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CHATTER Tipped Off

In which readers leave their two cents on the table

Darrow MontgoMery

It’s strange, readers didn’t really have a lot of strong comments about potential changes to restaurant tipping… just kidding! They pummeled each other in the comments section over Jessica Sidman’s column (“Abandon Tip,” May 6). Same ol... complained that there were no backof-house staff interviewed for a piece about a wage change that would directly affect that group of workers: “And, as usual, there’s no real kitchen staff interviewed--I’m pretty sure most of them are stoked. It would have been nice to hear their perspective. It also speaks volume that NO ONE in this article actually acknowledged that there are people behind the scenes working hard to make the wait staff ’s tips possible; and that these people are serially underpaid.

If all the owners are against this you KNOW it’s a great idea.” Meanwhile, RV wanted you to think of the escalating costs to restaurateurs: “Not many service industry employers will dispute that an increase to the minimum wage was necessary for ALL EMPLOYEES, but the escalation in such a short span of time for SERVERS TIPPED, who make well over the minimum wage being proposed, without the benefit of tax relief or a longer timeline will undoubtedly have dire consequences for many DC workers AND employers in our industry. Why change a system that is working and penalize those who are earning a decent living?”

But John Brown isn’t having it, telling the complainers running these restaurants to “just charge people an extra $2 and pay your employees. It has the added benefit of protecting them from jerks who might otherwise stiff them. AND it would minimize discrimination (white servers making more than people of color) and sexual harassment (servers putting up with boors hitting on them because they need the money). Glad to know Englert has this attitude. I won’t be going to his establishments anymore.”

And finally, we heard from someone who is probably a complete, mortifying nightmare to dine out with: J. Jones suggested that “It’s really up to customers to do away with tips.” This does not, in our opinion, constitute advice.

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By Will Sommer The DeanwooD RecReaTion Center in Ward 7 looks brand new, until you look at the photos on the walls. The pictures reveal that the facility is at least half-a-decade old, because they depict a time when Vince Gray and Yvette Alexander were still friends.

Pictures from 2010 show Gray and Alexander palling around at the facility’s opening, all smiles. Alexander stands at the podium, and then-D.C. Council Chairman Gray stands behind her.

Those pictures are faded now, and so is whatever amity the two pols once had. On Monday night, the former allies jousted at the rec center for an endorsement from the LGBTQ-focused Gertrude Stein Democratic Club.

Gray had one hand in a sling (rotator cuff surgery) and the other on his cheek, looking like Alexander’s endorsement pleas made him regret ever backing her to replace him in the seat nine years ago. When Gray ran out of time on his own speech, Alexander filled in for the moderator and cut in: “Stop!”

Alexander lost the club’s June primary endorsement to Gray, garnering just 30 percent of members’ votes. She was doomed before she even showed up, thanks to her (unsuccessful) 2009 vote against gay marriage. But just to be sure, Gray campaign workers at the door handed out copies of a years-old Washington Post article that quoted Alexander saying businesses shouldn’t be forced to participate in gay marriages.

Alexander again didn’t help her cause when she misstated the gender of Deoni Jones, a transgender woman murdered in 2012. While touting her support for legislation named after Jones, Alexander repeatedly referred to the deceased woman as he/him—not exactly the kind of thing that wins Stein voters over. One Gray supporter who’s transgender promised the

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The Stein vote might not be an omen for Alexander’s chances, since it was open to club members who live outside of the ward.

But after a bruising spring for Alexander, it’s emblematic of her re-election woes: a bad situation compounded by her own mistakes.

Alexander ditched Gray after his 2014 mayoral primary loss to Muriel Bowser, meaning she’s allied now with Bowser. But Bowser’s picks this primary are curiously fragmented in their endorsements. AtLarge incumbent Vincent Orange touts an endorsement from similarly Bowser-favoring (and uncontested Ward 2 incumbent) Jack Evans, for example, but doesn’t have similar endorsements from the likes of Alexander, Ward 8’s LaRuby May, or Ward 4’s Brandon Todd.

Alexander flapped in the wind Monday night, as only a few Bowser affiliates—Deputy Mayor for Greater Economic Opportunity Courtney Snowden, for example—endorsed her. Given the club’s open membership and establishment nature, though, Bowser-affiliated councilmembers and staffers likely could have swung the election her way.

Instead, Alexander was blasted by a series of Stein members who were still steamed over her gay marriage vote—and not swayed by her claim that she, and the ward, have since “evolved.”

Alexander’s headquarters in an office space attached to a Benning Road NE Shell station could be a metaphor for her campaign: She’s in a weird position.

When LL went to Alexander’s campaign kickoff at her new headquarters last month, he found maybe 15 volunteers waving over gas station visitors to meet the councilmember. The windows were plastered with pictures of Bowser, but the only “Bowser” LL saw at the time was Joe Bowser, the may-

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or’s father. Across town that day, Todd’s campaign showed off dozens of supporters at their own event.

Gray’s campaign has capitalized on the apparent lack of enthusiasm for Alexander’s bid. After an Alexander campaign meeting last month at Sala Thai—the ubiquitous Ward 7 campaign stop, thanks to the ward’s lack of sit-down restaurants—Gray campaign treasurer Chuck Thies taunted Alexander on Twitter with a picture of the meeting that appeared to show her talking to just two other supporters.

Alexander and Thies—Gray’s longtime pit-

bull in the media—engaged in a drawn-out exchange. Gray himself appeared blissfully unaware of the argument.

Gray shouldn’t be doing this well. He lost his mayoral seat because of a federal investigation, and new revelations about both the shadow campaign to elect him and alleged illegal payments to his son were coming out as recently as last month. On Tuesday, onetime Gray friend and shadow campaign operative Vernon Hawkins received a sixmonth prison sentence after prosecutors complained he took a “soldier’s plea” to protect Gray and his son. washingtoncitypaper.com may 13, 2016 7

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“The Vince and Vernon show is over because Vernon is now going to jail,” Tuesday’s email read.

It’s hard to imagine that having much effect in Ward 7, where Gray won by more than 60 percent in 2014 when the illicit effort to get him elected was much more in the news.

But Alexander, who endorsed Gray back then, claims that she isn’t swayed by the end of the federal investigation. “‘Not charged’ does not mean that you’re innocent,” Alexander says.

Not to be outdone by her former mentor, Alexander has a budding intrigue of her own these days. The collapse of the DC Trust has raised questions, first reported by the Post, about Alexander’s relationship with a nonprofit run by former Phoenix Suns NBA player Jerrod Mustaf. Alexander once served on the nonprofit’s board, making her recent promise that they would get their grants despite the Trust’s collapse eyebrow-raising.

Both the Post and Gray’s campaign, which has called for an investigation of Alexander’s relationship with the nonprofit, describe her relationship with Mustaf as “close.”

Mustaf says Alexander wasn’t paid for her position on his board.

“Of course not,” Mustaf says. “They supposed to pay us, which didn’t happen neither.”

The lack of public polling on ward-level races makes it hard to gauge the public’s support for Alexander. Alexander commissioned a poll on the race from longtime District pollster Ron Lester, but refuses to release it.

Meanwhile, Gray’s campaign commissioned a poll from prominent firm Public Policy Polling last month, and it puts him nearly 30 percentage points ahead of her.

When LL asked Alexander about the PPP poll, she inaccurately claimed that 2014 white mayoral hopeful David Catania, who received less than 15 percent of the vote in primarily black Ward 7, used the same polling firm.

“I’m not going down without a fight,” Alexander tells LL. CP Got a tip for LL? Send suggestions to lips@washingtoncitypaper.com.

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Tomorrow’s History Today: This was the week the ACLU said the mayor’s Empowering Males of Color program has a “significant legal vulnerability” because it excludes girls.

Shelter Before the Storm D.C. is reaching hundreds of families before they become homeless.

Larry Long began to fear he’d have to stay in a homeless shelter with his young daughter earlier this year.

He was born and raised in the District, and attended Dunbar—the only D.C. high school with an elevator at the time, he points out.

After graduation, Long went to a local trade school to study carpentry and, despite some old football injuries, he worked steadily until he hurt his back about five years ago.

L0ng has helped raise his daughter since she was born four years ago.

“I changed all her diapers, every diaper she ever had,” he says. “I was there.”

They had been living with his grandmother, but the situation deteriorated, he says, and he had just two weeks to find a new place. He went to the D.C. Department of Human Services’ intake center on Rhode Island Avenue NE in search of help.

“I thought I would be going into shelter,” he says.

When Long’s situation was assessed at the Virginia Williams Family Resource Center, he qualified for homeless services assistance but wasn’t sent to D.C. General or to a motel.

Instead, he was diverted into a new prevention program and was connected to Community of Hope, one of four nonprofits that currently provides or connects clients to services including case management, employment or housing assistance, and credit and budget counseling.

With their help, Long came up with a longterm plan, got credit counseling, and picked up extra contracting work to raise his income.

This allowed him to search for an apartment, but it wasn’t easy, he says: Neighbors at the first five or six places he looked at warned him that the areas weren’t safe for a young child.

But he eventually found an “ideal” apartment in a quiet, tree-lined section of D.C. near the Maryland border. It even has two bathrooms, so his daughter gets her own.

It had been 20 years since Long had a place of his own.

The prevention program is just one piece of an ongoing overhaul of D.C.’s homeless services, but it’s a key part of the plan to fix a broken emergency system that’s serving more families—many times over—than it was designed to. If the District doesn’t reach families before they absolutely must enter shelter, the system may never be fixed, and families will continue to live in shelter for

far too long.

“When we looked at the data of the number of times people came in seeking help with their housing before it got to the point where they were needing a shelter stay, it was pretty clear that we were missing a lot of opportunities to help people while they still had a safe place to be,” says DHS Director Laura Zeilinger.

The pilot began in September, and as of May 9, DHS had referred 1,378 families to the prevention program. Just 144 of those families have had to enter shelter.

Compare that number to this year’s point-in-time count, an annual report on the number of homeless adults and families in the region as counted on a single night in January.

The total number of D.C. families on Jan. 28 in shelters and motels (used as overflow facilities) was 1,491, up from 1,131 in 2015—a jump of nearly 32 percent. That number may seem alarming until you consider the significant change that DHS instituted in early 2015: year-round access to emergency shelter.

D.C.’s shelter laws were already progressive: Single adults and families have the right to access shelter on any night when the temperature falls below freezing; this period, called hypothermia season, usually stretches from November to March. While single adults exit that emergency placement once the temperature rises, families are usually able to remain in shelter until they move into housing.

At the moment, the average length of stay for a family is six to nine months.

Between April and October of 2015, DHS placed 464 families in shelter, as opposed to just 12 during that period in 2014. DHS doesn’t know exactly where those 400-plus families would have been, but the possibilities aren’t good: doubled up with friends or relatives, sleeping in cars or abandoned buildings, staying with abusive partners.

Jamey Burden, vice president of Housing Programs and Policy at Community of Hope, says nonprofits, DHS, and the D.C. Interagency Council on Homelessness over the

A new prevention program is helping families stay out of shelters and overflow facilities, like the Days Inn on New York Avenue NE.

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past three years have discussed implementing some sort of targeted prevention program.

“At some point, we got a lot more enthusiasm around it,” he says. “There was some good advocacy on the D.C. Council. I think the mayor’s office liked the idea.”

Those involved with the initiative describe it as a “lighter touch,” or like an emergency room in a hospital (each family can receive up to $5,000 worth of help from the program).

The families that qualify for it are experiencing some sort of crisis but have at least five days to stay somewhere DHS determines is safe. That way, D.C. can take the time to figure out what’s really going on in a family’s household before it decides which services they need.

Burden provides a composite: A young woman with one or two children is living with her mother, but tensions are high. Maybe she isn’t following through with an agreement to

go to college, or is unable to provide money for groceries.

Community of Hope can step in as a mediator, Burden says, and try to plot a solution that will allow the young woman to stay in the house, at least until she can get her employment training completed or look for housing of her own.

“There was this part missing,” says Burden, “where people almost had to get to the point where they were in shelter before we were able to assist them.”

Families and providers have also shifted expectations. “We try not to pre-determine what is a good outcome,” says Burden. “That’s been a little bit of a culture hurdle. We’re learning... that you can’t tell on the onset sometimes what is the best outcome for a family.”

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It’s necessary for DHS and its community partners to figure out solutions other than placing each family in their own unit for obvious reasons: D.C. is facing an affordable housing crisis, and landlords are not as willing to rent to homeless families (even if they have a voucher) for a number of reasons—past credit problems, old debt, previous evictions, ongoing stigma. The millions in additional funds the D.C. Council approved for fiscal year 2016 for rapid rehousing vouchers and permanent supportive housing is helping. But DHS isn’t a housing creation or preservation agency. It can’t pull units out of thin air.

Noah Abraham, a vocational development specialist for DHS, says finding units for the families is “one of our biggest challenges.”

“We need to have a bigger conversation with landlords in the District,” he says.

DHS is trying to do that. It recently held a listening sessions with landlords to hear their concerns about renting to homeless families, and the agency is considering creating a fund that landlords could pull money from if they have to make repairs or evict a tenant.

Burden says “part of the battle is just being armed with the information [like a low credit score] to do damage control.” That way, housing navigators from the nonprofits can help the clients advocate for themselves.

As part of the prevention program, a DHS staff member is embedded at each of the non-

ernment working together to come up with a program that we really feel like has a lot of promise.”

The prevention program also allows the District to reach families with services earlier than it has been able to historically, but DHS wants to provide services even earlier. For example, families may one day have the option to be assessed for prevention services by a community provider, instead of having to come to Virginia Williams.

DHS knows it’s facing an uphill battle. In addition to 252 families at D.C. General—the decrepit hospital-turned-shelter the Bowser administration is trying to close—655 families are currently staying in 12 motels—most outside the District. The city is currently employing 23 people to provide case management at motels outside the District and nine to provide case management at the Days Inn and Quality Inn on New York Avenue NE. On April 25, DHS released a request for qualifications seeking to hire 20 people to provide case management at motels.

DHS will be able to continue improving services for families, like providing year-round access to shelter, if system-wide changes persist. “If we were only doing year-round access [to shelter]... then we wouldn’t be able to afford it,” Zeilinger says.

“We would end up far over capacity and having to repeat some of the practices that got us to where we are today. We can and should do it, but we have to do all the other things well [like prevention] in order for it to be realistic,”

“People almost had to get to the point where they were in shelter before we were able to assist them.”

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profits involved (Capitol Hill Group Ministry, MBI Health Services, LLC, and Wheeler Creek Community Development Corporation are the other three). The benefits are twofold: These staffers have had experience at Virginia Williams and at the motels, says Tyler, which helps them understand the typical needs of these families. And it also ensures that the city and the providers are communicating about what’s working and, even more importantly, what’s not.

“I’ve done a lot of work on prevention. It’s a good partnership,” says Burden. “It’s a good example of nonprofit and advocacy and gov-

she says.

Zeilinger says there isn’t a timeline for getting families out of the motels completely. It could take years. But most months, DHS is seeing more families exit shelter than enter it, and if the prevention program continues past its pilot period—the mayor’s budget provides for it to do so—the District expects to reach even more families by the end of next year.

“There’s that 10 percent we can’t prevent, but that 90 percent—that’s where it is,” says Tyler. “That is the ticket. That is the sweet spot.”

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Brighten the Corners In defense of Suzane Reatig and her modernist buildings

By Amanda Kolson Hurley Soon, the firSt tenants will move into the latest fancy-schmancy apartment building to open in Shaw, the Bailey Flats at 926 N St. NW. The building’s elevation on N Street is unassuming: two four-story bays on either corner flank a recessed central bay with a stack of balconies above the main door. The facade is (what else?) gray, with one bright note—the green of the balcony railings.

Walk around the corner onto Blagden Alley, though, and the building bursts into color. Stripes of brick in marigold, blue, and eggplant run down the wall into the alley. The bricks are actually tiles, part of a modern rainscreen hung on the building; both the component, made in Europe, and its bold color scheme are unusual to see in D.C. Already, just from reading this, some District residents will know who designed the Bailey Flats. The architect’s name is Suzane Reatig, her buildings stand out, and they are not universally beloved. In fact, some people really, really hate them. When an early version of this design was published on local blogs in 2012, commenters called it “awful,” “hideous,” “non-contextual,” and that old D.C. chestnut: “too tall.” After the brick rainscreen went up last fall, PoPville readers were divided; their comments ranged from “Beautiful!” to “institutional looking.”

Reatig may be the most polarizing architect in the District. Her style—strictly rectilinear, short on ornament, and long on glass and concrete block—won’t win everyone over. But some of the criticisms made about her work, like that it’s flimsily built, are unfounded. And with nearly 20 projects to her name in Shaw, Reatig has made modernism an integral part of a residential D.C. neighborhood for the first time since I.M. Pei came to Southwest in the 1960s.

The first major commission Reatig got was back in the early ’90s, not long after she opened her own studio in suburban Maryland. A Christian LGBTQ congregation asked her to design them a church. The site was at 5th and Ridge streets NW in Shaw, then mired in the crack war and gun violence. Members of the congregation—mostly white, young professionals—wanted to express a sense of welcome to their neighbors, who were wary of gentrifiers. But congregants wanted

to feel safe, too. They were reeling from the AIDS epidemic. Reatig’s job was to design a church that met and balanced these competing needs on a tight budget.

The building that emerged from that brief is a high, vaulted cube of glass resting on a base of dusky-pink concrete blocks. The blocks wrap around the cube; on 5th Street, they form

a low wall that tracks the incline of a set of outside stairs, then flows into a masonry volume adjoining the glass one. The rake of the wall and the sharp way it forms a niche for the second-story door complement the gentle curve of the roof.

As on N Street, there’s a surprise around the corner: a wide, low arch and chunky col-

umn mark the church’s Ridge Street entrance.

After the lightness of all that glass, the feeling of compression here is oddly reassuring.

Ducking into this little alcove, human-scaled and solid, brings home the meaning of the word “sanctuary.”

The Metropolitan Community Church earned Reatig a lot of attention when it first

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It has hints of James Stirling and Aldo Rossi, a postmodernism that has faded from her work now, except for her habitual pops of color. (Reatig’s electric railings remind me of Stirling’s lime-green ones at the Sackler Museum at Harvard.)

Since that time, Reatig’s architecture practice has thrived thanks to an improbable partnership. After her success with the MCC, a friend put Reatig in touch with another local church that needed help working through some zoning issues. The church was the United House of Prayer for All People, and Reatig’s relationship with its leaders has grown into one of loyal client and trusted designer.

Which is more surprising: that an institution so fond of lion-headed gates, domes, and mock minarets in its own buildings ushered a tide of spare modern architecture into D.C.?

Or that a young progressive architect and Israeli immigrant found her best patron in an African-American church?

As UHOP purchased lots around Shaw for both affordable and market-rate housing, becoming a major landlord in the District, the church called on Reatig again and again. Most of her work in Shaw has been for UHOP, although she has developed a few projects herself. Late last year, she published a monograph, A Clear View, surveying her Shaw buildings and arguing that their ample windows promote openness and social connection in a changing city. Plotting Reatig’s career on a map of the neighborhood, you can see that gentrification began much longer ago than people assume, and that development by UHOP has been, at once, a bulwark against it and a contributing factor. Untangling that would require another article.

Women are still shockingly underrepresented in architecture. As a woman architect who owns her own firm, Reatig is a rarity, even more so now that she’s branched out into realestate development. Suzane Reatig Architecture is something of a family business, with Reatig’s daughter Nooni Reatig, also an architect, directing the real-estate side. The five-person studio is in a blue rowhouse on 8th Street NW, sandwiched between the convention center and the blandly upper-class City Market at O Street. Inside the rowhouse, expanses of wood floors and white walls are punctuated by Nooni’s artworks—giant metal sculptures and neon-hued assemblies of netting and chains.

Sitting in a green wire chair in the conference room, Reatig told me her aim as a designer is to solve problems, not to make aesthetic statements for the sake of it. She believes in creating spaces that are healthy, which to her means bright, well-ventilated, and open. Many of her buildings have a

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courtyard at the heart. Reatig loves courtyards: The one at the National Portrait Gallery used to be her favorite spot to read the paper, before Norman Foster glazed it over.

She points out that courtyards give her apartments an additional exposure, for better daylight and airflow; they also promote a social atmosphere, Nooni says, whether through

residents sitting together outside or glimpsing each other from internal windows.

In many respects, Reatig, who was born in Israel and trained at The Technion in Haifa, comes across as a European architect. When she was a student, the architecture school at The Technion was under the sway of European faculty, a number of them affiliated with the Bauhaus. The rationality of Reatig’s designs, her belief in the health-giving potential of architecture, and her purposefully modest kit of materials all suggest the strong influence of the Bauhaus. (The Bauhaus also shaped the “white city” of Tel Aviv, where Reatig spent some of her childhood.)

Two common complaints about Reatig’s work are that her buildings look the same and that they look cheap. The sameness, which some might call coherence, is beyond question. The basic massing of the

Bailey Flats—two piers linked by a crossbar in a U or H shape—reappears time and again. She often uses the same type of window, divided horizontally in similar proportions. As for cheapness, the windows aren’t refined: These are not buildings with exquisite details. But Reatig, who worked as a carpenter when she first arrived in the U.S., takes construction quality seriously. When she can, she exceeds code requirements to build the shell out of concrete rather than wood, to better protect against fire and insulate against noise.

Why does Reatig use such bright colors? Her answer is simple: because they bring people joy. Although colorful architecture is prevalent in Europe, Americans tend to associate it with low quality and with kids—schools, daycare centers, Ikea. That may account for the “Rubik’s Cube” criticisms of the Bailey Lofts at 7th and M streets NW, Reatig’s most controversial building.

True, it looks a little bit like someone reanimated Piet Mondrian, dropped him in D.C., and asked him to design apartments for yuppies. But viewed from 6th Street (rather than 7th, where the Mt. Vernon Square Metro station is), the primary colors don’t seem so jarring. After all, the building next door, a UHOP church, has a big gold dome and front steps covered in astroturf. Together, the buildings make an architectural odd couple that perfectly captures the Reatig-UHOP partnership. And cities need their strange blocks. You don’t have to live on one if you don’t want to.

Reatig is not a contextualist except when she has to be—and this being D.C., that’s a fair amount of the time. The funny thing is, the work she does under those constraints is very good, some of her best. My favorite Reatig project after MCC is Ridge Street Row, a set of four townhouses containing eight apartments. Brick fronts were required under historic-district rules, and Reatig designed them to float, separating them from the building itself with strips of sidelights. At the third floor, the facade tilts back sharply and becomes all glass, a bit like the mansard roof on an old building in Paris. So the houses gain height without appearing top-heavy or wrecking the block’s roofline. It’s a graceful alternative to ugly pop-ups.

Touches like that explain why Reatig has lots of fans as well as detractors. The talk she gave on her book at Politics & Prose this winter was packed, and a walking tour of her Shaw buildings on May 21 has sold out. It’s hard to imagine buildings like the Watha T. Daniel Library or Atlantic Plumbing going up without the precedent that Reatig set. Anyone who likes seeing more ambitious contemporary architecture in the District should be grateful to have her in town.

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Therapy couldn’t hurt… unless you get a terrible therapist… in which case it could. Start your therapist hunt at the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (aasect.org), and you’re likelier to find a good/sex-positive one.

As for why your “weird and awkward” first impression seemed to be less of an impediment when you were sleeping with men: Men aren’t subjected to male sexual violence at the same rates that women are. Women have a lot more to fear than men do, UPITT, and a weird-and-awkward first impression is far likelier to turn off a woman into dudes than it is to turn off a man into dudes. The man you flirt with at a party might think, “Dude’s weird and awkward but he’s hot,” and jump into bed with you. But the woman you flirt with at a party is likely to think, “Dude’s weird and awkward and he’s hot, but he’s just too weird to risk it.”

Is sex wearing your wife out, or is raising three kids wearing your wife out?

Something else that couldn’t hurt: getting on a site like OkCupid and approaching bisexual women there. You may have better luck with women if your initial interactions are over e-mail.

And finally, UPITT, there are gay and bi men out there who desire stability, too—and stability and “promiscuity” aren’t mutually exclusive.

—Dan About your answer to WHAT, the lady whose

boyfriend “accidentally” ass-fucked her. I am a queer lady with a number of men in my sexual history, and I have many straight women friends who get around. “I didn’t mean to stick my dick in your ass” is a lie that men tell—men who are embarrassed to ask for anal, men who want it so bad they’re prepared to hurt their partner, or men who think their partner will say no if asked and just don’t care. In all cases, these are men who do not even begin to understand how anal sex works. As you say, it’s not an accident. But what you don’t say is that these men are telling lies in order to get out of taking responsibility for their desires and the fact that they’ve hurt their partners. Men who want to have anal sex need to talk that through with their partners and then either figure out how to do it safely and pleasurably, accept that it’s not happening, or break up if it’s a deal breaker. I have had way too many conversations with women friends about the pain and anger and sometimes shame that they’ve felt when male partners have just stuck it in abruptly, unlubricated, and without permission. It makes me really angry that this is something that men can describe as an “accident” without any pushback, and honestly it was kind of gross and disappointing when your answer was just jokes about butt plugs.

—Whatever Acronym Strongly Stresses Underlying Point

I’m with you, WASSUP. I don’t think anal happens by accident. Anal has always, in my vast experience, required lube, focus, precision, and deep breathing. But on the two occasions when I’ve urged straight female callers on the Savage Lovecast to dump boyfriends who “accidentally” penetrated them anally—the pushback from male and female listeners was overwhelming. Scores of people called in to insist that anal can and does happen by accident.

WHAT’s boyfriend has accidentally penetrated her anally four times in a year. That raises a red flag. But WHAT was convinced it was an accident (all four times) and seemed to think her boyfriend felt genuinely terrible about it (all four times), and I deferred to a reader’s POV (just one time). And here’s a detail that was cut from WHAT’s letter for space: “People have suggested going slow, but I like it a little rough.” Perhaps I should’ve come down harder on WHAT’s boyfriend— okay, I should’ve come down harder—but it seemed possible, at least in WHAT’s case, that anal might’ve been an accident (all four times?!?).

I still believe “accidental anal” is much more likely to be “intentional, nonconsensual anal,” aka not an accident at all.

—Dan Send your Savage Love questions to mail@savagelove.net.

Gear Prudence Gear Prudence: For better or worse, I’m single and I go out on a lot of first dates. I’ve done pretty much all the usual stuff, and frankly, I’m kind of tired of meeting up at some random bar and getting drinks.

[An] app has matched me with someone who seems to be pretty active and into bicycling, and we’re going back and forth [about] what we should do when we meet up. So, I was thinking that maybe we should meet up for a bike ride. What do you think?

—Doing Activity Together Eagerly Dear DATE: Like a section of Belgian blocks, the course of true love never did run smooth.

A bike date, and especially a first date that involves bikes, does seem like it could have some positive elements, though it wouldn’t be without its own drawbacks. Let’s review.

One of the major advantages of the bike first date is the immediate reveal of your prospective partner’s bicycle. Bike compatibility is a huge deal, and it’s difficult to imagine forging a longterm relationship with a partner whose bicycle isn’t “the one.” Likewise, if you have an especially nice bike, it’s a great opportunity to wow your would-be mate with your refined taste and superior cycling style. Beyond the bike itself, this kind of date allows you to gauge each other’s handling aptitude. Can your date avoid literal potholes? What might this mean for the metaphorical ones that could pop up between you over time? Are your cadences companionate? Do you motivate each other to climb faster and overcome doubts and fears? How one cycles is essentially how one lives, and if biking is a fundamental part of your life, you might as well find out at the very beginning whether or not your date is a match.

On the other hand, this is a terrible idea, and GP thinks that in no case should you ever do a first date by bicycle. Never. Bicycling, while fun and leisurely and shockingly revealing, is primarily a solitary activity. There are practical concerns, too: Will you be able to talk to each other as your pedal along? Will you have different ideas about appropriate pace or irreconcilable differences on a good route? Will your date steal your Strava KOM and will you be jealous forever? And if things are going particularly poorly, might your date just ride away, leaving you behind to futilely spin your wheels in rejection and sadness? Bad dates are bad, but you don’t need to give yours such a convenient escape.

If you must try something new for a first date, skip the bike. Save it for date number two and then ride together somewhere vaguely romantic like the Mall at night. If you really hit it off, there’s no shortage of places you can ride together as your relationship develops. But don’t rush it.

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

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By Matt Terl We’re just over 30 games into this MLB season, and it’s already clear that Bryce Harper’s non-athletic activities are a story that’s going to stretch into the long, hot days of August—or longer, if the Nationals can make a deep playoff run. Between his campaign to “Make Baseball Fun Again”—which is actually catching on with players on other teams— and his, shall we say, “youthful exuberance,” Harper stands out against the largely beigeish background of Major League Baseball like the metallic-pink-and-tulip patterned cleats he wore on Mother’s Day. It seems like anything Harper does is met with scorn and derision from non-Nationals fans across the sports punditsphere. But sometimes he makes it very, very easy for them.

In a Monday night game against the Tigers, Harper managed to get himself ejected from the game while safely ensconced in the dugout. Home plate umpire Brian Knight made a questionable call on a pitch to Danny Espinosa; Harper, along with the rest of the Nats, took exception to the ruling.

Knight, in turn, took exception to Harper, booting him from the game. This displeased Harper further, which he expressed, boisterously. But before Harper could leave, as required by the rules, or do something really stupid, Clint Robinson smacked a walk-off home run. Harper, against MLB rules, ran out to join the celebration at home plate.

He also took a second to share a few choice words with Knight.

The incident is captured pretty clearly on the broadcast video, which meant that it quickly became Vines and GIFs, so it’s really easy to see Harper, hair bouncing jauntily in slow motion, stop celebrating, jab his finger at Knight and yell “Hey, fuck you!”

(There’s no audio, so it’s possible he’s saying “Give up, dude!” or “Hey, thank you!” Unlikely, though.)

After the game, Harper was unrepentant, continuing to criticize Knight and dismissively agreeing to pay whatever penalty the league might levy (in this case, a one-game suspension and a fine, announced Wednesday).

All of this ignited a predictable firestorm: Bryce Har per should be suspended,

screeched the curmudgeons. Bryce Harper should apologize! Bryce Harper is a big fat jerk who is everything that’s wrong with baseball!

All of which misses the point that this is just another reason to love Harper. Have you ever been involved in some kind of thing at work where some officious middle-management type, hopped up on business jargon and coffee, decides that it’s time to berate you for something? Even if you’re not at fault, even if everyone hates the dude, you don’t get to yell “Hey, fuck you!” at him. Even if it seems like the most cathartic idea in the world, it’s just not done.

Bryce Harper exists in a workplace where kicking dirt on another man’s shoes is an acceptable way to make a point, or where hurling a dense sphere at 95 miles per hour into a guy’s hip is a way of registering mild displeasure. Sometimes, it’s fun to watch someone like Bryce Harper say what everyone in the stands is thinking. The whole reason we watch pro athletes at all is because they do larger-than-life feats that we can’t; this is just an extension of that.

But what, The Curmudgeon might ask, about the kids? Kids adore Bryce Harper!

What lesson are they going to learn from this?

It’s an argument that I’m not fond of, because the answer is obvious: As parents, our job is to reframe any kind of difficult situation into teachable moments. And there are teachable moments aplenty here: about learning to control your emotions, about there being consequences to actions (the initial ejection first, and any subsequent fine or suspension on top of that), sure. But you can also spin positive messages as well: Harper’s biggest sin is that he enjoys what he does too much, and he lets it get the best of his judgment. He started out by defending a teammate, and then he took it too far.

The real takeaway here may be that Bryce Harper even breaks the rules in a way that’s more fun than anything the rest of the league is doing. The baseball purists with sticks planted firmly up their asses may not want kids—or parents—to realize that anytime soon.

CP

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Restaurateurs launching D.C.’s next generation of diners grapple with the public’s expectations.

By Jessica Sidman HasH browns or home fries?

Restaurateur Paul Ruppert posed the question to the public in an online survey as he planned his newest Petworth eatery, Slim’s Diner. More than 800 people chimed in.

People have a lot of opinions about diners.

Hash browns won three to one. But at the end of the day, there’s good news for each camp: “I think we’re going to do both,” Ruppert says.

Rupper t’s pub lic survey also asked n e i g h b o rs ab o u t their favorite diners and favorite diner dishes. Answers were all over the map, but everyone seemed to agree on one thing: They didn’t want a “fancy diner.” Ruppert concurred. The restaurateur had visited 40 diners up and down the East Coast to come up with his ideal version.

And so when it opens sometime in the coming weeks, Slim’s Diner will offer all the classics: all-day breakfast, milkshakes, burgers, sandwiches no fancier than a BLT, and a display case full of pies and cakes. Prices will cap at around $15, and most items will cost under $10.

But Ruppert is quick to point out that Slim’s Diner is a “traditional diner,” not a “nostalgic diner.” Although the restaurant has 1950sstyle red counter stools and booths, the restaurateur says he’s not trying to recreate a specific era. “We don’t want to be stuck in the past,” he says.

That likely won’t keep anyone from bringing their own nostalgia. Diners are like dive bars: Everyone has their own slightly varied definition of what makes it “real” or “authentic.” You say the word diner, and people have expectations. They have demands. To open a diner is to compete with memories, which is like trying to recreate someone’s favorite childhood dish without the recipe. People tend to romanticize the greasy plates and bottomless mugs of coffee, while overlooking frozen, commercial-grade meats and shitty ventilation systems. They like the idea of eating eggs at 3 a.m. but would never actually stay out that late themselves. They still bemoan the loss of

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Slim’s Diner will be “traditional” but “not nostalgic,” says its owner Paul Ruppert.

Capital City Diner—which closed more than four years ago—but rarely, if ever, actually ate there.

That’s what a new generation of diners has to compete with. In addition to Slim’s, at least three other diner-style restaurants are set to open in the D.C. area this year.

At his forthcoming restaurant in Bethesda, Winthorpe and Valentine’s Community, owner Mark Bucher (who also owns Medium Rare) plans to serve all-day breakfast, matzo ball soup, and roast beef sandwiches. Initially, he described the place as an “urban diner,” but now he’s shying away from the word altogether.

“It’s like a coffee shop that serves food. It’s a comfortable place to hang out and get a drink and eat great food,” he says.

That’s a lot of words to avoid saying “diner.”

But Bucher finds too many things that ultimately disqualify him from the term. After all, he has his own expectations having grown up in southern New Jersey “where there’s a diner on every corner.”

“Diner makes me think of three-ingredient food. It makes me think of a family running the business where the mother and the father are in the kitchen, and the kids are the servers, and the grandma’s the cashier. It makes me think of a place where you walk in, and the first thing you see is a huge bakery case filled with cookies, cupcakes, and cheesecake,” Bucher says. “And that’s not what I’m creating or recreating.”

When Bucher first announced plans for the “diner” last year, online commenters immedi-

ately began comparing Winthorpe and Valentine’s Community to Tastee Diner less than a block away. But Bucher is looking to create something entirely different from the neighboring greasy spoon.

“I don’t want people to think I’m going after Tastee Diner. Any restaurant that’s been around for 65 years, I respect that,” he says.

Rather, Bucher draws more inspiration from Continental, a Stephen Starr restaurant in Philadelphia. He’s also tied references from the Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy movie Trading Places into the restaurant’s theme.

Winthorpe and Valentine are the names of the main characters, and the restaurant will offer orange juice at market price, a recurring joke in the film. Meanwhile, Winthorpe and Valentine’s Community will have a mixologist— not something you typically find in a traditional diner.

“I’m following a path that was developed in my brain from going to diners for decades my entire life, but I’m making it cooler and hipper and more relevant to today,” Bucher says.

“You can get hammered at my place. You can’t get hammered at a diner in Jersey.”

Still, Bucher is debating whether he should add corned beef hash to the menu. To him, that’s the item that might push the restaurant into diner territory. “It might then make people’s expectations that if you have corned beef hash, then you also have creamed chipped beef. And if you also have creamed chip beef, then that means you have liver and onions,” he says. “And then if don’t have that, you’re not real.”

But other forthcoming diners aren’t looking to be “real” by being traditional. Blue Diner, coming to 1248-1250 H St. NE, aims to be a “modernized version of a traditional diner.”

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ern-style fried seitan and waffles, biscuits and mushroom gravy, and tofu scrambles. Owner Doron Petersan, who also runs Sticky Fingers, says other diners staples like pancakes, French toast, and breakfast sandwiches are easily made without dairy or eggs.

Like others opening diner-style spots, Petersan put some thought into how she would describe the place. “We didn’t want to use the word bistro because then people think it’s expensive. We didn’t want to use the word cafe because then cafe means coffee and cookies.

People do have their preconceived notions,” she says. She’s tried to manage expectations by calling the place a “bakery, diner, bar.”

“Basically we’re a new take on a diner,” Petersan says. “We’re working off of the ideas and nostalgic notions of what a diner is, and we’ve expanded off of that.”

And the truth is restaurants have evolved in such a way that it’s not practical, or not worth, replicating certain nostalgic notions. For example, restaurants today don’t have the distinct smell they once did because “everyone’s chasing that 100-percent odor-free, greasefree exhaust system,” Bucher says.

In fact, Fare Well’s menu centers around the oven, and the restaurant is using induction burners rather than gas grills. “We’re really working to make it a greener environment, make the kitchen a healthier environment for everyone who’s working in there,” Petersan

says. “So it doesn’t look like a diner kitchen, and I think that’s surprising to people.”

Petersan grew up going back and forth between Queens and a small town in the Hudson Valley. The diners she remembers served the classic greasy spoon fare, but they also often featured pastas and Greek and other Mediterranean dishes on their sprawling menus.

The size of the menu is another one of the biggest differences between what Petersan is doing at Fare Well and what she remembers of diners growing up. (Fare Well will have around eight entrees, five salads, and eight appetizers, plus bakery items.) In fact, all of D.C.’s new diners are foregoing the epic, multi-page menus that are a hallmark of many traditional diners.

Those endless menus make it difficult to control food costs and quality, Bucher says.

They also require lots of kitchen space and staff. “It will bust the business plan before you even open, which is why the only folks who are really doing it like that today are the diners that have been around 100 years, because they either own their building or they’re in an old, old, old lease.”

Plus, Bucher says, “in today’s restaurant world, you cannot be all things to all people and survive.”

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What the Pluck Tweezers are nearly as commonplace as knives in some upscale restaurant kitchens. While these tools have been adopted by chefs, many were originally designed as medical instruments. Take a look at some of the devices that can be used for grabbing both herbs and blood vessels.

—Jessica Sidman These are perhaps the most ubiquitous kitchen tweezers.

At Convivial, every station has one. Chef Cedric Maupillier uses them to toss salads, flip fish on the grill, stir seafood bisque, and layer components of a pickled rockfish dish with avocado and watermelon radish.

At Masseria, chef Nick Stefanelli uses these tools to twirl linguine or handle pieces of meat and fish. “If you were to try to pick up a piece of halibut with a pair of kitchen tongs that you would use to barbecue a big steak, you would risk breaking the piece of fish,” Stefanelli says.

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Chef Tony Conte of Inferno Pizzeria Napoletana in Gaithersburg, Md. alternates between these tools to place fennel fronds, celery leaves, and other delicate herbs or edible flowers on a beet salad.

“We layer it, so it’s not all just thrown into a bowl,” he says. The former Oval Room chef also uses them to handle Thai chilies so that the hot peppers don’t irritate his skin.

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If she needs to stop a bleeder, Teal will cauterize the debakey and use this tool to grasp a blood vessel. She adds that the debakey looks similar to Adson forceps, which have little teeth on the end. She uses those when stitching up skin.

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Philip Zapanta, an ear, nose, and throat doctor at George Washington University Hospital, says this tool is useful for placing packs in the nose to stop significant bleeding.

terms of flavor or texture.

Sloppiness level (1 to 5): 5. Combine four slippery ingredients on a nonabsorbent bread and they’ll inevitably wind up on your shirt. Arm yourself with napkins and a fork to rebuild the sandwich as you go.

Overall score (1 to 5): 4. While I’m not sure why this sandwich is named after the Amish version of spring break, it’s certainly light and flavorful. With less mess and some sour or spicy elements, like pickles or horseradish, it could become an even better to-go breakfast option.

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Movin’ On Up Baltimore’s Oliver Brewing Co. began in 1993 in the cramped basement of what is now Pratt Street Ale House near Camden Yards. Over the years, demand for head brewer Steve Jones’ top-notch English-style beers grew far beyond their availability. Last year, Oliver Brewing relocated operations to a 12,000square-foot facility that’s triple the size of the old one. The brewery can now supply its three associated Maryland restaurants—Pratt Street Ale House, the Ale House Columbia, and Park Tavern— with enough beer left over to stock local liquor stores. Following its first canning run this March, Oliver released six-packs of Cherry Blossom, a wheat ale with dark cherries, and an espresso brown ale called Creator/Destroyer.

Caramel Mock-hiato The name refers to the type of espresso grinds used in the beer: “Destroyer” from Ceremony Coffee Roasters. As for “creator?” According to Jones, it comes from an urge to create something positive during an exceptionally negative presidential campaign. In a departure from the usual coffee-stout combo, Jones chose a traditional brown ale recipe featuring double roasted crystal malt from Simpsons, a 150-year-old maltster in Northumberland. The winning combination marries the taste of espresso with sweet caramel malt flavors. Creator/Destroyer smells like caramelized sugar, chocolate, and coffee. At six percent alcohol, the medium-bodied beer is nutty, creamy, and rich with a bitter finish. Look for it on draft or in cans across D.C. and Maryland.

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By Matt Cohen and Ron Knox It wasn’t John Stabb’s idea. The decorations strewn about his room at Holy Cross Hospital, the photographer, and the minister. Less than a month earlier, doctors had diagnosed Stabb—the wiry, iconic lead singer of seminal D.C. hardcore band Government Issue—with an aggressive form of stomach cancer from which few recover. As part of his treatment, Jaya Vijayan, the medical director in charge of Stabb’s care, asked him what he felt compelled to make happen, what he most wanted to get done. It’s the kind of question intended to help a patient set goals and remain motivated

while fighting an aggressive disease. Stabb told her he wanted two things: to get his book published, and to get married.

Thus the minister.

Stabb first told others of his stomach pains a few days before playing a Jan. 19 show with his band History Repeated at Comet Ping Pong. By the day of the show, the pain was severe, the result of what Stabb thought was a bad case of appendicitis. “I was deeply concerned about his health,” says Derrick Baranowsky, Stabb’s best friend and History Repeated bandmate. “I showed up thinking it was just a regular night and he said ‘Oh, by the way, I don’t know if you heard, but I might have to go to the E.R. after this show. I

might have appendicitis.”

Baranowsky urged Stabb not to perform, but he insisted. “No, no, I’ll be fine,” he recalls Stabb saying. The band played, and Stabb performed in his trademark way—thrashing about the stage and into the crowd while belting out his band’s songs—as best he could. “He did the show and he was still John, but he was clearly a little less animated,” Baranowsky says.

After the set, Stabb went to the E.R. He was released after a couple days, but he wouldn’t be home for long: A week later, Mina Devadas, Stabb’s partner, rushed him to Holy Cross Hospital, his pain now far worse. He needed emergency surwashingtoncitypaper.com may 13, 2016 23

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In the hospital, Devadas reminded him that the two had never really talked about marriage before, other than to agree that it wasn’t for them. Both had been married before, and Devadas says they decided early in their relationship that they didn’t need a piece of paper to be happy together. “We could just date each other for the rest of our lives, and that would be pretty cool,” Devadas says. “But going through this illness, we wanted some permanency. There was a feeling of wanting to hold on and cement something.”

So Vijayan called on her team to arrange the ceremony, and on March 17—St. Patrick’s Day—Devadas and Stabb were wed. It was a private ceremony, just the two of them and the group the hospital had assembled.

Stabb wore his straight edge hoodie; Devadas wore a hoodie of her own. They exchanged dog tags with their names on them Devadas made at a local pet store. “It was a really fun, really happy day for both of us,” she says.

The doctors had agreed to let Stabb delay his chemotherapy for a day so he’d feel good at his wedding. That night, Stabb began a chemo regimen that would last for 21 consecutive days. The treatment left him weak but did little to stop the cancer.

“Our honeymoon was in a hospital bed that we made into a double bed by pushing a cot together with the hospital bed,” Devadas says.

“And I spent every night of those 112 days with John in the hospital, because he asked me to, and I didn’t want to be anywhere else.”

Stabb—born John DukeS Schroeder in D.C. in 1961—wanted nothing to do with the fake, the scripted, or the choreographed.

Growing up in suburban Rockville, the inauthentic interested Stabb perhaps only as a thing to reject, which is what attracted him to D.C.’s burgeoning punk scene in the early ’80s. It was where he would find his people.

“I think we had a long and abiding respect with each other,” says Ian MacKaye, cofounder of Dischord Records, the legendary D.C. punk label that put out Government Issue’s earliest records. “He was a weirdo from Maryland, and I was a weirdo from D.C.” But like many of the world’s true and glorious weirdos, he appeared to eschew even the underground. When the majority of the D.C. punk scene showed up to gigs in Tshirts, jeans and combat boots, Stabb would perform in collared shirts and suit jackets, or whatever odd flamboyant thing he rummaged at the thrift store. Even among the freaks, he was an original. “[Government Issue] were a really special band to me because they were kind of weird and spastic and smartass, which was

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me,” says Phil Venable, a longtime friend of Stabb. “They could take all that nervous, spastic energy and really do something with it.”

When Venable moved to D.C. in 1988 to attend college, he started looking into the local punk scene he’d heard so much about growing up in Roanoke, Va. By that time, the first wave of harDCore bands—Minor Threat, Youth Brigade, The Untouchables, The Faith, Void—had come and gone, and the next crop of bands, led by Fugazi, were just starting to get big. But Government Issue— which formed in 1980 when Stabb was 19— had carried on, which was nothing short of a feat for a punk band at that time.

“If a band was playing, and someone left the band, that’s the end of the band,” MacKaye recalls of that era. “But that was not the case with [Government Issue]. People were dropping like flies in that band. But John was always there. He just kept playing. He broke the fuckin’ rules.”

“John was always there. He just kept playing.

He broke the fuckin’ rules.”

He broke rules in other ways, too, speaking his mind, filterless in any social situation. Devadas says she loved that about him; he would say some off-key thing at an awkward moment at a social occasion and she would struggle not to burst out laughing. He lived most of his life with untreated attention deficit disorder, she says; between that and his already gregarious personality, the daily trudge of school and work could be a

struggle.

Work was necessary, of course—courier gigs and a stint at Glen Echo Hardware.

He rarely did well at these jobs; like so many punks, Stabb was ill-suited for a workaday life.

He had very little tolerance for any variety of bullshit—misogyny, casual racism, all of the workplace plagues most folks learn to shrug off or quietly seethe about. Stabb wouldn’t: He would speak his mind, and he had no filter. “A lot of the jobs he worked to support himself didn’t end well,” Devadas says. “But there’s a lot that I respect in that.”

But on stage, Stabb was king. He was all wild hair and punk bravado, belting out mile-a-minute lyrics and handing out the microphone so the crowd could do the same.

And he never bored his audience. He would often writhe around onstage, crawl into the crowd, or even climb PAs and dive off of them “shocking the audience, who often thought he was hurt,” Baranowsky says.

“That was his zone. It was the most natural place for him to exist,” Devadas says.

There was another side of Stabb, one only a handful of people ever knew. He was peaceful, contemplative, at ease with friends and loved ones. But on stage, he was all manic energy, a coiled spring released. He was home.

When baranoWSky anD Venable first learned their friend was sick, they responded immediately.

It was the beginning of February when the two started reaching out to Stabb’s friends in the music community about putting together a show to support him. J. Robbins, who fronted D.C. bands Jawbox and Burning Airlines, was in. Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore, who lives in London, immediately confirmed once he learned he’d be stateside for the date of the show. Local psychedelic hardcore group GIVE—one of the many young D.C. bands Stabb championed—was also quick to hop on the bill. The show was scheduled for Sunday, May 8 as a benefit to help with Stabb’s mounting medical bills.

When he died on Saturday at age 54, the soldout benefit became a memorial.

Throughout the evening, friends of Stabb and veterans of D.C.’s music community took the stage to perform and share their memories of him. Moore fondly recalled the times he spent and goofed around with Stabb whenever Sonic Youth toured through town.

MacKaye shared amusing anecdotes including one about his peculiar first meeting with Stabb when his band, Teen Idles, played a shitty discotheque in Georgetown called Scandals.

“It meant the world to him that people gave a fuck about John Stabb,” MacKaye told the crowd. “Because he gave a fuck about the world.”

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Four Ring Circus

It doesn’t matter what it is—sitting through 18 hours of anything isn’t for the faint of heart. Even for the biggest Wagner fans, the Washingon National Opera’s production of his epic Ring cycle can be a bit much. But if you’re curious enough to catch at least some of it, here’s a handy guide to help you decide which of the individual operas you might want to see.

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The Rhinegold

The Valkyrie Pros: • It’s just two-and-a-half-hours long.

• Do you like Thor and Loki? They’re in it!

Cons: • No intermission • Two giants get all weepy about not getting to rape a pretty apple farmer.

Cons: • Subtract “Ride of the Valkyries,” and it’s basically three hours of a brother and sister that really want to fuck.

Pros: • It’s got that “Ride of the Valkyries” piece the kids dig.

Twilight of the Gods

Siegfried Pros: • There’s a dragon.

• Siegfried is basically a more muscular and less self-aware Kenny Powers.

Photos by Scott Suchman, for the Washington National Opera

Cons: • Siegfried is a lot less likeable than Kenny Powers.

Pros: • It ends with fire.

• If you haven’t seen the previous three operas, don’t worry: The entire story is recapped.

• Siegfried’s funeral march (spoiler alert!)

Cons: • Brünnhilde takes a really long time to die.

• After the world is destroyed in fire and flood, you still have to watch the Rhinemaiden mean girls gloat for a while.

• Hagen’s vassals require the most micromanaging of any characters in any opera ever written.

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Horde of the Rings

The latter half of Wagner’s epic Ring cycle is musically brilliant, but overstuffed and conceptually muddled.

The Ring Cycle: Siegfried and Twilight of the Gods

By Richard Wagner Directed by Francesca Zambello Washington National Opera at the Kennedy Center to May 22

By Mike Paarlberg Wagnerites in tuxedos, gowns, and horned Viking helmets stumbled out of the Kennedy Center opera house late Friday looking tired, dazed, and happy, like they’d lost their virginity at the Renaissance faire. They were clearly as pleased with the Washington National Opera’s first complete Ring cycle as they were with themselves for making it through all 18 hours of it. The formal yet festive atmosphere was evidence of the passionate, di-

verse crowd the great German Romantic composer continues to draw, united in their ability not to laugh at patently ridiculous things like dragon tanks. It’s a sight to behold, a level of discipline only the best cults can aspire to.

Did I mention this thing has a dragon tank?

As in, an armored vehicle that has a dragon’s head for a turret and claws for treads, and spews smoke when the hero Siegfried hits it with a sword. This whole production cost the Washington National Orchestra $10 million; at least now we know where the money went.

Director Francesca Zambello’s American Ring is a mess, but it’s a beautiful mess. Conceptually, it’s all over the place. Musically, it’s superb. The first two operas (The Rhinegold and The Valkyrie, reviewed here last week) hinted at a 1920s art deco, Atlas Shruggedmeets-Citizen Kane theme, but that disap-

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peared by the last two, which go in a lot of directions but mostly toward an unconvincing bid by Zambello to interpret Wagner as an eco-feminist.

Like fighting a dragon tank, interpreting Wagner is fraught with peril. George Bernard Shaw took the Ring to be a Marxist parable; Theodor Adorno saw an anti-Semitic one. Nietzsche at different times viewed him as a savior of European high culture and a spectacle-peddling huckster. Much of the challenge is due to Wagner’s undeniable shittiness as a human being, something that his defenders insist should not be held against his music. I agree. But being open-minded about Wagner is one thing; presenting him as a feminist and environmentalist is another, and simply declaring him thus doesn’t make it so, no matter how many pictures of logging trucks and the New Jersey Bayway Refinery you project over the stage.

Where you end up on the Shaw-Adorno spectrum depends on whether you see the Nibelungs—the conniving dwarves who manipulate others to steal their gold—as wicked capitalists or sneaky Jews. Zambello chose to steer clear of that minefield—a wise choice— though in an earlier version of this opera, she boldly reinterpreted them as slaves on an American plantation. Wagner’s Ring is, above all, about the destruction of an old order, that of the gods. For Wagner, the gods were standins for the decadent European monarchies; for Zambello, the patriarchy, or perhaps the destruction of the earth by gods, heroes, and dwarves alike. It’s unclear, and the source material provides a shaky basis.

As for the feminism, Zambello makes much of Brünnhilde’s agency as warrior demigod,

and her shabby treatment by her father, Wotan, and her nephew/lover Siegfried. But for every moment of badassery, there are plenty of others in which she’s turned into a doormat by hunky, dim Siegfried, who is at least self-aware of his dimwittedness. Better to be dumb and in love than wise and single.

By the end, the fairy-tale valor and dopey romance in Siegfried give way to the darker machinations of Twilight of the Gods, and the two lovers’ violent ends. Twilight is the more satisfying of the two, despite the central plot device being a love potion, a totally serious idea Wagner stole from his own Tristan und Isolde.

As in the first two operas in the cycle, Philippe Auguin’s direction of the Washington National Opera orchestra is the highlight of the entire production. Wagner’s themes ooze from section to section with sounds layered neatly—a deft and relatively understated take on a composer not known for subtlety.

Wagner may have been an asshole, but his mastery of musical drama is undeniable, using leitmotifs to recall characters and themes in a way that paved the way for today’s cinematic epics (like J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, despite his many denials). Twilight is where everything comes together, and when the heroes bite the dust, in Siegfried’s funeral march and Brünnhilde’s immolation, the payoff is all the more devastating, given Auguin’s prior restraint.

It’s also at the end of Twilight where Zambello’s vision comes into focus, belatedly. The Rhinemaidens from Rhinegold reappear with their river choked with garbage. Brünnhilde leads them to reclaim the ring from the men whose warring over it destroyed a once pristine wilderness, before she sacrifices herself in a purifying firestorm. A little girl plants a tree.

It’s all pretty hokey, but neatly imagined.

The problem is it isn’t consistent in any form throughout. Much of Zambello’s thematic ideas derive from a couple lines of Wagner that provide stark imagery but don’t flow from scene to scene. Thus the prologue to Twilight, thanks to a twist of “rope of destiny” to “cable of destiny,” becomes a scene from the Matrix with the earth goddesses dressed in goggles and rubber clothes surrounded by computer cables, before we cut away to Brünnhilde and Siegfried’s Tora Bora love nest.

Zambello might see consistency as a hobgoblin of small operas. For a production as epic as the Ring, having an identifiable unifying theme is a lot to ask. Constantly throwing a bunch of different stage designs, projections, and costumes at an audience instead makes sense if the goal is to keep an audience on its toes, or at least not squirming in their seats after the first five-hour opera. However far-fetched an eco-feminist Wagner may be, it’s a nicer thing to imagine than anything the CP real Wagner would have been.

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future, imperfect High-Rise

Directed by Ben Wheatley For years, Filmmakers knew to abide by a simple, unwritten law: Kill as many people as you want in your movie, but don’t hurt the dog. Audiences will tolerate human death, the thinking goes, but you’ll lose them entirely if Fido kicks the bucket. In the past few years, however, that rule has gently eroded, with 2014’s John Wick and its puppy-avenging hero as the most notable example. High-Rise, based on the cult novel by J.G. Ballard, subverts it almost immediately. In its opening montage, we watch the casually elegant Tom Hiddleston rescue a dog from the rubble of a building, make him his loyal companion, and then roast his detached leg on a spit.

It signifies a total breakdown of the social order, but how does man’s best friend become just another meal? High-Rise is the story of a violent revolution that takes place inside a single apartment building. Set in an ambiguous future-past, the building is designed to physically reflect our social and economic inequalities. The working-class families are on the bottom, and the rich are on top. The building’s architect (Jeremy Irons) lives in an extravagant penthouse, complete with manicured lawns, prize-winning horses, and priceless works of art.

Dr. Laing (Hiddleston) is on a high floor, but seems to slide effortlessly between classes, playing squash with the architect and drinking the night away at raucous parties on the lower floor. It seems a harmless hierarchy, and yet

all it takes is a power outage for the system to tumble. It’s like a vertical Snowpiercer, except High-Rise eschews that film’s forward momentum. Director Ben Wheatley has little interest in the mechanics of revolution; instead, he revels in the anarchy. Very quickly, the building is reduced to moral rubble. There are riots in the basement supermarket, fistfights that quickly turn fatal, and public orgies to rival those in Caligula.

The film’s lack of narrative drive gives it a playfully episodic tone, but its grimness becomes unwieldy. There is an early scene in which Liang peels the skin off a human head for his medical students, revealing the skull underneath. The grisly moment is a metaphor for the film itself, which looks past the facade of our daily existence and sees something terrifying. But that’s a cynical sentiment, and it’s a cruel film that inflicts its anarchy upon the audience.

High-Rise may be an apt allegory for the devolution of our collective humanity, but it offers no substitution. The building is described as “the unconscious diagram of some kind of psychic event,” and so is the film, which exists only as an idea, drifting through our imagination untethered to reality. Where is this film’s soul? Perhaps we’re supposed to feel for Toby, the spectacled child who wanders the hallways fatherless. But Wheatley has no more interest in the child’s humanity than he does any of the film’s monstrous adults. These poor bastards walk through this world angry, unloved, and ultimately unknown. After watching their misery for two hours, you might be left wondering if High-Rise has too much on its mind, or not enough.

—Noah Gittell

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Empire of the Sons

The absence of one son—and the overwhelming presence of another—highlight new films by Piero Messina and Rob Reiner L’attesa

Directed by Piero Messina

Being Charlie

Directed by Rob Reiner

By Tricia Olszewski L’attesa, in the tagline sense, may indeed be about a boy. But its two main characters take the Bechdel Test and go Thelma & Louise on it. No, Piero Messina’s debut feature doesn’t involve a raucous road trip or Brad Pitt’s ass. But its women think deeply, feel intuitively, and act deliberately, circling each other as they get acquainted and generally living in the moment despite the disquiet in the air. Their hearts might be hurting—one for a known reason, the other out of speculation—but still they laugh and play.

Anna (Juliette Binoche) meets her son’s French girlfriend, Jeanne (Lou de Laâge), when she flies to Sicily to celebrate Easter with their wealthy family. But Giuseppe, Jeanne’s beau, isn’t there when she arrives; a hired hand picks her up and sets out some food, telling her that the matriarch of the mansion isn’t feeling well and will meet her in the morning.

It takes a while, though, for Jeanne to find Anna come daylight. In the clothes she slept in, she wanders around the castle-like home, surprised to discover that its many rooms and halls are filled with people. And whenever Jeanne asks about Giuseppe’s whereabouts, Anna changes the subject or suddenly must attend to something. Jeanne is largely left alone among all the strangers, repeatedly calling her boyfriend’s phone but getting his voicemail.

Finally, Anna throws Jeanne a big enough bone to tide her over: “We’ve suffered a terrible loss,” the pallid mother says. “My brother died.” Jeanne connects the dots that Giuseppe must be off attending to some related need, though there really are no dots to connect.

Viewers will have a better idea of where he may be than Jeanne does, though they’ll feel no less off-kilter. Adapted from a play

by Messina and three others, L’attesa conveys a mysterious chill from the very beginning, with Messina panning down a Christ

enjoyable than you’d expect.

Robinson’s Charlie miserably commemorates his 18th birthday at a rehab facility before making a run for it. He’s got nothing but a backpack and the suit he’s wearing as he hitchhikes to L.A.— stealing some pills from a ride on the way—and has his friend Adam (Devon Bostick) drive him to his parents’ place. Charlie isn’t very well received: His mother (Susan Misner) wants to be welcoming, but his father (Cary Elwes) tells him it’s back to rehab for 30 days or else he’ll be financially cut off. The immediately defensive Charlie basically tells Pops to fuck off, but Adam talks him into going back and sticking it out.

The bulk of Being Charlie alternates between Charlie’s successes, failures, a dangerous romance, and the fires his father has to put out whenever he and his bad behavior get pulled into the spotlight. Reiner doesn’t shy away from the lows of a drug addict, showing rock-bottom in all its ugliness and desperation. And though Charlie may straighten out a little too magically, the script doesn’t give him a will of steel.

The appeal of the film lies in its performances. Robinson’s Charlie is deep-voiced and sarcastic, able to win people over with his wry humor. (And smarts: On his first day back in group, he goes off about the capitalist side of treatment centers.) Common plays the supervisor in Charlie’s halfway house, whose support is never condescending and who quietly compliments him on his talentshow stand-up act, which was too graphic for the counselor to officially endorse. Misner is hardly a presence—Bechdel fail—but Elwes is a reliable first-rate dick.

Yes, there’s hugging at the end, but there’s also no sugarcoating the truth about drugs: They served as “a way to kill the noise,” Charlie says. During several moments here, he killed it good. And if anything can make saccharine a little less sweet, it’s the sarcasm CP of an 18-year-old kid.

L’attesa

sculpture as an elderly woman kisses its feet, both statue and worshipper surrounded with black. The odd scenes continue after a leisurely, nearly Bond-like opening credits sequence: a long shot of travelers’ silhouettes, standing backward on an airport walkway; another religious statue being transported on a truck, completely covered in a garbage bag except for its hands; Anna walking from room to room engulfed in black, with her faroff face slowly coming into view.

Jeanne, for the most part, stops asking about Giuseppe as she and Anna get to know each other, going to the lake, having meals, visiting a museum. It’s all compelling, but you can’t help but feel impatient on Jeanne’s behalf, wanting her to say, “That’s nice. Now where the fuck is he?” It’s ridiculous that she doesn’t, at least not with any force. And it’s ridiculous that she’s not told.

Which leaves L’attesa both frustrating and captivating. Especially mesmerizing is a scene of a red-dressed Jeanne dancing with some dinner guests to Leonard Cohen’s “Waiting for the Miracle to Come”; it’s evocative of the “Cat People” scene in Inglourious Basterds, with de Laâge as intriguing as that film’s red-dressed Mélanie Laurent. Binoche is also masterful in this scene, her Anna watching Jeanne with an expression that ever-so-subtly turns from an entertained smile to an angered grimace.

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Though de Laâge plays no small part here, it’s Binoche’s film to steal, as the reality her character tried to bury comes to the surface. You may very well find L’attesa’s premise absurd. But the actresses’ finessed portrayal of two women peeling away niceties to reach a truth elevates the script till you forget your irritation over its whys and stay transfixed by its hows. the son in Rob Reiner’s Being Charlie, however, takes center stage: He’s a well-off 18year-old addict whose father is running for the governor of California. Charlie’s states of sobriety are as changeable as the weather; Dad wants to keep him in a treatment center because he loves the kiddo and wants him to get better.

Just joking: He’s campaigning, and therefore hyperaware that voter loyalties can also sway whichever way the wind blows.

Unlike L’attesa, then, it’s obvious where this latest Reiner blubberfest is going, right?

Well, yes and no. Charlie actually doubles down on the director’s genes, with son Nick Reiner (along with freshman Matt Elisofon) penning the script, which he loosely based on his own experience with addiction. And though the few left turns the film does take are predictable if you’re the kind who likes to guess, the screenplay and the star, Nick Robinson (Jurassic World), are lively and charismatic enough to make the ride more

L’attesa and Being Charlie open Friday at West End Cinema.

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over-underground “Raise/Raze”

At Dupont Underground to June 1 If you blInked, you missed it. The entire run of tickets to the inaugural exhibition at Dupont Underground, “Raise/Raze,” sold out almost immediately after going on sale. Despite the vast size of the project area, covering about half of the venue’s 14,000-square-foot eastern platform, space was limited to about 40 or 50 people at any given time.

If that doesn’t give a sense of the scope of Dupont Underground’s first show, try this: 650,000 tennis ball-sized transparent plastic orbs, glued and velcroed together to form cubes, the cubes stacked to make structures.

It looked even more expansive when the balls filled boxes that lined a curving wall for several city blocks underneath Dupont Circle.

If all else fails: Imagine Minecraft in an actual mineshaft.

“Raise/Raze” could be the last Dupont Underground show. That’s no knock on the board or programmers who made it happen.

It’s merely a recognition that Dupont Underground—which, for those who have been living underground elsewhere, is an abandoned former trolley station-turned-art pop-up space— still faces some challenges. “Raise/Raze” clarified some of them, while exposing others.

The project is the work of Hou de Sousa, a two-person architecture firm (Jia Min Nancy Hou and Josh de Sousa) based in New York.

It is also partly the work of Snarkitecture, another two-person design firm that brought the plastic balls to D.C. in the first place last summer for “The Beach,” an architectural installation at the National Building Museum. Hou de Sousa won the contest of proposals to take apart “The Beach” and put it back together—to turn its building blocks into building blocks, as it were.

If for no other reason, “Raise/Raze” is a winning show for realizing the sheer possibility of using elemental forms and thinking creatively about hand-me-downs. The architects figured out that plastic balls bonded together would have some struxtural strength (thanks, Buckminster Fuller). And indeed, they stack ably; they make reasonable seats, even. The plastic

spheres are every bit as convincing as the parts of object-forms as they were as a sea of ballpit.

Despite the common currency, “The Beach” and its successor could not be more different from one another. “The Beach” felt intimate, creating as it did a patch of private beach indoors, offering personal scale while gesturing at a vast expanse. (No mean feat inside the cavernous Building Museum, which absorbs everything it shows.) “Raise/Raze,” given something else to work with—a grungy utility corridor from one of the Saw films, maybe—invested the place with repetitive form and modular program. Where Snarkitecture got to build a beach inside a museum, Hou de Sousa had to create both the context and content for Dupont Underground.

Hou de Sousa didn’t realize all of their preliminary designs for “Raise/Raze.” That’s for the best: Some of their early concepts for breaking up the space into coherent areas, like forming blocks into the shapes of giant words or the Capitol building, were too soft. Better instead to focus, as the architects did, on the immersive and architectural aspects of the installation. As with LEGO, which are more fun when they’re bricks that can be turned into anything and not part of a structured playset, the “Raise/Raze” cubes work best when the user can decide how they fit together.

If only there were more of the show. Or maybe just more people. (Fire codes prevent Dupont Underground from turning the space into an underworld dance party, which is what it wants to become.) There was nothing more that Hou de Souza could do to overcome the vastness of the space. Given all the restraints, in terms of timing, funding, and precedent (little, little, none), “Raise/Raze” is a milestone.

To be a blockbuster, it would take more.

More, more, more: That’s going to be a Dupont Underground refrain. More people, more materials, more money. With its first show on the books, the venue looks to finding more of everything.

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I.M.P. PRESENTS Merriweather Post Pavilion • Columbia, MD

JUST ANNOUNCED!

O.A.R. w/ Eric Hutchinson & The Hunts ..............................................SAT AUGUST 13 On Sale Friday, May 13 at 10am

THIS WEEK’S SHOWS

Parquet Courts w/ B Boys Early Show! 6pm Doors ......................................... Th 12 Titus Andronicus w/ La Sera Late Show! 10pm Doors ................................... Th 12 Penguin Prison w/ ASTR & Savior Adore ................................................................ F 13 Mixtape: Alternative Dance Party

with DJs Matt Bailer and Shea Van Horn Late Show! 11pm Doors .......... Sa 14

Yeasayer w/ Young Magic ..............................................................................................M 16 Say Anything w/ mewithoutYou • Teen Suicide • Museum Mouth .................. Tu 17

THIS THURSDAY! I.M.P. & AEG LIVE PRESENT

Pentatonix w/ Us the Duo & AJ ............................................................................ MAY 12

THIS SATURDAY!

SWEETLIFE FESTIVAL FEATURING

The 1975 / Halsey / Blondie / Flume / Grimes / PartyNextDoor and more! ... MAY 14

THIS SUNDAY! GV/FRANK PROD. PRESENT

Cage The Elephant w/ Portugal. The Man & Broncho .................................. MAY 15 Kenny Chesney w/ Old Dominion ....................................................................... MAY 19

MAY

White Ford Bronco: DC’s All 90s Band........................................................ F 20 JMSN w/ Tiffany Gouché .....................................................................................W 25 Caravan Palace .............................................................................................. Th 26 Hot In Herre: 2000s Dance Party ................................................................. Sa 28 RJD2 ...................................................................................................................Su 29 Christine and the Queens........................................................................... Tu 31

CAPITAL JAZZ FEST FEAT

New Edition • En Vogue • Toni Braxton and more! ............................................. JUNE 3-5

Ellie Goulding w/ Matt and Kim ......................................................................... JUNE 13 Tame Impala w/ M83 ................................................................................................. JUNE 16 Chris Stapleton & Jason Isbell w/ Frank Turner and the Sleeping Souls . JUNE 18 DC101 KERFUFFLE FEATURING

blink-182 • Silversun Pickups • Cold War Kids and more! .............JUNE 26

ALL GOOD PRESENTS MERRYLAND MUSIC FEST FEATURING

JUNE

Nada Surf w/ Big Thief & Bird Of Youth ..............................................................W 1 Charles Bradley and His Extraordinaires .............................................Th 2 U STREET MUSIC HALL PRESENTS

Kaytranada w/ Lou Phelps .................................................................................F 3

The String Cheese Incident • Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals and more! . JULY 9 & 10

Modest Mouse / Brand New ................................................................................ JULY 12 VANS WARPED TOUR PRESENTED BY JOURNEYS FEATURING

Falling In Reverse • Issues • Four Year Strong and more! .................................... JULY 16

STORY DISTRICT & CAPITAL PRIDE PRESENT

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

True stories through an LGBT lens Early Show! 6pm Doors ......................... Sa 4 Who’s Bad: The World’s #1 Michael Jackson Tribute Band

Shinedown w/ Halestorm • Black Stone Cherry • Whiskey Myers ....................AUGUST 10

Out/Spoken: Queer, Questioning, Bold, & Proud

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Late Show! 10pm Doors........................................................................................ Sa 4 D NIGHT ADDED!

FIRST NIGHT SOLD OUT! SECON

Purity Ring w/ Lydia Ainsworth ..........................................................................W 8 The Heavy ...........................................................................................................Th 9 Alice Smith ...................................................................................................... Sa 11 Birdy w/ Bahari ..................................................................................................Su 12 THE WILD HONEY PIE PRESENTS

Matt Corby ....................................................................................................... M 13 ALL GOOD PRESENTS

Atlas Road Crew w/ The Southern Belles & Bencoolen ............................... Th 16 AlunaGeorge w/ Cleopold .................................................................................F 17 Jon Bellion .........................................................................................................F 24 Balkan Beat Box w/ A-WA ............................................................................. Sa 25 Aesop Rock with Rob Sonic and DJ Zone w/ Homeboy Sandman ........ Tu 28 Mayer Hawthorne ..........................................................................................W 29 Dead Kennedys w/ The Welch Boys & Walk The Plank ................................. Th 30 JULY

People Under the Stairs .................................................................................F 1 Los Van Van ........................................................................................................W 6

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Jill Scott • Erykah Badu • The Roots and more! ..........................AUGUST 6 & 7

Train w/ Andy Grammer ...............................................................................................AUGUST 20 Miranda Lambert w/ Kip Moore & Brothers Osborne .....................................AUGUST 25 The Lumineers w/ BØRNS & Rayland Baxter ............................................. SEPTEMBER 10 • For full lineups and more info, visit merriweathermusic.com • 930.com

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X Ambassadors w/ Robert DeLong & Sara Hartman ............................................. MAY 12 Bloc Party w/ The Vaccines & Oscar ............................................................................ MAY 19 2135 Queens Chapel Rd. NE • Ticketmaster

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THIS SUNDAY! JUSTICEAID CONCERT BENEFIT FOR THE CFSY AND NJDC

Ozomatli plus Big Tony & Trouble Funk .................................................... MAY 15 Sam Beam and Jesca Hoop w/ Marlon Williams .............................................. MAY 21 Plastic Cup Boyz ................................................................................................... MAY 29 The Jayhawks w/ Folk Uke ...................................................................................JUNE 18 John Carpenter: Live Retrospective

Performing themes from his classic films and new compositions ............................. JULY 12 AEG LIVE PRESENTS

9:30 CLUB PRESENTS AT U STREET MUSIC HALL Half Moon Run Jacob Whitesides w/ Shane Harper ... W 18 w/ Jesse Mac Cormack .................. F MAY 13 Mykki Blanco Floating Points (live) w/ Hailu Mergia .Tu 17 w/ Enoch 7th Prophet & Omega ............ Th 19 • Buy advance tickets at the 9:30 Club box office Pimlico Race Course • Baltimore, MD BUDWEISER INFIELDFEST AT THE PREAKNESS FEATURING

The Chainsmokers • Fetty Wap • All Time Low and more! ......................................MAY 21

Kian ‘N’ JC ............................................................................................................ JULY 16 NIGHT ADDED!

FIRST NIGHT SOLD OUT! SECOND

Bryan Ferry w/ LP ................................................................................................. JULY 25 Gad Elmaleh ................................................................................................ SEPTEMBER 1 The Gipsy Kings feat. Nicolas Reyes and Tonino Baliardo ........................... SEPTEMBER 9 NIGHT ADDED!

FIRST NIGHT SOLD OUT! SECOND

Jenny Lewis - Rabbit Fur Coat Anniversary Tour with The Watson Twins ... SEPT 18 Jake Bugg ...................................................................................................SEPTEMBER 29 Loretta Lynn ...............................................................................................NOVEMBER 19 • thelincolndc.com • U Street (Green/Yellow) stop across the street!

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9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Grimes, Tei Shi, HANA. 6 p.m. (Sold out) 930.com. blaCk Cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. The Obsessed, The Atomic Bitchwax, Karma to Burn. 9 p.m. $20. blackcatdc.com.

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. The Kickback, Wild Love. 7 p.m. $10–$12. dcnine.com.

Gypsy sally’s 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. Aztec Sun, Stoop Kids. 9 p.m. $12. gypsysallys.com. the hamilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

Mountain Heart, Darrell Scott. 8:30 p.m. $24.75– $39.75. thehamiltondc.com.

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

We Are Scientists, Prism Tats. 9 p.m. $18. rockandrollhoteldc.com. u stReet musiC hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 5881889. Half Moon Run, Jesse Mac Cormack. 7 p.m. $20. ustreetmusichall.com.

Funk & r&B

howaRD theatRe 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Mya. 8 p.m. $30–$60. thehowardtheatre.com.

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ElEctronic

9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Penguin Prison, ASTR, Savoir Adore. 10 p.m. $25. 930.com. maRtin lutheR kinG JR. memoRial libRaRy 901 G St. NW. (202) 727-0321. Domingues & Kane. 12 p.m.

Free. dclibrary.org/mlk. u stReet musiC hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Rudimental. 10:30 p.m. $20. ustreetmusichall.com.

Jazz

biRChmeRe 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Walter Beasley. 7:30 p.m. $45. birchmere.com. kenneDy CenteR millennium staGe 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Ingrid Jensen. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org. kenneDy CenteR teRRaCe theateR 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. 21st Annual Mary Lou Williams Jazz Festival. 7 p.m. $38–$45. kennedy-center.org. montpelieR aRts CenteR 9652 Muirkirk Road, Laurel. (301) 377-7800. René Marie, vocalist. 8 p.m. $30. arts.pgparks.com. mR. henRy’s 601 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. (202) 5468412. Kevin Cordt. 8 p.m. Free. mrhenrysdc.com.

Folk

iota Club & Café 2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. (703) 522-8340. Two Ton Twig, The Plank Stompers. 8:30 p.m. $12. iotaclubandcafe.com.

World

bossa bistRo 2463 18th St NW. (202) 667-0088.

Ola Fresca. 9:30 p.m. $5. bossadc.com. An’jahla meets Fasimbas Afrikan Vanguard Sound. 10 p.m. $5. bossadc.com.

2047 9th Street NW located next door to 9:30 club

howaRD theatRe 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Reggaefest vs. Soca with JP, Maga, Tech, Rage. 10 p.m. $20. thehowardtheatre.com.

classical

kenneDy CenteR ConCeRt hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. National Symphony Orchestra:

CITY LIGHTS: Friday

doMinguEs & kanE

The Fringe Music in the Library series has found ways to get all kinds of sounds into D.C.’s MLK Jr. Memorial Library during business hours, including a “turned down” Chain and the Gang.

Not every act is a direct challenge to general tranquility of the setting, though. Take Domingues & Kane, a duo featuring Amy Domingues on viola da gamba (a cello-like instrument with frets that was popular during the Renaissance) and Dennis Kane on various electronic instruments.

They’re fringey in the sense that each has deep roots within D.C.’s underground (from indie rock to the Sonic Circuits scene), but their musical output together is perfectly suited for a noontime show in late spring. Gut + Voltage: Viola da Gamba & Electronics in Synthesis, the duo’s new album, draws equally upon classical instincts and experimental impulses—Domingues plays her stringed instrument with electronic treatments, while Kane’s gear is plugged-in but never gimmicky. When they get pastoral, it’s not stuffy, and when they drone, there’s almost a sweetness to it. Domingues & Kane perform at noon at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW. Free. (202) 727-0321. dclibrary.org. —Joe Warminsky James MacMillan, conductor; Alban Gerhardt, cello. 8 p.m. $15–$89. kennedy-center.org. musiC CenteR at stRathmoRe 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Baltimore Symphony Orchestra: Off the Cuff, Beethoven’s Emperor with John Adams, conductor Jeremy Denk, piano. 8:15 p.m. $45–$99. strathmore.org.

RobeRt e. paRilla peRfoRminG aRts CenteR 51 Mannakee St., Rockville. (240) 567-5301. The Zombies. 8 p.m. $16–$37. montgomerycollege.edu/pac.

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

Fruit Bats, Promise Land Sounds. 8 p.m. $15. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

dJ nights

Funk & r&B

blaCk Cat baCkstaGe 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 6674490. 4U Social with DJs Mate Masie and Sly Wonder.

9 p.m. $5. blackcatdc.com.

biRChmeRe 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Gary Taylor. 7:30 p.m. $35. birchmere.com.

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Discnotheque with DJs Sean Morris and Bill Spieler. 10:30 p.m. $2–$5. dcnine.com.

Gypsy sally’s 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. Runaway Gin, Moogatu. 9 p.m. $15. gypsysallys.com.

maRx Café 3203 Mt. Pleasant St. NW. (202) 5187600. 80s Night. 10 p.m. Free. marxcafemtp.com.

ElEctronic u stReet musiC hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Breakbot, De Lux, Martin Miguel. 10 p.m. $15. ustreetmusichall.com.

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

Lightwaves. 9:30 p.m. Free. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

Jazz

saturday

kenneDy CenteR millennium staGe 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Savannah Harris Trio. 6 p.m.

Free. kennedy-center.org.

rock

9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. The Kills, L.A. Witch. 7 p.m. (Sold out) 930.com. the hamilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. The Weight. 8:30 p.m. $24.75–$33.75. thehamiltondc.com. iota Club & Café 2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington.

(703) 522-8340. Collider, Mitchel Evan and the Mangrove, Milo in the Doldrums, Kid Claws. 8 p.m. $10. iotaclubandcafe.com. meRRiweatheR post pavilion 10475 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia. (410) 715-5550. Sweetlife Festival with The 1975, Halsey, Flume, Grimes, PartyNextDoor, Blondie, Eagles of Death Metal, Mac DeMarco, Thundercat, Vince Staples, Shamir, Wolf Alice, DIIV, and Prinze George. 12 p.m. $100–$150. merriweathermusic.com.

kenneDy CenteR teRRaCe theateR 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. 21st Annual Mary Lou Williams Jazz Festival. 7 p.m. $38–$45. kennedy-center.org. montpelieR aRts CenteR 9652 Muirkirk Road, Laurel. (301) 377-7800. René Marie, vocalist. 5 p.m. $30. arts.pgparks.com. mR. henRy’s 601 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. (202) 5468412. Kim Scudera with Batida Diferente. 8 p.m. Free. mrhenrysdc.com.

World libRaRy of ConGRess thomas JeffeRson builDinG 10 First St. SE. (202) 707-5000. The Pedrito Martinez Group. 9 p.m. Free. loc.gov.

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ClASSICAl HylTon Performing arTs CenTer 10960 George Mason Circle, Manassas. (703) 993-7759. Manassas Symphony Orchestra: Musical Titans. 7:30 p.m. $16–$20. hyltoncenter.org.

Kennedy CenTer ConCerT Hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. National Symphony Orchestra: James MacMillan, conductor; Alban Gerhardt, cello. 8 p.m. $15–$89. kennedy-center.org.

Kennedy CenTer family THeaTer 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. National Symphony Orchestra Kinderclassics: Fancy That!. 11 a.m. & 1:30 p.m. $20. kennedy-center.org.

VOCAl musiC CenTer aT sTraTHmore 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Strathmore Annual Spring Gala with Patina Miller. 9 p.m. $40–$85. strathmore.org.

DJ NIGHTS 9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. MIXTAPE: Alternative Dance Party with DJs Matt Bailer and Shea Van Horn. 11 p.m. $12. 930.com. blaCK CaT 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490.

Depeche Mode Dance Party with DJs Steve EP, Killa K, Krasty McNasty, and Missguided. 9 p.m. $10. blackcatdc.com. blaCK CaT baCKsTage 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 6674490. Fresh to Death with DJ Carrie Nation and DJ Jennder. 9:30 p.m. $5. blackcatdc.com. bossa bisTro 2463 18th St NW. (202) 667-0088. La Nueva Rola with DJ Mezkla. 10 p.m. $5. bossadc.com. marx Café 3203 Mt. Pleasant St. NW. (202) 5187600. Nueva Rock: Modern Latin Rock with DJ Leo. 10 p.m. Free. marxcafemtp.com. roCK & roll HoTel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

MAKETTO By DURKL. 9:30 p.m. Free. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

VelVeT lounge 915 U St. NW. (202) 462-3213.

Escapism. 10 p.m. Free. velvetloungedc.com.

SUNDAY ROCk

bossa bisTro 2463 18th St NW. (202) 667-0088.

Mighty Mystic and the Hard Roots Movement. 9:30 p.m. Free. bossadc.com. dC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Astronautalis, Ceschi and Factor Chandelier. 9 p.m. $14. dcnine.com. eaglebanK arena 4500 Patriot Circle, Fairfax.

(703) 993-3000. The Avett Brothers, Brett Dennen.

7:30 p.m. $39.50–$55. eaglebankarena.com. gyPsy sally’s 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. David Nelson Band, Ten Feet Tall. 8 p.m. $20–$25. gypsysallys.com.

THe HamilTon 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

Horse Feathers, Korey Dane. 7:30 p.m. $15–$29.50. thehamiltondc.com. merriweaTHer PosT PaVilion 10475 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia. (410) 715-5550. Cage The Elephant, Portugal. The Man, Broncho. 7 p.m. $29.50– $45. merriweathermusic.com. roCK & roll HoTel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

VÉRITÉ, Lostboycrow. 8 p.m. $14. rockandrollhoteldc. com.

HIp-HOp

Howard THeaTre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Curren$y. 8 p.m. $32.50–$67.50. thehowardtheatre. com.

ClASSICAl

george mason uniVersiTy CenTer for THe arTs 4373 Mason Pond Drive, Fairfax. (888) 9452468. Northern Virginia Music Teachers Association Sonata Festival. 9 a.m. Free. cfa.gmu.edu. musiC CenTer aT sTraTHmore 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Baltimore Symphony Orchestra: Beethoven’s Emperor with John Adams, conductor, Jeremy Denk, piano. 3 p.m. $35–$99. strathmore.org. naTional gallery of arT 4th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. (202) 737-4215. Ariel Quartet with Alon Goldstein, piano. 3:30 p.m. Free. nga.gov.

PHilliPs ColleCTion 1600 21st St. NW. (202) 3872151. US Navy Band Sea Chanters Chorus and Quarterdeck Consort. 4 p.m. Free. phillipscollection.org.

Stage Door w/Mike Dawes

June 1

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Howard THeaTre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Chuck Brown Band, Sugar Bear and EU, Junk Yard Band. 8 p.m. $25–$50. thehowardtheatre.com.

Midnight PETER WOLF & The Travelers YAHZARAH Purple Reign A Tribute to the Music and Life of Prince

CITY LIGHTS: SATURDAY

ROAMFEST 2016 7pm Solo 9 JOSHUA RADIN Acoustic 10 THE DAN BAND 11 SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY & THE ASBURY JUKES W/Gary Douglas Band 3&4

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ANGIE STONE 10,000 MANIACS

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“OUR VIEW FROM HERE”

If the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden cared about practicality in interior design, it never would have tapped D.C.-based artist Linn Meyers to liven up its walls. But of course it’s an art museum, so having Meyers fill 400 curving feet of gallery walls with hand-drawn marker lines is to be expected. Meyers’ painstaking creations have beguiled locals (including me) for the better part of two decades, offering not only mesmerizing visuals but also mind-bending questions about how she could have mustered the stamina to produce such works. Typically, Meyers draws roughly parallel lines, embracing the energy and inevitable human imperfections that send those parallels off-kilter. On such an enormous canvas, the largest one Meyers has ever worked on, the imperfections can become substantial. The emotional climax of “Our View From Here” will come at the end of its year-long run, when, like a Tibetan sand painting, it will be destroyed, covered by white paint. The exhibition is on view daily, 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., to May 14, 2017, at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 7th Street and Independence Avenue SW. Free. (202) 633-4674. hirshhorn.si.edu.

—Louis Jacobson

Vocal

Birchmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Sweet Honey in the Rock. 7:30 p.m. $39.50. birchmere.com.

Kennedy center concert hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Some Enchanted Evening: The Music of Rodgers and Hammerstein and the American Songbook with Renée Fleming and Norm Lewis.

8 p.m. $29–$94. kennedy-center.org.

Washington national cathedral 3101 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 537-6200. Cathedral Choral Society: Fantastic Beethoven. 4 p.m. $25–$77. nationalcathedral.org.

Monday Rock

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

BlacK cat BacKstage 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 6674490. Big Black Delta, Sego. 7:30 p.m. $15. blackcatdc.com. dc9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Arbor Labor Union, Hytension. 9 p.m. $12. dcnine.com. rocK & roll hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

Lany, Odessa. 8 p.m. (Sold out) rockandrollhoteldc.com.

classical

Kennedy center millennium stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Columbia Heights Educational Campus Bands and Orchestras. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

Tuesday Rock

9:30 cluB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Say Anything, mewithoutYou, Teen Suicide, Museum Mouth. 7 p.m. $20. 930.com.

BlacK cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Rogue Wave, Hey Marsailles. 7:30 p.m. $16–$19. blackcatdc.com.

Funk & R&B

dc9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Gemaine. 9 p.m. $15. dcnine.com.

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u street music hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

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sWeeT Honey in THe Rock

D.C. female vocal ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock formed in 1973 and has built its reputation on empowering acapella renditions of gospel, soul, and political numbers mixed with poetry.

Although well-known founding member Bernice Johnson Reagon has retired, two original participants, Carol Maillard and Louise Robinson, are still harmonizing with newer participants on #LoveinEvolution, the group’s first studio album in nine years. The effort also features rare bits of instrumentation: On the short but potent “Second Line Blues,” a snare drum and low-end acoustic bass accompany the mournful reading of names of violence victims, including Freddie Gray, Tamir Rice, and the children of Sandy Hook Elementary School. Although the album contains some awkwardly recited spoken passages, other songs show off the beauty and deep emotions of Sweet Honey’s vocals and the vital message of their lyrics. “Oh Sankofa” uses call-andresponse exchanges to tell the story of the 1921 firebombing of a Tulsa, Okla. neighborhood by racist whites, while on “Wholy Holy,” a Marvin Gaye number, the women stretch syllables on his prayer of love and devotion. Sweet Honey in the Rock performs at 7:30 p.m. at The Birchmere, 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria. $39.50. (703) 549-7500. birchmere.com.

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What happens in Elsinore Castle after everyone dies at the end of Hamlet? The last time we see our hero in William Shakespeare’s tragedy, he’s passing off his crown to a Norwegian prince and begging his friend Horatio to stay alive and tell his story. Playwright Lee Blessing’s 1991 farce Fortinbras imagines the transfer of power as a comedy of sorts. Fortinbras solidifies his power by lying to his constituents but creepy goingson continue to pose a bit of a challenge. He is, after all, living in a mansion where multiple people were poisoned and murdered in a matter of hours, so ghosts certainly make their presence known. Presented as part of Shakespeare Theatre Company’s ReDiscovery series, Blessing’s play gets a professional reading that will encourage viewers to examine how Shakespeare’s centuries-old themes remain relevant in contemporary times. Whether it’s the consolidation of political capital, moving past tragedy, or the consequences of our dreams, these ideas make a lesser known play just as thought provoking as its infamous source material. The reading begins at 7:30 p.m. at the Lansburgh Theatre, 450 7th St. NW. Free; reservations required. (202) 547-1122. shakespearetheatre.org.

—Caroline Jones

CITY LIGHTS: TUESDAY

TEEN SUICIDE

A band named Teen Suicide probably seems like a flippant joke to moms and dads, a PR nightmare for record companies, and a tooreal reminder of sadness for confused adolescents. But the Maryland group—fronted by Sam Ray, who also records as ambient artist Ricky Eat Acid—isn’t trying to appeal to or piss off any of those groups. Rather, Teen Suicide is the indie rock equivalent of Norm MacDonald, a comedian who dwelled in that weird, impenetrable place between irony and sincerity. The experience of listening to the band’s new record It’s the Big Joyous Celebration, Let’s Stir the Honeypot, a sprawling, 26-song release that touches upon ’90s emo, folk, country, and black metal, feels like watching MacDonald in peak “Weekend Update” form, when he was rebuffing cue cards and baring his nihilistic soul.

There are songs about the pain of losing love (“It’s Just A Pop Song”) and doing drugs (“Alex”), but there are also songs that drolly skewer music trends (“Pavement”) and declare things like “depression is a construct.” For someone looking for music to soundtrack their sorrows, this won’t quite to do the trick. But it definitely is music that gives its listener the chance to laugh at the absurdity of what it means to feel sorrowful in the first place. Teen Suicide performs with Say Anything, Mewithoutyou, and Museum Mouth at 7 p.m. at 9:30 Club, 815 V St. NW. $20. (202) 2650930. 930.com.

—Dean Essner

9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Explosions in the Sky, Disappears. 7 p.m. (Sold out) 930.com. blaCk Cat baCkstage 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 6674490. Turtle Recall, Bells and Hunters, Derek Evry.

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

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Gwenno, The Galaxy Electric. 9 p.m. $12. dcnine.com.

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

Twin Peaks, Ne-Hi, Jimmy Whispers. 8 p.m. $13. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

FUNk & r&B HowaRD tHeatRe 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

The Foreign Exchange. 8 p.m. $25–$30. thehowardtheatre.com.

JAzz biRCHmeRe 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Ottmar Liebert. 7:30 p.m. $35. birchmere.com. mansion at stRatHmoRe 10701 Rockville Pike, North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Todd Marcus Quintet.

7:30 p.m. $30. strathmore.org.

CoUNTrY gypsy sally’s 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. Hackensaw Boys, Herb & Hanson. 9 p.m. $15–$20. gypsysallys.com. tHe Hamilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, The Cactus Blossoms. 7:30 p.m. $34.75–$58.25. thehamiltondc.com. meRRiweatHeR post pavilion 10475 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia. (410) 715-5550. Kenny Chesney. 7:30 p.m. $50–$691.50. merriweathermusic.com. mR. HenRy’s 601 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. (202) 5468412. By & By. 8 p.m. Free. mrhenrysdc.com.

WorlD bossa bistRo 2463 18th St NW. (202) 667-0088.

Kino Musica. 9:30 p.m. $8. bossadc.com.

hIp-hop u stReet musiC Hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Mykki Blanco. 7 p.m. $15. ustreetmusichall.com.

ClASSICAl kenneDy CenteR millennium stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. NSO Youth Fellows. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

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atHenaeum 201 Prince St., Alexandria. (703) 5480035. nvfaa.org. Ongoing: “The Gap.” Judith Seligson presents a wide variety of works, including hardedged oil paintings, digital prints, and text collages.

April 28–June 12. bRentwooD aRts exCHange 3901 Rhode Island Ave., Brentwood. (301) 277-2863. arts.pgparks.com.

Ongoing: “The ‘Late’ Style.” University of Maryland students work with Brentwood Arts Exchange staff to create this exhibition featuring work by senior artists who come to art late in life. March 28–May 28.

FlasHpoint galleRy 916 G St. NW. (202) 3151305. culturaldc.org. Ongoing: “Try and Try Again.”

This sculptural installation by artist Brian Davis turns Flashpoint’s gallery into a self-contained world that includes projections of skyscrapers and structures that react to human intervention. May 7–June 4.

HempHill 1515 14th St. NW. (202) 234-5601. hemphillfinearts.com. Opening: “Language of the Birds.”

Artist Julie Wolfe presents a variety of new works, including examinations of human behavior patterns and how birds interact and communicate, at her third Hemphill exhibition. May 14–June 30.

HonFleuR galleRy 1241 Good Hope Road SE. (202) 365-8392. honfleurgallery.com. Closing: “French Doors.” Artist and educator Aziza Claudia GibsonHunter combines Parisian architecture with West African prints in her large mixed-media works. March 25–May 13. long view galleRy 1234 9th St. NW. (202) 2324788. longviewgallerydc.com. Ongoing: “Gian Garofalo.” The artist, who frequently showcases his work at Long View, creates striped works by dripping resin across canvases and boxes. April 28–May 29. montpelieR aRts CenteR 9652 Muirkirk Road, Laurel. (301) 377-7800. arts.pgparks.com. Ongoing: “Less Is More.” Artist Judith Kornett presents a series of sculptures that focus on themes of peacefulness and anti-violence. April 30–May 22. moRton Fine aRt 1781 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 6282787. mortonfineart.com. Opening: “William Mackinnon.” The Australian artist displays a new series of landscape paintings. May 13–June 2. taRget galleRy at toRpeDo FaCtoRy 105 N. Union St., Alexandria. (703) 838-4565. torpedofactory.org. Ongoing: “Always Into Now.” Artist Lisa Kellner presents a painting that takes over the entire gallery and immerses the viewer in the experience. April 16–May 29.

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Transformer Gallery 1404 P St. NW. (202) 4831102. transformerdc.org. Opening: “Gift Shop.” D.C.based artist collaborative NoMüNoMü presents this large scale installation, meant to mimic a museum gift shop, that comments on the commercialization of art and object. May 14–June 18.

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WashinGTon PrinTmakers Gallery 1641 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 669-1497. washingtonprintmakers.com. Ongoing: “Natural Connection.” Artists Gabriel Jules and Nina Muys display prints inspired by the wildlife and plants they see from their waterfront homes. April 27–May 28.

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(202) 347-4833. fords.org. an american dauGhTer Keegan Theatre presents the D.C. area premiere of Wendy Wasserstein’s drama about a doctor whose sudden appointment to a Cabinet position unleashes a series of scandals that she has to reckon with. Keegan Theatre at Church Street

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Bakersfield misT A poor bartender buys a painting that just might be a lost Jackson Pollack in this lively comedy from author Stephen Sacks. Her fate resides with a curator who must authenticate the work and determine whether Maude is living with a treasure or an imitation. Olney Theatre Center. 2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney. To June 12. $22–$65.

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Black Pearl sinGs American folk songs and spirituals are put to use in this play set in Depression-era Texas, about two women whose love of music draws them together during difficult times. MetroStage.

1201 N. Royal St., Alexandria. To May 29. $55–$60.

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The Body of an american A war reporter and a playwright, both haunted by their pasts, form a friendship that takes them around the world in this new play by Dan O’Brien, who based the drama on his own relationship with friend Paul Watson. Theater J. 1529 16th St. NW. To May 29. $27–$67. (202) 777-3210. theaterj.org. disGraced Ayad Akhtar’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama considers the consequences of the American dream from the perspective of Amir, a South Asian immigrant who fears that his lavish lifestyle has alienated him from his roots. Arena Stage. 1101 6th St. SW. To May 29. $40–$110. (202) 488-3300. arenastage.org.

The elecTric BaBy Rorschach Theater presents Stefanie Zadravec’s spooky thriller about a woman who kills a young man and finds herself haunted by a series of lost souls and spirits that gather around and illuminate a young child. Directed by Randy Baker, this production explores how strange beginnings can lead us on unexpected paths. Atlas Performing Arts Center. 1333 H St. NE. To May 15. $15–$30. (202) 3997993. atlasarts.org.

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There’s nothing quite like footwork, a frenetic mix of skittering, stuttering beats and slicedup samples that emerged from the Chicago underground in the late 2000s. Seemingly able to change heart rhythms and brain wave patterns, footwork soon captured the attention of electronic music apostles around the world. But despite its global reach, the most captivating producer in the footwork scene is from a city less than an hour away from its Chicago birthplace, Gary, Ind. Jlin, born Jerrilynne Patton, started making footwork in 2008 without ever having attending a footwork dance night, and her music is unbound from the scene’s young traditions. She eventually caught the attention of influential English label Planet Mu, which released her hypnotic Dark Energy debut album and boundary-pushing Free Fall EP last year. The latter includes a statement of purpose in “I Am The Queen” as drums rumble, sirens blare, and an untethered voice shouts the title phrase. It’s a boast, but an accurate one for a young woman who, in just a few years, went from working in a steel mill to redefining a new sound. JLin performs with Tripletrain, Native Sun, and Lush at 10 p.m. at U Street Music Hall, 1115 U St. NW. $10. (202) 588-1889. ustreetmusichall.com.

—Chris Kelly

Happy Hour Spooky Action and German theater collective machina eX present this video game production in which audience members control the action. Two teams of players must help their counterparts escape from an evildoer using only the tools they can find before time runs out. Spooky Action Theater. 1810 16th St. NW. To June 5. $20–$40. (202) 248-0301. spookyaction.org.

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Hedda Gabler Mark O’Rowe presents a contemporary adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s classic play about a woman who returns from her honeymoon and is devastated by the banality of married life. Studio Theatre. 1501 14th St. NW. To June 19. $20–$86. (202) 3323300. studiotheatre.org.

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Journey to tHe West Mary Zimmerman’s take on this ancient Chinese legend about a monk on the search for sacred scriptures is both mystical and dreamy, as presented by Constellation Theatre. Constellation Theatre at Source. 1835 14th St. NW. To May 22. $20–$45. (202) 204-7741. constellationtheatre.org. a lesson from aloes Laura Giannarelli directs this acclaimed drama by Athol Fugard about three civil rights activists whose work has driven them apart. The arrival of another friend, a black man who is imprisoned for his work, forces all the characters to confront their failures and the realities of the nation in which they live. Quotidian Theatre Company at The Writer’s Center. 4508 Walsh St., Bethesda. To May 29. $15–$30. (301) 816-1023. quotidiantheatre.org. tHe man in tHe iron mask In this follow-up to The Three Musketeers, D’Artagnan continues to serve King Louis XIV, only to be interrupted by his former comrades who rescue his twin brother from the Bastille. Synetic’s production features more swashbuckling fun and pageantry. Synetic Theater at Crystal City. 1800 South Bell St., Arlington. To June 19. $15–$60. (866) 811-4111. synetictheater.org. tHe taminG of tHe sHreW The complex relationship between Kate and Petruchio is explored in this new production of Shakespeare’s comedy, in which director Ed Sylvanus Iskandar blurs gender roles and examines identities. Sidney Harman Hall. 610 F St. NW. To June 26. $20–$108. (202) 547-1122. shakespearetheatre.org.

WHen January feels like summer Mosaic Theater Company presents this urban comedy by Cori Thomas about romance, heroism, gender identity, and immigration. While the original script sets the action in Harlem, director Serge Seiden moves his play to D.C.’s Anacostia and H Street NE neighborhoods. Atlas Performing Arts Center. 1333 H St. NE. To June 12. $20–$60. (202) 399-7993. atlasarts.org. tHe Wizard of oz Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice contribute several new songs to this production

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With masterfully composed songs and a deep love of her culture, Saunders not only warns of, but actively combats, cookie-cutter molds.

Gwenno performs with The Galaxy Electric at 9 p.m. at DC9, 1940 9th St. NW. $12. (202) 4835000. dcnine.com.

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