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A Dupont Circle home addition pits neighbors against neighbors, weaponizes children and plants, and draws the attention of three different government bodies.

Lisa Kays

By Mitch Ryals It All stArted in 2018 when Lisa Kays and her husband, David Barth, decided to get a new oven. Along with the new appliance came a discussion about remodeling their kitchen, and it snowballed from there: They talked about expanding the bottom level into the backyard, moving the kitchen up to the second floor, and adding a third bedroom on the third floor.

At the time, Kays was pregnant with their second son, and the couple was weighing whether to move to the suburbs or remain in D.C. Drawn to the charm and convenience of Dupont Circle, the couple opted to stay put and renovate the $1.2 million home they bought in 2016.

Ultimately their plans would include a three-story, 13.25-foot extension on the back of their home on 15th Street NW, along with an added second story on the garage, a project that would easily cost half a million dollars.

The renovation would increase their lot occupancy from 57 percent to 69.75 percent, which requires a special exception from the Board of Zoning and Adjustment.

But in the year since the couple first made their plans public, they’ve riled up residents of Dupont Circle who want to preserve the historic neighborhood, and their relationship with their immediate neighbors has deteriorated to the point that they’re no longer on speaking terms. Still, the battle rages on.

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In emails, tweets, and testimony at nearly a dozen public meetings spanning at least three different government bodies, the couple traded barbs with their neighbors on both sides of their rowhouse—Britt and Peter Bepler and Sarah and Taylor Nickel—with whom they share walls.

Kays and Barth are accused of “weaponizing their children” to justify their addition.

They accuse the Beplers and Nickels of being unreasonable in their demands and spreading false information to drum up opposition.

Both sides have hired well known (and expensive) attorneys to make their cases to the BZA. They estimate their bills to be between $15,000 and $20,000. The BZA approved

the plans earlier this month, clearing the final hurdle before Kays and Barth can begin construction.

While the Beplers and Nickels decide whether to appeal the decision, Kays and Barth’s attorney, Marty Sullivan, says “it would be kind of extraordinary to appeal something so basic. It’s not a very complex issue.”

But before all of this happened, Kays and Barth got a late night alley visit from their advisory neighborhood commissioner, Ed Hanlon.

“What’s weird about this case is Ed managed to round up 30 other people to oppose it,” Sullivan says. “People who live in a condo building four blocks away. What do they care about a 13-foot addition? It was unusual to say the least.”

As KAys tells it, she and Barth were coming home late one night in March 2019, around 10 p.m., when Hanlon approached them in the alley behind their home. He lives at the other end of the alley, on Swann Street NW, and represents their single member district, 2B09.

She says Hanlon mistook them for their next door neighbors, the Nickels, and warned them about a proposal for a massive addition in the backyard. He promised to return with a packet of information when the couple corrected him.

“We were like, ‘Ed, it’s us,’” Kays says. “And he was like ‘Oh well in that case you’ve really been inappropriate with your process … You have to inform people, you have to be good neighbors, and you can’t just have everybody hating you.’”

The prospective builders needed a special exception from the BZA, which notifies neighbors living within 200 feet and considers input from the Advisory Neighborhood Commission.

Hanlon, who works as a bankruptcy attorney and has lived in his home for 25 years, has a reputation as an opponent of home renovations in his neighborhood. He’s challenged two other sets of neighbors’ efforts to build decks on their homes on Swann and T streets NW, respectively. One case dragged on for years and ended with a civil protection order against Hanlon for stalking, as well as a $30,000 judgment under D.C.’s anti-SLAPP law, which protects defendants in lawsuits against frivolous claims. Hanlon is still fighting the civil protection order in the D.C. Court of Appeals, despite the fact that it expired.

He has also filed complaints against his fellow 2B commissioners for their use and tacit allowance of retweets sent from the ANC’s official account that link to the profile of a candidate for D.C. Council. The Office of Campaign

Finance fined Hanlon’s colleagues $4,000, but they’re appealing the decision.

Until Kays and Barth spoke with Hanlon, Kays says they hadn’t considered that anyone would care about their expansion but took Hanlon’s advice and emailed the Beplers and the Nickels.

Taylor Nickel replied with his primary concern that the shadow from the addition would negatively impact their garden—a major reason they purchased the red, $1.3 million rowhouse in the fall of 2018.

“For us it’s a bit of whiplash,” Sarah Nickel said in a recent interview. “Making a huge investment for the backyard and the garden and having that not be what we end up with in a matter of months.”

Britt Bepler echoes the Nickels’ objections and emphasizes the violation of privacy her neighbors’ addition would impose.

Their backyard acts as a second living room, complete with a hot tub.

“I’m just gonna go in naked,” she declared during an interview after an ANC meeting in December. “You can put that in there. Take a look. Lot to see. I’m kidding, but not really.”

Instead of a three-story addition, the Nickels and Beplers told their neighbors they would support a bottom level addition and a second level deck in an email last March.

Hanlon followed up with his own email to the three couples, writing, “We’ll see what response Lisa and David make to the points you have raised. I am hoping to see the same reasoned thoughtfulness in their reply. We do not live alone on an island. We live in a neighborhood where we all must try and listen and accommodate.”

That’s when things took a turn.

In the span of about a month last spring, Kays says inspectors from two different D.C. government agencies visited their home in response to anonymous complaints about an unlicensed daycare.

She says she explained that they’ve hosted a nanny share at their house for the past four years and provided the inspectors with pay stubs as proof. The inspectors couldn’t tell her who filed the complaint, but said the report indicated someone had watched multiple families dropping off multiple children every morning for the past four years.

“He was like ‘are your neighbors mad at you?’” she says. “And I said ‘yeah,’ and he said ‘That’s usually what this is.’”

Given the timing, Kays believes the complaints are related to their home expansion, and she fired off an email to several neighbors to let them know of the stress it caused them. She has suspicions of who may have complained but no evidence.

“We were baffled,” Britt Bepler says of Kays’ email. “We have no idea what she’s talking about, unfortunately. We tend to not want to involve ourselves in people’s personal lives. It was a strange email that the neighbors received from her.”

Hanlon denies making any complaint. “If Lisa and David did nothing wrong, that’s great,” he writes in an email. “If Lisa and

David were in the wrong, I hope the situation has been corrected. I don’t know what the resolution was.”

Kays and Barth rejected their neighbors’ counter proposal, and instead offered to paint the addition a bright color “to maximize light reflection,” according to an email, and let them have input on the exterior materials.

For Britt Bepler, that felt like a slap in the face.

“They have two little kids, and they’re really cute kids,” she says. “I have no problem with that. I love kids. I want them to stay, but now they’re such assholes.”

One day last September, while reviewing footage from their garage security camera, Kays and Barth spotted Hanlon and vocal Dupont gadfly Nick DelleDonne milling around the alley behind their house one day last September. The Beplers and Nickels joined the men soon after.

That same afternoon, Britt Bepler emailed several neighbors asking for letters of opposition to the renovation.

“They are also weaponizing their children, under the auspice of ‘a growing family’ to justify this massive addition,” Britt Bepler writes in an attachment to the email. “As many of our neighbors (ourselves included) do not have children, we feel discriminated against as this being their sole purpose, which we also believe to be a lie - rather they intend to convert their property to multiple units (more than 2) and will rent them out.”

Kays denies that they plan to rent out any part of their home. She calls her neighbors bullies, and, in turn, says the Nickels are “weaponizing produce,” a reference to their argument that shadows from the addition would ruin their backyard gardens.

Kays has tweeted about the ordeal for the past several months, referring to Britt Bepler as “Queen Bee Mean Girl.”

The next day the letters of opposition came pouring in.

There are currently more than 30 letters of opposition to the project filed to the BZA, many of which use the same language, and three in support.

DelleDonne, an ally of Hanlon and former 2B commissioner who lost his seat to Aaron Landry in 2018, is among the detractors. After the election loss, he formed the Dupont East Civic Action Association, whose goal, he says, is to preserve the historic look and feel of the neighborhood.

DelleDonne has earned a reputation as a vocal and at times hostile presence at ANC 2B meetings. During one meeting last year, he grabbed a woman’s arm as she stood up to speak, according to a recording of the meeting obtained by LL. The woman’s arm was bruised, and she reported the incident to police, Landry says.

“Somebody was speaking, and she started to interrupt in a loud voice, and I touched her arm,” DelleDonne says. “And she immediately said ‘don’t touch me.’ It was barely a touch. It was nothing at all.”

Through his organization, he opposes Kays and Barth’s addition and has testified before the BZA. “Lisa’s rowhouse is in the middle of the other two, and they comprise a unit so to speak,” DelleDonne says. “They’re not individual. They’re almost like apartments.

So it’s right in the middle, and it upsets the balance.”

Ian Story, who lives across 15th Street NW, offers a different perspective.

“It is selfish of neighbors to be in opposition to this project for the sole reason that it may block their sunlight or obstruct their view,” Story writes in a letter to the BZA. “We are not entitled to unhindered sun nor the perfect view (of an alley no less). There is no legitimate reason to chase current taxpaying residents out of DC because of excessive regulations and NIMBY-ism. We should be encouraging the increase of housing supply as a bulwark against out-of-control pricing.”

Hanlon testified during the BZA hearing last month as an individual, not in his role as a neighborhood commissioner. He described how Kays and Barth’s addition would ruin the look and feel of the alleyway.

“This summer in my rear yard I grew mandevillas that climbed 14 feet up into the air,” he said. “Many of us have beautiful gardens.

We live in our backyards. I have a gazebo.

I have a grill. So do many of my neighbors.

That’s the beauty of this alleyway … you can enjoy your backyards. It is an oasis from everything else around us.”

The BZA sent the neighbors back to negotiate before making a final decision. The Beplers and Nickels asked if they would reduce the addition to 8 feet, but Kays and Barth rejected that offer.

“Had they come to us in the beginning and just said ‘could you do 10 feet instead of 13?’ We would have probably been like ‘yeah, that’s fair,’” she says. “Now that we spent all this [time and money], we’re trying to get as much square footage as we can.”

Ultimately, the BZA approved the 13.25foot expansion on Feb. 12.

Landry, the commissioner for 2B04, has watched the back-and-forth for the past year.

“Instead of neighbors coming to a mutual understanding, they were fueled into thinking that going to war was the right idea when going to war against your neighbor doesn’t help anybody,” he says. “I don’t know where they got that idea. I don’t know when Hanlon got involved, but neighbors don’t come up with this on their own.”

For her part, Britt Bepler says she appreciates Hanlon’s assistance.

“He’s been litigious in other ways, and I think that maybe affected how other commissioners wanted to deal with him,” she says. “He means really well. He was trying to be very diplomatic.”

As Kays and Barth wait for a possible appeal of the BZA’s decision, she says construction will likely start this summer or fall.

“It’s just bizarre to me how hostile it got,” she says.

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Power Move D.C.’s ambitious climate plan dictates that 10 percent of all electricity must come from solar by 2042. Whether it can get there remains anyone’s guess.

The UniTed naTions’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says humanity has just over a decade to get climate change under control. If we don’t get our collective acts together, catastrophe could be imminent.

To meet the problem, D.C. has set some of the nation’s most ambitious climate goals. In the Clean Energy DC plan, finalized in August 2018, the District commits that 100 percent of electricity sold in the city will come from renewable sources by 2032. The 2032 targets include providing 100 percent clean electricity, with about 5 percent coming from solar; and reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent, relative to 2006 levels. The clean energy omnibus bill, signed into law in January 2019, codifies some of the climate action plan, including D.C.’s commitment that 5 percent of clean electricity will come from solar by 2032 and 10 percent of its clean energy will come from solar by 2042. The bill also puts an extra emphasis on commercial and multifamily buildings; buildings writ large account for 75 percent of the District’s total emissions.

Right now, between 1 and 2 percent of D.C.’s electricity is supplied by solar. As of December 2019, D.C. has over 5,000 solar installations, with a total generating capacity of about 83 megawatts, according to data provided by the Department of Energy & Environment. (The overwhelming majority of panels in the city are photovoltaic devices that convert sunlight into electricity.) While the city is only 10 percent of its way to meeting its 2042 solar goal, experts say the statistics are actually quite impressive.

“I remember testifying at the Public Service Commission a couple of years ago and they asked me how much of our energy comes from solar. I was like ‘I don’t know, but I know it’s way less than 1 percent,’” says Anya Schoolman, the executive director of Solar United Neighbors.

“We’re really making steady progress. We’ve created dozens of new companies and hundreds of jobs, maybe more than a thousand jobs.”

“We helped 75 low-income homeowners go solar last year,” Schoolman says of her own nonprofit. “Every single day, somebody in a condo in D.C. calls me up and says, ‘Our condo wants to go solar. What should we do?’”

They’re not always obvious, but solar installations are increasing across the District thanks to rebates and other fiscal incentives

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Anya Schoolman on her solar paneled roof in Mount Pleasant

Solar panels on the roof of 799 9th St. NW that make solar more attractive and affordable in the long run. You can find solar on individual homes and public spaces like 40 traditional schools, the Metropolitan Police Academy, and St. Elizabeths Hospital. DOEE is also beginning construction on its largest community solar system yet, totaling 2.65 megawatts, on a 15-acre brownfield near Oxon Run in Ward 8.

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“We’ve seen an acceleration and increase in the number of people pulling permits to install solar,” says DOEE Director Tommy Wells.

While he is proud of the strides D.C. has made so far on solar, Wells is quick to acknowledge the limitations.

“We’re trying to deploy solar throughout the city in a built-out city and there’s not a lot of

real estate available for solar,” says Wells. “10 percent of all our energy to come from solar power —it’s just not realistic. We may be able to get to 7 [percent]. We’re working with folks like DC Water, where we’re looking at things like can you float solar panels on the reservoirs ... We’re being as creative as we can.”

Wells cites a study by the Urban Land Institute—an urban planning and real estate development think tank—that concludes “the requirements for 5 percent and 10 percent of overall building energy to be provided by in-D.C. solar are likely not to be achievable through purely geometric constraints, given the size of D.C.’s rooftops plus required setbacks and other beneficial uses of rooftop space.” He believes D.C. can meet its renewable energy goal, along with its goal to cut dirty energy sources, by also generating energy outside of the city. “A third of [D.C. government] power comes from a wind farm in Pennsylvania,” he says.

Wells notes the limitations to how much solar D.C. can generate within its borders when asked if councilmembers should consider removing the red tape commonly associated with going solar. Specifically, should D.C. limit the Historic Preservation Review Board’s authority on approving and denying solar panel applications in historic districts, as Sierra Club D.C. suggests? Homeowners, for one, have been open about the arduous regulatory process.

Ward 3 Councilmember Mary Cheh is not yet ready to limit historic preservationists’ authority. “I want to see how we go forward,” she says. “But if that became an impediment … yeah, we could address that.” Unlike Wells, Cheh is confident D.C. can meet its solar goals.

She cites studies that the Council used when drafting the clean energy legislation, one by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and another by the Office of the People’s Counsel. NREL, a national laboratory within the U.S. Department of Energy, says D.C. can potentially generate 16 percent of its estimated energy consumption with rooftop solar.

“In any event, technology in the solar industry is moving so rapidly towards putting solar on sides of buildings, putting solar on parking lots, putting solar on so many other places that I’m skeptical that we should rely solely on this report as a putting a cloud of the possibility of achieving our goals,” Cheh says. “Am I happy with just 1 percent? No, I want the 10 percent.

But we are getting there,” she says, referencing where D.C. is currently at with solar versus where she wants the city to be by 2042.

Billy Grayson, with Urban Land Institute, actually thinks D.C. can meet its solar targets if buildings reduce today’s overall energy demand by between 30 and 50 percent and maximize the capacity of solar on roofs by removing some setbacks. D.C.’s clean energy plan does require energy consumption to be cut in half by 2032, relative to 2012 levels, but Grayson says his study opted to use current day energy consumption as its baseline.

“First, squeeze out as much efficiency as you can and then take on the solar panels to offset as much as you can on-site gas, or tap into the sewer gas or use the geothermal,” he

says. “I think that there needs to be a rewrite of our building codes first to better accommodate onsite renewable energy.”

He believes it’d be smarter for commercial buildings aiming to achieve net-zero carbon to first focus on energy efficiency by installing better insulating windows and walls or buying new heating, ventilating, and, air-conditioning systems.

“The most cost effective way that we could do that as a city is to get rid of natural gas and electrify all of our buildings—although, that it’s going to be very hard for some buildings— and then buy renewable energy through the grid from a location where it’s more cost effective to produce it,” Grayson says.

As she overlooks the hundreds of roofs in Mount Pleasant from her own rowhouse’s roof, Schoolman notes all the potential for solar.

“You’re just looking at one sector right in Mount Pleasant. We’ve only done 10 percent [of roofs] and there is a steady stream to go,” she says. “In the next 10 years, I’m not saying we’ll get 100 percent, but we can steadily make progress. There’s a lot of real estate left before we start reaching those constraints.”

Schoolman, who’s spent more than a decade promoting solar, isn’t fixated on meeting the city’s targets right on the nose, so long as D.C. is trying to reach them. D.C. has set itself up for success by enacting legislation that invested in solar years before it put in place climate goals.

The Solar For All program, for example, was signed into law in July 2016 and provides solar opportunities to residents of modest means so that the path to sustainability is equitable. As of Feb. 14, 10,000 households are enrolled in the program. Outside of installing panels on singlefamily homes for free, DOEE is also giving lowincome residents credit on their Pepco bill each month, so residents whose homes aren’t a fit for panels can still benefit through government solar projects elsewhere in the city. So far, DOEE says more than 2,100 residents have subscribed to Solar For All’s community solar. (Unfortunately, Schoolman points out, the interconnection by Pepco for community solar is very slow.

It can take months to get permission to connect and activate a solar PV system.)

“You need a strong goal to motivate the market to set clear market signals,” says Schoolman.

“Then you need to just work the market and grow the market and deal with the obstacles … A barrier for a rooftop homeowner is people don’t know that it’s a good deal. A barrier in the multifamily is the utility is too slow. And a barrier in the historic is that the implementation and application of historic rules has been unequal and slow.”

Jeffrey Lesk can also see all the possibilities for solar from his own roof. He salivates over the roof of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in downtown D.C. It’s wide, flat, and free of shadows, a perfect fit for solar panels.

Lesk is a block north of the library at 799 9th St. NW, standing on the roof of the 10-story building where his law firm, Nixon Peabody, is based. It’s also the site of Lesk’s solar energy experiment. The goal of his nonprofit, New Partners Community Solar, is to rethink renewable energy. Don’t discount commercial

high-rise buildings as impossible real estate for solar arrays.

“But look at it a little bit differently,” suggests Lesk.

It’s no easy ask. Most commercial owners have already passed on solar because their roofs would produce little power compared to the building’s total operational costs. It’s not worth it, fiscally, the thinking goes. Lesk’s solar panels would take care of no more than 2 percent of the electricity needed for the building where his firm is located. But that’s not the point. His nonprofit distributes the solar energy the building generates to low-income families, subsidizing their monthly utility bills by approximately $25 per month. It has enlisted five other commercial buildings to do the same thing.

“Our nonprofit, in part, has been going building owner by building owner and trying to convince them that it’s in their best interest, maybe not so much economically, but for social impact, making a difference in the city, for community relations, for government relations, for shareholder relations,” says Lesk.

“We’re working with one very large owner. It’s an international company that’s got a big footprint here in D.C.” Lesk’s law firm was the first project to join the city’s community solar program. He convinced his building’s owner, Brookfield Properties, to put solar panels on its roof when negotiating its lease as new tenants. It wasn’t easy. There are obstacles, from the costs associated with installing the arrays—a commercial building needs a crane—to logistics like respecting the integrity of the roof.

The practical challenges with installing solar on commercial buildings, along with the lack of fiscal incentives, might partly explain the data on where solar installations are in the District.

Ward 2 has the lowest share of any ward, with just under 4 percent of D.C.’s total solar installations. Ward 1 and Ward 7 have nearly 11 percent and nearly 13 percent, respectively.

But it’s not impossible. The American Geophysical Union building at 2000 Florida Ave. NW in Ward 2 is another example of a commercial building that went solar. “You could renovate buildings on a tight urban footprint and still strive for net-zero energy goals,” says AGU’s Janice Lachance.

AGU is the first net-zero energy commercial renovation in D.C. Surprisingly, the process was relatively painless. Lachance isn’t calling on lawmakers to change any D.C. codes, for example.

The renovation just required a lot of dedication and open communication with neighbors and government agencies. But it also wasn’t without compromise. AGU’s original design had its solar panels lined up one next to the other. But neighbors worried the design was going to block the sun and cast dark shadows on the street, so architects agreed to redesign. AGU did get D.C. to allow its solar array to extend four feet beyond its property line, and to permit the first-ever municipal sewer heat exchange in the city, which heats and cools the building using wastewater.

“If D.C. maintains the kind of open mind that they did with us,” says Lachance, “everyone would walk out of these processes very satisfied.”

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Nicole Heidbreder wants to help D.C. residents embrace death as a part of life.

The PoTTer’s house in Adams Morgan smells of chai and books. On a cold January Monday, its front room is half-full and silent, save for an anonymous coffee house soundtrack. It’s quaint. It’s unassuming. It’s not the place you’d expect to find 30 strangers ready to talk about death and grief at the latest D.C. Death Cafe.

In the District, a city confronting a rising homicide rate and declining access to mental health care, a looming election year can overshadow the realities of grief. But each Death Cafe, hosted bi-monthly at Potter’s House, attracts 20 or more strangers, and reflects a growing interest in openly discussing these realities in all their forms.

“Humans experience grief throughout our life,” says Nicole Heidbreder, the cafe’s host. “Grief over lost childhoods, grief over the dream not working out, and now grief over mass shootings and the trauma of seeing our country’s leadership lack strength and power.”

Since 2017, Heidbreder, a birth doula turned hospice nurse and self-professed “angel of death,” has hosted 10 Death Cafes in the District. The salon-style series originated in London, and expanded to cities across the globe.

The cafes never include a religious agenda, sales pitch, or teaching moment. Just conversation.

On this particular night, the room is a hodgepodge of faces, some older or younger, some darker or lighter. Attendees have traveled from every ward and parts of Maryland.

One man is new to D.C., having just arrived from Spain. For two hours, everyone discusses the insecurities, regrets, and curiosities they have about one of life’s biggest taboos.

“One thing I’ve noticed is that because it is a room of strangers there’s an emotional distance that allows people to share in a way they might not if they were with friends,” Heidbreder says.

Heidbreder brought the Death Cafe to the Potter’s House as part of her larger “death work” that includes a death meditation series, her podcast The Magical Deathcast, and a “Death Over Dinner” potluck series she hopes to expand to include as many diners as her home allows.

“America does not think of grief as work,” Heidbreder explains. “There’s no conversation about it as a physical thing, about how to deal with it and discharge it.”

Heidbreder first recognized D.C.’s difficul-

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ty dealing with death in 2012 while pursuing her nursing degree at Georgetown University. While performing her clinical rotations in the emergency room of MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, she found that patients with chronic, sometimes terminal, diseases didn’t have access to end-of-life care or counseling, and often came to the ER sick and desperate.

One patient begged Heidbreder to convince doctors to administer a treatment sure to poison her rather than accept her own death. The woman became hysterical when Heidbreder refused.

“She was scratching and clawing at me and saying I was killing her,” Heidbreder remembers. “There’s only so much of that a human can take. My definition of death wouldn’t allow it.”

Heidbreder’s definition of death insists that harm-reduction, compassion, and dignity must run parallel to medical procedure.

This holistic approach was first formed in a workshop in New York City’s West Village.

Then a graduate student at New York University, Heidbreder was working in event production—she was a regular at afterparties that included Alicia Keys, Aretha Franklin, Patti Smith, and Lou Reed—when she came across a flyer for a weekend retreat on death and dying.

The workshop was taught by Roshi Joan Halifax, a Buddhist teacher and leader in end-of-life care. Heidbreder, then 23, spent a weekend confronting her own death

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through meditation. Engaged in empathic conversation with experts in end-of-life care, she was also able to purge the grief stored in her body, including the loss of several high school friends in her hometown of Quincy, Illinois.

“I grew up in a ‘corn field town.’ There was no talking about [death],” Heidbreder says.

As a teenager unsupported in her loss, she was haunted by questions about life, death, and grief. Those questions continued to circulate after her work with Halifax, and remained in the back of her mind when, disillusioned by her rock ’n’ roll lifestyle, Heidbreder sold or gave away most of her possessions and left New York City to look for personal meaning and life’s purpose in work that supported other women.

Heidbreder eventually found herself in Indonesia, assisting an American expat and midwife, Ibu Robin Lim, with local births in the province of Aceh, one of the regions most impacted by the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami. During the first birth Heidbreder attended, a woman who lost 22 family members in the tsunami delivered a near-death baby. While Lim worked to resuscitate the baby, Heidbreder discovered the woman was having twins and helped deliver a second, surprise child.

While that experience inspired Heidbreder to train as a birth doula, she never forgot that “there’s always a little bit of death in birth, like two snakes chasing each other’s tails.”

Annelies Winborne, an attorney, grappled

with the cyclical nature of life and death after losing five pregnancies in three years.

“When I lost my babies I didn’t have much public or community acknowledgement because we just don’t do that when women lose babies before they’re born,” Winborne remembers. “You’re really expected to keep it private.”

Winborne, a friend of Heidbreder, joined the attendees at the Potter’s House and shared her story to support Heidbreder’s effort to inspire openness to grief.

“Grief is an opening to so many things, but especially to love,” Winborne says. “[Heidbreder] was with me on my journey to understanding that.”

Since transitioning from birth work to hospice care, Heidbreder has found many people who want to grieve openly. The Death Cafes provide individuals with a public forum to do so that’s free from what Cafe attendees call the “suffering Olympics,” instances where grief is judged and sympathy is doled out accordingly.

To foster this equanimity, Heidbreder cracks jokes when appropriate, is comfortable around tears, and provides expert insight on cremation, assisted suicide law, and resources for hospice care and coping with grief. She also allows conversation topics to grow from attendees’ collective intelligence and guides them in expressing themselves.

Participants freely admit to feeling frustration and guilt—one woman is upset her sister insists she have a gravesite and another woman is hesitant to admit she thinks her mentally ill sibling may be happier in death than in life— without fear of reprisal.

“We are meant to hold each other as we grapple with the deep and complex feelings of human life without having to understand them,” Heidbreder explains. “The medicine of grief is witnessing someone come undone and being able to stand firmly and loyally by their side.”

Heidbreder considers it an inspiration and a privilege to stand by so many strangers in their grief. Even with the loss of her own father fresh in her heart, Heidbreder insists that grief must be confronted and shared, or society will always hurt.

“Grief is a verb,” she says. “You have to write about it, you have to beat pillows, you have to go on walks, you have to talk about it, and, hopefully, there’s a process that happens so we’re a conduit of grief, not a container of it.”

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Senior Service Local athletes age 60 and over discover a sport for their lifetime at a D.C. table tennis club.

For 50-plus hours a week, Thomas Carothers oversees the research programs at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a foreign policy think tank headquartered in D.C. As the senior vice president for studies, Carothers writes about democracy-related issues like human rights and the political polarization of governments worldwide.

It can be stressful, draining work. But on Saturday mornings, Carothers is simply “Tom.” In those hours, he’s transported to another place, where the only thing that matters is whacking a small, plastic ball past the person across the table.

Carothers, 63, spends his non-work time as one of the regulars at the Washington DC Table Tennis Center (WDCTT)—the city’s only club dedicated to the sport colloquially (and lovingly) known as ping pong.

“It definitely takes you to another world,” he says. “[It’s] relaxing to get out of the mental space of work, which in my case is international politics. Like any good sport, it’s just a completely different thing to concentrate on.

You have to clear out your mind. You have to be focused on the moment.”

Last Saturday, Carothers was one of 15 players who showed up for the weekly league play at WDCTT. Most, like him, were over the age of 60. The club, located inside a small brick building less than two miles away from the Takoma Metro station, caters to older competitors and gives senior table tennis players a place to compete and socialize.

When C h a r l e n e L i u opened the 5,000-square foot space dedicated to table tennis in the summer of 2014, she did so to spread her love of the sport. Liu and her husband, Changping Duan, previously ran leagues at the Maryland Table Tennis Center in Gaithersburg, and the China natives started the new center in D.C. after they retired.

“I just cannot think about capital city of the United States does not have table tennis club,” says Liu, the world’s No. 1 female player 65 or older, according to International Table Tennis Federation rankings. “That’s not acceptable.”

It costs $290 per year to join the club for

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Charlene Liu seniors (65 and over) and students (18 and younger), and the center hosts league play with round robin matches on Wednesday and Friday nights, Saturday mornings, and Sunday afternoons. Roughly half of the center’s clientele are 60 and above.

“This is by seniors, for seniors,” Liu, 67, says with a laugh. “But I’m not saying young people are not welcome.”

Next month, Liu will join Duan in Seattle from Germantown to be closer to their son and infant granddaughter. They sold the business in February to 33-year-old Khaleel Asgarali, a local table tennis coach who already teaches there and is also a professional player in Germany, but remain the owners of the property.

Asgarali—who says that 90 percent of his clients at WDCTT are seniors—wants to maintain that part of the club, while building up its junior and summer camp programs. He counts seniors that have medaled at senior national tournaments among his students, and some shell out a dollar a minute to get private lessons from Asgarali (and Liu, until she moves).

“It’s just one of those sports that you can play at any age,” he says. “You can have a 12 year old at the same level as a 70 year old.”

But the sport can prove particularly helpful

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to seniors. Many of the players 60 and above on the recent Saturday morning played the sport recreationally as a child and came back to it later in life. WDCTT gives them a chance to sharpen their skills and build fitness in a low-impact sport. Studies have shown that table tennis can improve motor skills, and older players at WDCTT have turned to the sport to stay active.

“The ball comes very fast, so it keeps you alert,” Liu says. “Seniors, they get slower and slower, but if you do this, you will see those seniors, they move better than other people.”

Peter Smith, a Takoma Park resident originally from England, was surprised to find people older than him when he joined the club about six years ago. Now 74, he’s still not the oldest player during league play. He says he sees players in their 80s “routinely” beating people in their 20s.

“It’s difficult to envision another sport where that can happen. Maybe Tiddlywinks, but that’s about it,” Smith says, referring to a popular British board game that involves shooting small colored discs into a cup.

Like Smith, Pelle Deinoff didn’t take table tennis too seriously until his late 60s. The 77-year-old had a table in his garage in the suburbs of Stockholm but preferred tennis until an injury forced him to stop. He took his first ta-

ble tennis lesson at 68.

Deinoff was the oldest player at the club on the recent Saturday, but he won games against players more than a decade younger than him, including against 26-year-old Jason Miranda, who stood out as a millennial in a room mostly filled with boomers.

“I don’t have the stamina like, for instance, a young man like Jason, so I had to pull the trigger quicker,” Deinoff explains. “I have to attack quicker, long rallies would kill me. And that’s what I do.”

Miranda, who moved from India to Prince George’s County about three years ago, enjoys playing with the 60-plus crowd. They all have different games, he says, and it inspires him to get better.

“It’s especially fun when someone like 55, 60, like really beats you or like kicks your ass,” Miranda says. “Maybe they’re not as fast on their feet, but they have a cracking game ... and can make me run around.”

“I’m going to be surprised if I’m half as good as these guys when I’m their age,” he adds. “I don’t even know if I expect to play when I’m in my 60s.”

Daryl Hill plans to play for as long as he possibly can. The 62-year-old from Baltimore travels down to D.C. to compete in WDCTT leagues about once or twice every couple months and in the local tournaments throughout the year.

In 2017, he went to Birmingham, Alabama, to compete in table tennis at the National Senior Games, a two-week long, multi-sport competition for athletes aged 50 and over also known as the “Senior Olympics.” Two years later, Hill went to Albuquerque, New Mexico, for the same event, and is currently in the process of trying to qualify for the 2021 Games in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

“Will any of us be world class players? Absolutely not,” Hill says. “But it’s just to stay healthy and enjoy the game.”

At 57, Ted Vdelson is one of the younger players on Saturdays. He played table tennis in middle school, high school, and seriously in college at the University of Maryland. He hadn’t played competitively since, but got back into it last summer.

Two years ago, doctors diagnosed Vdelson with multiple sclerosis. In addition to physical therapy and visits to his orthopedist, he takes table tennis lessons with Liu and competes regularly on the weekends at WDCTT. Vdelson says he’s felt stronger since picking up the sport again.

“I’m more fit,” he says. “The first lesson I took with her, I had to stop after 45 minutes ... Now, after an hour, I can still keep going.”

None of the Saturday league players envision that they’ll stop playing anytime soon. For them, table tennis is a sport of a lifetime.

“Until the day they carry me out in a casket,” Carothers says.

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For close to a decade, City Paper has dedicated one issue a year to the situations that really puzzle our readers, be they strange structures, stories from the past, or odd governmental policies. The Answers Issue is your chance to, in some small way, direct what we cover. And while this year, a few too many questions focused on quibbles readers had with City Paper’s way of doing things—no, we’re still not making a dedicated Answers Issue email account— your queries did get us out of our routines to consider the street art, sidewalks, and enormous estates we may have missed in the past.

As always, this issue is a learning experience, both for the staff who put it together, and, we hope, for those reading it. So pour yourself a drink (in a squeeze bottle, perhaps?), crank up some music (we recommend Rare Essence’s cover of “Pieces of Me”), and settle in to discover something new about the District.

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There is an epic driveway on Park Road NW when you are heading from Mount Pleasant to Tilden St. NW. It's the only residential driveway on that stretch. The house belongs to someone up in Crestwood, I believe. Who the heck lives there? And how the heck did they get approval to create that epic driveway? Separate bonus question—what's up with the tennis courts across from that driveway?

The property you are referring to belongs to former West Virginia Senator John Davison “Jay” Rockefeller IV. Yes, he hails from those Rockefellers—his great-grandfather founded Standard Oil. The mansion isn’t merely a house, but a 16-acre estate with two mailing addresses known locally as “The Rocks.” The estate is worth an estimated $18 million.

New York Times reporter Michael Powell was able to visit the property while attending a fundraiser Rockefeller hosted for Barack Obama in July 2008. Here’s what it looks like from the inside: “There are oaks and Chestnut trees and vines and the occasional wayward deer, and then you spot the three-story house, with four Ionic columns and a slate roof and 17 windows across the front, and it rapidly becomes apparent that these Rockefellers suffer no critical shortage of guest bedrooms.”

After being elected to the Senate in 1984, Rockefeller purchased the property for $6.5 million. He eventually remodeled the property, adding a tennis court and detached pool house.

The house was built in 1926 for a Mrs. M.B. Gaillard, according to a permit application with the Office of Planning. Unfortunately, no one could explain how anyone was able to build a driveway of that magnitude that cuts through a national park. (Rock Creek Park has been federally managed since 1890.) City Paper reached out to Rockefeller himself to see if he has any insight and will report back if he replies. —Amanda Michelle Gomez What ever happened to BORF? For those who don’t remember, BORF was the briefly anonymous teenage graffiti artist who splattered his work across D.C. in 2004 and ’05. The tagging spree landed the Northern Virginia native, whose real name is John Tsombikos, a brief stint in the D.C. Jail, along with a $12,000 fine and hundreds of hours of community service. His graffiti was inspired by a friend’s suicide.

Following his days coating District property in paint, Tsombikos has displayed his work in galleries around the world, including Lazarides Rathbone in London.

He has since moved to New York City, according to a 2015 Washington Post profile, where he has continued producing art. In 2018 Tsombikos’ collaborated with the stillanonymous graffiti artist Banksy on a mural honoring Turkish artist and journalist Zehra Dogan, who was imprisoned for her painting of Nusaybin, a town destroyed by fighting

between Kurdish militants and the Turkish military. And in 2019, his work was featured in the art exhibition BEYOND THE STREETS in Brooklyn.

As for his exact whereabouts these days?

Tsombikos has proven to be a fairly elusive subject. In response to an email, the artist sent over some images of his work and writes: “I will be showing some large-scale drawings in New York before the end of the year.”

—Mitch Ryals The Washington Post article on John Wall from several years back said he lived in a condo in Chinatown but had never heard of Dupont Circle. Is that still the case?

The Post published the article in question, entitled, “For Wizards rookie John Wall, growth not limited to the basketball court,” on Jan. 28, 2011. Michael Lee, now of the Athletic, wrote about how the then 20-year-old Wall had plenty to learn about things ranging from his diet to playing in the NBA to the geography of his new city.

At one point, Lee asked Wall if he had visited Dupont Circle. “What’s that?” Wall responded.

A lot has changed since then. Wall, 29, is now a father and an NBA veteran. He switched over to a keto diet while recovering from his ruptured Achilles tendon. He doesn’t live in a luxury condo in Chinatown anymore, having bought a 17,350 square foot, $4.9 million mansion in Potomac in 2013. (In 2017, Wall agreed to sign a four-year, $170 million contract extension with the Wizards that kicked in this season.)

And Wall is most certainly familiar with the Dupont area. He visited Rosebar Lounge, located just 0.3 miles from the center of Dupont Circle, so frequently that it led to the feud with ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith, who criticized Wall for his off-court habits.

“I do go to Rosebar on Saturdays,” Wall said in an Instagram Live video in 2018.

“What, not supposed to party once in a blue while? The fuck? Where you be at, Opera?

Living Room?”

—Kelyn Soong What is the story behind Dan's Cafe? Their style of serving is so unique, it must be due to some legal workaround. What's the deal?

You’re referring to the unique way Dan’s Cafe presents some of its drinks. Owner Clinnie Dickens has been serving liquor and a mixer inside condiment-style squirt bottles for decades.

Back in 2015, Dickens sat before the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board for a hearing on an unrelated issue. The board used the opportunity to inquire about the squirt bottles since inspectors observed patrons drinking from them on visits to the beloved but quirky Adams Morgan bar. Dickens explained that he pours 4.6 ounces of liquor into the squirt bottles; this method, he said, allows him to serve customers chilled drinks more quickly.

“I was in one of these discount places that

Rockefeller mansion have some wine glasses, I happened to see these squirt bottles with caps on them,” he told the board, noting that this was in the 1980s. “I bought a bunch of them … And it has caught on to everybody. I've never had a complaint in almost 30 years. Everybody comes in. This is what they want.”

Dickens told the board he believes his patrons consume less alcohol from his squirt bottles than they would if they ordered a Long Island Iced Tea or a Singapore Sling.

“Some of those are in pint jars, and they have about five or six different kinds of alcohol,” he said.

The hearing ended without the board asking Dickens to change his signature squirt bottle style. The Alcohol Beverage Regulation Administration confirms to City Paper that they do not regulate what types of containers bars and restaurants use to serve alcoholic beverages to their customers.

—Laura Hayes

activity” that’s run part- or full-time out of the business person's home. The DCRA website lists examples like computer programming, cosmetology, tutoring (of no more than five students at once), and office use. The business can’t take up more than a quarter of the home (or more than 250 square feet), and you can only employ one person who doesn’t actually live there.

If there’s heavy foot traffic in your home office (more than eight visits by customers or delivery people a day or over eight clients present in an hour), your business is ineligible. You also need one single exterior sign, no bigger than 144 square inches. But if you’re just working for your regular employer while inside your home, that’s outside DCRA’s jurisdiction. Carry on, reader. The District government does not care if you Slack your boss from bed.

—Emma Sarappo

DCRA issues permits to work from home.

Are people who telework without a DCRA permit operating illegally?

When young Peter Newsham was found passed out drunk with his service weapon and suspended afterwards, what really happened?

The short answer: nope! The region’s many telecommuters—35 percent of the region’s commuters telework occasionally, according to the National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board’s 2019 “State of the Commute” report—are all breathing a heavy sigh of relief, we’re sure.

While the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs does issue “home occupation permits,” they’re intended for “a business, profession, or other economic

This question asker slightly misstates what exists in the public record.

Details about an investigation into thenOfficer Peter Newsham’s armed public intoxication surfaced during his confirmation process for chief of police in 2017. At first, when asked in a questionnaire whether he’d ever been investigated or disciplined, Newsham answered “No.” He revised his answer about a week later and listed three incidents, including one

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in July 1993 when “as an Officer, I was investigated for possession of an unauthorized weapon while off-duty and under the influence of alcohol,” Newsham wrote. “No discipline was assessed.”

(The other two incidents involve a fender bender in a department vehicle that he says wasn’t his fault, and an investigation for using an expletive in a government meeting. He wasn’t disciplined for those incidents either.)

Ward 6 Councilmember Charles Allen asked Newsham about all three admissions during his confirmation hearing in March 2017.

“Yeah, it did happen,” Newsham said of the July 1993 incident. “It happened when I was in my 20s. I went out, probably had too much to drink. Somebody saw my firearm was exposed, and a supervisor was called and intervened.”

Newsham said he “was in jeopardy of being disciplined, but it didn’t occur because

of the 45-day rule,” which requires the Metropolitan Police Department to discipline its officers within 45 days of an incident. (The discipline period is now 90 days.)

Asked for clarification on the incident, an MPD spokesperson says via email that “Chief Newsham has never been suspended in his over 30 years of police service to the District.”

—Mitch Ryals Why do a handful of City Paper newspaper boxes have stickers from Whisked! cookies on them? (One, for example, on Adams Mill by the former Southern Hospitality?)

Is this some kind of KGB dead drop signal?

I've seen a handful of newspaper boxes with these cookie bag stickers stuck on top, but usually they are City Paper boxes.

Nothing sinister or sexy is happening here. Whisked! founder Jenna Huntsberger tells City Paper she’s seen the stickers on

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various City Paper boxes and has been curious like you, dear reader, as to who put them there. “It's not anyone who works for us—I asked our staff, and they haven't been putting them out. We also don't encourage customers to randomly sticker City Paper boxes or other public property,” she says. “In fact, I don't even know how these people got the stickers. They're pretty tough to pry off our individual cookie bags intact, and because we package all our stuff in-house, we don't hand out stickers to customers or clients.” Washington City Paper holds no hard feelings toward the sticker poster(s). Some of our boxes are admittedly a little boring. —Laura Hayes Is Mayor Bowser doing a good job?

Mayor Muriel Bowser definitely looks like a good mayor. She’s constantly in the community cutting ribbons (and steaks), making speeches, breaking ground, smiling, and

shaking hands.

She is assertive, confident, and eloquent (except during a recent chat with the New Yorker). She has so far avoided the major scandals that dogged some of D.C.’s past mayors, though her opinion on mumbo sauce and tacit support for disgraced former Councilmember Jack Evans are marks against her.

Bowser devotes a lot of the city’s money to affordable housing, one of her top priorities, even if advocates and the Council disagree with her on exactly how much to spend and how to spend it. While a recent Washington Post poll found that she has a 67 percent approval rating overall, on creating and maintaining affordable housing, 64 percent of polled residents give her a “not-so-good/ poor” rating.

And despite D.C.'s growing prosperity, black residents are not benefiting as much as white residents. Public schools are improving by some measures, but achievement gaps still persist, especially for students of color in low-income areas. The Post poll shows that residents think Bowser is doing a pretty good job on education (59 percent say “good/excellent”), though there is some question as to whether the progress is a result of her administration’s work or the work of her predecessors.

Although violent crime is trending down overall, the number of homicides have increased every year since Bowser took office in 2015.

Herroner is doing a good job signing her name in support of the politically popular bill making go-go D.C.’s official music. But she’s less successful signing in opposition to bills.

Bowser is only batting one for three on vetoes halfway through her second term. The veto losses are indicative of a disconnect between Bowser and the Council, where her allies are dwindling.

She’s also doing a good job supporting billionaire former Republican Mike Bloomberg despite his record of disparaging women and people of color. But that’s only if the “good” job you’re looking for is a regurgitation of his misleading talking points on his racist stop and frisk policing policy—a disqualifier for many voters.

So is the mayor doing a good job? For middle class and wealthy residents, absolutely.

For low-income, minority residents? Not so much.

—Mitch Ryals Why did the D.C. reading scores on National Assessment of Educational Progress improve for only one group (largely Hispanic) and only at DCPS? By way of background, the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a congressionally mandated program administered by the U.S. Department of Education, tests fourth- and eighth-graders in math and reading every other year. The project got its start in 1969 and intends to offer a national snapshot of what students do and do not know over time. These highly anticipated results are published in what’s called “The Na-

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tion’s Report Card.”

The District got praise for its 2019 results.

While the nation’s test results were lackluster—overall, reading scores dropped for students and disparities between high- and low-achieving students widened—D.C. made significant gains. D.C., along with Mississippi, was the outlier.

To return to the question, results come from both traditional and charter public schools. NAEP’s Trial Urban District Assessment, which samples students in select urban districts from Albuquerque, New Mexico, to D.C., only tests traditional schools.

D.C. was the only jurisdiction to see eighthgrader reading scores jump by three points, from 247 to 250 points, although D.C. is still below the national average of 262. It’s true Hispanic students saw significant gains, with an eight-point increase to 250 points. Meanwhile, black eighth-grade students increased by one point to 241 and white students decreased by one point to 299.

So why did Hispanic eighth graders see the highest gains overall?

“The data tells us the ‘what’ not the ‘why,’” says DC Fiscal Policy Institute’s education expert, Qubilah Huddleston. But after researching this, Huddleston noticed the Deputy Mayor for Education also reported that English-language learners have been excelling, noticeably in their scores on PARCC, the standardized test D.C. administers to test students’ proficiency in math and literacy. (While Hispanics don’t account for every English-language learner, they make up a significant portion of the group.) Targeted investments in English-

language learners may be materializing in testing.

—Amanda Michelle Gomez Why are some sidewalks concrete, others brick, others stone, others asphalt?

The difference in material depends on where the sidewalks are in the city. For example, historic districts like Georgetown get brick sidewalks while the sidewalks along 14th Street NW in Columbia Heights are Mesa Bluff, a yellow-ish brick specific to that corridor, according to District Department of Transportation director Jeff Marootian.

Concrete is by far the most common material, taking up 1,172.79 miles in the city, followed by brick (126.25 miles), and asphalt (7.42 miles). 3.16 miles of D.C. sidewalks are made of a material labeled “other.” Paving materials with specifications approved by DDOT, which are listed in its Public Realm Design Manual, include red brick, Portland cement concrete, London pavers, exposed aggregate concrete, pressed concrete pavers, and Chinatown decorative pavers.

A formal process to request one type over another does not exist, according to DDOT, but alternate paving materials may be approved on a case by case basis.

“DDOT repairs and replaces sidewalks in the District with the same material that is currently used on the sidewalks,” Marootian says. “DDOT determines which material is used, in accordance with the Public Realm Design Manual.”

And while DDOT gets the final say on which material is used, residents have

pushed for a certain type in the past. A 1983 Washington Post article reported that Georgetown residents told city officials “they believed the brick enhanced the charm of their neighborhoods.”

—Kelyn Soong Why does Metro advertise for itself on its own ads inside stations? People there are already taking Metro!

A train system exists in D.C. It is sometimes on fire. It is sometimes very late, making you very late. We know these truths to be self-evident. But it takes a little more than lore and word of mouth to get the message out about safety features, changes to policies, and the inexplicable existence of a WMATA merch store.

“Metro in-system ad campaigns are about telling Metro riders about something Metro related in the best place to do it: on Metro!” says Ian Jannetta, a WMATA media relations manager. “It's also one of the most cost effective ways for us to reach our customers, compared to any other type of advertising.”

Most of the ads you see on Metro are about specific programs like the commuter transit program SmartBenefits, safety messages (remember the cartoons A Lert and A Loof? They still haunt my dreams), and reminders, like the current Metro Manners campaign.

Don’t forget the tourists and other out-oftowners. Visitors may not know about unlimited passes or that it’s not cool to stand in front of the train doors, lean against handrails, or take up two seats with their

baggage, emotional or otherwise.

—Elizabeth Tuten Only 5 percent of kids in D.C. who had a specific learning disability were proficient in the PARCC, but national standards say 80 to 90 percent of kids with SLD can perform at grade level. Why is there such a huge gap?

The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, or PARCC, is the District’s own standardized test of mathematics and English language arts/literacy. Students start PARCC testing when they reach third grade. The score ranges between one and five, with scores of four or above considered proficient.

D.C. saw score improvements from 2018 to 2019 for students with disabilities. The percentage of students scoring at a four or above increased from 5.7 percent in 2018 to 7.9 percent in 2019 for ELA and from 6.4 percent to 7.2 percent in math.

“I don’t think D.C. is unique in its PARCC outcomes for students with disabilities,” says Qubilah Huddleston of the DC Fiscal Policy Institute. “I think a lot of states see these large gaps.”

Students with disabilities in Maryland, for example, scored comparable, with pass rates in the single digits albeit slightly higher.

“I think the reality is that PARCC, for one, is just a really difficult exam for a lot of students,” says Huddleston. “So when we think about students who are facing challenges, they especially need support to do well.”

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Henderson continues: “Wikipedia's entry on NoVa lists a lot more localities. Some people might go by the counties that are part of the federal government's Washington-Baltimore Metropolitan Statistical Area.” The Northern Virginia Regional Commission defines NoVa by essentially drawing the boundaries using the Loudon, Fairfax, and Prince William County lines, she says, but they add a physiographic element, saying that it lies within the Potomac Watershed. Within the library, “our director of public services and outreach says he doesn't know of any formal definition used by state government,” Henderson says.

To fully answer your question, according to the commission, Quantico, based on its location in Prince William County, is technically in Northern Virginia. Fredericksburg and Kings Dominion fall outside the limits of NoVa. —Kayla Randall

A report from the Office of the State Superintendent of Education says 85 to 90 percent of all students with disabilities can be expected to achieve grade-level achievement but only when they are “provided with the best instruction, supports, and accommodations.” That isn’t necessarily happening right now. —Amanda Michelle Gomez Why are Metro floor tiles hexagons?

Metro architect Harry Weese, who died in 1998, chose hexagon quarry tiles as part of his original design for Metro. They’re the one design element that can be found at all of the original stations. “Weese’s rationale for choosing hexagons isn’t entirely clear, but it is thought that the shape conveys a sense of movement, as opposed to the straight lines and hard angles of squares or rectangles,” says WMATA media relations manager Ian Jannetta. “In addition, hexagons may have reduced the need for tile-cutting by allowing builders to address curves and non90-degree turns.” This may be speculation, but it tracks.

—Elizabeth Tuten

Go-Go is famous for covers of non-go-go popular songs. Adele's "Hello" is maybe the most popular, but there's also "Royals," "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun," "Single Ladies," "In the AirTonight," "Pretty Girl Rock," etc. How do these covers come about? Do band members start with deciding on a song, then work it up? Or are they listening to the original song and all of a sudden, they can just hear it with a go-go beat?

Why are D.C. fire hydrants painted green?

Shouldn’t they be red or yellow for visibility?

At City Paper, we stand on the shoulders of giants. A reader asked this paper a similar question in 2006, and the then-director of District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority, Louis Jarvis, said the District’s fire hydrants have been green for over 100 years. He conceded that green is not the most visible color, but said that it is aesthetically pleasing.

Vince Morris, a spokesman for DC Water, said pretty much the same thing when I contacted him in 2020. “For as long as anyone here can remember, they’ve been green.” Green is an aesthetically pleasing color, the logic goes, and while visibility is important, the fire department has maps of where all the hydrants are.

While we’re on the subject of fire hydrant colors, those reflective bands you see on hydrants indicate a particular hydrant’s pressure level. A blue band tells the fire department that a hydrant has “slightly higher pressure,” but rest assured: All the District’s operational hydrants have enough pressure to get the job done.

—Will Warren What are the boundaries to be considered Northern Virginia? Where does NoVa end? At Quantico? Fredericksburg? Kings Dominion?

To determine the answer to this question, I reached out to the Library of Virginia, the library agency of the Commonwealth, with a collection that, according to its website, “is the most comprehensive resource in the world for the study of Virginia history, culture, and government.”

Its communications manager, Ann Henderson, shared the question with colleagues and came back with this:

“There is a Northern Virginia Regional Commission, which lists its members,” she says. The member localities are listed as Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun, and Prince William counties, the independent cities of Al-

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exandria, Fairfax, Falls Church, Manassas, and Manassas Park, and the incorporated towns of Dumfries, Herndon, Leesburg, and Vienna. The commission also illustrates these boundaries with a map.

For as long as there have been go-go bands, go-go adaptations of songs outside the genre have been a part of their live shows. Go-Go artists have chosen songs that are somewhat obscure—say, Chuck Brown & the Soul Searcher’s go-go remake of the 1957 calypso hit “Run Joe”—but also melodies that seem ubiquitous, like Backyard Band’s take on Adele’s “Hello,” surely the most acclaimed go-go cover in recent history, and one of the genre’s biggest crossover hits.

Folks can argue about this ’til the cows come home, but in many cases, the go-go cover sounds even better than the original song. Rare Essence improbably improved The Bar-Kays’ funk masterpiece “Holy Ghost,” and Backyard’s “Hello” dumped the original’s mawkish moping, opting instead for a soulful crank sound.

I asked go-go artist Michelle Blackwell how she goes about choosing what material she may cover. “There are a few ways I pick songs to cover,” she says. “Many times it comes from fans who inbox me or see me at a show and ask me to hit a song they like.

Sometimes I may hear a song on the radio that sounds like an ideal song to remix based on a party theme or its ability to fuse well with go-go rhythms.”

“More often than not, though, I like to look for songs that aren't on the Hot 100 or b-side songs off the beaten path so that I'm not covering the same songs as other bands,” she adds. “It's tricky though, because sometimes a band will play a song I cover only after hearing us doing it. Then I'm forced to move on to something else.”

—Alona Wartofsky

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In the Terrace Theater Comprising some of the D.C. area’s finest professional freelance classical musicians, the ensemble’s program includes Respighi’s Trittico Botticeliano and Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3.

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Alphabet Soup

When crafting menu language, chefs and restaurateurs toe the line between teaching and entertaining.

Mohinga, seen hang, pozole, sarma, tlayuda, mentaiko, chermoula, muhammara, kajmak, natto––menus across the District feature these dishes or ingredients. You’re not alone if you haven’t heard of any or all of them.

Chefs and operators have plenty to consider when writing their menus, starting with how to straddle the line between staying true to their cultures and alienating diners who are unfamiliar with their cuisines. Some eaters don’t mind if meals double as education, while others aren’t necessarily looking to be enlightened.

Chief among the considerations is language and word choice—how much to describe, transcribe, and transliterate—and why. Take the word lumpia, for example. Do most people recognize it, or do the “Filipino spring rolls” still need a lengthy description or imperfect comparison to a more common food for diners to understand what they’re ordering?

At odds with the goal of coaxing Washingtonians into ordering new foods is the pressure to produce a clear menu. A menu doesn’t just convey a restaurant’s vibe and vision. From a business perspective, it’s a lifeline. An overcomplicated menu that doesn’t effectively communicate what a chef is serving can impact a restaurant’s bottom line and intimidate diners.

“We all have different ethos, but share that we are there to sell food and drink,” says Simone Jacobson, who co-owns Burmese restaurant Thamee with her mother, Jocelyn Law-Yone. “In the event that something is preventing or hindering or inhibiting you from selling food and drink, then as a business that’s something you have to look at.”

Jacobson and operators of Middle Eastern, Balkan, Lao, Japanese, and Oaxacan restaurants shared how they use their menus to find a sweet spot between sending diners to school and showing them a good time with a few lessons along the way. Each have strategies to make their menus more approachable, from leaning on staff to make menu descriptions come alive to adopting prix fixe formats to lessen the risk of trying something new.

Illustration by Julia Terbrock

By Laura Hayes

These Decisions Are Most Acute For Restaurants Introducing New Cuisines to a City Thamee opened on H Street NE in May 2019.

At the time, only two Burmese restaurants— Georgetown fast-casual salad spot Bandoola Bowl and Burmese bodega Toli Moli in Union Market—were open in D.C. proper.

When designing the menu Jacobson first considered the restaurant’s audience. “We don’t live in a Burmese enclave,” she says. The restaurant sits across the street from Atlas Performing Arts Center. “We get a lot of patrons who come from the theater. Maybe they didn’t think about eating Burmese food but ended up here. I have to be mindful of that. Maybe they didn’t come for a lesson. Maybe they came for a quick meal before a show.”

Jacobson looked to Filipino hotspot Bad Saint in Columbia Heights for inspiration to see how much Tagalog they incorporated.

Then she inspected Burmese restaurant menus across the country and around the world.

The result is a menu with only the word thamee written in Burmese. Given the limited real estate on a sheet of paper, Jacobson didn’t believe the restaurant would attract a big enough population of non-English speaking people from Myanmar to warrant using both scripts.

Instead, Thamee transliterated the names of Burmese dishes with strong cultural significance including mohinga, a traditional break-

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fast dish of stewed catfish over rice noodles, and lahpet thoke, a pickled tea leaf salad.

She hopes guests feel comfortable asking questions. “This is not a class,” she says. “You don’t need to pronounce it to order it. We’re going to help you. We’re not here to make fun of you or shame you ... Maybe you walk away knowing one more Burmese word or maybe you don’t and that’s OK.” Even the name Thamee, pronounced like “tummy with a ‘th’ in front,’” is a conversation starter. Nine out of 10 people who come through the doors ask how to pronounce it. “My mom was worried if it would be difficult for people to say or hinder our success,” Jacobson says.

What you won’t find on Thamee’s menu is any comparisons to Western dishes. Jacobson finds them misleading if a dish has its own “history, culture, and legacy.” “If you called spaghetti and meatballs ramen without broth it would be absurd,” she explains. “People need to reverse [the] colonial mentality to see its absurdity. Would you call a bowl of oatmeal congee but sweet?”

When Laos in Town opened in NoMa in April 2019, Thip Khao and Sabydee were the only places in D.C. proper specializing in Lao cuisine; Hanumanh opened a month later. Owner Nick Ongsangkoon agrees that if a dish or ingredient has cultural significance it should be named to give it greater exposure.

He thought about comparing one of his restaurant’s signature dishes to beef jerky. In-

The Navy Yard location of Maxwell Park opens March 2 with 50 wines by the glass from Brent Kroll and team. Expect the same chalkboard bar top and laid back vibe as the wine bar’s Shaw location, but with food from Chef Mike Rafidi. stead, he used the Lao transliteration of seen hang coupled with a description: “Flash-fried hanger steak strip that has been marinated overnight. Served with Sriracha dipping sauce.

Pairs well with a cold Laotian beer.” It’s more vivid, and Ongsangkoon, who’s Thai, hopes those who have traveled to Laos will remember trying the street food at markets.

Beyond just using Lao words in his menu, Ongsangkoon also likes to include brief anecdotes about when and how dishes are consumed. Order khao poon pla, for example, and learn that the fish curry noodle soup is served at Lao weddings. “We try to showcase Lao culture and pass it onto the customer,” he says.

“Of course [diners] come for the food, but we like helping them understand the big picture.”

Even Established Restaurants Scrutinize Word Choice Restaurants aren’t solely responsible for teaching Americans new food vocabulary.

Food writing, travel, community organizations, cooking classes, and TV shows also play a role.

Daisuke Utagawa, who has been working in Japanese restaurants in the U.S. since 1983, has watched Japanese words like “umami” and “yuzu” become mainstream among his patrons.

“When I started running Sushiko, I started talking about umami,” he says. “People were like, ‘What is that?’” One thought he invented the word. “I can’t find the English equivalent. People call it ‘savoriness,’ but that’s not exact. Now it’s such a widely used term that it’s even used with burgers.”

Still, the restaurateur says he still grapples with balancing “being snobby” by using too many esoteric terms and being overly reductive or using a description that might turn squeamish diners off.

With his Daikaya Group partners, Utagawa recently opened Tonari, a “wafu” or Japanesestyle pasta and pizza restaurant in Chinatown that serves natto bolognese. Its menu describes the dish as pappardelle with beef, pork, red wine, mirepoix, natto, garlic, tomato, and sake.

If diners don’t know what natto is, they have to Google or ask. “If you describe natto it doesn’t sound that good,” Utagawa explains. The pungent, sticky, fermented soybeans are a love-itor-hate-it food, even in Japan.

Ambar owner Ivan Iricanin chose not to describe the Serbian word kajmak on his menu for similar reasons. “It’s a milk curd spread, but I don’t want to order a milk curd spread,” he jokes.

“I can explain how it’s made, but that doesn’t sound good either.” (The Barracks Row location of the Balkan restaurant is closed for renovation; the Clarendon outpost remains open.)

He describes the product as somewhere between butter and mozzarella. It’s served with

bread and toppings like smoked salmon and mushrooms. “Because it opens up a new category [of food], it’s good to call it what it is,” Iricanin says.

Other dishes on the Ambar menu are written in English and non-Cyrillic Serbian. “For the items that were very traditional we went that route,” Iricanin says. Next to “stuffed sour cabbage” it says “sarma.”

“We probably serve 2,000 to 3,000 people per week and we’ve been there for seven years,” he continues. “From when we opened to now, it’s a huge difference. We have a lot of regulars.

When they come in they’re trying to say things in Serbian like, ‘Give me that sarma!’”

Iricanan says he relies on servers and managers to talk up traditional dishes. “We all use our grandmothers as an excuse to tell a story,” he says. “People who’ve been to the Balkans will say, ‘Hey, sarma sarma,’ and people who haven’t will have clear direction about what they’re ordering.”

Servers and Other Staff Play a Vital Role in Helping Guests Navigate Menus Some restaurateurs, including Maydan’s Rose Previte, strategically use words diners aren’t likely to recognize on menus to prompt them to engage with servers. To pull it off, restaurants must invest time and resources to empower staff members to sell dishes that may or may not be new to them.

“We have rigorous training because there are a lot of things servers are not familiar with and guests aren’t familiar with—not to mention just understanding the region,” Previte says. “We’re trying to convey family, food, and migration patterns. A lot of food can be explained through actual history.”

Before opening Maydan off 14th Street NW, Previte and the opening chefs toured the Middle East. When it came time to write the menu they elected to use “whatever word we were taught in whatever country we were in” since dish names and ingredients can vary.

“One of the things I train the staff on is if you don’t know, say you don’t know,” Previte says. “There’s a chance your table is the former ambassador to Morocco. I’ve had servers get called out before.”

Previte also prefers servers not correct diners’ pronunciation attempts, though they can read an order back to ensure they’ve understood it.

“They’re very humble about having had to learn themselves,” she says. “There’s empathy for the guest.” Finally, she says, you have to read the table. “If they want to know all the things, you have that arsenal. If they don’t, leave them alone.”

A Prix Fixe Format Can Make Menus More Approachable Even at restaurants that serve cuisines more familiar to diners in D.C., restaurateurs have to broaden their appeal. Two adopted similar strategies to make their menus more approachable.

At Ambar, Iricanin introduced several fixed price “Balkan Experience,” options, including one with unlimited small plates and drinks for $49 per person before tax and tip. “With limitless dining, diners are more willing to experiment,” he says. They could discover something they’d order

again or learn a dish isn’t for them without the risk of committing to the price of an entrée.

In addition to its a la carte menu, Espita Mezcaleria launched a three-course “precio fijo” option last year that follows the Restaurant Week format year round. It includes an appetizer, entrée, and dessert for $35. “It takes away the fear of dishes diners don’t understand how to approach,” says co-owner Josh Phillips. He points to the tlayuda—the Oaxacan bar snack that stacks lamb barbacoa, beans, and cheese atop a crispy tortilla smeared with pork lard called asiento. “You’ve already spent $35—now these are no longer a risk.”

Orders at the Shaw Oaxacan restaurant diversified immediately and check averages shot up. “We used to sell three times the tacos than we do recently,” Phillips says. People were ordering trios of street tacos as entrées and leaving hungry even though they’re categorized as appetizers. Philips probed his customers about it. “The answer is always a version of: ‘I hate to admit this, but I didn’t understand any of these things. Tacos were safe.’”

Like Jacobson, Phillips always assesses his restaurant’s audience. “Being near the convention center means we’re not always serving Washingtonians,” he says. The people streaming out of conferences in search of a meal “all have different backgrounds, educational levels, and political biases,” according to Phillips. “We have to structure our menu in a way to make it friendly to people who are familiar with Mexican food and people who are not.”

You Can’t Please Everyone Phillips presumes most of the Spanish words on Espita’s menu aren’t intimidating— pozole, quesadilla, tacos, mole, and ceviche have become widely used culinary terms.

Mostly English descriptions are there to help.

But not all diners feel at ease dining at Espita.

Some post online reviews or say during a meal that it’s difficult to dine when the menu isn’t entirely in English.

“We get it fairly regularly in person,” Phillips says. “I offer myself to guide them through the menu.”

“The best way to create a regular is to have a problem,” he says, alluding to an idea from restaurateur Danny Meyer’s book Setting the Table. “Not understanding the menu is a problem that gives me the opportunity to give outstanding hospitality.”

One recent two-star OpenTable review that said there is “not much info on the menu if you don’t speak Spanish” sent a steaming Phillips on a Facebook rant.

“What is difficult about ‘Three Day Mole Negro’? Should it be called ‘Black Sauce That Takes Three Days To Make’?

Perhaps ‘Taco’ should be ‘Round Bread We Tried To Make Out Of Corn, But It Didn’t Rise, So We Put Pork Or Shrimp In It With Some Spicy Vegetable Sauce’?

Or maybe ‘Ceviche’ should be ‘Raw-ish Fish With Some Pretty Shit In A Bowl’? Or ‘Like sushi, but not at all like sushi...’?”

He signed off by wishing more diners were “willing to talk to a server and have a sense of adventure.”

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A Bump Along the Way

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Alexandria-based Brave Spirits Theatre is set to stage Shakespeare’s eight-play history cycle in a two-year epic repertory.

Brave Spirits Theatre’s Henry IV Part 1

By Ian Thal While ShakeSpeare iS always in fashion for theatergoers, some of his plays are more fashionable than others. There are perennial favorites, like Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Hamlet, but others’ fortunes rise and fall on a sea of fickle tastes and the economic challenges of staging theater, like King John, Timon of Athens, and Pericles. So while the history plays are known to be one of the main genres in which Shakespeare and his contemporaries worked, audiences are not always aware that the Bard composed an eight-play history cycle that begins with the occasionally seen Richard II and ends with the popular Richard III—though the plays are typically thought of in isolation. The eight plays can be grouped in two tetralogies, one

composed in the early 1590s near the beginning of his writing career, and the other near the end of that same decade when he had become an established dramatist. The plays are, in the order Shakespeare is generally believed to have written them, Henry VI Part 1, Henry VI Part 2, Henry VI Part 3, Richard III, Richard II, Henry IV Part 1, Henry IV Part 2, and Henry V. It’s an epic undertaking for a professional theater company to stage all eight plays in repertory, with the plays presented sequentially in consecutive performances. But now the Alexandria-based Brave Spirits Theatre is living up to its name. Its Richard II opened in January as part of a tetralogy the company is calling “The King’s Shadow,” which works through the two Henry IV plays (the second of which just opened) and will conclude with Henry V, opening on March 12.

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The following season, titled “The Queen’s Storm,” will open with the rarely performed Henry VI Part 1 on New Year’s Eve, followed by parts two and three, and concluding with Richard III. Audiences will be able to see the entire eight-play cycle in repertory in June and July of 2021. All shows are presented at The Lab at Convergence in Alexandria.

Brave Spirits artistic director Charlene V. Smith recounts how the inspiration came to her while traveling abroad: “In 2008, I went to London and saw Michael Boyd’s production of all eight plays over four days at the Royal Shakespeare Company,” she says. Boyd, who was at the time RSC’s artistic director, had revived the company’s spin on the cycle in This England: The Histories at the Roundhouse in the Chalk Farm neighborhood.

Don’t miss the Capital Irish Film Festival, opening this week at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center. washingtoncitypaper.com/arts Smith, who will be directing the first four plays, says that “planning in earnest began four years ago with a spreadsheet.” She adds, “I had to figure out how do I rehearse and perform eight plays on a non-Equity schedule before casting” (the Actors’ Equity Association is the labor union covering theater actors and stage managers), while also fitting her plan to the availability of Convergence’s theater space. She elected for a six-month audition process to find the right actors and ensure they could arrange their schedules for the twoyear commitment. Fundraising began in 2017.

Fidelity to documented historical facts is rarely of primary concern to the audience for historical drama. Histories may be escapism, or they may speak to more contemporary concerns.

The 1590s were a time of great political anxiety for the Londoners who were the audience for the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, the theater troupe for whom Shakespeare wrote. Elizabeth I was queen and she and her court had formed a powerful state, but she was also aging, and without an heir, there was no clear line of succession. It was not merely a question of who would claim the crown, but the character of the monarch, and the means of succession: Would it be peaceful and orderly transition, widely recognized as legitimate? Or would it be by insurrection, civil war, or assassination, leaving the claims of any victor contested either openly or covertly?

Even if the eight plays might have been viewed by those in a later era as an entertaining exercise in teaching English history, or a patriotic pageant that flattered the kingdom’s ruling class, Shakespeare was also playing out different scenarios of what might follow Elizabeth’s reign.

It’s hard to argue that the United States is not currently going through its own period of political anxiety. It’s a feeling especially palpable in the Washington metropolitan area, where politics and governance are dominant local industries. Smith explains that when planning began “we knew we would have presidential elections” and whatever hopes some had in 2016, “we didn’t have a female president then and still don’t have one now.”

Though we don’t have a monarchy, Smith says, she does see the history cycle plays as a way to address the American political system, particularly “our myth of meritocracy, that people can earn their way into power, and our myth of American democracy, when we have questions of who is voting for whom, and the problems of gerrymandering and political families.”

It’s not unprecedented for a staging of the history plays to be in conversation with contemporary politics. Witness the many Henry Vs that reflected shifting perspectives on the post-9/11 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan during the early 2000s, sometimes with explicit com-

CPARTS parisons between King Henry and George W. Bush. But Smith is addressing a larger context with Brave Spirits’ staging. “The dramaturgy team has thought about how 87 years of English history could map onto 87 years of American history,” she says. “There are no one-toone analogies; there are greater complexities.”

Audience members should not expect Shakespeare’s characters standing in for Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, or Bernie Sanders. Instead, Smith plans to explore larger shifts in American society using “casting opportunities to show a shift in positions of power for women and people of color.”

The approach, however, does lead to rethinking the way certain characters and scenes are traditionally presented. Already Smith has discovered that. “People are surprised that Richard II has so much humor in it,” she says. “Once Bolingbroke [Henry IV] takes the crown the structure of the play changes.” Some scenes are a “funhouse mirror reflection” of what happened in an earlier act.

“There’s a difference between wanting the job and having the job.” She also observes that in recent years, Henry V, the last play of this season’s “The King’s Shadow” series, “is usually staged in a pro-Henry manner, but the play tricks you. The chorus is always praising Hen-

ry, but we see what he does onstage—he goes to a country that is not his to take things that do not belong to him.” Additionally, Smith notes, despite the onstage friction between the different ethnic groups of the British Isles, “there’s an insistence on national coherence. When you dissect St Crispin’s Day Speech, it exposes class issues.”

Unlike the RSC repertory she saw in London, in which Boyd directed the three Henry VI plays and Richard III while leaving the other four plays to three other directors, each of whom chose to stage their plays with radically different aesthetics, Smith wanted audiences to experience the Brave Spirits repertory as a coherent eight-play historical epic with a consistent sensibility. Smith could accomplish this easily with Richard II, the two Henry IV plays, and Henry V, which she is directing, but since it was also her ambition to play Queen Margaret, the powerful consort, and later, widow of Henry VI, she would have to hand the director’s chair to someone else.

Next season’s part of the repertory, “The Queen’s Storm,” is directed by Jordan Friend, who also contributes to that consistent aesthetic as composer and music director for the entire cycle. Throughout Richard II for instance, the king is greeted by the Latin chant-

ing of “Ave Rex” (Hail King), a common refrain from late-medieval liturgical music in which “king” is an epithet for Jesus, but the audience hears it as a metaphor for first Richard and then Henry. Friend says that he made an “intentional use of liturgical music to signify Richard II’s claim of divine right. He’s the king with the greatest religious drive.” It’s a claim that his usurper Henry IV is uncomfortable with, sparking what Friend describes as “a progression of music secularization, taking on a populist trajectory” in subsequent plays.

Friend is also the artistic director of 4615 Theatre Company, which stages performances across the D.C. area. He previously worked with Smith as her assistant director on Brave Spirits’ 2018 production of Coriolanus, and later that year in 4615’s production of Macbeth he directed Smith as Lady Macbeth. As Smith and Friend discussed the upcoming repertory and how Friend could serve the project, he asked to direct the second half of the cycle.

Running his own theater company while also making a two-year commitment to Brave Spirits’ history repertory has stretched his role as an artistic leader, forcing him to delegate responsibility to others. “I’m going to structure 4615’s season around this to some degree,” he says. “It actually nudges us out of the nest a

bit—pushing the company so that it can operate more in my absence.”

Friend relished not just the opportunity to direct the three Henry VI plays, which are rarely performed in their entirety, but in his words, chronicle a period in which “governments change as often as Bethesda restaurants.”

But to direct the full story arc for Margaret, who is best known as the widow in Richard III, a grotesque figure who curses the now squabbling factions who deposed her husband, her full humanity must be understood. “There’s a gatekeeper-ism with how we perceive Margaret,” he says, noting that the audience often interprets the queen in the gaze of her antagonists. “We aim to catch these moments more clearly instead of identifying with how other characters see her.” Margaret’s story will be one of the vehicles by which Brave Spirits will showcase that “as marginalized people take more ‘King-adjacent’ roles and get closer to power, the resistance from the establishment gets more extreme.”

Friend thinks about how “The Queen’s Storm” may be shaped by the results of the upcoming general election. “I’m in rehearsals for Richard III during the election,” he says. “We’ll see if it’s history or truth. I hope that I’m not predicting the future.”

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Shipwreck: A History Play About 2017

By Anne Washburn Directed by Saheem Ali At Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company to March 8 The endless, repeTiTive conversations in Shipwreck: A History Play About 2017 are exhausting. The characters are grating. That’s the point, of course.

Anne Washburn’s play echoes the Trumprelated anxieties of a certain kind of white liberal with eerie accuracy, but it doesn’t indulge those viewpoints. Instead, it flips them on their head. At its heart, the play isn’t actually about this group of mostly affluent, mostly middle-aged, mostly white, mostly liberal friends and their political neuroses at all.

It punchily satirizes the breathless tracking of each new political development and the grand stakes of good and evil #Resistancetypes assign to Cabinet figures as if they’re only characters in a drama. It then satirizes the conventions of those dramas. Shipwreck is really about the reality of being a black man in America, and how race and racism affect every moment of American life.

It’s 2017, and a group of friends are meeting up at the new house Jools (Anna Ishida) and Richard (James Whalen) have just moved into. They’ve just seen Trump’s inauguration and the situation in Washington consumes their thoughts. Their phones unleash a stream of bad news, then a follow-up gush of reactions to that bad news. They’re playing four-dimensional political chess out loud and on Facebook, only it doesn’t seem to actually accomplish anything: Their political angst is all talk, no action. Even after a dramatic admission from Louis (Jon Hudson Odom)—he cast his vote following a dark, inexplicable whim—they break no new ground.

It’s the most effective send-up of liberal anxiety in the last three years I’ve seen, and the characters will all be achingly recognizable to the audience, especially Allie (Jennifer Dundas), the group’s most ferocious keyboard warrior. It’s also a stunning reminder of just how much news has been directed at our faces since 2017, as the characters reference events that were jaw-dropping at the time and barely register as memories today.

But Shipwreck delights in placing its viewers on unsteady ground, and there are many disruptions that hint that these characters are not the ones we should be spending the most time with. Unexpected soliloquies punctuate the action; the setting and characters notably change twice, with dramatic consequences. Early on, it becomes clear that the house is haunted, in a manner of speaking,

by the family who lived there before Richard and Jools. Shipwreck masterfully plays with haunted house tropes, allowing Mark (Mikéah Ernest Jennings), the adopted Kenyan son of the house’s previous owners, to wander through the house and observe the characters unseen, tracked by spotlights that give him an unearthly glow. He’s not there, but his presence is certainly felt by the characters, though they blame their unsettled feelings on the snowstorm outside, the paucity of groceries inside, and the orange man in the White House. And when Donald Trump comes on stage, as if manifested from their anxious chatter, he’s first a noble knight in shining armor; later, he’s the overseer of an occult empire of dark forces.

What makes these shifts in tone and setting work is the remarkable production design from Arnulfo Maldonado. When the set unexpectedly moves, it’s with shocking fluidity; light and sound are used to great effect to indicate the jarring passing of time and the not-quite-ghost inhabiting the home.

Voices echo at the end in an impressive feat that emphasizes a cavernous set reveal.

But the play’s real highlight and its heart is Jennings’s performance as Mark, a black man who grew up in a white family and in a white town, who muses not about Trump but about his origins, his adolesence, his family, and how his race has affected every aspect of his American world. Jennings is given incredibly heavy material that he has to carry alone, with no one to play off of, and without his light touch it could easily veer into mawkish territory. Instead, he keeps his delivery controlled, and as a result controls the room—he’s impossible to look away from.

When he does explode in anger and grief, it’s both shocking and deeply earned. And though he very rarely gets to interact with other characters, at the play’s end, Mark’s investigation of his relationship with his father is deeply affecting.

When Shipwreck places Donald Trump and James Comey head-to-head and frames their battle as a timeless clash of the forces of good and evil, it does so with a completely straight face. But the matchup is knowingly comedic, a sendup of the histrionic language and analogies used—in 2017 and today—to describe the Trump presidency and its very real stakes. The play’s exaggerations bring into relief the uselessness of treating Trump as an evil genius or a high fantasy villain.

Instead, he’s a very powerful man with the ability to cause huge amounts of human suffering, often with little forethought. It’s not epic; it’s banal. By inflating the stakes to intense heights but never cheapening itself by giving the audience a knowing wink, Shipwreck pulls off a rare successful Trumpian satire.

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SEE NO EVIL The Invisible Man

Directed by Leigh Whannell The InvIsIble Man is about a man who is actually invisible, but it works a lot better as an allegory. Its subject is the long reach of trauma, and how, as a victim, your perpetrator lives on inside of you, even after he is gone. He makes you a worse version of yourself. Sometimes, he even makes you hurt the people you love.

He controls you, and in the end, it’s not clear whether he’s made himself invisible or you.

Officially, the film is yet another adaptation of the H. G. Wells sci-fi novel, but writer and director Leigh Whannell brilliantly spins it into a harrowing domestic horror. It opens on Cecilia (Elisabeth Moss), escaping from her abusive husband Adrian (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) in the middle of the night. He chases her down the road and breaks the window of her car with his fist, but she gets away. She is staying with a friend, trying to recover from the trauma Adrian inflicted upon her, when she receives unexpected news: Adrian is dead.

He has ended his life and left her a hefty sum of money.

She is free—that’s what everyone tells her, including her loving sister (Harriet Dyer), her police officer friend (Aldis Hodge), and even Adrian’s brother (Michael Dorman), who reveals that he was also a victim of Adrian’s abuse. She knows better. Adrian wouldn’t make things so easy for her. Her suspicions take a turn for the far-fetched when strange things start to happen. Items in her home move from where she left them. A burner on the stove turns on by itself and almost sets the kitchen ablaze. She tells people that Adrian is still alive and has some24 february 28, 2020 washingtoncitypaper.com

how made himself invisible. Understandably, everyone thinks she’s lost it.

In the first half of the movie, Whannell and cinematographer Stefan Duscio place Cecilia in the corner of the frame, focusing our eyes on the empty space, inviting us to imagine who might be lurking there. It’s deeply unnerving and incredibly effective. Meanwhile, Whannell’s screenplay wisely stays in the present.

He avoids showing us the abuse Adrian inflicted on Cecilia. We gather everything we need to from her shaky hands, darting eyes, and trembling voice.

When living in this tenuous state somewhere between metaphor and reality, The Invisible Man is thrilling. The terrors of escaping from an abusive relationship have been depicted in films before—there are similarities here to 1991’s Sleeping with the Enemy—but the unknowns that underpin so much of this film make its themes come alive. For a good chunk of time, we don’t know if The Invisible Man is science fiction, horror, or a domestic drama.

We don’t know what kind of world we’re living in, which means anything can happen. That’s an exciting place to be as an audience member.

So it’s a little disappointing that the film eventually picks a lane and drives to its most obvious conclusions. Before long, there are jump scares and surprise murders. Eventually, the villain becomes a little more visible, turning a rich metaphor into a prosaic, B movie slasher. Even Moss’ performance, so attuned to the nuances of trauma in the early going, devolves into revenge movie clichés. There’s nothing wrong with an old-fashioned horror flick, but it’s a little frustrating to watch a film make a grab for greatness and end up grasping only air. —Noah Gittell The Invisible Man opens Friday in theaters everywhere.

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Railroad Earth w/ Kyle Tuttle Band 2-Night Passes available! ....F 20 & Sa 21

Caribou w/ Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith ............Th 26

L’Impératrice

Early Show! 6pm Doors .....................F 27

STEEZ PROMO PRESENTS BASS NATION FEAT.

Blunts & Blondes

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

Bruno Major w/ Adam Melchor

Late Show! 10pm Doors ...................Sa 28

Poliça w/ Wilsen .......................Su 29 APRIL

Leslie Odom Jr.........................W 1

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

The Lone Bellow

w/ Early James...........................Sa 11

Jonathan Richman & Welcome to Night Vale Bonnie “Prince” Billy ........ MAR 7 w/ Dessa .............................................APR 2 Walk Off The Earth Brian Fallon & w/ Gabriela Bee ..................................APR 5 The Howling Weather w/ Justin Townes Earle & Worriers .MAR 13 Jens Lekman w/ Eddy Kwon Whindersson Nunes .......... MAR 16 and DC Youth Orchestra Program......APR 22 Kurt Vile with BYT’S FUTURE IS FESTIVAL PRESENTS Cate Le Bon .............................APR 24

Little Dragon ...........................W 15 Margaret Glaspy w/ Kate Davis Early Show! 6pm Doors ......................F 17

AEG AND U STREET MUSIC HALL PRESENT

Dabin

w/ Trivecta • Nurko • Last Heroes Late Show! 10pm Doors ...................F 17

DiscoBENT

Who? Weekly LIVE ....................MAR 27

feat. JoAnn Fabrixx, Diyanna Money, Lemz & KeenanOrr (Sleaze DJs), Pussy Noir, Jaxknife Complex .Sa 18

Matinee Show! 2pm Doors .............MAR 28

NPR’s Ask Me Another

feat. Ophira Eisenberg, Jonathan Coulton & More TBA

w/ Rachel Wammack ...................M 20

thelincolndc.com • impconcerts.com •

Hell and Other Destinations ...APR 27

Watch What Crappens........ MAY 2 AEG PRESENTS

Russell Brand: Recovery Live

Evening Show! 7pm Doors .............MAR 28

Real Estate w/ Palm ...............Tu 21 Waxahatchee w/ Ohmme .......Th 23

POLITICS AND PROSE PRESENTS

Madeleine Albright-

The Lily’s Nora Knows What To Say feat. Nora McInerny

Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real ...........Su 19 Hot Country Knights

16+ to enter. ....................................MAY 28

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

U STREET MUSIC HALL PRESENTS

Shallou w/ slenderbodies ........F 24 Joywave ...................................Sa 25 U STREET MUSIC HALL PRESENTS

ARCA w/ Total Freedom ...........M 27 Ariel Pink w/ CMON ................Tu 28 Tennis w/ Molly Burch...............W 29

MANY MORE SHOWS ON SALE! 930.com impconcerts.com

9:30 CUPCAKES

THE BLACK KEYS * w/ Gary Clark Jr. & Yola..FRI AUGUST 28 Pet Shop Boys & New Order * .. SEPTEMBER 15

The best thing you could possibly put in your mouth

9:30 CLUB PRESENTS AT U STREET MUSIC HALL GARZA (Rob Garza of

Tall Heights w/ Victoria Canal .......Tu 10 .......... Sa FEB 29 Shing02 & The Chee-Hoos: Audrey Mika w/ Souly Had ..... W MAR 4 A Tribute to Nujabes w/ Substantial .W 11 Thievery Corporation)

9:30 CLUB & ALL GOOD PRESENT

Cupcakes by BUZZ... your neighborhood bakery in Alexandria, VA. | www.buzzonslaters.com

The Soul Rebels .........................F 6 City of the Sun w/ William Wild .....Sa 14 • 930.com/u-hall • impconcerts.com • Buy advance tickets at the 9:30 Club box office. •

TICKETS for all shows are available at IMPconcerts.com, and at the 9:30 Club, Lincoln Theatre, The Anthem, and Merriweather Post Pavilion box offices. Check venue websites for box office hours.

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PARKING: The 9:30 Club parking lot is now located at 2222 8th St NW, just

past the Atlantic Plumbing building, about a 3 minute walk from the Club.

Buy your advance parking tickets at the same time as your concert tickets!

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CITYLIST

The Club at Studio K

Music 29 Theater 31 Film 32

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

Ekhodom featuring Thievery Corporation’s Eric Hilton and Gianmaria Conti

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F E B R U A R Y 2 7 | 7 : 3 0 P. M .

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AVA ITE ILAB D Story District’s ILIT Y Funnier Than Fiction

F E B R U A R Y 2 8 | 7 : 3 0 & 9 : 3 0 P. M .

Jason Palmer, “Upward” F E B R U A R Y 2 9 | 7 : 3 0 P. M .

BGR!Fest Secret Shows M A R C H 5 – 7 | 9 : 3 0 P. M .

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jaimie branch’s Fly or Die M A R C H 1 1 | 7 : 3 0 P. M .

Culture Talk: Sophia Chang

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M A R C H 1 8 | 7 : 3 0 P. M .

The Amours M A R C H 1 9 | 7 : 3 0 & 9 : 3 0 P. M .

Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah M A R C H 2 0 & 2 1 | 7 : 3 0 & 9 : 3 0 P. M .

Music FRIDAY CLASSICAL

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS COOLIDGE AUDITORIUM First Street and Independence Avenue SE. (202) 7075507. Sphinx Virtuosi. 8 p.m. Free. loc.gov.

ELECTRONIC

ECHOSTAGE 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. (202) 503-2330. Elephante. 9 p.m. $25–$30. echostage.com.

FOLK

CAPITAL ONE ARENA 601 F St. NW. (202) 628-3200.

The Lumineers. 7 p.m. $55–$285. capitalonearena.viewlift.com.

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Hannah Jaye and the Hideaways. 7:30 p.m. $12–$15. dc9.club.

HIP-HOP

BLACK CAT 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Mucus Fest 2020. 8 p.m. $20. blackcatdc.com.

SUICIDE.CHAT.ROOM

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

Ten years ago, a small, enterprising D.C. theater company partnered with one of the District’s most beloved post-punk bands, Beauty Pill, to create a compelling live show on a depressing theme: suicide. The resulting dance play, suicide.chat.room, was so meaningful to audiences and all involved, that the band, theater, and an original cast member have reunited this week to remount it. Kimberly Gilbert will be joined by five other onstage performers, plus a slew of local actors lending their voices to quotes taken from internet forums frequented by people contemplating suicide.

“Many of us in the original cast had lost someone to suicide, and it was important to us to amplify these voices,” explained Taffety Punk artistic director Marcus Kyd via email. The 10th anniversary remount coincides with Beauty Pill releasing the score—which alternates between gorgeous ambient sound, ethereal vocals, and disturbing voiceovers—as an album. While the band won’t perform live, the four-day run is still a testament to what happens when D.C. creatives unite to dramatize a tough topic. The show runs to Feb. 29 at Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, 545 7th St. SE. $15. taffetypunk.com.

—Rebecca J. Ritzel

JAZZ

BLUES ALLEY 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Kim Waters. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $40–$45. bluesalley.com.

POP

SONGBYRD MUSIC HOUSE AND RECORD CAFE 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Iyla. 8 p.m. $15–$50. songbyrddc.com.

Jeremy Kittel’s Whorls with Joshua Roman and the Verona Quartet M A R C H 2 6 | 7 : 3 0 P. M .

Kennedy-Center.org (202) 467-4600

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

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

VÉRITÉ. 7 p.m. $20–$75. ustreetmusichall.com.

Major Support for Jazz: The Buffy and William Cafritz Family Foundation

ROCK

Major support for Hip Hop, KC Jukebox, and DIRECT CURRENT: The Irene Pollin Audience Development and Community Engagement Initiatives

9:30 CLUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Drive-By Truckers. 8 p.m. $35. 930.com.

Additional Design Support: Vicente Wolf of Vicente Wolf Associates and Margaret Russell

UNION STAGE 740 Water St. SW. (877) 987-6487. Cat Janice. 8 p.m. $12–$15. unionstage.com.

David M. Rubenstein Cornerstone of the REACH

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CITY LIGHTS: SUNDAY

WIKIPEDIA EDIT-A-THON

BOYS DON’T CRY

The 10th most popular website in the world, Wikipedia, has a serious gender problem. Not only is the field of Wikipedia editors vastly male-dominated, but the articles suffer because of it. The majority (over 90 percent!) of articles about female artists, including notable D.C.-tied artists like Sylvia Snowden, Judith Lowry, and Yuriko Yamaguchi, fall well below Wikipedia’s “good article” standards, despite their subjects’ ample contributions to the art world. To celebrate the 19th Amendment’s 100th birthday, Art+Feminism is teaching participants how they can contribute to female artists’ Wikipedia pages to correct this disparity. Through partnerships with local museums, the nonprofit is hosting Wikipedia edit-a-thons all March long on female painters, photojournalists, and sculptors. The first editing workshop and gallery tour of the series will center around female performance and new media artists—think Marina Abramović—to ensure accuracy and depth in their Wikipedia stories.

The workshops welcome participants with all levels of online knowledge to learn how to effectively edit, update, and add Wikipedia pages. The event begins at 10 a.m. at the Hirshhorn Museum’s ARTLAB, 7th Street and Independence Avenue SW. Free. (202) 633-1000. hirshhorn.si.edu. —Katie Malone

Dance Place artistic director Christopher K. Morgan isn’t only responsible for bringing Compagnie Hervé KOUBI to his Brookland theater this weekend, he’s responsible for the company’s firstever American performance. In 2013, Morgan’s own troupe shared a program with the Francebased, Algeria-rooted troupe at the Alden Theatre in Fairfax. Seven years later, Morgan is now running Dance Place, and Hervé KOUBI is on tour hitting major North American venues, including New York’s Joyce Theater. Dance Place is far smaller, but still close to the heart of this troupe that beautifully fuses modern dance with hip-hop and traditional North African movement. In Brookland, Compangnie Hervé KOUBI offers the American premiere of Boys Don’t Cry, an exploration of stereotypes faced by male dancers. For both weekend Dance Place shows, 20 more tickets will be released two hours before each performance and available at the door. And if you have wheels, tickets remain available for the March 3 performance of Boys Don’t Cry at Reston Community Center. Compagnie Hervé KOUBI performs at 4 p.m. at Dance Place, 3225 8th St. NE. $15–$30. (202) 269-1600. danceplace.org.

—Rebecca J. Ritzel

SATURDAY

COMET PING PONG 5037 Connecticut Ave. NW. (202) 364-0404. Hembree. 10 p.m. $15. cometpingpong.com.

MONDAY

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS COOLIDGE AUDITORIUM First Street and Independence Avenue SE. (202) 7075507. Concerto Köln. 8 p.m. Free. loc.gov.

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

CITY WINERY 1350 Okie St. NE. (202) 250-2531. Macy Gray. 7:30 p.m. $55–$70. citywinery.com.

CLASSICAL COUNTRY

BOSSA BISTRO 2463 18th St. NW. (202) 667-0088.

Jack Dunlap Band. 7:30 p.m. $10. bossadc.com.

ELECTRONIC

ECHOSTAGE 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. (202) 503-2330. Paul van Dyk. 9 p.m. $20–$25. echostage.com.

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

Garza. 7 p.m. $20. ustreetmusichall.com.

ROCK & ROLL HOTEL 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

Justin Jones. 8 p.m. $15. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

SONGBYRD MUSIC HOUSE AND RECORD CAFE 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Be Well. 8 p.m. $10. songbyrddc.com.

UNION STAGE 740 Water St. SW. (877) 987-6487.

T.O.E. 7 p.m. $15. unionstage.com.

SUNDAY

FUNK & R&B

CLASSICAL

CITY WINERY 1350 Okie St. NE. (202) 250-2531. Melba Moore. 8 p.m. $35–$45. citywinery.com.

THE HAMILTON 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. Zoë Keating. 8 p.m. $15–$39.75. thehamiltondc.com.

JAZZ

HIP-HOP

ATLAS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER 1333 H St. NE. (202) 399-7993. Marlow Rosado Quintet. 8 p.m. $14– $35. atlasarts.org.

SIXTH & I HISTORIC SYNAGOGUE 600 I St. NW. (202) 408-3100. Matthew Whitaker. 8 p.m. $30. sixthandi.org.

POP

THE ANTHEM 901 Wharf St. SW. (202) 888-0020. The Revivalists. 8 p.m. $51–$76. theanthemdc.com.

SONGBYRD MUSIC HOUSE AND RECORD CAFE 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Roses & Revolutions. 8 p.m. $10–$12. songbyrddc.com.

ROCK

9:30 CLUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Drive-By Truckers. 8 p.m. $35. 930.com.

UNION STAGE 740 Water St. SW. (877) 987-6487.

Nicole Bus. 8 p.m. $18–$69. unionstage.com.

JAZZ

BLUES ALLEY 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Kim Waters. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $40–$45. bluesalley.com.

ROCK

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Texas King. 8 p.m. $10–$12. dc9.club.

VOCAL

KENNEDY CENTER CONCERT HALL 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. I Am A Man: Reclaiming Brilliance in the Midst of Brokenness. 7 p.m. $25–$70. kennedy-center.org.

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FUNK & R&B

BOSSA BISTRO 2463 18th St. NW. (202) 667-0088.

Cheick Hamala’s Griot Street. 9:30 p.m. Free. bossadc.com.

JAZZ

WEDNESDAY

BLUES ALLEY 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Levon Mikaelian & Friends. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $22. bluesalley.com.

POP

9:30 CLUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. of Montreal.

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

ROCK

BLACK CAT 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. OM. 7:30 p.m. $20. blackcatdc.com.

SONGBYRD MUSIC HOUSE AND RECORD CAFE 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Billy Raffoul. 8 p.m. $15. songbyrddc.com.

TUESDAY HIP-HOP

FILLMORE SILVER SPRING 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. G Herbo. 8 p.m. $37.50. fillmoresilverspring.com.

JAZZ

BLUES ALLEY 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Marcus Mitchell, Marcus Young & Marcus Canty.

8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $22. bluesalley.com.

ROCK

CAPITAL ONE ARENA 601 F St. NW. (202) 628-3200.

Aventura. 8 p.m. $39.50–$295. capitalonearena.viewlift.com.

CLASSICAL

WASHINGTON NATIONAL CATHEDRAL 3101 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 537-6200. Post Classical Ensemble: An Armenian Odyssey. 7:30 p.m. $10–$65. nationalcathedral.org.

HIP-HOP UNION STAGE 740 Water St. SW. (877) 987-6487.

Lucki. 9 p.m. $20–$80. unionstage.com.

JAZZ BLUES ALLEY 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Jessy J. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $25. bluesalley.com.

POP THE ANTHEM 901 Wharf St. SW. (202) 888-0020.

Dermot Kennedy. 8 p.m. $37.50–$57.50. theanthemdc.com.

SONGBYRD MUSIC HOUSE AND RECORD CAFE 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Transviolet. 8 p.m. $16– $18. songbyrddc.com.

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

Audrey Mika. 7 p.m. $20. ustreetmusichall.com.

ROCK BLACK CAT 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. ShitKid. 7:30 p.m. $12–$15. blackcatdc.com.

CITY LIGHTS: MONDAY

HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE FIRST LADIES

Dolley Madison was chosen

by Samuel Morse to be the first private citizen to send a telegram. Mary Todd Lincoln was known for holding séances in the White House. It was Eliza Johnson, Andrew Johnson’s wife, who taught him to read and pronounce words. Ida McKinley was a bank teller, Ellen Wilson was a professional artist, and Betty Ford worked with Martha Graham’s modern dance company. More recently, Hillary Clinton made history as the first presidential spouse to seek elected office (she was also the first to host a White House webcast). These women sat alongside their male counterparts (most often their husbands, but sometimes their fathers or uncles), guiding them through times of war, domestic unrest, and economic downturns. Despite their impact—and their eclectic passions and various political pursuits—these first ladies are not represented in monuments or statues throughout Washington, D.C. But women’s history lovers are in luck. A Tour of Her Own is offering a one-mile walking tour, aiming to educate participants on the vital roles these women played. The tour begins at 5:30 p.m. at Lafayette Square, Pennsylvania Avenue NW and 16th Street NW. $25. atourofherown.com.

—Sarah Smith

CITY LIGHTS: TUESDAY

POSTMODERN JUKEBOX

Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox began as a basement jam session between friends and now has over 19 album releases, tours internationally, and operates a YouTube channel with over 1.2 billion views. The music group performs “vintage” versions of contemporary pop and rock songs, such as a “1950s doo wop” rearrangement of “We Can’t Stop” by Miley Cyrus or a “New Orleans dirge” cover of “Seven Nation Army” by The White Stripes. PMJ is also known for their collaborations with the singing clown Puddles Pity Party, “the sad clown with the golden voice” and a quarter finalist on the 12th season of America’s Got Talent. Lorde even called PMJ and Puddles’ cover of her song “Royals” her “favorite.” PMJ comes to the Strathmore as part of their Welcome to the Twenties 2.0 Tour, connecting the Jazz Age of the Roaring Twenties with the newly-arrived 2020s.

Postmodern Jukebox perform at 8 p.m. at the Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda. $36–$189. (301) 581-5100. strathmore.org.

—Mercedes Hesselroth

THURSDAY

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BLUES

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

Roomful of Blues. 8 p.m. $17.75–$27.50. thehamiltondc.com.

COUNTRY

9:30 CLUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Koe Wetzel.

7 p.m. $20. 930.com.

ELECTRONIC

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

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

Tix @ Ticketmaster.com

Feb 28

20/20 Tour featuring 'Alice's Restaurant' with Folk Uke

SOUNDCHECK 1420 K St. NW. (202) 789-5429. Audien. 10 p.m. $20–$25. soundcheckdc.com.

FUNK & R&B

Mar 1

CITY WINERY 1350 Okie St. NE. (202) 250-2531. Such and Antoine Dunn. 7:30 p.m. $22–$32. citywinery.com.

JAZZ

BLUES ALLEY 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Peter White. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $45–$50. bluesalley.com.

POP

PIE SHOP DC 1339 H St. NE. (202) 398-7437. Lily Kershaw. 8 p.m. $10–$12. pieshopdc.com.

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

HRVY. 7 p.m. $20–$70. ustreetmusichall.com.

ROCK

UNION STAGE 740 Water St. SW. (877) 987-6487. Circles Around the Sun. 8 p.m. $20–$30. unionstage.com.

Theater

ARLO GUTHRIE

THE 39 STEPS Four actors embody over 150 characters in this remix of the Alfred Hitchcock film of the same name, including Richard Hannay, who starts a night at a London theater and ends it accused of murder. Constellation Theatre at Source. 1835 14th St. NW. To March 8. $19–$45. (202) 204-7741. constellationtheatre.org.

ADA AND THE ENGINE Ada Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron, loves mathematics—and the “father of the computer,” Charles Babbage. But Babbage’s fatherhood couldn’t have been pulled off without Ada, who was essentially its mother. WSC Avant Bard at Gunston Arts Center Theater Two. 2700 South Lang Street, Arlington. To April 5. $40. (703) 4184808. wscavantbard.org.

THE AMEN CORNER James Baldwin’s play The Amen Corner examines the role of the church in black communities as a 1950s Harlem pastor must confront a figure from her troubled past. Sidney Harman Hall.

610 F St. NW. To March 15. $35–$120. (202) 547-1122. shakespearetheatre.org.

BOY Based on a true story, Boy depicts a misguided doctor who convinces new parents to raise their infant son as a girl after a botched circumcision, and the consequences that ripple through their lives.

Keegan Theatre. 1742 Church St. NW. To March 7. $41– $51. (202) 265-3767. keegantheatre.com.

CELIA AND FIDEL Fidel Castro’s closest confidant, Celia Sánchez, stays by his side as Castro leads his country in a story infused with magical realism. Arena Stage. 1101 6th St. SW. To April 12. $51–$95. (202) 4883300. arenastage.org.

EASY WOMEN SMOKING LOOSE CIGARETTES Marian and Richard are happily settling into their new retirement and their empty nest—until a pregnant niece, the boy next door, and a daughter with a secret show up on their doorstep. Signature Theatre. 4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington. To March 29. $40–$90.

(703) 820-9771. sigtheatre.org.

EINSTEIN’S WIFE ExPats Theatre presents the story of a brilliant man’s overshadowed, brilliant wife—Mileva Maric, who married the most famous scientist of the 20th century, Albert Einstein. Atlas Performing Arts Center. 1333 H St. NE. To March 22. $17.50–$35.

(202) 399-7993. atlasarts.org.

KILL MOVE PARADISE We meet the newly deceased characters in a waiting room as they try to come to grips with their deaths—and as the show tries to come to grips with the killings of unarmed black people.

Rep Stage at Howard Community College. 10901 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia. To March 8. $5–$25.

(443) 518-1500. repstage.org.

MOTHER ROAD William Joad is ill, and he wants to pass his plot of Oklahoma farming land down to a

HAYES CARLL (Solo)

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SQUIRREL NUT ZIPPERS The Inevitable 25th Anniversary Tour

Performing the entire debut album in concert, along with other hep musical stylings!

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Christine LAVin, JOhn gOrKA, CherYL WheeLer, PAttY LArKin, & CLiFF eBerhArDt Plus Sp. 8 TODD SNIDER guest!

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THE DIRTY KNOBS

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Sage HOWARD JONES Rachael Acoustic Trio Tour

RAUL MALO 26 HOLLY NEAR & CRYS MATTHEWS

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KELLER WILLIAMS 4 THE FOUR BITCHIN' BABES “Girls Night Out” Debi Smith, Sally Fingerett, Christine Lavin, Deirdre Flint 5 KATHY MATTEA 6 THE ENGLISH BEAT 8 ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL 9 The Music of CREAM Performing DISRAELI GEARS & Clapton Classics

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descendant who moved West. When he learns his only living descendants are Mexican American, the bits of the family must confront racism and who they really are. Arena Stage. 1101 6th St. SW. To March 8. $51–$95. (202) 488-3300. arenastage.org.

THE PIANO LESSON When the Charles siblings inherit a piano once traded for an enslaved ancestor, the family is faced with a beautiful object belying an ugly truth. Sitar Arts Center. 1700 Kalorama Rd. NW, Suite 101. To March 13. $25. (202) 797-2145. sitarartscenter.org.

RASHEEDA SPEAKING Two coworkers—one black, one white—have to confront the realities of a socalled “post-racial” workplace when their boss conspires to drive them apart. Joe’s Movement Emporium. 3309 Bunker Hill Road, Mount Rainier. To March 22. $17–$25. (301) 699-1819. joesmovement.org.

SHIPWRECK: A HISTORY PLAY ABOUT 2017 In this radical play, the wounds of the 2016 election are ripped open after the 45th president sends a consequential dinner invitation. Woolly Mammoth Theatre.

641 D St. NW. To March 8. $15–$64. (202) 393-3939. woollymammoth.net.

THIS BITTER EARTH Black playwright Jesse finds himself at a crossroads with his white boyfriend, Neil, who can’t understand why Jesse won’t join in on Neil’s Black Lives Matter activism. Anacostia Playhouse.

2020 Shannon Place SE. To March 22. $20–$40. (202) 290-2328. anacostiaplayhouse.com.

TIMON OF ATHENS Timon lives in an opulent, uppercrust Athens world, but when she loses her money, status, and friends, she takes to the forest to plan her revenge against the society that ousted her. Michael R. Klein Theatre. 450 7th St. NW. To March 22. $35– $120. (202) 547-1122. shakespearetheatre.org.

THE WANDERERS Esther and Schmuli are Satmar Hasidic Jews embarking on an arranged marriage, despite barely knowing each other. Abe and Julia are high-profile celebrities embarking on a dangerously flirtatious correspondence, despite being married to other people. On the surface, the lives of these two pairs couldn’t be more different; but the hidden connections between them draw the audience into an intriguing puzzle and a deeply sympathetic look at modern love. Theater J. 1529 16th St. NW. To March 15. $34–$64. (202) 777-3210. theaterj.org.

CITY LIGHTS: WEDNESDAY

ILANA GLAZER

If you’ve missed the colorful signs in your neighbor’s front yard, the clipboard-wielding volunteers at Metro stations, and Mike Bloomberg’s Instagram meme campaign, here’s a shocker: The 2020 presidential election is right around the corner. Broad City cocreator Ilana Glazer has an interesting approach to making sure people remember to vote—she’s “Horny 4 Tha Polls.” Many came to love Glazer for her role in Broad City, but after the show’s March 2019 retirement, they didn’t have to wait long for her to get back on the horse. Glazer is bringing her craft back in focus, first through the January release of The Planet Is Burning, her debut comedy special. Now she’s on a nine-city tour where she plans to use her comedy to get people to vote, especially for Democratic candidates. Alongside Generator Collective, an organization she co-founded, Glazer is hoping to introduce audience members to local Democrats, create dance parties, and celebrate voter empowerment. If you’re also aroused by politics, a Broad City super-fan, or just really passionate about voting, Glazer’s D.C. stop is sure to have something for you. Ilana Glazer performs at 7:30 p.m. at The Warner Theatre, 513 13th St. NW. $35–$49.75. (202) 783-4000. warnertheatredc.com.

—Sarah Smith

CITY LIGHTS: THURSDAY

WELCOME TO SIS’S This original play by Doug Robinson, staged by Ally Theatre company, brings audiences to North Brentwood in the 1940s, where everyone who’s anyone knows the spot to be is Sis’s Tavern.

Joe’s Movement Emporium. 3309 Bunker Hill Road, Mount Rainier. To March 1. $10–$25. (301) 699-1819. joesmovement.org.

Film

SONIC THE HEDGEHOG A small town police officer must help a super fast blue alien hedgehog defeat an evil genius. Starring Jim Carrey, James Marsden, and Neal McDonough. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) THE CALL OF THE WILD A sled dog must survive adventures in the Alaskan wild. Starring Harrison Ford, Karen Gillan, and Dan Stevens. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) BRAHMS: THE BOY II A family moves into an old mansion and their son makes friends with a lifelike doll called Brahms—but the new friend may be more sinister than he appears. Starring Katie Holmes, Owain Yeoman, and Ralph Ineson. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information)

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Heard Signs of the Apocalypse February, 2020 You don’t have to look far to find a sign of the apocalypse these days. There’s the daily news chronicling the spread of coronavirus—to new countries, continents, and people. The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change gave us all 11 years to avoid irreversible damage to the planet and ourselves last year. Meanwhile, balmy February days summon people to the District’s parks and bros to their outdoor beer pong tables.

You also have the ever-looming threat of war with any number of countries, even ones we consider allies, and there’s plenty of opportunity for doom-and-gloom thinking as the Democratic party debates the merits and electability of its many candidates for president of the United States.

One evening, an older sign of the apocalypse rears its head, like a callback to a simpler time: A dinosaur is walking down 7th Street NW. “Walking” may be generous to the prehistoric beast, which struggles to move down the sidewalk. As it ambles past onlookers, they stop and stare. It’s probably a T. rex, but much shorter than the one you’ll find in the Museum of Natural History. Not nearly as apocalyptic. It doesn’t tower over buildings like Godzilla. It’s about the size of a person in a dinosaur costume. If only all our existential threats were like this.

—Will Warren Will Warren writes Scene and Heard. If you know of a location worthy of being seen or heard, email him at wwarren@washingtoncitypaper.com.

EMMA In this adaptation of the Jane Austen novel, Emma Woodhouse can’t stop herself from meddling in others’ love lives. Starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Josh O’Connor, and Bill Nighy. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) THE PHOTOGRAPH A woman finds her mother’s old belongings and viewers see a series of intertwining love stories from the past and present. Starring Issa Rae, LaKeith Stanfield, and Chelsea Peretti. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information)

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JENNIE LEA KNIGHT: WOMEN OF JEFFERSON PLACE

Jennie Lea Knight was probably best known for her sculpture. While she could boast several contributions over her lifetime to the Washington area’s mid-century art scene—along with her mother, Knight co-founded one of the first fine art galleries in Alexandria in 1956—her graceful works in wood won her the greatest renown. This retrospective reveals how Knight’s preoccupations with nature anticipated some of the precepts of minimalism. Her curving, sometimes angular wood forms hug the walls, floors, and corners; at a glance, her work bears a resemblance to that of another native Washingtonian, Martin Puryear. The Knight retrospective is part of an ongoing quest by curators Caitlin Berry, Meaghan Kent, and John Anderson (a City Paper contributor) to document the women who worked in the formidable former Jefferson Place Gallery.

This is deep D.C. art history—but viewers don’t need to know all of it to appreciate Knight’s elegant abstractions. The exhibition runs to March 7 at the Marymount University Cody Gallery, 1000 North Glebe Road, Arlington. Free. (703) 908-7782. marymount.edu.

—Kriston Capps

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—Dan Savage Married 40-year-old gay guy here. I hate beards—the look, the feel, the smell—and I miss the good old days when the only beards gay dudes had were metaphorical. When I got back from a long business trip, my hot, sexy, previously smooth husband of many years was sporting a beard. Unsurprisingly, I hate it and find it to be a complete turnoff. However, he says this is controlling behavior on my part: It’s his body and his choice, and he’s hurt that I’m rejecting him. He also says I’ll get used to it and he doesn’t plan to keep it forever. I agree that it’s his body and his choice, but I think he should still take me into consideration, and that it’s actually him who’s rejecting me, by

choosing the beard over me. What’s your take?

—Spouse’s Hairiness Averts Virile Erection I’m with you, SHAVE, but I’m also with him. It is his body, and growing a beard is something he can choose to do with the face section of his body. But that my body/my choice stuff cuts both ways: Your body is yours, and what you do with your body is your choice. And you can choose not to press your body against his—or press your face against his—while he’s got a beard. If long business trips are a regular part of your life, maybe he could grow his beard out in your absence and shave when you get home. (Full disclosure: I have a pronounced anti-beard bias, which means I’m not exactly impartial.)

—DS I’m a 30-year-old queer cis woman and a late bloomer. My first relationship—with a hetero cis man—began when I was 28. He was my first sexual partner. I fell in love hard, but he broke up with me after almost two years. Months later, I know I’m not ready to fall in love again, but I have a high sex drive. I masturbate frequently, but when I think about playful/romantic sex, the only memories I have are with the ex, which makes me sad. So I watch rough porn, which keeps me from thinking about the ex. But watching bondage videos alone isn’t the sex life I want. Should I Tinder or Lex up some rough casual sex? Get drunk and get some more memories in the mix? (I don’t think I could get out of my head enough to do this sober.)

Assuming I minimize the risks of pregnancy and STIs and partners that are bad at consent, what’s the risk of going for it? How does it compare to the risk of getting stuck in this nowhere land and never finding a new love/sex buddy? Or maybe I need to get drunk and jerk off alone without the porn and just feel all my feelings and avoid any risk of crying on some poor stranger?

—I Need A Plan Today Do it all, INAPT. Masturbate to kink porn and feel dirty, masturbate to your memories and feel sad, and put yourself out there on Tinder and Lex and see if there isn’t someone who intrigues you. But stop telling yourself you can’t find romance with a partner you first met up with for rough sex. I know lots of people who first met up with someone for rough sex, clicked on a deeper level, started dating, and have since enjoyed years of sex that’s both rough and loving. Finally, booze has a way of intensifying feelings of sadness—so if you don’t want to wind up sobbing on the shoulder of some poor stranger, don’t get drunk before that hookup.

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A2 Services will provide the services required for successful obtainment of the LEED prerequisite of EA1 (Fundamental Commissioning) and potentially the credit of EAc3 (Enhanced Commissioning – Option 1 – Path 1) for the LEED BD&C Version 4 project under development at 5000 14 th Street NW, Washington, DC. Upon award of a contract for this project, A2 Services will commence the development of a Commissioning Plan that will outline pre & post construction processes, and the main fundamental commissioning tasks to be performed during the construction phase.

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Studio27 responded to a Request for Proposals to provide defined Architectural Services for the property under development at 5000 14th Street NW, Washington, DC issued by Building Hope Real Estate LLC in September, 2017.

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Studio27 has proven success in providing the Architectural Services for the benefit of the project through activities performed thus far in design and permitting processes.

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The subject property nightlightproductions.club had been intended to and submit your storiesand to me Happy be developed Holidays! James K. West owned by Building Hope wpermanentwink@aol.com Fourteenth Street Inc, and then leased to LAMB with an option to purchase at a latter date. Ownership of the property was assigned

by Building Hope Fourteenth Street Inc. to LAMB on January 13, 2020.

As owner, LAMB needs to contract for general contractor services in order to complete the project.

The scope of work is considered Phase 1 of renovation of the subject property. This phase will include complete renovation of interior of each existing floor. Exterior work will include addition of plantings and minor re-grading for installation of new play areas.

MCN Build participated in pre-constructionEvents activities for the subject Christmas Silver Spring property in with the Saturday, 2017 project December team to2,provide Veteran’s Plaza accurate and timely 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. costing, constructability Come celebrate Christmas in and value engineering the heart of Silver Spring at our information at Veteran’s the start Vendor Village on Plaof phase za. the Thereconceptual will be shopping, arts andcrafts demolition permitand for kids, pictures with Santa, music Build and entertainment ting. MCN has to spread holiday cheer been awarded twoand more.

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The auction will open for bids on March 7, 2020 at 10:00am at [Storagetreasures.com](http:// storagetreasures.com/), and will close as a final sale on March 17, 2020 at 1:00pm. Purchases must be made with credit card and paid at the time of sale.

Buyers will coordinate with MakeSpace to pick up purchases from our facility at “3370 V St. NE, Washington, DC 20018” within 3 days of winning the lot. All goods are sold as is and must be removed by the end of the scheduled pick up appointment.

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RFP - CAPITAL CITY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL Seeking proposals for installation and configuration of phone and intercom systems, potentially replacing, modernizing or upgrading existing infrastructure.

Solution can be cloudhosted, on premises, or a combination. Proposal due 5 PM, April 1, 2020.

Contact jcruz@ccpcs.org for RFP. LATIN AMERICAN MONTESSORI BILINGUAL PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL NOTICE OF INTENT TO ENTER A SOLE SOURCE CONTRACT Early Start Construction Services Latin American Montessori Bilingual Public Charter School (LAMB) intends to enter into a solesource contract with MCN Build for early start construction services in school year 2019-20.

LAMB anticipates that the services agreement will exceed $25,000.00 during its fiscal year 2020.

The scope of work is procurement for long lead time materials that are required in preparation for construction services including the release of the following trades: masonry, miscellaneous metal, rough carpentry, waterproofing, door & frame, skylight, drywall, ceramic tile, equipment, fire protection, mechanical, plumbing and electrical.

The subject property is located at 5000 14 th Street NW, Washington, DC. MCN Build participated in pre-construction activities for the subject property with the project team to provide accurate and timely costing, constructability and value engineering information at the start of the conceptual phase and demolition permitting.

MCN Build performs a wide range of services from delivering large educational campuses to mixed-use facilities, corporate offices, and community centers.

This is NOT a request for quotes or proposals.

Questions or comments to this Notice of Intent should be sent via email to accounting@lambpcs. org.

Order of Publication Commonwealth of Virginia Charlottesville Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court The object of this suit is to: Terminate the parental rights of the Mother, Joy Michelle Brown, of a female child born to Joy Brown on December, 06, 2018.

It is ordered that the defendant Joy Michelle

Brown, appear at the above-named Court and protect her interests on or before 3-11-20 @ 2:30pm.

Amy C Shifflette Deputy Clerk LATIN AMERICAN MONTESSORI BILINGUAL PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL NOTICE OF INTENT TO ENTER A SOLE SOURCE CONTRACT Financial Advisory Services Latin American Montessori Bilingual Public Charter School (LAMB) intends to enter into a sole source contract with Building Hope Services LLC (BHS) for financial advisory services in school year 2019-20. LAMB anticipates that the services agreement will exceed $25,000.00 during its fiscal year 2020.

LAMB acquired the subject property located at 5000 14 th Street NW, Washington, DC. Efforts are underway to rehabilitate the property in time for the 2020-2021 school year.

The subject property had been intended to be developed and owned by the BHS affiliate Building Hope Fourteenth Street Inc, and then leased to LAMB with an option to purchase at a latter date. Ownership of the property was assigned

by Building Hope Fourteenth Street Inc. to LAMB on January 13, 2020. As owner, LAMB needs to contract with BHS in order to secure long term financing for the project. BHS will primarily be responsible for formulating a variety of advantageous options for LAMB’s undertaking of the project which involves the refinance of existing debt, and the financing of new construction, installation, equipping, and for implementing the strategy and structure of the project-related financing option(s) selected by LAMB for execution.

BHS is a Registered Municipal Advisor in good standing with the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board and will have a fiduciary duty to LAMB in providing the services.

BHS or its affiliates have successfully delivered similar services to LAMB at each of its three current facilities.

This is NOT a request for quotes or proposals.

Questions or comments to this Notice of Intent should be sent via email to accounting@lambpcs. org.

Order of Publication Commonwealth of Virginia Charlottesville Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court

The object of this suit is to: Terminate the parental rights of the Unknown Father of a female child born to Joy Brown on December, 06, 2018.

It is ordered that the defendant Thomas Moneke, appear at the above-named Court and protect his interests on or before 3-11-20 @ 2:30pm.

Amy C Shifflette Deputy Clerk LATIN AMERICAN MONTESSORI BILINGUAL PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL NOTICE OF INTENT TO ENTER A SOLE SOURCE CONTRACT Project Management Services Latin American Montessori Bilingual Public Charter School (LAMB) intends to enter into a sole source contract with Building Hope Real Estate (BHRE) for project management services in school year 2019-20. LAMB anticipates that the services agreement will exceed $25,000.00 during its fiscal year 2020.

LAMB acquired the subject property located at 5000 14 th Street NW, Washington, DC. Efforts are underway to rehabilitate the property in time for the 2020-2021 school year.

The subject property had been intended to be developed and owned by the BHRE affiliate Building Hope Fourteenth Street Inc, and then leased to LAMB with an option to purchase at a latter date. Ownership of the property was assigned

by Building Hope Fourteenth Street Inc. to LAMB on January 13, 2020. As owner, LAMB needs to contract with BHRE in order to manage the project to delivery.

BHRE will provide project management services for the preconstruction, design and construction phases of the project.

BHRE successfully provided similar services previously to LAMB at each of its three current facilities.

This is NOT a request for quotes or proposals.

Questions or comments to this Notice of Intent should be sent via email to accounting@lambpcs. org SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PROBATE DIVISION 2020 ADM 000074 Name of Decedent, Charles C. Points A/K/A Charles Carrington Points. Name and Address of Attorney, Reed Spellman, 6404 Ivy Lane, Suite 400, Greenbelt, Maryland 20770.

Notice of Appointment, Notice to Creditors and

Notice to Unknown Heirs, Charlese Points Jennings, whose address is 756 Barnes Street NE, Washington, DC 20019, was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Charles C. Points A/K/A Charles Carrington Points who died on February 2, 2018, with a Will and will serve without Court Supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment shall be filed with the Register of Wills, D.C., 515 5th Street, N.W., Building A, 3rd Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 8/13/2020. Claims against the decedent shall be presented to the undersigned with a copy to the Register of Wills or to the Register of Wills with a copy to the undersigned, on or before 8/13/2020, or be forever barred. Persons believed to be heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship. Date of first publication: 2/13/2020 Name of Newspaper and/or periodical: Washington City Paper/ Daily Washington Law Reporter. Name of Personal Representative: Charlese Points Jennings TRUE TEST copy Nicole Stevens Acting Register of Wills Pub Dates: February 13, 20, 27.

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