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10 The films of AFI DOCS 2018, reviewed

DIStrICt LIne 5 loose lips: An incumbentfunded initiative to feed seniors and get them to the polls 6 Justice for all?: The relationship between the Capital Pride Alliance and its critics remains fraught.

8 track record: Looking back on the legacy of racing writer Bill Nack as Justify prepares to run for the Triple Crown 9 gear prudence

FooD 17 the leftovers, part one: Lingering questions and answers from City Paper’s panel discussion on Initiative 77 19 corner the Market: The best snacks from Union Market’s female purveyors 19 are you gonna eat that?: Roofers Union’s Trotter Tots 19 the ’wiching hour: China Chilcano’s Huachana

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DistrictLine Breakfast of Championing Incumbents pay Bob King to bus seniors to a hearty breakfast and early voting.

By Andrew Giambrone When it comes to getting senior citizens to the polls, longtime D.C. organizer Bob King is, well, king.

“They call me ‘the senior guru,’” he says.

“Whenever a campaign is having a meeting, they say, ‘Do you know about King?

Have you talked to Bob King at all?’

They know they can’t win without the seniors.”

The Fort Lincoln resident has shepherded Ward 5 elders to voting locations since Walter Washington ran for mayor in the 1970s.

For King, 73, this year is little different. He arranged for six private buses and two vintage cars to pick up people at more than a dozen senior buildings across Northeast on Wednesday morning, and drop them off at Mount Horeb Baptist Church on Bladensburg Road NE. At the church, more that 300 seniors enjoyed breakfast and campaign literature courtesy of five Democratic incumbents whose campaigns paid a few thousand dollars each for King’s get-out-the-vote services.

In exchange, Mayor Muriel Bowser, D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson, At-Large Councilmember Anita Bonds, Ward 5 Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie, and D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine likely bagged scores of votes in one fell swoop during early voting for the June 19 primary. With the odds largely in their favor, they all had more cash than their opponents as of March.

Early voting began on Monday and runs until June 15. It will expand to other locations after Friday, but for now is taking place only at One Judiciary Square, a District government building.

That’s where the seniors headed after munching on eggs, sausages, potatoes, bacon, and fruit, and sipping on juice and coffee, delivered to one of Mount Horeb’s large conference rooms by a hired caterer, explains King.

“These are no pastries, man!” he says.

King is a former advisory neighborhood commissioner who served for 32 years. He had expected 200 to 250 seniors to turn out for Wednesday’s fête, but dozens more showed up. “What a day,” King said from Mount Horeb. “The place is packed.”

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He planned the event for three months, meeting with campaign managers and distributing flyers throughout Ward 5—home to D.C.’s black middle class for decades, but quickly gentrifying. He also coordinated with the Ward 5 Democrats on voter education.

“It’s just a good day for seniors because voting is a right that a lot of them have fought for,” says Gordon-Andrew Fletcher, a Ward 5 Dems member and an ANC commissioner attending the breakfast as a candidate for Ward 5 committeeman of the D.C. Democratic State Committee.

“Bring identification to vote!” King’s flyers advised above photos of the five incumbents.

Judiciary Square offers old-school paper ballots in addition to more-modern electronic touchscreens, and many seniors prefer paper, Fletcher and King say.

As part of the event, the current and former Ms. Senior D.C. winners rode in the vintage cars. “We’re going to cruise down Bladensburg Road going like 20, 25 miles per hour,” said King on Tuesday. “We want those who are in their homes, in cars, out for lunch to say, ‘Oh wow, there’s something going on today.’ We’re not going to Atlantic City.”

The buses had capacity for 50 passengers apiece. King has helped seniors with disabilities get absentee ballots because the transportation he can afford is not wheelchair-accessible.

Although he demurs when asked how much

the mission cost, he does some math aloud suggesting the price is over $10,000. He says he reduced his consultant fee to under $400 per candidate, citing $5,000, $4,000, and $1,700 figures for catering, printing, and the church rental, respectively.

The buses cost $450 each to rent for four hours, which included bringing the seniors back by the afternoon. “I call the plan simplestupid,” King quips. “I’m not talking about four pieces of chicken and biscuits and all that.”

Assuming the total cost was $15,000, this would come out to $3,000 on average for the five campaigns. “That’s no money to do the GOTV,” King argues. “If you don’t do GOTV, I don’t care what you do—the bottom line of any campaign is GOTV.” King downplays his efforts as “small,” but says he has organized the 65+ vote for so long because seniors “are the most reliable voting bloc” anywhere. “The city stands on their shoulders,” he says.

He is also waging a crusade to boost voter turnout. In 2016, a presidential election year, about 100,000 people voted in the primaries, or less than a quarter of registered voters. In 2014, a mayoral election year, less than 27 percent of registered voters voted in the primaries.

“I’m trying to wake up the whole city and say, ‘Look, how can we ask Congress for control of our own destiny when our voting numbers are going down?’” King notes. “This is a

political blood transfusion. I wish I could do this in every ward.”

But he is not sanguine about turnout this year, saying it may be lower than in 2016. “With some of these candidates having no competition, it just hurts us,” he says. (A Democratic operative at Judiciary Square on Monday put it this way: “It’s bad. Nobody’s voting today.”)

King says the lack of robust contests in 2018 is why—for the first time since Walter Washington’s campaign—he has no funding commitments for his GOTV services on the dates of the primary and the November general election.

“I’ve been telling seniors, ‘Try to vote on the 6th, I don’t know if I’ll be able to do something after that,’” he says. “If I’m unable to, thousands of seniors who are marginalized will be disenfranchised. That pains me more than anything.”

King does not endorse candidates through his work, but says his job is to provide people a platform. He has received criticism for that kind of reasoning in the past. Several years ago, when the D.C. Council considered samesex marriage, King unsuccessfully pushed for a referendum on the issue and sent letters to Congress requesting an intervention.

“This is the most contentious issue of the 21st century,” he said in 2009, a year before his company accepted more than $60,000 from the conservative National Organization for Marriage to flyer against incumbents who supported marriage equality.

King’s actions earned him the “anti-gay” label from LGBTQ advocacy nonprofit GLAA and the Washington Blade. By the time he worked for Bowser’s and Vince Gray’s 2014 mayoral campaigns, he said he recognized same-sex marriage as the law and never publicly supported or opposed it as an individual.

Still, King knows seniors are elections’ secret sauce, noting that former Mayor Anthony Williams called them his “secret weapon.”

“Even Racine put money in this piece,” he says, referring to the unopposed attorney general. “If you’re a smart politician, you invest in the seniors because if you don’t, you’ll get a check back marked ‘insufficient political funds.’”

One-time investments do not cut it either.

“The seniors are not fooled by the candidates,” King adds. “They have a ‘What have you done for me lately?’ mentality. The mountain don’t come, you have to go to the mountain.”

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BY MATTHEW LOPEZ DIRECTED BY TOM STORY

DistrictLinE Justice for All?

A year after disrupting the Capital Pride Parade, No Justice No Pride remains frustrated with D.C.’s annual LGBTQ celebration.

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just open to hearing out No Justice No Pride’s side of things, but actually committed to being more inclusive to D.C.’s LGBTQ communities.

This past January, CPA announced nine new members to its 24-member board, touting “a person of color as the President of the Board and a woman to the leadership team.” New president Ashley Smith succeeded Bernie Delia, who held the position for six years.

Shortly after that announcement, No Justice No Pride issued a statement saying they were “encouraged” by the new leadership changes. “In our interactions with Capital Pride’s new leadership, we have experienced a level of openness and communication that did not exist with their previous leadership,” wrote Emmelia Talarico, chair of No Justice No Pride’s steering committee. “Nonetheless, Capital Pride has its work cut out when it comes to making the transformative changes necessary to truly make Pride an event that the entire community can be proud of.”

But several months after putting out its forward-looking statement, No Justice No Pride was again unsatisfied. Its “Capital Pride (Lack of ) Progress Report,” released in April, said “despite lip service, ‘community forums,’ and a stated desire to work with the community, Capital Pride’s lack of substantive change extends its legacy of neglecting marginalized communities in 2018.”

“I think the major things that happened were, we were trying to encourage them because they had started down on a right track after the summer. But it pretty much came to a slow halt around December,” Talarico tells City Paper.

“We were trying to meet often with them and meetings kept getting pushed back and pushed back. And then when we would meet with them, they would just pretty much backtrack on things that were discussed in previous meetings.”

Talarico says that in some of the meetings No Justice No Pride had with the CPA, they talked about the possibility of hosting forums and outreach meetings with various community leaders to talk about new sponsorship

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Capital pride is one of D.C.’s biggest party weekends of the year, with a parade winding through Dupont Circle, a day-long festival closing Pennsylvania Avenue NW, and subsequent events at venues around town. But the city’s annual LGBTQ celebration is also facing another year of controversy.

Last year’s parade was disrupted mid-route by a large group of activists protesting Capital Pride Alliance’s business alliances and practices. Specifically, the activist coalition No Justice No Pride, which organized the protest, objected to CPA’s reliance on corporate sponsors that they say oppress and marginalize queer and trans communities of color. The group also opposed the inclusion of police officers in the annual parade.

Dozens of activists holding signs that read “NO PRIDE IN POLICE VIOLENCE,” “WAR PROFITEERS HAVE NO PLACE IN OUR COMMUNITY,” and “WELLS FARGO = NATIVE GENOCIDE” intercepted the parade at 15th and P streets NW, forcing it to be rerouted down 16th Street NW. The months leading up to last year’s Pride were just as tumultuous. An open CPA meeting in May of 2017 turned ugly when No Justice No Pride organizers and supporters voiced their concerns to CPA’s board of directors and encountered hostility from some board members and others in attendance. At last year’s parade, a CPA board member allegedly told a member of No Justice No Pride that “we don’t negotiate with terrorists.”

In the aftermath of last year’s messy Pride celebration, it seemed that the CPA wasn’t

guidelines. She says these discussions were positive but “it just never seemed like a priority” for Capital Pride.

Ryan Bos, the executive director of the Capital Pride Alliance, sees it differently. He says that after the confrontation and ensuing conversations with No Justice No Pride, CPA “spent time … really looking through the role of the board and ways they can support the organization.”

In addition to the changes to the CPA board, Bos says the group restructured its production team—staffed by a core group of volunteers—to “empower and ultimately expand their role,” asking them to come up with new ways to support the community and organize events that would represent a greater diversity of of people.

When it comes down to the specific issues at the center of the tension between CPA and No Justice No Pride, however, Bos will not say how the Alliance plans to address them, if at all. “Those are conversations that we have with many organizations, and are continuing to do work to obviously make what we do better,” Bos says. “We have to also acknowledge that our community is diverse … in opinion and ideas and goals, and sometimes those things conflict, and there is a balance there.”

In an April 25 press release, CPA issued an “update and summary of actions and results taken ... in the past year,” but didn’t explicitly say if those actions came in response to No Justice No Pride’s actions. The organization says it created a new set of corporate sponsorship guidelines that more strongly vets corporate sponsors on their “commitment to the LGBTQ+ community” and created a “Pride Legacy Fund” that would give grants to small non-profit organizations as a way to “support participation by those organizations at Pride events.”

The group says it will continue to work with the Metropolitan Police Department for Pride events, but will “[take] into account the concerns of community organizations.” Whether this refers to working with MPD regarding security and logistical concerns or including officers in the Parade, as they have in previous years, is not clear.

Going forward, Talarico and the rest of No Justice No Pride will continue to push for further conversations with CPA She would not say whether the group has any concrete plans for another demonstration at this year’s parade, but says No Justice No Pride is looking at “alternatives of what Pride really looks like for the community, and the possibility of creating our own space” for a celebration that’s inclusive of the causes they believe in in a place where they don’t feel marginalized.

“We need to be thinking about these communities and how these communities are our community,” Talarico says. “And how we are honoring them when we create spaces where we welcome the police more than we welcome black and brown queer and trans people.” CP

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Track Record Remembering local horse racing writer Bill Nack, who slept in a stall near Secretariat before he won the Derby 45 years ago

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Bill Nack would be loving this latest quest for thoroughbred horse-racing’s Triple Crown.

He’d surely be all over the saga of Justify, the gritty, undefeated chestnut colt trying to become only the third horse since 1978 to win the Kentucky Derby, Preakness, and the Belmont Stakes. In a perfect world, he’d be spending the morning of June 9 on the backstretch at Belmont Park on Long Island, not far from the stall where Justify will await the bugler’s call to the post and a chance to make racing history.

Sadly though, Nack can only be there in spirit. Three weeks before the first Saturday in May—a date all racing fans know signals the Run for the Roses at Churchill Downs—Nack died on April 13 at his D.C. home at the age of 77 after a long battle with lung cancer.

Many considered him the finest racing writer of his and any other generation, not to mention a brilliant storyteller and dogged reporter on a wide variety of other subjects over the course of a productive and distinguished career that stretched more than five decades.

He grew up with horses in Skokie, Illinois, where he and his sister Dorothy lived near a boarding stable and were constantly riding horses, brushing horses, mucking out horse stalls, filling horses’ feed and water buckets. In 1959, Bill worked as a groom at nearby Arlington Park, back then one of the nation’s premier race tracks, and he never did get over his early equine crush.

After editing the University of Illinois student paper, followed by a stint in the Army during Vietnam, where he wrote news releases and speeches for Gen. William Westmoreland, commander of U.S. forces from 1964 to ’68, Nack got his first job at Newsday on Long Island.

He was covering news in the Suffolk County bureau back then, but his performance at a raucous office Christmas party may have changed the course of his life. And don’t you know, horses had everything to do with it. That night, he stood up on a table and proceeded to recite the name of every single Kentucky Derby winner going back to the very first—Aristides—in 1875.

Newsday’s editor at the time, David Laventhol, was partial to the ponies himself and was duly impressed. Before long, Nack’s beat changed from courts and cops to Belmont and Aqueduct, New York’s top race tracks.

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He spent Augusts in Saratoga to cover the late summer races at the historic “Spa” as well.

His timing was perfect. Nack picked up the beat less than two years before one of racing’s all-time greats came out on the track. That would be Secretariat, and Nack meticulously chronicled Big Red’s Triple Crown campaign for Newsday, learning the patterns and quirks of a horse that captivated the American public as much as he had captivated Nack.

On the day of the Belmont Stakes, Nack arrived at the track at 2 a.m. and camped out on a barn bed of hay not far from Secretariat’s stall.

Horse and scribe were both awakened by the crow of a rooster at 6 a.m., and a dozen hours later, Secretariat won the race in record time.

“It ended with a single stentorian burst of applause, with screams so sudden they seemed startled out of people,” Nack wrote in Newsday. “And they began when (jockey) Ron Turcotte pushed Secretariat to ever-widening leads of 28, 29, 30 and finally 31 lengths in the Belmont Stakes.”

Nack went on to write a best-selling book about Secretariat, which eventually was turned into a popular Disney movie in 2010.

After a decade at Newsday, he left for Sports Illustrated, where he expanded his repertoire to include stories on a wide variety of subjects, from chess master Bobby Fischer to boxer Rocky Marciano to auto racing driver A.J. Foyt to tennis star Steffi Graf to football player Bob Kalsu, the only professional athlete to die in the Vietnam War. Secretariat came back into Nack’s life in 1989, when he visited the horse at Claiborne Farm in Paris, Kentucky, only to learn that he would soon be euthanized because of a foot disease that caused too much pain for him to go on. He heard about Secretariat’s death in his hotel room that night.

“The last time I remember really crying was on St. Valentine’s Day of 1982, when my wife called to tell me my father had died,” Nack wrote in Sports Illustrated. “Now there I was, in a different hotel room in a different town, suddenly feeling like a very old and tired man of 48, leaning with my back against a wall and sobbing for a long time with my face in my hands.”

Oh yes, Bill Nack would be loving Justify’s Triple Crown quest at Belmont Park on June 9, exactly 45 years after Secretariat pulled it off on that very same date in 1973. Somehow, some way, somewhere, you’d also like to think he’ll be watching.

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Gear Prudence Citywhen Paper Gear Prudence: WhatWashington is the proper protocol a bike lane turns into Wed, sharrows?

I often myJune 6, find 2018 self in the bike lane at a red light, stopped next to H (4.666” x 1.603”) cars, wondering what1/12 to do when the light changes. Should I move outLandmark ahead? Should I wait for Theatres/EP cars to pass? I guess in theory I should merge like a car but in reality cars aren’t always so friendly.

—Move Eventually? Rider Glimpses Entry Dear MERGE: Shel Silverstein never broached the topic of where the bike lane ends, proving once again that wistful and whimsical children’s poetry offers little practical guidance on transportation matters. When bike lanes give way to shared lane markings (which happens far too often in D.C. for GP’s taste), a bicyclist no longer has a dedicated space and must mingle with other traffic. When lane-sharing must occur, it’s better for the bicyclist to not be coy about it. Waiting until the last second to merge might seem deferential and thereby polite, but delaying is more likely to get you in a tricky and dangerous spot. You don’t have to jump in front of the first driver at the light, but you should be ready to merge behind her once the light turns green. Use a hand signal and glance over your shoulder to make sure it’s clear. Drivers won’t always be “friendly,” but the situation leaves you limited options, so be assertive.

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—Causing Ulcers, Troublesome Others Forego Freezing Dear CUTOFF: GP would love to remind all cyclists that they should stop (or, practically speaking, mostly stop) before making a right turn on a red light, but wonders what method would be best. Viral video content? Sky writing? Personal notes on embossed stationery?

Do you have any idea how expensive stamps are these days? It’d be one thing if GP had the forethought to buy Forever stamps a few years ago as a hedge against rampant stamp price inflation, but back then there weren’t as many bicyclists and at this point, we’re still looking at spending a ton on postage alone. Add in the exorbitant cost of calligraphy pens and the logistical difficulty of gathering everyone’s address and you’re looking at a real budget disaster.

So in lieu of personal notes, let’s try this instead: Hey, cyclists! Don’t cut off other people, on bikes or otherwise, by making a right turn on a red light without stopping first. It’s annoying and impolite and while your attempts at preserving your own momentum are understandable, you’re exceeding the bounds of propriety and the law and that’s not cool. —GP

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REEL WORLD Reviews from the 2018 AFI DOCS Film Festival

Critics and other film overlords like to stuff documentaries into categories: You have your issue docs, exposing humanitarian efforts to cope with an atrocity; there’s the poetic portrait of an odd character; and then everyone’s favorite, the True Crime doc. The easy way to program a good documentary festival is to focus on a single issue—Politics!

Environmentalism! Atrocities of war! It’s hard to program a great documentary festival.

Year after year, AFI DOCS proves that it’s a top-tier festival with a mix of the serious and the light-hearted, the important and the elegant, the outrageous and the atrocious. 2018 is no different. Of the 15 films in this year’s festival City Paper staff and contributors reviewed, we laughed (United We Fan and Love, Gilda), we cried (Minding the Gap, Tre Maison Dasan), we were outraged (Over the Limit, The Providers), and we were inspired (Yours In Sisterhood, Personal Statement, The Liberation). That range of emotions is always the goal, but tough to pull off in programming a film festival. AFI DOCS, now in its 15th year, seems to achieve it effortlessly.

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Yours In Sisterhood

Yours In Sisterhood Directed by Irene Lusztig USA In snail mail days, Ms. magazine’s Letters to the Editor were as popular with readers as its groundbreaking articles. Gloria Steinem co-founded the brazen, unapologetically feminist publication in 1972.

Irene Lusztig’s Yours In Sisterhood puts its own stamp on the magazine. Apparently Ms. didn’t toss a single letter into the round file. They’re part of the collection in the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies’ Schlesinger Library. Twenty six (mostly unpublished) letters made the final cut

for this documentary and are read directly to the camera by women and girls close to the original writers’ age, race, sexual orientation, physical ability, and geographical location.

Letter reading on the stage can be a unique story-telling device, but in this film the approach comes off as nothing special—at first. By the third or fourth letter you realize Yours In Sisterhood is not the story of Ms. or American feminism; the letters reveal Ms.’ extensive reach beyond East- and West-coast urbanites, college co-eds, and affluent consciousnessraised white suburbanites.

Ms. readers and letter writers were fac-

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tory workers, police women, mechanics, artists, sisters, daughters, mothers, lovers, prisoners, and prostitutes—fighting for financial independence, acceptance, respect, and social mobility free from sexual harassment and other acts of repression. They voiced frustrations with the movement and the magazine itself for the lack of gay consciousness, antiabortion feminism, and urgency around issues affecting women of color at a NOW (National Organization for Women) convention. Yes, sometimes the sisterhood breaks down; we know that from the 2016 presidential election.

Yours In Sisterhood wants to echo the conversations from the 2017 Women’s March and the #MeToo movement, and is timely for the upcoming elections as more women candidates are appearing on the ballots. If you’re still asking “What do women want?” this film makes the answer obvious: to be heard.

—Michon Boston Thursday, June 14, 6:15 p.m., Landmark E Street Cinema; Friday, June 15, 1 p.m., AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center.

Hale County This Morning, This Evening Directed by RaMell Ross USA Most documentaries have a story. These

narratives are meant to provide context and provoke an emotional response. But there are blind spots to nonfiction narratives. We learn only what the filmmaker and key players want us to know, without getting a broader idea of who these people are or how they live. Hale County This Morning, This Evening studiously avoids narrative and easy storytelling choices.

This is an observant film, one that has more to say about its subject than a more straightforward effort.

Hale County is in southwestern Alabama, with a predominantly black population, and director RaMell Ross follows a small cohort of locals over the course of several years. He focuses on athletes and their families, most of whom seemingly pay no mind that a camera watches them. We follow their routines, their intimate moments, their triumphs, and their heartbreaks. Ross, who got his BA from Georgetown University and his MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, never frames a shot in a conventional way. This gives the viewer freedom to follow what arouses in each curious scene, such as a remarkable sequence where the Selma University Men’s Basketball team goofs off before a game, and several dramas unfold in a confined space.

An essential part of documentary filmmaking is to show people on our country’s socioeconomic fringes. Hale County accomplishes that through unconventional

Gurrumul Directed by Paul Damien Williams Australia Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu—or simply Gurrumul—was a blind aboriginal musician from Australia. His voice was arresting, the kind that disarmed mainstream audiences, and for a while he seemed poised to receive international acclaim. The documentary Gurrumul is a biographical documentary, focusing primarily on his roots and flirtation with stardom. Like Searching for Sugar Man, it has the potential to create legions of new fans.

Blind since birth, Gurrumul is shy and unimpressed with fame. He eventually gets the attention of Michael Hohnen, a white man, who would serve as his manager, collaborator, and translator. There is a worry Hohnen might exploit Gurrumul, but director Paul Damien Williams suggestions their friendship and professional life were based in mutual respect.

Eventually they embark on a European tour, culminating in a duet with Sting on French television. Hohnen then plans an means and deep empathy for its subject.

If most documentaries are like sharply written magazine articles, then this one is like a poem that lingers in your mind.

—Alan Zilberman

The Providers

Saturday, June 16, 1 p.m. AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center; Sunday, June 17, 2:30 p.m., Landmark E Street Cinema United We Fan Directed by Michael Sparaga Canada Everyone has a beloved TV show that ended too abruptly. Unlike a film or a book, TV production is an ongoing process, and sometimes TV fans are successful in resurrecting a show from cancellation purgatory. United We Fan is a documentary about that phenomenon, dating back to the original Star Trek. This film is easygoing and light, at least compared to most fare at AFI Docs, and its inoffensiveness is also its undoing.

Director Michael Sparaga follows a few ordinary folks who mounted campaigns to keep their favorite shows on the air. There is the couple who convinced a network executive to keep Star Trek, plus someone who loves Person of Interest. But Dorothy Swanson, a schoolteacher living in Fairfax, gets the lion’s share of attention. She campaigned for several shows, including Cagney and Lacey and Designing Women, and she eventually founded the nonprofit Viewers for Quality Television.

Sparaga provides a history and census of this pop culture phenomenon. He contrasts campaigns before and after the internet, noting the power of Kickstarter. In a surprising turn, he details the falling out

important anthropological document.

—Alan Zilberman Thursday, June 14, 8:30 p.m., Landmark E Street Cinema; Friday, June 15, 8:15 p.m., AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center.

Witkin & Witkin Directed by Trisha Ziff Mexico Brooklyn-born identical twins, the Witkin brothers have each forged a distinct artistic path. Joel-Peter is a photographer with an eye for the dramatic and disfigured. Jerome is a figurative painter with a political and social conscience inspired

by German Expressionists such as Otto Dix. But despite being inseparable as children, the brothers, now in their late 70s, went their separate ways as adults and barely interacted with each other— until a joint gallery exhibit hung their work side by side.

Director Trisha Ziff’s portrait is more vivid in the brothers’ formative years, capturing a slice of old Brooklyn neighborhoods, and trains a curious eye on the sibling’s unusual dynamic; despite a decades-long estrangement, their work resonates with each other in surprising ways. But about that work … one of JoelPeter’s subjects tries to defend the artist’s penchant for disfigured bodies, but when you see the spread-eagled result (in the context of an anti-Nazi piece, yet), it’s hard not to agree with critics who find he exploits rather than celebrates such differences. As a study in personalities, Witkin & Witkin is fascinating, but at least one of its subjects could bear more scrutiny.

—Pat Padua Saturday, June 16, 4 p.m., National Gallery of Art-East Building Auditorium.

between Swanson and a TV executive after he makes a show she could not support. This is all filmed in a conventional way, with bouncy music smoothing over clumsy transition and amateurish graphics.

United We Fan is meant to celebrate fandom, fan communities, and their collaborations with TV showrunners. The trouble is that fandom is not always this nice. Fans can be downright toxic, even hostile, like when actors get harassed over the characters they play.

More importantly, TV fans can be unreasonable, both in terms of their expectations and demands. Any serious TV watcher knows this dark underbelly, so by keeping things cuddly, United We Fan is like propaganda for communities that often deserve a bit more skepticism.

—Alan Zilberman Thursday, June 14, 3:30 p.m., Landmark E Street Cinema.

American tour, except Gurrumul never shows at the airport.

The central tension of Gurrumul is how to serve as an ambassador for one’s community, while also staying a part of it. There are no easy answers—to his credit, Hohnen does not seem angry about the failed tour—and the film resolves the question in an elegant way.

The best scenes involve Gurrumul in the studio, working on an album that blends classical traditions with aboriginal ones.

The music has an agreeable thrum, creating atmospheric tones that balance the heartbreak in his voice.

So much successful world music has an exploitive edge to it, as if the acts are paraded around the United States and Europe like a sideshow. Gurrumul sidesteps that trap, instead serving as an entry point into a community that is on the verge of extinction. On top of being an engaging film, it is an

The Providers Directed by Anna Moot-Levin and Laura Green USA Your community needs you. If that goes for Washington, D.C., it goes even more for rural towns in northern New Mexico—like Las Vegas, population 13,285. Devastated by the opioid epidemic and a dire shortage of healthcare workers, such places might seem like the last priority in a prosperous land. But directors Anna Moot-Levin and Laura Green find resilience amid hardship as they follow Matt, Leslie, and Chris: three “country doctors” who serve the beleaguered region and save lives despite long odds and minimal resources.

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A Murder in Mansfield Directed by Barbara Kopple USA

souls. As Chris, who overcame his own teenage addictions to become a health care provider, notes, his town exports its number one resource: smart young people all too ready to leave home for a better place. This inspiring movie finds that, for some young professionals, vocations start where they are most needed—at home.

—Pat Padua Friday, June 15, 2 p.m., Landmark E Street Cinema.

Over the Limit Directed by Marta Prus Poland, Germany, Finland For the Birds

If the secret to coaching champions in America is all about building them up, in Russia it’s about tearing them down. At least that’s how it appears in Marta Prus’ Over the Limit, a glimpse into the life of rhythmic gymnast Margarita Mamun.

“You’re stupid … Can you at least do one thing well?” asks Amina, Rita’s coach. To Irina, also an apparent coach though her role isn’t made clear in the film, she’s a “bitch” and a “stupid cow.” The berating is constant as Rita executes performances that, to an outsider, look flawless. She confesses to teammate Yana Kudryavtseva: “My body is exhausted. My legs are tired.” Yet the 2016 Olympics are coming up, and if Rita wants to go, she has to put up with her trainers. Over the Limit is at times tough to watch; you wish the 20year-old star would speak up more often and more angrily than she does. You get the feeling that the presence of the camera may have made the coaches bark a little louder. But even if they’re normally on slightly better behavior, they’d still be pretty horrific. You’ll be relieved when Rita does well enough to earn their praise, and she’s always lovely to watch. Prus’ choice to end the doc abruptly after a pivotal event is questionable, however, with an implication that the end justifies the means. It reinforces the sentiment that Amina tells Rita: “You’re not a human being but an athlete.”

—Tricia Olszewski

A Murder in Mansfield

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For the Birds Directed by Richard Miron USA Kathy Murphy, the central figure in Richard Miron’s captivating For the Birds, is the kind of person who you instantly regret entering into conversation with. She is antisocial and paranoid, and her hygiene falls well outside of social norms.

She spends most of her day caring for the dozens of geese, chickens, and turkeys that have taken over the home she and her husband share in upstate New York. After a neighbor reports the un-

Collier Landry was 11 years old when his father killed his mother and buried her in their basement—all while Landry was lying terrified in his bed upstairs. It’s a story so horrifying we don’t even want to imagine it, but Barbara Kopple’s A Murder in Mansfield manages to find grace and heroism amid its tragedy. The film opens on Landry as a boy testifying against his father at his murder trial. We are stunned by his poise and clarity, and when we meet up with him some 25 years later, he hasn’t changed a bit.

As a grown man, he travels back to his hometown of Mansfield, Ohio, for the ostensible purpose of documenting the effect his father’s crime had on his community.

He visits his old house and catches up with his mother’s friends. Eventually, a deeper motivation emerges. Landry still has questions he needs his father to answer, and in the film’s final act, he visits him in prison for a painfully honest conversation.

The content is riveting, but the form may test your patience. A Murder in Mansfield is a very basic work. Nearly every scene is just a filmed conversation, and while it worked for My Dinner with Andre, there are times when the story feels thin, like we’re just killing time until we get to its gripping conclusion. First, Landry converses with his therapist, then his relatives, his neighbors, his former high school principal, some students, and the police officers who worked the case. It’s a good thing that Landry remains such a compelling protagonist, displaying an unwavering sense of purpose and calm as he wades into a past more dangerous than most of us have ever known. He’s a hero in his own life and a powerful example to others struggling with confronting their past traumas. He and the film are worth watching.

—Noah Gittell

Personal Statement sanitary conditions, Murphy engages in a pitched battle with sanctuary workers and, eventually, local authorities to keep her beloved flock. As she refuses to give in to the authorities, she puts her marriage and even her freedom at risk.

It’s a gripping tale, and the film’s greatest achievement may be how it methodically changes our perception of its protagonist. It would have been easy to mock or judge Murphy—despite her affection for the birds, they are clearly better off at a well-run sanctuary—but Miron’s steady and sympathetic eye persistently searches for her humanity.

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As tensions escalate and Murphy begins to unravel from the strain of the fight, For the Birds unveils a deeply humanistic bent (it’s executive produced by S-Town’s Brian Reed and shares the podcast’s gentle empathy). What emerges is a satisfying, even thrilling inquiry into mental illness, animal welfare, and the thin line between altruism and self-interest. It’s a film not to be missed.

—Noah Gittell Friday, June 15, 6 p.m., AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center; Saturday, June 16, 2 p.m., Landmark E Street Cinema.

Tre Maison Dasan Directed by Denali Tiller USA One in 14 children in the United States have a parent who was formerly or is currently incarcerated. Although certain pieces of pop culture have, in recent years, given those on the outside an idea of what life is like for inmates, less attention is given to what impact a parent’s incarceration has on their young children.

Denali Tiller’s debut documentary looks at three boys in Rhode Island, each of whom has a parent in a state correctional facility when we meet them.

But despite having this one thing in common, the boys’ lives follow very different paths. Dasan, just 6 years old at the be-

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ginning of the film, reunites with his mother, Stephanie, relatively quickly. Upon her release, her greatest challenge is working with her social worker to explain to Dasan where she’s been while keeping up with the needs of her growing son. For the audience, that means cringe-inducing footage of scooter crashes and Cub Scout camping trips.

Maison, who lives with his grandmother while his father is incarcerated and his mother looks for work in California, struggles with their absence and to relate to his peers. You can see the wrenching sadness on his face when he realizes that the father he loves has done something truly terrible. Tre, on the other hand, has taken his abandonment issues to the other extreme: At age 12, he’s already on probation and wearing an ankle monitor.

The film’s most sobering moments come when the children and their parents discuss how they got to this point. Before reaching high school, these boys understand that their parents are fallible. Seeing them come to terms with their actions and their complicated futures is heartbreaking.

—Caroline Jones June 14, 6 p.m., AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center; June 17, 4:45 p.m., Landmark E Street Cinema.

Hesburgh Directed by Patrick Creadon USA Hesburgh will likely be of interest only to viewers already familiar with the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh. Others will find its portrayal of the priest lacking, an ironically lifeless treatment of an allegedly largerthan-life man. “He was a mythic figure,” Ted Koppel says at the beginning of Patrick Creadon’s documentary, and then the director starts to build the case. A narrator, as Hesburgh, talks about his childhood, including his desire since age 6 to become a priest. (And then another narrator, confusingly also as Hesburgh, continues the story. It’s not the last swap.) From there his story proceeds linearly, through his ordination, education, and appointment as the president of the University of Notre Dame, one that Hesburgh would hold for a record 35 years. It’s during this run that he became a rock star, advising presidents as well as the Vatican and influencing the civil rights movement. The more the talking heads talk and check off his achievements, however, the less compelling it all is, especially when Creadon allows historical tangents to interrupt the story of his subject. A friend to Ann Landers, Hesburgh is lauded here by her daughter, who claims something the film can’t quite convince you of: “He was one of the special ones.”

—Tricia Olszewski Sunday, June 17, 5:15 p.m. Landmark E Street Cinema.

The Liberation Directed by Christoph Green and Brendan Canty USA The best feel good stories star imperfect characters that you don’t think you could ever cheer for, let alone love. In The Liberation, Christoph Green and Brendan Canty follow a class largely made up of returning citizens or substance abusers through a 14-week culinary training program at the District’s own DC Central Kitchen. The number one reason 73 percent of returning citizens in the District will reoffend and land back in jail within three years is because they can’t find a job. The teachers leading students toward hope and gainful employment in the culinary field faced some of the same struggles, creating the trust and empathy among their charges that are ultimately responsible for the program’s success. Watch as the instructors mold a man named Michael, who is surly and openly homophobic, into an employee any restaurant would be lucky to employ.

Is The Liberation going to win cinematography awards? No. The setting bops from gripping therapy sessions in classrooms to chopping chicken in kitchens to teary-eyed interviews in offices with the occasional shot of D.C. streets. But you’re here for the characters. Who lands a job at Old Ebbitt Grill? Whose dream is thwarted by their criminal record? Who gets to say, “I’m a felon—I’m a two-time felon and I’m employed.” —Laura Hayes

who loves her as much as a mom would, and she’s strong enough to “dress like a boy” and teach her fellow Latinx classmates about accepting gay peers.

What sets Personal Statement apart is that it’s useful: All kids applying to college can learn something from these three students. Some of their setbacks turn out to be wins, and vice-versa. And even the most dysfunctional of their parents have some good advice. The film catches up with them once they’re on campus, showing the financial and social implications for their decisions, and confirming that they’re all winners.

—Alexa Mills Wednesday, June 13, 7 p.m., Newseum.

Love, Gilda Directed by Lisa D’Apolito USA Lisa D’Apolito’s Love, Gilda presents Gilda Radner in her own words. Audiotapes and journal entries, some read by comedians such as as Amy Poehler and Bill Hader, are the meat of this doc, remarkable for their comprehensiveness and confessional nature.

Like most biopics, Love, Gilda starts with Radner’s childhood (diet pills at 10, her father’s death at 14), progresses to her career ascension (she was the first person The Liberation

Friday, June 15, 1 p.m., Landmark E Street Cinema; Friday, June 15, 8:30 p.m., AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center.

Personal Statement Directed by Juliane Dressner and Edwin Martinez USA Movies about high school students who have to overcome odds to win something—a sports championship, admission to college, a pathway out of their terrible families or poverty—come with a story arc. Personal Statement, directed by Juliane Dressner, is no different. The film follows three New York City high school seniors as they try to get into college.

Enoch, Christine, and Karoline go to different public schools but share a common goal of wanting to get somewhere in life; and a common attitude of taking responsibility for their lives. Enoch lives with his sister because his mom is in a homeless shelter, and he wants to go to college so that he can stop being a burden on his older sister. Christine lives with her Spanish-speaking mom, who is skeptical of college, especially for girls.

Karoline’s family is the only one we don’t see, but she says her dad is an alcoholic.

At school she’s got a guidance counselor

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Minding the Gap

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The audio flows so smoothly in between interview clips and commentary from friends and colleagues that it seems as if the narration was planned; a quibble about the source material is that D’Apolito often doesn’t keep Radner’s journal entries on screen quite long enough for you to decipher the comedian’s handwriting. Regardless, the truth comes through: Radner was very gifted but also very unhappy for much of her life, though from an early age, comedy was her refuge. As Paul Shaffer notes here, “To laugh is the ultimate panacea.”

—Tricia Olszewski Thursday, June 14, 4:10 p.m., AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center; Sunday, June 17, 12:15 p.m., Landmark E Street Cinema.

Minding The Gap Directed by Bing Liu USA Those of us who came of age in the ’80s and ’90s are varying degrees of familiar with the American skate rat. But for so many wayward youth, skateboarding was beyond a trend—it was a way to escape the trauma and ugliness of their everyday lives. Director Bing Liu’s gorgeous and deeply empathetic film

Minding The Gap explores just that.

The young filmmaker culls together more than a decade of footage he’s shot of himself and his skateboarding friends growing up, editing together a portrayal of the hardships they’ve dealt with over the years. At the center of Liu’s film is the story of his friends Zack and Keire. Growing up in the Rust Belt town of Rockford, Illinois, both Zack and Keire have tumultuous, violent relationships with their fathers, which shape the ways their lives unfold. As Zack becomes a new father at the age of 23, Liu uses the moment as a catalyst to explore how both he and Keire struggle to balance the responsibilities of adulthood with their rebellious skateboarding natures.

But the most poignant story at the center of Liu’s film is his own: Liu grew up at the hands of an abusive stepfather. It’s a trauma that has defined and scarred him for his entire life and he uses the film to interrogate that trauma, interviewing his mother about why she stayed with a man who physically abused her and her sons for so long. Liu doesn’t reach any huge revelations, but he doesn’t need to. His careful and, at times, heartbreaking portrayal of himself and his tight-knit friends is a quiet revelation in and of itself. —Matt Cohen Saturday, June 16, 4 p.m., Landmark E Street Cinema; Sunday, June 17, 7:30 p.m., AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center.

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The Leftovers, Part One

Sexual harassment, wage theft, minority-owned restaurants, and the D.C. market. City Paper addresses unanswered questions on Initiative 77.

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the director of ROC-DC. She says ROC has surveyed thousands of workers in D.C. and across the country, concluding that, “the real source of sexual harassment, especially for women, is having to be solely dependent on tips.”

ROC and Forward Together, an organization that wants all families to be able to thrive, conducted a survey that revealed that tipped female restaurant workers in states where there is a sub-minimum wage are twice as likely to experience sexual harassment as their female cohorts in states that pay one minimum wage to all workers. They surveyed 688 current and former restaurant workers across 39 states for their 2014 report, “The Glass Floor: Sexual Harassment in the Restaurant Industry.”

“With a wage of $3.33, the wage itself is so low it goes entirely to taxes and women must rely entirely on pleasing customers to get tips in order to survive—when a woman receives a full wage plus tips, and she’s not entirely dependent on tips, she can reject inappropriate customer and co-worker behavior,” Ramirez says. She has argued in the past that it’s not just the customer who has power over the tipped employee. So too do managers because they determine who is scheduled for the most lucrative shifts.

Finally, Ramirez says having “One Fair Wage” would benefit restaurateurs. “An employer would no longer have the same incentive to make sure tips are covering the base wage, so they would be less concerned that women look ‘date ready’ so they can make more money in tips.”

While Ramirez connects tipping with a higher rate of sexual harassment in restaurants, she does not address that ROC leaders and members have consistently asserted that tipping will not cease if the tipped minimum wage is elim-

By Laura Hayes In case you missed it, City Paper held a panel discussion on ballot Initiative 77 on May 29 at Black Cat. The measure on the June 19 ballot seeks to eliminate the tip credit, or tipped minimum wage, in the District.

The tip credit allows restaurant operators to keep their payroll costs down by paying tipped workers like servers, bartenders, and bussers a lower base wage of at least $3.33 an hour, asking customers to pay the lion’s share of workers’ wages with tips. If tips do not carry a tipped worker over the standard minimum wage, currently set at $12.50, the employer is obligated to make up the difference. If voters pass Initiative 77, the tipped minimum wage will go up in eight increments until it reaches $15 in 2025.

Five panelists spoke out against 77: Restaurant operators Josh Phillips from Espita Mezcaleria and Jill Marie Tyler from Tail Up

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Goat; tipped workers Karim Soumah from RIS and Sheena Wills from DC9; and Kathy Hollinger, the CEO of the Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington.

Restaurant Opportunities Center United (ROC) collected enough signatures to get 77 on the ballot. They were represented on the panel by ROC-DC Director Diana Ramirez and ROC members Thea Bryan and Venorica Tucker. Wage theft attorney Justin Zelikovitz and candidate for D.C. Council Chairman Ed Lazere were also on the panel supporting 77.

Many questions from the audience went unanswered due to time constraints. Same for questions from the moderators. Over the next two weeks, City Paper will address them.

You have consistently told us that we will still be tipped on top of the minimum wage. So, if you are so adamant about us still receiving tips, how does 77 lessen sexual harassment?

This question was directed at Diana Ramirez,

inated. If tipping continues, it’s unclear how 77 would cut down on the rampant sexual harassment that she says exists in restaurants.

“ROC continues to make contradictory statements about the question of tipping to suit the audience they are addressing,” says Jill Marie Tyler, co-owner of Tail Up Goat.

“They have called for the end of tipping out of one side of their mouth while still promising full tips on top of a full minimum wage from the other.”

Tyler believes that upending the current system will throw career paths off and ultimately won’t address sexual harassment.

“Tipping does not cause sexual misconduct,” she says. “Sexual predators cause sexual misconduct … It is a problem across all industries.

It is our duty as owners and operators to create and sustain safe work environments where our employees feel respected and empowered regardless of how they are compensated.”

“They’re contradicting themselves,” echoes Stephanie Hulbert, a tipped worker who is employed as a bartender at the Tune Inn. She wonders if the sexual harassment rationale would be quite so front and center without the #MeToo movement. “It’s not an issue for me,” Hulbert continues. “We don’t put ourselves out there like that. I definitely don’t …

We’ve seen restaurateurs accused of this. It’s not patrons that are the issue.”

You said your work doesn’t deal with “good restaurants” like the ones in this room. Who are the “bad” restaurants then? If they exist, why won’t you name and shame them?

This question was for attorney Justin Zelikovitz, who tries wage theft cases. He made the argument that if employers weren’t stealing wages from their employees, he wouldn’t be in business. Zelikovitz and his partner at DCWageLaw have represented almost 1,000 low-wage workers from different sectors in D.C. and Maryland over the past five years.

Zelikovitz can’t disclose much because most of his cases settle confidentially. However, DCWageLaw did win a trial by jury back in 2016 against Asia 54. The plaintiffs received

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more than $150,000 in the verdict. DCWageLaw has also handled complaints against Thip Khao, Sushi Taro, Malaysia Kopitiam, and Little Serow.

More recently, on May 10, Zelikovitz filed a complaint against Froggy Bottom Pub on behalf of a pair of siblings who were servers. They say they weren’t paid any cash wages for their work. “Until recently defendants only compensated plaintiffs by allowing plaintiffs to keep a percentage of tips left to them by customers,” the complaint reads.

Combing through federal complaints against District businesses that violated the Fair Labor Standards Act over the past two years, about 40 percent of 97 complaints came from restaurants or bars. These restaurants run the gamut of neighborhoods and price-ranges and include Rasika, Hot N Juicy Crawfish, Panera Bread, Smith Public Trust, Meiwah, Stan’s Restaurant, Saigon Kitchen, and Gordon Biersch.

Complaints like the one against Froggy Bottom Pub are rare within this set; most of the FLSA plaintiffs have job titles like cook or kitchen hand, which typically aren’t tipped positions because “back-of-house” employees don’t interact with customers. These kitchen hands and cooks often allege they weren’t paid a minimum wage or overtime pay. Complaints by “front-of-house” staff like bartenders and servers are less frequent, though the line can blur at smaller operations, according to Zelikovitz, where an employee could both make the pizzas and work the register.

Opponents of 77 say it seeks to give “frontof-the-house” workers a raise, when it’s the workers in the back-of-the-house that seem to struggle most from wage theft.

“I think the tip credit system is inherently difficult to enforce,” Zelikovitz says. “If [77] passes, it will not be good for my business, which tells me something. If the tip credit goes away, there will be a lot fewer restaurants that get it wrong. It’s not self-interest. It would be good for my clients.”

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My concern is the disproportionate impact on small and minority-owned businesses. How will these minority-owned businesses survive if they are already running on small profit margins?

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For Fatima Popal, the answer is simple.

“Many of us who are small minority or family-owned businesses will need to make some drastic operational changes to survive,” she says. Popal and her family emigrated to the U.S. in 1987 and made D.C. their home. The Popal Group is behind Lapis, Malmaison, La Pop, and Café Bonaparte.

“This measure would have such a dramatic impact on us—our profit margins are small to begin with so we would have to make dramatic changes to our staffing policies, our prices,

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our staff size, our hours of operation. It’s impossible as a small business owner to see this pass and think we’re going to survive, especially in D.C.” Popal was 23 when she and her family opened Café Bonaparte in 2003. It was all hands on deck at first. For Popal that meant washing dishes, waiting tables, running the bar, and managing. “God has been great, but it took a lot of time and effort.”

She says if 77 passes, it will reduce the number of minority-owned businesses. “It’s going to hurt us, I’m not really sure many of us will survive,” she reiterates. “We’ll lose the uniqueness of what this city offers. This is what we’re all about—the local, minority-owned businesses. It’s not about the big-box restaurants that are everywhere. No one likes those anymore.”

I live in Ward 7 where we have a higher percentage on average of restaurant workers of color. I dine out several times a week and I’m happy to pay a little more and tip so my neighbors can make a fair wage. Why does the National Restaurant Association (NRA) think D.C. cannot follow several other states to end the tipped wage?

This question boils down to whether or not it’s fair to compare D.C. to states like Washington, Oregon, and California. Kathy Hollinger, the CEO of the Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington (RAMW) believes the comparison doesn’t work. “D.C. is a very unique market where 96 percent of restaurants are independently owned and operated, which is not the case in the other states that have ended the tipped wage,” she says. “Raising the pre-tipped wage in this unique market will impact small businesses, workers, and ultimately consumers negatively.”

RAMW represents about 1,000 local restaurants and food businesses and works with the NRA on some national issues. Hollinger says RAMW diverged from the NRA by supporting the minimum wage increase to $15, but that the organizations are aligned on 77. “We both agree that this initiative will be lose-lose for both owners and workers,” she says.

Rose Previte, owner of Compass Rose and Maydan, explains that part of what makes D.C. an anomaly is that it has two bordering states that will retain their tip credit. “If 77 passes, the skilled workers out there will have no incentive to work in D.C. at all,” she says. “They would have every reason to start working in Virginia and Maryland … The pay would be better and there are plenty of jobs available.”

ROC-DC Director Diana Ramirez counters that D.C. and San Francisco are a fair comparison when looking at transitioning to one wage.

“They’re comparably sized cities with a very high cost of living and booming restaurant economies. It’s a natural comparison.”

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Union Market boasts food from all over the world, reflecting the city’s population. But unlike the District at large, almost half of the eateries housed in the bustling food hall in Northeast are fully or partially owned by women. Women are behind retail shop Salt & Sundry, spice shop Bazaar Spices, Teaism, Neopol Savory Smokery, and ArepaZone, among others. We scoured the market’s woman-owned stalls for the best bites to try on your next visit.

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Open-Faced Uttapam Dosa at DC Dosa ($9.90) Most customers at DC Dosa in Union Market come away with dramatically wide, paper-thin South Indian crepes known as dosas. But when the market is elbow-toelbow, consider a smaller, spongier pancake made from fermented white lentils known as an uttapam. It comes with a thick spread of fragrant curried potatoes. Owner Priya Ammu sought to bring D.C. a taste of the comfort foods she enjoyed as a child when she opened DC Dosa.

Chicken and Beef Sausage Gumbo at Puddin’ ($13.20 for a large) Use your nose to guide you to the market’s taste of Louisiana—Puddin’. Best known for their namesake brown butter bourbon bread pudding, don’t miss owner

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Toyin Alli’s gumbo made with chicken and beef sausage, ground smoked shrimp, okra, rice, and other vegetables. Alli’s mother Ann, who was working the stall, says they use family recipes.

Puddin’ also has two food trucks.

Shrimp Donburi at The District Fishwife ($12) Aussie fishmonger and District Fishwife coowner Fiona Lewis runs a pristine fish counter full of sea treasures that you can take home and cook. But don’t skip over the dine-in menu. The shrimp donburi features lightly fried shrimp that aren’t greasy plus pickled veggies to cut through the richness. District Fishwife sources the kimchi, honey habanero daikon, and masala beets from Number 1 Sons, which is owned by a brother and sister team.

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tato flakes, and flash fries them.

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Coconut Noodles with Chicken at Toli Moli ($9) Toli Moli is owned by Simone Jacobson, her mother Jocelyn Law-Yone, and Eric Wang. Earlier this year the trio expanded from a falooda stand to a full-blown mini-bodega where they can serve an expanded menu. Fill up on this noodle soup in coconut broth, and don’t be afraid to order the spicy version. In Burma, this dish is called ohno khauk swe and is a family favorite. Jacobson says it’s often believed to be the predecessor to the Thai noodle dish, khao soi, not the other way around.

Boozy Ice Cream Soda at Buffalo & Bergen ($13–$14) Adult milkshake fans can choose to either build their own boozy ice cream soda at Gina Chersevani’s vintage-looking bagel shop and soda fountain, or they can order the “Kuroi Niji” cocktail off the menu.

It’s made with Maker’s Mark 46, chocolate soda, Moorenko’s Swiss chocolate ice cream, espresso whipped cream, and sprinkles. Chersevani also owns Suburbia in the outdoor area of Union Market, where you can order frozen drinks and escape a little.

fore Halloween. Flynn thought this dish would spook customers, but she was surprised to find that it quickly became a hit. It’s been on the menu ever since, and it’s an example of how Flynn is committed to using every part of the pig in her cooking. Take one bite, and you’ll quickly forget that you’re eating feet.

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What It Is: Hoof it on over to Roofer’s Union to go hog wild on a dish that begs for a crisp, refreshing beer. Trotter tots might not appeal to everyone since they’re made from pigs’ feet, but like most pork products, the meat is succulent and juicy. Executive Chef Jenn Flynn braises the pigs’ feet low and slow. Then, she forms the meat into bite-sized balls, coats them in po-

what we’ll eat next week: Baltimore-style pit beef with slow roasted angus beef, “tiger” sauce, and pickled onions on a brioche bun, $12, Solly’s. Excitement level: 4 out of 5.

How to Eat It: Quite fittingly, the trotter tots come in a small metal tray—a personal trough for you and maybe a few friends. Just like the potato variety, these tots are meant for dipping.

A small side of spicy remoulade sauce gives the dish a kick.

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what we ate this week: Chile and cheese tamales, $6.49, Trader Joe’s.

Satisfaction level: 4 out of 5.

The Sandwich: The Huachana Where: China Chilcano, 418 7th St. NW Cost: $10 Stuffings: Huacho style sausage patty, fried egg, chicharrones, huacatay Bread: Peruvian French roll Thickness: 3 inches Pros: Like me, the people of Lima, Peru, love to eat sánguches (their word for sandwiches) for lunch, so the team at José Andrés’ Peruvian-influenced restaurant has created an entire menu of them. In this case, a pillowy French roll cradles a juicy sausage patty, a fried egg, and a funky sauce made from Peruvian black mint—without becoming soggy. By using traditional ingredients to flavor the sausage, China Chilcano has given the ground meat some appreciated depth.

Cons: Between the egg, the creamy sauce, and the soft bread, certain bites can get a bit texturally gummy. While the chicharrones add a bit of crunch, they also add richness and saltiness. It screams for the addition of something vegetal that could cut through the fat.

Sloppiness level (1 to 5): 3. This sandwich has a properly fried egg on it. Expect the yolk to ooze out of the bun and onto your hands once it breaks. On the bright side, the yolk and huacatay that land on the plate make an excellent dipping sauce for the fries that come on the side.

Overall score (1 to 5): 4. It needs some greens to lighten it up, but this sánguche tastes unlike most sandwiches in D.C. That distinction alone makes it exciting and worth a second visit.

—Caroline Jones

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By Jordan Tannahill Directed by Marti Lyons At Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company to June 24

By Chris Klimek The only Time I ever saw Prince perform live was on the 2004 Musicology Tour. It was an odd era for the Artist Only Just Recently Once Again Known as Prince: He’d resumed playing the hits from his late-’70s-through-early-’90s heyday after largely abjuring them for a decade, but the religious awakening he’d experienced in the years since he’d made his most beloved music remained. His compromise was to censor his own songs as he played them, replacing the most libidinous words with less scandalous synonyms or else just letting the audience fill in the filthy phrases he no longer cared to sing.

I thought about that concert after and even during Botticelli in the Fire, Woolly Mammoth’s U.S. premiere of Canadian playwright/novelist/filmmaker/choreographer Jordan Tan-

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nahill’s uproarious and chilling ahistorical fantasy—and not just because Jon Hudson Odom’s appearance and demeanor in the role of the horndog genius Sandro Botticelli so strongly recall Prince. Botticelli, too, became a convert and burned many of his secular paintings. Prince was remarkably successful at keeping his music off the internet in his later years, but at least he couldn’t destroy the master tapes for Dirty Mind.

That tension between the flesh and the spirit, the orgasmic and the ecclesiastic, that animated Prince’s (and so many others’) best work, and the tension between the 1980s of Prince and Madonna and the 1980s of Ronald Reagan and Jerry Falwell, drip from Botticelli’s every exposed pore, of which there are many. It would be gross, indecent hyperbole to suggest this production spent as much on merkins as the plush Camelot being performed at Sidney Harman Hall a couple of blocks north did on costumes. Let it suffice to say the design team has done an admirable job of making Alyssa Wilmoth Keegan, who has an athletic frame and short hair, look like the model for “The Birth of Venus.” (The clamshell Venus stands on in the painting gives set designer Misha Kachman his sole opportunity to bring that familiar Woolly bling, turning the shell into a lightbulb-ringed bandstand that descends from the ceiling.)

Pulitzer winner Andrew Sean Greer discusses his D.C. roots and the subtle joys of fiction writing. washingtoncitypaper.com/arts And the show itself is a total Renaissance panty-dropper, a queer-as-fuck mashup of Cabaret and Red and La Cage aux Folles that’s kinda-sorta set in the 1480s but is clearly about our unfathomable present. (Botticelli and his gifted young assistant/lover, some kid named Leonardo from the Florentine suburb of Vinci, learn that “sodomites” are being roasted alive in the piazza via text message.) Cody Nickell is the tatted-up Lorenzo Di Medici, ruthless ruler of Florence and Botticelli’s patron, who commissions the artist to make a portrait of his spouse, Clarice Orsini (Wilmoth Keegan). With Orsini’s enthusiastic consent, Botticelli immediately exceeds his mandate, placing both their lives at risk. Meanwhile, the bubonic plague is decimating Florence, which the opportunistic friar Girolamo Savanarola (Craig Wallace) claims represents divine judgment for the city’s secular and hedonistic pursuits. When his acolytes take to burning buggerers, he claims they’re acting without his approval, while arguing, in so many words, that there are some very fine people on both sides.

It’s a rich drama that can give us two despicable villains who are enemies of one another and who each threaten our protagonist in discrete ways. Having Nickell and Wallace present as the era’s dominant businessman/politician and cleric, respectively, raises provocative questions about whether commerce or religion is the more destructive force. In one scene, Nickell is recast as an airhead chat-show host interviewing Savanarola. Director Marti Lyons (late of Studio’s wildly successful The Wolves) stops short of having Nickell rub Wallace’s head like Jimmy Fallon.

Forget trying to reconcile the timeline: The conflagration of the title is the same 1497 blaze Tom Wolfe borrowed for the name of his landmark 1987 novel The Bonfire of the Vanities, sending up the greed and false piety of the Reagan years. (Wallace’s delight upon stumbling over the phrase is the show’s only clunker of a joke.) Botticelli was persuaded to destroy many of his secular paintings as “vanities,” and by some accounts, to retire from painting, at least for a while. What Tannahill has dreamt up is an imaginative explanation of how Venus, his masterpiece, was spared the flames.

The show opens exactly like Woolly’s superb productions of An Octoroon did, with Odom breaking the fourth fall to address us directly: “This isn’t gonna be another tortured fag-artist sob story,” he declares. “Well, maybe a little.” In Tannahill’s conception, Botticelli’s sexual and creative prowess are more or less inseparable. “He came out of the womb sucking his own cock,” claims no less an authority than his mother (Dawn Ursula). The seven-member company is so overripe with talent that Ursula, a much-honored Woolly powerhouse, appears in just a handful of scenes. Her most haunting moment comes when she is present merely as a sort of disembodied narrator, reciting the relative distances between various parts of the human body while offstage, victims of the religious purges burn.

The actors less familiar to Woolly regulars than those already named are no less sublime: Earl T. Kim provides much of the evening’s flamboyant comedy as Poggio du Chullu, a compatriot of Botticelli’s who doesn’t have the artist’s connections to keep him safe. And as Da Vinci, who has not yet fully unlocked his own genius, Woolly first-timer James Crichton evinces a quiet command that contrasts nicely with the more outsized performances coming from, well, everyone. Botticelli spots the kid’s talent before anyone else, marveling as his ability to paint lifelike feet. In an evening that paints in broad strokes, it’s those details that really hit you.

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On her debut album, Michelle Blackwell puts her unique spin on go-go. washingtoncitypaper.com/arts

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A look at what’s new and notable in D.C.’s ever-expanding, forever-fascinating music scene, from experimental free jazz to ferocious post-punk —Matt Cohen

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Get Better Records The newest EP from one of D.C.’s most prolific post-punk ensembles doesn’t rip; it bites. These five songs expand on the band’s knack for tight riffs, catchy grooves, and no-fucks-given attitude, with singer/keyboardist Katie McD’s vicious lyrics and taut vocals commanding you to not just listen, but to pay attention.

Luke Stewart, Works For Upright Bass and Amplifier Astral Spirits

Everyone knows Luke Stewart. And if you don’t, you damn well should. He’s perhaps the most prolific jazz and ex-

perimental artist in D.C., performing in Irreversible Entanglements, Ancestral Duo, Blacks’ Myths, James Brandon Lewis Trio, Trio OOO, and scores of other groups. As a solo artist, Stewart takes his main instrument, the upright bass, to far-out dimensions with this tape of both improvised and composed material, which finds him using manipulated amplifier feedback as an instrument as much as his bass.

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Boat Burning has long been one of the D.C. area’s most innovative ensembles, regularly orchestrating their mass guitar performances. (The most recent iteration, which took place ear-

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ly this year at 9:30 Club, featured nearly 100 players.) But the ensemble’s new EP contains far fewer guitarists: just five, plus bandleader Andras Fekete and a drummer. Co-produced

by Mission of Burma’s Roger Miller, Boat Burning’s new EP is a textured kaleidoscope of Philip Glassian compositions that proves you can never have too many strings.

Antonia, “Church” Self-released

As Antonia, musician Adriana-Lucia Cotes creates highly personal, fasci-

natingly complex, and altogether extraordinary electronic pop songs.

Cotes has long been a staple of D.C.’s diverse and far-reaching music scene, and with this solo project her multifaceted talents are on full display.

“Church,” the first single on her upcoming album, glides with smooth synths and subtle beats as she gracefully sings about a personal turmoil with poetic precision: “The glances from the people across the room have noticed/ My pained eyes as I feel a wanting in womb, I’m burning/ And I feel the crashing of my sins, I’ve got no alms for a lying church.”

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Ain’t no MountAin HigH EnougH Mountain

Directed by Jennifer Peedom “A lonely impulse of delight drove to this tumult in the clouds,” wrote W.B. Yeats in 1919’s “An Irish Airman Foresees His Death.” His words would apply equally well to the foolhardy souls that scale mountains.

Extreme hikers, skiers, snowboarders, and mountain bikers—they are the flawed, unknowable heroes of Mountain, an engaging and enthusiastic documentary that never quite reaches its summit.

In seeking the peak of great documentary filmmaking, Mountain never quite decides which route to take. Its scattershot approach offers more than a few rewards, but it still leaves you with the feeling of an incomplete

its promise is in its depiction of those who aim to conquer these mountains. Many films have been made about extreme athletes— 2015’s Everest comes to mind—but none have looked behind the impulse of delight. Mountain, at least, offers one fairly obvious explanation. After reminding us that, several centuries ago, daily hardships were enough adventure for anyone, Dafoe suggests that, “as everyday life has become safe and more comfortable for some, we have begun to seek danger elsewhere.”

Speak for yourself. I’m more partial to describing it, as the film also does, as “an act of lunacy.” In the film’s riveting middle montage, we see skiers and snowboarders try to outrace planned avalanches. Unharnessed climbers hang by their fingertips above a thousand foot drop. Mountain bikers ride on the rocky edges of steep cliffs. One guy walks a 100-yard tightrope between two peaks in Monument Valley. You won’t find so many insane people anywhere outside of a gathering of Juggalos.

But in time, even death-defying feats can feel dull, and despite its 75-minute runtime, Mountain repeats itself too often. Wide, sweeping shots of mountain ranges only get you so far, and there are just so many ways

JUNE 22 & 23 AT 8 P.M. CONCERT HALL journey. At least there are some awe-inspiring sights along the way. Throughout, director Jennifer Peedom’s camera soars overhead the world’s highest peaks, dipping over their edges, and plummeting toward the rocks below, taking your breath away with its youare-there immediacy. Meanwhile, Willem Dafoe’s gravelly baritone waxes poetic over these images about their ancient wisdom and the “siren song of the summit.” If that’s all Mountain were, no one with the capacity to be amazed by natural wonders could possibly complain.

Where the film entices but never fulfills

for Dafoe to remind us that mountains are beautiful but, you know, also quite dangerous. To really sustain itself as a film, Mountain would have needed more of a focus on the human element, on what motivates these thrill-seekers who risk death in the hopes of defeating gravity. Is there anything more in the clouds than a vague tumult? Without an answer to this crucial question, this Mountain feels more like a molehill.

—Noah Gittell

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Book and Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner Music by Frederick Loewe Directed by Alan Paul At Sidney Harman Hall to July 8 Comparisons between King Arthur and Donald Trump are unavoidable. In the similarities column: Both men rule from curved perches—Arthur at his Round Table, Trump from the Oval Office. In the differences column: nearly everything else. Arthur dreams of peace, while the president avails himself of the threat of violence. The British ruler proudly wears his weaknesses on his chainmail sleeve, while Trump postures with a puffed out chest.

King Arthur champions the rule of law. On the day I saw Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Camelot the president tweeted about the “rigged Russia Witch Hunt,” saying that those looking into his campaign should instead investigate his political enemies.

Camelot is a political musical—one closely associated with the Kennedy administration—and STC’s artistic director Michael Kahn is “eager to see how it speaks to America today,” according to the production’s program notes. With a trio of superb performances,

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grand visuals, and a timely political message, the 1960s classic speaks with surprising power in 2018.

Our mythic musical unfurls in the idyllic spot known as Camelot. King Arthur (Ken Clark), ruler of these lands, benefits from the wisdom of his mentor, Merlyn (Ted van Griethuysen). The wizard, like a beardy Benjamin Button, lives life in reverse and knows the future. He has instilled in Arthur an appreciation for thinking, setting him apart from his Dark Age peers (and, perhaps, rulers across time).

Arthur brings this sensibility to his throne and creates his Round Table—a new order of knights who value the rule of law and morality, not violence for violence’s sake.

The zealous and egotistical Lancelot du Lac (a delightful Nick Fitzer) will become the most prominent of these knights. But first, he messes everything up. He and Arthur barge in on

what seems to be the beginning of a woodland orgy in honor of the month of May (as is customary in Camelot, apparently). Arthur is set on knighting the young Frenchman who unhesitatingly claims he has achieved physical perfection. (In a later shirtless scene, Lancelot provides supporting evidence. For taking place in an era known for full-body suits made of metal, this whole production is surprisingly sensual.) Guenevere (Alexandra Silber), Arthur’s wife, grills Lancelot disapprovingly.

Then they fall in love. And with this ArthurGuenevere-Lance love triangle Camelot’s shine begins to fade.

This troika anchors the show with excellent performances. Fitzer as Lancelot and Silber as a fierce and wise Guenevere share soaring duets, and in a show full of clever staging and striking visuals courtesy of scenic designer Walt Spangler, the pair lying together, surrounded by rose petals, stands out. As King Arthur, Ken Clark delivers the sort of performance patrons chatter about as they empty onto F Street NW. Arthur exhibits the widest range of emotions in this show, and Clark swings from wide-eyed innocence to anger to desperation to hope with believable facility. Take special note of his physicality: In early scenes he scurries about with the kinetic energy of youth, and as time passes and reality catches up to his idealism, he slows.

Reality comes in the second act in the form of Mordred (Patrick Vaill), a newly introduced (and never fully developed) villain. If there’s a criticism to level against Camelot, it’s that its second half is rushed and some plotlines are underdeveloped.

Could it all be a commentary on the tenuous nature of peace?

Yes. But it still feels hurried. As the show hurtles toward its conclusion, it shares a glimmer of hope. A commanding and cute child (Trinity Sky Deabreu) appears, promising to tell the story of Camelot and Arthur’s vision for the world.

Over time, others have called this an optimistic show. It’s comforting to imagine young children, inspired by tales of the rule of law, singing our praises to future generations. It’s less comforting to imagine the conditions in which those future generations will live, and still less comforting to acknowledge that our utopia is not utopic at all. The show points us to a better tomorrow, but I’m still thinking about Arthur, with his world crumbling around him, calling out for Merlyn. What he wouldn’t give for someone who knows how this will all play out.

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Stephen Stills & Judy Collins Fifty years ago, singer-songwriter Stephen Stills met singer-songwriter Judy Collins, known for her piercing ocean blue eyes. Their tumultuous love affair would later be immortalized by Stills with his composition “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes,” performed by Crosby, Stills & Nash on their landmark debut. Both artists would go on to shape modern music with visionary approaches, but Stills and Collins’ short fiery union remains a transformative era for the two artists.

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STEVEN TYLER AND THE LOVING MARY BAND THE SISTERHOOD BAND JUN 21

A NEW ORLEANS TRICENTENNIAL CELEBRATION

JUN 14

CHARLIE WILSON SHEILA E. JUN 24

MOTOWN THE MUSICAL JUN 26–28

BRUCE HORNSBY & THE NOISEMAKERS THE WOOD BROTHERS JUN 29

BARENAKED LADIES

LAST SUMMER ON EARTH TOUR

BETTER THAN EZRA DR. DOG MANCHESTER ORCHESTRA KT TUNSTALL CRITICAL EQUATION TOUR

JUL 2

(SANDY) ALEX G JUN 22

TONY BENNETT

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JUN 23

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CITYLIST

A PART OF THE 2018 DC JAZZFEST

DELFEAYO

MARSALIS

Music 27 Books 32 Theater 32 Film 32

Music

QUINTET W/ ERIC BYRD TRIO

CITY LIGHTS: FRIDAY

FRIDAY

JUNE 8

A PART OF THE 2018 DC JAZZFEST

REGINA CARTER

FRIDAY COuNtRY

Birchmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Kelly Willis and Chris Knight. 7:30 p.m. $29.50. birchmere.com.

SIMPLY ELLA

ELECtRONIC

W/ ELIJAH JAMAL BALBED SATURDAY JUNE 9

FOLK

THE 2018 DC JAZZFEST

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

Honey Soundsystem. 10:30 p.m. $12–$20. ustreetmusichall.com.

Pearl Street WarehoUSe 33 Pearl Street SW. (202) 380-9620. Amy Helm. 8:15 p.m. $25–$35. pearlstreetwarehouse.com.

SUN, JUNE 10

TERENCE BLANCHARD

SongByrd mUSic hoUSe and record cafe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. After The Flood. 8 p.m.

Free. songbyrddc.com.

FEATURING THE E-COLLECTIVE W/ MARK G. MEADOWS

SongByrd mUSic hoUSe and record cafe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Phil Cook. 8 p.m. $15. songbyrddc.com.

HIp-HOp

fillmore Silver SPring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. RapCaviar Live featuring Lil Pump, Lil Xan, and Famous Dex. 8 p.m. $35. fillmoresilverspring.com. rock & roll hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

Mykki Blanco. 8 p.m. $25–$30. rockandrollhoteldc. com.

JAzz

BlUeS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Roy Hargrove. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $45–$50. bluesalley.com.

Union Stage 740 Water St. SW. (877) 987-6487. Jaimie Branch’s Fly or Die and OG Lullabies. 9 p.m. $15–$20. unionstage.com.

pOp

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

Logan Henderson. 7 p.m. $20. ustreetmusichall.com.

Wolf traP filene center 1551 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. Barry Manilow. 8 p.m. $45–$125. wolftrap.org.

ROCK

9:30 clUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. White Ford Bronco. 8 p.m. $22. 930.com.

Black cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Ted Leo & The Pharmacists. 8 p.m. $25. blackcatdc.com. dc9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Brent Cowles.

7 p.m. $12. dcnine.com.

SAtuRDAY DJ NIgHtS

9:30 clUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Mixtape Pride Party. 10 p.m. $15. 930.com.

ELECtRONIC

echoStage 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. (202) 503-2330. Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike. 9 p.m. $30–$40. echostage.com.

FOLK

Union Stage 740 Water St. SW. (877) 987-6487.

David Ramirez: Bootleg Tour (Live Album Recording).

7 p.m. $18–$20. unionstage.com.

TUES, JUNE 12

ALLAN HARRIS: THE GENIUS OF EDDIE JEFFERSON

MYKKI BLANCO

W/ LENA SEIKALY

Mykki Blanco is always evolving. The transfeminine artistic persona of 32-year-old Michael Quattlebaum Jr. began as a YouTube character before taking on a life of her own, first by turning Quattlebaum’s poetry into noisy, industrial screeds and then by embracing club-ready hip-hop. Throughout the early 2010s, Blanco released a handful of mixtapes and EPs and became a key figure—begrudgingly—in the “queer rap” scene alongside performers like Le1f and Cakes Da Killa. Known for being brutally honest and raw in his music and performances, Blanco extended that honesty to his “real life,” revealing his HIV positive status publicly in 2015. But rather than ending his musical career as he feared it might, his revelation broke down barriers between the artist and audience. As he told MTV News in 2016, “I didn’t realize that me being honest about something really personal would resonate with so many people.” That resonance came to life on his debut album, Mykki. His most fully formed expression yet, the album bounds from confrontational rap (“The Plug Won’t”) to transgressive club (“For The Cunts”) to moving romanticism (album highlight “High School Never Ends”). Who knows where Mykki Blanco will go next? Mykki Blanco performs at 8 p.m. at Rock & Roll Hotel, 1353 H St. NE. $25–$30. (202) 388-7625. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

—Chris Kelly

THURS, JUNE 14

DAVE BARNES

THE TOUR WHERE I SING SONGS AND DO STAND UP W/ MAMADEAR

SAT, JUNE 16

THE POSIES — 30TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR

W/ THRUSHES

MON, JUNE 18

SCOTT BRADLEE BOOK RELEASE & SIGNING WED, JUNE 20

SUZANNE SANTO (OF HONEYHONEY)

FuNK & R&B

pOp

W/ LEAH JAMES

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

Dru Hill. 8 p.m. $39.50–$80. thehowardtheatre.com.

the anthem 901 Wharf St. SW. (202) 888-0020.

Belle and Sebastian. 8 p.m. $46–$76. theanthemdc.com.

THURS, JUNE 21

SongByrd mUSic hoUSe and record cafe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Sheila. 9 p.m. Free. songbyrddc.com.

HIp-HOp SongByrd mUSic hoUSe and record cafe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Le1f. 11 p.m. $18–$20. songbyrddc.com.

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

Shwayze & Cisco: 10th Anniversary Summer Tour. 7 p.m. $25. ustreetmusichall.com.

JAzz BlUeS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Roy Hargrove. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $45–$50. bluesalley.com.

DUSTBOWL REVIVAL

W/ LOWLAND HUM

Wolf traP filene center 1551 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. Barry Manilow. 8 p.m. $45–$125. wolftrap.org.

FRI, JUNE 22

AN EVENING WITH

BRUCE IN THE USA

ROCK Black cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Ted Leo & The Pharmacists. 8 p.m. $25. blackcatdc.com.

SAT, JUNE 23

BIG SAM’S FUNKY NATION

Pearl Street WarehoUSe 33 Pearl Street SW. (202) 380-9620. Kingsley Flood. 8 p.m. $15. pearlstreetwarehouse.com.

W/ BENCOOLEN

SongByrd mUSic hoUSe and record cafe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Sam Evian. 8 p.m. $12–$15. songbyrddc.com.

Union Stage 740 Water St. SW. (877) 987-6487. The Voidz. 10 p.m. $25–$50. unionstage.com.

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CITY LIGHTS: SAtuRDAY

WEEDY RESIStANCE

Don’t miss a chance to visit the world where weeds (but please refer to them as “spontaneous urban plants”) reign. The artists behind The Environmental Performance Agency (EPA): Department of Weedy Affairs at Transformer gallery will take you on a 2.5-hour walking tour of the National Mall to observe how the plants that have been labeled a nuisance “are actively resisting the monoculture lawn maintained by the U.S. National Park Service.” During the walk, tour guides will compare the beautiful weeds, often labeled as invasive and troublesome, to the people that this country has also labeled troublesome throughout its history: immigrants, LGBTQ Americans, African-Americans, women, and others who have risen up. It’s also worth your time to stop by Transformer to see the full exhibition, including the captivating video of artist Andrea Haenggi dancing among weeds in a lot in Brooklyn. The event begins at 2 p.m. at Constitution Avenue and 12th Street NW. Free.

(202) 483-1102. transformerdc.org.

—Alexa Mills

SuNDAY

MONDAY

rock & roll hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

Shamir. 8 p.m. $25–$30. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

9:30 clUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Chromeo. 7 p.m. $38.50. 930.com.

ELECtRONIC FOLK

Black cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Heather Mae. 8 p.m. $20. blackcatdc.com.

JAzz

BlUeS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Roy Hargrove. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $45–$50. bluesalley.com.

ELECtRONIC HIp-HOp

Union Stage 740 Water St. SW. (877) 987-6487.

THEY. 8 p.m. $25–$35. unionstage.com.

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

pOp

dc9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. The Pinkerton Raid. 8 p.m. $12–$14. dcnine.com.

kennedy center millenniUm Stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Davey Yarborough and Esther Williams. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

ROCK

ROCK

Birchmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Three Dog Night. 7:30 p.m. $69.50. birchmere.com. fillmore Silver SPring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. The Tree House School of Music. 11 a.m. $15. fillmoresilverspring.com.

Birchmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Ry Cooder. 7:30 p.m. $110. birchmere.com. dc9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Sons Of An Illustrious Father. 8 p.m. $12. dcnine.com.

Pearl Street WarehoUSe 33 Pearl Street SW. (202) 380-9620. Feufollet. 3:30 p.m. $20–$25. pearlstreetwarehouse.com.

SongByrd mUSic hoUSe and record cafe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. La Luz. 8 p.m. $13–$15. songbyrddc.com.

SongByrd mUSic hoUSe and record cafe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Leaders of the Shift. 8 p.m. Free. songbyrddc.com.

tuESDAY

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

Night Riots. 6:30 p.m. $15. ustreetmusichall.com.

Union Stage 740 Water St. SW. (877) 987-6487. Hot Snakes. 8:30 p.m. $26–$35. unionstage.com.

Wolf traP filene center 1551 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. Roger Daltrey. 8 p.m. $45–$125. wolftrap.org.

ELECtRONIC

9:30 clUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Chromeo. 7 p.m. $38.50. 930.com.

FOLK dc9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Haux. 8 p.m. $12–$14. dcnine.com.

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CITY LIGHTS: SuNDAY

uNItED/DIVIDED 2

In our age of #resistance, it’s not surprising to find that the juried exhibition United/Divided 2 at Photoworks features a whole lot of photographs of protests: throngs taking part in the second Women’s March, participants in anti-gun lie-ins, and Handmaid’s Tale-costumed protesters assembling in the dark in front of the White House. The images, juried by Robert Miller of The Washington Post, also include some more ordinary scenes, like stoic Metro commuters, people relaxing at lunchtime in a park, and a tender moment between a father and a boy, but most echo the era’s hard political edge. Sumaiya Elora Haque photographs indistinct figures at night, lit only by the red and blue of a police car. Willa Friedman photographs a figure using a wheelchair dwarfed by the Jefferson Memorial’s marble columns. And William Edwards documents a tableau in Baltimore after Freddie Gray’s death in police custody featuring two white police officers and two young black girls in a car. The finest images in the exhibition are by Paul Nelson: In a pair of photographs that are grainy almost to the point of solarization, Nelson captures a riveting street dispute in one and the chance meeting of an armed police officer and a robed priest in the Middle East in the other.

The exhibition is on view to July 1 at Photoworks at Glen Echo Park, 7300 MacArthur Blvd., Glen Echo.

Free. (301) 634-2274. glenechophotoworks.org.

—Louis Jacobson

DC JAZZ FESTIVAL AND THE KENNEDY CENTER PRESENT CUBAN JAZZ PIANO LUMINARIES

CHUCHO VALDÉS AND GONZALO RUBALCABA J U N E 1 5 AT 8 P. M . | C O N C E R T H A L L

JAzz Birchmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. David Sanborn. 7:30 p.m. $49.50. birchmere.com.

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

pOp the anthem 901 Wharf St. SW. (202) 888-0020.

Vance Joy. 7:30 p.m. $55–$95. theanthemdc.com.

SongByrd mUSic hoUSe and record cafe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Transviolet. 8 p.m. $10–$12. songbyrddc.com.

Union Stage 740 Water St. SW. (877) 987-6487. JoJo: Leaks, Covers, & Mixtapes. 8 p.m. $35–$50. unionstage.com.

ROCK Black cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Snail Mail. 7:30 p.m. $15. blackcatdc.com.

TICKETS ON SALE NOW! KENNEDY-CENTER.ORG | (202) 467-4600

Tickets also available at the Box Office. Groups call (202) 416-8400.

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Support for Jazz at the Kennedy Center is generously provided by Elizabeth and C. Michael Kojaian.

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rock & roll hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

The Horrors. 8 p.m. $25. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

SongByrd mUSic hoUSe and record cafe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Hedera. 8 p.m. Free. songbyrddc.com.

Wolf traP filene center 1551 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. Roger Daltrey. 8 p.m. $45–$125. wolftrap.org.

WEDNESDAY BLuES

9:30 clUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Ben Harper & Charlie Musselwhite. 7 p.m. $55. 930.com.

ELECtRONIC

SongByrd mUSic hoUSe and record cafe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. The DMV Producer Showcase. 7 p.m. Free. songbyrddc.com.

FOLK

SongByrd mUSic hoUSe and record cafe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. The 9 Songwriter Series.

8 p.m. $12. songbyrddc.com.

JAzz

BlUeS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Marilyn Scott & Her LA All Star Band. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $24. bluesalley.com.

ROCK

Birchmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

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

Black cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Parker Millsap. 7:30 p.m. $15. blackcatdc.com. dc9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Hockey Dad. 8 p.m. $13–$15. dcnine.com.

Union Stage 740 Water St. SW. (877) 987-6487. Pianos Become The Teeth and The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die. 7:30 p.m. $17–$30. unionstage.com.

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OCT OCT

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NOV NOV

12

2

3

MADELEINE PEYROUX UPCOMING SHOWS 6/7

DC JAZZFEST OPENING CEREMONY W/ FREDERIC YONNET

6/8

THE PATRICIA BARBER TRIO

6/9

PHAROAH SANDERS (2 SHOWS)

6/10

THE BAD PLUS

6/11

TIA FULLER W/ THE STRING QUEENS

6/19

RED WANTING BLUE

6/23

GREG LASWELL

6/23

BILLY PRICE IN THE WINE GARDEN

6/24

JAZZMEIA HORN

6/29

AJ GHENT IN THE WINE GARDEN

6/29

WE ARE ONE TRIBUTE X-PERIENCE BAND

6/30

MASTERS OF THE TELECASTER

ERIC ROBERSON

DAR WILLIAMS W/ ANTIGONE RISING 7/13

FRIDAY THE 13TH FUNKDOWN W/ SUPERFLYDISCO IN THE WINE GARDEN

7/14

ANTHONY DAVID

7/15

SYLEENA JOHNSON

7/16

BRAND NUBIAN

7/19

TORTURED SOUL

7/20

PAULA COLE

7/21

RAY WYLIE HUBBARD

7/22

LORI MCKENNA

6 /12

BAYLOR PROJECT

7/1

KEITH BUSEY'S "70'S BEST" SHOW

6/13

HOMAGE TO A MASTER: KETER BETTS FT BEN WILLIAMS

7/5

DANNY BURNS BAND & ÁINE O’DOHERTY

6/14

RAUL MIDON

7/6

6/15

GEOFF TATE’S 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF OPERATION: MINDCRIME

MOUSEY THOMPSON & THE JAMES BROWN EXPERIENCE

7/7

SAIL ON: THE BEACH BOYS TRIBUTE

10/10

ALEX CLAIRE

6 /15

JD WILKES W/ THE LEGENDARY SHACK SHAKERS UNPLUGGED IN THE WINE GARDEN

7/8

AZTEC TWO-STEP

11/4

JD SOUTHER

7/9

KINKY FRIEDMAN

11/27

AN EVENING WITH HOT TUNA

6/16

PIERS FACCINI IN THE WINE GARDEN

7/12

YARN

12/6

JANE LYNCH XMAS SHOW

8/1

GOD STREET WINE

8/4

HAYES CARLL

8/8

THE ALARM

9/28

IRIS DEMENT

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WORLD 3701 Mount Vernon Ave. Alexandria, VA • 703-549-7500

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

Tix @ Ticketmaster.com 800-745-3000

June 7 IN THE MUSIC HALL!

AMADOU & MARIAM 8 KELLY WILLIS & CHRIS KNIGHT 9 CHARLES ROSS’

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

Monsieur Periné. 8 p.m. $25–$55. thehowardtheatre.com.

CITY LIGHTS: MONDAY

tHuRSDAY COuNtRY

Birchmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore with Dead Rock West. 7:30 p.m. $35. birchmere.com.

ELECtRONIC

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

The Magician. 10 p.m. $25–$30. ustreetmusichall.com.

FOLK

dc9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Colouring. 8 p.m. $13–$15. dcnine.com.

RY COODER & His Band Joachim Cooder 12 DAVID SANBORN

11

MATTHEW SWEET tJ 14 DAVE ALVIN & JIMMIE DALE GILMORE

ustin rawick

13

(Backed by The Guilty Ones) w/Dead Rock West

FREDDIE JACKSON 16 PIECES OF A DREAM 15

17 Mike Seeger Commemorative 12th Annual

OLD TIME BANJO FESTIVAL

feat. DOM FLEMONS, CATHY FINK & MARCY MARXER, KEN & BRAD KOLODNER QUARTET with RACHEL EDDIE

GORDON LIGHTFOOT Zane 19 ROBERT EARL KEEN Campbell 18

20

2018 Blues Music Awards Winner!

Pearl Street WarehoUSe 33 Pearl Street SW. (202) 380-9620. Ben Caplan. 8:15 p.m. $12. pearlstreetwarehouse.com.

HIp-HOp

9:30 clUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. WPGC Birthday Bash. 6 p.m. $30–$35. 930.com.

SongByrd mUSic hoUSe and record cafe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. J Scienide. 8 p.m. $10–$30. songbyrddc.com.

JAzz

BlUeS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Lisa Fischer & Grand Baton. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $65–$70. bluesalley.com. rock & roll hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

Angelo Moore & The Brand New Step. 8 p.m. $15. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

Wolf traP filene center 1551 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. Harry Connick Jr. 8 p.m. $42–$95. wolftrap.org.

ROCK

Black cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Banding Together 2018: The Battle of the Law Firm Bands.

6:30 p.m. $20. blackcatdc.com.

WORLD

fillmore Silver SPring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Nacho. 8 p.m. $63. fillmoresilverspring.com.

THE ROBERT CRAY BAND

21 The Knitting Factory Presents

CHAD PRATHER 22& 23 TOWER OF POWER “50th Anniversary!”

JONATHAN BUTLER "Plays Well 26 LERA LYNN With Others" w/John Paul White & Peter Bradley Adams

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SERGIO MENDES 29&30 LYFE JENNINGS July 1 HAL KETCHUM 5 OHIO PLAYERS 6 SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY & THE ASBURY JUKES 7 MAYSA 8 CHERYL WHEELER & JONATHAN EDWARDS 11 ANNA TIJOUX 28

Presents Roja y Negro

POCO & ATLANTA RHYTHM SECTION 13 DONNELL RAWLINGS

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Books

Pete SoUza Arlington Public Library welcomes Pete Souza, Chief Official White House Photographer for President Obama and the Director of the White House Photo Office to discuss Obama: An Intimate Portrait, behind-the-scenes images and stories selected from more than two million photos fill this #1 New York Times bestseller. Kenmore Middle School. 200 South Carlin Springs Road, Arlington. June 12. 7 p.m. Free.

(703) 228-6800. yrSa daley-Ward Author Yrsa Daley-Ward speaks about her second book, The Terrible: A Storyteller’s Memoir, in which she uses lyricism and passionate prose to tell her life story, from being raised in a small town in the North of England to dealing with racism, depression, and abuse. Politics & Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. June 12. 7 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919.

Theater

LA Luz

From the opening notes of Floating Features, the new album by La Luz, it’s obvious that something is different: The Los Angeles band aren’t trying to simply rouse the surf gods anymore, they’re plowing past the sunset into the psych-rock netherworld, to the rim where warhorses like Ty Segall and Thee Oh Sees dwell. La Luz’s ethereal vocal harmonies are still intact, but the music underneath uncoils with fresh counterpoints as drummer Marian Li Pino and bassist Lena Simon trade hustle for muscle, generally ditching the sandy-towel shuffle of 2015’s Segall-produced Weirdo Shrine and 2013’s It’s Alive. The band’s commitment to classic reverb remains, but on tracks such as “Mean Dream,” “My Golden One,” and “The Creature,” it’s exquisitely deployed, almost like a fifth instrument instead of just a texture. These songs will certainly give La Luz a different pace onstage—it’ll be less soundtrack and more cinema, with the familiar freakouts meeting far more moments of hush and expansion. La Luz perform at 8 p.m. at Songbyrd Music House, 2477 18th St. NW. $13–$15. (202) 450-2917. songbyrddc.com.

—Joe Warminsky

time love, full of excitement, confusion and passion.

Signature Theatre. 4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington. To June 10. $40–$84. (703) 820-9771. sigtheatre.org.

acclaimed translator John Murrell. Spooky Action Theater. 1810 16th St. NW. To June 10. $20–$40. (202) 2480301. spookyaction.org.

the inviSiBle hand From Ayad Akhtar, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Disgraced, comes a thriller about an American options trader and Citibank executive, whom a fringe radical group holds hostage in Pakistan. He must use his trading strategies to find a way out in the midst of violence, corruption, and inequality. Olney Theatre Center. 2001 OlneySandy Spring Road, Olney. To June 10. $49–$74. (301) 924-3400. olneytheatre.org.

trayf Directed by Derek Goldman and written by Lindsay Joelle, Trayf traces the life of Zalmy, who lives a double life. By day, he’s a loyal member of the Orthodox Jewish community with his best friend Shmuel but by night, he sneaks away from the community to roller skate, disco dance, and listen to rock and roll. When he befriends a zealous young man who wants to be his student, Zalmy’s two worlds start to collide and he is forced to choose where he belongs. Theater J. 1529 16th St. NW. To June 24. $24–$69. (202) 777-3210. theaterj.org.

the remainS Starring Maulik Pancholy (Weeds, 30 Rock, Star Trek: Discovery), this production centers on Kevin and Theo. Ten years after their wedding, the pair host a dinner for their families and reveal the truth of their seemingly perfect union. Studio Theatre.

1501 14th St. NW. To June 17. $20–$85. (202) 332-3300. studiotheatre.org. the ScottSBoro BoyS In 1931, nine African-American teenagers were taken off a train, falsely accused of a crime, and hastily tried and sentenced to death.

Nominated for 12 Tony Awards and making its D.C. premiere, The Scottsboro Boys transforms an event that gripped the country into a compelling musical.

Signature Theatre. 4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington. To July 1. $40–$89. (703) 820-9771. sigtheatre.org.

camelot This musical based on Arthurian legend is the winner of four Tony Awards. From its stunning score to its story’s legendary Round Table, Camelot is an ode to idealistic leadership that champions the potential of humankind. Sidney Harman Hall. 610 F St. NW. To July 1. $44–$118. (202) 547-1122. shakespearetheatre.org.

Shear madneSS A famed concert pianist who lives above the Shear Madness unisex hair salon dies in a scissor-stabbing murder. Set in modern day Georgetown, this interactive comedy whodunit lets its audience solve the crime. Kennedy Center Theater Lab. 2700 F St. NW. To June 10. $54. 202-467-4600. kennedy-center.org.

girlfriend Todd Almond and Matthew Sweet’s vibrant coming-of-age musical duet makes its D.C. premiere. In 1993 small-town Nebraska, collegebound jock Mike and aimless Will find themselves drawn to each other. What follows is a rush of first-

the Small room at the toP of the StairS The Small Room at the Top of the Stairs centers on Grace, who finds herself irresistibly drawn to a mysterious and forbidden room. From the award-winning French Canadian playwright Carole Fréchette and her

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(See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) hereditary After the death of a family’s matriarch, they begin to uncover dark secrets about their ancestry. Starring Toni Collette, Gabriel Byrne, and Alex

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JoJo is only 27 years old, but just a few years ago, it looked like her musical career might be over.

The singer, born Joanna Levesque, started out with precocious TV performances while still in elementary school, signing a record deal at 12 and topping the Billboard Pop chart at 13 with the wise-beyond-her-years “Leave (Get Out).” Instead of becoming the next big thing in pop-R&B, JoJo spent the next decade locked in legal battles with her record label, unable to release new music. The fight finally ended in 2014, and JoJo returned to the music world in 2016, her impressive voice not just intact but matured, with Mad Love, an R&B album with something for everyone. As a victory lap, she’s hitting the road with her Leaks, Covers, & Mixtapes tour, performing the shoulda-coulda-woulda hits of her lost decade. For longtime fans of the singer, it’s one last look back before she moves forward for good. JoJo performs at 8 p.m. at Union Stage, 740 Water St. SW. $35–$50. (877) 987-6487. unionstage.com.

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UPgrade After a mugging leaves a man in the hospital and his wife dead, he receives an artificial intelligence implant that makes him a killing machine. Starring Logan Marshall-Green, Richard Anastasios, and Rosco Campbell. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information)

hoW to talk to girlS at PartieS When an alien touring the galaxy comes to Earth, she meets a young Londoner with whom she becomes fascinated.

Starring Elle Fanning, Nicole Kidman, and Ruth Wilson. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) ocean’S 8 Sandra Bullock stars as Debbie Ocean, a thief who gets a crew together to attempt a highstakes heist at the Met Gala. Co-starring Cate Blanch-

Won’t yoU Be my neighBor? This documentary chronicles the life and legacy of Fred Rogers, one of the most legendary figures in children’s television.

Starring Joanne Rogers, McColm Cephas Jr., and Francois Scarborough Clemmons. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information)

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Word from this recently almost-dead newspaper: Go see Dan Kennedy speak about his new book, The Return of the Moguls: How Jeff Bezos and John Henry Are Remaking Newspapers for the Twenty-First Century. In the book, Kennedy looks at three major newspapers under new ownership, Aaron Kushner’s Orange County Register, Bezos’ Washington Post, and Henry’s Boston Globe. (Kushner failed so badly, he didn’t even make the title of the book.) Among the many useful observations in the book: The golden age of newspapers that so many long for was an anomaly, and the 1941 movie Citizen Kane is relevant to today’s news landscape. Kennedy's main effort, though, is to examine the newspaper business at a time when wealthy individuals are, in some corners, replacing corporate owners, and to explain how those struggling through the morass to deliver quality news can revive an industry. Dan Kennedy speaks at 6:30 p.m. at the National Press Club, 529 14th St. NW. $5-$10.

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TITANIC: THE UNTOLD STORY

At first, Titanic: The Untold Story might seem like an oxymoronic title for a museum exhibition. Few stories have been told more exhaustively and frequently than that of the Titanic, the big doomed boat that carried Leonardo DiCaprio to his death many years ago. But popular demand keeps the Titanicindustrial complex forever on the lookout for new angles into this intensely familiar tale—and, thus, here we are, with a brand-new Titanic exhibit at the National Geographic Museum. Though the ocean never yields its secrets, the federal government routinely declassifies once-private documents, which is how the curators learned of the link between the 1985 discovery of the famous ship’s wreckage and a hush-hush Cold War mission involving a Naval investigation, a race against the clock, and a man who is described in a video on the National Geographic website as “the Henry Kissinger of oceanographic research.” (It would be funny if this guy turned out to just be Henry Kissinger.) The exhibition also tells the personal stories of some of the ship’s non-DiCaprio passengers, and presents some rare Titanic artifacts, such as Marion Wright Woolcott’s coat. Who was Marion Wright Woolcott? I have no idea, but I look forward to learning her untold story. The exhibition is on view to Jan. 6, 2019 at the National Geographic Museum, 1145 17th St. NW. $15. (202) 857-7700. nationalgeographic.org/dc.

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SAVAGELOVE I’ve been married to my husband for two years.

Five months into our relationship (before we got married), he confessed that he was an adult baby. I was so grossed out, I was literally ill. (Why would this great guy want to be like this?) I told him he would have to choose: diapers or me.

He chose me. I believed him and married him.

Shortly before the birth of our child, I found out that he’d been looking at diaper porn online. I lost it. He apologized and said he’d never look at diaper porn again. Once I was free to have sex again after the birth, it was like he wasn’t into it.

When I asked what the deal was, he told me he wasn’t into sex because diapers weren’t involved.

I broke down, and he agreed to talk to a counselor. But on the day we were supposed to go, he was mad about every little thing I did and then said he wasn’t going! I went crazy and called his mom and told her everything, and she said she found a diaper under his bed when he was 7! After this crisis, he agreed to work things out, but then I found adult-size diapers in the house—and not for the first time! I took a picture and sent it to him, and he told me that he was tired of me controlling him and he is going to do this when he wants. He also said he was mad at me for telling his mom. I told him no, absolutely not, he cannot do this. Then I found adult-size diapers in the house again this morning and freaked out.

He says he never wants to discuss diapers with me again, and I’m afraid he might choose them over me! Please give me advice on how to make him understand that this is not him! This is who he chooses to be! And he doesn’t have to be this way!

—Married A Disgusting Diaper Lover First, MADDL, let’s calmly discuss this with a shrink.

“There’s a fair bit of controversy over whether people can suppress fetishistic desires like this—and whether it’s healthy to ask them to do so,” says Dr. David Ley, a clinical psychologist, author, and American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists-certified sex therapist. “Personally, I believe in some cases, depending on the support of their environment and personal relationships, it is possible, but only when these desires are relatively mild in intensity.”

Your husband’s interest in diapers—which would seem to go all the way back to at least age 7—can’t be described as mild.

“Given the apparent strength and persistence of her husband’s interest, I think it unlikely that suppression could ever be successful,” says Ley. “In this case, I think MADDL’s desire for her husband to have sexual desires she agrees with in order for her to be married to him is a form of sexual extortion, i.e., ‘If you love me and want to be with me, you’ll give up this sexual interest that I find disgusting.’

Without empathy, mutual respect, commu-

nication, unconditional love, and willingness to negotiate and accommodate compromises and win-win solutions, this couple is doomed, regardless of diapers under the bed.”

Now let’s bring in a voice you rarely hear when diaper fetishists are being discussed: an actual diaper fetishist.

“The common misconception with ABDL (adult baby diaper lovers) is that they are into inappropriate things—like having an interest in children—and this couldn’t be more wrong,” says Pup Jackson, a twenty-something diaper lover and kink educator. “AB is not always sexual. Sometimes it’s a way for a person to disconnect from their adult life and become someone else. With DLs, they aren’t necessarily into age play—they enjoy diapers and the way they feel, much like people enjoy rubber, Lycra, or other materials. To understand her husband, MADDL needs to ask questions about why her husband enjoys diapers and figure out how to deal with it—because a lot of people want/need these kinds of outlets in their life.”

If you can’t live with the diaper lover you married— if you can’t accept his kink, allow him to indulge it on his own, and refrain from blowing up when you stumble onto any evidence— do that diaperloving husband of yours a favor and divorce him.

OK, MADDL, now it’s time for me to share my thoughts with you, but—Christ almighty—I hardly know where to begin.

“Great guys” can be into diapers; this is not who your husband “chooses to be,” since people don’t choose their kinks any more than they choose their sexual orientation; outing your husband to his mother was unforgivable and could ultimately prove to be a fatal-to-

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your-marriage violation of trust; a counselor isn’t going to be able to reach into your husband’s head and yank out his kink. (“I absolutely hate that therapists are seen as sexual enforcers who are supposed to carve away any undesirable sexual interests and make people ‘normal,’” says Ley.) You’re clearly not interested in understanding your husband’s kink, per Pup Jackson’s advice, nor are you open to working out an accommodation that allows your husband to explore his kink on his own, per Ley’s advice. Instead you’ve convinced yourself that if you pitch a big enough fit, your husband will choose a spouse who makes him feel terrible about himself over a kink that gives him pleasure. And that’s not how this is going to play out.

Your husband told you he was into diapers before he married you—he laid his kink cards on the table at five months, long before you scrambled your DNA together—and he backed down when you freaked out. He may have thought he could choose you over his kink, MADDL, but now he knows what Ley could’ve told you two before the wedding: Suppressing a kink just isn’t possible. So if you can’t live with the diaper lover you married—if you can’t accept his kink, allow him to indulge it on his own, and refrain from blowing up when you stumble onto any evidence— do that diaper-loving husband of yours a favor and divorce him.

Follow Ley on Twitter @DrDavidLey and Pup Jackson on Twitter @pupjacksonbitez.

—Dan Savage I’m a 33-year-old man, and for years I’ve practiced edging. Recently I’ve experimented with long-term edges, where I’ll withhold coming for days or weeks while still maintaining a daily masturbation practice. I love living on that horny edge, and I’ve even learned to love the ache in my balls. But is this safe? Am I setting myself up for prostate/testicular trouble down the road?

—Priapus Precipice A study conducted by researchers from Boston University School of Public Health and Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health found that men who masturbated at least 21 times per month—masturbated and ejaculated—were at lower risk of developing prostate cancer than men who ejaculated less than 21 times per month (“Ejaculation Frequency and Risk of Prostate Cancer,” European Urology). Read the study, PP, weigh the slightly increased risks against the immediate (and horny) rewards, and make an informed (and horny) choice.

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