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10 Boom and gloom Midway into her first term, Muriel Bowser’s re-election hopes could hinge on the deep gulf between the haves and have-nots.

By Jeffrey Anderson Photographs by Darrow Montgomery

Ways and Liens: Wilson Building pols share strategies for going after D.C. slumlords.

8 Unobstructed View 9 Gear Prudence 15 The Indy List: Week three of our new column featuring local events and products

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Moral (Consumption) Compass

In which readers want their restaurants to behave decently

Darrow MontgoMery

With the backdrop of Trump’s White House tumbling into chaos over its sloppy-secret ties to Russia, City Paper readers hashed out ethics and morality on the local level—over the political behavior of District bars and restaurants.

Is it funny to describe Corona beer on a menu as hailing from “South Of ‘The Wall’”? That’s what new bar Wet Dog did, as food editor Laura Hayes reported Feb. 13, though it insists it wasn’t political. @barredindc took the debate to readers in a Twitter poll asking, “Would you be more or less likely to go to a bar that describes @corona as being from “south of the wall’?” The results were comparable to D.C.’s voting behavior in the presidential election. Five percent voted more likely, and the rest voted less likely or “no difference.” Reader lichtmlm launched a Reddit thread with this question: “Why is this news? ‘Bar makes subtle joke on menu.’”

But placeholder244 followed, “Well, fuck this bar in particular, then.”

The next day Hayes wrote about Chef José Andrés, who decided to close five of his restaurants this week to participate in the “A Day Without Immigrants” strike. His decision inspired a massive and instant flood of support from both residents and fellow restaurateurs, some of whom were quick to join the strike, pledging to close their establishments as well.

“Leaders. We need them now more than ever,” @ChefJus tweeted.

“Lots of respect to Jose Andres and other chefs who are closing their restaurants,” @raceandfood echoed. And in the best summary of general reader response, @eatwithme75 wrote, “I APPLAUD THIS.” Andrés, who describes himself as “an immigrant” in his Twitter profile, pulled his restaurant from Trump’s D.C. hotel months ago after the thencandidate insulted Mexican immigrants during the campaign.

On a lighter note, a teaser in our “Love & Lust” (Feb. 10) issue that would have left many churchgoers blushing (“The Unitarians want to prepare us all for hot sex”) was on the nose by Unitarian standards. “Yeah, we do,” tweeted @saskeah. “Another reason to love my religion,” Katie Traxel posted on Facebook. And from @Philocrites, the editor of UU World Magazine, “True.”

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DistrictLine Wilson Building pols share strategies for going after D.C. slumlords.

By Andrew Giambrone When he Was running for an at-large seat on the D.C. Council three years ago, local activist Eugene Puryear met tenants living in slumlike conditions at a group of buildings near the Congress Heights Metro station. They were and are owned by Bethesda-based Sanford Capital, a negligent landlord that has bought lowincome apartment complexes in the District since 2006. D.C.’s attorney general is now suing the company over conditions in Congress Heights and at another complex in Ward 8 called Terrace Manor. Tenants who can’t afford to leave, or don’t want to, are forced to live in squalid conditions while Sanford profits from both market-rate and taxpayer-subsidized rents at more than 15 sites across the city.

Those facts are familiar to Puryear, who later became formally involved with the Congress Heights residents, championing their cause with housing advocacy groups like the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless and Housing Counseling Services. He testified at D.C. Council hearings about the tenants’ struggles— ranging from lack of heat and air conditioning to bedbugs to doors that never locked despite repeated maintenance requests.

On a 100-degree day last July, Puryear helped organize and lead residents in a march against the company’s developer partner, which had proposed to replace the derelict buildings above the Metro station with a new mixed-use project. The tenants feared that their home would be razed to make way for wealthier residents.

And they no longer trusted Sanford after all kinds of broken promises.

Their activist-aided efforts have paid off, at least in part. Sanford’s Congress Heights and Terrace Manor properties are now the subject of court-monitored abatement plans negotiated between the company’s lawyers and Attorney General Karl Racine. These agreements followed city-led lawsuits and housing inspections by the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs.

But as City Paper recently reported, the litigated sites aren’t the only Sanford properties in disrepair. Nor are they the only dilapidated

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buildings in a city that has transformed from also want to preserve as much affordable housthe “murder capital” of the 1990s to a crown ing as possible,” says Elissa Silverman, an atjewel of the mid-Atlantic, where the contrast large member on the housing committee. This between prosperity and privation can often be budget season, she plans to press DCRA and the jarring.

D.C. Housing Authority, which issues tenant Puryear, for one, says Sanford and its peers vouchers, on the frequency and depth of their aren’t alone in the blame for the District’s inspections. Given the city’s limited resources, dearth of decent affordable housing. He says she says the agencies may be more effective if the executive and legislative branches are fail- they target properties known to house a majoring to provide sufficient enforcement and sub- ity of residents who are on rental assistance or sidized housing. enrolled in homeless services programs.

“You can rap the council for not following up Officials must be more “proactive” in adenough on oversight,” Puryear says. “But on dressing slumlords and deferred mainteboth sides, it’s really a lack of vision. … When nance, she says. “This is like Stage 4 cancer, you move to a voucher model that’s subsidiz- where we’re catching issues [like having] to ing the private market, you get people that are replace a boiler system, or rodents have comspecializing in gaming the system, who know that lowincome tenants have less money and less power.”

Then there’s the tendency among elected officials to posture without acting. “We constantly go through these similar processes in D.C. government of diagnosing the problem—administration after administration—but never looking for any long-term, serious solutions,” he argues.

Within the Wilson Building, councilmembers agree the legislative body could perform more oversight of bad owners, but they say the legislature’s powers are limited.

Still, the council can equip Sanford-owned complex the attorney general and exTerrace Manor ecutive agencies with greater tools to go after absentee landlords. At the end pletely penetrated the building, rather than of 2016, for example, At-Large Councilmem- Stage 1,” Silverman explains. ber Anita Bonds, who chairs the housing comCouncil Chairman Phil Mendelson says mittee, urged the council to unanimously pass there isn’t a legislative panacea to combat Sanan emergency bill granting the attorney gener- ford or other negligent property managers. Real authority under the District’s consumer pro- jiggering the low-income programs that the tection laws to sue owners. Racine is doing ex- company exploits isn’t the right answer either.

He says “judicial and code enforcement” by actly that in the Terrace Manor lawsuit.

“The Sanford case presents a real dilemma the attorney general and DCRA is necessary, for us in that we want to protect tenants—es- and he cites a “Clean Hands” law that might pecially low-income tenants—from hazardous preclude slumlords from obtaining business liand substandard housing conditions, but we censes and permits if they owe fines to D.C.

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“The council should turn up the heat by having some oversight hearings,” Mendelson contends. “And the mayor can turn up the heat by using every tool. And Karl should go after them in court. What we can do is make the District an unpleasant place for Sanford to do business.”

In other words, the city can put inattentive landlords on notice. Ward 1 Councilmember Brianne Nadeau, who sits on the housing committee and chairs the committee on human services, says the District may want to reconsider how it administers fines for housing code violations, because large companies like Sanford Capital view these penalties as “just a cost of doing business.”

“We have to go back and ask if we have the right fine structure,” she notes. “If we have multiple fines in a building, should we be examining a certain class of fines?” In her time on the council, Nadeau has successfully pushed for funding to hire three more DCRA inspectors as well as two full-time staffers at the Office of the Tenant Advocate. Under a new law she proposed that becomes effective later this month, OTA has the authority to recoup tenant relocation costs when a landlord is at fault for their displacement.

Nonprofit groups often serve as “boots on the ground,” as Nadeau puts it, when it comes to particular housing conditions or delinquent owners. Philip Kennedy, who works at the Latino Economic Development Center as a regional tenant organizing manager, says the District “should be more aggressive about using tools like receivership”—in which a property comes under a third-party’s purview to ensure dilapidated buildings are rehabbed. He says it should also find ways to discourage landlords from emptying their buildings to turn redevelopment profits, such as tightening vacancy exemptions and other loopholes to the city’s rent-control laws.

“Underlying any of these strategies is effective tenant organizing,” Kennedy says. Meanwhile, D.C. has yet to deploy a law known as the District Opportunity to Purchase Act, which then-Ward 8 Councilmember Marion Barry introduced in 2008. A counterpart to the Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act, the underfunded DOPA allows D.C. to buy at-risk affordable housing.

“It’s frustrating because we have incredibly strong tenant protections, and yet negligent landlords still find a way to persist,” Nadeau says. “That’s one of the biggest challenges that we face.”

CP

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Public Service Commission of the District of Columbia

Notice of Community Hearings

Public Input Sought on Pepco’s Rate Application FORMAL CASE NO. 1139, IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF THE POTOMAC ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY FOR AUTHORITY TO INCREASE EXISTING RETAIL RATES AND CHARGES FOR ELECTRIC DISTRIBUTION SERVICE

The Public Service Commission of the District of Columbia (“Commission”) seeks public input on the rate application submitted by the Potomac Electric Power Company (“Pepco”) requesting authority to increase existing distribution service rates and charges for electric service in the District of Columbia. Pepco seeks a revenue increase of $76.766 million. Formal Case No. 1139 is the formal case established to adjudicate Pepco’s application. Pepco is the sole distributor of electric power to homes and businesses in the District. The Commission will only set Pepco’s distribution service rates in this rate case and not the cost of electricity itself. A Public Notice regarding Pepco’s application can be accessed online at www.dcpsc.org. A hard copy of the Public Notice can be obtained by calling (202) 626-5150.

The Commission will convene four community hearings at the following locations on the specified dates: Thursday, February 23, 2017 6:00 p.m.

Allen AME Church 2498 Alabama Avenue, SE, Washington, D.C. 20020 Wednesday, March 1, 2017 6:00 p.m.

Providence Hospital • Ross Auditorium 1150 Varnum Street NE, Washington, D.C. 20017

Saturday, March 4, 2017 11:00 a.m.

D.C. Public Service Commission • Hearing Room 1325 G Street, NW, 8th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20005

Tuesday, March 7, 2017 6:00 p.m.

D.C. Public Service Commission • Hearing Room 1325 G Street, NW, 8th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20005

Those who wish to testify at the community hearings should contact the Commission Secretary by the close of business three business days prior to the date of the hearing by calling (202) 626-5150. Representatives of organizations shall be permitted a maximum of five minutes for oral presentations. Individuals shall be permitted a maximum of three minutes for oral presentations. If an organization or an individual is unable to offer comments at the community hearings, written statements may be submitted to Brinda Westbrook-Sedgwick, Commission Secretary, Public Service Commission of the District of Columbia, 1325 G Street, NW, Suite 800, Washington D.C. 20005, or by email at psc-commissionsecretary@dc.gov. Any person who is deaf or hearing-impaired, and cannot readily understand or communicate in spoken English, and persons with disabilities who need special accommodations in order to participate in the hearing, must contact the Commission Secretary by close of seven business days prior to the date of the hearing. Persons who wish to testify in Spanish, Chinese, Amharic, or Korean must also contact the Commission Secretary by close of business three business days before the date of the hearing. The number to call to request special accommodations and interpretation services is (202) 626-5150.

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Another D.C. Sports Climax

By Matt Terl

There’s a preTTy common refrain around here about how cursed D.C. sports fandom is.

Plenty of dreary stats to draw on, spirit-annihilating anecdotes to recount, grimly amusing plays to gif. All of them ignore the teams that have actually experienced recent success, including the Kastles (six championships in the tennis team’s 10-year history), D.C. United (two U.S. Open Cup soccer championships in the last decade), and the D.C. Divas (the women’s football team is about to start defending its second consecutive championship season). And, of course, there’s the woman known as Queef Pantry, a local and winner of the 2016 Air Sex National Championships.

Almost as rare as articles about D.C.’s sports successes are lists counting the District among the top of sexiest anythings, given this town’s reputation as a humid cesspool of tragically unstylish type-A government wonks. So during Valentine’s week especially, it would be unsatisfying to ignore Queef Pantry’s sporting success.

For those who don’t know, Air Sex is a travelling roadshow that bills itself as “the world’s first SPART—a combination of sports and art.”

If you’re picturing lithe athletes competitively fornicating while suspended from trapeze rigs, you’ve misjudged the title’s meaning of “air.” Think less air sports and more air guitar, and you’ll be closer to the mark. Each show features local talent demonstrating their sexual prowess alone, on stage, and fully clothed before a panel of judges.

Queef Pantry (not her given name, of course) started in this world in 2012 at the urging of a friend, performing to Dido’s “White Flag” and winning the D.C. title in her rookie outing.

“It’s a very male-dominated thing,” she says.

“So a lot of the male performers were taking it from the standpoint, like, ‘Oh, I’m a sex machine. I’m going to powerhouse this routine and just be a jackrabbit and that whole thing.”

So she decided to take another route.

“I took it from the perspective of, sex is cool, but there are a lot of really gross aspects once you remove the lust and the emotion,” she says. “You get into the … the juices or dry heaving or some of the more uncomfortable aspects of sex, and I think that element of truth really won over the audience.”

For her championship run last year, she was unavailable for the D.C. show but was able-

to catch up with the tour at its first-ever stop in Baltimore. The routine she unveiled, and would repeat in a refined rendition to win at nationals, was set to Shania Twain’s “Man! I Feel Like A Woman.” It involved, well, “BDSM reindeer clown play, which, to my knowledge, had never been explored before,” she says.

The routine, while certainly athletic, leans more toward performance art. It begins with Queef Pantry prepping for a date. When her (invisible) partner isn’t down for straight BDSM, she tries out reindeer gear and party tricks. “At one point,” she explains, “I’m giving a blow job and I pull a pube out of my mouth, but it’s a really long one—you know, like one of those things where a clown pulls a never ending piece of cloth out of their mouth, but it’s a pube. And when I put the condom on, first I blow it up and make a balloon animal out of it.”

And so on. But there are definite, undeniable elements of sport even beyond the physical exertion. Competition, for one. Judging and scoring, for another. The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat, even if it comes after a round of pantomime sex instead of something totally non-sexual like two greased-up dudes scrapping in a cage.

The win even brought Queef Pantry a small taste of fame. The week after the regional win in Baltimore, someone approached her in a D.C. bar and asked if she was the regional air sex champ. “I was totally flabbergasted that someone remembered me as Queef Pantry,” she says. “We just chatted and talked a bit about what each other does with our regular lives.”

But is it a sport? Queef Pantry says she does play sports, specifically citing tennis, running, basketball, soccer, and Frisbee golf. The latter seems like a reasonable bar to set as a comparison to air sex, but Queef Pantry demonstrates her D.C. bonafides by diplomatically demurring on this so as not to disparage either Frisbee golfers or airsexers.

Pressed on the is-air-sex-a-sport question by a columnist with a one-track mind, she says, “it incorporates a lot of art elements, but there is a lot of athleticism involved. My acts go mostly to the comedic arts side, but there are other amazing competitors out there who do backflips and splits and amazing tricks, which do take a lot of athleticism.”

Good enough for me. Queef Pantry must be mentioned alongside the other 21st century D.C. sports champions that no one ever bothers to acknowledge.

Until next year’s finals, we reign supreme among all cities in the U.S. in pantomimed sex, especially of the reindeer clown BDSM variety.

CP

Gear Prudence: Hardly a bike ride goes by when I don’t see someone wearing fluorescent clothes.

It’s either a neon yellow jacket on a roadie or one of those construction worker vests on a bike commuter, but there’s definitely a cadre of people committed to ‘hi-vis’ attire. But is it actually effective? I think it looks super dorky, but if it really makes me a lot safer, should I get over how silly it looks and give it a try?

— Necessary Equipment Or Not? Dear NEON: Before we get into assessing the effectiveness of fluorescent clothing, let’s first review GP’s philosophy on cycling and matters sartorial: You can and should ride your bike in whatever clothes you want. No outfit, be it a fluorescent vest, team kit, or a ratty pair of jeans and cardigan, is more or less appropriate than any other. No law compels you to sport Lycra on your road bike nor does any custom mandate you rock skinny jeans when pedaling a fixie.

You wear what you want when you want and how you want, and if circumstances should turn negative in a major way, it’s not the fault of your getup. And don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

The argument for high visibility clothes— the fluorescent greens, yellows, and oranges—is exactly what you think it is: It will render you more visible. This is especially true in foggier conditions when there’s less light overall and when your hi-vis clothes also have retroreflective elements, as is frequently the case with the “construction worker” vests. Fluorescent clothing is unnatural, which is to say that it stands out (unless you are riding through a highlighter factory, which is admittedly a pretty rare circumstance). Accordingly, it renders it more likely that your presence will register with others on the road.

Of course, this assumes drivers are paying attention to their surroundings and not staring down at their phones, so it’s hardly a guarantee of complete and total safety.

Hi-vis is really only effective in the daytime.

At night, you’ll want/need lights. Fluorescent clothing, per science, converts UV sunlight into visible light. Because night is known for its considerable lack of sunlight, reflective strips and/or actual bike lighting are going to serve you far better than even the most garish bright yellow jacket.

It’s hard to say how much safer hi-vis clothes will make you. At the margins, it will increase visibility during the day. But given the multitude of factors that contribute to overall safety—bike infrastructure, your riding style, the speed limits of the roads you’re riding on—it’s hard to say that it’s a must.

Ride smart, wear the clothes you want, and always uses lights at night.

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Boom and Gloom Midway into her first term, Muriel Bowser’s re-election hopes could hinge on the deep gulf between the haves and have-nots.

By Jeffrey Anderson • Photographs by Darrow Montgomery Mayor Muriel Bowser’s inner circle has a mantra that its members utter only partly in jest. It comes from the movie Fight Club, which is also the nickname of this confidential cadre: “The first rule of Fight Club is: You do not talk about Fight Club.”

It’s a hard rule to live by and a harder one to enforce. It raises numerous questions: Who is in the club? What do they talk about? If the mayor says something in public, does she say something else with Fight Club?

After all, in politics there’s what the public sees and what it doesn’t—the inside game and the outside game, as it were.

Every mayor has an inner circle that is more in tune with mayoral priorities than everyday citizens. But in D.C., the public demands a seat at the table for discussions of major issues such as schools, public safety, and housing.

So it’s a fine line to walk when the mayor moves ahead without public input on, say, a lease arrangement with her preferred developers to build homeless shelters in wards throughout the city.

Or runs a campaign promising transparency while launching a Super PAC awash in contributions from those same developers.

Such topics naturally arise as the civic conversation shifts from Bowser’s first two years in office to the prospects of her re-election in 2018. The conversation hovers in terms of who she is, compared with who voters thought she was. That’s where it gets tricky.

Her mentor, former Mayor Adrian Fenty, branded himself the education mayor who was going to take over D.C. Public Schools. Mission accomplished. Vince Gray ran on “One City,” a vague slogan meant to convey that his was an agenda of unity in a city fractured by class and race. The slogan stuck, but the results did not.

With Bowser, “Pathways to the Middle Class” was even more vague and told the public little about what she planned to do.

As D.C. councilmember from Ward 4, Bowser was known as somewhat of a loner, occasionally poking her head out from under Fenty’s shadow. She had a reputation then for being cautious and aloof, not prone to con-

flict. But everything changes when you become mayor, especially with D.C.’s profile— and revenue—on the rise.

Since being elected two years ago, Bowser has come into her own, observers say, with a ken for pulling the levers of power, associating with people of money and influence, and enjoying the trappings of the office. She and her entourage—including Fight Club members, if one were to speculate who is in Fight Club— have gone to Detroit for the Democratic National Convention as well as China and Cuba.

Next week, she will make her second trip to South by Southwest, where a who’s who of the music and tech industries will mingle.

And why shouldn’t she? Thanks to a booming local economy, Bowser took over a city in 2015 that was flush with cash. No longer a sleepy political town, D.C. was establishing itself not just as a great American city, but as a global one. “When I came into office I realized the city had been off the national and world scene,” Bowser tells City Paper. “I promised to get us back. ... We’re the capital of the free

world, and we should act like it.”

Yet despite $7 billion in annual revenue last fiscal year, one of the highest percentages of college graduates nationwide, and a per capita income among the highest in the country, the city still suffers from a stubborn achievement gap in its schools, stark unemployment in its eastern wards, and persistent and alarming crime in those same areas.

Forget who deserves credit or blame, the Big Truth about D.C. is that, aside from the ominous challenge of how to stave off the District’s Republican overlords, socio-economic disparity is the story of the city, and it figures to determine whether Bowser deserves a second term.

It also figures to get messy. Two years into her first term, with the political comeback of an adversary in Vince Gray, and other elected officials who could challenge her in 2018, it’s fair to ask if she is delivering on her pledge of rebuilding the middle class in a city of haves and have-nots.

And as with building consensus, seeking compromise, or engaging in negotiations, success in attaining such a goal—or at least the per-

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ception of it—is most likely when people know who someone is and what she stands for, and believe she will do what she said she would.

Which, as it turns out, is not an easy case for Muriel Bowser to make.

There are Two political narratives most often applied to Bowser. The more favorable one is widely espoused by the business and political elite—power brokers and insiders who are more likely than not to be in Fight Club or have one of its members on speed dial.

That narrative says Bowser is intelligent, organized, and committed to helping all residents of her city. “You have to be called to politics, if you do it well, and if you’re passionate about change in neighborhoods,” she says. “I only got into elected office because I thought it was the fastest way to help the most people, and that’s why I do it.”

The image that 44-year-old Muriel Elizabeth Bowser projects is that of a good Catholic girl from a solid middle-class family who has done well in her hometown, which she represents in a righteous, self-possessed manner.

Chief among her fans is D.C. lawyer William Lightfoot, campaign chairman to both Bowser and Fenty. One of Lightfoot’s more memorable lines was inspired by Fenty’s losing 2010 campaign, when he characterized Fenty’s opposition as a “minority of longtime residents who had grown accustomed to the old, patronage-fueled style in the District.”

After four years of the Vince Gray administration, which was hindered by scandals, Bowser was going to be Fenty without the arrogance.

She was going to bring people together and listen to competing views. “Her key skill is to motivate people with a common goal, and keep them focused on that goal,” Lightfoot says.

“She’s committed to bettering the lives of people who live here. She wants to create jobs and help people in need, but deep in her heart she’s also a builder.”

Bowser, like any mayor who takes her legacy seriously, wants to build great things, Lightfoot says. Yet he also credits her with bringing in a new schools chancellor who will continue the reforms of Michelle Rhee and Kaya Henderson, expanding the summer jobs program created

by Marion Barry into a year-round program for youth of all ages, and investing $100 million in the Housing Production Trust Fund to bankroll affordable housing. “These are campaign promises,” he says of Bowser’s agenda.

Civic patrons like the way she balances these economic development and social policy issues. “Governing is always about competing priorities, and Mayor Bowser is striking an excellent balance, embracing growth and creating opportunity,” says philanthropist and education reform advocate Katherine Bradley, co-founder of the influential CityBridge Foundation. “She is clearly backing policies that will support employment growth that [attracts] residents and businesses to our jurisdiction, and at the same time, she is taking bold steps on education, housing, and wage policies.”

Bradley also gives Bowser high marks for being an education reformer—part talent scout, part bridge builder. “The issue I know

best is education, and Bowser deserves significant praise on that front. First, she has chosen excellent senior education officials. … I think her choice of Antwan Wilson from Oakland to succeed Kaya [Henderson] as chancellor is bold—taking the risk of bringing in an outsider to follow such a highly successful leader.

But she clearly thought this through, choosing someone with a solid track record, a reputation for real empathy, and a willingness to think in [terms of] cooperation between charter and traditional public sectors. If we get the chartertraditional public relationship right in D.C., we will be a model for the nation.”

A heightened national profile in the face of a hostile federal government couldn’t hurt right now. But Bowser is facing entrenched local problems. She took over a growing city that was fiscally sound, with a robust and resilient real estate economy, but she inherited a socioeconomic disparity gap akin to a crisis, according to native Washingtonian and nationwide real estate developer R. Donahue Peebles.

“It’s a challenge that no mayor since Marion Barry has dealt with on the same scale, when he helped create a stronger and deeper black middle class in the 1980s,” Peebles says. “Muriel inherited this disparity and the frustration that comes with lack of opportunity and upward mobility.”

Peebles, based in New York, has deep ties to D.C. In addition to having a home and family members who do business here, he owns a hotel, an Anacostia office building Anacostia, and is developing four projects in D.C. He’s done business with District mayors for decades and is with Bowser as well.

“There are no easy or swift solutions,” he says. “The culture in her administration is that it’s important to provide economic opportunities, and a big part of changing industry culture is conveying an agenda from a position of power, by setting a tone and leading by example.

It says, ‘It’s important to us, and should be important to you too.’ If she changes that culture, then it’s a lasting legacy.”

Peebles rates Bowser a “solid eight” out of 10 on the mayoral success scale, “trending up to being a 10.” But where she really shines, he says, is in representing D.C. on a bigger stage.

On Sept. 16, she spoke before about 800 people, including members of Congress, at a reception for the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation. The next night, she became the first D.C. mayor in the foundation’s 45-year history to deliver opening remarks at The Phoenix Awards Dinner and was followed by Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Robert Smith of Vista Equity Partners (and the wealthiest black man in America) and Peebles, who chairs the foundation board. In the audience were all 47 African-American members of Congress as well as black business leaders, mayors, and governors from around the country.

“Every comment without exception has been high praise over how she presents and conducts herself,” Peebles says.

Case in point, Peebles says: After his election, then-President-elect Trump met with just two mayors—Bowser and New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio. When DeBlasio emerged

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Bowser’s more high-profile problems point to the issue of political skill and judgment. from the meeting, he told reporters he talked to Trump about how snarled traffic had become around Trump Tower as a result of the president’s security needs. “Muriel came out and indicated that she spoke to Trump about how to advance the quality of life for Washingtonians,” Peebles says. “She let him know who we are and that she will protect and promote the interests of people in D.C. “What’s the [Henry] Kissinger saying?” he continues: “‘America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests.’ She demonstrates that her interests are the people of the District of Columbia.”

BuT Then There is narrative No. 2. Outside the upper echelons of business and power, Bowser rubs people differently. Some see her as willing to bridge gaps—between traditional schools and charter schools, for example— while others think she should be more collaborative. Some view her as careful and deliberate,

while others believe she is too willing to bypass the steps needed to build consensus. She is credited with restoring integrity to the mayor’s office, yet some view her as too chummy with developers who serve as fundraisers, friends, and confidantes. Fight Club, essentially.

The case for Bowser, known as a detail-oriented, hands-on manager, goes something like this: She has made significant progress toward decreasing a $250 million budget deficit; coming up with a plan to retain police officers; advancing Congressional voting rights and statehood; taking several agencies out of receivership; filling vacant board positions; hiring an operator for the overwhelmed Office of Unified Communications; getting the DNA crime lab accredited; restoring an aging FEMS fleet; and making investments in affordable housing and ending homelessness.

Not exactly sexy stuff, and some of it is debatable if not unquantifiable. For all the vacant board positions Bowser has filled, a similarly

formed by Bowser’s campaign treasurer Ben Soto to help elect her allies to the Council and advance her political agenda. The fund included contributions from developers and their partners who received board appointments and who frequently benefit from deals involving city-owned land. Some of them have accompanied her on economic development trips and have her ear.

• Announcing her strategy, without community input, for closing D.C. General Hospital and relocating some 270 homeless families to shelters to be built in each of the city’s eight wards—by some of the same FreshPAC developers who were going to lease to the District for 30 years in an arrangement that would increase property values exponentially.

• The firing of Department of General Services employees who refused to award contracts to Ft. Myer Construction, a major city contractor and Bowser campaign contributor. It followed the sudden resignation of the department director amid the alleged contract interference.

large number of agency heads have inexplicably left her administration mid-term. Ending homelessness seems more vision and promise than reality. Gaining statehood and voting rights? It’s a principled position, but it is clearly not going to happen anytime soon.

Meanwhile, the deeper and more disturbing problems are as entrenched as ever. The Metropolitan Police Department has gone without a fully vetted and confirmed chief for six months, and despite Bowser’s claim, police retention has become a political quagmire for her. Despite her much touted investment in affordable housing—as gentrification marches on—violent crime in neighborhoods where gentrification is not taking place is out of control. Activists say police not only lack the ability to stop violence before it occurs, but also there is no coordination between MPD and outreach, intervention, and social services agencies that could play a valuable role—regardless of who is mayor.

Brazen daytime killings and the unsolved mass shooting at a neighborhood picnic near Barry Farm last year are disturbing enough.

But MPD has recently begun publicizing the alarming number of missing children in those same neighborhoods who are at risk of being drawn into prostitution or sex trafficking. “They ain’t doing [nothing]. Where’s the plan?” says peace activist Ronald Moten. “If this was some white children being snatched up off the street, it’d be, ‘Oh, no, we’re not having it.’ Everything’s being swept up under the carpet making it seem like D.C. is so great. I get there’s a lot of good [stuff] going on, but the dots aren’t getting connected. We’re not reaching a lot of these young people.”

And despite her claim of restoring integrity to the mayor’s office, Bowser’s more highprofile problems point to the issue of political skill and judgment. Her critics recite a familiar list of transgressions: • FreshPAC, the political action committee

City Paper interviewed more than two dozen sources for this story. Few were willing to allow their critical remarks to be attributed to them for fear of retribution. One such veteran political observer offered a sweeping critique of her administration thus far in terms of a golden rule of politics: You’re never as popular—or powerful—as you are on your first day in office. “The way it usually goes is you use that capital to accomplish something,” the observer says. “If you don’t take advantage of it, you drift, and you continue to drift.”

Bowser came to office without much to show from her years on the D.C. Council, and she failed from day one to establish a clear identity, he says. “She was going to accelerate school reform, improve ethics and transparency, and bring services to communities east of the river like no other mayor has ever done.

Fact of the matter is that she’s got nothing to show for any of those things.”

In year two, he continues, “she decided she had to do something, so she said she would end homelessness in five years and promote statehood for D.C. It polled well, but it was not at the top of anyone’s list of concerns. And on the homeless shelters, it looked more like a power grab for her developer friends than a solution to anything.”

Asked to define her signature goal for the city, Bowser struggles to clearly articulate what “pathways to the middle class” means. “I campaigned across the city to make investments across all eight wards,” she says. “They don’t need the same things, but they need their fair share. Our campaign was about making sure people got the fresh start they deserved. We just had our best fiscal quarter ever. Nobody will argue that the city is prosperous. It’s just not prosperous for everyone.” inTerviewing Bowser can be challenging. If she is uncomfortable, she will respond with a vague soundbite, or argue the premise, or flash a piercing look that expresses irritation. Last fall, City Paper reported on glaring achievement gaps between schools in economi-

cally and socially disparate neighborhoods that have persisted for years despite being identified by the former chancellor in 2012 as a top priority. When asked why she has yet to publicly address this as a renewed priority, Bowser objects to the observation: “That doesn’t reflect our focus on moving schools so that the lowest performing can move to a higher level of performance. Schools are a top priority. Period.”

Former Chancellor Kaya Henderson branded this effort the “40/40 initiative,” intended to improve achievement scores in the 40 lowestperforming schools by 40 percent by the end of 2017. Bowser deflects when asked about the shortcomings of the program. “If you are expecting a silver bullet that is going to take an underperforming school and make it a top performer, then you don’t know a lot about how you move schools,” she says, emphasizing a steady investment “in not only buildings but in people and curriculum.”

Yet according to funding data, proficiency scores, budget experts, and education watchdogs, investment in the 40 most underperforming District schools has ranged from nonexistent to inequitable to compromised. Even as resources have been re-allocated, Bowser’s claim assumes that a “steady investment” can keep up with the pace of gentrification and the disparities it produces. And it ignores the D.C. Auditor’s findings of waste and lack of oversight over hundreds of millions of dollars invested in school modernization.

Asked about criticism from parents and teachers of the decision to extend the school day at 11 of the city’s worst-performing schools, Bowser again bristles. “Criticism? I think it’s more important to listen to the people who are craving and calling for intervention.”

Elizabeth Davis, president of the Washington Teachers’ Union, questions Bowser’s governing style and does not believe the mayor is a “listener.” “The mayor has a good PR campaign,” says Davis, who found the secretive selection of schools Chancellor Antwan Wilson and the decision to give charter school preference to students within walking distance to be examples of how Bowser puts superficial structures in place to solicit input from education stakeholders. “She has fine-tuned the art of appearing that she’s listening and respecting the voice of others,” Davis says.

Bowser’s willingness to work with others is challenged in other quarters too. Her relationship with the council speaks to defensiveness bordering on arrogance. Multiple members tell City Paper that they would like to see her demonstrate more cooperation and less confrontation. At-Large Councilmember Elissa Silverman points to the mayor’s homeless initiative—derailed by revelations that FreshPAC donors would profit from building new shelters—as an example of both Bowser’s strength and weaknesses. “She identified a big challenge and held herself accountable, but she took a defensive posture when faced with controversy or criticism,” Silverman says.

“Like ‘you’re for me or against me.’ It did not serve her well.” (When the Council struck down her plan and Chairman Phil Mendelson accused her of spreading misinformation, the

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mayor famously barked at him, “You’re a fucking liar.”)

Expressing views echoed by her colleagues, Silverman says Bowser’s executive authority would be more effective if she was more collaborative with the council. “She needs a shift in approach because she doesn’t have enough support,” she says.

Asked about her relationship with her former colleagues—and new members elected since she became mayor—Bowser says she visits councilmembers more than other mayors and is always looking for partners with whom to cooperate. “Oh, I have plenty of friends on the council,” she says unconvincingly.

If Bowser the former low-key legislator avoided conflict, Bowser the mayor has come to relish it. “I have a reputation for fighting for the things I believe in, and that’s different than not responding well,” the mayor says. “Some people don’t respond well to somebody who is passionate and willing to fight for what they think is right, and that’s my job. My job is to not roll over, and fight for what is right, all the way through the process.

“This is how I see it: I feel like when there is resistance, it makes you stronger. I’ve had the opportunity to prove myself the whole time I’ve been in [the Wilson Building]. That resistance … I could have it easy, I could have no critics, I could have people falling all over me.

Or I can get some things done. I actually think that always having to prove [critics] wrong has benefited me.” Toughened her, perhaps?

“Sharpened,” she replies. as a woMan, a black woman at that, Bowser is a rarity in mayoral politics. And she is well aware of the challenges that come with it. Yvette Alexander, the former Ward 7 councilmember and a Bowser friend, says that women in politics have to work harder, are scrutinized more, and criticized more readily than their male counterparts. “What I like to say is we are judged more quickly, more harshly, more wrongly,” Bowser says.

But one group that doesn’t give Bowser any flack is Fight Club. And her need to keep a close retinue of advisors, friends, and informal consultants around her even as she travels abroad on economic development missions is an area where many believe Bowser is creating trouble for herself. And again, much of it derives from FreshPAC and a perception that to do business in D.C. you need one of her friends to be involved.

In some ways, the development community in D.C. is like an extension of the government.

Bowser is realistic about this and the fact that there are limits to what government can do to fully leverage the revenue potential of the city.

“The government doesn’t build things,” she says. “And the business interests of the city don’t have to be counter to the public.”

She’s talking about the need for affordable housing, jobs, and economic opportunities for D.C. residents and small businesses. But she seems indifferent to her reputation for inserting herself into development deals and dictating terms and partnership decisions that involve members of Fight Club—or FreshPAC. Being in that exclusive club does not come

Interviewing Bowser can be challenging. If she is uncomfortable, she will respond with a vague soundbite, or argue the premise, or flash a piercing look that expresses irritation. free of charge either. Local developers know what is expected of them. “It’s a well-known fact: If you are not contributing to the mayor, or this councilmember or that, or if you are not a friend, or a friend of a friend, then you’re not getting in any deals,” says a small business owner who works in the construction industry. “I know people who write checks to everybody. It’s crazy.” Adds another local small businessman: “Nobody gave to FreshPAC because they wanted to. They gave because they were afraid not to.”

Which is why FreshPAC left such an indelible mark on Bowser’s first term. It revealed the rules of the game and identified key players— many of whom also surrounded Adrian Fenty when he was mayor.

Some who know Bowser say such control over her loyal subjects has gone to her head.

Fellow politicians who do not play in that same space see her from the public’s perspective, and they find it unappealing. “On the issue of cozy deals with developers, I think the mayor may have been tone deaf,” Silverman says.

Perhaps Bowser has become too enamored with the art of the deal—if not the trappings of the office. Bowser demurs on the latter, insisting there are not many perks that come with the job. Yet she is known to dine out frequently, attend Wizards games and boxing

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matches, enjoy a good cigar, travel around the country and the world, and rub elbows with billionaire investors.

And she often brings members of Fight Club along for the ride. As just one example, Bowser went to China and Cuba on economic development missions within four months of one another from late 2015 into 2016, according to sources and news reports. Bryan “Scottie” Irving, a FreshPAC donor with Blue Skye Development, accompanied her to Cuba. Buwa Binitie of Dantes Partners, also a FreshPAC donor, and Joshua Lopez, a Ward 4 politico, went with her to China.

Bowser embarks on these journeys with the goal of bringing large-scale investment to the city for the benefit of people across all eight wards, according to members of the business community who are willing to cut her some slack. But cynicism can trickle down to the grassroots level where developing communities are concerned. And it stings.

Parissa Narouzzi, executive director of Empower D.C., says she was never optimistic about Bowser as mayor. Citing her ties to Fenty and the those who surrounded him when he was mayor, Narouzzi says she was braced for a “developer-driven agenda.”

“My definition of progress is how much did you improve the lives of the people who have

the least?” Narouzzi says. “It’s hard to look through that lens and see the progress. You see the amenities, but you don’t see the higher paying jobs, or the deeply affordable housing, or the achievement gap in schools being decreased.”

Narouzzi is particularly disappointed with the outcome of a bidding contest at Crummell School, a historic site being developed in the Ivy City neighborhood. Narouzzi says she worked in Ivy City for 15 years advocating for community-minded redevelopment. She partnered with community members—including youth just out of high school who were running out of options—philanthropists, and a prominent local developer to bid on the mixed-use project.

“The principle is to break from the last three administrations that privatized public land to promote gentrification,” she says. “We were going to build affordable housing, day care, a gym, establish a community land trust, green space. Instead, we got a high-end density building on a cherished site that’s a national historic landmark, that the black community fought for for decades in the heart of a working-class black neighborhood.”

The winner of the bid was a developer with connections to a councilmember and Bowser’s top advisor, sources familiar with the deal say. Narouzzi says it was a blow to the spirit of innovation and community involvement.

“They chose gentrification. They chose to line the pockets of multimillion dollar developers.” (Bowser’s staff says the selected developer was also the preferred bidder of the Advisory Neighborhood Commission.)

Asked about her philosophy of economic development amid such competing interests, Bowser is coldly pragmatic. “The renaissance of a city demands that we build throughout all eight wards,” she says. “Safe places that attract business and amenities that people have been longing for. We have almost all the retailers we want. We just don’t have them everywhere we want them.”

Bowser also says she’s comfortable among those at both ends of the economic spectrum. “I resonate across a lot of different sectors. What I reject is the idea that developers and communities can’t work together to get things done.”

As for Crummell School and the grassroots group that poked its head out of the shadows of poverty to propose a more community-minded project, Bowser harbors no misgivings. “I think they were competitors and they lost. At the end, their project did not win the day.”

Crummell fittingly illustrates the story of the District, the enduring disparity between the haves and have-nots, which may influence voters more than anything else when re-election time rolls around.

Fight Club may be prospering, but Darren, a barista from Southeast, is skeptical that less connected D.C. residents are. And he might be among the more fortunate ones, all things considered. Steaming milk for a cappuccino one day last week, serving Capitol Hill residents on their way to their white-collar jobs, he pauses half a second when asked whether Bowser is doing what she said she would. “I’m still waiting,” he says.

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Logan Circle is getting a high-end seafood restaurant from restaurateur Robert Wiedmaier. Chef John Critchley, formerly of Brine, will lead the kitchen inside the forthcoming Darcy Hotel on Scott Circle.

Are You Ghana Eat That?

West African chefs in D.C. want a piece of Ethiopian food’s popularity.

By Laura Hayes

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diced onion and tomato, shito (a tangy dried shrimp condiment), and cubes of crispy, juicy goat meat for $15.

Fiery pepper soup and peanut butter soup are also popular and come with a choice of starch. There’s fufu made from cassava or plantains, which is gooey and blobbish like Japanese mochi; banku, which is similar to kenkey; and omo tuo—rice balls typically reserved for hangover brunch.

Matey describes his clientele as a “beautiful mix,” including former Peace Corps volunteers looking to reminisce, but he’s made some strategic tweaks. “Ghanaian dishes are mainly cooked with meat, but we try to cook more vegetarian to attract more people,” he explains. He’s even found a way to cook jollof rice without meat. “That’s one secret we’ve kept.”

Jollof rice is the West African dish that trends the most on Twitter because of the hashtag #JollofWars. Though most agree the rice seasoned with beef and chicken broth, tomato paste, and onions, comes from Sierra Leone, West Africans like to play fight about which country can truly claim it as its own.

Matey may be putting in the effort to attract vegetarian diners, but he admits outreach and publicity are challenging. “I’m stuck in the kitchen, so spreading the word is one of the major issues I have.”

Sumah’s West African Restaurant in Shaw also hasn’t prioritized outreach. The 24-year-old restaurant from the husband and wife team of Amara and Isata Sumah is in the process of building its first website.

But the Sierra Leone couple’s approach is to roll out the red carpet for first-timers to ex-

Amara and Isata Sumah of Sumah’s West African Restaurant

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In sprIng 2014, Prince Matey opened Appioo African Bar & Grill just off U Street NW to cook his native Ghanaian cuisine. Like at many West African restaurants, his walls are splashed with tropical paint colors, you can hear goat bones being snapped in the back, and the savory smell of stewed greens fills the air. Matey says business is stable but could be better.

Appioo probably isn’t on the minds of many local diners, in part because food writers don’t spill nearly as much ink about West African restaurants as they do about Ethiopian eateries. Post ethnic eats scribe Tim Carman ranked his top 10 Ethiopian restaurants in October 2016, and six Ethiopian restaurants (but no West African ones) were represented in Washingtonian’s 2016 list of the 100 best cheap eats, for example.

“There are only one or two West African restaurants in the city whereas Ethiopians have over 100, so a lot of people think African food is just Ethiopian,” Matey says.

“Ethiopians have seriously publicized Ethiopian cuisine.”

He recognizes Ethiopians were among the first to settle in D.C. in droves (there were 30,000 Ethiopians in the region as of the 2010 Census), but he wants his cuisine to be recognized too. After all, people from the West African nations of Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Ghana, and Cameroon make up the second biggest population of African-born immigrants in the city.

“My goal is to set up one Ghanaian restaurant next to each Ethiopian restaurant in the whole country,” he jokes. He’s making headway, as Fasika Ethiopian Cuisine just opened upstairs.

But will West African cuisine ever achieve Matey’s goal of becoming more mainstream?

What restaurants are already out there and what are they doing to appeal to a diverse group of diners?

The aforementioned Appioo boasts a menu that’s primarily Ghanaian. A can’tmiss is Matey’s kenkey. The orb of fermented corn and cassava dough is made almost like a tamale, and its sourness cuts through the richness of soups and stews. Try it with

pose them to the cuisine, and in fact the majority of Sumah’s customers are American.

“What we do is let them sample all the different sauces so they can make their own choices,” Amara says as he spoons kiddie portions of cassava leaves, egusi (a mix of ground melon seeds, spinach, and tomato), peanut gravy, and seven other sauces onto jollof rice. “Americans like to experiment.

Whether they’re going to buy it or not, they can just sample it.”

When the Sumahs want West African cuisine cooked elsewhere, they go to Zion Kitchen just past Ivy City. For the last 13 years, Oyindamola Akinkugbe has been serving the Nigerian food she grew up with.

The restaurant is known for garri (a Nigerian take on fufu), snails, and goat imported from Nigeria.

While Akinkugbe says about 80 percent of her customers are West African, she’s seeing a surge in popularity among Latinos because there’s some crossover of techniques and flavors. Zion’s enjoying success: What started as a carryout is now expanding to include additional space, a lounge for sipping palm wine, and possibly outdoor seating.

Finally, there’s Bukom Cafe in Adams Morgan. Like Sumah’s, it’s been around for a quarter century, but it’s the most pan-West African restaurant in D.C. because it gives equal love to dishes from Ghana, Nigeria, Togo, and Senegal.

Justice Matey (Prince’s brother) assumed ownership of Bukom in 1994 and says that despite the fact that stars such as Janet Jackson and Serena Williams have dined there, awareness about West African food could use a boost. “As far as what we can do, it’s having new restaurants open up,” Matey says. But “D.C. has gotten so expensive that it’s becoming a place where you can’t afford to open a good restaurant.”

The restaurant game is risky—even more so for unfamiliar fare—so West Africans are finding other ways to introduce their food to D.C. “What you’ll find is most of them are becoming caterers,” says Margaret Kamara, a Sierra Leone native and member of the The Young African Professionals Network.

“They’re taking small steps because when

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you make that transition to a full restaurant there are lots of responsibilities. Catering allows people to do market research to figure out where you’ll get support because you need locals to go to these places.”

Kamara hopes to open a West African fusion restaurant one day after starting with pop-ups and is inspired by one group in particular: Dine Diaspora. Founded in 2013 by three Ghanaian women, the group hosts pop-up dinners featuring African chefs. Some events are invite-only, others are open to the public.

“We wanted to create a mechanism for people to connect and realized there are culinary creatives that aren’t as visible as other chefs,” says co-founder Nana Ama AfariDwamena. “We’re addressing a need in the culinary industry where black chefs aren’t up on the forefront, African cuisine isn’t up on the forefront.”

For example, it has featured local Chef Eric Adjepong, a first-generation Ghanaian who grew up in New York City and cooked at Michelin-starred restaurants after culinary school. He wants to open a brick and mortar restaurant but says the water’s too treacherous right now.

Instead, Adjepong works as a personal chef, teaches cooking classes, and caters dinners through his company Pinch & Plate. He puts modern twists on West African cuisine with plates like jollof rice paella and groundnut soup with lamb, okra, and fried plantains. He focuses on presenta-

tion, which he says West African food tends to lack.

Afari-Dwamena says cooking and dining take a long time, which doesn’t fly in a city of time-strapped worker bees. “Our processes take so long, I can’t see us doing a fast food joint for African cuisine,” she says. But then one day she received her Blue Apron shipment containing the ingredients and recipe for West African peanut chicken.

“This recipe looks way simpler than how it’s usually made. Instead of letting someone else take our cuisine and simplify it, we can do it ourselves,” she says. “It’s all about being innovative and making this faster.”

Afari-Dwamena frequents Appioo and Bukom in addition to West African restaurants in the suburbs, but she says D.C. proper simply doesn’t have a diversity of African cuisine. She hopes West Africans can emulate Ethiopian restaurants. “They’re a model of what’s worked,” she says. “Let’s talk to them and see how they’re doing it, let’s replicate it.”

Sileshi Alifom owns DAS Ethiopian Cuisine in Georgetown, which received a Bib Gourmand from the Michelin Guide for excellent cuisine at an affordable price, so he knows a lot about how Ethiopian cuisine got its start in D.C. and how it has evolved.

In 1978, Mamma Desta became the first Ethiopian restaurant to open in D.C., and its debut corresponded with a major emigration of Ethiopians following the start of the country’s civil war in 1974. Though it has since closed, it’s still remembered fondly in the Ethiopian community.

“People gravitated to see each other at Mamma Desta,” Alifom says. It was more about the camaraderie than the food, but that changed after the Ethiopian restaurant boom in Adams Morgan and parts of Shaw.

Alifom says restaurant owners conducted comparative analysis to discover why some restaurants were successful.

Those that served Ethiopian cuisine in a more international dining setting performed better. “The ambiance had to look to-date and everything had to be consistent,” he says. “It wasn’t just a place we gathered anymore. It was a place to come and dine.”

Alifom’s advice for West African restaurateurs is much different than what he would offer 40 years ago because the landscape is much more competitive. “Figure out how to present Ghanaian food to customers,” he says. “Make sure people are trained properly. … It’s about the food.”

In the meantime, he’s optimistic because “D.C. is one of the most diverse cities in the world.”

CP Eatery tips? Food pursuits? Send suggestions to lhayes@washingtoncitypaper.com

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what we ate this week: Pastrami cured salmon with potato latke, broccoli kraut, sour onions, horseradish cream, and mustard, $15, Rappahannock Oyster Bar. Satisfaction level: 5 out of 5. what we’ll eat next week: Pierogi with cashew cheddar, garlic, onion, sauerkraut, sour cream, and greens, $16, Fare Well.

Excitement level: 4 out of 5.

Somewhere Below Us, People Are Weekday Drinking Odds are, a guy having a beer with lunch on a weekday is going to be a pretty happy dude. But, to be having that beer underground, hidden from the threats of Trump-era Washington and the disapproving eyes of coworkers is even better. The District’s subterranean watering holes can be among the most convivial joints in the city, so don’t overlook them because of their diminutive street presence or the fact that the view is often of an evacuated dance floor. Here’s where to find five of them and what they have to offer.

-Jandos Rothstein

Bravo Bravo 1001 Connecticut Ave. NW Currently undergoing external renovation, Bravo Bravo offers bar food and drinks in an enormous space with three separate bars. Just don’t expect any IPAs on the bar’s basic beer list.

Décor: ’80s-era hotel banquet room blends inexplicably into ’70s discotheque.

Food: Almost adequate. There is so little cohesion between the top and bottom of my personal pizza that it’s possible to believe it was assembled after baking.

Mood: Sullen. On the day I was there, too few people were distributed over too many hundreds of square feet to facilitate interaction.

Alexa Epitropoulos

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Bob’s Shanghai 66’s Spicy Pork Intestines The dish: Spicy pork intestines Where to Get It: Bob’s Shanghai 66; 305

The Tombs 1226 36th St. NW One of the few underground bars out of the city’s center that’s open for lunch, The Tombs serves bar food and drinks at the bottom of an abandoned-looking stairwell.

Décor: The vaguely remembered basement of your uncle who was obsessed with WWI propaganda posters Food: Almost adequate. The Nashville “hot chicken” sandwich does not pack enough heat to even qualify for a kiddie menu in its namesake city.

Mood: Friendly! Some random loon (and apparent regular) was regaling the bar with his experiences living with Secret Service protection. (His security detail was not present, but a lively discussion followed his departure).

nopa Kitchen + Bar’s Adele Street What: Adele Street with vanilla beaninfused Glendalough Irish Whiskey, Earl Grey and chamomile tea-infused Dolin Dry Vermouth, and Luxardo Maraschino Liqueur Where: nopa Kitchen + Bar, 800 F St. NW; (202) 347-4667; nopadc.com Price: $13

The Meeting Place 1707 L St. NW This brightly lit tavern serves bar food and drinks in a utilitarian atmosphere.

Décor: ’70s era Midwestern college cafeteria—if that cafeteria had a bar Food: Adequate! A cheese steak sandwich tastes and looks like it was cut in house, though the portion could have been more generous.

Mood: Sullen. The bright lights and uptight atmosphere did not encourage loosening up.

Recessions 1823 L St. NW Located past a defunct business center at the end of a long hallway, Recessions offers bar food and drinks.

Décor: ’50s rec-room meets French chalet Food: Almost adequate. A sandwich of presumptively pre-frozen gyros strips is flavorful enough, but the accompanying French fries are underdone.

Mood: Friendly! I got into a discussion with strangers about mobile computing.

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and garlic is the flavor that lingers the longest. If you enjoy bacon or pork belly, you’ll be able to stomach this dish. You might even like it.

Price: $10.95 per plate, cash only What it is: Pork intestines chopped into bite-sized portions, seasoned with chili oil, and fried into pockets of spicy goodness. Those who want to be more adventurous can also try the intestines served with duck blood.

What it tastes like: While I was expecting long, cartoonish tendrils on a plate, the intestines actually impersonated pork belly. The texture is similar to bacon, and the seasoning is a multi-layered experience. Diced chilies, chili oil, cloves, and garlic are prominent flavors,

The best cocktail you’re not ordering

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Stan’s Restaurant 1029 Vermont Ave. NW One of the more intimate below-ground bars, Stan’s is known for bar food and generous pours.

Décor: Old-school neighborhood bar Food: Almost adequate. My Italian sausage sandwich is smothered with so many vegetables and so much cheese and tomato sauce that the soft sub roll disintegrates.

Mood: Friendly! On a recent visit, a barwide discussion ranged from Charles Oakley’s removal from a basketball game to a relitigation of Super Bowl 51.

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The Story: Spicy pork intestines prepared in chili oil is a common street food in China and other East Asian countries.

Another dish, braised pork intestines in brown sauce, is also a popular dish in the coastal provinces of China. Although Bob Shanghai 66’s take on the dish is tempered for American tastes, pork intestines have a long history in Chinese cuisine, as do dishes that feature less utilized parts of a pig, including lungs, brains, and blood. —Alexa Epitropoulos

What You Should Be Drinking: A frequent out-of-town guest at the Penn Quarter brasserie craved a drink reminiscent of her beloved Big Easy hometown, so bartender Dan Patrizio got to work. Drawing inspiration from a point of disembarkation for Irish immigrants coming to New Orleans from 1810 to 1850, he starts with Glendalough Irish Whiskey that’s been triple-barrel-matured in madeira, bourbon, and sherry casks. The proprietary whiskey is infused with Madagascar vanilla beans and stirred with Dolin Dry Vermouth that’s been steeped with Earl Grey and chamomile teas from Capital Teas. It’s served up in a coupe coated with Luxardo Maraschino Liqueur and garnished with a brandied cherry.

Why You Should Be Drinking It: Diners have been shying away from this drink, Patrizio admits, as “it’s essentially a two-ingredient cocktail which smacks potent and high proof.” Maybe so, but one of those ingredients just happens to be Irish whiskey, known for being the smoothest and most approachable of the brown spirits family.

Flavoring it with vanilla also helps. Dry vermouth quells the high ABV, while the teas balance the sweetness and add palate-pleasing astringency. The overall effect is just as pleasant and charming as 1950’s Irish immigrant Ellis Lacey, played by Saoirse Ronan in the film Brooklyn.

—Kelly Magyarics

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Interior Night

Mixed reviews for this year’s D.C. Independent Film Festival offerings The Night Watchmen Directed by Mitchell Altieri

You know what the problem with Bela Lugosi’s Dracula was? The vampire didn’t fart when he died. The Night Watchmen is here to remedy that. Set in Baltimore, the feasting starts quickly after the coffin of the city’s “beloved” Blimpo the Clown is mistakenly delivered to the fictional Baltimore Gazette. When someone nosy opens the casket, Blimpo makes fast work of turning the employees undead.

Fighting these vamps are three experienced guards, a kid who just started that evening, and, according to the synopsis, “a fearless tabloid journalist.” The attractive journalist is a lesbian and one of the guards is black, paving the way for gratuitous making out/ nudity (who knew that blouses ripped so easily?) and attempts at racial humor (the guy keeps getting urban slang wrong).

The dialogue is awful, with lines such as “Whoa! No need to start spinning your head around and spilling pea soup!”, which just rolls off the tongue. The action gets tedious within the opening half-hour, and—yes—the vamps pass gas when they die, a literal gag that’s repeated ad nauseum. Admittedly, however, there is a joke that hits: While discussing amongst themselves what these beings are, one of the disbelieving guards says, “Vampires are sparkly and shiny and handsome as shit!”

There: I just saved you some money.

The words of another character, spoken when the group demands that a colleague dance to prove he’s OK (?), are apt for both the guy’s moves and the film itself: “I have seen some horrible things today, my friends, but this by far is the worst.”

—Tricia Olszewski

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Screens Friday, Feb. 17 at 9:30 p.m. at the Naval Heritage Center.

One Buck

Directed by Fabien Dufils One Buck answers the age-old question: What if you made a film that was composed entirely of cliches? The opening scenes of this unpleasant Cajun noir introduce the viewer to Detective Maggio, a grizzled, square-jawed, middle-aged homicide cop who, while grieving over his dead wife and unborn child, has developed an addiction to booze, pills, and coke. Do you think the case he’s working on might redeem him? To quote Charlie Kaufman in Adaptation., “See every cop movie ever made for other examples of this.”

Set in the Louisiana bayou, One Buck is clearly trying to capture some of the sleazy Southern appeal of the first season of True Detective, but there’s nothing true about it, and there’s very little detection. Maggio is on the trail of a serial killer, and we’re on the trail

of a single dollar bill that gets passed around between cops, hookers, drug dealers, and victims. The object has no particular meaning, nor does it factor into the plot in a significant way. It’s just a gimmick to hang a story on that would otherwise be entirely unremarkable. It’s not even original, the 1993 indie Twenty Bucks used the exact same device. So did the rom-com Serendipity, sort of.

At least the film is competently shot, and some of the performances are okay. But its stark lack of original ideas and hugely cynical view of humanity is difficult to overcome, not to mention how gleefully it revels in its violence towards women. In One Buck, women are either saints or prostitutes, while its male protagonist is forgiven for all kinds of sins because he has a dif-

ficult past. For some viewers, this obvious misogyny will be a deal-breaker. For the rest of you, don’t worry, there are plenty of other reasons to avoid it.

—Noah Gittell Screens Saturday, Feb. 18 at 7:30 p.m. at the Naval Heritage Center.

Occupants

Directed by Russ Emanuel If there was a mash-up of The Blair Witch Project, Supersize Me, and Unfriended, it might look something like Occupants, a clever faux-documentary by director Russ Emanuel. The film washingtoncitypaper.com february 17, 2017 21

CPArts is a two-hander about Annie, a bubbly, young documentarian, and her husband, Neil, and the hell they unleash upon themselves when they go on a raw vegan detox diet. Believe it or not, they suffer something worse than kale.

For Annie’s latest documentary, she has set up cameras in nearly every room of her house to track the impact of their new diet— an arrangement Neil agrees to with great reluctance—on their health and their marriage. Justified by a throwaway piece of dialogue about how detoxing can alter your perception, things take a surprising turn when a portal to another dimension gets opened in their home. When re-watching some footage, Annie and Neil notice different versions of themselves spliced in. The “other” Annie and Neil have different jobs and a less happy marriage.

It’s a goofy twist that makes no sense—neither in hindsight nor when watching it—but the natural performances and chemistry between leads Briana White and Michael Pugliese keeps things humming. These characters aren’t particularly interesting, but the actors make you believe they care about each other, which ably grounds the film amidst its ludicrous plotting.

When the happy couple notice some troubling things happening between their doppelgangers, they figure out a way to interfere by transcending dimensions.

Director Emanuel deserves credit for sticking to the formal limits he has set for himself; every shot in the film comes from one of the diegetic cameras Annie has set up. It proves to be both a help and a hindrance. It gives the film a consistent feel but it also upends the dramatic potential. In too many shots,

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Annie and Neil are set far back in the frame, their faces nearly invisible to the viewer. For a dramatic chamber piece, that’s a problem, but Occupants manages to skirt by. A clever conceit, strong performances, and a subtextual hatred of health food go a long way.

—Noah Gittell Screens Saturday, Feb. 18 at 9:30 p.m. at the Naval Heritage Center.

Interior Night

Directed by Alan Watt “InterIor” and “nIght” are two of the most common words to appear in screenplays. They are parts of scene headings, giving the reader and production team an idea of what the script requires. Written and directed by Alan Watt, Interior Night has the energy and frustration of someone who’s read too many screenplays. It’s the sort of talkfest that was popular in the indie film boom from the mid-to-late ’90s. As a throwback to that period, it has just enough insight and humor to become a minor cult hit.

Riley Smith plays Eddie, a depressed painter who contemplates suicide in his Los Angeles apartment. He gets a visit from Conrad (Micah Hauptman), who is freaking out because his girlfriend Esther (Christina Scherer) wants serious commitment. There are added complications: Eddie fucked Esther— don’t worry, they’re still friends—and Conrad showed up while carrying a duffel bag filled with weed. As Eddie and Conrad work out their issues, Esther reaches out to Charlotte (Erinn

Hayes). Charlotte is Eddie’s co-worker and former flame, and yet this does not dissuade Esther since she’s too distraught.

The majority of Interior Night is presented as dialogue-driven scenes, with Conrad and Eddie getting the lion’s share of screen time. Watt has a shrewd way of writing his characters into conflict and back out again: A turn of phrase or an aside sets off Conrad, for example, and their behavior grows more unhinged as they polish off a bottle of brown liquor.

Despite the claustrophobic setting, Watt’s camera placement and editing ensure that the film never feels stagey. The characters are intriguing—the sort of fuck-ups that test the limits of friendship—and the actors are convincing since they have little hope of redemption. Watt arrives at a happy ending, sort of, except the victories are all empty.

Interior Night falters when Watt abandons the logical conclusions of his premise. Eddie begins the film with a pistol, so of course the climax ends with a bizarre hostage situation where a pizza delivery man (Kirk Baltz) also considers suicide. It’s a surreal, implausible situation, the sort of climax that only exists when a writer finds himself in a corner. The film loses its grip, and yet the characters are screwed up and articulate enough that they’re fun to be around—for a while, anyway.

—Alan Zilberman Screens Monday, Feb. 20 at 6:30 p.m. at the Naval Heritage Center.

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By Mike Bartlett Directed by David Muse At the Shakespeare Theatre Company Sidney Harman Hall to March 12 How do you say “constitutional crisis” in, er, British?

Winning the Olivier Award for Best New Play after it premiered in London in 2014 and exported to Broadway the following year, Mike Bartlett’s superb palace intrigue drama King Charles III posits a near-future wherein the Prince of Wales ascends to the throne after Queen Elizabeth’s death and asserts his royal power—largey ceremonial in the centuries since Shakespeare was writing this sort of thing—over the elected Parliament. Because Bartlett is a shrewd playwright, he enlivens Charles and his fellow real-life Windsors not only with the same ambition, self-doubt, and hubris that animated Shakespeare’s tragic histories, but with nobler motives, too.

Specifically, Parliament has passed a bill curtailing freedom of the press and King Charles refuses to sign it. Unlike our president’s signature on legislation, the monarch’s seal is understood to be merely ceremonial.

Having been elected by no one, he is expected to defer to the will of his subjects. But what if he doesn’t? What if we, the audience, don’t want him to?

Much of what’s expected of the crown—like so much of what we expect of our president, as we’re now learning—is nowhere codified in law. It’s just precedent. It’s just tradition. It’s just, well, unjust.

In keeping with Elizabethan custom, Bartlett has written most of Charles III in iambic pentameter. As Charles, Robert Joy—an actor who doesn’t look much like the Prince of

Wales, but who’s a dead ringer for the journalist George Plimpton, who died in 2003—gets most of the soliloquies. He’s as aloof and isolated as any of Shakespeare’s sovereigns; Joy appears to shrink himself once he puts on the regal sash and medals and braids. Providing some syncopation are the scenes Charles’ wayward younger son Harry (Harry Smith) shares with his commoner girlfriend, Jessica (Michelle Beck). These are in prose—the plain talk reflecting Jessica’s low station. But whether it’s blank verse or non-verse, Bartlett’s language is never forbidding. Rather, it gives the show a propulsive musicality that’s all the more impressive for having been created without the lexicon of archaic verbiage the other guy had on his shelf.

Not all the characters are based on real people. Ian Merrill Peakes has always been strong in outsized roles. He’s just as compelling here as Prime Minister Evans, the decent and bewildered—and fictional—leader of the Labour Party. As the leader of the Conservative Party, Bradford Farwell is more circumspect, but just as persuasive. And Chiara Motley has a few memorable scenes as a spectre who beguiles both King Charles and his eldest son William with prophecies of what they might achieve.

Your ability to embrace Bartlett’s fanciful characterizations of public figures may be colored by the degree to which you apprise yourself of royal gossip. (I don’t.) My date, an Anglophile who has lived in the U.K. for extended periods, found Bartlett’s reimagining of Kate Middleton as a scheming Lady MacBeth nudging Prince William towards the throne—“Our column inches are the greatest influence that we possess,” he declaims—laughable. That’s no reflection on Allison Jean White’s lupine performance. She always looks like she knows more than she’s saying. Christopher McLinden’s William is strong, too, showing a credible transformation from guilelessness to resolve. Gangly and baby-faced, McLinden resembles presidential son-in-law and cooling

rod Jared Kushner about as much as he does the real-life Duke of Cambridge.

The version of Buckingham Palace that scenic designer Daniel Ostling has built is equal parts church, fortress, and tomb, with high stone arches and the figures of three prior kings looking down on Charles as he paces and stews. This may be the near future, but history—to cite an even newer verse-play that takes poetic license with real folk—has its eyes on him.

—Chris Klimek 610 F St. NW. $44-$123. (202) 547-1122. shakespearetheatre.org.

You’re The WorsT I Wanna Fucking Tear You Apart Written and directed by Morgan Gould At Studio Theatre to Feb. 19

An intimAte look at a long friendship that has reached its twilight stage, writer-director Morgan Gould’s world-premiere drama I Wanna Fucking Tear You Apart is so good for so long that it’s inability to stick the landing stings like a betrayal. There’s something unusually glossy and cable-ready about it. The piece opens with movie-style titles and credits flashing on an overhead monitor while Nicole Speizio and Tommy Helringer lip-sync their way through “Tear You Apart” by She Wants Revenge, a number from 2004 that even Interpol would’ve rejected as being too obvious a Joy Division rip-off. Their synchronized drag-show style dance in front of a glittery silver curtain is a weird introduction to the naturalistic and beautifully inhabited piece it precedes.

Spiezio and Heleringer have a persuasive rapport as Sam and Leo, respectively, longtime housemates who, having reached

their mid-30s, are impatient for their writing careers to starting taking off. Their bond was forged in college, when Sam had not yet made peace with her obesity nor Leo with his gayness. Adulthood has put them both on more stable emotional footing. Whether their trench romance can survive in peacetime is Gould’s grand subject. Leo has become more gregarious in that interval, Sam more successful. Do these changing circumstances constitute a violation of their unspoken pact?

Spiezio and Heleringer are deeply likeable in their unlikability, and their us-against-theworld friendship is easy to invest in. The mastery of Anna O’Donoghue’s performance as Chloe, the “work wife” Leo brings over for drinks, sending Sam into a tailspin of jealousy, does not become apparent until the show’s final scenes, narratively errant though they are. For most of Apart’s 105 intermission-free minutes, we detest her. Chloe is a wispy, nauseating, emotional barnacle, the sort of person who’ll say “You’re funny!” but almost never actually laugh. Costume designer Ivania Stack works so hard to make the twentysomething Chloe look like an expired hippie that you may later wonder whether she was dressed to show us Sam’s jaundiced perception of her rather than how she really looks.

Gould’s anti-romance is so strong and believable as a character piece that when she injects a Neil LaBute-ian wrinkle of plot late in the show involving the epistolic novel Sam has been writing, it feels false. It isn’t so much that the specific scenario Gould concocts is laughably implausible (though it is), but that she felt the need, 90 minutes into the show, to yank the wheel this way at all. Have a little more confidence in your writing and in your three fine actors, Ms. Gould. You don’t need a twist.

—Chris Klimek 1501 14th St. NW. $20-$55. (202) 332-3300.

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Galleries SketcheS

Color Me IMpressed

Francesca Zambello, Artistic Director

Photo by Cade Martin

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Dead Man Walking “I WILL BE THE FACE OF LOVE FOR YOU.” Sister Helen’s calling was clear: show ALL God’s children the gift of mercy. But was her faith strong enough to help shepherd even the darkest soul to salvation? Based on a true story, Jake Heggie’s instant modern classic is an extraordinary tale of courage and compassion featuring a sensational cast and an unforgettable score infused with American popular styles. The New York Times calls this mesmerizing drama “a masterpiece of words, music, and emotions.”

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Support for Dead Man Walking is provided by The Dallas Morse Coors Foundation for the Performing Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Frankenthaler, the artist who inspired D.C.).

Hemphill is showing the hard-edged stuff, including Reed’s “Hackensacke” (1967), a knock-out painting that takes the shape of a lopsided chevron. Reed’s more familiar “disk” Downing, Mehring, Reed paintings—a diagonal band of color inset with and Early Alma Thomas a circle—are represented by “#3” (1965). These At Hemphill Fine Arts to April 1 paintings never quite amounted to a rigorous, The WashingTon Color School is back sustained color study like Josef Albers’ “Homage in session. There have been any number of at- to the Square” series. But “Upstart ‘A’” (1966), a tempts by D.C. museums and galleries to revive sharp zig-zag painting by Reed, looks fresh and the salad days of the 1960s. Local nostalgia-fests invigorating by any standard.

Mehring deserves the biggest re-think of all. culminated in ColorField.remix, a city-wide spectacle led by the Kreeger Museum and joined His paintings aren’t as ubiquitous in permanent by the National Gallery of Art, the Phillips Col- holdings as the rest; his works at Hemphill, mutlection, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture ed but unyielding all-over abstractions, may make a first impression even on Color School Garden, and a suite of local galleries.

That was 10 years ago. In the decade since admirers. Mehring’s dappled-eggshell “UnColorField.remix, many of the galleries that titled” (1961) and mottled-blue “Untitled” played host to the festival have shut their (1960–61) would fit any art-fair showing of sodoors. Yet the regional style that put D.C. on called “zombie formalism,” the derisive term the map 50 years ago has never been more for contemporary paintings that, well, look like Mehrings and sell like hotpopular, thanks now to marcakes. It’s not Mehring’s fault ket demand in New York and that painters have exhausted Los Angeles and on the art-fair concepts for which he was nevcircuit. er given enough credit for disDowning, Mehring, Reed and covering in the first place.

Early Alma Thomas, both on view This marketplace zeal for at Hemphill Fine Arts, highlight structured, formalist abstracsome of the lesser lights of the tion is partly responsible for Color School. That’s no knock the recent resuscitation of Gilon them. The first three paintliam’s career. If there’s any jusers—Thomas Downing, Howtice in the universe, Thomas is ard Mehring, and Paul Reed— next. She enjoyed a blockbustcomprised half of the artists in er solo exhibition at the Studio the seminal 1965 exhibit at the Museum in Harlem last fall, a Washington Gallery of Modern Art. Gene Davis, Kenneth No- “Reflections” by Alma Thomas (1960) refreshing revisit on an otherland, and Morris Louis, the other artists whose wise under-regarded career.

Early Alma Thomas offers a peek at the artwork traveled with Washington Color Painters, have always enjoyed greater fanfare from cura- ist’s work before she turned to petal-shaped tors and collectors. Thomas, an African-Amer- brushstrokes that borrowed from Matisse’s ican woman whose popular works hew more cut-outs. “Milky Way” (1959) and “Reflecclosely to Henri Matisse than Helen Franken- tions” (1960) show the trajectory that she might have otherwise followed. During a brief thaler, has never received a fraction of her due.

Tastes change, though, and so has the art window, Thomas was looking in the same diworld’s fascination with the Color School. Col- rection as Joan Mitchell, the painter who is enlectors are waking up to the work of Thom- joying perhaps the strongest resurgence of any as, Anne Truitt, Sam Gilliam, and other art- mid-century abstract expressionist. “Still Life ists who orbited that original nucleus of Color with Bottles” (1955) helps to demonstrate how School painters. And within that set, Downing quickly Thomas’ painting evolved from loose and Reed now stand out for their experiments abstraction to pure formalism.

Thomas earned the spotlight in 2009 when with shaped canvases, while Mehring’s paintMichelle Obama picked one of her paintings, ings look as contemporary as they come.

Downing’s “Folding Two” (1968) an accordi- “Watusi (Hard Edge)” (1963), to hang in her East on-shaped, hard-edged geometric abstraction, Wing office. The painting didn’t fit the space, so it strains the eye. Burgundy and cornflower-blue was returned to the Hirshhorn collection (where panes at the left edge of the work interact so vi- it is best remembered for being a rip-off of a 1953 olently, pulling and pushing one another, that painting by Matisse). With the Obama boost the painting looks like a tesseract that might and her Studio Museum solo, Thomas is wellcollapse in on itself. Downing’s “Grid 1 Series, positioned for a posthumous revival. WhethApril 21, 1971,” an 11-foot-long dot painting, an- er she will get the same reconsideration as her ticipates the first of Damien Hirst’s celebrated peers is a question for the markets—and the markets are fickle.

—Kriston Capps “spot” paintings by about 15 years.

Paintings in Downing, Mehring, Reed don’t much emphasize the staining method that 1515 14th St. NW #300. Free. (202) 234-5601. earned such acclaim for the Color School (and hemphillfinearts.com.

Books Speed ReadS

Virtual actuality Splinterlands John Feffer Haymarket Books 130 pages $13.95

If you’re havIng a hard time deciding whether to read 1984 or The Origins of Totalitarianism—or if you’ve already read them both and want something in-between—consider local author John Feffer’s Splinterlands.

A dystopian novel that takes place in the year 2050, Splinterlands follows Julian West, an ailing old man and former academic (a “geo-paleontologist,” to be exact), who goes on a virtual reality tour of the world trying to track down his estranged adult children and ex-wife. He visits his ex-Eurocrat daughter in a post-apocalyptic Brussels (the EU no longer exists), his tech millionaire son in Ningxia, China (a haven for the rich), his other son in Gaborone, Botswana (a surprisingly stable tourist city due to the effects of global warming), and his ex-wife at a secluded hippie commune in Vermont. As he does so, West discovers that global events have played out in a way very similar to his theories in his political theory book Splinterlands, his greatest work as an academic.

The Julian West character is loosely based on the author, who is director of Foreign Policy In Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies, a local think tank. Just as it’s especially enjoyable

to read science fiction written by real scientists, Feffer offers readers a uniquely well-researched and historically robust argument for why the world turns out the way that it does, which makes it all the more relevant—and frightening.

Feffer is an expert on both European and East Asian history and politics, and his futuristic novel is rife with historical references and explanations about why the EU collapsed, why North Korea remained basically the same as always, and what exactly was behind the global economic slowdown of the 2020s.

And 2022 ushers in one of the biggest natural disasters in U.S. history, aptly named Hurricane Donald, which destroys the city of Washington, D.C., in one fell swoop. Governments collapse and the world’s former capital of diplomacy, Brussels, becomes the major battleground of terrorist cells, which have expanded all over.

In addition to all the political histories and projected theories, Splinterlands also incorporates the use of cleverly conceived new technologies. Virtual reality enables West to travel around the world without leaving his bedroom and includes functions like literally being able to watch his back. Then there are the homeless, who panhandle using QR codes, which passersby can scan to donate money. CRISPR technology—which by 2050 is a massive corporation serving as a fountain of youth for the rich—also features prominently. There’s even a passing reference to a new publishing company called Netflix Books.

But the real brilliance behind Feffer’s novel is its metanarrative nature. Splinterlands includes dozens of footnotes of mysterious origin, which serve to fact-check West’s first-person narrative and often correct his unreliable claims. Or is it the footnotes that are unreliable? (It seems that by 2050, even truth is an outdated concept.) The reader eventually comes to the realization that Feffer’s Splinterlands is actually the same thing a West’s Splinterlands—except with personal stories and family drama added in. In other words, Feffer presents us with an actual theory of a chillingly possible future in the more digestible form of a dystopian novel. As Julian West says numerous times in the book, “homo homini lupus” (“Man is wolf to man”).

—Elena Goukassian John Feffer will discuss Splinterlands at Potter’s House on Tuesday, Feb. 21 at 7 p.m. Free.

Music & Instruments of

Victor Gama February 22 at 8 p.m.

Family Theater

The renowned composer and instrument builder brings his unique vision to KC Jukebox for an exciting performance including a piece informed by his upbringing in Angola, performed on an array of beautifully constructed instruments.

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Music rock

State theatre 220 N. Washington St., Falls Church.

(703) 237-0300. Tusk–Fleetwood Mac Tribute. 9 p.m. $20. thestatetheatre.com.

classical

Kennedy Center ConCert hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. NSO: Hahn plays Mendelssohn/ Strauss, Janácek & Dvorák. 8 p.m. $15–$89. kennedy-center.org.

MuSiC Center at StrathMore 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. BSO Off The Cuff: Dvořák’s Cello Concerto. 8:15 p.m. $35–$99. strathmore.org.

Hip-Hop

u Street MuSiC hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Mickey Avalon. 7 p.m. $20. ustreetmusichall.com.

World

BarnS at Wolf trap 1635 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. Solas. 8 p.m. $25–$28. wolftrap.org.

Folk

BirChMere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Arlo Guthrie. 7:30 p.m. $65. birchmere.com. fillMore Silver Spring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Josh Garrels & John McMillan Present: The Revelators Tour. 8 p.m. $28. fillmoresilverspring.com. roCK & roll hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

Seán Barna. 9 p.m. $15. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

Blues

gypSy Sally’S 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. Ashleigh Chevalier. 10:30 p.m. Free. gypsysallys.com.

Jazz

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

Antibalas. 8 p.m. $20–$25. thehamiltondc.com. hoWard theatre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899. Al Jarreau Duo. 8 p.m. $65–$99.50. thehowardtheatre.com.

Kennedy Center faMily theater 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Regina Carter: Simply Ella. 7 p.m.; 9 p.m. $50–$65. kennedy-center.org. rhizoMe dC 6950 Maple St. NW. Dylan Connor, Huda Asfour, Kamyar Arsani, Jon Camp. 8 p.m. $10. rhizomedc.org.

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tWinS Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Hot Club of Baltimore. 9 p.m.; 11 p.m. $27. twinsjazz.com.

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flaSh 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. apert:re with Bella Sarris, Ada Kaleh, Jubilee. 8 p.m. $8–$12. flashdc.com.

SoundCheCK 1420 K St. NW. (202) 789-5429. Chocolate Puma. 10 p.m. $20. soundcheckdc.com. u Street MuSiC hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Mark Farina. 10:30 p.m. $15. ustreetmusichall.com.

todd Marcus’ loW tones

Baltimore-based bandleader Todd Marcus swings low and strong on his signature instrument, the bass clarinet. Still a rarity in the jazz world, the bass clarinet provides a more reedy, nasally sonority than other lead horns, creating delightfully divergent overtones. These sounds add just the right touch to Marcus’ compositions, which often delve into romantic interludes that incorporate elements of his Egyptian heritage. Antiquity blends seamlessly with punchy post-bop that can easily bounce between beautiful balladry and spiritual fervor and calls to mind saxophonist Pharoah Sanders. Marcus ventures south from Baltimore to share his Middle East by way of Maryland jazz with a quintet dubbed The Low Tones, featuring other area luminaries like Kris Funn on bass and Hawaiian transplant to D.C. and frequent Marcus collaborator Joshua Espinoza on piano. Westminster Church is something of a second home for Todd; kick off the weekend and experience his music at its most inviting. Todd Marcus’ Low Tones perform at 6 p.m. at Westminster Church, 400 I St. SW. $5. (202) 484-7700. westminsterdc.org.

—Jackson Sinnenberg

Funk & r&B BlueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Mary Wilson. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $55–$70. bluesalley.com. dar ConStitution hall 1776 D St. NW. (202) 6284780. Nu Soul Revival Tour feat. Musiq Soulchild. 8 p.m. $52–$99. dar.org. the haMilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

Antibalas. 8 p.m. $20–$25. thehamiltondc.com.

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gypSy Sally’S 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. Jazz Is Phish. 9 p.m. $15–$20. gypsysallys.com.

classical Kennedy Center ConCert hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. NSO: Hahn plays Mendelssohn/ Strauss, Janácek & Dvorák. 8 p.m. $15–$89. kennedy-center.org.

MuSiC Center at StrathMore 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. National Philharmonic: Brian Ganz Plays Chopin. 8 p.m. $34–$88. strathmore.org.

Folk

rock

BarnS at Wolf trap 1635 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. 1964: Beatles Tribute. 8 p.m. $38–$42. wolftrap.org.

BlaCK Cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Sinkane, Hot 8 Brass Band. 8 p.m. $16–$18. blackcatdc.com.

CoMet ping pong 5037 Connecticut Ave. NW. (202) 364-0404. Meat Wave, Chill Parents. 10 p.m. $12. cometpingpong.com.

BirChMere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Arlo Guthrie. 7:30 p.m. $65. birchmere.com. linColn theatre 1215 U St. NW. (202) 888-0050.

Leo Kottke, Keller Williams. 8 p.m. $35. thelincolndc.com.

Blues gypSy Sally’S 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. Hard Swimmin’ Fish. 8 p.m. Free. gypsysallys.com.

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Jazz

classical

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

New Orleans Suspects and Bonerama. 8 p.m. $22.50– $32.50. thehamiltondc.com.

Folk

BlaCK Cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Sinkane, Hot 8 Brass Band. 8 p.m. $16–$18. blackcatdc.com.

tWinS Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Hot Club of Baltimore. 9 p.m.; 11 p.m. $27. twinsjazz.com.

electronic

9:30 CluB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Liquid Stranger & Manic Focus. 10 p.m. $20. 930.com. flaSh 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Chus & Ceballos. 8 p.m. $20. flashdc.com. u Street MuSiC hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Barclay Crenshaw. 10 p.m. $10–$15. ustreetmusichall.com.

Funk & r&B

BlueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Mary Wilson. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $55–$70. bluesalley.com. hoWard theatre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Buika. 8 p.m. $65–$110. thehowardtheatre.com. roCK & roll hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

Lee Fields & The Expressions. 8 p.m. $25. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

sunday rock

BlaCK Cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Lemuria, Cayetana, Mikey Erg. 7:30 p.m. $15. blackcatdc.com. galaxy hut 2711 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. (703) 5258646. the Delarcos, Spidercake. 9 p.m. $5. galaxyhut.com.

MuSiC Center at StrathMore 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. BSO: Dvořák’s Cello Concerto. 3 p.m. $35–$99. strathmore.org. gypSy Sally’S 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700.

Grand Ole Ditch. 8 p.m. $10–$12. gypsysallys.com.

Jazz

tWinS Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Joe Vetter Quartet. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $22. twinsjazz.com.

electronic

u Street MuSiC hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

XXYYXX. 9 p.m. $20. ustreetmusichall.com.

Funk & r&B

BetheSda BlueS & Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. The Bar-Kays & Brick. 7 p.m.; 10 p.m. $70. bethesdabluesjazz.com.

BlueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Mary Wilson. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $55–$70. bluesalley.com. hoWard theatre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Keke Wyatt, Black Alley, The Fix, PatriceLIVE. 8:30 p.m. $30–$46. thehowardtheatre.com.

Monday rock

BlaCK Cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Darkest Hour, Ringworm, Rotten Sound. 8 p.m. $20. blackcatdc.com.

classical

Kennedy Center theater laB 2700 F St. NW. 202-467-4600. Aizuri Quartet. 7:30 p.m. $45. kennedy-center.org.

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While the President tries to ban more Iranians from coming to the U.S., the 21st Annual Iranian Film Festival continues through March 1. This year’s event, titled Reseeing Iran, offers a mix of recent cutting edge Iranian movies from filmmakers including Oscar winner Asghar Farhadi as well as some old classics, largely by Abbas Kiarostami, the legendary director who died last year. In recent years, some directors have gotten bolder in addressing socio-political topics. Reza Dormishian’s latest, Lantouri, is a harrowing, suspenseful effort about the relationship between a criminal rehabilitation activist and a troubled member of a cold-blooded gang of thieves who falls in love with her. Some scenes that graphically invoke the legal concept of “an eye for an eye” are gruesome, while others, employing a range of speakers, will test the viewer’s ability to read subtitles quickly. Reportedly influenced by Jean-Luc Godard and Iranian documentaries, Dormishian’s confrontational work addresses women’s and human rights and questions how far the notion of forgiveness should go. The festival runs through March 1 at AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center, 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. $8–$13. (301) 495-6700. afi.com/silver.

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Boasting some of the cheapest booze in the U Street Corridor, guest DJs who always tear up the club, and a famously raucous following, Tropixxx at Velvet Lounge is D.C.’s favorite reason to hate Monday morning. Tropixxx is now reserved for special occasions and holiday weekends, so that extra day for recuperation is the perfect excuse to party even harder. And resident DJs The Lothario, The Clown Prince, and Mathias make it all too easy to go balls-to-the-wall by providing an energetic soundtrack of global club music from opening to closing. On President’s Day weekend, the crew welcomes Baltimore’s Trillnatured to rock the decks with them. Voted Best DJ in the Club in 2016 by Baltimore City Paper, Trillnatured flexes a catalog of proven party rockers to motivate a dance floor with ease—a perfect addition to the wild nights of Tropixxx. Trillnatured performs with The Lothario, The Crown Prince, and Mathias at 10 p.m. at Velvet Lounge, 915 V St. NW. Free. (202) 462-3213. velvetloungedc.com.

—Casey Embert

Funk & r&B

BirChMere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Maceo Parker. 7:30 p.m. $39.50. birchmere.com.

BlueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Kendra Foster. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $40. bluesalley.com.

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dC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. River Whyless.

9 p.m. $15. dcnine.com. gypSy Sally’S 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. Tanner Carlton & The Bottle Shop. 10 p.m. Free. gypsysallys.com.

Jazz

Hip-Hop

Kennedy Center ConCert hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. NSO Pops: Snarky Puppy. 8 p.m. $25–$75. kennedy-center.org.

Folk

SoundCheCK 1420 K St. NW. (202) 789-5429.

Blurred feat. Prince Fox. 10 p.m. $15. soundcheckdc.com.

fillMore Silver Spring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie. 8 p.m. $26.50. fillmoresilverspring.com.

BlueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Todd Bauchspies. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $37. bluesalley.com.

Funk & r&B

9:30 CluB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears. 7 p.m. $25. 930.com.

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Funk & r&B

BlueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Andre Jackson. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $37. bluesalley.com.

tHursday rock

gypSy Sally’S 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. Gang of Thieves. 8:30 p.m. $8. gypsysallys.com.

BlaCK Cat BaCKStage 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 6674490. Pissed Jeans, Hand Grenade Job. 7:30 p.m. $15. blackcatdc.com.

the haMilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. Stephen Kellog. 7:30 p.m. $20–$25. thehamiltondc.com.

dC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Cosmonauts & The Molochs. 8:30 p.m. $10–$12. dcnine.com.

ManSion at StrathMore 10701 Rockville Pike, North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Joey Antico. 7:30 p.m. $17. strathmore.org.

gypSy Sally’S 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. SunDried Vibes. 8 p.m. $8–$10. gypsysallys.com.

classical

Kennedy Center eiSenhoWer theater 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Mason Bates’s KC Jukebox: Music & Instruments of Victor Gama. 8 p.m. $19–$29. kennedy-center.org.

Hip-Hop

gypSy Sally’S 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700.

Richie Ray. 5:59 p.m. Free. gypsysallys.com.

Hip-Hop

9:30 CluB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. The-Dream.

7 p.m. $30–$150. 930.com.

Folk

gypSy Sally’S 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. Leesah Stiles. 7:30 p.m. Free. gypsysallys.com. u Street MuSiC hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Lisa Hannigan. 7 p.m. $25. ustreetmusichall.com.

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GeorGe saunders

Author George Saunders’ short story collections and nonfiction essays are met with near-universal acclaim.

The Upstate New York-dwelling, Buddhism-practicing writer comes across as a nice guy in interviews, even though his stories involve bizarre premises like grown adults working as cavemen in amusement parks, and fans are eagerly anticipating his debut novel, Lincoln in the Bardo. Set in D.C. in the early days of the Civil War, the story follows President Lincoln as he struggles to cope with his young son’s sudden death and encounters ghosts and other supernatural creatures in the Georgetown cemetery where the boy is buried. When Saunders comes to town to discuss the book, local readers get an extra treat: The author has recruited a cast of D.C. actors to join him in reading from the book to give it a little extra life. And while the reading doesn’t take place in Oak Hill Cemetery, where Willie Lincoln resides, the church where the event takes place adds a bit of spookiness to the proceedings.

George Saunders reads at 7 p.m. at St. Paul’s Church, 4900 Connecticut Ave. NW. $28–$40. (202) 364-1919. politics-prose.com.

—Caroline Jones

Blues

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

Tedeschi-Trucks Band. 8 p.m. $63–$88. warnertheatredc.com.

Jazz

BlueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Kim Waters. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $55–$70. bluesalley.com. the haMilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

Dirty Dozen Brass Band. 7:30 p.m. $25–$30. thehamiltondc.com.

electronic

dC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Vallis Alps, Matt Maeson. 9 p.m. $12. dcnine.com.

SoundCheCK 1420 K St. NW. (202) 789-5429. Elephante. 10 p.m. $20. soundcheckdc.com. u Street MuSiC hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Cosmo’s Midnight. 10:30 p.m. $10. ustreetmusichall.com.

Funk & r&B

BetheSda BlueS & Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. Angie Stone. 7 p.m.; 10 p.m. $70–$85. bethesdabluesjazz.com. hoWard theatre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic. 8 p.m. $42–$191. thehowardtheatre.com.

Theater

aS you liKe it When Rosalind is banished from her home and flees to the forest, one of the Bard’s great romantic comedies begins. The classic tale of mistaken identities, love, and beauty comes to life at the Folger under the direction of Gaye Taylor Upchurch.

Folger Elizabethan Theatre. 201 E. Capitol St. SE. To March 5 $35–$75. (202) 544-7077. folger.edu.

BaBy SCreaMS MiraCle A woman finds herself trapped with her estranged family during a wild storm as their home collapses and the world falls apart around them. Clare Barron’s new play comes to life at Woolly under the direction of Howard Shalwitz.

Woolly Mammoth Theatre. 641 D St. NW. To Feb. 26 $20–$54. (202) 393-3939. woollymammoth.net.

Caroline, or Change Set in 1960s Louisiana, this Tony Kushner musical chronicles the relationship between a black maid and the white boy who she

cares for. As the characters sing about historical figures and events of the time, tensions simmer over when a small amount of money goes missing. Round House Theatre Bethesda. 4545 East-West Highway, Bethesda. To Feb. 26 $56–$76. (240) 644-1100. roundhousetheatre.org. the gin gaMe Roz White and Doug Brown star in the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama that takes place over a game of gin rummy. As the action rises, their interactions become more intense and more details about their relationship are revealed. MetroStage. 1201 N. Royal St., Alexandria. To March 12 $55–$60. (703) 548-9044. metrostage.org.

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Set in Baltimore and influenced by the Trayvon Martin case, this new comedy riffs on mistaken identity, incarceration, and being black on a privileged college campus. Atlas Performing Arts Center. 1333 H St. NE. To Feb. 19 $20–$60. (202) 399-7993. atlasarts.org. the hoW and the Why By the writer of hit TV shows In Treatment and The Affair, this exhilarating and keenly perceptive play about science, family, and survival of the fittest grapples with the choices faced by women of every generation. Emotion and evolution collide on the eve of a prestigious conference when an up-and-coming evolutionary biologist, whose theories might just change the way we regard sex itself, wrestles for the truth with an estab-

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the goSpel at ColonuS Jennifer L. Nelson directs this musical that reconfigures Sophocles’ story about Oedipus’ final days and sets it in a black Pentecostal church. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, this production features searing gospel songs like “How Shall I See You Through My Tears?” and “Lift Him Up.” Gunston Arts Center. 2700 S. Lang St., Arlington. To March 26 $30–$35. (703) 228-1850. arlingtonarts.org. h2o In this Jane Martin drama, a jaded Hollywood actor seeks redemption in a production of Hamlet. When he meets a conservative Christian woman to cast as Ophelia, his priorities change and he’s forced to question his past decisions in order to move forward. Rep Stage at Howard Community College.

10901 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia. To March 5 $15–$40. (443) 518-1500. repstage.org.

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i Wanna fuCKing tear you apart Morgan Gould dissects the inner workings of friendships in this comedy. When a new friend comes between two pals’ pattern of self-loathing and TV binging, they’re forced to confront the self-destructive patterns that defined their relationship. Studio Theatre. 1501 14th St. NW. To Feb. 19 $20–$55. (202) 332-3300. studiotheatre.org.

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King CharleS iii David Muse directs Mike Bartlett’s fictitious imagining of the reign of Queen Elizabeth II’s successor as his famous relatives look on. This modern history is told in Shakespearean blank verse and stars Robert Joy and Jeanne Paulsen. Sidney Harman Hall. 610 F St. NW. To March 12 $42–$118. (202) 5471122. shakespearetheatre.org.

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laSt train to niBroC Two young people meet on a train that’s carrying the bodies of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Nathanael West in this slight romance from playwright Arlene Hutton. One traveler aims to become a writer while one considers a career on the mission fields but as they connect over time, viewers learn the depth of their feelings for one another. Washington Stage Guild at Undercroft Theatre. 900 Massachusetts Ave. NW. To Feb. 19 $50–$60. (240) 5820050. stageguild.org.

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The 1957 film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises features plenty of good looking people (among them Errol Flynn and Ava Gardner) but doesn’t really dig into the deep despair every character feels. Elevator Repair Service explores the existential dread that dominates the text in The Select, its new adaptation of the novel now showing at the Lansburgh Theatre. ERS is best known for Gatz, its eight-hour adaptation/live reading of The Great Gatsby, and while The Select won’t run that long, it will look at the story and the characters in a new light. Yes, Lady Brett Ashley will still be glamorous and yes, Jake Barnes will still struggle with intimacy and impotency, but this production incorporates music and dance and aims to make this story appeal to all viewers, not just those looking for a history lesson on the Lost Generation. How the cast intends to recreate a bullfight on stage remains to be seen. The play runs Feb. 18 to April 2 at the Lansburgh Theatre, 450 7th St. NW. $44–$118. (202) 547-1122. shakespearetheatre.org.

—Caroline Jones

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It’s hard to describe the music of Horse Lords without coming across as pretentious.

The Baltimore-based quartet makes somewhat difficult music… nope, that doesn’t work.

It’s easy to say that Horse Lords’ music isn’t very accessible… see?

Still sounds pretentious. Here’s the gist: Horse Lords are a rock band— guitar, bass, drums, and saxophone—but it’s hard to describe their music as rock. Utilizing West African rhythms and droney, minimalist compositions, Horse Lords play a kind of polyrhythmic experimental take on rock, deconstructing rhythm and melody and, instead, riffing on a single rhythm over and over until it evolves into something new. The band’s latest album, 2016’s Interventions, finds the quartet more focused and tight than ever before, locking in with one another over the course of nine micro-jams that culminate in a hypnotic aural trip. It’s just one of the many rewards of the band’s seemingly “difficult” music. Horse Lords perform with Palm and Dove Lady at 8 p.m. at Songbyrd Music House and Record Cafe, 2477 18th St. NW. $12–$14. (202) 450-2917. songbyrddc.com.

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peter and the StarCatCher Learn about the events that led up to the story of Peter Pan in this prequel that finds an unnamed orphan boy fighting to outwit a charming and villainous pirate. This Tony Award-winning play, inspired by a Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson novel, comes to life at Constellation Theatre under the direction of Kathryn Chase Bryer.

Constellation Theatre at Source. 1835 14th St. NW. To March 12 $20–$45. (202) 204-7741. constellationtheatre.org. the river A man and a woman spend a night together at a fishing cabin and try to capture the magic of love in this mysterious drama. Rebecca Holderness directs this play by Jez Butterworth. Spooky Action Theater. 1810 16th St. NW. To Feb. 26 $20–$40.

(202) 248-0301. spookyaction.org. roe Lisa Loomer’s world premiere play looks at both sides of the abortion issue through the lens of Norma McCorvey, the woman who, under the alias Jane Roe, helped secure abortion rights for all women in the landmark Supreme Court case. Narrated by Norma and her attorney, Sarah Weddington, the drama follows the pair past the oral arguments to see what happens after laws and opinions are changed. Arena Stage. 1101 6th St. SW. To Feb. 19 $40–$90. (202) 4883300. arenastage.org. the SeleCt Elevator Repair Service, the theater company behind previous stage adaptations of novels like The Great Gatsby and The Sound and the Fury, turns its attention to Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises. The narrator tells a story of love amidst the Lost Generation as the action travels from Paris to Barcelona to Pamplona. Lansburgh Theatre. 450 7th St. NW. To April 2 $44–$118. (202) 547-1122. shakespearetheatre.org.

SWeeney todd: the deMon BarBer of fleet Street Local favorite E. Faye Butler stars as Mrs. Lovett in this murderous musical about a villainous barber who collaborates with the neighborhood pie maker to bake his victims into pastries. Stephen Sondheim’s dark and twisted tale is directed by Jason Loewith and choreographed by Tommy Rapley.

Olney Theatre Center. 2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney. To March 5 $45–$80. (301) 924-3400. olneytheatre.org. the taMing of the ShreW Synetic brings back its popular wordless production of Shakespeare’s classic comedy about the division of the sexes and unrequited love. Associate Artistic Director Irina Tsikurishvili stars in this Hollywood-set production. Synetic Theater at Crystal City. 1800 South Bell St. , Arlington. To March 19 $20–$60. (866) 811-4111. synetictheater.org. trevor A woman and her beloved chimpanzee, who used to appear in commercials, struggle to stay together in this comedy from playwright Nick Jones.

Alex Levy directs this story inspired by true events that looks at the lies we tell and lengths we go to to protect the things we love. 1st Stage. 1524 Spring Hill Road, McLean. To Feb. 26 $15–$30. (703) 854-1856.

1ststagetysons.org. the troJan WoMen The Riot Grrrls of Taffety Punk Theatre Company present their take on Euripedes’ ancient play about women dealing with the aftermath of war. Described as one of the first pieces of anti-war activism, this stirring drama is directed by Kelsey Mesa. Taffety Punk at Capitol Hill Arts Work-

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As a songwriter and producer, Terius Nash has been behind some of the biggest R&B hits of the millennium: Beyoncé’s “Single Ladies,” Rihanna’s “Umbrella,” Ciara’s “Ride,” and Mariah Carey’s “Obsessed,” to name just a few. As The-Dream, success has been harder to come by, but his solo music is no less important. Across five albums, his falsetto-laced, synth-heavy jams have evoked legends like R. Kelly, Prince, and Timbaland and lit up R&B obsessives’ playlists, if not the charts. And while it’s been four years since his uneven IV Play LP, he has hinted that his long-awaited Love Affair album will finally see the light of day in March. As he once explained to SOHH.com, “They love you when you hot and when you’re cold they don’t.” For an artist who has had plenty of cold spells and hot flashes, Love Affair could be the album that makes The-Dream synonymous with the artists he has worked alongside for all these years. The-Dream performs at 7 p.m. at 9:30 Club, 815 V St. NW. $30–$150. (202) 265-0930. 930.com. —Chris Kelly

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