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INSIDE

18 the summerguide Outdoor drinking, bike escapes, swimming holes, and more

4 Chatter DistriCt Line

7 Loose Lips: Jack Evans and his latest ethical land mine 10 Unobstructed View 12 Buy D.C. 13 Gear Prudence 14 Savage Love 16 Straight Dope

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31 Young & Hungry: Have D.C.’s restaurant themes gone too far?

34 Grazer: Sauce-O-Meter 34 Underserved: Archipelago’s The Retired Stripper 34 Are You Gonna Eat That?

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37 Curtain Calls: Croghan on Theater J’s The Body of An American, Zilberman on Arena Stage’s Disgraced, and Klimek on Spooky Action Theater’s Happy Hour 40 Arts Desk: Ranking the legacy acts coming to D.C. this summer 40 One Track Mind: West on the DC Improvisers Collective’s “Dark Matter Denial” 42 Short Subjects: Zilberman on Love & Friendship, Olszewski on Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe, and Gittel on The Nice Guys

46 Galleries: GW lays off more than half of Corcoran school’s faculty

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49 City Lights: Writer Bill Beverly and local indie quartet Soccer Team headline a resurrected Story/Stereo.

49 Music 58 Books 58 Galleries 59 Dance 59 Theater 60 Film

61 CLassiFieDs Diversions 62 Dirt Farm 63 Crossword

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Tomorrow’s History Today: This was the week that the Council pushed through its own multi-ward plan for family homeless shelters to replace D.C. General.

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By Will Sommer One name sums up the ethical landmines that come with councilmembers having side jobs: Jack Evans.

Evans, Ward 2’s councilmember, is also the city’s longest serving D.C. Council rep. He has long supplemented his Council salary—totalling more than $130,000 a year—with outside work. Now, new documents obtained by LL through the Freedom of Information Act show the thorny ethical lines Evans has to navigate with his side job.

In his last gig, Evans’ longtime six-figure job at law firm Patton Boggs didn’t create many ethical issues, since the firm didn’t represent lobbying clients in the District.

Evans’ new side job, on the other hand, makes a parody of his claim that he’s only representing his Ward 2 constituents. After leaving Patton Boggs, Evans has now signed on with Manatt, Phelps, & Phillips—the same law firm that is home to top lobbyists who regularly sweat city officials.

Evans’ work at Manatt puts him in meetings with John Ray, the former at-large councilmember who has remade himself into one of the Wilson Building’s most prominent lobbyists.

When LL originally reported the relationship between Evans and Ray back in March, Evans’ office said the relationship was vetted by the Council’s attorneys and the city Board of Ethics and Government Accountability.

Ray carries a lot of influence in the District.

His clients include now-merged power heavies Pepco and Exelon, as well as District gas baron Joe Mamo. He’s connected enough elsewhere in the Council that he can pitch AtLarge Councilmember Vincent Orange on what questions he wants asked at hearings.

Evans might not even have his new side job were it not for help from Ray, who was long involved with Evans’ consideration at Manatt, according to Evans’ Council calendar.

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On July 13, 2015, for example, Evans and Ray had breakfast at the Hay-Adams hotel to “discuss Manatt.” Two days later, they met again, this time with Manatt partner Doug Boggs.

In September 2015, Ray and Evans video-conferenced in Manatt’s offices with another partner in the firm.

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Evans joined Manatt in October 2015, but his contacts with the company’s clients continued long after that. There were photo shoots and orientation dinners. Evans started attending fundraisers at Manatt’s office—including for people like Attorney General Karl Racine and Ward 4 Councilmember Brandon Todd.

Now Manatt has inextricably connected Ray with Evans. Thanks to the rule that allows councilmembers to work for outside interests—even ones that seek to influence the city—Evans could be up to anything. And even if he’s not, he simply can’t avoid the appearance of it.

With Ray, Evans has met with multiple prominent developers, including convicted real estate fraudster Scott Nordheimer. While it’s impossible to know for sure the machinations in and around Manatt, Evans’ job there potentially offers businessmen access to Evans that his own voters don’t have.

Consider Evans’ Jan. 12 meeting with Ray, where the calendar notice includes “re: tony cheng.” That would be the same restaurateur and major Chinatown muckety-muck Tony Cheng who took a felony charge in 2014 as part of his role in a taxicab scheme.

It doesn’t stop there. Evans’ calendar includes a Jan. 22 meeting with a representative for Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development Brian Kenner at Cafe Milano, a restaurant so chic Iranians once planned to kill the Saudi ambassador by blowing it up.

Then there’s Evans’ meeting with Ray and gas station mogul Hamood Abutaa “re: inspection stations.”

If there’s anything nefarious there, we might never know. Perhaps it was part of Evans’ side job. Ditto his multiple meetings in March with Ray, who appears to have gained far more access to Evans than he ever had before Evans worked for his firm.

It’s enough to make LL pity Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton. When Evans and Ray walked into her office on April 6, what was she thinking?

Was Evans acting as a councilmember— or as a co-worker of one of the District’s most powerful lobbyist?

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Max Scherzer threw 20 strikeouts for the Nats, a feat rarer than a no-hitter or even a perfect game. Then he did something that’s as typical in D.C. sports as an early-round playoff collapse: He gave a note-perfect quote that wound up on a T-shirt almost immediately.

D.C. athletes may not have won many championships in the last couple of decades, but they’ve been an absolutely stellar source of quotes that were funny, memorable, or downright bizarre.

The quote—“The strikeouts are sexy, and that just makes it special, and the 20 really puts a stamp on it”— was shortened to “Strikeouts are Sexy,” with 20 Ks in the first word. What struck me was that this shirt is the latest that’s an authentic licensed product, marketed and sold by the team, because for so long these kinds of things were the unlicensed product of bloggers or designers or just fans who seized hold of a particular saying. (A familiar, significant quote or saying, put on a shirt in team colors, is a nice workaround for people who can’t afford to license the official name or team marks.)

This has become such a routine part of local sports culture, in other words, that the slightly outsiderish tradition has now been firmly and completely co-opted by the mainstream.

Which is, as such moments always are, simultaneously kinda cool and kinda sad. That mix of feelings triggered its usual rush of nostalgia, and I decided it was time to put together a list of the top pithy sayings generated by D.C. sports teams.

I worked up an initial list, asked a few sportsminded friends to throw in any that I’d missed, and then imposed my own not-at-all arbitrary ranking scale on them.

And there were a lot—luminaries such as “Portis pockets straight,” “Eat somebody’s face,” “My swag was phenomenal,” “There is no wrong pipe,” “Stay medium,” “Maroon and black,” and all of Robert Griffin III’s grimin-hindsight sloganeering were all relegated to the category of Others Receiving Votes. (In fairness, I also completely forgot about Kirk Cousins’ “You like that?!” because, divorced from the video, it’s tremendously dull.)

After all my complicated calculations, here are the top five: 5) “Hibachi!” It’s hard to remember from here, but Gilbert Arenas was once a local hero,

and his goofy catchphrase was part of the reason why. Arenas said a lot of memorable things, but none of them were quite as evocative as this lightweight portable grill.

4) “Russian machine never breaks.”

Alex Ovechkin had only been in town for a year when he dropped this badass Ivan Drago–esque bon mot, shrugging off an injury and naming one of the best local hockey blogs in the process.

3) “I called game.” Paul Pierce’s ice-cold declaration after hitting a walk-off buzzer beater in a playoff game would be even more memorable (and might even be number one on this list) if the Wizards hadn’t gone on to lose the next three games, eliminating them from the playoffs.

2) “DAGGER!!!” The best quotes on a list like this transcend T-shirts and blog names and become their own iconic thing. I say “dagger” so frequently in day-to-day conversation, in so many unrelated situations, that even coworkers who have never heard Steve Buckhantz call a game know what it means.

1) “That’s a clown question, bro.” Bryce Harper was just 19 when he casually dropped this retort on a hapless Canadian reporter who had asked some dumb question about if Harper—who is Mormon and famously doesn’t drink—would be drinking beer in Canada, and I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a non-scripted line take hold in quite the same way. I texted a friend that night, back in 2012, that we’d be hearing people say this until the heat-death of the universe, and nothing that’s happened in the four years since has convinced me otherwise. The phrase is still making news—White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest broke it out in a 2015 briefing, while statcentric blog Five Thirty Eight used it in a Harper-related headline just last month. Memorable, usable in a day-to-day context, and with mainstream staying power, this is a no-brainer to top off this list.

One day, one of the local teams will finally win another championship, and when that happens some player will say something both clever and triumphant that will wind up on thousands of T-shirts inside of two hours. But until that happens… well, at least we’ve got clever.

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When the light turns green, they’re not looking up and don’t go. Should I pull around? Or should I wait for them to finally notice and go?

—Quite Upset Electronics Users Encamp Dear QUEUE: GP admires your commitment to your principles, but you needn’t dwell too much on whether it is a violation of etiquette if you were to pass. It’s totally fine, because looking down at your phone when the light turns green voids the underlying social contract of first-come, firstgo. True, it’s far better and far safer to check for a text or reply to an email when stopped at a red light than while on the move, but anyone who does so needs to be mindful that their place in queue is preserved only so far as their attentiveness maintains it. If you must, you could say “excuse me” or clear your throat, but realistically, the path of lesser resistance is the one that takes you around the occupied cyclist. And if you’re inclined to check your phone at red lights, please be aware that these lights turn green eventually and you shouldn’t expect endless patience from your fellow cyclists.

—GP Gear Prudence: I’ve been bike commuting the same route for the past year and I keep running into this guy, who I happen to find very attractive. However, I’m very shy and our relationship right now solely consists of the two seconds of passing each other on 15th Street each day. How do I turn this into something more? —Longingly Ogling, Very Eager Dear LOVE: What if you and the would-be love of your life have only been kept apart this whole time from the lack of good fortune to be riding in the same direction? And instead of making flirty eyes as you pull up alongside at a red light, you’ve been condemned to forever pass each other without uttering a word? Orpheus and Eurydice, Abelard and Heloise, you and “bike guy who rides in the other direction”—these are the deeply compelling tragedies of love doomed by fate. But how can you escape?

Crash into him. Just go full speed ahead, swerve, and take him out. You can see how he handles it. Is he kind? Will he be understanding? While you’re waiting for the ambulance, use the time to get to know each other. Share contact and insurance info. (GP sees no way in which this doesn’t lead to everlasting love.) Or conversely, you can pull a quick U-turn and try to chat at the next red light. It’s kind of a long shot, but chatting is definitely less disruptive than crashing.

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SAVAGELOVE Over the years, I have consumed what I believe to be an average amount of porn for a 44-yearold hetero guy. I have never paid for it, and I am now facing a troubled conscience for that fact. I could obviously just subscribe to some site or other now, but that would benefit only one company and/or set of performers. Is there a Dan Savage– approved charity relating to the adult film industry to which I could donate? —Seeks Penance And Needs Knowledge

“Porn performers almost never get royalties for their scenes when they work for big studios,” said Conner Habib, a writer, activist, and porn performer. “If you buy into the trickle-down theory of things, then more money for the studio should mean more money for the performers. If you don’t buy into that—and not everyone does—there are other options.”

To get your money directly to the performers whose work you’re currently enjoying/ stealing, SPANK, you can patronize smaller studios run by performers, book time with independent webcam models, and purchase porn created by performers on sites like Clips4Sale.com.

To atone for your years of freeloading, SPANK, you can and should make large donations to two organizations.

“The Adult Performer Advocacy Committee (APAC) (apac-usa.com) is the largest performer-based organization in the world, and its membership is made up entirely of performers,” said Habib. “Full disclosure: I’m the vice president, but no donation money goes to me or any board member. It all goes to the organization, which works to improve the working conditions, quality of life, and safety of performers, as well as to fight antiporn laws and stigma.”

Habib also recommended donating money to the Sex Workers Outreach Project (swopusa.org).

“This isn’t a porn-specific organization,” said Habib, “but it works to protect and fight for the rights of all sex workers. Since many performers are doing other forms of sex work, donations go a long way to help porn performers.”

Habib will be hosting an online lecture/ seminar about the upside of porn on Sunday, June 5. His talk is titled “Pornworld: Why Pornography Is a Healthy Part of Our Culture,” and you can find out more about it by searching “pornworld” at Eventbrite.com. You can— and you should—follow Habib on Twitter @ConnerHabib.

—Dan Savage I didn’t talk to my nearly-70-year-old dad for most of my 20s. Now that I’m back trying to maintain relationships with my parents, I am struggling. My dad is the king of the overshare.

He makes creepy comments about women who

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are about 30 to 40 years younger than him—including women who were kids when he met them but are now grown-ups. Not something I want to hear. I don’t think he is abusing anyone, just being creepy, but I desperately want him to stop with the inappropriate comments. He makes about one creepy comment per phone conversation. If he were a person at work, I would be able to stand up for myself and say, “That is not appropriate.”

But when he says creepy stuff, Dan, I’m a deer in the headlights. I go silent, it’s awkward, and I keep hoping he’ll understand how weird he’s being. I would say something, but bringing up things that anger me causes him to act overly sorry, and that routine is annoying too. I asked my mom (they divorced a long time ago), and she had no suggestions. She was just like, yeah, he’s like that. Any suggestions on what to say? —Seeking Help Regarding Unpleasant Guy “Dad! It creeps me out when you make comments about women you wanna fuck. I realize you’re a sexual person, and I honor that, and blah de blah blah blah. But these are thoughts you share with friends, Dad, not with your adult children. There’s no need to go into your oh-so-sorry routine, Dad, we just need to change the subject.”

—Dan My husband and I have been married for 16 years. We have been polyamorous for the last five years. We are a bit mismatched sexually in many ways. Polyamory was our solution. For much of this time, my husband had a girlfriend.

“Dad! It creeps me out when you make comments about women you wanna fuck.”

Before I go on, let me say that I adore my husband in all ways except sex. We are raising a child together and are a good fit otherwise. I no longer have any desire to have sex with my husband.

Lots of men and women write in to complain about their partner’s low libido. This is not the case. My libido is fine. I just don’t want to have sex with my husband. Whenever we would have sex in the past, I would get anxious and try to avoid it. We each have our issues. He feels insecure and has trouble maintaining erections. I al-

ways felt desexualized—not by him, but when I was younger. Being a poly woman dating in my 40s has been incredibly empowering and sexy.

But my husband’s experiences have been different. He is frustrated because it is hard for him to meet women, and his frustration is made worse by the fact that I don’t want sex with him either.

When he had a girlfriend, our sex life wasn’t as much of an issue. What should I do? He’s unhappy. I’m frustrated. Neither of us wants to divorce.

Should I force myself?

—Lady In Baltimore Isn’t Desiring Obligatory Sex

It is a truth universally acknowledged—in the poly universe anyway—that a married poly woman will have an easier time finding sex partners than a married poly man. Some men in open/poly relationships present themselves as dishonest cheaters rather than honest nonmonogamists because women would rather fuck a married man who’s cheating on his wife than a married man who isn’t cheating on his wife.

Go figure.

Anyway, LIBIDOS, the answer to your question—should you force yourself to fuck your husband?—depends on your answer to this question: How badly do you want to avoid divorce? Because if your husband can’t or won’t pretend to be cheating, LIBIDOS, and if women won’t fuck him because he’s in an open marriage, your refusal to fuck him could wind up incentivizing divorce.

So to save your marriage, LIBIDOS, you might wanna fuck your husband once in a while. Forcing yourself to fuck someone is tiresome and dispiriting, I realize, but you can always close your eyes and think about someone you’d rather be fucking—a time-tested stratagem employed successfully by millions of people in loving, stable, and sexually enervating/ dead marriages.

And since you’re off the hook when your husband has a girlfriend, LIBIDOS, you might wanna do everything you can to help him find a new one—a stratagem employed by tens of thousands of women in poly relationships. You don’t want your husband stewing alone at home while you’re out fucking your boyfriend(s), LIBIDOS, because that ups the odds of your resentful/unfucked husband asking you to close up your relationship again or asking you for a divorce. So help him craft messages to women he contacts online, go to play parties and poly mixers with him, and vouch for him to women he’s interested in.

But between girlfriends, LIBIDOS, you’ll probably wanna fuck him once in a while.

Lube for you, Viagra for him, pot for you both.

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I had a friend recently try to explain to me that the Rothschild family secretly own almost every central bank in the world and use their power to influence world events. I know the Bank of England, for instance, was nationalized after World War II, so this sounds to me like another crackpot conspiracy theory. What’s the Straight Dope?

—Jim Moore

A textbook crackpot theory, sure, but with a dash of anti-Semitism to liven things up: what your friend has seized on is basically the urmyth of the whole Jews-control-banking routine. And it’s far from the only slander that’s been heaped upon the house of Rothschild.

They’ve also been linked to that missing Malaysian airliner, the 9/11 attacks, and the sinking of the Titanic—the premise here being that its passengers included Benjamin Guggenheim, Isidor Straus, and John Jacob Astor, three rich guys who opposed the creation of the Federal Reserve and therefore (it’s important not to think too hard on this one) stood in the Rothschilds’ path to world economic domination.

I’ll allow there’s a certain romance associated with the barons Rothschild, who have been nearby for a lot of significant historic events; a familial tendency toward secrecy has perhaps enhanced the mystique. The family business got going in the late 1700s in Frankfurt, where one Mayer Amschel Rothschild progressed from dealing coins and antiques to providing financial services for local powerbrokers, most notably Crown Prince Wilhelm of Hesse-Kassel. In short order Mayer dispatched his sons to the great cities of Europe—London, Paris, Vienna, Naples—where they set up shop. This being a time of some political upheaval, the Rothschilds found great success lending money to the various governments of Europe, who needed the bread to fund their unending wars with one another.

Which brings us to one pernicious myth about the family: that they made their fortunes speculating on the outcome of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. The story, which circulated Europe in an 1846 pamphlet, went that Nathan Rothschild, the son stationed in London, observed the battle’s outcome and rushed back to England to exploit this knowledge on the stock exchange a full 24 hours before news of Napoleon’s defeat reached the British government. It’s a good yarn if you’re trying to paint a picture of an amoral, calculating greedhead, and it made its way into literature and film. Alas: it’s not true. Nathan wasn’t at Waterloo, and he didn’t clean up in the market immediately following. Still, we’d be remiss not to acknowledge that while the Rothschilds weren’t running around Europe acting like anti-Semitic stereotypes made flesh, their burgeoning wealth and influence was no tall tale—that the family ac-

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tually did provide key funds to the British army and allies in 1814-’15 indicates its ascendant role in European geopolitics at the time. So, I suppose, does another conspiracist claim wherein Nathan financed both sides at Waterloo, coolly playing one off the other.

A further bit of Rothschild apocrypha you may come across is a juicy quote also attributed to Nathan: “I care not what puppet is placed upon the throne of England. . . . The man who controls Britain’s money supply controls the British Empire, and I control the British money supply.” This line appears in none of the major books on the family, and where it does turn up—the most credible venue being a 2004 article in the British journal the Independent—I haven’t yet found it linked to any actual citation. Still, it packs a punch, huh?

Exactly the sort of thing you’d expect from a key player in the international Jewish conspiracy.

As to the notion of the Rothschilds owning the central banks, the Anti-Defamation League points out that this Jewish-control-of-the-Fed stuff is pretty much the oldest anti-Semitic story in the book, but one that our modern age of economic anxiety has brought back to the surface—the fact that the international banking system actually is a byzantine mystery that seems to function mostly to make rich jerks richer makes it easy for some to see the nefarious hand of conspiracy behind it. The ADL cites, specifically, the Rothschilds: “In the literature of bigots, the name Rothschild is a trigger for the most explosive of anti-Semitic tremors,” both among your neo-Nazi types and your more extreme Nation of Islam types. Nice to see these guys agree on something.

Where are the Rothschilds today? Now in its seventh generation, their European banking business remains intact. By design, nobody really knows how much the family is worth. As the Financial Times has put it, “The family empire is divided among a web of descendants and a few external shareholders. The ownership structure is opaque, which makes it hard to estimate the family wealth, although it is one of the richest in the world.” That 2004 Independent piece cites “industry insiders” estimating the Rothschild kitty as countable “not in billions but in trillions.”

So basically the family continues to do what it’s always done best, which is to make money hand over fist, and that’s probably the long and short of it. Greed’s a pretty ecumenical value.

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Your guide to summer in the city Garden District

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If you’re reading this, you may find it hard to believe that summer is coming. Near-constant rain and chilly temperatures in the past month essentially wiped out spring, leaving most Washingtonians wondering if they’d ever see the sun again. The sun is coming, I promise you that. And with it: long and sticky humid days, coupled with balmy, beautiful nights—plus more rain, probably. Still, no matter what the weather’s like, D.C. in the summer is a special time, and you’ll want to take advantage of it. That’s where this guide comes in handy: There’s an enormous wealth of things that summertime in the D.C. area has to offer—from neighborhood street festivals like Capital Pride and Columbia Heights Day, to bike rides along the C&O Canal, to something as effortless as drinking outside at Cantina Marina on the Southwest Waterfront. Save this guide, and when the time comes, get out there, D.C. —Matt Cohen

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Summertime Shows

Where to catch free outdoor music A concert at Fort Reno

Adams Morgan Summer Concert Series Northwest corner of 18th Street and Columbia Road NW. Saturdays through June 25.

The plaza at the corner of 18th Street and Columbia Road in Adams Morgan is a ripe spot for foot traffic, and thanks to the Adams Morgan Partnership Business Improvement District, a great place to catch some live music on Saturday evenings. The lineup is an eclectic array of some of D.C.’s finest: The inaugural concert featured the experimental maximalist guitar collective Boat Burning. And shows end at 7 p.m., so you still have your night ahead of you.

Washington Folk Festival Glen Echo Park, 7300 MacArthur Blvd, Glen Echo. June 4–5.

For more than 30 years, the Folklore Society of Greater Washington has put on an annual festival at the idyllic, wooded Glen Echo Park. With eight stages of programming over two days, the Washington Folk Festival isn’t just a musical showcase of folk, bluegrass, and fiddle music; there are storytellers, dancers, and craftspeople from all over the world representing their cultures. Think of it as a more manageable and less crowded version of the Smithsonian’s Folklife Festival held every summer on the National Mall.

Capital Fringe Music Festival

With the uncertainty of the Fort Reno concert series and the Wash-

ington Post ending two decades of free concerts at Carter Barron, it certainly feels like D.C.’s long tradition of outdoor summer concerts is waning. Not the case. There are still plenty of options—both longstanding and new—for music fans of all genres to catch live tunes on a balmy evening this summer. From jazz to folk to experimental, there’s something for everyone this summer. Best part? All free.

—Matt Cohen

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Petworth Recreation Center Lawn, 8th and Taylor streets NW. Through Sept. 24.

Now in its sixth year, the Petworth Jazz Project has firmly established itself as a new summer tradition in D.C.—and not just because of the jazz. Sure, a performance by some of the District’s best musicians is 20 may 20, 2016 washingtoncitypaper.com

the undeniable highlight, but the Petworth Jazz Project strives to offer activities for everyone: A yoga session, a dance performance, and a special children’s concert precede each headliner. This year’s schedule exclusively features women vocalists, including the soulful stylings of Cecily Bumbray, Rochelle Rice, and Lena Seikaly.

Old City Farm & Guild, 925 Rhode Island Ave. NW. June 25–26.

When Capital Fringe celebrated its 10year anniversary in 2015, founder Julianne Brienza said she wanted it to be much more than just a theater festival. Mission accomplished: In the past year, Fringe has established itself as one of the most unique cultural entities in the city, with programming that far extends its thespian background. With the help of curator Jim Thomson, Fringe has been putting on some of the best, most eclectic live music shows in D.C.—both at its Trinidad headquarters and elsewhere. Fringe and Thomson are taking that to the next level with the first annual Capital Fringe Music Festival, to be held outdoors at the Old City Farm & Guild in Shaw. It’s a stellar and eclectic lineup, as Thomson is known to curate, with a mix of locals and out-of-town musicians including surf-rock quartet Shark Week, the neo-soul of Rufus Roundtree and Da B’more Brass Factory, and Virginia primitive guitar picker Daniel Bachman.

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Warm and Koozie The best places to drink booze outdoors The number of outdoor patios, beers gardens, and rooftop bars has boomed in recent years. In fact, there’s hardly a restaurant or bar around where you can’t drink al fresco. Whether you want to drink a beer at a picnic table or some Sicilian orange wine in a wisteria-covered garden, here are six spots worth seeking out to sip in the sun—Jessica Sidman

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Bring Your Dog Beer Garden: Bardo 1200-1216 Bladensburg Road NE Bardo is one of the largest beer gardens in the city with 500 seats, cornhole galore, and plenty of space to let your dog run around. The drinking outpost even has its own resident pet who you can follow on Twitter (@ bardawgdc). Humans can sit back with a wide-range of beers made on site. Many recipes hark back to the 1990s when brothers/owners Bill and Andrew Stewart ran the wacky Bardo Rodeo in a defunct Oldsmobile dealership in Arlington. Beyond beer and sunshine, there’s not much more on the patchy grass and concrete lot than some picnic tables. But good luck finding an outdoor beer garden with fewer pretensions.

Hip New Rooftop: Takoda

1734 N St. NW Head past the arched carriageway bar at Iron Gate, and you’ll find a tranquil garden patio that will transport you to Greece. Chef Anthony Chittum serves up squid ink rigatoni, homemade focaccia, and familystyle grilled meats, while Beverage Director Brent Kroll has curated an eclectic mix of lesser-known Greek and Italian wines. Another musttry is the Nicolaki, a creamy, tangy cocktail that combines vodka, honey, lemon, rosemary, and Greek yogurt. (Trust us.) Best of all, the outdoor space is covered by a canopy of wisteria that was originally planted more than a century ago.

715 Florida Ave. NW Rooftop bars are all the rage, but Takoda has one of the prettiest. The new restaurant and bar’s third floor “beer garden” lives up to the descriptor with plenty of greenery. The Ushaped bar carries a collection of 50 whiskies plus 24 draft beers. Daily happy hour specials, available from 5 to 7 p.m., include half-price “basic beers” and “basic burgers” on Thursdays and half-price whiskey and wings on Wednesdays. The rooftop is technically enclosed, but a skylight pours in light, and the glass doors open up to a small balcony. You can enjoy it year-round, no matter the weather.

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Protect the Block Celebrate the summer at street festivals At their most basic level, street festivals encourage people to connect with their communities. It can be a neighborhood block party, a celebration of heritage, or an ongoing event that celebrates a group’s shared history. Whichever the case, these festivals offer a perfect excuse to get out of the house and interact with friends and strangers.

You never know who you’ll meet at these things: Some years, it’s an enormous pop star; other years, it’s goats and pigs.

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Celebrate Petworth

June 4, Upshur Street NW Now in its third year, this Northwest neighborhood celebration focuses on activities for its youngest residents, like craft projects, puppet shows, and storytelling by local artists. Adults can buy vegetables and clothes or pick up promotional materials from any of the dozens of nonprofit organizations that set up shop on Upshur Street. New this summer: a 5K run through the neighborhood and a dog show honoring Petworth’s four-legged residents.

Columbia Heights Day

June 18, 11th Street NW Grab snacks from local vendors, hear local music, or camp out in the beer tent at this 11th annual neighborhood celebration. While activities for kids in the past were limited to petting zoos and quick art projects, this year will see the field at Harriet Tubman Elementary turned into a full-scale carnival.

Capital Pride Festival June 12, Pennsylvania Avenue NW Presented this year by Live! Casino, the annual celebration of the District’s LGBTQ community features national entertainers (Alex Newell of Glee and vocalist Melanie Martinez are booked) and booths highlighting different community organizations.

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June 26, Rhode Island Avenue NE Local artists share their work and invite community members to collaborate at this annual festival which winds through 20 blocks of Northeast. In addition to checking out art created by their neighbors, attendees can explore small businesses, sample food and drinks, and try out new ar-

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June 8–12, Euclid Street NW The Olympics will showcase the sights and sounds of Rio in August, but before that, D.C. residents can go to Park View to learn about the Brazilian state of Bahia. Scheduled activities include drumming workshops, capoeira demonstrations, and plenty of cachaça to sample.

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The Great Bike Escape

the new restaurant you’ve heard about but never visited. See if the ice cream at the new ice cream shop is any good. There’s coffee and sandwiches you’ve never had. If there’s a museum (the Hillwood Estate?) or a garden (the Franciscan Monastery?) or an abandoned mental hospital (St. Elizabeths?) you’ve never quite found the time to visit, make it part of your day of local adventure. There are some real gems here. You haven’t been everywhere, and even if you have, you haven’t been everywhere recently. Places change. Lap it up.

Your guide for biking in and out of the city

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It doesn’t matter if you only have a free afternoon or a few days off, you and your bike deserve some quality time together in the summer sun.

These bike gallivants will help you escape the repetitive drudgery of your daily commute and leave you with stories and experiences that your car-tripping friends will never be able to match. —Brian McEntee View from the C&O Canal tow path

The C&O Canal towpath is more than just a route for Georgetown joggers. Maybe you’ve been out to Great Falls or maybe even farther, but this path is a true treasure and worth spending some time riding. The trees!

The water! The trees! (Spoiler: There are a lot of trees.)

The dull rumble of the crush of dust and dirt under your tires for solitary mile after mile provides a therapeutic backdrop for your musings about potential bear attacks. (You are unlikely to be attacked by a bear.)

There are campsites along the way (you’ll need a tent, sleeping bag, and literally everything else for camping) and the towpath is dotted with water pumps and porta potties if needed. Stop in Brunswick or Harpers Ferry for a quick look about. Shepherdstown has a cute but not cloying small-town vibe, and at 75 miles from D.C., you could make it in one longish day of riding. There’s also something very satisfying about riding into a noncontiguous state, even if it’s right over the Potomac from the trail. Best part of this ride? No route planning!

Just get on the towpath and stop when you get there.

Even the most hapless cyclist can’t get lost.

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in well-worn ruts. Even though our bicycles give us the liberty to freely explore, unless you are deliberately intrepid there are parts of the District that you don’t know exceptionally well or haven’t visited for awhile.

There’s no better way to spend a full summer Saturday than biking around your hometown, but with fresh eyes and aimless curiosity. Use it as pretense to try

Nature isn’t my thing. It has bugs. It has plants that give rashes. And it doesn’t have people, or at least not enough of them, and that’s why my idea of a great bike tour involves taking the bus to New York and riding around the city for a few days.

Before you go, research the bus company’s bike policies, which vary widely across carriers. Some allow you to stow bikes aboard underneath for free (like BoltBus and Peter Pan), while others charge and require boxing (including Greyhound). Also, be mindful of your lodging situation and ask ahead of time about bike parking.

Avoid six-story walk-ups (but that’s a good rule in life, too).

There’s just something so thrilling about stepping off the bus onto a Midtown curb, grabbing your bike, trying to find your bearings, and then setting off in search of your destination. There’s a frisson about urban cycling that’s even more heightened when you’re experiencing it somewhere different. Do some map work and routing in advance. You can stick to touristy things (such as hating yourself for trying to ride through the crowds over the Brooklyn Bridge) or you can enjoy authentic New York food culture (rainbow bagels), but having your bike expands your opportunity for exploration. And bikes are free on almost all ferries, so you have the boroughs and New Jersey at your pedals, too. Most importantly, remember to compare every place, person, and experience to D.C. Perspective is valuable and giving yourself some days to take in another place’s “bike culture” (whatever that is) and most interesting bike destinations is both energizing and refreshing.

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Here Come the Waterworks Where to get wet this summer

It’s no secret that D.C. can get brutally, oppressively hot in the summer.

Come July, when we’re at peak humidity, Washingtonians will be clamoring for the nearest body of water to cool off. But when it comes to ways in which you can get wet and stay cool, you have some

Lakes and Swimming Holes For those that fantasize of hazy summer weekends spent at a lake or swimming hole off the beaten path, sorry—D.C. isn’t really the place for that. Neither the Anacostia nor the Potomac Rivers are swimmable, and there aren’t any other natural bodies of water in the city proper you can safely take a dip in. Luckily, there are a number of places not too far away that are worth the trek: Beaver Dam Swimming Club in Cockeysville, Md. (with a rope swing!), Trout Pond in Hardy County, W.V., and Cunningham Falls State Park in Thurmont, Md. (with a huge, slow-moving waterfall) all offer some premium natural swimming options.

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options: Veg out at a neighborhood pool, take a day trip to a lake or water park, or paddle around in the Potomac or the Anacostia Rivers.

Whichever you choose, just remember to heed Baz Luhrmann’s advice and wear sunscreen.

Public Pools

This is perhaps the most effortless—and relaxing—way to beat the heat this summer. Wherever you live in the city, there’s probably a public pool not too far away, which D.C. residents can gain admission to with proof of residency (don’t worry, non-residents, you can get in for a small fee). But like any neighborhood, each public pool has its own flavor and personality. Banneker Pool in Shaw is your best bet to take a dip and mingle with your neighbors, while the Harry Thomas Sr. Pool in Eckington, the Fort Stanton Pool, and the East Potomac Pool in Haines Point are all low-key, quiet spots for swimming.

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Kayaking, Canoeing, and Paddleboarding on the Potomac and Anacostia

At just over 400 miles long, the Potomac River is one of the largest rivers on the East Coast, and chances are you’ve seen just a fraction of it. You’re not going to tackle the entire beast in a rented kayak, canoe, or paddleboard from the Key Bridge Boathouse, but you can at least take on part of it. It’s far more manageable to spend the day exploring the Anacostia, which you can easily see all of its 8.7 miles. Ballpark Boathouse, situated on First Street SE near Nationals Park, also rents kayaks, paddleboards, and canoes. Just remember to bring some snacks, it can be a long paddle home.

Water Parks

Whether you’re three, 13, or 30, zooming down water slides, splashing around in a wave pool, or lounging in an inner tube on a lazy river is enjoyable for anyone at any age. Good thing you don’t have to travel far from the D.C. area to find all of these things and more.

There’s Splashdown Waterpark in Manassas, Va. and the Great Waves Waterpark in Cameron Run Regional Park in Alexandria for closer options, but if you’re willing to make the drive, Soak City at King’s Dominion in Doswell, Va. (with a 65-foot-high slide) and Six Flags America’s Hurricane Harbor in Upper Marlboro, Md. (with a giant, multi-person slide) are well worth the trek.

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By Jessica Sidman Bonfire, the new downtown eatery, boasts blowtorch-toting bartenders and an entire menu section devoted to s’mores. Light fixtures are made of vintage fire extinguishers, and art is composed of matchsticks. There are two fireplaces—one with actual flames and another with a faux chute. Eventually, the owners want to add another fire pit to the roof where diners can enjoy their smoke-tinged cocktails and snacks.

The theme itself is, appropriately, smokelike in that it seeps into everything. In some places, it’s a little too overpowering. In the men’s restroom, for example, a sign reads “Bros Before Hose” next to actual firefighting hoses. In the women’s, “Where my hose at?” is spelled out of hose faucet knobs.

Themed restaurants certainly aren’t new, but they have become strangely niche, esoteric, and often, not intuitively related to the food. The D.C. area, for example, touts restaurants centered around Charlie Chaplin, Teddy Roosevelt, and wood cabins, to name a few. This is an era in which restaurants are “concepts,” after all. But there’s often a thin line between concept and gimmick. Lately, it’s been feeling a little insane.

“It’s crucial to have a theme,” argues Bonfire co-owner Mike Bramson, whose Social Restaurant Group also runs Provision No. 14 and The Prospect. “For every restaurant we have, there’s been a theme.”

In the case of Bonfire, the fire-and-smoke motif is inspired by a beach bonfire party that Bramson and his wife Christal Bramson hosted the night before their wedding in Jamaica in 2014. The bonfire brought everyone from different parts of their lives together—kind of like, you know, the restaurant aims to do.

Bramson says the theme is a way for the owners and diners to emotionally connect to the restaurant. “It’s more personal. Your heart’s more into it,” he says. That connection gets a little lost if you don’t know the backstory, but Bramson thinks the theme is universal enough that it will invoke patrons’ own memories of campfires or bonfires.

Meanwhile, restaurateur Alan Popovsky insists Washington likes a theme. “Think

“You look at what the area is missing and you try to fill the gap,” Gardner says. But that’s changed with the arrival of Hawaiian-themed Hula Girl and street art-themed Palette 22, where artists paint while you eat dinner.

Gardner has since opened a nautical, party boat–themed restaurant, Orange Anchor, along the Georgetown waterfront, and Union Social in NoMa, which has a transportation and Metro theme. He even had a Pennsylvania-themed restaurant, Second State, which has closed.

“I don’t know if it’s a fad. I hope not,” Gardner says. “It’s something that everybody’s got to do because D.C. is so new-restaurant driven.”

Themes are no doubt also a mediamade monster. It’s no longer interesting enough to have “craft cocktails” and “farm-to-table” food. Everyone’s doing that. Restaurants trying to stand out are turning to storytelling and sometimes wackiness to attract patrons (and press).

A lot of people love to hate an overthe-top concept. Mockery and fauxoutrage run rampant among the local Twitterati with the mere mention of a theme. When Gardner opened Union Social with train-themed cocktails and Metro signs on the restroom doors, people piled on with jokes and jabs. “The food will be overpriced, late, and may smoke without warning,” one person quipped on Twitter.

Theme weariness is also starting to show on other levels. A summer camp-themed bar was slated to open near Union Market this month— until developer and landlord Edens pulled the plug. Although they declined to share the reason, restaurateur Ian Hilton suggests Edens’ reps found it “too campy.”

And it might ring some alarm bells that even D.C.’s high priestess of themed restaurant designs says she’s getting a little tired of it.

“I’m all for a really comprehensive, experience-driven environment,” says Maggie O’Neill of design firm SwatchRoom, which has created the looks for Bonfire, Copperwood Tavern, Lincoln, and many others. “But I think it’s gone too far down that rabbit hole

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about all the events that go on here every year, like the galas. They’re all theme-based,” says Popovsky, who owns restaurants focused around Abraham Lincoln (Lincoln Restaurant), Teddy Roosevelt (Teddy & The Bully Bar), and the founding fathers (Declaration).

The former party planner actually met his current business partner putting together his son’s Back to the Future–themed bar mitzvah.

D.C.’s restaurant boom may also be to blame.

“We’ve all gravitated to something that might set us apart from our neighbor, because, let’s face it, there’s restaurants everywhere now,” says restaurateur Reese Gardner.

Gardner believes D.C. is one of the founding U.S. cities of what he calls “conceptual dining” where every aspect of the restaurant

revolves around an immersive theme. “Restaurants have always had somewhat of a concept, but I think they’ve been getting more pronounced over the years and more nichefocused,” he says.

Gardner started getting into themed restaurants with the 2012 opening of Irish Whiskey Public House, which tried to recreate a Dublin pub with details like plaid couches and a taxidermied fox. It did so well that Gardner took a similarly all-encompassing approach at Copperwood Tavern, which looks kind of like you’ve stepped into a wood cabin in Virginia, complete with rusty saws on the walls and a menu full of game.

When Gardner opened Copperwood Tavern in Shirlington, there wasn’t a lot of this “conceptual dining” in the neighborhood.

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They don’t want to be hit over the head with the concept at every turn.”

Sometimes the theme supersedes any actual, practical purpose. At Teddy & The Bully Bar, cocktails are barrel aged for 26 days because Roosevelt was the 26th president. At Declaration, the pizzas are not only inspired by the 13 colonies, but the prices correlate to the year each colony was established: The Virginia pizza costs $16.07 because America’s first colony was founded in Jamestown, Va. in 1607.

Popovsky admits that he can occasionally get a little carried away. Initially, he wanted to have a big replica of Mount Rushmore on the wall at Teddy & The Bully Bar. O’Neill cautioned that it might look a little too Disney.

Instead, she came up with the idea to have a textured wall made up of thousands of mini Mount Rushmores. You only realize what they are if you examine the wall up close.

And in hindsight, Popovsky recognizes that the penny floor at Lincoln restaurant— made with about a million coins—might also have prioritized theme over function. While it got the restaurant a lot of attention when it opened, pennies are, perhaps unsurprisingly, not the best flooring material. The surface is now falling apart, and Popovsky is looking to replace it with something a little more subtle later this summer.

And then there’s the problematic issue of theming your restaurant around a real person.

Less than two months after Charlie Chaplinthemed ramen spot and cocktail bar Chaplin’s opened, the actor’s estate threatened to sue the restaurant over its name, the Washington Post reported. The only change the restaurant has made since then, however, was switching its name from The Chaplin to Chaplin’s.

Why a Chaplin theme anyway? As owner Micah Wilder told me when the place was preparing to open in 2014, “He’s the most quirky, interesting actor, in my opinion, that ever lived.

He captures comedic happiness, sorrow, every human emotion that’s inspirational.”

What the silent film star has to do with ramen and cocktails is still fuzzy. As an opening press release explained, the Asian-inspired cuisine “will take diners on a journey to Japan and Shanghai in the 1920s, when muted films were appreciated globally for embracing and unifying separation thru emotion, expression, comedy, originality, risk, sorrow and entertainment.” If you can make sense of this, you’re ahead of me.

O’Neill says she’s working on plenty of projects where her clients wanted to take the aesthetics one level too far. “You have to be diplomatic about it, because they’re your clients and it’s their baby,” she says. “Once I’m done, their success really lies on their shoulders and their ability to defend it.”

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Sometimes the theme supersedes any actual, practical purpose.

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theme too far: Sax, an opulent restaurant and lounge with erotic cabaret and a political-sexscandal theme that opened about five years ago. Then-owner Errol Lawrence wanted to paint risque murals on the wall, including Monica Lewinsky riding Bill Clinton as a centaur and Justice Clarence Thomas weighing his genitals on the scales of justice next to Anita Hill.

“I was like, ‘This is bad, Errol. This is bad, bad, bad, bad, bad like Velvet Elvis bad,’” O’Neill recalls. She refused to paint the murals, but she found the artist who did. “We were trying to shock people with how opulent and over-the-top it was.” Instead, the mural set off a shitstorm. They were almost immediately removed.

“It took the theme too far. People are too smart in D.C. They don’t actually need it clubbed over their head,” O’Neill says.

Another concern is that a flashy theme and decor can come at the expense of the food and drinks. So much effort is put toward adhering to a theme that what tastes good can come secondary if the restaurant team isn’t careful.

O’Neill believes that thematic restaurants might soon start to die down. Or at least she’s not sure how it could intensify without becoming a theme park (or Japan, where restaurant themes like prison, cartoons, and vampires are a whole other level of elaborate).

“Concepts that are all-encompassing and experiential, those were very desirable in the last five to seven years,” O’Neill says. Sure, they’re fun to work on—and she’s very proud of many of the designs. But at the same time, she’s starting to see a shift toward a more minimalist aesthetic where not every surface screams the theme.

“Somebody that’s cool doesn’t have to tell you that they’re cool,” she says. “It’s not hard to create a theme, but it’s hard to create cool.” CP Eatery tips? Food pursuits? Send suggestions to jsidman@washingtoncitypaper.com.

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The Dish: Anchovy Peanut Brittle Where to Get It: Maketto, 1351 H St. NE; (202) 838-9972; maketto1351.com Price: $4 What It Is: Classic peanut brittle made of caramelized sugar, baking soda, and roasted peanuts with an Asian twist.

Maketto Chef de Cuisine James Wozniuk folds in bait-size anchovies, fish sauce, and Thai bird’s eye chilies. He scores the

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tiny fish from Good Fortune Supermarket, one of the newest additions to Eden Center in Falls Church. “I’ll go out there and basically buy $100 worth of these dried anchovies. I clear out the whole shelf,” Wozniuk says.

What It Tastes Like: Pull people off the street for a blind taste test of Maketto’s anchovy brittle and they probably wouldn’t report something fishy.

Only when you spot the flashes of silver from the sea will your brain register the unmistakable umami flavor that comes from both the anchovies and fish sauce. The gentle heat from the chilies

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The best cocktail you’re not ordering

What: The Retired Stripper with tequila, rhum agricole, melon cordial, lime, Licor 43, and Peychaud’s Bitters Where: Archipelago, 1201 U St. NW Price: $14

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The Story: Wozniuk came up with the idea while flipping through a Chinese cookbook. “I found a snack with fried peanuts and anchovies with some chilies, so I was like, ‘Let’s turn it into brittle,’” he says. Indeed, there are many iterations of the bar snack Wozniuk describes. The brittle is available on Maketto’s Sunday dim sum brunch menu, which typically attracts the restaurant’s most adventurous diners. —Laura Hayes

What You Should Be Drinking Archipelago co-owner Owen Thomson had a (neon) light-bulb moment while testing recipes for the new tiki bar. “The citrus and the melon cordial reminded me of when I used to work at nightclubs and had to make stripper shots. This is the older version of a stripper shot,” he says of the aptly named “Retired Stripper” cocktail. “They’re the fruity shots that came up a lot in the ’90s, like all the kamikaze variants.” Thomson suggests this drink’s popularity hasn’t skyrocketed because imbibers are wary of simultaneously sipping rum and tequila, even though tiki is the home of split-base cocktails. He uses rhum agricole, a type of rum made from fresh-pressed sugarcane, because it shares the earthy, grassiness of an agave spirit like tequila.

Why You Should be Drinking It For starters, it’s fun to say, and anything goes at Archipelago. “You can get away with stuff that you don’t normally get away with,” Thomson says. “If you come into a tiki bar, you’ve already resigned yourself to drinking something on the ridiculous side out of a big pink flamingo straw, so saying a dumb name is already easier here.” More importantly, the Retired Stripper is sweet, luscious, and everything you’d expect from a well-made tiki drink. The double dose of earthiness is palpable, creating more complex flavors than your average tropical cocktail.

—Laura Hayes

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Perhaps the biggest dramatic question either character faces by the end is whether or not O’Brien will finish the play (it’s hardly a spoiler to say he does), a quest which Watson doesn’t particularly care about. But leading up to that anticlimax is a thrilling journey around the world. And perhaps the two never find that deep connection, or come to understand why they’re drawn to each other in the first place. But O’Brien’s deep and thoughtful examination of human nature and all the beautiful and disturbing things that lie beneath it achieves what must be his primary goal: Whether you want it to or not, this is one play that will stick with you for a very long time. —Riley Croghan

Email chains and photojournalism shouldn’t make for compelling theater, but The Body of an American will stick with you.

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Ghosts’ stories The Body of an American

By Dan O’Brien Directed by José Carrasquillo At Theater J to May 22 PerhaPs everyone who has gone through some sufficiently momentous happening has had the peculiar sensation of realizing that the moment unfolding in front of them will stick with them for the rest of their lives. For war photographer and journalist Paul Watson, that realization happened when he heard the voice of curTain callS a dead American soldier framed in his camera lens.

Watson, reporting in Somalia in 1993, had tracked down a soldier who had been pulled from the wreckage of a downed Black Hawk. The man was dead by the time Watson found him, bloodied and beaten by celebrating civilians and stripped almost naked. He spoke to the photographer all the same: “If you do this, I will own you forever.”

Watson took the photo. That split-second decision, by Watson’s reckoning, had devastating and far-reaching consequences. The image ran in newspapers around the world. President Clinton called for an immediate reduction in the number of U.S. troops in Somalia, a decision that perhaps sealed the fates of hundreds of thousands of lives in Rwanda. Terrorist groups saw the impact that a single death could have if its photograph could be

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publicized so widely. It also irrevocably changed Watson’s own life: The image won him a Pulitzer, but from that moment on, he carried the memory of Staff Sgt. William David Cleveland with him everywhere. Playwright Dan O’Brien happened to hear an interview in which Watson spoke about that experience and was moved to contact him. O’Brien eventually created The Body of an American, the award-winning play that is currently making its regional premiere at Theater J. The two-hander at the end of this long chain of dominoes plays out on a small stage with only some minimal projections and a few chairs for set pieces; Eric Hissom (who plays Watson) and Thomas Keegan (O’Brien) also play dozens of additional characters to populate the story of the playwright slowly and steadily falling into the photographer’s orbit.

The play (especially the first act, which is effectively a dramatization of a years-long email chain between the two men) is built from these sparse elements, but the result is a gripping and thrilling examination of Watson’s travels to some of the most dangerous corners of the world—and of the ghosts who chase him there.

Hissom does a commendable job of showing how deeply Watson is fractured under his easygoing demeanor, and despite his matter-of-fact tone when rattling off retellings of the horrors he’s witnessed. Watson’s friend Kevin Carter, another photojournalist, famously died of suicide after winning the Pulitzer for a photo of a vulture stalking a starving child; according to Watson, Carter left a note promising to haunt him the same way that he had been haunted.

It becomes clear that O’Brien, though confined to a cozier life teaching in the suburbs, faces some of the same demons as these men, a shared connection that draws him ever deeper and closer to Watson even as the latter evades requests for phone calls and drops off the email chain for weeks.

By Ayad Akhtar Directed by Timothy Douglas At Arena Stage to May 29 DisgraceD takes a minor modern anxiety—a dinner party goes awry—and explodes it into a nightmare. The dinner party plot is common in theater, except playwright Ayad Akhtar uses it to plumb new depths by exploring thorny, uncomfortable topics like appropriation and assimilation. And it feels profoundly contemporary: While many plays exist in vacuums, inhabiting a space unconcerned with recent events, the Pulitzer winner is immediately influenced by this country’s cultural growing pains.

The play takes place in an upscale New York City apartment, the sort that looks like a Room & Board catalog. The apartment belongs to Amir (Nehal Joshi) and his wife Emily (Ivy Vahanian). He is a high-powered corporate litigator; she is a successful painter. Amir’s identity is a source of unease in his marriage, thanks to his wife’s work: He has apostatized, while she takes patterns from Islamic art and incorporates it into her own.

Their dinner guests represent an intersection in Amir and Emily’s professional lives: Isaac (Joe Isenberg) is a curator at the Whitney, while his girlfriend Jory (Felicia Jory) is another associate at Amir’s firm. Over the course of dinner and private conversations, the four characters reveal to each other secrets and prejudices until they can’t tolerate each other anymore.

Isaac and Emily discuss Jerry Saltz, New York Magazine’s art critic, since his review will have an impact on her latest show.

Alongside his imagined review, there is another off-stage subplot that sounds achingly plausible: An imam is on trial for allegedly funding a terrorist group, and since Amir’s nephew Abe (Samip Raval) attends the accused man’s mosque, he and Emily press Amir to intervene on the imam’s behalf.

The fallout of Amir’s intervention is where Disgraced gets its title. As Isaac pushes Amir about his past, Amir deals with more turmoil, especially now that helping the imam leads him to a professional crisis. He finally acknowledges to everyone that his disdain for Islam comes from a source of reverence, which Emily and the others cannot grasp since he’s usually so defiant in his abandonment of his faith. He internalizes the sacred text, resenting that his wife and Isaac argue about it without serious engagement, and the most powerful scenes are those in which Amir cannot contain his patience. washingtoncitypaper.com may 20, 2016 37

not even the characters who have white privilege—and Disgraced is too smart and angry to let any of them off the hook, anyway.

—Alan Zilberman

Disgraced feels angry, contemporary, and brisk.

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While Disgraced is a lean 90 minutes, there are suspenseful moments during the dinner’s early courses that feel achingly long. Akhtar’s dialogue dances around discord: The two couples push each other, then let up by discussing the food or other neutral topics, only to go back to needling each other even more deeply moments later. Personal disagreements and broader political and historical debates converge, until the characters are so frayed and upset that their only recourse is to boil over with fury. Still, there are funny moments alongside the uneasy stretches: The characters are self-aware enough to quip about the dinner party spiraling out of control.

Disgraced puts energy into its character development, so the audience gets curious about how each character’s values inform their choices. Isaac is a familiar type—the effete snob who uses his intellect as a shield—and it’s to Isenberg’s credit that the boor underneath this façade is no surprise. Jory is even more fascinating: She’s black, and just like Amir, she wants to succeed within a system that has institutionalized prejudices against her. Emily’s interest in Islamic art doesn’t connect: Her defense of appropriation sounds affected, not sincere, even though Akhtar was going for the latter. Disgraced sees parallels between the characters, but only to a point, and the difference between their respective experiences are the play’s most bitter pill.

There’s a moment where Amir, full of loathing and frustration, defends his last vestiges of faith explosively: “You don’t understand!

It’s in my bones!” Joshi reaches a crescendo that’s pitched well above the audience’s comfort level, both in terms of volume and pitch, and Disgraced earns that moment of exaggerated high drama. No one is immune to the institutional biases that work against them—

The MosT Dangerous ViDeo gaMe Happy Hour

By machina eX Directed by Yves Regenass and Gillian Drake Conceived by Jan Philip Steimel and Lasse Marburg At Spooky Action Theater to June 5 Last faLL, fLying V Theatre gave us Bekah Brunstetter’s The Oregon Trail, a play inspired by the seminal, oft-upgraded computer game. Spooky Action’s Happy Hour might be that project’s inverse: It’s a live-action video game that borrows some of the trappings of improvised theater.

The brainchild of the European media collective machina eX, which staged an earlier version of Happy Hour in Zurich four years ago, this new American iteration is just successful enough to serve as proof-of-concept for more sophisticated interactive theater productions that seem destined to follow.

Spooky Action has divided its church-basement space into a soundstage and a bar, albeit one that serves only wine, beer, and soft drinks. Participants are encouraged to get a beverage and mingle before they’re assigned to one of two teams, seated at separate tables.

Each team is responsible for the rescue of a character trapped in a room. Team members can survey their character’s surroundings via a live video feed projected on the wall. Set designer Kim Sammis has built game environments that appear inspired by horror films: There’s an abattoir, a room of shelves stocked with organs in jars, a child’s bedroom, and a curiously ordinary sitting room with a magazines. Are we awaiting a blood-harrowing teeth-cleaning and checkup?

While you and your teammates can see and hear the avatar you’re controlling, he can’t see or hear you. You can give your av-

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atar instructions only via cards representing the various objects and tools available in each room; the team must determine the right combination of objects and sequence of actions to advance their character to the next level. If you can’t spring your guy from the labyrinth in under 40 minutes, he’s stuck there. You lose.

The four-person cast alternates roles: The two serving as bartender and emcee in one game will portray the two captives in the next. In the game I attended on a recent Saturday night, Matthew Marcus was the louche emcee, Carolyn Kashner the wry barmaid, and Robert Bowen Smith our amusingly panicked avatar. (Stephanie Tomiko was the other team’s avatar; I can say nothing of her performance because only the other team could see it.) Smith conjured up a performative thickness that emulated how frustratingly primitive video games once were. For example, when we gave him a command involving the cards for “backpack” and “water bottle,” he placed his water bottle in his backpack, as we’d intended. But when we replaced “water bottle” with “pistol,” his response was to shoot the backpack rather than place the gun inside it.

This negotiation of the interface’s limitations is part of the experience of any game. In the case of Happy Hour, the countdown clock and the friends or strangers at your table keep it from becoming tedious. While this iteration feels hamstrung by limitations of budget, physical space, and performing time, it’s enough to point your imagination toward more elaborate and immersive theatrical games. It gives you permission to play.

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It’s not perfect, but this innovative, interactive piece of theater grabs attention and sets the stage for future iterations on the idea.

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Although millennials are D.C.’s most discussed residents, it appears that this summer, music bookers are appealing to the region’s older listeners when it comes to stadium concerts. Whatever your musical interest, you’ll find a genre’s elder statesman taking a large local stage in the coming months. —Caroline Jones

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Upping his legacy credit this year is opening act Mavis Staples.

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“Dark Matter Denial” STANDOUT TRACK: No. 3, “Dark Matter Denial,” is—at 12 minutes—the shortest track on DC Improvisers Collective’s Ministry of Spontaneous Composition. Its basis is a mellow, some might even say “stoned,” groove by electric pianist Jonathan Matis, bassist Chris Brown, and drummer Ben Azzara. Over top, guitarist John Kamman, clarinetist Ben Redwine, and trumpeter Patrick Whitehead veer between laidback solo and fiery interplay.

MUSICAL MOTIVATION: Improvisation, obviously. Specifically, free improvisation, which leans toward jazz but avoids being pegged to any particular genre. Other than that, says Matis, the musical direction depends on which members of the rotating collective are “in the room on a particular day.” In the case of “Dark Matter Denial,” it was all about Brown and Azzara. “They have a very intuitive relationship,” Matis says. “So when things settle into a groove, those two really can go there.”

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FilmShort SubjectS acter is funny, which is all part of the charm.

Love & Friendship has an inevitable ending, as do most comedies from that era. It’s to Stillman’s credit that the final scenes are wicked in their own right. He always finds a way to skewer his characters’ insensible natures, and he’s oddly thankful to them for being good sports about it. Most comedies nowadays rely on extremes, either in terms of sight gags, profanity, or bodily fluids. Here’s one where the characters are unfailingly polite, to the point where even the sharpest insults sound more like helpful advice.

—Alan Zilberman

Love & Friendship

Love & Friendship opens Thursday at Landmark E Street Cinema and Bethesda Row.

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Austen trAnslAtion Love & Friendship

Directed by Whit Stillman Jane austen has been on Whit Stillman’s mind for his entire career. In his Oscar-nominated debut Metropolitan, Stillman’s hero remarks he’s never read Austen, adding, “I prefer good literary criticism. That way you get both the novelists’ ideas as well as the critics’ thinking.” Stillman has affection for his characters, especially when they’re asinine, and that affection extends through Love & Friendship, Stillman’s adaptation of a minor Austen novel. In addition to being flatout hilarious, the film serves as a criticism of Austen’s current place in pop culture. So many Austen fans obsess over Mr. Darcy, thinking of her novels as a romantic ideal, when her characters would rather relish their independence, gossip, or toss out a saucy one-liner.

The big cast of characters is thorny, and it’s a little unclear just how they relate to each other, so Stillman includes thoughtful title cards that

describe their station and personality. A hero eventually emerges: Lady Susan Vernon (Kate Beckinsale) is a widow who aims to flirt her way back into society. Without an announcement, she arrives at Churchill, the estate of her brother-in-law. Her prey is Reginald De Courcy (Xavier Samuel), a bright young man who can’t see how he’s manipulated. Lady Susan wants her daughter Catherine (Emma Greenwell) to find a husband also, caring little that Catherine’s feelings for Reginald are genuine. Through conversation and insinuation, Lady Susan ingratiates herself to Churchill, while the estate’s fulltime residents are too agog to stop her.

This is Stillman’s first period film, unless you count The Last Days of Disco, which was set in the early 1980s. His characters are always urbane, sophisticated, and anachronistic: Fashion notwithstanding, they could fit into Austen’s novels, no problem. Love & Friendship must be freeing for Stillman since the mannered dialogue is just

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right for the period. They speak in the imperative (many sentences begin with, “One musn’t”), never pausing to think rules apply to them, too.

Their oblivious nature is central to Stillman’s comedy: His characters are flippant and selfaware, tossing out rules they ignore. Most of Love & Friendship is elegantly composed, with characters parading through hallways or a courtyard, and yet the dialogue has a wry, unforced eloquence that no other working filmmaker could match. Since Stillman likes these people, seeing their hypocrisy as a central to their humanity, we don’t judge them harshly either.

While Lady Susan is central to Love & Friendship, Stillman includes side characters that are equally delightful. The most memorable is James Martin (Tom Bennett), the bachelor Lady Susan selects for her daughter. James is cheerful, with a quick smile, but he’s also an exceptional moron.

There are long, amazing scenes where James lays his profound idiocy to bare, and yet decorum prevents any interruptions. Bennett steals every scene he’s in with exclamations like, “So you read both verse and poetry!” If the line doesn’t make you smile, at least a little, then I’m surprised you got so far into a review of a period film.

Another stand-out supporting actor is Chloë Sevigny, who plays Lady Susan’s American confidant Alicia. She and Beckinsale were the leads in The Last Days of Disco, and their scenes together serve as a spiritual sequel. Their characters are not enemies since they both teeter on society’s fringes. But Alicia can barely keep up with Lady Susan, so there is a running gag where Lady Susan laments how she must tolerate Alicia’s accent, manners, and really everything that makes her different. The irony is how Lady Susan is guilty of far worse, and the blinders of 19th century England mean she can flout convention easier, as scandal has no home in formal gatherings.

Lady Susan does eventually get caught in her web of lies, yet she fights through them with conviction and cognitive dissonance. Beckinsale never offers the slightest hint that she knows her char-

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Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe, the documentary that was noisily pulled from this year’s Tribeca Film Festival by Robert De Niro himself, is now billing itself as “the most controversial film in America.” If you don’t know the background of the documentary’s director, Andrew Wakefield, though, you may not understand why.

Here’s the dirt: Wakefield, a British former surgeon and researcher, along with 11 co-authors published a study in 1998 whose results appeared to show a link between autism and the combination vaccine that very young children receive for measles, mumps, and rubella, known as the MMR. (It should be noted that De Niro has an autistic child.) A general mess ensued, involving allegations that Wakefield was being paid by lawyers representing parents of children diagnosed with autism. So in 2004, the scientific journal that published the study, The Lancet, partially retracted the findings, and after an ethics investigation by the U.K.’s General Medical Council that did not end favorably for Wakefield, published a full retraction, leaving the doctor excommunicated from the medical community.

But who needs haughty academic journals when you can just put your soapbox in a movie?

Vaxxed doesn’t focus on Wakefield’s shunning,— though he gives plenty of commentary onscreen—but our country’s own Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, also allegedly fraudulent. Its researchers, too, reportedly found a link between MMR shots and autism— which the public would never have known about

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had it not been for one of the study’s researchers blowing the whistle in 2014, delicately dancing around nondisclosure agreements to bring proof of the CDC’s altered results to light.

Total. Freakout.

Granted, if a viewer chose not to wade too deeply in the muck, Vaxxed is quite convincing. It offers so many statistics, so many talking heads, and, most important, so many parents telling the same story: that their child received the MMR vaccine and then changed, often overnight. The children lost their language, their ability to walk, their personalities.

It’s heartbreaking—and you’d have to be quite the cynic to believe that these people had any motive to lie. The highly salaried white collars that are brought up here, though, are a different story. And that’s what makes the vaccination issue—at least as posed by the film—so difficult to untangle. Pockets have allegedly been lined

by Big Pharma; one very important detail about Wakefield’s research is that it wasn’t anti-vaccine, just anti-MMR. (As one father pointed out, eliminating vaccines would throw us “into the Dark Ages.”) Using single shots for each disease seemed to be safe, he said.

But then Merck would lose money on its profitable MMR program. And though the CDC can’t itself accept donations, it is allowed to set up foundations that do. Its biggest contributors, it turns out, are recognizable names—but the names don’t belong to people.

Throughout the film, Wakefield wrings every gasp he can out of the audience. As commentators respond to the goings-on—calling them, say, “unethical, vile things”—the director puts the words in text onscreen, floating a few seconds for maximum effect. A former congressman calls the CDC situation “a very, very, very disturbing revelation” and a “horrible, horrible development.” A journalist says, “Here’s what’s really scary” about an hour in, after we’ve heard 60 minutes of already scary stuff.

But what should really make you question the validity of the film as a whole is the appearance of Penn & Teller (?), with Penn, in regard to claims that the vaccine causes 1 in 110 children to develop autism, saying: “Fuck that. Total bullshit. It doesn’t.” Um, OK then?

I’m no doctor, but I’d suggest that if you really want to get to the bottom of the potential epidemic portrayed in Vaxxed, you do some investigating yourself—as opposed to, you know, taking medical advice from a movie with magicians in it.

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in a role that (perhaps unconsciously) apes his breakout turn in 1997’s L.A. Confidential; and pairs him with Ryan Gosling, perhaps the only true male movie star of the ’00s. Writer/director Shane Black gives himself the challenge of bringing these disparate elements together, and his crackling script almost does the job. He pairs lightning-quip dialogue with cleverly-staged action set pieces, but in the end The Nice Guys is too witty for its own good. Black expends so much energy showing off his penchant for dialogue, outlandish costume and set design, and ability to coax surprising performances from his stars that he never lets the film breathe, and The Nice Guys gets smothered by its own smugness.

The story begins with a macho meet-cute. Jackson Healy (Crowe), a genial muscle-for-hire type, shows up at the home of single dad Holland March (Gosling) and promptly breaks his arm. Turns out Healy has been hired by the young, beautiful Amelia (Margaret Qualley) to get a stalker off her back. Even after Healy finds out March is actually a private eye who had been hired by Amelia’s aunt, he still roughs him up. In the seedy world of film noir, job commitment passes for virtue.

From there, The Nice Guys launches the viewer into a convoluted mystery involving adult film stars, corruption at the Department of Justice, and the auto industry. Like other noirs, the actual plot remains just out of reach. Our heroes eventually catch up, but the audience remains a step behind. Instead, Black focuses on building his colorful world of corruption in only the broadest, least imaginative strokes. The Nice Guys is set in the 1970s, but it’s a version of that decade that probably exists only in cinema. It’s a costume party come to life, and while the set designers clearly had fun creating their day-glo noir aesthetic, the film can never quite shake its artifice, and ’70s-era kitsch is a poor substitute for actual vision.

Much of the blame has to land on Crowe and Gosling, whose chemistry falls flat and whose individual performances are too schticky to stick. Crowe’s problem is simple: As he recently proved on his disastrous Saturday Night Live hosting gig, he simply lacks comic timing.

He mostly disappears into the background—a wise choice—while Gosling stands out for all the wrong reasons. As the cowardly March, he gives a painfully self-conscious performance.

There is no consistency to his character, only a series of admittedly well-timed quips designed to earn a laugh. At times, it feels like he is running through a rolodex of comic influence. He does a blatant Lou Costello in one scene, and seems to be mimicking Gene Wilder in the next. Gosling has some earned comic chops, but film comedy requires the courage to create something original.

It’s a film that almost certainly would work better on the page. Some of the dialogue is simply too clever to deliver with any sense of realism (“How do you do?” “About this good most of the time.”) Black has rightly earned his title as one of the best action screenwriters in history, but, as they say in sports, the game isn’t played on paper—and The Nice Guys, despite a few belly laughs, comes out a loser. —Noah Gittell The Nice Guys opens wide Friday.

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GW lays off more than half of Corcoran school’s faculty On MOnday, the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design laid off more than half of its faculty. Ten instructors, several of them department heads and all of them long-time teachers at the Corcoran, were terminated.

The move comes as part of George Washington University’s continued restructuring of the art college. Nine Corcoran faculty members renewed their contracts with the university.

Among the instructors let go were Muriel Hasbun, head of the photography department; Lynn Sures, head of fine art; and Francheska Guerrero, head of undergraduate design. Andy Grundberg and Claudia Smigrod, both professors of photography, were also let go.

“The past few years have been absolutely exhausting,” says Antje Kharchi, a professor of art and design who also chaired the freshman experience program and is among the faculty who were let go. “As much as I loved the Corcoran, I feel relief that the seemingly endless wait is finally over. We’ve been lied to, undermined, disrespected, while trying to hold the thing together for our students.”

The other professors who were laid off are Robert Devers and Dennis O’Neil, who taught ceramics and printmaking, respectively, as well as Casey Smith and Bernard Welt, both humanities professors.

“They are the soul of this school,” says Johab Silva, a student.

The decision was handed down just days after the college’s May 14 commencement ceremony.

All of the instructors will receive a full year’s severance pay, says Sanjit Sethi, the Corcoran college director since October.

He says that he has also recommended that the professors be granted emeritus status, which would confer certain benefits such as library access.

“I did this with a great deal of care,” Sethi says. “There were many factors I needed to consider.”

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were guiding factors, according to the director, who met with faculty members to discuss the situation. The college recently completed an accreditation review with the National Association of Schools of Art and Design, and those recommendations also factored into his decision, he says.

Enrollment at the Corcoran has fallen by half since 2010. It’s perhaps a predictable outcome, given the years of crisis that consumed the Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art + Design and eventually resulted in the court order that dissolved the institutions. Many decisions regarding GW’s takeover of the Corcoran in 2014 have not yet been made or fully implemented. Sethi confirmed that no faculty within GW’s existing art department lost their jobs.

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Earlier this week, GW announced artist Mel Chin as the Corcoran’s inaugural William Wilson Corcoran Visiting Professor in Community Engagement. In a statement, Sethi said that “this visiting professorship allows the Corcoran to bring exciting individuals that are committed to the role creativity plays in addressing complex issues.”

Chin’s appointment begins July 1 and will last through the 2016-17 school year.

In April, a Corcoran student posted flyers around the school urging administrators to “Save the Faculty.” Currently, course listings for the fall semester at the Corcoran and at George Washington University’s fine art department do not have any instructors attached to them.

“Although we were aware of this occur-

ring, the amount of loved and devoted teachers that have not been given a contract for the coming year is alarming and disheartening for the Corcoran community, alumni and current students alike,” says Camila Rondon, a Corcoran student, in an email. “This is atrocious on the part of the GW administration and it is not something that should be swept under the rug.”

Sethi says that he expects to have many conversations with students at the start of the school year, if not before. “I’m committed to pedagogical excellence. I’m committed to these students,” he says. “I’ve always wanted to keep a line of communication open with these students. To students expressing disappointment, I want to hear CP about those concerns.”

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bethesda blues and Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. inGratitude: A Tribute to Earth Wind & Fire. 8 p.m. $25–$30. bethesdabluesjazz.com. howard theatre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

R&B Only. 11 p.m. $20. thehowardtheatre.com. kennedy Center ConCert hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Boyz II Men with NSO Pops. 8 p.m.

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blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. John Pizzarelli. 8 p.m. & 10 p.m. $40–$45. bluesalley.com.

When Rome Fortune raps “This is my intuition, and it says I shouldn’t be pigeon-holed” on “Blicka Blicka,” he’s delivering a mission statement. Since breaking through in 2013, the Atlanta rapper has defied easy classification, establishing himself as a street rap storyteller on his “Beautiful Pimp” mixtapes and collaborating with everyone from contemporaries Young Thug and iLoveMakonnen to dance music producers Four Tet and Toro y Moi. That approach made him a perfect fit for Fool’s Gold Records, the Brooklyn label that has released albums by fellow rap iconoclasts Danny Brown and Run the Jewels. Earlier this year, the label dropped Jerome Raheem Fortune, an album girded with jazz accents and electronic touches. Along with serving as a platform for his tales of fatherhood and finding his way in the music business and the world, the album provides Fortune with an opportunity to perform live for his diehards—fans that he often connects with one-to-one over social media. That’s certainly not how most artists on his level operate, but the aquamarine-bearded Fortune wouldn’t have it any other way. Rome Fortune performs with The Range at 9 p.m. at The Black Cat, 1811 14th St. NW. $12–$15. (202) 667-4490. blackcatdc.com.

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blaCk Cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Rome Fortune, The Range. 9 p.m. $12–$15. blackcatdc.com.

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Comet Ping Pong 5037 Connecticut Ave. NW. (202) 364-0404. Cat You Dog You, Shaft XXL. 10 p.m. $12. cometpingpong.com.

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. You Won’t, Jocelyn Mackenzie, Fellow Creatures. 6:30 p.m. $10–$12. dcnine.com. the hamilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

Magic Bus featuring Tender Polman and Brian Goddard. 10:30 p.m. Free. Laurel Canyon: Golden Songs of Los Angeles 1966-72. 8:30 p.m. $18–$27.50. thehamiltondc.com. howarD theatre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Gary Sinese and the Lt. Dan Band. 6:30 p.m. $35. thehowardtheatre.com.

MUSIC • THEATER • DANCE • LITERATURE CUISINE • INSTALLATIONS • AND MORE! MAY 21

Camerata Ireland with The Harmony North Choir and Codetta

Eisenhower Theater | 7:30 p.m.

Tickets from $15 Camerata Ireland showcases the varied repertoire the orchestra has explored since its founding 15 years ago, and is joined by the Harmony North Choir and Codetta chamber choir as part of a musicbased project to promote unity.

MAY 23

Tara Erraught and Anthony Kearns in Concert

kenneDy Center ConCert hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Boyz II Men with NSO Pops. 8 p.m.

Free. kennedy-center.org.

ElECTRONIC

flash 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Mood II Swing, Juan Zapata, DJ Soul. 8 p.m. $8–$12. flashdc.com. u street musiC hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Blaqk Audio, Night Riots, Charming Liars. 6 p.m. $25. pantyraid, Sketchy Pete. 10:30 p.m. $15. ustreetmusichall.com.

JAzz

Blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. John Pizzarelli. 8 p.m. & 10 p.m. $40–$45. bluesalley.com. mr. henry’s 601 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. (202) 5468412. Di Daly. 8 p.m. Free. mrhenrysdc.com. twins Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Tim Whalen Septet. 9 p.m. & 11 p.m. $15. twinsjazz.com.

CITY LIGHTS: SATURDAY

MAY 25 & 26

Olwen Fouéré riverrun

Terrace Theater | 7 p.m.

Tickets $29 The vocalist, actress, and musician, also known simply as Camille, offers a solo concert demonstrating her international reputation for interpreting the songs of Jacques Brel, Nick Cave, Tom Waits, and Kurt Weill.

No late seating. No re-entry. No intermission.

Produced by The Emergency Room and Galway International Arts Festival in association with Cusack Projects Limited.

Presented in collaboration with the Irish Arts Center.

gyPsy sally’s 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700.

School’s Out Reggae Jam featuring Jahman Brahman, Nappy Riddem, The Captivators. 9 p.m. $12–$14. gypsysallys.com.

Terrace Theater | 7 p.m. | Tickets $29 Enjoy a soaring concert featuring two world-class opera singers: mezzosoprano Tara Erraught, fresh from Washington National Opera’s Cinderella, and tenor Anthony Kearns, a member of the famed Irish Tenors.

MAY 22

Camille O’Sullivan: Changeling

iota CluB & Café 2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. (703) 522-8340. Parsonsfield, Lowland Hum. 9 p.m. $12. iotaclubandcafe.com.

FUNK & R&B

Family Theater | 7 p.m. | Tickets $29 Olwen Fouéré, one of Ireland’s leading theater-makers, performs her internationally acclaimed adaptation of the voice of the river Liffey (“Life,” Anna Livia Plurabelle) in James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake.

Festival curated by Alicia Adams, Vice President of International Programming and Dance

For tickets and complete festival schedule, visit

kennedy-center.org/IRELAND100 (202) 467-4600 Tickets also available at the Box Office.

The Presenting Underwriter of IRELAND 100 HRH Foundation

Major support is provided by David and Alice Rubenstein and the Embassy of Ireland.

Additional support is provided by The American Ireland Fund; Ambassador Elizabeth Frawley Bagley; The Coca-Cola Company; William B. Finneran; Ingersoll Rand; Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater; Amalia Perea Mahoney and William Mahoney; Malin Corporation plc; Marcia V. Mayo, The Mayo Charitable Foundation; Medtronic; Angela Moore; and Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan.

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

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RACKSTRAW DOWNES: A PAINTER

The 40-minute documentary Rackstraw Downes: A Painter doesn’t give Downes much opportunity to talk, so it’s fitting that the National Gallery is pairing the film with a post-screening discussion with the New York-based British artist. The doc is resolutely quiet—visually and sonically—as filmmaker Rima Yamazaki observes Downes working en plein air at locations around the city. His seemingly banal oil-on-canvas landscapes, with their high level of precision and panoramic perspective, have unexpected power and earned him a “genius grant” from the MacArthur Foundation in 2009. Although Downes’ work flows from a life spent thinking deeply about art, the film focuses mostly on his brushstrokes, and it’s strangely satisfying to watch him revise car tires, window glare, and urban trees. (More than 40 minutes of this probably would be excessive, though.) The patient, unflinching, high-def camera work, meanwhile, suggests that it’s pointless to romanticize the paintings. Downes himself probably will have plenty to say about that in his conversation with Harry Cooper, the museum’s curator and head of modern art. The film shows at 2:30 p.m. at the National Gallery of Art, 6th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. Free.

(202) 737-4215. nga.gov.

—Joe Warminsky

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Birchmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Delbert McClinton, Amy Black. 7:30 p.m. $45. birchmere.com.

BLacK cat BacKStage 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 6674490. Common People with DJs Lil’e. 10 p.m. $7. blackcatdc.com.

Country

dc9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Peach Pit. 10:30 p.m. $5–$8. dcnine.com.

Jiffy LuBe Live 7800 Cellar Door Drive, Bristow.

(703) 754-6400. Miranda Lambert. 4:30 p.m. $30.25– $61. livenation.com.

World

fiLLmore SiLver Spring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Fillmore Flashback: 80’s vs 90’s Dance Party featuring Biz Markie. 8 p.m. $15.50. fillmoresilverspring.com.

Kennedy center miLLennium Stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Danny Burns Band. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

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george maSon univerSity center for the artS 4373 Mason Pond Drive, Fairfax. (888) 9452468. Fairfax Symphony Orchestra with Andrew Tyson, piano. 8 p.m. $34–$58. cfa.gmu.edu.

BetheSda BLueS and Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. The Complete “ Band on The Run” starring Denny Laine of Wings. 8 p.m. $30–$35. bethesdabluesjazz.com.

Kennedy center eiSenhower theater 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Camerata Ireland with the Harmony North Choir and Codetta. 7:30 p.m. $15–$40. kennedy-center.org.

BLacK cat BacKStage 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 6674490. Miner. 7:30 p.m. $12. blackcatdc.com.

muSic center at Strathmore 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Baltimore Symphony Orchestra: Holst’s “The Planets” with conductor John Storgårds. 8 p.m. $35–$99. strathmore. org.

gaLaxy hut 2711 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. (703) 5258646. Kid Claws, Skydiver. 9 p.m. $5. galaxyhut.com.

dc9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Vim & Vigor, Hello Dharma. 9 p.m. $8. dcnine.com.

iota cLuB & café 2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington.

(703) 522-8340. Lauren Calve, Bobby Thompson. 8 p.m. $10. iotaclubandcafe.com.

CITY LIGHTS: sunday

Bill BeVerly and soCCer teaM

“It’s too bad when genre falls prey to its fans,” sings Soccer Team’s Ryan Nelson on “Too Many Lens Flares,” a song off its 2015 record Real Lessons In Cynicism. A charge against the complacency of art and media, the line acts as a fitting introduction for the latest iteration of the Story/Stereo project, an ongoing series curated by Beauty Pill’s Chad Clark and The Caribbean’s Matt Byars that combines live music with a literary reading. Formerly sponsored by the Writer’s Center, Story/Stereo returns as a collaboration with Politics & Prose at Busboys and Poets in Takoma. This week, local author Bill Beverly reads from his new novel, Dodgers, and Soccer Team plays in support of its new album. Like most examples of artful curation, Sunday’s event is poised to test the boundaries of collaboration, artistry, and audience interest. D.C. music fans aren’t strangers to generous interpretations of genre and style on show bills, as rock and jazz and more electronically leaning artists share stages and living rooms across the city. But by extending the experimentation across mediums, Story/Stereo’s latest rendition promises to be an engaging and fun model of how art can be showcased and celebrated. The event begins at 6:30 p.m. at Busboys and Poets Takoma, 235 Carroll St. NW. Free. (202) 726-0856. busboysandpoets.com.

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bOssA bIsTrO 2463 18th St NW. 202-667-0088. Edy Blue. 7 p.m. $10. bossadc.com.

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Corinne Bailey Rae. 7 p.m. $25. ustreetmusichall.com.

JAzz

blues Alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. John Pizzarelli. 8 p.m. & 10 p.m. $40–$45. bluesalley.com.

beTHesDA blues AnD JAzz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. Walt Whitman High School Jazz Ensemble. 7 p.m. $10. bethesdabluesjazz.com.

TwIns JAzz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Jarrett Cherner and Sarah Elizabeth Charles. 8 p.m. & 10 p.m. $10. twinsjazz.com.

WORlD

KenneDy CenTer mIllennIum sTAge 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. The Gothard Sisters. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

PHIllIPs COlleCTIOn 1600 21st St. NW. (202) 3872151. Jack Quartet. 4 p.m. $15–$30. phillipscollection.org.

DJ NIGhTS

HOwArD THeATre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899. DJ Questlove. 8 p.m. $20–$25. thehowardtheatre.com.

VOCAl

gw lIsner AuDITOrIum 730 21st St. NW. (202) 9946800. Children’s Chorus of Washington: Around the World in 20 Years. 4 p.m. $25–$50. lisner.gwu.edu.

KenneDy CenTer TerrACe THeATer 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Camille O’Sullivan. 7 p.m. $29. kennedy-center.org.

EVERY WEDNESDAY NIGHT OPEN MIC NIGHT 8:00PM TO 11:30PM

THURSDAY, MAY 19TH

SURF JAGUARS WITH OPENER NEW ROCKWELLS

FuNk & R&B

HOwArD THeATre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

The Arrival, BlaqCrown and the Family. 8 p.m. $20–$25. thehowardtheatre.com.

musIC CenTer AT sTrATHmOre 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Simone Dinnerstein. 4 p.m. $40–$90. strathmore.org.

EVERY MONDAY NIGHT FROM 6:30PM TO 8PM FREE TRIVIA NIGHT

IOTA Club & CAfé 2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington.

(703) 522-8340. Air Traffic Controller. 8 p.m. $10. iotaclubandcafe.com.

bIrCHmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Diane Schuur featuring Ron Blake, Roger Hines, and Reggie Jackson. 7:30 p.m. $35. birchmere.com.

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DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Palehound, Ursula, Snail Mail. 8:30 p.m. $10–$12. dcnine.com.

MONDAY ROCk

blACK CAT 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Car Seat Headrest, Naked Days. 7:30 p.m. $15. blackcatdc.com.

JAzz

blues Alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. The O’Brien Family of Jazz Celebrate Hod’s 80th with Stephanie Nakasian and Veronica Swift O’Brien.

8 p.m. & 10 p.m. $20. bluesalley.com.

OpERA

KenneDy CenTer TerrACe THeATer 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Tara Erraught and Anthony Kearns. 7 p.m. $35. kennedy-center.org.

TuESDAY ROCk

9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Børns, Coast Modern, Beau. 7 p.m. (Sold out) 930.com. bIrCHmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Missy Higgins, Billy Raffoul. 7:30 p.m. $22.50. birchmere.com. blACK CAT bACKsTAge 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 6674490. The Men That Will Not Be Blamed for Nothing, Frenchy & the Punk, Andrew O’Neil. 7:30 p.m. $12. blackcatdc.com.

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. C.W. Stoneking, Brownbird Ruby Relic. 9 p.m. $15. dcnine.com.

HOwArD THeATre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Bersuit Vergarabat, Caramelos de Cianuro. 8 p.m. $35–$50. thehowardtheatre.com.

KenneDy CenTer mIllennIum sTAge 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. The Tossers. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

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SUNDAY, MAY 22ND

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FAKE OCCENT, JOLLY LLAMA, AUGUST 1ST & LIQUID LOBSTER

MONDAY, MAY 23RD THE PEACEMAKERS & ACCIDENTAL CHARM TWO BAND MONDAY ROCK N’ ROLL

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ROCK, FUNK, JAZZ, ROOTS FROM WEST VIRGINIA

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CITY LIGHTS: MONDAY

JACOB AND JOE WEISBERG

It’s common for siblings to share interests, be they favorite movies or memorable vacations. For the Weisberg brothers, Jacob (pictured) and Joe, their shared interest just happens to be the Reagan era and the end of the Cold War. Their fascination with the period makes sense: Both came of age in the ’80s and had jobs connected to the government, Jacob as a journalist and Joe as a CIA agent.

When Joe left the intelligence agency for a career in television, he drew on his past experience and created The Americans, the thrilling drama about a deep-cover pair of Soviet spies. Jacob, Chairman of The Slate Group, has spent the past several years on a just-released biography of the Gipper. Now, the Weisbergs appear together at Sixth & I Historic Synagogue to discuss their work and their favorite political and cultural moments from the ’80s, from the haunting “Morning in America” ad to David Copperfield’s bizarre televised illusions. The discussion begins at 7 p.m. at Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, 600 I St. NW. $15–$35. (202) 408-3100. sixthandi.org.

—Caroline Jones

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CITY LIGHTS: TUESDAY

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HARD WORKING AMERICANS

featuring TODD SNIDER, DAVE SCHOOLS, NEAL CASAL, DUANE TRUCKS, CHAD STAEHLY and JESSE AYCOCK with REED FOEHL

Amy DELBERT McCLINTON Black DIANE SCHUUR 22 BILLY MISSY HIGGINS RAFFOUL 24

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An Evening with

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RICHARD MARX PETER 27 ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO CASE FREDDIE JACKSON 28 JUSTIN HAYWARD Presents

Stage Door w/Mike Dawes

June 1

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

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

THE OBJECT LESSON

For Tyler Durden, it starts with a sofa, followed by the other ideal domestic components of a home. Before long, however, the furniture you arranged so meticulously ensnares you, and, in the words of the Fight Club protagonist, “the things you used to own, now they own you.” For Geoff Sobelle, an absurdist theater artist fascinated with the “sublime ridiculous” and the illusory nature of theater itself, our interactions with objects and the pervasive, dysfunctional ways in which we use them to understand and define ourselves is tragic, but also unrelentingly funny.

At Studio Theatre’s Stage 4, Sobelle has created a labyrinthine storage facility filled with heaps of towering boxes entrapping the audience members who are welcome to comb through the cardboard vessels that surround them. In his surreal play, objects have lives of their own, just as they do in our personal realities. Our attachment to them stems from the intrinsic, almost mystical correspondence between their solid forms and our intangible memories. Why is it so difficult to de-clutter? Why do we cling to mere things? Why is it painful for us to purge? Perhaps because getting rid of these objects means discarding pieces of our past and forsaking fragments of ourselves. The play runs May 18 to June 15 at Studio Theatre, 1501 14th St. NW. $20–$55. (202) 332-3300. studiotheatre.org.

—Caroline Jones Rock & Roll Hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

Islands, Lushlife. 8 p.m. $15. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

U StReet MUSic Hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

The Summer Set, Handsome Ghost, Royal Teeth, Call Me Karizma. 7 p.m. $20. ustreetmusichall.com.

JAzz

BetHeSda BlUeS and Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. B-CC HS Jazz Ensemble, Paul Carr’s Jazz Academy of Music. 7 p.m. $10. bethesdabluesjazz.com.

VOCAL

BlUeS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Paulette McWilliams. 8 p.m. & 10 p.m. $25. bluesalley.com.

WEDNESDAY ROCk

9:30 clUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. JMSN, Tiffany Gouché. 7 p.m. $20. 930.com.

BiRcHMeRe 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Richard Marx. 7:30 p.m. $39.50. birchmere.com.

Black cat BackStage 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 6674490. The Effects, Des Demonas, Santics. 7:30 p.m. $10. blackcatdc.com. dc9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Lincoln Dunham, The Jones. 9 p.m. $12. dcnine.com. gypSy Sally’S 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700.

Lukas Nelson & Promise Of The Real, Fruition. 8 p.m. $15–$17. gypsysallys.com.

Wolf tRap filene centeR 1551 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes, Preservation Hall Jazz Band. 8 p.m. $25–$50. wolftrap.org.

ELECTRONiC flaSH 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Alex Metric. 8 p.m. $15. flashdc.com.

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MICHAEL FRANKS 14 Presents JORDAN SMITH BOY&BEAR 15 16 JOAN OSBORNE Mutlu 17 MAYSA Cindy Lee 18 AL STEWART Berryfield 12

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ANGIE STONE 10,000 MANIACS 25 JONATHAN COULTON and PAUL & STORM 26 THREE DOG NIGHT

SUN 22

TURTLE RECALL ROME FORTUNE THE RANGE BURLESQUE SING-A-LONG (21+)

AGORAPHOBIC NOSEBLEED COMMON PEOPLE

90S ALT POP & HIP HOP PARTY

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IS THE GLASS HALF FULL? IS THE GLASS HALF EMPTY? HOW ABOUT HALF OFF!

Blues Alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Arturo O’Farrill Boss Level Septet. 8 p.m. & 10 p.m. $30. bluesalley.com.

Twins JAzz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Jason Hammers. 8 p.m. & 10 p.m. $10. twinsjazz.com.

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BossA BisTro 2463 18th St NW. 202-667-0088.

Kamel Zennia. 9:30 p.m. $5. bossadc.com.

HowArd THeATre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Saul Hernandez, Tres Minutos. 8 p.m. $25–$30. thehowardtheatre.com.

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MAnsion AT sTrATHMore 10701 Rockville Pike, North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Kimberly Kong. 7:30 p.m. $17. strathmore.org.

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BlAck cAT BAcksTAge 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 6674490. Paperwhite, Cheerleader. 7:30 p.m. $10. blackcatdc.com. Paperwhite, Cheerleader. 7:30 p.m. $10. blackcatdc.com. ioTA cluB & cAfé 2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. (703) 522-8340. Stereoriots, My Darling Fury, End Year.

8:30 p.m. $10. iotaclubandcafe.com.

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DC JAZZFESTIVAL JUNE 10 –19, 2016 EVENTS DC PRESENTS:

DCJAZZFESTATTHEYARDS

Jiffy luBe live 7800 Cellar Door Drive, Bristow. (703) 754-6400. Daryl Hall & John Oates. 7 p.m. $25–$125. livenation.com.

logAn fringe ArTs spAce 1358 Florida Ave. NE. (202) 737-7230. Escapism, Fred Thomas, Cigarette, Haunted. 9 p.m. Free. capitalfringe.org.

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9:30 cluB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Caravan Palace. 7 p.m. $35. 930.com. flAsH 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Monkey Safari, DJ Lisa Frank, Leonardo Lee. 8 p.m. $5–$8. flashdc.com. u sTreeT Music HAll 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

TroyBoi, GypZ. 10 p.m. $12. ustreetmusichall.com.

JAzz

Blues Alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Chris Rob. 8 p.m. & 10 p.m. $26.50. bluesalley. com.

Twins JAzz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Twins Jazz Orchestra. 8 p.m. & 10 p.m. $10. twinsjazz.com.

CouNTrY

AMp By sTrATHMore 11810 Grand Park Ave., North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. The Dustbowl Revival. 8 p.m. $20–$30. ampbystrathmore.com. gypsy sAlly’s 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. Lindi Ortega, Karen Jonas. 8 p.m. $14–$16. gypsysallys. com.

Mr. Henry’s 601 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. (202) 5468412. Amanda Murphy and the Lost Indians. 8 p.m.

Free. mrhenrysdc.com.

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kennedy cenTer MillenniuM sTAge 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Screaming Orphans. 6 p.m.

Free. kennedy-center.org.

CITY LIGHTS: WEDNESDAY

3rd & Water Street SE on the Capitol Riverfront Music til 10 PM Visit Ticketmaster.com Enjoy an outdoor festival experience featuring Grammy-award winning performers, food/beverage vendors and a marketplace

friday 5:00 PM – 10:00 PM – FREE

JUNE

17

GRRLS RULE! Cissa Paz, Introducing Sharel Cassity & Elektra, and Akua Allrich & The Tribe

saturday 2:00 PM – 10:00 PM – Ticketed

JUNE

18

Cécile McLorin Salvant, The Chuck Brown Band, Eddie Palmieri Latin Jazz Septet, DCJAZZPRIX FINALISTS: New Century Jazz Quintet, Mark G Meadows and The Movement, Cowboys and Frenchmen.

sunday 2:00 PM – 10:00 PM – Ticketed

JUNE

19

Kamasi Washington, Igmar Thomas & The Revive Big Band w/Bilal, Talib Kweli, and Ravi Coltrane, Fred Foss Tribute to NEA Jazz Master Jackie McLean, Introducing E.J. Strickland & Transient Beings

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THE EFFECTS

In the midst of jittery guitars and barn-burning choruses, The Effects has an ease and confidence to its sound that can only be attributed to experience. Guitarist Devin Ocampo (Faraquet, Beauty Pill, and more), drummer David Rich (Buildings), and bassist Matt Dowling (Deleted Scenes) have been a part of the D.C. music scene long enough that its styles and inflections seem to ooze from its members naturally. Listening to this ensemble in some ways is reminiscent of listening to a great jazz trio pull from a lifetime of repertoire. The Effects isn’t weighed down by expectation either. It’s putting out about a song a month when its members feel like they have something worth sharing. Maybe a record will come of it, maybe one won’t. Either way, don’t miss out on some of the most cathartic rock ‘n’ roll being made in the District today. The Effects performs with Des Demonas and Santics at 7:30 p.m. at the Black Cat Backstage, 1811 14th St. NW. $10.

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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.

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Barry Meier In Missing Man: The American Spy Who Vanished in Iran, the author, an award-winning journalist, investigates the mysterious case of FBI agent Robert Levinson. Politics & Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. May 23, 7 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919. eric ripert The acclaimed French chef describes his journey from a rural town to the top of the culinary world in his new book, 32 Yolks. Politics & Prose.

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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 hard-

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. Closing: “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. Ongoing: “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. 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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Ayad Akhtar (pictured) is making his mark in the D.C. theater scene. His Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Disgraced has received positive reviews during its run at Arena Stage and starting this week, another theater will mount a production of his 2014 play, The Who and the What. Like Disgraced, The Who and the What focuses on Muslim identity but instead of looking at how Muslim-Americans assimilate, it explains how faith changes over the course of generations. The protagonist, Zarina, is a Pakistani-American writer who just finished a book about women in Islam. As she forms a connection with a new believer, Zarina’s relationship with her own family begins to suffer; they are dismayed by her controversial writing. All the characters are forced to reckon with their own feelings about faith and family, and while religion remains at the core of the play, the tension between generations and the disagreements that spring from them are relatable to anyone with parents or children. The play runs May 25 to June 19 at Round House Theatre, 4545 East-West Highway, Bethesda. $36–$61. (240) 644-1100. roundhousetheatre.org.

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malPaso Dance comPany The Cuban dance ensemble performs world premiere work by its artistic director Osnel Delgado as well as pieces by Ronald K. Brown and Trey McIntyre. Dance Place. 3225 8th St. NE. May 21, 8 p.m.; May 22, 7 p.m. $15-$30. (202) 2691600. danceplace.org.

Paul taylor Dance comPany The acclaimed choreographer’s company performs pieces from throughout his six-decade career, including “Mercuric Tidings,” “Beloved Renegade,” and “Polaris.” The Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra accompanies the ensemble on several pieces. Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater. 2700 F St. NW. May 25, 7:30 p.m.; May 26, 7:30 p.m. $39-$79. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org.

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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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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 swashbuck-

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