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19 Young & Hungry: Why chefs are leaving D.C.’s top restaurants for Whole Foods 21 Grazer: Aloha to acai bowls 21 The ’Wiching Hour: Bread Bite Bakery’s Pastrami 21 Brew in Town: Atlas Brew Works Gaslight Brett Belgian Blond

34 Sketches: Capps on “Graham Collins: Laughter” at Civilian Art Projects 32 Short Subjects: Gittell on Dheepan

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35 City Lights: The World’s Greatest Party Band, The B-52s, celebrates Fairfax.

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23 Outside Looking In: Two new films explore how particular cultures treat outsiders.

26 Arts Grazer: D.C.’s indie movie theater boom, mapped 26 One Track Mind: Dove Lady’s “Oolong Way From Home” 28 Curtain Calls: Johnson on Woolly Mammoth Theatre’s An Octoroon, Paarlberg on Theater Alliance’s Going to a Place Where You Already Are, and Lyons on Studio Theatre’s Hedda Gabler

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CHATTER Beautiful Day in the Gayborhood

In which a reader gets the inaugural Shut the Fuck Up award

Darrow MontgoMery

Before we discuss what was inside last week’s Gay Issue, let’s start with a complaint about its cover. @EmilyIsHapless tweeted, “Why not use #LGBTQ on the cover, @wcp?

Your readers are saavy & know the meaning. Use inclusive language! #PrideDC.” Maybe @EmilyIsHapless’ didn’t read the deck below “The Gay Issue” headline, which in fact said: “The geography of LGBTQ [righteous emphasis mine] D.C.” Moving on: Inside, readers had a lot to say about staff writer Andrew Giambrone’s story on the rise and fall of gay Dupont (“A Gay Old Time”). @plannerthon tweeted, “Not sure about this. Gay nightlife may not all be on same st but is still quite concentrated in NW, w/2 exceptions.” @RkCreekWerewolf employed ALL CAPS to make his point: “#DC has one of largest & most vibrant #LGBT communities in USA. Gay bars EVERYWHERE. This is a SUCCESS, folks.” No one is SAYING IT’S NOT, werewolf. Walter commented about the “real pioneers” of Dupont: “young gay men who came to DC in the early ’70s, bought run-down houses in a risky neighborhood, and lovingly renovated them, thus encouraging an influx of more gays, gay-friendly businesses, and others who rejuvenated Dupont and moved on to places like Logan Circle.” That certainly is one way to use the word “pioneer.” Thomas DeLuca had what in a normal week would be the most sigh-worthy comment: “Really? Isn’t DC just a giant gay neighborhood.” But the honor, and the inaugural Shut the Fuck Up award, goes to Jerry Boggs’ for him comment on Morgan Baskin’s piece on landmarked lesbian history (“Grand Fury”). I won’t subject you to the entire comment, but it ended with a link to malemattersusa.wordpress.com, which seeks to correct the record and show “that the male matters as much as the female.”

—Sarah Anne Hughes Department of Corrections: Due to an editing error, musician Jonny Grave’s last name was spelled “Graves” in last week’s One Track Mind column.

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What If We’re Wrong About the Pigskins?

By Matt Terl ChuCk klosterman has written before about the use of Native American iconography in the names of sports teams, but unless you attended the University of North Dakota in the early 1990s (or have access to the Dakota Student’s physical archive), you’ve probably never read it.

It’s an issue that seems to sit squarely in his strike zone. Since making his name nationally as a music and pop-culture writer, Klosterman’s scope has expanded. He served for nearly three years as The Ethicist for New York Times Magazine, wrote a novel using invisibility as a metaphor for privacy and surveillance, and a nonfiction book on the theme of villains and bad guys that still had the popculture bent and breezy prose of Klosterman’s earlier work.

His new book, But What If We’re Wrong?

Thinking About The Present As If It Were The Past, continues that trend. The book, as the title promises, looks at assumptions we make in lots of different areas of life, and presupposes what might happen when we find out we’re wrong about them, the same way ideas (e.g., gravity, Moby-Dick being a terrible book, etc.) throughout history become outdated and ridiculous in hindsight.

“What I tried to do is think about the present tense as if I was looking back on it,” Klosterman explains, “trying to look on the present as if it was history and use that criteria, because that criteria is different.”

One chapter is dedicated, for example, to the future of football in America. It focuses on the question of if the sport will even exist in the future, given what we now know about the risks the game presents to its participants.

The topic of team names that reference Native Americans is not mentioned in this chapter.

The Washington football team is mentioned once in the book, but only in passing, as Klosterman attempts to work out what sort of person might be viewed (from the future) as a “contemporary Kafka”—i.e., a writer who is unnoticed in their own lifetime but revered in retrospect. In discussing the possibility that

this retro-Kafka will come from a marginalized subculture, Klosterman considers the possibility of a Native American.

“Outside the anguish expressed over the use of the term ‘Redskin’ by the Washington football franchise,” he writes, “it’s hard to find conversation about the biases facing Native Americans; outside the TV show Fargo, you almost never see it reflected in the popular culture.”

That’s it. That’s the full extent of Klosterman’s current published writing on the subject. Which seemed odd to me, because the ongoing debate is remarkably well-suited to his contrarian style in general, and to the new book in particular.

“It actually fits into multiple arguments,” he says when I suggest that, “because it’s kind of about football, but it’s also very much about politics. It is to a degree about literature, or, sort of, arts criticism and how the way we view language changes over time. It’s proba-

“What I tried to do is... look on the present as if it was history.”

—Chuck Klosterman

bly a pretty good cross-section of a lot of the ideas in this book.”

The core of Klosterman’s approach in the book comes down to the idea that if you can see a logical chain of events leading to a future point of view, it’s probably not what will happen. Using that as a guideline, I spent a phone call with Klosterman batting the ongoing name discussion back and forth, with possible future outcomes becoming progressively more outlandish as we eliminated logical possibilities.

Here’s a few of the ways the debate about the local football squad’s name could wind up,

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assuming that all parties involved are wrong about everything.

The simple version, wherein the name eventually changes but remnants of the old name stick around. “I don’t know at an NBA game if there are people wearing Bullets jerseys,” Klosterman says, “but if there are it’s because they love Wes Unseld. They don’t love bullets.” But this is a fairly unremarkable bit of futurecasting, and therefore not what we’re looking for.

The version where football becomes a niche sport. This is one of Klosterman’s two possible paths for the NFL itself: Either, he says, “Football survives because of its violence and it takes on a political meaning that suggests a certain kind of ideology about life,” or all sports disappear because they don’t reflect how we raise kids in modern society. In the version where football becomes much smaller, Klosterman speculates, “this idea of the Redskin name being part of tradition becomes a stronger argument, at least to the people in that group, in that they’re saying that football is the way to kind of tie back into a world that has changed, and whatever that world was is what we want to perpetuate.” In the other version, where sports cease to exist, the name debate stands as just another example of why. But both of these tie in to specific external events. What if football continues more or less as we know it now?

meaning? Klosterman compares this to the Georgetown sports teams. “A Hoya is… something,” Klosterman says, and then we spent an embarrassing amount of time unsure as to if the word “hoya” has anything to do with bulldogs or not. (It doesn’t. The teams were called “Hoyas” in the 1920s, based on a cheer the students used in the late 19th century. All of which makes this possible path seem perfectly feasible, and therefore clearly wrong.)

An even weirder semiotic possibility. “If this was part of my book,” Klosterman says, “the larger question would be something that goes beyond that singular debate. Like, is the whole idea of sports teams having nicknames kind of weird? Will that be some kind of relic that we’ll look back on and be like, ‘It’s really bizarre that they’d play these games and name themselves after animals and after weather to somehow signify who they were?’ That might seem very strange to people in a distant future: that somehow the people of Detroit saw themselves represented by lions, an animal that does not exist on this continent.”

The version where a Native American owner takes control of the team. In this hypothetical future, Dan Snyder loses control of the team somehow, and a wealthy Native American entrepreneur scoops it up… and decides to keep the name as a way of reclaiming the word and keeping the team’s traditions in place. “It’s very easy to argue with Dan Snyder about pretty much anything,” Klosterman points out, “but it’d be pretty difficult to argue with a Native American owner about keeping the Redskins name.”

The weirdest possibility of all: Dan Snyder has a sudden change of heart and changes the name himself. Klosterman once found himself in a word-usage dilemma, when the mother of a child with Down syndrome pointed out that he had regularly and dismissively deployed the other R-word pretty carelessly. Klosterman’s response was to apologize bluntly, to promise to do better in the future, and to make a donation to a charity of the woman’s choice. So, I suggest, what if Snyder took a similarly sincere tactic?

Klosterman initially suggests that it would do no good—that scorn for Snyder is too ingrained. But then he reconsiders. “Maybe I’m being too cynical,” he says. “Maybe people would be, like, ‘Great, he’s woke.’ That would be the meme: Woke Dan Snyder. There would be some story out there like, ‘Can you believe how woke Dan Snyder is?’ and there would be pictures of him with Beyoncé.”

We didn’t reach a firm conclusion. But if Klosterman’s book can be boiled down to the idea that, as he writes, “the best hypothesis is the one that reflexively accepts its potential wrongness to begin with”—to oversimplify, the one that seems the most improbable based on current trends—then Woke Dan Snyder seems like a good way to bet.

CP

One weird semiotic possibility. What if football sticks around for a hundred years and the word is just totally detached from all

Chuck Klosterman reads at 7 p.m. Friday at Politics & Prose. Follow Matt Terl on Twitter @matt_terl.

Gear Prudence Gear Prudence: SafeTrack is starting and it’s really going to screw things up for the next year.

A lot of my colleagues ride Metro downtown from the suburbs and they’re totally freaking out about what they’re going to do. I’m a huge bike booster, and I think that riding to work could be a great solution for them. What’s the most effective way to persuade someone to try to bike commute?

—Try Riding, Annoyed Colleagues! Keen Worker Offers Rolling Knowledge Dear TRACKWORK: The latest and most dramatic attempt to finally (maybe?) fix the flailing transit system will be massively disruptive to the commutes of thousands. At the same time, you’re thinking “never let a good crisis go to waste”—maybe this clusterfuck will finally be the thing that births scads of new bike commuters, so at least some good will come from it. But how do you convince them Vienna isn’t that far from D.C. or that Rockville is basically right around the corner? You don’t.

Even GP, a most ardent advocate, thinks that it’s unreasonable to expect anyone to commute more than 10 miles by bike.

That’s just too far. Sure, lots of people happily do it, and many more traverse distances much farther than that daily and with a smile. They’ll tell you that it’s the best part of their day, how much weight they’ve lost, how happy they are, and how it was easy to get used to doing. For these people, it’s great. But there’s something special about them and their circumstances that allowed them to make this choice. To suggest anyone do the same or to even think there’s a persuasive argument that might conceivably compel someone to do this is misguided. It’s way too big an ask, even for the most positive proselytizer.

Five miles is really the uppermost limit in the “this could be reasonable for most people in some circumstances” zone. Even this presupposes tolerable terrain and mostly hospitable roads. If you have suburban colleagues who can get to a bus or bypass single-tracking with a ride of a few miles, ask them if they’ve ever considered biking. The key is to ask, not to tell. Maybe they’ve thought about it and dismissed it, or maybe it’s never occurred to them. You’re just putting it out there as an option and that’s about the most you can (and should) do. If they rebuke you, don’t sulk. It’s not your commute. If they have questions, answer honestly. Biking is far too great to “trick” someone into doing it. You gain nothing from that. SafeTrack or not, people can make their own choices.

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How to Germinate Your Own Pot Seeds

Hopefully all of you aspiring growers have been able to get your seeds so we can move to the next step: germination.

Take great care handling seed and seedling. Most flower and vegetable seeds are simply planted directly in the soil, but because of the value of cannabis seeds, germinating seeds prior to planting is encouraged.

Growers can achieve a much higher survival rate by germinating in a non-soil medium and then transferring the seed to soil once the tap root has emerged from the seed.

Here is one of the simplest and most successful methods: Put a double layer of paper towels on a dinner plate, them thoroughly soak the towels with water and tilt the plate to drain off the excess. Place your seeds on top of the wet towels and cover with another double layer of soaked paper towels. Be sure excess water is drained off—you don’t want the seeds to be swimming.

Cover the plate with an upside-down plate or pot lid. A plastic bag or plastic wrap also works. Don’t make the seal tight—you want to leave some openings to allow air flow.

Keep the germinating seeds away from direct light. For best results, keep them at about 75 degrees Fahrenheit. A radiant heat source, like a heating pad, helps expedite the process. If you’re using a heating pad, be sure to keep the heat setting on low and place a folded hand towel between the heating pad and plate: Direct contact between the plate and heat source can cook your seeds.

Under the right conditions, seeds usually open in one to five days, so check them daily. Do not allow the towels to dry, and add water as needed to maintain moisture.

Some seeds can take as long as 10 days to germinate, but if seeds have not opened within 10 days, they are not viable.

When the seeds open, the first thing to emerge is the root. Once the root sprouts it can grow quite fast.

When the root grows to a few millimeters in length, the seed is ready to be transferred to soil. Always take great care not to damage the tap root when handling. The best

soil to use for a sprouting baby ganja plant is a “seed starter” or “seedling” mix. These are light neutral blends with very little fertilizer. Heavily fertilized soils will kill seedlings quickly, and cannabis seedlings prefer loose, aerated soil that their roots can easily penetrate. A bag of good starter soil is easily identifiable: When you pick it up, it should feel light and fluffy. Soils that are heavy and compact are not good for seedlings.

Now, on to potting (no pun intended).

A healthy seedling will be ready for transplanting into larger container, with richer soil, in about a month. A 16- to 20-ounce container is ideal for a seedling’s first home (many growers use a Solo cup). The container must drain, so punch some holes if needed.

Fill your container with pre-moistened soil and create a hole about a half-inch deep for your seed. The tip of a pencil works well for making the right sized hole. The seed should be about a quarter-inch below the surface.

Place your germinated seed, root down, into the hole and cover lightly. Do not pack the soil on top of the seed; a light protective layer of soil is all that is needed.

Once they sprout in one to three days, new seedlings will need lots of light, and fluorescent grow light works best. Give your baby ganja plants 16 hours of light per day.

It’s very important to have a breeze on your plants immediately. A fan placed at the proper distance and speed should create a breeze just strong enough so your plant “dances,” but not so strong that it’s bent in one direction.

Without a breeze, indoor ganja plants won’t receive the stimulus needed to develop sturdy stems and branches, which the plant will need to bear the weight of big, sugary buds.

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I’m a 33-year-old straight guy with a small dick.

I have a girlfriend of seven years. When we met, I was really insecure and she had to spend a lot of time reassuring me that it didn’t matter—she loved my dick, sex with me was great, it was big enough for her, etc. I broke up with her once because I didn’t think she should settle for someone so small. After some hugely painful nights and another near breakup, we are in a good place now.

We have lots of great vanilla sex, we love being together, and we recently got engaged. After everything I put her through—and I put her through hell—how do I tell her that being mocked (and worse) for having a small dick is the only thing I ever think about when I masturbate? I want a woman to punish me emotionally and physically for having such a small and inadequate dick.

There’s porn about my kink, but I didn’t discover it until long after I was aware of my interest. (I grew up in a weird family that lived “off the grid,” and I didn’t get online until I got into college at age 23.) I’ve never been able to bring myself to tell anyone about my kink. How do I tell this woman? I basically bullied her into telling me that my dick was big enough—and now I want her to tell me it isn’t big enough. But do I really want her to?

I’ve never actually experienced the kind of insulting comments and physical punishments that I fantasize about. What if the reality is shattering?

—Tense In New York “I was in a similar situation years ago with my then-girlfriend, now-wife,” said TP. “I was too chicken to tell her about my fetish and worried she wasn’t satisfied with my size, so I didn’t want to bring more attention to it. I eventually went to a pro Domme and felt guilty about doing it behind my girlfriend’s back.”

TP, which stands for Tiny Prick, is a prominent member of the SPH (small penis humiliation) fetish scene. TP is active on Twitter (@deliveryboy4m) and maintains a blog devoted to the subjects of SPH (his passion) and animal rights (a subject his Domme is passionate about) at fatandtiny.blogspot.com.

“I got really lucky because I found the Domme I’ve been serving for more than 10 years,” said TP. “It was my Domme who encouraged me to bring up my kinks with my wife. I only wish I had told my wife earlier. She hasn’t turned into a stereotypical dominatrix, but she was open to incorporating some SPH play into our sex life.”

According to TP, TINY, you’ve already laid the groundwork for the successful incorporation of SPH into your sex life: You’re having good, regular, and satisfying vanilla sex with your partner.

“TINY’s partner is happy with their sex life, so he knows he can satisfy a woman,” said TP. “That will help to separate the fantasy of the humiliation from the reality of their strong re-

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lationship. I know if I wasn’t having good vanilla sex, it would be much harder to enjoy the humiliation aspect of SPH.” When you’re ready to broach the subject with the fiancée, TINY, I would recommend starting with both an apology (“I’m sorry again for what I put you through”) and a warning (“What I’m about to say is probably going to come as a bit of a shock”). Then tell her you have a major kink you haven’t disclosed, tell her she has a right to know about it before you marry, tell her that most people’s kinks are wrapped up with their biggest fears and anxieties… and she’ll probably be able to guess what you have to tell her before you can get the words out.

“He should explain to her that he doesn’t want to be emotionally hurt as much as he wants to feel exposed and vulnerable, and that can be a thrill,” said TP. “It can be hard for people to understand how humiliation can be fun. But humiliation play is one way to add a new dynamic to their sexual relationship.”

—Dan Savage

I was traveling and forgot to pack lube, so I amused myself with some old conditioner I’d brought. It had some menthol in it or something and it tingled a bit, but it did the job. When I woke up, my dick had shriveled into a leathery red sheath of pain. I looked at the bottle again, and it wasn’t conditioner, it was actually a 10 percent benzoyl peroxide cleanser. After a few days, my leathery foreskin flaked off and the pain went away. Should I be concerned about my dick?

—Onanism Until Cock Hurts No, OUCH, your dick should be concerned about you. You’re the one who, despite having a foreskin to work/jerk with, grabbed the nearest bottle of whatever was handy instead of using the masturbation sleeve the good Lord gave ya. And you’re the one who didn’t read the label on the nearest bottle of whatever before pouring its contents all over your cock. Caveat masturbator!

—Dan I have a health question/problem. About a week and a half ago, the wife and I had sex. Being the genius that I am, I got the idea to put two condoms on because I thought it would help me last longer.

(Spoiler alert: It didn’t.) The problem is, I guess the double condoms were too tight, and climaxing hurt quite a bit. For all intents and purposes, it’s like I duct-taped the tip of my penis shut and tried to blow a load. Even days after, the left side of my penis head was really sensitive and it hurt. It’s gotten better, but it’s too sensitive to touch from time to time. I have a doctor’s appointment to make sure I’m okay, but it’s two weeks away. I’m a little worried I may have hurt my prostate or urethra or something. From my basic googling, there doesn’t seem to be any medical advice about this.

Help please? —Penile Problem Possessor

“The application of an external constriction to the penis did potentially cause the pressure in the urethra to rise, possibly traumatically, during ejaculation,” said Dr. Keith D. Newman, a urologist, a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, and a regular guest expert in Savage Love (his most prestigious professional accomplishment).

In other words, PPP, somehow those two condoms conspired to dam up your piss slit— aka your urethral meatus—and the force of your impeded ejaculation damn near blew off your cock.

I basically bullied her into telling me that my dick was big enough— and now I want her to tell me it isn’t big enough.

“We sometimes see a similar phenomenon occur with people who wear constriction bands or cock rings that are too tight and try to either urinate or ejaculate with the ring on,” said Dr. Newman. “The result is a traumatic stretch of the urethra and microscopic tears in the lining of the urethra (mucosa). This disruption in the lining allows for electrolytes in the urine (particularly potassium) to stimulate the nerves in the layer beneath the lining (submucosa), thereby creating a chronic dull ache, such as PPP describes.”

Your urethra should heal just fine in time— within a couple of weeks—but there are meds and other interventions if you’re still in pain a few weeks from now. “The bottom line is never impede urination or ejaculation by obstructing the urethra,” said Dr. Newman. —Dan Send your Savage Love questions to mail@savagelove.net.

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Your column of September 23, 1988, addresses whether cannibalism is routinely practiced anywhere and concludes it is not. But why not? One argument in favor of cannibalism is simply that it is food. Not every part of every dead human is going to be fit for consumption, but some are— perhaps enough to relieve a food shortage in some starving, drought-stricken region.

—Johnny

Always nice to hear from a longtime reader: Johnny Swift, I presume, back with another modest proposal. Why not cannibalism? For some cogent reasoning along these lines—from an ethics standpoint, anyways—I point you to a 2004 paper in Public Affairs Quarterly by the philosopher J. Jeremy Wisnewski. If you want a good read, I’d put this one up against Eat, Pray, Love any day of the week. At the end, Wisnewski stresses that he hasn’t made a case for the practice, necessarily, but he feels he’s pretty handily dealt with the various arguments against it. We don’t need to walk through the whole thing, but here’s some highlights: -As long as the cannibalized aren’t consumed alive or murdered for the purpose of being eaten, we can hardly claim that harm has been done to them. Indeed, “the decomposition of the body itself would be a harm,” Wisnewski suggests—so basically we can call it a wash.

-“Eating the flesh of a human being, the argument runs, would cause undue distress to the family of the cannibalized,” Wisnewski concedes. “Let us grant that it is wrong to cause undue distress.” So one would want to obtain consent from the cannibalized’s loved ones, presuming such people are around to consent— as in all things, it’s best to first ask nicely.

-Wisnewski then addresses the “formula of humanity,” part of Kant’s concept of the categorical imperative, which states that humans must always be viewed as ends, never merely as means. And what is cannibalism—at least in the sustenance context you propose—beyond the means to a full belly? But a corpse “is not a human being,” Wisnewski argues. It’s merely “flesh,” and therefore does not have dignity.

Dignity, according to Kant, “lies in the capacity of an agent to be autonomous,” something one obviously forfeits upon buying the farm.

-OK, forget dignity—what about simple respect? It’s disrespectful to eat someone’s flesh just because they’re no longer around to complain, right? Not inevitably, says Wisnewski.

There are plenty of behaviors—“raising one’s middle finger, going without one’s shirt, belching,” and so forth—that telegraph disrespect in some cultures but are uncontroversial in others. Just because we may perceive eating a former acquaintance as a pretty serious F.U. doesn’t mean it’s inherently disrespectful.

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(Wisnewski here grants that hopefully the deceased will have made her wishes known one way or another regarding becoming a postmortem casserole. “The author of this article has no objections to being cannibalized,” he adds; happy to put you two in touch, Johnny.)

Obviously one could similarly muster philosophical arguments against cannibalism, but here let’s just stipulate Professor Wisnewski’s findings: we can eat other human beings, provided we’re not murdering them, provided they’ve granted some kind of premortem consent, etc. Should we? A few things to consider: -Despite ongoing debate among experts about how many societies ever really engaged in cannibalism (which is where we left things back in 1988), it’s still generally believed that the fatal neurological disease kuru was transmitted among the Fore people of Papua New Guinea via their practice up into the 1950s of eating their dead relatives’ remains, brains prominently included. Remember mad-cow disease? From the same pathological family as kuru, it spread due to cattle’s being fed meal containing bits of other cows.

-Were humanity to embrace cannibalism, we’d likely end up eating a lot of recently deceased old folks. Culinarily this may not sound promising, and we’d certainly want to develop some prep methods to get around the toughness factor, such as, er, aging the meat.

But a 2015 article in Modern Farmer makes a case (granted, with respect to livestock) that we should be eating older animals anyways— properly tenderized, they’re apparently more flavorful than younger specimens.

-An article on the website Live Science—ha, ha—argues that compared to four-legged stock humans really aren’t very meaty, and compared to chicken they’re slow to mature, so you won’t get much bang for your buck with a widespread program of human cannibalism. That’s partly why, through history, the practice has existed largely as a last rite (or a last resort), rather than an ongoing method of subsistence.

-Humans are, in the end, red meat, which, here in the developed world, we’re told we should stay away from. Elsewhere on earth, of course, few can afford to be too picky.

But this brings us to the real point, re the starvation issue: Human hunger is most decidedly not a question of a lack of resources—it’s a question of distribution. There’s already plenty of food to go around, in other words, without us needing to have granny for dinner.

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Yvette Alexander and Vince Gray fight for his old seat.

Ward 7’s East River Park Shopping Center has a Safeway, a CVS, and a library. Last weekend, it also had two feuding campaigns.

Vince Gray’s camp showed up to the library’s early voting location first on Saturday, claiming the plum positions for their tent and campaign signs. A significantly smaller contingent across the parking lot backed Yvette Alexander, Gray’s former protege and the current holder of the Ward 7 D.C. Council seat that Gray wants to retake.

“Time for a change!” one Gray supporter yelled.

That Gray, who held elected office in the District for 10 years until his failed mayoral re-election in 2014, counts as a “change” shows just what kind of a topsy turvy race this is. Gray helped elect Alexander to the Ward 7 seat in 2007; now he wants to take her seat for himself.

Gray’s surprise campaign for his old Council seat has ended up being about a lot of things—the ward’s murder rate, Gray’s attempt to move past the now-closed federal investigation into his 2010 campaign, and Mayor Muriel Bowser’s attempt to keep her most implacable rival from setting himself up for another mayoral bid. But the real story of the race is how the relationship between Gray and Alexander went sour.

In 2013, in the thick of the federal investigation, Alexander endorsed Gray’s re-election campaign just hours after he announced it. After Gray lost his re-election bid, though, Alexander moved quickly to distance herself from Gray, redirecting Gray’s funding for a hospital east of the Anacostia River to other projects. Now her campaign sends out a stream of emails reminding voters about prosecutors’ interest in Gray.

In 2007, Gray backed Alexander to take his old seat. This time around, when he launched his campaign with an appearance on WAMU, Gray didn’t say he regretted endorsing her. Instead, he offered that he couldn’t have known then what a disappointment she would be as a councilmember.

As his campaign van headed out last weekend to another senior center to pick up more voters, Gray talked up his expected lead in the race over his former ally.

“I’m hopeful that people are excited about this,” Gray said.

The race has doubled as a comeback tour for Gray, who lost the 2014 mayoral primary after prosecutors produced a guilty plea from city contractor Jeff Thompson—Thompson said Gray knew about the illegal campaign to get him elected. The investigation ended last December, but small revelations keep

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by will sommer photos by darrow montgomery coming out: New documents unearthed in April, for example, eyed Gray’s son Carlos Gray as the recipient of illicit money from Thompson.

None of that seems to matter to the Ward 7 electorate, who backed Gray with more than 60 percent of the vote in his disastrous reelection bid. Now, voters mostly don’t bring up the investigation at his campaign events, unless it’s to say how unfairly they think Gray was treated.

Gray’s polls also suggest that the ward’s voters are on board. The latest public Gray campaign poll, published in the middle of May, showed Gray with a lead of more than 30 percent over Alexander. Alexander’s campaign has done its own polling, but refuses to release the numbers.

If it weren’t for Gray, Alexander would probably be cruising to re-election. The other candidates in the race are polling low, and another challenger dropped out, citing health reasons, after Gray had entered the race.

The race has been relatively light on public confrontations between the two candidates, especially considering their shared history and soured friendship. Alexander has stuck with mailed pamphlets touting her record, preferring to use an email campaign to blast Gray over the fed-

eral investigation. Gray’s own campaign mailers have stayed positive, except for one mailer that accused Alexander of responding indifferently to the ward’s murder spike.

Alexander refused to speak for this story, citing a City Paper article about her use of Council resources on behalf of a nonprofit on whose board she held an undisclosed position.

But she has a lot of other things to be unhappy about, too.

Bowser’s endorsement doesn’t go far in Ward 7. Neither does the Bowser-aligned Washington Post editorial board, which endorsed Alexander but likely won’t carry much weight with the ward’s voters.

Even other candidates on Bowser’s Green Team slate are shying away. Vincent Orange, who’s running city-wide to hold onto his at-large seat, said he supported Alexander but had to be pressed to actually say her name in a May radio interview.

Many of the District’s unions, who usually try to stick to likely winners and incumbents, have thrown in with Gray.

With Gray expected to win handily next week, he’ll be one step closer to a potential mayoral rematch with Bowser in 2018. This time around, though, he probably won’t get Alexander’s endorsement.

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Out outand andAbout about

By Andrew Giambrone It’s the mIddle of May, and the only chance the District has of electing an openly gay councilmember this year is sweating his way through Dupont Circle.

“I’m energized to do it,” David Garber, 32, tells an older male resident on S Street NW, who’d commented on his youthful figure. With Garber are three canvassers, whom the resident coyly refers to as an “entourage.”

“How many people are running in this race anyways?” the resident asks.

If Garber wins and takes the citywide D.C. Council seat Vincent Orange has held since 2011, he’d fill a void left by Ward 1’s Jim Graham and at-larger David Catania last year. The latter lost in a failed mayoral bid against Muriel Bowser and now works as a white-shoe healthcare lawyer. Graham got ousted from the Wilson Building by Brianne Nadeau, and has pivoted to promoting male strippers. The Council dais has been manifestly less queer ever since.

Garber’s chances seem slim given Orange’s name recognition and the endorsements leading challenger Robert White has amassed in recent weeks, including one from his former boss and a man he describes as his “mentor,” D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine. But what’s befuddling about Garber’s campaign— at least at first glance—is the fact that the District’s politically active LGBTQ groups aren’t interested in elevating the former substitute teacher and advisory neighborhood commissioner as the next gay councilmember.

“I never heard of him until about a year ago,” says Rick Rosendall, president of D.C.’s Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance. Rosendall personally supports White, and he says Garber is “a nice guy...but he has not impressed a lot of people on the campaign trail. Whereas Robert... has actively worked with us for longer and is more plugged-in.”

Garber hasn’t shied away from his gay identity since he came out via Facebook last year, but he isn’t exactly capitalizing on it either.

“My level of experience and the issues that I’d be fighting for are so much broader than that,” he says, rejecting the “gay candidate” label. “But it’s definitely a part of who I am, and it’s something I’d fight for and be proud of on Council,” he says, whether he’d be tackling LGBTQ youth homelessness or discrimination against gay seniors.

Meanwhile, his opponents are doing plenty to cover their bases with the District’s queer community. For one thing, all three are set to march in this weekend’s Pride Parade, something of a tradition for politicians here. In April, though, Orange and White split acclaim from

the Gertrude Stein Democratic Club, at an endorsement forum for D.C.’s LGBTQ establishment. Garber won just two votes, reported the Washington Blade, compared with Orange’s 44 and White’s 37. After a runoff, no candidate was officially endorsed.

“It would be nice to have a[n LGBTQ] person [on the Council], but just to have a person for the sake of having a person is not necessarily the winning formula,” Stein Club President Earl Fowlkes says. “We’re looking at their ability to get things done... and [whether they’re] on our side.”

Rosendall echoes that notion, pointing out that GLAA scored White plus-8.5 on its candidate scale, which ranges from minus-10 to plus-10 and is based on a candidate’s record as well as questionnaire responses. While Orange earned only plus-4, Garber got a relative-

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If he wins next week, David Garber would be the sole openly gay member of the D.C. Council. Does anybody care?

ly modest plus-6.5. He contends that he has “quite a bit of support” from queer folk across the District. Besides, he says, “there are infinitely more LGBT residents in D.C. that are not part of these political clubs than are.”

That’s true, and political campaigns have long skewed Stein Club endorsements by covering supporters’ membership fees. This effectively permits politicos to “pack the meeting,” Rosendall notes. For Fowlkes, Garber’s paltry showing illustrates that “he’s a bit of an unknown quality.”

The candidate, who grew up in nearby Virginia and moved to D.C. when he was 24, can’t count on a geographic base either, having bounced from Anacostia to Navy Yard to Shaw. (“At-large, that’s a lot of doors to knock on,” the S Street citizen tells Garber.) And in a progressive city that

helped lead the charge for legalizing samesex marriage, the line between LGBTQ voters and their allies remains thin, particularly in 2016.

Still, former Councilmember Graham says it’s “terribly important” for the Council to have a sitting LGBTQ member. “We have the votes on issues,” says the ex-executive director of Whitman-Walker Health, now in his 70s.

“But you don’t feel the issues in your heart unless you’re one of us... and take initiative.”

Will D.C. have a queer councilmember again? “I think it’s going to happen,” Graham, an Orange supporter, says, speaking on the phone from his convertible. “It’s definitely going to come about. Maybe not this election but maybe in the future it will come about.

And maybe it’s already happened… Maybe it’s already there.”

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By Will Sommer

Ward 7 isn’t the only D.C. Council seat up for grabs in next week’s Democratic primary.

Along with Ward 2, where Councilmember Jack Evans is running unopposed, three other races are on the ballot—and by extension, so is the power of Mayor Muriel Bowser, who backs all the incumbents.

Ward 4

At-Large In late May, at-large hopeful Robert White worked the kind of tony Ward 3 fundraiser crowd where people are mostly concerned that a new public pool will take up their tennis court space. White knocked down his two challengers for the citywide seat—incumbent Vincent Orange and fellow challenger David Garber.

For Garber, a former advisory neighborhood commissioner who’s struggled to gain a position in the race despite an early start, White had a putdown: no “resume.” He was even harsher with Orange.

“They don’t vote for him because they love him,” White said, suggesting voters in Orange’s base cast their ballots out of a sense of obligation. “He doesn’t have Marion Barry status.”

With the few endorsements Orange hasn’t already garnered himself, White looks like Orange’s leading challenger. The trouble for people who would like the ethically compromised Orange off the Council is that White’s lead on Garber doesn’t amount to much. And with contested ward-level races in Wards 7 and 8—Orange’s reliable wards—the incumbent should perform even better. Every vanload of seniors brought to the polls by Yvette Alexander and Vince Gray contains more votes for Orange.

Once again, Orange looks set for another victory with help from vote-splitting challengers. In another bad sign for anti-Orange, goodgovernment types, White and Garber have entered the stage of the campaign where they argue about who promised to drop out.

In a three-way appearance on WAMU’s The Kojo Nnamdi Show, White claimed Garber said he’d bail; Garber countered that White was making it all up. Orange, wisely, stayed out of it.

Brandon Todd walked into the Ward 4 Council seat last year, thanks to a split field of challengers and support from former Ward 4 Councilmember Muriel Bowser. This time, he’ll probably do the same.

Todd is not always a model candidate: Last year, he dealt with revelations about his youthful bankruptcy over clothing debts; he also resorted to Googling for an answer when asked during a debate which historical figure inspires him.

His opponents aren’t doing much better. Leon Andrews, Todd’s lead opponent, came in third in last year’s special election and has managed to swing many of his former rivals over to his campaign.

Still, he’s struggled to break away from the latest field of challengers enough that he had to ask one debate moderator to call him by the right name.

Ward 8 The District’s closest primary race couldn’t get through 24 hours of early voting without some sort of intrigue. When news reached the Ward 8 campaigns just before midnight that someone had broken into a voting site, supporters of both incumbent LaRuby May and leading challenger Trayon White raced to the scene.

For White’s supporters, the break-in was proof of the malfeasance they’ve claimed was afoot since their candidate lost last year’s special election to May by fewer than 100 votes.

The fix was in for Muriel Bowser favorite

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May, they said. Even police officers, who are of course ultimately Bowser’s employees, couldn’t be trusted. Waiting outside, White demanded a “full-fledged investigation.”

It might not have to go that far: According to the Metropolitan Police Department, the teens made off with a fire extinguisher.

Even if this wasn’t quite Watergate, the campaigns’ reaction to the burglary shows how intense the Ward 8 race has become.

For May, it was one thing to win Marion Barry’s old seat—it’s proving much harder to keep it.

May’s backers fret about a replay of the 1994 and 1995 elections in Ward 8, when a mayorbacked candidate replaced Barry in the seat by just one vote, only to lose to a less crowded field a year later.

White has certainly managed to trim the

ballot this time. While he and May faced a dozen other names last year, they’re the only two competitive candidates now.

Barry’s son, who ran last year, endorsed White this time around. When this year’s race was just starting, Stuart Anderson, another former candidate now backing White, said anyone who tried to run this time around would be hearing from White’s campaign.

Walking down the streets of Congress Heights, it’s clear where White gets his support. Everybody seems to know him—small business owners, teens hanging out in the street, people pulling over in their cars.

Is that a high turnout demographic? Who knows. May, on the other hand, can count on a treasury that was 10 times as large as White’s as of March.

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There’s a tradition in D.C. politics: When a seat is open on the D.C. Council, the field gets so big that the winner gets elected without coming close to a majority. (In heavily Democratic D.C., where general election victories are virtually guaranteed for the party’s nominee, winning the primary is what counts.) In this Tuesday’s election, all the Council races have incumbents who exemplify how majority doesn’t rule in the District.

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At-Large Councilmember Vincent Orange has eked out three victories against split opposition. When first elected in Ward 5 in 1998, Orange won 37 percent, while the runners-up won 35 and 22 percent. In the 2011 at-large special election, Orange’s 29 percent was enough; second and third place combined for 45 percent of the vote. Orange narrowly won re-election in 2012 in a fourway race, this time with with 42 percent.

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Chefs are giving up gigs at D.C.’s top restaurants to work for Whole Foods. came to Whole Foods last fall from Pearl Dive Oyster Palace, where she was executive chef, while Nola is a recent recruit from Rose’s Luxury. In the past year, Whole Foods has been building up its inhouse culinary team, hiring from some of D.C.’s trendiest restaurants. Next month, Andrew Adams, also an alum of Rose’s Luxury who’s currently at The Dabney, will join the crew at their Landover, Md. commissary. He’ll focus on product development.

Whole Foods isn’t just hiring pedigreed chefs in the Mid-Atlantic region.

Six months ago, the company brought on Tien Ho, who’s worked for David Chang’s Momofuku group, as its VP of culinary and hospitality, a new position.

For the grocery store chain, it’s a way to further build up its culinary cred. And for the chefs, it’s a way to cook professionally without the crazy schedule.

“After about a year at Rose’s, I was coming up on getting married and looking to have kids, and the idea of getting home at 3 in the morning wasn’t as appealing anymore,” says Nola, who’s also worked at Daikaya, Rappahannock Oyster Bar, and Rogue 24. Nola was also interested in reaching more people. “As great as Rose’s is, it’s still one single restaurant in a city as opposed to 49 stores over six or seven states.”

Conrad, on the other hand, was not initially looking to leave the restaurant industry, but applied for the job anyway.

Now,“I don’t think I could go back,” says the alum of Republic in Takoma Park. “It’s a really unsustainable lifestyle, and if you want to continue to have family and friends that aren’t only in that industry, then you can’t do it when you’re working 14 hours a day, six days a week.” When new stores are opening, she still might have to work from sun up to sun down, but overall, the job is much more 9-to-5.

For chefs, jobs like that are rare. “I didn’t know it existed,” Conrad says.

The chefs have their own desks in the Rockville office—something they never expected out of a culinary career. But for the most part, they split their time between individual stores and testing recipes at the commissary kitchen Darrow Montgomery

Benjamin Nola and Colleen Conrad

By Jessica Sidman In the nInth-floor conference room of a nondescript Rockville office building, a group of Whole Foods chefs are geeking out about their newest toy.

“I don’t know if we’re the first store that has a Pacojet, but we might be,” says MidAtlantic Culinary Coordinator Alan Morgan of the appliance that purées deepfrozen foods.

“We’re definitely the coolest,” says Colleen Conrad, who works with Morgan as Mid-Atlantic associate culinary coordinator.

The team is planning to use the gadget

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for a new line of vegetable and fruit “freezes,” similar to gelato, that will be sold at the juice and coffee bar at Whole Foods’ forthcoming Pentagon City store. It will be the 50th store in the region when it opens later this month. On this Wednesday afternoon, Morgan and Conrad are joined by prepared foods team member Benjamin Nola and his boss Jesse Morgans for the latest round of recipe testing.

Conrad scoops a frozen mix of strawberry, blackberry, blueberry, lime, basil, mint, and beet into Allegro Coffee cups and passes them around.

“I’m not a crazy fan of all the herbs in here,” she says.

“Was it hydroponic basil?” Jesse Morgans

asks. “We can get something cooler. Some Thai basil or... purple basil.”

“Or less basil,” Conrad says. “Or no basil.”

They go on to debate the mint: spearmint?

Chocolate mint? Pineapple mint? The conversation then turns to the texture and how it compares to a previous freeze sample made of peanut butter, banana, jicama, and dates.

“I love the texture of that one. It’s like ice cream,” says Nola of the peanut butter concoction. He declares the berry version too grainy with too many seeds.

“That one’s trying too hard to be ice cream,” Conrad retorts.

In many ways, conversations like these aren’t so different from the ones the chefs would have had in their previous jobs. Conrad

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in Landover. They also spend some time cooking in the makeshift kitchen in their office conference room, which primarily consists of a griddle, a sink, and a fridge. Co-workers continuously pop in to see what they’re making and to sneak bites.

Beyond the Pacojet taste test, Conrad, Nola, Morgan, and Morgans have a spread of vegetables, breads, and condiments crowded onto the kitchen island. Earlier, Nola had topped puff pastries with honey and sage ricotta, apricots, arugula, and Portuguese olive oil. For every new grocery store, the team tries to come up with one unique thing that’s not in other stores.

In the Allentown, Penn., Whole Foods, the pizza bar abuts the coffee bar, so Nola was developing a grab-and-go breakfast item that could be cooked in the pizza oven. Thus the puff pastry.

On the other end of the kitchen island, Conrad tested out lobster rolls for a seafood bar that’s coming to the store in Pentagon City.

Whole Foods doesn’t have a split-top roll, so they had to look elsewhere for the bread; they ultimately settled on one from LeoNora Gourmet Bakery in Arlington. This is just one of many details that have to be worked out before the store opens. In some ways, opening a Whole Foods isn’t too different from opening a restaurant.

“A lot of those things translated that I never expected to translate,” Conrad says. “Looking at plates, looking at forks. You don’t think about those kinds of things. Building a specific menu even. When I first thought Whole Foods, I didn’t think these little venues that they have set menus. I pictured the salad bar and the hot bars.”

Not that they don’t work on the hot bars, too. After their recipe testing at the office is done, Nola and Conrad head next door to the Rockville Whole Foods store to show me what they’ve been working on. This particular Whole Foods has a room the size of a large closet that houses a serious smoker, and one of Nola’s next big projects is figuring out how to add more variety to the smoked foods bar, like smoked beets, zucchini, or turnips.

That’s another benefit Conrad and Nola have found to working for a big company with lots of resources: They have access to a lot more equipment than they would have at most restaurants. “I could never go into any restaurant and be like, ‘Let me get a tandoori [oven],’” Conrad says.

The grocery store is also looking to restaurants for inspiration on what’s popular or trendy.

And with standard daytime hours, the team actually has time to check out the dining scene.

“When we were working in restaurants, people would always be like, ‘Oh, where do you go out to eat?’” Conrad says. “I didn’t. I was working, and when I wasn’t working, I was sleeping.”

Every now and then, the team will take

field trips—which Whole Foods pays for—for research. For example, Conrad, Morgan, and another colleague recently took a two-day trip to New York to scope out Korean fried chicken and all-day-breakfast spots. “I think we ate at like 16 places,” Alan Morgan says. They’ve done similar tours for pizza, burgers, and milkshakes. (“Franklin Fountain, Philadelphia, hands down, that’s the only place you need to go,” Morgan says of shakes.)

Morgan also proudly points out that they started serving Nashville hot chicken just before KFC introduced it early last year. “Now everyone’s doing that,” he says. Next, “we’re going to do Nashville cauliflower.”

The way the chefs approach recipes for Whole Foods, however, is a little different than the way they might do things in a restaurant kitchen. For starters, the skill level of cooks at each store typically isn’t the same as it would be at a restaurant like Rose’s Luxury. Cooks are also working fewer hours, which equals less prep time. That means every recipe has to be translated for someone who might not know what, say, a brunoise is. “You don’t have a team of prep cooks. You have one team member working on this one spot,” Conrad says. “How much can they get done? What can you do to make a good product that can be made in a reasonable amount of time?”

Nola adds that, in a restaurant, the chef can have a one-on-one relationship with the cooks.

“I can say to someone, ‘Put me together something with shallots and asparagus, and dice this and julienne that, and I know they’ll go take care of it.” But with so many stores, he can’t go in and show every employee exactly what he’s looking for. Instead, he relies on step-by-step photos or simplified recipes. “Maybe instead of whipping cream cheese and goat cheese together, maybe that’s already prepared for them and then it’s brought in,” Nola says.

The volume of food produced is also on a completely different scale. Nola recently helped change up the sauce for the pizza at the grocery’s pizza station. Not only do they have to find a recipe they like, but the team has to find a farmer who can supply 50,000 pounds of tomatoes per month. “It’s not like I can just call my farmer and be like, ‘I need a case of tomatoes,’” Nola says.

In fact, chefs come to Whole Foods when they don’t have time to get that case of tomatoes from a farmer. “Sunday morning, you ran out of something, and it’s like, ‘Oh crap, what am I going to do?’ And our first reaction was, ‘Who’s running to Whole Foods?’” Conrad says of her restaurant days. “A lot of chefs shop at Whole Foods… so of course why wouldn’t people come work here?”

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First, Hawaiian poke started to take off in D.C. Now, another food from the Aloha State (and popular in California) seems to be gaining traction: acai bowls. The antioxidant-rich superfruit smoothie bowls typically come topped with a range of fruits, granola, and other ingredients loved by people in yoga pants. Take a look at five local options below.

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1094 Palmer Alley NW, fruitive.com $8.95–$9.95 Among the superberry bowl options at this “plant-based” CityCenterDC shop is one with peanut butter and another with spinach and kale. The antioxidant berry bowl (seen here) combines cashew milk, acai, banana, strawberries, blueberries, and coconut sugar with granola, banana, strawberries, and blueberries on top.

South Block Juice Co.

Multiple locations, southblockjuice.com $8.95 While cold-pressed juices are the main attraction here, you’ll also find the largest selection of acai bowls. The Caveman Bowl contains a blend of acai, house cashew milk, and bananas plus toppings including granola, dates, bananas, and coconut. Chia seeds are free and double granola is $1 extra.

Jaco Juice and Taco Bar

1614 Wisconsin Ave. NW, jacojuiceandtaco.com $8 In addition to tacos, burritos, and juice, this Georgetown spot, which opened in January, serves three different acai bowls. Above is the Maui Wow made up of blended acai, banana, pineapple, and almond milk with banana, pineapple, coconut shavings, bee pollen, and granola on top.

Woodward Takeout Food

1426 H St. NW, woodwardtable.com $4.95 The downtown sandwich and salad destination recently introduced acai yogurt bowls in the mornings. There’s just one flavor, and it comes topped with various nuts, pineapple, strawberries, raspberries, banana, blueberries, blackberries, and a sprig of mint.

’WichingHour Where: Bread Bite Bakery, 1506 U St. NW Stuffings: Pastrami, coleslaw, horseradish aioli Bread: Olive loaf Thickness: 2 inches Pros: Finding decent pastrami outside a traditional deli is tough, but the tender, slightly chewy meat in this sandwich holds up pretty well.

A slather of bitter horseradish sauce brings out the pastrami’s peppery

1515 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, vitalitybowls.com This “superfood cafe” specializes specifically in acai bowls. The California-based franchise has nearly 40 locations open or in the works around the country and is slated to open in Rosslyn this fall.

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Sloppiness level (1 to 5): 2. Since the bread is very absorbent, it soaks up all the meat juices and other liquids that might otherwise leak onto the plate.

Aside from a few pieces of cabbage and some crumbs, everything stays where it’s supposed to.

Cons: This sandwich’s texture is all wrong: The carrots and cabbage in the coleslaw aren’t sliced thin enough, but instead of being crunchy, they feel mushy. While the olive loaf is wellmade, it’s a bit too salty when paired with a very salty meat. If the bread

Overall score (1 to 5): 2. Although the addition of horseradish adds some spicy excitement, this sandwich mainly makes you wish you were eating a regular Reuben instead. Bread Bite should opt for a rye or pumpernickel loaf to use with its sandwiches.

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Here Comes The Sun Atlas Brew Works just became a much cooler place to hang out and enjoy local craft beer—literally. Last week, founder Justin Cox and his team opened a new taproom complete with an airconditioning system that’s entirely solar powered. The sleek 2,600-squarefoot enclosed space, designed by Cox’s childhood friend Justin Feit, features a 20-person bar, table seating for 40, and plenty of standing room. A garage door opens to the production brewery and former tasting area, and the main entrance connects to an outdoor patio that debuted this spring. With the expansion, Atlas is now open seven days a week and can pour up to 16 beers on draft. Soon, the addition of a pilot brewing system will allow Atlas to offer small-batch experimental beers, including more oak barrel-aged brews.

Brett Spree In its new taproom, Atlas is currently offering several beers “on Brett” made with Brettanomyces, a naturally occurring yeast that can give beer an earthy, sometimes sour character. Take Gaslight, lead brewer Dan Vilarrubi’s “crazy” version of Atlas’ popular 1500 South Cap Lager. He added a specific strain, Brettanomyces Bruxellensis (named after the Senne valley in Belgium famous for spontaneously fermented lambics) to finish the beer during secondary fermentation.

The tweak gives this crisp, clean lager a softer, lighter body and slightly tart taste.

Brewed with Pilsner, Munich, and Cara malts, Gaslight still has a primarily bready flavor. Its Mount Hood hops are less noticeable in the beer’s nose but add to its dry, satisfying finish. Gaslight is light, lovely, and extremely drinkable—a perfect summer beer.

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A documentary about an eccentric artist and an Israeli film about a mentally challenged woman yearning for marriage explore how particular cultures treat outsiders.

Art Bastard

Art Bastard

Directed by Victor Kanefsky

Wedding Doll

Directed by Nitzan Giladi

By Tricia Olszewski RobeRt Cenedella, the subject of Art Bastard, is not a jerk.

Rather, in a tiny triumph for the English language, the creators of the documentary chose a title whose pure definition reflects not only Cenedella’s illegitimacy as a son but also his generally agreed-upon status as an outlier of his chosen career.

He’s not an outsider artist, mind you; Cenedella was taught by German artist George Grosz at the Arts Students League of New York and now teaches there himself. (One of the few punchclock jobs the 76year-old has ever had.) His body of work may be nicknamed “the people’s art,” but it has often hung in galleries. And though his wife, Liz Cenedella, says that her husband expresses a lot

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of anger in his satirical paintings, Cenedella himself couldn’t be more of a delight.

If you’re not familiar with the man, or you’re expecting a film about some entitled punk, it’s a lovely surprise. Director Victor Kanefsky sprinkles Art Bastard with mildly startling details: The first is the unmistakably digital look of the doc, its opening outdoor scenes in a focus so sharp it’s otherworldly. And as you watch Cenedella hop on the subway, you’ll eventually notice that its station signs, train info, and other lettering along the transit lines have been sneakily replaced by the film’s credits. Well after the doc builds Cenedella’s history with his parents—his sister occasionally chats with him about their upbringing—particularly regarding his question mark of a biological father and the one who raised him, it’s revealed that he has children of his own.

While standing in a kitchen with his “black sheep” son (he’s a lawyer), Cenedella the elder says, “I just don’t understand how you could not be a good father.” The comment is out of left field conversation-wise, but it’s lovely nonetheless.

Cenedella seems happy to share all of this with Kanefsky

and his audience, even if it sometimes gets repetitive. He begins with what inspired him: New York itself, the “constant wonderland” his family moved to when he was 12. The paintings that dot the screen while Cenedella is musing look more like cramped, crabby residents than denizens of any wonderland. Still, his works are bursting with detail and movement that throw you precisely into the moments he intended to capture.

As he tells us his story, a handful of commentators note that despite his talent, he stylistically “missed the boat” in terms of becoming successful—or at least well-known. Cenedella stepped back from the art world after abstract and pop art became all the rage, saying that the former “negated anyone who had a point of view” and mocking the latter with his own exhibition, “Yes Art.” He bemoans the current mindset of art as investment and talks of a student who had an MFA but had never held charcoal; she drew only with computers.

Still, the round, white-bearded artist remains, well, jolly— ironic considering that one of his most famous paintings was of Santa Claus hanging on a cross, gifts under his feet. It’s wonderful to visit his body of work, whether canvases or a George W. Bush garbage can labeled “white trash.” And just as his paintings are humorous—“sardonic, gallows humor” as one expert puts it—so is his commentary. He remarks on the fickleness and absurdity of some modern art, singling out Jeff Koons. “Jeff Koons, he has a vacuum cleaner—all right, now it’s art!” he says. “At some point, it’s going to become just a vacuum cleaner again.” hagit, the CentRal character of writer-director Nitzan Giladi’s Wedding Doll, is another outsider, but it’s not because of the circumstances of her birth—it’s because the 24-year-old, who’s beautiful, fashionable, and fiercely pursuing independence, has a mild mental disability. It makes her talk differently, misunderstand social cues, and overreact to unpleasant situations. Still, Hagit dreams of becoming a bride, just like the miniature figurines that the toilet-paper-factory employee makes out of the product she works with.

Moran Rosenblatt (Apples From the Desert), the actress who portrays Hagit in the Jerusalem-set film, is affecting the handicap, just like Leonardo DiCaprio (What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?), Sean Penn (I Am Sam), and others have done before her. Unless you know Hebrew, it’s initially difficult to judge the naturalness of Rosenblatt’s performance, because she lends the character few recognizable, physical signs of a disability. She’s gorgeous, with a beaming smile and pillow lips, and is made up to look even more so. You wonder why Hagit repeatedly sneaks out of the apartment she shares with her weary mother, Sara (Assi Levy).

The more we hear Hagit speak, though—nasally, with not always the right word at hand—the truer her portrayal becomes, a terrific achievement given that Hagit’s disability is, in fact, washingtoncitypaper.com june 10, 2016 23

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Wedding Doll mild. The character is joyful, and in turn is joyful to watch as she, for example, grabs moments by herself whenever she can and flirts with the factory owner’s son, Omri (Roy Assaf). While in her apartment, it seems that the only sounds Hagit hears is a

neighborhood child yelling “weirdo!” whenever she spies the woman and the light binks of Omri tossing pebbles at her window as a signal to meet him at their usual spot, a breathtaking cliff in the desert.

Hagit, then, is kidding herself about the possibilities with Omri—or is she? She’ll show him her latest dolls, and he responds with compliments that seem purely polite. When they’re first shown sitting together outside, he closes his eyes while she stares at him, as if he’s irritated by her unflinching attention but doesn’t want to be. They do kiss, but Omri emphasizes that it must remain a secret—one he certainly doesn’t tell his friends, who mock her and call her “retard.”

Besides Hagit’s beauty, Wedding Doll’s cinematography is lovely, with swirls of color in the sky and multiple textures— whether natural or manmade—lending interest to the largely beige palette. Her visual world in particular is dominated by toilet paper, with rolls hanging on and draped across her walls and her little dolls, though childlike, boasting a variety of realistic designs.

Giladi’s story hangs on two conflicts: First, Sara’s attempts to keep Hagit always in sight, despite her daughter’s insistence that she can live her own life, and Sara’s inability to fully establish one of her own after her divorce from Hagit’s father. Second is the imminent closing of the factory. Hanging in the balance is Hagit’s job, Omri’s next step, and, of course, their future together. It all comes to a cruel head, but Giladi doesn’t let her film end on a sinking note. Appropriately, this Doll instead is treated to a close that may not be princess-like, but does feel happy.

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The local movie theater scene is going through a bit of a renaissance. The past year has seen the opening of a number of indie movie theaters, from single-screen art houses to new Landmark locations. It’s only going to get better for local cinephiles, as new theaters (including a possible Alamo Drafthouse) are already in development. Of course, if your allegiance is with the megaplexes, there are still plenty of those around town, but for those looking for something with a little more culture, here’s a handy guide to the D.C. area’s indie movie theaters.

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Standout Track: No. 3, “Oolong Way From Home,” from D.C. duo Dove Lady’s latest EP, D. The track kicks off with a deluge of reverb and atmospheric vocals before launching into a spazzy riff, sending it straight into the stratosphere of angular, jazzy post-hardcore. With D, Jeremy Ray and Andrew Thawley continue to push even further the wideranging scope of their musical influences: Spazzy emo, free jazz, and hardcore punk are all clear sonic influences on the duo, but the band manages to carve out a sound all its own.

Musical Motivation: Playing music is perhaps one of the most vulnerable acts you can perform, especially if your songs are personal reflections or musings. Emotion fuels songwriting, but it can just as easily fuel the social anxiety and fear that comes with sharing it.

That’s what “Oolong Way From Home” is about, Ray and Thawley say: The song “focuses on how the fear of being misunderstood can inhibit one’s ability to convey ideas.”

Little Rascals: D is Dove Lady’s fourth EP. Any guesses on the names of the first three? Points if you guessed A, B, and C. “We had this ongoing joke that we were going to put out five songs for each letter of the alphabet, and then it became less of a joke when we decided to release A,” the band says. Ray and Thawley plan to release 26 EPs in a project they’ve nicknamed “the Alfalfa Bet,” because “if one of us calls it quits before reach Z, that person has to get their hair cut like Alfalfa.”

—Matt Cohen Dove Lady performs with Big Ups and Bleary Eyed Saturday at 10 p.m. at Comet Ping Pong, 5037 Connecticut Ave. NW. $10.

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An Octoroon will leave audiences feeling rattled and raw. But is that enough to change the way we dialogue about race and identities?

Race You anotheR An Octoroon

By Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Directed by Nataki Garrett At Woolly Mammoth Theatre to June 26 If race and identity are the most challenging and frequently eschewed topics for discussion in polite society, then imagine how it feels to watch an unabashed exploration of those subjects unfold on a stage, the talking points pulled out of your subconscious and staring right back at you. No one is blinking. No one is apologetic.

In An Octoroon, it’s clear Branden JacobsJenkins, a D.C. native who won an Obie Award for this work, wanted his audience to be uncomfortably entertained. In the masochistically brilliant reworking of The Octoroon—a 19th-century melodrama by Irish playwright Dion Boucicault—the story begins with the monologue of a black playwright, BJJ played by Jon Hudson Odom. The character is written to express some of Jacobs-Jenkins’ feelings about having being labelled a “black playwright.” BJJ airs his frustrations to his imaginary therapist about being branded as a writer who can—and therefore should only—write about race.

Reeling in his pain, BJJ guzzles a bottle of Jack Daniels, paints his face white, and costumes himself in 18th-century clothing. His transformation complete, he’s no longer a black man in the present day but a white man in the antebellum South. Odom’s transformation is intoxicating because of its vulner-

ability and sense of exposure: It’s a moment you’d expect a playwright to make the audience wait for.

The original 1859 source material was in part a minstrel show that cast white actors in blackface to depict a European stereotype of American slaves. Boucicault appeared in redface to play a Native American character, Wahnotee. Jacobs-Jensen’s adaptation revives some of the original characters, giving them new roles to play, and adds several new characters: James Konicek wears redface to play Playwright (Boucicault), Wahnotee, and Lafouche; Joseph Castillo-Midyett appears as the playwright’s assistant and then dons blackface as Pete/Paul; and in whiteface, Odom plays George Peyton and M’Closky.

The action takes place at Terrebonne, a Louisiana plantation facing financial collapse under Peyton’s ownership. Peyton falls in love with Zoe (Kathryn Tkel), his uncle’s illegitimate daughter who is one-eighth black—an “octoroon.” George does his best to hold on to the plantation which is in danger of being lost to the evil overseer, M’Closky, who plots to buy it—and Zoe—for himself.

In many scenes, the satire unfolding onstage is not immediately apparent—a slave woman is sweeping cotton off the floor with a broom, a Br’er Rabbit–type character peeks at the play through his own lens and hops along, a melodramatic octoroon girl from the 1850s speaks in Shakespearean prose—even though it feels just within reach. You could easily walk away from this play and not “get it,” or leave with the feeling that it was a play within a twisted version of a minstrel play. But you will walk away feeling raw.

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subject matter, but credit is also due to the affecting performances and Nataki Garrett’s deft directing. The script finds a way to make the play offensively present—the line between present-day racial mores, Jim Crow-era racism, and plantation-era slavery are blurred.

Two house slaves, Minnie (Shannon Dorsey) and Dido (Erika Rose), carry on like contemporary gossiping girlfriends about a slave girl being sold: “I can’t stand [Rebecca], she’s so fake.” Actors move on and off stage (and into the audience), or the action is elevated upstage, and the overall effect is to let the stinging performances (there’s a wrenching scene in which slaves are shackled together to be auctioned, for example) linger right in front of you, both physically and emotionally. It was hard to sit through the historical but decidedly perverse moments that some in the audience found funny: Watching the auction, although eliciting hysterics from the actors themselves, evoked an acute sense of anxiety.

With his first play, Neighbors, in 2010, Jacobs-Jenkins received mixed reviews from critics for using blackface, among other shocking techniques, to get a rise out of his audiences. But if the goal with An Octoroon was to get the audience to react—after a particularly rattling scene in the final act, Castillo-Midyett’s character says outright that the point of this was to make you feel something—he succeeded. However, it leaves one unsure whether the shock value or the message itself will serve to change the way we talk about race and identities with each other. It may simply serve as an omnipresent reminder of what harrowed more than 150 years ago, deep in America’s past. Maybe leaving the theater feeling this rattled and raw really is enough.

—Rachael Johnson

Sweet Smell of Death Going to a Place Where You Already Are

By Bekah Brunstetter Directed by Colin Hovde At Anacostia Playhouse to June 26 The problem wITh mortality is that it’s so inconvenient—not just for you, but for those around you, too. The end of your life likely entails wills, bucket lists, doctors visits, awkward calls from grandchildren, arguments about religion... all the things you have the luxury of putting off until impending death forces you to be all reflective. Bekah Brunstetter’s Going to a Place Where You Already Are is about how tough the business of dying is, and how even if those who are going through it manage to

confront it gracefully, everyone around them might still lose their shit.

Brunstetter’s play is smart, moving, and surprisingly funny for a piece dealing with the unfunny situation its characters face, some handling it better than others. The person doing the best is Roberta (Annie Houston), a grandmother diagnosed with terminal cancer. Doing worst is Joe (Gregory Ford), her doting husband whose love for her is palpable but whose grief makes him stubborn (he tries to bully her into futile treatments) and selfish (“Don’t I matter anymore?” he asks her). He declares her acceptance of death and newfound belief in an afterlife a betrayal of his scientific outlook and their life together.

Much of the levity comes from a different couple who are less central to the story but are cute together, and they provide a welcome respite from all the God and cancer talk: Ellie (Tricia Homer), Joe’s granddaughter, and Jonas (MacGregor Arney), her drunken hookup–turned–persistent suitor. Refreshingly, the two couples are interracial and even more refreshingly, they don’t make a big deal about it, or even find it worth mentioning. This appears to be director Colin Hovde’s conscious choice, a departure from the original casting by California’s South Coast Repertory. Only Jonas, a paraplegic smart aleck, has to do a sensitivity-training speech, after Ellie initially gives him the “you’re too nice” brush off: “What’s shitty is to assume I’m a saint just because of my chair,” he retorts, although he then goes on being a saint for the rest of the play.

The repartee of Theater Alliance’s actors isn’t flawless (there were a few missed cues at Sunday’s performance). But these relationships—one beginning, another ending—are believable. As Ellie, Homer is instantly recognizable as a self-centered, insecure millennial, a stereotype that nevertheless evokes empathy rather than scorn. As Roberta, Houston is vivacious and only gets more so as the end approaches, while Ford, as Joe, steers ably from quiet panic to condescension to anguish. The only one-dimensional characters are Arney’s angelic Jonas and a literal angel who serves as Roberta’s guide to the afterlife, played by a relentlessly upbeat Alan Naylor.

Going to a Place has a lot of heart; maybe too much at times: Brunstetter’s dialogue has the rhythm of a ’90s family sitcom, going from semi-rude joke to poignant reflection over and over again, so that you soon feel overloaded with all the poignancy. It’s all a little too Touched by an Angel for my taste, and it answers the big metaphysical questions pretty glibly: Is there a God? (Yes). Where do we go when we die? (A celestial diner). What does heaven smell like? (Waffles and grandma’s perfume). Notably, the practical questions—how do you face death, how do you talk about it with those you love—are much harder to answer.

—Mike Paarlberg

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Daze of ouR wiveS Hedda Gabler

Written by Henrik Ibsen In a new version by Mark O’Rowe Directed by Matt Torney At Studio Theatre to June 19

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Julia Coffey as an updated Hedda Gabler lends the classic character a pressing sense of modernity.

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STudIo TheaTre’S dedIcaTIon to contemporary theater may make Hedda Gabler, Henrik Ibsen’s late 19th-century portrait of a kept woman clawing at the claustrophobic walls of a deeply unsatisfying marriage, seem an odd choice. The play surely shocked audiences in its 1891 debut, delving into the secret psychological machinations of a thennew category of dramatic character—the freedom-seeking wife who sates boredom by maliciously controlling a man’s destiny— but the premise now feels creaky against today’s backdrop of women’s empowerment and authority.

Thankfully, Mark O’Rowe’s unfussy adaptation, along with a few powerful performances, make this Hedda’s fast-moving train ride toward self-destruction the kind of spectacle from which it’s mostly impossible to look away.

Julia Coffey’s frantic eponymous turn is riveting from the moment she steps on stage, her sharp, pale frame draped in gauzy beige pajamas. She’s the perfect picture of modern-day privileged ennui, padding around in bare feet in a post-honeymoon funk, running a willowy hand through bedraggled blond hair, and flinging casual insults at Jorge Tesman (Avery Clark), her new groom for whom she has little love, and his doting aunt Julle (Kimberly Schraf ), whose passive aggressive prying about the couple’s childbearing plans is the first of many triggers to send Hedda spiraling. Coffey deftly sustains an anxious precision to her Hedda throughout all four acts, propelling the character along a carefully crafted trajectory toward an ever-dwindling set of options born of brutal boredom and a self-lacerating line of what-could-have-been thinking. Coffey brings an equal sense of danger to Hedda’s scenes of cavalier pistol waving (literally) as she does to her relentless rounds of manipulative interrogation designed to undo her “loved” ones.

As Thea Elvsted, Kimiye Corwin electrifies the stage in a different but no less impactful manner than Coffey, her performance a slowly unraveling yarn of angst pitched effectively against Coffey’s high-octane Hedda. The production shines brightest in scenes featuring Coffey and Corwin.

They share a scene in the first act: Thea comes searching for Ejlert Lovborg (Shane Kenyon), the bad-boy writer with a reputa-

tion for brilliance, philandering, and alcoholism, with whom Hedda has a past and with whom Thea, herself in a loveless marriage, hopes to have a future. It’s a delicious cat-and-mouse play between the two women. Both actresses have exquisite timing and a sense of urgent pacing; director Matt Torney expertly mines this fierce chemistry.

It’s unfortunate, then, that Kenyon’s Lovborg lacks the same energy that Coffey and Corwin bring to the taut proceedings.

An arresting Lovborg is essential to the play’s dramatic effect; he’s the great lover and celebrated writer who threatens to upend not only Hedda’s and Thea’s lives but also the livelihood of Tesman, whose pending professorship is Lovborg’s for the taking. Kenyon simply doesn’t have the auspicious presence to make Lovborg appear worthy of all the fuss, nor does he project the sense of recklessness that the addiction-prone, rule-breaking character is meant to possess.

O’Rowe leaves the original text mostly intact, spinning into it more suggestions of sexual violence than are present in Ibsen’s original. It’s an effective rendering that’s given additional modern touches via Luciana Stecconi’s austere, bright set, (which in the original text is described as darkly colored and carpeted), and Murell Horton’s simple, chic costumes.

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The backside of “Tribute Painting” (2016) greets viewers at Graham Collins’ solo show at Civilian Art Projects before they enter the gallery. The painting hangs in the center of Civilian’s storefront window, facing into the space, while the back glares out to the street.

The front is a Cubist collage of eyes cobbled together from various oil and acrylic paintings that the artist has carved out and stitched together. The back of the painting, a Frankenstein patchwork of canvas and linen and thread revealing his handiwork, glares out to the street. The face of the painting is a mess; backstage is a revelation.

“Tribute Painting” is the first of many hints that Collins’ work is as much sculpture as painting. Not that there are a lot of easy handholds in Collins’ work. “Laughter,” his first solo show with Civilian, features nine works that seem to coexist as two genres.

Formal and brooding, most of his pieces are large objects that at first glance bear all the telltale signs of abstract painting: severe wooden frame, glass, canvas. That Collins’ canvases are mostly monochromes (the artist’s gaze-painting notwithstanding) only enhances the effect, contributing to an impression that this is serious work from the post-war school of serious American painting.

The details tell a different story. Collins relishes in the finer questions of craft and context, even when that means using refuse materials. “Tinted Monochrome Painting” (2016), for example, follows a familiar format in the show. Underneath the glass is a monochrome enamel painting on canvas (red in this case).

But over the glass, Collins has applied autowindow tint, rather sloppily, to boot. The bubble-infused window tint obscures the painting, but it also makes the work. The air pockets in the tint serve as a kind of mark-making that Collins can’t control, a gestural system that, at best, he executes or oversees. The actual paint-on-canvas, meat-and-potatoes part of the painting, the part where the narrative stuff usually goes, is beside the point.

On the other hand, the wooden frame in “Tinted Monochrome Painting” is excessively cared over. Again, it’s fugitive wood, or at least not the stuff frames are normally made of: He sources his oak from a salvage yard where construction timber for shoring up ditches gathers. The backing boards to his framed canvases are a rough, cheap particleboard. And yet the frames in Collins’ “Laughter” paintings may be the only aspect of his work that bears

“Blue Painting” by Graham Collins (2016)

his hand.

Chin-scratching studies into the teleological status of paintings are nothing new. Lucio Fontana cracked the case wide open when he presented, as an innovation in painting, canvases slashed with a knife. But there is a materiality in Collins’ work that signals he doesn’t hail from the ivory tower.

“Large Unfinished Painting” (2016), a gobbledygook hodge-podge of thrift-store landscape paintings, diced into unidentifiable segments and sewn together in a grand 15.5-foot-by-10.5-foot meta-landscape, is a real exercise in craft. The painting looks at once like farmland seen from 30,000 feet in the air and also like a Diebenkorn painting if you squint and still also like a loose gestural abstraction of a dark celestial body floating over the firmament—its own thing. Collins isn’t making a conceptual statement. He’s trying to coax something epic out of things that are not.

It is almost as if Collins has shrugged off a half-century of post-minimalism or postconceptualist history and decided to go back to the source to see for himself. “Yellow Painting” (2016), a scaled-down and restretched fragment of another yellow painting, looks like a funky crescent moon, suspended on a plain 15-foot panel that stands between the basement and ground floors of Civilian along the stairs; it’s hard to read it as anything other than a wink-y Ellsworth Kelly or a chuckling Richard Tuttle. But then “Assemblage” (2016), a small painting that’s so dense and tense it seems to vibrate, is a perfect little minimalist exercise hiding behind scattershot window tint.

In “Laughter,” Collins touches on just enough of everything to keep it interesting: patchwork composition, sculptural flair, academic ambivalence, an eye to the labor politics of the art world, and even humor. Work that might at first glance get tagged as “zombie formalism” instead shows off strong signs of life.

—Kriston Capps 4718 14th St. NW. Free. (202) 607-3804. civilianartprojects.com.

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Modern FaMily Dheepan

Directed by Jacques Audiard Only at the end do we remember the beginning. Dheepan opens on a scene of a man setting fire to a pile of corpses. Almost an entire movie passes before the next significant act of bloodshed, but when it occurs, we understand how that first moment, the one we have almost forgotten, explains it all. In the interim, Dheepan, which won the Palme d’Or at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, burns a little too slowly, but its climax is pure fireworks, and when the ending of a movie works, an overly languid pace and meandering plot are easier to forgive.

The man in question has no name. A former soldier in the Tamil Tigers, he assumes the moniker of a dead man, Dheepan (Antonythasan Jesuthasan), in order to flee Sri Lanka.

His best chance for asylum is to play the family man, so he accepts a woman Yalini (Kalieaswari Srinivasan) and a child Illayaal (Claudine Vinasithamby) to pose as his wife and daughter. Each of them has suffered deeply. We don’t know the details, but it’s clear from the mayhem of the opening scenes in India that life holds no purpose for them there. And so, like many immigrants before them, this makeshift family moves to Paris, where they hope to build a better life.

Writer/director Jacques Audiard uses lyrical interludes and visually arresting transitions to elevate material that might otherwise feel mundane. There are echoes of a universal immigrant experience through the narrow world Audiard depicts.The family moves into a dilapidated apartment in a dangerous neighborhood, where nearly the entire film takes place. Dheepan gets a job as caretaker of the complex, where he strikes up a tenuous detente with the neighborhood gang members.

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Yalini finds work cooking and cleaning for a man with a disability, while Illayaal struggles to fit in at a school where she barely speaks the language.

Each character goes about their day with quiet courage, but the indignities they suffer threaten to damage their fragile existence. Illayaal lashes out at her schoolmates who refuse her offerings of friendship. Dheepan grows weary of the barbs and slurs of the young, arrogant gang members. Perhaps most complicated is Yalini’s burgeoning friendship with the leader of the gang, who also happens to be the son of her aging employer. While it never threatens to become romance, it makes for a painful contrast to her affectionless relationship with Dheepan. His efforts to woo her and turn this fake family into a real one are heartbreaking.

Soon, other body parts are in danger: As these characters fight for dignity, a gang war is simmering in the background, and the meandering film builds to an action-packed climax.

Audiard rarely draws any literal connections between the violence around Dheepan and the life he left behind, so when the two merge, it is both a thrilling climax and a tragic return to a lifestyle that Dheepan fought to escape.

In the end, Dheepan owes more to vigilante thrillers like Death Wish and even Taxi Driver than most immigrant dramas, and by mixing genres, he may seek to explain away certain types of immigrant violence. Some viewers may have a problem with that. It’s a provocative ending that will satisfy fans of onscreen bloodshed, disappoint those who came for a prestige immigrant drama, and inspire thought about where the two overlap. A great ending in search of a slightly better movie.

—Noah Gittell Dheepan opens Friday at Bethesda Row Cinema.

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CITY LIGHTS: Friday

rock

9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Motion City Soundtrack, Have Mercy, Let It Happen. 7 p.m. (Sold out) 930.com. birChmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. The Dan Band. 7:30 p.m. $29.50. birchmere.com.

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Gang Of Youths, StereoRiots. 7 p.m. $12. dcnine.com. merriweather Post Pavilion 10475 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia. (410) 715-5550. Twenty One Pilots, Mute Math, Chef’s Special. 7 p.m. (Sold out) merriweathermusic.com. roCk & roll hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

Hippo Campus, Oketo. 9 p.m. $15. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

dJ Nights

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

classical

kenneDy Center ConCert hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. National Symphony Orchestra with Nathalie Stutzmann, contralto. 8 p.m. $15–$89. kennedy-center.org.

opera

barns at wolf traP 1635 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. The Rape of Lucretia. 7:30 p.m. $32–$88. wolftrap.org.

hip-hop

troPiCalia 2001 14th St. NW. (202) 629-4535. Higher Education, Shining Blade Theory, Kabob-O-Taj. 8 p.m. $10. tropicaliadc.com.

World

amP by strathmore 11810 Grand Park Ave., North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Trio Caliente. 8 p.m. $20–$30. ampbystrathmore.com. fillmore silver sPring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Mashrou’ Leila. 8 p.m. $25. fillmoresilverspring.com.

Folk couNtry

bethesDa blues anD Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. The SteelDrivers. 8 p.m. $30. bethesdabluesjazz.com.

Jiffy lube live 7800 Cellar Door Drive, Bristow.

(703) 754-6400. Luke Bryan, Little Big Town, Dustin Lynch. 7 p.m. $32.75–$81.50. livenation.com. blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Roy Hargrove. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $40–$45. bluesalley.com.

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

Regina Carter Quartet, Ben Williams and Sound Effect. 8:30 p.m. $29.75–$54.75. thehamiltondc.com. kenneDy Center millennium stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Mark Prince’s Aqua Leo. 6 p.m.

Free. kennedy-center.org. mr. henry’s 601 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. (202) 5468412. Kevin Cordt. 8 p.m. Free. mrhenrysdc.com.

d.c. is BurNiNg

For many people, knowledge of drag ball culture starts at Madonna’s “Vogue” and ends at RuPaul’s Drag Race. But dig a little deeper and you’re likely to stumble upon the music of Vjuan Allure. The D.C.-area DJ and producer is an innovator of ballroom beats, frenetic tracks to which drag ball performers vogue, spin, and drop. Picking up where ballroom classics like Masters At Work’s “The Ha Dance” and Armand van Helden’s “Witch Doktor” left off, Allure’s music continues to bring energy and vitality to the ballroom scene at a time when its sound finds new fans in the clubs of New York, London, and Amsterdam. As Capital Pride takes over D.C. in earnest this week, there’s no better way to learn about the scene than by dancing to a Vjuan Allure DJ set as Jennie Livingston’s seminal ballroom documentary, Paris Is Burning, plays in the background at Sonic Cinema’s latest celebration of cult film and underground music. Drag culture has certainly evolved in the more than 25 years since Paris Is Burning debuted, but Allure’s music successfully brings it into the 21st century. The event begins at 10 p.m. at Bossa Bistro, 2463 18th St. NW. $5. (202) 667-0088. bossadc.com.

—Chris Kelly national gallery of art sCulPture garDen 4th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. (202) 7374215. George V. Johnson Jr.. 5 p.m. Free. nga.gov.. twins Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Anthony Nelson. 9 p.m.; 11 p.m. $15. twinsjazz.com.

electroNic

the hamilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. Sol Roots. 10:30 p.m. Free. thehamiltondc.com. martin luther king Jr. memorial library 901 G St. NW. (202) 727-0321. Mundy, CooLots. Noon. Free. dclibrary.org/mlk.

saturday

3rD floor Lea Bertucci, Anthony Pirog, Halo Valley. 8 p.m. $10.

rock

bossa bistro 2463 18th St NW. 202-667-0088.

Sonic Cinema presents D.C .Is Burning with Vjuan Allure. 10 p.m. $5. bossadc.com. flash 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Lee Burridge, Chris Nitti, Edo. 8 p.m. $10–$20. flashdc.com. u street musiC hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Sunshine Jones, Charles Feelgood,Ken Lazee. 10 p.m. $10. ustreetmusichall.com.

birChmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Southside Johnny and the Asbury Dukes, Gary Douglas Band. 7:30 p.m. $39.50. birchmere.com.

Comet Ping Pong 5037 Connecticut Ave. NW. (202) 364-0404. Big Ups, Bleary Eyed, Dove Lady. 10 p.m. $10. cometpingpong.com.

FuNk & r&B

fillmore silver sPring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. The Dolan Twins. 7:30 p.m. $33. fillmoresilverspring.com.

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

Naughty Professor, Ernest Stuart. 9 p.m. $12–$14. gypsysallys.com.

gyPsy sally’s 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. Slim Stevens, Jessie Fenton. 10:30 p.m. Free. gypsysallys. com.

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

Eagulls, White Laces. 8 p.m. $13. rockandrollhoteldc. com. state theatre 220 N. Washington St., Falls Church.

(703) 237-0300. Melodime, Lauren Calve Band, Christian Lopez. 8:30 p.m. $15–$17. thestatetheatre.com. u street musiC hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Beth Orton, Emmy the Great. 7 p.m. $25. ustreetmusichall.com.

dJ Nights

9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. MIXTAPE Pride Party w/ DJs Shea Van Horn & Matt Bailer. 11 p.m. $15. 930.com. blaCk Cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Furball DC with W. Jeremy and Tedd Patterson. 9:30 p.m. $12. blackcatdc.com. blaCk Cat baCkstage 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 6674490. Fresh to Death with DJs Carrie Nation and Jennder. 10 p.m. $5. blackcatdc.com.

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Bodywerk.

10:30 p.m. $2–$5. dcnine.com.

classical

kenneDy Center ConCert hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. National Symphony Orchestra with Nathalie Stutzmann, contralto. 8 p.m. $15–$89. kennedy-center.org.

Symphony Orchestra performs “Appalachian Spring”.

8 p.m. $60–$105. strathmore.org.

Folk gyPsy sally’s 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. Folk Soul Revival, Greg Payne and The Piedmont Boys. 9 p.m. $15. gypsysallys.com.

couNtry Jiffy lube live 7800 Cellar Door Drive, Bristow.

(703) 754-6400. Luke Bryan, Little Big Town, Dustin Lynch. 7 p.m. $32.75–$81.50. livenation.com.

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

Johnny and the Headhunters. 10:30 p.m. Free. thehamiltondc.com

Jazz atlas Performing arts Center 1333 H St. NE. (202) 399-7993. Brad Linde’s Team Players. 8 p.m. $20. atlasarts.org. blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Roy Hargrove. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $40–$45. bluesalley.com.

kenneDy Center millennium stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. National Symphony Orchestra Prelude. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

mr. henry’s 601 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. (202) 5468412. Kim Scudera with Batida Diferente. 8 p.m. Free. mrhenrysdc.com.

musiC Center at strathmore 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Baltimore

twins Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Anthony Nelson. 9 p.m.; 11 p.m. $15. twinsjazz.com.

CITY LIGHTS: saturday

the B-52s

For nearly 40 years, The B-52s have been known as the World’s Greatest Party Band. That’s quite the superlative. If a group is known as the World’s Greatest Party Band then, by default, each gig it plays is the World’s Greatest Party. Well then, aren’t you lucky, reader, because the World’s Greatest Party happens to be taking place on Saturday night at... Celebrate Fairfax! That’s right, Fairfax’s annual community celebration and fair is taking place this weekend, with the legendary Athens, Ga. new-wave outfit headlining Saturday’s festivities. Sure, headlining a county fair might not seem like the most glamorous direction for any band, but it actually is: In addition to the diehard fans who’ll flock to the gig, you’ve got a built-in audience of people already there, thinking “hell, I’ll stick around. ‘Rock Lobster’ is a totally fine song.’” Even if the World’s Greatest Party Band sucks, there’s always funnel cake and a ferris wheel. The B-52s perform at 8 p.m. at the Bud Lite Mainstage at Celebrate Fairfax!, 12000 Government Center Parkway, Fairfax. $4–$18.

(703) 324-3247. celebratefairfax.com.

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DCJAZZ FESTIVAL

CAPITALBOP DCJAZZLOFTSERIES

JUNE 10 –19, 2016

6/17: MICHELE ROSEWOMAN & NEW YOR-UBA WITH AMADOU KOUYATE

D C J A Z Z F E S T.O R G

6/18: ORRIN EVANS’ CAPTAIN BLACK BIG BAND

Arris, 4th Street, SE 9:00 PM each night

6/11: MAKAYA MCCRAVEN’S IN THE MOMENT/MARQUIS HILL BLACKTET

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DCJAZZ FESTIVAL

‘DISIS‘DADRUMSERIES The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Millennium Stage

JUNE 10 –19, 2016

2700 F Street, NW

D C J A Z Z F E S T.O R G

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electroNic

Vocal

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

Tix @ Ticketmaster.com 800-745-3000

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

Gay Marvine, DJ Lisa Frank, TheNeedleXchange. 10:30 p.m. $8–$10. ustreetmusichall.com.

opera

June Solo 9 Acoustic

FuNk & r&B

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

1811 14TH ST NW

www.blackcatdc.com @blackcatdc

JUNE SHOWS

THU 9

KING KHAN

& THE SHRINES

PRIDE WEEKEND FRI 10 BOOTY REX TAKES OVER BOTH FLOORS SAT 11 SAT 11

FURBALL DC FRESH 2 DEATH

90S HIP HOP, POP, R&B PARTY

RADIOACTIVITY WED 15 TUNJI IGE SUN 12

MICHAEL CHRISTMAS

THU 16

WANTED MAN

FRI 17

CHURCH NIGHT

FRI 17 SAT 18 SUN 19 WED 22 SAT 25

(RECORD RELEASE)

WHEDONISM

BURLESQUE TRIBUTE TO JOSS WHEDON

RIGHT ROUND 80S ALT POP DANCE PARTY SISTR MID9IGHT

JUSTIN NOZUKA

BLACK MOUNTAIN

JOSHUA RADIN 10 THE DAN BAND 11 SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY & THE ASBURY JUKES W/Gary Douglas Band Gary Jules

14 Presents

CRYS JORDAN SMITH MATTHEWS

EMILY BOY&BEAR HENRY 16 JOAN OSBORNE Mutlu 17 MAYSA Cindy Lee 18 AL STEWART Berryfield

15

21& 22

(Shawn Colvin & Steve Earle)

ANGIE STONE An Evening 10,000 MANIACS 24 with 26 THREE DOG NIGHT

23

30

BlueNote 75 Presents

OUR POINT OF VIEW

ROBERT GLASPER, LIONEL LOUEKE, DERRICK HODGE, MARCUS STRICKLAND, AMBROSE AKINMUSIRE

flash 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Dean Sullivan, Keenan Orr. 6 p.m. $15–$20. Sdot, Eddie Elias. 4 a.m. $20–$30. Honey Dijon, K-Hand, DJ Sean Morris. 8 p.m. $10–$15. flashdc.com.

9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Alice Smith.

7 p.m. $25. 930.com.

kenneDy Center terraCe theater 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Washington Men’s Camerata: “Music From Down Under”. 7 p.m. $35. kennedy-center.org. barns at wolf traP 1635 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. The Rape of Lucretia. 3 p.m. $32–$88. wolftrap.org.

go-go

bethesDa blues anD Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. 76 Degrees West Band with Sugar Bear. 8 p.m. $25–$35. bethesdabluesjazz.com.

howarD theatre 620 T St. NW. (202) 8032899. Go-go Brunch featuring Be’la Dona. 1:30 p.m. $20–$40. thehowardtheatre.com.

gw lisner auDitorium 730 21st St. NW. (202) 9946800. JaDine. 7:30 p.m. $68–$148. lisner.gwu.edu.

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

GZA, Heems. 8 p.m. $20–$25. thehowardtheatre. com.

suNday rock

9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Birdy, Bahari. 7 p.m. $25. 930.com.

hip-hop

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

Royce da 5’9”, Grafh, Passport Gift, Lonnie. 7 p.m. $20. ustreetmusichall.com.

World

blaCk Cat baCkstage 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 6674490. Radioactivity, Bad Sports, Cloak/Dagger. 7:30 p.m. $12. blackcatdc.com.

kenneDy Center millennium stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Batalá. 6 p.m. Free. kennedycenter.org.

Comet Ping Pong 5037 Connecticut Ave. NW. (202) 364-0404. Childbirth, Colleen Green, Pouty. 9 p.m. $12. cometpingpong.com.

Jazz

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. And The Kids, Vundabar, Palmas. 8:30 p.m. $12. dcnine.com.

atlas Performing arts Center 1333 H St. NE. (202) 399-7993. Brad Cole Trio. 7 p.m. $15. Matt Shipp Trio. 8:30 p.m. $15. atlasarts.org.

galaxy hut 2711 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. (703) 5258646. Tanner Carlton and the Bottle Shop. 9 p.m. $5. galaxyhut.com.

birChmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

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

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

The Cave Singers, Blank Range. 8 p.m. $15. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

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

feat.

July 1 VIVIAN GREEN 2 DONNELL RAWLINGS 3 BILL KIRCHEN & TOO MUCH FUN 7 The CrossRhodes

CITY LIGHTS: suNday

(RAHEEM DeVAUGHN & WES FELTON) w/Muhsinah

8

YAHZARAH Purple Reign A Tribute to the Music and Life of Prince

9 10TH ANNUAL MIKE SEEGER COMMEMORATIVE

SAT JUN 25

BLACK MOUNTAIN

OLD TIME BANJO FESTIVAL 10 LITTLE RIVER BAND 12

LOS LONELY BOYS

14

The Bird Dogs present

THE EVERLY BROTHERS EXPERIENCE PHIL PERRY 15 17

FRI JULY 1

The Real Deal starring Texas Legends

Reverend Horton Heat (solo) & Dale Watson (solo)

18 presents

TAKE METRO!

mint condition

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

TO BUY TICKETS VISIT TICKETFLY.COM

“Until Next Time” www.mintconditionmusic.com Saturday July 16, 8pm Warner Theatre, Washington DC

Tickets On Sale Now through Ticketmaster.com/800-745-3000!

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childBirth

Technically, Childbirth’s music doesn’t pass the Bechdel test, but that’s kind of the point. The Seattle punk supergroup—featuring Chastity Belt’s Julia Shapiro, Tacocat’s Bree McKenna, and Pony Time’s Stacy Peck—is less concerned with smashing patriarchy than it is with pointing and laughing at it. There’s an inherent cheekiness to the band that’s perfectly defined by its press photo—the band’s three members standing in a kitchen, laughing while eating salad—and songs like “I Only Fucked You As a Joke,” “Tech Bro,” “More Fertile Than You,” and “How Do Girls Even Do It.” With its music, Childbirth celebrates feminism by calling out society’s grossly gendered double standards when it comes to what’s masculine and feminine. In an interview with NPR Music, McKenna said the band’s anthemic “Nasty Grrls” seeks to “reclaim being nasty... in an anthem about unattractive, ‘unfeminine’ female habits.” That’s just one example of the band saying it doesn’t really give a fuck what you think of it. And that’s punk in the purest sense.

Childbirth performs with Colleen Green and Pouty at 9 p.m. at Comet Ping Pong, 5037 Connecticut Ave. NW. $12. (202) 364-0404. cometpingpong.com.

—Matt Cohen

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the hamilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. Etienne Charles & Creole Soul, Jimmy Greene Quartet.

7:30 p.m. $22.75–$41.25. thehamiltondc.com. twins Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. The Radiohead Jazz Project. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $10. twinsjazz.com.

SU 12 SHADZ OF SOUL &

NU ERA BRINGS THE SOUNDS OF THE EMOTIONS & THE TEMPTATIONS

W 15 THE BECCA STEVENS BAND F

17 MIKI HOWARD

S 18 JOE CLAIR & FRIENDS:

FATHERS DAY WEEKEND

2 SHOWS

SU 19 HAROLD MELVIN’S

BLUE NOTE:

FATHERS DAY BRUNCH & EVENING SHOW

T

23 MARTY STUART & HIS

F

24 JUDITH HILL

FABULOUS SUPERLATIVES

GRAMMY AWARD WINNER

J U LY F

1

BE’LA DONA

S 2

NEWMYER FLYER PRESENTS A SOUTHERN SOUL TRIBUTE!

W 6

DONTAE WINSLOW

F

THE SPINNERS

8

S 9

MELI’SA MORGAN

SU 10 THE YARDBIRDS +

JOHNNY BOMBAY & THE REACTIONS

W 13 SUTTLE

JUST ANNOUNCED TH 6/30 DAVE DAMIANI & NO

VACANCY ORCHESTRA PRESENTS BOBBY RYDELL

7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda, MD (240) 330-4500 www. BethesdaBluesJazz.com Two Blocks from Bethesda Metro/Red Line Free Parking on Weekends 40 june 10, 2016 washingtoncitypaper.com

FRI JUNE 10TH DRAG SALUTE TO THE DIVAS SAT JUNE 11TH

FUSE: CAPITAL PRIDE WOMEN’S MAIN EVENT

SUN JUNE 12TH GO-GO BRUNCH FT. BE'LA DONA SUN JUNE 12TH GZA OF WUTANG

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

Mashrou’ Leila. 8 p.m. (Sold out) thehamiltondc.com.

Jazz

electroNic

atlas Performing arts Center 1333 H St. NE. (202) 399-7993. Bohemian Caverns Jazz Orchestra. 8 p.m. $20. atlasarts.org.

FuNk & r&B

blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Craig Alston Syndicate. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $20. bluesalley.com.

flash 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Alex Acosta, X Gonzalez. 3:30 a.m. $30–$50. flashdc.com.

JUNE

World

bethesDa blues anD Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. Shadz of Soul and Nu Era. 8 p.m. $20. bethesdabluesjazz.com.

MoNday rock

9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Matt Corby, Overcoats. 7 p.m. $25. 930.com. bethesDa blues anD Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. Sandra Dean, Dart Club.

7:30 p.m. bethesdabluesjazz.com.

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Pity Sex, Pwr Bttm, Petal. 8 p.m. (Sold out) dcnine.com. galaxy hut 2711 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. (703) 5258646. Impuritan, Joshua Palace. 9 p.m. $5. galaxyhut.com. merriweather Post Pavilion 10475 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia. (410) 715-5550. Ellie Golding, Matt and Kim. 7 p.m. $45–$59.50. merriweathermusic.com. wolf traP filene Center 1551 Trap Road, Vienna.

(703) 255-1900. Flight of the Conchords, Arj Barker. 8 p.m. $35–$65. wolftrap.org.

kenneDy Center ConCert hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. DC Jazz Festival: A Night at the Kennedy Center. 8 p.m. $39–$65. kennedy-center.org. kenneDy Center millennium stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Lenny Robinson’s MadCurious.

6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

tuesday rock

9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. At The Drive-In, Le Butcherettes. 7 p.m. (Sold out) 930.com. birChmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Jordan Smith, Crys Matthews. 7:30 p.m. $29.50. birchmere.com.

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. The Hunna, Mainland. 9 p.m. $10–$12. dcnine.com. gyPsy sally’s 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. John Kadlecik and the DC Mystery Cats. 8 p.m. $15–$20. gypsysallys.com. roCk & roll hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

Leftover Crack, Days n Daze, All Torn Up!, Daycare Swindlers. 8 p.m. $15. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

W/ LIVE BAND HEEMS

TUE JUNE 14TH

CITY LIGHTS: MoNday

WED JUNE 15TH

“Jazz siNgers”

MALI MUSIC JOE BUDDEN W/ AG DA CORONER

THU JUNE 16TH DIZZY GILLESPIE ALL-STARS FT.

TERELL STAFFORD, FREDDIE HENDRIX, SHAREL CASSITY, CYRUS CHESTNUT, JOHN LEE & LEWIS NASH

SAT JUNE 18TH

THE DELFONICS FT. WILLIAM HART

THU JUNE 23RD

CUBANISMO FRI JUNE 24TH

DR. JOHN

& THE NITE TRIPPERS

SAT JUNE 25TH

RANDY BACHMAN “VINYL TAP TOUR”

BUY TICKETS AT THE BOX OFFICE OR ONLINE AT THEHOWARDTHEATRE.COM 202-803-2899

Can the history of jazz singers, from the 1920s to present, really be presented in one notso-big room with photos, videos, handwritten letters, and artwork? The Library of Congress answers yes, with an exhibit that draws from its own impressive collection, plus that of curator Larry Appelbaum, a library employee who also DJs at WPFW and writes for JazzTimes. The collection opens with an openended definition of the term jazz singer, including someone whose vocals swing or sound bluesy, and whose lyrics could be pulled from Broadway standards or selfcomposed socio-political observations. Appelbaum then depicts that spectrum through photos that include “Empress of the Blues” Bessie Smith and legendary crooner Frank Sinatra. While emphasizing the impact of 20th century greats like Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday, the presentation also honors contemporary acts like Cecile McLorin Salvant and Esperanza Spalding. Highlights include masterfully composed William P. Gottlieb photos from the 1940s, and excerpts from a Louis Armstrong children’s book that explains the art of scatting. Beyond the superstars, the exhibit also gives love to D.C.’s Shirley Horn, who rarely left town but whose reputation is demonstrated in the form of a sweet fan letter from singer Johnny Mathis. The exhibition is on view Mondays through Fridays 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturdays 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., to July 23, at the Library of Congress James Madison Building, 101 Independence Ave. SE. Free. (202) 707-5000. loc.gov.

—Steve Kiviat

CITY LIGHTS: tuesday

FR JUNE 10 Cravin Dogs (30th Anniversary) SA JUNE 11 Last Rewind (a tribute to PHISH) & Backbeat Underground MO JUNE 13 SEHKRAFT OPEN MIC! (Hosted by Derek Evry) WE JUNE 15 Mister F • TH JUNE 16 The Rad Trads FR JUNE 17 South Rail w/The Treads SA JUNE 18 KIDSROCK! Brunch & Concert w/ Rainbow Rock (tickets on sale now!)

SA JUNE 18 The Watt Brothers • MO JUNE 20 South American Wine Dinner and Tasting (tickets on website) TU JUNE 21 TRIVIA TUESDAY w/Geeks Who Drink

GOOD TO GO Brunch Sundays from 11am - 3pm

“alisoN saar iN priNt”

WE JUNE 22 Supper Break String Band w/ Snakehead Run TH JUNE 23 One Blue Night • FR JUNE 24 Taylor Carson (Full Band) SA JUNE 25 Moogatu w/Agori Tribe • MO JUNE 27 SEHKRAFT OPEN MIC! ( Hosted by Derek Evry) TU JUNE 28 We are The 9 • WE JUNE 29 Boxcartel TH JUNE 30 “An Evening Of Opera Meets Jazz At The Brewery” Featuring: Danielle Talamantes TASTY Accompanied By Pianist Henry Dehlinger SATURDAYS Offer Tasty Samples FR JULY 1 Drew Davidsen and Friends SA JULY 2 Festival Because Awareness Weekend Featuring: Roosevelt Dime! w/ Laura Baron in our Butcher Shop & Market SU JULY 3 Festival Because Awareness Brunch Meet & Greet w/Roosevelt Dime!

925 North Garfield St. | Arlington, VA | 703-841-5889 | sehkraftbrewing.com

As the child of a collagist and a painter, Alison Saar grew up learning about creating art; it’s no real surprise that she pursued a creative career. Best known as a sculptor and installation artist, she focuses on representing African-American history and culture using simple materials like wood, tin, and tar. Saar also creates masterful prints, which the National Museum of Women in the Arts highlights in a new exhibit. It features a combination of color lithographs and woodcuts that focus on similar cultural themes but emphasize details in different ways. In “Mirror, Mirror: Mulatta Seeking Inner Negress II” (pictured, detail), a composition in tan, white, and black, a woman searches for her racial identity by holding a pot up to her face. The exhibition’s most interesting print is “Compton Nocturne,” a blue-tinted print of a reclining nude woman with branches and bottles extending from her head. Printed in 2012, it’s based on a sculpture of the same name Saar created in 1999, which isn’t included in the exhibit but is visible online. Comparing the two works gives even a casual viewer a deeper insight into the artist’s mind. The exhibition is on view Mondays through Saturdays 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sundays noon to 5 p.m., to Oct. 2, at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1250 New York Ave. NW. $8–$10. (202) 783-5000. nmwa.org. —Caroline Jones wolf traP filene Center 1551 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. Jackson Browne. 8 p.m. $35–$60. wolftrap.org.

sixth & i historiC synagogue 600 I St. NW. (202) 408-3100. Julianna Barwick. 8 p.m. $12–$15. sixthandi. org.

classical

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

Whilk and Misky, Tigers Are Bad for Horses. 7 p.m. $15. ustreetmusichall.com.

kenneDy Center ConCert hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. NSO Young Soloists’ Concert 2016 with conductor Francesco Lecce-Chong. 7:30 p.m.

Free. kennedy-center.org.

World

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

Mali Music. 8 p.m. $25–$60. thehowardtheatre.com.

Jazz

blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Zoe. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $20. bluesalley.com. kenneDy Center millennium stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Nasar Abadey’s Renaissance Trio. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

wolf traP filene Center 1551 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. Barenaked Ladies, OMD, Howard Jones. 7 p.m. $37–$57. wolftrap.org.

opera

barns at wolf traP 1635 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. The Rape of Lucretia. 7:30 p.m. $32–$88. wolftrap.org.

hip-hop

blaCk Cat baCkstage 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 6674490. Tunji Ige, Michael Christmas, Tobi Lou, Innanet James. 7:30 p.m. $12. blackcatdc.com.

WedNesday

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

Joe Budden, AJ the Coroner. 9 p.m. $27.50–$67.50. thehowardtheatre.com.

bethesDa blues anD Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. The Becca Stevens Band.

8 p.m. $10–$15. bethesdabluesjazz.com.

Jazz

rock

birChmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Boy & Bear, Emily Henry. 7:30 p.m. $20. birchmere.com. bossa bistro 2463 18th St NW. 202-667-0088.

Hari Vasan, Zia Hassan, Britton James. 9 p.m. Free. bossadc.com.

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Holy Ghost Tent Revival, Dirty River Boys. 9 p.m. $12–$15. dcnine. com. fillmore silver sPring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Thrice, La Dispute, Gates.

7:30 p.m. $21. fillmoresilverspring.com.

blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Tom Browne. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $25. bluesalley.com. the hamilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

Cymande, Chelsey Green and the Green Project. 7:30 p.m. $25–$45. thehamiltondc.com. kenneDy Center millennium stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Rhythm in Redd. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org. sixth & i historiC synagogue 600 I St. NW. (202) 408-3100. Steve Coleman and Five Elements. 8 p.m. $28–$33. sixthandi.org. twins Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. BSQ. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $10. twinsjazz.com.

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$10 BURGER & BEER MON-FRI 4 P M -7 P M

TRIVIA EVERY M O N D AY & W E D N E S D AY

$3 PBR & NATTY BOH ALL DAY EVERY DAY

electroNic

hip-hop

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

Matrix, Futurebound, Teddy Killerz. 10:30 p.m. $15. ustreetmusichall.com.

fillmore silver sPring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Anderson Paak, The Free Nationals. 8 p.m. $20. fillmoresilverspring.com.

FuNk & r&B

Folk

mansion at strathmore 10701 Rockville Pike, North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Be Steadwell. 7:30 p.m. $17. strathmore.org.

thursday rock 600 beers from around the world

Downstairs: good food, great beer: $3 PBR & Natty Boh’s all day every day *all shows 21+ JUNE 9TH

UNDERGROUND COMEDY STARTS AT 8PM STARR HILL BREWING STARTING AT 6PM JUNE 10TH

LAST RESORT COMEDY

DOORS AT 630PM SHOW AT 730PM

blaCk Cat baCkstage 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 6674490. Wanted Man, Unconscious Disturbance, Baby Bry Bry. 7:30 p.m. $10. blackcatdc.com.

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Beverly. 9 p.m. $12. dcnine.com. merriweather Post Pavilion 10475 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia. (410) 715-5550. Tame Impala, M83, Okay Kaya. 7 p.m. $40–$55. merriweathermusic.com. roCk & roll hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

Ben Watt and his Band, Zachary Cale. 8 p.m. $20. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

dJ Nights

gyPsy sally’s 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. Birds of Chicago, Annabelle’s Curse. 8 p.m. $10–$12. gypsysallys.com. gyPsy sally’s 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. The Hello Strangers, Crooks and Crows. 8 p.m. $10–$12. gypsysallys.com. wolf traP filene Center 1551 Trap Road, Vienna.

(703) 255-1900. The Lone Bellow, Lake Street Dive. 8 p.m. $25–$45. wolftrap.org.

couNtry mr. henry’s 601 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. (202) 5468412. By & By. 8 p.m. mrhenrysdc.com.

Jazz blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Kenny Garrett. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $30–$35. bluesalley.com. the hamilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

Ernest Ranglin, Avila and Yotam Silberstein. 7:30 p.m. $27.75–$49.75. thehamiltondc.com.

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

R&B Only, DJ Printz, Supreme the DJ, Jabari. 10 p.m. $15–$30. ustreetmusichall.com.

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

Dizzy Gillespie All-Stars. 8 p.m. $30–$60. thehowardtheatre.com.

Vocal

kenneDy Center millennium stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Tom Teasley Trio. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

s. Dillon riPley Center 1100 Jefferson Dr. SW. (202) 633-3030. Sing Out! The Smithsonian Chorale: 9 Weekly Rehearsals Plus Performance. 10:30 a.m. $120–$160. si.edu/ripley.

twins Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Griffith Kazmierczak. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $10. twinsjazz.com.

PRIDE WEEKEND JUNE 11TH

PRETTY BOI DRAG PRIDE WEEKEND EDITION

CITY LIGHTS: WedNesday

DOORS AT 1PM SHOW AT 2PM

REST STOP BURLESQUE DOORS AT 8PM AND SHOW AT 9PM JUNE 12TH

PRETTY BOI DRAG PRIDE WEEKEND EDITION DOORS AT 6PM SHOW AT 7PM

DR. SKETCHY’S ANTI ART SCHOOL DOORS AT 1PM SHOW AT 2 PM JUNE 13TH

DISTRICT TRIVIA STARTS AT 730PM JUNE 14TH

LAST RESORT COMEDY

DOORS AT 8PM SHOW AT 830PM JUNE 15TH

DISTRICT TRIVIA STARTS AT 730PM JUNE 16TH

SPECIFIC IGNORANCE DOORS AT 6PM SHOW AT 8PM UNDERGROUND COMEDY SHOW STARTS AT 8PM BOLD ROCK BEER NIGHT 1523 22nd St NW – Washington, DC 20037 (202) 293-1887 - www.bierbarondc.com @bierbarondc.com for news and events

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JuliaNNa BarWick

Were the voices of Grimes’ Claire Boucher and Enya blended as part of a science experiment, the result would be Julianna Barwick. The experimental artist brings an ethereal lilt to her angled music, which, like a siren, draws listeners deeper and deeper into a diverse, at times confusing trance.

Barwick’s piercing sounds are present on each track of Way, her first studio album in three years.

This is best illustrated by opening song “Apolonia,” a looping, operatic track that echoes as if it was recorded in an empty European church. Like Barwick’s previous albums including Sanguine and Florine, Way creates a world tied to the album’s title. Barwick’s magnetism has drawn in colloborators including Diplo, Radiohead, and Yoko Ono. Witnessing the inimitable artist up-close makes her awe-inspiring presence all the more powerful. Julianna Barwick performs with Mas Ysa at 8 p.m. at Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, 600 I St. NW. $12–$15. (202) 408-3100. sixthandi.org.

—Jordan-Marie Smith

electroNic

flash 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Jonas Rathsman, Waze and Odyssey. 8 p.m. $8–$12. flashdc.com.

FuNk & r&B

birChmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Joan Osbourne, Mutlu. 7:30 p.m. $35. birchmere.com.

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“Architects’ Drawings.” Architects and curators Mark McInturff and Dhiru Thadani highlight drawings from some of the world’s most interesting building planners in this exhibition presented in partnership with the National Building Museum. June 8 to July 31. hemPhill 1515 14th St. NW. (202) 234-5601. hemphillfinearts.com. Ongoing: “Language of the Birds.”

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an oCtoroon Woolly Mammoth presents their version of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ drama about a white slave owner’s relationship with a woman who is oneeighth black and the comedy that ensues from this case of mistaken identity. Woolly Mammoth Theatre.

641 D St. NW. To June 26. $20–$128. (202) 393-3939. woollymammoth.net. bakersfielD mist A poor bartender buys a painting that just might be a lost Jackson Pollock in this lively comedy from author Stephen Sachs. Her fate resides with a curator who must authenticate the work and determine whether Maude is living with a treasure or an imitation. Olney Theatre Center. 2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney. To June 12. $22–$65.

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DistriCt merChants Aaron Posner looks to Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice for inspiration in FS/MA this tale of love, money, and racial tension set in D.C. in the years following the Civil War. Folger Elizabethan Theatre. 201 E. Capitol St. SE. To July 3. $35–$75. (202) 544-7077. folger.edu.

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Emily Chadick Weiss’ play about race, disability, and class in Obama’s America is presented by Theater Alliance. Anacostia Playhouse. 2020 Shannon Place SE. To June 26. $25–$35. (202) 290-2328. anacostiaplayhouse.com. heDDa gabler Mark O’Rowe presents a contemporary adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s classic play about a woman who returns from her honeymoon and is devastated by the banality of married life. Studio Theatre. 1501 14th St. NW. To June 19. $20–$86. (202) 3323300. studiotheatre.org. kinky boots In this award-winning musical based on the 2005 film, a down-on-his-luck shoe factory owner must figure out how to save his business.

Inspiration comes in the form of a drag queen in search of a supportive heel and a team of collaborative colleagues. Kennedy Center Opera House. 2700 F St. NW. To July 10; To July 10. $25–$199. (202) 4674600. kennedy-center.org. the man in the iron mask In this follow-up to The Three Musketeers, D’Artagnan continues to serve King Louis XIV, only to be interrupted by his former comrades who rescue his twin brother from the Bastille. Synetic’s production features more swashbuckling fun and pageantry. Synetic Theater at Crystal City. 1800 South Bell St. , Arlington. To June 19. $15–$60. (866) 811-4111. synetictheater.org. the taming of the shrew The complex relationship between Kate and Petruchio is explored in this new production of Shakespeare’s comedy, in which director Ed Sylvanus Iskandar blurs gender roles and examines identities. Sidney Harman Hall. 610 F St.

when January feels like summer Mosaic Theater Company presents this urban comedy by Cori Thomas about romance, heroism, gender identity, and immigration. While the original script sets the action in Harlem, director Serge Seiden moves his play to D.C.’s Anacostia and H Street NE neighborhoods. Atlas Performing Arts Center. 1333 H St. NE. To June 12.$20–$60. (202) 399-7993. atlasarts.org. the who anD the what Round House Theatre presents Ayad Akhtar’s drama about a young Muslim woman who questions her goals when her newly published book shocks her observant family, determined to have her marry another believer. Round House Theatre Bethesda. 4545 East-West Highway, Bethesda. To June 19. $36–$61. (240) 644-1100. roundhousetheatre.org.

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warCraft Director Duncan Jones draws inspiration from the popular video game series for this fantasy film that sees humans facing off against orcs. Starring Paula Patton, Travis Fimmel, and Ben Foster. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) me before you A paralyzed man and the eccentric nurse who cares for him spend six months exploring the best life has to offer in this romantic drama based on author Jojo Moyes’ 2012 novel. Starring Emilia Clarke and Sam Clafin. (See washingtoncitypaper. com for venue information) the ConJuring 2 Paranormal investigators try to figure out whether or not something evil has settled in the home of a single mother in the sequel to the 2013 film. Starring Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) PoPstar: never stoP never stoPPing Andy Samberg stars as Connor4Real, a down on his luck pop star in pursuit of fame, in this musical mockumentary written by Samberg and his Lonely Island bandmates Jorma Taccone and Akiva Schaffer. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) now you see me 2 Illusionists once again test the limits of their stage tricks in this magical caper in which the Four Horsemen aim to expose an unethical tech executive. Starring Woody Harrelson, Mark Ruffalo, and Sanaa Lathan. (See washingtoncitypaper. com for venue information) teenage mutant ninJa turtles: out of the shaDows The pizza-loving reptiles are back to fight more crime in this sequel that finds them facing off against the evil Krang. Starring Megan Fox, Stephen Amell, and Will Arnett. (See washingtoncitypaper. com for venue information)

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ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE – ADVERTISING SALES Washington City Paper has an immediate opening for an outside sales position responsible for selling and servicing our advertising and media partner clients across our complete line of marketing solutions including print advertising in Washington City Paper, digital/online advertising on washingtoncitypaper.com and across our Digital Ad Network, as well as event sponsorship sales.

In addition to selling and servicing existing accounts, Account Executives are responsible for generating and selling new business revenue by finding new leads, utilizing a consultative sales approach, and making compelling presentations.

You must have the ability to engage, enhance, and grow direct relationships with potential clients and identify their advertising and marketing needs. You must be able to prepare and present custom sales presentations with research and sound solutions for those needs. You must think creatively for clients and be consistent with conducting constant follow-up. Extensive in-person & telephone prospecting is required. Your major focus will be on developing new business through new customer acquisition and selling new marketing solutions to existing customer accounts. Account Executives, on a weekly basis, perform in person calls to a minimum of 10-20 executive level decision makers and/or small business owners and must be able to communicate Washington City Papers value proposition that is solution-based and differentiates us from any competitors. Account Executive will be responsible for attaining sales goals and must communicate progress on goals and the strategies and tactics used to reach revenue targets to Washington City Paper management.

Qualifications, background, and disposition of the ideal candidate for this position include: • Two years of business to business and outside customer sales experience • Experience developing new territories & categories including lead generation and cold calling • Ability to carry and deliver on a sales budget • Strong verbal and written communication skills • Able to work both independently and in a team environment • Energetic, self-motivated, possessing an entrepreneurial spirit and strong work ethic • Organized, detail and results oriented with professional presentation abilities • Willing to embrace new technology and social media • MS Office suite proficiency - prior experience with a CMR/CMS software application • Be driven to succeed, tech savvy, and a world class listener • Enjoy cultivating relationships with area businesses

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Compensation potential has no limits – we pay based on performance.

For consideration please send an introduction letter and resume to Melanie Babb at mbabb@washingtoncitypaper.com.

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