characters sort out their problems: It falls to Mr. Pendleton, a white professor who marched with Dr. King, to chide overwhelmed Headmaster Marrow (Marty Austin Lamar) for failing to consider that a certain percentage of the boys at his all-boys academy will be gay. There’s no flaw in the way McCraney has written Pendleton’s character—he makes a tin-eared joke about “Colored-People Time” and instantly regrets it—or in Alan Wade’s avuncular performance.

But his presence remains mysterious.

McCraney mines the irony of an institution that proudly trumpets its association with the Civil Rights Movement (photos of MLK and Malcolm X ring Sherwood’s set) while tacitly accepting another strain of bigotry without bludgeoning you with it. There’s exactly one more song than is necessary, which saps the momentum exactly when we’re primed for it to resolve. This surfeit of harmony becomes Choir Boy’s CP sole bum note.

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Enrique Bátiz, conductor; Irina Chistiakova, piano; Alfonso Moreno, guitar SATURDAY, JANUARY 31 AT 8 P.M. This esteemed Latin American orchestra pays tribute to its roots with an exquisite Spanish Festival program of works from great Spanish composers: Granados’ Three Spanish Dances, Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez, Ponce’s Piano Concerto “Romantic,” and de Falla’s Noches en los Jardines de Espana. “The beauty of sound with an assured technique and great dynamics that never pass the limits.” (La Libre Belgique) $50, $43, $30

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newspaper “Untitled (woman reading newspaper)” by Shadafarin Ghadirian (1999)

“DreamVintage (part 1)” Standout Track: “DreamVintage (part 1)” is a cinematic slow-churner that registers as chillwave, although it feels like background music from a 1970s blaxploitation movie. For three minutes, instruments calmly emerge from producer Terracotta Blue’s haunting brew—dusty drums evoke a hip-hop context and hollow chimes give the song its dark texture. Near the end, a flute arises and brightens the shadows.

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grass “Medicine case (inro)”

by Koma Yasutada Saku (19th century)

liquor “Jar for distilled liquor” (16th-19th century)

Musical Motivation: Silver Spring producer Jamal Samuel (aka Terracotta Blue) created “DreamVintage (part 1)” after listening to PRhyme, the edgy collaborative album from rapper Royce da 5’9” and producer DJ Premier, who sampled brassy soul composer Adrian Younge for the project. “This is more of a throwback to how I used to make beats,” says Samuel, 36. “For this, I wanted to keep it simple. I wanted to give it that gritty, warm, soulful vibe. I try to make this stuff very laid-back.”

‘80s Baby: Samuel says he grew up on 1980s pop, which explains his affinity for dreamy lo-fi jams and electronic music. As a veteran composer—Samuel’s been releasing music since 2003—he says he’s preferred the downtempo vibe long before chillwave became a fad in the mid-2000s. And while he credits the ‘80s for his sound, Samuel’s rap influence comes from ‘90s producers Premier, RZA, and Dr. Dre. “I loved ‘80s cartoons and I love ‘80s music,” Samuel says.

“This has the feel I’m going for.”

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thoughts “Thoughts on Calligraphers and Poets in cursive script” by Pu Hua (1901)

wheels “Bird on wheels” (8th10th century) sleep “Dreaming of Walking near Fuji” by Isoda Koryusai (1770-73) glitter “Glittering Sea” by Yoshida Hiroshi (1926)

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Now, with the Freer and Sackler galleries’ new online database of their complete collections, art lovers can customize their virtual museumgoing experience, too. Every print, sculpture, manuscript, and ceramics piece is

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TheaTerCurtain Calls Geek Bloom In Love and Warcraft

By Madhuri Shekar Directed by Joshua Morgan No Rules Theatre Company at Signature Theatre through Jan. 25 Whether by accident or alchemy, nerd theater has become something of a D.C. trend this season. No Rules Theatre Company’s new production of Madhuri Shekar’s In Love and Warcraft, about a young woman who learns about romance through fantasy role-play, follows Rorschach Theatre’s fall take on Qui Nguyen’s She Kills Monsters, about a young woman who learns more about her dead sister through fantasy role-

bug but you’re still in the cocoon.” But the play’s not particularly illuminating about sex, relationships, or Warcraft. At least one of the three would have been nice.

This is not the fault of Anu Yadav, comfortably in her realm in the lead role of Evie. She displays considerable charm as she alternates between confident warrior princess and terrified girlfriend. It’s a fun performance that suggests some subversive links between sex and the pleasure of a good Warcraft raid— when Evie tells her new boyfriend (A.J. Melendez) she doesn’t want sex, he makes her give up the game as equal penance. Instead of going all the way with this, In Love and Warcraft retreats to the safe haven of a cartoonishly promiscuous best friend (Dani Stoller) and an online-only guild boyfriend who’s also a loser (David Johnson).

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Sweet, Sweet Fantasy, Baby: A gaming warrior princess is terrified of love IRL. play. Since that’s really all theater is—fantasy role-play—this plumbing of magicalpersona subculture seems a natural way to introduce depth and wisdom into stories for young, smart, possibly socially awkward audiences.

From the moment Warcraft’s pre-show announcer likens in-theater cell phone use to trolling, the audience is primed for two hours of predictable geekery: some cute in-jokes about guilds, discussions of dragon-slaying, and the eventual affirmation that fantasy and reality can coexist. But as Shekar’s 2014 work steps further away from swords and sorcery, it reveals a prosaism that neither director Joshua Morgan nor his cast can level up.

The rom-com concerns a college student who excels at virtual Warcraft campaigns and writing for-hire love notes, yet has a fear of intimacy that threatens to derail a promising relationship. Shekar’s play is racy—characters strip to their underwear and undergo gynecological exams, and one describes a male appendage as “a Pokémon that turns into a

These are broad jokes, sometimes funny but mainly there to obfuscate the flimsy subtext (love isn’t a strategy game; sex is scary for first-timers). The climax brings a breath of fresh air as it finally enters the game world, the cast ably mimicking the herkyjerky movements of their virtual avatars.

But the too-short sequence mostly serves as a reminder of how well She Kills Monsters incorporated the visual bravado of Dungeons & Dragons into its earthbound story.

Morgan, No Rules’ artistic director, brought light and darkness in equal measure to his smart 2012 production Suicide, Inc. Here he’s working pretty much only with light—the play’s approach to young love is as frothy as the Frappuccinos the characters carry around the set.

But what love and Warcraft have in common is passion, players who strive on no matter the cost. And nerd theater without passion is like a —Andrew Lapin guild without a tank.

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Film

Mental Tenacity

saying the company had the budget for either Sandra’s salary or their bonuses, but not both. Nearly all of them decided to scratch their own backs.

One colleague and friend, Juliette (Catherine Salée), persuades a supervisor to meet with her and Sandra, however, so they can cry and plead; it’s Cooper’s film, and he’s ask him to consider holding a second secret impressive. You may not be able to catch ev- vote on Monday. Sandra sinks to the floor ery word of his under-the-breath drawl, but and sobs at the idea of even trying; when it’s genuine, and he carries himself with the she pushes herself to go and he says yes, spot-on swagger of a Texas patriot. Cooper the real mountain appears. Manu and Juis the reason to see American Sniper—and if liette insist that Sandra go to each employyou’ve somehow forgotten the state in which ee’s home to personally plead her case. Not the U.S. left many of our veterans, its thor- the easiest thing for anyone, especially a depressive, to do. ough reminder is a bonus.

Cotillard has been receiving lavish Two Days, One Night belongs among praise for her turn as Sandra, but high exWhat Would You Do? conversation goosers pectations may leave you disappointed. like Compliance, Force Majeure, and an end- There’s no flash in the story—these are the less number of time-travel movies. In writ- Dardennes, after all—and no knockout moer-directors Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s ments in Cotillard’s performance. What she follow-up to 2011’s The Kid With a Bike, does well here is believably and subtly cythey challenge Sandra, a working-class Bel- cle through the extreme emotions that can gian woman fighting for her job, with her dog the mentally ill, from flatness to despair most significant decision at the very end of to joy, with the physical heaviness that ofthe film. But throughout, Sandra experienc- ten accompanies depression palpably beares death by a thousand cuts, questioning both ing down and lifting. Appropriately, Sandra her strength and her every step. wears no makeup, leaves her hair in a messy It starts with a ringing phone that Sandra ponytail, and wears a uniform of jeans and a tank top with her bra straps showing.

As most anyone would, Sandra takes her employer’s move personally, but there’s another angle to management’s decision that makes the film even more reflective of the economic zeitgeist. Her undertaking, too, is a testament to the power of the lowtech: Sandra doesn’t email or text her colleagues, or even phone unless she must. Everyone in her corner knows that face time has a bigger impact than FaceTime, so she buses around town to look people in the eye, reminding them that their money grab is severely affecting someone in even worse shoes.

Born to Gun: Chris Kyle Would you pry your eyes is the deadliest sniper from a screen to do legin U.S. military history. work like Sandra? Would you choose to lay off an employee (Marion Cotillard) tries to ignore as she naps or refuse the bonus instead? The film also in the middle of a Friday. After she hangs up, raises a question about hypocrisy, a spoilshe slumps a bit, tells herself she mustn’t cry, er that can’t be revealed. These dilemmas and heads to the medicine cabinet to pop a make Two Days feel brisk at 95 minutes, and pill. When her husband, Manu (Fabrizio they nearly guarantee that you’ll be debatRongione), comes home, we find out what ing them for at least as long afterward. CP happened: Sandra was ready to return to work after a leave of absence (for depression, American Sniper opens Jan. 16 in wide release. though that’s never bluntly stated). But her Two Days, One Night opens Jan. 16 at Bethesboss put her co-workers in a cruel position, da Row Cinema.

A sniper with PTSD and a laid-off depressive seek sanity.

American Sniper Directed by Clint Eastwood Two Days, One Night Directed by Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne

By Tricia Olszewski At first, American Sniper, the true story of Navy SEAL Chris “the Legend” Kyle, will leave you as transfixed as a marksman training on his target. Yet it quickly starts feeling obvious, even repetitive. Blame Kathryn Bigelow.

No, the badass filmmaker didn’t direct Sniper; its helmer is another (usually) badass filmmaker, 84-year-old Clint Eastwood. But Bigelow zeroed in on the crux of American Sniper in her 2009 Best Picture Oscar winner, The Hurt Locker. Eastwood’s film, adapted

by Jason Hall from Kyle’s memoir, portrays what it’s like to be, reportedly, the deadliest sniper in U.S. military history. Its general message, though, is how difficult it is for soldiers who have experienced war to readjust to their back-home lives.

Which has already been vividly portrayed by Hurt Locker. And Brothers. And Stop-Loss. And newsmagazines everywhere.

The existence of this form of post-traumatic stress disorder is now so fully ingrained in American society, in fact, that Sniper’s suffering spouse, Taya (Sienna Miller, whose chameleonic features make her difficult to recognize), comes across as remarkably naive. She doesn’t understand why her husband, Chris (Bradley Cooper), isn’t all sunshine and rainbows whenever he visits or completes a stint in Iraq. (His final tour tally is four.) Because they’re newlyweds!

And have a son! (And, later, a daughter.)

So WTF is his problem?

Maybe Chris was increasingly distant because, I don’t know, he was working his way toward 160 confirmed kills (the number rises to 255 if you include the unverified shots), the first of whom was a woman. And when you live every day ready to fight—facing the

very real possibility of your own imminent death—that hypervigilance and the bloodshed you can’t unsee don’t disappear as soon as you pull into your cul-de-sac. The bang of a firecracker now triggers the same instinct as a gunshot. You feel guilty about spending time with your family while your fellow troops are risking their lives.

The first half of American Sniper focuses on Chris’ pre-military years, from childhood to life as a cowboy to his enlistment with the SEALs in 1999. It’s a sometimes slow but necessary build that details how his values were shaped—a native Texan, Chris was quite God-and-country, firmly raised to believe that respectable men protected the weak or put-upon, no questions asked, no gray areas.

(And if Eastwood is conflicted about whether an authorized murderer should be hailed as a hero, it doesn’t show here.)

When the film transitions to Iraq—with scenes of Taya’s hand-wringing and frustration interspersed—it often reaches Hurt

Locker intensity, with Eastwood placing you in the middle of battles or right next to Chris as he adjusts his scope, breathes methodically, and blocks out everything but his target. But then the Legend returns for three more tours, and three more rounds of battle scenes, sniper setups, and hand-wringing. It’s all presented with the finesse of a pro, but you get the point well before credits roll.

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Galleries

The Gang’s New Year

Should art acquaintance be forgot? Not if Civilian can help it.

“Resolutions 2015” At Civilian Art Projects to Jan. 31

By Kriston Capps

“Resolutions” is the right name for a January group art show. Artists might read it as a challenge: Show an artwork from the last year that hints at what’s coming next. But at Civilian Art Projects, “Resolutions 2015”

“Tête a Tête” is a piece that pushes everyone—the artist, the gallery, the viewer—forward. It’s a video work by Brandon Morse, a local artist who was represented by Connersmith for several years before that program shuttered its Trinidad gallery last summer. Video is a term that can only be loosely pinned to Morse’s piece: It’s a generative animation that the artist created in Cinder,

of three-dimensional space—is a set of tiles that look like different pictures of the surface of some cold lunar body. The forms circle each other like bit-storms or dataclusters, paying supreme homage to the globalized, network-y abstractions of painter Julie Mehretu and the hair-fine, minimalist installations of sculptor Eva Hesse. Yet “Tête a Tête” is a work built in code.

My hope is that Morse resolves to make more, show more, and (especially) collaborate more in 2015. As much as I enjoy seeing his work on a gallery wall, his art—his approach to art—could help to fill the gap between artists and technologists. In New York, the digital-art organization Rhizome serves this need in part by hosting a conference called Seven by Seven, which brings art and tech people together for a few days to hammer out and present new projects.

Nothing like that exists in D.C., despite all the crowing from the Smithsonian Institute about digitization or the boasts from former Mayor Vincent Gray about D.C.’s status as a tech hub.

“Tête a Tête” (still from video) by Brandon Morse (2014)

says more about the gallery’s ambitions than any of the individual artists in the show.

“Resolutions 2015” is Civilian’s third show since director Jayme McLellan teamed up with G Fine Art director Annie Gawlak to put two art galleries into one big space.

Alternating exhibits month to month, G and Civilian have figured out a way to host some of the best recent art shows in the city from their perch in 16th Street Heights. This latest exhibit proves that Civilian means to keep up that pace.

a C++ programming library (a medium I don’t understand). “Tête a Tête” reads like video, though. And also painting. And also sculpture.

There isn’t anything else like Morse’s work happening in D.C. (or anywhere, really). The snowy black-and-white video shows two urchin-like forms orbiting one another. It’s abstract but alive, hard-edged, techno-organic. The video’s background— it’s only a background in the sense that it’s a contrasting plane that creates the illusion

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Other works in “Resolutions 2015” are more traditional, though they shouldn’t be faulted for that fact. Jason Falchook is represented in the show by works that aren’t much different from what he’s shown before, but no matter: He is one of the strongest colorists showing work in the area today. Frank DiPerna’s contributions are more perplexing. His photographs have always struck me as deeply and satisfyingly weird, from his twisted still-lifes to his landscape photos of commercial murals and

billboards. It’s possible to see his influence across an entire generation of D.C. photographers. (DiPerna has taught at the Corcoran College of Art + Design since 1972.) Yet his two works on view at Civilian, from 2008 and 2011, just don’t look much like DiPerna—they’re more like something one of his students might turn in.

Bridget Sue Lambert has the most to gain from “Resolutions,” but also the longest odds. She builds her artworks from dollhouse furniture, an improbably crowded field (Denise Tassin and Corinne May Botz are just two artists who show art in D.C. and work from a similar vibe). For her works in the show, from 2013, Lambert paired photos of her dollhouse tableaux with screengrabs of iPhone text messages. The texts are ambiguous (“Home…”) but they read like dispatches someone might send after a polite OkCupid date. Although the source material here is rich, the works already look dated, and each text is tacked on to the mise-enscène like an afterthought.

The eight photos in Ken Ashton’s 2014 “Van Ness” series in “Resolutions” break from the artist’s straightforward documentary-photo approach through a grid system. Images in “Van Ness #14” have been laid out in a cross shape; in “Van Ness #3,” that shape looks like a funky Tetris block.

All of the photos are small (the prints are only 8”x10”), requiring that the viewer get in close. The experimentation here is visually striking but compositionally timid: Ashton’s only put one toe in the water where he should be diving head-first into using scale in new ways.

Ryan Hill is one of just a handful of longtime D.C. artists whose work looks like it truly belongs in Los Angeles. His untitled gouache painting of cats in “Resolutions 2015” reminds me of just about every David Hockney painting that I’ve ever seen. If I could, I’d resolve to see more of his work to see if I’m right about his West Coast tendencies.

Seeing more of Hill’s work, or more of any D.C. artist’s work, is going to be tougher in 2015. The number of art galleries dedicated to showing local artists here has dwindled in recent years, and some dealers have had to make compromises to keep showing work in D.C., whether that’s leaving a permanent physical space (like Andrea Pollan of Curator’s Office) or going halfsies on one (like McLellan and Gawlak). So I hope that someone takes note of what McLellan is doing—making it work, by hook or by crook—and follows suit. It can’t be up to her to lift up D.C.’s art scene single-handedly. Even if that appears to be CP her New Year’s resolution.

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Wild Child w/ Pearl and the Beard & James Tillman ......................................Th 15 Cowboy Mouth w/ All Mighty Senators Early Show! 6:30pm Doors................ F 16

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Dr. Dog w/ Spirit Family Reunion ............................................................................. F 23 Hot in Herre: 2000s Dance Party with DJs Will Eastman and Brian Billion .. Sa 24 STEEZ PROMO PRESENTS THE BUYGORE SHOW FEATURING

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Greensky Bluegrass (F 30 - w/ The Last Bison) ................................ F 30 & Sa 31 FEBRUARY

Asaf Avidan ...................................................................................................................... Su 1 Laura Tsaggaris vs. Justin Jones and the B-Sides CD Release Party!............................................................................................................ W 4

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Bob Marley’s 70th Birthday Celebration featuring

Third World • Jesse Royal • Roger Steffens • DJ Dub Architect ..................F 6 DC MUSIC DOWNLOAD’S THREE YEAR ANNIVERSARY SHOW FEATURING

Paperhaus (Album release show) • Loud Boyz • Baby Bry Bry and The Apologists • DJ AYESCOLD Early Show! 7pm Doors ................... Sa 7

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Borgeous w/ LooKas • LJ MTX • BORTZ Late Show! 11pm Doors ...................... Sa 7 Spandau Ballet: Soul Boys of the Western World Tour ................................ M 9

20th Anniversary Blowout!

Buddy Guy • Gary Clark Jr. • Heart • Joan Jett and the Blackhearts • LL Cool J feat. DJ Z-Trip • Trouble Funk • Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue .................................................... JULY 4, 2015

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JJ Grey and MOFRO w/ The London Souls ........................................................ W 18

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AN EVENING WITH

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Punch Brothers w/ Gaby Moreno ........................................................................ Sa 21 Ariel Pink w/ Jack Name ...........................................................................................M 23 Echosmith w/ The Colourist ................................................................................... Th 26 Railroad Earth ............................................................................................. F 27 & Sa 28 MARCH

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9:30 CLUB PRESENTS AT U STREET MUSIC HALL Kawehi w/ Alicia Rae .......... Th JAN 15 Hamilton Leithauser w/ Bully.... F 23 Nick Hakim w/ Adrianne Lenker. Sa 24 Baby Bry Bry and The Apologists w/ BRNDA • What Moon Things • The Sea Life.................................. Su 25 The Project w/ His Dream of Lions & Sub Radio Standard ................ Sa FEB 7

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w/ Rochelle Jordan & Abhi//Dijon ....F 13

Doomtree w/ Open Mike Eagle... Sa 14 Theophilus London w/ FATHER & Doja Cat ................. Su 15

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Young Summer ............................ F 20

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CITY LIGHTS: FRIDAY

BASKERVILLE

PEOPLE’S BLUES OF RICHMOND

FRI 16

M.H. & HIS ORCHESTRA SAT 17

9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Cowboy Mouth, All Mighty Senators. 6:30 p.m. $25. 930.com. bayou 2519 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. (202) 223-6941.

Threesound, Feed the Meter. 10:30 p.m. Free. bayouonpenn.com.

THE ULTIMATE BIG BANG & TWANG SHOW

REVEREND HORTON HEAT

birChmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Eddie From Ohio. 7:30 p.m. $37.50. birchmere.com. blaCk Cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. People’s Blues of Richmond, M.H. & His Orchestra, Toxic Moxie. 9 p.m. $12–$15. blackcatdc.com. the hamilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

Carly Harvey Band. 10:30 p.m. Free. thehamiltondc.com. iota Club & Café 2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington.

(703) 522-8340. Footwerk, Dale and the Zdubs, Tejas Singh. 9 p.m. $10. iotaclubandcafe.com.

SUN 18 FILM SCREENING:

roCk & roll hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-ROCK. French Admirals, Exit Vehicles, Feral Conservatives, Oppo. 9 p.m. $12. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

MON 19

VelVet lounge 915 U St. NW. (202) 462-3213.

Turtle Recall, Last Sentry, Freeform Radio. 9 p.m. $8. velvetloungedc.com.

Funk & R&B bethesda blues and Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. Cameo. 7 p.m. & 10 p.m. $65–$125. bethesdabluesjazz.com. dar Constitution hall 1776 D St. NW. (202) 628-4780. Chaka Khan, Loose Ends. 8 p.m. $65–$75. dar.org. fillmore silVer spring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Superflydisco, DJ Queenzeb. 8 p.m. $15.50. fillmoresilverspring.com. gypsy sally’s 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700.

No BS! Brass Band, Backbeat Underground. 9 p.m. $14–$17. gypsysallys.com.

ElEctRonic 9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Mr. Carmack, Djemba Djemba, Great Dane, Penthouse Penthouse. 11:30 p.m. $15. 930.com. flash 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Livio & Roby, Navbox, Composite. 8 p.m. $8–$12. flashdc.com. u street musiC hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 5881880. Boris, Zenbi, Seba Yuri. 10 p.m. $10. ustreetmusichall.com.

Jazz barns at Wolf trap 1645 Trap Road, Vienna.(703) 255-1900. The Iguanas. 8 p.m. $25. wolftrap.org. blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Cyrus Chestnut. 8 p.m. & 10 p.m. $27.50. bluesalley.com.

THE INTERNET’S OWN BOY

TUE 20

These days, it seems like everyone’s into Sherlock Holmes—even Kareem Abdul-Jabbar wants in (he plans to publish a novel about Holmes’ older brother Mycroft later this year).

It doesn’t take a super sleuth to see that Holmes is a hot property, which explains why the pipe-smoking master detective is back in Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery. Written by Tony-winning playwright Ken Ludwig, the new play turns one of Holmes’ most famous mysteries, The Hound of the Baskervilles, on its head. Instead of a heady whodunit, this production is a fast-paced comedy. Does a wild hellhound prowl the moors of Devonshire? Only the famous Sherlock Holmes, aided by more than 40 characters, can crack the case. But don’t expect a crowded stage as Holmes and Watson canvass London streets and creepy mansions: Just five actors, employing clever costumes and silly accents, fill the overabundance of roles. The play runs Jan. 16 to Feb. 22 at Arena Stage, 1101 6th St. SW. —Tim Regan $55–$90. (202) 554-9066. arenastage.org. bohemian CaVerns 2001 11th St. NW. (202) 2990800. Buster Williams & Larry Willis. 8 p.m. & 10 p.m. $23–$28. bohemiancaverns.com.

artisphere 1101 Wilson Blvd., Arlington.

(703) 875-1100. The 9 Songwriters Series. 8 p.m. $12. artisphere.com.

tWins Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Benito Gonzalez. 8 p.m. & 10 p.m. $15. twinsjazz.com.

hill Country liVe 410 7th St. NW. (202) 556-2050.

Possessed by Paul James. 10:30 p.m. Free. hillcountrywdc.com.

BluEs madam’s organ 2461 18th St. NW. (202) 6675370. Moon Dog Medicine Show. 10 p.m. $3–$7. madamsorgan.com. zoo bar 3000 Connecticut Ave. NW. (202) 2324225. Moonshine Society. 10 p.m. Free. zoobardc.com.

MIDDLE EARTH MONDAYS FILM SCREENING:

LED ZEPPELIN PLAYED HERE

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FRI 23

SAT 24

CRYFEST DANCE PARTY

THE CURE V. THE SMITHS

EVERY WEEKEND AT 7PM

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WoRld tropiCalia 2001 14th St. NW. (202) 629-4535. heick Hamala Diabate. 8 p.m. $10. tropicaliadc.com.

LUCKY CAT PINBALL

Hip-Hop eChostage 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. (202) 503-2330. T.I. 9 p.m. $27–$37. echostage.com.

Folk

classical

aCre 121 1400 Irving St. NW. (202) 328-0121. Sligo Creek Stompers. 8 p.m. $5. acre121.com.

kennedy Center ConCert hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. National Symphony Orchestra:

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21 WED H International Music Academy Students from the academy in the Principality of Liechtenstein play chamber works by Ravel and Dvorák.

Presented with the Embassy of the Principality of Liechtenstein in Washington, D.C.

22 THU H Talladega College Choir

The ensemble has a more than 100-year tradition at the Alabama institution.

Presented with the National Museum of African American History and Culture in association with the Rising Up: Hale Woodruff’s Murals exhibition at Talladega College.

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FREE PERFORMANCES 365 DAYS A YEAR EVERYDAY AT 6 P.M. H NO TICKETS REQUIRED *Unless noted otherwise

JANUARY 15–31 15 THU H NSO Youth Fellows

Participants in the National symphony Orchestra training program—Sean Lim (violin), Naenah Jeon (cello), Hannah Conn (clarinet), and Nathaniel Silberschlag (horn)—perform solos.

16 FRI H Nomad Dancers

Inspired by the dance traditions of Iran, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, India, and Turkey, the D.C. ensemble seeks to cross borders and bridge cultures.

17 SAT H Chelsey Green and The Green Project The Billboard-charting group tears down all stereotypes of violin-playing by fusing traditional classical technique into performances of R&B, pop, soul, funk, jazz, and more.

18 SUN H The D.C. Legendary Musicians Band This group features the talents of D.C. musicians who have performed with their own bands and with such performers as Wilson Pickett, James Brown, Elvis Presley, Ray Charles, Al Green, and The Manhattans.

A DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. CELEBRATION I N T H E C O N C E RT H A L L

19 MON H Let Freedom Ring

The Kennedy Center and Georgetown University host a musical celebration of Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy. The concert featuring nine-time Grammy Award®–winning singer and recording artist Natalie Cole also includes the Let Freedom Ring Choir with Music Director Rev. Nolan Williams Jr. Note: Free tickets will be given away up to two (2) per person in line at the entrance to the Hall of Nations at 5 p.m. on Mon., Jan. 19 on a first-come, first-served basis.

The Afro-Cuban project showcases its mix of Cuban folk music with Latin jazz, world, funk, and son.

The program also includes a free Rumba dance lesson with Yudisleidy “Yudi” Valdés at 5 p.m.

24 SAT H NSO Prelude

NSO members Alexandra Osborne (violin), Joel Fuller (violin), Mahoko Eguchi (viola), Rachel Young (cello), Kathryn Meany Wilson (English horn), and Adriana Horne (harp) perform chamber works by Beethoven and Bax.

25 SUN H Daisy Castro

The violinist and Strathmore Artist In Residence offers a Gypsy-influenced jazz performance.

26 MON H Family Night: Duke Ellington School of the Arts Three student vocal ensembles present The Many Moods of Ellington. The Mellow Tones delights with compelling harmonies and improvisational stylings. The Dukes of Ellington performs standard literature for men’s choirs. Sophisticated Ladies offers classical and musical theater selections.

27 TUE H George Washington

Univ. Dept. of Music Camerata

The group is comprised of the school’s top vocal and instrumental students.

28 WED H Tarus Mateen and WestAfroEast

Jazz bassist and member of the Jason Moran band Mateen leads the thrilling group in African roots music and Afro-Cuban and Malian dance grooves.

29 & 30 THU & FRI H NSO Youth Fellows

Participants in the NSO training program play chamber works.

31 SAT H NSO Prelude

NSO members Natasha Bogachek (violin) and Zino Bogachek (viola), and Natsuki Fukasawa (piano) play chamber works by Brahms and Fuchs.

20 TUE H Javier Starks

The musician, motivator, and youth advocate fuses clean lyrics with varied melodies to create a unique flow filled with social consciousness and optimism.

Presented with Words Beats & Life.

MON 19 H Natalie Cole

ALL PERFORMERS AND PROGRAMS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE. The Millennium Stage was created and underwritten by James A. Johnson and Maxine Isaacs to make the performing arts accessible to everyone in fulfillment of the Kennedy Center’s mission to its community and the nation.

Additional funding for the Millennium Stage is provided by The Isadore and Bertha Gudelsky Family Foundation, Inc., The Meredith Foundation, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, Dr. Deborah Rose and Dr. Jan A.J. Stolwijk, U.S. Department of Education, and the Millennium Stage Endowment Fund.

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

Live Internet broadcast, video archive, artist information, and more at

kennedy-center.org/millennium For more information call: (202) 467-4600

Education and related artistic programs are also made possible through the generosity of the National Committee for the Performing Arts and the President’s Advisory Committee on the Arts.

PLEASE NOTE: There

is no free parking for free performances.

The Kennedy Center welcomes persons with disabilities.

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TAKE METRO to the Foggy Bottom/GWU station and ride the free Kennedy Center shuttle departing every 15 minutes until midnight.

GET CONNECTED! Become a fan of Millennium Stage on Facebook and check out artist photos, upcoming events, and more!

Beyond the Score: Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique. 8 p.m. $10–$50. kennedy-center.org. musiC Center at strathmore 5301 Tuckerman Lane, Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Gil Shaham. 8 p.m. $30–$60. strathmore.org.

dJ nigHts blaCk Cat baCkstage 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Bearzerk with DJs Dean Sullivan and Tommy Cornelis. 10 p.m. $5. blackcatdc.com.

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

Corey Smith, The Wind & The Wave. 7 p.m. $25–$35.

Brian Simms. 10:30 p.m. Free. thehamiltondc.com. iota Club & Café 2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington.

(703) 522-8340. Melissa Ferrick, Andy Zipf. 7:30 p.m. $20. iotaclubandcafe.com. roCk & roll hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-ROCK. Hemlines, Flamers, Company Calls. 9 p.m. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

Funk & R&B

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

DJ ?uestlove, DJ Fort Knox Five. 10 p.m. $20–$25. thehowardtheatre.com.

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

Ms. Lisa Fischer & Grand Baton. 8 p.m. $30–$85. thehowardtheatre.com.

saturday

kennedy Center millennium stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Chelsey Green and The Green Project. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

Rock

9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Super Diamond. 8 p.m. $22. 930.com. bayou 2519 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. (202) 223-6941.

Lord Nelson. 10:30 p.m. Free. bayouonpenn.com. birChmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Eddie From Ohio. 7:30 p.m. (Sold out) $37.50. birchmere.com. blaCk Cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490.

Reverend Horton Heat, Robert Gordon, Dale Watson, Rosie Flores. 8:30 p.m. $25. blackcatdc.com.

madam’s organ 2461 18th St. NW. (202) 6675370. The Johnny Artis Band and DJ India. 10 p.m. $3–$7. madamsorgan.com.

ElEctRonic eChostage 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. (202) 503-2330. Nervo, Ansolo. 9 p.m. $30. echostage.com. flash 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Dyed Soundorom, DJ Lisa Frank, Fort Fairmont. 8 p.m. $8. flashdc.com.

Jazz

dC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Roadkill Ghost Choir, The Jones. 7:30 p.m. $10–$12. dcnine.com.

blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Cyrus Chestnut. 8 p.m. & 10 p.m. $27.50. bluesalley.com.

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

Covered with Jam, Ten Feet Tall, Fake Occent. 9 p.m. $10–$14. gypsysallys.com.

bohemian CaVerns 2001 11th St. NW. (202) 2990800. Buster Williams & Larry Willis. 8 p.m. & 10 p.m. $23–$28. bohemiancaverns.com.

CITY LIGHTS: SATURDAY

GIGI

Lyricist Alan Jay Lerner and composer Frederick Loewe definitely loved makeovers. In classic musicals like My Fair Lady, the pair told romantic and comedic stories about what happens when wealthy men facilitate Queer Eye for the Straight Guy-style transformations for lowerclass or just-plain-crass women. In Gigi, one such rich dude realizes that the young tomboy and courtesan-intraining whose family he visits for kicks might actually be the lady of his dreams. The Oscar-winning film version debuted in 1958 and featured a sparkly-eyed Maurice Chevalier crooning “Thank Heaven for Little Girls” in a silky tone that somehow didn’t sound the creeper alarm for audiences. Still, the stage musical never quite hit its stride. The Kennedy Center aims to revive it by hosting an out-of-town trial for a new Gigi adaptation before it opens on Broadway, with an updated book by TV writer Heidi Thomas and direction by Signature Theatre’s Eric Schaeffer. High School Musical star Vanessa Hudgens landed the title role; since the film series ended, she’s tried to shake off her Disney bona fides with naughtier fare, so playing an ingénue that’s also training to be a prostitute lands solidly in her wheelhouse. The musical runs Jan. 16 to Feb. 12 at the Kennedy Center Opera House, 2700 F St. NW. $45–$145.

(202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org.

—Rachel Kurzius

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

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THE SOUL SERENADERS PLUS MARK WENNER’S BLUES WARRIORS WEDNESDAY JANUARY 21

DARRIAN FORD

IN THE COOKE BOOK, THE MUSIC OF SAM COOKE F 23

FRIDAY, JANUARY 30

THREE-TIME GRAMMY AWARD WINNER FROM O BROTHER WHERE ART THOU?

DR. RALPH STANLEY & FRIENDS

FEAT. THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS

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NEWMYER FLYER PRESENTS: A DREAM DISCS TRIPLE HEADER

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NEW RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE FRIDAY, MARCH 20

MAGGIE ROSE 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda, MD (240) 330-4500

Two Blocks from Bethesda Metro/Red Line Free Parking on Weekends

16,17 Pat mcGee (solo) 18 Jake Armerding

THE BAD PLUS

KATE VOEGELE 23 Junior Brown 24 Four Bitchin’ BaBes ‘Best of The Babes 25th Anniversary Show’ 20

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marshall crenshaw and The Bottle rockets

JAN 16

THE IGUANAS

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Charles Ross’

GENERAL ADMISSION DANCE

Bourbon Street party-starters mix rock, R&B, and Mexican melodies

Minnie Driver 5 the robert Cray band Feb 4

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Reunion Show!

Pat McGee Band 9&10 CHRISETTE MICHELE 11 travis tritt 14 burlesque-a-pades in loveland!

JAN 23

CANELLAKIS�BROWN DUO CHAMBER MUSIC AT THE BARNS

feat. angie pontani, The World Famous pontani sisters & more

RideRs in the sky “Salute to Roy Rogers!”

Robert Earl Keen

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JAN 24

‘Happy Prisoner: The Bluegrass Tour’

tab benoit

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ARI HEST *Songwriting master class with Ari LAURA BENANTI before the show

keller williams

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An Evening with

Don McLean 22 Stanley ClaRke 23 NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALLSTARS & ANDERS OSBORNE PRESENT N.M.O. 24 Uriah heep

JAN 25

LAURA BENANTI

(Rescheduled from 10/1/14. All 10/1 tickets honored on this new date.)

Keb’ Mo’ (band) 26&27 MIKE+THE MECHANICS 28 NAJEE Mar 1 British invasion tour 2015 25

feat. Peter asher, Denny Laine, Chad & Jeremy. Billy J. Kramer, Mike Pender’s searchers, terry sylvester

JUST ANNOUNCED SU 15

eddie from ohio Leroy Sanchez

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Jan 16,18

BETH HART 4&5 GAELIC STORM 6&7 Rachelle FeRRell

JAN 29

JONATHAN EDWARDS

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Watch aWards 2015 Washington area community theater honors

LEDISI With Special Guests

Intimate TRUTH TOUr THE

RAHEEM DEVAUGHN LEELA JAMES

Saturday, March 21, 8pm Dar Constitution Hall

Tickets On Sale Now through Ticketmaster.com/800-735-3000

JAN 30

SAN FERMIN

WITH INVOKE STRING QUARTET

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CITY LIGHTS: SUNDAY

A$AP FERG Despite hailing from opposite coasts, rappers YG and A$AP Ferg are bound by eccentricity. From his look to his sound, Compton, Calif., native YG is a throwback to the West Coast hip-hop of the early 1990s. His breakthrough arrived last year in the form of a critically acclaimed debut, My Krazy Life, and his brash delivery and distinct California timbre lend a retro, cinematic feel to the album’s narrative of Compton life. At once rugged and flamboyant, Harlem-bred A$AP Ferg flexes an inviting charisma. Like YG, his appeal lies in delivery and cadence, which helped make “Work” an unexpected hit in 2012. This paved the way for his 2013 debut, Trap Lord, which featured “Shabba,” a riotous homage to dancehall legend Shabba Ranks. Both performers use their voices as instruments, but more importantly, both have an infectious swagger that fully immerses audiences in their respective worlds. A$AP Ferg and YG perform with Mathias at 8 p.m. at the Fillmore, 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. $29.50. (301) 960-9999. fillmoresilverspring.com. —Julian Kimble tWins Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072.Benito Gonzalez. 8 p.m. & 10 p.m. $15. twinsjazz.com.

Orchestra with Alon Goldstein. 8 p.m. $32–$95. strathmore.org.

BluEs

dJ nigHts

bethesda blues and Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. Redmond, Langosch & Coole with Dave Mattacks. 8 p.m. $20. bethesdabluesjazz.com.

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

hill Country liVe 410 7th St. NW. (202) 556-2050.

Jonny Grave and the Tombstones. 9:30 p.m. Free. hillcountrywdc.com. madam’s organ 2461 18th St. NW. (202) 6675370. Rico Amero. 7 p.m. $3–$7. madamsorgan.com. zoo bar 3000 Connecticut Ave. NW. (202) 2324225. Stacy Brooks Blues Band. 10 p.m. Free. zoobardc.com.

Folk aCre 121 1400 Irving St. NW. (202) 328-0121. The Hummingbyrds. 10 p.m. $5. acre121.com. barns at Wolf trap 1645 Trap Road, Vienna.

(703) 255-1900. Livingston Taylor, Chelsea Berry.

7:30 p.m. $25. wolftrap.org. gypsy sally’s 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700.

Smithjackson. 7:30 p.m. Free. gypsysallys.com.

classical kennedy Center ConCert hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. National Symphony Orchestra with Tzimon Barto. 8 p.m. $10–$85. kennedy-center.org. musiC Center at strathmore 5301 Tuckerman Lane, Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Baltimore Symphony

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roCk & roll hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-ROCK. DJs Rex Riot, Basscamp. 11:30 p.m. Free. rockandrollhoteldc.com. u street musiC hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 5881880. Rev 909 with Will Eastman, Ozker. 10 p.m. $10. ustreetmusichall.com.

sunday Rock

birChmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Eddie From Ohio. 7:30 p.m. $37.50. birchmere.com. iota Club & Café 2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington.

(703) 522-8340. Sarah Borges, Girls Guns and Glory.

8 p.m. $12. iotaclubandcafe.com.

VelVet lounge 915 U St. NW. (202) 462-3213.

Magnetar Flares, Jumpcuts, The Jet Age. 7:30 p.m. $8. velvetloungedc.com.

Funk & R&B bethesda blues and Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. The Soul Serenaders, Mark Wenner’s Blues Warriors. 7:30 p.m. $20. bethesdabluesjazz.com.

Kennedy Center MillenniuM Stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. D.C. Legendary Musicians Band.

6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

MadaM’S Organ 2461 18th St. NW. (202) 6675370. The Good Thing Band. 9 p.m. $3–$7. madamsorgan.com.

Jazz BlueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 337-4141. Cyrus Chestnut. 8 p.m. & 10 p.m. $27.50. bluesalley.com.

BOheMian CavernS 2001 11th St. NW. (202) 2990800. Jason Hwang’s Sing House. 7 p.m. & 8:30 p.m. $15–$20. bohemiancaverns.com. twinS Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Jordon Dixon. 8 p.m. & 10 p.m. $10. twinsjazz.com. zOO Bar 3000 Connecticut Ave. NW. (202) 2324225. Mike Flaherty’s Dixieland Direct Jazz Band.

7:30 p.m. Free. zoobardc.com.

Hip-Hop FillMOre Silver Spring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. A$AP Ferg, YG, Mathias.

8 p.m. $29.50. fillmoresilverspring.com. u Street MuSiC hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 5881880. Afrika Bambaataa, Cosmo Baker, Fort Knox Five, All Good Funk Alliance. 9 p.m. $10. ustreetmusichall. com.

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

Rare Essence, Trouble Funk. 10 p.m. $26.50–$49.50. thehowardtheatre.com.

opera Kennedy Center terraCe theater 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. 2015 Middle Atlantic Region Finals of The Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. 2 p.m. (Sold out) kennedy-center.org.

ClassiCal natiOnal gallery OF art weSt garden COurt 4th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. (202) 842-

6941. Federico Agostini and Enrico Elisi. 3:30 p.m.

Free. nga.gov. phillipS COlleCtiOn 1600 21st St. NW. (202) 3872151. Kristóf Baráti. 4 p.m. $30. phillipscollection.org.

Cabaret SOurCe theatre 1835 14th St. NW. (202) 2047800. Fleta Hylton. 3:30 p.m. $16–$35. sourcedc.org.

DJ NiGHts 9:30 CluB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Reaction with DJ James “DJ Dub” Graham. 9 p.m. $35–$45.

930.com. dC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Peach Pit with DJ Matt Bailer. 10:30 p.m. $5. dcnine.com. rOCK & rOll hOtel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-ROCK. DJs Philco and Trevor Martin. 8 p.m. Free. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

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

Howard Gospel Brunch. 1 p.m. $35–$45. thehowardtheatre.com.

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Ada Dyer & The “A” Band. 8 p.m. $20–$45. thehowardtheatre.com.

MadaM’S Organ 2461 18th St. NW. (202) 6675370. One Nite Stand. 9 p.m. $3–$7. madamsorgan.com.

CITY LIGHTS: MONDAY

DAY CELEBRATION

THE MUSIC OF ARETHA FRANKLIN

“LET FREEDOM RING” Every year, the Kennedy Center does away with its regularly scheduled programming to honor the memory of Martin Luther King Jr. with a tribute concert entitled “Let Freedom Ring.” This year’s no different, so take advantage of your federal holiday and head to the Concert Hall, where Grammy winner Natalie Cole performs with the Let Freedom Ring Choir under the direction of acclaimed gospel composer and musicologist Rev. Nolan Williams Jr. Georgetown University, a co-sponsor of the event, also presents its John Thompson, Jr. Legacy of a Dream Award during the concert, given annually to a member of the community whose work represents the Jesuit mission of being “women and men for others.” This year’s recipient is Bread for the City CEO George Jones, who has worked for over two decades to combat poverty in the District. On what’s become a national day of service, celebrate those who make D.C. an even better place to live. Natalie Cole performs at 6 p.m. at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall, —Caroline Jones 2700 F St. NW. Free. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org.

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Jazz BirChmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Scott Bradlee & Postmodern Jukebox.

7:30 p.m. (Sold out) birchmere.com.

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Sundays Mike FLaherty’s

dixieLand direct Jazz Band

3000 Connecticut Avenue, NW (across from the National Zoo)

202-232-4225 zoobardc.com

Blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Vocal Workshop Graduation Concert. 7 p.m. & 9 p.m. $10. bluesalley.com.

Bohemian Caverns 2001 11th St. NW. (202) 2990800. Bohemian Caverns Jazz Orchestra. $10. bohemiancaverns.com.

World ausTrian CulTural Forum 3524 International Court NW. Simon Zöchbauer, Julia Lacherstorfer.

7:30 p.m. Free. eventbrite.com/e/concert-ramschrosen-tickets-14702436383.

VoCal Kennedy CenTer ConCerT hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Natalie Cole with the Let Freedom Ring Choir. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

Tuesday roCk

BirChmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Kate Voegele, Leroy Sanchez.

7:30 p.m. $19.50. birchmere.com. hill CounTry live 410 7th St. NW. (202) 556-2050.

Speed Jive. 8 p.m. Free. hillcountrywdc.com. madam’s orGan 2461 18th St. NW. (202) 6675370. The Johnny Artis Band. 9 p.m. $3–$7. madamsorgan.com. velveT lounGe 915 U St. NW. (202) 462-3213.

ShowPony, Caustic Casanova, Wet Socks, Curse Words. 7:30 p.m. $8. velvetloungedc.com.

Funk & r&B Blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Michael Muse. 8 p.m. & 10 p.m. $20. bluesalley.com.

Jazz Bohemian Caverns 2001 11th St. NW. (202) 2990800. Heidi Martin. 7:30 p.m. & 9 p.m. $10–$15. bohemiancaverns.com.

Hip-Hop Kennedy CenTer millennium sTaGe 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Javier Starks. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

Wednesday roCk dC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Israel Nash, Dead Professional. 8:30 p.m. $10–$12. dcnine.com.

Fillmore silver sprinG 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Marilyn Manson. 9 p.m. $58. fillmoresilverspring.com. linColn TheaTre 1215 U St. NW. (202) 328-6000.

The Tragically Hip. 6:30 p.m. $49.50–$75. thelincolndc.com.

Funk & r&B

CITY LIGHTS: TUESDAY

“STRUGGLE...FROM THE HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE” Artist Jacob Lawrence got his first national recognition for his Migration Series, a group of paintings on cardboard that chronicled the movement of African-Americans from the deep South to the industrial North in the years following World War I. But he also documented other eras in American history in his figurative paintings, and the Phillips Collection brings together, for the first time, 12 panels that tell the story of America, beginning with the Revolutionary War and concluding with the westward expansion of 1817. Lawrence originally intended for the series to include 60 paintings, but only completed 30 and sold them to a private collector in 1959. The artist’s perceptions of history remain relevant nearly half a century later, and the 12 works presented at the Phillips give viewers a chance to experience his broad body of work as he approached a career turning point. The exhibition is on view Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursdays 10 a.m. to 8:30 p.m., and Sundays noon to 7 p.m. at the Phillips Collection, 1600 21st St. NW. $10–$12. (202) 387-2151. phillipscollection.org.

—Caroline Jones howard TheaTre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

The Johnny Artis Band. 8 p.m. $12.50–$35. thehowardtheatre.com.

ElECtroniC Flash 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Kill Frenzy, Ozker, Brothers Brau, David, Refugee. 8 p.m. $10. flashdc.com.

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

Peter Fanone and His Band, Tigers Are Bad For Horses.

8:30 p.m. Free. gypsysallys.com.

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

Spirit Family Reunion, The 19th Street Band. 7 p.m. $22–$150. thehamiltondc.com.

u sTreeT musiC hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 5881880. Kolsch, Wave Age, Presa. 9 p.m. $10. ustreetmusichall.com.

ClassiCal

Jazz

NW. (202) 467-4600. International Music Academy in

Twins Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Mariah Maxwell, Larry Lancaster, host Rallo. 8 p.m. $10. twinsjazz.com.

kennedy-center.org.

BluEs hill CenTer aT The old naval hospiTal 921 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. (202) 549-4172. Tom Principato.

7:30 p.m. $15–$20.

BeThesda Blues and Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. Darrian Ford. 7:30 p.m. $30. bethesdabluesjazz.com.

Country

Blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Yolanda Rabun. 8 p.m. & 10 p.m. $25. bluesalley.com.

madam’s orGan 2461 18th St. NW. (202) 6675370. The Human Country Jukebox Band. 9 p.m. $3–$7. madamsorgan.com.

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Folk

Kennedy CenTer millennium sTaGe 2700 F St. the Principality of Liechtenstein. 6 p.m. Free.

Thursday ElECtroniC dC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Lia Ices, SEOUL. 8:30 p.m. $10–$12. dcnine.com.

Flash 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Black Coffee, DJ Oso Fresh. 8 p.m. $5–$20. flashdc.com. u sTreeT musiC hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 5881880. Sushi Killer b2b Shawn Wasabi, Jai Wolf. 10 p.m. $15–$20. ustreetmusichall.com.

Jazz

Vocal

blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Gerald Albright. 8 p.m. & 10 p.m. $50. bluesalley.com.

kennedy Center millennium stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Talladega College Choir. 6 p.m.

Free. kennedy-center.org.

bohemian CaVerns 2001 11th St. NW. (202) 2990800. Ted Efantis. 7:30 p.m. Free. bohemiancaverns.com.

theater

tWins Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Jazz Band Master Class. 7:30 p.m. & 10:30 p.m. $15. twinsjazz.com.

BluEs zoo bar 3000 Connecticut Ave. NW. (202) 2324225. Open mic blues jam with Big Boy Little.

8:30 p.m. Free. zoobardc.com.

Folk gypsy sally’s 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. River Whyless, Luray. 8:30 p.m. $12–$15. gypsysallys.com. hill Country liVe 410 7th St. NW. (202) 556-2050.

Old Salt Union. 9:30 p.m. Free. hillcountrywdc.com.

WoRld madam’s organ 2461 18th St. NW. (202) 6675370. Patrick Alban and Noche Latina. 9 p.m. $3–$7. madamsorgan.com.

Hip-Hop roCk & roll hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-ROCK. Ethan Spalding, One Way Boobe / Oy Boys, Footwerk, Aleem Bilal / Uptown XO. 8 p.m. $12. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

classical kennedy Center ConCert hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. National Symphony Orchestra with Nurit Bar-Josef. 7 p.m. $10–$85. kennedy-center.org. mansion at strathmore 10701 Rockville Pike, Rockville. (301) 581-5100. Jennifer Koh. 7:30 p.m. $32. strathmore.org.

bad JeWs Three cousins—one secular, one nonsecular, and one somewhere in the middle—fight over a family heirloom following the death of their grandfather in this comedy that blends family and faith. Studio Theatre. 1501 14th St. NW. To Feb. 1. $20-$78.

(202) 332-3300. studiotheatre.org. bessie’s blues MetroStage revives this local favorite, first presented 20 years ago at Studio Theatre, which chronicles the legacy of American blues music through the perspective of songstress Bessie Smith. MetroStage. 1201 N. Royal St., Alexandria. To March 15. $55-$60. (703) 548-9044. metrostage.org.

Choir boy When a prestigious boarding school for young African-American men falls on hard financial times, its acclaimed gospel choir feels the pressure.

The young man chosen to lead the group must decide whether that responsibility is worth ignoring his sexual orientation in this new musical story by playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney. Studio Theatre. 1501 14th St. NW. To Feb. 22. $20-$78. (202) 332-3300. studiotheatre.org. diner Signature presents the world premiere of this new music based on Barry Levinson’s coming of age tale set in a Baltimore restaurant. Levinson adapted his screenplay into the show’s book and Sheryl Crow crafted the music and lyrics; Tony Award-winner Kathleen Marshall choreographs and directs. Signature Theatre.

4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington. To Jan. 25. $29-$70.

(703) 820-9771. signature-theatre.org. gigi Acclaimed screenwriter Heidi Thomas presents a re-envisioned take on Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe’s musical about a young women and a wealthy playboy who fall in love in Belle Époque Paris. Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater. 2700 F St. NW. To Feb. 12. $45-$135. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org. gutenberg! the musiCal This musical, developed at New York’s Upright Citizens Brigade, chronicles the development of the printing press and provides a fictional take on the life of Johann Gutenberg. Next Stop

CITY LIGHTS: WEDNESDAY

1984 READATHON

It’s not just journalists and whistleblowers who care about how our information is seen and shared online: The conversation goes on in incessant status updates about Facebook stealing individual content, online discussions of encrypted chats and Pretty Good Privacy keys, and beyond. And in the aftermath of the Sony hacking scandal, things feel downright Orwellian—“Every Breath You Take” could be playing on a constant loop.

The DC Public Library’s “Orwellian America: Government Transparency and Personal Privacy in the Digital Age” series, then, is timely. The program starts Sunday with a screening of The Internet’s Own Boy, a documentary that chronicles the life (and death) of online activist and Reddit co-founder Aaron Swartz, but the fun begins Wednesday, when community members and special guests come together to read Orwell’s 1984 in its entirety at MLK Library. Organizers estimate that the reading will take 11 hours, so drop by for your favorite passages or settle in to hear the novel in its entirety.

Just know that if you use a library computer during a reading break, your search history will be monitored. The reading begins at 10 a.m. at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW. Free. (202) 727-0321.

—Caroline Jones dclibrary.org.

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life suCks (or the present ridiCulous) Aaron Posner, the writer of Woolly Mammoth’s acclaimed Stupid Fucking Bird, presents this loose adaptation of Chekov’s Uncle Vanya, which follows three individuals as they struggle with love and longing. Theater J. 1529 16th St. NW. To Feb. 15. $10-$65. (202) 518-9400. theaterj.org.

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the t party Local playwright Natsu Onoda Powers explores the transformation and transgression of gender norms through scenes, songs, and dances in this production based on real stories. Forum Theatre at Silver Spring Black Box Theatre. 8641 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. To Jan. 17. $20-$25. (240) 644-1390. forum-theatre.org. the Whale A morbidly obese, housebound man struggles to reconnect with his sullen teenage daughter in this impactful comedy by Samuel D. Hunter. Rep Stage at Howard Community College. 10901 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia. To Feb. 1. $15-$40.

(443) 518-1500. repstage.org.

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sniper Bradley Cooper portrays n ameriCan Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle as he fights in battle and struggles with war once he returns home. Directed

by Clint Eastwood. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) A convict helps assists authorities in n blaCkhat tracking an international cyber-terrorism ring.

Starring Chris Hemsworth, Viola Davis, and Wei Tang.

Directed by Michael Mann (Heat). (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) inherent ViCe Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood) takes on Thomas Pynchon’s novel about a drug-addled detective’s 1970 investigation for a missing former flame. Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, and Joanna Newsom. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) a most Violent year In 1981 New York City, n violence and criminal activity find a way to follow an ambitious business owner being hassled by his

competition and the law. Starring Oscar Isaac, Jessica Chastain, and David Oyelowo. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) paddington A cute talking bear from Peru n winds up in London and is taken in by the Brown family. Mr. Brown has his objections and soon a taxidermist comes looking for the bear. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) predestination Time travelers attempt to stop crimes before they take place. Starring Ethan Hawke, Sarah Snook, and Noah Taylor. Based on Robert A. Heinlein’s story All You Zombies. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) spare parts A high school robotics club with n little funding aims to compete against collegiate stars in a robotics tournament. Starring George Lopez, Marisa Tomei, and Carlos PenaVega. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) aliCe A celebrated linguistics professor is n still diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease.

Julianne Moore won a Golden Globe award for her starring role. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) taken 3 Liam Neeson’s character returns to clear his name after he is wrongly accused of a murder. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) tWo days, one night In order for workers to n get a pay bonus, their co-worker, Sandra (Marion Cotillard), must be laid off. Sandra tries to rally her workplace’s support to keep her job. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) Wedding ringer A goofy young groom n the (Josh Gad) hires someone (Kevin Hart) to be his best man in an attempt to impress people with the company he keeps. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information)

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If you’ve resolved to see more live theater this year but worry that your attention span isn’t up to the task, Sharp Stick Productions’ Red High Heels may be just the warm-up you need before committing to darker, more dramatic works by Shakespeare or Shaw. In its first stint at the Anacostia Playhouse, the emerging theater company presents three short works by Northern Virginia-based playwright Harrison Murphy that ask life’s big questions in a lively, witty way. Can the combination of good company and a good stiff drink pull someone out of a mid-life crisis? Can strangers make more than small talk in the purgatory of an airport lounge? If a box promised to validate or refute the existence of God, would you open it? Kick back and let the performers navigate these complicated travails for you.

The play runs Jan. 15 to Jan. 24 at Anacostia Playhouse, 2020 Shannon Place SE. $15–$20.

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