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DISTRICT LINE 4 Crossing the Line: Former Prince George’s County police officers accused of misconduct make it big in D.C.’s private security market.

6 Tenants’ Might: Residents of two Southeast D.C. apartment complexes get creative to improve conditions in their units.

SPORTS 8 Big Fish, Small Pond: Teen swimming stars cultivate their Olympic dreams at local pools.

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DISTRICTLINE Crossing the Line

Illustration by Julia Terbrock

Police officers accused of misconduct in Maryland have become private security moguls in D.C.

By Will Lennon On its website, Blueline Security Services calls itself “the leader in the Washington Metropolitan area for complete security solutions.” They offer investigations, surveillance, and the protection of current and offduty police officers. Among the company’s clients are the embassies of Portugal and the Netherlands.

In 2013, Inc. Magazine profiled Blueline in an article about companies founded by teams. An all-smiles photo of the Blueline’s founders, Felipe Ordono, Tim Cordero, Troy Harding, and Shawn Scarlata, accompanied the piece.

The four men met through their work in the Prince George’s County Police Department.

The piece quoted Scarlata:

“Being police officers, we have strong personalities,” Scarlata said. “When there is conflict, we just sit down and hash it out. Or yell it out. Whatever it takes.”

A little over a year later, the company was featured in a Washington Post article on the “booming” private security business. Catalyzed in part by terrorist attacks and mass shootings, the number of working security professionals had grown by 20 percent since 2004. (There are currently over 15,000 security officers and special police officers licensed in the District, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.)

The article stated that Blueline had 280 employees and Scarlata was fielding 100 job applications a week. The Washington Business Journal Book of Lists included the company

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on a list of security companies active in the D.C. area, ranked by “2014 metro-area revenue.” By 2016, Blueline would see $6.6 million in revenue and add 60 more employees to their payroll.

Blueline has faced legal action a couple of times in D.C. since its founding, for an allegedly false arrest, for alleged negligence and, most recently, for an assault and battery case in which a Blueline security officer allegedly bashed a man in the head with a baton after he exited a grocery store bathroom. According to the complaint filed at D.C. Superior Court, the man suffered abrasions and a skull contusion.

That case has since been removed to United States District Court, where Blueline is being sued for $100,000.

While the allegations seem incongruous

with the portrait of a functional security company painted by articles in the Post and Inc., those articles also marked a sharp departure from the sort of media attention some of Blueline’s founders got as police officers. Back in Prince George’s County, they were part of a police department that saw lawsuits, a Department of Justice probe, millions in settlement payouts to victims of misconduct, and a scolding from Amnesty International.

Blueline Security Services declined to comment for this article. in 2001, the Post published an investigation on accusations against the Prince George’s County Police Department’s homicide unit. It scrutinized cases in which suspects seemingly confessed to murder after being subjected to brutal, protracted interrogations. The article’s subjects described being screamed at, threatened, thrown into walls, kept from sleeping, and denied access to legal counsel.

Troy Harding, one of Blueline Security’s founders, was in the interrogation room in at least three of these cases. According to the Post, Harding was hired by the Prince George’s County Police in 1990 in spite of having been charged with assault, battery, and theft. Harding was only found guilty of the alleged assault in Montgomery County, and a judge later struck the verdict. He was found not guilty of the theft and battery for which he was arrested in Anne Arundel County, Maryland.

Nearly a decade into Harding’s tenure, he was in the interrogation room with a teen suspect in a murder. The victim, Michael Harley, was found dead in a pile of leaves in Brandywine. He was riddled with stab wounds. A week-and-a-half later, 17-year-old Corey Beale gave an initial statement to police saying the last time he saw Harley was at a party, according to a complaint filed with the United States District Court for the Southern District of Maryland.

After about six hours at the police station, Beale told Harding that he saw Harley get into a fight on the last night he saw him. At around the nine hour mark, Beale said he was a part of the fight. After over 40 hours of on-and-off interrogation and under an hour of sleep, Beale confessed to murdering Harley. According to a protective order filed by Beale’s lawyers, detectives denied Beale his seizure medication and threatened to send him to the “gas chamber” throughout the interrogation.

Later, Beale told the Washington Post that the only true statement he gave over the course of his interrogation was the first one.

“I would have said anything to get out of that room,” Beale told the Post.

Even when Charles County detectives came forward with exculpatory evidence for Beale,

Prince George’s County detectives didn’t want to backtrack. An attorney for Beale reported that one of the detectives told him, “He’s been arrested, and we don’t care if there are other suspects,” according to the Post.

The state dropped the charges after 14 months. Beale sued Prince George’s County for millions and settled in 2005.

Harding was also in the interrogation room with Dennis Green, a Bowie High School student who confessed to a shooting murder in 2000. According to the Post, Green later described being physically threatened and denied access to a lawyer. He was exonerated by witness statements, ballistics testing, and a continued investigation by the state’s attorney’s office where the charges were ultimately dropped.

In 1999, it was Keith Longtin’s turn to meet Harding. Longtin was 45 at the time and he worked as a welder.

Longtin’s wife had gone missing. In the interrogation room, he found out that she had been raped and murdered when Harding and another detective forced him to look at pictures of her mangled body. As Longtin sobbed, detectives accused him of faking his grief and shock.

“In court when I was suing Prince George’s County, [Harding] said he forgot about it,” Longtin tells City Paper. “Then he said ‘I just did it. It’s just part of my job.’ … Harding was one of the worst of the detectives that interviewed me.”

Longtin told the Post that his phone was taken away when he tried to call a lawyer, and that he was physically threatened when he tried to leave. All told, he spent nearly 40 hours in the interrogation room with less than an hour of sleep. According to a brief Longtin filed in the Court of Special Appeals in Maryland, he never actually gave a confession, although one detective said he “admitted his involvement.”

The brief also says that, even after a Maryland state crime laboratory definitively excluded Longtin as a match for the DNA the killer left in his wife’s body, Longtin remained in jail for five months. He was finally released after D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department arrested a serial rapist whose DNA matched the semen found in Longtin’s wife. Longtin sued and a jury found in his favor. In 2011 the county paid him over 7 million dollars. Harding was named as a defendant in both the Beale case and the Longtin case.

An opinion filed in the Court of Special Appeals in Maryland said that at least one of the detectives involved in Longtin’s interrogation considered sleep deprivation a useful “tool” and that “a training manual of the Prince George’s County Community Police Institute” instructed officers that they could “wait until after he admits” to read a suspect their rights.

Michael McQuillan, then commander of the Prince George’s County homicide unit, denied that his detectives used sleep deprivation or physical intimidation to elicit confessions.

“People confess to crimes they don’t do,” McQuillan told the Post. “Why? I don’t know. You have to ask them.”

McQuillan was transferred off the unit in 2001, a few months after the Post story fea-

turing Beale, Green, and Longtin was published. Now, McQuillan owns Public Safety Services LLC. According to its articles of organization, the company specializes in “public safety training, investigations and consulting services.”

McQuillan is also a “senior instructor” at the National Institute for Truth Verification, which “Instructs Law Enforcement Agencies and the Military throughout the United States of America in the field of Interviews and Interrogations to include Lie Detection/Truth Verification.” McQuillan’s bio on the NITV site says he “retired as Commander of (the) homicide division after earning a reputation as a preeminent homicide investigator.”

Tim Cordero, another of Blueline’s founders, worked with Harding on the homicide unit.

A drug rAid featured in the book Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces was coordinated in part by another Blueline founder.

According to a pretrial statement later filed in the circuit court of Prince George’s County, the impetus for the 2008 operation was a package containing 32 pounds of cannabis en route via FedEx to an address in Berwyn Heights. Police planned to enter with a warrant for a “knock and announce” raid (a raid in which officers identify themselves before entering) when the house’s residents brought the package inside.

According to an excerpt from Warrior Cop, Shawn Scarlata prepared the affidavit for the warrant. Most of the affidavit consisted of Scarlata’s qualifications and of information he believed he could extrapolate about the residents. After the raid, Scarlata would learn that the owner of the home was the mayor of Berwyn Heights, Cheye Calvo. Calvo’s address had been used by traffickers to transport drugs into Prince George’s County.

According to the pretrial statement later filed by Calvo, it came to light in the following months that “the Prince George’s County police department had been made aware of several incidents in which vacant or otherwise unoccupied homes were used as ‘drug drops,’ a scheme by which drug dealers would ship large quantities of drugs to vacant properties to be picked up before the occupants of the home discovered them.” In the coming months, the Post reported on several other innocent parties whose addresses were used by drug traffickers in this way.

After Calvo brought the package inside, he heard a scream and gunshots. The scream came from Calvo’s mother-in-law, who later said in a statement that she saw armed men in masks and dark clothing approaching through the backyard. According to Warrior Cop, Prince George’s County Police would

use this scream as justification for voiding the “knock” portion of the “knock and announce” warrant’s requirements.

According to a deposition taken from Scarlata after the raid and Calvo’s pretrial statement, the police smashed through the front door with a battering ram and used an MP5 submachine gun and a Glock .40 to shoot Calvo’s dogs. The dogs were killed and the walls were spattered with blood. Calvo and his mother-in-law were detained with flex-cuffs, according to Calvo’s statement. (Though Scarlata helped secure the warrant and came to interview Calvo later, he was not on the team that raided Calvo’s home.)

Although the Prince George’s County Police were bound by a “memorandum of understanding” with Berwyn Heights to inform local cops when they were conducting police activity in the area, the Berwyn Heights police found out what was happening after an officer noticed the commotion from the street.

According to Calvo’s pretrial statement, upon entering the house, he was told that Calvo was a “crazy” person who “thinks he is the mayor.”

According to an interview later conducted with Scarlata, available in court files, Calvo’s initial claim that he had been “set up” made him suspicious. “In my experience, that deflection is a… potential sign of someone that may be guilty or had involvement,” Scarlata said.

“What Prince George’s County did to us, it was entirely business as usual. It was Shawn Scarlata’s job,” Calvo tells City Paper. “Generally I have found in Prince George’s County that when there are incidents, you can connect them to broader patterns… Certainly during the era that Scarlata was there ... some really troubling practices were just standard operating procedures.”

Blueline Security Services was founded in 2008, the same year as the Calvo raid.

Scarlata left Blueline in 2017 after nine years with the company. He is now the founder and owner of Mobile Video Guard and its parent company, SMART Security Pros, according to his LinkedIn page and organizing documents with D.C.’s Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs (DCRA). SMART offers armed security, off-duty police officers, and 350 “agents who are ready and available to deploy quickly to your site.”

The SMART site’s blog has a post on the pros and cons of private security. “The police are very limited by the Constitution when it comes to protecting private property,” the post says. “Private guards, however, may interact with anyone at any time as the representative of a private party rather than of the law. Private guards also still have the power to arrest without warrant on reasonable suspicion of a crime.”

“Maybe they are trying to do something right.

I can’t really judge that.

We all make mistakes.

But they have to remember they’re not above the law.”

Both Blueline Security Services and

SMART Security Pros are registered in Maryland as well as D.C. Security firms in Maryland need to obtain licenses from the Maryland State Police. Among Maryland’s requirements for the representatives of security firms are relevant experience and “good character and reputation.”

In response to a City Paper inquiry to Maryland State Police on whether Harding and Scarlata met their standards for good character and reputation, a spokesperson wrote: “Both individuals applied for an agency license according to state law. Required reviews were conducted, including a criminal background check.

According to existing state laws or regulations there was nothing that prohibited either from obtaining the requested license.”

D.C. licenses individual security officers separately from “special police officers.” Special police officers with range certification can carry firearms and, while on the property they’re protecting, make arrests. Security officers don’t have arrest powers and can only carry a wooden baton. Blueline Security Services and SMART Security Pros both offer armed guards on their websites.

Licensing applications for security professionals are routed through DCRA, the mayor’s office, and MPD. DCRA does not independently investigate applicants. MPD has the final say in whether security professionals get their licenses in the District. They do not investigate the professional backgrounds of former police officers applying to become licensed security officers, special police officers, or representatives of security firms.

“We wouldn’t go to former employers to ask about personnel files,” says a spokesperson for MPD. According to a D.C. government study guide for prospective security officers here, aside from general requirements (applicants must be over 18, not addicted to drugs, etc.), an applicant’s approval hinges primarily on a criminal background check. However, the guide also states that “(the) Mayor may make any other investigation of the applicant that the Mayor determines to be relevant.”

According to MPD, neither Scarlata nor Harding’s name is listed as an applicant on Blueline Security Service’s business license.

PoSitive reviewS on Blueline’s website indicate happy clients. A reviewer from CNN said that hirees from Blueline “represented the security profession very well.” A reviewer from UPS said “their employees and management team perform their jobs and responsibilities with professionalism and with the utmost in customer care.” An archived page showing Blueline’s clients in 2015 reveals that they’ve done work for apartment complexes, retail stores and car dealerships.

Keith Longtin, who spent a significant chunk of his 40 hours in the interrogation room with Harding, doesn’t begrudge the company its success. “They do have experience in law enforcement,” he says. “Maybe they are trying to do something right. I can’t really judge that. We all make mistakes. But they have to remember they’re not above the law.”

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DISTRICTLINE HOUSING COMPLEX

Tenants’ Might

Photos by Amanda Michelle Gomez

Residents of The Vistas and Forest Ridge are developing new ways to get better living conditions, even after the Office of the Attorney General sued the landlord.

Clockwise from left: Bullet hole in Lillie Tucker’s window; photos of The Vistas and Forest Ridge apartments in Southeast D.C.

By Amanda Michelle Gomez LiLLie Tucker, a tenant of The Vistas Apartments in Ward 8, went on a rent strike in January to finally get repairs to her apartment. A maintenance worker fixed the bottom lock on her front door, the bathroom light, and garbage disposal on Friday after her repair requests went ignored for days.

But the repairman didn’t complete the most important request—he didn’t replace the window with the bullet hole. This window has been broken for two years.

“The bullet hole—it came through right here,” says Tucker, as she carefully opens her vinyl vertical blinds on a recent Sunday afternoon. “I even cut myself real bad on the window.”

People like to hang out right below Tucker’s window, in the parking lot. Sometimes these hangouts turn violent, as happened two years ago when a bullet broke through the window and punctured a hole in Tucker’s wall, right below a family photo. Her younger nephew was home with her at the time, crashing on a

bed right by the window in the living room, but he just dodged the bullet. The bullet holes are still there—a constant reminder of that terrifying day.

“Thank God no rock hit it so far, or another bullet,” says Tucker of her cracked window. As she speaks, she becomes out of breath. “Living here, I pray a lot. I stay on my knees praying a lot. It is pretty rough around here.”

Living at The Vistas for 11 years has taken a physical and emotional toll on Tucker and her family. Tucker has respiratory and heart problems and she believes the mold in the building is exacerbating these conditions. She claims her granddaughter even contracted an eye infection while visiting after residue from a hallway vent fell on her face. Tucker stays with her sisters when her nerves can’t take being in her apartment anymore. She isn’t alone in her frustrations.

The tenants of The Vistas and Forest Ridge, two Section 8 complexes near the Anacostia Metro station, say they have been living in uninhabitable conditions for some time. Condi-

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tions were so abysmal that the Office of the Attorney General filed a lawsuit in October 2018 against the landlord, Joseph “Joe” Kisha, and his various companies, including the Vista Ridge Limited Partnership, owner of the apartment complex, and Castle Management Corporation, LLC, the property manager of all 399 units.

The lawsuit sought to abate criminal activity and other housing issues that threaten the health and safety of tenants. According to the complaint, the Metropolitan Police Department responded to more than 2,020 calls between January and October 2018 at The Vistas and Forest Ridge, where there were nine gun homicides since 2007. The Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs also cited the property various times for “defective smoke detectors, cracks and loose plaster in the ceiling, flooding and unclean floors in common areas, and water leaks and damp walls in individual units, and holes in the walls.”

Fourteen months after the OAG sued, tenants and their advocates say life is still rough at

The Vistas and Forest Ridge. Continued problems at the property show the limitations of litigation in resolving landlord disputes.

City Paper repeatedly called Kisha at Castle Management for comment, but did not hear back by the time of publication.

“I’ve been looking for some change, I aint seen no change yet,” says Tucker.

“The maintenance and safety concerns at the beginning are the same ones that they’re dealing with now because it hasn’t gotten any better,” says Sarah Maceda-Maciel, an organizer with Stomp Out Slumlords, a tenants rights campaign under Democratic Socialists of America. “It’s things like the water will be shut off for days on end without any notice.”

Maceda-Maciel has been meeting with Forest Ridge tenants since the fall of 2018 and goes on to list a number of unresolved issues: pebbles coming out of a few tenants’ faucets and light fixtures falling from some tenants’ ceilings, sometimes on them. A few tenants Maceda-Maciel meets with even suspect maintenance workers of stealing their personal belongings when someone does come around, without notice, to fix something.

Security concerns persist. Anyone can get into the buildings because none of the entrances are locked. That’s a problem when the sounds of gunshots are common. City Paper spent six hours on the property on Sunday and heard them. In 2019, one young man was murdered near the property, a police report shows.

“A few people said that they felt like the security guards were kind of making more rounds, more frequently,” says Maceda-Maciel. “But other than that, I haven’t heard anyone say that they’ve experienced a major difference in how safe they feel.”

Cereta Jackson, a tenant of The Vistas, agrees: “To me, it didn’t get no better.” Jackson has been trying to get her cabinets replaced for years. The cabinets are worn out, they’re the same cabinets she’s had since she first moved in more than three decades ago. There’s even a hole in her cabinets where rodents come in and out. Be it a request for new cabinets or air filters, maintenance is rarely responsive. She says it’s only ahead of an inspection from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development that maintenance comes by and makes sure everything is OK. “They take the tickets but I’m thinking somebody must be signing the tickets out like they’re doing the work. I even called down there and told the lady, ‘Are you signing the tickets out? Because this has not been done.’

I’ve been calling numerous times to get this done—this is ridiculous,” says Jackson. “It’s just a respect thing.”

Jackson adds, “It’s about them not doing their job—[these] people need to stop being in office, being in management, and people need to stop buying real estate. When they’re supposed to own something, they need to take care of it, they need to treat people like human beings.”

Tucker and Jackson are two of four tenants in The Vistas who went on rent strike on Dec. 31, 2019 with help from Stomp Out Slumlords. Tenants sent a collective letter to Castle Management in mid-December, asking

them to make repairs they’ve known about for years. Each had specific issues in their respective units and common areas; often-cited problems include rodent and cockroach infestations, mold, and water leakage. When management failed to comply with the list of demands, tenants paid rent for January into an escrow account. Tenants’ efforts are proving fruitful so far; for example, a maintenance worker finally visited Jackson on Tuesday to measure her cabinets to possibly replace them.

Tenants feel the rent strike is necessary because the OAG lawsuit only modestly changed management’s behavior. Tenants and their advocates acknowledge some security improvements, like more lights outside the complex.

But management’s response to apartment repairs hasn’t changed—it’s still a headache to get anything done, tenants and advocates say.

The lawsuit, however, did motivate tenants to organize, says Stomp Out Slumlords organizer Yvonne Slosarski, who’s been visiting The

Bullet hole in Lillie Tucker’s apartment Vistas for nearly two years. After the lawsuit was filed on Oct. 16, 2018, tenants were more willing to meet with one another and relaunch the tenant associations.

“We’ve had a good relationship with the OAG. They’re very responsive and they are clearly doing what they can to hold the landlord accountable,” says Slosarski. “I don’t know where their hands are tied and what they’re legally allowed to do and not allowed to do, especially with the bankruptcy.”

Vista Ridge Limited Partnership filed for bankruptcy on March 1, 2019, court records show, before the OAG had a chance to request a court-ordered receiver. In D.C., a “receiver” is a third-party entity that essentially becomes the property manager. The OAG says bankruptcy complicates the legal process, but it’s still working to get some of the problems resolved. The OAG reached a security agreement in the spring of 2019, and worked out an abatement plan with Kisha and his lawyers the following summer. The security agreement, for example, requires that the landlord install security cameras, increase private security personnel, and improve coordination with MPD. It also demands trash pickups.

“Since those agreements have been entered, we’ve been monitoring and trying to

ensure compliance,” says the OAG. Lawyers for the District are hoping for a resolution similar to that of the Terrace Manor Apartments in Southeast D.C., where Attorney General Karl Racine and his team secured renovations and returned rent to tenants who lived in squalor.

The Vistas and Forest Ridge tenants, meanwhile, have had to fix their units themselves.

Veronica Carter, a renter at The Vistas, hired a day laborer outside a Home Depot because maintenance wouldn’t respond to her request regarding water damage for a month.

After paying him $180, the worker she hired replastered and repainted the wall in her children’s bedroom. Carter is still experiencing problems with water damage in the walls of her bathroom.

“They came and did a bumrush fix up,” says Carter of Castle Management’s overall behavior since it was sued.

But Carter is cautiously optimistic about the new landlord—a few tenants and their advocates are, as they feel a new landlord is the last hope for meaningful change. Belveron and Redwood Housing are slated to become the new landlords, after the current landlord declared bankruptcy; they are expected to close in March.

“People want to believe that the new landlord is going to make a difference,” says Maceda-Maciel. “And I am one of those people.”

Some tenants are still trying to get out—tenants like Tucker. “I had all kinds of promises from everybody and it’s still the same,” she says. “I’ve been trying to get out of this hell hole. This is the worst place I have ever been in my life.” Tucker applied for a new apartment and expects to hear back in February.

Tenants and their advocates say they are already encountering some problems with the new landlords. They are trying to get Belveron and Redwood Housing to put in writing the promises they’ve been making in meetings with tenants, in the form of a contract with the tenant associations, says Slosarski.

But the landlords say they can’t. City Paper reached out to Belveron and Redwood Housing for comment but did not hear back.

“Tenants were the ones who said, ‘You can’t just move us one building by one building when you’re doing renovations because then the next building over will just get all the rats,’ and that’s not something you really know unless you live here,” says Slosarski, as she explains why tenants need to be involved in the process.

“This has to be a gut rehab, right. There’s no sort of alternative because the mold is so far into the walls,” says Slosarski. “We’re trying to organize tenants to have a say in that process, have a say in how these buildings get reconstructed because they’re the ones who live here.”

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SPORTS

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SWIMMING

Big Fish, Small Pond

Kelyn Soong

The next generation of Olympic hopefuls are swimming and training at D.C. area pools.

Torri Huske

By Kelyn Soong The synchronized rumblings of swimmers in the water drown out Bruce Gemmell’s distinct raspy voice, which has become perpetually hoarse from decades of coaching. He roams the deck at Georgetown Preparatory School’s indoor pool and shouts instructions anyway.

“Everyone goes twice!”

“Twice!”

On this Friday evening in January, Gemmell is leading his most advanced group at the Nation’s Capital Swim Club (NCAP),

one of the country’s largest and most accomplished swim programs. Below him in the water are some of the top high school swimmers in the country. Five of them—Paige McKenna, Noah Rutberg, Eleanor Sun, Chase Travis, and Gemmell’s daughter, Erin—have qualified to swim in the Olympic Team Trials this June in Omaha, Nebraska.

They’re the latest in a long and rich line of elite D.C. area swimmers that includes 2016 Olympic gold medalists Katie Ledecky and Jack Conger, and before them, athletes like 2012 Olympian Kate Ziegler, 1996 Olympic

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gold medalist Mark Henderson, two-time Olympic champion Tom Dolan, and former world record holder Mike Barrowman.

The D.C. region is filled with elite clubs. Club swimmers in the area swim under Potomac Valley Swimming (PVS), the local swimming committee that covers D.C., parts of Maryland, and Northern Virginia. While its geographic area is the smallest of USA Swimming’s 59 local swimming committees, PVS represents one of the largest groups of total swimmers in USA Swimming with approximately 12,000 athletes.

As of Jan. 7, 26 PVS athletes have qualified for

the Olympic Trials, according to the swimming website Reach For the Wall.

“You want to know why there’s a preponderance of talented swimmers in the area? This is going on everywhere in the DMV right now.

And in similar fashion,” Gemmell explains while pacing around the Georgetown Prep pool deck. “The question is why?”

Torri huske pauses several times before answering questions. The 17-year-old Yorktown High School junior is one of the best swimmers in the country. In December, she won the 100-meter butterfly event at the U.S. Open in Atlanta, edging out professional swimmer Kelsi Dahlia and setting a meet record in the process. But media interviews are not in her comfort zone. Huske is still getting used to the attention.

“I usually don’t really like to tell people much,” she says.

Huske may need to prepare for this part of being an elite swimmer. The Arlington resident has qualified for six events at the Olympic Trials (100-meter butterfly, 100-meter freestyle, 200-meter butterfly, 200-meter freestyle, 200-meter individual medley, and 50-meter freestyle), and has a “really good” chance of making the Olympic team, according to her club coach, Evan Stiles of the Arlington Aquatic Club (AAC). The top two finishers in each individual event will qualify for the Olympics.

“If she can get into the final heat as top eight and it’s just one race, she’s gonna throw it down,” Stiles predicts.

But Stiles considers Huske an “anomaly” in several ways. Unlike many of her peers, Huske did not grow up swimming for a local community pool during the summer. She also chose to stay with the smaller Arlington Aquatic Club, which has around 550 swimmers on its team, instead of joining the larger NCAP, a club that consists of about 1,800 athletes spread across 14 locations, or the Rockville-Montgomery Swim Club (RMSC), which trains more than 1,700 swimmers at five sites.

The popularity and reach of summer swim leagues can explain why the D.C. area produces so many talented swimmers. Fifty to 60 years ago, many local communities, mainly located in the affluent suburbs of Montgomery County, Maryland and Loudoun County, Virginia, established neighborhood pool clubs and started leagues.

Tens of thousands of local athletes swim for their community pool teams during the summer, including the biggest names in the sport.

Ledecky started her swimming career in the Montgomery County Swim League (MCSL).

So did Conger. Both treasured their time in summer league, and credit it for piquing their interest in the sport.

“That’s kind of my story,” Ledecky says. “I started in summer league, joined a year-round team [in NCAP] ... I continued to love the sport through all of it. I had some really great coaches and teammates that helped me get to where I am today. A number of these young swimmers have similar stories of starting out in the sport from a young age in summer league and working their way up to Olympic Trials.”

And as much as some club coaches complain that there isn’t enough pool space because of the high demand, the reality is that the number of year-round pools in the area makes it likely that those interested will find somewhere to train, says Gemmell, who coached Ledecky at NCAP. The variety of options also helps. That’s something he noticed when he moved from Delaware to coach NCAP in 2012.

In addition to NCAP, RMSC, and AAC, other elite swim clubs, including FISH in McLean and Machine Aquatics in Vienna, fall under the PVS umbrella.

“The pools in Delaware are quite limited,” Gemmell says. “If you want to swim year-round, you swim for this club, and if that doesn’t fit your needs—geographic, philosophy, schedule, or something else—too bad. That’s your choice.

You can either have blueberry pie or blueberry pie, and that’s it. When you come down here, you can have blueberry, you can have strawberry, you can have chocolate, you can have lemon meringue, and they’re all geographically, if not convenient, at least reasonable.”

What huske does have in common with her peers is being inspired and pushed by area talents. She remembers seeing a photo signed

by Ledecky hanging on the wall at a local pool and being in awe.

The two now swim at some of the same meets and Huske has gotten to know the fivetime Olympic gold medalist.

“I think she’s definitely helped to spark the interest of kids,” Huske says. “I think she just helps to draw more attention to the sport and make it more well known. Especially when you’re from the area, people are going to talk about her.”

Ledecky attended Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart in Bethesda and served as Phoebe Bacon’s “big buddy” while they were in school together. Bacon, who swims for NCAP, has committed to the University of Wisconsin and qualified for four events (100-meter backstroke, 100-meter butterfly, 200-meter backstroke, and 200-meter individual medley) at the Olympic Trials.

She recalls going to local meets to watch Ledecky swim.

“I wanted to be there, in a sense, to witness history,” Bacon says.

Her mom, Philippa, would also keep her updated on Conger’s achievements. Because he was from the area, it was easy for Bacon to look up to him.

Conger himself had the same experience and remembers looking up to the local elite swimmers that came before him. When he was 10, Conger broke a summer league 25-meter butterfly age group record at his community pool: “My coach was like did you know whose record you broke?”

It belonged to Michael Raab, an all-American swimmer at the University of Virginia who nearly qualified for the Olympic team in 2004.

“That kind of opened my eyes. ‘Wow, if I’m beating him at a very young age, maybe this whole Olympic thing is possible if I stay on this track,’” Conger says. the competitive culture of the D.C. area swimming community makes all the difference, says Travis, one of the swimmers in Gemmell’s group.

Travis started her swimming career in Delaware and moved to Maryland when she was 13 to swim for Gemmell at NCAP. She says she looked at a few places in Pennsylvania, but as a distance specialist she wanted to train with the coach who guided Ledecky, one of the sport’s best distance swimmers.

When Travis travels, she notices that not all swimmers are as motivated as her peers in NCAP. Travis has qualified to swim the 400-meter, 800-meter, and 1,500-meter freestyle events at this year’s Olympic Trials.

“Here, you walk into practice in the morning and like people are ready to swim fast,” she explains. “[When] we’re at other places, people show up like 30 seconds before practice starts and don’t want to do anything.”

Gemmell “expects us to be great,” adds Rutberg, an NCAP swimmer who has qualified for the Olympic Trials in the 200-meter backstroke. “He doesn’t ask us, he kind of just expects us. And I think that’s a great culture to have because he wants you to get better, but he also wants you to want to get better.”

The D.C. area is now known for its highly regarded coaches as well as its elite swimmers.

“I think people dismiss the important aspect of coaching,” Conger says. “I think that’s something that’s very—I don’t know if it’s a desire to be coaching in that specific area, but there are a lot of amazing coaches in that specific area. They should have their credit as well. It’s not just the athletes, but the coaches putting in the hard work.”

Conger, 25, now lives in Charlottesville and trains with Cavalier Aquatics. But he’s chosen to represent both the University of Virginia’s post-grad program and NCAP during meets.

His former RMSC coach, Sue Chen, now coaches with NCAP. “It’s something I’ve done without a doubt or hesitation,” Conger says. “Just a little bit of a way to give back, give credit where credit is due.” toWard the end of practice at Georgetown Prep, Gemmell has his swimmers compete in a relay race while swimming their strokes backwards, finishing feet first. “This is for them to have some fun,” Gemmell says.

Fun for these young athletes means training with the best athletes in the country. It means improving and having the potential to one day swim in the Olympics.

Their swimming heroes swam in the same pools before them. They know what’s possible here.

“It’s just being exposed to really fast swimming,” Conger says. “Just being exposed to what you can really try and do.”

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“Among the Sierra Nevada, California� by Albert Bierstadt, 1868

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Exhibit A

In a city short on rest and peace, visual sanctuary is available to you.

By Kriston Capps Photographs by Darrow Montgomery President Barack Obama’s first inauguration was a blisteringly cold day for the District of Columbia. Millions of Americans braved below-freezing temperatures to greet the nation’s first black president, with little more than a tangible feeling of optimism to warm the crowds on the National Mall. Street vendors hawked little one-use hand warmers to frigid attendees by the purseful.

Tiny packets, little help.

One man found his own way to keep out the cold. He gathered tinder and crawled into a sculpture outside the National Museum of the American Indian. Inside he lit a fire and burned a brochure with Obama’s face on it. It wasn’t a protest. When a museum security guard confronted him, the man, who was apparently homeless, said, “I’m just trying to get warm.”

The fire didn’t harm the tipi-like structure, called “Taa,” one of several outdoor pieces by the Santa Clara Pueblo sculptor Nora Naranjo-Morse. This work was never meant to last. Since 2007, her clay sculptures—altogether a series called “Always Becoming”—have slowly given way to elements both natural and manmade. Animals and insects have burrowed into the adobe, bamboo, and rawhide. The “Always Becoming” sculptures are bound to surrender to the ground that supports them.

For my money, “Always Becoming” offers the best view of the Capitol in the city. Look up at the dome from behind these mounds: Naranjo-Morse’s earthworks serve as a filter on power, a reminder that everything will return to the earth one day. Even the Senate. “Always Becoming” is a gimlet lens for seeing the fragility of the structures that stand up history and democracy.

It’s one of so many treasures in D.C. that people might not notice if they don’t go looking for it—a piece that a person might see without seeing. World-class collections line the Mall and dot the city, and historic public artworks grace everyday places. Informal masterpieces, too. Free museums make it easy. Yet art is hard to access, meaningfully, anywhere, no matter what, for people who don’t know where to start. Maybe especially so when the world is framed by uncertainty.

America’s civil liberties are eroding, the drumbeat of war is deafening, and a climate reckoning is upon us. The headlines are relentless, and life is hard enough without treacherous news. Art can’t save us, no. But for someone who’s struggling to find her feet after a divorce, or for someone who’s trying to drink less as a way of relaxing, or for someone who feels a growing sense of despair—art can bring clarity. Art can give us new questions for interrogating the world.

Art can be the shelter and the fire. This is a guide for finding it.

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Over the last 20 years, I’ve come up with some rules for looking and seeing. The first is to find your anchor. Mine is “Interior With Egyptian Curtain” (1948) by Henri Matisse. The painting features brilliant splashes of color and line against a black room backlit by a window. I first saw “Egyptian Curtain” in a dark classroom at the University of Texas at Austin in the late ’90s. The image on the screen captivated me. I didn’t know anything about painting; slideshows were my introduction to art. It was years before I ever saw the painting in person.

What I noticed first about “Egyptian Curtain” is that nothing about the painting seems to work. The lemon hue of the fruit gathered in a bowl clashes with the dusty pink and sherbet colored table on which the bowl stands, and all the more so with the bold red and green swoops on the African curtain that frames the painting. Puzzled, I held onto the flashcard I printed for the course after I graduated.

When I stumbled upon the painting at the Phillips Collection, years later, I was stunned—there it was, a real object, hanging right there in front of me, in the city where I live. In the years since, I’ve seen it dozens of times. “Egyptian Curtain” never changes, but my thinking about the painting does. Lately, I linger over the inspiration that Matisse took from textiles. He was a voracious observer; he surrounded himself with things that inflected elements of his style.

Working backward through Matisse’s eye opened doors for me. It’s a cringeworthy route into the collections at the National Museum of African Art, but Matisse got me there.

Finding an anchor in D.C. might seem like an assignment: Stroll past portraits of aristocrats in Elizabethan collars until one reaches out to grab you. Which sounds dismal! That’s because museum-goers tackle art museums all wrong. Visitors spend mere seconds with a painting before moving on to the next one, which is understandable given the pressure that people feel to see an entire museum in one go. Which is dismal.

Museums in D.C. make it easier to find an anchor, because they’re humane (i.e., largely free). Making the most of the city’s museums means, to me, shorter trips and longer looking.

Looking takes practice. I like to start by focusing on my senses and thinking inward: How do I respond to these colors, to this shape? Where does my eye want to go in this painting? Pulling apart all the decisions in a piece helps: the grain of a photo, the texture of a statue, the shape of a brushstroke. Lingering on each detail in isolation helps. A lot of times, I won’t have any response right away. Days later, maybe weeks later, something about a performance or an installation might click—or a piece might just bury itself in my mind, demanding more attention. “amOng the sierra Nevada, California,” an 1868 masterpiece

by Albert Bierstadt, enjoys its own devotional space at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. With this painting, which the artist produced in Rome, Bierstadt sold a fantasy of a virgin American West to slavering European audiences. The landscape is luminous; the painter is canceled. Bierstadt’s vision of Manifest Destiny looks naive, even laughably so, in light of contemporary thinking on colonialism or scholarship on artists such as Kay WalkingStick.

Looking is not the same thing as liking. Appreciation means rubbing up against ideas that may not be all that pleasurable—or acknowledging that beauty often comes with an asterisk. Studying up helps, of course, but art doesn’t need to feel like homework. Context should follow intuition and feel, the best guides of all. Sometimes the answers are confusing or elusive, but the place to start is with a question: How does looking at this thing make me feel?

Right now, there’s something on view at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden that offers an easy introduction to looking.

“Open Dimension,” by the Korean artist Lee Ufan, comprises 10 sculptures from a series called “Relatum.” His installations are exercises in balance and harmony, made in stone and mirrored steel.

Right now, they’re installed outside the museum, hugging its perimeter. (The Hirshhorn is rethinking what it means to program a sculpture garden, which too often read as sculpture graveyards.)

Ufan’s work is minimalist: He belongs to the Japanese Mono-ha movement (“School of Things”), a cousin to the 1970s Arte Povera focus on natural or fugitive materials. Mirror and stone reflect 12 january 24, 2020 washingtoncitypaper.com

TOP: “Always Becoming” by Nora Naranjo-Morse, 2007 ABOVE: Sculptural park landscape at CityCenterDC by the firm Gustafson Guthrie Nichol

and absorb the sunlight. Shadows from the Brutalist bunker of the Hirshhorn building redraw Ufan’s compositions. These works will change with the seasons and the hour of the day. My bet is that anyone who witnesses these contemplative works twice will look for opportunities to see them again and again—much as people did with splashier spectacles at the Hirshhorn, like Doug Aitken’s wrap-around museum projection, “SONG1,” or Yayoi Kusama’s pumpkin-spiced “Infinity Mirrors.”

“Always Becoming,” Naranjo-Morse’s suite of Pueblo sculptures outside the National Museum of the American Indian, is another anchor—a piece that marches lockstep with nature, Washington’s tempo be damned. (Although the rawhide that once covered “Taa” has since been removed, and there’s a stump in place to prevent anyone from sitting inside.)

Artworks that will evolve with you are nestled inside galleries across the city. They’re part of the city, too. Here’s another rule for looking: Map the place where you live.

TOP: “Bearing Witness” by Martin Puryear, 1997 ABOVE: A painting by Tom Downing inside the law offices of Arnold & Porter

EvEry timE i walk by Mount Vernon Square, I’m urged to commit a crime. There’s a painting in a window at 6th Street and Massachusetts Avenue NW that’s begging to be stolen.

The painting is by Tom Downing, a stalwart of the Washington Color School, the late ’60s and early ’70s style for which D.C. is best known in art history. Like the other artists in this movement, Downing worked with acrylic on unprimed canvas, the Color School signature. He painted dots—bright, hard-edged, minimalist polka dots—decades before the notorious British artist Damien Hirst, best known for pickling sharks, would do the same thing.

(This isn’t a rule, exactly, but the Color School is a place to start with art in D.C.: Works by these artists hang in the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the National Museum of African American History and Culture, and pretty much every other art institution in town—and also museums all across the nation. Once you see them, you never stop seeing them.)

Hanging over a seemingly pointless office stairwell, and visible to the street through a floor-to-ceiling window in Mount Vernon Square, is a Downing painting of 29 colorful dots. Stealing the painting would be a bad idea: It belongs to the law firm Arnold & Porter. The otherwise featureless stairwell appears to go nowhere, as if it were only there to be seen by me. This accidental gallery is a pin in my mental map of places across the city for catching an inadvertent glimpse of wonder among the mundane.

Those happy accidents are woven into apartment lobbies, law firm hallways, and government buildings throughout D.C. The best amenities of the ultra-luxe CityCenterDC condos, I’m convinced, are the disc-shaped paintings in the lobby by D.C. painter Linling Lu—works that I’d also like to liberate under cover of night.

MGM National Harbor boasts a powerful painting by the late Kenneth Victor Young, an artist who only gained recognition for his contributions to the Color School in the years before his death. And every week, surely thousands of people walk by Martin Puryear’s “Bearing Witness”—a monumental sculpture outside the Federal Triangle Metro Station—without noting how the hammer-formed bronze suggests military dread. (Puryear, who was born in D.C. in 1941, represented the United States in the most recent Venice Biennale, a prestigious post.)

Mapping art in the city means keeping tabs on formal and informal spaces. Galleries for finding work by local artists include Hemphill Fine Arts, Hamiltonian, and Transformer in Northwest, and Honfleur Gallery and the Anacostia Arts Center in Southeast. Some recent additions include Georgetown’s von ammon co and De Novo Gallery at Union Market. The artist Julia Bloom operates Freight Gallery in the elevator of the apartment building where she lives in Langdon. Toss in the area’s many university art galleries—to say nothing of outlying museums, like the enchanting mid-century Kreeger Museum in Foxhall or coolly elegant Glenstone in Potomac—and the map gets crowded fast. This is a good problem to have.

Find the things worth seeing again and again, then always take the scenic route. It’s a revelation to discover how much permanent things change over time. The small arrow-shaped park by CityCenterDC, for example, is one of my favorite sites in the city, a uniquewashingtoncitypaper.com january 24, 2020 13

ly sculptural park landscape. White Danby marble from Vermont and grey-green Flammet quartzite from Sweden frame the precision CNC-milled granite fountain (a feat of engineering). Designed by the women-led firm Gustafson Guthrie Nichol, the park fulfills the original call for fountains to punctuate the geometry of L’Enfant’s plan. In winter, the park is subdued and steely; summer draws out the green veining in the marble.

Art is written on the walls of D.C., too, and these works tell stories about the city. The underpass of I-695, at 6th Street SE, features a bunch of faded reproductions of geometric paintings by Piet Mondrian, an artist who made his mark on abstraction in the early 20th century. Not far away, an even larger Mondrian reproduction once graced a 30-foot-tall windowless wall along the Ellen Wilson Dwellings, a public housing project.

The Capitol Hill homeowner and diplomat who commissioned these murals in 1988 was an odd kind of gentrifier. Warren M. Robbins donated more than 5,000 African artworks to the Smithsonian Institution, and he served as the founding director of the National Museum of African Art. Robbins fought for years before his death to preserve his Mondrian commissions. As public opinion soured on public housing during the Clinton era, the Ellen Wilson Dwellings project was demolished in the late ’90s; neighbors stopped arguing over the Mondrian underpass, eventually, so now they’re just fading away.

It’s a lesson that informs another guide for looking. My mind’s map is populated by long-since-closed galleries, shuttered collectives, and failed ventures. All the boldest murals will be painted over, assuming the walls don’t fall first. At the risk of being maudlin, take it to heart: Go it alone, and keep something for yourself.

When my father died, after a sudden discovery of cancer in September 2018, I felt a need to see a piece far from my family’s home in West Texas. Not an urgent desire, exactly, but a persistent itch. I needed to get to the Phillips Collection.

The Wax Room, a project by the artist Wolfgang Laib commissioned in 2013, occupies a space the size of a hall closet. For the uninitiated, the Laib Wax Room is an intimate installation, a room lined with fragrant yellow bees’ wax and illuminated by a single bulb. I hadn’t given much thought to the piece before, even after experiencing it a few times. But in my grief, from afar, it seemed like a warm place to be alone.

Returning to the Wax Room didn’t give me the feeling I was looking for. It seemed like a silly idea, even, to search for comfort in art, once I found myself packed inside the Phillips’ wax phone booth. I don’t know what lessons to take away from that.

Yet another piece I saw at that time, at an exhibit at the National Gallery of Art by the sculptor Rachel Whiteread, moved me in a profound way. “CONTENTS” (2005), a set of plaster impressions that the artist cast from the boxes that she used to pack up her late mother’s home, reminded me of the family history I was still sorting through. Tracing the negative impressions of familiar objects in order to make sense of them is a through-line in her ghostly minimalist works. It never occurred to me that seeing her work would make me ache. there are no good rules for looking at art. Hitting up a gallery with a date, ’gramming a tour in a museum, bouncing through a boozy art pop-up—all of these can be routes into a moment with an artwork, or at least a diversion. Or at least fun. People-watching in the East Building is right up there with the Dupont Circle farmers’ market on the list of good times to be had on a Sunday in D.C. Whether smartphones ruin the museum experience is a question of preference, like cork versus screw-cap tops for wine bottles or wearing jeans to the opera. Your mileage may vary.

This much I know: No place rewards you for being alone like the galleries. And being alone in a place designed to let you be alone is underrated. Looking happens in that interior space between the senses and the mind and the heart. It’s hard to share the sensation.

Looking is never lonely, though: Finding art means opening up to artists who are reaching out across years or decades or centuries to say something. Art is a reminder that no one is alone, even in times of darkness. Especially then: Find a fire, stay warm.

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D.C. museum directors, curators, and artists name the artworks that ground them—the pieces or places that they think of as home base.

Kaywin Feldman National Gallery of Art Director My first months at the National Gallery of Art have given me less time than I’d like to be out and about in D.C., but I do have a favorite spot from my years of visiting the city—James McNeill Whistler’s “Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room” in the Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery of Art. I’m drawn to its extraordinary beauty as a floor-to-ceiling total work of art, for its lush color and design, and for the way Whistler went to town with his paintbrush on every surface of the room. Today it’s installed with blue and white ceramics just as it was when Whistler knew it in London more than 100 years ago. Being there is like being transported to another place and time. Seeing it on one of the Thursdays when the Freer opens the window shutters to let in natural light is a special treat.

Aaron Maier Artist There is a sculpture called “Prayer Mill” by Stephen Dean on the second floor of the Phillips Collection that grounds me. It’s a metal postcard stand holding dichroic glass cut into postcard-sized rectangles. It’s dumb and it gives me so much peace. It reminds me of two moments simultaneously. There’s a small feeling of joy I get when I walk into a gas station and see a postcard stand. And there’s a feeling of awe I get when I’m in a church and some light is throwing all the beautiful colors of stained glass onto the walls and floor. In awful times, I want to know that there is something left that reminds me of awe and joy. Dean’s “Prayer Mill” reminds me that there is.

Dawne Langford Quota Curator Anish Kapoor’s “At The Hub of Things” is a steady source of inspiration. I first encountered it at the start of the exhibit “Devi: The Great Goddess” at the Sackler Gallery of Art. It was possible to get extremely close to this piece at the time. Staring into the deep blue pigmented hemisphere felt like, if you got too close, it would vacuum you into a very real cosmic abyss. The endless void also seemed imbued with endless meaning. Crafted from a light absorbing pigment, the piece inspired me to think about painting as object making, color as material, and the creation of negative space that you could actually feel. I stood in front of it frozen, sensing the feeling of anxiety each time I would dip in closer to examine the emptiness. This exhibition was about the Hindu goddess Kali, who has over one hundred incarnations, containing the power to protect, nurture, destroy, and create. Seeing work that usually would live amongst other difficult-to-fathom contemporary works instead being placed with religious iconography was, for me, an important moment in recognizing spirituality in art. Many years later, I learned from a friend who was charged with caring for this piece that their least favorite task was cleaning out the dust bunnies from this magical abyss. This didn’t make it seem less intriguing for me.

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Molly Springfield Artist When I find myself near the Mall with a little spare time, I’ll cut straight past the crowds for the calm of Tower 3 in the National Gallery of Art’s East Building. Its elegant geometry is large enough to accommodate monumentally scaled work, yet small enough to create a sense of intimate interaction, and its high skylights deliver generous natural light. It’s a singular space that reveals the genius of I.M. Pei’s architecture.

It hosts rotating solo shows of contemporary artists, like recent standouts Theaster Gates and Anne Truitt. But the one I still think about is a 2012 survey of 43 thesaurus paintings by Mel Bochner—brightly colored lists of synonyms of words like money, die, useless, obscene. To be virtually alone in a roomful of paintings by one of your favorite artists—able to experience the work in your own time, in relative quiet—is a rare opportunity in any museum. But it’s especially satisfying when the architecture of a space is in such service to the work installed there.

Paul Chaat Smith (Comanche) National Museum of the American Indian Curator This new decade is, for sure, going to be worse than the last one. And the last one was terrible. Each week things happen that never happened before, and scientists tell us … Well, you know what scientists are telling us. So many of these terrible things come straight out of D.C.—the bluest city in a nation where the reds have state power, full of museums we can’t help but take for granted, whose citizens are (mostly) disenfranchised. My crowd can be dismissive of big museums. We have been known to call them cemeteries for art, or pretentious secular cathedrals, call out their leaders as shameless lapdogs for the one percent. We eagerly take down hallowed narratives about, say, the New York School, written by white guys about white guy artists. And yet: Nothing does it for me quite like the Rothkos at the National Gallery’s East Building.

I look at those stunning, restorative paintings and think about Mark Rothko creating them when he did: in the aftermath of a global war that killed 70 million. It may well be impossible for most of us to gain perspective on our time, from inside our time. We can only try.

Dorothy Kosinski Phillips Collection Director I love Ursula von Rydingsvard’s work. The exhibit last year at the National Museum of Women in the Arts was extraordinary. But I have always been attracted to her wood sculptures, such as “Tak.” They are often monumental and I intuitively admire her ability to wrestle the material into submission, to carve her vision into being from raw wood. She works with her artistic team, wielding heavy machinery (Who doesn’t love a woman with a chainsaw?) and then fashioning the intricate constructions by sawing, and slicing, and gluing, and finishing. Her work combines brute power and refined artisanship.

I enjoy that combination. I am also attracted to her biography, the fact that her family in Europe had been woodcutters and peasant stock.

Her works are marvelously challenging alternatives to the traditional monuments of vanquishing men on horses. Her towering constructions bear the marks of an artist’s hand; they are imbued with her knowledge and capability. And yet, they retain the forcefulness of a tree, the ineluctable force of the world around us.

Danielle O’Steen Kreeger Museum Curator The permanent collection galleries at most museums are rather sleepy spaces, but can be the best places for cultivating long-term relationships with artworks. One piece I often return to is Eva Hesse’s “Test Piece for Contingent” from 1969 on view at the National Gallery of Art’s East Building amid their 1960s and 1970s holdings.

The work is a study for Hesse’s monumental “Contingent” from the same year, currently at the National Gallery of Australia. Contingent can no longer be exhibited due to its deterioration—the fate of many latex works by Hesse—but the study is remarkably pristine. (Naomi Spector and Stephen Antonakos, who previously owned the object, reportedly kept it rolled in a tube until the National Gallery of Art purchased it in 1996, which owes to its impeccable condition.)

“Test Piece for Contingent” is a delicate thing, composed of a wispy sheet of cheesecloth laden with buttery latex and hung over a wooden dowel. The work is abstract, yet bodily, taking up ethereal space as it floats away from the gallery wall. It was created at a moment when many artists—notably, Hesse—were using unconventional substances as the roots of their artworks. As such, “Test Piece for Contingent” is a love letter to the surprising beauty of latex, and a testament to Hesse’s great experiments with the unlikeliest of materials.

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Last Call

Darrow Montgomery

In the moments before D.C. bars close for the night, friendships are formed, punches are thrown, and memories are made.

A martini at Stan’s Restaurant

By City Paper staff and contributors DepenDing on your viewpoint, a bar is either at its best or worst at last call. These spaces reveal their true selves in the minutes before a manager flicks on the lights and recites Semisonic lyrics, reminding patrons “you don’t have to go home but you can’t stay here.” Last call is when throngs of people who entered as well kempt strangers leave as sweaty friends

with runny mascara. City Paper sent reporters to capture the waning moments of service at six D.C. bars and restaurants as night inched toward morning.

—Laura Hayes Tune Inn 331 Pennsylvania Ave. SE; (202) 543-2725 At one enD of the dimly lit L-shaped bar at Tune Inn in Capitol Hill, an older Afri-

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can American man wearing an American Legion sweatshirt and a Navy veteran cap nurses a Scotch and soda and engages in a good-natured discussion with two white millennials—a man and a woman—about many subjects. A mixture of contemporary, classic rock, and R&B blasts from the bar’s sound system.

As the millennials nurse their cans of Natty Boh, the conversation bounces from Pete

Buttigieg’s relationship with the black community in South Bend and whether he can connect with African American voters nationwide to the oddity of the Los Angeles Dodgers playing their first four years in a football stadium. That leads to a broader backand-forth on multi-sport stadiums.

On the other end of the bar, two men and a woman arrive around 2 a.m., about an hour before the bar will close. Manager and bartender Stephanie Hulbert hugs the woman and fist bumps one of the men. She serves fist-bump guy a chardonnay. The woman gets a Miller Lite and a shot of Jameson, and the other guy drinks a classic Pabst Blue Ribbon.

Unlike many newer bars in the neighborhood, the long-tenured haunt has an unpretentious vibe.

Located on Pennsylvania Avenue SE three blocks from the Capitol, Tune Inn is one of the oldest neighborhood hangs on the Hill. It opened in 1947, and the family that launched it still owns it. Stuffed deer and boar heads, foxes, and faux marlins adorn the walls, as do framed news articles about the bar. On this warm night, two of the four TVs show highlights from the Baltimore Ravens’ loss to the Tennessee Titans.

Tonight, Hulbert knows most of the patrons, which means she’s confident she won’t get any pushback at closing time. On New Year’s Eve, a Tuesday night, when the bar closed at 2 a.m., Hulbert turned away a woman dressed in flapper outfit who showed up near closing time. The woman, who wasn’t a regular, said she was cold. Hulbert advised her to wear a coat.

“Rubberband Man” by The Spinners fades out, and at 2:47 a.m. the lights come up. Thirteen minutes to closing time.

“And now, the end is near,” the man in the American Legion sweatshirt booms, leading his new acquaintances and Hulbert in an impromptu sing-along of “My Way.” With his wire-rimmed glasses, the regular customer named Preston resembles James Earl Jones.

At 2:58 a.m., Hulbert reminds patrons the bar will close in two minutes.

Preston and his millennial bar mates say goodnight. They’d talked like they were old friends, but they weren’t. “Good to meet you,” the man and woman say before they head out.

—Ruben Castaneda Stan’s Restaurant 1029 Vermont Ave. NW; (202) 347-4488; stansdc.com it’s too noisy in the dining room to hear who’s singing in the background, but one voice breaks through. “We’ve been coming here for 20 years!” a patron named Rusty

shouts at strangers. He calls himself an evangelist of the restaurant founded by World War II veteran Stan Gimble. Ownership has changed hands over the decades, but Stan’s has operated at the same subterranean address since 1987.

Rusty comes for the anatomically generous fried chicken wings, unless he’s with his wife. On those visits, he orders baked wings to assuage her dietary concerns. “A lot of people don’t know about it,” he says of the underground spot. Stan’s is the kind of place people want credit for discovering and introducing to others. Regulars are the norm here. That’s why you see so many patrons hugging their servers.

“If you come to D.C., you gotta go to Stan’s,” Rusty insists.

People also gravitate to Stan’s for the cocktails, the antithesis of the tiny and delicate drinks commonly mixed on 14th Street NW. “This is your liquor, this is your mixer,” a server explains, gesturing to two glasses.

He provides this tutorial because at Stan’s, the proportions of a classic mixed drink are reversed. The restaurant serves four ounces of liquor with the mixer on the side. It costs the same as a fancy take on an Old Fashioned that contains closer to two ounces of alcohol, but tastes like a better value. More of a wino? Stan’s fills glasses to the brim.

Despite the heavy-handed pours, the diverse crowd is relatively tame. On this night, many tables are occupied by women wearing Zeta Phi Beta jackets. The sorority, founded on Jan. 16, 1920 at Howard University, is celebrating its centennial anniversary. Old friends reunite over platters of comfort food and occasionally let out a Zeta call, a piercing sound that would definitely help someone find her sisters in a crowd.

Staff don’t just create the welcoming atmosphere at Stan’s—they’re part of it. When their shifts are winding down, servers slip into empty tables to enjoy a quick dinner. That’s where a server named Joaquin is sitting. He’s worked at the restaurant since 1987 and recommends the burger.

A few minutes before 10:30 p.m. the last two dinner patrons descend the stairs in search of supper. They get their orders in just before the kitchen closes. One orders a cream of mushroom soup that seems to replenish itself. At 11:15 p.m. the lights come on. No one wants to leave because it’s so easy to stan Stan’s.

—Laura Hayes Lucky Bar 1221 Connecticut Ave. NW; (202) 331-3733; luckybardc.com The incessanT “wump-wump-wump” of techno kicks in as the Dupont Circle dinner crowd departs. Trance-inducing baselines blare from the dueling dance clubs that hug Connecticut Avenue NW. By 10 p.m. dozens of people have lined up to shake their moneymakers at the retrothemed haunt Decades. Come 11 p.m., a sea of humanity pours out from circling Ubers— the new arrivals quickly clog the doorways of Sauf Haus, Rosebar, and Eighteenth

Street Lounge.

Thankfully, the path to Lucky Bar remains clear. The neighborhood standby that’s big with European soccer fans put down roots at the start of the Clinton administration and has kept locals entertained ever since.

Weekend nights can be hit-or-miss for fun seekers. Some evenings, regulars and club kids fleeing sweatier environs cohabitate while tossing back Jameson shots. On others, close friends might have the whole place—including the coin-operated pool table and glowing Golden Tee machine—all to themselves.

This particular Friday there’s a definite lull. “It’s super busy tonight, as you can see,” jokes a bubbly blonde bartender as she waves toward all the open seats. A guy two stools over is mauling a basket of Buffalo wings, chasing the messy snack with gulps of cold beer. Around the corner three retirees are giggling.

Outside, tempers are flaring. “Hey baldy!

HEY baldy! HEY BALDY!” one ready-torumble bro taunts a follicly challenged foe he hoped would follow him down the street and away from Public Bar Live’s security guards.

No such drama at Lucky Bar. Just perfectly chill people unwinding.

For some, that means nursing martinis while viral country-trap song “Old Town Road” echoes through the second floor lounge. Others take solace in frosty local beers, televised hockey games, or the golden brown empanadas they smuggled in from Julia’s Empanadas next door once Lucky Bar’s kitchen closed.

In fact, the only eruption occurs when someone brings up one of the most hated men in town. “Fuck Snyder!” proclaims a heartbroken fan of the local football team.

—Warren Rojas Velvet Lounge 915 U St. NW; (202) 462-3213; velvetloungedc.com nine years ago, I was standing in the middle of the downstairs bar at Velvet Lounge. DJs Alvin Risk and Tittsworth were shooting the video for the moombahton classic “Pendejas.” The walls were soaked in tequila and National Bohemian beer. Tittsworth, who may be as tall as the room is wide, crowd surfed. Though typically reticent, Risk also stage-dove from the venue’s DJ booth. None of that happened at the now 22-year-old Velvet Lounge on a recent Saturday night.

“Old hipsters, Howard University art kids, and U Street regulars dancing to funk, four decades of throwbacks, and trap,” says DJ Harry Hotter, surveying the crowd. He DJs there monthly “out of a desire to, not because I need to play there.”

The venue’s manager, Juice Jones, who Hotter describes as “a teddy bear of a man,” says, “We’ve done a great job of surviving. We’re a mom-and-pop establishment in the middle of the Bermuda Triangle of very well funded establishments

[like] Nellie’s, Brixton, and El Rey.” One subset of Velvet Lounge regulars chart a well traveled course this Saturday night. They exit the bar, re-enter smelling of weed, then place their order for Jameson shots. Kendrick Lamar only encourages them with his “Turn Me Up” lyrics. Watching giddy young adults enjoying a taste of nightlife in the nation’s capital makes me nostalgic for past nights at Velvet, and amused by the fact that the present, though different, is no less fun.

Through the neighborhood’s changes, Velvet Lounge retains its pull. “We have regulars who are banned from the venue for their behavior who oftentimes stumble back in, just to honestly say hello,” Jones says. “People love coming here for the nostalgia, good times, or they just want a hug from me at the door. I check the IDs here. I give great hugs.”

—Marcus K. Dowling Eighteenth Street Lounge 1212 18th St. NW; (202) 466-3922; 18thstlounge.com iT’s well pasT midnight on a Saturday but Santana, a bouncer at Eighteenth Street Lounge, says the night has just begun. Eighteenth Street Lounge will turn 25 this year, but that doesn’t stop people from queuing outside and coughing up a cover charge to get in.

Eighteenth Street Lounge is a come-as-youare, drink-what-you-like, do-what-you-want kind of place. Older couples arrive fresh from dinner to chat on the faded couches as R&B plays overhead and girls in short skirts and high heels make a beeline to the patio where EDM plays. Although a server says this night is slow since only two of the venue’s five bars are open, you still have to elbow your way through the dance floor.

In the dark-panelled lounge, couples sip Moscow Mules and rail liquor. The scene retains a PG-rating until about 2 a.m. That’s when a few couples move into each others’ laps and make out while a particularly frantic duo in black tie attire swing dances much to the horror of onlookers.

Outside on the patio, where Santana says you can find the best DJ, people like to keep things buzzing until last call. A crowd diverse in ages and levels of sobriety makes sure of it as they smoke cigarettes and drink out of plastic cups.

At 2:30 a.m. a fight breaks out on the dance floor between two 20-something men. They only get in a punch each before bouncers swarm in and kick them out. Santanta says it was over something stupid.

“A girl, you know,” he says. “You’re always causing fights, right?” Right.

Fight aside, when the lights flash on at 3 a.m., people seem reluctant to leave. On a dark couch in the corner a woman is straddling her date, oblivious to the servers loudly clinking glasses around them. The remaining crowd slowly stumbles up the metal stairway to the coatroom and a group of friends take a final round of shots before Santana shoos them out.

The server who said the night was a slow one reappears: “Tonight was like a Tuesday night,” she pouts. “Come back when the live jazz room is open! Then you’ll get the real experience.”

—Chelsea Cirruzzo Dew Drop Inn 2801 8th St NE; (202) 791-0909; dewdropinndc.com The Dew Drop Inn is an island. The bar sits a few feet from the Metropolitan Branch Trail and is surrounded by nothing but the Franklin Street NE bridge, a massive storage center, and railroad tracks. It’s about a 10 minute walk from both the Rhode Island Ave-Brentwood and Brookland-CUA Metro stops. The shark tooth-shaped, stone-covered building dates back to 1917 and still has the second-floor hoist from its time as a stone-cutting workshop.

Previously occupied by Chocolate City Beer Brewery, the owners of The Wonderland Ballroom transformed the property into the Dew Drop Inn in 2015. The diverse calendar of weeknight events, including burlesque, trivia, music, comedy, and an open mic night, is a valiant effort to keep a cheap bar afloat in D.C. in 2020.

Through this programming, the bar appeals to a diverse crowd—Catholic University undergrads, young professionals, hipsters, and neighbors.

On a recent Saturday night, orange LED lights glow warmly on the semi-ironically curated thrift-store decor—a CBGB reunion show poster, a map of the Tube, a Trainspotting movie poster. Hip-hop plays on the stereo to a sparse, mostly white crowd arranged in small groups at tables, drinking beer or mixed drinks and chatting. “We’re not a cocktail bar,” says Trevor Sutton, a D.C. native and Dew Drop Inn bartender of five months. “Our swizzle sticks are in the back.”

Before things wind down around 2:30 a.m., two men argue loudly about the finer points of Russian electoral politics. Some patrons, looking so painfully cool you wonder where they can afford to live, smoke by the open back door as rain pours. A tipsy woman in a baseball cap, white jeans, and a large tweed sport coat, dances by herself. According to Sutton, she ordered a green tea shot made with Irish whiskey, peach schnapps, sour mix, and lemon-lime soda.

Sutton’s favorite late-night story took place during one of the bar’s twice-monthly indie karaoke nights. A woman, who had arrived with her male partner in tow, had “too, too much to drink,” according to Sutton. Throughout the night, she danced with another man while her partner stayed silent.

Later, Sutton went outside and overhead the couple arguing.

“I leave and you’re kissing him,” the man alleged. “I thought it was you,” the woman replied. Her assertion was undercut by the fact that her partner was white, and the man she had been kissing was about five inches taller and black. “It’s OK, he’s not a good kisser,” she added.

—Josh Kramer

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Diplomatic Community D.C. will house a first-of-its-kind museum dedicated to diplomacy.

Preview exhibition Diplomacy Is Our Mission

Ambassador Taylor’s tear gas canister Low, a distinguished diplomat whose work included directing the Foreign Service Institute.

“We are definitely nonpartisan, shown by the fact that secretaries of state, every secretary of state since Madeleine Albright, have been interested in establishing this Museum of

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AmbAssAdor Clyde d. TAylor faced threats during his 34-year career as a foreign service officer for the U.S. Department of State.

He served in Iran from 1975 to 1979. “The entire time I was in Iran, my name was on a repeatedly freshened list, a kill list, which would be shoved under our door where we lived,” Taylor says.

Taylor’s work took him to more than 65 countries, and he was assigned to live overseas on tours in Panama, Australia, El Salvador, Iran, and Paraguay, where he was the U.S. ambassador from 1985 to 1988. During his tenure, he says, the Paraguayan president ordered police to throw tear gas at him while he attended a prodemocracy event at a private residence.

“Three national policemen, we could see their heads come over the wall,” Taylor recounts. “They tossed a tear gas grenade. It landed about a meter from me.”

He suffered eye irritation, but no serious injuries.

Stories like Taylor’s will now be told at the National Museum of American Diplomacy (NMAD), a new D.C. museum currently under development, which museum director Mary Kane says is slated to open at the end of 2022. Taylor gifted the tear gas canister that was thrown at him to the museum, where it will be featured in a collection of artifacts that help tell the history of American diplomacy.

NMAD says this will be the first museum of its kind in the country, a home for diplomatic issues and content, located in Foggy Bottom at 330 21st St. NW in a building attached to the headquarters of the State Department.

The museum is a public–private partnership between the State Department and the nonprofit Diplomacy Center Foundation. It was formerly known as the U.S. Diplomacy Center, and was rebranded to reflect its development as a museum. According to the foundation, U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo was given consent from the U.S. Congress to rename the organization in November 2019.

The institution aims to be nonpartisan. The late Senator Charles Mathias—a Republican known for his liberal voting record and endorsement of President Barack Obama a week before the 2008 presidential election— conceived of the idea for the museum in the 1990s with the late Ambassador Stephen

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“Signature Segment” of the Berlin Wall at NMAD American Diplomacy,” says Kane, who previously served as president and chief executive officer of the citizen diplomacy network Sister Cities International. “The museum will represent the impact of American diplomacy not just on our nation but around the world,” Kane says.

Two free and open to the public displays are currently on view at the two-level museum site, and visitors must reserve timed passes to enter. A preview exhibition on the ground floor, Diplomacy Is Our Mission, opened in November 2019 and will remain open until construction begins on the museum to give the public an idea of what to expect. Though the start date of the construction is yet to be determined, the finished museum will be open daily and free to visit, too. NMAD worked with Smithsonian Exhibits to create the display, which breaks down diplomacy into four pillars: prosperity, security, democracy, and development. It includes elements like Le Virus Ebola!, a graphic novel that explores how aid workers handle an epidemic. On the lower level is The Berlin Wall exhibition, where a 13-foot high, nearly 3-ton piece of the Berlin Wall is featured. The remnant is a symbol of diplomacy known as the “Signature Segment,” as 27 world leaders who helped reunite Germany signed it. The Berlin Wall will be a permanent part of the museum.

The content of the preview exhibit will rotate periodically, and special events are also frequently held at the site, like film screenings, panel discussions, and monthly happy hours. Above all, visitors will gain a better understanding of what diplomats do.

The museum highlights that the actual duties of diplomats vary greatly. There are five different career tracks: Management officers handle tasks like embassy operations, political officers are responsible for things like updating ambassadors about political changes happening in the country where they are stationed, economic officers might negotiate a new trade law, consular officers help Americans living overseas, and public diplomacy officers handle public relations for the U.S. State Department by interfacing with foreign audiences.

Once complete, the National Museum of American Diplomacy will contain a gift vault that explores the cultural significance of certain tokens that diplomats give to different countries. It will also have a section that highlights the dangers of diplomacy by telling stories of crisis, hardship, and attacks. Blood-stained suits from bombings, clothes worn in hostage situations, and a clutch bag made to conceal a handgun—which the very first female diplomatic security officer fashioned—are just a few of the items that will be on display.

“Many have lost their lives in the line of

CPARTS diplomatic service,” notes deputy director for museum content Jane Carpenter-Rock. She herself is a diplomat who worked as a public affairs officer in Cape Town, South Africa, and Bogotá, Colombia.

“We do a great job at explaining ourselves and explaining our policies to foreign audiences really well,” she says. “We put our ambassadors in front of the news cameras, we go on talk shows, we go on the radio, we engage in social media in the country [overseas]. I feel like we haven’t done as good a job domestically here in the United States explaining American diplomacy.”

She says the goal of NMAD is to change that, and a remark that Madeleine Albright, the former secretary of state, made in reference to her support of the original U.S. Diplomacy Center inspires their mission to “make foreign policy seem a bit less foreign.”

Carpenter-Rock has also thought about how the programming of the completed institution might respond to current affairs like the unfolding conflicts with Iran and connect those issues to diplomatic history. Taking full advantage of NMAD’s position next to the State Department to showcase diplomats who have a general expertise, especially in the museum’s educational programming involving student discussions, is one idea.

“An issue like Iran, I think a lot of Americans are probably wondering—how did the U.S. and Iran get to this point,” says Carpenter-Rock.

“What’s the background? What’s the backstory? What are the issues at stake for U.S. foreign policy? What are the issues at stake for average Americans? We definitely want to have a place in the museum where we can call down a current diplomat, somebody working on the issues to say, ‘Just talk about this for the average American citizen.’”

The National Museum of American Diplomacy also integrates pop culture to widen its appeal. It has a permanent loan of Madeleine Albright’s pin collection that is featured in her book Read My Pins: Stories from a Diplomat’s Jewel Box, which reviews pins she wore to convey diplomatic messages. It tells the story of how child actress Shirley Temple Black later became a successful diplomat as an ambassador to Ghana, an ambassador to Czechoslovakia, and the first-ever female chief of protocol at the State Department. The museum will also display items from the CBS show Madam Secretary. A podium from the TV program will be exhibited so visitors can imagine what it’s like to be a spokesperson at the State Department.

“A lot of students come in and ask us, ‘Is this like Madam Secretary?’” says Kane. “We

were thrilled when Lori McCreary and Morgan Freeman and CBS Television and Revelations Entertainment agreed to send us props and artifacts from the set.”

Engaging youth is a key element of NMAD, not just through pop culture but also through an interactive curriculum that is geared toward grade school, high school, college, and graduate school students, which is also available online for the public.

DC Public Schools is benefiting from the museum’s educational components. Julian Hipkins, global studies coordinator at Theodore Roosevelt High School in Petworth, says that the learning tools open his students’ eyes to careers in diplomacy.

“For some of them that might be the first time they ever thought about it,” Hipkins says.

“In a lot of ways it takes the mystery out of it. It makes it something attainable.”

One of his students ended up visiting the State Department with the school so frequently that the staff began to know him by name. Roosevelt High is creating a career technical education program that incorporates internships related to diplomacy to expedite its students’ job readiness.

Even for those who don’t envision themselves as career diplomats, the lessons they learn through the curriculum make an impres-

sion. Hipkins’ students worked with a student group from Georgia and Azerbaijan in one of the museum’s diplomacy simulations, which encouraged participants to collaborate to tackle the global water crisis.

“It was a really powerful experience,” Hipkins recalls. “Not just from meeting students from other countries, people like themselves from other countries, but actually engaging in the simulation and working on a problem with people from another part of the world.”

The practical parts of the job highlighted in these simulations are something that Ambassador Taylor hopes the museum sheds light on, along with the fact that, at the heart of it all, diplomats do this work in service of the American people.

“We’re not overseas doing some kind of esoteric thing,” Taylor says. “We’re doing serious work from trying to advance commercial interests… [to] protecting American citizens.”

Taylor remembers that during his first overseas tour he was responsible for hundreds of cases each year that included Americans abroad who were in jail, who were broke, and who had been injured in accidents or had died.

“We provide all those services,” Taylor says.

“And if you have any of those things happen to you, you realize how important that is.”

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For immigrants, arriving in a new country, learning a new language, starting at a new school, and making new friends can be tough enough, but blending in with a cold, new family makes it even tougher. This is what happens in Robin Ha’s young adult graphic novel, Almost American Girl, which charts the journey of Robin and her mother from Seoul to Alabama to Virginia, and her salvation from isolation and misery: a comics-illustrating class.

T h i s au tob i o graphical tale portrays childhood in Seoul, where Robin experiences the stigma of being an out- o f-wedlo ck child. Her mother owns, manages, and works in a beauty salon, and her father is never around. Robin is wild about comics. She also loves the city, where every corner “is full of stores and people.” When she and her mother visit her mother’s boyfriend’s family in Alabama, Robin feels uprooted, disoriented. “I wondered what all these Korean people were doing here in the middle of nowhere in America.”

Two younger children barely speak Korean, which astounds her. Robin can’t wait to return to Seoul, but then her mother announces her engagement to Mr. Kim. “Just like that, everything I loved was suddenly snatched away from me.”

In her unhappiness at not fitting in, Robin blames her mother, but soon ditches this resentment, because her mother is her only true ally against the world. This is what Almost American Girl portrays best—how the child of a single mother bonds with her, how critical this relationship is to survival, and how social hostility toward single parenthood creates needless stress. “I can’t recall missing my father at all,” Ha writes. “The only ‘real’ memory I have of my dad is a nightmare I had when I was five or six.

He was kidnapping me and taking me away.”

Almost American Girl’s illustrations of Robin’s mother convey the stress and anxiety of

managing work and child-rearing alone. “She gave me such a complete sense of protection.

She was my rock.” But this security comes at a cost, one conveyed best and subtly in the pictures. There is no subtlety, however, about Korean society’s condemnation of single motherhood. Plenty of people, mostly teachers, feel free to express their disapproval quite bluntly by picking on such children and assigning them demeaning chores. While this stops when Robin and her mother move in with Mr. Kim’s family, the family’s attitude about a woman’s role and how Robin’s mother should behave is oppressive.

“In Korea it is common for single mothers to be disowned by their family,” Ha writes. Also, a wife is expected meekly to support a husband, regardless of his poor decisions. When Mr. Kim moves to Los Angeles after his business fails, however, Robin’s mother once again breaks the mold. Almost American Girl is as much about growing up in an immigrant community as about leaving traditional society for the unknown.

The journey is painful and, had it been up to Robin, likely would not have been made. But her mother is different, and so is willing to take risks.

Adolescence can be painful. Not knowing where to fit in is often a problem; so is loneliness and insecurity. The immigrant experience compounds these problems, often leaving highschoolers from other countries feeling wretchedly left out. This graphic novel captures those aspects of being an immigrant adolescent. The portrait of American students is not a nice one, and how they behave is in some cases offensive.

But this portrait is accurate, because of its warts, because of its honesty about the overall uncaring, uninterested, and at times overtly hostile environment for immigrants that is high school.

Almost American Girl is about finding and creating a new identity and about art as salvation.

Through comics, through drawing, Robin discovers something she loves, that gives her life meaning, that can provide goals and a trajectory: The girl in this story became the woman who wrote and illustrated it. A story about growth, suffering, and becoming, this book will resonate with young adult readers. But it will also resonate with every parent who has sacrificed for a child, because above all, this book is a tribute to Robin Ha’s mother.

—Eve Ottenberg

LIZ AT LARGE “Ahmad Jamal is the best living pianist, period.

No one grooves like him. He should be here every day.”

—Jason Moran

Ahmad Jamal Saturday, February 8 at 8 p.m.

Concert Hall Ahmad Jamal may be the last original jazzman. Though he now has a key on the piano for each year of life, Jamal’s performances are as fresh as ever with his delicate touch, taste for sweet comping chords, and knack for ingenious improvisations. The NEA Jazz Master, Grammy® Lifetime Achievement Award winner, and Kennedy Center Living Legend has developed a wide following among mainstream audiences, longtime music lovers, and jazz legends—even now, there’s simply no one who plays quite like Jamal.

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THEATERCURTAIN CALLS

STRANGERS IN A STAGE LAND Pilgrims Musa and Sheri in the New World

By Yussef El Guindi Directed by Shirley Serotsky At Atlas Performing Arts Center to Feb. 16 Sometime between two and three in the morning, New York cabdriver Musa (Ahmad Kamal) leads waitress Sheri (Rachel Felstein) up a staircase. (Yes, the city is unnamed in playwright Yussef El Guindi’s script, but the geographical details, and the way even his Muslim American characters sprinkle their English with Yiddishisms make it unmistakably New York.) It’s not the first time she’s been a passenger in his cab after the late shift, but it’s the first time he’s invited her to his home for a drink. Musa is an Egyptian immigrant who taught himself English by reading a translation of the Quran (since he knows the original) and the hard-boiled detective novels of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler.

On this night, he takes advantage of the absence of his roommate, Abdullah (a charismatic Freddie Lee Bennett), who is on the Hajj.

Sheri is loquacious and curious about everything, especially Musa. Despite coming from a family of alcoholics and ne’er do wells, she wants to be perceived as a good girl who does not normally accept invitations for a drink from relative strangers. Musa, despite being a Muslim, likes Scotch. And despite the body dysmorphia that causes Sheri to imagine herself fat, Musa makes her feel beautiful.

The upstairs neighbors argue. The corner shop is still open in order to cater to the night owls and junkies. Musa and Sheri make love.

She is his first American woman. The absent roommate wanders into her dreams describing his wonderment at his success brokering deals between his fellow immigrants in multicultural America, and how, in thanks for his prosperity, he makes his pilgrimage to Mecca where he will give praise alongside Muslims of all nations. Mecca becomes the religious counterpoint to New York, a destination of secular pilgrimage.

Pilgrims Musa and Sheri in the New World is the sort of romantic comedy that was once a staple of independent film and, in more recent years, streaming television. There are no glamorous jobs, no luxurious apartments, no expectations of a big break so typical of mainstream Hollywood fare. This being a romantic comedy, though, there are obstacles to overcome, least of which is the lovers’ own baggage. Musa’s shrewd Somali friend, Tayyib (Gerrad Alex Taylor), does not believe the romance can survive the cultural differences

The Merry Wives of Windsor and reminds Musa that he’s already engaged to Gamila (Sanam Laila Hashemi) an Egyptian-American nursing student meeting Musa’s family in Cairo to make wedding arrangements. Rest assured, Gamila has her return tickets in hand and will happen upon Musa and Sheri’s love nest.

We’ve seen one version or another of this story many a time, but thankfully, El Guindi is an excellent storyteller who has populated his city with charming, flawed characters who have their own sensual desires, spiritual aspirations, and material needs. If there is something lacking, it is that Musa’s fondness for crime novels is not fully explored.

Director Shirley Serotsky has assembled a terrific cast. As the lovers, Kamal and Felstein have a dynamic rapport that allows one to lose oneself in their flirtations and inevitable and hilarious first fight. Felstein in particular delivers her speech with dancing syncopated rhythms. As Gamila, Hashemi manages to be both a formidable and sympathetic rival.

Serotsky’s direction also unleashes the creativity of set designer Nephelie Andonyadis.

Taking inspiration from El Guindi’s stage direction that Musa’s taxi cab is constructed out of suitcases, Andyonadis has taken the suitcase, that totem of both traveller and immigrant that Tayyib sells on Broadway and Abdullah and Gamila lug along on their travels, as a central symbol. It is the baggage that follows us through life. On this stage, the entire skyline is constructed of suitcases, as are the stairs up to and walls of Musa’s apartment. New York is a city where everybody carries baggage. The stage is painted with ripples of water, representing the oceans migrants and pilgrims cross, and longitudinal and latitudinal lines of sepia colored navigational maps on the proscenium remind us that immigration stories are age old.

Though Pilgrims is not the boldest or most daring of Mosaic Theatre Company’s offerings this season, it is a particularly entertaining entry in the tradition of the American immigrant

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story. It envisions the pilgrim as protagonist and not as a foreign threat.

—Ian Thal 1333 H St. NE. $20–$65. (202) 399-7993. mosaictheater.org.

FORDS V FALSTAFF The Merry Wives of Windsor

By William Shakespeare Directed by Aaron Posner At Folger Theatre to March 3

Serendipity iS not prophecy. Playwright and director Aaron Posner could not have known Virginia would finally ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, approved by Congress in 1972 but mostly dormant since the early 1980s, last year when he decided to set his new Merry Wives of Windsor in the polyester age of 1972.

But as things shook out, Posner has young Anne Page (Linda Bard)—a lady whose mother and father each have a preferred suitor for her, neither of them the man with whom she has fallen in love—carrying an “ERA Now!” sign in a show that opened just days after the Virginia legislature’s historic vote. Good for him.

Even in the bustling context of this eagerto-please production, this registers at least as much as a governing theme as it does a smart piece of prop work, one that’s of a piece with Tony Cisek’s TV-studio-styled set (illuminated geometric panels, exposed astroturf ) and Devon Painter’s vibrant, way-out costumes (loud prints, big lapels, decorative sunglasses, exposed chest hair). But in fact, Merry Wives wears its latter-day feminist reading more comfortably than many other Shakespeare works, concerning as it does an unsuccessful attempt by a dissolute specimen of a man—the swollen drunk Sir John Falstaff (a loud and well

padded Brian Mani)—to seduce and extort two smart and disciplined women, Mistress Page and Mistress Ford (Regina Aquino and Ami Brabson, respectively). Their wealth and status in Windsor come from the fact they’re both married to prominent men, but you can’t have everything.

If you believe the legend, our man Will wrote The Merry Wives at the command of Queen Elizabeth, who told him she wanted to see that fun-loving old drunk Falstaff in love. The shaggy play with which Shakespeare obliged her didn’t even fulfill that mandate: Falstaff ’s motives here are purley fiscal, not carnal. Mani, who is gargling with whiskey when we meet him, makes Falstaff an arresting subject all the same, and it’s nice to see someone slightly unfamiliar to the Folger stage take up so much space in a Posner Shakespeare. The same goes for Louis E. Davis in the role of Mine Host, who contributes a disproportionate share of the evening’s laughter and warmth.

Elsewhere, Posner has once again cast a number of his favorite actors, ringers all: Cody Nickell adopts an over-the-top-of-the-top French accent for his Dr. Caius, one of the men competing to marry Anne. The sight of his rival for her hand, Abraham Slender (Brian Reisman), sets him literally trembling with rage. It’s a visual gag worth reprising, and reprised it gets.

Kate Eastwood Norris gives Mistress Quickly a Midwestern pattern of speech that suits the character’s unrewarded people-pleasing. No one knows better than she does how to deliver an aside; having her tell Caius, her employer, to pay her no mind when he overhears her addressing the audience doesn’t necessarily make the moment funnier, but it’s in keeping with the production’s Love, American Style vibe. There’s a smoother variation on this gag later, when Slender overhears Mistress Page lament that he, her husband’s choice for a son-in-a-law, is a fool. Wounded, he puts down the piece of the set he’s moving and slinks offstage. It’s a good meta joke that doesn’t take any more time than it warrants, and it hints at the more effervescent version of this Merry Wives that might’ve emerged had it been staged sans intermission.

This is a play where Shakespeare repeats almost every joke and incident, so it’s hard to fault a director for following suit.

Another thing Posner also could not have known is that Eric Hissom, the superb actor he has directed in many plays at the Folger and elsewhere, would fall ill and be unable to perform the pivotal role of Mr. Ford on press night. Ryan Sellers, Hissom’s understudy, went on in his place and acquitted himself admirably. He’s visibly younger than Hissom and than Brabson, who plays his spouse—a union that on this particular night appeared intergenerational as well as interracial. Good for him. —Chris Klimek 201 East Capitol St. SE. $27–$85. (202) 5447077. folger.edu.

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COLOR ME MAD Color Out of Space

Directed by Richard Stanley Nicolas cage might be the only working actor who can do justice to the stories of horror writer H.P. Lovecraft. In works like The Call of Cthulhu and The Colour Out of Space, the writer conjures unfathomable terrors, with madness as the only logical recourse for the characters who encounter them. That is what Cage does in Color Out of Space, a modern update on Lovecraft’s short story, directed by Richard Stanley.

There are some rough edges here, mostly due to the challenge in adapting borderline unfilmable material, but Stanley and Cage capture the disquieting wonder of the unknown.

After a brief prologue, Stanley and his coscreenwriter Scarlett Amaris introduce us to the Gardner family of Arkham, Massachusetts. Cage plays Nathan, a prickly man who left the city to live off the land, while his wife Theresa (Joely Richardson) is recovering from cancer. Together they attempt to raise produce and livestock, with Nathan turning most of his attention to alpacas because he thinks they are the future of American agriculture. That is not even close to the weirdest thing that happens: After a meteor lands near the couple’s property, everything around them starts to go haywire. The crops start to die, and the family starts to go wild.

Many horror films opt for a dark palette, as if to match the creepy subject matter, and Stanley has done the exact opposite, to intense and vivid effect. Hues of pink and purple oversaturate the screen, creating an unnerving depiction of psychedelia. By the time the body horror gets underway and characters transform into grotesque humanoids, Stanley wisely

abandons any sense of decorum or good taste.

When Cats opened in theaters last month, movie-goers talked to The Washington Post about how they took drugs and saw the film.

Color Out of Space also invites that experience, but the key difference between Cats and this film, of course, is that Stanley’s approach is intentional.

The deteriorating dynamics among the Gardner family are not nearly as frightening as the creatures they become. Cage is perhaps too fierce here, so his early scenes already have a mania to them. By the time his wife loses her humanity and ability to form words, there is nowhere for his performance to go. Tommy Chong is more plausible as Nathan’s burnout neighbor, Ezra, who accepts the consequences of the meteor with a mix of resignation and reverence. Nathan’s children are slightly saner than their father, although their performances end on blubbery tears and little else. That is the challenge in adapting Lovecraft: The nature of on-screen depiction makes literal things that are only teased on the page.

Color Out of Space is Stanley’s first feature since he attempted mainstream success with The Island of Dr. Moreau in 1996. That film was plagued by studio interference and a difficult cast: Marlon Brando played Dr. Moreau, although he had open contempt for the material and could not learn his lines. Now working with a smaller budget outside the studio system, Stanley can better explore the themes and ideas of writers like Lovecraft and H. G. Wells. There is an admirable lack of restraint in the grotesqueries that Stanley is able to depict. Like the most interesting horror filmmakers, he explores his own anxieties and hangups to allow us to see why they are so deeply frightening to him.

—Alan Zilberman Color Out of Space opens Friday at E Street Cinema.

SAVAGELOVE

I’m a 30-year-old bi male. I’ve been with my wife for five years, married nine months. A month into our relationship, I let her know that watching partners with other men has always been something I wanted and that sharing this had caused all my previous relationships to collapse. Her reaction was the opposite of what I was used to. She said she respected my kink, and we both agreed we wanted to solidify our relationship before venturing down the cuckold road. Fast-forward a couple of years, and we are in a healthy relationship, living together, regularly visiting sex clubs (though playing only with each other), and beginning to add some cuckold dirty talk to our sex play. Then after I proposed, we got busy … with wedding plans. Sex and experimentation were set aside. Once we got married, we started … looking for a house. Sex again took a back seat. Life has settled down now, and when I bring up my desire to see her with other men, she tells me she’s willing, but the conversation quickly ends. I have suggested making profiles on various websites, but it doesn’t happen. Am I doing something wrong? I fear that saying “Let’s make a profile right now” is pushy, and I absolutely do NOT want to be the whiny and pushy husband. Any advice you might have would be amazing.

—Wannabe Cuckold Growing Frustrated

So you don’t want to be pushy where the wife is concerned, WCGF, but you’ll send me the same email half a dozen times in less than a week.

Look, WCGF, some people mean it when they say “We can have threesomes/go to BDSM parties/try cuckolding once our relationship is solid.” But some people don’t mean it. They tell their kinky and/or nonmonogamous partner what they want to hear in the hopes that after the wedding and the house and the kids, their husband and the father of their children (or their wife and the mother of their children) isn’t going to leave them over something as “trivial” as a threesome, a public spanking, or cuckolding. Complicating matters further, some people say it and mean it and then change their mind.

To figure out what’s going on (and to figure out whether you’re doing something wrong), you’re going to have to risk being a little pushy—not about putting up a profile, but about having a conversation. You’re ready for this to happen, she tells you she is willing, but nothing ever happens. If she does want it to happen, what steps can you take together to make it happen? If she doesn’t want it to happen—if she never wanted it to happen—you need her to level with you.

Remember, WCGF, she’s the one being asked to take the risks here—it’s her picture you want to put on a profile, not yours; she’s the one who’s going to potentially be meeting up with strangers for sex, not you; she’s the

one who is risking exposure to STIs, not you.

(Although you could wind up exposed, too, of course. But just because you’re comfortable with that risk doesn’t mean she is.) She also might worry that you’re going to want her to fuck other guys way more often than she’s comfortable with. There are a lot of solid reasons why she might have developed cold feet, and by addressing her concerns constructively—no face pics, no strangers, no cream pies, it can be a very occasional thing—you might make some progress.

But if it turns out this isn’t something she wants to do—because she never did or because she changed her mind—then you have to decide whether going without being cuckolded is a price of admission you’re willing to pay to stay in this marriage.

—Dan Savage

“So you don’t want to be pushy where the wife is concerned, WCGF, but you’ll send me the same email half a dozen times in less than a week.”

I did one of the things you always say is bad, immature, and hurtful. I was a jerk to my girlfriend for weeks because I wanted her to break up with me.

I know it was cowardly. I think she is a great woman, but I just wasn’t into the relationship and I let it go longer than I should have. I felt terrible that she loved me and I didn’t love her back, and I didn’t want to hurt her. My question is this: Why do you think sabotaging a relationship in this way is so bad? I’m glad she hates me now. She can feel anger instead of sadness. I didn’t want to be a “great guy” who did the right thing when the relationship needed to end. I want her to think I’m awful so she can move on with her life. If I said all the right things, that makes me more attractive and a loss. I’ve had women do that to me—break up with me the “right” way—and I respected them more and felt more in love with them and missed them more. I still think about them because they were so kind and respectful when they dumped me. I prefer the relationships I’ve had that ended with hatred, because at least I knew we weren’t good for each other and the end was no skin off my back. Isn’t it better this way?(I’ve got no sign-off that creates a clever acronym. Make one up if you want to publish my letter.)

—Annoying Shittiness Should Help Outraged Lovers Escape I did what I could with your sign-off.

Being a jerk to someone you’re not interested in seeing anymore in the hopes that they’ll

dump you is never OK. It’s certainly not a favor you’re doing them, ASSHOLE, if for no other reason than they’re unlikely to call it quits at the first sign of your assholery. When someone’s actions (jerkishness, assholery) conflict with their words (“I love you, too, sweetheart”), the person on the receiving end of crazy-making mixed messages rarely bolts immediately. They seek reassurance. They ask the person who’s being an asshole to them if they’re still good, if everything’s OK, if they’re still in love.

And those aren’t questions the person being an asshole can answer honestly, ASSHOLE, because honest answers would end the relationship. And that’s not how the asshole wants it, right? The asshole doesn’t want to honestly end things themselves; the asshole wants to dishonestly (and dishonorably) force the other person to end the relationship. So the asshole says we’re good, everything’s OK, I still love you, etc., and then dials the assholery up a little more.

Does the other person bolt then? Nope. The other person asks all those same questions again, the asshole offers up the same lying assurances, and the other person asks again and is fed more lies. This sometimes goes on for years before the person being emotionally abused by a lying asshole decides they can’t take it anymore and ends the relationship— often over the objections of the person who wanted out all along!

Gaslighting isn’t a term I throw around often or loosely, ASSHOLE, but what you describe doing—and what you’re attempting to rationalize as a gift of some sort—may be the most common form of gaslighting. Nothing about being gaslighted in this manner makes it easier to bounce back after a relationship ends.

It makes it harder. Yeah, yeah, your ex “gets” to be mad at you, but she’s going to have a much harder time trusting anyone after dating you because your assholery will likely cause her to doubt her own judgment. (“This new guy says he loves me, but the last guy—that fucking asshole—said he loved me, over and over again, and it was a lie. What if this guy is lying to me, too?”)

These brand-new insecurities, a parting gift from you, may cause her to end or sabotage relationships that could have been great. As for your worry that a person may wind up carrying a torch for an ex who ends things with kindness and respect, well, torches have a way of burning out over time, and it’s even possible to will yourself to set a torch down and walk away from it. But the kind of emotional damage done by actions like yours, ASSHOLE? That shit can last a lifetime.

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

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

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

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

ALL GOOD PRESENTS

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

Big Something and Andy Frasco & The U.N.

ALL GOOD PRESENTS

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

Galactic feat. Anjelika Jelly Joseph and special guest Chali 2na (Sa 15 - w/ Southern Avenue).F 14 & Sa 15

Railroad Earth

Super Diamond -

Caribou w/ Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith ............Th 26 Early Show! 6pm Doors .....................F 27

The Neil Diamond Tribute ....Th 20

STEEZ PROMO PRESENTS BASS NATION FEAT.

Blunts & Blondes

Refused w/ Youth Code & Racetraitor ........F 21 Early Show! 6pm Doors ..................Sa 22

9:30 CLUB PRESENTS AT U STREET MUSIC HALL

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

L’Imperatrice

AN EVENING WITH

w/ SubDocta & Bawldy Late Show! 10pm Doors ...................F 27

Soccer Mommy w/ Tomberlin

Early Show! 6pm Doors ...................Sa 28

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9:30 CUPCAKES

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

DC’s All-‘90s Band

Silversun Pickups

w/ Birds of Chicago

Wolf Parade w/ Jo Passed

M3 ROCK FESTIVAL FEATURING

White Ford Bronco:

THIS WEEK’S SHOWS

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FEBRUARY (cont.)

The best thing you could possibly put in your mouth

9:30 CLUB & ALL GOOD PRESENT Great Good Fine OK w/ Aaron Taos ....................... F JAN 31 The Soul Rebels .........................F 6 Palace .................................M FEB 3 070Shake Anna of the North w/ Dizzy Fae....Th 13 All 10/10 tickets honored. ..................Sa 7 Tall Heights w/ Victoria Canal .......Tu 10 9:30 CLUB & ALL GOOD PRESENT Moon Hooch w/ Paris Monster ......Sa 22 Shing02 & The Chee-Hoos: Sango w/ Anik Khan & Savon............W 26 A Tribute to Nujabes .................W 11 VÉRITÉ ......................................F 28 City of the Sun.........................Sa 14 Social House ............................ M 16 GARZA (Rob Garza of Thievery Corporation) .Sa 29 Mondo Cozmo Audrey Mika w/ Souly Had ..... W MAR 4 w/ Reuben and the Dark ...................W 18 HRVY .........................................Th 5 Dayglow ....................................F 20

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CITYLIST

The Club at Studio K

Music 29 Books 32 Dance 32 Theater 33 Film 33

Elijah Jamal Balbed Quintet: The Karma Suite

CITY LIGHTS: FRIDAY

T H U . , JA N . 2 3 | 7 : 3 0 P. M .

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

ADD I TI TIONA RELCKETS L EAS ED

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

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

Juan Atkins, Godfather of Techno

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

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

L AVA IMITE ILAB D ILIT Y

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

Linda May Han Oh, Aventurine T H U . , F E B . 6 | 7 : 3 0 P. M .

L AVA IMITE ILAB D ILIT Y

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Music FRIDAY COUNTRY

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

Honky Tonk Casanovas. 10:30 p.m. Free. thehamiltondc.com.

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

James Murphy. 10 p.m. $25–$40. ustreetmusichall.com.

FOLK DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Drew Beckman + The Boundary Boys. 7:30 p.m. $12. dc9.club.

POP FILLMORE SILVER SPRING 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Ultimate ‘80s Party Featuring Tiffany. 8 p.m. $15.50–$100. fillmoresilverspring.com.

RHIZOME DC 6950 Maple St. NW. Adam Goodwin and Rogue Collective. 8 p.m. $10. rhizomedc.org.

WARNER THEATRE 513 13th St. NW. (202) 783-4000.

Itzy. 8 p.m. $62–$202. warnertheatredc.com.

F R I . , F E B . 7 | 7 : 3 0 P. M .

ITZY

South Korea’s ITZY emerged early in February 2019, a five-member girl group following in the footsteps of Twice, one of their label JYP Entertainment’s other big acts. Yeji, Lia, Ryujin, Chaeryeong and Yuna debuted with IT’z Different, led by their first hit, “Dalla Dalla.” In just 24 hours, the music video for “Dalla Dalla”—an anthem of confidence and acceptance—surpassed 17 million views. Over the next few months, the group released other hit tracks like “ICY” and “CHERRY,” and they ended the year with the distinction of several Best New Artist awards. Their singles and live performances show why they’ve become such an international success in such a short time: Glittery costumes, perfectly choreographed dance routines, and a well curated online presence have won them devoted fans. Capitalizing on that rush, ITZY is starting 2020 with a brief tour of the United States. Although the group has a limited repertoire of original songs, based on past concerts, it’s likely that they will bring D.C. high-energy covers of songs by Twice and GOT7. ITZY perform at 8 p.m. at the Warner Theatre, 513 13th St. NW. $62–$202. (202) 7834000. warnertheatredc.com.

—Sarah Smith

ROCK 9:30 CLUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. The Glorious Sons. 8 p.m. $20. 930.com.

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

White Ford Bronco. 8 p.m. $20–$25. thehamiltondc.com.

PIE SHOP DC 1339 H St. NE. (202) 398-7437. The North Country, Toebow, and Born Dad. 8 p.m. $10– $12. pieshopdc.com.

SATURDAY CLASSICAL

Chris Distefano

JUS

T AD

S A T. , F E B . 8 | 7 : 3 0 & 9 : 3 0 P. M .

DED

Bilal: Valentine’s Day Residency F E B . 1 3 & 1 4 | 7 : 3 0 & 9 : 3 0 P. M .

Kennedy-Center.org (202) 467-4600

Groups call (202) 416-8400 For all other ticket-related customer service inquiries, call the Advance Sales Box Office at (202) 416-8540

Major Support for Comedy:

AMP BY STRATHMORE 11810 Grand Park Ave., North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. BSO Music Box. 10:30 a.m.; 11:30 a.m. $12. ampbystrathmore.com.

KENNEDY CENTER MILLENNIUM STAGE 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Beijing Bamboo Orchestra. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

MUSIC CENTER AT STRATHMORE 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Midori with

Major Support for Jazz: The Buffy and William Cafritz Family Foundation Major Support for Hip Hop and KC Jukebox: The Irene Pollin Audience Development and Community Engagement Initiatives Additional Design Support: Vicente Wolf of Vicente Wolf Associates and Margaret Russell David M. Rubenstein Cornerstone of the REACH

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CITY LIGHTS: SATURDAY

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Jan 24

THE NEW BIRTH

25 Newmyer Flyer Presents The Best of

JANIS JOPLIN & JIMI HENDRIX

PATTY REESE, KELLY BELL, MAMA MOON, JONATHAN SLOANE, DELETTA GILLESPIE, MARY SHAVER & more! w/

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An Evening with

COWBOY JUNKIES 31 WILL DOWNING Feb 6 LIZZ WRIGHT 8 ERIC ROBERSON 13

In the

!

DURAND JONES & THE INDICATIONS with Y LA BAMBA

14

in BURLESQUE-A-PADES LoveLand

featuring ANGIE

15

PONTANI, MURRAY HILL

Daryl Davis Presents

THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES 2019!

DC’s Finest Talent Honors The Artists We Loved & Lost in 2019” 16

CHANTÉ MOORE

21

THE KENTUCKY HEADHUNTERS

HARMONY SWEEPSTAKES A CAPELLA FESTIVAL 23 JEFFREY OSBORNE 22

24

DIGABLE PLANETS

25 Peter

Asher & Jeremy Clyde

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

26

SARAH HARMER CHRIS PUREKA

28&29

ARLO GUTHRIE

Mar 1

HAYES CARLL (Solo)

20/20 Tour

with ALLISON

MOORER

5

SQUIRREL NUT ZIPPERS

6

THE OAK RIDGE BOYS

The Inevitable 25th Anniversary Tour

7

On A Winter's night With

Christine LAVin, JOhn gOrKA, CherYL WheeLer, PAttY LArKin, & CLiFF eBerhArDt 8 TODD SNIDER

Jean-Yves Thibaudet. 8 p.m. $40–$80. strathmore.org.

DJ NIGHTS

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Dark & Stormy with DJ Kangal and DJ Mindjacket. 11 p.m. $5. dc9.club.

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

Flashback. 10:30 p.m. Free. thehamiltondc.com.

JAZZ

KENNEDY CENTER REACH 2700 F St. NW. (202) 4674600. Kassa Overall with Carmen Lundy. 8 p.m. $15– $30. kennedy-center.org.

ROCK

9:30 CLUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Twiddle and Scrambled Greg. 8 p.m. $23. 930.com.

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Illiterate Light.

7:30 p.m. $12. dc9.club.

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

Early Elton Trio. 8 p.m. $24.75–$54.75. thehamiltondc.com.

D.C. TRANSIT DAY

Today’s public transit nerds have Facebook pages dedicated to bus routes, a bittersweet love for the Metro, and transportation memes galore. But before D.C. had its beloved 7000-series trains, it had horse-drawn stagecoaches and then electric streetcars. For decades, these above-ground tracks wove in and out of the city, extending into Northern Virginia and Maryland. When taxicabs and buses began stealing their riders and calls for a subway system gained traction, D.C. lost its trolleys. There’s no need for history lovers to worry, though. Fifty-eight years since the end of streetcar service, the National Capital Trolley Museum is hosting D.C. Transit Day to commemorate the anniversary. Museum-goers can ride on the historic D.C. Transit System No. 1101, the city’s first car from the Electric Railway Presidents’ Conference Committee. Rare and historic streetcar artifacts (some new to the public), museum tours, and the museum’s other six D.C. streetcars will also be part of the special exhibit. More of an international transit buff? You can also check out cars from Toronto, Berlin, and Brussels. The event begins at noon at the National Capital Trolley Museum, 1313 Bonifant Road, Colesville. $8– $10. (301) 384-6088. dctrolley.org.

—Sarah Smith

PIE SHOP DC 1339 H St. NE. (202) 398-7437. American Television, Foxhall Stacks, Crossed Keys, and Teen Cobra. 8 p.m. $10–$12. pieshopdc.com.

SUNDAY FOLK

KENNEDY CENTER MILLENNIUM STAGE 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Frog Hammer. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

PIE SHOP DC 1339 H St. NE. (202) 398-7437. The NRIs and Don Zientara. 8 p.m. $10–$12. pieshopdc.com.

JAZZ

RHIZOME DC 6950 Maple St. NW. Low Ways Quartet and Janel Leppin’s Ensemble Volcanic Ash. 8 p.m. $10. rhizomedc.org.

POP

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Nightly. 8 p.m. $15. dc9.club.

ROCK

9:30 CLUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Cory Wong.

7 p.m. $25. 930.com.

VOCAL

KENNEDY CENTER CONCERT HALL 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Living the Dream… Singing the Dream, a Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 7 p.m. $25–$75. kennedy-center.org.

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CITY LIGHTS: SUNDAY

BURT SOLOMON

On Sept. 3, 1902, a horse-drawn carriage carrying President Theodore Roosevelt was broadsided by an electric trolley in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, killing a Secret Service officer and throwing Roosevelt at least 30 feet. Officially, it was an accident, but Burt Solomon, a D.C.-area novelist, has turned it into an attempted assassination—and a mystery. The Attempted Murder of Teddy Roosevelt is a follow-up to 2017’s The Murder of Willie Lincoln, which was also based on a real event (but Willie’s death was murder only in Solomon’s fictionalization).

In both books, Solomon’s detective is John Hay—Lincoln’s private secretary and Roosevelt’s secretary of state. Solomon says he enjoyed getting into Lincoln’s head, but he has mixed feelings about Roosevelt. “TR was brilliant, to be sure, and a great president, but he’s exhausting and domineering and often infuriating,” Solomon says. “I don’t think we would have clicked.” Burt Solomon speaks at 4 p.m. at One More Page Books, 2200 N Westmoreland St., Arlington. Free. (703) 300-9746. onemorepagebooks.com.

—Louis Jacobson

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Noel Kassewitz produces art that grapples with climate change, reflecting both her birthplace— Miami, a city at risk from rising sea levels—and her current home of Washington, D.C., where environmental policy is, or isn’t, made. In Rococo Remastered, her exhibit at IA&A Hillyer, Kassewitz cleverly melds her main tropes by creating art that floats, in the expectation that buoyancy will eventually be necessary if art is to survive a too warm world. Kassewitz accomplishes this by embedding her painted canvases with inflatable plastic devices; the exhibit includes both the original artworks and photographic documentation that they passed their swim test. Kassewitz also includes photographic proof of her own “performative float” down the Potomac River in 2018. The plastic elements embedded in Kassewitz’s canvases are more dime-store than Claes Oldenburg, but the pink and orange hues that infuse her photographs and mixed-media works are enchanting, a note that seemingly undercuts the power of her serious themes. The exhibition is on view to Feb. 2 at IA&A Hillyer, 9 Hillyer Court NW. Free. (202) 338-0325. athillyer.org. —Louis Jacobson

MONDAY CABARET AMP BY STRATHMORE 11810 Grand Park Ave., North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Artstream’s Maryland Cabaret Presents Brave. 7:30 p.m. $15. ampbystrathmore.com.

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9:30 CLUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Atmosphere. 7 p.m. $30.00. 930.com.

TUESDAY HIP-HOP

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9:30 CLUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Roddy Ricch. 7 p.m. $25. 930.com.

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DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Teddy Swims.

8 p.m. $15. dc9.club.

ic Synagogue. 600 I St. NW. Jan. 27, 7 p.m. $20–$50.

(202) 408-3100. sixthandi.org.

WEDNESDAY

FANCHON JEAN SILBERSTEIN Silberstein will discuss her book Art Insight: Understanding Art and Why It Matters. Politics and Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Jan. 26, 3 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919. politics-prose.com.

POP

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Lobby Boy. 7:30 p.m. $12. dc9.club.

ROCK

RHIZOME DC 6950 Maple St. NW. Julian Lynch, Jeremy Ray, and Blair. 8 p.m. $12. rhizomedc.org.

THURSDAY BLUES

PIE SHOP DC 1339 H St. NE. (202) 398-7437. Jonny Grave Trio. 8 p.m. $10. pieshopdc.com.

HIP-HOP

THE HAMILTON 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. G. Love & Special Sauce. 7:30 p.m. $35–$40. thehamiltondc.com.

JAZZ

RHIZOME DC 6950 Maple St. NW. Jack Wright + Ron Stabinsky, Dissociation Go!, and Chris Culhane. 8 p.m. $10. rhizomedc.org.

ROCK

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. The Osyx. 8 p.m. $12. dc9.club.

WORLD

MANSION AT STRATHMORE 10701 Rockville Pike, North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Beijing Guitar Duo. 7:30 p.m. $30. strathmore.org.

Books

ANDREA BERNSTEIN Bernstein will discuss her book American Oligarchs in conversation with Franklin Foer. Politics and Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Jan. 24, 7 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919. politics-prose.com.

BARRY SCHWABSKY Schwabsky will discuss his book The Observer Effect: On Contemporary Painting in conversation with Lynne Cooke. Politics and Prose at Union Market. 1270 5th St. NE. Jan. 30, 7 p.m. Free.

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

BRYAN DENSON Bryan Denson’s FBI Files series for young readers continues with his newest book, Catching a Russian Spy: Agent Leslie G. Wiser Jr. and the Case of Aldrich Ames. International Spy Museum.

800 F St. NW. Jan. 25, 2 p.m. Free. (202) 654-0946. spymuseum.org.

DANIEL H. WEISS Weiss will discuss his book In That Time: Michael O’Donnell and the Tragic Era of Vietnam in conversation with Peter Osnos. Politics and Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Jan. 26, 1 p.m. Free.

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

DIANE RAVITCH Ravitch will be discussing her book Slaying Goliath: The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the Fight to Save America’s Public Schools. Politics and Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Jan. 29, 7 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919. politics-prose.com.

E.J. KOH & JULIA MCKENZIE MUNEMO Koh will discuss her book The Magical Language of Others and Munemo will discuss her book The Book Keeper in conversation with Jeannie Vanasco. Politics and Prose at Union Market. 1270 5th St. NE. Jan. 24, 7 p.m.

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

EMMA COPLEY EISENBERG Eisenberg will discuss her book The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia, in conversation with Michelle Delgado. Politics and Prose at Union Market.

1270 5th St. NE. Jan. 29, 7 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919. politics-prose.com.

EZRA KLEIN WITH JAMELLE BOUIE In Why We’re Polarized, Klein—the editor-at-large and cofounder of Vox—reveals the structural and psychological forces behind America’s descent into division and dysfunction and what that polarization has done to the way we see the world and one another. Sixth & I Histor-

JAMES MANN Mann will discuss his book The Great Rift: Dick Cheney, Colin Powell, and the Broken Friendship That Defined an Era. Politics and Prose.

5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Jan. 25, 3 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919. politics-prose.com.

JAMES S. GORDON, MD Gordon will be discussing his book Discovering Wholeness and Healing After Trauma. Politics and Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Jan. 25, 1 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919. politics-prose.com.

KATE MURPHY New York Times contributor Murphy will discuss her new book You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why it Matters. Kramerbooks. 1517 Connecticut Ave. NW. Jan. 26, 2 p.m. Free. (202) 3871400. kramers.com.

KIM GHATTAS Ghattas will discuss her book Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East. Politics and Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Jan. 30, 7 p.m. Free. (202) 3641919. politics-prose.com.

KYLE CHAYKA Chayka will discuss his book The Longing for Less: Living with Minimalism. Politics and Prose at Union Market. 1270 5th St. NE. Jan. 28, 7 p.m.

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

LAYLA F. SAAD Saad, an author and podcaster, will discuss her new book Me and White Supremacy.

Kramerbooks. 1517 Connecticut Ave. NW. Jan. 26, 2 p.m. Free. (202) 387-1400. kramers.com.

MARCIA CHATELAIN Chatelain will be discussing her book Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America.

Politics and Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Jan. 28, 7 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919. politics-prose.com.

MENG JIN Jin will discuss her debut novel Little Gods.

Kramerbooks. 1517 Connecticut Ave. NW. Jan. 27, 6:30 p.m. Free. (202) 387-1400. kramers.com.

PHILIPPE LANÇON Lançon will be discussing his book Disturbance: Surviving Charlie Hebdo. Politics and Prose at Union Market. 1270 5th St. NE. Jan. 25, 6 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919. politics-prose.com.

SUSAN HENNESSEY AND BENJAMIN WITTES Hennessey and Wittes will discuss their book Unmaking the Presidency: Donald Trump’s War on the World’s Most Powerful Office. Politics and Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Jan. 27, 7 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919. politics-prose.com.

WILLIAM GIBSON Gibson will discuss his book Agency. Politics and Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Jan. 26, 5 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919. politics-prose.com.

Dance

DARLINGDANCE: TARGET PRACTICE darlingdance, founded by choreographer and performance artist Hayley Cutler, performs postmodern feminist work sourced from a deeply collaborative process. Dance Place. 3225 8th St. NE. Jan. 25, 8 p.m.; Jan. 26, 4 p.m. $15–$30. (202) 269-1600. danceplace.org.

GREGORY MAQOMA’S VUYANI DANCE THEATRE: CION: REQUIEM OF RAVEL’S BOLÉRO South African choreographer Maqoma puts on a production that combines the story of Zakes Mda’s novel Cion with music from Maurice Ravel’s Boléro. Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater. 2700 F St. NW. Jan. 24 to 25. $25–$79. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org.

MATTHEW BOURNE’S NEW ADVENTURES: SWAN LAKE This adaptation of Swan Lake features shirtless, feathered men in the place of the traditional female corps de ballet. Kennedy Center Opera House.

2700 F St. NW. Jan. 24 to 26. $29–$109. (202) 4674600. kennedy-center.org.

THE NATIONAL BALLET OF CANADA Canada’s esteemed ballet company performs two works by

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CITY LIGHTS: TUESDAY

MARCIA CHATELAIN

In Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America, Georgetown professor Marcia Chatelain tracks the history of the relationship between McDonald’s and black communities, from civil rights activists’ first calls to integrate the restaurants to the golden arches’ inescapable presence in contemporary America. Chatelain’s book explains how the chain’s rise to prominence was no accident—the restaurant owes its success to a series of overlapping federal policies and the social conditions of the era, which drove the growth of a large black customer base. Franchise ownership became a genuine ladder up to economic stability for many black owners, the restaurants often acted as economic anchors in communities, and the corporation emphasized philanthropy in the communities surrounding their locations. But it was a mixed blessing, as McDonald’s positive effects are shadowed by a history of corporate self-interest and exploitation. Still, Franchise is never judgmental about the choices people are presented under capitalism: Chatelain understands that it’s hard to say no when you depend on private money for public services. Marcia Chatelain speaks at 7 p.m. at Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Free. (202) 364-1919. politics-prose.com.

—Emma Sarappo

CITY LIGHTS: WEDNESDAY

NADA SURF

Too late for grunge and too early for the rock revival of the early 2000s, Nada Surf blundered unsubtly into the post-Nirvana chaos of the mid ’90s with “Popular.”

The song is a Molotov cocktail of high school angst that sounds like it was written by the Butthole Surfers for Blink-182. It made the band a household name, but record sales subsequently declined until Nada Surf ’s members had to go back to old jobs and schedule recording around work. Miraculously, just in time for indie rock, the band reinvented itself as something more pensive (and danceable) with 2003’s Let Go. The remaining shades of high school heartache were steadily eclipsed by more grown-up concerns as the band developed a cult following over the next few albums (and yes, this is exactly like Radiohead’s post-“Creep” trajectory). Since, they’ve become a reliable source for jangly, heartfelt guitar music in the vein of Death Cab, The Strokes, and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Their new single, “So Much Love,” is as far from “Popular” as 1996 is from 2020. Nada Surf perform at 7:30 p.m. at Black Cat, 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. blackcatdc.com.

—Will Lennon

1905 boxing is racially segregated, and the odds are against him. 1st Stage. 1524 Spring Hill Road, McLean.

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A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS This adaptation of Khaled Hosseini’s novel focuses on two Afghan women in Kabul who become unlikely allies in the face of brutality and must make a dramatic decision.

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16 BARS DOCUMENTARY SCREENING 16 Bars is a “feature-length music doc that offers a rare glimpse at the human stories—and songs—that are locked away in our nation’s jails and prisons.” (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information)

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201 E. Capitol St. SE. To March 1. $27–$85. (202) 5447077. folger.edu.

In the late 1970s, a teenage Juan Atkins was regularly listening to Detroit radio show The Midnight Funk Association, hosted by DJ Charles “The Electrifying Mojo” Johnson. On that show, Johnson was playing a diverse range of funky sounds—George Clinton’s Parliament and Funkadelic, Kraftwerk, and Yellow Magic Orchestra. Atkins had moved from Detroit to predominantly white Belleville, Michigan, and there he bonded with Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson over the sounds of that radio show. Atkins soon bought his first synthesizer and with his buddies, later all called the Belleville Three, created mixtapes that they got Johnson to play on his radio show. In the 1980s, under names like Cybotron, Atkins was releasing Afro-futuristic electronic dance music that would, decades later, lead him to be called the godfather of techno.

In recent years Atkins, largely in Europe, has been spinning his electro records accompanied by orchestras. In the Kennedy Center’s new REACH annex, Atkins will be joined by Richard Scerbo’s Inscape Chamber Orchestra, who will be playing arrangements of Atkins songs created by Kennedy Center composer-in-residence Mason Bates. Look for Atkins’ robotic head shakers like “Clear,” “Technicolor,” and “No UFOs” to sound massive with the aid of the strings. Juan Atkins performs at 7:30 p.m. at the Kennedy Center’s Studio K, 2700 F St. NW. $20–$35. (202) 4674600. kennedy-center.org.

—Steve Kiviat William Forsythe, Jiří Kylián’s Petite Mort, and Alexei Ratmansky’s Piano Concerto #1, plus Tchaikovsky’s The Sleeping Beauty later in the week. Kennedy Center Opera House. 2700 F St. NW. Jan. 28 to 30. $29– $149. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org.

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

BROADWAY CENTER STAGE: NEXT TO NORMAL This semi-staged rendition of Next to Normal tells the story of a family shattered by the effects of mental illness. Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater. 2700 F St. NW. To Feb. 3. $69–$215. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org.

THE GREAT DIVORCE The Fellowship for the Performing Arts presents C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce, a fantasy about heaven and hell and choosing between them, directed by D.C.-born Christa ScottReed. Michael R. Klein Theatre. 450 7th St. NW. To Feb. 9. $49–$89. (202) 547-1122. shakespearetheatre.org.

THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR Falstaff has a plan to woo Windsor’s wealthy housewives, but they team up to teach him a lesson, and his comedic comeuppance is well-deserved. Folger Elizabethan Theatre.

MISS YOU LIKE HELL This new musical tracks the love between an estranged mother and daughter who take a weird and wild road trip from Philadelphia to California. Olney Theatre Center. 2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney. To March 1. $37–$79. (301) 9243400. olneytheatre.org.

A NIGHT WITH JACKIE MOMS MABLEY This Helen Hayes nominated play tells the story of Jackie “Moms” Mabley, the stage name of Loretta Mary Aiken, who paved the way for black female comedians in the 1950s and ‘60s. Kennedy Center Millennium Stage.

2700 F St. NW. To Jan. 24. Free. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org.

NO DESERT ROSES A nameless Egyptian main character navigates the writing life, Cairo, and a mosaic of deeply personal issues. Mosaic Theater Company at Atlas Performing Arts Center. 1333 H St. NE. To Jan. 27. $15. (202) 399-7993. mosaictheater.org.

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

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

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

THE ROYALE Jay “The Sport” Jackson wants to be the heavyweight champion of the boxing world, but

BAD BOYS FOR LIFE Marcus Burnett and Mike Lowery reunite when an Albanian mercenary offers them an important bonus. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) DOLITTLE A doctor finds out that he can understand animals. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) THE GENTLEMEN A British drug lord attempts to sell off his lucrative empire to some Oklahoma billionaires. Starring Matthew McConaughey, Colin Farrell, and Henry Golding. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) GUEST HOUSE FILM SCREENING This feature documentary follows the stories of three women in a reentry house as they attempt to acclimate to life after being released from incarceration and battling addiction. A Q&A with co-director Hannah Dweck and others connected to the film follows the screening. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) JUST MERCY A defense attorney tries to save the life of a wrongfully convicted man on death row. Starring Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx, and Brie Larson. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) LIKE A BOSS Two best friends start a beauty company together, but mixing business with pleasure threatens to tear them apart. Starring Rose Byrne, Tiffany Haddish, and Salma Hayek. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) THE TURNING This adaptation of The Turning of the Screw brings the young governess tasked with caring for a strange pair of children into the contemporary world. Starring Mackenzie Davis, Finn Wolfhard, and Brooklynn Prince. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) UNDERWATER Aquatic scientists in a station at the bottom of the ocean have to try and save their facility from an earthquake—and from mysterious beasts.

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