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12 Closures spike as a global pandemic takes hold of D.C.

DISTRICT LINE 4 Loose Lips: As Jack Evans attempts to get back on the Council, his disgraced former colleague Harry Thomas Jr. also returns to elected life.

6 Cost Benefit: What prompts D.C. residents to pay extra fees for primary care?

SPORTS 10 Critics’ Choice: Discouraging words push Maryland point guard Anthony Cowan Jr. to succeed.

FOOD 18 Mindful Eating: Buddhism helps local restaurant workers cultivate inner peace.

ARTS 22 Drop Box: For a local cigar box juggler, making mistakes is part of the act.

24 Curtain Calls: Thal on Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Timon of Athens 25 Liz at Large: “Forever” 26 Short Subjects: Gittell on First Cow

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Forgive Me, But ...

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Jack Evans and Harry Thomas Jr. look to re-enter politics after disgraceful exits from elected office. How much scandal can D.C. handle?

Former Ward 5 Councilmember Harry Thomas Jr. on the day he pleaded guilty to theft and tax fraud in 2012.

By Mitch Ryals Jack Evans’ rEdEmption song goes something like this: He made mistakes. He is embarrassed. He tarnished his legacy and that of the D.C. Council. He’s sorry and he’ll never do it again. But think of all the good he’s done. So can he please have his old seat back?

Evans stood in a Dupont Circle church during last week’s Ward 2 Council candidate forum, 48 days after resigning in disgrace to avoid a vote that would have forced him from office, and asked for a second chance.

Nervous applause from the crowd came first, followed by a chorus of boos.

“I started a consulting company three

years ago and made a mistake by not putting in place mechanisms to catch potential conflicts of interests,” he said later that evening. “Something I should have done, but I didn’t. And I apologize, but we are a forgiving city, at least we were, and people do get second chances.”

Evans did not invoke any names, but by making reference to a “forgiving city,” he attempts to place himself among the likes of Marion Barry, the “Mayor for Life,” who voters re-elected to the District’s highest office after he was caught on video smoking crack and served time in prison. LL is also reminded of Ward 7 Councilmember Vince Gray, who lost the 2015 mayor’s race due to an unfortunately (or perfectly, depending

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on your perspective) timed announcement from then-U.S. Attorney Ron Machen about Gray’s alleged misdeeds, which never yielded an indictment.

As the longest-serving D.C. councilmember continues his apology tour, another scandal-tainted local pol has been successfully, though quietly, rebuilding his own reputation.

Harry Thomas Jr.’s redemption song goes like this: He made mistakes. He knew what he did was wrong. He served his time, and he’s repaying the public’s funds he took.

So now he wants to use a position in the local Democratic Party as a platform to advocate for currently and formerly incarcerated people like himself.

The former Ward 5 councilmember pleaded guilty to embezzling hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars intended to fund youth programs in 2012 and was sentenced to more than three years in prison.

Since his release from custody in 2015, Thomas has slowly made his way back into the public eye by helping local businesses and residents navigate the city’s bureaucracy. Last week, he was sworn in as Ward 5’s elected committeeman and plans to attend the Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee this July.

Last Friday afternoon, Thomas strolled into the McDonald’s on South Dakota Avenue NE, a vibrant community gathering place, and in between bites of a Filet-o-Fish and sips of a Shamrock Shake, he told LL what he’s been up to.

Thomas says he isn’t angling for Ward 5 Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie’s job— at least not yet.

“It’s not for me to reignite my political [career],” he tells LL, referring to his new role in the party. “If that happens, it happens. That’s not what it’s for. It’s for me to make sure everything I’ve done in my life, I think, is a transferable skill to other people.”

As a guy who is trying to move on with his life after a spectacular fall from grace, Thomas at first doesn’t want to get caught up answering questions about Evans’ bullshit. But as a guy who knows a little something about a comeback, he has some insight.

“Jack’s 20-plus years have defined who he is,” Thomas says. “And I think he thinks he can’t live without that. What I would say to Jack is, ‘there’s so much more to Jack than you know.’”

Potentially working in Evans’ favor at the ballot box, Thomas says, is his name recognition, his longevity, and the influence that a relatively small, but passionate group of supporters can have in a ward-level, as opposed to citywide, race.

So does Thomas believe Evans really has a shot?

“Beyond a shot,” he tells LL. “I really do.”

as long as both politicians are in the midst of returning to the public arena, LL thought it useful to compare their downfalls. He needed to look no further than the words of the Washington Post’s editorial board.

The board published more than 10 editorials on each of the respective scandals, and for its missives on Thomas the board earned the distinction of “Best Editorial Jihad” in City Paper’s 2011 Best Of D.C. issue.

LL will admit that the details of Thomas’ case leave little room for sympathy. Using taxpayer money intended to help kids to purchase

a luxury SUV and pay for golf outings around the country? Not a good look.

Still, LL wonders what happened to the level of sass and scorn that the board had for Thomas and why the board is taking a milder tone when writing about Evans.

Both Evans and Thomas used their public offices for private gain, both worked to prevent the public release of damning information, both falsely denied wrongdoing until the evidence became overwhelming, and federal agents made house calls to both politicians, the ed board has noted. One marked difference between the two cases is that so far, only Thomas has been charged with any crime. Evans broke ethics rules and corrupted two public bodies, according to two independent investigations by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority board and the D.C. Council, but has not been criminally charged. It’s unclear whether the U.S. Attorney’s Office will take further action against Evans.

In both cases, the ed board pushed for answers from Evans and Thomas, and lamented the public’s shattered trust in the people and institutions charged with holding them responsible.

In Thomas’ case, that blame came down on then-Mayor Gray and the councilmembers who remained silent when Thomas agreed to repay $300,000 in taxpayer dollars. Only councilmembers David Catania, Mary Cheh, and Tommy Wells “had the guts to call for his resignation,” the ed board declared on Dec. 3, 2011, while calling out Gray’s response to federal agents searching Thomas’ home as a “boilerplate response … about justice running its course.”

In Evans’ case, the ed board took issue with Metro’s hashed investigation, calling it “incompetent” and “uaccceptable.”

“The [Metro] board’s first priority must be to reestablish credibility and public trust,” the June 26, 2019 editorial says.

But LL can find no mention in its pages of the threats Evans leveled at Metro employees in an effort to conceal his ethics violations, as the Post’s Robert McCartney reported.

When the majority of Evans’ colleagues called for his resignation following release of a damning report from the law firm O’Melveny & Myers that found at least 11 conflicts of interest and $400,000 in payments from clients that Evans could not explain, the ed board scolded them.

“It is troubling that a majority of council members—including Mary M. Cheh (D-Ward 3), who heads the ad hoc committee looking at Mr. Evans and who had promised to bend over backward to be fair—apparently didn’t even wait to read Mr. Evans’s response before deciding that he should resign,” reads an editorial from Nov. 7, 2019.

The ed board called for due process, should Evans ask for it.

In fact, Evans repeatedly called for a chance to tell his side, and then made fools out of his colleagues and the ed board by canceling his anticipated Q&A. At-Large Councilmember Robert White called that “an exercise of extreme privilege.”

Throughout its Evans-focused editorials, the board couches its criticism with praise.

Multiple editorials mention Evans’ contribution to the District’s financial stability, his role in revitalizing downtown, and in bringing a Major League Baseball team here. His “levelheaded approach to finances would be sorely missed on a council not known for its common sense,” the ed board wrote on Nov. 7, adding: “But at a certain level of misbehavior, mitigating factors are beside the point.”

In its Jan. 7, 2020 editorial, issued the same day Evans announced his resignation, the board began by applauding his shrewd legislative skills and got a little teary that “unethical conduct brought what had been a productive and constructive political career to this ignoble end.”

Those accolades, while perhaps deserved, contrast with the ed board’s description of Thomas’ “villany” and his “callous scheme,” which prosecutors alleged began shortly after the one-term councilmember took office.

An April 30, 2012 editorial called for the judge to throw the book at Thomas.

“Harry Thomas doesn’t deserve leniency,” the headline that ran ahead of Thomas’ sentencing read. The ed board didn’t argue with letters sent to Thomas’ sentencing judge recalling how he helped seniors, young athletes, and constituents in his ward. “But that doesn’t earn him a pass for robbing the city of its money and the public of its trust,” the ed board wrote.

So far, the ed board hasn’t said a peep about Evans’ resignation in order to avoid the shame of expulsion, nor about his decision to a run for the same seat 10 days later.

At the McDonAlD’s, Thomas is a popular guy. He gladhands the older gentlemen sipping coffee, some of whom he’s known since he was a kid, he says, and promises a lady named Penny he will make some calls to DC Water to help her with a sewer problem.

Thomas acknowledges the differences between the details of Evans’ scandal and his own. But he doesn’t want to dwell on any potentially disparate treatment.

“Could you play the race card?” he asks.

“Probably if you wanted to, but what is that going to gain us?”

He’d rather talk about the cruelty of solitary confinement and the injustice of banning felons from working in the marijuana industry.

“Marijuana is now a budding industry,” he says. “You wanna restore some lives? Let them go work in that industry.”

He says he’s in touch with former D.C. Council Chairman Kwame Brown and former At-Large Councilmember Michael Brown (no relation), local pols whose Council terms ended in scandal and prison time around the same time Thomas’ did. Both are inching back into the public arena with talk shows, and Michael Brown, who was Thomas’ cellmate for a time, is rumored to be thinking about making another run at a Council seat.

Thomas grins when asked about his former colleagues’ plans. “I’ll let them answer that,” he says. “It’s not for me to speculate.”

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Cost Benefit

Amanda Michelle Gomez

Residents are buying membership-based primary care because they want the “best” product, but the purchase doesn’t come without moral conflict.

By Amanda Michelle Gomez HealtH care is expensive. A typical family in the United States spends $8,200 per year, or 11 percent of their $75,025 income, on health care—this includes everything from premiums to copays to federal and state taxes. This estimate does not account for the occasional surprise medical bill. If someone in the family has complex medical needs or a chronic condition, they would spend an even larger percentage of their household income on insurance.

In a time when health care costs are outpacing wage growth, members-only medical practices are becoming increasingly popular among middle- to high-income earners in D.C. Residents are spending more than 100 extra dollars per year on a primary care provider when they don’t necessarily have to.

One Medical Group, founded in 2007 and based in San Francisco, is one of the most pop-

ular membership-based primary care providers in large cities across the country, including in the District. As of September 2019, One Medical served approximately 397,000 members in nine markets in the United States, according to a filing for its initial public offering.

The District’s One Medical locations only serve adults, although its more established clinics in California and New York provide pediatric care. One Medical offers primary and general care, the kind a patient would seek for an annual physical exam or if they have flu-like symptoms. Outside of that, it offers routine gynecological (but not obstetric) care and can manage some mental health medications. If care is needed beyond its scope, One Medical refers patients out to an in-network specialist.

With an annual membership fee of $199, patients pay to skip the line, so to speak. They get same or next-day appointments that are

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expected to start on time; are seen immediately by a doctor—or whoever a patient is scheduled to see, be it a nurse practitioner or physician assistant—not a nurse; and gain access to 24/7 telemedicine services so they can videochat with a provider at any time. There’s also a mobile application that allows clients to book appointments, access medical records, and process billing. D.C. residents are opting to pay the membership fee on top of all their other medical expenses, the thinking goes, to access health care without the headaches.

“I have outsourced medical complexity to One Medical and they make it simple for me,” says 45-year-old Sharee Calverley Lawler, a stay-at-home mother of 6-year-old twins.

She’s been going to One Medical for roughly five years.

Tolsun Waddle, 40, who works at a nonprofit focused on retirement and has been with the membership-based provider on and off

since 2016, appreciates the speed One Medical provides. “There’s value to me in being able to see a doctor quickly.”

“We live in a country where health care is a product,” says Cielo Contreras, 37, who works at a children’s literacy nonprofit. She’s been a member with One Medical for three years. “So they are just providing a good product and a product I wanna buy.”

If they can afford the $199, these patients pay it. The quickness and quality is worth it, they say. Lawler, for example, switched her insurance to UnitedHealthcare when her previous one, CareFirst, stopped covering One Medical in 2018. It wasn’t clear if she is now paying more overall for her medical expenses by switching health plans, because what services each plan covers isn’t transparent enough to compare. But since she purchases her plan on DC Health Link based on the provider network, when One Medical was out, so was she. (CareFirst now covers One Medical again.) If she could take her kids to the One Medical clinic in Adams Morgan, where she lives, Lawler would, just to eliminate all the medical paperwork from her life. She thinks of the $199 as a convenience fee.

City Paper spoke with over a dozen residents who go to any one of the six One Medical locations, all in Northwest D.C. All but one enjoyed their experience thus far—an imperfect statistic but one that tracks One Medical’s 89 percent retention rate across its consumer members nationwide. These patients are relatively healthy and if they have a chronic illness that needs managing, they have a specialist for that. The overwhelming majority have jobs that paid decently and provided health insurance.

Many of these residents admitted to feeling funny about the membership fee at first. The idea of paying to be a member for something as basic as primary care sounded strange and unfamiliar. Some felt morally and ethically conflicted about it. The membership makes it exclusionary. One Medical clinics are concentrated in affluent neighborhoods and do not accept Medicaid. According to its website, the provider does accept “most” Medicare plans, but its public filing says it primarily serves the “working-age” and “commercially-insured population.”

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the need to see a doctor fast without having to go to urgent care, or the lack of time and energy that’s needed to find a comparable provider outweighed concerns.

“I think that’s terrible, that health care is a product in our country,” says Contreras. “But that’s how it is.”

One Medical did not return City Paper’s repeated requests for comment.

In its S-1 filing, One Medical, a for-profit company, argues its “membership-based model supports ongoing and longitudinal relationships where we can serve as trusted advisors to our members and as partners to our enterprise clients.” The membership model, One Medical says, also generates revenue. Though it is not profitable yet, One Medical is valued at more than $1.5 billion, with private investors such as venture capital firm Benchmark and Alphabet.

The typical source of funding for primary care providers is insurance. But primary care providers across the country are embracing membership fees while rejecting insurance altogether because they are, in part, burnt out on working with insurance companies; the industry calls this “direct primary care.” Alternatively, One Medical also provides concierge care, accepting both insurance and membership fees, presumably enabling it to provide something extra. One Medical is more affordable as compared to other concierge providers. The average annual fee to become a member with the nation’s second-largest concierge management company, Concierge Choice Physicians, is between $1,500 to $2,400.

“Primary care is an area of health care that is right for disruption,” says Dan Mendelson, founder of the health care consulting firm Avalere Health. “Primary care physicians have not been paid well compared to specialists. They don’t have offices that reflect what is needed by consumers.”

Mendelson says a lot of providers are looking to disrupt primary care and One Medical is just one of many. What does set it apart is its “consistent branding.” Its neat and clean look.

Find wide windows, trendy throw pillows, and a Humans of New York coffee table book in any clinic. One Medical signals modernity as soon as a patient walks in the doors.

“Like Tesla,” says Mendelson. “The question is what happens when the model is more fully deployed? They are still in building mode.”

It’s no secret that the country is unsatisfied with the health care system. This is why national lawmakers are looking to upend the status quo. In the meantime, if patients can pay to make the health care system work for them, they will.

Richard England, for one, is not leaving One Medical until the provider significantly jacks up its membership fee or other primary care providers catch up. He is extremely grateful for the care he and his wife have gotten so far, like when he had extreme food poisoning when he was in Spain and a nurse practitioner recommended anti-nausea medicine over the mobile application, or when his pregnant wife was in Germany and fell down some stairs and

a nurse practitioner was able to reassure her by phone that she didn’t have any miscarriage symptons.

“I’m blessed to call $200 a phenomenal price,” says England, 32, who works as an energy lobbyist. “It is worth the $200 dollars for me—in the grand scheme of things, especially in the health care system, and for someone who has the money to spend.”

One Medical attracts patients with the promise of ease. It’s not hard to book an appointment, even if a patient is new—which is not always the case. “If my average wait time was one week then I seriously doubt I would be going to One Medical,” says Waddle. The company sometimes waives the membership fee or insurance will cover the first year, making it easier to join the club at first. When Katie Crowe first joined in 2012, she asked One Medical to waive the fee the first year. She would not pay until she knew what she was buying. The company agreed to her terms. Crowe, 30, is still with One Medical because it’s convenient and the few times a year she does go to the clinic, the care is good. She budgets for One Medical the same way she does for her Amazon Prime account.

One Medical is one of hundreds of primary care providers in the District. A 2018 prima-

the only provider in Northwest D.C. she could find that had a wait time of less than six months for new patients, at least with her plan. Two days before her appointment in May 2019, MedStar Health cancelled without rescheduling. When she complained about her experience with friends, they recommended One Medical.

“It’s hard finding a good person that insurance will cover,” says Kate, 33, who has a PPO plan with Aetna.

Kate got One Medical’s membership fee waived after applying for financial assistance online and showing proof of her student loans.

Since joining One Medical, she says her relationship with preventative care has changed, in that she has one now.

Sam Peters, 29, decided to go to One Medical because it was the only provider where he could book an appointment within a month’s time. He purchased an HMO plan with CareFirst on DC Health Link for $315 per month. He has only been with One Medical since the summer, and whether he enrolls again depends on whether he can afford the membership fee next time around.

Peters, who’s a bartender, just so happened to earn enough in tips when he paid the $199 fee. He will try to make it work because of how convenient it is with his working sched-

“We live in a country where health care is a product. So they are just providing a good product and a product I wanna buy.” ry care needs assessment found there is actually an abundant overall supply of primary care providers relative to the D.C. population. There is one primary care provider for every 667 residents, according to DC Health.

The supply, however, is not evenly distributed, with Wards 4 and 7 having relatively lower provider-to-population ratios. The report did not include data on wait times, but acknowledged one of the leading concerns from the providers interviewed were challenges around scheduling visits.

“The larger health centers certainly have infrastructure and intentions to create open access scheduling [or same-day scheduling] to make it easier for patients to get appointments more quickly,” says Dr. Anjali Talwalkar, the senior deputy director for the community health administration with DC Health. Talwalkar caveats that wait times vary depending on what patients are going in for and if they are new to the practice. “For new versus established patients, it’s something we see across the country where you always want to have a longer appointment time with new patients, obviously right, because you are getting to know somebody for the first time … so it can take a little bit longer [to book appointments],” she says.

Kate, who declined to use her last name over privacy concerns, waited three months to get an appointment with a primary care doctor with MedStar Health. She says it was

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ule. Easy booking jives with his odd, unpredictable hours.

Meera, alternatively, is no longer with One Medical. She was a member between 2015 and 2017 after a work colleague recommended the provider. She thought the membership fee was “weird” but her BlueCross BlueShield plan covered it for the first year so she figured “why not?” Looking back, Meera does not understand why One Medical has a membership fee.

“What is the point of paying extra? I don’t care if there is cucumber water in the lobby,” says Meera, who asked that City Paper omit her last name for privacy concerns.

She never experienced exceptional care. In fact, it was the opposite. It was Meera’s experience getting an intrauterine device inserted at One Medical that prompted her to leave.

“They made it sound as innocuous as taking a vitamin,” says Meera. But her insertion was anything but. She couldn’t sit or stand after the insertion in October 2017, and ended up having her IUD removed elsewhere shortly thereafter because she did not trust One Medical to do it given the way they downplayed the initial procedure. Now, Meera, 27, is without a primary care doctor.

It Is unlIkely One Medical will start accepting Medicaid because the public insurance generally pays providers less than private insurers. This exclusionary practice doesn’t sit well with some One Medical members. At

least that’s the case for Tanya Paperny, 33.

When she first enrolled roughly four years ago, Paperny had to consult her friends about it. It felt “icky” because the provider does not accept Medicaid. Paperny had Medicaid growing up in California, and is troubled that families like hers are not able to access a provider she now knows to provide quality care.

“As a person who grew up in a working class family, on food stamps and Medi-Cal ... I don’t like the idea of there being tiers,” she says. “I’ve chosen to insulate myself from the problem in this way because my mental health is extremely important for me to maintain … if it doesn’t work, I’m not a functional person. It’s more important to me than opting out of a problematic system at this point in my life.”

Paperny never had a primary care doctor she saw regularly until now. Before her nonprofit job, when she was an adjunct professor and freelancer, she went to a Whitman-Walker clinic. She had no major complaints but says the higher volume of patients meant she was not getting “super individualized care.” Paperny never saw the same provider twice.

“I take for granted how different it is,” Paperny says, “Having had inconsistent and in some instances inadequate care for the first 30 years of my life to now be like having boutique care that I think is excellent and I know it’s good for me.”

“It breaks my heart that One Medical doesn’t take Medicaid,” says JoAnna Wendel, 29.

Wendel went to One Medical for a few years starting in 2016 and loved it. But then she lost her job over the summer and had to drop her provider when she enrolled in Medicaid. Wendel, who now works freelance as a science writer, just signed up for a Medicaid plan with Amerigroup.

She applied for Medicaid in July 2019 but her insurance just kicked in in February due to technical difficulties.

Her experience trying to see a primary care provider as a Medicaid patient is quite different than when she had employer-based insurance. When she had flu-like symptoms recently, Wendel called Mary’s Center, the primary care provider she selected through Amerigroup. When the provider saw that she was a new patient, Mary’s Center requested she have a full physical exam before she could just drop in. The next available appointment, however, was a month away. So instead, she went to urgent care.

“I don’t want to blame Mary’s Center,” Wendel says. “There’s a lot of stuff I don’t understand.”

Now, Wendel has a hip flexor strain. She already has a physical therapist that she saw under her previous plan and who takes her Medicaid plan. But when she tried to schedule an appointment, her insurance required a doctor’s referral. Because her appointment for a physical with Mary’s Center isn’t until late March, she had to search for another doctor to give her a referral.

“American health care is really messed up,” says Wendel. “Living on Medicaid really made me realize that if you don’t have a traditional job, you are just not valued as a person.” CP

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SPORTS

Longtime sportswriter Don Markus looks back at 35 years on the Maryland men’s basketball beat. washingtoncitypaper.com/sports

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Critics’ Choice

Maryland men’s basketball star Anthony Cowan Jr. is still fueled by doubts.

Anthony CowAn Jr. always reads the comments. He sees what people say about him on social media. He stores them away in his mind and, sometimes, he’ll even screenshot the online attacks on his phone to revisit later, another cynic to add to his personal collection.

“It’s just the negative, whatever the opponent is, ‘He’s better than you.’ ‘You suck.’

The usual stuff,” Cowan says.

His 1,881 career points heading into Friday’s Big Ten tournament game ranks seventh on the Maryland men’s basketball alltime scoring list, ahead of legendary Terps players like Keith Booth and Walt Williams. Fans at the Terps’ regular season home finale against Michigan on March 7, his senior day, chanted “MVP!” while he was at the free throw line. Cowan walked off the court after the 83-70 victory surrounded by family and friends, with a celebratory piece of the basketball net around his neck.

But hours before Maryland clinched a share of the Big Ten regular season title that day, Cowan, against his self-admitted better judgement, scrolled through Twitter.

The critics are never far, and Cowan, as he has throughout his basketball career, feeds off the doubt.

The constant chip on his shoulder can have an adverse effect. Maryland coach Mark Turgeon has criticized Cowan’s attitude in the past. And during his junior year at St. John’s College High School, the basketball team lost two games to start the season.

Cowan had tried to take over the game with his scoring, and afterward, his coach, Sean McAloon pulled him aside. He told Cowan he should transfer.

“We’re already losing with you doing what you’re doing,” McAloon remembers saying. “It’s not personal. I love you as a kid, but you obviously feel like you need to prove everything in the world with every basket you make. No team will win with a leader like that.”

CowAn’s mother, trACi, laughs at her son’s competitiveness. It never ends. At their home in Bowie, the place where Cow-

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Anthony Cowan Jr. an and his younger sister, Alex, grew up, and according to Traci.

The older Anthony played basketball, where his youngest sister, Aryn, still lives, a cement slab marks the space in the backyard football, and baseball at Northwestern High where the basketball hoop used to be. Heavy School, located less than a mile away from wind and storms forced the Cowans to take the University of Maryland campus. Jay Bias, the late younger brother of Maryland it down a few years ago.

It’s where Cowan, 22, honed his basketball Athletics hall of famer Len Bias, was in the skills before he became a star at St. John’s. grade above.

Anthony coached his son’s Amateur AthWhen the family moved from Langley Park to Bowie when Cowan was 2, his parents de- letic Union (AAU) teams from ages 8 to 12, bated between installing a swimming pool and says he had his “biggest epiphany” about his son’s talent during a local or basketball court.

“Obviously a basketball “So not even only 12 and under All-Star game court is more feasible,” his in basketball, but played at a Prince George’s recreation center. father, Anthony, explains. in life, never get County Before the game, Cow“It was more of what their too high, never an walked by his father, the interests was anyway.”

Cowan can turn anything get too low. That’s opposing team’s coach, and said, ‘I’m gonna get you for into a competition. Visits to what I live by.”

35.” Anthony brushed him the backyard would start with a casual shootaround with Alex, who is aside: “Do what you do.”

Cowan finished with 37 points. three and half years younger. Moments later, Anthony smiles at the memory: “I looked it would turn into a full-on game with points.

The two also competed in video games, and back and said, ‘You know what, I’ve been on Christmas, they raced to see who could holding this guy back.’” open presents the quickest. Cowan would this yeAr, CowAn has channeled the critnot let his sister win. icism and doubts into one of the best careers “Never,” he says with a smile.

That personality comes from their father, that Maryland has seen. The point guard is

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unique in Division I college basketball—a local high school basketball star who has played all four seasons for his hometown university.

Maryland heads into the postseason ranked 12th in the nation with a 24-7 record.

Cowan is the undisputed leader of the team, averaging 16.3 points, 4.7 assists, and 3.6 rebounds per game.

Ask his teammates and the first answer they’ll give about Cowan’s improvements is his leadership. An introvert, Cowan still prefers to let his game do the talking, but he knows when to huddle the team together.

“Last year, I would say, the leadership was broken up between him and Bruno [Fernando], and this year, he took it all on himself and we just following his lead, and we play as he play,” says Maryland sophomore forward Jalen Smith. “He’s talking a lot more, grouping us up a lot more, making sure we’re all focused and knowing what to do on defense and offense, and he’s just out there talking for us.”

At a recent practice, Turgeon called Cowan out for sulking and expressing negative energy.

“Change your attitude,” Turgeon told his point guard. And to Cowan’s credit, he did.

“Our relationship’s really grown because toward the end of his sophomore year, he didn’t like me, and I didn’t like him,” Turgeon says. “He just wasn’t being the point guard I wanted him to be. We had a sit down, we talked about it. I loved him, but I wanted more out of him.”

It was reminiscent of the conversation he had with McAloon, his high school coach who is now the varsity national head coach at IMG Academy in Florida.

Cowan did not end up transferring from St. John’s, and that season, he led the Cadets to a D.C. State Athletic Association title over Gonzaga. The Washington Post named him the All-Met Player of the Year for boys’ basketball, beating out DeMatha Catholic High School’s Markelle Fultz, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2017 NBA Draft.

McAloon knew exactly which buttons to push to get the best out of Cowan.

“The reason why me and Anthony get along as well as we do, is because we are

A few comments can get under Anthony’s skin. Like his son, he’ll occasionally read social media posts about the Maryland men’s basketball team.

When he sees one personally criticizing his son, he’ll start to draft a response, only to delete it.

“Just to kind of get it out, just to kind of like express how I feel even though I don’t hit the send button,” Anthony says. “The thing that probably bothers me the most is that it seems that those with the biggest opinions or that are the most opinionated, seem to know the least about the game or have watched the least amount of Maryland basketball. And when you read their opinions, it’s so glaringly apparent that in some cases people form an opinion [when] they didn’t watch the game.”

At one point, Cowan told his parents he wanted to go to college where he could wear a tanktop and sandals every day. “That’s not going to be here,” his dad replied.

Ultimately, Cowan chose Maryland. He has plenty of roots in the area. He attended day camps at Maryland and overnight basketball camps at Georgetown University. His family watched the Terps win the 2002 national championship on their TV at home.

Cowan is also a homebody. He visits his parents in Bowie and his 2-year-old French bulldog, Drizzy, at least once a week. With the pressure and outside noise of playing Division I basketball, his family remains a constant. It was his dad who taught him the importance of staying even-keeled.

“I realized early if you get too high ... you gonna keep chasing it,” Cowan says. “And if you get too low, then that’s when you start having issues, you start thinking too much, start overthinking. So that’s been my thing.

Never get too high, never get too low. And it’s been working for me. Just because obviously you never know what type of things you’re going to go through during the season. So not even only in basketball, but in life, never get too high, never get too low.

That’s what I live by.”

Near the end of the regular season home finale, Cowan walked off the court to a standing ovation. Turgeon waited for him on the sidelines, and the two embraced, with his coach lifting him up in a bear hug.

Cowan allowed himself to smile. He had about 50 family members, friends, and family friends, at the arena to celebrate with him, many wearing a white long sleeve T-shirt with a photo of Cowan on the back. He later posed for selfies with fans and took time to soak in the celebration. After it was done, Cowan walked to the parking lot with his parents. He had his biggest supporters by his side and the doubters silenced on his phone.

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“He would tell me [DeMatha coach] Mike Jones was the best coach he’s ever met … I would say, ‘I thought you were the best under 6 guard until I met [former Gonzaga High School star] Chris Lykes … We would go out there and prove we were better.”

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Even journalists are being encouraged to work from home.

D.C.’s robust dining, arts, and sports scenes are figuring out ways to cope with the virus without suspending all activities, but event cancelations continue. In the midst of all this news, spring has sprung and the District’s tourism industry is scrambling to respond to significant revenue losses. Burning questions remain unanswered. Chief among them: Have the cherry blossoms really bloomed if they’re not captured in a million Instagram stories?

Although we’re all trying to remain upbeat during a trying time, COVID-19 is a big deal and we’d be remiss if we didn’t advise our readers to take it seriously. Consider avoiding crowded places, don’t touch your face, cough into your elbow, and PLEASE wash your hands.

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IN THE NEWS On Wednesday afternoon, Mayor Muriel Bowser declared a state of emergency and public health emergency in response to the novel coronavirus.

Declaring a state of emergency gives the executive expanded authority to respond to the disease caused by the virus, COVID-19.

This includes giving the mayor the ability to request federal disaster assistance, mandate quarantines or curfews, and make price gouging illegal.

As of Wednesday, 10 D.C. residents have tested positive for COVID-19. These are presumptive cases that still need to be confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. DC Health suspects there will be additional cases in the District because of the nature of those cases. A message from the agency Wednesday morning recommended that nonessential mass events that would attract more than 1,000 people be postponed or canceled.

As health officials continue to seek out those who came in contact with patients who’ve tested positive for COVID-19, D.C. expects the number of tests to climb. The Department of Forensic Sciences says its public lab has the capacity to test 50 samples a day, and has not had any capacity problems so far. Right now, DC Health has a set criteria for when it approves testing to be done at the public lab. This includes showing severe symptoms associated with COVID-19 (fever, cough, shortness of breath) and having contact with a patient who’s tested positive for the disease or having a history of travel flagged by the federal government.

For most people, the novel coronavirus can cause cold-like symptoms. But those who are older or who have weakened immune systems can get seriously sick. That is why government officials are trying to protect the possible spread of virus to vulnerable populations like the elderly or people experiencing homelessness.

Unsheltered individuals, for example, do not always have access to restrooms where they can regularly wash their hands, or cannot simply “stay at home” if they are sick, so homeless agencies have had to prepare as best they can, offering medical masks and hand sanitizer.

Events connected to the National Cherry Blossom Festival, scheduled to run from March 20 through April 12, are canceled through March 31. Whether the festival that typically attracts 1.5 million people will continue as planned after that date remains in flux.

—Amanda Michelle Gomez IN THE SCHOOLS So far, four local universities and several public, charter, and private schools have closed their facilities at least temporarily.

On March 10, American University became the first university in D.C. to have classes move strictly online until at least April 3. Students are now on spring break and the policy is effective Wednesday, March 18. Between March 18 and April 3, the campus will remain open and operational.

“While the risk to our community remains low at this time, this could change quickly,” AU President Sylvia Burwell wrote in a public statement. “Our precautionary actions will help limit potential exposure to COVID-19 and enhance our ability to manage and/or isolate any suspected or confirmed cases that may occur at the university.”

Howard University, Georgetown University, George Washington University, and the University of Maryland followed suit, announcing shortly thereafter that they too will move to online-only instruction. Georgetown University’s policy is effective until further notice starting Monday, while the other universities will begin when students return from spring break.

Meanwhile, at least one traditional public school and six charter schools have closed over COVID-19 concerns at some point. The first, School Without Walls High School, closed after it was discovered that a staff member came into contact with an individual who tested positive for COVID-19. The school was closed on Monday, March 9, underwent a deep cleaning, and operated normally on Tuesday, March 10.

DC International School and Mundo Verde Bilingual Public Charter School’s P Street NW campus also closed for cleaning on March 9.

Four campuses with Center City Public Charter Schools closed on March 10 to undergo cleaning, but the mayor’s office did not make this recommendation. Richard Wright Public Charter School will close for a deep cleaning March 12 and March 13.

DC Public Schools decided to temporarily close all its schools to students on March 16 so staff can prepare for “distance learning.”

Traditional public schools are subject to mayoral and D.C. Council control. A spokeswoman with the DC Public Charter School Board says individual charters are following guidance provided by DC Health and coordinating with it and the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Education.

When asked during Tuesday’s press conference if she would like to have a say on whether schools close out amid COVID-19 concerns, Bowser’s answer was vague. “For the most part,” she said, “we want to make sure they all have available to them our best thinking that is driven by the science and what’s best for the District.”

—Amanda Michelle Gomez IN TRANSIT “Don’t touch stuff ” is difficult advice to follow if you depend on public transportation, which is why the other instructions to prevent transmission—don’t touch your face, wash your hands, don’t cough on people, and cover your damn mouth—become more imperative if you’re riding Metro.

As of March 6, the pandemic task force (which sounds a lot cooler and ominous than it actually is) is operating at phase two of four, which means they’re giving hand sanitizer to employees who don’t have regular access to bathrooms, closely monitoring employee absences, and frequently communicating with customers and employees.

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In a March 10 email to its customers, Metro general manager and CEO Paul Wiedefeld ran through the list of extra precautions the agency is taking, such as “deep cleaning and disinfecting railcars, stations, bathrooms, buses, and MetroAccess vehicles.”

People who are feeling sick are asked not to take public transportation. —Mitch Ryals IN THE ARTS The D.C. Environmental Film Festival, which was originally scheduled to serve as the subject of this week’s City Paper cover package, was canceled Monday. But don’t worry, film fans: Beginning next week, the festival will host a virtual showcase featuring select films, so you’ll have something to watch if you end up quarantined. DCEFF plans to host a smaller festival in the fall, and will schedule other screenings later in the year.

Many venues insist that the situation is fluid and in the meantime, they will remain open. Decision makers will continue to monitor Centers for Disease Control and local government health guidance, and unless artists and performers are unable to appear, the shows will go on. The Kennedy Center remains open and the performances it produces will continue, though Vital Voices’ 19th Annual Global Leadership Awards, scheduled to take place Wednesday, March 10, got pushed to June 10. Strathmore currently has no plans to cancel events, Atlas Performing Arts Center remains open for all performances, and Wolf Trap is forging on until further notice. Pearl Street Warehouse, Union Stage, City Winery, and Sixth & I are open and taking precautions. I.M.P. has canceled all its events at The Anthem, 9:30 Club, U Street Music Hall, and The Lincoln Theatre from March 12 through April 1.

The Washington Ballet has not canceled any upcoming performances or school classes. But the Chamber Dance Project has canceled its March 29 Anchors Aweigh 2020 Gala, its major fundraiser for its annual June season, and will move the auction that was set to take place at the gala online.

At this time, the National Geographic Museum will also remain open, and says it has increased cleaning of all high-touch areas, including its public bathrooms, auditorium, dining hall, and museum interactives. On March 9, the National Gallery of Art canceled its “NGA Nights” programming for March 12 and April 9, but it will remain open with its typical hours for now. However, because of a virus-related lockdown in Italy, it will postpone its May exhibition, A Superb Baroque: Art in Genoa, 1600–1750, made up of Italian works.

Other large museums, including the National Museum of Women in the Arts and Smithsonian museums, are also staying the course.

Many smaller museums, like Glenstone, are doing the same. The Phillips Collection will postpone all museum-sponsored public events at both the museum and THEARC through April 3. The special exhibits and permanent collection will remain open. VisArts in Rockville and the Torpedo Factory Art Center in Alexandria plan to stay open until state health

officials tell them to close. The Korean Cultural Center has canceled previously announced March and April programming, including two exhibitions, True and False and Landscape of the Mind.

American University announced Tuesday it would transition to online classes after its current spring break ends and the American University Museum will be closed from March 16 to April 16. As of Wednesday afternoon, The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum are open to the public, despite the school moving classes online. The U.S. Botanic Garden also remains open to the public.

In Virginia, the NoVA Teen Book Festival and Virginia Festival of the Book have been canceled. In the theater world, Studio Theatre, Arena Stage, Signature Theatre, Keegan Theatre, and Ford’s Theatre are taking extra precautions, but shows remain as scheduled.

Nearly every venue City Paper contacted emphasized an increase in sanitization, keeping a watchful eye on CDC, OPM, and other governmental organizations’ recommendations, and stressed that patrons or staff who feel ill should stay home.

—Kayla Randall and Emma Sarappo IN SPORTS As the race director for the Cherry Blossom Ten Mile Run, one of the largest road races in D.C. with approximately 18,000 annual finishers, Phil Stewart knows that runners registered for this year’s race are on edge, waiting to see whether or not the April 5 race will go on.

Stewart said on March 10 that he intends for the Cherry Blossom race to be held, but added that the situation is fluid.

“We’re proceeding and just asking people to use caution,” Stewart said. The race organizers have already made some adjustments and taken precautionary steps. They’ve ordered more hand washing stations—quadrupled, Stewart said—and instead of handing out water in cups at the finish line, each runner will get a bottle.

“We were going to hand out paper cups for sustainability reasons, but now we’ve decided that this is not the year to do that,” he said.

Pacers Running, the local specialty shoe store, is also taking precautionary measures with its races. Approximately 2,500 people are registered to run the Four Courts Four Miler in Arlington on Saturday, March 14, or the St. Pats 5K or 10K in D.C. on Sunday, March 15.

Both races will continue as scheduled, senior race director Lisa Reeves said on March 10, but with slight adjustments.

On the advice of their medical team, the races will not have on course water stations and will instead rely on staff wearing medical grade gloves to hand out bottled water at the start and finish lines. The race will also have an increased number of hand sanitizing stations and implement smaller waves at the start to “reduce the amount of barricades at the start line,” Reeves said.

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On Wednesday afternoon, the D.C. government pulled permits for two road racing events in March: the Rock ‘n’ Roll DC Marathon and Half Marathon and 5K, originally scheduled for March 28, and the Scope It Out 5K on March 29. The Annapolis Striders canceled the B&A Marathon and Half Marathon in Severna Park scheduled to take place this Sunday.

Local races aren’t the only thing COVID-19 is impacting. Sports events around the world have been canceled, postponed, or drastically adjusted in response to the outbreak.

NCAA President Mark Emmert announced Wednesday afternoon that the upcoming men’s and women’s basketball tournaments will be held with “only essential staff and limited family attendance.” The Overwatch League matches at The Anthem on April 4 and 5 have been called off, and a member of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics organizing committee’s executive board told the Wall Street Journal that the Games this summer could be postponed by one or two years. NBA and NHL games at Capital One Arena, however, will “go on as scheduled and open to spectators,” according to a Wednesday afternoon statement from Monumental Sports & Entertainment.

—Kelyn Soong IN FOOD Most major food and beverage festivals are still going off as planned. Event organizers confirmed to City Paper that the following events are still a go, but many noted that they are carefully monitoring the situation: • The DC Shamrock Crawl on March 14 • Capital BrewFest: Blossom Bash on March 28 • New Kitchens on the Block at Mess Hall on April 5 • The DC Wine Fest on April 18 • The DC Chocolate Festival on April 25 • The Beefsteak at Charlie Palmer Steak on April 24 A few notable events have already been called off. HopFestDC, scheduled for March 14, is postponed, and Taste of Iceland, scheduled to take place from March 19 to 22, has been canceled.

Poverty nonprofit So Others Might Eat had to cancel both dates of their Empty Bowl soup supper fundraiser. “Due to ongoing health concerns, the 2020 Empty Bowls events have been cancelled,” the nonprofit explains. “If you purchased a ticket, we’d be happy to have you come to SOME to pick out a bowl and go on a brief tour. If you would like a refund, please contact Siannah Marcellin at smarcellin@some.org.”

Restaurants remain open and are feeling the pinch of slowed consumer spending. The small, independently owned restaurants that make up the bulk of the D.C. dining scene operate on extremely thin margins and are experiencing anxiety about how they’ll be able to pay staff and purchase ingredients if business becomes unpredictable or drops off. If you’re looking for a place to spend your dollars, res-

taurants near the Walter E. Washington Convention Center are feeling particularly vulnerable because they depend on steady business from conference attendees and conferences are being cancelled.

Kathy Hollinger, the president of the Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington, issued the following statement: “Diners can be confident that when they go to any of the restaurants and foodservice establishments in our region, their food is prepared safely, served by a trained employee, and in compliance with strict health department guidelines while following protocols outlined by the industry’s leading food safety and certification program, ServSafe.”

RAMW sent out safety tips to its member restaurants, in addition to a two-minute video with tips and protocols such as remembering to exclude sick staff from work during their illness; provide hand sanitizer for guests at the host stand; ensure that staff disinfect and wipe down each table between turns with a new, clean cloth; and regularly sanitize frequently touched surfaces.

—Laura Hayes IN TOURISM Tim Krepp is watching the cancelations roll in as we talk.

“Huge, huge numbers,” says the school tour coordinator. “It’s going to be a very different season for us and for all the guides that we work with who are normally independent contractors.”

Coronavirus is hitting D.C. right at the beginning of spring tourist season, a crucial time for those who lead tours around the District and for businesses that depend on out-oftowners.

“I’m used to working every day in March and making a pretty serious chunk of a nest egg,” says Rebecca Grawl, who has guided groups around D.C. for the past 15 years. “It’s definitely going to be less, but how much less is uncertain.”

Krepp, who coordinates tours, hotels, airfare, and buses, says groups flying into the District are canceling at higher rates than those coming by bus, but he’s reluctant to give any ballpark numbers on how many cancelations his company has seen in the past few days. Any figure would be outdated in a matter of hours, he says.

“Frankly, if you’re a guide in D.C. I would look for another job right now,” he says. “Because tour season just isn’t going to happen.”

D.C.’s chief financial officer, Jeffrey DeWitt, has cautioned that the District could lose out on $52 million in tax revenue if the virus becomes a serious health emergency.

International tourism, which made up about 10 percent of D.C.’s visitors in 2018, could potentially take the biggest hit after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued travel warnings for several countries, including China, the top tourism market for the District.

“What’s killing us right now is the uncertainty,” Krepp says. “If we could say this will be over by June, we could do something with it, but there’s a real fear this will be prolonged. We can withstand a shock. We can’t withstand a sustained campaign on a lark.”

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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.

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16 Mon. | Boston Conservatory at Berklee’s Guerilla Opera

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The Ensemble-in-Residence at the Boston Conservatory makes its D.C. debut with the local premiere of faculty member Marti Epstein’s Rumpelstiltskin.

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In the Terrace Theater The Chicago-based comedian has become known for her unconventional, and popular show, Helltrap Nightmare. Ruby McCollister opens.

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

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Presented in collaboration with GIRLAAA as part of the Go-Go 101 Series.

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The black trans artist from Oakland presents songs from her album STAR, which explores her journey to self-acceptance with anthems and songs that will pull your heart strings.

Efraín Rozas’s experimental ensemble explores the frontier between social dance and experimentalism, and seeks to erode the divisions between the popular and the avant-garde.

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Mindful Eating Local practitioners demonstrate how hospitality and Buddhism go hand-in-hand.

The hospiTaliTy indusTry is full of stressors, from the racing pace of a restaurant’s kitchen to the relentless positive attitude required to serve customers at the bar or in the dining room. Over the past several years, industry workers have discussed how to bring some mental health relief to those who staff one of the District’s most robust employment sectors. While restaurateurs are striving to create more compassionate workplaces however they can afford to, many employees are still uninsured or underinsured and can’t afford professional counseling. Drugs and alcohol still often serve as bandages for a bad day.

A handful of restaurant professionals are turning to a different place for support—Buddhism. Some found their way to the religion later in life and identify with its philosophies while others were born into Buddhist families and carry out its traditions in their establishments. About 2 percent of adults in the D.C. metro area practice Buddhism, according to the Pew Research Center’s 2014 Religious Landscape Study.

There’s high-profile precedence. One of the world’s most famous chefs, Éric Ripert, encountered Buddhism when he was at a Paris airport in 1989. He went into a store to buy a copy of Playboy but came away with an impulse purchase: a book about Tibet.

Ripert frequently talks about how practicing Buddhism helped him leave anger out of the kitchen.

Buddhism dates back to the sixth century BCE in what’s now Nepal, according to Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs. A wealthy prince, Siddhartha Gautama, began to question his luxurious lifestyle and left his palace in search of answers. He encountered a sick man, an old man, a dead man, and a monk, all of whom left him curious about the causes of human suffering.

Gautama found enlightenment while meditating under a tree and eventually began teaching others how to live lives free from greed and the desire for material things

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Anju Executive Chef Angel Barreto through various precepts and noble truths, which vary slightly from type to type. Over time, the religion split into two main branches: Theravada Buddhism, mainly practiced in Sri Lanka, Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia, and Mahayana Buddhism, most popular in China, Korea, Tibet, and Japan. Karma, or at

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least the linking of cause with effect, plays a key role in both.

Anju Executive Chef Angel Barreto started practicing Buddhism two years ago after he got out of a long relationship and was looking for greater balance in his life.

“My parents were Christian and that worked

for them,” he says. “Christianity never really worked for me. So, I went to a lot of local Buddhist temples in the area.”

He discovered Myosenji Buddhist Temple in Silver Spring. “There were people and families who looked like me,” he says.

“There were Brazilian families and black families, a really great mix of culture and people. That really resonated with me.” He now visits the temple roughly twice a week.

The tradition Barreto belongs to, Nichiren Shōshū, falls under Mahayana Buddhism and was founded in Japan in the 13th century. Their head temple has a prime location at the base of Mount Fuji, and practitioners worship the law of cause and effect.

The James Beard Award semifinalist meditates twice a day—once in the morning, when he sets his goals for the day and takes time for self-reflection, and again when he gets home from work to contemplate what went wrong and what he can change. “Everything in life is a butterfly effect. If you do this there will be repercussions. You’re praying to offset the negative karma in your life by doing good deeds,” he says.

By the time Anju opened in August 2019, Barreto was well into his practice. The timing was ideal. He was taking on his first executive chef role at a highly anticipated restaurant and opening any restaurant comes with long hours and intense emotions.

“Our industry doesn’t have any guardrails when it comes to protecting people’s mental health and Buddhism was a big guard for myself to have more mental fortitude,” Barreto says. “I feel like I can assess situations better and I’m not as hot-headed as I was a couple of years ago.”

Even when “cooks mess up in big situations,” Barreto says he’s able to address his charges “with the respect they deserve.”

“I’m not yelling at them, grabbing them, touching them,” he says. “We sit down and have conversations like adults. As someone who has been in this industry for 10 years, I didn’t get that in the beginning and that’s something I needed.”

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tender Michael Francisco started practicing Buddhism two years ago. He was meditating as a part of therapy he received while dealing with grief. Finding it beneficial, he conducted research and found links between what his therapist recommended and Buddhism.

He now goes to the Kadampa Meditation Center DC in Navy Yard. According to the center, Modern Kadampa Buddhism, which also falls under Mahayana Buddhism, is a set of instructions or way of being that “allows people to be at peace at all times and in all situations and be the very best version of themselves.”

“They teach you about compassion,” Francisco says. “All living beings are precious. Part of the teaching gives you a sense of loving kindness. You can imagine in a bar where there’s alcohol it’s a bit of a challenge because people can be challenging at times.”

When Francisco catches himself veering in a negative direction when interacting with customers, he says he’s more prepared to handle situations than he was before tapping into Buddhism. “We’re all students trying to reach enlightenment and inner peace,” he says. “Whenever I make mistakes—we all do in the industry, even practicing Buddhists—sometimes I’ll feel guilty, but we’re all practicing.”

As a sommelier and Hank’s Oyster Bar bartender, Calvin Hines Jr. encounters similar stressors as Francisco. “We deal with strangers every day—that comes with thousands of personalities,” he says. “You don’t know what kind of day they’ve had.

You have to be patient, have some empathy, be calm and centered.”

He wishes customers would show service industry workers the same consideration.

“You’re a server, a bartender, a manager— you’re looked at as someone who brings people things,” he says. “You’re not looked at as a human being. Try to not look at someone as a transaction and look at them as a person.”

Hines says he’s adhered to the philosophies of Buddhism for 10 years, but he doesn’t belong to a particular branch of Buddhism or visit a temple. “I agree with the methods of handling your emotions,” Hines says. “It’s easy to slow things down and think about why you react to certain things and really appreciate things as they’re happening in the moment.”

He tries to meditate for 30 minutes a day while sweating in a sauna. If his method of meditation seems unorthodox, it’s not.

Meditation can take on many forms so long as you’re reflecting on how Buddha’s teachings resonate with your life and are striving to quiet your mind. Meditation doesn’t have to take place at a temple, involve chanting, or take up a prescribed amount of time.

Buddhism is about to take on a much bigger role in Hines’ life as he works toward the launch of his urban agriculture project— EightFold Farms. “I’m aligning myself in a living that doesn’t allow me to directly sell

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alcohol at least for a little while and allows me to really give back to nature,” he says.

Some strict Buddhists are vegetarian or vegan because the religion asks followers to cherish all life. Others abstain from vices like drugs and alcohol. Both are lifestyle choices that don’t seem compatible with employment in bars and restaurants. Most workers use a modern interpretation of Buddhism, which emphasizes consuming everything in moderation.

Hines’ plan is to build small, sustainable farms throughout the city to tackle food deserts in Wards 7 and 8 and underemployment. The initiative is named after Buddhism’s Eightfold Path—right understanding, right thought, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right concentration—which seeks to end suffering and help practitioners reach awakening or enlightenment.

Two D.C. restaurateurs were born into Buddhist families—Bobby Pradachith

“Our industry doesn’t have any guardrails when it comes to protecting people’s mental health and Buddhism was a big guard for myself to have more mental fortitude.

I feel like I can assess situations better and I’m not as hot-headed as I was a couple of years ago.” and Aung Myint. Pradachith operates Thip Khao, Hanumanh, Padaek, and Sen Khao with his mother, Seng Luangrath. Pradachith, citing his Americanized upbringing, is more evangelical about introducing the D.C. area to Lao cuisine than he is about Buddhism.

“I do respect the religion and it’s something I grew up with,” he says, noting that his parents are more devout followers. “I don’t think about it every day because I’m so busy with work, but in terms of how I live, I try to pay respect to it.”

Theravada Buddhism is most common in Laos, where some of the population also has animist beliefs. Animism refers to the idea that there are spirits and souls all around us.

There are reminders in Pradachith’s restaurants to keep him centered.

“We have this shrine that hangs on the wall in all of our places, plus in our homes,” he says. Whoever comes into work first prepares a small tray of food to offer to the spirits who inhabit the space. “Usually you want to offer something that you’d similarly offer your guest.”

At Hanumanh, it’s a charred eggplant dip, a slice of fruit, a bowl of sticky rice, and a small glass of water or small shot of a spirit.

The ceremony involves chants and making requests like “please give us strength to go through the day” or “please grant us good blessings for this service.”

Pradachith’s patience was tested recently. Just three months after Hanumanh opened in Shaw, it had to close so the city could perform gas line maintenance. “There are people who asked me if we were going to keep [the restaurant],” Pradachith says. “I kept myself very calm and collected.”

Since reopening in January, Hanumanh garnered a rare three-star review from Post critic Tom Sietsema. “Buddhism gives you insights about how to appreciate life and not take things too seriously, especially during times that are very tough,” Pradachith says.

“We try to believe in ourselves and motivate others to believe in us.”

Myint was also born into a Burmese family that practices Theravada Buddhism.

He operates Bandoola Bowl, a fast-casual salad restaurant in Georgetown; is currently engrossed in relocating Mandalay Restaurant & Cafe from Silver Spring to D.C. proper; and is readying to open Sticx in Georgetown.

While Myint believes hospitality and Buddhism go hand-in-hand, he’s presently stretched so thin that he doesn’t practice as much as his mother or wife.

“They calm me down,” he explains. “Before I was married I was a very bad boss and nowadays I feel a little differently. I’m older and my wife put me in my place. It’s all about seeing different perspectives.”

City Paper asked each Buddhist to share his personal nirvana—what each of them is striving for most in life.

Barreto from Anju is trying to regain worklife balance. “We’ve been here six months and it’s been crazy,” he says. “I’ve dedicated a lot of time here and now I need to get back to having time for myself.”

Francisco from Chicken + Whiskey wants inner peace. “I’m very inquisitive and I always over analyze things,” he says. “Meditation practice keeps me more level-headed, more centered.”

Hines is trying to be the best version of himself. “Every day you wake up is a chance to do something new,” he says. “You’re born every day. Whether it be through business, making a [personal record] at the gym, or making a sales goal, be a little better every day.”

Pradachith seeks positivity. “It’s something that I always work toward or just try to share with people,” he says. “There’s constant stress involved in the restaurant industry, especially if you’re a young, striving person. Don’t be too hard on yourself. It’s all about the process.”

Myint believes world religions are all meaningful and share things in common.

“They all want you to be a certain way and have things to follow,” he explains. “Everybody comes from the same tree, but it has different branches. I believe that practicing being a good person is good enough.” CP

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Drop Box

A local cigar box juggler’s eccentric, imperfect act finds an audience.

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Jeremy manson— stage name Saymo Saymo —performs his cigar box juggling act shirtless. He wears neon Hammer pants and actual rose-colored sunglasses onstage. Before the juggling even begins, he toots on a kazoo, catches marshmallows in his mouth, or marches around in gigantic fuzzy yellow boots. He pretends to be a seal or a dinosaur. As performers do, he showboats.

But then he starts “boxing,” as he calls it.

As Manson flips, balances, and pins colorful, sometimes illuminated, boxes together in the air, he’s an artist in a state of flow, as if everyone watching him has disappeared.

It’s like seeing a performer in rehearsal, especially because his act is not flawless.

See, sometimes Manson drops his boxes—even a couple times in one set. Game over for a juggler, right? After all, if a comedian botches a punchline, if a singer cracks a high note, audiences cringe. The performers themselves might be too thrown off to recover.

Not so with Manson. On a dropped box or missed trick, he appears unbothered. When he’s performed for arts events like the DC Weirdo Show or Little Salon, audience members have clapped in encouragement, let out an “aww” of friendly disappointment, and gone wild with excitement when he made the next one.

“It kind of confuses me sometimes, because I’m like ‘Oh man, they’re cheering for me,’” Manson says. “It’s really off-putting, [like] I didn’t expect you to keep rooting for me.”

The oddball showman persona is endearing, not arrogant, and Manson is also exceedingly humble, a sensibility that radiates from the stage (or the Metro car, where he’s been known to practice on the go).

“I still don’t know what I’m doing, I don’t know when my next show is,” he says with a laugh. Manson explains that he feels he’s only at 35 percent of his potential as a performer, and that he started an Instagram account (@saymo_saymojam) to be critiqued and to get help on his act.

“I’m an audience member too, if that makes sense,” he says. “If I hear the ‘oohs’

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and ‘aahs,’ I’m doing it too. I’m like ‘Yeah, I got that!’ or ‘I wanna laugh here with you but I can’t because there’s a wall I can’t breach, but sometimes I breach the wall anyway!’”

Michelle Carnes, lead producer of The DC Weirdo Show, which offers a variety of acts, from sideshow to vaudeville to burlesque and performance art, says she first met Manson when he was an audience member. A mutual friend introduced them, and when Manson showed her Instagram clips of his juggling, she cast him on the spot for the next show, which was in January 2018 at the Bier Baron Tavern.

“It’s typical for performers who can achieve amazing physical feats onstage to adopt a posture of, ‘look what I can do,’” Carnes says. “Especially, men tend to be the heroes of their own acts. That story is simple and tends to elevate the performer above

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the audience.”

“By contrast, I deeply appreciate that Saymo invites his audience into what he’s doing, whether he fails or succeeds,” she continues.

“The audience is rooting for him and we’re all in it together.”

Manson has been cigar box juggling since 2015, when he learned a few tricks from a friend who owned boxes. He started watching videos of juggling greats like Eric Bates and Kris Kremo, and has since amassed 50 cigar boxes of his own.

The International Jugglers’ Association recently wrote that cigar box juggling “is believed to have its origins in Japanese wooden block tricks” dating back to 1868.

Gintaro Mizuhara, a Japanese juggler, performed balancing feats with such blocks, but performers like Jim Harrigan and W.C. Fields popularized using actual cigar box-

es in vaudeville acts in the U.S. during the early 1900s.

In D.C., when it comes to cigar box juggling, Manson feels like it’s pretty much just him—he sometimes calls himself “The Token Block Guy.” Chris Maier is the founder and producer of Little Salon, a recurring multidisciplinary arts event at which Manson performed in December 2019. Maier met Manson through Carnes. Maier says Manson’s juggling art itself is unique, but he’s also just a straight-up talented performer, drops or not.

“I will acknowledge that I did watch the crowd [at Little Salon] to see how they were reacting when he was dropping cigar boxes,” Maier says. “When he did drop a prop, because he’s really good at what he does, he’s able to pick it up and keep it moving. There was never a moment where it felt like, ‘That wasn’t supposed to happen.’”

Some of his misses, Manson says, are intentional, but others are because cigar box juggling is difficult.

“There are planned drops that I do to just set the tone of, ‘Yes, he’s human and yes, this is comical,’” he explains.

Right now, he juggles around three times a week, but the physical nature of his job keeps him from practicing as much as he wants. He says there’s a lot of wear and tear on his body.

Cigar box juggling is “definitely cardiobased,” he says. “It’s a lot of core activity going on in certain moves. I would love to juggle every day but it’s just not doable for me at this moment.”

And yet, he’ll keep performing and thinking about how to tinker with and expand the offerings of his act. He’s always looking for ways to improve: While discussing his need to perform shirtless—“You just get super sweaty!”—he pauses in consideration.

“Maybe it’s the pacing of the show ... like I’m overheating,” he says. “Maybe I need to figure out some things.”

He also explains that he’d love to do a kids’ show, to convey to them the “no one’s perfect” message, though he acknowledges he’d probably have to wear a shirt.

“I just like to be a moving picture,” he says. “I want people to just wonder again, to see something they haven’t seen before.”

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Timon of AThens is quite possibly the weirdest play in the Shakespeare canon. Based loosely on the life of the ancient misanthrope described in Plutarch, there’s no record of it ever being performed or published in Shakespeare’s lifetime. Many regard it as an unfinished work nearly lost to history, as it was only a late addition to the posthumously published First Folio of 1623. While both Herman Melville and Karl Marx have sung its praises, it has never been widely popular, and even in cities which boast more than one theater company dedicated to the Bard, it’s rarely seen. Yet given its themes of wealth and excess, there has been a noticeable revival of interest since the global financial crisis of 2008—the Folger staged a production in 2017.

Di re c t o r S i m o n Godwin, who also coedited the script with Emily Burns, originally presented his Timon at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon in 2018 before reviving it in January at New York’s Theatre for a New Audience prior to its transfer to D.C.’s Shakespeare Theatre Company where Godwin just took on the mantle of artistic director. In Godwin’s version, the scene is not Athens of antiquity, but a future Athens in which lavish displays of wealth distract from signs that the city is teetering on the precipice of socio-economic instability.

Scenic designer Soutra Gilmour has crafted a world of opulence that the figures seen in Gustav Klimt’s paintings would inhabit: a gigantic gold-leafed curtain, chandeliers, a long banquet table (also in gold-leaf ) being set by servants, all gorgeously illuminated by lighting designer Donald Holder. The first characters to speak are a painter (Zachary Fine) and a poet (Yonatan Gebeyehu) who, like the elites they serve, have been clothed

by Gilmour in gold threads. They use their craft to honor their patron—perhaps a stroke of self-satire, as Shakespeare and his company, by then known as the King’s Men, had an intimate relationship with the crown and royal court. The titular Timon (Kathryn Hunt-

er) is a wealthy lady of Athens, taking on and forgiving the debts of both servants and her peers, and hosting lavish parties with music and dance. Michael Bruce’s compositions for clarinet, bouzouki, and voice evoke both Greek rebetiko and klezmer bulgars, while Jonathan Goddard choreographs an intoxicated dance inspired by the Balkan Peninsula’s circular folk dances.

After the party, the bills are due. Timon’s charity and hedonism were both on credit, and none of her beneficiaries are willing to fill the collection box. Bankrupt, Timon’s philanthropy becomes misanthropy and she trades her golden palace for a dirty hole in the ground. Like her cynical philosopher friend Apemantus (Arnie Burton, dressed as a middle-aged punk rocker in a black cardigan and a Patti Smith T-shirt), she now subsists entirely on root vegetables (he prefers parsnips; she carrots). When she does find gold, she does not seek to restore her standingbut to destroy Athens, turning Alcibiades’ (Elia Monte-Brown) blackclad anarchist drum corps protesting economic inequity into an armed-to -theteeth nihilist militia prepared to march into the city and “with man’s blood paint the ground.”

Even in his other Jacobean-era collaborations with Thomas Middleton, Shakespeare is never more pessimistic. It’s a puzzle as to what two dramatists who enjoyed King James’ favor were thinking about the politics of the time. But as modernist as it seems, prefiguring the gnomic existentialism of Samuel Beckett and the class struggle of Bertolt Brecht by centuries, it is also a puzzle for today. What to make of the anarchists’ affections for a now down-and-out member of the aristocracy? The elites of Athens did not consider Timon “too big to fail,” and only invited her back into their ranks so she might call off Alcibiades’ armies.

While the production boasts an excellent cast, they are constantly in the shadow of Kathryn Hunter in the lead role. Despite her diminutive stature, she is an imposing presence, with a voice that growls and purrs yet speaks with classical diction. But it is her mastery of physical theater that ensures that she is always the center of the spectacle. She is uninhibited with bawdy comedy, but with every flutter of her fingers or split-second cantilevered pose she etches her performance into the audience's memory.

—Ian Thal 450 7th St. NW. $35–$112. (202) 547-1122. shakespearetheatre.org.

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Patti Smith, Jesse Paris Smith, and Rebecca Foon March 21

Camila Meza and the Nectar Orchestra March 14

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Forget your mantra. Watching First Cow is a form of meditation. The gentle Western by Kelly Reichardt (Certain Women) slows down the rhythms of your body until you achieve cinematic nirvana. The first clue is the opening shot, in which a barge enters from the left, floating down a river. We watch it move across the frame for longer than we expect, but its languid pace has a purpose. Reichardt is resetting our internal clocks to a distant time, when attention spans were longer and simple movements were appreciated.

First Cow is the story of a friendship between two outcasts of the Old West. Cookie Figowitz (John Magaro) is a mild-mannered cook who makes his living feeding trappers on expeditions to the Pacific Northwest during the Gold Rush. He’s a bit more enlightened than his rough-and-tumble wagonmates.

When we first meet him, he is delicately foraging mushrooms. Deep in the forest, he runs into King Lu (Orion Lee), a Chinese traveler on the run from Russians seeking vengeance for an act of violence. The vagaries of international diplomacy mean little in the wild, and the two quickly become friends.

It’s a friendship of convenience—everyone can use a companion in such an unforgiving landscape—but it quickly evolves into a business arrangement. An off-hand comment Cookie makes about wanting to open a bakery in San Francisco sparks King Lu’s imagination. They sneak off in the dead of night to steal milk from the territory’s only cow, owned by the wealthy Chief Factor (Toby Jones), and fry it into an “oily cake,” which becomes the must-have delicacy at their local market.

Gunfighters and farmers alike line up for the chance to sample their wares. Even the Chief

Factor himself is enamored with the pastry, telling them that it tastes like London, and he hires them to bake something special for an upcoming visit from a British aristocrat.

The cake seems to transport even the most grizzled customer back to a more vivid time, and the film does the same for us. Reichardt’s frame is composed of empty natural spaces, and her subject is human tenderness, especially in our connection to the natural world.

Dogs and chicks are given ample screen time, and Cookie’s affection for the cow whose milk he pilfers is a soothing antidote to the hardness of the world they inhabit. The film even makes sure we know that the cow’s calf died in transport, so they’re not stealing milk meant for her actual offspring. Reichardt’s world is a comforting place, where the worries of the day melt away.

The harmonious vibes are so overpowering that you might miss the burgeoning darkness. Embedded in First Cow is a critique of capitalism every bit as trenchant as that of Parasite, the recent Best Picture winner. Reichardt and her co-writer Jonathan Raymond, working from his novel, portray a multi-tiered system of oppression, in which wealthy landowners such as the Chief hold sway over desperate workers like Cookie and King Lu. And beneath them are the Native Americans whose land is being aggressively co-opted. The Chief has married a Native American woman (Lily Gladstone) and employs several other Indigenous people in his home, keeping his friends close and those he is subjugating even closer. In the world of First Cow, everyone works for the wealthy, who co-opt our dreams in their quest to have just a little bit more, and all we have to soothe our weary souls are confections and companionship. Sometimes, it’s more than enough.

—Noah Gittell First Cow opens Friday at Landmark E Street Cinema and Landmark Bethesda Row Cinema.

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CITYLIST

The Club at Studio K

Music 29 Theater 33 Film 33

Culture Talk: Sophia Chang

Music FRIDAY COUNTRY

HILL COUNTRY BARBECUE 410 7th St. NW. (202) 556-2050. The High & Wides. 9:30 p.m. $10. hillcountry.com.

ELECTRONIC

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

FOLK

BARNS AT WOLF TRAP 1635 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. Aoife O’Donovan. 8 p.m. $37–$42. wolftrap.org.

BIRCHMERE 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. The High Kings. 7:30 p.m. $55. birchmere.com.

FUNK & R&B

CITY WINERY 1350 Okie St. NE. (202) 250-2531. Billy Price & the Charm City Rhythm Band. 8:30 p.m. $20– $25. citywinery.com.

HIP-HOP

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

KRS-One. 9 p.m. $25–$30. thehowardtheatre.com.

JAZZ

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

CITY LIGHTS: FRIDAY

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

REBECCA SOLNIT

The Amours

In 2017, the New York Times’ T magazine ran a story with the headline “How Rebecca Solnit Became the Voice of the Resistance.” This week, the Books section ran a piece titled “How Rebecca Solnit Found Her Voice.” That puts a fine point on Solnit’s arc over the last 10 years: First, she tied the political to the personal; now she’s tying her personal life to politics. For many younger readers, Solnit came to prominence at the cusp of the 2010s as a feminist bard speaking plainly about the banality of misogyny—her essay “Men Explain Things to Me” was a mega-viral hit.

But her career is much longer and much stranger than the last decade alone shows. She helped pioneer the now-familiar essay form that blends personal anecdote, history, politics, and literary criticism. But she’s returning, as the Times said, to her own voice in her new book Recollections of My Nonexistence, a memoir of her youth in 1980s San Francisco. Part of what makes Solnit resonate with young women is how she reaches across generations, writing not from a place of antagonism but one of solidarity. She tells younger women that she, too, has experienced what they are fighting today, and she encourages them from a place of experience and empathy. Rebecca Solnit speaks at 7 p.m. at George Washington University’s Dorothy Betts Theatre, 801 21st St. NW. $10–$35. (202) 364-1919. politics-prose.com.

—Emma Sarappo

POP

JAMMIN JAVA 227 Maple Ave. East, Vienna. (703) 2551566. Toby Lightman. 7 p.m. $15–$25. jamminjava.com.

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

ROCK

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Idleminds and Outatime!. 7 p.m. $12. dc9.club.

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

Dweezil Zappa. 8 p.m. $29.75–$89.75. thehamiltondc.com.

VELVET LOUNGE 915 U St. NW. (202) 462-3213.

Crosswinds, My Heart My Anchor, Outatime, IdleMinds, and Pretty Mean. 8:30 p.m. $12. velvetloungedc.com.

SATURDAY CLASSICAL

JAMMIN JAVA 227 Maple Ave. East, Vienna. (703) 2551566. Alexandr Misko and Peter Ciluzzi. 3 p.m. $20. jamminjava.com.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS COOLIDGE AUDITORIUM First Street and Independence Avenue SE. (202) 707-5507. Arabesque: Marouan Benadbdallah. 2 p.m.

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WASHINGTON NATIONAL CATHEDRAL 3101 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 537-6200. English Musical Splendor. 7:30 p.m. $10–$65. nationalcathedral.org.

ELECTRONIC

ECHOSTAGE 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. (202) 503-2330. Ekali. 9 p.m. $25–$70. echostage.com.

DC NATIVES!

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

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

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

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

BYT’S FUTURE IS FESTIVAL Se Regalan Dudas M A R C H 2 8 | 3 : 3 0 P. M .

Three Swings with Rhea Butcher Podcast M A R C H 2 8 | 5 : 4 5 P. M .

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M A R C H 2 8 | 7 : 3 0 P. M .

In their side-by-side exhibits at Photoworks, photographers Stephen Greenberg and David Scherbel both offer timeless landscapes using old-fashioned approaches. Photographing from cruise ships in such places as Hawaii and Nova Scotia, Greenberg eschews color in favor of warmtoned black-and-white—the types of depictions that wouldn’t have looked out of place in the 1800s. Often, the star of Greenberg’s images is less the sea than the sky, which consistently shows itself in dreamy mixtures of sunlight and gloom. Scherbel, meanwhile, transforms his own blackand-white images of forests and canyonlands into hand-colored artworks of green, pink, and blue. His works, especially those in a horizontal format, call to mind the classic linen postcards of the 1920s. The exhibition runs to March 22 at Photoworks at Glen Echo Park, 7300 MacArthur Blvd., Glen Echo. Free. (301) 634-2274. glenechophotoworks.org.

—Louis Jacobson

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FOLK

JAMMIN JAVA 227 Maple Ave. East, Vienna. (703) 2551566. Marie Miller. 8:30 p.m. $15–$25. jamminjava.com.

FUNK & R&B

CITY WINERY 1350 Okie St. NE. (202) 250-2531. Tracy Hamlin. 8 p.m. $25–$35. citywinery.com.

CITY WINERY 1350 Okie St. NE. (202) 250-2531. Peter Collins. 8:30 p.m. $15. citywinery.com.

JAZZ

ATLAS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER 1333 H St. NE. (202) 399-7993. Jamie Baum & Short Stories. 8 p.m. $14–$30. atlasarts.org.

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

POP

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

ROCK

SONGBYRD MUSIC HOUSE AND RECORD CAFE 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Courier Club & Parrotfish.

8:30 p.m. $10–$12. songbyrddc.com.

WORLD

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

Elephant Man & Friends. 10 p.m. $25–$30. thehowardtheatre.com.

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With its peculiar band name, gimmicky shtick, and lone ’80s hit single, Dexy’s Midnight Runners might seem interchangeable with the Kajagoogoos or Spandau Ballets of the world. And while “Come On Eileen”—with its earworm chorus and massively popular music video featuring street urchin cosplay—is an important part of the band’s story, it is not the entirety of it. Its debut album, 1980’s Searching for the Young Soul Rebels, is an essential document of the era, a novel mix of expressive Northern soul and punk energy. It should come as no surprise, then, that one of the band’s most passionate contemporary cheerleaders is Ted Leo, a man who has channeled a similar rabble-rousing spirit throughout his career. At City Winery, he’ll continue proselytizing about the healing power of Dexy’s with a St. Patrick’s inspired show where he, along with a full band, will be playing all the hits, including, presumably, that one tune you’ll be humming forever. The show begins at 7:30 p.m. at City Winery, 1350 Okie St. NE. $22–$35. (202) 250-2531. citywinery.com.

—Matt Siblo

SUNDAY CLASSICAL

ATLAS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER 1333 H St. NE. (202) 399-7993. Capital City Symphony’s Symphonic Spring. 5 p.m. $15–$25. atlasarts.org.

FOLK JAMMIN JAVA 227 Maple Ave. East, Vienna. (703) 2551566. Don Ross. 4 p.m. $20. jamminjava.com.

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

POP JAMMIN JAVA 227 Maple Ave. East, Vienna. (703) 2551566. Casey Abrams. 8 p.m. $20–$25. jamminjava.com.

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

ROCK BLACK CAT 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Uniform + The Body. 7:30 p.m. $15–$18. blackcatdc.com.

PIE SHOP DC 1339 H St. NE. (202) 398-7437. The Escape Artist, Stay, Regrown, and Collider. 8 p.m. $10–$12. pieshopdc.com.

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Blunts & Blondes

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

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

AJR with Quinn XCII * w/ Hobo Johnson & The Lovemakers and Ashe.........AUG 1 Lindsey Stirling * w/ KIESZA & Mako ................................................... AUG 4 Rod Stewart * w/ Cheap Trick ....................................................... AUG 15 Daryl Hall & John Oates * w/ Squeeze & KT Tunstall ........ AUG 22 The Black Keys * w/ Gary Clark Jr. & Yola................................. AUG 28 Pet Shop Boys & New Order * .........................................SEPT 15 Maren Morris w/ James Arthur & Caitlyn Smith.....................................SEPT 19 Tenacious D with an Orchestra! feat. Soulful Symphony

AEG AND U STREET MUSIC HALL PRESENT

Dabin

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

DiscoBENT

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

w/ Wynchester ..............................................................................................................OCT 4

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

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U STREET MUSIC HALL PRESENTS

Leslie Odom Jr.........................W 1 STEEZ PROMO PRESENTS

Manic Focus + Mersiv

Shallou w/ slenderbodies ........F 24 Joywave ...................................Sa 25

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

U STREET MUSIC HALL PRESENTS

w/ Russ Liquid.............................Th 2 STEEZ PROMO PRESENTS

Minnesota

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

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

w/ Ivy Lab ....................................Su 5

ARCA w/ Total Freedom ...........M 27 Ariel Pink w/ CMON ................Tu 28 Tennis w/ Molly Burch...............W 29 U STREET MUSIC HALL PRESENTS

TOKiMONSTA........................Th 30 MAY

STRFKR

w/ The Undercover Dream Lovers ..F 1

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THIS MONDAY!

Whindersson Nunes .......... MAR 16 BYT’S FUTURE IS FESTIVAL PRESENTS

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

City of the Sun w/ William Wild ....................Sa MAR 14 Mondo Cozmo w/ Reuben and the Dark ...................W 18 Lauren Sanderson ............. W APR 1 Avi Kaplan w/ Paper Wings .............Sa 4

w/ Dessa .............................................APR 2

Colin Hay ....................................APR 4 Walk Off The Earth

w/ Gabriela Bee ..................................APR 5

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

NPR’s Ask Me Another

Jens Lekman w/ Eddy Kwon and DC Youth Orchestra Program......APR 22

Watch What Crappens........ MAY 2 Liz Phair......................................MAY 13

feat. Ophira Eisenberg, Jonathan Coulton & More TBA

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

9:30 CLUB PRESENTS AT U STREET MUSIC HALL

...............SAT OCTOBER 24

On Sale Friday, March 13 at 10am

AN EVENING WITH

Emily King (Acoustic) ............MAY 20

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

Allie X w/ Kat Cunnings ...................Th 9 Bear Hands w/ IRONTOM ...............F 10 Allan Rayman .........................Sa 11 TOMM¥ €A$H .......................... M 13 Flora Cash w/ Beau Young Prince ....W 15

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VOCAL

MUSIC CENTER AT STRATHMORE 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Tony Bennett.

8 p.m. $76–$156. strathmore.org.

MONDAY an evening with

DWEEZIL

ZAPPA “HOT RATS LIVE!

+ OTHER HOT STUFF 1969”

FRIDAY MAR

13

ALL GOOD PRESENTS

MELVIN SEALS

& JGB WEDNESDAY

MAR 18

FRI, MAR 20

CARSIE BLANTON

W/ CHRIS KASPER SAT, MAR 21

FLOW TRIBE W/ HUSTLE SOULS SUN, MAR 22

JAZZ

BLUES ALLEY 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Veronneau & The Dave Kline Band. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $25. bluesalley.com.

JAMMIN JAVA 227 Maple Ave. East, Vienna. (703) 2551566. That 1 Guy. 8 p.m. $15–$20. jamminjava.com.

ROCK

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. The Murder Capital. 8 p.m. $10–$13. dc9.club.

TUESDAY CLASSICAL

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

JAZZ

BLUES ALLEY 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Veronneau & The Dave Kline Band. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $25. bluesalley.com.

POP

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Post Animal. 8 p.m. $15–$17. dc9.club.

BIRCHMERE 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. The Dirty Knobs with Mike Campbell.

7:30 p.m. $45. birchmere.com.

THE IDES OF MARCH THU, MAR 26

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

Styx. 8 p.m. $55–$201. warnertheatredc.com.

AN EVENING WITH KAT

EDMONSON

FRI, MAR 27

JOSÉ JAMES PRESENTS NO BEGINNING NO END 2

W/ TAALI

SAT, MAR 28

BRASS-A-HOLICS

W/ THE JOGO PROJECT WED, APR 1

ALL GOOD PRESENTS

DUMPSTAPHUNK THU, APR 2

THE VERVE PIPE W/ BRETT NEWSKI FRI, APR 3

DELLA MAE W/ DORI FREEMAN SAT, APR 4

JAZZ

BLUES ALLEY 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Jose Andre’s Birthday Party. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $22. bluesalley.com.

POP

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

Billie Eilish. 8 p.m. $100–$350. capitalonearena.viewlift.com.

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Christian French. 7:30 p.m. $12–$15. dc9.club.

ROCK

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

Melvin Seals & JGB. 8 p.m. $30–$35. thehamiltondc.com.

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

Noah Reid. 7:30 p.m. $25. unionstage.com.

BARNS AT WOLF TRAP 1635 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. Rodney Crowell. 8 p.m. $42. wolftrap.org.

GET THE LED OUT

ELECTRONIC

PIMPS OF JOYTIME W/ KNOVO

COUNTRY

SOUNDCHECK 1420 K St. NW. (202) 789-5429. Solarstone. 10 p.m. $10–$18. soundcheckdc.com.

HIP-HOP

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

Yung Bleu. 9 p.m. $27.50–$35. thehowardtheatre.com.

JAZZ TICKETS at TheHamiltonLive.com

LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZO

SIXTH & I HISTORIC SYNAGOGUE 600 I St. NW. (202) 408-3100. An Evening with Josh Ritter: A Book of Gold Thrown Open Tour. 8 p.m. $40 in advance; $45 day of show. sixthandi.org.

THU, APR 9

ALL GOOD PRESENTS

CITY LIGHTS: TUESDAY

FOLK

THURSDAY

FRI, APR 10

Dublin, Ireland’s The Murder Capital have long played things close to the chest. They focus on their core fans and their live performances to the extent that, until 2019, they hadn’t released any albums or made their music available on streaming sites. This had the effect of giving them the mystique of a band you have to hear about secondhand. The Murder Capital are considered contemporaries to Idles, and like that band, they’re brutal but careful.

There’s nothing sloppy about them.

The savagery is divvied up, delivered in precise bursts by a band that works together like an extraordinary machine. People call both Idles and The Murder Capital “post punk,” but what separates these bands from their forebearers? Maybe it’s that very precision, that intentionality, that will allow them to thrive where so many others burn out too soon. The Murder Capital performs at 8 p.m. at DC9, 1940 9th St. NW. $10–$13. (202) 483-5000. dc9.club.

—Will Lennon

WEDNESDAY

JOHN CAFFERTY AND THE BEAVER BROWN BAND AN EVENING WITH

THE MURDER CAPITAL

ROCK

SONGBYRD MUSIC HOUSE AND RECORD CAFE 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Graduating Life. 8 p.m. $14–$16. songbyrddc.com.

AN EVENING WITH

CITY LIGHTS: MONDAY

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

CITY WINERY 1350 Okie St. NE. (202) 250-2531. Ben Williams. 8 p.m. $28–$40. citywinery.com.

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In 1964, South African singer Joseph Shabalala, who lived near the town of Ladysmith, said he had a set of dreams that led him to change the singing approach he had been using in prior groups. Shabalala decided he wanted his group to do a gentler take on Zulu a cappella choir singing, known as Isicathamiya. This more tender version blended secular and religious singing techniques. Soon, his group Ladysmith Black Mambazo was formed. “Mambazo” is Zulu for axe, and his new ensemble, with its distinctive blend of backing harmonies and Shabalala’s lead vocals, began destroying other singing outfits in competitions. In the 1970s, they began recording albums, but it wasn’t until Paul Simon worked with them on his 1986 Graceland album that their gorgeous blend of voices across registers and high-stepping choreography reached much of the rest of the world. Shabalala, who passed away in February at the age of 78, ensured his pioneering unit would continue after him. In 2014, he retired due to health issues, and the Ladysmith Black Mambazo name lives on with three of his sons as part of the lineup. Recent videos show the current incarnation using call and response, sudden tempo changes, and coordinated choreography in ways that would make Joseph Shabalala proud. Ladysmith Black Mambazo performs at 8 p.m. at The Barns at Wolf Trap, 1635 Trap Road, Vienna. $42–$44. (703) 255-1868. wolftrap.org.

—Steve Kiviat

POP

CITY LIGHTS: WEDNESDAY

MOIRA DRYER: BACK IN BUSINESS

Over the course of her brief career, Moira Dryer made paintings that touched on landscape and sculpture without ever settling comfortably into either category. The artist, who died at 34 from cancer, served as a set designer for the avant-garde New York theater company Mabou Mines. That work informed her paintings: Dryer’s casein or acrylic washes on wood panels might evoke the sky at twilight or the shimmer of fabric, but they also suggest the physical space of a black box theater. Borrowing a page from Jasper Johns, Dryer often added a second, ancillary painting to her pieces—a sort of orbiting satellite or adjacent shelf. The gesture is indecisive. Do Dryer’s paintings wish they were sculptures? What’s the play between the painting and its moon? The Phillips Collection might offer the best clues yet to Dryer’s mysteries. Back in Business is the first-ever museum treatment on her early works (and the first show of her art anywhere in ages). It’s a strong sequel to the museum’s 2019 retrospective on Zilia Sánchez, an overlooked Cuban-born modernist.

Dryer, too, deserves a second act. The exhibition runs to April 19 at the Phillips Collection, 1600 21st St. NW. $10–$12. (202) 387-2151. phillipscollection.org.

—Kriston Capps

CITY LIGHTS: THURSDAY

HEARTS OF OUR PEOPLE: NATIVE WOMEN ARTISTS

JAMMIN JAVA 227 Maple Ave. East, Vienna. (703) 2551566. Dotan. 8 p.m. $15–$25. jamminjava.com.

ROCK

CITY WINERY 1350 Okie St. NE. (202) 250-2531. The Fleshtones. 8 p.m. $18–$20. citywinery.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) 418-4808. wscavantbard.org.

THE AMATEURS In a 14th-century theater troupe, the actress playing Noah’s Wife asks why she’d get on that smelly boat—and why she doesn’t have a name of her own, kicking off a time-traveling, mind-bending journey that touches on illness, loss, and storytelling. Olney Theatre Center. 2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney. To April 5 $59–$64. (301) 9243400. olneytheatre.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.

DRUMMING WITH DISHES In this show for ages 2–5, energetic child brings her shy imaginary friend to a very special kitchen, where they cook up music instead of food. Atlas Performing Arts Center. 1333 H St. NE. To March 15 $15. (202) 399-7993. atlasarts.org.

EASY WOMEN SMOKING LOOSE CIGARETTES Marian and Richard are happily settling into their new retirement and their empty nest—until a pregnant niece, the boy next door, and a daughter with a secret show up on their doorstep. Signature Theatre. 4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington. To March 29 $40–$90. (703) 820-9771. sigtheatre.org.

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

(202) 399-7993. atlasarts.org.

GUYS AND DOLLS Gamblers, missionaries, and showgirls romp their way through New York when Nathan Detroit bets $1,000 that Sky Masterson can’t attract Sarah Brown—as his fiance of 14 years begs him to tie the knot already. Ford’s Theatre. 511 10th St. NW. To May 20 $34–$86. (202) 347-4833. fords.org.

Over the past few decades, the art world has come to recognize, gradually—reluctantly, even—the contributions of artists who work in textiles and other media coded as craft and gendered as women’s work. So a broad survey about the art of Native women, and their accomplishments in abstraction and design, is long overdue. Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists assembles 81 artworks spanning centuries of production, from a caribou hide hunting coat made by an Innu artist some time around 1750 to a portrait taken by Cara Romero in 2017. The show includes contemporary landscapes

by Kay WalkingStick, Ramona Sakiestewa, and D.Y. Begay, a trio who would make a formidable show on their own. A compelling piece by Jamie Okuma called “Adaptation II”—a pair of red-bottomed Louboutins decked out in leather, glass beads, sequins, rawhide, and other materials traditionally associated with Native arts—speaks to the powerful politics at work in the partitioning of fashion from craft. Hearts of Our People, a traveling exhibition from the Minneapolis Institute of Art, looks to tear down a lot of walls. The exhibition runs to May 17 at the Renwick Gallery, 1661 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. Free. (202) 633-7970. americanart.si.edu/renwick.

—Kriston Capps

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.

LITTLE RED AND THE BIG BULLY WOLF Meet Little Red’s friends, like the three little pigs and the boy who cried wolf, and follow their journey as they learn to stand up to the Big Bully Wolf in this show for young audiences. Publick Playhouse. 5445 Landover Road, Cheverly. To March 17; To March 17 $5. (301) 277-1710. arts.pgparks.com.

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 The Charles family, the heart of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Piano Lesson, live in 1930-era Pittsburgh in a world hardly built for them. When the Charles siblings inherit a piano once traded for an enslaved ancestor, the

family is faced with a beautiful object belying an ugly truth Sitar Arts Center. 1700 Kalorama Rd. NW, Suite 101. To March 13 $25. (202) 797-2145. sitarartscenter.org.

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

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.

SAM & DEDE, OR MY DINNER WITH ANDRE THE GIANT An unlikely friendship sparks between an Irish expatriate writer and a giant young man. Washington Stage Guild at Undercroft Theatre. 900 Massachusetts Ave. NW. To April 12 $25–$60. (240) 582-0050. stageguild.org.

THE STORY OF WALTER SigWorks’ Monday Night Play Readings puts on a reading of The Story of Walter, a play about Walter, a recently single father to a bright-eyed 7-year-old daughter. Signature Theatre. 4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington. To March 16 Free.

(703) 820-9771. sigtheatre.org.

THE SPITFIRE GRILL Guided by a page from an old travel book, Percy, a feisty parolee, finds a place for herself working at Hannah’s Spitfire Grill. It is for sale but there are no takers for the only eatery in the depressed Wisconsin town. Percy suggests that Hannah raffles it off to best essay on “Why do you want the grill?”. Soon, mail is arriving by the wheelbarrow and things are definitely cookin’ at The Spitfire Grill.

Arts Barn Theatre. 311 Kent Square Road, Gaithersburg. To March 22 $18–$22. (301) 258-6394. gaithersburgmd.gov.

SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER This Tennessee Williams play takes place in New Orleans’ Garden District as an elderly socialite mourns her dead son, who died mysteriously. WSC Avant Bard at Gunston Arts Center Theater Two. 2700 South Lang Street, Arlington. To April 5 $40. (703) 418-4808. wscavantbard.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.

YAO YAO When Yao accidentally pulls a thread, a magical world is revealed. This production by South Korea’s Brush Theatre uses live music and interactive screen technology. Kennedy Center Family Theater.

2700 F St. NW. To Feb. 29; To Feb. 29; To March 29; To March 1; To March 1 $20. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org.

Film

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)

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SAVAGELOVE I’m a cis bi woman, and I mainly have sex with people with penises. I have a really gross problem, sorry. It’s been an issue for as long as I’ve been sexually active—but in the past few years, it seems to have gotten worse. If I am being penetrated vaginally, especially if it’s vigorous (which I prefer), and I orgasm, sometimes I poop accidentally. If I try to clench up to keep this from happening, it doesn’t work and I can’t orgasm. This used to happen once in a blue moon, only with particularly intense orgasms, but now it happens more frequently. One person I’ve been seeing really likes anal, and that makes the problem even worse. To be clear: I have no desire for poop in my sex life. It’s gross, it’s embarrassing, and my partners do not enjoy it. Nor do I. I’ve tried going to the bathroom before sex, but I can never seem to fully empty out. I even went to a doctor to talk about it, but all I got was a big shrug and no useful suggestions. I’ve looked online and found discussions of this happening to other people and them being understandably horrified, but nobody mentions it being a regular occurrence. This really sucks! Do you have any suggestions? Other than “give up sex completely,” which I would prefer not to do.

—Necessary Objective: Soothe Her Intestinal Tract “I’ve absolutely heard of this before, and as NOSHIT already knows from internet searches, she’s not alone and needs help,” said Dr. Debby Herbenick. “And a ‘big shrug’ doesn’t sound like a helpful response from a physician who you’re asking for help in figuring out a complicated and extremely under-researched and therefore tricky sexual issue.”

Dr. Herbenick is a professor at the Indiana University School of Public Health and author of Because It Feels Good: A Woman’s Guide to Sexual Pleasure and Satisfaction and numerous other books. And what you’re going to need, according to Dr. Herbenick, is a doctor who’s actually prepared to help you. So that awkward conversation you had with your last doctor? A conversation you no doubt dreaded having? You’re going to have to have that conversation again, NOSHIT, maybe more than once, with other doctors. I know, I know: Talking with your doctor about a sexual issue—particularly a messy one—is difficult. And when we finally work up the nerve to speak with a doctor about something like this and that doctor isn’t helpful, our understandable desire to avoid having that conversation ever again can lead us to conclude that talking to doctors is a waste of time. But it isn’t, so long as you’re talking to the right doctor.

“The letter writer should ask her healthcare provider for a referral to an urogynecologist,” said Dr. Herbenick, “especially one who likes to get to the bottom (no pun intended) of challenging cases.”

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If this happens to you at other times—if you poop yourself when you fart or sneeze—be sure to share that information with the specialist.

“There are lots of tests that health care providers can use to examine her rectal function,” said Dr. Herbenick. “These tests can include a digital rectal exam, a sigmoidoscopy (insertion of a tiny tube with a camera to look for issues such as inflammation), an X-ray, an anal ultrasound, a colonoscopy, or other tests. In other words, there are things other than a big and completely useless shrug that can be done. And depending on what they find, they may suggest biofeedback, surgery, physical therapy/pelvic floor exercises, supplements, and so on.”

But with all that said, NOSHIT, doctors aren’t all-powerful, and some problems can only be managed and not solved.

“The fact is, our bodies don’t last forever in the ways we want them to,” said Dr. Herbenick. “And some research does point toward more frequent anal intercourse being associated with fecal incontinence.” (Aging, childbirth, and hormone-replacement thera-

“You aren’t obligated to have sex with your husband—you aren’t obligated to have sex with anyone, ever.” py are very strongly associated with fecal incontinence.) Only a small percentage of women who regularly engaged in anal intercourse reported higher levels of fecal incontinence, NOSHIT, so if this isn’t a problem for you generally—if this is only a problem during sex due to some tragically star-crossed neural wiring—you might want to steal a move from the squeaky clean gay bottoms out there. Instead of just “going to the bathroom” before sex and hoping you’re empty, treat yourself to an anal douche to make sure you’re empty. (Alexander Cheves wrote a great guide for receptive anal intercourse, “17 Tips for Happier, Healthier Bottoming,” for the Advocate. Google it.)

“But finding a health-care provider who’s willing to listen to what’s important to her in her sex life is the first step,” said Dr. Herbenick. “A sex-positive health-care provider—probably a urogynecologist or a proctologist—who’s willing to hear her out can help her figure out some good ways forward. It’s about listening to what quality of life means to her.

That seems to include an active, pleasurable sex life involving vaginal and/or anal sex with orgasm, and without pooping, or at least not nearly so often.”

Follow Dr. Herbenick on Twitter @DebbyHerbenick.

—Dan Savage

I’m a 32-year-old woman married to a 45-yearold man. We’ve been together for 10 years. At the beginning of our relationship, I told him smoking was a deal breaker for me because he was a former smoker. Well, the asshole started smoking again this year. I’m pissed about this, and it has affected my desire for him. This is complicated further by the fact that for most of our relationship, we’ve had very mismatched libidos, with mine being much higher. He has always said that I could get my needs met elsewhere, as sex just wasn’t that important to him. Well, last year I started exploring extramarital relationships, and now I have a boyfriend that I’m eager to fuck. Can you guess who is now interested in fucking me? My husband, Mr. Sex Isn’t Important. Turns out, he’s very into fucking me after I’ve fucked another dude. But I only want so much sex, and I don’t want to fuck a smoker. I feel obligated to have sex with my husband, though. My question is, am I? He didn’t feel obligated to have sex with me more than once a month for nine years, which made me feel shitty and undesirable. (Also, we have kids. Hence the marriage and why I’m not going to leave.)

—Seriously Hate Ash Mouth You aren’t obligated to have sex with your husband—you aren’t obligated to have sex with anyone, ever. But I assume you don’t want to be left any more than you want to leave, SHAM. And if you refuse to fuck your husband because he broke the deal you made a decade ago—and because you’re pissed about nine years of sexual neglect (legit grounds)—he might decide to leave you. So while you don’t have to fuck this ash-hole, you might want to fuck this ash-hole. But until he quits smoking, you could reasonably refuse to kiss him or sleep in the same room with him. (Smokers don’t realize how bad it smells—how bad they smell—and just how thoroughly they can stink up a room, even one they never light up in.)

One follow-up question: Did your husband always know this about himself—did he know he was turned on by the thought of you being with other dudes—or did he realize it only after you started fucking this other dude? If he knew it all along, and his encouragement to get your “needs met elsewhere” was a dishonest and manipulative attempt to force his kink on you, SHAM, you have even more right to be pissed.

But if he realized this turned him on only after you started fucking other dudes—if he was as surprised by how you getting a boyfriend uncorked his libido as you were both surprised and annoyed by it—you might want to forgive him.

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