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14 where the sidewalk ends D.C.’s law against blocking the sidewalk makes for an easy arrest. by will sommer PhotograPhs by darrow montgomery

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7 Housing Complex: Our departing columnist shares his dreams for D.C. 9 City Desk: Blocks from the White House 10 Gear Prudence 12 Savage Love 19 Buy D.C.

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21 Young & Hungry: Can D.C. become a weekday breakfast town?

23 Grazer: A breakfast sandwich matrix 23 Are You Gonna Drink That?

Jrink Juicery’s Black Magic 23 Underserved: Osteria Morini’s Fernet About It

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25 Funk in Love: Go-Go’s de facto historian remembers his roots.

27 Arts Desk: What your outdoor film screening says about your ‘hood 28 Curtain Calls: Klimek on The Blood Quilt and Ritzel on Cabaret 30 Galleries: Devine on “Shirin Neshat: Facing History” at the Hirshhorn 32 Disco: West on Reginald Cyntje’s Spiritual Awakening and Hodges on Drop Electric’s Lost in Decay 34 Short Subjects: Gittell on Good Kill

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City PaPer was devoted to the 2015 Summer Arts and Entertainment Guide, a collection of book, comedy, dance, film, gallery, museum, and music recommendations guaranteed to make the next few hellaciously hot months of your life a little cooler. As former City Paper Editor Mike Madden put it on Twitter, “Here’s what you’re doing this summer, D.C.” The guide, which features listings through mid-September, is no longer in newspaper boxes, but you can get a copy by visiting City Paper’s HQ.

in which readers do math and try to solve a mystery

the amount of alcohol contributed to the cocktail. In that case you can have the Negroni but not the 99.99% whiskey. Gin is about 40% alcohol. Campari and vermouth are about half that (for purposes of this argument).

X volume at 40% is equal to 2X volume at 20%.”

Sidman explained that the law is based on volume, to which Dave B replied, “It should be based on volume*ABV. Math is hard though.

Maybe you could boil off some of the water in the vermouth and Campari to reduce the volume. Then add the water back in as a non-alcohol beverage. This seems like a lot of effort.” For a cocktail? Ain’t no mountain high enough.

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Booze You Can Use. The evolution of distillery laws in D.C., including a new regulation permitting on-site consumption, was the subject of Jessica Sidman’s Young & Hungry column. As TheBottomlessMimosa (@TheBoMimo) accurately tweeted, “Liquor laws are more complicated and old-fashioned than I thought!” Reader Dave B picked up on a particularly strange part of the new law that requires at least half of the spirits in cocktails served at distilleries to be made onsite: “Re: Number of spirits in a cocktail. How does that legislation actually read? Are they just counting the number of alcoholic ingredients? That would be stupid. In

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Helmet Dread. Finally, our bike columnist, Gear Prudence, tackled the age-old question: Why is that cyclist’s helmet on his handlebars and not on his head?

While GP had a simple answer (it’s the heat, not the stupidity), our commenters had other ideas. mldickens wrote, “Helmet on handlebars - it’s because their mom makes them take it, but they don’t want to wear it because that’s uncool. Gotta keep it around so you can put it on just before you get home!”

—Sarah Anne Hughes

Department of Corrections: The Summer Arts and Entertainment Guide erroneously featured a photo of the metal band Death next to an entry about the protopunk band Death. Thank you to the many readers who pointed this out.

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Stop building streetcar lines in mixed traffic Who ever thought it was a good idea to build streetcars that crawl at the pace of rush-hour car traffic and get stuck altogether when someone double-parks? It’s too late to turn back the clock on the H Street-Benning line.

But for future lines, it should be dedicated lanes or bust.

If we can’t build new Metro lines, let’s at least get a streetcar up Georgia Avenue with its own lanes. Yes, it’ll slow traffic, but imagine the alternative: a massive new Walter Reed development without any speedy means of access other than cars. There and elsewhere, it’d be nice to have a streetcar that’s actually useful as a mode of transit, not just eye candy for tourists who are scared of the bus.

our departing Housing Complex reporter shares his dreams for D.C.

By Aaron Wiener

This city needs more Metro lines, or at least some infill stations.

At the very least, add some infill stations One spot in particular is crying out for a station: the former Pepco plant just east of the

Anacostia River, right along the Blue and Orange lines. It’s only about a mile’s walk from the Minnesota Avenue station, but it’s also the city’s ripest venue for catalytic redevelopment of the sort that only an on-site Metro station can really spur.

Once it gets cleaned up, it should become a vibrant riverside community, at the top of any developer or retailer’s list. And the city, in addition to generating tremendous tax revenue, will finally get a chance to demon-

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In my two and a half years covering housing and development at Washington City Paper, I’ve been (mostly) constrained by the limits of reality. Now that I’m departing, I no longer feel so bound. Here, in my final Housing Complex column, are a few not-so-modest proposals for how to make D.C. better.

trian friendly. With better tunnel-boring technology, the disruption won’t compare with the initial building of the Metro in the 1960s and ’70s. And just as we can’t fathom a Metro-less city now, in 50 years residents won’t be able to picture a District with just six (and, in the city center, just three) puny Metro lines.

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strate its commitment to create areas east of the Anacostia that are just as desirable as their west-of-the-river counterparts.

A Man, a Plan, a Canard: Panacea

Build new Metro lines The city is growing, physically and demographically, but there are few Metro-accessible areas left to develop. As a result, D.C. is losing people to the suburbs and to more isolated parts of town where they’re reliant on cars, which further clog our roads. Meanwhile, developers are resorting to dirty tricks to kick out low-income tenants in high-demand parts of the District and build more lucrative properties. It’s not sustainable.

Fortunately, the time is right to start building new Metro lines. Interest rates are historically low, making it cheaper to finance such a big undertaking. It’s still very expensive, of course, but the city could impose assessments on property owners near the future lines to help pay for the project (assuming, as is likely, that the feds and suburban jurisdictions are less than excited to build new D.C. stations), since they’ll profit hugely from the enterprise.

Imagine new lines up Rhode Island, New York, and Georgia avenues; along Benning Road and Martin Luther King Jr. and Minnesota avenues; not to mention better connections through downtown of the sort Metro’s already discussing. Then imagine the housing and retail boom if you upzone the areas along those routes. The benefits of transit accrue to parts of town that have missed out. Commutes shorten, neighborhoods revive, and roads become less congested and more pedes-

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Move MLK Library back to Carnegie The city is preparing to undertake a $200 million, years-long renovation of the grimy, obsolete Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library building. Meanwhile, three blocks north, D.C.’s former central library—the gorgeous 1903 Carnegie Library—sits under-utilized, rented out occasionally for events. Why not move MLK back into a building worthy of the city’s central library?

Sure, the space is a little small, but perhaps the preservation authorities could be persuaded to allow, for the public good, the kind of expansion they rejected when the Spy Museum was trying to move into Carnegie (particularly if some of the expansion can be underground). The library could then focus on being a library, built around books.

The city could fund the move by selling off MLK to a developer to expand it and turn it into the office building that would better fit its aesthetics, while retaining control of the ground floor, which could become a community center with the computers and other non-book functions the library currently houses. It could also double as a daytime homeless-services center, something the city is looking to establish downtown to alleviate the pressure on the library.

Everybody wins—particularly the prestige of a city whose central library has long been an embarrassment.

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DISTRICTLINE of Columbia Heights The purists say Petworth doesn’t extend west of Georgia Avenue. Sixteenth Street Heights can’t possibly encompass one of the two Petworth Metro station entrances. And North Columbia Heights doesn’t exist. So what to call the neighborhood bounded by Spring Road NW to the south, Georgia Avenue to the east, and Arkansas Avenue to the northwest?

No one seems to have a good answer, which is why it needs a new name.

I propose Twin Oaks. The neighborhood already has the Twin Oaks apartment complex and the nearby Twin Oaks Community Garden. The name is attractive and marketable. And most important, it’s a name.

Make diversity a priority for design review When the city’s historic preservation and zoning authorities review development projects, they emphasize “compatibility” with surrounding buildings. The end result: Anything remotely novel gets weeded out and streets wind up looking blandly homogenous.

Instead, they should give points to proposals that bring diversity to a block. Variety of color and shape is what makes D.C.’s distinctive rowhouse blocks special. Let’s prioritize new projects that accomplish the same thing.

Buy properties to preserve affordable housing The more expensive D.C.’s housing gets, the more expensive it becomes for the city to create and preserve affordable housing.

Fortunately, there’s a mechanism that allows the city to step in and buy properties that are at risk of losing their affordability, and it has the potential to be cheaper than existing means of creating affordable housing. The hitch? Since becoming law in 2008, the District Opportunity to Purchase Act has never been used, largely because the regulations for it haven’t been written. Now’s a good time to start putting it to use.

Pop the Ivy City bubble As recently as two years ago, residents of Ivy City complained that their neighborhood was the city’s “dumping ground,” with nothing but undesirable facilities like garbage-truck parking lots. Since then, things have changed mind-blowingly fast.

The neighborhood now has an organic grocery store, yoga studio, gym, and new breweries and distilleries opening seemingly each week. On the way: a bicycle shop and three new restaurants from the owner of Ghibellina. One thing that won’t be coming is a Busboys and Poets restaurant, after owner Andy Shallal pulled out recently. He might be onto something.

Ivy City is an isolated sliver of a neighborhood, hemmed in by railroad tracks, a cemetery, and a highway-like stretch of New York Avenue NE. It has poor transit connections and a small and impoverished population. The boom there is starting to feel like a bubble. Retailers might want to look elsewhere before they learn it the hard way.

Wouldn’t this former library make a nice library?

Create pedestrian zones In 1995, President Bill Clinton closed the stretch of Pennsylvania Avenue NW in front of the White House to vehicular traffic for security reasons. How much have we missed the ability to drive there? Not at all.

Let’s create similar pedestrian zones elsewhere, starting with 7th Street NW in front of the Verizon Center, and maybe nearby F Street (where a pedestrian mall was ripped out in the ’90s). Not only would that foster a safer and livelier atmosphere for the tourists and sports fans who already clog those blocks, but it’d also make it much easier to run a streetcar on 7th Street, between Buzzard Point and Georgia Avenue, without conflicting with cars.

Make non-soccer investments in Buzzard Point The main argument in favor of subsidizing a soccer stadium at Buzzard Point has nothing to do with soccer and everything to do with economic development. But for the $150 million the city’s putting into the site (not to mention the tax breaks it’s giving D.C. United, against the advice of its own chief financial officer), the city could make an even bigger investment in this neglected waterfront neighborhood.

Why should a soccer stadium attract more nearby development than transit improvements (an efficient streetcar line or even a Metro station) and development subsidies?

Twenty years from now, when Buzzard Point is booming, we might regret devoting a sizeable chunk of it to a stadium for a sport whose D.C. fandom ranks somewhere between snowball fights and drag races.

Banish all talk of a new football stadium Never mind the racist team name. Why would we want a lovely stretch along the Anacostia River to remain dominated by a stadium and parking lots?

Let’s kill the idea now and get started on

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the neighborhood-serving development that residents have long demanded.

Mandate homeless shelters in every ward The city’s trying to close the troubled D.C. General family homeless shelter and replace it with a network of smaller shelters. But the plan’s bound to run into the same NIMBYism that strikes whenever a new shelter is proposed.

So let’s require those replacements to include one shelter in each of the city’s eight wards. That way, ward councilmembers will stop saying “no” and start saying “where,” and the responsibility of sheltering the homeless will be equitably shared by all corners of the city.

Stop ANC and community-group shakedowns In order to secure the approval of Congress Heights community groups, the would-be developer of a project near the neighborhood’s Metro station had to agree to give the groups hundreds of thousands of dollars. The Southwest Neighborhood Assembly dropped its opposition to a Shakespeare Theatre development project in exchange for $60,000 and other concessions. The Advisory Neighborhood Commission for the Trinidad area backed a plan for a pop-up entertainment venue only after the venue agreed to give neighbors a 10 percent discount.

ANCs and community groups have made these “community benefits agreements” a precondition for support of development and

retail projects that require special approval. It’s hard to argue that these deals, which sometimes amount to shakedowns, are in the city’s interest.

Let’s get rid of community benefits agreements and replace them with concessions that are deemed useful by more than just a few neighbors.

End parking minimums As part of the comprehensive update to the city’s zoning code, the Office of Planning recommended getting rid of parking minimums in new buildings near Metro stations, then reinstated them after opposition from some vocal residents.

Instead of backtracking, the city should go even further by eliminating them altogether. Mandated parking spots add costs for developers, who then pass them along to tenants, even those who won’t use the spaces, thereby making D.C.’s housing stock even less affordable.

If the market demands parking, developers will build it. If not, let’s not force them.

Repeal the Height Act This one won’t come as a surprise to anyone who’s read this column before: The Height Act is an abomination for D.C. residents in three ways.

First, it means that Congress, not D.C., retains control over the District’s skyline (making it all the more mind-boggling that the D.C. Council voted almost unanimously to urge Congress to leave the law intact).

Second, it imposes a huge economic cost on the city. Housing is unsustainably expensive; allowing more supply would ease price increases. We’re losing employers to the suburbs because they have more space and lower rents; why would anyone choose soulless Rosslyn or Tysons over D.C. if we eliminated that discrepancy?

And finally, D.C .’s skyline is boring.

The city’s prettiest streets wouldn’t be affected by taller buildings, since zoning would keep them intact. But adding some 15- or 20-story buildings to Maryland-adjacent Friendship Heights or ugly K Street or economically starved Ward 8 wouldn’t do any aesthetic damage, and it’d bring major benefits to the District as it tries to remain competitive, affordable, and livable CP in the future.

Got a real-estate tip? Send suggestions to housingcomplex@washingtoncitypaper.com. Or call (202) 650-6928.

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Tomorrow’s history today: This was the week we heard a luxury condo in D.C. is getting its own Master Sommelier.

Blocks from the White house

Welcome to the second installment of Blocks from the White House, the semi-regular feature in which we at Washington City Paper name and shame national news media outlets and the people they deem worthy of quoting for whipping viewers and readers into a frenzy about stuff just because it happens close to the White House. If you find any gems, tweet us at @BlocksfromtheWH. —Emily Q. Hazzard What: Amateurish tourism! The New York Times’ Frugal Traveler Seth Kugel spent a weekend in D.C. on a $100 budget. He griped about pricey food trucks “just a couple of blocks from the White House,” then went to the the National Postal Museum by “cutting down Pennsylvania Avenue by the White House. Inside, President Obama was having lunch with the Italian prime minister, Matteo Renzi.”

Where: .3 miles and 1.6 miles away, respectively When: A “gloriously sunny” weekend “during late-April cherry blossom season” Why the White House shouldn’t worry: At the very top of the long list of people who don’t care what Seth Kugel eats in D.C. is the president.

What: “Tech hubs!” On their expansion-byacquisition of an Arlington office, a 1776 co-founder gloats to the Washington Post: “Much as we say we’re only a few blocks from the White House, now we’ll be within a couple blocks of the Pentagon.”

Where: .5 miles from the White House, 1.4 miles from the Pentagon When: April 16, 2015 Why the White House shouldn’t worry: Nothing can diminish the slavish affection D.C. politicos heap on local “tech hubs.” Not even “blocks from the Pentagon.”

What: Mike Huckabee and his salmon! The Post caught up with Huck “looking stricken over a recent plate of salmon at the JW Marriott a few blocks from the White House he would like to occupy.”

Where: .4 miles away on foot, but if you take the election route, a hell of a long ways off.

When: Published May 6, 2015, but the case of the Sad Salmon was sometime earlier Why the White House shouldn’t worry: Clutch those pearls: President Huckabee should have us all concerned What: Poverty! The Daily Mail frets over a study that says babies born in Ward 8, “just four miles from the White House,” were ten times as likely to die before their first birthdays than their rich counterparts.

Where: 8.9 miles from the White House to Ward 8’s United Medical Center When: The report came out in 2014 Why the White House shouldn’t worry: The White House should worry. But is the suffering of children somehow worse when it happens close to the White House?

What: A rich bigot! A human-rights activist lamented to the Washington Blade that Gambian President Yahya Jammeh “owns a multimillion dollar mansion, [a] little more than 20 miles from the White House.” Jammeh has been outspoken in his campaign of hate against LGBTQ people in Gambia and abroad.

Where: In Potomac, Md. When: Right at this very moment Why the White House shouldn’t worry: Hate isn’t contagious.

What: Riots! CNN and others noted that Baltimore is just 40 miles away from the White House. The Daily Caller used the factoid in a headline.

Where: In a totally different city, an eternity away in rush-hour traffic When: Late April to early May Why the White House shouldn’t worry: Actually, the president should be very worried about institutionalized racism, police brutality, and protesting, but not because they’re proximate to his house.

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Gear Prudence: While biking home yesterday, I rolled over broken glass at various locations. Fortunately, my tires were OK, but it got me wondering: If broken glass is unavoidable (say on a narrow trail or in a bike lane with parked cars on one side and heavy traffic on the other) is it better to slow down as much as possible or to maintain speed over the glass? My friend said slowing down and trying to avoid the worst spots was her strategy. I thought that going as fast as possible would give the glass less of a chance to stick.

Which of us is right? —Speed Helps Avoid Random Punctures?

Dear SHARP: When faced with the fate of flats, is it a fait accompli? Or can you outrun your destiny, perhaps by speeding up or, ironically, slowing down? But before addressing strategy, it’s important to first assess the unavoidability of the unavoidable.

In many cases, a bicyclist can scan the road ahead with an eye toward the glinty glass splinters that might provoke a puncture and takes steps well in advance to avoid them.

Or, you could hire a team of off-season curlers to run ahead of your ride and clear the way of potentially harmful debris. Ideally, you’ll never want to be in the position of taking last-second evasive maneuvers to avoid glass—you could be trading a potential puncture for a far worse outcome.

In the case where the broken glass truly is unavoidable, would riding faster through the hazard, perhaps while invoking the David Farragut (the namesake of the downtown square) strategy, by damning the torpedoes and speeding fully ahead, lessen the likelihood of puncture? GP has his doubts. Puncture flats happen when an object gets through the tire and pokes a hole in the tube, thereby allowing air to escape. Whether you ride over something sharp enough to do this really fast or really slowly, if it gets through it gets through. Speed is not your succor.

But all is not lost if you have had the misfortune to ride over broken glass. Keeping your tires inflated to proper air pressure is a key flat prevention technique. Beyond that, some cyclists employ puncture-resistant tires, typically made of thicker material, or put a Kevlar strip between the tire and the tube. Beyond these options, it’s also a good idea, especially if you know you’ve just ridden over some bad stuff, to inspect your tires and rub away or pull out any small objects stuck in your tires that could over time damage the tube.

Ultimately though, it’s best to be sanguine about these kinds of things. Flats happen —GP when they happen.

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

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SAVAGELOVE Yesterday, I found my 5-year-old son putting things up his butt in the bath. This isn’t the first time—and it’s not just a “Hey! There’s a hole here! Let’s put things in there!” kind of thing. The little dude was rocking quite the stiffy while he did it. I’m well aware of how sexual kids can be (I freaking was!), although I wasn’t quite expecting to be catching him exploring anal at this young age. I want to avoid a trip to the emergency room to extract a toy car or whatever else from his rear end, and I don’t want to see him damage himself. So do you have any suggestions of what I can give him as a butt toy? Yes, I am serious, and no, I’m not molesting him. I know he’s going to do this on his own with or without my knowing, and I want him to be safe! Just today, he proudly showed me a toy car that he stuck up his butt. I told him that it wasn’t a good idea due to the sharp bits on it, and while he may have gotten this one out, one could get stuck and then we would have to go to the hospital. Help! —Helping Ingenious Son Make Other Moves “HISMOM has handled this really well so far, and I am impressed with her clarity and calm about this situation,” said Amy Lang, a childhood sexuality expert and educator, a public speaker, and the author of Birds + Bees + Your Kids (birdsandbeesandkids. com). “But NO BUTT TOYS for 5-yearolds! This is insane and will cause a host of problems—can you imagine if he says to his teacher, ‘Yesterday, I played with my butt plug!’ Instant CPS call!”

I’m going to break in for a second: Do NOT buy a butt toy for your 5-year-old kid—if, indeed, you and your 5-year-old kid’s butt actually exist. I’m way more than half convinced that your letter is a fake, HISMOM, something sent in by a Christian conservative out to prove that I’m the sort of degenerate who would tell a mom to buy a butt toy for a 5-year-old. I’m some sort of degenerate, I’ll happily admit, but I’m not that sort.

“This clearly isn’t a safe way for her boy to explore his body for a variety of reasons,” said Lang. “His butthole is tiny, it’s an adultlike behavior, and it’s germy.”

And while adults who are into butt play are (or should be) proactive and conscientious about hygiene, grubby little 5-yearolds aren’t particularly proactive or conscientious about hygiene—or anything else.

You don’t want his hands and toys smeared with more fecal matter than is typical for the hands and toys of most 5-year-olds.

“It’s also on the outer edges of ‘typical’ sexual behavior in a young kid,” said Lang.

“He may very well have discovered this sort of outlier behavior on his own, but there is a chance that someone showed him how to do this. HISMOM needs to calmly ask her son, ‘I’m curious—how did you figure out that it feels good to put things in your bum?’ Listen to what he has to say. Depending on his response, she may need to get him a professional evaluation to make sure that he’s okay and safe. She can find someone through rainn.org in her area to help.

While it doesn’t sound like he’s traumatized by this—he’s so open and lighthearted about it—you never know.”

Regardless of where he picked this trick up, HISMOM, you gotta tell him that it’s not okay to put stuff up his butt because he could seriously hurt himself. I know, I know: You are a progressive, sex-positive parent— if you exist—and you don’t wanna saddle your kid with a complex about butt stuff.

But think of all the sexually active adults out there, gay and bi and straight, who have overcome standard-issue butt-stuff complexes and now safely and responsibly enjoy their assholes and the assholes of others. If you give your son a minor complex by, say, taking his toy cars away until he stops putting them in his ass, rest assured that he’ll be able to overcome that complex later in life.

“She should tell him that she totally gets that it feels good,” said Lang, “but there

“This clearly isn’t a safe way for her boy to explore his body for a variety of reasons.” are other ways he can have those good feelings that are safer, like rubbing and touching his penis, and he is welcome to do that any time he wants—as long as he’s in private and alone. You can also tell him the safest thing to put up there is his own finger. But he MUST wash his hands if he does that. Nothing else, finger only. And did I mention NO BUTT TOY? Seriously.” Follow Amy Lang on Twitter @birdsandbees. —Dan Savage I’m a longtime fan, but I disagree with your advice to CIS, the lesbian who wanted to add “not into trans women” to her online dating profile. I’m a straight guy, and if I met a woman online, I would want to be sure she had female genitalia under her clothes. It’s a requirement for me, and that doesn’t mean I’m not a trans ally. I’m not into people who don’t have female genitalia—should I go out on a coffee date with a trans woman just to make her feel better?

—Not An Asshole There’s nothing about preferring—even re-

quiring—a particular set of genitalia that will result in your being stripped of your trans ally status, NAA. The issue is adding a few words to your profile (“no trans women”) that might spare you from the horrors of having coffee with one or two trans women over the course of your dating life but that will definitely make every trans woman who sees your profile feel like shit. The world is already an intensely hostile, unwelcoming place for trans people. Why would someone who considers himself (or herself, in the case of CIS) an ally want to make the world more hostile and unwelcoming? Awkwardness and “wasted” coffee dates are built into the online-dating experience. Trans women who haven’t had bottom surgery aren’t going to spring their dicks on you—they’ll almost always disclose before it gets to that point— and you’re not obligated to sleep with any—Dan one you don’t find attractive.

I’m a cis straight woman. I went on dates with a lot of guys from dating websites (200+) before I got married. Just writing to say that I agreed with your advice to the lesbian dating-site user.

I agree that putting negative/exclusionary notes like “no trans women” or “no Asian guys” in a dating profile is a turnoff—and not just to the excluded group but to those who find those kinds of comments to be mean-spirited and narrowminded. And are there really so many trans people out there that such a comment is even necessary? Are there really that many trans people out there causing massive confusion on dating websites? And honestly, if someone is trans and you wind up meeting them for coffee, what would be the big deal anyway? It’s just coffee! I don’t understand why this would be such a huge problem.

—Straight Chick In DC My point exactly.

—Dan

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By Will Sommer

D.C.’s law against blocking the sidewalk makes for an easy arrest.

Photographs by Darrow Montgomery

The chitlins were making Alex Dennis sick. Dennis, a 20-year-old with dreadlocks that graze his shoulders, found himself getting nauseous in his apartment while his uncle and aunt cooked soul food for Thanksgiving.

Dennis walked outside to get some air, but ended up right in the grasp of the Metropolitan Police Department.

Stepping outside an apartment for fresh air doesn’t draw police attention in, say, Georgetown. But Dennis doesn’t live there. Instead, he lives on Buena Vista Terrace SE, a grim stretch

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of low-rise apartments pushed up against the Maryland border. And on Buena Vista Terrace, just standing outside can get you in trouble.

Dennis was standing on a ramp to his apartment building around 8:30 p.m., looking for relief from the chitlins’ aroma, when a police officer approached and told him and another man that they were blocking the ramp.

The officer, according to a police report, told Dennis to move.

The request was an odd one for Dennis. In his telling, no one was trying to come up the ramp. If someone had come by, he says, he would have moved. The police report doesn’t mention anyone who couldn’t get past him.

“How can you tell me to move from the place where I live at?” Dennis says.

When Dennis refused to move, police arrested him and put him into a van. As the cop took

him away, Dennis asked him why he was being arrested.

“Blocking a passage,” the officer said, in Dennis’ telling. “You’re going with me.”

Dennis had run afoul of a District law that forbids “incommoding,” which means blocking a sidewalk. The law is meant to fight disorderly conduct, but some lawyers and the people arrested for the “crime” say it’s routinely used to harass people seen as undesirable: protesters, the homeless, and black men.

While Dennis’ time in police custody lasted only a few hours, its effects lasted for months.

Dennis, who works at a Dulles International Airport pizzeria, worried that his arrest could affect his security clearance at the airport, and thus, leave him without a job. Only when his case was dropped in April could he stop worrying about it.

Still, Dennis says the police officer who arrested him still comes by and tells him over the squad car loudspeaker to “get the fuck in the house.”

“You can’t clean up the streets by just locking up innocent people,” says Daryl Agnew, standing in the place where he was arrested for incommoding.

Now Dennis plans to join a lawsuit against the city with other people who say they’ve been unjustly arrested for “incommoding.”

He spends more and more time inside, afraid of angering a police officer and getting again arrested for incommoding.

“He made me paranoid to be in my own yard,” Dennis says.

It’s difficult to know how widespread abusive incommoding arrests are in the District. That’s in part because a vast majority of incommoding charges are resolved through the “post-and-forfeit” process. The accused party pays a fine and goes on his way, with no defense attorneys, prosecutors, or judges involved to determine whether the arrest was legitimate.

No description of the incident is filed with the court, making it hard to judge whether someone really was blocking the sidewalk, or was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Prosecutors drop most of the cases that do reach the D.C. Office of the Attorney Gener-

al from MPD. In 2014, prosecutors received a combined 16 incommoding cases from the Federal Protective Service, the U.S. Capitol Police, and the Secret Service, and prosecuted 15 of them. That same year, MPD sent OAG 45 incommoding cases, and only 15 of them were prosecuted. The number of actual incommoding cases is likely much larger, since OAG never sees cases that are resolved by a paid fine.

The incommoding statute isn’t just about the number of people who are arrested or fined for it. According to attorney Fritz Mulhauser, a former lawyer for the ACLU’s District chapter, incommoding provides a perfect excuse for cops to frisk people they suspect of breaking other laws when police see them on the sidewalk.

“The police may have originally arrested a person for incommoding, and then they search them, and there’s some contraband,” Mulhauser says.

He says that the District’s incommoding

statute is so vague that anyone on a sidewalk who isn’t moving is violating it. You don’t have to be sitting, you don’t have to be lying down. You just have to be there. Indeed, MPD’s general order to officers on incommoding and disorderly conduct notes that the people arrested for breaking the law might not even know they’re breaking it—which will make them even angrier.

“You could incommode the sidewalk just by standing in one place,” Mulhauser says.

Attorney Jeffrey Light has sued the District on behalf of Occupy protesters who say they were unjustly arrested for incommoding while protesting Bank of America downtown. Light says the incommoding statute’s vagueness offers police the perfect reason to arrest bothersome protesters.

“Any time you’re stationary on a sidewalk, no matter how little space you’re taking up, and no matter how big the sidewalk is, that is incommoding because nobody can be on the same part of the sidewalk that you’re sitting

on,” Light says.

OAG spokesman Robert Marus disputes that the incommoding statute should be interpreted this broadly.

“While it is true that one person can ‘block’ a sidewalk or an entrance to a building, simply standing still is not illegal,” Marus says in an email.

Of course, whether standing still amounts to blocking the sidewalk is up to the officer’s discretion. Attorneys involved in incommoding cases can cite a long list of “incommoding” events that, somehow, don’t merit police attention: lines outside stores for the latest Apple product, or downtown businessmen talking on the street. In the incommoding lawsuit that Dennis plans to join, attorney William Claiborne uses a picture of a woman with a baby stroller taking up a sidewalk in a tony District neighborhood as an example of the kind of clear incommoding that goes unpunished.

“Human nature here is against the law,”

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Claiborne says. “Unless the police decide not to arrest you.”

As I interviewed former incommoding defendants for this story, people noted several times that, under the law’s strictest application, I was just as guilty of incommoding as they were.

“You can bet MPD is not standing in the middle of K Street,” Mulhauser says.

Ironically, the current version of the District’s incommoding statute was put in place to prevent police abuses. In 2010, civil liberties groups complained that the District’s century-old disorderly conduct statute was so vague that it provided police officers with a blank check to arrest anyone they didn’t like.

In a 2010 report, the District’s Council for Court Excellence found that the statute’s ambiguity was “facilitating improper arrests for ‘contempt of cop.’” In other words, if an MPD officer didn’t like you, he could arrest you for disorderly conduct even if you we`ren’t deliberately breaking any law.

What’s more, the fine process, according to the report, “forestalls any prosecutorial or judicial oversight of these arrests”: Many of the disorderly conduct arrests were resolved when the supposed offender was offered the chance to pay a $35 fine. Faced with more time under arrest or a fine the size of a small grocery bill, many opted to pay up. It was a better deal for them, but it also kept scrutiny of the law’s application away from prosecutors, defense attorneys, and judges.

In late 2010, the D.C. Council passed sweeping revisions to the District’s disorderly conduct law, including changes to the incommoding rules. Police officers had to give a warning to move now, and the number of would-be sidewalk blockers could now be just one, instead of three. The law went into effect in January 2011.

No one thinks that protesters, with their linked arms and “sleeping dragon” devices, should be able to block sidewalks to their hearts’ content. But just months after the new disorderly conduct rules took effect, Ward 3 Councilmember Mary Cheh (who moonlights as a law professor at George Washington University) noted that police weren’t always using it correctly. Instead of limiting themselves to people who were actually trying to disrupt sidewalk traffic—the original targets of the law—police were using it to deal with sidewalk musicians and homeless people who had no intention of incommoding.

The reforms meant to curb police misuse of disorderly conduct laws had become just another vehicle for it.

In a letter to then-Attorney General Irv Nathan, Cheh complained that police were using the incommoding statute incorrectly. The requirement that police officers offer alleged incommoders a warning to move didn’t satisfy Cheh, since that meant giving police the ability to banish anyone from a public space whenever they wanted.

“The purpose of this amendment was not to subject to punishment any person on a sidewalk who chooses not to move,” Cheh wrote. “Rather, the statute was altered so that should any one person block the entirety of a public right-ofway, that person could be removed.”

Alex Dennis, seen here on the ramp where he says he was unjustly arrested, plans to sue the city.

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Rashad Bugg Bey says he had no intention of blocking the sidewalk on May 9, 2014.

Three years after Cheh warned the District’s attorney general about how the incommoding law was being misapplied, Bugg Bey was standing outside with friends on a Trinidad sidewalk. If someone had come by, Bugg Bey says, he would happily have stepped aside for them to pass.

That wasn’t enough for a police officers who told Bugg Bey and his friends to move along. But Bugg Bey, 24, refused to go. He didn’t see why he should be forced to leave a public sidewalk when, he says, he wasn’t doing anything wrong.

“I felt basically that they was harassing,” Bugg Bey says.

And just like Dennis, Bugg Bey’s refusal to move landed him in MPD custody: He spent the night in jail. Whatever supposed incommoding Bugg Bey was doing, though, it apparently wasn’t worth prosecutors’ time— they dropped his case the next morning.

Now Bugg Bey, like Dennis, is suing the District for false arrest and illegal prosecution. Bugg Bey says he wants “peace of mind” from the lawsuit, the ability to move about the city without fear of being arrested just for being on a sidewalk. Standing on a sidewalk on L Street NW downtown, he marvels at how we’re able to stand in the middle of the sidewalk without repercussions.

“In Northeast, it’s different,” Bugg Bey says.

While OAG insists that just being on the sidewalk doesn’t risk an incommoding charge, Bugg Bey knows how he interprets it after experiencing the law firsthand.

“That’s basically what they’re saying,” Bugg Bey says. “You cannot stand outside.”

While his criminal case was dropped, Bugg Bey says he’s still living through the consequences of his arrest. For one thing, he stays away from Trinidad for fear of getting arrested again for incommoding.

“I don’t want to go through the hassle,” Bugg Bey says.

A hassle is exactly what minority groups are getting in the District, claims activist and former at-large Council candidate Eugene Puryear. Canvassing the District’s poorest wards, Puryear says he frequently hears complaints that officers are harassing people just for standing around in public.

Puryear lives in Congress Heights near Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue SE, where he says he regularly sees police telling groups of people standing around to move along for no reason.

“It’s completely arbitrary,” Puryear says.

Rev. Graylan Hagler, another former Council candidate and activist, says the incommoding statute is one of many tactics police use in poor District communities.

“That’s another little tactic in their toolbox,” Hagler says.

Claiborne says incommoding arrests can be used more often in poorer neighborhoods because the people there are more likely to pass the time on the sidewalk, unable to afford the pricey bars where wealthier Wash-

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“How can you tell me to move from the place where I live at?”

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“If you can’t afford a Cosmos Club, you hang out on the street,” he says.

MPD won’t comment on individual incommoding cases because of the pending lawsuit against the city. MPD spokeswoman Gwendolyn Crump points out, though, that MPD’s instructions to officers about incommoding and disorderly conduct specifically prohibit the kind of “contempt of cop” arrests that civil liberties groups worry about. Officers are also told to arrest someone blocking the sidewalk only after other methods, including issuing the warning, have failed.

In its general order to officers about the updated disorderly conduct statute, MPD tells officers that “arrests based merely on a person’s language, gestures, or attitude toward law enforcement are not lawful arrests.” But Claiborne says he hasn’t seen that warning play out in incommoding arrests.

“They arrest the guy that talks back,” he says.

The video of Daryl Agnew’s arrest looks like so many others in a genre that’s become sadly prevalent lately: an agitated crowd, similarly agitated officers, and a claim of false arrest.

“They just think we monkeys!” yells one onlooker.

On Dec. 24, 2014, Agnew became the latest District resident introduced to the littleknown incommoding law.

Agnew was celebrating Christmas Eve with his family on Buena Vista Terrace last year, just a few apartment buildings down from where Dennis was arrested a few weeks earlier. Agnew and his children’s mother went outside to smoke to avoid triggering their daughter’s asthma. That’s when, in Agnew’s telling, his trouble with incommoding started.

Court records lay out the police version of events: Around 5:45 p.m., officers found Agnew standing on the apartment building’s brick pathway with a woman and an-

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other man. The officers weren’t happy with the way they were positioned in front of the entrance.

“Both of the males were standing in a manner that would cause a citizen or citizens trying to utilize the walkway to deviate from their path of walking,” the report reads.

Comparing the police version of what happened with Agnew’s, there seems to be no obvious explanation for why Agnew, 43, would decide to block a sidewalk on Christmas Eve. He was with his family and, he says, “in the holiday spirit.” He had just gotten off probation and says he had no desire for another run-in with police.

But when an officer told him to move, according to the report, Agnew refused. Agnew says he didn’t want to smoke inside and aggravate his daughter’s asthma.

Agnew’s refusal to move gave the officers a reason to arrest him, and they did, setting off a neighborhood scene that brought more people out to yell at the cops. After

three hours in MPD custody, Agnew was released and found his case dropped a few months later.

Now he’s another party, along with Dennis and Bugg Bey, to Claiborne’s lawsuit against the District for false arrest and illegal prosecution. It’s not clear when that suit will get resolved, though, if it ever does. Attorney Jeffrey Light’s own incommoding lawsuit, filed nearly three years ago on behalf of Occupy protesters, is still waiting on a judge’s opinion.

Standing in the exact spot where his smoking earned him a few hours in custody, Agnew marvels at his arrest. He understands that the street draws police attention, but incommoding arrests aren’t going to solve anything. Judging by the video of his arrest and neighbors’ reactions to it, if anything, Agnew’s experience further frayed MPD’s relationship with the community.

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Greek, lobster rolls, cupcakes, popcorn. I’ve lost track of how many Asian fusion taco trucks are out there.

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He’s unaware of a single generator humming before 9 a.m.

Ruddell-Tabisola blames the breakfast hole primarily on rushhour parking restrictions in the most popular downtown vending locations, like Farragut Square and Metro Center. Last summer, Ruddell-Tabisola told me via email that a group of trucks were looking to test out breakfast in front of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library. But then… nothing. “Nobody really ran with it,” he says.

It’s not just food trucks, and it’s not just about rush-hour gels offer more foodie-friendly grub. Maybe your neighborparking restrictions. Weekday breakfast options in D.C. tend hood coffee spot even serves some pastries, or if you’re really to be lackluster beyond chains like Cosi and Pret a Manger lucky, a breakfast sandwich. Still, diner-style restaurants are or hotel eateries that are contractually obligated to serve ba- few and far between, and breakfast in general is dwarfed by con and toast in the a.m. I’m not saying there are zero alterna- lunch and dinner. While brunch options are as endless as bottives in between: Cafe Phillips provides serviceable fuel to the tomless mimosas, breakfast is cut off after the first glass. As the downtown office masses, Ted’s Bulletin cranks out French food scene grows, will that change? toast as early as 7 a.m., and newer outposts like Bullfrog BaThere are certainly some steps in the right direction. Ve-

loce, the fast-casual pizza place from Pizzeria Paradiso owner Ruth Gresser that opened last month, is one of the only restaurants that serves a breakfast pizza during actual breakfast. The downtown spot opens at 7 a.m. and offers three five-inch scrambled egg-topped pies for $5 each.

“It just seems to me that people are now in the habit of eating on the way to work or having something for breakfast at their work.

And there aren’t a lot of options,” Gresser says of why she wanted to open Veloce for breakfast. Still, she’s never considered breakfast at Pizzeria Paradiso.

Bayou Bakery chef and owner David Guas, who opened a second location of his New Orleans-inspired eatery near Eastern Market last week, also serves breakfast, including biscuit sandwiches and granola, on weekdays.

As more chefs focus on casual eateries, he believes they’ll focus more on breakfast as well. Late-night options have slowly, but modestly expanded. “Breakfast is that next meal period,” Guas says.

But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. No matter how much people like eating breakfast, a lot of chefs just don’t like serving it. “It’s early rising,” Guas says. “It’s more to manage… You could potentially be getting phone calls at 7, 8 o’clock in the morning that something’s wrong. Or a breakfast cook didn’t show up, and you’ve got to work the line. Whatever the case may be, it’s just a longer day, period.”

Aside from that, breakfast just isn’t that lucrative. The average check size is smaller. You’re not going to sell high-profit booze on a Wednesday morning. And it’s harder to staff for the early shift.

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It turns out The Most Important Meal of the Day isn’t really that for most restaurants.

Even places known for breakfast aren’t necessarily getting most of their business from the meal. In 2009, District Taco launched in Rosslyn as a cart that exclusively sold breakfast tacos, inspired in part by the breakfast taco scene in Austin, Texas. But co-owner Osiris Hoil says that wasn’t successful, so he expanded the menu. Now that the business has five brick-and-mortar locations across D.C. and Virginia, the breakfast crowd is less than half the size of lunch or dinner crowds.

“People still don’t know that we serve breakfast,” Hoil says.

Similarly, restaurateur Constantine Stavropoulos says breakfast makes up only about 10 percent of sales at his open-all-day restaurants, which include Open City, the Coupe, the Diner, and Tryst. “Breakfast would definitely be last,” he adds of the customer volume compared to lunch and dinner.

Stavropoulos admits the profit margins on breakfast aren’t bad. A restaurant’s food costs, depending on the cuisine and type of restaurant, are typically 25 to 35 percent of what the dish costs diners. Breakfast food costs—generally speaking—can be around 10 to 15 percent.

“But it requires volume,” Stavropoulos says.

If the restaurant isn’t packed, the labor costs and low check averages will trump the fact that you’re spending less on food.

The reason Stavropoulos’ restaurants serve breakfast is more philosophical than financial. In attempting to create the “third place”—where people congregate outside home or work—he wanted restaurants that were accommodating at all hours. “We’re open all the time, so as a result, we serve breakfast,” he says.

A restaurant’s ability to convert the kitchen between meals can also be a big factor in why they don’t offer breakfast. A lot of restaurants design their kitchens around dinner, Stavropoulos says. Adapting to lunch isn’t usually too hard: You can often reduce the number of entrees and make other minor adjustments.

But breakfast? “It’s kind of a big jump,” he says. “You use the same equipment, but the setups are completely different. The stations are different.”

It’s not just the logistics, it’s space. Not every restaurant kitchen has room to store cartons upon cartons of eggs.

Taylor Gourmet learned these lessons the hard way. The local hoagie chainlet experimented with breakfast hours, opening at 8 a.m. seven days a week, for about a year between 2012 and 2013. But it turned out to be too hectic in the kitchen. The restaurant cuts its meats, makes its sauces, and slices its vegetables fresh every day. “We’re just a prep machine that is always, always, always, always prepping. And we have small

spaces,” says co-owner Casey Patten.

Even with extra staff to help with breakfast, there was too much going on in the confined kitchens to be able to prep everything efficiently. “I’ve got people running the front line. I’ve got people running the grill. And now I have seven other people in a kitchen that’s 650-square-feet prepping to go do a $5,000 lunch,” Patten says.

Taylor Gourmet stopped serving breakfast hoagies in the summer of 2013 and pushed back its opening hours from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m.

“I just didn’t think it was that big of a deal,” Patten says. After all, the breakfast volume wasn’t much compared to lunch prime time.

But here’s the thing about breakfast sandwiches: Even if people don’t regularly buy them, they’re still kind of obsessed with them. “We realized all these people were mad,” Patten says. Some people even set up an online petition to bring the breakfast hoagies back. “I don’t remember how many signatures there were, but there were enough to raise your eyebrows.”

In October 2013, Taylor Gourmet brought back a more limited menu of breakfast hoagies, which are now available all day. But the restaurant didn’t bring back breakfast hours.

Patten believes that breakfast decisions are ultimately driven by coffee products. Granted, he starts every morning with a four-shot skim latte. “I’m going to go where I can get that specific coffee item that I want, and then I’m going to look at what kind of add-on I can have from there.” Perhaps that explains why D.C.’s non-chain coffee scene seems to be growing far faster than breakfast.

A chicken and (scrambled) egg conundrum still remains. Are people not eating out for breakfast more often because there aren’t more good options? Or are there not more good options because people aren’t eating breakfast out?

One camp, including Taylor Gourmet’s Patten, argues Washingtonians are inherently in too much of a rush in the mornings. (They don’t have time for breakfast! They’re busy!)

There are also health considerations (not everyone wants to start their day with bacon) and budget limitations (regularly eating out for breakfast and lunch can get pricey).

But if Veloce’s Gresser had to pick a side— and she has a business counting on it—she believes District residents would eat more breakfast with more solid options. “I kind of feel like with restaurants, if you do a quality place that has heart, there’s a market for what you do,” she says. “I don’t think that Washingtonians are adverse to breakfast.”

At the very least, you’d think D.C. could CP get a breakfast food truck.

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For a combination as simple as egg and cheese, there are a lot of ways to build a breakfast sandwich. Scrambled factory-farm eggs or free-range, fried eggs? Plastic-wrapped American cheese or Vermont sharp cheddar? Whether you’re craving something high-brow or low, consult —Jessica Sidman our breakfast sandwich matrix for the perfect sandwich to meet your preferences and price point.

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Tony’s Breakfast’s bacon and avocado wrap with eggs and sharp cheddar, $5

McDonald’s Egg McMuffin, $2.99

Leo’s GW Deli’s bacon, egg, and cheese on an everything bagel, $5.20

Ted’s Bulletin’s “TUBS” sandwich with fried egg, scrambled egg, sausage, bacon, and cheddar on grilled toast (plus hash browns), $11.29

Low Brow The best cocktail you’re not ordering

Green’s even tried listing the drink on the menu in English, instead of the usual Italian, to encourage orders. The Green Chartreuse is responsible for the herbaceous outburst on your

What: Fernet About It with Fernet Branca, Green Chartreuse, Lazzaroni Maraschino (cherry liqueur), and lime Where: Osteria Morini, 301 Water St. SE Price: $13 What You Should Be Drinking The Fernet About It is Osteria Morini’s take on a classic cocktail called The Last Word. It swaps in Fernet Branca for gin, leaving the cocktail without a common lead spirit. “Oh man, there’s no vodka, gin, rum, or whatever in here,” Bar Manager Kristi Green says, stepping into the shoes of her guests who shy away from it.

The Drink: Black Magic Price: $9.25 for 16 ounces

tongue, because its secret recipe combines 130 herbs and flowers like fennel, wormwood, and anise. “At any given time there are only two or three people in the world that know how

What It Is: A blend of activated charcoal, aloe vera water, and cold-pressed green grape and lemon juices that is said to detoxify, serve as a digestive aid, and provide a hangover cure. Charcoal becomes “activated” when exposure to a gas expands its surface area, which increases its ability to be absorbed.

Medically, it’s used for treating patients suffering from severe poisoning.

What It Tastes Like: A very refreshing and enjoyable lemonade with a faint grape Kool-Aid flavor—although it does start to taste a bit more, shall we say, charcoaly toward the bottom.

The Story: Co-owners Shizu Okusa and Jennifer Ngai introduced the murky juice on May 4. The 100 or so bottles they make fresh each day sell out early enough that fans call and reserve ahead. Okusa says her customers are taking activated charcoal in other forms like capsules, anyway, so why not give the people what they want? Jrink is currently the only juice bar in the area using the ingredient. “People were saying they wanted a drink with the activated charcoal,” Okusa says.

“We’re not afraid to take a bit of a risk, to be nimble and responsive to customers.”

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to make it,” Green explains. Those people are Carthusian monks living in a monastery near Voiron, France.

Why You Should be Drinking It Besides the opportunity to use a Goodfellas voice in public? The Fernet About It is a satisfying, harmonious sip. “You’d think the Fernet and Chartreuse would be in opposition, but it turns out bitter plus herbaceous equals gorgeous when citrus and maraschino are added,” Green says.

She recommends ordering it at the start of a meal. Citrus gets your mouth salivating for a big board of charcuterie, and the complexity of the Green Chartreuse will prepare your palate for every possible flavor. Fans of Manhattans or negronis will dig it, says Green. “They’re not super similar flavors, but they hit the same marks.”

Think of it like Pandora recommending a similar style of music, except in this case, Green says, all roads don’t lead to Daft Punk. —Laura Hayes

The Counterpoint: Registered dietitian Rebecca Scritchfield, who founded Capitol Nutrition Group, seems incredulous that anyone would drink it. “You aren’t expecting me to support it, are you?” she writes in an email.

“The only magic is your money disappearing when you buy this. Your body naturally detoxifies—liver and kidneys need water and healthy food to do their job. I suggest you avoid needing a ‘hangover cure’ in the first place.” (That might sound judgy, but her email did include a smiley face after that last bit.)

While Jrink states on its website’s FAQ page that they are not doctors and are not giving medical advice, Okusa says they do work with their own dietitian. Plus, Okusa says she has felt the positive effects, and the juice’s popularity suggests she’s not alone. “For me, it’s worked magic.”

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being done about go-go and no media specifically about us,” says Rare Essence guitarist and manager Andre “Whiteboy” Johnson. “Unless it was something bad, the media wouldn’t report on it. Kato saw the need for the stories of our community to be reported on, and that’s what he did.”

Hammond eventually converted the print magazine to a digital one, and the website’s popular chats rooms have since

In 1996, Kevin “Kato” Hammond discovered the Internet at his day job at the Newspaper Association of America, where he worked as a database operator. He tried searching Netscape for “go-go music.”

Nothing came up. He searched again, then again, and finally found one very brief mention in a British music guide.

That didn’t seem right to Hammond, an avid go-go fan and musician who had played with several go-go bands during the late ’80s and early ’90s. So he built his own AOL webpage and named it after one of his favorite Rare Essence songs, “Take Me Out to the Go-Go.” TMOTTGoGo .com was officially launched in March 1996. Next year, the website will mark its 20th anniversary.

Hammond is a veteran of go-go bands Pure Elegance, Little Benny and the Masters, and Proper Utensils; at the time of his site’s launch, he was an established go-go insider. Getting access to the musicians was easy, and so was finding writers and collaborators willing to volunteer. To expand the TMOTTGoGo brand, Hammond began publishing a monthly print magazine in ’98 and started an Internet radio station the following year.

“If we in the culture don’t do it, it’s not going to get done,” he says. “That’s the way it’s always been for us in go-go.”

Bandleader Chuck Brown developed go-go during the mid ’70s, and during its first decade, the music flourished mostly under the radar of mainstream and even Kato Hammond alternative media. During the late ’80s, golaunched TMOTTGoGo go struggled with a different kind of imas an AOL webpage age problem: When the crack epidemic in 1996. hit D.C., street violence soared and go-go shows became magnets for trouble. Local politicians and the media condemned “gogo violence,” and venues were closed down. (More recently, shifted to conversations on the TMOTTGoGo Facebook page. go-go shows in Prince George’s County have been shuttered Still, his platform offers news, performance listings, feature stories, and access to local go-go hits that may not garner conby the controversial CB-18-2011 licensing law.)

“For the longest time, we would all hear the music in the ventional radio airplay. In the process, he’s advanced go-go’s streets and on the radio, but there were no articles or stories palpable sense of community.

Thomas Sayers Ellis, who has chronicled go-go culture in photography and poetry, displays a link to TMOTTGoGo on his own website. “Kato Hammond has been at the forefront of this very vital movement, both as an active observer and an active participant,” Ellis writes in an email. “If there is such a thing as an organic, living archive, he is it. Kato has a damn good crystal ball and his fingers on all of the pulses of go-go.”

Now Hammond, who turns 50 later this summer, has embarked on another DIY project. Last week, he released a selfpublished book, Take Me Out to the Go-Go: The Autobiography of Kato Hammond.

Far more engaging than readers might expect a self-published autobiography to be, Take Me Out to the Go-Go tells a narrative greater than Hammond’s own. The book opens in 1976 in Seat Pleasant, where Hammond’s father, a truck driver, moved the family from D.C. in the hopes of staying out of trouble. Like most kids in his neighborhood, Hammond was all about music, mainly the soul and funk hits on the radio. He played an acoustic box guitar until was he 11, old enough to convince his father to buy him an electric one. After that, Hammond spent untold hours in his bedroom playing along with Parliament’s “Aqua Boogie.” He also learned another huge hit that year, Chuck Brown and the Soul Searchers’ “Bustin’ Loose.” Hammond didn’t know it at the time, but “Bustin’ Loose” would be go-go’s first hit record.

During the late ’70s, writes Hammond, just about every black neighborhood in the area had an “official” band that would provide both entertainment and role models.

“Younger kids always had people to look up to, and they were people who you knew directly from your neighborhood,” he says.

Even when family funds were tight, kids could usually get their hands on musical instruments and teach themselves how to play.

As soon as they could, they formed bands.

Hammond recalls seeing one neighborhood band playing outside an apartment building, their amplifiers plugged into an extension cord dangling from a third-floor window.

One Saturday night when he was 14, Hammond discovered Rare Essence. It was a 1979 show at Prince George’s Community College, and the band’s trademark “inner city” groove—driven by mesmerizing layers of percussion and indelible call-andresponse chants—forever changed the way Hammond thought about music.

The years that followed became the golden era for D.C.’s homegrown funk, and gogo became the musical lingua franca of the city and the growing black population in the P.G. County suburbs. While Hammond and his friends were grooving to Rare Essence, Experience Unlimited, and Trouble Funk, his father was partying with an older crowd at Chuck Brown shows. “That was the era when Darrow Montgomery

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it seemed like everybody was playing go-go,” Hammond says.

“Funk bands were converting to the go-go style, and most of the bands that didn’t play go-go essentially disappeared.”

As a teenager, Hammond attended the Duke Ellington School of the Arts along with several kids who played in local go-go acts like Petworth Band, the Peacemakers, and Ayre Rayde. (Another Duke Ellington student at that time was Donnell Floyd, who would soon join Hammond’s favorite band, Rare Essence.) “They would refer to it as ‘jungle music,’ and refer to those who appreciated it as ‘block boys,’” he writes in the book. “Basically, it was just another way of calling us neighborhood ghetto kids.” That kind of derision didn’t make much sense to Hammond. “Those kids saying that were coming from the same neighborhoods we were,” he says, “which makes that really ironic.”

Hammond also had a keen interest in theater and joined the Children’s Urban Arts Ensemble, a local theater group. Eventually, he was kicked out of Duke—he’d spent too much time on go-go and theater, not enough on academics. In 1982, he transferred to Bowie High School, and soon after submitted a play to the Young Playwrights Festival, a national competition founded by Stephen Sondheim. Titled Buddies, the play was about three D.C. teens—go-go fans, of course—who face a crisis when one of them inadvertently robs a gas station.

Buddies was one of 11 plays out of more than a thousand that were selected for readings in New York City. A group of talented young actors did those readings; the one who read the part of Buddies’ villain was Denzel Washington.

The most compelling elements of Hammond’s book are its vivid descriptions of the culture surrounding D.C.’s homegrown funk. Rare Essence used to play at the Howard Theatre every Friday night, but many kids didn’t have $5 for admission. “During the week, my mom would give me a dollar for lunch money,” Hammond writes. “Instead of using it to buy lunch, I would pocket it, sneak through the lunch line, and steal my lunch.” By the time Friday night rolled around, he had five singles to get him into the show.

Some of the best anecdotes come later, when the adult Hammond played guitar and contributed raps and other vocals for Little Benny and the Masters. The Little Benny years were the highlight of Hammond’s stage career: The band performed free shows in front of Benny’s house for neighborhood kids and appeared on a 1988 all-go-go lineup at the Capital Centre.

When the formerly incarcerated Marion Barry Jr. won a seat on the D.C. Council, the group played his victory party.

Then there was Andre Lonnell Smith, better known as Elmo, a hugely popular conga player with Little Benny and the Masters and the inspiration for the band’s local hit “Elmo Get Busy.” Smith later served time at Lorton Reformatory, and when the band played at Lorton during the late ’80s, the prison guards—who, like many inmates, were avid go-go fans—allowed him to perform with the band onstage.

What resounds throughout the book is the story of an indigenous musical culture that has survived drug-related violence, race and class prejudices, and the deaths of a number of its beloved local stars. In between the lines of Hammond’s own story, one thing is clear: Go-go prevails due to the extraordinary dedication and perseverance of both the musicians and their fans.

“There’s only one way to maintain a movement, and that’s

with some type of history,” says longtime Rare Essence member Floyd, who now leads the band Familiar Faces. “Kato has always been our leading historian. Years from now, when somebody comes to look for the story of go-go, that’s when Kato’s importance will be understood.”

Go-go’s profound connection to its audience is another major theme of the book, and Hammond’s mini media empire has underscored that bond. TMOTTGoGo hosts cookouts and meetand-greets, where go-go fans can hang out with bandmembers.

Hammond has also organized two TMOTTGoGo Honors events celebrating go-go luminaries at the Lincoln Theatre.

Still, TMOTTGoGo earns just enough to keep itself going. Hammond estimates that he pays $400 a month to operate the website and radio, just about the same amount both earn through advertising. “TMOTTGoGo has never made money,” he says. “This is how I think about it. It’s like the opening of Chuck’s ‘Bustin’ Loose’: ‘Keep what you got until you get what you need, y’all/You got to give a lot just to get what you need sometimes, y’all.’”

Hammond supports his family with his own graphic and web design company. And just like the music, Hammond keeps finding a way to go on. “Go-go has always had to be self-sufficient,” he says. “Go-go is gonna make its way.”

As go-go’s style has evolved, with new generations of bands adapting the music and making it theirs, Hammond has been careful to keep up with the proliferating subgenres: There’s old school and new school, grown ‘n’ sexy, bounce beat, krank, gospel go-go, and even a reggae–go-go fusion known as regg-go.

“TMOTTGoGo covers all styles of go-go. Whatever branches grow out of the go-go tree, that’s what it covers,” says Hammond.

“And when a new generation comes in, TMOTTGoGo needs a new generation of writers. That’s the key to our survival.

“If one day go-go blows up really big, super big, like on the Grammys and everything, then TMOTTGoGo is alCP ready in place.”

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Forget Screen on the Green. You don’t have to brave the National Mall to take in a movie outside this summer—these days, outdoor film screenings are so popular that every neighborhood has its own. (Hell, even NoMa, to which the term “neighborhood” barely applies, has several.)

D.C.’s parks and pop-ups might compete with Netflix for your summer entertainment queue, but the curation quality varies. Here’s a rundown of what each outdoor film series says about its neighborhood and the movies it should really be running instead. —Kriston Capps erfront”? Why can’t this neighborhood accept that everyone else in the city calls it Navy Yard? Capitol Riverfront should add A Few Good Men to its lineup if only to hear Jack Nicholson snarl, “You can’t handle the truth!”

Golden TrianGle:

“Golden Cinema” kicks off this Friday with a screening of Empire Records in Farragut Park. This film series may be the city’s very best, if only because it includes Nine to Five, which features Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, and Dolly Parton kicking their pigheaded boss’s ass. And isn’t that the dream of many of the people who commute to Golden Triangle every day? Kudos to the planners for picking The Devil Wears Prada, another film about wishing the worst on your boss, but they missed an obvious entry in this genre: Office Space.

is many things to many people, but deeply serious isn’t usually high on the list of qualifiers given to the area. AdMo’s increasingly dated nightlife scene and signature Jumbo Slice late-night fare puts me in the mood for some vintage pieces of cinema: Mystic Pizza, starring a babyfaced Julia Roberts and Vincent D’Onofrio, for one. And frankly, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (the 1990 version) would do just fine. (Note: If you really, absolutely must see Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles this summer, you can—at National Harbor.)

duponT CirCle:

So far, Dupont Festival has announced only one screening. This event is sure to be massively popular—you may have noticed that people like to congregate in Dupont Circle—so there’s a lot riding on it. Fortunately, Dupont Circle nailed its film choice. Starring Rosie O’Donnell, Geena Davis, and Madonna, A League of Their Own captures the team-sports vibe and aging gayborhood status of the area. Crying?

There’s no crying in Dupont!

BloominGdale:

There’s no outdoor film series planned for Bloomingdale, but can’t you just imagine a Wes Anderson festival projected along the wall of Big Bear Cafe? How has this not happened already?

navy yard:

The Capitol Riverfront movie series is one of the city’s most ambitious. From the beginning of June through early September, the neighborhood is hosting 14 films, from classics like Back to the Future and The Goonies to new blockbusters like Selma and Guardians of the Galaxy. But “Capitol Riv-

Market is screening Jurassic Park and Space Jam, both must-see summer films. The micro-neighborhood of Sursum Corda is hosting its own family-focused run, with Annie (the new one) and The Princess and the Frog. The city’s most fascinating series, though, is NoMa Summer Screen, which is—get this—dance themed. Nearly all of the films are about the art of getting down: Dirty Dancing, Flashdance, Singing in the Rain, Moulin Rouge, and so on. The closed and bankrupt Ibiza dance club notwithstanding, NoMa has to be one of the city’s least danciest neighborhoods. Dancer in the Dark is more like it.

adams morGan:

Rich Hill and Whiplash are some of the darkest offerings headed to any D.C. outdoor film series. Adams Morgan

noma:

There are three different film series running in NoMa this summer. Union

palisades:

The classiest summer-screen venue in the city? It’s a toss-up between Congress Heights and Palisades. If the Gateway Pavilion at St. Elizabeths renews the festival it launched last year, it’ll be the clear winner. But if it doesn’t announce a lineup soon, that honor may go to the Palisades Recreation Center. The schedule for Palisades is unimpeachable—The Goonies, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and The Princess Bride—but also limited, so here’s hoping the Gateway gets its act together. Is there a movie that would win over audiences in D.C.’s toniest and poorest neighborhoods alike? Maybe Independence Day: Aliens blow up Congress, Will Smith tags out aliens, everybody wins.

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By Katori Hall Directed by Kamilah Forbes At Arena Stage to June 7 If theater told more stories about black women, the scant few it does tell wouldn’t have to work so hard. But that’s a continent-sized “if.” Katori Hall is the Columbia, Harvard, and Julliard graduate who wrote The Mountaintop—a play that sought the man behind the myth of Martin Luther King Jr. She’s followed up that 2010 Laurence Olivier Award-winner (produced at Arena Stage two years ago) with an unwieldy new drama about four estranged sisters who return to their recently deceased mother’s home on Kwemera, a fictitious island off the coast of Georgia. It’s a place largely populated by Geechee people, also known as Gullah—descendants of enslaved Africans who have preserved their language and traditions for centuries. (There are smatterings of dialogue in Geechee; Robert Barry Fleming was the dialect coach.) The Jernigan sisters convene every summer to make quilts together, and their objets d’art are a sought-after commodity in certain circles, apparently. This year’s session is especially momentous because they aim to finish the piece their mother was working on when she died.

The Jernigan women all have different fathers, but they’re still “hole sisters,” as bawdy sis Gio (Caroline Clay) observes, because they all came out of the same… anyway, she’s the crude one. Also a mean drunk. Also a cop.

Youngest sister Amber’s (Meeya Davis, who seems a little too young for the character) sensibilities are more refined. She’s a wealthy entertainment lawyer who skipped the last few reunions and worse, missed the flight that would’ve gotten her home in time for their mom’s funeral. (Also on the list of charges against her: She is, or until recently was, sleeping with a white guy.) The other two are Clementine (Tonye Patano), the calm, authoritative eldest, and Cassan (Nikiya Mathis), a nurse and former Army medic raising her 15-year-old daughter Zambia (Afi Bijou) largely without the aid of her oft-deployed husband. A once-a-day ferry is Kwemera’s only public link to the mainland, keeping the

Jernigans confined together even when beefs both freshly fired and long-simmering make them want to flee. But once it becomes apparent that Hall has given every one of her characters a painful secret to be unearthed, and that she has no interest in prioritizing one above another, her play, so spiky and believable in its first hour, starts to feel schematic and overwrought. (Including a 15-minute intermission, The Blood Quilt runs about two hours and forty minutes, but the second act is longer than the first and more stymied by tentative pacing.) It would accomplish more by laboring less.

Kamilah Forbes’ direction is impartial to a fault, too. For example, when Mathis’ character finds a stack of old letters in a bedroom adjacent to where the scene proper is being played, Forbes keeps her fully lit, letting us watch the actor pretend to read in silence for several minutes. This makes the spoken scene unfolding simultaneously almost impossible to

ory Wooddell all frequently appear in plays at Arena Stage, Shakespeare Theatre, and Woolly Mammoth. For theatergoers not accustomed to seeing that trio dance and sing, discovering that they can do more than just act is very willkommen thing. Jacobsen and Foucheux play Fräulein Schneider and Herr Schultz, a Berlin boarding house matron and her favorite boarder, respectively, while Wooddell landed the role of Cliff Bradshaw, the American novelist who’s hauling a typewriter across Europe in Hemingway-esque fashion.

Like Jake Barnes and Robert Jordan, Cliff falls hard for an enigmatic European woman, in this cast one of the most coveted roles of the musical theater canon: the glamorous nightclub singer Sally Bowles. To find his Cabaret Sally, director Matthew Gardiner cast some

By John Kander, Fred Ebb, and Joe Maswide fishnets and found a young New Yorker terhoff named Barrett Wilbert Weed. She’s done exDirected by Matthew Gardiner cellent work at smaller theaters like the AtAt Signature Theatre to June 28 lantic, but on Broadway, the role of Sally belonged to film stars: Michelle When theater so routinely Williams, Emma Stone, and Siunder-portrays black enna Miller. Weed didn’t stand women, this packed a chance, but thankfully, she got ensemble is a one at Signature, and she porwelcome change. trays Sally with a swoon-inducing combo of voluptuousness and vulnerability.

Signature also imported a TV star for its production: Wesley Taylor, Katherine McPhee’s gay BFF from Smash, plays The Emcee. The fictional musical Bombshell may not have made it to a real stage, but Taylor’s Rockette kicks, comic charisma, and general willingness to rock lederhosen certainly belong on one.

Leading the cast of Signature regulars is Bobby Smith, playing the Bad Guy as he so often does (recently in Threepenny and Spin), although regrettably, he doesn’t get a chance to tap this time around. Most of the ensemble members are also local, but have decent enough dance skills to play Kit Kat Club girls and guys with aplomb.

By the second act of Cabaret, it’s pretty A strong, clearly audible nine-piece orchesclear that the characters in Kander and Ebb’s tra playing on a catwalk above the stage compre-World War II musical fall into one of pletes the Cabaret experience. Signature sacthree camps: the Nazis, those who fear them, rificed some ticket sales to instead sit some and those who think this Hitler business will patrons on tables near the stage. A turntable all blow over. keeps Misha Kachman’s simple sets revolvIn Signature Theatre’s outstanding new pro- ing between the club, train cars, and various duction of Cabaret, the very game actors play- rooms in the boarding house. The characters ing those characters also mostly fit into three who rotate between scenes may find their loygroups: the well-cast New Yorkers who came alties divided, but as anyone who speaks ein to town for the run, the reliable Signature reg- bißchen Deutsch would agree, Signature has —Rebecca Ritzel ulars, and the D.C. actors who it’s surprising to achieved gestalt. suddenly see onstage in Virginia singing (and 4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington. $29–$95. doing a pretty darn good job of it).

Naomi Jacobson, Rick Foucheux, and Greg- (703) 820-9771. signature-theatre.org. the old house on the water look at once remote and cozy, while Michael Gilliam’s lighting scheme lends the place an otherworldly hue once the sun sets. Paul Wahler of Theatrical Pools gets thanked in the program for an onstage pond (!) that enables a magical-realist finale whose moorings to the show still feel a little unsteady. The Blood Quilt could still become a staple, though, if Hall can find it in her heart to be a little more merciless.

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follow because we’re too busy wondering what anguished revelation will emerge from those letters. It helps, or rather doesn’t, that Mathis’ performance is subtle where Clay’s is rowdy.

Her silence really is louder than words.

No one could blame Hall and Forbes for being so tired of seeing black women relegated to secondary (or tertiary, or nonexistent) roles that they can’t bear to make any of their own characters secondary, even in a play populated solely by black women. It’s an understandable flaw, but one that holds their show back being from being as sharp and powerful as it could be.

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Sign of the Veil

In her first D.C. solo show, Shirin Neshat’s Iranian politics blaze.

“Shirin Neshat: Facing History” At the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden to Sept. 20

By Erin Devine In the video installation “Rapture” (1999), viewers stand in a darkened gallery space between two projections: one of women in black chadors (the traditional Islamic dress for Iranian women) and the other of men in a medieval fortress. While the men perform absurd tasks and run between the high stone walls in a mass, the women wander individually and aimlessly, dispersed about a desert landscape.

The actions of the men devolve into chaos and they fight one another until the women divert their attention with a ritual cry. In a subtle choreographic interplay, the women move about in nature, the men in the confines of architecture and society; each group, though separate, seems responsive to the other. Eventually, the men watch the women make their way to the sea, where a motorized boat will carry a few of them beyond the waves.

There’s no clear narrative or dialogue, and any connection to a historical period or specific culture is uncertain. Ambiguity is Shirin Neshat’s currency, and placing the viewer between dual projections is a strategy that unveils codependent binaries: man/woman, nature/culture, private/public, East/West, and the hybrid identity of the artist herself.

In its first exhibition dedicated to the Iranian-American artist, the Hirshhorn Museum presents five video installations and three complete photographic series interspersed with displays of Iran’s three modern revolutionary moments. Here, Neshat’s often fascinating, hyphenated perspective takes a backseat to such explicit teachings of history, but the approach offers an experience of her work tailored to a D.C. audience.

Neshat was born in Qazvin, the former capital of Iran and one of its most religiously conservative centers. She arrived in San Francisco as a teenage student in 1973, and barely spoke English, but by the time the Iranian Revolution ended in 1979, she was studying art at UC Berkeley. She’d finished her degree and moved to New York before she was finally able to return to her home country for a visit after the Iran-Iraq War. By then, the Iran of her memory was all but eradicated by the Islamic regime; her black-and-white videos attest to the stark, chador-clad world she encountered there.

The Hirshhorn’s exhibition is far from a

History.” Upon entering the exhibit, viewers are met with historical photographs and U.S. newsreel footage of the 1951 election of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, who was ousted just two years later in a CIA-sponsored coup d’état. Beyond this introduction, a cavernous space delivers a cinematic experience of “Munis,” titled for the video’s protagonist, who participates in the resistance against the coup.

Through “Munis,” Neshat provides an alternative history of the democratically elected prime minister, referred to in the preceding U.S. media footage as “dictatorially minded.” Additional transitions between the galleries will continue to situate her work against the backdrops of the “I Am Its Secret” by Iranian Revolution and Shirin Neshat, 1993 the Green Movement of 2009; any meatier political rumination is left to retrospective of Neshat’s work. “Rapture” Neshat’s responsive work. rounds out the artist’s famous first video tril“Munis” is rooted in an oeuvre that has ogy, which also includes “Turbulent” (1998) long emphasized the rootlessness of its artist and “Fervor” (2000), but missing is her sec- and her identity, fraught with the contradicond trilogy, completed in 2001, along with tions of two cultures. In her early career in the other significant individual videos. “Mu- 1990s, when she produced most of the work nis” (2008), for instance, is one of five vid- shown at the Hirshhorn, Neshat was reluctant eos based on characters from Neshat’s award- to describe herself as a political artist and did winning debut film, Women Without Men not want to be misconstrued as a cultural rep(2009), which the museum will screen on resentative of Iran. Even the most controverJune 11 as part of the exhibition’s adjacent sial work in this exhibition, the “Women of programming. Neshat achieved internation- Allah” photographic series (1993-97), was a al fame when “Turbulent” won the Golden personal exploration of the changes that had Lion at the 1999 Venice Biennale, one of the taken place in Iran since her absence, and the most prestigious awards for a living artist, and impact of 1983’s Veiling Act, which mandatshe has since been awarded a slew of other in- ed that women wear hijabs. Some women emternational awards. She’s also held solo exhi- braced the veil as a requisite of their religion; bitions in just about every major city in the others donned it as a symbol of resistance to world—except Tehran and D.C. the encroachment of Western capitalist culThe museum’s co-curators of the exhi- ture; still others have seen it as a means of bition, Melissa Chiu and Melissa Ho, have segregating and subjugating women. taken an appropriate if not bold political In some of these photographs, Neshat, approach to Neshat’s work with “Facing a secular Muslim living in the U.S., delib-

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erately poses in a chador. Particularly in “Faceless” (1994), she appropriates this image and enters it into a confrontational pose, even brandishing a gun toward the viewer, to address the limitations of American visual contexts for Iranian subjects. She writes across the surface of each photograph, on the hands, face and feet (the only parts of the body exposed under the restrictive dress code), in the calligraphic Persian script. The female body becomes the bearer of textual meaning that Neshat has culled from Persian poetry, celebrated in Iran as an art of political resistance under censoring regimes. The language, incomprehensible to most American audiences since the exhibit only provides limited samples of translation, sets across the subject’s skin like a screen that bars a penetrating gaze—a communication extended but lost, further signifying a cultural divide.

After the Iranian Revolution, mainstream media in the U.S. too often failed to explain the complexity of social and religious identity in Iran or the diversity of women’s experiences there, so D.C. audiences may read Neshat’s work as a feminist indictment of Iranian culture. But the image of Iranian women Neshat constructs for us is one that is empowered and revolutionary, perhaps as much due to their subjugation as despite it. Influences outside of Iran show themselves in Neshat’s work, too: her experiences as a young émigré in the U.S. seeing the tumultuous events of her country unfold through a Western-biased media, for example, and the emotional upheaval she experienced as a Muslim New Yorker after 9/11.

In the Hirshhorn exhibition’s final work, “Soliloquy” (1999), Neshat performs as the main character; projected on one wall, she moves about the modernist architecture of New York (including the World Trade Center), and on the opposite wall, within the Islamic architecture of Turkey (standing in for Iran, which she has not visited since being interrogated at the Tehran airport in 1996). Since 9/11, Neshat has embraced her role as a political artist, evident in the newer photographic series in “Facing History”: “Book of Kings” (2012) and “Our House Is on Fire” (2013), an homage to the revolutionaries in the Green Movement and the Arab Spring, respectively. Still, she raises more questions than she answers. This is part of Neshat’s brilliance as an artist; like the women she portrays so heroically or the history she attends to in more recent work, layers of truth and complexity lie beneath the surface. Although the Hirshhorn’s historical angle is relatively neutral, it may be a fitting stage for what Neshat’s work asks us to do, which is to look more deeply. CP 700 Independence Ave. SW. Free. (202) 6334674. hirshhorn.si.edu

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MusicDiscography Mystic sliver

Cyntje is a master of subtle mystery.

Spiritual Awakening Reginald Cyntje Self-released Listeners might expect unambiguous joy to be all over a jazz album called Spiritual Awakening. But local trombonist Reginald Cyntje, whose music grows increasingly sophisticated, doesn’t follow such a straight line. His Spiritual Awakening is a beautiful enigma, with mystery in every corner of the album, from its melodies and harmonies to its texture and improv structure. It’s an unexpected turn from Cyntje’s previous work, but no less worthy.

Much of the inscrutable mood is embodied in the Fender Rhodes played by Cyntje’s longtime pianist, Allyn Johnson. He uses the electric piano on four of the album’s nine tracks, tuning his techniques to suit that instrument’s steely, shimmering tone: He plays with sustained notes, close dissonances, and undulating vamps and trills. (A little bit of Rhodes goes a long way—Johnson is barely there in his comping of vocalist Christie Dashiell on “Atonement,” but still impossible to ignore.) Johnson also experiments with a panning effect: licks, arpeggios, even single notes that start in the right channel and end in the left (or fluctuate in between, as in a long, low drone in his solo on “Awakening”). It heightens the ethereal character of the Rhodes, doubly so when paired with the iridescence of Victor Provost’s steel pan drum.

The tones of Cyntje, tenor saxophonist Brian Settles, and Dashiell’s wordless contralto provide a darker, earthier contrast to that celestial sound, as do bassist Herman Burney and drummer Amin Gumbs (replaced on two tracks by C.V. Dashiell), who blend swinging cross-rhythms with the Afro-Caribbean grooves that are Cyntje’s musical foundation. Cyntje, as the ensemble’s leader, mitigates that contrast with quiet, unhurried minor-key melodies. “Awakening,” Spiritual Awakening’s lead-off track, slopes downward in both melody and harmony, naturally constraining the intensity that comes with high-note leaps. The trombonist’s solo stretches into the instrument’s upper ranges, but meanwhile, Johnson, Burney, and Gumbs whisper their accompaniment so that Cyntje’s ascent heightens the song’s tension rather than releasing it. On “Prayer,” Cyntje’s otherwise powerful instrument hides behind Dashiell and Settles during the heads, and Provost approaches his percussion instrument with a gentleness that belies his nimble speed. It’s as if the band wants to avoid revealing too much.

Much is revealed. The music’s subtlety encourages close listening and rewards it with some of the smartest solos this band

Powerful post-rock climaxes make Lost in Decay a dramatic listen. has ever recorded. They share patterns and trade themes almost as in a classical sonata.

Burney, for example, takes a solo on “Compassion” that breaks the written melody into fragments then works out variations of those fragments. Pianist Janelle Gill, who sits in on “Spiritual,” goes even further: She establishes a six-note lick, varies it twice, then spins variations on the variations. Gumbs takes a remarkable turn on the playful “Ritual,” interweaving African and Afro-Latin figures with triple-time workouts.

There are two points of release on Spiritual Awakening: a lesser one on “Beatitudes,” a jaunty blues number featuring trumpeter Kenny Rittenhouse; and the stunning closer “Rejoice,” which does exactly what it says with a theme that fuses Latin and New Orleans motifs with bebop melodies. Yet it’s the tension-building that gives Cyntje’s album its essential character, an exploration of spirituality as mysticism—and we who can merely perceive, not comprehend it.

—Michael J. West Cyntje plays Brookland’s Jazz and Cultural Center on June 3. Listen to “Awakening” at washingtoncitypaper.com/go/awakening.

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We Build this ditty Lost in Decay Drop Electric Self-released The dreamiest destinations require a bit of a journey. This is especially true when the destination is one of the epic crescendos that dominate Drop Electric’s third full-length release. On Lost in Decay, the band builds nine vivid environments on a foundation of whirring synths and airy chants, each drifting between the eerie and the ethereal en route to a hook-heavy endpoint.

Drop Electric has garnered plenty of praise since its 2009 debut, Finding Color in the Ashes. But instead of sticking to the formula that got the group nods from NPR and headlining gigs at the 9:30 Club, the D.C. sextet has consistently chosen to expand its sound. While Finding Color in the Ashes was predominantly an instrumental effort, using roaring guitars and pummeling percussion to create climactic soundscapes à la Mogwai, the band’s sophomore effort, 2013’s Waking Up to the Fire, is

more electro-pop quirk than expansive postrock. The change in style was largely brokered by the addition of synths and vocalist Kristina Reznikov, whose spine-tingling tone mimics that of Lower Dens’ Jana Hunter and even Sigur Rós’s Jónsi.

Lost in Decay is a calculated combination of these previous releases. The drama and power of Drop Electric’s debut is there, plus the poppy structure and vocals of its follow-up. The result is the band’s strongest release to date.

Unfortunately, the self-released LP also marks the departure of Reznikov, who left the group in 2014 after completing the album.

Reznikov’s vocals are the centerpiece of Lost in Decay. Hypnotic when paired with swirling electronic samples and layered croons, haunting when left without accompaniment, her voice sets the vibe from start to finish. On album opener “Flee the Circus,” she slinks into the song after an intro that shifts from wispy electronics to steady, driving percussion. Her tone melts into the atmospheric combo as it builds, keeping the swell from growing too forceful or affected.

Still, the band’s penchant for theatrics can’t always be subdued by Reznikov’s vocal prowess. At times, the tracks on Lost in Decay come off a little melodramatic. This is especially true on the slow-moving “Regal Blood,” which borders on repetitive. The track opens with some brooding, cascading synths and a hushed sample, eventually bursting into a cinematic chorus whose soapy, monotonous structure just kind of drags.

The bulk of Lost in Decay avoids this overindulgence, though, and opts for structures rich with muted flourishes and driving guitars. The title track hits all the band’s strengths, combining poppy electronics, a passionate build, and Reznikov’s vocals with a chorus of backing croons. The result is a jubilant earworm that calls for multiple listens. “Rival Churches” is also a standout; instead of skewing euphoric like most of the other tracks, it’s the darkest of the bunch, opening with Reznikov humming “We are doomed” against a backdrop of quiet piano before exploding into a heavy wash of sinister guitars.

The record closes with “End Game,” a regal ballad that asks listeners “Are you with me?” It’s a cleansing, bright addition to the album’s formidable collection of crests and textures. But the song’s placement illustrates the band’s grip on its audience’s psyche and mastery of the lighter elements that balance its weighted post-rock sound. It’s an evolution that finds just the right equilibrium. Listeners would be smart stick with this group on the road to its next venture.

—Carey Hodges Drop Electric plays the All Good Festival in West Virginia on July 9. Listen to tracks from Lost in Decay at washingtoncitypaper.com/ go/lostindecay.

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Andrew Niccol has a lot to say. The writer-director specializes in dramas awash with social commentary; he’s previously explored such social ills as the arms industry (Lord of War), income inequality (In Time), and the dehumanizing effects of corporate media (The Truman Show). With Good Kill, Niccol takes aim at drone warfare, a subject that has found its way into several recent blockbusters without ever receiving a proper cinematic exploration.

Good Kill isn’t that. While Niccol has previously excelled at blending the political and the personal, his latest effort is a failed polemic that too often substitutes talking points for dialogue and policy for actual drama.

The film’s brilliant central performance from Ethan Hawke, however, almost makes it work. As Thomas Egan, a decorated Air Force pilot assigned to operate a drone from a tiny command center in Las Vegas, Hawke blends archetypes—the brainless jock and the tortured poet—to create a character that embodies the American contradiction.

After six tours of duty in the Middle East, Egan is now locked into a colorless suburban existence with his wife (January Jones) and two kids. He misses the action and, when we first meet him, is scheming to get reassigned to the field. Slowly, his new vantage point leads to a shift in perspective.

Far from the whizzing bullets, he begins to question his orders and eventually his role in the War on Terror.

The film does well when it confronts us with the same ethical dilemmas that creep into the mind of its protagonist. Niccol makes at least one terrific choice: When

Egan is working, the director aligns us with his perspective and fills the screen with the same digital images of bombs exploding and civilians dying that he sees.

This puts the audience in a space to empathize and ask questions. Unfortunately, Niccol doesn’t trust us to answer them correctly, so he devotes far too much time to characters’ prosaic arguments over the ethics of drone warfare. As the new recruit who changes Egan’s mind, the talented Zoë Kravitz has the unfortunate task of trying to turn Niccol’s political perspective into believable dialogue.

Meanwhile, a couple of meathead airmen espouse the pro-drone argument, then basically disappear from the film after making their point.

If Good Kill is nothing but a political diatribe when Egan is on the job, it’s somehow worse when he’s at home. He neglects his family, drinks to forget his traumas, and, in time, turns violent. Haven’t we see this character arc before in—oh, I don’t know—every other movie about veterans ever made? At its core, Good Kill’s depiction of post-traumatic stress disorder is no different than that of The Deer Hunter, American Sniper, or any recent story about veterans returning from war.

Still, putting old clichés in a new context can sometimes be an efficient way to comment on the present. Maybe that’s what Niccol was going for? Off screen, military leaders sell the idea of drone warfare to the public by highlighting the benefits of keeping our soldiers away from the violence, but Good Kill argues that violence will find a way to creep into their lives, no matter how physically removed from the action they are. It’s a complex and important political point, but it never quite lands. Niccol is undone by the same mistakes he criticizes in the military: He forgets his characters’ humanity and only sees them as numbers in a —Noah Gittell calculation for success.

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CITYLIST Friday Rock

9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Sons of Bill.

8 p.m. $20. 930.com.

The hamilTon 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

World Party, David Duffy. 8:30 p.m. $25–$30. thehamiltondc.com.

beTheSda blueS and Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. A Southern Soul Tribute: The Music Of Muscle Shoals & Stax/Volt. 8 p.m. $30. bethesdabluesjazz.com.

ElEctRonic

PyRamid aTlanTiC aRT CenTeR 8230 Georgia Ave., Silver Spring. (301) 608-9101. Talibam!, Microkingdom, Amptext, Akousma. 9 p.m. $10. pyramidatlanticartcenter.org. u STReeT muSiC hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 5881880. Catz ‘n Dogz, Tittsworth, Baronhawk. 10 p.m. $12. ustreetmusichall.com.

Jazz

Wolf TRaP filene CenTeR 1551 Trap Road, Vienna.

(703) 255-1900. A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. 8 p.m. $25–$55. wolftrap.org.

Hip-Hop hoWaRd TheaTRe 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Mobb Deep. 8 p.m. $25. thehowardtheatre.com.

classical

bohemian CaveRnS 2001 11th St. NW. (202) 2990800. Matthew Stevens. 8 p.m. & 10 p.m. $20–$28. bohemiancaverns.com.

auSTRian CulTuRal foRum 3524 International Court NW. Julian Schwarz. 7:30 p.m. $70. acfdc.org.

Julian Schwartz. 7:30 p.m. $70. acfdc.org.

mR. henRy’S 601 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. (202) 5468412. Matt Ingeneri Trio. 8 p.m. Free. mrhenrysdc.com.

libRaRy of CongReSS Coolidge audiToRium First Street and Independence Avenue SE. (202) 7075507. Jennifer Koh, Anssi Karttunen, Benjamin Hochman. 8 p.m. Free. loc.gov.

uToPia baR & gRill 1418 U St. NW. (202) 4837669. Collector’s Edition. 11 p.m. Free. utopiaindc.com.

Folk gyPSy Sally’S 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. The Mann Sisters. 7:30 p.m. Free. gypsysallys.com. The Hillbilly Gypsies, The Appleseed Collective, Still Hand String Band. 9 p.m. $12–$15. gypsysallys.com.

saturday Rock

fillmoRe SilveR SPRing 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. The New Romance. 9 p.m. $15. fillmoresilverspring.com.

gyPSy Sally’S 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. The Mantras, Elm. 9 p.m. $12–$15. gypsysallys.com.

The hamilTon 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

David Kitchen Band. 10:30 p.m. Free. thehamiltondc. com. The Autumn Defense, Hollis Brown. 8:30 p.m. $17–$22. thehamiltondc.com. hoWaRd TheaTRe 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Kinky. 8 p.m. $20. thehowardtheatre.com. ioTa Club & Café 2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington.

(703) 522-8340. Flashband. 7:30 p.m. $10. iotaclubandcafe.com.

Jiffy lube live 7800 Cellar Door Drive, Bristow.

(703) 754-6400. Dave Matthews Band. 7 p.m. $40.50–$85. livenation.com.

RoCk & Roll hoTel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-ROCK. The Rentals, Rey Pila, Radiation City. 7:30 p.m. $20. rockandrollhoteldc.com. u STReeT muSiC hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 5881880. Geographer, Empires, Idlehands. 7 p.m. $20. ustreetmusichall.com. velveT lounge 915 U St. NW. (202) 462-3213. Borrowed Arts, Jacob Gemmell, Broke Royals. 8:30 p.m. $8. velvetloungedc.com.

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blueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Jimmy Cobb, Mike Stern, Sonny Fortune, Buster Williams. 8 p.m. & 10 p.m. $40. bluesalley.com.

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eChoSTage 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. (202) 503-2330. Eric Prydz. 9 p.m. $40. echostage.com.

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dC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Interalactix.

7 p.m. $10. dcnine.com.

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BY LY R D D JO CS SH I VE N IA LYR NA BY EI K A L D E A NC OO JU ND AN CTE US A I M CO B IC L RE D JU DI VI DA

biRChmeRe 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Eric Roberson, Carolyn Malachi.

7:30 p.m. $39.50. birchmere.com.

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Funk & R&B

The Infamous is an apposite title for hip-hop duo Mobb Deep’s landmark album. Released 20 years ago last month, it mixed both members’ strengths—Prodigy’s focused aggression; Havoc’s haunting, nuanced production—to create one of the definitive albums of the ’90s. The quiet yet ominous opening notes of “Shook Ones Part II” meld seamlessly with Prodigy’s dark descriptions of life in a Queens housing project, and the track still resonates with listeners despite the fact that the accompanying video is an aesthetic throwback to 1995. Two decades later, that dynamic hasn’t changed much: Prodigy and Havoc still produce battle cries that electrify fans. Their D.C. visit will be a celebration of the group’s Infamous early days as well as its later catalogue. Mobb Deep performs at 8 p.m. at the Howard Theatre, 620 —Julian Kimble T St. NW. $25–$45. (202) 803-2899. thehowardtheatre.com.

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SmiThSonian ameRiCan aRT muSeum 8th and F streets NW. (202) 633-7970. Pleasure Curses, Young Rapids. 6 p.m. Free. americanart.si.edu.

MOBB DEEP

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RoCk & Roll hoTel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-ROCK. Chon. 8 p.m. $12–$14. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

CITY LIGHTS: FRIDAY

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ioTa Club & Café 2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington.

(703) 522-8340. Superswank, Atomic Mosquitos, Insect Surfers. 8:30 p.m. $12. iotaclubandcafe.com.

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biRChmeRe 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Eric Roberson, Carolyn Malachi.

7:30 p.m. $39.50. birchmere.com.

gyPSy Sally’S 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. Jim Rezac. 7:30 p.m. Free. gypsysallys.com.

ElEctRonic 9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Klingande.

9 p.m. $25. 930.com. Klingande, Autograf. 9 p.m. $25. 930.com. flaSh 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Chus & Ceballos. 8 p.m. $10–$20. flashdc.com. u STReeT muSiC hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 5881880. Nadastrom, Ken Lazee. 10 p.m. $10. ustreetmusichall.com.

Jazz blueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Jimmy Cobb, Mike Stern, Sonny Fortune, Buster Williams. 8 p.m. & 10 p.m. $40. bluesalley.com. bohemian CaveRnS 2001 11th St. NW. (202) 2990800. Matthew Stevens. 8 p.m. & 10 p.m. $20–$28. bohemiancaverns.com. uToPia baR & gRill 1418 U St. NW. (202) 4837669. Elijah’s Quintet. 11 p.m. Free. utopiaindc.com.

BluEs zoo baR 3000 Connecticut Ave. NW. (202) 2324225. Bruce Ewan. 9 p.m. Free. zoobardc.com.

Folk Wolf TRaP filene CenTeR 1551 Trap Road, Vienna.

(703) 255-1900. A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. 5:45 p.m. $25–$55. wolftrap.org.

WoRld kennedy CenTeR millennium STage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Marko Hatlak. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

PaTRioT CenTeR 4500 Patriot Circle, Fairfax.

(703) 993-3000. Latin Explosion 2015 DMV. 7 p.m. $35–$185. patriotcenter.com.

Vocal kennedy CenTeR ConCeRT hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Wesley Festival. 8 p.m. $15–$50. kennedy-center.org.

sunday Rock

9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. The Story So Far, Four Year Strong, Terror, Souvenirs. 6:30 p.m. $20. 930.com.

CITY LIGHTS: SATURDAY

“REPORTING VIETNAM” Media observers and readers of all stripes have been eager to cast doubts on Seymour Hersh’s account of what really happened when Osama Bin Laden was killed. The accuracy of his latest dispatch remains in question, but what’s not up for debate is the lasting impact of his reporting on the My Lai Massacre. Hersh’s Pulitzer-winning stories about U.S. soldiers who obliterated an entire village and killed hundreds of civilians transformed the way Americans saw the Vietnam War. The Newseum marks the 50th anniversary of the war with a new exhibition, “Reporting Vietnam,” which explains the conflict from a newsperson’s perspective. In addition to press passes, portable typewriters, and stories from people who were there, the exhibition focuses on how stories were reported when photos and video footage took nearly two days to reach New York from Saigon. It’ll make you thankful for instant file transfers and digital images. The exhibition is on view daily 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., to Sept. 12, 2016, at the Newseum, 555 Pennsylvania —Caroline Jones Ave. NW. $13.95–$22.95. (202) 292-6100. newseum.org.

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I.M.P. PRESENTS Merriweather Post Pavilion • Columbia, MD THIS WEEK’S SHOWS

Sons of Bill w/ Dead Professional & Adam’s Plastic Pond .................................. F 22 U STREET MUSIC HALL PRESENTS

Kilngande w/ Autograf & Juan Zapata ..................................................................Sa 23 The Story So Far w/ Four Year Strong • Terror • Souvenirs........................... Su 24 Patrick Watson w/ The Low Anthem ......................................................................W 27

MAY FIDLAR & METZ w/ Sun Club.................................................................................... Th 28 STEEZ PROMO PRESENTS

12th Planet w/ Loudpvck & Kove ............................................................................. Sa 30

JUNE ALL GOOD PRESENTS

Rusted Root w/ Adam Ezra Group .............................................................................. W 3 Lil Dicky w/ ProbCause..................................................................................................... Th 4 SpeakeasyDC’s Out/Spoken: Queer, Questioning, Bold, and Proud Early Show! 6pm Doors .......................................................................................................F 5 Calexico w/ Gaby Moreno Late Show! 9:30pm Doors ..................................................F 5 The Vaccines w/ Little May ............................................................................................. Su 7 SBTRKT................................................................................................................................... M 8 Paul Weller w/ Hannah Cohen ....................................................................................... Tu 9 U STREET MUSIC HALL PRESENTS

A-Trak w/ Araabmuzik & Ape Drums ...................................................................... Th 11 Who’s Bad: The World’s #1 Michael Jackson Tribute Band .................................. F 12 Mixtape Pride Party .................................................................................................. Sa 13 Josh Rouse w/ Walter Martin ......................................................................................M 15 Best Coast w/ Bully ..................................................................................................... Tu 16 Jungle w/ Sunni Colón.................................................................................................. W 17 Soul Asylum & Meat Puppets ............................................................................... Th 18 White Ford Bronco ...................................................................................................... F 19 The Morrison Brothers Band w/ 19th St. Band .................................................... F 26 Snakehips w/ Louie Lastic ......................................................................................... Sa 27 Basement Jaxx (Live) ............................................................................................... Tu 30

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9:30 CUPCAKES

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9:30 CLUB PRESENTS AT U STREET MUSIC HALL William Fitzsimmons

w/ Dension Witmer ....................... Th MAY 21 Geographer w/ Empires & Idlehands .. Sa 23 Avan Lava............................................. Th 28 Ivan & Alyosha w/ Kris Orlowski.......... F 29 Seinabo Sey w/ James Davis .............. Su 31 Jedi Mind Tricks ............................ W JUN 3 Kate Tempest w/ Den-Mate.................. Th 4 JEFF the Brotherhood .......................... F 5 Justine Skye .......................................... Sa 6 The Maccabees ................................... Sa 13 Unknown Mortal Orchestra w/ Alex G .M 15

Shamir .................................................. Tu 16 RDGLDGRN .......................................... Th 18 The Griswolds w/ Urban Cone.............. F 19 King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard . Su 21 Rubblebucket

FEATURING

Kendrick Lamar • Pixies and more! ......... MAY 30 Calvin Harris • The Weeknd and more!... MAY 31

Single-Day tickets on sale now. For more info, visit sweetlifefestival.com.

The Decemberists

w/ Father John Misty .......................................................... JUNE 4

CAPITAL JAZZ FEST FEATURING

Kenny G • George Clinton and Parliament/Funkadelic and more!..........JUNE 5 & 7 Florence + The Machine w/ Empress Of ....................................................... JUNE 9 Hozier w/ The Antlers .................................................................................................... JUNE 20 Fall Out Boy | Wiz Khalifa w/ Hoodie Allen & DJ Drama ............................... JUNE 27

VANS WARPED TOUR

FEATURING

Asking Alexandria • Black Veil Brides • Riff Raff and more! .................... JULY 18 Sam Smith .....................................................................................................................JULY 24 My Morning Jacket w/ Jason Isbell ...................................................................JULY 26

FAITH NO MORE w/ Refused ............................................................ AUGUST 2 CDE PRESENTS 2015 SUMMER SPIRIT FESTIVAL FEATURING

ERYKAH BADU • ANTHONY HAMILTON and more! .................... AUG 8

PHISH .........................................................................................................AUGUST 15 & 16

Willie Nelson & Family and Old Crow Medicine Show............ AUG 19 Darius Rucker w/ Brett Eldredge • Brothers Osborne • A Thousand Horses .... AUG 22 Death Cab For Cutie w/ Explosions in the Sky ..................................SEPT 13 Alabama Shakes w/ Drive-By Truckers ............................................FRI SEPT 18 • For full lineups and more info, visit merriweathermusic.com • 930.com

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JUST ANNOUNCED!

Morrissey

.................................................................................JUNE 17 On Sale Friday, May 22 at 10am

Hot Chip w/ Sinkane ........................................................................................................ JUNE 5 Tame Impala w/ Kuroma .............................................................................................. JUNE 6 I.M.P. & STEEZ PROMO PRESENT

Flume ................................................................................................................................. JUNE 10 Belle and Sebastian w/ Alvvays........................................................................... JUNE 11 Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros w/ Letts ............................... JUNE 16 Milky Chance w/ X Ambassadors ..............................................................................JULY 27 Interpol ..............................................................................................................................JULY 28 Brandon Flowers .........................................................................................................JULY 29 SEPT 8 SOLD OUT! SECOND NIGHT

ADDED!

Twenty One Pilots w/ Echosmith.................................................................. SEPTEMBER 9 Stromae ............................................................................................................... SEPTEMBER 16 2135 Queens Chapel Rd. NE • Ticketmaster

w/ Alberta Cross & Cuddle Magic ......... W 24 Novalima .............................................. Th 25

The Shadowboxers & Kopecky w/ The Walking Sticks ............................ F 26

Sondre Lerche w/ Jonas Alaska ........ Sa 27 Turquoise Jeep w/ Oxymorons .......... Su 28

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

1215 U Street NW

Washington, D.C.

Lisa Lampanelli .................................................................................................... MAY 29 LIVE NATION PRESENTS

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

AEG LIVE PRESENTS

Berry Hill Farm • Summit Point, WV

ALL GOOD MUSIC FESTIVAL & CAMP OUT

STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW................................................. FRI JUNE 26

AEG LIVE PRESENTS

FEATURING

PRIMUS • MOE. • CAKE and more! .............................................................JULY 9-11

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

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

For full lineup, tickets, and more info, visit allgoodfestival.com

RFK Stadium • Washington, D.C.

20th Anniversary Blowout!

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

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

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

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

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

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

HAPPY HOUR DRINK PRICES

AFTER THE SHOW AT THE BACK BAR!

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

Tix @ Ticketmaster.com 800-745-3000

ALEX BUGNON ‘Byrdland’

May 21

Tribute to Donald Byrd

feat. TOM BROWNE & ELAN TROTMAN

Carolyn ERIC ROBERSON Malachi 27 STRIKING MATCHES & THE SECRET SISTERS 28 DOWN TO THE BONE Jo 29 JONATHA BROOKE Lawry 30 WALTER BEASLEY 31 ROAMFEST 2015 7pm June 1 JOE ELY / L 2 SAMANTHA FISH & ANDY POXON Andy Suzuki & 3 MARC BROUSSARD The Method 4 THE LONESOME TRIO

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Redheads always drink 1/2 price Shiner Bock!

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OTTMAR LIEBERT & Luna Negra 6 THE SELDOM SCENE 5

THIS FRIDAY, SATURDAY & SUNDAY OPEN UNTIL 4 AM

w/SHANNON WHITWORTH & BARRETT SMITH 7 In the !

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

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

Sat: TheBlues Bexfrom Marshall Band Overseas!

June 16 & 17

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

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Sun: Stacy Brooks Mon: One Nite Stand Reggae, Funk & R&B Tue: The Johnny Artis Band Rock, R&B & Reggae

featuring JACK GREGORI from Open Mic-8pm Second Floor

Sun, Tues & Thurs

Second Floor: Drunkaoke (Karaoke with Two Drink Minimum)

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MARK O’CONNOR ‘American Classics’

GRAHAM PARKER & THE RUMOUR 20 JEFFMAJORS 21 MADELEINE PEYROUXTRIO An Evening 23 MARC COHN with Love 24 TREVOR HALL Mike Karen 25 MASON JENNINGS Jonas 26 MAYSA 27 PIECES OF A DREAM Sam 28 BRANDY CLARK Grow 19

Down Home Blues

Wed: The Human Country Jukebox Band

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CITY LIGHTS: SUNDAY

BUD’S COLLECTIVE After growing up in rural West Virginia, a young person might consider leaving the mountains for broader opportunities closer to urban civilization. But Bud’s Collective, a bluegrass quartet based in the town of Wardensville, embraces the traditions of its home state with lush instrumentation and historical lyrics that recall the Civil War. The members— guitarist and vocalist Buddy Dunlap, mandolin player Jack Dunlap, banjo player Gina Clowes, and upright bassist Cody Brown—don’t just stick to the basics, though: Their catalog also includes bluegrass covers of songs by Stevie Wonder and Alabama, though a take on John Denver’s ode to their state, “Take Me Home, Country Roads,” has yet to make it into their regular set. Bud’s Collective comes to the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage as part of a partnership with Listen Local First. And since the Kennedy Center looks out over the Potomac River, which winds down from West Virginia, the urban setting will still feel like home. Bud’s Collective performs at 6 p.m. at the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, —Caroline Jones 2700 F St. NW. Free. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org.

The hamilTon 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

Quiet Company. 7:30 p.m. $14–$18. thehamiltondc.com. kennedy CenTeR millennium STage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Bud’s Collective. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org. velveT lounge 915 U St. NW. (202) 462-3213. The Split Seconds, Mercutio, Interstate Rivals, Rocket City Riot, Sidewalk Slam. 8:30 p.m. $8. velvetloungedc.com.

ElEctRonic u STReeT muSiC hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 5881880. Kill Paris, Mathias. 10 p.m. $15. ustreetmusichall.com.

Jazz blueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Jimmy Cobb, Mike Stern, Sonny Fortune, Buster Williams. 8 p.m. & 10 p.m. $40. bluesalley.com. uToPia baR & gRill 1418 U St. NW. (202) 4837669. Sherryl Jones, Wayne Wilentz. 9:30 p.m. Free. utopiaindc.com. zoo baR 3000 Connecticut Ave. NW. (202) 2324225. Mike Flaherty’s Dixieland Direct Jazz Band.

7:30 p.m. Free. zoobardc.com.

countRy beTheSda blueS and Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. Crystal Gayle. 8 p.m. $55–$85. bethesdabluesjazz.com.

Hip-Hop eChoSTage 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. (202) 503-2330. Future. 9 p.m. $48.40. echostage.com. u STReeT muSiC hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 5881880. Live Rap Circle 2. 3:30 p.m. $12–$15. ustreetmusichall.com.

classical kennedy CenTeR ConCeRT hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Air Force Symphony Orchestra. 3 p.m.

Free. kennedy-center.org.

dJ nigHts TRoPiCalia 2001 14th St. NW. (202) 629-4535. Rock Steady. 4 p.m. $10. tropicaliadc.com.

Monday Funk & R&B

hoWaRd TheaTRe 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Mighty Real: A Fabulous Sylvester Musical. 7 p.m. $69.50. thehowardtheatre.com. madam’S oRgan 2461 18th St. NW. (202) 6675370. One Nite Stand. 9 p.m. Free. madamsorgan.com.

classical kennedy CenTeR millennium STage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. The Greek Chamber Music Project. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

tuesday Rock

9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Steven Wilson. 7 p.m. $35. 930.com.

Wolf TRaP filene CenTeR 1551 Trap Road, Vienna.

(703) 255-1900. Sheryl Crow. 8 p.m. (Sold out) wolftrap.org.

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@blackcatdc UPCOMING SHOWS

MAY 23 COMMON

FRIDAY MAY 22

PEOPLE UP!

A SOUTHERN SOUL TRIBUTE:

90S ALT POP / HIP HOP

THE MUSIC OF MUSCLE SHOALS & STAX/ VOLT

DANCE PARTY W/ DJ LIL’E MAY 23 GAY//BASH!

DANCE PARTY/DRAG SHOW

MAY 27 LOUDER MAY 28 MAY 29

THAN QUIET

DEATH

QUEER DANCE PARTY

DEPECHE MODE

JUN 3

HUTCH & KATHY

JUN 4

SPOONBOY (FINAL SHOW)

DANCE PARTY

(OF THE THERMALS)

WIRE JUN 12 BOOTY REX JUN 6

JUN 13 JUN 16 JUN 21 JUN 25 JUN 28

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BODYWORK

MAY 30

BABE RAINBOW

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JOE CLAIR & FRIENDS PRESENTS WPGC’S 95.5FM’S BIRTHDAY BASH COMEDY SMASH (TWO SHOWS!)

SU 24 CLONES OF FUNK DARYL DAVIS & FEATURED GUESTS TU 26 BCC JAZZ ENSEMBLE

THE HELIO SEQUENCE

JAGA JAZZIST

BLONDE REDHEAD

EVERY WEEKEND AT 7PM

SATURDAY

THURSDAY MAY 28

TEN FORWARD SICK SAD WORLD

LINWOOD TAYLOR ~ BOURBON, BBQ AND BLUES

A HAPPY HOUR "HAPPY" HOUR 1 STAR TREK:TNG TWO DARIA EP. PER WEEK

ROMULAN ALE SPECIALS

EPISODES PER WEEK MYSTIK SPIRAL DRINK SPECIALS

F 29 GRAINGER AND THE NEW POCKETS FEATURING MERITXELL

NOW OPEN at 5pm M-F!

S 31 THE HITMEN: FROM THE FOUR SEASONS RED ROOM & LUCKY CAT PINBALL

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

TAKE METRO!

WE ARE LOCATED 3 BLOCKS FROM THE U STREET/CARDOZO STATION

TO BUY TICKETS VISIT TICKETFLY.COM

Jazz

madam’S oRgan 2461 18th St. NW. (202) 6675370. The Johnny Artis Band. 9 p.m. Free. madamsorgan.com.

blueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Steve Smith & Vital Information. 8 p.m. & 10 p.m. $25. bluesalley.com.

TRoPiCalia 2001 14th St. NW. (202) 629-4535. Raya Brass Band, Sandaraa. 8 p.m. $10–$12. tropicaliadc.com.

hoWaRd TheaTRe 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Yellowjackets. 8 p.m. $27.50. thehowardtheatre.com.

Jazz blueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Dee Lucas. 8 p.m. & 10 p.m. $25. bluesalley.com.

The hamilTon 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

Kermit Ruffins & The BBQ Swingers. 7:30 p.m. $25–$35. thehamiltondc.com.

Folk hill CounTRy live 410 7th St. NW. (202) 556-2050.

Karen Jonas. 8:30 p.m. Free. hillcountrywdc.com.

WoRld TRoPiCalia 2001 14th St. NW. (202) 629-4535. Raya Brass Band, Sandaraa. 8 p.m. $10–$12. tropicaliadc.com.

Wednesday Rock

9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Patrick Watson, The Low Anthem. 7 p.m. $20. 930.com.

The hamilTon 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

Rich Robinson, Dave O’Grady. 7:30 p.m. $18–$28. thehamiltondc.com.

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countRy biRChmeRe 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. The Secret Sisters, Striking Matches.

7:30 p.m. $22.50. birchmere.com. madam’S oRgan 2461 18th St. NW. (202) 6675370. The Human Country Jukebox Band. 9 p.m. Free. madamsorgan.com. meRRiWeaTheR PoST Pavilion 10475 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia. (410) 715-5550.

Kenny Chesney, Jake Owen, Chase Rice. 7 p.m. $50–$127.50. merriweathermusic.com.

Folk gyPSy Sally’S 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. The David Mayfield Parade, The Hello Strangers, Carolina Story. 8 p.m. $12–$15. gypsysallys.com.

WoRld kennedy CenTeR millennium STage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Ensemble Harmonia. 6 p.m.

Free. kennedy-center.org.

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9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. FIDLAR, METZ. 7 p.m. $17. 930.com. FIDLAR, METZ. 7 p.m. $17. 930.com.

flaSh 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Cherokee. 8 p.m. $10. flashdc.com.

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

Death, obnox. 7:30 p.m. $20–$25. blackcatdc.com.

u STReeT muSiC hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 5881880. Rone & Fred Falke, Kochi. 10 p.m. $12. ustreetmusichall.com.

dC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Cartoon Weapons, Time Columns, MOTHERKNUCKLE. 8:30 p.m. $8. dcnine.com.

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MATT & BEN Yes, the Coen brothers have won more awards and garnered better acclaim, but for a certain subset of the population, film collaborations don’t get any better than Matt Damon and Ben Affleck’s masterwork, Good Will Hunting.

Their friendship is still written about in gossip magazines, the origin of the screenplay is still debated in online circles, and the relationship spawned a scathing 2004 script, Mindy Kaling and Brenda Withers’ Matt & Ben. Yep, before Kaling was writing episodes of The Office and The Mindy Project, she donned a sweatsuit and a backwards baseball cap and turned her attention to her fellow Cambridge, Mass., natives. Now, as a Memorial Day treat, Flying V Theatre revives the comedy about two bros who receive a screenplay from the sky and turn that gift into decades of work, with company members Katie Jeffries and Tia Shearer Bassett in the title roles. Affected Boston accents are a given. The play begins at 8 p.m. at the Writer’s Center, —Caroline Jones 4508 Walsh St., Bethesda. Pay what you can. flyingvtheatre.com.

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

Sageworth. 7 p.m. Free. gypsysallys.com. The McLovins, Aqueous, Backbeat Underground.

8:30 p.m. $10–$14. gypsysallys.com. hoWaRd TheaTRe 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Louis Weeks, Fellow Creatures, The El Mansouris.

8 p.m. $12. thehowardtheatre.com.

countRy mR. henRy’S 601 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. (202) 5468412. Davis Bradley Duo. 8 p.m. Free. mrhenrysdc.com.

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

Mittenfields, Heavy Lights, Sealab. 8:30 p.m. $8. velvetloungedc.com.

amP by STRaThmoRe 11810 Grand Park Ave., North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Amigos Band, Dom Flemons. 8 p.m. $20–$25. ampbystrathmore.com.

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aRTiSPheRe 1101 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. (703) 8751100. C.J. Chenier and The Red Hot Louisiana-Band.

8:30 p.m. $20. artisphere.com.

kennedy CenTeR millennium STage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Zulal and Ara Dinkjian. 6 p.m.

Free. kennedy-center.org.

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madam’S oRgan 2461 18th St. NW. (202) 6675370. Patrick Alban and Noche Latina. 9 p.m. Free. madamsorgan.com.

TRoPiCalia 2001 14th St. NW. (202) 629-4535.

Tortured Soul. 9 p.m. $18–$25. tropicaliadc.com. u STReeT muSiC hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 5881880. Avan Lava. 7 p.m. $15. ustreetmusichall.com.

Shiba San, Shawn Q. 10 p.m. $15. ustreetmusichall.com.

Jazz biRChmeRe 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Down to the Bone. 7:30 p.m. $35. birchmere.com. blueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Eldar. 8 p.m. & 10 p.m. $25. bluesalley.com.

TWinS Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Capital City Voices, Jazz Band Masterclass. 7:30 p.m. $15. twinsjazz.com. uToPia baR & gRill 1418 U St. NW. (202) 4837669. The Wayne Wilentz Trio. 9:30 p.m. Free. utopiaindc.com.

caBaREt SouRCe TheaTRe 1835 14th St. NW. (202) 2047800. Latino Music Fever. 7:30 p.m. $16–$35. sourcedc.org.

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The blood QuilT Katori Hall, author of The Mountaintop, presents the world premiere of this story about four sisters who come together to create a quilt in honor of their deceased mother. When the talk turns to inheritance, they must decide whether to strengthen their family bonds or pull away from each other once and for all. Arena Stage. 1101 6th St. SW. To June 7. $45-$110. (202) 488-3300. arenastage.org.

CabaReT Wesley Taylor stars as the Emcee in this classic musical set at a Berlin nightclub during the Nazis’ rise to power. An American journalist and a nightclub singer begin a tumultuous affair but the political

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KERMIT RUFFINS & THE BARBECUE SWINGERS New Orleans trumpet player and vocalist Kermit Ruffins has enough swagger to strut like a rap star, but he prefers to play his horn and sing like his idol, Louis Armstrong. On his latest album #imsoneworleans, this Ninth Ward–born showman and his band, the Barbecue Swingers, mix joyous original numbers like the snappy title track, in which he lists which elements of the city he loves most, with Big Easy classics like Professor Longhair’s “Tipitina” and standards like “At Last” and “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.” Such cover choices could have been shopworn, but Ruffins makes them feel fresh. He adds warm horn bursts to each track, which, along with his band’s swinging piano beats and funky percussive rhythms, support the vocals of Ruffins and his guest singers. Ruffins turns jazz into party music with decades worth of R&B and south-of-the-border groove. As a former member of the Rebirth Brass Band, he knows how to get listeners out of their seats. Kermit Ruffins & the Barbecue Swingers perform at 7:30 p.m. at the Hamilton, 600 F St. NW. $25–$35.

—Steve Kiviat (202) 787-1000. thehamiltondc.com.

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NSFW When you see NSFW in a bold headline on Facebook or Twitter, you’re probably wise enough not to open the link in the office. In Lucy Kirkwood’s play, though, the acronym opens a deeper discussion of contemporary feminism. The story follows the adventures in plastic sexuality of Doghouse, a Playboy-esque magazine trying to find a new way to sell sex. Its solution: hire amateur models. A debacle ensues, leaving one of the writers, Sam (Brandon McCoy), on the other end of the magazine spectrum—at a women’s lifestyle publication. NSFW tackles privacy, objectification of women, and the media’s part in the bit under the tagline “Money. Sex. Photoshop.” Given all the real headlines surrounding body commodification and sexism in the media, there’s no better time than now for NSFW to make its American debut. On opening night, the audience will get to discuss tasteful ways of displaying naked bodies with the play’s lighting, costume, and set designers. By curtain call, you won’t see those four letters the same way again. The play runs May 27 to June 21 at Round House Theatre, 4545 East-West Highway, Bethesda. $25– —Jordan-Marie Smith $50. (240) 644-1100. roundhousetheatre.org.

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Signature Theatre. 4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington.

To June 28. $29-$95. (703) 820-9771. signature-theatre.org.

The Call A white couple sets out to adopt a child from Africa but quickly encounters opposition from African-American friends. Tanya Barfield’s play examines how global issues manifest themselves within our lives. Atlas Performing Arts Center. 1333 H St. NE. To May 31. $25-$45. (202) 399-7993. atlasarts.org. donTRell, Who kiSSed The Sea Theater Alliance presents Nathan Davis’ play about a young man who’s determined to swim into the Atlantic Ocean to cope with his family’s past before he can move on with his life. Anacostia Playhouse. 2020 Shannon Place SE. To May 31. $20-$35. (202) 544-0703. anacostiaplayhouse.com.

The fiRe and The Rain Contemporary Indian playwright Girish Karnad turns the Indian epic The Mahabharata into this play about a man who prays for rain to save the Earth and the romantic entanglements of his family. Constellation Theatre at Source. 1835 14th St. NW. To May 24. $20-$45. (202) 204-7741. constellationtheatre.org. hamleT, Q1 Taffety Punk continues its exploration of Hamlet with its first production of the first quarto, a much shorter and reordered early version of Shakespeare’s classic. Taffety Punk at Capitol Hill Arts Workshop. 545 7th St. SE. To May 23. $15. (202) 261-6612. taffetypunk.com.

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if all The Sky WeRe PaPeR The Kennedy Center presents this drama about the experience of war and its aftermath, adapted by Andrew Carroll from original letters of soldiers, in commemoration of Memorial Day. Kennedy Center Terrace Theater. 2700 F St. NW. To May 22. Free. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org.

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JaRRy inSide ouT The life of French author Alfred Jarry, whose work inspired the Surrealist artists and the Theatre of the Absurd movement, is chronicled in this biographic play written by Richard Henrich.

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Spooky Action Theater. 1810 16th St. NW. To June 21. $10-$35. (301) 920-1414. spookyaction.org.

JumPeRS foR goalPoSTS An amateur pub soccer team tries to succeed even though the players and their town have seen better days in the U.S. premiere of this play by Tom Wells. Studio Theatre. 1501 14th St. NW. To June 21. $20-$78. (202) 332-3300. studiotheatre.org.

The leTTeRS Travel back in time to Stalin’s Soviet Union in this tense play about the censorship of artists in an authoritarian state. John Vreeke directs John W. Lowell’s script. MetroStage. 1201 N. Royal St., Alexandria. To June 7. $50-$55. (703) 548-9044. metrostage.org. nSfW Explore the world of glossy magazines and discover how women are exploited by both men’s and women’s lifestyle publications in Lucy Kirkwood’s biting comedy. Round House Theatre Bethesda. 4545 East-West Highway, Bethesda. To June 21. $10-$50.

(240) 644-1100. roundhousetheatre.org. ouR ToWn The company adds its traditional commedia dell’arte twist to Thornton Wilder’s classic play about love and life in a small town. Originally presented last year as part of Arena Stage’s Kogod Cradle Series, Faction of Fools now presents a fully staged, extended adaptation. Faction of Fools at Gallaudet University’s Elstad Auditorium. 800 Florida Ave. NE. To June 21. $12-$25. factionoffools.org.

RoSenCRanTz and guildenSTeRn aRe dead Aaron Posner directs Tom Stoppard’s take on the fate of Hamlet, as assessed and told by his two old friends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Folger Elizabethan Theatre. 201 E. Capitol St. SE. To June 21. $37-$75.

(202) 544-7077. folger.edu.

The ShiPmenT This series of comedic vignettes examines the African-American experience through stand-up, sketches, and movement pieces and makes its regional debut at Forum. Forum Theatre at Silver Spring Black Box Theatre. 8641 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. To June 13. $30-$35. (240) 644-1390. forum-theatre.org.

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Many artists have an alter ego they use to unleash a side of themselves they may be shy about revealing to the world. Beyoncé has Sasha Fierce, Garth Brooks has the strangely soul-patched Chris Gaines, and Alfred Jarry, the French forefather to the Surrealist art movement, had Père Ubu. Jarry wrote many inventive plays centered on the Ubu character, chief among them CésarAntéchrist and Ubu Roi. These plays, along with letters written at the end of Jarry’s life, form the basis of Richard Henrich’s Jarry Inside Out. Based on Jarry’s life and fantastical works of writing, the production takes the audience on an intellectual and physical journey through a truly singular mind. From the unconventional audience seating to fragmented and nonlinear storytelling, this play is sure to be a trip. Absinthe, unfortunately, is not included. The play runs May 28 to June 21 at Spooky Action Theater, 1810 16th St. NW. $15–$35. (202) 248-0301.

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a Tale of TWo CiTieS Synetic company member Alex Mills stars as drag queen who finds a baby on the street and entertains it by performing the Dickens classic in its entirety in this lively comedy directed by Serge Seiden. Synetic Theater at Crystal City. 1800 South Bell St., Arlington. To June 21. $10-$50. (800) 494-8497. synetictheater.org.

The TRamP’S neW WoRld Rob Jansen took inspiration from Charlie Chaplin’s “Tramp” character when creating this multidisciplinary work that combines elements of silent films with music and physical comedy.

Flashpoint Mead Theatre Lab. 916 G St. NW. To May 24. $15-$25. (202) 315-1306. culturaldc.org. zombie: The ameRiCan In this new sci-fi thriller, America’s first gay president faces a looming civil war, a philandering spouse, and, oh yeah, a zombie invasion of the White House basement. Howard Shalwitz directs the world premiere of Robert O’Hara’s creepy comedy. Woolly Mammoth Theatre. 641 D St. NW. To June 21. $40-$68. (202) 393-3939. woollymammoth.net.

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(See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) PolTeRgeiST Gil Kenan reimagines Steven Spieln berg’s thriller about a house that’s overtaken by evil spirits and the parents who have to save their child when the spirits overwhelm her. Starring Sam Rockwell and Rosemarie DeWitt. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) SainT lauRenT Gaspard Ulliel stars as the revolutionary French fashion designer in this biopic directed by Bertrand Bonello. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information)

kill Ethan Hawke stars as a drone pilot SloW WeST A 16-year-old boy sets off on a n good who begins to doubt his work the longer his misn cross-country trek in search of the woman he sion continues. As his relationship with his family deteriorates, he’s forced to make difficult choices about the way he lives his life. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) i’ll See you in my dReamS Blythe Danner n stars as a widow in her 70s who decides to start

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