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In central Virginia, sculptor Mark Cline’s handcrafted roadside attractions defy explanation.

DIStrICt LIne 5 loose lips: The search for a new DCPS chancellor begins again.

6 housing complex: Short-term guests lay claim to a luxury building on H Street NE. 7 gear prudence

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What can you do to improve your watershed?

This year hundreds of DC students competed to develop solutions to local watershed issues. Finalists presented their proposals at the Anacostia Environmental Youth Summit on May 18 at the Carnegie Institution of Science.

Nutrien provided $7,350 in cash prizes and $1,722 to help students implement their ideas.

Caring for Our Watersheds is implemented by international nonprofit Earth Force, whose mission is to engage young people as active citizens who improve the environment and their communities, now and in the future. The program empowers students to create solutions in their local watersheds, developing problem-solving, budgeting, community-involvement, and presentation skills.

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DistrictLine Lessons Spurned

Four months after the departure of DCPS Chancellor Antwan Wilson, Mayor Bowser launches the search for his replacement.

Last week, Mayor Muriel Bowser finally took steps to fill one of the most important jobs in her administration. She officially launched the formal search process for the next chancellor of DC Public Schools on June 28.

Amanda Alexander, the former chief of elementary schools, has filled the role on an interim basis since February, when former DC Public Schools Chancellor Antwan Wilson resigned after it was revealed that he circumvented D.C.’s highly competitive school lottery system and arranged for his daughter to switch schools in the middle of the year.

But even though Wilson’s departure followed a slew of other DCPS scandals, including inflated graduation rates, significant truancy issues, and alleged enrollment fraud at Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Bowser held off on looking for his replacement for months.

In April, at a breakfast event sponsored by the DC Public Education Fund, she told billionaire moderator David Rubenstein and the audience that she would not begin the search until after the June Democratic primary in which she was running for re-election.

Bowser lacked a viable challenger and handily won that race with 80 percent of the vote. She further explained her reasoning for the delay in commencing the chancellor search at a press conference last Thursday, saying she did not want politics to get in the way of hiring a capable candidate, as she had noted “months ago.”

“I wanted to go out to recruit when I was better assured that I would be here for four years, but more importantly, that that candidate was assured of that,” Bowser said. “We knew that back in February, when we knew that we were going to make a change, that we would have an interim chancellor, and going out to look for the next one wouldn’t happen until the summer.”

But residents, education advocates, and elected officials say the timing of Bowser’s announcement disadvantages the District because it means a permanent chancellor will

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likely not be in place until 2019 at the earliest.

They also say the four-month delay between when Wilson resigned and the new search process started suggests a lack of urgency to tackle the deep-seated problems plaguing DCPS. “I thought she should have started earlier,” says At-Large Councilmember and education committee chair David Grosso. “I think we could have had a chancellor by now, a qualified candidate to start in the fall.”

“She didn’t even have an opponent,” he says of Bowser’s election explanation. “For her to think some convoluted thing there [with the timing], I

Paper owner Mark Ein chairs the DC Public Education Fund’s board.)

In an effort to be transparent, the Bowser administration has created a website and social media pages for the search, including an Instagram profile. But critics like local education blogger Valerie Jablow say the review panel includes an outsized number of members who have ties to charter school interests, and too few DCPS students, teachers, and neighborhood activists.

“This committee does not reflect th[e] breadth of DCPS experience, from a variety of schools and communities and a variety of roles,” says Ward 3 State Board of Education member Ruth Wattenberg. “Taken together, this committee won’t have its hands on too much of the elephant.”

Wattenberg helped organize a community meeting on June 11 to discuss the search for the new chancellor. After the meeting, Ward 3 Councilmember Mary Cheh sent Bowser a letter outlining the attendees’ concerns about “the slow pace of the search process” up to that point and reports that “have shaken the trust that parents have in our public schools.”

The attendees said they wanted the Bowser administration to provide information on nominees’ qualifications, the list of questions for candidates and answers given by the eventual nominee, and other information “that would better allow District residents to assess” that person’s suitability. They also said they wanted a chancellor who has “a history of being responsive to parents and schools” and “the skills and experience to provide multicultural outreach” to families. (Bowser had not responded to the letter as of late last week, according to a spokeswoman for Cheh.)

Concerns about identifying a talented DCPS chancellor exist on both sides of the Anacostia River. Markus Batchelor, the SBOE representative for Ward 8, whose schools have some Darrow Montgomery

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think too many of her decisions are made based on what’s going to get her re-elected.”

By Bowser’s own admission, installing the next chancellor in early 2019 is aspirational.

“We will announce the chancellor when we find the right, perfect chancellor,” she said last Thursday. “It would be great, it would be my great hope that by the beginning of the year— 2019—we have a chancellor in place. Could it happen before that? It certainly could.”

American University President Sylvia Burwell and former Ward 4 Councilmember Charlene Drew Jarvis will co-chair an advisory review committee that will help the administration with the process. The committee has 14 members, including four DCPS parents, the president of the Washington Teachers’ Union, the principal of Benjamin Banneker High School, and the president of the DC Public Education Fund, which raises private money for DCPS. (Disclosure: Washington City

of the worst absence and graduation rates in the city and the most students living in poverty, says families are already “very disappointed and distrustful of our system.”

“At this point, I think we’re seeing something similar to what we’ve seen before, which is a bureaucratic, insular process where folks who are plucked from the halls of influence and favor get to do a check-box engagement process that isn’t going to yield meaningful feedback from the community,” says Batchelor. “Whoever we choose as our next leader and the process by which that leader is chosen is going to dictate how much faith and trust our families have in the system, at a time when that matters most.”

At her press conference, Bowser said the review panel would conduct organizational and community meetings over the summer. She added that while she did not “want to presume before we talk to the community and get advice from the committee” which issues residents felt were most important for the next DCPS chancellor to address, the search process that resulted in Wilson’s hire made clear that residents are “very interested in a seasoned educator” who has experience in teaching, administration, and professional development, and would work to close the achievement gap.

“I want somebody who understands middle and high school very well because I think that we’re seeing the benefits of our investments at the elementary levels, and we need to be focused on what we need to do at middle and high school more intensively,” Bowser said. The names of candidates will be kept confidential and the advisory committee will review the finalist.

The Council then gets to vet the mayor’s nominee through hearings and votes. At-Large Councilmember Robert White, who sits on the education committee, says he is “disappointed” that the District did not conduct “a real assessment about the weaknesses in our foundation before going in search of a chancellor,” but that he will be watching “how the search committee is utilized.”

“People need to feel they’re genuinely engaged and listened to,” says White. “It’s important that we work on the front end to get buy-in from the community. … I say please God, no more platitudes, no more pretending—we have a real challenge on our hands, and failure is not an option.”

Council Chairman Phil Mendelson put things more simply in his statement: “I hope that with this search there is more robust involvement with the community and that when the final selection is made we’re not distracted by complaints over transparency.”

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The Young and the Feckless A battle between longtime residents of a luxury H Street NE apartment building and its short-term guests wages on.

By Morgan Baskin Seven floorS above a residential block off of H Street NE, a constellation of well-oiled bodies lounge across chaises and in chairs, eyes half-dimmed against the midday sun. It is June, it is hot, and it is quiet.

A handful of tanned 20-somethings sit in the shallow end of a sleek pool with books in their hands, thousands of teeny blue tiles glittering around them. Beautiful muscled men in speedos and diamonds and gold, and women in oversized designer sunglasses, chat in hushed tones over cocktails.

It’s the rare Saturday afternoon with little noise on the roof deck of Station House, a luxury apartment building in NoMa that looks more like a South Beach hotel than it does a rental building just five minutes from Union Station. Rents here can run up to $4,375 per month for a two-bedroom apartment, and its amenities include a pet spa, bocce court, and 6,220-square-foot gym with a spin studio.

The lobby boasts velvet sofas and chandeliers, the roof deck offers a commanding view of the Capitol––even the elevator platforms are decorated with glass terrariums teeming with succulents. (Property manager Roseland Residential dispersed a building-wide email in mid-June encouraging residents to call the police on homeless people living on surrounding blocks.)

But all is not well in paradise.

For months, residents have voiced discontent with the hordes of guests who use the property as a hotel and the Hill interns who are living there short-term, turning their luxury building into an epicenter, they say, of anything-goes drunken hedonism perpetrated by a rotating cast of characters looking to party.

(One wrote a huffy post for PoPville, as the disgruntled wealthy are wont to do.) The property is listed as a destination on Washington Intern Student Housing (WISH), a company that finds housing for interns in, among other places, “luxury condos,” with copy ripped right from Station House’s website.

Sins include empty beer cans that litter the pool deck on weekends and trap music that blares into dawn. Other residents say they’ve watched youngsters haul kegs and pre-inflated pool floats up to the roof. “There are interns

launching fireworks off the roof. Not, like, firecrackers,” one male resident says in consternation, “but mortar boxes. It’s like these drunk interns have never been on their own before.”

Residents who talked to City Paper say they’re disturbed that they had to pay an astounding $700 amenities fee upon move-in, but see short-term guests enjoying the pool for no additional charge.

a perverse fountain.

“I was very excited about the pool—but every time I went up there, there were 20 drunk, screaming interns,” she told City Paper. “It’s quieter when it’s not the summer. But they’re of course back now, and back to their old ways.”

Complaints range from the petty to the problematic. During March Madness, the same resident says, “there were all these large groups

One Saturday in June, shortly after 10 p.m., officers from the Metropolitan Police Department responded to a noise complaint from the building. A resident threw a party on the pool deck with a DJ and full-fledged speaker system that attracted dozens, if not more than a hundred, people. One young couple, who came home just before the cops arrived, told City Paper they could hear the party from F Street NE. But the rowdiness isn’t new for tenants who have lived in the building for years, watching cycle after cycle of WISH kids and tourists stay at the building. The day she moved into Station House in the spring of 2017, one female resident told City Paper, she saw a group of drunk young men chewing up the free dog biscuits provided to residents on the concierge desk, spitting them out at passersby in the lobby like

of men. Every time I’d try to walk my dog, they’d follow me around, ask for my ‘hotel room number,’ sexually harass me. [They’re] trying to follow you around asking where you live.” Weeks later, someone stole all of the desktop computers from Station House’s lobby, and there were reports of drunk guests trying to break into residents’ rooms. All of it, she says, is “very frustrating.” WISH did not reply to City Paper’s request for comment.

On Yelp, when residents have complained about the short-term tenants and hotel guests, Station House employees write publicly that they “do not market our apartment homes on hotels.com or any other Internet listing site of that type.”

But City Paper found Station House listed on hotel sites like Global Luxury Suites, AirBnB, and Hotels.com. A Global Luxury Suites

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employee told City Paper in a chat message on the company’s website that a three night stay in late June would cost between $1,333 and $1,608—between $350 and $440 per night, plus tax and a $100 cleaning fee.

When City Paper asked whether it’d be possible to book a room for one night, the employee initially said no, claiming that there’s “a three night minimum.” But after City Paper stopped responding to the employee’s messages, the employee said she “might get you approved for one night.”

That one night would cost a total of $625.

“If you are okay with some people coming in the building for their hotel usage, you can be happy with this place. But seriously, this place is not for rental residents anymore,” one person wrote on Google Reviews. “For me, a lot of times, it’s just more like [sic] hotel with random people coming in every day with their suitcases.” (There are also reviews from a handful of disgruntled tourists who say property managers didn’t respond to maintenance requests.)

A spokesperson from the public relations office that works with Roseland says that the company partners with “highly reputable third-party providers of corporate and extended-stay housing” in 12-month blocks, and that these partners are barred from listing the building on sites like Airbnb. “We are in the process of identifying cases in which this agreement was broken.”

In private messages to residents, Roseland executives acknowledge Station House’s presence on short term rental sites. A building representative justified the practice to one tenant by claiming in an email that contractors perform background checks on “ALL” potential guests. No third-party agent or Roseland employee ever tried to vet this reporter or perform a background check during the booking process. Residents, meanwhile, are banned in their leases from renting out rooms on thirdparty sites.

A spokesperson from the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs confirmed that the agency launched an investigation into Roseland’s rental practices after receiving complaints that date back to April from building residents. But one city official familiar with DCRA’s investigation told City Paper he’s not holding his breath for the agency to take action. “Zoning enforcement in D.C. is more aspirational than actual,” he laughs.

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Gear Prudence Gear Prudence: Is it ever OK for a bicyclist to wait in the crosswalk when stopped at a red light? What if it’s just for two seconds? Or if they’re going to make a right turn? Or if it’s the middle of the night and you know no pedestrians are anywhere nearby?

—Can Rider Obey Simple Signs?

Dear CROSS: GP is better known for considering all sides than for definitive answers, but this one is quite clear: Almost no situations exist where a bicyclist should block a crosswalk.

No, it’s not as bad as when a driver does it, but it’s still annoying for pedestrians to have to walk around you, even if you’re able to scoot up or back a few feet to make it marginally less irksome. Wait behind it (or in a bike box, if there is one). Starting a few feet farther back won’t make that much of a difference to you when the light changes. Even if you’re certain nobody is within 10 miles, the crosswalk is a pedestrian space and you should respect that.

It’s pretty easy.

That said, ‘almost no situations’ isn’t the same as ‘absolutely no situations,’ and there might be scant circumstances in which blocking a crosswalk might be your only option.

(Maybe there’s a bear chasing you that’s afraid of white stripes.) But refuge in the crosswalk is really a last resort, and not something you should ever try to rationalize.

—GP

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Gear Prudence: Last Saturday I was out for a ride, saw my buddy, took a pic, and tagged him on Instagram. His wife follows my Instagram and immediately commented ‘WTF? He’s supposed to be at work.’ Now my friend is pissed and says that I shouldn’t have tagged him without his permission.

Sucks for him, but bike rides are fair game, right?

—I’m Not Supposed To Agitate Dear INSTA: GP concedes there was no way for you to know that your friend was lying to his wife about what he was doing (and GP suggests that concealing information from a spouse about your location is a suboptimal in all situations, other than planning a lavish surprise party for said spouse) and thinks the onus falls on your friend to proactively tell you not to put anything on social media. He was the one on the surreptitious galavant and opsec demands that he take steps to curtail your revealing it.

As to the larger question about whether you could/should be able to tag any and all people you see riding their bikes on the social media platform of your choice, let caution be your guide. If you hope to avoid creating marital tiffs in the future, the simple step of asking would help. Or if that’s too awkward, make it abundantly clear that you’re taking a picture in order to post it.

That should prompt his objection. And if not, welp, that’s on him.

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, M O D G KIN E M O C The kid can’T be more than 5 years old. He just stands there, gazing up, his face painted with a mixture of horror, perplexion, and morbid curiosity.

“Mama, que es eso?” he asks.

His mother clearly doesn’t know what to say as she ambles up alongside him. “En realidad no se.” She looks equally confused.

Nobody, really, could be properly prepared for what they’re looking at. They are surrounded by madness. Front and center, a 20-foottall fiberglass T-Rex hulks over them, its jaws agape. Dangling from one of its front teeth, a sword-wielding Union soldier, his weapon raised high overhead. Just to the right, a slimegreen creature charges in for battle, mounted atop a fiberglass bison in full stride. An elephant looks on from behind.

By the time a speaker off in the woods beside them emits a faint roar, the youngster is in full meltdown mode. His parents gather him and his siblings and hustle them out of the place.

Torn from a comic book or a B-movie, this scene unfolds a few hours outside of D.C. in the woods of Natural Bridge, Virginia. There, not far from one of the state’s most splendorous natural wonders, sits one of the state’s 8 july 6, 2018 washingtoncitypaper.com

must surreal ones—a place where prehistoric creatures mingle with Civil War soldiers and monsters alike. This is not King’s Dominion. This is not Colonial Williamsburg. This, friends, is Dinosaur Kingdom II. Spend a day with Mark Cline, and you will most assuredly hear something that no person in human history has ever said.

“So I told Jim—do you know Jim? I told him: ‘You’ve got the school bus, I’ve got the tentacles. Let’s do this thing.’”

Cline is sitting at a Mexican restaurant in Lexington, Virginia, not far from the now-famous Red Hen. At a booth, he fits small bites of beans and rice in between lengthy monologues about everything from religion to mortuary science. He does all of this while dressed like 1800s nobility. He’s set aside his stovepipe hat for the meal, but his vest, jacket with coattails, and ruffled collar remain.

He’s discussing, at the moment, his plans for his next sculpture. He wants to park an old school bus in a field, then erect several enormous tentacles around it, as if a giant kraken is attempting to swallow it whole. It’s a grand idea, but by the time you process it, he’s moved on to the next topic of conversation. You get the feeling his brain is never truly at rest.

Cline ind of Mark Enter the m in the attraction at a roadside Virginia. mountains of

Cline is a legend in these parts. At 57, he is Natural Bridge’s oddest and most intriguing human attraction, a self-proclaimed “Barnum of the Blue Ridge” who’s spent the better part of four decades bringing his fiberglass dreams to life in a few buildings on a lonely stretch of highway. He is a sculptor, an illustrator, a magician, a storyteller.

He is the man behind Dinosaur Kingdom II, of course, and another of Virginia’s strangest roadside attractions—“Foamhenge.” Located 175 miles away in Centreville, Foamhenge is a life-size, foam replica of Stonehenge. “The Druids took centuries to build theirs,” he quips.

“I got mine done in two weeks.” as cline Tells it, he got his start in fourth grade. Born in 1961, 50 miles north of Natural Bridge in Waynesboro, Virginia, he was the kid who couldn’t sit still.

“They put me in a special learning class,” he explains. “While I was there, I become the class clown. The class clown needed props.

Props were expensive, I guess, so I learned how to make them myself.”

Cline’s grandparents lived in Baltimore, and on the way back from a visit, he passed by Dinosaur Land in White Post, Virginia. It was

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closed, but Cline peered through the fence at the collection of fiberglass dinosaurs.

“I told my dad, ‘You know, I’m going to build these one day.’ I was probably about 10 years old. He said, ‘You know son, if that’s what you want to do there’s nothing that can stop you.’”

His parents saw his creative side and nurtured it, as they had with his older brother, Steve, who had his own gift for the arts. They also sent him to a psychiatrist. “Mrs. Cline, there’s nothing wrong with your son,” Cline remembers the psychiatrist saying. “He just has an extremely strong and unique imagination … You need to cope with this and you need to deal with it.”

He skated through high school and did odd jobs, working as a DJ or driving a delivery truck. He worked in construction and at a brass factory—all jobs he says helped him refine his skills as an artist. Upon graduating, he hitchhiked across the country for a year before returning home to Waynesboro, broke and out of ideas. He was a self-described hobo.

He did find work eventually, though. At a local manufacturing plant, Cline got a job making figurines. He’d show up early and mix up massive vats of pecan shell flour and resin.

One day, his boss gave him a 5-gallon bucket of the stuff to take home. Cline very quickly realized he had a gift.

And here’s where we arrive at Cline’s formal origin story. Every person like Mark Cline—every person who spends their days in a shed building fiberglass sharks or dinosaurs or doing something equally peculiar—has one. Cline tells his with the zeal and mysticism of an old sea captain recounting a voyage.

At 20, he struck out for Virginia Beach.

He’d dreamed up an idea—he’d roll in to town and sell someone on the idea of building a “monster museum.” “It would be a place that played on subconscious fears,” Cline says. “It wasn’t your typical Dracula, Frankenstein, werewolf, mummy type of stuff.”

Surely they’d love him, he thought.

He’d throw up his house of haunts, scare the daylights out of a fresh crop of tourists each season, and go down as the next Romero, Lovecraft, or Karloff. “The Barnum of the Beach,” they’d call him. Alliteration and fame.

But Virginia Beach didn’t want anything to do with Mark Cline.

“I went down there with all these Papiermâché figures and failed miserably. Nobody wanted any of my stuff.” He’d told his family he was going to make it big. Now he was headed home.

Just outside of Mechanicsville, Virginia, on the way back, another blow. His car, a 1966 AMC Scrambler, gives up the ghost. Blown radiator. He limps it onto the shoulder and phones a wrecker.

While waiting for help, Cline wanders down the highway. “I had five bucks and some change in my pocket,” as he tells it, “and all of the sudden, up ahead, I see this palm reader.

She has a five dollar reading. I’m like the kid with the magic beans.”

He plunks down his last five bucks. He’s down to a quarter. She studies his palm, her brow furrowing as she senses Cline’s predicament. “You’re very distraught about a business venture,” she says. (It’s a predicament more than a few people suffered in 1982.) “If you stick to your dreams and work hard, though, your dreams will come true bigger than you ever imagine.”

Later in the day, Cline gets his car on the road, floating a check for the repairs. At a diner closer to home, he stops for a glass of water.

His placemat is emblazoned with a map of Virginia. He feels a magnetic pull, looks downward, and casts his gaze on two Virginia towns.

Front Royal and Natural Bridge. The words of the palm reader still echoing in his ear, Cline produces the quarter from his pocket.

“I flipped it, and it landed on Natural Bridge.

And that’s how I ended up here,” he says.

ThirTy-six years laTer, everyone in the area knows Mark Cline.

“When I first moved here, nobody knew who I was,” says Cline. As he speaks, he’s setting up a dinosaur display at a local movie theater. It’s the

kind of tiny theater that went out of style decades ago but hangs on in Lexington, where tradition often trumps modernity.

“I can pull a giant fiberglass King Kong on the back of my trailer—where old farmers back in the old day would go, ‘What the hell is that weird shit about?’

Now they’ll be like ‘Oh, oh, oh, what is that? What does Mark have on there? We seen ya, Mark!’ They love it now.”

The guy selling concessions at the theater saunters up to Cline. He looks to be in his early 20s and towers over everybody in the place. His shirt can’t contain a beer belly that’s so perfectly round, it almost seems fake.

“Mark. I need you to build me a coffin.”

He goes on to explain that he’s an amateur wrestler, and he needs the casket for a “coffin match” he’s putting on with a friend. Mark Cline is a lot of things, including the man you come to when you want a set for your coffin match. “Yeah, we can work something out,” says Cline. It’s almost like this is the least strange thing he’s dealt with all week. he seT up his “monster museum” in Natural Bridge in 1982, shortly after the palm reader got him back on track. It was in an old house, and he charged $2 a head for a tour. The first day, he got two visitors. “People had never seen anything like the place,” Cline says. Business gradually picked up. He got a steady stream of visitors headed down I-81 toward Knoxville, Tennessee for the World’s Fair, which kept him afloat for a while. Two years later, though, the museum went bust.

He re-tooled, re-opening the place as the “Enchanted Castle Studios.” He did a little bit of everything—crafting home-brewed thrill rides, putting on magic shows, and doing impersonations. And he’d give people a peek into his artistic process as well, molding fiberglass figures right in front of them. In the meantime, he’d also started actively marketing his creations to anybody who’d buy one— mini-golf courses, roadside attractions, restaurants, whoever. Business was good.

It all changed in 2001. Early in the morning on April 2nd he got a phone call from the police. There was trouble brewing at the studio.

“I saw a huge glow in the sky,” he reflects.

“I knew the second I saw that, the whole place was gone.”

Fire had ravaged the studio, destroying the Enchanted Castle and everything in it. Cline watched from the road as his dream melted.

Around 4 a.m., he walked over to the mailbox, which was about the only thing left standing, and found an envelope. He emptied its contents out onto the dash of his truck.

“It was a one-way ticket to hell with my name on it,” says Cline. He says there was a photo of him, and someone had burned the eyes out of it. What unnerved Cline even more was a handwritten letter. To this day, Cline has every word memorized.

“In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,” he recites, “we have found a slick upon washingtoncitypaper.com july 6, 2018 9

the face of God. It is you, Mr. Mark Cline, because you continue to worship and honor Satan through your work.”

The State Police investigated the fire, which Cline to this day believes was set intentionally. At first he’d assumed the fire to be the work of religious zealots. Lexington is a very conservative place, and Cline is a man who once performed an exorcism at a minor league baseball game. Cline’s own research, though, eventually pointed toward an ex-employee. No charges were ever filed.

Locals rallied around Cline. The town itself donated an old, dilapidated Victorian mansion to house a new monster museum, and the artist eagerly rebuilt. He bedecked the front of the place with a massive, one-eyed fiberglass skull. Gargoyles kept watch from the roof, while the inside of the house was a bric-abrac of supernatural and real-life haunts. Out in the yard, Cline threw up an assortment of fiberglass dinosaurs.

That place burned, too, in a 2012 fire. No arson this time. The cause was never determined, but Cline suspects a cigarette butt thrown from a passing car or cast aside by a trespasser.

Four years later, Dinosaur Kingdom II rose from the ashes. It is a sight to behold. cline’s laTesT creaTion is difficult to describe. Just up the highway from his studio, it’s part nature trail, part haunted house, part art gallery.

The story goes something like this: It’s 1864.

The Union army is shelling Lexington, and one of their cannon rounds inadvertently disturbs some sleeping dinosaurs in the caverns below.

The Yanks, determined to harness the power of their new ancient friends, weaponize them and turn them loose on Confederate troops.

That plan, though, backfires. What ensues is a massacre of prehistoric proportions.

Also involved: a pterodactyl flying off with the Gettysburg Address, a re-incarnated Stonewall Jackson fitted with a mechanical arm, slime-colored creatures plucked straight from a low-budget horror flick. There is all of this, and more, at Dinosaur Kingdom II. Cline tells the story of the park while strolling through his studio. It’s a magical place for sure, but it isn’t air conditioned. In the heat, Cline has lost his 1800s garb for jeans and a T-shirt.

A building on one side of the property serves as his workshop. Cline is almost done with a 20-foot fiberglass shark. The other building on his property houses many of Cline’s old creations. A parade float is the centerpiece—a massive horse reared up on its hind legs which Cline readily hops on from time to time. He wears full Lone Ranger attire for that. There’s a fiberglass Elvis, as well, and a hodgepodge of other figures. Statues of the Virgin Mary and Joseph peek out from behind a pair of fiberglass alligators.

Upstairs in his office, Cline sips on a Mountain Dew. He’s surrounded by more relics of the past: Charlie McCarthy dolls, a signed photo of David Copperfield. There’s a photo of him riding a unicycle through a ring of fire and a plaster mold of George Washington’s ini10 july 6, 2018 washingtoncitypaper.com

tials, taken from Natural Bridge itself.

Cline says some of the inspiration for Dinosaur Kingdom II comes from the 1969 fantasy flick The Valley of the Gwangi, which tells the story of a wild-west stunt show that stumbles upon and corrals a herd of dinosaurs. He melded that inspiration together with a bit of history. “I started thinking—60 percent of the battles in the Civil War were fought in Virginia. And Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson are buried right here around Lexington. So I blended the two ideas together. Like chocolate and peanut butter.”

The result is campy and delicious, but potentially problematic to some visitors who may reel at seeing that it’s the Union soldiers getting gobbled up, not the Rebs. It’s just business to Cline.

“Well first of all,” he says, “in every story there have to be heroes and villains. The Bible, Star Wars, whatever. Am I gonna have the roles reversed down here? The Yankees have to be the bad guys. If I went to Gettysburg, I would reverse the story.”

Fiberglass figures, like the dinosaurs themselves, are at this point a relic of a different era.

Cultural sensibilities have changed quite a bit, something that’s created an unexpected revenue stream for Cline. He picks up a brush, dips it in fiberglass resin, and brushes it onto a headdress, which he’s fitted to a 4-foot-tall bust of a Mohawk Indian.

The headdress is removable—Cline wants to give the figure’s owner the option to leave it on or take it off. Is the design of the figure, based off a statue created in the ’60s, an accurate representation of a Mohawk? Should it even have a headdress? Cline is leaving his client with options.

He’s expecting another statue to arrive in the coming weeks, this one of a Cherokee.

“He’s been in front of a car dealership for 50 years, and he’s really starting to piss some people off now.”

Back aT The Mexican restaurant, Cline has wrapped up his meal. He’s headed out to give a ghost tour, something he does every weekend during the summer. He’s prattling on about his family, more specifically his older brother, a pastor who doesn’t believe dinosaurs existed.

The irony of that is not lost on him.

Cline himself isn’t religious, but much of what he says often seems steeped in some sort of spirituality. He says he believes in the healing aspect of his work, in bringing joy to people.

His brain races on to the next topic.

“Hey, did you see the figure of Merlin the Magician back at the park?” he asks. “I made that off a dead guy.”

Cline goes on to tell the story. He was an old friend, and “he looked just like Willie Nelson,” Cline says. He’d long wanted to make a mold of his friend’s face, and when he passed, his wife called. “You better get here in the next couple of hours, Mark. We’re going to cremate him,” he remembers his friend’s wife saying.

“I always promised I’d turn him into something magical,” Cline says. “What’s more magical than Merlin the Magician?”

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Wizard of Flaws

Brian Murphy

Patience with long-tenured Wizards president Ernie Grunfeld is running low.

By Brian Murphy For the First time in more than a quarter century, a professional sports franchise located in Washington, D.C. brought home a championship.

While a team needs an abundance of luck to accomplish such a remarkable feat, there’s more to it than that.

Closing your eyes, crossing your fingers, and praying that some sort of divine intervention bails you out at the 11th hour doesn’t really constitute much of a plan. Unless, of course, if you’re the general manager of the Washington Wizards.

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Fortunately for Wizards president Ernie Grunfeld, most D.C. sports fans are still swimming victory laps in fountains and therefore missed his latest attempt to set the D.C. basketball franchise back another few years.

But before diving into this year’s NBA Draft, let’s pause for a minute and go back to the days immediately following Washington’s postseason elimination at the hands of the Toronto Raptors. During his end-of-season exit interview, point guard and face of the franchise John Wall decided to lay all of his cards on the table and spell out exactly what he felt needed to change in order for his team to compete with the league’s best teams.

“I think it’s pretty obvious,” Wall said. “I

don’t need to point it out. I think the way the league is going, you need athletic bigs, you need scoring off the bench, you need all of those types of things. We don’t really have an athletic big. I mean, Ian [Mahinmi] is older. March [Marcin Gortat] is older. They’re not athletic guys, but they do the little things that permit their game to help as much as possible.”

While Wall, and anyone else who has watched the Wizards play basketball the last few seasons, might think it’s obvious that Washington remains at a disadvantage until they catch up to today’s game, the one person in a position to fix this flawed franchise’s foundation has given fans little reason to believe he’s capable of accomplish-

ing that mission.

Rather than stepping back and viewing the situation with a critical eye, Grunfeld seems much more content to blame injuries, bad luck, or the boogeyman for the Wizards’ continued shortcomings.

“If you look at the overall picture of where we are, I think we’re in pretty healthy shape as far as our core is concerned,” Grunfeld said during the introductory press conference for first-round draft pick Troy Brown Jr. “Of course, we need some improvement from everybody but we have a solid, veteran team of young players that have been through it already. These are experienced young players that still have room for growth, but they’ve accomplished some things.

“They’ve been to the second round,” he continued. “They’ve been through wars.

Last year, losing to Toronto—Otto [Porter Jr.] didn’t play in Game 6 and he played hurt the previous couple games, trying to do whatever he could and we had leads in the fourth quarter in three out of our four losses. A shot doesn’t go in and that’s basketball.

But overall, the way it ended was disappointing for all of us because we expected more.

And I think our players are going to use that as motivation and work hard this summer and come back again and give it another shot and see what we can do.”

That’s a lot to unpack. But the important thing to remember is that most of it is nonsense. Grunfeld essentially wants a participation trophy because his squad is really good at losing games they led in the fourth quarter.

General managers in other NBA cities would be laughed out of town for saying that.

Over the last five seasons, the Wizards have averaged 44 wins per season—which is just one more victory than they earned this past season. Regardless of how many times Porter played at less than 100 percent or how often the Wiz failed to close out a winnable game, this is a large enough sample size to assess where the Wizards are.

The Wizards had the NBA’s fifth-highest payroll and paid the luxury tax for the first time in franchise history last season, but were still only the eighth seed in the Eastern Conference. They have two franchise cornerstones (Wall and shooting guard Bradley Beal) to build around, and three players on max contracts (Wall, Beal, and Porter).

With so much money tied up in the team’s top three players, there isn’t much room for errors with the rest of the available cap space.

And yet, Grunfeld’s recent history shows he loves nothing more than overpaying mediocre role players–committing more than $34

SPORTS million to Mahinmi, Gortat, and fellow nonathletic big man Jason Smith.

Grunfeld did pull off a surprising move last week, shipping Wall’s Polish frenemy, Gortat, to the Los Angeles Clippers for guard Austin Rivers. On the surface, this deal appears to be a solid move for the Wizards. Rivers is coming off of a career year, so it’s not surprising that the Clippers sold high on a player that struggled to stand out in their crowded backcourt rotation.

Given the choice between Rivers and Gortat, most objective observers would take the younger, more athletic player as well. Those same objective observers would also remain skeptical whenever Grunfeld begins making moves.

When a team hands out max contracts to good, but not great players and drastically overpays role players, that team needs to find a way to obtain talent via the draft and cost-effective free agents.

up plan. And a contingency plan.

Grunfeld has no cap room, lots of big stiffs (which would be great if this was 1994), and very little support from fans.

The five longest-tenured active general managers in the NBA have won at least one championship since taking the reins of their respective teams. Well, except for one.

Grunfeld hasn’t come close to winning anything during his time in D.C. and has guided the franchise to a winning record in just seven of his 15 years in charge. As much as owner Ted Leonsis might not want to hear it, Grunfeld has shown nothing over the last decade and a half to suggest he warrants the stealthy extension he received last fall.

When things are going their way, the Wizards are good enough to stumble into the postseason before gracefully bowing out to the first competent opponent they face. It’s time for the local team to strive for some-

Rather than stepping back and viewing the situation with a critical eye, Grunfeld seems much more content to blame injuries, bad luck, or the boogeyman for the Wizards’ continued shortcomings.

When it comes to the NBA Draft, Grunfeld appears to have two moves—trading away picks or drafting the same type of player over and over. He gave away first round picks in 2014, 2016, and 2017 for Gortat, forward Markieff Morris, and trade deadline rental Bojan Bogdanovic. During the seasons he actually kept his first rounder, Grunfeld ended up with Porter, Kelly Oubre Jr., and Brown, this year’s No. 15 overall pick.

All three are essentially small forwards who do a few different things well, but nothing great. None remotely resemble the athletic big man Wall dreams of at night. But when the only two options are to light the draft pick on fire or select yet another scrawny forward who has trouble scoring consistently, well, beggars can’t be choosers.

This has nothing to do with Brown and everything to do with the guy who drafted him. General managers who run successful franchises always have a plan. And a back-

thing bigger.

Take, for example, the Toronto Raptors, the team that bested the Wizards in the first round of the playoffs. In the second round, the Cleveland LeBrons swept the Raptors in four games. Raptors coach Dwane Casey quickly lost his job because, after an honest assessment and some self-reflection, the team’s front office decided the team needed a radical turnaround.

In Toronto, simply making the postseason (and beating the Wizards) wasn’t good enough. Leonsis has shown he’s willing to make that same sort of tough choice with his golden child, the Washington Capitals.

But so many disappointing things have happened to this once-proud Bullets franchise, that those who still love pro hoops in D.C. have nothing left to do but to close their eyes, cross their fingers, and pray that some sort of divine intervention comes at the 11th hour.

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Out of Town

By Anthony Lacey “For the First time in 27, 28 years, there won’t be a big dance venue for the gay community,” says John Guggenmos. He co-owned Town Danceboutique, which closed July 1 after a month of Pride celebrations.

The two-level club with an outdoor patio opened in a leased space at 8th Street and Florida Avenue NW in 2007. Rumors of its demise due to the sale of the land it occupied have persisted for years, but in June 2017 they became a reality. The club announced that the land had indeed been sold for $25 million.

The gay community is mourning its closure.

Even gay guys who don’t enjoy the unce-unce club scene say that having a 22,000-squarefoot venue provided a place for other social gatherings. Groups like Team DC, a nonprofit gay sports association, took advantage of Town for fundraisers.

“I don’t even like going to big clubs and I think [Town closing] is devastating,” says David Perruzza, the owner of recently opened gay bar Pitchers in Adams Morgan.

“Certain things that you need a stage and a big venue for can’t be done anymore—things like Team DC’s fashion show—so people are going to have to scale down until something else opens up.”

It’ll be some time before Guggenmos opens a new club. He says nine months of talks about an undisclosed venue a few blocks from Town fell through. But he’s not in a rush to open his next club just for the sake of it, and is taking his time to find the right spot. Guggenmos is focusing on Logan Circle, NoMa, and Georgia Avenue NW. He also co-owns Number Nine and Trade.

Without Town, only one mega gay destination remains when it comes to square footage.

Ziegfeld’s/Secrets in Southwest combines a downstairs drag show venue with an upstairs club with nude male dancers, but its future is not certain. The Washington Business Journal reported in 2016 that MRP Realty reached an agreement to acquire several properties at

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Buzzard Point, including the nightclub. Ziegfeld’s/ Secrets was supplanted once before when Nationals Park went in.

Co-owner Steve Dellerba declined to comment about his nightclub’s future, but talked about the loss of large gay nightclubs broadly. “It’s not like these clubs that close suddenly have no turnout and go out of business. Generally, they are displaced by city development or other issues,” he says.

“This is how it goes, and has been this way for decades.”

He continues, “Town has had a great run and it’s sad to see the community lose another fun and popular club. An unfortunate reality of the scene is that great dance clubs—like Town, Nation, Tracks, Fur, Love, Five, and plenty others—do come and go.

When they close, they are never forgotten. They leave club goers with fond times and memories that they might talk about for decades.” Dellerba adds that Echostage has acquired a strong following in the gay community.

The story of D.C.’s gay scene isn’t one of decline.

At least three new gay bars have opened in recent months. And in a city where property costs are on the rise, smaller venues with lower rent could be the trend for gay nightlife. The city’s gay residents say that bars and clubs provide several vital functions for the LGBTQ community. They help foster a greater sense of togetherness among its diverse gay residents.

They are also safe spaces where gay people

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The gay community mourns the closing of Town Danceboutique, but sees a new era of gay and mixed spaces taking its place.

can fully be themselves in a city that’s seen several anti-gay assaults in recent months.

There have been at least three suspected incidents since April. Three men attacked two gay men near the Howard Theatre in April. A group of men pushed down and kicked a gay man on Sherman Avenue NW in May. And later in May, a man shouted an anti-gay slur at two gay men walking on 14th Street NW then

punched one of the men in the face.

Guggenmos is one of a chorus of gay people in the city—from a drag queen and a gay city Council candidate to owners of smaller gay bars to patrons—that say there’s a need for “safe spaces” for the LGBTQ community even in a supposedly progressive city like D.C. “The gay club where you can dance the night away is still an important part of the commu-

DCFEED nity, despite the onslaught of dating apps that continue to pop into existence” says Town patron J. Clarence Flanders. “We still need places where we can be in communion with others that share our experience and dance to Carly Rae.” Jerry VanHook, who frequently performed in drag as Shi-Queeta-Lee at Town’s Friday and Saturday night drag shows, laments the club’s closing. “There’s a huge need [for it], every day the LGBTQ community is growing and we need that safe space to party and let go.”

Other gay District residents argue that the gay community should actively explore straight venues in a bid to spread acceptance.

Jamie Sycamore, a gay candidate for the Ward 1 Council seat, says the recent spike in suspected hate crimes in his ward and ongoing violence against transgender people requires the community to consider visiting non-gay spots around the city.

“We need to take our message of acceptance and inclusiveness beyond our safe spaces, and into areas that may be unfamiliar with what the LGBTQ+ community represents,” Sycamore says.

Miguel Almanzar, a regular Town patron, agrees with Sycamore, saying Town’s closing could have a positive impact if it encourages the community to explore new destinations.

“It might push us to look for new experiences in some of the existing clubs and bars and go discover and mingle in some of the non-queer spaces,” he says.

For those in the community who don’t want to venture to straight bars, there’s a growing number of gay-owned bars from which to choose: Trade, Number Nine, Larry’s Lounge, The Bachelors Mill, The Fireplace, The Dirty Goose, Uproar Lounge and Restaurant, Nellie’s Sports Bar, JR’s, Cobalt, The DC Eagle, Pitchers, and Orchid. The city’s last dedicated lesbian bar, Phase 1, closed permanently in 2016.

Perruzza aims to make Pitchers a bar that appeals to every letter in LGBTQ. His bar has taken over Spaghetti Garden’s building on 18th Street NW. It boasts a space for community groups, a restaurant, and a room with televisions showing everything from sports to RuPaul’s Drag Race. Later this month, a lesbian bar called A League of Her Own will open in the basement.

“I think right now the gay scene is all over the place, and I’m trying to get this club to be the club for everybody,” Perruzza says. “I want this bar to appeal to all crowds.”

Himitsu co-owner Carlie Steiner is optimistic that Town’s closing might encourage her and other lesbians to try out new bars, particularly given the dearth of lesbian destinations. “I had the same feeling when Phase

closed,” she says. “I’m trying to see the positive in the closure because maybe it means better integration.”

While Steiner suggests there is still a need for gay venues, she also notes that many of the city’s gay bars are populated by affluent white gay men. “When you look at the LGBTQ community, I think it’s a very different experience from a white gay male to a lesbian or someone in the trans community,” she says.

Town patron Flanders concurs, saying the city’s gay scene is “more niche now,” with specific bars catering to specific audiences.

“There are fewer common watering holes that bring large swaths of the community together,” he says. “That’s likely bad for the overall community in the long term … but in the short term, it means people are getting exactly what they want.”

Fellow Town patron Almanzar is hopeful about the new bars, clubs, and other venues that might fill whatever void Town leaves behind. “It feels like an end of an era, but something new will take its place,” he says. “The District is constantly evolving, changing, a new wave of cute interns each summer, a wave of new restaurants, hip bars, the same thing with the club scene.”

Daniel Hernandez, director of operations for the Hill Restaurant Group, says the company opened gay bar Orchid on Capitol Hill because the neighborhood needed an option for gay people like himself who can’t make it to the cluster of gay bars in Northwest.

He believes smaller locations are opening due to increasing real estate costs. “People can no longer afford the leases in this city,” he says.

“We still need at least one big night club in this city. Because every once in a while it’s nice to have the option to go night clubbing.”

Meanwhile, VanHook is already pursuing a new venture now that Shi-Queeta-Lee’s days at Town are over. The drag queen launched a pop-up drag brunch called “Queeta’s Place” in a space leased at Chateau Remix on Benning Road NE. VanHook says the goal is to make enough money to open his own club.

Regardless of whether the next gay venue to open is an intimate bar or sprawling multilevel club, Park View resident and married gay man Daniel Arrieta says the establishments remain essential.

“We will always need spaces where we can be unashamedly ourselves without having to babysit the straights, deal with their issues with the LGBT community, suffer through their mating rituals, or feel like we are exhibits at the zoo,” he says. “‘Check out the colorful homosexuals! Marvel at their unique ways!’

‘Thank you, but no.’”

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In the mid-’70s, Maryland art-rock ensemble Entourage pushed the boundaries of psychedelic music. More than 40 years later, the group is finding new life.

By Pat Padua Sometime in 1977, in the middle of the night at a Nebraska rest stop, guitarist Wall Matthews had to use the bathroom. He was in costume, wearing one of the pink, hooded robes that he and his bandmates were using for a video shoot. “These two truckers were there watching this thing go down,” Matthews remembers. “One of them said to the other, ‘I saw something like this on TV last night—it was called Race with the Devil!’” Like an alien trying to fit in on his new planet, Matthews quickly tried to disarm the natives. “You don’t happen to know who won the Red Sox game, do you?” he asked them.

Music has taken Matthews to some strange places. From his native Baltimore to long-gone Washington nightclubs to a tour with a West Coast singer-songwriter and the Royal Swedish Ballet. This month, his long journey brings him back to the D.C. area. The guitarist will perform at Red Onion Records on U Street NW to promote Ceremony of Dreams, Tompkins Square Records’ archival issue of previously unreleased material that Matthews’ Maryland-based band Entourage recorded between 1972 and 1977.

(City Paper’s arts editor works part time at Red Onion, but didn’t know about this event before this article was assigned.)

The group’s only surviving member, Matthews has assembled a new generation of musicians to fill an old template, and it’s a good fit.

Completing a circle of sorts, Matthews’ career seems to echo the mesmerizing shape of his band’s music, and conjures a kind of ancient ritual that brought the members of Entourage to a most unusual performing arts venue: a series of rest areas spanning hundreds of miles along a Midwestern interstate.

The story begins in 1970, when Baltimore native Joe Clark founded Entourage with like-minded musicians from diverse backgrounds. Clark was a staple of the Baltimore-D.C. jazz scene but was drawn to Celtic music and Middle Eastern scales that he’d explore on soprano saxophone. Matthews came from a folk scene influenced by Bert

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Jansch and British groups like Pentangle.

The two were joined by a rock rhythm section and—in a sign of the times—street poet David Smith, who would sit in the audience at gigs and, when the spirit moved him, extemporize work that some of the band members thought was great; others, not so much.

Clark assembled these strange musical bedfellows for a regular after-hours gig at Baltimore’s legendary the Bluesette, run by his friend Art Peyton. According to reminiscence in The Baltimore Sun, the discotheque could comfortably fit 25 people but was regularly packed with 100 teenagers, who gathered for local psychedelic bands such as The Urch Perch.

Entourage were not the club’s typical fare— too far out for the teen demographic and rawer and more expansive than even the band’s later, recorded work. Matthews recalls that they were inspired by the experimentation of John Coltrane’s late-career masterpiece Ascension.

Clark was dedicated, but he couldn’t sustain that dedication forever. He made the long weekend commute to Baltimore from Millbrook, New York, where he had a gig in the dance department at Bennett College. He was equally dedicated to one guiding musical principle that he passed on to his bandmates: Forget the clichés of rock or jazz or whatever background you come from.

“He wanted to wipe … the idiomatic components of these different styles of music away,” Matthews explains. “He would say to me, ‘I don’t mind if you bend the note on a guitar, but don’t make it a blue note.’”

You can hear this theory in practice; while Entourage at times have the feel of new age and Arabic music, minimalist drones and jazz fusion, The Grateful Dead and Terry Riley, the group came up with a unique sound that transcended its influences.

By the time they recorded their first album, credited to The Entourage Music & Theatre Ensemble, the core group included viola player Rusty Clark (no relation to Joe) and Michael “Smitty” Smith, who was the goto drummer when such jazz legends as Mose Allison were in D.C. Released in 1973, the untitled album was illustrated with a druid-

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CPArts ic, hooded figure playing a long horn over a fissure in the Earth, seeming to draw up some elemental forces from its core.

“We felt that the music was connected to the natural world— and to the transcendental world,” Matthews says. “There was this sense of otherness that if you let yourself give into that it would give the music a sense of something created in another realm.”

After that first album, Clark relocated to work for the dance department at Connecticut College in New London. Matthews went on to California, where he recorded and toured with singer-songwriter Biff Rose, whose 1968 song “Fill Your Heart,” co-written with Paul Williams, was covered by both Tiny Tim and David Bowie.

A few years later, Clark called, eager to revive the band with a crucial new element: dance. Matthews headed back east. Entourage took on three dancers as permanent members of the group and, with choreographer Laurie Cameron, developed a 90-minute performance called The Neptune Collection, which happens to be the name of their second album. Released in 1976, it features a swirling green and purple vortex on the cover. But it was that hooded figure from their past that emerged on the band’s most surprising career turn: “A Ceremony of Dreams,” a half-hour performance video broadcast on Nebraska Public Television in 1977.

Producer Gene Bunge had attended an Entourage show in Pittsburgh, and thought they’d be a perfect complement for an ambitious state arts initiative: the Nebraska I-80 Bicentennial Sculpture Project, which placed a series of massive abstract sculptures around rest areas along the state’s major east-west passage. Bunge wanted the group to develop a performance around the sculptures, so the musicians and dancers donned

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Cameron choreographed numbers built on material from The Neptune Collection and what would have been a third Entourage album (these sessions make up much of the Tompkins Square release). The group rehearsed in Maryland before heading west for a schedule that required cast and crew to start at 10:00 at night, shoot until 2 in the morning, and then head back on I-80 in the middle of the night to drive hours to the next location.

Given the pulsing, otherworldly drones of the band’s music, it all sounds like a dream, if a very 1970s quasi-medieval dream, and the resulting video is kind of jaw-dropping in a way that you’d never expect from a public arts project in Nebraska.

Joe Clark died in 1983, and there ended the story of Entourage, or so its members thought. Rusty Clark died in 1986. Matthews went on to release a number of solo albums and composed music for the Royal Danish Ballet and the Paris Opera Ballet.

Then, one day in 2004, it all came back. “It was dreamlike when it first happened,” Matthews says. He got an unexpected email from Cameron, who was then head of the dance department at Pomona College in Claremont, California. “Who is this guy Four Tet and why is he using Neptune Rising,” she wrote. A student in one of Cameron’s classes brought in a piece of music for a piece they were working on. It was “She Moves She,” on which Four Tet liberally samples a track from Entourage’s 1976 album. Suddenly, Cameron heard music that she had danced to 30 years ago.

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Matthews says. He got in touch with Baltimore intellectual property lawyer E. Scott Johnson, who handled the 2 Live Crew sample of Chuck Brown and called the Four Tet violation the most egregious use of sampling he’d ever seen. The composer credit on “She Moves She” was transferred to Matthews and Rusty Clark, and Matthews tracked down Rusty’s kids to give them their share.

During negotiations, Chrysalis Records, who then represented Kieran Hebden, aka Four Tet, let Matthews know that the egregious sampler would be performing in Baltimore at the Ottobar— just two blocks from Clean Cuts, the studio where Matthews was working. “He turned out to be a nice enough guy. “ Entourage’s second—or third—act came about thanks to a local folk singer who had long ago left the music business. Bob Brown, who now flies around the world training hotel staff to be better hosts, released two albums on Richie Havens’ Stormy Forest label in the ’70s. Brown was set to play Red Onion in 2016 to promote Tompkins Square Records’ reissue of his albums, on which he was backed up by Joe Clark and Rusty Clark. So Brown had known Matthews for years but had never played with him.

At that in-store performance, it was seamless, like a reunion of a band that had never been. It was Brown who convinced label owner Josh Rosenthal to listen to Entourage.

Now it was Matthews’ turn to get the band together with such young musicians as Seth Kibel on clarinet and Adam Gonzalez on cello. “We were able to get about 40 minutes of material together, and guess what, it sounds like Entourage, 40 years later.”

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These secondary couplings are more fun than the show’s primary romantic pursuit, wherein sailor Gabey, played by Rhett Guter, becomes smitten with “Miss Turnstiles,” a woman on a subway poster, and devotes

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But even that loving homage is now 25 years old. The sexual politics of Betty Comden and Adolph Green’s book are such that playing the show straight introduces a gently ironic effect. (One suspects this might have been the case in 1944, too.) So Olney artistic director Jason Loewith has wisely abstained from putting a hat on a hat and focuses his energies on an On The Town as libidinous and tuneful and hokey as you might hope.

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his 24 hours of freedom to finding her. That Comden and Green chose to reward his insanity by having him locate the poster model, a “cooch dancer” named Ivy Smith, remains the most baffling of their calculations.

But that doesn’t matter. This production’s Ivy, Claire Rathbun, is winning and likeable, and an elegant dancer to boot. Her ballet with Guter—the show was “inspired by an idea by Jerome Robbins,” after all—is one of the few moments when Tara Jeanne Vallee’s graceful choreography is a foreground element. It’s a welcome pause in a show that’s otherwise antic and, for its era, plot-heavy. So you’ll stay for the dancing, but you should go for the songs: “New York, New York,” “Lonely Town,” and “I Can Cook, Too” are all-timers, undimmed by the passage of 75 years.

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Into the Woods Leave No Trace

Directed by Debra Granik When henry DaviD Thoreau went into the woods to live deliberately, he did not have to worry about a social safety net. He could write Walden in peace, without anyone questioning why he would cut himself from civilization.

The main character in Leave No Trace, one of the year’s best dramas, may have been inspired

by Thoreau, but his need to live deliberately is not out of some commitment to transcendentalism. Written and directed by Debra Granik, whose last feature-length drama was Winter’s Bone, this is a film that eschews melodrama in favor of smaller, tense moments. It asks for careful attention, practically demanding the

audience lean forward attentively, which leads to startling emotional power.

A man named Will (Ben Foster) and a teenage girl named Tom (Thomasin McKenzie) live in the woods. They have some modern camping tools, but mostly live off the land in a way that reduces their carbon footprint. The opening sequences could be post-apocalyptic, since their isolation is so complete, but we gradually learn Will and Tom are adjacent to the Portland, Oregon, area. We also learn he is the girl’s father. They speak quietly, mostly talking about the next task at hand, so when they do return to civilization the sound of people and traffic is all the more deafening. The police interrupt their tranquility—they are technically trespassing, and are arrested—so the family services try and find accommodations that resemble the life they led. The father cannot stand such compromise, so he and his daughter escape for a simpler life away from prying eyes.

Over the past 10 years, Ben Foster has been drawn to unconventional, intense characters. He played a villain in 3:10 to Yuma, but abandoned big budget genre fare in favor of smaller roles like Hell Or High Water and The Messenger. He specializes in people who are too wounded and proud to articulate what troubles them, so this role is a perfect fit. When government officials interro-

gate Will, you can sense the quiet resentment building within him. But he wants to be accommodating, and a good example for his daughter. Foster communicates nonverbally, his eyes betraying his anger or his body deflating whenever he has a setback. Granik offers few clues about his backstory—he could have lived with his daughter for weeks, or years—and this spartan narrative only makes us more curious.

Leave No Trace would fall apart without McKenzie, who proves to be Foster’s equal.

Tom is open and curious; she internalizes the preferred lifestyle of her father, and still has enough experience to question his decisionmaking. Their rapport is touching because there are no arguments or histrionics: This a bond borne out of love and mutual respect. In an early scene where the girl finds a necklace on the trail, and she asks her father whether she can keep it. He says, “Only if it’s still there when we get back.” It is a strange answer, and yet she nods quietly, eschewing material things in a way that is atypical of a teenager.

Only when the film gets into its central conflict—whether Will has their best interests at heart—does Tom become an independent thinker, and yet it is not a stretch when she quietly, patiently makes her case.

With its Pacific Northwest setting, Granik evokes the same feeling and aesthetic as Kelly Reichhardt. In films like Old Joy and Wendy and Lucy, Reichert presents the region as a place where life is tough and the people persist in a quiet, gentle way. Leave No Trace never looks like travelogue: These woods are dense and foreboding, particularly when the pair head into Washington State where the air is much cooler. Still, the most remarkable thing is how Granik helps us internalize the point of view of her lead characters.

There is a moment where Will works for a logger, cutting down trees for Christmas, and the sheer waste of the endeavor gnaws at him. At the same time, Tom’s open face and kind eyes suggest she is not yet so defeated.

While Leave No Trace does not specifically take place in the present, it has added resonance for this particular cultural moment. We learn Will is a veteran, and although we never hear about the specifics of his service, there is some connection between it and his disconnect from society. There is something undeniably appealing about the lifestyle, whether it means getting off social media or having no mortgage/ rent to pay. While the film never quite admonishes Will, it does reveal how his lifestyle cannot sustain a family. His shared isolation with Tom is a shared fantasy. The final scenes, told with unusual economy, are about how Tom is finally too curious and engaged to share the fantasy any longer.

—Alan Zilberman Leave No Trace opens Friday at Landmark E Street Cinema and Landmark Bethesda Row Cinema.

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Shy Glizzy has spent the last few years moving from strength to strength. The D.C. native scored a hit and plenty of new fans (including Beyoncé) with “Awwsome,” landed on XXL’s trendsetting Freshman Class list, and announced himself to the world on GoldLink’s song of the summer, “Crew,” as the “King of District Columbia.” But outside of the music world, Glizzy’s life hasn’t been as kind: His father was murdered when he was young, and his collaborator 30 Glizzy was murdered last September. That real world sadness permeates Quiet Storm, his best release yet. Glizzy has always sounded world-weary, but the December project found him more melancholy than ever. “Don’t wanna talk about it, but somebody might die,” he raps on “Take Me Away.” “Now I’m livin’ for today, that chopper ride when I ride.” As resigned as he is to his demise, let’s hope it isn’t anytime soon. Shy Glizzy performs at 8 p.m. at the Fillmore Silver Spring, 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. $30. (301) 960-9999. fillmoresilverspring.com.

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SounD SCEnE: MAppInG MEMoRY

For the past 11 years, the Hirshhorn has played host to one of the most forward-thinking arts projects in the country. Sound Scene, which the museum says “unites audio artists and contributors from across the globe to transform the Hirshhorn into a free and interactive sonic wonderland,” is often overlooked in the pantheon of summer festivals in D.C. Just look at its competition this year—it’s not even the only Smithsonian festival happening this weekend. (The Folklife Festival reigns supreme, and for good reason.) But if you’re looking for experimental art that stays true to its name and mission, Sound Scene is for you. This year’s theme is “Mapping Memory” and it includes art, performances, and workshops that actively interrogate the process of experiencing sound. That includes a dream tent, an audio architectural tour, guided sonic meditation inspired by the Queen of Deep Listening Pauline Oliveros, and performances from local experimental musicians Layne Garrett, David Schulman, and members of the National Symphony Orchestra. The path to freeing your mind begins in the ears. Let Sound Scene guide you there. The event begins at 10 a.m. at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Independence Avenue and 7th Street SW. Free. (202) 633-1000. dclisteninglounge.org.

—Matt Cohen

SAtuRDAY

SunDAY

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

The Honey Dewdrops and Caleb Stine Band. 9 p.m. $12–$15. hillcountrywdc.com.

wolf traP filene Center 1551 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. Ludovico Einaudi. 8 p.m. $35–$85. wolftrap.org.

CountRY

flaSh 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Giles Smith and James Priestley. 8 p.m. $8–$15. flashdc. com.

FoLk

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

Julius Jetson and Gerry Gonza. 10 p.m. $5. ustreetmusichall.com.

Funk & R&B

Funk & R&B

birChmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Maysa. 7:30 p.m. $69.50. birchmere. com. blaCk Cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Winzday Love. 8:30 p.m. $15. blackcatdc.com. the hamilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000. Soul Crackers. 8 p.m. $15–$20. thehamiltondc.com.

HIp-Hop

fillmore Silver SPring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Q Da Fool. 8 p.m. $35. fillmoresilverspring.com. velvet lounge 915 U St. NW. (202) 462-3213. Airospace. 8:30 p.m. $10. velvetloungedc.com.

JAZZ

twinS Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. The John Lamkin ‘Favorites’ Jazz Quintet. 9 p.m.; 11 p.m. $15. twinsjazz.com.

pop

SmithSonian folklife feStival National Mall between 14th and 12th streets NW. Roadwork’s 40th Anniversary: Three Voices. 6 p.m. Free. festival.si.edu.

RoCk

blueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Memphis Gold. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $22. bluesalley. com.

pop

CLASSICAL

muSiC Center at Strathmore 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. The President’s Own Marine Band. 7:30 p.m. Free. strathmore.org.

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

Peter Himmelman. 5 p.m. $15–$39.75. thehamiltondc. com. birChmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

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

HIp-Hop

blueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Levi Stephens. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $22. bluesalley. com.

RoCk

blaCk Cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. The Body. 7:30 p.m. $12–$15. blackcatdc.com.

Jammin Java 227 Maple Ave. East, Vienna. (703) 2551566. Gryzzle. 7:30 p.m. $10–$20. jamminjava.com.

RoCk

blaCk Cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Os Mutantes. 7:30 p.m. $30. blackcatdc.com.

dC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Howlin Rain. 8 p.m. $15. dcnine.com.

Jiffy lube live 7800 Cellar Door Drive, Bristow.

(703) 754-6400. Steely Dan and The Doobie Brothers.

7:30 p.m. $24–$199. livenation.com.

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

Freddie McGregor. 9 p.m. $25–$55. thehowardtheatre.com.

wolf traP filene Center 1551 Trap Road, Vienna.

(703) 255-1900. Indigo Girls. 8 p.m. $30–$60. wolftrap.org.

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

WEDnESDAY

Strathmore gudelSky ConCert gazebo 5301 Tuckerman Ln., Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. Making Movies. 7 p.m. Free. strathmore.org.

ELECtRonIC

SoundCheCk 1420 K St. NW. (202) 789-5429. Hekler.

10 p.m. $10–$15. soundcheckdc.com.

wolf traP filene Center 1551 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. Tedeschi Trucks Band. 7 p.m. $35–$80. wolftrap.org.

CITY LIGHTS: SunDAY

CLASSICAL

ELECtRonIC

flaSh 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Alex Noize, Amir S and Mr. Wright. 4 p.m. Free. flashdc. com.

FoLk

BLuES

CITY LIGHTS: SAtuRDAY

CountRY

tuESDAY

birChmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria. (703) 549-7500. Cheryl Wheeler and Jonathan Edwards. 7:30 p.m. $35. birchmere.com.

Jammin Java 227 Maple Ave. East, Vienna. (703) 2551566. Tish Hinojosa. 7:30 p.m. $20. jamminjava.com. blueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Miki Howard. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $40–$45. bluesalley.com.

Jiffy lube live 7800 Cellar Door Drive, Bristow.

(703) 754-6400. The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill 20th Anniversary Tour. 6 p.m. $20–$201. livenation.com.

JAZZ

betheSda blueS & Jazz 7719 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. (240) 330-4500. Brian Lenair. 7 p.m. $30. bethesdabluesjazz.com. twinS Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Dan Wallace. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $10. twinsjazz.com.

WoRLD

kennedy Center millennium Stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Arto Tunçboyaciyan. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

MonDAY CLASSICAL

kennedy Center millennium Stage 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. Grayson Masefield. 6 p.m. Free. kennedy-center.org.

pop

dC9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Honey. 9 p.m. $8. dcnine.com.

Jammin Java 227 Maple Ave. East, Vienna. (703) 2551566. The Bachelor Boys. 8 p.m. Free. jamminjava.com.

Jiffy lube live 7800 Cellar Door Drive, Bristow.

(703) 754-6400. Lynyrd Skynyrd. 6 p.m. $22–$209. livenation.com.

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

RoCk

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LAuRYn HILL

In this world, nothing can be said to be certain except death, taxes, and Ms. Lauryn Hill starting her show late. For the past few years, the living legend’s concerts have been notoriously unpunctual and uneven. “The challenge is aligning my energy with the time, taking something that isn’t easily classified or contained, and trying to make it available for others,” she wrote on Facebook in 2016. Yet people keep showing up in the hopes that she’ll deliver some of the magic that illuminated her one shining album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. It’s been 20 years since Miseducation changed the R&B and hip-hop landscapes and swept the Grammy Awards, and the chance to hear her sing those songs—and the hits of her prior group, the hip-hop trio Fugees—is enough for scores of fans to take a chance on her. For Hill, it’s all a work in progress.

“Our challenge is to figure out the best way to accommodate the vitality, spontaneity, and spirit that make the performances worthwhile and special,” she wrote. Maybe this will be the time she figures it out. Lauryn Hill performs at 6 p.m. at Jiffy Lube Live, 7800 Cellar Door Drive, Bristow. $29–$201.99. (703) 754-6400. livenation.com.

—Chris Kelly

Merriweather Post Pavilion • Columbia, MD

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

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

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

THIS WEEK’S SHOWS

Reminisce Live!....................................................................................... F JUL 6 Steve Hofstetter This is a seated show. 14+ to enter. .......................................... Sa 7 JULY

AUGUST (cont.)

Hot In Herre: 2000s Dance Party

DC Music Rocks Festival feat.

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

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

The Circus Life Podcast 5th Anniversary Concert feat.

Kyle Kinane This is a seated show. ......................Th 23 Can’t Feel My Face: 2010s Dance Party with

JWX: The Jarreau Williams Experience • Alex Barnett • Justin Trawick and The Common Good and more! .....Sa 14

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

DJs Will Eastman & Ozker with visuals by Kylos ................F 24

DJ Dredd’s MJ + Prince Dance Party

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

D NIGHT ADDED!

FIRST NIGHT SOLD OUT! SECON

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

SEPTEMBER

Nothing But Thieves w/ Demob Happy ............................F 7 MC50: Kick Out the Jams 50th Anniversary Tour

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

featuring MC5’s Brother Wayne Kramer, Soundgarden’s Kim Thayil, Fugazi’s Brendan Canty, Kings X’s Dug Pinnick, and Zen Guerilla’s Marcus Durant ......Tu 11

AUGUST

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

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

FIRST SHOW SOLD OUT! EARLY

Los Amigos Invisibles ...........F 14 FIDLAR w/ Dilly Dally & NOBRO ..............Tu 18

AEG PRESENTS

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

with DJs Brian Billion and Ozker with visuals by Kylos ................F 10 AEG PRESENTS

Jeremih w/ Teyana Taylor & DaniLeigh ..Sa 11 Mura Masa ................................F 17

MANY MORE SHOWS ON SALE!

9:30 CUPCAKES

D NIGHT ADDED!

FIRST NIGHT SOLD OUT! SECON

Car Seat Headrest w/ Naked Giants & Don Babylon .Th 20 Gary Numan w/ Nightmare Air

Early Show! 6pm Doors .....................F 21

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

Lady Antebellum & Darius Rucker

w/ Russell Dickerson .............................................................................................. AUG 2 CDE PRESENTS SUMMER SPIRIT FESTIVAL FEATURING

Erykah Badu • Anderson .Paak & The Free Nationals • Nas • The Roots • Method Man & Redman • Daniel Caesar • Lion Babe and more! . AUGUST 4 & 5

Jason Mraz w/ Brett Dennen ...................................................................... AUG 10 AUG 11 SOLD OUT!

Phish ...................................................................................................................... AUG 12 CAKE & Ben Folds w/ Tall Heights ....................................................... AUG 18 Kenny Chesney w/ Old Dominion ............................................................ AUG 22 Portugal. The Man w/ Lucius..................................................................SEPT 21 TRILLECTRO FEATURING

SZA • 2 Chainz • RL Grime • Carnage • Young Thug • Playboi Carti • The Internet • Smokepurpp • Rico Nasty and more! ......................SEPT 22

The National w/ Cat Power & Phoebe Bridgers ...................................SEPT 28 WPOC SUNDAY IN THE COUNTRY FEATURING

Brett Eldredge • Dan + Shay • Dustin Lynch • Devin Dawson • Morgan Evans • Jimmie Allen • Jillian Jacqueline .........................SEPT 30

• For full lineups and more info, visit merriweathermusic.com • 930.com

Lincoln Theatre • 1215 U Street, NW Washington, D.C.

Blackmore’s Night w/ The Wizard’s Consort .................. JUL 25 Amos Lee w/ Caitlyn Smith ...... SEPT 18 Welcome To Night Vale .. SEPT 26 Blood Orange ........................ SEPT 28 Lykke Li ......................................... OCT 5 Gad Elmaleh ............................. OCT 10 Eric Hutchinson & The Believers w/ Jeremy Messersmith .................... OCT 12 The Milk Carton Kids w/ The Barr Brothers ....................... OCT 13

D NIGHT ADDED!

FIRST NIGHT SOLD OUT! SECON

Garbage w/ Rituals of Mine Version 2.0 20th Anniversary Tour ... OCT 22 THE BENTZEN BALL COMEDY FESTIVAL CLOSING NIGHT

Tig Notaro & Friends ........ OCT 28 MADISON HOUSE PRESENTS Kamasi Washington ...........NOV 10

The Dollop .................................NOV 16 Jim James (Solo Acoustic) w/ Alynda Segarra

from Hurray for the Riff Raff ...............NOV 17

• thelincolndc.com • U Street (Green/Yellow) stop across the street!

U STREET MUSIC HALL PRESENTS

Whethan w/ Sweater Beats & Andrew Luce

Late Show! 10pm Doors .....................F 21

Owl City w/ Matthew Thiessen & The Earthquakes .....................Sa 22

The Growlers .........................Su 23

930.com

The best thing you could possibly put in your mouth Cupcakes by BUZZ... your neighborhood bakery in Alexandria, VA. | www.buzzonslaters.com

9:30 CLUB PRESENTS AT U STREET MUSIC HALL Katie Herzig w/ Liza Anne ........... Sa JUL 14 Ra Ra Riot - The Rhumb Line 10th Anniversary Tour ...................... Sa 18 Shannon And The Clams w/ Big Huge & Gauche .......................... Th 26 Striking Matches ............................. Sa 25 Bernhoft Lydia w/ Jared and The Mill & Cherry Pools ................................ Tu AUG 7 & The Fashion Bruises ...............Th SEP 6 Vacationer w/ Sego .............................. F 17 Let’s Eat Grandma .......................... Th 13 • 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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tHuRSDAY CountRY

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

AN EVENING WITH

SOUL

CRACKERS JULY 7 SATURDAY

PETER

HIMMELMAN

WEDNESDAY JULY

11

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

Drivin’ N’ Cryin’. 8:30 p.m. $15–$17. hillcountrywdc. com.

ELECtRonIC

flaSh 645 Florida Ave. NW. (202) 827-8791. Dusky. 8 p.m. $8–$12. flashdc.com.

SoundCheCk 1420 K St. NW. (202) 789-5429. Felix Cartal. 10 p.m. $15. soundcheckdc.com.

FoLk

inStitute of muSiCal traditionS at the takoma Park Community Center 7500 Maple Ave., Takoma Park. (301) 754-3611. Lil’ Rev Ukulele Workshop & Mini-Concert. 7:30 p.m. $35. imtfolk.org.

Funk & R&B

blueS alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Jean Carne. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $25–$30. bluesalley.com.

JAZZ

BOMBINO W/ SAHEL

Strathmore baCkyard theater Stage 5301 Tuckerman Lane, Bethesda. (301) 581-5100. JoJo & The Pinecones. 9:30 a.m.; 11:30 a.m. $8–$10. strathmore.org.

FRI, JULY 13

twinS Jazz 1344 U St. NW. (202) 234-0072. Kurtis Adams. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $10. twinsjazz.com.

THURS, JULY 12

THE DEVON ALLMAN PROJECT

W/ SPECIAL GUEST DUANE BETTS SAT, JULY 14

CARBON LEAF W/ SCOTT MULVAHILL SUN, JULY 15

KING YELLOWMAN AND THE SAGITTARIUS BAND TUES, JULY 17

SLATE PRESENTS: THE

WAVES LIVE

THURS, JULY 19

CHUCK PROPHET & THE MISSION EXPRESS W/ JEREMY & THE HARLEQUINS

FRI, JULY 20

ALL GOOD PRESENTS NICKI W/ PETER OREN TRIO

CHATHAM COUNTY LINE

W/ SARAH RHUDY

WED, JULY 25

TAB BENOIT W/ SCOTTY BRATCHER SAT, JULY 28

AN EVENING WITH

CHOPTEETH AFROFUNK BIG BAND WED, AUG 1

AN EVENING WITH DEAD

ON LIVE

THURS, AUG 2

AN EVENING WITH

LIVE DEAD & RIDERS 69 FRI, AUG 3

AN EVENING WITH JOHN

RoCk

birChmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. Poco and Atlantic Rhythm Section.

7:30 p.m. $45. birchmere.com. blaCk Cat 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. BOAYT. 7:30 p.m. $10. blackcatdc.com. the hamilton 600 14th St. NW. (202) 787-1000.

Bombino. 7:30 p.m. $20–$30. thehamiltondc.com. roCk & roll hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

Quiet Slang. 8 p.m. $15. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

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

(703) 237-0300. Jorge Drexler. 8 p.m. $59–$99. thestatetheatre.com. wolf traP filene Center 1551 Trap Road, Vienna.

(703) 255-1900. Slightly Stoopid. 6:30 p.m. $40–$55. wolftrap.org.

WoRLD

library of CongreSS Coolidge auditorium First Street and Independence Avenue SE. (202) 7075507. Newpoli. 12 p.m. Free. loc.gov.

BLUHM

SAT, JULY 21

KADLECIK

THEHAMILTONDC.COM

CITY LIGHTS: MonDAY

Books

annie lowrey Economy columnist Annie Lowry discusses the benefits and challenges of introducing a univeral basic income (UBI) in her new book Give People Money. Politics & Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. July 12. 7 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919. bruCe arena Bruce Arena, the most successful soccer coach in American history, examines the problems of soccer in the United States and offers a framework for reform in his book What’s Wrong With US?. Politics & Prose at The Wharf. 70 District Square SW. July 12. 7 p.m. Free. (202) 488-3867. david margoliCk In his new book The Promise and the Dream, David Margolick traces the complicated relationship between Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, who were killed only 62 days apart in 1968. Politics & Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. July 8. 5 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919.

Janelle hanChett Hanchett, creator of the website Renegade Mothering, speaks about her memoir, I’m Just Happy to Be Here, in which she details with warmth and wit her journey as a young mother and an addict. Kramerbooks & Afterwords Cafe.

1517 Connecticut Ave. NW. July 11. 6:30 p.m. Free. (202) 387-1400.

Jeff biggerS In his book Resistance: Reclaiming an American Tradition, Jeff Biggers chronicles freedom movements throughout American history, from early Native American struggles to the defeat of fascism during World War II, and on to Black Lives Matter, LGBTQ activism, and more. Politics & Prose. 5015

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DoES tHE BoDY RuLE tHE MInD, oR DoES tHE MInD RuLE tHE BoDY?

In the museum’s 44-year history, Does the body rule the mind, or does the mind rule the body is the Hirshhorn’s first exhibition centered around live performance art. The exhibition, designed specifically for the museum’s circular galleries, mixes performance art with popular culture through contemporary dance and music, showcasing the recent creations of five leading American artists in a series of documentaries and recorded works. The themes of the projects are as varied as they are delightfully bizarre. In her work “I’m gonna need another one,” Jen Rosenblit inhabits distinct characters, such as a wheat farmer and Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz, using costumes, props, and other theatrics. In “Cursor,” Will Rawls explores the idea of the computer cursor as a kind of body—in his words, a “protagonist and expectant messenger”—through a mix of dance and other art forms. The best part of the exhibition: Visitors are invited to connect to the artists and one another, challenging their notions of the way we construct our identities and finding ways to, as the museum says, “dance better together.” The exhibition is on view to Aug. 12 at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Independence Avenue and 7th Street SW. Free. (202) 633-1000. hirshhorn.si.edu.

—Rose Shafer Connecticut Ave. NW. July 10. 7 p.m. Free. (202) 3641919. martha C. nuSSbaum Leading moral philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum analyzes the ways anger and fear have contributed to today’s political landscape in her new book The Monarchy of Fear. Politics & Prose.

5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. July 9. 7 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919. martha S. JoneS In her new novel Birthright Citizens, Martha S. Jones documents the struggle for citizenship among black Americans in pre-Civil War Baltimore, and how they fought back by studying law, arguing in courts, and through small but courageous everyday acts. Politics & Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. July 8. 1 p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919. nanCy rommelmann Journalist Nancy Rommelmann gets to the heart of a seven-year quest for the truth of a mystery—What made a mother want to murder her children?—in her book To The Bridge: A True Story of Motherhood and Murder. Kramerbooks & Afterwords Cafe. 1517 Connecticut Ave. NW. July 12.

6:30 p.m. Free. (202) 387-1400.

Suzan JohnSon Cook In her book Soul Sisters, ambassador Dr. Suzan Johnson Cook tells the inspiring stories of modern women who have overcome life’s adversities as part of her continued work of

building solidarity among women of different backgrounds. Politics & Prose. 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. July 11 7. p.m. Free. (202) 364-1919.

Theater

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

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

Camelot Based on T. H. White’s The Once and Future King, Tony-winning Camelot tells the legendary story of King Arthur’s doomed romance and mythical Round Table. Sidney Harman Hall. 610 F St. NW. To July 8. $44–$123. (202) 547-1122. shakespearetheatre.org.

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CITY LIGHTS: TUESDAY

Visit us online for details on the U.S. Navy Band’s extensive summer concert schedule.

All concerts are FREE and open to the public.

Tickets or reservations are not required.

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OS MUTANTES

“Oh Melania, save me,” pleads Sergio Dias, singer of the legendarily gleeful Brazilian band Os Mutantes. The group’s latest single, “Black and Gray,” is all glum. Apart from the mocking chorus (“Oh Ivanka, don’t break my heart”), the song is a dogged march through American anxieties, with verses that touch on Arlington Cemetery and Bashar al-Assad. The heavy song might come as a shock to fans who have road-tripped to Os Mutantes’ deceptively fun tunes. Since the 1960s, the band has shined an investigative light on politics in Brazil, earning the ire of the government over its musical activism in the ’70s, all while indulging in kaleidoscopic rock. The fact that Arnaldo Baptista, Rita Lee, and their cohort could strike fear in Brasília even as Dias set the standard for fuzz guitar was one of the defining achievements of the tropicália movement. Now, with that lineup long gone, Dias’ new work sounds more sober, cut from a deep Pink Floyd groove. Os Mutantes’ back catalog, though, shows how the resistance can come in any form, even with hoots and whistles and sonic Rio rock. If the Trump administration has drained Os Mutantes of any of its sunny disposition, add that to the long list of the White House’s egregious pop culture crimes. Os Mutantes perform at 7:30 p.m. at Black Cat, 1811 14th St. NW. $30.

(202) 667-4490. blackcatdc.com.

—Kriston Capps

CITY LIGHTS: WEDNESDAY

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY

When it was first released in theaters, 2001: A Space Odyssey divided the critics. Some derided the Stanley Kubrick film as “a regrettable failure” while others heralded it as “the world’s most extraordinary film… as exciting as the discovery of a new dimension in life.”

Despite the initial controversy, the film went on to redefine filmmaking and become a staple of the science fiction genre, and is now commonly cited as one of the greatest films of all time. Now, for the first time since its release 50 years ago this spring, 2001 is being screened in its original 70mm format, an unrestored print directly from the original camera negative. “There are no digital tricks, remastered effects, or revisionist edits,” says director Christopher Nolan. “This is the unrestored film—that recreates the cinematic event that audiences experienced 50 years ago.” Audiences now have the chance to experience this masterpiece in all its untouched glory, as Kubrick intended.

The film screens at 4 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center, 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. $13–$15. (301) 495-6700. silver.afi.com.

—Rose Shafer

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Puzzle

CITY LIGHTS: tHuRSDAY

OVERTIME

By Brendan Emmett Quigley

generation gaP This Second City production, a new original work for Kennedy Center audiences, showcases a battle of the ages from the Greatest Generation to the latest generation. Kennedy Center Theater Lab. 2700 F St. NW. To Aug. 12. $49–$59. 202467-4600. kennedy-center.org. hamilton Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway hit finally comes to the Kennedy Center. The world famous hiphop musical chronicles the extraordinary life of United States Founding Father Alexander Hamilton. Kennedy Center Opera House. 2700 F St. NW. To Sep. 16. $99–$625. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org.

ant-man and the waSP Paul Rudd reprises his role as Ant-Man, this time finding himself teaming up with Evangeline Lilly’s The Wasp to uncover past secrets. Co-starring Michael Peùa and Walton Goggins. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information)

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SAVAGELOVE In a recent column, you said you never hear from married couples whose sex life got better and more frequent over the years. Well, now you have. My wife and I were married 24 years ago, and we are currently having more sex and better sex than we did in the first years of our marriage. There are many reasons why, including therapy, antidepressants, and weight loss and subsequent surgery—but I would have to say that the big reason is communication. If you had known us 25 years ago, Dan, you would not have given us good odds. We’d been dating only a year and a half when we got engaged, and we’d known each other less than two years. I was a virgin, my wife was not, together we hadn’t gotten much past second base, and neither of us had laid our kink cards on the table. We were (and still are) introverts with poor communication skills and anxiety/depression/mental-health issues. I won’t say it’s been fairy-tale perfect—the kind of perfect that makes you barf and roll your eyes—but it’s been pretty damn close. My wife has been incredibly GGG, and I hope I have been, too. So there you go, Dan! Now you know there’s at least one couple out there whose sex life has only gotten better over the years.

—Better Erotic Ties Totally Enhanced Relationship Last week, I responded to IMDONE, a woman who married a man despite the sex being “infrequent and impersonal” during their courtship. To the surprise of no one who has ever given sex advice for a living, the sex didn’t get better after IMDONE and her boyfriend got married. “Here’s something I’ve never seen in my inbox: a letter from someone explaining how sex with their partner was infrequent, impersonal, uninspired, unimaginative, etc. at first but—holy moly—the sex got a fuck of a lot better after the wedding,” I wrote in my response to IMDONE. I did allow for the possibility that my sample was skewed; people with good sex lives don’t write to tell me everything’s fine. So I invited people whose so-so sex lives improved after the wedding to write in. And did they ever: My inbox is packed with e-mails from couples whose sex lives got better after the wedding.

—Dan Savage I was a very experienced woman (five years as a swinger and partners numbering in the high double digits) when I first met the man who would become my husband. My husband-to-be was a virgin. Sex was barely okay and very infrequent. But we were both in our early 40s and ready to settle down. We also had an amazing friendship, and we were never as happy apart as we were together. It helped that we shared some kinks and were both up for what we agreed would be a nice and mostly companionate marriage. So we got married. And, wow, did everything change! We went from once a month to a couple times a week. Turns out he needed that emotional attachment to feel

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safe and secure enough to open up and relax and enjoy himself. We’ve been married for years now.

The sex is still good. It’s not as frequent as it once was, but it’s really good when we have it. So, yes, sometimes it does get better!

—Woman In Fucking Ecstasy Am I the first or the hundredth person to write in? Yes, sex for us got better after marriage. I suspect you don’t see it in your inbox very often because this isn’t what most people would consider a problem and we don’t want to waste your time!

All it took for the sex to get better was practice and paying attention to cues and solving problems. I strongly suspect that perseverance and a bit of luck were also major factors.

—Practice, Practice, Practice

I fucked my husband on our first date because I wanted to see if he was any good.

He wasn’t. But I liked him, so we kept at it.

My sex life improved after marriage. I am a straight male with a highly stigmatized kink. I was deeply ashamed of my sexual interest even before my mother discovered my porn when I was 14 and told me I was a pervert that no decent woman would ever want. When I met my wife, our sex life was okay—but I was never fully present, because I would have to concentrate on my fantasies in order to sustain an erection. I eventually retreated into masturbation. My wife knew I was masturbating in the middle of the night instead of having sex with her, and that led to some enormous fights. So I told her about my kink, fully expecting that it would result in the collapse of my marriage.

We didn’t speak about it for a week, and then she calmly asked me if I wanted to do this with her instead of just watching porn about it.

—Partnership Improved Sexual Situation I fucked my husband on our first date because I wanted to see if he was any good. He wasn’t. But I liked him, so we kept at it. I have some physical ailments that can make sex painful. I also suffer from depression and anxiety, I’m on the autism spectrum, and I’ve experienced sexual trauma. I addressed my problems through counseling, med-

ication, physical therapy, and even surgery. My problems are not 100 percent fixed, and we don’t have sex as often as either of us would like, but when we have it, it’s worlds better than when we started out. For me, being comfortable with my husband and secure in the relationship made it so much easier to communicate and work on fixing the problems together. It sounds cheesy, but marriage counseling really helped. It helped my husband understand himself and his reactions better, and it helped cement the idea of “ours” instead of “yours” as it related to the problems I was dealing with at the time. That he was willing to see a counselor and work on sex were also good signs. If I had a partner who was unwilling to talk about sex or try to fix it, I’d kick his ass to the curb without blinking. So with the help of counseling, I got him on board with dirty talk during sex (because it’s important for me) and I worked (and still work) on telling him what to do when we bone. He can’t read my body language, so a lot of the improvement came down to me being more comfortable with giving him instructions. We also have plenty of sex that isn’t P in V, which takes the pressure off both of us. I imagine you probably don’t hear from folks like us because, in addition to being less likely, we don’t have much to write in about. But we exist!

—Counseling Helped Our Marriage Persist

My sex life actually did get better after I married my partner. I struggled with erectile dysfunction during my courtship with my wife. It really didn’t settle down until we’d been married for a while. I had trust issues and guilt issues— boring stories—and I got a lot more comfortable once we’d made that commitment. Now we have two kids, and we have sex almost weekly. (Hey, that’s good for 40-year-olds!) I doubt it’s the norm, Dan, but that’s what happened with me.

—Enduring Relationship Eased Cock Troubles First, I want to thank BETTER, WIFE, PPP, PISS, CHOMP, ERECT, and everyone else who wrote in. I do feel obligated to point out, however, that these are anecdotes, not data.

And while there isn’t data to back up my position—that sex doesn’t generally get better after marriage—my pile of anecdotes is a whole lot bigger. So I’m going to continue to urge people to establish basic sexual compatibility before marriage rather than hoping a so-so sexual connection—or a nonexistent one—will somehow get better after marriage. But it can be done. You just need to have PPP’s luck, or be married to someone willing to do the work, like CHOMP’s spouse was, or fortunate enough to wind up with someone willing to take the leak, like PISS’s spouse was.

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

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