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27 The South, From Inside: William Christenberry’s subtle photos record the places and tectonic changes of rural Alabama. 29 Arts Desk: D.C. art venues in cut-out form 29 One Track Mind: Exit Vehicles, “Millennial” 30 Curtain Calls: Paarlberg on The Producers 31 Short Subjects: Olszewski on The New Rijksmuseum
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Chris heller’s thoughtful checkup on the D.c. uniteD staDium Deal
the priority is to get soccer, at 10 games a year. WTF? Plus, while we see a deatiled analysis of the soccer stadium ripoff, which according to Ed Lazere became ‘less’ of a ripoff, why aren’t we doing the same with McMillan Park -- 25 acres of open public land that is a national historic landmark that is being given away for a fraction of its value to corporate developers with high-ties to District beaucrats. Why doesn’t McMillan get the same scrutiny as the soccer stadium deal? ... More scrutiny of the McMillan Park giveaway is needed now!� There’s a real story in there, but right now all I can think about is a trend piece on how “McMillan� has become the “Benghazi� dog-whistle of the District. Start sending us your angry letters now for an upcoming rebuttal. And finally, prout hill stuck up for the cultural value of organized sports: RFK stadium “was built entirely with public funding (the National Park Service supplied the land, and the District built the stadium)... Perhaps they realized that the stadium would be a community asset, just like, say, the Kennedy Center or Wolf Trap (which happen to serve more upscale audiences than do stadiums, and which ‘subsidize’ many wealthy performers who appear at these venues).� When the name of a Kennedy Center performer is so racist this paper refuses to print it, let’s talk about —Emily Q. Hazzard RFK—KC parity.
(“A Safe Bet?�) poised to turn this city into a soccer town (any day now, guys...) was bound to get readers’ knickers in a twist. And oh, what a twist they’re in! JC bristled at any comparison between District stadiums: “The Nats deal and United’s deal are completely different. The city owns every inch of land they are buying for United’s stadium.� OK, JC, let me stop you right there: They own the thing they are buying? Does any part of that raise a red flag to you? “The city loses nothing in United’s deal because the team is paying for the site construction.� Face, meet palm. d_rez made a fair point: “The fact that these new stadiums seem to be positioned at the edge of existing development, rather than in the middle of nowhere indicate their ability to spur new clusters of development is entirely unproven. IMO at most, one can say they have a catalytic effect on certain types and characters of new development adjacent to existing development.� Oh wow, that’s some excellent use of italuendo. Or is that a scare-gestion? Commenter Chris Otten, apparently the same Chris Otten who ran for mayor with the D.C. Statehood Green Party, pointed out that priorities look screwy, no matter how you slice it: “It’s amazing, the District is struggling with high lev-
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The D.C. Jail is falling apart. What should replace it? Damaged. Moldy. Crumbling. Infested with vermin. Smelling of sewage. Completely unconcerned with inmate safety. Lawyers, health inspectors, and criminal justice consultants used these phrases and more to capture the current condition of the 40-year-old D.C. Jail in a recent investigative report. The Washington Lawyers’ Committee released the scathing report, which ultimately called for the closure of the District’s two major correctional facilities—the D.C Jail and the privately-run Correctional Treatment Facility, both located on Reservation 13 near the D.C General family homeless shelter. (The D.C. Jail holds only adult men, while the CTF houses men, women, and youth.) This recommendation comes on the heels of the D.C. Council approving a “sorely-needed” study of the D.C. Jail in the fiscal year 2016 budget. While building a new jail has been on the table for years, these announcements— paired with the approaching CTF contract renewal—shine a new light on serious issues that have been bubbling under the surface. The city may finally be ready to address them. If it does, the process could potentially redefine the way the District handles incarceration. “We’re at a tipping point,” said Deborah Golden, director of WLC’s D.C. Prisoners’ Project. “There’s only so much you can do with the current state of the jail.” The WLC report, released in mid-June, urged the city to construct a new, safer, and more effective corrections facility—managed exclusively by the District. While the D.C. Jail has always been under District control, the Corrections Corporation of America has run the CTF since 1997. The CCA’s contract with the city expires in 2017, which means if the Council wants to manage CTF, it needs to start planning soon. Golden and WLC found that CCA was charging the city 31 percent more than the national average for corrections management, and urged the city not to re-
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The D.C. Council has approved a $150,000 study of the D.C. Jail. new the upcoming contract. “It’s time to look at what fiscally makes sense,” said WLC’s Golden. “This doesn’t.” The report also relayed allegations of CCA staff abusing inmates and accepting bribes from inmates in exchange for outside contraband—sometimes in the form of sex. The D.C. Jail, built in 1976, is showing its age. The physical degradation of the facility—from crumbling cell walls to leaking pipes—was described by the D.C. Department of Health as “extremely serious” in 2010. It seems to have only grown worse. One former inmate, who asked to remain unnamed for fear of repercussions, called
the showers “death traps.” “Since the [Department of Corrections] doesn’t have to use our facilities they don’t seem to care,” he said. “All types of things go on in those showers, people use the bathroom in [them], and when we ask for something to clean it, the guards just say, ‘You should have thought about that before you got yourself in trouble.’” “It’s a disaster. It’s a mess,” said At-Large Councilmember David Grosso, who supports the budget provision requesting an indepth jail study. “We can’t expect any programs to succeed in these conditions.” Grosso also stressed the need for improved
youth services in the District’s corrections facilities, another glaring concern mentioned in the WLC report. The CTF houses both juvenile and adult inmates, but juvenile inmates are legally prohibited from seeing or hearing the adult inmates in their shared facility. This makes it difficult to schedule time in the shared outdoor and indoor recreation spaces, especially since the youth population is considerably smaller than the adult majority Because of this, and reports of prolonged solitary confinement of juvenile inmates, the WLC deemed the CTF’s layout “segregated and isolated,” lacking sufficient space for physical exercise, therapeutic programs, and general education. The jail’s disrepair affects more than the physical health and safety of its inmates. A 2013 survey found the D.C Jail lacked adequate suicide-resistant cells and neglected monitoring its inmates with severe mental illnesses. This followed the news of four inmate suicides within a ten-month period— three times the national average. The CTF has also been accused of having insufficient mental health services. A former CTF inmate who dealt with PTSD and severe anxiety (and asked not to be identified) said she left the jail mentally worse off than when she arrived, due to the lack of mental health awareness and constant bullying by the guards. “There’s nothing worse than just getting out of jail and feeling worthless,” she said. And she said she wasn’t alone. “Many of the women are on heavy doses of medication and sedatives, but not really being treated,” the former inmate said. “You have to have building blocks for severely mentally ill inmates and you have to train your entire staff about mental diseases. Instead, these women are being ignored and punished for being sick.” “It’s not a healthy environment,” said Tammy Seltzer, director of the D.C. Jail & Prison Advocacy Project, an assistance program for inmates with mental illness. “Some inmates spend up to 23 hours a day in their cell. Although a new jail isn’t necessary to im-
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DISTRICTLINE prove mental health care, I think the layout could be improved to facilitate a more successful experience.” Seltzer hopes that a thorough study of the D.C. Jail will produce accurate statistics on mentally ill inmates, specifically how their sentences compare to other prisoners convicted of similar crimes. Currently, she said, there is no comprehensive city data on this large and dynamic population. “It’s frustrating,” Seltzer said. “We should be the showcase. We should be the model for the rest of the country.” Advocates, including Seltzer, see the chance to rebuild the jail as an opportunity to rebuild how D.C. handles incarceration. A recently passed budget provision that puts $150,000 toward a study analyzing the current issues and future needs of the D.C. Jail was, in part, sparked by testimony from the American Civil Liberties Union in front of the Council’s Committee on the Judiciary. “The District occupies a shameful position as one of the hotbeds of mass incarceration and injustice in the United States,” Seema
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Sadanandan, policy and advocacy director for ACLU of the Nation’s Capital, testified in April. A study of the jail’s population would produce a “lasting impact to reduce our reliance on the use of mass incarceration to address social issues,” she added. While D.C’s incarceration rate is slowing, it remains double the national average: One out of every 50 people have been detained in their lifetime. And while the District’s black population is now about the size of its white population, the percentage of black inmates in both correction facilities remains unchanged at 91 percent. Only 3 percent of District prisoners are white. “We need comprehensive information,” said Monica Hopkins-Maxwell, executive director of ACLU of the Nation’s Capital. “We should know why people go in, how long they stay, what sort of programs they’re offered during their stay, and how they are being returned into the community.” The DOC’s reentry program aims to prepare inmates for a successful post-incarceration life and steer them away from returning.
But, DOC documents show that out of the 11,577 individuals released from custody in 2014, the reentry program served only 191— or 1.6 percent—of them. The most recent report on D.C.’s recidivism rate backs these numbers. A 2012 Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice study found that 62 percent of those released from DOC in 2007 were rearrested by 2010. “There is no reentry process. The DOC hands out reentry packets, but for the most part it just contains basic information about how to get your ID and where to find [support] groups,” said the former inmate of the D.C. Jail who asked not to be identified. “I was already confident in my reentry because I’ve been through the process before and had supports in place, but people who don’t have those connections have it ten times as rough as me.” Understanding these factors—both for incarcerated adults and youth—could influence the size of a future jail. Hopkins-Maxwell cited a past prison population study in Ohio that led the state to reduce mandatory sentencing minimums, thus significantly de-
creasing the inmate population. “It’s not a small issue. These are people’s lives we’re dealing with. In three days [the length of some misdemeanor sentences], you can lose your job,” she said. Hopkins-Maxwell recommends the District follow Ohio in reforming sentencing minimums. And a study shouldn’t stop with just the D.C. Jail, Hopkins-Maxwell said. “We need to take back entire control of our corrections department.” The city remains tight-lipped on its next move. Both Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie, chair of Council’s Committee of the Judiciary, and Department of Corrections spokeswoman Sylvia Lane said it’s too early to comment on the provision that provides for a study. But Grosso said an all-encompassing review of the corrections systems is vital to a study’s success. “If the study doesn’t take a really comprehensive look at the jail, it will come up short,” he said. “It’s time we put everything CP on the table.”
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First in Your Heart, 18tH on Your List Foo Fighters and fireworks: Expect them both in the District this Saturday. It might come as a surprise that D.C. wasn’t ranked as the best city for Fourth of July celebrations. In fact, WalletHub placed D.C. at an outrageous 18 on its list. But fear not: The District is still breaking the top five on all kinds of (arbitrary, silly, meaningless) lists. Here are the most notable of its —Morgan Baskin recent accolades.
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Most facial hair friendly city In a country where seven out of 10 men sport facial hair, according to grooming product supplier Wahl, the District reigns supreme. The city didn’t even crack the top 10 last year.
an analysis of CDC data by Detox.net. The city secured the same spot on the site’s list of heavy drinkers and binge drinkers. Detox.net, however, made the common and fatal mistake of comparing D.C. (a city) to the 50 states. Thanks for rubbing it in.
Tomorrow’s history today: This was the week D.C.’s minimum wage increased to $10.50 an hour.
“I fell onto the street, and his wheels kept coming at me, so I was scrambling on the pavement to avoid getting run over, too.” —Cyclist Bannon Puckett on being struck by a driver at Oklahoma Avenue and Benning Road NE this June. City Paper is tracking cyclist and pedestrian collisions. Find out more at washingtoncitypaper.com/go/struck249.
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Most playful city After examining “a number of criteria indicative of family fun and playtime,” Quaker Chewy ranked D.C. as the fifth most playful city in the country. Yes, it even feels good when a study for a snackfood company praises us.
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Most fit city All that CrossFit paid off: The D.C. metro area is the most active in the country. The American College of Sports Medicine attributes that feat, in part, to easy access to parks.
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Most cursed sports city In a typical fit of D.C.-bashing, the New York Times ranked the city the fifth most cursed sports city in the country, thanks to the Wizards’ and Capitals’ devastating losses on May 13. “In Washington, sports championships are a bit like VCRs,” the Upshot staff wrote. “Unless you’re at least 30 years old, you probably don’t have first-hand experience with one.”
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SAVAGELOVE This is going to sound like bragging, but my appearance is intrinsic to my kink. I’m a gay male gymnast. Most of the guys on my college team are annoyed by the kind of objectification we routinely come in for. (We actually don’t want to be auctioned off at yet another sorority fundraiser, thanks.) But I’ve always been turned on by the thought of being a piece of meat. I’ve masturbated for years about dehumanization. Being in bondage, hooded, and gagged—not a person anymore, faceless, nude, on display, completely helpless. (Just typing that sentence made me hard.) It finally happened. I found a guy on Recon.com (which I discovered on your podcast, so thank you). He is into BDSM, which isn’t the goal for me, and he wanted to do some of “his stuff” to me while I was dehumanized and helpless. We had a long talk about what I was okay with (gentle tit clamps, some butt play, very light spanking) and what I wasn’t okay with. I didn’t want to be marked. He asked what I meant by that, and I said, “No bruises, no welts, no red marks.” He didn’t bruise me, but he did something that it didn’t occur to me to rule out: He shaved off all my body hair—pits, pubes, legs, ass, chest. I’m angry, but at the same time, I’m seriously turned on by the thought of seeing this guy again. I also have a boyfriend. I thought going in that this would be a onetime thing, that I would get this out of my system and never tell my boyfriend about it, but I don’t think I can do that now. (Maybe I should’ve figured out that something I’ve been jacking off about since age 13 isn’t something I could do just once.) What do I say to my boyfriend about being suddenly hairless and about my kink? And what do I say to the guy? I want to go back and continue to explore being an object, but I don’t feel like I can trust him. —Desire Erased Humanity Until My Aching Nuts Explode
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Jeff Mills’ whistleblower suit revealed rotting food, fraud, and millions of dollars lost. Why is DCPS renewing its contract with Chartwells?
How does D.C. ignore a multi-million dollar problem year after year? Pretty easily, it turns out. On June 5, D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine reached a $19.4 million settlement in a whistleblower lawsuit against Chartwells/ Thompson Hospitality, the public school system’s food services provider. The plaintiff, former D.C. Public Schools Food Services Director Jeffrey Mills, had detailed poor food quality and outright fraud, from misrepresented costs to concealed overpayments. The city then proceeded to move forward on a renewal of Chartwells’ contract for the next year. Mayor Muriel Bowser and DCPS Chancellor Kaya Henderson seem determined to stick with it. It’s the latest in a dysfunctional relationship between D.C. and Chartwells. Chicken nuggets and crates of spoiling milk is one thing.
Price-gouging and fraud is another, given that DCPS exercised a renewal option in 2014, after the D.C. Office of Inspector General cited auditor’s findings that Chartwells brought in $19 million less in revenue and incurred $6 million more in costs than promised from 2008 to 2012. Revelations from the lawsuit and a separate employment lawsuit now hover over an arrangement that raised red flags the minute DCPS outsourced food services in 2008. And city officials appear all too willing to wave Chartwells in for another year. With the ink barely dry last month on the settlement, Racine seemed relieved to get the matter off his plate: “Chartwells has quite reasonably acknowledged and addressed mistakes it made in administering the contract to provide food and food services to DCPS,” he said in a press release. “In light of [their] acceptance of responsibility, DCPS looks forward to continuing its contractual relationship with the company.” Added DCPS in a written statement: “We believe any issues regarding the provision of school meals, which relate primarily to the prior contract term, have been resolved. DCPS believes it can continue its relationship with Chartwells/Thompson through the expiration of the current contract.” Henderson appeared the least bothered by activity that took place under her nose. Quashing any notion of change, she declared, “Food service is a massive operation, my focus is on improving academic achievement.” Bowser has Henderson’s back. On June 19, she sent a contract renewal to the D.C. Council and said she will rebid it for the 2016-2017 school year. It will be hard to stop the renewel, too; The most vocal critic on the Council doesn’t even serve on the Committee for Education, which won’t hold a hearing until the fall. To understand just how bad the city’s attempts at privatizing school meals have been, you need to go to Mills, a former restaurateur who came to D.C. passionate about food and left with last month’s settlement and a separate $450,000 settlement following his wrongful termination from DCPS. Former colleague Joel Metlen puts it this way: “If it weren’t for Jeff’s lawsuit, none of this would’ve been on the radar.” Jeff Mills was raised in northern Ohio on grandma’s cooking and the free school lunch program. He tended bar to pay for college in Boston, then after graduating, took his knack for business to New York, where he became a successful restaurateur. The nation’s biggest restaurant scene—full of what he describes as unreliable employees and business partners— was ultimately not for him, though. He still wanted to do something food-related, but with more social value. Enter the nation’s capital. D.C. has some of the country’s worst rates of food insecurity, hunger, and child obesity. For years, DCPS failed to provide nutritious meals to more than 45,000 students. In 2008, faced with losses of up to $7 million per year, then-DCPS Chancellor Michelle Rhee out-
sourced the school food operation, based on an internal study that said it would improve student health and save taxpayer money. School districts are fueled by federal reimbursements for every meal they serve. The more meals served, the more reimbursements. According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, roughly 87 percent of large school districts nationwide run food services in-house. Mills had his staff do a district-by-district analysis and found that about 95 percent of all large districts break even or do this at a profit each year, but not D.C. Here, 76 percent of students qualify for the federal program, but year after year, the city subsidizes millions in costs that exceed federal reimbursements. Chartwells won a $28 million contract for the 2008-2009 school year and guaranteed it would serve 13 million meals and cut costs. DCPS officials spotted problems with quality from the outset: Chartwells could not provide reliable information to schools that were waiting to feed students; the vendor was late in delivering meals or failed to deliver them; it delivered frozen food to schools with no appliances to freeze or heat the food; it served Slim Jims for lunch. By the end of the first year, Chartwells had served two million fewer meals than projected, and DCPS’ losses doubled, as Chartwells raked in an additional $1 million in administrative fees and $.85 per meal in management fees. In spite of first-year losses and performance lapses, Rhee renewed Chartwells for 2009-2010. Then, from more than 100 applicants, she chose Mills as director of food services to come in and improve food quality and cut costs. Mills hit the ground running with the same energy that propelled him from Ohio to Boston to New York. Mills is 41, fit, and graying at the sideburns. In his DCPS biography, he wears a beret in one photo and poses roguishly in a doorway inside his old restaurant in another. He’s less debonaire these days, padding around a temporary residence in Palisades, surrounded by binders of documents, waiting for his share of a settlement from a five-year ordeal. Mills spent three of those years fighting inside a system that, even now, resists change. “I didn’t feel like I had a choice,” he says. “If it were business in the private sector I would have walked away. But school food services affect kids’ lives. I grew up in the program, so I kept banging my head against walls.” Though he found food services to be “deplorable” when he took over in 2010, Mills wanted to do more than fix what was broken. He wanted to innovate. He started tasting foods, approving menus, eliminating processed foods, and requiring meals to be cooked from scratch. He rolled out breakfast in the classroom in elementary schools and graband-go breakfasts in middle schools and high schools to get students eating. Because the federal reimbursement rate for supper was higher than the cost, he pushed to expand after-school programs and put the savings back into food services.
“Our ultimate client is the students,” he wrote to his superiors. “We will be successful when we provide meals that the students want and will eat.” Former employees say Mills was demanding, but his sense of purpose was infectious. “It was drive, drive, drive, change to do better,” says a former colleague who still works within the system. “DCPS has a high-stress culture, but without strong management, goals and plans get lost. Jeff wanted to raise standards.” Cafeteria inspections in 2010 still turned up deficiencies such as bags of cheese and meat with no expiration date, and crates of spoiled milk. But without financial viability, Mills knew he could not improve, much less advance, the program. Chartwells originally contracted to serve 148 schools, but after the contract was signed, Rhee closed 25 schools. Yet DCPS was still subsidizing costs above federal reimbursements at a rate of 112 percent higher than Chartwells projected. Mills pitched a 14-school pilot program to try out different options, and Revolution Foods and D.C. Central Kitchen were selected as additional vendors. They both charged DCPS $1 less per meal than Chartwells. Rhee agreed to let Mills expand the pilot program. But Rhee resigned in October, and Henderson, a protégé, took over as chancellor. Unfazed, Mills proposed using Revolution Foods for the upcoming Free Summer Meals Program, estimating he could turn a projected loss of $348,000 into a $19,000 profit, according to an interoffice memorandum. He discovered DCPS was paying 14 percent more for food than other local jurisdictions, and noticed that the cost-reimbursement contract offered incentives for Chartwells to over-order food supplies that allowed them to collect rebates from suppliers. The contract required the vendor to pass those rebates on to the customer, but Mills could not get a straight answer from Chartwells about this. He wrote to Henderson about the losses DCPS was incurring, but to no avail. As the 2011-2012 school year began, Mills lined up grants for salad bars and kitchen renovations, and partnered with foreign embassies that donated food for international meals. Ivy Ken, a professor of sociology at George Washington University, says Mills would meet monthly with a group of volunteer parents to receive their input. “He had a vision, he had a business plan,” says Ken. “But DCPS would string him along or just say no.” Mills was not alone in confronting problems with Chartwells. In Dec. 2011, Deputy Chief Procurement Officer Glorious Bazemore cited the vendor for spoiled food, unmet nutritional requirements, and lack of employee background checks. She requested a credit for 12,000 lunches served, and threatened to pull food services in-house and charge costs back to Chartwells. It is unclear whether Chartwells issued the credit, but the vendor relationship remained intact. Internal DCPS emails show the harder Mills tried, the more resistance he met. In washingtoncitypaper.com july 3, 2015 17
Photos taken by Mills’ staff show food overstock piling up in cafeteria storage areas and spoiled food.
Jan. 2012, as DCPS was about to re-bid the contract, Mills wrote to incoming Chief Operating Officer Anthony DeGuzman and challenged the assumptions DCPS had made in privatizing food services. For instance, from 2003 to 2007, DCPS paid more than $6 million per year to subsidize gaps in the federal reimbursement program, Mills wrote. That amount had since increased by $2 million each year. Revenue projections were off by $6 million per year. Average net losses came out to $10 million per year. “The best interests of a private company simply cannot be the same as DCPS, and this inherently creates friction [with] the contractor in many key aspects of the operation, including making food services complement DCPS’ other operations and programs,” Mills wrote to DeGuzman. DeGuzman’s background was in facilities modernization, so Mills gave his boss an orientation and showed how DCPS was out of step with national and regional averages in cost of food, labor, and student meals. Mills estimated that with Chartwells, losses would climb to $14.4 million per year. He and DeGuzman visited schools in Fairfax County, Atlanta, Philadelphia, and St. Paul to learn about how to turn the program from a money loser to a money maker. Mills projected that DCPS could break even by the 2016-2017 school year, but it would require DCPS to start pulling food service operations back in-house or start investing more in smaller vendors. He and DeGuzman began work on a presentation for upper management about in-house food services. “If it had been up to me, I would have gone self-op from Day One,” Mills now says. At the last minute, the presentation was dropped from the meeting agenda. Mills’ former employees concede he showed little patience for the banalities of government bureaucracy, and that he didn’t always operate through approved channels. “[Rhee] brought in Jeff to reform the food services program, and he could’ve done more to cultivate internal buy-in,” says one of his former charges. “But he was like, ‘Fuck this shit, I’m gonna make things happen.’” Henderson defended the arrangement in a meeting with Ward 3 Councilmember Mary Cheh on Jan. 17, 2012, and pointed to politics as an excuse to keep Chartwells around, according to a Council staff email to Mills. Henderson acknowledged she knew DCPS had a bad contract from Day One, but could not make a change in the 2010 election year. She said that after former Mayor Vince Gray was elected, he did not want the challenge of re-structuring food services. Henderson also acknowledged that most jurisdictions do food service in-house, at a profit, and told Cheh she would commit to exploring different options the following year. “Kaya said that next year there will be a ‘new game in town’ and essentially committed to selfprep,” the email states. Cheh was skeptical, and as it turns out, with good reason. On Feb. 8, 2012, she wrote to
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[Rhee] brought in Jeff to reform the food services program, and he could’ve done more to cultivate internal buy-in,” says one of Mills’ former charges. “But he was like, ‘Fuck this shit, I’m gonna make things happen.’
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Henderson in dismay over persistent losses in excess of $10 million per year. In a 10-page memo, Cheh questioned Henderson about average costs and pricing among the three vendors, average losses, and expenses such as employee wages and fringe benefits. “How do we know that Chartwells has provided all of the rebates to which DCPS is entitled to receive?” she wrote, requesting responses by Feb. 15. Cheh called upon DCPS to break even within two years, expand the number of schools served by the other vendors, and purchase food directly rather than through Chartwells. Henderson moved swiftly to get a new contract in place. In February, Mills says, DeGuzman came from a meeting and told him and his staff that Henderson had demanded a new Request for Proposal within three weeks. Henderson wrote to Cheh on Feb. 12 with plans to restructure what she referred to as the “mega” contract from a cost-reimbursement model to a fixed-price-per-meal model. Bringing food services back in-house, Henderson wrote, was premature. “Simply put, food service (like facilities maintenance and construction) is not a core competence of ours.” Frustrated, Mills initiated a private audit by Federal Management Systems, Inc. Within weeks of its inception, Metlen, the manager of business operations, wrote to DeGuzman on May 17 that auditors had uncovered overstocking, excessive food waste, use of expired products, products not stored at proper temperatures, and inaccurate production records at 85 percent of the schools they visited. “They have also voiced serious concerns regarding the accurate reporting of costs and re-
bates, especially in regards to Chartwells’ use of an affiliate, Food Buy, to procure food and produce,” Metlen wrote. Metlen and Mills kept hoping DCPS would find it difficult to ignore such glaring problems. “This history of non-compliance could pose financial and operational risks for DCPS if Chartwells is awarded a contract pursuant to this request for proposals,” Metlen wrote to the deputy chief for procurement on June 6, 2012. He also discovered that DeGuzman had instructed auditors to stop taking inventory of surplus food ordered by Chartwells, in an apparent effort to conceal excess product. Metlen cited more than $80,000 worth of excess stock at just four high schools. “This is all extremely clear evidence of systematic overordering and improper inventory control by Chartwells,” he wrote. Mills added: “Anthony, these issues with excess inventory are a result of the over-ordering of product by Chartwells that I alerted you to in February. This mismanagement of procurement and inventory are major factors contributing to the increase in costs this year vs. last year with Chartwells. It is essential that the auditors be allowed to finish their inventories this week so the District can recoup the money that it is rightfully owed.” By July 2012, Mills says, DCPS was instructing auditors not to show him initial assessments that already showed Chartwells owing the District $8 million, with the number expected to climb. That summer, DCPS awarded a 2012-2013 contract to Chartwells that was approved for $29,636,417. But with additional school closures, the vendor was
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down to serving 103 schools with no corresponding reduction in costs. What’s more, DCPS agreed to pay Chartwells more than $4 per lunch or supper meal—among the highest in the country for any large public school district. (Federal reimbursement is just $2.95 per meal.) The cost structure had quality implications, Mill says. Chartwells switched from serving Stonyfield yogurt to sugar-fortified Trix yogurt because it had a financial interest in obtaining large rebates from its usual vendors. Likewise, he says, Chartwells switched from serving all-natural, antibiotic- and hormonefree chicken nuggets to the industrial Tyson brand because it had a rebate arrangement through Food Buy, its affiliated broker. Mills was a dead man walking as the 2012-2013 school year got underway. DCPS had replaced him as contracting liaison with a purchasing manager named Rob Jaber, a former Chartwells employee. Mills’ dismay peaked in mid-September, when he obtained a copy of a 54-page Federal Management Systems, Inc. audit that nailed Chartwells for $39 million in unrealized cost reductions, overcharged or wasted meals, pocketed rebates, unmet budget projections, and improper modifications, according to a copy reviewed by City Paper. Yet it was a revised audit, without a quantitative analysis, that emerged in December and prompted a Council hearing. Again, the Council told DCPS it had two years to break even and begin plans to bring food services back in-house. A week later, in Jan. 2013, DCPS fired Mills and promoted Jaber to director of food services. A week after that, Mills received a visit from investigators with the Office of the Inspector General. More than a year went by before Inspector General Charles Willoughby quietly sent a letter to Henderson, on March 14, 2014, confirming evidence of over-billing and meal counts below what was budgeted, even as food costs exceeded the budget. Chartwells also could not provide documentation to show that it had passed food supply rebates to DCPS, as required by the contract. Willoughby instructed Henderson to work with FMS and the D.C. attorney general to recoup DCPS’ losses. Henderson’s office declined to answer questions for this story. Willoughby then informed Council Chairman Phil Mendelson, on March 21, that his office “partially substantiated” financial aspects of the audit findings. But Willoughby also shot down most of the other allegations against DCPS, including one that said officials intentionally delayed the audit until after Chartwells’ 2012 contract was renewed—a peculiar finding, given that auditors told OIG investigators that DCPS had referred them to Chartwells for hard data, only to have Chartwells claim a proprietary privilege. (Chartwells also threatened to sue FMS if it went public with its initial findings, and FMS took pains to remove and add provisions at the behest of DCPS officials through six different drafts.) 20 july 3, 2015 washingtoncitypaper.com
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They submit the Chartwells contract at the last possible minute and then say the kids won’t eat if they don’t approve it,” Mills says. “It’s disgusting.
ment for wrongful firing and retaliation in violation of the D.C. Whistleblower Act, claiming Henderson had publicly blamed him for the state of DCPS food services program and that DeGuzman had attempted to interfere with the FMS audit. (DeGuzman left DCPS shortly after Mills was fired. Mills says DCPS accepted service for him in the lawsuit. DeGuzman is believed to be living in Italy. He could not be reached.) The District settled with Mills last year for $450,000, as Mills proceeded with his qui tam action against the District. Chartwells has admitted no wrongdoing. The company did not respond to requests for comment.
Considering all the information he and others provided, Mills was stunned when he saw the OIG’s final product. “I spent a lot of time gathering documents for [OIG investigators] to end up with that shitty report,” he says. But by then, Mills was already working as a whistleblower with the attorney general’s office on a False Claims Act case, filed under seal in D.C. Superior Court in July 2013. Mills wasn’t done. In April 2014, he sued Henderson, DeGuzman, and the D.C. govern-
On a recent Tuesday, Henderson and Bowser appeared at Leckie Elementary School in Bellevue to hail a private $4 million grant for DCPS. “Discerning parents want the best for their babies,” Bowser said, as she listed various initiatives—none of them related to nutrition. When approached afterwards, Bowser referred comment about Chartwells to Racine’s office. Henderson explained that even if she wanted to make a change for the upcoming school year, it would disrupt food services. “We’re not where we want to be academically to be taking on a new operation,” Henderson said. So who is minding the store at DCPS? On June 8, Cheh asked D.C. Auditor Kathy Patterson to audit the food services contracts and evaluate the promised benefits of privatizing school food services. Cheh has said she thinks Chartwells should be barred in the District. Patterson tells City Paper that she is requesting documentation about the privatization decision as well as other options that might exist. She says “Red Flag No. 1” is that D.C. spends local funds on food services at all. Meanwhile, D.C. Inspector General Daniel Lucas informed Henderson on June 24 that he will conduct his own audit of food services contracts and evaluate food quality and service satisfaction. Says Patterson: “My take is that the new IG is committed to digging quite a bit deeper than what was done previously.” Taking the Council’s pulse is more complicated. In February, At-Large Councilmember David Grosso, chair of the Committee on Education, asked DCPS students about school food and got an earful: wilted salads, undercooked food, nothing to eat but pizza and chicken nuggets. “I went to school I don’t know how many years ago,” said Grosso, 44. “And the school lunches sucked then. Why do they still suck?” Oddly, Grosso’s statement was part of a slide presentation Rob Jaber recently gave him in a closed-door meeting attended by Council staffers from about 10 offices. The presentation included photos of kids standing in line for pizza and happily eating what appeared to be turkey and platters of what appeared to be rice and vegetables. He asked, rhetorically, what DCPS gets for its $35 million in annual food services costs, then ran a slide of “Ambassador Perceptions” that assessed letter grades of D and F for food appearance, healthiness, taste, service, efficiency, and cleanliness. Then
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he fired off pledges to improve the program. Attendees say Jaber could not answer any financial questions and that Grosso sent him back to DCPS with a batch of questions. Grosso has said his committee will investigate the Chartwells-DCPS contract in the fall—but that will be after the 2015-2016 contract is approved. Visited in his office recently, Grosso declined to comment. None of his fellow committee members returned calls for comment about the contract or the Jaber meeting. Cheh is the lone councilmember who speaks candidly about the five-year odyssey of Chartwells and DCPS. “This goes all the way up to the chancellor, who acted with knowledge and indifference toward poor performance by Chartwells,” said Cheh in an interview last month. “DCPS’ fingerprints are all over this.” Of the Bowser administration, Cheh said: “I guess they figure this is some dusty corner of education, not worthy of notice perhaps. Which is sad, because the kids can’t control their circumstances. To not consider the whole child is criminal.” (As this story was going to press on Wednesday, Cheh filed a disapproval resolution, supported by Ward 1 Councilmember Brianne Nadeau, Ward 6 Councilmember Charles Allen, and At-Large Councilmember Elissa Silverman, that gives the Council 14 days to review contract options before allowing a new one to go into effect.) Mills considered the whole child, but ended up unemployed with no fixed address. Under the whistleblower statute, he is entitled to between 15 and 30 percent of the Chartwells settlement. He does not know what he’ll do next. He brightens at the thought of creating a company that makes food services a priority in schools, but he balks at the notion that it could happen in D.C. under the current administration. The new proposed contract, at $32 million, is a $1 million increase over last year, he says. And because of an inflated cost structure, if DCPS serves as many meals as in past years, local subsidies will only increase. Maybe that’s why Henderson has said she is discontinuing supper. “This isn’t taking care of the whole child,” he says. “The city loses money, and the kids lose a chance to eat as many as three healthy meals a day,” he says. He’s particularly perturbed that Henderson—and Bowser—are trying to ram through the 2015-2016 contract renewal by holding food services hostage. “DCPS is pulling the same game they did in 2012,” says Mills. “They submit the Chartwells contract at the last possible minute and then say the kids won’t eat if they don’t approve it. It’s disgusting.” Stepping back, Mills considers the root of his passion for food services. “I think D.C. was just named for having the most food insecure kids in the U.S. We need to make every effort to ensure these kids have access to meals. When you understaff cafeterias, run out of food, and stop the programs that benefit the underserved you are making problems worse and the achievement gap gets bigCP ger. Hungry kids can’t learn.”
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If you live in D.C., there’s a good chance you strive to avoid the city’s more touristy offerings. But you’re missing out on some serious swag. Here’s some fun merch locals rarely encounter.
Commander in Chubby Cheeks Need a quirky baby shower gift? This onesie will inspire presidential confidence while representing your D.C. home. Baby onesie, $9.99. Old Town Trading Post. 128 King St., Alexandria. (703) 739-8877.
OmNomNomnivore Remember when astronaut ice cream was all the rage? Now petrified dinosaur food is the souvenir de jour. Dinosaur food, $6. National Museum of Natural History. 1000 Constitution Ave. NW. (202) 633-1000.
EmpowerMints D.C. is the only place where a donkey graphic on a breath freshener product makes complete sense. Democrat mints, $3.49. Honest Abe’s Souvenirs. 506 10th St. NW, 2nd floor. (202) 783-1003.
That’s How Rough Riders Roll Take a bath while brushing up on history with this Theodore Roosevelt rubber ducky. Historic duck, $.99. Washington Welcome Center. 1001 E St. NW. (202) 347-6609.
Witch, Please Take home these socks from the American History Museum and recreate the Wizard of Oz scene where the house falls on the Wicked Witch of the East. Wizard of Oz socks, $12. National Museum of American History. 1400 Constitution Ave. NW. (202) 633-1000. washingtoncitypaper.com july 3, 2015 21
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“It’s like wearing a new suit,” Bajaj says. “It makes you feel good.” Bajaj has renovated and re-renovated all but his newer restaurants. He believes dining rooms are due for a makeover every seven to eight years. (Other restaurateurs say up to 10 years is the industry standard.) Bajaj’s first restaurant, Bombay Club, which opened in 1988, has been renovated three times. Oval Room likewise has undergone three renovations in 20 years, including a million dollar facelift last summer. Next up: a new look and structural changes for 701 Restaurant later this summer. Rasika will only be closed for construction from July 5 through 9, but Bajaj has been working on the renovation for a year, finding designers and going back and forth to get exactly what he wants. “What are the in colors now?” Bajaj says. “What’s happening in Europe? What’s happening in London? London’s a fashionable city. What are the people using there, so I can brings some of those aspects here.” Once he finds what he likes, it often needs to be custom made, which takes more time. Specialty lighting fixtures and wall coverings have to be ordered 12 to 14 weeks in advance. Most of the furnishings arrive at the restaurant premade, already measured and re-measured. Bajaj will have contractors in the restaurant 18 hours a day until the work is done. Part of the renovation is about fixing the wear and tear. But it’s also about keeping the restaurant relevant in diners’ minds. “Restaurants are like human beings,” Bajaj says. “We don’t take care of them, they get sick.” That’s especially true when there are so many healthy rivals. When Eatwell DC principal David Winer opened Logan Tavern in 2003, there wasn’t much competition in the Logan Circle area. More than a decade later, the place was surrounded by shiny new multi-million dollar restaurants. Last fall, Winer decided to go back and revamp some things he didn’t have money for the first time around, like a Carrera marble-topped bar. He spent around $60,000 on the four-day facelift. On top of that, EatWell DC budgets around $10,000 per restaurant per
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ture with TVs and heat lamps. The changes allowed for more year-round use, private bookings, and big outdoor events, including four or five sold-out crawfish boils this year. And it has helped: Over last year, the restaurant’s sales are up about six percent, says Tunks, although he also credits the traffic brought in by the new nearby developments. Tunks adds that a renovation can be a good morale booster for the staff. If the plates are chipped and the restaurant doesn’t have enough glassware, employees will think the management doesn’t care about the business. “By doing this, it says, ‘Hey, we’re giving you the proper tools to make your job easier and better.’” When Acadiana closed for a week for renovation, Tunks allowed staff to pick up shifts at other restaurants and bunched together vacations. The executive chef and general manager continued to work, doing a deep clean of the kitchen and organizing the office. “I don’t think we lost anybody,” he says. Then again, the restaurant was only closed for a relatively short period. During the month-long renovation at Oval Room, Bajaj continued to pay his salaried staff including chefs, sous chefs, and managers. Many of the waitstaff took vacation days or went to work in Bajaj’s other restaurants. “Front of the house, everybody we wanted, they came back,” Bajaj says. Down the block from Rasika, Bajaj enters the dining room at 701. The restaurateur spent around $800,000 renovating the 25-year-old restaurant in 2009. “We’re changing all the furniture,” he declares, walking by the aqua-colored chairs. Then he points to the orbs of white wire that make up the light fixtures above the bar. “This has been here many years, so we’re going to put in new lighting here. Why? Does it need it? No. But you want a change, you want a change.” Bajaj proceeds to the lounge area, which will soon be converted into a glass-enclosed private room. He’ll also add a new audio-visual system. People have been asking for it, and his competitors have them. The black wall covering with white circles, which cost Baja $10,000, is scratched here and there, so he’ll replace that too. “The carpet is good, but I’ve got to change it,” he says. With all these alterations, you might think Bajaj is the kind of person who gets bored easily. But he says that’s not the case. “I’m one of those people who’s blessed. I get to choose art. I get to design the menus with these creative people. And I get to do so many things which a lot of people want to do but they can’t do… I like challenging myself,” he says. “I want to stay on the cutting edge. I want to CP stay on top of the game.” Eatery tips? Food pursuits? Send suggestions to hungry@washingtoncitypaper.com.
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D.C. tiki bar Hogo may have closed last year, but plenty of other spots are keeping umbrella drinks alive. In fact, tiki is taking over menus in all sorts of unexpected spots this summer. So if you can’t afford that tropical vacation, here are some places where you can at least get a decent mai tai. —Jessica Sidman
Del Campo
900 7th St. NW On July 10 from 7 to 10 p.m., the South American steakhouse will host its annual Del Campo at Dusk Tiki Party on the building’s rooftop. Chef
Barmini
855 E St. NW José Andrés’ cocktail bar is hosting its second annual Tiki Week now through July 11. The tikiinspired cocktails include drinks like the Polynesian Vacation with citrus vodka, aloe liqueur, pineapple, lime, ginger, and yellow chartreuse as well as a treasure chest with three types of mai tais.
Victor Albisu and restaurateur Jeff Black (Pearl Dive Oyster Palace, BlackSalt) will serve suckling pig, oysters, and other tiki-inspired bites. Tickets, which include food,
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The Sandwich: Veggie #1
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are available online for $37. Tiki cocktails, beer, and wine will be available from a cash bar. Tropical attire welcome.
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1324 H St. NE The Peruvian restaurant recently opened a 30-seat back patio with a 10-seat
bar serving tiki-themed cocktails and pisco drinks. Barman Giancarlo Cruz is preparing mai tais, Singapore slings, and lava bowls. Even liquid nitro-
gen is incorporated into some of the drinks. Pair your tiki tipple with something from the ceviche bar on the outdoor patio, which will be open yearround.
head to Jack Rose’s upstairs tiki bar, which just launched for the season. Drinks include cans of
3 Stars Brewing Company Ghost White IPA
Mockingbird Hill
1843 7th St. NW Derek Brown’s sherry bar launched a “Sherry Goes Tiki” menu and tiki happy hour earlier this week that will be available weekdays until September. Look out for an oloroso sherry mai tai and a Fog Cutter, which incorporates sherry with rum, brandy, gin, and citrus juices. The bar plans to go all out with flaming volcano bowls.
Jack Rose
2007 18th St. NW On Fridays and Saturdays,
from the potato and eggplant; bitter from the roasted, smoky kale; creamy and tangy from the thick spread of goat cheese; and salty from the bread that holds it all together. While it’s packed with flavor, the sandwich isn’t too heavy, thanks to the simple ingredients and the airy focaccia. In this case, the bread is the star of the show. Cons: Vitamin-packed kale ups the nutritional value of the sandwich, but its strong flavor overpowers some o f t h e m o re s u b tle ing redients. Take away some greens and let the intoxicating taste of the eggplant puree come through.
brew in town Where in Town: 3 Stars Brewing Company, 6400 Chillum Place NW Price: $11.75/four-pack
summer beers ($6), plus tiki cocktails (all $13) like the Palm Pine with jalapeno-infused Jameson Black Barrel whiskey, pineapple, banana, and ginger beer. The restaurant will bring back its Tiki Thursdays happy hour on July 23.
Sloppiness level (1 to 5): 1. The kitchen knows the secret to making a clean sandwich: liberal use of slightly adhesive spreads. With goat cheese slathered on one piece of bread and eggplant puree on the other, the majority of the ingredients remain stuck inside. Focaccia tends to crumble slightly, but bread bits are the only mess you’ll have to deal with. Overall score (1 to 5): 5. Making an entirely vegetarian sandwich that tastes rich and doesn’t include any fake meat replacements is hard, but the Veggie #1 is perfectly composed. I wish the Baked & Wired team had started selling sandwiches at its Georgetown location years ago—they’re much more exciting than the cupcakes that made —Caroline Jones the bakery famous.
Tallboy Oh Boy Craft beers are more and more often appearing in large-format cans, a vessel formerly relegated to watery beers with names ending in “ice” and “lite.” Not yet sold on the allure of aluminum? Unlike glass bottles or growlers, cans let in no light, making it impossible for ultraviolet rays to skunk the beer inside. And unlike bottle caps and corks, the airtight seal of a can completely eliminates the threat of oxidation. Sure, mining bauxite for aluminum cans isn’t exactly green, but crushed cans take up little space, making them easier to transport, and are more efficiently recycled. As for tallboys, they’re just more of a good thing (four ounces more, to be precise, and the ideal size for sharing). Who You Gonna Call? D.C.’s 3 Stars Brewing Company began selling its Citra Lemon Saison and Ghost White IPA in tall boys last week. The latter—a 5.9percent-alcohol, hopped wheat beer—is right at home in a 16-ounce can. My shiny cylinder poured with an unusually generous and frothy cream-colored head. Its aroma pairs luscious tangerine and tropical fruit with the acidic bite of citrus. With Pilsner and caramel malts and a mix of Amarillo, Simcoe, Citra, and Columbus hops, this white IPA offers the perfect balance of hop bitterness, sweet fruit, and bread flavors. But Ghost’s defining characteristic is its ultra-silky feel, the result of a wheat-heavy grain bill. Find cans bearing 3 Stars’ familiar Mexican sugar skull image on shelves throughout the District. —Tammy Tuck washingtoncitypaper.com july 3, 2015 25
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The South, From Inside
William Christenberry’s subtle photos record the places and tectonic changes of rural Alabama “Black Buildings, Newbern, Alabama, 1979” by William Christenberry, 2015
By Kriston Capps Some years back, William Christenberry got himself into a pickle. His work appeared in “Passing Time,” a 2006 survey at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and some workers there were leery of his work, specifically the Ku Klux
Klan images. He had worked the Klan into many of his pictures, sometimes subtly, sometimes not. So he spoke to an assembly, about his work, about his station, to mollify the museum’s black staffers. Presumably he spoke to them about the delicate use–mention distinction in his art: that he was citing
the Klan, not endorsing them. That he was making images about hate, not heritage. Christenberry’s fading South is perpetually fading. It has been always. For decades he has been returning to his ancestral home in Hale County, Ala., just south of Tuscaloosa, and photographing the roads, houses, schools, barns, and churches of a place and time that is always just out of reach. The only thing that seems to change in his photos is the creep of kudzu. All the heritage and hate remain. His latest show at Hemphill Fine Arts comes at a time of unlikely promise and harrowing return for the South. Bree Newsome, an activist, snatched the Confederate battle flag off the top of a memorial on the capitol grounds in Columbia, S.C., just one state over from Christenberry’s Alabama. That was only days after South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley pledged to work with the legislature to remove it formally. A massacre inside a black church prompted these scenes of sincere uplift; a rash of black church burnings has since swept across the South. Grace and rot are twinned in Christenberry’s photos. “Kudzu and House, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, 1989” (2015) is the kind of image he seeks out. He’s shot this same structure in the 1970s, ‘80s, and ‘90s, always from the same vantage point, over a field of snaking kudzu, set nobly against a big blue sky. By 1989, the vines have overtaken the structure’s chimney. Two regal oaks out front don’t look safe. That’s just one of the sites to which Christenberry has returned over and over for his haunting frames. “Building with False Brick Siding, 1974” (1981) is a print from a photo Christenberry first took with a Brownie. (For the film nerds: It’s a dye-transfer contact print from the original 3x5” negative.) By the time he re-photographed the building in 1991 (in a picture that isn’t on view), the detailing is barely visible through the kudzu. Taking Christenberry’s work for restive or pastoral is a mistake. The artist’s more recent paintings are vivid and gestural: nothing at all like his patient, deliberate photos. Christenberry’s work is deeply committed to modernism. Consider his Warhol-esque pop lithographs of various iconic advertisements (Royal Crown cola, Tops snuff, palmistry). One electric painting rendered in beeswax and encaustic (“Green Form,” 2001) is a geometric reduction of a barn that is also tense and textured: something between Ellsworth Kelly and Anselm Kiefer. Christenberry’s catholic interest in the modes of modernism is demonstrated by the breadth of the show. Several of his latest paintings in particular look like the early (very early) mythical works by Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock. But where these artists eventually turned inward to find nature— or to repetition to find whatever Warhol found—Christenberry simply never left the South. “Church, Sprott, Alabama, 1981” (2015) is as fine an example of Christenberry’s photography as you’ll find. The photo depicts a simple gabled-roof building with twin steeple towers, a typical church to be found throughout the Black Belt. Another print on view, based on a 1971 Kodachrome, depicts the same building. In both shots, the church is unspoiled. But black churches are hardly ever stable. They were built to washingtoncitypaper.com july 3, 2015 27
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adapt, evolving physically to the constant changes forced on black congregations. Those changes are felt as keenly today as they were when he first began shooting the South. Christenberry captures the fading south in medias res. In “China Grove Church, Hale County, Alabama, 1979” (2013), he depicts a small white structure off at the end of a wide dirt road lined by lush vegetation. The church may have since been consumed—by fire or by kudzu— but nothing about this past is truly behind us. It never retreats, the kudzu, but it never gets what it wants, either, which is everything. Over many years Christenberry has embraced the vines as a metaphor: a graceful marker of the past, a sign of change and entropy, slow and deliberate and violent. “Dear Lord, please make me want You,” wrote the great Southern Gothic novelist Flannery O’Connor, in her recently published prayer devotionals. She would have understood Christenberry’s photography. “It would be the greatest bliss,” she wrote, “… to have the want driving in me, to have it like a cancer in me. It would kill me like a cancer and that CP would be the Fulfilment.”
“China Grove Church, Hale County, Alabama, 1979” by William Christenberry, 2003.
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Exit Vehicles Standout Track: No. 10, “Millennial,” which first appeared on Exit Vehicles’ debut demo EP and now appears on their first full-length album. The final track on Stages is “bigger and brighter” than the original, lead vocalist Brian Easley says. The band was able to add a more robust sound to the track with deeper vocals and more lively guitar and drums. The result is an anthem not by millennials but certainly for them: Over the rolling, rhythmic beats, Easley opens the track with “Guess what/ I’m not mad anymore,” and urges “Don’t even think about saying no.” Musical Motivation: Exit Vehicles didn’t write the song for a fan base or for nostalgia, Easley says, but rather in response to a sound the band created that was “youthful and full of optimism.” Based on the music, he wanted to make a song that reminded him of when he was young and living in Chicago. “We’re not trying to change the world or make anyone think we’re the deepest, sexiest, or coolest cats in town,” Easley says. “We just want to make some music and play some shows, let people know about the wide spectrum of music available to them here.” 52 Seconds: For nearly one minute of instrumental bliss, a guitar solo followed by a drum solo demand the listener’s attention, and perhaps her best air-guitar abilities. “Over the past year, we’ve shifted to allowing our songs to age well like good beer or wine,” drummer Jacob McLocklin says. (He also compared it to “your favorite pair of jeans,” which also feels very appropriate.) This time around, the section between the final chorus and the final verse throw you into the embrace of some of Exit Vehicle’s best abilities, resulting in music that sounds solid even far away from the main —Josh Solomon stage in your earbuds. Listen to “Millennial” at washingtoncitypaper. com/go/exitvehicles. Exit Vehicles plays Rock and Roll Hotel on July 3.
Art, Paper, SciSSorS
In a new book from paper-maker Neenah Paper, Columbia Heights illustrator and designer Kate Zaremba distills 14 D.C. arts organizations into 14 hand-cut and -drawn icons. From her neighborhood gallery, Hamiltonian (“I come in once a week just to pester them... I’m a big supporter of the fellowship program they lead”) to Art Enables (a gallery that exhibits and sells work by artists with disabilities), Zaremba’s choices represent a broad cross-section of the city’s venues, both large and small. “It’s not just... one scene of people making stuff and putting on shows,” Zaremba says. “This whole city is creative, whether they’re working in the creative industry or being creative after their 9-to-5 is over.” The 15-page book names D.C. an emerging design city alongside Oakland, Atlanta, Chicago, Portland, and Philadelphia, and pairs Zaremba’s work with other visual tributes from artists in those cities. Zaremba plans to turn her illustrations into a deck of cards that can be printed out from her website. Some of them are literal; others are abstract. Can you guess the venue from the icon? —Christina Cauterucci
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This Trinidad-based home for weirdos will launch its 10th annual festival next month.
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Mel Brooks’ dated Broadway satire aims for outrageous and gets shrugs instead.
Meh Führer The Producers By Mel Brooks Directed by Mark Waldrop At Olney Theatre to July 26 Who knew Maury Levy could sing and dance? That would be Michael Kostroff, best known for playing the ruthlessly amoral drug lawyer in The Wire. It turns out he does a pretty good Max, the goofily amoral theater producer in Olney Theatre’s revival of The Producers. That shouldn’t actually be a surprise, as he’s been doing the latter role—popularized by Nathan Lane in the upbeat 2001 Broadway show and 2005 Hollywood remake—as far back as his first appearance on HBO’s decidedly notupbeat crime saga. It’s a role seemingly made for Kostroff, who took it on the road for the musical’s 2002 national tour and wrote a book about the experience; he has as much of a gift for physical humor and silly songs as he does for sleaze and courtroom invective. Does it matter, then, that The Producers isn’t that funny? Probably not: Olney’s openingnight audience, largely a 60-and-up crowd, was rolling in the aisles at the flimsiest of gags, most of which rely on stereotypes outdated by half a century—the swishy gay, the oversexed Swede, the not-so-secretly-Nazi German. I guess these guys were reliable comedic touchstones when Mel Brooks wrote his original 1968 film, but they haven’t been updated for the subsequent productions (they took out a hippie, but that’s about it). In his artistic director’s notes, Jason Loewith wonders why there hasn’t been a staging of it in the D.C. area for over a decade. Maybe there’s a good reason. The Producers is a musical that revels in its outrageousness (the centerpiece is a musicalwithin-a-musical called Springtime for Hitler, after all) but the jokes aren’t so much offensive as they are confusing. Did gay people in the ’60s really wear sequins on everything and 30 july 3, 2015 washingtoncitypaper.com
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giant codpieces? Did straight people just imagine that they did? Who is The Producers supposed to be satirizing? The answers, of course, are no, yes, and both, sort of: The humor is intended to derive from from Max’s and his partner Leo’s (Michael Di Liberto) bugged-out reactions to everyone they enlist in an embezzlement scheme to stage a deliberate flop. But for those reactions to make sense, you still have to place yourself in a time where Ulla (Jessica Jaros), the Swedish nymphomaniac was, for some reason, a recognizable stock character in American pop culture. So it’s not the fault of the cast, or even director Mark Waldrop, if some or all of it falls flat. Blame Brooks, whose last great contribution to the canon was 1987’s Spaceballs. Along with Kostroff, Di Liberto and Jaros throw all they have at “walk this way” and “black Irish” puns, and Jason Graae does an as-respectable-as-possible job as the “silly, hysterical queen” director Roger DeBris. There’s even some material that works on its own merits, not just in a throwback context: Choreographer Tara Jeanne Vallee arranges an exuberant chorus line number with grannies and walkers. I imagine that those who get the most out of this production don’t so much love the gags for what they are as they love The Producers for what it represents: a love letter to a Broadway of a certain era. Musical theater is often selfreferential and anachronistic by design—hell, even The Book of Mormon, a kind of spiritual successor to Mel Brooks, is similarly more sweet than offensive and hews religiously to the genre’s conventions (big ensemble opening number, “I wish” song, etc.)—so The Producers’ bad jokes don’t seem as dated as they could. They can even be comforting. Standards of offensiveness, decency, and comedy may change, but Broadway is forever, for better or worse. —Mike Paarlberg 2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney. $30– $75. (301) 924-3400. olneytheatre.org.
FilmShort SubjectS this bold house The New Rijksmuseum Directed by Oeke Hoogendijk Say you bought a moderate fixer-upper. Maybe the kitchen needs to be gutted and a bathroom added, and the landscaping boasts little but drought-brown grass. Now imagine that the government is handling your renovations. And someone is making a two-plus-hour documentary about its years-long process. You’d want to watch it—maybe. Do you think others will? In Oeke Hoogendijk’s The New Rijksmuseum, rebuilding the Netherlands’ national museum in Amsterdam is portrayed as a 10-year head-bash against a wall of red tape. “This city
with life and beauty, the effect is haunting. Another butterfly-inducing scene shows a curator wandering a warehouse lined with sliding walls on which the museum’s works are carefully stored. Glide one out, and art history is within your reach. Still, the overlords question, even when they get as far as painting the museum. (Marleen Homan, part of the interior architect team, first laughs about them not having a single final drawing after six years of work, then is disappointed as they decide to repaint the sizable structure with colors other than the ones she helped choose.) An impromptu committee even debates while the museum’s pieces are put back on display: Should these guns be centered on the platform, or aligned? The cyclists even return with new venom, and win again. “Hurray for Amsterdam
The doc feels like a government meeting, but it has its transfixing moments. can be a democratic nightmare,” says Wim Pijbes, the project’s second general director. (The first, Ronald De Leeuw, stepped down in 2008 and told Hoogendijk, “I’ve made more room in my life for actual living.”) Decisions are made; decisions are questioned. Laudable designs come under fire from activists groups. Just as you’re thinking, “This film feels like a city council meeting,” bam: Here’s a city council meeting about the protests from cyclists over the rearrangement of a famed bicycle path that flows between the museum’s divided structure. The architects are forced to brainstorm a new plan, which they deem “vulgar” and “banal.” And when the design teams, curators, and Big Brother are finally happy and ready to begin rebuilding what has already been torn apart, an aesthetics committee pops up with what feels like a hundred rapid-fire (and justifiable) questions. Its issues halt progress completely. The New Rijksmuseum is, however, occasionally transfixing instead of eye-glazing. Its first five minutes show bulldozers demolishing the museum’s stripped interior walls under the harsh illumination of work lights; like glimpsing into any empty building that once popped
coolness,” Pijbes says with heavy sarcasm. “Anything goes.” It’s nearly inevitable that you’ll zone out during the documentary, which is a condensed version of a four-part, four-hour television special that was later presented in its entirety as a film. (Hoogendijk and crew, your original idea was likely the best.) But a loss of concentration can’t be blamed on details of the rebuild or the collection itself: For proof, see Tim’s Vermeer, another art doc that examines a painting, including its execution down to the brushstrokes, and some arcane history, but remains fascinating throughout. The long-coming blessing of the government and the public may be what The New Rijksmuseum is all about. But it weighs down what should have been an engrossing, privileged peek into the museum’s phoenix moments. It ends, of course, in triumph. But it’s not enough to justify the sit, leaving you feeling in parts like an official does when another wrench is thrown: “I can’t stand it any longer.” —Tricia Olszewski
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Patriotic PoP UPs Gallery docents tell visitors the stories behind the museum’s most famous patriotic paintings at this special series presented in conjunction with Independence Day. National Gallery of Art. 4th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. Free. July 3, 10:30 a.m.
“GUSTAVE CAILLEBOTTE: THE PAINTER’S EYE”
‘MUrrica: Part theMe Party. Part coMedy show. all aMerican. Local comedians Hillary Scofield, Chris Milner, Chelsea Shorte, Simone, and David Tveite perform at this stand-up evening that doubles as a happy hour celebration featuring cornhole games and the public shaming of Benedict Arnold. Bier Baron Tavern. 1523 22nd St. NW. $10. July 3, 5 p.m.
hot dogs, hamburgers, and watermelon. Storey Park. 1005 First Street, NE, Washington. Free. July 4, 4 p.m. the Brixton’s hot doG eatinG contest Cheer on the contestants jamming hot dogs into their mouths for a chance to win concert tickets at the Brixon’s annual rooftop competition. Bud Lite goes for $4 and Fireball shots go for $5 until 9 p.m. The Brixton. 901 U St. NW. Free. July 4, 4 p.m. a caPitol FoUrth Join Nicole Scherzinger, Barry Manilow, KC and the Sunshine Band, and the National Symphony Orchestra for the 35th annual presentation of this concert celebrating American history. Stick around after the concert for a fireworks display on the National Mall. U.S. Capitol West Lawn. East Capitol and First streets NW. Free. July 4, 8 p.m.
JUly 4th at the national archives Sign a copy of the Declaration of Independence, then hear it read out loud, at the National Archives’ annual celebration. National Archives. 700 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. Free. July 4, 8 a.m.
silent disco Dance to music by 3 DJs, hula hoop to your heart’s content, and catch a view of D.C.’s fireworks from the roof of this boutique hotel. Embassy Row Hotel. 2015 Massachusetts Ave. NW. $40. July 4, 8 p.m.
dMv BBQ throwdown Head to CityCenter for an epic barbecue and beer faceoff between Maryland’s Evolution Brewing Company, Virginia’s Adroit Theory Brewing Company and D.C.’s 3 Stars Brewing Company. Your ticket gets you unlimited barbecue samples and games of cornhole. City Tap House. 901 I St. NW. $15. July 4, noon.
Music
friday
FoUrth oF JUly Pie Fest Whisked provides the sweet and savory pies and Timber Pizza supplies the pizza pies at this gathering at Satellite Room. While you’re there, enjoy karaoke, punch, and American movies on the bar’s projection screen. Satellite Room. 2047 9th St. NW. $15. July 4, 2 p.m.
Although they were a unified artistic group, the Impressionists each had a specific theme they focused on. Monet loved capturing landscapes at different times of day, while Renoir painted portraits of the upper-class French decked out in their fineries. Gustave Caillebotte, who displayed his work with the Impressionists despite not being a formal member of the group, focused on capturing working-class people going about their days. Critics of his early painting, “The Floor Scrapers,” called it crude, but no other Impressionist was able to create characters on canvas the way Caillebotte did. Unfortunately, his paintings made it into few public collections before his death, and his work wasn’t celebrated until decades later. Now, the National Gallery of Art has gathered many of his paintings from collections around the world to tell the full story of his career through self-portraits and still lifes, as well as his iconic “Paris Street, Rainy Day.” The exhibition is on view Mondays through Saturdays 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sundays 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the National Gallery of Art, 6th Street and Constitution Avenue —Caroline Jones NW. Free. (202) 737-4215. nga.gov.
JUly 4th Grillin’ with dc BraU Enjoy cold DC Brau beers for $4 and a picnic-inspired menu at the Shaw rock club to celebrate Independence Day. DC9. 1940 9th St. NW. $11. July 4, 2 p.m. BBQ Pit haPPy hoUr Jack Rose Dining Saloon and Flying Dog team up for an outdoor happy hour before the fireworks start. All Flying Dog cans and drafts cost $4 and bar snacks are half-price until 7:30 p.m. Jack Rose Dining Saloon. 2007 18th St. NW. Free. July 4, 4 p.m. noMa JUly FoUrth Bash Gather in the park and enjoy live bluegrass music, cornhole and water balloon tosses, and snacks from Harris Teeter at this Independence Day celebration. The first 200 guests get free
Rock
JaMMin Java 227 Maple Ave. East, Vienna. (703) 255-1566. The Project, The Duskwhales. 8 p.m. $15–$20. jamminjava.com.
Funk & R&B BirchMere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria. (703) 549-7500. Bilal. 7:30 p.m. $35. birchmere.com. the haMilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band, The Funk Ark. 8:30 p.m. $15–$20. thehamiltondc.com. troPicalia 2001 14th St. NW. (202) 629-4535. Sugarbad, Tara Trinity Project, Will Eastman, Yomimbi. 8 p.m. $10. tropicaliadc.com.
THIS J U LY AT BLUES ALLEY! CELEBRATING 50 YEARS IN OUR NATION’S CAPITAL July 9-12 July 23-25
Jean Carne
Larry Coryell
(Soul Legend) “The 40 Year Tour”
July 2-3
Eric Felten Jazz Orchestra
“The Big Band Sound of WWII”
BLUES ALLEY
“Strings Attached” (5 Guitars)
July 16-19
Marcus Johnson Urban Jam Band
(Keys/Smooth Funk) “CD Release Party”
July 31-Aug 1
Roy Haynes Fountain of Youth Band “90th Birthday Tour“ (Legendary Drummer)
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Jazz
Jazz
BlUes alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Eric Felten Jazz Orchestra. 8 p.m. & 10 p.m. $27.50. bluesalley.com.
Kennedy center MillenniUM staGe 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Monterey Jazz Festival County High School All-Star Band. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.
Mr. henry’s 601 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. (202) 5468412. “Dial 251” for Jazz. 8 p.m. Free. mrhenrysdc.com.
Blues the haMilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. Moonshine Society. 10:30 p.m. Free. thehamiltondc.com.
WoRld Kennedy center MillenniUM staGe 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Los Wembler’s de Iquitos. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.
opeRa castleton FarMs 663 Castleton View Rd., Castleton. (866) 974-0767. Roméo et Juliette. 8 p.m. $20–$85. castletonfestival.org.
saturday Rock
rFK stadiUM 2400 E. Capitol St. SE. (202) 587-5000. Foo Fighters, Buddy Guy, Gary Clark Jr., Heart, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, LL Cool J, Trouble Funk, Trombone Shorty. 1 p.m. $78. dcunited.com/stadium.
Mr. henry’s 601 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. (202) 5468412. Tacha Coleman Parr. 8 p.m. Free. mrhenrysdc.com.
classical castleton FarMs 663 Castleton View Rd., Castleton. (866) 974-0767. All American Band Concert. 3 p.m. $20–$40. castletonfestival.org.
dJ nights U street MUsic hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 5881880. Cut Copy DJs, Knightlife, Stephen Faith. 10 p.m. $15. ustreetmusichall.com.
sunday Funk & R&B
Bossa Bistro 2463 18th St NW. 202-667-0088. The Plankstompers. 9 p.m. $5. bossproject.com.
electRonic U street MUsic hall 1115 U St. NW. (202) 5881880. Mr. V, Andy Grant, DJ Nav. 9 p.m. $15–$20. ustreetmusichall.com.
Funk & R&B
Jazz
loGan FrinGe arts sPace 1358 Florida Ave. NE. (202) 737-7230. MH & His Orchestra, Black Masala, DJ Crown Vic. 9 p.m. Free. capitalfringe.org.
Kennedy center MillenniUM staGe 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Akua Allrich. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.
electRonic
Folk
the lodGe at h street 1348 H St. NE. (202) 6217300. Ozker, Sharkey, DJ Drop. 3 p.m. Free. facebook. com/thelodgeatredrocks.
JaMMin Java 227 Maple Ave. East, Vienna. (703) 255-1566. Kris Delmhorst. 7 p.m. $15–$18. jamminjava.com.
CITY LIGHTS: SATURDAY
THE WORLD OF TOMORROW
Among the exhibits that captured the public’s attention at the 1939 World’s Fair in New York was a time capsule, not to be opened for 5,000 years, that contained, among other things, a disposable Gillette razor, Camel cigarettes, and a creepy-looking Kewpie doll. Some of those items, as well as the car-based city design proposed by General Motors and the television promoted by RCA, are still used more than 75 years later. In their 1984 film The World of Tomorrow, Tom Johnson, Lance Bird, and John Crowley combine newsreel footage, home movies, and promotional features from the festival to tell its story to audiences born after “the dawn of a new day,” as the fair was schlockily labeled. Celebrate these advancements and be glad we no longer have to rely on microfilm to read archived text when the film screens at the National Gallery of Art. The film shows at 1 p.m. at the National Gallery of Art, 6th Street —Caroline Jones and Constitution Avenue NW. Free. (202) 737-4215. nga.gov.
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CITY LIGHTS: SUNDAY
AKUA ALLRICH “Soul” is less a style of music than it is a quality. As surely as “head music” refers to cerebral stuff whose complexity is its selling point, soul music is a sound that speaks to you on an intangible level that runs even deeper than the heart. That can refer to an overt religious element (like the gospelcharged music that Ray Charles pioneered) but doesn’t have to: It just has to be transmitted from and to one’s basic human essence. That’s why Akua Allrich, known and celebrated in D.C. (and beyond) for her jazz vocal stylings, nonetheless has a status as a “soul singer” that even the staunchest genre purists can’t question. Allrich is a disciple of Nina Simone, with a similarly eclectic approach to repertoire and performance style, but with a generous addition of touches from her own West African heritage (Miriam Makeba is another huge influence). It makes for a unique artistic vision that’s reflected on her new album, titled—what else?— Soul Singer. Akua Allrich performs at 6 p.m. at the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, 2700 F —Michael J. West St. NW. Free. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org.
opeRa
classical
castleton FarMs 663 Castleton View Rd., Castleton. (866) 974-0767. Roméo et Juliette. 2 p.m. $20–$85. castletonfestival.org.
Kennedy center MillenniUM staGe 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. NSO Summer Music Institute. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.
classical castleton FarMs 663 Castleton View Rd., Castleton. (866) 974-0767. Castleton Chamber Players. 11 a.m. $20–$50. castletonfestival.org.
Monday Rock
verizon center 601 F St. NW. (202) 628-3200. Imagine Dragons, Metric, Halsey. 7:30 p.m. $29.50– $69.50. verizoncenter.com.
Folk JaMMin Java 227 Maple Ave. East, Vienna. (703) 255-1566. Robbie Schaefer. 7:30 p.m. $15. jamminjava.com.
tuesday Rock
BlacK cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Mudhoney. 7:30 p.m. $16. blackcatdc.com.
Rock
BlacK cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. The Rezillos. 7:30 p.m. $18–$20. blackcatdc.com. dc9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Heaters. 9 p.m. $10. dcnine.com. JaMMin Java 227 Maple Ave. East, Vienna. (703) 255-1566. The Battle. 7:30 p.m. $10–$15. jamminjava.com. JiFFy lUBe live 7800 Cellar Door Drive, Bristow. (703) 754-6400. Kid Rock, Foreigner. 6:45 p.m. $20. livenation.com. rocK & roll hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-ROCK. Mates of State. 8 p.m. $18–$20. rockandrollhoteldc.com. warner theatre 513 13th St. NW. (202) 783-4000. Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo. 8 p.m. $43–$93. warnertheatre.com.
dc9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Fellowcraft, Two Dragons and a Cheetah, Carbon Dioxide. 8:30 p.m. $8. dcnine.com.
wolF traP theatre-in-the-woods 1551 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. Tim Kubart & The Space Cadets. 10:30 a.m. $10. wolftrap.org.
JaMMin Java 227 Maple Ave. East, Vienna. (703) 255-1566. The Battle. 7:30 p.m. $10–$15. jamminjava.com.
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wolF traP theatre-in-the-woods 1551 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. Tim Kubart & The Space Cadets. 10:30 a.m. $10. wolftrap.org.
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Wednesday
MadaM’s orGan 2461 18th St. NW. (202) 6675370. The Human Country Jukebox Band. 9 p.m. Free. madamsorgan.com.
Funk & R&B
WoRld
thearc 1901 Mississippi Ave. SE. (202) 889-5901. Todrick Hall. 7:30 p.m. $25–$80. thearcdc.com.
Bossa Bistro 2463 18th St NW. 202-667-0088. Orchester Praževica. 9:30 p.m. $5. bossproject.com.
thursday
Vocal
Rock
wolF traP Filene center 1551 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. Frank Sinatra, Jr. 8 p.m. $25–$55. wolftrap.org.
JaMMin Java 227 Maple Ave. East, Vienna. (703) 255-1566. The Battle. 7:30 p.m. $10–$15. jamminjava.com.
Books
rocK & roll hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-ROCK. Goatwhore, Black Breath, Ringworm, Theories. 7:30 p.m. $15. rockandrollhoteldc.com. wolF traP theatre-in-the-woods 1551 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. Unlocking The Truth. 10:30 a.m. $8. wolftrap.org.
Funk & R&B BirchMere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria. (703) 549-7500. Tank. 7:30 p.m. $59.50. birchmere.com. BlUes alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Jean Carne. 8 p.m. & 10 p.m. $25. bluesalley.com. Bossa Bistro 2463 18th St NW. 202-667-0088. Hippie Control. 10 p.m. $5. bossproject.com. howard theatre 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899. Goapele. 8 p.m. $29.50. thehowardtheatre.com.
countRy Mr. henry’s 601 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. (202) 5468412. Old Town Tradition. 8 p.m. Free. mrhenrysdc.com.
Folk GyPsy sally’s 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. Lara Ruggles. 7 p.m. Free. gypsysallys.com.
JiMMy carter The former president signs copies of his latest book, A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety. Politics & Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. July 9, 7 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919. david e. hoFFMan A former Moscow bureau chief for the Washington Post, Hoffman tells the story of Adolf Tolkachev, one of the CIA’s most successful informants in The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal. Politics & Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. July 7, 7 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919. P.w. sinGer The author imagines what international conflict will look like in 10 years in Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War. Politics & Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. July 8, 7 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919. JaMes wood The New Yorker literary critic reads from his latest book about the art of reading, The Nearest Thing to Life. Politics & Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. July 6, 7 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919.
45TH ANNIVERSARY
Smoke-In
Saturday July 4th, 2015, Washington DC
All Smoke-In Alumni, return to to Washington DC on Saturday July 4th, 2015 for the 45th Anniversary Smoke-In Demonstration, Rally, “Peace Mile March” and Concert in the contingent of the year you attended your first Smoke-In.
Alumni Rally 12:00-2:45pm Lafayette Park (North side of the White House) Annual Alumni Group Photograph 2:45pm in front of the White House Peace Mile March 3:00pm-4:20pm from the White House to 23rd and Constitution Avenue NW 45th Anniversary Concert 2:00-9:00pm 23rd & Constitution Avenue NW
featuring: #potshotcomics
Dupont Brass unfortunate sons w/ ron hollo way
r.o da d.
the wharf rats To become a volunteer visit our website www.smoke-in.us or call 202-749-4300.
Galleries
artisPhere 1101 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. (703) 875-1100. artisphere.com. OngOing: “Bruised.” Local animator Safwat Saleem and WAMU’s Rebecca Sheir curate this new participatory art project that invites visitors to share their stories of defeat. Saleem will then animate the stories and display them on screens throughout the building. April 15–July 31. athenaeUM 201 Prince St., Alexandria. (703) 5480035. nvfaa.org. OngOing: “Saturate.” Six artists respond to the theme of water through painting,
CITY LIGHTS: MONDAY
SWIRLIES
Despite frequent lineup changes and the shuttering of nearly every club in Boston where the band played early on, shoegaze act Swirlies has reached its 25th anniversary. From its dream-pop roots on the 1994 EP Brokedick Car to the heavier sounds of 1998’s Strictly East Coast, Swirlies has been able to not only keep the attention of fans old and new, but evolve their sound. While the band started out with a more mellow, lo-fi guitar drive, its members’ latest offerings, as part of spin-off groups like the Yes Girls, possess a little more electricity. To celebrate this quarter-life milestone, the band reissued its 1993 album Blonder Tongue Audio Baton and will tour the country playing the album in its entirety. It’s fitting that Blonder gets the spotlight for Swirlies’ milestone. It encompasses the band’s best looks: sometimes sleepy and beachy, always lo-fi and dream-like. Swirlies performs with Big Hush at 7:30 p.m. at Black Cat,1811 14th St NW. $15. (202) 667—Jordan-Marie Smith 4490. blackcatdc.com.
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TRIVIA EVERY M O N D AY & W E D N E S D AY
$3 PBR & NATTY BOH ALL DAY EVERY DAY
CITY LIGHTS: TUESDAY
JERRY LAWSON
600 beers from around the world
The{APersuasions cappella icons} July 10
The VI-Kings
{’60s pop & rock mixtape} July 11
ChopTeeth
{Hip-shaking Afrobeat} July 18
Latin Dance Night {Colombian rhythm & dance} July 19
Karen Briggs
{Violin with an R&B, Gospel bravado} July 22
Hackensaw Boys
{Rowdy folk & Old-Time tunes} July 23
The Songs of Johnny Mercer
starring Lee Lessack and Linda Purl July 31 & Aug 1
The Gibson Brothers
{Bluegrass burnished by tradition} presented by WAMU’s Bluegrass Country
Aug 6
Emily Skinner: Broadway Her Way
{Musical theater magic} Aug 7
Downstairs: good food, great beer: $3 PBR & Natty Boh’s all day every day *all shows 21+
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FlashPoint Gallery 916 G St. NW. (202) 3151305. culturaldc.org. ClOsing: “Meandering Cities.” Artist Rachel Schmidt creates this mixed-media sculptural installation inspired by the idea of urban wilderness. June 5–July 3.
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printmaking, glass, and sound works in this new group show. June 4–July 19. Brentwood arts exchanGe 3901 Rhode Island Ave., Brentwood. (301) 277-2863. arts.pgparks. com. OngOing: “At War With Ourselves—A Visual Art Response.” Members of the Black Artists of DC respond to poet Nikky Finney’s rumination on race and contribute to the national conversation on the black experience in America through visual art. May 25–July 18. ClOsing: “Kristi Kelly.” New glasswork and bead decorations from the local artist. May 2–July 4.
UNDERGROUND COMEDY SHOW
M O N , J U LY 6 T H
11810 Grand Park Ave, N. Bethesda, MD Red Line–White Flint Metro
When soul singer Jerry Lawson left his a cappella group the Persuasions in 2003, after having performed with them since 1966, it looked like he would become just another obscure name in the annals of musical history. Although Lawson and his fellow street corner vocalists had sung on acclaimed albums of their own and with Joni Mitchell and Stevie Wonder, they seemed past their prime. When Lawson joined vocal outfit Talk of the Town in 2004, he proved he still had a voice and arranging skills to be reckoned with. In 2010, the group enjoyed a long run on the a cappella competition program The Sing-Off and Lawson dueted with show judge and former Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinger. Last year, Lawson did something completely new: Working with formerly D.C.-based alt-country musician/ producer Eric Brace, he recorded Just a Mortal Man, his first solo album, backed by musicians. Sounding relaxed on some tracks (Paul Simon’s “Peace Like a River”), world weary on others (Brace’s “Time and Water”), and always powerful yet in control, Lawson turns R&B and country numbers into vehicles for his own fervently emoted, heartfelt expression. Jerry Lawson performs at 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. at Blues Alley, 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. —Steve Kiviat $20. (202) 337-4141. bluesalley.com.
1523 22nd St NW – Washington, DC 20037 (202) 293-1887 - www.bierbarondc.com @bierbarondc.com for news and events
Goethe-institUt washinGton 812 7th St. NW. (202) 289-1200. www.goethe.de/washington. ClOsing: “Take It Right Back.” Sculptural works inspired by plants and other natural materials by German artist Paula Doepfner. May 5–July 3. Greater reston arts center 12001 Market St., Ste. 103, Reston. (703) 471-9242. restonarts.org. ClOsing: “Installation.” Sculptor Patrick Dougherty installs a new piece in Reston’s Town Square Park and the Arts Center showcases images of his other large-scale works around the world. April 16–July 3. ClOsing: “Patterson Clark.” The Washington Post’s “Urban Jungle” columnist presents a series of works printed on wood carved from invasive tree species. April 16–July 3. heMPhill Fine arts 1515 14th St. NW. (202) 2345601. hemphillfinearts.com. OngOing: “William Christenberry.” Images of rural Alabama by the American photographer. June 10–Aug. 1.
hillyer art sPace 9 Hillyer Court NW. (202) 3380680. artsandartists.org. OngOing: “Zachary Oxman.” Large-scale sculptures by artist Zachary Oxman. June 11–July 12. Mosaic 2910 District Ave., Fairfax. OngOing: “Transcendence.” Muralist James Walker creates a largescale installation and painter James Bullough installs a 30-foot mural inspired by break dancers at this outdoor exhibition presented by Art Whino. March 7–July 26. old Print Gallery 1220 31st St. NW. (202) 9651818. oldprintgallery.com. OngOing: “Resonant Terrain.” Photographs and prints of landscapes and seascapes from the 20th and 21st centuries. April 17–July 11. zenith Gallery 1429 Iris St. NW. (202) 783-2963. zenithgallery.com. ClOsing: “Lucent Moments.” Photorealistic skyscapes and brightly colored works by artist Emily Piccirillo. May 29–July 4.
dance
Move FeatUrinG dereK and JUlianne hoUGh The ballroom dancing siblings, who became famous performing on Dancing with the Stars, sing and dance in this so-called “futuristic dance fest” featuring choreography by Tabitha and Napoleon D’umo. Wolf Trap Filene Center. 1551 Trap Road, Vienna. July 3, 8 p.m. $25-$55. (703) 255-1900. wolftrap.org.
theater
the BooK oF MorMon The Broadway musical about two missionaries and their misadventures in Africa arrives at the Kennedy Center for an extended
summer stay. Kennedy Center Opera House. 2700 F St. NW. To August 16. $43-$250. 202-467-4600. kennedy-center.org. caPital FrinGe Festival This festival that brings together performers of all stripes from around the world returns for its 10th anniversary with 129 different groups setting up camp at a new, permanent location in Trinidad. Logan Fringe Arts Space. 1358 Florida Ave. NE. To July 26. (202) 737-7230. capitalfringe.org. cat on a hot tin rooF The company celebrates its return to the renovated Church Street Theatre with a new production of the Tennessee Williams classic about the family living on the Mississippi Delta plantation of cotton tycoon Big Daddy Pollitt. Keegan Theatre at Church Street Theater. 1742 Church St. NW. To July 25. $25-$36. (703) 892-0202. keegantheatre.com. iMPossiBle! a haPPenstance circUs The lively players from Happenstance Theatre travel back to the1930s and 1940s in this inventive circus performance that incorporates acrobatics and acts of wonder. Round House Theatre Bethesda. 4545 East-West Highway, Bethesda. To July 12. $20. (240) 644-1100. roundhousetheatre.org. occUPied territories Mollye Maxner’s play draws inspiration from Euripides’ The Trojan Women and examines how the history of war impacts our bodies, spirits, and relationships with each other. Anacostia Playhouse. 2020 Shannon Place SE. To July 5. $20-$35. (202) 544-0703. anacostiaplayhouse.com. once An Irish musician meets a young piano player in this romantic, Tony Award-winning musical based on the film by John Carney. Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater. 2700 F St. NW. To August 16. $65-$135. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org. the ProdUcers Two producers, one a striver and one a schemer, attempt to force a terrible musical onto a Broadway stage in this award-winning musical based on the film by Mel Brooks. Olney Theatre Center. 2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney. To July 26. $30-$75. (301) 924-3400. olneytheatre.org. the second city’s let theM eat chaos Chicago’s legendary Second City comedy company presents another lively satire of American culture and politics in a subversive manner. Woolly Mammoth Theatre. 641 D St. NW. To August 2. $35-$68. (202) 393-3939. woollymammoth.net.
shear Madness Enjoy the record-breaking comedy whodunit that lets the audience spot the clues, question the suspects and solve the funniest murder mystery in the annals of crime, now celebrating 25 years at the Kennedy Center. Kennedy Center Theater Lab. 2700 F St. NW. To December 31. $48. 202-467-4600. kennedy-center.org. sweeney todd: the deMon BarBer oF Fleet street ProG Metal version The rock-infused musical theater company revives its adaptation of the Stephen Sondheim musical about a murderous barber who turns his customers into meat pies. Atlas Performing Arts Center. 1333 H St. NE. To August 2. $29. (202) 399-7993. atlasarts.org. tales oF the allerGist’s wiFe An Upper West Side professional luncher finds herself in the midst of a midlife crisis when she unexpectedly reunites with a mysterious childhood friend. Charles Busch’s lively comedy explores what happens when her happy, obligation-free life is upset and how her family responds. Theater J. 1529 16th St. NW. To July 5. $30-$65. (202) 518-9400. theaterj.org. tartUFFe Moliere’s indictment of religion and its associated hypocrisy comes to Sidney Harman Hall in a co-production with Berkeley Repertory Theatre and South Coast Repertory Theatre. Sidney Harman Hall. 610 F St. NW. To July 5. $20-$110. (202) 547-1122. shakespearetheatre.org. txt Brian Feldman presents this interactive show in which he reads anonymous online messages sent from audience members every Sunday in 2015. Anything goes in terms of subject matter and profanity, so arrive with no expectations. American Poetry Museum. 716 Monroe St. #25. To December 27. $15-$20. (800) 8383006. txtshow.brownpapertickets.com.
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the aPU triloGy Satyajit Ray directs these three films about a young Bengali boy named Apu and his subsequent coming of age. Based on the novels by Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay, the films are recognized as some of the finest films to come out of India. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) eden Learn about the origins of electronic dance music in this French drama directed by Mia HansenLøve. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information)
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