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Washington City Paper’s guide to the 2018 primary election

DIStrICt LIne 5 loose lips: The two groups competing for control of the Democratic Party in D.C. 6 redemption song: With one victory, the Capitals dismissed years of bad luck.

7 ice-ing on the cake: A victory parade for the ages

FooD 19 the leftovers, part two: More questions and answers about Initiative 77

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Slate Pitches In overlooked races, two teams vie for control of Democratic Party politics in the District.

By Andrew Giambrone In the 20 little-watched contests this year for seats on the D.C. Democratic State Committee, the official local branch of the Democratic Party, one thing is as clear as the current White House is chaotic: Neither of the two principal slates on the ballot likes Donald Trump.

In fact, they have branded themselves with explicitly anti-Trump rhetoric. The larger slate, which has 42 candidates, calls itself “DumpTrump-Dems4Action,” while the smaller slate, which has 24 candidates, is called “Democrats Moving Forward #Resist.” (Yes, the hyphen and the hashtag are parts of their formal names.) The remaining candidates in the DSC races are either on ward-based slates or are not affiliated with a slate.

More than 85 people are running for positions on the committee. On primary election ballots, Democratic voters will pick who they want to serve on the DSC, including posts for national committeeman and woman and at-large committeeman and woman. (The committee has gendered seats to ensure diversity.) Three-infour registered voters in D.C. are Democrats.

But the DumpTrumpsters and the #Resisters find themselves at odds over who should get to coordinate with the Democratic Party’s head honchos and direct party-building and get-out-the-vote efforts here in the District.

The two slates disagree over the level of experience and community connections needed to perform those tasks well, and over each other’s qualifications at a time when Democrats are looking ahead to the 2018 midterm elections and the 2020 presidential election.

In a way, the divide reflects national tensions within the Democratic Party between 2016 supporters of Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, with Democrats Moving Forward representing the more established forces in D.C. politics and Dems4Action representing grassroots efforts. A common feeling among the candidates is that what may seem like petty squabbles over party ownership between political operatives matter now more than ever.

“The first difference between us is the accumulative experience with all of our slate members,” says John Lazar, who is running for reelection as the Ward 2 committeeman on the #Resist slate after he won his seat in a 2017 special election. “We bring a richness of expe-

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rience and diversity, with various generations, LGBTQ members, and individuals from different strata—academic, business, political.”

Todd Brogan, a candidate for Ward 4 committeeman who is on the DumpTrump slate, views the distinctions between the two a bit differently. “I don’t think it’s old guard versus new guard,” he explains. “You might be able to argue it’s progressive versus moderate/centrist. More than anything, it’s the people who are doing the work of the Democratic Party—mobilizing around [D.C.] Council issues, organizing volunteers—versus the people who are sitting it out.”

The DSC presides over the persnickety process for sending delegates to the Democratic National Convention every four years, fills vacancies of Democratic D.C. Council seats when they occur, and encourages Democratic voter education and registration. But because its operations are largely removed from those of the Council and the mayoral administration, many residents are unaware of the committee.

Critics say the committee has been an organizational mess in recent years. More than 30 of the 2018 candidates are already involved with the DSC in various capacities. Anita Bonds, a veteran District politico and an atlarge councilmember who is seeking another term on the Council, chairs the DSC. Both the Democrats Moving Forward slate and the Dems4Action slate are hoping to convince voters that they would do a better job of opposing Trump’s agenda, improving the quality of life in the District, and pushing for D.C. statehood, which was included in the 2016 Democratic Party platform.

But the newer candidates confront a practical challenge: Many of the most consistent voters don’t appear to know much, if anything, about the committee. By Brogan’s count, 70 to 80 percent of “double prime Democrats”—people who voted in 2014 and 2016—whose doors he’s knocked on “say they have no idea” about the DSC. “That blows my mind,” he says.

Philip Pannell, a longtime Ward 8 activist running for at-large committeeman on the DumpTrump slate and a member of the DSC for 11 terms, says the committee must do more serious business and be more vocal. “So our disenfranchisement is not treated as just a simple political footnote—or an asterisk to a footnote,” Pannell says of the District. “We never get the type of national attention we deserve at these national conventions, and that’s a national shame.”

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Darrow Montgomery

By winning the Stanley Cup, the Capitals exorcised plenty of demons.

By Brian Murphy Say it once more with feeling—the Washington Capitals are the Stanley Cup champions.

If it feels like the powers that be will have to pry the Stanley Cup from Alex Ovechkin’s cold, dead hands a year from now, that’s because most of us felt like this day would never come.

While plenty of locals jumped on the bandwagon during the team’s magical postseason run, diehards know nothing has ever been guaranteed when it comes to this franchise.

In order to win the Stanley Cup for the first time in the team’s 44-year history, the Capitals had to defeat the Vegas Golden Knights—an expansion team that rewrote the standards for what a firstyear franchise can accomplish.

The Golden Knights won 51 games in their inaugural campaign. The Caps didn’t collect their 51st franchise victory until halfway through their fourth season of existence. While Vegas raised the bar for future expansion teams, the Capitals began on the other side of the spectrum.

Washington won just eight of 80 games in 1974, and secured a single road victory that entire season. Eight years (and zero postseason appearances) later, things were so dire that

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the franchise launched a “Save the Caps” campaign just to keep them in town.

Even when things finally improved, the Caps were mostly known for getting to the playoffs, and then collapsing in spectacularly heartbreaking fashion. To this day, no other franchise in sports has blown more 3-gamesto-1 leads than the Capitals.

That trend started long before Ovechkin ever came to D.C., but his early days in town did little to change that tired narrative. While the Great 8 added plenty of style and flash to a historically blue-collar franchise, squandering a 3–1 lead to the eighth-seeded Montreal Canadiens in 2010 only re-enforced the belief that the Capitals were forever destined to remain “Choking Dogs.”

Prior to this improbable playoff run, Ovechkin was already considered one of the best professional athletes in D.C. sports history. As soon as Ovi ended Washington’s streak of futility after 91 seasons without a championship in the District’s four major sports, he officially cemented his status as a legend.

Watching Ovechkin hoist the Stanley Cup above his head was a thing of beauty. No longer was he a flawed and selfish player who cared more about personal accolades than any team goals. The weight of the world was no longer Ovechkin’s burden.

In its place, Ovechkin was free to carry hock-

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ey’s most sacred hardware—a 34.5-pound trophy that will feature his name in the not-toodistant future. But the Capitals’ captain isn’t the only individual who should feel vindicated right about now. No, this entire story is one of redemption for all the people involved.

For all of Nicklas Backstrom’s brilliance— with 799 points in 815 games—his 11 seasons as Washington’s top-line center have been largely overlooked and under-appreciated. While he’s averaged roughly a point per game for more than a decade, he’s only been named an All-Star once in his career and has been an afterthought when it comes to any sort of personal recognition.

The Capitals selected center Evgeny Kuznetsov with the 26th overall pick in the 2010 NHL Draft. He remained in Russia until 2014 though, feeling he wasn’t ready to move halfway around the world and take on the challenges—on and off the ice—that come with an 82-game season. This decision made him an easy target, as people unfairly labeled him another enigmatic Russian head case.

John Carlson led all NHL defensemen in points during the 2017-18 season, but wasn’t named a finalist for the Norris Trophy, awarded annually to the league’s top defenseman.

T.J. Oshie is universally regarded as the best shootout specialist in all of hockey, which is great until you realize that playoff hockey doesn’t include shootouts.

Tom Wilson is vilified on a weekly basis because he’s a throwback to an era when helmets were optional and players finished their checks. That used to earn accolades back in the day. Now it garners a weekly meeting with the NHL’s Department of Player Safety.

Braden Holtby is a Vezina Trophy-winning goalie, which means he’s been recognized as the best in the NHL at his chosen position. And yet, he wasn’t even Washington’s starting goaltender entering this postseason.

Brooks Orpik is the league’s highest paid sixth defenseman. Andre Burakovsky and Jakub Vrana took turns alternating between the lineup and the coach’s doghouse. The New Jersey Devils bought out Devante SmithPelly’s contract after last season, essentially paying money to make him go away. Lars Eller, playing with his third team, came into

this season having never scored more than 30 points. Christian Djoos is allegedly the name of a player also on this year’s team.

And let’s not forget that coach Barry Trotz’s four-year contract with the Caps expired as soon as the season ended. The 19-year veteran has guided Washington to victory two out of every three times they’ve taken the ice since he arrived in 2014, but that wasn’t good enough to earn him a contract extension.

The captain, the coach, and the franchise, in general, have each been regarded as underachievers. They’re good enough to get you to the playoffs, but never really a threat to do anything once they got there. Fair or not, that was their reputation.

Each of these guys, except for maybe Djoos, played a key role in bringing a championship to D.C. The Capitals became the first team since 1991 to win the Stanley Cup after trailing in all four series, and they eliminated each of those four teams on the road, too. These were not the same old Caps I grew up watching.

That, more than anything, is what I appreciate most about the 2017-18 Washington Capitals. They vanquished a dark cloud that hovered over this downtrodden fanbase for more than four decades. While that was my cross to bear, the next generation of Caps fans—which includes my 6-year-old son—won’t be burdened with the same torment and heartbreak.

Names like Pat LaFontaine, Petr Nedved, and Jaroslav Halak caused old timers like me years of sleepless nights and emotional distress, but my son will never have to deal with another dimwitted Yinzer thinking he’s the second coming of Richard Pryor as he orders an “Ovechkin,” before hastily explaining, “You know ... a White Russian with no cup,” and then laughing at his own tired joke. It’s the dawn of a new day in the District and I, for one, couldn’t be happier.

While injuries, suspensions, and countless other potential distractions came their way in the playoffs, the Capitals simply adapted and overcame adversity thanks to a “next man up” mentality. Everyone was a contributor. No one was a passenger.

Best of all, a different player rose to the occasion every night. This was never more apparent than in Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Final, when the Capitals—trailing after 40 minutes—battled back thanks to third-period goals by their third and fourth lines.

Throughout the postseason, all four lines contributed. On their championship clinching night, all four lines scored.

Call it redemption through resiliency. For a captain, a coach, and a franchise.

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All photos by Darrow Montgomery

Capitals fans wax philosophical on their long-awaited victory parade day.

By Kelyn Soong Carly Slomnicki is easy to spot. Among the red-clad Washington Capitals fans several rows deep along Constitution Avenue NW on Tuesday morning, she’s the one wearing no discernable Capitals gear, standing on top of a trash can. From her perch, she has a clear view of the same street that the Stanley Cup-winning Capitals team would ride down on a double-decker bus minutes later as part of their victory parade.

Slomnicki doesn’t care that she’s in her work clothes or that she somehow forgot to put on her Alexander Ovechkin jersey before sprinting out of the office. On this day, she is celebrating her favorite team with other diehard Capitals fans in weather that can only be described as perfect.

“I’ve been waiting for this my entire life,” she says.

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from out of town squeezed through the crowd.

Metro announced that over 567,000 people rode Metrorail by 5 p.m. Tuesday, up more than 132,000 from the same time Monday.

Nihar Shah, 35, took a break from work to join in the festivities. Raised in Boston, Shah says he has attended victory parades for the Red Sox, Patriots, and Celtics within the last two decades. He roots for the Boston Bruins, but considers the Capitals his second favorite hockey team. Championship sports teams find a way to bring a city together, Shah says.

“This is exactly the same” as Boston, he says. “The pride is the same. The celebration is the same. …This parade is everything a parade should be.”

Brian Nelson and Dorothy Olszewski are a little sleep deprived. The couple, both 26, drove 10 hours from Nashville Monday night and arrived in D.C. at 4:30 in the morning on Tuesday with their 5-year-old Norwegian Elkhound mix, Loki. They lived in D.C. from 2015 to 2017, but Nelson has been a Capitals fan for more than a decade.

When he first started watching hockey, he debated between rooting for Ovechkin or Pittsburgh Penguins star Sidney Crosby. He went with Ovi, and doesn’t regret his decision.

“I just think Ovechkin is more fun to watch,” Nelson says. “He’s more reckless. He does whatever it takes to win. I mean, Crosby isn’t missing any teeth. …If anyone was to break the

Occasionally, the crowd breaks into chants of “Let’s go Caps!” and “We won the Cup!” drowning out Slomnicki, 29, as she reflects on all the emotions she’s invested in the team.

She lives in D.C. but grew up rooting for the Capitals in Potomac. She watched the clinching Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Final at the watch party inside Capital One Arena last Thursday with her best friends. “Just crying, laughing, so much anxiety,” she says. All the heartache and playoff disappointment, Slomnicki realizes, has led to this moment on top of a trashcan at the intersection of Constitution Avenue and 17th Street NW. “I’m learning that patience is worth it,” she says. “I’m not a patient person, but this has taught me a lesson.”

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DistrictLinE [D.C. sports] curse, it would be Ovi.” Michelle Jackson could see the Stanley Cup approaching, the sun reflecting off the silver trophy raised high above Ovechkin’s head.

“Here comes the Cup! Here comes the Cup!” Jackson yells to no one in particular. She jumps up and down on the park bench, her cell phone camera ready in her hand to capture the historic moment.

Jackson, 56, is from Northeast D.C. and only started watching the Capitals the last few years because her 94-year-old mother got her into it.

Her boss, a big Caps fan, gave her and her colleagues the day off and she didn’t think twice about coming.

“It’s been over 20 years for D.C. sports,” she says. “I think this pretty much boosts our morale.”

Standing beside Jackson on the bench is

10-year-old Andrea Cass of Arlington, who begged her mother, Jennifer, to come to the parade. Even though it meant skipping school, Jennifer agreed. There isn’t a lot to feel good about these days, Jennifer says, and the Stanley Cup has brought people in D.C. together.

“Now I want to be more of a Caps fan and watch hockey more,” Andrea says.

Aaron Cohen, 42, of Potomac feels the same way. He took off from work to bring his 4-year-old son, Hugh, to the parade. He told his coworkers that he had a “commitment,” but assumes his boss is at the parade as well. There’s no telling when the next championship parade will be, Cohen says. And maybe, he adds, looking down at his son, there will be fewer heartbreaks in D.C. sports going forward.

“Hopefully he remembers this day,” Cohen says.

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PRIMARY CULLERS It’s election season in D.C., but by the paltry turnout for early voting in the June 19 primaries, you wouldn’t know it. Our heavily Democratic city is, historically speaking, light on drama this year. Mayor Muriel Bowser faces no viable challengers and is set for a second term, yet has amassed more than $2.5 million in campaign donations. A majority of the D.C. Council is up for re-election too, but only a few of the races are competitive in a way that excites residents. Exhibit A: The marquee contest between Council Chairman Phil Mendelson and policy veteran Ed Lazere, which pits two wonks’ wonks against each other, hasn’t emerged as a whole lot more than infighting on the left.

The most controversial ballot item—Initiative 77, to eliminate the tipped minimum wage—isn’t even a race (all registered voters may vote on it regardless of party status). Here City Paper presents an annotated version of the ballot question, and the results of a phone poll with the candidates in contested primary races. We asked them about issues that residents care about, or should: schools, housing, the economy, and money in politics. While some candidates pushed back on the wording of certain questions, asking to give longer or more nuanced answers, we intend this as a snapshot of their positions and personalities. Learn more about them in our ongoing coverage. —Andrew Giambrone, Tom Sherwood, Matt Cohen, Morgan Baskin, Caroline Jones, Alexa Mills, and Kayla Randall

THE ISSUES SCHooLS DC Public Schools face a multitude of issues. Former Deputy Mayor for Education Jennifer Niles and former Chancellor Antwan Wilson resigned in February after Niles helped arrange for Wilson’s daughter to skip the lottery system and be transferred to an out-ofboundary school. Beyond that drama, reporting revealed that many high school students have graduated despite chronic truancy. And after that revelation, an internal investigation found that nearly 30 percent of students at Duke Ellington School of the Arts appeared not to live in the District and were not paying the requisite tuition. The tumult is prompting some critics to question whether the city’s executive branch should have less control over schools.

—Caroline Jones AMAzon

D.C. is one of 20 finalists that Amazon has named for the location of its second headquarters, branded HQ2. With Maryland and Northern Virginia also on that list, the District is engaged in a regional competition for HQ2, which Amazon says will bring 50,000 jobs, millions of dollars in tax revenue, and other economic benefits to its chosen juris-

diction. But questions of whether HQ2 should come to D.C.—and whether the city should offer the company incentives beyond those already provided in the law—have divided residents and District leaders, including councilmembers. Amazon is expected to announce a decision this year.

—Andrew Giambrone D.C. gEnERAL D.C. plans to close its largest family homeless shelter, D.C. General, this fall. The city is building seven smaller shelters across the District in its stead, but six of those seven shelters likely won’t open on schedule.

(Three are slated to open this fall, while the rest will open on a staggered schedule through 2020).

Because each new smaller shelter will hold only about 30 to 50 families, and D.C. General supports 700 to 800 people on any given night, the city will now have to determine where current D.C. General residents will go when the site closes. The plan, as of this spring, was to give them rapid rehousing subsidies.

But rapid rehousing vouchers, which often end after a year, can leave people back on the street with no long-term support system. Advocates are worried that hundreds of homeless families won’t have any stable, clean place to go when D.C. General closes.

—Morgan Baskin

HoUSIng PRogRAMS D.C. has a handful of locally- and federally-funded programs that help keep at-risk, lowincome families in their homes. Rapid rehousing is a controversial housing subsidy program that helps low-income families make rent, with assistance often expiring after about one year. The Emergency Rental Assistance Program funds back-rent payments for tenants who are at or below 125 percent of the federal poverty line. The Local Rent Supplement Program, modeled after federal Section 8 vouchers, is a longerterm housing subsidy program with a waiting list of about 40,000 residents.

Project-based vouchers tie housing subsidies to specific units, instead of the tenants living in them—meaning that a family would lose their subsidy if they had to move for some reason. The director of D.C.’s Department of Human Services, Laura Zeilinger, has said that the city will largely rely on rapid rehousing subsidies to re-home the people living in D.C. General when it closes.

—Morgan Baskin SEx WoRk Ask nearly any professional in the orbit of commercial sex whether sex workers routinely experience abuse by police officers, and you’ll usually get an emphatic yes. That abuse

is at the heart of At-Large Councilmember David Grosso’s legislative effort to remove criminal penalties for buying and selling sex. His bill, the Reducing Criminalization to Promote Public Safety and Health Amendment Act of 2017, also decriminalizes pandering (loosely defined as helping to facilitate an illegal sexual encounter) and creates a task force of 13 local stakeholders to study the bill’s impact on sex workers, should it become law. But some officials and advocates, even those who favor decriminalizing sex work, say Grosso’s bill doesn’t properly address critical nuances that would keep sex workers safe.

—Morgan Baskin PAY-To-PLAY The District has long had a reputation for petty (and sometimes not so petty) corruption. Its ethical standing has improved in recent years, in large part thanks to a series of scandals that forced resignations from the D.C. government, but concerns about an entrenched and now more scrupulous pay-to-play culture remain. Developers, government contractors, and lobbyists retain a remarkable amount of access to District politicians, and advocates worry that the official channels for bringing corruption to light are hamstrung or toothless. This has led to new efforts by elected officials to limit the influence of money in politics, but not everyone agrees on how.

—Andrew Giambrone MATERnAL CARE Recent maternal mortality rates in D.C. have been troubling.

In 2016, according to statistics compiled in America’s Health Rankings for the United Health Foundation, D.C.’s maternal mortality rate was 40.7 deaths per 100,000 live births. The United States’ maternal mortality rate was 19.9 deaths per 100,000 live births.

In addition, Providence Hospital and United Medical Center, both having recently shuttered their labor and delivery and maternal and infant care units, have left women in Wards 7 and 8 with a lack of access to maternal care. To address this issue, Ward 6 Councilmember Charles Allen has brought forth a bill, enacted in April, to create a Maternal Mortality Review Committee. But maternal health disparities and lack of access to quality maternal care are problems that District mothers have faced for decades, and many mothers and health providers have expressed that the city is not doing enough to change this.

—Kayla Randall

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kim ford

Running for: Delegate to the House of Representatives for the District of Columbia Hometown: Washington, D.C. D.C. neighborhood of residence: Fort Lincoln Favorite D.C. sports team: Nationals Walk-on song: “Together Again” by Janet Jackson

ElEanor holmEs norton

michaEl d. brown

andria thomas

Running for: Delegate to the House of Representatives for the District of Columbia (incumbent) Hometown: Washington, D.C. D.C. neighborhood of residence: Capitol Hill Favorite D.C. sports team: Nationals and Senators Walk-on song: Something

by Chuck Brown

Running for: United States Shadow Senator (incumbent) Hometown: Newark, New Jersey D.C. neighborhood of residence: AU Park Favorite D.C. sports team: Capitals Walk-on song: “I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free” by Nina Simone

Running for: United States Shadow Senator Hometown: D.C. area D.C. neighborhood of residence: Hill East Favorite D.C. sports team: Nationals Walk-on song: “Bustin’ Loose” by Chuck Brown

Total money raised

$123,142.73

$220,366.60

$43,964.46

$12,829.64

Money in account after campaign expenses

$34,765.67

$56,153.67

$9,148.26

$ 11,607.64

On a scale of 1 to 10, how broken are D.C.’s schools? (10 is most broken)

6.5

Declined to answer

5

9

Yes or no on Initiative 77?

No

No position

Yes

No

Which D.C. department is most in need of an overhaul?

Department of Employment Services

“On that I have no expertise.”

Shadow delegation (Ed. note: This is not a D.C. department.)

DC Public Schools

Yes or no: Should Amazon come to D.C.?

Declined to say yes or no

Yes

Declined to say yes or no

No

If yes, should D.C. offer tax incentives for Amazon to come here?

Yes

Yes

Declined to say yes or no

No

Yes or no: Should the city close D.C. General this fall?

No

No

Declined to say yes or no

Yes

Which of the following housing programs would you spend additional money on? (a) rapid rehousing, (b) Local Rent Supplement Program, (c) Emergency Rental Assistance Program, (d) project-based vouchers

[c) Emergency Rental Assistance Program

[b) Local Rent Supplement Program

(a) rapid rehousing

(a) rapid rehousing

Yes or no: Should D.C. decriminalize sex work?

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Do you believe that companies, specifically developers and contractors, who donate to politicians’ campaigns should be barred from doing business with the city, either temporarily or permanently?

Yes

No

No

Yes

Do you support bans on outside paid employment for D.C. councilmembers?

No

Declined to say yes or no

Yes

Yes

What have you included in your platform to address the dearth of maternal care in D.C.?

“On the federal side, I fully support expanding it not just for mothers but for fathers too.”

Declined to answer

“Nothing. I’m a Senate candidate, so statehood is my platform.”

Declined to answer

10 june 15, 2018 washingtoncitypaper.com

jAmes butler

ernest e. johnson

Running for: Mayor Hometown: Lorain, Ohio D.C. neighborhood of residence: Trinidad Favorite D.C. sports team: Wizards Personal walk-on song: “Man in the Mirror” by Michael Jackson

Running for: Mayor Hometown: Washington, D.C. D.C. neighborhood of residence: Columbia Heights Favorite D.C. sports team: Wizards Personal walk-on song: “People Get Ready” by Joss Stone

muriel bowser

ed lAzere

Running for: D.C. Council Chairman Hometown: Sioux City, Iowa D.C. neighborhood of residence: Brookland Favorite D.C. sports team: Wizards Personal walk-on song: “Ain’t No Stopping Us Now” by McFadden & Whitehead

Running for: Mayor (incumbent) Hometown: Washington, D.C. D.C. neighborhood of residence: Colonial Village Favorite D.C. sports team: Declined to choose Personal walk-on song: “Girl on Fire”

by Alicia Keys

phil mendelson

Running for: D.C. Council Chair (incumbent) Hometown: Cleveland, Ohio D.C. neighborhood of residence: Capitol Hill East Favorite D.C. sports team: Capitals Personal walk-on song: Declined to answer

Total money raised

June financial report pending

June financial report pending

$2,505,459.72

$218,430.17

$582,009.89

Money in account after campaign expenses

June financial report pending

June financial report pending

$1,590,110.94

$38,984.65

$291,564.34

On a scale of 1 to 10, how broken are D.C.’s schools? (10 is most broken)

10

7

Declined to answer

7

4

Yes or no on Initiative 77?

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

No

Which D.C. department is most in need of an overhaul?

DC Public Schools

Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs

Declined to answer

Department of Employment Services

Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs

Yes or no: Should Amazon come to D.C.?

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

If yes, should D.C. offer tax incentives for Amazon to come here?

No

Declined to answer

Yes

No

No

Yes or no: Should the city close D.C. General this fall?

No

Yes

Yes

No

No

Which of the following housing programs would you spend additional money on? (a) rapid rehousing, (b) Local Rent Supplement Program, (c) Emergency Rental Assistance Program, (d) project-based vouchers

(a) rapid rehousing

Declined to answer

Declined to answer

(b) Local Rent Supplement Program

(d) project-based vouchers

Yes or no: Should D.C. decriminalize sex work?

No

Yes

No

Yes

No

Do you believe that companies, specifically developers and contractors, who donate to politicians’ campaigns should be barred from doing business with the city, either temporarily or permanently?

Yes, temporarily

Yes

Declined to answer

Yes

Yes

Do you support bans on outside paid employment for D.C. councilmembers?

Yes

No

No

Yes

No

What have you included in your platform to address the dearth of maternal care in D.C.?

“We want to accelerate a hospital east of the river.

We’ve waited three years … that’s been way too long.”

“We need to turn United Medical Center into an emergency trauma facility and maternity care clinic. We should have urgent care and maternity clinics throughout Wards 7 and 8.”

No answer

“I support bringing back maternal care to United Medical Center, or to east of the river, and making sure there is maternal care east of the river.”

“I support birth to 3 legislation, which is focused on lower income families and tries to deal with health care disparities and the need for better care.”

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lori parker

Brianne k. nadeau

sheika reid

Running for: Ward 1 D.C. Councilmember Hometown: Washington, D.C. D.C. neighborhood of residence: Columbia Heights Favorite D.C. sports team: “I love them all.”

Personal walk-on song: “Signed, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours” by Stevie Wonder

kent Boese

Running for: Ward 1 D.C. Councilmember Hometown: Washington, D.C. D.C. neighborhood of residence: Columbia Heights Favorite D.C. sports team: Mystics Personal walk-on song: “Optimistic” by the Sounds of Blackness

Running for: Ward 1 D.C. Councilmember (incumbent) Hometown: Grosse Pointe, Michigan D.C. neighborhood of residence: Park View Favorite D.C. sports team: Nationals Personal walk-on song: “Eye of the Tiger” by Survivor

Running for: Ward 1 D.C. Councilmember Hometown: Harvard, Illinois D.C. neighborhood of residence: Park View Favorite D.C. sports team: Capitals Personal walk-on song: “All About That Bass” by Meghan Trainor

Total money raised

$71,454.78

$243,935.11

$60,305.85

$80,620.91

Money in account after campaign expenses

$5,431.07

$17,473.70

$22,934.51

$13,900.15

On a scale of 1 to 10, how broken are D.C.’s schools? (10 is most broken)

3.5

4

7

5

Yes or no on Initiative 77?

Declined to answer

No

Yes

No

Which D.C. department is most in need of an overhaul?

Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs

Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs

Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs

Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs

Yes or no: Should Amazon come to D.C.?

No

Yes

Yes

No

If yes, should D.C. offer tax incentives for Amazon to come here?

No

No

No

No

Yes or no: Should the city close D.C. General this fall?

No

Yes

Declined to answer

Yes

Which of the following housing programs would you spend additional money on? (a) rapid rehousing, (b) Local Rent Supplement Program, (c) Emergency Rental Assistance Program, (d) project-based vouchers

(a) rapid rehousing

(b) Local Rent Supplement Program

(b) Local Rent Supplement Program

(c) Emergency Rental Assistance Program

Yes or no: Should D.C. decriminalize sex work?

Declined to answer

Yes

No

Yes

Do you believe that companies, specifically developers and contractors, who donate to politicians’ campaigns should be barred from doing business with the city, either temporarily or permanently?

No

Yes

No

Yes

Do you support bans on outside paid employment for D.C. councilmembers?

No

Yes

No

No

What have you included in your platform to address the dearth of maternal care in D.C.?

“I’ve always advocated for our working families and that includes maternal care.”

“I worked for and supported The Maternal Mortality Review Committee. It has been a focus of my work on the Health Committee to ensure equitable access.”

“I take a children first approach to all legislative and policy issues impacting district residents.”

“We need to have equal access to maternal care, especially low-income and families across the Anacostia River.”

12 june 15, 2018 washingtoncitypaper.com

bradley thomas

kenyan mcduffie

Running for: Ward 5 D.C. Councilmember Hometown: Washington, D.C. D.C. neighborhood of residence: Bates Favorite D.C. sports team: Declined to choose Personal walk-on song: “Quest for the Best,” selfproduced

Running for: Ward 5 D.C. Councilmember (incumbent) Hometown: Washington, D.C. D.C. neighborhood of residence: Stronghold Favorite D.C. sports team: Wizards Personal walk-on song: “Risin’ to the Top,” by Keni Burke

lamonica jeffrey

gayle hall carley

Running for: Ward 5 D.C. Councilmember Hometown: Washington, D.C. D.C. neighborhood of residence: Brentwood Favorite D.C. sports team: Nationals Personal walk-on song: “Instead of ‘We Are the World,’ ‘We Are Ward 5’”

Running for: Ward 5 D.C. Councilmember Hometown: Washington, D.C. D.C. neighborhood of residence: Woodridge Favorite D.C. sports team: Pigskins Personal walk-on song: “I’m Every Woman” by Whitney Houston

Total money raised

$220,795.96

$16,226.95

$25

$57,985

Money in account after campaign expenses

$50,381.10

$520.40

$25

$35,340.42

On a scale of 1 to 10, how broken are Declined to answer D.C.’s schools? (10 is most broken)

8

8

10

Yes or no on Initiative 77?

No

No

No

Yes

Which D.C. department is most in need of an overhaul?

Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs

District Department of Transportation

“It’s all of them.”

DC Housing Authority

Yes or no: Should Amazon come to D.C.?

Declined to say yes or no

Yes

No

Yes

If yes, should D.C. offer tax incentives for Amazon to come here?

Declined to say yes or no

No

No

No

Yes or no: Should the city close D.C. General this fall?

Declined to say yes or no

Yes

Yes

No

Which of the following housing programs would you spend additional money on? (a) rapid rehousing, (b) Local Rent Supplement Program, (c) Emergency Rental Assistance Program, (d) project-based vouchers

(b) Local Rent Supplement Program

(b) Local Rent Supplement Program

(b) Local Rent Supplement Program

(b) Local Rent Supplement Program

Yes or no: Should D.C. decriminalize sex work?

Declined to say yes or no

Yes

Yes

No

Declined to say yes or no Do you believe that companies, specifically developers and contractors, who donate to politicians’ campaigns should be barred from doing business with the city, either temporarily or permanently?

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Declined to say yes or no

No

“Frankly I have not addressed that. I don’t mean to slight the issue, I just had to stop somewhere with the number of issues on my platform.”

“I haven’t included anything in my platform on that. My platform is geared around mental health first because it ties into everthing.”

“I have included that in my platform to address high incidents of health disparity, specifically in Ward 5, when it comes to asthma, breast cancer, and poor quality of mental health, as well as for women who are pregnant, the high-risk disparity.”

Do you support bans on outside paid employment for D.C. councilmembers?

No

What have you included in your plat- “Not only have I included maternal health in my platform, form to address the dearth of mabut I actually helped put monternal care in D.C.? ey in the budget for a study on the eastern wards of the city because of the recent closures of the maternity wards in Providence Hospital and UMC.”

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charlEs allEn

lisa huntEr

Running for: Ward 6 D.C. Councilmember (incumbent) Hometown: Birmingham, Alabama D.C. neighborhood of residence: Hill East North Favorite D.C. sports team: Nationals Personal walk-on song: “Hair Up” from the movie Trolls

Running for: Ward 6 D.C. Councilmember Hometown: Santa Monica, California D.C. neighborhood of residence: Capitol Hill Favorite D.C. sports team: Nationals Personal walk-on song: “Get It Started,” by Pitbull feat. Shakira

jErEmiah lowEry

Running for: At-Large D.C. Councilmember Hometown: Silver Spring, Maryland D.C. neighborhood of residence: Petworth Favorite D.C. sports team: Mystics Personal walk-on song: “Living for the City” by Stevie Wonder

anita bonds

marcus goodwin

Running for: At-Large D.C. Councilmember (incumbent) Hometown: Washington, D.C. D.C. neighborhood of residence: Bloomingdale/ Truxton Circle Favorite D.C. sports team: Capitals Personal walk-on song: “We Are the World” by U.S.A. for Africa

Running for: At-Large D.C. Councilmember Hometown: Washington, D.C. D.C. neighborhood of residence: 16th Street Heights Favorite D.C. sports team: Wizards Personal walk-on song: “Ain’t No Stopping Us Now,” by McFadden & Whitehead

Total money raised

$142,765.58

$39,046.44

$48,222.93

$116,895.00

$133,268.34

Money in account after campaign expenses

$80,152.73

$8,096.32

$1,553.57

$73,634.51

$53,215.8

On a scale of 1 to 10, how broken are D.C.’s schools?

3

9

9

4

7

Yes or no on Initiative 77?

No

Yes

Yes

No

No

Which D.C. department is most in need of an overhaul?

Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs

Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs

Department of Employment Services

Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs

Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs

Yes or no: Should Amazon come to D.C.?

Declined to say yes or no

No

No

Yes

Yes

If yes, should D.C. offer tax incentives for Amazon to come here?

Declined to say yes or no

No

No

No

Yes

Yes or no: Should the city close D.C. General this fall?

Declined to say yes or no

No

No

Yes

Yes

Which of the following housing programs would you spend additional money on? (a) rapid rehousing, (b) Local Rent Supplement Program, (c) Emergency Rental Assistance Program, (d) project-based vouchers

(b) Local Rent Supplement Program

(b) Local Rent Supplement Program

(a) rapid rehousing

(b) Local Rent Supplement Program

(a) rapid rehousing

Yes or no: Should D.C. decriminalize sex work?

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Do you believe that companies who donate to politicians’ campaigns should be barred from doing business with the city, either temporarily or permanently?

Yes

Yes

Yes, permanently

No

No

Do you support bans on outside paid employment for D.C. councilmembers?

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

No

What have you included in your platform to address the dearth of maternal care in D.C.?

“I authored the Maternal Mortality Review Committee legislation, which is now law. I also authored legislation that protected women’s health care from Trump and Congress. ”

“I’ve proposed a more comprehensive approach beyond [D.C.’s] maternal mortality committee. We should collect [data] on maternal morbidity [not just mortality]. We should do a full-court press of courting providers, meeting women where they are, and have more OB-GYNs, nutritionists, doulas, nurse practitioners.”

“Guaranteeing that there will be funding in the budget for a maternal ward east of the river, and speeding up the process for the hospital”

“I do not have anything in written form that speaks to current situations.”

“Increased support to wrap-around services in affordable housing that includes affordable childcare options.”

14 june 15, 2018 washingtoncitypaper.com

INITIATIVE 77, ANNOTATED

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This language is misleading because by law, tipped workers are already entitled to the same minimum wage as all other workers. The difference is that employers can use a tip credit, which enables them to pay a tipped worker a lower base wage. If tips do not carry the employee over the regular minimum wage, the employer is obligated to make up the difference.

The question is whether this setup makes the law difficult to enforce, since it puts the onus on the employee to speak up if they’re underpaid.

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ON POLITICIANS NOT A POLITICIAN? I call B.S. It’s the silly season for politics as primary elections near.

And I have a request.

Please vote against any candidate—regardless of party or office or position—who declares, “I am not a politician.”

It’s their first lie.

Of course, they are politicians. They’re running for office, for God sakes. That’s what a politician does. Someone who runs for office. It’s in the damn dictionaries, a person running for office is a politician engaged in politics.

Vote against someone who insults your intelligence by denying what they are.

Some candidates try to weasel their way out of this bald faced lie. “I’m not your ‘typical’ politician,” they equivocate. It’s an attempt to insulate themselves from the natural contempt Americans—maybe all people—hold for politicians. I’ve got news for you.

“I’m not your typical politician” is something a typical politician says.

—Tom Sherwood

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THURSDAY JUNE 21, 2018 6pm to 8pm with 6:30 presentation Northeast Neighborhood Library, 330 7th St NE, Washington, DC 20002 (Meeting Room)

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SAVAGELOVE Without snooping, I came across texts between my wife, “Mary,” and a guy, “Jeremy,” of a very sexual nature. While I would be okay if she were doing this and I knew about it, this has been going on since before we met. (We’ve been together 10 years.) She says she has never met him in person (despite communicating with him for more than a decade!) and this was the only thing she was doing that she thought would have been out of bounds. Again, if I had known, it would have been fine. I’m not okay with her being with other guys, but I know harmless flirting can be a release. Still, I have issues with anxiety and depression, and this is definitely triggering me. I do not want to snoop and I want to trust her, but I am having a hard time with both. Prior to this, it never occurred to me that Mary would do anything that had a whiff of dishonesty about it.

But her having kept this from me for as long as I have known her has made me question that. I don’t want to keep bringing this up to her, but I am struggling with it. What do you think I should do?

—Upset In The Midwest I think you should get over it, UITM. Easier said than done, I realize, particularly with the twin burdens of anxiety and depression. But if you would have been fine with this had you known—if there was no reason for Mary to hide this LTR-of-sorts from you—the best way to prove that to her is by giving it your retroactive blessing.

You’re right, UITM: Mary shouldn’t have hidden this from you. But she assumed—incorrectly, as it turned out—you would have a problem with those texts. It was a reasonable assumption on her part, since swapping flirty texts with a stranger is regarded as “out of bounds” by most. While this makes Mary’s failure to disclose look a little worse, we live in a culture that defines absolutely everything as cheating—don’t get me started on the idiocy that is “micro-infidelities” and the idiots pushing that toxic concept—and as a consequence, people not only lack perspective (oh, to live in a world where everyone regarded harmless flirtation as no big deal!) but also the language to honestly discuss our need for a little harmless erotic affirmation from someone who isn’t obligated to find us attractive, i.e., not a spouse or partner.

Put yourself in Mary’s shoes for a moment.

When should she have told you about Jeremy?

What would you have done if on the third or fourth date, she looked up from her menu and said, “I’ve been swapping flirty texts with this guy for, oh, the last several years. I have no interest in him in real life, we’ve actually never even met in person, but I enjoy his texts and would like to keep swapping texts with him.

I hope that’s not a problem.” You would have dumped her on the spot, right? She didn’t want to stop, she didn’t know how to talk about it,

she hesitated, and… a decade went by.

If there’s nothing else—if no other shoes drop—give this your retroactive blessing.

—Dan Savage

I have an unusual situation. I met a girl I am crazy about. She didn’t really have any interest in me except for the occasional drink; she just wanted to be friends. A few months later, I saw her at a bar. We drank a bit more than we could handle and slept together, and I thought we would start dating. A few weeks went by, and she always had an excuse as to why we couldn’t hang out. Then one night, she texted to say she wanted to see me, but I could tell she was tipsy. We went out for a few more drinks and then slept together again.

A week later, the same thing happened. When I contact her during the day, she never seems interested. But I run over like a starved dog when she calls at night. (Sadly, due to stress and overwork,

So long as the summoned person doesn’t want anything more than sex from the person issuing the summons, Yahtzee: Everybody gets laid, nobody gets hurt.

I usually can’t get hard when I go over. That’s become a big issue.) She’s very attractive, and I’m surprised she has any interest in me at all, but it’s only when she’s drunk. Besides her looks, I’m attracted by her personality and intelligence. I don’t know what attracts her to me except maybe I’m her booty call, but recently I have been terrible at it. The last time we hooked up, she told me she’s quitting drinking. Maybe she won’t contact me anymore. My question: Is it worth pursuing this if I get my ED situation fixed? Or should I just move on and if she does contact me one night, I just say, “Sorry, not interested”? It’s obvious she’s using me. But we actually have good conversations despite us both being drunk and it kinda seems like a date of some sort. What do you think?

—Summoned With A Text

She’s interested in you for only one thing (sex) and at only one time (when she’s drunk, horny, and out of other options)… and she can summon you with a single drunken late-night text.

It’s actually not an unusual situation, SWAT— millions of people have received similar summonses. So long as the summoned person doesn’t want anything more than sex from the person issuing the summons, Yahtzee: Everybody gets laid, nobody gets hurt. But if the person being summoned wants more— if the summonee has unrequited feelings for the summoner—the summoned person is going to get hurt.

Because what the summoner is essentially saying is this: “I want sex; I don’t want you.”

Even if the sex is good, the rejection that comes bundled in that summons stings and the hurt grows over time.

So, yeah, stop answering that drunk girl’s summonses. Let her know you want more than sex, and if she’s not interested in something more, you’re not interested in her. As for those erectile issues, SWAT, try having sex sober, earlier in the evening, and with someone who doesn’t regard your dick as a consolation prize. I bet they clear right up.

—DS

I am a transgender man, and my girlfriend is a transgender woman, and we have hit a plateau.

Intimate time is rare, communication is minimal, and although I care for her deeply, I do not like her as a person and no longer want to get married. I have considered asking if we could open up the relationship, but I doubt that is the solution. How does one end a long-term relationship?

—Help Relationship Transition Whatever you do, HRT, please—please— don’t ask to open up your relationship when what you really want is out. A lot of people who want out do this, and it’s why so many people believe all requests to open a relationship are a sign the relationship is doomed.

People who want out but ask for open inevitably get out in the end. People who want open and ask for open and get it tend to stay.

But since most couples in open relationships aren’t public about it (most are more comfortable being perceived as monogamous), people hear about the insincere requests that preceded a breakup and conclude all requests are insincere.

Anyway, HRT, how does one end a longterm relationship? One uses one’s words. If “I love you” are the three magic words, then “I’m leaving you” are the three tragic words. Seeing as intimacy is rare and communication is minimal, it shouldn’t come as a shock to your soonto-be-ex fiancée.

—DS Email your Savage Love questions to mail@savagelove.net.

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Searching for a silent majority, restaurant industry influence, and campaign contributions. City Paper addresses unanswered questions on Initiative 77.

By Laura Hayes As voting dAy approaches, the battle over ballot Initiative 77 only intensifies, and several voter questions remain unanswered. The measure seeks to eliminate the tip credit, or tipped minimum wage, in the District.

The tip credit allows restaurant operators to pay tipped workers like servers, bartenders, and bussers a lower base wage of at least $3.33 an hour, asking customers to pay most of workers’ wages with tips. If tips do not carry a tipped worker over the standard minimum wage, which is currently set at $12.50 and scheduled to reach $15 in 2020, the employer is obligated to make up the difference. If voters pass Initiative 77, the tipped minimum wage will go up in eight increments until it reaches $15 in 2025.

Proponents want to elevate a sector of workers they say earn poverty wages, adding that tipping and a two-tier wage system disadvantage women and people of color. Opponents call 77 “a solution in search of a problem” that could devastate the District’s unique restaurant industry.

City Paper held a panel discussion on Initiative 77 on May 29 at Black Cat. Many questions from the audience at City Paper’s public forum went unanswered due to time constraints. The same goes for questions from the moderators. Last week and this week, we’re addressing them.

Is the opposition to 77 truly the majority of workers, or are they just the loudest because they work at popular restaurants, are proficient at social media, and speak English? Is there a significant group of workers that we’re not hearing from that support it?

The honest answer is that we don’t know. City Paper has focused its reporting on speaking with tipped workers in interviews and in the community. They know the job and the city.

They’re also the most likely to be helped or hurt by 77. We’ve canvassed neighborhoods, teamed up with Latinx organizations, and

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closely monitored restaurant worker groups on social media. But even this strategy hasn’t lead to a concrete yes or no on this question.

Restaurant Opportunities Center United (ROC), the New York-based organization that got 77 on the ballot, hasn’t produced myriad tipped workers voicing their support. Diana Ramirez, the director of the D.C. chapter of ROC says that it has 1,200 local members.

Yet City Paper’s requests for fresh perspectives from both ROC and the One Fair Wage campaign turn up the same handful of names.

That doesn’t mean they aren’t out there.

Tipped workers who support 77 have largely been reluctant to disclose employment information, citing fears of retaliation by their employers or by the opposition. They may not speak up for the same reasons. Supporters of 77 may also be media shy or hesitant to come forward because of language barriers or immigration status. They’re up against tipped workers who have owners on their side, and interplay between the two groups on the street and on social media is sometimes tense, and at other times vicious.

Still, Michael Richmond, the general manager at Rose’s Luxury, doesn’t think there’s a silent majority of workers who aren’t being

heard. “If there was this large group of extremely disenfranchised workers, ROC would find them,” he says. “It would be their job to find them.”

“They’ve recycled all of their people at panels,” Richmond continues, pointing specifically to ROC members Trupti Patel and Thea Bryan (who also goes by Thea Brooks). Several attendees asked if the ROC members on stage at the panel received compensation for appearing.

They didn’t, according to Ramirez.

To date, Florida Avenue Grill is the only restaurant in D.C. to voice support for 77. It hosted a pro-77 brunch in May. Its owner, Imar Hutchins, is listed as a member of the board of directors on ROC’s website and the D.C. chapter of ROC is headquartered on the second floor of the restaurant.

Richmond believes that if ROC’s goal is genuinely to uplift a group of marginalized workers, there’s a better way to do it than passing 77.

“They could be a liaison between poor actors and good actors,” he says. By “poor actors,” Richmond’s referring to restaurants that don’t obey the law, which stipulates that employers must cover the gap if workers’ tips don’t carry them over $12.50 an hour. “There are hundreds of restaurants hiring,” Richmond con-

tinues. “I would love to get a feed of quality people that do good work and take them away from poor operators.”

Much of the District’s large Salvadoran population works in restaurants. To get a better sense of how D.C.’s Spanish-speaking communities feel about the initiative, City Paper reached out to local Latinx community organizations. A city employee connected with training programs for immigrants in the District convened five tipped workers. She asked to be anonymous because she obtained their perspectives on her own, not in the name of her employer.

“They’re all against it because they make more than minimum wage,” she explains, admitting she was surprised by their responses.

“They said if they were going to raise the minimum wage, it would need to be more than $15 an hour. They prefer tips.” She says that one told her there are days they don’t make minimum wage, but other days they make way more so it balances out. “Everyone I’ve talked to so far is against it.”

City Paper also teamed up with El Tiempo Latino’s executive editor Rafael Ulloa, visiting restaurants and speaking with Latinx workers and owners during Taste of Adams Morgan.

Betty Reyes owns El Tamarindo—a Mexican and Salvadoran restaurant established in 1982.

“I’m in total disagreement with 77,” she says, translated into English. “It’s not a good thing for us owners nor for the servers who make tips.

They make much more than $15 an hour so, no, I don’t agree. Nobody in the restaurant agrees.”

She convened a meeting with other restaurants to strategize on how to beat 77.

Miguel Castro from Many Languages One Voice supports 77, and has a different take. His organization works to empower limited and non-English proficient communities to access public benefits in the District.

“I have talked to Latino restaurants, many don’t know about Initiative 77,” he says, adding that in some cases opponents of 77 have come by to drop off “vote no” signs and sway opinion. Those Castro encountered who already knew about 77 said they didn’t want it to pass, but he’s worried they’re making decisions without all of the information.

While Castro used to work in a restaurant,

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Some supporters of 77 assert that restaurant operators and trade groups are scaring or otherwise pressuring tipped workers to take a stand against 77.

Newly released campaign finance reports demonstrate how high stakes the battle over 77 is for restaurant operators and trade groups.

From April 11 to June 11, the anti-77 “Save Our Tips” campaign received $247,157 (to date they’ve raised $305,707). The National Restaurant Association ($10,000) and Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington ($40,000) made the largest donations. The rest came from restaurants including Pizzeria Paradiso, Rose’s Luxury, Martin’s Tavern, Acadiana, Right Proper Brewing Company, and The Salt Line.

As originally reported by The Intercept, the Save Our Tips campaign spent $11,000 on consulting services with Lincoln Strategy Group, a company that did $600,000 worth of work for the Trump presidential campaign.

Nathan Sproul, a Republican political consultant who has been involved in a voter fraud scandal, heads the company. The Save Our Tips Campaign also paid democratic and progressive-leaning groups for consulting services, as WAMU’s Martin Austermuhle reported on Twitter. New Heights Communications received $80,000 from the campaign between April 11 and June 11. The company is headed by Christy Setzer, who spent much of her career working on democratic campaigns.

On the other side, the pro-77 “One Fair Wage” campaign received $84,146 in contributions during the same time period (to date they’ve raised $269,497). ROC contributed almost $50,000 and other groups like the All Above All Coalition, Mintwood Strategies, and National Network of Abortion Funds gave money.

On the ground in D.C., vocal tipped restaurant workers insist they are making up their own minds based on their lived experiences.

“That’s absolute hogwash,” says Frederick Uku, who bartends at The Red Hen. “The owners have given us nothing but complete autonomy.” He’s been a tipped employee in D.C. for 15 years and says he’s frustrated with an outside interest group, ROC, which he says has “no knowledge of the D.C. ecosystem and is torpedoing my way of life and the way of life of all of my friends and coworkers.”

“I do not care for the way they’ve portrayed restaurant owners as big-wig, cash-stealing fat cats—half of my friends own restaurants and

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bars,” he continues. “I haven’t heard one single incident of a tipped restaurant employee being forced to be a no on 77.”

Uku is confused by ROC’s talking points.

“Every time I attend a town hall and try to objectively listen, I end up shaking my head or face-palming,” he says. “If your goal is to make sure disenfranchised restaurant workers get a fair shake, there are myriad things you can do.

What you don’t do if you’re trying to cure a cancer patient is burn down the fucking hospital.”

Tipped workers who oppose 77 suggest focusing on better wage theft enforcement instead of changing the status quo of the tip credit.

Abby Dunn is a tipped worker who supports 77 and discloses that she works at a restaurant in Northwest D.C. She was quoted in a ROC 2016 report about eliminating the tipped minimum wage in D.C. “Most people I work with are against the initiative,” she says. The restaurant has signs posted and many of her co-workers wear pins asking voters to vote no, but she hasn’t been forced to join them. “I haven’t had any pressure put on me … no one in management has asked me to wear a button or show my support in any way.”

“While I know people are scared and freaked out about the possibility of losing their tips, evidence hasn’t showed that that’s what happens,” she says. “It’s the fair thing to do for people who are dealing with wage theft.” Dunn thinks most servers and bartenders oppose 77, but says bussers and food runners are “more into the initiative because they’re making less money.”

Bussers are some of the most vulnerable workers in restaurants according to wage theft attorney Justin Zelikovitz, who was a panelist. “Employers will fudge the numbers most commonly with positions like busboys,” he explains. “They’ll say, ‘He got a bunch of tips and that brought him over minimum wage, but just didn’t report them.’” One former busser City Paper interviewed worked for a large D.C. restaurant and was only paid $2.50 an hour, plus $380 in tips every two weeks.

Some restaurant owners have convened staff meetings to discuss the initiative, including Gavin Coleman of The Salt Line, Sixth Engine, Town Hall, and The Dubliner.

“Most of us try to say what we think the future would bring if 77 passed and went into effect … Then we gave them their options for voicing their opinions.” He decided to hang signs opposing 77, but employees decide whether or not to wear pins. “I’ve run out of pins twice from employees asking me for them.”

A strong majority of tipped workers City Paper interviewed oppose 77. They largely take offense at the notion that they’re merely pawns, regurgitating what they’ve heard from their owners instead of reading the information and making an autonomous call.

In Maine, tipped workers mobilized to overturn a ROC referendum after voters passed it.

The November 2016 referendum would have gradually raised the tipped minimum wage from $3.75 to $12 in 2024. But in June 2017, the Maine House voted 110 to 37 to restore the tip credit and the governor signed it into law.

The Portland Press Herald reported that servers and bartenders voiced their concerns at a 12-hour hearing on the matter, telling lawmakers “they usually made far more in tips than the $12 per hour promised by the new minimum wage and that patrons generally were tipping less as they were confused by the law change.”

What were the campaign contributions from the NRA or individual operators to Phil Mendelson?

Neither the National Restaurant Association nor the Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington have given money to Phil Mendelson’s 2018 D.C. Council Chairman Campaign as of June 10, but a number of restaurants have contributed according to the Office of Campaign Finance E-filing site.

They include Silver Diner, Sticky Rice DC, Black Whiskey, Bresca, Colada Shop, Maydan, Ben’s Chili Bowl, Carmine’s, Del Mar, Cork Wine Bar and Market, and KAZ Sushi Bistro. Restaurant operators including Jamie Leeds, Jackie Greenbaum, and Daniel Kramer also gave.

Mendelson, the incumbent, is running against Ed Lazere. Mendelson opposes 77, calling it “well intentioned but misguided.”

Councilmembers Brianne K. Nadeau (Ward 1), Jack Evans (Ward 2), Brandon T. Todd (Ward 4), Kenyan R. McDuffie (Ward 5), Charles Allen (Ward 6), Vincent C. Gray (Ward 7), Robert C. White (At-Large), and Anita Bonds (At-Large) oppose Initiative 77.

Mary M. Cheh (Ward 3) supports the measure. Trayon White (Ward 8), Elissa Silverman (At-Large), and David Grosso (AtLarge) remain undecided.

Silverman believes restaurant workers are still tipped and earn higher wages in the seven states that don’t have a subminimum wage. “So the major argument made by the Vote No 77 lobby doesn’t seem to hold true,” she says in a statement. “Hospitality is one of our biggest industries, and these jobs are careers for many. I want to make sure D.C. residents in these jobs earn a good living to afford to live here and get paid properly.” But she remains undecided because she worries that the phase-out of the tipped minimum wage is too abrupt. “We are asking businesses to absorb an almost $12 per hour increase per employee in labor costs over seven years, and I’m not sure where they can find savings quickly without raising prices or cutting hours.”

She would prefer it be phased out in twice the amount of time, “where we stop and look back to see if there are negative impacts on businesses, employment, and the industry.”

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Hearts Beat Loud and whether a teacher’s sexuality influences how she perceives Jake. Throughout, there are arguments that are about as realistic and bitter as they come: Alex’s indirect accusation that Judy has an agenda behind her advice is full of fury, and a protracted fight with Greg houses the kind of can’t-take-it-back barbs that will elicit “oof”s from the audience. Both are gloriously bilious.

As the application process wears on and the couple tune in to the difficulties Jake has been facing because of his choices—at his birthday party, for example, another child calls him a “flag”— the question becomes whether they should label their child when he’s yet to label himself. There’s also the matter of exactly how open-minded they actually are, with Alex leveling an accusation that Greg hasn’t been the model of masculinity and Judy mildly chastising him at his response to Jake’s question about why women can wear pants but men can’t wear skirts: “So you didn’t tell him there are men who do wear dresses in our culture?” These conversations remain expository, however; Howard rarely shows

us Jake engaging in the behavior everyone’s talking about.

Danes and Parsons give thoroughly lived-in performances though they don’t exactly work as a couple, their TV roles being too obvious specters. Spencer, like she did in The Shape of Water, plays the supportive friend ably, though she injects her character with prickliness when necessary. Besides a slightly, and annoyingly, wavering camera, Howard directs without fanfare, with nothing to distract from the matter at hand. Though you might wish he’d leaned in a bit more, his delicate treatment is ultimately analogous to the approach that’s arguably best for a kid like Jake.

There aren’T many father-daughter musical acts around.

So your inner teenager might cringe at Hearts Beat Loud, Brett Haley’s feel-good drama about just such a pair that’s slight but warmly inoffensive.

Frank (Nick Offerman) is a failed musician and only barely more successful record store owner who’s despondent about business as well as his daughter, Sam (Kiersey Clemons), who’s going off to college. She’s got a little time left in their Red Hook apartment, however, so one night he cajoles her into jamming like they used to before she outgrew it. After going through the motions, Sam tentatively plays a riff she’s been working on, one that Frank latches on to as something with promise.

Before you can say “Iron & Wine” they’ve written a song, a catchy indie pop tune that has Frank wanting to start a band.

Instead, he uploads the song to Spotify. And a short while later, he hears it in a coffee shop. Freakout! They have to start a band now, right?

Haley (I’ll See You in My Dreams), who co-wrote the script with partner Marc Basch, is clearly a fan of indie music. In addition to references to bands such as Sleater-Kinney, Animal Collective, and Songs: Ohia, Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy appears in a video (as Tweedy, the band he formed with his son) and also has a cameo (lending, one assumes, his tacit approval of the film). The songs were written by Keegan DeWitt and look like they’re actually performed by Offerman and Clemons, who is a trained musician. They’re good—if all a little same-sounding—and brighten the movie whenever Frank’s hang-doggedness threatens to go from appealing to tiresome.

Frank is a widower but gets a love interest in Toni Collette’s Leslie, his landlady. Although he likes her, he’s still wounded— as is Sam—by the loss of his wife, who was killed in a biking accident. Sam has a love interest, too: an artist named Rose (American Honey’s Sasha Lane). Though Sam’s sexuality welcomely hardly garners a blink, the fact that she’s also mixed-race makes it feel as if Haley and Basch were ticking off some diversity boxes when they wrote the story.

Hearts Beat Loud doesn’t come across as really being about anything. Perhaps the bond between father and daughter, sure.

Maybe it’s a lesson on letting go. But mostly it’s a celebration of music as both pastime and therapy, with Sam using it not only as a break from her summer class but also as a way to work out her feelings about Rose and other matters. And Frank needs it as much as she does, as a bridge to connect with the child he feels slipping away and an escape from life’s drudgery. The film may never feel weighty, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t sing. CP A Kid Like Jake opens Friday at the Angelika Pop-Up. Hearts Beat Loud opens Friday at Landmark E Street Cinema, Avalon Theatre, ArcLight Bethesda, and Angelika Mosaic. washingtoncitypaper.com june 15, 2018 23

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A tiny but beloved English basement, Harold’s Rogue & Jar was a block south of Dupont Circle (1814 N Street NW). They served drinks in washed-out jelly jars and jazz in instruments local and national. New York alto saxophonist Richie Cole paid tribute to it with his 1979 tune “Harold’s House of Jazz.”

Aside from the obvious, there’s something else that these three defunct jazz clubs have in common: The structures in which they were housed are still standing.

Last November, I interviewed Jason Moran for the January/February issue of JazzTimes. One of the topics he discussed was the sense of space that is often overlooked in the music world. Moran has made art installations that evoke the interior of such classic New York jazz venues as the Savoy Ballroom, the Three Deuces, and Slugs’.

“We focus on who it was and what they played, but we have somehow forgotten about where it’s played,” he told me. “When will America think about its relationship to space—about where culture happens? … So part of my art practice now is making sure there’s a relationship to the space.

Not just to the musician, the hero, or the music, but also to the space that inspired the pieces they played and where the musician felt comfortable to share them with us.”

He added this point, which didn’t make the final cut of my piece because of length: “I mean right there, in Washington, D.C., Bohemian Caverns sits there empty on U Street. We don’t know what’s going to happen to it, but we know what happened in it, and it was more than what you hear on a recording. That needs to be documented, too.”

This is correct. The Caverns’ future is still up in the air (though it was recently painted and rumors persist that building owner Al Afshar has plans to reinstall jazz there). We should certainly do our best to preserve it—there was a reported effort in 2016 to grant it landmark status, though nothing has yet come of it—but there are

other places that once formed part of the city’s jazz ecosystem and need preservation even after the fact. What was once One Step Down, in Foggy Bottom, is now a Subway. It’s still the original building, though, and there is no shortage of photographs and memories of the place.

Ditto the Showboat, one of two clubs that were owned by guitar great Charlie Byrd. (The other, Charlie’s Georgetown, was part of the longdemolished row under the Whitehurst Freeway that is now nondescript office complexes.)

Songbyrd, which now occupies the Showboat space, is so named in Byrd’s honor.

At least one of these former spaces is officially memorialized as part of the Greater U Street Heritage Trail: Club Bali, the brick palace at 14th and T streets NW that is now Matchbox. Two extant structures, the Caverns and the Lincoln Theatre, are also on the trail; the marker for the latter also mentions the Lincoln Colonnade, the former dance hall and venue behind the Theatre.

Unmentioned, though, is the long-shuttered, long-decaying Republic Gardens, or the current Ben’s Next Door, as historic as the restaurant it annexes. In the ’30s, the building at 1211 U Street NW housed a jazz juke joint that went through various names—the Music Box, the Jungle Inn, the Blue Moon Inn, the Casbah—under the management of its house piano player, Ferdinand “Jelly Roll” Morton.

Then there are the places that really are gone forever. Top O’Foolery, which was in the way of GW Hospital’s expansion. Club Bengasi, knocked down to make room for the Reeves Center. Olivia’s Patio Lounge, which gave way to Metro Center. (A series of recordings exists of Lester Young playing there.) Club Kavakos, replaced by the strip mall on H Street NE. (Charlie Parker is on record at that one.)

Once upon a time, a whole cluster of venues existed at H and 14th streets NW—Casino Royal, Benny’s Rebel Room, Blue Mirror. Simply as structures, as spaces, they constituted a culture that is in need of memorializing.

Crescendo in Blue therefore calls upon the DC Preservation League, or the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, or the D.C. government itself, to take steps toward memorializing these places. A relationship to space, as Moran puts it, is an important and underserved part of culture, and with D.C.’s rich jazz heritage it’s one worth taking official steps toward building. In the meantime, consider this space to be the official memorial of those spaces.

And next time you’re knocking one back at The Public Option, or walking past the rowhouse at 1814 N Street NW, pause for a second and listen for the echoes of the swing that once rattled their windows.

—Michael J. West

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Moving Parts Constant Image

Flasher Domino Recording Company Recently, a Facebook friend scanned and posted a flyer for the Fort Reno lineup from 2002—the summer before I was a senior in high school, and a year when, maybe more than usual around these parts, musical lines of distinction felt especially permeable.

The punk bands could be queer and funky; the loud bands played soft songs; you could make something scrappy and deliberately stitched all at once. Perhaps that’s how it always was and always will be, but seeing all those bands listed with each other—Fugazi and Dismemberment Plan, sure, but also Trans Am and Black Eyes and Pocket Rockets and The Most Secret Method—brought me back to an aesthetic and philosophical place that, I realized a day or two later, I also go when I listen to Constant Image, the ebullient and thrilling debut full-length by D.C. trio Flasher.

That’s not to say that Constant Image is an unoriginal record, just that the band’s members, who grew up in the area and see themselves as part of a local musical lineage, are painting with some well-chosen colors. That lineage is “punk,” of course, but it’s the kind of attitudinal punk in which labels are meaningless and nowhere is off-limits, but a certain angular sound rooted in ’80s post-punk

is the perfect vehicle for exploring those places.

You can probably hear a lot of Beauty Pill and Soccer Team in these songs, as well as some of the current bands Flasher’s members have played in, like Bless, Big Hush, and Priests; casting beyond the District line, I hear Wire and the Moles and, when Flasher really tears away, the Buzzcocks.

And as many of Flasher’s admirers have noted, the band tempers its thrust with a touch of shoegaze. Clearly Flasher show Yo La Tengo levels of great taste, and that accounts for where their music is coming from. But where they land is the impressive part.

You can tell from rippers like “Pressure” and “Skim Milk” that Flasher have a talent for rallying-cry refrains (“Go! Go! Living on the inside!”) and a genius for ratcheting up tension through careful repetition (the latter song’s driving bass line and stacked shouts build to a mind-scraping crescendo). Opener “Go” is a miracle of economy, balancing a blissfully spaced-out chorus with math rock-y counter-textures in less than two minutes.

The power-garage of “Who’s Got Time?” makes me think the sadly departed Memphis rocker Jay Reatard could’ve had a productive run in D.C. It’s not easy to achieve something this intentional-sounding that also captures such abandon.

Or that feels so cohesive. Flasher—guitarist Taylor Mulitz, bassist Daniel Saperstein, and drummer Emma Baker—bring a lot of contrasting sounds to the table, but the final effect has the feel of something tightly wired and collective. Voices call, respond, and coolly intertwine. Carefully deployed synths never jar, only complement. The lyrics can be elliptical but immediate, casting a grounded spell, and they can be artfully descriptive.

The first line on the album is “Doing drugs at midnight;” later Flasher describe a “telephone call in the bathroom stall, just out of earshot.” And the overall effect is something worldly yet parochial, that’s radically open to anything yet could only happen right here.

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

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Microphone check Represent: Hip-Hop Photography

At the National Museum of African American History and Culture to May 3, 2019 First thing’s First, I had to be sure they were there. As a hip-hop head going to see an exhibition dubbed Represent: Hip-Hop Photography, there was no doubt in my mind who I’d need to see first, to evaluate the exhibition’s merits. The National Museum of African American History and Culture did not disappoint.

On their own walls on either side of the exhibition, there they were, displayed in huge black-and-white photos in all of their glory.

Two people no exhibition—or conversation, really—about hip-hop would be complete without: Tupac and Biggie.

Represent: Hip-Hop Photography, now on view on the museum’s second floor in the Earl W. and Amanda Stafford Center for African American Media Arts gallery, was inspired by four elements of hip-hop: DJs, MCs, breakdancers, and graffiti. It presents breathtaking photographs from the Eyejammie Hip Hop Photography Collection—from OutKast to Big Daddy Kane to Queen Latifah to MC Lyte to LL Cool J—chronicling the medium’s journey from infancy to prominence in the ’90s to the cultural phenomenon it is today. But it’s not just photos. The exhibition also features objects, short videos, and interactive displays in which museumgoers can click on the specific photos they want to see.

The presence of hip-hop stalwarts like Biggie and Pac is to be expected, but it’s the scope of what the exhibition curators have opted to showcase that gives Represent its bona fides.

They aren’t the only two to receive the larger-than-life photo treatment. Female rappers Salt-N-Pepa and Yo-Yo get their own spots in the limelight, an important measure of equality, as women hip-hop stars rarely get their due in the male-dominated and often misogynis-

tic musical world.

What the Represent curators understand is that the history of hip-hop is also the history of black people in America. The exhibition acknowledges and highlights this connection in an extraordinarily clever move, partnering photos of hip-hop stars with photos of prominent black figures outside of hip-hop, from civil rights leaders to dancers. Accompanying text compares the figures, providing context for how, in many ways, they are one in the same.

A glorious black-and-white photo of OutKast—a pensive André 3000 and Big Boi— is paired with a feathered-out, big white coat-wearing George Clinton of ParliamentFunkadelic, showcasing their similar flair and Clinton’s influence on the game-changing Atlanta rap duo.

An exuberant Public Enemy is paired with The Last Poets, both known for politically charged work. Fugees, featuring an everbeautiful Lauryn Hill in the middle and Wyclef Jean and Pras Michel on either side of her, are paired with a photo of a stunning woman who espoused beliefs that influenced them: Black Panther Party leader Kathleen Cleaver addressing a church. KRS-One and Ms. Melodie receive the honor of being next to Nina Simone and Dick Gregory, as performers and activists who used their voices “to challenge racial and social injustice.”

There has always been much meditation on the state of hip-hop. It’s a medium that has sparked creativity, controversy, and entire lifestyles. But what it’s never been bereft of is talent. Talent is displayed proudly on the walls of the dark room that Represent: Hip-Hop Photography encompasses. There’s an entire wall dedicated to hip-hop as a lifestyle, featuring colorful sneakers, a Kangol hat, an OutKast magazine spread, a rare studio demo cassette tape of Mobb Deep’s The Infamous, and an actual New York subway door sprayed with graffiti courtesy of the city’s prolific graffiti artists of yesteryear.

Represent: Hip-Hop Photography invites the meditation. It wants its audience to think about the genre on a larger scale. It’s not about maligning hip-hop, or about some fans’ quibbling about the medium being dead, or lacking imagination, or no longer being about skill. The genre has evolved, as everything does, and what it is now may not reflect what it was back then, in the ’80s and ’90s. But to see its evolution, literally splayed out over four walls, any doubt about hip-hop’s power fades away. What the exhibition does best is highlight hip-hop as art—the art of protest, pain, fun, fashion, and culture— the way it always was.

—Kayla Randall 1400 Constitution Ave. NW. Free.

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You’re It Tag

Directed by Jeff Tomsic It Is all too common to fall out of touch with friends as you get older. Some of them move away, while others get married and have kids.

Even if you have few obligations and live in the same city, it is easy to drift apart from friends as your priorities change. Most efforts to slow this atrophy involve regular reunions, or an excuse to keep in touch, like fantasy football. Tag, the new comedy from first-time director Jeff Tomsic, imagines an extreme case of resolving this anxiety. Not only is the film hilarious, but it’s also the rare goofy comedy for adults that avoids saccharine moments and grossout gags.

Based on a 2013 article from The Wall Street Journal, screenwriters Rob McKittrick and Mark Steilen imagine a group of childhood friends who use an ongoing game of tag to stay in touch. During the month of May, Hogan (Ed Helms) and his four friends find creative, dastardly ways to tag one another as “it.” On the game’s 30th anniversary, Hogan dreams of catching Jerry (Jeremy Renner), who is so cunning and fast that he has never been tagged. Jerry is getting married in May, so Hogan figures the festivities mean he has to let his guard down at some point. This leads to escalating comic setpieces, with Jerry always one step ahead of Hogan, Bob (Jon Hamm), Chilli (Jake Johnson), and Sable (Hannibal Buress).

Part of the reason this material is so funny is that all five friends treat the game deadly serious.

As Hogan recruits his competitors to take down Jerry, no one ever says, “I’m an adult, and this is a game for children.” They see tag as an opportunity for glory, and if one person quits, then the childlike joy is permanently lost. Tomsic is a solid director of action, and the film’s frequent foot chases have a gleeful sense of comic anarchy.

There is a moment where Hogan chases Chilli through the streets of Denver, and to any bystander, the urgency might look like a police officer chasing down a perp (the scene is inspired by the foot chase in Point Break). Still, the funniest physical gags involve Renner’s comic nonchalance as a brilliant tag strategist.

We hear voice over of his strategy, and Jerry

anticipates every move like Sherlock Holmes in Guy Ritchie’s reimagining of the character.

Like most winning comedies, Tag finds unique, plausibly human quirks for its major characters, and puts them in situations where they cannot help but act on them. Isla Fisher nearly steals the show as Anna, Hogan’s wife. Even though she is not in the game, her sense of competition is more deranged than that of her husband or his friends. There is a scene where Anna leads an interrogation of someone who knows Jerry’s whereabouts, and her intensity rivals what you might find at a CIA black site.

Some stories seem bound for obvious payoffs and somehow avoid them anyway. There is a subplot where Chilli and Bob are romantic rivals, vying for their childhood sweetheart Cheryl (Rashida Jones). This leads to bickering and deception, as it must, and while the stakes are high, the screenplay preserves the friendship between the two men. So many comedies shift toward “serious mode” when they need an ending. Tag includes dramatic surprises, but never loses its comic edge, thanks to the simple premise that all these characters know they’re being silly and cannot help themselves.

The mechanics of tag, with one person being “it,” assists the screenplay so that each of the five principals have a moment in the spotlight. Along with Fisher, Buress has the funniest lines simply because of his delivery—distant, deadpan, and surreal—and his perfect timing.

Johnson continues his “slacker with a heart of gold” persona that he honed on New Girl, while Helms is a dependable everyman. One of the most pleasant surprises, oddly, is from Hamm.

Sure, he has had comic roles in Bridesmaids and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, but Tag showcases his gifts as a physical comedian. There is something inherently goofy about a grown man—especially with Hamm’s solid build—running like a maniac without athletic clothing. Hamm leans into the innate silliness of the imagery, with his face contorted to suggest joy and mania.

To its credit, Tag does not really delve into the personal or professional lives of its characters. The conceit of the game, with the month of May giving the players free reign, means there is a sheen of nostalgia and gleeful abandon to the action. That kind of freedom is already infectious—who wouldn’t want an annual excuse to goof off without responsibility among your oldest friends?—and the chemistry among the leads practically ensures you’ll be thinking about your buddies before the film is over.

So many films are about what it means to get older, and owning up to responsibilities. Tag is about that, too, with the added wisdom that middle age does not mean youth should be forgotten.

—Alan Zilberman

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Pearl Street WarehouSe 33 Pearl Street SW. (202) 380-9620. Ruthie and the Wranglers with Bearcat Wildcat. 8:15 p.m. $10. pearlstreetwarehouse.com.

ELECtROnIC ten tigerS Parlour 3813 Georgia Ave. NW. (202) 506-2080. Kidnap with Will Eastman. 10 p.m. $15–$20. tentigersdc.com.

JUNE CONCERTS

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

Lost Frequencies. 10:30 p.m. $20–$25. ustreetmusichall.com. union Stage 740 Water St. SW. (877) 987-6487.

Peking Duk. 11 p.m. $15–$20. unionstage.com.

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BEN CAPLAN w/ DRIFTWOOD SOLDIER RUTHIE AND THE WRANGLERS w/ BEARCAT WILDCAT

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FOLk Songbyrd MuSic houSe and record cafe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Field Medic. 8 p.m. $10–$12. songbyrddc.com.

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Songbyrd MuSic houSe and record cafe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Místochord. 8 p.m. Free. songbyrddc.com.

Funk & R&B birchMere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

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

HIp-HOp u Street MuSic hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Hobo Johnson. 7 p.m. $18. ustreetmusichall.com.

JAzz blueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Lisa Fischer & Grand Baton. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $65–$70. bluesalley.com.

Kennedy center MillenniuM Stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Christie Dashiell. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org. tWinS Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. John Russell Lamkin III. 9 p.m.; 11 p.m. $15. twinsjazz.com.

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CARL COX

Carl Cox is an electronic dance music icon and a living legend. The Barbados-born, Londonraised, Melbourne-based DJ-producer has been at the forefront of house and techno music since the beginning, and even after ending his 15-year run as a resident at Ibiza’s Space in 2016, the 55year-old continues to be a presence at superclubs around the world. Dubbed the “Three Deck Wizard” for his mixing prowess on an unusual—and difficult to master—set up, Cox is known for his high-energy, hip-hop-influenced approach to DJing. “I’ll play something as obscure as you like, which you can’t find on Shazam, and then tip into something that you may know or you might’ve heard, or even a very popular tune,” Cox told Australia’s inthemix last year. “But that’s the reason why you go out: to hear music you don’t hear on MTV, your local radio, or even what’s on the charts.” And in the era of pre-recorded DJ sets and digital automation, that’s why seeing DJs like Carl Cox is still essential. Carl Cox performs at 9 p.m. at Echostage, 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. $30–$40. (202) 503-2330. echostage.com.

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pOp 9:30 club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Who’s Bad: The World’s #1 Michael Jackson Tribute Band. 10 p.m. $20. 930.com. dc9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. ONR. 8 p.m. $10–$12. dcnine.com.

ROCk 9:30 club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. American Aquarium. 6 p.m. $25. 930.com. fillMore Silver SPring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Rumours: A Tribute to Fleetwood Mac. 8 p.m. $7.75–$15.50. fillmoresilverspring.com.

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fillMore Silver SPring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Colors Presents: R&B Only. 8:30 p.m. $28.99–$60. fillmoresilverspring.com.

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

Michael Brun. 10 p.m. $12–$18. ustreetmusichall.com.

Pearl Street WarehouSe 33 Pearl Street SW. (202) 380-9620. Roosevelt Collier Trio “Hendrix Meets Funk”. 8:15 p.m. $15. pearlstreetwarehouse.com.

ELECtROnIC FOLk

9:30 club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. M. Ward. 8 p.m. $30. 930.com.

Songbyrd MuSic houSe and record cafe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Michigan Rattlers. 8 p.m. $12–$15. songbyrddc.com.

State theatre 220 N. Washington St., Falls Church.

(703) 237-0300. Reckless Kelly. 9 p.m. $25. thestatetheatre.com.

union Stage 740 Water St. SW. (877) 987-6487. Tracyanne & Danny. 8 p.m. $20–$30. unionstage.com.

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

I Don’t Know How But They Found Me. 7 p.m. $15. unionstage.com.

birchMere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Pieces of a Dream. 7:30 p.m. $39.50. birchmere.com.

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Kennedy center MillenniuM Stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Veronneau. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org. tWinS Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. John Russell Lamkin III. 9 p.m.; 11 p.m. $15. twinsjazz.com.

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In the aftermath of keyboardist Carey Lander’s death from a rare bone cancer in 2015, longtime indie darlings and MP3 blog-era survivors Camera Obscura couldn’t yet bear the thought of reforming the group without their beloved bandmate. Instead, lead singer Tracyanne Campbell began to more seriously pursue a collaboration with Crybaby’s Danny Coughlan, which both had been discussing since Crybaby became a regular opener for Camera Obscura in 2013. The result, the album Tracyanne & Danny, is a must-listen for fans of either band. Campbell and Coughlan’s shared affection for ’60s pop is on full display across 10 songs that gleam and shimmer. Campbell’s voice proves as singular and comforting as ever, pairing well with Coughlan’s.

They take their time on each song. Listeners won’t find the pep of Camera Obscura, but rather space for guitars and lyrics to stretch out and sway. At times it seems like both are cautious and feeling out this new path, but Campbell’s return is welcome and feels full of promise. Tracyanne & Danny perform at 8 p.m. at Union Stage, 740 Water St. SW. $20–$30. (877) 987-6487. unionstage.com.

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blacK cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Cold Cave. 8 p.m. $15–$18. blackcatdc.com. dc9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Lewis Capaldi.

7 p.m. $15–$18. dcnine.com. the haMilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. The Posies. 8 p.m. $20–$30. thehamiltondc.com.

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Young Widows. 7:30 p.m. $15. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

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Reggae Fest vs. Soca. 11 p.m. $20. thehowardtheatre.com.

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lincoln theatre 1215 U St. NW. (202) 888-0050.

Yann Tiersen. 8 p.m. $35. thelincolndc.com.

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fillMore Silver SPring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Bone Thugs-N-Harmony.

8 p.m. $33. fillmoresilverspring.com.

JAzz

blueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Lisa Fischer & Grand Baton. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $65–$70. bluesalley.com.

Kennedy center MillenniuM Stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. The Settles Quintet. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org. tWinS Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. SeaChange. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $10. twinsjazz.com.

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Songbyrd MuSic houSe and record cafe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Alvarez Kings. 8 p.m. $10–$12. songbyrddc.com.

Pearl Street WarehouSe 33 Pearl Street SW. (202) 380-9620. Mike and The Moonpies. 8:15 p.m. $12. pearlstreetwarehouse.com.

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

The Universal Listening Room. 10 p.m. Free. ustreetmusichall.com.

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Songbyrd MuSic houSe and record cafe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Haunter. 8 p.m. Free. songbyrddc.com.

FOLk

birchMere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Old Time Banjo Festival. 7:30 p.m. $29.50. birchmere.com.

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

Pearl Street WarehouSe 33 Pearl Street SW. (202) 380-9620. Anacostia Delta Band. 1 p.m. Free. pearlstreetwarehouse.com. union Stage 740 Water St. SW. (877) 987-6487. Near Northeast. 7:30 p.m. $12–$14. unionstage.com.

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DON BRYANT FEAT. THE BO-KEYS COLUMBIA-PIKE.ORG/BLUESFEST “A total Renaissance panty-dropper, a queer-as-f**k mashup of Cabaret and Red and La Cage aux Folles” Washington City Paper

“It’s hard to imagine a better show than Botticelli in the Fire to see during Pride Month” DC Metro Theater Arts

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ALEXAnDER HAMILtOn: SOLDIER, SECREtARY, ICOn

His name is Alexander Hamilton, and there’s a million things he hasn’t done—but he’s good on museum exhibitions. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s award-winning colonial hype-beast Hamilton opens its run at the Kennedy Center this month, finally bringing to the nation’s capital the best Broadway show around about the founding of the nation’s capital. In the run-up to Hamiltonpocalypse, at least five area museums and cultural institutions prepared exhibitions on the TenDollar Founding Father, from a survey on his contemporaneous media footprint at the George Washington University Museum to a display of his letters at the Library of Congress. The sickest of these shows may be Alexander Hamilton: Soldier, Secretary, Icon at the National Postal Museum, which includes stamps, portraits, and mail sent and signed by him. True colonial finance nerds will jump at a chance to study a 1774 edition of Malachy Postlethwayt and Jacques Savary des Brûlons’ Universal Dictionary of Trade and Commerce, a critical reference for the first secretary of the treasury. The rest of us will be in line to see the dueling pistols used in Hamilton’s slaughter. Spoiler alert: Hamilton was shot and killed by his political rival, Aaron Burr, who went on to raise a secret army to wage war against Spain in Mexico and narrowly avoided charges of treason during the Jefferson administration. Where’s that hip-hopera? The exhibition is on view to March 3, 2019 at the National Postal Museum, 2 Massachusetts Ave. NE. Free. (202) 633-1000. postalmuseum.si.edu.

—Kriston Capps

“A delightful romp through history” DC Theatre Scene

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birchMere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Gordon Lightfoot. 7:30 p.m. $89.50. birchmere.com.

birchMere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Robert Earl Keen with Zane Campbell. 7:30 p.m. $55. birchmere.com.

FOLk

Kennedy center MillenniuM Stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. All Our Exes Live In Texas. 6 p.m.

Free. kennedy-center.org.

Songbyrd MuSic houSe and record cafe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Jordan Collins. 8:30 p.m.

Free. songbyrddc.com.

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JAzz blueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Marius Neset Quartet. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $22. bluesalley.com.

pOp Songbyrd MuSic houSe and record cafe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Elise LeGrow. 8 p.m. $10–$12. songbyrddc.com.

COuntRY

DJ nIgHtS Songbyrd MuSic houSe and record cafe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. DJ RBI. 6 p.m. Free. songbyrddc.com.

FOLk dc9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Haley Heynderickx. 8 p.m. $15. dcnine.com.

JAzz blueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Got My Own Sound. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $22. bluesalley.com.

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

Maps & Atlases. 8 p.m. $15–$17. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

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U2 is everything, and don’t ever let anyone tell you any different. Trust me, I’m a stan. Let’s make a list, shall we? “With Or Without You,” “Pride (In The Name Of Love),” “New Year’s Day,” “One,” "Where The Streets Have No Name,” “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For,” “Bullet The Blue Sky,” “Sunday Bloody Sunday,” “Desire,” and “Bad.” And don’t act like “Vertigo” ain’t a fun bop. What more is there to say? Half the band’s catalog is a veritable history in the evolution of rock music, and a lesson in how to experiment and yet age gracefully. Somehow, after decade upon decade, after periods of turmoil and unrest, the good ol’ Irish boys have managed to stay together, Bono still the force that he always was and longtime guitarist The Edge right there by his side. If you were wondering about their current relevance, they were featured on the track “XXX.,” a standout from Kendrick Lamar’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2017 album DAMN. Oh yeah, and their song “Ordinary Love” was selected by President Obama himself for his favorite songs of 2017 list—which is an excellent list, by the way. So yes, U2 are still very much capable of great, important music. But even if they weren’t, it’s worth seeing them just to hear the hits. U2 perform at 8 p.m. at Capital One Arena, 601 F St. NW. $41–$325. (202) 6283200. capitalonearena.monumentalsportsnetwork.com.

—Kayla Randall

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Songbyrd MuSic houSe and record cafe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Animal Flag. 8 p.m. $10–$12. songbyrddc.com.

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

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birchMere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Robert Cray Band. 7:30 p.m. $59.50. birchmere.com.

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BLuES

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

Suzanne Santo of HoneyHoney. 7:30 p.m. $12–$35. thehamiltondc.com.

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

Alexis Taylor. 7 p.m. $15. ustreetmusichall.com.

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CRACKERS

FOLk the antheM 901 Wharf St. SW. (202) 888-0020. Ray LaMontagne. 8 p.m. $55–$199. theanthemdc.com.

Funk & R&B THEHAMILTONDC.COM

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

JAzz

blueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Dave Detwiler & The White House Band. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $22. bluesalley.com. tWinS Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Earprint.

8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $10. twinsjazz.com.

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Songbyrd MuSic houSe and record cafe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Kevin Krauter. 8 p.m. $10–$12. songbyrddc.com.

ROCk

blacK cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. The Adolescents. 7:30 p.m. $16–$18. blackcatdc.com.

Pearl Street WarehouSe 33 Pearl Street SW. (202) 380-9620. EP Jackson and The Last Well with Chris Rattie & The New Rebels. 7 p.m. Free. pearlstreetwarehouse.com.

WORLD

ManSion at StrathMore 10701 Rockville Pike, North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Josanne Francis. 7:30 p.m. Free. strathmore.org.

tHuRSDAY DJ nIgHtS

u Street MuSic hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 5881889. DJ Seinfeld with Nick Garcia. 10:30 p.m. $15–$20. ustreetmusichall.com.

FOLk

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

Dustbowl Revival. 7:30 p.m. $15–$20. thehamiltondc.com.

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MARkIng tHE InFInItE

Marking the Infinite shows all the signs of an ideal summertime museum experience. It’s a survey of contemporary art by aboriginal women from Australia, a subject that’s bound to be unfamiliar to many viewers. It’s an exhibition of nine artists, a number that allows the museum to explore the theme in depth while giving a sense of each artist’s individual contributions. And it’s a sign that the Phillips Collection takes seriously its obligation to find intersections between its mostly white, mostly American or European modernist body of work and the broader world.

A show of this scale and subject would be welcome any time of year, but the expansive nature of these artists’ abstractions seems especially suited to summer. It’s hard not to see in Angelina Pwerle’s “Bush Plum” (2010) a limitless cosmology—possibly a vision so often associated with the Dreamtime in aboriginal art, or maybe just a blanket of stars. Closer to home, the works bear broad affinities to paintings by artists in the Phillips Collection, from Arthur Dove to Paul Klee.

“Nangi/Yerrdagarri (Traveling Message Stick)” and “Fi (String Game),” two new murals for the museum’s courtyard by Regina Pilawuk Wilson, illustrate how the museum is looking outside its own walls for opportunities, literally and spiritually. The exhibition is on view to September 9 at the Phillips Collection, 1600 21st St. NW. $10–$12. (202) 387-2151. phillipscollection.org.

—Kriston Capps

JAzz

blueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Terri Lyne Carrington, Esperanza Spalding, and Nicholas Payton. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $45. bluesalley.com.

Kennedy center concert hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Gregory Porter. 8 p.m. $29–$99. kennedy-center.org. tWinS Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Clarence Ward III. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $10. twinsjazz.com.

pOp Chained dogs suffer day in and day out.

They endure sweltering temperatures, hunger, and thirst and are vulnerable and lonely. Keep them inside, where it’s safe and comfortable.

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

ROCk

blacK cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Mystery Friends. 7:30 p.m. $12. blackcatdc.com.

Pearl Street WarehouSe 33 Pearl Street SW. (202) 380-9620. Summer SOULstice with Three Man Soul Machine and Sol Roots. 8 p.m. $10. pearlstreetwarehouse.com.

Songbyrd MuSic houSe and record cafe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Lee Bains III & the Glory Fires. 8 p.m. $12–$14. songbyrddc.com.

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State theatre 220 N. Washington St., Falls Church.

(703) 237-0300. The English Beat. 8:30 p.m. $25–$28. thestatetheatre.com.

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

Jeremy Enigk. 7 p.m. $20. ustreetmusichall.com.

Books

ben rhodeS The former senior speechwriter and national security advisor for President Obama speaks about his new book, The World As It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House, a vivid picture of his time with the president. Politics & Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. June 15. 7 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919.

Theater

caMelot This musical based on Arthurian legend is the winner of four Tony Awards. From its stunning score to its story’s legendary Round Table, Camelot is an ode to idealistic leadership that champions the potential of humankind. Sidney Harman Hall. 610

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This actually isn’t the first time Hamilton has come to D.C. Nine years ago, Lin-Manuel Miranda performed the opening song of what is now his hit musical to laughs for a White House crowd. A video of this performance was my introduction to both the show and its creator. Later, seeing the show in Manhattan, I applauded as Miranda boldly announced himself Alexander Hamilton, but I couldn’t shake the feeling that the wacky, kinetic authenticity of the young man who rapped about the first secretary of the treasury for President Obama had disappeared, subsumed by an over-hyped audience-friendly production. I was wrong. The feeling quickly vanished as the cast, armed with Miranda’s thoughtful wit, pulverized the very idea of a musical. It’s cathartic to hear noted white supremacist Thomas Jefferson called to account for his enslaving and threatened with a shoe up the ass. It’s delightful that it goes down in a cabinet meeting-rap battle hybrid. All of which is to say the best thing that can be said about a piece of pop culture as ubiquitous and universally praised as Hamilton: It’s worth the hype. The musical runs to September 16 at the Kennedy Center Opera House, 2700 F St. NW. $99–$625. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org.

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F St. NW. To July 1. $44–$118. (202) 547-1122. shakespearetheatre.org. haMilton Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway hit finally comes to the Kennedy Center. The world famous hiphop musical chronicles the extraordinary life of United States Founding Father Alexander Hamilton. Kennedy Center Opera House. 2700 F St. NW. To Sep. 16. $99–$625. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org. the reMainS Starring Maulik Pancholy (Weeds, 30 Rock, Star Trek: Discovery), this production centers on Kevin and Theo. Ten years after their wedding, the pair host a dinner for their families and reveal the truth of their seemingly perfect union. Studio Theatre.

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

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

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