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Ward War 2

Can’t make sense of all the Ward 2 primary candidates?

Allow us to present them in terms any presidential campaign watcher can understand.

The firsT one is easy. Jack Evans’ analog among the candidates vying for the presidency is Donald Trump, as the Post’s Colbet I. King pointed out in December. At the time, both politicians were facing forced ejection from elected office over allegations that they used their public office for personal gain.

The impeached president escaped removal and immediately began firing those who spoke against him and interfering with the sentencing of his buddy Roger Stone.

Evans did not fare as well. On the last business day before his colleagues were ready to make him the first ever D.C. councilmember to be voted out of office, Evans resigned. Then, about a week later, he announced that he’ll run once again for the seat he just vacated.

Evans now says he has enough signatures to qualify for the Democratic primary on June 2, putting him at the center of an already crowded race that includes seven other Democratic candidates.

None of the people running for the Ward 2 seat are completely analogous to the current and former presidential hopefuls. LL can think of no one who aligns with Bernie Sanders’ finger wagging, far left agenda, and devoted following, for example, and grassroots progressive organization DC for Democracy (DC4D) has not endorsed a candidate in the Ward 2 race. (It has endorsed Ward 4 candidate Janeese Lewis George.)

But seeing as the Democratic presidential race has been thoroughly overanalyzed and anyone with access to the internet can likely deliver an assessment of the presidential wannabes, using them to make sense of the many Ward 2 candidates might be helpful for confused voters or local politics watchers.

Here’s our imperfect comparison sheet to help you understand the aspiring leaders of downtown D.C. a little better.

Jordan Grossman is the Elizabeth Warren candidate, with a touch of Tom Steyer.

One of Grossman’s favorite talking points— that he’s a former Obama administration staffer—presents an obvious comparison to Joe Biden. But the Ward 2 candidate’s espousal of progressive positions aligns him more with

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Jack Evans

Jordan Grossman

Warren, minus the detailed plans and the established voting record.

Like Warren, Grossman is among the farthest left of all the Ward 2 candidates. At least that’s how he presents himself, and his endorsements from local progressive groups like Jews United for Justice, the DC Working Families Party, and the Washington Teachers’ Union, seem to back that up.

With regard to wealth, Warren’s net worth of $4 million to $11 million reminds LL of what Grossman’s critics whisper behind his back about his family’s money. Grossman’s family donated more than $10,000 to his campaign, some of which he had to return due to conflicting advice from the Office of Campaign Finance. Grossman and his wife also benefited from a $405,000 loan from his in-laws to

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Brooke Pinto

Yilin Zhang

Patrick Kennedy

John Fanning

buy their condo on M Street NW in 2015, according to land records. The couple refinanced with a bank the following year.

“We started jobs right after we moved in there, so we were both waiting for security clearances,” Grossman explains. “And with mortgages they want you to provide the first pay stub, so it was just a timing issue.”

While Warren did not grow up wealthy, Grossman was raised in the affluent suburb of Potomac, which is a detail his critics are quick to point out when he proclaims himself a “fifth generation D.C. resident.” Grossman was born in the District, grew up in Maryland, and moved back to D.C. in 2008, he says.

The most glaring difference between the political newcomer and the two-term Massachusetts senator is Grossman’s lack of a

Daniel Hernandez

Kishan Putta

record. Compared to some of his opponents, Grossman, who also worked for Sen. Amy Klobuchar, can’t claim the same ward-level expertise as Patrick Kennedy, Kishan Putta, or John Fanning, all of whom have served as advisory neighborhood commissioners in Ward 2.

To his opponent Daniel Hernandez, Grossman is more like Tom Steyer.

“He says ‘yes’ to every progressive value,” Hernandez says. “And Jordan’s not a billionaire, but I think he has one of the most privileged backgrounds.”

Patrick Kennedy is the Amy Klobuchar of the race with a little Pete Buttigieg mixed in.

Both Kennedy and Klobuchar can claim some progressivism, but ultimately stake out

more moderate positions.

As long as LL is comparing senators to neighborhood commissioners, the New Hampshire Union Leader’s description of Klobuchar’s bipartisan history of navigating the Washington system could also apply to Kennedy’s inclination to favor compromise over ideology.

Recent evidence of Kennedy’s broadening tent comes in the form of a meet-and-greet hosted by David Catania, the Republican former D.C. councilmember-turned-lobbyist. Grossman pounced on the Tuesday morning get-together in Catania’s office south of Dupont Circle.

“He was Jack’s campaign chairman, he has not taken the Pepco pledge because he wants to continue meeting in secret with Pepco, a former Jack client, and now you have former Jack supporters supporting him,” Grossman says, distinguishing himself from Kennedy.

“I just think it makes the contrast clear.”

(The Pepco pledge requires signatories to reject contributions from fossil fuel companies, be transparent about meetings with those companies and their lobbyists, and support legislation requiring a study of alternative utility models.)

Grossman and Kennedy are the frontrunners in Ward 2 in terms of fundraising and endorsements. Grossman has the largest overall pot, but Kennedy is a close second, with the highest concentration of donations from Ward 2 residents, according to an analysis by local activist Keith Ivey.

In terms of demeanor Kennedy styles himself more like Warren: pragmatic, with a firm grasp of the issues. But he quibbles with any comparison to Buttigieg, despite their coziness with deep-pocketed donors and relative youth.

“He’s the inexperienced one,” Kennedy says of the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana. “I don’t think that fits me at all. There’s a degree of precociousness there, but also a degree of sort of lecturing … and that’s not how I approach issues.”

Brooke Pinto is the race’s Mike Bloomberg.

Both candidates were late entries into their respective races, both secured the endorsements of prominent elected officials in D.C., and both are self-funding their campaigns, at least in part.

Pinto tells LL that she expects to loan her campaign a little start-up cash “just to get off the ground,” but says the exact amount is still being worked out. Bloomberg, by comparison, spent hundreds of millions of dollars of his own money on his now-defunct campaign.

Pinto has support from her former boss, D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine, while Bloomberg got Mayor Muriel Bowser’s backing. Pinto is the only Ward 2 candidate not participating in the public campaign financing program, and says she has been in touch with Racine about raising money.

“We’re in conversation, and I’m planning some events throughout the spring that will be posted on my website,” she says when asked about fundraising help from the elected AG. On the other hand, the 27-year-old Pinto

differs from the 78-year-old former Republican mayor of New York City in plenty of ways, primarily in their respective records, or in Pinto’s case, a lack of one. The young political newcomer, who has never voted in D.C., finds the comparison to Bloomberg “interesting,” and offers Buttigieg as an alternative.

“I really do respect Mayor Pete’s evenkeeled nature and his ability to disagree with someone on an issue without being disagreeable,” she says, adding that she traveled to Iowa to volunteer for Buttigieg’s campaign ahead of the state’s caucuses.

John Fanning is the Joe Biden candidate.

Fanning and Biden are about as similar as an advisory neighborhood commissioner and a vice president can be.

Both have long careers in politics: Fanning was first elected to the ANC in 1990, Biden began his political career on the New Castle, Delaware, County Council in 1970. Both men are close with their respective executives. Fanning has served as a mayoral liaison in Ward 2 for Marion Barry, Anthony Williams, Adrian Fenty, Vince Gray, and Bowser, while Biden will forever beat the Iwas-Obama’s-VP drum. Fanning ran for the Ward 2 Council seat in 2000 (he earned 17.9 percent of the vote but lost to Evans); Biden ran for president in 1987 and 2007.

On this comparison, many of Fanning’s opponents agree: “He reminds me of Joe Biden,” Hernandez says. “He doesn’t always say the right thing, but you know his heart is in the right place.”

But while Biden is one of the top two contenders for the Democratic nomination, Fanning is more of a tertiary candidate, if his funding is any indication. Though Fanning has significant support from inside the ward, he trails Grossman, Kennedy, and Putta when factoring in matching funds from the public financing program.

That’s OK with him.

“If I don’t make it, it’s not the end of the world,” Fanning says. “It’s very rewarding to go out and meet people.”

Kishan Putta is the Kamala Harris candidate, with some Mike Bloomberg mixed in.

Putta’s Republican past makes an easy case for Bloomberg. But that’s not quite right. Without the buckets of money and controversial record on policies impacting people of color and women, the comparison falls apart.

If you ask Putta, he’ll tell you he’s most similar to Kamala Harris, who ended her campaign in December.

“I’m tough on agency oversight and ask tough questions of the executive,” Putta says, referencing his dozens of testimonies before the D.C. Council and Harris’ tough questioning during Senate committee hearings. “We were also both raised by strong Indian mothers, who shared a penchant for keeping Indian spices in Taster’s Choice coffee jars,” he adds.

Putta’s opponents don’t exactly agree. Fanning sees Putta as more of a Tom Steyer type of a guy.

“He sort of grabs onto an issue and he runs with it,” Fanning says. Putta consistently trumpets his work as an advisory neighborhood

commissioner on access to the Jelleff Field and opposition to Metro bus cuts.

Steyer, the billionaire who dropped out of the race after finishing third in the South Carolina primary, consistently repeated his message of environmental and economic justice.

To Hernandez, Putta is closer to Biden.

“Kishan is an endless self-promoter. Biden constantly talks about what he and Obama did and … is trying to use that as leverage,” Hernandez says.

Daniel Hernandez is the Pete Buttigieg candidate.

Hernandez is the toughest to compare.

He’s progressive, but not as far left as Sanders, and though he personally identifies most with Warren, he lacks her detailed plans for change.

“Structural change, changing the levers to change systems is kind of why I’m in this,” he says, pointing out that local and national structural change looks much different. He’s in favor of ranked choice voting, for example, and banning outside employment for councilmembers. Warren is talking about redoing the whole economy.

In terms of personality, Hernandez sees himself as a Julian Castro “because he’s not super dodgy on issues. I felt he was more direct,” he says. “That’s my favorite part of Sanders. He’s blunt. But I don’t think I have the angry grandpa personality yet. Give me 30 or 40 years and we’ll see.”

Like Buttigieg, Hernandez is a military veteran, and as a 32-year-old could stand to gain some more experience. But unlike the former mayor, Hernandez prefers frozen strawberry margarita caves or vodka soda caves to wine caves.

Yilin Zhang is the Kirsten Gillibrand candidate.

What stands out most about Zhang, a 32-year-old first-time candidate, is her consistent focus on health care.

As a business development executive for Kaiser Permanente, Zhang frames many issues through a lens of access to health care. Similarly, Gillibrand’s campaign largely focused on issues impacting women and families.

Before ending her candidacy in August 2019, Gillibrand struggled to attract donors and raise money, and Zhang is on the bottom rung as far as money raised in the Ward 2 race.

Zhang says she personally most identifies with Warren’s style, but not necessarily her policies.

“She thinks big, very analytical, she’s a very intelligent woman,” Zhang says. “And I just have a lot of respect for her, and I think she works very hard, which I identify with.”

She doesn’t agree with Warren’s stance on “Medicare for All,” which the senator has since backed away from.

“I’ve worked in health care for my entire career, and I think it’s important for people to have a choice,” Zhang says. “I’ve lived in other countries where they have universal healthcare, but they have other options. The model we should be moving toward is the best practice that’s held true in other countries, but the new plan for everyone is a little drastic.”

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Throughout downtown D.C., street medicine practitioners connect health and housing.

By Amanda Michelle Gomez Reginald is having his blood pressure checked in Edward R. Murrow Park, a tiny triangle of greenery on Pennsylvania Avenue NW three blocks west of the White House. Dr. Catherine Crosland uses a wrist cuff to monitor Reginald’s blood pressure. It isn’t as precise as an upper arm cuff, she’ll admit, but it’s better than nothing. She looks him up on eClinicalMobile, a free mobile app where she learns, based on electronic medical records, that he had borderline high blood pressure in the past.

The two met by chance. But the health checkup is part of Crosland’s “street medicine” practice, for which she walks around select neighborhoods, medical bag in hand, to see if anyone experiencing homelessness needs care. Reginald, who’s been homeless since he was released from prison five or six years ago, just so happened to see Crosland and her team meet with others in the park.

Curious about what they were doing, Reginald approached them.

“I never really got a regular doctor to go to,” says Reginald, 46.

“I can be your primary,” replies Crosland.

“Yeah?” he asks bashfully.

By the end of 15-minute conversation, Reginald books himself a next-day appointment with Crosland at Unity Health Care at 425 2nd St. NW, where she treats patients experiencing homelessness on Tuesday and Friday mornings. At the clinic, Crosland will be able to provide a more thorough and private medical exam. (Reginald did attend his appointment and Crosland was able to refer him to a couple of specialists.)

The health checkup in the park served as a reintroduction to the city’s safety net services. Reginald had lost contact with the only health provider he saw in the District, and never met with anyone to go over his housing options. He stopped visiting his provider after his cell phone got disconnected and he lost touch with his case worker. He used to visit a mental health clinic called Community Connections, where he was treated for depression, bipolar

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disorder, and schizophrenia. At the park, Crosland offered to reconnect him with Community Connections or arrange a visit with one of Unity Health Care’s own psychiatrists or therapists. At the clinic the next day, Crosland referred Reginald to a Unity psychiatrist, his preferred option.

Reginald has been unsheltered for years. He applied for housing while in prison, but nothing materialized. Crosland introduced him to an outreach worker with Pathways to Housing DC, who accompanied her as she did her medical rounds that Monday afternoon, and Reginald agreed to meet with the worker the next day at the park to fill out a housing assessment.

“You are going to have a busy day,” Crosland tells Reginald. “You are going to come see me in the morning and then see her in the afternoon—” “—I like it like that,” says Reginald.

While its clinics now serve all District residents, regardless of their ability to pay, Unity Health Care started out solely caring for pa-

tients experiencing homelessness. Founded in 1985, Unity Health Care was one of the country’s first groups to provide health care for the homeless. From the very beginning, its clinics have been based in homeless shelters and since 1987, its doctors have traveled by van to provide care to patients living on the streets.

“We’ve always believed in meeting our patients where they are,” Crosland says.

Unity Health Care started its street medicine practice in 2009 so they could reach more patients. The then-executive director of the Georgetown Ministry Center, Gunther Stern, asked Unity Health Care if Crosland could walk with him as he did outreach around Georgetown instead of staying in the van. While the van started out in a similar vein as street medicine, it had its own limitations.

“Even when we had the van parked next to the park, sometimes people won’t take that first step to come in and see the doctor for any number of reasons—paranoia, fear of doctor … they don’t want to leave their belongings, which are at this corner and you are parked over at that corner,” says Crosland. “We have realized more and more that if we take that first step to engage people in care, we can start building that trust over time.”

Street medicine is practiced in cities all over the country, from Los Angeles to Atlanta. Dr. Jim Withers, who started one of the nation’s first full-time street medicine practices in Pittsburgh, began walking around with medical supplies in his backpack and meeting with patients experiencing homelessness in alleyways or highway overpasses as early as 1992.

Crosland, for her part, has been walking since she started at Unity Health Care more than 10 years ago, and now leads the street medicine practice. She knew she wanted to do this type of work at a young age. Before attending Harvard Medical School, Crosland worked with the global health nonprofit Partners in Health in Peru, where she accompanied health care workers as they delivered therapy to people in their homes. Now, two decades later, Crosland is the director of homeless outreach at Unity Health Care and continues to deliver health care to people where they live. In academia, this is known as “social justice medicine,” but in practice, it boils down to meeting people where they are, quite literally.

Unity’s street medicine practice started in Georgetown but partnerships with homeless organizations allowed street medicine to develop and expand to neighborhoods throughout D.C. like Eastern Market and Golden Triangle.

Half of Unity’s funding comes from insurance reimbursement, while the rest comes from the federal government, grants, and private donations. Homeless outreach workers who accompany Unity doctors during their street medicine practice are funded through their own organization or D.C. government agencies like the Department of Small and Local Business Development and the Department of Behavioral Health. The Pathways workers who accompanied Crosland on Monday were paid by the Golden Triangle BID. There is no formal financial agreement between Unity and outreach workers.

Throughout the week, four doctors with Unity Health Care walk five times in total, Mondays through Thursdays. They carry simple tools like an oxygen saturation monitor for someone who is complaining about shortness of breath; basic medication for blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, coughs, and colds; and creams for athlete’s foot and lice in rolling bags they wheel around town. Because primary care visits involve a lot of consultation and coordination, it’s possible to have these conversations outside, especially if that’s a patient’s preference at the time.

Crosland would like for street medicine to have a presence in other areas, particularly in underserved communities in Northeast and Southeast D.C., though the areas where street medicine is practiced are not completely rigid. Crosland is on call a lot. Case workers affiliated with community centers and certified by the Department of Behavioral Health, for example, have called Crosland to other parts of the city when they want a medical opinion on whether or not to involuntarily commit someone to the hospital.

Crosland is contemplating setting up a nonemergency hotline so that doctors designated to walk in a specific area can travel to meet patients located all over the city. Outreach workers would be able to call the helpline as opposed to phoning Crosland directly, which is the protocol now. Crosland is still thinking through exactly how it would work, but demand for something like it exists. While Crosland was walking around Golden Triangle Monday late afternoon, she got a text on her cellphone from one homeless outreach worker in NoMa, who told her about an encamped resident carrying an ostomy bag for bodily waste. The worker was concerned that the person might not have any replacement bags or could lose the bags due to housing instability, and thought Crosland might want to check in.

Crosland and a team that includes a George Washington University medical student and two Pathways to Housing outreach workers start their journey at K and 17th streets NW. They’ll walk for the next three hours.

There is plenty of uncertainty when doing outreach as it is not always obvious who is experiencing homelessness. Appearance is not a reliable indicator. The outreach workers know some unsheltered people that stay in downtown D.C., but because homelessness is not a permanent condition and people frequently move in and out of homelessness, outreach workers do not know everyone. It’s possible they may miss someone while walking or mistake someone who’s housed for someone who’s not.

They check on a man who is lying outside of a Corner Bakery Cafe. It’s hard to help him, however, because they can not understand him, even when he tries to say or write his own name. He has no identification card. Crosland checks his vitals but that’s all she can really do.

As they continue, they meet others who do not want medical assistance, which Crosland says may be informed by past experiences. One man experiencing homelessness accuses Crosland of trying to kidnap people for just sitting on a street corner. He rejects any care she offers.

Then there’s a woman who is maybe six months pregnant and is polite but guarded. The doctor expresses worry after their meeting because she has seen so many women separated from their children because they were unsheltered.

They’ll circle back another day with an outreach worker whom the woman says she knows.

When they land in Edward R. Murrow Park, the team comes across a man who is hunched over in his wheelchair. They learn his name is Joseph and that he was just discharged from the hospital. “You are in pain out here,” Joseph, 70, says. Crosland and her team end up calling a shelter hotline so Joseph can stay inside that night.

“It’s been a productive day,” says GW medical student Samantha Sobelman. She’s been shadowing Crosland for the last three years and doing clinical work, including street medicine, for the last year. “The ultimate goal is to build relationships and have people know us so that if something goes wrong they know where to go. There are familiar faces of people they’ve talked to and they trust.”

While they walk, Crosland says that the outreach workers who are accompanying her are better health providers than she is. They are the ones providing shelter, her thinking goes, and research shows housing stability affects health outcomes. But an outreach worker is quick to say in turn that she needs information about medical conditions to effectively advocate for the housing. A patient’s health history is part of the shelter entry process because the federal government prioritizes housing services based on vulnerability.

“More and more I want to know about how I can better advocate for them to get housing,” Crosland says.

Crosland is not a policy person, by her own admission. But it’s hard to miss the impact policy has on her patients. The remnants of structural racism—like racial discrimination in morgage lending—mean her patients are disproportionately black. This was evident Monday as her team walked around downtown D.C. This is why she cannot help but be involved in advocacy, be it championing ways to end chronic homelessness in D.C.—as many as 1,500 residents in the District experience chronic homelessness any given night—or promoting universal health care—with families nationwide weighing whether to purchase life-saving medication because it’s unaffordable even with insurance. Sometimes people are deciding between health care and housing.

But in her daily work, Crosland sees creating trust between her and individuals who’ve already been failed by the safety-net system by virtue of them being homeless as the utmost important task.

“I really do think that act of taking the first step—especially as a physician and seeing someone in the park—really has an impact on people,” says Crosland. “I will see people all over the city that will say ‘Dr. Crosland’ or ‘you’re my doctor’ or ‘I remember when you came to visit me’—this idea that somebody cares enough to come see you where you are I think is a powerful statement and it moves people to feel more open to get care.”

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Physical Therapy New Capitals defenseman Brenden Dillon is learning to fit in on and off the ice On an Uber ride to dinner shortly after arriving in D.C. from San Jose, California, Brenden Dillon listened as his driver talked about the DMV. Confused, Dillon didn’t say anything, but thought to himself that it was strange that so many people in his new city lived near the Department of Motor Vehicles. Finally, he asked one of his new teammates about it.

“It means D.C., Maryland, Virginia,” Dillon recalls his Washington Capitals teammate responding. “I’m like, ‘OK, that makes way more sense.’”

Born and raised near Vancouver, Dillon—a self-proclaimed “West Coast guy”—may still be learning the geography of the D.C. area, but luckily for the team, things appear to be going a little more smoothly on the ice. A week before the Feb. 24 NHL trade deadline, the Capitals acquired the 29-year-old Dillon from the San Jose Sharks, who are out of playoff contention, in exchange for a 2020 second round pick and a 2021 conditional third round pick.

Prior to the trade, the Caps had lost five of their seven games in February, and were outscored 26 to 18 during that span. They have also struggled to keep the goal crease clear and currently rank 20th out of 31 teams in high danger scoring chances against, a stat that measures an opponent’s scoring chances near the net. General manager Brian MacLellan turned to Dillon, a left-handed defenseman, as a solution.

Dillon isn’t much of an offensive threat, having only scored one goal this season, but the 6-foot-4, 220-pound defenseman is known for his physical play and led the Sharks in hits (178) and was fourth in blocked shots (67).

“I think one of the things that’s been frustrating for me is the play in front of our own net, the compete level in front of our own net, and this is something he brings to the table here,” McClellan told reporters during a Feb. 19 press conference. “I think he does a great job in front of our net. So I think we addressed that through him.”

Joining a team midseason is not easy. “It was kind of like trying to jam two, three weeks of work at the beginning of the season ... into one or two days,” Dillon says. He signed a con-

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tract with the Dallas Stars in 2011 after going chuk during the Caps’ 4-3 win on March 1. In undrafted and had only played for Dallas and the locker room, Dillon—“Dilly” or “Dilly DilSan Jose, two Western Conference teams, be- ly” as his teammates prefer—has fit in with his laid-back and positive attitude. He has already fore joining the Caps.

But it didn’t take him long to win over fans worked his way into the team’s elaborate pregame routine, sharing a complex handshake in his new city. with Tom Wilson, sweeping At the end of the first perihis hair with Carl Hagelin, od in just his third game with “I feel really and tapping his stick with the team, Dillon threw down comfortable Alex Ovechkin, before the his gloves and exchanged playing against team heads out of the tunpunches with Pittsburgh nel.

Penguins center Evgeni the high end “He’s as advertised,” Caps Malkin, a longtime Caps riplayers on other coach Todd Reirden said afval. The Caps won the game, teams and take ter the team’s 4-3 overtime win 5-3, and afterward his teamover the Winnipeg Jets on Feb. mates honored him with the a lot of pride in “Not only do we like on the Nationals batting helmet being able to do 25. ice things that he does, but we given out to a key player at my best to shut like how he carries himself off the discretion of the team after a win. A few days later, those guys down.” the ice, in terms of in the locker room, upbeat, energetic, his Dillon could be seen sporting a shiner in his left eye—although he says it attitude’s great, he’s in phenomenal shape. I think that’s something, a little bit of an element we were wasn’t from the Malkin scuffle.

“I took a reverse hit from a guy and the guy’s missing with some of the people we lost last year. helmet bumped into me later into the game,” It’s been nice ... to have him join our team and [he] certainly provides a physical presence as well.”

Dillon explains.

With the addition of Dillon, the Caps, who sit Dillon also fought Minnesota Wild forward Ryan Hartman, his first with the team, after atop the Metropolitan Division, currently have Hartman slashed Caps forward Ilya Koval- five of the top 25 league leaders in hits, defined as

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the number of body checks delivered by a player to the person on the opposing team with the puck. In six games with the Caps, Dillon is averaging about 20 minutes of ice time per game while being paired with John Carlson, the front runner for the James Norris Memorial Trophy given to the league’s best defenseman.

“I think our main goal is to get the puck out of the zone as quick as possible and then to the forwards’ hands and that’s always been a mantra of ours, and I think he fits in great,” Carlson says.

“He’s a hard nosed player and plays with a lot of physicality and in people’s faces, and I think he moves the puck really well for doing everything.”

Dillon and Carlson are responsible for taking on the opposing team’s best offensive players, and Carlson’s stats have improved with Dillon compared to his pairing with Michal Kempný, who has struggled this season.

After the trade for Dillon, Kempny moved to the third pair with Radko Gudas. “I feel really comfortable playing against the high-end players on other teams and take a lot of pride in being able to do my best to shut those guys down,” Dillon says.

In San Jose, the Sharks paired Dillon with Brent Burns or Erik Karlsson—two elite offensive players at the defensive position. Dillon understands he was brought in specifically to help the team’s inconsistent defense, a role that he embraces.

“There’s expectations, there’s a little bit of pressure [but] at the same time, you definitely feel excited and flattered that you’re a guy that they feel can come in and help,” Dillon says. “I think for me and Johnny, every game has gotten better and we all know how offensive and good of a player he is. So I’m just trying to compliment him as best I can.”

He calls the defensive players “a pretty close knit group,” but like with any move, there can be a learning curve. Dillon is still figuring things out about living on the East Coast. When he arrived at his Arlington hotel, Dillon decided to walk to dinner in shorts and sandals. He now knows better. Winter weather in the DMV isn’t quite like Southern California. His teammates have been there to help with the transition.

“They’ve been very welcoming to me,” Dillon says. “It’s been a lot of fun and definitely getting better every day.”

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What’s The Plan?

D.C. is growing wealthier and whiter every year.

Is a conspiracy theory to blame? By Ruben Castaneda

On the frOnt yard of her Michigan Park home, Rafi Crockett displays a colorful sign that humorously comments on the demise of the District as “Chocolate City.” The upper right corner of the placard, which resembles a candy wrapper, proclaims “Now With 30% Less Chocolate!”

A few miles west, Darren Jones considers with dismay the transformation of his neighborhood near lower Georgia Avenue NW from a virtually all-black enclave to a place where African Americans today are about half the population, thanks to a recent influx of white residents.

Across the District, in Anacostia, Rev. Willie Wilson, the longtime pastor of Union Temple Baptist Church, laments that many of his parishioners didn’t heed the warnings he’s sounded for more than 30 years: If you sell your D.C. home, you’ll probably never be able to come back, because well-off white people will move in.

Crockett, Jones, and Wilson—all of whom are African American—believe the dramatic demographic and economic changes that have swept across the District during the past three decades did not occur by happenstance or aren’t solely attributable to the powerful market forces of housing supply and demand. Each of them believe the whitening of the city and its power structure came about because of The Plan, a conspiracy theory dating back to the 1970s with enough reach to have its own Wikipedia page. The Plan, according to that Wikipedia page, holds that “white people have had a ‘plan to take back’ the black-majority city and the offices of the local government. The theory asserts that the decline of low-income black residents and their replacement by wealthier white people from outside

of Washington, D.C. is intentional through the calculated use of gentrification and urban renewal.” The entry also asserts that most people in the District regard the idea of The Plan as false, “while some believe it has quiet but considerable support among black residents and influences local elections.”

Many relative newcomers to the District— people who’ve arrived in the last 15 years or so—probably haven’t heard of The Plan. It’s likely that many white residents, newcomers and longtime Washingtonians alike, would dismiss the idea as far-fetched paranoia. But for many black Washingtonians of a certain age—say, Gen-Xers and older—the concept is familiar and credible.

“We’re not talking about people who are poor or uneducated,” says Linda Wharton Boyd, a longtime D.C. government official who believes there’s something to The Plan. “These are people who are educated and know this city, who live here, worship here, shop here. They have a sense of the history of this city, they can feel the sensibility of the city. This is what they believe, and their belief is based on what they’ve witnessed and experienced.”

I learned about The Plan almost immediately after moving from Los Angeles to D.C. in September 1989 to work at the Washington Post as a night police reporter. At the time, the District was widely and colloquially known as Chocolate City. In 1990, D.C.’s population was 66 percent black and only 27 percent nonHispanic white, according to U.S. Census data.

Most non-Hispanic white residents were concentrated in upscale neighborhoods west of 16th Street NW, like Georgetown, Cleveland Park, Woodley Park, and Palisades. In many

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majority-black neighborhoods, the only white people you saw were cops, firefighters, and journalists.

At the time, the city’s elected officials, reflecting the District’s population, were also overwhelmingly black; the mayor, and 10 of the 13 members of the D.C. Council were black; three, including the council chairman, were white. Seven of the eight councilmembers representing wards were black; one of the four atlarge members of the council were white.

Given those numbers, I shrugged off the idea of The Plan at the time. People will believe what they want to, I thought.

Thirty years and change later: Black people are no longer a majority in the District. As of 2017, 47 percent of the city’s residents were black and 37 percent were non-Hispanic white, according to U.S. Census data.

The city’s elected leadership has also undergone a dramatic transformation. Compared to 1989, the number of white people on the D.C. Council had, until recently, doubled. Five of the 13 members of the D.C. Council are white; the number was six until Jack Evans resigned from his seat representing Ward 2 under the cloud of an ethics violations scandal.

White people have in the last 10 years or so flooded into once solidly black neighborhoods like Shaw, Bloomingdale, Trinidad, and Columbia Heights. As the city became whiter, property values—and property taxes— climbed. A generation or two ago, D.C. included dozens of affordable neighborhoods. Now, rents and home prices become more unaffordable by the day.

Many newer residents are doing quite well financially. Last year, the percentage of

city residents who reported earning at least $100,001 in personal income reached its highest level ever, according to an audit of city finances. The review, conducted by the Office of the Chief Financial Officer, showed that nearly 25 percent of D.C. residents who filed personal income taxes in 2019 reported incomes in the six figures. The data apparently confirms the widespread perception that a lot of well-off people are moving into the city; the percentage of people reporting a six-figure income is 11 percentage points higher than it was 10 years ago.

A whiter D.C. government: check. A whiter, wealthier population: check.

The idea I shrugged off three decades ago has seemingly become real. thirty years agO, the crack trade brought deadly violence to dozens of neighborhoods in sections of the city east of Rock Creek Park. Beginning in 1989, the District recorded more than 400 killings for five years in a row. In 1990, Mayor Marion Barry was arrested by FBI agents and D.C. police officers after authorities videotaped him smoking crack in a downtown hotel. Many District government services were widely viewed as atrocious. Residents dreaded going to the Department of Motor Vehicles. Public housing complexes were plagued by gang violence, widespread vacancies, and disrepair.

At times during the crack era, it seemed as though local authorities were overmatched by the violence unleashed by battles over drug turf, which morphed into a subculture of retaliation. In the spring of 1989, President George H.W. Bush considered deploy-

ing the National Guard to confront D.C. street violence. A little more than four years later, in October 1993, Mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly asked President Bill Clinton to activate National Guard troops to patrol city streets wracked by crack trade violence.

As the body count rose, property values throughout the city tanked, starving the District government of much-needed tax revenue. The District was a bloody, broke mess.

Today, the District is one of the most prosperous cities in the country. It’s also unaffordable for many working-class and middle-class people. According to data from the real estate and home rental site Zillow, the current median rent in the District is $2,700. The median home price is $636,372.

A raft of government policies and initiatives facilitated the transformation.

In the early 1990s, D.C. police and federal agents used federal racketeering statutes, initially enacted to fight the Mafia, to take down dozens of neighborhood drug crews. This approach took violent offenders off the street, but also put hundreds, if not thousands, of nonviolent offenders in federal prison for decades, hollowing out dozens of neighborhoods.

With the District government facing a $722 million budget deficit (this translates to more than $1.2 billion in today’s dollars), Congress, in 1995, enacted legislation creating the District of Columbia Financial Control Board.

The five-member board had the authority to override the actions of the mayor and the D.C. Council. The law also created the post of Chief Financial Officer, which assumed dayto-day control of D.C. government’s financial operations.

Anthony A. Williams, the Control Board’s first CFO, guided the city’s finances to solvency. Spurred by his success as CFO, Williams in 1998 resigned his post and launched a bid for mayor. He won and served two terms. Development in the city accelerated during Williams’ tenure, so much so that at a groundbreaking for the Clifton Terrace apartment complex in Northwest he joked that “I should really just keep a shovel in my truck, because these groundbreakings are becoming a way of life.”

The explosion of development led to the construction of luxury apartment buildings downtown, and in Shaw, Navy Yard, Columbia Heights, and dozens of other neighborhoods; the rejuvenation of the 14th Street NW and H Street NE corridors, which had been largely left in ruins for decades after the 1968 uprising. Gleaming apartment buildings, fancy coffee shops, yoga studios, and high-end grocery stores brought the long-neglected corridors back to life.

In 1997, Congress enacted the D.C. Revitalization Act, which shifted a number of local, county and state responsibilities away from the District and to the federal government. The feds, for example, assumed financial responsibility for the city’s retirement obligations to law enforcement officers, teachers, firefighters, and judges, which relieved the District government of a huge ongoing financial burden. The legislation also created tax incentives to stimulate investment and development downtown and in less affluent neighborhoods.

The opening of stations on Metro’s green line during the 1990s helped to disrupt some open-air drug dealing. The Shaw-Howard U

station, which opened in 1991, helped revitalize the neighborhood, making neighborhood shops and restaurants more easily accessible. The foot traffic had the corollary effect of discouraging brazen drug dealing in the 600 block of S Street NW. In May 2001, the city closed DC General Hospital, which for nearly two centuries had been the city’s only public hospital and served thousands of poor and working-class black and Latinx people. Officials said the hospital was a drain on city coffers and closing it improved the District’s finances.

During the last 30 years, the city has also bulldozed several sprawling public housing complexes, displacing thousands of residents, the overwhelming majority of whom are African American.

Examined one way, all these changes and policy decisions helped create a vibrant, prosperous city. But the gentrification of the city priced out tens of thousands of longtime black residents who couldn’t afford the rising rents or property taxes.

Former Ward 7 Councilmember Kevin P. Chavous doesn’t believe in The Plan, but he understands why others would. “I don’t know that it’s part of an organized, clandestine effort,” Chavous says. “But to many people, it feels like it. There’s this feeling that people are being systematically pushed out of the city.”

Sharon Pratt, who served as mayor from 1991 to 1995, when she went by her married name, Sharon Pratt Kelly, also doesn’t believe The Plan is real. “I do not think there was an organized conspiracy to take the city out of the hands of African Americans,” says Pratt, the founding director of the Institute of Politics

Policy and History, located at the University of the District of Columbia. Rather, when money began flowing into the city, most of those riding the tide were white. The wealth disparity between black and white people dates back to slavery, for which African Americans as a group were never compensated by the U.S. government, she says.

“When gentrification came upon us, I don’t think it was a byproduct of a conspiracy,” she says. “But I think there was a power elite in the city that perceived they should be directing the city.” This power elite includes not just developers and wealthy business people but members of Congress, who often run in the same circles. And wealthy business people often donate to members of Congress, she notes.

Pratt compares the displacement of black residents in the District to a legal analysis. In criminal law, whether a suspect is charged with a crime sometimes comes down to whether he or she had malicious intent. Pratt says she sees no malicious intent behind the gentrification of the city that’s pushing out so many longtime black residents, but does believe there was “a reckless disregard for a great many people who contributed a lot to this city.”

Of course, when it comes to determining why things large or small happen, correlation isn’t necessarily causation. Similarly, the fact that the District has undergone a broad transformation in the way The Plan described it doesn’t necessarily mean the changes came about because of the alleged scheme.

It’s also useful to keep in mind that the District has experienced racial transformation before. For generations, the federal city was majority white, including in many neighborhoods

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east of the Anacostia River. In the 1950s, white flight led to a metamorphosis of the city’s demographics to solidly majority black.

The framework of the idea behind The Plan is simple, but what people believe about it is complex. People who believe in The Plan don’t agree on how it has, in their views, unfolded.

Crockett and Jones, for example, don’t believe a group of powerful people held meetings to game out a scheme for white people to take over the reins of the District government and the city’s neighborhoods.

Jones, president of the Pleasant Plains Civic Association, says he believes D.C. government officials have been “complicit” in the skyrocketing property values that have forced many longtime black residents from their homes.

Jones says his home, near Howard University, was assessed by the city as being worth $70,000 when he bought it in 1994. A couple of years ago, a neighbor sold a similar house for $300,000; a developer purchased the home, spent thousands on renovations, and flipped the home for about $580,000, he says.

A huge bump in home values may be good if you plan on selling your home. It’s not so good if you want to stay in the neighborhood and have to pay dramatically higher property taxes. Jones knows personally. When he purchased his home, its assessed value was $247,000, and he paid about $700 in property taxes annually. In 2019, the city assessed his home’s value at $664,000. Jones hasn’t made any major improvements or renovations. His last property tax bill was $3,000. These tax increases flow into D.C. government coffers.

“I think powerful people wanted certain parts of the city, and they did what they could to increase the property values so only certain people could afford to live there,” he says.

In the last 20 years or so, a series of mayors and D.C. councilmembers have done more for newcomers—creating bike lanes and dog parks, for example—than for longtime residents, who’ve seen neighborhood public schools close while their property taxes skyrocket, Jones says.

Crockett has a similar outlook. “I don’t know if anyone sat down and said, ‘We’re going to rid the city of black people,” Crockett says. Rather, she believes people in power “wanted it to be a richer city, and richer means whiter.” Like Jones, she believes District policies regarding property value assessments fueled The Plan.

Crockett also believes federal officials and many D.C. leaders—longtime black and white politicians, pastors and community activists who were in office or were influential with city officials in the 1980s and 1990s —set the stage for The Plan.

Many local leaders didn’t do enough to address the social conditions—poverty, lack of economic opportunity, a troubled public education system—that allowed the violent crack epidemic to roar through much of the city, Crockett says. It seems a distant memory now, but D.C. at the time was known as the nation’s murder capital because it had the highest percapita rate of killings among major cities.

Violence, neglected homes, abandoned

apartment complexes and bad schools were among the factors that, during the 1980s and much of the 1990s, depressed property values, she says. This prompted developers and short-term investors to buy such properties, renovate them and sell them for hefty profits to those who could afford them, in many cases well-off white people.

Crockett believes it wasn’t an accident that the violence and drugs that devastated dozens of working-class and poor neighborhoods in the District never materialized in well-off areas just a few miles away.

“You didn’t see drugs and violence running amok in Chevy Chase,” Crockett says.

Rev. Willie Wilson, on the other hand, believes local and federal officials have schemed for decades to move black people out of the District in favor of well-off white people.

When I met Wilson in the basement office of his church in Anacostia, he showed me documents which he says bolster the case that The Plan is not only real, it’s been executed in plain sight.

One is a yellowing clip of a Washington Post story from May 17, 1977, with the headline “City Policy of Attracting Money Urged.” The lead of the article said Thornton W. Owen, the white chairman at the time of one of the District’s largest savings and loans banks, was advocating for a formal city policy “of encouraging more affluent people to move into the city while finding housing for some of the city’s poorer families in the suburbs.”

Owen was no outsider. He made his comments at a meeting of the city’s Legislative Commission on Housing, of which he was a member. The commission included the directors of the District’s planning office, housing department, and budget office, and two D.C. Council members, Barry and Nadine Winter.

The article noted that some officials privately held the view, which D.C. Councilmember Julius Hobson, who died a few months earlier, expressed openly, that the “return” of white people to the city “is part of a conscious effort by bankers, businessmen and other white forces to dilute the black power base of this predominantly white city.”

Owen’s statement was reported in the wake of a study by Washington Center for Metropolitan Studies documenting that, for the first time in decades, the number of white households in the District was increasing while the number of black people in the city remained stable. Winter was aghast at Owen’s comments. “It’s a form of suggesting a black exodus from the city,” Winter told the Post. “Whites left the city. We (black people) should not have to leave because they want to come back.” Barry agreed with Winter’s assertion that Owen’s statement had racial implications, “because low- and moderate income people in the city are mostly blacks.”

Owen said he was referring to economic, not racial groups. In an interview, Owen told the Post that low- and moderate income black residents shouldn’t be forced out of the District, however, “the economics will force them out … they are virtually priced out now,” due to increasing housing costs. The average cost of a

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home in the District was $50,000 at the time.

Wilson, 75, who was a longtime supporter and confidante of Barry, says the District’s transformation has borne out his belief in The Plan. In Wilson’s view, city officials over the years have put in place policies to fuel The Plan.

“It’s racism at its best,” Wilson says. “Blacks will continue to be moved out of the city. If you do not own your own home, you can be pushed out whenever somebody wants to push you out. If you’re renting and the owner realizes he can make more money selling the home or raising the rent, you’re gone.”

Wilson says he’s heard that a hard copy version of The Plan exists, or did at one time. He even heard the name of someone who supposedly had a copy, but Wilson has never seen such a document.

Versions of The Plan exist in other cities, like Chicago and Detroit, where gentrification is displacing black people and other minority populations, says Steven Smallpage, an assistant professor of political science at Stetson University in Florida. Smallpage researches conspiracy thinking in the U.S. “This is a particularly prominent conspiracy theory among African Americans who feel that they’ve lost power in recent local elections, and ascribe intentional actions to otherwise agentless market forces,” Smallpage says. “Of course, as should be quickly noted, a conspiracy theory is not a priori false—there are indeed ‘true’ conspiracy theories. This is one reason why a conspiracy theory like ‘The Plan’ is so easily acceptable to many people: It correlates well with other larger (less marginal) beliefs like systemic racism, disenfranchisement, voter suppression, etc. Many of these factors do seemingly have agents ‘causing’ them, so it makes ‘The Plan’ seem even more plausible.”

Rumors and contemporary legends emerge when people are trying to make sense of disruption at the community level, adds Sheila Bock, an associate professor in the department of interdisciplinary gender and ethnic studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. “A lot of these may seem outlandish at first, but there’s an element of truth (to them),” she says. “These stories wouldn’t get circulated or have such significance in the community if they weren’t felt to be plausible or possible.”

For years, some black people in D.C. and other cities theorized that the U.S. government was complicit in allowing cocaine to flood black urban neighborhoods. In 1996, the San Jose Mercury News published an explosive series of articles alleging that for the better part of a decade, “a San Francisco Bay Area drug ring sold tons of cocaine to the Crips and Bloods street gangs of Los Angeles and funneled millions in drug profits to a Latin American guerilla army run by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.” The series suggested the alleged drug connection played a pivotal role in unleashing the crack epidemic in L.A. and several other U.S. cities. The articles did not allege that CIA agents trafficked cocaine into the U.S. or distributed it in American cities. Rather, it alleged that Nicaraguans who supported the CIA-backed Contras trafficked drugs to raise funds for the fighting group. CIA

officials denied any role in drug trafficking. But to some people in the black community, this was a distinction without much meaning Crockett, for example, believes the CIA was involved in bringing cocaine to D.C. and other U.S. cities. “Local players don’t have the means of transport,” she says. “I’ve never met a dude from Southeast who’s been to Colombia, ever. I put nothing past the U.S. government. The CIA’s the devil.”

Crockett doesn’t believe CIA agents posted up on street corners in Barry Farm or Congress Heights to sell crack, or even that they necessarily directly sold cocaine to middlemen in the District and other U.S. cities. More likely, CIA operatives looked the other way as drug traffickers they worked with brought loads of cocaine into the U.S., she says.

The federal and local government’s responses to the crack epidemic were part of The Plan, in Crockett’s view. In 1985, the District recorded 148 homicides, a typical number for the early part of that decade. Crack hit the city in a big way in the next year or so. By 1988, the number of killings in the city had spiked to 372 as young men and teenagers formed drug crews and fought over turf. This violence metastasized into a subculture of violence involving retaliation and deadly force over minor disputes. The number of killings rose to 434 in 1989 and stayed above 400 every year until 1995. As a point of reference, D.C. recorded 166 killings in 2019.

Crockett believes the U.S. government, with the support of many D.C. officials, deployed draconian criminal justice measures that disproportionately targeted young black males as part of The Plan. For example, the 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act boosted mass incarceration by encouraging states to pass more tough-on-crime laws and increasing penalties for many federal offenses, including drug violations.

In addition to the thousands of young black men killed and maimed by nonfatal shootings during the crack era, the crime bill led to thousands more being locked up for long periods of time, often for nonviolent drug offenses. “All these black bodies were locked up,” Crockett says.

Crockett believes the policies removed thousands of working-age males who could have been generating income and, in many cases, helping raise kids who were and are in the care of single moms. “Entire communities were decimated” by the law, she says. in The early to mid-1980s, Wharton Boyd, the former D.C. government official, taught a speech and communications class at Howard University. Boyd taught her students about different styles of speech and brought in Wilson and the Rev. William Revely, another minister, to teach her class about the rhetoric of preachers.

In one session, Wilson and Revely started talking about The Plan, Boyd recalls. Some students expressed skepticism.

Lately, Boyd has heard from one of her former students. “The [former student] called back and said, ‘I guess it was true.’”

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What is the Most Important Information I Should Know about DOVATO? If you have both human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) and hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, DOVATO can cause serious side effects, including: • Resistant HBV infection. Your healthcare provider will test you for HBV infection before you start treatment with DOVATO. If you have HIV-1 and hepatitis B, the hepatitis B virus can change (mutate) during your treatment with DOVATO and become harder to treat (resistant). It is not known if DOVATO is safe and effective in people who have HIV-1 and HBV infection.

• Worsening of HBV infection. If you have HIV-1 and HBV infection, your HBV may get worse (flare-up) if you stop taking DOVATO. A “flare-up” is when your HBV infection suddenly returns in a worse way than before. Worsening liver disease can be serious and may lead to death. ° Do not run out of DOVATO. Refill your prescription or talk to your healthcare provider before your DOVATO is all gone. ° Do not stop DOVATO without first talking to your healthcare provider. If you stop taking DOVATO, your healthcare provider will need to check your health often and do blood tests regularly for several months to check your liver.

What is DOVATO? DOVATO is a prescription medicine that is used without other antiretroviral medicines to treat HIV-1 infection in adults who have not received antiretroviral medicines in the past, and without known resistance to the medicines dolutegravir or lamivudine. HIV-1 is the virus that causes Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). It is not known if DOVATO is safe and effective in children.

Who should not take DOVATO? Do Not Take DOVATO if You: • have ever had an allergic reaction to a medicine that contains dolutegravir or lamivudine.

• take dofetilide.

What should I tell my healthcare provider before using DOVATO? Tell your healthcare provider about all of your medical conditions, including if you: • have or have had liver problems, including hepatitis B or C infection.

• have kidney problems.

• are pregnant or plan to become pregnant. One of the medicines in DOVATO (dolutegravir) may harm your unborn baby. ° Your healthcare provider may prescribe a different medicine than DOVATO if you are planning to become pregnant or if pregnancy is confirmed in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. ° If you can become pregnant, your healthcare provider will perform a pregnancy test before you start treatment with DOVATO. ° If you can become pregnant, you should consistently use effective birth control (contraception) during treatment with DOVATO. ° Tell your healthcare provider right away if you are planning to become pregnant, you become pregnant, or think you may be pregnant during treatment with DOVATO.

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Tell your healthcare provider about all of your medical conditions, including if you: (cont’d) • are breastfeeding or plan to breastfeed. Do not breastfeed if you take DOVATO. ° You should not breastfeed if you have HIV-1 because of the risk of passing HIV-1 to your baby. ° One of the medicines in DOVATO (lamivudine) passes into your breastmilk. ° Talk with your healthcare provider about the best way to feed your baby.

Tell your healthcare provider about all the medicines you take, including prescription and over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, and herbal supplements.

Some medicines interact with DOVATO. Keep a list of your medicines and show it to your healthcare provider and pharmacist when you get a new medicine.

• You can ask your healthcare provider or pharmacist for a list of medicines that interact with DOVATO. • Do not start taking a new medicine without telling your healthcare provider.

Your healthcare provider can tell you if it is safe to take DOVATO with other medicines.

What are Possible Side Effects of DOVATO? DOVATO can cause serious side effects, including: • Those in the “What is the Most Important Information I Should Know about DOVATO?” section.

• Allergic reactions. Call your healthcare provider right away if you develop a rash with DOVATO. Stop taking DOVATO and get medical help right away if you develop a rash with any of the following signs or symptoms: fever; generally ill feeling; tiredness; muscle or joint aches; blisters or sores in mouth; blisters or peeling of the skin; redness or swelling of the eyes; swelling of the mouth, face, lips, or tongue; problems breathing.

• Liver problems. People with a history of hepatitis B or C virus may have an increased risk of developing new or worsening changes in certain liver tests during treatment with DOVATO. Liver problems, including liver failure, have also happened in people without a history of liver disease or other risk factors. Your healthcare provider may do blood tests to check your liver.

Tell your healthcare provider right away if you get any of the following signs or symptoms of liver problems: your skin or the white part of your eyes turns yellow (jaundice); dark or “tea-colored” urine; light-colored stools (bowel movements); nausea or vomiting; loss of appetite; and/or pain, aching, or tenderness on the right side of your stomach area.

• Too much lactic acid in your blood (lactic acidosis). Lactic acidosis is a serious medical emergency that can lead to death. Tell your healthcare provider right away if you get any of the following symptoms that could be signs of lactic acidosis: feel very weak or tired; unusual (not normal) muscle pain; trouble breathing; stomach pain with nausea and vomiting; feel cold, especially in your arms and legs; feel dizzy or lightheaded; and/or a fast or irregular heartbeat.

• Lactic acidosis can also lead to severe liver problems, which can lead to death. Your liver may become large (hepatomegaly) and you may develop fat in your liver (steatosis). Tell your healthcare provider right away if you get any of the signs or symptoms of liver problems which are listed above under “Liver problems.” You may be more likely to get lactic acidosis or severe liver problems if you are female or very overweight (obese).

SO MUCH GOES INTO WHO I AM HIV MEDICINE IS ONE PART OF IT. Reasons to ask your doctor about DOVATO: DOVATO can help you reach and then stay undetectable* with just 2 medicines in 1 pill.

That means fewer medicines† in your body while taking DOVATO

You can take it any time of day with or without food (around the same time each day)—giving you flexibility

DOVATO is a once-a-day complete treatment for adults who are new to HIV-1 medicine.

Results may vary. *Undetectable means reducing the HIV in your blood to very low levels (less than 50 copies per mL). † As compared with 3-drug regimens.

LáDeia‡ Living with HIV

What are Possible Side Effects of DOVATO (cont’d)?

• Changes in your immune system (Immune Reconstitution Syndrome) can happen when you start taking HIV-1 medicines. Your immune system may get stronger and begin to fight infections that have been hidden in your body for a long time. Tell your healthcare provider right away if you start having new symptoms after you start taking DOVATO. • The most common side effects of DOVATO include: headache; diarrhea; nausea; trouble sleeping; and tiredness.

These are not all the possible side effects of DOVATO. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You are encouraged to report negative side effects of prescription drugs to the FDA. Visit www.fda.gov/medwatch, or call 1-800-FDA-1088.

Where Can I Find More Information?

• Talk to your healthcare provider or pharmacist.

• Go to DOVATO.com or call 1-877-844-8872, where you can also get FDA-approved labeling.

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Could DOVATO be right for you? Ask your doctor today.

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DCFEED YOUNG & HUNGRY

Getting to Know You

Laura Hayes

Communal feasts and coffee shop hangs that bring strangers together for conversation are a welcome change to the status quo dining experience.

Sunday Supper at America Eats Tavern

By Laura Hayes “If you could go back and rewatch one scene in your life without changing it what would it be?

“What moment would you have treasured more had you known it was going to be the last time?

“What advice would you give your younger self?”

These sound like the types of questions you’d ask to keep conversation going on a long road trip or address to your mother when you finally try to get to know your parents “as people.” Either way the answers are likely to be revealing.

Now imagine you’re at a McPherson Square coffee shop in the late afternoon using these questions as prompts to spill your guts to strangers whose last names you don’t know and whose first names you already forgot. The inquiries appear on cards used to guide conversation for two hours.

That’s how sessions work at Hello Neighbor—an experience created by D.C. resident Patrick Xie to help people who’ve never met forge genuine connections through conversation that’s more meaningful than small talk made at happy hours.

Hello Neighbor is part of a growing collection of communal meals and similar activities designed to pull Washingtonians away from

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sharing takes on the internet to expand their circle of friends. Restaurants and cafes are the ideal setting for these social experiments because simple acts like passing plates and refilling wine glasses feel familiar.

Over the course of a weekend, I tried three of these experiences, and entered my gauntlet of extroversion with skepticism. Would people consider talking to folks with opposing views during a politically fraught time? Would the conversation go deeper than the weather or how the food tastes? What if I nervously fill a pregnant pause with a taboo question? Will I leave with new Facebook friends to keep in touch with?

The sTrucTure of Hello Neighbor made it

Northeast D.C. resident Joel Haas calls himself the stoner food critic on a mission to inhale America. Since 2018, Haas has vaped cannabis before eating 1,180 meals at 525 fine dining restaurants in 20 states. the most emotionally stimulating experience.

Upon arriving at Dua Coffee, 15 total attendees purchased an Indonesian coffee drink and gathered to await instructions from Xie. He welcomed everyone and split us into groups of three or four, then gave us the deck of question cards.

At my table, the four of us covered the pros and cons of serial monogamy, the perspective gained from losing a loved one, an ongoing legal battle with a negligent landlord, and how, even if you’ve traveled the world, the most meaningful trip you took might be one spent in a van, criss-crossing America with your family.

Xie says he crowdsources most of the questions from the internet or past attendees. While probing, they seem to stick to the common themes of family and travel. “I don’t want us to be talking about work,” Xie says. “I find people talk about work as a proxy for filling up time in conversation. Life stories are more resonant.”

My group noticed that the prompts share similarities with the “36 Questions That Lead to Love,” which the New York Times published based on a psychology study. “One key pattern associated with the development of a close relationship among peers is sustained, escalating, reciprocal, personal self-disclosure,” write the authors of the study, which examines whether answering a series of questions can foster rapid intimacy.

Xie told attendees he founded Hello Neighbor in reaction to his isolating experience moving to D.C. “I was going to be super proactive and go to all these events and classes and I was going to meet people and make all the best friends of my life,” he says. “After years of doing things almost every single day, I ended up meeting very few people.”

Hello Neighbor tends to attract people who just arrived in the District, like Brendan. “My goal was limited—if I meet one person who’s cool, that’s more than I know now,” he says.

He’s attended two sessions. “There’s been two people that I’ve exchanged numbers with and might grab coffee with. They’re leads, I suppose—not to be utilitarian about it. I’ll probably keep going.”

Xie first advertised Hello Neighbor by posting signs at Seylou Bakery in Shaw, which served as the kick-off location a year ago. From there he taught a class about how to move past the small talk at Knowledge Commons DC—a free, crowdsourced school for hobbyists. At the event, 35 people signed up to be on the Hello Neighbor email list and it’s grown by wordof-mouth from there. Most sessions fill up and generate a wait list.

Xie isn’t monetizing his project yet. His mission is simple. “We cross paths with hundreds of people a day, but we never have a reason to say ‘Hi,’” he says. “That’s why a community like this exists, where people from different walks of life

come together and meet each other.”

But the circle that Xie gathered at Dua Coffee wasn’t diverse. Most attendees were white Northwest D.C. residents. He hopes to address this by moving the gathering to a different quadrant. He has the luxury of being able to change venues, whereas restaurants that host communal dinners have fixed locations. They too could benefit from taking some initiative to shake up the make up of attendees.

Like Hello Neighbor, Via Umbria recognizes that if you’re going to gather a group of people who don’t know each, it’s helpful to kickstart the occasion with a question. The coowner of the Georgetown Italian marketplace and eatery, Suzy Menard, asked our table of 12 to introduce ourselves and share where we’ve been in Italy or where we’d like to visit.

Via Umbria has been hosting “Chef ’s Table” dinners on Friday and Saturday nights since opening five years ago. Menard says she’s trying to recreate the atmosphere of the garden parties she and her husband, Bill Menard, host at their property in Italy. Connections are inevitable when diners are relaxed knowing the restaurant isn’t looking to turn the table, according to Suzy. “You’re encouraged to enjoy each other’s company.”

The simple question Menard posed did the trick by giving us common ground. In no time we were exchanging travel stories—good and bad—over ribbons of pasta with mushrooms.

Conversation flowed freely enough that by the time everyone received a push notification from the Washington Post declaring Bernie Sanders the winner of the Nevada caucuses, we had bonded enough to tip toe into talking politics. “A good icebreaker as much as people hate them, at the end of the day they love them,” Suzy says.

One of Suzy’s favorite outcomes of the chef ’s table series is seeing diners of different ages breaking bread. Once she observed septuagenarians invite a couple in their 20s back to their home to unwind. To her knowledge, they accepted. “I think kids in their 20s are rediscovering food as a chance to connect with people,” she says. “They’re having dinner parties, which got skipped for a generation.”

Arlington resident Wallace Martin, who’s in his mid-20s, says it was “cool to see retired people, working people, foodies, and people who were really into the wine more than the food” mingle. The only awkward moment, Martin says, was when diners initially arrived and stood in different corners fidgeting in isolation before we were invited to take our seats.

He made a game out of it: “We were trying to figure out who everybody was, why they were there, and what they did.”

The communal dinner known as “Sunday Supper” at America Eats Tavern in Georgetown felt the most like a dinner party. Where Via Umbria served guests individually plated dishes, the barbecue-focused José Andrés restaurant served multiple family-style courses. The dinners kicked off in November and occur monthly.

I was the only attendee without the security blanket of a dining companion. There were sisters, couples, and a mother and daughter.

While initially it was difficult to discern where to sit, the group welcomed me into every conversation. It felt like ending up at a friend’s house for Thanksgiving because I couldn’t make it home.

Without a partner there, I could focus solely on new connections and Chef Claudio Foschi’s food. Since you prepay for dinner, drink pairings, tax, and tip and don’t have to order off of a menu, the format adds to feeling you’re over at someone’s house.

The staff carefully watch how the group gels. “We have to adapt to the energy and how they’re communicating,” Foschi says. “Sometimes they need a little more energy and we try to help with that. Or sometimes everyone is so engaged that we take a step back.” Recently they started pouring stronger drinks than just wine—like whiskey and Madeira.

All went well except for the fried mac and cheese ball incident. Somebody (OK, me) took too many balls, leaving other diners having to cut one in half. Because I was sitting between two groups of four, I wasn’t sure which platter to pick at. Each side of the table kept to themselves after that and I felt guilty.

I chatted up a fellow participant named Stephen, who made an astute observation.

His partner is an Instagram influencer so he dines out often and has noticed that restaurants have innovated when it comes to the decor, drinks, and the food. The next frontier, he says, is finding ways to alter the dining experience. That’s exactly what these communal feasts do, and it was a welcome change from the status quo of eating out with friends and family. I’d eagerly seek out similar events in the future.

Some of these events carry meaning for the hosts too. On March 31, Primrose in Brookland will host its first communal dinner called “Elevate.” A portion of proceeds will go to an organization that supports mental health. Its genesis is personal for owner Sebastian Zutant, who has Bipolar disorder.

“What we wanted to do is inspire people to sit with each other and develop relationships with their neighbors, and possibly new friends,” he says. “When people are dealing with depression they don’t know how to go out and deal with that kind of thing … Hopefully we get some single diners stuck at a table and then all of the sudden they’re brought into the community.”

He’s envisioning a $75 family-style meal, possibly with big jugs of Chianti guests can pour for each other. “We really want people to be sharing plates with each other,” Zutant says.

“Except for dessert. People are weird about dessert. But people will be compelled to speak with each other. Please pass this, please pass that.”

An attendee at the Hello Neighbor session also feels that there’s a potential relationship between these sorts of gatherings and improved mental health. At the end of the two-hour small group session, the full Hello Neighbor cast came back together to share what they thought of the experience. A Logan Circle resident observed: “Anything that promotes self-awareness, empathy, and humility, which are all fundamental for mental health, is really helpful.”

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How a photographer struggling with vision loss makes his art and masters his aesthetic

By Louis Jacobson

“Ecstasy/Oblivion” series by Steven Marks, 2020

D.C.-baseD photographer steven Marks has exhibited some of his recent works in three separate exhibitions at the Studio Gallery over the past year and a half. Most of the images from Marks’ recent “Shadows and Acts” series feature anonymous figures standing within lush but disorienting geometrical spaces. Marks’ aesthetic is more than just an artistic choice—it’s an approach shaped by years of worsening vision loss.

In addition to his photographic work, Marks is a medical science writer and communications consultant, a career he pursued due to his early eyesight troubles, which derailed his initial interest in photography. Marks also serves as resident artist at Lyric at Liz, a new, shortterm rental property for business travelers located in what used to be the Elizabeth Taylor Medical Center on 14th Street NW. Marks spoke to City Paper via email about how he got into photography, how he produces his work, and the state of his sight.

WCP: Tell me about your vision problems—when they started, how they progressed, how serious they are now, and what the prognosis is.

This interview has been condensed and edited for clarity.

WCP: Where did you grow up and how did you get into photography?

Steven Marks: I spent my childhood in Plainview, New York, a quintessential suburban town on Long Island. It was safe, unprepossessing, and very dull. I couldn’t wait to leave. I didn’t know a lens from a shutter until I graduated from college and landed my first job as a record industry journalist and jazz critic. Working closely with the music photographers piqued my interest in the medium, and after I moved to Chicago when I was 23, I decided to pursue it seriously.

I hired a private instructor who worked out of a space called The Darkroom, which offered exactly what the name promised: a large and fully functional black-and-white darkroom, along with a studio and all the requisite lighting and backdrops anyone could need. One could purchase a monthly membership, allowing unlimited access.

Although I didn’t know it at the time, most of the city’s top commercial photographers used the space, as did a number of important

gested I take additional classes at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, which I did. The photographer and teacher Barbara Crane, with whom I studied, was particularly encouraging of me. Ultimately, I received a teaching fellowship at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where I received my MFA degree.

I had a series of shows in Chicago before and immediately after graduate school. They were typical of the street photography that predominated during that period, although I exhibited some interesting black-and-white infrared pictures of rural landscapes, which I had made in Wisconsin.

My thesis show contained quite a number of blurry images, unlike anything I had done before—the storm before the storm, perhaps.

It was also the time my visual difficulties first began to affect my work.

artists. I learned a ton just hanging around and listening to the discussions, looking at the many art photography books and catalogs in the library, and asking questions. Paying attention, in other words.

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I picked up the technicalities quickly, and I guess my pictures were interesting enough that Nathan Lerner, a doyen of the Chicago photography community and a Darkroom member, took me under his charge. He sug-

SM: My vision has always been a bit dodgy. I was the first kid on the block to wear glasses, and I became extremely nearsighted in late childhood. By the time I got to graduate school, even glasses could not correct the condition.

But myopia is the least of it. I developed serious corneal and additional retinal problems in my 20s, the latter of which required surgery.

Taking all this into account, my doctors told me they didn’t think photography was a suitable career opportunity for me. If there was anything else I could do, they said, consider it, which is why I became a medical-science writer.

I had cataract surgery in both eyes in my late 40s, and although my vision dramatically improved immediately thereafter, complications arose, and I ended up even worse off than before. I then developed an even more serious problem in my right eye, which has left it without any central vision. I could not see sharply and shouldn’t have been driving. Colors were especially dull and lifeless, which is one reason my current pictures are so bold and bright.

New surgical techniques repaired my left eye in 2011, which allowed me to begin working again. Still, the right side of my visual field is a blur. The brain corrects for that in the normal course of things, but when I pay attention

CPARTS to what I’m looking at, the distortion is readily apparent and disorienting.

WCP: Is the blurred, indistinct look the signature style of all of your works?

WCP: How have these vision difficulties shaped your approach to photography?

SM: In truth, my newest pictures, which are intentionally unsettling, are so unlike the vast body of past work that it’s hard to explain their aesthetic provenance. Steven Marks 1.0—my Chicago-period, visually “normal” self— would have loathed them.

The first picture was an accident, in fact.

When I saw it, I said, that’s it, that’s my world.

I’m continuing to push this approach in new directions, making pictures that resemble, for instance, [J. M. W.] Turner’s later watercolors, such as “The Burning of the Houses of Parliament,” and another series, which I’m calling “Ecstasy/Oblivion,” that also features figures in motion, but offers more detail and a background space that appears to be in a state of flux. Change is essential.

SM: To tell the truth, the only time the world appears in sharp focus is when I hold a camera to my left eye. In this respect, photography has become my way of addressing, and compensating for, my visual impairment and putting the world in clear order. Maybe it’s a kind of blessing, too, as I’ve produced work that seems to speak to people in ways that conventional photography doesn’t or can’t.

Although most of the pictures I made during the past eight years were documentarian in approach and look, I felt a little dissatisfied with them, as they weren’t visually honest.

The fortuitous accident that produced the first picture in “Shadows and Acts” captures the world as I see it and understand it, aesthetically and intellectually. The tension between certain sharp details and outlines and the overall sense of blurriness is absolutely critical in this regard.

Some might say the pictures are expressionistic, but I disagree. To me, the pictures are an accurate and truthful representation of the world and our current cultural condition.

WCP: What are some of the other series or portfolios you’ve done?

SM: Since I started working again in 2012, I’ve had a number of shows at Studio Gallery, where I am a member, and Photoworks. The portfolios include “Hidden District” and “Unspoken Subjects,” which draw on the kinds of imagery I made in Chicago, but are a little darker, and a se-

ries of street portraits I made in Baltimore, called “North+Charles: The Politics of the Gaze.” I had never done anything like this before: asking people to make their picture. Looking back, I think “North+Charles” is some of the strongest work I’ve ever done.

pose, I pulled out the cards, which I carried in my camera bag and showed them examples of what I was doing. Many would say, “Oh, yeah, I know her,” or “I’ve seen that guy around,” and then agree to participate in the project. So over time, the process became easier.

WCP: What do you mean when you say “make their picture”?

WCP: Where have you made most of your images?

SM: In the main, I am a passive observer or intruder, depending on whether one takes Tod Papageorge’s or Susan Sontag’s perspective, but someone who works in real-world settings, trying as little as I can to interfere with the course of human events, you could say, to “document” them in my own way, as I see them. In Baltimore, and for the first time, I spent much time with the people I photographed, learning their stories and listening to their tales (and complaints) about life, the changing neighborhood, and the rest. When I started out, the photography itself was hard to do, as I expected. People were naturally suspicious. But eventually as I hung around a bit, the folks became more comfortable. “Camera man,” some began to call me.

I soon hit upon what turned out to be a very fortuitous idea: I made small 5x7 postcard prints of some of the portraits. When I stopped people and asked them if they would be willing to

SM: Most of my pictures are made in the District and Baltimore, which I find a much more visually interesting place than D.C. It’s gritty, yet beautiful in its own way. Working as I do, I also photograph whenever I travel, which means I also shoot in Austin and Los Angeles, where two of my children live, and in those cities in which I find myself when I accompany my wife on trips to her professional psychology meetings.

WCP: Is your art a way of processing the world?

SM: Yes, it is a way of processing the world, better understanding it. Although the answers I get, as my pictures show, are provisional at best, and not entirely optimistic. The important thing is to look closely, as closely as I can.

I see the pictures as reports from the existential heart of the country.

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In her luxurIous New Orleans home, Violet Venable (Cam Magee) has been entertaining a visitor in a greenhouse where her late son, Sebastian, cultivated his collection of exotic flora, primordial remnants of those species that first spread their leaves hundreds of millions of years ago. Violet holds a fanatical idolatry for her son, with whom she traveled about the world every summer, exploring not just its natural wonders, but its great cosmopolitan cities and sacred sites. The travels would inform the latest volume of his self-published Poem of Summer.

The guest is Doctor Cukrowicz (Matt Sparacino), a psychiatrist whose experience with Anglo - Saxons’ inability or unwillingness to utter a Polish surname causes him to suggest “Doctor Sugar” as an alternative. Violet is offering funding for his research into what was in 1935 a cutting edge treatment: the lobotomy.

There is a single string attached. Because Violet was unable to accompany Sebastian on his travels last summer, he took his cousin, Catherine Holly (Sara Barker) to Spain, instead. Catherine’s bizarre account of Sebastian’s death has been a source of scandal that Violet wishes to quash. The Hollys are a side of the family the matriarch does not wish to acknowledge, and she does not approve of Sebastian’s action of including them in his will. Thus she wants Cukrowicz to experiment on Catherine.

Tennessee Williams once stated that Suddenly Last Summer was “perhaps the most poetic” of his plays and each line of dialogue and element of Avant Bard Artistic Director Emeritus Christopher Henley’s staging has a powerful impact. It reminds the audience that despite costume designer Anna Marquardt’s striking work, especially with Violet’s devoré velvet wardrobe and Cukrowicz’s white suit, Williams southern gothic play is no mere costume drama: Williams’ dense piling on of symbols and allegories for instinctual drives, spiritual yearning,

and class conflict long-ago cemented his stance as a titan of American theater.

Magee invests Violet with such a zealous devotion to her son that any evidence that he might not have been chaste has become a form of blasphemy. Her wealth is the power with which to bend the world to her will now that her one source of joy is dead.

Williams illustrates the ways truth and power are always shaping one another, and this is exemplified in Barker’s performance as Catherine. She is subject to the institutional power of the sanatorium where she is a patient, as represented by Sister Felicity (Christine Hirrel), her family’s desire to inherit the money Sebastian left them, Violet’s desire to silence her, men who use her for their needs, and Doctor Sugar, who will judge whether she is a suitable candidate for his procedure. She only has her version of the truth, which may either condemn her or exonerate her, and every line in Barker’s reading reveals that understanding.

There are also magnificent performances from the supporting cast. As the doctor, Sparacino is wonderfully understated as he wrestles between his need to fund research that he believes may benefit humanity and whether or not he is being asked to add to that suffering. Miss Kitty makes Violet’s servant Miss Foxhill, a character with few lines, memorable, encoding her e m p lo ye r ’s contempt for others into a repertoire of gestures. Her poker face conceals the pleasure she takes in being the instrument of Violet’s power.

The evening’s entertainment also includes one of Williams’ short plays, Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen, A two-hander featuring Miss Kitty and Erik Harrison as an unnamed couple living in squalor in a Hell’s Kitchen apartment adorned with a milk crates, a mattress, and a record player. Miss Kitty belts out an unaccompanied “Lover, Come Back to Me” in a rubato baritone. While he has come back, it may not be for long. Though they love each other painfully, it is impossible for them to stay together: He is an alcoholic constantly waking from blackouts in strange parts of town; she has an eating disorder and imagines herself disappearing under an assumed name to live out her years in a seaside hotel reading books until her hair turns white and she wastes away.

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When depicting the ultra rich, filmmakers now imply billionaires suffer from such a lack of humanity that they can’t fathom decency. Michael Winterbottom’s Greed is the latest film in that tradition. It wants to strike a balance between entertainment and pedagogy, which ultimately weakens both goals.

The action centers on an extravagant 60th birthday party on the Greek island of Mykonos. The party is for Richard McCreadie (Steve Coogan), a clothing magnate who owns fast fashion chains in the mold of H&M or Zara.

Richard’s party is absurd: He wants to construct a coliseum, complete with a real lion, and expects everyone to wear a toga (the incongruity of an ancient Roman theme on a Greek island is a subtle touch). Then there is the business of finding entertainment. Richard’s underlings cycle through one musician after another, quoting how much they cost to book, and no one is good enough. Greed intersperses the party’s lead-up with Richard’s early life, which is the story of how he morphed from an obnoxious dickhead into a powerful one.

Winterbottom’s comedies have a slight, shy depiction of bad behavior. Greed is no different. Coogan and the filmmaker have been collaborating for years—they’re best known for improvised comedies like The Trip—so they have little trouble unearthing Richard’s worst tendencies. There is a subplot where he wants Syrian immigrants to vacate the beach where they’re camping, and his solution is reverting back to his early life as a sneaky con artist. There is little difference between this

and Richard’s more elaborate scams, and in case that point was not obvious, Winterbottom repeats it several more times.

The supporting characters either reflect Richard’s ugliness or serve as audience surrogates. Isla Fisher plays Samantha, Richard’s exwife, who is the unofficial mastermind behind their semi-legal schemes. David Mitchell plays Nick, a hapless reporter who has become Richard’s official biographer. Nick is not bright, and there are many scenes where he asks financial journalists to walk him through Richard’s dealings. This is where Greed closely resembles The Big Short, a better film that also stopped its plot to teach its audience. What made The Big Short so exciting is that filmmaker Adam McKay used knowledgeable outsiders to involve us in each new big revelation. No character in Greed has that level of insight, so it has all the depth of a comedy sketch.

Another key character is Naomi (Shanina Shaik), a former model who became an actress.

She plays Richard’s underling, and is our entry point into how he exploits the poor. There are multiple scenes set in sweatshops, where people work long hours in terrible conditions for low wages. This is hardly revelatory, and has been a controversy in the fashion world for decades. The film’s condemnation of the rich just does not have the bite it should.

Greed looks too appealing for what Winterbottom wants. It unfolds like a travelogue, depicting a Greek holiday that I wouldn’t mind taking. Unlike HBO’s Succession, there is little acknowledgment that these people are also miserable, despite the private planes and fancy yachts. To learn about income inequality is to experience genuine outrage, and Winterbottom is not that kind of furious filmmaker. His mockery and insights are too gentle for that.

—Alan Zilberman Greed opens Friday at Landmark E Street Cinema.

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8 Sun. | Beyoncé Mass

In the Eisenhower Theater This womanist worship service uses the music and personal life of Beyoncé as a tool to foster an empowering conversation about Black women. Please note: Beyoncé will not be present for this event.

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9 Mon. | Pershing’s Own Chamber Players

12 | Sonic and Womxyn Amplify

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10 Tue. | Halo Wheeler

14 Sat. | Aurora Nealand’s Monocle Ensemble

The D.C.-based funk jazz artist has opened for singers like Frankie Beverly and Maze, Chrisette Michelle, and Kelly Price.

Presented in collaboration with D.C.based All Inclusive Entertainment.

11 Wed. | Dior Ashley Brown

A proud D.C. native and Army brat, Brown combines her theater study and life experiences into her hip hop performances.

12 Thu. | Sonic and Womxyn Amplify

As a queer, partially deaf artist and womxyn of color, the soulful, slow-burning R&B singer/songwriter interacts with the world in a singular way. With her collective, she’ll immerse audiences in a journey of selflove and affirmation.

Presented in collaboration with National Sawdust.

13 Fri. | Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng presents Control Release Constraint

In a solo performance, the queer multi-dimensional creative of Hawaiian, Chinese, Japanese, and Portuguese descent blends award-winning spoken word poetry, elaborate costumes, and photography to navigate themes of repatriation, and what it’s like to see your family’s heirlooms and artifacts in a museum.

Members of the U.S. Army Band present a recital of inspired music created by women composers.

Begins at 5:45 p.m.

Join this New Orleans multiinstrumentalist, bandleader, composer, experimental physical theater actor, and storyteller for a virtuosic sonic and visual experience.

15 Sun. | Raye Zaragoza

The award-winning singersongwriter carries an acoustic guitar and a message, including her quiet yet powerful song “In the River,” written in response to the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota.

16 Mon. | Guerilla Opera

The Ensemble-in-Residence at the Boston Conservatory makes its D.C. debut with the local premiere of faculty member Marti Epstein’s Rumpelstiltskin, based on the classic Brothers Grimm fairy tale. This onenight-only performance features shadow puppetry animations.

17 Tue. | Ami Dang

A South Asian American vocalist, sitarist, composer, and producer from Baltimore, her sound ranges from North Indian classical fused with noise/ambient electronics to beat-driven psych and experimental dancepop.

18 Wed. | Janel Leppin presents The Weaver

A D.C.-area native, the cellist and weaver presents her unique woven works and compositions for cello and other instruments.

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Free tours daily by the Friends of the Kennedy Center tour guides. Tour hours: Mon.–Fri., 10 a.m.–5 p.m., and Sat./ Sun. from 10 a.m.–1 p.m. REACH tours available Mon.–Fri. at 11 a.m. & 2 p.m. and Sat./Sun. at 11 a.m. For information, call (202) 416-8340.

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Merriweather Post Pavilion • Columbia, MD JUST ANNOUNCED!

LINDSEY STIRLING * w/ KIESZA & Mako .............................. AUGUST 4

MARCH

APRIL

THIS WEEK’S SHOWS

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

Koe Wetzel w/ Read Southall ...Th 5 No Scrubs: ‘90s Dance Party with DJs Will Eastman & Ozker, Visuals by Kylos ..........................F 6 ALL GOOD PRESENTS

The Lil Smokies & Joe Pug

Early Show! 6pm Doors ....................Sa 7

STEEZ PROMO PRESENTS

PEEKABOO

w/ MoodyGood • ZEKE BEATS • ISOxo Late Show! 10pm Doors ..................Sa 7

The Districts w/ And The Kids .Tu 10 Dead Kennedys

w/ D.O.A. & Dingleberry Dynasty ..W 11

Radical Face w/ Axel Flóvent ..Th 12 ALL GOOD PRESENTS

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

ALL GOOD PRESENTS

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

MAREN MORRIS w/ James Arthur & Caitlyn Smith .. SAT SEPTEMBER 19 Tenacious D & Soulful Symphony w/ Wynchester ...................................................................................................OCTOBER 4

STEEZ PROMO PRESENTS

On Sale Friday, March 6 at 10am

Manic Focus + Mersiv w/ Russ Liquid.............................Th 2

M3 ROCK FESTIVAL FEATURING

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w/ Of the Trees • Eastghost • Thelem • Abelation ........................F 3

Luke Bryan w/ Morgan Wallen & Caylee Hammack................. JUNE 20 Halsey * w/ blackbear & PVRIS ................................................................. JULY 19 Sam Hunt w/ Kip Moore • Travis Denning •

Pussy Riot w/ Deli Girls ............Sa 4 The Glitch Mob Drink the Sea- 10th Anniv. Tour

Ernest • Brandi Cyrus (DJ Set) ................................................................................. JULY 25

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AJR with Quinn XCII * w/ Hobo Johnson & The Lovemakers and Ashe..AUGUST 1 Rod Stewart * w/ Cheap Trick ................................................. AUGUST 15 Daryl Hall & John Oates * w/ Squeeze & KT Tunstall .. AUGUST 22 The Black Keys * w/ Gary Clark Jr. & Yola........................... AUGUST 28 Pet Shop Boys & New Order * .........................................SEPT 15

Deafheaven

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Aterciopelados & Los Amigos Invisibles ..........W 8 Delta Rae w/ Frances Cone &

Carrie Welling ..............................Th 9

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Margaret Glaspy w/ Kate Davis

Early Show! 6pm Doors ......................F 17

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Blunts & Blondes

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

Bruno Major w/ Adam Melchor

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

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

Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real ...........Su 19 Hot Country Knights w/ Rachel Wammack ...................M 20

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

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Welcome to Night Vale Jonathan Richman & w/ Dessa .............................................APR 2 Bonnie “Prince” Billy ........ MAR 7 Walk Off The Earth Whindersson Nunes .......... MAR 16 w/ Gabriela Bee ..................................APR 5 Jens Lekman w/ Eddy Kwon

BYT’S FUTURE IS FESTIVAL PRESENTS

Who? Weekly LIVE ....................MAR 27 The Lily’s Nora Knows What To Say feat. Nora McInerny

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

9:30 CLUB PRESENTS AT U STREET MUSIC HALL City of the Sun w/ William Wild .....Sa 14 Mondo Cozmo Tall Heights w/ Victoria Canal .......Tu 10 w/ Reuben and the Dark ...................W 18 Shing02 & The Chee-Hoos: Dorian Electra A Tribute to Nujabes w/ Substantial .W 11 w/ Alice Longyu Gao & umru .............Th 26 9:30 CLUB & ALL GOOD PRESENT The Soul Rebels w/ Footwerk .F MAR 6

Kurt Vile with Cate Le Bon .............................APR 24 POLITICS AND PROSE PRESENTS

Madeleine Albright-

NPR’s Ask Me Another

Hell and Other Destinations ...APR 27

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and DC Youth Orchestra Program......APR 22

Watch What Crappens........ MAY 2

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Music FRIDAY

ELECTRONIC

jaimie branch’s Fly or Die

CITY LIGHTS: FRIDAY

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

IN SERIES’ WOMEN COMPOSERS FESTIVAL

Culture Talk: Sophia Chang M A R C H 1 8 | 7 : 3 0 P. M .

The Amours

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

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

SOUNDCHECK 1420 K St. NW. (202) 789-5429. Oliver Smith. 10 p.m. $0–$10. soundcheckdc.com.

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

Maya Jane Coles. 10 p.m. $12–$30. ustreetmusichall.com.

Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah

FUNK & R&B

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

CITY WINERY 1350 Okie St. NE. (202) 250-2531. Keith Washington. 8 p.m. $35–$48. citywinery.com.

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

The Soul Rebels. 7 p.m. $25. ustreetmusichall.com.

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

Jeremy Kittel’s Whorls with Joshua Roman and the Verona Quartet

JAZZ

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

M A R C H 2 6 | 7 : 3 0 P. M .

HOWARD THEATRE 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Patti Austin. 8 p.m. $39.50–$45. thehowardtheatre.com.

Mortified

ROCK

M A R C H 2 7 | 7 : 3 0 P. M .

BLACK CAT 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Ladygod. 8 p.m. $15. blackcatdc.com.

BYT’S FUTURE IS FESTIVAL

CITY WINERY 1350 Okie St. NE. (202) 250-2531. Damn the Torpedoes: A Tribute to Tom Petty. 8:30 p.m. $25– $30. citywinery.com.

Se Regalan Dudas

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

Dopapod. 8 p.m. $18–$40. unionstage.com.

M A R C H 2 8 | 3 : 3 0 P. M .

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

Steve Hackett. 8 p.m. $35–$255. warnertheatredc.com.

WORLD

THE HAMILTON 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. Red Baraat “Festival of Colors”. 8 p.m. $20–$25. thehamiltondc.com.

SATURDAY CLASSICAL

ST. MARK’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH 301 A St. SE. (202) 543-0053. The Three Fountains: Music for Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio. 4 p.m.; 8 p.m. $42. stmarks.net.

ELECTRONIC

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

10 p.m. $20. 930.com.

SONGBYRD MUSIC HOUSE AND RECORD CAFE 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Little People, Frameworks, and YPPAH. 8 p.m. $15–$18. songbyrddc.com.

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

Will Clarke. 10 p.m. $15–$20. ustreetmusichall.com.

FOLK

9:30 CLUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. The Lil Smokies. 6 p.m. $20. 930.com.

FUNK & R&B

CITY WINERY 1350 Okie St. NE. (202) 250-2531.

Frenchie Davis. 8 p.m. $25–$30. citywinery.com.

JAZZ

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

In classical music and opera, gender representation remains a problem. Orchestras that historically discriminated against women largely corrected that with the advent of blind auditions, but this only fixed the problem among musicians. Composers remain overwhelmingly male, though women composers—Meredith Monk, Kaija Saariaho, Caroline Shaw, Anna Thorvaldsdottir, and Julia Wolfe among them—are starting to get deserved attention. Putting on a concert of contemporary opera is a tough enough sell, but the works in the In Series’ Women Composers Festival are never boring. These include a new meditation on Homer’s Odyssey, Kate Soper’s Here Be Sirens, and two cabaret performances of works by Dorothy Fields and Ana Sokolovic. Finally, Ana y su Sombra depicts a family migrating from Mexico to the U.S., and, unlike American Dirt, was written by a Mexican woman: composer Gabriela Ortiz. The festival runs to March 8 at GALA Hispanic Theatre, 3333 14th St. NW. $25–$80. (202) 234-7174. galatheatre.org. —Mike Paarlberg

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POP

HILL COUNTRY BARBECUE 410 7th St. NW. (202) 556-2050. Miss Mojo. 6 p.m. $15. hillcountry.com.

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

070Shake. 7 p.m. $15. ustreetmusichall.com.

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SUNDAY FOLK

ROCK

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

Radney Foster. 7:30 p.m. $15–$39.75. thehamiltondc.com.

THE HAMILTON 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. The Weight Band. 8 p.m. $25–$34. thehamiltondc.com.

CITY WINERY 1350 Okie St. NE. (202) 250-2531. RC & The Gritz and Wes Watkins. 7:30 p.m. $25–$30. citywinery.com.

LINCOLN THEATRE 1215 U St. NW. (202) 888-0050.

Jonathan Richman & Bonnie “Prince” Billy. 8 p.m. $35. thelincolndc.com.

PIE SHOP DC 1339 H St. NE. (202) 398-7437. Strangers That Clique and Soultru. 8 p.m. $10–$12. pieshopdc.com.

BLACK CAT 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Poguetry: Songs of The Pogues. 8 p.m. $30–$35. blackcatdc.com.

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

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ARLO GUTHRIE

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

Mar 1

HAYES CARLL (Solo)

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MOORER

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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THE OAK RIDGE BOYS

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On A Winter's night With

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

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THE DIRTY KNOBS with MIKE

CAMPBELL

10,000 MANIACS TOM RUSH with M N

Sage HOWARD JONES Rachael Acoustic Trio Tour

RAUL MALO 26 HOLLY NEAR & CRYS MATTHEWS

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THE MANHATTANS featuring GERALD

ALSTON

JAMES McMURTRY 29 THE SECRET SISTERS Apr 2 THE MUSICAL BOX 'A Genesis Extravanza Vol. 2'

Bonnie Whitmore

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An Evening with

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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9:30 CLUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Silversun Pickups. 7 p.m. $45–$149. 930.com.

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

MONDAY

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CITY LIGHTS: SATURDAY

LET’S TALK DANCE: MARTHA GRAHAM, WOMEN IN DANCE, AND DANCE AS ACTIVISM

FOLK

JAMMIN JAVA 227 Maple Ave. East, Vienna. (703) 2551566. Tyler Ramsey. 7:30 p.m. $13–$15. jamminjava.com.

HIP-HOP

FILLMORE SILVER SPRING 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Rod Wave. 8 p.m. $40– $87.99. fillmoresilverspring.com.

JAZZ

BLUES ALLEY 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Herb Scott. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $22. bluesalley.com.

POP

BLACK CAT 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490.

Destroyer. 7:30 p.m. $22–$25. blackcatdc.com.

TUESDAY JAZZ

BLUES ALLEY 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. George Burton’s Reciprocity. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $22. bluesalley.com.

POP

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

ROCK

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

Tall Heights. 7 p.m. $15. ustreetmusichall.com.

An Evening with att

SONGBYRD MUSIC HOUSE AND RECORD CAFE 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Lund and Guccihighwaters. 7:30 p.m. $16–$20. songbyrddc.com.

9:30 CLUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. The Districts. 7 p.m. $20. 930.com.

CITY WINERY 1350 Okie St. NE. (202) 250-2531. Crystal Bowersox. 7:30 p.m. $28–$35. citywinery.com.

WORLD

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

Roberto Fonseca. 7:30 p.m. $24.75–$49.75. thehamiltondc.com.

WEDNESDAY

Martha Graham’s legacy in the dance world is astounding. Her Graham technique mothered American modern dance, creating a new worldwide curriculum for dancers. And today, the Martha Graham Dance Company keeps her legacy alive, performing her original choreography and creating new pieces in her signature style. But dance, like any art form, is evolving under the influence of modern social and political issues. Earlier in the week, as the centennial of the 19th amendment draws near, her company will be performing iconic dances Diversion of Angels, Ekstasis, and Chronicle, along with new pieces Untitled (Souvenir) and Lamentation Variations. While these performances each represent an aspect of female power, the company’s role in shaping dance doesn’t end on stage. On Saturday, the Martha Graham Dance Company will also be hosting a panel discussion and question-and-answer session. Hear from current dancers about Martha Graham herself, the intersection of dance and activism, and the role of women in dance. With the teachings of such a trailblazing woman guiding their current work, they’ll certainly have some unique insight. The talk begins at 4 p.m. at the Kennedy Center REACH, 2700 F St. NW. $15. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org.

—Sarah Smith

ELECTRONIC

CITY LIGHTS: SUNDAY

HIP-HOP

OTIS TAYLOR

SOUNDCHECK 1420 K St. NW. (202) 789-5429. Flava D. 10 p.m. $10. soundcheckdc.com.

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

Shing02 & The Chee-Hoos: A Tribute to Nujabes. 7 p.m. $22. ustreetmusichall.com.

JAZZ

BLUES ALLEY 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Marshall Keys & Soulful Path. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $25. bluesalley.com.

POP

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

Celine Dion. 7:30 p.m. $85–$499. capitalonearena.viewlift.com.

SONGBYRD MUSIC HOUSE AND RECORD CAFE 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. James Supercave. 8 p.m. $13–$15. songbyrddc.com.

ROCK

PIE SHOP DC 1339 H St. NE. (202) 398-7437. Don Frederick, Humbalaya, and Bluewreck. 8 p.m. $10. pieshopdc.com.

THURSDAY COUNTRY

BARNS AT WOLF TRAP 1635 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. Riders in the Sky. 8 p.m. $32–$37. wolftrap.org.

PIE SHOP DC 1339 H St. NE. (202) 398-7437. The Bones of J.R. Jones. 8 p.m. $10–$12. pieshopdc.com.

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Otis Taylor’s trance blues don’t sound like typical blues. The Colorado-based, Chicago-born Taylor, who sings and plays guitar, banjo, and other instruments, likes to use lots of sonic and lyrical repetition in his songs to convey emotion and drama. He has a bit of singer/songwriter folksiness, but he is backed by a band, and together they offer powerful vocals and hypnotic rhythms. Taylor’s picked chords are raw-sounding, his lyrical phrasing is melancholy, and his lyrics confront history, with song titles like “Ten Million Slaves” and albums with names including Fantasizing About Being Black, My World is Gone, and When Negroes Walked the Earth. Taylor often enhances the musical repetition with his minimalistic phrasing—“shackles on my leg, got crampin’ in my hand” from “Banjo Bam Bam” is said over and over again to evocatively convey the experience. The now-71-year-old Taylor began playing music in the 1960s, but gave it up between 1977 and 1995 and became an antiques dealer. His return to music produced 15 albums that are like antiques themselves, often telling vivid stories of the past, but with designs that deliver contemporary messages that resonate in today’s troubled world. Otis Taylor performs at 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. at Blues Alley, 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. $25. (202) 337-4141. bluesalley.com.

—Steve Kiviat

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CITY LIGHTS: WEDNESDAY

ROD WAVE

BOOKMAKING WORKSHOP

Rod Wave “has a tremendous, bluesy groan-bellow that turns vulnerable when his voice floats into its upper register,” says Stereogum’s Tom Breihan. Wave is a singer, rapper, and songwriter known for his unique sound and personal lyrics. Throughout Ghetto Gospel, his debut studio album, Wave reflects on how his childhood was damaged by the arrests of men in his life and financial insecurity. His father was the financial backbone of his family, Wave told DJ Smallz in an interview, so when his dad was sentenced to six years in prison, Wave thought it was his responsibility to provide—which he did by selling marijuana and robbing “innocent people,” he says.

When released from jail, Wave became serious about his music. In 2017, he released the first mixtape in his Hunger Games series independently; Alamo Records released mixtapes two and three. The Kevin Gates-produced Ghetto Gospel dropped last November, featuring hits like “Cuban Links” and “Close Enough To Hurt.” On its best song, “Dark Conversations,” Wave sings his heart out from the opening chorus to the last. “During the day, I’m Rod Wave, but I feel like Cobain,” he sings. “Do I wanna deal with the pain that tomorrow brings?” Rod Wave performs at 8 p.m. at the Fillmore Silver Spring, 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, $40–$87.99.

(301) 960-9999. fillmoresilverspring.com.

—Kennedy Whitby

CITY LIGHTS: TUESDAY

TALL HEIGHTS

While the odd critic of millennials will say that books are a thing of the past, replaced by iPhones and e-readers, the art of the hardcover didn’t die with the rise of the digital era. Ornate, detailed manuscripts, mostly of religious texts, date back long before the Western invention of the printing press, and the artistic process is still alive and well at smaller printing presses today. Indie bookstores are coming back into prominence and the sale of physical books is rising. Reconnecting with the art form in the age of mechanical reproduction can be a meditative experience, similar to how other forms of crafting release dopamine. Through her small press and bookmaking workshops, Ink Press Productions founder Amanda McCormick is helping people connect with the rich history of publishing. Her workshops push participants to understand and participate in the artistic process behind books. Using unconventional materials on hand to create a hardcover book, McCormick will show participants the foundations of the bookmaking process while helping them embrace their creative side to craft a one-of-a-kind piece. The workshop begins at 6:30 p.m. at Femme Fatale DC, 401 Massachusetts Ave. NW. $25. moonlitdc.com. —Katie Malone

CITY LIGHTS: THURSDAY

JAMES MCBRIDE

A preacher shoots a drug dealer in a courtyard.

That’s how James McBride’s Deacon King Kong starts, but that’s not all it’s about. McBride, a National Book Award winner and author of celebrated memoir The Color of Water, shifts his keen eye on race relations to fiction by examining the social context that leads to the opening act of violence.

The new novel follows a motley crew of characters in late-1960s multiracial Brooklyn: There’s Deacon Cuffy Lambkin, a.k.a. Sportcoat, young drug dealer Deems Clemens, who leads the pack after their run-in, Hettie, Sportcoat’s distant wife of 40 years (dead for two), and Sister Veronica Gee, who leads a crusade against inquisitive cops. Deacon King Kong’s twists and turns have led critics to laud it as a triumph of black—and Black—humor.

James McBride speaks at 7 p.m. at Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Free. (202) 364-1919. politics-prose.com.

—Kaila Philo

FOLK

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

JAMMIN JAVA 227 Maple Ave. East, Vienna. (703) 2551566. Lankum. 7:30 p.m. $20–$30. jamminjava.com.

HIP-HOP

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

Changmo. 8 p.m. $39–$199. ustreetmusichall.com.

JAZZ When Paul Wright and Tim Harrington make their journey from the Boston suburbs to U Street Music Hall, they’re sure to take the crowd to new heights. The duo performs as Tall Heights, a socalled electrofolk band. With two recently released singles, the bandmates, who are hometown friends, are busy climbing the musical ladder. They started out as buskers, but have since toured internationally, serving as Ben Folds’ backing band and performing alongside CAKE, Judah & the Lion and The Paper Kites. Popular single “Spirit Cold” initially thrust them into the spotlight in 2015, attracting listeners with their combination of uplifting lyrics and sweet, folksy vocals. Now, “Under Your Skin” and “Keeps Me Light” aim to do the same. According to Wright and Harrington, “Under Your Skin” echoes the joyous feelings of fatherhood while “Keeps Me Light” explores the safety and comfort found in good friendship. As the winter begins to thaw and the sun comes out, Tall Heights are the perfect duo to welcome the warmth. Tall Heights perform at 7 p.m. at U Street Music Hall, 1115 U St. NW. $15. (202) 588-1889. ustreetmusichall.com.

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BLUES ALLEY 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Joey DeFrancesco Trio. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $25–$30. bluesalley.com.

POP

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Yumi Zouma.

7:30 p.m. $15–$18. dc9.club.

ROCK

BLACK CAT 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Algiers.

7:30 p.m. $15. blackcatdc.com.

WORLD

HOWARD THEATRE 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Stephen Marley. 8 p.m. $38.50–$48. thehowardtheatre.com.

SONGBYRD MUSIC HOUSE AND RECORD CAFE 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. The Mauskovic Dance Band. 8 p.m. $12–$15. songbyrddc.com.

Theater

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.

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.

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.

INHERIT THE WINDBAG In the summer of 1968, famed public intellectuals Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley met for a series of debates; in that vein, the two meet again on the stage in a satirical, witty, tongue-lashing battle. Mosaic Theater Company at Atlas Performing Arts Center. 1333 H St. NE. To March 29. $20–$60. (202) 399-7993. mosaictheater.org.

PASS OVER This allegorical play mashes Waiting for Godot and the Exodus as two young black men are metaphorically marooned on a street corner but dream of a promised land. Studio Theatre. 1501 14th St. NW. To April 12. $20–$80. (202) 332-3300. studiotheatre.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 Road NW, Suite 101. To March 13. $25. (202) 797-2145. sitarartscenter.org.

THE REALISTIC JONESES Two couples learn they share much more than last names, and an unsettling truth is just below the surface. Spooky Action Theater. 1810 16th St. NW. To April 5. $20–$40. (202) 2480301. spookyaction.org.

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, Abe and Julia are high-profile celebrities embarking on a dangerously flirtatious correspondence. 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) 7773210. theaterj.org.

Film

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) 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) 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) GREED This satire tracks the absurd world of the super-rich. Starring Steve Coogan, Isla Fisher, and Shirley Henderson. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) ONWARD Two teenage elves have to undertake a magical quest to save their family. Starring Tom Holland, Chris Pratt, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) THE WAY BACK A former star player returns to his high school to coach its basketball team while fighting off the demon of his alcoholism. Starring Ben Affleck, Janina Gavankar, and Michaela Watkins. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) WENDY On a mysterious island where aging is abnormal, Wendy fights to save the spirit of youth. Starring Yashua Mack, Devin France, and Gage Naquin. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information)

SAVAGELOVE I’m a middle-aged gay man and I was recently diagnosed with sleep apnea. This is a disorder caused by the soft tissue in the throat collapsing during sleep. On top of making me feeling tired and awful all the time, sleep apnea is associated with a long list of health complications. I’m writing you because I’m into very rough oral. I like it when a guy treats my throat like a Fleshlight. Gagging and retching turn me on. Since I don’t want to risk making my condition worse, I stopped giving blowjobs after my diagnosis. But will giving blowjobs the way I like to give them actually make things worse? The internet was not helpful, and I didn’t feel comfortable asking the sleep specialist.

—Really Excited To Choke Harmlessly “The vast majority of people with sleep apnea have obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), which is what I assume this individual has,” said Dr. Anna Grosz, a board certified otolaryngologist in practice in Portland, Oregon. “It results from muscle relaxation and collapse in the airway (throat), which narrows the passage for air to flow and then makes it harder to breathe and get oxygen.” (Otolaryngologists specialize in diseases and disorders of the ear, nose, and throat.)

So when you fall asleep, RETCH, the muscles in your throat relax and collapse, restricting your ability to breathe. Your brain—which doesn’t want to die—responds to this oxygen deprivation by waking you up, which tenses your muscles back up, un-collapsing them, and allowing you to breathe again.

“Someone with OSA gags or chokes in response to the apnea, not as a cause,” Dr. Grosz clarified. “And while the contraction of the muscles opens the airway, it leads to poor sleep because the person is constantly being woken up.”

Now for the good news: Dr. Grosz doesn’t think choking on dick is going to make your OSA any worse, RETCH, and it might even make it better. “Theoretically,” said Dr. Grosz, “increased tone of the muscles of the airway might be a good thing in terms of strengthening those muscles.” Now, there’s no evidence that having your throat used like a Fleshlight will strengthen your ol’ throat muscles, but there’s no evidence that getting face-fucked will weaken them, either. (Needless to say, there aren’t a lot of studies on OSA and rough oral sex—and seeing as our public health officials are busy trying to protect us from a worldwide pandemic and our imbecilic president, there probably won’t be any studies anytime soon.)

“Ultimately, I don’t think your reader is at risk of making his sleep apnea worse by continuing his oral sex practices,” said Dr. Grosz. “And to improve his sleep apnea, he could make sure he maintains a healthy weight, doesn’t smoke, and avoids excess alcohol or sedatives.”

—Dan Savage

I’m struggling and could use some advice. I have a cast fetish—think orthopedic casts—and my wife isn’t interested at all. To be clear, I don’t want her to be injured in any way and I certainly don’t want to injure her. I just like the idea of her wearing a cast on her leg. It’s not even entirely sexual.

If she would just wear a cast for a couple of hours while we hang out and watch a movie, I’d be happy. When we met eight years ago, I was in denial about the importance of my fetish, both to myself and to her. I’ve since realized that it’s a deal breaker for me, and it’s clear we wouldn’t be together today if I had been aware of the extent of my fetish when we first met and been able to be honest about it. Over the years, we’ve briefly spoken about incorporating it, and we had a single

“If gay men collapsed into puddles every time someone assumed we were straight, GEAR, we’d have to be reclassified as a liquid.” failed attempt a few years ago. I’ve finally come to the realization that this isn’t going to happen without it being forced or coerced. She’s recently offered to participate, but only because she thinks she needs to in order to “save our marriage.” How do I cope with this? Obviously, a need of mine will be perpetually unmet. How do I keep myself from resenting her for not being more open-minded? Is our marriage doomed? We have a 9-month-old child.

—Churlish About Sudden Turn You just had a child—because of course you just had a child—which means now is not the time to do anything stupid. Or rash. And ending your marriage because your wife failed to understand how important your fetish was to you before you understood how important your fetish was to you would be both stupid and rash. So take a deep breath, help care for your baby, and have a conversation with your wife the next time she isn’t completely exhausted, CAST, which could mean waiting three to six months.

If it’s clear when you talk that she hates the thought of pulling on a fake cast and watching a movie with you—what you say you need to be happy—that will come out in the conversation.

But if she’s come to understand how important this cast business is to you and how little it actually requires of her, please do yourself, your wife, and your baby a favor and take the yes you’ve always wanted for a motherfucking answer.

And finally, CAST, I don’t know what your dick is telling you right now, but just in case it’s telling you there are hordes of women out

there with cast fetishes who are also into recently single new fathers with child-support payments to make, your dick is lying to you. A new girlfriend, if you can find one, might wear a cast for you, but she’ll be doing it for the same reason your wife is willing to: in order to make your kinky ass happy.

—DS I’m a straight man who enjoys the erotic “mummification” experience. My wife finds the process of wrapping me in cling film and duct tape extremely tedious, as it takes more than an hour and she doesn’t derive pleasure from it. So we decided to invest in a sleep sack, which will shorten the process considerably. I found a leather artisan on Etsy who makes them to order. During a video chat about sizing, the artisan made a reference to the “lucky man” who would be putting me in my sleep sack. I informed him I am straight. He apologized, saying that in his experience, it is mostly gay men who invest in this type of gear. I was nevertheless offended by his assumption. Your thoughts?

—Got Extremely Affronted Recently First thought: If gay men collapsed into puddles every time someone assumed we were straight, GEAR, we’d have to be reclassified as a liquid.

Second thought: As a gay man, I’m sometimes annoyed when people assume I’m straight. But it’s not an unreasonable assumption, since most people are straight. It’s also rarely a malicious assumption. Similarly, GEAR, since all of the men who’ve commissioned this Etsy artisan to make them sleep sacks in the past have been gay, the assumption he made about you wasn’t unreasonable. And it’s hard to see malice in it. The offense you’ve taken, on the other hand, strikes me as both unreasonable and malicious; it’s unreasonable in that you would come crying to a queer person about something like this, and it’s malicious in that your reaction is so obviously rooted in homophobia (so what if some dude thought you might be gay?) and yet you came crying to a gay man about it.

Final thought: Whereas a straight person who’s assumed to be gay can correct the record without fear, a gay person who’s assumed to be straight has to do a risk assessment first: Is this person going to freak out or get violent?

Having to do those sorts of risk assessments all your life—starting in childhood with your own family—can take an emotional toll. So instead of being angry or offended by this experience, GEAR, you should be grateful that you can say, “Actually, I’m straight,” without having to worry about being punched in your stupid face or kicked out of your parents’ house.

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

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March 27, 2020. Proposals should be emailed SUPERIOR COURT to bids@dcbilingual.org OF THE DISTRICT OF or at 33 Riggs Rd NE, COLUMBIA Washington, DC 20011.

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DC Housing AuthorContact: Natasha ity in the Landlord and Harrison, nharrison@ Tenant Branch of the centercitypcs.org Superior Court of the District of Columbia, One Request for ProCase No. 2019 LTB posals (RFP) to pro027678. A judgment for vide waste removal possession may lead to services eviction and the loss of at six (6) schools beginpersonal property in the ning July 1, 2020. To residence. obtain copies of full Any interested person, RFPs, please visit our including but not limited website: https://cento creditors, heirs, and tercitypcs.org/contact/ legatees of the decerequests-for-proposal/. dent, shall appear on Contact: Natasha March 25, 2020 at 9:00 Harrison, nharrison@ am in Courtroom B109, centercitypcs.org in the Landlord and Tenant Court, located at 510 4th Street NW, Washington, DC, to show cause if there be any reason why the complaint for possession should not be granted

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Company: Genesis Block, LLC Address: 2701 N Thanksgiving Way Ste 100, Lehi, UT 84043” SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Landlord and Tenant Branch 2019 LTB 027674 DC Housing Authority Plaintiff, v.

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ington, DC 20009, at Legals the time of his reported death, is the subject of DC SCHOLARS PCS REQUEST an action for a ComFOR PROPOSALS – Moduplaint for Possession lar Contractor Services - DC by Plaintiff Housing Scholars PublicDC Charter School Authority in the solicits proposals forLanda modular lord andtoTenant Branch contractor provide professional of the Superior Court of management and construction services to construct a modular the District of Columbia, building to house four classrooms Case No. 2019 LTB and one faculty offi ce suite. for The 027674 . A judgment Request for Proposals possession may lead(RFP) to specifi cations can be obtained on eviction and the loss of and after Monday, November 27, personal property in the 2017 from Emily Stone via comresidence. munityschools@dcscholars.org.

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