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10 district ofdata Take a look at D.C. in charts and infographics, and wonder at the stories behind the numbers.

Illustrations by Stephanie Rudig

4 Chatter distriCt Line 5 The Chi to Success: Bowser’s new Feng Shui-practicing campaign treasurer wants to see what’s coming at her.

7 Housing Complex: What’s been redacted from D.C.’s Amazon bid?

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food 15 Ripe Old Age: Elderly residents don’t have enough food.

17 Throwback Dish Throwdown: A clash of comfort food classics 17 Pour Your Heart Out: When patrons behave badly, bartenders spill their stories.

arts 19 Galleries: Capps on Americans at the National Museum of the American Indian 20 Curtain Calls: Ritzel on The Wolves at Studio Theatre and Croghan on Constellation

Theatre’s The Skin of Our Teeth 22 Short Subjects: Zilberman on Vazante and Olszewski on American Folk

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In which readers state their opinions on homelessness and discuss the restaurant business

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A representative selection of comments on last week’s issue:

“NoMan’s Land: D.C. forces homeless residents to relocate from sidewalks to make way for public art installations”

By Andrew Giambrone Hopefully they stay gone. They have no right to camp out on the sidewalk.

—jac52683 on washingtoncitypaper.com I was sad when I saw this Sunday. They are just trying to live.

—@kdking97 on Twitter If this doesn’t sum up the gilded age we’re living in, I don’t know what does. #dcvalues —@damonandreking on Twitter I’m all for public art, but moving homeless people for construction for the art seems like some of the worst parts of gentrification. Do better D.C. —@asherhuey on Twitter “Profit and Sauce: Pulling back the curtain on food costs in D.C. reveals some restaurants are more like magicians than moneymaking machines”

By Laura Hayes @LauraHayesDC got a bunch of D.C. restaurants to dish on how much popular meals actually cost them—further reinforcing my beliefs that restaurant economics are insane, and Baan Thai is perfect. —@caitlindewey on Twitter No one thinks of costs like labor, overheads, taxes, or logistics. But for anyone that’s never worked in the food industry before—the money is never in the food. Many cases you take losses because of spoilage, waste, comps.

The money is in drinks.

—mistermeh on Reddit I would think that any restaurant group thinks about these things every day when launching a new concept. Whether they’re able to properly execute or not is a different question, but pretty much everyone opening a restaurant understands how to budget and plan.

—BirdLawyerPerson on Reddit My experience in investing is no, no unfortunately they don’t. They think they have a good idea, money will come. They for the most part spend, sell, and then tally up if they profited. Some may not even realize they had a terrible month until the end of the month.

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DistrictLine The Chi to Success Will the Wilson Building go Feng Shui under Bowser’s new campaign treasurer?

By Tom Sherwood We have gone from #FreshStart to #FengShui.

In a little noticed change, Mayor Muriel Bowser has retooled a key part of her 2018 campaign structure.

Out is her long-time treasurer Ben Soto, the ultimate D.C. political insider for more than a decade. He helped create Bowser’s #FreshStart campaign for mayor in 2014 and later the disastrous FreshPAC, the short-lived political action committee Bowser abandoned amid complaints that its corporate and lobbyist donations reeked of pay-to-play politics.

In as treasurer is Jodi Elaine Ovca, a newcomer to city politics. And one with an

unusual background.

Ovca is a conflict mediator and lawyer. She also runs a nonprofit, Access Youth, that focuses on conflict resolution, truancy, and behavioral relationships in city high schools. She practices mindfulness and yoga and is a devotee of Feng Shui, the belief in the interrelationship between your mental approach to life and the power of your physical surroundings.

Ovca holds a 1991 double degree from Wellesley College in Mandarin and French, and a 1995 Georgetown degree in law. She’s also a graduate of the Feng Shui Institute of America, “the oldest contemporary school of Feng Shui in America, founded by Nancilee Wyrdra, Feng Shui Master and Founder of the Pyramid philosophy of Feng Shui and the most-published

American Feng Shui author.”

At 48, Ovca never has had a formal part in any political campaign.

“I am not political in any way,” she tells City Paper at her offices in Georgetown where she runs Access Youth. She says the nonprofit was created in 2009 “by me, myself, and I” on her living room couch. Of her new treasurers role, she says, “To me, this is about believing in the mayor.”

Aides to the mayor say Bowser asked Ovca to join the campaign late last summer when the embattled Soto was stepping away from the job. The switch from Soto to Ovca is part of Bowser’s effort to put a fresh face on her 2018 campaign, to downplay the pay-to-play aura that lingers still. Ovca was among six

women Bowser honored at the Washington Women of Excellence Awards last March.

It also is a chance to create some separation from Soto and his ongoing legal entanglements with infamous D.C. landlord Sanford Capital and one of its primary lenders, EagleBank. Soto owns a title firm based in Columbia Heights and serves on EagleBank’s board of directors. As part of an investigation on the atrocious living conditions at Sanford’s buildings, City Paper found that Soto and employees of his title firm notarized mortgages for most of Sanford’s properties. That includes loans from EagleBank for a set of dilapidated properties around the Congress Heights Metro station that are slated for major redevelopment but are tied up in court because of a pending lawsuit over their conditions by D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine.

Racine recently requested authority from the court to “take depositions and request documents” from Sanford, EagleBank, Soto, and his title firm, among other parties. In addition, Soto owns a development firm called Paramount that has partnered on multiple projects with CityPartners, the development firm leading the contentious Congress Heights project.

On WAMU’s Jan. 5 broadcast of The Politics Hour, which your reporter cohosts with Kojo Nnamdi, Bowser said Soto was taking “a break” from any official role, but added, “he is very much involved in our campaign.”

On the same program, Bowser praised Ovca for being a detail-oriented person and attorney who “helped bring in a team and an accounting firm to assist us with a lot of contributions.”

In short, Ovca is supposed to avoid incidents like the one last summer when the Office of Campaign Finance fined Bowser’s 2014 campaign $13,000 for accepting overthe-limit contributions. Bowser’s new 2018 campaign already has refunded $2,000 from prominent developer Herb Miller, who the campaign says mistakenly made two maximum amount donations.

Others associated with Bowser’s campaign insist Ovca is not just a fresh face to disguise an image problem with Soto. They say her reputation and attention to detail will help guide the campaign away from political pitfalls. Ovca said she took the job after consulting her own legal advisers.

Did Soto offer any advice? Yes, he did.

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“I asked him what his hesitations for me would be,” Ovca told City Paper, “and he said, ‘You know it can take a lot of time and certainly won’t be the easiest job.’” She said Soto cautioned her about “being very careful in the way that we keep our records, the way we are doing our reporting.”

In a separate telephone interview, Soto was more blunt.

“The [Ovca] choice is perfect. She is from the nonprofit community. She’s a lawyer. She understands Washington. She’s not a political hack like some people call me.”

Ovca has lived in Washington for more than 25 years, but says she only met Bowser in 2013 when they both were in that year’s Leadership Greater Washington class. Since 1986 the group has promoted “communication and cooperation” among the area’s business and community leaders.

“As a group, we were part of a time in her life when she was making the decision to run [for mayor] and were sort of her earliest supporters from the outside. I already had a respect for her commitment to the city,” Ovca said.

Ovca says she got the idea for Access Youth when she was out of law school and working for an adult mediation firm in 2009. She says she asked herself, “Why can’t we do this for kids?”

Access Youth is now a million-dollar a year operation, with her first city contract dating back to 2011. She says city contracts—now about $40,000 a year—make up a small part of Access Youth’s budget. The majority of the funding comes from grants, private donors, foundations, and corporations. She has 15 fulltime staffers and six part-time, and various volunteers who work in Ballou, Eastern, and Anacostia high schools, among other sites.

“We really work on keeping kids engaged and building a relationship of trust,” she says.

One of her full-time staff members is a yoga teacher. “It would amaze you to go over to Ballou, in a room with 16- and 17-yearold boys who sort of come in hot … and within three minutes she has them doing nostril breathing,” says Ovca. “They are calm. Mindfulness is an incredible tool for them.” She is troubled by the widening school attendance controversy now swirling around Bowser and Chancellor Antwan Wilson. But she says her counselors do make a difference.

Ovca is a divorced mother with a 2-year-old daughter, and the only child of her ChineseAmerican mother and her Eastern European-American father. Born in San Francisco, Ovca’s mother sent her to a Chinese Mandarin school in the first grade, even through her family did not speak it. “I was the only kid with brown hair, came home to a family that didn’t speak any Mandarin, and so you can imagine … that was challenging a little bit, and so I cried. This was really hard.”

But Ovca says she stuck with it and by the time she was 13, she decided Mandarin was “re-

ally cool.” The family was by then living in Connecticut where finding a tutor for classes was easy. Then her parents divorced and she found herself in Louisville, Kantucky where there was little access to the language, which was “certainly not offered at any of the schools.”

In addition to Mandarin, she regularly studied French, a more accessible language that later led to her double major at Wellesley. For her junior year, she spent much of the time in France where she says she lugged around dictionaries for both languages. “I had to translate from French to Chinese and back and forth. A great learning experience.”

Her mother introduced her to Feng Shui, which means wind and water. When Ovca was 16, her mother built a new house in Louisville. She called in a Feng Shui practitioner to guide the family on how to position the house on the lot for maximum chi (vital life force).

Ovca has practiced Feng Shui ever since.

One tenet is that you don’t sit in a room with your back to the door, as it’s bad for your energy. “You never, ever sit with your back to the door,” Ovca says. “You want to see what’s coming at you.”

When we first entered the conference room at her Georgetown office, Ovca quickly took the table seat facing the door. (Your reporter wound up sitting with his back to the door, but was determined not to feel unempowered.)

Ovca also has her own Feng Shui business, Empowering Spaces, but says that company is inactive now. “I used to do private consultations for businesses and private clients and I was doing way too many things, so something had to give.”

Without announcing anything, Ovca says she has introduced a little Feng Shui into Bowser’s campaign. She arranges where people sit during campaign meetings. “I make sure that I sit everyone in a proper position.”

She says she’s aware that Mayor Bowser bought a new home in Upper Northwest and recently remodeled it. “She just redecorated her house,” Ovca says. She didn’t give the mayor guidance on the placement of mirrors, artwork, and furniture, but says, “I’d be happy to.”

She said the first thing she did to prepare for her new role is to take the required Office of Campaign Finance seminar on campaign financing. “I’m one of those people who gets really passionate about things. I’m a nerd. So I’m a learner. The joke in our family is that if I get excited about something, I get certified in it,” she says.

Her name is on Bowser’s December 10th finance report that showed $1.4 million raised and only about $68,000 spent spent so far. Her next report is due next week, January 31st.

CP Andrew Giambrone contributed reporting.

DistrictLinE Carrot, Schtick

By Andrew Giambrone Last Week, in response to an open-records request by WAMU, the District divulged that it offered Amazon a record-setting incentives package in an effort to win the tech giant’s new headquarters. The HQ, Amazon says, will create 50,000 jobs and other benefits wherever it goes.

But D.C.’s six-page response to the request contained significant redactions. More than half a page on a proposed “Amazon University”—described as “a customized education and training center for Amazon”—is blacked out, as is a full page under the heading “Additional Incentives For Amazon.”

Curious to know what might be under the redaction boxes, City Paper did some research and asked around to gauge the possibilities.

Some of the incentives—those not obscured—are known. They fall under D.C.’s existing “Qualified High Technology Companies” program, which has lured firms like the Advisory Board and Yelp to operate in the city.

The Amazon package contains reduced corporate and property taxes as well as tax credits per employee.

Experts say the unknowns probably include incentives that the QHTC program doesn’t cover. D.C. could be promising Amazon land for free or at a substantial discount (not an unusual offer to developers of affordable housing on public land); new infrastructure like roads, gas lines, and electric grids; and waived or refunded taxes above QHTC standards.

The information D.C. ultimately withheld after an appeal

by WAMU, according to a Jan. 4 letter from the Mayor’s Office of Legal Counsel, “appears to contain incentives offered to Amazon by private entities who have partnered with the District” on the bid. Those incentives are exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act because these entities could “suffer competitive harm” were they released, the letter says.

All told, D.C.’s carrots could amount to hundreds of millions of dollars, and perhaps more than $1 billion when accounting for the unknowns. On the high end of the bids that have been publicly disclosed, New Jersey has proposed $7 billion in incentives, and Maryland $5 billion. (The “additional incentives” in Montgomery County’s pitch were also removed from the results of a public-records request.)

And that’s before Amazon enters into further discussions with the 20 jurisdictions on its shortlist, unveiled last Thursday. With Mont-

gomery County and Northern Virginia up for consideration too, some say the region is in a strong position for the HQ. Others say a race to the bottom is underway, and it will only intensify as the selection process, expected to conclude this year, proceeds.

Community members have various musings on what the District pitched. Some are serious, others tongue-in-cheek.

Denise Krepp, an advisory neighborhood commissioner for Hill East, says she’s concerned officials have offered Amazon the land on which the D.C. General shelter sits for free. The land—part of a large, underdeveloped site called Reservation 13— features in one of the four sites in the District’s October bid. On Sunday, Mayor Muriel Bowser announced that D.C. General would close this fall. Bowser officials deny that the bid has anything to do with the shelter’s anticipated shuttering, which has been in the works for years. (About 250 families currently live at D.C. General.)

Krepp, who expressed anger after learning that a city official had withheld information about the inclusion of Reservation 13 in the District’s bid during an October community meeting, says she’s not convinced, “based on the lack of transparency.”

“Free property that will not be taxed is indeed a shiny object, but it will not fill D.C.’s tax coffers,” she says. “Nor will it provide housing and food for displaced residents.”

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My father left my mother abruptly when I was 14 years old, and he hasn’t contacted either of us since.

It was a crushing blow for her, and she retreated from the world. She was never bitter about it, but it was devastating. She lost the love of her life for no apparent reason and was left completely alone, except for me. We have both done our best to forget about him. We were extremely close for the next four years and actually slept in the same bed every night. Eventually, we began doing something that most people would consider evil but neither of us has ever regretted. It was just something that happened. And it wasn’t something that just happened once—it went on for two years and ended only when I left to go to university. I haven’t thought about this for years, and it is something my mother and I have never discussed. She has since remarried and seems perfectly fine. But even today, we sometimes send each other friendly messages that are vaguely suggestive. The problem is I mentioned it to my wife recently and she went ballistic. She called me and my mother sick and moved into another bedroom and refuses to have sex with me. I wish I had never mentioned it, but it was part of a truth-or-dare session we were having. This has been the situation for the last three months. I have finally lost my patience and I am thinking of leaving. I have never cheated on my wife or hurt her, either physically or emotionally, and I have supported her financially while she studies at university. I have mentioned going to a counselor, but she refuses and claims that she is married to a monster and that no woman would want me. We don’t have any children—so if I were to leave, I wouldn’t be disrupting an innocent’s life.

Do you have any advice? —Truthful Revelation Unmakes Two Happy Spouses

I’m not a professional counselor, TRUTHS, but I’m gonna climb out on a limb and say that a game of truth or dare isn’t the right time to reveal an incestuous sexual relationship with a parent. Dr. Hani Miletski and Dr. Joe Kort, on the other hand, are professionals: Dr. Miletski is a psychotherapist and a sex therapist, and Dr. Kort is a sex and relationship therapist.

Both are certified by the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists, and both are authors—Dr. Miletski literally wrote the book on the subject of motherson incest: Mother-Son Incest: The Unthinkable Broken Taboo Persists.

“There’s no wonder his wife is so upset,” said Dr. Miletski. “Sexual relations between mother and son are considered the most taboo form of incest.”

Dr. Miletski told me it isn’t uncommon for a woman who has been abandoned by her husband to turn to an adolescent son for emotional comfort.

“These women are often very insecure and needy,” said Dr. Miletski. “Unbeknownst to the son—and sometimes to the mother—the son begins to feel responsible for his mother’s

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well-being and emotional support. The son becomes ‘parentified’ and is treated by his mother as a substitute husband. Occasionally, this close relationship between a mother and her son evolves into a sexual relationship, and the substitute husband becomes her lover as well. The situation described in this letter sounds exactly like that. And while I’m glad this man believes he has not been affected by this boundary violation, [the fact that he and his mother are] sending suggestive messages to each other may suggest otherwise.”

Dr. Miletski prefers not to use terms like “abuse” or “trauma” unless the person involved uses those terms themselves—which you didn’t, TRUTHS, but I’m going to go ahead and use them. Here goes: You say you have no regrets, and you don’t mention feeling traumatized by the experience, but the ab-

People probably shouldn’t reveal incestuous relationships to their current partner during a game of truth or dare. sence of trauma doesn’t confer some sort of retroactive, after-the-fact immunity on your mother. She is responsible for her actions— actions that were abusive and highly likely to leave you traumatized.

“In the mental-health field, we have a growing body of work showing that not everyone who is abused is necessarily traumatized,” said Dr. Kort. “I have seen countless men who have been sexually abused by their mothers who do not label it as abuse because they were not traumatized. But his mother seduced him, dismissing the sexual and emotional needs of a teenage boy. There is no other way to describe this other than abuse, however consensual he may have perceived it to be at the time.”

But that was then, TRUTHS. What do you do about your situation now?

“Unfortunately, I don’t think his wife will ever be able to put this revelation behind her,” said Dr. Miletski. “I think his best bet is to leave her, move on, and seek therapy. A therapist will help him deal with the emotional upset of

the breakup with his wife, as well as process what happened with his mother.”

Dr. Kort sees some hope—albeit slim—for your marriage.

“To gain empathy and compassion from his wife, TRUTHS should be willing to listen to her concerns, fear, and anger,” said Dr. Kort.

“He also needs to invite her to have compassion and empathy for the vulnerable position he was in—but he cannot do that until he has some compassion for himself. Untreated, the abuse he suffered from his mother, as well as the loss and grief over his father, could be troubling to his wife and their relationship. Perhaps if he ever has children, the reality of the abuse will hit him. Parents don’t have children to turn them into lovers.”

And, once again, people probably shouldn’t reveal incestuous relationships to their current partner during a game of truth or dare.

You can find Dr. Miletski’s books and learn more about her work at DrMiletski.com. You can find Dr. Kort’s books and learn more about his work at JoeKort.com and on Twitter @drjoekort.

—Dan Savage I’m writing you to ask about a friend of mine. He’s a gifted artist who hasn’t truly dedicated himself to his art. It’s as if he’s afraid of success. He’s also a socalled “womanizer,” and every time he meets an interesting woman who’s into him, he inevitably fucks it up. For this reason and some others (that I won’t mention), I believe he’s a repressed homosexual. Let’s just assume that he is. Every time we talk, maybe once or twice a year, he recounts his latest fuckups with women (and everything else).

During the last call, I was very close to asking him if he was sure about his sexual orientation. I believe that what makes him unable to face this aspect of his life is interfering with everything else, too.

I would like to be able to talk openly about it with him without hurting him. Do you have any tips?

—Artist Failing At Relationships Sometimes a cigar isn’t just a cigar—but an unsuccessful heterosexual is almost always just that. Unless the details you didn’t share include, say, a massive collection of gay porn or messy closet-case classics like drunken lunges at male friends or running for Congress on a “family values” platform, your friend will have to remain in the hetero column for now. That said, if you believe a solid gay ass pounding would jar loose the professional and romantic success that has thus far eluded your friend, go ahead and ask him if he’s a “repressed homosexual.” It might cost you his friendship, AFAR, but someone who calls only once or twice a year to recount his romantic fuckups doesn’t sound like much of a friend anyway.

—DS

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DISTRICT

OF DATA 693,972 Under 5

Male

Female

American Indian

65+

18-64

5-18

PEOPLE

If a picture is worth one thousand words, a number is worth one thousand questions. This week, City Paper rounded up and illustrated data points that describe life in the District. Volumes of data are available on D.C., and on any major American city. This set is hardly comprehensive, but it is a beginner’s guide to what’s available. In several cases, we pulled the most interesting number nuggets we could find within thick government or nonprofit reports. If you want to know more, find those reports and look for others. Find out what data points should be available, but aren’t. No one in D.C. seems to know, for example, exactly how many rent-controlled units exist in this city. And the information that is available raises questions. Some Capital Bikeshare bikes are in frequent use, while others spend most of their time docked. Why? D.C.’s Department of Health recorded 7,036 deaths in the city in 2016. Each one is worthy of a biography.

—Alexa Mills

Black

Two or more races Asian

White

Hispanic/ Latino Source: U.S. Census Bureau, July 2016

DEATH IN THE DISTRICT

7,036 people died within the boundaries of the District in 2016 according to the DC Department of Health. The city’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner does not investigate every death, but it must, by law, accept “all traumatic, unwitnessed, or suspicious deaths that occur in DC.” For the year 2016, the most recent year for which data are available, here are the totals:

GENDER

AGE

RACE

139 44 2

homicides

Source: DC Office of the Chief Medical Examiner 2016 Annual Report

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suicides

stillbirths

513

D.C. PARKS

BY SIZE Rock Creek Park 1,754 acres Anacostia Park 1,215 acres National Arboretum 446 acres Fort Dupont Park 376 acres Roosevelt Island 88.5 acres President’s Park 77.48 acres Constitution Gardens 50 acres One of D.C.’s smallest parks is Sonny Bono Park 800 square feet (shown to scale with Rock Creek Park)

accidents including

302 58 89

drug use

traffic

falls

Source: National Park Service

1. Double-crested Cormorant

400

2. European Starling

321

3. American 4. Red-winged Robin Blackbird

227

5. Ring-billed Gull 140

10. Canada Goose

32

6. White-throated Sparrow 64

153

9. American Goldfinch

7. Northern Cardinal

50 (tie)

33

Source: Audubon Society of the District of Columbia, 2017

BIRDS IN D.C.

7. Mallard 50 (tie)

Each month, members of the Audubon Society of the District of Columbia traverse the city on bird watching excursions. Through parks and gardens, they log the species of birds they see and record how many of each. Here are the top species of the year 2017.

8. Mourning Dove

36

4,229

FOIA REQUESTS

34,419.35 hrs

granted in whole

total FOIA requests received

1,149 granted in part

INCLUDING

7,957

Since it was signed into law by Lyndon B. Johnson in 1966, the Freedom of Information Act has been an invaluable resource for people who want to know more about the government and how to hold it accountable. In 2016, individuals filed 7,957 FOIA requests with District government agencies, which took thousands of hours to process.

spent processing FOIA requests

$2,585,052.31

567 denied

spent processing FOIA requests Source: Executive Office of the Secretary of the District of Columbia

HOMELESSNESS

UNEMPLOYMENT

3583

2500

2016

1,988

3,371

Transitional Housing

Source: D.C. Department of Human Services, 2017

Unsheltered

39,600

22,600

17,300

16,900

14,700

12,900

8,600

4,900

693 4,900

897

20 0K 14 0K

GDP

2017

60 K

2015

40 K

0

20 K

2014

$128 billion

500

0K

2013

1166

115,600

2012

1131

72,200

983

JOBS

1491

1231

70,900

1000

1014

69,000

1500

68,300

2000

16 0K

790,300

3000

18 0K

3683

3500

12 0K

3696

3821

10 0K

3953

80 K

3767

198,700

6.5%

Families

Individuals

519

Emergency shelter

4000

1,200

Family Members

Individuals 4500

49,300

The number of homeless people in D.C. has jumped since the economic recession, with a 40.5 percent increase from 2007 to 2017. On a night last January, officials and volunteers recorded 7,473 total homeless people, or a 10.5 percent decrease from the year before. The number of people in homeless families also went down, by 21.8 percent. Experts wonder if the 2018 tally will continue these declines.

The District’s annual count was conducted just last night. (Source: D.C. Department of Human Services, 2017)

EMPLOYMENT & LABOR

R H Ma W T A Inf F R M A A E O Fe de orm inan etai uni dmi cco ealt duc the nu hole rans rts a eal e cip ral r mo a l tr n/ h ce fac sta nd t s sa por a Su ad al tio go da care iona erv an le tur te tat en P p g e n i v t d t c r l se po ov ion ter ing rad ion o a e i n n s an fes ernm e r tai d s r t /U r e a C v / ura nm d s so Wa nd i on nm en c tili i tec on nc en tie ste foo cial es en and stru hn al, s t e t s as t ma d s log cti i c al cien na erv sista gin on, se ti i ge g min rvi fic me ces nce ce , Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics via DC Deputy ing s n t , Mayor for Planning and Economic Development, 2018

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SMITHSONIAN VISITORS

HUMANE RESCUE ALLIANCE 2017

27,488,187 VISITORS TO SMITHSONIAN MUSEUMS IN D.C.

National Air and Space Museum 7,025,888

4,571 FINALIZED ADOPTIONS 2,499 CATS 346

1,726 DOGS

SMALL MAMMALS

National Museum of Natural History 6,014,821

22,686 MEDICAL CENTER PATIENTS

Source: Smithsonian Institution, 2017

6,000 SPAY/NEUTER SURGERIES

National Museum of American History 3,837,544

NEARLY 100 ANIMALS RESCUED FROM HURRICANE AREAS

Source: Humane Rescue Alliance, 2017

Getting Around D.C. AVERAGE COMMUTE TO WORK FOR D.C. RESIDENTS:

123,675,724

29.9minutes

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

179,693,126

METROBUS TRIPS

METRORAIL TRIPS

117 miles OF METRO TRACK 31.9 mi

30.3 mi

Na of tion Hi Afric al M 2,3story an A useu 63 an me m ,09 d C ric (out of scale) 0 ult an Na ure D.W t i o National Museum of Po . Re 1,96 nal African Art 158,633 A rtra yno 3,4 Zoo Rip Sm Hir rt Mu it Ga lds C 91 ley Freer Gallery of Art i th se lle en C S sh C Na astle sonia culp horn um) ry an ter ( 75,215 16 ente t 1 t M n i 1 u , 0,8 r 310 d Am Natio Am ona ,11 us 8 Ins re 83 Arts and Industries na er ,9 Na erica l Mu ,331 titut Gard eum se tio ion en an 36 ican l Building 59,109 n M u In 1,1 d m u na Art 31, Re seum l Po dian of t Anacostia 88 Sa hur s h n 1 t , e w 1 48 al 41 6 5 Community Museum 1 ckle M. i c 2,8 3 k 6 77, , ,40 97 Ga 17 37,203 96 r Gal 4 l l 3 e ler 3 ry y Source: WMATA 2017 Metro Facts

26.4 mi

23.04 mi

15.07 mi

29.6 mi

11.5 mi (planned Silver LIne)

It’s intuitive that some Capital Bikeshare stations get more use than others, but what about the bikes themselves? The system data show a tremendous amount of variability in how often individual bikes are used (or not) over the course of one full year.

16BIKES USED 10 OR FEWER TIMES

1,697 RIDES

1

LEAST USED BIKE:

RIDE

MOST USED BIKE:

29BIKES USED 1500 OR MORE TIMES

Source: https://www.capitalbikeshare.com/system-data

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The Key Bridge Boathouse is a top destination for tourists and locals alike whenever the temperature climbs above 50 degrees. In the heat of summer, it’s a madhouse. But which water vessels do Washingtonians rent the most? Boating in DC provided the following breakdown from the 2017 season.

Double kayak

AVERAGE NUMBER OF TRIPS PER BIKE

807

39.2% 3.9% Canoe

Single kayak

35.3% Source: Colin Brown, Marketing Coordinator, Boating in DC

21.6%

Stand up paddle board

Grocery Stores

By Ward According to the city, there are 12 grocery stores in Ward 6 as compared to merely one in Ward 8. The following data, updated in Aug. 2017, count grocery stores as “large or national chain grocery stores which have been determined by the DC Office of Planning to be ‘healthy food’ options’” compared to corner stores, which may not stock fresh produce.

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Under $10 - Daily Lunch Specials

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Happy Hour $3-$4-$5-$6-$7

FISH SALES

Appetizers, Martinis & Drinks - 4PM-7PM ***

1. Farm Raised Atlantic Salmon

The District digs its seafood. Just look at all the restaurants that have raw bars even though it doesn’t fit their theme. But which fish do Washingtonians devour the most? Profish, one of the top seafood wholesalers in D.C., ran the numbers, excluding crustaceans like shrimp and crab.

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SCHOOL ATTENDANCE In May, Ward 8’s Ballou High School made headlines with what seemed to be an astounding achievement: Every senior graduated, applied to, and was accepted into college. But later in the year, the school made headlines again. An investigation from WAMU and NPR found that many seniors in Ballou’s 2017 graduating class should not have graduated. Administrators pressured teachers to pass students who were chronically absent and did not pass their classes. The fallout resulted in a top-to-bottom review by the Office of the State Superintendent of Education of D.C.’s high schools. It found many D.C. schools were doing the same thing. Below, a look at the attendance records of graduates from 10 D.C. public high schools.

Anacostia HS Ballou HS Cardozo EC Columbia Heights EC Dunbar HS Eastern HS

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Luke Moore Alternative HS

DRIP

Roosevelt HS

ESPRESSO

POUR OVER

Wilson HS

FRENCH PRESS ICED

NITRO

H.D. Woodson HS 10

Source: D.C. Office of the State Superintendent of Education

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30

40

% of students who missed 30-49.99 percent of classes and graduated

50

60

70

80

90

100

% of students who missed 50 percent of classes or more and graduated

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Ripe Old Age

biggest hindrance, not sharing information,” Evans says. “Information is powerful. If people knew about this stuff, they would come out.”

Reaching isolated seniors is a complex challenge. “We can’t just send a tweet or post something on Facebook,” Dorbin says. “The hardest part is making sure every senior in the District knows we exist.” While congregate meals are open to anyone over 60, DCOA more meticulously determines who’s eligible for home-delivered meals. “Some people say, ‘I’m 60, I want a free meal,’ but we have to prioritize the neediest people facing significant barriers.”

DCOA relies on its community partners for outreach since there is no magic registry of seniors living in the District. “We try to train people in the community to locate isolated seniors,” Dorbin explains.

There’s room for improvement with DCOA’s web site. Clicking through to find congregate meal locations, City Paper was foiled twice by “access denied” messages. “Our website is really not that great,” Dorbin admits.

“We used to have an interacLunch is served at tive map to help seniors find Asbury Dwellings. a community dining site, but it’s been on and off. That’s one meals their caregivers prepare when the dishes thing we’re trying to repair.” are unfamiliar. “People from different cultures cook very differently,” Evans says. “If you’re BaBy BooMers have begun to enter their Ethiopian, you eat one way. If you’re Jamaican, retirement years in droves. According to a Population Reference Bureau bulletin published in you eat another way.”

Evans and her mother receive a monthly Dec. 2015, the number of Americans who are box of 30 to 40 pounds of staples through the 65 and older will more than double by 2060.

USDA’s Grocery Plus Commodity Supplemen- By the same year, nearly a quarter of Amerital Food Program available to D.C. seniors be- cans will be older than 64.

“It will be critically important to meet low a certain income level. Though described as “healthy groceries,” nothing is fresh. Prod- the needs of these older adults so they can ucts include shelf-stable milk, peanut butter, live in the neighborhoods they know and and canned tuna. “It’s a survival kit,” Evans love,” says Seabury Resources for Aging says. “But a peanut butter sandwich is better CEO Deborah Royster. D.C. executes its senior hunger reduction programs through than starving. They never give us jelly.”

Evans thinks that people may not know a network of eight community-based agenabout congregate meals and other programs cies (one per ward) called the Senior Service earmarked for hungry seniors because old- Network. Seabury is the designated granter Americans, like her mother, are hesitant ee for Wards 5 and 6. The agency delivered to speak up. “They’re from an era where they 125,000 meals to homebound older adults didn’t question authority,” she says. “The city in fiscal year 2017. (In addition to the wardbased centers, there are six city-funded secould do a lot better.”

She also theorizes that food-insecure seniors nior wellness centers.)

She says that helping seniors age in place don’t spread the word out of fear the food will run out. They’re in survival mode. “That is the as their segment of the population swells

Despite a panoply of food programs for seniors in D.C., some elderly residents are experiencing hunger.

By Laura Hayes Monday’s Menu pulled inspiration from France, pairing beef burgundy with egg noodles, bread, steamed zucchini, salad with a choice of dressing, fruit, and milk. The meal was served in Shaw, but not at a French bistro, and not at any of the neighborhood’s new and buzzed-about restaurants.

Rather, the beef burgundy took up the largest compartment on a plate of food offered free of charge to 20 senior citizens at the Asbury Dwelling apartments.

The meal was a hit, but the seniors’ favorites are fried chicken and macaroni and cheese, according to the site’s nutritionist Juliet Gyimah-Akesson.

Asbury Dwellings is one of 47 community dining sites in D.C. where adults 60 and older can eat a free hot lunch regardless of their income bracket. The DC Office on Aging funds the program, and among its centers are one that caters specifically to Asian Pacific Islanders and another that offers halal meals.

In fiscal year 2017, the city provided 346,026 “congregate meals” to 5,333 seniors, according to Karen Dorbin, DCOA’s director of external affairs and communications.

Congregate meals are more than nutritionally beneficial. They free up seniors’ money, and seniors use the dollars saved to buy other necessities, like medication. The meals also coax seniors living solo out of their apartments for a social occasion.

For those too frail or otherwise unable to venture out, the city also offers various homedelivery programs. Some are vacuum-packed, refrigerated meals, while others don’t require any heating or storage. Dorbin says D.C. seniors received 681,034 home-delivered meals in fiscal year 2017.

But not everyone knows these and other programs exist. In D.C., 17.78 percent of seniors 60 and older face the threat of hunger, according to a National Foundation to End Senior Hunger report, published in Aug. 2017.

That is the 15th highest percentage of hungry seniors in the nation (with the District counted in a list of states). D.C.’s wide income gap and

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high cost of living exacerbate the issue.

Beatrice Evans, 64, lives in the Triangle View senior residences in Ward 7 with her 90-year-old mother. “I don’t know of any place where seniors can go and get a hot meal,” Evans says. There are four congregate meal sites in her ward. The closest one, the Phillip T Johnson Senior Center, is less than a half mile away. To an able-bodied Washingtonian, or a Washingtonian with a car, 0.3 miles is nothing. To some seniors without transportation, that’s far enough to prevent them from attending.

Evans doesn’t think her neighbors eat properly. “They’re not sure of what they’re going to have to eat or whether they’re going to have two or three meals a day,” she says.

They gather around the vending machines in the lobby instead of over a hot meal.

“During the holidays, you get a lot of relatives, but there are a lot of seniors who live by themselves and can’t get to the grocery store and cooking is a problem,” Evans continues.

“Most just stay up in their apartments.”

Others go hungry because they don’t eat the

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DCFEED will require additional resources, such as transportation services and affordable housing, but that it’s a sound investment. “Everyone benefits because they’re able to remain healthy and independent,” she says.

“It benefits us as taxpayers. When these services are provided, they prevent premature placement in nursing homes, which are much more costly.”

Lura Barber, the director of hunger initiatives for the National Council on Aging, says hunger prematurely reduces independence for seniors. “There’s a measure called ‘activities of daily living,’” she says. “These include getting up from a chair, using the bathroom independently, and cooking food.” Going hungry or being at risk of hunger make your ability to perform ADLs more like that of someone 14 or 21 years older.

The hope—across several organizations and offices—is that public and private programming spin a wide enough web to catch every senior who doesn’t know where they’ll get their next meal.

Several organizations work to increase lowincome senior enrollment in SNAP (formerly food stamps). One of them is D.C. Hunger Solutions, a nonprofit headed by Beverley Wheeler. SNAP allots seniors living alone a maximum of $119 per month to spend on groceries, yet Wheeler says only half of eligible local seniors are enrolled. D.C. Hunger Solutions’ staff and volunteers post up at senior centers to help people sign up. But it’s not as simple as it could be.

First, there’s an emotional hurdle. “Seniors don’t want to take food out of other people’s mouths,” Wheeler says. “Some seniors are embarrassed they got this far in life and they’re in need of food. We help them understand that they shouldn’t have to choose between paying for medication, food, or heat.”

Second, D.C. is one of very few jurisdictions that doesn’t have an online application. That means seniors have to file their paperwork in person at an Economic Security Administration office. That’s an extra trip, and transportation is notoriously difficult.

“We’re just talking about getting you ready to eat,” Wheeler says. “We haven’t gotten to the part of where to find food. Wards 7 and 8 are a monster for moving around.” The two wards have only three full-service grocery stores. “If you can find a place to buy food, get your SNAP benefits, and figure out how to get your food home and cook it, you’re good to go.”

Wheeler calls D.C.’s lack of an online application “crazytalk” given the volume of websavvy seniors and caregivers. She says she’s been promised one for 10 years. “Something needs to happen because there’s no excuse for the nation’s capital not to have an online application process.”

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Wheeler hopes to up enrollment by 25 percent by the end of the year. Barber from the National Council on Aging thinks more seniors would take advantage of SNAP if they could get groceries delivered. She’s encouraged that that the USDA is working on pilot programs that would allow SNAP participants to utilize services like Instacart and Peapod.

Other programs focus on the most vulnerable segments of the senior population—the ill and the homeless. Food & Friends is a nonprofit born out of the AIDS movement in the ’80s. They provide meals for those living with life-changing illnesses such as HIV/AIDS, cancer, and poorly controlled diabetes in D.C., Maryland, and Virginia. In 2017, about one third of Food & Friends clients were 65 and older according to Carrie Stoltzfus, the deputy executive director for programs and public funding.

Food & Friends delivers three nutritious meals a day up to six days per week at no cost.

There are 11 diets and any three can be combined to provide a custom-designed meal program. With the help of the organization’s nutritionist Renee Currie, Food & Friends constantly looks to improve the quality of its meals. “Just because they’re getting it or free doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be getting what’s best,” Stoltzfus says. “It takes 9,000 volunteers to get this work done.”

Dorbin, of DCOA, also prioritizes quality. “This past year we had a tasting panel to help determine who the caterer would be,” she says. “We invited seniors representing each ward to sample the food and vote on it.” For community dining meals, DCOA held a town hall with the caterer at two of its sites and gave participants scorecards to rate each meal for a month.

The Oasis Senior Center in Ward 2, which is at 1226 Vermont Ave. NW, caters to homeless seniors. It is one of the city’s 47 congregate meal sites, and the center’s director Tanea J. McQueen says about 40 seniors dine on a daily basis. “You come because you’re hungry, but hopefully you get so much more,” McQueen says.

She is impressed by the services for hungry seniors in the District, and many agree that D.C. is advanced in terms of programs and benefits, but there is work to be done raising awareness and enrolling participants.

“Whenever you talk about hunger, people talk about kids,” Barber says, hoping the city and the nation further invest in caring for its seniors. “You’re going to be a senior a lot longer than you were ever a kid. We have this cultural perception of being older that you hit 65 and inevitably decline. But it’s a dynamic time of life.”

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what we ate this week: Gravlax on sourdough with house-made crème fraîche, capers, and dill, $11, Little Pearl. Satisfaction level: 4 out of 5. what we’ll eat next week: Kupati with pork and beef sausages, pomegranate, and fried pickles, $14, Supra.

Excitement level: 3 out of 5.

Throwback Dish Throwdown

Like bell bottom jeans or Pokémon, what’s old often has a chance to feel new again. Area restaurants are serving classic comfort food dishes that were en vogue well before small plates or sous vide cocktails were a thing. But are they doing them justice? We pitted one classic dish against another to ultimately determine where you should spend your dollars the next time you crave an elevated taste of home.

—Laura Hayes

Unconventional Diner 1207 9th St. NW The Sriracha-glazed meatloaf ($22) at Chef David Deshaies’ Unconventional Diner is emerging as one of the new restaurant’s signature dishes. It arrives at the table swimming in morel mushroom gravy and is accompanied by a pile of mashed potatoes big enough to share with your dining companions. When you bring a forkful of the mixture of veal, beef, and pork to your mouth, thin strings of cheese extend from the loaf. The addition of Gruyère keeps the dish especially moist and flavorful, as do the minced vegetables tucked into the loaf.

The Riggsby 1731 New Hampshire Ave. NW The Riggsby’s Wagyu meatloaf “Rossini” ($38) consists of three pucks of ground meat on top of a smear of Robuchon potatoes with scattered Brussels sprout leaves.

One of the three mounds of prime beef wears a tophat of rich foie gras, but the other advertised luxe ingredient—black truffles—seems to be omitted from the dish. It’s difficult to discern the high quality of the meat since it’s aggressively cooked through and stuffed with too many shards of undercooked carrots. The fact that there is no sticky, sweet glaze to speak of makes it hard to even call this dish a meatloaf.

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WinneR: Unconventional Diner chicken and duMplingS The Dabney Tavern at Rare 122 Blagden Alley NW 1595 I St. NW The Hudson Valley chicken and large Like all food at The Dabney, the chicken pillowy potato dumplings ($22) at and dumplings ($18) is distinctively Mid-Atthe Tavern at Rare is an enormous lantic. The recipe is unique to the Delmarportion of comfort food that sticks va Peninsula and includes dense, square with you for the rest of the day. dumplings, chicken, turnips and radishes (for a bit of bite), fresh Some diners have balked at the chicken being on the bone, but pea shoots (for some snap), and a dollop of sour cream that what’s the big deal if the tender meat falls onto your fork with cuts through the rich broth that takes days to make. Every bite minimal force? Everything about the dish is oversized including is savory and satisfying with a bit of funk and tang, making the the dumplings and slices of onion, carrot, and celery. For best rehomestyle dish worthy of being served at a Michelin-starred sults, accept your server’s offer of freshly ground black pepper restaurant. Note that the Dabney’s menu changes daily. for a hit of heat.

WinneR: The Dabney ShriMp ScaMpi RPM italian 650 K St. NW The traditional recipe calls for pasta twirled with shrimp and a simple garlic, white wine, and butter sauce, so RPM Italian’s bright red bowl ($21) can raise eyebrows. But the swanky Italian dining room’s take, which gets its color from tomato sauce and heat from Calabrian chilies, is an upgrade. It’s still garlicky enough to ward off vampires or sloppy kisses and is fun to eat because of the way the shrimp bodies are twisted sans shells. A touch of basil adds freshness.

The Smith 901 F St NW The Smith also takes liberties with its grilled shrimp scampi ($28). Instead of pasta, a row of tail-on shrimp are nestled on top of jalapeño cheddar grits, making the dish look and taste more like Southern shrimp and grits than shrimp scampi. The mound of flavorless grits is surrounded by a moat of butter that looks a little unappetizing and the scrappy pieces of tomatoes don’t add much. A shot of acid, like a squeeze of fresh lemon, would help bring the dish to life.

WinneR: RPM italian

PourYour HeartOut

ID is Everything Introducing a new recurring feature in which local bartenders anonymously submit short accounts of patrons behaving badly. Work at a D.C. bar or a bar within a restaurant? Submit your horror stories to Lhayes@washingtoncitypaper.com.

Holiday season is great for us bartenders. Everyone is drinking bourbon or whiskey, which is always fun for someone who fancies brown spirits, like myself. Not to mention, the money is fantastic. Guests are in a good mood because their families are home. But the 18-20 somethings are home from college and unfortunately still act like they are on a college campus.

In one night I had to refuse three people alcohol because they didn’t have their IDs. The instances got progressively worse in terms of guest reactions. The first person simply asked me to make her a fun mocktail. The second person was more condescending and responded with, “Well, I guess we’re just going to take our business elsewhere. Your loss.” The third was quite hostile. A very inebriated young man and his father came in right before we were closing up and he asked for two Manhattans with slurred speech and closed eyes.

I said, “Sir, I need to see ID and I will make one Manhattan for your dad.” The drunk kid simply responded, “No. My ID is not on me.” Baffled, I responded, “No. What do you mean no? OK, well then no one is getting a drink, you need water anyway.” He then belligerently proceeded to call me every type of bitch in the book and told me to “fuck off” because I didn’t have the decency to feel sorry for him that his girlfriend broke up with him that day.

One would assume that dad would have stepped in at some point when his son was cussing me out for doing my job, but no. I guess if you raise them that way, the behavior doesn’t shock you anymore.

Moral of the story folks, if you want to drink, bring your ID! I don’t care who you are or how old you are, if you are asked for ID the burden of proof is on you. It is not our job to play the guessing game and it’s definitely not worth risking our liquor license over you.

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Made in America The National Museum of the American Indian’s latest exhibition is a scathing look at how the imagery of Native Americans has long been appropriated and exploited in American culture.

Americans At the National Museum of the American Indian through 2022

By Kriston Capps Of all the pop-culture artifacts on view in Americans, nothing sticks to the theme like the packaging for Land O’ Lakes butter. The transcendentalist box art features a Plains Indian maiden kneeling on virgin homeland, eagerly awaiting a pilgrim on whom to bestow her gift of salted sweet-cream butterfat. The contents of the product have as little to do with Native Americans as they do with a heart-healthy diet. If it isn’t in your fridge, it’s definitely in your closest dairy aisle.

Nearly 300 objects make up the salon-style centerpiece of Americans, a show at the National Museum of the American Indian with a Warholian view of American history. Several examples cut a more striking image than a box-o-butter, including a vintage 1948 Indian Chief motorcycle and a Tomahawk missile. But nothing quite drives home the theme of the unrelenting ubiquity of America’s first brand like slapping a pretty Indian lady on a consumer staple.

Curated by Paul Chaat Smith and Cécile R. Ganteaume, Americans surveys the sweeping breadth of the American Indian image in the marketplace—and its staggering lack of depth, too. The museum has given the show a blockbuster touch, with a modern installation designed by the au courant firm Studio Joseph. Prints, products, and reproductions of native visuals hang from an angular scaffold that hugs the walls of an otherwise blacked-out gallery. To complete the secular look, a fractured screen at the gallery’s end shows a loop of American Indian depictions in film, from slapstick to stoic to savage, like a peculiar, shattered mirror.

Here the overall presentation is critical to the show’s plot.

Viewers confronting a tin of Red Man chewing tobacco or Cher’s 1973 album Half-Breed might be tempted to weigh these images by their moral disposition—to measure them against some kind of cultural appropriation quotient to determine exactly how offensive they might be. But the panoptic installation serves to flatten American Indian images into a more generic category, a visual commodity, like pin-up girls or Art Deco fonts. A photo of lily-white Karlie Kloss walking the runway in an eagle-feather headdress and little else is given the same assignation as a satirical R. Crumb drawing for the New Yorker.

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The point is to make viewers see the forest for the trees, but not necessarily to guide them through it.

This posture of neutrality gives rise to funny juxtapositions throughout the main gallery. Lynyrd Skynyrd’s southern-fried, rebel-tinted appropriation of native imagery hangs here, as does Kanye West’s ironic appropriation of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s appropriation for his Yeezus tour. Washington, D.C.’s professional football team is represented by a branded teddy bear and infant security blanket, a contrast to the hurt that the racial slur causes—but also, just one more exhibit in a hall of crimes and misdemeanors.

Smith and Ganteaume never invest too much focus on any specific example, instead allowing the sheer pervasiveness of the commercial white gaze to make the case for greater thoughtfulness. In the adjacent galleries, however, Americans

confronts four quintessential popular myths about American Indians, tackling them one by one—Thanksgiving, Pocahontas, the Trail of Tears, and the Battle of Little Big Horn. In these rooms, the script flips, and the museum mounts an advocacy campaign to sort out several big misperceptions about American history.

This part of the show reads as opportunity casting by the museum: Now that all these viewers are here for a glitzy installation of strange and familiar visuals, what should we do with them? One answer might have been rooted in the visual lore: a decade-by-decade look at the evolution of the American Indian image in pop culture, maybe. That is the secondary show that viewers may regret that they aren’t seeing, since a catalog of visual information is harder to come by than accurate historical details—although Americans isn’t wrong for trying to set the record straight. Many viewers may be embarrassed by how much they learn.

The exhibit on Pocahontas showcases the double-whammy that American Indians suffer: exalted as prestige Americans, but erased as human beings.

For example, a 1924 law in Virginia called the Racial Integrity Act required all residents to identify themselves as “white” or “colored.” The law backfired for a fraction of the whites it was designed to benefit. Virginians who had always claimed some ancestral connection to Pocahontas, the first lady of the commonwealth, wanted a carveout. They wanted to continue to claim Indian heritage without it making them effectively black. The aristocrats got what they wanted: The law was changed so that Virginians with 1/16th Indian blood could still be classified as “white.”

Heavy on the infographics, these smart history halls follow a recent trend in exhibition design across the Smithsonian Institution (and perhaps most strongly felt at the National Museum of African American History and Culture). Sometimes, these data-rich exhibits run low on authentic experience. Not so with several Americans exhibits that center on objects, especially a monumental late-19th century muslin painting by a Lakota follower of Sitting Bull named Strike the Kettle. An impressive eagle-feather headdress, a largerthan-life display, makes it immediately clear why every H&M-type fashion campaign that borrows the headdress as a motif is destined to failure. An 1839 painting that hangs in the U.S. Capitol rotunda, “Baptism of Pocahontas,” shows how far back in history the H&M-ification of the American Indian goes.

Aside from the four historical displays, Americans doesn’t settle on any answers or even resolve into a common set of questions. A funny video narrated by Smith explains the warped history of Thanksgiving, tracing its transformation from a historical footnote into a defining myth about a forest brunch with the pilgrims, while recognizing the holiday as wonderful and awful at the same time. Americans works as a framework for acknowledging just how much of America’s popular self-conception is just warmed-up Native American imagery. But it’s up to Americans to do the work from there to sort out why that matters and what needs to change.

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TheaTerCurtain Calls Speedo and Jumpers for Goalposts (both at Studio), Colossal (at Olney Theatre Center) and Take Me Out (at 1st Stage), while plays that approach athletes as people have been rare. That dearth doesn’t match American demographics. A 2015 NPR/Harvard poll found that nearly 75 percent of Americans played sports as kids, and nearly one in four adults still does.

Why not put on plays that appeal to them?

Why not put on plays about my cousin and his drama-prone NCAA team?

As a soccer fan, I had to watch the U.S. women lose three successive World Cups before winning again in 2015. After seeing The Wolves, I’m ripping off my jersey, swinging it around, and saying, “Please theatermakers, don’t make America wait another 16 years for a sports play as good as The Wolves.”

—Rebecca J. Ritzel

Squad GoalS The Wolves

By Sarah DeLappe Directed by Marti Lyons At Studio Theatre to March 11 Several SeaSonS ago, a collegiate team coached by one of my cousins completely choked. One week the girls were on track to be conference champs, the next they lost to two far inferior teams. An almost-assured trip to the NCAA tournament slipped away.

My cousin was summoned to the athletic director’s office and asked, “What happened?”

He didn’t know. A female assistant coach finally got a confession out of one of the girls: As it turns out, the downward skid began right after one of the seniors slept with another player’s boyfriend. Three starters stopped speaking to each other, and the whole team’s dream went down the drain.

Girls’ sports. They are so full of drama, from boy problems to cataclysmic ACL tears, and it’s high time someone wrote a good play about them.

That long-awaited pitch-to-stage drama is Sarah DeLappe’s The Wolves. A winning production of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize finalist is currently running at Studio Theatre, and it’s as thrilling as a World Cup penalty shoot-out.

Let’s be clear, however: The play is great, but for this theater critic who broke her third metatarsal playing intramural soccer in college, nothing will ever top Brandi Chastain ripping off her jersey after the U.S. beat China in the 1999 Women’s World Cup. None of the nine Wolves we meet aspire to be the next Chastain, Briana Scurry, or Mia Hamm. If they were that good, the girls would have already been scooped up by ODP, as they accurately abbreviate the Olympic Development Program. (All the soccer lingo is spot-on.) What they still hope for is a full

ride to play soccer in college, and their bids for scholarships begin around age 11, when girls start playing year-round. That goal sends them to an off-season indoor league, and an arena somewhere in middle America where firsttime playwright Delappe sets our scene.

It’s a brilliant conceit that relieves Delappe from having to set The Wolves in a locker room (boring) or on a grass field (tough to fake indoors). Designer Debra Booth created an immersive environment in Studio’s flexible Stage 4 space, which for past shows has been configured as a dive bar, a church basement, and a planetarium. Seating is general admission in bleacherstyle seats, positioning audiences on either side of the AstroTurf. Fluorescent lights buzz and flicker above. Much effort went into both the lighting and sound design, which creates a “We Will Rock You” ambiance between scenes.

The attention to aesthetic detail would be worthless if Studio had not found nine actors in their early- and mid-20s who could credibly play high school girls and play soccer. Much of the dialogue is delivered as the cast drills, dribbling off their toes and insteps. Just as important as the footwork is the actors’ commitment to playing actual teenagers, not caricatures of them.

As in Greta Gerwig’s film Lady Bird, DeLappe and director Marti Lyons treat the girls like young people who are genuinely funny yet not fully formed. The subject they jabber most about is social studies, including international crises they may not fully grasp. When the public school girls on the Wolves start chatting casually about Rwanda, a tart Catholic school player quips, “We don’t do genocide until senior year.”

Other topics up for debate: leaking tampons, cute boys (or in one case, a cute girl) and nagging parents. As the taut, adrenalinepumping play clips on, the issues at stake become less inane: eating disorders, race, sexual identity, and maybe even rape.

Other plays both good and bad dwell on one of the above for 90 minutes. There’s the rugbyteam-gone-rogue play Really Really, for example. And D.C. has seen a slew of shows about gay athletes in recent years, including Red

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By Thornton Wilder Directed by Mary Hall Surface At Constellation Theatre Company to February 11 The STaTe of the union is exhausted. Year in review articles and memes have mostly become jokes marveling that we’ve managed to make the past few trips around the sun. Even the stories we tell aren’t about conquering our problems or vanquishing evil, but about how tired we are from barely keeping up with the status quo. In the latest Star Wars film, a grizzled and bitter Luke Skywalker watches the galaxy he spent his youth rescuing from the brink of evil slip back into chaos. Some of the best recent horror movies, like The Babadook and It Follows, feature fearsome monsters that our protagonists can’t banish or defeat, but must simply learn to endure for the rest of their lives.

Constellation Theater is currently running Thornton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth, a play that neatly aligns with this Zeitgeist of exhaustion, dealing as it does with a 1940s family sur-

viving an apocalypse. It’s a good reminder that we’re far from the first beleaguered generation.

Wilder’s Antrobus family is at “sixes and sevens” in 1942, having just scraped through the Great Depression and a world war, only to find another global disaster ready to wash away everything they’ve rebuilt. Teeth makes an argument that, really, every generation has had to make peace with their hard work being constantly eroded.

The Antrobus family is heavily allegorical, serving as both a model family, and as Adam and Eve, Cain, Noah, muses, and philosophers. The story takes place in New Jersey in the 1940s, but also, simultaneously, during an ice age, a biblical flood, and all of human history.

“That’s the way it is all the way through,” says their maid, Sabina (Tonya Beckman) breaking the fourth wall to complain to the audience— as Tonya Beckman—in the first scene. “The author hasn’t made up his silly mind as to whether we’re all living back in caves or in New Jersey,” she grumbles. “I hate this play and every word in it.”

She has a point. The most exciting moments of the play are these scenes that stop the plodding plot cold, as the actors play themselves refusing to do a certain scene, or scrambling to make a hasty cast replacement, or missing a cue.

These are bright and intriguing moments that unfortunately only rarely punctuate the otherwise dense, symbolladen three-act drama.

As ever, Constellation makes the best of what they have. The cast carries the almost-three-hour run time with grace—Lolita Marie as Mrs. Antrobus especially finds humorous moments to liven the show—and the run time is diminished, mercifully, with an impressive act three scene change, transforming the stage from storm-swept beachfront to abandoned house, that unfolds in only a few seconds (hat tip to scenic designer A.J. Guban, who has become quite skilled at building mini universes in The Source’s tiny black box). Puppet designer Matthew Aldwin McGee has devised what is without a doubt the best Parasaurolophus that has ever graced a D.C. stage.

Ultimately, the script is a bit of a slog, but Constellation grins and bears it just as Wilder implores us to do. Surely Wilder must still have adoring fans—the play has been widely produced at schools, community theaters, and regional playhouses since its 1942 Broadway debut—and those who see this production will probably find that Constellation has done a commendable service to his work. But the uninitiated may find that this nearly 80 year old play, despite many universal themes, shows its age, and lurches slowly, determinedly, and by the skin of its teeth to its end.

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FilmShort SubjectS fact, if this film has any parallel to a recent release, it is the 2016 horror film The Witch. They share similar impasses between desperate patriarchs, curious children, and a barren landscapes. The Witch ends with a young woman bargaining with the devil, and while Vazante eschews such obvious metaphors, it nonetheless carries the weight and horror of pervasive evil.

—Alan Zilberman Vazante opens Friday at Landmark West End Cinema.

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black-and-white photography serves the material well: Every image is crisp, and the absence of color gives us ample opportunity to study each composition. Carvalho has sunken features, as if he is halfway toward starvation, and the close-ups of him show a man who Vazante is on the verge of madness. The exterior shots, Directed by Daniela Thomas especially those in the jungle, are haunting in a way that recalls Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo: It begIns wIth an intimate scene of child- The jungle is so rich with flora and fauna that birth. A fair-skinned woman wails and cries, it is indifferent to humanity.

Slavery was not outlawed in Brazil until while a darker-skinned woman kneads her belly, assisting with labor. The scene does not have 1888, decades after the Emancipation Proclathe typical angles of a childbirth scene, and the mation, and this film suggests slavery’s morbond between these two women seems deep, al stain still hangs over the country. Vazante even primal. The fair-skinned woman does not may be set in 1821, but its attitude toward survive the ordeal, and the Brazilian film Va- race relations is distinctly modern: The syszante is about the fallout of her death. Direct- tem of oppression is something taught more ed by Daniela Thomas, this black-and-white than it is internalized. Both Beatriz and her drama is more immersive than it is involving. new slave friend have features and mannerMany scene are deliberate, with minimal dia- isms suggesting they are more modern, more logue, to the point that the story develops an forward thinking. So when Antonio steps beallegorical quality. And if Vazante is elliptical tween them, wordlessly asserting his ownerfor most of its running time, its climax unfolds ship over his slaves and young bride, his utter disregard for their feelings is all the more inwith stark, genuine power.

Adriano Carvalho plays Antonio, a wealthy humane. Thomas deepens this tension with cattle herder who is on a difficult journey many secondary characters who offer a runhome when his wife dies along with his child. ning commentary on this drama. They are It is 1821, and his family lives in the moun- helpless against Antonio—Carvalho’s pertains, far away from civilization. Antonio re- formance is both remote and pitiless—so Vaturns with valuable lace clothes, and when he zante’s grim irony is how the estate’s curse is learns about the tragedy, he tears them with- of Antonio’s own making.

Formal beauty and thematic depth notwithout much visible emotion. There is talk that Antonio’s land is cursed, and indeed none of standing, Vazante is a challenging film. Thomas the slaves are able to grow any crops there. His offers no background music or dialogue, leavbrother-in-law Bartholomeu (Roberto Audio) ing the audience to decide the emotional cues arrives at the estate with his wife and daugh- for themselves. When there is dialogue, it rareters; Bartholomeu is there to grieve and show ly advances the plot. These demands are comsupport, but Antonio has other plans. He mar- mon in art films, particularly in what you might ries his niece Beatriz (Luana Nastas), even find in the Criterion Collection, but Thomas though she is still a girl, and their union cre- has effectively made a film where not a lot happens. Some scenes are languid, while others are ates pervasive unease.

The faces and landscapes are where Thom- seemingly pointless, yet they culminate toward as and her cinematographer Inti Briones find a final shot as striking and powerful as anything 22 january 26, 2018 material washingtoncitypaper.com the deepest thematic in Vazante. Bri- in the usual crop of Oscar bait.

Vazante is hardly entertaining in a traditionones also shot the art house hit The Loneliest Planet, and here he recreates his ability to find al sense, so it is better to think of it as a horror the oppressive, austere beauty of nature. The film without any gore or supernatural terror. In

American Folk

Directed by David Heinz AmericAn Folk was originally titled September 12th. David Heinz’s feature directorial and writing debut tells the story of two young folk singers who meet cute (with a heaping side of tragic) when their plane to New York is grounded in L.A. on 9/11. A few coincidences later, they’re driving a beat-up van together across the country, seeing firsthand the effect that the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil is having on their fellow countrymen.

Initially, Elliott (Joe Purdy, a real-life musician making his acting debut) isn’t much of a talker, and when he does talk, he doesn’t

much bother to be nice. The too-obviously named Joni (Amber Rubarth, also a musician making her acting debut) doesn’t break through until she walks up to the van after a pit stop and joins Elliott as he’s singing “Red River Valley.” It’s not so much an ah-ha moment as a “hey, you’re not so bad” one, and from then on they liven up the drive with their songs, sometimes getting a little help from strangers along the way.

American Folk—and the actors themselves—come alive when the music’s playing, particularly if you’re a fan of Pete Seeger-era Americana. Rubarth has a crystalline voice that injects her bubbly personality into even

the saddest lyric, while Purdy is an accomplished strummer whose own vocals can make even the most upbeat lyric sound sad.

When they get a tip from someone that an old geezer named Dale (David Fine) may be able to patch up their overheating van, they spend an unexpectedly enjoyable evening playing for the scrawny recluse, after which he remarks, “The power of music, my friends. The power of music.”

Joni and Elliott get a lot of help, advice, and freebies throughout their trip. Yes, because this is a 9/11 film, it is sentimental. But anyone who remembers the days following the tragedy will know it’s accurate: People were kinder. They said, “I love you.” They forgot old grievances. Suddenly everyone was family. Fast-forward 17-plus years, and what do we have? Divisiveness like this country has never seen and record cynicism and vitriol to go along with it. Even if our national panic is justified, having an eternally sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach isn’t good for anyone.

So for once, a little sentimentality is nice.

The pair do encounter some ugliness when they visit the family home of a lesbian hitchhiker who’s decided to come out of the closet and introduce her girlfriend—while they’re there.

This is one of the few scenes that feel forced.

The woman’s father is black, but he’s progressive enough to have married a white woman.

Yet he’s so conservative he’s a staunch Dubya backer and fumes when his crying daughter

reveals her secret. Joni and Elliott leave before the conversation can play out, but you don’t imagine it ends well.

By the time they reach Manhattan, the travelers are pretty tight. And it’s in no small part due to the tunes, whether they were writing them, singing along to them, or dancing in front of a car’s headlights as a radio played them. The sonic jubilation matches the unprecedented warmth they experienced across the country. The power of music indeed.

—Tricia Olszewski American Folk opens Friday at the Angelika Pop-Up.

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THIS WEEK’S SHOWS

Big Head Todd & The Monsters w/ Luther Dickinson .................... Th JAN 25 Frankie Ballard ............................................................................................ F 26 STEEZ PROMO PRESENTS

Manic Focus and Minnesota ................................................................. Sa 27 Enter Shikari w/ Single Mothers & Milk Teeth ............................................ Su 28 Black Rebel Motorcycle Club w/ Night Beats ......................................... M 29 Kimbra w/ Arc Iris ......................................................................................... Tu 30

Merriweather Post Pavilion • Columbia, MD JUST ANNOUNCED!

DIERKS BENTLEY

w/ Brothers Osborne & LANCO .. FRI MAY 18

On Sale Friday, January 26 at 10am

JANUARY

FEBRUARY (cont.)

Typhoon w/ Bad Bad Hats .........W 31

Lights w/ Chase Atlantic & DCF .Tu 27

FEBRUARY

MARCH

ALL GOOD PRESENTS

Greensky Bluegrass w/ Billy Strings Attendance included with purchase of

tickets to 2/3 Greensky Bluegrass @ The Anthem ..................................F 2

STEEZ PROMO PRESENTS

Emancipator Ensemble ......Sa 3 J. Roddy Walston and The Business w/ Post Animal ..........Th 8 White Ford Bronco: DC’s All-90s Band .......................F 9 COIN w/ The Aces ......................Sa 10 Múm ..........................................Su 11 Sleigh Bells w/ Sunflower Bean ......................W 14

Kelela .........................................Th 1 Galactic (F 2 - w/ Butcher Brown) .... F 2 & Sa 3 Hippie Sabotage w/ Melvv & Olivia Noelle ..............Su 4 LP w/ Noah Kahan .........................M 5 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark w/ GGOOLLDD ......Tu 6 Cornelius ....................................W 7 Beth Ditto w/ SSION ................Sa 10 ALL GOOD PRESENTS

J Boog w/ Jesse Royal & Etana .............Su 11 K.Flay w/ Yungblud ...................M 12 I’m With Her w/ Andrew Combs

U STREET MUSIC HALL PRESENTS

(Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosz, Aoife O’Donovan) ....................Tu 13

& Billy Raffoul ..............................F 16

Mason Bates’s Mercury Soul ........................Th 15 Nils Frahm ................................F 16 Jon Batiste (Solo in the Round) Early Show! 6pm Doors ..................Sa 17

Matoma w/ Elephante & Youngr .............Th 15 ZZ Ward w/ Black Pistol Fire STRFKR w/ Reptaliens .............Sa 17 U STREET MUSIC HALL PRESENTS

Ganja White Night w/ Dirt Monkey & Subtronics ....Su 18 The Oh Hellos w/ Lowland Hum .........................W 21 U STREET MUSIC HALL PRESENTS

Lane 8 w/ Enamour .................Th 22 ALL GOOD PRESENTS

Railroad Earth w/ Roosevelt Coliler .......F 23 & Sa 24 Rhye w/ Boulevards ...................M 26

STEEZ PROMO PRESENTS

The Floozies Late Show! 10:30pm Doors .............Sa 17 Moose Blood w/ Lydia ............Su 18 Coast Modern..........................M 19 Wild Child w/ The Wild Reeds . Tu 20 D NIGHT ADDED!

FIRST NIGHT SOLD OUT! SECON

Betty Who .................................W 21

MANY MORE SHOWS ON SALE!

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Sugarland w/ Brandy Clark & Clare Bowen ................................................. SAT JULY 14 • For full lineups and more info, visit merriweathermusic.com • 930.com

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

GEORGE EZRA

.......................................................... APRIL 26

On Sale Friday, January 26 at 10am THIS FRI & SAT! ALL GOOD PRESENTS

AEG PRESENTS

w/ The Stray Birds ................... JAN 26 & 27

PostSecret: The Show ...... MAR 24 Rob Bell w/ Peter Rollins .......... MAR 27 Max Raabe & Palast Orchester.............APR 11 Calexico w/ Ryley Walker ............APR 27 Robyn Hitchcock and His L.A. Squires

the WOOD brothers

STORY DISTRICT’S

Sucker For Love ................... FEB 10 Pod Save the People (Live) .FEB 18 Dixie Dregs

(Complete Original Lineup with Steve Morse, Rod Morgenstein, Allen Sloan, Andy West, and Steve Davidowski) ..................MAR 7

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w/ Tristen .......................................APR 28

• thelincolndc.com • U Street (Green/Yellow) stop across the street!

9:30 CLUB PRESENTS AT U STREET MUSIC HALL Flint Eastwood w/ NYDGE ..............F FEB 2 Anna Meredith ................................... Sa 3 Why? w/ Open Mike Eagle ........................F 9 Anti-Flag & Stray From The Path .. Sa 10 Wylder w/ Virginia Man ....................... Sa 17 MAGIC GIANT w/ The Brevet .............. Su 18 MAKO w/ Night Lights .......................... Sa 24 Gabrielle Aplin w/ John Splithoff ...... Su 25 Sevdaliza ........................................... Tu 27 Missio w/ Welshly Arms ...................F MAR 2

Ella Vos w/ Freya Ridings ....................... M 5 Amy Shark w/ MILCK .......................... M 12 The Hunna & Coasts ....................... Sa 17 The Strypes ......................................... F 23 The Marmozets ................................ Sa 24 Vinyl Theatre & Vesperteen ......... Su 25 Hollie Cook ......................................... M 26 Digitalism ........................................... W 28 Fujiya & Miyagi ........................... Su APR 1

• Buy advance tickets at the 9:30 Club box office • 930.com

TICKETS for 9:30 Club shows are available through TicketFly.com, by phone at 1-877-4FLY-TIX, and at the 9:30 Club box office.

9:30 CLUB BOX OFFICE HOURS are 12-7pm on weekdays & until 11pm on show nights, 6-11pm on Sat, and 6-10:30pm on Sun on show nights.

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

Bianca Del Rio ...................... MAR 15

PARKING: THE OFFICIAL 9:30 parking lot entrance is on 9th Street, directly behind the 9:30 Club. Buy your advance parking tickets at the same time as your concert tickets!

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CITYLIST

ERIC LINDELL

Music 25 Theater 28 Film 29

Music

FAT TUESDAY

CITY LIGHTS: FRIDAY

MARDI GRAS CELEBRATION

TUES. FEB. 13 ~ 8:30PM TIX: $25-$30

FRIDAY CountRY

9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Frankie Ballard. 8 p.m. $25. 930.com. birChmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder.

7:30 p.m. $39.50. birchmere.com.

Fillmore Silver Spring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Brett Young. 8 p.m. Sold out. fillmoresilverspring.com.

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hill Country barbeCue 410 7th St. NW. (202) 556-2050. The Highballers. 9:30 p.m. Free. hillcountrywdc.com.

1.25 1.26 1.27 2.2 2.6

ELECtRonIC

eChoStage 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. (202) 503-2330. Above & Beyond. 9 p.m. $43–$299. echostage.com. u Street muSiC hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Seth Troxler. 10 p.m. $20–$25. ustreetmusichall.com.

2.8

Funk & R&B

blueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Roy Ayers. 8 p.m. $50–$55. bluesalley.com. blueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Roy Ayers. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $50–$55. bluesalley.com.

Warner theatre 513 13th St. NW. (202) 783-4000.

Lalah Hathaway. 8 p.m. $79.50. warnertheatredc. com.

HIp-Hop

bliSS nightClub 2122 24th Place NE. (202) 8088600. 30H Black. 10 p.m. $20–$40. blissdc.com. hoWard theatre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

DMX. 9 p.m. $39.50–$75. thehowardtheatre.com.

pop

barnS at WolF trap 1635 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. Aaron Tveit. 8 p.m. $40–$55. wolftrap.org.

RoCk

dC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Dope Francis.

6:30 p.m. $10. dcnine.com. pearl Street WarehouSe 33 Pearl Street SW. (202) 380-9620. Justin Trawick and The Common Good. 8 p.m. $12. pearlstreetwarehouse.com.

2.10

DJ LAG

Tastemakers in the American and European music worlds are always on the lookout for the Next Big Global Club Sound. Be it Brazilian baile funk or Baltimore club music, these homegrown phenoms would be taken for the same ride of discovery, domination, and disappearance, quickly replaced by whatever “new” sound was discovered next. Slowly but surely, the music world is getting woke, and this type of appropriation doesn’t fly anymore. Respect is being paid to the true originators, who are themselves bringing the music to new audiences. Take gqom, a skeletal style of house music from Durban, South Africa, that landed on global radars a few years ago. It will be the focus when DJ Lag, the self-proclaimed “King of Gqom,” performs at a D.C. warehouse with a slate of like-minded local DJs. “I think working with artists who are in different headspaces opens you up artistically and it has definitely challenged me over the last year,” DJ Lag told Noisey. “I feel like I am ready to take it to another level and I am just inspired by seeing my peers do the same.” DJ Lag and his peers are taking it to that level—on their own terms.

DJ Lag performs at 10 p.m. at 628 W St. NE. $15.

—Chris Kelly

roCk & roll hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

Mystery Friends. 8 p.m. $12. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

SAtuRDAY ELECtRonIC

9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Manic Focus. 10 p.m. $17. 930.com. u Street muSiC hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

The Magician. 10 p.m. $25. ustreetmusichall.com.

Funk & R&B

blueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Roy Ayers. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $50–$55. bluesalley.com. the hamilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. Jon Cleary. 8 p.m. $15–$25.50. thehamiltondc.com.

HIp-Hop

bliSS nightClub 2122 24th Place NE. (202) 8088600. Rick Ross. 10 p.m. $20–$40. blissdc.com.

pop

WoRLD

barnS at WolF trap 1635 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. Aaron Tveit. 8 p.m. $40–$55. wolftrap.org.

4780. Ebi. 9 p.m. Sold out. dar.org.

Songbyrd muSiC houSe and reCord CaFe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Belle Game. 7 p.m. $12. songbyrddc.com.

SunDAY

RoCk

CLASSICAL

dC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Kayo Dot. 9 p.m. $12. dcnine.com.

kennedy Center millennium Stage 2700 F St.

Fillmore Silver Spring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. The Devil Makes Three. 9 p.m. $25. fillmoresilverspring.com.

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

pearl Street WarehouSe 33 Pearl Street SW. (202) 380-9620. Ruthie and The Wranglers. 8 p.m. $10. pearlstreetwarehouse.com.

blueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 337-

dar ConStitution hall 1776 D St. NW. (202) 628-

2.22 3.2 3.3 3.14 3.15 3.16 3.17 3.22 3.24 3.27

IAN MOORE THE HIGHBALLERS AARON BURDETT ALBERT CASTIGLIA LARA HOPE AND THE ARK-TONES ANGELA PERLEY & THE HOWLIN’ MOONS TRAGEDY:ALL METAL TRIBUTE TO THE BEE GEES & BEYOND ERIC LINDELL CALEB CAUDLE JUMPIN’ JUPITER FOLK SOUL REVIVAL SCOTT H. BIRAM / THE HOOTEN HALLERS JON DEE GRAHAM ALSO FEATURING: BEN DE LA COUR JAMIE MCLEAN BAND LEFT LANE CRUISER SUZY BOGGUSS (TWO SHOWS) GANGSTAGRASS 6 STRING DRAG KAY ADAMS BARRENCE WHITFIELD & THE SAVAGES THE COLD HARD CASH SHOW CORY MORROW SHANNON MCNALLY & ERIN COSTELO SUNNY SWEENEY JIM WHITE / SYLVIE SIMMONS RAY BONNEVILLE

HILL COUNTRY BARBECUE MARKET

410 Seventh St, NW • 202.556.2050 Hillcountrylive.com • Twitter @hillcountrylive

Funk & R&B bluesalley.com.

2.20

4.6 4.10 4.19

NW. (202) 467-4600. United States Naval Academy

4141. Roy Ayers. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $50–$55.

2.13 2.15 2.16 2.17 2.19

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Near Archives/Navy Memorial [G, Y] and Gallery PI/Chinatown [R] Metro

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NEW MUSIC VENUE

NOW OPEN THE WHARF, SW DC

DINER & BAR OPEN LATE!

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

For entire schedule go to Birchmere.com Find us on Facebook/Twitter!

Tix @ Ticketmaster.com 800-745-3000

LALAH HATHAWAY

This ! THE HONESTLY TOUR Friday

Fri. Jan. 26, 8pm

Warner Theatre, Wash DC. NEW ALBUM

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THE VENTURES RICKY SKAGGS & KENTUCKY THUNDER

Jan 25 26& 27

Feb 1

Allen TODD SNIDER (Solo)Thompson

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JANUARY CONCERTS F 26 JUSTIN TRAWICK AND THE COMMON GOOD SA 27 RUTHIE AND THE WRANGLERS w/ KENTUCKY AVENUE FEBRUARY CONCERTS F FEB 2 BLACK MASALA w/ SWIFT TECHNIQUE SA 3 ERIC SCOTT & JONATHAN SLOANE W7 GRAND PRIZE WINNING LOCAL SONGWRITER CIRCLE BEN MASON•KIPYN MARTIN•TONY DENIKOS F9 AZTEC SUN w/ THE JOGO PROJECT SA 10 ALL GOOD PRESENTS: THE LIL’ SMOKIES TU 13

JOIN THE SECOND LINE: FAT TUESDAY PARTY AT PEARL ST. WAREHOUSE!

THE GRANDSONS

FREE SHOW AFTER WHARF PARADE & FIREWORKS

W 14 TH 15 F 16 SA 17

THE EMPTY POCKETS ROBERT LIGHTHOUSE w/ ELI COOK THE PLATE SCRAPERS & COLEBROOK ROAD SURPRISE ATTACK w/ SAUCE

F 23

AMERICAN IDOL WINNER

SA 24

DAVID COOK

THE JAMES HUNTER SIX

w/ 3 MAN SOUL MACHINE

MARCH CONCERTS F2 SA 3 TH 8 F9 SA 10 TU 13 W 14 F 16 W 21 TH 22 SA 24

THE MIGHTY PINES NO SECOND TROY w/ TOMMY GANN RIVERS AND RUST BUMPIN UGLIES w/ DUB CITY RENEGADES & JOINT OPERATION CRYS MATTHEWS w/ ECHO BLOOM FY5 SHERMAN EWING w/ SPECIAL GUEST JOHN JO JO HERMAN AN EVENING WITH

GRANT LEE PHILLIPS & KRISTIN HERSH THE FABULOUS THUNDERBIRDS FEAT. KIM WILSON MARTY O’REILLY AND THE OLD SOUL ORCHESTRA KYLE CRAFT

TICKETS ON SALE! pearlstreetwarehouse.com

In the

!

COREY SMITH Shingleton 3 MAYSA 6&7 TOMMY EMMANUEL CGP with special guest

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George

RODNEY CROWELL

BURLESQUE-A-PADES

In Loveland! featuring Angie Pontani & much more! Hosted by Murray Hill!

WILL DOWNING CARLA BRUNI

11 13

PHIL VASSAR HL 16 ERIC ROBERSON 17&18 ARLO GUTHRIE exie ayden

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CITY LIGHTS: SAtuRDAY

to FutuRE WoMEn

If you’re wondering how you can stay involved in the message of the historic Women’s March one year after it brought hundreds of thousands to the National Mall, The Phillips Collection has an answer. To Future Women, an interactive project from New Yorkbased artist Georgia Saxelby, asks participants to write letters to women 20 years in the future. The Phillips Collection will archive the letters until the 20th anniversary of the Women’s March in 2037 when they will be displayed once more. This project is about using the physical spaces of museums, inhabited by marchers a year ago, to combine art with protest. Saxelby invites people all over America to contribute, either by visiting the installation in person or sending their words through the mail. After ending its Phillips Collection run, To Future Women will travel to different cultural centers in D.C. through the next six months, opening to the city its time capsule for a new generation of women. The exhibition is on view through Feb. 14 at The Phillips Collection, 1600 21st St. NW. $10–$12. (202) 387-2151. phillipscollection.org.

—Jeanine Santucci

CITY LIGHTS: SunDAY

Re:Generation Tour 2018 w/Arlo, Abe & Sarah Lee Guthrie

THE S.O.S. BAND 20 THE ASSOCIATION 22&23 JEFFREY OSBORNE 19

24

HARMONY SWEEPSTAKES A Capella Festival

KEIKO MATSUI 26 ANA TIJOUX presents

25

Roja y Negro

27

THE MUSICAL BOX

performs ‘The Black Show’ version of Selling England By The Pound

Mar 1

An Intimate Evening with

GRAHAM NASH

2&3

RACHELLE FERRELL

4 5

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DWELE DAVID ARCHULETA

DEStRoYER

For fans of Dan Bejar’s project Destroyer, each record presents new opportunities for lyrical juxtapositions only he can conjure, and last year’s ken proved to be no exception. Bejar has a way with words few of his peers possess, bending language and abstract phrasing into something that can sound profound, obtuse, and occasionally nonsensical. What exactly does Bejar mean on the track “Sky’s Grey” when he claims he is “working on the new Oliver Twist?” It might involve layers of significance but it also might just sound cool. Live, Destroyer generally take the shape of whatever Bejar’s muse is for that specific album. His latest finds him in an electronic mood, not unlike the atmospheric synth pop of New Order and Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. But the mercurial Bejar might have a few tricks up his sleeve when it comes to the current arrangements: Some of his best past performances have included a roaring horn section, giving the proceedings a distinctly Springsteen vibe. Destroyer perform at 7:30 p.m. at Black Cat, 1811 14th St. NW. $20–$25. (202) 667-4490. blackcatdc.com.

—Matt Siblo

HIp-Hop

Fillmore Silver Spring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. BROCKHAMPTON. 8 p.m.

Sold out. fillmoresilverspring.com.

RoCk

9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Enter Shikari. 7 p.m. $20. 930.com. blaCk Cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490.

Destroyer. 7:30 p.m. $20–$25. blackcatdc.com.

Sixth & i hiStoriC Synagogue 600 I St. NW. (202) 408-3100. Benjamin Clementine. 8 p.m. $25–$28. sixthandi.org.

MonDAY FoLk

blaCk Cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Laura Stevenson. 7:30 p.m. $15. blackcatdc.com.

Songbyrd muSiC houSe and reCord CaFe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Yoke Lore. 8 p.m. $12–$14. songbyrddc.com.

JAzz

blueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Bohemian Caverns Jazz Orchestra. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $20. bluesalley.com.

RoCk

9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. 7 p.m. $26. 930.com.

WoRLD

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

tuESDAY FoLk

the hamilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. Joe Purdy and Amber Rubarth. 7:30 p.m. $14.75–$32.25. thehamiltondc.com.

HIp-Hop Songbyrd muSiC houSe and reCord CaFe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Dee-1. 8 p.m. $13–$15. songbyrddc.com.

JAzz

D I S C O V E RY A RT I S T

blueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Peter Fraize Quintet. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $22. bluesalley.com.

ARCOIRIS SANDOVAL’S SONIC ASYLUM QUINTET

opERA kennedy Center terraCe theater 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Scarlatti. 7:30 p.m. $25–$130. kennedy-center.org.

S AT. , F E B . 3 AT 7 & 9 P. M .

T E R R A C E G A L L E RY Pianist, composer, and educator ArcoIris Sandoval returns to the Kennedy Center with her quintet Sonic Asylum.

RoCk 9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Kimbra. 7 p.m. $30. 930.com. dC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. The Nude Party. 8 p.m. $10–$12. dcnine.com.

WEDnESDAY ELECtRonIC

SoundCheCk 1420 K St. NW. (202) 789-5429. Mija.

10 p.m. $15–$20. soundcheckdc.com.

CITY LIGHTS: MonDAY

ERIC HARLAND, VOYAGER F R I . , F E B . 9 AT 7 & 9 P. M .

T E R R A C E G A L L E RY Drummer Eric Harland returns to the Kennedy Center with his band Voyager to showcase their “continuously inventive and artful” style (Buffalo News).

NEA JAZZ MASTER

RANDY WESTON’S AFRICAN RHYTHMS: A TRIBUTE TO JAMES REESE EUROPE

tHE WonDER pEopLE

Dorte Verner, a World Bank economist, has traveled the globe using photography to document the plight of refugees. Her exhibit at Photoworks, The Wonder People, includes images of refugees, old and young, in more than 20 countries, from Burkina Faso to Egypt to Slovenia. Some photographs are as depressing as one might expect—a Syrian refugee boy climbing a waterstorage barrel, refugees sleeping in seemingly endless rows on the ground in Serbia, two children gazing at metal fencing that dwarfs them on the Hungarian-Serbian border. But some images tease out small bits of levity in the refugees’ lives: A man dances to the music of a smartphone, and children play energetically in a dreary lot. The finest images are the simplest, like a close-up of an Afghan girl’s hand gripping razor wire fencing or a man bicycling down a scenic road in Uganda, laden with three large water containers. Verner captures the mundane so dreamily that each shot of simplicity is teeming with life. The exhibition is on view through Feb. 25 at Photoworks At Glen Echo Park, 7300 MacArthur Blvd., Glen Echo. Free. (301) 634-2274. glenechophotoworks.org.

—Louis Jacobson

S AT. , F E B . 1 0 AT 7 P. M .

T E R R A C E T H E AT E R NEA Jazz Master Randy Weston and his African Rhythms Octet salutes James Reese Europe, the musician often credited for helping introduce jazz music to Western Europe.

TICKETS ON SALE NOW! KENNEDY-CENTER.ORG | (202) 467-4600

Tickets also available at the Box Office. Groups call (202) 416-8400.

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

Discovery Artists in the KC Jazz Club are supported by The William N. Cafritz Jazz Initiative and The King-White Family Foundation and Dr. J. Douglas White.

Support for Jazz at the Kennedy Center is generously provided by Elizabeth and C. Michael Kojaian.

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TRIVIA E V E RY M O N DAY & W E D N E S DAY

$12 BURGER & BEER MON-FRI 4 P M -7 P M

SIBLING RIVALRY TOUR

HANNAH WICKLUND & THE STEPPIN STONES

AND THE HIGH DIVERS FRIDAY JAN 26

JON CLEARY W/ SKRIBE

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“INTO THE GREAT WIDE OPEN” TOM PETTY TRIBUTE SU 28 TRIBUTE TO MUSIC OF SMOKEY ROBINSON FEATURING SIXX SINGS BAND W 31 JOSÉ ANDRÉ MONTAÑO

F E B RUA RY T1

TRIBUTE TO STEELY DAN FEATURING HEY NINETEEN JOE CLAIR & FRIENDS COMEDY SHOW

JOE PURDY & AMBER RUBARTH WED, JAN 31

G. LOVE & SPECIAL SAUCE W/ THE RIES BROTHERS

(2 SHOWS 7/10PM)

SU 4 M5

FRI, FEB 2

YARN W/ WILLIAM MATHENY SAT, FEB 3

THE POSIES (DUO)

T6

W/ PARTHENON HUXLEY TUES, FEB 6

DOCTOR DREAD & WALLY KINGS PRESENT

A CELEBRATION OF THE BIRTHDAY OF BOB MARLEY FEAT. SISTER CAROL

W/ CARL MALCOM POSITIVE VIBRATION BAND

FRI, FEB 9

AN EVENING WITH

SHI-QUEETA LEES BIG GAME DRAG BRUNCH (1PM) DC BLACK HISTORY MONTH CONCERT CELEBRATING DC MUSICIANS BOB MARLEY “ONE LOVE” BIRTHDAY BASH WITH I&I RIDDIM

TH 4 F9

WED, FEB 7

NATHAN & THE ZYDECO CHA-CHA’S

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THAD WILSON JAZZ W/ RUSSELL MALONE DARYL DAVIS PRESENTS: THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES 2017 SYLEENA JOHNSON

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Signature Theatre. 4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington. To Feb. 18 $40–$65. (703) 820-9771. sigtheatre.org. everything iS illuminated Based on the bestselling novel by Jonathan Safran Foer, this stage adaptation tells the story of a young man who sets out to find the woman who might or might not have saved his grandfather. Accompanied by an old man haunted by memories of war, an amorous dog named Sammy Davis, Jr. Jr., and a young Ukrainian translator who speaks in butchered English, Jonathan takes a journey into an unexpected past, where reality collides with fiction in a scene of extraordinary power.

Theater J. 1529 16th St. NW. To Feb. 4 $24–$69. (202) 777-3210. theaterj.org. guilt The Scena Theatre presents this world premiere Robert McNamara-directed production about a charming, philandering priest named Urbain Grandier who stands accused of witchcraft and is ultimately condemned to be burned at the stake, based on historical events. From Australian writer John Shand, the play seeks to explore intolerance, xenophobia, and the power of persecution. Atlas Performing Arts Center. 1333 H St. NE. To Feb. 4 $15–$45. (202) 399-7993. atlasarts.org. the humanS Playwright Stephen Karam presents a humorous and heartbreaking look at a family whose deepest fears are laid bare for all to see. Taking place over the course of a Thanksgiving dinner, this one-act

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play takes the Blake family on a journey of self-discovery. Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater. 2700 F St. NW. To Jan. 28 $49–$139. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org.

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Every autumn, adventurous cinephiles with a taste for the outdoors head to Banff, Alberta, in the Canadian Rockies—and watch movies. While downtown D.C. can’t replicate the majestic peaks that surround Banff, the National Geographic Society can bring you the best films from the festival. This program includes short films that may inspire your next adventure, such as WHY, about a group of French kayakers who question their dedication to the brutal landscape of Iceland, or Edges, about 90-year-old ice skater Yvonne Dowlen. A longer documentary, Kilian, follows mountain runner Kilian Jornet as he tackles the Seven Summits of Romsdalen, which requires him to ski and run a 77-kilometer route with a 9,000-meter elevation gain in a single day. And you can get lifted by the spirit of short film Loved By All: The Story of Apa Sherpa, about a Nepalese Sherpa who has climbed Mount Everest more than 20 times. The festival runs through Feb. 3 at the Grosvenor Auditorium, 1600 M St. NW. Sold out. (202) 857-7700. nationalgeographic.org/dc. —Pat Padua

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