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The Infamous Stringdusters feat. Nicki Bluhm (F 1 - w/ Della Mae • Sa 2 - w/ Paper Bird).............................................. F APR 1 & Sa 2 Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals w/ Christopher Paul Stelling .. M 4

Jason Aldean w/ Thomas Rhett • A Thousand Horses • Dee Jay Silver .................. MAY 7 I.M.P. & AEG LIVE PRESENT

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Jonathan Richman featuring Tommy Larkins Early Show! 6pm Doors ....Th 7 U STREET MUSIC HALL PRESENTS

Kenny Chesney w/ Old Dominion ....................................................................... MAY 19 CAPITAL JAZZ FEST FEAT

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Baauer w/ Graves Late Show! 10pm Doors ......................................................Th 7 Ace Frehley w/ Charm City Devils .......................................................................F 8 Drew Holcomb and The Neighbors w/ Jill Andrews ................................ Sa 9 Napalm Death & Melvins w/ Melt Banana ................................................. Tu 12 The Joy Formidable w/ Everything Everything .............................................W 13 Lissie w/ Skrizzly Adams ................................................................................... Th 14 Thao and the Get Down Stay Down w/ Saintseneca & Little Scream ....... F 15 The Feelies ...................................................................................................... Sa 16 The Dandy Warhols w/ Seratones ................................................................Su 17 Esperanza Spalding ..................................................................................... Tu 19 Tokyo Police Club w/ From Indian Lakes Early Show! 6pm Doors .............. Th 21

Twenty One Pilots w/ MUTEMATH and Chef’Special .......................................JUNE 10 Ellie Goulding w/ Matt and Kim & Bebe Rexha ................................................ JUNE 13 Tame Impala w/ M83 ................................................................................................. JUNE 16 Chris Stapleton & Jason Isbell

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Brandi Carlile & Old Crow Medicine Show w/ Dawes ......................... JULY 23

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Tribal Seeds w/ Fear Nuttin’ Band & E.N Young ............................................ Sa 23 Puddles Pity Party This is a seated show. .................................................... M 25 Poliça w/ MOTHXR ............................................................................................. Tu 26 Bob Mould w/ Ted Leo (solo) ............................................................................W 27

w/ Frank Turner and the Sleeping Souls .......................................................... JUNE 18 ALL GOOD PRESENTS MERRYLAND MUSIC FEST FEATURING

The String Cheese Incident • Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals • Grace Potter • Lotus • Stephen “Ragga” Marley and more! ............................. JULY 9 & 10

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Elephant Revival .......................................................................................... Th 28 The Residents present Shadowland Early Show! 5:30pm Doors. ............... F 29 U STREET MUSIC HALL PRESENTS

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INSIDE

10 a more perfect union?

Will Union Arts’ demise lead to a better future for D.C.’s arts community?

2016 NEA JAZZ MASTERS TRIBUTE CONCERT

Hosted by Jason Moran, Kennedy Center Artistic Director for Jazz

by matt cohen photographs by darrow montgomery

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Food Fighting: D.C. Public Schools is still not ready to bring food services in-house.

7 Unobstructed View 8 Savage Love 9 Gear Prudence 15 Buy D.C.

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27 City Lights: Former Modern Lovers frontman Jonathan Richman hits the 9:30 Club.

27 Music 31 Theater 33 Film

34 cLassifieDs Diversion 35 Crossword

17 Young & Hungry: Patios become must-haves for D.C. restaurants 19 Food Grazer: Sauce-o-Meter 19 The ’Wiching Hour: Pepe Food Truck’s Morcilla 19 Brew in Town: Green Flash Tangerine Soul Style IPA

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‘a favorable setting for ladies of easy virtue as they ply their trade up and down the street.’ —page 17

21 Ready to Wear: Capps on new solo exhibitions from Dan Steinhilber and Rockne Krebs 23 Arts Desk: Which local politicians deserve their own Hamilton-style musical?

24 Film: Gittell on Everybody Wants Some!! and Born to Be Blue 25 Curtain Calls: Croghan on Falling Out of Time 26 Discography: Cohen on Puff Pieces’ Bland in D.C.

FEATURING NEA JAZZ MASTERS

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Randy Weston

Jimmy Heath

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PLUS PERFORMANCES BY Ambrose Akinmusire, Lakecia Benjamin, Billy Harper, Stefon Harris, Justin Kauflin, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Pedrito Martinez, Jason Moran, David Murray, Linda Oh, Karriem Riggins, Roswell Rudd, and Catherine Russell

HONORING Gary Burton, Pharoah Sanders, Wendy Oxenhorn, Archie Shepp

Monday, April 4 at 8 p.m. | Concert Hall NOTE: At this time, all tickets for this event have been reserved. However, there will likely be tickets available on the night of the concert. Tickets that have not been claimed by 7:45 p.m. on April 4, 2016 will be released and distributed to a stand-by line.

Visit kennedy-center.org for more information.

The concert will also be live streamed at arts.gov, kennedy-center.org, and NPR.org/Music.

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CHATTER Bison Stakes

In which readers worry about Howard

Darrow MontgoMery

Most readers agreed that Jonetta Rose Barras’ lengthy cover story on Howard University and its financial woes (“Price of Admission,” March 25) was a difficult but necessary piece. “Hard to read that #HowardUniversity one the most important institutions in #DC and US is “fighting for its life,” tweeted journalist Sho Willis. Dana A. Williams, chair of Howard’s English department, wrote, “One of the more thorough explorations of the challenges ahead... Even-handed, insider/outsider look works.” Howard journalism student Paul Holston agreed: “Lengthy, but critical analysis of @HowardU. The text written is some of many discussions being held on & off campus.” jeff, for one, was happy to be reading about something other than beer glop and Fugazi: “I’m glad the CityPaper is returning to writing important stories like this. Too often lately its felt like all foodie/craft beer glop interrupted by an occasional Fugazi retrospective.”

Others, like Stacey Stewart, objected to the piece in its entirety: “I have to say I usually enjoy Ms. Barras’ writing.

However, I’m deeply disappointed and disturbed by this article. I understand the perspective of this publication is to focus on the interests of DC. However to write an article virtually completely devoid of the devastating context in which all HBCUs are operating is just shocking… If DC is so concerned about what Howard is doing for DC perhaps it’s time for DC to ask what it is doing for one of its most prized institutions, especially when it needs help the most.” Rob commented, “Instead of being informative or newsworthy, many of us feel that stories like this serve only to undermine the mission of Howard (and the HBCUs across the country) to educate those who aspire to learn and contribute to growth not only in our country but throughout the world. Far too often we are subjected to feature stories about Howard University intended only to plant seeds of doubt which only serves to further compromise its viability as a top-flight academic institution… I and many alumni are confident that Dr. Wayne A. I. Frederick (the President of HU) has the vision and commitment to steer the University forward into the future.”

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Food Fighting

A year after settling a whistleblower suit, D.C. Public Schools has no plan for in-house food services.

Something may be rotten in the D.C. Public Schools food services program, and it’s not just what the city feeds its children.

Last summer, the District reached a $19.4 million settlement in a whistleblower lawsuit against Chartwells/Thompson Hospitality. The suit was brought by former Food Services Director Jeffrey Mills, who was fired in 2013 for exposing fraud, price-gouging, and bad food. Revelations from the lawsuit prompted the D.C. Council to pressure DCPS to select a new vendor for the 2016-17 school year while extending the Chartwells contract for the current school year.

The idea was that DCPS would select a new contractor to eliminate fraud, reduce waste, and increase student participation.

Meanwhile, District officials were supposed to research in-house preparation, something more than 80 percent of school districts in the country already do. The process of selecting a new vendor is underway, but Chancellor Kaya Henderson refuses to consider a selfoperated alternative.

The chancellor’s obstinance was in high relief last month when D.C. Auditor Kathy Patterson revealed that DCPS hasn’t just neglected to explore the in-house option— proven at other schools nationwide to be both feasible and profitable—but it’s neglected its own kitchen facilities. Patterson and her staff found broken ovens, unused equipment, and cafeterias built to serve more students than attend the schools. She plans to issue further findings in the weeks ahead.

Students, parents, teachers, and nutrition advocates are wary of the food DCPS serves, and while Chartwells is probably on its way out, sources familiar with the bid solicitation fear another corporate behemoth, Sodexo, Inc., is on its way in. Sodexo settled a $20 million False Claims Act case in New York in 2010 and repeatedly has sustained findings of

Photo courtesy Payne parent

By Jeffrey Anderson

A Chartwells meal served last year at Payne Elementary School spoiled or expired food and employee safety violations in various states since 2010.

“If [DCPS] trades Chartwells for Sodexo, people will be rightfully outraged,” says a Council source. “They will have to own that.”

DCPS serves more than 40,000 children at 111 schools: Chartwells is responsible for feeding kids at 99, D.C. Central Kitchen has eight, and Revolution Foods has four— down from seven in recent years. The vendors serve about nine million meals per school year—down from 11 million in 2012. With Chartwells and D.C. Central Kitchen, employees cook, assemble, and serve meals out of school kitchens with ingredients shipped in by food suppliers. Revolution Foods prepares packaged meals at a central kitchen and delivers them to be heated and served on site.

More than anything, food services is a numbers game. The U.S. Department of Agriculture reimburses schools for meals served under a free and reduced-price program. DCPS operates on a fixed-price per-meal basis, a de-

cision implemented after Chartwells abused a cost reimbursement model by over-ordering, allowing food waste, then pocketing rebates from food suppliers. The alternative priceper-meal model gives unscrupulous vendors incentive to order cheaply and pocket the difference between cost and price.

Assessing food quality and desirability is difficult. Breakfast participation at DCPS schools has dropped from first in the nation (under Mills) to third, according to the USDA, and dinner participation is down by 50 percent. A teacher at Malcolm X Elementary at Green, who asks not to be named, says even Revolution Foods, despite a reputation for using healthy ingredients, delivers meals that students don’t want to eat. The Malcolm X student body is 100 percent eligible for the USDA lunch program, which “sounds like a fantastic deal,” the teacher says, “but I’m amazed at the amount of food waste and the obsessive accounting” used to show participation. “Whole trays of food

must be given out to each student. [They] will walk right out of line and drop the trays in the trash.”

DCPS tells a different story, using different statistics and different timeframes. A recent annual report to the Council’s Committee on Education claims that in the past three fiscal years, meal-participation rates have steadily increased. However, a chart produced by the DCPS Office of Food and Nutrition Services last March, obtained by Washington City Paper, shows a steady decrease in breakfast participation from the 2011-12 to the 201314 school years and a dramatic decrease in supper participation. The chart also shows a sharp increase in snacks served, which may explain why, in an attachment to the current request for proposal, supper and snacks are combined into one category to show an increase in after-school participation.

Staff for At-Large Councilmember Elissa Silverman, who is not on the education committee but who opposed extending the Chartwells contract, have noted the disparities. “Our concern is we want to see data that shows kids are participating and eating the food,” says Silverman’s Senior Policy Advisor Samuel Rosen-Amy. “And so far we haven’t seen that data.”

As DCPS has surveyed students and families in every ward, the Council has tried to assure them their voices matter. At-Large Councilmember David Grosso, chair of the education committee, says he has reviewed the previous solicitation, visited six different schools, emphasized culinary arts and sustainability, and issued directives on improved quality, community engagement, and performance metrics.

DCPS says Grosso’s visits were “unannounced,” but concedes he met Rob Jaber, director of food and nutrition services, at each site to speak with students and staff.

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school,” says a DCPS spokesperson.

In a comment on Twitter, however, Grosso agrees that truly unannounced visits are more effective, but says “a random adult showing up and asking to try the food is a little strange.” In an email, his spokesperson says, “The school cafeteria staff and their management were not notified that Councilman Grosso and Rob Jaber were visiting their kitchens to taste meals. Rob Jaber attended at the request of Councilman Grosso.” Silverman and Ward 6 Councilmember Charles Allen, a member of the education committee, also conducted visits.

Council sources say Grosso has prioritized issues other than school food. They describe Jaber, a former Chartwells employee, as unlikely to play “bad cop” with vendors. Interviews with sources involved and uninvolved with the education committee are resigned that, despite all assurances, neither DCPS nor the Council are seeking to truly advance the food services program. “Sometimes you have to accept their word,” says Ward 3 Coun-

“Whole trays of food must be given out to each student. [They] will walk right out of line and drop the trays in the trash,” says a Malcolm X teacher. cilmember Mary Cheh of DCPS. “Until I see evidence to the contrary, I’m not going to make any accusations.”

Yet transparency has been a nagging issue.

DCPS does not disclose bids or identify bidders. Jaber promised a “diverse panel” of bid reviewers, but DCPS refuses to say who is on the panel, allowing only that the “program manager,” Jaber, selected them. The solicitation is full of boilerplate language and is substantially similar to the previous one, though DCPS dropped provisions that banned meat

with hormones, antibiotics, genetically modified organisms, or chemical processing, and requirements that meat products be free of bad odors or signs of deterioration.

One change in the program is that rather than bidding for individual schools, vendors are bidding on “clusters” of between 10 and 12 schools. Some advocates see this as an opportunity to spur competition and innovation, pointing out that Revolution Foods started as a pilot project in Oakland, Calif. But if the market space is open to chef-driven alterna-

tives, the question is, who is out there, and who wants to do business with the District?

There is one chef-driven company rumored to have bid on the DCPS contract, however: a company Mills founded, called Genuine Foods, which boasts a James Beard awardwinning chef and an experienced management team. Mills declined to comment for this story.

An award could come as soon as April.

Though sources expect D.C. Central Kitchen to receive an award for just one or two clusters, all eyes are on Sodexo and Revolution Foods. People familiar with the two companies say they have joined together in a unified bid and that a large award is inevitable.

Ivy Ken, a sociology professor at George Washington University who is involved in a group called the D.C. School Food Project, has voiced concerns about openness in the process. “This is especially true because of the whistleblower suit that just occurred,” she says.

In Council testimony last fall, Ken recommended that no company to ever settle a fraud suit be allowed to bid on the DCPS contract. That would knock out Chartwells and Sodexo, she says. But it all comes back to inhouse food services, says a Council source, “and there is zero chance of that happening under this chancellor.” Asked if a recommendation from the D.C. Auditor could prompt the Council to force Henderson’s hand, the source says, “If Grosso is not going to lead, CP then it is not going to happen.”

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UNOBSTRUCTEDVIEW #SoWizards. #SoCaps?

By Matt Terl When the Wizards traded a top-nine protected draft pick for Markieff Morris, I thought it seemed like a solid idea: immediate help (theoretically), without the risk of giving up a likely impact player in the draft.

If Morris helped the Wizards make the playoffs, they’d have essentially traded a late firstround pick for a player good enough to help them get in. If they missed the playoffs despite Morris’ presence, in all likelihood they’d be picking high up enough in the draft to retain the pick. Everyone wins!

But this is D.C. sports, and this is the Wizards, so I should’ve known that “everyone wins” was never really an option. Things can still change, of course, but currently the odds favor the Wizards missing the playoffs and finishing with the likely 10th to 14th pick.

(They’d still have the chance of winning the NBA’s weird draft lottery and moving up to one of the top three picks, which they would then retain—but c’mon. This is a franchise whose Patronus is Eeyore.)

The outcome was inevitable because this is what happens to the Wizards.

Plenty of people expected exactly this outcome, of course. These are, not coincidentally, the same people who think that head coach Randy Wittman should be fired and General Manager Ernie Grunfeld should be launched into orbit.

But I was hopeful, because I am stupid like that, and I was wrong.

This outcome was inevitable not because Grunfeld is a bad G.M. with a lifetime sinecure (although that appears to be the case) and not because the Wizards have struggled to hit free throws (although that is definitely the case) and not because Bradley Beal is made out of balsa wood and rotting ice (although that might as well be the case). The outcome was inevitable because this is what happens to the Wizards.

That’s not precisely true: Curses are not real, and there’s no hand of destiny blocking shots to ensure that a specific team loses.

But it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy where the three legit reasons above, plus a dozen others, all combine to create the persistent idea of #SoWizards.

Which is to say that Markieff Morris is the reason people are leery of the Capitals, under the transitive property of sports predestination.

The Capitals won the Presidents’ Trophy, have had a generally spectacular season, and will almost certainly skate into the Stanley Cup playoffs as the favorite to win it all. And yet no one seems to fully believe.

If anything, this regular season success has worked against the Caps, feeding straight into the narrative of them as regular season giants who are routinely humbled in the playoffs. (Reminder: You can’t choke if you aren’t expected to win.) It’s had a concrete effect, as well: It has limited their urgency.

They’ve been leading the league for so long that they haven’t had that imperative to win; the playoffs have been a foregone conclusion for months.

You can point to dozens of reasons why this year’s Capitals playoff run will be different: goalie play, a balanced offense, a deeper bench, superior coaching. These are things that are supported by statistics. By metrics. By, you know, quantifiable facts.

And I like facts! I deeply wish I were clever enough to be an analytics nerd who would never trust my gut or the ol’ eye test over what math says.

But I look at the way the Markieff Morris trade turned out, and I watch the Wizards stumble in every possible #SoWizards way through this season, and it just seems to cement history. And that same mindset carries through to the Caps for me: They’re so tightly clinging to their narrative that I can barely imagine things playing out in a better way.

Which, on the converse, gives a ray of hope for both teams: If the Capitals can put together a respectable playoff run and shake their narrative, maybe—just maybe—I’ll be able to believe that the Wizards can make some moves this offseason to change their story as well.

Because I’ll be honest: It gets harder and harder to view these moves with any optimism when every Markieff Morris trade turns out just as #SoWizards as everyone expects.

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SAVAGELOVE I was honored to speak at JCCSF—Jewish Community Center of San Francisco—last week as a part of their “Uninhibited: About Sex” lecture series. The audience submitted questions on cards, which were ably put to me

by Jourdan Abel, who was wearing a wonderful uterus-themed sweater. (Check out my Instagram account—@dansavage—to see Abel’s sweater!) Here are some of the questions submitted by the uninhibited JCCSF audience that Abel and I didn’t manage to get to during —Dan Savage our conversation.

I had the best sex of my life with my ex. He fucked me hard, had a huge cock, and made me eat his come with a spoon. I loved it. Needless to say, we were incompatible in other ways. My current BF is vanilla. Very. Vanilla. When I masturbate, I think about my ex and can’t help but wish my current guy would make me slurp his come up from a utensil. We are very compatible in other (non-sex) ways. Am I doomed to fantasize about my ex?

You are—unless you open up to your current BF about what’s missing in your sex life and/ or get his permission to get your hard-fucking/ spoon-feeding needs met elsewhere.

events (bawdystorytelling.com is a great place to start), and let people know what you’re looking for. There’s no shortage of submissive guys in the Bay Area, and no shortage of dominant women up for mentoring women who are curious about topping.

In gay male relationships, what can you say about the psychological boundary between being Alpha in the world and beta in bed?

The boundary between Alpha In World/Beta In Bed is pretty fucking porous—it’s not studded with guard towers, barbed wire, and death strips, à la the Berlin Wall. (Google it, kids.)

That boundary only exists in our heads. And once we get that fact through our thick heads, not only do we discover that the Alpha/beta boundary is easily crossed, we quickly learn that crossing it repeatedly—brutally and joyfully violating it at will—is a total blast.

Is Savage your real last name? It’s mine, too! My mother kept her maiden name, I took her name, and she’s a sex therapist! We’re both huge fans. Could you say hi to Dr. Linda Savage? She’ll die!

Hi, Dr. Linda Savage! Please don’t die.

How do you combat homophobic remarks in a culture that condones and promotes homophobic tendencies?

You combat homophobia—and misogyny, its big sister—one terrified middle-schooler at a time. Bearing in mind, of course, that “terrified middle-schooler” is a state of mind, not an age bracket.

Got any advice for a bi girl, formerly submissive, who wants to start dominating men?

Move to San Francisco—oh, wait. You’re already in San Francisco. Leave the house— get involved in local kink orgs, if you aren’t already involved, check out local sex-positive

What do you do when you can’t make your partner come?

Me? I hand him back his dick and go get myself some ice cream—but you shouldn’t do what I do when you can’t make your partner come. Here’s what you should do: Keep trying, ask your partner what they need, and encourage them, if need be, to “finish themselves off” (without pouting, without laying a guilt trip on them about how they’ve made you feel inadequate, and without treating them like they’re broken). Cheerfully offer to hold ’em or play with their tits or eat their ass while they finish themselves off—or, hell, offer to go get ’em ice cream. Whatever helps!

Porn is so accessible today. How has it affected society?

What kind of sexual fluid or act would you name after Donald Trump?

One positive effect (among many): Porn’s wider accessibility forced us to stop pretending there’s one kind of sex—heterosexual, man-on-top—that absolutely everyone is interested in. Thanks to the Interwebs, we can track what people are actually searching for (it’s not all hetero), where they’re searching for it (a shout-out to the great state of Utah, which has the highest porn consumption rates per capita in the nation!), and how long they’re lingering over it (long enough to finish themselves off).

One negative effect (among many): The ubiquity of porn coupled with the general lousiness of sex education—in the United States and Canada—has resulted in porn doing something it isn’t designed to do and consequently does not do well. And that would be, of course, educating young people about sex. If we don’t want porn doing that, and we don’t, we need to create comprehensive sex ed programs that cover everything—hetero sex, queer sex, partnered sex, solo sex, gender identity, consent, kinks, and how to be a thoughtful, informed, and critical consumer of porn.

Trump, as I pointed out in a previous column, already has an alternate/more accurate meaning. There is no authority higher than the Oxford English Dictionary, and here’s what you’ll find under “trump” at oed.com: “in reference to a sound like a trumpet… the act of breaking wind audibly.” So remember, kids, when you see Donald Trump standing in front of a microphone… Trump isn’t talking. He’s trumping.

What is the one thing that concerns you most about the current political climate/election cycle?

Donald Trump getting the Republican nomination. I’m not at all concerned about the potential destruction/implosion of the GOP—those fuckers have it coming—but with the likelihood of political violence. I’m concerned that black and brown people— Mexicans, Muslims, African Americans— will be subjected to more political/social/ economic violence than they already are.

People will die as a direct result of Trump getting the GOP nomination. This is a terrifying moment.

What is the etiquette when it comes to social media and open relationships?

It all depends on the preferences of the couple/throuple/quad/squad in question. If a particular couple, etc., wants to maintain the appearance of being monogamous, if they want to avoid stigma, judgment, freaked out parents, etc., then they’re not going to want evidence of their open relationship popping up all over Facebook and/or Instagram. If there’s internal disagreement in a particular couple/ throuple/quad/squad about keeping things quiet on social media, not outing the person(s) who want to keep things discreet may be the price of admission their other partners have to pay.

What was your favorite aspect of the orgy held in honor of your 50th birthday?

The fact that I wasn’t invited. #NotAnOrgyFan “Uninhibited: About Sex” continues at the JCCSF through the end of May. For a full schedule of events: jccsf.org/arts-ideas/ uninhibited.

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Gear Prudence: I’m getting a tax refund. Thanks, IRS! It’s about $1,000, and I’m trying to decide whether I should use it to pay off some credit card balances or whether I should buy a bike with it.

Here’s why I think the bike would be a good idea: I could start bike commuting and then use all the money I save each month to pay down my credit card over time. After a few months, it’d be the same as the tax refund, and then after that, I’d have even more money to pay down my debt. This seems like a no-brainer, but my friends keep telling me that it’s a bad idea. What should I do?

—Definitely Expecting Biking Treasure Dear DEBT: GP isn’t consulted very frequently on matters of personal finance, but faced with your unexpected windfall and your desire to procure a bicycle, you’ve come to right place. Over the years, GP has saved thousands of dollars through daily bike commuting, which have then been subsequently frittered away on superfluous bike accoutrements, but let’s not dwell on that. You might not be happy with this advice, which is to pay off the credit card. There are two reasons why, the first one of which should be quite obvious: Credit card companies charge interest, and each month your outstanding balance accrues more of it, which ultimately works against your goal of eventually paying it off. Faced with the opportunity to reduce the balance (and the amount of interest it accumulates), it’s a financially prudent decision to do so. This is a boring answer, but the right one.

But let’s unpack this theory about how buying a bike with your windfall will lead to a brighter financial future. Indeed, you are correct: Commuting by bike would save you money in the future and you could use this money to pay down your debt over time. Here’s the thing that a lot of people forget: Buying a bike and actually bike commuting are two entirely different things. So many bikes languish unused after folks said to themselves “I should bike commute!” only to try it sporadically or decide that it’s really not practical for them.

That means the anticipated savings from bike commuting are never realized, and not only did you not pay down your debt when you had a chance, you aren’t saving any additional money from bike commuting, either.

Honestly, it feels weird to say “don’t buy a bike,” so that’s not exactly the advice. It’s buy a cheap bike, or buy a Bikeshare membership, and use the rest of the money to pay off the credit cards. If you take to bike commuting, then even better. That’s even more money that you can save down the road. Also, fix your W-4 —GP —you’re withholding too much.

Gear Prudence is Brian McEntee, who tweets at @sharrowsDC. Got a questions about bicycling? Email gearprudence@washcp.com.

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Artist Raye Leith in her studio at 411 New York Ave. NE

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“People romanticize this shit,” Martin says, “but the reality is that this is my office. This is where I come day and night to practice.”

Martin’s “office” is the practice space he shares with Luke Stewart on the third floor of the battered warehouse-like building at 411 New York Ave. NE. The building is home to studios for roughly 30 artists, among other entities, businesses, and organizations. It houses the artist collective known as Union Arts and has connections to an even larger D.C. underground arts community.

While Martin pulls out his sax to get to work, down the hall, Janel Leppin is plastering show posters on the yellow-tinged walls in the landing that greets visitors entering from the stairwell. Leppin, along with Stewart and others involved with Union Arts, have organized a benefit concert that evening. In addition to practice spaces for musicians and bands, Union Arts also houses a recording studio and a performance space that sometimes hosts as many as four shows a week— everything from raucous punk and hardcore bands, to genre-defying experimental music and avantgarde jazz.

Last June, developers D.B. Lee and Brook Rose purchased the building for $7 million and told its tenants they’d have to vacate within a year. In January of this year, the developers finally unveiled their grand plans for the building: 411 New York Ave. NE was to become a “boutique hotel,” complete with an arts program. The initial plan included eight artist studios, gallery and exhibition space, a community classroom, and a sculpture garden.

It’s an ambitious and innovative project that Dennis Lee, who owns the development firm that shares his name, says will be the first of its kind—not just in D.C., but anywhere in the country. It’s not only going to bring a trendy, chic hotel to the rapidly evolving area near Union Market, but Lee hopes it will act as a kind of hub for D.C.’s arts community—a place where organizations and festivals who don’t have a home base can regularly host events. “That’s the dream,” Lee says. “That people from out of town can come and stay in the hotel and immerse themselves into the vibe. It could really work.”

But it’s not everyone’s dream.

The tenants of 411 New York Ave. NE and their supporters sprang into action upon learning of the plans for the building—and that, in order to move forward with the hotel project, the developers would need D.C.’s Zoning Commission to approve a planned unit development, which offers community benefits in exchange for leeway on zoning rules. They assembled a coordinated protest against the developers at the first Zon-

ays s ” , t i h s this artin. e z i c i t man r aaron m s my o r e l P o “Pe hone Playe that this i nd saxoPhe reality is e i come day a “but t . this is wher officeto Practice.” night ing Commission hearing in early February.

Members of Union Arts and other tenants formed the 411 Artist Union as a governing body to represent the building’s current residents and officially oppose the developers’ request for a zoning change.

In the days before the hearing, nearly 100 people signed up to testify in opposition to the proposed PUD. At the hearing, even more opponents showed up and packed into the room, some holding protest signs that read “SAVE UNION ARTS” and “MORE ARTS SPACE, LESS LUXURY HOTELS.” The public witness list was so long that, after four and a half hours of testimony, the hearing was adjourned and a follow-up hearing was scheduled. Four and a half additional hours of testimony later, a second follow-up hearing was scheduled for April 21.

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into Mayor Muriel Bowser’s stated goal of “support[ing] and expand[ing] the District’s creative economy,” but for many of the artist tenants of 411 New York Ave. NE and members of the broader arts community, it dissolves a cherished, vibrant, and important arts space. To them, it’s cultural displacement.

To them, this isn’t a struggle to save a building, but a fight to save the future of D.C.’s underground arts communities.

Union Arts’ impending displacement is hardly news—the building has been on the market since 2012—but the hotel project marks a turning point in the building’s rich, quirky history, and the end of its role as an unofficial home to many of D.C.’s creative communities.

Gail Harris, whose family’s LLC purchased the building in 2007 for slightly more than $1

million, rented space to her tenants for below-market rates in an effort to sustain a stable arts community within the building. Over the years, Harris’ tenants have included numerous artists, churches, businesses, and The Warehouse—a nightclub that hosted some of the city’s most progressive and transgressive underground dance parties from about 2008 to 2012. The parties came to a screeching halt, however, when a shooting occurred outside the building during a Warehouse party, and Harris subsequently didn’t renew Warehouse owner Sammy Steward’s lease.

Following Steward’s departure, Harris hoped to lease The Warehouse’s space to more artists, she told Washington City Paper in 2012. Coincidentally, that was right around the time Gold Leaf Studios—home to a vibrant DIY arts community in Mount Vernon Square—was coming to an end.

In the ’80s into the early ’90s, a frame shop known as Gold Leaf was situated on the ground floor of 443 I St. NW, and renowned local gallerist George Hemphill lived and worked in the building, too. In the late ’90s, post-rock trio Trans Am moved into the warehouse space to build its recording studio. In 1998, sculptor Mike Abrams moved in, built more studio spaces for artists, and began subletting them to artists from varying disciplines. With Abrams and Trans Am at the helm, Gold Leaf soon became a valued haven for D.C.’s artists and musicians.

“It was pretty amazing,” Abrams says of Gold Leaf. “Everyone was coming and going [in the building] to get busy doing their work, but it was a little bit like beach culture, too. People would drop in and we’d have barbecues, and events, and parties.”

In 2011, the building was sold to developers, knocked down, and replaced by apartments. Abrams, who had put so much work into fostering the community at Gold Leaf, wanted to keep that momentum going. It only took a few months before Abrams connected with Harris, and pretty soon, the spirit and community of Gold Leaf was to live on at 411 New York Ave. NE. With a lease on the third floor, Abrams— along with a core group of Gold Leaf’s members, including Luke Stewart and Josh Cogan—founded Union Arts in late 2012.

Abrams built out some artist studios on the third floor, while Stewart helped build a music community in the building, with both practice and performance space.

By this time, 411 New York Ave. NE was already home to a vibrant arts community. Parts of the building had been rented to artists—including an artist co-op on the second floor— at an affordable rate since the early ’80s. Since Union Arts moved in, the building’s arts community has continued to flourish: vintage shop Nomad Yard Collectiv took over the building’s ground floor in 2014, and MOUSAi House, a for-profit company that offers affordable art

and music education, moved in that same year. The location has become one of the most prominent incubators for D.C.’s creative community.

It’s another recent Friday evening, and Chris Otten, the public representative for the 411 Artist Union, and some other tenants have gathered inside Nomad Yard Collectiv to prepare for a meeting with the developers. There have been two Zoning Commission hearings so far—both very contentious.

Otten anxiously paces around the store while Nomad Yard founder and curator Desirée Venn Frederic points out all the broken light fixtures and other problems she says Lee and Rose have refused to fix.

The tenants are frustrated, to say the least.

Otten says tonight’s meeting was scheduled only three days ago, and the short notice made it difficult for a lot of tenants to attend. The lastminute communication from Lee and Rose, Otten says, has been “par for course.”

After the first hearing, Lee, Rose, and CulturalDC, a nonprofit the developers contracted with to help come up with the hotel’s proposed arts program, listened to the witness testimonies and retooled their plans.

“A lot of the protest was about music, and a lot of the testimonies were from musicians,” Lee says.

“So we took all that and then we went back and made some pretty good changes to the program. We added studio space, square footage, we created more privacy, we added a music studio.”

A few days before the second hearing, Lee and Rose sent information about the revamped arts program to the Artist Union’s leaders, who then sent the info to everyone who had signed up with the Zoning Commission to testify. But, the leaders say, there wasn’t enough time for the witnesses to review the information before the hearing took place. As a result, most of the cross examination from Lee and Rose’s lawyer, Meridith Moldenhauer of Griffin, Murphy, Moldenhauer & Wiggins, LLP, was spent asking the witnesses who testified if they knew that most of the issues they were complaining about had already been addressed.

“There has been very serious communications problems, and it started from the very beginning where we weren’t introduced to an opposing party until the first hearing,” Lee says. But Susan Hostetler, an artist who’s rented space in the building for the past 12 years, says the issues predate the Zoning Commission hearings.

“Originally we had a meeting when they first bought this space. We did not have another meeting until right before the first zoning hearing,” Hostetler says. “So that was months and months and months that they

age, t o o f e quar ded a s , e c a P dio s ivacy, we ad nnis u t s d e “we adedated more PrdeveloPer deeto we cr studio,” sayse in resPons music changes mad lee of demands. artist never spoke to us. They never really asked for our input.”

Many of the tenants of the building also object to the fact that CulturalDC did not consult them before it developed the plan. Shannon Lewthwaite, a partner in Nomad Yard Collectiv, says that CulturalDC “made a big mistake in not even coming to the building once [and] not once involving any of our artists—some of them who are very well known, very established in the community.”

There’s also an issue, they say, with the kind of studio space that CulturalDC’s plan calls for. Originally, the eight artist studios were going to be on a floor without much privacy, so that hotel guests could watch artists at work. That didn’t go over well with many people who testified at the first hearing. “It’s displacing our community, and what they’re proposing is a space that’s very sterile, where people can come by and watch artists work,”

says Michele Montalbano, an artist who’s been in the building for nearly 15 years. “That’s really not the environment to create in.”

Since then, the developers have come up with an alternative that would lease the entire third floor of their hotel—11,000 square feet—to artists. It comes with a hefty price tag: $1 million per year.

But the real point of contention isn’t just the lack of communication from Lee and Rose, the perceived sterility of CulturalDC’s plan, or the extraordinary lease price for a completely artist-run floor in the hotel. To those who oppose the hotel development, this fight has revealed a deeper concern about the diminishing availability of affordable spaces for artists in D.C. Right now, Lee says the tenants pay an average of $10 per square foot per year—a subsidized rate. “To get the building to sustain itself, with the lowest possible operational

and maintenance costs,” Lee says, “the price per square foot would need to be at least $25.”

And that’s just to cover the basics— finance carry, property taxes, insurance, and some modest maintenance and improvement for the building, which Lee says “is now functionally obsolete with its decrepit operational systems and seriously deteriorating structure.” He says that the estimated cost to renovate the building—to fix just its basic problems—would be about $5 million. To support that improvement, they would have to bump the rent up to somewhere between $40 and $50 per square foot.

Under Lee and Rose’s current plans, the cost per square foot for the third floor of their hotel would be $95. It’s expensive, but the main purpose of the plan, after all, is to build a hotel that will attract guests—not to support a thriving arts community. That’s secondary.

It’s inevitable, when the value of its building rises from $1 million to $7 million, that this arts community would bear the brunt of rising rents.

Under CulturalDC’s current arts-program proposal for the hotel, the developers would subsidize the rent for the artist studios on the second floor for at least five years; because of that, Lee and Rose won’t be able to rent the third floor for anything less than market value.

If anything, the situation highlights the need for more affordable arts spaces in the District, something that many of the tenants at Union Arts are hoping local government agencies—like the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities or the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development—can step in to help with.

“We don’t want a handout. We want support in helping to acquire a space,” Venn Frederic says. “I think it’s really critical that there is artist ownership, and so our responsibility and our job is to raise those funds and also organize and develop our own programming to operate this space so that it is, in fact, viable.”

In September of 2015, the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities—the District agency that supports local arts communities through grants, education programs, and other services—released an update to its strategic plan. Among its key findings: that “the [arts] field is beleaguered by the forces of gentrification, increasing social and economic disparity, and the stresses of sustaining nonprofit organization or an artistic career.” The plight of the artists of 411 New York Ave. NE is a microcosm of just that.

“What [Union Arts has] pointed out for us is what we’ve known: that there is a demand, and a need, for art makers to work and to live,” says Arthur Espinoza Jr., executive director of DCCAH. “We’re trying to address that straight on.”

There are glimmers of hope outlined in

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DCCAH’s strategic plan: “The District has access to a number of vacant and underutilized buildings, including schools that are no longer needed,” it reads. “The District is in a position to negotiate with private developers to include the amenities that will support placemaking, including such elements as affordable artist/creatives live-work spaces.”

It’s too early in the process for DCCAH to start looking for sites that can potentially be converted into arts spaces, Espinoza says; its strategic plan names no deadlines and doesn’t provide a specific budget for any of its goals. Espinoza, who left the Washington Ballet to head DCCAH in December of last year, says the commission needs to be smart and methodical about executing the plan as a whole.

“Right now, we’re asking the questions,” he says. “We’re digging and researching and investigating all of that.”

But one thing is clear: It’s going to take a collaborated effort not just between DCCAH, DMPED, CulturalDC, and private developers, but with individual artist communities like Union Arts, who, until recently, have had little to do with each other.

Agencies like DCCAH and organizations like CulturalDC have, in the past, worked on big, citychanging projects, like commissions for large-scale murals and the Arts Walk redevelopment at the Monroe Street Market in Brookland, respectively. It’s a far cry from the kind of underground, sometimes transgressive, art and music that comes from the artists at Union Arts.

“You’ve got CulturalDC, who works with local artists, and then you’ve got the Union Arts artists and every other artist like them, and they don’t mix,” says developer Lee. “The artists at 411 are critical of the CulturalDC side. And I just sit there like, ‘Guys, you’re complaining about authenticity, but you’re refusing to mix it with CulturalDC.’” When CulturalDC first received opposition from artists to its proposed hotel arts program, Lee says the group tried to back away.

“They were like, ‘We can’t get involved with that.’ And I’m like, ‘Guys, you need this. You need that authenticity. Listen. Pay attention [to these artists],’” he says.

Tanya Hilton, interim executive director of CulturalDC, thinks that the artists’ opposition to the plan is a sign that they’re resistant to change. “I think people are focused on what is there today versus what can live and thrive tomorrow,” she says. “Our goal in being involved is to help bring stability to the areas of growth in the city by implementing arts spaces that can be there for many years to come. That message is getting lost.”

Michael Seman, a senior research associ-

ative career-types who want to populate your city.”

The importance of D.C.’s music scene is something that Seman doesn’t think local government officials fully grasp. There’s no government agency solely dedicated to music; it’s instead lumped into the District’s Office of Cable Television, Film, Music & Entertainment—a mouthful of priorities.

Seman thinks D.C. can look at other cities, like Austin and Seattle, who each boast their own music commissions, as examples of how to successfully navigate the local music scene through government agencies.

“If they have a DIY space they know is being shut down, they should think, ‘How can we help these displaced artists?’” Seman says.

ave h e l P o at Pe Playing h w , e g rn a at PeoPle have in e d o m s “in thi erstand is thyou want to to undds are PeoPleearcher in ban ity,” says res your cel seman. micha ate for the Economics Research Group at the University of North Texas, has written extensively on music scenes in urban centers from an economic framework. He says he’s distraught about the situation at 411 New York Ave. NE—“not because it’s being redeveloped, but because the fact that they’re displacing a DIY venue is a bad sign.” Semen thinks government agencies should focus on ways to preserve arts communities rather than finding new spaces and programs for the creative class.

In the four years since Union Arts’ creation, it’s become one of the most reliable DIY music venues in the city, thanks in part to Stewart’s diverse and steady booking. It’s a venue where both locals and touring acts can play without having to lose a cut of the door to the venue or promoter.

“D.C. [musicians] don’t have that support the same way that they would for visual art-

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ists,” says Gaje Jones, owner and founder of MOUSAi House. “There’s a lot of commissions for murals. There’s a lot of commissions for sculptures and things of that nature. But when it comes to music-centered installations and spaces, that’s not really something that D.C. finds supportable.”

This is the exact kind of mentality that Seman’s research focuses on. “We need to pivot our thought on music scenes,” he says. “In this modern age, what people have to understand is that people playing in bands are people you want to have in your city.”

Why? Because most musicians aren’t career musicians and, according to Seman’s research, generally work in the design, education, or nonprofit sectors, or are entrepreneurs—exactly the kind of professionals mayors and city officials aspire to attract. “What you have is DIY venues that are very supportive of local music scenes. You have these cre-

With the next Zoning Commission just a few weeks away, Otten is preparing for another heated hearing. Communication between the 411 Artist Union and Lee and Rose has deteriorated. Otten says everything the developers say “just feels real disingenuous.”

Otten and the 411 Artist Union are prepared to drag this fight out for as long as they can. But Lee and Rose own the building now. And if the commission doesn’t grant the developers the zoning change they need to build the hotel as currently planned, they can adjust those designs accordingly.

The displacement of the building’s tenants is inevitable.

Under Lee and Rose’s current timeline, the tenants of 411 New York Ave. NE need to be out by Sept. 1, but Lee says that could be extended by a couple months if all lessees agree to a relocation assistance agreement by the end of March. Many of the artists in the building are looking for other spaces in the city, but it’s a tough search.

“Artists come into an area, and then they’re pushed out once that area starts to be rejuvenated and part of that rejuvenation came from the artists,” artist and tenant Montalbano says. “The publicity has been good and hopefully a wake-up call to D.C. to do some planning.”

The future of the artist community at 411 New York Ave. NE is unwritten, but they’re not ready to give up yet. They’re not optimistic, but they are determined. They’re confident that, if anything, the conflict will sound the alarm to the local government, and that artists and officials can work together to find spaces where there isn’t a threat of displacement.

Before he moved into Gold Leaf, Martin says he practiced playing his saxophone outside the post office on Brentwood Road for 10 years “in the snow, in the heat, during the day, and after work.”

If he finds himself without a space once more? “I’ll practice outside again if I have to.

I hope I don’t,” Martin says with a chuckle.

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For many D.C. restaurants, patios and roof decks are now a must-have.

The entire population of D.C. has seemingly taken to the sidewalks. Restaurants are dusting off their umbrellas. People are ordering rosé—lots of rosé.

It’s time. Patio season is here.

The number of outdoor spaces where people can eat and drink—from sidewalk cafes to rooftop bars—has boomed in recent years. Just look at downtown D.C. One-hundred-ninety sidewalk cafes with a total of 5,692 seats occupied a 138block area as of September 2015, according to the Downtown Business Improvement District. That’s a 6.7-percent increase in the number of cafes and a nearly 10-percent increase in seats from the previous year. The number of downtown sidewalk cafes has doubled since 2009, when the BID conducted its first annual survey. Citywide, the Alcoholic Beverage Regulation Administration had issued 851 summer garden and sidewalk cafe permits as of Dec. 1, 2015. (A “summer garden” is the city’s term for a patio or roof deck on private property, while a “sidewalk cafe” is on public property.)

Part of this bump can be attributed to the increase in the number of bars and restaurants in D.C., but it’s also more than that. Outdoor spaces have become an intrinsic part of the District’s dining culture, and therefore, the business of restaurants and bars. Establishments are investing more in beautifying their al fresco areas and are trying to extend their use into colder months with retractable roofs, fire pits, heaters, and even blankets for guests. Even the names of outdoor patios are now fancified, like the “punch garden” at Columbia Room or the “roof garden” at Rose’s Luxury.

Bar Pilar on 14th Street NW has gone more than a decade with just two tables out front. But last year, the bar owners decided to add a roof deck with a retractable roof. The project is currently undergoing permitting, and co-owner Jonathan Fain can’t say yet when it will open.

“There are so many cool outdoor spaces. Just to keep up with the neighborhood, we needed to add that,” says Fain.

“I never would have added one probably if it wasn’t for all the roof decks. But they are awesome. Everybody likes to be on them.”

Fain says Bar Pilar sees a sales drop when patio season hits because everyone wants to be outside. Conversely, its sister restaurant Café Saint-Ex down the block gets a bump because it has more tables outside than in. There are so many

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extra seats outside, the patio is “like another restaurant almost,” he says.

Even D.C.’s more industrial neighborhoods are now seeing outdoor patios. Early last year, Atlas Brew Works founder Justin Cox lobbied Ward 5 Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie to change the law so that breweries (plus distilleries and wineries) could apply for the same outdoor seating permits that restaurants and bars have. Previously, alcohol manufacturers weren’t allowed to have any fresh-air seating, but Atlas had 35 to 40 feet of sidewalk in front of its Ivy City facility that was prime for a patio. The legislation passed without any fuss, and Atlas opened a sidewalk beer garden overlooking Mount Olivet Cemetery in October.

“The general experience that people have here is a lot better now,” Cox says. “We get a lot more folks that are coming by to sit on the patio in particular. We have people who show up early to make sure they get a seat outside.”

This all would have been unimaginable 50 years ago. As the Washington Post reported, Bassin’s restaurant on 13th and E streets NW opened D.C.’s first sidewalk cafe on Aug. 8, 1961. At the time, the newspaper wrote, people had many concerns about outdoor dining, including “windblown foreign matter,” rodents, pickpockets, pedestrians being forced into the streets, and as a police chief said, “a favorable setting for ladies of easy virtue as they ply their trade up and down the street.”

Those fears, thankfully, have dissipated.

However, even 18 years ago, restaurateur Gus DiMillo of Passion Food Hospitality says, outdoor patio seating was around, but “it wasn’t something that you really focused on.” If you had a nice location for some outdoor tables, great, but DiMillo says it wasn’t something he and his team sought out when they were scouting potential restaurant locations. “Now when you look for locations, you have to have a patio,” he says, or at a minimum, lots of windows and doors that open up to the outdoors. “Somehow or another, you have to bring the outside in,” he says.

Perhaps one of the most successful attempts to “bring the outside in” is the garage door–like window at Pearl Dive Oyster Bar that connects the front patio with the inside bar. Despite the fact that the fencedin space is relatively small and boasts only a few stools, people pack in like sardines for a spot to stand.

And that, says owner Jeff Black, is free advertising.

“Crowds beget crowds… It’s an unintended announcement about the restaurant,” Black says. “It’s great for us. It’s great for sales.”

Pearl Dive was among the first on the

corridor to try such an indoor-outdoor setup. Black says officials from the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs, who normally approve architectural plans from their desks, actually came out to see it “because they just couldn’t wrap their brain around it.”

Similar layouts have since been replicated— or at least envied—by other restaurateurs.

“That was one of the smartest things I’ve seen in many, many years, because that is an eye-catcher… It’s one of the most impactful things on that street,” says Alan Popovsky, who owns Lincoln Restaurant and Teddy & The Bully Bar. When he opened his latest restaurant, Declaration, Popovsky asked his landlord if he could do the same kind of thing, but it ultimately didn’t come to fruition.

Instead, Popovsky has tried to make his sidewalk cafes stand out in other ways. Every year, he invests between $2,500 and $5,000 at both Lincoln and Teddy & The Bully Bar to refresh the patio decor—from chairs to candle-holders to umbrellas branded with the restaurants’ names. “It’s almost like signage.

That’s the way I look at it,” he says. “Patios really make a statement for the restaurant if you want them to.”

Lincoln used to have lounge furniture outdoors. No more. Now, the restaurant sticks to tables only. “For the restaurant, it’s better because you generate more revenue. You don’t generate as much revenue off of a couch,” Popovsky says. Plus, the couches can be awkward to eat at.

Popovsky estimates his restaurants get a 10-percent bump in sales on a nice day when their patios are open.

Black likewise says his restaurants’ patios are good for spring sales, but they aren’t exactly the “panacea that a lot of people think.” They require extra staff and equipment, and the fickleness of the weather means sales are volatile.

“You can buy all this food and you can get all prepped for X number of customers. And then the rain cloud rolls in, and next thing you know, you’re doing a fraction of that business. And it’s hard to manage a restaurant that way, because you want your ordering to be exact, you don’t want to be throwing food in the trash, you don’t want staff hanging around. ” Although D.C. has a number of beer gardens and other waterfront businesses that rely primarily on outdoor seating, Black says he wouldn’t want to run one of them.

Still, he’ll take all the sunny days he can get.

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Stuffings: Blood sausage, pickled onions, cream cheese, fig jam, spinach Thickness: 2.5 inches Pros: With so many bold flavors, you’d think that the sticky sweet fig spread, salty cream cheese, and slightly gamey blood sausage would compete with each other. But the ingredients meld together in a rich, slightly decadent sandwich that tastes like more than the sum of its parts. The pillowy ciabatta roll remains soft enough to tear and chew easily without becoming soggy.

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Sloppiness level (1 to 5): 3.When you try to bite through the sausage, the force squishes the sandwich too hard, sending sticky fig jam and cream cheese out the sides of the bread.

Overall score (1 to 5): 3. As enjoyable as this combination of sweet, salty, and earthy flavors is, it’s hard to overcome the sausage’s texture problems. With a more penetrable (or nonexistent) casing, the sandwich would improve dramatically.

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Tangerine Dream Known for its West Coast IPA, Green Flash has several hop bombs in its lineup. For the newest, the brewery takes its Soul Style IPA, released in 2014, and adds tangerine zest. The outcome is a juicy IPA that packs a punch.

Aromas of orange slice candy and citrus rind go head to head. Pungent grapefruit and tangerine flavors—thanks to the zest, of course, as well as Citra and Cascade hops—are balanced with sweetness from American pale malts. At 6.5 percent alcohol, Tangerine Soul Style IPA is medium bodied with a satisfyingly dry, pithy finish. It’s a great spring beer, but luckily, this IPA is available all year and will be hitting D.C. taps and shelves even fresher once Green Flash is up and running in Virgin—Tammy Tuck ia Beach later this year.

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Dan Steinhilber’s inflatables demand immersion; Rockne Krebs’ smoke pieces defy easy explanation.

“Interface” At G Fine Art to April 16 “Rockne Krebs: The Smoke Drawings” At Hemphill Fine Arts to April 30

By Kriston Capps Enter into Dan Steinhilber’s work one of two ways: from outside or inside. The experiences are so different that “Interface,” now hanging at G Fine Art, might as well be two different shows.

From the outside—meaning, simply looking at his plasticwrap inflatables, 13 of which are on the walls of the gallery— Steinhilber’s work is most definitely sculpture. These pieces hang like big plastic Ikea bags on coat hooks, or in context, like the soft sculptures of Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. On the wall, his works resemble colorful, formless, wrinkled dates or sun-dried tomatoes.

Plug any one of them into an electric socket, though, and the work changes entirely. In fact, “Interface,” the impish artist’s third solo exhibition with the gallery, might be four shows or eight or 12, depending on how many viewers are on hand.

“Untitled Mobile Interface Site (Conversation Pillow)” is a lumpen yellow and gray-green sack on the wall, for example. But the works in Steinhilber’s show aren’t meant to be left there hanging. This one comes equipped with two electric cords, which are connected to two salvaged Mac computer fans arranged inside the sagging sculpture. Plugged in, the fans inflate the piece into a long tubular organ: an entirely new disposition for the work.

From the inside—there is an inside of Steinhilber’s sculptures, once they’re inflated—the viewer’s experience is wholly different. Here’s how his work works: Every piece features at least one square-shaped connector, a small frame that allows the work to hang on the wall but also serves as an entry point for viewers. These squares are sealed with a stretchy, spandex-y diaphragm, which keeps the air inside the inflatable. These airlocks are permeable membranes. With a little effort, a viewer can stick her head through the seal to see the sculpture inside-out. So “Untitled Mobile Interface Site

(Conversation Pillow)” needs to be approached three different ways: once, as a bulbous painting on the wall; second, as an inflated banana hammock resting on the ground; and a third time, as an apparatus the viewer is supposed to wear over her head. Make that viewer or viewers—this particular piece offers two square- shaped apertures through which two individuals can simultaneously squeeze their heads (and see one another).

“Interface” is Steinhilber’s crudest show to date in at least a couple of different ways. The works are formed with plastic wrap, the sort used to secure industrial palettes of goods at Costco, and ironed by the artist to give them texture and reinforcement. While it’s nothing new to find fugitive materials in Steinhilber’s work, these materials are less obvious, less self-professing, than, say, the clothes hangers he turned into a giant column for a sculpture that belongs to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Or the kite he attached to an electric fan for a tight little self-contained composition in a gallery show some years ago. In “Interface,” Steinhilber’s works look like paintings. They might as well be paint—just plastic in a different form. They are cruder, closer to oil, than prior works that comprised discrete objects: shampoo bottles, duck-sauce packets, whatever.

Steinhilber’s sculptures also express a grade-school sense of biological humor. Viewers are supposed to molest these pieces: grab them off the wall, plug them into a socket, penetrate their orifices. “Untitled Mobile Interface Site (Tertiary Migraine)” looks like a heart, purple and veiny, both hanging on the wall and inflated on the ground. Inside—meaning, again, the sight after the viewer has reverse-birthed her head into the interior of the piece through the sculpture’s sphincter-like canal—“Tertiary Migraine” is banded with all the brilliant colors of Jupiter’s atmosphere and all the veins of a lump of liposuctioned fat. From the outside: hypoxia, a lack of oxygen. From the inside: unexpected dynamics in color and texture.

With “Interface,” Steinhilber finds common cause with the Austrian sculptor, Erwin Wurm, who sought to remarry the body with sculptural form after the strict separation of the two during the high dudgeon of modernism. From Surrealism on, the body was typically a thing to be abstracted, a

“Untitled Mobile Interface Sit (Skull Cavity)” (2016) by Dan Steinhilber launching pad for biomorphic composition. Wurm brought it back home with sculptures that explicitly featured bodies, namely through his “One Minute Sculpture” series, in which real human people wrestle with objects—fruit, detergent, chairs, you name it. “Interface” seems to allude to a temporary transformation that happens when a viewer removes one of Steinhilber’s works from the wall, inflates it, and wears it.

At the same time, several of his sculptures have undeniable appeal as wall works—in particular two smaller pieces, “Untitled Mobile Interface Site (Gamer)” and “Untitled Mobile Interface Site (Bcc Constellation).” These two in particular seem to correspond with one another across the room, perhaps because they share a sharper geometry. Other works are more blobular. “Gamer” and “Bcc Constellation” look like invertebrate echinoderms, warped starfish, struggling to assert the symmetry imposed on them by nature.

After a quick introduction, viewers will understand exactly how to interface with Steinhilber’s works: Plug ’em in, put ’em on, and tune into a mini-atmosphere of color and texture. Even inert, the works read as coherent formal sculptures, akin to Franz West’s audacious and amateurish plaster “adaptives.” Take one of those and inflate it, and that’s a Steinhilber—good for admiring, good for wearing. washingtoncitypaper.com april 1, 2016 21

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Indeed, the one drawback to Steinhilber’s show is its scope: 13 sculptures is too many to drive the point home.

(It’s fortunate that the G Fine Art space used to be a beauty salon, so there are plenty of outlets along the walls.) Five or six pieces might have drawn greater distinction to the particular works on view. But when one of them, “Untitled Mobile Interface Site (Chat Room),” is a vast duplex pyramid with three entry-holes, it’s simple enough for viewers to lose sight of the whole by burying their heads, together, into Steinhilber’s ultra-fun-time experience.

Rockne Krebs, an innovative artist who lived and worked in D.C. for nearly five decades, died in 2011. By then, many of his best works were lost to time. Krebs, a Navy Reserve man who worked in optics, was a formal inventor who made laser light his chosen medium. His light installations were the first to make use of lasers in art. But given all the advances in laser engineering since his pioneering works of the late 1960s through the ’80s (and successive restrictions on laser use), few of his sculptural light works would pack as much wow today, assuming they could be remounted in the first place.

Nevertheless, like so many D.C. artists of the last few decades, Krebs is due for another look. Artists from the

Washington Color School and those who fell into its orbit— namely Sam Gilliam—have found new purchase in a contemporary art market dominated by formalist experimentation. “Rockne Krebs: The Smoke Drawings,” now on view at Hemphill Fine Arts, is a first step in reexamining Krebs’ career. This show includes work that is finer, in many respects, than any of his city-scaled laser-light displays.

“The Smoke Drawings” refers to a series of graphic works that Krebs made after receiving a Guggenheim Foundation grant in 1972. The award gave him license to focus on drawings and a means to escape his mounting ideas for public installations. The works he accomplished in 1973 are luminous and unfathomable: Per my limited research into the smoke drawings, no one’s quite certain how he made them.

More of a set of experiments than a fully articulated series, “The Smoke Drawings” comprises untitled paper works that the artist made using airbrush and candle smoke. The airbrush is simple to detect: Soft fields of color lend atmosphere to Krebs’ compositions. The candle smoke is easy to find, alright, but much harder to explain. The paper doesn’t appeared to be burned. In 2016, it might be easier for a layman to divine how his laser installations worked.

Certainly some of these drawings work better than others as compositions, suggesting that the process by which Krebs

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infused paper with candle smoke was not entirely his to control. At a glance, the drawings are wispy, barely there, bound or guided only slightly by Krebs’s judicious use of airbrush.

Negative space is the defining feature of these roughly 10by-10-inch artworks. Two larger, substantially denser and more colorful pieces suggest a culmination in Krebs’ strategy, but the smaller studies are stronger..

As if to underscore the Krebs revival, Hemphill has mounted in an attendant gallery room a stellar suite of works

by D.C. luminaries: Leon Berkowitz, Alma Woodsey Thomas, Sam Gilliam, Thomas Downing, Anne Truitt, and Gene Davis. Quite a roster. Each of these artists is enjoying (or overdue for) reconsideration as explorers who discovered new formats of modernism that wouldn’t come into vogue for many years. “The Smoke Drawings” makes the case for Krebs as a contemporary worthy, albeit not with the work for which he is best known. “The Smoke Drawings” is a convincing show. Finding Krebs’s best work may mean digging CP even deeper in his archives.

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If you’ve got a pulse and access to the Internet, you know about Hamilton, the hip-hop retelling of the life of America’s first treasury secretary. And while its music may be transforming Broadway, playwrights have looked to political figures for inspiration since Shakespeare first penned a drama about a king named Henry. With All the Way, Robert Schenkkan’s examination of Lyndon Johnson’s presidency, opening at Arena Stage on Friday, we consider a few local politicos whose stories also deserve the stage treatment.

—Caroline Jones

John Wilson Like Hamilton, Wilson’s story ends in Boss shepherd Called the William HoWard TafT With a comic moment “Father of Modern Washington” by some, Alexander Robey Shepherd was a power-hungry schemer who essentially made the city rise with his hands. Make it a jazz hand, bring in some elaborate sets, and you’ve got yourself a wild new musical.

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already built in (he might have gotten stuck in a bathtub!), the president-turned-chief justice lived enough life for the story to be presented on stage—particularly because he’ll be costumed in his Presidents Race outfit and foam head.

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death, and his wise political maneuverings and loyal friendships make him the ultimate tragic hero. His past work as an organizer in the civil rights movement gives his American story even more dramatic tension.

Carol SChwartz Audiences love Vince Gray From the shadow cam- Phil Mendelson The stiff Council chairman shows about big-voiced, politically active Texans (see previous homages to Molly Ivins and Ann Richards). The longtime D.C. councilmember and mayoral also-ran, who coasts around town in a yellow Pontiac Firebird and makes enemies of former allies, has an enormous personality that warrants a play.

paign and his battles with his nemeses Ron Machen and Muriel Bowser, to his subsequent reemergence as a Ward 7 D.C. Council candidate, Vincent C. Gray is the ultimate comeback kid. And it’s about time hand-dancing was celebrated on Broadway.

who aims to restore order in the chaotic chamber makes the perfect candidate for a comedy about the office and city politics that take place at the Wilson Building. When he asserts control, he’ll label himself “a modern Mendo general.”

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Film

Portraits of the Artists Two new films show that an artist can thrive without his muse, and vice versa.

Everybody Wants Some!!

Directed by Richard Linklater

Everybody Wants Some!!

Born to Be Blue Directed by Robert Budreau

By Noah Gittell Richard Linklater and Ethan Hawke each have a new film opening this week. Surprisingly, they’re not the same one. The director and actor have collaborated on eight projects—including the critically acclaimed Before trilogy—but their latest efforts show that an artist can thrive without his muse, and vice versa. Everybody Wants Some!! and Born to Be Blue examine themes present in Linklater and Hawke’s prior efforts—the tension between potential and achievement, art and competition—but from entirely different angles. One is a breezy comedy with Zen-like wisdom, the other is a stormy biopic that challenges the conventions of its genre. Both are unquestionably great.

After 2014’s Boyhood, Linklater’s biggest commercial and critical success, the Austinbased director probably could have made any film he wanted. But instead of conjuring up some bright, new phase of his career, he turned his gaze back to Dazed and Confused, marketing Everybody Wants Some!! as a “spiritual sequel” to the cult classic. While it features none of the same characters, the connections are clear right from the start. The last shot of Dazed was of a few high school kids in the late 1970s on the open road, staring into their future. Everybody Wants Some!! opens on the same image, except now the future has arrived.

It’s 1982 and the first day at college for Jake Bradford (Blake Jenner), budding baseball star and scholarship student. He’s young and full of energy, but since this isn’t actually a sports movie (it belongs instead to a genre that Linklater might as well have created, the “hang-out movie.”), he and his teammates spend most of their time drinking, doing drugs, chasing girls, getting into fights, and generally being bros. Note: The women in the cast are chiefly eye-candy, with one exception. Jake romances a theater student (Zoey Deutch) in the final reel, but even this feels perfunctory, like a required nod from this distinctly pre-feminist film to today’s more sensitive era.

Everybody Wants Some!! is a nostalgia-driven affair, a film for men who want to be boys all over again. As in Dazed, all the charac-

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ters are a little wiser, kinder, or older-looking than they would actually be in real life. Wyatt Russell cuts a very Wooderson-like figure as Willoughby, an eccentric relief pitcher who likes to stretch in the nude and dole out stoner wisdom; Tyrone Plummer, making his debut here, is Jake’s fellow frosh, easily the dumbest in the group but no less loveable; finally, Glen Powell gives a star-making performance as Finn, the clear leader of the group whose love of a good time allows him and his crew to transcend all social boundaries.

See, the protagonists of Everybody Wants Some!! are a tight-knit tribe, but it doesn’t stop them from visiting other tribal nations.

In their search for women and booze, Jake and his teammates visit with punks, theater geeks, disco aficionados, and country/western fans.

Their clothes change to fit the scene, but their attitudes—loose, easygoing, and social—never do. It’s a natural extension of the ethos of Dazed, which featured a high school quarterback who moved effortlessly between the cool kids and the nerds. Everybody Wants Some!! expands on this theme, bringing it to the surface without losing the pleasingly aimless, often hilarious sensibility of its beloved predecessor.

Chet Baker, the subject of Robert Budreau’s Born to Be Blue, was also caught between worlds, but his tragedy was that he never belonged to any of them. A white jazz musician

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in an era dominated by black musical geniuses, he was shunned by his peers (including, in what the film frames as a crucial moment in Baker’s life, Miles Davis) and retreated into his dual addictions of love and heroin. Those with even a cursory knowledge of musical biopics know one has to win out.

Mercifully, Born to Be Blue refuses to acquiesce to the conventions of the genre. Instead of starting in childhood, Budreau drops us off midway through Baker’s career, after his heroin addiction has landed him in jail, and he’s been given a second chance playing himself in a new feature film. On the set, he falls for the actress playing his wife, and just as true love begins to take hold, Baker’s past catches up: A few thugs to whom he owes money break his jaw and knock out his teeth, forcing Baker to relearn the instrument he has played all his life. It is a slow and painful process, and it makes no promise that he can ever return to his illustrious career.

It’s heavy subject matter, but the film is remarkably light on its feet. Budreau matches Baker’s creative ingenuity, turning the cliched events of his subject’s life into a bracingly original story. Real-life moments you would expect to be depicted as triumphs are spun as tragedy. As Baker plays the trumpet, Budreau plays the audience: speeding up the tempo, scatting his way through certain periods in Baker’s life, then slowing down for

key moments, luxuriating in the quiet notes and the recurring themes. He sputters out sometimes, too, losing the viewer in an unnecessary digression. Born to Be Blue in other words, isn’t about jazz. It is jazz.

Without Ethan Hawke, however, it might feel more like Muzak. It’s an indelible performance; from now on, when you think of Baker, you’ll picture Hawke. Throughout his long career, Hawke’s persona has settled somewhere between poet and jock, making him a keen fit for the musician known as “the James Dean of jazz.” But he doesn’t rest on his reputation here, instead creating something both iconic and deeply specific. He slides in and out of scenes like a feral cat, avoiding sudden movements when possible. He contorts his boyish voice into Baker’s soft, gentle rasp, evoking an innocent child transported into the body of a grizzled, old man. It’s easily the most transformative performance in the actor’s celebrated career thus far.

Hawke has also previously shined as angsty romantic leads, and while Born to Be Blue fashions itself as a love story, it doesn’t achieve the depth of feeling that it should. In this regard, it fails to improve on biopics like Ray and Walk the Line, in which fascinating female characters are largely reduced to the dismal supporting wife archetype. As Baker’s muse Jane, Carmen Ejogo (who stole scenes as Coretta Scott King in Selma) has little to do besides cry and fret over Baker’s addiction, then offer him tough love when the script demands it.

The character exists as a symbol of the possibility of redemption, and although Ejogo and Hawke have terrific chemistry, her character’s lack of definition creates a small but meaningful void at the center of what could have been an even more powerful love story.

Like Everybody Wants Some!!, Born to be Blue sees women only as something to chase after; to be fair, so do their protagonists, and, at least in the latter’s case, the film dramatizes the consequences to his objectification. Everybody Wants Some!! is a consequence-free zone, but its message of inclusion, although not explicitly extended to the female gender, has some potential. Art can’t always catch up to our rapidly-changing social mores, but both of these films deserve credit for giving CP it the old college try.

Everybody Wants Some!! opens Friday at Landmark’s E Street Cinema, Arclight Bethesda, and Angelika Film Center & Cafe at Mosaic. Born to Be Blue opens Friday at Landmark’s Atlantic Plumbing Cinema.

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Derek Goldman’s adaptation of Falling Out of Time successfully depresses the bejesus out the audience.

sad to the bone Falling Out of Time

By David Grossman Adapted and directed by Derek Goldman At Theater J to April 17 Theater J’s latest, a world premiere adaptation of David Grossman’s half-poem, half-novel Falling Out of Time, sets out to plumb the darkest depths of mourning, and in that (admirably earnest) endeavor, director and adapter Derek Goldman has proved utterly successful—punishingly so. This production is so tightly focused on its descent through the world of human suffering that almost no other emotion or experience is given thought. The production is undeniably a work of art, but it’d be a stretch to call this entertainment.

Our guide on this tour of parental-suffering hell is the official Chronicler (Michael Russotto) of a small village somewhere at some time. Russotto does for the audience what the Chronicler does for the town: His job is to describe everything he sees in florid prose and to give the other characters someone to talk to. The plot follows a man (Joseph Wycoff) who is distraught over the death of his son and decides he must find a way to reunite with his child. His wife (Erika Rose) is understandably not on board with this plan, but the man clarifies that he won’t kill himself; instead, he wants to drive himself as close to death as is humanly possible without actually dying.

This plan manifests in him wandering without food or sleep, clouded by loss, in giant

laps around the village, letting his grief consume him. This unusual new hobby proves to be an instant hit with several other mourning villagers. Parent after parent joins the grief parade, a procession that consists of slow, distracting loops through and around the audience for almost the entirety of the show’s 90-minute runtime.

The plot shares a surprising amount of its DNA with the genre of body horror, particularly Junji Ito’s graphic horror novels, which frequently see townsfolk fall, one by one, to an obsession that drives them to gruesome self-destruction. Grossman’s townsfolk are walking a similar path, culminating in a scene in which they strip down, reveal bodies now webbed in veins and arteries, and lay in the dirt to attempt to seep beyond the confines of self and melt into the earth and each other.

The moment they’ve been trudging to all along isn’t really one of catharsis. Several characters remark that their sorrow makes it difficult to breathe; the audience is left to suffocate along with them, as the play is reluctant to offer any moments of levity or comic relief. Instead, when the play ends, the actors who have admirably twisted themselves into portrayals of abject sorrow for more than an hour without leaving the stage take their bows. Fin. It’s hard to say who this play might be best suited for. Grieving parents would be apt to relate to these characters on a profound level, but the play is so relentlessly morose as to make that potentially an act of emotional masochism.

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Drab City Bland in D.C. Puff Pieces Lovitt Records; 2016 On one hand, fuck Rod Blum—the Iowa congressman who thinks D.C. needs a recession because he once saw “cranes everywhere” (or, in reality, cranes rising from the private Wharf development in Southwest). But on the other hand, his observation does highlight a hard truth in D.C.: The city is growing—fast.

And for District residents who’ve been here for quite some time, it can often feel like the city is evolving into some kind of materialistic dystopia. (We can say that, Rod. You can’t.) It seems like every week another cherished D.C. landmark shutters (most recently, Bohemian Caverns and soon Millie & Al’s), only to be replaced by lifeless condos, overpriced tapas restaurants, and bougie chain shops.

It’s enough to make anyone’s head spin, and that’s exactly the sentiment post-punk trio Puff Pieces captures with its debut LP, Bland in D.C. It’s 11 terse, anxious observations of the city’s rapid transformation and all the life that’s sucked out of it as a result. On the album, vocalist/bassist Mike Andre pulls no punches with his frank, often scathing lyrics about new D.C. It ain’t Chocolate City anymore; it’s since been replaced by something far more, er, bland.

Musically, rhythm and repetition is the glue that holds it all together. Guitarist Justin Moyer’s sparse, spazzy riffs (they rarely utilize more than a couple of chords) keep pace with drummer Amanda Huron’s tight beats, while Andre’s knotty, frenetic bass lines weave it all together. It’s a kind of spastic repetitiveness that echoes the airy minimalism of postpunk bands like Gang of Four and Wire’s early catalogue. And with such sparse music, it puts

Andre’s anxious crooning front and center. His message can’t be misheard.

On songs like “Money” and “Cash Register,” Andre voices the inner monologue of the developers and business people responsible for the much of the District’s transformation, with the simple but blunt refrains: “Money, money throughout the land/ Money, money, more money/ Money, money, it’s changing hands/ Better get some, you dummy,” and “Gimme cash/ Gimme more/ Gimme cash/ Gimme more/ Put the cash/ In the drawer/ Gimme cash/ Gimme more.”

Here’s the best way to digest Bland in D.C.: Download it onto the portable musiclistening device of your choosing, hop on the nearest Metrobus, and ride the route to completion. The songs are the perfect anxietyfueling soundtrack to all the development— recent or in-progress—you’re guaranteed to witness on your tour. You’ll see the D.C. Andre sings about on “Y,” a kind of Tale of Two Cities riff set for the era of gentrification. In one corner, you have Citizen One, “the toast of the town/ Happily gallivanting around/ Living up in a condo of glass/ Watching the pointless people as they trudge past.” Meanwhile, there’s Citizen Two, who’s “not on the same page/ Menial work for the minimum wage/ Living up in a room with three more/ Feeling as if the future’s a big locked door.”

And just as the question washes over you, Andre asks it: “You gotta wonder… Why?” It’s not all gloom and doom, though. The album’s most frantic track, “Wondrous Flowers,” is an ode to just that—the undeniable natural beauty that makes D.C. so special. “Flowers of June/ Flowers of May/ In the nice room/ On the nice day/ Wondrous flowers,” Andre sings.

That’s one thing—hopefully—developers can’t —Matt Cohen take away from us.

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Friday Birchmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Bob Schneider with Karen Jonas.

7:30 p.m. $29.50. birchmere.com.

The hamilTon 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

Southern Troubadours in the Round Featuring Ruthie Foster, Paul Thorn and Joe Ely. 8:30 p.m. $25.75–$39.25. Magic Bus featuring Tender Polman and Brian Goddard. 10:30 p.m. Free. thehamiltondc.com. rock & roll hoTel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

Autolux, Eureka the Butcher. 9 p.m. $16–$18. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

U STreeT mUSic hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 5881889. Charlie Puth, Phoebe Ryan, Sophie Beem. 7 p.m. (Sold out) ustreetmusichall.com.

ElEctRonic FlaSh 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Carl Craig, Dansman. 8 p.m. $5–$15. flashdc.com.

Jazz BlUeS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 337-4141. 4 Generations of Miles. 8 p.m. & 10 p.m. $35–$40. bluesalley.com. mr. henry’S 601 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. (202) 5468412. Dial 251 for Jazz. 8 p.m. Free. mrhenrysdc.com.

BluEs monTpelier arTS cenTer 9652 Muirkirk Road, Laurel. (301) 377-7800. Phil Wiggins. 8 p.m. $25. arts.pgparks.com.

Folk 9:30 clUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. The Infamous Stringdusters featuring Nicki Bluhm, Della Mae. 7 p.m. $25. 930.com.

WoRld clarice SmiTh perForming arTS cenTer Stadium Drive and Route 193, College Park. (301) 405-2787. Alfredo Rodriguez Trio with Alfredo Rodriguez, piano, Peter Slavov, bass, and Henry Cole, drums. 7 p.m. & 9 p.m. $10–$25. theclarice.umd.edu.

Freer gallery oF arT Jefferson Drive & 12th Street SW. (202) 633-1000. The Art of Afghan Music: Homayun Sakhi, rubab, Salar Nader, tabla. 1 p.m. Free. asia.si.edu.

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Any pianist with training in Afro-Cuban jazz can play tender, introspective lyricism and slashing, pounding rhythms with similar ease. But to pivot back and forth between those styles with no apparent transition, the way Alfredo Rodriguez does, is to demonstrate a whole other stratum of talent. This explains why Quincy Jones served as both his mentor and the producer of Rodriguez’s second album, Tocororo—lest we forget, Jones was once among the shrewdest of jazz composers, arrangers, and bandleaders. (That he has the ear for picking out top-shelf talent we surely won’t forget.) His protégé is on the same path, crafting beautiful melodies that are perhaps topped by the choices he makes in performing them—including his sudden breaks into delirious Caribbean groove. After just two releases, Rodriguez is well on his way to a long and fruitful career in jazz. Catch him now, at the cusp of it. The Alfredo Rodriguez Trio performs at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland, Stadium Drive and Route 193, College Park. $10– —Michael J. West $25. (301) 405-2787. theclarice.umd.edu.

Opera: Rising Stars Concert Series. 8 p.m. $25–$65. strathmore.org.

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U STreeT mUSic hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889. Tobacco, Lord Raja. 7 p.m. $20. ustreetmusichall.com. Rufus Du Sol, Cassian. 11 p.m. $15. ustreetmusichall.com.

kennedy cenTer concerT hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. National Symphony Orchestra: Cristian Macelaru, conductor; Nikolaj Znaider, violin.

11:30 a.m. $15–$89. kennedy-center.org.

Vocal kennedy cenTer millenniUm STage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Vocal Arts DC Art Song Discovery Competition Winners. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

saturday Rock

Jazz BlUeS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 337-4141. 4 Generations of Miles. 8 p.m. & 10 p.m. $35–$40. bluesalley.com. hoWard TheaTre 620 T St. NW. (202) 8032899. Hiromi The Trio Project featuring Simon Phillips and Anthony Jackson. 8 p.m. $35–$65. thehowardtheatre.com.

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The Shack Band, Stop Light Observations. 9 p.m. $12–$15. gypsysallys.com.

mr. henry’S 601 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. (202) 5468412. Tacha Coleman Parr. 8 p.m. Free. mrhenrysdc.com.

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Joe Satriani. 8 p.m. $55–$75. thelincolndc.com.

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CITY LIGHTS: SATURDAY

THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH A deafening clatter of cymbals ricochets off Royal Albert Hall’s grand walls to sound the climax of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1956 thriller, The Man Who Knew Too Much. The memorable clash occurs during Arthur Benjamin’s “Storm Clouds Cantata,” originally composed for the 1934 version of the film. Everything earlier in the story has built up to this moment, beginning with the McKennas’ innocent vacation in Marrakesh where they meet a mysterious Frenchman—an encounter that soon ensnares them in a kidnapping, a murder, and an assassination plot. Hitchcock’s film fittingly builds to a literal crescendo given that other key elements of the plot hinge on music, namely, Doris Day’s famous “Que Sera, Sera,” which makes its debut here. As memorable as that performance remains, however, the cymbals hold all the power of suspense in this tale. It’s a celebration of Hitchcock, Doris Day, James Stewart, and Arthur Benjamin, but also of 20th century American music legend and Hitchcock collaborator, Bernard Herrmann—a man who appears on screen to conduct the London Symphony Orchestra and Covent Garden Opera Chorus during one of the cinema’s most unforgettable sequences of suspense. The film shows at 4 p.m. at the National Gallery of Art, 6th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. —Victoria Gaffney Free. (202) 737-4215. nga.gov.

Folk 9:30 clUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. The Infamous Stringdusters featuring Nicki Bluhm, Paper Bird. 7 p.m. $25. 930.com.

BarnS aT WolF Trap 1635 Trap Road, Vienna.

(703) 255-1900. Sean Watkins. 7:30 p.m. $20–$25. wolftrap.org.

The hamilTon 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

Judah & The Lion, The Saint Johns. 8:30 p.m. $14. thehamiltondc.com.

WoRld Freer gallery oF arT Jefferson Drive & 12th Street SW. (202) 633-1000. The Art of Afghan Music: Homayun Sakhi, rubab, Salar Nader, tabla. 12 p.m. & 3 p.m. Free. asia.si.edu.

opERa aTlaS perForming arTS cenTer 1333 H St. NE. (202) 399-7993. UrbanArias: After Life and Josephine. 8 p.m. $27–$29.50. atlasarts.org.

classical kennedy cenTer concerT hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. National Symphony Orchestra: Cristian Macelaru, conductor; Nikolaj Znaider, violin.

8 p.m. $15–$89. kennedy-center.org.

kennedy cenTer millenniUm STage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. NSO Prelude. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org. mUSic cenTer aT STraThmore 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. National Philharmonic: Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass with Stan Engebretson, conductor, Danielle Talamantes, soprano, Magdalena Wór, mezzo-soprano, Robert Baker, tenor, Kevin Dias, baritone, National Philharmonic Chorale. 8 p.m. $39–$89. strathmore.org.

The SchleSinger cenTer aT noVa commUniTy college, alexandria campUS 3001 N. Beauregard St., Alexandria. (703) 845-6156.

Alexandria Symphony perfroms Tchaikovsky, Bruch, Smetana, and Howard. 8 p.m. $5–$80. nvcc.edu/ schlesingercenter.

dJ nights Black caT 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490.

Dance Yourself Clean with the Lights and Music DJs. 9 p.m. $10. blackcatdc.com. rock & roll hoTel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

POP OFF with DJ Micah Vellian. 9:30 p.m. Free. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

Vocal george maSon UniVerSiTy cenTer For The arTS 4373 Mason Pond Drive, Fairfax. (888)

945-2468. Vocal Pops A Cappella Concert. 8 p.m. $5–$12. cfa.gmu.edu.

sunday Rock

9:30 clUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals, Christopher Paul Stelling. 7 p.m.(Sold out) 930.com.

Black caT BackSTage 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Laura Stevenson, Crying, Chris Farren.

7:30 p.m. $13. blackcatdc.com.

Jazz BlUeS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 337-4141. 4 Generations of Miles. 8 p.m. & 10 p.m. $35–$40. bluesalley.com. kennedy cenTer millenniUm STage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. The United States Air Force Airmen of Note. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

countRy Birchmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Riders in the Sky. 7:30 p.m. $25. birchmere.com.

Jammin JaVa 227 Maple Ave. East, Vienna.

(703) 255-1566. Carrie Rodriguez. 7:30 p.m. $20. jamminjava.com.

WoRld Freer gallery oF arT Jefferson Drive & 12th Street SW. (202) 633-1000. The Art of Afghan

Music: Homayun Sakhi, rubab, Salar Nader, tabla. 12 p.m. & 3 p.m. Free. asia.si.edu. naTional gallery oF arT 4th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. (202) 737-4215.

Washington Toho Koto Society. 3:30 p.m. Free. nga.gov.

hip-hop rock & roll hoTel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

Young Fathers, HXLT, Laughing Man. 8 p.m. $15. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

opERa aTlaS perForming arTS cenTer 1333 H St. NE. (202) 399-7993. UrbanArias: After Life and Josephine. 2 p.m. $27–$29.50. atlasarts.org.

classical george WaShingTon maSonic naTional memorial 101 Callahan Dr., Alexandria. (703) 6832007. Alexandria Symphony performs Tchaikovsky, Bruch, Smetana, and Howard. 3 p.m. $5–$60. gwmemorial.org. naTional mUSeUm oF american hiSTory 14th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. (202) 6331000. Masterworks of Four Centuries 2015-2016 Sunday Concert Series with Kenneth Slowik, artistic director. 7:30 p.m. $22–$28. americanhistory.si.edu.

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naTional mUSeUm oF naTUral hiSTory 10th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. (202) 6331000. Emerson String Quartet 2015-2016 Concert Series. 6 p.m. $56–$68. naturalhistory.si.edu.

CITY LIGHTS: SUNDAY

FRANKIE COSMOS Since 2009, Greta Kline, the performer known to listeners as Frankie Cosmos, has published more than 50 albums, EPs, and singles on her Bandcamp page. Kline is only 22.

Nearly 40 of those records were released before Zentropy, her first studio album. By putting her emotions and process on display, Kline built a loving following in the New York DIY folk scene and on the Internet. Much of her early work is little more than sketches of songs whispered into a laptop, but for every fleeting trial there’s a precious gem of a melody. The wealth of material builds on itself, rewarding her most dedicated fans with jokes and in-the-know references. This widespread popularity is no viral fluke. Her talent is becoming even clearer as Kline learns to edit. A second studio record—Next Thing, out April 1—features new recordings of fan favorites and brilliant compositions. It’s a quiet album that barely contains its energy. “Sometimes I get sinister/ can’t always turn to Arthur,” she sings with a smile on her new single as she references her biggest influence and a common character in her music, Arthur Russell. Her output has slowed recently, but the quality is better than it’s ever been. Frankie Cosmos performs with Eskimeaux and Anna McClellan at —Justin Weber 8 p.m. at DC9, 1940 9th St. NW. $12. (202) 483-5000. dcnine.com.

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Reality is bleak in Jennifer Haley’s award-winning play, The Nether—a story set in a colorless, dystopian future. Within this barren world, however, lies a seemingly effective antidote—a virtual reality (the Internet’s successor) known as the Nether, where users can assume alternate identities, leave behind their familiar grim realities, and satisfy whims unavailable to them in their actual lives. There is, of course, a fundamental problem with this solution: the scope of the experiences it offers participants—experiences that, in some cases, would be illegal in the real world. One such space, the Hideaway, becomes the subject of a young detective’s investigation and the focal point of Haley’s narrative. This pocket of the virtual world is particularly inviting, replete with lush vegetation and warm sunlight. But the welcoming environment masks a much darker, sinister purpose. What ensues is a story—part sci-fi, part crime thriller—whose setting alternates between a gray interrogation room and the colorful beauty of the Hideaway. Through her interrogations, Detective Morris seeks to unveil any actions in the virtual world crossing over into reality, while also embarking on an ethical investigation. Through her play, Haley has crafted a fascinating exploration of morality and technology in a world where reality has become hauntingly relative. The play runs April 4 to May 1 at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, —Victoria Gaffney 641 D St. NW. $20–$68. (202) 393-3939. woollymammoth.net. phillipS collecTion 1600 21st St. NW. (202) 387-2151. Valentin Uryupin, clarinet and Stanislav Khristenko, piano. 4 p.m. (Sold out) phillipscollection.org.

gospEl hoWard TheaTre 620 T St. NW. (202) 8032899. Harlem Gospel Choir. 1:30 p.m. $20–$40. thehowardtheatre.com.

Monday Rock

9:30 clUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals, Christopher Paul Stelling. 7 p.m. $57.50. 930.com. kennedy cenTer millenniUm STage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Duke Ellington School of the Arts. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

tuesday Rock

9:30 clUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Andrew Bird, Boogarins. 7 p.m. (Sold out) 930.com.

The hamilTon 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

The Roosevelts. 7:30 p.m. $12–$17. thehamiltondc.com.

Warner TheaTre 513 13th St. NW. (202) 783-4000. Santana. 8 p.m. $67.50–$147.50. warnertheatredc.com.

Jazz BeTheSda BlUeS and Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. Greg Adams and East Bay Soul. 8 p.m. $30. bethesdabluesjazz.com. clarice SmiTh perForming arTS cenTer Stadium Drive and Route 193, College Park. (301) 405-2787. UMD Chamber Jazz. 7:30 p.m. Free. theclarice.umd.edu.

kennedy cenTer millenniUm STage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Berklee School of Music. 6 p.m.

Free. kennedy-center.org.

classical chUrch oF The epiphany 1317 G St. NW. (202) 347-2635. Washington Bach Consort Noontime Cantata Series. 12 p.m. Free. epiphanydc.org.

Wednesday Rock

9:30 clUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Daughter, Wilsen. 7 p.m. (Sold out) 930.com.

BarnS aT WolF Trap 1635 Trap Road, Vienna.

(703) 255-1900. Robyn Hitchcock, Emma Swift. 8 p.m. $25–$28. wolftrap.org. mUSic cenTer aT STraThmore 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Johnny Mathis. 8 p.m. $45–$150. strathmore.org.

U STreeT mUSic hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889. Cloud Cult, BBGun. 7 p.m. $20. ustreetmusichall.com.

Warner TheaTre 513 13th St. NW. (202) 783-4000. Santana. 8 p.m. $67.50–$147.50. warnertheatredc.com.

countRy gypSy Sally’S 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700.

Town Mountain, The Brummy Brothers. 8 p.m. $14. gypsysallys.com.

The hamilTon 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

Pokey LaFarge, The Cactus Blossoms. 7:30 p.m. $15–$23.50. thehamiltondc.com.

Vocal kennedy cenTer millenniUm STage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. New England Conservatory. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

thursday Rock

BarnS aT WolF Trap 1635 Trap Road, Vienna.

(703) 255-1900. Aoife O’Donovan, Mark Erelli. 8 p.m. $22–$25. wolftrap.org.

Black caT BackSTage 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. High Highs, The Duskwhales. 7:30 p.m. $10–$12. blackcatdc.com. dc9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Restorations, Creepoid, The Dirty Nil. 8 p.m. $12. dcnine.com. hill coUnTry liVe 410 7th St. NW. (202) 556-2050. The Sadies. 9:30 p.m. $12–$15. hillcountrywdc.com. lincoln TheaTre 1215 U St. NW. (202) 888-0050.

Jewel, JD & the Straight Set. 8 p.m. $55–$75. thelincolndc.com.

SongByrd mUSic hoUSe and record caFe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Brass Bed, Forgetter, Sean Barna. 8 p.m. $10–$12. songbyrddc.com.

Funk & R&B The hamilTon 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

Mavis Staples, The Broadcast. 7:30 p.m. $39.75– $82.50. thehamiltondc.com. mUSic cenTer aT STraThmore 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Patti LaBelle.

8 p.m. $65–$150. strathmore.org.

Jazz BlUeS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Ramsey Lewis. 8 p.m. & 10 p.m. $60–$70. bluesalley.com.

countRy mr. henry’S 601 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. (202) 546-8412. The Davis Bradley Duo. 8 p.m. Free. mrhenrysdc.com.

classical kennedy cenTer concerT hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. National Symphony Orchestra: Nikolaj Znaider, conductor; Benjamin Grosvenor, piano. 7 p.m. $15–$89. kennedy-center.org.

kennedy cenTer millenniUm STage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Eastman Musica Nova Ensemble. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

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110 in The Shade A young woman aches for a life outside her small town and when she meets a handsome stranger who promises her opportunity and the ability to ease the region’s drought, her dreams appear within reach in this lively romantic musical by Harvey Schmidt, Tom Jones, and N. Richard Nash. Ford’s Theatre. 511 10th St. NW. To May 14. $28–$69. (202) 347-4833. fords.org.

1984 George Orwell’s classic dystopian novel about an all-seeing government is turned into a dramatic stage play in this new multimedia production by Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan, originally created by the British theater collective Headlong.

Lansburgh Theatre. 450 7th St. NW. To April 10. $25–$123. (202) 547-1122. shakespearetheatre.org.

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aFTer The War An Israeli pianist returns to his home country to perform with the Israeli Philharmonic and attempts to reconnect with the family he became estranged from following the 2006 war in Lebanon in this drama by Motti Lerner, author of The Admission. Atlas Performing Arts Center. 1333 H St. NE. To April 17. $15–$60. (202) 399-7993. atlasarts.org. all The Way Explore the power and personality of Lyndon Johnson in this drama from playwright Robert Schenkkan. Featuring appearances by Martin Luther King Jr., J. Edgar Hoover, and other public figures from the era, this play serves as both history lesson and cautionary tale. Arena Stage.

1101 6th St. SW. To May 8. $55–$110. (202) 4883300. arenastage.org. american idioT Keegan Theatre presents this musical about disaffected youth coming of age in the early 21st century set to the music of Green Day. Keegan Theatre at Church Street Theater. 1742 Church St. NW. To April 9. $45–$55. (202) 265-3767. keegantheatre.com. caT on a hoT Tin rooF Secrets and flawed relationships are revealed in Tennessee Williams’ classic drama about two generations fighting to figure out inheritance and their roles in the world.

Round House Theatre Bethesda. 4545 East-West Highway, Bethesda. To April 24. $36–$61. (240) 644-1100. roundhousetheatre.org. chronicle oF a deaTh ForeTold A young woman returns to her family after her husband discover she is not a virgin, leading her brothers to

CITY LIGHTS: TUESDAY

“HOLLYWOOD AND TIME”

Since its origins in the 1920s, Time magazine has loved honoring Hollywood celebrities on its cover alongside world leaders, criminals, and other notable citizens of the world. By featuring these notable characters on its cover, the magazine invited readers to learn more about the emerging medium of film and how it would go on to impact entertainment practices. Now, the National Portrait Gallery has pulled a selection of nearly three dozen pieces from its collection of original Time covers to show how these faces changed popular culture. The people captured in the exhibit have changed over the years (Steven Spielberg and Meryl Streep have matured since they were first captured by Time artists) and so have the techniques used to create the portraits. Early works, especially those by so-called “Mr. Time,” Boris Chaliapin, are gouache paintings; by the late 1970s, the magazine transitioned to photographing cover subjects. The exhibition is on view daily, 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m., to Sept. 11, at the National Portrait Gallery, 8th and F streets NW. Free. (202) —Caroline Jones 633-8300. npg.si.edu.

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CITY LIGHTS: WEDNESDAY

MOKOOMBA

The members of Zimbabwean Afropop band Mokoomba grew up playing music in the tourist-friendly border town of Victoria Falls. But performing for locals and waterfall visitors from around the world encouraged the group to develop a songbook with a global perspective. Its sound is rooted in southern African rhythms, harmonies, and call-and-response vocals to which they have added aspects of Congolese soukous, hip-hop, and salsa. Mokoomba’s six members meld these genres seamlessly without sounding contrived.

On the group’s most recent album, Rising Tide, opening cut “Njoka” spells out its modus operandi: It energetically starts with vocals derived from both speedy old-school rap and frog-voiced, Zulu mbaqanga styles before soulful lead refrains come in accompanied by high-pitched guitar and funky bass and keyboard grooves. The soulfulness comes courtesy of lead singer Mathias Muzaza, who warbles both in a traditional a cappella manner and a polished contemporary style, with the aid of his bandmates whose performances make both approaches work. Mokoomba performs at 7 p.m. at Hill Center at the Old Naval Hospital, 921 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. $12–$15. (202) 549-4172. hillcenterdc.org.

—Steve Kiviat

take revenge in this exciting tale based on the novel

by Gabriel García Márquez. GALA Hispanic Theatre.

3333 14th St. NW. To May 8. $20–$42. (202) 2347174. galatheatre.org. dial ‘m’ For mUrder A former tennis star aims to get away with killing his wife in order to cash in on her wealth but he’s quickly investigated by a detective and his wife’s former lover, leading to a wild chase and surprising ending. Jason King Jones directs this play, which inspired Alfred Hitchcock’s film of the same name. Olney Theatre Center.

2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney. To May 1. $15–$65. (301) 924-3400. olneytheatre.org.

Falling oUT oF Time Author David Grossman reflects on losing his son in the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict in this moving story about a man who, with his wife, embarks on a journey that will impact his life forever. The stage version is adapted and directed by Derek Goldman, artistic director of the Davis Performing Arts Center at Georgetown University. Theater J. 1529 16th St. NW. To April 17. $15–$67. (202) 777-3210. theaterj.org.

The Flick Three minimum-wage workers do their best to keep a Massachusetts movie theater running and along the way, form tenuous connections with one another, in this Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Annie Baker. Signature Theatre. 4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington. To April 24. $40–$97. (703) 8209771. sigtheatre.org.

The goSpel according To ThomaS JeFFerSon, charleS dickenS, and coUnT leo TolSToy: diScord Three famed thinkers who adapted The Bible to suit their own lives debate the merits of their interpretations in this clever comedy by Scott Carter. Washington Stage Guild at Undercroft Theatre. 900 Massachusetts Ave. NW. To April 24. $40–$50. (240) 582-0050. stageguild.org. hUnTing and gaThering In this lively comedy from playwright Brooke Berman, a group of New Yorkers seek temporary shelter in different locations as they cohabitate and separate over the course of time. Rep Stage at Howard Community College.

10901 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia. To April 24. $15–$40. (443) 518-1500. repstage.org. in a Word Two years after her son’s disappearance, a mother continues to grieve and feel lost within her community. Though interactions with an incompetent detective,an absent husband, and a strange local kidnapper, Lauren Yee’s play shows how humans cope with tragedy and what we must do in order to move on. The Hub Theatre at John Swayze Theatre. 9431 Silver King Court, Fairfax. To April 24. $20–$30. (703) 674-3177. thehubtheatre.org.

JerSey BoyS The Tony-winning musical tells the story of the rise and fall of The Four Seasons and includes many of the group’s hit songs, including “Walk Like a Man,” “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” and “Sherry.” National Theatre. 1321 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. To April 24. $53–$123. (202) 628-6161. nationaltheatre.org.

The lion Benjamin Scheuer tells his life story with the help of six guitars in this original one-man show that incorporates original rock songs and personal pain. Arena Stage. 1101 6th St. SW. To April 10. $45–$70. (202) 488-3300. arenastage.org. marJorie prime A woman reinvents her past with some help from a hologram of her late husband in this experimental comedy by Jordan Harrison.

Olney Theatre Center. 2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney. To April 10. $35–$65. (301) 924-3400. olneytheatre.org. middleToWn Will Eno’s play, set in a small American town, follows the relationship between a longtime town resident and a new arrival as their journey takes them through birth, death, and outer space. George Mason University Center for the Arts. 4373 Mason Pond Drive, Fairfax. To April 3. $15–$25. (888) 945-2468. cfa.gmu.edu. million dollar QUarTeT Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash perform classic rock hits in this popular musical that makes a day-long stop at the Warner on its national tour.

Warner Theatre. 513 13th St. NW. To April 3. $42–$72. (202) 783-4000. warnertheatredc.com.

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The mySTery oF loVe & Sex On the eve of their college graduations, two longtime friends debate pursuing a romantic relationship and in the process, learn about themselves, as well as about love and sex, in this warm comedy from author Bathsheba Doran. Signature Theatre. 4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington. To May 8. $40–$85. (703) 820-9771. sigtheatre.org.

The neTher Local favorite Edward Gero makes his Woolly Mammoth debut in Jennifer Haley’s fantastical play about what happens when Earth turns into a gray wasteland. A special place where all desires are met serves as a safe space for some individuals but when a detective begins to look into the forces behind this wonderland, the artifice around it crumbles. Woolly Mammoth Theatre.

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SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PROBATE DIVISION 2015 ADM 1290 Name of Decedent: Estate of Ella Mae Wilson Name and Address of Attorney: Brian Gormley, Esq. 10605 Concord St., Ste 440 Kensington, MD 20895 Notice of Appointment, Notice to Creditors and Notice to Unknown Heirs Ronnie E. Wilson, whose address is 11410 Mary Catherine Drive/ Clinton, MD 20735 was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Ella Mae Wilson who died on August 21, 2015 without a Will and will serve without Court supervision. All unknown heirs and heirs whose whereabouts are unknown shall enter their appearance in this proceeding. Objections to such appointment (or to the probate of decedent’s Will) shall be filed With the Register of Wills, D.C., Building A, 515 5th Street, N.W., 3” Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001, on or before 09/24/2016. Claims FIND YOUR OUTLET. shall be against the decedent presented to the undersigned RELAX, UNWIND, REPEATwith a copy to the Register of Wills or HEALTH/ fiCLASSIFIEDS led with the Register of Wills with aMIND, copy toBODY the undersigned, & SPIRIT on or before 09/24/2016, or be forever http://www.washingtonbarred. Persons believed to be citypaper.com/ heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its publication shall so inform the Register of Wills, including name, address and relationship.

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Volunteer Services Defend abortion rights. Washington Area Clinic Defense Task Force (WACDTF) needs volunteer clinic escorts Saturday mornings, weekdays. Trainings, other info:202-681-6577, http://www. wacdtf.org, info@wacdtf.org.

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Licensed Massage & Spas Beautiful, Special Model (Italia) 2013 Genuine Buddy Scooter 175cc in Seafoam green for sale.

Mint condition (2,200 miles). Perfect for urban travel or suburban to city commuting. Comes with matching top box. Asking price $1799. Email tammya0308@ gmail.com

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Lost & Found Watch Found: In mid-December, a watch was found near Thomas Circle on Massachusetts Avenue and 14th Street, NW. Please contact 202-270-3434 with a description of the watch.

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Comic Book & Sports Card Show Shoff Promotions Sunday April 3 10am-3pm at the Annandale Virginia Fire House Expo Hall 7128 Columbia Pike 22003 The 6,000+ sq. ft. Hall will be full of dealers selling Gold, Silver, Bronze & Modern Age Comic Books, Non Sports Cards from the 1880’s to the present, Plus Baseball, football, basketball & hockey cards vintage to the present , sports memorabilia plus Pulps & some Vintage LPs & toys & Hobby supplies for all your collecting needs.

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