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Reviews from the 2017 AFI DOCS film festival

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23 Form and Function: The Renwick’s complementary exhibitions of two West Coast craft giants present fascinating contrasts in medium and process.

26 Theater: Klimek on Flying V Fights: The Secret History of the Unknown World and The Return 28 Sketches: Anderson on Donald Sultan: The Disaster Paintings

7 One Tough Cluster: A fight to remove a principal on Capitol Hill gets ugly.

8 Housing Complex: A co-living company keeps plugging a project after Northwest neighbors impede it with litigation.

10 Loose Lips: Whistleblower claims charity foundation misappropriated funds, including taxpayer money.

11 Indy List 12 Savage Love 13 Gear Prudence

d.C. feed 19 Rescue 411: New to D.C., Food Rescue US depends on volunteer drivers to reroute excess food to the needy.

21 Chirashi Sushi: It looks like the contents of a jewelry box arranged on a bed of rice.

21 Veg Diner Monologues: Indique’s Morel Vegetable Stew 21 Underserved: All Set Restaurant & Bar’s Block Island Sound

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CHATTER East Side Story

In which the topic of development in Southeast draws ire

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City PaPer Contributor John Muller chronicled some of the reaction last week when the news service Bisnow cancelled its upcoming “Future of Southeast D.C.” event in the face of significant backlash—including from Ward 8 Councilmember Trayon White and others who objected to a panel of white guys and the $79 ticket price.

Since then, residents east of the river and beyond have been wrangling with one another on social media about whether the opposition was short-sighted and self-defeating, or instead a legitimate step toward ensuring that any future development is inclusive and valuable to residents who live there.

“I think there is a sentiment of hostility towards outside developers because they typically lack inclusiveness—as demonstrated by trying to charge $79 tickets for people to get into their networking meeting,” hood_pog wrote on reddit. “Outside development and money coming into 7 and 8 is going to be important for the future, but we also need them to work with the city and local businesses to ensure that the people who actually live in these neighborhoods are benefiting.”

ExcellentTentsFingers wrote on our website, “Ward 8 has these issues in part because its leaders are incapable of working with others, or even among themselves. Between predictable threats against ‘dirty Asians’ and an attitude that they can manage just fine on their own, they will still find a way to blame someone else.”

Senator_Felch was more pragmatic. “I’ve lived here long enough that I get the tensions, but it’s not like anyone else is stepping up to develop 7 and 8. What’s the plan? … If you chase developers away, others aren’t coming that are going to match what the people are hoping for.

They would have already come by now if they were out there.”

And finally, Gumburcules used doughnuts to make the argument that something is better than nothing. “While probably not a majority, there is a sizable anti-development contingent that ranges from outright hostile, to the delusional (‘we don’t need white developers’ dollars, we can build our own development’), to the development equivalent of Bernie-or-busters, as evidenced by the folks who want to boycott the non-chain doughnut shop going into the old Shrimp Boat because it’s a counter service joint and not a sit-down restaurant.”

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DistrictLine One Tough Cluster

A fight to remove a principal on Capitol Hill gets ugly.

By J.F. Meils

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You have to wonder if Elena Bell would’ve passed on the principal gig at Peabody and Watkins Elementary schools if she knew it was going to be like this.

As Bell finishes her second year on the job— one that included a gut modernization at Watkins that displaced its entire 433-student body for the year—some parents are leading a fierce effort to remove her. Among them are Samah and Grover Norquist—he of Americans for Tax Reform fame—who have become the faces of the attempted ousting, according to numerous parents.

“People in this community can eat you alive,” says one of them, who believes Bell should keep her job.

Samah Norquist claims she and her husband aren’t leading the charge, which she says includes “a diverse and wide swath of parents.”

She wants Bell gone because of the 15 teachers and staff who left Watkins after her first year on the job, including many who were well liked and had good performance reviews.

“Driving away some of the best teachers from the cluster is not what we expect from a competent principal,” says Norquist, who took it upon herself to conduct exit interviews with eight of the departing teachers and one staff member.

Those parents who stand with Bell say her detractors are few but vocal. They acknowledge that her management style is a work in progress, but they say the kids like her and she’s finding her rhythm. Her supporters say that any shortcomings can be explained by a new principal with strong ideas finding her way in an unfamiliar community.

“How insane is it that that she went after teachers and conducted her own exit interviews?” asks a parent who thinks the departures at Watkins were mostly about regime change and included a number of teachers who, despite their good performance reviews, were “dead weight.”

Also, Bell is not from D.C., and some parents believe she wasn’t prepared for the, er, determination of the locals.

“Our community is very highly educated,” explains one parent, teeing up a bit of D.C. vernacular. “We are very active. Many do lobbying work for a living. When people make decisions

Elena Bell

we don’t agree with, we try to work through that with them. It can be challenging.”

Bell’s detractors uniformly cite her blunt handling of existing staff and take a dim view of her new hires. “Parents don’t trust her judgment in hiring teachers and staff,” says Jessica Pannett. “So if more teachers leave this year, many people will lose even more confidence in her abilities.”

But it is Bell’s efforts related to the yawning achievement gap between black and white students at Watkins that some say was a tipping point. The gap is a highly loaded issue because it unequivocally involves race in a community that is keenly aware of D.C.’s tortured racial history.

For Samah Norquist, who calls the achievement gap “an honorable effort to pursue,” it isn’t the gap itself but the principal’s handling of it. She’s criticizing Bell, who is black, for all talk and no action on the issue, a concern echoed in gentler terms by one Bell supporter.

There is precedent for a parent-fueled exit of a Capitol Hill principal. Dawn Clemens was originally the principal of the entire Capitol Hill cluster, which includes Peabody (pre-K3 through kindergarten), Watkins (first through fifth), and Stuart-Hobson (sixth through eighth). That was before a different set of determined parents embarked on a mission to get Clemens sacked.

DCPS won’t say if those parents were the reason Clemens was stripped of Peabody

and Watkins in 2015, which, ironically, led to Bell’s hiring. Clemens, who is white, will not be returning to Stuart-Hobson next year.

DCPS would not say why Clemens is leaving and Clemens herself declined to comment.

Beyond the intramural drama over Bell and the micro-scrutiny of her every move is the actual achievement gap, which is an undeniable problem at Watkins, as it is in schools across the District and beyond. Third through through fifth grade black students at Watkins are scoring more than 60 percent lower than their white peers in both math and English on the PARCC test, which the District uses to measure achievement.

“Trying to say this is about the achievement gap is really missing the story,” says one anti-Bell parent who sees DCPS and its behavior toward parents as the problem.

But while the achievement gap is a red herring for some, many of the issues plaguing the cluster’s schools are clearly related to it and won’t be solved by a single principal no matter how gifted, beloved, or reviled she might be. And those same achievement-related problems can put pressure on just about everything else, including budget, staff concerns and, say, managing the expectations of a highly engaged and demanding community of parents while more than 400 of their kids are in temporary school quarters for the year.

Bell seems to have a sense of this, according to some parents, and appears to be making a genuine effort to address the gap by educating parents about how to think and speak about it.

Chief among Bell’s efforts is the creation of a parent-run task force on the achievement gap that has met monthly since December, hosting speakers and events to increase community understanding of race and equity issues.

“I sense [detractors] think that somehow

those [achievement gap] efforts harm the outcomes for white students or other students,” says one parent who supports Bell.

“Maybe they think if you’re focusing efforts on the achievement gap, you can’t achieve for all students.”

Says another Bell backer, “I see my kids having every advantage in the world, and I don’t think it’s OK for my son’s black classmate to not be as successful. I don’t want my kids to see that.”

Bell has also created something called the PARCC Academy, an initiative designed to help parents understand the test that defines the gap itself.

As for the idea that Bell has done little more than wage verbal warfare against the disparity, one parent says, “I find that attitude extremely dismissive. It’s not from someone who is familiar with what’s happening on the achievement gap task force.”

The storm around Bell has also attracted the attention of D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson, who lives across the street from Watkins. Earlier this year, he trolled the parking area at Watkins speaking to parents about Bell. He also went to a community meeting where the principal was discussed and spoke with both the outgoing and current school chancellors about Bell.

“I’m impressed with her, and I’m impressed with her effort to deal with the achievement gap,” Mendelson says. “The gap is embarrassing. It’s a significant problem.”

According to Samah Norquist, more than 20 parents have expressed their displeasure with Bell in writing to DCPS, including some who met individually with Bell and her bosses.

Norquist says she and her husband met with new school Chancellor Antwan Wilson, and they discussed the self-gathered staff exit interviews.

Norquist also says DCPS told her and her husband that “they share our concerns” and that “Principal Bell will be under strict scrutiny by DCPS’ leadership” during the next school year.

In a statement to City Paper, Wilson appears to temper that characterization. “I know Principal Bell, like all of our school leaders, is working with the community to support all students and improve the school for the entire community,” Wilson says. “It’s our job as a district to support her with this effort while continuing to improve the experience of students, teachers, and families.”

Perhaps in the year to come a shiny renovated Watkins facility will calm frayed nerves. In the meantime, for Bell, the parents, and most importantly the kids, school is mercifully out for the summer.

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DistrictLinE If You Build It A co-living company keeps plugging a project after Northwest neighbors impede it with litigation.

For a tiny street lined predominantly with colorful, two-story townhouses, Richardson Place NW has over the past several months experienced outsize drama.

Last year, a new kind of housing arrived on the Truxton Circle block. Perturbed by how this project could change their way of life, residents organized and collectively cried foul.

Now those residents are cautiously celebrating a recent decision by D.C. zoning officials. They object to an upscale co-living project by local developer Oaktree and New York-based startup Common, a company that manages eight co-living developments in NYC and San Francisco.

Common’s debut D.C. project, on Richardson Place, is a three-story structure featuring 24 furnished bedrooms that measure between 120 and 140 square feet each, with private bathrooms. Memberships for the property, described by Common as in “charming Shaw,” start at $1,700 a month. (“Shaw feels like home in the nation’s nerve center,” Common’s website says.) Tenants also get weekly cleaning, shared kitchen and bathroom supplies, and access to other Common locations. Utilities are included, and the startup says it currently has more than 120 members nationally.

On May 17, Oaktree and Common suffered a major setback when the Board of Zoning Adjustment upheld the Richardson Place Neighborhood Association’s appeal of building permits for the team’s project.

BZA officials expressed concern that the project isn’t allowed under the existing zoning code.

Additionally, some residents remain uncomfortable with how these developments could affect neighborhood character and density. Zoning officials even debated what a “dwelling” and a “family” constitute under D.C. law during the BZA’s deliberations about the Richardson Place project, which is one of few co-living spaces that have emerged in the District as entrepreneurial property firms target its millennial-rich real estate market.

Despite the unfavorable zoning ruling,

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Common continues to advertise its D.C. units online. What’s more, tenants have been co-living at the new property since earlier this year, when Common launched leases, because the BZA’s recent decision occurred after the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs had issued the developer certificates of occupancy.

The local neighborhood commission and Ward 5 Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie supported the neighbors’ appeal.

“In reality, what [the landlord is] doing is operating a commercial property in a residentially zoned area without trying to get any variances or have any community input,” says Katherine McClelland, one of the commissioners. She has resided across the street from the site with her husband for over a year, and adds that she’s not opposed to co-living in principle: “If a complex like this was on Florida or Rhode Island [Avenue NW], there wouldn’t be an issue.”

Proponents say co-living spaces satisfy a hunger for more social alternatives to traditional group homes and also help meet some of the robust demand for housing in the District. In the case of Common’s property, the land upon which the structure sits used to be an empty, mosquito-prone lot. Oaktree renovated a structure that the previous owner had built, converting it to its present form.

Against this backdrop, the zoning board granted the neighborhood association’s appeal three to one, with one seat vacant. BZA Vice Chair Carlton Hart, the lone dissenter, said the project met the applicable standard for “families”—of no more than six people in total—“living independently” from each other for a properly permitted “two-family dwelling” or “flat.”

Oaktree categorized the property, which is comprised of two adjacent addresses, as two flats with two 6-bedroom units in each.

Got that? “It seems as though this, what’s being proposed, is somewhat in the middle of a lot of different things, which is why I think folks are kind of struggling with it,” Hart said at the meeting.

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Anthony Hood, who serves as chair of the D.C. Zoning Commission and was filling a BZA spot when the decision came down, convinced the other board members to greenlight the neighbors’ appeal. He said the project could “change the character of the neighborhood,” and that allowing it to operate would exceed the zoning normally permitted in the immediate area.

“I want to make sure that [DCRA’s] Zoning Administrator is not, first of all, changing the zone plan,” Hood noted. “And I think proceeding with this … I think he does that here.”

Oaktree and Common maintain that they have followed District regulations and are acting within their rights. Although Oaktree partner Peter Stuart declined to comment on the record, citing respect for the zoning process at play, Common CEO Brad Hargreaves says in a statement that “we are committed to being great neighbors on Richardson Place and are excited to welcome our first residents to the D.C. community.” He adds that his company, established in 2015 with backing from venture capital firms, and Oaktree, are “confident in [their] legal position.”

What the board’s decision means in practical—and precedential—terms is still unclear. “I have no issues with the people who are living there, but I’d feel badly if they

have to move out without fair notice,” McClelland says.

The D.C. Attorney General’s office must submit a written, draft order of the ruling to the BZA, which in turn has to sign it and send it to the parties in the case. Statutes stipulate that the board’s orders only take effect 10 days after these steps have been finalized. This could take half a year to unfold. A representative for the BZA says in an email that “recently, drafts from [the Attorney General’s office] take an average of 3 to 6 months to complete because of other outstanding draft orders.”

Moreover, the team behind the co-living development could challenge the board’s ruling in the D.C. Court of Appeals—the highest court for the District—as has happened in other disputed zoning cases. Due process means the feud on Richardson Place could persist for a few years to come. After new zoning regulations took effect last September, the District is getting ready to update its long-term plan for development.

“It’s not like I think that this is clear cut,” Hart said in May. “But this type of living arrangement, maybe that is something that needs to be more clearly understood or discussed in the zoning regulations so that it is clear for the public what is being allowed or not allowed in certain areas.”

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DistrictLinE Funny Money?

Whistleblower claims charity foundation misappropriated funds, including taxpayer money.

By Jeffrey Anderson A D.C.-bAseD founDAtion that houses a network of 700 tax-exempt community funds and manages more than $326 million in charitable donations has misappropriated funds, cheated the IRS, and committed forgery, according to a D.C. Superior Court civil complaint.

The complaint also claims that the foundation covered up misuse of D.C. government funds intended for early childhood education.

Plaintiff Adrienne Brown, former director of accounting and administration of The Community Foundation for the National Capital Region, alleges that she was threatened, discriminated against, and fired for reporting misuse of “donor-advised” funds. Such funds provide an immediate tax benefit to charitable givers who then can make grant recommendations over time.

With annual grants of more than $90 million, the foundation is the largest funder of nonprofit organizations in the D.C. area. Brown was the director of its finance and accounting team from 2005 through March of this year, working under the chief financial officer and reporting to the president and board of trustees.

Over the years, the complaint states, Brown became concerned about improper activity and the lack of transparency and oversight. Specifically, she suspected violations of IRS guidelines that prohibit the use of grants to benefit donors, fund advisors, or their businesses.

Beginning in 2014, Brown began reporting to CEO Bruce McNamer, CFO Shannon Scott, and the board of trustees that there were major problems in the management of funds entrusted to the foundation, including: • Investing $10 million in a bond portfolio without donor consent, then concealing a $2 million loss and misrepresenting the asset balance.

• Using Freddie Mac Foundation funds earmarked for the hiring of three staff members to instead hire one staffer and using the remaining money to close a budget deficit.

• Allowing a fund called Charity Works to pay fundraiser expenses and direct advisor reimbursements in violation of IRS guidelines; obscure the misappropriation of donor monies; and rack up hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid grant commitments to nonprofits. (A Washington Post exposé in September reported extensively on Charity Works’ unpaid commitments and opaque financial structure.)

• Using contributions from the Carl Freeman Foundation to pay for fund expenses and not the intended purpose of the grantmaking.

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ey. In August 2016, she went to McNamer and Scott with concerns about the Early Childhood Leadership Institute General Account Fund, which received $1 million in grants from the D.C. Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE), from 2003 through 2016, the complaint states. The fund’s advisor, the former executive director of the institute, directed at least 30 percent of the money during the same time period to his firm, M. Russell & Associates, allegedly to pay his salary and operations, in violation of IRS guidelines.

Brown alleges that the foundation deposited OSSE funds directly to its own operating account and gave the advisor access to the deposits. The advisor, Maurice Sykes, then sent cashier’s checks on behalf of his firm to the foundation and requested gift acknowledgement for tax purposes, the complaint states. Brown advised her bosses to monitor the deposits and place a hold on outgoing checks, but they ignored her and sent the remaining grant monies to the UDC Early Childhood Lab School without telling OSSE about it.

OSSE says it had a direct subsidy agreement with UDC and that any other transfer of funds was done without its knowledge. Earlier this year, a spokesperson says, the foundation notified OSSE that it was closing the fund, but OSSE referred the call to UDC. A UDC representative says she has never heard of the foundation and that Sykes ended his employment last June.

Based on Brown’s concerns, the foundation hired an outside firm earlier this year to conduct an audit of the early childhood fund. In February, she says, she declined to sign a check to disburse grant money from the fund and told McNamer she believed the foundation was improperly disbursing money without proper documentation.

Brown’s fate was foreshadowed when she went to McNamer last November and confronted him with allegations that Scott had forged a signature on a grant check. After putting her concerns in writing, Brown says McNamer called her into his office, banged his fist on the table, and yelled, “You are to let this go; do you understand me!” She was terminated in March.

In response to questions, McNamer writes: “This lawsuit is an effort to create smoke where there’s no fire. Most of the issues described happened a long time ago and are mostly minor, recordkeeping processes framed and conflated to make it look like something nefarious was going on when it wasn’t.”

Says Brown, “You work somewhere for a long time, investing time and energy, and you try to do the right thing, and you get kicked in the butt for it.”

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SAVAGELOVE

I’m almost 30 and I’m a virgin. I’m an overweight, straight-ish guy (I’m attracted to a few men, but those cases are exceedingly rare). I’ve also gone through an absolute hell life thus far, losing a testicle to cancer and having an abusive father who threatened a teenage me into celibacy by invoking the phrase “penile lobotomy” should I have sex with any girlfriends.

I’ve barely dated in 10 years, and while I’m free from my father and the aforementioned mortal dick terror, I’m also INCREDIBLY scared about putting myself out there. I’m disabled, I’m not conventionally attractive by most standards, my whole zone down there is scarred up from surgeries, and, to top it all off, I’m on the small side. The last time I had the opportunity for sex, I went for it, but I was so terrified that I couldn’t keep it up. The woman I was with said something to the effect of “Well, I can’t do anything with that, now can I?” after which I asked her to leave because, seriously, that’s kind of an asshole thing to say. I’m notionally on Tinder and Bumble, but I really don’t know what I’m doing—and more often than not, I feel like the right thing for any theoretical partners would be for me to just stay in hiding and not inflict my grotesque presence on them. I’m scared of another humiliation, as that’s most definitely not my kink, and I’m at an age where my complete lack of experience and physical deformity are (I would have to imagine) major issues for anyone I might encounter. I truly want romance, sexuality, and companionship in my life. I haven’t fought through poverty, disability, physical and emotional abuse, and my genitalia trying to kill me to stay entombed in my office alone and unloved. I just do not know where to even begin.

—The Virgin Who’s Been Fucked A Whole Lot Just Never In The Good Way Off the top of my head…

Hire a sex worker. It will allow you to separate your anxieties about finding romance and companionship from your anxieties about being sexually inexperienced. A kind, indulgent, competent sex worker can relieve you of your virginity and help restore—or instill—confidence in your dick’s ability to get and stay hard in the presence of another human being. Be totally honest about your inexperience and your concerns. If you get the sense during negotiations—which should be brief and to the point—that the woman you’re talking to is impatient or uncaring, thank her for her time and start over. There are kind, caring, compassionate sex workers out there. Presumably you’ve got a computer in your office, TVWBFAWLJNITGW. Use it to find one.

Get out of the house. Go places, do things—as much as your disability and budget allow. Even if you have to go alone, go.

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ly to put you in front of many/any women, do those things. You’re likelier to meet someone if you’re out of the house and moving through the world. Even if you don’t meet someone right away, you’ll feel less isolated and less alone. Even if you never meet someone (I’m not sugarcoating things— some people don’t), going places and doing things means you’ll have a rich and full and active life regardless.

Genitals are a jumble of flesh and folds and hairs and colors and bits and pieces and sometimes scars.

You’re not alone. Okay, you’re alone—but you’re not alone alone. Meaning, there are women (and men) out there who feel just as paralyzed as you do—because they’re 30year-old-or-older virgins, because they’re not conventionally attractive, because their first/only sexual experiences were just as humiliating, because they had traumatic childhoods and bear emotional scars. You want a woman to come into your life who is patient and accepting and kind and willing to look past your disability and your inexperience and your difficult history. Be patient, accepting, kind, and similarly willing.

Get over those scars. I had a boyfriend a long time ago who had significant scarring on his balls and taint. He was a farm boy (sigh), and he fell on a piece of farm machinery and wound up straddling a scalding-hot pipe. I don’t know how that worked exactly, because I don’t know farm machinery, but the pipe burned through his jeans and left third-degree burns on his balls, taint, and upper-upper thigh. Ten years later, we started going out—and guess what? I didn’t notice his scars. And not for want of opportunity: He was my first serious boyfriend, and I spent the better part of three months with my face in his crotch. The scars that were so obvious to him and left him feeling selfconscious about his genitals? They were invisible to me until he needlessly apologized for them. Genitals are a jumble of flesh and folds and hairs and colors and bits and pieces and sometimes scars, TVWBFAWLJNITGW. If you’re worried your scarring is noticeable,

mention that you’re a cancer survivor and lost a ball but gained a sick (as in cool) scar.

Good luck, TVWBFAWLJNITGW. We’re rooting for you.

—Dan Savage

Your a faggot.

—Women Obsess Real Men

Your new here, WORM, aren’t you?

—DS I’m a straight woman, and I’ve been dating my boyfriend for about eight months. We have a wonderful relationship and amazing sex. There’s one thing he does in the bedroom, however, that I find off-putting and I was hoping you might be able to provide some insight.

About 25 percent of the time after he ejaculates, he briefly licks some of his come off his fingers.

This kind of creeps me out. I’ve been with more than a few dudes, so I obviously understand that a woman eating their come is a common turn-on, but this is my first experience with this particular incarnation. At first I was worried my aversion might be rooted in some deeply buried homophobic beliefs, but we’ve discussed the idea of me pegging him, and that I can get behind. I think it’s more that this smacks of a certain egotism I find frivolous. Like, I wouldn’t go around shoving my fingers inside my pussy and rubbing the results all over my face. Typically we’re able to discuss any kind of conflict or confusion that arises between us, but this one seems tough to broach for me. Three questions: How common is this? Do I need to just get over it or should I try to talk to him about it? Would most guys suck their own dick if they were able?

—Yearning Understanding Concerning Kink 1. It’s not common, YUCK, but it’s not unheard of, either. Maybe your boyfriend grew up with sex-phobic parents who blew up at the sight of a crusty sock, so he opted to destroy the evidence by eating it and developed a taste for it. Maybe he thinks his semen contains powerful woo-hoo-y masculine energy and wishes to retain some of it. Maybe he had a girlfriend who thought it was hot to see him eat his come and he (wrongly) assumes it’s a turn-on for you, too.

2. Yes, you need to get over it and, yes, you should ask him about it. The former almost certainly requires the latter.

3. Every man on earth tries, a select few succeed, and we all would if we could. Even my new friend WORM. —DS Email your Savage Love questions to mail@savagelove.net.

Gear Prudence Gear Prudence: I think my story is a typical one. I went from riding around the block as a kid to leaving my bike in the shed once I learned to drive. I only took up biking again when I moved to D.C. last year. It seemed like all the “cool kids” did it, and I bought a Capital Bikeshare membership thinking that it wouldn’t be a big loss if I didn’t like it. Instead, I started to love it, and I think I’m finally ready to buy my own bike. Here’s my problem: I have no idea what kind of bike to buy. So what’s a good bike for a first-time-as-an-adult bike buyer?

—Frankly, I’m Really Scared. Too Real.

I Demand Examples.

Dear FIRSTRIDE: Congratulations! You’ve “graduated” from Bikeshare and are ready to take the leap into owning your first grown-up bicycle, which is a big responsibility. Do you have room in your place for it? Will you remember to walk and feed it? Wait, that’s a dog. There’s no one right answer for the exact best first bike (it really depends on you), but here are a few things to keep in mind: Buy a bike for bicyclist that you are, not the one you want to be. Far too many people convince themselves that, even though they’ve never taken a bike more than five miles back and forth to work, the “right bike” is an exceedingly expensive carbon triathlon model replete with aero bars and clipless pedals. After all, not having the right bike was really the only thing holding you back from all those triathlons, right? (And not being able to swim, but whatever.) Think about the kind of riding you actually do and tailor your purchase accordingly.

Don’t overbuy. More expensive doesn’t mean better. Well, it does (especially in terms of components), but better isn’t always strictly necessary. You don’t want to walk out of the bike shop with total crap (and any bike shop worth its salt doesn’t sell crap), but you want to make a solid, long-lasting purchase, so focus on durability more than high-end-ness.

Don’t buy without test riding. Don’t buy blind from the internet, no matter how many positive online testimonials you read. It’s important for you to know what the bike feels like, and that means at least one (but ideally more than one) test ride. If it doesn’t feel right, then it’s not the right bike. Don’t succumb to snazzy looks or sales pressure.

It’s just your first bike. Maybe you’ll have it forever, or maybe you’ll “graduate” from this one, too. There are always more bikes in the sea (people really need to stop riding so close to the ocean), and if you make a good purchase and treat it well, there’s a healthy bike resale market waiting for you when you’re ready for a next one.

—GP Gear Prudence is Brian McEntee, who writes @sharrowsdc. Got a question about bicycling?

Email gearprudence@washcp.com

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RevieWs FRoM The 2017 AFi DoCs FiLM FesTivAL We owe a big thanks to AFI DOCS this year. In a year marred by great political strife, it would be easy for AFI DOCS to reposition itself as a film festival of stories documenting The Resistance. But the AFI DOCS’ programming staff and screening committee volunteers—led by festival director Michael Lumpkin— know better. They know that’s not what attendees of the annual documentary festival, now in its 14th year, have come to expect from it. Documentaries about current political strife—in the U.S. and around the world—are certainly part of festival, but it’s only a small part of it. What people have come to expect from D.C.’s best film festival is documentaries from around the world that tell stories.

Funny stories. Sad stories. Serious stories. Heartwarming stories. Heartbreaking stories. Stories about issues big and small. Stories from the past. Stories from the present. And even stories about the future (don’t worry space nerds, AFI DOCS has you covered). It’s in that spirit that AFI DOCS, once again, shines.

—Matt Cohen

the Israeli hospital that took him in when he was an infant born with an immune disorder. Muhi had to have all of his limbs amputated, at the elbows and knees, and he requires regular treatment to stay alive. Israel’s humanitarian impulse is strong enough to allow Muhi in to receive the life-saving care that is unavailable in Gaza, but security concerns on both sides of the conflict keep Muhi’s family from freely traveling from Gaza to be with him. The film follows Muhi’s life in the hospital over several years, up to age seven. His maternal grandfather, who lives at the hospital with him, is Muhi’s only companion. With chubby cheeks, a goofy smile, and an inquisitive manner, the film’s namesake brings joy to Muhi. He deftly eats soup with a spoon cradled in his elbow and runs in his new prosthetic legs. His innocence and lovability make it all the more heartbreaking when he bawls over how much he misses his mother.

—Zach Rausnitz Thursday, June 15, 4:15 p.m., AFI Silver Theatre; Saturday, June 17, 12 p.m., Landmark’s E Street Cinema.

The Cage Fighter Directed by Jeff Unay

For Akheem

The Work

Directed by Jeremy S. Levine and Landon Van Soest

Directed by Jairus McLeary and Gethin Aldous

With its immersive cinéma vérité style, the documentary For Akheem is an affecting portrait of a typical teenage girl from a poor, predominantly African-American neighborhood. Directors Jeremy S. Levine and Landon Van Soest follow Daje, a smart, albeit lazy student who faces academic discipline after a fight. A judge rules she must attend an alternative high school during her senior year, and For Akheem is an account of the steps and setbacks along her way. The school seems good for Daje, and she meets Antonio, a neighborhood kid who genuinely cares for her. But Antonio gets Daje pregnant—the film is named after their son—and Antonio has his own share of legal problems. Levine and Soest decline to comment on Daje’s year, so For Akheem feels like a fictional slice-oflife drama. There is no attempt to sensationalize Daje, only to depict her life with clarity, and yet the film leaves many more questions than answers.

Still, this is an important, remarkable film that highlights a segment of our country that is too often ignored and maligned.

—Alan Zilberman Thursday, June 15, 1:45 p.m., AFI Silver Theatre; Friday, June 16, 9:15 p.m., AFI Silver Theatre.

The Work won a documentary prize at SXSW this year, and it has a remarkable premise. Over the course of four days, civilians visit Folsom Prison for a joint therapy session among convicts.

McLeary and Aldous turn their attention to about a dozen men, with special focus on three young civilians, as they go through group sessions and more intimate therapy. We see incredible intimacy and emotion: One man breaks down into sobs, while another constricts his body into seething, incomprehensible anger.

The men have deep, seemingly insurmountable problems, with varying degrees of desperation and abandonment.

McLeary and Aldous gain astonishing access, filming the therapy with a mix of curiosity and encroaching claustrophobia. There has never been a documentary quite like this, both in terms of ambition and psychological power, so just make sure there is time to process your feelings after it’s over. —Alan Zilberman Thursday, June 15, 2:45 p.m., Landmark’s E Street Cinema; Saturday, June 17, 6:30 p.m., AFI Silver Theatre.

Muhi: Generally Temporary Directed by Rina Castelnuovo-Hollander and Tamir Elterman

Muhi, a little boy from Gaza, lives in

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As a veteran visual effects artist, Jeff Unay worked on groundbreaking films such as Avatar, King Kong, and Hellboy. For his first directorial effort, he couldn’t have gone in a more different direction. The Cage Fighter is an intimate documentary about Joe Carman, blue-collar husband to an ill wife and father of three beautiful girls who spends every free moment fighting— and risking his family’s happiness—in amateur MMA matches. The principles are remarkably authentic on-camera and Unay captures the slow dissolution of a family unit, as Joe breaks his repeated promises to stop fighting, with remarkable clarity. “You trying to prove something to your dad?” his wife blurts out during one knock-down drag-out fight, one of several lines that elicit a knowing chuckle for their directness.

For most of the film, these pleas from his family glance off of Joe like weak body blows, but as Joe begins to struggle with post-concussion syndrome, he begins to put his family back together. The Cage Fighter starts to hit some predictable Hollywood notes—a comparison to The Wrestler is impossible to ignore—but Unay avoids cliche and lets his charismatic subjects write their own story. It’s a knockout.

—Noah Gittell Thursday, June 15, 6:15 p.m., Landmark’s E Street Cinema; Friday, June 16, 4:15 p.m., AFI Silver Theatre.

La Chana Directed by Lucija Stojevic

The art of flamenco dancing has, in recent years, been distilled into a single emoji of the woman in the red dress. But the traditional percussive dance from northern Spain gets explained in director Lucija Stojevic’s profile of Antonia Santiago Amador, the acclaimed performer known as “La Chana.” Stojevic follows La Chana as she prepares for one final performance after decades away.

Along the way, she recounts stories from her tours around the globe, the abusive marriage that almost ruined her career, and her subsequent return to the stage.

Years of aggressive dancing have worn on her body, forcing her to perform sitting down, but her sense of rhythm and her memory remain unimpeachable.

Stojevic’s intimate bond with her subject results in a film that teaches audiences about an art form they might not know about while also fully rendering a portrait of one of flamenco’s most gifted practitioners.

—Caroline Jones Thursday, June 15, 8:45 p.m., AFI Silver Theatre; Saturday, June 17, 3:30 p.m., Landmark’s E Street Cinema.

What Lies Upstream Directed by Cullen Hoback

Cullen Hoback’s What Lies Upstream might be the scariest film playing at this year’s AFI DOCS. It’s what can only be described as an environmental horror film, in that what Hoback uncovers will leave viewers horrified. Years before its water crisis made the town of Flint, Michigan become a household name, Charleston, West Virginia, went through its own similar crisis. What starts as a simple inquiry into why the drinking water in Charleston smells funny, turns into a years-long investigation, wherein Hoback uncovers lies and corruption in the CDC, EPA, and other government agencies about the true nature of the town’s drinking water. Putting himself front and center of his own doc kind of makes Hoback come off as a bit of a crazy conspiracy theorists, and What Lies Upstream, stylistically, doesn’t feel that far off from a lot of crazy 9/11 truther docs. But Hoback’s a thorough researcher, and there’s no denying that the questions raised in his doc—and the lack of concrete answers from public officials—should be of grave concern.

—Matt Cohen Thursday, June 15, 8:45 p.m., Landmark’s E Street Cinema.

Unrest Directed by Jennifer Brea

Director Jennifer Brea accomplished a lot

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just by making Unrest. Brea has myalgic encephalomyelitis, or ME, commonly known as chronic fatigue syndrome.

It’s often severe enough to confine her to a bed, where Brea documents her struggles to speak or move whenever her symptoms spike. Brea lays bare the emotional effects too: She’s dependent on her husband, who says his love for her is worth the burden, though she finds this hard to fully believe. Brea uses video chats to explore the lives of fellow ME sufferers, across the country and overseas. Compounding their pain is skepticism about whether their disease has a physical basis. In a case in Denmark, the state removes a young woman from her parents’ home and institutionalizes her under the premise that her parents were indulging her by taking her symptoms seriously. Meanwhile, a renowned Stanford professor—whose bedbound adult son spends his days in a dark room due to ME symptoms—feels the futility of seeking more than a sliver of federal medical-research funding. It’s hard to watch these families’ despair.

—Zach Rausnitz Friday, June 16, 3:45 p.m., AFI Silver Theatre.

Gentlemen of vision Directed by Jim Kirchherr and Frank Popper

If you’re a sucker for a winner, don’t miss Gentlemen of Vision. The film chronicles a reigning high school step team as its members work toward an annual national competition. It’s the documentary version of a classic American genre: the teen dance movie. Only these teens have more exigent life circumstances than what you’ll see in the Hollywood takes, and make less drama of their realities. They’re the African American men and youth of St. Louis you’re not seeing in mainstream news.

Among the 30-odd boys on the team,

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one collapses after each performance due to sickle cell anemia (and also, his single mom is a crack addict), one is arrested for theft (lucky for him, the arresting officer happens to be a volunteer coach for the team), one witnessed his father tie his mother to a chair and hold a knife to her neck, and others come to practice hungry or have witnessed murders. For these kids, that first place trophy means less than the act of consistently coming to practice— routine means getting a chance at life.

Their head coach, Marlon Wharton, is the kind of man who serves as teacher, life-long mentor, father, and crazy uncle all at once.

—Alexa Mills Friday, June 16, 4 p.m., Landmark’s E Street Cinema.

New Chefs on the Block Directed by Dustin Harrison-Atlas

The twisted truth of restaurant reviews? They bring even greater pressure to achieve. That’s one lesson from Director Dustin Harrison-Atlas’ documentary that deftly pulls back the curtain on two major D.C. restaurant openings—Rose’s Luxury on Barracks Row

and Frankly Pizza in Kensington, Md. It follows two eccentric chef/owners, both success stories in their own right, from when their restaurants were holes in the ground, through delays and setbacks, all the way to major milestones, like one-year anniversaries. Rose’s Luxury’s rise from humble neighborhood eatery to line-drawing hospitality giant is particularly noteworthy because chef and owner Aaron Silverman isn’t one to share how the sausage is made (so to speak). Flash appearances by restaurant giants like Danny Meyer and the late Michel Richard lend the film extra helpings of gravitas. If there’s one criticism it’s that there isn’t enough airtime devoted to duds, as 30 percent of new restaurants fail according to the documentary.

—Laura Hayes Friday, June 16, 4 p.m., Landmark’s E Street Cinema; Sunday, June 18, 4 p.m., AFI Silver Theatre.

32 Pills: My sister’s suicide Directed by Hope Litoff

Suicide, the saying goes, is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

But the act also leaves indelible injury

to those who are left behind. 32 Pills: My Sister’s Suicide is directed by Hope Litoff, a woman whose older sister, Ruth, took her life in 2008. Ruth was a photographer who was popular in school and had many friends, yet mental illness plagued her. “It was such a confusing illness,” Hope says, “because she could be so debilitated and so magnificent.”

So years after losing Ruth, her sister decides to take her belongings out of storage and sort through them, hoping to find answers. The film is occasionally shocking (the number of medications Ruth had tried is staggering) and, of course, pervasively heartbreaking.

Though Hope interviews others about her sister, the story eventually becomes about her as she struggles to stay sober while trying to piece together both a life and a death. Near the beginning of the film, Hope tells her husband that she was a bad sister. “How were you a bad sister?” he asks. Hope’s response is wrenching: “I didn’t save her.”

—Tricia Olszewski Friday, June 16, 6 p.m., Landmark’s E Street Cinema; Saturday, June 17, 11:15 a.m., AFI Silver Theatre.

Recruiting for Jihad Directed by Adel Kahn Farooq and Ulrik Imtiaz Rolfsen

Recruiting for Jihad follows Norwegian Islamist Ubaydullah Hussain, who is the spokesperson for The Prophet’s Ummah, a Salafi-jihadist group. Hussain is of Pakistani descent, born in Norway and all too aware of the social benefits he enjoys in his position. Speaking to a recruit, he intones, “You will never be at home in Norway.”

The native Norwegian recruits seem no more “at home” either—they all lament a life of “meaninglessness” before Islam. That is one of the greatest tensions exposed in the film: the way

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radical groups like Hussain’s manage to bridge the gap from conversion (or reversion, as it is called here) to jihadism. Two of the native Norwegians have never even been to Syria, yet are eager to fight there. Hussain emerges as magnetic and affable, at first— seemingly only interested in offering people a community. Yet, the uneasy way he responds when probed about his support of terrorist acts and ISIS exposes the fissure behind the façade of radicalism. The film is an enthralling look at the maddening disorientation of modern life—a Norwegian longing to be a part of a war in a place in the world he has never been, a Pakistani whose relationship with Islam is molded by an English imam… culture, identity, religion—all terms shown to be hard to unpack in a global world.

—Toni Tileva Friday, June 16, 8:45 p.m., Landmark’s E Street Cinema.

An insignificant Man Directed by Khushboo Ranka and Vinay Shukla

An Insignificant Man is the story of the rise of Arvind Kejriwal, “India’s Bernie Sanders,” and his 2013 campaign for Chief Minister of Delhi. That politics are as dirty in India as much as it is in the West is all too apparent—clientelism, voter bribing, corporate control over government, thugs intimidating voters all abound. The film is a political thriller in every sense of the word— the stakes are high, with goons assassinating one of the candidates from Kejriwal’s populist Aam Aadmi Party.

Missing from the narrative, however, is Kejriwal’s involvement with the Anti-Corruption Law and social activist Anna Hazare; the film picks up when he decides to go from lobbying for the law to turning the movement into a political party. An assuming (and often far too serious) figure, Kejriwal is hardly the charismatic leader of lore.

But his dogged determination shines

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has 25 cats and lives in a dark house.”

—Caroline Jones

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Saturday, June 17, 6 p.m. at Landmark’s E Street Cinema; Sunday, June 18 at 11:30 a.m. at the AFI Silver Theatre.

spettacolo Directed by Jeff Malmberg and Chris Shellen

through, as does his ability to deliver on campaign promises few believe he can deliver on—cutting the electricity bills in half and providing free water. Far from a wide-eyed tale about the triumph of populist democracy, An Insignificant Man showcases that even in the muck of politics, incremental changes can truly be momentous.

—Toni Tileva

ment. The masks render the speakers skull-like, as though the living are not too far from the dead.

—Toni Tileva Saturday, June 17, 1:15 p.m., Landmark’s E Street Cinema; Sunday, June 18, 9 p.m., Landmark’s E Street Cinema.

Dries Directed by Renier Holzemer

Saturday, June 17, 11 a.m., AFI Silver Theatre.

La Libertad de Diablo Directed by Everardo González

La Libertad de Diablo riffs a little bit on Tempestad, a film that played in last year’s AFI DOCs, in that it captures the banality of violence in Mexico. The narrative technique is trenchant and unsettling. Director Everardo Gonzales interviews victims and perpetrators of violence. They all wear flesh-colored masks, which make them look ghoulish and eerie, effectively blurring the line between victim and perpetrator, illustrating how truly tenuous that distinction is. The masks preserve the anonymity, yet are stretched thinly enough over the faces to show them wracked by emotion and to see the dampness of tears at the eye holes. Some of the killers earn as little as $10 per kill. A mother talks about finding the sneaker of her dead child. All speak of fear and the pervasiveness of violence at all levels, including the police and govern-

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Many of the fashion world’s major players, from designers like Donatella Versace to consumers like Iris Apfel, possess big personalities that complement their outrageous clothing.

Dries Van Noten, the award-winning Belgian designer at the center of this documentary, does not. He dresses in an understated ensemble of striped shirts and navy pants that you’ll likely see on Metro commuters. He avoids haute couture and only makes readyto-wear pieces. Instead of hobnobbing with celebrities, he dreams of taking a season off to relax in his enormous garden with his partner, Patrick. If you’re looking for catty fashion drama and slick catchphrases, stick to Project Runway, but if you want to learn how Van Noten built a career working outside the fashion-industrial complex, director Reiner Holzemer provides plenty of insight. That being said, the film’s subject still provides humorous turns of phrase. When discussing the difference between a flamboyant and eccentric outfit, Van Noten reminds his staff that “an eccentric lady also

Every small town has its quirks. That’s just what happens when so few people live in a town—especially one that’s mostly secluded from big cities. Everyone knows each other, and everyone’s in each other’s business. But in Spettacolo, filmmakers Jeff Malmberg and Chris Shellen’s excellent portrait of a small Italian town with a peculiar, decades-long tradition, the goings-on of the townsfolk isn’t just common knowledge, it’s drama—literally. Each summer, the residents of the small Tuscan village of Monticchiello collectively write, produce, and act in an annual play, usually centered around the town’s real-life drama. It’s a decadesold theater practice known as “autodrama,” and the residents of Monticchiello have been doing it ever since World War II, as a way to commemorate a historic moment when the townsfolk stood up to the Nazis. Filming throughout a year of life in Monticchiello, and the town’s annual Teatro Povero production—from conception to execution—Malmberg and Shellen carefully and respectfully capture a pivotal moment wherein the townsfolk grapple with the rapid change and gentrification of their small hillside village.

—Matt Cohen Saturday, June 17, 9:30 p.m., AFI Silver Theatre; Sunday, June 18, 11:15 a.m., Landmark’s E Street Cinema.

The Farthest Directed by Emer Reynolds

In 2012, after over 30 years of traveling through our solar system, one of

the Voyager probes finally made its way into interstellar space. This is an extraordinary achievement—the probe might end up being the final proof that humanity ever existed—and the documentary The Farthest is a stirring account of the probe’s design and purpose. Director Emer Reynolds weaves scientific discoveries with the intriguing idea of sending a time capsule toward intelligent life. It is easy to take the planetary discoveries for granted: did you know one of Neptune’s moons has geysers of nitrogen gas? Still, Reynolds devotes a lot of time to the Golden Record, a metal phonograph that contains everything from Chuck Berry to dozens of international greetings. The Voyager scientists are still emotional about the probes, and the crisp special effects help illustrate the challenges of its planet-hopping mission. Ultimately, The Farthest is a traditional documentary, brimming with detail and entertainment, and Reynolds does not even need to include Neil Degrasse Tyson’s shtick.

—Alan Zilberman

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Sunday, June 18, 12 p.m., Landmark’s E Street Cinema.

Year of the scab Ask anyone who knows: D.C. is not a labor-friendly town. So it was ingenious to turn back the clock to examine the Washington Pigskins’ unlikely path to Super Bowl victory, during the 1987 NFL Players Association strike, in the first place. But then, director John Dorsey also is able to turn the premise on its head, and over a crisp 79 minutes he follows a cast of blue collar dreamers across the picket line, where they become anti-heroes you can’t help rooting for. Dorsey intertwines the stories of has-beens, never-weres, and a quarterback serving prison time on a drug charge, with commentary from Pigskins greats like Bobby Beathard, Joe Gibbs, and Dexter Manley, to show that working class unity is not the exclusive province of organized labor—not when the union represents millionaire football players being manipulated by mega-millionaire owners, while facing off against a hastily assembled group of replacement players playing for little more than pride.

Staying true to the documentary form, Dorsey employs a sense of drama, depth, and pathos to remind us that redemption, and even glory, come with a price, as do moral compromise and management’s inevitable ability to have its way.

—Jeffrey Anderson

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Rescue 411

New to D.C., Food Rescue US depends on volunteer drivers to reroute excess food to the needy.

By Laura Hayes “I don’t care if we have to put them in my kid’s car seat, we’re taking these meals,” Jaime Rothbard says as she navigates the Tetris-like task of loading plastic containers holding everything from chicken sandwiches and lasagna to snack packs of crackers and carrot sticks.

She furrows her brow as she packs 547 meals into the back of her Audi wagon with the determination of a boxer entering the ring. Only instead of another gloved-up opponent, Rothbard is fighting food waste.

Every Tuesday morning, the Takoma Park mom who hosts the “Food Warriors” podcast drives to Revolution Foods in Hyattsville, Maryland, to pick up excess food. The provider of school meals doesn’t always nail the moving target of how much the schools need per day because it employs a bettersafe-than-sorry model.

“Because we serve pretty much millions of meals a day, there’s going to be excess,” says the company’s Alysha Groghan. “We want to make sure that if something gets lost in the mix that we have extra to replenish.”

Having a surfeit of food is far from uncommon. According to the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), 40 percent of all food in the U.S. goes uneaten each year, which amounts to $162 billion in wasted food annually. More tangibly, the average family of four spends $1,500 a year on food they never eat, and each American wastes approximately 290 pounds of food annually.

Rothbard to the rescue. Literally. She’s a volunteer driver with an organization new to D.C. called Food Rescue US that redirects food bound for the landfill to those in need.

“It’s incredible, the volume,” Rothbard says.

“In the three or four runs that I’ve done so far, they say I’ve already rescued 650 meals.”

Formerly known as Community Plates, Food Rescue US got its start in Connecticut.

That’s where Georgetown graduate and former WETA employee Kate Urbank first encountered the organization. She was working on political campaigns there and thought she’d

Alysha Groghan and Jaime Rothbard pack meals at Revolution Foods.

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stay in politics once she moved back to D.C. But she noticed something was missing.

“I wanted to do food running because I love that so much and found there really wasn’t a program like this down here,” Urbank explains. She linked up with the DC Food Recovery Working Group headed by community garden evangelist Josh Singer and determined that D.C. needed a volunteer-based food rescue initiative. She pushed political aspirations aside and pitched the launch of a Food Rescue US chapter in the District.

It worked. As the D.C. site director, and lone paid local employee, Urbank rescued her first batch of food from the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue in October 2016.

Since its inception, the group has saved 33,850 meals in the D.C. area and delivered to more than 25 community organizations.

That’s 50,775 pounds of food. “The thing about this is you can come to it from an antifood waste perspective if that’s what makes you crazy, or hunger, or both,” Urbank says.

Volunteer drivers like Rothbard claim their routes through the group’s app. It’s not just behemoth food service providers in industrial parks that donate, though Revolution Foods is the largest contributor to date. Many D.C. area restaurants also participate, including Bread Furst.

“We rescue there three days a week,” Urbank says. “Usually two very heavy bags filled with beautiful beet salads, couscous,

and sometimes portobello mushroom sandwiches. All this glorious food, plus buckets of bread.” The Bread Furst haul is enough to feed 20 to 40 people at either the Georgetown Ministry Center or Friendship Place, which serve the homeless.

Additional food donors include Columbia Heights’ corner market Odd Provisions, Bruegger’s Bagels, area farmers markets, law firms with cafeterias, and other businesses such as National Geographic, whose food is provided by Sodexo.

“I’ll pick up from National Geographic and the food will still be warm within the 10 minutes it takes to deliver it to So Others Might Eat,” Urbank says. The interfaith, community-based organization in Truxton Circle pro-

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Chef Spike Mendelsohn, who chairs the DC Food Policy Council, completed a similar run from National Geographic to the Latin American Youth Center. He not only occasionally claims food runs, but he also donates donates leftover pizza, calzones, and garlic knots from his Capitol Hill restaurant We, The Pizza to the drop-in homeless center Shirley’s Place.

Mendelsohn says the goal is to run out of food by the end of the night, but that doesn’t always happen. His restaurant has made food donations in the past, but Mendelsohn says they sometimes went to places where they weren’t consumed. “It’s nice to know there’s a platform that takes it where there’s need,” he says of Food Rescue US. “That’s the significant difference. It’s organized.”

The chef hopes that other restaurants will follow. “I want to figure out what’s keeping other restaurants and businesses from doing it,” Mendelsohn says. “Is there a piece of legislation that needs to be passed regarding food donation? Because we have wards in D.C. where people don’t have food available.

It’s really simple. We have to fix it.”

Food Rescue US volunteers transport food directly from point A to point B. “We like to say food is only in the car as long as it takes to go from the grocery store to your home,” Urbank says. But the fear of being held lia-

full potential, Urbank needs more volunteer drivers. While 85 people have signed up to help through the app, many are only available on nights and weekends, while the majority of food runs occur on weekdays. Others don’t have cars. “That’s one thing the D.C. model is stressed by,” Urbank explains, noting that she’s in early talks with Zipcar to see if there’s partnership potential.

“I need a groundswell of people,” she says.

“It’s a time when people want to do a little good. Pick up a food run that takes less than an hour once a week and see the difference that it makes.”

Rothbard’s adopted route involves picking up meals from Revolution Foods and delivering them to N Street Village—a nonprofit on 14th Street NW dedicated to helping homeless and low-income women.

When she pulls up, N Street Village’s Adam Brunell wheels out two shopping carts to fill with the meals. But two carts aren’t enough for the bounty that makes its way down to kitchen manager Laurie Williams, who has been with the organization for 18 years.

Williams explains that her kitchen provides breakfast, lunch, and an afternoon snack to the women of N Street Village, plus additional meals to those living in the affiliated shelter across the street. Williams feeds anywhere from 80 to 120 people per day, depending on the time of the month. “Most get checks at the beginning of the month,” she says. “Some

Since its inception, the group has saved 33,850 meals in the D.C. area and delivered to more than 25 community organizations.

That’s 50,775 pounds of food. ble for foodborne illness holds some donors back until they learn of the federal protections in place.

The Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act signed by Bill Clinton in 1996 protects good-faith food donors from civil and criminal liability.

Locally, pending D.C. legislation would sweeten the deal for donors even more. The “Save Good Food Act of 2017,” introduced by Councilmember Mary M. Cheh, would expand liability protections and also grant tax credits to grocery stores, restaurants, and urban farms that donate healthy food to charitable organizations.

Not even a year old in D.C., Food Rescue US is already being approached to take on mammoth food donations. For example, D.C. Public Schools asked Urbank to find out if she could rescue food from about 100 schools.

“The possibilities are endless,” she says.

But before the organization can reach its

of them get the money and they go.”

Without N Street Village, Brunell says some of his clients, ranging from their twenties to the elderly, would be on the streets.

Others would fail in their efforts to beat addiction because they’d still be living with people who are using. Then there are the women who could still be living with abusive partners. “Some people society won’t give a second chance, so we try to provide whatever that means,” he says. Another percentage of women at N Street Village are emerging from the criminal justice system.

“The scope is so far-reaching at this place,” says Rothbard.

She hopes that as Food Rescue US expands locally, she’ll be able to “adopt” more runs a little closer to home. “It’s part of that big-picture change,” she says.

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Satisfaction level: 4 out of 5. what we’ll eat next week: Shaved roast beef sandwich with marinara, garlic, onions, romano cheese, and melted mozzarella, $10.95, Capo Italian Deli.

Excitement level: 4 out of 5.

Don’t Roll, Dice!

Can’t choose between nigiri sushi, sashimi, or maki rolls? There’s a fourth way to enjoy one of Japan’s most treasured cultural exports: chirashi sushi. The style of presenting a variety of raw fish over a bed of vinegared rice so that it resembles the jewelry box of a disorganized person is better than poke. Yeah, we said it.

Sometimes the lacquered boxes or bowls also contain shreds of Japanese omelet and vegetables. And not only does chirashi sushi make for a great picture, but it’s often a good deal. The only downside is the next-level chopstick work required to build balanced bites of rice and fish.

Here’s where to try the best chirashi (which means “scattered” or “sprinkled”) in the District.

–Laura Hayes Rakuya ($18 lunch/$25 dinner) The bara chirashi (diced) lunch set also comes with udon noodle soup, shrimp tempura, and a side salad.

Dinner’s chirashi features tuna, salmon, yellowtail, white fish, shrimp, eel, surf clam, salmon roe, squid, octopus, and egg omelet.

Kintaro ($15 lunch/$20 dinner) Rice here is topped with eel, shrimp, salmon, tuna, and tobiko flying fish roe.

Sushiko ($25 lunch/$28 dinner) Five varieties of the chef’s finest selection of fish over a bed of sushi rice are served with pickled radish.

Kaz Sushi Bistro ($25.50 lunch) Two pieces each of tuna, salmon, yellowtail, white fish, and surf clam are served with sushi rice seasoned with sesame seeds, seaweed, and egg.

Veg Diner Monologues

What It Is: The dish is a South Indian curry made by first soaking morel mushrooms in water to create a mushroom stock. Sautéed onions, ginger,

The Story: Chef K.N. Vinod says Indian morels are popular in northern India’s Kashmir, where they are often used in palao (rice cooked with vegeta-

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Where to Get It: Indique

Where: All Set Restaurant & Bar, 8630 Fenton St., Silver Spring, MD; (301) 4958800; allsetrestaurant.com Price: $10

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The Dish: Morel Vegetable Stew

What: Block Island Sound with Smirnoff vodka, olive brine, cherry tomatoes, simple syrup, and Sriracha

Premium chirashi ($35 lunch/ available by request at dinner) Sashimi cuts of fresh fish on a bed of sushi rice, also served with chawan-mushi.

carrots, and green chilies are then combined with coconut curry, hunks of potato, as well as the hydrated morel mushrooms. The creamy, earthy gravy compliments the morels, which have a divine honeycomb texture. Less meaty and chewy than other mushrooms, morels are tender and full of ridges, making them ideal for absorbing sauce. The green chilies add heat, and carrots add color and crunch. Savory little pancakes known as uttapam accompany the curry for the purpose of mopping up the sauce.

A look at vegetarian dishes in the District that all should try

Block Island Sound at All Set Restaurant & Bar

Sushi Taro (2 kinds) Bara chirashi ($22 lunch) A diced variety of fresh fish and vegetables on a bed of sushi rice served with a savory custard dish called chawan-mushi.

Sakerum ($27 dinner) Chef selection of fish, plus uni (sea urchin), salmon roe, and vegetables.

The best cocktail you’re not ordering

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Del Campo ($16 lunch & dinner) “Chinatown” chirashi is citruscooked tuna, corvina, scallop, caviar, togarashi deviled quail eggs, and smoked shoyu brown butter.

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bles). The Indian term for morels is “gucci,” and just like the designer label, the exotic mushrooms are texturally intricate, expensive, and hard to find. Vinod brainstormed a way to bring this Kashmiri element to the table and decided to add the morels to a coconut curry, which is a staple of South Indian cooking. The result is not only delicious but also marries the flavors and ingredients of two distinct areas of India. It’s an example of Indian fusion at its best.

Why Even Meat Eaters Will Like It: The morel of the story is that the creaminess of the dish, combined with the smoky, woodsy mushrooms, is so satisfying that anyone will love it.

—Priya Konings

What You Should Be Drinking: Beverage director Molly Horn’s drink is a reference to the narrow New England strait separating Block Island from Rhode Island mentioned in Billy Joel’s downtrodden fishing industry song, “The Downeaster Alexa,” because it’s a skinnier version of a Bloody Mary. She takes the typically discarded juice of a jar of Santa Barbara olives and mixes it with Smirnoff vodka, muddled cherry tomatoes, lemon, simple syrup, and Sriracha. “The combination of salt and tart can often be that one missing ingredient,” Horn says.

Why You Should Be Drinking It: It kind of looks like a watered down Bloody Mary, keeping purists at bay, but the cocktail actually has way more flavor than its translucent appearance lets on. Cherry tomatoes are zippier and more acidic than their larger counterparts, and briny olive juice lends an addictively savory flavor—translating to a drink that’s lighter-bodied and more playful than a big ol’ glass of thick tomato juice and horseradish. It’s easy to throw back several during a lazy Sunday afternoon spent diving into the restaurant’s fried chicken served with a Sriracha cheddar biscuit and maple sausage gravy.

—Kelly Magyarics

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Form and Function

The Renwick’s complementary exhibitions of two West Coast craft giants present fascinating contrasts in medium and process.

Voulkos: The Breakthrough Years At the Renwick Gallery to August 20.

June Schwarcz: Invention and Variation At the Renwick Gallery to August 27.

By John Anderson For the last few months there has been a quiet competition between two West Coast giants on view at The Renwick Gallery.

They contrast in medium: ceramics versus enamel and electroplated copper. Formally, one might be considered ugly, while the other is considered elegant. But what unifies these distinct exhibitions is their approach to their respective crafts: one of pushing boundaries and breaking new ground for their respective disciplines.

Voulkos: The Breakthrough Years is a 16-year window into Peter Voulkos’ experimentation with ceramic between 1953 and 1968. The survey contains a few jars and vases, demonstrating that the man was not just an enfant terrible in the potting studio, but had the formal abilities to master the wheel and create elegant vessels—fat and thin. But in comparison to the rest of the work, those traditionally sound wheel-thrown pieces are the least remarkable of the works. Any avenue into the exhibition will greet the viewer with a work that looks like it came from a bad day in the studio. “Tientos” is one such example: a 55-inch totem consisting of over a dozen pots that appear to have fallen off the wheel and been heaped together. The description may be crude, but it is fitting; while we might expect a ceramic artist to include specific glazes and clays within the medium, Voulkos includes the process, pushing beyond “wheel-thrown” or “slab” to include words like paddled, gouged, and ripped.

For the exhibition, “Tientos” also functions as a cairn for what’s to come. The path Voulkos has blazed is mired in process and brute physicality and doesn’t simply push the boundaries of tradition: It violently attacks them.

The overall scope of the exhibition demonstrates an evolving process. Voulkos abandoned traditional vessel-making for something more sculptural. In the span of a few years, the works grew larger and briefly flirted with figurative abstraction. Eventually, as the works continued to get larger, the nature of the abstraction grew out of the process itself: a bridge to more contemporary fine art practices of the period. One such example is “Sitting Bull,” a Picasso-esque 69” x 37” x 37” hulk of glazed stonewear. At its scale, it’s a combined feat of speed and patience. If built up too fast while the clay was too wet, the sculpture would slump. Too dry and it might crumble. A second example would be “Red Though Black #3,”

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of all-black vessels closes the exhibition.

Thrown and assembled in 1968—each about 3 feet in height—these asymmetrical constructions are about the only body of work that feels remotely political (considering their year of creation— though such a read might be apocryphal).

As a group they have a commanding presence. But taken individually, and in comparison to earlier pieces, their forms feel self-conscious.

Unlike the Voulkos exhibition, which offers a relatively narrow window into the artist’s indefatigable output, June Schwarcz: Invention and Variation is a full retrospective, covering 60 years of her career’s work in enamel. While the materials of her art are intrinsically elegant, it’s in the subtle nature of her craft where she pushed boundaries.

As the exhibition catalog and wall texts indicate, the technical aspects of enamelling are what attracted Schwarcz to the medium in the early 1950s. However, since fusing glass to metal can yield unpredictable results, it would seem her career as an enamelist was one of asserting greater control over the fluids of melted glass. To gain control over where the color would reside, Schwarcz applied the printmaking techniques of etching into her copper supports, unknowingly working in a centuries-old technique called basse-taille. However, unlike the traditional approach, she would use acid baths like a printmaker, further complicating the quality of her etches and tex“Sitting Bull” by Peter Voulkos (1959) ture of her surfaces.

Applied in thin layers, through repeated kiln firings, the cola 70” square painting incorporating sand and clay that stylistically might find common ground with Franz Kline. Nei- ored glass is at times controlled. An early example would be ther of these works scream “pottery,” and both have the con- “Bowl #316,” where the colors are in specific locations in a patviction that—despite millennia stating otherwise—clay isn’t tern in the belly of the bowl. Such tight control could allow for simply a material that needs to be associated solely with craft specific placement of glass particles in even the smallest recesses of a vessel. With subsequent layering of clear and coland functionality.

Eventually the works hit a wall—figuratively speaking ored glasses, the result is an iridescence that defies specific (though it would be no surprise to learn he literally threw pots color tones within several of her pieces.

Eventually, the thinness of the copper became a limitation against a wall). The latter half of the exhibition makes clear his experiments with high-key colored glazes and use of paints to to overcome. In 1962, with the help of her husband, an engicolor his ceramic sculptures continued to trail-blaze, but they neer, she constructed a 30-gallon tank to electroplate copper. have all the delicacy of a child scribbling with a crayon. A series The process would incrementally build upon the surface of her washingtoncitypaper.com june 16, 2017 23

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The Fortuny bowls also reveal fashion’s influence on Schwarcz. But fashion was not her only influence. Several pieces incorporate references to Romanesque façades, Renaissance masterworks, kimonos, and even her husband’s blueprints for the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.

The process of electroplating proved a valuable technique in later years when she would stitch pieces of copper together and electroplate them to fortify their vessel walls. But the fortification of forms wasn’t limited to copper foil: It was a technique she also applied to copper mesh, like “Vessel #2332,” which was given a patina, rather than enameled. The result is a seemingly solid form that could appear both opaque and translucent, depending on the angle encountered. And they seem a perfect foil to Voulkos’ all black pots: a whisper that overpowers a rant.

Though Schwarcz’s exhibition opened nearly a full month before Voulkos’, the exhibitions were intended to pair, and they do so masterfully. Where it seems Voulkos tried to create chaos, Schwarcz attempted to tame it. Where Voulkos appears to destroy, Schwarcz appears to construct. Where Voulkos seems to change with rapid shifts, Schwarcz negotiates change more methodically and deliberately. Regardless of means, both pushed the boundaries of their respective media through accident, experimentation, and patient awareness of their materials’ limitations, albeit sometimes haphazardly.

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Artistic Advisor Ben Folds curates, hosts and performs with the National Symphony Orchestra—conducted by Jacomo Bairos—for a special evening featuring new music and hits

by Folds, singer/composer/producer/guitarist Blake Mills, and Cuban R&B/rap singer Danay Suárez.

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

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

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THEATER

In Their Worlds

In new productions by Flying V and Mosaic Theater Company, sprawling scene settings are reimagined with minimalist, inventive gusto.

Flying V Fights: The Secret History of the Unknown World

By Matt Bassett and Jason Schlafstein Directed by Jason Schlafstein and Jonathan Ezra Rubin At The Bethesda Writer’s Center to July 2

The Return

By Hanna Eady & Edward Mast Directed by John Vreeke At Mosaic Theater Company to July 2

By Chris Klimek The noTion of retconning a century-plus of separate-but-parallel fictions into a unified supernarrative isn’t new. But it’s enjoying an extremely public renaissance just now, with film studios and television networks scrambling to build interwoven fictive universes where previously only publishers dared tread.

Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen comics did this with Victorian heroes Alan Quartermain, Mina Harker, Captain Nemo, and a handful of others 14 years ago. More recently, John Logan’s Showtime series Penny Dreadful spun a story weaving together the fates of Victor Frankenstein and his creations with Dorian Gray and the Wolfman, among others.

Of course, those creators were working, at least in part, with characters who’d passed into the public domain. For its latest fisticuffs-ical, The Secret History of the Unknown World, Flying V—the energetic Montgomery County theater troupe formed in 2011 by scifi/comics/wrestling enthusiasts Jason Schlafstein and Jonathan Ezra Rubin—blows that premise wide open, gorging itself on a banquet of pop-culture (and a soupçon of history) that would choke the planet-eater Galactus. Their new anthology of nerdbait is their most sprawling yet, opening with a female Sherlock Holmes and John Watson trailing one Dr. Henry Jekyll to the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago after failing to solve the Whitechapel murders in London. And it never gets any less lower-case-c catholic about its sources, leaping (and kicking, and tumbling) ahead in rough increments of a decade or two, right up into the present.

Nikola Tesla is a supervillian. A tuxedo-

wearing MI6 field agent named Moore—Remington Moore—falls in with a whip-cracking, tomb-raiding archeologist named Colorado Jones. There are Martians and Men of Steel and precocious girl detectives and lonely theater-camp attendees. There’re geriatric incarnations of Zorro the Gay Blade and Tarzan the Ape-Man and The Lone Ranger the, um, lone ranger, all limping out of retirement for One Last Mission. There’s The Doctor and Deadpool and and a team of of crime-fighting adolescent ladies who’re still mulling over what to call themselves. (I liked The Slice Girls among their proffered candidates, but the others were not without merit.)

The production also boasts a driving original musical score by Navid Azeez and Michael Winch and an elaborate series of era-establishing interstitial projections by Paul Deziel. Production value-wise, this is a quantum leap in ambition for the Flying Vees. Given the number of set and costume changes to which the 10-person ensemble is subject, to gripe about a handful of sluggish transitions would be churlish indeed. If the 2-and-a-half-hour run time (intermission included) taxes one’s suspension of impatience just a little, well, you can’t fault this crew for wanting to give you your

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money’s worth and then some.

This surfeit of enthusiasm is the defining trait of the performances, too. Tim German, Michelle Polera, and Em Whitworth all warrant special notice, each radiating more than enough outsize-and-yet-character-specific athleticism (and volume, just, you know, speechwise) to avoid being steamrollered by the production elements. Their ability to establish characterization through expression, posture, and gait is the show’s most special effect. Not every member of the ensemble shares this gift for remaking their entire body with each wardrobe change, but they’re all hardy specimens, and fun to watch. (James Finley, who plays the show’s copyright lawrespecting analog of Superman, earns a laugh just from the angle at which he cocks his Kryptonian chin.)

Two of the actors who performed on press night, Ryan Tumulty and Noah Schaefer, were drafted on a few hours’ notice when a foot injury suffered by Jason Tamborini at a preview proved more serious than initially believed. (Unfortunately, Tomborini is not expected to recover in time to rejoin the cast.)

That Schaefer is credited as the show’s Assistant Director presumably means he had a

head start learning his lines and moves, but still: Respect.

As is often the case on stage, the lowesttech illusions are ones that deliver highest impact: I particularly enjoyed a showdown between Captain Nemo’s vessel, the Nautilus, and a pair of sea beasts, rendered in models and puppets designed by Andrea “Dre” Moore. That battle scene is one of which any eight-year-old who’d dumped the contents of his toybox onto his bedroom floor and permitted his Pokémon and his Avengers and his Star Wars figures to fraternize without shame or fear of copyright lawyers would be proud. All this ebullient, inspired juvenilia is best enjoyed with an adult beverage, and they are available for purchase.

The ReTuRn, a sober, intense two-hander getting its U.S. premiere as part of Mosaic Theatre Company’ Voices of a Changing Middle East Festival, distills the Israeli-Palestinian conflict into a lovers’ quarrel.

It’s the kind of show that signals its metaphoricality early by declining to assign anyone a name: Alyssa Wilmoth Keegan plays an Israeli woman who visits an auto repair shop in Herzilya, Tel Aviv, Israel where only Ahmad Kamal is on duty, because it’s Shabbat and he’s a goy.

We apprehend quickly that these two know one another, or used to, though Kamal’s character is steadfast in his denials. She—sorry, I mean Her—seems fixated on the fact that He—sorry, Him—is permitted to work on Army jeeps unsupervised. That Keegan (wiry and searching) and Kamal (exuding a well-practiced calm) imbue their cryptic and very repetitive exchanges with accruing layers of subtext—and a little bit of humor that is nowhere present on the page—is a tribute to their skill. Though it runs a mere 75 minutes, the pace still feels deliberate.

Director John Vreeke echoes the piece’s minimalistic dialogue with a Spartan presentation, placing the audience on either side of a bare staged furnished with only a bench and a counter, a garage door painted in Royal Blue, and a window covered in bars. The soundscape of a busy auto shop plays over scene changes, suggesting the sounds of battle just closely enough to remind us of the nearness of violence. It’s a pleasant shock, then, when the piece ends quietly.

CP 4508 Walsh St., Bethesda. $20$40. flyingvtheatre.com.

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The Birchmere presents…

GalleriesSketcheS to Still, each of Sultan’s paintings is a duotone, with black silhouettes carved out by a single color: most often a yellow, warmed by orange. And, of course, the edges within his duotoned paintings have softer edges.

Take a step or two back, and the subject of a painting reveals itself. Depictions of fires and chemical plants dominate the exhibition of 12 paintings. Although most are quick reads, none is an easy read, for the quality of paint handling adds an element that a photograph, or a straight reproduction, can’t. Un“Early Morning May 20 1986,” by Donald Sultan (1986) like the Warhol prints of disasters, these paintings have a gnarled surface of built-up tar and paint, coupled with expressive markmaking of splashes, scribbles, washes, and streaks. Sometimes the tar reads shiny, other times matte. There is also a hint of smokiness to the medium of tar that supports the Donald Sultan: The fires depicted in the paintings, or the subtext Disaster Paintings of poison leeching into the environment from At the Smithsonian’s American Art the chemical plants.

Museum to Sept. 4 Unfortunately, there are ambiguities for The TiTle of Donald Sultan: The Disaster what amounts to history painting. For examPaintings at the Smithsonian American Art ple, Théodore Géricault’s “The Raft of the Museum evokes Andy Warhol’s Disaster se- Medusa”—which depicts the survivors of a ries. Unlike Warhol’s silk-screened reproduc- shipwreck, lost at sea, writhing in the agony tions of newspaper photographs, Sultan’s work of days surviving on cannibalized remains— points to a very specific event in French nauconnects to rich traditions of painting.

There’s one footnote to the exhibition tical history. Sultan’s paintings do the oppo(and this review): Any write-up (including site. While a painting might pinpoint a date, this one) of this exhibition will inevitably in- “Early Morning May 20 1986” for example, clude a reproduction of an image of Sultan’s we don’t know exactly what that date refers work. Small reproductions of Sultan’s paint- to. It could be the date of the incident, or it ings are a disservice, since they almost im- could just as easily be a start or end date of mediately reveal their subjects. In person, the painting, since—according to the catahowever, the 8-foot square paintings have log—later in this series there is a painting tia commanding presence, courtesy of both tled “Early Morning August 1 1986,” that is their scale and the way their structures sit nearly a replica of “May 20.” Fungible dates proudly on the wall. These aren’t simple ea- are certainly an enigma in the body of work, sel paintings. Instead of canvas, each paint- and it is exacerbated by the fact that we have ing is on latex tiles mounted on masonite, no clue where the location of this fire is.

With exception to a few titles that include sitting on a structure that likely shares its family tree with a shipping palette. It’s a specific locations—like Venice, Vera Cruz, or weird support for a painting—like looking at Yellowstone—that fire, or that plant, could old wooden tablets and altar pieces from the be anywhere. Just like how lead was once a early Renaissance. They are as much heavy concern in D.C. drinking water, it’s now a national issue. Nearly every state in the union object as they are painting.

Like a Warhol “Death and Disaster” piece, has at least one problematic city or county. imagery in this Sultan series is derived from That burning fire could be much closer to photographs. However, at first glance, a paint- home, which makes the history of Sultan’s ing like “South End Feb 24 1986,” among oth- paintings anyone’s history.

—John Anderson ers, has greater kinship with the Abstract Expressionist works of Clyfford Still, whose paintings of blocky colors are separated by 8th and F Streets NW. Free. (202) 633-7970. jagged boundaries, like torn paper. In contrast americanart.si.edu.

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CITY LIGHTS: Friday

Friday rock

Comet Ping Pong 5037 Connecticut Ave. NW. (202) 364-0404. Tone, Show Pony, James Wolf. 10 p.m. $12. cometpingpong.com.

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DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Savoir Adore, Box Era. 7 p.m. $13–$15. dcnine.com.

6.15 6.16 6.17 6.19

gyPsy sally’s 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. 50th Anniversary of the Summer of Love. 9 p.m. $15–$18. gypsysallys.com. the hamilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

Marshall Crenshaw, Los Straitjackets, Sarah Borges and A Feast of Snakes. 8 p.m. $20–$25. thehamiltondc.com.

6.20 6.23 6.24 6.27 6.29 6.30

iota Club & Café 2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. (703) 522-8340. Revelator Hill, Jonathan Sloane Band. 8:30 p.m. $12. iotaclubandcafe.com. songbyrD musiC house anD reCorD Cafe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. New Madrid, David Barbe. 8 p.m. $12–$15. songbyrddc.com. state theatre 220 N. Washington St., Falls Church.

(703) 237-0300. Jarabe de Palo. 8 p.m. $42–$52. thestatetheatre.com.

classical

KenneDy Center ConCert hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. National Symphony Orchestra: Christoph Eschenbach conducts Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. 8 p.m. Sold out. kennedy-center.org.

dJ Nights

fillmore silver sPring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Emo Night Brooklyn with DJ William Beckett. 8:30 p.m. $12. fillmoresilverspring.com.

ElEctroNic

flash 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Julian Jeweil, Bella & J Tek, Philco, Ozker. 8 p.m. $8–$15. flashdc.com. u street musiC hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

The M Machine, Indiginis, Fady D. 10 p.m. $12. ustreetmusichall.com.

birChmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Kindred the Family Soul. 7:30 p.m.

Sold out. birchmere.com. blaCK Cat baCKstage 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 6674490. Coup Sauvage and the Snips. 9 p.m. $10–$12. blackcatdc.com.

Wolf traP filene Center 1551 Trap Road, Vienna.

(703) 255-1900. St. Paul and the Broken Bones, Shovels & Rope. 8 p.m. $30–$55. wolftrap.org.

gospEl

Warner theatre 513 13th St. NW. (202) 783-4000.

CeCe Winans. 8 p.m. $33–$47.50. warnertheatredc.com.

hip-hop

9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Lizzo, Brooke Candy. 8 p.m. Sold out. 930.com.

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turQuoisE JEEp

The half-life of a meme is shorter than it has ever been. An internet joke usually only lasts a few hours which is why it’s impressive that Turquoise Jeep, a comedic hip-hop crew from Atlanta, has continued to find success. The collective broke out in 2010 with “Lemme Smang It,” a YouTube hit sensation with nearly 15 million views. Yung Hummer and Flynt Flossy’s parody of odes to sexual prowess burned up browsers with lines like “This is what I like to call ‘Smash Bang fusion’ Gotta focus, mama don’t wanna get a ‘Cooch Contusion.’” The latest output from the group is Flynt Flossy’s solo album, Internatioknown, where the Turquoise Jeep co-founder asks the audience to “drop it like a discount” and remembers a heartbreak or two. “Call me orange soda cause you crushed my feelings,” he raps on “Orange Soda” in between longing, smooth vocal choruses of Tummiscratch. Is it silly? Absolutely. But put on a “Flynt Flo$$y is my favorite rapper” t-shirt and go with it because the laughs won’t last forever. Turquoise Jeep performs with Flynt Flossy, Wordspit, and Mike of Doom at 9 p.m. at Rock & Roll Hotel, 1353 H St. NE. $15. (202) 388-7625. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

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FuNk & r&B

bethesDa blues & Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. InGratitude: A Tribute to Earth, Wind & Fire. 8 p.m. $25. bethesdabluesjazz.com.

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

Big Daddy Kane. 8 p.m. $22–$50. thehowardtheatre.com. roCK & roll hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

Flynt Flossy and Turquoise Jeep, Wordspit, Mike of Doom. 9 p.m. $15. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

Jazz atlas Performing arts Center 1333 H St. NE. (202) 399-7993. Slavic Soul Party. 8 p.m. $28–$32. atlasarts.org.

tWins Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Tim Whalen Quintet. 9 p.m.; 11 p.m. $15. twinsjazz.com.

saturday rock

blaCK Cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. JC Brooks, Hall Monitors, Caz Gardiner. 8 p.m. $15. blackcatdc.com.

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

fillmore silver sPring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Reel Big Fish, The Expendables. 7 p.m. $27–$45. fillmoresilverspring.com.

KenneDy Center millennium stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. TrioVera. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

gyPsy sally’s 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. 50th Anniversary of the Summer of Love. 9 p.m. $15–$18. gypsysallys.com.

national gallery of art sCulPture garDen 4th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. (202) 7374215. Michael Thomas Quintet. 5 p.m. Free. nga.gov.

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

Melodime, Wylder, Sunbathers. 8 p.m. $15–$20. thehamiltondc.com.

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

Day Wave, Blonder. 8 p.m. $15. rockandrollhoteldc.com. songbyrD musiC house anD reCorD Cafe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Alvarez Kings, Animal Sun, City in the Clouds, Lavender. 8 p.m. $10–$14. songbyrddc.com. state theatre 220 N. Washington St., Falls Church.

(703) 237-0300. Drumfish, Dennis for Mayer. 8 p.m. $15–$20. thestatetheatre.com.

Wolf traP filene Center 1551 Trap Road, Vienna.

(703) 255-1900. Slightly Stoopid, Iration, J Boog, The Movement. 6 p.m. $40–$55. wolftrap.org.

BluEs

amP by strathmore 11810 Grand Park Ave., North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Women in Blues. 8 p.m. $20–$30. ampbystrathmore.com.

classical

KenneDy Center ConCert hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. National Symphony Orchestra: Christoph Eschenbach conducts Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. 8 p.m. Sold out. kennedy-center.org. musiC Center at strathmore 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Baltimore Symphony Orchestra performs Saint-Saens’ Organ Symphony. 8 p.m. $35–$99. strathmore.org.

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flash 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Hayden James vs. Julius Jetson. 4 p.m. $15. Gorje Hewek & Izhevski, Raffi. 8 p.m. $8–$12. flashdc.com.

hip-hop

Dar Constitution hall 1776 D St. NW. (202) 6284780. Jermaine Dupri, The Rap Game, Miss Mulatto. 7 p.m. $23–$43. dar.org.

Jazz

blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Stacey Kent. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $40–$45. bluesalley.com. tWins Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Michael Thomas Quintet. 9 p.m.; 11 p.m. $15. twinsjazz.com.

opEra

union marKet 1309 5th St. NE. Wolf Trap Opera: The Fall of the House of Usher. 8:30 p.m. $40. unionmarketdc.com.

suNday rock

birChmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. America, Stephanie Urbina Jones.

7:30 p.m. Sold out. birchmere.com. blaCK Cat baCKstage 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 6674490. Two Inch Astronaut, Bad Moves, Maneka. 7:30 p.m. $10. blackcatdc.com.

Comet Ping Pong 5037 Connecticut Ave. NW. (202) 364-0404. What Cheer? Brigade, Anna Connolly. 9 p.m. $12. cometpingpong.com.

rhizome DC 6950 Maple St. NW. Queering Sound 2017. 8 p.m. $10. rhizomedc.org.

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Dead Heavens, Hideout, Victor Archie. 8:30 p.m. $10. dcnine.com.

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

Miguel Migs, Thomas Blondet, Nick Garcia. 10 p.m. $10. ustreetmusichall.com.

galaxy hut 2711 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. (703) 5258646. Dirt Eater, The Stump Devils. 9 p.m. $5. galaxyhut.com.

FuNk & r&B

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

Native Run, Jon Stickley Trio. 7:30 p.m. $10–$12. gypsysallys.com.

9:30 Club 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Who’s Bad: The Ultimate Michael Jackson Experience. 8 p.m. $20.

930.com. birChmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Kindred the Family Soul. 7:30 p.m.

Sold out. birchmere.com.

merriWeather Post Pavilion 10475 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia. (410) 715-5550. Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds. 7:30 p.m. Sold out. merriweathermusic.com.

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

The Delfonics featuring William Hart. 8 p.m. $28.50– $45. thehowardtheatre.com.

songbyrD musiC house anD reCorD Cafe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Los Colognes. 8 p.m. $10–$12. songbyrddc.com.

CITY LIGHTS: saturday

dc JazzFEst at thE yards

The final three nights of DC JazzFest represent its big blowout: a marathon of performances, held outdoors at Yards Park on the Capitol Riverfront. The second day— Saturday—tends to be the money shot and this year is no exception. For one thing, it features the New Century Jazz Quintet, the stellar New York-based unit that won the 2016 festival’s inaugural Jazzprix, its competition for jazz ensembles. Also on the bill are two other young acts that made a big splash in 2016, soul jazz singer/songwriter Kandace Springs and singer and multiinstrumentalist Jacob Collier. Then come the big guns: Kenny Garrett (pictured), one of the most influential saxophonists of the past 40 years, and Robert Glasper, the redoubtable wizard of the piano and keyboards who is decimating the boundaries between jazz and R&B. There’s plenty of music to keep fans occupied but should you want to enjoy it in style, the festival is also renting luxury cabanas where jazz lovers can enjoy complimentary wine and sunscreen. The concert begins at 2 p.m. at Yards Park, 355 Water St. SE. $39–$150. (855) 332-7767. dcjazzfest.org.

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UPCOMING PERFORMANCES

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JOE CLAIR & FRIENDS COMEDY SHOW (2 SHOWS 7/10PM)

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MELODIME

SUN, JUNE 18

T 20

RONNIE BAKER BROOKS W/ PATTY REESE

MON, JUNE 19

LIVE: Sirius XM’S “BUDDY & JIM RADIO SHOW”

BUDDY MILLER, JIM LAUDERDALE, AND PATTY GRIFFIN

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FEATURING

EDWIN ORTIZ Y LA MAFIA DEL GUAGUANCO C.A.D.E.T

(CAGED ANIMAL DESTROYING EVERY THING)

W/ SPECIAL GUESTS SCOTT MILLER AND DC MAGICIAN OF THE YEAR ERIC HENNING

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TUES, JUNE 20

MAJOR & THE MONBACKS

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W/ AZTEC SUN

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WED, JUNE 21

THE BAND OF HEATHENS W/ REED FOEHL

RAUL MIDON SOUL CRACKERS TESTIMONY UNPLUGGED AN INTIMATE EVENING W/ TYRA LEVONE

THURS, JUNE 22

BOKANTÉ

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FRI, JUNE 23

FLOW TRIBE

SAT, JUNE 24

START MAKING SENSE W/ N.E.W. ATHENS

AN EVENING WITH LOVE

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

W/ WYLDER AND SUNBATHERS

THURS, JUNE 29

A TRIBUTE TO EARTH, WIND & FIRE

CANON

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SUN, JULY 2

BJ BARHAM OF AMERICAN AQUARIUM

NICK COLIONNE BETHESDA BLUES & JAZZ YOUTH ORCHESTRA’S FIRST RECITAL DEANNA BOGART BAND REUNION W/KAJUN KELLEY, ERIC SCOTT AND MIKE AUBIN

W/ CHARLEY CROCKETT THURS, JULY 6

PUMPSTATION ENTERTAINMENT PRESENTS JESSE ROYAL W/ RAS SLICK

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FRI, JULY 7

SWEAR & SHAKE W/ CAROLINE ROSE

TRIBUTE TO THE FUNK BANDS

http://igg.me/at/bethesdablues

SAT, JULY 8

7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda, MD

AN EVENING WITH SUPERFLY

DISCO: A RETRO 70’S DANCE PARTY

(240) 330-4500

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

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JaMaicaN JErk FEstiVal

The Grace Jamaican Jerk Festival, per the title, will include plenty of options to satisfy fans of that spicy island flavoring, including demonstrations and a cooking competition, but it’s not strictly a food event. The day-long celebration features an impressive roster of Jamaican reggae acts, Trinidadian soca artists, and a pan-Caribbean mix of storytellers, dancers, and poets. Like a ‘70s soul singer, vocalist Tarrus Riley has a timbre that’s sleek but still possesses a raw wail. Whether he’s singing about love over a slow-tempoed rhythm, or going uptempo with a socio-political message accompanied by a dancehall rapper, he pulls listeners in with his skilled intonation. Fay-Ann Lyons and her husband, Bunji Garlin, have each won Soca Monarch competitions, and both chant singsong carnival tunes with insistent choruses and speedy verses. The gastronomical sessions offer guests a chance to taste and learn savory food preparation from Chopped winner Andre Fowles, and from Chef Irie, host of PBS’ Taste The Islands. The event begins at 11 a.m. at RFK Stadium, 2400 East Capitol St. SE. $25–$125. dcjerkfestival.com.

—Steve Kiviat

BluEs

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

Ronnie Baker Brooks, Patty Reese. 7:30 p.m. $12–$30. thehamiltondc.com.

ElEctroNic

flash 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Frankey & Sandrino, KMLN, Philip Goyette, Roukin. 2 p.m. $8–$12. flashdc.com. u street musiC hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Toro y Moi, Tony Kill. 10 p.m. $15. ustreetmusichall.com.

hip-hop

eChostage 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. (202) 503-2330. Young Dolph, PNB Rock. 10 p.m. $36.80. echostage.com.

Jazz

bethesDa blues & Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. Lenny Williams. 1 p.m.; 7 p.m. $45. bethesdabluesjazz.com. blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Stacey Kent. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $40–$45. bluesalley.com. tWins Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Anthony Nelson. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $15. twinsjazz.com.

World

KenneDy Center millennium stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Ani Cordero. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

MoNday rock

birChmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. America, Stephanie Urbina Jones.

7:30 p.m. Sold out. birchmere.com.

Comet Ping Pong 5037 Connecticut Ave. NW. (202) 364-0404. What Cheer? Brigade, Anna Connolly. 9 p.m. $12. cometpingpong.com.

galaxy hut 2711 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. (703) 5258646. Governess, Cat Tat, Ara Casey. 9 p.m. $5. galaxyhut.com. the hamilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

Buddy Miller, Jim Lauderdale, and Patty Griffin, Scott Miller, Eric Henning. 8 p.m. $29.50–$100. thehamiltondc.com. songbyrD musiC house anD reCorD Cafe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Roadkill Ghost Choir. 8 p.m. $13–$15. songbyrddc.com.

Jazz

blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Linda May Han Oh. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $22. bluesalley.com.

KenneDy Center millennium stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Kristopher Funn. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

tuEsday rock

blaCK Cat baCKstage 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 6674490. Post Animal. 7:30 p.m. $10. blackcatdc.com. the hamilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

Super Doppler, Aztec Sun. 7:30 p.m. $12–$17. thehamiltondc.com. songbyrD musiC house anD reCorD Cafe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Gates, Vasudeva, Head North. 8 p.m. $12–$14. songbyrddc.com.

BluEs

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

FuNk & r&B

merriWeather Post Pavilion 10475 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia. (410) 715-5550. John Legend, Gallant. 7:30 p.m. $59–$499. merriweathermusic.com.

CITY LIGHTS: MoNday

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

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Canada 150 Celebration!

FOUR WORKS FOR WASHINGTON AND THE WORLD

Nearly 50 years after the Beatles broke up, most people have stopped blaming it on Yoko Ono and started appreciating her for the eccentric multimedia artist that she is. The Hirshhorn celebrates her this summer by presenting four different pieces, including “Wish Tree for Washington, D.C.,” which celebrates its 10th anniversary. That work asks visitors to write down their hopes and dreams on individual tags, then tie them to a tree in the museum’s sculpture garden.

They’re later moved to Ono’s “Imagine Peace Tower” in Iceland. Another interactive work, “My Mommy Is Beautiful,” is a collection of pictures and written memories of their mothers that visitors attach to a canvas on the museum’s first floor. On the quirkier side, “Sky TV for Washington, D.C.,” a live feed of the sky above the Hirshhorn, is reinstalled on the third floor. Originally presented in 1966, it was one of the first art works to rely on instant video feedback. The exhibit is a testament to Ono’s continuous creation and the Hirshhorn’s wise curation, forcing visitors who might only know her as a pop culture quip to actually interact with her art. The exhibit is on view daily 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., to Sept. 17, at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Independence Avenue and 7th Street SW. Free. (202) 633-1000. hirshhorn.si.edu. —Caroline Jones

Vocal

classical

World

ElEctroNic

Wolf traP filene Center 1551 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. Celtic Woman. 8 p.m. $30–$85. wolftrap.org. bethesDa blues & Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. Edwin Ortiz y La Mafia Del Guaguanco. 8 p.m. $10. bethesdabluesjazz.com.

WEdNEsday rock

blaCK Cat baCKstage 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 6674490. The Last Internationale, Unring the Bell. 7:30 p.m. $15. blackcatdc.com.

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Elliot Moss, Frances Cone. 9 p.m. $13–$15. dcnine.com. the hamilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. The Band of Heathens, Reed Foehl. 7:30 p.m. $15–$20. thehamiltondc.com.

KenneDy Center millennium stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Thao. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

KenneDy Center millennium stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Marcin Masecki featuring Jerzy Rogiewicz. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org. flash 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Will Clarke, Rawle Night Long. 10 p.m. $10. flashdc.com. u street musiC hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

The Widdler, Sorrow, Bogtrotter. 10 p.m. $15–$20. ustreetmusichall.com.

hip-hop

bethesDa blues & Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. C.A.D.E.T (Caged Animal Destroying Every Thing). 8 p.m. $15. bethesdabluesjazz.com.

Jazz

birChmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Gerald Albright, Jonathan Butler. 7:30 p.m. Sold out. birchmere.com. blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Chaise Lounge. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $22.50. bluesalley.com.

songbyrD musiC house anD reCorD Cafe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. The Holdup. 8 p.m. $13–$15. songbyrddc.com.

thursday

Wolf traP filene Center 1551 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. Sheryl Crow, Lukas Nelson. 8 p.m. $45–$95. wolftrap.org.

blaCK Cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Banding Together 2017. 6:30 p.m. $10. blackcatdc.com.

rock

THE ZOMBIES

TUE 20

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

BILLY BRAGG

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JC BROOKS RIGHT ROUND

80S ALT POP DANCE PARTY

TWO INCH ASTRONAUT

(RECORD RELEASE)

POST ANIMAL

WED 21 THE LAST INTERNATIONALE

Don DiLego

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MON 19 QUEER GRRL MOVIE NIGHT

30 VIVIAN GREEN 1&2 LYFE JENNINGS July Django 7&8 JERRY JEFF WALKER Walker Garrett 13 KASEY CHAMBERS Kato 14 ROBERT EARL KEEN 15 SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY & The Asbury Jukes 16 GARY PUCKETT & The Union Gap 17

1811 14TH ST NW

THU 22

BANDING TOGETHER 2017

FRI 23

AROCKALYPTIC

SAT 24

AWKWARD SEX ...AND THE CITY

LOCAL SUMMER SOLSTICE PARTY

THE CAPITAL CITY

FRI 30 AND SAT 1

BURLESQUE AND VAUDEVILLE FESTIVAL

FRI 7

THE INDEPENDANCE

SAT 8

RISK (18+)

A PRO-CHOICE PROM

SAT JUNE 17

JC BROOKS

SONIA (from disappear fear)

26& 27

TOAD THE WET SPROCKET 28,29 &30 THE BACON BROTHERS 31 NIKKI LANE Steelism Aug 4 GORDON LIGHTFOOT

The Birchmere presents…

FRIDAY Aug 11, 8pm

YOUSSOU N’ DOUR The Voice of Senegal

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$12 BURGER & BEER MON-FRI 4 P M -7 P M

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

Magic Giant, The Ludlow Thieves. 8 p.m. $15. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

CITY LIGHTS: TUESDAY

JOHN LEGEND

After picking up a Tony Award for producing August Wilson’s Jitney last week, John Legend is an Emmy away from a full EGOT. This summer, he’s stopped acting and returns to the genre that first earned him acclaim, touring amphitheaters throughout the nation in support of his 2016 album, Darkness and Light.

A tour like this reminds listeners why Legend is so good in the first place. Despite focusing on producing TV shows, appearing on screen in Underground and La La Land, and being a worthy Instagram husband to wife Chrissy Teigen, the man can still bang out a tune on the piano that makes you want to move and write lyrics that turn your insides to mush. Take, for example, “Love Me Now,” a danceable track in which Legend croons over syncopated beats “I don’t know who’s gonna kiss you when I’m gone/So I’m gonna love you now.” Expect the lawn at Merriweather Post Pavilion to turn into a dancefloor when Legend arrives on Tuesday night. John Legend performs with Gallant at 7:30 p.m. at Merriweather Post Pavilion, 10475 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia. $59–$499. (410) 715-5550. merriweathermusic.com. —Caroline Jones

600 beers from around the world

Downstairs: good food, great beer: all day every day *all shows 21+ JUNE 15TH

I’LLGOODBYE MISSTOSOME OFYOU: CHARLIE ARTFUL DOORS AT 7PM,SHOW AT 8PM JUNE 16TH

DCWEIRDO SHOW DOORS AT 8PM,SHOW AT 9PM JUNE 17TH

LATE LATE BREAKFAST SHOW DOORS AT 2PM,SHOW AT 3:30PM BRAIN GIRL FOLLIES DOORS AT 7PM,SHOW AT 8PM

THE OBSESSIONS OF F. LENNOX CAMPELLO

JUNE 19TH

JUNE 21ST

SMASHED: A NERDY AND DIRTY COMEDY SHOW DOORS AT 7PM,SHOW AT 8PM

DISTRICT TRIVIA AT 7:30PM JUNE 22ND

QUEERVIEW MIRROR: A CELEBRATION OF QUEER ARTISTS THROUGH TIME DOORS AT 7PM, SHOW AT 7:30PM JUNE 23RD

T.B.D.

JUNE 20TH

COMEDY BLOCK

Lenny Campello is best known in Washington art circles as a gallerist and as the voice behind the Daily Campello Art News blog, which he’s published since 2003. Now, for the first time since 2008, he’s the subject himself, in a retrospective at Artists and Makers Studios 2. The work in the exhibit stretches back to Campello’s art school days and it focuses on a couple of his far-ranging “artistic obsessions,” as he calls them, from Frida Kahlo to the Book of Genesis to the Picts of Scotland. Campello produced works that ranged from charcoal drawings of fallen angels to a piece that incorporates a spy camera so that the viewer becomes part of the artwork. Other works grapple with his autobiography, such as a work titled, “Cuban by Ancestry but American by the Grace of God.” Then there are the works that reflect his longest-lasting obsession: comic books. In these, Campello draws on his collection of thousands of comic books that date back to his childhood in Brooklyn. “I went to art school because I wanted to be a comic book artist,” he recalls. “I don’t even want to know how many versions of Conan The Barbarian I’ve done.” The exhibit is on view Tuesdays through Saturdays 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., to June 29, at Artists & Makers Studios 2, 12276 Wilkins Avenue, Rockville. Free. (240) 437-9573. artistsandmakersstudios.com.

—Louis Jacobson

Darrow Montgomery

JUNE 20TH

CAPITAL LAUGHS OPEN MIC COMEDY AT 8:30PM

CAbArET

birCHmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. BenDelaCreme’s Inferno A-Go-Go. 7:30 p.m. $29.50. birchmere.com.

CLASSiCAL

kennedy CenTer ConCerT Hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. NSO Pops: The Music of John Williams. 7 p.m. $24–$99. kennedy-center.org.

ELECTrONiC

FlaSH 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Snakehips, PromNite, Basscamp. 10 p.m. $25. flashdc.com. u STreeT muSiC Hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Fakear. 10 p.m. $12–$15. ustreetmusichall.com.

FUNk & r&b

HoWard THeaTre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Protoje, Yaadcore. 8 p.m. $25–$65. thehowardtheatre.com.

JAzz

beTHeSda blueS & Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. Raul Midon. 8 p.m. $35. bethesdabluesjazz.com. blueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Nicole Henry. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $25. bluesalley.com.

TWinS Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Twins Jazz Orchestra. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $22. twinsjazz.com.

THe HamilTon 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

Bokante. 7:30 p.m. $27.75–$54.75. thehamiltondc.com.

CITY LIGHTS: WEDNESDAY

T.B.D.

SPONSORED BY FANTOM COMICS 7PM

WolF Trap Filene CenTer 1551 Trap Road, Vienna.

(703) 255-1900. Elvis Costello & The Imposters. 8 p.m. $35–$85. wolftrap.org.

WOrLD

JUNE 18TH

DISTRICT TRIVIA AT 7:30PM COMIC BOOKS AND COCKTAILS

Songbyrd muSiC HouSe and reCord CaFe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Bright Light Bright Light.

8 p.m. $13–$15. songbyrddc.com.

Fillmore Silver Spring 8656 Colesville Road, Sil-

ioTa Club & CaFé 2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. (703)

PRESENTED BY DOMINIC RIVERA SHOW AT 8PM

ver Spring. (301) 960-9999. TWRP, Cowabunga Pizza

522-8340. Karen Jonas, Olivia Mancini and the Mates,

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gypSy Sally’S 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. T Sis-

Time. 8 p.m. $13. fillmoresilverspring.com.

ters, Iron Eyes Cody. 8:30 p.m. $10. gypsysallys.com.

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Lauren Clave. 8 p.m. $10. iotaclubandcafe.com.

JiFFy lube live 7800 Cellar Door Drive, Bristow.

(703) 754-6400. Dead & Company. 7 p.m. $40–$699. livenation.com.

Books

CHriS WHipple The author discusses The Gatekeepers, his new book about the work of White House chiefs of staff and how they impact the president.

Kramerbooks & Afterwords Cafe. 1517 Connecticut Ave. NW. June 21, 6:30 p.m. Free. (202) 387-1400. laWrenCe goldSTone Learn all about submarines when the author reads from his new book, Going Deep: John Philip Holland and the Invention of the Attack Submarine. Kramerbooks & Afterwords Cafe. 1517 Connecticut Ave. NW. June 22, 6:30 p.m.

Free. (202) 387-1400.

SHerman alexie The acclaimed Native American author and National Book Award winner reads from You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me, a new memoir about his relationship with his mother. Sixth & I Historic Synagogue. 600 I St. NW. June 20, 7 p.m. $16–$40. (202) 408-3100.

Theater

THe FaTHer In this internationally acclaimed drama, an elderly man starts to lose track of his life and experiences strange events, from disappearing furniture to unknown people in his home. Local favorite Ted van Griethuysen stars in Florian Zeller’s drama, translated by Christopher Hampton. Studio Theatre. 1501 14th St. NW. To June 18. $20–$85. (202) 3323300. studiotheatre.org.

HedWig and THe angry inCH Celebrate the journey of queer rock star Hedwig Robinson in this searing musical that takes audiences from communist Germany to stages throughout America while exploring what it means to be a performer and a person in love. Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater. 2700 F St. NW. To July 2. $59–$159. (202) 467-4600. kennedycenter.org.

JeSuS CHriST SuperSTar Signature presents this classic Andrew Lloyd Webber musical that chroni-

cles the last week of Christ’s life. Featuring songs like “I Don’t Know How to Love Him” and “Everything’s Alright,” this production is directed by Joe Calarco.

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the hero Brett Haley writes and directs this dramatic comedy about an aging movie star who faces his past and his mortality. Starring Sam Elliott, Laura Prepon, and Kristyn Ritter. (See washingtoncitypaper. com for venue information) it Comes at night Joel Edgerton stars as a survivalist who keeps his wife and son confined in their home.

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JUN 20

JUN 17 SLIGHTLY STOOPID SOUNDS OF SUMMER TOUR

CELTIC WOMAN VOICES OF ANGELS

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DISNEY’S THE LITTLE MERMAID

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TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND

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NATALIE MERCHANT

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HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER’S STONE™ – IN CONCERT | NSO

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NEIL GAIMAN

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PUCCINI’S TOSCA WOLF TRAP OPERA | NSO

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THE TENORS | NSO

THE WOOD BROTHERS HOT TUNA

IRATION

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MAMMA MIA!

J BOOG THE MOVEMENT

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PJ HARVEY

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THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: SYMPHONY OF THE GODDESSES | NSO

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REBELUTION

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DIANA ROSS

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REGINA SPEKTOR BEN FOLDS

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CARMINA BURANA | NSO

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ARETHA FRANKLIN

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GEORGE THOROGOOD & THE DESTROYERS 38 SPECIAL

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CMT’S NASHVILLE IN CONCERT

JUN 21 SHERYL CROW

BE MYSELF TOUR

WITH LUKAS NELSON

JUN 23

JUN 22 ELVIS COSTELLO & THE IMPOSTERS

CLASSIC ALBUMS LIVE PRESENTS:

IMPERIAL BEDROOM TOUR

THE BEATLES

IMELDA MAY

CLARE BOWEN, CHRIS CARMACK, CHARLES ESTEN, AND JONATHAN JACKSON

SGT. PEPPER’S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND 50TH ANNIVERSARY

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PUNCH BROTHERS

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BLONDIE & GARBAGE

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LA LA LAND IN CONCERT | NSO

I’M WITH HER

AND MANY MORE!

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