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The big question for Attorney General Karl Racine: Will he or won’t he challenge Muriel Bowser for the city’s top job?

By Jeffrey Anderson PhotogrAPhs By dArrow MontgoMery

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8 Concrete Details: I.M. Pei’s legacy in D.C. shows the tension between constraint and freedom in architecture.

9 Gear Prudence 10 Savage Love 11 Indy List

d.C. feed 17 Old Line, New Wine: Maryland wineries grow as the state rushes to catch up.

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In which we assert that sordid politics and a flawed campaign finance apparatus, not Brandon Todd, are the problem

Darrow MontgoMery

Ward 4 CounCilmember Brandon Todd has been visibly shaken over the last few weeks by scrutiny of his 2015 special election campaign fundraising and spending from both auditors and the media, according to those who know him.

The most recent setback involves a trio of 2015 expenditures totaling more than $100,000 to an elusive company with New Jersey ties, about which City Paper recently reported. No one from the campaign seems willing or able to explain this single largest campaign expenditure or the company to which the payments were made. The expenditures in question were quite clearly meant to be illusory and difficult to track, sending anyone who wants to understand them into a dark rabbit hole of false addresses, phantom companies, and campaign officials with inexplicably sketchy memories. We are still trying. While there’s more to learn, what’s obvious to anyone paying attention is that something is amiss, that something unclean probably went down.

Todd, of course, is the one taking the hit. But this 33-year-old politician with close ties to the mayor is an apparatchik and not really the problem, or at least not the real problem. He ran now-Mayor Muriel Bowser’s Ward 4 re-election campaign before she hand-picked him to succeed her. A toady of her Green Team—now notorious for the ill-advised unlimited fundraising blunder that was FreshPAC—it appears that he allowed himself and his campaign to be directed by insiders who know where the secret switches of D.C.’s political machinery lie and how to flip them.

But none of this is new. It is deeply rooted in District politics and has been allowed to persist because of weak campaign finance oversight, lack of political will, and the absence of reform. Shady accounting and shadow money have been an enduring problem in D.C. going back many administrations, most recently dooming the mayoral re-election of Vince Gray and sending several of his associates to prison.

Yes, it matters what Todd knew and whether he or his proxies ultimately will be able to explain the issues surrounding his campaign spending and fundraising. But as all of this unravels, it’s not his head we want. We need to guillotine the entire election finance apparatus and rebuild it.

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By Andrew Giambrone The TenanTs of 2724 11th St. NW—a two-story, rent-controlled apartment building in Columbia Heights—know each other better than most of the neighborhood’s newer residents know their own roommates. On Sunday, they met in their dilapidated building’s lobby to discuss a lawsuit the District filed last week against the property’s owner and manager for years of housing code violations, shoddy patchwork, and risks to the tenants’ well-being.

Moments before the meeting, Rosetta Archie, an African-American woman who has lived at the building for almost 27 years and pays $661 a month in rent, came down the steps from her apartment on the second floor. Archie’s ceiling has repeatedly collapsed since November because of leaks in the roof. It last happened several weeks ago, damaging her possessions.

Occasionally, the building’s electricity has turned off. And after the owner began—but never finished—demolition work in the basement in 2012, rats emerged in droves. Bedbugs and roaches have also proved intractable. “I can’t afford to move,” Archie says.

Fifteen of the building’s 26 units remain occupied, and all the current tenants have lived there since at least 2009. Seven have resided there for more than a decade—constants in a changing Columbia Heights. They say they’ve consistently paid rent on time. In 2015 the tenants filed an administrative petition against the landlord, and last year some sued in D.C. Superior Court, independently from the District’s recent lawsuit. All these legal cases are pending.

“They don’t care,” Archie says of the owner, Ellis J. Parker III, and the building manager, Stan Ford Jr. Attorney General Karl Racine is seeking to hold them personally liable for damages, in addition to suing the LLC that controls the building and Ford’s company, SCF Management. (Neither Ford nor his firm, which is based in D.C., responded to requests for comment.)

The attorney general’s office wants a judge to place the property in receivership, where a third party would bring the building up to code using funds from the owner “in excess of the rents collected” there. The District is also seek-

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ing restitution for the rents tenants paid while the building was illegally neglected.

Racine—who, like his maybe-mayoral rival Muriel Bowser, says he is “committed to preserving existing affordable housing”—is pursuing arguments based on D.C.’s consumer protection laws. He is also doing that in an ongoing suit against Bethesda-based slumlord Sanford Capital. The goal is to deter landlords from making low-income tenants endure dangerous housing conditions.

Parker, 85, says he has “never been found guilty of anything.” Reached by phone at his Palm Beach, Fla. residence last week, he adds that he has fixed “every single” housing code violation at 2724 11th St. NW and has never been fined for one there. Having bought the property from his father-in-law’s estate, he says he has tried to increase the rents to fund necessary structural repairs.

Another building Parker co-owned, in Adams Morgan, was set ablaze in 2006. He and his partner sold it in 2007 for $4 million. Officials later determined the incident was arson, but charged no one. Ford also managed that building.

Parker says he owns four homes, including one in Potomac, Md., a second in Upper Marlboro, Md., and a third in Birmingham, Ala. But in Florida, according to The Palm Beach Daily News, Parker, who is an attorney, sued the town in January after it allegedly entered his condo “without consent or probable cause,” then fined him $25,000 over regulatory non-compliance. “That’s a violation of my civil rights,” Parker said in a follow-up interview Tuesday.

Last June, D.C.’s Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs cited the Columbia Heights building with 163 housing code violations, of which almost half “constituted a serious threat to life, health, and safety,” among them pest infestations and broken smoke detectors. DCRA re-inspected the property in September and recorded 36 unabated violations, categorizing 15 of them as serious threats.

Racine’s lawsuit says “the most egregious violations remain uncorrected” still. Mold has contaminated so many of the building’s vacant units that tenants say they can smell it.

“Tell me this: Doesn’t that indicate to you the building needs to be redone?” Parker says, noting

that not all the tenants’ issues fall on him. “If you’ve got bedbugs, you’ve got bedbugs. I don’t rent beds, and I don’t rent bugs.

I have a contract with an exterminator— every week he comes.”

“The District is disingenuous,” he continues.

“They’re not looking out for the interest of the tenants.

Otherwise they would let me fix the building. …

Now, if the tenants will not let me do the substantial work and they want to complain one step at a time, then all I can do is fix it one step at a time.” Parker says he lost $7,000 on the property last year, and the complaints started after he sought to increase rents through an exemption to rent control.

The tenants and their advocates counter that Parker wants to redevelop a vacant building. “The land will become more valuable if it’s empty of tenants,” explains Rob Wohl, a tenant organizer at the Latino Economic Development Center who has worked with the building’s residents since 2014. “I think he’s waiting to cash it in.”

“I don’t want them out at all,” the owner insists. “This is where they lie. … I know it’s in bad shape. I see it every month when Mr. Ford tells me how much it cost me.”

Parker is a man of faith. “I’ll bet you didn’t know—I’m an Episcopalian,” he says after noting that he and his wife donate more than 20 percent of their income to charities. He remembers a D.C. bishop who had learned about the building and called him to ask about the tenants.

“I said, ‘Bishop, I have great concerns.’

That’s what bishops do. Bishops remind people that man does not live by bread alone.”

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D.C. sues a Florida-based landlord for neglecting a Columbia Heights building.

Parker suggested that the diocese take over the building. He also told the bishop that the tenants would have to tidy up their units to eliminate pests. “If I have any more exterminators in there,” he says, “they’re going to think they’re living in a chemical factory.”

Archie believes in higher powers, too. “It’s been a long time coming,” she says of D.C.’s lawsuit. “I prayed on it. I know all the others did. I even prayed for the other side to have a heart, to give some kind of consideration for us. … And to be human. Because we’re human beings. We shouldn’t be treated like caged animals and treated like we’re nothing just because we don’t have a lot of money.”

A few minutes later last Sunday, Archie hugged a tenant who had showed up for the meeting. They talked with the familiarity of old neighbors at a summer stoop party.

“This building used to be full,” said tenant Felipa Arias, who has lived there since 1994 and pays $826 a month in rent. During the hour before the meeting, her seven-year-old son bolted up and down the hallway, action figures in hand, producing echoes. He kept returning to his home to trade one toy for another.

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DistrictLinE The Long Game

A Pei apartment building in Southwest D.C.

The archiTecTure world has a habit of paying homage to its greats on their centenaries. Architects rarely live long enough to enjoy the celebrations, but since ChineseAmerican architect Ieoh Ming (I.M.) Pei is still alive, the mood at the National Gallery was light last week when the museum celebrated his 100th birthday with a lecture in his honor. This was a real birthday party, although he wasn’t in attendance.

Pei did not build as much in Washington as in New York, and he is probably best known for his work in three other cities: his renovation of the Louvre in Paris, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston, and the Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong.

But over a career so long, he was bound to leave his imprint in D.C. His two most significant projects here are perceived in opposite ways. The East Building of the National Gallery is heralded as a masterpiece; L’Enfant Plaza is written off as a failure. Surprisingly, the projects were designed back-to-back.

L’Enfant Plaza opened in 1968, the same year Pei received the commission to extend the National Gallery. By this time, the redevelopment of Southwest D.C. and the area along 10th Street SW in particular had occupied him for a long time as different urban-renewal schemes proliferated and federal and local officials battled over where to put a new cultural center—the future Kennedy Center.

Pei and his client, the developer William Zeckendorf, had been working on plans since the mid-1950s, but construction didn’t begin until 1963, and by that time a lot had changed from the original vision. The cultural center would be in Foggy Bottom, not on 10th Street, and the number of office buildings had shrunk.

Meanwhile, Zeckendorf ’s real-estate empire was wobbling, and he had to sell his interest in the project shortly after construction began.

Like other designers in that period, Pei believed that a grand scale was appropriate for the nation’s capital, and that new, rationally planned districts with generous open spaces would help cities compete with the suburbs that were sucking people and dollars out of downtowns. We know with hindsight that this approach was flawed. Today, 10th Street is absurdly wide in proportion to the surrounding buildings and in relation to its dead-end termi-

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nus, Banneker Park.

And L’Enfant Plaza is a dead zone, an overscaled void where you expect to see tumbleweeds blowing through at night or on weekends. But the 1957 Zeckendorf-Pei plan shows a much more lively L’Enfant Plaza than the one that was eventually built, with an opera house and outdoor restaurants. It’s also worth noting that Pei was not responsible for the unfortunate Forrestal Building, which blocks the view to the Mall. In fact, he fought against it.

The buildings at L’Enfant Plaza by Pei’s deputy Araldo Cossutta are handsome, reminiscent of the hooded, desert-toned towers Pei designed for the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, as well as his University Village cluster on the campus of New York University. Likewise, the four apartment buildings in Town Center Plaza, a complex that Pei designed for Zeckendorf during the L’Enfant wrangle, are sleek and well-proportioned. Two have been sympathetically restored by Washington architect Phil Esocoff.

Pei was moving on from being Zeckendorf’s architect, with several admired projects under his belt, when the National Gallery became interested in him in the late 1960s. Congress had set aside the site east of the original gallery for an addition, but its trapezoidal shape was a challenge. Pei came up with the solution in a back-of-the-envelope sketch. He proposed a large isosceles triangle fitted against a smaller right triangle.

What Pei accomplished on the Mall, as the National Gallery’s Susan Wertheim said in her birthday lecture, is a perfect rapport “between a modern, classical building,” i.e.

John Russell Pope’s 1941 temple, “and a classic modern building,” or the new Hshaped wing across the courtyard. With the constant support of Paul Mellon, the chairman of the gallery’s board, Pei could finesse details like the warm pink limestone (mined from the same quarries as the West Building), the pleated space frame over the atrium, and an escalator bank gently scooped out of the wall.

Anyone who doubts that modern architecture inspires awe and affection should walk to the “knife’s edge” on the building’s southwest corner, where two walls meet at an impossible 19-degree angle. The edge has been rubbed to a rusty color over the years by thousands of inquiring hands. So has Pei’s name, inscribed in the atrium.

In a 1987 int e r v i e w, P e i said that he was proud of his urban renewal work, but that it was limited as an art form. “The exploration of form, the exploration of space is s omething you have to find in other types of architecture, like museums,” he said. There are many more constraints on a designer working on an urban district plan The National Gallery’s than on a single East Wing art gallery, and that can make it hard to reconcile the two types of effort. But the “real” I.M. Pei is not necessarily the artist who insisted on his 19-degree corner. Both L’Enfant Plaza and the NGA reveal another talent of Pei’s, as a mentor to, and collaborator with, other designers.

At L’Enfant, Pei delegated the two office buildings to Cossutta, who became an accomplished architect in his own right. (He passed away in February.) At the National Gallery, he assigned significant design work to an employee named Yann Weymouth, who also went on to have a long and successful career.

Pei formed an enduring partnership with his younger employees James Freed and Henry Cobb, who gave D.C. the U.S. Holocaust Museum and Ronald Reagan Building (both

Photo courtesy of Lance Couzens/Flickr.

By Amanda Kolson Hurley

Photo courtesy of Library of Congress

I.M. Pei’s legacy in D.C. shows the tension between constraint and freedom in architecture.

spearheaded by the late Freed), among other buildings.

In recent years, Pei has consulted for his sons’ architecture firm on projects including the chancery of the Chinese Embassy in Van Ness, and he entrusted his protégé Perry Chin to lead the recent renovation of the East Building (with local architects Hartman-Cox).

Looking at Pei’s D.C. buildings through this lens is a better way to understand him—an architect of rare talent who often had to bend it to circumstance, who drank in the optimism of his time, and who greatly encouraged the contributions of his peers and up-and-comers. That’s not a bad model for the architectural profession as a whole. Happy belated birthday, Mr. Pei. CP

Gear Prudence Gear Prudence: I love both biking and tattoos. And I love the idea of getting a bike-themed tattoo. But the idea of doing a standard bike outline on my calf seems like it’s been done before, and I want something both really unique and really personal. Any ideas?

—I Need Kooky Epidermis Decoration Dear INKED: It’s good that you want something highly personalized and even better that you’ve asked a complete stranger who knows nothing about you, your personality, or your preferences to weigh in on the choice of what image to forever affix to your skin. This will invariably lead to a great result. Additionally, there’s nothing wrong with the outline of a bicycle on your body—on your calf or otherwise. If the artist renders it with enough verisimilitude, it might even prove useful in a police report if your current ride goes missing. And even the generic image of a bike, like the depiction found in lanes and trails, is still not a bad choice. It’s a reasonably aesthetically pleasing design and also easily convertible if you should decide to give up riding and get way into Groucho Marx. But you certainly can be more creative than your means of conveyance. Here are some ideas: • Ink the route outline of your favorite local loop. Everyone loves to ride to Leesburg and back, but do they love the route enough to forever add it to their person? This would also have the added benefit of helping you get home if you’re ever lost.

• What about the elevation profile of a particularly challenging “epic” ride? Sure, this will just look like a squiggly line (with, ideally, some kind of severe isosceles triangle in the middle), but you can add some numbers underneath to provide context about the feet/ meters you surmounted. This is a great way to memorialize a tremendous accomplishment and can easily be supplemented with future exploits as you have them.

• If the image of a bicycle doesn’t do it for you, some bike-affiliated words might do the trick.

BIKE LANE makes for some great knuckle tattoos, as would FIXD GEAR, AMST RDAM, or WABA DUDE (or WABA LADY) if you’re especially into local advocacy. Knuckle tattoos aren’t for everyone, so feel free to tattoo random bike words on whatever body part you feel is most appropriate. DERAILLEUR on your buttocks will make for some interesting conversation in the gym changing room.

• What if you tattooed the outline of some chain grease on the inside of your right leg? It’d be a winking acknowledgement that you’re a slovenly mess. Also, very meta, if that kind of thing matters to you.

Whatever you decide, GP applauds your decision. There’s no wrong way to get a bicycle image/word/concept permanently and indelibly demarcated on your flesh. The bicycle is a substantial human technological achievement and affiliating with it is smart and prudent. —GP

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We’ve been sleeping with another couple for three months (first time my BF and I opened our relationship). How do I suggest full penetration with the opposite partner? At this point, we just do oral and that’s the “groove” we’re in.

Only-oral-with-others may be this couple’s preferred groove and the lane they want to stay in. If they’re only up for the “soft swap,” as it’s known in swinging circles, penetration isn’t gonna happen. But you should feel free to ask for what you want—at the very least, you’ll get some long-overdue clarity about their boundaries.

Is squirting pee? We know that chemically it’s similar, but is it REALLY? I’m tired of this debate, so consider this my final answer: So what if it is pee?

My girlfriend asked me to make out with another guy. Her fantasy. We met a really pretty gay boy at a house party, and so I made out with him. I got hard, and my girlfriend made a huge scene. She says it was supposed to be for her pleasure, not for mine, and she’s still angry six months later and constantly questions whether I’m really straight.

(I am!) What do I tell her?

Good-bye.

When do you know if it’s okay to insert your finger in your boyfriend’s butthole? Without fear of freaking him out?

After you’ve applied lube to your finger and his butthole—which you’re allowed to do only after you’ve asked him if you can insert your finger in his butthole and after he’s consented to having your finger in his butthole.

I want to try anal, but I am scared of getting poop on my partner. Is an enema enough?

Properly administered, an enema should be more than enough. But with anal, as with liberal democracy, a good outcome is not guaranteed. Sometimes you do your homework and 10 may 5, 2017 washingtoncitypaper.com

your prep, and everything still comes to shit.

I love my man, but we’re both tops. What should we do?

Spit-roast very special guest stars if you’re in an open relationship, take turns/one for the team if you’re in a monogamous relationship, and explore and enjoy your non-butt-penetrative options.

How do we play around with opening up our relationship as parents of a one-year-old? We barely have enough time or enough sleep to keep our own relationship juicy.

Play around in theory for now—lots of dirty talk—and put theory into practice after your kid is a toddler and you’ve landed a reliable babysitter.

interact with my breasts like they’re another nice body part and not a bizarre thing?

By using your words. If there was a way you didn’t like to be kissed, presumably you would speak up rather than endure lousy kisses. Same applies here: “I have big boobs, and they’re great, and I love them—but ‘YAY BOOOOBS!’ makes me feel like I’m only my tits, which isn’t a nice feeling. That said, I don’t want my boobs ignored, either. The sweet spot really isn’t that hard to hit—enjoy my boobs like you would any other nice body part.” That said, some people really, really like big boobs and it’s going to be hard for them to contain their excitement.

“YAY BOOOOBS” could be an understandable and forgivable first reaction on their part and an opening that allows you to have a conversation about bodies, consideration, and consent.

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My girlfriend wants to try fisting, but my hands are really large. Any ideas for how to get around that?

Why not?

A hired hand.

Properly administered, an enema should be more than enough.

Tell my boyfriend to go down on me!

My girlfriend and I are pretty grossly in love and very affectionate, especially after we’ve just had sex. Should we make an effort to tone it down a bit around a third we’ve just fucked around with?

Or should we just be ourselves, and if they don’t like it, oh well?

Be yourselves, but make an effort to include your third in those oxytocin-infused displays of postcoital affection. Unless your third was inconsiderate or creepy during sex, or is anxious to go immediately after sex (a sign that you may have been inconsiderate or creepy), your third helped get you to that blissed-out state and deserves to bask a bit in the afterglow too.

Does the toe make a good substitute for the penis?

No. I have large breasts. My partners are either like, “YAY BOOOOBS!” or they ignore my breasts entirely. What is it with that? How do I get people to

If your boyfriend won’t go down on you unless some fag advice columnist tells him to—if his girlfriend asking isn’t good enough—then it’s you I want to order around (break up with him!), not your boyfriend.

My boyfriend is 10 years older than I am. Also, he’s the first boyfriend I’ve had in 10 years. I’m used to being single, and while he is great (sexy, amazing, smart), I feel like I’m losing parts of myself. I’m not doing the stuff my prior loneliness made it easy for me to do, creative stuff like open-mic nights. Do we break up?

You’re no longer lonely—you’ve got a boyfriend now—but you still need time alone.

Even if you live together, you don’t have to spend every waking/non-work hour with your boyfriend. It’s not healthy to spend every waking/non-work hour with your significant other.

But instead of heading to open-mic night because you’re lonely and bored and have nothing else to do, now you’re going to go to that open-mic night (and go alone) because you enjoy it, you need the creative outlet, and it’s healthy for a couple to have time apart.

Thank you, Dan. Five years ago, I was miserable in a sexless marriage. Tonight I’m here with my fabulous boyfriend and my hot sub. Thanks to your advice!

You’re welcome!

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RUN The big question for Attorney General Karl Racine: Will he or won’t he challenge Muriel Bowser for the city’s top job?

By Jeffrey Anderson Photographs by Darrow Montgomery Most people know or have met a person like Karl Racine. He’s that guy who, no matter how early you get to the gym, is already there on the stationary bike or the elliptical, sweating through his shirt, churning as if his life depends on it.

Such discipline is impressive to fellow gym rats, but it also signals an almost robotic focus and intensity that makes you wonder, why is he going so hard? On a Tuesday.

“I usually don’t trust people like that,” says a well-connected businessman who knows and respects Racine. “A little too perfect, like there’s something else going on there and you don’t quite know what it is.”

As D.C.’s first elected attorney general, Racine burst onto the political scene virtually out of nowhere, loaning himself close to a half million dollars and cruising to victory over a short field of challengers in 2014.

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story had been written for him, he was being discussed as a potential aspirant to the mayor’s office.

Mayor Muriel Bowser has helped feed that narrative with her missteps and her Green Team’s ethical lapses, to say nothing of her prickly demeanor and a perception that she is consumed more by development deals than the fate of the less fortunate, who seem more marginalized with each rising crane.

Toss in the prospect of a toxic rematch between Bowser and self-styled nemesis Vincent Gray, the Ward 7 councilmember who wears mayoral ambitions on his sleeve—not to mention public fatigue with D.C.’s political version of the Hatfields and the McCoys— and Racine looks like the great hope of voters seeking true change.

“Four years, gentleman,” Racine is said to have muttered to fellow onlookers as they watched Bowser, having taken the oath of of-

fice in January 2015, celebrating and dancing at her inaugural ball with Sheila E. If the Bowser-Racine rivalry seems contrived, consider the earliest days of Bowser’s mayoralty, when she established her own Mayor’s Office of Legal Counsel, an apparent attempt to dictate a principal-agency relationship between her office and the newly elected attorney general—particularly where public policy is concerned.

Whereas the public passed a referendum to create an elected office and then voted for an independent attorney general, Bowser’s play sent a message that she felt threatened by an assertive counterpart who could mobilize his office not only to expand its legal authority but also to advocate for legislative reform.

Which is precisely what Racine has done.

Consumer protection, landlord-tenant abuse, juvenile justice, campaign finance reform—he has explored the boundaries of his office deliberately where he senses a public need or leadership vacuum. He has burnished his profile by politicking with state attorney generals on issues that appeal to proponents of D.C. statehood. And through ties as a former lawyer on Capitol Hill and in the White House, he has dabbled with a national profile. (Racine also is vice co-chair of the Eastern Region of the National Association of Attorneys General.)

Yet there are factors that complicate the picture of Racine as a singular figure toying with the notion of higher office: At 54, he is young and still relatively untested. And there’s a perception that he might be willing to wait his turn. Plus, he loves his job.

“I think he’d run [for mayor] if he thought there was a need, but I don’t think he needs it for himself,” says At-Large Councilmember Robert White, a fellow lawyer and political newcomer who considers Racine a friend.

Racine’s election in his first political race after leaving the white shoe law firm Venable LLP was bound to make Bowser uncomfortable. Asked if he savors the freedom to be more nimble and assertive than his predecessors, who were mayoral appointees, he does not balk: “It is the most extraordinary aspect of the job. By upbringing, I’m an independent type. This goes back to the initial battle with the mayor—a battle, by the way, that we didn’t seek. One of the things the mayor wanted us to do to redefine our role was to say she’s the principal, we’re the agent, [meaning] she tells us what to do. The second thing she sought-— eh, I don’t want to personalize it—what they sought, was to make clear that they determined the public interest, not the [Office of the Attorney General].”

A prime Racine initiative is 2015’s launch of the Office of Consumer Protection. His predecessors had been constrained by a role subordinate to the mayor, but here he was seeking to make residents feel as if he represented them, like other elected officials, by submitting legislation to bring consumer protection in line with state and federal laws. Town hall meetings on house flipping, illegal construction, and shoddy renovations, and follow-up pamphlets and legal advice sessions with Ad-

visory Neighborhood Commission, all helped him elevate the visibility of his office.

“For state attorneys general, it’s the heart of what they do,” he says. “Our office has a mediation branch. Do you know that in the two years these folks have mediated between consumers and businesses, they’ve returned $6 million to consumers without filing a lawsuit?”

In two particular cases, Racine made headlines by forging a stronger relationship with the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs, encouraging the agency to prioritize problems within its jurisdiction, then acting as its enforcement arm.

Perhaps most visible has been his effort to hold Sanford Capital accountable for slum conditions at two of its properties. Racine’s office asked the court to appoint a receiver, or a third-party property manager, to address egregious housing-code violations at one of those properties after Sanford failed to over several years. Racine’s attorneys recently won that request. He has also sued Sanford for misrepresenting to tenants that it would provide them habitable living conditions. If the District wins, Sanford will be forced to return some rent money to tenants. This suit is under the city’s consumer claims laws, and it is the first time D.C. has used those laws in a landlordtenant matter.

Public interest advocates applaud him for leveraging his independence to seek constructive solutions to problems that have left predecessors hamstrung by politics. “A lot of legal solutions don’t address underlying issues, but he didn’t just say, ‘Let’s shut the buildings down,’” says Will Merrifield, a staff attorney at the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless. “He refused to let [Sanford] off the hook, and he stayed engaged.”

Says Racine, whose office boasts some 600 community events since he took office, “As a public interest law firm, with a public interest mandate, you have to learn to engage with the public to understand what is going on, on the ground. Sanford is an example of having relationships with service lawyers who help poor tenants and real residents of the District of Columbia. So we go out into the community, and that has created opportunity for career lawyers to raise their hands to say, ‘Hey, I’m up for going out, getting involved with civil rights protection for senior citizens.’”

When Digi Media began installing digital outdoor signs without requisite permits, and DCRA fined the company, Racine again went to court to obtain a temporary restraining order to enforce city regulations. In doing so, he endeared himself to open space advocates like The Committee of 100 and government watchdogs who smelled a bad actor.

That action also portended a political showdown with Bowser and friend-of-Digi Jack Evans, the Ward 2 councilmember, both of whom looked to thwart DCRA and Racine. (Bowser and Evans ultimately folded after a series of City Paper stories.)

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and juvenile justice initiatives? Check. Joining with state attorneys general in support of a lawsuit against the revised immigration ban?

Check. Legislation aimed at campaign finance reform? Check.

Earlier this month he even appeared in a YouTube public service announcement alongside Olympian Simone Biles on behalf of the Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility. (He also has penned AARP bulletins for its online magazine.)

Robert White says Racine’s frenetic pace and efforts reflect his private-sector experience, and he credits the attorney general with an unselfish brand of leadership that is largely unseen by the public. “I can see why he finds it difficult to understand why politics and government are so slow,” says White. “But his path to problem-solving will pull in experts from the outside and smart people from within, and he’ll delegate to others. He does not seek the attention that most politicians would legitimately seek.”

Not all observers buy into the champion-ofthe-people narrative. A former elected D.C. official notes that after Racine recused himself from the Pepco-Exelon merger negotiations because of his former firm’s representation of Pepco, he got involved first in opposition to a proposed settlement, then in favor of a final resolution. “He’s just another person who gave in,” says the former official. “He comes from the business side. I would rather have someone more committed to public causes.” Racine says his recusal was due to an “overabundance of caution,” and that, finding no clear conflict of interest, his office joined with the Office of the People’s Counsel to negotiate a better deal for the city.

Racine has handled city litigation in ways that others find hard to reconcile. In settling a lawsuit—for $13 million—that a predecessor filed against Bank of America for its role in a fraudulent tax refund scheme while it served as the District’s depository bank, he avoided a battle that might have had a greater upside in court. “Our case analysis was that if we went to court maybe we could win $20 million at best, or the court would reject our case and we’d end up with zero, so we negotiated our tushes off to get a pretty decent settlement,” he says.

Contrast that with two cases Racine has litigated to death against former D.C. officials who exposed government wrongdoing. In the case of Jeff Mills, the former food services director for D.C. Public Schools who brought a whistleblower suit against ChartwellsThompson Hospitality that resulted in a $19 million recovery for the city, Racine’s office fought in court for a year over Mills’ whistleblower share. (Mills prevailed.) And after Eric Payne, former contracts director for the Office of the Chief Financial Officer, stood up to lottery contract interference and won a $1.7 million jury verdict in a wrongful firing case, Racine’s office sought to set aside the verdict.

“Do you want an attorney general who protects whistleblowers who stand up to corruption, or one who protects D.C. against whis-

tleblowers?” asks a veteran political observer. “[The Payne case] shows he’d rather turn back to the ways of the past. That limits his claim to being a change agent.”

Racine bristles at suggestions that he is too pro-business, or a defender of the status quo, pointing to his campaign finance reform and anti-wage-theft initiatives. Of the whistleblower suits, he says, “I have an obligation to give legal advice and represent government agencies in court, and also defend the public interest. You could say those dual mandates conflict at times. I am more comfortable advocating in the public interest. But I’ve tried to get to a place where a judicial finding is fair to plaintiffs and the District.”

wide, hands gesturing, lending the impression that he is visualizing his words as he speaks.

He also shows a gregariousness that can confound his handlers. (In a pair of lengthy interviews, Racine has been content to keep talking until his staff dragged him off to his next appointment.)

Karl Racine was born in Haiti to a mother and father of Haitian descent. His father was town mayor, his mother a teacher. When he was six months old, his parents emigrated to the United States, leaving him and his elder sister, whom he clung to, to the care of a grandmother, aunt, and uncle. At age three, he was reunited with his parents, who had settled in D.C. Asked about separation

“We need independent leadership,” Racine says. “People judge you by your actions. They want clear competence and ...and leadership that is collaborative.” if Racine’s pRofessional narrative seems conflicted, his personal story is ready for prime time, and he shares it with gusto.

Racine is engaging and, unlike Bowser, instantly likeable. Handsome, graying, quick with a quip or an F-bomb, he projects as a genial man’s man whose values are rooted in family, civic engagement, and team sports.

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trauma, he cracks, “I’ve thought about that a lot, particularly when I’m pissed—gives me a reason to be upset.”

The family settled permanently in Northwest on Nebraska Avenue in a leafy neighborhood that he jokingly refers to as the mean streets of D.C. The Racines had been engaged in civic affairs in Haiti, with relatives who had been beaten and jailed for speaking

out about the brutality and repression of the Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier regime. As a child, Racine had an awareness of political unrest, darkened by the riots of 1968. “I remember we had to get on a bus at 14th and U Street to get to our house,” he says. “We were not able to go around the city freely. But we lived in a [multicultural] neighborhood: Latin Americans, Caribbeans, Koreans, Guyanese, Jamaicans, blacks—it was Ward 3, but it was pretty diverse. Those neighborhoods of course are now condos for young people with their professional degrees.”

Raised Catholic, Racine attended Murch Elementary, Alice Deal Middle School, Wilson High for a couple of years, then St. John’s College High School, an all-boys, Catholic military school. If his was a privileged life, it did not go to his head. He played baseball and basketball, which took him all over the city to compete, where he saw blight and inequity depicted simply in the difference between a net on one basketball hoop and a chain or no chain at all on another. “It was clear those players were coming from a completely different background from me in terms of not coming from a two-parent household, and confronting issues related to crime that I was not,” he says.

A familial emphasis on education distinguished young Karl as well, and he recognized it. “I’m talking to my mom and I’m saying, ‘These guys are every bit as smart as I am, and they are excellent guys, but I know they are not going to have the same opportunities as me and it’s because of you [and dad],” recalls Racine, who went from a predominantly white elementary school to a middle school shaped by busing and desegregation. “It was clear as day that my sister are I were better prepared, and we were going to do better than a lot of other people and for no other reason than zip code and the thing that attached with that, which is our parents.”

Racine excelled at basketball. Even at the rec centers or the Police Athletic League level, he hewed closely to old-school coaches and would-be mentors. He credits them to this day, dropping names as if it were yesterday, referring to some as “loving disciplinarians” and others as “motivators” and “builders of young men.”

“I had the luxury and benefit of excellent coaches,” Racine says. “Even in the community centers, we were very close with D.C. rec workers. Incredibly supportive people. Reliable, honest, positive in their encouragement. I’m sure they raised any number of kids. You could go the way of these leaders, or you could go toward adults on the sidelines with their radios going and the jewelry—always action there. You had to make a choice. I can remember going to playgrounds and seeing that choice.”

A brush with flagging grades and some troubling associates landed him at St. John’s, where, Racine concedes, he initially felt intimidated: “I was a confident kid, but I didn’t know if I could compete with private school kids. So that was a challenge.” A military environment, no female distractions, the rigors

of a Catholic education, and an emphasis on humanities allowed him to flourish, he says: “A lightbulb went [on] that I could literally do anything these guys could do. Academically, I became confident in that realm. There was structure. You had to do the job or get disciplined.”

(Asked what military rank he achieved, he concedes that he graduated a sergeant, an honorary rank bestowed on all seniors.)

A schoolboy hoops star—he readily displays a cellphone photo of himself on the McDonald’s Capital Classic team, along with future Hall of Famer Patrick Ewing—Racine eschewed the “swag” of a potential college scholarship to instead attend University of Pennsylvania. “I wanted a full scholarship, because I thought that was cool, and it was important to alleviate the financial burden,” he says. “But my parents, they said, ‘You’re gonna go to the best school.’”

Racine’s also played basketball at Penn, where he was a point guard and a twotime MVP whose team won two Ivy League championships.

After graduating from Penn, Racine attended law school at the University of Virginia, which was starkly different than the urban experience of Philadelphia. And having spent so much of his life either in class or on the basketball court, he delayed his studies for a year to live abroad and experience a bit of the world.

He joined Venable LLP out of law school but left after three years to work for the D.C. Public Defender Service. Venable partner Jim Shea, who had Racine as a summer associate during law school, recalls Racine as “confident without being brash, personable without being too fun-loving.” Racine was bright, Shea says, a natural leader who was “able to demonstrate his intelligence” in an unpretentious manner.

A pattern of Racine’s career is that he has toggled between public law and private practice, and some who know him say his path is a driven, calculated one. After serving as associate White House counsel during the Clinton years, he ended up back at Venable, where he was elected managing partner in 2006.

His foray into politics has drawn a moderate amount of scrutiny. He loaned his campaign more than $450,000 and drew criticism for incomplete campaign finance reports and for raising money to pay himself back after he was elected. An opponent slammed him for audits that showed Venable overcharged the D.C. government in representing the Troubled Asset Relief Program while he was managing partner, and accused him of being too close to then-mayor Vince Gray.

Racine was elected in November 2014 with 36 percent of the vote. He’s a bachelor, never married, a proud uncle of three. He lives with his 82-year-old mother, who still teaches. the question of what Racine will do next is one of the more persistent ones in D.C. political circles. Councilmember Robert White says mayoral aspirations were thrust upon him practically before he was sworn in. “I’ve never understood the origin of that rumor,”

White says. “I don’t think it’s the most healthy dose of speculation. People always assume that politicians aspire to higher office, but I don’t see him as an opportunist. I think he’s an authentically good person.”

Whether he has sought the spotlight or been thrust toward it, Racine now must weather the trash talk that comes with D.C.’s insular political culture. Some political know-it-alls, for instance, have questioned whether he has a sufficient identity, message, or base to be a mayoral contender. “I see a weak political future,” says one veteran observer, laughing off suggestions that Racine could be mayor someday. “You walk down the street and 2 percent of the people know who he is.

There’s nothing in it for him, because he’d lose. He can do whatever he wants as AG.” A Ward 8 p olitical op erator s ees him as a potential stalking-horse, perhaps in cahoots with others who want to knock Bowser off her perch: “I see him as a debutante, a pretty boy who makes headlines. This shit is window dressing, smoke and mirrors, a basketball play to box out Muriel.”

If Racine would defer to anyone, it’s Vince Gray, say sources who know both men—and who know how both men feel about Bowser.

One source tells City Paper that Racine sees Gray as another mentor and has said he will not compete against him, which could still allow him to be an effective voice in support of Gray, provided a third, viable contender jumped in to erode Bowser’s support in more affluent wards.

Racine denies that he is in league with Gray or inclined to step aside for him. “I respect Vince Gray,” he says of the man whose mayoral transition team he helped lead. “What I decide to do has nothing to do with any decision he might make.”

If Bowser thinks her pathway to a second term goes through Racine, she doesn’t let on. “It doesn’t matter to me who is in the field,” she recently told Kojo Nnamdi on WAMU’s Politics Hour. Of Racine, she mere-

ly allowed, “He’s doing a fine job. … Karl’s focus on consumer protection is particularly important.”

Yet there’s a widespread view that Bowser’s performance—including questionable fundraising, backroom deals with developers who are contributors, and campaign scandals involving her allies—is precisely what could drive Racine to make a precipitous decision. In fact, he is known to have intimated that concerns about competence and corruption could be factors that get his competitive juices flowing.

“We need independent leadership,” Racine says. “People judge you by your actions.

They want clear competence, and they also want leadership that is collaborative without regard to who is getting the credit for leading. I think people in the District of Columbia really want that.”

Of Bowser, and her inner circle, he says: “I believe when the mayor and her team are collaborative and bringing other leaders to the table to participate in a discussion on how best to advance the interests of District residents, she is at her best. But in my experience, that is not their general modus operandi.”

On the issue of corruption, Racine is prone to passionate outbursts. He has spoken out

publicly against FreshPAC, the ill-fated fundraising machine Bowser’s proxies assembled to bankroll her preferred candidates. He sees a dotted line between that sort of behavior and the campaign finance controversy currently swirling around her handpicked successor in Ward 4, Brandon Todd. And he disapproved of Bowser’s attempt to direct homeless shelter building contracts to her donors and inner circle.

Which is why he thinks District residents are tired of a pay-to-play culture that plagues D.C. politics. “I sense that. People tell me that. I’ve observed it. I think that is real. I think people want to move away from even an appearance of impropriety. They want that questionable color-of-corruption stain, they want that to be removed.”

Racine concedes he already has one of the best jobs in D.C.—one that comes with independence and an opportunity to lead and be a champion for District residents. Still, the idea of being the great hope of a frustrated electorate seems to tempt him. Does he see a day of true change for the District?

“It’ll happen if the people demand it,” he says. “I think there will be change when people put in a different kind of leader or a different kind of leader runs successfully.”

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Boordy, the state’s oldest winery at 72, won Maryland’s top honor last year—the Governor’s Cup—for its first-ever release of the Spanish white. Co-head winemaker Jose Real hails from Spain’s Jerez region and was instrumental in producing Boordy’s initial limited bottling, which sold out in three months. The Baltimore County winery’s 2016 albariño just received a gold medal at the prestigious Finger Lakes International Wine Competition, and this time they made four times as much.

Black Ankle, which first planted albariño in 2004, used to sell out of its stock in a matter of days. Demand sparked new planting, and in 2015 the winery produced two different bottlings—a bolder version made from grapes grown in lots of sunlight and a more delicate offering made from grapes that saw more shade. It also marked a winemaking shift: The

winery was finally able to make enough juice to experiment with new techniques.

Success with the grape revealed several challenges, and changes, in the Maryland wine industry. As it nears 100 wineries, the state is attracting talent and investment from around the world. With that comes growing pressure to regularly produce and showcase more refined wines, despite challenging weather with extreme temperatures.

But Maryland’s mostly moderate climate allows winemakers to produce rich, ripe red wines, like barbera and petit verdot, and the topographical landscape boasts elevated areas ideal for capturing breezes that retain freshness in wine.

Growers are scrambling to keep up with demand, but it’s expensive. Lucie Morton, a global viticulture consultant, says some estimates put the price tag at $25,000 an acre, and

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Spain’S famed white wine albariño may be what puts Maryland’s wine industry on the map. The hearty grape thrives even in unpredictable winters and oppressively humid conditions. No matter what nature throws at it, it will grow. Similar to Virginia’s focus on viognier, a varietal that grows well in most parts of the state, signature grapes can drive revenue and traffic for a growing wine region.

Weather is one of the biggest challenges for Mid-Atlantic wine professionals, and albariño is exactly the kind of fruit Maryland grape growers love.

Word of mouth is the primary way that Maryland’s wine industry has grown in the last two decades, and consistently producing enough of a quality product is what makes people tell their friends and return to buy more.

that’s if you already own the land. The state has about 1,100 acres under vine, compared with neighboring Virginia, which has three times as much and also can’t keep up, and many Maryland wineries are still forced to bring in juice from across state lines.

Kevin Atticks, executive director of the Maryland Wineries Association, explains that Maryland has funded about $500,000 in projects over the last 12 years to support and grow the industry, which he estimates contributes $90 million to the state’s economy (a new study is coming out this fall).

By comparison, neighboring Pennsylvania spends around $350,000 annually on promoting and supporting its 200 wineries. And in Virginia, where wine agritourism is a $1.37 billion business, the commonwealth’s wine board boasts a budget of nearly $2 million to support its 285 wineries.

But it’s not a grapes-to-grapes comparison. Though the areas are very similar geographically, growth in the Virginia industry has been building for 40 years. Before the Maryland Winery Modernization Act of 2010 and direct shipping rules that passed shortly after, the state only had 40 wineries. In seven years, it has more than doubled, and there is now winemaking in every county in the state.

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DCFEED “Maryland is a microcosm of Virginia,” says Old Westminster Winery & Vineyard founder Drew Baker. “But Virginia has put a lot of effort into stimulating growth in wine, driven from [the] top down. In Maryland we are just starting to taste what that’s like.”

Baker’s sister Lisa Hinton is the winemaker, and this year the Carroll County winery will crack 2,500 cases under 17 labels.

Demand is so strong that they recently purchased a 117-acre site in Montgomery County and will develop it over the next decade.

Joe Fiola, the state’s lead viticulturist, started in his role with the Western Maryland Research and Education Center in 2001 when there were just 11 wineries in the state.

Things started to take off in 2005, and he now works to connect the state and regulatory entities with growers as well as to educate potential new business owners. He believes that the variety Maryland offers—from sweet, fruity wines to dry reds—is a cornerstone of its success.

“We want to be a premium winemaking area, and we have wineries making the best wine they can,” Fiola says. “But it’s not all high-end wine. Some people just want to be entertained and support the local industry.

Others want $30 to $100 bottles.”

Several wine professionals cite efforts by Atticks and Fiola as going a long way to growing the industry, but they also say more state investment is needed. Fiola, for example, is also responsible for overseeing other fruits grown in the state, and Atticks splits time with the Brewers Association of Maryland.

Youth and innovation are on Maryland’s side. Emily Ye Yang, the state’s only solo female winery owner—and at 26, its youngest—toured the world before buying Sugarloaf Mountain Vineyard in 2014. She plans to open Sugarloaf ’s second tasting room nearly 7,000 miles away in her hometown of Hohhot, a city of 1.4 million people in Inner Mongolia, China, in the next five years.

“People my parents’ age in China only know American wine as Napa Valley,” she says. “I want them to get to know Maryland.”

Melissa Aellen, assistant winemaker at Linganore Winecellars in Mt. Airy, was drawn back to Maryland at age 24 after working in wineries in New Zealand, Oregon, and California. It wasn’t just about family—she grew up at the vineyard owned by her father and uncles—she also wanted an opportunity to make a professional mark.

“In Napa and Willamette Valley [in the Pacific Northwest], it’s already decided what wine is going to be made,” Aellen says.

“Maryland is still young and getting a name for itself. There’s no ‘Maryland must make’ anything.”

Big Cork winemaker Dave Collins, who

has decades of experience working in Virginia, says it’s key that wineries are focused on growing what works best for the state and thinking outside of the “sauvignon blanc box.” He believes regulatory support is even more important than state investment for growth and that businesses have to take it upon themselves to market and produce good wine. His winery, located in Rohrersville, 30 minutes from Frederick, offers fun events like yoga and music to help attract guests.

“It’s exciting to be a leader and see a new area emerge,” Collins says. “We feel Maryland is on the cusp of something big.”

At the Vineyards at Dodon outside Annapolis, tastings and tours are by appointment only and offer a more personal feel.

Wine club members and other guests spend nearly two hours in small groups tasting, exploring the property, and speaking with the owners and winemaking staff.

The winery is housed on a solar-powered, 550-acre working farm in Davidsonville and only uses grapes grown on the property, whose soil is rich with clay and decomposing shells.

Adding the commercial vineyard in 2010 allowed the property to remain intact and for owners Polly Pittman and Tom Croghan and their families to live and work on site, which doubles as an equine training center.

“We’re in an amazing phase of growth, from quantity of acreage planted, the number of wineries, and quality of the wine,” says Regina Mc Carthy, Dodon’s director of client services. “Maryland is America in miniature.”

Further north at Crow Vineyard, located in Kennedyville near the Eastern Shore, owners Judy and Roy Crow also added winemaking to keep a 365-acre farm from being broken into pieces. They added a small bed and breakfast, turning the farm into a winestay, and they also keep a herd of cattle that provides beefy snacks for the tasting room.

Crow offers vidal blanc as a still, sparkling, and dessert wine, and the vineyard is preparing to welcome a new winemaker, Michael Zollo, who brings four years of winemaking experience from California to rural Kent County.

Morton, who consults internationally and has worked with several of the state’s top wineries— including Dodon, Boordy, Sugarloaf, and Black Ankle—echoes calls for more research and viticulture support but is heartened that Maryland winery owners are undaunted by the challenges growing the industry poses.

“This is wine I’m happy to take anywhere,” Morton says. “Maryland has pretty unlimited potential.”

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Satisfaction level: 4 out of 5. what we’ll eat next week: Spring soup with buckwheat tempura pike fish, curry flavors, and coconut, $18, Mirabelle.

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’WichingHour The Sandwich: Morbier Grilled Cheese Where: Ripple, 3417 Connecticut Ave. NW Price: $11 Bread: White sandwich loaf Stuffings: beef short rib, Morbier cheese, horseradish cream, pickled onions, whole grain mustard Thickness: 1 inch Pros: It contains cheese and is cooked on a griddle, but this isn’t a traditional dairy bomb. The combination of meat, cheese, and spreads eats more like a beautifully composed bruschetta (that happens to be warmed) than what mom used to make. The combination

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What You Should Be Drinking: During the 1970s, the Harvey Wallbanger— served on a mirrored tray—was the goto cocktail at parties hosted in shag carpeted, fern-filled sunken living rooms. At the Latin-Asian fusion lounge on 14th Street, cocktail consultant Gina Chersevani’s update takes a sip trip to Asia in a drink named for a South Korean boy band. Neisson Rhum Agricole 105 Proof is shaken with orange juice, Galliano (an Italian sweet herbal liqueur with a bright yellow color and distinctive vanilla flavor), and syrup steeped in chopped lemongrass stalks.

Why You Should Be Drinking It: Back in the “Me Decade,” everyone had a tall slender bottle of Galliano hanging out in the corner of their apartment.

But it’s fallen out of favor, and today it’s hard to find Galliano collecting dust on a bar shelf, let alone on the cocktail menu. Sure it’s on the sweet side, but the funky combination of anise, juniper, cinnamon, musk yarrow, lavender, and peppermint is also nostalgic and fun. Vegetal rhum agricole from Martinique dries out the drink, and lemongrass mixes well with the liqueur’s vanilla top note. Order it confidently, not ironically, along with the Yaki Tako, Sakerum’s grilled octopus with citrus, mango, and orange picante.

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To celebrate 15 years, Transformer co-founder Victoria Reis is launching a New Jersey satellite to extend the reach of her beloved art space.

Next moNth, D.C.’s scrappiest art space, Transformer, passes a major milestone. The arts nonprofit turns 15 years old in June, an achievement that is almost unheard of in the world of contemporary art. It’s hard for a designer furniture boutique to stay open that long in trendy Logan Circle without getting the boot, much less a punk shoebox incubator for emerging artists, but Transformer has weathered it all.

So the gallery is throwing a party—a big one. On June 10— almost 15 years to the day from the opening of its first show in 2002—Transformer is hosting Shadow/Casters, a performanceart bash at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. That’s a big deal for a local art shop (although this will mark Transformer’s second collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution). The performances will coincide with the Hirshhorn’s late-night party series, After Hours, and Transformer is going into it with a witchy, full-moon, summer-solstice theme in mind for the evening. Artists inside the museum will perform in silhouette from the windows of the upper floors hanging over the courtyard.

Guests will gather there, around the fountain, where other artists will also perform their work live.

The quinceañera also marks a big transition for Victoria Reis, the executive and artistic director of the cozy art gallery she cofounded in 2002 with Jayme McLellan. Reis and her husband, Brian Baker, a founding member of Minor Threat and guitarist for Bad Religion, are taking all their D.C. cred and moving to Asbury Park, New Jersey, where Reis grew up. But Transformer isn’t going anywhere, she insists.

“We’re expanding our programming to include an Asbury [Park]–based summer residency and exhibition program for emerging artists,” Reis says. “Since I was a teenager I’ve thought, this place is just such an amazing place for an artist residency program. When I was 15, I thought, it’s going to get funded by Bruce Springsteen and Bon Jovi. Maybe it still will.”

Siren Arts, Transformer’s Asbury Park extension, will serve as an annual summer-long residency and exhibition program set in a storefront space on Bangs Avenue, just two blocks from the ocean.

It’s not far from the house that Reis and her husband just purchased, a 1926 Dutch Colonial on a half-acre of land that she describes as her dream home. The two of them summer in Asbury Park every year; while they weren’t looking to move, they couldn’t pass up the opportunity when Baker spotted the house.

Siren Arts won’t be Transformer’s first foray in New Jersey.

In 2014, Reis assembled 12 artists from across the East Coast— including two artists from D.C., Lisa Marie Thalhammer and Tang—for a boardwalk exhibit at Asbury Park’s 5th Avenue Pavilion. Promised Land was a one-off, week-long residency funded by the Warhol Initiative, a capacity-building program by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, one of Transform-

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er’s longtime supporters. Siren Arts’ ongoing programming will be modeled after that show, which drew more than 15,000 visitors over the course of a six-week-long run.

IN a way, it’s hardly surprising that Transformer would seek to expand. The incubator has always maintained a large curatorial footprint relative to its small physical stature. In 2008, Transformer

brought a band of artists from Mexico City to show at the Mexican Cultural Institute; the following summer, the gallery took five artists from D.C. to D.F. Former Washington Ballet director Septime Webre and several dancers worked with Transformer artists Jessica Cebra and Zach Storm on Snow Globe, a balletic installation that graced the gallery in 2010. And in 2011, Transformer worked with the National Museum of the American Indian to arrange This washingtoncitypaper.com may 5, 2017 21

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For Reis, the lure of Siren Arts is the shore itself. She describes her hometown’s history: In the 1880s, Asbury Park and neighboring Ocean Grove were founded as Christian retreats by “wealthy businessmen from New York who wanted to take the waters.”

While Ocean Grove held onto its Methodist roots, Asbury Park built attractions; from there it evolved as a place for musicians, especially black musicians who weren’t allowed to book hotel space in New York when they played venues in the city. Reis loves the Beaux Arts architecture that is still the backdrop of Asbury Park. Also its musical pedigree: She recalls fondly the time when John Lydon spat on her behind a venue when Public Image Ltd played Asbury Park when she was a girl. “[Asbury Park] is still in that pre–fully developed moment,” Reis says. “It realizes what it has. There are a lot of people like me who have very, very special childhood memories of this place who want to see it continue to be this artist-centered place.”

But Reis isn’t giving up on the District. Transformer’s board supported her decision to continue her role from abroad-ish. (As an international touring musician, Baker can rip solos with his ax from anywhere.) Reis says that she will continue to be a District resident and will maintain a pied-à-terre in the city. Transformer is staffing up: Reis just hired a program associate, Val Wiseman, and she recently promoted Georgie Payne to exhibitions and programming manager. Cara Leepson, as development and operations manager, is also taking on more leadership responsibilities. (Paid student interns from Monmouth University will

hold down the fort at Siren Arts.)

“Honestly, I doubt you or most anyone will notice, except our immediate neighbors,” Reis says. “I’m not leaving D.C.” By no means is Transformer giving up on its Logan Circle micro-gallery—despite the best efforts by some to dislodge it. The real estate team from JRINK, the D.C.–local organic fresh-pressed juicery, popped by the space with inquiries once when artists were installing a show. They later approached the property manager at 1404 P Street NW to discuss possibly taking over Transformer’s funky converted alley space. The gallery’s rent shot up as a result, but Transformer held onto its lease. (JRINK says that the company looked at spaces all around 14th and P, noting that “we are absolutely not looking to displace local businesses.”) all of the artists who will appear at the Hirshhorn After Hours event showed their work previously at Transformer in Defy/Define, a show from last fall. Jason Barnes (Pussy Noir), Alexandra “Rex” Delafkaran, and Kunj Patel will each perform works in the museum courtyard. Baltimore’s Hoesy Corona will man the shadow-casting performance from inside the Hirshhorn’s window-ringed donut with Labbodies, the performance collective he co-directs. Transformer is working with the Hirshhorn’s timebased media specialist, Drew Doucette, and the museum’s new curator of media and performance, Mark Beasley, to sort out the challenge of turning the Hirshhorn into a zoetrope.

And the artists who will inaugurate Siren Arts this summer— that programming is already in place—will also be known to D.C. viewers. The first show, Summer of Radical Love, opens June 24 and pairs John Chaich, the curator behind the popular roving

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Transformer’s June 10 collaboration with the Hirshhorn bears all the signatures of a Transformer event: a bit of serendipity, internationalism, and hustle. Reis says that the museum’s deputy director, Elizabeth Duggal, pitched her on the prospect of a joint effort last summer. She and several artists had just returned from Rome on a program funded by the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities. While she was there, the city of Rome was celebrating its umpteenth-thousandth birthday.

“There was a huge celebration on the Tiber, and William Kentridge did this gorgeous mural project along the banks,” Reis says. “He basically did a stencil by doing a power wash of who knows how many years of dirt and debris [off the walls].

What was left behind were these images of Remus and Romulus—incredible.” She adds, “As part of the birthday celebration, there was this really goth processional of artists carrying lights and shadow projections along the banks of the Tiber”—which is where she got the idea for Transformer’s birthday party.

“Everyone soon or late comes round by Rome,” said Robert Browning. But fewer poets make a point of sailing between the District of Columbia or New Jersey. That’s Reis’ idea of living and, she hopes, a way of strengthening artist connections along the East Coast. Just as she’s done through Transformer over the last 15 years, but only more so.

“People are excited to go to Europe and here and there,” Reis says. “I’m excited to go to the Jersey Shore.”

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The Fault in Their Stars

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Two new indie movies starring a who’s who of notable talent highlight the dark side of the human spirit.

The Dinner

Directed by Oren Moverman

My Entire High School Sinking Into The Sea Directed by Dash Shaw

By Tricia Olszewski Most faMilies who fight save their unpleasant gatherings for the holidays. In The Dinner, however, it takes a homicide to bring the gang together for an evening of bitterness and outdoor voices. The fancy restaurant that two estranged brothers and their respective wives go to may as well be called Pick Your Poison. By the end of the evening, an array of food porn is presented, but all you’ll taste is bile.

Writer-director Oren Moverman’s film— which was to be helmed by Cate Blanchett— is the third time Herman Koch’s 2009 novel has been adapted into a feature. Did the world need yet another theatrical version of this ugly story? Not especially, unless you’re among the filmgoers who are averse to subtitles and/or believe that Hollywood should cash in on every juicy tale that first graces foreign screens.

Koch posited The Dinner as a what-wouldyou-do? conversation starter. There is no love lost between former high school teacher Paul (Steve Coogan, appropriately peevish) and gubernatorial candidate Stan (Richard Gere, appropriately political), brothers who grew up in a fractured home. Though it’s initially unclear what Paul is reciting in his head at the beginning of the film, eventually it’s revealed—through scenes, if not words—that Paul suffered a mental break during a class and has not returned to his profession. His wife Claire (Laura Linney) takes care to shield her husband from any stress brought on by their teenage son Michael (Charlie Plummer).

But Michael is friends with his cousins, Stan’s sons Rick (Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick) and Beau (Miles J. Harvey). And Stan, along with his wife, Katelyn (Rebecca Hall), invites Paul and Claire to dine at a posh restaurant so that they can talk about the crime Paul is unaware that Michael and Rick committed.

Michael confessed to his mother the night it

happened. It’s unclear when Stan and Katelyn found out. Claire, however, is privy to a fact even more shocking than the violent act: Beau posted the video the other two took online and is now blackmailing his cousin.

Beau is African-American and adopted, but why these facts matter is either a question mark or a stretch. Either way, his existence in the story makes Koch, who is reportedly unhappy with Moverman’s take, look like the Trump of novelists. His importance to the plot is a long time coming, though. Before that, it’s almost all about Paul, by far the most unpleasant person in the film, though the novel gives him better competition. He goes from ornery yet slightly sympathetic (“I’m not drinking something that expensive.

It’s fucking wrong”) to wild-eyed and, as Michael says, about to “spin out.” He does not take the news about the situation very well.

But in The Dinner, everyone gets their turn to be vile. It’s rare that all four of them are at the table at the same time: Katelyn storms out, Paul storms out, Claire goes after Katelyn, and Stan’s assistant (Adepero Oduye) keeps interrupting him with urgent phone calls. Ironically, it’s the politician with the best moral compass here. And Moverman seems to soften Claire a bit from the clear sociopath she is in the book. Is she a lioness protecting her cub, or a cretinous, inhuman being? Does she prefer Paul when he’s sick, or did she just think his medication was turning him into a zombie?

And where does Michael fit in?

Regardless of their characters’ motives, Coogan, Linney, and Hall bite into their roles with ferocity. But the acting, while impressive, is not exactly enjoyable. Further, Moverman embellishes flashbacks a little too theatrically, particularly a scene in which Stan and Paul take a walking tour of Gettysburg—this memory turns into a too-long tangent. And when you get to the chaotic, abrupt end, you’ll wonder if there was a projection hiccup. You’ll leave the theater confused, but likely not wanting more.

RegaRdless of whetheR you know who Dash Shaw is or what you think of the graphic novelist’s first feature, My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea, you gotta admit one thing: Casting Susan Sarandon as the voice of a burly

My Entire High School Sinking Into The Sea

lunch lady was genius. You’ll recognize a few voices in this trippily animated farce, particularly Jason Schwartzman as Dash—as in Dash Shaw—the film’s flip protagonist. He’s a writer for the school newspaper and the one who finds a cover-up involving the construction that’s going on at his seaside California high school. A new auditorium is being built, but is the four-story structure sound?

Um, spoiler alert: Don’t read the title.

Dash makes his discovery after turning on his best friend, Assah (Reggie Watts), when he starts getting a little too friendly with the paper’s editor, Verti (Maya Rudolph). Dash’s antics are soon documented on his permanent record. And when he sifts through the school’s file dungeon to edit that record, he comes across a forged signature that gave the go-ahead for the auditorium work. The real building inspector, however, declared the school unfit to survive an earthquake, a fact that Principal Grimm (Thomas Jay Ryan) chose to ignore.

My Entire High School is essentially a comic disaster flick. It’s not long after Dash tries to warn people that the school starts rumbling and goes all Poseidon, with blood, bones, and bodies with x’d-out eyes immediately turning up. (The building not only floods as it sinks, but for some reason, catches fire.) And as anyone who’s seen a disaster movie knows, only a core group of characters can survive. Among these in this case are Dash, Assaf, Verti, Lunch Lady Lorraine, and Mary (Lena Dunham, the

most recognizable and grating voice of them all). They also come across a smattering of other struggling survivors, including the principal and a dirtbag senior named Drake (Alex Karpovsky).

Despite the rather constant stream of jokes— ranging from erudite (“I like turgid prose”) to Beavis and Butt-Head-esque (“He said, ‘Grab our pole’”)—Shaw infuses his story with a fair amount of tension as our heroes brave the elements, sometimes just barely. Much more impressive than the script, though, is the animation: bright, layered, sometimes gory, and often kaleidoscopic. (In fact, there’s a warning at the beginning of the film for photosensitive epileptics regarding its strobe-like effects.) It looks like Shaw occasionally slips in something real, too.

Shaw pays homage to various films, TV shows, and videogames, including The Poseidon Adventure, Scooby Doo, and Peanuts.

(For the games, you’re on your own.) Basically, the movie is as much or as little as you care to make it. During a discussion about, of all things, book blurbs, Drake comes out as against them, with an opinion that applies to My Entire High School as well: “Make up your own minds. People are such sheep.”

CP The Dinner opens Friday at Landmark Bethesda Row and the Angelika Film Center.

My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea opens Friday at Landmark E Street Cinema

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MusicDiscography

Building BlocKs Build Music

Janka Nabay and The Bubu Gang Luaka Bop, 2017 Five yeArs AFter D.C.-based, Sierra Leoneborn Janka Nabay released En Yay Sah—a synthesized, updated version of his homeland’s Bubu music for the Western world—he’s back with another effort: Build Music.

On En Yay Sah—originally released on David Byrne’s Luaka Bop label—the Bubu Gang, a six-piece band of Brooklyn indie-rockers, backed their leader’s folksy croak of a voice with bouncy, African dance beats that were both computerized and played on guitar, bass, and drums. When it was released, South African club music had received its fair share of international exposure, but Nabay’s brand of West African-rooted beats hadn’t caught that wave. On his new album, also released

by Luaka Bop, Nabay again works with two core members from the Bubu Gang: vocalist/bassist Boshra AlSaadi and keyboardist Michael Gallope, plus an assortment of other New York musicians to create buoyant bubu dance music that’s rooted in both traditional and electronic sounds.

Nabay first achieved fame in Sierra Leone in the 1990s by transforming bamboo hornblowing—a staple of Bubu music—into programmed beats to support his rootsy vocals.

While there are now a number of West African performers utilizing electronic beats with rap and R&B-influenced vocals, Nabay instead sticks with his own hybrid style that features melodies that link to his musical roots.

Build Music is a reference to his method for creating songs; Nabay teaches his band by singing and humming to them the various

instrumental and vocal parts (his lyrics are sung in multiple languages, including Temne, Krio, Arabic, and English). After the core of the songs are developed, Nabay and producer Matt Mehlan (of the band Skeletons) flesh out the compositions, adding samples and remixing rhythm tracks. Build Music exhibits that process, which includes several sing-song demo tape verses from Nabay alongside new songs and two reworked older numbers.

Nabay’s sonic blend of old and new remains largely similar to his debut, but, half of a decade later, doesn’t feel stale in the slightest. On Build Music, it’s clear he’s still fond of traditional Bubu melodies, ’70s Afrorock, and ’90s Casio keyboard funkiness, but Nabay and his band aren’t stuck in the past: They use modern programming to give it a contemporary flair. Underlying rhythms vary slightly from song to song, but remain largely brisk—more flexible than club styles like techno.

The most successful cuts on Build Music contrast Nabay’s narrow-ranged, less musical intonation with the sweet-toned, more tuneful responses of AlSaadi. The title track starts with Casio and modern synth sounds before Nabay chants the chorus with AlSaadi joyously answering “Bubu Music.” By song’s end, their voices are intertwining over playful keyboard notes and insistent drum beats.

“Santa Monica” is more musically fleshed out—it has bass and guitar lines, artsy synth sections, and an urgent beat—but again the key is the vocal shout and rejoinder. Nabay declaims “Investigation, interrogation, yay” and AlSaadi quickly responds more melodically with “California, Santa Monica” in a stretched-out manner so that Monica becomes “moe-neeca.” These cryptic lyrics refer to a time when Nabay was hassled by cops for smoking on a beachfront block where he didn’t know it was banned.

“Bubu Dub,” a simple but effective number, begins with galloping preset Casio beats before Nabay comes in and orates She loves to dance/ She loves to swing/ And listen to Bubu music all night long.” Then AlSaadi follows with an enchanting higher-noted rendition of the phrase as the catchy beats soldiers on.

“Combination,” the album closer, is the most traditional sounding number with its use of ’70s-era Afro-pop guitar jangle, understated throwback percussion, and a mellower chorus.

Nevertheless, the tune seemingly encapsulates Nabay’s philosophy as its pleading lyrics about maintaining relationships find him confiding to

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a woman: “We have got to jump, jump, jump,” with AlSaadi warbling the follow-up line: “and we have to live in combination.”

It’s a powerful line for Nabay, who left his country in 2003 during a period of civil war: He just wants people to come together and dance.

—Steve Kiviat Listen to Build Music at washingtoncitypaper. com/arts.

King MiKe MICHAEL

Mike of Doom dtla records As the Album’s title might suggest, MICHAEL—the first release from DMV MC/ producer Mike of Doom since 2016’s rattling NO BULLSHIT EP—is centered in one subject: Mike of Doom, himself. There’s an honesty to the decision to make overtly self-centered music. Modern lyrics, be they cased in pop, rock, or hiphop, are largely personal and confessional, but the subject of the creator’s self is often shrouded by generalities and modesty. That’s not the case on MICHAEL, where Mike and friends—including Heems, Ciscero, Andy McMann, Kasey Jones, and Sugg Savage—unabashedly spit about themselves and everything within, to varying degrees of success.

Sonically, MICHAEL is diverse and exciting. Showcasing some his first and finest production work since 2012’s Of Doom, MICHAEL finds Mike of Doom taking influence from sounds as wide as crank, house, punk, future bass, R&B, new wave, trap, bounce, and industrial. MICHAEL weaves through styles effortlessly, always excited to flip the beat and take the track in a new direction. “Overtime” opens as a groovy electro-bounce jam that crumbles to down-sampled dust at around the one-minute mark, only to resurrect as a fuzzed-out post-Yeezus minimal beat. This method is applied to “DIVA” as well, where he steers a few jazz chords from hip-hop to progressive house, his un-compromised flow smoothly adapting to the new rhythm.

Some of the album’s more abrasive moments show Mike’s wild side, a facet of his personality that’s louder—literally and figuratively—than on the album’s early tracks.

The album’s superior second half opens with “Thot the Pain Away,” an acid-blues freakout about the self-centered joys of being reluctantly single, and the first time the record flirts with rock styles (he revisits them on “MONA LISA,” “The Fool,” and “ENERGY”). After a minute-and-a-half of distorted guitars and near-scream vocals, the track switches to a hiphop beat, trap hi-hats blaring for about three seconds, before snapping back, all while the track’s irreverent hook continues. It’s Mike’s way of winking at the listener, as if he’s saying: “This is how this song could have turned out, if MICHAEL were someone else.”

The album’s peak is the one-two punch of “Scattered Thoughts” and the following “Stolen from a Holy Land.” The former features Mike and his 3-0 WHOP-affiliate Ciscero, as well as Kasey Jones and Sugg Savage, going code red over a bruising drum-and-bass beat.

Without a discernible central message, the song lives up to its title and is effective in serving the album’s overall theme: Even when he’s at a loss of thesis, MICHAEL has still got shit to say.

This is contrasted by “Stolen from a Holy Land,” which features the most potent messages of the record: “Land of the free/ home if you’re my kind/ where we could get shot/ wrong place, wrong time.”

This all begs the question: is Mike and his selfworth enough to be the centerpiece of his own record? Kinda, sorta, yeah. Within the context of MICHAEL’s central subject, the schizophrenic production presents Mike as a hip-hop artist unafraid to show his many sides. He’s one of a few MCs in town who would even consider rapping over these beats, let alone compose them and stamp their Christian name on the cover. That said, the lyrical content is lacking.

For every song that features an improved-andalive Mike on the mic (“DIVA,” “MONA LISA,” “Stolen from a Holy Land,” “FREE”), there’s another that slips into well-trodden subject matter and non-surprising revelations (“BAD,” “Overtime,” “Need Space”).

MICHAEL is overall encouraging for Mike of Doom’s future. This is certainly an enigmatic record, and it’s exciting to hear a DMV hiphop mainstay take time to craft his own niche.

No one else could have made MICHAEL, that’s for sure.

—Peter Lillis Listen to MICHAEL at washingtoncitypaper. com/arts.

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Space IS The place Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Directed by James Gunn

James Gunn is fortunate to helm the space opera franchise Guardians of the Galaxy, as opposed to others in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. His characters are far removed from The Avengers—both literally and as a story— and that distance gives Gunn added freedom since a larger sense of continuity is ancillary.

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is admirably self-contained, with enough comedy and visual wit that we are in no rush to see just how the Guardians fit into a wider universe. Gunn uses extraordinary situations to serve as planet-sized metaphors for his characters, most of whom suffer from constant feelings of rejection or loneliness. This film is a therapy session, with the added bonus of a cute creatures and a classic rock soundtrack.

After Rocket (Bradley Cooper) pisses off their client during a routine mission, the Guardians crash onto a remote habitable planet. They receive an unexpected visitor: Kurt Russell plays Ego, a mysterious man who announces he’s the father of Peter Quill (Chris Pratt). Ego wants to bring Peter to his home world, and so the Guardians split up. Drax (Dave Bautista) and Gamora (Zoe Saldana) accompany Peter, while Rocket and Baby Groot (Vin Diesel) repair the ship. Ego’s planet is full of surprises—Peter finally learns the secrets of his past—and Rocket along with Baby Groot deal with a mercenary force that’s led by Yondu (Michael Rooker). All the Guardians reunite, as they must, and they learn more about themselves and each other along the way.

If the first Guardians of the Galaxy is about bizarre heroes developing chemistry, then the sequel is a showcase for them as individuals. Every Guardian has a standalone vignette, one that highlights their courage, fighting skills, and emotional shortcomings. The breadth of action and scenery ensures that these vignettes are never boring. Rocket’s canny instincts help him dispatch dozens of mercenaries, for example, and he’s deeply vindictive since everyone is quick to call him cruel variants of a raccoon. Gunn, who wrote and directed Vol. 2, need not move the plot

along. He has room to build multifaceted foreshadowing, as well as well-timed sight gags, so even if the pace is languid, it is never boring.

Storytelling freedom notwithstanding, Gunn’s film contains bizarre reversals and twists. Allegiances between characters are on the border between friendship and hostility, so Gunn’s script distorts relationships based on what the plot requires, not what the characters feel. There is a subplot involving Gamora and her ill-tempered sister Nebula (Karen Gillan), and Gunn explores their impasse only insofar that it leads to some eye-popping fight sequences. The sharply-defined conflicts are welcome reprieves from heroes who constantly feel each other out. Ayesha (Elizabeth Debicki) represents The Sovereign, a gilded alien race with a homicidal sense of decorum, and Gunn tosses them into the fray whenever the tension gets a touch too thorny.

Gunn films the space battles and escapes with a greater sense of spectacle than action. During the climax, for example, a planet implodes while the Guardians run along its service, and it’s so implausible that Gunn has no alternative but to focus on gestures, not coherence. This is not a problem, however, since Gunn is a subversive director, the sort who think it’s funny to use state of the art technology to make an offhand pop culture reference, or a gross-out gag. Still, the film’s highlight is when Yondu, Rocket, and Baby Groot escape from a prison cell. Yondu commands an arrow with his mind, and its illuminated path unspools like a deadly 3D Spirograph. Baby Groot, on the other hand, is adorable, curious, and about as intelligent as a well-meaning pet.

Audiences cooed every time Baby Groot graced the screen, and with his disproportionately large eyes, it’s hard to blame them.

Despite all the bright colors and ’80s radio hits, the most valuable player of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is Drax. Dave Bautista’s performance is downright delightful—even under all the gunmetal make-up, his face is enormously expressive. Drax has no social filter, blurting out exactly what he thinks, and his formal discourse adds to his unintentional jokes. The best scene in Guardians involves Drax, but it’s an understated one. Pom Klementieff plays Mantis, a character with empathetic powers, and she internalizes Drax’s heartbreak while he sits there with a plain expression. The scene neatly distills the appeal of Guardians: These characters are powerful and brave, and yet they ache with the same needs and yearning as the rest of us.

Underneath the comedy and action, Gunn’s film is ultimately reassuring. Like the Guardians themselves, we must trust we can find people to accept and forgive us, no matter how, er, alienated we might feel.

—Alan Zilberman Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 opens Friday in theaters everywhere.

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Merriweather Post Pavilion • Columbia, MD THIS SATURDAY!

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w/ Sampha ................................................................................. MAY 6

Ryan Adams w/ Jenny Lewis ............................................................................ MAY 12

THIS WEEK’S SHOWS

DC101 KERFUFFLE FEATURING

Kings of Leon • Weezer • Jimmy Eat World • Fitz and the Tantrums

Hot In Herre: 2000s Dance Party

with DJs Will Eastman and Brian Billion .................................................... Sa 6

Twin Peaks w/ Chrome Pony & Post Animal ..................................................Tu 9 San Fermin w/ Low Roar ...............................................................................W 10 MAY

DESIIGNER w/ 16yrold & Ciscero .................Th 11 Giorgio Moroder w/ Enamour ..F 12 Los Amigos Invisibles w/ Zakke .....................................Sa 13 Perfume Genius w/ serpentwithfeet ...................... M 15 DREAMCAR feat. members of

No Doubt, Tony Kanal, Adrian Young, Tom Dumont, & AFI frontman, Davey Havok w/ Superet .................................Th 18 ALL GOOD PRESENTS

Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe featuring Melvin Seals ............... F 19 Cloud Nothings w/ Daniel Bachman .....................Sa 20

9:30 CUPCAKES

Sigur Rós .............................................................................................................. MAY 25 CAPITAL JAZZ FEST FEATURING

Corinne Bailey Rae • George Benson • Jaheim • Anthony Hamilton and more! .... JUNE 2-4

Laura Marling w/ Valley Queen ..........................Su 21 JMSN w/ Gabriel Garzon-Montano

Paul Simon w/ Sarah McLachlan.............................................................. JUNE 9 Jack Johnson w/ Lake Street Dive .....................................................................JUNE 11 John Legend w/ Gallant .....................................................................................JUNE 20 Steve Miller Band w/ Peter Frampton ................................................JUNE 23 Luke Bryan w/ Brett Eldredge & Lauren Alaina ..............................................JUNE 25 Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit w/ The Mountain Goats .........................JUNE 30 Dispatch w/ Guster & Marco Benevento ........................................................... JULY 7 My Morning Jacket w/ Gary Clark Jr. ......................................................... JULY 14

& Alcordo ....................................Tu 30

JUNE STORY DISTRICT PRESENTS

Out/Spoken: Queer, Questioning, Bold, and Proud ........................Sa 3

MERRIWEATHER 50TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT FEATURING

The Avalanches ........................M 5 Royal Blood ...............................Tu 6 Freddie Gibbs ...........................Th 8 Jamestown Revival w/ Colter Wall ................................F 9 The Record Company w/ The Deadmen

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Browne and Willie Nelson w/ Father John Misty plus special guest host Grace Potter Talkin’ & Singin ... JULY 15 VANS WARPED TOUR PRESENTED BY JOURNEYS FEATURING

Anti-Flag • The Ataris • Gwar • Hatebreed • Valient Thorr and many more! .............. JULY 16

Gorillaz .................................................................................................................. JULY 17 THE MOST SUCCESSFUL FILM COMPOSER OF OUR ERA

Hans Zimmer Live with Orchestra and Chorus performing music from Pirates of the Caribbean, Gladiator, The Dark Knight and more! .................................. JULY 21 alt-J w/ Saint Motel & SOHN .................................................................................... JULY 27 Fleet Foxes w/ Animal Collective ........................................................... JULY 29 Belle and Sebastian / Spoon / Andrew Bird w/ Ex Hex .................. JULY 30

Early Show! 7pm Doors ...................Sa 10

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I.M.P. & GOLDENVOICE PRESENT AN EVENING WITH

The Chainsmokers w/ Kiiara, Lost Frequencies, featuring Emily Warren ...... MAY 26

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• Catfish and the Bottlemen • Highly Suspect • MISSIO • The Unlikely Candidates ............ MAY 14 Dierks Bentley w/ Cole Swindell & Jon Pardi .................................................... MAY 19 Bon Iver w/ Hiss Golden Messenger ...................................................................... MAY 24

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BEN GIBBARD (OF DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE) ............. JULY 26 On Sale Friday, May 5 at 10am

Lady Antebellum w/ Kelsea Ballerini & Brett Young .............................. AUGUST 13 Santana ............................................................................................................ AUGUST 15 Sturgill Simpson w/ Fantastic Negrito ................................................ SEPTEMBER 15 Young The Giant w/ Cold War Kids & Joywave .................................. SEPTEMBER 16 Chrysalis at Merriweather Park

Greensky Bluegrass ..................................................................................... JULY 22

THIS TUESDAY!

Rhiannon Giddens w/ Amythyst Kiah............................................................................. MAY 9 Dwight Yoakam w/ Elliot Root ...................................................................................... MAY 11 Demetri Martin ............................................................................................................. MAY 13

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Old Crow Medicine Show Performing Blonde on Blonde .................................... MAY 23 Pop-Up Magazine ......................................................................................................... JUNE 6 Feist .................................................................................................................................. JUNE 7

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TYCHO w/ Nitemoves ............................................................................................ MAY 7 Empire of the Sun w/ Lee “Scratch” Perry & Subatomic Sound System ...... MAY 11 2135 Queens Chapel Rd. NE • Ticketmaster

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Tim And Eric: 10th Anniversary Awesome Tour ........................................................ JULY 19 TajMo: The Taj Mahal and Keb’ Mo’ Band w/ Jontavious Willis ............................. AUGUST 9 Apocalyptica - Plays Metallica By Four Cellos .................................................... SEPTEMBER 9

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SAM HUNT • Zedd • Good Charlotte • LOCASH • High Valley ............................... MAY 20

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Com Truise & Clark ........................... F 19 Lewis Watson ................................... Sa 20 Tuxedo ............................................ F JUN 2 !!! (Chk Chk Chk) w/ Nerftoss ................ Th 8 + the jom & terry show ....................... Su 14 Austin Mahone w/ The YRS ............... Su 11 • Buy advance tickets at the 9:30 Club box office • 930.com

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Music Friday rock

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Sam Evian, Uni Ika Ai. 7 p.m. $12. dcnine.com.

KenneDy Center ConCert Hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. NSO Pops: Indigo Girls. 8 p.m. $24–$99. kennedy-center.org. roCK & roll Hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

Loud Boyz, Nappy Nappa, Bacchae, Jarvis. 9 p.m. $12. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

ElEctronic

U Street MUSiC Hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Eli & Fur, Shawn Q, Blinkhorn. 10 p.m. $10. ustreetmusichall.com.

Funk & r&B

eCHoStage 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. (202) 503-2330. R&B Only with Lloyd, Printz, and Jabari. 9 p.m. $29.99–$79.99. echostage.com.

Go-Go

HowarD tHeatre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Big G’s Young, Fly & Flashy Birthday Bash. 11 p.m. $40–$50. thehowardtheatre.com.

Jazz

BlUeS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Ravi Coltrane. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $35–$40. bluesalley.com. tHe HaMilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

Jimmy Greene, Eric Byrd Trio. 8 p.m. $15–$34.75. thehamiltondc.com.

KenneDy Center FaMily tHeater 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Jane Monheit with Nicholas Payton. 7 p.m.; 9 p.m. $50–$70. kennedy-center.org.

World

HowarD tHeatre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Draco Rosa Narrative. 8 p.m. $39.50–$170. thehowardtheatre.com.

WITH DJ RUSSEL Saturday rock CAMPBELL 2nd & 4th Sundays

2 - 6pm

BlaCK Cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Black Lips, Surfbort. 8 p.m. $16–$18. blackcatdc.com.

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AMERICAN VISIONARY: JOHN F. KENNEDY’S LIFE AND TIMES

With his straight-toothed grin and suave sense of style, John F. Kennedy rises to the top of presidential handsomeness lists. But he’s also one of America’s most visually represented presidents, in large part because photojournalism became much more prominent during his lifetime. To celebrate the 100th anniversary of JFK’s birth, the Smithsonian American Art Museum has pulled dozens of photos from the collections of the Kennedy Library in Boston, Getty Images, and the Kennedy family archives and created an exhibit that gives viewers a more complete view of the slain president. From early images of his congressional campaigns to shots of his wedding and various political accomplishments, curators focus the exhibit on the things Kennedy did to make the nation better. This, of course, lands with some melancholy because so much of what Kennedy wanted to accomplish was left undone following his death. Amid all the Kennedy centennial celebrations, this exhibit is one that leaves room for reflection. The exhibition is on view daily 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m., to Sept. 17, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, 8th and F streets NW. Free. (202) 633-7970. americanart.si.edu.

—Caroline Jones

Funk & r&B DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Official Funk Parade Show with 8 Ohms Band and Backbeat Underground. 6 p.m. Free. dcnine.com.

HowarD tHeatre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Marsha Ambrosius, Eric Benet, Jackie Gage. 7:30 p.m. $69.50–$144.50. thehowardtheatre.com.

KenneDy Center ConCert Hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. NSO Pops: Indigo Girls. 2 p.m.; 8 p.m. $24–$99. kennedy-center.org.

KenneDy Center MillenniUM Stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Soul Understated ft. Mavis ‘SWAN’ Poole. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

MerriweatHer PoSt Pavilion 10475 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia. (410) 715-5550. The xx, Sampha. 7 p.m. $40–$55. merriweathermusic.com.

U Street MUSiC Hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Fort Knox Five & Qdup, Empresarios, Black Masala. 7 p.m. Free. ustreetmusichall.com.

roCK & roll Hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Laura Gibson. 8 p.m. $20. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

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CITY LIGHTS: Friday

gyPSy Sally’S 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. Boy Named Banjo, Branches, Seneca. 8:30 p.m. $14–$16. gypsysallys.com.

ElEctronic

U Street MUSiC Hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Dave Nada, Ayes Cold, Jahsonic, Native Sun. 10 p.m. $10. ustreetmusichall.com.

BetHeSDa BlUeS & Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. The Chuck Brown Band. 8 p.m. $25. bethesdabluesjazz.com.

Jazz aMP By StratHMore 11810 Grand Park Ave., North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Storm Large (of Pink Martini). 8 p.m. $35–$45. ampbystrathmore.com.

BirCHMere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Najee. 7:30 p.m. $45. birchmere.com.

BlUeS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Rene Marie. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $30–$35. bluesalley.com.

opEra KenneDy Center oPera HoUSe 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Washington National Opera: Madame Butterfly. 7 p.m. $25–$300. kennedy-center.org.

Vocal MUSiC Center at StratHMore 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Tony Bennett.

9 p.m. $86–$176. strathmore.org.

Sunday rock

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Courtney Marie Andrews, Luke Mitchem. 9 p.m. $12. dcnine.com. roCK & roll Hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

Bleeker, Beware of Darkness, Badflower. 8 p.m. $15. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

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aMP By StratHMore 11810 Grand Park Ave., North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Storm Large. 8 p.m. $30–$40. ampbystrathmore.com.

claSSical

atlaS PerForMing artS Center 1333 H St. NE. (202) 399-7993. Capital City Symphony: Times and Places. 5 p.m. $25. atlasarts.org.

MUSiC Center at StratHMore 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. BSO: Stravinsky’s Firebird. 3 p.m. $35–$99. strathmore.org.

ElEctronic

eCHoStage 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. (202) 503-2330. Tycho. 7 p.m. $43.45. echostage.com.

Monday rock

U Street MUSiC Hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Nancy & Beth. 7 p.m. $30. ustreetmusichall.com.

Jazz

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

KenneDy Center MillenniUM Stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. The Duke Ellington School of the Arts. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

opEra

Funk & r&B

KenneDy Center oPera HoUSe 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Washington National Opera: Madame Butterfly. 7 p.m. $25–$300. kennedy-center.org.

Jazz

tuESday

BetHeSDa BlUeS & Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. Salute to the Divas. 3 p.m.; 8 p.m. $25. bethesdabluesjazz.com.

BlUeS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Rene Marie. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $30–$35. bluesalley.com.

rock

opEra

9:30 ClUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Twin Peaks, Chrome Pony, Post Animal. 7 p.m. $20. 930.com.

World

tHe HaMilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. Graham Parker Duo featuring Brinsley Schwarz, James Maddock. 7:30 p.m. $15–$39.50. thehamiltondc.com.

KenneDy Center oPera HoUSe 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Washington National Opera: Madame Butterfly. 2 p.m. $25–$300. kennedy-center.org.

KenneDy Center MillenniUM Stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Gu Gu Drum Group. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Savoy Motel, Escape-Ism. 9 p.m. $12–$14. dcnine.com.

KenneDy Center MillenniUM Stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Making Movies. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

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Funk paradE

U Street NW has long been the neighborhood to visit when looking for a lively night on the town, but things get, er, funkier, when the Funk Parade is going down. The day-long event, now in its fourth year, transforms the historic corridor into a musical playground, with visual art activities, movement demonstrations, live music on six different stages, and, of course, a parade that snakes its way from the Howard Theatre to the Lincoln Theatre. You’ll hear the sounds of gogo bands and DJs in the air and see some trippy costumes on the open streets. (The 4th floor of 1000 U Street will be transformed into a cosplay lounge.) Nearby venues, including Solly’s, U Street Music Hall, and Service Bar, get in on the fun by hosting evening performances. Some malign the event for seeming too corporate and gentrified—a street festival with an official app designed by defense contractor Deloitte deserves some criticism—but if it’s spectacle you’re looking for, you’ll find it in the neighborhood developers are begging Washingtonians to call North End Shaw. The Funk Parade begins at noon at 965 Florida Ave. NW. Free. funkparade.com.

—Vance Brinkley

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1811 14TH ST NW

www.blackcatdc.com @blackcatdc

THU 4

MAY SHOWS TOMMY KEENE & IVAN JULIAN

SAT 5

BEYONCE V RIHANNA

FRI 5

THE TEASER SHOW (21+)

SAT 6 SAT 6

TRIBUTE DANCE PARTY

BLACK LIPS SURFBORT

HEAVY ROTATION

VINYL FUNK / SOUL / BOOGIE

WED 10 SERPENTS THU 11

FRI 12 FRI 12

OF SECRECY

HUMBLE FIRE

(EP RELEASE)

POND

PUNK ROCK KARAOKE

SAT 13

NO BS! BRASS BAND

SAT 13

CHURCH NIGHT (21+)

FRI 19

THE MAKE UP

SAT 20

DEPECHE MODE DANCE PARTY

SAT 27

THE ORWELLS

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Stripped Down, Beautiful Renditions of BoDeans classic!

BoDeans with Michael Clem

May 5

CHRISTOPHER CROSS MAJOR. 11 Andy 12 DELBERT McCLINTON Poxon 13 RECKLESS KELLY w/Blue Water Highway Band

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Heather Nova & Mishka 17 C A R L PA L M E R ’ S E L P L E G A C Y EMERSON LAKE & PALMER LIVES ON! 18 As seen in “O Brother, Where Art Thou?”

SOGGY BOTTOM BOYS

feat. Dan Tyminski, Barry Bales, Ron Block, Stuart Duncan, Mike Compton, Pat Enright Reunion 2017!

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Billy Price & The Keystone Rhythm Band Reunion Bob Margolin Band • Skip Castro Band Good Humor Band 20

WALTER BEASLEY

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THE ROBERT CRAY BAND 25 THE CROSSRHODES

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with Killiam Shakespeare

roCK & roll Hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

The Family Crest, Wylder. 8 p.m. $15. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

roCK & roll Hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

Frank Carter & the Rattlesnakes, Royal Republic, Witch Coast. 8 p.m. $15. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

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U Street MUSiC Hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Run River North, Arkells, Cobi. 7 p.m. $20. ustreetmusichall.com.

Luna OTTMAR LIEBERT &Negra 27 FREDDIE JACKSON An Evening with

THE SELDOM SCENE THE HOT SARDINES With Love” LULU “To Sir& more!

3 TAB BENOIT 4 6 ERIC JOHNSON ELECTRIC BAND with Special Guest Arielle

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Local jazz vocalist Akua Allrich uses her soulful voice to take command of standards, African healing songs, and her own funky compositions in the style of her idols Nina Simone and Miriam Makeba. When backed by her group The Tribe, the music can carry your spirit to a different place entirely. Accompanied by bassist Kris Funn, as well as D.C.-born, West African musician Amadou Kouyate, Allrich kicks off Rhizome’s Music of the African Diaspora series, which runs every Sunday in May. Kouyate is part of the 150th generation of the Kouyate lineage, and the wisdom of his elders is made manifest in his virtuosity on the kora and djembe, and as a storyteller. The techniques and experiences of all three artists meld into something unique in the intimate confines of Rhizome, where audiences can settle for the afternoon. Amadou Kouyate performs with Akua Allrich and Kris Funn at 4:30 p.m. at Rhizome DC, 6950 Maple St. NW. $10– $12. rhizomedc.org.

—Jackson Sinnenberg

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OLD 97s May 11, 2017, 8pm

WARNER THEATRE, WASH DC. Tickets On Sale Now! at Ticketmaster.com /800-745-3000 kriskristofferson.com

Folk

KenneDy Center MillenniUM Stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. University of Maryland School of Music. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

Funk & r&B

U Street MUSiC Hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 5881889. Warm Up, DJ Chubb E Swagg. 10 p.m. $10–$20. ustreetmusichall.com.

linColn tHeatre 1215 U St. NW. (202) 888-0050.

Rhiannon Giddens, Amythyst Kiah. 8 p.m. $35. thelincolndc.com.

BlUeS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Von Pariss. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $20. bluesalley.com.

HowarD tHeatre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Marsha Ambrosius, Eric Benet, Jackie Gage. 7:30 p.m. $69.50–$144.50. thehowardtheatre.com.

opEra

ElEctronic

Funk & r&B

HowarD tHeatre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Chrisette Michele. 8 p.m. $49.50– $89.50. thehowardtheatre.com.

Jazz

KenneDy Center oPera HoUSe 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Washington National Opera: Madame Butterfly. 7:30 p.m. $25–$300. kennedy-center.org.

BlUeS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Cedric A. Napoleon & Friends. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $25. bluesalley.com.

WEdnESday

KenneDy Center oPera HoUSe 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Washington National Opera: Madame Butterfly. 7:30 p.m. $25–$300. kennedy-center.org.

rock

9:30 ClUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. San Fermin, Low Roar. 7 p.m. $25. 930.com.

BlaCK Cat BaCKStage 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 6674490. Serpents of Secrecy, Tone, Seasick Gladiator.

7:30 p.m. $10. blackcatdc.com.

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Parsonsfield, Animal Years. 9 p.m. $12. dcnine.com.

opEra

thurSday rock

BlaCK Cat BaCKStage 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 6674490. Humble Fire, Sean Barna, Crushnpain. 7:30 p.m. $12. blackcatdc.com.

CITY LIGHTS: MONDAY

5 LESBIANS EATING A QUICHE

There is no deeper meaning to the title of Evan Linder and Andrew Hobgood’s play 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche. It takes place at the annual quiche breakfast of the Susan B. Anthony Society for the Sisters of Gertrude Stein and the five guests sit around chit-chatting about the events of the day. But it’s set in 1956, so instead of healthcare and politics, the ladies focus on the imminent threat of nuclear war. Over the course of the evening, the play evolves from a pun-filled comedy about sex and breakfast tarts into something stranger and more absurd. After all, a church basement is the perfect place to reveal secrets and confessions when you have no idea what’s going on above ground. Monumental Theatre Company’s production is helmed by Jimmy Mavrikes, seen on local stages in Fiddler on the Roof and Cabaret. In the intimate confines of Atlas’ Lab Theatre, expect the laughs and confrontations to resonate with audiences who also might be thinking about nuclear war. The play runs May 6 to May 28 at Atlas Performing Arts Center, 1333 H St. NE. $30. (202) 399-7993. atlasarts.org. —Caroline Jones

LEGENDARY SHACK SHAKERS

W/ JESSE DAYTON THUR., MAY 18 ~ 8:30PM TIX: $12-$15

STORM LARGE {Chanteuse of Pink Martini }

SAT & SUN, MAY 6 & 7

CITY LIGHTS: TUEsDAY

GARRY TALLENT SHUN NG

{E Street Band bassist}

SUN, MAY 14

THE MERSEY BEATLES {Four lads from Liverpool}

THU, MAY 18

Art Sherrod, Jr. {Smooth jazz + R&B}

FRI, MAY 19 AMP & COMEDY ZONE PRESENT

WellRED Comedy Tour with “Liberal Redneck” Trae Crowder

JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR

Lyricist Tim Rice caused a stir during Jesus Christ Superstar’s original Broadway production when he told journalists that the story focused not on Christ as the son of God, but rather as “the right man at the right time at the right place.” It’s true that verbatim scripture is beside the point in the musical—it focuses on the final week in the life of Jesus, from his arrival in Jerusalem with his disciples to his inevitable crucifixion, except this Jesus may not be all he’s cracked up to be and this Judas deserves some sympathy. Though the play is firmly rooted in the 1970s, with heavy synthesizers and emotive hard-rock ballads, it contains some timely meditations on fame, false idols, and the rise and fall of cultural movements. Signature Theatre’s immersive production, starring Nicholas Edwards, will be performed in the round room with actors moving through the aisles, creating the dizzying effect of Jesus’ movement spiraling out of control. The musical runs May 9 to July 2 at Signature Theatre, 4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington. $40–$99. (703) 820-9771. sigtheatre.org.

—Stephanie Rudig DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Adult., Ritual Howls, Void Vision. 9 p.m. $15. dcnine.com.

ClAssiCAl kenneDy CenteR MillenniuM Stage 2700 F St.

RoCk & Roll Hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

Sun Club, Straw Hats. 8 p.m. $12. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

NW. (202) 467-4600. Dr. Doug O’Connor & Dr. Eunmi Ko. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

Tue, MAY 23

CORKY SIEGEL’S CHAMBER BLUES

{30 years of blues + strings}

FRI & SAT, MAY 26 & 27

The Patty Reese Band Revelator Hill Fri, June 2

Bria Skonberg Quartet {Trumpet jazz & pop}

Thu, June 8

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H GANGSTAGRASS / THE WHISKEY GENTRY BILLY JOE SHAVER STRAHAN & THE GOOD NEIGHBORS TOM HEYMAN / DAN STUART WOODY PINES JUMPIN’ JUPITER MARAH KRIS LAGER BAND THE BLAIR - PONGRACIC BAND / ATOMIC MOSQUITOS FOLK SOUL REVIVAL FLAT DUO JETS & DADDY LONG LEGS RANDY THOMPSON BAND SUNNY SWEENEY QUILES & CLOUD ROSELIT BONE THE CRANE WIVES BELLA HARDY SCOTT H. BIRAM DALE WATSON & HIS LONE STARS THE BLASTERS

HILL COUNTRY BARBECUE MARKET

11810 Grand Park Ave, N. Bethesda, MD Red Line–White Flint Metro

410 Seventh St, NW • 202.556.2050 Hillcountrylive.com • Twitter @hillcountrylive

www.AMPbyStrathmore.com

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Motown & More the ChuCk Brown Band Salute to the divaS

Su 7

(2 ShowS 3/8:00PM)

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7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda, MD

(240) 330-4500

www. BethesdaBluesJazz.com Two Blocks from Bethesda Metro/Red Line Free Parking on Weekends

Flamingosis took his name from a freestyle Frisbee move his father, a fivetime world Frisbee champion, invented.

That signature move involves a reverse spinning catch while standing on one leg like a flamingo, which aptly mirrors the New Jersey-based DJ and producer’s own whimsical beats. Wandering from old school hip-hop to classic jazz to groovy funk, Flamingosis employs a sample-based technique to start a new conversation in electronic dance music. Instead of following popular EDM trends like future bass and trap, Flamingosis finds inspiration in music’s greatest pocket grooves, or feel-good beats that make you bob your head up and down. His latest LP, 2016’s Bright Moments, is full of them and features sweet 1970s-era funk and soul samples from The Independents, Arnold Blair, and Art Webb. Channeling Sunday morning drives, breezy afternoons, and sunny summer cookouts, Flamingosis’s nostalgic creations breathe new life into electronic music. Flamingosis performs with Alex Noize and Elliot Ness at 10 p.m. at Flash, 645 Florida Ave. NW. $10–$15. (202) 8278791. flashdc.com.

—Casey Embert

country

linColn tHeatre 1215 U St. NW. (202) 888-0050.

Dwight Yoakam, Elliot Root. 8 p.m. $55–$75. thelincolndc.com. warner tHeatre 513 13th St. NW. (202) 783-4000.

Kris Kristofferson. 8 p.m. $55–$65. warnertheatredc.com.

ElEctronic

eCHoStage 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. (202) 503-2330. Empire of the Sun, Lee ‘Scratch” Perry. 7 p.m. $53.70. echostage.com.

Funk & r&B

BirCHMere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Major. 7:30 p.m. $25. birchmere.com.

HowarD tHeatre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Fab 5, Lovindeer, Boris Gardiner & Gem Myers. 8 p.m. $35–$45. thehowardtheatre.com.

hip-hop

9:30 ClUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Desiigner, 16yrold, Ciscero. 7 p.m. $25. 930.com.

PlyMoUtH Congregational UniteD CHUrCH oF CHriSt 5301 N. Capitol St. NE. (202) 723-5330. plymouth-ucc.org. Opening: “2017 Pre-Mother’s Day Art Expo.” See a variety of art from local crafters and potentially acquire some new pieces at this event.

May 7, 1 p.m. viviD SolUtionS gallery 1231 Good Hope Road SE. (202) 365-8392. vividsolutionsdc.com. Ongoing: “Forgetting Is Normal.” Artist Kylos Brannon combines memories and scientific information about the brain in this video installation, his first gallery show.

April 21 to June 3.

Theater

KenneDy Center oPera HoUSe 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Washington National Opera: Madame Butterfly. 7:30 p.m. $25–$300. kennedy-center.org.

tHe araBian nigHtS Ten years after first presenting this drama based on The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Constellation Theatre revives it. Director Allison Arkell Stockman tells stories of love, desire, and sacrifice in this elaborate production. Constellation Theatre at Source. 1835 14th St. NW. To June 4. $20–$45. (202) 204-7741. constellationtheatre.org.

Galleries

BrigHton BeaCH MeMoirS Neil Simon’s landmark play about Eugene, a Brooklyn boy eager to grow up and explore the world comes to Theater J in a new production directed by Matt Torney. Lise Bruneau, Michael Glenn, and Susan Rome star in this lively, witty, and warm comedy. Theater J. 1529 16th St. NW. To May 14. $17–$47. (202) 777-3210. theaterj.org.

opEra

FlaSHPoint gallery 916 G St. NW. (202) 3151305. culturaldc.org. Closing: “Footprint a.k.a. the Lansburgh’s Notebook.” Curator Blair Murphy compiles photos and other documents that chronicle the development of different downtown D.C. arts spaces, from the Museum of Temporary Art to the Lansburgh Theatre, in this archival exhibit. April 15 to May 6.

HeMPHill Fine artS 1515 14th St. NW. (202) 2345601. hemphillfinearts.com. Ongoing: “Romare Bearden.” See a collection of collages and watercolors from the acclaimed African-American artist and activist. April 15 to June 10. Ongoing: “Jacob Kainen.” See a series of abstract expressionist paintings inspired by the American painter and printmaker’s 1972 trip to the former Soviet Union. April 15 to June 10.

HonFleUr gallery 1241 Good Hope Road SE. (202) 365-8392. honfleurgallery.com. Ongoing: “Finder-

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Maker.” Artists Eric Celarier, Ani Hoover and Nicole Salimbene create the work in this exhibit from abandoned and trashed objects. April 21 to June 3.

tHe FatHer In this internationally acclaimed drama, an elderly man starts to lose track of his life and experiences strange events, from disappearing furniture to unknown people in his home. Local favorite Ted van Griethuysen stars in Florian Zeller’s drama, translated by Christopher Hampton. Studio Theatre. 1501 14th St. NW. To June 18. $20–$85. (202) 3323300. studiotheatre.org.

JeSUS CHriSt SUPerStar Signature presents this classic Andrew Lloyd Webber musical that chronicles the last week of Christ’s life. Featuring songs like “I Don’t Know How to Love Him” and “Everything’s Alright,” this production is directed by Joe Calarco.

Signature Theatre. 4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington. To July 2. $40–$99. (703) 820-9771. sigtheatre.org.

CITY LIGHTS: thurSday

kriS kriStoFFErSon

The outlaw country songs of Kris Kristofferson takes listeners back to an era when folk artists like Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, and Simon and Garfunkel expressed their political and emotional convictions through plaintive lyrics.

While many might consider shutting down after five decades in the business, the 80-year-old Rhodes scholar, former Army captain, and author of classic songs like “Me and Bobby McGee” continues to work. Right now, he bridges the gap between Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson and modern day troubadours like Jason Isbell and Sturgill Simpson. Young audiences might remember Kristofferson better for his film work— he’s appeared in flicks as diverse as 1976’s A Star Is Born, 1988’s Big Top Pee-wee, 2009’s He’s Just Not That Into You, and the Wesley Snipes vampire franchise Blade—but as those offerings age, his music, both as a solo artist and as a member of the country supergroup The Highwaymen, remains timeless. His latest album, last year’s The Cedar Creek Sessions, further proves that. Kris Kristofferson performs at 8 p.m. at the Warner Theatre, 513 13th St. NW. $55–$65. (202) 783-4000. warnertheatredc.com.

—Selma Khenissi

LIVE

UPCOMING PERFORMANCES

DEB TALAN

OF THE WEEPIES

W/ MATT THE ELECTRICIAN THURSDAY MAY 4

JIMMY

GREENE W/ ERIC BYRD TRIO FRIDAY MAY

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SAT, MAY 6

AN EVENING WITH

BRUCE IN THE U.S.A. TUES, MAY 9

GRAHAM PARKER DUO FEAT. BRINSLEY SCHWARZ W/ JAMES MADDOCK

tHe Man wHo Inspired by the late Oliver Sachs’ The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat, this play incorporates research and improvisation techniques. Originally performed in French, Peter Woods’ play closes the Spooky Action season. Spooky Action Theater.

1810 16th St. NW. To June 4. $20–$40. (202) 248-0301. spookyaction.org.

MaSter ClaSS Young opera students train with an aging Maria Callas in Terrence McNally’s drama about the sacrifices artists make for their craft and the demands of performing at a high level. Local favorite Ilona Dulaski stars in this production directed by Nick Olcott. MetroStage. 1201 N. Royal St., Alexandria. To June 11. $55–$60. (703) 548-9044. metrostage.org. or, Local favorite Holly Twyford stars as Aphra Behn in this play inspired by Restoration comedy. As she struggles to save the King of England and deliver her play in the same night, a madcap series of foibles unfolds. Round House Theatre Bethesda. 4545 EastWest Highway, Bethesda. To May 7. $36–$65. (240) 644-1100. roundhousetheatre.org. oUtSiDe MUllingar John Patrick Shanley’s latest play gets its D.C. premiere at the Keegan under the direction of Mark A. Rhea. Told from the perspective of two farmers, it’s a rumination on love and the nature of relationships. Keegan Theatre at Church Street Theater. 1742 Church St. NW. To May 28. $35–$45. (202) 265-3767. keegantheatre.com. ragtiMe This stirring musical, written by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty and inspired by E.L. Doctorow novel, tells the story of three different New York families at the turn of the 20th century. Featuring memorable songs like “Your Daddy’s Eyes,” “Wheels of a Dream,” and “Make Them Hear You,” this production stars Tracy Lynn Olivera, Nova Y. Payton, and Jonathan Atkinson. Ford’s Theatre. 511 10th St. NW. To May 20. $18–$71. (202) 347-4833. fords.org.

SMart PeoPle Four intellectuals look for love and try to understand themselves in this witty drama from playwright Lydia R. Diamond. Through the characters, the play explores issues of identity, prejudice, and cultural bias. Arena Stage. 1101 6th St. SW. To May 21. $40–$90. (202) 488-3300. arenastage.org.

tiMon oF atHenS The generous and wealthy Timon experiences a downturn of fortune and must figure out a way to survive in this biting Shakespearean satire. Robert Richmond, last seen at the Folger directing Julius Caesar, leads this production starring Helen Hayes Award-winner Ian Merrill Peakes. Folger Elizabethan Theatre. 201 E. Capitol St. SE. To June 11. $35–$75. (202) 544-7077. folger.edu.

THE BUMPER JACKSONS

Film

SAT, MAY 13

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ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; ADVERTISING SALES Washington City Paper has an immediate opening for an outside sales position responsible for selling and servicing our advertising and media partner clients across our complete line of marketing solutions including print advertising in Washington City Paper, digital/online advertising on washingtoncitypaper.com and across our Digital Ad Network, as well as event sponsorship sales.

In addition to selling and servicing existing accounts, Account Executives are responsible for generating and selling new business revenue by finding new leads, utilizing a consultative sales approach, and making compelling presentations.

You must have the ability to engage, enhance, and grow direct relationships with potential clients and identify their advertising and marketing needs. You must be able to prepare and present custom sales presentations with research and sound solutions for those needs. You must think creatively for clients and be consistent with conducting constant follow-up. Extensive in-person & telephone prospecting is required. Your major focus will be on developing new business through new customer acquisition and selling new marketing solutions to existing customer accounts. Account Executives, on a weekly basis, perform in person http://www.washingtoncicalls to a minimum of 10-20 executive level decision typaper.com/ makers and/or small business owners and must be able to communicate Washington City Papers value proposition that is solution-based and differentiates us from any competitors. Account Executive will be responsible for attaining sales goals and must communicate progress on goals and the strategies and tactics used to reach revenue targets to Washington City Paper management.

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â&#x20AC;˘ Two years of business to business and outside customer sales experience â&#x20AC;˘ Experience developing new territories & categories including lead generation and cold calling â&#x20AC;˘ Ability to carry and deliver on a sales budget â&#x20AC;˘ Strong verbal and written communication skills â&#x20AC;˘ Able to work both independently and in a team environment Out with anthe old, In â&#x20AC;˘ Energetic, self-motivated, possessing entrepreneurial spirit and strongthe work new ethic Post with â&#x20AC;˘ Organized, detail and results oriented with your listing with professional presentation abilities Washington City â&#x20AC;˘ Willing to embrace new technology and social media Paper Classifieds â&#x20AC;˘ MS Office suite proficiency - prior experience http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/ with a CMR/CMS software application â&#x20AC;˘ Be driven to succeed, tech savvy, and a world class listener â&#x20AC;˘ Enjoy cultivating relationships with area businesses

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We offer product training, a competitive compensation package comprised of a base salary plus commissions, and a full array of benefits including medical/dental/life/disability insurance, a 401K plan, and paid time off including holidays.

Compensation potential has no limits â&#x20AC;&#x201C; we pay based on performance.

For consideration please send an introduction letter and resume to Melanie Babb at mbabb@washingtoncitypaper.com.

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