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DIStrICt LIne 4 loose lips: A successful election night for incumbent office holders 6 Johan, solo: When the world’s greatest midfielder played soccer in D.C. 8 housing complex: Officials prepare to probe the delayed constuction of homeless shelters 9 gear prudence 9 indie in d.c.

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Incumbents progressed with ease in this week’s election.

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City Paper sent reporters to several of Tuesday night’s election parties. Below are scenes and some local color from those events.

—Andrew Giambrone

Mayoral Race: Bowser Vows to Make D.C. Better for All Babies Mayor Muriel Bowser sailed to a predictable second-term primary victory Tuesday.

On a stage at Town Danceboutique, in front of several hundred cheering supporters—many of them city workers, appointees, and community leaders—Bowser invoked her recently adopted daughter in her victory speech.

“I talked this over with Baby Miranda,” Bowser said of her child, who has not yet made a public appearance with her new mom. “We need a D.C. that she can raise her family in,” the mayor said, promising to make the District better “for all Baby Mirandas.”

Earning 83 percent of the vote against two little-known candidates, Bowser said she began preparing more than a year ago to be a twoterm mayor, the first since Williams won backto-back terms in 1998 and 2002. Bowser said it would be good to be a second-term mayor because “all the mistakes a new mayor makes, we wouldn’t have to make them again.”

Public and private polling showed that Bowser’s approval rating was high despite a rising homicide rate in parts of the city and a series of school crises that, had they occurred last year, likely would have drawn serious opponents into the race. The mayor made only scant references to those problems, saying, “When we find a problem, we don’t hide it, we fix it.”

In another hint at the nagging effects of gentrification on long-time African-American citizens, Bowser said she would focus more on affordable housing and job training. “I wouldn’t have run for mayor to run a city I wouldn’t recognize,” she said in reference to the city’s changing demographics.

While guests dug into a buffet of spanakopita, beef and chicken satay, and mini spring rolls, a crowd of about 25 to 30 protesters blocked 8th Street NW outside of the nightclub, chanting against Bowser’s failure to address homicides and police behavior in mostly poor areas of the city. D.C. police blocked

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Darrow Montgomery

The Wilson Building won’t look very different next year based on the results of the District’s Democratic primary contests held on Tuesday.

Voters effectively handed incumbent Mayor Muriel Bowser and several D.C. councilmembers four more years in office after an election season that was high on spending and low on drama.

Bowser faced no viable opponents but raised more than $2.5 million in campaign donations, while councilmembers in contested races fended off fresh challengers.

Barring any general election upsets, which are rare in a city where three-fourths of registered voters are Democrats, that means Bowser, Council Chairman Phil Mendelson, AtLarge Councilmember Anita Bonds, Ward 1 Councilmember Brianne Nadeau, Ward 5 Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie, and Ward 6 Councilmember Charles Allen all get to keep their seats.

Bowser is poised to become the first District mayor to win a second term since Anthony Williams did so in 2002. She remains broadly popular, but has less support east of the Anacostia River than in other areas of the city.

D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine and Ward 3 Councilmember Mary Cheh, running unopposed, coasted through the Democratic primary, while Congressional Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton and Shadow Senator Michael D. Brown bested two first-time candidates.

The biggest cliffhanger of the night was Initiative 77, a contentious referendum to eliminate the tipped minimum wage by 2026. Voters approved the measure 55 percent to 45 percent. But the Council could repeal or tweak the initiative, as it has done with other initiatives in the past. A majority of the Councilmembers, Bowser, and Racine have vocally opposed the measure.

The primaries were also notable for how paltry turnout was compared to previous years.

Only 17.6 percent (84,517 total) of registered D.C. voters cast ballots. The highest turnout was in Ward 3 (22 percent), and the lowest was in Ward 8 (7.7 percent). In 2016, a presidential election year, the primary turnout was 21.7 percent; in 2014, the last mayoral election year, it was 26.9 percent.

delson and Attorney General Karl Racine jointly hosted. Both incumbents emerged victorious—Mendelson trounced first-time candidate Ed Lazere, and Racine ran unopposed—but focused on different kinds of political victories in their remarks.

“I think this election was about where the

off the street and let the demonstration continue. One protester later disrupted the mayor’s speech but was drowned out by chants of “four more years.”

In an interview, Bowser said she was disappointed that Initiative 77 passed. The mayor said she believed voters did not fully understand the impact of the vote on the city’s huge restaurant industry. Many activists say the mayor and D.C. Council likely will revise the initiative or repeal it outright once it passes routine congressional review.

Former Mayor Adrian Fenty arrived at the party wearing a “Bowser” green cap and waved to the crowd when Bowser called his name. Although she celebrated victories by all the incumbent councilmembers, only Ward 4’s Brandon Todd and Ward 3’s Mary Cheh came to the mayor’s party.

—Tom Sherwood

Council Chairman and Attorney General Races: “Pragmatism” Pays Off for Mendelson While Racine Touts Vote Totals It wasn’t Clarendon bros but District pols who filled the second floor of the Brixton on Tuesday for a primary-night party that the campaigns of D.C. Council Chairman Phil Men-

electorate is, and I think where the electorate is is not to the far left,” Mendelson told supporters, describing his campaign as emblematic of “pragmatic progressivism.” Lazere, a veteran advocate for low-income families, ran to Mendelson’s left and called for “bold action” to address gentrification, homelessness, and education.

Clapping his hands, Racine led boisterous cheers of “Mendo! Mendo! Mendo!” at several points. The attorney general showed his competitive side when he yelled “6,000 up,” referring to how many more votes interim tallies showed he had scored citywide over Mayor Muriel Bowser. (Ultimately, Racine received 67,964 votes to Bowser’s 58,431.)

Asked about that exclamation, Racine said he was not the type to settle for second place.

Later on, speaking to the crowd, he said, “If you think we’ve done a great job over the past three and a half years, you ain’t seen nothing yet.” Racine then called President Donald Trump, whom his office is suing, “the tyrant in the White House.”

Notables who stopped by the party included Ward 3 Councilmember Mary Cheh, AtLarge Councilmembers Robert White and Elissa Silverman, Ward 7 Councilmember Vince Gray, Ward 8 Councilmember Trayon White, and former mayoral candidate and

former At-Large Councilmember David Catania.

—Andrew Giambrone

Council Chairman and At-Large Councilmember Races: Losing Progressive Candidates Celebrate Their Winning Cause Busboys and Poets’ Brookland outpost was the place to be for D.C.’s new progressive movement, as it played host to a joint election night party for Council chairman candidate Ed Lazere, at-large candidate Jeremiah Lowery, the DumpTrump-Dems4Action D.C. Democratic State Committee slate, and the local chapter of Restaurant Opportunities Center United, the group responsible for the divisive but ultimately successful Initiative 77.

Both Lazere and Lowery lost to incumbents, but defeat did not hang in the air. The restaurant’s event space buzzed with more than 100 supporters declaring a victory with the results of Initiative 77. Early on in the campaign season, it was evident that Lazere, Lowery, and ROC-DC had joined forces to appeal to far-left voters. All received joint endorsements from a number of progressive groups, including DC For Democracy, Jews United For Justice Campaign Fund, and the Trans United Fund.

“We didn’t win tonight, but we know that our movement is bigger than elections,” Lowery said in his concession speech, adding that this election “isn’t it for me,” and hinting that voters may see him on the ballot again.

Lazere was equally gracious in his speech, focusing on issues he said he would continue to fight for—affordable housing, homelessness, schools, and supporting D.C.’s most vulnerable populations.

“What I found while I was out on the campaign trail was that people are happy that the city is doing well, but they’re also really troubled about how the city is changing and what it is becoming,” Lazere said. He didn’t say whether he’d run again, though earlier in the evening, when asked, he told City Paper that a future run for office is “to be determined.”

“People are looking for their leaders in the city to tackle the city’s biggest challenges and do something about it,” he added.

But the big winners of the night were ROCDC, and people soaked in the celebration. Busboys and Poets owner Andy Shallal spoke to the crowd and said he will do do everything he can to persuade the D.C. Council and Mayor Muriel Bowser to uphold the ballot initiative.

Diana Ramirez, the director of ROC-DC, told City Paper that ROC’s “next strategy is to be completely honest and just tell [the Council]: ‘Look, who are you going to listen to? The big-business lobby, or your constituents, or the will of the voters?’” Or, as ROC-DC’s Trupti Patel put it in her passionate speech, “Enjoy tonight, because tomorrow the war begins. We have to protect 77.”

—Matt Cohen

At-Large Councilmember Race: Anita Bonds Wins to No Audible Cheers At-Large Councilmember Anita Bonds’ win was a foregone conclusion by 9:00 p.m., when

the bar and dining room of the National Democratic Club—a dimly lit, Holiday Inn version of a gentleman’s lounge—held about two dozen patrons. A handful were cranky, wizened imbibers barking orders at the waitstaff, unaffiliated with Bonds’ campaign.

The decision to hold her watch party at a members-only club stood in stark contrast to the livelier public parties her colleagues held.

The crowd was a mix of legislative aides, exhausted Council staffers, and friends, many sporting cerulean T-shirts with Bonds’ name stamped across the front. Bonds held court in the middle of a long dining table just to the side of the bar, greeting guests in groups of two or three. By the bar, conversation trickled along.

Someone mentioned Black Lives Matter’s protest of police brutality outside Bowser’s watch party; it was met with an eye roll.

Revelers refreshed the D.C. Board of Elections website on their phones for results, though when the Associated Press called the race for Bonds at around 9:20 p.m., there was no audible celebration. Bonds fielded congratulatory calls on a cell phone.

City Paper approached Bonds to say hello as the party started to fill up. She initially shook this reporter’s hands, but her face fell when the reporter identified her outlet. “I’m not too happy with City Paper. Its coverage of me hasn’t been very fair,” Bonds said before a handler interjected.

This reporter took that as her cue to abandon the party, a hive of whispers and handshakes.

—Morgan Baskin

At-Large Councilmember Race: Gracious in Defeat, Marcus Goodwin Encourages Future Voters At Democratic at-large Council candidate Marcus Goodwin’s election party, the disappointing news was out before the first appetizers were served. With more than 10 percent of the vote totals reported, he trailed the incumbent, Anita Bonds, by double digits. Goodwin gathered about four dozen supporters and volunteers at around 10 p.m. to deliver a concession speech.

“I’m inspired,” Goodwin said, addressing a family-like atmosphere that took up a quarter of the Florida Avenue NW restaurant HalfSmoke.

A dozen of his volunteers were high school students, some still too young to vote, or recent graduates. Goodwin, 28, said he pulled manpower from city schools and his alma mater, St. Albans School. He believes he’s tapped into a “new era in youth political engagement.”

The loss did not taint the mood for his army of young fans, who munched on chicken wings and took in the scene. Goodwin spent most of the night snapping pictures and back-slapping supporters. “So many people our age are for Marcus,” said 16-year-old Tillman Lanyi, a sophomore at the School Without Walls.

“He’s fresh, young, educated,” said Tyjuan Brown, a campaign worker. “Marcus has a lot of value,” he added, pumping his fist.

Goodwin pointed to another run in the future, paraphrasing an apparent quote from Winston Churchill: “Politics and war are a lot alike, except in war you only die once.” —Cuneyt Dil washingtoncitypaper.com june 22, 2018 5

DistrictLinE Johan, Solo Before Wayne Rooney, D.C. pro soccer welcomed the greatest midfielder to ever play the game.

By Pablo Maurer D.C. UniteD is inching closer to signing English international superstar Wayne Rooney.

Reports out of the United Kingdom earlier this month claim that the Everton forward and former Manchester United legend has agreed to terms with D.C. United, a multi-year deal which would make him by far the most expensive signing in the club’s 22-year history.

Signing Rooney—a man who’s scored more goals for the English national team than any other player and amassed some 17 million Twitter followers along the way—is the latest in a series of moves United has made to signal its intended return to local and national relevance. For years, the club has languished at RFK Stadium while watching the majority of Major League Soccer surpass them in attendance and results.

D.C. United’s moment may have finally arrived. Just weeks before moving to Audi Field, its brand-new, $400-million-dollar jewel at Buzzard Point in Southwest D.C., the team looks poised to step back into the spotlight.

But Rooney isn’t the only high-priced signing a D.C.-based soccer club has ever made.

He’s not even the greatest player a local club has ever lured.

Thirty-nine years ago, the North American Soccer League’s Washington Diplomats found themselves in a similar bind, struggling to gain a foothold in D.C.’s sports scene and in need of a major boost. Their owners didn’t just go out and sign a big name. They signed the greatest midfielder to ever play the game.

Johan Cruyff came to the United States in 1979 at age 32. He’d originally intended to retire from soccer a year earlier, but financial concerns (a series of bad investments that had nearly bankrupted him) dictated otherwise.

The NASL seemed like the perfect fit.

America had gone soccer-mad, and a host of European megastars had already touched down in the U.S.; Pelé and Franz Beckenbauer had made the New York Cosmos a powerhouse. Across the country, the Los Angeles Aztecs wanted their own star. They lured Cruyff, a three-time European player of the year, out of retirement.

The former Barcelona legend impressed immediately. Hours after touching down at

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LAX, he scored a pair of goals in a seven-minute span. He’d go on to lead the Aztecs to the playoffs that year, nabbing league MVP honors in the process.

But change was underway in the Aztecs front office. The club was sold and new ownership quickly sought to offload Cruyff.

Enter the Washington Diplomats.

The club had been around since 1974 but had struggled, like so many other teams in the NASL, to duplicate the magic of the Cosmos.

Flush with cash after a sizable investment from new owners Gulf & Western, the management jumped at the opportunity to sign Cruyff.

In 1980, they paid the Aztecs a $1 million transfer fee for Cruyff—some $3.5 million today—and inked him to a three-year deal reportedly worth $4.2 million in today’s dollars.

At the time it was a near-unheard of sum.

Almost overnight, the Diplomats were thrust into the spotlight. Attendance soared.

Local media, for once, took note.

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On the field, though, things were off to a rocky start. When Cruyff originally arrived in the states, he’d signed on to play in Los Angeles for his mentor and former coach, Dutch legend Rinus Michels. In D.C., he found Gordon Bradley, a Brit who played a different brand of soccer than Michels, at the helm.

Gone was Michels’ insistence on playing “total football” with a focus on grace and beauty, interchangeability and support. Bradley’s win-at-all-costs mentality, short on tactics and oozing with grit and brawn, replaced it.

Cruyff, who died of cancer in 2016 at the age of 68, had grown accustomed over the years to sitting back in a central role, directing the movement of his teammates, and slicing apart opponents. In D.C., though, nobody would listen. More often than not, the notoriously vocal Dutchman would make his voice heard during the game, pulling up over a ball, raising his arms, and screaming “somebody do something!”

He made his voice heard after the game as well.

“It became almost a ritual, if they lost,” says Washington Post sports columnist John Feinstein, who found himself on the Diplomats beat in the late ’70s. “I’d say, ‘So Johan, what happened out there?’ He’d say, ‘What happened? The coach is an idiot. The players don’t know what they’re doing and they don’t fucking listen to me. This is impossible.’ That was what he’d always say. ‘This is impossible.’”

By mid-June, the Diplomats’ front office was starting to worry. Though ticket sales had increased, the club sat at the bottom of the league and Cruyff hadn’t scored a single goal. The press had started to label him a bust, which grated on him.

He began to impose his will on Bradley, going so far as to erase his coach’s pre-game instructions from the chalkboard, replacing them with his own. “I still remember talking to Gordon before an ABC game of the week,” says former

Diplomats defender Don Droege. “He was looking underneath all the bathroom stalls to see if Cruyff was in any of the stalls while he was talking to me. He was scared of him.”

Cruyff abandoned his hope of bringing his organized brand of soccer to the Diplomats.

“I thought my job was to organize the team when I came here,” Cruyff told Feinstein at the time. “Sure, I could score goals. I’m not worried about that in the slightest. In fact, that’s what I’m going to do now. Forget about organization, I’m going to play spectacularly now.

I’m going to play football for the spectator.

We’ll start winning games. But no championships. If you want to win trophies you have to play organized.”

The change was immediate and drastic. Cruyff scored double-digit goals and assisted on many others. At the insistence of ownership, Bradley ceded a bit of control to Cruyff, who axed certain players from the lineup and replaced them with others more suited to his game.

“He was the greatest player who ever lived,” says former Diplomat Tony Crescitelli. “His first five steps were so fast, you’d just turn around and he’d be gone. You’d just make a run, and you didn’t even have to look for the ball. You’d look down and it’d be at your feet.

Johan would find you.”

you live here?’ I said I did and told him I had a bit of a headache. He goes, ‘Alright, let’s go have a cup of coffee.’ So I walk in the house, and he goes, “This is my sister, Eunice Shriver.” A few hours later, I go to Johan and say, ‘Who are the neighbors?’ and he says, ‘Oh, those are the Kennedys.’”

Back at RFK, the Diplomats were rolling.

They charged into the playoffs and played in front of record crowds—but in a cruel twist of fate, they were sent home in the opening round

by Michels and his tightly organized Aztecs.

Feinstein remembers arriving back in Washington after the loss.

“We got on a people mover [at Dulles], heading to one of the terminals there, and as we’re pulling up you could see there were a couple of hundred fans there, waiting to greet the team,” he recalls. “There was a band playing. Johan was in a panic.”

“Don’t they know we lost?” said the Dutchmen.

“In Europe,” says Feinstein, “had there been fans waiting for you, you’d be calling the police for protection. He couldn’t grasp that they’d cheer for the team if they lost.”

Gulf & Western was less enthusiastic. Citing losses of some $6 million in 1980, they pulled the plug on the Diplomats at the end of

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“He couldn’t grasp that they’d cheer for the team if they lost.”

“His sense of acceleration and fluidity with the ball was simply incredible,” adds former D.C. United head coach Thomas Rongen, who played in the midfield for the Dips. “He was one of the guys who was faster with the ball than without it. Not too many players in the world can do that. Ronaldo can do that.

Messi can do that. He owned the game.”

Cruyff was thriving off the field, too. He moved into a stately home in Georgetown and embraced the relative anonymity D.C. provided him, often riding a bicycle from his home to training sessions at RFK. He poured his heart and soul into selling the game in the U.S., recording a weekly segment for D.C.’s CBS affiliate in which he’d teach the basics of the game and hosting a clinic for disabled children before every away game.

Rongen saw this all first-hand. He lived in Cruyff ’s house for four months. After a long night out, Rongen once fell asleep in a neighbor’s backyard.

“I get woken up by a man, and he goes, ‘Do

the season.

Cruyff would make one last swan song in D.C. In 1981, the Detroit Express relocated to D.C. and rebranded as the Diplomats, hoping to cash in on the old club’s goodwill. Midway through their campaign, they made a move for Cruyff, who had returned to Europe.

At halftime of a game against Toronto that year, Cruyff sat at his locker chain-smoking, as he so often did during his career. “He turned to a group of us,” says former Diplomat David Bradford “and told us that [Toronto’s] keeper had been playing off his line the entire game. He told us he was going to punish him for that.”

Early in the second half, Cruyff gathered the ball near midfield, turned, and from 45 yards out struck a perfectly weighted, beautiful chip that sailed over the keeper’s head and into the goal.

“It’s my fondest memory of him,” says Bradford. “How could you ever forget it? I got to play with fucking Johan Cruyff. It was ridiculous.”

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DistrictLinE Rue the Delay

Officials will investigate reported delays in the Ward 7 and 8 homeless shelters, just weeks after an initial round of oversight hearings.

But city officials, including DHS Director Laura Zeilinger and DGS project manager Brian Butler, have already assured Nadeau’s committee that the shelters were on track. On March 14, during a human services committee hearing on the closure of D.C. General, At-Large Councilmember Elissa Silverman asked Zeilinger whether “we have a firm date on opening [the] shelters?”

“Um, no,” Zeilinger says, “We have a projection that they’ll be open, ready in the fall.” Pushed for specifics, she added: “By October is when we expect to be in. But what’s most important is the buildings are fully ready and we don’t rush it to meet a date.” At the time, email communications obtained by City Paper through Freedom of Information Act requests show, DGS wasn’t even sure it would preserve its contract with the company responsible for building the shelters.

On Feb. 1, the documents show, top officials in DGS were aware of delays at both the Ward 7 and 8 sites. Just one month later, agency leaders floated the idea of cutting ties with the companies it hired to build and manage the shelters, DGS Director Greer Johnson Gillis confirmed to City Paper last week.

By March 2, DGS official George Lewis sent a “Notice to Accelerate” to the general contractor on the Ward 7 and 8 shelters, MCN Build. These warnings indicate that the projects weren’t progressing on schedule, and they included a request that the contractor develop two updated construction timelines—one of them a projection of the shelters’ completion should the city eliminate its contract with Z Modular. (One of the revised worst-case-scenario schedules says that if D.C. decides to step in and terminate Z Modular’s contract for the Ward 8 site, its substantial completion date could move to July 18, 2019, nearly one year behind schedule.)

Yet in public and in private, officials continued to tell residents the shelters were on track for a fall delivery. During a Feb. 28 meeting for members of the Ward 8 shelter’s advisory team––a group of Advisory Neighborhood Commissioners, D.C. Council staffers, educators, and residents––employees of three differDarrow Montgomery

Ward 7 shelter

By Morgan Baskin Last week, City Paper reported that senior officials in the D.C. government—including the “entire executive leadership team”—have known for months that contracting and construction issues have delayed the production of homeless shelters in Wards 7 and 8.

Those shelters, two of three initially scheduled to open this fall, are supposed to partially house some of the 250 families who will be displaced when the D.C. General shelter closes this year. But City Paper’s reporting showed that the subcontractor responsible for building the prefabricated modules and delivering them, Z Modular, was a functionally brand new company with little history in modular construction at the time it signed on to complete the projects.

And despite having known since at least February that the company wasn’t on track to deliver fully-furnished modular units as expected, officials from the Department of General Services repeatedly, and publicly, promised residents that the shelters were projected to open on time. When City Paper asked a spokesperson for the mayor why her administration continued to assure the public that the shelters would open on time despite public documents detailing delays, the spokesperson said, “Mayor Bowser has been informed that all timing adjustments have been made

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and our short term family housing will open on schedule.”

In response to City Paper’s findings, Ward 1 Councilmember Brianne Nadeau, chair of the committee with oversight of Department of Human Services (the agency responsible for coordinating services at shelters), and Ward 3 Councilmember Mary Cheh, chair of the committee with oversight of DGS, announced a joint committee roundtable to be held on Monday, June 25. They’ll interview government witnesses under oath about the shelter delays.

Expected to attend the roundtable is AtLarge Councilmember Robert White, who says he was “furious” after reading City Paper’s reporting and visiting the Ward 8 site this week. White says that his requests to meet with officials from DGS and DHS went unanswered for days, until a Bowser administration official told White they wouldn’t meet with him until Friday, June 22. (His meeting request was kicked up to the office of the City Administrator.) “[That] to me is unacceptable and pointless. They waited until the hearing was scheduled to respond with a time to meet,” White says.

At the roundtable, he’d like to find out “why the Council and public was told there wasn’t a delay, when it seems they knew;” when the city “should realistically expect the shelters to be fully ready for families to move in;” and “clarity on who chose Z Modular as a subcontractor.”

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ent city agencies told the group that the Ward 8 shelter was on track. Representatives from DGS, DHS, and the Office on African American Affairs told the crowd that the Ward 8 shelter was set to erect modules in May. A May construction “update” posted to the DGS website for the Ward 8 shelter made no mention of the known delays, despite the fact that Z Modular was scheduled to have begun its module delivery that month. (When City Paper visited the site on June 13, not a single module had been delivered.) A separate DGS post updating Ward 7 stakeholders on that shelter’s progress posted photos of the “module erection,” making no note of the fact that the modules were supposed to arrive fully furnished, but instead came only as exoskeletons made of steel framing.

It wasn’t until mid-June, weeks after Z Modular was supposed to hit its first delivery benchmark, that anybody from the city told ANC commissioners or members of the Ward 8 advisory team about the delays. Olivia Henderson, the chairperson of ANC 8D, tells City Paper that it was during a phone call around June 10 that an official told her that MCN Build would need to apply for more permits to complete the project.

“They said they wanted to extend the hours because they’re a little behind schedule,” Henderson says. “The modules weren’t dropped off when they were supposed to. They [said] they were supposed to have been dropped off about two weeks ago.”

On June 13, a policy analyst from the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services emailed Ward 8’s advisory team to inform them that DGS “will be expanding their construction hours from 7:00 a.m. – 1:00 a.m. Monday - Saturday,” a schedule that will last until Sept. 30. (MCN Build is contractually obligated to deliver the completed shelters by Aug. 31.)

Now, Henderson has to deliver the news of the dramatically extended hours to the residents in 8D. For her part, Bowser has continued to promise that the city will demolish D.C. General this year, a core tenet of her inaugural mayoral campaign. “Coming into office, I promised we would close D.C. General and replace it with smaller, dignified programs throughout all eight wards that do more to support our most vulnerable families. This year, we will make good on that commitment–D.C. General will close forever,” she said during her March 15 State of the District address.

“I know some people think that we’re moving too quickly, or that we’re only trying to free up land. But let me say this and let me be clear, when it comes to closing D.C. General, we cannot move fast enough. That shelter is an embarrassment to our city, and I will not be the mayor who passes up on the opportunity to demolish it,” Bowser said.

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Gear Prudence

“That sounds like a great idea! But I don’t know how to sew and I don’t know anything about this.” So I started looking into what it would take. I found a small run production company here in the District. That’s how I got started.

Gear Prudence: Probably 60 percent of my dreams are about bikes, but they’re always anxiety dreams straight out of “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure.”

My bike is stolen; my bike is broken and I can’t repair it; I can’t remember where I locked my bike; I’m trying and failing to pedal up a hill that’s way too steep; it’s raining and I keep crashing. In my waking life, I love riding my bike, so what gives?!

—Bike All Day, Doomed Rest Evinces A Mighty Stress

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

Email gearprudence@washcp.com.

How are you doing apparel production in D.C.?

She’s a small run production studio out in Langdon … I work primarily with the owner. Her company, Pattern Sample Sew, is my small run production company in the city.

Erin Tetterton

Dear BADDREAMS: The dreaded bikemare has been known to bedevil even the most steadfast cyclist sleeper, but with such a high rate of recurrence you’re far exceeding your quota, especially given your professed love of bikes. It’s time to get inside your dreams and figure out what’s going on. (Cue Hans Zimmer’s Inception soundtrack.)

The ancients held that dreams were prophetic. And often, dreams contain visits from other-worldly beings—angels, saints, dead relatives, etc. Can you recall seeing a haloed dude nearby any of the times you’ve dreamed that your bike was broken? Or a dead great aunt watching you struggle up a hill? They could have a crucial message from the great beyond. (“HTFU,” says Saint Christopher). It doesn’t sound, though, like what’s coming to pass in your REM cycle is coming to pass while you really cycle. While GP can’t rule out prophecy, the evidence seems thin.

A more modern approach might be necessary. Freud would suggest that your bike anxieties are a manifestation of some deep psycho-sexual frustrations, where the bike represents your mother, the lock represents your mother, and the rain represents your mother. When you keep crashing, it’s just a series of Oedipus wrecks. This interpretation seems almost as dated as saintly clairvoyance, and while it does offer an explanation, it also suggests that there’s nothing you can do about it, other than maybe going on a bike ride with mommy dearest.

Perhaps these nightmares have no meaning at all. As the great philosopher-poet Nelly foretold, it was only just a dream.

Since there’s no way to prevent the dreams, what you’re really lacking is a positive spin on the situation. Fitful nights are bad, and many suggest that sleep is crucial to your overall health and well-being. But look on the bright side: By shoving all of your bike anxieties into your dreams, you’ve freed your waking hours from them, allowing you to enjoy bicycling while you’re actually bicycling. This is a gift and you should treasure it! If there’s no way to forestall bike stress, suffering it in illusory and fleeting dreams is far better than experiencing it on the road.

—GP

Meghan Evans could never find tall sizes that fit properly, so she decided to launch her namesake apparel company. She designs and manufactures her clothes here in D.C. You can shop her latest collection at meghanevans.com.

You started an apparel business for tall sizes. Can you tell me about its origin?

I launched Meghan Evans the brand in August of 2017. At first it only included tall sizes. I’m 5’10”. I’m long torsoed. So, I struggled with finding tops, dresses, blazers, jackets— anything that is dependent on torso length.

Brands, like mega-brands, started offering tall. For example, Madewell offers tall and taller jeans, but Madewell does not offer tall tops or dresses or jackets. I felt like there was this continual evolution in offerings for tall pants but not necessarily tall tops.

I would buy dresses that I knew were too short for the sole purpose of taking them to the tailor and having them cut them off and turn them into tops. I would get lots of questions about like, “Where did you get that top?”

And I would be like, “Well…”

“It’s a dress!”

“You can’t buy it as a top, but you can buy it as a dress!” My husband was like, “Why don’t you make clothing that actually fits you from the get-go?”

Where do you source your fabric?

The garment district in New York, and I also attend trade shows.

I use a lot of deadstock. I’m not exclusively deadstock, but I do try and prefer to work with deadstock.

Can you explain what deadstock is?

Yeah, so when a mega fashion house purchases yardage, they might buy—this is just a random number—10,000 yards of that fabric.

They may use 9,500 and decide to stop production. They may use 9,900 and only have 100 yards left over. A lot of that fabric ends up in landfills. They just dump it if they can’t sell it—it’s not worth the hassle of selling it for them. They are buying in such large, bulk quantities directly from the mills that it’s kind of a loss for them. So, I try to purchase that leftover fabric so that it doesn’t end up in a landfill or somewhere else.

Why is it important for you to use deadstock?

One is the environmental benefits. The process by which fabric is made is extremely draining on our natural resources. It takes a lot of water, it takes a lot of natural resources to actually produce the fabric. It’s expensive to make it, and then fashion houses throw out whatever they don’t use and don’t want to deal with. For somebody who is a small designer, it gives me access to really awesome fabrics in smaller quantities that suit my needs. It just opens up a whole lot of doors for me. I’m able to get these, for example, from Italy or France

that maybe I couldn’t get because I don’t have the direct contact with the mill and I’m not going to buy 10,000 yards and ship it over. So the types of fabric and the environmental benefit are two huge driving forces for me.

Have you found a community of designers here in D.C.?

Yes! It’s amazing. I didn’t know there were so many of us. And it’s been growing. I actually recently started a Facebook group called DMV Designers to connect primarily with apparel designers, but also jewelry and accessory designers. And I’m just—I’m blown away with the number of designers that are based in D.C. They are incredibly supportive and helpful.

I want to ask a question about pricing.

Picking up something at Zara is going to be priced differently than picking up something from your line. Can you explain why that pricing is different?

That’s kind of a loaded question! So, one, I produce in the United States. And I don’t just produce anywhere in the United States, I produce in Washington, D.C. I pay somebody who lives in the area a living wage. I also don’t produce in mass quantities; I produce in small quantities. There are discounts placed on volume.

Volume in fabric purchases, volume on any sort of, you know, zipper. Anything that goes into a garment, if you buy it in larger quantities there’s a discount associated with that. Same with manufacturing.

I was reading on your blog how you take sample fabric and put it in the washing machine and then lay it flat to dry to see how it is going to wash and wear. Why do you do that level of fabric research?

If I’m going to put it out there, I kind of want to know what I’m selling. There are different levels of what you can expect from your clothing based on what it is intended for and the type of fabric. I try to make sure that it performs as expected for that fabric in that design. You know, there’s a reason why you wear yoga pants to yoga and not your blazer. I just want to make sure that I’m creating the best product for its intended use.

What would you say to a designer in D.C. who is interested in this world but doesn’t know how to break in?

Reach out! Join our Facebook group. I would tell people to do it. I think it’s worth it. I think there’s a lot to be added to the fashion industry and I think we can make it a lot better. I hope fashion is going the way of food. I think people have become ever cognizant of their food consumption and where it comes from—where they are buying. But fashion is not so much there. I hope it’s headed that way. I think it is.

—Kaarin Vembar

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Art Growthers With its meteoric rise in Georgetown and its citywide festival launch, Halcyon has won over the D.C. arts community—in spite of its corporate sheen.

By Kriston Capps

Photographs by Darrow Montgomery

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Jefferson Pinder is a community artist. For his Inertia Cycle, he typically engages in some act of tension or labor—pushing a stalled car, for example, or running a relay— only there’s never any end in sight for whatever task he’s working on. It’s a performance that turns African-American physical labor into shared emotional labor. For this weekend’s By The People festival, Pinder is creating a kind of sound installation at the Parks at Walter Reed, using the walls of the former military hospital to echo and amplify the sound of an engine revving in a vintage muscle car.

That’s a Halcyon project.

Lucianne Walkowicz is a scientist who studies the ethics of colonizing other planets. She is the chair of astrobiology for the Library of Congress and an astronomer at Chicago’s Adler Planetarium. For the By The People festival, Walkowicz is talking with Armstrong Wiggins, the director of the Indian Law Resource Center, about the cultural footprint we might leave on other worlds. That’s also a Halcyon project.

Antonius Tin Bui is a nonbinary Vietnamese-American artist. They use textiles and performance to examine Vietnamese history, queer culture, and the intersections between them. For By The People, Bui will be doing something along those lines at THEARC West in Congress Heights all weekend. That’s another Halcyon project, and Bui is a Halcyon Arts Lab fellow.

Yousef Bashir is a Palestinian activist. For

By The People, he is talking with Yossi Klein Halevi of Jerusalem’s Shalom Hartman Institute about finding peace in the Middle East.

An ambitious Halcyon project.

The Dupont Brass Band is the Dupont Brass Band. For By The People, they’ll be all over the festival, playing for the people.

Halcyon’s reach extends across the District.

By The People, the citywide festival that the nonprofit is launching this weekend, may be unprecedented here. Neko Case and Ray LaMontagne opened the festival on Wednesday night with a concert at The Anthem. Most of the Smithsonian Institution’s museums plan to stay open until midnight on Saturday for a solstice party coordinated by Halcyon. While the national acts and federal venues are impressive, all weekend long, visual artists from D.C. will anchor the main tents and dozens of satellites on the By The People calendar. That’s unheard of.

Plus it’s free. “South by Southwest is $1,600 a ticket,” says Kate Goodall, the CEO of Halcyon, an incubator that’s become ubiquitous in D.C. arts and events. “Aspen [Ideas Festival] is $3,000. Summit Series is $4,500. These things are not for regular people. They’re lovely, they’re wonderful, they’re important, but we wanted to make it where everybody could attend from wherever.” (From the contemporary ballet pop-up to the augmented-reality art hunt, virtually every performance, installation, activation, lecture, and reading on this weekend’s agenda is free to the public.)

By The People is the culmination of Halcyon’s fast-track takeover of arts programming in the District. Halcyon grew out of the chari-

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table S&R Foundation, which Goodall joined as chief operating officer in 2013. Japanese biotech moguls Sachiko Kuno and Ryuji Ueno—S and R—launched that foundation in 2000; to further its work, they purchased three of Georgetown’s most exclusive properties, including an 1801 Federal-style manse on 28th Street NW known as Evermay. Before the couple’s divorce in 2016, they bought another stately mansion called the Halcyon House, as well as the late 19th-century Fillmore School building.

The Halcyon organization, which split off as its own entity last year, occupies two of these historic facilities. One is an incubator for nextgen entrepreneurs who want to build businesses and nonprofits with a direct social impact.

The other is an arts lab for some of the luckiest young artists in the world.

Halcyon is shaking up the arts scene in the District, and at times, the feeling is not just disruptive, but jarring. Halcyon hosts an annual awards event, for example. It’s a fundraiser to support the social entrepreneurial incubator

and visual arts lab. This year’s Halcyon Awards took place at the Washington National Cathedral (which is apparently available to rent for galas). Its vaults were festooned with crimsoncolored lights and dazzling light projections.

The tinny snare of trap beats echoed over the alcohol-soaked after-party in the Cathedral’s northern transept.

From spinning Migos to colonizing Mars, Halcyon’s vision is expansive. “Halcyon is about believing in the power of creativity and the power of compassion to do really good things,” Goodall says—a statement that’s just a bluetooth headset away from a TED Talk. But this much is certain: Halcyon is building something cool, even crucial, in Georgetown. And its goal is even broader.

Kate Goodall is always ready to dive right in.

By training, she is a maritime archaeologist.

She got her master’s degree in exploring shipwrecks, namely the U.S.S. Monitor, an ironhulled steamship that sank on New Year’s

Eve, 1862, off Cape Hatteras in North Carolina. Earlier that year, the Monitor had proven pivotal in the defining naval battle of the Civil War, the Battle of Hampton Roads, by preventing the Confederate Virginia from breaking the Union’s blockade of the James River.

Nearly a century and a half later, Goodall surveyed the Monitor as a support diver, excavating the turret gun platform that made its debut during that battle, and which still contained the human remains of the sailors who died during the vessel’s final voyage.

“When you do that kind of work, it’s either cold, zero visibility, or you have environment overhead or animals around you,” says Goodall, who today works on land, from a desk in one of Georgetown’s finest mansions.

“You need to go through a lot of training to learn how not to panic. I always joke that my amygdala doesn’t work anymore. I just don’t have that normal panic response.”

It’s a narrow road that leads from the underwater graveyard of the Duel of the Ironclads to the toniest social incubator in the District of Columbia. Goodall followed shipwrecks to artifacts, and then artifacts to museums; now, as the CEO of Halcyon, she’s gone from diver to driver, running an organization that in a short time has emerged as omnipresent in the D.C. metro area. Between its twin outposts—the Halcyon House and Halcyon Arts Lab—the organization has turned Georgetown into a funnel for creative talent from around the world.

“Kate and I met in 2013, just when I started to think about something new for me after stepping down from the business world and biotech world,” Kuno says. “She always surprises me. She is a dynamo.”

Halcyon Arts Lab’s niche in the art ecosystem is clear. The program supports artists who want to change the world. In its short time, the Arts Lab has offered socially conscious artists the space and opportunity to generate projects and performances focused on identity, politics, activism, and representation. The next class of Halcyon arts fellows, who will enjoy a nine-month residency from September to June 2019, includes a Cherokee Nation poet (Jessica Mehta), a Grammy-nominated hip-hop artist (Kokayi), and a human-rights photographer (João Pina). Every class features artists from D.C., too—and many Halcyon artists have established deep ties to the local community.

Some of Halcyon’s tactics are harder to place in the arts world, however. The organization’s work is often dressed up in the language of the creative class, of thought-leaders and change-agents. To a certain extent, Halcyon’s founders see a dance performance and a nonprofit startup as one and the same—a potential means to a progressive end.

“Kate’s very open about saying, ‘We’re still figuring this out. This is a work in progress,’” says Victoria Reis, co-founder and executive director of Transformer, another (smaller) D.C. art incubator. (Transformer is participating in By The People, too, by staging a “crochet jam” in Farragut Square Park with fiber artist Ramekon O’Arwisters.)

The Halcyon party saw Goodall diving

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again: this time from a stage, in a leap inspired

by Dirty Dancing. To close out the awards program (before the gala dinner and auction), Goodall and her Halcyon staff performed a spoof of the film’s famous flirty dance sequence. The group changed the lyrics to flatter corporate execs and private donors. “We’ve had the time of our lives/ Thanks to Carl M. Freeman Companies,” Goodall sang.

“I find it so boring to list the name of sponsors,” Goodall says. “Septime [Webre, former director of the Washington Ballet] got his hands on it last year and we ended up doing this whole medley to Queen. The staff basically spent the week in puddles.”

Halcyon’s Dirty Dancing remake was appropriately cringe inducing: funny and earnest, a performance along the lines of a well-rehearsed routine in an office talent show. Goodall nailed Baby’s swan-like dive, it must be said, and when she danced her way down the nave of the National Cathedral, it was clear she’d sold the crowd. The bit didn’t fail: With that single event, Halcyon raised more than $650,000, all of which will go toward fueling the organization’s arts and entrepreneurial activities.

That’s more money than many D.C. arts organizations will see in a year—more than most would know what to do with. Which has led some in the District’s art scene to ask what, exactly, Halcyon is doing, even as everyone seems to be doing something for Halcyon.

For a city that’s struggled as long as the District has to support and keep its artists, Halcyon’s seemingly fathomless funds represent uncharted waters.

Maybe no one has gotten as much out of her time at Halcyon as Georgia Saxelby. The young Australian installation artist was in one of the Halcyon Arts Lab’s first cohort of fellows, arriving in Georgetown in September 2017. She’s leveraged her time here into an installation that’s already making the museum circuit, along with a solo show currently on view at a Dupont Circle gallery, International Arts & Artists at Hillyer.

“To Future Women,” which has graced two D.C. museums this year so far, is straightforward enough. Saxelby’s piece comprises a suite of pink, high-backed desk chairs, which resemble furniture from a modernist elementary school. “To Future Women” asks viewers to sit at these desks and compose letters to women of the year 2037, when the nation will observe the 20th anniversary of the Women’s March. Whether the U.S. celebrates or tolerates demonstrations by women 20 years from now remains to be seen, but if all goes well, Saxelby’s #MeToo-inspired time capsule will see the light of day again.

That it was seen by so many in the first place is a remarkable feat for a young artist just stepping onto the scene. Earlier this month, visitors to the Hirshhorn’s Lerner Room, which boasts a sweeping National Mall view, were invited to write their own “To Future Women” letters and stick them up on the room’s floor-to-ceiling windows. Over the course of four days, the Hirshhorn also convened programs associated with “To Future Women,”

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from museum tours of artworks by women to feminist storytime readings for kids.

Saxelby’s project got a month-long run at the Phillips Collection over the winter, too. As if that weren’t enough, the Phillips has even pledged to archive these collected letters and resuscitate them in the year 2037, a gesture that left the artist gobsmacked.

“As soon as you graduate, you’re a solo practitioner. The amount of mentors I’ve had here in D.C., only living here 8 months, is insane,” Saxelby says.

She and the other Halcyon Arts Lab fellows work in the Fillmore School, a building that the S&R Foundation bought for $16.5 million in 2015, after the failing Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art + Design was forced to sell it. Eight artist fellows—two from the District, six from all over the world—share the Fillmore’s soaring, daylit studios, quite possibly the best art workspaces that D.C. has to offer. All the out-of-towners live together, dorm style, in two Georgetown townhouses (on Kuno’s dime) for their nine-month residencies.

“Obviously, we’re like brothers and sisters,” Saxelby says.

Georgetown might seem like the last place to locate the bleeding edge in contemporary art. Nicole Dowd, program director for the Halcyon Arts Lab, makes the argument that the neighborhood is in fact the best possible fit for this project (and vice versa). While artist studios have a reputation as being the “pied piper” for gentrification, she says, Halcyon brings a more diverse crowd into Georgetown. “It’s cool to be in a spot where we’re not displacing anyone,” Dowd says.

The nearby Halcyon Incubator assembles

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16 social-impact-minded entrepreneurs for a five-month residency (plus a 13-month postresidency program). These practitioners get an even better address. During the residency, the entrepreneurial fellows live and work at the Halcyon House, a mansion at 34th and Prospect Street NW with a colorful history dating back a century before Georgetown joined the District. The mansion was built in 1787 by the first U.S. Secretary of the Navy—thus linking Goodall to American naval adventures spanning centuries—and served most recently as the home of the sculptor John Dreyfuss.

Goodall estimates that artists and entrepreneurs who participate in Halcyon’s incubators each receive a value of about $90,000. That counts the free rent they get with their residency, along with professional training, legal advice, business consultation, cash stipends, and other forms of career support. But in the case of Saxelby, that figure surely falls short. Exhibiting a solo project at two major D.C. arts institutions is exposure that money can’t buy.

“It was absolutely crucial for me to be here in D.C.,” says Estefaní Mercedes, another Halcyon artist fellow. The artist’s socially minded work might strike viewers as even less obviously art than Saxelby’s. Mercedes’ practice is steeped in deep research into copyright law.

She’s working to build an archive of film and photography produced (and suppressed) during her native Argentina’s Dirty War. Access to libraries, museums, and research institutions in D.C. has been critical to her work. So much so, in fact, that Mercedes has decided to move here permanently.

A laserlike focus on social impact is one connection between the Halcyon House incuba-

tor program and the Halcyon Arts Lab studios.

Another link is Kuno, who herself owns the Halcyon House and whose foundation owns the Fillmore. Beyond Kuno’s support—which amounts to the donation of both properties and all the costs associated with their operation and maintenance—the force that binds Halcyon together is Kate Goodall.

There is a plain resonance between social entrepreneurship and social practice in art, Goodall says. Some might call it synergy. It’s the space where Halcyon fits. “A lot of it has to do with the bravery of looking at a blank sheet of paper and turning it into something,” she says. “That requires quite a bit of wherewithal.”

Practically anyone who ventures outside this weekend is going to run into By The People. Each of the festival’s five main hubs— Union Market, THEARC, the Parks at Walter Reed, the National Cathedral, and the Smithsonian Arts and Industries Building—is showcasing a weekend’s worth of socially engaged and politically charged art. The festival’s wide geographic reach across several wards is in keeping with the event’s aspirational, almost anachronistic plea for unity and mutual understanding.

“Halcyon is producing [By The People] for the entire city,” Kuno says. “We are supported by the city. I would like to see more collaboration with the city.”

Since she joined forces with Kuno in 2013, Goodall has been working at a rapid clip to establish Halcyon as a force for civic change. This work started at the Halcyon House, with the socially conscious business incubator, and expanded to the Fillmore building with artist stu-

dios last year. But with By The People, Goodall and Halcyon are leaping into the crowded field of big-ticket events. The closest analog to By The People might be Prospect New Orleans, a contemporary art triennial that brings together local and international artists. Even before its preamble kick-off, By The People was already a much larger undertaking than anything New Orleans has tried.

“We’re coming out swinging,” Goodall says.

“We’re coming out really big. Bigger perhaps than I would have anticipated when we started planning.”

The most dramatic projects are centered around the National Cathedral. (Halcyon appears to have struck a contract with God.) Nick Cave, a global marquee artist, is debuting a video projection on the exterior of the cathedral throughout the weekend; he’s also projecting another video at THEARC West in Ward 8. If that weren’t plenty, Halcyon is staging a Cathedral activation by new jazz legend Jason Moran, a one-night-only response to Cave’s project in real time. The clash of these titans can only serve to elevate Halcyon fellow Stephen Hayes, an emerging artist whose sculpture will share the stage at the National Cathedral all weekend long.

The biggest tent for By The People is at the Arts and Industries Building, a venue that gives the festival play on the National Mall, right next door to the Castle. That sort of purchase for an inaugural launch is unrivaled: a massive programmatic subsidy. The festival’s visibility has helped it attract scores of local satellite events, some of which may represent the festival’s best bid to plant real roots here. Altogether, counting in-kind gifts like the

Smithsonian’s donation of space, Goodall estimates the cost for putting on By The People at $1.6 million. She notes that Halcyon is paying all of the artists and performers involved.

Sasha Lord, a D.C. promoter, is curating a Sunday-night showcase at Union Market called “Punk Latitudes,” a coast-to-coast presentation of punk solidarity. Lord will be showing punk films by L.A.’s Bradley Friedman, including never-before-seen footage of the Ramones and the Sex Pistols. With performances by the Messthetics and Loud Boyz, DJ sets by Baby Alcatraz and Alec MacKaye, a panel about subcultures in one-industry towns, and more, Punk Latitudes is shaping up to be a seminar on D.C. DIY—and it’s just one event among dozens. “I’ve heard people calling [the festival] the South by Southwest of D.C.,” Lord says.

But Halcyon is anything but do-it-yourself.

It’s more like do-it-with-your-entire-network.

And execute it without any of the constraints that usually come with community-focused efforts. Halcyon’s framework for supporting the arts might be a PowerPoint deck. It’s Basel with a conscience. Whereas Positive Force meant progressive activism by local hardcore bands, By The People is more like inclusive change wrought by a board of directors. None of this is a knock, exactly. Goodall believes that combining art and business can stimulate change.

“Art is soft policy,” Goodall says. dani levinas would have been within his rights if he felt bitter that his own concept never hit it Halcyon big.

Levinas, the board chair for the Phillips Collection, had the idea to turn the old his-

toric Franklin School downtown into a kunsthalle for art called the Institute for Contemporary Expression. He even got the backing of former Mayor Vince Gray, who signed a deal with Levinas and developer Anthony Lanier on his way out of office to turn the long-disused building into a new kind of D.C. museum. As Levinas was fundraising to launch ICE, Mayor Muriel Bowser reneged on the deal soon after she took office in 2015.

But Levinas doesn’t have any hard feelings toward Halcyon.

“I think it’s a miracle,” he says, referring to Halcyon’s rapid rise in the metro ecosystem.

“It’s amazing, and they deserve all the credit.”

Perhaps leaders at other arts nonprofits look on at Halcyon’s success with a mix of envy and aversion. While longstanding arts organizations from across the region have scrambled to make do for years, Halcyon appears to be ascending. Its approach to art seems closer to Silicon Valley than Dischord Records.

“We started this from nothing,” says Transformer’s Reis. “[Transformer cofounder Jayme McLellan] and I, we were waitressing. Halcyon started with money attracting money. But Kate’s always been good about giving credit.”

Local arts leaders don’t talk about Halcyon in offended tones. Reis says that Goodall even offered to host Transformer at the Fillmore School—an offer that came around the time when the local cold-pressed juice chain, JRINK, was trying to buy out Transformer’s micro-gallery lease from its landlord. Instead, local criticisms of Halcyon are narrower. The scale of the Halcyon Arts Lab, for example: Reis says it ought to be 20 artists sharing the Sachiko Kuno

Fillmore School space. “But that’s just not their thing,” she adds. “They’re doing a very elevated thing.”

“It’s a lot of resources being pushed to eight young artists,” says Philippa Hughes, a social connector for the D.C. art scene. “But that’s also what I like about it!”

Since the Great Recession, the District has lost a great deal of its arts infrastructure.

Galleries have shuttered, while artists have moved out to Hyattsville or beyond, pushed out by high rents or in search of workable studio space. Money has flooded into the District, but steady streams of outbound artists flow to Baltimore, Los Angeles, and New York.

Halcyon represents a push in the opposite direction. Beneath all the talk of changemaking and fundraising, the organization is attracting top emerging artists from around the world to the District, and even convincing some of them to stay. It’s giving artists and entrepreneurs the opportunity to build long-term visions into real-world projects by testing them here first. And Halcyon is facilitating quantifiable change in D.C. More than half of the entrepreneurial ventures supported by the Halcyon House, for example, were founded by women; 59 percent of Halcyon’s founders are people of color.

“What I like about Halcyon is that they understand the connection between the arts and social entrepreneurship specifically in D.C.,” says Jessica Stafford Davis, founder of the The Agora Culture, an arts platform that connects emerging artists with diverse collectors.

“I think it’s important that they’re steeped in the city.”

While Goodall and others may talk about art in terms that an angel investor would recognize, the organization itself is not so slick.

Goodall says her work takes her “all the way up and down the ladder, from cleaning the toilets to being on TV”—her star turn at the National Cathedral notwithstanding. As far as the organization’s deep pockets go, Goodall says that the group has no significant reserves. “We raise the money we need to produce our programs every year.” (After its launch in spring 2017, Halcyon, a 501(c)3, generated $3 million in revenue and $2.5 million in total expenses for the partial year; its budget for 2018 is $5 million.)

In scale and scope, Halcyon is like nothing that’s come before it. Its entrepreneurial incubator aside, the organization reflects the changing role of art in D.C., where the social spectacle is key, pop-ups are big business, and collectives are industry enterprises. Halcyon might be the arts entity to guide the District into the age of Amazon.

By The People will be Halcyon’s first big test in D.C. Goodall says that she is aiming for “a quality product with no injuries.” She’s underselling it, of course. But she says she’s been surprised to see how accommodating other institutions and leaders have been to meeting with Halcyon to make the festival happen.

“Sometimes, the art fields, they’ve had to fight for their survival in every way,” Goodall says. “You can encounter a fair amount of no’s.

We’ve got nothing but yes’s.”

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what we ate this week: Daal Makhani with smoked blacked lentils, ghee, and garam masala, $7 or $12, Pappe. Satisfaction level: 5 out of 5.

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what we’ll eat next week: Japanese sea bass with Korean puffed rice and goma ponzu sauce, $26, O-Ku. Excitement level: 4 out of 5.

The Best Place to Pick Up Picnic Supplies Near Five D.C. Parks

Are You Gonna Eat That?

You have your grass-stained quilt and the picnic basket set your third favorite aunt gave you for your wedding. Now all you need to take advantage of picnic season is food and drink. D.C.’s small markets bring a greater variety of places to shop for such an occasion, and most are zeroed in on supporting other local businesses. Here are the best places to buy provisions near five of D.C.’s great parks.

—Laura Hayes

Montrose Park: Stachowski’s Market 1425 28th St. NW You know that if you walk into Stachowski’s, you’re walking out with a sandwich to share.

The Georgetown market is best known for its “4 Meat Grinder” loaded with salami, coppa, mortadella, soppressata, provolone, lettuce, tomatoes, onions, hot peppers, and house

Veg Diner Monologues

Laura Hayes

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

Tiki Taco’s Vegetarian Poke Where to Get It: Tiki Taco, 2010 P St. NW; (202) 986-2121; tikitacodc.com Price: $9

vinaigrette ($13.99). If you want something a notch healthier and easier to eat, go for the turkey club ($11.99). The double decker sandwich with smoked bacon, Swiss, avocado, sprouts, tomatoes, and mayonnaise is a sleeper pick.

Distance to Montrose Park: 0.4 miles.

Crispus Attucks Park: Yang Market 138 U St. NE The sandwiches at Yang Market in Eckington make for great picnic fare. The menu at the convenience store changes frequently, but summery options include the “Mona Lisa Vito” with prosciutto, spiced melon, fresh mozzarella, and basil-arugula salad ($12.50) and the “Two Youts” with turkey, roast beef, cheddar, lettuce, tomato, onion, and mustard aioli on a pretzel bun ($10).

Yang’s Market also serves breakfast all day in case you want bagels and schmears instead.

You can also load up on all of your favorite chips and candy to round out your picnic.

Distance to Crispus Attucks Park: 0.4 miles.

National Arboretum: Salumeria 2703 2703 12th St. NE Salumeria 2703 is your best bet when you’re planning a picnic for a crowd on the spacious grounds of the National Arboretum. The BrookWhat It Is: A roasted beet-based take on poke. The traditional Hawaiian dish calls for cubed, raw fish, but chef and owner Ryan Fichter didn’t want vegetarians to be left out of one of the biggest food trends to blanket D.C. He combines the beets with avocado hunks, Maui sweet onions, scallions, furikake, coconut, and a lime vinaigrette. Furikake is a salty, seaweed-based Japanese seasoning mix that’s typically sprinkled over rice.

The Story: Though a Maryland native, Fichter cooked in the Kailua-Kona region of Hawaii for six years and brought back recipes for all of his favorite dishes.

His relaxed counter service restaurant is in Dupont, where Fichter believes a crit-

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each Peach Market land Italian deli is from the same owners as pizza authority Menomale. They offer various sizes of seafood salads and antipasto plates with prosciutto crudo, manchego and fontina cheeses, spreads, and breads. The largest antipasto plate can feed 12 to 16 and costs $130. If you’re throwing a smaller shindig, opt for deli sandwiches like eggplant parmigiana ($10.50) or Atlantic smoked salmon and ricotta ($10.75).

Distance to National Arboretum: 1.9 miles.

The Dish: Maple Marinated Feta with Dehydrated Olives

Fort Reno Park: Little Red Fox 5035 Connecticut Ave. NW The best time to stop in at Little Red Fox is 3 p.m., according to co-owner Matt Carr.

That’s when they put out a big spread of their daily prepared foods. Sunday’s menu tends to be geared toward picnickers with dishes like BBQ pulled pork, green beans, and potato salad. Carr also recommends filling up a growler with their refreshing local kombucha on draft from Craft Kombucha. Also look for baguettes and a refrigerated case filled with cheese and charcuterie offerings.

Distance to Fort Reno Park: 0.7 miles.

What It Is: To prepare this dish, chefs marinate soft Greek feta in maple syrup overnight. Separately, they brown butter, cool it, and blend it with maple syrup until it has a mousse-like texture. They then place a small quenelle of the blended butter atop the cheese and scatter finely chopped, dehydrated black olives across the plate. To get all these components into one bite, reach into a jumble of toasted house-made focaccia rectangles brushed with olive oil and freckled with Maldon sea salt and swipe at the cheese.

ical mass of customers crave healthy, vegetarian food. “I find you either love beets or you hate them, but I found the sweetness of them after being roasted plays well with the coconut and lime,” he says. “The beet gives you the mouthfeel you would have with tuna.”

Why Even Meat Eaters Will Like It: I’ve already determined that I will die of mercury poisoning in 2032 because of the boatfulls of raw tuna I consume.

This dish provides me with an alternative that’s just as satisfying texturally. The earthiness of the beets and the large grains of sea salt add up to a strong and welcome umami flavor. If you want to make a meal of it, order one or two of the tofu tacos. —Laura Hayes

Ellē

Malcolm X Park: Each Peach Market 3068 Mount Pleasant St. NW This Mount Pleasant market with an eye for all things local debuted a picnic pack this month. For $40 you get a bottle of rosé wine, salami, cheese, two house-made salads such as Mediterranean couscous, and a baguette.

“All you need is a butter knife,” says co-owner Jeanlouise Conaway. The baguettes come from A Baked Joint, and if you don’t want to go all-in on a picnic pack, you can pick up the fresh bread and pair it with chicken liver pate or a cheese of your choosing. Each Peach also sells sandwiches, local kombucha, cold brew coffee, and other grab-and-go grub.

Distance to Malcolm X Park: 0.6 miles.

Price: $10 Where to Get It: Ellē; 3221 Mount Pleasant St. NW; (202) 652-0040; eatatelle.com

The Story: Credit goes to sous chefs Chris Yates and Demetri Mechelis. When they proposed the idea to executive chef Brad Deboy, he was intrigued. “I was thinking, ‘What kind of stoner concoction is this?’” he says. “It sounded weird, but I wanted to try it.”

He was quickly won over—and so are diners. Introduced just a few weeks ago, the maple marinated feta is already a top seller. The only dishes more popular are the kimchi toast and the fried duck with a biscuit.

What It Tastes Like: The unique flavor combination works. The syrup adds sweetness to the cheese’s briny tang, the butter possesses a rich nuttiness and another smack of sugar, and the olives have a salty punch. —Nevin Martell

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We’ve Been Waiting in the Wings For You Hamilton has made it to D.C., just as good as advertised

Hamilton

Book, Music, and Lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda Directed by Thomas Kail At the Kennedy Center Opera House to Sept. 16

By Caroline Jones The press opening of Hamilton, which has taken up residence in the Kennedy Center Opera House for the summer, was a predictably Washington affair, populated with local and national radio personalities, reality show stars, and philanthropists, all of them awaiting the now-familiar chords that open America’s favorite musical. D.C.’s obsession with a show that paints the federal government in such a favorable light seems easily dismissable in a place as appearance-obsessed as this one, where being seen doing something is, at times, more important than actually doing it. Yet the show—through a magical combination of hip-hop, history, and theatrical fairy dust—transcends the hype. In this capital, at this time, this alternately tragic and uplifting story allows its audience to believe in good government, even if just for a few hours.

Aside from the obvious similarities between the show’s

theater

namesake and the performing arts center’s namesake, the Opera House seems tailor-made for this show. Touring productions tote sets and equipment from coast to coast for years at a time and can look out of place on stages of different sizes, but the Kennedy Center is a perfect physical and acoustic fit. Every note comes through clearly, which is essential because, as you may have heard a thousand times before, Lin-Manuel Miranda has packed centuries worth of American history, hip-hop references, and musical theater stylings into speedily delivered lines that will seamlessly worm their way into your brain.

Yes, Hamilton is as amazing as advertised. Yes, even if you have listened to the original cast recording, you will find new ways to appreciate Miranda’s lyricism and diverse sets of knowledge. Yes, the tickets that people camped out overnight for are worth it. Miranda and the rest of the creative team created a show that is compelling enough on its own, then assembled a spectacular group of artists to push it over the edge.

Starting with the title character, Austin Scott imbues Hamilton with a sly sexiness that allows him to advance through life despite his lower class origins. With apologies to Miranda, who played Hamilton as a brainiac with a constantly churning mind, the sultry tenderness that Scott gives the character makes songs like the raunchy “Say No to This” more significant, and projects

The first By The People Festival kicks off this weekend, with free events all over the District. his self-obsession more clearly. There are multiple ways into every character, something that Scott and Nicholas Christopher, as the antagonistic Aaron Burr, make a point of emphasizing.

Burr can be made to seem either like a villain or a sympathetic man frustrated when opportunities pass him by, and Christopher trades heavily in Burr’s villainous qualities, slithering across the stage as he fights for attention and respect.

The intent communicated through movement is one of the best parts of seeing Hamilton on stage. Miranda’s artistry is fully present if you listen to the cast recording, The Hamilton Mixtape, or any number of YouTube covers, but seeing how choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler sets those ideas in motion makes the production more complete. It’s so mesmerizing that it shouldn’t be spoiled, but suffice it to say it has a cinematic quality that projects to the back of the Opera House—a venue that seats nearly 1,000 more people than the Richard Rodgers Theatre, Hamilton’s New York home.

In movement heavy moments, the 21 castmembers fill the stage to the point where it feels like it’s vibrating. When only one or two actors are on the stage, it seems to shrink, forcing the audience to focus only on them. This does not work with every musical and every performer, but when Scott and Christopher duet on “Dear Theodosia” or when Julia K. Harriman, playing Eliza, Hamilton’s wife, looks back on their marriage in “Burn,” the performances pull you in. In a room packed with 2,300 other bodies, it is impossible to look away.

It is also impossible, while watching Hamilton in Washington, to not consider the show’s D.C. origins. More than 9 years ago, Miranda performed an early version of the opening number for the Obamas and guests at the White House, referring to Hamilton as someone who embodies hip-hop. By the middle of Obama’s second term, the full show was selling out in New York and transforming people’s perceptions of musical theater.

The show also speaks to D.C.’s origins, when three Virginia gentlemen, Misters Washington, Jefferson, and Madison, push to move the nation’s capital closer to home. Centuries later, the same river the men want to return to remains a cultural touchstone for pre-show and intermission selfie-takers.

Looking back, Hamilton feels specifically of the Obama era not only because it originated then, but because Hamilton and Obama, two driven men born on islands who arrived in New York ready to prove themselves and ended up dealing with financial reform, have more than a few things in common. Both outsiders aimed to fix the federal government from within but in both cases the optimism they brought with them was fleeting.

The forward-looking lines in Hamilton land particularly hard these days. “If we lay a strong enough foundation, we’ll pass it on to you,” Burr tells his daughter about building a new nation from the ground up. He is proud of what he is giving the next generation— that sense of national pride seems to have gone missing in 2018.

Absorbing the remaining bits of good is a suitable coping mechanism in dark times but even this wholly good thing is colored by the world that exists outside of it. “Raise a glass to freedom, something they can never take away, no matter what they tell you” Hamilton sings with his pals Hercules Mulligan, John Laurens, and the Marquis de Lafayette early in Act One. As those words reverberated off the plush red walls of the Opera House, people seeking the freedom those men helped secure slept in cages inside detention centers.

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The Scene RepoRT A look at what’s up in the world of D.C.’s hip-hop scene. —Sidney Thomas

Head Roc, Black Avenger Self-released

Head Roc not-so-modestly refers to himself as a Black Rock Star Super Hero, but if you check out his résumé (activist, entrepreneur, journalist, political candidate) the veteran lyricist is worthy of the bombastic accolades.

And his new album Black Avenger is jam-packed with the conscious verses and punchy beats that we expect from Head Roc. The highlight of the project is the song “DC as Fuck? Nigga What?”—a searing jab at gentrifiers who have prematurely claimed Chocolate City for themselves. Head Roc is clearly an artist with an agenda, but he never comes across as preachy or condescending. His music opens up conversation that can be uncomfortable but needs to be discussed, and Black Avenger is a victory for intelligent rap in a town that really needs a hip-hop superhero.

Killa Kiesha, Killa Gang Vol. 1 Self-released

It’s going to be a busy summer for Killa Kiesha. She just dropped a blazing mixtape Killa Gang Vol. 1—a project featuring Kiesha spitting fierce freestyles over popular trap tracks. She barely had time to catch her breath before planning a trip to Miami to shoot a video for her new single “Trap With Me 2.” Kiesha is the true definition of an underground rapper. Her grimy hood stories and sexually empowering lyrics represent a strong and independent feminine mystique. She’s the tough-talking homegirl with just enough sweetness and finesse that you don’t mind bringing her home to meet your mama. Kiesha doesn’t always paint a pretty picture of D.C., but her words provide a necessary window into the reality that many people live every day in the nation’s capital.

D.C. Don Juan, Writer’s Bloque, Vol. 2: Owe It to ‘Em Self-released

Don Juan has seen just about everything during his career as a recording artist. He’s been signed to both independent and major label recording deals, he’s worked with legends like Cam’ron and Tony Yayo, and he’s even created content for corporate entities like BET and the NBA. But at the end of the day Don Juan is a rapper—a very good one—and he’s back with a superb new album entitled Writer’s Bloque 2.

Many of the songs are autobiographical—testaments to the wins and losses he’s experienced in the music business. Don Juan is an OG in this game and is willing to dispense sage advice to younger rappers, and while doing so he likes to sprinkle in a few humble brags, like on the song “Couple Dollars:” “Since I been a youngin’ I’ve been part of the payroll/ Related to the Hard Knock Life before they played Hov.”

Rae Shine, “Enough” Lucky 7 Music Group

Rae Shine may be the hungriest MC in the city right now, and she’s definite-

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Listen to the new collaborative album

by Sir E.U + Tony Kill. washingtoncitypaper.com/arts

ly eating well. Her new single “Enough,” featuring Chris Deshield, is a breezy rap/soca/dancehall mash-up heating up dance floors and radio airwaves around the globe. But don’t let the international flavor of the song fool you— she’s a 100 percent ride-or-die hip-hop

head. Her captivating wordplay on the “Look Alive” freestyle is essential listening. Rae Shine’s musical versatility, relentless ambition, and verbal creativity should put her on the radar of every major label executive looking for the next big thing.

GALLERIESSketcheS

Standing O-vatiOn

the ’70s and ’80s. The Oprah Winfrey Show section, naturally, documents the dominant daytime show, and what follows is “Oprah Shapes America,” chronicling how she became a major influencer, before concluding with “Oprah and You,” which explores her unprecedented Watching Oprah: The ability to connect with viewers.

Oprah Winfrey Show and To see her young, sporting an array of hairAmerican Culture styles of the time—including, at one point, a At the National Museum of African fluffy afro—and exploring the world for typical American History and Culture to June local news stories in short video clips is a unique 30, 2019 and delightful experience. We know she goes on to interview the likes of Nelson Mandela and Her booming, unmistakable voice thun- President Barack Obama, and celebrate 25 years ders throughout the Special Exhibitions gal- of television excellence. But there’s a sense that lery: “You get a car! You get a car! You get a young Oprah couldn’t have predicted what was car! Everybody gets a car!” For museum visi- to come, and in that, the exhibition gives us a vertors, and millions around the world, it’s a wel- sion of her we have never really seen before.

Of course, it’s also awe-inspiring to see a come sound.

The National Museum of African American few Emmys displayed—the show won 47 DayHistory and Culture’s latest exhibition is Watch- time Emmys, 2 Primetime Emmys, 12 NAACP ing Oprah: The Oprah Winfrey Show and Ameri- Image Awards, 4 People’s Choice Awards, 8 can Culture. If you’ve ever listened to the incred- GLAAD Media Awards, and 2 Online Film ible WBEZ podcast Making Oprah, this is like and Television Awards. And the fashion portion of the exhibition is that but in a boldly tanwell-crafted, full of the gible visual format. The threads people rememshowcase, which snakes ber and revere, like her around the gallery, carered outfit from the car fully considers the imgiveaway show, the Vera pact of Oprah Winfrey Wang gown she wore to and her many roles in our the Legends Ball, and lives as TV viewers and the gorgeous black dress culture consumers. that she gave a rousing Watching Oprah conspeech in as she accepttains too many fantastic ed her Cecil B. deMiobjects and revelations lle Award at the Golden to name, but the highGlobes earlier this year, lights include childhood the first black woman to photos, rarely seen snapdo so. shots from Oprah’s time At the show’s preview, on The Color Purple, her museum director Lonnie actual work desk from Bunch III made it clear Harpo Studios, her Presthat this is not an exhibiidential Medal of Freetion for Oprah, but rathdom, and a truly stuner, one about Oprah. She ning wall with the names of every single episode of Suit worn by Oprah Winfrey on the did visit the show before it The Oprah Winfrey Show. car giveawayepisode, 2004 opened, but it was neither molded by her, nor creatThat’s 4,561 shows.

The exhibition captures the Oprah phenom- ed specifically for her. It was created for the milenon from its humble, rural Mississippi begin- lions who have watched her show—who lived nings to the all-encompassing force it is today. and breathed her familial nature, who took comIt’s split up into sections, first with “America fort in that unmistakable voice. She attracted an Shapes Oprah,” spotlighting her as a daughter average of 10 to 20 million viewers a day. Oprah of the civil rights movement and era of change fans and culture historians, this one’s for you.

The true impact of her genius is utterand, lest people forget, all the black women who paved the way for her—from Cathy Hughes and ly immeasurable. But the exhibition does Dorothy Brunson to Diana Ross and The Su- a standout job highlighting her journey so far, and takes us all along for the ride. At premes and Star Trek’s Nichelle Nichols.

“We used to gather ‘round the TV and watch the very end of Watching Oprah, there is a and scream and jump up and down: ‘Colored book in which visitors can sign and write people on TV! Colored people on TV!” reads notes about what Oprah has meant to them.

There’s no doubt it’s completely full by now. an Oprah quote on the wall.

—Kayla Randall The second section, “Oprah: The Early Years,” covers her experiences growing up in the ’50s and ’60s, and her radio and television 1400 Constitution Ave. NW. Free. career in Nashville, Baltimore, and Chicago in (844) 750-3012. nmaahc.si.edu.

America Now: SOLSTICE EDITION Museum After-Hours Saturday, June 23 | 5:30–11:30 p.m.

Free NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY Keep cool at the summer’s hottest event, America Now, when three of your favorite museums unite for a mid-summer moveable feast featuring a happy hour, block party and live concert.

AmericaNow.si.edu America Now is a three-museum collaboration between the National Portrait Gallery, the National Museum of American History, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum and is made possible by the generous support of the Robert and Arlene Kogod Family Foundation. The Washington Post is the media sponsor of America Now.

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Chew on This Eating Animals

Directed by Christopher Dillon Quinn EvEn diEhard lovErs of burgers and bacon may reconsider what they put in their mouths after watching Eating Animals. The documentary, directed by Christopher Dillon Quinn and based on a book by Jonathan Safran Foer, takes a look at modern-day animal farming, a practice that has mutated over the years to keep up with consumer demand for meat that’s cheap and convenient.

It’s undeniably an assassination piece, but sticking a fork in a target this slow-moving is easy.

Organization, however, is not the strong suit of the film, which is narrated by co-producer Natalie Portman. Besides starting off with the account of a Delmarva woman who is said to have invented the practice of factory farming in the 1920s, the content is random, with little sense of story or progression of time. We meet, for example, a North Carolina man who discovered “pink lagoons”— what he describes as the waste of pigs, or a “fecal marinade of feces and urine” sluiced directly into pits without lining—hugging the river where he fished. Then we get a profile of KFC’s Col. Harland Sanders, see a chick rolling down an assembly line (all together: “Aww!”), and are told that the practice of raising animals for consumption contributes to between 14 and 50 percent of climate change (quite a range, but I suppose you’re supposed to swallow this without question). There’s a scene in which a truck driving down a country road stops and is then shown in shadow as its occupants seem to get out and then run.

What’s going on is unclear.

The effect is that you don’t always know what the finer points of the documentary are beyond “eating animals = bad.” However, that message comes across clearly. Maybe you’ll pause at the story of a U.S. Meat Animal Research Center cow that was “raped to death.”

Or Portman’s description of how “white blood cells, also known as pus, accumulate and end up in our milk.” If nothing else, seeing is believing: A contract poultry farmer for Perdue shows the condition of his chickens, many with diseased bodies and legs that bend like rubber.

“This is your premium prime-time, no antibiotic ever, cage-free, humanely raised, whatever else is on that label,” he says.

Portman’s voiceover, meanwhile, though mostly informative, leans toward the melodramatic. Regarding the dawn of factory farming: “No one fired a pistol to mark the race to the bottom,” she says. “The Earth just tilted, and everyone slid into the hole.” At another

point, she rattles off a list of accusations to an initially unknown subject, ending with: “You silence the whistleblowers who do the job you were created to do. Your job is to guard the fox, not the henhouse. You are now known as the USDA.” Even if you side with her, you’ll roll your eyes.

Eating Animals also covers the growth of superbugs resulting from antibiotic use (not to treat sick animals, but to prevent them from getting sick under unhealthy conditions), veterinary whistleblowers, and the development of plant-based meat substitutes. One farmer changes his ways; another never danced with the devil to begin with. The film may indeed be all over the place, but it still gives you a lot to chew on.

—Tricia Olszewski Eating Animals opens Friday at Landmark E Street Cinema and Landmark Bethesda Row.

sic World: Fallen Kingdom attempts to sidestep the original film with a “kitchen sink” approach to blockbuster entertainment. Director J.A. Bayona and his screenwriters include elements of a jungle adventure and a disaster film, along with Indiana Jones-style action and even gothic horror.

This is a marked improvement over Colin Trevorrow’s direction of Jurassic World—Bayona knows how to tell a story with a remarkable image—and yet the script’s incoherence is its greatest failing. No one expects airtight plotting or thoughtful dialogue in a tent pole entertainment like this, but when plot twists are so goofy that they break the suspension of disbelief, something is clearly wrong.

In the years after the events of Jurassic World, dinosaurs have free reign over the island where Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard) once oversaw the world’s most exciting theme park.

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

sTrife finds a way Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Directed by J.A. Bayona

Jurassic Park hit theaters 25 years ago. It is a beloved film—many adults now in their twenties and thirties remember it fondly as the first “scary” one they saw in a theater— and yet it is easy to forget what made it such a success. Aside from Steven Spielberg’s singular direction and John Williams’ iconic score, which would instantly become a classic, Jurassic Park was a marvel of plausible pseudoscience, strong characters, and careful pacing.

The sequels, including 2015’s Jurassic World, could not match those highs simply because the initial awe over dinosaurs is gone. Juras-

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Now the dinosaurs face a dangerous threat— the island’s volcano is about to erupt—and a debate rages over what to do about them. Claire leads the effort to save the animals, which attracts the attention of Eli (Rafe Spall)—righthand man to the wealthy scientist Lockwood (James Cromwell)—who wants Claire and raptor wrangler Owen (Chris Pratt) to lead the rescue mission. It goes without saying that the mission does not go as planned. Mayhem ensues once the dinosaurs get on the mainland.

Bayona’s prior credits include horror film The Orphanage, along with the disaster film The Impossible, and both experiences serve him well here. The highlight of Fallen Kingdom is what happens on the island. The volcano erupts in dramatic fashion, so Owen, Claire, and the others must deal with threats from all sides. The mix of evocatively colored ashy clouds also leads to striking images, like when one poor dinosaur is left behind on the island’s shores. All the action is breathless, so it is easy to ignore that volcanoes do not actually erupt this way. There are even clever callbacks to films like Raiders of the Lost Ark, like

when Owen rushes toward the camera, shouting that everyone must run from the danger right behind him.

All that energy and excitement deflates once the characters leave the island. In a predictable twist, shadowy men auction off the dinosaurs so they can serve as weapons. From Alien onward, there have been films about shadowy men wanting dangerous creatures to be biological weapons. It has never worked, ever, but not until Fallen Kingdom have they gotten so close.

This leads to questions like, “If an arms dealer wins the auction, how do they ship the dinosaur home? What does dino-battle even look like?”

These plot concerns are beside the point; fans of Fallen Kingdom will repeat the refrain “it is just a movie.” And yet the basic elements of moviemaking, such as the narrative and acting, are not convincing enough to accept it.

The climax of Fallen Kingdom involves a dangerous, genetically engineered super raptor called the “Indoraptor” wreaking havoc around a gloomy, spacious mansion. There is a storm alongside dramatic gothic facades—the mansion is like the castle in Beauty and the Beast—so Owen and Claire do not fit into this macabre setting. The screenplay by Trevorrow and Derek Connolly solves this problem with another important character: a little girl named Maisie (Isabella Sermon) who loves dinosaurs and has secrets of her own. Perhaps the film counts on the audience worrying about a girl who is being hunted, except that is not enough. Someone explains the Indoraptor has superior hunting ability and intelligence, and yet it stalks Maisie through the mansion like a dimwitted lizard. Owen and Claire save her, and while Pratt and Howard do not have the thankless, sexist dialogue that plagued Jurassic World, they lack the charisma to elevate this material.

One intriguing streak throughout Fallen Kingdom is a halfhearted debate over whether the dinosaurs should be allowed to exist at all. In what amounts to a glorified cameo, Jeff Goldblum reprises his role as Dr. Ian Malcolm to argue against dinosaur survival. Claire, on the other hand, fears such wonderful creatures going extinct. But “extinct” is not the right word, since it implies that these cloned creatures were subject to ordinary biological growth. If anything, they’re the intellectual property of the corporation that oversaw their development. Now a debate along those lines would be worth having, and would honor the pseudoscience of Jurassic Park along the way.

Fallen Kingdom halfheartedly attempts something that engages our minds, only to abandon it in favor of a creature feature that borderline insults our intelligence.

—Alan Zilberman Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom opens Friday in theaters everywhere.

MusicDiscogs 75+ COMICS. 6 VENUES. U N D E R 1 R O O F.

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PATTON OSWALT  HARRY SHEARER THE SECOND CITY RIOT! A CELEBRATION OF WOMEN IN COMEDY

Open SeaSOn Summer Winter Kerem Atalay Dust, Etc.

Why is it, when it comes to instrumental music, we so often rely on the physical world to describe what we hear? With each note, the mind paints details of places we’ve seen and the sensations of various seasons. In some cases, a place’s pull is so strong it’s almost as if the composer has little control and the music just bubbles up from the mud and soil.

Such is the case with guitarist Kerem Atalay’s latest recording, Summer Winter. The local software engineer and data science student has taken on all that comes with being a solo guitarist living in John Fahey’s Takoma Park. While some players bristle at being categorized as American Primitive, Atalay invites it and isn’t shy about his influences (one of his dogs is even named Basho, after the late great guitarist Robbie Basho).

Summer Winter stems from the southern blues of Fahey’s earlier work. Split into two seasonal sides—“Summer” and “Winter,” four parts each—Atalay asks listeners to lean in closely to spot the subtle differences in how his guitar, all acoustic with no effects, translates hot and cool.

The familiar ways to differentiate the seasons are present. “Summer” is often faster, louder, and has a warmer tone, while “Winter” is cooler in tone, quiet, and slower. The trap with these traditional fingerpicked methods is that one could make “Winter” less complex and

less compelling. Atalay avoids this with a clever choice: He tweaks the weight of the notes.

In “Summer,” the bass line is heavier, at times plodding. It feels like sweat dripping and cratering the dust. “Summer II,” which first appeared as “II (Groundhog Crosses Barracks Road)” on Atalay’s 2017 release Sugar Hallow, moseys along, teetering from one note to the other until “Summer III,” also a reprise from Sugar Hallow, kicks in and Atalay’s fingers fly, but still land heavy as if the groundhog tumbled down a hill.

On “Winter,” the underlying lines are lighter, barely there, allowing Atalay’s fingerpicking to skitter across the top like a windswept drift. Each string seems to shimmer as it’s picked. None of these songs are blizzards.

“Winter I” winds from wistful to cautious to the edge of bold and seems to paint a picture of some folks testing out the ice before the first skate of the year.

One of Atalay’s strengths is quickly building these images out of nothing. Unlike many solo guitarists, he’s swift to get the point. All songs but one are less than three-and-a-half minutes and two are less than a minute and a half. The whole record breezes by in 21 minutes. There are moments when Atalay could dig in and explore a theme just a little longer; the one minute, eight second “Winter III” is over in the blink of an eye and feels like the coda to something we didn’t get to hear.

Still, it’s better to leave the listener wanting more than dozing off. Atalay’s strong instincts and sense of place should have solo guitar fans eagerly awaiting what he conjures next from the banks of Sligo Creek.

—Justin Weber Listen to “Summer Winter” at washingtoncitypaper.com/arts.

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The Knitting Factory Presents

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

Felix Da Housecat. 10 p.m. $15–$20. ustreetmusichall.com.

SERGIO MENDES 29&30 LYFE JENNINGS July Clarence 1 HAL KETCHUM Bucaro 5 OHIO PLAYERS The Asbury 6 SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY & Jukes 7 MAYSA 8 CHERYL WHEELER & JONATHAN EDWARDS 11 ANA TIJOUX Presents Roja y Negro

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

B.Traits. 10 p.m. $15–$20. ustreetmusichall.com.

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FRIDAY CounTRY

Hill Country live 410 7th St. NW. (202) 556-2050.

Bart Crow. 9:30 p.m. $15–$20. hillcountrywdc.com.

DJ nIgHTS

BlaCk Cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Heavy Rotation. 9:30 p.m. Free. blackcatdc.com.

ELECTRonIC

FlasH 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Cinthie and Doubtingthomas. 8 p.m. $8–$15. flashdc.com. soundCHeCk 1420 K St. NW. (202) 789-5429. Paul Van Dyk. 10 p.m. $20. soundcheckdc.com.

FoLk

dC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Andy C. Jenkins. 8 p.m. $12–$14. dcnine.com. kennedy Center MillenniuM stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Don Vilanova and Bruce Ewan. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

Funk & R&B

BirCHMere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Tower of Power. 7:30 p.m. $55. birchmere.com. songByrd MusiC House and reCord CaFe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Ruby Velle and The Soulphonics. 6 p.m. Free. songbyrddc.com.

HIp-Hop

FillMore silver spring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. So Far Gone: Drake Night.

8 p.m. $10. fillmoresilverspring.com. songByrd MusiC House and reCord CaFe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Medslaus. 7:30 p.m. $12–$15. songbyrddc.com.

JAzz

BetHesda Blues & Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. Let It Flow. 8 p.m. $25. bethesdabluesjazz.com.

THE FEELIES

One of the nicest bands to drink from The Velvet Underground’s primordial soup, Haledon, New Jersey, collective The Feelies formed in 1976 fueled by punk and new wave but with a sound all their own. Their fabled rave-ups evolved from the angular neuroses of 1980’s Crazy Rhythms to the soaring jangle of The Good Earth six years later, around the time they played a high school reunion band in Jonathan Demme’s now-classic film Something Wild. After a 16-year hiatus, The Feelies reformed in 2008 and have since added two autumnal albums to their catalog. When the band was last in town, the veteran rockers, led by the twin guitars of Glenn Mercer and Bill Million, played a staggering 37 songs and grew more propulsive as the night went on, from the signature jam “Slipping (Into Something)” to such perfectly chosen covers as “I Wanna Be Your Dog.” Two-and-a-half hours of one of the great guitar bands on a Friday night? This is the best music bargain in town. The Feelies perform at 8 p.m. at 9:30 Club, 815 V St. NW. $25. (202) 265-0930.

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

tHe HaMilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

Bruce in the USA. 8 p.m. $20–$25. thehamiltondc.com.

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

kennedy Center ConCert Hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. NSO Pops: Melissa Etheridge. 8 p.m. $24–$99. kennedy-center.org.

opERA

Barns at wolF trap 1635 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. Idomeneo. 7:30 p.m. $36–$92. wolftrap.org.

pop

BlaCk Cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. David West. 7 p.m. $10. blackcatdc.com. union stage 740 Water St. SW. (877) 987-6487.

White Ford Bronco. 8 p.m.; 11 p.m. $25–$35. unionstage.com.

RoCk

9:30 CluB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. The Feelies.

8 p.m. $25. 930.com.

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

Face to Face. 8 p.m. $25. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

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

Orchard Lounge. 10:30 p.m. $15. ustreetmusichall.com.

FoLk

dC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Andy C. Jenkins. 8 p.m. $12–$14. dcnine.com.

SATuRDAY

Funk & R&B

FlasH 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Niko the Kid. 4 p.m. $10. flashdc.com.

An Evening with

COWBOY JUNKIES 27 JOHNNY GILL 29 MOTHER'S FINEST

30 An Evening of Music & Storytelling with

Aug 1

KINA GRANNIS Imaginary Future

AMANDA SHIRES 3 BILL KIRCHEN & TOO MUCH FUN 2

featuring Johnny Castle & Jack O’Dell ‘The Return of The Classic TMF!’

songByrd MusiC House and reCord CaFe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. The Bottle Shop. 8:30 p.m. Free. songbyrddc.com.

9:30 CluB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Ghastly. 10 p.m. $23. 930.com.

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FlasH 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Carl Craig. 8 p.m. $10–$20. flashdc.com.

wolF trap Filene Center 1551 Trap Road, Vienna.

(703) 255-1900. Dr. Dog and Manchester Orchestra. 7 p.m. $30–$45. wolftrap.org.

ELECTRonIC

POCO & ATLANTA RHYTHM SECTION 13 DONNELL RAWLINGS 14 MELANIE FIONA 15 MICHAEL HENDERSON 17 SERENA RYDER 19 NITTY GRITTY DIRT BAND 20,21 &22 THE BACON BROTHERS Kentucky 25 SHELBY LYNNE Avenue

songByrd MusiC House and reCord CaFe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Diary of an R&B Classic: Janet Jackson “Janet” 25th Anniversary. 1:30 p.m. $5–$7. songbyrddc.com. songByrd MusiC House and reCord CaFe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Flashband Fresh Funk Showcase. 7:30 p.m. $10–$12. songbyrddc.com.

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SUMMER

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DR. DOG MANCHESTER ORCHESTRA

JUN 21

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TONY BENNETT

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THE SISTERHOOD BAND

JUN 23

CRITICAL EQUATION TOUR

JUN 22

SWITCH

Gender, according to the philosopher Judith Butler, is inherently performative and separate from sex. In that case, the theater is an ideal place to puzzle through our evolving understanding of it. Brett Abelman, of the local playwrights’ collective The Welders, has crafted a show that seeks to explore “a world beyond the binary” with much more humor and verve than the freshman year literary theory class where you may have first encountered these ideas. Switch follows a straight couple who, after a night of passion, find themselves in each other’s bodies, Freaky Friday-style. With help from a gender-fluid friend, they have a night of instructive interactions that give way to understanding and a greater appreciation of our bizarre beings. To further the discussion of gender, The Welders have launched “Beyond the Binary,” a series showcasing artists—from drag queens to writers to burlesque performers—who play with gender and sexuality in their work, which will precede performances. Strip down to your emotional skivvies and let your mind expand. The play runs to June 23 at the Logan Fringe Arts Space, 1358 Florida Ave. NE. $25. thewelders.org.

—Caroline Jones

SHEILA E.

JUN 24

JAzz

Howard tHeatre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

XEN Kings of Soca. 10 p.m. $30. thehowardtheatre.com.

tHe HaMilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. Big Sam’s Funky Nation. 8 p.m. $19.75–$25.75. thehamiltondc.com.

SunDAY

Blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Tuck & Patti. 8 p.m. $30–$35. bluesalley.com.

MOTOWN THE MUSICAL JUN 26–28

BRUCE HORNSBY & THE NOISEMAKERS THE WOOD BROTHERS JUN 29

BARENAKED LADIES

LAST SUMMER ON EARTH TOUR

BETTER THAN EZRA KT TUNSTALL JUL 2

HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN™ - IN CONCERT NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

LUDOVICO EINAUDI ESSENTIAL EINAUDI JUL 8

INDIGO GIRLS

THE WAR & TREATY JUL 10

WHEELS OF SOUL 2018 TOUR

TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS

THE MARCUS KING BAND JUL 11

twins Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Joe Breidenstine. 9 p.m.; 11 p.m. $15. twinsjazz.com. wolF trap Filene Center 1551 Trap Road, Vienna.

(703) 255-1900. Tony Bennett. 8 p.m. $40–$95. wolftrap.org.

opERA

atlas perForMing arts Center 1333 H St. NE. (202) 399-7993. The Emperor of Atlantis. 8 p.m. $23–$47. atlasarts.org.

pop

BlaCk Cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Flasher.

8 p.m. $12. blackcatdc.com.

SCHOOL’S OUT FOR SUMMER 2018

SLIGHTLY STOOPID

state tHeatre 220 N. Washington St., Falls Church.

(703) 237-0300. The Legwarmers. 9:30 p.m. $18. thestatetheatre.com.

WITH SPECIAL GUESTS STICK FIGURE AND PEPPER

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

Eric Nam. 6:45 p.m. $26–$125. ustreetmusichall.com.

JUL 12

RoCk

JUL 6 + 7

dC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Ocean Alley. 9 p.m. $13–$15. dcnine.com. kennedy Center ConCert Hall 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. NSO Pops: Melissa Etheridge. 8 p.m. $24–$99. kennedy-center.org. roCk & roll Hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

The Sword. 9 p.m. $35. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

HARRY POTTER characters, names and related indicia are © &™ Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. J.K. ROWLING`S WIZARDING WORLD™ J.K. Rowling and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Publishing Rights © JKR. (s18)

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WoRLD

eCHostage 2135 Queens Chapel Road NE. (202) 503-2330. Arcángel. 9 p.m. $25. echostage.com.

CLASSICAL

kennedy Center terraCe tHeater 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Washington International Competition for Strings Finals. 2 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

CounTRY

Hill Country live 410 7th St. NW. (202) 556-2050.

Planes on Paper and Josiah Johnson. 7 p.m. $12–$17. hillcountrywdc.com.

ELECTRonIC

FlasH 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Nima Gorji. 4 p.m. $8. flashdc.com.

Funk & R&B

wolF trap Filene Center 1551 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. Charlie Wilson. 8 p.m. $45–$95. wolftrap.org.

go-go

u street MusiC Hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 5881889. Rare Essence and Small Upsetters. 7 p.m. $15. ustreetmusichall.com.

JAzz

BirCHMere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

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

Blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Tuck & Patti. 8 p.m. $30–$35. bluesalley.com. tHe HaMilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

New Orleans Swamp Donkeys. 7:30 p.m. $14.75– $19.75. thehamiltondc.com.

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With Sonny Rollins now retired, pianist Herbie Hancock has the strongest argument for the title of Living Embodiment of Jazz. At 78, he shows no signs of slowing down from a schedule that would overwhelm the best of us regular people. He tours relentlessly, teaches jazz at UCLA, is working on a new album with producer Terrace Martin (which suggests that he’s not backing off from the cutting edge, either), and is a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador who founded and spearheads the annual International Jazz Day celebrations. That kind of work ethic makes it seem almost incidental that he also rewrote the rules of jazz harmony, first as a member of the great 1960s Miles Davis Quintet and then in his own projects, innovating the landscapes of jazz fusion and electronic music. Some of those accomplishments take priority over others—he certainly doesn’t play “Rockit” very often anymore—but they seal that Living Embodiment status.

Herbie Hancock performs at 8 p.m. at the Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda. $59–$119. (301) 581-5100. strathmore.org.

—MIchael J. West MusiC Center at stratHMore 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Herbie Hancock. 8 p.m. $59–$119. strathmore.org. twins Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Kent Miller Group. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $10. twinsjazz.com.

opERA

Barns at wolF trap 1635 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. Idomeneo. 3 p.m. $36–$92. wolftrap.org.

FoLk songByrd MusiC House and reCord CaFe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Mal Blum. 8 p.m. $12–$14. songbyrddc.com.

WoRLD

RoCk

TuESDAY

dC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Pagan Reagan. 7:30 p.m. $10. dcnine.com. kennedy Center MillenniuM stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Beauty Pill. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org. roCk & roll Hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

Dessa. 8 p.m. $20. rockandrollhoteldc.com. union stage 740 Water St. SW. (877) 987-6487. Bad vendors throughout downtown Bad Hats.

7:30 p.m. $15. unionstage.com.

Pick up a copy today from D.C. or visit www.streetsense.org for more information.

MonDAY CLASSICAL

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dC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. serpentwithfeet. 8 p.m. $12–$14. dcnine.com.

pop

Capital one arena 601 F St. NW. (202) 628-3200.

Harry Styles. 8 p.m. $39–$99. capitalonearena.monumentalsportsnetwork.com.

Pick up a copy today from vendors throughout downtown D.C. or visit www.streetsense.org for more information.

ELECTRonIC

kennedy Center terraCe tHeater 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Washington International Competition for Strings Finals. 2 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org. kennedy Center terraCe tHeater 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Jayoung Hong, Piano, in Recital.

7:30 p.m. $25. kennedy-center.org.

kennedy Center MillenniuM stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Dancas Ocultas. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

ELECTRonIC

anaCostia arts Center 1231 Good Hope Road SE. Dr. Badlove and the Remedies. 7 p.m. Free. anacostiaartscenter.com. dC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. serpentwithfeet. 8 p.m. $12–$14. dcnine.com.

FoLk BirCHMere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Lera Lynn. 7:30 p.m. $25. birchmere.com.

Funk & R&B Howard tHeatre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

KeKe Wyatt feat. The A Team. 8 p.m. $25–$55. thehowardtheatre.com.

JAzz Blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. The JoGo Project. 8 p.m. $22. bluesalley.com.

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TRILLECTRO FEATURING

SZA • 2 Chainz • RL Grime • Carnage • Young Thug • Playboi Carti • The Internet and more! .............................. SAT SEPTEMBER 22

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Brett Eldredge • Dan + Shay • Dustin Lynch • Devin Dawson • Morgan Evans • Jimmie Allen • Jillian Jacqueline ............. SEPTEMBER 30 On Sale Friday, June 22 at 10am

THIS SATURDAY!

PARAMORE

w/ Foster the People & Soccer Mommy .............. JUNE 23

THIS WEEK’S SHOWS

Story District’s Out/Spoken This is a seated show. ............................. Th JUN 21 AN EVENING WITH

The Feelies ................................................................................................... F 22 STEEZ PROMO PRESENTS

Ghastly ......................................................................................................... Sa 23

Sugarland w/ Brandy Clark & Clare Bowen ............................................. JULY 14 Dispatch w/ Nahko and Medicine for the People & Raye Zaragoza ..... JULY 21 DC101 KERFUFFLE FEATURING

Fall Out Boy • Rise Against • Awolnation and more! ....................... JULY 22

David Byrne w/ Benjamin Clementine ..................................................... JULY 28 VANS WARPED TOUR PRESENTED BY JOURNEYS FEAT.

3OH!3 • August Burns Red • Less Than Jake and more! ....................... JULY 29

JUNE

AUGUST (cont.)

Old 97’s ......................................F 29 JULY

Reminisce Live! ........................F 6 Steve Hofstetter This is a seated show. 14+ to enter. .....Sa 7 Hot In Herre: 2000s Dance Party

White Ford Bronco:

DC’s All 90s Band ....................Sa 4 OUT! EARLY SHOW ADDED!

FIRST SHOW SOLD

AEG PRESENTS

Bitch Sesh 3pm Doors. This is a seated show. .......Su 5 No Scrubs: ‘90s Dance Party

with DJs Will Eastman and Ozker • Visuals by Kylos .........................F 13

with DJs Brian Billion and Ozker and Visuals by Kylos .................F 10

The Circus Life Podcast 5th Anniversary Concert feat.

Jeremih w/ Teyana Taylor & DaniLeigh ..Sa 11 Mura Masa ................................F 17 DC Music Rocks Festival feat.

The Bumper Jacksons • Justin Trawick and The Common Good • Louisa Hall • more TBA! ........Sa 14

The Get Up Kids w/ Racquet Club & Ageist ...........Su 15 Deafheaven w/ Drab Majesty & Uniform ........Sa 21 D NIGHT ADDED!

FIRST NIGHT SOLD OUT! SECON

Sleep (performing Holy Mountain) w/ Dylan Carlson .........................M 23 That 70s Party featuring

Champion Sound (Live) and Vinyl DJs Gudo • John Eamon • Detroyt ......................................Sa 28

AEG PRESENTS

Black Dog Prowl • Allthebestkids • Fellowcraft • Pebble to Pearl • Kid Brother .............................Sa 18

Kyle Kinane This is a seated show. ......................Th 23 Can’t Feel My Face: 2010s Dance Party with DJs Will Eastman & Ozker and Visuals by Kylos .................F 24

DJ Dredd’s MJ + Prince Dance Party

with Visuals by Robin Bell .....Sa 25

AUGUST

SEPTEMBER

George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic .Th 2 Andrea Gibson w/ Mary Lambert This is a seated show. ..........................F 3

Nothing But Thieves w/ Demob Happy ............................F 7

MANY MORE SHOWS ON SALE!

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pop

FillMore silver spring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Jesse McCartney. 8 p.m. $25. fillmoresilverspring.com.

RoCk

BlaCk Cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Beginner’s Mynd. 8 p.m. $10. blackcatdc.com.

DUSTBOWL

REVIVAL W/ LOWLAND HUM

THURSDAY

JUNE 21

AN EVENING WITH

dC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Katie Von Schleicher. 8 p.m. $10–$12. dcnine.com. roCk & roll Hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

We Are Scientists. 8 p.m. $18. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

WoRLD

kennedy Center MillenniuM stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Serenade! Choral Festival: Central Australian Aboriginal Women’s Choir and The Indonesian Children and Youth Choir – Cordana. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

BRUCE

WEDnESDAY

USA

FlasH 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Sam Gellaitry. 9 p.m. $15–$20. flashdc.com.

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ELECTRonIC JAzz

Blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Tiffany Lloyd. 8 p.m. $22. bluesalley.com. twins Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Marty Nau. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $10. twinsjazz.com.

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NEW ORLEANS SWAMP DONKEYS

Barns at wolF trap 1635 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. Idomeneo. 7:30 p.m. $36–$92. wolftrap.org.

BlaCk Cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. TV Girl.

7:30 p.m. $15. blackcatdc.com.

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RoCk

songByrd MusiC House and reCord CaFe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Sean Barna and the Monogamists. 8 p.m. $12–$14. songbyrddc.com.

kennedy Center MillenniuM stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Serenade! Choral Festival: Olga and Chennai Children’s Choir. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

CRACKERS

WED, JULY 11

PETER HIMMELMAN BOMBINO W/ SAHEL

THuRSDAY pHillips ColleCtion 1600 21st St. NW. (202) 3872151. Vocal Colors. 6:30 p.m. $20. phillipscollection. org.

FRI, JULY 13

THE DEVON ALLMAN PROJECT W/ SPECIAL GUEST DUANE BETTS

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KING YELLOWMAN AND THE SAGITTARIUS BAND SLATE PRESENTS: THE

Mansion at stratHMore 10701 Rockville Pike, North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Josanne Francis. 7:30 p.m. $17. strathmore.org.

CLASSICAL

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TUES, JULY 17

CITY LIGHTS: TuESDAY

WoRLD

FEAT. SUGAR BEAR

AN EVENING WITH SOUL

Timothy Hyde’s newest photography exhibition at Multiple Exposures Gallery is titled Neighbors, a deceptively simple word to describe a trenchant exploration of man’s inhumanity to man. Hyde visited a litany of sites of either mass slaughter or human rights grotesqueries, many of them committed decades ago. In the United States, he visited locations of lynchings, Native American massacres, and Japanese-American internment camps. Abroad, he documented such places as Srebrenica, Treblinka, and Auschwitz. “I’ve been thinking about these issues for 25 years and always intended to explore them at some point,” Hyde says. “The current socio-political environment made me think that time is emphatically right now.” The exhibition includes just a fraction of the photographs he’s made for the project since starting it in 2016. Some locations fit the stereotype: a ruined building in Srebrenica, a vacant home site in Tulsa that experienced a racial pogrom nearly 100 years ago. But most appear peaceful, even pleasant, today with their rolling hills, fertile farmland, and tree-studded clearings. Hyde’s job is to insist that viewers look deeper. The exhibition is on view to July 29 at Multiple Exposures Gallery, 105 N. Union St., Alexandria. Free. (703) 8384565. multipleexposuresgallery.com.

—Louis Jacobson

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

Super Doppler. 7:30 p.m. $15. unionstage.com.

Howard tHeatre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Capleton. 9 p.m. $25–$60. thehowardtheatre.com.

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FillMore silver spring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Pouya. 8 p.m. $22.50. fillmoresilverspring.com.

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CounTRY

Hill Country live 410 7th St. NW. (202) 556-2050.

Dan Baird and Homemade Sin. 8:30 p.m. $12–$15. hillcountrywdc.com.

ELECTRonIC

FlasH 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Bonobo.

9 p.m. $30. flashdc.com. soundCHeCk 1420 K St. NW. (202) 789-5429. Zaxx.

10 p.m. $15–$20. soundcheckdc.com.

JAzz

BetHesda Blues & Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. Chrisette Michele. 7 p.m. $65–$78. bethesdabluesjazz.com.

BirCHMere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Sergio Mendes. 7 p.m. $69.50. birchmere.com.

Blues alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Bob Baldwin. 8 p.m. $30. bluesalley.com.

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

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kATIE Von SCHLEICHER

Katie Von Schleicher can be a bummer, but at least she still has a sense of humor. After all, she named her latest album Shitty Hits and described it as “good-time songs you can have a bad night with... the songs are terrible and absolutely have to be this loud.” Based in Brooklyn but raised in the Baltimore suburbs (Pasadena, Maryland, to be exact), the singer-songwriter is a master of not just self-deprecation but also of indie pop-rock that is baroque in its doom and gloom. She’s also a multi-instrumentalist who often contributes vocals, guitar, piano, synthesizer and drums to her songs, a fact she toyed with on the very-Von Schleicher “Life’s A Lie.” “I want to hire you and save your place in my band and I’ll take you around then,” she sings, her voice heavy with knowing melodrama, “But I’m a fraud and I know I can’t do it alone, I’m alone, I’m a loner.” Katie Von Schleicher performs at 8 p.m. at DC9, 1940 9th St. NW. $10–$12. (202) 483-5000. dcnine.com. —Chris Kelly

CITY LIGHTS: WEDnESDAY

DAguERREoTYpES: FIVE DECADES oF CoLLECTIng

The small exhibition spotlighting the National Portrait Gallery’s collection of daguerreotypes—the earliest publicly available photographic process—timed to coincide with the museum’s 50th anniversary, initially seems repetitive coming after daguerreotype-driven exhibitions in the same space during the past two summers. Fortunately, the newest showcase offers some small, shiny gems, befitting the photographic technique itself.

Some faces will be familiar, such as P.T. Barnum and Tom Thumb, newly re-famous thanks to The Greatest Showman, and Henry David Thoreau. Many, though, are not. Most of the portraits are on the larger side, and where visual clarity is concerned, bigger daguerreotypes are better. Piano-maker Jonas Chickering is seen in a side view surrounded by a halo, Seneca chief Governor Blacksnake is shown with a shock of white hair, and Gaetano Bedini, an Italian archbishop who visited the United States in the 1850s, is depicted with a remarkably lifelike chiaroscuro. Five decades of collecting these ancient photos has proven fruitful. The exhibition is on view to June 2, 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, 8th and F Streets NW. Free. (202) 633-8300. npg.si.edu.

—Louis Jacobson

wolF trap tHeatre-in-tHe-woods 1551 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. Lucy Kalantari & the Jazz Cats. 10:30 a.m. $8. wolftrap.org.

pop songByrd MusiC House and reCord CaFe 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Little League Champs. 8 p.m. $10–$12. songbyrddc.com.

RoCk BlaCk Cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Algiers.

7:30 p.m. $16–$18. blackcatdc.com. dC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. ASG. 8 p.m. $15. dcnine.com. union stage 740 Water St. SW. (877) 987-6487. Mike Love. 8 p.m. $15–$25. unionstage.com.

WoRLD kennedy Center MillenniuM stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Serenade! Choral Festival: Tyva Kyzy and Nathaniel Dett Chorale. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

Books

andrew selee Selee talks about his deeply reported book Vanishing Frontiers: The Forces Driving Mexico and the United States Together, which traces the last quarter-century of U.S.-Mexico relations, chronicling the two countries’ continuously transforming relationship. Politics & Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. June 24. 1 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919. stepHen tankel Author and professor Stephen Tankel discusses With Us and Against Us, a book which analyzes the factors that shape counterterrorism cooperation. Kramerbooks & Afterwords Cafe.

1517 Connecticut Ave. NW. June 25. 6:30 p.m. Free.

(202) 387-1400.

Theater

ain’t too proud—tHe liFe and tiMes oF tHe teMptations This Berkeley Repertory Theatre production chronicles The Temptations, whose signature dance moves and harmonies led them to be widely considered as the greatest R&B group of all time. The electric new musical features hits like “My Girl,” “Just My Imagination,” and “Papa Was a Rolling Stone.”

Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater. 2700 F St. NW. To July 22. $59–$159. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org.

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

HaMilton Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway hit finally comes to the Kennedy Center. The world famous hiphop musical chronicles the extraordinary life of United States Founding Father Alexander Hamilton. Kennedy Center Opera House. 2700 F St. NW. To Sep. 16. $99–$625. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org. tHe sCottsBoro Boys In 1931, nine African-American teenagers were taken off a train, falsely accused of a crime, and hastily tried and sentenced to death.

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

Signature Theatre. 4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington. To July 1. $40–$89. (703) 820-9771. sigtheatre.org. trayF Directed by Derek Goldman and written by Lindsay Joelle, Trayf traces the life of Zalmy, who lives a double life. By day, he’s a loyal member of the Orthodox Jewish community with his best friend Shmuel but by night, he sneaks away from the community to roller skate, disco dance, and listen to rock and roll. When he befriends a zealous young man who wants to be his student, Zalmy’s two worlds start to collide and he is forced to choose where

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CITY LIGHTS: THuRSDAY

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BonoBo

It’s been nearly a decade since Simon Green left London to pursue a music career in the United States. Now living in Los Angeles, Green, who performs as Bonobo, contemplated the concept of home with his latest studio album, Migration. Green’s signature production style flaunts a patchwork method of sampling, resulting in nonlinear soundscapes built from melancholic strings, frenzied break beats, and soulful serenades. But Green broke from his own mold during the creation of Migration, abandoning his dedicated studio space for the freedom of being on the road. The album’s sounds were directly influenced by Green’s ever-changing surroundings—louder, more bombastic moments were created in the silence of a bus or a plane while quieter, more serene moments were created when Green finally settled into a new groove in his new home of Los Angeles. Naturally, Green has employed live visuals and sometimes even small orchestras on his Migration tour, to bring his lush, cinematic sounds to life. Bonobo performs with Solomon Sanchez at 9 p.m. at Flash, 645 Florida Ave NW. $30. (202) 827-8791. flashdc.com.

—Casey Embert

he belongs. Theater J. 1529 16th St. NW. To June 24. $24–$69. (202) 777-3210. theaterj.org.

Film

tHe CatCHer was a spy Paul Rudd stars as Moe Berg, a major league baseball player who lives a double life as a spy. Co-starring Paul Giamatti and Connie Nielsen. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) inCrediBles 2 In this sequel to the hit animated film, Mr. Incredible is left to take care of is super kids while his wife Elastigirl saves the world. Starring Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, and Sarah Vowell. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) JurassiC world: Fallen kingdoM Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard reprise their roles as Owen and Claire as they must rescue an island’s dinosaurs

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from an extinction-level event. Co-starring Rafe Spall and Justice Smith. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) a kid like Jake The erratic behavior of a young boy named Jake, who is gender-expansive, begins to cause a rift between his parents. Starring Priyanka Chopra, Jim Parsons, and Claire Danes. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) oCean’s 8 Sandra Bullock stars as Debbie Ocean, a thief who gets a crew together to attempt a highstakes heist at the Met Gala. Co-starring Cate Blanchett and Anne Hathaway. (See washingtoncitypaper. com for venue information) superFly A successful young drug dealer decides to do one last big deal before retiring. Starring Trevor Jackson, Jason Mitchell, and Lex Scott Davis. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) tag A group of former classmates plays a continuous game of tag annually throughout their lives. Starring Jeremy Renner, Isla Fisher, and Jake Johnson. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information)

SAVAGELOVE I am a 24-year-old straight guy who recently broke up with my girlfriend of more than four years. One of the reasons we broke up was a general lack of sexual compatibility. She had a particular aversion to oral sex—both giving and receiving. I didn’t get a blowjob the whole time we were together. Which brings me to why I am writing: One of my closest friends, “Sam,” is a gay guy. Shortly after breaking up with my girlfriend, I was discussing my lack of oral sex with Sam and he said he’d be willing to “help me out.”

I agreed, and Sam gave me an earth-shattering blowjob. I was glad to get some and had no hang-ups about a guy sucking me. Since then, Sam has blown me three more times. My problem is I am starting to feel guilty and worry I am using Sam. He’s a very good buddy, and I’m concerned this lopsided sexual arrangement might be bad for our friendship. Sam knows I am not into guys and I’m never going to reciprocate, and I feel like this is probably not really fair to him.

But these are literally the only blowjobs I’ve received since I was a teenager. What should I do?

—Totally Have Reservations Over Advantage Taking

Only one person knows how Sam feels about this “lopsided sexual arrangement,” THROAT, and it isn’t me—it’s Sam. Zooming out for a second: People constantly ask me how the person they’re fucking or fisting or flogging feels about all the fucking or fisting or flogging they’re doing. Guys ask me why a woman ghosted them, and women ask me if their boyfriend is secretly gay. And while I’m perfectly happy to speculate, I’m not a mind reader. Which means I have no way of knowing for sure why that woman ghosted you or if your boyfriend is gay—or in your case, THROAT, how Sam feels about the four norecip blowjobs he’s given you.

Only Sam knows.

And that’s why I wrote you back, THROAT, and asked you for Sam’s contact information.

Since you were clearly too afraid to ask Sam yourself (most likely for fear the blowjobs would stop), I offered to ask Sam on your behalf. I wasn’t serious—it was my way of saying, “You should really ask Sam.” But you sent me Sam’s contact info, and a few minutes later I was chatting with Sam. “Yes, I have been sucking my straight friend’s cock,” Sam said to me. “And I am flattered he told you I was good at it. That’s an ego booster!”

Sam, like THROAT, is 24 years old. He grew up on the East Coast and met THROAT early in his first year at college. Sam came out at the end of his freshman year, to THROAT and his other friends, and he now lives in a big city where he works in marketing when he isn’t sucking off THROAT. My first question for Sam: Is he one of

those gay guys who gets off on “servicing” straight guys?

“I’ve never done anything with a straight guy before this,” said Sam. “So, no, I’m not someone who is ‘into servicing straight guys.’

I have only ever dated and hooked up with gay guys before!”

So why offer to blow THROAT? “I didn’t know until after he broke up with his girlfriend that he hadn’t gotten a blowjob the whole time they were together—four years!” Sam said. “When I told him I’d be happy to help him out, I was joking. I swear I wasn’t making a pass at my straight friend!

But there was this long pause, and then he got serious and said he’d be into it. I wondered for a minute if it would be weird for me to blow my friend, and there was definitely a bit of convincing each other that we were serious. When he started taking his clothes off, I thought, ‘So this is going to happen.’ It was not awkward after. We even started joking about it right away. I have sucked him off four more times since then.”

For those of you keeping score at home: Either THROAT lost count of the number of times Sam has blown him—THROAT said Sam has blown him three more times after that first blowjob—or THROAT got a fifth blowjob in the short amount of time that elapsed between sending me his letter and putting me in touch with Sam.

I have no way of knowing for sure why that woman ghosted you or if your boyfriend is gay.

So does this lopsided sexual arrangement— blowing a straight boy who’s never going to blow him—bother Sam? “I suppose it is a ‘lopsided sexual arrangement,’” said Sam. “But I don’t mind. I really like sucking dick and I’m really enjoying sucking his dick. He has a really nice dick! And from my perspective, we’re both having fun. And, yes, I’ve jacked off thinking about it after each time I sucked him. I know—now—that he thinks it is a bit unfair to me. But I don’t feel that way at all.”

So there is something in it for Sam. You get the blowjobs, THROAT, and Sam gets the spank-bankable memories. And Sam assumes that at some point, the memories are

all he’ll have.

“He will eventually get into a relationship with a woman again, and our arrangement will end,” said Sam. “I only hope nothing is weird between us in the future because of what has happened in the past few weeks.”

I had one last question: Sam is really good at sucking cock—he gives “earth-shattering” blowjobs—but is THROAT any good at getting his cock sucked? As all experienced cocksuckers know, a person can suck at getting their cock sucked: They can just lay/stand/sit there, giving you no feedback, or be too pushy or not pushy enough, etc.

“That’s a really good question,” Sam said. “I have to say, he is very good at it. He really gets into it, he moans, he talks about how good it feels, and he lasts a long time. That’s part of what makes sucking his cock so much fun.”

—Dan Savage I’m a straight guy in a LTR with a bi woman. We recently had a threesome with a bi male acquaintance. We made it clear that I’m not into guys and that she was going to be the center of attention.

He said he was fine with this. A little bit into us hooking up, he said he wanted to suck my dick. I wasn’t sure about it at first, but my girlfriend encouraged it because she thought it was hot. I ended up saying yes, but I stated that I didn’t want to reciprocate. A bit later, while my girlfriend was sucking his dick, he said he wanted me to join her.

I said no, he kept badgering me to do it, I kept saying no, and then he physically tried to shove my head down toward his crotch. My girlfriend and I both got pissed and said he had to leave. Now he’s bitching to our mutual friends about how I had an insecure straight-boy freak-out, he didn’t get to come after we both got ours, we’re shitty selfish fetishists, and so on. I’m concerned about what our friends think of me, but even more so, I’m concerned that I did a shitty thing. I get that maybe he was hoping I’d change my mind, especially after I changed my mind about him sucking my dick.

But I don’t think it’s fair for him to be angry that I didn’t. Is oral reciprocation so necessary that it doesn’t matter that we agreed in advance that I would not be blowing him?

—Not One To Be Inconsiderate

You did nothing wrong. And if after hearing your side of the story, NOTBI, your mutual friends side with a person who pressured you to do something you were clear about not wanting to do and then, after you restated your opposition to performing said act, pressured you to perform the act—by physically forcing your head down to his cock—you can solve the “mutual friends” problem by cutting these socalled friends out of your life.

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

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