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Gut The Lily It’s hard to say what’s worse: that The Post believes there’s a need for “experimental, visually driven” content “designed for millennial women,” or that it has spent the better part of a year or more developing this idea while its Local section becomes more anemic with each passing week.

The are numerous problems with the paper’s forthcoming “product” The Lily, conceived by the paper’s Emerging News Products team (caps theirs) and launching next week to “emphasize platform-specific storytelling, integrating smart content with striking visuals to inform and entertain.”

But let’s focus on this one: how utterly patronizing. Millennial women are somehow so vapid and incurious that The Post needs to “reimagine” its award-winning national reportage with color-by-numbers, Snapchatfriendly aesthetics? Like Highlights magazine for grown fucking people?

Something tells us The Lily will be heavy on Style section content and light on the terrifying national and international news that twenty-something women could not possibly care about. Because, I mean, like, what they really want to know is where Angelina Jolie is getting her sleek, plane-friendly flats, right?

How is it that The Post’s editors are sitting within croissant-throwing distance of multiple reporters who have won Pulitzer Prizes and yet are simultaneously so enamored with The Skimm’s approach to informing readers that they are willing to become national laughingstocks? The paper’s readership—52 percent of whom are women, by the way—will no doubt recognize that they are being condescended to as if they are vacuous, shopping-crazy cyborgs without the slightest interest in reading news like the rest of us.

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DistrictLine Bid Defiance

By Jeffrey Anderson It can be tough trying to advance good government while simultaneously balancing D.C.’s legal interests. And Attorney General Karl Racine’s challenge to do just that is on display in a bid protest recently filed in Superior Court by former D.C. Public Schools food services director-turned-whistleblower Jeff Mills, who has already prevailed in legal actions that the District could have avoided.

In this and other cases—notably that of lottery whistleblower Eric Payne, who prevailed in federal court in November and finally received a settlement deal with the city— Racine’s office has tilted toward the pursuit of legal victory despite inconvenient facts that point to poor public policy. Mills’ protest may be the next albatross around the AG’s neck.

Mills was the hard-charging head of an outsourced program who exposed fraud and poor quality food service by multinational provider Chartwells and a local contractor who became cozy with former Chancellor Kaya Henderson. Predictably, DCPS fired him for speaking out, then had to cough up $450,000 in a wrongful termination lawsuit.

Mills then filed a lawsuit against Chartwells and its partner, Thompson Hospitality Group, that resulted in a $19 million settlement for the District. For his trouble, Mills had to fight with Racine’s office for close to a year over his whistleblower share, in a manner that both surprised and perplexed his lawyer with Phillips & Cohen, a premier whistleblower firm.

If we’re keeping score, that makes Mills 3-0 when he goes to court over matters involving D.C. government. Fortunately, one of his victories actually benefited the District.

Jonathan Demella, mIlls’ lawyer, was in town last Friday for a status hearing on Mills’ bid protest, which he filed in March. The origin of the case is that, as the Chartwells contract was due to expire, DCPS issued a request for proposals on a new multi-year contract. But instead of choosing one provider for the entire school district, DCPS broke up its 100 or so schools into clusters of 10, purportedly to encourage competition, diversify its outsourced

services, and minimize risk. Mills, having prevailed over Racine’s office in his whistleblower fee dispute, invested his own money and formed a food services company called Genuine Foods and bid on the contract.

According to his affidavit in D.C. Superior Court, Mills developed a team that consisted of food industry experts with a combined 35 years of school food service at more than 1,300 urban schools, including former food service directors at four of the largest urban school districts in the country.

In February 2016, Genuine Foods learned it was selected to participate in the taste test phase of the solicitation and met with DCPS a month later to discuss its proposal and provide additional documentation that DCPS had requested. Officials told Mills that they planned to award the contract within the next month. Two days after the designated selection date, Mills wrote to the chief procurement officer, Glorious Bazemore, to inquire about the results. Five weeks passed without a reply, then he asked again. By then, word was out that DCPS was proceeding with SodexoMAGIC, a joint venture involving Earvin “Magic” Johnson, and DC Central Kitchen.

On May 20, 2016, DCPS responded to Mills with a “notice of non-award.” He spent the next couple of weeks pressing Bazemore for a debriefing. On June 7, she rescinded that notice, but as Mills sought an explanation, conflicting accounts circulated. Some said DCPS had executed contracts with Sodexo and DC Central Kitchen and that Genuine Foods was out of the running. Others said no contract had been awarded at all.

Eventually, Bazemore informed Mills that she had rescinded the non-award notice on the advice of Racine’s office—and that no contract had been awarded. At a debriefing, which did not occur until after the D.C. Council approved a Sodexo contract, Bazemore attributed a “neutral score” to the fact that Genuine Foods was a new company still in the process of hiring its management team. When she asked for more information from Genuine Foods, Mills alleges, she failed to give credit after it was provided. When she found merit, such as cost savings, she failed to credit that

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too, he claims. She even disclosed that she had made an initial, undisclosed scoring, but changed it on the advice of Racine’s office.

Genuine Foods filed a bid protest last summer before the District’s Contract Appeals Board and lost, despite both surpassing technical requirements and Sodexo’s failure to meet mandatory requirements, among other procurement law aberrations. In March, Mills appealed in D.C. Superior Court, which will rule on whether the Contract Appeals Board’s decision is “clearly erroneous as a matter of law.”

Racine’s office says it is abiding by its duty to defend the CAB decision. As to how to handle whistleblower cases in general, the office says it is consulting with other government legal agencies to determine whether and how to adjust its policies to reflect best practices. among other thIngs, Mills and Genuine Foods allege that DCPS screwed up the bid scores, engaged in “unequal discussion favoring Sodexo,” and demonstrated an “impermissible bias” toward the multinational behemoth. And internal DCPS communications, not to mention Mills’ successful legal track record, both suggest that Racine has his hands full in defending the way D.C. does business.

A key red flag is that Henderson was censured by the D.C. Board of Ethics and Government Accountability in November for soliciting $100,000 in charitable contributions from Chartwells-Thompson. Internal communications point to a similarly easygoing relationship with Sodexo and Magic Johnson, in which the venture enjoyed an unusual level of access, even during the procurement process.

Henderson met at least twice with Johnson between 2015 and 2016, according to her own Twitter account. The two appear together in photographs at galas. She solicited the same charitable contributions from Sodexo as she did from Chartwells. (Sodexo gave $10,000

donations to Standing Ovation, a Kennedy Center charity ball for DCPS, in both 2013 and 2015.)

Perhaps of greater significance is Henderson’s relationship with SodexoMAGIC’s vice president Antonio Hunter, former director of the Department of Small and Local Business Development under former Mayor Vincent Gray. “Hi Kaya,” Hunter wrote on May 19, 2015, asking if she could spare 10 minutes to talk about the charity ball. “As usual you are knocking the cover off the ball.”

In June, Hunter invited her to The World Affairs Council Gala as Magic Johnson’s guest. “NICE!!!” she replied on June 16, 2015. “So can we get Magic as a presenter for Standing Ovation this year?”

But the emails don’t tell all. When Henderson suggested she connect Hunter with a mutual associate, Hunter replied, “Let’s talk offline.” Later, Hunter arranged for Henderson to meet with Johnson in Pentagon City after a meeting with a group of business executives.

Shortly after that, Hunter had a meeting with Nathaniel Beers, then chief operating officer for DCPS. From July through August, there were pre-solicitation meetings between DCPS and every prospective bidder that requested one except Genuine Foods, according to internal emails and DCPS documents. Hunter even had Sodexo’s pre-solicitation meeting before Mills expressed interest. In December, DCPS posted its RFP. A Dec. 22, 2015 an internal email between Bazemore and Sara Goldband, deputy chief for procurement and administration, confirms that Mills was excluded. Goldband wrote: “Am I understanding correctly that Jeff [Mills] reached out in July, but we did NOT include him in the potential bidder’s list? If so, that would be a truly unfortunate oversight on our part.”

Perhaps the most damaging piece of evidence that Racine’s office will have to contend with is a calendar entry from May 18, 2016, while the procurement process was still underway, that shows Henderson had a conference call with Stephen Dunmore, Sodexo’s CEO of North American schools.

Mills has the burden of proving that DCPS violated the law. Since being rebuffed in D.C., he has landed a contract serving an entire school district in New York City, with others in the works, and has grown his company to 40 employees. One might surmise he is qualified to handle serving food to children in 10 DCPS schools.

For Racine, the task is to consider not just whether he can quash the protest, but whether he wants his office to be in the business of defending Henderson’s growing legacy of impropriety.

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Like you and me, PLEASE, Gallop is not anti-porn. But she’s fighting shitty porn—and the shitty expectations it can instill—with real-life contrast via her innovative #realworldsex site/ platform MakeLoveNotPorn.com.

“It’s a social sex-video-sharing platform designed to be a counterpoint to the porn industry while promoting good sexual values and behavior,” says Gallop. “We need to be able to view great #realworldsex in all its messy, funny, beautiful, silly, wonderful, ridiculous humanness in the same medium that we view porn: online. That’s why MakeLoveNotPorn. com exists. We’re pro-sex, pro-porn, and proknowing the difference.”

Gallop wants not only to balance out porn with socially shared #realworldsex, but to see the porn market flooded with porn made by women—which doesn’t mean porn made “for” women, she points out, but more disruptive, creative porn for everyone. “Seeing more innovative porn—porn that men would find just as hot—would result in everybody having a much bettr time in bed,” says Gal-

Continue with what you’re doing now—your husband sneaking off to have a wank, and you monitoring (and booby-trapping?!?) every bottle of corn oil that comes into the house.

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I’m 28 years old and have been with my boyfriend (also 28) for three years. Our relationship is monogamous and vanilla. I’m a pretty sexual person: I’ve been to bondage clubs and burlesque shows, and I’ve had my fair share of sexual encounters with men and women. I like to dominate and be dominated. However, my boyfriend is non-aggressive, non-dominating, and non-initiating. I ALWAYS have to initiate and I’m ALWAYS in the driver’s seat. I’m tired of this. I enjoy strong masculine energy! I’m a feminist, but sometimes in the bedroom it can be incredibly hot to feel like a sex object. We’ve talked and talked, and tried some light bondage (he didn’t like it), and talked about a threesome (he’s opposed). He says sex just isn’t something he “thinks about a lot.” How do I get him to show some sexual aggression?

—Wants Him Aggressive More

2. Redefine your marriage as companionate— it’s about child-rearing and family life, not about sex. If your husband is free to find fulfillment in the bottle (of corn oil), and you’re free to find fulfillment in the bedroom (of another man/men), maybe you can make it work.

3. Continue with what you’re doing now—your husband sneaking off to have a wank, and you monitoring (and booby-trapping?!?) every bottle of corn oil that comes into the house.

WHAM: Your boyfriend isn’t going to become someone else. He’s not going to suddenly become more interested in sex or more sexually aggressive. So if you don’t want to be sending me a letter like GIC’s in 14 years, end this relationship. People who want healthy, functional, monogamous LTRs—free from booby traps and busts—need to prioritize sexual compatibility at the start. That doesn’t mean things can’t go off the rails later (see the first letter), but they’re less likely to.

—DS I desperately wanted to be GGG in my past relationship. My partner chronically complained that I wasn’t giving him enough sex. I felt so guilty that I put up with some very coercive situations. I became an orgasm dispenser for a dumbass whose beard prickled my clit painfully, who complained my G-spot moved around, and who fell asleep fingering me. I put up with his shit for far too long. It would have been helpful to be told that GGG needs to be MUTUAL and feel good for both parties.

—Sassy Unconquered Babe

My husband of 17 years has never been into sex, which I always knew was a problem, but the other stuff was good. He’s into pornography, though, and I’ve busted him many times. To say I am resentful is an understatement. He uses corn oil for masturbating, and I’ve been reduced to marking the bottle and booby-trapping it to see if he’s been up to his tricks. We have two children, so that’s what keeps me from “pulling the trigger.”

—Gagging In Chicago

GGG—good in bed, giving of pleasure, and game for anything within reason—is what we should be for our partners and our partners should be for us. So it absolutely needs to be mutual, SUB, and there are definitely limits.

“Being GGG means considering a partner’s reasonable sexual requests,” I responded to a reader who asked for a GGG clarification back when we had a brand-new and completely sane president. “Not all sexual requests can be fulfilled, and not all needs can be met. But two people who want to make their relationship work need to carve out a mutually satisfying repertoire that doesn’t leave anyone feeling frustrated or used. Does everyone get everything they want? Of course not. But each of us has a right to ask for our needs to be met (without being abusive or coercive) and the responsibility to indulge our partner’s reasonable requests if we can (without being abused or coerced). We should also recognize when the gulf is too great and end the relationship rather than engaging in sex acts that leave us feeling diminished and dehumanized.”

—DS

GIC: You have three options.

1. Pull the trigger.

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14th Street Cock Tales

Why D.C.’s enduring gay bathhouse Crew Club appeals in the age of Grindr

By Andrew Giambrone A few men wore cock rings, keeping themselves erect. Others took showers and scurried about, like sentinels patrolling their castles or hunters searching for meat in a densely populated wood.

Some moaned, some masturbated. Some hugged and affectionately kissed acquaintances on the cheek. Cozy rooms with doors swung open revealed men lying flat on their stomachs and men touching their nipples. At the very end of a dim corridor, one man performed oral sex on another. In the empty gym downstairs, Anderson Cooper, live on CNN,

presided over unused machines.

As the 14th Street NW corridor has transformed over the past two decades, there has remained a scantily clad constant: towelled-up and naked men roaming the Crew Club with their dicks out.

On a recent Tuesday night, when locker and room prices were half off, the gay men’s health spa teemed with butts and bears—the hairy, human kind. Though most patrons appeared to be older than 40, ages ran the gamut. So did races: There was a clear white majority sprinkled with mostly younger black, Latino, and

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Asian men. Body types ranged from svelte to corpulent.

What these visitors all shared in common was that they were looking to blow off some steam, in more ways than one. Since 1995, the Crew Club has provided gay men a sanctuary to work out, relax, and converse, forming new relationships face-to-face. It’s also allowed them to engage in some wish fulfillment, often of the kinky variety: Sex is a near-guarantee for those who desire it.

“It’s kind of anything you want to make it,” says Maryland resident William, who has frequented the Crew Club since the mid-90s and requested a pseudonym to speak candidly. A 39-year-old who served in the Navy, he adds that “if you want to go in and get a quick fuck or a blowjob, it’s there. If you’re fucked up or tweaked out and don’t want to stay on the streets, you can do what you fancy.” But, William qualifies, “sex is not a requirement; a lot of times you get voyeurs.”

Liquor and smoking are prohibited, but oth-

er indulgences come with the territory. An unspoken rule is that if you maintain prolonged eye contact with someone, you’re eager to see what else they’re equipped with. Staring down at your feet—or tilting your head back and closing your eyes—are likely your best bets for minimizing unwanted attention if you’re just trying to be a fly on the wall. You can enjoy the club’s sauna too, or watch the French Open on the massive TV in the lounge.

Even still, this may not prevent you from being groped while at a urinal, or while turning a corner in the steam room, or while sauntering down darkly lit hallways that are flanked on either side by rooms patrons can rent for as little as $13.50 during late, work-week hours. ($27 is the standard rate.) One-time memberships lasting for six hours cost $13, and lockers typically cost about $20. There are three- and sixmonth memberships as well as recurring special parties (“Cumunion”). Between 65 private rooms and common space, the club can hold nearly 200 people at capacity.

Inside Crew Club

area, where staff can connect patrons with HIV and STI testing. Crew Club owner David Caldwell Allen, who goes by D.C. Allen, has promoted safe-sex campaigns and donated to the District’s major LGBTQ organizations, including Casa Ruby and the D.C. Center in recent years.

Yet from its earliest days, the Crew Club has had to combat stigma, both from within and outside of the gay community. A few weeks after it opened, The Washington Post ran a front-page article under the headline “Gay Social Club in D.C. Raises Health Concerns,” which described tensions between people who saw no harm in a venue that encouraged protected sex and others who felt that it made the HIV/AIDS epidemic riskier.

The Post then published a fiery editorial condemning the club as “nonsense.” “There is plenty of room in this city for new businesses, but not for clubs that are killers,” the paper’s editors wrote. The next month, the Crew Club reached an agreement with the District to ban sex on site. Allen says it has since lapsed. “We enforced it as best we could.”

These days, “because of the internet and people sort of wanting group things, we’re having a bit of a problem keeping it behind closed doors,” the owner says. “But the front door of the club is a closed door also.” That didn’t stop some neighbors from complaining initial-

ly, though Allen adds he “had all sorts of help from unexpected places” to change perceptions about the club. At one community meeting, “a Logan Circle resident said, ‘You should just leave this man alone,’” Allen recounts. “‘We haven’t had men in suits around in ages, and he’s suddenly brought them back.’”

Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs records show the club has a permit to conduct “health spa sales” until 2019 and another to have a “food vending machine” available until 2018. The former coves “facilities for sport, exercise, training, or therapy or rehabilitation.”

Scrutiny from officials and straight residents aside, queer folk haven’t always looked favorably on the Crew Club and its peer establishments. “Gay people still pass judgment if you go there,” William notes. Despite this, bathhouses emerged as havens for gay men to be themselves, shielded from the discrimination and oppression of heterosexual society.

Now, in the age of hook-up apps like Grindr, Tinder, Scruff, and Hornet, the club offers a sense of community rarely experienced on social media, its proponents say. “Trying to hook up on Grindr can be very shady, very bitchy,” William explains. “When you get off Grindr, you can kind of feel horrible, terrible about yourself. What people say on an app is not what they’ll say to your face.”

Allen says the rise of the internet and ondemand sex has had a counterintuitive effect.

“In the past couple of years, we have seen an uptick in business because, basically, I think men are tired of spending hours online,” he says with a chuckle, adding that clubs who are members of the North American Bathhouse Association have reported the same trend. “Some of the clubs have said 5, 6 percent, others have said 10. We’re probably somewhere in between.”

Allen’s establishment has also recently seen more patrons in their twenties and thirties.

Younger guests arrive as bars approach closing time, William observes, and regulars show up earlier in the night.

“Once you’re a customer in the club, I really think we’ve got you,” Allen says, declining to share how many memberships the business tends to see each year.

“The place is clean as a whistle.”

The name is at once a pun on gay “cruising” Darrow Montgomery

Here is a different kind of pay to play than the one people usually think of when considering D.C. For one thing, the spa hosts naked yoga classes three nights a week. “‘What happens at the Crew Club stays at the Crew Club’ is a code,” says William, who has also visited gay bathhouses in Florida, California, Seattle, Philadelphia, New Orleans, and Chicago. Patrons who recognize each other in public may nod their heads or wave but choose not to talk until they return to the privacy of the club. It isn’t unheard of for D.C. VIPs to show up, either. “If you went in there enough, you’ll find someone: someone on city council or in government, a congressman, a state representative, a nice Republican who hates gay people on TV but is sucking cock in the Crew Club,” William says, declining to offer names.

Another code at the club? “If you say you’re not interested, you’re not interested,” William says.

The business has long made an effort to ensure that any sexual activity on its premises is safe. Condoms are available throughout the building, and Whitman-Walker Health— the nearby clinic that built its brand assisting gay men, many of whom lived with HIV/ AIDS or were at the highest risk of contracting the virus and other sexually-transmitted infections—has a regular table in the lounge

and “crew cuts,” Allen notes, and it evokes a D.C. “where a lot of different crews were working.” “It had a nice, clean, fresh feel to it,” he says. “I could have called it the ‘Vulcan Black Hole Club,’ but that doesn’t really reflect who we are.”

Centrally located in Logan Circle, the spa draws men from across the region and out-oftowners. Guests walk in the front door, ring a buzzer to get the attention of workers on the other side of a porthole, display IDs, proceed through another door beyond which they pay (with the chance to buy lube, enemas, or poppers—the latter bottles of solvents that people sniff to get a head rush and relax certain muscles during sex). The club operates around the clock. Allen says “it’s logical as hell” when things get busy: in the middle of the day and after work as well as during big LGBTQ events, like Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend and Capital Pride.

This week, the 61-year-old owner flew up from his part-time home in Wilton Manors, Florida—a longtime gay village—to oversee Pride preparations. “We want to be a credit to our community,” Allen says. “We’re putting in snacks and ordering pizza. Just think of it as a sleepover.”

Other gay bathhouses in D.C. have not withstood the test of time. Many that used to be located near where Nationals Park now stands have shuttered, as have old LGBTQ bars.

“We’ve acted as a social club for 20 years, and we have always put the customers’ money back into the club,” Allen says. He bought the property in 2003 for $2 million and owns it through an LLC with his husband, Ken Flick.

It has another tenant, Asian restaurant Teak Wood, and is now assessed at roughly $4 million with more than 8,000 square feet of prime real estate.

But under a contract brokered in 2016, Allen plans to sell in three years to Douglas Development, which owns the property to the immediate south of the Crew Club, another across the street, and more up 14th. Allen says the club would rent its current space from Douglas, and that he doesn’t intend to step away from the business. He says he may take on a partner or two.

For William, the most memorable times at the Crew Club involved making genuine connections with other men, in contrast with what he sees as the superficiality of hook-up apps and online chatrooms. He recalls talking with an older guy, “a complete stranger,” who’d participated in the Stonewall riots and had become dismayed by the gay community’s “stagnation” in political activism.

“He said we have to step up,” William explains. “We weren’t doing enough. People were starting to forget the lives lost after the [AIDS] cocktail came out. It was really interesting to hear him say that, so I remember that and will always cherish it.” The man died five or six years ago, he says.

Of course, “there were a couple of hot times there,” William adds, shying away from specifics. “Just a good, fun time. It was almost like a dream when it was all said and done. ‘Did that just happen?’”

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Dimitry Meister

A recent Queer Dance Party event

Moving Forward

D.C.’s new queer dance party goes anyplace it thinks the city needs a dose of peace.

By Devan Cole As the sun sets over the White House, beaming tourists in Make America Great Again hats make their way to the gate along the North Lawn to snap photos of the great estate. Some of the wide-eyed tourists turn around to document a different scene—this time snickering and whispering. They take photos of something they hadn’t planned to see: a growing group of LGBTQ dancers and allies wearing rainbow pride flags as capes, pink tutus, striped suspenders, glitter, and high heels.

“I like this and that and this and all of that,” one dancer says as he points at the high-heeled chelsea boots, bright pink glasses, and large hoop earrings on a fellow male dancer who is just arriving.

“Do you want to take a picture with the unicorn?” a tourist asks her daughter as she points to a woman wearing a unicorn horn and holding a sign that reads, “Unicorns are imaginary; climate change is real.”

It’s late April, and many of these dancers had already shimmied for the “Queer Dance Party” outside Mike Pence’s D.C. home in January—and again outside Ivanka Trump’s house earlier in April. A new D.C.-based organization called WERK for Peace, which aims to “use dance to promote peace,” organized all three parties.

Outside the White house this evening, the assembling dancers wait patiently for Tour of #ResisDANCE—a hybrid dance party and

march—to begin. When the group grows to around 50 people, the organization’s primary organizer and dancer-in-chief, Firas Nasr, leads the participants up to the fence to explain the plan.

Nasr, 23, is wearing tight-fitting light denim shorts, a white crop top T-shirt, white sneakers, and rainbow suspenders—a combination that allows him to body roll, twist, and boogie down the streets, unencumbered by typical protest attire. He explains that the group is going to dance and march from the White House to the Trump Hotel, stopping along the way at the EPA, IRS, Department of Justice, FBI, and the Department of Labor buildings for short speeches by other activists and organizers.

But first, Nasr has to teach the group the “resis-dance,” which they’ll do as a group at each stop before hearing the speaker. He then leads the group in a moment of silence for those who have worked in the name of “climate change, women’s rights, immigration, intersectionality as a whole.” Finally, a group photo. “Hopefully, with butts first,” Nasr jokes.

As the group of dancing activists parades down 15th Street NW, past notable office buildings, and up Pennsylvania Avenue, it grows in size. “Off the sidewalks and into the streets,” people shout to onlookers as Lady Gaga’s “Just Dance” blasts out of large speakers on the bed of a pickup truck.

Song after song plays as the crowd of dancers shake their hips and “werk” to pop.

For Nasr, this tour and the previous dance

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parties and parades he helped organize are all about queer and trans visibility, creating a safe space, and centering voices that are constantly pushed to the periphery of movements.

“The underlying narrative here is that we are here, we are queer, and we will dance,” Nasr says. “Congress, from a top-down approach, and laypeople, from a bottom-up approach, need to change their perspectives and policies to allow us to—in a sense—continue dancing.”

Dance is not a random aspect of the organization, but rather a central reason for its existence. Nasr launched the group after the Orlando’s Pulse Nightclub shooting in June 2016, but he is quick to note that, although the tragedy served as the impetus for its launch, the idea behind it existed well before.

“It just clicked for me. Forty-nine individuals were massacred on a dance floor. In a space that has been historically known as a safe space for the queer and trans community. In a space that we consider an intrinsically LGBTQ space,” Nasr says.

“When it happened I was like, ‘OK, we need to take this space into the public sphere. We need to occupy public space and assert that we are here, we will dance.’ We will claim the streets as our own safe space in envisioning a world where that space becomes a safe space for us to be.”

Using dance as a way to be seen, the group has partnered with other organizations and activist groups to take to the streets to address issues they see as important. In June 2016, they hosted a dance party outside of the Capitol with Code Pink, a women-led anti-war organization, to honor the victims of the Pulse Nightclub shooting and to “demand that our government change gun laws and end homophobic policies that continue to oppress LGBTQAI+ individuals.”

WERK for Peace co-hosted the Mike Pence dance party in Chevy Chase with the group

Disrupt J20, and it aimed to send a clear message to the vice president that queer and trans folks were cognizant of his beliefs and policy stances. The party at Ivanka Trump’s home in the Kalorama neighborhood was in response to the Trump administration rolling back EPA regulations and slashing the agency’s funding.

“WERK for Peace is based in a creative, nonviolent strategy,” says Martha Neuman, a former intern at Code Pink, where she was responsible for helping it coordinate “creative direct actions.” Neuman worked with Nasr to hold a “Dance N’ Die-in” on Capitol Hill last September. “We danced and we twerked from congressional building to congressional building,” Neuman says. For her, WERK allows activists to find joy in the struggle. “I think it is significant to have actions that are based in joy and the safe and free expression of our identity,” she says.

Kevin McDonald, a student at George Washington University, says that WERK for Peace’s success is apparent in the media coverage of its dances. “I think that news coverage is a really important way to spread the news about queer resistance and activism,” he says.

McDonald attended the Tour of #ResisDANCE starting outside the White House with a friend from GW. The mood that the dancing provided helped create a sense of solidarity for McDonald, who identifies as gay. “I like being a part of their events,” he says. “I think they’re an inclusive, grassroots organization.”

WERK for Peace, meanwhile, recognizes that not everyone can dance in the streets as a form of protest. Nasr says that one of the group’s main focuses right now is creating ways for people to participate in their parties without putting their lives on the line.

Carla Aronsohn, a volunteer organizer with WERK for Peace, has helped Nasr plan every dance party since the one at Pence’s home. “All change is going to take a diversity of tactics,” she says. “It’s really exciting to see people with varying levels of outness or ability wanting to get involved. I’m excited to expand it to more spaces and people.”

She suggests that activists around the country throw queer dance parties in their cities and wants to offer her expertise to anyone who is interested in doing so. “It would be beautiful to see a growing movement of disruption that involves music and dancing,” she says.

Activists interested in throwing their own dance protests shouldn’t be worried if they’re not professional dancers—neither is Nasr.

“I’m primarily an activist, but I love to dance,” Nasr says. “I think movement is a universal language that we all can tap into to promote change and transformation.”

At a time when protests and movements have once again become a part of the national consciousness, the type of work that WERK for Peace is doing can raise eyebrows and turn heads. And for Nasr, this attention is as important to a movement as the bodies it requires to exist.

“We know that the body is ascribed with the social and political,” he says. “So when we use body language, quite literally, we are moving a movement forward.”

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A local study on wellness for queer young people finds many still struggle with being understood.

By Alexa Mills LGBtQ youth don’t want their parents and doctors to slap metaphorical “risk” stickers on their foreheads when they disclose their sexuality. And coming out of the closet remains a big deal for many.

Queer American youth have an easier path than their predecessors did in many respects—coming of age after HIV became a manageable condition, with gender transitions a common topic in mainstream media, and with the legality of gay marriage. But shifts in national policy and dialogue have not reached every home’s kitchen or doctor’s office, and even those adults who have embraced the changes sometimes say things that leave their teens feeling like high-risk sex accidents waiting to happen.

These are some key findings in a recent D.C.-based study on health and wellness for LGBTQ youth conducted at Whitman-Walker Health, the stalwart D.C. clinic. Jennafer Kwait, who serves as Whitman-Walker’s LGBT research manager, designed and implemented the study with a grant from Washington AIDS Partnership.

Its goal was to find out what wellness means for queer young people. It consisted of five focus groups in which people between the ages of 16 and 24 could share their thoughts and experiences. The 44 who participated offered geographic variety, as some were District natives while others were in D.C. for college, an internship, or to start their careers.

“Sometimes the younger participants were still telling me things in story form—they were living it,” says Kwait. “It was current, it was present. Whereas participants who were older were able to reflect back and look at the significance, and they weren’t necessarily living the moment anymore.”

One participant recalled receiving immediate and loving parental support after coming out, only to hear them express anxiety about the risk of HIV. “There are parents who are my age and grew up in the thick of it, and that’s what comes to mind,” says Kwait.

“So it comes from a place of caring, but at the same time it says, ‘Now all you are is just sex.’” Some teens share their sexuality well before they start having sex with anyone.

Young women in the groups talked about doctors who kept asking if they were pregnant or at risk of pregnancy upon learning that they were sexually active. But when these young women told their doctors they were having sex, they didn’t mean the straight variety.

And several participants felt they’d been

labeled with a higher risk for mental health issues because of their sexual identities.

The solution? Start with open-ended questions. “A parent could ask: Is there anything you’re concerned about? What else do you want to tell me about?” says Bianca Palmisano, whose group, Intimate Health Consulting, works with people employed in the helping professions to grow their sexual health competency. For doctors, she recommends: “‘Can you tell me about any relationships you’re in right now?’ as opposed to, ‘Do you have a boyfriend?’ or ‘Who are you having sex with— men, women, or both?’”

Palmisano heard about the focus groups shortly before they began, and she contacted Kwait to let her know about her expertise. At 24 she was on the older end of the age range, but she was interested in both participating in and spreading the word about the focus groups. She ultimately joined the first group (information she chose to disclose, as

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tation, with a blank space after that last category. One write-in answer that appeared several times was pansexual, which means not limiting sexual choice to any particular gender.

At least one participant identified as asexual and felt isolated in our hyper-sexual culture.

“Same-gender-loving,” a term activist Cleo Manago coined for the African-American gay community in the 1990s, has aged well. People of different races and identities sometimes use it. “That term is also transfriendly,” says Whitman-Walker’s external affairs manager Jewel Addy. “It’s just a more modern way to talk about your sexuality in relation to gender.”

Kwait says some participants used their lunch cards (which they got for participating, along with a $5 transportation card) to eat out together after the sessions ended. No wonder.

“In no group did it not come up that having supportive friendships and supportive peers, and being able to be with other young people who are like me, who get it, was incredibly important to their well-being,” she says.

Though the study is complete, a next step is underway: forming a youth advisory board at Whitman-Walker that will develop two “toolkits,” one for parents and caregivers looking for tips on how to talk to their LGBTQ cubs, and another for the youth, so they’ll know how to advocate for themselves at the doctor’s office. Kwait is hiring six young people to help complete that work.

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Stephanie Rudig

Friends Like Me

Whitman-Walker will not disclose the names of anyone who participated in the study) and also helped reach queer people in the city to encourage them to participate.

As the research process unfolded, it emerged that the groups appeared to be a boon for participants. “It served the purpose for young people who were more disconnected from others—who had similar identities, or similar experiences of bias or stigma or not being able to be their authentic selves—to have a place to share and to talk about things that they typically don’t talk about, and to have an adult in the room saying, ‘You’re the expert. Not only do we embrace who you are, but you’re the expert on your experience, and share it, and it’s valid.’”

One participant told the group that they weren’t really out of the closet; it was the first time they’d ever discussed these matters.

Palmisano, on the other end of this particular spectrum, came out to her family at 15.

At the beginning of each session, Kwait handed out a demographics sheet she’d worked on for hours. Writing a list of sexuality options for young people in 2017 isn’t a straightforward task. Among the questions: “How do you think of yourself in terms of your sexual orientation?”

The four options were: Gay/lesbian/ same-gender-loving/homosexual; Bisexual; Straight/not lesbian, gay, bisexual/heterosexual; and Another self-identified sexual orien-

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Fed up with Capital Pride’s corporate, bourgeois ways, queer and trans activists are throwing their own alternative to the annual celebration.

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Stephanie Rudig

Pride and Prejudices

Capital pride is one of the biggest parties of the year in D.C. But since Donald Trump took office and appointed his merry band of homophobes and racists to help run the country, a balls-to-the-wall LGBTQ “celebration” doesn’t quite feel appropriate. The rights of many gay, queer, and trans people—especially people of color—are on the line in a way they haven’t been for some time.

Or perhaps the political shift is reason to party even harder this year, to show the administration that its attempts to silence and belittle the LGBTQ community will not be tolerated. “Unapologetically Proud!” is the official tagline of this year’s Capital Pride celebrations.

Either way, throwing a party as massive as Capital Pride takes a lot of, well, capital. D.C. hosts one of the largest Pride celebrations in the country, whose concert this year is being headlined by the likes of Miley Cyrus, Tinashe, and The Pointer Sisters.

As such, Capital Pride Alliance—the nonprofit organization that produces the Pride parade, festival, and concert—relies heavily on sponsors to bankroll it all.

But for a sizable contingent of the city’s LGBTQ community, these sponsors—which include Hilton Hotels, Capital One, Wells Fargo, McDonald’s, Nissan, Starbucks, Citibank, TD Bank, and dozens more—represent hypocrisy, given the celebration’s message of inclusivity.

“I kind of see this as collusion with banks who are kicking us out of our homes, with defense contractors who are profiting off of the killings and murders of brown, queer, and trans people, as well as other people in the Middle East,” says Emmelia Augusta Talarico, one of the organizers of No Justice No Pride, a day of resistance and action being planned as an alternative to this year’s June 10 Capital Pride Festival.

No Justice No Pride, as it says in its mission statement, “exist[s] to end the LGBT movement’s collusion with systems of oppression that further marginalize queer and trans individuals. Capital Pride sponsors harm our communities, locally, nationally, and globally.”

For Talarico and the rest of the No Justice No Pride organizers and supporters, Capital Pride—which originally started as a celebration commemorating the Stonewall riots of 1969, a pivotal moment in the gay liberation movement—has lost sight of what it should be all about.

“To me, the pinkwashing, the queerwashing, the whitewashing is really upsetting,” Talarico says. “[They’re] essentially celebrating the fact that more cis gay and lesbian activists of a certain social economics are able to live fully, while there’s plenty of others in the community who are still very much impacted and very much struggling for their own rights.”

At a Capital Pride Alliance open meeting last month, No Justice No Pride organizers and supporters voiced their concerns to Capital Alliance’s board of directors during a heated exchange. Washington Blade colum-

nist Mark Lee described the town hall-style meeting in a column, writing that he “was disheartened and dismayed … by the embarrassing demeanor and preposterous demands of a small gaggle of objectors” who were “hurling accusatory admonitions toward anyone not in agreement.”

Cathy Renna, a longtime LGBTQ activist and communications consultant working with Capital Pride, says that while the May 8 meeting had its acrimonious moments, it was a nonetheless productive exchange.

“I think at the end of the day what everybody in that room would have nodded in agreement about, hopefully, is that we all want the same thing and that there might be different roads to get to the same place,” Renna says. “The progressive movement is grappling with, ‘How do we sustain organizations that need resources and maintain integrity working with corporations, in particular organizations and donors even, who may or may not be completely consistent across the intersections within our community?’ That’s the great challenge.”

But it’s not just Capital Pride’s corporate sponsors with which No Justice No Pride takes issue. It’s also the presence of the Metropolitan Police Department at the annual parade.

“The fact that MPD … engage in police brutality without any accountability … it’s all frankly offensive,” Talarico says.

Renna says the Pride board and staff have had intense discussions about this issue for months, especially after the May 8 meeting.

She says that an event as massive as Capital Pride is impossible to pull off without a police presence, but they’ve talked about ways to make MPD presence as non-threatening as possible. “[We’ve] even talked to the LGBT [police] contingent, which marches in the parade, about maybe not wearing their uniforms, but polo shirts instead,” Renna says. “It is a really tough issue, but I think the idea of having absolutely no police presence is not realistic or feasible.”

She says that, especially during this fraught political climate, Capital Pride knew it needed to emphasize the intersectionality of D.C.’s LGBTQ community. As a result, the first banner in the parade “is going to be unapologetically queer and trans,” Renna says. “I think that shows intent on the part of, not just the board, but the staff and volunteers and people in the community who get it.”

Talarico thinks the Capital Pride Alliance board can do more to make their annual Pride celebration more inclusive. She says that the planning of No Justice No Pride is being led mostly by trans and queer women of color, a stark antithesis to the Capital Pride Alliance’s mostly cis and white board of directors.

“I don’t think our process is perfect,” she says. “I don’t think there is going to be a perfect process out there. But if Capital Pride is serious about listening to our concerns, maybe that’s a model to look at.”

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D.C. gains two new beer destinations Friday.

Franklin Hall will start pouring pints and serving sausages inside the Manhattan Laundry building off 14th Street NW, and the Canteen beer garden is back, this time setting up shop in Shaw for the summer at 9th and U Streets NW.

A Dream-Filled Second Act A former politician finds his sweet spot by opening Sugar Shack Donuts, the latest in Shaw.

By Justin Weber Rob KRupicKa neveR considered himself a doughnut guy. “That’s the big irony of it all,” he says. But now the former Alexandria city councilman and Democratic member of the Virginia House of Delegates is opening a Sugar Shack in Shaw early this summer, his third, to complement his existing stores in Alexandria and Arlington, Virginia.

It’s the drive to make the most of life—not a passion for the confection itself—that motivates a successful and respected local politician to open not one, but three doughnut shops.

“My career has always been moving toward, ‘How do I maximize happiness?’”

Krupicka says. “For myself, for my family, and for the people around me. We all get to a place sometimes where we work too hard. We figure fun will come at some point later, and my view is, why should you have to wait?”

With his wife and daughters, Krupicka lives in the Del Ray neighborhood of Alexandria, where one of his shops is located. There you can browse the doughnut selection, which features everything from basic glazed to mud pot—a chocolate glazed doughnut with crumbled Oreos and gummy worms.

Krupicka arrives for work relaxed in a hoodie and flip flops. He has a 5 o’clock shadow, a departure from his clean-shaven days in office, and greets every customer because his desire to listen and engage is something he has carried over from the political realm.

“He never hid from residents and the constituents who elected him,” says Justin Wilson, the current vice mayor of Alexandria who worked on Krupicka’s first city council campaign in 2003 and later served on the council with Krupicka. “He constantly engaged with them, responded to emails, talked to them.”

Krupicka is a keen observer of happiness, especially the reactions of his youngest customers as they nibble away on his confections. “Sometimes they go from the side and they work their way in and they literally go around it like a squirrel or something,” he

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says. “There’s the other ones who eat the top off first. And then there’s the other ones who start at the bottom, and that’s very rare.”

When a staffer brought Sugar Shack doughnuts to their office in Richmond three-and-ahalf years ago, it was only natural for Krupicka to learn more about the sweets that had people from both sides of the aisle lining up for a taste in the state capital.

“I visited [Sugar Shack] for a while,” Krupicka says. “You’d see people coming in with their kids and you’d see grandmas and you’d see construction workers and firefighters and everything else. And everyone left with a smile on their face. There aren’t many businesses that make most of their customers that happy.”

Krupicka suggested Sugar Shack open a store in Northern Virginia, but Ian Kelley, the founder of the original store in Richmond, told him he was too busy and that Krupicka should do it.

“He’s very much an ideas guy who can turn them into action,” Wilson says. “When he originally told me, ‘Hey I’m gonna open a doughnut shop’ I was like ‘Are you sure?

You’re a little crazy.’ I’ll admit I was a little skeptical, but he’s done it.”

Three months after opening his first store in January 2015, Krupicka announced he wouldn’t run for re-election to the House of Delegates. “I thought I could do politics and doughnuts at the same time, and then I realized that running a small business is actually a

lot more work than I thought,” Krupicka says.

“Rob did what a lot of people in politics dream about doing, which is he left on his own accord and he left with people wanting him to stay,” Wilson says.

Krupicka championed several issues, including education, mental health, and public transit. Then-Governor Tim Kaine appointed him to the state board of education from 2009-2012. He was nominated to serve on the board of the Virginia chapter of the National Association of Mental Illness. And he and Wilson revived the Potomac Yard Metro station project.

As a true public servant, he continues to find ways to use his business and time to advocate for his community. For example, Sug-

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DCFEED ar Shack will deliver about 2,000 doughnuts to participants of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention’s Out of the Darkness Overnight Walk in D.C. on June 17.

He’s also hired five graduates of Together We Bake, a local job training and personal development program for women in need of starting over, to be a part of his initial staff at his first store in Alexandria.

“I like being able to give jobs to people who need a second chance,” Krupicka says. “I think more businesses should do it. There is an assumption that you’re signing up for more work and management oversight than you want to do and, in my experience, that’s not true.”

Stephanie Wright, co-founder of Together We Bake, agrees. “If [businesses] take a chance and really get to know somebody, even just through the interview process, I think they’ll be very impressed with the incredible resiliency, strength, and really incredible work ethic that comes along with having been in difficult situations,” she says.

“Rob’s done a great job of creating that feel-

shops and bars.

“Art does not mean inaccessible. We want the cocktails and food to be unlike anything you’ve had, but we also want them to appeal to a broad range of people,” Krupicka says.

Once the Shaw shop is in full swing, Krupicka will turn his focus to expansion, but his experience as a small business owner has shifted his policy perspective.

“I think politicians in general—both parties—have a complete lack of understanding of what it takes to run a small business,” he says, “The marketplace and the way we set up our laws really advantage a Starbucks and not the small guy.”

Krupicka says the permitting process in D.C. took six months compared to the one month it took in Alexandria. “Government can be so cumbersome. The big guys can muscle through it with money,” he says. Despite that, Krupicka has a deep love for the District, calling it beautiful and even comparing it to Paris.

“At the end of the day, we usually have doughnuts left over, so I’ll grab boxes and go

“You’d see people coming in with their kids and you’d see grandmas and you’d see construction workers and firefighters and everything else.

And everyone left with a smile on their face. There aren’t many businesses that make most of their customers that happy.” ing of ‘this is part of our community.’”

To serve the Shaw community and provide a fresh nightlife option, the new Sugar Shack (1932 9th St. NW) will experiment with latenight hours and sidewalk service through its front windows. It has a 17-seat cocktail bar, Nocturne, beneath it, much like Captain Gregory’s, the speakeasy-like bar and restaurant that accompanies the Alexandria Sugar Shack.

“My dream is after shows end at the 9:30 Club, the bands all wanna come over and hang out in my bar downstairs,” Krupicka says.

Captain Gregory’s Executive Chef Brandon McDermott and beverage director Sam Brooks are working to make Nocturne a unique experience featuring “tapas-style” cocktail flights and creative bar fare. Krupicka says that he takes an “artist’s approach” to his

to bars and just drop them off and talk to people,” he says. “You meet people from all over the world.”

“If I were to knock D.C. at all, I’d say we work a little too hard and we don’t have enough fun,” he continues. “There’s not enough smiles in D.C. I’m not suggesting that I think it’s my mission to fix that, but I think we can help a little bit,” he says.

As for Krupicka, is he happy?

“I can honestly say, since I started this business, there hasn’t been a day I haven’t had fun. There’s been days where it’s been hard. Really hard. Small businesses have hard days, but I haven’t had a day that hasn’t been fun.”

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what we ate this week: Squid ink-battered live soft shell crab tempura, $15.95, Sushi Taro. Satisfaction level: 5 out of 5. what we’ll eat next week: Pork, morcilla, chickpea, and spinach paella, $36, Mola. Excitement level: 4 out of 5.

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I gave my co-worker Matt Cohen several shots of Bulleit Bourbon. Then I kidnapped him.

Blindfolded him. And threw him in my car. The mission? Find out if jumbo slice preferences are impacted by sobriety. We drove to four purveyors of the oversized cheesy triangles, and Cohen ranked them on the fly from one (worst) to five (best), complete with tasting notes about the cheese, sauce, and crust. Three days later he tried them sober (but still blindfolded) and ranked them once again.

Cohen says a good jumbo slice should have solid dough. “I don’t want to feel like I’m eating cardboard,” he says. “A good balance of cheese and sauce is important. And flavor. Flavor is the most important thing.”

The results show Duccini’s as your ride-or-die when drunk and Pizza Mart as your pal when you’re stone-cold sober.

—Laura Hayes and Matt Cohen

Tipsy Taste Test

Sober Taste Test

First place: Duccini’s Pizza (1778 U St. NW) Score: 5 Price: $6 “Oh man, that sauce. Really good sauce. Mmm. Good crunchy crust.

Doughy but not too raw. Cheese is good. I just only want to eat this jumbo slice. Try it. That’s a damn good jumbo slice right there.”

First place: Pizza Mart Score: 4.5 Combined score: 8.5 “Mmm that’s a better slice. It has a good amount of cheese. It’s got a lot of herbs and seasoning in the sauce.”

Second place: Pizza Mart (2445 18th St. NW) Score: 4 Price: $5.50 “Mmmmm. That’s a hot but good pizza. Good dough. The dough is thick enough that it doesn’t just feel like I’m sopping up cheese.

The cheese tastes good and not like canned. The sauce is plentiful but not flavorful.”

Second place: Bestolli/Pizza Boli’s Score: 3.5 Combined score: 6.5 “This is good. Again, sauce isn’t that flavorful. Good cheese. It tastes like a very generic slice of pizza. There’s nothing special about it.”

Third place: Bestolli/Pizza Boli’s (2455 18th St. NW) Score: 3 Price: $5.50 “I like the cheese. Not a lot of sauce. Consistency of the dough is good, though it’s a little too thin for my liking. It has a really good texture, but it’s flavorless. The crust is mediocre. In fact, the sauce is pretty bullshit on this.”

Fourth place: Jumbo Pizza (1344 U St. NW) Score: 2.5 Price: $6 “The crust is solid. I’d give the crust a four, but the sauce and cheese tastes kind of like plastic.”

HangoverHelper The Dish: The Doffle Where to Get It: B Too, 1324 14th St. NW Price: $3.25 What It Is: The dish has an almost cult-like following around D.C., and it’s one of the biggest returns on investment for a hangover—just $3.25 for a sweet and satisfying pastry.

The dish is part glazed doughnut and part waffle, and it’s sure to fill you up even when your

Tim Ebner

Person: Jamaal “Scoop” Lemon, Tap Room Guide Hometown: Charleston, South Carolina

Taste: Brilliantly bright with more bubbles than the car wash, this highly carbonated golden lager is as quaffable as it is refreshing. At 4.7 percent ABV, the lager— which takes its name from the address of Nationals Park—is the perfect toast to the home team when you want beer for nine innings.

Story: In 2016, Lemon and his childhood friend Myron “Shep” Jenkins became “Drink it Interns” for World of Beer, a beer-focused chain in 22 states. The gig had them traveling the world to breweries with historical gravitas. They swilled pils at Pilsner Urquell in the Czech Republic and lifted lagers at Andechs Abbey in Germany.

Fourth place: Duccini’s Pizza Score: 2.5 Combined score: 7.5 “I am not a big fan of this pizza. The cheese tastes like plastic. It doesn’t have a lot of sauce. It tastes like storebought, almost. It doesn’t taste fresh, and the sauce is too salty.”

How it Tastes: Skip the stale Dunkin’ Donuts because the Doffle is fresh, warm, and airy. Also, eat your heart out Krispy Kreme because the Doffle is twice the size of your puny donuts.

Beer: The 1500 South Cap Lager, Atlas Brew Works

Price: $6.60 per 16 oz.

Third place: Jumbo Pizza Score: 3 Combined score: 5.5 “Really cheesy, light on the sauce (like me today). The crust is kind of dry and stale.”

stomach is doing somersaults. For the truly hungover, go for the Doffle Bomb—a donut waffle sandwich with layers of vanilla ice cream, topped with chocolate syrup, rainbow sprinkles, and chocolate pearls.

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Any Way You Slice It

What’s in

The number one thing Lemon and Jenkins noticed while globetrotting is that women held leadership positions. So when the internship program was over, they looked to “do some good, make some change,” and Scoop and Shep’s podcast featuring women in beer was born.

The first three episodes of Help the Pour feature Kathy Rizzo, executive director of the DC Brewers’ Guild; Liz Murphy, columnist for the Capital Gazette; and writer Raegan Mathis.

The best thing about this hybrid pastry served straight off the waffle iron is the many nooks and crannies, which serve as catch basins for extra helpings of sugary glaze and rainbow sprinkles.

Why It Helps: Sometimes a sugar rush is all you need to get through your day.

That’s especially true when you need something sweet after last night’s haze. Lucky for you, this two-becomesone dish is made with all the TLC of both a donut and a waffle. And the best part is the Doffle is available around the clock. Find it on B Too’s brunch, lunch, and dinner menus for all your hangover needs.

—Tim Ebner

“I don’t care what size business you’re running—startup or large corporation—if you don’t have any women in a position of leadership, you won’t have a business for long,” Lemon says.

He continues his passion for beer discovery at Atlas Brew Works where he or his boss Rachel Murray can pour you a pint.

Where to try it: Atlas Brew Works; (202) 832-0420; 2052 West Virginia Ave NE, No. 102; atlasbrewworks.com -Michael Stein

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Bustin’ Moves Shortly after 9 a.m. on a dank spring Saturday, in the brightly lit basketball court of the Glenarden Community Center, the women of Go-Go Fitness are working a move known as “the Little Benny.”

Go-Go Fitness is a dance workout set to popular go-go songs, and at this particular moment, speakers flanking the elevated stage are blasting Rare Essence’s “Rock This Party Feat. Killa Cal.” Everyone is doing the step named after go-go icon Anthony “Little Benny” Harley, a coordinated movement that instructor Danette “Dani” Tucker later describes as “a straight crankin’ move—two-step knee-up WOOP to the right, then same to the left and a rock, rock dip in the hips.”

Tucker and her partner, Erica Berry Wilson, launched GoGo Fitness during the winter of 2012. The first class, at Heat Haven on Good Hope Road SE, consisted of Tucker and her scheduler along with a total of six students. “By the second week we had 15,” says Tucker. ‘And by the third week, we were sold out and looking for a larger space.”

These days, Go-Go Fitness offers 10 to 15 classes per week throughout the DMV, with most classes in Prince George’s County. Go-Go Fitness has also traveled, with classes in Fayetteville, Miami, Seattle, and Puerto Rico. They’ve released three exercise-at-home DVDs. And this year, on its fifth anniversary, Go-Go Fitness was honored with a D.C. City Council resolution.

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tucker, 47, grew up in Southeast Washington, steeped in go-go culture. “We’re a three-generation go-go family—my dad and his brothers, and then me and my kids,” she says. As a child, she studied at Bernice Hammond’s Northeast Academy of Dance. Years later, dance fitness proved to be Tucker’s preferred workout, from ’80s Jazzercise all the way up to ’90sand-beyond Zumba. For a while she taught Zumba.“The problem was, there was never any go-go music in those classes,” she says.

Most everyone Tucker knew preferred to work out to go-go.

“If a go-go head was working out, 10 times out of 10 they would be listening to go-go music,” she says.

As Tucker developed Go-Go Fitness, her inspiration always went back to go-go founder Chuck Brown. “Chuck made the music go on and on. That beat would just keep going, just like in Africa, and we would just keep dancing, old and young, men and women, children—everybody. He would call out and we would respond. That’s go-go,” she says.

“I didn’t do anything but take Chuck’s original formula

and put it to dance fitness,” Tucker continues.

“That’s what has made us popular. Our students don’t think they’re coming to class. They think they’re coming to the go-go, just like when they were teenagers. They get their crews together… and ‘where the go-go at?’”

Many Go-Go Fitness regulars are past the stage in life when they’re good to hit the clubs for late-night shows. “We’re giving them the opportunity to go to a go-go—not at 1 a.m., not for four hours, ’cause we can’t do that no more,” says Tucker.

In a throwback to the historic Washington Coliseum holiday shows, Tucker occasionally schedules a two-hour holiday “Crankfest” celebrating specific go-go artists. The first, honoring Little Benny, was on Memorial Day 2013, at the Panorama Room in Southeast and drew 459 people. The following year, Team Familiar’s Donnell Floyd attended GGF’s July 4th celebra-

Photo courtesy of Go-Go Fitness

By Alona Wartofsky

Photo courtesy of Go-Go Fitness

A homegrown fitness class might be go-go’s most enduring legacy.

tion of his contributions to go-go. “They played all my music, and it was a great feeling to see that many people jubilantly exercising to music that I put together,” says Floyd.

Floyd’s wife, Jennifer Floyd, is training to become a GGF instructor, and Donnell couldn’t be happier about it. “People excited about go-go music and using it for a positive thing—not

just losing weight, but staying healthy—that’s just great,” he says. “I think the go-go beat is the greatest beat in the world.

The energy that’s inside the beat, to me it’s incredible, so this application makes absolute perfect sense. I wish that I had thought of it.”

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CPArts ness—by actually taking the classes. “What caught my interest was the beat that they was working out to,” says Trouble Funk’s “Big” Tony Fisher, who as a GGF regular, lost nearly 40 pounds before his kidney transplant last year.

“I’d be lyin’ if I didn’t say it wasn’t hard work, but the way Dani do it, it’s fun, Fisher says. “If you love go-go music, you don’t look at it as work, or even working out. You almost look at it like it’s dancing.”

Nearly every ggf class features a Junkyard Band medley, some Little Benny & The Masters, Rare Essence, Hucka-Bucks, Backyard Band, Experience Unlimited, and Chuck Brown. Tucker also draws on classic go-go dances, and there’s a Beat Your Feet segment set to T.O.B.’s “Know Meee.” Every class also features “Michelle Obama time”—for arms and shoulders, of course.

Fisher points to Tucker’s inventive recasting of the Trouble Funk hit “Let’s Get Small” as an example of her creativity.

“She’ll take that song, and create a workout around it, and give it a whole different meaning,” he says. “I really think Go-Go Fitness is just another positive outlet for go-go, and it’s something that has potential to go all around the world.”

To be sure, there’s more go-go in Go-Go Fitness than its soundtrack. In go-go, the bands’ lead talkers provide the genre’s essential sense of community by leading call-and-response chants and by spotlighting various folks in the audience.

Because there are several instructors for each GGF class, Tucker is free to work the room as a lead talker.

Sure, she calls out the usual fitness “single-single-double” di-

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rectives, but there are also distinctly go-go styled shout-outs, including “We got Upper Marlboro in the house, y’all” and “Go ’head! I see you!” On a recent Saturday, she admonished the class—“y’all better wake up”—but also made them laugh: “Gogo songs all long,” she said, “but we ain’t tryin’ to kill you.”

Tucker addresses the class as “go-go family,” and there are plenty of opportunities for the family to talk back. “Danette has taken go-go’s call and response and used that to get the class involved,” says Wilson, who serves as Go-Go Fitness’ Chief Operating Officer. “In go-go, you want to hear from the people you’re partying with, and in this case, you want to hear from the people you’re exercising with.”

For Big Tony, Tucker is more than just a lead talker. “I call her my go-go motivator,” he says. “Dani is like a lead talker, hype person and the coach, all wrapped together. She knows how to bring out the best in you. I would leave that place sometimes soaking wet, and she’d be sayin, ‘You alright, Big T?’ “One of the reasons I feel that Go-Go Fitness is so important is that I think that we, as blacks in particular, we really don’t have a healthy diet and a lot of us don’t exercise the way we should,” continues Big Tony. “I think Dani found a wonderful strategy to get more of us into exercise without making it feel like exercise, and that gives go-go a positive look.”

Tucker’s role as lead talker is just one of the ways that the classes echoes the community feel of go-go shows. Go-Go Fitness’ no-judgement zone attracts a wide range of fitness levels—big women in baggy sweats and lithe women in tight spandex, and some big women in tight spandex, too. Some regulars come with their mothers and daughters, too. On a recent Sat-

urday, one woman clutched an inhaler for the duration of the class. When another woman couldn’t continue, Tucker chatted with her until she was ready to go again.

“It doesn’t matter what size you are in here,” says Tanya Beverly, 54, of Forestville. “Since I started, I’ve lost 56 pounds.”

Beverly grew up in Southeast, and back in the day she used to enjoy free go-go shows in the parks. “I grew up with Chuck.

I still love all Chuck’s music,” she says. “Now I can dance to Chuck Brown here.”

Even before Brown’s death in 2012, local media has occasionally questioned the longevity of the music he created. While it’s true that many go-go bands don’t play as often as they once did, and that too many local venues and radio stations don’t adequately support the music, adaptability has always been a crucial aspect of go-go culture. Go-go-driven gospel animates many local church services on Sunday mornings, and Go-Go Fitness is yet another example of the durability of the go-go groove.

“Go-go is part of our DNA now,” says class regular Camille Franklin, 47, who grew up in Ivy City and followed Chuck and Rare Essence for years. “Go-Go Fitness just helps to keep it alive.”

Along with getting its go-go family in shape, sustaining its precious culture is of paramount importance to Go-Go Fitness.

“With the ever-changing demographic of this area and gentrification, I think go-go has been the one thing Washingtonians can hang onto as part of our identity,” says Wilson. “Go-go does carry a sense of nostalgia for many of us. It reminds us of the good times in the city, what we had, and what we should be proud of.”

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For whatever reason, the lineup for the 13th annual DC Jazz Festival (June 9-18) is a little thin this year, and its longtime home-base venue, The Hamilton, is conspicuously absent from the schedule. But there’s something nearly every night of the fest that’s worth your time. (On some nights, more than one something.) Here are this year’s most essential acts.

—Michael J. West Odean Pope Saxophone Choir

Amy Shook and the SR5tet

Jane Bunnett and Maqueque

Jane Bunnett and Maqueque When: Saturday, June 10, 8 p.m.

Where: Sixth & I Historic Synagogue Tickets: $18-$27.50 Here’s The Deal: Much of the best talent in this year’s festival is concentrated on the night of Saturday, June 10. But in a pinch, the decision is for Bunnett, whose all-female ensemble Maqueque plays intricately researched but raw and soulfully expressive Afro-Cuban jazz at Sixth & I.

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Amy Shook and the SR5tet When: Sunday, June 11, 6 p.m.

Where: The Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage Tickets: Free Here’s The Deal: For this year’s local jazz track, DCJF is spotlighting the bass players who carry the banner of D.C.’s long and rich bass tradition. Shook, here coleading a band with drummer Frank Russo, is one of the city’s most dependable.

Hiromi and Edmar Castañeda When: Tuesday, June 13, 8 p.m.

Where: The Howard Theatre Tickets: $40 Here’s The Deal: “Jazz at the Howard” brings together two international young innovators: Hiromi is a pyrotechnic Japanese pianist, Castañeda a pyrotechnic Colombian harpist. But their styles are different enough to guarantee both energy and unpredictability.

Odean Pope Saxophone Choir When: Friday, June 16, 8 p.m.

Where: Abramson Family Auditorium Tickets: $20 Here’s The Deal: A giant of the Philadelphia saxophone tradition, Pope’s Saxophone Choir is a multisax ensemble—often up to nine horns—with rhythm section and a sound every inch as vast and distinctive as it implies.

Pat Metheny When: Monday, June 12, 7:30 p.m.

Where: The Kennedy Center Tickets: $39-$79 Here’s The Deal: Metheny takes some flack for being a stunt guitarist; he’s one of the founding fathers of new age, and plays a complicated guitar known as “the Pikasso.” But he’s one of those musicians of such vast influence that if you’re hearing the contemporary language of jazz guitar, you’re hearing Metheny’s language.

DCJazzPrix When: Thursday, June 15, 7 p.m.

Where: University of the District of Columbia Tickets: Free Here’s The Deal: Last year inaugurated the DCJF band competition, with the award going to the exciting New Century Jazz Quintet despite formidable competition.

This year’s finalists include two trios (one featuring a vocalist) and a multinational six-piece—the competition a crucible for gifted newcomers.

JazzFest at the Yards When: Friday, June 16-Sunday, June 18 Where: The Yards Tickets: $49-$150 Here’s The Deal: DCJF’s signature event comprises three days of music at Yards Park on the Anacostia riverfront. This year’s headliners include hip-hop/classical fusioneers Black Violin, vocal sensation Gregory Porter, influential alto saxophonist Kenny Garrett, and innovative pianist Robert Glasper. washingtoncitypaper.com june 9, 2017 25

FilmShort SubjectS ion. If there is no hope, at least the despair won’t last too long.

—Alan Zilberman

It Comes at Night

It Comes At Night opens Friday at the Angelika Pop-Up at Union Market, AMC Georgetown, and AMC Mazza Gallerie.

Cate the great Manifesto

Directed by Julian Rosenfeldt

Night Moves It Comes at Night

Directed by Trey Edward Shults Filmmaker Trey edward Shults seemingly came out of nowhere. After dropping out of business school and assisting on several Terrence Malick projects, Shults made his featurelength debut with 2015’s Krisha, a tense psychological drama. The film stars Shults’ actual family, most of whom are not trained actors, so there’s a degree of verisimilitude that borders on voyeurism. His follow-up, It Comes at Night, repeats many of the same themes: It also focuses on family, with the majority of the action taking place within one claustrophobic household. The film contains many tropes of the horror genre, except one major ingredient: catharsis. It Comes at Night is relentlessly bleak, to the point where you should probably consider this review a warning.

Before the title card, there is a sad, disturbing sequence that combines mercy with ritual. Kelvin Harrison Jr. plays Travis, a teenage boy who watches his father Paul (Joel Edgerton) bury his grandfather. The situation is even grimmer than it sounds: Paul shoots the man in the head and sets his body on fire before he’s buried. The family is still reeling from an unnamed cataclysm, and there are fewer details than survivors. There is no in-

frastructure, and a constant threat of some horrible sickness. Paul has fortified his home, with only one possible entrance, and Christopher Abbott plays a man, Will, who somehow breaks inside. He lasts mere seconds before Paul knocks him out, but eventually the two build a rapport. Shortly after, Paul welcomes Will’s family into his home, and there’s an uneasy alliance between the two families, and they share one roof as they fight off gnawing distrust.

Scary scenes often build up to a release. In The Thing, one of the films that clearly influences Shults, the gory death of the monster means that, for a while anyway, there is a reprieve from the tension. It Comes at Night never deigns to provide any sense of release. It is entirely build-up: The dialogue remains softspoken and economical, while the atmosphere drips with silence and darkness.

In fact, the film is bearable only thanks to Shults’ sense of composition, coupled with the audience’s yearning to learn more. Shults has a knack for finding beauty in the macabre—while Travis watches his grandfather’s body burn, for example, the flames reflect in his gas mask. Most of the film relies on natural light—there is no electricity, after all—and the steadfast attention to sound design and simple imagery is like a sick joke. Shults’ camera is pitiless, and each shot points to inexorable tragedy.

On top of the tension between the two families, Shults adds nightmare imagery that creates an uneasy balance between reality and symoblism. There are many nighttime se-

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quences from Travis’ perspective: He can’t sleep, so he chats with Will’s wife Kim (Riley Keough). At first it’s friendly, even flirtatious—at least until ruddy goo oozes from Kim’s mouth. Is the scene a dream? Shults keeps us guessing, and the transitions are all the more unnerving.

Another key departure from typical horror tropes is that none of the film’s characters, even Will’s toddler Andrew (Griffin Robert Faulkner), ever makes a stupid mistake. The action—and the characters’ trust or distrust for one another—is always justified. After Paul knocks Will out, he ties him to a tree, puts a gag in his mouth, and leaves him there for days.

Their communication is terse, based on mutual need, and Will doesn’t even seem particularly angry: He understands Paul’s caution.

Doubt seeps into the house, followed by outright betrayal, and Shults still declines to answer plot questions. That may infuriate horror fans who are used to tidy conclusions. After the success of recent low-budget horror films like Split and Get Out, It Comes at Night is far more demanding, even brazen.

Like Krisha, this is a film that exposes Shults’ disdain for redemption. It Comes at Night systematically dismantles one institution after another, including self-determination, until all that’s left is an opportunity to wait. This is a film that is depressing, cruel and virtually humorless. The only solace— if you can call it that—is Shults’ empathy for his characters. He sees failures with clarity, filming their impasses with tension and suspense, right before they consider obliv-

The opening crediTs of visual artist Julian Rosenfeldt’s chilly, academic Manifesto play over footage of an abandoned, demolished factory site. The camera moves in from the sky with godlike precision, weaving in and out of empty space, as the names and titles of the crew pop up strategically in the frame. Like everything else in Manifesto, this sequence excudes a great sense of purpose, but that’s all it exudes. Only the most experimental minds would even call Manifesto a film; to the rest of us, it’s just an idea.

To put it another way: For anyone who has ever said, “Cate Blanchett is such a great acManifesto

tress that I would watch her read the phone book,” Manifesto is here to hold you accountable. The film’s script is composed of the manifestos of various artistic movements, from the Futurists to the Dadaists to Dogme 95. Blanchett speaks each as a different character—a Russian dance instructor and a British punk rocker, for example. It’s not quite right to say she enacts these manifestos, as there is literally no drama here. Rather, she recites them in character, illuminating the distinct roles a manifesto can play. In one, she is a teacher lecturing her grade-school students. In another, she is a mother of two offering a prayer.

In one of the more inspired sequences, Blanchett plays both a hardened anchorwoman and an on-location meteorologist. “All current art is fake,” the newscaster begins, and after peppering the raincoat-clad weathergirl with questions about the nature of man and art for several minutes, the camera pans up to reveal a rain machine just outside of the frame.

The contrivance achieves its desired effect: to make you chuckle, and then wonder if it was clever or dumb, or a comment on how clever things are actually dumb, or how dumb things are actually clever.

Whether that effect is worth your time and money is a more complicated question. Manifesto is clearly not a film for a general audience, and any attempt to construct a traditional narrative out of its parts is futile. Consider a piece of dialogue like this one: “The blue discharge of car exhaust scented with a dynamic modernity has exactly the same emotional value as the beloved talents of our exquisite modern-

ists.” Many great artists have challenged their audiences with difficult language, but, like Shakespeare or Lin-Manuel Miranda, they give you an entire show to get used to it. Manifesto gives you only a scene before it leaves you wondering and wandering through another speech, another style of dialogue, and another Blanchett.

At least we have her. As all other attempts to extract meaning fall away, what emerges is a showcase for the Oscar-winner’s colossal talent. Blanchett musters a diverse and detailed universe of humanity to bring to life these characters who don’t exist at all on the page.

Through expert vocal characterization and a deep well of emotional reserves, she wills a community of flesh-and-blood humans into existence. Sure, for much of the film, your head will spin, but when Blanchett’s face fills the frame, and she looks deep into your soul, you won’t feel like you wasted your time.

Maybe this is too generous, but it could even be what Rosenfeldt intended. After all, one of the few messages that makes it through the verbal maelstrom of declarations and philosophical dead-ends is that there is no such thing as original art. The film repeats this mantra several times—perhaps to ensure we at least remember one thing as we run for the exits—but the notion also brings Blanchett’s act of creative interpretation comes in full relief.

If there is no original art, then interpretation is everything. Blanchett’s embodiment of this spirit makes Manifesto almost worth watching.

—Noah Gittell Manifesto opens Friday at E Street Cinema.

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Books Speed ReadS

SmallTown STrife Insurrections: Stories

Rion Amilcar Scott University Press of Kentucky 208 pages $19.95 Though Cross river is a fictional Maryland town, its inhabitants feel vividly alive in the hands of author Rion Amilcar Scott. In Scott’s debut short story collection, Insurrections, teachers, barbers, and drug dealers ply their trades in the storefronts, schools, and streets of this D.C.-adjacent stomping ground, but it is the private lives of Cross Riverians that make up the book’s beautifully beating heart.

The coming-of-age tugof-war between children and their fathers is a common theme throughout the collection. In “Good Times,” a young father, Rashid, is saved from attempted suicide by his fatherly neighbor, Walter, but coping continues to be tough for the suicidal, broke, self-loathing man. In an ongoing attempt for redemption and his own father’s approval, Rashid drains his three-year-old son’s college fund to buy a cookie monster costume for the child’s birthday party. The costume turns out to be a shabby mess, and Rashid shambles down to Walter’s apartment in the subpar suit, ranting about his mistakes and imagining his own father’s disappointment: “He’s probably upstairs right now trying to figure out what the hell is wrong with me. Trying to figure out why I’m not doing things the right way, like he told me.”

“Confirmation” is a son’s remembrance of his boyhood sacrament, a holy day on which his now-dead father unleashed on the boy an unholy beating. In “202 Checkmates,” a daughter learns chess from her seemingly invincible father; as the games stack up she glimpses his imperfect humanity, the fragility of his ego. In “Three Insurrections,” a young father goes into the wild to find himself but ends up in a hospital bed, where his father recounts a journey from Trinidad to the center of a riot after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. Fathers and their children aren’t the sole central figures in the book, and coming-ofage strife isn’t its only source of conflict.

Cross River was founded in 1807 after the only successful slave revolt in the United

States, and the oppressive forces of racism and classism keep many of its mostly black inhabitants stuck or send them fleeing. A hurricane that rivals Katrina rips through the South side in “Everyone Lives in a Flood Zone,” putting a trailer park underwater and stranding the town’s poorest people on their roofs. The social commentary here lands an impactful punch.

Though most of the stories are told with straightforward narrative style, Scott plays with form and style in “Party Animal,” the tale of a young boy with promise who devolves with age and addiction. It’s written like a clinical journal entry complete with detached language, medical lingo, and copious footnotes reminiscent of David Foster Wallace.

While there is violence and hardship sown into the very soil of Cross River, there’s also redemption and hope. Rashid tells Walter that as soon as his suicide plot was underway he was flooded with regret: “Damn, the same things that make you want to kill yourself also save your life. I swear all I was thinking about when I was hanging was that boy and that woman.”

It’s this kind of double-sided coin that Scott seems to see everywhere in his carefully considered construction of a fictional town that sprung against all odds from a fight against suffering and bondage.

—Amy Lyons Rion Amilcar Scott reads from Insurrections June 11 at 2 p.m. at the Bethesda Chevy Chase Regional Services Center, 4805 Edgemoor Lane, Bethesda. Free.

MusicDiscography

The World According To ShA Sha Underestimated Talone Self-released

Brynesha “Talone” seegers isn’t your typical reality TV star. She’s also a talented rapper and the mother of adorable twin daughters. Talone appeared on Season 16 of the hit Oxygen Network series The Bad Girls Club—a show that places seven attractive and combative young women into a luxurious mansion and keeps the cameras rolling around the clock to capture the inevitable drama that occurs. As you can imagine, the situation usually devolves into chaos within a few days, and the network racks up high ratings while the girls end up looking like fools.

But Talone, who went by Brynesha on the show, flipped the script. She planned from the beginning to use this opportunity as a platform to launch her musical career. She sacrificed precious quality time with her daughters to move to Los Angeles and market her skills to a national audience. And it didn’t take long for her to show what she could do: On the second episode, Talone and her castmates went to a local club where she confidently grabbed the mic and impressed everyone with her fierce lyrics.

Still, Talone did get involved in her share of dramatic confrontations. Despite her diminutive stature, she literally fought her way to the top of the BGC hierarchy, refusing to back down to the other girls verbally or physically. And she was definitely the most charismatic cast member.

She even brought her own “Sha-popping” style

of talking into the household.

Talone recently released a new mixtape Sha Underestimated, whose title pays respect to her trademark vernacular and her lifelong status as the underdog. She has faced tremendous adversity and refused to become a statistic.

She knows the struggle of being a single mother, the despair of losing a sibling to sickle cell anemia, and the grind of being an MC in a city that hasn’t produced a commercially successful female rapper since Nonchalant in 1996.

Talone’s powerful words speak for every woman who feels unappreciated or marginalized living in a patriarchal society.

The first song on the mixtape, appropriately called “Sha Intro,” features Talone spitting incendiary bars, boldly proclaiming, “I am not like these other rap bitches,” and even taking shots at the D.C. music establishment, “Living in the city they hate on you you’ll never make it/ If you wait for them to support you/ Promoters are being shady.”

Each track of Talone’s musical diary is dripping with emotion, whether it’s about lost love (“Life Goes On”), disloyal friends (“Fake Love”), or a heart wrenching anti-abortion ode (“I Apologize”). Talone is honest almost to a fault, bravely confronting her fears and revealing her innermost vulnerabilities.

Talone’s strengths are her fluid intonation and her willingness to tackle heavy subject matter, but sometimes the topics can become predictable. For example, “In My Feelings,” “For Granted,” and “Fairytale Guy” are all moderately paced songs about unfaithful men—solid lyrical material but a little bit redundant.

Talone puts in her finest work when she picks up the tempo. “Sha Nasty” is a delightfully steamy romp about Talone’s bedroom candy. And one of the best tunes on the mixtape is “I Can’t Trust,” a lively stunner featuring Lundy (aka London Dior), a brilliant D.C. female rapper who sadly lost her life in a car accident a few weeks ago.

The final song is “Dear Honest and Trinity,” a love letter to her daughters (“When I see you smile it makes everything worth it/ When I see you dancing it reminds me of the purpose”).

It’s a touching ballad that makes you understand why Talone’s unique brand of black girl magic isn’t just a hashtag or a supernatural quality. It’s the ability to endure everything life throws at you, whether that’s being a single parent or the tragic deaths of loved ones, and not just survive, but win—and right now Talone is winning.

—Sidney Thomas

June 22–24 | Concert Hall Steven Reineke, conductor With the Choral Arts Society of Washington From a galaxy far, far away to the magical Hogwarts, John Williams’s scores have transported moviegoers for decades.

Journey through a catalogue of music composed by the most Oscar®-nominated man alive, including an all-Star Wars second half celebrating the franchise’s 40th anniversary.

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Merriweather Post Pavilion • Columbia, MD LAST CHANCE!

THIS WEEK’S SHOWS

Freddie Gibbs ................................................................................................. Th 8 Jamestown Revival w/ Colter Wall ...............................................................F 9 The Record Company w/ The Deadmen Early Show! 7pm Doors .................. Sa 10 Mixtape Pride Party with DJs Shea Van Horn and Matt Bailer .............. Sa 10 dded!

First Night Sold Out! Second Night A

Rodrigo y Gabriela w/ Ryan Sheridan ........................................................ M 12 JUNE

JULY (cont)

Who’s Bad: The Ultimate Michael

Jackson Experience ................Sa 17 White Ford Bronco: DC’s All ‘90s Band ...................Sa 24

Uhh Yeah Dude This is a seated show.......................Sa 22 Conor Oberst (of Bright Eyes) w/ Hop Along ...............................W 26

Get Low w/ Mathias & Friends ...F 30

AUGUST

JULY

Rag’n’Bone Man w/ Ivy Sole ...Tu 1

Caravan Palace ........................W 5 Violent Femmes ......................Su 9 Kyle Mooney Live This is a seated show. ......................Tu 11 ow Added!

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Bitch Sesh Live Matinee Show!

2pm Doors. This is a seated show. .....Su 16

Amadou & Mariam w/ Redline Graffiti ......................Th 20 Sister Hazel ..............................F 21

9:30 CUPCAKES

PAUL SIMON • STEVE MILLER BAND • 50TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT • SANTANA

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Paul Simon w/ Sarah McLachlan .................... JUNE 9 Jack Johnson w/ Lake Street Dive ...................................................JUNE 11

THIS SUNDAY!

John Legend w/ Gallant ..................................................................................JUNE 20 Steve Miller Band w/ Peter Frampton ........................................JUNE 23 Luke Bryan w/ Brett Eldredge & Lauren Alaina ............................................JUNE 25 Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit w/ The Mountain Goats ..................JUNE 30 Dispatch w/ Guster & Marco Benevento.......................................................... JULY 7 My Morning Jacket w/ Gary Clark Jr. ..................................................... JULY 14 MERRIWEATHER 50TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT FEATURING

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Jackson

Petit Biscuit ..............................W 2 Michelle Branch ........................F 4 Mew .............................................Sa 5 Little Dragon w/ Xavier Omär ..Tu 8 The Districts .............................F 18

Browne and Willie Nelson

w/ Father John Misty plus special guest host Grace Potter Talkin’ & Singin ... JULY 15 VANS WARPED TOUR PRESENTED BY JOURNEYS FEATURING

American Authors • Anti-Flag • The Ataris • Big D and The Kids Table • CKY •

Emmure • GWAR • Hatebreed • Hawthorne Heights • Municipal Waste and many more! ........ JULY 16

Gorillaz w/ Vince Staples & Danny Brown ........................................................... JULY 17

U STREET MUSIC HALL PRESENTS

Valentino Khan .....................Sa 19 Waxahatchee w/ Palehound & Outer Spaces .....M 21

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alt-J w/ Saint Motel & SOHN .................................................................................. JULY 27 Fleet Foxes w/ Animal Collective ........................................................ JULY 29 Belle and Sebastian / Spoon / Andrew Bird w/ Ex Hex ........ JULY 30

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Lady Antebellum w/ Kelsea Ballerini & Brett Young .......................... AUGUST 13 Santana .......................................................................................................... AUGUST 15 Sturgill Simpson w/ Fantastic Negrito ............................................ SEPTEMBER 15 Young The Giant w/ Cold War Kids & Joywave .............................. SEPTEMBER 16

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Greensky Bluegrass w/ Leftover Salmon ................................................. JULY 22

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Feist w/ Hailu Mergia ....................................................................................................... JUNE 8

Mystery Science Theater 3000 Live!

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EEGAH Early Show! 5pm Doors .......................................................................................... JULY 9 SECRET SURPRISE FILM! Late Show! 8:30pm Doors ........................................... JULY 9

SECOND NIGHT ADDED! AEG LIVE PRESENTS

Tim And Eric: 10th Anniversary Awesome Tour ........................................................ JULY 19 TajMo: The Taj Mahal and Keb’ Mo’ Band w/ Jontavious Willis ............................. AUGUST 9 Apocalyptica - Plays Metallica By Four Cellos .................................................... SEPTEMBER 9 The Kooks .................................................................................................................OCTOBER 4 Paul Weller ..............................................................................................................OCTOBER 7 THE BIRCHMERE PRESENTS

Colin Hay ................................................................................................................OCTOBER 21 ALL GOOD PRESENTS

John McLaughlin/Jimmy Herring: Meeting of the Spirits ....................NOVEMBER 11 JOHNNYSWIM .....................................................................................................NOVEMBER 15

9:30 CLUB PRESENTS AT U STREET MUSIC HALL !!! (Chk Chk Chk) w/ Nerftoss ........ Th JUN 8 Austin Mahone w/ The YRS ............... Su 11 Mt. Kimbie w/ KUCKA & Tirzah ..............M 12 Azizi Gibson ...................................... Sa 24 DakhaBrakha .................................... Tu 27

3TEETH ........................................... F JUL 7 Kap G & JR Donato New date! All 2/23 tickets will be honored. . Su JUL 9

Beth Ditto ........................................... W 12 Why Don’t We ................................... Th 13

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CITYLIST

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Music

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CITY LIGHTS: Friday

rock

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Happyness, Silent Old Mtns. 7 p.m. $12. dcnine.com.

Gypsy sally’s 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. Wild Adriatic, Jah Works. 8:30 p.m. $12–$15. gypsysallys.com.

Merriweather post pavilion 10475 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia. (410) 715-5550. Paul Simon, Sarah McLachlan. 7:30 p.m. $55–$175. merriweathermusic.com. roCk & roll hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

Black Marble, Body of Light. 8 p.m. $15. rockandrollhoteldc.com. state theatre 220 N. Washington St., Falls Church.

(703) 237-0300. Pandora’s Box. 9 p.m. $12–$15. thestatetheatre.com.

classical

kenneDy Center ConCert hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. National Symphony Orchestra and Alice Sara Ott plays Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff’s Third Symphony. 8 p.m. $15–$89. kennedy-center.org. kenneDy Center MillenniuM staGe 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Palaver Strings. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

country

FillMore silver sprinG 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Cody Johnson Band, Joseph Gallant. 8:30 p.m. $20. fillmoresilverspring.com. hill Country barbeCue 410 7th St. NW. (202) 556-2050. Hollertown. 8 p.m. Free. hillcountrywdc.com.

JiFFy lube live 7800 Cellar Door Drive, Bristow.

(703) 754-6400. Dierks Bentley, Cole Swindell, Jon Pardi. 7 p.m. $32.25–$250. livenation.com.

dJ nights

blaCk Cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Booty Rex Pride Party. 9 p.m. $10. blackcatdc.com.

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. DC Latin Mix LGBTQ Pride with DJ Andre. 10 p.m. $10. dcnine.com.

ElEctronic

eChostaGe 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. (202) 503-2330. Aly & Fila, Andrew Rayel, Mark Sixma. 9 p.m. $25–$30. echostage.com.

Flash 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Patrice Scott, DJ Aakmael, Hot Coffee, Arts & Sciences, Body Werk. 8 p.m. $8–$12. flashdc.com. u street MusiC hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

The Coven: DJ MIM. 10 p.m. $10–$15. ustreetmusichall.com.

Funk & r&B

FRI 9

BrandEE youngEr trio

Friday 9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Jamestown Revival, Colter Wall. 8 p.m. $20. 930.com.

JUNE SHOWS

SAT 10

Brandee Younger is a jazz harpist, and a proud disciple, on that instrument, of Dorothy Ashby—the harp’s Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker, and Miles Davis, all in one. Ashby broke new ground in 1968 with her record Afro-Harping, which married her already unique conception with the rhythms and feel of not just soul jazz, but straight-up soul. Younger’s Wax and Wane, 2016’s best jazz album, seeks to update the fusion of Afro-Harping (covering two of its songs as well as a third Ashby composition, the title track, that hip-hop producer J-Dilla prominently sampled) with contemporary R&B and hip-hop, along with a soupçon of Alice Coltrane’s mystical version of jazz harp. But Younger can’t help but inject originality into her homage, pursuing quirky soundscapes and navigating slippery dance-funk and glitchy grooves on an instrument that was never designed for such things. On the first night of DC JazzFest, she brings her youthful vibrancy to Eastern Market’s Fridge Gallery with another young jazz voice, D.C. native Christie Dashiell. The Brandee Younger Trio performs with Christie Dashiell at 9 p.m. at The Fridge, 516 8th St. SE. $20. thefridgedc.com.

—Michael J. West howarD theatre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Lalah Hathaway. 8:30 p.m. Sold out. thehowardtheatre.com.

blaCk Cat baCkstaGe 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 6674490. Christeene, Nastie Band, DJ Donna Slash. 8 p.m. $15. blackcatdc.com.

MusiC Center at strathMore 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Gladys Knight.

8 p.m. $58–$145. strathmore.org.

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Kominas, Giant Kitty, Company Calls. 11 p.m. $10. dcnine.com.

sonGbyrD MusiC house anD reCorD CaFe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Jessie Reyez. 8 p.m. $13. songbyrddc.com.

Jazz

blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Joey DeFrancesco + The People. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $25–$30. bluesalley.com.

Mr. henry’s 601 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. (202) 5468412. The Kevin Cordt Quartet. 8 p.m. Free. mrhenrysdc.com. national Gallery oF art sCulpture GarDen 4th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. (202) 737-4215. Dan Bárta & Robert Balzar Trio. 5 p.m. Free. nga.gov. twins Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Abby Schaffer Quartet. 9 p.m.; 11 p.m. $15. twinsjazz.com.

bethesDa blues & Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. Wayna. 8 p.m. $25. bethesdabluesjazz.com.

saturday

birChMere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Miki Howard. 7:30 p.m. $45. birchmere.com.

9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. The Record Company, The Deadmen. 7 p.m. $20. 930.com.

rock

iota Club & CaFé 2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. (703) 522-8340. Christine Abi Najm, The NRI, Mike P. Ryan.

8:30 p.m. $12. iotaclubandcafe.com.

JiFFy lube live 7800 Cellar Door Drive, Bristow.

(703) 754-6400. Train, O.A.R., Natasha Bedingfield. 7 p.m. $25–$375. livenation.com.

SAT 10

BENT KNEE

BOOTY REX PRIDE PARTY / BOTH FLOORS CAT THE DRIVE-IN

A PRIDE FILM SCREENING EVENT

CHRISTEENE

NASTIE BAND & DONNA SLASH

MON 12 THE SHOW THAT NEVER ENDS A BOOK RELEASE PARTY WED 14 CIGARETTE & KINLAW “A TRIGGER FOR EVERYBODY” THU 15

CHARLY BLISS

FRI 16

AWESOME MINXES VOL. 2 (18+)

FRI 16 COUP SAUVAGE FAREWELL SHOW SAT 17

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THE SNIPS

JC BROOKS

FRI 23

AROCKALYPTIC

SAT 24

AWKWARD SEX ...AND THE CITY

LOCAL SUMMER SOLSTICE PARTY

FRI 30 THE CAPITAL CITY BURLESQUE SAT 1 AND VAUDEVILLE FESTIVAL

FRI JUN 9 BOOTY REX PRIDE PARTY

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

Weedeater, Serial Hawk, Black Wizard. 8 p.m. $20. rockandrollhoteldc.com. state theatre 220 N. Washington St., Falls Church.

(703) 237-0300. Otep, The Convalescence and Brand Of Julez. 9 p.m. $20–$23. thestatetheatre.com. wolF trap Filene Center 1551 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. Joe Jackson, Mavis Staples. 8 p.m. $30–$85. wolftrap.org.

classical kenneDy Center ConCert hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. National Symphony Orchestra and Alice Sara Ott plays Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff’s Third Symphony. 8 p.m. $15–$89. kennedy-center.org.

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kenneDy Center MillenniuM staGe 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. NSO Prelude. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

dJ nights

9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Mixtape Pride Party with DJs Shea Van Horn and Matt Bailer. 11 p.m. $15. 930.com.

DC Jazz Festival’s A Night at the Kennedy Center

An Evening with Pat Metheny

with drummer Antonio Sanchez, bassist Linda May Han Oh, and pianist Gwilym Simcock

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

FUSE: Capital Pride Women’s Main Event with DJs Jai Syncere, Tezrah, Elet()x, and the DystRucXion Dancers. 10 p.m. $15. thehowardtheatre.com.

ElEctronic

Flash 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Steve Bug, Tom Peters, Juan Zapata, Jandro, Wade, Mazi R. 8 p.m. $10–$15. flashdc.com. u street MusiC hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 5881889. Boys Noize, Outputmessage, Keenan Orr, Lemz, David Hamilton. 9 p.m. $20. ustreetmusichall.com.

Folk

birChMere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. 11th Annual Old Time Banjo Festival.

7:30 p.m. $29.50. birchmere.com.

Funk & r&B

FillMore silver sprinG 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Los Cafres, In Da Mean Time. 8 p.m. $30. fillmoresilverspring.com.

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

Chopteeth Afrofunk Band. 9 p.m. $15–$20. gypsysallys.com. sonGbyrD MusiC house anD reCorD CaFe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Jessica Hernandez and

the Deltas, Angelica Garcia. 8 p.m. $10–$12. songbyrddc.com.

Jazz

blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Joey DeFrancesco + The People. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $25–$30. bluesalley.com.

Mr. henry’s 601 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. (202) 5468412. Batida Diferente with Kim Scudera. 8 p.m. Free. mrhenrysdc.com. sixth & i historiC synaGoGue 600 I St. NW. (202) 408-3100. Jane Bunnett and Maqueque, Aaron Myers.

8 p.m. $22.50–$27.50. sixthandi.org. twins Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Cesar Orozco and Kamarata Jazz. 9 p.m.; 11 p.m. $20. twinsjazz.com.

sunday rock

9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Rodrigo y Gabriela, Ryan Sheridan. 7 p.m. $45. 930.com.

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Walk The Plank, Free Children of Earth, The Scandals, Bust Off. 8 p.m. $10. dcnine.com.

Merriweather post pavilion 10475 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia. (410) 715-5550. Jack Johnson, Lake Street Dive. 7:30 p.m. $45–$75. merriweathermusic.com. roCk & roll hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

Girlpool, Vagabon, Lexie. 8 p.m. $15. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

CITY LIGHTS: saturday

June 12 at 7:30 p.m. | Concert Hall Pat Metheny makes his debut appearance at the DC Jazz Festival with a select group of musicians that he says “covers the widest range of everything I’ve done previously and… something beyond that.” Joining the guitar legend this year will be his long-time drummer Antonio Sanchez, composer of the much-noted film score for the award-winning Birdman; bassist Linda May Han Oh, and British pianist Gwilym Simcock, one of the most exciting new pianists to emerge from the UK in many years.

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Elkhorn

Ever since John Fahey introduced the world to the endless possibilities of the acoustic guitar in the early ’60s with his self-styled “American Primitive” method, musicians far and wide have carried on his legacy. Takoma Records artists in the ’60s and ’70s like Glenn Jones, Robbie Basho, Leo Kottke, Max Ochs, and William Taussig popularized Fahey’s style, and over the decades others have carried on the tradition. These days, guitarists like Daniel Bachman, William Tyler, Ben Chasney (of Six Organs of Admittance fame), and Sarah Louise proudly wave the American Primitive flag. Here’s another to add to the list: Elkhorn, the guitar duo consisting of Jesse Shepherd and Drew Gardner. The duo’s latest album, The Black River, is firmly rooted in the style, with Shepherd producing rootsy fingerpicked rhythms and melodies on the acoustic 12-string. But it’s Gardner’s winding electric guitar, influenced by jazz, psychedelia, and rock, that really sets Elkhorn apart from its peers. The sounds of these guitarists might be very different, but they nevertheless compliment each other, boldly suggesting new possibilities for guitar music. Elkhorn performs with Daniel Bachman and Small Axe at 8 p.m. at Rhizome DC, 6950 Maple St. NW. $10 suggested donation. rhizomedc.org.

—Matt Cohen

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thE PointEr sistErs

It’s unfortunate for pansexuals everywhere that the coarse and unsympathetic Miley Cyrus counts herself among their ranks, and equally regrettable to many that she’s headlining Capital Pride’s June 11 concert. But there’s redemption for the annual celebration’s entertainment lineup, which comes most notably and refreshingly in the form of The Pointer Sisters, whose genre-defying music could wake the comatose. The group shares top billing with both Cyrus and R&B singer Tinashe. That they will at least temporarily bring happiness, glitter, and the desire to jump for their love to this otherwise dreary stretch of “America’s Main Street” is happy enough news. But that it will be a trio that entered its prime during the early days of the Reagan administration who overshadow Hannah Montana-come-foam finger fornicator is even better. Original member Ruth, daughter Issa, and granddaughter Sadako will be performing some 44 years after the release of the original group’s self-titled debut album. The Pointer Sisters perform at 1 p.m. at the 2017 Pride Concert, 3rd Street and Pennsylvania Ave. NW. Free. (202) 719-5304. capitalpride.org.

—Liz Garrigan u street MusiC hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Austin Mahone, The YRS. 6:30 p.m. $25. ustreetmusichall.com.

Monday

wolF trap Filene Center 1551 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. The B-52s, The Romantics. 8 p.m. $30–$60. wolftrap.org.

9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Rodrigo y Gabriela, Ryan Sheridan. 7 p.m. $45. 930.com.

ElEctronic

ElEctronic

Flash 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Adriatique. 2 p.m. $12–$15. flashdc.com.

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

Mt. Kimbie, KUCKA, Tirzah. 7 p.m. $20. ustreetmusichall.com.

Funk & r&B

hiP-hoP

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

Etana, An’jahla and Ilavibez Band, Cultcha Sound.

7:30 p.m. $25–$35. thehamiltondc.com.

Jazz

bethesDa blues & Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. Leonard, Coleman, and Blunt. 8 p.m. $25. bethesdabluesjazz.com.

sonGbyrD MusiC house anD reCorD CaFe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Kevin Ross. 8 p.m. $20–$22. songbyrddc.com.

Jazz

blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Joey DeFrancesco + The People. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $25–$30. bluesalley.com. kenneDy Center MillenniuM staGe 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Amy Shook. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org. twins Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Rick Alberico. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $10. twinsjazz.com.

Vocal

MusiC Center at strathMore 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Strathmore Children’s Chorus. 4 p.m. $20–$25. strathmore.org.

World

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

Rosana. 8 p.m. $35–$50. thehowardtheatre.com.

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rock

sonGbyrD MusiC house anD reCorD CaFe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Sidewalk Chalk, Madison McFerrin. 8 p.m. $10–$12. songbyrddc.com. atlas perForMinG arts Center 1333 H St. NE. (202) 399-7993. Miho Hazama with the Brad Linde Expanded Ensemble. 7 p.m.; 9:30 p.m. $25–$28. atlasarts.org. blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Mike Wade & Nasty-Nati Brass Band. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $25. bluesalley.com. kenneDy Center ConCert hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Pat Metheny. 7:30 p.m. $39–$79. kennedy-center.org. kenneDy Center MillenniuM staGe 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. James King. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

tuEsday rock

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

Sorority Noise, Forth Wanderers, The Obsessives, Shannen Moser. 8 p.m. $15. rockandrollhoteldc.com. sonGbyrD MusiC house anD reCorD CaFe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Ella Vos. 8 p.m. $12. songbyrddc.com.

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JUNE

10 The Mike Seeger Commemorative

OLD TIME BANJO FESTIVAL

Kater, Michael Miles, Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer

feat. Tony Trischka, Kaia

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OLD 97s

blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Tessa Souter. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $22. bluesalley.com. howarD theatre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Hiromi & Edmar Castaneda. 8 p.m. $40–$65. thehowardtheatre.com.

WEdnEsday rock

blaCk Cat baCkstaGe 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 6674490. Cigarette, Kinlaw, Raygunomics. 7:30 p.m. $10. blackcatdc.com.

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Ha Ha Tonka, Trapper Schoepp. 9 p.m. $15. dcnine.com.

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

Ghost-Note, Drop Electric. 8:30 p.m. $12–$14. gypsysallys.com. sonGbyrD MusiC house anD reCorD CaFe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Hamish Anderson, Rosu Lup. 8 p.m. $10–$12. songbyrddc.com.

caBarEt

aMp by strathMore 11810 Grand Park Ave., North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Ines Nassara. 8 p.m. $17. ampbystrathmore.com.

kenneDy Center MillenniuM staGe 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Tommy Cecil. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org. twins Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Irene Jalenti. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $10. twinsjazz.com.

thursday rock

bethesDa blues & Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. On The Bus. 7:30 p.m. $15. bethesdabluesjazz.com. birChMere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria. (703) 549-7500. Old ‘97s, Vandoliers. 7:30 p.m. $29.50. birchmere.com. blaCk Cat baCkstaGe 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 6674490. Charly Bliss, Yucky Duster. 7:30 p.m. $12. blackcatdc.com.

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Daniel Romano. 9 p.m. $12–$14. dcnine.com. the haMilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

A-WA. 7:30 p.m. $15–$25. thehamiltondc.com. roCk & roll hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

Great Good OK Fine, Morgxn. 8 p.m. $15. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

ElEctronic

ElEctronic

Flash 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Vices DC. 9 p.m. $10–$20. flashdc.com.

Jazz

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

Glacier Ride Fundraiser Event with Color Palette, Staycation, Picnibus, The Aux Send + WOLM, Raptorstein, Symmetrical. 7 p.m. $20–$25. ustreetmusichall.com.

Flash 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Zimmer, Fady D, Spacely. 10 p.m. $10–$15. flashdc.com. bethesDa blues & Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. Tony Craddock Jr. & Cold Front. 8 p.m. $25. bethesdabluesjazz.com. blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Charnett Moffett NettWork Trio. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $25. bluesalley.com.

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hiP-hoP

sonGbyrD MusiC house anD reCorD CaFe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Ray BLK, BlaqueStone.

8:30 p.m. $15–$17. songbyrddc.com.

ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO BAND 25 THREE DOG NIGHT 26 ROSANNE CASH and Band BADFINGER 28 “Straight Up” Live & Complete starring JOEY MOLLAND KEN 29 KATHLEEN EDWARDS YATES Canada 150 Celebration!

VIVIAN GREEN July 1&2 LYFE JENNINGS Django 7&8 JERRY JEFF WALKER Walker Garrett 13 KASEY CHAMBERS Kato 14 ROBERT EARL KEEN 15 SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY & The Asbury Jukes 16 GARY PUCKETT & The Union Gap

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JOE CLAIR & FRIENDS COMEDY SHOW

THE ZOMBIES

Don DiLego

STEVE EARLE & THE DUKES M T 19 SAWYER FREDERICKS 20 ROGER CLYNE & THE PEACEMAKERS 21 & JEFFREY OSBORNE 22 23 PURE PRAIRIE LEAGUE & ATLANTA RHYTHM SECTION BILLY BRAGG 24 he asTersons

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TOAD THE WET SPROCKET 28,29 &30 THE BACON BROTHERS

A TRIBUTE TO EARTH, WIND & FIRE

(2 SHOWS 7/10PM)

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TONY CRADDOCK JR. & COLD FRONT ON THE BUS

TRUCKS YOUR FAVE DEAD SONGS AND MORE INTO BETHESDA!

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LCB’S ALL STAR BIRTHDAY PARTY FOR GLENN LEONARD & JOE BLUNT

nFerno a go go

It’s been four years since the last Mount Kimbie record, Cold Spring Fault Less Youth. The absence feels strange, as the electronic duo of Dominic Maker and Kai Campos was gaining in popularity while their frequent collaborator James Blake became a superstar. With a new album finally coming out later this year, Mount Kimbie released two new tracks this spring. On “We Go Home Together,” they once again partner with Blake. It’s quiet and restrained like their earlier music, but they leave the dance beats behind for an infusion of soul. The latest single, “Marilyn,” trades in their hazy static for a warped watery groove. It makes for an excellent playground for the accompanying singer, Micachu, who navigates the waves with ease. As always, Mount Kimbie’s restraint sets them apart. After years away, lesser musicians may have doubled down on the dance beat and cranked up the volume to please fans, but Maker and Campos are evolving in ways that may endear them even more deeply to their loyal fans. Mount Kimbie performs with Kucka and Tirzah at 7 p.m. at U Street Music Hall, 1115 U St. NW. $20. (202) 588-1889. ustreetmusichall.com.

—Justin Weber

Jazz

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FATHER’S DAY LENNY WILLIAMS (2 SHOWS 1/7PM)

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NICK COLIONNE BETHESDA BLUES & JAZZ YOUTH ORCHESTRA’S FIRST RECITAL KEITH BUSEY’S “70’S BEST” SHOW

http://igg.me/at/bethesdablues 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda, MD

(240) 330-4500

www. BethesdaBluesJazz.com Two Blocks from Bethesda Metro/Red Line Free Parking on Weekends

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inspired by the American painter and printmaker’s 1972 trip to the former Soviet Union. April 15 to June 10.

CITY LIGHTS: tuEsday

shannEn MosEr

Shannen Moser’s songs are steeped in tradition. Her debut LP, Oh, My Heart, kicks off with a sacred harp sample—a traditional form of hymnal chorale music originating in the deep South—that serves as an apt introduction to Moser’s Appalachian folk songs.

Hailing from Berks County, Pa., the Philadelphia-based singer/songwriter records deeply personal anecdotes of friendship, heartbreak, and the delicate balance of life and death. There’s a weary wisdom to Moser’s lyrics, especially on songs like “Yr Undertaker,” “A Funeral, A Friend, My Sanity,” and “October,” which paint vivid, often heartbreaking portraits of life’s hardest moments. “They say that time is a useful tool for guiding/ I think that time is a dangerous tool for the living,” she sings with exasperated melancholy on “Yr Undertaker.” But at the core of Moser’s songs are a message of hope, and that’s underscored on Oh, My Heart’s anthemic closer “Dirt and Water,” with its chorus repeatedly sung like a mantra: “Dirt and water make this grow/ You deserve so much, you know.” Shannen Moser performs with Sorority Noise, Forth Wanderers, and The Obsessives at 7:30 p.m. at Rock & Roll Hotel, 1353 H St. NE. $15. (202) 388-7625. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

—Matt Cohen

Jazz

Politics and Winning the World We Need, her latest book, with U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal of Washington.

Sidwell Friends School. 3825 Wisconsin Ave. NW. June 14, 7 p.m. $5–$30. (202) 537-8100.

Gypsy sally’s 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. Big Mean Sound Machine. 8:30 p.m. $10–$12. gypsysallys.com.

Finn Murphy Learn about the world of trucking from author Murphy, who reads from his new book, The Long Haul. Murphy appears in conversation with Atlantic editor Scott Stossel. Politics & Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. June 12, 7 p.m. Free. (202) 3641919.

blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Stacey Kent. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $40–$45. bluesalley.com.

kenneDy Center MillenniuM staGe 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Herman Burney. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

Theater

the Father In this internationally acclaimed drama, an elderly man starts to lose track of his life and experiences strange events, from disappearing furniture to unknown people in his home. Local favorite Ted van Griethuysen stars in Florian Zeller’s drama, translated by Christopher Hampton. Studio Theatre. 1501 14th St. NW. To June 18. $20–$85. (202) 3323300. studiotheatre.org. heDwiG anD the anGry inCh Celebrate the journey of queer rock star Hedwig Robinson in this searing musical that takes audiences from communist Germany to stages throughout America while exploring what it means to be a performer and a person in love. Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater. 2700 F St. NW. To July 2. $59–$159. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org. the hunChbaCk oF notre DaMe The story of the deformed bellringer Quasimodo and the enchanting dancer Esmerelda who captures his heart comes alive in a wordless production helmed by Founding Artistic Director Paata Tsikurishvili. The city runs wild when Quasimodo’s adoptive father pursues Esmerelda but Quasimodo’s inclination to protect the woman he cares for remains. Synetic Theater at Crystal City.

1800 South Bell St. , Arlington. To June 11. $20–$60.

(866) 811-4111. synetictheater.org.

Jesus Christ superstar Signature presents this classic Andrew Lloyd Webber musical that chronicles the last week of Christ’s life. Featuring songs like “I Don’t Know How to Love Him” and “Everything’s Alright,” this production is directed by Joe Calarco.

Signature Theatre. 4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington. To July 2. $40–$99. (703) 820-9771. sigtheatre.org.

Master Class Young opera students train with an aging Maria Callas in Terrence McNally’s drama about the sacrifices artists make for their craft and the demands of performing at a high level. Local favorite Ilona Dulaski stars in this production directed by Nick Olcott. MetroStage. 1201 N. Royal St., Alexandria. To June 11. $55–$60. (703) 548-9044. metrostage.org. the sChool For lies Director Michael Kahn leads Shakespeare Theatre Company’s adaptation of Moliere’s Le Misanthrope. When alternate facts become reality and a man aims to take down the pompous suitors who fill his social group, all hell breaks loose. Lansburgh Theatre. 450 7th St. NW. To July 2. $44–$123. (202) 547-1122. shakespearetheatre.org. the sounD oF MusiC Local favorite Nicholas Rodriguez stars as Captain Von Trapp in this touring production of the beloved musical that includes classic songs like “Do-Re-Mi,” “Edelweiss,” and “Climb Every Mountain.” Kennedy Center Opera House. 2700 F St. NW. To July 16. $49–$169. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org. tiMon oF athens The generous and wealthy Timon experiences a downturn of fortune and must figure out a way to survive in this biting Shakespearean satire. Robert Richmond, last seen at the Folger directing Julius Caesar, leads this production starring Helen Hayes Award-winner Ian Merrill Peakes. Folg-

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blooMsDay Marathon reaDinG Join community members, local actors, journalists, and booksellers as the team from Upshur Street Books devotes more than 24 hours to its third annual reading of James Joyce’s Ulysses. Coffee, whiskey, and snacks are available for purchase throughout the day. Upshur Street Books. 827 Upshur St. NW. June 15, 5 p.m. Free.

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John r. bohrer The historian and Morning Joe producer reads from his new history of Robert F. Kennedy, The Revolution of Robert Kennedy: From Power to Protest After JFK. Politics & Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. June 9, 7 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919. katherine heiny The author reads from Standard Deviation, her novel about a man who leaves his wife for his girlfriend and, along the way, learns about love, loss, and origami. Kramerbooks & Afterwords Cafe. 1517 Connecticut Ave. NW. June 14, 6:30 p.m.

Free. (202) 387-1400. naoMi klein The author and investigative journalist discusses No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock

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arlinGton arts Center 3550 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. (703) 248-6800. arlingtonartscenter.org.

Closing: “Spring Solos 2017.” More than 100 artists from around the region applied and 14 were selected to participate in this annual exhibition that allows each artist to curate and display their work throughout the arts center. April 8 to June 11. the athenaeuM 201 Prince St. , Alexandria. (703) 548-0035. nvfaa.org. Ongoing: “Pattern and Repetition.” Reni Gower and Stephen Boocks present works full of precise pattern work and bright colors in this dual exhibition. May 18 to June 25.

Greater reston arts Center 12001 Market St., Ste. 103, Reston. (703) 471-9242. restonarts.org.

Ongoing: “The Great Dismal Swamp.” Acclaimed multimedia artist Radcliffe Bailey makes his D.C. area debut with this exhibition that addresses his family’s Virginia heritage and the state’s role in the Underground Railroad. April 21 to July 8. heMphill Fine arts 1515 14th St. NW. (202) 2345601. hemphillfinearts.com. Closing: “Romare Bearden.” See a collection of collages and watercolors from the acclaimed African-American artist and activist. April 15 to June 10. Closing: “Jacob Kainen.” See a series of abstract expressionist paintings

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HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH

If you combined David Bowie’s glammed out, deeply heartfelt songwriting, Iggy Pop’s reserves of raw power, and Laura Jane Grace’s uncompromising androgynous punk spirit, you’d get Hedwig Robinson, the fictional East German rock ’n’ roll protagonist of the Tony Award-winning musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch. The show chronicles Hedwig’s story of self-realization and transformation as she grows up a misunderstood, mistreated trans child of East Berlin and eventually becomes an aspiring Ziggy Stardust, touring America with a band called The Angry Inch.

In alleys and at stage doors, from Albany to Spokane, Hedwig brings her life to glamorous realization onstage, with help from an ecstatic, joyous soundtrack culled from a jam session between Bowie, John Lennon, and Lou Reed. This is not just a story of self-discovery and determination, it’s a celebration of life at its most raw and pure. But beyond all of that, Hedwig and the Angry Inch demonstrates what makes both rock music and musical theater so moving, when they affirm a simple truth: “It ain’t no sin to be glad you’re alive.” The musical runs June 13 to July 2 at the Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater, 2700 F St. NW. $59–$159. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org.

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er Elizabethan Theatre. 201 E. Capitol St. SE. To June 11. $35–$75. (202) 544-7077. folger.edu. topDoG/unDerDoG Jessica Frances Dukes and Dawn Ursula star in this Pulitzer-winning drama about two brothers who end up fighting each other for the upper hand in the game of life. For the first time since the play premiered, Olney and director Timothy Douglas have decided to cast two women in traditionally male roles. Olney Theatre Center. 2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney. To June 11. $35–$70.

(301) 924-3400. olneytheatre.org. ulysses on bottles An Arab-Israeli school teacher tries to smuggle copies of Dostoyevsky to Gaza on a raft made of plastic bottles. What happens next?

Led by managing director Serge Seiden, the play uses the case of the aforementioned school teacher, nicknamed Ulysses, and his Jewish, pro-bono defense attorney Izakov to view the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through a different lens. The play runs May 18 to June 11 at Atlas Performing Arts Center, 1333 H St. NE. $15–$60. (202) 399-7993. atlasarts.org. (Jackson Sinnenberg) Atlas Performing Arts Center. 1333 H St. NE. To June 11 $15–$60. (202) 399-7993. atlasarts.org.

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Dean Demitri Martin writes, directs, and stars in this comedic drama about a man trying to prevent his father from selling his home following the death of his mother. Co-starring Kevin Kline and Gillian Jacobs.

(See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) the exCeption Set in the early days of World War I, this drama follows a German soldier tasked with determining whether the Dutch have planted a spy

in the ranks as he becomes enamored with a Jewish woman he meets. Starring Christopher Plummer, Jai Courtney, and Lily James. (See washingtoncitypaper. com for venue information)

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My Cousin raChel A young man plots to kill his cousin, thinking she had a hand in murdering his guardian, but soon finds himself under her spell in this spooky thriller, based on the Daphne du Maurier novel and starring Rachel Weisz and Sam Claflin.

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When it came time for Rita Ekwere to pick a stage name, she chose R ay BLK , shor t for “Building Living Knowing.” That positive mantra seems to be a throwback to neo-soul and the golden age of conscious rap, a sound she updates for the new millennium. On her 2016 debut Durt, the 23-year-old singer/songwriter/rapper resembles Lauryn Hill, if she grew up in South London rather than South Orange.

Over breezy productions that bound between electronic R&B and acoustic hip-pop, BLK is unafraid to think outside the box, interpolating nostalgic favorites by The Cardigans and even Ashlee Simpson, and tackling everything from teen pregnancy to the perils of growing up in her Catford hood. But mostly, she stays focused on the pitfalls of hopeless romanticism. Nodding to Hill’s classic “Doo Wop (That Thing)” on “Hunny,” BLK sings, “Some men just want that thing, ask Lauryn/ They’re givin’ you their number, just to get that ring/ Next thing, you’re havin’ a baby by somebody lazy/ Takin’ a piece of your pie/ You better be payin’ attention to this lesson/ You better be wise, with the honey.” Ray BLK knows that she’s building something, even if she has plenty of living to do. Ray BLK performs with Blaquestone at 8:30 p.m. at Songbyrd Music House, 2477 18th St. NW. $15–$17. (202) 450-2917. songbyrddc.com.

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