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CHATTER

in which armchair pundits ponder the special election outcomes.

Ward of the 8

are 75,000 residents in the ward is disingenuous, at best.

That’s a rate of less than 1 out of every 2,000 residents, hardly a murder rate likely to scare off investment in a town whose real estate market is on fire.” Not to be a stickler for numbers, but that’s actually a remarkably high murder rate—the 2013 murder rate in the average U.S. city was 5.2 people per 100,000 residents, according to the FBI’s crime stats. In other words, Ward 8’s murder rate is the about same as Detroit’s (45 per 100,000 people).

We’ve been asked a few times why City PaPer didn’t make endOr-

sements in the Ward 4 or Ward 8 special elections, a source of lively conversation with attendees at both of the debates we hosted in the leadup to Election Day. (“Who are you endorsing?”

“No one, we’re not endorsing.”

“OK, but who are you endorsing?”) But really, we here in charge of Chatter must confess we didn’t make endorsements because our commenters are just too damned good at it— why compete?! Take hoo boy’s advice, offered up in the comments section on Will Sommer’s recent Ward 8 cover story (“Up in the Heir,” April 24): “Ms. May is the best chance they have. Don’t vote for another dope fiend Ward 8!”

Does an endorsement get any better than that? Also appreciated: when commenters rail against our reporting. N.B., we’re taking notes! Alan Page groused: “This article has quite a few problems.” Alan, you should know we’re looking to fill a vacant editor position. Please continue. “Naming LaRuby as a frontrunner in the absence of polling data is nonsensical; fundraising acumen does not guarantee victory in Ward 8… Clearly, any committed interest group that turns out in force can win an election for a candidate in a broad field…” Shadowy interest group alert! Are your spidey

Nice Guys Finish Last. In response to Sommer’s LL column on the Ward 4 race (“Mr. Todd’s Wild Ride”), a commenter named council staff (insider info?) wrote, “Brandon Todd is a nice guy but that doesn’t make him a good council member and a good member is what is needed in ward 4... I mean it has already been said that Brandon Todd did not do a good job as a member of Muriel’s staff.

I cannot see him writing legislation moving ward 4 forward or being a good rep for the ward. He looks old and worn out already because he didn’t want this Muriel pushed him into it.” Do you hear that feminists? Women aren’t the only ones whose looks are picked apart on the campaign trail. How’s that for equality?

—Emily Q. Hazzard Department of Corrections: In last week’s issue, Brew In Town initially misstated the price of the Bardo Zeus IPA. It is $6 for 16 oz., not $5 for 12 oz. senses tingling yet? “Lastly, stating that 35 murders occurred in Ward 8 last year without pointing out there

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Marion C. Barry says he’ll make another run for the Ward 8 seat:

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Loose Lips

Green, Mean Fighting Machine Muriel Bowser puts new allies on the D.C. Council.

By Will Sommer At least one of the mayor’s picks will join the D.C. Council.

Darrow Montgomery

Muriel Bowser stood in the Old Congress Heights School Tuesday night with confirmation that her power extends all the way to Ward 8. One of her candidates crushed a special election; another looks likely to prevail in a nailbiter race. This is good news for the mayor, right?

“Actually, I think it’s good news for the people of Ward 4 and Ward 8,” Bowser, unable to not be on-message, shot back.

The mayor’s being modest. The addition of two councilmembers who owe their political careers to her should help push the mayor’s agenda at the Wilson Building, from Bowser’s power grab against Attorney General Karl Racine to her tax hikes. Best of all, it puts some fear into councilmembers who might think of opposing her in their own elections.

First, a caveat: While Bowser pick Brandon Todd steamrolled the opponents that stood between him and Bowser’s old Ward 4 seat, Green Team Ward 8 candidate LaRuby May didn’t have the same luck. Like Todd, May leveraged the mayor’s help to outraise her opponents to eye-popping degrees, but she couldn’t use that money to win as resoundingly. Currently, she’s within three percentage points of Trayon White, a street organizer and former State Board of Education member whose campaign had less than 10 percent of May’s budget.

As of Wednesday afternoon, May led White by 152 votes, but with more than 1,000 absentee and special ballots uncounted, that could change by next week. On Tuesday night, a defiant crowd of White supporters spilled outside Big Chair Coffee and Grill while White assured them that he would have more votes in the end. White worried about “fraud” in the vote counting process, while trumpeting his sort-of victory over Bowser’s “machine.” In other words, he’s the last person the mayor wants on the Council.

Still, May’s ahead for now. If she gets on the Council, May will join Todd in a mayoral bloc that lately hasn’t had much luck. Earlier this month, Bowser’s request to approve a contro-

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DISTRICTLINE versial jail health care contract went down 6-5 on the rump Council. Add May and Todd next month, and that loss becomes a win if Bowser tries to push it again.

But Todd and May are useful to Bowser beyond the jail contract. Just four months into her new administration, Bowser is already feuding with Karl Racine, the District’s first elected attorney general. In her budget support act, Bowser proposed language that would let her own attorneys, rather than the now-independent attorney general’s office, review city laws for “legal sufficiency.” Bowser’s surrogates say Racine is trying to hobble her office after her overwhelming general election win; Racine says he would never have run if he knew he’d lose these powers.

Racine countered with some legislation of his own, and threw his own support into the Ward 8 race. He backed White at the last minute, based on what a Racine spokesman calls years of knowing him. And that’s not even getting into whether Racine has his own ambitions for higher office in 2018.

So far, the attorney general fight hasn’t got-

ten much action outside of a hearing organized by Ward 5 Councilmember (and sometimes Bowser roadblock) Kenyan McDuffie.

But LL can guess at the vote totals. Bowser’s ascension to the mayoralty and Ward 8 Councilmember Marion Barry’s death removed from the Council two people who supported delaying the attorney general race, and thus could be counted on to back a weakened attorney general. Depending on their loyalty to Bowser, Todd and May’s victories put those votes back in place.

The new councilmembers also mean big things for Bowser’s budget, which includes sales tax and parking tax hikes. Business-enamored Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans, usually a reliable vote for whoever occupies the mayoral suite, has raised concerns about the higher rates. Ditto Council Chairman Phil Mendelson, who has gotten used to wielding power after nearly a year of lame duck Mayor Vince Gray. With Todd and May, though, their opposition seem a whole lot easier for the mayor to ignore.

Maybe most important of all for the may-

or, though, Bowser has shown that she can flex in other Council races. Electing her own heir in Ward 4 is one thing, but potentially installing May in Ward 8, where Bowser lost the 2014 primary to Gray, is a much bigger deal.

Bowser has stocked her administration with potential friendly Council candidates.

Former attorney general candidate Edward “Smitty” See our interactive precinct maps for the Ward 4 and Smith, who ran a failed but Ward 8 special election at washingtoncitypaper.com/go/ energetic campaign against specialelectionmaps.

Racine last year, now runs Bowser’s justice grants administration and wards the new mayor.

Of course, Bowser’s new councilmembers would be a plum choice for one of the two atlarge spots up for re-election next year. The are only guaranteed through next year, when same goes for Courtney Snowden, the 2014 their seats are up for election. And then we get CP at-large candidate who’s now a deputy mayor. to do this all over again.

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tomorrow’s history today: This was the week The Truth set the Wizards free.

Hairies’ Law Animal aficionados, pet shop entrepreneurs, and pigeon-racers: This is a handy guide to keep you on the right side of the law. D.C. has a hefty stack of municipal regulations that deal with pets and wildlife. We’ve waded through a bunch of them and selected the weirdest. Memorize them to stay out of trouble. —Emily Q. Hazzard

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Cutting Your dog’s voCal Cords is revolting.

“It shall be unlawful for any individual, business, or entity to cause, allow, use, or train commercial guard dogs that have undergone the surgical procedure of ventricular cordectomy.”

Cattle and herding.

Your pigeons need a maYors’ note.

“No person or persons shall keep or cause to be kept any pigeons within the District, without a permit from the Mayor.”

no loose leashes on dogs.

“The length of the leash required... shall not exceed four feet (4ft.).”

“No person shall drive or conduct swine, beeves, or other cattle between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m.” and “Horned cattle may be led singly by a rope or halter through any of the streets in the District.”

no easter dYe jobs.

“No person shall change the natural color of a baby chicken, duckling, other fowl or rabbit.”

no shots when it’s raining.

Fishing in roCk Creek park:

A poor choice on many levels, but “Nets of any kind shall be prohibited in Rock Creek Park for catching fish” and “Digging for bait in Rock Creek Park shall be prohibited.”

“The Mayor shall establish and publicize several school locations throughout the city where free vaccinations shall be provided… Clinics will not be held during periods of rain.”

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Gear Prudence: Twice in the last week, I’ve run into friends while we were both commuting in the 15th Street cycletrack. Which etiquette is more important in these scenarios: not biking away from your friend mid-conversation, or not biking in such a way that you slow/block the people biking behind you?

—Another Bicycle Rider Equals A Slow Twosome Dear ABREAST: The narrowness of most bicycle infrastructure in D.C. prevents sociability and suggests single-file riding. That’s the price we pay for outsourcing its design to Tusken Raiders. Were the lanes wider, you could accommodate a side-by-side chat and also allow those in a hurry to zoom past. Conversation is especially complicated on the bidirectional 15th Street cycletrack, where you not only have to contend with those passing you, but also those riding headlong towards your talky dyad. How many of your fellow cyclists are you willing to inconvenience just so you and your bud can blather quotidian niceties?

Either equip your bike with a CB radio (“Breaker! Breaker! Conscientious convoy coming through!”) or ride side-by-side fully aware of those who might wish to get by and then move over to let them. After you’ve been dinged at 15 times, you’ll probably drop any pretense of civilized conversation anyway. But you don’t —GP need to ditch your friend.

Gear Prudence: Is there a polite way to inform the bicyclist in front of you that his or her bike shorts (or other stretchy activewear) have stretched to the point of transparency? Is this a subject one should even broach? I’m not opposed in any way to people being comfortable on their bikes or celebrating their bodies, but these displays seem unintentional.

— Mulling Over Obvious Nudity, Endlessly Distressed Dear MOONED: Yikes. GP, as a rule (and likely, to a fault), takes to heart the lessons of the afterschool specials of his youth and NEVER TALKS TO STRANGERS. This is true whether strangers are trying to lure him with candy into the back of a windowless van or whether strangers are donning especially revealing bike clothing. Is there a non-awkward way to say, “I can see your butt. Is that what you want?” I sure can’t think of one.

Every so often, bicyclists should assess for themselves their level of clothing transparency.

Sometimes clothes stretch or fade and otherwise become see-through to levels that might not be intended. If you’re concerned about this potentiality (and you very much might not be concerned, which is also totally fine), don’t expect your compatriots on the road to point it out. Check a mirror — GP or check with a close friend.

Gear Prudence is Brian McEntee, who tweets @sharrowsDC. Got a question about bicycling?

Email gearprudence@washcp.com.

SAVAGELOVE My partner is 31 years older than I am. I know the math: He’ll be 60 when I’m 29. But that isn’t the problem. The issue is he’s been a lifelong bachelor and never been monogamous. He’s fucked hundreds of women and is close friends with a lot of his former fuck buddies. Because of our fouryear friendship before we hooked up, I know a lot about his sex life. The problem isn’t jealousy—and it isn’t knowing he’s fucked every woman he’s friends with or that he fucked someone else after declaring his love for me. It’s that I know too much. We both feel vulnerable at times—him because I’m still in contact with one ex, and me because I feel like I’m fighting his past preference for no-strings-attached relationships. He tells me this relationship is different and he loves me in a way he hasn’t loved anyone before. But I still feel like because of how many people he’s been with, and how many of these amazing, beautiful, young fuck buddies are still in his life, I’ll never attain any sort of primacy. —Notable Age Gap Gets In Newbie’s Grill At some point in the future, your partner is going to be 60 and you’re going to be 29, NAGGING, which means you’re somewhere in your 20s and he’s somewhere in his 50s, right? (Math is hard!) And since you two were friends for four years before he realized you were the only woman he wanted to stick his dick in for the rest of his life—pay no attention to the woman he dicked during the brief interlude between telling you he loved you and the aforementioned realization— that means… um…

Math is hard, like Barbie says, especially when you don’t have all the relevant data.

The same goes for giving advice.

Answering your question without knowing your actual ages is difficult, because it makes a difference whether you’re 21 and he’s 52 (which means this man befriended you when you were a high-school student) or you’re 28 and he’s 59 (and you met this man after you got out of college). Likewise, it would help to know how long you two have been together.

Three months? Three years?

Essentially, you’re asking me to game out the odds for both long-term success and monogamous success (and, yes, those are two different things), and that’s hard to do without knowing your ages and how long you’ve been together. Because I would definitely give your relationship slimmer odds of longterm success if your partner were the kind of middle-aged man who befriends and eventually beds high-school students. Conversely, I would give your relationship fatter odds of long-term success if you were three years into it and your partner had been successfully monogamous all that time.

That said, NAGGING, cheating and breakups regularly happen in the absence of significant age gaps and friendship networks com-

posed exclusively of ex–fuck buddies. (Since people tend to partner with—and cheat on and be cheated on by—people in their same age demographic, cheating and breakups almost always happen in the absence of significant age gaps. But that is correlation, not causation—and sophistry, too!) There are no guarantees. Your partner may revert to nonmonogamous form at some point and either cheat (boo!) or ask for permission to open up your relationship (yay?). You could find yourself in a caretaker role in 10-plus years and find yourself asking him for permission to open up your relationship. Or you guys could stay together and stay faithful until death comes for one of you—most likely your partner, leaving you plenty of time to hook up with your ex, if he’s still available.

Oh, shit—blah blah blah, I haven’t answered your question. You’ll obtain primacy—or realize you’ve already attained it—after a significant chunk of time has passed. So give it more time. Either it will work out or it won’t. But even if this relationship isn’t a long-term success, it can still be a short-term —Dan Savage success. Good luck.

I’m 62 and happily married for 20 years to a sweet guy who doesn’t seem particularly interested in sex any longer. We are open to allowing each other freedom, with full disclosure, and have occasionally done this. When I watch music videos of John Sebastian in his 20s, I cream my jeans. And I have noticed similar reactions to sweet, intelligent young men in their 20s and 30s. I don’t necessarily discriminate on the basis of age—or gender, color, etc.—and if a cute guy or gal in my age group came on to me, I’d consider the offer. But what I’d really like is a young man who finds me attractive and would be interested in seducing, or being seduced by, yours truly, even though I’m old enough to be his grandma.

—Wicked Older Woman A study you’re not going to want to read and that I’m not going to cite—because it lumps people who are sexually attracted to the elderly together with people who are sexually attracted to prepubescent children—puts the percentage of people attracted to senior citizens at .15 percent of the population. That means there are more than 11 million gerontophiles of all ages out there. We’ve already established that math is hard, WOW, so I’m not going to try to figure out how many gerontophiles are in their 20s and 30s. But there should be lots. And there are probably a few non-gerontophile guys (and gals) out there who are willing to take a walk on the postmenopausal side.

How to make it happen? The same way everyone else does: Get online and advertise for what you want (clearly and explicitly),

Math is hard, like Barbie says, especially when you don’t have all the relevant data.

UPCOMING EVENTS

and get out of the house (you never know who you’ll meet). Then seize—safely—the opportunities that come your way. —Dan My partner and I—both fortysomething males— had a threesome with a very cute twentysomething college student who approached us online. He considers himself straight and has a girlfriend, but he “has been wondering” about his sexuality. The evening went incredibly well, but he had the typical “curious guy” freak-out the day after. Texts and e-mails flooded in—he wanted (more) guarantees about our health status even though we played safe during sex. He said he told his girlfriend (“She was understanding but pissed!”). He also said that we could never get together again.

Then he started drunk-texting us at night, offering to send us more sexy photos and talking about how much he wanted to see us again. Sober texts arrived in the morning apologizing for his drunken behavior. We’ve tried to be there, not just for the sex but also his process afterward. Did we do this guy a disservice by engaging with him? (Also, I’m not convinced there really is a girlfriend.)

—Curious Over Curious Kid It might look like you’re not honoring the campsite rule (“Leave ’em in better shape than you found ’em”) because this guy is a mess right now. But some queers can’t seem to accept themselves—or even recognize themselves—until after a clarifying queer sexual encounter or three. In all likelihood, this twentysomething will one day look back at his “typical ‘curious guy’ freak-out” as an important part of his coming-out process as a gay or bi man. So you probably did him a favor.

(Although I would describe his freak-out as cliché—and increasingly atypical.) As for the real-or-imaginary girlfriend: If she exists, she should dump him. Not because of your ac—Dan tions, COCK, but because of his.

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THESTRAIGHTDOPE Simple (if two-part) question, simple (if two-part) answer: 1) Yes, going negative works.

2) When did it not?

No question, negative campaigning has been on the rise in recent times. A look at presidential races found that between 2000 and 2012, positive advertising decreased from 40 percent to 14 percent, while negative advertising increased from 29 percent to 64 percent. (Yes, a campaign consists of more than paid advertising, but we have to start somewhere.) A study of congressional campaigns found attack advertising increased from 32 percent in 2000 to 52 percent by 2012.

Why? Let me gaze at my navel. It could be the result of the current 24/7 media bath in which only a bold, controversial message has any chance of grabbing the electorate’s attention. It could be due to the us-versus-them mentality that’s poisoned American politics. Or it could be a byproduct of our thoroughly tabloidized American culture, awash with reality shows and Kardashians.

Or—you’ll never guess what I think—it could be few researchers tracked negative political advertising before the 1990s and people have short memories, so we don’t have much basis for comparison. One of the most notorious attack ads in American political history aired during the presidential campaign of 1964—the “Daisy” commercial produced by the Lyndon Johnson side, in which a shot of a little girl pulling petals from a flower segues to a missile countdown and then a blast and a mushroom cloud, followed by a grim voiceover: “Vote for President Johnson on November 3. The stakes are too high for you to stay home.” Implication: Johnson’s opponent, Barry Goldwater, was an irresponsible extremist who’d drag the country into nuclear war.

The ad ran once. Johnson won in a landslide. OK, single datapoint. But it’s easy to come up with others—ask Michael Dukakis if he thinks the Willie Horton ad hurt him in the ’88 presidential race. Inevitably we drift to the conclusion: Negative advertising works, and always has.

We needn’t rely on anecdotal evidence. While I don’t put too much stock in political science research, a study of 143 U.S. Senate elections from 1988 to 1998 found that for every 6 percent increase in negative campaigning, the candidate’s performance at the polls improved by 1 percent—but only for challengers. Incumbents reduced their performance at the polls by 1 percent for every 6 percent of their campaigns they devoted to attacking their opponents.

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This may be true in general—the default pitch for any incumbent surely has to be that life is better since he or she took office—but it’s not always true, as the LBJ ad demonstrates. Turning to the political laboratory known as Chicago, we note that incumbent mayor Rahm Emanuel trounced challenger Chuy Garcia 56 to 44 percent last month by suggesting that were his relatively inexperienced opponent elected, Chicago would go the way of Detroit.

(Garcia’s given name, you may recall, is Jesus. No great talent as a cartoonist is required to cast Rahm as the Prince of Darkness. It tells you something about politics in America, or anyway in Chicago, that in a confrontation with the Devil, Jesus lost.)

Back to our subject. Riffling through the research and applying the filter of common sense, I offer the following observations: -To be effective, negative advertising needs to be plausible. The Daisy ad worked because, in those innocent times, Barry Goldwater really did seem like a nut. Had LBJ’s opponent been some moderate Republican stalwart like Nelson Rockefeller, that kind of ad would have made Johnson look like the screwy one.

-The least effective strategy is going after your opponent’s extramarital affairs, drug or alcohol addiction, or other personal foibles—which is to say, your campaign can’t be seen as doing this. As any specialist in oppo research knows, it’s advantageous to have your opponent revealed as a philanderer provided the news appears to come from third parties. Not that success is guaranteed even so; consider the unsinkable Bill Clinton, repeatedly named in tales of striking tawdriness that mainly provoked the reaction (from both men and women, as far as I can tell): He risked his career over her?

-What seems to work best is going after your opponent’s inconsistent voting, broken campaign promises, contributions from special interest groups, and dubious business practices.

To which I can only say: This is bad?

Getting back to current events, I don’t wish to make too much of Rahm, but his recent campaign provides a stark lesson in why negative campaigning is often the logical choice. In an era of straitened resources, where the only responsible course is to ask the public to give more and get by with less . . . good luck trying to win on that message. A demonstrably more effective strategy is to get the electorate thinking: Sure, things’ll be bad if this schmuck is elected— but under the other schmuck they’ll be worse.

—Cecil Adams Slug Signorino

Has a study been done on elections where fear/ hate is the motivator? Simply put, do the firebrands win more often than the moderates?

—Art Erickson

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Photographs by Darrow Montgomery

In May 2013, Lt. Chris Holmes and Rescue K9 Cazo were called to the scene of a building collapse on K Street NW. An unoccupied brick building had partially collapsed, sending the third and fourth floors of the adjacent strip club into the second story, where The Cloakroom’s dancers were jumping from the windows. Holmes and Cazo were sent in to search for victims. “It was just raining bricks inside,” Holmes recalled recently at Engine 21 in Columbia Heights.

Cazo completed his search within minutes, but the first-duty chief on the scene still believed he heard victims inside. Holmes trusted his dog. “He searched it and came back and was like, ‘Nobody’s here boss,” the D.C. Fire and EMS veteran says. “[The chief] said, ‘Are you sure?’ And I said, ‘Positive.’”

The RescueR

As D.C.’s only urban search and rescue dog readies for retirement, the city prepares to devote even more resources to the program. By Sarah Anne Hughes

Holmes and Cazo

Moments later the unoccupied building’s interior collapsed completely as more of The Cloakroom came tumbling down. No one was inside— the voices had been coming from a radio.

“We probably would have lost two rescue companies,” Holmes says. “My own guys say thank you, because they get to go home and see their kids the next day. We’re not planning for ten funerals because he did his job.” Cazo, a 9-year-old German shepherd, was awarded the Bronze Bar by DCFEMS and the Silver Medal of Valor by Mayor Vince Gray for his actions that day.

For the past seven years, it’s been Cazo’s job to search for “live, concealed human beings” at the site of domestic and international building collapses. This month, his days of climbing through rubble are set to come to an end. But that doesn’t mean the dissolution of the city’s program. In fact, DCFEMS, coming out of a period of embattlement, is preparing to devote even more resources to search and rescue K9s.

Since Cazo joined the department in November 2007, he’s gone on about 1,000 calls, Holmes estimates. He’s likely the busiest urban search and rescue dog in the country, Holmes says, and he’s been deployed to some of the worst disasters to hit both the D.C. area and the world as part of FEMA Virginia Task Force One, one of just 28 urban search and rescue response teams in the U.S. When a Red Line train derailed in 2009, killing nine people, Cazo was there searching. When a school in Port-au-Prince collapsed in 2008, killing dozens of children, Cazo was sent to the scene. He returned to Haiti in 2010 when an earthquake devastated the country. And just this week, when a magnitude-7.8 earthquake struck Nepal, Cazo’s retirement was put on hold as he and Holmes were deployed to Kathmandu.

At home in D.C., Cazo is called to about three building collapses a month. In 15 to 20 minutes, he can completely search a building that would take human rescuers days to survey.

Cazo’s also deployed for water rescues: Seven people have been saved from the Anacostia and Potomac rivers during Cazo’s tenure, thanks in part to his nose; he can smell a live victim through 20 feet of water.

“We’re looking for like five to six percent of the dog population who can do our work,” Holmes says. Becoming certified is like earning a PhD and requires a dog excel in the areas of agility, strength (of both body and nerves), and toy and prey drive. The dog should also be able to follow directions in a chaotic situation, which is why Cazo learned commands in German.

“All he cares about is getting that toy,” Holmes says. “For them, it’s like a game of hideand-seek.” The dogs are trained to bark when they smell a live victim, who they believe has a toy and wants to play. “He’s barking for the victim to come out,” Holmes explains. “It’s victim loyalty.”

As opposed to some law enforcement dogs, who always work in partnership with an officer, search and rescue dogs are sent into dangerous situations alone as the event unfolds. “If it’s too dangerous for us to go inside, he’s like a gazelle— he can work his way through… and stay there until we can shore up [the scene] with wood and washingtoncitypaper.com may 1, 2015 15

can get there. He’ll stay there with the victim.”

I spoke with Holmes 15 years to the day he began his DCFEMS career with Truck Company 3. In 2003, he joined Rescue Squad 3, which is responsible for responding to all cave-ins and collapses in the city.

“I noticed that we would go to a lot of these building collapses... and we really didn’t have a sure way to see if anyone was trapped inside,” he says. “I went out and paid for my own training, paid for my own dog, went through the class, got certified, got Cazo certified, and came to the department and said, ‘Look at this tool I have.’”

Holmes took out two loans to pay for the training ($3,500) and for Cazo ($6,500). “It was a leap of faith, but I could see it was well worth it,” he says, adding that the overall cost of training and maintaining a dog is much cheaper than the many thousands needed for tools and supplies to shore up each collapse scene.

He scheduled a live demonstration for his boss at the urging of his “Yoda,” Sonja Heritage of the National Disaster Search Dog Foundation and formerly of Fairfax County’s urban search and rescue team. Heritage hid two live people in a city block’s worth of rubble, left behind by a demolished building, in Navy Yard and sent her dog, Cazo’s sire, to search. The dog found them in eight minutes.

“Chris came to me because he truly wanted to be a handler,” says Heritage by email.

“He felt the citizens of D.C. needed the resource desperately.”

While Cazo—a “world class disaster search dog,” according to Heritage—will soon be retired from rubble work (it requires dogs to make six-foot jumps and navigate tricky, dangerous terrain), he will continue to respond to water rescues and do outreach work like mercury detection, meet-and-greets, and serving as a reading buddy in schools.

He’ll still live with Holmes and the lieutenant’s family, as well as his replacement, Kimber, who passed her certification earlier this month. She’ll be joined by three other search and rescue dogs this summer as DCFEMS prepares to expand its program.

Holmes isn’t sure he’ll always be a K9 handler. He wants to rise up in the ranks, as he thinks he could be a good manager.

“I’m just glad the department is taking on new dogs,” he says. “It’s almost like passing on the torch.”

But no matter his role within DCFEMS, Holmes will stay involved in the program. The quality of the dog and its training, he says, is just too important. Holmes relates this story: In 2009, two people went into the Potomac by the Chain Bridge—a child who fell in and a good samaritan who tried to save him. Cazo and Holmes were sent to locate the victims. Cazo found one victim in the rapids near the bridge, pinned to the rocks by the rushing water. Holmes rewarded Cazo and, with the boat at full-throttle, prepared to return to the shore. Cazo urged him forward. “Always trust your dog,” Holmes remembered as he advanced another 30 or 40 yards. There was the second victim.

CP “I always trust him.”

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A black-crowned night-heron at the National Zoo

heRon TheRe Black-crowned night-herons are beloved—but uninvited— guests at the National Zoo.

By Barbara J. Saffir

It’s like a National Geographic special.

You can peer straight into these birds’ bulging, red-orange eyes. You can get close enough to touch (though you shouldn’t) the wispy, white head plumes that they sprout during mating season to lure a hottie. Like the famous swallows who return to the Capistrano region each spring, D.C.’s own black-crowned night-herons have been schlepping back to the National Zoo for more than a century for a safe oasis to raise their chicks.

Roughly 500 wild herons live behind the captive Bird House from May to August—about 200 adults and their babies, the zoo says.

“To see so many of them and to be able to get so close to them is a really unique birding experience in D.C .,” says Zach Slavin of the Audubon Society of the District of Columbia.

The males start coming back in midMarch, says senior zookeeper Debi Talbott.

They stake out their claims to one of about 100 “fixer-upper” nests in a clump of trees by the Bird House. “There is a lot of fighting and bickering going on, a lot of craziness,” says Talbott. By April, the 2-foot tall, black, gray, and white birds have hunkered down with their mates. The male often stands alongside his sweetie after swooping in with a choice twig for her to weave into their platter-sized nest.

By May, the real fun—and mayhem— starts. The chicks start to hatch out of their blue-green eggs and after that “it’s really noisy,” Talbott says. “The babies look like little gray fuzz balls. They look like a little Woodstock [from the Peanuts comic strip]...

They are cute, cute, cute.”

From May 15 to Aug. 1 at 2 p.m. daily, the zoo feeds the herons so they don’t steal the captive birds’ food or any babies to feed to their own chicks. “They will eat anything,” Talbott says. “Baby mallards are a delicacy.”

Every day the zoo doles out about 40 pounds of fish and mice. The meal resembles a shark feeding frenzy, and it’s also great for close-up photo ops since the birds

grow used to visitors. “They are not very shy,” said William Young, a local birder who wrote The Fascination of Birds. A zookeeper stands near the sign announcing the feeding, and tosses out defrosted mice and fish onto the fenced-in lawn. Adult herons dive for the morsels. Sometimes they miss the fish but manage to grab a mouthful of their neighbor’s feathers.

Outside of the zoo, the “adults do most of their hunting in Rock Creek” and along the Potomac River, says Howard Youth in his new book, Field Guide to the Natural World of Washington, D.C. They silently stalk their fish feasts, beginning at dusk, which is why most folks never even glimpse these normally nocturnal birds. The herons resemble hunchbacks as they skulk around with their heads coiled close to their compact bodies. They stretch their somewhat short necks when they spear a fish.

Even zoo visitors likely miss the March and April courting displays as they appear to occur by their treetop nests instead of close to humans’ prying eyes. “Courtship begins with the male birds bowing, stretching, rocking from foot to foot, hissing, and bill clapping as they display for the females,” the zoo says on its Web site. The herons hang out together, preening each other and rubbing their pointy black bills over each others’ heads, necks, and backs. Males and females look about the same, but the male is a tad larger. They have black heads and backs with gray wings and white to pale gray bellies. Their chicks are brown with white streaks, and they have yellow-orange eyes.

The closest nests are right over the walkway by the wood stork exhibit. You don’t even need to look up to find them. Just look for the white-spattered paths, or follow the “wok, wok, wok” squawking.

The kiddies hang out with their brothers and sisters near their nests until late June or July. That’s when they test out their nearly 4-foot wingspan and learn to fly.

By the end of August, most of the birds have migrated south. But this past winter, one

stuck around the zoo. Since the cold was unusually brutal, Talbott gave it a little help. “I fed him every single day,” she says, and provided him a heat lamp.

The year before, another heron camped out in Georgetown instead of soaring south along the East Coast toward Florida, Cuba, or Hispaniola, as the birds typically do. It was discovered through an experimental tracking program that began two years ago.

“We track many species all over the world but we have never tracked this population of wild birds in our own backyard, so to speak,” says Amy Scarpignato of the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center, which runs the program with the zoo. In 2013, they outfitted three adult birds with satellite-transmitting “backpacks,” and the following year, they experimented with cell-phone based transmitters on six herons. This year, they plan to test three newly improved satellite-backpacks beginning in June, and they will post the movements online.

One of the birds that tested the device was dubbed “Russ.” Last year, the heron wintered about 1,100 miles away, near Miami, and migrated back to the zoo this spring.

Russ was named for the late Russell Greenberg, who founded the SMBC, invented the concept of “shade-grown” coffee as a birdfriendly product, and started International Migratory Bird Day, which is traditionally celebrated the second Saturday in May. The zoo is celebrating that day (May 9) with Bird Fest 2015, featuring close-up encounters with birds.

The center also uses low-tech methods to track some of the herons. Some of the adults and juveniles wear color-coded bands on their legs. The critters have been spotted around D.C. and in the suburbs, including Maryland’s Sligo Creek and Lake Braddock in Fairfax. Bird watchers can report sightings of tagged animals away from zoo environs to the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center.

“So,” Scarpignato says, “keep an eye out for any of the banded herons both at the zoo CP and even in your neighborhood.” washingtoncitypaper.com may 1, 2015 17

The elevator doors open on the RF (roof? ruff?) floor of the Apartments at CityCenter, and out trots Chompers, a six-and-a-halfmonth-old French bulldog, trailed by Dan Sax. In front of them is a sign on the wall:

skybaRk boCCe gRILL

They head left.

A year ago, Sax moved into CityCenterDC, the tony downtown development erected over the past several years on the old convention center site. The apartments there aren’t cheap—studios start at $2,300 a month, and three-bedrooms rent for as much as $7,300— but the luxury amenities on offer (rooftop bocce and grills, an outdoor pool, and a twostory gym) extend to its canine population as well. They’re partly responsible for Sax’s decision to set up residence there.

“We knew we were going to get a dog,” he says, “and this was just a major bonus.”

Chompers leads Sax through the double doors bearing a SkyBark decal below the CityCenterDC logo, and they step out onto the roof deck. SkyBark isn’t much to look at—it’s just a narrow stretch of artificial turf, with a poop-bag dispenser in the corner and a strong aroma of urine—but Chompers is visibly thrilled to be there.

This despite the fact that Sax takes her up to the roof four to five times a day.

“Since I work at home, I have pretty much no time to take her for a walk,” Sax says. He gestures down at a small fenced-off area by the parking lot down below. “There’s a dog park down there, but…” He scrunches up his face and fleetingly bears a striking resemblance to Chompers.

The past few years have seen an unprecedented spike in high-end pet amenities at new apartment buildings. Even as housing costs in D.C. have skyrocketed, the growing supply of new luxury buildings has increased vacancy and depressed rents there, leading developers to play a game of one-upmanship as they try to lure pet-owning tenants.

“It becomes like an arms race,” says Patrick Sprouse, director of sales at the D.C. apartment brokerage Urban Igloo. “‘I’ve got the dog run.’ ‘OK, I’ve got the pet salon.’

‘Well I’ve got the dog park, the dog run, and the pet salon.’”

At 2M, an apartment building in NoMa that opened last fall, guests can schedule appointments to spend time with Emmy, a resident English bulldog, in their apartments or the building’s courtyard dog park. Senate Square, an apartment complex near Union Station, boasts a “24-hour rooftop dog agility course.” The Shay, an upcoming complex at 8th Street NW and Florida Avenue from the JBG Companies, will have a dog-washing station. The list goes on.

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The arms race to lure well-heeled pet owners to luxury apartments by aaron Wiener

CityMarket at O, the sprawling Shaw complex with two luxury apartment buildings, a building for low-income seniors, and a Giant supermarket.

“I think CityMarket probably brought the hammer down,” Sprouse says. “I don’t think anyone can compete because of the size of that property. I think they’re the 800-pound gorilla.”

As the workday comes to a close, CityMarket’s rooftop comes to life. On a recent evening, about 10 dogs tussle in the 3,600square-foot turf-covered dog park at any given time. (The turf, though porous and designed for its canine users, still stinks of doggy pee.) They lap up water from the lowest level of the three-tiered water fountain (adults, kids, dogs; guess which one gets the most use). They chase down balls and play tug of war. For the most part, they ignore the red plastic fire hydrant, with its steady drip of water.

Every once in a while, an owner will lead a less social dog to the Small Dog Area past the main dog run, or to the Large Dog Area past that. Alongside the dog park is a bathing suite, with one bath for big dogs and one for little ones. “I actually joked that they should have opened this up to the senior housing and bathed granny in here,” says Catherine Timko, a spokeswoman for the project’s developer, Roadside Development, as she takes me and our photographer on a tour.

The roof offers one of the city’s best views, extending from the Capitol to the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. But its human occupants are more focused on their canine companions.

“Look!” shouts Jenny Mooney, who moved in when the building opened two winters ago (largely on the basis of the dog facilities), to her 6-year-old mutt Ginger.

“It’s your buddy, Ging!”

And up runs Otto, a year-and-a-half-old French bulldog. Otto and his owner, Josh Phillips, come up to the roof three to four times a day. “It’s pretty much the reason we moved

Dogs play in the dog area on CityMarket’s roof.

here,” says Phillips, who’s opening a Mexican restaurant, Espita Mezcalería, around the corner. “I mean, the building turned out to be nice. But this is why we’re here.”

Otto overheats easily in the summer, so the roof is more practical than a walk through the streets when nature calls. Other dog owners at CityCenter do often go for walks outside. But these rooftop facilities add a new wrinkle to neighborhood dynamics. As the gentrification debates intensified several years ago, the arrival of dog parks (or takeover of ordinary parks by dogs) became a kind of code among longtime residents for unwanted neighborhood change. With dog owners taking increasingly to rooftops, that could ease tensions—or exacerbate them by further segregating neighborhoods like Shaw.

But Roadside founding partner Richard Lake says he had no sociological motives in building the city’s premier dog roof. “That did not come into my consciousness,” he says. “I have a hard time understanding that approach. I know a lot of people in the neighborhood who have dogs. And I think they’d find it silly if we distinguished socioeconomics with who had a dog.”

But it was the rise of a certain class of renter that inspired the facilities at CityMarket. Roadside’s first big mixed-use project in D.C. was Cityline at Tenley, on Wisconsin Avenue NW. “We noticed that people were using some of our gardens for dog walking,” says Lake. “And we thought, geez, we don’t want that to happen, because that destroys plants.” At CityMarket, the furniture outside of the specified dog areas is still dog-friendly, so pooches can hop up on the couches without causing damage.

The main reason for the luxury dog amenities, though, is to attract renters, and marketing efforts are in high gear. The Bozzu-

Dog Don’T

The dogs banned from Bozzuto-managed buildings, including CityCenterDC, CityMarket, and Senate Square.

Akita, American bulldog, Anatolian shepherd, Australian cattledog (aka heeler dogs), Beauceron, Belgian shepherd, Bernese mountain dog, black Russian terrier, cane corso (aka Italian mastiff), Catahoula leopard dog, Chinese shar pei, chow-chow, doberman pinscher, dogue de Bordeaux (aka Bordeaux bulldog), French mastiff, German shepherd, great dane, great Pyranees, husky, Jindo dog, kuvasz, malamute, mastiff, pitbull, presa canario, Rhodesian ridgeback, rottweiler, St. Bernard, Tosa inu, wolf or wolf-dog hybrid

to Group, which manages most of the city’s stateliest canine pleasure domes, including CityCenter and CityMarket, organizes regular yappy hours at its buildings and sets up a dog photo booth with Santa Claus at Christmas time. Each of its buildings has dog treats at the front desk and features a pet of the month, which gets its picture displayed in the elevators and wins prizes like a day at the doggy day spa. Recently, Bozzuto shot its first promotional video using a GoPro strapped onto a dog, to give prospective tenants a dog’s-eye view of the amenities at the Shelby in Alexandria.

“We try to go above and beyond and create a carefree and active lifestyle for the residents,” says JoLynn Scotch, senior vice president of Bozzuto Management. “And now that’s extending to their pets.”

Not all pets are welcome in these luxury buildings. Scotch says she’s had to turn down tenants who wanted to move in with potbelly pigs. Sprouse struggled mightily this month to find a home for a client with a weasel, eventually turning to a small private property after giving up on multifamily buildings. Cats, lizards, and birds are usually allowed, although there aren’t generally amenities that cater to them.

Even among dogs, there’s breed discrimination. For all its dog-friendly facilities, Bozzuto specifies 29 types of dogs banned from its buildings due to their size or aggressive breed history.

That makes it hard for people with pitbulls or dobermans or huskies to move into apartment buildings, even if their dogs are well behaved.

“The most aggressive breed is apparently dachshunds, but they’re never on the restricted breed list,” says Sprouse.

Lake estimates that 30 percent of CityMarket residents own dogs, and another 4 percent have cats. Dog ownership there, says Scotch, is only about 5 percent higher than at Bozzuto’s other D.C. properties.

But the appeal of some dog facilities extends beyond dog owners. Doug Crawford, the property manager of 2M, says that at least a few residents moved in specifically to hang out with Emmy, the resident bulldog. (While Emmy spends her days in the lobby, she sleeps at night with Crawford in his 2M apartment or with the assistant manager.)

Mara Pillinger is one of them. The 30year-old George Washington University Ph.D. candidate moved into 2M last August, drawn by Emmy.

“That was really what attracted me to the building,” she says. “I would love to have a dog, but I’m a student and my schedule’s really crazy.”

She borrows Emmy every day, usually taking her for a walk in the dog park or just playing tug of war in the office. She enjoys her time with Emmy enough that she’s reevaluating just how busy her schedule is.

“I’m thinking about getting a bulldog,” she says. “Which is a new thing.” Next CP stop: SkyBark? washingtoncitypaper.com may 1, 2015 19

Ducks in the Anacostia River

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Eagles and other wildlife are returning to the District as the health of the Anacostia improves.

by Morgan Hines

In March, a sign of the improving health of the Anacostia River appeared in the form of a bald eagle nest at the National Arboretum. It was the first time in 70 years a pair of eagles nested at the site, located along the banks of the Anacostia River.

Over the past couple of decades, the District has worked toward improving the health of the Anacostia through city agencies like the Department of the Environment and partnerships with groups like Earth Conservation Corps, Groundwork Anacostia, and the Anacostia Watershed Society. The river’s degradation began in the 1700s when white settlers brought with them unsustainable tobacco farming and continued into the 1950s when “population growth, industrial pollution, an open dump, and urban disinvestment had all but destroyed” the river, according to AWS. By the 1970s, 96 percent of the Anacostia tidal wetlands had been ruined.

Since 2011, AWS has released a yearly report card that grades the Anacostia and D.C. in areas like water quality, toxics, trash, and overall commitment to the river. All but three categories received Fs in the 2014 State of the River

report, although more than half were described as “improving.”

Trash, like plastic bags and bottles, remains a problem. “When we started 26 years ago, it was not uncommon to get trucks and cars, microwaves and refrigerators from the mud,” says AWS Natural Resources Specialist Jorge A. Bogantes Montero. Between 1989 and 2014, AWS removed 1,095 tons of trash and 10,870 tires from the watershed.

But “there are some things that have improved, some water quality variables,” he explains. Poor water quality, according to DDOE, is believed to be the main reason why eagles abandoned an arboretum nest in 1947; the return indicates the water has improved enough to sustain the amount of fish needed to feed the raptors living at three different D.C. nests.

Osprey are also among the 120 species of birds identified along the Anacostia this year alone; ten species of frogs and salamanders have been spotted, as well. Indeed, some types of wildlife are thriving near the Anacostia, partially because of better protections put in place on a local, regional, and national level.

“Juveniles that were not surviving 30 to 40

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years ago are now surviving and finding a viable habitat in the District,” says Bryan King of DDOE. That includes the gray fox, which, using nighttime cameras, the agency has spotted near the Anacostia.

In the river itself, Eastern Floater Mussels, “which are known to be very resistant to some types of pollution,” have been observed in large numbers, according to Bogantes Montero.“Mussels are very, well they are not as sexy as bald eagles, but they are a great species in the aquatic ecosystems because they are filter feeders so they pretty much help clean the water, and that’s a great thing for the river.”

Also not sexy: the American shad. But King points to DDOE’s restoration program focused on the river herring as a major victory. “We release approximately one million American shad each year,” he says. “They are caught in our facility, tagged with a chemical, and released into the Anacostia.” For the first time since the program began in the late ‘90s, 10 percent of the fish released last year were spawned in the District.

“As the river gets cleaner, we should see increased populations of many species, and the

ones that are there already should get healthier,” says Ward 3 D.C. Councilmember Mary Cheh, who chairs the Committee on Transportation and the Environment. “For example, the rate of tumors in bullhead catfish in the Anacostia, a frequently cited indicator of the health of the river, has begun to decrease in recent years.”

The future of the Anacostia’s wildlife depends on partnerships with both the local and federal government, King says, as well as the continued protection of certain wildlife areas. “In order to keep these trends moving upward, then we can’t accept that these animals are starting to return in some cases,” King says.

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Shakela Brown isn’t sure how many doors she’s knocked on over the past five months.

“Oh my goodness,” she says with a laugh.

“It’s been a lot of doors.”

Since November, Brown, a Washington Humane Society employee for the past 21 years, has visited hundreds of households as part of the Pets for Life program. Designed by the Humane Society of the United States and implemented by local organizations like WHS, the initiative aims to bring resources and information about pet care to communities that have the most need and the least access.

In D.C., that’s area code 20020, a section of Southeast D.C. that includes Anacostia, Barry Farm, Skyland, and Hillcrest. WHS selected the area using a community assessment that looked at several factors—number of households living below the poverty level, estimated number of pet-owning households, animal shelter intake numbers, pet food and supply availability, and crime rate, to name a few—to determine which community would be the first to participate in D.C.’s Pets for Life program.

Brown, better known as Shak, was WHS’ humane educator for ten years, visiting schools in areas where children had perpetrated animal cruelty. She later expanded the program to include summer camps, community centers, and local organizations—“anywhere that kids were”—and began hiring youth into WHS positions. Going to a classroom and saying, “Hey! Be nice to Fluffy!” wasn’t enough, she says: “Kids have to get a real feel that you knew their community.”

In 2014, she took on the day-to-day running of Pets for Life. She’s been traveling through the neighborhoods, block by block, house by house, to reach out to pet owners and offer services like sterilization and items like food and toys gratis. The goal is to make a lasting connection with as many people, or “clients,” as possible, and check in with a visit or phone call each month. But for Shak, the program is just as much about the people as it is the animals.

“I do care about the community, I do have a connection,” says Shak, who’s been a mentor with Youth Life for the past 11 years.

She’s now seeing the kids she’s known from the schools and the streets in their homes.

“I have a different perspective because I’m involved in every aspect… I want to see the community grow.”

“There’s a value of being in the community and building those relationships and that trust,” said Amanda Arrington, director of HSUS’ Pets for Life program, as she observed WHS’ inaugural community event in April.

HSUS runs direct-care programs in four cities and mentors local organizations in 26, a number it wants to expand. “It’s not that complicated,” Arrington said of the model. “It really boils down to two things: identifying the community that you need to serve… and showing up and being nice.”

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The Washington Humane Society wants to keep pets in D.C. homes, one neighborhood at a time.

A volunteer holds a dog at WHS’ Pets for Life event.

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which regularly involved holding a leash or cat carrier. Others handed out free bags of food and treats, as well as Kong toys for dogs and wand toys for cats, to every person who attended. Veterinarians were on hand to administer vaccinations, trim nails, and provide vouchers for neutering and spaying. Trainers did basic obedience with more reactive dogs, and everyone wanted to pet an especially cute pair of German shepherd puppies. In all, 185 people showed up, including 20 who signed up their pet to be spayed or neutered.

“I’m very wound up over this program,” Scott Giacoppo, WHS’ director of external affairs, told the volunteers at a training a week before the event. “I’ve been involved in the humane world for well over 20 plus years now, and I have not seen a program this promising and a program that is guaranteed to change the landscape of what we do since trap-neuter-return.”

Giacoppo stressed that Pets for Life isn’t about “education”; it’s about “providing information.” The difference may not be apparent on paper, but in practice, it influences the dynamic between WHS representatives and members of the community. When Giacoppo and Shak knocked on their first door, he recalls, they met a middle-aged woman and her “ball of energy” pitbull puppy, who was bouncing off the walls. “The dog had never really had a toy before,” he said. They gave the dog a Kong toy, and he went into his crate and laid down with it. They explained to the woman that the toy, a hollow piece of rubber, can be filled with treats to keep the dog occupied. “He was so happy,” Giacoppo said. “It was a beautiful scene to have this family so in

love with what was happening.”

Most of the reactions have been similarly positive, says Shak, who worked as a humane law enforcement officer in the same area she’s now canvassing. Before the April event, Shak had more than 100 clients in 20020, and she’s in the process of contacting each person who attended it. She’s signed up a high number of people with cats, many of whom live in low-income or public housing and get a cat to deal with rodents. “They don’t necessarily know about cats,” she says. “They don’t know to get them a scratching post and get them toys so they don’t start scratching the furniture and doing things they don’t want to do.” Clients with cats are more open to spaying and neutering to deal with male spraying and female heat.

Dogs sterilization is a separate issue. Shak doesn’t approach dog owners with concerns about pet overpopulation or Bob Barker-esque absolutisms. “When you have people living in different parts of the city who have different experiences, and somebody from the outside [is] telling them what to do with their animal… sometimes they take it personal,” she says. “They say, ‘What if you start doing this to all women or all men?’”

Instead, she explains why she had her dog sterilized. She shows them photos of all the pitbull-type dogs currently in WHS facilities. She talks about best breeding practices and asks whether the puppies will go to “a good home, an alright home, or a home you don’t care about.”

She takes a similarly friendly and relaxed approach to other tricky subjects. If she sees a person with a skinny dog, she’ll start a casual conversation and ask what he eats or if he’s

been de-wormed. She can say, “Oh you have a dog at home? Let me get you some Frontline,” opening the door to a home visit, which can lead to other conversations. “Depending on how the conversation arises will really tell me which way to go,” she says. How is the person talking to their dog? Does she need free training? Does the cat have a name? Would he like a toy?

Shak wants pet owners to see WHS as a resource. She doesn’t want members of the community to be worried they’ll get in trouble if they don’t know the answer to a question. She wants to empower them to do more for animals as a community as opposed to having an “outsider” coming in.

“The Washington Humane Society is here not only for their pet, but for them too,” she says. “When animal people are talking about ‘animals, animals, animals,’ and they’re not talking about human rights, that becomes a problem… If you don’t show that you have compassion and care about them, taking care of their pet will only take you so far.”

Showing that there is diversity in the humane community is also “extremely important” to Shak.

“Someone will say to me, ‘Oh, I didn’t think anybody black worked here,’” she says. It’s an easy assumption to make. While 20020’s population is 96 percent black, the vast majority of WHS volunteers at the April event were white women.

“This is not about being do-gooders,” Giacoppo says. “We’re helping out fellow pet owners. They love their pets, and we want to be able to help them be able to provide for their pets CP what we can provide for ours.”

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Crumbs & Whiskers will be more about the cats than the cafe.

By Jessica Sidman There’s nothing more than a coat of white paint with bright yellow trim upstairs at the future home of cat cafe Crumbs & Whiskers, but founder Kanchan Singh is downright giddy as she floats around the room envisioning what it will become. The walls of the Georgetown property, formerly home to a psychic and astrology center, will be lined with shelves so cats may survey the territory. Singh has her eye on an oversized pet bed shaped like a white cat’s head with an entrance through the mouth. For humans, there will be cushion seating on the hardwood floors so they’re on the same level as the cats.

While this room is meant to foster energetic, playful interactions, the street-level area downstairs will have a more laid-

back and relaxed feel with an earthier aesthetic. The basement will be restricted to felines (and staff), so the cats can take a break from humans if they need to.

“Just think of a lounge,” Singh says, “but to hang out and talk about cats.”

Although cat cafes have long been popular in Asia, they’ve only begun to pop up in the United States within the past six months. When it opens this summer, Crumbs & Whiskers will be the first establishment of its kind in D.C. The idea has already sparked an enormous response, including mockery from a camp of people who see it as a sign that the city has reached peak yuppie. But then there are the masses who’ve flooded Singh’s email inbox with support and helped her far exceed her Kickstarter goal. They see the concept as a future model for pet adoption—or at least a way to fulfill

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Kanchan Singh prepares to open D.C.’s first cat cafe.

their fantasies of petting cute, furry animals while sipping a coffee. And the woman behind it all? She’s a 24-year-old who left her consulting job to dedicate her time to cats.

Singh’s cat cafe was born out of a quarter-life crisis backpacking trip to Thailand to visit an elephant sanctuary. At the time, the University of Maryland grad was working as a consultant for Accenture, a global management consulting, technology services, and outsourcing firm. “I was just in a point in life where I felt very directionless. I was like, ‘I don’t know what I’m doing. I don’t know if I want to keep doing this,’” she says. “I woke up one day, and I was like, ‘No, I’m not going to do that. I’m going to do this.’”

While traveling by herself and staying in hostels, Singh met some guys who told her about a cat cafe in Chiang Mai. They knew she’d like the idea, especially given her fondness for feeding stray dogs and cats. It also happened to be Singh’s 24th birthday. She had to go.

“I walked in there, and I was hanging out, and something hit me,” she says. “It’s really weird. I don’t know how to explain it, but while I was there, my mind had already started thinking about doing it here—actually quitting my job and doing it here. It was something I couldn’t stop thinking about.”

No one visiting the cat cafe was Thai; they were all Americans and Europeans, which made Singh wonder why no such thing existed in the U.S. In fact, America’s first such establishment, Cat Town Cafe, opened in Oakland in November, shortly after Singh began researching the idea. In December, Meow Parlour opened in New York and Denver Cat Company arrived in Colorado. Another cat cafe called KitTea is in the works for San Francisco.

Singh—who lives with her parents and her younger brother in Gaithersburg to save money for the venture—has five cats. “But,” she says, “we share… so really I have 1.25 cats.” She’s also had rabbits and one time nursed an abandoned baby squirrel back to health. “My craziness is not restricted to cats.”

Initially, Singh planned to adopt 20 or so cats from the Washington Humane Society and have them all live at the cat cafe. Then she realized she could use her business as an avenue to actually get the cats adopted. The Oakland cafe claimed dozens of adoptions in its first few weeks, further bolstering Singh’s ambitions.

WHS will be intimately involved in the cafe, helping to train staff to take care of the cats in the same way they train their own staff. The cats will also be vetted by WHS before they move to the cafe. “You have cats that come in and they’re like, ‘Hey, let’s get the party started, I’m here.’ And those will be the ones that we’ll be placing into that environment,” says the organization’s spokesman Scott Giacoppo. Singh plans to introduce five cats at a time, given how territorial the animals can be, but she won’t have more than 20 at once.

Cat cafe patrons interested in taking a cat home will still go through WHS’s adoption process. The actual logistics are still in the works, but Giacoppo says the goal is that people will be able to adopt right then and there.

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the majority of WHS’ cats are not there because of health or behavioral problems. More often, a cat is surrendered when his owner moves into an apartment that doesn’t allow animals or suffers financial difficulty.

Giacoppo has high hopes for the cat cafe’s potential success. He acknowledges that a lot of people don’t like coming to the shelter. “They can now interact with cats in a way that they never have been able to before,” he says.

D.C. regulators, however, haven’t been nearly as enthusiastic. Singh needed to get a zoning exemption and approval from the health department, which had never dealt with such a concept before.

“I don’t think I realized what I was taking on when I took it on,” Singh admits.

The project has led to many sleepless nights worrying about red tape and running a first-time business. “I dreamt that terrorists blew up the cat cafe,” Singh says. “And I know why! Because I decided not to buy terrorism insurance.”

Singh announced the cat cafe in November, in part to lock herself into moving forward with it but also to demonstrate the demand to potential landlords. Initially, nobody wanted to fill their building with cats. “In the commercial real estate world, everyone thought it would fail,” Singh says. She was lucky to ultimately find a cat-loving landlord in Georgetown at 3211 O St. NW who had actually been to the cat cafe in Oakland.

The D.C. Department of Health was equally reluctant at first. “Why I didn’t know about this??? Do anyone knows about the risks [sic]?” wrote Joxel Garcia, then-director of the department, in an email to colleagues after a story about the cafe ran in the Washington Post in November. Singh had been in contact with other DOH officials for more than a month at that point. In another internal email to a colleague, DOH spokesperson Kristen Randolph wrote, “I love cats but this is a little icky.” Mostly, though, the emails— obtained by Washington City Paper through the Freedom of Information Act—reveal a series of delays and non-responses.

Initially, Singh planned to have two completely separate spaces—one with cats and another separate area with a kitchen—but it wasn’t going to be easy to have an airtight division in the older property. Plus, the cafe portion would mean less room for cats. Ultimately, Singh has decided not to prepare or store any food or drinks on-site.

Instead, Singh is looking to partner with a restaurant nearby, who will make, package, and deliver any food or drink listed on the cat cafe’s menu.

“They still get the cafe experience, but we’re not going to be a cafe,” she says. “I figured people are here for the cats anyway.”

Plus, outsourcing means DOH will no longer be involved.

Guests will make reservations for hourlong slots and pay a cover fee. Singh has yet to decide exactly how much she will charge, but guests will be required to pay a portion up front to avoid too many no-shows.

A long list of people are already waiting to get in the door. In February, Singh gave fans the opportunity to join the “Gentlemeow’s Club,” which provides access to the cat cafe before the general public. Nearly 4,000 people have signed up. After seeking three parttime volunteers to work for free, Singh received 66 applications in two day. She also launched a Kickstarter campaign in March and raised her $15,000 goal in 24 hours. By the end of the 30 days, she’d raised more than $35,000 from 705 backers. To thank supporters, Singh posted a breathlessly euphoric video of herself in a cat-print onesie. “This is my new favorite memory of my entire life!” she said. “You guys are so nice!”

In addition to that money, Singh is funding the place completely out of her own pocket, although she declined to say the exact size of her investment.

Singh chalks up the mania over the cat cafe to a simple unfulfilled niche: “Anytime you have a product that people are so excited about, that means there’s a completely unmet need in the marketplace,” she says.

Plus, she points out that the way people interact with animals has not evolved much; you either volunteer at a shelter or you have a pet. Both options tend to be big time commitments. “There’s nothing in between,” she says. “There’s no ‘go have a fling...’

There’s no ‘go on a date.’ That’s really what the cat cafe does.”

Not everyone is excited by the idea. Namely, her parents. “They don’t get it. They just don’t get it,” says Singh, who was raised by an IT consultant dad and a stay-at-home mom.

Her mom doesn’t understand why people wouldn’t just go to a shelter if they want to pet a cat. “And my dad thinks it’s a huge risk because he knows I’m putting in everything I’ve saved over the last two years.”

The overwhelming response has helped convert Singh’s mom into a believer. She now openly expresses how proud she is and even helped paint the walls of the cafe. Her dad, on the other hand, is still asking about how her non-existent job applications are coming.

But Singh, a perpetual optimist, is hopeful that even her father will come around.

“I can’t be successful for two weeks. I can’t be successful for two months,” she says. “To convince him, it will take longCP term success.”

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Thunder Burger 3056 M St. NW Since it’s similar to beef sirloin, executive chef Ryan Fichter only adds mustard, parsley, thyme, salt, and pepper to his elk patty to allow its steak-like flavor to shine. Served on a challah bun, it’s simply topped with lettuce, tomato, and a cornichon ‘n’ caper remoulade sauce.

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antelope

Restaurant Eve 110 S. Pitt St., Alexandria Executive chef Cathal Armstrong creates a not-your-average scrapple with ground-up antelope, which possesses a taste not unlike venison. It arrives with an egg atop a crispy golden hashbrown. Maple syrup is optional but recommended.

Price: $14.98 for two items from the Lickety Split menu at the bar during lunch.

Price: Available only at the chef’s counter as a part of the tasting menu, $90 and up What It Is: Known as noresore in western Japan, these infant oceanic eels can cost up to $20 an ounce from specialty Japanese importers. They’re dipped for one second in boiling water and then plunged quickly into ice water. “You want to get out the fishiness,” says Handry Tjan, who shares executive chef duties with his older brother, Piter Tjan. They’re mixed with a punchy sauce of yuzu juice, vinegar, and soy. A shiso leaf, grated daikon radish, and shichimi togarashi—a blend of chili peppers and seasonings—are the final touch.

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Where: Kapnos, 2201 14th St. NW

Acadiana 901 New York Ave. NW Not to worry, no sea turtles were harmed in the making of this soup. Instead, chef Jeff Tunks uses Eastern snapping turtles from the Chesapeake Bay. Seared chunks of the steaky meat float in a gravy-style soup garnished with crumbles of hardboiled egg and parsley.

Price: $9

Frog

New Big Wong 610 H St. NW Frog actually does taste a lot like chicken.

At this Chinatown favorite, their boney little legs are simply coated in flour before they’re pan-fried along with a snappy mix of snow peas and Chinese green beans.

Price: $21.95 nounced flavor. The clear, four-inch-long beady eyed beasts chew like slender, slippery gummies. The heat of the chilies and tang of the sauce take precedence in the dish, though there’s a lingering umami richness from the noresore themselves.

The Story: “Some people freak out at first,” admits Tjan, but everyone tries it. The chef is a big admirer of the little eels, so he’s hoping to convert some of his diners into fellow fans. Only sporadically available for a short window in the spring, they’re considered a prized delicacy in Japan. Call ahead to see if they’re available.

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Eat Your animals

Redline 707 G St. NW Serving gator one way would have been too easy, so this Penn Quarter sportspub offers up a trifecta of pan-seared bites. The nibbles arrive with spicy chili sauce, applewood smoked barbecue, and tangy Dijon mustard.

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What You Should Be Drinking The “Make It Happen” at Kapnos gets its name from Mike Isabella’s mantra in the kitchen—a cousin of Tim Gunn’s slogan, “Make It Work.” It combines mezcal with fresh pineapple juice, lime, Kümmel, Hellfire bitters, and frothy egg white most commonly found in a flip. “People see mezcal and egg white and they hesitate, but this cocktail has been on the menu since day one, and it’s not coming off,” says Beverage Director Taha Ismail. Creating a racing stripe down the center is a trail of pink peppercorns, but that’s not the only kitchen spice that Ismail sneaks into the cocktail. French liqueur Kümmel is flavored with caraway, cumin, and fennel. Ismail says his Moroccan heritage attracted him to the exotic booze. “I grew up with food that was heavily seasoned, which is different than spicy,” he says. “My mom would grind some of these same spices into coffee.” On its own, a shot of Kümmel tastes a little like a latenight kebab you’d grab while studying abroad in Europe—not a far cry from Kapnos’ version of spit-roasted meat.

Why You Should be Drinking It Make it Happen is basically a whiskey sour’s friend from south of the border, thanks to the inclusion of smoky mezcal. Like a sour or a flip, the egg white foam creates a rich feel that cuts through the sting of alcohol.

The result is a beverage that beats margaritas at being refreshing, making it the perfect session cocktail to consume on Kapnos’ patio. Expect your first sip to startle you with its unique flavor profile, combining smoke, —Laura Hayes sourness, and spice.

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5–6 P.M. NIGHTLY H GRAND FOYER BARS

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There is no free parking for free performances.

The Kennedy Center welcomes persons with disabilities.

The Millennium Stage was created and underwritten by James A. Johnson and Maxine Isaacs to make the performing arts accessible to everyone in fulfillment of the Kennedy Center's mission to its community and the nation.

Additional funding for the Millennium Stage is provided by The Isadore and Bertha Gudelsky Family Foundation, Inc., The Meredith Foundation, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, Dr. Deborah Rose and Dr. Jan A.J. Stolwijk, U.S. Department of Education, and the Millennium Stage Endowment Fund.

The Millennium Stage Endowment Fund was made possible by James A. Johnson and Maxine Isaacs, Fannie Mae Foundation, James V. Kimsey, Gilbert† and Jaylee† Mead, Mortgage Bankers Association of America and other anonymous gifts to secure the future of the Millennium Stage.

Kennedy Center education and related artistic programming is also made possible through the generosity of the National Committee for the Performing Arts and the President’s Advisory Committee on the Arts.

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Graduating seniors from the program perform solos.

15 FRI H Camille Thurman

The saxophonist/vocalist/composer performs with her quartet.

Part of the Mary Lou Williams Jazz Festival.

16 SAT H Shacara Rogers

The vocalist, a Betty Carter’s Jazz Ahead and Howard University alumnus, makes her Kennedy Center debut as a headlining artist.

Part of the Mary Lou Williams Jazz Festival.

17 SUN H Levine Music

24 SUN H Bud’s Collective

The up-and-coming bluegrass band from UVA was a favorite at this year’s Kingman Island Bluegrass and Folk Festival.

Presented by Listen Local First DC.

26 TUE H Youth Tap Showcase

Metropolitan Youth Tap Ensemble, SOLE Rhythms, and House of Tap come together for an evening of percussive dance.

28 THU H Zulal and Ara Dinkjian

The vocal trio and famed oud player join forces to present a celebration of Armenian culture.

Part of Homegrown: The Music of America concert series.

The Cuban quintet presents a repertoire of recognized Latin American works with classical arrangements.

Instrumentalists at the community music school where children and adults find lifelong inspiration through music, perform a varied program.

29 FRI H Robert Priore and Trent D. Williams Jr.

4 MON H Duke Ellington School

18 MON H The American Youth

Dancer and choreographer Priore and performer Williams Jr. present an evening of original contemporary dance works.

The Jazz Orchestra and The Mellow Tones, two student groups, present Reignite: Fanning the Flames, featuring music of Ellington, Strayhorn, Holiday, and Gaye.

The group, led by the orchestra’s ensemble-inresidence, the Ensemble da Camera of Washington, performs its closing program of the season.

5 TUE H Dr. Mira Yang and the Asian American Music Society

19 TUE H Colleen Daly and Julia Dawson

of the Arts

Celebrate Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month with the program Asian, Spiritual, and Zarzuela Songs.

IN THE TERRACE THEATER

6 WED H D.C. Youth Orchestra

Program*

The orchestra fosters musical development and has changed lives of more than 50,000 D.C. youths. It was the first youth orchestra to perform at the Kennedy Center.

DAILY FOOD AND DRINK SPECIALS.

14 THU H NSO Youth Fellows

7 THU H School Without Walls Stage Band and Senior High School Concert Choir

Students share the stage for an evening of instrumental and vocal performances. Both groups have performed around the D.C. community.

8 FRI H WNO Preview: Cinderella

Members of Washington National Opera’s Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program perform selections from the upcoming production of Rossini’s Cinderella.

9 SAT H Curtis Harding

The Georgia-based singer makes his Kennedy Center debut with music inspired by old soul.

Harlem Nights/ 10 U Street Lights SUN H

The Kennedy Center teams up with The Apollo Theater to present a three-part program exploring the deep musical connections between the Harlem and D.C. scenes with an all-star cast including Jason Moran, Marc Cary, Howard University’s Afro Blue, and others.

11 MON H Christie Dashiell

The D.C.-born jazz vocalist, Betty Carter’s Jazz Ahead alum, and performer on NBC’s The Sing-Off, showcases her contemporary and soulful flair.

12 TUE H NSO Youth Fellows

Participants in the NSO training program play Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings and Ravel’s Sonata for violin and cello.

13 WED H NSO Youth Fellows

Participants play Persichetti’s Serenade for flute and harp and Ewald’s brass quintet.

Philharmonic Orchestra’s Chamber Ensemble Program

The first and second prize winners of Vocal Arts DC’s Art Song Discovery Competition offer a varied program.

20 WED H WNO 2015–2016 Season Preview Members of WNO’s Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program and other special guests perform arias and songs to preview the upcoming season.

30 SAT H NSO Prelude

Members of the NSO play chamber works by Loeillet, Moszkowski, and Sarasate.

31 SUN H Janelle Gill

The pianist brings her newest project, a musical homage to jazz pianist, composer, and lyricist Billy Strayhorn.

Part of East River JazzFest.

*Free general admission tickets will be distributed in the States

Gallery starting at approximately 5:30 p.m. (Family Theater Lobby for May 21 performance), up to 2 tickets per person.

IN THE FAMILY THEATER

21 THU H Comedy at the Kennedy Center: Moshe Kasher*

The L.A.-based comedian was selected as one of Variety Magazine’s Ten Comics to Watch, iTunes’s Comic of the Year, and has been featured on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Conan, Showtime’s Shameless, and more.

This program contains mature themes and strong language.

22 FRI H VSA International Young Soloists Competition Outstanding young musicians with disabilities are recognized and the four winners get to attend the VSA International Young Soloists Professional Development Weekend.

SUN 10 H Jason Moran

THIRD ANNUAL EUROPEAN MONTH OF CULTURE Presented in collaboration with the Delegation of the European Union to the United States and the embassies of Slovenia (5/23), Greece (5/25), and Slovakia (5/27).

23 SAT H Marko Hatlak

The Slovenian accordionist explores the versatility of his instrument in a solo concert.

MON 11 H Christie Dashiell

25 MON H Greek Chamber Music Project

The group performs classical music by Greek composers, both little-known and popular, as well as Western classical works.

27 WED H Ensemble Harmonia: Exploring Slovakia’s Folkloric Traditions!

Discover the rich culture of Slovakia through music, dance, costumes, and more.

MON 21 H Moshe Kasher

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No big tents, a new spot on the lawn, and only one country featured: Get ready for a new, smaller Folklife Festival. washingtoncitypaper.com/go/folklife

It took Beauty Pill 11 years to release its new album, and it’s right on time. ugly. “Near Miss Stories” directly addresses Clark’s illness.

The band, which also currently includes Basla Andolsun, Drew Doucette, and Devin Ocampo (the sixth member during the Artisphere sessions was Abram Goodrich), has a full spring and summer: In addition to the new album, it’s re-releasing the band’s first EP, The Cigarette Girl of the Future, both on Butterscotch Records. It wrote and recorded the

“I forgot what it’s like to put out a record,”Chad Clark told me last week, the day his band Beauty Pill released its first album in 11 years. “People are very nice to you.”

Beauty Pill Describes Things as They Are, or some version of it, might have arrived earlier had a few things not happened.

In 2007, Clark was sidelined by viral cardiomyopathy, an infection of the heart that nearClark’s latest LP with ly killed him and required surgeons to open Beauty Pill is filled with up his chest. During his recovery, he could colorful vignettes. scarcely hold a guitar but could handle a laptop, which led him to double down on the electronic and cinematic sounds he’d already begun to explore. Clark wrote, made demos, composed the score for an experimental play about suicide, and recorded sporadically over the next several years, and in 2011, Beauty Pill took over a black-box theater in Rosslyn’s Artisphere to record a new album in public. A nearly disastrous hard-drive snafu, some re-recording, another major surgery for Clark, and a new record label later, the album has arrived. It feels as though it’s landed right on time.

Listeners of Clark’s old band, Smart Went Crazy, and Beauty Pill’s earlier recordings will recognize—but feel no redundancy in— the songwriter’s tense yet immediate melodic stamp, his lyrics’ floating narration, his sociopolitical engagement, and his cutting sense of humor. The sonic leaps are something else: Beauty Pill Describes Things as They Are presents the band as a fully organic and electronic outfit. “The album is saturated with details, with color,” Clark told me last year. “It definitely hits you with a lot of information.” The lyrics, sung by Clark and multi-instrumentalist Jean Cook, do too: The lurching, groovecentered “Afrikaner Barista” depicts a flirtatious encounter freighted by the baggage of apartheid. “Steven score to Taffety Punk Theatre Company’s current production and Tiwonge” imagines the flight of a real-life queer couple that of Hamlet: The First Quarto. And it will tour this summer for was prosecuted by the Malawian government for “unnatural of- the first time in years.

Because Beauty Pill Describes Things as They Are was such a fenses.” In the dreamlike “Ann the Word”—a lush, chilling update of a song Beauty Pill originally released in 2006—the narra- long time coming—and because it really, really, rewards attentor reckons with mortality as “the car fills up with water, and you tive listening—Clark and I were both eager to finally have a disand I are kissing just the same.” “Ain’t a Jury in the World Gon’ cussion about its content. Our interview has been edited for conConvict You, Baby” centers on a traffic stop turned recognizably cision and clarity.

Some of these songs are close to a decade old. Which ones went in directions that aren’t at all what you imagined?

My personal favorite song is “Afrikaner Barista.” It’s so much deeper and richer than I expected it to be, and it went in a really unexpected direction in terms of what happens in the song. The initial impulse behind the song was to write an answer song to [David Bowie’s] “China Girl,” a kind of response or vague shadow to it.

A kind of multicultural encounter in a bar or café or club…

Right. But in that song it gets very dark. Toward the end, “visions of swastikas” and stuff.

It’s a really interesting song about cultural dissonance or friction, and attraction. I wanted to write something that felt like the flip side of that coin. In my mind it ended darkly. I kept trying to write it, and I couldn’t finish it for a really, really long time, almost a year. I’d have these attempts at dark endings. They didn’t feel right—they felt pretentious, they didn’t feel truthful. And then I realized that my idea of a song ending in a dark, bloody kind of way was kind of stupid. Like, “What the hell, who cares?” An attraction across races, across cultures isn’t that big a deal, happens all the time.

Why does this have to have this tragic ending?

And what’s the worst that can happen? That’s when the last verse appeared: “Origin’s not destination. You have to move on.” And it’s a really bright and hopeful ending. I didn’t expect that—that was an example where the song tugged you in a direction you didn’t expect.

If you were to assign a literary label to the kind of lyrics you write, especially songs like “Ann the Word,” “Steven and Tiwonge,” “Afrikaner Barista”—all of those songs are vignettes. Why does that form work for you?

There are songwriters whom I admire who write totally different, and sometimes I’ll hear someone else’s style of writing and I’ll decide, “Oh, why would I try to write [like that].” I love Bob Dylan; I love John Lennon; I love Mos Def. But you’re right about the vignette, the visual scene. “Lifeguard in Wintertime,” “The Mule on the Plane”—they’re pretty visual songs, and I think that’s one of the reasons it’s been really challenging to make videos for Beauty Pill. You could make them literal or you could Darrow Montgomery

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make them totally abstract, but either way the listener’s mind is going to the images of the lyrics—and they are visual lyrics.

I hope it’s involving—I hope it’s like a movie. With a very dark song like “Ann the Word,” I hope listeners go—not literally go— to the place of the song. The vignettes seem to suit the length of a song, you can get away within the length of a song.

Often you’ll start with a scene and then you’ll either twist the scene somehow, or finally step back and actually explain the idea in the song. Sometimes you’ll do both.

And then there’s “Drapetomania,” which doesn’t make any sense at all. Well, it kind of makes sense. It’s like a rant.

It’s interesting you chose that song to start the record. Usually you want the first song to ground you, to tell you what’s going on. “Drapetomania” has a different purpose.

Yes. There was a lot of controversy within the band to put that first. For a long time, “Afrikaner Barista” was first. “Drapetomania” is confusing and alarming. If the album is saturated, that song is super saturated, and it takes the most to puzzle through and has the most, probably, provocative lyrics. We could not find another place to put it on the record; it’s so bizarre and unwelcome. And, well, one thing that it does is, “OK, I’m aware.” I

really like that song. Basla says her favorite lyric on the record is on that song: “Deep in the heart of wildest Caucasia.”

Where’d that come from?

Being in the suburbs. I feel there’s a lot of humor in that line. It’s not a hateful line. I always loved the idea that people would say Caucasian. No one knows what you’re referring to when you say Caucasian. And it just occurred to me one day, being in the suburbs: “This is the jungle of Caucasia!” Race is something I’ve always addressed pretty directly, but if someone were to say to me, “What do you mean by that? What are you saying directly?” I would probably pull a Dylan and say, “Hey, it’s in the line.”

I was thinking something like that with “Ain’t a Jury in the World Gon’ Convict You, Baby.” That’s a song that, if you wanted, could really address our current moment, especially the debate we’re having over police departments and racism and the latitude they have.

I’ve been hearing that a lot, and sometimes people will say, “That song really predicted Ferguson!” I’m like, honestly, as a black person, I will say this straight up: If I’m ever with cops alone, I feel like I could die. That’s my truth, that’s always been my truth. I’m a much more privileged black man than a lot of people, and that’s my truth. So the idea that Ferguson is something I predicted is a little bit hard to swallow. Like, that’s my life. That’s not new. It’s a reality.

This is the first time as an artist where someone hasn’t told me that the record I’m putting out is ahead of its time. When [Smart Went Crazy] put out Con Art, Ian [MacKaye], very, very supportively, very sweetly, was like, “People will get this in 10 years.”

But this is the first time people have said this record is now. Which is very exciting. I’ve never been on time for anything, ever.

Musically, it certainly feels like we’re in this moment where time has kind of collapsed—not that there won’t

always be a conservatism to some people’s tastes.

That’s been encouraging, too. No one has tried to circumscribe a genre around Beauty Pill, or found that unnerving or found that a turnoff. I’ve always found that the fact that our music is hard to describe is a problem for marketing it. And it’s really encouraging to me that that’s no longer a thing people are putting on me as a liability, basically.

“Exit Without Saving” could be about a lot of things— about a war, about a relationship, any kind of situation in which you’d want to get out.

It’s about making a choice for self-preservation, where you have to get out and you can’t save everybody. When you’re going into a plane crash, your instinct is to check the child, make sure they’re OK. But the first thing you need to do is make sure you have your oxygen mask. It kind of runs counter to every parental instinct you would have. “Exit Without Saving” is basically saying, “This is fucked, it’s not going to get any better, we have to get out.”

I wanted to talk about “Near Miss Stories.”

“Near Miss Stories” is the closest thing to a literal read of my experience. I wanted to have something that addressed [my illness] specifically and nonelliptically. The line that I really love the most is in the chorus: “If you see something you want and don’t have, let me know and I’ll tell you how to live without it,” which is a thing my dad used to say. And he’s being a hardass, he’s being a tough guy. And I wanted to turn his turning of that into a welcoming, comforting thing—which is to be really grateful. It’s a little corny to be that explicitly explicit about being happy to be alive. But that’s what the song is CP trying to say.

Read more of the conversation and listen to a track from Beauty Pill Describes Things As They Are at washingtoncitypaper.com/go/ chadclark.

“VERY FUNNY, VERY BRILLIANT, VERY CHILLING” —The New York Times

VISIT US AT CFA.GMU.EDU

MOMIX Alchemia

FRIDAY, MAY 1 AT 8 P.M. SATURDAY, MAY 2 AT 8 P.M.

THE TONY AWARD-WINNING PLAY BY TOM STOPPARD DIRECTED BY AARON POSNER

It’s MOMIX! Known for their athletic virtuosity, outstanding innovation, inventive props, and vibrant, sometimes outrageous, costumes, MOMIX is bringing a new work: a visually arresting theatrical experience full of whimsy, beauty, and intrigue about the art of alchemy. “The mad and marvelous troupe has all of the mesmeric power of a magic show.”

(Globe and Mail) $48, $41, $29 The May 2 performance will be audio-described.

TICKETS 888-945-2468 OR CFA.GMU.EDU Adam Wesley Brown as Guildenstern

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Romell Witherspoon as Rosencrantz

Located on the Fairfax campus, six miles west of Beltway exit 54 at the intersection of Braddock Road and Rt. 123.

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Walker’s Run Silver

Standout Track: No. 1, “Gold Mine,” a lively, string-heavy ode to D.C. from the local newgrass band that formed at the University of Virginia in the late ‘90s and has its roots in the mountains of Rockbridge County, Va. Its latest EP, Silver, represents a new beginning for the group: It went on hiatus in 2002, when lead singer Brennan Gilmore joined the Foreign Service and spent much of the next decade working in nations throughout Africa; within the last year, the core of the old group reunited and added fiddler Nate Leath and percussionist Nick Falk.

Musical Motivation: Gilmore and his brother Seth co-wrote “Gold Mine” as a way of paying tribute to the D.C. bands they listened to in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s (punk acts like Fugazi and Minor Threat, plus some funk ensembles). After moving to the District and seeing go-go groups perform live, they came up with the style of the tune. “It’s a nod to go-go,” Gilmore says.

“We’re not trying to duplicate what go-go does, but it brings that sort of swing into the newgrass element.”

Re-Districted: “Gold Mine” is “a love story set in the District,” Gilmore says, and as such, the lyrics wink at certain D.C. quirks. One example: “We’re gonna dig us a brand new J Street/Straight down to a go-go gold mine.”

According to Gilmore, a go-go gold mine is what lies at the core of D.C., “below all the streets and below all the B.S.” This sweet spot of culture and creativity, along with the traditions of mountain music and bluegrass, are where D.C. and Walker’s Run meet.

—Caroline Jones Listen to “Gold Mine” at washingtoncitypaper.com/go/goldmine.

How a bookstore full of real live books survives in Petworth: washingtoncitypaper.com/go/upshur

Funk Dial

Last year, Justin Rood and Chris Naoum teamed up to stage a musical march by the people, for the people through the U Street corridor. A tribute to D.C.’s music history, the anything-goes affair was bookended by live acts from as close as Congress Heights and as far away as Mali. Rood and Naoum dubbed it the Funk Parade.

The celebration’s 2015 edition boasts more pre- and post-parade parties, plus the OK from the mayor to shut down U Street proper rather than march down the quieter, residential blocks of V Street NW as in last year’s festivities.

But size and funkiness often evolve in inverse proportions—and in an era when the term has been thoroughly sterilized by Mark Ronson’s “Uptown” ear candy, some trappings of the Funk Parade might not be as funky as they seem. Don’t believe me? Just watch.

—Christina Cauterucci

Funk index Slap bass coming through a twostory amp

Trading V Street for U Sponsored by the swank-appropriating Ellington Apartments

Kenny G on sedatives

“God Bless America” played on handbells

Avoiding the f-bomb with the hashtags #FunkYeah and #FunkU Howard Theatre afterparty with soul hotshot Lee Fields and Trouble Funk

A swagger-Jack and Diet Coke chased with a Michelob Ultra

Parties at the Hilton brothers’ Brixton and Den of Thieves The high-school talent of Duke Ellington’s Radical Elite Show Band

A 400-page legal brief with color-coordinated endnotes

A tromboner in 5-inch lapels

Vintage go-go blasting from an old turquoise Coupe de Ville

Mayor Muriel Bowser marching the route A repeat performance from Malian ngoni player Cheick Hamala Diabaté, who killed it at Tropicalia last year A DIY robot-costumebuilding party

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1st Stage carries a tune with its extended, unremarkable run of the Jon Marans play.

let his production fade unremarkably into the written word—to accompany its enlightenments, without offering any new ones. The brief exception is Brian S. Allard and Kenny Neal’s remarkable lighting and sound design in the play’s opening moments. They begin in pitch black with a soundtrack of industrial noises before gradually awaking us with soft light from the piano-mounted lampshade, as Hosford wordlessly introduces us to the Austrian classical music his character admires so much.

Yet afterwards, the production spends its time realizing only the first half of Mashkan’s definition of art: “Knowing the basic rules, and realizing when it is time to deviate —Andrew Lapin from them.”

1524 Spring Hill Road, McLean. $15–$28.

(703) 854-1856. 1ststagetysons.org.

CaSte tOgether The Fire and The Rain

By Girish Karnad Directed by Allison Arkell Stockman Constellation Theatre Company at Source Theatre to May 24 Constellation’s latest play is not Romeo

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A riveting score pulls together fights, dances, fables, vignettes, and an epic love story.

Handout photo by Stan Barouh

Buried in the rear of a McLean strip mall, past a UFC gym, its theater space battling for attention with the thumping rhythms of the Jazzercise class next door, 1st Stage seems a strange locale for a stately lesson on high art.

But the Silver Line is full of surprises. Old Wicked Songs, a two-decade-old two-hander about classical music, modernist architecture, and European postwar anti-Semitism, has recently extended its run at the theater by two weeks, to May 17.

The Jon Marans-penned play follows the relationship between Stephen Hoffman, a petulant Jewish-American piano prodigy, and Josef Mashkan, the cultural-nationalist teacher who’s been foisted on him, in 1986 Vienna. The show was nominated for a Pulitzer in 1996, performed at Studio Theatre the year after, and hadn’t been glimpsed in the area since. Its runaway success at 1st Stage meshes oddly with how this production seems ready to fade away quietly, tepidly, into its script at any moment.

Director Michael Chamberlin stages the action in a fraction of his theater’s available space, among minimal set design by Kathryn Kaweck. The two actors—Aaron Bliden as the young, arrogant Stephen and Philip Hosford as Mashkan—play their own piano parts, as the roles require. Stephen, trained as a soloist, resents being forced to learn accompaniment skills, but the entire work is about accompaniment: the acting with the musicianship, the personal tensions with the political ones.

Bliden, sitting at the keys, unleashes a string of impressions of famous performers (Vladimir Horowitz, Glenn Gould), and even this standout solo moment is an accompaniment of sorts: the gifted actor balancing elements of craft and shtick, never letting the scales completely tip.

When they’re not tickling ivories, what are these gents stewing over? Nothing less than the soul of Austria. The main point of contention is Dichterliebe, Robert Schumann’s cycle of songs about the changing of the seasons. But Marans weaves this expertly with discussions of Austrian politics. Kurt Waldheim, whose revelations of a Nazi past did not deter his successful ’86 campaign for prime minister, is practically a supporting player.

The country has produced so many great artists because it has known a truly unique level of suffering, contends Mashkan, who then gets strangely pithy when Stephen brings up the suffering of his people (the student will later recount a painful visit to Dachau).

It all remains impeccably written 19 years later, which may be why Chamberlin is content to

Handout photo byTeresa Castracane

Old Wicked Songs

By Jon Marans Directed by Michael Chamberlin At 1st Stage to May 17

and Juliet in Indian garb—but it often feels that way. The North American premiere of famed Indian playwright Girish Karnad’s The Fire and The Rain is largely based on stories from the Indian epic poem “The Mahabharata,” specifically a few kernels concerned with mortals who defy gods, and

about the disastrous effects that follow. Karnad ties these ancient fables together into a three-hour show with some familiar Shakespearean glue: A hot-blooded young man falls for a dreamy young woman from a family (or in this case, a caste) unlike his own.

They attempt to get together anyway, while

835 14th St NW. $20-$45. (202) 204-7741. constellationtheatre.org

Trapped in a CloseT Closet Land

By Radha Bharadwaj Directed by Rick Hammerly At Anacostia Arts Center to May 10 You will not enjoy your time in Closet Land, an 80-minute journey into psychological torture and determined resistance, but then again, your enjoyment is hardly the point: Theatricals like Radha Bharadwaj’s aren’t entertainments but sociopolitical thought experiments, performative inquiries, and creative-class attempts to grapple with the experience of the unacceptable. That they frequently prove unpalatable in and of themselves is one of the territorial risks.

Closet Land locks a children’s-book writer (Sarah Barker) who may be a rabble-rouser in a room with an interrogator (David Lamont Wilson) who may be the reluctant agent of a totalitarian state or a sadistic loner intent on excavating a long-buried secret for his own, more personal purposes. The woman’s unpublished novel, whose title matches the play’s, may be a coded call to political resistance; the inquisitor’s interest in what inspired that novel, with its sweet-sad story of a little girl escaping into bright fantasy while locked away in her mother’s closet, may be more than institutional. Like the unpleasantness of what transpires, the uncertainty of the circumstances proves integral to the method for both torturer and playwright.

Cataloging those unpleasantnesses would be counterproductive, though it’s worth noting this: Years of post-9/11 pop-cultural navel-gazing may have inured the American public somewhat to depictions of torture, but the oppressive intimacy of this Factory 449 production underscores live theater’s singular ability to turn the audience’s stomach. Sound and sight and especially smell drive home the interrogation’s vulgarity and invasiveness.

Under Rick Hammerly’s urgent, admirably disciplined direction, Barker and Wilson attack the play’s deliberately stilted diction with an intensity that arguably fits the circumstances, but that also creates doubt and distance between audience and character.

Intentional? Quite possibly, because Bharadwaj’s grim wail of a play seems meant to register as a universal rather than a specific lament. It’s still frustrating for anyone wanting to come to grips with what’s transpiring so vividly, so nearby, so right now, in a space not much bigger than that mysterious closet.

—Trey Graham

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a lot of bodies pile up and a lot of moral lessons are heaped upon the survivors.

The romance between Arvasu (Dallas Tolentino), a Brahmin, and his huntress love interest Nittilai (Lynette Rathnam) is acted with a lot of genuine warmth—director Allison Arkell Stockman leans especially on Synetic alum Tolentino’s dancing prowess to shape that character into a sprightly, highspirited youth. But their love story packs a weak dramatic punch, especially in juxtaposition with the play’s more exciting subplots. The biggest roadblock the two lovers face is largely (yawn) bureaucratic: As long as Arvasu can present his request to Nittilai’s tribal council, the wedding can proceed without much further hassle beyond some mild disapproval.

Outside of their romance, the stakes are much higher. A seven-year-long ceremony is about to culminate in its final sacrifice, which is widely hoped to bring about the end of an interminable drought choking the land and starving the people. The desperate situation spawns assassination plots, demonic curses, and betrayals, all pulled off thrillingly and unsettlingly with a dash of dramatic lighting, some fog and fire effects, and liberal use of actors rolling their eyes back into their heads.

Much of the evil machinations in the play fall on Arvasu’s poor sister-in-law Vishakha (Katy Carkuff), who has been cut off from most of the world while her husband Paravasu (Michael Kevin Darnall) completes the seven-year ritual. In the meantime she must fend off predatory advances from her childhood interest Yavakri (Jonathan Lee Taylor)—a self-centered jerk who wasted a favor from a god on himself rather than asking for rain—and the cruel treatment and sole company of her father-inlaw Raibhya (Jonathon Church). All the while, a spear-wielding spirit (Ryan Mitchell) haunts the land, compelled by his master to kill.

Quite literally in the center of all this chaotic action is composer and one-man-orchestra Tom Teasley, who plays more than 20 traditional instruments from an orchestra pit built into the center of A.J. Guban’s wonkily tilted stage. His relentless, energetic score propels the show out of its slow, exposition-heavy start right through its bloody climax. The drum-heavy composition is reminiscent of the anxiety-inducing soundtrack to González Iñárritu’s Birdman, particularly when it plays under tense arguments and negotiations. Teasley’s instruments also provide sound effects to Robb Hunter’s tightly choreographed fights, and guide the play’s multiple dance sequences. Teasley’s prominence on stage is no mistake: Karnad’s love story may hold the plot together, but Teasley’s ethereal score binds the play’s mismatched fights and dances and fables and vignettes into a cohesive, exciting production. —Riley Croghan

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FilmShort SubjectS Fashion Pit Dior and I Directed by Frédéric Tcheng At the movies, the fashion world is having a moment. This month alone, fashionistas will have their choice of Saint Laurent, a biopic of the legendary designer; Iris, the late documentarian Albert Maysles’ loving portrait of an eccentric Manhattan fashion icon; and Dior and I, director Frédéric Tcheng’s third nonfiction fashion film, following profiles of fashion editor Diana Vreeland and designer Valentino Garavani. Perhaps Tcheng deserves some credit for creating the trend, but Dior and I fails to justify it. A shapeless sketch of high fashion in the modern era, it peers through the window of its subject but never lets us inside.

The film is set at a crucial time in Christian Dior’s history. In 2012, the legendary fashion house hired as its creative director Raf Simons, a young designer with lots of buzz but little experience in haute couture (mercifully, the film explains what this is: top-quality, bespoke garments that require hand-stitching). With only eight weeks to design and produce the spring line, Simons must juggle lofty worldwide expectations, his own inexperience in high fashion, and a significant language barrier—he doesn’t speak French. It is a frantic two months, and it feels like it: In search of a comprehensive but coherent portrait that never quite emerges, Tcheng zips between Simons, the good-natured ateliers (the workers who actually make the clothes), and archival footage of Dior.

The biggest problem is Simons himself.

Generally, a film’s protagonist must be either likable or interesting, and Simons is neither.

A classic diva, he is cold and distant with his employees, leaving his good-natured assistant Pieter Mulier, whose innate goodness shines through even with scant screen time, to build bridges and keep everyone working hard. Logically, it’s easy to see how stress plays a role in Simons’s generally unpleasant temperament, but Tcheng makes no effort to understand him, instead presenting him only as a spoiled genius whose artistic contributions come nowhere close to justifying his childish behavior.

The ateliers are by far the most winning characters onscreen, and we don’t spend nearly enough time with them. Some have been with Dior for decades, and they accept the high-stress nature of their jobs with good cheer and humility. They work for the love of fashion, not the accolades, and their reward is low-key: While Simons basks in the glory of the film’s climactic fashion show, they watch with glee from backstage. They are the working-class heroes of the story, and a deeper look at their lives would have made Dior and I a far richer film.

Raf Simons is busy, but neither likable nor interesting.

called the High Numbers, soon to be rechristened as the Who. The two had neither experience nor money, yet somehow their onthe-fly brainstorming—with a little help from Lambert’s musical blood and Townshend’s shameless acceptance of being anointed the group’s leader—shaped a clueless quartet of kids into icons of rock.

It’s best, though, to give up on the idea of learning the specifics of this history (Stamp’s only interest was “dancing girls?” Moon refused to sign “some documents?” Why is Lambert’s Brazil expedition important, again?) and enjoy the two hours as a series of recollections and performance clips, including a terrific few minutes of Jimi Hendrix. You’ll have to tune out distractions like interviews arbitrarily shot in either color or black and white; Cooper frequently mumbling followup questions from off camera while talking to Stamp; puzzling lens flares; and a whirling

Despite these crucial missteps, there are moments when Dior and I breaks free from its aimless narrative and finds the beauty it seeks. As the title suggests, Dior is a character in this story, too. His reputation looms over Simons like a specter, and when the film embraces this idea, it soars. The lyrical sequences of filmed footage of the label’s creator being projected onto white dresses in a dark room show his ghostly presence to be a source of both inspiration and terror. In the end, Simons overcomes these challenges; his line is a hit, but as a character in the film, his petty sensibility shrinks in the presence of Dior’s ghost, and the film, as a result, seems more like a cheap knockoff than a true original.

—Noah Gittell Dior and I opens May 1 at E Street Cinema.

Look, Who’s taLking Lambert & Stamp Directed by James D. Cooper When you’re intimately familiar with a story, it’s hard to know if your telling of it is too inside-baseball. At the very beginning of Lambert & Stamp, a documentary about the fake-it-till-you-make-it managers of the Who, first-time director James D. Cooper drops viewers into a narrative that feels as if a preceding chapter ending with, “Wait, wait, back up a minute!” has been lobbed off.

The film becomes a game of recognition. There’s Pete Townshend, obviously. A white-haired chap, according to the lowerthird text, is Christopher Stamp, half of the titular pair. His late friend and business partner, Kit Lambert, is ID-ed in archival footage. Whoa, Terence Stamp! (Christopher’s badass brother.) Roger Daltrey, Keith Moon,

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The history of the Who’s managers is an entertaining mess.

John Entwistle. Right.

But does John Hemming ring a bell? Richard Barnes? How about Robert FearnleyWhittingstall? Of the three, Barnes gets a pass—it’s eventually clear that in whatever capacity, he’s with the band, but you’ll likely have to look him up. The other two are so tangential that Cooper’s failure to offer identification other than their names—or, really, his decision to include them at all—is a misjudgment that goes beyond freshman oversight and into Ed Wood sloppiness.

That may seem like nitpicking, but similar omissions and, more importantly, a critical lack of linearity sink Lambert & Stamp as a whole. The gist of the film is that two lost young men—one working class (Stamp) and one the Oxford-educated son of a celebrated composer (Lambert)—formed a friendship and decided they wanted to make movies. Instead, they ended up managing a band

camera near the end of the film. Also, Lambert looks exactly like Mr. Bean.

Lambert & Stamp does enlighten in some ways. Townshend, for example, is not only a windmiller but a windbag, often waxing philosophical while looking like he’s trying really hard to follow the trail in his own head. It’s also entertaining to be reminded of how different behavioral expectations are when your job isn’t in an office but onstage: “Roger wonderfully agreed to stop hitting people,” Stamp says. Aside from Townshend’s self-seriousness, most of the memories—even of conflicts—are told with warmth. When the credits roll, you feel closer to the Who and its inner circle, regardless of whether most details of its rise escape you.

—Tricia Olszewski Lambert & Stamp opens May 1 at E Street Cinema and Shirlington 7.

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BooksSpeed ReadS Mother and Child disunion Washing the Dead Michelle Brafman Prospect Park Books, 334 pps.

It’s always a shock to uncover some previously unknown portion of a parent’s past, and Washing the Dead is structured around such a bombshell. The novel, by Glen Echo author Michelle Brafman, culminates in a string of revelations about the mother of narrator Barbara, revelations that come too late to undo how Barbara’s identity was formed and perhaps poisoned by what she didn’t know. She’s brought to forgiveness in part because of her own child; another title for this book could have been Mothers and Daughters.

Set in a Milwaukee Orthodox Jewish community, this montage-like novel flips back and forth in time, focusing on Barbara’s mother’s infidelity: “My mother had taught me how to walk out on someone in need,” Barbara says, fitting herself into the role of the needy one. The rift between her mother and her family gaped open when Barbara was a teenager: “This is the first disappearance that I remember, but now I know that her leaving was gradual, an accretion of tiny moments that led to her affair and her slow exit from our lives. You don’t just up and walk out on a family without preparing properly.”

The story slowly discloses the deep emotional wounds that made it untenable for Barbara’s mother to live with her orthodontist husband and remain tethered to her Orthodox shul. Indeed, these characters are so wrapped up in religion, and their religious world seems so claustrophobic, it’d be hard for most nonreligious readers to relate to them. Still, Brafman’s depictions of grief and anxiety stand on their own: “After I said good-bye I bawled my eyes out.

When I finished, I was harder inside.”

The novel’s middle, at first an apparent digression into Barbara’s life as a nanny in San Diego (where, expelled from her Orthodox world, she fits in with Gentiles) turns out to be a key piece of her character, revealing how she came to resemble her mother by dropping out of people’s lives with no explanation. The chapters keep flipping forward to her relationship with a rabbi’s wife and her musings on her sense of loss after leaving the Orthodox community. In those future years, Barbara attempts to repair such ruptures, meeting with almost unbelievable success. The characters in Barbara’s world are exceedingly forgiving; like her mother, the narrator draws a bit of a blank when it comes to empathy for those she’s damaged.

This is not a happy book.

It is about the agony of ordinary events and life in an unhappy family. And each unhappy family, as Tolstoy once wrote, is unhappy in its own way. Not surprisingly, Barbara’s narrative ends with “the tears of our people. Only God can dry those tears.” There is closure, but not an end to the suffering.

—Eve Ottenberg Brafman reads May 9 at Politics & Prose.

Pain reaCtion Honest Engine

By Kyle Dargan University of Georgia Press, 77 pps.

Is all pain—physical, political, existential, romantic, traumatic—just a different shade of the same thing? Local poet and professor Kyle Dargan’s new book, Honest Engine, suggests as much. The author’s note at the beginning of the collection, Dargan’s fourth, acknowledges the deaths of five people close to him within just a few years, experiences he says exceeded his previous “thresholds of pain.” The ensuing poems look head-on at an end that stretches out beyond our imaginations, at the middle spaces between life, memory, and death. But they also address the pain of racial hatred and the pain that masculinity can confer when bravado goes unchecked.

A number of poems in the first section, entitled “Equity,” look at two Americas, our split racial reality. “A House Divided” riffs on Abraham Lincoln’s famous speech to paint contrasting pictures of white and black America: “In your America,/a clay-colored c o l t s t o m p s, i t s h o ove s / c u rs i n g t h e bar n’s chronic lean.” And later: “In my America, my father/awakens again thankful that my face/is not the face returning his glare/from above eleven o’clock news/murder headlines.”

While poking holes in the whitewashed imagination of pastoral poetry (a tradition that looks romantically at rural life), this poem also insists that both racial worlds have a shared pain. In the original speech, Lincoln said that “a house divided against itself cannot stand.” In Dargan’s poetic reimagining, the house is already crumbling,

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with references to leaning, leaking, and dripping.

What’s not clear is whether the voice t h i n k s t h e s e s e p a r a t e A m e r i c a s a re real or imagined. The poem “Beastheart” comments on “dating outside of your race” with the phrase “those f aux boundaries.” While the poems aren’t sure of the separateness of the two worlds, they still pulse with feverish blood. “O, Bride” questions “The Black, the White—this country’s beloved/abstractions” but still insists on the hurt of “this nation of brown/ghettos urged to eat/themselves. Riots—not indigestion/but famishment sated with fire,/cracking glass, and blood.”

A blurb on the back of the book describes Dargan as “quietly insistent” and “calm,” and the poems can sometimes verge on feeling flat or too taut. Other than the book’s two prose poems, Dargan relies on short lines. But the poems are most energized by his repetition of consonant sounds to play up hip-hop-inspired tongue twisters or place emphasis on key phrases. Dargan has been reviewed in the context of the 1960s Black Arts Movement, but it’s not an unequivocal fit. The vast majority of the epigraphs that begin Dargan’s poems are from black writers, artists, and musicians, a choice that fits him in the Black Arts tradition of cultural sovereignty. But Black Arts Movement founder Amiri Baraka was also known for writing with a kind of toxic masculinity that used homophobic slurs.

Dargan’s poems instead sing to other men about their masculine myopathy, urging

them to stand against their own privilege: “turn the drum mallet/upon yourself— not to batter/but to dig down and excise/ whatever within your head whirs/at this pitch that will kill you.” The instrument becomes a weapon, a necessary pain to interrogate patriarchy.

There are places in these poems where the writing comes across as labored breath, sections that feel more forced than alive. I wanted to simplify or puncture lines like “Maybe some of wisdom’s/breath wafts within what he says.” But this labored writing could be a response to pain taking Dargan’s breath away. In fact, the book opens with a lyric from alt-hip-hop outfit N.E.R.D., a song that later continues: “cause God yanked the rug and holding your heart will not help you breathe.”

Dargan’s author‘s note refers to his “pain résumé,” and the book plots points and experiences onto this poetic CV. His worn maturation, reluctantly accepting the pain he’s recently accumulated, is most evident in the poem that closes the book, “Pale Blue Dot.” Dargan writes: “Though we have that photograph,/only Voyager has felt the cold/pull of witnessing all that we are/fitted on the head of a pin/pushed into a black expanse/wider than any sky we’ll ever face.” Here, instead of halted breaths, the lines breathe space into the unknown, closing out a book that considers morality and mortality with the same smart, stylized, and re—Tanya Paperny strained verse.

Dargan reads May 3 at the Writer’s Center in Bethesda.

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Everyone knew that “NEXT,” the annual senior thesis exhibition at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design, would be different this year. In recent months, the institution has undergone a wrenching dissolution, with the school now under the auspices of George Washington University and the gallery’s expansive collection of artworks now in National Gallery of Art control.

The biggest difference in this year’s show, though, is atmospheric. “NEXT” was always mounted as a student space within the working museum in the Corcoran’s stately Beaux-Arts building. Now, the exterior and the entranceway hall may be the same, but the information desk and gift store are gone, and most of the galleries are roped off. The new feeling in the building is ad hoc, quite unlike the refined temple of art the space used to be.

In theory, this could be an appropriate setting for a student exhibition. But in this year’s thesis exhibit, the art is overshadowed by the vibe of uncertain change.

As usual, the annual exhibit includes some head-scratching conceptual pieces, like Eliot Hicks’ unadorned metal bleachers facing a gallery wall and Whitney Waller’s seemingly Southern Gothic installation, which features a torrent of strewn leaves and a taxidermied bobcat. There’s a solid selection of documentary photography, including Tiph Browne’s photographs and interviews with transgender people and Noelle Smith’s bleak images of a young couple struggling with two young children, a modern-day successor to Larry Clark’s Tulsa photobook.

Other notable photographic works include Taylor Pittman’s images of posed miniature toys, channeling the tableaux of David Levinthal and the fake cityscape constructions of

Oliver Boberg. Meanwhile, Kelly Chick offers an array of negative images of indecipherable handwriting, ironically titled “A Conversation,” and Rick Coulby provides an eloquent, understated black-and-white series of images of pebbles, puddles, and dirt, framed by oversized white mats that emphasize the photographs’ subtle chiaroscuro.

A few works offer welcome visual and thematic playfulness. Dong Soh harnesses 3-D printing technology to create ultra-whimsical cartoon figurines with horns and hoopskirts, while graphic design student Sara Sklaroff (who is, full disclosure, an old friend) cleverly revives the bold colors and simple forms of Mondrian and other mid-20th-century modernists in the service of such objects as children’s blocks. Soohoo Cho turned a custombuilt alcove into an impressive chamber of memories, using key-shaped paper cutouts to represent Proustian figments like “first love” and “first bikini,” each gently flapping in the air currents.

Two artists succeed by focusing on the overlooked. Colin Wheeler offers “Scopophilia,” a collection of photographs of the little-noticed microsights in national parks that are better known for their grand vistas. Wheeler turns his lens on a tree carving that suggests a Star of David; airy tufts of moss; a water surface bifurcated into a smooth half and a rippled half; an empty milkweed pod that suggests a skeletal bird head; and an unknown surface—bark, maybe?—with a rough surface that suggests a close-up of elephant skin.

The exhibition’s most unexpected and evocative touch, however, is a small portion of Julia Hilfiker’s multimedia work “For my father: For all that is unknown, 1945-2004.” It’s a pair of old-fashioned airmail envelopes folded and intertwined in such a way that it suggests a gentle hug. In an exhibit held amid rapid and uncertain change, it’s a visual that offers a small bit of —Louis Jacobson comfort, even healing.

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Twenty One Pilots w/ Echosmith.................................................................. SEPTEMBER 9 Stromae ............................................................................................................... SEPTEMBER 16

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Pimlico Race Course • Baltimore, MD

BLACK EYED SUSAN DAY CONCERT

FEATURING

Gin Blossoms • Fuel • Vertical Horizon and more!.............................................. FRI MAY 15 For more info, visit blackeyedsusanday.com.

ARMIN VAN BUUREN w/ Childish Gambino ................. SAT MAY 16 All day event! For more info, visit preakness.com/infield.

THIS SATURDAY!

1215 U Street NW

Daughtry STRIPPED - ACOUSTIC SHOW!

Washington, D.C.

w/ Lucie Silvas.................................................. MAY 2

JUSTICEAID PRESENTS MUSIC FOR THE MID-ATLANTIC INNOCENCE PROJECT & INNOCENCE PROJECT NEW ORLEANS

The Blind Boys of Alabama & Ani DiFranco ............................................. MAY 17 Lisa Lampanelli .................................................................................................... MAY 29 LIVE NATION PRESENTS

RFK Stadium • Washington, D.C.

20th Anniversary Blowout!

Buddy Guy • Gary Clark Jr. • Heart • and more! For full lineup, visit 930.com ... JULY 4

T.J. Miller ...........................................................................................................JUNE 20

AEG LIVE PRESENTS

Jim Jefferies ...............................................................................................NOVEMBER 7 • thelincolndc.com •

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

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

9:30 CLUB BOX OFFICE HOURS are 12-7PM Weekdays & Until 11PM on show nights. 6-11PM on Sat & 6-10:30PM on Sun on show nights.

9:30 CUPCAKES The best thing you could possibly put in your mouth.

Cupcakes by BUZZ... your neighborhood bakery in Alexandria, VA. www.buzzbakery.com

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

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Music

DJ nights

Rock

saturday

Friday

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Discnothèque with DJs Sean Morris and Bill Spieler. 10 p.m. $2–$5. dcnine.com.

9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. James Bay, Marc Scibilia. 8 p.m. (Sold out) 930.com.

Rock

blaCk Cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Ex Hex, the Shirks, the Ar-Kaics. 9 p.m. (Sold out) blackcatdc.com.

9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Joe Pug, Field Report. 8 p.m. $15. 930.com. blaCk Cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Pokey LaFarge, Caroline Rose. 9 p.m. $20. blackcatdc.com.

Fillmore Silver Spring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. The Used, Every Time I Die, Marmozets, The Eeries. 7 p.m. $35.50. fillmoresilverspring.com.

CITY LIGHTS: FRIDAY

merriweather poSt pavilion 10475 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia. (410) 715-5550. M3 Rock Festival. 4 p.m. $60–$210. merriweathermusic.com.

ElEctRonic

roCk & roll hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-ROCK. Two Gallants, Blank Range. 9 p.m. $15. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

Though he’s considered a master of the written word now, even William Shakespeare had his less-than-outstanding first drafts. The first quarto of Hamlet is half as long and half as poetic as the version most recite today, so naturally, it’s stumped scholars and actors for centuries. The thrilling thespians from Taffety Punk Theatre Company aren’t ones to be dissuaded from a challenging text, so they’ve decided to stage a full production of the so-called “bad quarto.” In order to properly elevate the production, director Joel David Santner recruited local electro-pop act Beauty Pill to create original music for the production. With a different plot structure and additional scenes, this version might look unfamiliar from the outset, but give it a chance.

There’s more to Hamlet than a brooding soliloquy and power-hungry schemers. The play runs April 30 to May 23 at Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, 545 7th St. SE. $15. (202) —Caroline Jones 355-9441. taffetypunk.com.

u Street muSiC hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 5881880. The Juan MacLean, the Black Madonna, Tommy Cornelis. 10 p.m. $10. ustreetmusichall.com.

Jazz blueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Kenny Garrett. 8 p.m. & 10 p.m. $30. bluesalley.com.

BluEs montpelier artS Center 9652 Muirkirk Road, Laurel. (301) 377-7800. Albert Castiglia. 8 p.m. $25. arts.pgparks.com.

WoRlD

iota Club & CaFé 2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington.

(703) 522-8340. Andy Zipf, Ryan Walker, Lauris Vidal.

9 p.m. $10. iotaclubandcafe.com.

iota Club & CaFé 2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington.

(703) 522-8340. Gravity Lens, Clones of Clones. 9 p.m. $10. iotaclubandcafe.com.

HAMLET: THE FIRST QUARTO

muSiC Center at Strathmore 5301 Tuckerman Lane, Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. RAIN - A Tribute to the Beatles. 8 p.m. $48–$88. strathmore.org.

Folk

the hamilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band. 8:30 p.m. $20–$25. thehamiltondc.com.

gw liSner auDitorium 730 21st St. NW. (202) 994-6800. Lila Downs. 8 p.m. $40–$60. lisner.org.

Funk & R&B DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Alma Tropicalia, Karikatura, All The Best Kids. 7 p.m. Free. dcnine.com. howarD theatre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Lee Fields and the Expressions, Trouble Funk. 10 p.m. $30. thehowardtheatre.com. tropiCalia 2001 14th St. NW. (202) 629-4535.

Backbeat Underground, Joe Keyes and the Late Bloomer Band, Janka Nabay and the Bubu Gang. 7 p.m. Free. tropicaliadc.com. u Street muSiC hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 5881880. See-I, Black Alley. 7 p.m. Free. ustreetmusichall.com.

ElEctRonic

kenneDy Center millennium Stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. H2O in Concert. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

u Street muSiC hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 5881880. Bit Funk, Jacklndn, Citizen Select. 10 p.m. $10. ustreetmusichall.com.

THIS M AY AT BLUES ALLEY! CELEBRATING 50 YEARS IN OUR NATION’S CAPITAL May 8-9 May 14-17

Melba Moore (Soul/Cabaret)

May 12-13

April 30 - May 3

Joe Lovano & Dave Douglas

(Sax)

“Soundprints: Celebrating Wayne Shorter”

Kenny Garrett Quintet

BLUES ALLEY

(Sax/Trumpet)

May 29-30

John Pizzarelli

Art Sherrod Jr.

“Saluting Johnny Mercer”

With Special Guest Ann Nesby

(Sax)

(Guitar/Vocals)

May 21-24

(Vocals)

“Four Generations of Miles”

Jimmy Cobb, Mike Stern, Sonny Fortune & Buster Williams

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blueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Kenny Garrett. 8 p.m. & 10 p.m. $30. bluesalley.com.

BluEs Zoo bar 3000 Connecticut Ave. NW. (202) 2324225. The Big Boy Little Band. 9 p.m. Free. zoobardc.com.

Folk gypSy Sally’S 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. Ana Egge. 7 p.m. Free. gypsysallys.com.

Jammin Java 227 Maple Ave. East, Vienna. (703) 255-1566. Tom Russell. 7:30 p.m. $25–$32. jamminjava.com. montpelier artS Center 9652 Muirkirk Road, Laurel. (301) 377-7800. Ewan Dobson. 8 p.m. $25. arts.pgparks.com.

Sixth & i hiStoriC Synagogue 600 I St. NW. (202) 408-3100. sixthandi.org. The Ballroom Thieves, Tomás Pagán Motta. 8 p.m. $12–$15. sixthandi.org.

classical kenneDy Center millennium Stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. NSO Prelude. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

DJ nights blaCk Cat baCkStage 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Purple Stank Prince vs Outkast Dance Party with DJ Dredd. 10 p.m. $5. blackcatdc.com.

sunday Rock

9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Lord Huron, Hamilton Leithauser. 7 p.m. (Sold out) 930.com. blaCk Cat baCkStage 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Andy Suzuki and the Method, Letitia Van Sant and the Bonafides. 7:30 p.m. $12. blackcatdc.com.

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Marc Martel, Save the Arcadian, the Duskwhales. 8:30 p.m. $10. dcnine.com. roCk & roll hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-ROCK. Fat White Family, Sun Club. 8 p.m. $12. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

Sixth & i hiStoriC Synagogue 600 I St. NW. (202) 408-3100. Stephin Merritt. 8 p.m. $30–$35. sixthandi.org. u Street muSiC hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 5881880. Oh Land, I Am Strikes. 7 p.m. $15. ustreetmusichall.com.

Funk & R&B howarD theatre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Erica Campbell of Mary Mary. 8 p.m. $35–$100. thehowardtheatre.com.

Jazz blueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Kenny Garrett. 8 p.m. & 10 p.m. $30. bluesalley.com.

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

Shenandoah Run. 6 p.m. $15–$20. gypsysallys.com.

CITY LIGHTS: SATURDAY

LEE FIELDS After the Funk Parade winds its way down U Street NW, afterparty events will fill most clubs in the neighborhood. The most celebratory one takes place at the Howard Theatre, where Lee Fields and the Expressions join the local go-go veterans of Trouble Funk to honor member Big Tony’s birthday.

Big Tony has led the group since 1978, when it started filling area dance floors with its signature blend of synths, horns, and percussion, and tracks like the much-sampled “Pump Me Up.” Lee Fields, a North Carolina-bred elder statesman of soul, has released 16 albums since 1969. Often compared to James Brown, Fields has used his yearning, gospel-inflected timbre to impart stories about lost relationships and wail over Hammond organs, stirring the souls of his listeners. Count on the distinct but equally danceable grooves from both acts to lay out what the funk spirit is all about.

Lee Fields and the Expressions performs with Trouble Funk at 10 p.m. at the Howard Theatre, —Steve Kiviat 620 T St. NW. $30. (202) 803-2899. thehowardtheatre.com.

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DCJAZZFESTIVAL JUNE 10–16, 2015 10

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thursday

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11 feat. Eliott Hughes

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8:00 PM Atlas Performing Arts Center thursday/friday

11–12

7:30 PM & 9:30 PM Gretchen Parlato/Lionel Loueke Duo 8:00 PM & 10:00 PM Bohemian Caverns CapitolBop DC Jazz Loft

Thundercat/Sam Prather’s

12 Groove Orchestra

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9:30 PM -1:00 AM Hecht Warehouse friday/saturday

12–13 Michael Thomas Quintet

9:00 PM & 11:00 PM Twins Jazz

EAST RIVER JazzFEST Series

Christylez Bacon: Strayhorn from

13 a Hip-Hop Perspective

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2:00 PM Francis A. Gregory Neighborhood Library Meet the Artist: Jack DeJohnette saturday 12:00 PM NYU/DC Abramson Family Auditorium

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saturday/sunday

13–14

8:00 PM & 10:00 PM Nicholas Payton 7:00 PM & 9:00 PM Bohemian Caverns

14

The Cookers 8:00 PM Sixth & I Historic Synagogue

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AfroHORN (in conjunction with

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4:30 PM Bohemian Caverns

15 Bohemian Caverns Jazz w/Oliver Lake

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8:00 PM & 10:00 PM Bohemian Caverns

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CITY LIGHTS: SUNDAY

STEPHIN MERRITT Let’s say that Stephin Merritt has a firm grasp on his ABCs. The Magnetic Fields frontman is also known for his work with the Gothic Archies and Future Bible Heroes, and for contributing spooky sounds to adaptations of children’s stories: He wrote the score for the stage version of Neil Gaiman’s Coraline and, as the Baudelaire Memorial Orchestra, wrote a song to accompany the audio recording of Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events.

This spring, he tours with a set of 26 songs from this extensive repertoire, one title for every letter of the alphabet, played in order.

It’s an expansion of sorts on the Magnetic Fields’ 2004 album, i, which featured songs beginning with only one letter—guess which. Sam Davol (a frequent Magnetic Fields collaborator) and pop-folkie Amy Bezunartea will join Merritt onstage for his latest listthemed musical expedition. Luckily, the 1999 album 69 Love Songs has a song called “Xylophone Track” to help him finish the job. Stephin Merritt performs with Sam Davol and Amy Bezunartea at 8 p.m. at Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, 600 I St. NW. $30–$35. (202) —Anya van Wagtendonk 408-3100. sixthandi.org.

classical hylton perForming artS Center 10960 George Mason Circle, Manassas. (703) 993-7759. Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble. 4 p.m. $30–$50. hyltoncenter.org. kenneDy Center millennium Stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. CaribeNostrum. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

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DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. The Donkeys, Time Is Fire. 9 p.m. $10–$12. dcnine.com.

Fillmore Silver Spring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Ministry. 8 p.m. $58.50– $93.50. fillmoresilverspring.com.

phillipS ColleCtion 1600 21st St. NW. (202) 3872151. Cambini-Paris Quartet. 4 p.m. $15–$30. phillipscollection.org.

roCk & roll hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-ROCK. Tigers Jaw, Lemuria, Somos. 8 p.m. $15. rockandrollhoteldc.com. Tigers Jaw, Lemuria, Somos. 8 p.m. $15. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

gospEl

classical

howarD theatre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Erica Campbell, Brian Courtney Wilson, Johnathan McReynolds and JJ Hairston. 8 p.m. $35–$100. thehowardtheatre.com.

Monday Rock

9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Lord Huron, Hamilton Leithauser. 7 p.m. (Sold out) 930.com.

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Tove Styrke, LANY. 9 p.m. $10–$12. dcnine.com.

kenneDy Center millennium Stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Dr. Mira Yang and the Asian American Music Society. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org. robert e. parilla perForming artS Center 51 Mannakee St., Rockville. (240) 567-5301. College Music Department Maryland Band Directors Band.

7:30 p.m. Free. montgomerycollege.edu/pac.

Wednesday Rock

howarD theatre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Rata Blanca, Metanium. 8 p.m. $40–$65. thehowardtheatre.com.

9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Passion Pit. 7 p.m. 930.com.

roCk & roll hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-ROCK. X Ambassadors, Chief Scout, Secret Someones, Tribe Society. 7:30 p.m. (Sold out) rockandrollhoteldc.com.

blaCk Cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490.

Speedy Ortiz, Krill, Two Inch Astronaut. 7:30 p.m. $15. blackcatdc.com.

Jazz

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Zella Day. 9 p.m. $10–$12. dcnine.com.

kenneDy Center millennium Stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Duke Ellington Jazz. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

Meet the Artist is an initiative of The DC Jazz Festival Roberta Flack Education Program, made possible through major grants from the Anne and Ronald J. Abramson Family Foundation, the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, The Mayo Charitable Foundation, Venable Foundation, NEA Foundation, CrossCurrents Foundation, New Music USA, and the PNC Foundation; and,in part, with a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts; and by the City Fund administered by The Community Foundation for the National Capital Region. The Roberta Flack Music Education Program is a project of the DC Jazz Festival, a 501(c)(3) non-profit service organization. ©2015 DC Jazz Festival. All rights reserved.

Dar ConStitution hall 1776 D St. NW. (202) 6284780. Sufjan Stevens. 7 p.m. $49. dar.org.

tuesday Rock

9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Passion Pit. 7 p.m. 930.com.

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

Three Man Soul Machine, Lee, Blackwood, and Graham, Anthony Pirog Telecaster Trio. 8 p.m. $10–$14. gypsysallys.com

ElEctRonic u Street muSiC hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 5881880. FKJ, Darius, QDUP. 10 p.m. $12. ustreetmusichall.com.

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MAY 1 MAY 2 MAY 3

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GIRMA YIFRASHEWA 7:30 PM

MONDAYS

DARYL DAVIS & FEATURED GUESTS TUESDAY MAY 5

CINCO DE MAY W/ RUMBA CLUB

DANCE FLOOR WILL BE OPEN! TH 7

RADIO KING ORCHESTRA 7:30PM

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LUTHER RE-LIVES FEAT. WILLIAM “SMOOTH” WARDLAW

SA 9

SHADOWS OF THE 60’S: A TRIBUTE TO THE FOUR TOPS

S 10

(MOTHER’S DAY BRUNCH & EVENING SHOW) WIL HART OF THE ORIGINAL DELFONICS

SA 16 KING SOUL S 17

SOULCIAL HOUR BAND

TH 21

MICHAL URBANIAK

F 22

A SOUTHERN SOUL TRIBUTE: THE MUSIC OF MUSCLE SHOALS & STAX/VOLT

S 23

JOE CLAIR & FRIENDS COMEDY NIGHT (TWO SHOWS!)

7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda, MD (240) 330-4500

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

MAY 6 MAY 7 MAY 8 MAY 9 MAY 11 MAY 14

BURLESQUE (21+)

POKEY LAFARGE ANDY SUZUKI & THE METHOD

SPEEDY ORTIZ MAC MCCAUGHAN

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MAY 16 STORY MAY 28 JUN 6 JUN 16

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DR. RALPH STANLEY with Family & Friends feat. NATHAN STANLEY

and the CLINCH

MT BOYS

Brian DELBERT McCLINTON Dunne 9 GARY TAYLOR 14 TODD RUNDGREN

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‘GLOBAL TOUR 2015’

15 16

17 18

IRIS DEMENT IAN TYSON RISING APPALACHIA BOB JAMES ‘75th Anniversary’

JOHNNYSWIM 21 ALEX BUGNON ‘Byrdland’ 19

Tribute to Donald Byrd

feat. TOM BROWNE & ELAN TROTMAN

Carolyn ERIC ROBERSON Malachi 27 THE SECRET SISTERS & STRIKING MATCHES 28 DOWN TO THE BONE Jo 29 JONATHA BROOKE Lawry 30 WALTER BEASLEY 31 ROAMFEST 2015 7pm June 1 JOE ELY / L 2 SAMANTHA FISH & ANDY POXON 3 MARC BROUSSARD 5 OTTMAR LIEBERT & Luna Negra

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6 w/SHANNON WHITWORTH & BARRETT SMITH 7

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KEVIN FOWLER 8&9 NILS LOFGREN (Acoustic) 10 THEMANHATTANTRANSFER 12 BILL KIRCHEN & TOO MUCH FUN and THE NIGHTHAWKS with BILLY PRICE 13 BILLY JOE SHAVER 14 STEPHANE WREMBEL’S DJANGO-A-GO-GO 15 ELIZABETH COOK June 16 & 17

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LIVE MUSIC EVERY NIGHT Thu: Ladies Night (No Cover For Ladies)

Patrick Alban & Noche Latina Latin & World Beats

Fri: THERock, JOHNNY ARTIS BAND R&B & Reggae

Madam’s House Party On The Second Floor-Featuring DJ India 10:00pm

Sat:Down JR CLINE & THE RECLINERS Home R&B & Soul Musiclues

Saturday Opening Act: Rico Amero Soulful Blues 7:00pm - 9:00pm Madam’s House Party On The Second Floor-Featuring DJ India 10:00pm

Sun:Down Stacy Brooks Home Blues Mon: One Nite Stand Reggae, Funk & R&B

Tue: The Johnny Artis Band Rock, R&B & Reggae

Wed: The Human Country Jukebox Band featuring JACK GREGORI from The Voice

Open Mic-8pm Second Floor

Ay Carumba!

It is time for

Cinco de Mayo Fiestas!

Sun, Tues & Thurs on 2nd Floor: Drunkaoke, Karaoke w/ 2 Drink Minimum

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$10 BURGER & BEER MON-FRI 4 P M -7 P M

TRIVIA EVERY M O N D AY & W E D N E S D AY

$3 PBR & NATTY BOH ALL DAY EVERY DAY

Folk Sixth & i hiStoriC Synagogue 600 I St. NW. (202) 408-3100. Julian Lage, Chris Eldridge. 8 p.m. $20–$23. sixthandi.org.

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600 beers from around the world Downstairs: good food, great beer, $3 PBR & Natty Boh’s all day every day

*all shows 21+

TINDER SPECIALS ON MONDAY AND TUESDAY THURS, APR 30

UNDERGROUND COMEDY DOORS OPEN AT 630PM F R I , M AY 1

BURLEY PICKS BURLESQUE COMPETITION

DOORS OPEN AT 830PM SHOW STARTS AT 10PM $15 COVER S AT, M AY 2

DUVEL BAR CRAWL

STARTING AT 1PM AT PIZZA PARADISO DUPONT GOING TO SCION AND RAFFLE AT BIER BARON AT 530PM S U N , M AY 3

COMEDY IN PARADISE DOORS OPEN AT 7PM,SHOW STARTS AT 8PM $10 COVER M O N , M AY 4

DISTRICT TRIVIA STARTS 730PM

T U E S , M AY 5

LAST RESORT COMEDY DOORS AT 7PM NO COVER W E D S , M AY 6

PERFECT LIARS CLUB

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EIGHT POINT,GOLD LEAF,RUTE BIER, VIENNA LAGER,HOP T H U R S , M AY 7

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robert e. parilla perForming artS Center 51 Mannakee St., Rockville. (240) 567-5301. College Music Department World Ensemble. 7:30 p.m. Free. montgomerycollege.edu/pac.

classical Freer gallery oF art Jefferson Drive & 12th Street SW. (202) 633-1000. Musicians from Marlboro III. 7:30 p.m. Free. asia.si.edu. kenneDy Center terraCe theater 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. D.C. Youth Orchestra. 6 p.m.

Free. kennedy-center.org.

Vocal hill Center at the olD naval hoSpital 921 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. (202) 549-4172. Le Zhang. 7:30 p.m. $15–$20.

the hamilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

Griffin House. 7:30 p.m. $15–$22. thehamiltondc.com. iota Club & CaFé 2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington.

(703) 522-8340. Anders Parker. 8:30 p.m. $10. iotaclubandcafe.com. roCk & roll hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-ROCK. Great Lake Swimmers. 8 p.m. $15. rockandrollhoteldc.com. u Street muSiC hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 5881880. Stu Larsen and Natsuki Kurai, Matt Sanders. 7 p.m. $15. ustreetmusichall.com.

ElEctRonic u Street muSiC hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 5881880. Claude VonStroke, Mark Starr, Nacey. 10:30 p.m. $15. ustreetmusichall.com.

Jazz Dukem bar anD reStaurant 1114 U St. NW. (202) 667-8735. Tim Green Quartet. 9 p.m. Free. dukemrestaurant.com.

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(703) 549-7500. Vince Gill. 7:30 p.m. (Sold out) birchmere.com.

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9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Butch Walker, Jonathan Tyler, The Dove & The Wolf. 7 p.m. $20. 930.com.

the hamilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

Griffin House. 7:30 p.m. $15–$22. thehamiltondc.com.

blaCk Cat baCkStage 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Mac McCaughan. 7:30 p.m. $12–$14. blackcatdc.com.

classical

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Clones Of Clones, East Ghost, Wing Dam. 8:30 p.m. $8. dcnine.com.

kenneDy Center millennium Stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. School Without Walls Stage Band and Senior High School Concert Choir. 6 p.m.

Free. kennedy-center.org.

CITY LIGHTS: MONDAY

“CASTING A SPELL: CERAMICS BY DAISY MAKEIG-JONES” With its glossy blue-and-white coloring and ornate patterns, Wedgwood pottery is recognizable around the world. But some of the thousands of craftspeople who worked for the company over the course of its 256-year history have created work that transcends the strict borders of traditional Wedgwood pieces. One of those designers was Daisy Makeig-Jones, who worked for the company between 1909 and 1931, and relied on her great love and knowledge of fairytales to create what’s known as Fairyland Lustreware. Visitors to the National Museum of Women in the Arts can see examples of Makeig-Jones’ work in a new exhibition that also explains the advanced glazing techniques that made her work so unique.

The colors are brighter, the gold borders more opulent, but the 38 pieces in this show appear just as immaculate as the one’s you’d find in your great-aunt’s china cabinet. The exhibition is on view Mondays through Saturdays 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sundays noon to 5 p.m., to Aug. 16, at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1250 New York Ave. NW. $8–$10. (202) 783—Caroline Jones 5000. nmwa.org.

Vocal robert e. parilla perForming artS Center 51 Mannakee St., Rockville. (240) 567-5301. College Music Department MC Chorus and Maryland Choral Directors Chorus with the Metropolitan Orchestra at MC. 7:30 p.m. Free. montgomerycollege.edu/pac.

Books

35th annual pen/Faulkner awarD For FiCtion Ceremony The winner of the nation’s largest peer-judged fiction prize is announced at this celebration that also features readings from a variety of acclaimed authors. Folger Elizabethan Theatre. 201 E. Capitol St. SE. May 2, 7 p.m. $100. (202) 544-7077. eliZabeth alexanDer The author and poet, known for her poem “Praise Song for the Day,” which she read at President Obama’s first inauguration, reads from The Light of the World, her new memoir about the sudden death of her husband and her new life as a single mother. Politics & Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. May 2, 3:30 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919. eliZabeth alexanDer The author and poet, known for her poem “Praise Song for the Day,” which

she read at President Obama’s first inauguration, reads from The Light of the World, her new memoir about the sudden death of her husband and her new life as a single mother. Busboys & Poets 14th and V. 2021 14th St. NW. May 3, 4:30 p.m. Free. (202) 387-7638. abDul ali anD kyle Dargan The poets discuss their new work; Ali reads from Trouble Sleeping and Dargan reads from Honest Engine. The Writer’s Center.

4508 Walsh St., Bethesda. May 3, 2 p.m. Free.

(301) 654-8664. amanDa berry, gina DeJeSuS, mary JorDan, kevin Sullivan Berry and DeJesus, who escaped after being kidnapped for more than 10 years, share their story of survival with Washington Post journalists Mary Jordan and Kevin Sullivan in the memoir Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland. Quaker Meeting House at Sidwell Friends School. 3825 Wisconsin Ave. NW. May 4, 7 p.m. Free. maria bello The actress and activist reads from her new book, Whatever...Love Is Love: Questioning the Labels We Give Ourselves. Sixth & I Historic Synagogue.

600 I St. NW. May 4, 7 p.m. $17-$38. (202) 408-3100. mary CoStello The author revisits her Tess Lohan character, who first appeared in her short story, You Fill Up My Senses, in a new book, Academy Street.

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CITY LIGHTS: TUESDAY

“GORDON PARKS: SEGREGATION STORY” In 2013, Adamson Gallery mounted a retrospective of work by the late photographer Gordon Parks. Now, the gallery zeroes in on one of Parks’ documentary projects that elevated the previous exhibit, a Life magazine assignment to photograph ordinary African-American residents living in Jim Crow-era Mobile, Ala. Parks’ images exhibit a deep understanding of his subjects’ plight, likely forged by his own experience growing up poor and black in Fort Scott, Kan. Life eventually published some of the images, but many languished in archival obscurity until Adamson brought them to public attention two years ago. The current exhibit includes some of these familiar images, like those featuring “white” and “colored” water fountains and segregated ordering windows at a soft-serve joint, but it also showcases a number of photographs recently released by the Gordon Parks Foundation. Many of the new inclusions are more intimate, particularly the depictions of residents young and old. Even when Parks’ subjects are smiling—and some of them are—it’s impossible to ignore the pain lurking just below the surface. The exhibition is on view Tuesdays through Saturdays 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Adamson Gallery, 1515 14th St. NW. Free. (202) 232-0707. adamsongallery.com.

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The novel follows Tess as she comes of age in Ireland, moves to New York, and becomes a mother. Politics & Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. May 1, 7 p.m.

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of Daniel Barenboim’s West-Eastern Divan orchestra and later returned to Palestine to open a music school.

Politics & Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. May 4, 7 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919.

ellen CroSby The author, a former ABC Radio News correspondent, discusses the second volume in her Sophie Medina mystery series, in which the protagonist’s investigation into a murder in D.C. sends her on an international treasure hunt. Politics & Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. May 2, 1 p.m. Free.

(202) 364-1919.

wwph FiCtion reaDing Authors who have published work with the local publishing company read from their short stories and novels at this annual showcase. Busboys and Poets Brookland. 625 Monroe St. NE. May 5, 6:30 p.m. Free.

kenneth C. DaviS Historian Davis discusses and reads from his new work, The Hidden History of America at War. Kramerbooks & Afterwords Cafe.

1517 Connecticut Ave. NW. May 6, 6:30 p.m. Free.

(202) 387-1400. miChael Downing In The Chapel, Downing tells the story of Elizabeth, a widower who travels to Italy and resists its charms until she encounters a stranger who helps change her priorities. Politics & Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. May 3, 5 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919.

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riCharD Flanagan The author won the 2014 Man Booker Prize for The Narrow Road to the Deep North, which tells the story of Australian soldiers who were captured by the Japanese during World War II and forced to build the Thai-Burma Death Bridge. Politics & Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. May 3, 2 p.m. Free.

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Cynan JoneS The author discusses his latest novel, The Dig, with critic John Wilwol. Kramerbooks & Afterwords Cafe. 1517 Connecticut Ave. NW. May 4, 6:30 p.m. Free. (202) 387-1400. miChael tenneSen Tennesen postulates about what the Earth could look like after its next extinction event in The Next Species. Kramerbooks & Afterwords Cafe. 1517 Connecticut Ave. NW. May 5, 6:30 p.m.

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noir at the bar: DameS at DuSk 10 female authors read from their favorite pieces of crime fiction at this celebration of the noir genre. Kramerbooks & Afterwords Cafe. 1517 Connecticut Ave. NW. May 3, 7 p.m. Free. (202) 387-1400.

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aDamSon gallery 1515 14th St. NW, Suite 202. (202) 232-0707. adamsongallery.jimdo.com.

OngOing: “Gordon Parks: A Segregation Story” Photographs chronicling racial segregation throughout America by the late Life magazine photographer Gordon Parks. April 11–June 27. arlington artS Center 3550 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. (703) 248-6800. arlingtonartscenter.org.

OngOing: “2015 Spring SOLOS” Former AAC curators Andrea Pollan and Jeffry Cudlin judge this annual exhibition of work by emerging artists. Featured participants include Bradley Chriss, Nichola Kinch, Kate Kretz, Ariana Lamb, Nate Larson, Dan Perkins, and Paul Shortt. April 18–June 27. OngOing: “Every Now and Then.” Resident artist Bridget Sue Lambert presents large scale photos of dollhouse scenes that look both domestic and off-putting in this new, immersive exhibition. April 18–June 11. artiSphere 1101 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. (703) 875-1100. artisphere.com. OngOing: “Bruised” Local animator Safwat Saleem and WAMU’s Rebecca Sheir curate this new participatory art project that invites visitors to share their stories of defeat. Saleem will

athenaeum 201 Prince St., Alexandria. (703) 5480035. nvfaa.org. OngOing: “Rara Avis” Martin Tarrat and Langley Spurlock present “The Abcdearium of Birds,” a collection of illustrations and verses about imaginary birds, while Beverly Ress presents large-scale drawings and constructions of birds. April 16–May 31. brentwooD artS exChange 3901 Rhode Island Ave., Brentwood. (301) 277-2863. arts.pgparks.com.

OngOing: “Brentwood Arts Exchange 5th Anniversary Show” Artists who’ve presented work at the center over the years return to celebrate at this anniversary show. March 16–May 9. Opening: “Kristi Kelly.” New glasswork and bead decorations from the local artist.

May 2–July 4.

Civilian art proJeCtS 1019 7th St. NW. (202) 6073804. civilianartprojects.com. OngOing: “Post Nihilist Utopia.” New paintings, sculpture, and paper works by New Orleans-based artist Dan Tague. April 25–May 30.

CroSS maCkenZie gallery 2026 R St. NW. (202) 333-7970. crossmackenzie.com. Opening: “Carole Bolsey” Paintings of horses, homes, and boats by artist Carole Bolsey. May 1–May 30.

DC artS Center 2438 18th St. NW. (202) 462-7833. dcartscenter.org. OngOing: “Self/Non-Self: Sequence and Abstraction.” Artist Justin D. Strom blends the techniques of photography and digital printmaking in this exhibition of pieces influenced by microbiology and genetic sequencing. April 24–June 14.

FlaShpoint gallery 916 G St. NW. (202) 3151305. culturaldc.org. Opening: “The Marginalia Archive.” Reader annotations contributed by indi-

neil gaiman The acclaimed fantasy author reads from his work and discusses his career. DAR Constitution Hall. 1776 D St. NW. May 1, 8 p.m. $34.50-$57.

(202) 628-4780. viet thanh nguyen The author sets his first novel, The Sympathizer, in the last days before the collapse of Saigon and follows a group of upper-class Vietnamese refugees as they begin new lives in the U.S. Politics & Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. May 6, 7 p.m. Free.

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riCharD paul anD Steven moSS The authors investigate the roles of African Americans in the early days of NASA in We Could Not Fail: The First African Americans In the Space Program. Politics & Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. May 3, 12 p.m. Free.

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Franklin h. portugal The author investigates the origins of DNA in The Least Likely Man: Marshall Nirenberg and the Discovery of the Genetic Code. Busboys and Poets Brookland. 625 Monroe St. NE. May 4, 6:30 p.m. Free.

CITY LIGHTS: WEDNESDAY

riCharD reeveS The author explores the reasons behind internment camps in his new chronicle Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese-American Internment in World War II. Politics & Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. May 7, 7 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919.

In just over a year, Boston-based indie rock band Speedy Ortiz has gone from headlining the quaint, tiny Black Cat backstage to taking over the cavernous main stage.

The group’s quick rise to prominence makes sense: Speedy Ortiz’ singer and guitarist (more like shred-master) Sadie Dupuis is one of the best songwriters of the past few years, the rare lyricist who can balance acid-tongued wit with tender emotionality. “Laugh out of habit at the lump schematics/ I smoked my senses, it made me so demented,” she sings on “Tiger Tank” from 2012’s debut Major Arcana, her voice bearing the same brand of slacker indifference that made Stephen Malkmus everyone’s rock ‘n’ roll hero. But unlike the complacent, 21st-century Malkmus, Dupuis almost never falls into the trap of ironic detachment. As the band’s, uh, speedy transition from backstage to mainstage and its exciting new LP, Foil Deer, tell us, Speedy Ortiz still has plenty of old-fashioned spunk. May the band stay “slanted and enchanted” forever. Speedy Ortiz performs with Krill and Two Inch Astronaut at 7:30 p.m. at the Black Cat, 1811 14th St. NW. $15. (202) 667-4490. blackcatdc.com.

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Cokie robertS The longtime news commentator reads from her new book Capital Dames: The Civil War and the Women of Washington, 1848–1868. Politics & Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. May 5, 7 p.m. Free.

(202) 364-1919. liZZie SkurniCk Discuss how new words are formed and why we develop them when Skurnick, the author of the New York Times Magazine’s “That Should Be a Word” feature, reads from her new book of the same name. Politics & Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. May 2, 8 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919.

SanDy tolan Tolan reads from Children of the Stone: The Power of Music in a Hard Land, the story of a Palestinian musician who made a career as a member

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viduals and gathered from items at MLK Library are examined in this exhibition curated by artist Molly Springfield. May 1–May 30. the FriDge Rear Alley, 516 Eighth St. SE. (202) 6644151. thefridgedc.com. ClOsing: “Rose Jaffe.” New colorful portraits by local artist Rose Jaffe.

April 4–May 3. gallery plan b 1530 14th St. NW. (202) 234-2711. galleryplanb.com. ClOsing “Africa.” Landscape paintings inspired by artist Freya Grand’s travels around the continent. March 25–May 3. goethe-inStitut waShington 812 7th St. NW. (202) 289-1200. www.goethe.de/washington. Opening: “Take It Right Back.” Sculptural works inspired by plants and other natural materials by German artist Paula Doepfner. May 5–July 3. greater reSton artS Center 12001 Market St., Ste. 103, Reston. (703) 471-9242. restonarts.org.

OngOing: “Installation” Sculptor Patrick Dougherty installs a new piece in Reston’s Town Square Park and the Arts Center showcases images of his other large-scale works around the world. April 16–July 3.

OngOing: “Patterson Clark” The Washington Post’s “Urban Jungle” columnist presents a series of works printed on wood carved from invasive tree species.

April 16–July 3. hillyer art SpaCe 9 Hillyer Court NW. (202) 3380680. artsandartists.org. Opening: “Pulse15” Fifteen artists who’ve previously presented work at Hillyer return to raise money for the gallery at this fundraising exhibition. May 1–May 30. honFleur gallery 1241 Good Hope Road SE. (202) 365-8392. honfleurgallery.com. ClOsing: User Error.” Larry Lairson references op-art in his large paintings that frequently incorporate materials like glue and linen. March 20–May 1.

Paintings influenced by traditional nsibidi graphics by Nigerian-American artist Ekpuk. May 1–May 21. moSaiC 2910 District Ave., Fairfax. OngOing: “Transcendence” Muralist James Walker creates a largescale installation and painter James Bullough installs a 30-foot mural inspired by break dancers at this outdoor exhibition presented by Art Whino.

March 7–July 26. tate gallery oF ChriSt Congregational ChurCh 9525 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 585-8010. ccsilverspring.org. OngOing: “Exploring Abstracts.” Eighteen members of the Silver Spring Camera Club, the D.C. area’s oldest camera club, display their abstract works in this exhibition.

April 20–June 12. viviD SolutionS gallery 1231 Good Hope Road SE. (202) 365-8392. vividsolutionsdc.com. ClOsing: “Anacostia River Photography” D.C. residents share their photos and memories of the Anacostia River in this open-call group show. March 20–May 1.

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aliCe (in wonDerlanD) The Washington Ballet revives its celebrated adaptation of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, which first premiered in 2012. Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater. 2700 F St. NW. May 6, 7:30 p.m.; May 7, 7:30 p.m. $30-$125. (202) 4674600. kennedy-center.org.

DakShina/Daniel phoenix Singh DanCe Company This local company examines the impact AIDS has had on the lives of performers and community members in its new piece, Persistent Voices, inspired by the poetry of artists who lost their lives to AIDS. Dance Place. 3225 8th St. NE. May 3, 7 p.m.; May 2, 8 p.m. $15-$30. (202) 269-1600. danceplace.org.

long view gallery 1234 9th St. NW. (202) 2324788. longviewgallery.com. ClOsing: “Networks” Abstract paintings by Long View regulars Sondra N. Arkin and Eve Stockton. April 2–May 3. Opening: “V E R S U S” New paintings of boats, houses, and streets by Hawaii-based artist Jason Wright. May 7–June 7.

marylanD regional ballet Tricia Albertson and Reyneris Reyes of Miami City Ballet join local performers from the Frederick School of Classical Ballet to present Tchaikovsky’s romantic adaptation of Sleeping Beauty. Weinberg Center for the Arts. 20 West Patrick Street, Frederick. May 2, 2 p.m.; May 3, 2 p.m. $12-$20. (301) 600-2828. weinbergcenter.org.

morton Fine art 1781 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 6282787. mortonfineart.com. Opening: “Victor Ekpuk”

momix This acclaimed modern movement company combines elements of illusion and dance in Alchemia,

a celebration of the earth, wind, air, and fire. George Mason University Center for the Arts. 4400 University Drive, Fairfax. May 1, 8 p.m.; May 2, 8 p.m. $29-$48.

(703) 993-2787. cfa.gmu.edu.

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anne anD emmett MetroStage presents a limited engagement of janet Langhart Cohen’s play that imagines a conversation between Anne Frank and Emmett Till. MetroStage. 1201 North Royal St., Alexandria. To May 9. $35. (703) 548-9044. metrostage.org. beFore/aFter Local playwright John Feffer recounts different interviews he conducted in Central and Eastern Europe following the collapse of the Soviet Union.

14 local actors participate in this staged reading that highlights the change that has come to the region over the past 25 years. NYU Washington DC Abramson Family Auditorium. 1307 L St. NW. To May 6. Free. nyu.edu/global/global-academic-centers/washingtondc/nyu-washington--dc-events/before---after.html the blooD Quilt Katori Hall, author of The Mountaintop, presents the world premiere of this story about four sisters who come together to create a quilt in honor of their deceased mother. When the talk turns to inheritance, they must decide whether to strengthen their family bonds or pull away from each other once and for all. Arena Stage. 1101 6th St. SW. To June 7. $45-$110. (202) 488-3300. arenastage.org.

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the Call A white couple sets out to adopt a child from Africa but quickly encounters opposition from African-American friends. Tanya Barfield’s play examines how global issues manifest themselves within our lives. Atlas Performing Arts Center. 1333 H St. NE. To May 31. $25-$45. (202) 399-7993. atlasarts.org.

CarouSel A carousel barker gets a second chance at love in this Rodgers and Hammerstein musical that features classic songs like “You’ll Never Walk Alone” and “If I Loved You.” Olney Theatre Center. 2001 OlneySandy Spring Road, Olney. To May 10. $18-$75. (301) 924-3400. olneytheatre.org.

CloSet lanD Factory 449 presents this spooky tale about a children’s book author who’s tortured when the government suspects her writing contains subversive messages. While she realizes that the people watching over her can break her body, she fights to

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preserve her spirit. Anacostia Arts Center. 1231 Good Hope Road SE. To May 10. $22. anacostiaartscenter.com.

Dontrell, who kiSSeD the Sea Theater Alliance presents Nathan Davis’ play about a young man who’s determined to swim into the Atlantic Ocean to cope with his family’s past before he can move on with his life. Anacostia Playhouse. 2020 Shannon Place SE. To May 31. $20-$35. (202) 544-0703. anacostiaplayhouse.com. the Fire anD the rain Contemporary Indian playwright Girish Karnad turns the Indian epic The Mahabharata into this play about a man who prays for rain to save the earth and the romantic entanglements of his family. Constellation Theatre at Source. 1835 14th St. NW. To May 24. $20-$45. (202) 204-7741. constellationtheatre.org.

FreeDom’S Song Abraham Lincoln’s life and words come to life in this musical that tells the stories of individuals’ highs and lows throughout the Civil War. Ford’s Theatre. 511 10th St. NW. To May 20. $27-$69.

(202) 347-4833. fordstheatre.org. hamlet, Q1 Taffety Punk continues its exploration of Hamlet with its first production of the first quarto, a much shorter and reordered early version of Shakespeare’s classic. Taffety Punk at Capitol Hill Arts Workshop. 545 7th St. SE. To May 23. $15. (202) 261-6612. taffetypunk.com. the letterS Travel back in time to Stalin’s Soviet Union in this tense play about the censorship of artists in an authoritarian state. John Vreeke directs John W. Lowell’s script. MetroStage. 1201 N. Royal St., Alexandria. To June 7. $50-$55. (703) 548-9044. metrostage.org. lettiCe anD lovage An eccentric tour guide leads visitors on a tour of an English estate and embellishes the truth to liven the experience. Peter Shaffer’s comedy explores what happens when these little lies put the tour guide at odds with a tough inspector from the Preservation Trust. Quotidian Theatre Company at The Writer’s Center. 4508 Walsh St., Bethesda. To May 17. $15-$30. (301) 816-1023. quotidiantheatre.org. mariela in the DeSert Playwright Karen Zacarías’ draws inspiration from the lives of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo to tell this story about Mexican art patrons who find their inspiration lacking when their family and friends move away. GALA Hispanic Theatre. 3333 14th St. NW. To May 10. $20-$50. (202) 234-7174. galatheatre.org. metamorphoSiS The Alliance for New Music-Theatre presents its new adaptation of Franz Kafka’s tale about a man who wakes one day to find that he has transformed into a large insect. Capital Fringe Trinidad Theatre. 1358 Florida Ave. NE. To May 17. $20–$30.

(202) 341-0254. newmusictheatre.org. murDer ballaD A woman revels in her perfect life until her ex-lover returns to turn everything upside down. David Muse directs Julia Jordan and Juliana Nash’s exciting rock musical. Studio Theatre. 1501 14th St. NW. To May 10. $20-$50. (202) 332-3300. studiotheatre.org. the no ruleS Show—SketCh! Members of the No Rules company present original songs and scenes in this evening of comedy and revelry hosted by Joshua Morgan and directed by Brian Sutow. No Rules Theatre Company at Signature Theatre. 4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington. To May 17. $15-$34. (336) 462-9182. norulestheatre.org. olD wiCkeD SongS A young American piano prodigy moves to Vienna in order to conquer a case of writer’s block and meets a tough and traditional Austrian teacher. As the two very different characters interact, it’s unclear whether they’ll suffer or survive working together. 1st Stage. 1524 Spring Hill Road, McLean. To May 3. $15-$28. (703) 854-1856.

1ststagespringhill.org. on approval Two wealthy women have picked out suitable husbands but aim to test the goods out before they commit in this witty comedy from the ‘20s.

Washington Stage Guild at Undercroft Theatre. 900 Massachusetts Ave. NW. To May 17. $20-$50. (240) 582-0050. stageguild.org.

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Shear maDneSS Enjoy the record-breaking comedy whodunit that lets the audience spot the clues, question the suspects and solve the funniest murder mystery in the annals of crime, now celebrating 25 years at the Kennedy Center. Kennedy Center Theater Lab. 2700 F St. NW. To December 31. $48. 202-467-4600. kennedy-center.org.

SunSet baby A political prisoner reunites with his daughter and his life changes irrevocably in this play by award-winning playwright Dominique Morriseau.

Rep Stage at Howard Community College. 10901 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia. To May 17. $15-$40.

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Swing time—the muSiCal Enjoy the music of Benny Goodman, Glen Miller, and Duke Ellington in this comedic wartime musical set during a war bond radio drive broadcast. Arleigh & Roberta Burke Theater at the U.S. Naval Heritage Center. 701 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. To June 24. $19-$49. (202) 573-8127. swingtimethemusical.com. the tramp’S new worlD Rob Jansen took inspiration from Charlie Chaplin’s “Tramp” character when creating this multidisciplinary work that combines elements of silent films with music and physical comedy.

Flashpoint Mead Theatre Lab. 916 G St. NW. To May 24. $15-$25. (202) 315-1306. culturaldc.org. txt Brian Feldman presents this interactive show in which he reads anonymous online messages sent from audience members every Sunday in 2015. Anything goes in terms of subject matter and profanity, so arrive with no expectations. American Poetry Museum. 716 Monroe St. #25. To December 27. $15-$20. (800) 8383006. txtshow.brownpapertickets.com. the typographer’S Dream A typographer, geographer, and stenographer discuss their careers in this comedy that questions what happens when your job is your life and you happen to hate your job. The Hub Theatre at John Swayze Theatre. 9431 Silver King Court, Fairfax. To May 3. $20-$30. (703) 674-3177. thehubtheatre.org. unCle vanya Round House presents the area premiere of playwright Annie Baker’s adaptation of Chekhov’s classic about a blended family that fights over the value, both sentimental and monetary, of a country estate. Round House Theatre Bethesda. 4545 East-West Highway, Bethesda. To May 3. $10-$50.

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by Ross Katz. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) the age oF aDeline In the early 20th century, an accident eliminates a woman’s ability to age. As she advances through the decades, she remains content but when she meets a charming stranger, she realizes that love might be worth giving up immortality. Starring Blake Lively and Michiel Huisman. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) age oF ultron All your favorite n avengerS: superheroes return to take on the evil Ultron and his army of evil robots in the sequel to the 2012 blockbuster. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) Dior anD i This high-stakes documentary n chronicles fashion designer Raf Simons’ first haute couture collection for Christian Dior and the

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people, from the seamstresses to the critics, who he encounters throughout the process. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) Far From the maDDing CrowD Carey Mulligan and Matthias Schoenaerts star in David Nicholls’ adaptation of the Thomas Hardy novel about a headstrong young woman in Victorian Englad who’s pursued by three very determined and very different suitors. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information)

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Las Vegas casinos. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) Following the downfall of the n tangerineS Soviet Union, Estonian farmers remain in a remote Georgian village to bring in the last of the year’s tangerine crop. One of the farmers ends up taking in injured soldiers from opposing sides and while they vow to kill each other upon recovering, they end up forming an unlikely bond. (See washingtoncitypaper. com for venue information) true Story Michael Finkel, a journalist (Jonah Hill), follows the story of a murderer wanted by the FBI who uses Finkel’s name as an alias, in this thrilling drama also starring James Franco and Felicity Jones. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) unFrienDeD A group of friends are terrorized by an anonymous person online in this thriller directed by Levan Gabriadze. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) the water Diviner Russell Crowe directs and stars in this historical drama about a man who travels from Australia to Turkey in search of his missing sons in the aftermath of World War I. (See washingtoncitypaper. com for venue information)

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