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DistrictLine Independent Study The pressure is on for D.C.’s inspector general, who is leading an investigation of the city’s troubled schools.

By Andrew Giambrone The official governmenT watchdog whose office monitors District agencies for fraud, waste, and mismanagement faces his biggest challenge yet.

Now in the fourth year of his tenure, D.C. Inspector General Daniel W. Lucas is trying to get to the bottom of the graduation and attendance scandal that has damaged the reputation of D.C.’s public schools with successive revelations that the system has promoted students who are not ready for college.

But Lucas’ work is proceeding largely out of public view for legal and investigatory reasons.

His review also has a wide-ranging scope, meaning that parents, officials, and education advocates will have to wait weeks, if not months, for results.

The review appears to be the top priority for the Office of the Inspector General, which has recently examined D.C.’s handling of illegal construction, contracts for hotels used as emergency shelters, and mayoral appointees, among other issues. A spokesperson for Lucas said he could not comment on the investigation because it is ongoing, but said OIG is committing substantial resources and the proper time to it.

A Navy veteran who served for 26 years in deployments around the globe, Lucas comes across as a no-nonsense civil servant who has high expectations for himself and his staff, according to public records and those who know him. He held various inspector general positions in the Navy.

In late 2014, then-lame duck Mayor Vince Gray nominated Lucas to his current role. The D.C. Council quickly approved him.

“I always knew that I would have frank and candid discussion[s with him] because Mr. Lucas never tells you what you want to hear, he always tells you what you need to hear,” said Al Pierson, one of Lucas’ naval colleagues, during an October 2014 hearing on Lucas’ nomination. In written testimony, then-Vice Admiral James F. Caldwell Jr. praised Lucas for his “great integrity and ethical conduct.”

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This is not the first time Lucas has looked into D.C.’s school system. Early last year, he found that high-ranking District officials had received special school transfers for their children from former public schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson. Lucas reported that seven people gained favor in 2015. His findings sparked outrage because the transfers went around the competitive lottery process.

The current review goes much deeper than that. It stands to shake public confidence in schools, particularly if it determines, as some D.C. councilmembers and advocates suspect, that administrators papered over severe student absences and academic failures to foster a rosy picture of public education.

During an election year, Lucas’ review also stands to shape residents’ perspectives on incumbents’ stewardship over schools. Yet the extent to which it could cost candidates votes might be limited, due to electoral timing.

Politicos are wondering whether Lucas’ investigation will come out before the June 19 primary, in which Mayor Muriel Bowser is seeking to be the Democratic nominee for the November 6 general election. If Bowser wins the primary—as she is expected to, given that no serious challenger has submitted the required number of nominating petitions to the

DC Board of Elections with the deadline imminent—she will take a major step toward becoming the first District mayor to win a second term since Tony Williams did so in 2002.

If the official results of Lucas’ investigation are damning, Bowser could suffer further damage to her administration’s standing around education. Although the root causes of many of the school scandals that have recently come to light existed before she took mayoral office, the buck now stops with Bowser. In the District, the mayor rather than an elected education board controls the schools.

The administration has taken several hits over the past six months. In November, WAMU and NPR reported that at Ballou Senior High School in Southeast, half of the most recent graduates had missed more than three months of school. The report led to a third-party audit.

Released in late January, the audit found that one in three 2017 DC Public Schools graduates did not meet the requirements to receive diplomas. Then, in early March, DCPS revealed that less than half of high school seniors were “on track” to graduate properly by the end of the academic year.

Lucas’ inspection is likely to unearth moregranular data on student attendance and graduation. But it could also confirm or point to

various kinds of fraud and mismanagement within the school system, like teachers and administrators changing grades or granting students exemptions from rules to doctor results.

Moreover, it is known that OIG is probing the circumstances surrounding the resignation of former DCPS Chancellor Antwan Wilson, who violated a policy he had created himself when he sought a special school transfer for his daughter. Bowser said OIG approached her about the probe several days before Wilson and ex-Deputy Mayor for Education Jennifer Niles resigned.

Expectations for OIG’s review are high because pols have cited it as a reason for not pressing Bowser on whether she knew of the transfer for several months, as Wilson has claimed. After initially calling for an “emergency hearing” on the matter, David Grosso, the chair of the Council’s education committee, reversed course and said he would revisit the need for a hearing after OIG’s report.

“The question is where should our focus be,” Council Chairman Phil Mendelson says of the legislature’s role. “I think our highest priority is turning around what’s going on in the classroom. It’s clear that we’ve got to make some changes.”

Lucas is not the only one investigating D.C. schools. The District’s Board of Ethics and Government Accountability is also examining the transfer of Wilson’s daughter between schools. Also, both the FBI and the U.S. Department of Education are analyzing DCPS with a focus on Ballou.

As a point agency for oversight of the District government, though, OIG has a unique mandate to ensure local taxpayer dollars are being used efficiently. Its leaders have six-year terms, which helps protect the office from the influence of mayors and councilmembers, who have four-year terms. Lucas’ term runs until May 2020.

Naturally, checks and balances cause tension—a fact Lucas is well aware of. “It is not lost on me that the job of Inspector General is one where it is nearly impossible to please everyone all of the time and your reputation is under constant attack,” he told councilmembers during the hearing on his nomination.

“But I take the approach that character is far more important than reputation.”

He then quoted the late, famed coach of the University of California at Los Angeles basketball team, John Wooden: “Be more concerned with you character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.”

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Conflict of Interest A dispatch from the city’s beleaguered housing agency, where infighting and public outrage aren’t outside the norm

By Morgan Baskin It’s 4:00 p.m. on another windy March weekday, and the throng of residents-cum-activists inside the District of Columbia Housing Authority’s monthly meeting is getting restless.

T h e y ’ ve b e e n there for almost three hours, and they’d like more time to talk. Visibly tired and agitated, the Authority’s 11-member board of commissioners sit in a semicircle under a host of fluorescent yellow lights and try to calm attendees down.

The board has been listening as witnesses deliver scathing, outraged, and often heartbreaking testimony about the living conditions of properties operated by the Housing Authority, including Ward 8’s notorious Barry Farm.

One of those people, a 71-year-old woman, lambasts commissioner Frank Lancaster for reneging on a promise to come visit her property and refuses to step down from the microphone until he commits to a new date.

He offers a mea culpa: He was at a staff retreat that day, he says. “You just didn’t show up,” she scolds him. “Pick a time. Pick a time.”

Another Barry Farm resident talks about the condition of her apartment and alleges that the management is condescending and largely absent. “Not even the dog wants to live there,” she says, adding that her depression has grown more profound because of it.

The crowd mumbles sympathetically when she speaks, and the commission’s chairman, Neil Albert, repeatedly asks members of the audience to be quiet.

During another testimony, commissioner Aquarius Vann-Ghasri walks over to deliver tissues and water to a sobbing tenant.

The scene isn’t a new one for the Authority, which is responsible for administering housing vouchers to tens of thousands of low-income D.C. residents. In 1994, it was placed under court-ordered receivership—that is, it was temporarily operated by a third party— and has since been restructured to depoliticize the board of commissioners and enforce its status as an independent city agency.

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able housing units to project-based vouchers.

Unlike other tenant-based vouchers, PBVs are granted to housing units rather than people.

Switching to PBVs would see the Housing Authority pay thousands of dollars (per unit) to redevelop Barry Farm in Ward 8, Park Morton in Ward 1, and Kenilworth Courts in Ward 7, the first two of which are included in the stalled New Communities Initiative.

Policy analysts and advocates for low-income tenants and the homeless, including those at the DC Fiscal Policy Institute, Bread for the City, and Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless have expressed concern that, if the Housing Authority merely shifts funding mechanisms rather than increasing resources for affordable housing, it’ll prevent the Authority from creating new affordable units—and, in fact, could shrink the number of existing affordable units.

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releasing WC Smith, a property management and development company, from a 2008 contract to build 30 public housing units along the Southeast waterfront. It is no longer interested in doing so “because of economic and other considerations.” Smith would pay the city $8.2 million for the property. (The board ended up not voting on that measure this month.)

Those resolutions are indicative of the agency’s tendency to make “decision after decision after decision that tilt toward high income residents,” and “very skewed” investments, Patricia Fugere, executive director of the Washington Legal Clinic of the Homeless, told this reporter on the phone shortly before the Housing Authority’s vote.

The PBV measure went on to pass that day, and some some members of the public, along

with a commissioner, are calling foul play.

When the project-based voucher resolution was nixed by the Housing Authority’s board in December, affordable housing advocates were relieved; it’s not popular among those who provide housing and legal services to low-income residents. So a handful of public witnesses say they found it suspicious when, not even a month after Mayor Muriel Bowser was able to appoint two new commissioners (Joshua Lopez and Franselene St. Jean) to the board, the body decided to take the measure up again.

Compounding that fury is the presence, on the board, of Brian Kenner, who is also the Deputy Mayor of Planning and Economic Development. The perceived conflict of interest has undermined onlookers’ trust in the autonomy of the Housing Authority, whose financial and political interests are often at odds with the city’s.

(In his role at DMPED, Kenner works in concert with the mayor to identify and develop affordable housing projects, and then can review and approve those recommendations in his role as a DCHA commissioner. “On any other board, [Kenner] would have to recuse himself,” says Aja Taylor, policy director for Bread for the City.)

That tension was a lumbering presence at the board meeting.

Housing Authority Commissioner Bill Slover, who has repeatedly asked for the commission to review its conflict of interest policy because it allows DMPED leaders to sit on the board, again asked commissioners to consider why Kenner should be allowed to vote on the day’s measures. Albert quickly dismissed the concern—which newly agitated the crowd—and Kenner broke his silence to note that while “the issue of conflict of interest has been raised before,” it’s not unusual for DMPED officials to sit on the board. (That, it seems, is exactly the problem.)

As the subtle infighting subsided and Albert prepared the board for a vote on its PBV initiative, members of the crowd jumped out of their seats, upset that he planned to cut public testimony short. “You’ll have time after the vote for general comments,” Albert told the two women still standing. “So we can’t talk until after you’ve already voted?” one asked. “Explain what process changed here.”

When the crowd finally settled, Albert again moved for a vote. There was a chorus of “yes”es, but Slover pointedly repeated that he would vote no “because not one word has changed since we voted this down in December.” CP

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SAVAGELOVE I’m a 26-year-old cis queer woman. My best friend has identified publicly as asexual for the past two years. She constantly talks about how since she doesn’t “need” sex, this means she is asexual. She does have sex, however, and she enjoys it, which I know isn’t disqualifying. But she also actively seeks out sex partners and sex. But, again, she insists that because she doesn’t “need” sex the way she presumes the rest of us do, she is asexual. I have an issue with this. I’ve never had partnered sex and never really felt the need or desire for it. I’m plenty happy with emotional intimacy from others and masturbation for my sexual needs, and I do not particularly desire a romantic or sexual partner. My friend gets offended if anyone questions her label, which occurs often in our friend group as people try to understand her situation. I usually defend her to others since she’s my friend, but as a person who is starting to identify more and more as asexual, I’ve grown annoyed at her use of “asexual” as her identifier, to the point that this may be starting to affect our friendship. I’ve kept silent because I don’t want to make her feel attacked—but in the privacy of my own head, I’m calling bullshit on her asexuality. I don’t particularly want to come out as asexual to her, given the circumstances. Am I just being a shitty gatekeeping asexual? Do I need to just accept that labels are only as useful as we make them and let this go?

—Actually Coitus Evading Asexuality—it’s a real thing.

“Several population-level studies have now found that about 1 percent of individuals report not feeling sexual attraction to another person—ever,” Dr. Lori Brotto writes in The Globe and Mail. Dr. Brotto has extensively studied asexuality, and the data support the conclusion that asexuality is a sexual orientation on par with heterosexuality, homosexuality, and bisexuality. “[Asexuality] is not celibacy, which is the conscious choice to not have sex even though sexual desires may endure,” Dr. Brotto writes. “Rather, for these individuals, there is no inherent wish for or desire for sex, and there never has been. They are asexuals, though many prefer to go by the endearing term ‘aces.’”

Asexuality—it’s a point on a spectrum and it’s a spectrum unto itself.

“There is a spectrum of sexuality, with sexual and asexual as the endpoints and a gray area in between,” says whoever wrote the General FAQ at the Asexual Visibility and Education Network website (asexuality.org). “Many people identify in this gray area under the identity of ‘gray-asexual’ or ‘gray-a.’ Examples of grayasexuality include an individual who does not normally experience sexual attraction but does experience it sometimes; experiences sexual attraction but has a low sex drive; experiences sexual attraction and drive but not strongly enough to want to act on them; and/or can

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enjoy and desire sex but only under very limited and specific circumstances. Even more, many gray-asexuals still identify as asexual because they may find it easier to explain, especially if the few instances in which they felt sexual attraction were brief and fleeting. Furthermore, [some] asexual people in relationships might choose or even want to have sex with their partner as a way of showing affection, and they might even enjoy it. Others may want to have sex in order to have children, or to satisfy a curiosity, or for other reasons.”

As for your friend, ACE, well, according to the Protocols of the Elders of Tumblr, we’re no longer allowed to express doubt about someone’s professed sexual orientation or gender identity. So if Republican U.S. senator Larry Craig of Idaho gets caught trawling for dick in an airport bathroom—which he did in 2007— and insists it was all a misunderstanding because, you know, he’s 200 percent straight, well, then he’s straight. (And if Jeffrey Dahmer says he’s a vegetarian…) So even if your friend pulls the cock from her mouth and/or the pussy off her face only long enough to shout, “I’M ACE,” before slapping her mouth back down

So if Republican U.S. senator Larry Craig of Idaho gets caught trawling for dick in an airport bathroom— which he did in 2007— and insists it was all a misunderstanding because, you know, he’s 200 percent straight, well, then he’s straight. into someone’s lap, then she’s ace, ACE. Maybe in the same way Larry Craig is straight, your friend is asexual—or, hey, maybe she’s asexual in the “gray-a” sense, i.e., under certain circumstances (awake, aware, conscious, alert, sentient), she experiences sexual attraction.

Or maybe she’s not a gray-a who identifies as ace but an actual asexual who is having sex for “other reasons.” A person doesn’t have to be celibate to be asexual or to identify as asexual, ACE, and until there’s an asexual accreditation agency—which there never will be and never should be—we’ll just have to take your friend’s word for it.

But just as asexuality is a thing, ACE, so too is bullshit. Denial is a thing, and sex shame is

an incredibly destructive thing. Like the guy who has a lot of gay sex but refuses to identify as gay or bi, it’s possible your friend is just a messy closet case—a closeted sexual, someone who wants sex but doesn’t want to be seen as the kind of person who wants sex since only bad people want sex. Some people twist themselves into the oddest knots so they can have what they want without having to admit they want it. But even if it sounds to you (and me) like your friend’s label is suspect, you should nevertheless hold your tongue and allow her to identify however she likes. Ask questions, sure, but challenging her label will only damage your relationship (or further damage it) and make you feel like a closeted, gatekeeping ace.

And if you find yourself getting annoyed when your ace-identified friend starts in on how she doesn’t really “need” all the sex she’s having, ACE, do what I used to do when I had to listen to guys I knew for a fact were having tons of gay sex (because they were having it with me) go on and on about how they didn’t really “need” cock: smile, nod, roll ’em over, and fuck ’em in the ass again. (Feel free to swap “change the subject” for “roll ’em over” and “leave the room” for “fuck ’em in the ass.”)

—Dan Savage Settle a dispute between friends? I’m a straight man who gets hit on fairly often by women, mostly at the gym. I usually respond with a variation on “I would be interested but I’m married.” Some of my friends argue that by saying, “I’m interested but I’m married,” I’m telegraphing an interest in some sort of affair. That isn’t my intent. I mean it as a compliment. What I’m trying to communicate is, “You’re an attractive person who put yourself out there and I don’t want to crush your spirit with a curt ‘No.’” What is your take, Dan? —Mutual Attraction Rarely Results In Erotic Dalliances

Which is it, MARRIED: “I would be interested but I’m married” or “I am interested but I’m married”? Because there’s a difference between “I would” and “I am” in this context.

When you say, “I would be interested but I’m married,” you’re shutting it down: We could fuck if I wasn’t married, but I am so we can’t. But when you say, “I am interested but I’m married,” that can be read very differently: I’m down to fuck but—full disclosure—I’m married.

If that’s okay with you, let’s find a stairwell and do this thing.

Would be politely shuts the door, MARRIED, am opens the door a crack and invites the sweaty woman at the gym to push against it to see if it’ll open all the way.

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

INDIEIND.C. I bake out of two places. I bake out of my home and then I also bake out of a commercial kitchen space in Charles Town, West Virginia.

What’s your most popular cake?

Annoyingly, my most popular cake is the Unicorn Vomit Cake.

Out of all of them that is, honestly, my most normal cake. It’s a confetti cake and it has white chocolate buttercream and then it has cotton candy Pop Rocks in it. It’s a fun cake, but because of the unicorn craze, that was like the only thing people ordered. I was like, “I have way cooler flavors, you guys!” Surprisingly, Snack Attack is actually this year’s most popular cake as the unicorn trend has kinda gone away.

However, now the new trend is Moana. So I have a lot of Moana cakes, but those are fun.

They are very tropical. Actually, I have a huge one coming up in May, which I’m terrified for because it’s going to be so hot. So now I have to figure out how I’m going to transport my cakes with some type of cooling system. I also have to figure out what kind of boxes I want to put them in, just so there is an extra layer of support there so that they won’t melt, because cakes melt in a heartbeat. And that is the most heartcrushing thing ever to open a box and see that it’s slanted and it’s melted.

You’ve done a few collaborations with other local businesses.

I think the first place that I worked with was Femme Fatale D.C. with their pop-up shop.

We pushed a lot of vegan stuff there, and that pushed my vegan market as well. I think ultimately I kinda opened up this business wanting to be open to vegan stuff, because I feel like there’s such a stigma that vegans are like these tiny, super healthy creatures—which they are.

But then there are also a lot of vegans that, you know, just don’t want to harm animals but eat terribly. I really wanted to reach out to that market and show that you don’t have to be this tiny, skinny thing to be vegan. You can be fat and enjoy cake and still be vegan and eat a ton of sugar.

Bria Taylor, 24, owns Killa Cakes. She creates imaginative desserts with unexpected ingredients. The Unicorn Vomit cake includes Pop Rocks, Cereal Killa has Fruity Pebbles buttercream, and Gimme Covfefe has a Dr. Pepper caramel sauce.

You can find her at killacakes.com and on Instagram @killacakes.

You have a background in graphic design.

I think a lot of my wanting to experiment comes from graphic design. I went to George Mason … I studied for a Bachelor in Fine Arts.

I did a lot of hands-on stuff in the beginning of my college years. Then towards the end it was computer heavy and I was getting so bored and my eyes were hurting. I just wanted to be able to touch things and mold things.

Cakes was that way for me to get out of staring at a computer for eight hours a day and use a more creative side. With graphic design you are creating a puzzle where a person gives you a design idea and then you, with your art background, have to mesh your art knowledge and their wants and needs into a cohesive design. The unfortunate part about it is that often times, the stuff that you think looks amazing is never the one that’s chosen.

Cakes is the one thing where I was just like, “I can make this. I can make it the way I want it and it will look nice.” I have to merge my ideas and their ideas into a cohesive cake design, but I feel like I get a lot more creative freedom than I get with graphic design.

Your cake offerings are so imaginative and

Many people don’t take the logistics behind transportation into account. It’s tricky!

It is so tricky! When I was first doing my cake business I had a 1996 Ford Explorer. It had no air conditioning. I had to figure out how I was going to transport this cake in the dead of summer in a car that had no air conditioning. I would have to roll down my windows and that helped a little bit. But I would have to freeze it rock solid and as soon as I was about to leave I had to grab it, put it in the car, and just go and hope and pray. It ended up in me speeding at high velocities because I was like, “I can’t slow down!” Luckily I never got a speeding ticket, ever. But now I have my actual car which has air conditioning, and it’s lovely. I’m still looking into getting a refrigerated truck, but those are like $70,000. They are so expensive!

Where do you do your baking?

You go to West Virginia to bake?

I do. I’m trying to get my commercial kitchen space here (in D.C.) with Mess Hall, but I haven’t been able to because finances haven’t come together yet. It’s a 45 minute drive, so it’s really not that far, but I have to be very specific about what I do there.

You worked recently with another local store, Steadfast Supply?

I did a pop-up with them two or three weeks ago. It was the first time people could really buy my Cake Bombs. I was selling them for a little bit at Femme Fatale, but they were all vegan, and it was more like an experimental stage at that time. I launched them there (at Steadfast Supply) and I launched Killa Cake Bars, which are cake truffles that are shoved into a chocolate bar and then all the awesome fillings that are with my cakes.They did really, really well. I ended up making over $300 in two hours.

For me it was an eye opening moment. With cake orders, because they are expensive, I get anywhere from eight to 15 cake orders a month.

It’s one of those businesses where the money that you get goes back into the cakes, essentially, because you have to re-up your ingredients, you have to get decorations. Where with graphic design the only thing I’m really paying for is my Adobe subscription and some stock images. So, I saw huge profit from Steadfast … and I think that was a pinnacle moment for me. I was like, okay, my business actually is doing well. I think I have something that I can proceed with in the future and make into a really awesome business.

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fun. How do you come up with your flavor profiles?

My process for making flavors literally involves me sitting on the couch and just typing like, “What sounds like it would go well together?” I’ll start off with a name of the cake, and I’m like, “What would be good in that?”

Then I always try to add an element of surprise.

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The Peeps diorama contest is supposed to celebrate the very best of the District: creativity and spring. Our contestants did their part, bringing us delightful dioramas inspired by the Oscars, Obamas, and art history. We present the winners of our second annual Peeps diorama contest. You can also see these dioramas in person at the Cherry Blossom Pop-Up Bar in Shaw until April 2.

These finalists forced us to ask the difficult questions: Which dioramas, through concept and execution, draw you into their imagined, sugary worlds?

Which creations fully embrace the Peep as a medium for artistic expression? In the words of one of our finalists, Kathleen Canedo, “We’re talking about Peeps as art. It just seems kind of ridiculous, but I love it.”

—City Paper Staff Photographs by Darrow Montgomery

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A Night at the Speepeasy

By David Kirkpatrick The Takoma Park dad and D.C. native can thank his 8-year-old daughter for the inspiration to build a Peep-themed speakeasy, which features a rowdy crowd of Peeps alongside a billiards table, wine bar, and jazz pianist—all tucked behind an empty drugstore, as “two oblivious cops” patrol the sidewalk. “She’s my muse,” Kirkpatrick says of his daughter, who urged him to build the diorama after a prohibition-themed family reunion last year saw the Kirkpatricks decked out in flapper gear. It took him dozens of hours over three weeks to build the bar. It’s the first and (likely) last time he’ll participate in the contest, he says, after spending “way too much” on the teeny beer mugs and wine bottles. Look closely and you’ll see miniature printouts of period art, some of which hang in the National Gallery. Girl Scout cookie boxes he bought from a local troop provide the diorama its structural integrity.

Cherry Blossom Peep Up Bar

By Megan Walline To talk to Megan Walline is to get a masterclass in diorama making. “If you put a top on a diorama sometimes it makes it really dark,” she says, explaining the translucent air conditioner filter that suspends flowers from the ceiling of the “Cherry Blossom Peep Up Bar” while letting in natural light.

In a meta twist, the runner-up for this year’s contest captures the very bar in which it is now displayed. Don’t dwell too much on the rip in the space-time continuum this diorama has created; instead focus on its beauty. This display captures the vernal explosion in Shaw in breathtaking detail. Everywhere you look, a new detail catches your eye, drawing you further into this Peep world with uncanny verisimilitude. The actual PopUp Bar displays lucky cats behind the bar, but “Peeps wouldn’t have cats, they would have chicks,” says Walline. The diorama is full of these details—Peep patrons hold phones with freshly snapped selfies (of Peeps) and enjoy cocktails beneath Godzilla and twinkling lights.

Solar Eclipse: For Peeps Sake Wear Your Glasses

By Ella, Jeanne, Sam, and George Theoharis and Richard Shin Flip the little switch installed on the back wall of this diorama, and the sun lights up. Move the paper moon over the sun, and find a translucent Peep bunny in its face. This depiction of last summer’s solar eclipse took a team of five people about three days to complete. The group’s visionary, 13-yearold Ella Theoharis, has been making Peeps dioramas with her aunt since she was 8 or 9, according to her father George. Last year they started to get serious about it, and this year they won a finalist spot. The team brainstormed the major events of the past year and immediately agreed on the eclipse when they came up with it. “My aunt and I worked on the clothes.

My brother worked on the signs. My dad worked on the background,” says Ella. They based their recreation of the first family on a photo of President Donald Trump staring at the sun without his glasses on, and added in proscience and environmentalist protesters.

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The Shape of Sugar

By Lindsay Routt Lindsay Routt’s inaugural submission to the diorama contest is an intricate rendition of a scene from Guillermo del Toro’s Oscar-winning The Shape of Water (white jelly-beans-as-eggs included).

“I’d recently seen the movie and loved the set design. It was so moody, dark, rainy,” Routt says of the film, which she considers the perfect marriage of romance and horror. But upon looking at more detailed photos of the set, she was struck by how much color was actually included in the design. “There are these crazy underground bunkers, and all this life and brilliance to it,” she says.

She spent three days on the project, which took over her entire dining room.

But the biggest fan of “The Shape of Sugar?” Routt’s dog, who kept trying to lick the frosting off of fish-man’s body.

The Colopeepum

By Gwendolyn Boe, Bryce Davis, and Taylor Ramirez The empeeperor gazes down on two gladiators, one slain in the name of sport, his opponent’s spear sticking out of his sugary stomach. The other is triumphant, and gazing out at the peeple of the Roman empire. Are you not entertained? “We were just trying to emulate kind of what the Colosseum was and the purpose that it served,” says Taylor Ramirez, one of the three Poolesville, Maryland, high school students who created the Colopeepum.

Their creation is full of details sure to please an art history teacher (specifically their art history teacher, who assigned the project). They say the different colors of Peeps represent the social strata of ancient Rome: Blue and yellow Peeps take in the action from the nosebleeds while upper class purple Peeps get a front-row seat to the carnage.

On the exterior, deconstructed and reconstituted Peeps represent the Colosseum’s Doric columns. (The creators do not mention any efforts to recreate its Ionic and Corinthian supports.) An expert spray painting job gives these Peeps the feel of a true ancient ruin, and the giant empeeperor gives the whole affair a sense of grandeur.

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Peeper Curry is Awed by Marshmallow Obama at the National Peeptrait Gallery

By Kathleen and Avery Canedo “Probably like everybody else, as soon as I saw that photo, it was inspiring.

It was adorable. Every part of it was great,” says Kathleen Canedo, co-creator of “Peeper Curry is Awed by Marshmallow Obama at the National Peeptrait Gallery.” She, like many of this year’s entrants, drew inspiration from the unveiling of Barack and Michelle Obama’s portraits at the National Portrait Gallery. But rather than depicting the throngs of people waiting to see the paintings, she captured an intimate moment: 2-year-old Parker Curry wonderstruck by the first lady.

Canedo and her daughter Avery’s careful study of the viral photo by Ben Hines has paid off: The flooring of this diorama exactly matches the tiles in the portrait gallery, the green bathroom door is a perfect mimic, and the wall text is identical to the wording that accompanies Amy Sherald’s painting. Note also Peeper Curry’s twotone jacket and Marshmallow Obama’s face.

And while it’s one thing to faithfully recreate the details of a real life event, it’s another entirely to capture reality’s essence. Here, Curry cranes her sugary head upward with all the awe Americans young and old feel in Obama’s presence.

White House Ninja Peeper 2018: Who Will Stay The Course?

By Susanna Eisenman The four-time diorama contest participant (and two-time semifinalist) created an American Ninja Warrior: Trump edition for her entry. This is the first time she’s made an overtly political Peep diorama. Eisenman include an array of departed White House Peeps, including former communications director Sean Spicer. Unluckily for her, she turned in her diorama just two days before the sudden ousting of State Department chief Rex Tillerson. “I would have loved to include him,” Eisenman says. In past years, she made a Stephen Hawkingthemed diorama, and one that gestured to a Girl Scout-marijuana scandal. washingtoncitypaper.com march 23, 2018 13

D.C. Peeps Take Pants Off For Charity

By Ashley Casper As a veteran Peep diorama-maker, Ashley Casper says that the hardest part is the spacing of the Peeps within the scene she’s creating. Her entry this year, a depiction of the annual Cupid’s Undie Run, is personal. Casper volunteers as the race director, and has been doing the run for four years. The February run is a fundraiser that supports finding a cure to Neurofibromatosis, a genetic disorder affecting 1 in 3,000 at birth. Last year Casper came in 8th place for a Peep-based recreation of Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirrors exhibition, and she was a finalist in the Post’s version of the contest before that. She says she skipped the competition one year, but her friends kept asking her where her diorama was, so she went back at it.

Transient Peepbow

By Grace Bodmer, Julie Corfman, and Carly Dacanay

Berpeepni’s Medusa

By Kenza Tahri, Anna Akdag, and Emma Moon In place of snakes, Medusa’s head is covered in Peeps—and painted with several layers of stone-colored acrylics to achieve a “dramatic Baroque effect.” That’s how Kenza Tahri describes the Medusa she created with collaborators Anna Akdag and Emma Moon. Tahri really wanted to create one of Salvador Dalí’s works out of Peeps, but after much deliberation, she and her partners settled on the Medusa, largely because they felt “Berpeepni” (instead of Bernini) was the best Peep pun they could come up with for a classic work of art. Medusa’s head is a styrofoam base covered in clay, and the team replaced Medusa’s pained expression with the traditional three-dot face of a Peep.

This diorama is based on artist Cai Guo-Qiang’s “Transient Rainbow,” which appeared in fireworks over the East River in New York City on a summer evening in 2002. One of the diorama makers, Grace Bodmer, says she’s never been to New York City, but she plans to go soon. She made the diorama with Carly Dacanay and Julie Corfman. “To achieve the dissolving yet radiant effects of Guo-Qiang’s fireworks, we intertwined small lights into the spray painted cotton ball rainbow,” the team writes. “Peep bunnies from all sides of the river watch in awe, some from boats and some on the shore. The blue Peep bunny to the far left holds the detonator that set off the fireworks from the shore.”

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Bought the Farm

The broad-reaching impact of the K Street Farm, now set to become a Pepco substation, is proof that investing in urban agriculture pays dividends.

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Volunteer Mary Rossettos

By Laura Hayes “It’s so sad,” says LaShawn Lewis. “I don’t see how this little bit is going to hurt anything.

Why can’t you leave this here? That is unbelievable.” Lewis is at the K Street Farm kicking off the 2018-2019 growing season by pulling up last year’s collard greens and cabbages alongside other volunteers. It’s the last year for the farm, which is destined to become part of a new Pepco substation in Spring 2019.

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unteers who came out on Feb. 24, but they’re determined to make the farm’s swan song count. “I’m going to make sure to be here now more than ever because maybe they’ll come to their senses,” Lewis says. “Why can’t they put solar panels on all of these buildings and leave this here?”

Back in 2015, the District inked a complex series of land deals involving the power supplier. The city paid close to $40 million to acquire property to make way for the new D.C. United stadium. In return, the city sold just over two acres of public land at First and K streets NW to Pepco for close to $16 million—includ-

ing the three quarters of an acre where the K Street Farm sits. A substation is required to fully power the rapidly developing NoMa and Mt. Vernon Square neighborhoods.

“This parcel was the last domino of that land-swap,” says DC Greens executive director Lauren Shweder Biel. “It was referred to as a ‘parcel on K Street.’ We’re like, ‘It’s a farm!’” DC Greens started the farm in 2010 together with leadership from the abutting Walker-Jones Education Campus, which serves prekindergarten through 8th grade.

Then for a few years, the school attempted to tend the garden without outside support—a

difficult task for such a large space.

In 2014, DC Greens was brought back in to restore the urban farm to its full potential at the behest of a preteen and her mother who watched, from their apartment windows, as the land morphed from robust farm to underutilized lawn. The mom and daughter demanded more from the school’s leadership, according to Shweder Biel. DC Greens is a nonprofit focused on using food education, food access, and food policy to advance food justice within the D.C. food system.

The K Street Farm is the prototype for what a community garden or urban farm can do for its immediate surroundings and beyond.

It’s uniquely positioned at a busy intersection where New Jersey Avenue NW meets K Street NW, making it highly visible. “The bus stop is the coolest engagement tool we have,” says DC Greens farm director Kate Lee. “We have so many conversations through the fence as people wait to catch their bus.”

On one side of the farm stands Golden Rule Plaza. The apartment building houses seniors who are 62 and up. Lee says DC Greens has set up a produce market in the building’s community room in the past, and now the seniors walk over to the farm to pick up their boxes of vegetables as a part of the farm’s CSA program. DC Greens accepts SNAP and WIC, and prices for the CSA are generally lower than produce prices at area grocery stores.

Many older District denizens don’t have access to three meals a day, let alone nutrient-rich fresh produce. In D.C., 17.78 percent of seniors 60 and older face the threat of hunger, according to a National Foundation to End Senior Hunger report published in Aug. 2017. That is the 15th highest percentage of hungry seniors in the nation (with the District counted in a list of states).

Joyce Hawkins lives in one of the apartment buildings by the farm. She purchases a box of produce weekly. “I ate some vegetables for the first time,” she says, ticking off a long list: spaghetti squash, sweet potato greens, acorn squash, and three-color green beans. Swiss chard she can’t get enough of. Beets? Not so much.

Access to fresh vegetables and learning new recipes positioned Hawkins to become a pescatarian two years ago and reclaim her health.

“I’m going to have to find another farm to go to now,” she says. “The produce tastes much better and lasts much longer than when you get it from the store,” she says.

Mary Rossettos agrees. She was one of the volunteers readying the K Street Farm for its last season on Feb. 24. DC Greens employs Rossettos through its Market Champions program, which empowers people who have

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previously benefited from the city’s Produce Plus Program to spread the word about farmers markets in D.C. communities.

The Produce Plus Program, run by DC Greens in collaboration with the Department of Health, provides farmers market customers receiving federal benefits such as SNAP and Medicaid with $10 to spend on produce up to twice a week.

“People in this city aren’t eating healthy foods,” Rossettos says. “When I go to the grocery store, I always look at people’s baskets.

I’m amazed to see canned foods, prepared foods, and Oodles of Noodles. People need to know about fresh fruits and vegetables.”

Because Walker-Jones overlooks the property, the K Street Farm also benefits younger generations. The school includes food from the farm in the cafeteria salad bar and some classes take part in educational programs in the farm in partnership with DC Central Kitchen.

Bright Beginnings, which operates out of The Perry School at 128 M Street NW and works to enrich the lives of D.C.’s homeless children, also benefits. “They come every day with the kids and sit and look at the chickens,” Lee says. The birds typically arrive in April.

Over the years, DC Greens has utilized the K Street Farm to grow produce to support its many programs, including one that allows doctors to write prescriptions for fresh fruits and vegetables that can be redeemed for produce by low-income patients at high risk of chronic diseases. DC Greens also uses the farm as a training space for school garden coordinators and as a pick-up point for produce to support its school garden market program.

Even star chefs like Aaron Silverman of Pineapple & Pearls and Rose’s Luxury have benefitted from the K Street Farm. While most of the farm is dedicated to growing basic vegetables like carrots, beets, onions, tomatoes, and peppers, there is a special section from which restaurants purchase niche ingredients like edible flowers and herbs. The money chefs pay for flora they can tweeze onto dazzling dishes at Michelin-starred restaurants helps subsidize the farm’s operations.

“It’s meaningful to know that our dollars are helping an organization like DC Greens that’s working to build a healthy and equitable food system in our city,” Silverman says. “It’s also valuable for our restaurant to have a hyper-local farm where we can source delicate speciality items that can’t travel far,” he continues. His staff visits the farm to help harvest the items they serve.

Finally, the positioning of the K Street Farm has been important politically. “We’ve even brought in groups of Hill staffers to see the value of urban agriculture and farm-to-school programs in action,” Shweder Biel says. “It’s in such a key spot in terms of being in the shadow of the [United States] Capitol and right in between the housing projects and the wave of development that’s coming across the city.”

The land is in Ward 6, where Councilmember Charles Allen serves. “It’s just been a phenomenal-but-rare opportunity in a city to be able to have such access to a farm and understand what it means to grow vegetables,” says Allen.

Shweder Biel notes that Allen was instrumental in coaxing Pepco into letting the farm operate until the last second. “I sat down with the Pepco executives and told them I wanted to see the farm continue for as long as it could and make it a priority,” he says. He even talked to them about potentially bringing back the farm after they finish construction. “There’s no deal on that yet.”

Shweder Biel and Lee aim to relocate the K Street Farm to Ward 7 or 8. Both wards have areas that are considered food deserts. “It’s a priority of mine,” Lee says. “It’s where our work has the largest impact.” Shweder Biel echoes, “As the Produce Plus Program has grown, our constituents are located east of the river and there’s a lot of interest and demand for us having a space in Ward 8.”

Shweder Biel is encouraged by the city’s recent efforts. “There are glimmers of hope that the city is recognizing the value of urban agriculture inside of its development plans,” she says.

A bill introduced in 2014 set an aggressive goal of identifying at least 25 District-owned vacant lots that could potentially be used for urban farming by Feb. 2015. It was called the “D.C. Urban Farming and Food Security Act of 2014.”

According to the Department of General Services, which oversees urban agriculture programs, the city has identified three Districtowned sites to date. They’re comprised of a total of about two acres of land in Wards 5 and 8.

The low number of identified sites doesn’t mean work has stalled. The “Urban Farming and Food Security Amendment Act of 2016” was signed into law in Feb. 2017. DGS says this legislation is “a very positive step in making publicly owned vacant land into potentially thriving and abundant urban farms.”

Another round of District-owned vacant site identification is underway, according to DGS. The city is also looking into municipal sites that that might have a portion of underutilized land that could be used for urban agriculture, as well as District-owned buildings whose rooftops could be used for farming. Finally, DGS says they plan to address how privately owned properties can be made available for urban farming, potentially with tax abatements for land owners.

While Shweder Biel has joked about chaining herself to the K Street Farm when they’re forced to vacate next spring, she understands the competing interests.

“At this point it’s an object lesson of the choices we have to make as a city,” she says. “If this can spark a conversation about what our city’s development looks like and the need to integrate community spaces, green spaces into development plans, this will have been for good.”

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Bar: Hank’s Cocktail Bar Where: 819 Upshur St. NW What You’re Eating: Timber Pizza Co. pies or tacos from Taqueria Del Barrio.

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Bar: Little Miss Whiskey’s Golden Dollar Where: 1104 H St. NE What You’re Eating: Po Boy Jim, Sticky Rice, Pow Pow, &pizza You probably wouldn’t trust the food at a bar whose slogan reads, “a lousy bar for rotten people.” Luckily you can choose what will pad your stomach, from sushi rolls at Sticky Rice to vegan comfort food with Asian flair at Pow Pow. But perhaps a Po Boy makes the most sense, since Little Miss Whiskey’s already has a New Orleans vibe.

Veg Diner Monologues

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A look at vegetarian dishes in the District that all should try

The Dish: Fried cauliflower buns with Japanese mayo, sweet chilli sauce, seasonal pickles, cilantro, and Thai basil Where to Get It: The Pug, 1234 H St. NE Price: $7.00

Bar: Players Club Where: 1400 14th St. NW What You’re Eating: Shake Shack You don’t even need to leave this subterranean ’70s themed bar to score Shake Shack burgers, fries, and fried chicken sandwiches. The owners worked out a deal with their upstairs neighbor to make it possible for Players Club customers to saddle up to the coat check area and place an order. Players Club will then plate your food and serve it the same way you’d get it upstairs.

Choices abound near Shaw’s laid-back watering hole. Handhelds like pizza and sandwiches make for mess-free meals, but you can always level-up and tear into some Ethiopian from Habesha using your fingers as utensils. The aptly-named All Souls is a judgement-free zone.

Bar: Kingfisher Where: 1414 14th St. NW What You’re Eating: Baan Thai, Great Wall Szechuan House, Etto There are ample restaurants in Logan Circle that can swiftly crank out takeout orders for you to eat in the neighborhood’s casual basement bar with BINGO and trivia. Choose between Northern Thai and sushi from Baan Thai, fiery mala favorites from Great Wall, or Neapolitan-inspired pies from Etto.

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What It Is: A fried cauliflower bao bun where the crispy cauliflower miraculously mimics karaage—Japanese fried chicken. The dish features bouncy bao buns served with chopped pickles, sweet Kewpie mayonnaise sprinkled with togarashi spice, pickled onions, and the key ingredient, fried cauliflower.

Diners construct their own buns to taste using the items provided.

In an effort to make the cauliflower imitate fried chicken, the vegetable is cooked using the same method as karaage. The hunks of cauliflower are battered in a garlicky and sake-infused potato starch batter, fried, and then drenched in a spicy glaze. The final product is delightfully crisp, dripping

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The Story: Toki Underground recently introduced a menu of small snacks at The Pug. One of these snacks is a fried chicken bun. Rather than create a different vegetarian dish, the chefs at Toki Underground decided to create a bun that is identical to the fried chicken bun but with cauliflower instead.

Why Even Meat Eaters Will Like It: Everyone expects to eat the same kind of food at dive bars: nuts, fries, and nachos. At The Pug, you get the chill dive bar atmosphere with food that goes way beyond typical bar fare and is fun to eat.

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Orchestras in Motion!

April 9–15, 2018

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MahoganyBooks doesn’t just want to put an end to Anacostia’s book desert, it wants to foster a community for black literature. a distinct and delightful smell wafts through the air in MahoganyBooks—a combination of the scent of book pages and potpourri. This, apparently, is something co-owner Ramunda Young says many people say when they first walk into the store. She doesn’t reveal exactly what the smell is, but says that she does have a few potpourri concoctions going.

The store itself is a cozy one, with warmth and that sweet, inviting smell calling out to potential customers in the Anacostia Arts Center. Store walls are lined with black books of all kinds: contemporary and ancient, memoirs and science fiction; the best works of writers like Toni Morrison, Jesmyn Ward, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Junot Díaz.

It’s not hard to find what you’re looking for here: A man recently came in, Ramunda says, and found a book he’d been seeking out for 10 years.

Behind the register, the MahoganyBooks logo is huge and bright, depicting a young black girl sporting two Afro puffs with her head buried in a book too big for her body. In a corner are the store’s branded t-shirts: black with “Black Books Matter” written on them in bold letters.

“People say it feels like love in here,” Ramunda, 43, says. Along with her husband, Derrick, 40, Ramunda originally opened MahoganyBooks in 2007 as an online-only book retailer.

“We knew we wanted to have a business. We have entrepreneur spirits,” she says. “So we thought online people would have access to these books. No matter where you were, now you have access to all these black books.” But, as Derrick says, the overall strategy for the Northern Virginia couple was always to open up a physical bookstore.

“For us, it’s always about the people, it’s always about the community,” he says. “Bookstores are part of our value base. So, in trying to figure out how to get there, the idea was ‘let’s grow and start an online bookstore first and we can build a brand.’”

In November of last year, the Youngs opened their brick-andmortar shop in the Anacostia Arts Center, and held a grand opening last month to coincide with Black History Month. It was important to them to stock books for everyone, whether 83 or 13 years old, like the couple’s daughter, Mahogany. Originally, they considered Virginia, Maryland, and other parts of D.C. for their first physical store, but ultimately, they wanted to be in Anacostia, where their core clientele lives.

Derrick says it felt like a perfect fit—a location where their community is and where they’re needed, especially considering a new bookstore hasn’t opened east of the Anacostia River in more than 20 years. Since they opened, they’ve had customers come from all around the region—including Haymarket, Virginia, and Gaithersburg, Maryland—as well as folks from right around the block.

“I think we were supposed to have it online for 10 years,” Ra-

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munda says. “We were able to cultivate all of these people who believed in us, all these supporters. When we opened, those people came with us.”

Derrick agrees, implying that it would’ve been a bad move to open a brick-and-mortar shop in 2007, a particularly fraught economic period, especially for physical bookstores. From 2002 to 2011, the American Booksellers Association reported a decline in bookstores in the country—from about 2,400 to about 1,900. There’s been a resurgence in recent years, though, with the ABA now reporting that, between 2009 and 2015, the number of independent booksellers grew from 1,651 to 2,227. Still, in

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that number there are very few black-owned bookstores, especially ones that mostly sell books by black authors.

MahoganyBooks isn’t just a bookstore owned and operated by black people, it’s a store that proudly boasts that they “sell books written for, by, or about people of the African diaspora.”

About 90 to 95 percent of the books are by black authors. There’s also a section of books from non-black people of color. Mostly, it’s a store that sells books about the unique experience of being black, something Derrick and Ramunda don’t shy away from, just as Toni Morrison didn’t shy away from it in her writing: “I’m writing for black people,” she told The Guardian in a 2015 interview, “in the same way that Tolstoy was not writing for me, a 14-year-old coloured girl from Lorain, Ohio.”

A store like MahoganyBooks is something of a miracle: For years, chain stores and online retailers have caused independent bookstores to struggle. But now even the chains are struggling, with Borders going out of business in 2011 and Barnes & Noble stores closing left, right, and center. Most recently in the D.C. area, a beloved Bethesda Barnes & Noble closed in January after 21 years of business. It was open for two decades,

On its debut tape, free jazz trio Heart of the Ghost showcases the talents of some of the region’s best improvisers. washingtoncitypaper.com/arts which is just as long as the area east of the Anacostia River had been a barren book desert. Though there has been a recent effort to crowdfund for a community bookstore in Anacostia to honor Charnice Milton, the 27-year-old journalist who was fatally shot in Southeast.

The Anacostia River has been a kind of dividing line in the D.C. community in more ways than can be adequately accounted for—one of which is book culture. But a bookstore is never just a bookstore; it brings with it a culture of creativity, imagination, and education. Its very existence fosters knowledge and inquisitive minds. On the other side of the river, there’s Politics and Prose, Upshur Street Books, Capitol Hill Books, Kramerbooks & Afterwords Cafe, Busboys and Poets, Sankofa Video, Books & Cafe, and others. On this side—the side that is home to poor black people—there was nothing.

“People need to know how this country came to be, how this continent came to be,” Ramunda says. “The books on these shelves are critical for them, they’re critical for us, they’re critical for our development, they’re critical for our self-esteem. Black books play into the huge fabric of who we are as people.”

Derrick and Ramunda are dedicated to keeping MahoganyBooks in the community for the long haul.

Neighbors and residents are thirsty for what they’re selling, because the power of black literature is undeniable.

Celebrated black Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, who recently came to the store for a book event, often speaks of the danger of the single story, the problems that come with having one image of a thing, of a people. When she began reading black books, she says, it transformed her. “My perception of literature changed when I started reading African literature,” she said in a recent interview with The Atlantic. “Feeling a greater sense of connection with those books, feeling that there’s something different about this because it felt close and it felt familiar.”

After discovering those books, she went on to write Americanah, a novel for which she won the 2013 National Book Critics Circle’s Fiction award and was also named by The New York Times as one of the top 15 books by women in the 21st century.

If the customers who came in on a recent Sunday afternoon in March are any indication, MahoganyBooks is here to stay. “I love that you opened a bookstore,” black writer Brianna S. Clark tells the co-owners, gratitude evident on her face. She drove down from Baltimore to come into the store, she says. She wrote a book herself, Cracked, and wanted to bring them a copy.

Conventional wisdom might suggest that one bookstore can’t change the world. But it can certainly change its community, and before Derrick and Ramunda, that wasn’t even an option. “When we say black books matter, it’s us taking ownership and not relying on what other people promote and merchandize,” Derrick says. “It’s us taking ownership of our story, not having someone else tell it.” It is ending the idea of the single, tragic story of black people.

On that lazy Sunday, with free jazz playing out in the lobby of the Anacostia Arts Center, the co-owners help customer after customer. Many express joy at the fact that the store exists.

Finally, the land east of the Anacostia River is an empty book desert no more.

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GALLERIESSketcheS captures her from a lower, malegaze-y angle. In others, she’s a tough, working-class henpecker; or else a bitchy wife who’s about to tell her husband to be nice to her stuffy friends. Sherman may have modeled these on studio publicity photos from the ’50s and ’60s, but her commentary on women and the media is still hilariously relevant.

“Desperate Housewives” also disrupts the notion of women as domestic workers, either for their husbands or another family. One of the strongest pieces is Brazilian artist Letícia Parente’s video, “Tarefa I” (Portuguese for “Task I”), of a black woman ironing her white employer’s dress “Katlego Mashiloane and Nosipho Lavuta, ext.2, while it’s still on her body. The Lakeside, Johannesburg” by Zanele Muholi (2007) footage recalls bell hooks’ critique of The Feminine Mystique, in which she discusses how author Betty Friedan didn’t address who would perform the housework and childcare for white middle-class women if they had the same access to jobs as white men. As hooks put it in her book Feminist Theory: “She did not tell readers whether it was more fulfilling to be a maid …

Women House than to be a leisure class housewife.”

At the National Museum of Women in But Women House doesn’t just portray housthe Arts to May 28 es as a source of anxiety and disillusionment. In In 1972, a group of female artists put on a show another of the show’s themes, “A Room of One’s called Womanhouse in an abandoned Holly- Own,” homes are a place for comfort and crewood mansion. Considered the first female- ativity. A 1932 photograph, “Self-Portrait (in a centered art installation in the Western world, cupboard),” shows artist Claude Cahun curled it consisted of art and performance pieces that up comfortably on a shelf. Placed next to this focused, radically, on women and their asso- photo is sculptor Kirsten Justesen’s homage to ciation with the home. This included a kitch- Cahun, 80 years later: a photograph of Justesen en with walls covered in sunny-side up eggs posing in a cabinet beside her sculptures. And in that looked like boobs, and artist Judy Chica- Zanele Muholi’s photo of a South African lesbian go’s installation of a bathroom that was unset- couple kissing in their kitchen, home isn’t sometlingly clean, save for some bloody pads and thing to escape from. Rather, it’s a cozy refuge the couple has established for themselves. used tampons.

Then there are the pieces in which women The National Museum of Women in the Arts sees its newest exhibit, Women House, as a kind actually are houses. A section titled “Femmesof sequel to that 1972 installation. This decades- Maisons” (French for “women-houses”) takes spanning show features work from over 30 art- its title from an art series by Louise Bourgeois. ists that focus on women, homes, and housing, Bourgeois crafted sculptures and paintings in some of which come from the original Woman- which women’s bodies are collapsed into houses. house. Visitors can even watch clips of filmmak- The strongest among these is a fabric sculpture er Johanna Demetrakas’ documentary on the of a tiny home emerging from a woman’s torso, ’72 show, including some very funny interviews as though her body were its natural landscape.

Perhaps the most famous femmes-maisons with men about how they interpreted Chicago’s “Menstruation Bathroom” (an example: “The are Niki de Saint Phalle’s giant “Nanas” in Italy. These are much too enormous to be on dislady had a problem. Or a lot of friends”).

NMWA’s sequel exhibit is divided into eight play in a museum, but Women House includes themed sections. “Desperate Housewives” her drawings of two of her Nana sculptures, culls work from the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s and as well as a video documenting her construcfocuses on the domestic functions expected of tion of one called “Hon” (Swedish for “she”). women—like Cindy Sherman’s “Untitled Film “Hon” is an enormous, 82-foot-long woman Still” series. In these, Sherman photographs that you can enter like a house. Specifically, herself parodying the various wives and girl- you can enter through her vagina, see a film friends often found in the movies. In one, she in the movie theater in her arm, get something stands in the bathroom in a bobbed wig and to drink at the milk bar under her breast, and towel, lost in her own reflection as the camera slide down her knee.

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Is this a commentary on how women are expected to give of themselves? Probably.

But like the other works in this exhibit, it’s also an incredible piece of art, which Saint Phalle herself once described as a “cathedral.”

—Becky Little 1250 New York Ave NW. $8-$10. (202) 7835000. nmwa.org.

WorLd Wide Webs Subodh Gupta: Terminal

At the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery to February 3, 2019 Dozens of gleamIng brass towers rise like an ancient city to greet visitors at the entrance of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Nearly 50 of these golden spires occupy the lobby pavilion in the latest installation in the museum’s longrunning series of one-off contemporary art projects. Spools of thread connecting the towers, which rise from barely a foot off the ground to 15 feet high, form a vast interconnected web.

Subodh Gupta’s “Terminal” (2010) gestures at enduring ideas about faith, progress, and modernity. But the artist’s strategy is dated, and so is the argument behind it.

“Terminal” reads like an infographic or data visualization. The thread that connects these brass towers gives the sculptural installation a sense of linear progress, as if it is chronicling a movement over time. The towers, which are really stacks of interlocking brass containers, could be civic or religious structures, such as minarets—or they might be markers of significant turning points in the transmission of an idea. An avenue winds through the installation, giving viewers space to investigate freely and take in the composition from every direction.

Yet the urge to map over it a chronological procession is powerful.

So is the complexity of the idea that Gupta seeks to convey. His installation is a visual demonstration of the map-like metaphor that often stands in for global networks, from package couriers to airline carriers to social media platforms. The piece’s shining towers suggest

a vision of religious imperialism, and there’s a whiff of sinister, Machiavellian intent about the piece, but it’s more capitalist than theocratic. The logic of “Terminal” is unmistakably neoliberal—a sense that the world can be organized and structured through rational enterprise. “Terminal” could refer to the end of history, in the vein of the American political philosopher, Francis Fukuyama, who predict-

“Terminal” by Subodh Gupta (2010) ed that society had reached its zenith in Western liberal democracy.

History never ended, of course, and now, less than a decade after Gupta realized “Terminal,” with the liberal order teetering before the threat of disinformation and fascism, the notion of a coherent world order seems distant and naive.

Was Gupta’s sculpture a warning? Certainly the threads connecting his structure look stretched taut—as if the installation would fly apart violently if even one thread were snapped. Instead, Gupta’s sculpture comes off as optimistic, or rather, worried about the wrong things. Would that we could all go back to the time when globalization was the enemy.

A one-world order is still the rule in the art world, however, and a handful of mega-galleries, fairs, and festivals—names like Pace, Basel, and Venice—rule over it like illuminati. For its Perspectives series, the Freer | Sackler has always drawn from the biggest names in contemporary art, including Ai Weiwei, Anish Kapoor, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and more; Gupta, who is represented by the behemoth international gallery Hauser & Wirth, is among the best sculptors working today. The Perspectives series at the Freer | Sackler is a rarefied platform for top-tier work.

Carol Huh, curator for contemporary art at the Freer | Sackler, has given the D.C. area a tremendous gift in Perspectives (a series title that the museum has shed with Gupta’s installation).

The Smithsonian Institution’s Asian art museum has established a consistent platform for artists who infrequently grace other major museums. Yet even this focused program is not free of the influence of the art world, which relies on a global network of tastemakers to bubble up and confirm the top names in contemporary art. The world that “Terminal” mirrors is the art world itself.

—Kriston Capps 1050 Independence Ave. SW. Free. (202) 6331000. si.edu/museums/sackler-gallery.

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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)

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New York City Ballet

March 27–April 1 | Opera House with the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra

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FilmShort SubjectS

Sanity Room Unsane

Directed by Steven Soderbergh A few deAd bodies do not a horror film make.

And, traditionally, Steven Soderbergh does not a horror film make. Yet Unsane is being touted as a fright flick, which—if you accept the designation—marks the director’s first foray into the genre. It’s better to think of it as a psychological thriller, though, lest your hopes for a Michael Myers-style bloodfest be dashed.

Unsane focuses on Sawyer (The Crown’s Claire Foy), a driven and no-nonsense woman who’s relocated to Pennsylvania from Boston to evade a stalker. She starts a new job and a new life, seemingly successfully—except when random shadows throw her back into her old nightmare. After an unsuccessful hookup ends in hysterics, Sawyer seeks some counseling, admitting that she never feels safe and, yes, that she has occasionally considered suicide. The counselor tells her that she needs

The Improvised Shakespeare Company April 5–8 | Family Theater 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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to fill out some paperwork before making another appointment.

But instead of dealing with the receptionist, Sawyer is led through labyrinthine hallways, ushered into a small room, and told to strip.

There’s been a mistake, she tells everyone she comes into contact with. I have to get back to work. The more she resists, however, the worse she makes it for herself: Sawyer has inadvertently signed herself in for a 24-hour commitment, and there are no takebacks.

Now, a film such as this one naturally requires some suspension of disbelief. But it’s here— not, as expected, in the ramped-up third act— that the plot by Jonathan Bernstein and James Greer (who last collaborated on 2010’s The Spy Next Door) turns implausible. Even if you accept that a smart person could mistakenly commit herself, Sawyer is treated ridiculously, sent to sleep in an open room whose several beds are

occupied by patients with serious mental problems—no functioning individual with mild suicidal ideation would be placed with such a group. And that she almost immediately gets violent with both patients and staff belies a lack of judgment that doesn’t ring true for the character to whom we were first introduced. Desperate times? Perhaps. Regardless, Sawyer quickly earns herself a seven-day stay and becomes increasingly frantic when she thinks she sees her stalker at the hospital.

Soderbergh shot the entirety of Unsane on an iPhone, a choice that’s obvious from the first very-digital-looking shot. Like another iPhone baby, 2015’s Tangerine, the film is often hypersaturated, but, weirdly, in shades of beige and slightly yellowed beige. Once you get used to the aesthetics, the direction is mostly unremarkable save for a couple of disturbing, multiple-exposure effects that are amplified by a dissonant drone. Aside from the noise, the film is largely music-free, a good choice that helps the action feel like real life.

The British Foy is fierce as Sawyer. She makes the character palpably strong-willed, profane— so very far from the Queen—and someone you root for even when it seems as though her sanity

actually is a little dicey. Juno Temple is unrecognizable and menacing as the patient in the bed neighboring Sawyer’s, and Amy Irving plays Sawyer’s mother without fanfare. It doesn’t matter much, though, because the show belongs to Foy and Joshua Leonard, whose role as the nurse Sawyer thinks is her stalker adds to the pantheon of mild-mannered creeps.

Even at a mere 97 minutes, Unsane feels long, though it’s never less than compelling thanks to Foy. Things do get murder-y, which is somewhat of a surprise at first but eventually feels like a natural progression. The film is an impressive step up for the screenwriters, whose previous scripts woefully involved Lindsay Lohan and Larry the Cable Guy. And Soderbergh? His un-retirement roll is continuing just fine.

—Tricia Olszewski Unsane opens Friday at Angelika Mosaic.

Join Us

John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art and Community Celebration

Friday, March 23 / 10:30 – 5:00 Artists Janine Antoni, David C. Driskell, Byron Kim, and Glenn Ligon and noted scholars explore uses of the body in American art.

Sunday, March 25 / 11:00 – 6:00 Made possible by a grant from the Walton Family Foundation.

Jacob Lawrence, Sidewalk Drawings (detail), 1943, Collection of

Shahara Ahmad-Llewellyn. © 2017 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight

Lawrence Foundation, Seattle /Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

The community celebration features performances by local artist Holly Bass, collective storytelling, and more.

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Nederlands Dans Theater Paul Lightfoot, Artistic Director

Shoot the Moon (Glass/León & Lightfoot) The Statement (Belton/Pite) Singulière Odyssée (Richter/León & Lightfoot)

Steady diet of CruShing Singulière Odyssée, photo by Rahi Rezvani

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Additional support is provided by Performing Arts Fund NL.

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The Messthetics Dischord Records Few things perk the ears of local music fans more than rumors of a Fugazi reunion.

The band was the harDCore scene’s most visible and influential unit, helping to shine a national spotlight on the DMV’s punk scene for the better part of 20 years.

But Fugazi have been on an indefinite hiatus for almost as long as they were active, and the likelihood of a reunion seems like a pretty long shot. That doesn’t mean their members are resting on their laurels. The latest example of this is The Messthetics, an instrumental project that reunites Fugazi’s potent rhythm section, drummer Brendan Canty and bassist Joe Lally, with guitarist Anthony Pirog.

Before The Messthetics came to be, neither former Fugazi member was sitting around idly. Canty has kept busy producing records for other artists, performing in various bands, and doing film work for such notables as Eddie Vedder and Wilco. Lally returned to the area in 2015 after having spent eight years living in Rome, where, among other things, he immersed himself in the odd-metered rhythms of traditional Mediterranean music.

Pirog is the youngest member of the band, though the Northern Virginia native has been a familiar voice in the local scene for some time.

He’s well-respected in D.C.’s jazz and experimental music communities and has earned

critical praise with his own ensemble and with Janel & Anthony, a duo that includes his wife, cellist Janel Leppin.

Pirog also received positive notice for his participation in recent concerts held in tribute to D.C. guitar legend Danny Gatton.

In keeping with Dischord Records’ DIY aesthetic, Canty recorded The Messthetics debut in the band’s rehearsal space, and its first single, “Serpent Tongue,” snaked its way online in January.

The 5/4 meter on “Serpent Tongue,” combined with the distorted guitar riff, lends the song a progressive lilt that permeates throughout several tracks on the album. Other songs that take on a fusion bent with a punk intensity include “Quantum Path” and “Crowds and Power,” the latter of which is the sole muscular tune in the album’s much less aggressive back half.

Regardless of the song’s mood, Canty and Lally anchor the material with an insistence that propels the music forward. The boomthwack of the drums and the brooding bassline on “Mythomania,” the opening track, have a locomotive effect over which Pirog is free to explore his instrument’s sonic palette. Similarly, the syncopated groove on “Once Upon A Time” gives structure to the languid melodies floating above it.

Pirog is a master at using effects to manipulate his sound, but the tasteful way in which he deploys his enhancements is what sets him apart from most pedal stomping guitarists. He tends to use his sweeteners in a subtle way that adds color to the more industrial songs and soft texture during the record’s quiet moments. All of this comes together on “The Inner Ocean,” the album’s longest track. At six minutes, the song slowly builds to a crescendo before it comes back down to calmer waters.

In many ways, The Messthetics split the difference between what one would expect from a sonic alchemist like Pirog and a rhythm section most often associated with the punk world. The result is hard to categorize, but the comparisons to various powertrios of yesteryear and ’70s prog-rock make sense. There’s a lot for the listener to digest because these are three veteran musicians who know their strengths and know how to utilize them to maximum effect.

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U Street mUSic hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Goldroom. 10:30 p.m. $18–$22. ustreetmusichall.com.

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Fillmore Silver Spring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Fillmore Flashback: ’80s vs. ’90s Dance Party featuring DJ Biz Markie. 8 p.m. $15.50. fillmoresilverspring.com.

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9:30 clUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Maneka. 8 p.m. $15. 930.com.

Black cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Dead Meadow. 8 p.m. $16–$18. blackcatdc.com. the hamilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

Red Baraat Festival Of Colors with Zeshan B. 8 p.m. $20–$25. thehamiltondc.com.

U Street mUSic hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

The Strypes. 7 p.m. $15. ustreetmusichall.com.

SAtURDAY ELECtRonIC

U Street mUSic hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

EOTO. 10 p.m. $20–$25. ustreetmusichall.com.

LUCIUS

Acoustic cover albums are often late-career gasps, a kind of strip mining to bleed songs dry. So what’s with Lucius, an increasingly popular quartet who have soundtracked HBO shows and recorded with megastars like John Legend, releasing a bare bones album full of covers, old material reimagined, and a few new songs? Well, to highlight the vocals of singers Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig. While it’s always been apparent that Lucius’ pop hinges on the power of their voices, their most recent album, Nudes, removes any doubt. It hasn’t been that long since many of these songs were first released, and it feels a little more academic than it should, but take away the shroud of production and dance-forward beats and Lucius still feel mighty. “Neighbors,” written specifically for Nudes, feels the most suited for the format and their takes on Tame Impala’s “Eventually” and the traditional “Goodnight, Irene,” recorded to crackle in lo-fi, are entertaining adventures. What’s interesting on record may be stunning live, because when great singers perform at the Lincoln, little compares. Lucius perform at 8 p.m. at the Lincoln Theatre, 1215 U St. NW. $35. (202) 888-0050. thelincolndc.com.

—Justin Weber

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the anthem 901 Wharf St. SW. (202) 888-0020.

Glen Hansard. 8 p.m. $35–$75. theanthemdc.com.

Birchmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. An Evening with Tom Rush accompanied by Matt Nakoa. 7:30 p.m. $45. birchmere.com.

pop

capital one arena 601 F St. NW. (202) 628-3200.

Demi Lovato. 7:30 p.m. $29.95–$164.95. capitalonearena.monumentalsportsnetwork.com.

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9:30 clUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Godspeed You! Black Emperor. 8 p.m. $30. 930.com.

Black cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Nana Grizol. 7:30 p.m. $12. blackcatdc.com. the hamilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. Red Baraat Festival Of Colors with Women’s Raga Massive. 8 p.m. $20–$25. thehamiltondc.com.

SongByrd mUSic hoUSe and record caFe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Womxn Fuck Shit Up DC Fest. 7 p.m. $15–$20. songbyrddc.com.

SUnDAY CoUntRY Birchmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Riders In The Sky 40th Anniversary Tour. 7:30 p.m. $29.50. birchmere.com.

ELECtRonIC Sixth & i hiStoric SynagogUe 600 I St. NW. (202) 408-3100. GAS. 8 p.m. $25–$28. sixthandi.org.

Union Stage 740 Water St. SW. (877) 987-6487. Kelly Lee Owens. 7:30 p.m. $15. unionstage.com.

JAzz BetheSda BlUeS & Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. 20 Year Celebration Phaze II with Matthew Whitaker. 7 p.m. $30. bethesdabluesjazz.com.

pop

mUSic center at Strathmore 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. K.D. Lang. 7:30 p.m. $48–$98. strathmore.org.

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

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

Fillmore Silver Spring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Walk Off The Earth with Darenots. 8 p.m. $30–$40. fillmoresilverspring.com.

U Street mUSic hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Vinyl Theatre. 7 p.m. $15. ustreetmusichall.com.

MonDAY CoUntRY

THU 3/29 SARAH POTENZA FRI 3/30 THE MAMMOTHS SAT 3/31 JOE ROBINSON $14/$16 TUE 4/3 SCOTT KURT THU 4/5 TIME SAWYER FRI 4/6

SUNNY SWEENEY $17/$25

MON 4/9 DEX ROMWEBER $12/$15 TUE 4/10 JIMWHITE + SYLVIE SIMMONS $17/$20 THU 4/12 SARAH BORGES FRI 4/13 THE PLATESCRAPERS FRIDAY THE 13THS SHOW! $12/$15 SAT 4/14 CALEB STINE BAND TUE 4/17 DANNY BARNES + CHRISTOPHER PAUL STELLING $15/$20 THU 4/19 RAY BONNEVILLE $17/$20 FRI 4/20 WOOD & WIRE $12/$15

HILL COUNTRY BARBECUE MARKET

410 Seventh St, NW • 202.556.2050 HillCountry.com/DC • Twitter @hillcountrylive

Birchmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. James McMurtry & John Moreland.

7:30 p.m. $35. birchmere.com.

Near Archives/Navy Memorial [G, Y] and Gallery PI/Chinatown [R] Metro

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CITY LIGHTS: SAtURDAY

SUMMER

NEW SHOWS ON SALE APR 7

THE SISTERHOOD BAND

AUG 17

thRoWBACk pARtY WIth kID ‘n pLAY

DAWES

ALANIS MORISSETTE

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STEVEN TYLER AND THE LOVING MARY BAND JUN 21

SHOVELS & ROPE JOSEPH

TROMBONE SHORTY, GALACTIC, PRESERVATION HALL, AND MORE!

SEP 6

AUG 23

NILE RODGERS & CHIC CHAKA KHAN JUN 5

BELL BIV DeVOE BOBBY BROWN SWV JUN 15

HANSON STRING THEORY

NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AUG 4

Kid ‘n Play are back to bring you all the nostalgic ’90s vibes with a throwback party for the ages at the historic Howard Theatre. Who could forget this dynamic duo and their signature striking print and snazzy shades, and Kid’s classic hi-top fade? The New Jack Swingers were the epitome of fashion forward, matching their undeniable style with their unforgettable tunes and catchy melodies. Try to get “Ain’t Gonna Hurt Nobody” and “Rollin’ With Kid ‘N Play” out of your head after this party. However, it wasn’t only their music that made them iconic. Kid ‘n Play were quite the entertainers, making their way to every young adult TV screen with funky dance moves and terrific get-togethers in their cult classic comedy House Party. This is a long overdue comeback after an annoyingly long hiatus, and Kid ‘n Play are sure to bring the fun and the jams for a night down memory lane. The party begins at 11:59 p.m. at the Howard Theatre, 620 T St. NW. $25. (202) 803-2899. thehowardtheatre.com.

—Jazmin Goodwin

BlUeS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Akiko Yano. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $22. bluesalley.com.

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DISNEY BEAUTY & THE BEAST IN CONCERT FILM WITH LIVE ORCHESTRA & SINGERS AUG 8 + 9

Fillmore Silver Spring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. New Politics with DREAMERS and The Wrecks. 7:30 p.m. $25. fillmoresilverspring.com.

WoRLD U Street mUSic hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Hollie Cook. 6 p.m. $15. ustreetmusichall.com.

BOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD

tUESDAY

AUG 26

BlUeS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Eri Yamamoto Trio. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $22. bluesalley.com.

A JOURNEY THROUGH HINDI CINEMA

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ZIGGY MARLEY STEEL PULSE

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TRIBAL SEEDS SEP 1

Premier Sponsor 2018 Summer Season

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

Birchmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Mike and The Mechanics. 7:30 p.m. $45. birchmere.com.

Black cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Dean Ween Group. 7:30 p.m. $20. blackcatdc.com.

U Street mUSic hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Albert Hammond Jr. 7 p.m. $20. ustreetmusichall.com.

BlUeS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Yoko Miwa Trio. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $22. bluesalley. com.

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Birchmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. An Intimate Evening with Langhorne Slim with Skyway Man. 7:30 p.m. $25. birchmere.com.

Black cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Hanni El Khatib. 7:30 p.m. $16-$18. blackcatdc.com. the hamilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. The Steel Woods with The Trongone Band. 8 p.m. $12–$17. thehamiltondc.com. mgm national harBor 101 MGM National Ave., Oxon Hill. Air Supply. 8 p.m. $31.82–$71.82. mgmnationalharbor.com.

thURSDAY FoLk

Birchmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Cris Williamson, Barbara Higbie, Teresa Trull Reunion Tour. 7:30 p.m. $35. birchmere.com.

FUnk & R&B

9:30 clUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. The Soul Rebels featuring GZA & Talib Kweli. 7 p.m. $25.

930.com.

hIp-hop

WEDnESDAY

Fillmore Silver Spring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Remy Ma. 8 p.m. $50. fillmoresilverspring.com.

U Street mUSic hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

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

BlUeS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Senri Oe. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $30. bluesalley.com.

ELECtRonIC

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JAzz

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Merriweather Post Pavilion • Columbia, MD !

FEST M3 ROCK FESTIVAL 2018 METAL

Queensryche • Kix • Tom Keifer • Ace Frehley and more! .. MAY 4 & 5

M3 SOUTHERN ROCK CLASSIC FEATURING HERN

SOUT !

CK FEST RO

Marshall Tucker Band • Blackberry Smoke and more! ..... MAY 6

Dierks Bentley w/ Brothers Osborne & LANCO ................................................. MAY 18 Jason Aldean w/ Luke Combs & Lauren A laina ................................................. MAY 24 CAPITAL JAZZ FEST FEATURING

THIS WEEK’S SHOWS

Maneka w/ Bleary Eyed • Tosser • DJ Franzia ........................................ F MAR 23 of Montreal w/ Mega Bog ............................................................................. Su 25 Turnover w/ Mannequin Pussy & Summer Salt ............................................ Tu 27 MARCH

APRIL (cont.)

ALL GOOD PRESENTS

Pigeons Playing Ping Pong (F 30 - w/ The Fritz •

Sa 31 - w/ Consider The Source) .......................................F 30 & Sa 31

APRIL

MAY

ALL GOOD PRESENTS

The Motet w/ Soule Monde ......Th 5 The Black Angels w/ Black Lips .................................M 9 Andy Grammer w/ James TW .Tu 10 Thirdstory w/ Grace Weber .....Th 12 ALL GOOD PRESENTS

Perpetual Groove w/ CBDB ..F 13 ALL GOOD PRESENTS

Hurray For The Riff Raff & Waxahatchee w/ Bedouine ..............................Su 15 Sofi Tukker ..............................W 18 Lotus (F 4/20 - w/ Staycation) ..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

Sango w/ Kaelin Ellis Early Show! 6pm Doors .....................Tu 1 Carpenter Brut Late Show! 10pm Doors ....................Tu 1 D NIGHT ADDED!

FIRST NIGHT SOLD OUT! SECON

Matt and Kim w/ Tokyo Police Club & Future Feats .............................Th 3

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

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 Alvvays w/ Frankie Rose ............Tu 8 Marian Hill w/ Michl ..................W 9 Wye Oak .....................................F 11

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

LIAM GALLAGHER ANIMAL COLLECTIVE PERFORMING SUNG TONGS

.............................................. SAT MAY 19

w/ Laraaji ....................................................................................................... SAT JULY 21 On Sale Friday, March 23 at 10am

Robyn Hitchcock PostSecret: The Show ...... MAR 24 and His L.A. Squires

THIS SATURDAY!

w/ Tristen .......................................APR 28

THIS TUESDAY!

ALL GOOD PRESENTS

Trampled By Turtles w/ Hiss Golden Messenger .........Su 13 Jukebox the Ghost w/ The Greeting Committee .......Th 17 Nav w/ 88Glam ............................F 18 Andrew W.K. w/ Moluba ........Su 20 Tune-Yards w/ My Brightest Diamond ............M 21 Bishop Briggs w/ Foreign Air .W 23

Rob Bell w/ Peter Rollins .......... MAR 27 Max Raabe & Palast Orchester.............APR 11 Rick Astley ................................APR 18

ALL GOOD PRESENTS moe................................................APR 20

Radiotopia Live ....................... MAY 9 Jessie Ware ..............................MAY 11 The Kills w/ Dream Wife .............MAY 14 Gomez: Bring It On 20th Anniversary Tour ....JUNE 9

Eels .......................................... M JUNE 11 ..................... Su JUNE 17 Calexico w/ Ryley Walker ............APR 27 Yann Tiersen New date! All 12/5 tickets will be honored.

• thelincolndc.com • U Street (Green/Yellow) stop across the street!

ALL GOOD PRESENTS

Rising Appalachia .................F 25 Lissie w/ Van William ...............Sa 26

MANY MORE SHOWS ON SALE!

9:30 CUPCAKES

VANS WARPED TOUR PRESENTED BY JOURNEYS FEAT.

U STREET MUSIC HALL PRESENTS

Cigarettes After Sex ..............M 2 Yo La Tengo ...............................W 4

ALL GOOD PRESENTS

Kate Nash w/ Miya Folick .........M 30

Earth, Wind & Fire • Smokey Robinson • Anita Baker and more! ..JUNE 1-3

Florida Georgia Line .................................................................................... JUNE 7 Robert Plant & The Sensational Space Shifters w/ Sheryl Crow .................................................................................................. JUNE 12 Ray LaMontagne w/ Neko Case................................................................ JUNE 20 Paramore w/ Foster The People ............................................................... JUNE 23 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

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9:30 CLUB PRESENTS AT U STREET MUSIC HALL The Strypes w/ Peter Oren ...........F MAR 23 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 Ripe w/ Los Elk & The Fuss ......................W 4 Skizzy Mars w/ Oliver Tree ................ Tu 10 Pale Waves w/ INHEAVEN ................... W 11

• Buy advance tickets at the 9:30 Club box office • 930.com

TICKETS for 9:30 Club shows are available through TicketFly.com, by phone at 1-877-4FLY-TIX, and at the 9:30 Club box office.

9:30 CLUB BOX OFFICE HOURS are 12-7pm on weekdays & until 11pm on show nights, 6-11pm on Sat, and 6-10:30pm on Sun on show nights.

HAPPY HOUR DRINK PRICES impconcerts.com AFTER THE SHOW AT THE BACK BAR!

PARKING: THE OFFICIAL 9:30 parking lot entrance is on 9th Street, directly behind the 9:30 Club. Buy your advance parking tickets at the same time as your concert tickets!

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CITY LIGHTS: SUnDAY

In thE hEIghtS

August Greene March 29 at 8 p.m. | Concert Hall

The perfect marriage of jazz, Hip Hop, and soul, August Greene is the newly formed supergroup featuring emcee Common, pianist and composer Robert Glasper, and percussionist and producer Karriem Riggins.

In the first live public performance after dropping their self-titled debut album, the band delivers the ethereal sounds of Glasper on the piano, coupled with Riggins’s impeccable drumming, Common’s honest lyrics alongside Burniss Travis on bass, Samora Pinderhughes on additional keys and vocals, and DJ Dummy.

TICKETS ON SALE NOW! KENNEDY-CENTER.ORG | (202) 467-4600 Tickets also available at the Box Office.

Groups call (202) 416-8400.

For all other ticket-related customer service inquiries, call the Advance Sales Box Office at (202) 416-8540.

If those Hamilton tickets seem far too elusive—and expensive—grab your seats now for the next best thing: In the Heights. It’s Lin-Manuel Miranda’s other (and debut) Tony Award-winning Broadway musical. With music and lyrics by Miranda and book by Quiara Alegría Hudes, it’s a show that swept the Tony awards a decade ago with a vibrant and truly original musical about the characters and stories that make up New York City’s largely Latinx Washington Heights neighborhood. With many returning cast members from the original Broadway production, there are some exciting new additions in Vanessa Hudgens as Vanessa and Anthony Ramos (pictured), who originated the roles of Philip Hamilton and John Laurens in Hamilton on Broadway, filling the nimble shoes of Miranda's role, Usnavi. Miranda himself has given his seal of approval to this casting and production, which is basically the theatrical equivalent of passing a royal crown.

This setup will really let these notable voices soar and Miranda’s lyrics amaze and delight audiences anew. The musical begins at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. at the Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater, 2700 F St. NW. $99–$250. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org.

—Diana Metzger

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Black cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Psychic Subcreatures. 7:30 p.m. $10. blackcatdc.com.

WoRLD

mUSic center at Strathmore 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Diego El Cigala.

8 p.m. $38–$78. strathmore.org.

Books

Joel Sartore National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore speaks about the extraordinary behaviors of the animals he photographed for his new book Birds of the Photo Ark. National Geographic Grosvenor Auditorium. 1600 M St. NW. March 27. 7:30 p.m. $25. (202) 857-7700. mohSin hamid Shortlisted for the Man Booker and Kirkus prizes, Hamid’s latest novel Exit West is a reflection on war, a compelling love story, and inventive literary fantasy. Quaker Meeting House at Sidwell Friends School. 3825 Wisconsin Ave. NW. March 29. 7 p.m. $18–$20. (202) 364-1919.

Presented as part of The Irene Pollin Audience Development and Community Engagement Initiatives.

Dance

groove theory A diverse program from Georgetown’s co-ed hip-hop team, now in its 8th year, that features performances from GU groups and hip-hop teams and crews from around the D.C. metro area.

Lohrfink Auditorium. 37th St. NW and O St. NW. March

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24. 7:30 p.m. $7–$10. (202) 687-5757. performingarts. georgetown.edu. little white lieS Contradiction Dance Theatre presents its originally choreographed work featuring company members and special guest dancers, focusing on the little white lies that shape people’s thoughts and behavior. Anacostia Arts Center. 1231 Good Hope Road SE. March 23. 8 p.m.; March 24. 2 p.m.; March 24. 8 p.m. $20. anacostiaartscenter.com. peter and the wolF The Washington Ballet stops at THEARC to bring to life through dance this musical children’s tale about a young boy named Peter who ventures out into a meadow. THEARC. 1901 Mississippi Ave. SE. March 24. 1 p.m.; March 24. 5 p.m.; March 25. 1 p.m.; March 25. 5 p.m. $30–$59. (202) 889-5901. thearcdc.com.

Theater

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. 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.

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NEW MUSIC VENUE

NOW OPEN MARCH F 23

STONE SOUL PICNIC W SOUL CRACKERS & THE TEXAS CHAINSAW HORNS

CITY LIGHTS: MonDAY

THE WHARF, SW DC

DINER & BAR OPEN LATE!

S 24 BE’LA DONA’S SPRING JAM SU 25 NORMAN CONNORS & STARSHIP ORCHESTRA PRESENTS SUNDAY BRUNCH SU 25 PHAZE II WITH MATTHEW WHITAKER CELEBRATING 20 YEARS W 28 BRUBECK BROS TRIO TH 29 CORCORAN HOLT CD RELEASE CONCERT F 30

ALGEBRA BLESSET

S 31

PRINCE TRIBUTE SHOW FEATURING JUNIE HENDERSON

APRIL SU 1 F6

S7 SU 8

(2/7:30PM) LANDAU MURPHY JR. SOUL-BLUES SUMMIT: BILLY PRICE BAND W SPECIAL GUEST JOHNNY RAWLS JOE CLAIR & FRIENDS COMEDY SHOW SWING FOR SPRING BRUNCH WITH SVETLANA & THE DELANCEY FIVE

JUST ANNOUNCED FRI, APR 13

ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT

FRI, APR 27

CONYA DOSS FEAT. LIN ROUNTREE

SUN, APR 29 MELBA MOORE THU, MAY 3

JODY WATLEY & SRL

SAT, MAY 12

STOKELY OF MINT CONDITION

MARCH CONCERTS F 23

SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS PRESENTS THE REVELERS

SA 24

KYLE CRAFT

F 30

BLAIR CRIMMINS AND THE HOOKERS w/ THE ROCK-A-SONICS REVELATOR HILL w/ KAREN JONAS

CAJUN/ZYDECO DANCE LESSON INCLUDED!

SA 31

APRIL CONCERTS SU 1 TU 3

CASEY NEILL AND THE NORWAY RATS JEN HARTSWICK & NICK CASSARINO

W4

SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS PRESENTS DOM FLEMONS CD RELEASE w/ GREG ADAMS

TH 5 F6

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!

W 11 TH 12 F 13 SA 14 SU 15

7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda, MD

(240) 330-4500 www. BethesdaBluesJazz.com

Two Blocks from Bethesda Metro/Red Line Free Parking on Weekends

DELLA MAE w/ ONLY LONESOME DAN LAYUS w/ CHRISTIAN LOPEZ LOVE CANON

TOMMY CASTRO AND THE PAINKILLERS

w/ RISA BINDER

TH 19

SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS PRESENTS ANNA AND ELIZABETH w/ MARK FOSSON THE BIG LEBOWSKI EXPERIENCE

F 20 SA 21 W 25

THE LAST REVEL w/ THE NOVEL IDEAS MOTEL RADIO & QUIET HOLLERS THE HEAVY PETS w/ MAGNOLIA BLUE

THU, MAY 17 EDDIE LEVERT

http://igg.me/at/bethesdablues

w/ MILO IN THE DOLDRUMS

COME FOR THE WHITE RUSSIANS, STAY FOR THE INTERPRETIVE DANCE

TICKETS ON SALE! pearlstreetwarehouse.com

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hoLLIE Cook

Born to Jeni Cook, a Culture Club backup singer, and Paul Cook, the Sex Pistols drummer, and having performed in The Slits, an all-girl punk band, singer-songwriter Hollie Cook was destined to make her mark in the music industry. As a solo artist, Cook has perfected a blissful, tropical pop sound with breezy reggae leanings and the soul of lovers rock. On her third album, Vessel of Love, released earlier this year, Cook channels a recent bout of depression and anxiety into her most honest record yet. Vessel of Love transforms themes of affection, resilience, and even an emotional ode to Cook’s mentor and lead singer of The Slits, Ari Up, into her signature sonic space, an area somewhere between sunny day party vibes and sobering melancholy. Hollie Cook performs with Jenna Camille at 6 p.m. at U Street Music Hall, 1115 U St. NW. $15. (202) 588-1889. ustreetmusichall.com.

—Casey Embert

CITY LIGHTS: tUESDAY

SAkURA YUME/ ChERRY BLoSSoM DREAM

Coinciding with peak bloom, the latest ARTECHOUSE digital installation immerses you in the signature beauty of cherry blossoms—without the risk of triggering your allergies. While previous installations have featured abstract geometrical figures that react to patron movements, the latest seasonal dazzler incorporates koi fish and cherry blossom petals that respond to your presence.

Walking through the gallery is a world of moonlit floating blossoms. Get even more festive at the bar with augmented reality cocktails, which with the help of an app (and drinks made with Georgian pomace brandy), will send some warmth through your bones. Sakura Yume/Cherry Blossom Dream will also feature an immersive dining experience developed by Storylab, which will enhance your meal with interactive projections and the sounds of the season. The exhibition runs through May 6 at ARTECHOUSE, 1238 Maryland Ave. SW. $8–$15. artechouse.com.

—Pat Padua

CITY LIGHTS: WEDnESDAY

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

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BARAAT FESTIVAL OF COLORS W/ ZESHAN B

MAR 23 W/ WOMEN’S RAGA MASSIVE SATURDAY MAR 24 FRIDAY

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A burst of lush sincerity in an age of irony, the Australian rock duo of singer Russell Hitchcock and singer-songwriter and guitarist Graham Russell saturated early ’80s radio with big orchestrations and achingly earnest love songs. But long after their inescapable hits became ironic staples of hammy, besotted karaoke nights, in 2005 Air Supply released The Singer and the Song, an acoustic album that stripped down such chestnuts as “All Out of Love” and “The One that You Love” to their melodic essence. And you know what? It was kind of a revelation. Hitchcock’s voice had shed a layer of melodrama and sugar, and to hear him still land those high notes with just Russell’s spare accompaniment was to witness that rare pop reinvention that improved upon the original. The duo probably won’t be stripped down when they bring their show to Vegas-on-the-Potomac, but that’s the gamble you have to take. Air Supply perform at 8 p.m. at The Theater at MGM National Harbor, 101 MGM National Ave., Oxon Hill. $31.82–$71.82. (844) 346-4664. mgmnationalharbor.com.

—Pat Padua

FRI, MAR 30

the night thoreaU Spent in Jail Playwright Robert E. Lee’s classic work hits the mainstage at the George Mason University Center for the Arts. The play focuses on the titular Henry David Thoreau, leading up to the 19th century writer’s night spent in jail for refusal to pay a poll tax designed to support a war he opposed. George Mason University Center for the Arts. 4373 Mason Pond Drive, Fairfax. To April 8. $15–$30. (888) 945-2468. cfa.gmu.edu.

TUES, APR 3

record Store 24 This premiere stage production, a one-act play written and directed by Clayton LeBouef for eight performances, centers on a record store owner who doesn’t want his dreams to become nightmares. The story celebrates ancestral wisdom, vintage music, and the return of vinyl. Anacostia Playhouse. 2020 Shannon Place SE. To March 31. $25–$40. (202) 290-2328. anacostiaplayhouse.com.

FRI, APR 6

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 Georgetown, 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.

THE HILLBENDERS PRESENT THE WHO’S TOMMY: A BLUEGRASS OPRY

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. 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. forum-theatre.org.

tranSlationS In Translations, languages and histories collide, kindling romance and inciting violence.

In 1833 Ireland, change comes to rural County Donegal when British army engineers arrive to map the country, draw new borders, and translate Irish-language place names into the King’s English. Studio Theatre. 1501 14th St. NW. To April 22. $20–$85. (202) 332-3300. studiotheatre.org. waveS, all that glowS SeeS In this theater for the very young production, adults with their young children can follow a pathway of shells and stones into a serene tent on stage, where one man makes music and another dreams of the ocean. Featuring sand shaping, shadow puppetry, and inventive sound effects, to conjure up the feel of the sea. Kennedy

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(202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org. the winterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S tale Aaron Posner directs this classic William Shakespeare play about jealousy, prophecy, and redemption in Sicilia and Bohemia. Folger Elizabethan Theatre. 201 E. Capitol St. SE. To April 22. $35â&#x20AC;&#x201C;$79. (202) 544-7077. folger.edu. the wiz This Tony-winning musical, famed for its soul-pop reimagining of the classic novel and movieThe Wizard of Oz, comes to Fordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Theatre. Fordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Theatre. 511 10th St. NW. To May 12. $27â&#x20AC;&#x201C;$71. (202) 347-4833. fords.org.

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