Washington City Paper (May 4, 2018)

CITYPAPER Washington

Free volume 38, no. 18 wAsHingtoncitypAper.com mAy 4-10, 2018

politics: A bowser Appointee’s ungrAcious exit 5 Food: HAppy 50tH, stoney’s 13 arts: wAsHington JewisH Film FestivAl reviews 17

NoN-White Noise Shut out of the mainStream, black and brown podcaSterS create Space for their SoundS. p. 8

By Morgan Givens

photographs by Darrow Montgomery

FREE

C J S D

*

P

Month + Install on Internet and TV Offers

19

$ UP TO

99 /month for 12 months

10 Mbps Internet*

29

$

UP TO

/month for 12 months

155 Mbps Internet*

+ Digital TV+ SHOWTIME , & THE MOVIE CHANNEL™

1 Gig ( 1000 Mbps) Internet* + Digital TV + SHOWTIME and THE MOVIE CHANNEL UP TO

®

™

RCN voted #1 ISP nationwide.

OUTSTAND

ERVICE RS

CUSTOME ING

Color

LEDGE TO YOU OUR P

To learn about the RCN Customer Pledge, visit rcn.com/pledge

CUSTOME ING

Black ½ in. tall (min. size)

OUTSTAND OUTSTAND

ERVICE RS

White

99 /month for 12 months

330 Mbps Internet*

+ Digital TV+ SHOWTIME®, & THE MOVIE CHANNEL™

49

$

99 /month for 12 months

*Experienced speeds may vary.

Use Promo Code: DCFREE

Visit rcn.com

NO CONTRACTS OR EARLY TERMINATION FEES | EQUIPMENT NOT INCLUDED

*Internet download speeds may vary and are not guaranteed. Observed speeds may vary based on device, connection, & other factors outside of RCN’s control. Certain equipment may be required to receive 1 Gigabit speeds. Monthly modem rental fee and/or LEDGE TO YOU may be additional. All speeds not available in all areas. Offer valid for new residential subscribers. Offer expires 5/31/18. RCN’s promotional offer extends defined, set pricing for the period of 12 months after installation on the bundle of services wireless gateway OUR P that constitute your service package including digital TV, high-speed Internet and/or phone. FREE month and standard installation valued at $49.99 available on select Internet, TV and Phone offers and excludes taxes, surcharges and applicable fees. Digital TV refers to Limited Basic TV package only. Distinct pricing exists for months 1-12. All sales subject to credit check, applicable surcharges, equipment taxes, activation fees, installation, franchise fees, government imposed charges and fees. Additional services, such as equipment, premium channels and other tiers of service are subject to an additional charge and regular increases and not included as part of the package. No contract is required to take advantage of the promotional pricing and savings. No early termination CUSTOME ING fees apply in the event service is terminated in advance of the 12-month duration. Customer is responsible for any accrued service charges in the event service is canceled. All equipment including modems, wireless router and high definition converter box equipmentOUnot included; additional fees apply. SHOWTIME® and THE MOVIE CHANNEL™ is included as an add-on promotional offer and valid for 12 months from installation date; thereafter, price increases to $7.95 in months 13-24, regular rates apply thereafter.

R PLEDGE TO YOU The package is also available without SHOWTIME® and THE MOVIE CHANNEL™. SHOWTIME®, THE MOVIE CHANNEL™ and related marks are trademarks of Showtime Networks Inc. a CBS company. All rights reserved.” Charges may apply for additional services.

Other restrictions may apply. Not all services available in all areas. Reprinted from pcmag.com with permission. ®2018 Ziff Davis, Inc. All Rights Reserved. A trademark of Ziff Davis, Inc. used under license. All names, logos, images and service marks are property of their respective owners. Visit www.rcn.com/hub/about-rcn/policies-and-disclaimers for additional terms and conditions. ®2018 Starpower Communications, LLC. All rights reserved. RCNDC164 ERVICE RS

Black

UP TO

®

*Experienced speeds may vary.

34

$

99

LEDGE TO YOU OUR P

2 may 4, 2018 washingtoncitypaper.com White ½ in. tall (min. size)

LEDGE TO YOU OUR P

7 K

©

INSIDE on tHe CoVer: non-wHIte noISe 8

Podcasters of color, excluded from mainstream networks, are making new spaces for their work.

DIStrICt LIne 5 loose lips: Less than a week after his botched “unity rally,” Bowser ally Joshua Lopez leaves the Housing Authority Board.

6 housing complex: The mysterious management of a troubled Brightwood Park apartment complex

FooD 13 set in stoney’s: A quintessential neighborhood bar celebrates half a century in business.

15 disproof is in the pudding: Chefs debunk commonly held myths about their cuisines.

15 veg diner Monologues: Sweet and sour grilled eggplant at Mola 15 the ’wiching hour: Maison Kayser’s Provençal

artS

17 kosher du cinema: Reviews from the Washington Jewish Film Festival 19 curtain calls: Klimek on Girlfriend at Signature Theatre and Shah on Waiting for Godot at the Lansburgh Theatre 20 short subjects: Zilberman on Tully and Gittell on Disobedience 22 sketches: Capps on NEXT at the Corcoran 23 discography: Mathias on Stronger Sex’s There Is No Stronger Sex

CIty LISt 25 30 31 31 32

Music Books Dance Theater Film

DIVerSIonS 33 Savage Love 34 Classifieds 35 Crossword On the cover: dj blackshah and jas hands

Darrow MontgoMery 1300 Block of 14th Street NW, April 30

EDITORIAL

editor: AlexA mills Managing editor: cAroline jones arts editor: mAtt cohen food editor: lAurA hAyes city lights editor: kAylA rAndAll loose lips reporter: Andrew giAmbrone housing coMplex reporter: morgAn bAskin staff photographer: dArrow montgomery MultiMedia and copy editor: will wArren creative director: stephAnie rudig contributing writers: john Anderson, VAnce brinkley, kriston cApps, chAd clArk, rAchel m. cohen, riley croghAn, jeffry cudlin, eddie deAn, erin deVine, tim ebner, cAsey embert, jAke emen, jonAthAn l. fischer, noAh gittell, lAurA irene, AmAndA kolson hurley, louis jAcobson, rAchAel johnson, chris kelly, steVe kiViAt, chris klimek, priyA konings, julyssA lopez, Amy lyons, neVin mArtell, keith mAthiAs, j.f. meils, triciA olszewski, eVe ottenberg, mike pAArlberg, pAt pAduA, justin peters, rebeccA j. ritzel, Abid shAh, tom sherwood, Quintin simmons, mAtt terl, dAn trombly, kAArin VembAr, emily wAlz, joe wArminsky, AlonA wArtofsky, justin weber, michAel j. west, diAnA yAp, AlAn zilbermAn

ADvERTIsIng AnD OpERATIOns

publisher: eric norwood sales Manager: melAnie bAbb senior account executives: renee hicks, Arlene kAminsky, mArk kulkosky account executives: chAd VAle, brittAny woodlAnd sales operations Manager: heAther mcAndrews director of Marketing, events, and business developMent: edgArd izAguirre operations director: jeff boswell senior sales operation and production coordinator: jAne mArtinAche publisher eMeritus: Amy Austin graphic designers: Abbie leAli, christie pAssArello

LELAnD InvEsTmEnT cORp. owner: mArk d. ein

local advertising: (202) 650-6937 fax: (202) 650-6970, Ads@wAshingtoncitypAper.com fiNd A StAff directory With coNtAct iNformAtioN At WAShiNgtoNcitypAper.com vol. 38, no. 18 May 4–10, 2018 wAshington city pAper is published eVery week And is locAted At 734 15th st. nw, suite 400, wAshington, d.c. 20005. cAlendAr submissions Are welcomed; they must be receiVed 10 dAys before publicAtion. u.s. subscriptions Are AVAilAble for $250 per yeAr. issue will ArriVe seVerAl dAys After publicAtion. bAck issues of the pAst fiVe weeks Are AVAilAble At the office for $1 ($5 for older issues). bAck issues Are AVAilAble by mAil for $5. mAke checks pAyAble to wAshington city pAper or cAll for more options. © 2018 All rights reserVed. no pArt of this publicAtion mAy be reproduced without the written permission of the editor.

washingtoncitypaper.com may 4, 2018 3

You simplY must

take large bites and chew VoraciouslY DininG eTiQUeTTe Tip#4 ring-tailed lemur

Get

ZooFari

$20 OFF

Dine for WilDlife sponsored by GeiCo® May 17, 2018 • 6:30-9:30 • Smithsonian’s national Zoo

Tickets

It’s feeding time! Sample tastings from nearly 100 of Washington’s finest restaurants and savor wines from around the world at DC’s longest running gourmet food tasting event. With a silent auction and live entertainment tickets sell fast! FONZ members enjoy special pricing. fonz.org/zoofari

Use code ZFCityP18 Valid for general admission, non-member tickets only.

Limit four.

Lead sponsor: GeICo. sponsors: Big Bus Tours, Cisco Brewers, Comcast, 94.7 Fresh FM, Giant Food, Groupon, La prima Catering/ Catering by seasons, nBC4, pepsiCo, Washingtonian Magazine, The Washington post, WTop and WTop.com

2018 ZooFari_City Paper_9.5x5.1455_v4.indd 1

4/27/18 1:45 PM

RE AL MORTGAGES REQUIRE RE AL BANKING. There are mortgages that work on paper, and ones that work in real life. At Sandy Spring Bank, they’re one and the same. Because we take into account your bigger financial picture, which includes more than your mortgage, not just now but in the future.

Let our experts help. Call 800.399.5919 or visit sandyspringbank.com/mortgage.

PERSONAL

|

BUSINESS

|

WEALTH

|

INSURANCE

|

MORTGAGE

Member FDIC. Sandy Spring Bank NMLS # 406382. Wealth and Insurance products are not FDIC insured, not guaranteed, and may lose value. © 2018. Real Life Requires Real Banking.SM

4 may 4, 2018 washingtoncitypaper.com

DistrictLine Provocateur de Force Behind the blow-up over a contentious Bowser pal’s problematic rally and subsequent resignation EarliEr this yEar, he won a rare mayoral appointment to a D.C. board. He didn’t even last for three months. His abrupt departure had nothing to do with his work on the board, but it had a lot to do with him.

On Tuesday morning, Joshua Lopez—one of Mayor Muriel Bowser’s two latest appointees to the DC Housing Authority’s Board of Commissioners— tendered his resignation. Lopez is a longtime Bowser loyalist who served as a ranking campaign official for her and former-Mayor Adrian Fenty, and ran for an at-large Council seat in 2011.

His decision to depart the DCHA board came on the heels of a “unity rally” in support of Ward 8 Councilmember Trayon White that he held last Thursday outside the Wilson Building. Since March, White has faced wide reproach for perpetuating anti-Semitic tropes, stating that the prominent Rothschild family, who are Jewish, control the climate, the World Bank, and the federal government. White promised to make amends, but got flak again after it was revealed he used money from his constituent services fund to donate to a Nation of Islam event in Chicago where Louis Farrakhan assailed Jews .

Lopez, who is Latino, says he intended to bridge cultural divides in the District by organizing the rally. It backfired—big time. A speaker Lopez says was not invited, Nation of Islam representative Abdul Khadir Muhammad, got up to the megaphone Lopez was wielding and bashed those he called “fake Jews,” including At-Large Councilmember Elissa Silverman. Muhammad also advocated for Farrakhan and his “people.” Lopez neither pulled away the megaphone nor condemned the speech in the moment. Off-mic, Muhammad later called Jews “termites.”

Bowser’s appointee received swift reproach.

Council Chairman Phil Mendelson called the event “ill conceived” in a tweet. “Today’s hateful expressions were shameful, and must be rebuked,” he said. The next morning, David Grosso, another at-large councilmember, called on Lopez to apologize to Silverman and vacate his seat on the DCHA board. Grosso voted against

loose lips

Lopez’s appointment in February, as did Ward 7’s Vince Gray and Ward 3’s Mary Cheh.

During deliberations, Cheh said Lopez “lacks the appropriate temperament” and Gray called the nomination “reprehensible.” (Lopez disrupted a Gray event with a megaphone while working for Fenty’s 2010 re-election campaign.) It passed 10-3 and he joined the board on Feb. 14.

Shortly after Grosso issued his statement, Lopez wrote on his Facebook page that he would not resign. He called Muhammad’s comments “despicable” and said he did “not stand for any level of hate.” “I have now been attacked and have been unfairly branded as a promoter of hate,” Lopez wrote. “This is not who I am and what I stand for.”

But on April 21, five days before the rally, he wrote a politically charged Facebook post that

The following day, Lopez posted that he had “received threatening text messages from a sitting councilmember calling me a ‘hate mongering bully.’” He did not specify who, but ascribed this councilmember’s texts to “the Trump era,” saying it “has brought out the worst in people.” “I won’t be bullied into silence,” he noted.

Screenshots of those messages show Silverman was the one who texted Lopez. “Silence on anti-semitism is complicity,” she wrote.

“Thanks for showing your hatred toward me as a Jew.” Lopez replied that White “is not anti semetic” and said Silverman and her peers “should be embarrassed at how you have treated Trayon.” Silverman told Lopez she had invited White to a seder “for crissakes,” referring to the Passover meal she and White attended with D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine.

Lopez then called Silverman’s texts “very unprofessional,” adding that he would “pray for” her. “God will be your judge,” Silverman responded.

“He will be mine too. … It is sad hate consumes you.”

By early last week, Lopez, who works as a business-development consultant, was planning the rally.

He marketed it as a “call to coalition building and an end to divisive politics.”

On April 27, the day after the offending rally, Silverman released a letter to Bowser and her fellow councilmembers. “These hateful words about Jews, the LGBTQ community, and others is a cancer to our city,” she wrote. “It is unacceptable for us as community leaders to look the other way because it might make us uncomfortable to deal with it.” Silverman asked the Council to “condemn Farrakhan’s hate” and Bowser to decommission Lopez from the DCHA board and “any other public-serving positions.”

A handful of other councilmembers also said Lopez should leave the DCHA board, but Bowser did not dismiss her vassal. In a stateDarrow Montgomery/File

By Andrew Giambrone

included photos of Silverman, Cheh, and Ward 1 Councilmember Brianne Nadeau, who also is Jewish. All three are seeking re-election, and Lopez claimed they had “unfairly attacked” White, whom he tagged in the post. “Shame on [them],” he wrote. “We must reject their below the belt tactics and vote them out!”

Nadeau’s chief of staff, Tania Jackson, replied in the comments. “Shame on you Joshua Lopez for completing [sic] misrepresenting and and misquoting what has happened so far,” she wrote. “No one has attacked Councilmember White. I’m really disappointed in *your* below the belt tactics here.” (Nadeau was the first councilmember to say White should be censured for the NOI donation.)

ment last Friday, she simply said Lopez needed “to apologize and make it abundantly clear that he denounces all hateful comments.”

Meanwhile, Lopez went with a friend to Adas Israel Congregation in Cleveland Park for a service on Saturday. For a short time, it seemed that he might retain his board seat.

But on Monday, the tensions persisted. White called a private meeting with Lopez and Silverman in an effort to patch things up, according to a person who was there. In the room were Rabbi Batya Glazer of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington, Alan Ronkin of AJC (American Jewish Committee) Washington, Felix Sanchez of the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts, Rev. Thomas Bowen of Bowser’s Office of Religious Affairs, and staffers for Silverman and White. The tenor of the meeting, which lasted for about an hour at the Wilson Building, is disputed.

Two attendees say Lopez tried to clear the air in good faith, but was rebuffed by Silverman, who would not waver on calling for him to step down. A third attendee and two people who were not at the meeting but were briefed on it say Silverman received a thinly veiled threat that if she did not back off from her position, the Latinx community would mobilize against her re-election campaign. A fourth attendee denies this characterization. That night, Bowser reportedly invited Silverman to her home and defended Lopez.

On Tuesday, the pique spilled over the brim.

During a breakfast meeting where councilmembers discussed a symbolic resolution against hate speech, Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld of Ohev Shalom - The National Synagogue entered the room, pleading for Lopez to resign and the Council to officially reprimand White. “This is not a time to be quiet,” Herzfeld said when approached by Mendelson, who sought to de-escalate the situation. “Our city is better than this.”

In a rare display of harmony, all 13 councilmembers left the Wilson Building and went to the spot where Muhammad had made antiSemitic remarks. Mendelson, speaking on behalf of the whole legislature, said they stood together in condemning hate speech and promised additional action.

By noon, Lopez had resigned. “It became clear that this issue was becoming highly politicized and people were using it as an opportunity to attack my family and people I care about,” Lopez wrote on his Facebook page. In a statement, a spokesperson for Bowser’s office said “we will continue to move forward in our dialogue, showcasing how Washington, D.C. remains an inclusive and progressive place.”

Time, as ever, will tell. For now, the Council returns to marking up a proposed $14.5 billion budget.

CP

washingtoncitypaper.com may 4, 2018 5

DistrictLinE

Burn Units

Darrow Montgomery

In the span of one month, a fire and subsequent flood displaced more than half a dozen families from their Brightwood Park apartment building.

By Morgan Baskin TenanTs of 5320 8th Street NW—a marketrate apartment complex in the quiet residential neighborhood of Brightwood Park—say in court that they’ve suffered infestations of rats and cockroaches, faulty electrical wiring, power outages, a lack of hot water, cracked walls, moldy ceilings, damaged steam pipes, improperly sealed windows, peeling paint, and damaged floors.

“It’s pretty much the gamut of issues,” Kathy Zeisel, a lawyer at the Children’s Law Center who represents eight current and former residents, says. “It’s one of the worst buildings I’ve worked in at my time at CLC.” Just since December, a fire and a flood displaced more than half a dozen families, two unrelated disasters that prompted the De-

housing complex

6 may 4, 2018 washingtoncitypaper.com

partment of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs (DCRA) to condemn the units impacted, calling them unfit for human life. In late April, during a visit to the building, stop work orders and neon orange signs, dated to December, papered tenants’ entryways: “DANGER,” “PELIGRO.” “THIS STRUCTURE IS UNSAFE,” they read, “ITS OCCUPANCY OR USE HAS BEEN PROHIBITED.” Tenants, many of them non-English-speaking Latinx immigrants who have lived there for years, are infuriated by the conditions of the building.

Hundreds of pages of DCRA inspection documents, photographs, and tenant testimony indicate that, over time, many units have fallen into deep disrepair. DCRA has issued six notices of housing code violations in units across the building in the last three months, and 15 in the last three-and-a-half years.

Some tenants have filed a lawsuit with D.C. Su-

perior Court. Others organized rent strikes, while the property management company, EADS LLC, sues to evict them. In court, tenants say EADS has not made critical repairs. The property manager alleges that tenants have illegal long-term guests, and that it is the tenants themselves who caused damage to the building. on December 14, 2017, a fire broke out on the top floor of 5320 8th Street NW. The blaze directly affected six families living across two floors of the horseshoe-shaped building, who were “de facto evicted” immediately afterward, per a characterization of their situation

by D.C. Superior Court judge Robert Tignor.

The families, none of whom had renters insurance, lost everything they owned. D.C.’s Office of the Tenant Advocate and Department of Human Services paid for them to relocate in the short-term to hotels on New York Avenue NE, some of which the city uses for emergen-

cy overflow homeless shelters—an experience Zeisel calls “traumatizing” for their children.

Two women, displaced by the fire, gave birth during the time they were staying in shelter.

Those six families are collectively suing EADS LLC for damages stemming from “unsafe and unsanitary conditions in [the] rental property,” like “issues with electrical wiring,” which plaintiffs say were concerns before the fire.

Delores Johnson, EADS LLC’s property manager, says the tenants should have obtained renters insurance, which at $95 per year, would have been less than DHS spends on one night in a motel. Then the city’s subsidies “could be given to people who really need it,” she says. She adds that it’s unfair the families didn’t have to pay $5,400 in rent over two months last winter.

Both Zeisel and Johnson agree that the fire department ruled the blaze accidental, though Johnson thinks that a wall she says tenants erected in apartment 207, where the fire started, was a factor. During a January 19 hearing, Tignor would not permit EADS’ attorney to call any witnesses forward to discuss the wall, “because I don’t frankly see how that’s relevant,” he said.

An independent fire investigator Children’s Law Center hired to determine the cause of the fire, who worked for 11 years as the Chief Fire Marshal of Stafford County, Virginia, testified in January that electrical wiring in the unit is “sheathed by an asbestos coating, which I would estimate probably circa 60 or 70 years [old].”

The investigator, Donald Alvis, said the fire patterns indicate that the blaze began when electrical cables sustained “significant electrical activity” inside of them. When asked what could trigger that electrical activity, he said, “a failure or degradation of the coating on the wire.” He added that the concerns tenants describe with the building’s electrical system, like only being able to use one appliance at a time, makes it “obvious to me there’s obvious issues with the electrical system that needs further attention.”

At the end of the initial hearing, Tignor said that Johnson’s testimony “does not in any way, in my view, credibly refute the testimony” of the tenant living in the apartment where the fire started. He added that he “believe[s] complaints were made to management with little to no meaningful response.”

Johnson denies that EADS didn’t respond to electrical maintenance requests before the fire. During a meeting with City Paper at the property this week, she pulls out thick stacks of receipts from her van for maintenance work completed on the property. She estimates that the company receives and responds to about two maintenance requests per month.

A DCRA inspection report summary dated January 12 shows the extent to which that fire damaged the building. “Sleeping room has wa-

ter damaged walls and ceilings. Exposed ceiling and walls. Repair or replace fire and water damaged walls, carpet and ceilings,” the report reads for all six units. “Check electrical wire connection; repair defective wire connections, lights, radiators and electrical outlets.” Some windows were “shut. Not openable.” Others had extensive mold and dry rot. DCRA property code compliance records show that inspections completed in 2014, 2015, and 2016, each resulted in either notices of violation filed against, or repairs made in, four of the six units affected by the fire.

Property records, lien documents, and financial statements from the D.C. Office of Tax and Revenue Recorder of Deeds show the business that owns 5320 8th Street NW, EADS LLC, has a history of late or non-payments to water, gas, and electric companies.

Between 2015 and 2017 alone, three different city agencies levied liens against EADS LLC for its failure to pay water sewage bills, home improvement fees, and litter fines for the complex. Those amounts ranged from $75 to $8,887.

DCRA itself extended a $4,800 lien on the building in June of 2017 for failing “to pay all outstanding fines, penalties, or other costs” associated with failing to abate code violations.

Who Was on the hook for those fines? It’s difficult to say who owns EADS, which is registered as a limited liability corporation in D.C., where LLCs do not have to disclose their majority stakeholders.

Business registration filings with DCRA show that Lorraine Johnson and Jason Sanders are the “governors,” or business managers, of EADS LLC. Johnson frequently uses the first name “Delores” to sign EADS’ financial paperwork with D.C., and testified that her middle name is Lorraine. In an interview, she denied having any involvement in EADS beyond her role as the company’s property manager. In a separate conversation in person, she did not dispute that she was registered as a governor of EADS. The address listed next to Lorraine’s name in those DCRA LLC records is the same address listed for a separate business, Kentucky-Scott.

Kentucky-Scott is a limited liability company that received a $2 million loan from the Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) in 2007. Kentucky-Scott promised to use money it secured from the city’s Housing Production Trust Fund to create about two dozen affordable housing units for low-income seniors in an apartment building at 135 Kennedy Street NW. But the business never offered leases to those lower-income tenants, according to a 2017 report by D.C. Auditor Kathy Patterson. The process of screening for lower-income tenants was required as part of its HPTF agreement. Public property records provided by the Office of Planning show that Kentucky-Scott still owns that building.

The governor of Kentucky-Scott, listed in DCRA’s LLC registration documents, is Jason Saunders, spelled with a “u.”

Jason Saunders is also the president of a

company called BHI International, Inc., a construction and real estate development firm listed in the 2007 DHCD covenant granting Kentucky-Scott $2 million from the HPTF, which he signed as a “Managing Member” of Kentucky-Scott. Saunders also signed, in his capacity as president of BHI, a 2002 financing statement between DHCD and EADS. Saunders wrote in an email that he and BHI “once ow[n]ed percentages in EADS but have NOT done so for years.” (A spokesman for DCRA notes that businesses are required to update their registration documents every two years.

Sanders is listed as a governor of EADS in the city’s online portal as of press time.)

A fourth LLC, Minnesota Group, is listed as an additional managing member of KentuckyScott. Delores Johnson is a registered governor of Minnesota Group in DCRA’s system.

Both EADS and Kentucky-Scott use a handful of different business addresses, many of which overlap. EADS has used at least five different D.C.-area addresses in financial documents with the city. Delores expressed familiarity with Kentucky-Scott and BHI, but declined to comment on their ownership structure, beyond saying that the companies are distinct from EADS. Reached by email, Saunders denied owning EADS and said that BHI is not a member of EADS. (A “member” of an LLC is essentially an owner.) He wrote that neither he, BHI, or Kentucky-Scott are “included in any ownership of EADS or vice versa.”

In The basemenT of 5320, a few doors down from the building’s hulking boiler room, is the old apartment of a former tenant named Reina. The mother of two complained about faulty steam pipes in her unit regularly, she says, showing City Paper a video of steam rising from cracks in the parquet floors.

About four months ago, water damage in the ceiling over her living room (a result of the fire department’s effort to extinguish the fire, Johnson says) caused it to cave in with her younger daughter underneath it. Reina says her older child pulled her sister out from underneath the pounds of debris before she was seriously injured, a story she shared in late April with residents and tenant advocates involved in the rent strike.

Then, on New Year’s Eve 2017, the building’s hot water tank, located in the basement, burst. One of its pipes wrapped behind Reina’s wall and exploded in her kitchen.

“We didn’t have to do that. Think about it now,” Johnson says, referring to the fact that EADS immediately replaced the $28,000 water tank. “This is our New Year’s Eve as well.

But you’re trying to make sure people have hot water.”

Now chunks of concrete sit in rocky piles in the unit, and nearly one-third of the floor in the kitchen is gone—a gaping mouth of exposed pipes and rubble. Reina’s furniture still sits under sheets of plastic. A synthetic Christmas tree, star askew, stands in the foyer. While she has since relocated to another apartment with her daughters, she says she still gets electric bills for her old unit that reflect debts of hundreds of dollars per month.

CP

Federally insured by NCUA • Equal Housing Lender

Get More House for Less Own a bigger house for a similar monthly payment with our low rates and 5/5 ARM

Call 301-660-4338 and speak to a Loan Officer today. signalfinancialfcumortgages.com *As of March 01, 2018, Signal Financial FCU’s 30-Year Fixed Rate Mortgage rate, with zero discount points, is 4.375% (4.432% APR). Payment shown is based on a $575,000 loan amount. APR=Annual Percentage Rate. **As of March 01, 2018, Signal Financial FCU’s 5/5 Adjustable Rate Mortgage (ARM) rate is 3.25% (3.305% APR). Payment shown is based on a $650,000 loan amount. APR=Annual Percentage Rate. Rate for the 5/5 ARM is variable and can increase by no more than 1 percentage point after the initial five year period and at each subsequent annual rate adjustment, with a lifetime maximum adjustment of 5% (8.25% for this example). Since the value of the index in the future is unknown, the First Adjustment Payments displayed are based on the current index plus margin (fully indexed rate) as of March 1, 2018.

Figures are shown for comparison and example purposes only; actual rates, payments, and terms may vary and depend upon credit worthiness and other factors. Payments shown do not include taxes or insurance. Actual payments may be greater. Rates are subject to change at any time, and may increase. Rates locked in today for 60 days have an expiration date of (today + 60 days). Other restrictions apply.

TAKE YOUR CAREER TO THE

NEXT LEVEL

The University of Maryland’s Master’s in Applied Economics Program gives you a professional advantage: a solid background in quantitative analysis for evidence-based policy decisions. Designed for working professionals, our 10-course, 30-credit program can be completed in as little as 15 months.

Evening classes offered on campus in College Park or in DC near Dupont Circle.

ATTEND AN INFORMATION SESSION:

Tuesday, May 8th (in College Park) Thursday, May 31st (in Washington, DC near Dupont Circle) Both sessions at 6:45 p.m.

Please RSVP: Masters@econ.umd.edu

Accepting online applications for Fall enrollment until Friday, June 15th http://masters.econ.umd.edu master’s in

APPLIED ECONOMICS

washingtoncitypaper.com may 4, 2018 7

NoN-White Noise Just because some aren’t listening doesn’t mean they don’t exist: Black and brown podcasters are creating an audio world you won’t find in the mainstream.

By Morgan Givens

Photographs by Darrow Montgomery

The Count, DJ Blackshah, and Jas Hands of The Brown Liquor Report 8 may 4, 2018 washingtoncitypaper.com

Take a look at the iTunes ranking for the top 100 podcasts and you’ll find it jam-packed with options: a multitude of topics and news reports, analyses of arts and politics, narrative broadcasts that pull you into stories that unfold like old-school radio dramas, and series that make you feel like a detective on a crime case that went cold long ago. The possibilities for auditory delight will exceed your time budget. What you won’t find—what’s missing at this audio buffet—are many podcasts hosted by people of color.

The New York Times reports over 325,000 podcasts available for download. With a number that large, finding podcasts by people of color should be relatively easy—except it’s not.

For black and brown podcasters, and those interested in their shows and stories, it’s disheartening to see so little representation in big podcast networks like Gimlet, Panoply, and media giants like NPR. (For the sake of disclosure, this reporter has worked part-time as an associate producer for WAMU and NPR talk show 1A.) As the podcasting industry fails to make space for non-white people, it comes up short on diversity of voices and perspectives.

It’s not as if black and brown podcasters don’t exist. They do. It’s not even as if they don’t exist in massive numbers, because anyone willing to do the work of searching would find a plethora of podcasts in a variety of genres—all written, produced, and hosted by podcasters of color. Black and brown podcasters are here. They’ve been here for quite some time. And many of them are located right here in D.C. But what they aren’t getting is access and opportunity in the same way as many of their white peers. In her 2015 Emmy acceptance speech, Viola Davis said, “The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity. You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there.” While she was talking about acting, what she has to say rings true in the world of podcasting.

Chinué RiChaRdson and Halle Millien are two black women who founded LemonDrop Media, a national podcasting network that is putting out superb shows and at the same time changing how the industry treats black and brown podcasters. The two, who are sisters, moved to the District and fell in love with it following college graduation.

Richardson attended Howard University Law School. Their careers eventually moved them out of the city they love, but D.C. is still homebase. Their mother lives here, and they return multiple times a year.

“We grew up on NPR, and we’ve always been around storytelling in a big way. We found ourselves listening to a lot of podcasts, and most of them were hosted by white men and didn’t speak to people of color or women in a real way,” says Millien. Neither of the women see themselves, or stories similar to theirs, reflected in the media they consume. They also feel ignored, as a demographic, by the major podcast networks. Both say they wish to take nothing away from those networks, and acknowledge the quality of the work these net-

Megan Johnson of Epilogue: The Book After Party

works put out. “You know when you hear a Gimlet show that it’s going to be high quality,” says Millien, “but it’s mostly going to be from the perspective of a white man.”

Millien says that the content featuring nonwhite people that places like NPR and Panoply issue, while great, “seems to be more of an accessory and doesn’t seem to be part of their strategy—and [they’re] not necessarily growing with diversity in mind.” The women point to segments on NPR that only feature dialects and voices of black and brown people when a story is on an issue that has been coded in society as primarily about non-white people.

Think immigration reform and affirmative action, even though data and scholarship suggest that white women have been the greatest beneficiaries of affirmative action policy.

Richardson and Millien see the problem, in part, as major outlets believing that hiring a black or brown host is enough, while at the same time expecting them to perform for a primarily white audience and cover a range of topics that is limited so as not to offend that listener base—even at the risk of never expanding another. And in some shows that have been elevated in major networks, hosts of color often seem to exist only to talk about their otherness.

The two women say their goal with LemonDrop Media is to highlight the entire spectrum of the black and brown experience. Their network houses shows that range from interviews with unpublished authors of color (Hidden Scribes) to the show Brown Girls Do. TaKiyah Wallace and Amber Cabral co-host the podcast. Wallace is a life-long educator and founder of the Texas-based non-profit Brown Girls

Do, INC., and Cabral is a board member of the oganization, which provides “annual scholarships, a mentor network, and community programs to empower young girls.”

“We noticed how hard it could be to find positive stories,” says Cabral.

Black women are often portrayed in media as demanding or unjustifiably angry when they appear, and are not represented at all in some parts of the American story. Latina women are regularly hyper-sexualized, as are their black counterparts. Indigenous women rarely get a voice at all, and Asian women, when they are represented, are often made out to be omnipresent nags. All of these portrayals lack depth of character, and all these stereotypes lack nuance.

Cabral says that while positive stories exist in the world of podcasting, “when we do find them, they’re often overshadowed by the diversity challenges facing the world today,” meaning that these positive stories rarely receive the same amount of attention as those published in the major networks. The voices of the black and brown people who produce and curate the stories aren’t being amplified. That leaves podcasting, an industry in its infancy, making the same mistakes with which Hollywood insiders now find themselves reckoning.

The moment Cabral and Wallace recognized this lack of amplification of voice is “when we decided to put our heads together, tap our networks, and use our platform to show women and girls breaking barriers, overcoming stereotypes, and celebrating diversity through their accomplishments, organizations, and commitments to paying it forward,”

says Wallace.

The Brown Girls Do podcast was inspired

by Wallace’s daughter, who wanted to do ballet—an art form that historically has, and presently does, shut out black and brown-bodied people. The slightest of cracks are beginning to appear in a dance form that once seemed impenetrable. Misty Copeland is an astonishingly talented ballet dancer, for example, and she’s also the first black woman to have been made a principal dancer for the American Ballet Theatre. How many others were never given the opportunity to try?

This is why Wallace began podcasting.

Brown Girls Do features black and brown women who are in career fields where they are underrepresented. They share how they maneuver in spaces that are not always welcoming, but focus on showing the diversity of interests and career possibilities for young black and brown girls everywhere—occupations where they are both excelling and pushing back against preconceived expectations for their lives.

They remind their listeners that: “Brown girls do music … brown girls do work in their communities … brown girls do design … brown girls do corporate America … brown girls do film.” The list of possibilities for these young women streams ever forward, accented by interviews with women who came before them and made it possible.

Their March 8, 2018 episode focused on diversity in the arts, and their guest for the hour was producer Kady Kamakaté, who works in film.

She has completed work on multiple web series and has made commercials that play on sites like YouTube, but says she “harbors aspirations to do washingtoncitypaper.com may 4, 2018 9

Maya Francis of Critical Frequency and Slant

work on feature films.” On the show, Kamakaté speaks about how she felt drawn to production as a profession. As a producer, she sees far more career opportunities because it is much harder for black and brown women to break into prominent acting roles in Hollywood.

Kamakaté says that she continues doing the work because she wants to change the way Hollywood operates, and push the boundaries of what can be possible for all the young girls who will follow after her, though they may never know the name of the woman who helped pave their way forward. Guests on the young podcast have even included Imriel Morgan, the host of Wanna Be and the founder of the United Kingdom’s ShoutOut Network, a podcasting network that seeks to accomplish overseas what LemonDrop Media hopes to achieve here in the U.S.: creating room for those locked out of predominantly white media spaces.

The co-founders and hosts of shows on the LemonDrop Media network are not alone in

their endeavor to create more space for black and brown podcasters. Maya Francis, a black woman who hosts the podcast Slant, is also the co-founder of the podcast network Critical Frequency. The tagline for the network?

The tongue in cheek: “a podcast network for everyone else.” Francis is hyper aware, as a black woman with experience in journalism and the media, of the underrepresentation and lack of access to traditional media spaces for people of color.

“A lot of these popular monetized and successful podcasts come out of legacy journalist institutions,” she says, and if the podcasts spring forth from the same reservoir of traditionally white voices, they will create the same systemic imbalances seen in traditional forms of media, keeping the podcasting industry at the very beginning of a cultural battle for representation. She hopes to use the Critical Frequency network to “elevate the voices of folks who are underrepresented in media and pro-

10 may 4, 2018 washingtoncitypaper.com

vide access” and support to hone their skills.

Jesse Garcia, a former appointee of President Barack Obama and current host of The Jesse Garcia Show podcast, is also working to change the landscape of stories the big networks deem worthy. He served in the the Administration for Children and Families, Office of Communications during his appointment, where he met “Latinos who were doing all this amazing work—work that basically helps this government run— and they’re not the ones being highlighted on CNN. They do all the work, but they never get the glory.” Garcia uses his podcast to highlight Latino people who toil away in the shadows. He hopes his show helps provide recognition to them so that all the praise does not go “to the anglo executive director, who goes to the major news,” with nary a word of thanks to the brown faces and minds that made it possible.

Ronald Young Jr., a self described “liberal Christian” and black man who hosts the podcast Time Well Spent, says he speaks on behalf of an “intersectionality that is marginalized and not marginalized at the same time.” In that, as a Christian, he might have a bit more freedom of religion than others, but as a black man he is constrained by the stereotypes society thrusts upon him. Even as Young grapples with this in his episodes, he also spends time having discussions with women he says he “over-pursued,” before hesitating, and then clarifying, “Actually, they told me ‘no’ and I just didn’t want to hear it.” He hopes that by putting himself on blast in this way, and allowing these women the platform to showcase the ways he could have respected their “no,” it will ensure that men who hear his show will not engage in the same sorts of behaviors. Young is attempting to create change.

There are others still, outside of these communities—people who are white but are making an effort to create space within media and elevate these voices. Jeremy Beaver is the founder of Listen Vision Studios on Georgia Ave. NW and has been in business for two decades. He’s also the founder of WLVS radio. Over 95 percent of the shows that come through the studio are hosted by black and brown people of varying genders, orientations, and interests.

“Every month is Black History month at Listen Vision,” he says with a laugh. Beaver admits that when he first began his outreach efforts, people in the community didn’t trust him, but he kept at it. He points to his own background as a Jewish man as the reason he finds it so crucial to find a way to assist people of color to break through into a media landscape that is not actively seeking out or listening for their voices. He even goes so far as to quote the legendary civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer, who frequently told her white counterparts that their freedom was directly tied to hers, and they would not find themselves truly free until they ensured her freedom as well.

Podcasters of color whose shows are hosted by black and brown-dominated networks often report being able to be the entirety of

themselves, and not the slice of themselves that might be found on some of the major podcast networks where they talk only about issues that deal specifically with race.

(Though the shows that discuss race are still sorely needed.)

Megan Johnson, a black woman, is one such podcaster. Her show isn’t exclusively about race, but the fact that she is black does inform her critique and worldview. She is one of the co-hosts of the podcast Epilogue: A Book After Party. The entire premise of the podcast?

Well, it’s the conversation people have after finishing a book, much like epilogues in novels meant to satisfy readers who aren’t ready to leave the lives of the characters behind. Johnson views her podcast as a space to be herself, and is wary of major podcast networks where the majority of shows have white hosts. Johnson worries that, on top of major networks like Gimlet, Panoply, and NPR failing to create meaningful space for black and brown podcasters, she would be forced to perform or act in a way that isn’t true to her.

She says that with some of the bigger networks, “there would probably be a slight bit of shuckin’ and jivin’.” Shucking and jiving refers to the actions enslaved black people would take, within the United States, to avoid angering the white men and women who owned them. This history has extended, in some respects, into present times where black and brown people code switch and speak in a dialect more palatable to most of their white peers in business spaces. A dialect that, for some, is

not what they heard growing up in their family homes and communities. It was, and still is, a way to remain safe, but it also means denying who they are in the presence of white people. Johnson continues, saying that she fears that, “at some point, my blackness and however it comes across would be asked to be toned down and my views as a woman would be asked to be toned down, too.”

That is a fear that Jasmine Sullivan of The Brown Liquor Report shares. She goes by Jas Hands on air. “They don’t want to hear us tell our stories the way that we do—the way we tell them by default of our lived experiences,” says Sullivan as she gets ready to record an episode, popping open a styrofoam container of chicken wings so hot that the condensation collected inside the lid has dripped down onto the still crisp skin, run from the bottom corner of the container where the sizzle of oil melted through, and pooled on the tabletop. “This is a safe space to say what’s on our mind.”

She’s one of the co-hosts of The Brown Liquor Report, along with DJ Blackshah (Mike Richardson) and The Count (Micah Young).

The Brown Liquor Report is at once hilarious, thought-provoking, and filled with the types of cultural inside jokes that speak to what the hosts view as the frustration at being a black person in a world that leeches creativity from black culture, while demanding the silence of its creators. Their conversations invoke the feel of late summer afternoon cook-outs, where people play spades and fireflies dance in the waning light, and black aunts and un-

cles sit around picnic tables, red solo cups in hand, dispensing wisdom and knowledge to the younger family members who are eavesdropping. The hosts of The Brown Liquor Report carve out a space of their own within the world of podcasting, and one that opens the door to listeners with similar experiences.

“It is about freedom,” says Richardson as he looks up and leans back in his chair, finally satisfied with equipment set-up. The microphones. The recording devices. The computer that will capture it all and allow him to edit it later before uploading it to the internet for the world to enjoy. He would not have to carry his equipment with him into the heart of downtown D.C., in the small room he and his cohosts rent to record The Brown Liquor Report, if they were part of a major network that would give them the space to exist as themselves.

He catches my eye, rests his chin upon his palm, and says, “Without us and other nonwhite podcasters you lose texture and nuance. Everything comes out the same. It all sounds the same, and how do things change for the better if you’re only listening to the same people?”

Millien of LemonDrop Media says, “Part of my passion of telling our own stories is that when black and brown podcasters do become popular, people say, ‘Oh they’re special.’ Us telling our stories is to prove that these people are not the exception. These people are the rule, and we want to get those stories out there so that it changes the narrative around people of color and women.”

CP The Count, Jas Hands, and DJ Blackshah

Help Find an End to Malaria!

You will be paid for your participation in this study

Study Duration Approx. 1 month* (June-July 2018) *Not including screening visit

The WRAIR Clinical Trials Center is now seeking healthy adults, ages 18-55, to enroll in a malaria study. You will NOT qualify for this study if you have had malaria within the last 5 years.

NOTE: There may be other reasons why you cannot participate in this study.

For more details, contact one of our recruiters today!

866-428-2788 www.clinicaltrials.army.mil

washingtoncitypaper.com may 4, 2018 11

MAX SCHERZER

BOBBLEHEAD NIGHT

MAY 4 • 7:05 PM Presented by PNC Bank • First 25,000 fans

MAY 5 • 4:05 PM HAN SOLO/BOBA FETT SOCKS

Presented by Stance • First 10,000 fans © & TM Lucasfilm Ltd

YOUR PLACE

to

e c r o F e h t Feel

MAY 4–6

vs. PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES

GET YOUR TICKETS TODAY AT 12 may 4, 2018 washingtoncitypaper.com

nationals.com

Laura Hayes

DCFEED

D.C. gained a Nordic cafe this week when Mikko opened in Dupont. The casual eatery open Monday through Saturday is from the former executive chef to the Finnish ambassador. Try open-faced sandwiches, soups, smoked salmon, and sweets.

Set in Stoney’s

Two addresses and thousands of grilled cheese sandwiches later, a neighborhood bar celebrates 50 years in business.

Darrow Montgomery

Tony Harris

By Laura Hayes Let’s cLear two things up. There is no one named Stoney. And Stoney’s wasn’t always on P Street NW across from Whole Foods.

The neighborhood bar famous for its We d n es day t ri v ia nights and gooey grilled cheese sandwiches was initially located at 13th and L streets NW. It’s celebrating 50 years in business this week.

The original space was initially Herman

Young & hungrY

Susser’s namesake restaurant, Herman’s.

Susser sold it to Tinny Parzo in 1966. While Parzo was exceptional at cooking giant steamship rounds of beef in his restaurant’s Vulcan oven, he didn’t have the same touch when it came to gambling and found himself in financial trouble.

Parzo only lasted two years in the restaurant business before two gents made him an offer for $41,000. “I put in $3,000, my friend put up $3,000, and we borrowed another $6,000 from my father,” Tony Harris recounts. They put the $12,000 down and assumed Susser’s

existing mortgage. Harris and his partner, Steve Papageorge, needed a name for their new bar so they combined their first names to make Stoney’s.

This was in May, just one month after the civil unrest following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. scorched the city in 1968. Papageorge and Harris were tossed in jail at the old prison in Lorton, Virginia, one night during the unrest for violating curfew and spent the time discussing whether they should move forward.

“I was having doubts about doing this down-

town, but we went ahead with it,” Harris says.

“We had some demonstrations for the Vietnam War, too. We were right in the center of it, but we survived all of that.”

Papageorge left the business in 1973 and moved to Florida, leaving Harris the sole owner, bartender, and entertainer. Harris is a talker, but once you realize his stories are more entertaining than TV, you don’t mind at all. You’ll want to sit down with a pint and hear him out, which was probably the key to the bar’s early success. Harris was always there, “ranting and raving.”

He’s a first generation American. His father came to D.C. from Greece in the 1920s and ran Stanton Grill for half a century. “When someone didn’t show up, I’d go in and work,” Harris says. He was drafted by the Army in 1962 and spent 18 months in Germany. When he returned to the U.S., he sold Chevrolets.

“But I knew I wanted to go into the restaurant business.”

When Harris and Papageorge opened Stoney’s at 13th and L streets NW it had the look of a luncheonette with chrome base stools with red tops. The countertops were formica, the floor linoleum. They renovated it to look more like a lounge in 1970 by putting in carpeting, replacing booths with tables, hanging Tiffany lamps, and resurfacing the bar.

Harris even conducted impromptu trivia nights using questions and answers published by the Washington Daily News, whose offices were diagonally across the street. “This was 40 years ago. Now it’s this big thing,” he says.

The original Stoney’s sold burgers and fries to start, plus barbecue sandwiches made from the leftover legendary roast beef. Later, they added pizza, salads, chicken, and turkey. Burgers were about a buck and a quarter and beer was even cheaper. “Bud was 40 cents when we took over,” Harris says. “The owner, Tinny, said you could probably pop it up a nickel.

We raised it to 45 cents.”

Back in the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s it wasn’t uncommon for staff to stick to one restaurant for decades. There’s a tremendous benefit to long-term employees. As one passes the baton to another, the chain is not interrupted and the spirit of the place lives on.

Take Thelma Hammett. Harris thinks she worked at Stoney’s for about 30 years. Hammett created the bar’s signature dish, the “Super Grilled Cheese” featuring tomato, bacon, and onion. It’s what she made for herself on lunch breaks. Harris is fuzzy on the year it debuted on the menu, but remembers the superlative “super” was popular because of the first Super Bowl in 1967.

washingtoncitypaper.com may 4, 2018 13

DCFEED New Specials: Cinco De Mayo Specials!

Outside Skirt Steak $14.99/lb bone-in pork butt $5.99/lb ON SALE THROUGH SUNDAY 5/6/18

We Proudly Feature: Roseda Beef, Berkshire Pork, Benton’s Bacon

202-544-0400

Visit us at UNION MARKET 1309 5th Street NE, Washington DC

Hours of Operation: Tues. - Sun. ~ 8am - 8pm

HarveysMarketDC.com | Email: Harveysmarket@verizon.net Like us on Harvey’s Market

TATTOO PARADISE ADAMS MORGAN, DC 2444 18th St. NW Washington DC 20009 202.232.6699

WHEATON, MD

2518 W. University Blvd.

Wheaton, MD 20902 301.949.0118

THE ONLY TATTOO SHOP IN ADAMS MORGAN THAT MATTERS

Treat Mom to Something Sweet Indulge all your favorite moms with the rich, home-baked taste of Danielle’s Desserts™.

(202) 847-0499

•

•

Washington, DC 20036

DaniellesDesserts.com

14 may 4, 2018 washingtoncitypaper.com

it came to red light activity in the 1970s and 1980s. The police put up signs that prohibited right turns after 9 p.m. because cars would come up L Street NW, turn right on 13th Street, then turn right on K Street NW and repeat the whole sequence to get a look at the ladies of the night. “People would come from the suburbs and bring friends down,” Harris says. “It was pretty risque at one time, but the internet has taken all of that off the street. It was a parade.”

After 37 years, Harris’ landlord told him time was up in 2005 because he was selling the building. Following a period of uncertainty, Harris signed a lease at 1433 P Street NW in 2006. Harris had looked at the property in 1996, when it was The Stage Door, but the asking price was too high. “We brought over the old sign, but that’s about it,” Harris says.

The early customers were a motley crew of characters—folks causing trouble, folks policing trouble, and reporters covering trouble all under the same roof.

tattooparadisedc.com tattooparadisedc

1130 Connecticut Ave, NW, Suite 101

Freddy Guzman, who also worked for Stoney’s for three decades, improved upon the Super Grilled Cheese. The former dishwasher learned how to cook and made terrific chili, cornbread, and Thanksgiving stuffing. Ask for the Super Grilled Cheese “Freddy Style,” and it will come with chicken fingers lovingly wedged between the other fillings.

When Harris tells yarns about former employees and his old clientele, everyone is labeled a “good guy” or “good people,” as if you’d have to be a serial killer to get on his bad side. The early customers were a motley crew of characters—folks causing trouble, folks policing trouble, and reporters covering trouble all under the same roof.

There was a clinic for firefighters and police across the street, as well as the Washington Dai-

ly News, which Harris calls a worthwhile tabloid. When Stoney’s first launched, it opened at 7 a.m. and could serve booze at 8 a.m. “We had a few newspaper guys who would come in after they got off shift,” he says.

The Secret Service training center was also nearby. Stoney’s saw a large contingent of those officers as well as Drug Enforcement Agency workers. Harris says Jerry Parr, who was on President Ronald Reagan’s Secret Service detail the day of the assassination attempt in 1981, came in for breakfast every morning. “They used to keep the car where Reagan was shot in the garage across the street,” Harris says. “One time they took me down and showed me the dent where the bullet hit.”

Secret Service officers would bring visiting law enforcement from across the country to Stoney’s. That’s how the bar collected police department patches that are displayed in frames on the first floor of the current Stoney’s on P Street NW. According to Harris, Secret Service officers weren’t stuffy. “A regular came in one night and handed me three joints and said, ‘Hold onto these for me,’” he recalls. When a group of Secret Service officers came in later, Harris attempted to turn over the joints. He wasn’t a fan of marijuana. To his surprise the agents responded, “‘Let’s smoke them!”

The original Stoney’s was located on one of the more scandalous blocks in the city when

“We tried to capture what the old place was about. Now it’s up to the staff to be friendly and draw the customers.”

The two-floor bar is easy to love and an ideal place to catch a game while eating wings or to enjoy a generous weekday happy hour. Four years ago, Harris opened a sister bar, Stoney’s on L, in West End. Throughout the years, Harris surrounded himself with young partners to keep up with the times. Billy Walls is a partner at both Stoney’s locations. Justin Glass is a partner at Stoney’s on L. At one point Med “Mo” Lahlou was also a partner at Stoney’s.

“I’ve been in this business for 50 years,” Harris says. “I look at the first 35 to 40 years, there weren’t big changes. They were subtle. The business really changed a lot in the last number of years.” He calls it “luck” that Stoney’s has lasted so long, and tacks on one of his favorite sayings: “Money comes through the front door, goes out the back door to pay the bills, and hopefully, we can grab some on the way by to pay ourselves.”

Stoney’s just signed a fresh lease that has eight years to go. Harris says that if he opens another Stoney’s, he’ll target Northern Virginia. He only has one regret—he wishes he documented more from the early days. “I’d also like to see more people from the past,” he says.

CP

Eatery tips? Food pursuits? Send suggestions to lhayes@washingtoncitypaper.com.

DCFEED

what we ate this week: Spicy miso chicken ramen, $13, Bantam King.

Satisfaction level: 5 out of 5.

Grazer Disproof is in the Pudding

The ability to access cuisines from around the world is one of the greatest pleasures of living in D.C. But diners often head into restaurants with preconceived notions that are flat out wrong. We asked chefs and other restaurant professionals to dispel common myths about the food they serve.

—Laura Hayes Joe Neuman at Sloppy Mama’s BBQ 1942 11th St. NW Myth: A “smoke” ring, or the pink rim around the edge of the meat, is some sort of indicator of the quality of smoked meat.

Reality: A smoke ring doesn’t really do much other than add to the aesthetic quality of the meat. We smoke every piece of brisket the exact same way.

Some get a very pronounced smoke ring and others none at all. It has zero impact on the flavor or texture of the brisket. Smoke rings can be faked—a little pink salt in the rub will create that effect, even if the meat is cooked in a gas oven.

Sileshi alifom at DaS ethiopian 1201 28th St. NW Myth: All Ethiopian food is spicy.

Reality: The general assumption tends to be that the cuisine appeals mostly to those who enjoy spicy food. Ethiopia offers a tremendous variety of dishes ranging from mild and flavorful to quite spicy. The food retains flavors based on the order in which the spices are added during the cooking process.

The Dish: Sweet and sour grilled eggplant with fried garlic and mint Where to Get It: Mola, 3155 Mount Pleasant St. NW

David Guas at Bayou Bakery and Lil’ B 1515 N Courthouse Road, Arlington; 1515 Rhode Island Ave. NW Myth: Tomato belongs in Cajun cooking.

Reality: Cajun cuisine is associated with French Acadians who settled in the swamps and prairies of Southwest Louisiana. Cajuns wouldn’t have had access to tomatoes as part of their “swamp” pantry. Cajuns get the credit for creating jambalaya, a one-pot meal. Today, Cajun jambalaya is often referred to as “brown” jambalaya because it is made without tomatoes. If you see a red, tomato-sauced jambalaya, it ain’t Cajun!

Jeeraporn “P’Boom” Poksupthong at Baan Thai 1326 14th St. NW Myth: The color of Thai curry will tell you how spicy it’s going to be.

Reality: American Thai restaurants started that myth to make it easy for customers to pick out a meal. A curry’s heat comes from the type and strength of the chilis, the season in which they were picked, and how they were grown— sort of like grapes for wine.

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

what we’ll eat next week: Tchoupitoulas-style oysters with blue crab, tasso ham, and roasted corn, three for $12, Pearl Dive Oyster Palace. Excitement level: 4 out of 5.

’WichingHour

Danny Coleman at The Dubliner 4 F St. NW Myth: Corned beef is a common Irish dish.

Reality: Corned beef was a substitute for bacon that Irish-American immigrants used in the late 19th century. Bacon or lamb and cabbage is the typical St. Patrick’s day meal. The Dubliner keeps corned beef and cabbage on its menu because of its modern significance.

The Sandwich: The Provençal

reda Bouizar at Mazagan 2901 Columbia Pike, Arlington Myth: Moroccan food is Middle Eastern food.

Reality: Most people expect a Moroccan restaurant to serve hummus and baba ghanoush. Those dishes are Middle Eastern and not Moroccan. Our cuisine is typically a mix between Andalusian, Berber, and Mediterranean food. Expect tagines, couscous, and bastillas.

Peter and Lydia Chang at Peter Chang and Q by Peter Chang Multiple locations; 4500 East West Highway #100, Bethesda Myth: Chinese cooking methods consist mainly of stir frying.

Reality: The cooking methods span from braising, stewing, cold mixing, double frying, and smoking to braising. Some techniques have distinct levels such as shao (regular stewing), meng (stewing for a long time), and wei (a soup stew).

The Story: Mola owner Erin Lingle brought this recipe back from one of her annual visits to Spain. She is inspired by the Moorish influences in Spanish cooking, and she fell in love with the bold flavors of the Moorish eggplant she encountered while travelling. All of the dishes she tried featured “some kind of

Cost: $8.75 Stuffings: Grilled chicken, artichoke tapenade, arugula, tomatoes, pecorino cheese, garlic aioli Bread: Olive bread Thickness: 2 inches Pros: At first glance, this megachain of French boulangeries with more than 100 locations in 20 plus countries seems like many of the other graband-go lunch spots with a bit of Parisian flair where hurried downtown workers can pick up a sandwich or salad from a refrigerated case. But after one bite, you realize that the bread is the real deal. The crisp loaf is studded with briny green olives and holds up to the sauced vegetables without getting soggy. Despite sitting preassembled for hours, the tomatoes and arugula still taste fresh.

Chef KN Vinod and Surfy rahman at Indique 3512 Connecticut Ave. NW Myth: All curries have curry in them.

Reality: Most Indian chefs are puzzled when guests ask if a particular dish has curry in it. The expression “curry” to most Indians means sauce or gravy. The British evolved the term to mean a combination of certain spices, including turmeric.

Cons: Artichoke tapenade is the second ingredient listed on the label, but you can hardly taste it. This is a shame because it would add a bit more funk to the plain combination of chicken, aioli, and cheese. For a prepackaged sandwich, the nearly $10 price tag is a bit steep, though it seems like a bargain when compared to the $16.50 Maison Kayser charges for its Frenchified take on a chicken club in its separate dining room.

vinegar and sweet element, whether it was sugar or dried fruit.”

Sloppiness level (1 to 5): 1. The olive loaf is thick enough and wide enough to hold all of the ingredients, so they stay where they should. Aioli, spread in a thin layer, stays on the bread and doesn’t ooze out from the sides.

Price: $12 What It Is: Shards of eggplant drenched in a heady sweet and sour sauce, topped with a smattering of fried garlic petals and chopped mint. The kitchen grills the eggplant until it softens and then douses it in a red wine vinegar and sugar reduction that’s infused with chili and roasted garlic. It has a welcome tart and sweet flavor profile, with a hint of heat from the chili and richness from the roasted garlic. The sauce is glazelike and deep maroon in color.

Where: Maison Kayser, 1345 F St. NW

Why Even Meat Eaters Will Like It: Eggplant can be a love-it-or-hateit food, but this may be the eggplant preparation that coaxes the haters across the line. The dish has none of the bitterness that people often associate with the vegetable. Rather, it’s smoky and supple, and the sauce brings out a sweet note that contrasts perfectly with the potent garlic.

—Priya Konings

Overall score (1 to 5): 3.5. It’s not the most exciting sandwich you’ll find in D.C., nor is it the most affordable, but if you’re a bread snob looking for something better than the mushy loaves found at other quick lunch spots, it’s worth spending an extra dollar or two at Maison Kayser.

—Caroline Jones

washingtoncitypaper.com may 4, 2018 15

BALTIMORE’S BEST ADULT ENTERTAINMENT 2015 Baltimore City Paper

FANTASIES is Pretty Much the

Gold Standard. r

BEST NATIONAL FEATURE CLUB Nominee, 2015 Exotic Dancer Magazine

— Baltimore City Paper, 2015

Lap dances & Brand New VIP & Private Dance Rooms

adult film star Charlie Sheen’s Ex-Fiancé

Brett Rossi

[WED.- FRI.]

APRIL 13-15

FIRST EVER LIVE APPEARANCE ANYWHERE

every MONDAY Baltimore’s Best Monday Night Madness for 20+ Years

[FRI.- MON.]

May 25-28

LIVE-ON-STAGE

FANTASIES NIGHTCLUB & SPORTS BAR

$1.50 Bottled Domestics / $2.50 Bottled Imports

Alex Grey

4 BIG NIGHTS

Easy to get to from DC area, just minutes off BW Parkway

Large, free, well lit parking lot

All Brands, All Night PLUS Sports on the BIG SCREENS

every DAY

>

FULL NUDE, FULL LIQUOR

> Full

menu of freshly made in house items

> Balt/Wash area’s only

$100,000 video wall with all the sports action

> Pool tables

fantasiesnightclub.com 5520 Pennington Ave, Balt. MD 21226 16 may 4, 2018 washingtoncitypaper.com

FANTASIES NIGHTCLUB & SPORTS BAR

Like us on Facebook & Follow us on Twitter for exclusive updates and promotions!

CPArts

Kosher du Cinema Select reviews from the 28th annual Washington Jewish Film Festival Budapest Noir

At the Smithsonian American Art Museum, a reevaluation of Diane Arbus’ box of photographs washingtoncitypaper.com/arts

The Last Supper is at its best when it puts 1930s Germany into a broader context. Hitler is not even the first source of controversy: A young woman wants to emigrate to Palestine, and her father worries she is being too impulsive. Though Hitler was just elected, he does not yet dominate German politics, and so the family discusses ancillary figures with equal passion.

The trouble with this approach is that everyone is an avatar, rather than flushed out individuals. Frerichs’ purpose is to educate, rather than entertain or provoke, and so he shoehorns dialogue that sounds clunky and awkward. The title cards only hammer home the point: They describe what happens to German Jews in the war and the years ahead. Maybe younger audiences will find value in such a film, yet anyone with a passing knowledge of history will roll their eyes more than once.

—Alan Zilberman Sat., May 5, 4:30 p.m., Landmark E Street Cinema; Sun., May 6, 2:45 p.m., Landmark Bethesda Row Cinema.

The Dead Nation

Directed by Radu Jude

Outdoors

Directed by Asaf Saban Shrugging at floor tiles may not be the best metaphor for a crumbling marriage, but that’s what we have to work with in Outdoors, writer-director Asaf Saban’s story about a young couple in trouble. Yaara (Noa Koler) and Gili (Udi Razzin) are leaving Tel Aviv along with their young daughter and building their dream home in the countryside, the type of project that anyone will recognize can strain the best of relationships. Indeed, even though the two are clearly in love at the beginning of the build, little disagreements soon turn into big disappointments and questions about their future. (Guys, here’s a hint: Don’t say to your pregnant wife, “Let’s not make decisions based on hormonal changes.”) Koler, last seen in The Wedding Plan, is luminous here, even as her Yaara becomes desperate to engage her husband. Razzin, meanwhile, effectively straddles the line between romantic and jerk. Outdoors is not going blow anyone away with its scenes from a marriage, but its 80 minutes are compelling enough to pass quickly. Call it Bergman-lite. —Tricia Olszewski

film

Sat., May 5, 12:30 p.m., Landmark Bethesda Row Cinema;

Thurs., May 10, 6:20 p.m., Landmark E Street Cinema.

The Last Supper

Directed by Florian Frerichs No one can predict the future. A corollary of that is how we should be gentle toward people who did not see the encroaching darkness before it was too late. The future, cruel and unsparing, hangs over a family of affluent German Jews in The Last Supper like an albatross. Director Florian Frerichs’ drama has a pedagogical purpose—functioning like an after-school special of European history—and yet there is some power in watching his naïve characters delude themselves.

It is 1933, and Hitler was just elected chancellor of Germany. A family gets together for the patriarch’s 80th birthday party, and politics is on everyone’s mind. Every ideology gets representation at the dinner table. There’s the aspiring brownshirt, a Jew who admires Hitler because he fights for the German identity. There’s the bolshevik intellectual, who hates Nazism and the bourgeois trappings of her family. Everyone is polite, even in their disagreements, and the film is a thought experiment about how no one could conceive of what would happen.

The Romanian documentary The Dead Nation asks a lot of its audience, and it is a tough sell. A cynic might dismiss the film as a mere slideshow, and yet its refusal to offer the audience easy answers builds toward unique, powerful cinema.

There are no talking heads in The Dead Nation. In fact, there are no moving images whatsoever. Director Radu Jude shows us a series of photographs from 1937 through 1946, some of which are badly damaged. Most of the photos are portraits, and they are all taken in Romania. Sometimes he dwells on an image for 20, even 30 seconds. The soundtrack is someone reading the diary of a Jewish Romanian doctor, the entries cover the same period as the photographs, and he increasingly saw the need to bear witness to one atrocity after another. Sometimes we hear radio broadcasts, or songs meant to function as propaganda.

There is a power in this approach. It is not like what we experience in a museum, or art gallery. Jude forces his audiences to consider each photograph, never explaining whether we see fascists, Jews, or people who will be slaughtered. None of these photos are candid, so nearly every face stares directly into the camera lens. It’s as if these faces stare at us, asking us to remember and empathize with them.

Jude makes some editorial decisions in how he cuts from one photo to another: Some of the changes are abrupt, and are meant to make us feel uncomfortable. The cumulative effect is immersive, and there is a heaviness in the deadpan narration. Even though there are no emotional outbursts and no picture with disturbing content, people may be moved to tears. By stripping away the typical confines of documentary filmmaking, The Dead Nation creates a space where we are free to reflect, think, and mourn.

—Alan Zilberman Wed., May 9, 6:15 p.m., Landmark Bethesda Row Cinema; Sun., May 13, 5:30 p.m., AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Cetner. washingtoncitypaper.com may 4, 2018 17

CPArts Budapest Noir

Directed by Éva Gárdos Set in the fascist Hungary of 1936, this crime drama, based on a best-selling novel, follows Zsigmond (Krisztián Kolovratnik), a cynical reporter who has seen it all. But when a Jewish prostitute turns up murdered, Zsigmond learns the hard way that someone doesn’t want the murder solved. Can he navigate a seedy underworld of boudoir photographers and secret Communist meetings? Hungarian-born director Éva Gárdos worked in Hollywood as an editor and casting director, and her sprawling C.V. includes Apocalypse Now and Valley Girl. Her stylish, loving homage to film noir features an evocative score that echoes Jerry Goldsmith’s theme for Chinatown. But the movie hews too closely to such familiar genre tropes—like deadpan narration, uncooperative officials, and tough dames—that any resonance with the historical setting gets lost in what starts to feel like hardboiled karaoke night. It’s a lost opportunity, since Budapest, with its cobblestone streets, baroque architecture, and volatile history, would seem like the perfect location for a good neo-noir. It’s that gorgeous, frustrating city that makes the movie watchable, but just barely; it all ends on a groan-inducing mic drop that’s not quite “Forget it Jake, it’s Budapest,” but it might as well be.

—Pat Padua Sat., May 5, 4:15 p.m., Landmark Bethesda Row; Sat., May 12; 6:45 p.m. at the AFI Silver and Cultural Center.

Shalom Bollywood: The Untold History of Indian Cinema

Scaffolding

Mumbai’s multi-billion-dollar film factory puts other entertainment capitals to shame; in 2016, it released a staggering 1,903 films, compared to the meager 789 that stumbled out of American studios. But there’s a curious twist in the history of India’s vibrant cinema. Because Hindu and Muslim women were long forbidden from performing onscreen, the evolving industry had to look elsewhere for its first leading women— to the 2,000 year-old Jewish-Indian community. Shalom Bollywood tells the story of four female superstars whose stage names disguised their heritage: Sulochana (born Ruby Meyers), Pramila (Esther Abraham), her cousin Miss Rose (Rose Ezra), and Nadira (Florence Ezekiel). Director Danny BenMoshe has assembled a vivid collage that blends classic film footage with production stills, memorabilia, and modern-day animation, as well as interviews with these pioneering women’s descendants—who often have their own surprising story to tell. For instance, actor-playwright Haider Ali, who began his own Bollywood career as a teenage rock ’n’ roll singer in the 1950s, is the son of Pramila and a Muslim husband, an unlikely union that demonstrates a multicultural receptiveness within the industry that was often at odds with the tenor of the nation at large.

—Pat Padua

Asher (Asher Lax) is at a crossroads. The 17-year-old works with his gruff father Milo (Yaacov Cohen) in his scaffolding business, but he is also getting ready for his high school matriculation exams with the help of literature teacher Rami (Ami Smolartchik). The hot-tempered student ends up in the principal’s office far too often, but even though Asher acts up in Rami’s class too, sometimes it’s just because he’s impatient to find out what happens at the end of that Greek tragedy. Israeli writer/director Matan Yair uses a naturalistic touch on this classroom drama, so much so that the movie’s central metaphor and on-the-nose literary references feel absolutely organic. That’s thanks to a uniformly strong cast and an especially sensitive performance from Lax, who was one of Yair’s students and in fact inspired the movie. The young actor comes across as a feral James Franco; volatile, impressionable, and finally heartbreaking in his struggle to communicate with his emotionally distant father—and to be receptive to an education that may open up a very different vocation.

While many of the area’s film festivals promise far-flung stories but simply deliver the usual crowd-pleasers, Scaffolding is the kind of breakout drama that should find life outside the festival circuit.

—Pat Padua

Mon., May 7, 8:30 p.m., Edlavitch DCJCC; Sat., May 12, 12:15 p.m., AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center.

Sun., May 6, 5:15 p.m., Landmark Bethesda Row; Wed., May 9, 8:30 p.m., Landmark E Street Cinema.

Directed by Matan Yair

Directed by Danny Ben-Moshe

Control Room at the K-25 plant, Oak Ridge, 1945. Sophisticated equipment was used to monitor and control the potentially hazardous industrial processes at the K-25 plant and other Manhattan Project facilities. Photo courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration.

NOW OPEN AT THE NATIONAL BUILDING MUSEUM 18 may 4, 2018 washingtoncitypaper.com

TheaTerCurtain Calls

The WaiTinG is The hardesT arT

Girlfriend

Waiting for Godot

By Samuel Beckett Directed by Garry Hynes At the Lansburgh Theatre to May 20

The Charms of a Good friend Girlfriend

Book by Todd Almond Music and lyrics by Matthew Sweet Directed by Matthew Gardiner At Signature Theatre to June 10 Matthew Sweet’S poSt-divorce power-pop masterpiece Girlfriend was almost a generation old back in 2010, when Todd Almond—a busy playwright/composer/lyricist who adapts Homer and Shakespeare when he isn’t teaming up contemporary dramatists like Sarah Ruhl and Adam Bock—decided to retcon half its songs (plus one each from a pair of other Sweet albums, 1993’s Altered Beast and 1995’s 100% Fun,) into a modest two-hander about a couple of boys falling in love the summer after high school. There’s nothing the least bit wrong with this sort of appropriation, of course. We each take whatever the writer of a song that moves us was on about and find some way to shoehorn it into the narrative of our own lives. That’s how pop music works.

Why did Almond choose this album? I couldn’t tell you. Maybe because it and its most famous song are both called “Girlfriend,” and Mike (Lukas James Miller), the popular, athletic, college-bound, slower-to-make-peacewith-his-sexual-identity half of this burgeoning couple, keeps claiming he has one. Will (Jimmy Mavrikes) makes no such boasts about his love life or any other part of his life.

He seems to be out, but that’s about all we ever learn about him. His personality—shy, ironic— is the inverse of Mike’s, and that’s all.

Almond could’ve picked any set of love songs for these two to sing to one another.

Borrowing Girlfriend requires him to jump

through a bunch of hoops. He’s set the show in Nebraska in the early ’90s (Girlfriend-therecord came out—er, was released—in 1991), which is apparent only from the fact the two boys talk via landline phones and Will has a stack of VHS tapes on his dresser.

Apparently because Almond wanted to use “Evangeline”—a song Sweet wrote about a comic book character (“a nun who is really a cop who is really an alien” in Will’s shaky description) whose adventures bounced among three different publishers throughout the 1980s, all of them long extinct—Almond imagines that “Evangeline” has been adapted into a movie, one that Mike invites Will to see at the drive-in with him, night after night after night. (Credit sound designer Ryan Hickey with convincing me, briefly, that this film existed. I realized only later that it was the 1996 Pamela Anderson-starring indie comic book adaptation Barb Wire, set in dystopian 2017, that I was remembering.) I can’t decide whether Will’s throwaway line venting frustration at “comic book movies” is a smart joke or a lazy one, given that they were only coming out at the rate of about one every three years back then. But having these two shy fellas sit together in the dark together trying to find their courage is a perfectly serviceable device. A coda set several months after their sensitively depicted first encounter is clunky as hell.

What matters, I suppose, is that Miller and Mavrikes are both believable and likeable. They sing Sweet’s sublime songs reasonably well, although I enjoyed hearing the four-piece all-lady band (who remain visible at the back of the stage throughout the show) play them more.

Bandleader and keyboardist Britt Bonney also sings occasionally, and hearing a woman interpret these songs is fair trade for the fact that we don’t get the Sweet/Robert Quine-or-Richard Lloyd dueling-guitars riffage that made their original versions so indelible. Almond sure picked a loud record to mold into a story this quiet.

—Chris Klimek 4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington. $40–$98.

(703) 820-9771. sigtheatre.org.

To pass time, the two engage in games, playing with boots and bowler hats, dramatizing their despair and isolation in physical comedy. Then, sparring verbally, often drawing on religious themes, it becomes clear that the pair cannot even remember the previous day accurately. When time becomes irrelevant, only the present matters.

Into this void enter Pozzo, played with ample hauteur by Rory Nolan, and Lucky, played by Garrett Lombard. Nolan’s Pozzo is a forceful, posturing, condescending ass who takes control of the stage. To entertain the two tramps, Pozzo offers to have his servant sing, dance, or recite, and Vladimir stumps for speech. When the heretofore quiet Lucky launches into his declamation, he drives the whole ensemble mad, unleashing his philosophical baggage in a tirade that reminds the audience that God, if he exists, is uncaring, and that humans decay and die.

Lombard is given a poisoned chalice: one of the most unenviable roles in dramatic literature. Lucky’s speech is incoherent. It is supposed to be difficult to understand and it is supposed to be unleashed in a torrent that drives everybody mad. Through different stagings, I have yet to see this speech and catch every word of it; I fear I am to be kept waiting.

Despite my disappointment at still not being able to comprehend this speech fully, I thoroughly enjoyed this production. Garry Hynes’ direction is excellent; under her eye the vaudeville routines are enjoyable, and Rea and Monaghan relay the music and poetry of Beckett’s language wonderfully. The second act, where, to wit, nothing happens, again, gives Lombard the opportunity to expand Pozzo’s role.

what iS the point of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot? Is it a devilish exercise in intellectual onanism, designed to torture, frustrate, and garrote its hapless audience?

Or is it a brilliant illustration of our human inclination to create meaning, to construct drama, and to stage theater, while we live, wither, and wait to die? Is it a dreadfully dreary play, a plotless horror sans coherence? Or is it a beautiful play in which the language has its unique brand of poetry, the vaudeville routines entertain, and the barren landscape illustrates the utter hopelessness of existence?

Is it a complete waste of time? Or is it a dazzling meditation on wasted time? Is it the worst of plays or the best of plays? The current production, presented by Ireland’s Druid Theatre at theLansburgh Theatre proves to me that this is indeed, the best of plays.

The mystery unfolds over the course of two acts on Francis O’Connor’s eerie set featuring a country road, a stone, and a tree. Two bowler-hatted tramps populate the landscape. Tall, bearded, Vladimir (Didi to his only friend) chats Waiting for Godot with short, bearded Estragon (Gogo to his only friend). The friends wait for a Mr. Godot, who never appears. The acts are punctuated by the appearance of two more characters: a landlord, Pozzo, and his hunched, inaptly named servant, Lucky.

Vladimir, played by Marty Rea, is the more philosophical tramp.

This play is now part of the modern canon.

With a gangly body and expressive face, Rea looks and is funny. His counterpart, the short, Over the years, it has frustrated some theaterslightly rounded Estragon, played by Aar- goers and charmed others. For its genus, this on Monaghan, is the earthier fellow who, as is an excellent production, and highly recomthe show starts, struggles to take his boot off. mended. Tune your ear to the lilt of the lanWhen his character cannot do so, Monaghan’s guage, to the rhythm of the words, to the abshrugged resignation, “nothing to be done,” surdity and tragedy of the human condition, captures the essence of the play. And as these to the terror of waiting. If, however, the ear is two characters wait, questioning if they are tin, well then, there is nothing to be done.

—Abid Shah even in the right spot to meet this enigmatic Godot, their situation, accentuated by their desolate surroundings, becomes progressive- 450 7th St. NW. $44–$92. (202) 547-1122. shakespearetheatre.org ly unbearable.

washingtoncitypaper.com may 4, 2018 19

FilmShort SubjectS Tully

Mother Weary Tully

Directed by Jason Reitman Screenwriter Diablo coDy and director Jason Reitman made a strong impression with Juno, a comedy about a pregnant teenage girl who decides to give her baby up for adoption.

Some of the dialogue has aged poorly, yet there is an observant core to the film since Cody and Reitman are shrewd about the boundaries and challenges of modern romantic relationships.

Both Cody and Reitman have faltered since— Jennifer’s Body was an unmemorable horror film, while Labor Day was an outright catastrophe—but their latest collaboration, Tully, is a return to form. This intense, brooding dark comedy is a spiritual sequel to Juno, an unglamorous exploration of one woman’s exasperation over motherhood and how that leads to her mourning her youth.

Charlize Theron stars as Marlo, who is in her early forties and about to have her third child. She is starting maternity leave, and is quietly miserable. Perhaps she sees home as a prison, where she will soon be tethered to a newborn who needs constant care. Either way, this pregnancy does not have the anticipation or fear of her first: her husband Drew (Ron Livingston) sleeps through the delivery, and can barely muster excitement when the kid is born. Reitman handles the delivery sequence with wry observation: His camera glides over emergency rooms and hospital beds, framing Marlo on the edges and backgrounds so her delivery has all the drama of a routine outpatient procedure.

She takes the kid home, and struggles through those first weeks (her exhaustion is amplified by her toddler son, who has developmental issues). In a moment of desperation,

she decides to hire a nanny that was suggested by her affluent brother Craig (Mark Duplass).

Her name is Tully (Mackenzie Davis), and once she arrives, she ingratiates herself to the newborn almost immediately. At first, this interloper makes Marlo uncomfortable—Tully is young and pretty, with a bubbly personality— but her presence has the intended effect: Marlo catches up on much-needed sleep, and can spend her waking hours focused on her family. Soon Tully is more than just a nanny. She becomes Marlo’s confidant, and their relationship goes in some bizarre, unruly directions.

It is remarkable that Theron was in Atomic Blonde, a spy thriller with demanding stunts, just about a year ago. This role has none of that film’s kinetic fight scenes, and yet her performance here commands just as much attention. Along with Cody and Reitman, Theron makes zero apologies for her character. There are some moments where her behavior could be seen as exaggerated, even irresponsible, except Theron’s committed performance keeps us on Marlo’s level: After a meeting with her son’s principal, she knocks the baby carrier against a desk while the baby is still in it. This is not a sign of Marlo losing her mind, but her simmering frustration. Nearly every scene is from her point-of-view, even her long chats with Tully, and we slowly realize her funk is due to encroaching middle age and the loss of her identity. If everyone expects you to be a mother first, Tully suggests, then there is no room for the woman you were before.

Before Marlo has her third kid, Tully unfolds like a satire. No one looks her in the eyes, since they are drawn to her belly. It would almost be funny—Marlo has a cutting, caustic sense of humor—if it were not for the accompanying exhaustion and discomfort. But as Marlo and Tully get comfortable with one another, the satirical streak drifts away and the film shifts toward a tightly focused character study. Marlo’s life shrinks once she is on maternity leave, and newfound rest affords her

20 may 4, 2018 washingtoncitypaper.com

a chance to reflect. She speaks wistfully about who she once was, and when Tully dishes about the kind of drama that only matters in your twenties, Marlo forgets her nostalgia and tries to impart some wisdom. Theron and Davis handle this material carefully, creating a sense of genuine spontaneity with characters who are delighted they can still feel any surprise.

Tully does not contain big revelations, since it is all about Marlo’s arc. There are enough little details that highlight the despair that peppers her life: Drew and her go through the motions of marriage, collectively raising their children as best they can, except Drew plays a video game—effectively abandoning their relationship—the first moment they have any privacy. Most films would focus on their marriage, with the husband/father getting equal attention. To Tully’s credit, we only see him how Marlo sees him, and where we leave their marriage depends entirely on whether they stop easy routines that lead toward bad behaviors (even if it’s mostly his fault). This is a film about mothers and motherhood, but through its stubborn empathy, even people who will never be parents have some idea of just how exhausting and unfair it can be.

—Alan Zilberman Tully opens Friday at Landmark E Street Cinema.

Forbidden Love Disobedience

Directed by Sebastian Lelio before you have seen it, hearing about a lesbian drama called Disobedience may conjure up memories of the erotic thrillers of yore. In the ’90s, there was a string of kinky B-movies, like Body of Evidence or Basic Instinct, that attracted major female stars to the cast and salivating boys to the theater. Disobedience may also draw a few horny youngsters from the inferred promise of tawdry sex between its two famous Rachels—Weisz and McAdams—but they will get something far more moving. The film from Oscar-winning director Sebastian Lelio (A Fantastic Woman) is a perceptive human drama and a showcase for its talented stars, although it may be most noteworthy for how it becomes something other than what it promises.

Weisz plays Ronit, a New York photographer whose quasi-bohemian lifestyle is interrupted by the death of her father, a London rabbi. Her

reaction to the news—instant sex with a stranger in a restaurant bathroom—hints at trouble under the surface, but the film smartly takes its time in revealing the scope of her sadness. She returns to the Orthodox Jewish community in which she was raised, and reconnects with two old friends: Dovid (Alessandro Nivola), who studied with her father as a boy and is now in line to take over as rabbi of the local synagogue, and Esti (McAdams), her teenage BFF and now a teacher at a girls’ school. Dovid and Esti are happily married. Ronit has other ideas.

There are lot of ways this could have gone.

Disobedience could have simply opted for titillation and ended up on late-night Cinemax. Or it could have leaned on its indictment of an oppressive religion that prohibits same-sex love from flourishing. In some ways, it does both, but the humanistic script from Lelio and Rebecca Lenkiewicz refuses to turn its characters into symbols of their respective communities.

Yes, Dovid is a Jew nervous about his leadership role in the community, but more often he is a husband who feels he is losing his wife and doesn’t understand why. It’s a marvelous performance by Nivola, hiding his smoldering good looks beneath a beard, glasses, and his character’s learned resistance to affection.

It’s a testament to the filmmaker’s sense of empathy that Dovid gets such meaningful characterization, when Disobedience is really about its women. Weisz and McAdams have conflicting styles and have taken divergent career paths, but their differences provide serious sparks here. Weisz’s gravity—her eyes seem to be permanently misty here—anchors the drama, while McAdams, who specializes in restrained neurosis, slowly and carefully unleashes her passions. McAdams has been wasted for too long as the underwritten love interest in films such as Aloha, Doctor Strange, and Southpaw. It’s remarkable what she can do in a film that understands her talents.

This trio of searing performances transforms Disobedience from a serviceable erotic drama or case against religion into something far more humanistic and, therefore, powerful.

Consider the pallid color scheme used by cinematographer Danny Cohen: Colored material is largely forbidden in Orthodox communities, so we can credit some of this choice to verisimilitude, but the film extends its monochrome palette to its people, as well. The people’s faces are as pale as the dreary London fog. When we visit Esti in her classroom, however, and see her students clad in bright red sweaters, it’s visually shocking.

Is Lelio telling us that adulthood, and not religion, is the real oppressor here? A lesbian drama about Orthodox Jews might sound like a niche work, but Disobedience digs ever deeper and stuns you with how much truth it uncovers.

—Noah Gittell Disobedience opens Friday at Landmark E Street Cinema.

SUMMER

TICKETS ON SALE NOW!

FROM THE ISLAND TO THE WORLD Teatro El Público’s The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant Havana Lyceum Orchestra, photo

by Alex Hoerner

LIVE FROM HERE

WITH CHRIS THILE FORMERLY A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION

STEVEN TYLER AND THE LOVING MARY BAND THE SISTERHOOD BAND

MAY 26

JUN 21

DR. DOG MANCHESTER ORCHESTRA

QUEEN LATIFAH COMMON

CRITICAL EQUATION TOUR

(SANDY) ALEX G

JUL 20

JUN 22 Compañía Irene Rodrígu ez, photo by Christopher Jon es

May 8–20, 2018 An unprecedented Kennedy Center-wide celebration of Cuban arts and culture

400 artists, more than 50 events

WHEELS OF SOUL 2018 TOUR

TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS

MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER

SCHOOL’S OUT FOR SUMMER 2018

WITH FRANCESCO TURRISI AUG 11

SLIGHTLY STOOPID

WITH SPECIAL GUESTS STICK FIGURE AND PEPPER JUL 12

STRAIGHT NO CHASER JAWS IN CONCERT

NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA JUL 21

The Presenting Underwriter of Artes de Cuba HRH Foundation Major support is provided by David M. Rubenstein.

Digital Sponsor

AUG 5

JUL 11

JUL 17

Tickets and information at kennedy-center.org/CUBA

BRYAN ADAMS

HANSON STRING THEORY

NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AUG 4

RHIANNON GIDDENS

TROMBONE SHORTY, GALACTIC, PRESERVATION HALL, AND MORE! AUG 17

KIDZ BOP LIVE 2018 AUG 25

GAVIN DeGRAW PHILLIP PHILLIPS AUG 31

TM & © UNIVERSAL STUDIOS.

Malpaso Dance Theater in 24 Hours and a Dog, photo by Bill Hebert

Additional support is provided by Virginia McGehee Friend, Amalia Perea Mahoney and William Mahoney, The Irene Pollin Audience Development and Community Engagement Initiatives, and the Artes de Cuba Festival Committee.

International Programming at the Kennedy Center is made possible through the generosity of the Kennedy Center International Committee on the Arts.

washingtoncitypaper.com may 4, 2018 21

” D VICE VOTE PET SER18 T 0 2 S “BE OF DC

ehomte. p like e ®

BEST

,inc.

ao plac saiuste there’s n

FACTS ABOUT DANI

bec Dani’s Story...Dani is a female PROFESSIONAL Redbone Coonhound/mixed, she’s IN-HOME PET about 35lbs and her age estimate is SITTING 6-8 years. Dani is truly delightful and Wash D.C 202-362-8900 will make a great family dog! She is a little shy at first, but when she warms Arl/Ffx Co. up to you she is as loving and sweet 703-243-3311 as can be. She is a snuggle bug Mont. Co. who loves sleeping in - and lounging 301-424-7100 around the yard! She does great with EST. 1980 dogs and kids, but could be happy as an only dog of the house, too. She WWW.SITAPET.COM hasn’t been tested with cats. She is MEET DANI! BONDED INSURED playful and cute - she loves to hide her toys in a solo hide and seek game. She enjoys being crated and walks in willingly when it’s Please contact Rural Dog Rescue time for her human to go to work. She is a great www.ruraldogrescue.com to complete an application dog with amazing manners, and is easily trained or visit us at the adoption event this Saturday from 12 - 2 at Howl To The Chief 733 8th Street SE, DC. because she loves to please her humans!

#DCJAZZFEST

Take Metrobus and Metrorail to the...

JUNE 8 – 17, 2018 TICKETS ON SALE NOW

D C JA Z Z F E S T.O RG

SATURDAY JUNE 9 , 2018

THE HAMILTON LIVE

600 14th Steet NW • 8PM (Doors 6:30 PM)

TERENCE BLANCHARD FEAT. THE E-COLLECTIVE W/ MARK G. MEADOWS

PRESENTING SPONSOR

GOLD SPONSORS

PLATINUM SPONSORS

SILVER SPONSORS

MEDIA SPONSOR

The DC Jazz Festival®, a 501(c)(3) non-profit service organization, and its programs are made possible, in part, with major grants from the Government of the District of Columbia, Muriel Bowser, Mayor; with awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, an agency supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Office of Cable Television, Film, Music & Entertainment; and the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development; and, in part, by major funding from the Anne and Ronald Abramson Family Foundation, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, Gillon Family Charitable Fund, Wells Fargo Foundation, The NEA Foundation, Venable Foundation, The Dallas Morse Coors Foundation for the Performing Arts, The Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation, The Reva & David Logan Foundation, John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation. ©2018 DC Jazz Festival. All rights reserved.

22 may 4, 2018 washingtoncitypaper.com

GALLERIESSketcheS Art School, conSequentiAl

still has a role to play in this project.

Easily the most arresting piece at NEXT is the towering sculpture in Case Baumgarten’s “Moon Daisies.” The outsized statue of a panhandler, hand outstretched, hood pulled over his NEXT ballcap, mimes the classical bearing of MichaelAt the Flagg Building to May 20 angelo’s “David.” But the statue’s fugitive mateWhen artists graduate from art school, rials, specifically insulation foam, jab at the gap they face long odds. Artists take odd jobs— between the dignity of being and the hopelesswalking dogs, waiting tables—as they try to ness of homelessness. Two paintings, one of a find their footing. They’re prioritizing the tent encampment, underscore Baumgarten’s sense of self-identity or calling that comes earnest appeal.

Very few paintings are to be found otherwise. with making art, placing their college bets with full knowledge that career fulfillment isn’t go- The north wing of the Flagg Building’s groundfloor atrium is occupied by a jumble of interior ing to happen right away.

Which would be fine if art students weren’t design maquettes. Several are promising, like also paying the historically high tuitions as- Lily Hoffman’s proposal for a natural science show exploring the weird world of tree-root systems, or Leilani Campbell’s exhibit on the afterlife in Afro-Caribbean cultures.

The presentations run together, housed too closely under a structure that is chocka-block with drafts and sketches. For an exhibit on exhibit design, the lack of clarity is a fatal flaw. (Helen Jackson’s sumptuous dinner-plate still-life photos, hidden away along the north wall behind the frenetic curatorial-practice section, are all the richer as a reward for surviving the melee.)

Elsewhere, Ninalauren Khaiat’s “Com“Moon Daisies” by Case Baumgarten (2018) posing the Decomposing,” a photojoursociated with far more lucrative careers. Art nalistic profile of a taxidermy studio, may haunt schools are caught in the same swell of costs as viewers, especially one darkly comic shot of three the rest of higher ed—but art careers have nev- different sets of glass eyes arranged on a log. er merited tuition costs of $70,000 per year. Quincy Mata’s “Home” has the newest look in So art schools have adjusted course, namely NEXT: It’s a collage of digitally produced, comicby closing up kilns and darkrooms, opening like illustrations depicting scenes from D.C.’s LGuntested degrees and programs, and makin- BTQ community. Collage might not be the final format this work should take, but the dance-club ga lot of promises.

NEXT—the annual thesis art show at the Cor- beat breaks through every illo. There are lukecoran School of the Arts & Design—is a picture of warm exercises on view in NEXT, too, including an art school part-way through this bracing tran- a project by Alan Schmid pairing portraits of gensition. As ever, this student show excels in pho- der non-conforming figures with their preferred tography, the category that for decades has dis- pronouns, and an awesome but noisy fashion intinguished the Corcoran as a wizard academy. stallation by Areej Itayem. Both series need edThe show also features some of the expanded iting. (As a famous Corcoran’s alumnus directs, offerings since the college came under the wing “Make it work.”)

The point of NEXT is to point to the future. I of George Washington University. To the Corcoran’s credit, this class is likely the most diverse see a reckoning looming: How to justify the inin the school’s long history. But in places, NEXT creasingly outrageous tuition costs for the stushows the seams of the Corcoran’s awkward dent-consumer? This will be another bet, one undertaken this time by GW’s top executives. transformation.

One of the show’s standouts is Keara Wilson’s The next pivot at the Corcoran may mean open“Slaves to Masters,” a grid of 24 black-and-white ing studio art classes to all students, scrapping photographs of African-Americans, their backs the BFA track, and even more austerity meaexposed to the camera. Inspiration for the piece sures in the budget. Or it could mean succeedcame from a famous Civil War picture by Wil- ing where no other art school has.

At least the Corcoran is not alone: Art schools liam D. McPherson and J. Oliver that shows the scars across the back of an escaped slave named all over are suffering. Plenty have stalled out at Gordon. Their photograph dates to 1863; the Cor- the buying-3D-printers stage. If only visionary coran was founded a few years later. The picture leaders had instead de-escalated years ago, recwas reproduced widely in propaganda for the ab- ognizing their role as a vocational school—and olitionist cause and Union campaign (as Gor- in the Corcoran’s case, the nation’s premiere in—Kriston Capps don had enlisted). Wilson’s piece declares that stitute of photography. black people must still bear witness to the lashes of white supremacy. Moreover, her sensitive 500 17th St. NW. Free. (202) 994-1700. corcoran.gwu.edu and sensuous portraits show that the photograph

musicdiscography

There Is No Stronger Sex Stronger Sex Blight Records

At first glAnce, it appears that There Is No Stronger Sex, the second full-length release from experimental duo Stronger Sex, traffics in binaries. The shimmering pop songs drag listeners toward the dance floor, while the lyrics encourage introspection, examining conversion therapy, dating in D.C., and mental health. But, much like binaries themselves, that would be a drastic oversimplification.

It’s an electro-pop album with plenty of nods to EDM. The album is a deep dive into Johnny Fantastic (Br’er, Loi Loi) and Leah Gage’s (BRNDA) personal lives. It’s neither of these things. It’s both. It’s more.

Riffing on the “stronger/fairer” dichotomy of the male/female sex binary, resistance is built into the album’s title and the band’s very name. “There is no stronger sex” initially seems to suggest that neither men nor women are stronger than the other, that there’s a level of equality there. One is simply not stronger than the other. But that doesn’t really get to the heart of the issue, as “there is no stronger sex” could almost be shortened down to “there is no sex,” pushing aside man/woman and female/male as ways of discussing strength and identity

Listen to “There Is No Stronger Sex” at washingtoncitypaper.com/arts.

HAPPILY EVER AFTER HAS FINALLY MET ITS MATCH.

Photo by Karli Cadel /Glimmerglass

Strength in Dance numberS

and suggesting that, perhaps, we’re all strong, no matter where we fall on the gender spectrum.

This is perhaps most apparent on the album’s second track, “Girltown S t r u t .” A chronicle of experiences with street harassment, the song is primarily sung by Johnny Fantastic, crooning “I do the girltown strut/ And suddenly someone notices/ And said ‘I’d like to bone you later,’” calling back to times they’ve been catcalled, followed, or threatened walking down the street. Their vocals later give way to Gage running through the catcaller’s playbook, all set to driving, sparkling synth tones. The juxtaposition of the music with the lyrical content does quite a lot to highlight the latent violence present in these kinds of interactions. It’s heavy stuff, but stuff that you can’t help but dance along to.

This is largely the mold for There Is No Stronger Sex: heavily political songs made to dance to. Some are more personal than others (“Dating is Death to the Soul,” “Shock Therapy,” and “Prozac Palace” come to mind), but the personal is political and vice-versa.

So when Fantastic cries “I don’t have feelings, too” toward the end of “Prozac Palace,” they’re not just commenting on the numbing effects of Prozac, they’re decrying the current discourse (or lack thereof ) on mental health.

That this is immediately followed by the most intimate moment on the album—nearly a minute of crying layered with whispers—emphasizes this point, placing listeners squarely in the headspace of someone fighting their invisible battles.

There Is No Stronger Sex does what the best pop albums do: sets questions about what it means to be human to a backdrop of earworm melodies. It’s not always an easy album to listen to, but it’s an album that demands your attention.

—Keith Mathias

Candide

May 5–26 | Opera House Music by Leonard Bernstein / Book Adapted from Voltaire by Hugh Wheeler in a New Version by John Caird / Lyrics by Richard Wilbur with Additional Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, John La Touche, Lillian Hellman, Dorothy Parker, and Leonard Bernstein In English with Projected English Titles Production from The Glimmerglass Festival

TICKETS ON SALE NOW! KENNEDY-CENTER.ORG | (202) 467-4600

Tickets also available at the Box Office. Groups call (202) 416-8400.

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

Major support for WNO is provided

by Jacqueline Badger Mars.

David M. Rubenstein is the Presenting Underwriter of WNO. WNO acknowledges the longstanding generosity of Life Chairman Mrs. Eugene B. Casey.

WNO’s Presenting Sponsor

Additional support for Candide is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts.

washingtoncitypaper.com may 4, 2018 23

24 may 4, 2018 washingtoncitypaper.com

CITYLIST

GURF MORLIX PRESENTS: A BLAZE FOLEY EXPERIENCE

Music 25 Books 30 Dance 31 Theater 31 Film 32

Music

TUESDAY, 5/15 $17/$20

CITY LIGHTS: FRIDAY

FRIDAY CounTRY

Pearl Street WarehouSe 33 Pearl Street SW. (202) 380-9620. Dead Winter Carpenters. 8:30 p.m. $12. pearlstreetwarehouse.com.

ELECTRonIC

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

Feed Me Disco with Eau Claire. 10 p.m. $10. ustreetmusichall.com.

H

Funk & R&B

BirchMere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. The Whispers. 7:30 p.m. $75. birchmere.com.

HIp-Hop

SongByrd MuSic houSe and record cafe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Skyzoo. 8 p.m. $18–$22. songbyrddc.com.

JAzz

BlueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 337-4141. Joshua Redman Quartet. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $45–$50. bluesalley.com.

H

THU, 5/3

CHRIS LUQUETTE BAND (OF FRANKS SULLIVAN & DIRTY KITCHEN)

FRI, 5/4

JUMPIN JUPITER + THE DELARCOS ROCK N ROLLABILY

SUN, 5/6

ANDREW LEAHEY & THE HOMESTEAD

TUES, 5/8 CHISTY HAYS WED, 5/9 ADAM CAROLL $15

RoCk

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

THU, 5/10 CHRISTIAN LOPEZ W/ PIERCE EDENS $12/$15

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

Lord Huron. 8 p.m. $40–$60. theanthemdc.com.

FRI, 5/11 HUMAN COUNTRY JUKEBOX

WoRLD

union Stage 740 Water St. SW. (877) 987-6487.

Cheikh Ndoye & Friends. 7:30 p.m. $45–$55. unionstage.com.

SAT, 5/12 THE 19TH STREET + STRAHAN & THE GOOD NEIGHBORS

SATuRDAY

TUES, 5/15 GURF MORLIX PRESENTS A BLAZE FOLEY EXPERIENCE $17/$20

BLuES

the haMilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. The California Honeydrops. 8:30 p.m. $20–$25. thehamiltondc.com.

ELECTRonIC

ten tigerS Parlour 3813 Georgia Ave. NW. (202) 506-2080. Heathered Pearls. 10 p.m. $15. tentigersdc.com.

Funk & R&B

BirchMere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. The Whispers. 7:30 p.m. $75. birchmere.com.

Kennedy center MillenniuM Stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Alex Vaughn. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

JAzz

BlueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 337-4141. Joshua Redman Quartet. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $45–$50. bluesalley.com.

HAMLET

BlacK cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Speedy Ortiz. 8 p.m. $15. blackcatdc.com.

BlacK cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Holy Hum. 9 p.m. $10. blackcatdc.com.

FRI, 5/18 FIONA SILVER

Imagine Shakespeare’s Hamlet with a mostly black cast, taken from ye olde Denmark and gently placed in a contemporary West African country (annoyingly not identified), in Technicolor, and you have the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Hamlet at the Kennedy Center. Celebrated director Simon Godwin has been credited with breathing new life into a play due for some revision, while British-Ghanaian lead actor Paapa Essiedu has been tagged as “the Fresh Prince,” bringing a renewed sense of connectivity to the title role. Essiedu is the first black actor to own the Hamlet role at the company, and his run as the tormented and paranoid prince has been successful so far, garnering rave reviews from critics across the pond. The stateside run of the Shakespearean tragedy will be quite brief, starting on Wednesday and concluding Sunday.

It will be of genuine interest to see how such a familiar play sets itself in contemporary African culture to present a story that is both refreshing and regardful of its muse. The show runs to May 6 at the Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater, 2700 F St. NW. $49–$139. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org.

—Hamzat Sani

RoCk

9:30 cluB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Ani DiFranco. 8 p.m. $40. 930.com.

THU, 5/17 CLAUDETTES $12/$14 FRI, 5/18 BOBBY THOMPSON + FRIENDS TEXAS BLUES TRIBUTE SAT, 5/19 WOODSHEDDERS TUES, 5/22 ROD PICOTT THU, 5/24 ANGELA PERLEY FRI, 5/25 BEARCAT WILDCAT $12/$15 SAT, 5/26 JONAH TOLCHIN + DHARMASOULBAND

HILL COUNTRY BARBECUE MARKET

fillMore Silver SPring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Parkway Drive. 7:30 p.m. $23. fillmoresilverspring.com.

WoRLD

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

Teddy Afro. 8 p.m. $65–$100. theanthemdc.com.

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

SongByrd MuSic houSe and record cafe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. The Fever 333. 8 p.m. $13–$15. songbyrddc.com.

Pearl Street WarehouSe 33 Pearl Street SW. (202) 380-9620. Chopteeth. 8:30 p.m. $20. pearlstreetwarehouse.com.

Near Archives/Navy Memorial [G, Y] and Gallery PI/Chinatown [R] Metro washingtoncitypaper.com may 4, 2018 25

Take Metrobus and Metrorail to the...

#DCJAZZFEST

CITY LIGHTS: SATuRDAY

S.M.I.L.E

JUNE 8 – 17, 2018 TICKETS ON SALE NOW

D C JA Z Z F E S T.O RG

DC JAZZ FESTIVAL AND THE KENNEDY CENTER PRESENT:

CHUCHO VALDÉS & GONZALO RUBALCABA

FRIDAY, JUNE 15 • CONCERT HALL • 8:00 PM

Although Robin Martéa’s first solo show is currently on view at the Anacostia Arts Center, this is not her first foray into the art world. After she graduated from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, the Mobile-born artist spent a few years in the Atlanta arts scene sharpening her aesthetic across the mediums of painting and photography before establishing herself as an independent illustrator and visual artist. S.M.I.L.E includes new works that hone in on humanity’s continuous pursuit of happiness. Prints l i ke “ D rea m Bi g ” and “Life Is A Maze” evoke joy and apprehension, respectively, while both retain the sense of fun and whimsy inherent in the artist’s style. She instructs her audience that her art “is a direct reflection of my imagination … When viewing my work, I’d like for the audience to bring all their aspirations to the table.

Whether young or old, my hope is that they leave with their minds full of imagination and their hearts full of inspiration.” The exhibition is on view to May 6 at the Anacostia Arts Center, 1231 Good Hope Road SE. Free. (202) 631-6291. anacostiaartscenter.com.

—Hamzat Sani

WWW.KENNEDY-CENTER.ORG FOR ARTISTS AND COMPLETE SCHEDULE, VISIT DCJAZZFEST.ORG PRESENTING SPONSOR

ToM MISCH

PLATINUM SPONSORS

GOLD SPONSORS

BRONZE SPONSORS

SILVER SPONSORS

MEDIA SPONSOR

The DC Jazz Festival®, a 501(c)(3) non-profit service organization, and its programs are made possible, in part, with major grants from the Government of the District of Columbia, Muriel Bowser, Mayor; with awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, an agency supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Office of Cable Television, Film, Music & Entertainment; and the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development; and, in part, by major funding from the Anne and Ronald Abramson Family Foundation, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, Gillon Family Charitable Fund, Wells Fargo Foundation, The NEA Foundation, Venable Foundation, The Dallas Morse Coors Foundation for the Performing Arts, The Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation, The Reva & David Logan Foundation, John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation. ©2018 DC Jazz Festival. All rights reserved.

26 may 4, 2018 washingtoncitypaper.com

CITY LIGHTS: SunDAY

On “Before Paris,” the first track of Tom Misch’s debut album, Geography, a male voice passionately voices Misch’s musical ethos: “You have to love this thing, man; you have to love it and breathe it. It’s your morning coffee. It’s your food. That’s why you become an artist. Art is a mirror of society.” As heard on Geography, the South London artist channels his favorite influences, like the sensual soul of D’Angelo, the euphoric funk of Earth, Wind & Fire, and the imaginative hip-hop of Kaytranada, along with his own classical jazz education to graduate from bedroom beatmaker to dance floor maestro. With groovy chords, breezy basslines, and sassy fingersnaps, Geography contributes toe-tapping, feel-good vibes to not only the hip-hop conversation, but also to a world in desperate need of some movement. Tom Misch performs with Gabriel Garzón Montano at 7:30 p.m. at Black Cat, 1811 14th St. NW. $20–$25. (202) 667-4490. blackcatdc.com.

—Casey Embert

washingtoncitypaper.com may 4, 2018 27

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

CITY LIGHTS: MonDAY

For entire schedule go to Birchmere.com Find us on Facebook/Twitter!

Tix @ Ticketmaster.com 800-745-3000 Carsie MADELEINE PEYROUX Blanton 4 THE WHISPERS 6 MARCUS MILLER 10 UNDER THE STREETLAMP

May 3

11 2nd Annual Desperados/Wax Museum Reunion! feat.

NRBQ, NORTHSTAR BAND with Ratso & Johnny Castle,

CHARLOTTESVILLE ALL-STARS with Mark Wenner

12 13

GARY TAYLOR RENAISSANCE “A Symphonic Journey”

Trapper BoDEANS Schoepp 18 KINDRED THE FAMILY SOUL 20 KIEFER SUTHERLAND B R Monica 23 RAUL MALO Rizzio 24 MARC COHN 25 RAHSAAN PATTERSON 27 10,000 MANIACS

17

ick Rantley

Lily JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE Hiatt Jamie 30 THE TAJ MAHAL Trio McLean 31 BIG BAD VOODOO DADDY June 1 HERE COME THE MUMMIES 2 JASON D. WILLIAMS & THE NIGHTHAWKS

29

7

In the

!

AMADOU & MARIAM 8 KELLY WILLIS & CHRIS KNIGHT 9 CHARLES ROSS’

pAnDA BEAR

When Noah Lennox isn’t creating lush, experimental pop music with his band, Animal Collective, he’s likely creating similarly nebulous soundscapes via his own solo endeavor under the adorable moniker Panda Bear. In January, Lennox released his third Panda Bear EP, A Day with the Homies, a five-track recording available exclusively on vinyl. A Day with the Homies was written during the yearlong tour for Animal Collective’s latest full-length album, Painting With. From the tour bus to the hotel room, Lennox summoned colorful sketches and atmospheric melodies in unconventional spaces, generating a mysterious minimalism and a pointed feeling of wanting more. “They feel really kind of simple to me. Really basic in a way, almost like there’s sections of the songs missing,” Lennox said in an interview with Missoulian, a mere four hours after he wrapped up the album. “But that’s something I like about dub music.” Panda Bear performs with Geologist at 7 p.m. at 9:30 Club, 815 V St. NW. $25. (202) 265-0930. 930.com. —Casey Embert

SunDAY

pop

Pearl Street WarehouSe 33 Pearl Street SW. (202) 380-9620. Ruben Moreno. 3:30 p.m. $20. pearlstreetwarehouse.com.

SongByrd MuSic houSe and record cafe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Faux Ferocious. 8 p.m. $10. songbyrddc.com.

CLASSICAL

TuESDAY

BLuES

the international Student houSe of WaShington dc 1825 R St. NW. (202) 232-4007. David Shifrin and Miro Quartet. 4 p.m. $20–$40. ishdc.org.

FoLk

9:30 cluB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Bahamas. 7 p.m. $25. 930.com. union Stage 740 Water St. SW. (877) 987-6487. Liza Anne. 7:30 p.m. $15. unionstage.com.

JAzz

BirchMere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Marcus Miller. 7:30 p.m. $69.50. birchmere.com.

BlueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 337-4141. Joshua Redman Quartet. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $45–$50. bluesalley.com.

pop

THREE DOG NIGHT 11 RY COODER & His Band 12 DAVID SANBORN 13 MATTHEW SWEET 14 DAVE ALVIN & JIMMIE DALE GILMORE (Backed by The Guilty Ones) w/Dead Rock West 10

FREDDIE JACKSON 16 PIECES OF A DREAM 15

28 may 4, 2018 washingtoncitypaper.com

SongByrd MuSic houSe and record cafe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Amber Mark. 8 p.m. $12–$15. songbyrddc.com.

RoCk

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

GoGo Penguin. 7:30 p.m. $15–$29.75. thehamiltondc. com.

MonDAY ELECTRonIC

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

Kygo. 7:30 p.m. $55–$75. theanthemdc.com.

JAzz

BlueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Bowie State University Jazz Ensemble. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $20. bluesalley.com.

9:30 cluB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Panda Bear.

7 p.m. $25. 930.com.

ELECTRonIC

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

Kygo. 7:30 p.m. $55–$75. theanthemdc.com.

JAzz

union Stage 740 Water St. SW. (877) 987-6487. The New Mastersounds. 8:30 p.m. $20–$30. unionstage.com.

pop

9:30 cluB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Alvvays. 7 p.m. $25. 930.com.

BlueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Kat Edmonson. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $30. bluesalley.com.

RoCk

Black cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Power Trip. 7:30 p.m. $16–$18. blackcatdc.com.

SongByrd MuSic houSe and record cafe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Braids. 8 p.m. $12–$14. songbyrddc.com.

WEDnESDAY CounTRY

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

Robben Ford. 7:30 p.m. $24.75–$49.75. thehamiltondc.com.

ELECTRonIC

9:30 cluB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Marian Hill.

7 p.m. $34. 930.com.

FoLk

union Stage 740 Water St. SW. (877) 987-6487. Josh Rouse. 7:30 p.m. $20–$30. unionstage.com.

Merriweather Post Pavilion • Columbia, MD THIS FRI/SAT/SUN! FEST! M3 ROCK FESTIVAL 2018 METAL

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

M3 SOUTHERN ROCK CLASSIC FEATURING HERN

SOUT !

CK FEST RO

JUST ANNOUNCED!

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

The xx .................................................................................... JULY 26 & 27

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

THIS WEEK’S SHOWS

Florida Georgia Line .................................................................................... JUNE 7 Robert Plant & The Sensational Space Shifters w/ Sheryl Crow & Seth Lakeman ..................................................................... JUNE 12 Luke Bryan w/ Jon Pardi & Morgan Wallen ................................................. JUNE 14 Ray LaMontagne w/ Neko Case................................................................ JUNE 20 Paramore w/ Foster the People & Soccer Mommy .................................... JUNE 23 Sugarland w/ Brandy Clark & Clare Bowen ......................................................... JULY 14 Dispatch w/ Nahko and Medicine for the People & Raye Zaragoza ............. JULY 21 David Byrne w/ Benjamin Clementine ................................................................ JULY 28

On Sale Thursday, May 3 at 10am

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

ALL GOOD PRESENTS

TAUK w/ Of Tomorrow & Deaf Scene ........................................................ F MAY 4 Ani DiFranco w/ Gracie and Rachel ............................................................... Sa 5 Bahamas w/ Soul Brother Stef ....................................................................... Su 6 Panda Bear w/ Geologist .................................................................................M 7 Marian Hill w/ Michl ........................................................................................ W 9 MAY

JUNE (cont.)

Wye Oak w/ Palm .......................F 11

MIXTAPE Pride Party

w/ DJs Matt Bailer • Keenan Orr • Tezrah ................Sa 9

MAY 12 SOLD OUT!

ALL GOOD PRESENTS

Trampled By Turtles w/ Hiss Golden Messenger .........Su 13 Jukebox the Ghost w/ The Greeting Committee .......Th 17 Andrew W.K. w/ Moluba ........Su 20 Tune-Yards w/ My Brightest Diamond ............M 21 Rising Appalachia .................F 25 Lissie w/ Van William ...............Sa 26 Japanese Breakfast w/ LVL Up & Radiator Hospital ....W 30 U STREET MUSIC HALL PRESENTS

Flight Facilities ....................Tu 31 JUNE

Dirty Projectors Early Show! 6pm Doors .......................F 1 Real Friends?: Beyoncé, Jay-Z, Kanye West,

Rihanna, and Drake Dance Night with DJ Dredd and Video Mix

by O’s Cool Late Show! 10pm Doors ..F 1

The Glitch Mob w/ Elohim .......Sa 2 Hop Along w/ Bat Fangs & Bad Moves ...........Tu 5 Francis and the Lights ..........W 6 Parquet Courts w/ Goat Girl ...Th 7 White Ford Bronco: DC’s All-90s Band .......................F 8

MANY MORE SHOWS ON SALE!

9:30 CUPCAKES

D NIGHT ADDED!

FIRST NIGHT SOLD OUT! SECON

ALL GOOD PRESENTS

CAPITAL JAZZ FEST FEATURING

Chromeo w/ Pomo ...................Tu 12 Ben Harper & Charlie Musselwhite ...........W 13 WPGC BIRTHDAY BASH FEATURING

E.U. with Sugar Bear & Kid N’ Play ........................Th 14 American Aquarium w/ Cory Branan Early Show! 6pm Doors .....................F 15

Who’s Bad: The World’s #1

Michael Jackson Tribute Band

Late Show! 10pm Doors .....................F 15

M. Ward ....................................Sa 16 Houndmouth ..........................Su 17 Story District’s Out/Spoken This is a seated show.......................Th 21 AN EVENING WITH

The Feelies ..............................F 22 STEEZ PROMO PRESENTS

Ghastly ....................................Sa 23 Old 97’s ......................................F 29 Turnpike Troubadours w/ Charley Crocket .....................Sa 30 JULY

The Get Up Kids w/ Racquet Club & Ageist ...........Su 15 Deafheaven w/ Drab Majesty & Uniform ........Sa 21

930.com

The best thing you could possibly put in your mouth Cupcakes by BUZZ... your neighborhood bakery in Alexandria, VA. | www.buzzonslaters.com

VANS WARPED TOUR PRESENTED BY JOURNEYS FEAT.

3OH!3 • August Burns Red • Less Than Jake and more! ......................... JULY 29

Lady Antebellum & Darius Rucker w/ Russell Dickerson..........AUGUST 2 CDE PRESENTS SUMMER SPIRIT FESTIVAL FEATURING

Erykah Badu • Anderson .Paak & The Free Nationals • Nas • The Roots and more!..................................................................... AUGUST 4 & 5

Jason Mraz w/ Brett Dennen .....................................................................AUGUST 10 AUG 11 SOLD OUT!

Phish .................................................................................................................AUGUST 12 CAKE & Ben Folds w/ Tall Heights ........................................................AUGUST 18 Kenny Chesney w/ Old Dominion ............................................................AUGUST 22 The National w/ Cat Power & Phoebe Bridgers ...............................................SEPT 28 • For full lineups and more info, visit merriweathermusic.com • 930.com

Pimlico Race Course • Baltimore, MD PREAKNESS BUDWEISER INFIELDFEST FEATURING

Post Malone • 21 Savage • Odesza • Frank Walker and more! . SAT MAY 19 Preakness.com

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

Jessie Ware w/ Albin Lee Meldau .MAY 11 Blackmore’s Night The Kills w/ Dream Wife .............MAY 14 w/ The Wizard’s Consort ................. JULY 25 Blood Orange ........................ SEPT 28 Gomez: Bring It On 20th Anniversary Tour ....JUNE 9

Eels ..............................................JUNE 11 Yann Tiersen ..........................JUNE 17 New date! All 12/5 tickets will be honored.

AN EVENING WITH The Tallest Man On Earth . NOV 9

MADISON HOUSE PRESENTS Kamasi Washington ............ NOV 10

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

9:30 CLUB PRESENTS AT U STREET MUSIC HALL Geographer w/ So Much Light .... Th MAY 10 Hinds ..................................................... F 11 Alice Glass w/ Pictureplane ............... Sa 12 BJ The Chicago Kid & Ro James ... W 16 James Veitch ...................................... F 18 SOB X RBE ......................................... Sa 19 070 Shake .......................................... Th 24

Jake Miller w/ Devin Hayes .................. F 25 Jussie Smollett w/ Victory Boyd ....... Sa 26 Bruno Major ................................ Tu JUN 5 Logan Henderson ................................F 8 Shwayze & Cisco:

10th Anniversary Summer Tour ........ Sa 9

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

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

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

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

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

930.com washingtoncitypaper.com may 4, 2018 29

JAzz BlueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Nik Bartsch’s RONIN. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $25. bluesalley.com.

RoCk SongByrd MuSic houSe and record cafe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Them Evils. 8 p.m. $10–$12. songbyrddc.com.

AN EVENING WITH

WHITE FORD BRONCO FRIDAY

MAY 4

CALIFORNIA

HONEYDROPS

VoCAL

M AY TH 3

JODY WATLEY AND SRL

S5

JOE CLAIR & FRIENDS COMEDY SHOW

SU 6

W/ CHARLIE HUNTER SATURDAY MAY

GOGO PENGUIN W/ WES SWING WED, MAY 9

ROBBEN FORD W/ TONEY ROCKS

S 12

THE BUMPER JACKSONS

CLASSICAL

W/ SPECIAL GUEST:

WaShington national cathedral 3101 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 537-6200. Josh Cohen. 7:30 p.m. $25–$65. nationalcathedral.org.

SU 13

SAT, MAY 12

NEWMYER FLYER PRESENTS

MOTHER’S DAY GOSPEL BRUNCH FEATURING

THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY GOSPEL CHOIR TUES, MAY 15

BirchMere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Under The Streetlamp. 7:30 p.m. $49.50. birchmere.com.

Books

ehud BaraK Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak speaks about his new memoir, My Country, My Life: Fighting for Israel, Searching for Peace. Sixth & I Historic Synagogue. 600 I St. NW. May 8. 7 p.m. $15–$45. (202) 408-3100. greer hendricKS and Sarah PeKKanen The two authors share from their joint domestic suspense thriller The Wife Between Us, full of twists and turns.

One More Page Books. 2200 N. Westmoreland Street, No. 101, Arlington. May 8. 7 p.m. Free. (703) 300-9746.

JeSMyn Ward Two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward discusses Sing, Unburied, Sing, her latest novel, a Southern gothic epic in which a woman drives with her children to bring her husband home from prison. Quaker Meeting House at Sidwell Friends School. 3825 Wisconsin Ave. NW. May 9. 7 p.m. $18–$20.

MOTHER’S DAY

CITY LIGHTS: TuESDAY

OF THE O’JAY’S F 18

BY POPULAR DEMAND: OF THE O’JAY’S

DELTA RAE W/ SAWYER

SU 20 VIVIAN GREEN

FRI, MAY 18

F 25

THE WEIGHT BAND

FEAT. MEMBERS OF THE BAND, LEVON HELM BAND, & RICK DANKO GROUP

MACY GRAY

SU 27 TRENT TOMLINSON

SAT, MAY 19

JUNE

BETTYE LAVETTE SOLD OUT

YACHT ROCK REVUE AN EVENING WITH CHAISE

BlueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Arturo Sandoval. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $60–$65. bluesalley.com.

VoCAL

EDDIE LEVERT

WED, MAY 16

FRI, MAY 25

STOKELY OF

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

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

TH 17 EDDIE LEVERT

W/ PRESSING STRINGS

AN EVENING WITH

JAzz

RoCk

(2 SHOWS 1PM/6PM)

MINGO FISHTRAP

SUN, MAY 20

union Stage 740 Water St. SW. (877) 987-6487.

Moon Boots. 9 p.m. $20–$25. unionstage.com.

FT. MONICA RAMEY

WITH REGINA BELLE

THE BEST OF JANIS JOPLIN & JIMI HENDRIX 10am, 12:30pm, 3pm

ELECTRonIC

SongByrd MuSic houSe and record cafe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Malu Trevejo. 8 p.m. $15–$18. songbyrddc.com.

(2 SHOWS 7/10PM)

W/ ELENA & LOS FULANOS

SUN, MAY 13

MILLIE JACKSON

MINT CONDITION

FRI, MAY 11

BLuES

(2 SHOWS 7/10PM)

TH 10 BEEGIE ADAIR TRIO

SUN, MAY 6

THuRSDAY Pearl Street WarehouSe 33 Pearl Street SW. (202) 380-9620. Luke Winslow-King. 8:15 p.m. $10. pearlstreetwarehouse.com.

FULL POWER BLUES BAND

5

ManSion at StrathMore 10701 Rockville Pike, North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Cecily. 7:30 p.m. $17. strathmore.org.

pop

F1

STEPHANIE QUAYLE

SU 3

RARE ESSENCE

LOUNGE

SAT, MAY 26

http://igg.me/at/bethesdablues

WED, MAY 30

7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda, MD

DANA FUCHS PAUL THORN’S MISSION TEMPLE FIREWORKS REVIVAL FEAT. THE McCRARY SISTERS

(240) 330-4500 www. BethesdaBluesJazz.com Two Blocks from Bethesda Metro/Red Line Free Parking on Weekends

THEHAMILTONDC.COM 30 may 4, 2018 washingtoncitypaper.com

ALVVAYS

Toronto-based indie-pop outfit Alvvays thrive on dreamy ideas of solitude. Through 10 songs and roughly 33 minutes, they continue to explore love, loss, and loneliness on their second fulllength album, Antisocialites. Mournful at times, optimistic during others, Antisocialites redefines the archetypal break-up record in the way that it encourages scorned lovers to fiercely face forward, staunchly secure in solitude. Lead singer Molly Rankin wrote most of Antisocialites on a small, secluded island off the shore of Ontario, embracing the sense of isolation that drove her to music in the first place. For her it seems music is all about feeling like you’re a part of something larger than yourself and yet feeling alone at the same time—and being OK with that. And it’s that particular sentiment that she and Alvvays inspire in dedicated listeners. Alvvays perform with Frankie Rose at 7 p.m. at 9:30 Club, 815 V St. NW. $25. (202) 265-0930. 930.com.

—Casey Embert

CITY LIGHTS: WEDnESDAY

JESMYn WARD

“The burden of regret weighs heavily,” Jesmyn Ward writes in her memoir, Men We Reaped. “It is relentless.” Regret is the emotion that runs through Ward’s work, gothic and intensely focused on the black family, as her characters—both living and dead—are disappointed by words unsaid and roads untraveled. Her work is also relentless, as she never peers away from the abyss.

That clear-eyed vision illuminates the story of a family preparing for the certain doom of Hurricane Katrina in 2011’s Salvage the Bones and the story of a family struggling to survive and find peace in last year’s Sing, Unburied, Sing, both of which won National Book Awards. Sing, Unburied, Sing, which Ward will speak about at the Sidwell Friends Meeting House, turns the simple, sad journey of a drug-addicted mother driving with her children to bring her husband home from the state penitentiary into an epic one where the ghosts of a family are also the ghosts of the South. Ward’s books are heavy, but the burden of regret is better understood when we read them. Jesmyn Ward speaks at 7 p.m. at Sidwell Friends Meeting House, 3825 Wisconsin Ave. NW. $18– $20. (202) 364-1919. politics-prose.com.

—Chris Kelly

Jon MeachaM Pulitzer-winning presidential historian Jon Meacham speaks in conversation with MSNBC’s Chris Matthews about The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels, a new book about the history of the country’s battles for progress. Jack Morton Auditorium at George Washington University. 805 21st St. NW. May 6. 5 p.m. $33–$35. (202) 994-7470.

Dance

aaKaSh odedra International dance talent Aakash Odedra, who is trained in traditional Indian dance disciplines Kathak and Bharata Natyan, presents a quartet of solo pieces showcasing his razor-sharp precision and agility. Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

Stadium Drive and Route 193, College Park. May 9. 8 p.m. $10–$40. (301) 405-2787. theclarice.umd.edu.

Theater

the caucaSian chalK circle From playwright Bertolt Brechtin and with an English translation by Alistair Beaton, The Caucasian Chalk Circle presents the story of a young servant girl named Grusha who is caught in a social revolution. Soon, she must risk everything to save an abandoned baby. Constellation Theatre at Source. 1835 14th St. NW. To May 13. $25–$55. (202) 204-7741. constellationtheatre.org.

the cruciBle This Eleanor Holdridge-directed adaptation of Arthur Miller’s classic play about the Salem witch trials features Chris Genebach from Carousel starring as John Proctor. Coming to the Olney stage for the first time, this tale focusing on an unseeable evil tearing a colonist town apart aims to speak truth to power much like the 1953 original did. Olney Theatre Center. 2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney. To May 20. $49–$74. (301) 924-3400. olneytheatre.org. en el tieMPo de laS MariPoSaS (in the tiMe of the ButterflieS) Based on the novel by Julia Álvarez, playwright Caridad Svich adapts this account of the Mirabal sisters in the Dominican Republic. Using the code name “butterflies,” they lead the resistance against the dictatorial regime of General Rafael Trujillo—until their brutal murder. Presented in Spanish with English subtitles. GALA Hispanic Theatre. 3333 14th St. NW. To May 13. $25–$95. (202) 234-7174. galatheatre.org. fly By night This dark comedy rock-fable comes from playwrights Will Connolly, Michael Mitnick, and Kim Rosenstock. At the heart of it is a melancholy sandwich maker whose mundane existence becomes entwined with entrancing two sisters.

1st Stage. 1524 Spring Hill Road, McLean. To May 6. $15–$33. (703) 854-1856. 1ststagetysons.org. girlfriend Todd Almond and Matthew Sweet’s vibrant coming-of-age musical duet makes its D.C. premiere. In 1993 small-town Nebraska, collegebound jock Mike and aimless Will find themselves drawn to each other. What follows is a rush of firsttime love, full of excitement, confusion and passion.

Signature Theatre. 4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington. To June 10. $40–$84. (703) 820-9771. sigtheatre.org.

SUNDAY, JULY 1st, 2018 DOORS 6:00PM | SHOW 8:00PM TICKETS ON SALE NOW BBJLIVE.COM | (240) 330 4500 7719 WISCONSIN AVE,,BETHESDA MD 20814

@BETHESDA.BLUES.JAZZ

@BETHESDABLUES

@BETHESDABLUES

washingtoncitypaper.com may 4, 2018 31

“ HHHH”

D.C.’s awesomest “ HHHH” events calendar. ( H I G H E S T R AT I N York G ) Times The New

-Godfrey Cheshire, ROGEREBERT.COM

( H I G H E S T R AT I N G )

-Ann Hornaday, WASHINGTON POST

WWW.SONYCLASSICS.COM

washingtoncitypaper.com/ calendar

A CHLOÉ ZHAO FILM

NOW PLAYING

Bethesda LANDMARK’S BETHESDA ROW CINEMA (301) 652-7273

Fairfax ANGELIKA AT MOSAIC (571) 512-3301

washingtoncitypaper.com

WWW.THERIDERFILM.COM

FOLLOW

WASHINGTON CITY PAPER THU 5/3 2 COL. (2.25" X 2.49") MR ALL.RDR.0503.WCP #1

the inviSiBle hand From Ayad Akhtar, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Disgraced, comes a thriller about an American options trader and Citibank executive, whom a fringe radical group holds hostage in Pakistan. He must use his trading strategies to find a way out in the midst of violence, corruption, and inequality. Olney Theatre Center. 2001 OlneySandy Spring Road, Olney. To June 10. $49–$74. (301) 924-3400. olneytheatre.org. royal ShaKeSPeare coMPany: haMlet The Kennedy Center presents the North American premiere of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s riveting, contemporary take on the Shakespeare classic Hamlet. This stateside premiere follows the show’s acclaimed 2016 run in the United Kingdom. Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater. 2700 F St. NW. To May 6. $39–$129. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org.

Shear MadneSS A famed concert pianist who lives above the Shear Madness unisex hair salon dies in a scissor-stabbing murder. Set in modern day Georgetown, this interactive comedy whodunit lets its audience solve the crime. Kennedy Center Theater Lab. 2700 F St. NW. To June 10. $54. 202-467-4600. kennedy-center.org. tituS andronicuS Synetic Theater’s visionary founding artistic director Paata Tsikurishvili produces the 13th addition of the “Wordless Shakespeare” series, showcasing this revenge-driven tragedy about fiery passion, energy, and vengeance. Synetic Theater at Crystal City. 1800 South Bell St. , Arlington.

To May 27. $15–$35. (866) 811-4111. synetictheater.org. true WeSt Two estranged brothers, well-educated Austin and con man Lee, reunite in their mother’s California kitchen. There, Austin is working on his screenplay. What follows is an explosive, darkly funny American tale of sibling rivalry, Hollywood producers, and stolen toasters. Rep Stage at Howard Community College. 10901 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia. To May 13. $15–$40. (443) 518-1500. repstage.org. the undeniaBle Sound of right noW Making its D.C. premiere, Laura Eason’s The Undeniable Sound of Right Now revolves around Hank, a

struggling rock club owner in 1992. When his daughter starts dating a star DJ, he comes to realize the destructive power of the Next Big Thing. Keegan Theatre. 1742 Church St. NW. To May 27. $35–$45. (202) 265-3767. keegantheatre.com.

Waiting for godot Director Garry Hynes brings a fresh and funny take on playwright Samuel Beckett’s absurdist exploration of time in this play about two characters waiting for the arrival of someone who never shows up. In Waiting for Godot, life is both vaudeville and tragedy, philosophy and confusion. Lansburgh Theatre. 450 7th St. NW. To May 20. $44–$118. (202) 547-1122. shakespearetheatre.org. the Wiz This Tony-winning musical, famed for its soul-pop reimagining of the classic novel and movieThe Wizard of Oz, comes to Ford’s Theatre. Ford’s Theatre. 511 10th St. NW. To May 12. $27–$71. (202) 347-4833. fords.org.

Film

avengerS: infinity War The Avengers must unite and sacrifice everything to defeat the all-powerful Thanos before he destroys the universe. Starring Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, and Chris Hemsworth. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) i feel Pretty Amy Schumer stars as an insecure woman who gains confidence and the belief that she is the most beautiful woman in the world after falling and hitting her head. Co-starring Michelle Williams and Emily Ratajkowski. (See washingtoncitypaper. com for venue information) tully Charlize Theron stars as a mother of three who comes to share a special bond with her night nanny.

Co-starring Mackenzie Davis and Mark Duplass. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information)

CITY LIGHTS: THuRSDAY

HERE To BE HEARD: THE SToRY oF THE SLITS

With a name that conjured sex and violence, four teenage girls in London teamed up in 1976 to form an all-female punk band. The Slits, led by then 14-year-old singer Ari Up, admitted that they were not musicians, but on tracks such as “Typical Girls,” their uninhibited energy brought shape to chaos. By the time they made their first album, Cut, released in 1979, they had developed a punk-reggae hybrid sound that was as original as it was influential. Director William E. Badgley, who will appear at the screening of Here To Be Heard for a Q&A, combines vintage footage and contemporary interviews with the surviving members to paint a spirited picture of the short-lived group in this fascinating history of a lesser-known side of the punk movement. The film screens at 7:15 p.m. at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center, 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. $8. (301) 495-6700. afi.com/silver.

—Pat Padua 32 may 4, 2018 washingtoncitypaper.com

SAVAGELOVE NOW OPEN thh

NEW MUSIC VENUE

I wish I had a better question, but this is all I have: My friends and I were discussing the nuances of a straight orgy (a roughly equal number of male and female participants) versus a gang bang (one woman, many men), and we observed that there is no proper name for a one man, many women situation. The internet tells me it’s just a “reverse gang bang,” which is a very disappointing name. Can we please establish a new one?

—Curious Nonparticipant How does “pussy riot” grab you? And while we’re on the subject of flipping gendered expressions: A number of years ago, I was asked to come up with a female version of “sausage fest.” Sticking with the food theme, I proposed “clam bake.” Still mystified as to why it didn’t catch on.

—Dan Savage Married from 28 to 36, single the last three years, and celibate most of the last couple years. The last two years of my marriage were sexless, and I saw professionals until I was priced out. I could probably earn twice what I’m making now if I moved away, but my current job gives me the flexibility to spend afternoons with my young kids. Last year, I had a brief relationship (that included the best sex of my life), but I ended it because I needed more me time. So I lack the willingness or the confidence to be in a relationship, and I don’t have the cash to see pros. I’m not fussed by this. Should I be concerned about my celibacy?

—Absolutely Not Getting Sex Today Seeing as your celibacy is intermittent and by your own choice (you walked away from the best sex of your life for me time? What kind of mid-’90s Oprah bullshit is that?), ANGST, you’re unlikely to wind up hanging out on an “incel” forum filled with angry, violent, socially maladapted men who blame the fact that they can’t get laid on women and feminism. So long as you continue to take personal responsibility for all the sex you’re not having, there’s nothing to be concerned about.

—DS

My boyfriend and I have been together for two years. When we first got together, we had sex every day. Then it dwindled. We had major problems along the way and separated this winter. During that time, he went to another state. We got back together long-distance, and I received many letters from him saying how much he wanted to have sex with me. He moved back two weeks ago, and we’ve had sex only twice. He used to say he wanted me to make the first move. But if he really wanted me, wouldn’t he make a move? I feel so neglected, yet he claims he loves me. Please give me some insight.

—No Sex For Weeks He says he wants sex (with you), but he doesn’t make a move. You say you want sex (with him),

but you don’t make a move. So how about this: The next few times you want sex, NSFW, make a move. If he fucks you two out of three times, maybe he was telling you the truth when he said he’d like you to make the first move. If he rebuffs you every time, then he doesn’t want to have sex with you—and you’ll have to make a move to end this relationship.

—DS

being surrounded by couples right now has been a tax on my mental health. I know I’m young and should be focusing on this amazing opportunity and my career, but I can’t help but feel lonely at times, especially since I can’t speak the local language well and these 14 other people are the only ones near me who speak English.

What should I do?

—Single Anonymous Dame

You walked away from the best sex of your life for me time? What kind of mid’90s Oprah bullshit is that?

Math. Eight of the 14 nearby English-speaking expats are in relationships. That means six nearby expats are single like you, SAD. It’s not a lot of people to choose from in real numbers, I realize, but as a percentage—40 percent of nearby expats are single—it’s statistically significant, as the social scientists say. Focus on this opportunity, focus on your career, and focus on that statistically significant number of nearby singles.

—DS

I’m a youngish man who’s been in a loving relationship with an older woman for a year.

The only area where the age difference comes into play is largely unspoken between us—she wants kids. All of her friends are having kids, and she’s nearing the end of her childbearing years. I’m nowhere near ready, and I sometimes question whether I want to be monogamous to any one person for life. We never discuss it, but I can tell how deeply this bothers her and that in her ideal world, I’d be ready to start planning a future with her. I’m racked with guilt at the possibility that by the time I’m ready for that level of commitment (or, worse, by the time I realize I never will be), she’ll be biologically incapable of having kids, which is really important to her. This is all complicated by the fact that this is easily the most loving, trusting, respectful relationship I’ve ever been in.

—Bond Afflicted By Years Speak, BABY: “Look, you want kids. I’m not ready, and I’m not sure I’ll ever be ready. Also, I’m not sure about lifelong monogamy. If we need to part ways so you can find someone who wants the same things you do and wants them now, I’ll be devastated but I’ll understand.”

—DS I’m a 22-year-old woman living in Central Asia doing development work. There are 14 other expats within an hour or two of me, but eight of them are in relationships. I’ve always been the “single friend,” and normally I don’t mind. But

THE WHARF, SW DC

DINER & BAR OPEN LATE!

MAY CONCERTS SHAWN JAMES (SOLO) w/ JOHN BUSTINE

My husband and I listen to your podcast, and we’ve become a little more open about our wants and needs as a result. Anyway, on two recent occasions, he shaved his pubes. Both times, I told him it was a turnoff. Like, I literally dried up when I saw it. He said he understood, yet now he’s about to take a trip with friends and he’s done it again. Chest too this time. Assuming he’s telling the truth and this manscaping effort is not about other women (eye roll), is it fair to me? Can I ask him to stop? Shouldn’t he want to stop if it’s a turnoff for me? Do I have to be GGG on this too?

—Not Into Bald Balls

TH 3 F4

I feel your pain—but it’s not hair removal that’s an issue in my relationship, but hair growth.

My husband would like to have a mustache. It’s his face (those are your husband’s balls), and he can do what he wants with his face (your husband can do what he wants with his balls).

But I can do what I want with my face, and my face doesn’t touch his when there’s a mustache on it. Similarly, NIBB, you’re not obligated to touch your husband and/or his junk when he’s pubeless. When I’m out of town, my husband will grow a mustache, and I don’t complain or temporarily unfollow him on Instagram.

So long as your husband’s balls/crotch/chest are smooth only when they’re far from you, it shouldn’t be an issue in your marriage—unlike the fact that you think he might be fucking another woman (maybe one who’s into bald balls?) or thinking about fucking other women. That’s an issue you’re going to want to address.

—DS

F 11 SA 12

CONFIDENTIAL TO EVERYONE IN TORONTO: You’re in my thoughts, aka atheist prayers.

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

DEAD WINTER CARPENTERS w/ SOUTH HILL BANKS

SA 5

JUMPIN’ JUPITER FREE SHOW! noon-3pm!

SA 5 SU 6

CHOPTEETH AFROFUNK BIG BAND RUBEN MORENO & ZYDECO RE-EVOLUTION

W9

LEARN TO LINDY HOP w/ MICHAEL & JESS!

TH 10

LUKE WINSLOW-KING w/ JACK GREGORI (THE VOICE SEASON 8) PRACTICALLY EINSTEIN w/ SILENT CRITICS BRENDAN JAMES w/ PETE MULLER

3PM ZYDECO DANCE PARTY!

THE 1st OF 6-WEEK SWING DANCE LESSON SERIES. EACH WEDS @ 7PM. NO PARTNER NEEDED.

TU 15

CONCERT IN THE BLIND PRESENTS: DAVID WAX MUSEUM & LOWLAND HUM

TH 17

WESTERN CENTURIES

F 18 SA 19

CARSIE BLANTON w/ DEVON SPROULE CHUCK BROWN BAND

SU 20

A TRIBUTE TO BILLY HANCOCK FEAT. TEX RUBINOWITZ AND THE BAD BOYS

2-STEP DANCE LESSON INCLUDED!

w/ MARTHA HULL • SWITCHBLADE • THE ECHO-BILLYS (PREVITI, CHAPPELL, SWAIM, HART, STEPHANSON) • THE ORIGINAL TENNESSEE ROCKETS • THE NIGHTHAWKS w/ JOE KOGOK • THE ROCK-A-SONICS HOSTED BY JOE LEE AND MARK SEGRAVES. 5PM DOORS!

M 21 TU 22 F 25

AN EVENING WITH NATURALLY 7 LEE ROY PARNELL w/ JANINE WILSON AND MAX EVANS THE WALKAWAYS & CRAVIN’ DOGS

TICKETS ON SALE! pearlstreetwarehouse.com

washingtoncitypaper.com may 4, 2018 33

Ingenuity Prep PCS solicits proposals for the following: Adult . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 EXOTIC ANGEL TO •Furniture vendor PLEASE YOU! SOFT Full .RFP(s) Auto/Wheels/Boat . . . . .by . .request. . . . 42 SENSUALITY AWAITS...

Proposals shall be Sell, Trade . . submitted . . . . . . . no . . later . . . .than . . .

MixedBuy, Native-Amer./ Black beauty for discreet 5:00 PM on Tuesday, Marketplace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

42 gentlemen.

May 15, 2018. Contact: 5’7, 125lbs, 34cCommunity . . . . . bids@ingenuityprep.org . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 25-37,slender&curvy, Ingenuity Prep PCS Employment . . . . solicits . . . . . proposals . . . . . . .for . 42 baby soft skin. the Discreetly located in following: Health/Mind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Landmark/Duke street •Furniture vendor area Body & Spirit . . . . Full . . .RFP(s) . . . . .by . .request. . . . 42 Come relax w/me!

Proposals shall be Housing/Rentals submitted . . . . . . . no . . later . . . .than 42 703-623-7884 5:00 PM on Tuesday, Legal Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

42 Livelinks - Chat Lines.

May 15, 2018. Contact: Flirt, chat and date! Talk Music/Music Row .bids@ingenuityprep.org . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 to sexy real singles in PetsCall . . .now! . . . . . . . . WASHINGTON . . . . . . . . . . . LATIN . . 42 your area.

(844) 359-5773 Real Estate . . . . . PUBLIC .SCHOOL . . . . . CHARTER . . . . . . . 42 Shared Housing . REQUEST . . . . . . .FOR . . . PROPOS . . . 42 ALS Services . . . . . . . . Issued: . . . . . .May . . .4, . .2018 . . 42 ATTENTION: If you worked at Central The Washington Latin Fuel Co. (now known as Public Charter School Hess Oil) solicits expressions of in Washington DC in the interest in the form of 1960s, please contact proposals with referAsbestos Investigator ences from qualified Sherry Day at (734) vendors for: 878-5236 or email International EducationSherry@SLDinvestigaal Travel Services Questions.com. tions and proposals may

Contents:

Search classifieds at washingtoncitypaper.com

Classified Ads Print & Web Classified Packages may be placed on our Web site, by fax, mail, phone, or in person at our office: 734 15th Street, NW Suite 400 Washington, D.C. 20005 Commercial Ads rates start at $20 for up to 6 lines in print and online; additional print lines start at $2.50/ line (vary by section). Your print ad placement plus up to 10 photos online. Premium options available for both print and web may vary.

be e-mailed to gizurieAdult Phone ta@latinpcs.org with the Entertainment type of service in the subject line. Deadline Livelinks - Chat Lines. for submissions isFlirt, Maychat and Talk Appointments to sexy real singles 11,date!

2018. in your area. Call now! (844) for presentations will be 359-5773 scheduled at the discretion of the school office Legals after receipt of proposals only.ISNoHEREBY phone calls NOTICE GIVEN please.

THAT: TRAVISA OUTSOURCING, INC. (DISTRICTis OF E-mail theCOLUMBIA preferredDEPARTMENTfor OF CONSUMER method respondAND REGULATORY AFFAIRS ing but you can also FILE (must NUMBERarrive 271941) mail

by HAS DISSOLVED EFFECTIVE NOVEMdeadline) proposals and BER 27, 2017 AND HAS FILED supporting documents OF ARTICLES OF DISSOLUTION to the following address: DOMESTIC FOR-PROFIT CORWashington Public PORATION WITHLatin THE DISTRICT Charter School OF COLUMBIA CORPORATIONS DIVISION Attn: Finance Office 5200 2nd Street NW AWashington, CLAIM AGAINST TRAVISA DC 20011 OUTSOURCING, INC. MUST INCLUDE THE NAME OF THE BRIDGES PUBLIC DISSOLVED CORPORATION, CHARTER INCLUDE THESCHOOL NAME OF THE NOTICE INTENT TO CLAIMANT,OF INCLUDE A SUMMAENTER A FACTS SOLESUPPORTING SOURCE RY OF THE CONTRACT THE CLAIM, AND BE MAILED TO 1600 INTERNATIONAL Student AssessmentDRIVE, SUITE 600, MCLEAN, VA 22102 Services ALL CLAIMS WILLCharter BE BARRED Bridges Public UNLESS A PROCEEDING TO School intends to ENFORCE THE CLAIM IS COMenter a sole sourceOF MENCEDinto WITH IN 3 YEARS contract with PUBLICATION OF The THIS NOTICE Achievement Network IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION for student assessment 29-312.07 OF THE DISTRICT OF services idenCOLUMBIA to help ORGANIZATIONS ACT. tify and close gaps in student learning the Two Rivers PCS is for soliciting upcoming school year. proposals to provide project man* Bridges Public agement services for a Charter small conSchool constitutes the struction project.

For a copy of the RFP, please email sole source forprocurement@ The tworiverspcs.org. Network Deadline for Achievement submissions is December 6, 2017. for student assessment services that will lead to student achievement. * For further information regarding this notice contact bids@ bridgespcs.org no later than 4:00 pm Monday, May 14, 2018.

Intent to Award a Sole Source Contract Modular CompetencyBased English Curriculum Washington Leader-

Print Deadline The deadline for submission and payment of classified ads for print is each Monday, 5 pm.

You may contact the classifieds rep by emailing classifieds@washingtoncitypaper.com or calling 202-650-6941.

For more information please visit www.washingtoncitypaper.com

34 may 4, 2018 washingtoncitypaper.com

ship Academy intends Legals to award a sole source contract to ComDC SCHOLARS PCS REQUEST monLit for modular FOR PROPOSALS – Moducompetency-base lar Contractor Services - DC English curriculum.

Scholars Public Charter School For more information, solicits proposals for a modular contact to Natalie at contractor provide Gould professional ngould@wlapcs.org. management and construction services construct modular For full toNotice of aIntent building to house classrooms to Award Solefour Source and one faculty offi ce visit: suite. The Contract, please Request for Proposals (RFP) www.wlapcs.org/bids specifi cations can be obtained on and after Monday, November 27, Superior Court 2017 from Emily Stoneof viathe comDistrict of Columbia munityschools@dcscholars.org.

Case No. 2018 DRB All questions should be sent in 000821 writing by e-mail. No phone calls regarding this RFP will be acCHAD DEITRICK, cepted.

Bids must be received by Plaintiff 5:00 PM on Versus Thursday, December 14, 2017 at BICH DC Scholars Public LIEN THI TRAN, Charter School, ATTN: Sharonda Defendant Mann, 5601 E. Capitol St. SE, Next Event: Washington, DC Status 20019. Any bids Hearing on June 26,as outnot addressing all areas 2018 at RFP 9:30am in lined in the specifi cations will Courtroom 102 (500 not be considered.

Indiana Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20001for Rent Apartments Notice To Defendant LIEN THI BICH TRAN The object of this action is Plaintiff CHAD DEITRICK’S Complaint for Absolute Divorce from Defendant LIEN THI BICH TRAN, filed March 8, 2018. Upon the Court’s Order Granting Plaintiff’s Motion to Must see! Spacious Authorize Service semi-furby nished 1 BR/1file BAApril basement Publication, apt, Deanwood, $1200. en17, 2018, it is thisSep. 23rd trance, carpet, W/D, kitchday ofW/W April, hereby ORen, fireplace near Blue Line/X9/ DERED, that Defendant V2/V4. Shawnn 240-343-7173.

LIEN THI BICH TRAN, cause her appearance Rooms for Rent to be entered on or before June 25, 2018; Holiday SpecialTwo furthat the Court will hold nished rooms for short or long a status June term rentalhearing ($900 andon $800 per 26, 2018 9:30am month) withataccess to in W/D, WiFi, Kitchen,102 and at Den. UtiliCourtroom 500 ties included.

Best N.E. location Indiana Avenue NW, along H St. Corridor.

Call Eddie Washington, DC 20001 202-744-9811 for info. regarding Plaintiff’sor visit www.TheCurryEstate.com request for divorce; and that if Defendant LIEN THI BICH TRAN, does not appear at the hearing or otherwise respond to Plaintiff’s complaint, the Court may issue a judgement by default on

Plaintiff’s complaint. SO Construction/Labor ORDERED. Lynn Leibovitz, Associate Judge.

Publication Dates: May 4, 2018, May 11, 2018, May 18, 2018.

POWER DESIGN NOW HIRBRIDGES PUBLIC ING ELECTRICAL APPRENTICES OF ALL SKILL LEVCHARTER SCHOOL ELS! NOTICE: FOR PROPOSALS FOR IT SERVICES about thePublic position…

Bridges Charter Do youinlove working with School accordance your hands? Are you interwith 2204(c)and of estedsection in construction the in District becoming of an Columbia electrician?

School Reform Act of Then the electrical apprentice 1995 solicits proposals position could be perfect for for SY Electrical 18-19 apprentices you! to earn a paycheck * are IT able Services full benefiServices ts while learn* and Janitorial ing the trade through firsthand experience.

Proposals should be

submitted in PDF format what we’re looking for… and for any Motivated D.C.further residents who information want to learnregarding the electrical this notice to trade and have abids@ high school bridgespcs.org nowell later diploma or GED as as reliable transportation. than 4:00 pm Monday, May 14, 2018. a little bit about us…

Power Design Academy is one of the Monument top electrical contractors in Public Charter School the U.S., committed to our NOTICE INTENT values, toOF training and to givTO SOLE ingENTER back to INTO the communities SOURCE CONTRACT in which we live and work.

Dated: May 4, 2018 more details…

Pursuant to the School Visit Act, powerdesigninc.us/ Reform D.C. 38careers or 1802 (SRA)email andcareers@ the powerdesigninc.us!

D.C. Public Charter Schools procurement policy, Monument Academy Public Services Charter Financial School (MAPCS) hereby Denied Credit??

Work to Resubmits this public pair Yourof Credit Report The notice intent to With award Trusted Leader insole Creditsource Repair. the following Call Lexington Law for a FREE contract: credit report Mazza summaryCon& credit Contract: repair consultation. 855-620sulting, 9426. JohnPLLC C. Heath, Attorney at Law, PLLC, dba Lexington Law MAPCS intends to enter Firm. into a sole source contract with Mazza ConHome sulting, PLLC to Services provide training and consultation Dish Telein theNetwork-Satellite implementation vision Services. Now Over 190 of a Dialectical Behavior channels for ONLY $49.99/mo!

Therapy Schools HBO-FREE Skills for oneinyear, FREE (DBT STEPS-A) Installation, FREE SEL Streaming, curriculum for the 2018FREE HD. Add Internet for $14.95 year. The a2019 month.school 1-800-373-6508 contract will be worth

$75,000 from June 1, 2018 to June 30,Auctions 2019.

For further information regarding this sole source notice, please contact Jeff McHugh via email by close of business May 9, 2018.

Jeff McHugh, Director of Operations Monument Academy Whole Foods Commissary Auction Public Charter School DC Metro Area 500 19th Street NE Dec. 5 at 10:30AM Washington, D.C. 20002 1000s S/S Tables, Carts tel: 914-721-0613 & Trays, 2016 Kettles up email: jeff.mchugh@ to 200 Gallons, Urschel monumentacademydc.

Cutters & Shredders inorg cluding 2016 Diversacut 2110 Dicer, 6 Chill/Freeze BRIDGES PUBLIC Cabs, Double Rack Ovens & Ranges, SCHOOL (12) Braising CHARTER Tables, 2016 Stephan NOTICE OF (3+) INTENT VCMs, Scales, TO ENTER30+ A SOLE Hobart 80 qt Mixers, SOURCE CONTRACT Complete Machine Shop, Bridges Public Charter and much more! View the School to catalogintends at enter into a sole source www.mdavisgroup.com or contract with The 412-521-5751 Literacy Lab for tutors to be placed within the Garage/Yard/ school. These tutors Rummage/Estate Sales are serving as effective reading Flea Market assistants every Fri-Sat specifically equipped 10am-4pm.

5615 Landover Rd. to promote Cheverly, MD. educational 20784. Can buy achievement. in bulk. Contact 202-355-2068 * Public Charter or Bridges 301-772-3341 for details or if intrested inestablishes being a vendor.the School sole source with The Literacy Lab intended for the low cost and high quality initiatives in reading as a fundamental that will lead to student achievement. * For further information regarding this notice, contact bids@bridgespcs.org no later than 4:00 pm Monday, May 14, 2018.

CARLOS ROSARIO PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL REQUEST FOR BIDS The CR School is looking to solicit bids from qualified firms to conduct as assessment of the School’s information technology. For further

information, please Miscellaneous contact Jerry Luna at gluna@carlosrosario.

NEW COOPERATIVE SHOP! org.

All Bids are due by 4pm on May 16, 2018. “ THINGS FROM EGPYT AND BEYOND THURGOOD 240-725-6025 MARSHALL ACADEMY www.thingsfromegypt.com PUBLIC CHARTER thingsfromegypt@yahoo.com HIGH SCHOOL NOTICE OF INVITATION SOUTH AFRICAN BAZAAR Craft Cooperative FOR BID 202-341-0209 Food Service Managewww.southafricanbazaarcraftcoo ment Services perative.com southafricanba z a ar @hotmail.

Thurgood Marshall Acadcom emy, a public charter high located in WESTschool FARM WOODWORKS southeast DC, is adverCustom Creative Furniture tising the opportunity 202-316-3372 info@westfarmwoodworks.com to bid on the delivery of www.westfarmwoodworks.com breakfast, lunch, snack and/or CACFP supper 7002 Carroll Avenue enmeals to children Takoma Park, MD 20912 rolled at the school for Mon-Sat 11am-7pm, the 10am-6pm 2018-2019 school Sun year, with a possible extension of four (4) Motorcycles/Scooters one-year renewals. All meals mustTU250X meet at 2016 Suzuki for asale.

1200 miles. CLEAN. minimum, but areJust notserviced. Comesto,with cover restricted thebike USDA and saddlebags.

Asking $3000 National School BreakCash only. fast, Lunch, Afterschool Call 202-417-1870 M-F between Snack, and At Risk 6-9PM, or weekends.

Supper meal pattern requirements. Additional Bands/DJs for Hire specification outlined in the Invitation for Bids (IFB) such as; student data, days of service, meal quality, etc. may be obtained beginning on May 4, 2018 from Nora Moore at nmoore@ tmapchs.org, 202-5636862 x181.

Get Wit It Productions: Professional sound will and be lighting Proposals ac- available for club, corporate, private, cepted at 2427 Martin wedding receptions, Luther King Jr. Ave,holiday SE, events and much more. Insured, Washington, competitive rates.DC Call 20020 (866) 531on June 7, 2018, not 6612 Ext 1, leave message for a later than ten-minute call12:00pm. back, or book online at: agetwititproductions.com Only bids addressing all areas detailed in the IFB Announcements will be considered.

Announcements - Hey, all you lovers of erotic and bizarre romantic fi ction! Visit www. nightlightproductions.club and submit your stories to me Happy Holidays! James K. West wpermanentwink@aol.com

Events Christmas in Silver Spring ARLINGTON: Saturday, December 2, 2017 BALLSTON AREA 820 Veteran’s PlazaST POLLARD 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.

2BR Condo available Come celebrate Christmas in immediately! the heart of Silver$2750/mo.

Spring at our incl. condo heat, PlaVendor Village fee, on Veteran’s elec., water, car parkza. There will be1shopping, arts ing.crafts Nearfor5kids, Universities and pictures with Santa, MUSTmusic SEE!and Callentertainment 703to spread holiday cheer and more.

351-0777 Proceeds from the market will provide toy for children I am aa “wish” 40 something in need. Join us at your one stop female that is looking shop for everything Christmas. for For one more roommate information, to contact move Futsum, in May 2018. I live a low key drug freeor info@leadersinstitutemd.org lifestyle and I am lookcall 301-655-9679 ing for a like-minded roommate.ScoopGeneral on the spot Looking to share: Rent yardLiving space for For us to hunting Alexandria/Arlingroom, dogs. dining room, ton, VA area only. Medium sized kitchen, washer/dryer, dogs will be well-maintained in den, outside deck, temperature controled dogpatio, housfront porch, backyard. es. I have advanced animal care For just you: Partially experience and dogs will be rid furnished bedroom free of feces, fllarge ies, urine and oder.

Dogs will be in a ventilated kennel with 2 large windows, so they willsize not be exposed to winQueen bed, private ter and harsh weather etc.flat Space bathroom, 40 inch will be needed as soon as possiscreen TV (already ble.

Yard for dogs must be mounted on the wall)Metro accessible. Serious callers only, call anytime Kevin, 415- 846Cost Price Neg. 5268. $1375 a month includes: Twice Counseling a month professional house cleaning MAKE THE(including CALL TO bed START linen changed), lawn Free GETTING CLEAN TODAY. 24/7 Helpline for alcohol drug service, internet TV&(fire addiction treatment.

Get help! stick and sling) and WifiIt is time to take your life back! and security system Call Now: 855-732-4139 Add ‘l financial responPregnant?

Considering Adopsibilities: water, tion?

Call us1/3 first. of Living expenses, medical, and contingashousing, and ½ electric ued support Choose (your ownafterwards. electric theradoptive family of your choice. mostat).

Call 24/7. 877-362-2401.

Extra amenities at cost: Cable and off the street parking Contact me for photos and details petworthapt@gmail.com Furnished room in the North Wing of my house for $850.00.

Plenty of sun on a very nice block in Blooming-

HEALTH/MIND, BODY & SPIRIT

Moving?

Find A Helping Moving?

Hand Today Find A Helping

Puzzle http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/

Hand Today

JUST PATCHING THROUGH

with the old, In

By Brendan Emmett QuigleyOut with the new Post

Moving? Find A Helping Hand Today

Out with the

old, In with the new Post your listing with

Washington

City Paper Classifieds

21 23 25 28 30 31 32 35 37 43 44 45 48 50

20

Bit of profanity Bit of profanity Slug it out With it Good sign?

Arm bone Trail of trenches?

Welcome financial gift He-Man’s colleague Its capital is Kampala Test in a tube, briefly Mall that can get you a date on Friday?

Long times “Well ...?� “There’s Really a Wolf� rapper Running a bit behind Wheel cheese Porn connoisseurs?

Bubbly name Grab quickly Planted, as grass Winter hrs. in the Twin Cities Car freshener smell

1 6 10 14 15 16 17 19

27

33 34

http://www.washingtword made of oncitypaper.com/

29

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/

Across

your listing with

Washington City Paper Classifieds

http://www.washingtoncity paper.com/

Out with the old, In with the new Post your listing with Washington City Paper Classifieds 26 Bumper sticker

42

36 38 39 40 41

45 46 47 49 51

many different religious symbols TV personality Kotb “This might take a while�

Insubstantial Surgeon General’s org.

Mornings: Abbr.

Cut into metal Power ___ Grave writings Hard to read letter Eyewear, casually Get to the plate Elaborately decorated Joined together Irritable Goes underwater, maybe 100 beans “Quit talking�

Rockie’s range Snack with salsa “Who am ___you?�

Pointed peak Shoe box letters Group that’s not going back to sch.

FIND YOUR OUTLET. RELAX, UNWIND, REPEAT CLASSIFIEDS HEALTH/MIND, BODY & SPIRIT

52 53 10 Legacy builder 51 Exam that 54 checks your 11 Puts (down) 58 pliability? http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/ 12 Battery parts 61 55 Guy from Dallas 13 Attacked 56 Dave’s Single 18 Mindless 62 restaurant singing babble 63 57 Letter from Crete 22 Maker of the 64 59 Product with an vivosport Apple Pencil activity tracker 60 Analog demos?

23 One of the Spice Girls 65 Silencing button 24 Engineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sound 66 â&#x20AC;&#x153;But we should consider thisâ&#x20AC;?: initially 67 Orange-yellow 68 Floored it 69 Conservative LAST WEEK: ANTISOCIAL NETWORK in Chelsea $ 3 5 2 1 $ / 2 + $ & 2 * 70 Beaks % $ 1 $ / % 5 , % ( FIND YOUR$ % ( 7 ( 1 % 2 7 6 2 0 ( 7 , 0 ( Down OUTLET. RELAX, 1 Bummed $ / 6 2UNWIND, 6 REPEAT 7 < ; $ ' = ( 2 Conflict under 6 $ ; 1 ( 3 $ CLASSIFIEDS http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/ / Woodrow Wilson ' ( 6 3 , & $ %HEALTH/MIND, / ( 0 ( 0 ( 3 Corrodes $ 9 $BODY 6 7 & SPIRIT & ( / + , 5 ( ( 4 Eyebrow shape , 1 $ *http://www.washingt( ' $ 7 $ $ ; , 6 5 Fix, as a dress - 2 ' , (oncitypaper.com/ % 2 / $ 1 6 , & alteration + ( $ ' 6 : , / / 7 5 2 / / 6 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Well, fudgeâ&#x20AC;?

0 < % $ ' ( $ 5 7 They can help 5 2 % ( 6 3 ( & . $ 1 7 you during a breakdown & + $ 1 + 8 1 7 ( 5 2 : / 8 RNâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s approach 3 5 2 7 2 0 2 5 6 ( / ( ( 9 Blatherskite 0 < 7 + 6 $ % $ 7 ( ) ' 5

MOVING? FIND A HELPING HAND TODAY Out with the old, In with the new Post your listing with Washington City Paper Classifieds

RELAX, UNWIND, REPEAT CLASSIFIEDS HEALTH/ MIND, BODY & SPIRIT

dale. Seeking a nonsmoking professional.

Will have access to kitchen, private bathroom, sun deck, and laundry facility. I am a single, working professional male with a quiet lifestyle. Utilities are http://www.washingtapproximately $100 per month. kekemappa@ oncitypaper.com/ gmail.com NE DC room for rent. $700/mo. utils included.

Security deposit required Close to Metro and parking available.

Use of kitchen, very clean. Seeking Professional. $750/mo. Call 240-715-78742.

Capitol Hill Living: Furnished room for rent in townhouse. Amenities include: W/D, WiFi, Kitchen use, and shared bathroom. All utilities included. Close to X2 Bus, Trolley, and Union Station subway. Cost $1100/month visit TheCurryEstate.com for more details or Call Eddie-202-744-9811.

Moving?

Find A Helping Hand Today

Dupont Circle Metro Offices!

The Palladium@ 1325 18th St NW 24 Hour Secure Building Open-Private Office Options $2500- $3500( Live -Work) Per month- (1-5yr Lease) Text 202 491 5300 to set up tour.

Email:jconnelly@summitcre.com

yrs. exp. in analytcl. instrmnts (HPLC, GC, Particle size analyzer & Dissolution Apparatus; Method devlpmnt/ validation. Scientist I: Req.BS (Chemistry, Pharmacy, Pharm Eng. or rel. field)+ 2yrs exp. as Scientist I or any position w/2 yrs.exp w/ analytcl instrmnts (GC, FTIR, USP methodgies, pH meter, viscometer, particle size testing, SOPs, DEA regs. cGMP, GLP). Send resume: GPI, Attn: HR, 3701 Concorde Pkwy, Chantilly, VA 20151 AIRLINE CAREERS begin here â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Get started by training as FAA certified Aviation Technician. Financial aid for qualified students. Job placement assistance.

Call Aviation Institute of Maintenance 800-7251563 Washington, DC. Sr. Prog. Off.: resp. for assist. w/ dev. & programmatic supp. of fld. office progs. Min. req. BA/BS; 4 yrs. prof. exp. in prog. manag. capacity; CL/R: International Support Division, ABA Rule of Law Initiative, American Bar Association, 1050 Connecticut Ave NW, Suite 450, Washington, DC 20036.

Flyer Distributors Needed Monday-Friday and weekends. We drop you off to distribute the flyers. NW, Bethesda, Silver Spring, Wheaton. $9/hr. 240-715-7874

MOVING?

FIND A HELPING HAND TODAY

Washington, DC. Deputy Director, Europe/Eurasia, ABA Rule of Law Initiative: resp. for funct. as 2nd in command to Reg. Director & account. for deliv. tactical sol. to achieve regionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s master strategy.

Min. req. JD ABA-accrc. law sch./for. equiv.; 7 yrs. prof. exp. similar post. w/ program, operational or intl. dev. exp., incl. 3 yrs. superv. exp. OR MA; 9 yrs. prof. exp. similar post. w/ program, operational or intl. dev. exp., incl. 3 yrs. superv. exp.; CL/R: International Support Division, ABA Rule of Law Initiative, American http://www.washingtonBar Association, 1050 citypaper.com/ Connecticut Ave NW, Suite 450, Washington, DC 20036.

REPEAT position CLASSIFIEDS could be perfect for you! Electrical apHEALTH/MIND, BODY are able to &prentices SPIRIT earn a paycheck and

Granules Pharmaceuticals, Inc. has openings in Chantilly, VA for QA Sr. Supervisor: Req. MS in Pharmarcy, Reg. Affairs or rel. field + 1 yr. exp. as QA Sr. Supvsr or any position w/1 yr. exp. in DEA compliance, QA Floor activities specif. monitoring floor compliance pertaining to DEA material storage & manufctring within Pharmac. industry. Chemist I: Req. BS degree in Chemistry, Pharmacy, Pharm. Eng. or rel. field + 2yrs exp. as Chemist I or any position w/2

firsthand experience. what weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re looking forâ&#x20AC;Ś Motivated D.C. residents who want to learn the electrical trade and have a high school diploma or GED as well as reliable transportation. a little bit about usâ&#x20AC;Ś Power Design is one of the top electrical contractors in the U.S., committed to our values, to training and to giving back to the communities in which we live and work. more detailsâ&#x20AC;Ś Visit powerdesigninc.us/careers or email careers@ powerdesigninc.us!

PAID IN ADVANCE! Make $1000 Weekly Mailing Brochures From Home Genuine Opportunity. Helping home workers since 2001!

Start Immediately! www.IncomeCentral.net

Out with the old, In with the new POWER DESIGN NOW HIRING ELECTRICAL Post your APPRENTICES OF ALL SKILL LEVELS! listing with about the positionâ&#x20AC;Ś Do love working with Washington you your hands? Are you City Paper interested in construction YOUR and in OUTLET. becoming Classifieds FIND an electrician? Then the RELAX, UNWIND, electrical apprentice

http://www.washingtoncifull benefits while learning the trade through typaper.com/

Moving? Find A Helping Hand Today The Embassy of the Repulic of Tunis has used furnitures for sell for more info contact us at 202 862 1850 ext 227

watersheds, shorelines, and cultivated gardens.

More info at www.broadwaygalleries.net

Need to Talk?

Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re always here for you 24/7.

Relationship, Intimacy & Gender Issues Totally Private & Confidential Call Now: 213-291-9497 http:// drsusanblockinstitute. com

Out with the old, In with the new Post your listing with Washington City Paper Classifieds

DISH TV $59.99 For 190 Channels + $14.95 High Speed Internet.

Free Installation, Smart HD DVR Included, Free Voice Remote. Some restrictions apply. Call PENIS ENLARGEMENT Now: http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/ 1-800-373-6508 PUMP. Get Stronger & Harder Erections Immediately. Gain 1-3 Inches Permanently & Safely.

Guaranteed Results.

FDA Licensed. Free Brochure: 1-800-354-3944 www.DrJoelKaplan.com

We buy Cameras!

Coming to DC March 5th-9th Call 720-379-7789 Or email Joshua@ Victorycamera.com HughesNet Satellite Internet - 25mbps starting at $49.99/mo! FAST download speeds. WiFi built in! FREE Standard Installation for lease customers! Limited Time, Call 1-800-4904140

FIND YOUR OUTLET. RELAX, UNWIND, REPEAT CLASSIFIEDS HEALTH/ MIND, BODY & SPIRIT

Denied Credit?? Work to Repair Your Credit Report With The Trusted Leader in Credit Repair.

Call Lexington Law for a FREE credit report summary & credit repair consultation. 855-6209426. John C. Heath, Attorney at Law, PLLC, dba Lexington Law Firm.

Looking for full time Elderly Care job, flexible hours. I have experience, good references, CPR/first aide certified.

Ask about including light housekeeping, laundry and meal prep. Have own car. Please call and http://www washingtleave a message, call oncitypaper.com/ 240-271-1011.

Lung Cancer? And Age 60+? You And Your Family May Be Entitled To Significant Cash Award. Call 844-8987142 for Information.

FIND YOUR OUTLET. No Risk. No Money Out RELAX, UNWIND, REPEAT Of Pocket.

CLASSIFIEDS HEALTH/

I MIND, LOVEBODY HISTORY & SPIRIT I love history and I am http://www.washingtonlooking to make friends citypaper.com/ with the same interest. I work at a major research institution and live at Dupont Circle.

Contact: Stevenstvn9@ aol.com

Moving?

Find A Helping Moving?

Find A Helping Hand Today The solo exhibit by Christine Lashley, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Waterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Edge, will open May 11, 2018, at 2pm, at Broadway Gallery in Alexandria.

The exhibition explores her fascination with water in more than 40 paintings of fragile

Hand Today

Out with the old, In with the new Post your listing with Washington City Paper Classifieds http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/

FIND YOUR OUTLET. RELAX, UNWIND, REPEAT CLASSIFIEDS HEALTH/ MIND, BODY & SPIRIT http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/

Out with the old, In with the new Post your listing may 4, 2018 35 Out with the old, In washingtoncitypaper.com with Washington with the new Post City Paper Classifieds your listing with

Washington City

http://www.washingt-