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10 Our alphabetical guide to summer in D.C., in all its glory and misery

DISTRICT LINE 4 Loose Lips: Jack Evans’ challengers in the Ward 2 Council race have some problems of their own.

6 Wheel Love: Floating through town with D.C.’s Onewheel enthusiasts 7 Scene and Heard

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Gear Prudence International Arrivals: Meet the foreign-born athletes leading D.C.’s teams.

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slavery was not a racist insitution, that “the American slave was treated like property, which is to say, pretty well,” and that the main “obstacle facing African Americans is neither white racism, as many liberals claim, nor black genetic deficiency, as Charles Murray, and others imply. Rather it involves destructive and pathological cultural patterns of behavior: excessive reliance on government, conspiratorial paranoia about racism, a resistance to academic achievement as Kishan Putta at ‘acting white,’ a celebration of the a 2014 parade criminal and outlaw as authentically black, and the normalization of illegitimacy and dependency.”

In his letter, Putta argues that some interpretations of the book manipulate D’Souza’s arguments.

“D’Souza’s formulation of rational discrimination (that urban cab drivers may be hesitant to pick up blacks opposed to whites given the greatly higher urban crime rates of blacks) does not justify its existence,” Putta writes. “Rather, he finds that it is an unfortunate result of the decay of urban black culture.”

Putta explains in his letter that D’Souza, a fellow Dartmouth alumnus, had recently spoken at their alma mater and “told us that while there are great differences between blacks and other groups in almost all cultural standards (test scores illegitimacy rates, savings) even when controlled for socioeconomic situation, there are basically three causes for discrepancy: racism, genes and culture.”

In another letter to the editor from his college days, the now 45-year-old Putta complains about being excluded from a discussion of a debate involving D’Souza hosted by an oncampus group called Women of In that book, D’Souza, a right-wing pro- Color United.

“Some of my father’s hard-earned money vocateur who promotes conspiracy theories and received a pardon from President Don- goes toward funding the Women’s Resource ald Trump last year after pleading guilty to Center, and the College supports it and yet, breaking campaign finance laws, tries to make this event is off limits to me and every other male and white female at Dartmouth—that is the case for “rational discrimination.”

“High crime rates of young black males, for an exclusion of over 90 percent of the student example, make taxi drivers more reluctant to body!” a college-age Putta exclaims. “I am a pick them up, storekeepers more likely to fol- member of the Conservative Union where we low them in stores, and employers less willing often have liberal students attend civilly and to hire them,” D’Souza writes. “Rational dis- they are welcome. At the Young Democrats, crimination is based on accurate group gener- the principle of non-discrimination also holds; alizations that may nevertheless be unfair to as it does at AAm, DAO, La Allianza, or Women in Politics. But this group gets to discrimiparticular members of a group.”

D’Souza also writes in that book that nate by both race and sex!”

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Several of Jack Evans’ challengers come with their own baggage.

By Mitch Ryals As WArd 2 Councilmember Jack Evans fights to prevent his political career from flatlining, five men are clamoring to take his seat.

Evans, the District’s longest serving councilmember, has coasted to re-election unopposed in his past two election cycles. Now, as Evans faces a federal investigation into his private business dealings, the potential loss of his committee chairmanship, and an ethics violation that cost him his seat on the Metro board, these challengers want to seize on his

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vulnerability.

A crowded field of opponents benefits Evans, especially since a single frontrunner has yet to emerge. Aside from splitting the anti-Evans vote, some of the candidates have political liabilities of their own.

Take Kishan Putta, for example: The most recent candidate to throw his hat in the ring is a member of the DC Democratic State Committee, but his Republican past still haunts him.

In 1996, while he was a student at Dartmouth College, Putta wrote a letter to the editor of the student newspaper defending Dinesh D’Souza’s 1995 book, The End of Racism.

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Puryear believes is the bigger issue: Evans.

“I think this is exactly the type of thing that the Jack Evanses of the world are hoping for, that people don’t focus on what’s really going on here,” Puryear says. “It’s not about the individual challengers, it’s about the fact that [Evans’] role in the District of Columbia has been controversial and corrupt and institutionally racist.

Those are the issues that should be debated.”

As chair of the Committee on Finance and Revenue, Puryear says, Evans has contributed to policies that have disinvested in black citizens, “and increased the gulf between black and white residents in the city.”

Evans’ other challengers include Logan Circle neighborhood commissioner John Fanning, Foggy Bottom neighborhood commissioner Patrick Kennedy, political newcomer Jordan Grossman, who touts his work in the Obama administration, and another political newbee, Daniel Hernandez.

None of them are perfect, of course. Aside from Grossman and Hernandez’s lack of experience in local politics, Hernandez is registered to vote in Ward 1, according to the Board of Elections, despite listing a Ward 2 address on his candidacy filing. Hernandez tells LL that he changed his registration back in May through the Vote 4 DC app and believes the information with the Board of Elections just hasn’t been updated yet.

Fanning has had a long career in government and has worked for every mayoral administration since Mayor Marion Barry. He’s also trying to seal his criminal arrest record related to a minor assault charge, though he appears to have a reasonable explanation and says he acted in self defense.

And Kennedy served as a co-chair of Evans’ uncontested 2016 re-election campaign.

Evans has not yet filed for re-election, but he told LL in April that he intends to run in 2020.

He did not return a call seeking comment.

Recently, though, Evans resigned as chairman of the Metro board after its investigation revealed that he violated several ethical rules.

Evans initially denied any violations before acknowledging that Metro’s ethics committee sustained a single violation.

Evans is steeling himself for what would be a devastating blow to his influence and power on the Council. Following Metro’s investigation, Chairman Phil Mendelson recommended the Council remove Evans as chair of the finance committee. Evans called that a “drastic action.”

In a meeting this week, Evans disputed the conclusions of the Metro investigation, calling it “incomplete, unfair, and misleading.” But he refused to answer several questions from his fellow councilmembers about clients of his private consulting firm. The Council will vote whether to revoke his chairmanship on July 9.

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Today, Putta prefers not to engage specifically with questions about his college-aged views. He says his conservative upbringing played a role in his perspective as a college student, and after re-reading his letters now, says his views then were wrong.

“I’m a staunch and loyal progressive in my record in D.C., and I am a different person politically than I was 25 years ago,” Putta tells LL. “If you want to ask again about 23 years ago, it’s hard for me to remember all the arguments I might have raised back then when I was involved in campus politics that I really left behind after college. All I can tell you is what I believe now. Let me talk about that.”

As an advisory neighborhood commissioner in Ward 2 (he currently represents Georgetown, Burleith, and Hillandale, and is a former Dupont ANC), Putta says he authored a resolution officially opposing the racist name of the local NFL team. He says he’s protested with Black Lives Matter, and has supported the effort by At-Large Councilmember David Grosso to decriminalize sex work.

“We’re not condoning it, but we’re not going to penalize them for coming forward,” Putta says.

Putta’s campaign, like those of Evans’ other challengers, emphasizes restoring trust in local government. Putta pledges to hold monthly meetings with constituents and, in his support for term limits, promises to serve only two consecutive terms if elected. He also intends to take advantage of D.C.’s new public campaign financing, as will his fellow challengers.

Putta is no stranger to crowded campaigns. He ran as an independent along with 14 other candidates in 2014 for the at-large seat that Elissa Silverman ultimately won.

Putta says he officially changed his party affiliation from Republican to Independent in 2012, and after attending the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, changed parties again. He’s running in Ward 2 as a Democrat.

Putta credits his shift in political ideology to his progressive-minded wife, whom he met in 2007, as well as his work for D.C.’s health insurance marketplace as an outreach coordinator, and his contact with local progressive advocacy groups such as DC for Democracy and Jews United for Justice.

For Rev. Graylan Hagler, who ran against Putta in the 2014 race, the letters are not a disqualifier.

“He’s a nice guy and wants to be thoughtful,” Hagler says. “But if you say these are the rules, he’s not gonna question why the rules are in place or who made the rules. He’s going to operate within the rules.”

Eugene Puryear, a lefty activist, author, and radio show host who also ran against Putta in 2014, is willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. The letters are a distraction from what

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DISTRICTLINE Wheel Love Onewheel riders build community while floating through the region’s streets.

As Chris JACques’ first wedding anniversary with his wife, Emily Jacques, approached in 2017, he wanted to get her something special.

So he dropped $1,000 on an object he hoped would bring her as much joy as it had brought him: a Onewheel.

At first, Emily wasn’t sure the device—a skateboard-like electric vehicle with a large wheel in the middle—would be her thing.

“I was like, ‘Oh god, I know this thing brings him so much joy, and I’m gonna have to figure out how to use it, because he invested in one for me,’” she recalls.

But a few rides later, it was clear to Emily that Onewheel would absolutely be her thing.

Chris first heard about Onewheel in 2014, when inventor Kyle Doerksen was promoting his new invention through a Kickstarter campaign.

“I was just like, what is this magical vehicle, and how do I get one?” says Chris, who lives in Kensington.

Due to the four-figure price tag, he didn’t purchase his own board until 2016. He was instantly hooked, and started looking for others just as fascinated by the vehicle as he was. His search led him to two Facebook groups, a massive one for Onewheel owners around the world, and a smaller one for riders located in D.C. After becoming heavily involved in the latter, he eventually became its leader.

Today, his “DMV OneWheel Riders” group has approximately 350 members. He estimates that 75 percent of members are actually located in the D.C. area, while the rest are Onewheelers from places like Delaware, Texas, and West Virginia who’ve joined when visiting D.C. “A lot of people will join and be like, ‘Hey, I’m visiting town this weekend, can you show me around the city?’” Chris says.

The group’s page is flooded with questions about Onewheel use, videos of people riding and doing tricks, and posts organizing group rides—often called “floats,” because riding can “feel like you’re floating on air,” Chris says.

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book group, then meet up to ride for approximately three hours. Their usual route starts at L’Enfant Plaza near the Spy Museum, where parking is free on weekends, then goes through Navy Yard along the waterfront toward the National Mall and around the monuments.

Onewheel batteries have to be recharged after seven miles or so of riding, so the group usually stops a couple times on rides to grab a

job lets Carluccio devote his weeks to working on The Voice of Onewheel, a YouTube and podcast series about Onewheelers across the country, with his friend and co-host Matt LaBelle. Working on the show has put Carluccio in contact with Onewheel communities across the nation—Los Angeles, Denver, Dallas—and he says the DMV group is among the largest and most active he’s ever seen. He also says it’s given him an unprecedented sense of community.

“I’m a single guy, 35 years old. Most of my friends have kids, have families, and it’s hard to see people,” he says. “It feels like you don’t have a lot of friends at this age, as people start to pair off and stuff, and it’s just been really neat to feel like there’s so many people in this area who have the same interests and love for this stupid board that we ride.”

Emily says the best thing she’s gotten out of Chris and Emily Jacques

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weirder, every now and then the DMV Onewheelers wear LED stick figure costumes made by Glowy Zoey during evening rides.

The effect of these so-called “glow rides” is delightfully strange—the riders appear to be colorful, glowing life-size stick figures floating across the ground. And according to Emily, people love it.

“Sometimes we’ll be riding around the monuments and stuff, and we’ll roll up on a group of middle schoolers taking a group photo in front of the Lincoln Memorial,” she says. “They’re just like, ‘Woah! What is that?’ And you just hear people start hollering from afar, and you’re like, ‘Oh! That’s us!’ We are in some way bringing just a tiny bit of joy and excitement to these middleschoolers from Ohio.”

But even better than being stopped by tourists, Emily says, is being stopped by people who thought they were the only person in D.C.

drink and charge up. Chris calls this combination of Onewheeling around the city and hanging out with other riders “float therapy.”

“A lot of people use it as a way to mend and decompress from the day, the week, and whatnot,” he says. “Some of these people have high-stress jobs, and then at the end of the day they can hop on this weird machine, go for a float, and grab a beer with a bunch of people.”

To make this niche, weird tradition even

with a Onewheel.

“People will run up to us and be like, ‘Oh my god, my Onewheel’s at home. What is this club? How do I join?” she says. “And we’re like, ‘We’re not a club. We’re just people. But by all means join our Facebook group.’”

On the weekends, avid Onewheeler Adam Carluccio works as a wedding DJ in and around Centreville, Virginia. The

her Onewheel is that same sense of community. She’s constantly impressed by how supportive DMV Onewheelers are of one another.

“If you put yourself out there and are just like, ‘Hey, who’s down to ride? I need one right now just to clear my head,’ you can always find someone that will join up with you,” she says.

“It’s just a really nice thing in these trying times in the world, to just have this little outlet that’s positive.”

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Gear Prudence: Twice within the past two weeks, I’ve been scolded by people walking on the trail for dinging my bell to let them know I’m passing. Come on!

One guy called it “downright rude.” Wouldn’t it be even ruder if I didn’t ring my bell and passed silently? Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. Some people just don’t want to share the trail with bikers.

—Kindly Notified, Erroneous Loper Lectures Dear KNELL: All right, let’s get the standard stuff out of the way first: • Most trails are shared between bicyclists, runners, walkers, amblers, tourists, scooterists, and everyone in between.

• Each individual is responsible for behaving conscientiously around others.

• Speed disparities will always exist.

• Sometimes people should slow down.

• Sometimes people should move over.

• Giving a polite and timely warning before passing is preferable.

• And lastly, even if you do everything right and you’re conscientious, signal your pass, slow down, give ample room, and mail a handwritten embossed thank you note afterward, some people will criticize your behavior because that’s just what people do. Suck it up and keep doing your best. But if the criticism happens repeatedly perhaps your best could be better, so think on that.

What a bell ring actually means and why bellbased communication is so often problematic is a topic worth exploring. For the most part, a bicyclist ringing a bell hopes to convey: “I am behind you” and “I plan to pass to you since I am moving faster.” Often what people who are not on bicycles hear is: “Get out of my way!” This latter interpretation of the ding makes it a rude message (though in a broad sense, an accurate one.)

Turns out, sonic vibrations might not be the best way to facilitate human interaction in a shared space. However, it’s not the bell ring itself that’s the problem, but what happens next. Does the cyclist whiz by too closely? Does the other person not acknowledge the bell at all? Or get flustered and move in the wrong direction? Does the cyclist ding repeatedly? (Please don’t over-ding.)

Does the non-cyclist jump and get startled? Each fraught or unexpected post-ding interaction retroactively ascribes a negative connotation to the ding itself. Thereafter, each subsequent ding carries with it the vestiges of past dings gone wrong.

GP proposes a reset. From this point forward, after each ring, whether you’re the ringer or the one hearing it, mentally insert a question mark.

“Do you know I’m here?” “Is now an OK time to pass?” “Could you please move over?” Transposing dings from imperatives to interrogatives can help establish a much more cooperative form of communication, one that recognizes that coexistence on the trails requires cutting through misunderstandings and being more charitable with one other. And if you don’t like it, ride on the road, where no one can hear your bell anyway.

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Paper Route, 4:44 a.m.

It’s early, before the sun’s up and the day grows hot. Before people’s dreams have faded to groggy alertness. Before they’ve started their morning routines. Most people, at least.

A minivan whips around the corner, fourway lights blinking, and comes to a sudden halt. A woman in a long T-shirt, with a head of big, curly hair, opens the door and dashes out toward a rowhouse. What is she doing? What is she fleeing?

She pivots suddenly in the darkness and hustles back to the car, leaping back through the still open driver’s seat door. The car lurches forward a few feet before stopping again.

Now—illuminated by a street light—as she darts toward another house, it’s clear what she’s doing. She hucks a newspaper hard and it soars through the early morning air, landing expertly with a satisfying whump at the front door step. Clearly this is not her first paper route.

It’s not as quaint as the name suggests.

There’s no bicycle with a big basket stuffed with papers. It’s not pocket money for an early-rising grade schooler. The way she moves— fast, frenetic—makes everything feel fragile and desperate. Maybe she’s just running late.

The car jerks forward again and she comes to the next house, tossing her parcel toward it.

She continues in short bursts, fading back into the darkness and disappearing around a corner.

The sun will rise in about an hour. The rest of D.C. will get started with its day. People will wake up, brush their teeth, and step outside to read the day’s news.

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SPORTS International Arrivals Rui Hachimura is the latest foreign-born player to make a mark in D.C.

Rooney did last week. Even fewer could’ve pulled it off. Collecting the ball near D.C. United’s goal, Rooney sent a 70-yard strike over the head of Orlando City’s goalkeeper. It was vintage Rooney. His arrival in D.C. last June instantly transformed D.C. United from one of the worst teams in the league to a playoff contender. Born in Liverpool, England, the 33-year-old is the all-time leading scorer for the English national team and Manchester United.

Since last month’s NBA draft, a pack of Japanese media members has followed Rui Hachimura’s every move on the basketball court. Longtime NBA reporter and editor-in-chief of The Athletic Washington D.C., David Aldridge, recently compared the Hachimura frenzy to when Ichiro Suzuki joined Major League Baseball.

Hachimura, 21, became the first Japanese-born player selected in the draft when the Wizards took him with the ninth overall pick. The son of a Japanese mother and Beninese father, Hachimura, a Toyama, Japan, native, is already a legend back home. A tweet from the Wizards welcoming Hachimura in Japanese generated the most interaction of any tweet in the Wizards’ social media history, according to the Washington Post.

But Hachimura isn’t the only foreign-born pro athlete in town. The local athletes below were born in other countries—from future hall of famers to fellow first-year players—but have made their impact in the nation’s capital. —Kelyn Soong

Amy Harrison active roster. The team drafted wide receiver Kelvin Harmon, 22, in the sixth round of the 2019 NFL Draft. Another wide receiver, 25-year-old Jehu Chesson, joined the team last year after being drafted by the Kansas City Chiefs in 2017. While both players moved from Liberia to the U.S. at a young age, Harmon said on the team’s website in April that he credits his Liberian roots for his work ethic and spirituality.

NHL: Alex Ovechkin (Russia) The 33-year-old Moscow native cemented his place in D.C. sports history after leading the Caps to a Stanley Cup title in 2018. Known as “the Great Eight,” Ovechkin became the NHL’s top scoring Russian-born player in February, breaking his tie with Sergei Fedorov, who was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2015.

Jehu Chesson

NFL: Kelvin Harmon and Jehu Chesson (Liberia)

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Emma Meesseman

WNBA: Emma Meesseman and Kim Mestdagh (Belgium)

With the 19th overall pick in the 2013 WNBA Draft, the Mystics selected a 6-foot-4 Belgian named Emma Meesseman. Two seasons later, she became a WNBA All-Star. The 26-year-old’s return to D.C. this year after a one-season absence to play for the Belgium national team at the FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup tournament helped make the Mystics preseason WNBA title favorites. Fellow Belgian Kim Mestdagh also plays for the Mystics.

MLB: Juan Soto (Dominican Republic) After Bryce Harper departed D.C. for the Philadelphia Phillies in March, the presence of one young player on the Nats made the move more palatable: 20-year-old Juan Soto. Born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Soto signed with the team as an international free agent in July 2015. He made his MLB debut on May 20, 2018, and finished the season with 22 home runs, 70 RBIs, and a .292 batting average. That September, a column by Thomas Boswell of the Post called him “the best teenage hitter ever.”

NWSL: Chloe Logarzo and Amy Harrison (Australia)

MLS: Wayne Rooney (England) Few players would’ve tried what Wayne

When the Washington Spirit began its season in April, the team trotted out five players to speak to the media. Three of them—Mallory Pugh, Rose Lavelle, and Andi Sullivan—have played on the U.S. national team, but the other two, first-year Spirit players Chloe Logarzo and Amy Harrison, may not be as well known to American soccer fans.

But there’s a reason they were chosen to speak. Logarzo, 24, and Harrison, 23, are among the best women’s soccer players in their native Australia.

Both recently returned from the Women’s World Cup in France, where they helped the Australians reach the knockout stage.

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is for … Air Conditioning. It might be a sweltering 98 degrees outside, but worry not!

Every indoor space you enter this summer will be a cool 65—max.

That’s right: Restaurants, movie theaters, museums, and the Washington City Paper conference room all transform into igloos as soon as solstice hits. Your D.C. summer survival kit should include a fur-lined parka in addition to sunglasses and sunscreen.

—Ella Feldman is for … Boathouses. Despite D.C. being landlocked and more than a hundred miles from the Atlantic Ocean, water lovers still have plenty of opportunities to pilot their own crafts down D.C.’s scenic rivers. Consider, this summer, its boathouses. Rent a kayak at Ballpark Boathouse and coast through the Anacostia in search of foul balls. Work your core while taking a standup paddleboarding fitness class at the Wharf or Key Bridge. Visualize your Olympic dreams at Thompson Boat Center and sign up for a series of sculling or sweeping classes. There’s a craft for everyone, regardless of their boating abilities or upper body strength—pedal boats for couples and quartets leave from the Tidal Basin.

—Caroline Jones

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The longest days of the year are upon us, so how will you take advantage of the extra hours of daylight? With temperatures cooking in the 90s, it’s tempting to spend the next 11 weeks watching Netflix and chilling—literally—in an air-conditioned spot of your choosing. But that would mean missing out on the seasonal events that Washingtonians and tourists can only enjoy for a short time each year. Whether you take a long walk after a rainstorm, paddle down the Potomac, or listen to live music outside, The Swamp gets a little more exciting in the summer.

As professional proponents of life in the District, we here at Washington City Paper want our readers to make the most of their time, so we’ve created a list of 26 ways to celebrate summer in the city, running the gamut from A to Z. If you complete two activities a week and start right now, you’ll finish just in time for fall.

—Caroline Jones

is for … Crabs. If you plan to participate in the mid-Atlantic summer tradition of picking crabs, do yourself a favor and trim your nails first.

Breaking a nail feels worse when a combination of crustacean guts, salt, and shell enters the wound. The hardest choice when it comes to crabs is where you’ll eat them and who you’ll eat them with. Will you host a gaggle of friends at your home and hope the smell of a bushel of steamed crabs dissipates after a few days? Will you head to Maine Avenue SW and get your crabs cooked on site, then enjoy them while taking in a view of the river?

Or will you brave traffic and the Chesapeake Bay Bridge to enjoy your crabs as close to the source as possible? As a native Marylander and frequent traverser of Route 50, I heartily endorse the third option.

—Caroline Jones is for … Day Trips.

Summer is for adventure. Let the season’s long days, warm weather, and laid-back vibes call you away from your routine, to places where the only goal is exploration. Cool off by dipping your toes in the ocean or taking to the skies in Shenandoah, get to know new cities like Baltimore or Charlottesville, Virgin-

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ia, or find a day trip that doesn’t require going far at all, like the ever-quaint Old Town Alexandria. Wherever you’re going, clear your calendar for a day and take in all your destination offers. We’re lucky to have so many primo destinations within driving distance or accessible by public transit, so take advantage of them! Adventure is out there.

—Will Warren

is for …

Escaleftors.

They’re school groups from out of town.

They’re families of tourists.

They’re summer interns who haven’t figured out how to commute. And they’re EVERYWHERE, drifting back and forth, wasting precious minutes of people’s time for no apparent reason other than a sinister refusal to learn a very simple Metro escalator rule: stand right, walk left. Slight modification: stand right, walk left, or just leave. Please.

—Ella Feldman is for … Fort Reno.

During the year it’s a watering hole for the youth of Tenleytown, a hub of teenage angst and delinquency. But in the summer, the historic field off Belt Road NW transforms into the perfect venue for a summer sunset. Forget 9:30 Club and The Anthem, grab a blanket and a picnic and enjoy a lovely, music-filled evening on the top of the town. Starting in July, every Monday and Thursday, Fort Reno hosts a 7 p.m. concert for any and all, provided they keep their alcohol, drugs, and glass containers at home. Fort Reno, more like Fort Re-yes!

—Ayomi Wolff

is for … Garden, Jazz in the. Listening to jazz in the National Gallery of Art’s sculpture garden s eems like a perfectly urbane way to close out the work week. Who wouldn’t want to listen to live music while checking out large works by Louise Bourgeois, Ellsworth Kelly, and Alexander Calder? But Jazz in the Garden, the NGA’s weekly summer concert series, tends to quickly devolve into chaos. When hundreds of chattering bodies (that get progressively louder as more sangria is drunk) pack the tiny space, the music and art become afterthoughts. If you want to hear good jazz, head to one of D.C.’s cozy jazz clubs. If you want to roll around on soft grass and drink some wine with your pals, well, there’s a place for you on the Mall most Friday nights. —Caroline Jones is for … Humidity.

I hear a lot of people bitchin’ about the humidity around here. As someone who is already an entire week into his first D.C. summer, I’m here to say you’re wrong. Humidity is glorious. So your pits get a little sweaty, and you feel a little sluggish. We’re supposed to sweat. Suck it up! Guzzle an extra

shot of espresso or whatever you losers drink to stay awake. Oh, is it hard to fall asleep at night because you’re sticky and your sheets are drenched? Ever hear of a fan? You can buy one for $4. And don’t even start with me about frizzy hair. I know all about frizzy hair. It’s not that bad.

Plus, without humidity, your boogers would dry out and you’d get nosebleeds. Do you want nosebleeds? Didn’t think so. Science tells us that more humidity means baseballs travel farther. That same science tells us that those rules of physics only apply when the Nationals are batting. Ergo, if you hate humidity, you hate the Nationals.

—Mitch Ryals is for … Ice. There’s just something about water that’s been chilled to 32 degrees Fahrenheit. Whether it’s in coffee, whipped together with milk to make delicious ice cream, or shaved and flavored with syrup, it’ll satisfy the tongue. It even makes boring old water taste better. The letter “I” does not stand for ICE—and D.C. residents won’t stand for it either. The current administration first promised, then walked back, then carried on anyway with immigration raids, resulting in several arrests and families wrenched apart. Trump is as unpredictable as an afternoon thunderstorm watch, but it seems likely that he’ll continue with this cruelty, so stay vigilant this summer. Watch out for your neighbors, and check with organizations like Sanctuary DMV and RAICES to learn what you can do in the event of an ICE raid.

—Stephanie Rudig is for … Jiffy Lube Live. Your favorite big-name musial act is coming to town, and the summer weather is perfect for an open-air concert.

You text your friends to get a group together and whip out your

credit card. STOP. Put that card away. Be honest, your favorite artist isn’t coming to town; they’re visiting the distant land known as Jiffy Lube Live, and going there requires a journey through the hellscape that is its parking lot. The concert itself will be pleasant—it’s a good place to watch famous people play music for thousands of fans—but the aftermath will leave you forever changed. After waiting for hours late at night for the chance to depart and then driving 36 miles back to D.C., you will question not only your decision to come here, but your fandom in general. You will leave a part of your soul in that parking lot. Some say it’s still there, waiting for its turn to exit and go home. —Will Warren is for … Kenilworth Park & Aquatic Gardens. There’s nothing more fun to photograph than the lotus flowers at Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens, with their swollen, sunny yellow centers and dramatic pink petals, especially on a clear day. Even if you’re not a shutterbug, taking the time to wind through ponds on paths and raised walkways is literally a breath of fresh air. Listen for bullfrogs croaking and see if you can spot some tadpoles or mating dragonflies, but watch out for slithering snakes. One additional perk of the park is that it’s dog friendly. Plan your visit to coincide with the Lotus and Water Lily Festival on July 13 and 14 or head over early on the weekend with your four-legged friend before the park gets busy.

—Laura Hayes is for … Lawn.

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ty of the outdoors without actually encountering any plants. With the museum’s carpeted floors now covered with lush turf field decorated with lawn chairs and hammocks, summer fun can be had without D.C’s swampy heat getting in the way of pure, unadulterated laziness.

And that’s not all: The giant field features croquet sets, dominoes, and bocce balls, oh my!

Finally, an acceptable place to lay down in a chair for $16.

—Ayomi Wolff

is for … Mueller. July 17 will be a big day for political enthusiasts who like to day drink while watching wall-to-wall news coverage. That’s when special counsel Robert Mueller will testify before the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees, and it’s only a matter of time before bars start announcing which themed cocktails they’ll serve to avid viewers. Prep for Mueller’s star turn six days earlier at Arena Stage, which will host a free, 11-hour reading of part two of the Mueller Report. Among the scheduled readers are D.C. Councilmembers Charles Allen and David Grosso, local theater directors Michael Kahn, Maria Manuela Goyanes, and David Muse, and Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton. If we’re going to spend 12 july 5, 2019 washingtoncitypaper.com

the summer worrying about Russian election interference, at least we’ll have fun and drink Mueller-itas while we do it. —Caroline Jones is for … Nightswimming.

“N i g h t s w i m ming deserves a quiet night,” proclaims Michael Stipe on R.E.M.’s greatest song. A quiet summer night in D.C. is hard to find. Opportunities to swim late in the day are easier to come by. The Capitol Skyline Hotel keeps its pool open until 10 p.m. daily, with weekday passes going for $45. The Penthouse Pool Club closes at 11 p.m. on Thursdays, allowing its members to start the weekend early, and the rooftop pool at the Liaison Washington Capitol Hill offers an adult swim period for those over 21 from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. every day for $25 during the week and $35 on weekends. The soundtracks won’t be as mellow as Stipe’s somber meditation on a dark dip with friends, but don’t let that stop you from taking the plunge. —Caroline Jones is for … Outdoor Movies. There’s nothing more summer than being with your best friends, spreading a blanket across a field, and laying down to watch the 1998

remake of The Parent Trap or last year’s heartwrenching The Hate U Give. Maybe Thor: Ragnarok is more your thing. Lucky for us all, outdoor movie venues across the city will be playing these selections and many others all summer long. You can find outdoor movies at Canal Park, Freedom Plaza, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial, the Library of Congress, Storey Park, Union Market, and plenty of other spots in and around the city. If you love the 1992 feminist masterpiece A League of Their Own, consider yourself extra lucky—it’s screening outside four times this season.

—Ella Feldman P is for … Pirate Ship.

Getting blasted on the Potomac aboard the Boomerang Pirate Ship is a right of passage. The red and black vessel, which departs from Georgetown, is available for 21+ party cruises that last two hours, as well as family cruises where you’re less likely to see a pack of bros in costumes doing the worm on the deck of the ship. (The most popular costumes during the 2018 season were parrots, sharks, and, of course, pirates.) Tickets range from $20 to $35 depending on dates and times and there’s a cash bar on board serving Pirate’s Punch made with spiced rum, coconut rum, pineapple juice, and cranberry juice, along with beer and wine.

—Laura Hayes

States Tennis Association tournaments where you can convince your friends to watch you play as you live out your childhood dream of being an elite athlete. Other people do that too, right?

—Kelyn Soong is for … Underground. The sun is overrated. Haunt D.C.’s subterranean spots like a jilted Victorian ghost bride instead of withering in the smothering heat this summer. You know who doesn’t sweat profusely or get skin cancer? Victorian ghosts. Go underground to catch a comedy show downstairs at Big Hunt, a concert in the dark recesses of Songbyrd Music House, or a range of arts programming at Dupont Underground. You can also cool off with a cocktail in the blessedly windowless Sotto, Off the Record, or Denson Liquor Bar. Vitamin D comes in a tablet now, so step out of the sun for a little while and let the cool darkness take you in.

—Elizabeth Tuten

is for … Quilts.

What says summer more than thick, padded bedspreads with decorative stitching?!

Absolutely nothing, that’s what. Regardless of the temperature outside , you can celebrate this cozy accessory with the new exhibition Everyday Luxury, on view to January 2020 at the National Museum of American History. Specifically, this collection focuses on fancy silk quilts known as “parlor throws” from the late 19th century—many of them rarely before seen— and also showcases quilt-making materials and details about quilt-making techniques.

On top of it all, admission is free, so quilt sitting around and get your ass down to the Mall.

—Ella Feldman is for … Rain.

With residents from all 50 states and most countries on the planet, you can find any manner of conversation about weather in D.C. But all of these people should be able to converge on one point: D.C. has excellent summer rainstorms. They come suddenly, include thunder and lightning, and they’ll soak you in

a second. Next time it rains, stop what you’re doing, find a friend or deskmate, and head to a window or doorway. Stand there and watch it come down: loud, steady, and bigger than you are.

—Alexa Mills is for … Sidewalks.

They’re abundant in D.C. And though the menace that is the electric scooter has polluted them as of late, outside of downtown it’s still possible to enjoy long stretches of appropriately used sidewalks. D.C. may be the best walking city in the country, and in the summer, nothing will clean you out and put you to sleep like a sweaty 15-mile walk. Pick a distant destination, put your phone away, find your best friend, and set out for an 8-hour stroll on a Saturday.

—Alexa Mills is for … Tennis. A number of young, mostly international tennis stars are coming to play at the Citi Open from July 27 until Aug. 4 at the Rock Creek Park Tennis Center, and if rooftops are your thing, the Washington Kastles will play their home matches on the Union Market rooftop starting this month. But summer tennis goes beyond spectating pros at events helmed by City Paper owner and noted tennis enthusiast Mark Ein. Register for local United

is for … Vote. On July 24th, the Hou s e Committee on Oversight and Reform will hold a hearing on legislation that would make D.C. the 5 1st state, finally allowing D.C. to have voting representatives in Congress. The voteless Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton has been beating this drum almost as long as she’s been in office, and brought about the only other House hearing on this issue in 1993.

Since then, she’s continued to recruit other House members to co-sponsor the bill and now has the support of over 200 members, as well as Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. The current Senate has made clear that they will not pass this bill should it pass the House, but Washingtonians can dream.

—Stephanie Rudig

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rely on it just as much as tourists do. Winds off the Potomac River provide a bracing start to the workday, after all.

—Caroline Jones is for …

Xylophone.

I am not what you’d call a classical music aficionado and you’d be unlikely to find me listening to the National Symphony Orchestra when they’re in residence at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall. That all changes when the NSO goes into the wild every summer. Beyond their annual performance of Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture during the annual A Capitol Fourth concert— an all-time great D.C. summer experience in its own right—the District’s hometown orchestra will collaborate with a diverse stable of artists during its seasonal residency at Wolf Trap.

Prepare to hear “Weird Al” Yankovic, Sarah McLachlan, and Nas as you’ve never heard them before, with the backing of a renowned set of classical musicians and plenty of extra flourishes.

—Caroline Jones

is for … Youth. Summer is about a lot of things, but if you have kids, it’s really only about one thing: them.

School is out, and the young ones need something to do.

Luckily, with a bevy of free and world-class cultural institutions, it’s not hard to build a themed summer around your kids’ interests, whatever they might be.

Take the soccer fanatic to a D.C. United game to see all-time great Wayne Rooney, the outdoor movie screening of Bend It Like Beckham in NoMa, and to see memorabilia from Briana Scurry at the National Museum of African American History and Culture. The comic book nerd gets a trip to see the Library of Congress’ impressive collection and some drawing classes. Tying these trips to a theme your kid is into will have them excited to visit these age-old institutions. You know your kid best, and this city has something for everyone.

—Will Warren is for … Zzzzzs. The sun is out longer, the heat is hotter, and the sweat is stickier this time of year. During these long, activity-filled days you’re probably feeling pretty drowsy, so make like the Spaniards and take a nap in the middle of the day. It can happen outside or in your bed, for 15 minutes or an hour, so long as you close your eyes and snooze.

—Stephanie Rudig

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Three generations of a Ward 7 family find employment and fulfillment in urban farming. community members to get involved at the farm. “Nobody really had the guts to come up and say, ‘What is this, I want to be a part of it,’” she explains. “When you’re starting from scratch, that was invaluable.”

DC UrbanGreens currently grows cucumbers, kale, collard greens, eggplant, zucchini, arugula, tomatoes, and okra with the goal of feeding a segment of the city with few food options. Only three full-service grocery stores exist in wards 7 and 8, and corner stores and carryouts still dominate the food landscape.

The organization’s goals go beyond increasing access to healthy food. They also work to empower volunteers and employees from the community and provide educational opportunities and a sense of belonging for visitors.

“Growing food is a vehicle for the changes we’re making in the community with people,” Kirkwood says. “We’re not growing food, we’re growing people. They have to have the passion, will, commitment, and work ethic, but you have to build their qualifications.”

Parker’s family embodies DC UrbanGreens’ mission. Parker’s son Taboris Robinson and grandson Montell Holland also work with the organization, and all three generations live across the street from the farm, in the Banneker Place Apartments. Before following his mother to DC UrbanGreens three years ago, Robinson held jobs in kitchens and carpentry following a trying stretch in the music industry.

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Taboris Robinson, Montell Holland, and Lelia Parker

By Laura Hayes While she recovered from breast cancer surgery five years ago, Lelia Parker decided to find a way to fill her days. “I needed something to do because I was feeling better,” she says.

“People don’t like giving old people jobs, so I was trying to find somewhere to fit in.” On a walk up Ely Place SE, near her home in Ward 7, Parker discovered a green space wrapping around the Fort

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Dupont Ice Arena that would end up impacting the lives of three generations of her family.

The nonprofit agriculture organization DC UrbanGreens operates a farm on that property, and when Parker met DC UrbanGreens co-founders Julie Kirkwood and Vincent Forte, they told her they needed help. Soon after Parker started volunteering, she was promoted to outreach coordinator and is now a paid, part-time employee.

The work takes Parker back to her upbringing in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, where her family farmed everything from

corn to tobacco. “We raised our food and went to the cannery and put it in cans or my mother put them in jars at home,” she says.

“We killed hogs and put some in the freezer and others we smoked in the smokehouse.

The summer parts of the year we were getting stuff ready for winter. During the winter, we didn’t have too much to do but sit back, eat, and get fat.”

“I’m a dirt person,” Parker says. Through DC UrbanGreens, she says, “I found my way back to the dirt.”

Kirkwood says Parker was one of the first

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DCFEED es, structures that trap heat and protect plants from wind. “Then it seemed like the more time I hung around, the more time I found myself in the dirt,” Robinson says. “Next thing I knew I was working here and I was always in the dirt. I did not set out to be no farmer. It’s relaxing once you settle into it.

And then just to see how you can start a seed and the seed turns into what you see outside.

It’s a little amazing to me.”

His official title is distribution coordinator. He manages three farms for DC UrbanGreens—the one at Fort Dupont, the small plots behind the Washington Nationals Youth Baseball Academy down the street, and the Fort Stanton farm in Ward 8—and supervises other employees.

This year he got an extra boost of education through Sibley Memorial Hospital’s Ward Infinity program, an initiative that supports health and wellness in wards 7 and 8. As a member of the 2019 Community Health Innovators in Residence cohort, Robinson worked alongside Sibley’s Innovation Hub team and other partners to learn and work toward solving existing problems.

Often you can find Robinson walking around the farms with a clipboard in his hand.

It holds the spreadsheet he uses to plan out what should be planted in each bed and when.

He starts seeds in a room inside the ice arena until they’re sturdy enough to plant outside.

Then it’s on to “picking bugs, weeding, harvesting, prepping, and getting ready for market,” Robinson says. He also battles a family of groundhogs who treat the Fort Dupont farm like a buffet.

“My biggest challenge is fighting bugs because we do everything organically,” he says.

“Harlequin bugs, hornworms, aphids, and a couple other bugs I don’t even know what their names are. There are some white butterflies that are not cool at all.”

The battle with bugs is particularly trying because DC UrbanGreens farms organically, opting not to use pesticides and other chemical deterrents. “I tell my customers, if the bugs don’t want it, you don’t either,” Robinson says. “You need to question all that stuff you see in the store that ain’t got a bug bite on it.”

On Saturdays, when DC UrbanGreens simultaneously sells its haul at a small stand outside of the ice arena and at the Ward 8 farmers market in Congress Heights, Robinson feels extra pressure. Amish woodworkers built the organization a portable farmstand that Robinson uses to attractively display the produce at the farmers market, but when the day is done and unsold vegetables remain, he feels disappointed. The organization donates leftover food to places like Children of Mine, a youth center in Anacostia.

“It’s heartbreaking when you go to the stand

and you have your stuff for the market and you’re leaving with food to take back,” he says.

“It’s heartbreaking when you put your heart and love in something for somebody and they ignore you.”

“I’d like to see more people being interested in buying the vegetables,” Parker says.

“Although we have a pretty good market going now, I see room for it to be much better.

I don’t know what it’s going to take to get the people to understand that most of what we are doing is for you and your health.” The DC UrbanGreens farmstand participates in the District’s Produce Plus Program, which gives eligible residents up to $20 per week to spend on produce at farmers markets from June through September.

Participation in DC UrbanGreens’ Community Supported Agriculture program, an initiative in which customers pay ahead and pick up boxes of vegetables at the farm every week, is also quite low. This year they only had five or six members.

“We don’t really make enough to sustain the business,” Robinson explains. “We need more people to invest, more sponsors, more things of that nature to keep it going. I’d like to see more people step up.”

Kirkwood wrestles with these challenges daily. Her ultimate goal is for DC UrbanGreens to be fully self-sustaining and free from the need of grants or other financial support. “You have a whole organization that exists to increase food access and then nobody who comes and gets the food,” Kirkwood says. “That’s our philosophical question. Why do we exist? Does the community want us?”

Maybe the next generation will figure out how to grab the community’s attention. Robinson’s son Montell Holland is working at DC UrbanGreens for the summer through the Mayor Marion S. Barry Summer Youth Employment Program. The Department of Employment Services-supported program helps District residents ages 14 to 24 find summer jobs with the potential to positively impact their future. Holland works five hours a day, five days a week.

The 16-year-old previously tended to the farm as a volunteer, but this is his first time earning a paycheck. His dad thinks it’s only a summer job. “He’s just trying to get paid,” Robinson says. “He ain’t into it yet. I don’t think this is where he wants to be for real, but it’s a job and it’s across the street.”

His son has a different take on farming with his family. “I think it’s pretty awesome that they’re doing something to help the community,” Holland says. “I also like it because it’s teaching me valuable lessons. So if I ever wanted to start my own garden, I would have the knowledge. I’m still learning. The only thing I’m good at so far is pulling weeds.”

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Blackbeard sails into Signature Theatre for an epic high seas escapade.

Blackbeard

Book and lyrics by John Dempsey Music by Dana P. Rowe Directed by Eric Schaeffer At Signature Theatre to July 14

By Kayla Randall Signature theatre’S world premiere musical Blackbeard is a cinematic caper with surprising emotional depth and a tight storyline. In considering what a pirate musical might look like, the creative team invites the audience to leave all presumptions below deck and let the entertainment wash over them.

The show revels in the adventure of the high seas and provides the camp, comedy, heart, and cheer that a good pirate musical deserves.

The action centers on the titular pirate, Blackbeard, also known as Edward Teach, played with panache by Chris Hoch.

When he learns that the British army is attempting to apprehend him, he and his marauding crew hatch a plan to raise their own army consisting of dead pirates they’ve drawn from their watery graves.

Not every joke, song, or sword fight in the show lands, and it takes a while to get into its groove, but the 1 hour and 40 minute voyage with no intermission gets the job done. There are plenty of daring exploits throughout Blackbeard, and even a pleasing plot twist, but at its core, it’s the story of a man lost at sea and struggling to find himself.

Blackbeard really just wants to be an infamous pirate. He’s the kind of pirate who is rankled when people he encounters don’t know of his feats—so much so that his crew might have to ask people to pretend they know him so as not to hurt his feelings. Thanks to the performances from the actors portraying the crew and their synergistic chemistry with Hoch, Blackbeard at times feels like a buccaneering sitcom. And, to the show’s credit, that energy really works.

In Blackbeard’s loyal gang, the always brilliant Kevin McAllister portrays the measured Caesar and Rory Boyd embodies the lovably naive Roger. Many in the cast take on dual roles, with Ben Gunderson playing both crew member Garrick and Blackbeard’s main antagonist Lieutenant Maynard, Lawrence Redmond playing the curmudgeonly Samuel and the drunk Old Man, and Christopher Mueller playing Jake Five Fingers and the formidable wind of Japan named Kamikaze.

Bobby Smith plays both crew member Karl and Norse god Ódinn, and his bouncy, high-spirited Ódinn elevates the production. Likewise, Awa Sal Secka lifts Blackbeard with her dual

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performances as the endearing Shanti, a member of Blackbeard’s crew, and Kali Maa, the enchanting Indian goddess.

Nova Y. Payton is perfectly wicked as the cursed living coral reef Dominique. Her song and dance number “Spellbound” is

Local musician Jamal Gray gives his take on the DC Music Census. washingtoncitypaper.com/arts a highlight of the show and sticks with you long after the curtain falls.

As for the exciting voyage that no good pirate story can function without, Blackbeard nails that too. It’s a bit slow to begin, but once the musical kicks into action, it speeds to the merrymaking. Blackbeard and his crew sail to the Arctic, Japan, and India, attempting to gain the plot devices needed for their fantastical trek to raise a ghost pirate army. It’s an enjoyable ride that pays tribute to all the pirate tales that have come before it.

Paul Tate dePoo III’s scenic design transforms Signature’s stage into a ship deck sailing into a watery abyss, complete with a stuffed seabird that drops down to make humorous appearances throughout the show.

Tricorne hats off to Erik Teague, whose costumes make the pirates look and feel authentic—or, as authentic as we’ve come to expect from pirates in popular media, recapturing a bit of that Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl magic.

Though every song doesn’t hold the audience’s full attention, the book and lyrics by John Dempsey and music by Dana P. Rowe work well. The cast is full of the strong voices needed to pull off some of these songs. Maria Egler, as the ethereal La Mer, has a standout moment in the gorgeous ballad “Sail On,” and the fastpaced, lively “Valhalla” showcases Smith’s skills. Other memorable numbers include “Who is Blackbeard?” and “Into Legend We Sail,” which allow Blackbeard and his crew to shine.

While the Blackbeard in Signature’s show is, deep down, a worthy swashbuckler whose greatest love is the sea and who secretly craves the approval of his father, the notorious real-life Blackbeard was more sinister. Part of the English pirate’s notoriety includes his pillaging and terrorizing of the coast of the American colonies, and later hitting the Caribbean islands to do the same to its ships and towns.

But Hoch imbues the fictional Blackbeard of this production with empathy, charm, and magical beardiness, and by the end of the evening, you’re rooting for him despite all the plundering.

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THEATERCURTAIN CALLS

FILMSHORT SUBJECTS

IN THE SWING Spider-Man: Far from Home Directed by Jon Watts

HE SANG A GOOD SONG Twisted Melodies

Written and performed by Kelvin Roston Jr. Directed by Derrick Sanders At Atlas Performing Arts Center to July 21 Forty years aFter his life abruptly ended at the age of 33, Donny Hathaway’s reputation rests on a small but stellar body of work. His 1970 debut, Everything Is Everything, is a genrestraddling soul classic, and his two albumlength collaborations with his close friend and fellow Howard University alum Roberta Flack are nearly as indelible.

Then there’s his 1972 LP Live, which is the album most vividly brought to mind by Twisted Melodies, Kelvin Roston Jr.’s absorbing 90-minute solo dramatization of the final night of Hathaway’s life. Substantial calland-response participation from the audience animates the album, an amalgam of two concerts performed on opposite coasts, from a period when Hathaway’s brilliance as a singer and imagination as an arranger were in full flower. Press night of Mosaic Theater Company’s production of Twisted Melodies, with a vocal contingent of Howard grads and faculty in the house, was like that, too. But even without the alchemical effect that can result when a demonstrative audience rewards a performer’s energy with their own, Twisted Melodies is an experience worth seeking out.

A 15-year passion project of Roston’s, Twisted Melodies is set in the musican’s hotel room at Essex House in New York City during Hathaway’s final hours. By 1979, five years had passed since Hathaway had released any new music. Hospitalizations for paranoid schizophrenia had interrupted his career, and the

disease had also severely strained his relationships with Flack and with his spouse, Eulaulah Vann. The variety of antipsychotic medications Hathaway had been prescribed each came with their own terrifying side effects— for example, muscle cramping so severe he found it almost impossible to move.

Roston, an artistic associate at Chicago’s Congo Square Theatre Company, is more natural and relaxed as a singer than as an actor.

But his depiction of Hathaway’s fraying mental and emotional state on the night he leapt from a 15th story window is nevertheless harrowing.

His frequent returns to the keyboard to punctuate his monologues with song come as a relief.

While Roston is accompanied by backing tracks on a few numbers, it still sounds like there’s a live band backstage, a credit to the precision of sound designer Christopher M. LaPorte’s mixing. This technical excellence extends throughout the production, for which Mosaic partnered with Congo Square, Baltimore Center Stage, and the Apollo Theater.

Mike Tutaj’s subtle-then-striking video projections create the effect of a menacing shadow stalking Hathaway around his room before climaxing in a perspective-bending windowleap effect that recalls the parts of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark that actually worked.

The production value is secondary to the music, of course. Roston’s performances of songs Hathaway in most cases did not write, but interpreted unforgettably—Van McCoy’s “Giving Up”; Reggie Lucas and James Mtume’s “The Closer I Get to You,” which Flack and Hathaway recorded together for Flack’s Blue Lights in the Basement album after healing their long estrangement, are but two examples—are reason enough to go. When Roston breaks off from these songs before they’re finished, we feel the tragedy of Hathaway’s final years, a period of suffering with brief interludes of ecstasy.

—Chris Klimek 1333 H St. NE. $20–$68. (202) 399-7993. mosaictheater.org.

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In the past year or so, Spider-Man has already appeared in three major films and one enormously popular video game. That game set PlayStation records (it sold 3.3 million units in three days), and Spider-Man: Into the SpiderVerse won an Oscar. This superhero is everyone’s favorite underdog, but now that he has been rebooted and resurrected so many times, he runs the risk of overstaying his welcome.

Spider-Man: Far from Home is the newest chapter for New York’s favorite webslinger, and it leaps into theaters without much emotion or imagination. After the dizzying heights of Spider-Verse, a perfectly average chapter for this character is a letdown.

The aftermath of Avengers: Endgame, with half the universe returning to existence after a five year absence, weighs on the opening section. To the credit of screenwriters Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers, they find the comic potential of such an outrageous twist. It is a gentle sort of irreverence, so Peter Parker (Tom Holland) aka Spider-Man also has time

to mourn the loss of his mentor Tony Stark.

Parker also questions his purpose now that he is no longer Stark’s sidekick, to the point where he would rather take a break from heroics altogether. He is more interested in a class trip to Europe, and his plan to tell MJ (Zendaya) he “like likes” her on top of the Eiffel Tower.

The burden of being a superhero means few vacations, so of course Spider-Man must spring to action while he visits Venice, Prague, and other destinations. There is a new superhero named Mysterio (Jake Gyllenhaal), who can fly and shoot green lasers from his hands, and he needs Spider-Man to help him defeat giant monsters he calls elementals. These monsters are unimaginative CGI blobs, and while the script is self-aware about these threats, it does not change the fact that the big action scenes are a frenzied mess of color and explosions. The greatest trick the Marvel Cinematic Universe ever pulled was getting its audience to be patient with unimaginative

action. At least there are some hallucinatory nightmare sequences that actually capture the wacky, borderline psychedelic imagery we sometimes see in comic books.

The more personal story of Parker dealing with big questions and romance is much more successful. Part of that is because Holland is such a compelling actor, mixing vulnerability with awkward charm. The film also has strong supporting characters, like an MJ whose sullen attitude hides a romantic streak, and Ned (Jacob Batalon), Parker’s excitable best friend. They create a plausible high school clique that will be recognizable to younger audiences, and evoke pangs of nostalgia in older ones.

Villains in Spider-Man films usually have some recognizably decent qualities in them.

Like the classic mad scientist, they feel scorned by a society that rejects them. Far from Home continues in that tradition, with twists and reversals that tie into Parker’s lingering doubt and self-loathing. The trouble is that after so many Spider-Man films, each new entry cannot exist on its own terms, and serves as a commentary on itself. Maybe a break would do the character some good, but Far from Home does itself no favors by inviting comparisons to richer, more complex entertainment.

One surprising thing about Far From Home is how it draws inspiration from the recent PS4 game. The climactic battle has Spider-Man fighting countless drones, a type of enemy that’s ubiquitous in gaming, and there is a sequence where Parker customizes the properties of his suit, another popular gameplay mechanic. It is a shrewd way for director Jon Watts and his screenwriters to turn Spider-Man into an avatar for the audience. This technique makes it easier for us to identify with him, but lowered stakes are an unintended consequence. “Game over” really means another chance to retry.

Spider-Man: Far from Home is a coda for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. If Endgame was meant to be a main course, then this one is closer to a digestif or a small bowl of sorbet.

Its light tone and self-awareness suggest the franchise will shake its dour streak, and maybe we should lighten our expectations accordingly. This is another clever trick: The Marvel Cinematic Universe poses like an underdog, when it’s become a dominant force in our culture. In those terms, Far from Home is a mediocre Spider-Man film. Now that we have internalized the character’s durability, genuine storytelling risks are the only way for the character to go forward.

—Alan Zilberman Spider-Man: Far from Home is now playing in theaters everywhere.

Merriweather Post Pavilion • Columbia, MD

THIS WEEK’S SHOWS

Chicken & Mumbo Sauce feat. DJs Freshly Breemed, Hav Mercy, Dylan The Gypsy, All Homage,

Mista Selecta • Live Music by CCB • Hosted by Walk Like Walt ........... F JUL 5

Story District’s Out/Spoken This is a seated show. ....................................... Sa 6 Nick Murphy (fka Chet Faker) w/ Beacon ................................................... W 10

Pitbull .............................................................................................................. JULY 11 Thomas Rhett w/ Dustin Lynch • Russell Dickerson • Rhett Akins ........... JULY 18 Third Eye Blind & Jimmy Eat World * w/ Ra Ra Riot..... JULY 19 blink-182 (performing Enema of the State in its entirety) & Lil Wayne * w/ Neck Deep ........................................................................................................... JULY 21 CHRYSALIS AT MERRIWEATHER PARK

LORD HURON w/ Bully ....................................................................JULY 23 311 & Dirty Heads w/ The Interrupters • Dreamers • Bikini Trill .......... JULY 27 CDE PRESENTS : 2019 SUMMER SPIRIT FESTIVAL FEATURING

JULY

AUGUST (cont.)

Randy Rogers Band .............Th 11 Yeasayer w/ Steady Holiday ......F 12 BENT: Back with a Bang

Tuxedo

(Mayer Hawthorne & Jake One) .Su 4

Neurosis w/ Bell Witch & DEAFKIDS .............F 9 Sonic Youth: 30 Years of

featuring Lemz, WESSTHEDJ, DJ Rosie, Dvonne, DDM, Zam Quartz, Ricky Rosé, Strap Haus • Hosted by Pussy Noir • Visuals by Ben Carver and more! .Sa 13

Daydream Nation Screening

with panel discussion featuring Steve Shelley, Brendan Canty (Fugazi/The Messthetics), and SY Archivist Aaron Mullan

Yuna w/ Skylar Stecker .............Tu 16 Beyoncé vs Rihanna Summer Dance Party ...............F 19 Hot In Herre: 2000s Dance Party

This is a seated show. .......................F 16

DC Music Rocks Festival feat.

The Eli Lev Collective with special

with DJs Will Eastman and Ozker • Visuals by Kylos ......................Sa 20

guest Jarreau Williams, More AM Than FM, Sub-Radio, Iza Flo, Los Empresarios ......Sa 17

STEEZ PROMO PRESENTS

G Jones w/ Ivy Lab & tiedye ky .................F 26

SURPRISE! AT THE CLUB!

THE CIRCUS LIFE PODCAST 6TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT FEAT.

Brittany Howard of Alabama Shakes ......F 23 & Sa 24

FeelFree, Justin Trawick and The Common Good, The Dirty Grass Players and more! .......Sa 27

No Scrubs: ‘90s Dance Party

AUGUST

with DJs Will Eastman and Ozker • Visuals by Kylos ........................F 30

REV909: Daft Punk/French House

SEPTEMBER

Tribute & Indie Dance Classics with DJs Ozker and Keenan Orr • Visuals by Robin Bell ...................F 2

D NIGHT ADDED!

FIRST NIGHT SOLD OUT! SECON

dodie .............................................F 6 Deerhunter + Dirty Projectors .....................Su 8

The Faint w/ Ritual Howls & Closeness .......Sa 3

MANY MORE SHOWS ON SALE!

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9:30 CLUB PRESENTS AT U STREET MUSIC HALL

Koe Wetzel w/ Chris Colston ....F JUL 12 Operators w/ Doomsquad .............Sa 13 Mystery Skulls w/ Phangs & Snowblood ..................Su 14 Amyl and The Sniffers w/ Heavy Breathing .......................Tu 16

Cayucas ..................................Th 18 Summer Salt w/ Dante Elephant & Motel Radio .......Su 21 Nilüfer Yanya w/ Pixx & Lucy Lu .....W 24 Ibibio Sound Machine ................F 26

Anthony Hamilton • Jhené Aiko • Raphael Saadiq • DVSN • PJ Morton and more! .....................................................................AUGUST 3

Train/Goo Goo Dolls * w/ Allen Stone ...........................................AUGUST 9 Chris Stapleton * w/ Margo Price & The Marcus King Band ................ AUGUST 11 Heart* w/ Joan Jett and The Blackhearts & Elle King........................... AUGUST 13 The Smashing Pumpkins & Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds* w/ AFI ......... AUGUST 17 Beck & Cage the Elephant * w/ Spoon & Sunflower Bean . AUGUST 22 Lauren Daigle w/ AHI ........................................................................ AUGUST 23 Gary Clark Jr. and Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats .................... AUGUST 25 Pentatonix * w/ Rachel Platten ........................................................... AUGUST 26 Vampire Weekend * w/ Christone “Kingfish” Ingram ..................... AUGUST 29 Morrissey w/ Interpol ..............................................................................SEPT 5 O.A.R. w/ Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness & American Authors ..............SEPT 7 WPOC SUNDAY IN THE COUNTRY FEATURING

Old Dominion • Michael Ray • Jordan Davis • Lauren Alaina • Dylan Scott • Jimmie Allen • Brandon Lay • Filmore .....................SEPT 29

Ticketmaster • For full lineup & more info, visit merriweathermusic.com • impconcerts.com * Presented by Live Nation

Lincoln Theatre • 1215 U Street, NW Washington, D.C. STORY DISTRICT’S

Breaking Bread: True Stories by

Emeli Sandé (Acoustic) .............. OCT 3 METROPOLITAN ENTERTAINMENT PRESENTS

Celebrity Chefs & Industry Insiders . JUL 27 Zaz ................................................... OCT 4 AN EVENING WITH

AEG PRESENTS

Dawes ............................................AUG 6 Bianca Del Rio Joey Coco Diaz ..........................AUG 9 It’s Jester Joke ........................ OCT 18 AEG PRESENTS Criminal Podcast - Live Show .................................... SEP 11 Jónsi & Alex Somers Riceboy Sleeps

Tinariwen w/ Lonnie Holley ........ SEP 19 with Wordless Orchestra .......... OCT 28 AN EVENING WITH X Ambassadors The Waterboys ..................... SEP 22 w/ Bear Hands & LPX ....................... OCT 29 Adam Ant: Friend or Foe .... SEP 23 Puddles Pity Party Cat Power w/ Arsun ................... SEP 25 w/ Dina Martina ................................ OCT 31 Angel Olsen w/ Vagabon ............NOV 1 ALL GOOD PRESENTS Nahko and Medicine U Up? Live ....................................NOV 4 for The People w/ Ayla Nereo . SEP 29 Kishi Bashi ..................................NOV 8 • thelincolndc.com • U Street (Green/Yellow) stop across the street!

• Buy advance tickets at the 9:30 Club box office • 930.com

TICKETS for 9:30 Club shows are available through TicketFly.com, by phone at 1-877-4FLY-TIX, and at the 9:30 Club box office.

9:30 CLUB BOX OFFICE HOURS are 12-7pm on weekdays & until 11pm on show nights, 6-11pm on Sat, and 6-10:30pm on Sun on show nights.

HAPPY HOUR DRINK PRICES impconcerts.com AFTER THE SHOW AT THE BACK BAR!

PARKING: THE OFFICIAL 9:30 parking lot entrance is on 9th Street, directly behind the 9:30 Club. Buy your advance parking tickets at the same time as your concert tickets!

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CITYLIST

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

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Music 21 Theater 23 Film 23

with Hayley Orrantia “Bustin Loose for Eileen Carson Schatz”

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CITY LIGHTS: FRIDAY

CITIZEN KANE

FRIDAY BLUES

CITY WINERY 1350 Okie St. NE. (202) 250-2531. Carolyn Wonderland & Bad Influence Band. 6 p.m. $15– $22. citywinery.com.

CLASSICAL

WOLF TRAP FILENE CENTER 1551 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. National Symphony Orchestra: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. 8:30 p.m. $35– $60. wolftrap.org.

ELECTRONIC

FLASH 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Ryan Elliott, Julia Govor, and Oliver Caine. 8 p.m. $8–$15. flashdc.com.

SOUNDCHECK 1420 K St. NW. (202) 789-5429. Dave Nada. 10 p.m. $15–$20. soundcheckdc.com.

FOLK

SONGBYRD MUSIC HOUSE AND RECORD CAFE 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. George Adamson. 7 p.m. $12. songbyrddc.com.

FUNK & R&B

BETHESDA BLUES & JAZZ 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. SOS Band. 8 p.m. $59.50– $79.50. bethesdabluesjazz.com.

NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART SCULPTURE GARDEN 4th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. (202) 7374215. The JoGo Project. 5 p.m. Free. nga.gov.

JAZZ

GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR THE ARTS 4373 Mason Pond Drive, Fairfax. (888) 9452468. Navy Band Commodores Free. cfa.gmu.edu.

TWINS JAZZ 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Clarence Ward III. 9 p.m.; 11 p.m. $15. twinsjazz.com.

POP

THE HAMILTON 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. The Airport 77s. 10:30 p.m. Free. thehamiltondc.com.

ROCK & ROLL HOTEL 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

White Ford Bronco. 8 p.m. $25. rockandrollhoteldc. com.

ROCK

HILL COUNTRY LIVE 410 7th St. NW. (202) 556-2050.

The Native Howl. 9:30 p.m. $10–$13. hillcountrywdc. com.

Citizen Kane was a unique film when it came out in 1941. In 2019, it’s utterly incomparable, from its innovative use of deep focus to its Möbius strip chronology. It is a dazzlingly successful experiment that changed the way movies were shot, framed, and blocked at a time when many films were content to be sequences of flat, wide, and static shots with some dialogue. Orson Welles was just 25 when he shot Kane, an epic satire of the life of newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst.

Hearst gave Welles a lot to work with: He was one of the first modern media barons and he helped to spawn many of the ills that haunt journalism to this day. But as time passed and Welles became a reclusive media giant himself, Citizen Kane became a Picture of Dorian Gray on cellulose nitrate. Still, knowing Welles’ fate (in one of his final roles he played Unicron in a Transformers cartoon) only makes Kane more poignant. Like Welles’ life, Citizen Kane is the story of a great man who is incapable of enduring his own greatness, who collapses into himself like a dying star. This classic also boasts one of the greatest scenes of someone just completely trashing a room with their bare hands in film history. The film screens at 4:45 p.m. at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center, 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. $8–$13. (301) 495-6700. afi.com/silver.

—Will Lennon

SONGBYRD MUSIC HOUSE AND RECORD CAFE 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. SkylineHotel. 8 p.m. Free. songbyrddc.com.

WORLD

BOSSA BISTRO 2463 18th St NW. 202-667-0088.

Alfredo Mojica Group. 10:30 p.m. $5–$10. bossadc. com.

SATURDAY CLASSICAL

WOLF TRAP FILENE CENTER 1551 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. National Symphony Orchestra: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. 8:30 p.m. $35– $65. wolftrap.org.

COUNTRY

HILL COUNTRY LIVE 410 7th St. NW. (202) 556-2050.

Human Country Jukebox. 9:30 p.m. $5. hillcountrywdc.com.

COLBIE CAILLAT feat. GONE WEST

July 7

A Benefit Concert featuring

JERRY DOUGLAS, STUART DUNCAN, BELA FLECK, SIERRA HULL, DANNY PAISLEY, & MARK SCHATZ 10 BILLY BOB THORNTON & THE BOXMASTERS 11 PAM TILLIS & LORRIE MORGAN Grits & Glamour Tour

JEFFREY OSBORNE 14 LITTLE RIVER BAND 12&13

15 SiriusXM The Coffeehouse Presents

MATT COSTA, JD & THE STRAIGHT SHOT MATT HARTKE

19, 20,21 23

THE BACON BROTHERS DAVE ALVIN

with special guest Greg Leisz and Christy McWilson Celebrates The 25th Anniversary of King of California

25

An Evening with

TAJ MAHAL QUARTET 26, 27,28 JOHNNY GILL 29 THE ASSOCIATION 30

Aug

2

3

An Intimate Evening with

CLARE BOWEN & Friends with Imogen Clark KELLY WILLIS & BRUCE ROBISON “Beautiful Lie Tour” HOWIE DAY

Frank Viele

4 5

CHRIS ISAAK 8 JON B. 9 THE 9 SONGWRITER SERIES 10th Anniversary Show!

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ELECTRONIC

HIP-HOP

FLASH 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. David Waxman. 8 p.m. $8–$12. flashdc.com.

ROCK & ROLL HOTEL 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

FOLK

JAZZ

COMET PING PONG 5037 Connecticut Ave. NW. (202) 364-0404. Rose Droll. 10 p.m. $12. cometpingpong. com.

THE HAMILTON 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. Justin Trawick and the Common Good. 10:30 p.m. Free. thehamiltondc.com.

Rone & Train. 8 p.m. $12–$15. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR THE ARTS 4373 Mason Pond Drive, Fairfax. (888) 9452468. Navy Band Commodores Free. cfa.gmu.edu.

TWINS JAZZ 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Clarence Ward III. 9 p.m.; 11 p.m. $15. twinsjazz.com.

GO-GO

POP

CITY WINERY 1350 Okie St. NE. (202) 250-2531. Chuck Brown Band. 6 p.m. $30–$35. citywinery.com.

VELVET LOUNGE 915 U St. NW. (202) 462-3213. The Everafter. 8 p.m. $10. velvetloungedc.com.

Friday, July 12, 8pm Music Center at Strathmore

Tickets at Strathmore.org or call 301-581-5100.

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JAZZ

GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR THE ARTS 4373 Mason Pond Drive, Fairfax. (888) 9452468. Navy Band Commodores Free. cfa.gmu.edu.

CITY LIGHTS: SATURDAY

CAPITOL SOUND DC

While a local scene needs artists and audiences, it’s nothing without the planners and promoters that bring it all together. For a certain slice of D.C.’s music world, there’s Capitol Sound, a femalerun blog that branched out into hosting shows back in 2017. Capitol Sound connects the dots between national up-and-comers, like Junglepussy and BbyMutha, and local talents who play in similar sandboxes. For their next show, the focus is the latter. Headlined by Maryland’s Steven Jerome HolidayWilson Jr., who combines jazz, classical, and electronic music into an avant melange under the mononym Babby, the show also features DIY collective 2012 Bid Adieu, fresh off the release of their experimental funk concept album We Died In 2012: This Is Hell. Rounding out the bill are DMV R&B singers Stephn, who showcased emotionally raw R&B on his Time Before Us EP, and Knyves Escobar (pictured), a Salvadoran American talent who has released a handful of soulful singles in both English and Spanish. Unless you’re going to local shows several times a week, you might not be familiar with these artists. But trust Capitol Sound to curate your evening, and you can’t go wrong. The show begins at 7 p.m. at Rhizome DC, 6950 Maple St. NW. $10. rhizomedc.org.

—Chris Kelly

ROCK

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Gringo Starr. 9 p.m. $10–$12. dcnine.com.

GYPSY SALLY’S 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700.

O’Malley’s March. 7 p.m. $18–$20. gypsysallys.com.

THE HAMILTON 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. Justin Jones & The B-Sides. 6:30 p.m. $12–$27. thehamiltondc.com.

SONGBYRD MUSIC HOUSE AND RECORD CAFE 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Water Trash. 8:30 p.m.

Free. songbyrddc.com.

SONGBYRD MUSIC HOUSE AND RECORD CAFE 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Wand. 8 p.m. $14–$16. songbyrddc.com.

UNION STAGE 740 Water St. SW. (877) 987-6487. Last Train Home. 7 p.m. $18–$20. unionstage.com.

WORLD

BOSSA BISTRO 2463 18th St NW. 202-667-0088.

Tumbao y Raul Morel. 10:30 p.m. $5–$10. bossadc. com.

KENNEDY CENTER CONCERT HALL 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Dr. Sri Ganapathy Sachchidananda Swamiji. 7 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

SUNDAY CLASSICAL

CASTLETON FESTIVAL 663 Castleton View Rd., Castleton. (866) 974-0767. Serenade! Choral Festival. 6 p.m. $10–$20. castletonfestival.org.

UNION STAGE 740 Water St. SW. (877) 987-6487.

Chris Dave and the Drumhedz. 8 p.m. $20–$25. unionstage.com.

CITY WINERY 1350 Okie St. NE. (202) 250-2531. Angie Stone. 5 p.m.; 8:45 p.m. $55–$65. citywinery.com.

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ROCK

SONGBYRD MUSIC HOUSE AND RECORD CAFE 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Ruen Brothers. 7 p.m. $12–$15. songbyrddc.com.

CITY WINERY 1350 Okie St. NE. (202) 250-2531. Toby Lightman. 6 p.m. $20–$25. citywinery.com.

JIFFY LUBE LIVE 7800 Cellar Door Drive, Bristow.

(703) 754-6400. Rockstar Energy DISRUPT Festival.

1:30 p.m. $11–$170.99. livenation.com.

WEDNESDAY ELECTRONIC

9:30 CLUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Nick Murphy (fka Chet Faker). 7 p.m. $36. 930.com.

SOUNDCHECK 1420 K St. NW. (202) 789-5429. Soohan. 10 p.m. $10. soundcheckdc.com.

GO-GO

CITY WINERY 1350 Okie St. NE. (202) 250-2531. Sirius Company featuring Ms. Kim & Scooby. 8 p.m. $22– $25. citywinery.com.

HIP-HOP

9:30 CLUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Nick Murphy. 8 p.m. $36. 930.com.

JAZZ

GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR THE ARTS 4373 Mason Pond Drive, Fairfax. (888) 9452468. Navy Band Commodores Free. cfa.gmu.edu.

POP

U STREET MUSIC HALL 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Denney. 10 p.m. $10–$15. ustreetmusichall.com.

WORLD BOSSA BISTRO 2463 18th St NW. 202-667-0088. Ilusha Tsinadze. 9 p.m. $10. bossadc.com.

THURSDAY CABARET

SIGNATURE THEATRE 4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington. (703) 820-9771. The Juliet Letters $47. sigtheatre.org.

COUNTRY 9:30 CLUB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Randy Rogers Band. 7 p.m. $35. 930.com.

ELECTRONIC FLASH 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Jeremy Olander. 8 p.m. $8–$12. flashdc.com.

U STREET MUSIC HALL 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Willaris. K. 10 p.m. $10–$20. ustreetmusichall.com.

FOLK JAMMIN JAVA 227 Maple Ave. East, Vienna. (703) 2551566. The Ragged But Right Quartet. 6 p.m. $20. jamminjava.com.

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GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR THE ARTS 4373 Mason Pond Drive, Fairfax. (888) 9452468. Navy Band Commodores Free. cfa.gmu.edu.

TWINS JAZZ 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Jacie Lee. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $10. twinsjazz.com.

ROCK BOSSA BISTRO 2463 18th St NW. 202-667-0088. The Tragic Schoolbus. 8 p.m. Free. bossadc.com.

VOCAL WOLF TRAP FILENE CENTER 1551 Trap Road, Vienna.

(703) 255-1900. Josh Groban. 8 p.m. $42. wolftrap.org.

MONDAY JAZZ

GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR THE ARTS 4373 Mason Pond Drive, Fairfax. (888) 9452468. Navy Band Commodores Free. cfa.gmu.edu.

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FUNK & R&B

JAMMIN JAVA 227 Maple Ave. East, Vienna. (703) 2551566. Jack Broadbent. 6 p.m. $18–$20. jamminjava. com.

JAZZ

SONGBYRD MUSIC HOUSE AND RECORD CAFE 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Big Moth. 8:30 p.m. Free. songbyrddc.com.

U STREET MUSIC HALL 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Golden Vessel. 7 p.m. $15–$20. ustreetmusichall.com.

POP

SONGBYRD MUSIC HOUSE AND RECORD CAFE 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Enoch 7th Prophet: HipHop Revival. 7 p.m. Free. songbyrddc.com.

COMET PING PONG 5037 Connecticut Ave. NW. (202) 364-0404. Potty Mouth. 9 p.m. $12–$15. cometpingpong.com.

FLASH 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Hólmar & Jake the Rapper. 4 p.m. flashdc.com.

GYPSY SALLY’S 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700. The Grass Is Dead. 7 p.m. $12–$15. gypsysallys.com.

HIP-HOP

DJ NIGHTS

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. DC Vinyl Headz. 2 p.m. Free. dcnine.com.

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SONGBYRD MUSIC HOUSE AND RECORD CAFE 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. Cindy Cane. 8:30 p.m.

Free. songbyrddc.com.

DC ART BOOK FAIR

This weekend, D.C. will honor one of the world’s greatest inventions—one that dates back to almost 2,000 years ago: paper. The DC Art Book Fair returns for its third annual showcase of local makers and their independently published paper-based goods. While strolling the Great Hall at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, you will find zines, books, comics, prints, and other art. The DC Art Book Collective organizes the event featuring more than 40 participants hand-selected by an expert panel of art professors, illustrators, and creative directors. In addition to displaying some of D.C.’s finest paper creations, the event is a part of July’s Free Community Day, guaranteeing free admission to the fair as well as the National Museum of Women in the Arts collection and exhibition galleries. Find some of the most unique pieces in paper art while supporting some of D.C.’s finest up-and-coming artists. The event begins at noon at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1250 New York Ave. NW. Free. (202) 783-5000. nmwa.org.

—Lia Assimakopoulos

CITY LIGHTS: MONDAY

Theater

ANN Holland Taylor’s Ann is the comedic portrayal of the late Democratic Texas Governor Ann Richards, whose legacy as a feminist and activist politician lives on. Ann has played at Chicago’s Bank of America Theatre, the Kennedy Center, and on Broadway. Arena Stage. 1101 6th St. SW. To Aug. 11. $56–$105. (202) 488-3300. arenastage.org.

BLACKBEARD In this world premiere musical commission at Signature Theatre, set sail with an infamous pirate for a raucous high-seas adventure as Blackbeard and his marauding crew journey across the globe to raise an undead pirate from the sea. Signature Theatre. 4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington. To July 14. $40–$98. (703) 820-9771. sigtheatre.org.

BYHALIA, MISSISSPI Evan Linder’s Southern dramacomedy, winner of Chicago’s prestigious Joseph Jefferson Award for Best New Work in 2016, centers on broke, white young Mississippi couple Jim and Laurel, who, after giving birth to a biracial baby, ignites a fire in their small town. Kennedy Center Terrace Theater.

2700 F St. NW. To July 7. $25–$89. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org.

DEEP TIME

The National Museum of Natural History is outstanding. My 2-year-old son rushes to see both giraffes in the Hall of Mammals each time we go, which is frequently. But something has been missing. In June, after five years of work, the museum reopened its ambitiously redesigned fossil hall, now called the David H. Koch Hall of Fossils–Deep Time. It features a Tyrannosaurus rex posed mid-bite on a Triceratops, along with a Diplodocus, Allosaurus, Stegosaurus, Ceratosaurus, Pteranodon, woolly mammoth, saber-tooth cat, elk, and hundreds of other dinosaur, mammal, and plant specimens.

Each is presented in a way that reflects the latest research, and that brings the past, present, and future of climate change to the forefront. It’s concerning, then, to see David Koch’s name involved. He already sponsors the museum’s Hall of Human Origins. Visitors can only hope that the Smithsonian has taken his money and run, shielding the curators and scientists from the influence of one of the chief investors in politicians and organizations that seek to obstruct any meaningful responses to climate change. That said, this world-class display seems certain to reward return trips. Its arrival is a thrill. The exhibition is on view permanently at the National Museum of Natural History, 10th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. Free. (202) 633-1000. naturalhistory.si.edu.

—Graham Roth

FUNK & R&B

GYPSY SALLY’S 3401 K St. NW. (202) 333-7700.

Audacity Brass Band & Squaring the Circle. 7 p.m. $8. gypsysallys.com.

UNION STAGE 740 Water St. SW. (877) 987-6487. The New Mastersounds. 7:30 p.m. $20–$30. unionstage. com.

HIP-HOP

JIFFY LUBE LIVE 7800 Cellar Door Drive, Bristow.

(703) 754-6400. Blink-182 & Lil Wayne. 7 p.m. $24– $262.50. livenation.com.

MERRIWEATHER POST PAVILION 10475 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia. (410) 715-5550. Pitbull. 6:30 p.m. $55–$125. merriweathermusic.com.

JAZZ

AMP BY STRATHMORE 11810 Grand Park Ave., North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Mark G. Meadows & The Movement. 8 p.m. $18–$32. ampbystrathmore.com.

CITY WINERY 1350 Okie St. NE. (202) 250-2531. Glenn Jones. 6 p.m. $32–$45. citywinery.com.

GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR THE ARTS 4373 Mason Pond Drive, Fairfax. (888) 9452468. Navy Band Commodores Free. cfa.gmu.edu.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS THOMAS JEFFERSON BUILDING 101 Independence Ave. SE. (202) 707-5000.

Brent Birckhead Quartet. 7 p.m. Free. loc.gov.

OPERA

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

POP HILL COUNTRY LIVE 410 7th St. NW. (202) 556-2050.

Chris Wilcox & the Boys, Human Resource. 8:30 p.m. $5. hillcountrywdc.com.

ROCK CAPITAL ONE ARENA 601 F St. NW. (202) 628-3200.

Jeff Lynne’s the Electric Light Orchestra. 8 p.m. $49– $529. capitalonearena.monumentalsportsnetwork. com.

DC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Bodega. 7:30 p.m. $12. dcnine.com.

THE CAT IN THE HAT Based on the beloved children’s classic by Dr. Seuss, this adaptation of The Cat in the Hat features the use of puppets. Louis Davis stars in the title role, and takes the stage among the puppeteers, who purposefully remain visible to the audience. It is directed by Adam Immerwhar. Adventure Theatre MTC. 7300 MacArthur Blvd., Glen Echo. To Aug. 18. $20. (301) 634-2270. adventuretheatre-mtc.org.

EVERY BRILLIANT THING A 7-year-old boy’s mother attempts suicide, and thereafter he begins to make a list of wonderful things to live for, including ice cream and the alphabet. Every Brilliant Thing is an audience interactive story about the taboo of depression and perseverance. It is directed by Jason Loewith. Studio Theatre. 1501 14th St. NW. To July 6. $20–$55. (202) 332-3300. studiotheatre.org.

HELLO, DOLLY! Broadway star Betty Buckley stars in this acclaimed production of Hello, Dolly!, the famous story of strong-willed, independent Dolly Gallagher who traipses across New York to serve as a matchmaker. Kennedy Center Opera House. 2700 F St. NW. To July 7. $49–$159. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org.

RIPCORD Ripcord is a bet-turned-battle between two elderly women who are new roommates in their senior living facility, leading to some deeper revelations. Abby, played by Deb Gottesman, is forced to share her room with the overly cheerful Marilyn, played by Claire Schoonover in this play directed by Megan Thrift. Keegan Theatre. 1742 Church St. NW. To July 6. $24–$50. (202) 265-3767. keegantheatre.com.

SCAM ADAMS Scam Adams is a one-man, audienceinteractive show written and performed by Séamus Miller. It follows the story of a for-profit mayor talking to candidates to become his deputy. Longacre Lea at Callan Theatre at Catholic University. 3801 Harewood Road NE. To July 5. Free. longacrelea.org.

SHEAR MADNESS Shear Madness is an audienceinteractive crime comedy set in Georgetown about the murder of a pianist who lives in a hair salon. Each show delivers a unique performance based on the audience’s sleuthing. Kennedy Center Theater Lab. 2700 F St. NW. To Sept. 28. $56. 202-467-4600. kennedy-center.org.

HOWARD THEATRE 620 T St. NW. (202) 803-2899.

Panteon Rococo. 6:30 p.m. $39.50–$45. thehowardtheatre.com.

JIFFY LUBE LIVE 7800 Cellar Door Drive, Bristow.

(703) 754-6400. Blink-182 & Lil Wayne. 7 p.m. $24– $262.50. livenation.com.

SONGBYRD MUSIC HOUSE AND RECORD CAFE 2477 18th St. NW. (202) 450-2917. *repeat repeat. 7 p.m. $13–$15. songbyrddc.com.

WORLD FILLMORE SILVER SPRING 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Stephen Marley. 8 p.m. $29.50. fillmoresilverspring.com.

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GUN CRAZY

Bart (John Dall) has loved guns since he was a kid, though he doesn’t want to hurt anybody, he just likes the way they make him feel. That visceral thrill finds a new angle when he meets Laurie (Peggy Cummins), a carnival sharpshooter with a mischievous gleam in her eye. Although there were limits to the kind of eroticism you could show, even in a B-movie crime drama like Gun Crazy, in 1950, director Joseph H. Lewis, an old hand at film noir, essentially talked dirty to his actors to coax their fevered, hungry performances. Never had sex and violence been so inextricably and so deliriously intertwined. With cinematographer Russell Harlan shooting a heist in one single, remarkable long take, the film seethes with a primal energy and tension that can only end in tragedy. The film screens at 7:15 p.m. at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center, 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. $8–$13. (301) 495-6700. afi.com/silver.

—Pat Padua

CITY LIGHTS: THURSDAY

WOMEN OF PROGRESS: EARLY CAMERA PORTRAITS

AMERICAN MYTH & MEMORY: DAVID LEVINTHAL PHOTOGRAPHS

David Levinthal has spent decades photographing toys, dolls, and action figures as a way of exploring the interface between American myth and reality. The Smithsonian American Art Museum’s sprawling retrospective of his work posits that the artificiality embodied by his objects offers a welcome reality check on the American habit of mythmaking, whether about historical figures, women’s sexuality, or baseball. It’s also worth marveling at Levinthal’s more basic ability to turn humble kitsch into something that can pass for reality. In this regard, his most satisfying works involve the Wild West: The tableaux within these images are persuasive because their figures are clearly archetypal yet individual, and are carefully arranged in settings that, thanks to smart lighting, channel that region’s undeniably seductive surroundings. The exhibition is on view to Oct. 14 at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, 8th and F streets NW. Free. (202) 633-7970. americanart.si.edu.

—Louis Jacobson SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME When Peter Park goes on vacation to Europe, he finds trouble lurking in a changed world. Starring Tom Holland, Zendaya, and Jake Gyllenhaal. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) TOY STORY 4 When Woody and the rest of the toy gang embark on a journey, he runs into old friend Bo Peep and tries to parse out exactly what it is he wants to get out of life as a toy. Starring Tom Hanks, Tim

Allen, and Annie Potts. (See washingtoncitypaper. com for venue information) YESTERDAY When a struggling musician wakes up in an alternate universe, he discovers that he’s the only person on Earth who remembers The Beatles and their music. Starring Himesh Patel, Lily James, and Sophia Di Martino. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information)

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Photography’s oldest format, the daguerreotype, continues to shine some 180 years after its invention. The National Portrait Gallery’s small exhibition, Women of Progress: Early Camera Portraits, showcases the twin emergence of everyday photography and the expanded role of women in American public life in the mid19th century. A range of prominent women are pictured, some whose names remain familiar (humanitarian Dorothea Dix, abolitionist and author Harriet Beecher Stowe, and suffragist Lucretia Mott) and others who have sunk into obscurity (theater figures Charlotte Cushman and Laura Keene and writer Sarah T. Bolton). The real star, though, is the daguerreotype itself, with its silvery precision, clarity, and vividness, whether seen in postage-stamp size or the dimensions of a paperback cover. Some works include delicate hand-coloring, but often it’s unnecessary. With a daguerreotype, even the pleats of a simple black dress can shimmer with the subtlest of shadings. The exhibition is on view to May 31, 2020 at the National Portrait Gallery, 8th and F streets NW. Free. (202) 633-8300. npg.si.edu.

—Louis Jacobson

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I’m a man from a very liberal background. Recently, a girl I started dating—a girl from a similar background—mentioned that she has “a thing for black guys.” She also met my childhood best friend, a man of Korean descent, and commented to me that she found him handsome despite not typically being attracted to Asian guys. The position that I’ve always held is that we’re attracted to individuals, not types, and it’s wrong to have expectations of people based on race—especially when it comes to sexualizing/fetishizing people. I think we should date and have sex with whomever we want and not carry prejudiced expectations into our relationships. I am worried she sees black men as stereotypes of athleticism, confidence, and the other complicated constructions we’ve made about the black body, like black men having bigger dicks. I also worry that she might see me as less masculine and less well endowed because of my race. I eventually asked her about these issues, and we had a tense conversation. I tried to ask if she had ever checked herself for possible prejudice where her sexual desires are concerned, and she shut the conversation down by accusing me of trying to control her. I reassured her that I wasn’t trying to control her, but it is possible I was projecting the insecurity her comments stirred into the conversation. I’m trying to balance two components: my own insecurity and the possibility that she’s holding a legitimately prejudiced opinion that makes me uncomfortable. Any advice?

—Seeking To Interrogate Newish Girlfriend’s Statements It’s a big leap from “I have a thing for black guys” to “white guys aren’t masculine or well endowed,” STINGS, and you made that leap on your own. So in addition to confronting your new girlfriend about her attitudes and assumptions … you might want to give some thought to your own?

That said, the things your girlfriend has said about black and Asian men are legit problematic. When someone describes their attraction to a certain group, racial or otherwise, as “a thing,” that usually means they see members of that group as things—and in a society that dehumanizes black people, white people can easily come to see black people as objects.

As for her comment about your Korean friend: Prevailing beauty standards shape our ideas about attractiveness, and those standards are shaped by our rabidly racist culture.

A person socialized to only recognize the beauty of men or women of European descent may not even consider—they may not even be able to perceive—the attractiveness of people who aren’t white. And then when someone of a different race does manage to make a blip on their sex radar, it comes as a surprise. But instead of reconsidering their ideas about attractiveness, a dumb fucking white person—even one from a

liberal background—is likelier to say something stupid like “I don’t usually find Asian guys hot, but your Korean friend is attractive,” rather than rethinking their assumptions about their desires. Declaring one Asian guy an exception allows someone like your girlfriend to have her racist cake (“I don’t find Asian guys hot”) and eat it too (“But this Asian guy is hot”).

It’s a shame your girlfriend reacted defensively when you tried to bring all this up, STINGS, but sometimes people react defensively in the moment and then keep thinking about it. My advice: Keep bringing it up—but it would help if you owned your own shit dur-

When someone describes their attraction to a certain group, racial or otherwise, as “a thing,” that usually means they see members of that group as things. ing these conversations (and you have some shit of your own) rather than just self-righteously going after your girlfriend for her shit. I have to say, though, I disagree with you on one thing: People do have types, and there’s nothing wrong with having types. It’s a good idea to ask ourselves whether our “types” are actually ours and not just assigned to us by conventional standards of beauty (white, slim, young) or a thoughtless/fetishizing reaction to those standards (a desire to transgress with nonwhite, larger, or older folks). —Dan Savage I’m a middle-aged African American man. I’m single, I dress well, I’m fit, I cycle to work, I eat healthy, etc. I live in a basement apartment on a narrow street in a large city. My only window faces the street. After showering, and pretty much whenever I’m home, I’m naked while walking around my apartment. A young white couple moved in across the street, and they have an unobstructed view into my apartment. At first I would notice the woman standing at the window looking my way as I toweled off. Then the male as well. And when I masturbate, which I sometimes do after a shower, I noticed them both making several passes by their windows to look. Later I noticed the male coming out late in the evening when the view into my apartment is at its optimum to watch me masturbate. He seems very interested.

The woman will come outside and sit on the steps

in the morning and look directly into my apartment at me while drinking her coffee. More than once she has run her hand up the inside of her thigh as she’s watching. Also I’ve noticed that their shades, which used to be closed most of the time, are always wide open with lights on so I can clearly see them in their apartment. I’m sure the woman knows that I want her—and the male seems to be exhibiting bi tendencies (something I’m not interested in at all). In your opinion, are these two a voyeur couple or a submissive cuckold couple?

How should I approach to seduce? If she’s sitting on her steps, can I go over and say “Good morning” to break the ice? The other day, I left just as she was going out, and we walked past each other. I thought about saying something, but I don’t want to appear to be chasing her.

—Display Attracts Neighbors’ Glazed Looks Everyday P.S. What do you make of the male’s behavior?

I once dated a guy who was arrested in his own apartment at ten in the morning for masturbating in front of an open window. Granted, he lived across the street from a school (a university, not a middle school), and that may have had something to do with it. But he was a white guy, DANGLE, and considering all the ways African American men are targeted by the police, I feel obligated to warn you—well, I feel obligated to warn you about something you already know: Cops are always looking for an excuse to arrest or harass a black man, and your exhibitionism could attract the attentions not just of horny neighbors, but also the authorities.

That said, DANGLE, if everything is as you describe it—if this isn’t a case of dickful thinking on your part—it sounds like this couple is interested. “Interest” is a spectrum, of course, and they could find it interesting to live across the street from a hot, in-shape exhibitionist, and difficult to look away, without actually wanting to be fucked (her) or be cuckolded (him) by you. But if they’re staring into your apartment while you walk around naked and throwing open the curtains so you can stare into theirs, I’d say the ice has already been broken. So say hello the next time you run into them on the street. Keep that first convo light, neighborly, and nonsexual, and see where it leads. But if during that first convo they invite you over for a beer sometime … well, that’s a Yahtzee. But even then, don’t make any assumptions or sudden moves: Use your words, draw them out, make sure everyone is on the same page.

—DS P.S. Maybe he’s bi. Maybe he’s a cuck. Maybe he’s the woman’s gay roommate. There’s only one way to find out what’s up with him: Say hello and get to know them.

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Tenant Court, located Legals at 510 4th Street NW, Washington, DC, to DC SCHOLARS PCS REQUEST show cause if there be FOR PROPOSALS – Moduany reason why the lar Contractor Services - DC complaint forCharter possession Scholars Public School should not be granted solicits proposals for a modular and the to plaintiff take contractor provide professional possession,and dispose of, management construction services construct modular or taketoany othera acbuilding to house four classrooms tion as ordered by this and one of faculty ce suite. The Court any offi personal Request Proposals in(RFP) propertyforcontained specifi cations can be obtained on the unit. Inquiries may and after Monday, November 27, be directed 2017 from Emilyto: Stone via comJillian K. Lewis, Esq. munityschools@dcscholars.org.

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(202) 466-3883 5:00 PM on Thursday, December 14, 2017 at DC COURT Scholars Public SUPERIOR Charter School, ATTN: Sharonda OF THE DISTRICT OF Mann, 5601 E. Capitol St. SE, COLUMBIA Washington, DC 20019. Any bids PROBATE DIVISION not addressing all areas as out2019 ADM lined in the RFP000621 specifi cations will Name of Decedent, Leon not be considered.

Haywood Hyde. Notice of Appointment, Apartments Notice for Rent to Creditors and Notice to Unknown Heirs, Bonita C. Redd, whose address is 8557 Abilene Road, Farmville, VA 23901 was appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Leon Haywood Hyde who died on February 15, 2019, without a Will Must see!serve Spacious semi-furand will without nished 1 BR/1 BA basement Court Supervision.

All apt, Deanwood, $1200. enunknown heirs andSep. heirs trance, W/W carpet, W/D, whose whereabouts kitchare en, fireplace near Blue Line/X9/ unknown shall enter V2/V4. Shawnn 240-343-7173. their appearance in this proceeding. Objections Rooms for Rent to such appointment shall be filed withTwo the furHoliday SpecialRegister of Wills, D.C., nished rooms for short or long 515 5th Street, N.W., term rental ($900 and $800 per Building A, 3rd Floor, month) with access to W/D, WiFi, Kitchen, and Den. UtiliWashington, D.C. ties included.

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Persons believed to be Construction/Labor heirs or legatees of the decedent who do not receive a copy of this notice by mail within 25 days of its publication shall so inform the Register of NOW Wills,HIRPOWER DESIGN including name, APPRENaddress ING ELECTRICAL TICES OF ALL SKILL LEVand relationship.

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