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DISTRICT LINE 4 Unfair Housing Act: A woman sues after the owner of a Logan Circle apartment building refused to accept her housing voucher.

SPORTS 6 Net Positive: The Caps’ goalie controversy pits a beloved veteran against a promising rookie.

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Unfair Housing Act

A renter with a housing voucher got rejected from Latrobe Apartment Homes near Logan Circle. She’s suing the building owner and operator.

A D.C. resiDent with a federal housing voucher is suing a Colorado-based real estate company for income discrimination.

Tiana Martin was just looking for new housing to rent in or near Dupont Circle, where she was already living. In her search, she came across Latrobe Apartment Homes located at 1325 15th Street NW, which refuses to lease available rental properties to residents who use Housing Choice Vouchers as payment for their monthly rent, according to a complaint filed in D.C. Superior Court on Tuesday. The law firm Handley Farah & Anderson is representing Martin.

The DC Human Rights Act says it is illegal to discriminate against renters based on their “source of income.” Vouchers are a lawful source of income to pay rent, according to the lawsuit. For willingly denying her the opportunity to rent an available unit because she uses a voucher, Martin alleges that Latrobe’s owner and operator, Apartment Investment Management Company (“Aimco”), broke the law. She is now suing on behalf of herself and other residents like her, asking the court to certify the case as a class action lawsuit.

Aimco did not immediately respond to request for comment.

D.C. is a very expensive city to live in—with the average rent for a market-rate one-bedroom reaching nearly $2,000 per month— and many residents depend on government subsidies to afford rent. This is why attorneys working the case thought it was critical to take legal action.

“We think it’s really important to make sure that the laws around source of income discrimination are enforced and respected to ensure that all District residents can continue to live throughout the city and have affordable housing,” says Rachel Nadas, an associate attorney at Handley Farah & Anderson.

The lawsuit also accuses Aimco of violating the D.C. Consumer Protection Act for making untruthful claims about the servic-

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Latrobe Apartment Homes es it provides. On its website, Latrobe says it complies with the Federal Fair Housing Law. “All applications and renewals are considered equally without discrimination on the basis of any class protected by applicable laws,” reads an answer on the Frequently Asked Questions page. But an answer to another question reads: “We do not accept housing vouchers at this community.” As of Tuesday morning, these answers still appeared on the Latrobe’s website.

The lawsuit is asking the court to declare that Aimco, along with its subsidiary, is violating several D.C. laws. It’s also asking the court

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to issue an injunction, ordering the real estate company based in Denver to stop refusing to rent properties to Housing Choice Voucher holders. The plaintiff would be awarded monetary damages and class members, treble damages.

Martin, a full-time federal employee, came to learn about Latrobe’s renting practices over the summer when she was looking for housing. She thought Latrobe would be a good fit for her, so she called a number affiliated with the landlord. According to the lawsuit, an agent named Lisa told Martin a one-bedroom apartment was available Sept.

11 or later. But when Martin told her she uses a Housing Choice Voucher to subsidize the full cost of her rent, Lisa allegedly responded: “Unfortunately we do not accept Section 8.” After the interaction with the agent, Martin checked Latrobe’s website for more information and that’s when she saw the Frequently Asked Questions page. “[Martin] was denied the opportunity to obtain housing in her desired location for which she was otherwise qualified, causing [her] hardship in securing available housing, and embarrassment and humiliation to be told that she was not welcome at [Latrobe] property because she had a housing voucher,” the lawsuit reads.

It’s unclear how many residents were denied an opportunity to rent a unit at Latrobe Apartment Homes, the lawsuit says. Martin is one of over 10,500 D.C. families who uses a Housing Choice Voucher. (The Housing Choice Voucher Program is the largest source of rental assistance administered by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, helping more than two million families nationwide obtain affordable housing.) But given that the question—“Do you accept housing vouchers (Section 8)”— on its website, the lawsuit contends Housing Choice Voucher holders must have inquired about living there.

“The concern is that other people either went to the website and either applied or were deterred from applying or reached out directly as our client did and were told, after reaching out, that they wouldn’t accept the voucher,” says Nadas.

Aimco wouldn’t be the first real estate company to deny renters with vouchers.

A WUSA9 investigation from 2018 uncovered that more than 100 Craigslist advertisements had language like “No housing vouchers,” “Vouchers not accepted,” and “Owners will not be accepting Section 8 vouchers.” That same year, the Office of the Attorney General for D.C. sued two real estate companies for allegedly refusing renters with housing vouchers.

“Source of income discrimination is prohibited by D.C. law, but unfortunately not all property managers and landlords have been following the law. And we think it’s really important because it’s put in place to help alleviate the effects of the affordable housing crisis in D.C.,” says Nadas. “Having management companies [and] landlords ignore the law furthers that crisis because it doesn’t allow people to seek housing and it makes it difficult for people to seek housing throughout the city and ends up concentrating people into only certain neighborhoods.”

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Net Positive

There’s only room for one Caps goalie. Braden Holtby and Ilya Samsonov are playing for the job.

As the finAl buzzer sounded at Capital One Arena after the Washington Capitals’ Jan. 13 victory over the Carolina Hurricanes, players lept off the bench and onto the ice, each taking a turn celebrating with their winning goaltender. But when the goalie finally removed his mask, the signature beard and flowing hair of nine-year veteran Braden Holtby were conspicuously absent. Holtby had already left for the locker room. Rookie Ilya Samsonov won the game for Washington.

This scene has become increasingly common for the league-leading Capitals as the NHL season passes its halfway mark. With it comes a conundrum Washington hasn’t faced in nearly a decade: a goalie controversy. “[Samsonov] is playing with some confidence right now,” Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin said after the Carolina win. “He’s worked hard in practice, same as Holts. I think we have the best two goalies in the league right now, and I think we can see when they feel comfortable, when they feel good, we feel the same.”

But having two of the league’s best goalies creates a conflict the Caps will ultimately need to address. The better Samsonov plays, the less the Capitals need Holtby. And the worse Holtby plays, the lower his market value goes, and the better chance Washington has to re-sign him. Add into the mix the fact that these two men play what is the most isolated position in their sport, and a fact becomes clear. Both men are playing for their jobs, and Washington only has room for one of them.

When Holtby’s five-year, $30.5 million contract with the Capitals expires at the end of this season, he will become an unrestricted free agent for the first time in his career and will be free to sign with any team that offers him the best chance to win and/or the best salary.

The Capitals know this. And with approximately $662,000 in projected salary cap space remaining, and other key players, like franchise legend Nicklas Bäckström, signing extensions, the writing is on the wall for Holtby in Washington. An unlikely collision of chance, fortune, and competition is currently creating strange chemistry in D.C.

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Ilya Samsonov Holtby is a bona fide superstar: He’s a fivetime NHL All-Star, a Stanley Cup champion, and the winner of the 2016 Vezina Trophy, given to the league’s best goalie. For most of the 2010s, Holtby brought stability and leadership to the team that finished the decade with the most NHL victories.

The Capitals drafted Samsonov in the first round of the 2015 NHL Draft with the 22nd overall pick, the highest Washington had drafted a goalie since Olaf Kölzig in 1989 and just the third time it had taken a goalie in the first round in the last 30 years. Born in Magnitogorsk, Russia, Samsonov spent four years playing in Russia’s KHL before making the

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jump to North America. From that moment on, Samsonov has been the heir-apparent in Washington.

With Holtby’s free agency bearing down on the Capitals like a freight train and Samsonov succeeding in his first NHL starts, this season has become a crucible for head coach Todd Reirden, the Capitals, and their goaltending tandem.

So far, it appears that Samsonov could take Holtby’s place atop the throne in D.C. He leads all NHL rookies in goals-against average, save percentage, and win percentage and has racked up a 13-2-1 record in his first NHL campaign. He recorded his first career shutout

against the Hurricanes.

“The surprise element is how he’s been able to come in and have such poise, and be so calm,” Reirden says. “It’s not been a normal backup role I’ve given him; we’re putting him in games we need to win, and he’s responded. The path for his development continues to head in the right direction. He’s a likeable kid that wants to get better.”

As well as Samsonov is playing, Holtby is having the worst statistical season of his career. His save percentage (.899) and his goalsagainst average (3.02) are career-worsts, and both fall well behind the pace Samsonov is setting. As a result, the Capitals have trusted the

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Caps rising star Jakub Vrana is having a career season.

But he’s not close to being satisfied.

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young Russian with 15 starts already this season, and he is on pace to play the second-most games a second string goalie has ever played behind Holtby.

“His competitiveness [stands out]. He wants to be in there, wants more games, wants more opportunity,” says Reirden, calling Samsonov “our top prospect.”

While this is still Holtby’s team for now, a new wrinkle has emerged that can complicate any working relationship. For the first time in his career, Holtby is training the player that Washington envisions will eventually take his job.

Most of their Capitals teammates believe the best thing that Samsonov can do is to learn by watching Holtby—how he practices, how he prepares, and how he competes. It is a rare, and potentially short, opportunity for the young Russian to study under a master.

“I know he has some experience playing in the KHL, but Holts is Holts,” says Caps defenseman Radko Gudas, an eight-year NHL veteran. “He’ll want to get as much as he can from this one year they’re going to be together.”

Forward Evgeny Kuznetsov agrees.

“He’s getting better every day. He’s got a great mentor in Holts, so he can look for him, look what he have to do,” Kuznetsov says.

Under normal circumstances, Holtby would likely teach Samsonov everything he knew about developing into an NHL starter. But these are not normal circumstances. In fact, the two players who bristle the most at the suggestion that they are mentor and mentee have been Holtby and Samsonov.

“No,” Holtby says when asked if he feels a duty to mentor Samsonov. “My responsibility, and Ilya’s responsibility, is to help the team win games. We’re here to make sure we win as many games as we can as a tandem, whoever is up.”

Samsonov, too, declines to describe Holtby as his mentor. “I more watching him. Watch how he work, how he get ready for the game.

After a loss, after a win ... It’s interesting for me.”

“I understand he is first goalie here,” Samsonov continues. “He is important to organization. But I need to keep working. I need to get better every day.”

Worrying about any competition is not Samsonov’s concern. “It’s a question for coaches. Not for me. I am just player. I am just guy,” he says.

Holtby agrees. “We’re here to do a good job together, not compete against each other.”

Holtby is still unquestionably Washington’s goalie of the past and present; who will be named the goalie of the future remains to be seen. Whether Samsonov will prove he can successfully handle the rigors of a full NHL workload, or the Capitals decide he’ll need some help from an affordable free agent—be it Holtby or another veteran— is uncertain.

“Sammy’s been great, Holts has been great,” Gudas says. “It’s not about the money, it’s about winning.”

But in professional sports, it is always about both.

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By Kelyn Soong Jakub Vrana tries to keep everything in perspective. He knows that when he plays well, people will praise him. And that when he doesn’t, the opposite will happen.

Heading into the NHL All-Star break later this month, the 23-year-old Capitals forward is on pace to nearly double his scoring output from all of last season. His 20 goals, 19 of which have come at even strength, rank second on the Capitals—behind only Alex Ovechkin—and 19th in the league.

After a poor performance in last season’s playoffs, where he scored zero points, Vrana is back to playing with a level of confidence that his coaches and teammates have expected from the former first-round draft pick. But Vrana refuses to give himself too much credit.

“I mean, it’s been OK,” he says of his season. “I’m the kind of person that I always have a higher goal than I have now, so I’m never really satisfied, but I’m happy the team is doing good. We’re in the first spot; that’s always a good thing to create some positivity around here. The team is together. The guys play for each other, which is great to see, for me especially. Individually, I’m pretty happy with my season, but I’m not satisfied. I know it can be better. There’s always areas I can be better on.”

To Vrana, that means playing with more consistency. Against the New Jersey Devils on Jan. 11, coach Todd Reirden inserted Vrana into the first power-play unit in order to find

a spark for a team struggling with the power play, despite owning the NHL’s best record.

Vrana went on to score the only Capitals goal that night in a 5-1 loss against one of the lowest-ranked teams in the league, but the Devils also scored while shorthanded.

Fans at Capital One Arena booed the Caps’ power play.

“He’s a talented player,” Reirden said after the game. “We’ve had just a couple reps in practice with him doing it. But he obviously brings a different element. Whether that is the right fit for us or not, we’re going to have to continue to adjust things until we can find something that’s working for us. ‘Cause you know ... to score a goal but give up one, that’s not going to work.”

The Capitals drafted Vrana with the 13th overall pick in the 2014 NHL Draft, and he has been considered a future NHL star. His breakout came in just his second year with the Caps during the 2017-18 season, and Vrana has improved each year since.

Earlier this month, The Athletic’s Tarik ElBashir gave Vrana an A-minus in his Capitals’ midseason report card.

“Jakub continues to grow and get better,” Reirden says. “He’s just still a young guy.

And especially with his experiences in North America, having played in, whether the Czech league or the Swedish league, before coming over here, sometimes it takes longer for those guys and initially in the beginning path when they first get to North America. So he continues just to grow and get better every year, and he puts the work and the time in after practice

and spends extra time with video to try to continue to build the detail into his game.”

During practice, Vrana is often one of the last players off the ice. After the loss to the Devils, he spoke about looking forward to going over video to see what went wrong. Hockey is ever present on his mind.

“I’m living alone,” he says. “I’m single, so it’s hard to don’t think about hockey, so you got to find a way to not when you’re home and clear your mind.”

He does that by watching movies and realizing that he gets to do what he loves for a living.

“When I was a kid, all I did was hockey,” Vrana says. “I just want to keep doing that. I used to score a lot of goals, and I want to keep doing that. Honestly, all I’m thinking about is do things right and have fun, have fun playing hockey. And that’s all I think about right now.

Don’t get distracted by the other stuff around me, you know, just focus on the right thing.”

Lars Eller, who has played with Vrana since being traded to the Caps in 2016, praises Vrana’s confidence and consistency so far this season. Vrana, he says, has shown a hunger to improve that the best players in the sport possess.

“Confidence is what, I think, separates a very good player from an elite player,” Eller says.

“He’s earned his confidence this year by using his skills and speed to get goals and make plays and beat guys. He’s using his assets I think a lot better and very consistently this year and ... when he feels it’s working, then the confidence comes.

He’s been kind of riding that wave.”

Jason Rogers contributed to this report.

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CAUSES of DEATH

Why is D.C.'s homicide count rising again?

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By New year’s Day, nearly every local news outlet in D.C. had the story: The city saw its highest homicide count in a decade in 2019.

We lost 166 people—a 4 percent increase on the 2018 count, which was a 38 percent increase on the 2017 count.

Two weeks into 2020, the numbers are holding steady.

This is happening in D.C.—a city that witnessed nearly 500 homicides in 1991 and spent two decades getting those numbers down to a low of 88 in 2012. A city that’s seen such a productive ongoing building boom, some neighborhoods are nearly unrecognizable to those who have watched it change. A place where most other crimes, including robberies and assaults with dangerous weapons, have been on the decline for the last three years.

Why is the homicide count rising in D.C.?

And how can the city stop the killings?

City Paper asked those questions of more than a dozen people who deal with homicides and their aftermaths every day, whether as part of their jobs or volunteer work or their personal lives.

Nearly all of them, from city officials to the formerly incarcerated, responded that there are people in D.C. who face a stunning lack of opportunity—who see a shiny new city, but no way to take part. They also say that rising rents have forced some residents into unfamiliar neighborhoods, pockets of the city where people feel insecure and on edge. And several people City Paper spoke with described a deeply fractured relationship between residents and the police.

And many homicides fit into no box: The story behind every death is different, but for those paying close enough attention, this is a source of hope.

“Every time I'm on the scene, every family that I've talked to, it's a different story,” says Jay Brown, a community advocate from Ward 7 who spent his career working in social services. He testified about the murders to the D.C. Council and at community town halls more than 15 times in 2018 and 2019. “There's a story behind each and every one of them, and if there's a story behind them, they can be prevented,” he says.

Clayton Aristotle Rosenberg, who works as a violence interrupter for Alliance of Concerned Men, mentoring at-risk youth and acting as a first responder to shootings and stabbings in Southeast D.C., says: “If we treat each person as an individual, then we will be able to get to the root cause and understand why the violence is occurring so much, what’s going through a person’s mind where the violence can be the trigger.”

“How do we get to the root cause?” he asks.

“By building those relationships.” a trip to D.C. Superior Court, where judges hear many homicide cases, provides some insight into why someone would murder another person. D.C. Witness, a local nonprofit news site founded in 2015, logs every murder and observes every homicide case until the end if the alleged perpetrator is arrested. D.C. Witness reporters listen to cases in the court-

Clayton Aristotle Rosenberg room and read police reports, and compile the information in an internal dataset.

“Increasingly, people aren't denying they did the shooting, but they're saying they had to do [it] for selfdefense, because they needed to—they needed to have a gun for protection,” says D.C. Witness founder and publisher Amos Gelb.

“The data says, very clearly, that the number one motivation is petty insults. Another is neighborhood beefs.”

LaTrina Antoine, D.C. Witness editor-inchief, recalls recent cases her staff covered that further illustrate these points.

In 2019, 48-year-old Vaughn Alexander Kosh fatally shot 38-year-old Alayna Dawnielle Howard in her Northeast apartment because he says she was the source of his problems. Kosh had gotten into several disputes with Howard and her boyfriend over a few years, and he accused the couple of breaking into his apartment and destroying property.

Kosh admitted to shooting Howard, but says he’s remorseful, and that he was just pushed too far by Howard and her boyfriend.

Another came from 2017, when 33-year-old Leonard Smith allegedly stabbed his friend, 26-year-old Leonte Butler, more than 45 times in Congress Heights for mocking his stutter.

The two men started the night drinking and using drugs and ended it in a physical alterca-

leader raised it as a factor contributing to the murders. Unequal access to opportunity derives from inadequate edu cation , health care, and housing. Frustration that comes from a lack of opportunity only intensifies when D.C. is rapidly changing and some are disconnected or excluded.

“We understand the consequences of social exclusion,” says the Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement Director Delbert McFadden, who works with men with criminal records and helps them overcome myriad obstacles to employment through D.C.’s Pathways Program. “And a lot of these guys want to be part of the larger society. They want to have a voice. They want to be able to thrive, just like anyone else.”

Anacostia High School teacher Ronald Edmonds sees his students suffer from exposure to violence, and this can lead to social marginalization. Of the more than 160 homicides last year, nearly 70 victims were under 26 years old, and a dozen of those were between the ages of 11 and 18. A minor was murdered in every quadrant of this city, but a few schools lost multiple students, current and former, within a year. Teachers, like Edmonds, unavoidably bear witness to the violence and lingering trauma.

Since working at Anacostia High School in 2011, Edmonds has lost several students to

“If we treat each person as an individual, then we will be able to get to the root cause and understand why the violence is occurring so much, what’s going through a person’s mind where the violence can be the trigger.” tion that turned fatal, according to one eye witness. To complicate matters, Smith and Butler initially bonded because they both struggled with speech impediments. The case ended in a mistrial in 2019.

“Gun crime is unique. It is stubborn,” says Deputy Mayor for Public Safety and Justice Kevin Donahue. A gun was the weapon used in the majority of D.C.’s 2019 homicides. “It generally involves individuals who have easy access to guns, who have a history of using them and carrying them, in which the assailants and victims are known to each other. Now, there are also individuals who, when it comes from the standpoint of need and opportunity, are some of the hardest to reach and the most in need. Individuals who have had a lot of trauma in their life, who feel a disconnect from the economic vibrancy we have in the city.”

While not all of those who lack economic opportunity to survive and thrive in this booming city commit violence, nearly every government official and community

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bullets. In 2019, 15-year-old Thomas Johnson was killed near Nationals Park, and in 2018, 15-year-old Gerald Watson was fatally shot 17 times in his apartment complex. And Edmonds also recently lost a former student, 21-year-old Travis Deyvon Ruth, to gun violence in January 2019. Edmonds had come to know the young man well when he decided to attend his church.

“They don’t value life itself,” Edmonds says of some of his students. “They don’t value the fact that you are able to wake up in the morning.

Sometimes, many of our young people are so much in a depression that life does not matter.”

That’s why efforts like Anacostia High School’s redesign can be seen as possible solutions to the rising homicide rate, says Edmonds. This redesign augments school programming by connecting students with career opportunities outside the classroom. While never packaged that way, education investments like these help young people see themselves differently.

“We are watching D.C. change right before our eyes, the infrastructure… that’s why redesign is so important,” says Edmonds. “Gentrification is real, it is happening. Instead of isolating them, [prepare them] with proper education [and say] ‘You can be a part of it.’”

Several people City Paper interviewed brought up gentrification when discussing the murder count.

D.C. is the most gentrified city in the United States, according to a study by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition released in 2019. This is to say, about 40 percent of the city’s low-income neighborhoods experienced gentrification between 2000 and 2013. The study defines gentrification as “an influx of investment and changes to the built environment lead[ing] to rising home values, family incomes and educational levels of residents.”

Gentrification itself isn’t the problem. The issue is that long-time residents are pushed out when development and other economic opportunities move in. That same study says more than 20,000 African American residents were displaced from their neighborhoods by more affluent, white outsiders during that time period.

“That gentrification thing is—it makes the city look good from the outside. But within the core of it is still rotten. I say ‘rotten to the core’— it means it looks good. It looks good from the outside. But it still has a lot of problems within,” says former D.C. homicide detective of more than two decades Mitch Credle, who now works in behavioral support at a charter school and has a film production company. “It looks like the city is throwing away the old and bringing in the new, that's what it looks like.”

All of D.C. is impacted by the murders, with the effects of the violence rippling throughout the city. But the Metropolitan Police Department reports a majority of the homicides occurred in Wards 7 and 8. Of the 2019 murders MPD mapped, Ward 7 had 42 homicides and Ward 8 had 63. As with any ward, Wards 7 and 8 aren’t a monolith. Violence is being perpetrated by a small number of people in these areas, and concentrated in certain blocks. The

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“Sometimes, many of our young people are so much in a depression that life does not matter.” numbers out of Wards 7 and 8 starkly contrast those of more affluent wards like Ward 2, where MPD mapped zero homicides; Ward 3, where there were three; and Ward 4, where there were five.

“A lot of people who are being displaced from gentrification, a lot of them are going over to those particular neighborhoods,” says Credle. “If you take people who move into a new neighborhood, their walls are up, so now you have a lot of just natural tension that may exist … a lot of it's just about natural survival.”

Brown, the Ward 7 community activist, makes a similar argument.

“You're shutting down a lot of the older communities in the area and moving people together who have had traditional disagreements—no disagreement that they could really articulate,” says Brown. “Now you got unfamiliar faces, unfamiliar cultures—people who are operating out of fear when they have a disagreement. They have a lack of coping skills.

They resort to the only way that they know how to eliminate that threat.”

Rob Butler, too, cited displacement that comes from gentrification. He is a recent graduate of the Pathways Program who has a full time job, is raising his daughter, and running his own business on the side.

“I know with gentrification a lot of people are being pushed into places that they're not comfortable with, or it's not familiar to them,”

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Butler tells City Paper. “So what I've been learning about trauma is the way we respond to certain situations is not even in our control all the time. So if I get into a situation where I'm in constant flight or fight mode because I'm in this environment [where] I don't know anybody, I'm not familiar with it, I wasn't properly brought into this community—you know, just like, "Hey, you can't stay here. Go here."

And you don't know what this community is like, how it's going to affect me and my family. And you get there and you [are] walking around in constant flight or fight mode.”

Ward 7 Councilmember Vince Gray hears these kinds of ideas often, and understands them, but is hesitant to say whether displacement is contributing to the homicide count.

“I know there is a strong sentiment that displacement is playing an important role— resentment about displacement, the threat of displacement—is leading a lot of people to believe that it’s contributing to the increase of violence and increase in murders,” he says. “I hear it all the time from people—that people are losing control of their own city, losing control of their own neighborhoods because people are being pushed out … There’s certainly a strong sentiment about that, but whether it’s borne out by data or not, I really don’t know.”

Speak to those living in the communities where people are being murdered at an alarming rate, and they’ll point to systemic failings:

People don’t have access to support and services they need, particularly in areas that have been left behind by development. Sometimes it’s because the safety net doesn’t exist, and sometimes it’s because the right messenger— someone from the community—isn’t being sent to deliver the message.

“We’re not living anymore. Individuals are not living because everyone’s almost living in fear. And when you are living in fear, you are just trying to survive,” says Rosenberg.

“They’ve been experiencing so much trauma and asking for help for so long, but didn’t know how to get the help, and then when the resources are finally here—and we got all the resources in the world—they don’t even know how to grab onto it, enjoy it, or use it.”

Rosenberg recalls an event he attended in Kenilworth last summer. It was a community-run event and the Workforce on Wheels bus was invited to attend. The idea behind the mobile unit is for the Department of Employment Services to serve constituents in underserved communities, connecting them with information for potential job opportunities. But residents in attendance were skeptical of the bus’ offerings, says Rosenberg. It wasn’t personal. It’s that “people are not going to accept a quick little event, thinking everything is OK,” says Rosenberg.

The majoriTy of D.C.’s homicide victims die of gunshot wounds, and the District reports that

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“I was rooted in the community. I cared about the community, I cared—I went to graduations, I went to funerals, I went to a whole bunch of things that weren’t related to my job. It was related to just being a person and that makes a difference, especially when people don’t like the police, it makes a difference.” fewer shooting victims survive than did in years past. “We've seen an increase in the fatality rate for gun interactions,” says Donahue. “In other words, when an individual uses a gun against another human being, that interaction has been more fatal last year and this year, which explains some of the increase.”

Several District officials who spoke with City Paper focused on this: Shootings are down, yet homicides are up. And without question, limiting gun access nationwide would save lives in D.C. But nearly everyone City Paper spoke with put greater emphasis on helping individuals and neighborhoods plagued by gun violence.

“You can have an illegal gun, you still gotta pull the trigger,” says Gray.

When there were sudden spikes in homicides last year, in both the summer and fall, the mayor’s office launched its crime prevention initiative. Among the priorities for the 60-day initiative: increased police presence in areas that experienced a high density of violence. But when D.C. launched its Safer Stronger DC Fall Crime Prevention Initiative in October 2019, some immediately

spoke out against it because they do not see police as part of the solution.

“Chief Newsham keep your killer cops the FUCK off my block,” tweeted April Goggans, the core organizer of Black Lives Matter DC. Several of those City Paper spoke with for this article had broad doubts about what an increased police presence accomplishes.

“I live in [the] Congress Heights area and the police are stationed on our streets 24 hours a day,” says Edmonds, the Anacostia High School teacher. “Very seldom do I not see them. I question, how does crime not decrease if the police are so vivid and there? It doesn’t change behavior. It makes others like myself feel protected. But still, collectively as agencies in D.C… we are not changing behavior.”

“The problem that we're hearing on the Council and the places that do this, everybody is looking at a superficial level, surface: too many guns, so we need more cops on the streets,” says Amos Gelb of D.C. Witness. “None of that is necessarily wrong, but that's not going to solve the problem. And so

it hasn't been solving the problem. ... If you look at the whole data and you go beyond the surface, you may find that despite the MPD’s demand for more cop cars, which is the thing they always want, because that's their job, right? More cop cars probably ain't gonna bring down the homicide rate.”

A common criticism of the city’s approach to curbing the violence is the overemphasis on law enforcement, given past examples of police bias and brutality against black residents.

There are racial disparities in policing, as demonstrated by MPD’s own stop-and-frisk data.

Of the 11,600 police stops between July 22 and Aug. 18, 2019, 70 percent of people stopped were black, while 15 percent were white. For comparison, 46 percent of the D.C. population is black whereas 37 percent is white.

With more research suggesting the over-policing of black residents and more cell phone videos showing these confrontations, it’s no surprise why relationships are fraught.

“The police-community relationship is at its weakest point in our community,” says Brown. “I'm at these funerals. Some-

body knew that these homicides were going to take place. Like somebody knew that John was hungry. Somebody knew that John had a gun. Somebody knew who gave John a gun.

You know? And it's not about snitching because if you love somebody, you have that person's best interests. So why wouldn't you say some information?”

“A lot of people don't trust the police anymore and it's sad,” says Credle. “It hurts me because throughout my entire life, even as a child, the police-community relationship was major.”

Credle says police-community relationships were stronger when he worked at MPD, between 1986 to 2013. With officers retiring and leaving over the years, he thinks newer officers aren’t forging strong connections with people they are policing. He knows he had a good relationship with the communities he served, in upper Ward 1 and lower Ward 4, because he got to know them and they got to know him. He did this by trying to develop relationships off-duty by, for example, coaching and mentoring youth at Raymond Recreation Center beginning in 1982 until he retired.

“I was rooted in the community. I cared about the community, I cared—I went to graduations, I went to funerals, I went to a whole bunch of things that weren't related to my job. It was related to just being a person and that makes a difference, especially when people don't like the police, it makes a difference,” says Credle.

Sometimes he had to build relationships with communities fast, like when MPD had him work overnights in Clay Terrace NE one summer weekend. Because he wasn’t familiar with the area, he made it a point on the first night he arrived to purchase all the neighborhood kids ice cream. Once he got some buy-in from the community for the gesture, he started to proactively make conversation with everyone he could. When it was time for Credle to leave, a few residents were actually disappointed, he said, because they connected with him, even if it was brief.

“The police department, they are doing the best they can. The government officials are doing the best they can,” says Credle. “People feel when you're [just] doing your job. They know the difference when you're doing your job, opposed to you really trying to help us.

Sometimes when it comes to dealing with violence, you have to ... go beyond that.”

Julius Terry, a recent graduate of the Pathways Program with a full time job, has had a few run-ins with police and also thinks that police officers could do a better job of connecting with community members. He served five years for possessing an illegal firearm—two years incarcerated and then three years parole. Before that, police cited him for marijuana distribution in the early ’90s. Terry understands why the city is responding to the spike in homicides with more police, ultimately calling it a “good solution.” But because a lot depends on the individual officer, he says, there needs to be better training.

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ty training,” says Terry. “You can’t keep getting cops from out of town and putting them in our neighborhoods. They have no connection, which is why they have no problem disrespecting the people that they’re dealing with.”

Butler, who was released from prison in March 2017 and is a recent Pathways Program graduate, says, “I just think they should be more sensitive when they're dealing with certain populations because of the trauma piece. So what naturally may seem like an aggressive young man—that's somebody who's hurt and has been told that the police are against them.”

Police Chief Peter Newsham says MPD is trying to build relationships with communities, calling it “our number one priority.” To back this claim, he cites the Officer Friendly Program, where police visit schools to develop relationships with young people, and the expansion of the cadet program, meaning MPD is prioritizing candidates from within the community.

“If we haven't been able to reach that person who suggests that it's at an all time low, we certainly want to reach out to him so we can change his mind about who we are or what we're doing,” says Newsham.

D.C. lawmakers are investing in police, but also alternatives. Namely, violence interrupters.

“Violence interrupters are doing the jobs that police can’t do. They are going in there, and building relationships,” says Rosenberg, a violence interrupter with Alliance of Concerned Men, who has a grant with the Office of the Attorney General’s Cure the Streets program. “You can’t have like pop-up shops [or] bring a workforce development thing to the neighborhood and expect the ones that need to come out to come out. They are not going to do that. It has to be [someone] trusting. You have to use an individual who’s already there because they have established that relationship.”

This is creating some tension. When asked to talk about the violence interruption program on the Kojo Nnamdi Show this year, Newsham's response was, “I don’t have a lot of insight into those programs… If we are going to invest a lot of money into violence interruption programs, I think we have to have some measure of success.” Ward 6 Councilmember Charles Allen, who was also on the show, read this response as a lack of coordination between government agencies.

When D.C.’s 2019 murder count surpassed 2018’s, a City Paper reader responded to the news online with: “Whatever it is we are doing, it ain't working and something needs to change.” This sentiment resonates with many families of homicide victims and community leaders we interviewed.

“The residents and your readers should have every expectation that the city will show progress, and we have the goal of having no homicides,” says Donahue, in turn.

His comments come with some caveats. “The reality is some of the investments we've made over the past few years, which

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“If we haven’t been able to reach that person who suggests that it’s at an all time low, we certainly want to reach out to him so we can change his mind about who we are or what we’re doing.”

were rooted in evidence of programs that work elsewhere, take time to show impact they've shown elsewhere,” he says. He cites the Pathways Program, a byproduct of legislation passed by the Council in 2016, as a way to reduce crime through a public health approach.

Many outside of the government believe one-off programs like Pathways are not enough. Any one program can be good, but if efforts are not comprehensive, citywide, and coordinated, what impact will they have?

How will these efforts survive something as routine as an election cycle?

“There is a lack of a comprehensive plan to end murder in the city—there is a lack of a plan that is backed by sustained interest and investment from the community, that is backed by investment from the public and private sectors,” says David Bowers of NO MURDERS DC, a movement to end murder in the District.

The Council made an effort in June 2016 when it started the Comprehensive Homicide Elimination Strategy Task Force. Its members were asked to write a report that identifies the most effective strategies to eliminate homicides. Such a task force existed previously, issuing a report in 2008. The Council revived it as a means to get D.C. focused on an issue devastating the city.

But four years later, there’s no report. Why

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not? The task force had trouble assembling— members are volunteers and everyone involved has jobs along with other competing commitments, said co-chairs Michelle Palmer of the Wendt Center for Loss and Healing and Eduardo Ferrer of Georgetown Law during a January oversight hearing with the Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety. The group meets once a month, usually in the evenings after work, but hadn’t managed to reach a quorum until recently.

Palmer says her members aspire to get agencies to coordinate with one another about homicides. Members also want to create meaningful oversight through performance measurements on how each agency is addressing the issue.

But once the task force releases its recommendations—if it ever does—they are just that, recommendations. The question becomes whether officials will listen to the vision, or whether committee members will make any effort to build community support for their ideas. The report could become just another PDF on the internet.

Jennifer Massey, a volunteer with the D.C. chapter of Moms Demand Action, asks: “How do we get multiple agencies together? Because we all have to be on the same page. There's a lot of different organizations that are doing different things, but how do we make this a unity effort?”

Bowers and Rosenberg, and others doing the daily work outside the realm of government, see a role for literally everybody in D.C. “We all have to work together to understand that not one resource or not one entity can do this,” says Rosenberg. “It’s going to take multiple people from aspects of life—government, nonprofit, law enforcement, everybody.”

Bowers lives in Ward 3, so he doesn’t experience the murders immediately. But he's affected when he mentors young men with 100 Black Men of Greater Washington DC on Saturdays. “That’s an example where I’m far removed, but it’s all connected. So now I’m going to go and do something,” he says. “I’m going to call the mayor or a councilmember.

Or, can my house of worship get involved? Can I call a foundation?”

“When you have a comprehensive plan, it’s not just a government problem,” says Bowers. “What is the entertainment industry doing? What is the business community doing?

What is every single person doing to make sure we don’t have any more homicides?”

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D.C.’s Food Policy Council has ambitious goals for the year ahead.

By Laura Hayes So much goeS into feeding a city. From growing healthy food and directing it to foodinsecure populations to creating stable careers in the food sector and disposing of food waste in a way that regenerates the soil, the workload can be hard to swallow.

For decades, government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and community groups were tackling how to increase food access, address health disparities, spur urban agriculture, and stimulate the local food economy in silos. There wasn’t enough synergy to lead to milestone advancements.

Then in 2014, the D.C. Council passed the DC Food Policy Council and Director Establishment Act, which sought to bring a body of experts together to foster greater collaboration. The FPC fully launched in the summer of

2016 under the direction of Laine Cidlowski.

When Cidlowski left the District in June 2018, Mayor Muriel Bowser appointed Ona Balkus as the new FPC director. Balkus previously served on the D.C. Council’s Committee on Transportation and the Environment, where she drafted food-related legislation.

As a senior clinical fellow at the Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic, Balkus provided guidance to food policy councils from across the country.

“My job is to advise the mayor and the administration on how to strengthen D.C.’s food system in a holistic way,” she says. “That strategic thinking and seeing food as a system wasn’t really happening before.”

The FPC currently includes 10 mayoral appointed leaders, plus representatives from various District agencies. Dreaming Out Loud Executive Director Chris Bradshaw is one

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of the longest serving FPC members. He too is optimistic about the year ahead. “We’ve entered more of an actualizing phase of making some of the things that were in the books happen,” he says. “There’s been great momentum and we’re seeing it pay off.”

To guide their efforts, the FPC organized their 2020 priorities into five categories: food access and equity; entrepreneurship and food jobs; urban agriculture; sustainable supply chain; and nutrition and food system education. City Paper outlined a handful of highlights below and plans to assess the progress made early next year.

Back Locally Owned Businesses Bringing Healthy Food to Underserved Communities Many of the neighborhoods east of the Anacostia River are considered food deserts.

There are still only three major grocers for the more than 150,000 people living in Wards 7 and 8, and there are few sit-down restaurants offering healthy options, especially when compared to the rest of the city.

Some Washingtonians living in communities east of the river don’t trust big box stores to be part of the solution after Walmart bailed on two projects—one at Skyland Town Center and another at Capitol Gateway.

“Why give more money to Walmart?”

Balkus asks. “Why bring in another Safeway when we have a thriving and promising business community of District residents that we can give money to?”

To further close the grocery gap and build even more businesses with buy-in from the community, the FPC is creating a public-private piggy bank called the “DC Good Food Investment Fund.” It will provide grants, flexible loans, and technical assistance to homegrown food businesses such as small grocers or corner stores participating in DC Central Kitchen’s Healthy Corners program.

Several such food-related businesses already broke ground or debuted in 2019, proving it’s possible. They include Market 7 in River Terrace, the Fresh Food Factory in Anacostia, and Good Food Markets in Bellevue.

The FPC will team up with community development financial institutions on the fund.

CDFIs invest in businesses that have trouble getting loans from traditional banks. Two local examples are the Latino Economic Development Center and Washington Area Community Investment Fund (WACIF). “They’ve both expressed interest in doing this,” Balkus says. The fund is inspired by the Michigan Good Food Fund and California FreshWorks.

Bradshaw feels strongly about fostering community ownership, but also notes that the wealth gap will always be an obstacle. (White households in D.C. have a net worth 81 times that of black households.) Nevertheless, he says, “more businesses and cooperatives launching in the community will facilitate jobs and help people be able to stay in the city.” Affordability is key. “If no one can afford the rent for their home or business, then what kind of city do we have?”

When locally owned food projects come to fruition, Balkus says the FPC needs to get better at informing District residents about their fresh food options. “When we’re out at meetings talking to residents all of these things are always news still,” Balkus says. “We need to figure out a way to celebrate these in a strategic way and make sure businesses are successful when they get off the ground.”

Help Food Entrepreneurs Bring Made-InD.C. Products to Market Ask budding food businesses what they

need to enter the market or expand and they’ll likely list affordable commercial kitchen space, cold storage, and retail spaces to sell their goods. Commercial kitchen TasteLab closed in 2019, making securing a space at alternatives like Mess Hall, Tastemakers, and Union Kitchen even more competitive.

Opportunities are even scarcer for non-alcoholic beverage makers, some of whom have had to travel to other cities to can their products since the District lacks co-packing facilities. Commercial kitchens built for food businesses don’t always have adequate space for specialized equipment.

Balkus says she hopes new FPC member Emi Reyes from LEDC, together with Katherine Mereand from the DC Department of Small and Local Business Development can identify more maker spaces in 2020. “Many churches within the city have commercial kitchens they don’t use frequently,” Reyes says. “It could give churches some revenue and use unoccupied space.”

Convert Food Sector Jobs Into Careers One of the reasons people enjoy visiting or living in D.C. is its food scene. The New York Times just named the District the number one city to visit in 2020, citing restaurants as a chief reason, and late last year, Bloomberg called D.C. the most exciting food city in America.

“It intrinsically doesn’t make sense to have this foodie culture and all these amazing restaurants that are surviving off people without adequate career pathways,” Balkus says. “It’s one thing to start at a minimum wage job, but it’s another to retire at a minimum wage job.”

Reyes agrees and says D.C.’s Latinx population, which supports much of the food industry, in particular doesn’t get the recognition it deserves. She wants to see more Latinx Washingtonians become majority owners of their businesses. DMV Black Restaurant Week, in its second year, also focused on building pathways to ownership for people of color.

The FPC is awaiting the results of a “DC Food Workforce Development Strategy” that will be co-published by the Department of Employment Services and the Workforce Investment Council. It focuses on improving the quality of food sector jobs. “We conducted 15 one-on-one interviews and convened 65 stakeholders for an all-day meeting,” Balkus says. One finding Balkus points to is how employers can increase retention by offering more benefits and promotion potential.

Balkus says she’s encouraged because the study marks the first time the local government has identified food as a standalone workforce sector deserving of attention: “It’s always been lumped in with hospitality, which means hotels,” she explains. “There are unique challenges that don’t exist in hotels.”

Decode The Steps to Starting a Food Business A number of District regulations and licensing requirements can stymie a food business’ timely launch. The process is confusing, complex, and costly. Balkus says the first step

to cutting through the red tape is understanding all of the requirements for different types of enterprises, from urban farms and cottage food businesses to food trucks and full-service restaurants. “Then we can look at how to streamline it and identify where more resources and expertise is needed,” she says.

Reconsider The Merits of Having a Centralized Kitchen Some cities have a centralized kitchen where meals are prepared for public institutions. The DC Healthy Schools Act of May 2010 included a requirement to build a central kitchen, but it never happened. “[Ward 3] Councilmember [Mary] Cheh was always frustrated about that,” Balkus says. “It never got funded and it wasn’t clear who the agency lead should be.”

In 2018, the act was amended to have the Office of Planning take on a best practices study to learn how a centralized kitchen could benefit the District. “It looks at how to save money while improving the quality of meals at schools, rec centers, homeless shelters, senior centers, and the jail, as well as how it could be a workforce development tool and how it could support local and regional agriculture,” Balkus says. The study is expected to land in September.

Nurture the District’s Renewed Focus on Urban Agriculture The benefits of urban agriculture transcend merely growing produce to help address food access. Urban farms show kids where their food comes from, bring neighbors together, help the city become more sustainable, and create jobs.

Last year saw a major shift in who will oversee various urban agriculture initiatives.

When the implementation of two key programs created under the D.C. Urban Farming and Food Security Act of 2014 saw further delays due to soil testing technicalities, the D.C. Council moved to change who manages them.

Cheh successfully moved the Urban Farming Land Lease Program and Urban Agriculture Tax Abatement Program from the purview of the Department of General Services to a newly created Office of Urban Agriculture housed under the Department of Energy and the Environment. A director of urban agriculture will lead the office and overall greening of D.C. Balkus says applications are closed and the hiring process is moving along.

To aid the city, nonprofits, and community groups operating urban farms, the FPC, together with the University of the District of Columbia, also wants to establish an Urban Agriculture Infrastructure Fund. It would pay for infrastructure necessities such as hoop houses, greenhouses, water hook-ups, and cold storage that can help urban farms thrive.

“These farmers do not need large sums of capital for things that could significantly increase their business revenue and potential,” Balkus says. “There’s a lot of federal money that could go towards this, but it hasn’t made its way to them given our unique set-up as a non-state.”

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Some of today’S most successful indie bands, like The 1975 or Two Door Cinema Club, met while still in school, years before achieving international prominence. Following in the footsteps of these long-haul musical collaborations is D.C. dream pop band Lavender, all graduates of American University.

Though the band has been through a few iterations, the current lineup of guitaristbassist Alli Vega, vocalist Emily Carlson, drummer Matt Wright, and guitarist Trent Burns has held steady for three years. The four became friends during college, playing house shows, teaching themselves how to write songs, and releasing debut EP You Are in the Right Place in 2017. Since they formed during their transition into adulthood, Lavender’s music so far has focused on rapid change and personal hardships. The genuine friendship they’ve built carries over into their songwriting, which Burns describes as “a collaborative process, but there’s usually someone who’s bringing the skeleton of the song.”

Though all four band members have pursued different lines of work after graduation, music permeates their lives outside the group.

Carlson is an elementary school teacher but doesn’t find her second-grade classroom too distinct from the chaotic environment of a live show. “Teaching is performing, performing is teaching, in a lot of ways,” she says.

Wright, who works as a political communications specialist, also draws similarities between the worlds of music and politics “in terms of talent and the amount of work you have to put in to rise, it’s all about who you know and contacts and connections. It’s very bizarre.” Burns’ experience as a fulltime photographer and videographer has come in handy as Lavender prepares to release their first music video on Jan. 31. Vega’s job as a talent buyer also gives her valuable insight into the logistics of booking and promotion. With demanding jobs, it can be tough to muster the energy to practice and write after a long day at work, but all agree that they feel better after seeing each other and letting the music lead the way.

“Being a band is not about being best friends, but being best friends helps,” Wright says.

That bond is what sustains Lavender

Zoe Hannah

By Mercedes Hesselroth

Matt Wright, Emily Carlson, Alli Vega, and Trent Burns through what they call the “trial by fire” process of band life, like the time Vega heard Grammy-nominated alt-rock group Wolf Alice wanted a local opener for their sold-out July 2017 show in D.C. On a whim, she submitted Lavender for consideration, never expecting to land the coveted spot. When the offer came, the four had only played one official gig together and were one song short of the setlist requirements. They all stayed up the night before the show writing a new song they would have to perform at Rock & Roll Hotel the next day. Burns remembers Wolf Alice “set a really good example for basically just how to treat your fellow musicians” and even watched Lavender’s performance, a surreal moment for the group while it was still in its infancy. “We were all probably visibly nervous,” Burns says. “They were so kind and set us at ease.”

As the old adage goes, it takes a village to raise a child, and the same is true for a band.

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nity they’ve found in D.C., starting with audio engineer and fellow AU graduate Brian Harrington, whom they affectionately refer to as their “fifth Beatle.” He let Lavender record its first EP in the campus recording studio as part of his senior project, and their collaboration continues even as Harrington’s career has taken him to Los Angeles. “In 10 years, he’s going to be so successful because he’s such a good engineer,” Vega says.

The band also credits 7DrumCity for providing them with an affordable rehearsal space when they have a recording session or big show coming up. Burns notes that in addition to hard work, “it also takes venues that are willing to support their local musicians” for a band to accumulate a show history and grow its audience. Among their favorite spots the band lists DC9, Pie Shop, and Songbyrd Music House as venues that pay musicians and are willing to take a chance on newer acts. Just as much as Lavender benefits from the DIY music community, they’ve also become veterans of the

“Being a band is not about being best friends, but being best friends helps.”

D.C. scene who can help other groups just starting out. Through her job, Vega gives advice to smaller bands, pointing them to the appropriate venues for their experience and following. When Lavender was offered an opening slot at 9:30 Club earlier in 2019, they sent back the names of local acts they thought would be a better fit to open for the headliner instead, one of which was ultimately hired for the gig.

As rising local housing costs lead to the disappearance of house venues, giving up a show is no small matter. But the band knows they’re guaranteed two performances a year as part of Lavender’s biannual house show traditions, hosted at the home Carlson and Vega share together. Since Carlson’s birthday is May 5, the band throws an open-invite birthday bash called “Cinco de Emily” every year, as well as a Halloween party. Even though the point of these events is to have fun together, Carlson admits to getting nervous, since their fall show is mostly Halloween-themed covers. “That week in preparation for the covers I feel more pressure than any Lavender show that we’ve played,” she says. Last year’s Halloween party swelled to more than 200 people, suggesting Lavender’s word-of-mouth popularity has reached a fever pitch.

Playing a major festival is on the band’s bucket list, but for now they’ve recorded new music to be released throughout 2020, including a second EP coming out Feb. 21.

They’re planning the year’s release schedule in advance since Burns will be moving to New Zealand this month for a one-year sabbatical. The temporary separation will be a new chapter for Lavender, but the group is keeping things in perspective and still intends to rehearse and exchange music.

“We’ve got a tighter crew than a lot of other bands, so that’s been something really special,” Burns says.

After all, the future has never been predictable for Lavender. When they were still in school, they never imagined opening for Wolf Alice, heaving their equipment all the way to a show in New York City, or being recognized by fans on the street. Burns often tells himself “if 16-year-old you could see you scurrying off to the gig after work, he’d be freaking out.”

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BOOKSSPEED READS

MINIFESTO The Longing for Less: Living with Minimalism

By Kyle Chayka Bloomsbury, 227 pages

I read much of Kyle Chayka’s new book The Longing for Less: Living with Minimalism, out Jan. 21, in Colony Club on Georgia Avenue NW. It’s decorated in the now-familiar style that Chayka has dubbed elsewhere “AirSpace”—sparse wall decor, wide ceramic mugs in light, airy colors, small floating shelves with a curated selection of products for sale, and the general ambience of an IKEA or maybe a WeWork. AirSpace isn’t the signature look of a single chain. Instead, cafes, hotels, and stores “have all independently decided to adopt the same faux-artisanal aesthetic,” Chayka wrote in an article for The Verge in 2016, and their sameness is global. The principle of design and desire that shaped the 2010s also shaped AirSpaces: a relentless need for minimalism in our spaces and lives, to the point of obliterating individual eccentricism or taste.

Where did this global desire to reduce come from? Chayka, a D.C.-based freelance journalist and writer, investigates the phenomenon in his sharp debut. Quickly, the reader learns that ascetic aesthetics long predate Marie Kondo. While we get the term from 1960s visual art, minimalism has been part of our cultural inheritance for centuries, usually as a backlash when “the surrounding civilization is excessive—physically or psychologically too much—and has thus lost some kind of original authenticity that must be regained,” he writes. Approaching it chronologically is fruitless, as it reappears in various iterations throughout history. It’s just always covering its tracks, presenting itself as new, fresh, and born from a vacuum of ideas each time it pops up.

The Longing for Less begins with a character study of a woman who adopted minimalism—in the form of the 21st-century philosophy promoted by Kondo and Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus, aka The Minimalists—partially as a response to a childhood of scarcity and hoarding. The minimalist gurus promise her a life that is suddenly and blissfully returned to a human scale, free from the overwhelming flow of globalization, breathless consumption, and digital noise. But if we’re making space in our homes and our lives, what, exactly, are we making space for?

It’s easy to make the facile joke that a book-length exploration of minimalism isn’t very minimalist, but that’s a misunderstanding of the book’s goals. Chayka is in tune with the spirit of the movement as he outlines minimalism’s absence. Without light, there’s no shadow; without sound, there’s

no silence. At first, it guides the reader very clearly from idea to idea, but as it takes us past art history into a meditation on minimalist music and then through an exploration of Japanese influence on Western minimalist practice, the book’s scaffolding recedes, and straightforward thesis statements or summaries of content are less and less common. Rewardingly, as Chayka spends less time guiding the reader, his (often funny, always intelligent) voice begins to appear more and more in asides like “Once [the Buddha] realized that life sucks as much

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as it does, he forsook his title…” or “Proust would have loved Bose.”

While Chayka’s profile subject does feel genuinely refreshed and freed by her new lifestyle, he’s not content to stop the investigation there. We’re driven to shrink our collections, he argues, as a form of psychic protection in a volatile world. Someone teetering on the edge of climate and economic collapse can’t lose everything if they didn’t have anything in the first place. Renouncing worldly attachments in hope of enlightenment is a very Buddhist idea, and Chayka

follows that thread in the book’s last section, which offers few easy answers but plenty of space for the reader to explore between clauses and declarations and make their own connections.

Curated minimalism is just a disguised form of consumption. In fact, minimalism constantly tries to conceal its own beginnings and ends. Even Donald Judd, perhaps the most famous capital-M Minimalist artist, couldn’t be so minimal as to be uninfluenced by the world at all. His masterworks in Marfa, Texas, hidden in the middle of the desert, are “specific objects” meant to be viewed exactly as they are, but Judd couldn’t entirely erase the fact that his work is housed in decommissioned military artillery sheds. And Jony Ive, the Apple designer so crucial to creating the streamlined, buttonless iPhones many of us now carry, could disguise but not erase the infrastructure needed for those products to work. Chayka reminds us that just out of sight, a mess of large, loud, ugly, and decidedly non-minimal mines and factories and underwater cables produce and support iPhones. Another of contemporary minimalism’s major tricks is convincing us that its philosophy will free us from the need to purchase. Soon, it tells us, you’ll be untethered by materialism— once you buy The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up or a bullet journal or an issue of Kinfolk or a book on how to simplify your life or a new shelf to better organize your items.

And even those who do meet the fabled goal of only owning 100 items remain alienated from the products of their labor, he writes in one of the book’s nakedly Marxist asides.

The work of 21st-century minimalism is not in simplifying our lives; it is in allowing us to believe they are simple.

As an aside, The Longing for Less is being published at the perfect time for D.C. dwellers. Chayka references a score of artists whose work is in the collections of National Mall museums. Dozens of Marcel Duchamp’s readymades, a precursor to the Minimalists’ understanding of their works as simple objects, are on display at the Hirshhorn, and Yayoi Kusama’s work is returning there in April; works by Judd, Frank Stella, Claes Oldenburg, and Anne Truitt, to name a few, are on display in Smithsonian museums and the National Gallery of Art. Minimalism presents us with an object and “rewards and reflects whatever kind of attention you direct at it,” Chayka writes.

Throwing out old clothes, consolidating bookshelves, or deleting the most alluring apps on your phone may (rightfully) feel good, but they’re Band-Aids over the alienation of contemporary capitalism. That doesn’t mean there’s nothing worthwhile to be found in minimalism, though. As Chayka shows in the book’s moving last act, it’s still possible to encounter something sublime.

—Emma Sarappo

LIZ AT LARGE

Music by TOM KITT Book and lyrics by BRIAN YORKEY Musical direction by CHARLIE ALTERMAN Choreographed by SERGIO TRUJILLO Directed by MICHAEL GREIF

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In one of the more amusing action sequences in Bad Boys for Life, police officers Mike Lowrey (Will Smith) and Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence) ride a stolen motorcycle and sidecar through the streets of Miami, chasing a bad guy in a van. Marcus has an automatic weapon but doesn’t want to fire it since he recently promised God he wouldn’t “put more violence into the world.” Using Bible verse, Mike frantically urges him to shoot, comparing Marcus and his machine gun to David and his slingshot. Eventually, Marcus shouts to the heavens, “Bad boys of the Bible!” and fires off a few bursts. But he doesn’t hit anyone, and the film immediately moves onto the next diversion.

Bad Boys for Life never lets a little thing like story get in the way of a medium thrill.

Even 25 years ago, the original Bad Boys was a quaint throwback. It veered close to parody of the quip-laden rogue cop movies of the 1980s like Lethal Weapon and Die Hard. The central duo were lazily sketched—Mike was a sexy trust fund kid and Marcus a sensitive family man—but the comedic chemistry between rising stars Smith and Lawrence was more than enough to hang a movie on. For most of its runtime, Bad Boys for Life coasts on their well grooved rapport, which hasn’t lost much of its magic.

Directed by Belgian up-and-comers Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, the film leans on its familiarity. As it opens, Marcus is considering retirement. The birth of his first granddaughter has him increasingly worried that Mike’s cowboy antics will get him killed. Meanwhile, Mike ponders life without a partner, which causes him to consider the impossible: settling down with an ex-flame, a lieutenant (Paola Núñez),

who has no discernible qualities except being almost as attractive as Will Smith. While the reliance on clichés makes it impossible to connect with the characters in any meaningful way, it also creates a pleasing détente. A movie this dumb rejects critical thinking. It’s so basic that it bends you to its will, creating its perfect audience, one with impossibly low standards, as it goes. In other words, I laughed more than I would like to admit.

The meager pleasures of a wisecracking duo, adequate car chases, and a few gruesome kills are eroded, however, in the third act, when the film succumbs to the demands of our new era. While fans of the franchise would be content to watch Smith and Lawrence trade quips and throw punches for hours, the plot takes a sudden turn toward sci-fi spectacle and serialized storytelling. Their battles with a seemingly generic drug dealer (Jacob Scipio) take our crime-fighting duo into the clutches of an honest-to-goodness witch. Weirdly, she doesn’t employ any of her powers, but instead exists to usher in a surprise from Mike’s past that turns the film into a sudden origin story just before the final shoot-out. For those who needed to know exactly why Mike Lowrey wears such colorful suits and enjoys the company of many women, Bad Boys for Life is the explainer you’ve been waiting for.

But there’s biting off more than you can chew, and then there’s trying to eat the world’s biggest ham with no teeth. Bad Boys for Life didn’t need to give us deep insight into these characters or increase the stakes in the direction of the supernatural. That’s never what the franchise was about. Age is supposed to bring wisdom, but the team behind this misguided sequel forgot one of the most basic lessons in life and movies: Don’t try to be something you’re not.

—Noah Gittell Bad Boys for Life opens Friday in theaters everywhere.

THEATERCURTAIN CALLS

SHELTER SKELTER Sheltered

By Alix Sobler Directed By Adam Immerwahr At Theater J to Feb. 2 It’s AprIl 1939, and in their Providence, Rhode Island, drawing room, the affluent Leonard (David Schlumpf) and Evelyn Kirsch (Erin Weaver) are having a drink before their dinner guests, Roberta (Kimberly Gilbert) and Martin Bloom (Alexander Strain), arrive. With Sheltered, playwright Alix Sobler offers what at first appears to be the sort of polite domestic comedy that provided escapism between the crises of the Great Depression and World War II. Then, as Martin enthuses about a performance of Our Town they had just seen in New Haven, praising it for its Americanness, Roberta reminds him that there were no Blumenthals in Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire.

The two couples are secular Jewish Americans, and Martin, in particular, is ashamed of many aspects of his heritage: his former name, Roberta’s grandfather’s work in the Yiddish theater, that their son plays on a baseball team called The Maccabees, and the kinky hair that runs in the family. When the affable and apparently aloof Len attempts to broach the topic of the war about to break out in Europe, or the tyranny that German and Austrian Jews are facing after Kristallnacht and the Anschluss, Martin espouses isolationism, and insinuates that the traditional garb of religious Jews is to blame for Nazi anti-Semitism. This charge continues to be made even today as Orthodox Jews are attacked in Brooklyn, Monsey, and Jersey City. But like anti-Semitism today, Nazi anti-Semitism was rarely about religious observance, and based more on racist pseudoscience and conspiracy theories, a fact none of Sobler’s characters seem to grasp.

In contrast to the happily married Kirsches (Weaver and Schlumpf have wonderful stage chemistry together), it is heavily suggested that Martin is physically abusive behind closed doors, and it is little surprise that the Blooms’ teenage daughter is acting out. Even in those moments when Roberta is relegated to glaring at her husband, all Gilbert’s gestures make for a masterful comic performance.

Only when the men step out to look at Len’s new Cadillac is the reason for the dinner invitation revealed: The Kirsches are soon to leave

on a mission to rescue 40 Austrian Jewish children, and want their friends to take one.

One month later, the Kirsches are in Vienna negotiating with Hani Mueller (McLean Fletcher), a mother reluctant to give up her five-year-old son Reyner. The boy is anachronistically described as a fan of the Belgian comics hero Tintin, despite Tintin not being available in German until 1946.

For all Sobler’s good intentions, the script has a certain sloppiness. Is Leonard a general practitioner or an attorney? There’s evidence that in an earlier draft the first act was set in Philadelphia (Len and Martin are Phillies fans) and later revised to Providence, so that Len and Evelyn could meet at Brown University, and the drive from New Haven would be manageable. Yet when Evelyn describes Providence to Hani, all she can say is “it’s a lovely city. One of the oldest in America.” Likewise, there’s little to identify Vienna beyond some spoken German and a mention of the Gestapo’s seizure of the Palais Nathaniel Rothschild.

This lacking sense of place gives the usually inventive scenic designer Paige Hathaway little to work with. Close observers might notice how the Providence parlor and Vienna hotel have different sconces, floor lamps, and couches, or that decorative American prints are substituted with kitschy Austrian paintings, but most will see that the wallpaper and wainscoting remain identical.

The biggest fault is that the two acts seem to belong to different plays; each act is incapable of unlocking its dramatic potential without its missing half. The hard decisions that lead the Kirsches to decide which of the40 children to rescue are largely elided, as is the thinking that spurred them to rescue 40 children they do not know. The sort of home the troubled Blooms might provide for Reyner is also never explored.

There are stronger plays dramatizing attempts to rescue Vienna’s Jews: Mona Golabek’s one-woman show, The Pianist of Willesden Lane, which Theater J presented in 2018, evokes time and place far more vividly, and Savyon Liebrecht’s A Case Named Freud, which has yet to receive a full production in America despite being one of the Israeli short story writer’s stronger works for the stage, both come to mind. This raises the question, why this play? Why now? Especially when it could use another rewrite?

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Millennium Stage A celebration of the human spirit

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January 16–29 16 Thu. | Xenia França

The Latin Grammy®–nominated singer works to revive and disseminate the AfricanBrazilian culture.

17 Fri. | NSO Prelude

Members of the National Symphony Orchestra play chamber works.

18 Sat. | C4 Trío

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

19 Sun. | Nimesh Patel

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

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

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

20 Mon. | Let Freedom Ring! Celebration

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

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

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

20 | Chaka Khan

26 | Frog Hammer

22 Wed. | DC Music Summit

26 Sun. | Dance with Frog Hammer

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

23 Thu. | Rochelle Rice

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

24 Fri. | A Night with Jackie Moms Mabley

This Helen Hayes–nominated one-woman play written and portrayed by Charisma Wooten about the mother-wit of Loretta Mary Aiken, better known as Moms Mabley, is filled with one-line zingers about everything from politics to sexuality and racism.

25 Sat. | The Beijing Bamboo Orchestra

Known as China’s only “green orchestra,” it includes more than 30 types of instruments made entirely from bamboo.

In addition to various unique Chinese traditional folk instruments, there are handcrafted creations of new bamboo instruments. Part of KC Lunar New Year 2020.

Presented in collaboration with the China Arts and Entertainment Group.

Join us for an hour of easy, fun classic American social dancing to the high-energy sound of Frog Hammer, with a half hour of instruction beginning at 5:30 for all levels

by Caroline Barnes preceding the dance.

Presented in collaboration with the Mount Vernon Ladies Association.

Limited seating available.

27 Mon. | Pilsner Jazz Band

Since 2008, this eight-member orchestra has been performing Czech traditional jazz and swing, focusing on the “jazz golden era,” including Dixieland and swing, but also performs boogie-woogie, blues, and some Latin jazz standards.

Presented in collaboration with the Embassy of the Czech Republic.

28 Tue. | Roopa in Flux

The ensemble of musical wanderers ventures beyond established traditions to express the present moment.

Voice, violin, piano, and percussion band together for a sound uninhibited by the embarrassment of real life.

Presented in collaboration with District of Raga.

29 Wed. | NSO Youth Fellows

Participants in the NSO training program play chamber ensemble and solo works.

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

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

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

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

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

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CITYLIST

The Club at Studio K

Music 23 Books 26 Theater 27 Film 28

Opening Weekend!

CITY LIGHTS: FRIDAY

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

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

Jazzmeia Horn

SOLD OUT

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

Elijah Jamal Balbed Quintet: The Karma Suite T H U . , JA N . 2 3 | 7 : 3 0 P. M .

LIMITED AVAILABILITY

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

Kassa Overall’s “Blue Swamini” featuring Carmen Lundy S A T. , JA N . 2 5 | 7 : 3 0 & 9 : 3 0 P. M .

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

Juan Atkins, Godfather of Techno

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

The Time Machine Roast F R I . , JA N . 3 1 | 7 : 3 0 P. M .

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

Music FRIDAY BLUES

THE HAMILTON 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

Vanessa Collier. 9 p.m. $20–$40. thehamiltondc.com.

CABARET

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

ELECTRONIC

FILLMORE SILVER SPRING 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. The Disco Biscuits. 8 p.m. $45.50. fillmoresilverspring.com.

SEU JORGE

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Seu Jorge hails from the favelas of Rio de Janeiro. The guitarist and singer spent years living on the streets before finally blowing up in his native Brazil, so it was probably a surprise to Jorge when he broke out internationally because of a Wes Anderson movie. Thanks in part to the acoustic David Bowie covers that Jorge contributed to the soundtrack of 2004’s The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, he started touring around the world with his bare-bones Bowie tribute. The covers live up to the hype—especially his take on “Rebel Rebel.” But Jorge’s original works (and his lesser known covers of Kraftwerk and Michael Jackson) are not to be overlooked. Jorge writes songs that artfully blend bossa nova, samba, and rock, and although he doesn’t always sing in English, you don’t need to speak a word of Portuguese to appreciate them. It helps that his voice sounds like the moment when melted butter hits warm syrup. Besides, there’s something satisfying about listening to Jorge and knowing that Bowie’s legacy is carried on by another songwriter from a completely different background. He might have appreciated that. Seu Jorge performs at 8 p.m. at the Howard Theatre, 620 T St. NW. $45. (202) 803-2899. thehowardtheatre.com.

—Will Lennon

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HIP-HOP

THE POCKET 1506 North Capitol St. NW. (202) 6437424. Sonic Spell, M4TR, and The Kromanauts. 7 p.m. $8–$10. songbyrddc.com.

JAZZ

AMP BY STRATHMORE 11810 Grand Park Ave., North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Bumper Jacksons. 8 p.m. $22–$36. ampbystrathmore.com.

Jan 17&19

An Evening with

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

21&22

An Evening with

ROCK

EDDIE FROM OHIO RICHARD THOMPSON (Solo)

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THE NEW BIRTH

25 Newmyer Flyer Presents The Best of

JANIS JOPLIN & JIMI HENDRIX

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An Evening with

BARNS AT WOLF TRAP 1635 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. Bailen. 8 p.m. $22–$24. wolftrap.org.

PIE SHOP DC 1339 H St. NE. (202) 398-7437. Curse Words, Boayt, Saffron, and Ultimate Overshare. 8 p.m. $10–$12. pieshopdc.com.

SATURDAY CABARET

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ELECTRONIC

!

DURAND JONES & THE INDICATIONS with Y LA BAMBA

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in BURLESQUE-A-PADES LoveLand

featuring ANGIE

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PONTANI, MURRAY HILL

Daryl Davis Presents

THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES 2019!

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CHANTÉ MOORE

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The Voice of SLAVE

STEVE ARRINGTON

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THE KENTUCKY HEADHUNTERS

HARMONY SWEEPSTAKES A CAPELLA FESTIVAL 23 JEFFREY OSBORNE 22

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DIGABLE PLANETS

25 Peter

Asher & Jeremy Clyde

PETER & JEREMY (of Peter & Gordon/Chad & Jeremy)

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SARAH HARMER CHRIS PUREKA

28&29 Mar 1

ARLO GUTHRIE 20/20 Tour

HAYES CARLL (Solo)

with ALLISON

SQUIRREL NUT ZIPPERS

5 6

MOORER

The Inevitable 25th Anniversary Tour

THE OAK RIDGE BOYS

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On A Winter's night With

Christine LAVin, JOhn gOrKA, CherYL WheeLer, PAttY LArKin, & CLiFF eBerhArDt

CRACKER AND CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN

9:30 CLUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Sullivan King. 10 p.m. $20. 930.com.

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

CITY LIGHTS: SATURDAY

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

CLASSICAL

MUSIC CENTER AT STRATHMORE 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. National Philharmonic: Mozart’s Jupiter Symphony. 8 p.m. Free– $79. strathmore.org.

FILLMORE SILVER SPRING 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. The Disco Biscuits. 8 p.m. $45.50. fillmoresilverspring.com.

FUNK & R&B

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

JAZZ

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

ROCK

9:30 CLUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven. 6 p.m. $25. 930.com.

THE POCKET 1506 North Capitol St. NW. (202) 6437424. Haircuts. 7 p.m. $8–$10. songbyrddc.com.

VOCAL

AMP BY STRATHMORE 11810 Grand Park Ave., North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Chris Mann. 8 p.m. $35– $55. ampbystrathmore.com.

SUNDAY CABARET

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

CLASSICAL

MUSIC CENTER AT STRATHMORE 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. National Philharmonic: Mozart’s Jupiter Symphony. 3 p.m. Free– $79. strathmore.org.

HIP-HOP

FILLMORE SILVER SPRING 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Snoop Dogg. 8 p.m.; 9 p.m. $59.75. fillmoresilverspring.com.

JAZZ

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

ROCK

PIE SHOP DC 1339 H St. NE. (202) 398-7437. Lightmare, North by North, and Fake Bodies. 8 p.m. $10. pieshopdc.com.

MONDAY POP

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

Temples. 7 p.m. $25. ustreetmusichall.com.

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Rock historians will long remember the David Lowery Wars of the late 1990s, where aging hipsters in Western shirts fought in the streets of Santa Cruz over which of Lowery’s iconic bands was better. “Key Lime Pie is a perfect record!” shrieked the Camper Van Beethoven partisans. ‘“Big Dipper’ is a perfect song!” countered the Cracker fans. “Sonic eclecticism!” yelled Team Camper. “Intelligent Americana!” chanted Team Cracker. They battled with bowling balls and accordions. Much blood was shed. Lowery, bless him, bridged this divide and brought peace to our land when he decided to start touring Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven together. The double bill comes to the 9:30 Club once again this Saturday, to the great relief of those of us who start to get antsy when Lowery stays away for too long. Neither band is touring behind a new release, so expect them to plumb their extensive back catalogs for setlists filled with deep cuts and old favorites, in hopes of maintaining the armistice for another year. The show begins at 6 p.m. at 9:30 Club, 815 V St. NW. $25. (202) 265-0930. 930.com.

—Justin Peters

TUESDAY

THURSDAY

CITY WINERY 1350 Okie St. NE. (202) 250-2531. Rami Kleinstein. 7:30 p.m. $85. citywinery.com.

MANSION AT STRATHMORE 10701 Rockville Pike, North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Paul Galbraith & Antonio Meneses. 7:30 p.m. $30. strathmore.org.

POP

ROCK RHIZOME DC 6950 Maple St. NW. Lohesh, dog, and Antilagom. 10 p.m. $10. rhizomedc.org.

ROCK & ROLL HOTEL 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

The Adicts. 8 p.m. $25. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

WEDNESDAY CLASSICAL

THE ANTHEM 901 Wharf St. SW. (202) 888-0020.

National Symphony Orchestra: The Planets. 8 p.m. $15–$30. theanthemdc.com.

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

GAWP. 10 p.m. $5–$10. ustreetmusichall.com.

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

CLASSICAL

ELECTRONIC

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

Roshambo Tour with Nitti Gritti & Wuki. 10 p.m. $10– $20. ustreetmusichall.com.

FUNK & R&B

UNION STAGE 740 Water St. SW. (877) 987-6487. Too Many Zooz. 8 p.m. $22–$30. unionstage.com.

HIP-HOP

THE ANTHEM 901 Wharf St. SW. (202) 888-0020. Lil Baby. 8 p.m. $55–$80. theanthemdc.com.

JAZZ

UNION STAGE 740 Water St. SW. (877) 987-6487. Too Many Zooz. 8 p.m. $22–$30. unionstage.com.

ROCK

9:30 CLUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Ripe. 7 p.m. $22. 930.com.

PEARL STREET WAREHOUSE 33 Pearl Street SW. (202) 380-9620. Karen Jonas, Lauren Calve, Mink’s Miracle Medicine. 8 p.m. $15–$25. pearlstreetwarehouse.com.

Merriweather Post Pavilion • Columbia, MD

JUST ANNOUNCED!

Halsey

* w/ blackbear & PVRIS........................................................ JULY 19 On Sale Friday, January 17 at 10am

M3 ROCK FESTIVAL FEATURING

JANUARY

FEBRUARY (cont.)

Galactic feat. Anjelika Jelly Joseph

THIS WEEK’S SHOWS

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

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

The Budos Band

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

Ripe w/ The New Respects ........Th 23 The Glorious Sons w/ Des Rocs ..................................F 24

ALL GOOD PRESENTS

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

ALL GOOD PRESENTS

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

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

ALL GOOD PRESENTS

Spafford w/ Eggy .......................W 5

ALL GOOD PRESENTS

Wolf Parade w/ Jo Passed

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

White Ford Bronco:

STORY DISTRICT’S

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

DC’s All-‘90s Band

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

Allen Stone w/ Samm Henshaw .....................Tu 25

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

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

Electric Guest w/ Soleima

Late Show! 10pm Doors........................F 7 D NIGHT ADDED!

FIRST NIGHT SOLD OUT! SECON

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

STEEZ PROMO PRESENTS

PEEKABOO

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

The Districts w/ And The Kids .Tu 10 Dead Kennedys w/ D.O.A. ......W 11 Radical Face w/ Axel Flóvent ..Th 12 ALL GOOD PRESENTS

Raphael Saadiq

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

Echosmith

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

ALL GOOD PRESENTS

The Motet & TAUK ................F 13 ZZ Ward w/ Patrick Droney.......W 18 Best Coast w/ Mannequin Pussy ..................Th 19

ALL GOOD PRESENTS

Railroad Earth

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

AEG PRESENTS

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

w/ Justin Townes Earle & Worriers .MAR 13 thelincolndc.com • impconcerts.com •

w/ The New Regime .....................Su 8

w/ Birds of Chicago

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

Whindersson Nunes .......... MAR 16 Blood Orange w/ Tei Shi......... MAR 18 Welcome to Night Vale .......APR 2 Walk Off The Earth ................APR 5 Kurt Vile with Cate Le Bon .............................APR 24 Watch What Crappens........ MAY 2

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

MARCH

Silversun Pickups

The Dustbowl Revival

merriweathermusic.com • impconcerts.com • Ticketmaster.com * Presented by Live Nation

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

w/ Youth Code & Racetraitor ........F 21

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

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

For more info and a full lineup, visit m3rockfest.com

ROD STEWART * w/ Cheap Trick ................................................... AUGUST 15

The Neil Diamond Tribute ....Th 20

Refused

The Lil Smokies & Joe Pug

U STREET MUSIC HALL PRESENTS

Big Something and Andy Frasco & The U.N.

Super Diamond -

ALL GOOD PRESENTS !

D SHOW ADDED FIRST SHOW SOLD OUT! SECON

Lane 8

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

AN EVENING WITH

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

2-Night Passes available! ....F 20 & Sa 21

9:30 CLUB PRESENTS AT U STREET MUSIC HALL

Temples w/ Art d’Ecco

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

Great Good Fine OK w/ Aaron Taos ...............................F 31 Palace .................................M FEB 3 Anna of the North w/ Dizzy Fae....Th 13 9:30 CLUB & ALL GOOD PRESENT

Moon Hooch ...........................Sa 22 Sango w/ Anik Khan & Savon............W 26 VÉRITÉ ......................................F 28 GARZA (Rob Garza of Thievery Corporation) .Sa 29 Audrey Mika...................... W MAR 4 HRVY .........................................Th 5 9:30 CLUB & ALL GOOD PRESENT

The Soul Rebels .........................F 6

070Shake

All 10/10 tickets honored. ..................Sa 7 Tall Heights w/ Victoria Canal .......Tu 10 Shing02 & The Chee-Hoos: A Tribute to Nujabes .................W 11 City of the Sun.........................Sa 14 Social House ............................ M 16 Mondo Cozmo w/ Reuben and the Dark ...................W 18 Colony House w/ Tyson Motsenbocker ..................Sa 21 Dorian Electra ........................Th 26 R.LUM.R ....................................F 27 Kat Dahlia ...............................Tu 31 Avi Kaplan w/ Paper Wings ..... Sa APR 4 Allie X .......................................Th 9

• 930.com/u-hall • impconcerts.com • Buy advance tickets at the 9:30 Club box office. •

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

9:30 CUPCAKES

The best thing you could possibly put in your mouth Cupcakes by BUZZ... your neighborhood bakery in Alexandria, VA. | www.buzzonslaters.com

TICKETS for all shows are available at IMPconcerts.com, and at the 9:30 Club, Lincoln Theatre, The Anthem, and Merriweather Post Pavilion box offices. Check venue websites for box office hours.

HAPPY HOUR DRINK PRICES impconcerts.com AFTER THE SHOW AT THE BACK BAR!

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CITY LIGHTS: SUNDAY

KINAN AZMEH’S CITYBAND Kinan Azmeh, clarinet Kyle Sanna, guitar John Hadfield, percussion Josh Myers, double bass

SAT, FEB 8, 8pm • SIXTH & I Syrian clarinetist and Silk Road Ensemble veteran Kinan Azmeh leads his polished and pulse-quickening CityBand in an inventive blend of classical music, jazz, and the music of his homeland.

Special thanks: Galena-Yorktown Foundation

TICKETS: WashingtonPerformingArts.org (202) 785-9727

WE’VE HAD

LOOSE LIPS

SINCE 1981.

BECOME A MEMBER.

PIE SHOP DC 1339 H St. NE. (202) 398-7437. One Way Out and Címontì. 8 p.m. $12–$15. pieshopdc.com.

BRADFORD R. KANE Kane will discuss his book Pitchfork Populism: Ten Political Forces That Shaped an Election and Continue to Change America. Politics and Prose at The Wharf. 70 District Square SW. Jan. 23, 7 p.m. (202) 488-3867. politics-prose.com.

For the past nine years, Glen Echo Photoworks has held a “photo slam”—a single-elimination faceoff between local photographers to determine the strongest portfolio. The fruits of the 2019 slam are now on view, and it seems this year’s judges have chosen well. (I was a judge a couple years back.) The four winners have chosen one of two approaches: street photography or landscapes.

Shelly Heald Han photographed the bustling streets of Dhaka, Bangladesh, notably a full-length portrait of a girl in a striking blue dress staring piercingly from in a doorway. Ray Alvareztorres captured a multifaceted, split-second tableau during Day of the Dead in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Meanwhile, Eva Lanyi captured swirls of desert rock bathed in an ethereal glow, along with an oddly erotic “river” of small boulders in Nevada. Perhaps the most consistently impressive images are by Kevin Duncan, who found stunningly textured and hued ice and water during his sojourns through Iceland, Oregon, and Maryland. The show runs to Feb. 9 at Photoworks, 7300 MacArthur Blvd., Glen Echo. Free. (301) 634-2274. glenechophotoworks.org.

—Louis Jacobson

CARRIE CALLAGHAN Callaghan will discus her book Salt the Snow. Politics and Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Jan. 19, 5 p.m. (202) 364-1919. politics-prose.com.

Sixth & I Historic Synagogue. 600 I St. NW. Jan. 21, 7 p.m. $22–$40. (202) 408-3100. sixthandi.org.

Books

ANNA WIENER Wiener will discuss her book Uncanny Valley: A Memoir. Politics and Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Jan. 20, 7 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919. politics-prose.com.

CÉSAR CUAUHTÉMOC GARCÍA HERNÁNDEZ Hernández will discuss his book Migrating to Prison: America’s Obsession with Locking Up Immigrants.

Politics and Prose at The Wharf. 70 District Square SW. Jan. 21, 7 p.m. Free. (202) 488-3867. politics-prose.com.

GARTH GREENWELL Greenwell will discuss his book Cleanness in conversation with Nate Brown. Politics and Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Jan. 18, 6 p.m.

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

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2019 PHOTO SLAM

ISABEL ALLENDE From the bestselling author of The House of the Spirits comes A Long Petal of the Sea, an epic novel spanning decades and crossing continents as it follows two people fleeing the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War in search of a place to call home.

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JEANINE CUMMINS Cummins will discuss her book American Dirt. Politics and Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Jan. 22, 7 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919. politics-prose.com.

JOSHUA YAFFA Yaffa will discuss his book Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin’s Russia in conversation with Julia Ioffe. Politics and Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Jan. 17, 7 p.m. Free.

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

KAY COSGROVE Cosgrove will discuss her book Tony Hoagland’s The Art of Voice: Poetic Principles and Practice in conversation with Jody Bolz and Richard McCann. Politics and Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Jan. 18, 3:30 p.m. (202) 364-1919. politics-prose.com.

L. H. STALLINGS AND LAZARO LIMA Stallings’ report A Dirty South Manifesto: Sexual Resistance and Imagination in the New South tracks reproductive freedom, trans rights, and HIV/AIDS across the New South. Stallings will be in conversation with Lazaro Lima, author of Being Brown: Sonia Sotomayor and the Latino Question, and the authors will discuss both books. Politics and Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Jan. 19, 1 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919. politics-prose.com.

NICHOLAS KRISTOF AND SHERYL WUDUNN The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists and bestselling authors of Half the Sky address the crisis in workingclass America while focusing on solutions to mend a half century of governmental failure in Tightrope.

Sixth & I Historic Synagogue. 600 I St. NW. Jan. 22, 7 p.m. $22–$40. (202) 408-3100. sixthandi.org.

CITY LIGHTS: MONDAY

ANNA WIENER

“Like Joan Didion at a startup” is how Rebecca Solnit, philosopher queen of the literary establishment, describes New Yorker contributor Anna Wiener’s new book, Uncanny Valley. (According to an interview in New York magazine’s The Cut, Wiener hates the comparison.) It’s also picked up pre-publication blurbs from other literary darlings like Jia Tolentino, and with good reason: Wiener’s memoir feels like a weirdly incisive fever dream, taking the reader up and down the hills of San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area as she goes from the world of publishing to the nascent realm of tech startups and finds herself surrounded by idealism and delight that quickly give way to greed, displacement, discrimination, and despair.

Adding to the book’s nonfiction surrealism, Wiener never names any of the companies in the Valley, not even the “online superstore that had gotten its start in the nineties by selling books on the World Wide Web” or the “searchengine giant down in Mountain View,” though they’re of course easy to identify. Wiener’s long, strange trip through the Silicon social scene and the companies that shape contemporary life is not to be missed—especially since we’re all along for the tech companies’ ride, whether we like it or not. Anna Wiener speaks at 7 p.m. at Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Free.

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

—Emma Sarappo

CITY LIGHTS: TUESDAY

SWAN LAKE

SARAH WAGNER Wagner will discuss her book What Remains: Bringing America’s Missing Home from the Vietnam War. Politics and Prose at The Wharf. 70 District Square SW. Jan. 22, 7 p.m. Free. (202) 488-3867. politics-prose.com.

SCOTT SIMON Simon will discuss his book Sunnyside Plaza. Politics and Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Jan. 21, 7 p.m. (202) 364-1919. politics-prose.com.

STEVE INSKEEP Inskeep will discuss his book Imperfect Union: How Jessie and John Fremont Mapped the West, Invented Celebrity, and Helped Cause the Civil War. Politics and Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Jan. 23, 7 p.m. (202) 364-1919. politics-prose.com.

TERRANCE HAYES Hayes, author of American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassins and other books, will read and discuss his work. Georgetown University, Copley Hall. 37th and O streets NW. Jan. 21, 7 p.m. Free. (202) 687-0100. georgetown.edu.

WILLIAM ROSENAU Rosenau will discuss his book Tonight We Bombed the U.S Capitol: The Explosive Story of M19, America’s First Female Terrorist Group.

Politics and Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Jan. 19, 3 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919. politics-prose.com.

WILLIAM WHEELER Wheeler will discuss his book State of War: MS-13 and El Salvador’s World of Violence in conversation with Thomas Edsall. Politics and Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Jan. 18, 1 p.m.

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

COLLIER W/ JOSE RAMIREZ FRIDAY JAN

17

AN EVENING WITH

RAY ON

MY MIND SATURDAY

JAN 18

SUN, JAN 19

RARE ESSENCE W/ DUPONT BRASS WED, JAN 22

AN EVENING WITH

TAIMANE, HER QUARTET & POLYNESIAN DANCER

Theater

FRI, JAN 24

1001 BLACK INVENTIONS 1001 Black Inventions introduces audiences to black inventors—and then throws a contemporary family into a Twilight Zonestyle world where none of the black inventors’ ideas were ever created. Anacostia Library. 1800 Good Hope Road SE. To Jan. 20. Free. (202) 715-7707. dclibrary.org/anacostia.

BLOOMSDAY A couple meets on a walking tour of James Joyce’s Dublin, but a misunderstanding drives them apart; 35 years later, they reunite and confront the missed opportunity. Washington Stage Guild at Undercroft Theatre. 900 Massachusetts Ave. NW. To Feb. 16. $25–$60. (240) 582-0050. stageguild.org.

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

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

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

Swan Lake conjures up images of dainty ballerinas in plumes of white, Natalie Portman in stark black-and-white makeup, and bands of toddlers in pink tutus doing a disjointed version of the ballet after a couple months of classes. But Matthew Bourne wants you to forget all that with his re-imagining of Tchaikovsky’s classic ballet. His version of Swan Lake features a feather-swaddled, bare-chested, all-male ensemble, turning the world of Swan Lake as you might’ve imagined it upside down. His non-traditional ballet has won three Tony Awards and an Olivier Award. Its radical vision is a breath of fresh air ahead of the St. Petersburg Ballet Theatre’s version, which comes to the center in February. The show runs to Jan. 26 at the Kennedy Center Opera House, 2700 F St. NW. $29–$109. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org.

—Chelsea Cirruzzo

VANESSA

AN EVENING WITH

WHITE FORD BRONCO SAT, JAN 25

AN EVENING WITH

EARLY ELTON TRIO

“THE HITS & THE DEEP SHOW” THU, JAN 30

AN EVENING WITH

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

DONNA THE BUFFALO SAT, FEB 1

TOWN MOUNTAIN

W/ BUFFALO WABS & THE PRICE HILL HUSTLE WED, FEB 5

SLATE PRESENTS

SLOW BURN LIVE IN DC: TUPAC SHAKUR & NOTORIOUS B.I.G. FRI, FEB 7

AN EVENING WITH

THE AMISH OUTLAWS

PIPELINE Nya, a single mother of a teenage son, is trying to give Omari the best education—and life—that she can. But when an incident at his private school threatens his future, Nya must fight for her child in a broken education system. Studio Theatre. 1501 14th St. NW. To Feb. 16. $20–$80. (202) 332-3300. studiotheatre.org.

SAT, FEB 8

RECENT TRAGIC EVENTS On Sept. 12, 2001, Waverly waits in her Minneapolis apartment to hear from her New York-based sister Wendy. Prologue Theatre at Atlas Performing Arts Center. 1333 H St. NE. To Feb. 16. $20–$35. prologuetheatre.org.

MARTINIS & MURDER PODCAST

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

NEWMYER FLYER PRESENTS

LOVE SONGS: THE BEATLES VOL. 7 WED, FEB 12

AN EVENING WITH

NBC UNIVERSAL’S THU, FEB 13

AN ACOUSTIC EVENING WITH

DONAVON FRANKENREITER

W/ CHRISTINA HOLMES

Tickets At TheHamiltonLive.com

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CITY LIGHTS: WEDNESDAY

FEMINIST BUZZKILLS OF COMEDY

You’ve heard it from a pundit on the radio or a talking head on TV or a guy you went on a bad first date with: Women just aren’t that funny. Oh, and women talking about feminism?

That’s the exact opposite of funny. Well, The Daily Show co-creator Lizz Winstead and the Abortion Access Force are here to prove them, and they’ll be spreading awareness about reproductive rights while doing it. Winstead has teamed up with AAF to host “The Feminist Buzzkills of Comedy,” and she’s got a packed stage. The show features Maysoon Zayid of the audiobook Find Another Dream, Joyelle Johnson, most recently seen in HBO’s Crashing, and transgender stand-up comedian Jaye McBride, plus special guests Jill Gonzalez and Chelsea Shorte. After you’re treated to comedy from some of the nation’s funniest women, Winstead will host a post-show talkback with local abortion providers and activists. What’s better than laughing and smashing the patriarchy, all in one evening? The show begins at 8 p.m. at Black Cat, 1811 14th St. NW. $15–$20. (202) 667-4490. blackcatdc.com.

—Sarah Smith

Film

BAD BOYS FOR LIFE Marcus Burnett and Mike Lowery reunite when an Albanian mercenary offers them an important bonus. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information)

CITY LIGHTS: THURSDAY

TOO MANY ZOOZ

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Heard High-Wire January, 2020 His friends are behind him as he goes hand over hand. Hand over hand, inching his way out over 395. His feet remain attached to the outer ledge of the 9th Street Expressway as he shuffles sideways, headed for the center of the bridge.

The boy grips the metal bars that make up the rail as he shuffles his way through the late afternoon air. His friends lag behind, still navigating the space where the overpass’ ledge meets solid earth—the place where you can get onto the outside of the bridge and start climbing.

He’s performing for a multitude of audiences. Drivers whiz by on the overpass he’s climbing along. He’s above another highway and in plain view of on- and off-ramps slowed by inexplicable traffic.

He continues his progress toward the center of the overpass. The cars continue their progress as well.

He disappears from rear-view mirrors. The children that were once closer than they appear become distant. The highways do what they are designed to do. They quickly move the drivers past this point. It leaves the audience with more questions than answers. Why are they doing this? Are his friends egging him on? Or urging him back? Will he be alright?

The cars behind them will inherit the same scene, with new information and a new set of questions: How did those kids get out on the bridge? They too will move on, left wondering for the rest of the day.

—Will Warren Will Warren writes Scene and Heard. If you know of a location worthy of being seen or heard, email him at wwarren@washingtoncitypaper.com.

Too Many Zooz gives a whole new meaning to underground music. The trio of Leo Pellegrino (baritone saxophone), Matt Muirhead (trumpet), and David Parks (drums) first gained notoriety for high-energy performances busking in the subways of New York City. Soon, videos of the group jamming in the Union Square station went viral, leading to the release of their debut LP Subway Gawdz. Now, they’re making the jump to Union Stage for a show featuring electronic producer Birocratic. Too Many Zooz primarily perform brass house music, a self-created genre blending jazz, funk, EDM, house, and African drumming. Belonging to the same avant-garde jazz tradition of groups like The Bad Plus and Moon Hooch, Too Many Zooz also glitters with an originality of their own, from implementing a car alarm as an instrument on their Christmas album to writing an EP about a zombie apocalypse. Oh, and they were hand-picked by Beyoncé herself to play on Lemonade, and the trio even earned a spot in her iconic CMAs performance with the Dixie Chicks, officially crowning Too Many Zooz with the Queen Bey stamp of approval. Too Many Zooz perform at 8 p.m. at Union Stage, 740 Water St. SW. $22–$30. (877) 987-6487. unionstage.com.

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I’m a 26-year-old bisexual woman with a history of self-harm. It hasn’t been much of an issue for the last few years, but my sex life has improved a lot in that time. I realized that I am quite submissive and masochistic, and I have found a wonderful Dominant partner who I’ve gotten to explore that kink with in a positive and healthy way. Last night, I watched the movie Secretary, and Maggie Gyllenhaal’s character is someone who self-harms but stops when she begins a Dom/sub relationship with her boss. Obviously this film is flawed and not exactly a great guideline for healthy BDSM relationships. (The power dynamic! The lack of consent! That weird come scene!) However, I did find myself relating to her character and am now questioning my motives for pursuing this kind of sexual relationship. I worry that I may be unintentionally using the pain that I lovingly experience from my partner as a replacement for the pain I used to experience from my bad habits. Or am I using BDSM as a form of harm reduction? Is it rational to even compare these two things?

—Seeking Careful Advice Regarding Recent Emotional Discovery

“I completely get where SCARRED is coming from,” says Lina Dune, the creator of Ask a Sub (askasub.com). “You’re discovering your kinks, and then the culture comes in with a not-entirely-accurate film or hot take, and it can taint your self-discovery.”

Dune is known as a “fairy submother” to her thousands of followers on Instagram, where she regularly posts about the D/s lifestyle and frequently highlights red flags that newbies to the kink scene may miss. (A Dom who insists he “doesn’t negotiate” with subs? Run away.)

While still relatively young herself, Dune has been active in the kink scene for many years and identifies as a 24/7 lifestyle sub.

“There’s a difference between self-harm and what SCARRED is doing with her Dom in a consensual, rational, measured environment with safe words in place,” says Dune. “And it’s telling that she didn’t write in to say, ‘Oh my god, I’m using D/s to self-harm!’ Rather, she’s worried she might be unintentionally or unknowingly engaging in some form of self-harm.”

While the fictional character played by Maggie Gyllenhaal stops engaging in acts of selfharm after entering into a D/s relationship with the fictional character played by James Spader, SCARRED, you don’t want to overinterpret that fictional narrative. Meaning, while the film suggested there was causal relationship between Gyllenhaal’s character entering into a D/s relationship and no longer engaging in acts of selfharm, that doesn’t mean the same is true for you.

“The culture infantilizes us all when it comes to owning our sexual desires—and that’s especially the case for women,” says Dune. “The message is: ‘You don’t know what you’re getting into’ or ‘You don’t realize the effect this is having.’

But if there’s one thing SCARRED is an expert on, it’s herself. It’s not like she’s in a trance when she’s with her Dom—no matter what the movies want us to believe about D/s relationships— which means she’s consciously choosing this for herself, and it feels healthy and good. Our bodies don’t usually lie, and I’d be willing to bet that selfharm did not feel that way.”

But even if it turns out you’re right—even if, worst-case scenario, joyful consensual kink in the context of an intimate connection with another person is somehow a replacement for solo acts of self-harm that isolated you— it could still be a good thing.

Dune suggests that you explore your feelings with a kink-positive therapist, and I want to second that. “From my perspective, it looks like SCARRED may have been manufacturing her own version of exposure therapy, which some somatic-based psychologists have suggested is exactly what negotiated, consent-

“But first things first: Get yourself a good therapist … and maybe a pair of noise-canceling headphones.” based kink play can provide,” says Dune. “For example, a person with a fear of being powerless may find it helpful to experiment with powerlessness in small, controlled doses in the context of a structured, negotiated BDSM situation. Looking a fear in the eye and then being able to back away from it at will and end with a cuddle and a check-in with your play partner can make you feel more powerful, not less.

So if SCARRED can consciously work through this with a therapist and her Dom, this BDSM relationship has the potential to be very healing, just as long as she maintains her autonomy within it.”

Follow Lina Dune on Twitter and Instagram @AskASub. —Dan Savage I’m a 26-year-old straight man, and I haven’t gotten laid in a while. I never actually got much to begin with. I lost my virginity late (age 23, also my first kiss) and had bottled up quite a bit of frustration until then (still got a lot of that left over). I also suffer from crippling social anxiety—so crippling, in fact, that I can’t even get to know people online, which rules out online dating. I have recently come to the realization that the only way for me to ever get better is to stop wanting to get laid so much. Which. Is. Hard. The first step is

learning to be okay with things as they are, which I am making progress with. But sex is everywhere: TV, movies, magazines. On the few occasions I do get to spend time with people, sex comes up a lot.

People seriously complain to me about not having “gotten any” for two months, and that’s not enough for them. I’ve heard people describe themselves as “late bloomers” because they had their first time at 17 or 19. I feel like such a freak. I have a male roommate who frequently has women over.

I hear them going at it through the wall and get panic attacks because of it. I need some advice on how to be okay with not getting any, not really having gotten much to begin with, and just generally being nervous and inexperienced and self-conscious and lonely. I know that’s a lot, but perhaps you have some valuable thoughts for me.

—After-School Special

Since there’s no way to strip the sex scenes and sexual references from every TV show you watch, magazine you read, or conversation you have, ASS, working on yourself is going to be a far better use of your time than demanding a remade/desexed world. And by “working on yourself,” of course I mean “getting your ass into therapy.” Whether or not you ever get laid again, getting professional help to address your frustrations and social anxiety is going to improve your life. (It will up the chances that you’ll get laid again, ASS, but no promises.)

And take heart: For every letter like yours I get from a straight guy, ASS, I get an identical letter from a straight woman. Which means there are a lot of women out there who are just as inexperienced, self-conscious, and lonely.

Once you’re in good working order—not perfect, just functional—you might be able to connect with one of those women or some other woman. (But no one wants to connect with a guy who gives off a ragey vibe, so please stay away from incel forums.)

And your inexperience makes you less freakish these days than you seem to realize.

While 54 percent of high-school students had had sex by age 18 in 1991, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, today only 41 percent of high-school students have had sex by age 18. Which means there are a lot of “late bloomers” out there, ASS. And while you’ve doubtless heard that confidence is attractive, you most likely haven’t been told that a person doesn’t have to be experienced to be confident. A guy just has to be comfortable enough in his own skin to be open about who he is, where he’s at, and what he’s looking for.

But first things first: Get yourself a good therapist … and maybe a pair of noise-canceling headphones.

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

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