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Georgia Avenue on their Mind: Aggrieved tenants and their Virginia landlord live starkly different realities.

8 Proceed With Caution: Bowser does the bidding of a giant electronic sign company.

9 The Indy List 10 Savage Love 11 Gear Prudence

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In which readers consider their mayor

Darrow MontgoMery

Fresh Pan Last week’s cover story from Jeffrey Anderson weighing the merits and demerits of Mayor Muriel Bowser and her administration two years into her first term (“Boom and Gloom,” Feb. 17) was perhaps an overdue reflection on a politician who campaigned on growing the city’s middle class but has presided over an enduring gulf between the rich and abjectly poor.

Though Bowser has her defenders, readers seized more strongly on their beefs with the city’s top executive, who is perhaps best known for nurturing relationships with developers, many of whom contributed to her controversial political action committee Fresh PAC and frequently benefit from deals involving city-owned land.

“What do you expect from a [Mayor Adrian] Fenty clone?” reader S.E. wrote. “The Mayor needs more diversity in her hiring practices and selection of directors,” Pointpleasant wrote. “There is no outreach to a diverse workforce. The inability to attract staff from all backgrounds is astounding and will continue to keep DC as a sleepy southern town rather than a robust metropol[is].”

At least one reader, djbuckdc, was willing to cut her some slack.

“When all is said and done, not sure what the beef is,” he wrote. “Overall, I’d say she’s done a pretty good job. Being mayor of any large city is no easy task, resources are limited, challenges many.”

But Jack_B_8 doubled down. “Bowser is just like Trump: both arrogant egomaniacs, who lie through their teeth, as they play metaphorical sleight of hand with you,” he wrote. “And dump Bowser, voters shall in two years. She’ll never carry wards 7 & 8—she’s too uptown BOUGY and insincere.” He also offered props to those who were willing to go on the record with their criticisms of Bowser. “Bravo to Elissa Silverman, Elizabeth Davis, and Parisa Norouzi. These are women DC can be proud of.”

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Housing Complex

ginia property records show he owns an Alexandria home worth more than $1 million with his wife. He has also partnered with developers to build and sell a 175-unit luxury apartment project in Old Town.

As a landlord, though, Androus has a different reputation. Although he’s quick to note that many of his tenants have his personal cell phone number in case of emergencies, like when a woman got locked out of her apartment in one of his Georgia Avenue properties last week, tenants say he’s out of touch with the conditions they endure. He landscaped the building where the woman got locked out, for example, but its front door fails to lock. Tenants are afraid to use the four-machine laundry room in the basement because trespassers have accessed it.

“We have repeatedly made repairs to the locks in these buildings, and we continue to make repairs,” Androus says, pointing out that Larnaca has fulfilled the 154 maintenance requests it received for both Georgia Avenue buildings since April 12, 2016. “We are working hard to keep this building safe and secure.” He says his company has completely replaced the roofs, put in new gutters and downspouts, and redid common-area lights and paint, among other work.

Yet what appears to be water damage lines a wall in the 21-unit building’s lobby, and windows inside apartments leak when it rains. Speaking through a Spanish interpreter alongside her two young boys, three-year tenant Yesenia Jurado says she’s purchased rat poison with her own money. Jurado even recounts spreading bleach around her walls to treat bedbugs. “It would be better to live somewhere else,” she says.

In October 2014, the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs placed an $11,000 lien on the building Jurado lives in for Larnaca’s “failure to pay fines and penalDarrow Montgomery

building, it offered $5,000 buyouts to tenants, Way up on Georgia Avenue NW, near D.C.’s which few took. The remaining residents— Maryland border, Denise Smith stands out- who pay on average $1,000 in monthly rent— side her apartment, on the first floor of an agreed to let the landlord take vacant units out of rent control in exchange for renovations and almost half-vacant building, and sighs.

Smith heads the building’s dwindling ten- security measures.

“This is a nice area and it’s going to be nicant association, having lived there for five years. Hers is one of two rent-controlled prop- er,” Smith reflects. While she hopes to stay in erties on the block the neighborhood, she says she doesn’t have owned by Larnaca, options, given prices. She thinks the owner a local real estate “wants to redo the whole building.”

That owner is Alexandria resident Theo firm that shares the name of a city in Cyprus and owns at least five Androus, who founded Larnaca several other apartment buildings in Ward 4. Larna- years ago. A motivational speaker, he has givca bought Smith’s 15-unit building just under en TED-esque talks on self-reliance and faca year ago for $1.6 million. It bought the 21-unit building two addresses up for less at the end of 2013.

Under the new management, the front door to Smith’s building at last locks securely, whereas before vagrants would walk in off the avenue. But other problems persist. Tenants say bedbugs have invaded units, leaks are common, and workers inconsistently follow up on maintenance requests made via a 24-hour bilingual hotline (many of the residents in both buildings are native Spanish speakers). In recent months, a ceiling collapsed in a unit near Smith’s.

“I have a brand new grandbaby and I’m certainly not trying to have them come here,” she says. “They only respond in crisis situations … or if we sue them.”

With the help of pro bono attorneys, five tenants in Smith’s building have filed suit against Larnaca over alleged violations Larnaca tenant Denise Smith of the city’s housing code. But as of today, just one of those lawsuits is still pending. ing the unexpected. More than a decade ago, With development creeping farther north on an NBC4 segment about his completion of along Georgia Avenue, including the major a triathlon after breaking his leg, Androus ofchanges in store for the Walter Reed Army fered a comment typical of his speeches, some Medical Center site, Smith suspects that the of which are available on YouTube: “Adversity owner’s goal is to get the current tenants out is a far better coach than success.” and convert her building into luxury apartAndrous comes from a Greek family and, ments. When Larnaca was acquiring the tenants say, is known to visit Greece often. Vir-

ties,” according to property records.

Rob Wohl, who translated Jurado’s comments and works as a tenant organizer for the Latino Economic Development Center, says the “systemic issues” at Larnaca’s Georgia Avenue sites suggest that District housing code enforcement often “falls flat,” and, more broadly, that D.C.’s “lack of affordable housing means people have to put up with this stuff.”

“Landlords realize there’s a lot of money to be made if they can get tenants to go,” Wohl says. “And there’s also a lot of money to be made just sitting on a property.”

Larnaca went on an acquisition spree around the beginning of April 2015, buying an apartment building on Jefferson Street NW and two contiguous ones on Madison Street NW. It bought its first Madison Street building and another on New Hampshire Avenue NW around the beginning of 2014. Their combined value has risen several hundred thousand dollars since then.

Androus says the tenants of his Georgia Avenue properties owe him more than $41,000 in back rent, but that hasn’t stopped him from paying for maintenance work. The tenants and Wohl, however, say withholding rent is leverage for ensuring Larnaca makes repairs.

“All this money they owe me has had zero impact on my willingness or attempts to make repairs,” Androus says, adding he has “no interest in selling or converting” the buildings.

Last year, the 15-unit building was assessed at $1.1 million, while the 21-unit building was assessed at $1.3 million. Tenants and advocates say Androus wanted to buy the building in between these two, but it recently became a co-op. It was also assessed at $1.3 million.

The middle property is a near-mirror image of Jurado’s building, minus the landscaping Androus installed. Cheryl Perry, who is tenant association president for the latter, says the entrance of that middle property had been treated with salt after forecasts of snow—while her building had not. Perry has lived at 7444 Georgia Ave. NW for nearly 20 years.

She says Larnaca is “the worst” company that’s owned the site, doing only “surfacelevel” fixes. Although she admits “some of the problems are on the tenants,” like accumulating trash, Perry blames Larnaca for security issues, like when a homeless woman stayed in her hallway for a couple of nights about two months ago.

“This is our home,” Perry says. “This is what we consider home. I want to be able to sit on my couch and not worry about mice running through or in the closet making noise. I don’t want to live like that or be afraid to go out the door because you’re afraid of what’s on the other side.”

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DistrictLinE Proceed With Caution Mayor Bowser does the bidding of a giant digital sign company.

By Jeffrey Anderson Just a few months ago, the D.C. government was unified in saying no to the proliferation of digital signs across the city and the powerful corporations behind them.

But that position has changed, at least in Mayor Muriel Bowser’s office. Loose Lips has learned that Bowser is planning to circumvent her own government by attempting to reopen a backdoor already slammed shut by the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs, the Office of the City Administrator, and the Office of the Attorney General.

Top mayoral aide Beverly Perry has taken control of the digital sign portfolio, which stands to return millions of dollars per year to developers and owners of some of the choicest real estate from Georgetown to Petworth and L’Enfant Plaza to Mazza Gallerie. Bowser’s office isn’t offering specifics or sharing the rationale for reversing course, but there are clues about the mayor’s motives.

Consistent with a theme of the Bowser administration, backroom dealings, lobbyist leverage, and ties to her inner circle loom large.

Last spring, Digi Outdoor Media began installing a network of 60 digital signs with a projected value of $800 million over the next five or so years. DCRA issued stop-work orders because the signs violated permit regulations. In July, with work still underway, City Administrator Rashad Young issued emergency regulations requiring permits for signs that were located inside a building and clearly discernable from other properties.

Digi ignored those actions until D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine obtained a temporary injunction in November. But the plot thickened in December when Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans introduced emergency legislation to allow the signs to remain and for dozens more to be installed.

Evans pulled his bill for lack of votes—and after LL exposed his ties to Digi Media CEO Don MacCord, with whom he bundled $52,300 in campaign contributions from business interests that included developers with ties to Bowser.

Yet Digi is like water on a stone. In large part because of lawyer-lobbyist-fundraiser and perennial influencer David Wilmot, who has been working councilmembers and D.C. officials on behalf of Digi Media.

Wilmot is a neighbor, friend, and golf partner of Beverly Perry, a longtime Evans ally, and was a key fundraiser for Bowser’s 2014 campaign— but only after Bowser defeated Vince Gray in

Loose Lips

the primary.

But people in the Wilson Building clam up quickly at the mention of him. Perhaps because Wilmot isn’t registered as a Digi lobbyist. That would be J.R. Meyers, a Bowser confidant who traveled to China with her on an economic development mission last year. Meyers has reported lobbying seven councilmembers on behalf of Digi, including Evans and council Chairman Phil Mendelson, who received $7,000 in constituent service fund donations late last year from Wilmot, Digi executives, and developers with ties to Bowser, Perry, and Evans.

Observers of D.C. politics know that Wilmot is the heavy hitter in this particular scenario. And despite not being registered as Digi’s lobbyist, he has reportedly met with multiple councilmembers, the city administrator, multiple agency directors, Perry, and Bowser chief of staff John Falcicchio.

Falchiccio confirms meeting with Wilmot about Digi and the signage issue but declines to share details of the conversation.

Only one councilmember would confirm meeting with Wilmot about digital signs. A staffer for Ward 5 member Kenyan McDuffie met with Wilmot and Meyers after Evans pulled his emergency bill in December. Another councilmember says Wilmot was recently seen talking with Ward 7 Councilmember Vince Gray and that he visited Ward 8 Councilmember Trayon White.

When asked to confirm, Gray’s spokeswoman says, “You can ask David Wilmot.” White, who received $5,000 from a fundraiser at Wilmot’s home on Nov. 16, says his meeting “wasn’t about” Digi Media.

So why all the secrecy? One reason might be that Evans, the mayor’s only staunch ally with any stature on the council, feels pressure to deliver for Digi. He was seen rushing in and out of the mayor’s office Tuesday. And when LL asked him about Digi he replied half-jokingly, “I don’t want to talk about Digi. You did me in last time,” referring to the bundling article.

It might not be a laughing matter. LL’s sources say that new digital signs have been built based on confidence that regulatory obstacles will be cleared. “The Digi sales person from Premier Media was bragging how they got a deal worked out with the mayor’s office,” a source says.

Opponents of the digital signage end-around are not amused. Says Meg Maguire, vice chair of the Committee of 100, which advocates for responsible city planning, “If Mayor Bowser tries to undercut DCRA and the attorney general’s office, then she is kowtowing to industry pressure. And that is not only cynical but unconscionable.”

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I am a straight married man. My wife and I have a 4-year-old and a 3-month-old. We’ve just started having intercourse again. For Valentine’s Day, we spent the night in a B&B while grandma watched the kids. We had edibles, drank sparkling wine, and then fucked.

It was amazing. After we came and while we were still stoned and drunk, my wife mentioned she was open to inviting others into our sex life. I asked about getting a professional sex worker. She said no. But maybe if we were in a bar (we’re never in bars) and met someone (a unicorn), she might be into it. Anal came up. She’s always said she’s up for trying anything once. I have a desire to experiment with anal. (Not just me entering her, but her pegging me as well.) I asked if she would use the vibrator we brought on me, just to experiment. She said she was too high to do anything. I felt let down. I feel she unknowingly teased me with fantasies I have, not knowing I actually have them. We have a good sex life, and I’m willing to write off the fantasies we discussed while high and drunk. It’s the teasing that drove me crazy.

—Having And Realizing Desires P.S. I’m in no hurry. We just had a baby, and I don’t want to pressure my wife right now. My fear is that she may only like the idea of exploring our sexuality together and not the reality of it.

Some people think about, talk about, and masturbate about certain fantasies without ever wanting to realize them. Let’s call them Team Fantasize. Some people think about, etc., certain fantasies and would very much like to realize them. Let’s call them Team Realize. There’s nothing wrong with either team. But when someone on Team Fantasize is married to someone on Team Realize, well, that can be a problem. Knowing your spouse is turned on by fantasies you share but rules out realizing them—or sets impossible conditions for realizing them— can be extremely frustrating. And sometimes a frustrated Team Realize spouse will say something like this to their Team Fantasize mate: “Talking about these fantasies together—this kind of dirty talk—it gets my hopes up about actually doing it. If it’s never going to happen, we have to stop talking about it, because it’s frustrating.”

The problem with that approach? Swingers clubs, BDSM parties, and the strap-on-dildo sections of your finer sex-positive sex-toy stores everywhere are filled with couples who used to be on opposite teams—one from Team Fantasize, the other from Team Realize—but they’re both on Team Realize now. And what got them on the same team? Continuing to discuss and share fantasies, even at the risk of frustrating the Team Realize spouse.

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So if you ever want to have that threesome or experiment with anal, HARD, you need to keep talking with your wife about these fantasies—and you need to tell her your fantasies too!

or experiment with anal, HARD, you need to keep talking with your wife about these fantasies—and you need to tell her your fantasies too! Tell her you’re not pressuring her, of course, but let her know these are things you would actually like to do, and the more you talk about them, the more you want to do them. If she keeps talking with you about them, that’s a sign. Not a sign that she’s a cruel tease, HARD, but a sign that she’s inching closr toward pulling on a Team Realize jersey.

—Dan Savage I wanted to tell you about something that happened to my friend. (Really!) She was going to bang this dude from OkCupid but wasn’t getting a great feeling, so she went to bed and let him crash on the couch. She woke up the next day to find her underwear drawer empty on the floor and all of her underwear wrapped around this dude’s feet. She stealthily removed all the panties from his perv hooves and put her shit away. When the morning actualized itself, they parted amicably with no mention of the underwear slippers.

—Men In Alaska Ask yourself which is the likelier scenario, MIA. Scenario 1: This guy stumbled around your friend’s dark apartment in the middle of the night, managed to find her underwear drawer, pulled it out and set it on the floor, made himself a pair of pantie-booties, had himself a wank, and fell back to sleep.

All without waking your friend. Then your friend got up in the morning, saw her panties wrapped around his hooves, peeled them off one by one, and returned her panties to their drawer. All without waking Perv Hooves up. Scenario 2: Your friend got pervy with this guy, wanted to tell you about this guy’s kink,

but was too embarrassed to admit that she played along and possibly got into it.

My money’s on Scenario 2, MIA, because I’ve heard this song before: “I met this pervert who did these perverted things in front of me while I was asleep, and I wasn’t in any way involved and I wasn’t harmed. Isn’t that pervert crazy?” Yeah, no. In most cases, the person relaying the story played an active role in the evening’s perversions but edited the story to make themselves look like a passive bystander, not a willing participant.

—DS

I’m a 30-year-old straight woman who has been with the same guy (high school sweetheart!) for the last 13 years. We love each other deeply, best friends, etc. The problem isn’t that the sex isn’t good—he’s very good at making me come. But the sex is vanilla and routine, and I would like us to go beyond that. Nothing extreme, I just want to switch things up a bit.

Talking about sex makes my husband REALLY uncomfortable. If I ask him what he’d like me to do to him while we’re having sex, he shuts down. He’ll say, “Everything you do is good,” and leave it there. In the very few conversations we’ve had about this stuff, he’s said that he feels intimidated and doesn’t know what to say. This is incredibly frustrating for me.

How do I get him to loosen up and feel more comfortable about talking to me so that we can eventually progress to some new experiences?

—Why Husband Is Prudish Have you told him what you want? If you haven’t—if you’re as vague in your conversations with him as you were in your letter to me—you’re essentially asking your husband to guess at your undisclosed interests or kinks. Your husband is probably terrified of guessing wrong. He doesn’t know what to do, he doesn’t know what to say—but he’s told you he’s fine with whatever you want to do. So stop asking him what he wants to do to you, WHIP, and start doing whatever it is you want to do. Take the initiative, be the change you want to see in the sack, lean in or bend over or whatever.

From your sign-off, WHIP, I’m guessing you’re interested in some type of BDSM play, most likely with you in the sub role.

So lay your kink cards on the table and offer to dominate him first. A lot of subs do some topping, i.e., doing unto others as they would like done unto them, and some subs become tops exclusively. But take baby steps—it’s mild before wild. You gotta nail those junior-varsity kinks before moving up to varsity-level kinks, etc.

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

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Joseph Harris, formerly homeless, has worked evictions for over a decade.

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THE HOMELESS EVICTORS Unchecked eviction companies pay the homeless illegally low wages to put people on the street.

By Elizabeth Flock It Is a bitter cold morning in November, and the sun is just creeping up over the horizon. But for over an hour already, two unmarked vans have been idling or parked outside S.O.M.E. (So Others Might Eat), a longtime nonprofit that feeds D.C.’s homeless. These are the eviction company vans, known as “trucks,” and they are waiting for cheap, off-the-books labor.

Years of experience tells them they can get it at S.O.M.E., where men who sleep on the street or in the shelter congregate in the mornings.

These men, and the occasional woman, are always looking to make a few dollars, and the eviction companies know the homeless will accept below the minimum wage of $11.50— accept even $7 total to work an eviction, which can take a few hours or most of a day. And the companies also know that, because they are homeless, these men mostly will not complain, even if the job is to make others homeless.

Mostly. Today, an argument breaks out near one of the trucks. “They only pay you $7. They ain’t giving you nothing to eat. You’re better than that,” a tall, wiry man in a Chicago Bulls hat tells his shorter, squatter friend. “It’s better than nothing,” his friend says, moving past him to get in the truck, which is already crammed with men. The tall man shakes his head in frustration. “They always get the drunks and winos,” he mutters, and walks away.

Jason James, who stands nearby sipping coffee from a Styrofoam cup, is also frustrated, because today he didn’t get on a truck. He came all the way from Oxon Hill, Maryland, to S.O.M.E. on 71 O Street NW to try to make a few dollars, but he has already spent a few dollars on transport, and now he sees it was for nothing. “They don’t often take ‘us,’” James says, pointing at himself and a few others standing beside him in fresh, clean clothes. “You gotta have an addiction [to get chosen], because he gotta take his fix, so he’ll take whatever you give him.”

Some days, as many as four or five trucks show up outside S.O.M.E, each operated by a different eviction company. On those days, it’s easier for men like James to get on a truck. But today there

Photographs by Darrow Montgomery

are only two vehicles. Clusters of men gather around them, vying to get chosen for a “crew.”

In D.C., after a landlord successfully gets a writ of restitution to evict a tenant, he or she must hire an eviction crew to haul the tenant’s belongings to the curb. For the sake of speed— and because in D.C. evictions are overseen by the U.S. Marshals Service, which has other jobs to do—that crew must be large enough to quickly carry out the eviction. The marshals require a crew of 25 people for a single-family home, 20 for a two-bedroom apartment, and 15 for a one bedroom. Enter D.C.’s eviction companies, which are paid by landlords to show up with the appropriate-sized crew.

The people waiting for crew work outside S.O.M.E. take the jobs knowing the day will not be easy. According to interviews with more than a dozen people who work the trucks, this is what they are up against: First, there is no guarantee they’ll get paid what they’re offered. Second, there are no set hours. Also, if the work lasts all day, they may be able to eat or be given water, but they probably won’t. There is no insurance if anyone gets hurt.

There are no gloves and no dollies to move heavy furniture—only trash bags. There is often no transportation back to S.O.M.E. once the evictions are over, which could be in D.C. or far away in Virginia or Maryland.

There are some benefits to working these crews, of course. It is a job that requires no papers, doesn’t include background checks, and pays cash. There are opportunities for stealing— much-needed clothing, an iPad, cash found squirreled away under a mattress. Charles Millender Jr., who worked the trucks for years to support himself while living in the shelters and eating at S.O.M.E., says, “You set somebody out, and then you steal people’s stuff to try to survive. Ain’t nobody going to have sympathy for you for that. But it’s a hurting feeling.”

In fact, the ACLU has filed a complaint with the U.S. Marshals Service over the handling of the 2015 eviction of Southeast resident Donya Williams and her daughter. The complaint claims that marshals entered with guns

drawn —despite no evidence that she posed a threat— while she was naked and wouldn’t allow her to dress before marching her outside.

It also claims that a tablet computer and largescreen TV went missing during the eviction.

“Losing your home shouldn’t mean losing your dignity,” says D.C. ACLU senior staff attorney Scott Michelman.

Workers also have to be hard—or hardened—because, as in the case of the Williams family, the people being evicted are often home. There might be little children or old ladies or parents who are angry. And they may react in many different ways. They might swear, or shout, or cry. They might beg not to put them out on the street.

Dupree Cross, 38, with a graying beard, has worked evictions that pick up outside S.O.M.E. and elsewhere for years, but he says he mostly stopped after a man shot himself during an eviction. The suicide was a turning point for Cross but not an isolated event or a matter of his bad luck. In 2006, multiple psychiatrists wrote a letter to a journal of the American Psychiatric Association warning that eviction had been a significant risk factor for suicide in their patients. They asked why this had not been studied before.

“I got emotional with it after someone shot his head off,” Cross says. “We were evicting someone and the wife came out screaming: ‘He shot his head off!’ After that I said, ‘I can’t do this work anymore.’”

When men like Cross drop out, the companies know dozens of others among the homeless are ready and willing to take his place.

less newspaper Street Sense published an expose of their practices, which sparked a classaction lawsuit brought by a group of homeless and formerly homeless men who worked the trucks. International law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton represented the men, who alleged that six eviction companies in D.C. were paying below the minimum wage, and were even colluding to do so. Three of the companies settled before the court made its findings, including one that settled and then disappeared without making payment. In 2010, the court ordered that the remaining three companies start paying at least the minimum wage and also start maintaining wage records.

But only some of the companies complied with the court’s order. Three eviction companies—Crawford & Crawford, East Coast Express Evictions, and Platinum Realtor Services, Inc.—never showed up in court, and the court never issued any monetary judgment against them. While Platinum Realtor appears to have dissolved, the people who run Crawford & Crawford and East Coast Express continued to recruit outside S.O.M.E. as before. According to more than a dozen men who work the trucks, they are still paying illegally low wages. Some report they pay even less now. And without penalty or regulation, more companies have starting popping up to get in on the profit.

“We thought that this had been resolved years and years ago,” says Megan Hustings, interim director of the National Coalition for the Homeless, a nonprofit that helped the men bring the 2006 case.

D.C.’s evICtIon truCks have been showing up outside S.O.M.E. to find labor since at least 1999, when City Paper first published a story about how homeless people were being employed to make others homeless. Back then, eviction companies even went inside the nonprofit’s cafeteria to recruit, but S.O.M.E. put an end to that practice.

And since at least 2006, these companies have been paying their homeless day laborers below minimum wage. That year, the home-

D.C. has long struggled with the sheer number of evictions it has to handle. In 1983, the Washington Post published a story about the incredible backlog in evictions the city faced.

The prior year, 2,700 families had been evicted in D.C. for failure to pay rent, and 2,000 more evictions were approved but backlogged.

Though fewer evictions are executed today, the numbers remain high. In 2015, according to D.C.’s landlord and tenant court, landlords filed 32,590 cases seeking eviction. Most of these cas-

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es are dismissed or resolved through mediation, but 1,567 were executed last year—the vast majority over nonpayment of rent. Most evictions took place in Southeast, followed by Southwest, Northeast, and Northwest, the court says.

D.C. is not alone in being overburdened by evictions and eviction requests. Several million families face forced removal from their homes across the country every year, according to estimates by the University of Wisconsin Law School’s Neighborhood Law Clinic.

In his 2016 book Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, American sociologist Matthew Desmond found that numbers were high in part because most low-income families live not in public housing, but in the private housing market, where they spend the majority of their income on rent and bills.

But D.C. may be unique in employing the homeless. In 2007, after the class-action suit was filed, lawyers said they did not believe similar wage violations were happening outside of the District. Today, both homeless advocates and eviction companies that operate across state lines also say they do not believe the homeless are being employed for evictions elsewhere. Why remains an open question.

D.C. is—and long has been—the only jurisdiction where evictions are overseen by the already overburdened U.S. Marshals Service rather than local sheriffs. But the persistence of the practice may have more to do with the city’s long struggle with homelessness.

And the affordable housing crisis in D.C. may be adding to the crunch. Jayna Concepcion, office manager for the property management company Real Property Management D.C. Metro, which oversees 270 properties at various income levels across D.C., says the company has seen a rise in evictions because of the increasing lack of apartments low-income tenants can afford. In December, for example, people stood outside all night in the cold for a spot in a new affordable apartment building in Southeast. “People [facing eviction] are staying in apartments longer, because they don’t have a place to go,” Concepcion says.

Around the holidays, RPM DC Metro usually has only one or two evictions in play. This year, she says they had five. She has seen a similar rise over the last three or four years. When Concepcion has to carry out an eviction in one of their properties, she says she calls East Coast Express Eviction. It is a company she has used for years, and that she says can get the job done without breaking the bank.

McClain died in June 2016, and it is unclear whether she changed the name of the company to evade the court. Either way, New Development’s vans have continued to show up outside S.O.M.E., as have those affiliated with East Coast. Teale Toweill, a lawyer at Cleary who has taken up work on the 2006 case, says it has been hard to pursue the defendants because the companies are so hard to pin down.

“These kind of companies are able to shut down and open with a new name. It’s easy to do that, because all you need is a truck,” Toweill says. “We want to pursue these defaulting defendants, but they are slippery. We are continuing to explore whether there are effective avenues for relief in court.”

A person who answered the phone at East Coast Express Eviction declined to comment on how much it pays and who it employs. But at Manta, a website that tracks small businesses, East Coast is listed as making $1 to $2.5 million annually, while employing four people or fewer—not enough to fill a crew.

A driver for New Development, who was re-

along wIth CrawforD & Crawford, East Coast Express Eviction is the second company that, after escaping penalty by the court, has continued to pay illegally low wages.

At the time of the lawsuit, a man named Nelson Terry ran East Coast Express Eviction, but some time in the intervening years a woman named Tara McClain, known as “T” among the men who work the trucks, took over. In 2015, according to business filings, McClain registered a second eviction company, called New Development Express Eviction. In local business listings, New Development and East Coast share the same address.

cruiting outside S.O.M.E. one day in December and would not give her name, told City Paper she also would not comment on how much the company paid but noted that “it’s different” for every job. New Development is listed as making up to $500,000 annually, while also employing four people or fewer.

As for Crawford & Crawford, which at the time of the suit was run by a man named Vincent Crawford, there are now zero references to that company online, except in court documents. When the City Paper published its story about eviction companies back in 1999, Crawford’s company was called V&S Evictions. It is

unclear what Crawford calls his company today. The men are not usually told what company they’re working for—only that they are working a “Vince truck,” a truck for “T,” or, since 2015, a truck for New Development, or one of the other new vans, which they know only by the names of the drivers.

Repeated efforts to reach Vincent Crawford by phone or in person were unsuccessful. According to multiple men who work his vans, Crawford no longer shows up outside S.O.M.E. and instead meets the men at eviction sites.

Almost every truck worker interviewed reported about the same pay over the past year from Vincent Crawford, East Coast, and New Development. They all earned between $7 and $10 an eviction, and sometimes as little as $5. They were paid at this rate even if an eviction lasted for several hours.

Those who worked the new trucks, however, reported being paid “package deals” instead of a per-job rate, which sounds more lucrative than it turns out to be. Multiple people reported that one of the new trucks pays $40 for 15 jobs,

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which comes out to $2.67 an eviction.

Frank James Monroe, who stood outside S.O.M.E. in a gray hat and big parka one cold December morning, became angry talking about the package deals. “I did that shit one time— OK, a few times,” he says. “I got $15, and we evicted four to five motherfucking units. What do I fucking look like?” His friend, who goes by “Antman” Kenny and was rolling cigarettes with Monroe, says the per-job rate was just as demeaning and had actually gotten worse over the years. “Everybody here has gone [on the trucks] a couple times,” says Kenny. “At first they were paying $20, then $10,

now $7. Soon they’ll be chopping people up for $7. Seven punk-ass dollars.”

“That’s because people that own the companies are getting all the money,” adds Joseph Harris, 52, who has been working the trucks for over a decade. Though he said he’s long felt exploited, he’s learned not to ask for higher pay. “He’ll just tell you to get on another truck,” he says. And so he takes the $7 without complaint.

Because if a person needs $7, working an eviction crew is the easiest job to get. In addition to paying in cash and not requiring papers or a background check, all a person has to do to work an eviction is show up outside S.O.M.E.—where he might be that morning anyway. Even Dupree Cross, who was there when a man shot himself at an eviction, says he still works evictions sometimes. He does it when he can’t get transportation out to Labor Ready, which employs day laborers and pays them the minimum wage or more, but is all the way out in Landover, Maryland.

Eric Falquero, managing editor of Street Sense, the homeless newspaper that first broke the story on the eviction companies’ low wages, says this is the catch-22 of eviction work. “One of the things we see advocates fighting for is consistent work for people who want to work. On evictions, you can come every day and work,” he says. “It takes advantage of their need, but it is some sort of income for honest labor.” on one of the last days in December, Falquero went to S.O.M.E. to try to get on an eviction truck. For months, he’d been hearing from a Street Sense vendor that the trucks were still paying below minimum wage after the lawsuit, and he wanted to verify it himself.

Falquero was lucky. The day he went, multiple trucks were looking for crews. Parked outside was one of Vincent Crawford’s trucks, along with a New Development van and several others belonging to the newer eviction companies. By 8 a.m., Falquero had successfully boarded Crawford’s cargo van, where he was crammed in with nine other men on benches, plus a driver and a recruiter sitting up front. He was not offered any particular pay, though he heard from one man on the van that it would be $10, and from the recruiter later on that it would be $7. By 9 a.m. they were driving to a house in Southeast D.C. At 10, the marshals arrived. The marshals always enter houses first, before the crew.

This time, the marshals declared it a “trash out”—meaning they didn’t find the personal items inside worthy of saving. The crew was told they could leave. Falquero was paid $7.

Another worker was paid only $5. The driver told him he “didn’t have change.” The men were left to find a bus back to S.O.M.E., which meant that Falquero’s $7 shrank to $5.25, while the other man’s $5 became $3.25. But the men on the truck were happy. A “trash out” was the best possible scenario. They got a few dollars just to be squeezed in a van for a couple hours, instead of $7 for a lengthy, stressful eviction.

A man who works for both Street Sense and on the trucks, who is homeless and did not want to be named for fear of retribution from the eviction companies, says he first got work on an

East Coast Express Eviction truck right after he moved to D.C. several years ago. He had heard through the grapevine that employment was available outside S.O.M.E. and was surprised to find that he did not need to fill out paperwork.

When he first got on the truck, he says he saw a cooler of beer, and thought, “I’m in the right place.” It seemed like a party—and it was—drinking in a van with other guys before work. But he soon learned that whatever he drank would be deducted from his pay at the end of the day.

And he realized why the men were getting beers. “We have seen babies crying, grandmas. … You get a beer, so you don’t have any emotion,” he says in an interview at the Street Sense offices. “You do some kind of drugs, so then you don’t care, so you leave them on the curb over there crying, and go on to next one.”

He says the evictees don’t get any information either—no shelter listing or hotline number.

The man, who struggles with a drinking problem, also says it was no mystery to him why eviction companies continued to show up outside S.O.M.E. even after the lawsuit.

“Instead of choosing someone professional who says, ‘I can’t do it,’ they choose people who don’t have any feelings anymore, and have given up on life,” he says. “Because they will get on this truck for $7.” for years, s.o.M.e. has tried to stop the trucks from getting near the nonprofit and the people it serves. Kate Wiley, a spokesperson for S.O.M.E., says the nonprofit finds it “inappropriate and offensive” to “recruit homeless persons for the job of making other people homeless” and to pay them below the minimum wage to do so. She says S.O.M.E. is also concerned about the men’s safety, because they are often “crowded into UHauls and other vehicles not intended to transport human beings in the cargo section.”

The nonprofit barred solicitation on their premises and told the trucks they could not park in their lot. After the trucks moved down the block., S.O.M.E. consulted with the Metropolitan Police Department but found it had little recourse. And there was scant desire by other agencies to regulate the industry either.

The U.S. Marshals Service, the agency that spends the most time with eviction companies, is almost certainly aware of some of their hiring practices. Most of the men who work the crews know the marshals by name and say they believe they know how they are hired and paid. But Robert Brandt, a U.S. Marshals spokesman, says that whether the eviction companies pay below minimum wage or not, “it’s not something we actively investigate or are attempting to monitor.”

The Labor Department, which is tasked with enforcing the minimum wage and monitoring labor violations, also seems uninterested in regulating the evictions industry. “We don’t have any initiatives focusing on this industry,” says Labor Department spokeswoman Lenore Uddyback-Fortson.

D.C.’s Office of Labor Law and Enforcement, which enforces wage laws in the District, notes that it has an initiative to target labor gatherings, or “hot spots,” in the city. There, it informs workers about their rights and edu-

cates employers about wage law compliance.

But it says it has not received or investigated any complaints about evictions crews.

And so the eviction companies continue to show up outside S.O.M.E., as they have for almost two decades. soMe CoMpanIes In D.C. employ paid staff and have uniformed crews. Others employ day laborers and pay them a fair wage. But these companies are expensive for landlords, charging $2,000 or more for an eviction, when a landlord has already lost rent payments. Gary Roman, who runs the eviction company The Attic, which charges that much, says that’s the cost of affording a large crew.

“Some of these companies say they’ll do the same job for maybe $500 instead of $2,000,” Roman says. “But how do you hire 20 people for that amount?”

Roman hires his crews from Casa de Maryland, a nonprofit that connects companies to day laborers, which requires him to pay at least $12 an hour.

Some men who have worked the eviction trucks for years have successfully gotten out of the game. Millender, the man who described working evictions as a “hurting feeling,” says he stopped doing it after he went to the Phoenix House, a drug rehab and treatment center in Arlington, and got clean. Before that, he had been addicted to Synthetic K, a drug that mimics marijuana and can have a numbing effect.

Millender says going to Phoenix House and then getting involved in Project Empowerment, the city’s job training program, “changed my mentality, my way of thinking,” and “I couldn’t get myself to put anybody out after that.”

On a recent morning, Millender visits S.O.M.E. to see his old buddies. He wears brown corduroys and a Cowboys hat and carries a smartphone with a photo of himself with Mayor Muriel Bowser at his drug rehab program graduation. He now has an apartment he shares with his girlfriend and a job cleaning Bennett Park in Arlington. He gets paid by check, which he says “feels good. I get paid tomorrow.”

The other men ask Millender how he got out. He tries to explain it to them, but he also knows that many of them won’t be able to do it. He knows how hard it was to escape drugs and how difficult to find or stay in the programs that will help them—especially without housing, a phone, or money for transit. He knows most of them will get on the trucks again.

“I hated to see it, especially when you had to put the baby kids out,” he says. “But that was my hustle.”

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How Jamaican-born sommelier Nadine Brown became D.C.’s American wine expert

By Laura Hayes NadiNe BrowN caN talk to anyone. And she does in her role as wine director for Charlie Palmer Steak, whose backdrop is the U.S. Capitol and where customer names fill the pages of Politico. On Feb. 9 alone, Brown was gliding across the floor pouring nips of this and that while Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe and Sen. Marco Rubio were among the diners in the reservation book.

“I’ve had conversations with Kathleen Sebelius about the ACA,” she says. “I talked to Reince Priebus during the campaign.

And I remember teasing the CEO of AstraZeneca about the purple pill. I shoot the shit with Paul Ryan all of the time.”

But at work, Brown has to put politics aside.

When she calls Ryan a “nice guy” because he remembers to ask about her kids, people ask if she’s read his policies. “I’m like, ‘Well, he makes eye contact, and he’s nice to bussers.’”

She likes to say that, just like there’s bad wine made in France and good wine made in New York, Democrats and Republicans are equal opportunity jerks.

“Most of the time, my inclination is tell them my story,” she says, citing a tough time when she lost access to healthcare because of a pre-existing condition. Indeed, Brown’s road to becoming one of the city’s top sommeliers has had its highs and lows.

Brown was born in Falmouth, Jamaica, and grew up in Kingston before moving to Puerto Rico at age 12, where she completed junior high and high school. “I loved the people, the pork, the pork, the pork, the food, and the music,” she jokes.

At an early age, Brown knew what she wanted to study. “For as long as I can remember, I wanted to be a child psychiatrist,” she says.

“My mom was really compassionate. She would take us to an orphanage when I was around 10 years old. One day she took one of the orphans home.” Brown produces a photo of her mom holding a too-tiny infant. “It comes from that.”

So it was on to Wheelock College in Boston in 1991, where Brown studied social work.

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After graduation, she worked first at a group home called the New England Home for Little Wanderers and later at an alternative high school for kids coming out of lock-up.

A bad break-up prompted Brown to move to D.C. where her parents were living. She tried to secure work in her field. “But D.C. was very different in 1996,” she says. “Everyone wanted to pay me $12 an hour for a caseload of 40 families.” To stay afloat, Brown picked up odd jobs at places like Moto Photo in Tenleytown.

Then she saw it—an advertisement for a hostess gig at a new French restaurant readying to open near Union Station. “The restaurant was Bistro Bis, and I was part of the opening crew.” She quickly asked for more responsibility and even wrote owner/Chef Jeffrey Buben and late employee Herb Kaplan a letter in the hopes of becoming a manager. “I

said I know I don’t know a lot, but this is where I’d like to go, and they gave me a chance.”

During her time at Bistro Bis, Brown befriended wine distributors and collectors like Danny Haas and Jim Arseneault, who taught her about Grand Crus from Burgundy.

But she was learning not just about quaffable French luxuries at the power dining spot but also about hospitality.

“Sallie Buben taught me about service, about treating everyone as if they were coming to your house,” Brown says. “People don’t buy things. They buy experiences. There are a lot of multi-billion-dollar businesses in this town. People aren’t eating out because they’re hungry.”

That lesson became her thesis as she left Bistro Bis in 2001 and worked at other restaurants before finding her home at Charlie Palm-

er Steak. The hospitality aspect of the sommelier role, she says, is just as important as getting geeky about grapes.

For example, Knightsbridge Restaurant Group founder Ashok Bajaj was another one of Brown’s mentors when she worked at 701 Restaurant. “I learned the way he works the floor,” she says. “He knows a lot of the regulars and makes eye contact.”

When someone tipped her off in 2000 that Chef Charlie Palmer was opening a restaurant in D.C., Brown felt called to work for him.

A scouting trip to his New York restaurant Aureole only confirmed her desire. “I remember bringing my resume to the construction site,” she says. “He met me. I think he showed me the bathrooms. He was very happy about the bathrooms, and he said he’d pass my resume along.”

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“People don’t buy things. They buy experiences.

People aren’t eating out because they’re hungry.”

The restaurant opened in 2003 with Brown as a lead server known as a captain. Keith Goldston was the opening wine director, but once again Brown didn’t miss a chance to soak up knowledge. “I volunteered, helped the wine team build the shelves, put the wine away,” she says. “You’re not working for free, but you’re learning for free,” she says.

“I remember Nadine when she was hired as a server and she was working her way into the sommelier scene,” says Kathy Morgan, who is now in New York but has poured wine in big-time D.C. dining rooms. “She had her books with her all of the time. She studied during her lunches. She took things very seriously, but she never took herself too seriously,” Morgan continues.

Both Goldston and Morgan are Master Sommeliers, meaning they’ve achieved the highest level of wine certification through the Court of Master Sommeliers. (The documentary Somm, which follows a group of stressed-out men as they prepare to take the brutal exam, offers interesting insight). The master level is the gold standard, but there are intermediate levels, including introductory, certified, and advanced.

But chasing certificates wasn’t for Brown. “I wanted to be the first Jamaican MS MW [Master Sommelier, Master of Wine]. That was my naïve goal, but I have two kids and a mortgage,” she says. She took the advanced exam in 2005 but didn’t pass. That was the same year her mother lost her battle with lung cancer.

“I remember studying German sugar levels at the hospital, and now I regret it,” she says.

“But I don’t know if I’m telling myself this to make myself feel better about never getting back on the horse.”

Even Morgan, who has dedicated much of her career to the Court of Master Sommeliers, says it’s not the only way to excel. And in fact, most working sommeliers don’t hold official credentials. “There are a lot of great wine professionals in D.C. and the country who never even started—it’s only one measure of success and dedication.”

The year did have a bright spot—2005 was when Brown took over as wine direc-

tor at Charlie Palmer Steak. She inherited an all-American wine list and ran with it—even earning a Rising Star Sommelier nod from StarChefs in 2006. Her command of the role also positioned her to serve as the sommelier chair of Taste of the Nation, an annual charity event benefitting No Kid Hungry.

The wine list at Charlie Palmer Steak boasts 4,000 bottles, and Brown loves playing matchmaker. “It’s not like social work at all,” she says in jest. “It’s not matching you with resources, but what you drink.” Palmer noticed her demeanor on the floor. “It has a big impact on our guests,” he says. “She immediately puts people at ease.”

With all the patience in the world, Brown helps diners articulate what kind of wine they like and leads them through mini-tastings until they land on something perfect. “I love that part of the job. You get instant gratification.”

She’s never snobbish and only has one rule: Drink what you like.

Cesar Varela, who was working at Charlie Palmer Steak in 2005 when Brown took over the wine director job, remembers working with her. “The humbleness I find she has in her approach to wine, she was always like that,” he says. “She’s been curating one of the top wine lists in the city—her knowledge of American wine is very strong—but she’s very approachable and always wants to listen.”

Varela, who was born in Peru, has reason to find Brown’s story inspiring. He started as a busser and a floor runner at Charlie Palmer Steak before graduating to server when he started to learn more about wine. Varela has gone on to be a sommelier at restaurants with impressive wine programs like Osteria Morini, Del Campo, Fiola, and Fiola Mare.

If Brown has one hope, it’s that restaurants become more flexible for working mothers, especially because she’s seen pictures of the current classes of sommeliers studying for their advanced exam. “Out of 70 people, 50 of them are women,” she says.

At age 44, Brown has two young children with her husband Danny Fisher—the chef at Society Fair. Though Charlie Palmer Steak has been accommodating, she says she might have to let go when both of her children reach school age.

Brown’s optimistic about the diversity of her profession in the future, even though it feels like the majority of sommeliers are still white men. She also says she’s rarely faced friction as a black woman in the business.

“Sometimes you have to convince a table or a particular host that you know what you’re talking about, but it usually only takes two sentences,” she says. “More often I get a silent ‘you go,’ especially from black women.” CP Eatery tips? Food pursuits? Send suggestions to lhayes@washingtoncitypaper.com

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Veg Diner Monologues

Bartender’s Choice: Shaw

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La Jambe has quickly endeared itself as a neighborhood favorite thanks in large part to the welcoming, communal vibes put forth

by Anastasia Mori and Dave Bloom, the married team behind the bar. It’s a perfect jumping-off point. Start easy with a glass of Côtes du Rhône.

Where to next? “It’s gotta be Ivy and Coney,” Bloom says, suggesting whatever is on tap from Bell’s Brewery because of his Michigan roots.

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The Passenger is one door over, and, with the night still young, a gin cocktail seems

Where to Get It: Boundary Stone, 116 Rhode Island Ave. NW Price: $12

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Indeed, Ivy and Coney pours Bell’s Winter White Ale on draft right across the street.

Where to next? Adam Fry, one of the joint’s co-owners, says he likes All Souls and The Dabney, but he settles on The Passenger.

“After my shift, I would go to The Passenger and drink any number of gin drinks,” Fry says. “Or a Schlitz and shot of Old Overholt, depending on how long my day was.”

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Shaw is loaded with great drinking destinations, and there’s no reason to leave the fate of your evening to mere chance. Instead, we set out on a Shaw bar crawl where the only rule was to ask each bartender where to head next. This sixstop itinerary was the result, and it’s sure to charm anyone looking for an eveQ St NW ning of drink exploration in the neighborhood.

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5 6 more appropriate than a shot and beer. On a Horrible Bosses themed chalkboard menu is the “Les Grossman,” with gin, Cocchi Rosa, and green Chartreuse.

Where to next? Bartender George Hausmann first suggests La Jambe, which is overruled to avoid repeats.

He then sets his sights on Chaplin’s. “They have a really great cocktail program,” Hausmann says.

That Pimm’s Cup is actually the zesty and refreshing ginger and cucumber draft high ball.

Where to next? “Usually after work I go to Lost & Found. I love the sour beer there,” says beverage director Megan Barnes. “For a cocktail, Columbia Room.”

Head bartender James Simpson also weighs in. “I would go to The Dabney,” he says. “I would go to Lost & Found first.”

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Two blocks away, head bartender Jake Simpson suggests his “A Woman of Paris” cocktail, an Old Fashioned riff with an absinthe rinse.

Where to next? “Espita is the perfect place to go,” Simpson says. “Their mezcal Pimm’s Cup is ideal for this time of day.”

OK then, cap things off with a shorty of Wicked Weed Brewing’s Oblivion Sour Red (8.7 percent ABV) at this low-key bar known for its beer list. Ask for it with a shot of Old Overholt. After steering clear of a Boilermaker at The Passenger a few hours before, the bar crawl has fittingly come full circle.

What It Is: The vegetarian alternative to Boundary Stone’s award-winning chicken wings (a frequent flyer in City Paper’s annual “Best Of” issues). The seitan version isn’t any more complicated than its poultry cousin. Chunks of seitan shaped like home fries are perfectly fried and smothered with the bar’s honey hot sauce. Their crispy outsides give way to a satisfactory springiness and wheat flavor. These wings are pub grub that prove that bars don’t have to treat all vegetarians like crunchy stereotypes always in search of something healthy. It’s nearly peak basketball and hockey season, and vegetarians love to lick hot sauce off their fingers as much as the next fan.

The Story: “Our original chef [Vince Campaniello] had a local place [in Philadelphia] that did seitan wings,” co-owner Colin McDonough says, “and he actually chose to eat the seitan wings over the traditional chicken wings.” The seitan wings have been on the menu since Boundary Stone opened in 2011. When they were planning the restaurant, McDonough says they wanted vegetarians to feel comfortable. “It’s important for us to take care of our neighborhood. We have to, as a neighborhood pub, wear many hats. It’s why you can walk in here and get a can of Busch Light, but you can also get a glass of Yamazaki whiskey.”

Why Even Meat Eaters Will Like It: It’s the sauce, hands down. The sweetness from the honey pops on first bite, helping to ease in the sustained but not overwhelming spiciness. Honestly, you could put it on a pile of nickels and still be tempted to lick it off. Putting it on a pile of fried gluten? Go ahead and order seconds.

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Dots and Loops

In one of the most anticipated exhibitions of the Hirshhorn’s history, Yayoi Kusama obliterates the idea of self.

Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors

At the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden To May 14

By Kriston Capps Andy WArhol Would’ve adored selfie culture. The filters, the screens, the outsized concern-trolling over authorship and frivolity in portraiture, likes, faves, addiction—all of it. He died too soon to see the entire culture follow him like a pied piper over the edge. For Yayoi Kusama, Warhol’s dotty yin-yang twin, selfies mean something more like redemption. Her mirror-lined installations, once pointyheaded, are mobile-phone honey-traps today. Every snap helps her to realize her wish: to disappear completely, to be scattered like the light in a limitless illusion.

Infinity Mirrors, possibly the most highly anticipated exhibit in the history of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, marks the fulfillment of Kusama’s dream of obliteration.

An aesthetic and psychic pursuit for the artist, also something of a mantra for the Hirshhorn show, “obliteration” takes on several forms at the museum: from Kusama’s restless “infinity net” paintings to her fan-favorite “infinity mirror” rooms. Obliteration best describes how the artist’s own interest has been folded into that of the viewer. Where Kusama disappears, her fans emerge.

Six of the Japanese artist’s world-famous infinity installations are on view at the Hirshhorn. Viewers won’t get endless time with them. No more than 20 seconds to survey fields of poisonous polka-dotted pumpkins stretching out toward every horizon in “Infinity Mirrored Room—All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins” (2016). Just one-third of one minute to take in the ethereal hanging lanterns of “Infinity Mirrored Room—Aftermath of Obliteration of Eternity” (2009). Twenty seconds isn’t much time for phone-toggling between Snapchat and Instagram, nevermind taking in anything the work might be saying.

That meaning has changed since 1965, when Kusama created her first mirror room, “Infinity Mirror Room—Phalli’s Field (Floor Show),” a piece that was ahead of its time. Its closest cousin then was Walter De Maria’s first Earth Room, installed in Munich in 1968. With “Phalli’s Field,” Kusama reconciled her stuffed-cotton soft sculptures with the swirling scene of happenings and counterculture in New York, where Kusama lived between 1958 and 1973.

Back then, Kusama’s mirrors were convergence points for several vectors zipping through the art world. Her installations were scaled to the body, a principal concern for an artist obsessed (albeit comically) with the phallus. For one piece, “14th Street Happening” (1966), Kusama took the polka-dot-

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“Dots Obsession – Love Transformed Into Dots” by Yayoi Kusama (2007) ted sculptures from “Phalli’s Field” and installed them in the street, where she lay down on top of, adjacent to, and beside them for photographs. While her infinity rooms stretch the imagination, they are also resolutely cubic, a potent form in post–Abstract Expressionist art. Kusama’s performative, deliberate, almost minimalist activities fit the academic milieu of New York at that time, even if her style—polka dots and pumpkins—was a mod outlier.

Mika Yoshitake, the curator for Infinity Rooms, which will travel to five museums in the U.S. and Canada through 2019, connects all these threads obligingly. There are ample archival materials on view, including Kusama’s hand-drawn proposal for building “Infinity Mirrored Room—Love Forever” (1966/1994), although the Hirshhorn might have given their display more prominence.

It goes understated, for example, that Kusama’s installations represent conceptual art: Her studio sends diagrams and guidelines for re-creating her infinity rooms, much as with a Sol LeWitt painting. Nevertheless, the exhibit capably traces how Kusama’s career evolved from orgiastic anti-establishment

happenings in the 1960s to the honors that followed: representing Japan in the Venice Biennale in 1993 and receiving the Praemium Imperiale and the Order of the Rising Sun in 2006, for example. And the catalog is one of the better surveys the museum has ever produced.

The highlight of the exhibit—after her irresistible mirrors— are Kusama’s paintings. “Infinity Nets Yellow” (1960), “Infinity-Nets” (2005), and several net paintings in between, show how she has traced the grid, that familiar post-war art structure, throughout her career. (Softly, loosely, like Agnes Martin, but with a more textured brushstroke.) Several of Kusama’s sculptures, including “Arm Chair” (1963) and “Accumulation” (1962–64), anticipate contemporary trends in furniture, namely designing furniture that isn’t for sitting. Smaller acrylic works from the 1950s are easily the weirdest works in the show: minimal but not austere, organic but unnatural.

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What neither Kusama nor Warhol anticipated was how removed their own concerns would be as art entered the age of viral reproduction. Consent of a subject for his or her image to be taken, the politics and etiquette of sharing, the problematization of the image—these aren’t ideas that would be familiar or comfortable in the art world of the 1960s.

The thing that Infinity Mirrors obliterates isn’t the self that disappears into Kusama’s endless hall of mirrors.

It’s the self that is broadcast outward from her rooms and the universe of concerns that trail behind.

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psychiatric care. Yoshitake’s survey largely skirts the question of the artist’s mental health, although a large installation of Kusama’s recent paintings and sculptures demonstrates her endless repetition, the ceaselessness of her work. Once-fashionable questions over insider-versus-outsider art don’t hold as much sway in a world that is rethinking its standards for neurotypicality whole-cloth.

The Hirshhorn show can’t help but raise questions about what it means to see artworks more than 50 years after they were made. No doubt, Kusama’s mirror rooms will raise finger-wagging objections from critics who will say that social media influencer–types are missing the point by looking through a lens. It may prompt misgivings from viewers, too, who come away from a 20-second glimpse at a cosmic tableau with a nagging feeling that they totally missed it—despite photographic evidence to the contrary.

Kusama, like Warhol, anticipated mass participation in art. “The Obliteration Room” (2002–present) is the best example at the Hirshhorn: It’s a living room and dining room, complete with personal effects,

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outside the lines Drawn Out, Drawn Over: Mapping the Territory of Experience

At Brentwood Arts Exchange through March 11 As children, we all learn to communicate with drawing. In material and process, it’s so accessible that we can take it for granted as a fine art or fail to grasp its essential role in the conceptual development of finished artworks. Continued curatorial focus on projects like Linn Meyers’s “Our View From Here,” a large, site-specific wall drawing at the Hirshhorn, or this spring’s Drawing Now Paris, the only international fair dedicated to drawing, reveals the complexity and versatility of a medium familiar to all of us, artists or not.

The Brentwood Arts Exchange is hosting an exhibition of 18 artists whose works stretch beyond skill to challenge the possibilities of the medium through March 11.

The artists curator Nikki Brugnoli-Whipkey selected, all college instructors, employ drawing in both their studios and teaching practices. Two of the most influential educators in the D.C. area, Helen Frederick and Janis Goodman, contributed works that exemplify drawing as both vanguard and traditional. Frederick’s mixed-media installation of prints on custom paper represents indirect lines on the surface within a newer mode of experience, whereas Goodman’s graphite drawings stage an exquisite tension between realistic and abstract mark making.

Some of the most exciting works explore the parameters of material and surface while deftly expanding definitions of line or gesture as the end product of drawing. Beverly Ress folds, cuts, and extends paper from the wall, and materials like powdered graphite fall from the surface onto the floor. The gestural ink in Rebecca Kamen’s “Afterimage” has been laid on paper towels. Gently pinned into a grid on the wall, a delicate sculpture of inked mylar suspends before them and nearly disappears from sight into the echoed lines.

The direction and density of

lines in Matt Pinney’s “Cedar Forest” suggest landscape subject matter but reduce image to pure gesture. Strips of aluminum mysteriously applied to torn canvas evoke the spatial depth of relief sculpture, while its carefully executed incoherence resists traditional form.

The artists share a common role as college instructors, but each executes the exhibition’s theme of mapping territories to different effect. Such territories include the act of plotting a line as the most basic gesture of drawing and as an encounter with space and memory.

Works that accomplish this effectively allude to the unconscious presence of both lines and drawing in our daily lives. In “Scout Sets Her Plot,” an ambiguously narrative diptych, Car-

ole Garman playfully evokes childhood activities that recall the universality of drawing. In a video entitled “Stitch” by Lisa Austin and Tom Weber, a man walks through the streets of Edinboro, Pennsylvania, leaving a line of white powder on the sidewalks with a device similar to the Dry Line Field Marker used in baseball. The playful absurdity, interspersed with digital maps documenting his progress, forces viewers to contemplate the terrains where we “leave our mark.” Likewise, the exhibition elicits new territories for creativity from an accessible means of creation.

—Erin Devine 3901 Rhode Island Ave., Brentwood, Md. Free.

(301) 277-2863. arts.pgparks.com.

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Peter Pan’s shadow Peter and the Starcatcher

Adapted by Rick Elise Based on the novel by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson Directed by Kathryn Chase Bryer At Constellation Theatre Company to March 12

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TheaTer always requires a little imagination. It’s the special ingredient that can transform a few adults on a stage into wide-eyed children exploring a magical Neverland—even if the script they’re following is only a pale shadow of J.M. Barrie’s original classic.

Imagine, for instance, a grand ship caught in the throes of a violent storm. A seemingly innumerable crew races about, bailing water, tightening jibs, yelling over the sound of wind and wood creaking beyond its breaking point.

The situation is grim, hope for survival all but lost, but the crew looks for all the world like they’re having the time of their lives.

That’s a scene from roughly the middle of Constellation Theatre’s wild and winsome take on Peter and the Starcatcher. It’s also an apt enough metaphor for the play itself, which threatens to sink under its own weight if the crew lets up for even a moment. Starcatcher, Rick Elice’s adaptation of Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson’s gratuitous prequel for J.M. Barrie’s beloved Peter Pan, is a script that shoots itself in the foot so often that it’s certainly only through a bit of magic, and a lot of gleeful hard work from the Constellation team, that it not only stays afloat, but manages to be a thoroughly entertaining adventure.

Though Starcatcher spends a lot of time attempting to occlude its exact ties to Peter Pan (you’ll never guess who a spritely, unnamed orphan boy turns out to be), it serves well enough as a prequel. Act one is spent largely setting up

some brand new characters and a new protagonist in the form of a plucky young heroine, Molly (an enchantingly spirited Megan Graves), who is joining her father (Alex Vernon) on a quest from the Queen to deliver a mysterious chest across the sea. Having a strong female lead is one of many touches meant to modernize Pan (changing the island tribes from stereotypical Native Americans to stereotypical Italians is, ostensibly, another such improvement). The script essentially squanders whatever girl power that choice might garner by calling for the rest of the dozens of characters in Starcatcher to be played by men. Modernization problems aside, act one relies on frequent Greek choruslike narration, a choice that would be wonderful in a play performed for the blind, but which grates on the nerves when the audience can see what is being described to them just fine.

Constellation pulls off nothing short of magic not only in making the play work but also in making it an awful lot of fun. Set designer A.J. Guban has created a set with surprising depth and cleverly hidden features in Source Theatre’s small black box theater, and director Kathryn Chase Bryer makes full and cunning use of all the nooks and crannies (including hiding a just-invisible-enough oneman orchestra pit onstage for the play’s handful of musical numbers). The stage will often transition from near-empty to bustling with pirates in seconds and from the deck of a ship to a fairly vivid Neverland over intermission.

About halfway through the night, the script finally gets its sea legs. After an explosive act one finale and a hilarious act two opener featuring a mermaid serenade, the production stops playing coy about how all its new characters and themes fit into the Pan universe and springs its characters from the cramped confines of their ships onto an enchanted island. The anachronistic jokes (including some very timely quips about “alternative facts” and leadership in name only that have clearly been added since the play premiered in 2009) start to really hit their marks, and with a lot more room to move around (both by plot and via a slightly deeper stage) the cast has full reign to cross swords or fly about or, in the case of a hilariously incompetent, power-hungry pirate captain (Michael John Casey), to chew scenery as much as they please. A touch of inspired puppetry in the form of a bird that springs to life from a broken mirror and a certain gigantic crocodile rounds the whole thing out for a thoroughly fun adventure.

For all the questions (whether anyone asked them or not) that Peter and the Starcatcher answers about the origin of Neverland, it never really gets around to addressing why people craving a show about pirates, fairies, mermaids, and flying wouldn’t just seek out the classic Peter Pan. Constellation, at least, does the heavy lifting of answering that question on the play’s behalf and turns it into a roundly enjoyable night of theater.

—Riley Croghan Source Theatre,1835 14th St NW. $20-$45.

(202) 204-7741. constellationtheatre.org

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Post-Race anxiety Get Out

Directed by Jordan Peele Get Out, a thrilling first feature by Jordan Peele (of the sketch comedy show Key & Peele) is both a racial satire and a horror film, and while it doesn’t quite succeed as either one, it ends up being more than the sum of its parts. It’s true that the satire isn’t quite thorough enough to really shift the viewer’s perspective, and the horror is mostly reliant on jump scares and other cheap conventions of the genre. Typically, that would be a recipe for failure, but Peele and his outstanding cast of actors pile jokes on top of scares until you give up trying to figure out exactly what the film is doing and sit back and enjoy one of the most entertaining and politically-bold studio films in recent memory.

Before it gets to the horror and satire, Get Out starts on even more comfortable ground as a Meet the Parents-style cringe comedy, with Rose (Alison Williams) preparing to bring her boyfriend Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) home for the first time. He worries when he finds out she hasn’t told them that he’s black, but she ensures him it won’t be a problem. “My father would have voted for Obama for a third time if he could,” she reassures him. It shows how efficiently Peele establishes the film’s mood and themes that this remark feels more ominous than comforting.

When Chris and Rose arrive at her parents’ secluded estate, more warning signs appear.

Rose’s father (Bradley Whitford) immediately starts calling Chris “my man.” Her brother (Caleb Landry Jones) is fixated on how good Chris would be at mixed martial arts, referencing his “genetic make-up.” The family also has two black servants who seem, well, a little off, and, oh, the flash from a cell phone camera seems to turn them into violent maniacs.

For the sake of his relationship, Chris easily shrugs off these oddities, a move that comes easily to him.

He’s quick with a smile and a diffusing word. The phrase, “It’s no big deal,” slides off his tongue as if he has already spent a lifetime dealing with subtle prejudice from liberal whites. By the time the blood starts spilling, Peele has sensationally dramatized what can happen when casual racism goes excused.

Holding this bit of madness together is a tremendous cast that Peele has assembled from recent indie gems. Caleb Landry Jones was plucked from the 2014 indie Heaven Knows What, in which he played a junkie with such raw intensity that he fit in amongst a cast of unknown, actual addicts. Here, he brings a bizarre, arresting energy to the jock brother archetype. The up-and-coming Keith Stanfield (Short Term 12) shows up as the rare African-American in the all-white community and nearly steals the movie with his tragic, intentionally-stilted performance.

Meanwhile, Alison Williams sneaks under the radar with a deceptively tricky role that should earn her more film work after HBO’s Girls ends this year.

The work of these actors is vital, since none of the characters are particularly welldefined. Luckily, Peele has chosen to work in the two genres—horror and satire—in which character development is not a prerequisite.

Get Out doesn’t need complex characters to thrive. It gets plenty of mileage out of its laughs, frights, and a nuanced understanding of the racial moment it is satirizing. The only problem is that it may be a few months too late, as the post-racial society it seeks to expose already seems to many like a distant memory. Still, there is enough insight to make it required viewing. Any movie in which a young, black man uses his cell phone to save the day is one we should probably pay attention to.

—Noah Gittell Get Out opens Friday in theaters everywhere.

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Ryan Adams w/ Jenny Lewis ............................................... FRI MAY 12

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The-Dream ............................................................................................Th FEB 23 ALL GOOD PRESENTS

Tribal Seeds w/ Raging Fyah & Nattali Rize ............................................... Su 26 The English Beat ...................................................................................W MAR 1

DISPATCH w/ Guster .............................................................................FRI JULY 7 The above shows are On Sale Friday, February 24 at 10am

YOUNG THE GIANT w/ Cold War Kids & Joywave.... SAT SEPTEMBER 16 On Sale Friday, February 24 at 11am

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The Knocks w/ Bipolar Sunshine

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Randy Rogers Band & Josh Abbott Band w/ Stoney LaRue ....F 3 U STREET MUSIC HALL PRESENTS

Haywyre & The Opiuo Band .Sa 4 Agnes Obel ................................Tu 7 Los Campesinos! w/ Crying & Infinity Crush ............Th 9

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Twiddle w/ Aqueous

Late Show! 10pm Doors ...................Sa 25

Trentemøller .........................Su 26 Allah-Las w/ The Babe Rainbow (OZ) ..........M 27 King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard w/ ORB & Stonefield ......W 29 APRIL

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Railroad Earth w/ Cris Jacobs .................F 10 & Sa 11 Sunn O))) w/ BIG|BRAVE ..........Su 12 Hippie Sabotage .....................W 15 Katatonia w/ Caspian & Uncured ................Th 16 Galactic w/ Con Brio ..................F 17 Galactic featuring Corey Glover

w/ The Hip Abduction .................Sa 18 Tennis w/ Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever..............................Su 19 Foxygen w/ Gabriella Cohen .....W 22

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Pigeons Playing Ping Pong w/ ELM - Electric Love Machine .....F 7 The Fighter and the Kid Early Show! 6pm Doors ......................Sa 8 STEEZ PROMO PRESENTS

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The Chainsmokers w/ Kiiara, Lost Frequencies, featuring Emily Warren .. MAY 26 Jack Johnson w/ Lake Street Dive..................................................................JUNE 11 Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds ....................................................JUNE 18 John Legend w/ Gallant ..................................................................................JUNE 20 Steve Miller Band w/ Peter Frampton ........................................JUNE 23 Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit w/ The Mountain Goats ................JUNE 30 Belle and Sebastian / Spoon / Andrew Bird w/ Ex Hex ........ JULY 30 Sturgill Simpson .............................................................................. SEPTEMBER 15 • For full lineups and more info, visit merriweathermusic.com • 930.com

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9:30 CLUB PRESENTS AT U STREET MUSIC HALL Lisa Hannigan w/ Heather Woods Broderick ..........Th FEB 23 Kap G & JR Donato .......................... Sa 25 Nikki Lane w/ Brent Cobb & Jonathan Tyler ............. M 27

Mako w/ Color Palette ....................Th MAR 2 Colony House w/ Deep Sea Diver ......... Sa 4 Mike Doughty w/ Wheatus ................... Tu 7 Electric Guest w/ Chaos Chaos .............W 8

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Lisa Lampanelli ............................................................................................... APRIL 8 Welcome To Night Vale w/ Erin McKeown ................................................ APRIL 13 Aimee Mann w/ Jonathan Coulton ................................................................... APRIL 20 Dwight Yoakam ................................................................................................. MAY 11 AN EVENING OF STORYTELLING WITH

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Bethesda Blues & Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. Bruce In The USA. 8 p.m. $25–$30. bethesdabluesjazz.com.

Gypsy sally’s 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. On The Bus, Eat Yer Meat, Hayley Jane & The Primates.

8:30 p.m. $12–$14. gypsysallys.com. sonGByrd Music house and record cafe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Julie Byrne, Baby Bry Bry. 7:30 p.m. $10–$12. songbyrddc.com.

dJ Nights

flash 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Behrouz.

8 p.m. $8–$12. flashdc.com.

Folk

aMp By strathMore 11810 Grand Park Ave., North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Altan. 8 p.m. $30–$45. ampbystrathmore.com.

BirchMere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Todd Snider. 7:30 p.m. $25. birchmere.com. dc9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. LOLO, Ocean Park Standoff. 7 p.m. $12. dcnine.com.

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.

Flow Tribe. 8 p.m. $15–$25. thehamiltondc.com.

Kennedy center eisenhoWer theater 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Jason +: Jason Moran and Theaster Gates. 8 p.m. $25–$59. kennedy-center.org.

Mr. henry’s 601 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. (202) 5468412. Aaron L. Myers II. 8 p.m. Free. mrhenrysdc.com.

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Music center at strathMore 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. 8 p.m. $65–$175. strathmore.org.

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hoWard theatre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Cameo. 8 p.m. $40–$80. thehowardtheatre.com.

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tWins Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Tim Whalen Quintet. 9 p.m.; 11 p.m. $27. twinsjazz.com.

FuNk & r&B

Kennedy center concert hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. NSO Pops: Ledisi. 8 p.m. $29–$99. kennedy-center.org.

saturday rock

2047 9th Street NW located next door to 9:30 club

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Celebrated Tropixxx party rocker Mathias and vibrant Catch A Vibe party host DreSoulHigh have joined f o rc e s t o b r i n g some of D.C. and Baltimore’s most sought-after underground all-stars to the main stage of The Howard Theatre for a brand new party, Catch That.

Both hosts curate famously intimate throwdowns at one of the U Street Corridor’s favorite dives, Velvet Lounge, but Howard Theatre’s massive dance floor and a matching, ultra-talented line-up allows them to maximize the party’s potential turn-up. An eclectic roster of energetic local DJs—Mane Squeeze, Mista Selecta, Farrah Flosscett, Trillnatured, and James Nasty—inspires a sweaty night of hip-swinging and booty-shaking by spinning party anthems all night, from mainstream hip-hop to Baltimore club and exotic tropical beats. Catch That promises positive vibes for all partygoers with no genre barred, so expect a savvy crew like this to deliver. The event begins at 11 p.m. at The Howard Theatre, 620 T St. NW. $10–$15. (202) 803-2899. thehowardtheatre.com.

—Casey Embert sonGByrd Music house and record cafe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Nick Hakim, IGBO. 8 p.m. Free. songbyrddc.com.

Jazz

echostaGe 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. (202) 503-2330. Eric Prydzy. 9 p.m. $40. echostage.com.

Mr. henry’s 601 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. (202) 5468412. Renee Georges & The Georjazz Trio. 8 p.m. Free. mrhenrysdc.com.

dJ Nights opera

Kennedy center opera house 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Washington National Opera: Dead Man Walking. 7 p.m. $45–$300. kennedy-center.org.

tWins Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Tim Whalen Quintet. 9 p.m.; 11 p.m. $27. twinsjazz.com.

hip-hop

fillMore silver sprinG 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Bone Thugs-N-Harmony.

9 p.m. $33. fillmoresilverspring.com.

u street Music hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Kap G & JR Donato. 7 p.m. $20. ustreetmusichall.com.

Folk

Barns at Wolf trap 1635 Trap Road, Vienna.

(703) 255-1900. Masters of Hawaiian Music. 8 p.m. $25–$30. wolftrap.org.

BlacK cat BacKstaGe 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 6674490. Red Light Distractions, Cat Jack. 9 p.m. $10. blackcatdc.com.

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

Dead Man Winter. 8 p.m. $15–$20. thehamiltondc.com.

Gypsy sally’s 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. Jared & The Mill. 8:30 p.m. $14–$16. gypsysallys.com.

Blues

rhizoMe dc 6950 Maple St. NW. Saajtak with Us, Today, Heart of the Ghost and David Shapiro. 8 p.m. rhizomedc.org.

Blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Kim Waters. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $55–$70. bluesalley.com.

FuNk & r&B

Kennedy center concert hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. NSO Pops: Ledisi. 8 p.m. $29–$99. kennedy-center.org.

suNday rock

9:30 cluB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Tribal Seeds. 7 p.m. $20. 930.com.

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

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

BlacK cat BacKstaGe 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 6674490. Leopold and His Fiction, Wanted Man, Kid Brother. 7:30 p.m. $12. blackcatdc.com.

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Bossa Bistro 2463 18th St NW. 202-667-0088.

ZOMES, Mellow Diamond, Time Is Fire. 9 p.m. $10. bossadc.com. dc9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Muna, Lo Moon. 9 p.m. $10–$12. dcnine.com. the haMilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

Kat Wright & The Indomitable Soul Band. 7:30 p.m. $12–$17. thehamiltondc.com.

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fillMore silver sprinG 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. The Lox. 8 p.m. $30. fillmoresilverspring.com.

Folk

BirchMere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. David Duchovny. 7:30 p.m. $35. birchmere.com.

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Blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Kim Waters. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $55–$70. bluesalley.com.

Music center at strathMore 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. 4 p.m. $65–$175. strathmore.org.

MoNday Vocal

verizon center 601 F St. NW. (202) 628-3200. Ariana Grande. 6 p.m. $29.95–$199.95. verizoncenter. com.

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Kennedy center concert hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra. 8 p.m. $40–$110. kennedy-center.org.

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Kennedy center opera house 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Washington National Opera: Dead Man Walking. 7 p.m. $45–$300. kennedy-center.org.

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u street Music hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Nikki Lane, Brent Cobb, Jonathan Tyler. 7 p.m. $20. ustreetmusichall.com.

Jazz

BirchMere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Victor Wooten Trio. 7:30 p.m. $35. birchmere.com.

Blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Duane Eubanks Quintet. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $37. bluesalley.com.

tuesday rock

dc9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. William Matheny & The Strange Constellations. 8:30 p.m. $10. dcnine.com. rocK & roll hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

Dorothy, The Georgia Flood. 8 a.m. $13–$15. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

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sonGByrd Music house and record cafe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Little Simz, FootXColes. 8 p.m. $16–$18. songbyrddc.com.

FuNk & r&B

Bethesda Blues & Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. Dionne Warwick. 8 p.m. $125–$160. bethesdabluesjazz.com. the haMilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

Marcia Ball with The Beat Hotel. 7:30 p.m. $35–$40. thehamiltondc.com.

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Noura MiNt seyMali

Mauritanian singer Noura Mint Seymali’s vibrato vocals are an acquired taste for some listeners.

Luckily, her band’s rocking, Afro-psychedelic guitar and funky rhythm section appeals to fans of many genres. Seymali and her band, which includes her guitarist husband Jeiche Ould Chighaly, have performed around the world, from festivals like SXSW to venues in diverse, far-flung locales like Egypt and Denmark. Seymali not only provides forceful ululating but, on some songs, plucks the ardin, a harp-like instrument made from a calabash that looks and sounds similar to the West African kora. The band’s aggressive compositions benefit from the unique sounds of Chighaly’s guitar, which has been modified to better convey the traditional Moorish tunings and match up with Seymali’s vocal cadence. Leave whatever world music biases you may have at the door and just enjoy this crew full of energy. Noura Mint Seymali performs at 8 p.m. at Rosslyn Spectrum Theatre, 1611 North Kent St., Arlington. Free. (703) 228-1850. arlingtonarts.org.

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D.C. native and Duke Ellington Arts alumnus Brian Settles sculpts the music of his saxophone into drawn-out, nearly drone-like meditations on the relationships and purpose of time, space, and sound in music. His contemplative approach also gives him a breadth of vision and versatility like few other musicians on the D.C. jazz scene today. You can hear his sax cry sweet sounds of joy and celebration when he plays with trombonist Reginald Cyntje or push boundaries when he plays in Michael Formanek’s Ensemble Colossus. Formanek, the angular, avant-garde bassist and bandleader who’s made a new home as the leader of the Peabody Conservatory’s jazz ensemble, shares Settle’s love for bending sound waves and song forms. The bandleader bassist and tenacious tenor-man break musical ground together when they perform as a duo as part of the final “Jazz In The Basement” concert series at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library before it closes for renovations. The world class jazz musicians venture into bold, new musical territory together and invite listeners to come along for the journey. The Michael Formanek/Brian Settles Duo performs at 2 p.m. at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW. Free. (202) 727-0321. dclibrary.org/mlk.

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9:30 cluB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. The English Beat. 7 p.m. $25. 930.com.

BlacK cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Save Ferris, Baby Baby, The Fuss. 7:30 p.m. $20. blackcatdc.com.

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hoWard theatre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Ro James. 8 p.m. $23–$51. thehowardtheatre.com.

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Barns at Wolf trap 1635 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. Ballaké Sissoko & Vincent Segal. 8 p.m. $25–$27. wolftrap.org.

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BirchMere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Gaelic Storm. 7:30 p.m. $35. birchmere.com.

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tWins Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Brendan Schnabel. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $22. twinsjazz.com.

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Bethesda Blues & Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. Dionne Warwick. 8 p.m. $125–$160. bethesdabluesjazz.com.

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Barns at Wolf trap 1635 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. Livingston Taylor. 8 p.m. $25–$27. wolftrap.org.

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

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

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 boil over when a small amount of money goes missing. Round House Theatre Bethesda. 4545 East-West Highway, Bethesda. To Feb. 26. $56–$76. (240) 644-1100. roundhousetheatre.org. 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. 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. 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, fami-

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ly, 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 established leader in the field. Theater J. 1529 16th St. NW. To March 12. $17–$47. (202) 777-3210. theaterj.org. intelliGence Taking inspiration from true events, this drama about a covert operative and her diplomat husband combines political thrills with D.C. drama. As the protagonist searches for nuclear weapons in Iraq, her cover is compromised and she must navigate a media storm on her own. Arena Stage. 1101 6th St. SW. To April 2. $40–$90. (202) 488-3300. arenastage.org.

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.

Mrs. Miller does her thinG Based on the true story of Elva Miller, James Lapine’s new comedy follows the hapless title character who can’t sing but nevertheless becomes a New York City sensation.

Debra Monk stars as Mrs. Miller and puts her spin on pop songs like “Downtown,” “Monday Monday,” and “A Hard Day’s Night.” Signature Theatre. 4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington. To March 26. $40–$85. (703) 8209771. sigtheatre.org. 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. 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. 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. 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 Workshop. 545 7th St. SE. To March 4. $15. (202) 261-6612. taffetypunk.com. the very last days of the first colored circus Restoration Stage founder Courtney Baker-Oliver directs and provides the music and lyrics for this new musical written by his co-founder, Steven A. Butler Jr. set at the 1927 Charles County Fair. Focused around the themes of love, loss, and redemption, this new musical combines emotion with the whimsical aspects of the circus. Anacostia Playhouse. 2020 Shannon Place SE. To March 5. $45–$55. (202) 2902328. anacostiaplayhouse.com.

Watch on the rhine As the United States prepares to enter World War II, an American woman flees to the D.C. suburbs with her German husband and their children as he works to fight against fascism. Upon their arrival, however, they meet a visitor with ulterior motives who might threaten their safety. Academy Award nominee Marsha Mason stars in this drama, presented as part of Arena’s Lillian Hellman Festival.

Arena Stage. 1101 6th St. SW. To March 5. $40–$90.

(202) 488-3300. arenastage.org. yo taMBién haBlo de la rosa (i too speaK of the rose) Two teenagers skip school and end

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Nikki laNe

Singer-songwriter Nikki Lane is cute, outspoken, and turning the Nashville music scene on its ear. As such, she inevitably draws a lot of comparisons to Kacey Musgraves. But where Musgraves actively bristles against country tropes, Lane leans into them—the wronged woman, the loyal girlfriend on the back of the motorcycle, the shittalkin’ broad—and then discards them as easily as she put them on. She treats her musical stylings the same way she does her side hustle curating a vintage Western wear store, hand picking the best bits from the classic country genre and pairing them with just enough modern flair and sass that they seem fresh. Her lyrics are candid and unpretentious, slipping easily between the acerbic, laid-back, and mischievous. Lane is a rousing and gracious performer, and seeing her play live in support of her third album, Highway Queen, is sure to feel like a reunion with a globe-trotting friend blowing through town, full of stories and adventures from the road. Nikki Lane performs with Brent Cobb and Jonathan Tyler at 7 p.m. at U Street Music Hall, 1115 U St. NW. $20. (202) 588-1889. ustreetmusichall.com.

—Stephanie Rudig

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JapaNdroids

It’s been nearly five years since the release of Celebration Rock, the last album from the Canadian duo Japandroids. Their songs are all about youthful ecstasy and the idea that getting another round with your best buds at 1:30 a.m. on a Wednesday is, weirdly, kind of the most important thing ever. A lot has changed in five years: Youthful abandon gives way to actual responsibility. The same folks who go on a weekday bender now have kids and a mortgage. Japandroids are keenly aware of this shift, and their follow-up, Near to the Wild Heart of Life, resonates like a mission statement. Instead of indulging in that sort of youthful abandon, Brian King and David Prowse now want their audience to relive those feelings. Their new album may not have the fistin-the air-fervor of Celebration Rock, yet the band still has the chops and energy to rekindle that fire—if only for an evening. Japandroids perform with Craig Finn and the Uptown Controllers at 7 p.m. at 9:30 Club, 815 V St. NW. $25. (202) 265-0930. 930.com.

—Alan Zilberman up derailing a train, leading to a long discussion of if and how they should be punished in this contemporary drama. GALA Artistic Producing Director Hugo Medrano directs this landmark work by Mexican playwright Emilio Carbadillo, performed in Spanish with English surtitles. GALA Hispanic Theatre. 3333 14th St. NW. To Feb. 26. $22–$95. (202) 234-7174. galatheatre.org.

torture. Written and directed by Jordan Peele. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) rocK doG Luke Wilson, Eddie Izzard, and J.K. Simmons provide the voices for animated animals in this comedy that follows a Tibetan Mastiff as he pursues his dream to become a professional musician. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information)

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Get out When a white woman brings her AfricanAmerican boyfriend to meet her parents, the trip turns into a weekend of psychological and physical

tulip fever Christoph Walz and Alicia Vikander star in this Dutch drama about a portraitist who falls in love with his subject, a young married woman. Adapted from a novel by Deborad Moggach and directed by Justin Chadwick. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information)

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BallakÉ sissoko aNd ViNceNt segal

Malian musician Ballaké Sissoko, who plays the harp-like 23-string kora, and French cellist Vincent Segal have released two albums worth of elegant duets that include just enough grit to keep their compositions from turning into new age, ambient Muzak.

Although Sissoko has played with artists from around the globe and Segal works with the trip-hop group Bumcello, the focus here is not on a contrived world music mesh, but on largely instrumental traditional West African sounds that subtly incorporate aspects of classical and jazz. Sissoko and Segal’s debut effort, Chamber Music, was very contemplative with its harmonious blending of the plucked, high-pitched kora and the bowed, lower pitched cello. On Musique de Nuit, the rhythms suddenly speed up and the cello gets noisier on album opener “Niandou,” while “Balazando” includes solos that feel drawn from black American improvisational roots. Note for note, Nuit is busier than the pair’s first effort, but it still projects their impressive chordal serenity. Ballaké Sissoko and Vincent Segal perform at 8 p.m. at The Barns at Wolf Trap, 1635 Trap Road, Vienna. $25–$27. (703) 255-1900. wolftrap.org. —Steve Kiviat

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The American West easily evokes images of saloon brawls and cowboys, but that’s not the whole story. The National Museum of Women in the Arts challenges those stereotypes with a new exhibition of work

by Laura Gilpin and Maria Martinez. The story behind the exhibition is that of a friendship between two women who both felt a deep connection to the region and decided to commemorate it through their art. Gilpin, a photographer, first met Martinez while she was on a decades-long journey of capturing natural wonders and taking portraits of people engrossed in activities. Martinez made a name for herself as a potter. While her husband, Julian Martinez, was alive they worked together to revive black-on-black pottery inspired by Pueblo traditions, an art form that was previously lost. When Julian died, Maria worked with daughter-in-law Santana and sons Popovi Da and Adam to continue producing pottery. These two female artists, who dared to look beyond obvious themes, reveal another side to the American West and this exhibition brings their work into wider view.

The exhibition is on view Mondays through Saturdays 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sundays noon to 5 p.m., to May 14, at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1250 New York Ave. NW. $8–$10. (202) 7835000. nmwa.org.

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