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ReadeRs had plenty to say about Will Sommer’s Loose Lips column on Jack Evans and the Ward 2 Councilmember’s side gig at a law firm that regularly lobbies the District (“Weight in the Lobby,” May 20). Alton Warren commented, “Jack has never met a COI [conflict of interest] he can resist for the right price. ; ^ ) But only 60 grand?

He was pulling in 6 figures with [law firm] PBB and was delivering bigtime. Must be some handshake side deals to make this chump change worthwhile.” Economic Growth DC, a nonprofit run by occasional Republican D.C. Council candidate Dave Oberting, tweeted, “This is an inherent conflict of interest and it’s every bit as inappropriate as Fresh PAC.” Attorney Richard Goldberg added on Twitter, “Surprise! Ward 2 councilman Jack Evans’s side job with a big D.C. lobbying firm causes the appearance of corruption… Who could predict that a current councilman working for a firm that lobbies his office would cause problems? No one.” slatekid was Evans’ lone defender: “jack is cool leave him alone....”

Theme Lark. Jessica Sidman last week tackled one of the most pressing issues facing our area: restaurateurs’ infatuation with dumb themes. @stcolumbia said, “Glad to see WCP take on the plague of tacky gimmick restaurants in DC,” while @BenHarris_1 tweeted, “Reading this @jsidman piece makes me happy that the places announced for Kennedy St--if they open--are so low-key.” @ryangsims has a revolutionary thought: “IDEA: what if restaurants were just good instead of this garbage.” What if, indeed, Ryan. What if.

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Pig, Counter Pig To read The tweets from Washington Post reporters on Twitter, the results of the Post poll on the Washington football team’s name were paradigm-shifting—only nine percent of Native Americans surveyed find the team’s name offensive! This cued some general Internet chaos as people rethought deeply held stances and generally rend their garments and gnashed their teeth.

In fact, these results are almost identical to the results of an Annenberg Public Policy Center poll from 12 years ago. Personally, it does nothing to sway my opinion that the name should change: Even assuming that the poll is 100 percent accurate, and using the lowest number for the Native American population from the 2010 census (2,932,248 listed a single race of Native American), that means that 263,902 people find the team name directly offensive. Maybe I’m simple-minded, but that seems like a lot of people to me.

So, yeah, I still firmly believe the team name needs to change. You know what else needs to change, though? The “Pigskins” name that Washington City Paper uses as house style to refer to the team. I’ve been yapping at my editor, Steve Cavendish, about this for months now, and the release of this poll was impetus enough for him to join me here for a point/counter-point on the value of “Pigskins” as designated nom du racism. Steve, what is it that we think we’re accomplishing with this?

Cavendish: First, let me back up. In 2012, the leadership here decided that City Paper would no longer use the mascot’s name because it’s racist. We don’t print the name unless it’s in a direct quotation, and I think it’s the right policy. And the fact that the Post has done a poll doesn’t change the fact that its use in American culture has largely been racist. I understand why they did the poll, but in many ways, it’s immaterial: Unless the Post begins using the term to describe Native Americans in headlines—as in “Hillary Clinton Leads 65-35 Over Trump Among R****** Voters”—all they’ve managed to do is spend poll resources in an election year to prop up Daniel Snyder’s PR machine. So, good job, guys. Good effort.

We started using Pigskins because of our readers. We asked for submissions for an

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[The poll] does nothing to sway my opinion that the name should change. alternative, we took the five best and made logos and asked them what they wanted us to use. They said Pigskins, and it wasn’t really that close (although, I must confess that the Washington Monuments logo looked really cool in a USFL way, but I digress).

I think it gives us something to call them when we need to use a mascot name, often useful in sportswriting. You know, sportswriting… that thing you’re supposed to do instead of conning editors into writing half of your column for you.

Terl: Never heard of it. Is that anything like blogging?

Anyway, my argument here is that using the registered trademarked (usually) name of a football team is equivalent to a direct quotation. By replacing it with a cutesy nickname, you’re letting the team off the hook and softening any impact use of the name should have. It’s like if you quoted some white supremacist jackass in a story

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but replaced all his uses of the N-word with “ninja.” They want to own the word and be allied with the word? Attach the word to them.

(I also think that typing “the N-word” instead of actually, you know, typing the N-word is silly—it’s obvious that I’m not tossing the epithet around aggressively— but here we are.)

If we don’t want to print the name, I’d vastly prefer to write around it (which I generally try to do) or to use R******* or something. The point of this exercise, it seems to me, should be to emphasize our disagreement with the name, not to replace it with something warm and fluffy.

Cavendish: Well, it’s certainly your prerogative to write around it. In many stories, we do. It’s an option.

And this discussion gets right to the heart of why Snyder and the team ought to change the name: We’re arguing over a pseudonym

for the mascot because lots of people don’t want to use it. Beyond the Post’s poll, there’s another, more relevant survey for Snyder.

In February, a D.C. Vote–City Paper poll of District residents found that 58 percent consider the mascot offensive. Even if you think you’re in the right by using it, there’s a substantial portion of your customers who don’t. There are people who pump their fists every time they see the video clip of Kirk Cousins yelling “YOU LIKE THAT” who will never, ever buy team merchandise because they are opposed to the logo and the name.

Telling them “well, Native Americans in this poll don’t find it offensive” is not going to overcome that.

Isn’t Dan Snyder supposed to be a marketing genius? If they were the Warriors and pulled out those sweet, sweet arrowhead throwback helmets that they wore a few years ago, how many people would go out and buy team swag the instant they’re on sale? A gazillion? (I’m estimating here.)

Terl: Sure, sure. All good points. But also ancillary to the main point I’m making, which is that if you and I both believe that the team name should change (which we do!), why are we so far apart on using Pigskins instead? It still feels to me like it helps to minimize the seriousness of the debate. I’ll continue using it, because it’s house style, but know that I’m putting it in mental air quotes every time.

Cavendish: Fair enough. You don’t have to use Pigskins. You just can’t use That Mascot Which Can’t Be Named. Just out of curiosity, what would you rename the club if you were suddenly running things?

Terl: I used to say Bullets, which was a topnotch Washington team name that’s just lying around. Then I went with Reapers, in honor of Sean Taylor (and because it fits the meter of the fight song). In a blog post suggesting Marvel Comics-based alternative names for the team, I secretly kinda liked Washington War Machine. Currently, I prefer “D.C.” to “Washington,” and I like using singular nouns rather than plural, so my frontrunner is D.C. Gridlock.

Really, as long as the name doesn’t actively offend hundreds of thousands of people, I’m cool with it.

Unless it’s Pigskins.

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Gear Prudence Gear Prudence: I have a trail etiquette question. Last night, as I rode home, I came upon a slower rider up ahead of me with a runner in front of him. Both were in the appropriate right lane, as was I. I was moving at a brisker pace than either of them, and as I approached— and in plenty of time—I loudly announced my intention to pass them. As I pulled around, he suddenly and without looking or signaling pulled out to pass the runner in front of him.

As soon as he saw me next to him, he started yelling at me about right of way. I told him I had announced my pass and he screamed at me that announcing a pass does not change right of way and that, because he was in front, I should yield. So, who’s right?

—Pretty Annoyed Strictly Speaking Dear PASS: GP gets a fair share of trail questions, but in most of the them, the tension is between cyclists and runners, who are asked to share the same narrow space while traveling at vastly different speeds. The disagreement is between you and the other cyclist, fellow travelers forced into conflict over passing the slower moving runner. Who’s right depends on a few factors, but it primarily hinges on what calling out a pass actually means.

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I am a 40-year-old woman; I came out when I was 16. When I was 17, I met M and we dated for eight years. M was a horrible human being—emotionally and occasionally physically abusive. M still sends me the occasional (creepy) e-mail, wishing me a happy birthday or giving me updates on people I don’t really recall. I don’t respond. A few years back, I got an e-mail saying that M was now “Mike.” I think it’s important to use the pronouns people want you to use for them. But Mike wasn’t Mike when he was in my life. Changing his pronoun when describing him feels like I’m changing my identity—my first real long-term relationship was with someone I thought was a woman.

Mike caused a lot of damage in my life—does he get to fuck up (or complicate) my identity, too? It’s not like the subject of Mike comes up daily. When it does, I feel like a liar if I use “she,” using “he” makes me feel like I’m lying about myself, and stopping to explain everything derails the conversation. And it’s not like I’m being a great trans ally when a conversation gets sidelined by something like: “Well, random coworker whose only trans reference is Caitlyn Jenner, my ex is trans and he’s a psychopath.”

—Mike’s Hard Lemonade

Block Mike’s number, block his e-mail address, block him on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, LinkedIn, Periscope, Kik, FuckStick, WhatsApp, CumDump, etc., etc., etc., ad infinitum.

And stop talking about Mike—don’t discuss him with random coworkers, casual acquaintances, or friends. If you absolutely, positively must discuss him with someone—a true intimate with a right to your relationship history, who needs to be sensitive to the abuse you suffered—you can be a good ally to other trans people (not your abusive trans ex) by carefully using nouns and descriptors in place of your asshole ex’s preferred pronouns. So instead of “I met him when I was still a teenager,” you say, “I met the abusive piece of shit when I was still a teenager.” Instead of “It took me eight long years to get away from him,” you say, “It took me eight long years to get away from that asshole psychopath.”

What I’m gonna say next will get me slammed on Twitter (heavens), MHL, but I’ve learned not to read my @s, so here we go…

If using male pronouns when referring to your ex is gonna complicate your life—really complicate it—if the “transitioned later” part is likely to get dropped during a game of interoffice telephone, if the qualifier about your ex having identified as a woman while you were together is likely to get dropped too, and if either of those drops could lead coworkers or casual acquaintances to assume something about you that isn’t true, i.e., that you’re into dudes and therefore gettable by dudes, and if that erroneous as-

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sumption could result in your having to deflect awkward and/or unpleasant advances from confused males, or if having your status as a Gold Star Lesbian questioned could induce orientational dysphoria… I don’t see the nontheoretical harm in you—and only you—misgendering Mike on the rare occasion when a convo about him can’t be avoided. You don’t live near him, no one you know knows him, and the misgendering is unlikely to get back to him. The adage “no harm, no foul” applies here.

But it would be simpler, easier, and ally-ier if you sidestepped the issue by not speaking to anyone about your asshole ex ever again.

—Dan Savage

I am a fortysomething bi woman happily married to a newly transitioned 50ish trans woman. I have a history of putting myself about a bit (safely) before our relationship, but we have been monogamous since we met (except for a disastrous threesome). My wife hasn’t put herself about and has slept with only myself and one other to whom she was also married—and that threesome. She understands that I have a high libido and mostly she doesn’t. Our sex life is loving and good mostly, but I do want more. There have been discussions on opening up our relationship—but essentially I want to and she is resistant. I want to do this with transparency and with men (mostly), but I don’t feel this is realistic emotionally for her given some conflict we’ve had over this issue. Is cheating the only answer here?

—Never Overly Terrified I can see how it might be emotionally tricky for a recently transitioned trans woman—that

There’s also fantasy, masturbation, repression, sublimation, self-sacrifice— and divorce. would be your wife—to cheerfully sign off on her second wife sleeping with men (mostly) and with transparency (ethically). But if you absolutely, positively can’t commit to sleep-

ing with only her for the rest of your life, NOT, and you can’t get her permission to sleep with others… then, yes, there’s cheating. There’s also fantasy, masturbation, repression, sublimation, self-sacrifice—and divorce. —Dan

I’m a queer woman. When I entered my 30s, I realized that I was more queer/bi than I had previously allowed myself to be, and I started exploring my attraction to cis heterosexual men. Five years later, and I’m in an incredible GGG relationship with a cis het male. He’s everything I have ever wanted in a partner: sexy, funny, feminist, and smart. We have full disclosure about sexuality and kinks, no complaints there. What I do have trouble with is navigating his family and friends, twin social circles composed of heterosexuals who fall into stereotypical gender roles. I spent my teens and 20s fully submersed in queer/trans circles with like-minded feminist hippies who are not hung up on the gender binary. My partner’s friends are fundamentally good people, but they see nothing wrong with “old fashioned” misogyny.

I am often interrupted, talked over, and “mansplained” by my partner’s male friends. And while I am a pretty friendly person, I can’t get a foot in the door with the women in his friend circle. My notions on feminism and equality are way too out there, so I tend to keep to myself in a corner during parties in order to avoid starting an argument.

How do I navigate this weird heterosexual world that I don’t understand? I’ve tried to explain my feelings to my partner, but I think he has a hard time relating, as he is a heterosexual cis male and was raised as one. How do I keep from losing my cool when someone starts to mansplain to me? I may be in a heterosexual romantic partnership, but I am still a queer lady at heart.

—Bi Lefty Encounters Cis Hets Some people “fall into stereotypical gender roles” because that’s who they are, BLECH, and what you perceive as the thoughtless embrace of the gender binary can in some cases be an authentic expression of gender identity. That doesn’t excuse misogyny and mansplaining, of course, but not everyone who embraces seemingly stereotypical gender roles is a dupe who needs a good talking to from the new queer girlfriend of an old straight friend.

That said, if going to parties with your cis het boyfriend’s gender-normative friends makes you miserable… don’t go to those parties. Or if you must go, drag along a leftisthippie-queer friend who can sit in the corner with you and marvel at the mansplaining manmuggles and their clueless lady friends who aren’t interested in your thoughts on feminism and equality.

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

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THE THINNED BLUE LINE D.C. cops aren’t just retiring in droves— many are simply walking away from the job.

By Jeffrey Anderson

Officer JOe BelfiOre climbed into a patrol car one day in 2003, early in his career with the Metropolitan Police Department, and was greeted with a peculiar question from his field training officer, a veteran of more than 15 years. It’s a routine courtesy question for a patrol partner at the beginning of a shift.

“So, you wanna work tonight?” the training officer asked.

It’s not always a given.

In fact, Belfiore did want to work that night, and pretty much any night he carried a gun and badge during his 13 years with the department.

He came to appreciate that the opportunity to learn from his predecessors and to do real, proactive police work is not something to be taken for granted—especially not for MPD officers.

D.C.’s population, currently at 672,000, is increasing, but the size of its police department is not. Since 2014, 851 sworn members either retired, resigned, were terminated, or died, according to monthly separation re10 may 27, 2016 washingtoncitypaper.com

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ports reviewed by Washington City Paper. Just last month, 48 sworn members left the department in the largest monthly exodus since last October, when MPD lost 60 sworn members.

Currently, 3,508 patrol officers, detectives, and sergeants are on the job, along with 274 ranking officers. The D.C. Council has approved a total of 4,000 sworn members.

Hiring is a slow, expensive process—it costs taxpayers $95,000 to recruit and train one officer, and the process takes four months. But the separation reports point to more than sunk costs related to young officers who often don’t last more than a couple years on the job. Many are leaving before they’ve stayed 10 years, taking their on-the-job experience with them. It’s also rare these days for a 20year veteran to stick around any longer than it takes to receive a decent pension. Institutional knowledge—the kind of knowledge Belfiore thrived on and looked forward to passing along—is vanishing.

According to MPD Chief Cathy Lanier, her

department has braced for this attrition for years. She cites a late-1980s hiring spree that means about 1,000 officers are destined to retire now. The problem is, D.C. is not alone in facing a shortage of police officers: Prince George’s County Police Department has a lateral hiring program to fill hundreds of positions and is eyeing disgruntled MPD officers; Fairfax County is looking to hire; in Philadelphia, the police department is trying to hire hundreds of officers. D.C.’s police department already loses officers to their hometowns, after they gain big city experience that hastens their ascent through smaller city ranks.

But the raw numbers contradict Lanier’s explanation: the data shows years of persistent resignations, sometimes between 30 and 50 percent of monthly departures. The Fraternal Order of Police has for years been voicing the same critiques about Lanier: that she has imposed formulaic policies that hinder the aggressive police work that attracted recruits like Belfiore; that she is known as a retaliation-ori-

Joe Belfiore left MPD after 13 years on the force.

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ented data manipulator and a politician of low cunning; that her public image is more favorable than that of the elected officials who are afraid to mess with her.

“Her people haven’t liked her for awhile,” says one D.C. councilmember who serves on the Committee on the Judiciary. “Until the city turns it into an issue of whether citizens feel less safe, I’m not sure how it translates to the chief. She’s popular and has high visibility. She goes to community meetings. She gives off an aura of professionalism and confidence. People want to feel safe, and she makes them feel confident that they are.”

Belfiore did not fit a standard cop profile when he broke in as a rookie. He’s a white, third-generation Washingtonian—born and raised in the District—who became a cop at age 35, largely because he wanted to implement in a practical manner the quantitative policing strategies he researched while at the Urban Institute. At 5-foot 6-inches, he’s shorter than most officers, with legs longer in proportion to the rest of his body, which made 20 pounds of gear strapped to his waist a challenge to his center of gravity. He has a cerebral quality to go along with the requisite “street smarts” found in many good cops.

On a recent weekday, Belfiore met with City Paper to talk about his career with MPD, which ended last August. Currently he is a stay-athome father and security consultant. His appreciation for the “art of policing” is the enduring memory from his time served.

“MPD had a reputation of being a cool place to work,” says Belfiore, who holds an abiding respect for his old-school mentors and former partners. The department also was attractive to recruits, he says, because D.C. is a big city where an officer can be exposed to a high volume of challenging calls while at times interacting with myriad federal agencies—valuable experience an officer might not get elsewhere.

Coming up with a seasoned partner who liked to work motivated him to bust his ass to make felony cases, “not bullshit lockups,” he says. “If you have the right partner, and it is shown to you that crime fighting is a choice, as opposed to just responding to calls or taking reports, then if given that choice, it has the potential to be that way for your entire career,” says Belfiore. “But there’s only one way to get introduced to that and it’s through your predecessors. Policing is foremost a craft. It requires people skills, psychology, and you have to like to work.”

He relates a story from his time in the Seventh Police District, where he became the sole detective on a multi-year investigation of a burglary gang at the Wingate Apartments in Bellevue. A primary challenge, Belfiore says, was developing cooperating witnesses, and a typical arrest-and-prosecute approach was floundering. When a national real estate firm bought the complex out of foreclosure in 2011, they engaged the detective as a project manager to coordinate civil evic-

tions of known criminal violators, a strategy that turned the entire complex around, made millions for his client and resolved a six-year burglary problem. The moral of the story? “I worked the Wingates first as an MPD detective and learned a lot. And then as a private security/crime resolution consultant and learned even more.”

That type of policing does not produce headline-ready, sexy statistics to grab the public’s attention, according to Justin Dillon, a former assistant U.S. attorney who worked with Belfiore on other cases and is now a defense attorney. “The better detectives want more thoughtful, long-term takedowns,” Dillon says. “The best people I worked with complained about not being supported to do proactive policing. Some of these guys, they work so hard and care so much, people don’t see that side of it.”

A veteran detective who works shootings east of the Anacostia River says some officers like big cities because of the variety and pace, but Lanier has implemented policies that keep officers tied to fixed locations. “You take this job to be a police officer, to be somebody,” the detective says. “But they’ve created a culture of officers that take reports— robots—and people get tired of it and start avoiding it. It bothers me when I see an officer sitting in his car with blue lights on, playing Words With Friends, because if he’s motivated, he’s patrolling, and he’s out cutting down on auto theft. We’ve got crazy auto

“It bothers me when I see an officer sitting in his car with blue lights on, playing Words With Friends.”t theft. There’s no auto theft unit. We don’t work those cases. I’m not talking about arresting Joe-Bob on the corner for smashing out a window vent and stealing a car. We got tow-truck companies shaving off vehicle identification numbers. Why don’t we have an organized crime unit?”

According to retired veterans, mid-career detectives, and younger patrol officers who spoke with City Paper on the condition of anonymity, MPD has stopped gathering intelligence and identifying criminal elements as a proactive approach to fighting and preventing crime. These law enforcers say Lanier has taken the department away from old-school policing in favor of specialized security details and shifts that require sitting under a light tower in a drug zone or on a designated post for eight hours, waiting for a call to come over the radio.

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Belfiore was fortunate, he says, to be able to keep his head down, be creative, and do real police work. But after 13 years, he decided he’d had enough of trying to stay under the radar, of relying on protection from direct supervisors who “get it,” and of seeing MPD go from “being a cool place to work” to what many describe as a stats-driven, punishment-oriented, cover-your-own-ass department that hadn’t given officers a raise in seven years. When an arbitrator ruled against making a long-overdue raise retroactive, “that was it for me,” he says.

Belfiore’s resignation is not as rare an occurrence as Lanier would like to think. Her “retirement bubble” argument for why MPD has an attrition problem is in part accurate, but there are other, significant factors that have been bubbling up for the last six years.

In 2010, officials noted that out of about 4,000 sworn members, 229 officers would be eligible to retire in fiscal year 2011. Former chairman of the FOP, Kris Baumann, noted the hiring push of 1989 and 1990 and warned of a “huge exodus” by 2014 and 2015 of nearly 900 officers who would become eligible for full retirement after 25 years on the force. Lanier countered that a pre-1997 age requirement for retirement eligibility would stagger those departures, and that attrition under her command had been low. She denied Baumann’s claim that she was unprepared to manage the situation, but even then, the raw numbers spoke to a troubling trend that Lanier was inclined to brush aside. Baumann also flagged the march of cops to the door. His projection proved to be accurate.

Attrition started slowly in 2010, with seven resignations and eight “optional” retirements from Jan. 1 to March 1, according to monthly separation reports that list names, start dates, separation dates, means of separation, and rank. (The monthly separation reports include all sworn members of the department as well as civilians, recruits, cadets, probationers and interns. This story is based on data in the monthly reports with non-sworn members subtracted from the totals. Just as MPD aggregates the monthly reports for annual reports and reports to the Council, City Paper also has aggregated data in some instances and sorted out non-sworn members there as well.) By the end of the year, 55 sworn members had retired, and 44 had resigned. Dozens more were fired, died, or went on disability.

In January 2011, Baumann wrote to the Council and complained about cuts that had reduced police positions from 4,250 sworn officers to less than 3,850 officers. Baumann said at the time that, with attrition, the department was on track to have about 3,700 sworn officers by 2012. Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans responded that April by introducing legislation that required MPD to maintain 4,000 sworn officers at all times. (Evans and At-Large Councilmember Vincent Orange re-introduced that legislation last year, and the Council’s website says that it is “under review.”) In a September

2011 letter to his constituents, Evans lamented that the force was down to 3,818 officers, “very near the 3,800 number that Chief Cathy Lanier identified as the threshold for real trouble.”

Mayor Vince Gray’s 2012 budget request for 120 new officers, he wrote, “does not even account for the total number of officers who leave every month.” Indeed, 67 sworn members retired from January through the middle of November that year and 57 resigned. (An additional 28 separations from Nov. 16 through the end of the year do not specify the reason.)

The exodus continued. In 2012, the separation reports show, 89 sworn members retired from MPD, but more than 60 resigned as well. In looking at the resignations, a trend begins to appear: More often than not, officers were resigning within 10 years of joining the force, and many of those within two to five years. That July, for instance, five members resigned, while six retired and three were terminated. Of the five who resigned, three left after less than five years.

The following year, 2013, saw 78 MPD members retire and 62 resign. The detective who works east of the river moved to D.C. to take the job and says recruits often stay long enough to get a taste of big-city policing before returning home or moving to another city where their experience stands out. Pay differential is also a factor, the detective says, noting that hometown starting salaries would be eclipsed by the $49,000 MPD was offering.

But as the department moved toward fixed post details and the internal culture stagnated, the detective had misgivings about joining MPD. “There are days that I question that,” the detective says, conceding that, with time on, it’s tough to walk away from a veteran’s salary. “I’m doing the job, but I’m concerned about the future of the department,” the detective says. “If I knew then what I know now, I wouldn’t have come.”

MPD officers’ top reasons for job dissatisfaction include schedules that force them to work weekends with not enough notice of arbitrary changes, and an initiative called All Hands on Deck which mandates street patrols citywide for 48 hours. In 2014, after receiving their first raise in seven years, an arbitrator ruled that MPD did not have to make the salary increase retroactive, and departures accelerated.

When officers retire, they receive a pension that is a percentage of the average of their three highest years base pay, according to Gregg Pemberton, treasurer of the FOP. If the city had offered a better compensation package, Pemberton says, many officers would have stayed longer in order to boost their pension percentage. This would’ve bought MPD more time to not only increase numbers through hiring but to get new officers on the street with experienced veterans who could teach them the ABCs of good policing. Says Pemberton: “The city was shortsighted and screwed us on compensation, so officers eligible [for retirement] or approaching eligibility ran for the hills, which compounded the attrition rate.”

Again, Baumann had warned that the standoff in negotiations was hurting police

Police Chief Cathy Lanier

morale. An accumulation of all separations of all sworn members of all ranks shows that MPD lost 181 sworn officers in 2012, and 192 officers in 2013—153 of the total via resignation.

In 2014, after the arbitrator’s ruling, it lost 305 members, 129 of them to resignation. Another 128 resigned in 2015 as MPD lost a total of 415 officers. This year, as of May 1, there have been 131 separations from the department— 38 of them via resignation—with eight months to go. In April alone, the department lost 48 sworn members, 16 to resignation.

As of this month, Pemberton puts the number of officers, detectives, and sergeants in the department—sworn members who respond to and investigate crime—at 3,508, a number he finds alarming given that homicides, robberies, and violent crimes are up compared to last year. He says members get disciplined for straying from their fixed posts to do real police work, and that MPD is increasingly reactive to crime. “All you hear from the older guys is, ‘How much time you got left?’ Younger guys with two to eight years see what this job is all about and are coming in saying, ‘Where do I quit?’”

Police dePartments are difficult to run, and police work has become increasingly dangerous and thankless; MPD has suffered from its own internal rancor rooted in the FOP’s entrenched policy battles with Lanier.

Baumann, who has a law degree, was a fierce advocate for his members on grievances, which Pemberton says are fought to the bitter end. The result is a backlog of more than 600 arbitration cases. The union claims All Hands on Deck, for example, is a contractual violation and essentially a public relations stunt by Lanier designed to heighten public perception of the police presence in communities. His members see leave bans and full deployments for major events such as Million Man March, Fourth of July, and the Papal visit as a source of anxiety regarding their scheduling and leave time, and members critique Lanier for being prone to excessive discipline for trivial infractions that do not apply to managers or others in her favor.

The FOP’s access to information was limited to the point where the FOP was forced to file public information requests that would end

up in litigation, where the losing party has to pay the other side’s attorney fees. In a February litigation report to Council Chairman Phil Mendelson, the D.C. attorney general detailed the status of litigation related to the Freedom of Information Act. FOP filed eight of the 12 cases in the office’s public information division for fiscal year 2015, resulting in the District paying out more than $70,000 in attorney fees, according to the report. The FOP also filed five of the eight cases against the District to enforce the FOIA prior to fiscal year 2014, resulting in the District having to pay another $20,000 in legal fees.

Pemberton estimates that over the past 10 years, the FOP filed nearly 30 FOIA cases and appeals and collected over $250,000 in attorney fees related to MPD’s refusal to provide information that the union argues should be available upon request under the collective bargaining agreement.

During an interview this winter, Baumann’s successor, Delroy Burton, ticks off the bones of contention and points to three large binders of General Orders that he says Lanier uses to emphasize administrative punishment of officers rather than a focus on police

tactics and the laws his members are sworn to enforce. “It’s not a happy place to work,” he said at the time.

A crime scene investigator who had planned to put in 30 years decided to retire early and take his 25 years of experience with him because the politics of the department had eaten into the job he had signed up for. (Like most retired officers City Paper spoke to, the investigator also cited the 2014 arbitrator’s ruling.)

“It wasn’t like I didn’t like my job,” the investigator says. “I was passionate about my job.”

The investigator does not disparage Lanier, but says her image with the public contrasts with that of her officers. “She’s popular with the public and good at politics, but you can’t beat guys down and expect them to stay,” the investigator says, pointing to the decision to disband the vice unit and detail officers to high visibility stationary posts where they no longer are able to work cases. “You’re better off pushing a patrol car for eight hours then going home. I’ve heard Prince George’s County is actively recruiting MPD officers, and Fairfax County is doing lateral hiring as well. I can’t blame anyone for wanting to get out. The happiest day of my life was leaving.”

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A retired narcotics investigator who also opted for early retirement expresses no personal disdain for Lanier but feels strongly that under her leadership, MPD culture has become selectively punitive and not designed for aggressive police work. He cites the same litany of complaints: the disbanded units, the stationary posts. “We are hunters,” the investigator says. “We patrol. That’s why they call it ‘patrol.’”

Last August, City Paper reported that the FOP, in an anonymous online survey, found that nearly 98 percent of officers who voted said they do not have confidence in Lanier’s ability to run MPD. Lanier defenders countered that just under a third of its members voted, to which her critics claimed that a near unanimous vote of even a minority sample size is troubling. Officers interviewed for this story pointed out that many of their colleagues elected not to vote out of fear of the chief finding out, and that transient officers are by nature less invested.

The narcotics investigator says union

members do not participate enough in efforts to protect their own rights. Regardless of viewpoint, the no-confidence vote marked the peak of bitterness between the chief and her lower ranks, and unintentionally exposed an internal dynamic that has left FOP members frustrated and feeling like they’re losing a war.

Veterans acknowledge that they’ve grown tired of the battle, the constant litigation, the politics. They say that ego got in the way of labor-management relations. “The atmosphere is not friendly on cops, but a lot of it we bring on ourselves,” says the narcotics investigator, who was active in the union and retired after 25 years. “The organization can be fixed, but you need to be able to deal with people who respect you. You can complain, but at some point you gotta stop complaining and do something. You have to give respect but you have to earn respect, while also showing them you’re willing to stand up for you rights. It’s a two-way street, and they’re stuck in place.”

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With the FOP at an impasse with Lanier, it was inevitable that voting members were ready for a change, so they elected a new chairman. Sgt. Matthew Mahl is an 11-year veteran from the Sixth Police District and a former supervisor in the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Liaison Unit (previously the Gay and Lesbian Liaison Unit).

His election is intended to wipe the slate clean with Lanier.

“The current leaders are always attacking the chief and the city,” the Washington Post quoted him as saying. “We can’t keep punching the police leaders in the face all the time.”

In turn, Lanier praised Mahl as “a real cop, a street officer,” and took a poke at his predecessors, accusing them of fear mongering. “I love the idea that the chairman is saying everything is not a fight, and everything doesn’t have to be adversarial,” she told the Post.

Mahl sat down with City Paper recently for a two-hour interview. (Lanier did not respond to an interview request before the deadline for this story.) He made no effort to dispel what other union leaders past and present have been saying for years, and what retired officers and dues-paying members expressed in interviews for this story. But he appears to have no baggage with Lanier, and he has demonstrated that he is willing to risk alienation in order to make progress in the otherwise moribund labor-management negotiations with MPD. He reiterates grievances over “an antiquated eight-hour-a-shift schedule” and the mandatory details for special events, but he sees the department’s elite, specialized units such as the mounted unit, the helicopter unit, and harbor patrol as selling points because they are unique to the District and provide opportunities for advancement.

Sure, comparable salaries exist elsewhere, but the workload at MPD is tougher, Mahl says, and potentially more rewarding.

Asked if patrolmen and officers feel supported by the department, Mahl does not hesitate: “I think they’d say they do not,” he says.

“But we are moving into a new era in law enforcement. High profile incidents here are low but they cast a long shadow. We’ve been fortunate. Because of public trust of the chief we have been insulated.” He points to an incident in the Sixth District last October that resulted in a viral video of officers subduing a subject who was high on PCP. Initially, he says, MPD took the unwarranted step of removing the officers from patrol and placing them on administrative leave, before weighing the context of the video. “It was a huge overreaction by the department but they slowly corrected the response,” he says of the decision to reinstate the officers before the investigation was completed. (Mahl says the matter was resolved without formal charges being brought against the officers.)

Mahl is working with Lanier to try to implement a more progressive program of discipline that emphasizes education over punishment, he says. But he notes that management-level officials receive discipline

that is less harsh than what the rank-andfile get. Which is ironic, given that Mahl, according to sources familiar with the incident, was facing discipline when he was elected, only to have Lanier dismiss it less than a month later. Citing the law governing internal MPD disciplinary procedure, Mahl declined to comment.

Mahl talks about what he calls the “Baumann era,” and insists he will not be re-litigating that era and fighting against the chief as his members are eyeing a contract expiration in 2017. “My membership will not swallow another battle over contract negotiations,” he says. “Some guys went half their career without a raise. I’m not gonna ask them to do that again.”

Already, Mahl says, he has seen a “change of attitude” out of MPD headquarters at 300 Indiana Ave. NW, which he surmises has to have something to do with his agreeability. Is it a rapprochement? Mahl simply says that whatever it is, it is going to benefit officers, the department and the city, “if we can keep some of these people who are retiring, especially with 25 years on.” Yet in the same breath he concedes, “If I was them I’d leave, but it runs the risk of more mistakes” by younger officers that benefit from the experience and wisdom of their elders—the type of cops who taught Detective Joe Belfiore, who, had he stuck around, would be looking to mentor the next generation of officers behind him.

But if it all sounds too chummy, the FOP’s new chairman doesn’t hesitate to speak directly to the chief ’s flaws. He says that both Lanier and Baumann were to blame for the toxic situation that may have lowered incentives for younger officers to stay with MPD and veterans to stay beyond early retirement age. “In the past she relied too heavily on an inner circle that was too happy to be yesmen than to give her the truth on what’s going on,” he says.

He disputes that Lanier doesn’t care about her officers, and when asked if she can change as a means to improving morale, he says, “I think that’s kind of where we’re at right now.

She’s long outlived her major metropolitan area chiefness. You don’t see many of them stick around nine, 10 years.” Crime was down, now it’s up, he says, reeling off the department’s own stats—41 homicides over 38 last year at this time, assault with a deadly weapon up 5 percent, robberies up 15 percent, violent crime up 9 percent—while acknowledging Lanier’s ability to play a numbers game with the press and the public.

“You can get the numbers to say anything you want them to,” Mahl says.

Whether Lanier is singularly responsible for MPD’s attrition problem is debatable, but after almost a decade on the job, it’s thoroughly her problem. The subject leads to speculation about the direction the department is going in—and her future.

“Statistically she’s on her downward slide,” Mahl concludes. “I think she wants to leave the city on a positive note. I think she’d like to solve the retention issue, reduce crime and make an exit.”

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Living the Dry Life

Did you hear the one about the bartender who doesn’t drink?

By Laura Hayes Try having a conversation about the D.C. cocktail scene without mentioning Derek Brown. But the bar tsar behind Columbia Room, Mockingbird Hill, Eat The Rich, and Southern Efficiency hasn’t found success without help: His right-hand woman, Angie Salame, serves as CEO of their enterprise, Drink Company. Despite being one of the top players in the local hospitality industry, Salame doesn’t see much limelight.

Perhaps that’s why almost no one knows her big secret: Salame doesn’t drink alcohol.

And she never has, not even while studying business at Carnegie Mellon University. “I went to college with both of my sisters, and they would all hear stories of me getting wasted,” Salame says.

But that wasn’t actually the case. “Did I have to be drunk to Jell-O wrestle? Hell no, I still did it because I never needed the social lubricant.”

She’s not alone. A handful of bar industry professionals abstain from drinking—a practice that comes with its share of struggles but also some advantages. Many report being more present behind the bar and more attuned to customer service. It’s the energetic atmosphere and interactions with patrons that keeps them in the bar industry, despite the fact that many are former addicts who are, in some cases, risking their sobriety.

Salame, however, isn’t a teetotaler because of addiction. Rather, she doesn’t like alcohol because she’s a “super taster.” The topography of her taste buds is different, and even a sip of alcohol feels like swallowing fire.

“It tastes like burning, like when you were a kid and you snuck into your dad’s liquor cabinet and stole whatever he made his drinks out of,” she says. “That never went away for me.” She can’t sense subtle notes like the peat of a Scotch or the grassiness of an agave spirit because the alcohol overwhelms her palate.

It was Brown who identified this unique quality when they first met in 2008. Salame was working for local CBS affiliate WUSA9

Angie Salame, a top player in D.C.’s hospitality industry, doesn’t drink.

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picture,” Brown says.

If Salame takes a drink, what results isn’t serious—she makes a twisted face—but for veteran bartender Xan Calomaris a sip can be the difference between life and death.

“I love alcohol, I love the taste of alcohol, but I ended up having chronic pancreatitis, which I got as a result of drinking,” she says of her 2011 diagnosis and hospitalization. “Basically if I drink, it’ll kill me. So it cut my drinking career short.”

But not her bar career: Calomaris has made stops at The Guards (now closed), Bourbon, and Jack Rose Dining Saloon. She is one of a handful of bartenders who overdid it and persevered, but couldn’t give up bartending—even when common sense screamed career change.

Daniel Mann Barnes, the newly appointed cocktail and spirits director at Osteria Marzano in Franconia, Va., couldn’t give up the job either.

He began drinking in restaurants at age 16, and things spiraled downward until he was 28.

“What struck me is that I would never be able to bartend if I continued on that path,” Barnes says. “The drinking part was easy to give up. If I had to give up bartending, I don’t know where I’d be.” He’s been sober for 11 years.

Mark Reyburn, who completed six months of rehab in 2010, agrees. “When there’s something that you enjoy and that you love, you have to do it,” he says. Reyburn is a sous chef at Clyde’s Gallery Place, but the majority of his experience is behind the bar, including stops at Bistro Bohem, Shaw’s Tavern, Jaleo, and Kushi, where he transitioned to the back of the house.

He didn’t trade a jigger for a knife kit to escape handling alcohol; he’s just putting his culinary degree to use. Reyburn isn’t tempted in the back of the house or behind the bar—he says he’s barely tempted at all.

“It comes into my mind every once in awhile, but it’s fleeting,” he says. “It’s like a chapter, and the chapter of that book is over.”

when she tagged along with her colleagues on a story about the D.C. cocktail scene.

She met Brown, who inquired about her drink of choice. Back then it was Coca-Cola or pineapple juice if she was feeling fancy— typical preferences of a super taster.

Tim Hanni, an Oregon-based researcher and master of wine, defines Salame’s aversion differently. The certified wine educator divides palate sensitivity into four “vinotypes”: tolerant, sensitive, hypersensitive, and sweet. “Sweet have the most taste buds—up to 11,000 or more—and they typically have an intolerance for alcohol,” Hanni says. “This is where Angie fits.” This group shows other signs of hypersensitivity, like a

need to cut tags out of clothing. They’re also more likely to have rescue pets as a result of spending years not fitting in. Sure enough, Salame took Hanni’s vinotype quiz and got “sweet.” Her rescue pup is named Teddy.

Despite Salame’s disinterest in consuming alcohol, she went into business with Brown in April 2010. “Meeting Derek and seeing how talented he was, I knew he had something huge, and I wanted to help him unlock it,” she says. Salame handles business and development, while Brown masterminds the drinks. He doesn’t mind that she doesn’t imbibe. “She sees the reasons beyond drinking that people go to bars, and that helps us focus in on not just the drinks, but the whole

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prisingly—other bartenders aren’t drawn to drinking, either. [if circled] “Only the first year was it a real problem.

After that, I didn’t care anymore,” says Todd Wuehrmann, a bartender at Alexandria’s Jackson 20 and Rumors. He had his last drink on April 14, 2008 after being booked for two DUIs in his early 20s. He likens avoiding alcohol to skipping a food he hates to eat, like stinky cheese.

Sober bartenders say they aren’t tempted by peer pressure from colleagues after a shift or at industry events either. Some manage to keep their sobriety a secret; others are met with respect. “I never got pressured, it was really just cool,” Reyburn says. “Even when I was hanging out with fellow bartenders, they would order me a Coke—it was the

bartending for 10 years and sober for about nine. Remembering patrons when they return is also a plus.

Sober bartenders may even be attractive to employers. “I’ve worked with a lot of people that drank behind the bar that couldn’t handle their alcohol,” says Wuehrmann.

“At the end of the night when we’d cash out, we’d be missing well over $100 from the cash drawer or they would have misplaced their tips. Management knows I won’t mess my drawer up, drink a bunch of their booze, or give away a bunch of their booze.”

Tasting—a critical step for makers in the craft cocktail scene—is a more formidable barrier. Some dry bartenders, like Calomaris, are willing to sip and spit when they encounter an unfamiliar flavor. Others are not. “That just opens a gateway of negative possibilities,” Wuehrmann says. Not being able to sample puts him at a considerable

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opposite of pressure.”

There are some advantages to being a bartender who doesn’t drink. Before, Calomaris would connect with patrons by sharing a shot with them, but that is no longer an option. After her diagnosis, she began using her intellect and sense of humor to connect with guests, rather than slugging booze together. “It made me work a little more at my job, and I’ve come to really enjoy making deeper connections.” It helps that bartending has evolved. “There’s a lot more involved, and I like that it’s become a much more intellectual pursuit.”

Barnes agrees that abstaining can give her a boost with customers. “Some people are weird about it. They’re like ‘don’t trust a bald barber,’ but what’s happened a lot for people is they get caught up in the mechanics of building a cocktail. The smile gets lost sometimes,” he says. “You can be present while you’re doing something. That’s what has gotten lost.”

Then there’s the obvious. “The advantage to not drinking at work is you don’t wake up feeling like you got hit by a train,” says Brandon Brothers, a bartender at Eighteenth Street Lounge who has been

disadvantage: He doesn’t know if his drinks taste good, and the drinks at Jackson 20 are complex. Take the “Birds Eye View” with tequila, Thai chilies, celery vinegar, Triple Sec, and lime.

Being a sober bartender was easier, he says, when drinks were simpler. “When I first started doing this, a house cocktail list would have a Manhattan, Rob Roy, Cosmopolitan. You learn to make them and a handful of shooters, and you’d know what you’re doing.”

Wuehrmann employs multiple strategies to address this challenge. He relies on his sense of smell, asks other bartenders to try his drinks, and sometimes makes a virgin version of a cocktail that’s heavy on the juices and syrups.

Brown says he wouldn’t hesitate to hire someone like Wuehrmann. “They might have to nose spirits or be willing to bolster their knowledge in another way, but certainly, I would hire a sober bartender,” he says.

“Truth is, there were a few drinking bartenders I’ve met that would have been better bartenders for laying off the sauce.” CP Eatery tips? Food pursuits? Send suggestions to jsidman@washingtoncitypaper.com.

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Neapolitan-style pizzas are everywhere, so it’s refreshing to find a pie that doesn’t droop when you pick it up. At All Purpose, a new Italian-American restaurant in Shaw, chef Mike Friedman (also of The Red Hen) is making New York-style pies with his own flair. Take a look at how his process differs from that for Neapolitan pizzas, which must follow strict guidelines from the Associazione Verace Pizza Napoletana to be certified as the genuine thing.

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Friedman sampled 18 domestic and international canned tomato brands before settling on Californian plum tomatoes from Bianco DiNapoli.

Tomato Sauce

Scamorza (“a really great melting cheese”), mozzarella, and ricotta from Calabro creamery in Connecticut—plus Italian Grana Padano, French gruyere, and more

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Like he does with pastas at The Red Hen, Friedman thinks about seasonality, texture, and complimentary flavor combinations when it comes to toppings. All Purpose’s Ferraro pizza, for example, combines artichokes, ramps, stinging nettles, and pistachio pesto.

Five to six minutes in a 640- to 660-degree deck oven Passes the New York “fold hold” test—even with mounds of toppings

’WichingHour The Sandwich: Fried fish torta Where: Espita Mezcaleria, 1250 9th St. NW Cost: $12 Stuffings: Breaded and fried tilapia, lime mayo, red onion, green cabbage Bread: Brioche bun Thickness: 4 inches pros: Fried fish is difficult to master— most of the time, either the breading is too soggy or the fish is overcooked. But

Super refined “00” wheat flour, yeast, sea salt, water. No fats or sweeteners are used.

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the filets in this sandwich have both a crunchy crust and a delicate, flaky interior. A soft, slightly sweet brioche bun from Lyon Bakery serves as the perfect pedestal for the stacked pieces of tilapia, and a tangy lime mayo gives every bite an extra bit of sourness.

Cons: It’s hard to find anything to quibble with, but prepare to open your mouth very wide when you eat this sandwich. It’s tall and tough to compress.

Sloppiness level (1 to 5): 3. Because the

sandwich contains so much fish plus very thinly sliced cabbage and onions, it will inevitably fall apart as you eat it. Fortunately, the components taste just as good if you eat them with a fork as they do when you eat them with your hands. overall score (1 to 5): 5. Just in time for summer comes a fish sandwich to top all rivals. Texturally precise and equal parts sweet, sour, and salty, it makes for a light yet filling lunch.

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elysian Superfuzz Blood orange pale ale Where in Town: Harris Teeter, 1631 Kalorama Road NW price: $11.99/six-pack Too Big to ale Despite what seems like market-saturating growth, combined American craft beer sales remain a drop in a very large bucket compared to that of AnheuserBusch InBev. The international goliath has been working to take over its primary competitor, SAB-Miller, in a $100 billion deal that would constitute the fourth largest corporate acquisition in history. In its path toward world domination, AB-InBev is also snatching up small independent breweries, including Virginia’s Devils Backbone. So far, these buyouts have afforded growing breweries resources for greater production volume and distribution range without a loss in quality or autonomy. In the case of Seattle’s Elysian, which AB-InBev procured early last year, D.C. beer fans now have greater access to gems like Superfuzz Blood Orange Pale Ale. Blood, Sweat, and Beers Superfuzz, a funk-themed summer seasonal first released in April 2013, launches in its home state of Washington each year with a bikini ski race and party that is as zany and in-your-face as the beer itself. Brewed with a healthy dose of blood orange peel and puree, Superfuzz is a juicy citrus bomb. The brew’s pungent kick is as much from its Cascade, Citra, and Amarillo hops as it is from the fruit and rind. Pale and Munich malts provide an almost sweet, crackerlike base underneath more pronounced grapefruit and, of course, blood orange flavors. The medium-bodied, 6.4-percent-alcohol brew finishes dry with a zesty, bitter aftertaste. Sound refreshing? Superfuzz kegs and bottles are abundant in bars and shops around town. How’s that for superfly?

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Precious Metal The oral history of Heavy Metal Parking Lot

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short film about metalheads and wasted youth went viral, before going viral was a thing.

Laura Schnitker, acting curator for Mass Media & Culture, Special Collections & University Archives, University of Maryland: I got to know Jeff some years ago. I got to interview him for my dissertation, which was about independence in American popular music. As you know, Jeff was really involved with WMUC, the campus station here at Maryland.

Jeff Krulik, co-director, producer: College radio was cool.

We had freedom, but I realized that wasn’t going to translate into a job. Television I thought was something I could get something out of and like. I went and got trained with the public access channel. Someone had a dance recital, and I said “I’ll tape it.”

John Heyn, co-director, producer: I read a story in the film section of the Washington Post weekend edition about Jeff and his documentary about old D.C. movie palaces. The year prior, in 1984, I produced a short experimental documentary about D.C. movie palaces. I was intrigued by his project, and I wanted to meet him and show him my film and see what he had to say about it. I contacted him, called him up, and we arranged an appointment to screen our films.

Krulik: You know when you meet somebody and you immediately speak the same language? It just connects immediately, and that was kind of going on with us. We just became friends pretty quickly.

Heyn: Jeff ran a public access television studio for the cable company in southern Prince George’s County, Md. He had access to this professional-grade news equipment. It wasn’t easy to borrow or even rent professional caliber equipment, but Jeff had access to this gear, which allowed me to satisfy a lot of creative urges and needs. It helped get our collaboration going.

Krulik: We actually had more ideas than things that we followed through on. But pretty early on in our relationship, John had the idea of shooting heavy metal fans at the Capital Centre.

Heyn: We heard radio ads on DC101 for shows at the Cap Centre, and I thought, “This could make for a good documentary.”

We just had a hunch that there would be tailgate partying. It’s subculture, metalheads, so we thought it could be pretty outlandish. It exceeded our expectations.

As Told to Ryan Bray Andy WArhol once famously proclaimed (or at least took credit for saying) that everyone will get 15 minutes of fame in their lives. Filmmakers John Heyn and Jeff Krulik managed to carve out 16 minutes for themselves with Heavy Metal Parking Lot. Heyn and Krulik’s iconic short film, which documents youthful indiscretion through the lens of 1980s metal subculture, began as little more than an experiment. The two visited Landover’s fabled Capital Centre on a whim one weekend afternoon in May 1986 with the goal of capturing all of the drinking and insanity a Judas Priest concert tailgate promised.

Equal parts comedy and surreal anthropological documentary, Heavy Metal Parking Lot is loads of debauched fun. But arguably more interesting than the film itself is the DIY means by which it has endured for three decades. After the filmmakers spent years privately screening the film and trying to get it carried in local video and record stores, bootleg copies of the film started making their way along the West Coast in the early ’90s, landing in the hands of bands like Sonic Youth, Public Enemy, and Nirvana. Soon afterward, clips from the film became staples on MTV and VH1. With that, what started as an offbeat neo–concert film grew into a certified cult classic.

Krulik: Because it was a Saturday and it was spring, we thought, “Why not?” Our biggest concern was whether people would take offense or if we would get beaten up.

Jalyn Graham Owens, concertgoer, aka “Gram of Dope”: When they walked up to me, I thought, “I’ll never see these guys again. They’re just walking around filming people.”

Nathaniel “Buda’”Dodson, concertgoer, aka “Bullshit!”: Truthfully? I don’t remember being there. I look at the video and do not remember being there. I remember nothing of that day. It wasn’t just because it was a long time ago, it’s because of what I was indulging in at the time.

To celebrate the film’s 30th anniversary, a year-long exhibit in the University of Maryland’s Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library opens on May 27. Here’s the story—as told by Heyn, Krulik, and the film’s cast of characters—of how a 16-minute

Heyn: We took the approach of guerilla filmmaking, which was our M.O. in those years. I liked working that way. We didn’t get permission from the organization, because there was a good chance they would have turned us down, you know? It would have created a level of bureaucracy and hassle that we didn’t want to deal with. We drove in and paid our parking fee, pulled out the camera, and started doing it. washingtoncitypaper.com may 27, 2016 19

CPArts Michael Layne Heath, writer and poet: I think Jeff and John eventually thought, “OK, well it’s run its course. Now we have something to show our kids and our grandkids when they grow up to appreciate metal.”

Krulik: We put it to rest in 1990, then several years later we found out it was getting out there.

Heyn: It started to click and pick up in the mid-’90s. It became a West Coast phenomenon on a small, underground level. There was a lot of tape trading, and it eventually got on Nirvana’s tour bus.

Krulik: A friend of mine, Mike Heath, moved to the West Coast in 1992. He moved to San Francisco and wanted to take copies with him. He showed up at my job at Discovery Channel and asked for tapes. I said, “Sure. How many do you want?”

Heath: I probably took about a half dozen. I gave copies to various musician friends that I became acquainted with. I also ended up getting copies to Anthrax, Public Enemy, and Primus.

They did a tour and played in D.C. in the fall of 1991.

Heyn: In 1994 I was sitting at home in Silver Spring and I got a call on the West Coast from Sofia Coppola. She had called me to tell me that she was a big fan of the video. She hunted me down through the White Pages or whatever and said she was a big fan. She was producing a comedy series for Comedy Central called High Octane, and she wanted to use clips of the movie in her show. That was a “eureka” moment.

Krulik: Belinda Carlisle rented it. Paul Mazursky, the director, he rented it. It was this weird cross section of people. We thought “Whoa. What the hell is going on?” That’s when we realized we should get it out of mothballs.

Schnitker: I went to a screening on the 20th anniversary at the AFI in Silver Spring, and the theater was packed. Not only were there people there who were in the film, but it was full of a lot of the film’s original fans who were the first to get copies of it. The copy that ended up on Nirvana’s tour bus actually came from, I think, a Maryland student who had some copies and moved out to San Francisco. These were the first generation of bootleggers that really started circulating it.

Krulik: We were only in the parking lot for two hours, so we just needed to convince them quick. I think a couple of times we said we were giving it to the band. We were a bona fide crew, with a deck and a camera just bouncing around.

Heyn: The format was three-quarter-inch video tape. The package consisted of a big camera, a bigger over-the-shoulder portable tape deck, a cable connecting the camera to the deck, and a microphone.

Krulik: The same day, we saw the footage and thought, “Whoa, this is really funny and really good.”

Krulik: Chuck Howell and Laura are the ones that first really embraced [the exhibit], then other people came along to cement the weekend that we could have the opening. Also we had to find a gallery space. There’s a classical piano [exhibit] in the space now, where Heavy Metal Parking Lot will be.

Owens: When I finally saw the movie, I was the father of a fouryear-old. I finally saw it and I damn near choked on my beer. I was watching it like “Jesus Christ, that’s me.”

Schnitker: The first time I saw it I didn’t know what the hell it was. I thought it was going to be a documentary about metal, but it’s not really a documentary. There’s no narrative. It’s just about these people in a parking lot.

Owens: You have to remember, this was another routine concert we were going to. We went to so many. There were concerts every other day, every other week, whatever.

Eileen Zelaya, concertgoer, aka “Jack Daniels and Coke.

What else?”: We saw Bon Jovi, ZZ Top, Scorpions, you name it. I still have all my ticket stubs. I have this one, too.

Dodson: There were four signs in the parking lot. If I’m not mistaken, it was the bell, the flag, the eagle, and the Capitol.

You’d tell your friends, “Let’s meet at the bell or the eagle.”

Eventually you’d find each other and start partying.

Krulik: John took it back to his job at a tape duplication house and edited it there. He did it over the course of several months, because he did it in his spare time.

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Heyn: It still stands up pretty good, as both a documentary and a comedy. Even to this day, there’s still a lot of shock value to it.

The people’s behavior and what they say, the lines, it all holds up over the years. tles for it, find Judas Priest footage for it, and take care of some other elements. It took a couple of months to put together a finished product.

Krulik: We showed it in the fall of 1986 in a place called d.c. space. They had a bi-weekly film night where you could bring in different stuff, and that’s where it premiered. Reaction was positive, but any showcasing or distribution of it was done in my living room. You had to just show it on video, because it wasn’t going to get into film festivals.

Heyn: There weren’t that many avenues to marketing it. Tower Video, another legendary bygone music and video store, had a video section, and I tried to get it in there as a rental.

We made quick dubs, VHS copies with limited packaging, and they took them. We tried to get local record stores and video stores to carry it.

Dodson: Even doctors recognize me. I’ll tell them, “Yeah, I used to do this or that back in the day. Here, watch this on Youtube.” And they’ll get excited about it, like, “Oh yeah, there he is! That’s him!” These are doctors.

Owens: I’m proud to be a part of it, because it’s become this huge, cult thing. Here I am, I’m an executive professional chef, father of four, two grandchildren. I’m at the top of the family tree that I’m growing here. I could say it’s embarrassing, but I’m not ashamed that I did that.

Krulik: It all happened before the Internet. To be honest, I think if it happened today it would be over within a week. We had to really work to get this. I’m just so thrilled and happy to be talking about it 30 years later.

Heath: I think as long as people out there know what the devil horn symbol means, it’s gonna endure.

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Film

Plan of Fraction

Two women at the center of new films by Rodrigo Plá and Rebecca Miller take matters into their own hands, each with an unwieldy aftermath.

A Monster With a Thousand Heads

Directed by Rodrigo Plá

Maggie’s Plan

Directed by Rebecca Miller

By Tricia Olszewski EvEryonE, at somE point in life, wants to take a bat to Comcast. And “going postal,” its definition generalized after more than 20 years in the lexicon, does not mean choosing USPS instead of email.

Likewise, director Rodrigo Plá’s A Monster With a Thousand Heads is no sci-fi movie. It’s about a middle-age Mexican woman wrestling with the bureaucratic beast that is the health care system on behalf of her cancer-stricken husband.

The film opens with a wide shot of a room in a sleeping household whose inhabitants will soon be woken when the man, Memo, grows weaker and falls. Eventually we get a closeup of his wife, Sonia (Jana Raluy), her weariness leaping off the screen. (If Raluy were, say, Jennifer Aniston, there would be a big todo about her zero-makeup bravery.)

The next morning, Sonia merely seems like a persistent but perhaps impatient caretaker while trying to get the doctor in charge of Memo’s treatment on the phone. Persistent she is: Sonia then drags her teenage son, Dario (Sebastián Aguirre), to the physician’s office and waits for hours to get him (Hugo Albores) to point out to the couple’s insurer that it mistakenly refused to cover a medication that Memo desperately needs. An indifferent receptionist gives her the runaround until nearly the end of the workday, at which point she tells Sonia that Dr. Villalba has left. Really, though, he just wanted to get home and play tennis.

The receptionist gets off easy with an eartwisting; for Villalba and others involved in approving the medication, Sonia has something more extreme in mind. “Mom, it’s embarrassing!” Dario says when his mother tells a cabbie to follow the doctor’s car.

Written by Laura Santullo, Monster offers a story that is globally sympathetic (at least for viewers who don’t have hassle-free health care). From Villalba’s apathetic attitude toward his patient to detestable insurance company policies that pressure caseworkers to randomly deny authorization to a set percentage of clients, the film’s gradual revelations make

Sonia’s actions justifiable—almost.

Anyone who’s glimpsed Monster’s onesheet already knows that the end-of-herrope wife and mother brandishes a gun. A fantasy of many caretakers who repeatedly beat their heads against the system’s walls?

Maybe. But the point at which Sonia whips out the pistol is so early, you’ll laugh once the shock wears off. Surely, she’s struggled with Memo’s coverage before, but we don’t see that; we know only that she couldn’t get in contact with a doctor one day.

After the idea settles in and the urgency of Sonia’s quest—and the inequity of the insurance company’s ways—become clear, you might feel more sympathetic, or at least roll with it. Raluy’s realistically desperate performance plus Plá’s inventive direction make this easier: Plá often shifts perspectives, but judiciously enough that it’s sometimes imperceptible. He’ll double back a few moments, for example, replaying a scene from another character’s viewpoint. Or he’ll simply return to a location that Sofia just left, to let you listen in on how others are talking about her. The effect is that you watch more carefully, catching details you might have missed the first time around.

Throughout, too, is narration from a court hearing—testimony about an event that’s currently taking place on-screen, or the swearing-in of a witness while the camera shows the person before he knows he’s about to become a witness. This chatter builds throughout, but the result is like a firecracker that doesn’t go off: There’s a near-climactic situation, and then the film just ends. Maybe, after raising the tension so early, Plá thought it better to go out with a whimper. In his next film, though, the director might consider turning this dynamic around. thE titlE charactEr of Rebecca Miller’s Maggie’s Plan also takes an important matter into her own hands. But her pressing issue isn’t medical—it’s maternal.

“I need a baby!” Maggie (Greta Gerwig) tells her friend Tony (Bill Hader) as they walk the streets of New York, his toddler in tow, at the start of the film. She then breaks the news that she’s chosen to be inseminated, not by a spermbank stranger but someone they knew in college: a guy with a shaggy beard who’s now a “pickle entrepreneur.” (At this point, it should also be noted, Tony’s kid is wearing a button that says, “Imagine there’s no fracking.” So ready yourself for a hipster, uber-liberal ride,

A Monster With a Thousand Heads

not unlike the rest of Gerwig’s filmography.)

Just around the time the deed is to be done, however, Maggie, an academic director of business development, meets John (Ethan Hawke), a professor at her school. According to Tony’s wife, Felicia (Maya Rudolph, adding a spark in even this tiny role), John’s regarded in his field as “one of the bad boys of ficto-critical anthropology.” They connect quickly, but he’s married to a fellow professor, Georgette (Julianne Moore), with whom he has two children. Georgette has reportedly been referred to as “glacial” and “terrifying”; John tells Maggie that “she’s wonderful, she’s just destroying my life.” (For added frigidity, Moore puts on an accent that’s not quite placeable, but allegedly Danish.)

Let’s pause here. On their best professional days, Hawke and Moore would seem an unlikely couple. That Georgette is portrayed as a rigid but rising academic star, fashionable and ambitious, and John, despite his intellectual achievements, is unshakably Hawke, forces upon the film a narrative disconnect that’s difficult to overcome.

Gerwig and Hawke, however, have a much more realistic chemistry, so it’s significantly more believable when Maggie and John fall in love and get married. (Which happens somewhere along the line when Miller, with zero indication, fast-forwards three years and suddenly shows them with a kid of their own.) But Maggie’s ultimate plan—which develops when she discovers that domestic life isn’t so blissful—involves rekindling the flame between John and Georgette. When she befriends Georgette (another tough plot turn to buy considering that

Georgette turned her bitterness over the split into a book), the professor with a tightly pulled bun goes rather gushy about her ex. Really?

Maggie is also inconsistently drawn. Miller adapted the script from a friend’s unpublished novel, and regardless of where the character’s details originated, Maggie’s scattershot personality is another of the film’s drawbacks.

This problem, though, is easier to gloss over.

We’re used to seeing Gerwig play quirky and somewhat flaky, so Maggie’s mustard-colored tights and naivete regarding John’s initial motives, for example, seem natural. But suddenly she turns into the level-headed one of the triangle, balancing her job, the kids, and the family’s responsibilities in general while John gets lost in writing an endless book. It’s great to watch a with-it Gerwig; it’s just not clear when exactly Maggie became that way.

Maggie’s Plan still manages to be enjoyable despite its flaws. It offers bits of intellectual musing as well as mild humor throughout (Georgette may be an enigma, but her pronunciation of “Pussy Riot” is exquisite). John and Maggie’s daughter is ridiculously cute.

And the idea of the wives, ex and new, actually liking each other is a nice thought. But then Miller caps it all with a pointless twist, solidifying your suspicion that the film’s breezy quality was actually compensation for hapCP hazard storytelling.

A Monster With a Thousand Heads opens Friday at Landmark E Street Cinema.

Maggie’s Plan opens Friday at Landmark E Street Cinema and Landmark Bethesda Row.

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Political documentary meets cringe comedy in Weiner, which seeks to answer the question asked every time another public servant admits to a sex scandal: What was he thinking? Even after Gary Hart, Bill Clinton, and David Vitter (and that’s just at the national level!), we have yet to find an answer. Weiner, a sizzling film that documents the extended fall from grace of former Congressman Anthony Weiner, gets as close as anyone ever has. It depicts an electoral process that poisons the soul of all who participate and one man who, even after being poisoned, asks for seconds.

Those outside of New York may forget that the Weiner scandal actually unfolded in two distinct episodes. There is the first chapter, in which the feisty liberal congressman accidentally tweets a photo of his underwear—intended as a private message—to the public and is forced to resign. After laying low for two years, he runs for mayor in attempt to return to former glory.

In the early going, it looks to be just that, but Weiner just can’t get out of his own way. With several months before the election and the candidate riding high in the polls, another woman comes forward bearing evidence that Weiner engaged in phone sex with her—after his resignation and public apology. Any sane candidate would drop out of the race at this point. Weiner stays in it, subjecting himself and his family to a deluge of insults, admonishments, and accusations of betrayal from the press, his staff, and his once-adoring public.

Told with riveting artistry and incredible access to the free-falling campaign, Weiner deserves a place in the pantheon of great political documentaries. The drama is inherent, and Weiner cuts a tragic figure that would fit alongside Shakespeare’s most complex political figures. He was a strong champion for

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Directed by Elyse Steinberg and Josh Kriegman

New York’s working class—the film opens on his fiery House floor speech criticizing Republicans for blocking the 9/11 responders bill— but could never shake the perception that he craved attention more than meaningful reform. In the film’s final third, as he steadfastly refuses calls for him to drop out of the race, you’ll find yourself wondering who he’s really in it for.

Filmmakers Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg bring this slow-moving car crash to life by keeping their gaze trained on the human element. Whenever possible, their subjects are framed in close-up. While their mouths speak in the patois of politics, their eyes reveal deeper truths: in Weiner’s, a frantic desperation to sweep each new, damaging development under the rug; in his key staffer, a skepticism that masks her anger and disappointment at the breach of trust; and, most of all, in Huma Abedin, Weiner’s dutiful wife, perpetual shellshock. Abedin, who watches her own political aspirations go down with her sinking ship of a husband, would have made a great silent film star. On camera, she says little, but her eyes express the acute sadness of this story that nobody can bear to voice.

In this way, Weiner is also a compelling domestic drama that captures a very public couple at their most private moments. With every wrong move that Weiner makes, we wonder how long Abedin can stand by his side, and it makes the question why he ran—and continued to run—even more central. The fact that Weiner never quite settles on an answer is easily forgiven. In fact, that’s the point. Maybe there is no why. Maybe Weiner—like Al Pacino once said in Michael Mann’s Heat—is nothing except what he’s going after. And maybe there’s nothing more American than that.

—Noah Gittell Weiner opens Friday at Landmark E Street Cinema and Bethesda Row.

TheaTerCurtain Calls

The Object Lesson

Created and performed by Geoff Sobelle Directed by David Neumann Scenic installation by Steven Dufala At Studio Theatre’s Stage 4 to June 5 Walking into Studio Theatre’s top-floor Stage 4 for Geoff Sobelle’s solo performance/ installation The Object Lesson, you might think you’d found the attic instead. The place is buried in stacks of cardboard boxes, most bearing mysterious notations in marker and many of them opened, plus assorted pieces of wellused furniture and junk. The ushers instruct

Handout photo by Allie Dearie

Tough CluTTer

Bowlers, which Studio hosted several years ago, was a joyous but still thoughtful specimen of movement theater wherein the performers interacted brilliantly with projected film clips.

The Object Lesson is more static and meditative, asking us to accompany Sobelle—or the undefined character he’s playing—on a stream-of-consciousness journey of memory, its course presumably charted by whatever old curio he pulls out of a box. It’s unclear on the basis of a single performance to what extent each show is improvised. A few of his tricks for holding our attention are delightful, as when we hear only his half of a telephone conversation, and then the other half, in a surprising context, some moments later. There’s also a meandering anecdote, delivered in near-darkness, about a summer he spent in Paris that reaches a surprising payoff long after you’ve concluded

Even for those who have a high tolerance for boredom, this one-man show makes some tough demands of its audience’s patience. you to find a seat, or something that can serve as one. You’re free to paw the debris; I fooled around with an old cassette recorder and a box of language tapes that I found on the floor while waiting for the show to start. It’s not clear where the stage is going to be until Sobelle enters. Once he does, he wanders around, narrating his explorations into a Dictaphone. You can move around, too, to keep him in your field of vision, though the sound of foam packing peanuts beneath your feet may distract your neighbors. Some distraction during The Object Lesson is inevitable, I’m afraid.

With his thinning hair and stocky build, Sobelle looks enough like a high school basketball coach that you’d never suspect he’s a L’École Jacques Lecoq–trained clown. He and creative partner Trey Lyford co-founded the Philadelphia-based physical theater outfit Rainpain 43.

Their Charlie Chaplin–inspired piece, All Wear

he’s just filling time.

But at about 100 minutes with no intermission, the piece has too many dead spots in between the pearls to recommend. Some of these seem necessitated by the physical process of rearranging the room for Sobelle’s finale, an inventive bit involving a card catalog. (You might have to move to see any of it.) Then again, these lulls may also be part of Sobelle’s design, intended to induce a state where anticipation replaces our grounding in the present.

Whether or not tedium can be productive or enriching is an intriguing question. But for all but the most forgiving audiences, the promise of contemplating boredom while surrounded by junk is an awfully tough sell to lure you out of the house.

—Chris Klimek

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Black cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Kill Lincoln, Caustic Casanova, Psychic Subcreatures. 9 p.m. $10–$12. blackcatdc.com.

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New Orleans Suspects, Glen David Andrews.

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Psychic suBcrEaturEs

There’s a scene in John Carpenter’s outrageous post-apocalyptic action flick Escape From L.A. in which Kurt Russell’s one-eyed protagonist Snake Plissken surfs a tsunami in the Los Angeles River before jumping off his board onto a car speeding alongside on a freeway. It’s perhaps one of the most ridiculous movie scenes from the ’90s and one I like to imagine inspired the local surf-punk quartet Psychic Subcreatures to start a band. On its impressive eight-song demo, the band’s fierce, stylized blend of post-surf psychedelia and goth-tinged punk rides a wave of reverb, anchored by singer Ariana Stone’s sometimes-mumbling, sometimes-growling vocals.

They’re exactly the kinds of tunes that would perfectly soundtrack that scene (yes, I have field tested this; it syncs up incredibly well). On Friday, the band opens for ska-punk outfit Kill Lincoln, another group of locals who share an affinity for the ridiculous but don’t play out much anymore now that singer/guitarist Mike Sosinski has moved from D.C. to the West Coast. Rounding out the bill is the sludgy prog-rock trio Caustic Casanova, whose latest album, Breaks, hits hard with huge riffs and thundering drum fills. Plissken would approve. Psychic Subcreatures performs with Kill Lincoln and Caustic Casanova at 9 p.m. at the Black Cat, 1811 14th St. NW. $10–$12.

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Black cat BackstaGe 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 6674490. Dark & Stormy with DJ Shea Van Horn. 10 p.m. $5. blackcatdc.com.

Dc9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Discnotheque with DJs Sean Morris and Bill Spieler. 10:30 p.m. $2–$5. dcnine.com.

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

Commander Cody Band, Mike Marlin. 8:30 p.m. $12.25–$20.75. thehamiltondc.com. Lloyd Dobler Effect. 10:30 p.m. Free. thehamiltondc.com.

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iOta cluB & café 2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. (703) 522-8340. Red Elvises, Atomic Mosquitos. 9 p.m. $15. iotaclubandcafe.com.

cOmet pinG pOnG 5037 Connecticut Ave. NW. (202) 364-0404. The Obsessives, Loose Teeth. 10 p.m. $12. cometpingpong.com.

rOck & rOll hOtel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

T.S.O.L., The Scandals, Walk the Plank. 8 p.m. $13. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

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FUnk & R&B Birchmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Freddie Jackson. 7:30 p.m. (Sold out) birchmere.com.

Gypsy sally’s 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. Rufus Roundtree and the B’more Brass Factory, Alanna Royale. 8:30 p.m. $12. gypsysallys.com.

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howard TheaTre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Tweet, Amber Bullock, Tabria. 8 p.m. $35.50–$60. thehowardtheatre.com.

ElEcTROnic Flash 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Joe Claussell. 8 p.m. $10–$15. flashdc.com.

U sTreeT mUsic hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Elite Force, DJ 2RIP, Stuff & Things, Flyer Power.

10 p.m. $10. ustreetmusichall.com.

JAzz BlUes alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Larry Coryell Trio. 8 p.m. & 10 p.m. $35. bluesalley.com. mr. henry’s 601 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. (202) 5468412. Barbara Papendorp. 8 p.m. Free. mrhenrysdc.com.

WORlD Kennedy cenTer 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600.

Lilt. 3:30 p.m. & 6:15 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

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aTlas perForminG arTs cenTer 1333 H St. NE. (202) 399-7993. Great Noise Ensemble performs Michael Gordon’s “Van Gogh”. 8 p.m. $20–$30. atlasarts.org.

DJ niGHTS

9:30 clUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Hot In Herre: 2000s Dance Party. 9 p.m. $16. 930.com.

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Barns aT wolF Trap 1635 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. Steven Blier and Wolf Trap Opera Soloists.

3 p.m. $46. wolftrap.org.

SUnDAY ROck

Birchmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Justin Hayward, Mike Dawes.

7:30 p.m. $69.50. birchmere.com.

BlacK caT BacKsTaGe 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 6674490. Benjy Ferree, Pearie Sol. 7:30 p.m. $12. blackcatdc.com. dc9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Faye, Flowerbomb, Kids Claws. 8:30 p.m. $8. dcnine.com.

FUnk & R&B

BeThesda BlUes and Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. Clones of Funk, DJ Julian.

8 p.m. $25. bethesdabluesjazz.com.

CITY LIGHTS: SATURDAY

MOOR MOTHER GODDESS

At its best, music is a vessel to help spread ideas, fight injustice, and spark a revolution. For proof, look to North Carolina, where the state’s discriminatory HB2 legislation has inspired musicians to cancel gigs in solidarity with the state’s transgender community. Using music to fight injustice is an inherent part of Moor Mother Goddess, the self-described “low fi/dark rap/chill step/blk girl blues/witch rap/coffee shop riot gurl songs/southern girl dittys/black ghost songs” of Philadelphia artist, poet, and community activist Camae Defstar. In a city ripe with musical talent, Moor Mother Goddess is one of the best; her prolific output of music—which can travel between ambient afrofuturism, noise-jazz, soulful hip-hop, and electronic R&B with each release—is as sonically exciting as it is politically engaging. In an interview with The Media last summer, Defstar discussed the music scene, noticing that “privilege is very strong with most bands. Bands are not speaking up about the injustices going on in the world as much as they used to. Everything is mad soft.” As widespread injustice gets discussed with more frequency, it’s time for more musicians to take Defstar’s lead and make music with a message that’s hard as fuck. Moor Mother Goddess performs at 2 p.m. at Georgetown Neighborhood Library, 3260 R St. NW. Free. (202) 7270232. dclibrary.org/georgetown.

—Matt Cohen 26 may 27, 2016 washingtoncitypaper.com

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FlasH 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. DJ Twinn, DJ Sean Morris. 9 p.m. $10. flashdc.com.

Mr. Henry’s 601 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. (202) 5468412. Julia Nixon with Dave Ylvisaker and Nick Nixon.

7 p.m. & 9:15 p.m. $19–$23. mrhenrysdc.com.

Jazz

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atlas PerForMing arts Center 1333 H St. NE. (202) 399-7993. Sriram Gopal. 7:30 p.m. $15–$20. atlasarts.org.

9:30 CluB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. RJD2, DJ Christine Moritz. 7 p.m. $25. 930.com.

Blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Akua Allrich and the Tribe. 8 p.m. & 10 p.m. $22.50. bluesalley.com.

eCHostage 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. (202) 503-2330. Steve Aoki, Rain Man. 9 p.m. $50. echostage.com.

tHe HaMilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

Chaise Lounge. 7:30 p.m. $16.50–$30.75. thehamiltondc.com.

Stage Door w/Mike Dawes

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Bossa Bistro 2463 18th St NW. (202) 667-0088.

The Saturators. 9:30 p.m. $5. bossadc.com.

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

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“Martin PUrYEar: MUltiPlE DiMEnSionS”

Sculptor Martin Puryear was born and raised in the District of Columbia. His sculptures dot the campuses of federal buildings around town, and in 2011, he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House. Now, decades into his storied career, Puryear will receive a full tribute at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. “Multiple Dimensions,” as its title suggests, highlights the breadth of Puryear’s career. Starting with sketches he made in Sierra Leone during a Peace Corps stint and continuing through “Big Bling,” a 40-foot-high temporary structure installed in New York’s Madison Square Park this month, visitors to the exhibit will get to see all phases of the artist’s career as well as his work in a variety of mediums. Past exhibitions have focused almost solely on Puryear’s work as a sculptor, but this one also features woodcuts and drawings he made to illustrate books and plan his sculptures. With “Vessel,” a large pine structure with a tar and mesh ampersand inside it, heading to the forthcoming National Museum of African American History and Culture, now’s the time to see Puryear’s work before it’s overtaken by curious crowds. The exhibition is on view daily 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m., to Sept. 5, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, 8th and F streets NW. Free. (202) 633-7970. americanart.si.edu.

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Kennedy Center MillenniuM Stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Celebrating the Past to Awaken the Future with Jason Moran, José André Montaño, and other special guests. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

WORlD

eagleBanK arena 4500 Patriot Circle, Fairfax.

(703) 993-3000. Farhan Live Zinda. 8 p.m. $24–$259. eaglebankarena.com.

Kennedy Center 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600.

Irish Breakfast Band. 11:30 a.m. & 1:30 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

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PhilliPS ColleCtion 1600 21st St. NW. (202) 3872151. Phillips Camerata. 4 p.m. (Sold out) phillipscollection.org. u.S. CaPitol WeSt laWn East Capitol and First streets NW. National Memorial Day Concert. 8 p.m.

Free. visitthecapitol.gov.

Wolf traP filene Center 1551 Trap Road, Vienna.

(703) 255-1900. The President’s Own United States Marine Band. 8 p.m. Free. wolftrap.org.

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BarnS at Wolf traP 1635 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. Steven Blier and Wolf Trap Opera Soloists.

3 p.m. $46. wolftrap.org.

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BetheSda BlueS and Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. Geno and the Spirit of Jazz. 8 p.m. $15. bethesdabluesjazz.com.

BlueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Azar Lawrence Quartet. 8 p.m. & 10 p.m. $25. bluesalley.com.

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Kennedy Center terraCe theater 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Alarm Will Sound. 7 p.m. $29. kennedy-center.org.

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Kennedy Center MillenniuM Stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. St. Patrick’s Cathedral Choir. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

ThuRsDAY ROCk

gyPSy Sally’S 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. The Ragbirds, Driftwood. 8 p.m. $14. gypsysallys.com. logan fringe artS SPaCe 1358 Florida Ave. NE. (202) 737-7230. Kings, Time Is Fire, Sister Mid9ight. 9 p.m. Free. capitalfringe.org.

FuNk & R&B

9:30 CluB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Charles Bradley and his Extraordinaires, Seratones. 7 p.m. $25. 930.com.

BirChMere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Yahzarah. 7:30 p.m. $29.50. birchmere.com. the haMilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

Third World, Dai Watson. 7:30 p.m. $25–$40. thehamiltondc.com.

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flaSh 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Mortiz von Oswald, Solomon Sanchez. 8 p.m. $8. flashdc.com.

BlaCK Cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Diarrhea Planet, Soul Call Paul. 7:30 p.m. $12. blackcatdc.com.

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

Viceroy. 10 p.m. $10–$20. ustreetmusichall.com.

CoMet Ping Pong 5037 Connecticut Ave. NW. (202) 364-0404. Braids, Ginla. 9 p.m. $12. cometpingpong.com.

BlueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Jane Monheit. 8 p.m. & 10 p.m. $40–$45. bluesalley.com.

JAzz

dC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. The Lonely Biscuits, Wylder. 9 p.m. $12. dcnine.com.

DJ NighTs

CaPitol SKyline hotel 10 I St. SW. (202) 4887500. The Capital Coolout Memorial Day Pool Party.

12 p.m. $20. capitolskyline.com.

CITY LIGHTS: MONDAY

TuesDAY ROCk

9:30 CluB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Christine and the Queens. 7 p.m. $25. 930.com.

BetheSda BlueS and Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. The Jam with Gary Grainger and Friends. 8 p.m. $5. bethesdabluesjazz.com. dC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Heron Oblivion, Chris Forsyth and the Solar Motel Band. 9 p.m. $12. dcnine.com. fillMore Silver SPring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Emblem3. 8 p.m. $25. fillmoresilverspring.com.

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hoWard theatre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Tatran. 8 p.m. $20–$25. thehowardtheatre.com.

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

WeDNesDAY ROCk

9:30 CluB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Nada Surf, Big Thief, Bird Of Youth. 7 p.m. $27. 930.com.

BirChMere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Peter Wolf and the Midnight Travelers. 7:30 p.m. $29.50. birchmere.com. dC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Lucy Dacus, Gracie and Rachel. 9 p.m. $10–$12. dcnine.com. gyPSy Sally’S 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. The Bottom Dollars, The Hollows. 8 p.m. $10. gypsysallys.com.

Wolf traP filene Center 1551 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. Cyndi Lauper, Boy George. 8 p.m. $40–$95. wolftrap.org.

FuNk & R&B

BoSSa BiStro 2463 18th St NW. (202) 667-0088.

Souldown Sessions. 9 p.m. Free. bossadc.com. the haMilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

Flow Tribe, Footwerk. 7:30 p.m. $15–$25. thehamiltondc.com.

eleCTRONiC

flaSh 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Jack Beats, Jett Chandon, DJ Nav. 8 p.m. $15. flashdc.com. u Street MuSiC hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

MSTRKRFT, Computer Magic. 10 p.m. $18. ustreetmusichall.com.

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AN OCTOROON

In an era when critics and audience members regularly examine the role of race in contemporary drama, staging a play based on an antebellum novel about a white slave owner’s relationship with a woman who is one-eighth black will inevitably make people talk. Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins has a history of experimenting with racial representations in previous work (in Neighbors, a family of black characters perform in black face), but with An Octoroon, opening this week at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, he leans into satire. He deftly combines a romantic story between a young man and the estate owner’s daughter with a discussion of abolition in a play that is as thought-provoking as it is sinisterly funny. During the play’s run, Woolly Mammoth is encouraging visitors to engage with the past by asking eight local artists to create work responding to how our radicalized history has affected contemporary events. While everyone on stage might act crazy, Jacobs-Jenkins’ work lets his audience know why. The play runs May 30 to June 26 at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, 641 D St. NW. $20–$128. (202) 393-3939. woollymammoth.com.

—Caroline Jones

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MAX MAJOR'S THINK AGAIN

HERON OBLIVION

If the phrase “psychedelic guitar rock” still makes you think of black lights, clouds of smoke, and college dorms, it’s time to check in with the genre again. The pairing of the brilliant newcomers Heron Oblivion and the stalwart Chris Forsyth and The Solar Motel Band would be the perfect reintroduction. San Francisco–based Heron Oblivion, a new group featuring members of Comets on Fire and Espers, released its self-titled debut earlier this year.

The way lead singer Meg Baird’s crystalline, folk-singer vocals set up the climaxes of the band’s scuzzy, scorching guitars make it one of the best records of the year. Chris Forsyth and The Solar Motel Band builds its foundation on a heavy dose of blues, a helping of jazz, and a touch of math rock for a more guided, but no less adventurous, exploration of fuzz and dissonance. With both groups, it’s best to close your eyes and let them surround you while they sink their teeth into a heavy guitar lick. Just make sure to open them again and check to see if DC9 is still standing at the end of the night. Heron Oblivion performs with Chris Forsyth and The Solar Motel Band at 9 p.m. at DC9, 1940 9th St. NW. $12. (202) 483-5000. dcnine.com.

—Justin Weber

COUNTRY Mr. Henry’s 601 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. (202) 5468412. Delafield String Band. 8 p.m. Free. mrhenrysdc.com.

WORLD BetHesda Blues and Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. DC Highlife Stars. 8 p.m. $15. bethesdabluesjazz.com.

Bossa Bistro 2463 18th St NW. (202) 667-0088.

Feedel Band. 9:30 p.m. $10. bossadc.com.

CLASSICAL Kennedy Center ConCert Hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. National Symphony Orchestra with Christoph Eschenbach, conductor; Leila Josefowicz, violin. 7 p.m. $15–$89. kennedy-center.org.

Kennedy Center MillenniuM stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. National Symphony Orchestra Youth Fellowship. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

Kennedy Center terraCe tHeater 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Renée Fleming and Emerson String Quartet. 7 p.m. $69. kennedy-center.org.

MusiC Center at stratHMore 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Baltimore Symphony Orchestra: Hairspray in Concert. 8 p.m. $50–$110. strathmore.org.

Galleries

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

April 28–June 12.

Brentwood arts exCHange 3901 Rhode Island Ave., Brentwood. (301) 277-2863. arts.pgparks.com.

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

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

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

May 7–June 4.

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

Artist Julie Wolfe presents a variety of new works, including examinations of human behavior patterns and how birds interact and communicate, at her third Hemphill exhibition. May 14–June 30. long View gallery 1234 9th St. NW. (202) 2324788. longviewgallerydc.com. Closing: “Gian Garofalo.” The artist, who frequently showcases his work at Long View, creates striped works by drip-

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April 28–May 29.

Morton Fine Art 1781 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 6282787. mortonfineart.com. Closing: “William Mackinnon.” The Australian artist displays a new series of landscape paintings. May 13–June 2.

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tArget gAllery At torpedo FActory 105 N. Union St., Alexandria. (703) 838-4565. torpedofactory.org. Closing: “Always Into Now.” Artist Lisa Kellner presents a painting that takes over the entire gallery and immerses the viewer in the experience.

April 16–May 29. trAnsForMer gAllery 1404 P St. NW. (202) 483-1102. transformerdc.org. Ongoing: “Gift Shop.”

D.C.-based artist collaborative NoMüNoMü presents this large scale installation, meant to mimic a museum gift shop, that comments on the commercialization of art and object. May 14–June 18.

ViVid solutions gAllery 1231 Good Hope Road SE. (202) 365-8392. vividsolutionsdc.com. Opening: “Uncovered.” The work of photographer Todd Franson and illustrator Scott G. Brooks, both of whom are longtime contributors to Metro Weekly, is celebrated in this new exhibition that focuses on images from D.C.’s LGBT community.

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

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leAh glenn dAnce theAtre The company, helmed by College of William and Mary professor Leah Glenn, presents a series of thought-provoking pieces featuring guest artists from the Paul Taylor Dance Company. Kennedy Center Millennium Stage.

2700 F St. NW. May 28, 6 p.m. Free. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org.

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

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Alliance. Anacostia Playhouse. 2020 Shannon Place SE. To June 26. $25–$35. (202) 290-2328. anacostiaplayhouse.com.

BloWing the heArt open Award-winning actress Fiona Shaw, currently serving at artist-inresidence at the Kennedy Center’s “IRELAND: 100” festival, presents this one-woman show inspired by the work of poets W.B. Yeats and Emily Dickinson.

Kennedy Center Terrace Theater. 2700 F St. NW. To May 31. $35. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org.

hAppy hour Spooky Action and German theater collective machina eX present this video game production in which audience members control the action. Two teams of players must help their counterparts escape from an evildoer using only the tools they can find before time runs out.

Spooky Action Theater. 1810 16th St. NW. To June 5. $20–$40. (202) 248-0301. spookyaction.org.

the Body oF An AMericAn A war reporter and a playwright, both haunted by their pasts, form a friendship that takes them around the world in this new play by Dan O’Brien, who based the drama on his own relationship with friend Paul Watson. Theater J. 1529 16th St. NW. To May 29. $27–$67. (202) 777-3210. theaterj.org. disgrAced Ayad Akhtar’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama considers the consequences of the American dream from the perspective of Amir, a South Asian immigrant who fears that his lavish lifestyle has alienated him from his roots. Arena Stage. 1101 6th St. SW. To May 29. $40–$110. (202) 488-3300. arenastage.org. district MerchAnts Aaron Posner turns Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice into a comedy about the perils of life in post-Civil War America in this world premiere production. Directed by Michael John Garcés, the production features music

by Christylez Bacon. Folger Elizabethan Theatre.

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Emily Chadick Weiss’ play about race, disability, and class in Obama’s America is presented by Theater

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

A lesson FroM Aloes Laura Giannarelli directs this acclaimed drama by Athol Fugard about three civil rights activists whose work has driven them apart. The arrival of another friend, a black man who is imprisoned for his work, forces all the characters to confront their failures and the realities of the nation in which they live. Quotidian Theatre Company at The Writer’s Center. 4508 Walsh St., Bethesda. To May 29. $15–$30. (301) 816-1023. quotidiantheatre.org. the MAn in the iron MAsk In this follow-up to The Three Musketeers, D’Artagnan continues to serve King Louis XIV, only to be interrupted by his former comrades who rescue his twin brother from the Bastille. Synetic’s production features more swashbuckling fun and pageantry. Synetic Theater at Crystal City. 1800 South Bell St., Arlington. To June 19. $15–$60. (866) 811-4111. synetictheater.org. the oBject lesson Theater artist Geoff Sobelle transforms an empty stage into a storage facility to

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pAul tAylor dAnce coMpAny The acclaimed choreographer’s company performs pieces from throughout his six-decade career, including “Mercuric Tidings,” “Beloved Renegade,” and “Polaris.” The Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra accompanies the ensemble on several pieces. Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater. 2700 F St. NW. May 27, 7:30 p.m.; May 28, 1:30 p.m. $39–$79. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org. royAl sWedish BAllet The Scandinavian dance company comes to D.C. to perform Mats Ek’s Romeo and Juliet, set to music by Tchaikovsky. Kennedy Center Opera House. 2700 F St. NW. June 1, 7 p.m.; June 2, 7 p.m. $29–$129. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org. sole deFined Members of the local dance ensemble use their bodies to make noise in this performance that celebrates the history of percussive dance in the District. Kennedy Center Millennium Stage. 2700 F St. NW. May 30, 6 p.m. Free.

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An AMericAn dAughter Keegan Theatre presents the D.C. area premiere of Wendy Wasserstein’s drama about a doctor whose sudden appointment to a Cabinet position unleashes a series of scandals that she has to reckon with. Keegan Theatre at Church Street Theater. 1742 Church St. NW. To May 28. $35–$45. (202) 265-3767. keegantheatre.com.

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

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BlAck peArl sings American folk songs and spirituals are put to use in this play set in Depression-era Texas, about two women whose love of music draws

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present this immersive play that forces audiences to consider why we hold on to objects that may or may not have any significance. Studio Theatre. 1501 14th St. NW. To June 5. $20–$55. (202) 332-3300. studiotheatre.org.

The Taming of The Shrew The complex relationship between Kate and Petruchio is explored in this new production of Shakespeare’s comedy, in which director Ed Sylvanus Iskandar blurs gender roles and examines identities. Sidney Harman Hall.

610 F St. NW. To June 26. $20–$108. (202) 547-1122. shakespearetheatre.org. when January feelS like Summer Mosaic Theater Company presents this urban comedy by Cori Thomas about romance, heroism, gender identity, and immigration. While the original script sets the action in Harlem, director Serge Seiden moves his play to D.C.’s Anacostia and H Street NE neighborhoods. Atlas Performing Arts Center. 1333 H St. NE. To June 12. $20–$60. (202) 399-7993. atlasarts.org.

The who and The whaT A young Muslim woman faces off against her conservative in Ayah Akhtar’s play about how our ideas about faith and family impact our lives. Round House Theatre Bethesda. 4545 East-West Highway, Bethesda. To June 19. $36–$61. (240) 644-1100. roundhousetheatre.org.

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