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Renovations to Anacostia bridges are on hold while Fort Myer Construction, D.C.’s “favored” contractor, sues the District—again. the renovatIon job to some of the ramps, overpasses, and sidewalks on the east end of the John Philip Sousa bridge over the Anacostia River was not meant to be epic. But it is necessary—and urgent—according to community members. “At one point you actually had concrete falling from it [the bridges over Nicholson St. SE],” says Graylin W. Presbury, president of the Fairlawn Citizens Association. “The city resolved that by putting wood underneath, but the birds nest in it and there’ll be an inch to half-inch of poop on the sidewalks below.” Presbury added that it can be a hazard when kids head to the nearby playground area in Anacostia Park. “They have to walk over this stuff or walk out into the street to avoid it,” says Presbury. “The poop will accumulate, especially in the summer months when the birds return.” Built in 1963, both the north- and southbound ramps from Pennsylvania Avenue SE to the Anacostia Freeway (DC-295) are considered “structurally deficient” by the District Department of Transportation. The so-called Anacostia Bridges renovation project, managed by DDOT, was awarded to a company called Technopref Industries, who ultimately won the job with a $10.7 million bid. The second-place bidder, whose offer came in about $140,000 higher than Technopref ’s, was Fort Myer Construction. And that, seemingly, is when the problems began. As the second-place bidder, Fort Myer had the right to file a protest with the city’s Contract Appeals Board over their loss, which they did in July. D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine entered a motion to dismiss the protest in August. Fort Myer registered its opposition to Racine’s motion, and in October, the Contract Appeals Board sided with the District and dismissed the protest. By November, Fort Myer sued the Contract Appeals Board in D.C. Superior Court, a move that effectively halted the work, which DDOT had previously announced would begin Feb. 20. The next hearing in the court case is set for June 1. “Among the thousands of jobs we bid, we only exercise our legal rights when we feel there is a
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serious and inequitable matter that should be reviewed—just like any other bidder,” says A. Scott Bolden, managing partner of Reed Smith LLP, a law firm that represents Fort Myer. In their initial protest, Fort Myer contended that there was a mistake in the solicitation materials from DDOT and that Technopref submitted an unbalanced, or unrealistic, estimate within their winning bid. If both issues were corrected, Fort Myer calculated that their bid would be the lowest. The Contract Appeals Board dismissed Fort Myer’s protest on a pair of technical grounds that they claim made the protest both premature and too late, according to the sometimes mind-boggling rules that govern the District’s bid protest process. The D.C. Office of Contracting and Procurement officially awarded the job to Technopref in December. The D.C. attorney general’s office declined to comment because the case is under litigation, and repeated attempts by City Paper to contact Technopref, the U.S. arm of a construction company with headquarters in Canada and France, through their U.S. legal counsel were not successful. If you thInk you’ve heard of Fort Myer, you probably have—by way of their signage on numerous city infrastructure projects going back three decades in the District. Fort Myer has billed nearly a quarter of a billion dollars of work to the District in the past five years according to project listings on its own website. And that number could be much higher when factoring in their regular paving and side-
walk repair contracts, snow removal services, and all the subcontracting work they land. Their District clients include DDOT, the Department of General Services, DC Water, Pepco, and Washington Gas. Ward 3 Councilmember Mary Cheh has dubbed Fort Myer a “favored” D.C. contractor. Fort Myer was also at the center of a 2016 D.C. Department of General Services contracting dispute that coincided with the resignation of its then-Director Christopher Weaver, who testified at D.C. Council oversight hearings that, at the behest of the City Administrator Rashad Young, he was asked to fire two employees involved in the contract award process. Weaver refused, then resigned. The two infrastructure projects at the heart of the 2016 DGS affair were related to the new D.C. United soccer stadium and another job around the site of the forthcoming sports and entertainment facility at the St. Elizabeths East Campus. Like the Anacostia Bridges project, Fort Myer was the second-place bidder on both of those jobs. That is not to say they didn’t profit off coming in second. According to an extensive report on the DGS matter published in 2017 by Cheh, a former special assistant U.S. Attorney and current law professor at the George Washington University, officials in Mayor Muriel Bowser’s administration made numerous efforts to advantage Fort Myer, a Bowser campaign contributor, during and shortly after the bidding process for the DGS projects. “An unsubstantiated report was issued by an individual politician that did not have the
support of the very committee that reviewed it,” says Bolden, about the Cheh report. In one case detailed in the Cheh report, Fort Myer made a so-called best and final offer (BAFO) for the St. Elizabeths project that was significantly different in allocation amounts from the firm’s original bid and appeared unbalanced, something DGS staff described as “suspicious.” “Adm. Weaver testified that he was deeply alarmed by Fort Myer’s BAFO submission and the likelihood that someone at DGS had leaked confidential information to Fort Myer,” says Cheh in the report. Ironically, one of Fort Myer’s arguments against Technopref in their legal case over the Anacostia Bridges project is an unbalanced bid. “It is our opinion that the matter of an unbalanced bid (nominal prices for one item, overstated prices for other(s), which do not result in the lowest overall cost to DDOT) jeopardizes the integrity of the bidding process,” Bolden writes to City Paper. “We feel it is in the best interest of the taxpayers and the business community to raise attention to unbalanced bids, to avoid tarnishing the fair competitive bidding process.” Bolden further claims that, “...prior to Fort Myer filing its [Anacostia Bridges] protest, DDOT had no language in their invitation for bids on projects regarding unbalanced bidding.” Recent DDOT bid solicitations do contain a regulation prohibiting unbalanced bids, but DDOT would not confirm if Fort Myer was the reason for the change. In the DGS matter, Cheh wrote in her report that Young “agreed to ‘look into’” expeditiously settling other Fort Myer lawsuits against the District in an attempt to “discourage Fort Myer from filing a protest.” “The City Administrator accelerated those [settlement] discussions and the Executive ultimately funded $4 million in settlements to Fort Myer,” says Cheh, in the report. Also included in the report was quoted correspondence from Lewis F. Shrensky, a vice president at Fort Myer, to former DGS Director Weaver from May 2016 regarding their decision not to protest the DGS contracts in question. “The District government is the largest and oldest client of Fort Myer,” wrote Shrensky in his testimony to Cheh’s committee. “Because of its long business relationship with the District, Fort Myer saw no reason to unduly burden the District government protesting a procurement that, while desirable, was not vital to its financial health.” Together, the winning bids for the 2016 DGS projects were worth about $35 million, more than three times as much as Fort Myer’s losing bid on the Anacostia Bridges project, the one over which they’re now suing the District. CP
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The Council is poised to make a dramatic change to tenant protection laws. Renters say it happened overnight. Phil Mendelson is agitated, and he apologizes for sounding like it. The D.C. Council chairman has been advocating for months in favor of a bill introduced by his colleague, At-Large Councilmember Anita Bonds, that would exempt tenants living in single-family homes from the protections of TOPA, the Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act. And most people, he thinks, are getting the wrong idea about the bill. Last May, NBC4 published a series of fivealarm reports under the headline “Homes Held Hostage.” Some D.C. renters, the station’s investigative team found, are “exploiting” TOPA to extort “highdollar payouts” and block home sales, largely thanks to a cottage industry of attorneys who use this law to prey on homeowners. The tenant-friendly act, passed in 1980, gives renters the first right of refusal should a homeowner decide to sell. But a series of provisions (some would say “loopholes”) allowing tenants to sell their TOPA rights to third parties—who can negotiate exorbitant moving costs or extended move-out dates for tenants— have reportedly made it more time-consuming and expensive for homeowners to sell. When Bonds first introduced her bill last June, a month after NBC4’s initial report, it targeted apartments within owner-occupied homes, and was a measure most people, including tenant advocates, could get behind. As chair of the Committee on Housing and Community Development, Bonds formed a working group to examine the issue, inviting stakeholders on all sides. The group discussed potential adjustments to TOPA such as eliminating third party assignment rights and reducing the amount of time renters could sit on a decision to buy. But in the months since, emotional testimonies from homeowners and strong pressure from Realtors associations, who have shown up in droves to support Bonds’ bill, have steered the measure in a different and more extreme direction. The bill now removes all single family homes from the protections of TOPA. Top brass at DC Association of Realtors maintains that Bonds’ bill is “a compromise,” yet a room full of realtors booed Ward 1 Coun-
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cilmember Brianne Nadeau when she tried to temper the bill with an amendment that would continue TOPA protections for tenants who have lived in their homes and paid rent for a decade or more. Mendelson, who was an Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner when then-Mayor Marion Barry first signed TOPA into law nearly 40 years ago, has taken on the mantle of promoting, explaining, and defending Bonds’ bill. He’s frustrated about the greater narrative of the Council’s actions here—about looking like a villain to tenants and their advocates. In response to what he calls “disinformation” about the bill, his office published a fact sheet answering and dismissing its criticisms. On March 9, two days after the Council gave an initial green light to Bonds’ bill with a decisive 10-2 vote, Mendelson said, “If I sound annoyed, it is because what I think happened in the last week-and-a-half is these couple of bad actors who boast about the millions they’ve made [from TOPA] have stirred this up as an affordable housing issue,” he says. He doesn’t think it is. He says TOPA in meant to protect tenants from being suddenly displaced. The bill’s supporters also argue that few tenants in single-family homes rely on TOPA to purchase their homes anyway. According to data collected by D.C.’s Department of Housing and Community Development, only about three to five families in single-family homes do so each year, and that’s out of hundreds who are given the opportunity. (In fiscal year 2015, there were 1,112 single-family home TOPA offers.) During a September 2017 hearing on the bill, a parade of homeowners and realtors gave shape to their narrative. There was the witness who said he decided to purchase a home in Maryland instead of D.C. so he wouldn’t have to deal with TOPA complications; the witness who said she knew of an elderly couple who suffered $200,000 in loses because their tenant sold her TOPA rights to a third party. “There are for-profit actors that have been very active with scores, if not hundreds, of transactions [and have made it so that] homeowners have had to pay off a tenant to move,” Mendelson said. “I hear it over and over.” And so, just shy of the one-year anniversary of NBC4’s reporting and six months after the hearing that changed the course of this debate, the Council is poised to make a final vote on Bonds’ bill. If it passes—and it’s expected to—
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it will mark the most significant alteration to the city’s rent laws in years. The story of longtime D.C. resident Evan Yeats serves as a counternarrative to the one homeowners and realtors tell. About three years ago, the summer before his son started Pre-K 3, Yeats and his wife rented a rowhouse in Petworth. The 3rd Street NW house was “home-y,” Yeats says—the kind of place where your neighbors always sat on their porch, and you’d build vegetable gardens and share the bumper crop with them.
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from their landlord to cover moving costs. “It’s heartless to say that renters who are trying to successfully make a move and find a good place for their kids to live are extortionists, when my out-of-town landlord will take $500,000 out of D.C. and laugh all the way to the bank,” says Yeats. The point that tenant advocates are trying to make with stories like Yeats’ is, in part, that TOPA is beneficial even for those who don’t end up buying their home—that tenants shouldn’t have to drain their savings to quickly move, or be forced out of their homes the same month they’re welcoming a child into the world. D.C.’s Chief Tenant Advocate, Johanna Shreve, wrote an open letter to Mendelson on March 2 arguing that the bill “does not achieve the balance” of meeting concerns both of homeowners and tenants, and goes “beyond the problems of TOPA [this] measure was intended to address, and, in my opinion, beyond the rationales for reform as presented in the com-
“We moved there and just loved it,” he says. “We thought we’d be there for a while.” But in the early fall of 2016, a few months after Yeats and his wife had a second child, their landlord gave them an official notice that he wanted to sell. Yeats and his wife immediately saw bills stacking up: Renting at $2,400, the couple faced coughing up thousands of dollars for a security deposit, rent, and moving expenses. “So we said we’d be interested in buying,” Yeats says. But when they received their TOPA paperwork, they saw their landlord was trying to sell the two-bedroom house for $650,000—nearly $150,000 over its market value, despite its need for renovations that would cost tens of thousands of dollars. After months of negotiations, Yeats and his wife gave up on trying to buy the house, which eventually sold for nearly $40,000 less than the original asking price. But because of TOPA, they secured $7,000
mittee report.” DHCD Director Polly Donaldson, meanwhile, testified in September that she “forsees that the proposed bill will result in housing providers taking expedient and evasive tactics.” During the March 7 Council vote, peering over a sea of disgruntled Realtors wearing cheery yellow “FixTOPA” stickers, AtLarge Councilmember Elissa Silverman ran through the litany of concerns articulated by supporters and detractors: that some tenants have proven manipulative and exploitative, forcing homeowners to hemorrhage money; that, regardless, there are more honest tenants than exploitative ones, and that the good ones deserve some breathing room to find a new home if they can’t afford to buy. “So who’s right?” she asked a silent room. “All of you. All of you are right.” Silverman and Nadeau are expected to vote against the bill. CP
Bureaucratic Inertia Incumbents have the most money in 2018 District races. By Andrew Giambrone Campaign finanCe doCuments filed with D.C.’s Office of Campaign Finance for the March 10th reporting deadline show all incumbents well ahead of their challengers in cash on hand. This holds even for the most competitive races—for chairmanship of the 13member D.C. Council and two citywide Council seats. Money isn’t everything in campaigns (nothing like some good grit!) but it counts for a lot. At this stage what matters most is how much cash Democratic hopefuls have in the lead-up to the June primary; it translates to how much they can spend on get-out-the-vote efforts. Below is a roundup of the data in the most recent available reports, which cover Feb. 1 through March 10. Incumbents’ names are starred and dollar amounts are rounded down. The next campaign finance reports are due June 10, nine days before the primary. Undeclared candidates have until March 21 to seek to enter the primary. They have until Aug. 8 to do so for the general election on Nov. 6.
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Mayoral race Muriel Bowser* Cash on hand: $1,997,768 Total money raised: $2,253,879 Money raised since Feb. 1: $234,123 James Butler Cash on hand: $1,768 Total money raised: $14,600 Money raised since Feb. 1: $829 Michael Christian Woods Cash on hand: $28 Total money raised: $375 Money raised since Feb. 1: $275 Council chairman race Phil Mendelson* Cash on hand: $229,071 Total money raised: $240,967 Money raised since Feb. 1: $181,744 Ed Lazere Cash on hand: $78,905 Total money raised: $110,541 Money raised since Feb. 1: $45,752 Calvin Gurley Cash on hand: $100 Total money raised: $100 Money raised since Feb. 1: $100 At-large councilmember Democratic seat race Anita Bonds* Cash on hand: $62,796 Total money raised: $65,317 Money raised since Feb. 1: $51,200 Marcus Goodwin Cash on hand: $31,790 Total money raised: $80,474 Money raised since Feb. 1: $14,207 Jeremiah Lowery Cash on hand: $22,790 Total money raised: $32,006 Money raised since Feb. 1: $5,880
Aaron Holmes Cash on hand: $13,270 Total money raised: $27,005 Money raised since Feb. 1: $8,320 At-large councilmember non-majority party seat race (general election) Elissa Silverman* Cash on hand: $39,303 Total money raised: $42,040 Money raised since Feb. 1: $16,915 Dionne Reeder Cash on hand: $23,030 Total money raised: $62,396 Money raised since Feb. 1: $8,954 Omekongo Dibinga Cash on hand: $83 Total money raised: $496 Money raised since Feb. 1: $496 Ward 1 councilmember race Brianne Nadeau* Cash on hand: $143,977 Total money raised: $214,704 Money raised since Feb. 1: $10,092 Kent Boese Cash on hand: $35,604 Total money raised: $64,200 Money raised since Feb. 1: $23,475 Lori Parker Cash on hand: $24,592 Total money raised: $53,111 Money raised since Feb. 1: $1,835 Sheika Reid Cash on hand: $6,116 Total money raised: $63,251 Money raised since Feb. 1: $10,837 Ward 3 councilmember race
Mary Cheh* Cash on hand: $55,744 Total money raised: $68,459
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Money raised since Feb. 1: $8,557 Petar Dimtchev Cash on hand: $2,574 Total money raised: $3,825 Money raised since Feb. 1: $3,825 Ward 5 councilmember race
Kenyan McDuffie* Cash on hand: $129,177 Total money raised: $155,593 Money raised since Feb. 1: $47,731 Gayle Hall Carley Cash on hand: $53,901 Total money raised: $57,460 Money raised since Feb. 1: $50,990 Bradley Thomas Cash on hand: $5,979 Total money raised: $5,989 Money raised since Feb. 1: $5,989
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Charles Allen* Cash on hand: $98,696 Total money raised: $125,469 Money raised since Feb. 1: $25,245 Lisa Hunter Cash on hand: $16,617 Total money raised: $24,734 Money raised since Feb. 1: $1,710 Michael Bekesha (general election) Cash on hand: $4,577 Total money raised: $16,934 Money raised since Feb. 1: $1,675 Attorney general race Karl Racine* Cash on hand: $101,524 Total money raised: $150,021 Money raised since Feb. 1: $30,945 CP
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I’m a 33-year-old woman from Melbourne, Australia, dating a 24-year-old man. We’ve been dating for about eight months; it is exclusive and official. He’s kind and sweet, caring and giving, and his penis is divine. The thing is, he confessed to me recently that he doesn’t really “feel.” The way he explained it is, the only emotions he feels are fear and anxiousness that he’ll disappoint the people he cares about. He says he’s never been in love. He said his dad is the same way. The only time I see him really “feel” is when he’s high, which he is semi-frequently. He uses MDMA and he comes alive. He seems the way a “normal” person does when they’re in love, but when he’s sober, it’s like he’s trying to mimic the things a person in love would say or do. I confessed I am falling in love with him recently and told him I wasn’t saying this with any expectation of him feeling the same; I just wanted him to know. He responded that he cares for me a lot—but that’s it. I’m now worried that he’ll never love me. I don’t want kids, so time isn’t critical for me, but I don’t want to be with someone who won’t ever love me. —Lacking One Vaunted Emotion You didn’t use the P-word (psychopath) or the S-word (sociopath), LOVE, but both came to mind as I was reading your letter. Someone who isn’t capable of feeling? Isn’t that textbook P-word/S-word stuff? “The fear with someone who doesn’t ‘feel’ is that they may be a psychopath or a sociopath, terms that are used interchangeably,” said Jon Ronson, author of The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry. “And lots of the items on the psychopath checklist relate to an inability to experience deep emotions—like Shallow Affect, Lack of Empathy, and Lack of Remorse. However, I have good news for LOVE! This line: ‘The only emotions he really feels are fear and anxiousness that he’ll disappoint the people he cares about’ is the critical one. Psychopaths do not feel anxiety. In fact, my favorite thing a psychologist said to me about this was: ‘If you’re worried you may be psychopath, that means you aren’t one.’ Also, psychopaths don’t care about disappointing loved ones! All those emotions that relate to an overactive amygdala—fear, remorse, guilt, regret, empathy—psychopaths don’t feel them.” So your boyfriend’s not a psychopath. Not that you asked. But, you know, just in case you were worried. Anyway… My hunch is that your boyfriend’s problem isn’t an inability to feel love, LOVE, but an inability to recognize the feelings he’s having as love. (Or potentially love, as it’s only been eight months.) What is romantic love but a strong desire to be with someone? The urge to be sweet to them, to take care of them, to do for them? Maybe he’s just going through the motions with you—a conscious mimic-it-
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till-you-make it strategy—or maybe the double whammy of a damaged dad and that toxic masculinity stuff sloshing around out there left him blocked, LOVE, or emotionally constipated. And while MDMA can definitely be abused—moderation in all things, kids, including moderation—the effect it has on him is a hopeful sign. MDMA is not an emotional hallucinogen; the drug has been used in couples counseling and to treat PTSD, not because it makes us feel things that aren’t there (in the way a hallucinogen makes us see things that aren’t there), but because it allows genuine feelings to surface and, for a few hours, to be felt intensely. So he can feel love—he just has to learn how to tap into those feelings and/or recognize them without an assist from MDMA. Jon Ronson had one last bit of advice for you, LOVE: “Marry him and his divine penis!” I agree with Jon, of course, but a long, leisurely engagement is definitely in order. You’ve only been seeing this guy and his divinity dick for eight months—don’t propose to him for at least another year, LOVE, and make marriage conditional upon him seeing a shrink four times as often as he sees his MDMA dealer. Follow Jon Ronson on Twitter @jonronson, read all of his books (So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed? is urgently required reading for anyone who spends time online), and check out his amazing podcast, The Butterfly Effect. To access all things Jon Ronson, go to JonRonson. com. —Dan Savage My boyfriend of 1.5 years shared (several months into dating) that he has a fantasy of having a threesome. I shared that I had also fantasized about this but I never took my fantasies seriously. Right away, he started sending me Craigslist posts from women and couples looking for casual sex partners. I told him I wasn’t interested in doing anything for real. A few months later, we went on vacation and I said I wanted to get a massage. He found a place that did “sensual” couples massages. I wanted nothing to do with this. During sex, he talks about the idea of someone else being around. This does turn me on and I like thinking about it when we are messing around. But I don’t want to have any other partners. I’m like a mashup of Jessica Day, Leslie Knope, and Liz Lemon if that gives you an idea of how not-for-me this all is. When I say no to one idea, he comes up with another one. I would truly appreciate some advice. —Boyfriend Into Group Sex I’m Not Short answer: Sexual compatibility is important. It’s particularly important in a sexually exclusive relationship. You want a sexually exclusive relationship; your boyfriend doesn’t want a sexually exclusive relationship—so you two aren’t sexually compatible, BIGSIN, and you should break up.
Slightly longer answer: Your boyfriend did the right thing by laying his kink cards on the table early in the relationship—he’s into threesomes, group sex, and public sex—and you copped to having fantasies about threesomes, BIGSIN, but not a desire to experience one. He took that as an opening: Maybe if he could find the right person/couple/scenario/club, you would change your mind. Further fueling his false hopes: You get turned on when he talks about having “someone else around” when you two have sex. Now lots of people who very much enjoy threesomes and/ or group sex were unsure or hesitant at first, but gave in to please (or shut up) a partner, and wound up being glad they did. If you’re certain you could never be one of those people—reluctant at first but happy your partner pressed the issue—you need to shut this shit down, Liz Lemon style. Tell him no more dirty talking about this shit during sex, no more entertaining the idea at all. Being with you means giving up this fantasy, BIGSIN, and if he’s not willing to give it up—and to shut up about it— then you’ll have to break up. —DS I’m an 18-year-old woman who has been with my current boyfriend for a year, but this has been an issue across all of my sexual relationships. In order to reach climax, I have to fantasize about kinky role-play-type situations. I don’t think I want to actually act out the situations/roles because of the degrading/shameful feelings they dredge up, but the idea of other people doing them is so hot. This frustrates me because it takes me out of the moment with my partner. I’m literally thinking about other people during sex when I should be thinking about him! What can I do to be more in the moment? —Distracted Earnest Girlfriend Requires A Different Excitement
Actually, doing the kinky role-play-type things you “have to” fantasize about in order to come would help you feel more connected to your boyfriend—but to do that, DEGRADE, you need to stop kink-shaming yourself. So instead of thinking of those kinky role-play-type things as degrading or shameful, think of them as exciting and playful. Exciting because they excite you (duh), and playful because that’s literally what kinky role-play-type things are: play. It’s cops and robbers for grownups with your pants off, DEGRADE, but this game doesn’t end when mom calls you in for dinner, it ends when you come. So long as you suppress your kinks—so long as you’re in flight from the stuff that really arouses you—your boyfriend will never truly know you and you’ll never feel truly connected to him. —DS Email your Savage Love questions to mail@savagelove.net.
Gear Prudence Gear Prudence: How far to the right side of the road am I required to ride? Does it have to be within a few feet of the sidewalk or right next to it? What about if there’s a bike lane there? —Recently I Got Hit There Dear RIGHT: It’s a common misconception, but the DC Municipal Regulations are silent on the question where bicyclists must ride on the road. According to DCMR Title 18-1201, there’s no legal requirement to ride as far to the right as possible, and beyond that there are lots of good reasons why you shouldn’t hug the curb— there’s less room to maneuver should you see an obstacle or should someone unexpectedly step off the sidewalk. Give yourself some space just in case. D.C. law also doesn’t require bicyclists to ride in bike lanes when they’re present, and given how often they’re obstructed with parked or idling cars and sundry other obstructions, this makes sense too. In most cases, bicyclists will ride in bike lanes when they can (that’s why they’re there) and ride toward the right side of the road when there are no bike lanes in order to let drivers pass. But there’s no legal requirement demanding where on the road they must ride. —GP
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Black students who have experienced racist acts at American University count on the strength of their peers to survive and thrive. By Christina Sturdivant-Sani
Photographs by Darrow Montgomery
Taylor Dumpson has spent eight semesters at American University. Not a single one has gone by without a racially-charged event. For months during her freshman year, she called her parents crying, telling them that she wanted to transfer schools because of tension on campus. “They said, ‘You’re going to grow where you’re planted because you never know where you’re going to end up,’” recalls Dumpson, who became AU’s first black female student government president in 2017. On her first day in office, the senior was the victim of a hate crime that thrust her into the national spotlight. Dumpson’s journey has unfolded as the nation has seen an increase in hate crimes. Universities have not been exempt. Racial harassment complaints at academic institutions increased nearly every year from 2009 to 2016, starting at 98 and rising to 198, according to the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights. The Anti-Defamation League has also found an alarming increase in white supremacist propaganda targeting U.S. colleges since 2016. Though their experiences may vary, life for black students at predominantly white institutions can be a matter of survival. While their education is marred by frustration with other students and administration, black students find strength in one another. of american universiTy’s current fulltime undergrad population, about 503 students are black. They make up about 7 percent of the student body at the predominantly white institution (PWI) in Northwest D.C. Being black at a PWI is “a love-hate relationship,” says Dumpson, a law and society major who grew up in Salisbury, Maryland, where she was first confronted with unabashed racism after a white student said “the n-word” in the
seventh grade. After Dumpson called the student out for it, her teacher made her read the dictionary definition of the word to the class. “I’m like, ‘You’ve got to be kidding me,’” she recalls. “I’m age 13 reading some bullshit.” Years later, Dumpson experienced a rash of racist incidents in college. It began in November 2014, when a grand jury chose not to indict Darren Wilson, a police officer, for taking the life of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. As black students protested in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, racial tension on campus thickened. Some students began posting hateful comments to Yik Yak, a popular app among college students at the time that allowed users to post anonymous messages that reached other Yik Yak users within a five mile radius. While protesting the Brown case, Dumpson recalls reading racially insensitive Yik Yak messages like “students are trying to study here—go yell somewhere else.” But black students didn’t have the luxury of moving around freely on campus, she says. It didn’t feel safe when the rise of anonymous messages could be coming from anyone—your roommate, your classmate, your professor. “That wasn’t a concern for a lot of white students,” she says. “They were comfortable with the messages, and that was very jarring.” In early December, former AU president Neil Kerwin released a memo about the campus climate. “We must hold up the university as a home for safe and respectful exchanges about the full range of risks that people face and how that makes us feel,” he said. About two weeks later, he released another memo addressing the Yik Yak posts specifically. “While we embrace freedom of expression, I strongly reiterate that bigotry and racism have no place at American University,” he wrote. He ended the memo by ensuring students
that campus leaders were responding to “these important issues.” The racist Yik Yak commentary continued. Since taking her parents’ advice to not withdraw from AU, Dumpson searched for solace. In the spring semester, she was inducted into Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, a historically black Greek-letter organization. “I was able to find a community of black women who were working to create programs on campus to help the experiences of students of color,” she says. Many black upperclassmen also became her mentors, and she forged friendships with other black freshman. “The black community were people who I didn’t have to explain myself to and people who understood what I was experiencing,” Dumpson says. “The black community was really where I found my home.” The Yik Yak attacks continued well into Dumpson’s sophomore year. One of the biggest campus rallies during that time was to protest the app. Students called on administrators to block it from the university’s Wi-Fi network, which other colleges had begun to do. Black AU students launched the #TheRealAU campaign on social media in October 2015, and a new student movement called The Darkening screenshot Yik Yak messages from the AU campus. “Anyone up for a counter protest? If you’ve got the rope, we’ve got the crosses ready to burn.” “Black people are so weird. So sensitive. Isn’t there some cotton that needs to be picked?” “If black people spent more time fixing other people instead of fixing their hair, we wouldn’t be in this issue. #rugs #thugs #drugs” “We, the white people oppose the protests because you all are attacking us. KKK should be
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here to defend us.” There was even a post about Michael Brown. “There once was a thug named Brown, Who bum rushed a cop with a frown. Six bullets later, He met his creator, Then his homies burned down the town.”
November 2014 Black students lead demonstration in support of Michael Brown; other students respond with hateful Yik Yak posts
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October 2015 Black students share screenshots of Yik Yak posts, sparking even more tension on campus
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September 2016 Black female students harassed with bananas and a sexual drawing in Anderson Hall March 2017 Taylor Dumpson is elected as AU’s first black female student government president
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May 2017 On her first day in office, bananas are hanging in rope fashioned as nooses on campus September 2017 Confederate flag flyers with cotton affixed are discovered on campus the day Dr. Ibram X. Kendi introduces AU’s new Antiracist Research and Policy Center November 2017 New multicultural space, HOME, opens on campus
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January 2018 President Burwell introduces new two-year “Plan for Inclusive Excellence” February 2018 Dumpson resigns as student government president
Dumpson recalls more than 100 such Yik Yak posts by the end of her sophomore year. Administrators continued to denounce the racist posts in statements, but never blocked the app from the campus Wi-Fi. (Yik Yak shut down all of its operations in the spring of 2017.) Many of the black freshman women in 2016 were part of a private group chat through another app. This is how Isabella Dominique, a political science major, found out about a race-related incident during her first month on campus. A black female student said that a banana was thrown into her dorm room in Anderson Hall, and another black freshman in the same dormitory said she found a rotten banana outside of her room and penises drawn on a whiteboard that was attached to her door. “A lot of us didn’t know if we were supposed to tell anyone or if the girl already told someone,” says Dominique. The victim did report the incident to authorities, but didn’t get the response she felt she deserved. Students say that it wasn’t until protests erupted that the university released a statement about the incident, which it did not characterize as bias-related. The statement said that the Dean of Students’ office was processing charges against the two white male students who were accused of the crimes. “I don’t think AU handled it well at all,” says Thery Sanon, a senior psychology major from Baltimore. “The main reason these protests popped off was there was no accountability, and AU was doing everything in their power to sweep this under the rug like it didn’t happen.” The university hosted a town hall meeting, which Kerwin did not attend. Instead, he did what students say had become a routine: He sent a memo to denounce the incidents. Dominique, whose dad is black and mom is white, hadn’t encountered many racist incidents before this. In Colorado, where she grew up, most people acknowledged that she was “black or some kind of a person of color,” but her race was never actually discussed. At AU, it’s different. “Black people can have white friends, but it’s more common that all the black people hang out with other black people on campus and usually white kids just stick to their white friends.” Having two black roommates during her freshman year was an eye opener. “I’m black, but I really didn’t understand what it meant or how it impacted me or why it’s important to find that part of myself,” she says. As she immersed herself in black culture at AU—parties, students organizations, friendships—she became an advocate for racial
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equality on campus. That meant joining the protest held for those two freshman victims. It also meant speaking truth to white students, face-to-face. She recalls one lunch in the cafeteria, after another race-related incident on campus, when white students voiced their frustrations about demands made by black student leaders. “I had to use my whiteness to say, ‘I understand where you’re coming from but also you’re an asshole, please just listen,’” says Dominique. “That was a terrible lunch.” aManda nyang’oro, who was also a freshman in the fall of 2016, was startled when she learned of the banana incidents. “After it happened, I was going to class and I saw a white man with a banana outside of my dorm room and my heart started racing,” says Nyang’oro, a public relations major who was born in D.C. but raised in Tanzania. “I really wanted to talk about it [publically] … I thought, ‘How can this be happening?’ ‘How can we just let this go by?’” While she considers herself black, Nyang’oro understands that she had a very different experience than that of her black peers who grew up in America. She attended an international school in East Africa, and though her mother graduated from AU, Nyang’oro was nervous about attending a PWI in the U.S. “I hadn’t been around that many white Americans in a long time so it was nerve-racking in the beginning.” Her freshman roommate was a white student who asked a lot of questions. “Does that girl have a weave on? Do black people have problems with pigmentation?” But Nyang’oro took it in stride. “Those are the types of questions that you kind of have to get over because she
hadn’t experienced meeting people like me,” Nyang’oro says of her roommate, who became a great friend. There’s another form of ignorance, though, that she finds less permissible. After the banana incidents, Nyang’oro says it was “very annoying” to hear white students say “‘Oh, we don’t understand why this is a problem,’ or ‘Why are they making it into a race thing?’” She tries to block herself from those types of white folks. “If you don’t know by now, I don’t know what else to tell you—Google is free, you can search it yourself.” there were six hate crimes on record at American University that year, according to a university public safety report, which defines a hate crime as “a criminal offense that manifests evidence that the victim was intentionally selected because of the perpetrator’s bias against the victim.” The banana incidents at Anderson Hall were not recorded in the figure. Still, the number of hate crimes doubled from the previous year. On campus, there were multiple “healing spaces” organized for black students to express their concerns, according to Dumpson, who was a junior when her freshman classmates faced bananas in their dorm. But the meetings weren’t without friction. “I saw students yelling at members of administration and I looked at administrators mentally check out,” she says. By this time, Dumpson had several leadership positions on campus. She was the inaugural president of Intercultural Greek Collective, which represents eight multicultural Greek organizations on campus. She’d been a program coordinator for the Explore DC through Social Justice program—part of the welcome week for
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incoming first-year and transfer students. And she lead a group during an alternative break session to study systemic racism and oppression in Baltimore following the death of 25year-old Freddie Gray. She was able to leverage her role as a student leader to have conversations with administrators. “You need students who are going to agitate, but you also need students who are able to code switch and explain what other students are saying,” she says. Dumpson penned her thoughts in an editorial for student-run newspaper The Eagle. There, she wrote about the resilience of her black peers. “Despite the challenges, black girl magic and black boy joy were everywhere on campus—people were doing their things,” she says. “There was so much amazing talent and so much that the community could offer and that was important—we were still continuing to thrive.” In February 2017, Dumpson considered a new challenge: campaigning to become AU’s first black female student government president. If she won, she would succeed the student government’s first African-American president in recent history, Devontae Torriente. “I recognized that what I was about to embark on was something that was going to be drastically different,” she says. “This was uncharted territory—there was no standard by which to be held, so I feel like people were just making up their own standards for me.” Dumpson didn’t want to be perceived as an “angry black woman” in certain situations. She wondered how students would respond to her kinky hair. She thought she may be considered uneducated or have to deal with mansplaining. She wondered if students would discount her experiences as a leader because she’d never been a part of student government. “I felt like I needed to be absolutely perfect, that I couldn’t mess up, and I had to work ten times harder because it’s a predominately white institution.” Dumpson was one of four student government president candidates, including two white male students and one white female student. She ran a campaign tied to her personal experiences on campus. Her slogan was “A[Different]U.” “There’s not one AU experience and there’s not one kind of AU student,” she says. “At the end of the day, we are all part of the American University community and because of that, we needed to shift the university and student government into a different direction.” Her platform had five target areas for university improvement: accountability, accessibility, inclusion, support, and transparency. Then, she and her team hit the ground running to get out the vote. “I was able to help to give voice to the experiences of students who felt invisible or felt seen and not valued, which I believed was an asset to me,” she says. “I was able to motivate these students to vote.” The late-March election was close between the two female candidates. Dumpson won by about 130 votes, with nearly 1,115 students casting their ballots for her. “I was so ecstatic—I literally just dropped to the floor,” she says.
a black high school senior attending a boarding school in South Carolina sent in his enrollment deposit to American University on the morning of May 1, 2017. Hours later, Joshua Dantzler watched as his social media timelines flood with news of a hate crime at AU. Bananas hanging from string in the shape of nooses were found in three places on campus. Some of them were scrawled “AKA Free,” which officials believe referenced Dumpson’s sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha. Other bananas said “Harambe Bait,” referencing the gorilla that was killed at the Cincinnati Zoo the previous year. The incident was categorized as a hate crime; it was later investigated by the FBI. After Dantzler’s friends confronted him about attending AU, he sought advice from his parents. “They said, ‘Joshua, you aren’t someone who runs away from tense situations. You’re going to go to American and you’re go-
fice, she says she wasn’t surprised that it happened, given the string of racial-bias incidents at AU and the rise of hate crimes being committed by white supremacist groups at other colleges across the country. “I remember that entire week like it was yesterday,” says Dumpson. “It’s something that I’ve thought about every single day since then.” One of the first things she did was call her parents, who came to D.C. in a matter of hours. She then sent an email to her fellow students. Within days she was nationally known—the de facto spokesperson for AU students. Dozens of print publications, online outlets, and television news stations wanted her to comment. “It was difficult to deal with the media attention because while I was wearing the student government president hat, I was worried about students and myself,” she says. By Thursday, she was running on few hours of sleep with no chance to process what happened. She also hadn’t had a full meal. “I had absolutely no appetite,” she recalls. After leading a two-hour, standing room only press conference, her mom bought her Chinese food and told her to get some rest. In proper millennial fashion, she settled down with her phone. In her emails, she saw an alert from the AntiDefamation League. It said that she was being
ing to change that campus.’ They said, ‘What if Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, and John Lewis all decided to run away in the face of racism or hatred? They had that decision, but where would we be as a country?’” Meanwhile in D.C, Dumpson found out about the hate crime from a friend who sent photos of the hanging fruit. Though she didn’t expect this kind of attack on her first day in of-
cyber trolled by a known neo-Nazi, the same guy who published the manifesto of mass murderer Dylan Roof. His message told followers “to give me a warm welcome in my newfound position,” she recalls. Dumpson read articles calling her a “nigger agitator,” “nigress,” and “monkey,” among other derogatory names. There was a Pepe the Frog meme in which the frog held a gun next to
It was also impactful to see the reign of consecutive black student government leadership. “No one saw that coming. I was like, ‘How are we going to get two black students back-to-back as student government president at a predominantly white institution?’... How the heck did that just happen?” Her term would begin later that spring.
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the head of a black cartoon figure with braids. “I took that as a threat to my life,” says Dumpson, who was given police protection until she went home to Salisbury for two weeks to decompress. Over the next month, she continued to consume the hate reads. “My mom wanted me to stop immediately, but I didn’t feel safe if I didn’t know what was being said about me,” she says. She read articles and browsed hundreds of comments from white supremacist supporters. The messages began to take a toll on her. “Post traumatic stress disorder is not just something that veterans or sexual assault victims have— it’s not something for a specific demographic,” she says. “I don’t think people recognize that racism, racial trauma, and discrimination have major implications on mental health.” It’s also something that needs to be talked about more in the black community, she says. “If I’d not had the support of healthcare professionals, family, and friends, there’s no way I’d be here talking to you today—I mean that wholeheartedly.” while Dumpson was on hiatus from campus in May, she got an unexpected call from Sylvia Mathews Burwell. AU’s board announced in January 2017 that Burwell would succeed president Kerwin, who announced his retirement in March 2016. Burwell wanted to have a candid conversation about how she could be of support, personally and to the entire student body, Dumpson says. She was impressed that Burwell called, considering she didn’t officially start her tenure as university president until June 1. She also appreciated her style of communication. “She’s very succinct and she can get a lot out of a short interaction,” Dumpson says of Burwell, who previously served as Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services under President Barack Obama. On her first day in office, Burwell hosted a jam-packed open house at the President’s Office Building. Over the next couple of months, she held a listening tour. “The biggest part of the summer is engaging and listening and learning across the campus and across the community, both inside and outside, to make sure that I’m understanding the priorities of the institution,” she told The Eagle in a July interview. The difference between President Kerwin and President Burwell? “It’s day and night,” says Dumpson, who saw Burwell make diversity and inclusion a priority, not just a talking point. afTer The pep talk from his parents, Dantzler headed to American University on a mission in the fall of 2017. “They reaffirmed my decision and I knew that when I came to AU, I wanted to be committed to making this campus safe and making this campus feel like a home away from home,” says the Rock Hill, South Carolina, native, whose parents prepared him early on for racism in the South. “It wasn’t a shock when
The ConfederaTe flag flyers with cotton were hung on the night Dr. Ibram X. Kendi introduced the university’s new Antiracist Research and Policy Center. For Kendi, an author and professor, one of the greatest acts of racism toward black students at predominantly white institutions across the country is administrators who don’t seriously implement zero tolerance policies when it comes to racial bias incidents. “Because there’s not a strong institutional response to those incidents that students face, they sometimes wonder whether the institution really has their back while simultaneous-
ly facing these many forms of racist abuse,” he says. In November, AU police held a community meeting to explain that they had increased their presence on campus. And in January 2018, President Burwell—who convened a town hall meeting immediately after the Confederate flag flyers were discovered—introduced her two-year “Plan for Inclusive Excellence.” “American University can only thrive when we affirm the dignity of everyone, when we demonstrate cultural competence, when everyone—especially students, faculty, and staff of color—feel included,” Burwell said in a video message introducing the plan. “I hope you will engage in it, read it closely, and find your own role in it.” Burwell also tells City Paper that the university is working closely with the AU police department, students, alumni, and the Anti-Defamation League. “We’ve learned how to better anticipate, deter and respond more quickly and effectively to hate crimes and bias incidents,” she says. Former president Kerwin says, “I offer my strong support for AU’s exceptional plan, for which there is evidence of a deep commitment across the university.” as Burwell sTarTs her journey toward change, Dumpson has as well. The graduating senior announced her resignation as student government president in February 2018. In December 2017, she was suspended from Alpha Kappa Alpha for one year. She declined to comment on what led to the sorority’s decision. An AKA spokesperson told City Paper that it was the result of an “internal investigation.” “This past year was really rough,” Dumpson says, adding that she lost 20 pounds last semester. “I felt like I needed to take a step back and I had done the best I could with what I had.” One of her proudest achievements as student government president was creating a designated space on campus for students of color. In November 2017, the Hub for Organizing, Multiculturalism and Equity, or HOME, opened in the Mary Graydon Center. “It’s something beautiful about seeing something that was once an idea become something tangible and being able to see the mark that you visibly left on your school.” It’s been a place where she’s seen students grow together and be themselves, unapologetically. “It’s a space to go if you don’t want to be around racist stuff or you don’t want to deal with everyone’s drama—you can go to HOME and literally feel at home.” As she fields acceptance letters from law schools, Dumpson continues to advocate for students. And she’s come to another realization about being black at a PWI. “We recognize that predominantly white institutions were not designed for students of color, so we try make these institutions work to our benefit,” she says. “But we don’t need to fit into things because we are already what we’re trying to fit into. Things need to fit to us.” CP
Mark Morris Dance Group Mark Morris, Artistic Director
Silkroad Ensemble with Alim Qasimov and Fargana Qasimova
Layla and Majnun D.C. premiere (Hajibeyli, arr. by Gandelsman, Jacobsen, and Qasimov/Morris)
Photo by Susana Millman
growing up I would deal with a classmate calling me a monkey or not being invited to certain things because of the color of my skin,” he says. Like Dominique and Nyang’oro, he learned that being black on a predominantly white campus means constantly having to educate his white peers. He finds himself doing that often in the classroom. In a recent political science class, his professor asked students if elections in America have always been fair and free. After one of the students said yes, Dantzler spoke up as the only black student in the room. “For a time, blacks couldn’t even vote, minorities couldn’t vote, women couldn’t vote,” Dantzler recalls telling the class. He brought up gerrymandering and redlining among other discriminatory practices. “No, elections aren’t fair and free—they’ve never been fair and free.” During his first semester at AU, in September 2017, Dantzler got his first dose of publicized racism on campus. Nearly a dozen Confederate flag flyers with chunks of cotton attached to them were posted at several buildings around campus. As protests erupted again, the hate-bias incident also served as Dantzler’s welcome into AU’s close-knit black community. “There were so many people who I hadn’t even met yet,” Dantzler says. “I didn’t know them, but we all were there for each other and supported one another.” For him, being black at American has also been about connecting with peers who become “brothers and sisters—who know the struggle, want to succeed with you, and are trying to help you succeed—so it’s a family dynamic.” He also recognizes that America and the workplaces ahead of him are diverse. “In order to become a better person, it’s important to constantly branch out—there are things that white people can teach you that black people can’t and vice versa,” he says. “I’ve definitely learned a lot of lessons dealing with white folks and how to work with people who don’t look like you.” Dantzler went on to run for a student government position, senator at-large, and won. In this role, the freshman advocates for improved campus safety and climate, as well as more diversity and inclusion. “I wanted to make sure that this could be the best four years that I can make it, and it starts with me,” he says.
“Beautiful! Distills the poetic legend with charm and taste” —The New York Times
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DCFEED Island Time Trinidadian traditions are having their moment in the sun in D.C.
Darrow Montgomery
Souk roti
By Nevin Martell “This is tamarind amchar,” says Adessa Barker, pointing to a small bowl filled with a deep purple sauce. “It’s sweet, tart, salty, and spicy all together.” It’s one of a rainbow of condiments, including a verdant apple chutney and a fiery pepper sauce with a bright orange hue, she has laid out on a counter inside the Edgewood culinary incubator Mess Hall. Barker then uncovers a series of bowls and platters, identifying dishes as she goes. There’s c u r ri e d ch i cke n , braised oxtail, stewed lentils, and mushroom masala in a rich coconut milk sauce. A thin roti bread known as buss up shut accompanies most meals. It’s fried and lightly beaten so it folds in on itself like a crumpled napkin. Barker recommends using it like an edible utensil. This is the food of her homeland, Trinidad and Tobago, a pair of islands located in the West Indies. The culinary culture on the islands is like nowhere else in the Caribbean. It’s a vibrant mash-up of West African and East Indian traditions—the former brought there
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by slaves starting in the late 1700s, and the latter by indentured servants starting in the mid-1800s. Curries exist alongside Creole elements. On top of all that, chefs have access to a bounty of fresh seafood, tropical fruits, and locally grown vegetables. Those aren’t the only influences. Almost every colonial power —Spain, France, England, and Holland—had a hand in the islands’ modern history, and there are significant Chinese and Syrian populations as well. To this day, locals often refer to the multicultural country as a “callaloo.” It’s their version of our “melting pot” analogy: Callaloo refers to a popular side dish that brings together a wide variety of ingredients. Barker’s food is currently available at her “virtual restaurant” Kaiso, which the 36-yearold lawyer-turned-chef operates out of Mess Hall. Diners can access it through delivery services, including UberEats and Caviar, and she aims to launch pop-up dinners in April. She is part of a new generation of Trinidadian-focused chefs who are bringing the islands to the District. Though there are longtime spots in D.C. serving classic Trinidadian food— most notably Teddy’s Roti Shop in Shepherd Park and 16th Street Heights’ Crown Bakery and Sunrise Caribbean Restaurant—the
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Benjamin’s on Franklin is now open inside Tastemakers in Brookland Wednesdays through Saturdays. The bar with a Benjamin Franklin theme serves $12 cocktails in a casual environment. Soon, food vendors like Ball or Nothing will supply patrons with snacks.
latest crop of talent isn’t afraid to honor the past, while putting their own spin on the cuisine. (And although the Trinidad neighborhood of Northeast D.C. was named after the island, it’s not a focal point of this Trinidadian renaissance.). That’s why Kaiso’s website describes its food as having “Trinidadian flair.” “This isn’t going to be your mom’s stewed chicken or your grandma’s rice,” she says. “This is my take on it in a modern way. It’s the same, but different.” Winnette McIntosh Ambrose, a Trinidad native who owns Souk on Barracks Row, agrees it’s important to signal to clientele that her food is “Trini inspired, but not exactly what you’d get in Trinidad.” These caveats are intended to preemptively ward off criticisms of fellow countrymen who come in expecting to enjoy foods prepared exactly the way they are back home. Take, for example, McIntosh Ambrose’s lunchtime wraps called Souk roti, which will be available starting March 23. They’re made with dhalpuri roti—an elastic yet flakey fried bread forged from finely ground split peas and spiced with turmeric, garam masala, and ground dried cilantro. Think of it as a Caribbean tortilla. She stuffs them like a square burrito with a trio of fixings: braised boneless oxtail and sweet potato, jerk chicken with caramelized pineapple and black quinoa, and curried chickpeas and potatoes with strips of skin-on curried mango that’s both sweet and savory. For McIntosh Ambrose, it’s okay that oxtail would never be in a roti and black quinoa is not a widely used product in Trinidad and Tobago. “It’s a reflection of my heritage in a very bold way,” she says. “I’m saying that we as Trinidadians can play with food, too.” At The Wharf, Kith and Kin Executive Chef Kwame Onwuachi deftly invokes the traditional elements of his Trinidadian roots, while still working to lure diners who might not have tried the country’s cuisine before. “I like to keep the dish’s integrity and then make it the way I make it,” he says. His grandfather, Winston Phillips, is renowned in the family for his curried goat with roti. Onwuachi has faithfully recreated it, but marinates the meat in a wealth of cilantro, garlic, and ginger to remove its trademark gaminess, then slow braises it until it’s tender. It arrives ladled over roasted potatoes and thinly shaved strips of celery with a neatly folded roti on the side. The chef knows that his Trinidadian diners are measuring his dishes against the versions they ate growing up. “It’s always an uphill battle,” he says. “Diners know it’s not going to be like their mom’s. I usually say that and they laugh.”
At Spark at Engine Co. 12 in Bloomingdale, Trinidad-born Executive Chef Peter Prime lets his heritage shine through on dishes like grilled oxtail, crispy geera pork rich with cumin, and jerk wings. His Jamaican friends like to claim the jerk wings, Prime says, “but we’ve been doing jerking in Trinidad for a long time.” His fry bread with a curried garbanzo bean dip is a play on the island sandwich known as “doubles,” a pair of baras (fried flatbreads) packed with curried chickpeas. All the spices and seasoning in Trinidadian cuisine calls for a cooling beverage. But the islands don’t have much of a local cocktail scene save for the Angostura bitters and rums that are produced there. The colorful frozen drinks with the paper umbrellas are strictly for the tourists. “It’s a rum and drinking culture,” says beverage consultant Duane Sylvestre, whose parents are Trinidadian. “Rum and coke. Rum and coconut water.” That doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy some of the country’s trademark flavors in liquid form. The best place to do so is at Service Bar DC on U Street NW. Its co-owners—Glendon Hartley and Chris Willoughby—both have Trinidadian roots. Hartley’s parents are Trinidadian and Willoughby was born there. Tamarind fruit, prized for its lip puckering tartness, is prevalent on the islands. Hartley’s “Burning Apple” cocktail is sweetened with a tamarind-honey syrup, perked up with habanero tea, and fortified with Calvados apple brandy. What’s referred to as hibiscus in the States, but called sorrel in the Indies, is another Trinidadian ingredient in Hartley’s arsenal. It adds a rich ruby hue to drinks and packs a tangy tartness best described as a red-berry-meets-floral flavor. It has appeared in a number of his creations, including as a simple syrup in a rum punch accented with nutmeg and pineapple. Hartley even helped add some Trini vibes to the food menu by replicating his mother’s beloved fried chicken spiced with clove, curry powder, and garlic. It’s a dish he learned by cooking with her and his grandmother growing up. Hartley believes getting a handle on the country’s cuisine ultimately made him a better barman. “It’s all about how to balance sweet and savory and add in spice, while still being able to taste everything,” he says. This deft balance of flavors also explains the innate appeal of Trinidadian fare, which these chefs and bartenders believe can connect with a wider audience. Since they are all now at a level where they can call the shots on what they serve, they’ve decided to let their roots shine through. In the process, they’ve brought a little bit of the islands into the District. CP
DCFEED Grazer
what we ate this week: Bavette steak with rye berry risotto, pickled currants, and Beemster cheese, $25, Sally’s Middle Name. Satisfaction level: 5 out of 5. what we’ll eat next week: artichoke braised with lemon, olive, pine nuts, and sheep’s milk ricotta, $9, 2 Amy’s. Excitement level: 4 out of 5.
Don’t Be Saddish, Try Fancy Radish
All photos by Laura Hayes
Chefs Richard Landau and Kate Jacoby are bringing their popular, boundary-pushing vegan cuisine from Philadelphia to D.C. Fancy Radish will open this month on H Street NE. Landau, who has been a James Beard Award finalist several times, takes diners around the world with his signature savory dishes that grace the menus at V Street and Vedge in the Keystone State. Here are five dishes you shouldn’t skip on your first visit. —Laura Hayes
Miso Butter Noodles with Pickled Ginger, Nori, and Cracked Pepper This dish tastes like Italian cacio e pepe and Japanese shio ramen had a heavy make out session. The noodles swim in a light broth that gets its subtle umami flavor from the miso. The tangle of noodles is hard to finish solo, so enlist a friend.
Peruvian Fries with Aji Amarillo, Cilantro, Dried Olive, and Peanut “Fries” is almost a misnomer for this dish which features thick rounds of potato dressed in an addictive sauce that aji amarillo peppers turn yellow. Landau says he’ll tone down the heat for D.C. Why? Chocolate-Stuffed Beignets Jacoby uses garbanzo bean flour to make these dense doughnuts. In order to make sure the center is filled with molten chocolate, she uses chocolate chips that melt once the spheres of dough hit the deep fryer. They’ll make an appearance on the Fancy Radish brunch menu once it launches.
’WichingHour The Sandwich: London Truffle Where: Deco Delicatessen Food Truck, consult @decodelidc for daily locations
Stuffings: Sliced London broil, roasted red peppers, arugula, truffle mayo Bread: Ciabatta roll Thickness: 2.5 inches
Caroline Jones
Price: $12 for two small sandwiches, $14 for three small sandwiches
Pros: While some beef served from a food truck can dry out over the course of the day, the paper-thin slices of London broil remain soft and perfectly pink inside your sandwich. The beef also stands up to the bold flavors of red pepper, arugula, and truffle. The sweet, peppery, and funky flavors are unexpected, but each element is in perfect balance, yielding a rich and meaty bite. Cons: Offering combos of two smaller sandwiches allows customers to try more options but the sandwiches are too small to create a filling meal, es-
PourYour HeartOut
Angry and Confused Clubgoer Inspires a Shot Best Served for Two Dan Dan Noodles with Five-Spice Mushrooms, Zucchini, and Red ChileSesame Sauce You’ll come back for this dish. The mushrooms are expertly grilled, giving them a crispy exterior, and the ramen-like noodles are the perfect vehicle for catching a potent sauce with just enough Sichuan peppers to induce the mala hot and numbing effect.
Ohitashi A neat pile of verdant green vegetables float in a mushroom-based dashi broth for a satisfying, healthy start to a meal. Landau says he plans to use pea shoots and Chinese broccoli at Fancy Radish and may add soba rice (cooked soba noodles cut into rice-sized pieces) to the bottom of the bowl. Smoked onions give the dashi, poured tableside, flavor typically imparted by bonito fish flakes. pecially at this price point. To keep these teeny sandwiches from toppling over, they’re also stuffed with less filling. The last few bites are mostly of dry bread. Sloppiness level (1 to 5): 2. Nothing oozes out the sides of this sandwich, but the top piece of the roll will come off if you’re not paying attention. Hold on tight. Overall score (1 to 5): 3. The flavors in this sandwich are on point, but that only matters to a certain degree when you’re still hungry after spending $12. It’s nice that Deco Deli has a big menu (including a sandwich tribute to the Prince of Petworth). I just wish their sandwiches were more sizable. —Caroline Jones
During a dance party at the bar I work at, one very lost, very confused patron went down in history and managed to inspire the name of a shot. A younger guy frantically approaches the bar giving me a face that’s either “baby’s first gay bar” or “oh god, the drugs are working,” and since I can’t tell which, I approach with caution. With no greeting or cash in hand, he loudly demands, “Two Tylers, please,” and I take pause. Brand new to bartending and assuming that this is a club drink, I take the order and ask my veteran coworker what the ingredients are, but she lets me know that a Tyler isn’t actually a drink. I ask him to clarify and tell me how he’d like his beverage, and he stomps off, agitated. Not five minutes later he returns, again, desperate for “Two Tylers, please.” I ask him to clarify again, and he starts rattling off names: “Tyler! Adams! Madison! Monroe!” Yup, former presidents of the United States. Christ. I shake my head, move to the next patron, and he runs off into the crowd. We’re safe behind the bar for 10 minutes. But he rears his precious head again while I’m describing his erratic behavior to a friend. Our hero, for a third time, demanding those “Two Tylers.” I tell him to scram, and he does—directly over to coat check where I later find out he’s been causing similar levels of confusion between bar visits, demanding to get his nonexistent coat back with a week-old claim ticket from the wrong bar. I never saw “Two Tylers” again, but I hope he’s out there living his best party-monster life! As for his legacy, a Tyler shot is made up of Blueberry Stoli, lemon soda, and a splash of cranberry. Accept no substitutes—it isn’t truly a Tyler unless it’s served in a pair.
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The 26th annual Environmental Film Festival kicks off this week. Read select reviews of this year’s film slate at washingtoncitypaper.com/arts.
All Work and No Play
Twin exhibitions by two abstract painters showcase the discipline and work that goes into producing great art. Steven Cushner: Double Down, Show No. 2 and Willem De Looper At Hemphill Fine Arts to Mar. 24 By John Anderson The recenT exhibiTions at Hemphill Fine Art are about putting in the time. It is likely most people don’t consider artists as ones who punch clocks to produce work. This is an exhibition that dispels the myth that an artist must be moved by some unforeseen “inspiration” as the modus operandi behind how an abstract artwork gets made. In the case of Steven Cushner, the exhibition title, Double Down presents a cocksure view of the artist’s discipline in the studio. He’s productive—according to Hemphill’s press release— and with every exhibition he has, there is enough work for two. So they decided to split his exhibition in half and present two “winning” exhibitions. Irrespective of the sloppy blackjack metaphor, Cushner tends to be a safe bet when it comes to his studio output, and the attempt to double-up certainly wasn’t a risky gamble. Cushner is a painter’s painter. While the contents of any painting are simple and inoffensive, certain elements within the paintings’ structures are seductive. There are the echoing means by which his iconographic tokens are drawn onto the canvas, often with repetitive marks radiating from a common axis or center. There is the building of values in the background, each competing to obscure what’s behind it, in an impossible game of peek-a-boo. But it’s what’s between the foreground token and the background color field that makes Cushner’s work so appealing: the fight each mark of paint makes. For instance, in “WHIRLPOOL #2,” the background brush strokes repeat, each traveling nearly the same length across the canvas. Cream marks block out and drip over earlier marks of lavender, and whatever else is beneath that. In fact, they drip on top of the S-shaped “whirlpool” token that sits on the background: cream dribbles falling over top of concentric blue and purple rings and parallel lines. Then again, dark purple drips also cascade down the canvas, traveling into the background, where the cream background marks have been applied, or reapplied, to edit them out. The textures and marks compel the viewer to pull the painting apart to figure out how it is made. And to pull apart the making of the work invites a barrage of questions: Which marks are by accident? Which are self-conscious correction? Which are deliberate efforts to imitate accident? Each painting possesses such paradoxes. In terms of each half’s individual strength, the second half of Double Down is the lamb to the lion of the first half (which closed Feb. 17). Six acrylic paintings and three watercolors adorn the
“Lost Cache, Series No. 6” by Willem de Looper, 1977
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“WHIRLPOOL” by Steven Cushner, 2017 walls. Technically, there are more acrylic paintings in the second half than in the first half, which presented only five. But the wonder of the first half was the playful wall dominated by 58 small watercolors: sketches produced over the last 16 years that spelled out the direction of future canvases in terms of color structures and tokens (most recently of fans, waterfalls, ellipses, sausages, and squiggles) that Cushner typically works through. They also presented an immediacy that the later, much larger acrylic paintings don’t: the difference between sweet bites, and a savory meal. in The back gallery, six works by Willem de Looper grace the walls. De Looper, who died in 2009, was another artist who put in the time, religiously painting when he wasn’t working his
way from museum guard to chief curator at The Phillips Collection over 28 years. Displayed are three larger canvases, typical of work that you might find at The Phillips Collection: Stained bands of color stretch horizontally across the surface of each painting. None of the bands possess solid values, instead they undulate between darks and lights, like the values in a moving fog. Atypical of what we normally associate with color school stain painting, there are no high-key colors in this exhibition: Composed of mostly earth tones, even a painting of mostly reds and oranges feels muted. The mark making isn’t strictly limited to overlapping stains. There are clear daubs of paint, as if he pressed the nozzle of a paint tube against the surface of the canvas, and squeezed paint directly from the tube, dragging it horizontally to echo the direction of the striations. The series of work was inspired by a trip the artist took to the Grand Canyon in 1972, a year before two of the untitled works were executed. In the studio, de Looper attempted to recreate his experience at the national park: that of shifting light against striated rock. Unlike other paintings in his oeuvre that touch on color field or geometric abstraction, in many respects these paintings function more in the tradition of landscape painting. The large paintings are paired with three smaller works on paper. Compositionally, the horizontal paintings on paper immediately evoke landscape and—in at least two compositions: “Lost Cache Series, No. 6,” and “Lost Cache Series No. 5”—the relationship between land, sea, and sky. Painted with a roller, the surface texture marbles and streaks in a manner that invites closer study. Perhaps it’s with the back gallery that the blackjack metaphor behind Double Down doesn’t seem as ham-handed as it first appeared. On the strength of the cards dealt by Cushner’s twin exhibitions, de Looper takes the house. CP 1515 14th Street NW. Free. (202) 234-5601. hemphillfinearts.com. washingtoncitypaper.com march 16, 2018 19
FilmShort SubjectS Foxtrot
Fever Dream Foxtrot
Directed by Samuel Maoz The mosT significanT developments in Samuel Maoz’s Foxtrot are predicated on mistakes. A man becomes undead. A soldier overreacts. An overcorrection on a desolate road kills a passenger. Oh, and there’s a lot of death and talk about death, too. When the film opens, Daphna and Michael Feldman (Sarah Adler and Lior Ashkenazi) are informed by officers from the Israeli army that their son, Jonathan (Yonatan Shiray) was killed in the line of duty. Daphna faints and is shot with a sedative; Michael, who really needs the sedative, is shocked into silence that soon turns into anger. (You would, too, if strangers kept sticking a glass of water in your face.) He stifles his sobs, kicks the dog— which is impossible to forgive him for—and scalds himself. All better choices, he seems to think, than letting his grief show. Later in the day, different officers stop by with news that is nearly as traumatic as the army’s first announcement. These opening minutes are defined by a stillness that will come to dominate each of the film’s three acts. The second act closes Daphna and Michael’s chapter and moves on to Jonathan’s, showing him with a few other soldiers guarding a supply-road outpost. This portion of the film is often funny and surreal, from a guard raising the road’s gate to let a camel pass by to another dem-
onstrating to his colleague how to do the foxtrot and then really busting a move when music begins to play. It’s hard to know what to make of these scenes—aside from a fatal and stunning instance of misjudgment, it’s mostly of boys being boys—but they’re never not watchable. The third act swings back to Daphna and Michael at sometime in the future. It suggests that they’re not together anymore— and some long-buried secrets from each see the light of day, too. Still, Maoz injects some life at the beginning in the form of animating the notebook that Jonathan kept. It’s a touching bit that links the kid to his father, though it leaves Michael with tears in his eyes. Ashkenazi hardly speaks at the bookends of this film, and with so very little dialogue, he’s the standout here, largely communicating with extremely subtle, fleeting expressions that you’ll miss if you look away. (He even apologizes to the dog with a barely there nod.) But Adler holds her own. Maoz, whose last film was 2009’s Lebanon, doesn’t always keep things clear, and you’ll find yourself wondering what’s happening on more than one occasion. And on a whole, the film is a little too still. In that way, however, Foxtrot resembles a dream, and one that carries you along with it. The themes—grief, guilt, regret—are hard to miss, and the final shot is a devastating gut punch that explains some question marks that come before it. Overall, it’s not necessary to have every moment defined. You’ll still be captivated. —Tricia Olszewski Foxtrot opens Friday at Landmark Bethesda Row and Angelika Mosaic.
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Laugh anD Death The Death of Stalin
Directed by Armando Iannucci
one of them aside and points to two names on the list: “Kill him in front of her, then kill her.” How do we laugh at this? Perhaps it’s because we know it’s an abstraction. Iannucci wisely lets each actor use their natural accent. Beale, who once played Stalin onstage in Collaborators, has a natural British accent, while Steve Buscemi plays Nikita Khruschev as a tough New Yorker. As such, we never feel that what we’re watching is real. It’s an approach with a few drawbacks, but it allows Iannucci to make his comedy darker than a Siberian winter without freezing the audience out altogether. After Stalin dies in the first act, Beri and Khruschev balance competing and concurrent instincts: to amass enough support from their fellow committee members—played by comedy legends such as Jeffrey Tambor and Monty Python’s Michael Palin—while also maintaining a false sense of loss and grief over their beloved leader. Buscemi makes the most of this task, displaying comic exasperation, for example, over being chosen to design Stalin’s funeral—essentially, a glorified event-planning gig—while outwardly appearing humbled and honored at having been chosen for such an important task. It’s a marvelous setup for comedy. Iannucci gets off his share of one-liners (“How can you run and plot at the same time?!”), displays a sharp ear for wordplay (“When I said ‘No problem,’ I meant, ‘No! Problem!’”) and indulges in the ageless humor of bodily functions, but the more acute brilliance is how he demonstrates the absurd desperation of living under a despot. Stalin may be gone, but revenge killing is close to official policy, and whoever takes his place will surely punish their rivals. It’s this panic that drives every plot development and nearly every laugh. Dedication to the party is paramount, so any moment in which the characters appear to be acting in their own self-interest could be their
The poliTical saTire of Armando Iannucci just can’t keep up with our real-world absurdity. His films (In the Loop) and TV work (Veep, The Thick of It) depict our politicians as either hapless bumblers or cutthroat schemers, a portrayal of government that was hilarious before our present-day reThe Death of Stalin alities began to outpace it. With every passing day, government becomes harder to satirize, and high-level incompetence is less funny. Perhaps a trip to the past is in order. In The Death of Stalin, Iannucci brings his sharp ear for political doublespeak and workplace absurdity to the days after the demise of the notorious Soviet dictator, when his underlings jockey for position, forge and break alliances, and compile enough undoing. Of course, each of them is doing exinterpersonal drama to make a full season of re- actly that in every moment. As the film builds to its nihilistic finale, these strands come toality television. No present-day parallels at all. It’s Iannucci’s best work yet, although it gether to form a tragically cynical ethos: The might not be his funniest. For once, the con- best way to protect yourself is to point the finsequences of his characters’ cowardly actions ger at someone else. No present-day parallels —Noah Gittell are reckoned with, and their victims are brazen- at all. ly displayed. Sons turn on fathers, friends plot against friends. In the first scenes, security chief The Death of Stalin opens Friday at Landmark Lavrenti Beria (Simon Russell Beale) gives his E Street Cinema and Landmark Bethesda Row soldiers their hit lists for the night. Beria pulls Cinema.
New York City Ballet Divertimento No. 15 (Mozart/Balanchine) Zakouski (Rachmaninoff, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky/Martins) A Kennedy Center premiere by Justin Peck: Pulcinella Variations (Stravinsky/Peck) Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux (Tchaikovsky/Balanchine) Symphony in Three Movements (Stravinsky/Balanchine)
Robbins Centennial Program: Bernstein, Glass & Verdi (Mar. 30–Apr. 1) Glass Pieces (Glass/Robbins) Fancy Free (Bernstein/Robbins) The Four Seasons (Verdi/Robbins) Part of Leonard Bernstein at 100
Sara Mearns and Jared Angle in Pulcinella Variations, photo by Paul Kolnik
Balanchine, Martins & Peck (Mar. 27–29)
The Improvised Shakespeare Company April 5–8 | Family Theater
March 27–April 1 | Opera House with the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra
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In an evening of off-the-cuff comedy, this critically acclaimed Chicago-based ensemble creates a fully improvised Shakespearean masterpiece right before your eyes, based on a single audience member’s suggestion for the title of a show that’s never been written before... until now.
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Independence day
Nederlands Dans Theater
Hold These Truths
By Jeanne Sakata Directed by Jessica Kubzansky At Arena Stage to April 8 The firsT Time Gordon Hirabayashi realized he was of Japanese ancestry, he was four or five years old. That moment of knowing you’re seen as “other” is a common experience for those in any minority group in this world of jostling, prejudiced humans. The interior journey away from shame is vividly delineated in Jeanne Sakata’s play Hold These Truths, which dramatizes the true story of Hirabayashi’s principled and lonely legal fight against the U.S. government after President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066 established curfews and forced the relocation of 120,000 Japanese-Americans to internment camps during World War II. The show, named after a key passage in the Declaration of Independence, makes its D.C.
Paul Lightfoot, Artistic Director
Singulière Odyssée, photo by Rahi Rezvani
Shoot the Moon (Glass/León & Lightfoot) The Statement (Belton/Pite) Singulière Odyssée (Richter/León & Lightfoot)
April 4–6 | Opera House with the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra
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debut at Arena Stage and brings back director Jessica Kubzansky and Korean-American actor Ryun Yu from the play’s 2007 world premiere in Los Angeles. In a tour-de-force solo performance across 90 minutes, Yu commands the stage with a vigorous physicality, comic impressions of dozens of varied American characters, and dramatic gravitas. His emotive performance pulls in the audience, garnering chuckles in lighter moments and hushed focus during the obsidian apex of Hold These Truths—when Hirabayashi learns he has lost his case before the U.S. Supreme Court in a unanimous decision. The line this hero utters in stunned reaction—that the people running the country see him as “no more than” a racist epithet—lingers long after the show ends. Hirabayashi, a Quaker, a student interrupted at the University of Washington, an asker of questions who turns himself into the FBI, likes banana cream pie. He’s a guy who read Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet by the light of the moon
while hitchhiking 1,600 miles from Seattle to the federal marshal’s office in Tucson, Arizona, to serve time before the Supreme Court agreed to take his case. Shaken to his clear-eyed, idealistic core, Hirabayashi does not let his disillusionment turn into a cynical loss of belief in his principles. Instead, he begins to see America’s political institutions as the people in them, “endowed with all the noble and ignoble qualities of other human beings,” he says in the play. “Most importantly, I begin to distinguish between the Constitution … and the people entrusted to uphold it.” In the 1980s, a discovery that the federal government deliberately suppressed evidence that Japanese-Americans posed no threat to national security leads to a phone call from constitutional law and civil liberties scholar Peter Irons: Does Hirabayashi want to reopen his case? By then a professor of sociology at the University of Alberta who has settled with his family in Canada, Hirabayashi tells Irons: “I’ve been waiting for your call for 40 years. Let’s go.” In 1987, when his two convictions for violating the curfew and failing to report for evacuation are reversed, the same Seattle courtroom, now packed with supporters, erupts in cheers. Headlines, press conferences, and an interview on 60 Minutes follow. (In May 2012, months after his death at 93, Hirabayashi was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama.) There’s a curious juxtaposition of this necessary lesson from American history being performed by one actor on a simple wooden stage with the contemporary art feel of its light-based backdrop—a glowing screen that changes colors distractingly. The effective sound design by John Zalewski, with thunder and birdsong, helps the audience to imagine the action more fully and the resourceful costumes, based on the original designs of Soojin Lee, balance the era’s style with fabric in an ontrend greige. A third-generation Japanese American, Sakata dedicated Hold These Truths to the memory of her parents. The love that went into this engrossing, inspiring play is striking. It surely wasn’t produced to earn the most money. It isn’t formulated for mindless popularity. It feels created for the sake of making very personal art that unites people as only a story performed in front of a live audience can. It was made because all of us hold these truths, or ought to. —Diana Michele Yap 1101 6th St. SW. $40–$90. (202) 544-9066. arenastage.org.
AARON DIEHL TRIO
SAT, APR 7, 8pm • SIXTH & I The jazz piano virtuoso and longtime collaborator of singer Cécile McLorin Salvant leads his own trio in an intimate evening of instrumental brilliance. A musical Renaissance man (his classical résumé includes solo appearances with the New York Philharmonic), Diehl is a leading force in the uniting of jazz with myriad other musical traditions. “Melodic precision, harmonic erudition, and elegant restraint” – New York Times
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Thursday, March 22nd 6:00-9:00 5:30-8:30 p.M. from 6:00-8:30 FULL Dinner
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CITY LIGHTS: FRIDAY
FRIDAY CAbAREt
Black cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Tainted Carbert USA Tour. 7:30 p.m. $15–17. blackcatdc.com.
CoUNtRY
the hamilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. Anders Osborne Solo. 8 p.m. $25–$30. thehamiltondc.com.
ElECtRoNIC
9:30 cluB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Nils Frahm. 8 p.m. $25. 930.com.
MARCH CONCERTS
Folk
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Fillmore Silver Spring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Mat Kearney with Andrew Belle. 8 p.m. $28. fillmoresilverspring.com.
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AN EVENING WITH
KRISTIN HERSH & GRANT LEE PHILLIPS THE BEAT HOTEL FREE SHOW!
NEW ORLEANS FUNK ST. PATRICK’S DAY PARTY
TU 20
GoSpEl
WAREHOUSE WEST PRESENTS TOSHA HILL w/ SCOTT KURT
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JAZZ
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THE FABULOUS THUNDERBIRDS FEAT. KIM WILSON w/ SOLOMON HICKS MARTY O’REILLY AND THE OLD SOUL ORCHESTRA w/ AUGUSTUS JAMES SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS PRESENTS THE REVELERS
pearl Street WarehouSe 33 Pearl Street SW. (202) 380-9620. Kristin Hersh and Grant Lee Phillips. 8:15 p.m. $25. pearlstreetwarehouse.com. Birchmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria. (703) 549-7500. The Oak Ridge Boys Shine The Light Tour. 7:30 p.m. $59.50. birchmere.com. BetheSda BlueS & Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. Tony Craddock, Jr. & Cold Front Album Release Concert. 8 p.m. $30. bethesdabluesjazz.com.
WoRlD
gW liSner auditorium 730 21st St. NW. (202) 9946800. Washington Performing Arts presents Wu Man & the Huayin Shadow Puppet Band. 8 p.m. $25–$45. lisner.gwu.edu.
SAtURDAY ClASSICAl
manSion at Strathmore 10701 Rockville Pike, North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Jessica Krash. 1 p.m. $15. strathmore.org.
ElECtRoNIC
9:30 cluB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. The Floozies. 10:30 p.m. $20. 930.com.
FUNk & R&b
Birchmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria. (703) 549-7500. The Manhattans featuring Gerald Alston. 7:30 p.m. $49.50. birchmere.com. pearl Street WarehouSe 33 Pearl Street SW. (202) 380-9620. The Beat Hotel. 8 p.m. Free. pearlstreetwarehouse.com.
Go-Go
hoWard theatre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899. Devin The Dude & Backyard Band. 11 p.m. $25–$70. thehowardtheatre.com.
HIp-Hop
dar conStitution hall 1776 D St. NW. (202) 6284780. G-Eazy. 7 p.m. $135–$235. dar.org.
RoCk
BetheSda BlueS & Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day “O’Malley’s March”. 8 p.m. $25. bethesdabluesjazz.com.
SUZANNE CIANI
Over the past few years, the electronic music world has seen the resurgence of the modular analog synthesizer, those boxy consoles that look like a switchboard and allow performers to fully customize their whirs, buzzes, and beats. And while it has become a bit of a boys-and-theirtoys scene, it wouldn’t be possible without the work of one innovative woman, Suzanne Ciani. Ciani’s decades-long career encapsultates the range of these limitless machines. A classically trained pianist, Ciani studied with influential synthesizer designer Don Buchla and computer music innovator Max Mathews before getting into the commercial music business, making sound effects for Coca-Cola and General Electric. Soon, Ciani was providing sound effects for the disco version of the Star Wars soundtrack and composing scores for TV and film before helping to kick off the new age music movement. Now, she’s able to engage in a music world influenced by her own innovations, teaming up with spiritual successor Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith on the 2016 album Sunergy, still plugging and patching her modular synth for a well-earned victory lap. Suzanne Ciani performs at 6 p.m. at the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, 2700 F St. NW. Free. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org. —Chris Kelly
WoRlD dumBarton church 3133 Dumbarton St. NW. (202) 965-2000. Celtic Tenors. 4 p.m. $39–$42. dumbartonconcerts.org.
SUNDAY ClASSICAl atlaS perForming artS center 1333 H St. NE. (202) 399-7993. Capital City Symphony: Family Concert: I Like to Move It (A.S.). 4 p.m.; 6 p.m. $25. atlasarts.org. muSic center at Strathmore 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. National Philharmonic: Spirited Brahms. 3 p.m. $23–$76. strathmore.org.
Folk Birchmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria. (703) 549-7500. The High Kings. 7:30 p.m. $35. birchmere.com.
FUNk & R&b Black cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Malcolm London. 7:30 p.m. $10–$20. blackcatdc.com.
pop capital one arena 601 F St. NW. (202) 628-3200. Justin Timberlake. 7:30 p.m. $95–$275. capitalonearena.monumentalsportsnetwork.com.
RoCk
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CAJUN/ZYDECO DANCE LESSON INCLUDED!
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KYLE CRAFT
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BLAIR CRIMMINS AND THE HOOKERS w/ THE ROCK-A-SONICS REVELATOR HILL w/ KAREN JONAS
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w/ MILO IN THE DOLDRUMS
APRIL CONCERTS SU 1 CASEY NEILL AND THE NORWAY RATS TU 3 JEN HARTSWICK & NICK CASSARINO W4
SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS PRESENTS DOM FLEMONS CD RELEASE w/ GREG ADAMS
TH 5 F 6
FORLORN STRANGERS THE BEANSTALK LIBRARY w/ THROWING PLATES
SA 7
JACK INGRAM w/ TRAVIS MEADOWS
SU 8
DWIGHT “BLACK CAT” CARRIER AND THE ZYDECO RO DOGGS
3PM ZYDECO DANCE PARTY ZYDECO DANCE LESSON INCLUDED!
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DELLA MAE w/ ONLY LONESOME DAN LAYUS w/ CHRISTIAN LOPEZ
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9:30 cluB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Moose Blood and Lydia. 7 p.m. $20. 930.com. the anthem 901 Wharf St. SW. (202) 888-0020. Judas Priest. 7 p.m. $55–$75. theanthemdc.com.
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3701 Mount Vernon Ave. Alexandria, VA • 703-549-7500
THE EMBASSY OF HUNGARY PRESENTS
Mar 16
BLUES FESTIVAL
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(OF BLUES TRAVELER), JOHN NEMETH, & LITTLE G. WEEVIL
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ALL GOOD PRESENTS
ANDERS OSBORNE W/ RYAN MONTBLEAU FRIDAY MAR
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THE OAK RIDGE BOYS “Shine The Light Tour”
AVERY*SUNSHINE Pet 20 MARC BROUSSARD Fangs
SQUIRREL NUT ZIPPERS 23 LEE ANN WOMACK Matt 24 TOM RUSH Nakoa 25 RIDERS IN THE SKY '40th Anniversary!' 22
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JAMES McMURTRY & JOHN MORELAND
GOLDEN GATE WINGMEN
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MIKE + THE MECHANICS
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RED BARAAT FESTIVAL OF COLORS W/ WOMEN’S RAGA MASSIVE WED, MAR 28
LIVE NATION & THE HAMILTON LIVE PRESENT
THE STEEL WOODS W/ THE TRONGONE BAND FRI, MAR 30
THE BLACK LILLIES
W/ THE BROTHER BROTHERS SAT, MAR 31
AN EVENING WITH
THE MACHINE
PERFORMING THE MUSIC OF PINK FLOYD SUN, APR 1 10am, 12:30pm, 3pm
EASTER GOSPEL BRUNCH FEATURING WILBUR JOHNSON & THE GOSPEL PERSUADERS TUES, APR 3
SPECIAL ACOUSTIC SHOW THURS, APR 5
THE SUBDUDES FRI, APR 6
WILLIE NILE SAT, APR 7
MIPSO W/ TOM BROSSEAU
An Intimate Evening with
LANGHORNE SLIM Skyway Man 29 CRIS WILLIAMSON, BARBARA HIGBIE, TERESA TRULL MARSHALL CRENSHAW & THE BOTTLE ROCKETS 31 CLEVE FRANCIS Apr 2 BILLY COBHAM’S Crosswind Project 30
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STEVE EARLE & THE DUKES ‘30th Anniversary of Copperhead Road!’ with The Mastersons
RONNIE MILSAP 6&7 MARTY STUART & His Fabulous Superlatives
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SAM BUSH 11 CHRISTOPHER CROSS Danny Burns
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A Celebration of
RORY GALLAGHER “Band of Friends’ featuring
AN EVENING WITH
DARK STAR ORCHESTRA
DAVY KNOWLES, GERRY, McAVOY, TED McKENNA 13
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LOS LOBOS
There may not be a more apt event title than The Black Love Experience. Much more than a pop-up, party or concert it’s a celebration of black excellence. Or, as the women behind Anacostia Arts Center boutique Nubian Hueman put it: “a conglomerate of artistry and inventiveness geared toward creatives, revolutionaries, kindred souls, and fearless visionaries celebrating ourselves under the canopy of all things black.” Sounds about right. Like always, art, shopping, food, and live music will be readily available, including local rappers Sa-Roc (pictured) and Tabi Bonney, and local African percussionist Jabari Exum. This year 's event also serves as its 5th anniversary bash. With space in the store, the hallways, and the lobby seating area, it’s set to be an Anacostia Arts Center takeover. And thanks to last year’s sold-out show, the fun is expanding into Honfleur Gallery and The Hive 2.0. The Black Love Experience’s 2018 theme is just as apt: Passport to Wakanda, with a focus on how to continue the spirit of the billion dollar-grossing smash Black Panther film. A portion of the proceeds will go to local organizations and schools, giving some of that black love back to the community. The event begins at 7 p.m. at the Anacostia Arts Center, 1231 Good Hope Road SE. $25–$55. blackloveexperience.com. —Kayla Randall dc9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. The Casket Lottery. 8 p.m. $17–$20. dcnine.com.
MoNDAY blUES
BaSin St. lounge 219 King St., Alexandria. (703) 549-1141. Moonshine Society. 9 p.m. Free. 219restaurant.com.
FUNk & R&b
Birchmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria. (703) 549-7500. Avery Sunshine. 7:30 p.m. $55. birchmere.com.
JAZZ
BlueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Eric Byrd Trio. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $22. bluesalley. com.
pop 9:30 cluB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Wild Child. 7 p.m. $20. 930.com. muSic center at Strathmore 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Weird Al Yankovic. 8 p.m. $49–$79. strathmore.org.
RoCk dc9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Soft Kill. 8 p.m. $12. dcnine.com. the hamilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. The Black Lillies with The Brother Brothers. 8 p.m. $20.00 - $25.00. thehamiltondc.com.
WEDNESDAY ElECtRoNIC
pop
Soundcheck 1420 K St. NW. (202) 789-5429. Buku. 10 p.m. $10–$15. soundcheckdc.com.
VoCAl
9:30 cluB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Betty Who. 10 p.m. $25. 930.com.
9:30 cluB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Coast Modern. 7 p.m. $20. 930.com. kennedy center millennium Stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. National Sawdust Project: M is Black Enough. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.
tUESDAY CoUNtRY
pearl Street WarehouSe 33 Pearl Street SW. (202) 380-9620. Tosha Hill. 8 p.m. $10. pearlstreetwarehouse.com.
pop RoCk Birchmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria. (703) 549-7500. Robin Trower. 7:30 p.m. $55. birchmere.com. Black cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Son Lux. 7:30 p.m. $18-$20. blackcatdc.com. dc9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Born Ruffians. 8 p.m. $15. dcnine.com.
FUNk & R&b
the hamilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. Golden Gate Wingmen. 8 p.m. $25.50–$34.50. thehamiltondc.com.
JAZZ
pearl Street WarehouSe 33 Pearl Street SW. (202) 380-9620. The Fabulous Thunderbirds featuring Kim Wilson. 8 p.m. $40–$50. pearlstreetwarehouse.com.
Birchmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria. (703) 549-7500. Marc Broussard. 7:30 p.m. $35. birchmere.com. BlueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Roni Ben Hur Trio. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $22. bluesalley.com.
rock & roll hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625. The Wedding Present. 8 p.m. $20. rockandrollhoteldc.com.
Merriweather Post Pavilion • Columbia, MD
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Earth, Wind & Fire • Smokey Robinson • Anita Baker and more!.. JUNE 1 - 3
THIS WEEK’S SHOWS
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Maneka w/ Bleary Eyed • Tosser • DJ Franzia ......................F 23 Godspeed You! Black Emperor w/ KGD .......................................Sa 24 of Montreal w/ Mega Bog .......Su 25 Turnover w/ Mannequin Pussy
Sofi Tukker ..............................W 18 ALL GOOD PRESENTS
Sa 31 - w/ Consider The Source) .......................................F 30 & Sa 31
Lotus .............................F 20 & Sa 21 The Weepies Hideaway 10 Year Anniv. Tour w/ Curtis Eller’s American Circus .Su 22 Stars w/ Dan Mangan .................M 23 Steven Wilson w/ Paul Draper ...........................Tu 24 The Cadillac Three ...............W 25 Unknown Mortal Orchestra w/ Makeness ................................F 27 Echosmith w/ The Score & Jena Rose ..........Su 29 Kate Nash w/ Miya Folick .........M 30
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The Soul Rebels feat. GZA & Talib Kweli .......Th 29 ALL GOOD PRESENTS
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The Motet w/ Soule Monde ......Th 5 The Black Angels w/ Black Lips .................................M 9 Andy Grammer w/ James TW .Tu 10 Thirdstory ...............................Th 12 ALL GOOD PRESENTS
Perpetual Groove w/ CBDB ..F 13 ALL GOOD PRESENTS
Hurray For The Riff Raff & Waxahatchee w/ Bedouine ..............................Su 15
Carpenter Brut Late Show! 10pm Doors ....................Tu 1 D NIGHT ADDED!
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Matt and Kim w/ Tokyo Police Club & Future Feats .............................Th 3 ALL GOOD PRESENTS
TAUK w/ Of Tomorrow & Deaf Scene ......F 4 Ani DiFranco w/ Gracie and Rachel ..................Sa 5 Bahamas ....................................Su 6 Panda Bear w/ Geologist ...........M 7
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Dierks Bentley w/ Brothers Osborne & LANCO ................................................. MAY 18 Jason Aldean w/ Luke Combs & Lauren A laina ................................................. MAY 24 Florida Georgia Line .................................................................................... JUNE 7 Robert Plant & The Sensational Space Shifters w/ Sheryl Crow .................................................................................................. JUNE 12 Ray LaMontagne w/ Neko Case................................................................ JUNE 20 Sugarland w/ Brandy Clark & Clare Bowen ......................................................... JULY 14 Dispatch w/ Nahko and Medicine for the People & Raye Zaragoza ............. JULY 21 David Byrne w/ Benjamin Clementine ................................................................ JULY 28 VANS WARPED TOUR PRESENTED BY JOURNEYS FEAT.
3OH!3 • August Burns Red • Less Than Jake and more! ......................... JULY 29
Lady Antebellum & Darius Rucker w/ Russell Dickerson..........AUGUST 2 Jason Mraz w/ Brett Dennen .....................................................................AUGUST 10 AUG 11 SOLD OUT!
Phish .................................................................................................................AUGUST 12 Kenny Chesney w/ Old Dominion ............................................................AUGUST 22 • For full lineups and more info, visit merriweathermusic.com • 930.com
Lincoln Theatre • 1215 U Street, NW Washington, D.C. JUST ANNOUNCED!
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PostSecret: The Show ...... MAR 24 Rob Bell w/ Peter Rollins .......... MAR 27 Jacksepticeye ...........................APR 3 Max Raabe & Palast Orchester.............APR 11 Rick Astley ................................APR 18 ALL GOOD PRESENTS moe................................................APR 20
Calexico w/ Ryley Walker ............APR 27
Robyn Hitchcock and His L.A. Squires
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Radiotopia Live ....................... MAY 9 Jessie Ware ..............................MAY 11 The Kills w/ Dream Wife .............MAY 14 Gomez: Bring It On 20th Anniversary Tour ....JUNE 9
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9:30 CLUB PRESENTS AT U STREET MUSIC HALL The Hunna & Coasts w/ Courtship .................................Sa MAR 17 The Strypes w/ Peter Oren ................... F 23 The Marmozets ................................ Sa 24 Vinyl Theatre & Vesperteen w/ The Stolen ........................................ Su 25
Hollie Cook w/ Jenna Camille.............. M 26 Albert Hammond Jr w/ The Marias.. Tu 27 Digitalism ........................................... W 28 Curtis Harding w/ Un Blonde ............ Sa 31 Fujiya & Miyagi w/ Annie Hart ..... Su APR 1 Janine .................................................... M 2
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alaBama Story From playwright Kenneth Jones comes a story about a librarian in segregationera Alabama who purchases a children’s book that angers an intolerant state senator who goes on a crusade against the book. This area premiere is based on a true story from the 1950s. Washington Stage Guild at Undercroft Theatre. 900 Massachusetts Ave. NW. To April 15. $50–$60. (240) 582-0050. stageguild.org.
After leaving The Tonight Show with Jay Leno in 2010, bandleader and sidekick Kevin Eubanks picked up his longdormant recording career— and got slapped with the epithet “smooth jazz.” Whoever made the charge hadn’t been paying attention. Eubanks, the second of three jazz-playing brothers from Philadelphia, is certainly a grooveminded fusion guitarist who’s equally strong as a melodist. A lazy ear might immediately peg him as a smooth guy. But Eubanks doesn’t make music for the lazy ear. His funky rhythms are subtly complex, his improvisations are remarkably sophisticated, and his vocabulary on the guitar accounts for the full spectrum of jazz history with the instrument. More to the point, though, Eubanks loads his music with soul. It takes on several shapes, from hot riffs to exquisite ballads, and no small amount of humor and wit as well. It’s real, and it’s undeniable. Kevin Eubanks performs at 8 and 10 p.m. at Blues Alley, 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. $35–$40. (202) 337-4141. bluesalley.com. —Michael J. West
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chicago A Susan Marie Rhea and Mark A. Rhea-directed incarnation of the well-known stage musical with classic songs from composer John Kander hits the Keegan Theatre stage. Convicted and sent to death row, Roxie Hart vies for the spotlight and the headlines, in search of fame, fortune and acquittal. Keegan Theatre. 1742 Church St. NW. To April 7. $45–$55. (202) 265-3767. keegantheatre.com. every Brilliant thing Written by Duncan Macmillan with Jonny Donahoe, this Jason Loewith-directed production is about a 7-year-old who makes a list of things to live for—from ice cream to the alphabet—after his mother’s attempted suicide that grows from childhood to adolescence to adulthood. Every Brilliant Thing is a one-person show that invites its audience to become a custodian of the all-important list. Olney Theatre Center. 2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney. To March 25. $49–$74. (301) 924-3400. olneytheatre.org. hold theSe truthS From playwright Jeanne Sakata and director Jessica Kubzansky comes the true story of Gordon Hirabayashi, the American son of Japanese immigrants who defied judicial injustice to uphold the ideals and values on which America was founded during a time of fear and rage. Hold These Truths presents an America reeling from the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, and, driven by prejudice, placing its own citizens of Japanese ancestry in internment camps. Arena Stage. 1101 6th St. SW. To April 8. $81–$111. (202) 488-3300. arenastage.org. in the heightS Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda’s first Broadway musical comes to the Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater for six performances. The story focuses on a vibrant, multicultural community on the brink of change in New York’s Washington Heights neighborhood. Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater. 2700 F St. NW. To March 25. $69–$175. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org. motoWn: hitSville u.S.a. No other record company has had as enormous an impact on music’s history as Motown, producing artists like Smokey Robinson, The Temptations, Stevie Wonder, and The Supremes, to name a few. Groove to years worth of Motown hits, from “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” to “My Girl” to “Stop! In the Name of Love.” Signature Theatre. 4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington. To March 18. $35–$70. (703) 820-9771. sigtheatre.org.
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Baltimore native Michael A. McCoy has only been a practicing photographer since 2013, but his black-and-white prints on display at Photoworks at Glen Echo Park have a decidedly old school feel. More importantly, his intimate images show a keen eye for personal connections, whether that’s with wide-eyed children at play or with veterans struggling with PTSD—McCoy himself is an Iraq War vet. In “Black Girl Magic,” McCoy captures a jumproping youngster whose expression suggests half-exhilaration, half-terror. In “Seven,” an exceptionally poised young boy opens his jacket to reveal a Colin Kaepernick jersey. “Untitled” shows an older brother comforting a younger sibling who’s scared of getting a haircut. Also, impressively, the photographer is confident in capturing both spur-of-the-moment tableaux, like the crammed yet isolated smartphone-focused Metro riders, and eloquent, unrushed compositions, like boots and a flag left at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The exhibit is on view through April 8 at Photoworks, 7300 MacArthur Blvd., Glen Echo. Free. (301) 634-2274. glenechophotoworks. org. —Louis Jacobson nat turner in JeruSalem Written by Nathan Alan Davis, this production, making it’s D.C. premiere, imagines Nat Turner’s final night in a jail cell in Jerusalem, Virginia. As Turner reckons with what the dawn will bring, the story examines the power of an individual’s convictions. Forum Theatre at Silver Spring Black Box Theatre. 8641 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. To April 7. $18–$38. (301) 588-8279. forumtheatre.org. Shear madneSS A famed concert pianist who lives above the Shear Madness unisex hair salon dies in a scissor-stabbing murder. Set in modern day George-
town, this interactive comedy whodunit lets its audience solve the crime. Kennedy Center Theater Lab. 2700 F St. NW. To June 10. $54. 202-467-4600. kennedy-center.org. Speech and deBate This black comedy with music from the acclaimed Stephen Karam (The Humans) is about outcasts in a puritanical town in Salem, Oregon. Linked by a local sex scandal, this unlikely trio of outsiders joins forces to expose the truth. Theatre on the Run. 3700 S. Four Mile Run Drive, Arlington. To March 18. $20–$30. (703) 228-1850. arlingtonarts.org.
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There’s more to Florida than theme parks, gun violence, and tanked-up weirdos setting themselves on fire (Godspeed, Florida Man). The state is absolutely gorgeous, for one thing, and I’m not just talking about its beaches. Florida’s interior is replete with the teeming swamps of the Okefenokee, the vast wildlife habitats of the Everglades, and the cypress swamp of the Big Cypress National Preserve. There are a lot of gorgeous swamps in Florida, is what I’m saying, and few people know them better than National Geographic photographer Carlton Ward Jr., an eighth-generation Floridian. Ward has been documenting his native state’s natural wonders for years, both in photographs and through his work with the Florida Wildlife Corridor conservation project. In 2012 and 2015, Ward and some colleagues explored that corridor at length, hiking, paddling, riding, and swimming their way through 1,000 miles worth of underappreciated terrain. At the Grosvenor Auditorium, Ward will present an illustrated lecture on his work in wild Florida—and make the case for why it’s less important to drain the swamp than to save it. The talk begins at 7:30 p.m. at the Gilbert H. Grosvenor Auditorium, 1600 M St. NW. $25. (202) 857-7700. nationalgeographic.org/dc. —Justin Peters
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For a brief moment at the beginning of the decade, Tumblr was turning Zeitgeist-wielding teens into pop culture stars. That’s how Justine Skye, a purple-haired singer and Brooklyn native, inked a deal with Atlantic Records with little more than a hearty follower count and a cover of Drake’s “Headlines” to her name. A few EPs of hip-hop-flavored R&B followed, but failed to make waves. That might change with her debut album, ULTRAVIOLET, which was released in January. Now, the 22-year-old has the backing of Jay-Z’s Roc Nation, and more importantly, has found her voice: an elastic tone that moves from half-rapping to half-lidded balladry with ease, as comfortable alongside R&B crooner Jeremih as she is with Afrobeats star Wizkid. The personality that got her all that Tumblr attention in the first place animates her tales of broken hearts and late night texts: “I know I’m cool ’cause I know what this is. I know I’m cool ’cause I’m a realist,” she sings on “Don’t Think About It.” Justine Skye performs at 8 p.m. at Songbyrd Music House, 2477 18th St. NW. $15. (202) 450-2917. songbyrddc.com. —Chris Kelly washingtoncitypaper.com march 16, 2018 33
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gringo David Oyelowo stars as a law-biding businessman who finds himself becoming a wanted man in a fight for survival. Co-starring Charlize Theron and Joel Edgerton. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) the leiSure Seeker Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland star as a couple traveling on an unforgettable journey in the RV they call The Leisure Seeker. Co-starring Janel Moloney. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) love, Simon When it is revealed that student Simon Spier is gay, he must face his family, friends, classmates, and himself. Starring Nick Robinson, Jennifer Garner, and Josh Duhamel. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) the StrangerS: prey at night Three masked assailants terrorize a family staying in a mobile home park. Starring Christina Hendricks, Bailee Madison, and Martin Henderson. (See washingtoncitypaper. com for venue information) thoroughBredS Two rich teenage girls hatch crackpot plans to solve both of their problems, taking matters into their own hands. Starring Anya TaylorJoy, Olivia Cooke, and Anton Yelchin. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) tomB raider Lara Croft, the daughter of a missing adventurer, finds herself on a perilous journey where her father disappeared. Starring Alicia Vikander, Dominic West, and Walton Goggins. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) a Wrinkle in time Young girl Meg gets sent on a journey to different worlds to find her missing father. Starring Storm Reid, Oprah Winfrey, and Reese Witherspoon. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information)
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