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Last week’s cover story from Jeffrey Anderson was an archaeological dig of sorts, a reportorial unpacking of how a white, Trump-supporting Republican was able to win a citywide election—with surprising help from black voters. (“The One Republican D.C. Elected in November,” Jan. 13). Though Ashley Carter’s race against D.C. State Board of Education incumbent Mary Lord, a Democrat, was nonpartisan, the District is most assuredly not, which is why we felt the November political upset that was virtually ignored in the local media deserved some attention and explanation. Carter is a woman, after all, who spends her days working for a national nonprofit outfit that argues the gender wage gap is no big deal. Anderson’s reporting turned up a number of interesting nuances, among them the sense from activists east of the river that their disillusionment with current education representatives trumped (so to speak) party affiliation. But Carter also deployed some questionable campaign tactics, such as misleading mail pieces in Wards 7 and 8 that wrongly suggested she was politically aligned with former Mayor Vince Gray, who ran for and won his old seat on the D.C. Council in 2016. It turns out there was more. “Really, REALLY disappointed that the author of this article didn’t mention or ASK Ashley about her use of photos of children in her ads without the parents permission?” angieanderson1 commented on our website. “And when those parents tried to talk to Ashley about their children being used for the ads without their permission, she blocked them on Twitter and Facebook.” (More on this in Loose Lips, p. 7.) Others cited Carter’s victory as micro evidence that the GOP’s macro hopes for a second Donald Trump term could be realized four years from now. “Steve Bannon maybe too optimistic re @realdonaldtrump winning 40% of black vote in 2020 but path to 25-30 is there,” Nathan Field tweeted with a link to the piece. And from LeeLee came another prediction: “She won’t be re-elected.” —Liz Garrigan
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By Jeffrey Anderson D.C.’s real estate boom has spurred economic growth and enlivened civic debate on jobs, housing, healthcare, and education. And that debate is about to get even richer, with the pending launch of the D.C. Policy Center. Incubated in the offices of the Federal City Council, the prominent “citizens committee” through which the District’s business and professional community advocates for civic improvement, the center will analyze the local economy with a broad demographic focus that is distinct from the issue-based advocacy that ushered in progressive reforms during the last D.C. Council session. It’s also bound to challenge the work of the liberal D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute, which conducts research on budget, tax, and economic issues with a particular focus on lowand moderate-income residents. Loose Lips is a fan of lively civic debate and thinks it’s high time that D.C.’s liberal orthodoxy faces some competition in the forum of urban ideals and priorities. And with the Federal City Council’s imprimatur, which comes with the clout of former Mayor Anthony Williams and an impressive cast of power brokers, the center figures to shake things up around here. “There are lots of advocacy groups concerned with housing, jobs, and health care, but very few are looking at demographics and economic realities,” says Yesim Taylor, who was recruited to run the center. “The District gets targeted by national advocacy groups to showcase ideas that are not always fitting to our local economy,” adds the former fiscal impact analyst for the Office of the Chief Finance Officer and author of the District Measured blog. “We need to approach these issues with our own policy interests in mind.” The D.C. Council’s recent passage of the paid family leave bill is an example of why a broader economic analysis is necessary, Taylor says. The bill—which DCFPI and a coalition of businesses, nonprofits, and think
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tanks supported—provides the most generous leave in the country for sick employees, new parents, and workers with gravely ill relatives, a big win in the nation’s capital for employment advocates, she says. But the initiative will require a business tax increase to raise the $250 million annual price tag. And while D.C.’s retail sector is driving job growth, it still accounts for just 3 percent of total jobs in the city, Taylor says. “If there’s a need for negotiating better employer-employee relationships, then that’s fine, but it’s not a good time to put constraints on that sector,” she says, cautioning that regional job competition is fierce. “We had ‘One City,’ and ‘Pathways to the Middle Class,’” she says of the last two mayoral slogans, “but right now the only pathway to the middle class is towards Fairfax County.” Taylor says the center will offer a different economic vision than those of progressive organizations that are drawn to the District. But she stresses that its work will be nonpartisan and nonideological. “There is an element of an alternate worldview for us,” she says unapologetically. “But we are agnostic when it comes to politics. I’m an economist. I look at data. There’s nothing better for me than economic growth. Jobs, pay, etc., you can do none of these things without economic growth.” Ed Lazere, executive director of the DCFPI, sees the more business-minded center as a positive force for stimulating discourse on tax policy and economics. “In the past, the business community has expressed opposition to issues [such as paid family leave] without a lot of analysis to back it up,” Lazere says. “Having a policy center will help them express opposition through a more researchbased debate on how to keep the economy strong while allowing people to find jobs that enable them to live in the city.” The center will launch at the end of February out of the Federal City Council’s offices, with a goal of going independent in about a year. “It’s a fantastic arrangement to be sitting next to Anthony Williams every day with the ability to pick his brain,” says Taylor, who expects to publish two or three
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policy blog posts per week as well as longer policy studies with a full-time staff of four and a dozen “fellows” versed in the art of data visualization. “Our work will be new, based on data and analysis, and engaged in showcasing the District.” Now we kNow why Ashley Carter, the Trump-supporting at-large candidate for the D.C. State Board of Education who managed a surprising victory in November, was so squirrely about her campaign literature. After reading last week’s story about how Carter, a white Republican, managed to secure sizable margins in the mostly black wards east of the river, parents at Lee Montessori Public Charter School contacted LL to say Carter invaded their children’s privacy. They say Carter incorporated unauthorized photos of herself interacting with their kids into her campaign materials and social media accounts. Lee Grigsby, of Northeast, says he learned about the photographs from the school, which had hosted a regular event for educators and education advocates last spring known as First Friday. “My daughter was front and center on Carter’s campaign Facebook page,” Grigsby says. “It makes it look like a young Caucasian woman teaching black elementary school children. We tried to find out how this happened and we got no communication from the campaign. It’s a serious misstep for an educator, but aside from that, had she asked in advance we would’ve considered it. It was just upsetting at first. Now it seems egregious.” Vincenza Kamwendo, a Ward 4 resident, tells LL that the only waiver she signed was for her 8-year-old daughter to participate in the event and that the school told her photog-
raphers were not authorized to attend. Worse for Kamwendo is that the photographs seem as if Carter was instructing her child, when in fact the child was showing the candidate her math homework. (Carter used the photographs in campaign literature and in touting her volunteer efforts on Facebook as part of National Literacy Day.) “She’s not teaching me,” Kamwendo’s daughter told her when she saw her own image alongside Carter, who is pictured standing over the young student. “I wrote to the Carter campaign and said, ‘I don’t know you and don’t know what you stand for, but you used a photo of my child without my consent,’” says Kamwendo, who also complained to the Board of Ethics and Government Accountability and the D.C. Board of Elections. After she and other parents whose children appeared in Carter’s campaign material began complaining on Facebook and Twitter, the campaign blocked them, she says. D.C . o v e r s i g h t a g e n c i e s h a v e offered no recourse, so now the parents just want an apology. In a statement, Carter says she has not seen any formal complaints and believes her campaign materials complied with D.C. election laws. Sponsors of the event say that they ordinarily follow the host school’s photography policy and that they made a direct apology to the parents when the matter came to their attention. CityBridge Foundation, one of the event sponsors, issued a statement indicating that it will implement its own policy in the future independent of school policy. “We are confident that this new policy, clearly communicated before each tour, will avoid unauthorized photo use in the future,” the foundation says in a statement. CP
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DistrictLinE Society of Influence Is Kalorama the new Georgetown? Over the past several weeks, the stretch of Belmont Street NW between Massachusetts Avenue and Kalorama Circle has seen an unusual flurry of busy contractors and black SUVs. The sylvan street, which faces a sliver of Rock Creek Park, features the Tudorstyle residence that will soon be the post-White House home of Barack and Michelle Obama while daughter Sasha finishes high school at Sidwell Friends. A security booth already stands next to the front steps of the nine-bedroom house, and plans are in the works to install gates on both ends of the block for added protection. If the First Family ’s re location weren’t enough to put the stately Kalorama neighborhood on the global map, there’s the fact that incoming First Daughter Ivanka Trump and husband Jared Kushner are now settling there too. Along with their three children, Trump and Kushner will reside in a six-bedroom home on Tracy Place NW, around the corner from the Obamas and amid embassies of nations the world over as they advise daddy Donald on running the country. And they’ll be among yet more influential company in the coming months: Amazon founder and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos has purchased D.C.’s former Textile Museum a few blocks southeast, on S Street NW near 23rd Street, and is converting the 27,000-squarefoot property into what will eventually be the District’s largest private home—not to mention one of its most expensive. Bezos bought the site
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in October for $23 million, in cash. Kalorama is no stranger to distinguished residents. Five U.S. presidents—including Franklin D. Roosevelt, who rented a house on R Street when he was in the Navy, and Woodrow Wilson, whose house now operates as a museum next to Bezos’ new pied-àterre—lived in the historic neighborhood. So did ex-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who sold a seven-bedroom house on Kalorama Road in 2015, and Ted Kennedy, whose Tracy Place mansion sold in 2011. The old-money, quiet-type inhabitants of the area have long been called “cave dwellers.” Its proximity to downtown coupled with its enclave-y feel has attracted the powerful. “It has this quiet dignity hidden away from
deep pockets to access the neighborhood. “This is going to bring some notoriety where people will want to spend their money to say they’re in the same neighborhood as these high-profile people,” says Tom Gordon, a broker who works in the Logan Circle office of local firm Compass. “There’s some manner of herd effect. A buyer is saying something about themselves and that they can afford to live there.” The Obama, Trump, and Bezos properties now have stronger historic value as part of “Washington history,” he adds. So, why Kalorama and not the far reaches of Northwest? Or Bethesda? “I don’t think they want to be cast as living in the suburbs,” Gordon says. “They’re urban people in their heart and soul.”
the hustle and bustle,” explains Ellen L. Goldstein, a neighborhood commissioner for Kalorama who’s lived there since the 1980s and notes the many foreign languages that can be heard on its streets. “Georgetown is a wonderful village, but it has a huge commercial part. Tourists don’t really come to Kalorama, at least not until recently.” Storied though the neighborhood may be, Kalorama’s latest wave of inbound denizens will surely boost its cultural cachet. Whether that significantly affects its real estate, or those of adjacent neighborhoods like Adams Morgan and Dupont Circle, remains to be seen. Homes in Kalorama sell for millions as it is, requiring
Considerations about conspicuous consumption and urban bona fides aside, current Kalorama residents says they don’t know much about how the expected security will change their goings-about. “We’re still in the dark,” Goldstein notes, adding that some of her constituents are wondering whether the neighborhood’s street parking will be further limited (spots are already reserved for diplomats). But she’s excited to welcome the newbies as neighbors, and hopes they’ll feel comfortable walking through Mitchell Park, a central meeting space for the community between S Street and Bancroft Place that hosts popular movie nights in the summer.
“I just hope that my dog would be as friendly as possible and not embarrass me,” Goldstein quips. “He would go to the President or the First Lady in a heartbeat and look for a treat.” Ted Kennedy and Caspar Weinberger , Ronald Reagan’s Secretary of Defense, were regulars at the park. It was normal, except that security guards would follow them. Goldstein isn’t alone in her enthusiasm, particularly for having the Obamas as neighbors. (“There are many of us in the neighborhood who love them.”) Freddy Mancilla, a 26-year-old who has lived in a Kalorama apartment building east of Connecticut Avenue for the past nine months, says the neighborhood has a “chill, nuclear-family sort of schedule to it” and gets quiet after the sun sets. He doesn’t expect that to change much but thinks the newcomers could saunter out more in the area. “There has been a local surge in made-in-D.C. products and homegrown v e n d o r s ,” Mancilla says. “It would not surprise me to s e e t h e Obamas going out to support a business or local brand or local entrepreneur. And if they want anyone to join them as they go out to a happy hour or something, I will gladly volunteer. I will be their neighborhood ambassador. You can print that.” While paparazzi may arrive in Kalorama, residents themselves insist they won’t turn into busybodies. “People are very respectful of people’s privacy,” says Holly Sukenik, a Kalorama resident since 1981 who raised her kids there and co-founded the Friends of Mitchell Park group in the 1990s. “In the end, they’re just friendly people. Nobody goes over and says, ‘Can I have your autograph?’” CP Darrow Montgomery
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American flag bandanna, as was the fashion at the time, and looked slightly dazed at the news. What we would come to know as Operation Enduring Freedom was underway. Again, I associate trying to watch sports with that feeling of the world tilting underneath you. It seems clear to voters of all persuasions that the inauguration of Donald Trump represents a similarly seismic shift in the country. If you opposed him, you have probably been dazed and/ or incensed since the election; if you supported him, these initial months of outrage and drama have likely dimmed your excitement. For every column since the election, I’ve found myself wondering how I could possibly make sports feel important in the face of a national mood as fractious as I can remember. In fact, as if to rebuke the me of 15 years earlier, I even wondered if the NFL should consider canceling their games the Sunday following the election. It didn’t, of course, nor should it have. The thought was never realistic or even sensible. But it seemed ridiculous to me to think people would be able to focus on passing yards and defensive schemes when the country was in the middle of a pretty dramatic identity crisis. What brought me around at the time was math. The numbers pretty clearly said I was wrong. Ratings on the first day of post-election NFL games were up notably across the board. This partially validated the idea that the election had been a primary factor in driving down viewership, but the ratings were also basically saying “stick to sports.” Viewership has remained strong into the playoffs, and now Trump is about to take over for real. The local NFL squad needs to replace two coordinators. The hockey team has started another of its annual hot streaks. And even the NBA team is striving for mediocrity. So I’ll stick to sports. Donald Trump once took over part of another large affiliation of disparate interests with “U.S.” in the name: the United States Football League, or USFL. Through bullying tactics and media savvy, he pushed for dramatic reversals on existing policies until he got his way. His decisions led to the entire league failing and becoming a minor, amusing footnote in the history of American football. Which is probably why when he started expressing an interest in politics, no one told him to stick to sports. CP
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Dear DOOM: Dystopia is so hot right now, and it’s neat that you’ve found a way to incorporate the loss of bike lanes into our hypothetical impending disastrous future. And here GP thought the worst thing that could happen was complete nuclear annihilation of the planet, not something as horrifying as the removal of 70-something miles of stripes of white paint. It’s pretty unlikely that bike lane removal is high on the list of anyone’s priorities, but let’s indulge the possibility that, as part of some “EYE-OPENING” -PETER MARKS, WASHINGTON POST larger infrastructure program, the bike lanes of D.C. must be removed so our roads can be Made Great Again. What would happen to bicyclists? Nothing. At least at first. Most D.C. cyclists have already had to conRegional premiere by PHILIP DAWKINS Directed by NATSU ONODA POWER tend with the temporary closure of a bike lane JUST TWO WEEKS LEFT (most of the time due to construction) and At the Atlas Performing Arts Center | 1333 H St NE MosaicTheater.org | 202-399-7993 ext 2 have learned to live without. This isn’t the same as the loss of the entire network, but it’s a good reminder that the stripe on the road isn’t the sine qua non of cycling itself. Bike 1-19-17.indd 1 1/16/17 lanes help demarcate space on the road for cycling and thereby make it safer. Their absence would increase the likelihood of closer interaction with motor vehicles, and for a lot of cyclists this would be pretty dissuasive. The increase in bike lane miles has correlated with an increase in bicyclists, so it wouldn’t be surprising if their removal correlated with a reduction in numbers. Many cyclists, having been bitten by the cycling bug (note: not an actual bug), would carry on despite a more dangerous ride, but GP suspects that the disappearance of bike Date: Wednesday, lanes, and especially protected ones like those January 25th on 15th Street or Pennsylvania Avenue, would cause many people to reconsider their deciTime: 5:30—7:30 pm sion to ride. Trails, slower streets, and sideLocation: Bourbon DC walks would remain compelling alternatives, Adams Morgan but not sufficient to prevent some drop-off in the numbers of cyclists. 2321 18th St NW Washington, DC 20009 Where would these former bicyclists go? They’d crowd your bus. Or take up your parkTickets: $20 ing space with their newly purchased cars. Or Ticket includes 2 drinks and a selection stand on the left on the escalator to the Metro of passed and stationed hors d’oeuvres because cyclists know nothing of escalator etiquette and no one writes an escalator advice washingtoncitypaper.com/events column to answer their escalator etiquette questions. The remaining cyclists would also suffer reduced protection. Not just from the lack of dedicated space, but also because there’s a “safety in numbers” effect whereby more people on bikes makes it safer for everyone. Bicycling would carry on (it always does) but it’d definitely be less appealing. —GP
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Rebels With a Cause
How this year’s brand of uprising looks in the shadow of D.C.’s counterinaugural traditions By Liz Garrigan
Before there was Rex Tillerson or Betsy DeVos petrifying the masses, there was T.K. Jones. The undersecretary of defense under President Ronald Reagan would have been forgotten by history were it not for his 1981 comments suggesting that the United States could survive nuclear war—and therefore might want to engage in one. “You can make very good sheltering by taking the doors off your house, digging a trench, stacking the doors about two deep over that, covering it with plastic so that rainwater or something doesn’t screw up the glue in the door, then pile dirt over it,” he told The Los Angeles Times, adding for good measure, “If there are enough shovels to go around, everybody’s going to make it.” Journalist Robert Scheer parlayed Jones’ chilling comments into a book the following 12 january 20, 2017 washingtoncitypaper.com
2001 counter-inaugural march year entitled—what else?—With Enough Shovels: Reagan, Bush & Nuclear War. And it was that fear of nuclear war during the Reagan era—the end of The Gipper’s first term and the beginning of his second— that inspired D.C.’s grassroots punk activists. They created and nurtured a social movement blending music and politics that persists fully three decades later, and that will feature prominently this Inauguration Day. “At that time in particular, there was concern about nuclear war, and so a lot of protests focused around that,” says D.C.’s Mark Andersen, who co-founded that punk activist collective, Positive Force, in 1985. “What it looked like were mobile demonstrations that were intentionally provocative. You would block the streets. When police came to get you, you would get up and run, go to another place to kind of create the same sort of disruption. The basic idea was ‘no business as usual.’” He says the same idea is relevant today. “Trump is not like previous administrations or previous presidents,” he says. “He’s extra dangerous, and to the extent that we treat him like he’s just Ronald Reagan redone or
George Bush redone, I think we’re underestimating the danger.” While Saturday’s Women’s March may well attract several hundred thousand demonstrators, impartial observers predict Inauguration Day itself won’t give rise to the numbers of protesters and kinds of clashes seen during the first real counter-inaugural events in 1969, when Richard Nixon was sworn in at the height of the Vietnam War. “There can’t possibly be a comparison,” says the Washington Post’s Martin Weil, who has been a reporter there since 1965 and who covered some of the three days of protests then— complete with tear gas, thrown projectiles, and the rifle-wielding 82nd Airborne Division. For starters, access to the parade route is much more limited than it was then, and anxiety about homegrown disorder has taken a backseat to caution and security against more sobering, and deadly, global forces. “I think the fear is still greater of terrorism,” Weil says. “I don’t think people are so much concerned these days about domestic disturbances as they are terrified by the possibility of a terrorist act. With that concern, you’re just going to
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have many, many more security people around than ever before, and they’re going to have less patience with demonstrators, who they will perceive as just making their jobs more difficult.” That’s exactly what the event known as Disrupt J20 aims to do Friday. “Our goals are to disrupt the inauguration, disrupt access to the inauguration, and to show the diversity and strength of the resistance to Trump and everything he stands for,” says Samantha Miller, one of its organizers. Activists familiar with its planning say it is more likely to draw arrests and take on an anarchist tenor than more mainstream demonstrations such as the competing—or complementary, depending on your point of view—Resist J20. Positive Force will have representation at Disrupt J20, but the group isn’t monolithic—its all-volunteer ranks embrace varying methods and degrees of social activism. For his part, Andersen will be delivering groceries to low-income D.C. seniors on Inauguration Day as part of his work for We Are Family, a nonprofit and frequent beneficiary of Positive Force benefit concerts and other efforts. “My work, in a sense, you could see as a protest,”
he says. “Certainly for me, there’s also a sense that I want to make a positive statement about the America that I want. And that is an America where there is a place for everybody, where everybody matters and no one is forgotten.” But many of his friends will be involved in repudiating Donald Trump’s agenda in more confrontational ways. “You could see them as two sides of the same coin,” Andersen explains. “The critique of Trump and then kind of the positive example of what we want. So we’re not just simply against things.” Which would come as good news to Professor Elizabeth Sanders, a liberal academic who teaches social movements at Cornell University and is the author of the forthcoming book Presidents, War, and Reform. She finds much of the anti-Trump rhetoric counterproductive and lacking the practical grassroots policy work that helped to define the nuclear freeze movement and others that ultimately helped to change Reagan’s mind. “Here’s what worries me: When you just say, ‘You’re horrible, you’re evil, you’re not even rich, we hate you,’ he’s just going to fight back,” Sanders says of the president-elect. “That’s not the way to get to this guy. I think he is able to compromise. I mean, God knows that he doesn’t have any fixed principles that we’ve seen.” Citing the fact that the constitutional system has handed us Trump and Reagan’s willingness in particular to be swayed—an entire book, Beth Fischer’s The Reagan Reversal, was dedicated to this topic—Sanders argues that Democrats need a new strategy. And it must acknowledge and recognize the hopeless, downwardly mobile working class that elected Trump in the first place. “I live in upstate New York, where NAFTA killed every bit of industry we ever had,” Sanders says. “It’s a wasteland. There are real grievances there. And at the same time you’re shutting down industry and letting in massive waves of immigrants. This is not a formula for keeping the working class happy. They’re ready to try anything that looks like it’s really different. I’m just worried that these protests will be expressing anger and contempt and not be practical enough.”
In scope, Friday’s protests may more closely resemble the 2005 counter-inaugural events for George Bush’s second term, when demonstrators focused on the invasion of Iraq. “Bush had made a tremendous error and he had unhinged a region of the world that has enormous strategic importance,” Andersen recalls. “Again, there was a sense that things were spinning out of control and that we needed to stand up against that.” Protesters were so thoroughly doused in tear gas that day that Andersen’s wife’s eyes watered by simply being around demonstrators later that night at the Positive Force concert at Sanctuary Theatre. “That was a sign of how embattled that day had been.” But scope is one thing, and fear is another entirely. No one could have envisioned in 2005 that Bush would seem like such an open-minded and beloved patriot next to the 45th president in waiting 12 years later.
“Frankly, there’s no comparison,” says D.C. activist and filmmaker Robin Bell, whose film Positive Force: More than a Witness documents the activist group’s founding and work. “My neighbor is a 94-year-old woman who moved to D.C. from Southern Virginia during the riots in 1968,” he adds. “When we briefly talked about Trump, she’s seen WWII and she thinks this is as scary, if not worse. Words and thoughts create action, and unfortunately we’re up against people whose words and actions are extremely dangerous.” Precisely how Friday’s uprising will look is beyond what anyone can predict, he says. “We don’t know. Like honestly, we don’t know. In past inaugurations, sometimes the disruption would be turning their back to the president. … We’re up against people who have no moral qualm about lying to the American public. There is a lot more on the line for a lot of people.” CP
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And the citizens who attend them By Amanda Kolson Hurley UncoUth, hot-tempered, and shadowed by scandal: The new president was an outsider who made high society shudder and government officials gnash their teeth. His win after a toxic campaign was described by one leading statesman as a “calamity.” Even allies thought his cabinet picks were mediocre. But his supporters lionized him as the common man’s hero and poured into Washington to see him sworn in. Then they followed him, cheerwashingtoncitypaper.com january 20, 2017 13
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President Eisenhower is lassoed by cowboy actor and trick rider Montie Montana in 1953 blowout. “A lot of folks believe that 1953 was the biggest,” says Jim Bendat, the author of Democracy’s Big Day, a history of inaugurations. It had 73 bands, 59 floats, three elephants, an Alaskan dog team, and a turtle waving an American flag with its front legs. It lasted fourand-a-half hours. James Garfield put on a grand spectacle despite winning by the thinnest of margins: less than 10,000 votes out of 9 million. Perhaps more than any other president, he grasped the architectural possibilities of the occasion, building 39 large wooden arches at intersections between the Capitol and the White House. The main arch was 70 feet high and painted bronze, straddling 15th Street north of Pennsylvania. Garfield, inaugurated in 1881, was also the first president to build a formal reviewing stand, not a makeshift platform of wood and canvas.
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One of 39 triumphal arches erected for President Garfield’s inaugural parade, 1881 From Garfield’s day until the late 20th century, considerable thought went into the design of the president’s stand. For a time, the American Institute of Architects even helped the inaugural committee choose the designer in a competition. The master of the reviewing stand was Waddy Wood, the architect of many D.C. landmarks, including the U.S. Department of the Interior and what is now the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Wood designed a stand for Woodrow Wilson in 1913 and two for Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in 1933 and 1937. The first of FDR’s was designed to resemble Federal Hall, where George Washington was inaugurated. The second was an elaborate replica of the Hermitage, Andrew Jackson’s home. Presidential stands took a Modernist turn with Harry Truman’s inauguration, and the
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ing, down Pennsylvania Avenue as he made his way from the Capitol to the White House. That president was Andrew Jackson, and the impromptu procession on March 4, 1829, became the template for Inauguration Day parades. Before that, events marking the transfer of presidential power had been small and low-key. At his 1789 inauguration in New York, George Washington gave the inaugural address in Federal Hall and then walked to St. Paul’s Chapel for a service. There were fireworks that evening, but no parade. In 1801, Thomas Jefferson walked to the Capitol from his boarding house on New Jersey Avenue NW, took the oath of office, ate lunch, and walked back. Jackson’s parade was historic, but what happened after it became notorious. A mob of his salt-of-the-earth supporters descended on the White House, horrifying Washington socialites in their silks and furs. They shoved waiters and climbed on upholstered furniture in work boots. Eventually, a clever steward lured them outside with tubs of whiskey punch, but not before they broke china and dirtied the carpets. President-elect Donald Trump has been compared to Jackson many times. Of all the people who could have moved into the White House on Jan. 20, it is Trump—stager of fervid rallies, star of reality TV, builder of resorts and casinos—who seems most likely to arrive with a circus in tow. In fact, Trump’s inauguration will be on the skimpy side compared to others, given that organizers have struggled to attract performers. The chief of Trump’s inaugural committee promised that what it lacks in A-listers it will make up for with “a soft sensuality”—a weirdly NC17 phrase reminiscent of the discarded TrumpPence campaign logo that had a capital T, er, entering a P. Maybe it means the design of the parade and inaugural balls will reflect Trump’s rococo taste, or maybe the surrogate was just clumsily trying to manage expectations. Like Andrew Jackson, Trump has inspired thousands of ordinary citizens to come to Washington to watch him ascend to the presidency. The difference is that many of them are coming to protest him from the sidelines, while his formal parade will feature the Mid America Cowgirls Rodeo Drill Team, the Boy Scouts, the U.S. Border Patrol Pipes and Drums, and school marching bands from distant parts of the country (D.C. bands declined the invitation). About 8,000 people will be involved in the one-hour event, a big drop from the 15,000 who took part in Barack Obama’s first parade in 2009. Parades were more extravagant a century ago. At Teddy Roosevelt’s inauguration in 1905, 50,000 flags decorated Pennsylvania Avenue, and the Apache chief Geronimo and the Rough Riders drew huge crowds. Roosevelt watched his parade from a neoclassical reviewing stand in a “Court of Honor” that stretched between 15th and 17th Streets NW, in imitation of the World’s Fair of 1893 (Chicago’s famous “White City”). At that time, Pennsylvania Avenue merchants set up general viewing stands in front of their stores and sold tickets to the public. Dwight Eisenhower’s parade in 1953 was a
design for John F. Kennedy’s in 1961 by local architect Robert Paul Brockett—a simple pavilion with a slightly upturned roof and rows of supporting piers—remains the default today. Of course, the pavilion is now fitted with a carapace of bulletproof glass and other security measures. Safety and comfort, not visual symbolism, have become the overriding concerns. Trump’s stand looks a lot like those used by Obama and George W. Bush. But he has broken with tradition another way—by firing Charlie Brotman, the announcer for every parade since 1957. That makes inauguration historian Bendat indignant. “I think it’s the most petty thing I’ve ever heard,” he says. (Brotman has been hired as an announcer for NBC.) Another unexpected move by Team Trump was dismissing the commander of the D.C. National Guard, effective the minute Trump takes office, 12 p.m. on Inauguration Day. The motivation is unclear, but there will be an abrupt change of command as the city churns with Trump supporters, protesters, and tens of thousands of law enforcement and troops. There were protests at George W. Bush’s inaugurations and at Richard Nixon’s in 1969, when opponents of the Vietnam War camped on the Mall and threw rocks and tomatoes at the presidential motorcade. But the Women’s March and other demonstrations planned for this inauguration weekend could dwarf those. Two hundred bus groups have applied to park at RFK Stadium on Jan. 20 and 1,200 on the day after, when the Women’s March on Washington is being held. Protesters may end up outnumbering supporters, which would be a first. “The protest that takes place on the Saturday will be probably the largest protest for an inauguration weekend we’ve ever seen,” Bendat says. On Inauguration Day itself, thousands of protesters as well as supporters are expected to line the parade route. (D.C. anticipates 800,000 people in total.) Riding past his ethically compromised hotel in the Old Post Office, with gold letters spelling out his name on the facade, will the new president get out of the limo and pose for photos? The ANSWER Coalition, an activist group, has received a permit to demonstrate in the west end of Freedom Plaza, probably within earshot of the hotel. Despite riding in armored limos for their protection, most first couples choose to walk part of the mile-and-a-half-long route. (The one couple that walked the whole way was, unsurprisingly, the Carters.) Will the Trumps walk any part of the route? The president-elect thrives on adulation but loathes criticism, and is rumored to wear a bulletproof vest out of fear for his safety. The best thing he could do to restore confidence at such a fraught time is put duty over nerves and ego. Trump could get out of the car near the National Archives where the nation’s founding documents are kept to signal deference to their principles. He could walk hand in hand with Melania down the avenue, accepting the jeers of protesters as well as the applause. He could show that he is humbled by the massive responsibility that now rests on his shoulders. CP
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CultuRe bashes For better or worse, Donald Trump will become President of the United States of America this week. (Who are we kidding? It will, with 100 percent certainty, be for worse. Much worse). But among D.C. residents, there’s a broadly shared sentiment: Not My President. There’s no shortage of protests and demonstrations happening on Inauguration Day and all weekend long, but the resistance isn’t limited to the streets. Here are just a few of the many anti-inaugural events happening this weekend. —Matt Cohen
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What: The folks at Brightwood’s 16th Street House are putting together an entire weekend of anti-inaugural music and arts programming. Local and regional acts like War on Women, Olivia Mancini & The Mates, Kid Claws, Go Cozy, Lowercase Letters, and about a dozen more will perform throughout the weekend, with all proceeds going toward Planned Parenthood and the Southern Poverty Law Center. Where: 16th Street House, 16th Street and Van Buren Street NW. Jan. 19-22. $5 suggested donation. An entire weekend of counter-inaugural Middle Fingers protest music at a DIY venue. Doesn’t get much more punk than that.
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What: Busboys and Poets teams up with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and
Culture for a star-studded evening to “celebrate the accomplishments and successes of the past four years and the vow to continue to be the change we want to see in the world.” Where: National Museum of African American History and Culture, 1400 Constitution Ave. NW. 8 p.m. Sold out. With an awe-inspiring guest list of Middle Fingers outspoken celebs, artists, writers, and activists that includes Solange, Angela Davis, Danny Glover, Alice Walker, Esperanza Spalding, Ashley Judd, José Andrés, George Pelecanos, and more, you’d think Busboys and Poets would be bold enough to not label this a “nonpartisan event.” I get it: This is a Smithsonian venue, but still: C’mon, Andy Shallal.
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cluding Priests, Waxahatchee, Speedy Ortiz’s Sadie Dupuis, Pure Disgust, Flasher, Free Children of Earth, Mellow Diamond, and more. Where: Black Cat, 1811 14th St. NW. 6:30 p.m. $20. This is the counterinaugural show to be Middle Fingers at, folks. Some of the region’s finest, and most politically vocal, musicians gather for a night of anti-fascist sounds, all benefitting two great local organizations, Casa Ruby and ONE DC.
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What: Jacobin magazine sponsors an “anti-inauguration” event at the Lincoln Theatre with a panel of revered writers, journalists, and deep thinkers: Naomi Klein, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Anand Gopal, and Owen Jones. Where: The Lincoln Theatre, 1215 U St. NW. 8 p.m. Sold out, but will be livestreamed online. The Anti-Inauguration isn’t going to be Middle Fingers a transgressive act of resistance so much as it’ll be a tame,
though enlightening and thoughtful, conversation with some of the world’s foremost writers on culture, race, and politics.
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What: A “community arts festival and fundraiser” featuring performances by local musicians Charmaine Michelle, Elena & Los Fulanos, and Brian Farrow & Friends. These musicians, along with D.C. artists of all backgrounds, “won’t hold back.” All the profits will benefit DC Arts & Humanities Education Collaborative. Where: Edgewood Arts Center, 3415 8th St. NE. 7 p.m. $15-$18. With a diverse bill of local favorites, Middle Fingers including Latin bilingual folk-rock group Elena & Los Fulanos, My America Artsfest is a true gathering of artistic resistance during inauguration weekend.
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Spouses Koray and Sahar Bozkurt opened side-by-side businesses in Ivy City. When couples Wed, they often come away with his and hers bathrobes, wine glasses, or towels monogrammed with their brand new initials. But newlyweds Koray and Sahar Bozkurt, who married in Turkey in July 2015, are doubling down on their commitment with his and hers businesses in Ivy City. Koray chose the developing Northeast D.C. neighborhood to launch his Turkish fast-casual chainlet, Pidzza, which opened on Jan. 4 and pays homage to his home country. He selected a 2,500-square-foot space at 2004 Hecht Ave. NE, determined to split it in two. First, he wanted to open a restaurant and bar next to Pidzza, but when developer Matthew Jemal of Douglas Development shook his head at the thought, he turned to his wife. She had a dream, too—opening Sip & Dry. The glitzy salon-meets-bar pairs blowouts with cocktails, and yearns to be the set for a Sex in the City comeback. Though Koray’s hair is too short to benefit from a professional blow-dry, he did enough research to feel comfortable backing his wife as what he calls “her sponsor,” or silent partner. “During the last two or three years, I’ve been learning, checking out places,” he says. “I really trust her with all this, but I’d hesitate to invest big money if I didn’t see a future in it too.” Koray’s business opened first. Pidzza fuses traditional pizza with boat-shaped Turkish pides. “It’s much healthier than other pizza places,” Koray says. “With our signature ones, we use no sauce and minimal cheese.” Because the specialized dough (made inhouse daily) is so thin, sauce would cause the pidzzas to get soggy. Customers can build their own, but there are also suggestions, like “The Brekkie” with candied bacon, baby spinach, Gruyere cheese, and two sunny side up eggs. (Take cover when those eggs burst, the yolks flow like lava.) Pidz-
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& Dry. Like her husband, she kept the bones of the space, but she stained a pillar pink and painted one wall in a striped pattern giving it the hard and soft qualities of industrial chic design. Customers enter and choose from a menu of blowout styles, each paired with a specific cocktail. The “Sue Ellen,” for example, leaves ladies with big bouncy curls and comes with a Julep-impersonating drink called “The Whiskey Slap.” Then there’s the “São Paula,” which marries a Brazilian blowout with a South American, cachaça-based cocktail called a Caipirinha. Each blow-dry and cocktail pairing costs $48 before tax and tip. Guests are free to mix and match cocktails and hairstyles, and there’s also beer and wine. The bar typically stays open a couple hours later than the last blowout appointment. While Drybar pours complimentary bubbly, Sahar says Sip & Dry is the only business in the D.C. area with both a salon license and a full liquor license. Sahar conceptualized the cocktails, but her sister Shabby Bakhtary helps implement them. Infusions are the focal point of the cocktail list. Sip & Dry’s bar has house-made pear and ginger-infused vodka, mint-infused whiskey, and pineapple-infused vodka, to name a few. “I wanted to bring healthy ingredients so at least there’s something fresh,” she says of her fresh fruit infusions and purées. “Even when I eat, there has to be one fresh aspect, that’s how I was raised. We never ate a meal with-
out a salad.” Sahar was born in Afghanistan in 1984. A year later Russia invaded her country. “We were refugees in Pakistan for a couple of years, then my grandfather was able to sponsor us and we moved to Falls Church [Virginia],” she explains. Her mother is a hairstylist and so is her aunt. “Actually all of my Afghan friends, their moms are hairstylists—it’s a very Afghan thing,” Sahar explains. She’s grateful to her parents for setting her up for success. “When my parents came to this country, my dad only had $35 in his pocket, four kids, and a wife,” she says. Pointing to the Sip & Dry space, she continues, “I look at this now, and think, ‘You guys did something right.’ I can’t take credit for this—I am who I am because of their sacrifices.” Likewise, her family is in awe that she’s a small business owner at age 33. Her dad loves all but one thing about Sip & Dry. “He’s like, ‘Maybe you shouldn’t have done the bar thing.’ And my mom has never had a drink in her life. But other than that they’re proud.” Sahar wasn’t willing to sacrifice the cocktail side of her business despite her family’s strict views about alcohol. “The beauty industry is supposed to be fun—it’s too fussy and structured, I don’t like that,” she says. “There’s nothing wrong with getting your hair done and going out and being a little trashed when you get there.” CP Eatery tips? Food pursuits? Send suggestions to lhayes@washingtoncitypaper.com
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what we ate this week: Vergara meatballs with fonduta and tomato sugo finto, $12, Casa Luca. Satisfaction level: 5 out of 5. what we’ll eat next week: Manila clams, garlic, and oloroso sherry, $10 for a small portion, Joselito Casa de Comidas. Excitement level: 4 out of 5
Women’s Munch on Washington By zach rausnitz, Caroline Jones, Stephanie rudig, and Matt Cohen Tens of thousands of women (and others who consider women to be human beings) will descend on the District this weekend to march. While the dawn of the Trump presidency will ruin many appetites, a boisterous walk should make even the queasiest Americans hungry. Marchers hoping to resist the patriarchy should look no further than these D.C. restaurants—all owned by women. Pizzeria Paradiso Owner and Chef Ruth Gresser has a long history of supporting women’s issues: She’s the former president of the board of directors of Women Chefs and Restaurateurs, and she was featured in Hungry, a documentary about female chefs and sexism in the food industry. On Saturday you can stop by any of Pizzeria Paradiso’s locations for delicious, wood-fired pizza and pours of Denizens Lowest Lord (produced by a majority female-owned brewery). Proceeds from beer sales will be donated to the League of Women Voters. 2003 P St. NW; 3282 M St. NW; 124 King St., Alexandria. Fare Well The vegan diner/bakery/bar mashup from Doron Petersan offers a little bit of everything. Fuel up for a day of marching with a coconut milk latte and grab-and-go bakery items in the morning, or end the day with savory bites like cauliflower buffalo dip and a craft cocktail. 406 H St. NE.
Letena This all-day Ethiopian spot, which opened in October, is owner Yamrot Ezineh’s first restaurant venture. The seasonally rotating menu features lots of vegetarian options, available for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. 3100 14th St. NW. Hank’s Oyster Bar Jamie Leeds opened Hank’s Oyster Bar in Dupont Circle in 2005, and the popular seafood restaurant now has locations in Capitol Hill and Alexandria too. Chef Leeds also owns Hank’s Cocktail Bar in Petworth and Hank’s Pasta Bar in Alexandria. 1624 Q St. NW; 633 Pennsylvania Ave. SE; 1026 King St., Alexandria.
Pie Sisters Cupcakes are over. Pie will never die. The three Blakely sisters sell perhaps the best pie in D.C. here by the slice, steps from the Key Bridge in Georgetown. 3423 M St. NW.
Smoked & Stacked Marjorie Meek-Bradley made her name in D.C. as a finedining chef at restaurants like Zaytinya and Ripple, but in the aftermath of her turn on Top Chef, she turned her attention to something simpler: pastrami sandwiches. In addition to beefy offerings, her Shaw joint supplies breakfast sandwiches, fish, and vegetarian options for eaters preferring something less messy. 1239 9th St. NW. Denizens Brewing Co. Spouses Emily Bruno and Julie Verratti, former government workers, founded their Silver Spring brewery with brother-in-law and head brewer Jeff Ramirez in 2014. Denizens has developed more than 45 beers in less than three years of operation and remains the only women- and minority-owned brewery in the state. 1115 East-West Highway, Silver Spring.
Buffalo & Bergen We know D.C. isn’t a bagel town. It’s not New York City either. But Gina Chersevani’s Buffalo & Bergen, situated in Union Market, does the impossible: good bagels and a retro New York soda shop vibe that isn’t corny or annoying. We know, it was hard for us to admit that, too. 1309 5th St. NE.
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Toli Moli The mother-daughter tandem Jocelyn Law-Yone and Simone Jacobson serve Burmese falooda, a dessert drink featuring seeds, nuts, and jellies, made from scratch at a stall in Union Market. Make a meal out of it with one of their savory noodle salads. 1309 5th St. NE.
Turning Natural This juice bar in Anacostia from owner Jerri Evans won’t cleanse the thought of President Trump from your mind, but maybe it’ll boost your immune system. Also on offer: smoothies, black bean burgers, vegan desserts, and more. 2025 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave. SE.
Prescription Chicken Do Valerie Zweig and Taryn Pellicone—the soup mavens behind Prescription Chicken—have psychic abilities? Probably not, but every order we’ve received has come with a note on a brown lunch bag saying to “feel better.” That’s because Prescription Chicken operates under the belief that when you’re feeling sick or hungover, the only cure is chicken noodle or matzoh ball soup. And don’t worry, vegans: They make soups for you, too. Available from delivery services such as UberEats, Postmates, and DoorDash.
Chaia At Chaia, Suzanne Simon and Bettina Stern serve vegetarian tacos that feel like an indulgence. Try the butternut squash taco with goat cheese, chipotle yogurt, and mint or the creamy kale and potato taco with pepper jack cheese, poblano crema, green sauce, and pickled onions. All come in homemade corn tortillas. 3207 Grace St. NW.
Centrolina Amy Brandwein’s Italian restaurant in the upscale CityCenterDC development downtown is not exactly inexpensive, but the light-filled dining room here feels inviting alongside ultra-fancy shops like Hermès and Burberry. Centrolina also has a grab-and-go market with meats, cheeses, produce, pastries, coffee, and more. 974 Palmer Alley NW.
restaurant Nora Those in a historic mood on inauguration weekend might consider dining at the first-ever certified organic restaurant in America. It’s also a good fit for those feeling wistful about the end of an era: Nora Pouillon announced in October that she plans to retire and sell her eponymous fine-dining restaurant. 2132 Florida Ave. NW.
esencias Panameñas Chef and owner Yadira Stamp aims to teach District eaters about Panamanian cuisine at this Park View restaurant. She imports ingredients like Corvina, a white flaky fish found only in southeastern Panama, and serves her interpretation of traditional dishes like arroz con pollo, oxtail with pigeon peas, and fried plantains. 3322 Georgia Ave. NW.
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Alt Fight
Undeterred by threats from the alt-right, D.C.’s DIY community soldiers on. By Matt Cohen It’s scary when strangers on the internet come after you. Last month, my band played a show at Rhizome DC, a nonprofit community space in Takoma housed in a cozy standalone farmhouse that frequently hosts experimental concerts, transgressive film screenings, and music workshops. Hours before the show, a friend called me with a warning. “Did you know that your show is being targeted on 4Chan?” he said. “There’s a thread on an alt-right channel to investigate different DIY venues in D.C., and they specifically list your show tonight.” Sure enough, there it was: “Shady-sounding places in DC with ALL AGES shows happening THIS WEEKEND … Rhizome. Investigate, gather evidence, report.” Normally, this kind of internet chatter would rarely be taken seriously in D.C.’s music community. But after the Dec. 2 Ghost Ship warehouse fire in Oakland, California, that killed 36 people, and the Dec. 4 shooting at Comet Ping Pong, in which 28-year-old Edgar Maddison Welch drove from North Carolina to “self-investigate” so-called Pizzagate, it’s irresponsible to take any of these threats lightly. Both of these incidents have motivated alt-right trolls on the darkest corners of the internet to target DIY spaces across the country, trying to get them shut down by authorities, or worse. “These places are open hotbeds of liberal radicalism and degeneracy and now YOU can stop them by reporting all such places you may be or may become aware of to the authorities, specifically the local fire marshel [sic],” read a comment on one of the original 4Chan threads, which has since been archived. Another commenter called for the targeting of people in DIY communities as if they were enemies of war: “Watch them and follow them to their hives. Infiltrate social circles, go to parties/events, record evidence, and report it. We’ve got them on the run but now we must crush their nests before they can regroup! MAGA my brothers and happy hunting!” Ultimately, nothing happened at Rhizome, and the show was a success. Dozens of people came to enjoy an evening of experimental music in one of D.C.’s best house venues. Neither the police nor the fire marshall were called to shut down the show. No one with any nefarious agenda showed up. There wasn’t a shred of negative energy felt the entire night. Still, it was hard to ignore the underlying fear and anxiety these internet threats created. Fear and anxiety that, a month later, still lingers among underground music communities in the D.C. area and nationwide. As a result, many house venues and promoters have questioned whether to keep hosting shows at all. “We definitely had some conversations about what to do,” says Steve Korn, one of the founding board members of
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CPArts Rhizome. “It was weird, seeing our name on these message boards. Comet Ping Pong made it more disturbing than it would be.” Korn and the rest of the volunteers that make up the Rhizome board eventually decided to carry on with business as usual. Korn says that he thinks the internet chatter about Rhizome and D.C.’s house venues in general has died down, but there’s still an enduring, if minor, concern. “We’re just going to keep doing what we do,” he says. “But it’s obviously important to us that our space is safe for the people who come here.” rhIzome operates dIfferently from most DIY venues in D.C. It’s technically a house, but no one lives there. It’s zoned for commercial use (before Rhizome, the house was a salon called Denita’s Hair & Nails) and is funded by donations and arts grants. Bathtub Republic, a house venue in Northeast D.C. where Leah Gage lives and produces shows with her roommates, is an actual home. Gage, who also performs in the bands BRNDA, Stronger Sex, and The North Country, says that although her address “was posted a few times on a couple of 4Chan and reddit threads,” they haven’t experienced any trouble from alt-right trolls. But the chatter has nonetheless forced them to be extra vigilant. “We talked as a house … and we decided to go on as normal, but just be sort of extra careful not to break any rules,” Gage
says. Among those rules: ensuring that all shows end before the local noise ordinance goes into effect at 10 p.m. Gage also says they’re trying to stay off the radar more than they usually would. “The main thing is that we’re not publishing our address,” she says. “Most people that know us know where we are. I’ve let all of our performers know that are coming to play … don’t put our address on any promotional materials. We’re being extra careful. It’s a shame to feel that you’re opening up your house to the public in a communal way and to have this fear attached to it now.” Another resident at a different DIY house in D.C. who wished to remain anonymous told me that a show at his house mentioned in the same thread as my show was reported to the fire marshall in attempts to get it shut down. He says the fire marshall said the complaints were unfounded and had no intention of shutting down shows at the house, since no rules were broken. The show went on as planned, but like Bathtub Republic, the residents are extra vigilant when releasing information about upcoming shows online. In the wake of the Ghost Ship warehouse fire, there’s been a rash of raids and evictions of similar warehouses and DIY spaces across the country. In Nashville, Queen Ave, Drkmttr, and The Glass Mènage were all shut down by the city’s fire marshall. In Baltimore, the cherished DIY arts space Bell Foundry shut down last month. Its residents were evicted and the building was condemned.
The Ghost Ship tragedy was a sobering wake-up call for DIY spots across the country to make sure that they’re up to code so that a similar disaster won’t happen, but the reality is that it’s not so easy for these places to pay to make that happen. As a result, these spaces are being hastily, and often violently, closed—with residents evicted at a moment’s notice—instead of working with the city to make the structures safer. In Seattle, the city’s arts commission published an open letter to the mayor, calling on him to work to help bring these places up to code, citing the socio-economic climate that leads people to live in nontraditional spaces. “[F]or many who inhabit noncompliant spaces, it is not a choice to inhabit or program unsafe space, but a reality driven by economic circumstance,” the letter reads. “To think of this as a choice is a mistake allowed by economic privilege. While many would indeed choose to live, work, and gather in nontraditional venues regardless of their financial situations, it is the safety component that is too often inhibited by limited access to money.” “It’s concerning that these fascists and these alt-right assholes are preying on these scenes,” says Hasan A, a DIY promoter who books punk and metal shows in D.C. and Baltimore. “It really sucks that it takes the tragedy in Oakland as a wake-up call to get these spaces up to code. Because a lot of these spaces thought, ‘Oh, this could’ve been us.’” CP
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Fugazi’s “Runaway Return” I lIke two-sInger bands. I think they’re intrinsically cool. I like the duality. You get two distinct voices and personae to focus on or identify with. Some of my personal favorite examples: The Beatles (four singers, actually!), A Tribe Called Quest, Public Enemy, The Clash, Tricky (with Martina Topley-Bird as his “female half”), and Fugazi. One thing that happens with two-singer bands is the listener often begins to frame the singers in contrast to each other. Their voices come to represent emotional archetypes in our heads. For a lot of Beatles fans, Paul is the sweet and sentimental one (“It’s getting better all the time...”) and John is the acerbic counterweight (“It can’t get much worse.”) When we talk about Fugazi, we tend to ascribe certain polar traits to Ian MacKaye and Guy Picciotto. Ian is direct lines, hard angles, confrontation, straightforwardness, and (most famously?) fiery didacticism. By contrast, Guy is curves, ellipses, abstraction, poetry, obliqueness, and mystery. Ian is an icon/champion of youth: he advocates for all ages access and inclusion. His lyrics are galvanizing and accessible. Guy is a more exotic, elusive creature. Or so the stereotypes go. But here’s the thing: we usually get it wrong. And so it is with Fugazi. This simplification happens despite a large catalog of evidence to the contrary. Some of the band’s most challenging, impressionistic, richly nuanced, delicately coded songs are sung by Ian (“Facet Squared” and “Pink Frosty”). And some of the band’s most conspicuous youth advocacy songs are actually sung by Guy (“Target” and “Latin Roots”). This leads me to “Runaway Return,” my favorite Guy Picciotto youth-advocate song. The song opens with the provocative line “Out of the ashtray! Into the ashtray!” It incisively captures the thesis of the song in just seven words. The metaphor is bare: A kid runs away to escape home, only to discover the outside world is equally terrible. That’s the song in a nutshell, pretty much. The tone is compassionate, if despondent. One imagines it might even be autobiographical. (It’s worth noting, however, that the song is written in second person, present tense.) “There’s nothing living, there’s nothing given / Weekender’s vision turns to working shoes / There’s nothing living, there’s nothing given / Weekender gives in, puts on his working suit /
There’s nothing waiting, there’s nothing imminent / Nothing forgiven for your young idea / There’s nothing waiting, there’s nothing imminent / Nobody seems surprised / Runaway returns...” A young teen (who has possibly endured abuse or neglect) runs away from his family and haplessly tries to forge a new life for himself. Though Guy calls the kid a “weekender,” which seems possibly dismissive, he expresses only anguish and sympathy for his innocence. There is repeated reference to “your young idea,” a phrase that suggests idealism and nobility. The poor kid ran away with no plan or knowledge of how the outside world works because... well, how could he?! He’s just a kid -- something all of us are at some point in our lives. It is at this point we encounter one of Guy’s most clever tropes: dub lyrics. In the chorus, Guy sings “Home / son / doing / gone.” The words are monosyllabic, evocative, and elemental and they land on a syncopation. They don’t exactly make sense in order, but we can feel something has been subtracted. When the progression come around again, Guy fills in the spaces. “Welcome home / misplaced son / This is what we were doing / while you were gone...” With this structure, Guy introduces us to the negative space first before offering context. This puts the listener in the same circumstance as the kid in the song... confused and desolate, but with the scene gradually becoming clearer. And the use of the word “misplaced” is devastating. Guy lays out the scene explicitly. The kid has returned home in the middle of some kind of cocktail party or suburban barbecue. And it becomes tragically apparent that nobody in the family even noticed the kid was ever gone. Nobody was alarmed. There was no search. It’s a pretty depressing story. And the music seems intent on rendering the narrative with cinematic clarity. The song becomes almost literal. Guy sings “Why don’t you sit down?” And with those words, the whole band suddenly gets quiet and still. They play two extremely slow, minimal, contemplative chords. We’re forced to imagine the scene: a melancholic kid looking around a room, a festive party in full swing, and the kid feels only isolation and hopelessness. The song builds up again and Guy sings “Welcome back!” and it’s... just crushing. Plainly conveying youth experience is the kind of populism we tend to ascribe to Ian. But here it is Guy who does it. Bands are complex. —Chad Clark
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BIRchmeRe 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria. (703) 549-7500. Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder. 7:30 p.m. $39.50. birchmere.com. hIll cOuntRy BaRBecue 410 7th St. NW. (202) 556-2050. Kevin Fowler. 9:30 p.m. $15–$20. hillcountrywdc.com.
Jazz
Blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Roy Ayers. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $43–$48. bluesalley.com. kennedy centeR mIllennIum stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. The Wee Trio. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org. mR. henRy’s 601 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. (202) 5468412. Aaron L. Myers II. 8 p.m. Free. mrhenrysdc.com. tWIns Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Luis Faife Quartet. 9 p.m.; 11 p.m. $15. twinsjazz.com.
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flash 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Dustin Zahn, Gaetano Parisio. 8 p.m. $8. flashdc.com. u stReet musIc hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889. Ben Nicky, Crazy 88s. 10 p.m. $10–$20. ustreetmusichall.com.
saturday rock
Bethesda Blues & Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. Carl’s Rare Roast Beef Band. 8 p.m. $10. bethesdabluesjazz.com.
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Black cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. The Anti-Ball featuring Antibalas, Kyp Malone, Nels Cline, Kimya Dawson, and others. 8 p.m. $30. blackcatdc.com. cOmet pIng pOng 5037 Connecticut Ave. NW. (202) 364-0404. We Were Black Clouds, Foxhall Stacks, Loud Boyz. 10 p.m. $12. cometpingpong.com. dc9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Susto, Heyrocco. 7 p.m. $12. dcnine.com.
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There’s no shortage of options for music therapy after the presidential inauguration. For those looking to travel a more escapist route, head to H Street NE to find boundarypushing guitarists Steve Gunn and Lee Ranaldo, experimental folkie Meg Baird of Heron Oblivion, and Ranaldo’s Sonic Youth bandmate Thurston Moore. Gunn’s latest album, Eyes on the Line, is one of his most expansive recordings to date and could inspire wanderlust in even the most entrenched homebody, but on stage with Ranaldo, Baird, and Moore, be prepared for anything to happen. This quartet includes experienced experimentalists, so expect them to dig into drawn-out jams and build into aleatoric pinnacles. In recent years, Moore has taken to industrial and metal noise during his free improvisation, so an aural assault on the day’s earlier events seems likely. While you get lost in the layers of guitar, you can take comfort knowing that some of the show’s proceeds will benefit Planned Parenthood. Steve Gunn performs with Lee Ranaldo, Meg Baird, and Thurston Moore at 8 p.m. at Rock & Roll Hotel, 1353 H St. NE. $15. (202) 388-7625. rockandrollhoteldc.com. —Justin Weber gypsy sally’s 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. The Band of Heathens, The National Reserve. 8:30 p.m. $15–$18. gypsysallys.com.
Vocal
BaRns at WOlf tRap 1635 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. Aaron Tveit. 8 p.m. $40–$55. wolftrap.org.
dJ Nights
Jazz Blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Roy Ayers. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $43–$48. bluesalley.com. mR. henRy’s 601 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. (202) 5468412. Shannon Gunn & the Bullettes. 8 p.m. Free. mrhenrysdc.com.
dc9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Peach Pit with DJ Matt Bailer. 10:30 p.m. $5–$8. dcnine.com.
tWIns Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Luis Faife Quartet. 9 p.m.; 11 p.m. $15. twinsjazz.com.
ROck & ROll hOtel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625. Drake vs. Rihanna DJ Night. 10 p.m. $15. rockandrollhoteldc.com.
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u stReet musIc hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889. Our DC featuring Eau Claire, Madame Gandhi, Ayes Cold, Vanniety Kills, Jacq Jill. 10 p.m. $10. ustreetmusichall.com.
World
hOWaRd theatRe 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899. Bomba Party. 11 p.m. $25. thehowardtheatre.com.
couNtry
BIRchmeRe 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria. (703) 549-7500. Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder. 7:30 p.m. $39.50. birchmere.com. hIll cOuntRy BaRBecue 410 7th St. NW. (202) 556-2050. Jonny Grave & the Tombstones. 9:30 p.m. Free. hillcountrywdc.com. IOta cluB & café 2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. (703) 522-8340. Justin Trawick and The Common Good. 8:30 p.m. $12. iotaclubandcafe.com.
flash 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Chris Nitti, Jubilee, Ramirez. 8 p.m. $8. flashdc.com.
suNday rock
BIRchmeRe 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria. (703) 549-7500. The Association. 7:30 p.m. $39.50. birchmere.com. Black cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Tokyo Police Club, Charly Bliss. 7:30 p.m. $20. blackcatdc.com. BOssa BIstRO 2463 18th St NW. 202-667-0088. H.O.W., Light Beams, Aaron Leitko. 9:30 p.m. $8. bossadc.com. fIllmORe sIlveR spRIng 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Dashboard Confessional, Vinyl Theatre. 7:30 p.m. $27.50. fillmoresilverspring.com.
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ROck & ROll hOtel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625. Into Another, Supertouch, High Disciple. 8 p.m. $16. rockandrollhoteldc.com.
FuNk & r&B Bethesda Blues & Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. Sam Cooke Birthday Tribute with Carla Cooke. 7:30 p.m. $30. bethesdabluesjazz.com.
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hOWaRd theatRe 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899. Sevyn Streeter, Alonzo Bereal. 8 p.m. $20–$61.50. thehowardtheatre.com.
dJ Nights
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BaRns at WOlf tRap 1635 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. Aaron Tveit. 7 p.m. $40–$55. wolftrap.org. u stReet musIc hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889. Daybreaker with DJ Tasha Blank. 10 a.m. $25–$35. ustreetmusichall.com.
classical
kennedy centeR cOnceRt hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. National Symphony Orchestra, with conductor Gianandrea Noseda, performs Portraits of America featuring Rhapsody in Blue. 3 p.m. $15–$99. kennedy-center.org.
World
echOstage 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. (202) 503-2330. Got7. 7:30 p.m. $65–$205. echostage.com.
couNtry
IOta cluB & café 2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. (703) 522-8340. Two Ton Twig. 8 p.m. $12. iotaclubandcafe.com.
rock
galaxy hut 2711 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. (703) 5258646. Anna Connolly, Don Zientara. 9 p.m. $5. galaxyhut.com.
Jazz Blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Geoff Gallante. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $20. bluesalley.com.
tuEsday rock
Bethesda Blues & Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. Denny Laine. 8 p.m. $30. bethesdabluesjazz.com.
Jazz
classical
tWIns Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Rick Alberico. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $10. twinsjazz.com.
kennedy centeR cOnceRt hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. The Philadelphia Orchestra, with conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin, performs Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1. 8 p.m. $40–$110. kennedy-center.org.
Blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Roy Ayers. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $43–$48. bluesalley.com.
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D ERIC ROBERSON Maurice
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galaxy hut 2711 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. (703) 5258646. The Buzz, The Caribbean. 9 p.m. $5. galaxyhut.com.
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alicE Bag
As the Women’s March on Washington unfolds downtown, East Los Angeles-raised Latina punk musician, author, and teacher Alice Bag will relate her tales of feminism, protest, and cultural nurturing via song and story in Adams Morgan. Alicia Armendariz became Alice Bag in the 1970s, when she sang with the pioneering California punk band The Bags. Though the group was only together for four years and released just three songs at the time, Bag’s aggressive vocal style and charismatic stage presence helped establish a reputation that she further developed in her subsequent bands. This fan of David Bowie, Mexican ranchera music, and speedy three-chord rock let out her anger, originating from her father’s abuse of her mother, and her own progressive ideas through screamed vocals. Decades later, Bag has penned books including Violence Girl, From East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage—A Chicana Punk Story, painted, interviewed other artists, and recently put out her first solo album. The record still delivers this busy activist’s pointed messages, but fleshes them out in a more musically diverse way, incorporating 1960s girl group and rocking folk influences. Alice Bag performs at 5 p.m. at Smash!, 2314 18th St. NW. Free. (202) 387-6274. smashrecords.com. —Steve Kiviat
COUNTRY
Hill Country BarBeCue 410 7th St. NW. (202) 556-2050. Old Salt Union. 8:30 p.m. Free. hillcountrywdc.com.
CITY LIGHTS: SUNDAY
DRUNKEN SUFIS
When the Brooklyn-via-D.C. experimental ensemble Drunken Sufis comes to town, the results are always mixed. This isn’t a bad thing, but the group is ever-evolving, expanding its sound from head-spinning sociopolitical noise to raucous math rock to heavy post-rock and each of its releases reflect that. In its early days, the band employed a sharp political ethos, with song titles, lyrics, and samples that took on issues like American imperialism, mass surveillance, and the corporate greed that underlies capitalism. The band took a sharp turn with 2015’s Cotton Candy Cluster Bombs, 26 bursts of spazzed-out instrumental noise rock running a mere 23 minutes. The band’s latest album, Pala Pala, marks another evolution for the band; droney sound collages and field recordings merge with dense electronic grooves and spacedout prog rock. The album comes out on Friday, Jan. 20—Inauguration Day—which is appropriate for a band like Drunken Sufis. Pala Pala might not directly interrogate the current political climate like the band’s older albums do, but it doesn’t need to. The group’s mission is to upset the status quo, in both the political and musical landscape. Drunken Sufis perform with Mzungu and PraxisCat at 4 p.m. at Rhizome, 6950 Maple St. NW. $10. rhizomedc.org. —Matt Cohen
BLUES
Blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Tinsley Ellis. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $25. bluesalley.com.
WEDNESDAY ROCK
9:30 CluB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. PHOX, Cuddle Magic. 7 p.m. $20. 930.com. Bossa Bistro 2463 18th St NW. 202-667-0088. Dominic Fragman, Names, Penguin. 9 p.m. $5. bossadc.com. Hill Center at tHe old naval Hospital 921 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. (202) 549-4172. Mary Ann Redmond. 7:30 p.m. $15–$20. hillcenterdc.org. roCk & roll Hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625. Cold Cave, Drab Majesty, Technophobia. 8 p.m. $15. rockandrollhoteldc.com.
CLASSICAL
kennedy Center Family tHeater 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Zorá String Quartet. 7:30 p.m. $38. kennedy-center.org. national Gallery oF art West Garden Court 4th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. (202) 8426941. Noah Getz and Friends. 12:10 p.m. Free. nga.gov.
HIp-HOp
u street musiC Hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889. Mobb Deep, Marlon Craft, Ras Nebyu, DJ K-Meta, Sherif Mattar. 8 p.m. $26–$36. ustreetmusichall.com.
WORLD
ClariCe smitH perForminG arts Center Stadium Drive and Route 193, College Park. (301) 405-2787. Black Arm Band. 8 p.m. $10–$25. theclarice.umd.edu.
“LOUDER THAN WORDS”
The media is receiving more criticism than usual in this era of “fake news,” so reacquainting yourself with press freedom at the Newseum is a worthy way to spend a day. If you’ve tired of circling the slab of the Berlin Wall and practicing your on-camera reporting skills, the downtown museum has a new exhibition that examines the intersection between rock ’n’ roll and politics and how the actions of musicians intersect with the First Amendment. “Louder Than Words,” which was first displayed at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, includes some schlocky items, like Lady Gaga’s infamous meat dress, but some pieces, like the letter the FBI sent Priority Records complaining about N.W.A.’s “Fuck tha Police, actually focus on the worries law enforcement had about the impact of popular music. Musicians with a bent towards political work, including Bono and David Byrne, narrate videos that chronicle moments when rock and national news intersected. Seeing John Lennon’s guitar might be cool, but the exhibit’s goal is to teach visitors about rock’s impact while they marvel over clothes and instruments. The exhibition is on view daily 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., to July 31, at The Newseum, 555 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. $14.95– $24.95. (202) 292-6100. newseum.org. —Caroline Jones
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Gypsy sally’s 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. The 19th Street Band, The Plate Scrapers. 8 p.m. $8. gypsysallys.com.
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Blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Kenny Wesley. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $20. bluesalley.com. kennedy Center millennium staGe 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. SaltmanKnowles. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.
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soundCHeCk 1420 K St. NW. (202) 789-5429. G Jones, The Widdler, Eastghost. 10 p.m. $15–$20. soundcheckdc.com.
FUNK & R&B
BetHesda Blues & Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. Guiltypleasures. 8 p.m. $20. bethesdabluesjazz.com. tHe Hamilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. Bettye LaVette. 7:30 p.m. $20–$45. thehamiltondc.com. mansion at stratHmore 10701 Rockville Pike, North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Chris Urquiaga. 7:30 p.m. $17. strathmore.org.
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THE ULTIMATE SAM COOKE’S BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION STARRING DAUGHTER CARLA COOKE W/ COMEDIANS BILLY & CAROL FINCH
DENNY LAINE
PLAYS WINGS OVER AMERICA
GUILTYPLEASURES JOEY VEGA THE CHUCK BROWN BAND 2ND ANNUAL THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES 2016 TRIBUTE SHOW ART SHERROD FEAT. CECE PENISTON FEBRUARY
THE AFTER PARTY BAND LOCK 7 & THE MIGHTY PEACE MAKERS BUDDY HOLLY TRIBUTE JUNIOR MARVIN’S WAILERS B-DAY CELEBRATION SHIRLEY JONES DENIECE WILLIAMS SYLEENA JOHNSON LOVE HOLIDAY W/JEFF
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THURSDAY ROCK
tHe Hamilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. Bronze Radio Return, Air Traffic Controller. 7:30 p.m. $15–$20. thehamiltondc.com. Hill Country BarBeCue 410 7th St. NW. (202) 556-2050. The Plimsouls Re-Souled, The Beginner’s Mynd. 8:30 p.m. $12–$15. hillcountrywdc.com. iota CluB & CaFé 2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. (703) 522-8340. Eric Sommer, Damion Wolfe, Futura Yellow. 8:30 p.m. $10. iotaclubandcafe.com.
CLASSICAL
kennedy Center ConCert Hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. National Symphony Orchestra, with conductor Christoph Eschenbach and violinist Gidon Kremer, perform Shostakovich’s Eighth Symphony. 7 p.m. $15–$89. kennedy-center.org. kennedy Center millennium staGe 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. NSO Youth Fellows. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.
BAND OF ROSES & MADZ JOHNSON F 3/24 “LAYLA” & OTHER ASSORTED ERIC CLAPTON F 4/14 AN EVENING W/ JESSE COLIN YOUNG AND HIS BAND TH&F 4/6-7 GINO VANNELLI W 5/10 TAMIR HENDELMAN W 3/15
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EchostagE 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. (202) 503-2330. Kodak Black. 9 p.m. $48.40. echostage.com.
CoUnTrY
9:30 club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Luke Combs, Muscadine Bloodline, Tom O’Connor. 7 p.m. $15. 930.com. birchmErE 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria. (703) 549-7500. Mac McAnally, Scott Miller. 7:30 p.m. $39.50. birchmere.com. mr. hEnry’s 601 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. (202) 5468412. Justin Trawick. 8 p.m. Free. mrhenrysdc.com.
JAzz
twins Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Twins Jazz Orchestra. 8:30 p.m.; 10:30 p.m. $10. twinsjazz.com.
ElECTroniC
black cat backstagE 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 6674490. Cmpvtr_Clvb presents Glow End Theory. 7:30 p.m. $10–$12. blackcatdc.com. Flash 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Eats Everything. 8 p.m. $8–$12. flashdc.com. soundchEck 1420 K St. NW. (202) 789-5429. Matoma. 10 p.m. $25. soundcheckdc.com. u strEEt music hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 5881889. Xilent & Far Too Loud, EXXSV. 10 p.m. $15–$20. ustreetmusichall.com.
FUnk & r&B
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bluEs allEy 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Marjorie Hughes. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $25. bluesalley.com.
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gypsy sally’s 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. Adwela & The Uprising, The Elovaters. 8:30 p.m. $8–$10. gypsysallys.com.
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as you likE it When Rosalind is banished from her home and flees to the forest, one of the Bard’s great romantic comedies begins. The classic tale of mistaken identities, love, and beauty comes to life at the Folger under the direction of Gaye Taylor Upchurch. Folger Elizabethan Theatre. 201 E. Capitol St. SE. To March 5. $35–$75. (202) 544-7077. folger.edu.
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carolinE, or changE Set in 1960s Louisiana, this Tony Kushner musical chronicles the relationship between a black maid and the white boy who she cares for. As the characters sing about historical figures and events of the time, tensions boil over when a small amount of money goes missing. Round House Theatre Bethesda. 4545 East-West Highway, Bethesda. To Feb. 26. $56–$76. (240) 644-1100. roundhousetheatre.org.
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Sayre’s law—the one about disputes among academics being so vicious because the stakes are so low—isn’t restricted to specifically scholarly disputes. Plenty of people in big-ego, low-stakes professions are perfectly capable of taking their work home with them and having that pettiness ruin their personal lives, too. This was the kind of argument most people preferred to hash out behind closed doors until playwright Edward Albee decided watching bitter people be horrible to each other made for great entertainment. It turned out to be a winning formula, implemented in programs from Seinfeld to It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. There’s a term for married academics being forced to live apart due to jobs in different places: the two body problem. Awful professor couple George and Martha, the argumentative pair at the center of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, suggests that that problem pales in comparison to living together. An uncharacteristically adult production for the nicer, more historically oriented Ford’s Theater, the play was last on Broadway, coincidentally, at the Booth Theater, bringing this story full circle, kind of. The play runs Jan. 21 to Feb. 19 at Ford’s Theatre, 511 10th St. NW. $15–$62. (202) 347-4833. fords.org. —Mike Paarlberg
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charm Set at a LGBTQ community center, this play follows Mama Darleena Andrews, a black trans woman who teaches etiquette classes to a diverse ensemble of characters. While they struggle to understand the importance of manners and charm at first, “Mama Darlin” shows them how their behavior can affect their future goals. Natsu Onoda Power directs this award-winning play, which features performances from local favorites Kimberly Gilbert, B’Ellana Marie Duquesne, and Justin Weaks. Atlas Performing Arts Center. 1333 H St. NE. To Jan. 29. $20–$60. (202) 399-7993. atlasarts.org.
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WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?
copEnhagEn Michael Frayn’s drama about a conversation between Werner Heisenberg and Niels Bohr, two physicists racing to create the atom bomb, aims to answer questions that historians have puzzled over for decades. This production, directed by Eleanor Holdridge, stars Sherri Edelen, Tim Getman, and Michael Russotto. Theater J. 1529 16th St. NW. To Jan. 29. $17–$47. (202) 777-3210. theaterj.org. thE gabriEls Playwright Richard Nelson presents a new series of three plays, set at different points throughout 2016, about family members who come together to discuss and process the way the world is changing. Presented in collaboration with New York’s Public Theater, the Kennedy Center will show Hungry, What Did You Expect?, and Women of a Certain Age individually and also offer several day-long marathons of all three plays. Kennedy Center Theater Lab. 2700 F St. NW. To Jan. 22. $49–$80. 202-467-4600. kennedy-center.org.
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thE hard problEm Studio Theatre returns to the work of Tom Stoppard with this drama about a psychology researcher who tries to define consciousness and get wraps up in trying to understand her past. Matt Torney directs this production starring Nancy Robinette, Tessa Klein, and Joy Jones. Studio Theatre. 1501 14th St. NW. To Feb. 19. $20–$96. (202) 332-3300. studiotheatre.org.
hoodEd: or, bEing black in baltimorE Serge Seiden directs this world premiere production from emerging playwright Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm. Set in Baltimore and influenced by the Trayvon Martin case, this new comedy riffs on mistaken identity, incarceration, and being black on a privileged college campus. Atlas Performing Arts Center. 1333 H St. NE. To Feb. 19. $20–$60. (202) 399-7993. atlasarts.org. last train to nibroc Two young people meet on a train that’s carrying the bodies of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Nathanael West in this slight romance from playwright Arlene Hutton. One traveler aims to become a writer while one considers a career on the mission fields but as they connect over time, viewers learn the depth of their feelings for one another. Washington Stage Guild at Undercroft Theatre. 900 Massachusetts Ave. NW. To Feb. 19. $50–$60. (240) 5820050. stageguild.org. mack, bEth Chris Stezin adapts one of Shakespeare’s most vicious dramas into a thriller for the cyber age. This new take on the tale about greed and ambition makes its world premiere in D.C. under the direction of Matt Ripa. Keegan Theatre at Church Street Theater. 1742 Church St. NW. To Feb. 11. $35–$45. (202) 265-3767. keegantheatre.com.
roE Lisa Loomer’s world premiere play looks at both sides of the abortion issue through the lens of Norma McCorvey, the woman who, under the alias Jane Roe, helped secure abortion rights for all women in the landmark Supreme Court case. Narrated by Norma and her attorney, Sarah Weddington, the drama follows the pair past the oral arguments to see what happens after laws and opinions are changed. Arena Stage. 1101 6th St. SW. To Feb. 19. $40–$90. (202) 4883300. arenastage.org. somEonE is going to comE In this stirring drama presented by Scena Theater, a couple seeking solitude buys a house in a secluded area but grows increasingly anxious that an unexpected visitor may arrive at any moment. Robert McNamara directs this psychological play by Norwegian playwright Jon Fosse, which Scena first workshopped in 2014. Atlas Performing Arts Center. 1333 H St. NE. To Feb. 5. $20–$40. (202) 399-7993. atlasarts.org. titanic: thE musical The stirring musical about the sinking of the famous ocean liner is reimagined at Signature by director Eric Schaeffer. Designed to be performed in the round, the production tells the story of the ship’s final minutes. Signature Theatre. 4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington. To Jan. 29. $40–$108. (703) 820-9771. sigtheatre.org. who’s aFraid oF Virginia woolF? Local favorites Holly Twyford and Gregory Linington star in Edward Albee’s classic drama about a tumultuous marriage and a highly tense dinner party. Aaron Posner directs this masterclass in verbal sparring that also features Maggie Wilder and Danny Gavigan. Ford’s Theatre. 511 10th St. NW. To Feb. 19. $15–$62. (202) 347-4833. fords.org.
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Music often has the ability to take you on journeys, both through your emotions and through sounds from countries you’ve never seen and traditions you’ve never heard. Guitarist Pat Metheny has built his career as a musical tour guide of the highest capacity. His compositions draw on traditions from across the globe: you’re as likely to sway to the smooth sounds of Brazilian bossa nova as you are to feel the thunder of West African drums. To complement these wide-ranging styles, Metheny has refined his guitar tone into something that balances delicate acoustic sounds, shredding, electric chops, and an untethered jazz spirit. His dexterity as an improviser and sound designer is unmatched. Metheny further augments his musical travelogues with a world class band that includes Malaysian-Australian bassist and composer Linda Oh, Mercury Prizewinning British pianist Gwilym Simcock, and Mexican-American drummer Antonio Sanchez. Pat Metheny performs with Antonio Sanchez, Linda Oh, and Gwilym Simcock at 8 p.m. at the Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda. $45–$85. (301) 581-5100. strathmore.org. —Jackson Sinnenberg
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20th centuRy WOmen A woman raising her teenage son in the late 1970s, his love interest, and his punk rock babysitter explore life and love in this drama from writer and director Mike Mills. Starring Annette Bening, Elle Fanning, and Greta Gerwig. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) amItyvIlle: the aWakenIng The creepiness continues in this latest addition to the Amityville Horror canon, which finds a mother moving her family into the haunted home where they begin to experience unusual phenomenons. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) the fOundeR Michael Keaton plays Ray Kroc, the scheming salesman who turned the McDonald brothers’ small California hamburger shack into a worldwide brand, in this biopic that also stars Laura Dern, Nick Offerman, and Patrick Wilson. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) JulIeta Pedro Almodovar’s latest film follows a lonely woman who tries to salvage her life and her relationship with her daughter after a casual interaction with a stranger. Starring Emma Suarez and Adriana Ugarte. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) lIve By nIght Ben Affleck writes, directs, and stars in this 1920s-set crime drama adapted from the novel by Dennis Lehane. A Florida bootlegger becomes a gangster when he becomes involved with the Boston mafia. Costarring Elle Fanning, Chris Messina, and Chris Cooper. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) a mOnsteR calls J.A. Bayona directs this fantasy film about a young boy who relies on his relationship with a humanoid tree to cope with his feelings of loss and bullying. Featuring Felicity Jones, Liam Neeson, and Sigourney Weaver. (See washingtoncitypaper. com for venue information) patRIOts day The events of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing are adapted for the screen in this drama from director Peter Berg. Mark Wahlberg stars as Tommy Saunders, a fictional Boston police officer, over the course of several days as officials try to capture the suspects. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) sIlence Two Catholic priests face persecution when they spread the word of Christ in 17th century Japan in this new drama from director Martin Scorcese. Starring Adam Driver, Andrew Garfield, and Liam Neeson. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) sleepless A corrupt cop with connections to the criminal underworld must search a club in search of his kidnapped son in this action film from director Baran bo Odar. Starring Jamie Foxx and Michelle Monaghan. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information)
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He’s only 19 years old, but Kodak Black has already had his version of John Lennon’s “more popular than Jesus” proclamation. After naming his fourth – and best – mixtape, Lil B.I.G. Pac, the Pompano Beach, Fl. rapper told XXL “I’m better than Tupac and Biggie. I say that so now you know where my head at.” In just a few years, Kodak has established himself as an expert at detailing exactly where his head is at, turning his pain into lyrics while navigating the travails of the rap game, his growing fame, and a life marked by drugs, guns, and crime (he’s dealt with multiple legal issues and currently faces sexual assault charges in South Carolina). And while he may be a little too proud of his vices for some, he has already displayed a gift for introspection that belies his young age, rapping “Would I live long enough to raise my son? Can your boy do something productive for once?” Hip-hop purists might blanch at Kodak’s Tupac and Biggie boast, but the dearly departed rap legends would probably appreciate the kid’s bravado…and his music. Kodak Black performs at 9 p.m. at Echostage, 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. $48.40. (202) 503-2330. echostage.com. —Chris Kelly
splIt M. Night Shyamalan directs this thriller about a man with dissociative identity disorder, played by James McAvoy, who kidnaps teenage girls at a birthday sleepover. In order to survive, the girls must convince one of the man’s 23 personalities to release them before his most violent personality shows up. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) tOnI eRdmann A father attempts to reconnect with his hard-working, ambitious daughter by posing as an assistant to her company’s CEO. This Romanian film is written and directed by Maren Ade. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) xxx: the RetuRn Of xandeR cage Vin Diesel stars in this third entry in the XXX series, which finds Xander Cage returning from a self-invoked exile and facing off against an aggressive warrior named Xiang. D.J. Caruso directs this action thriller that also stars Donnie Yen and Deepika Padukone. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information)
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